I Shall Not Leave🔗

18.70 I say that One who studies this sacred dialogue worships Me by sacrifice of his intelligence.

18.71 One who listens with faith and without envy becomes free from sinful reactions and attains to the planets where those of merit dwell.

18.72 O Arjuna, did you listen to this with single- minded attention? Has your delusion born of ignorance been completely destroyed?

These words are meant not merely for Arjuna, but for all of humanity.

Krishna says here that we should read, listen and understand this dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna, between nara and Narayana. Nothing more needs to be read or listened to. Everything we need is here.

Only one who is in deep devotion to Me should read this. I have conveyed here that which is most beneficial, the secret of how to live and how to reach Me. One who understands this and drops his mind with his focus entirely upon Me, shall reach Me without a doubt.

This is Krishna's promise.

He blesses the whole universe with His grace and compassion. He showered His blessing on Arjuna and made him merge with Him. The same Consciousness is being showered on the whole universe. He declares that whoever studies this sacred conversation will achieve the same space or Consciousness as His Eternal Consciousness. He blesses us with His grace and assures us that we can achieve Him through this gynana yajna, sacrifice of intellect. That is, by offering ourselves into that knowledge, by completely purifying ourselves in that knowledge, we can achieve Him. We can disappear into Him. When we put anything into the fire, it disappears. In the same way, when we immerse ourselves in the study of the Gita, we will not be there as we are. We will disappear into Him. Only He remains, only He exists.

The whole experience of truth has descended on Arjuna. Krishna's blessings are upon us also. Let us pray to the ultimate Consciousness to put us into that same Energy. Relax into that Energy. May the grace and compassion of Sri Krishna, of Parandhaama, of Parabrahma Krishna that was showered on Arjuna, shower on us.

Earlier Krishna said that He would appear again and again whenever He is needed to restore equilibrium between good and bad. He is the only great Master who has the courage to say that I am not the last Master or that there will be no one after Me. Instead He says, 'I shall appear again and again, sambhavami yuge yuge.'

Krishna will not reappear in his Vasudeva Krishna form with peacock feathers and a flute! That is the mistake we make. His Energy will reappear. He will reappear in the form of enlightened Masters, time and again. He will come again and again to restore the balance, redeem the good and destroy the evil.

This is the last time Krishna speaks in the Bhagavad Gita. He asks, 'Arjuna, have you listened to me with attention? Has your delusion disappeared?'

Until the end He is the teacher. He is full of compassion. His concern is only for Arjuna and the rest of humanity. ‘Have you understood?’ He asks. ‘Have your doubts disappeared? Do you need anything more?’

This is the greatness of Masters. Nothing concerns them except the deliverance of their disciples. That is why they have come here. Otherwise why should they waste their time on planet Earth? They can be immersed in the blissful Energy that they are part of without disturbance.

My disciples understand when I tell them that the only time I feel anything like sadness is when a disciple leaves me. It saddens me because he is losing a great opportunity. His spirit brought him to me for redemption. If the body-mind does not cooperate, the spirit must live again and again until it gets the opportunity to be liberated. Each cycle of samsara that the spirit undertakes, it suffers and regrets not having taken that final step.

No one who has crossed my ashram gates can ever leave me. If they leave, I shall not leave them. I shall be with them. That one moment of intelligence that brought them in is enough for me to care for them.

Those who have understood the formless form that resides in me know that I am part of them. Wherever they are, I am part of them.

This is Krishna’s promise: Listen to Me, understand Me and come to Me; then you are a part of Me.

Q: How can we surrender the ego, when this desire to surrender is an expression of the ego?

How can you surrender the ego, when it does not exist? Suppose you are sitting in a dark room. You want the darkness to disappear. Can you push it out? Can you fight darkness and force it to leave? No! No matter how long you try, you will ultimately be defeated — and that too by something which does not exist!

The ego is like darkness. It has no positive existence. Just as darkness is the absence of light, the ego is the absence of awareness. Struggling to kill the ego is like struggling to push darkness out of the room. To expel the darkness, you must forget about dealing with the darkness. Focus your energy on light instead. Bring a small lamp into the room and darkness flees on its own! So, forget about the ego. Instead, focus on bringing a lamp of awareness into your being. When your entire consciousness has become a flame, the ego is no more.

The ego is an illusion. You cannot surrender it when you are unaware because you don't know how. Of course, you cannot surrender it when you become aware either — because then you realize that there is nothing left to surrender! What you have heard, read and been taught i.e., 'Surrender the ego in order to attain Self-realization' does not work. It happens the other way round. Self-realization dawns and suddenly you cannot find the ego anymore. The surrender already happened, just like that.

On the other hand, I am glad that the question has arisen in your being. The ego is the root cause of all your anxieties, sorrows, and tensions. It is your doorway to hell. To actively feel that you want to drop the ego, to feel the need to be rid of this burden is a step towards awareness. You are stirring from your sleep!