How To Approach God In The Right Way?

APPROACH DIVINE

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THE RIGHT WAY

This chapter is about how human beings approach the Divine, why they approach the Divine, and at what level they approach the Divine.

We approach the Divine in the way we want It. According to our maturity, we approach the Divine. At what level do we approach the Divine? What do we receive in return? How do we grow in maturity?

Kṛṣṇa gives the answers to these questions in this chapter. Here He says, 'Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and out of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.'

The Master is always ready to share and enrich with his experiences. That is his mission in life. The infinite compassion that fills an enlightened being is forever bursting to be let out to share, to teach, to guide, and to enrich.

He is available continuously to the whole humanity, enriching with Enlightenment. That is why Kṛṣṇa says that He is now ready to explain.

You will see miraculous transformations happening in your body and mind. Listening is God! Just by listening, you experience God! The question is whether or not Arjuna is ready to listen. Even if Arjuna was ready to listen and he became enlightened, are we ready to listen today, now?

Why does Kṛṣṇa say that a few
even try, and of those who try,
very few succeed?

Remember that He is talking
about Self realization, about
understanding who we are.
Why is it so difficult even to try?
We do not want to try because
we are afraid.

Why do we find it difficult to
meditate?
After all, all we do in meditation
is close our eyes and remain
silent. Why is it difficult?
We give appointments to
everyone else every day of our
lives, willingly and unwillingly.
Why is it so difficult to give half
an hour a day to ourselves?

The truth is that we have forgotten where we came from. Nothing in the way we are brought up and ‘educated’ tells us that we come from Bliss and we can regain that bliss. If we realize how easy it is to be blissful and return to our original state, no one can control us. That is what liberation means. But society, religion, and political and family structures operates on the principle of control.

The moment we realize who we are and we are liberated, these institutions cannot make us do what they want us to do. From childhood we are conditioned to avoid looking too deeply into ourselves because if we do, we may find the truth and be liberated. Most of society doesn’t know these deeper truths. This is how society puts generation after generation of people in deep illusion.

The path to Self-realization is the path of aloneness. It is not a lonely path; it is an ‘alone’ path. When we are alone, we are not lonely. We are all-in-one; that is what being alone means. From being fragmented, we become whole. From being islands, we become the Universe.

This is the knowledge that Kṛṣṇa offers humanity. Out of His deep compassion He says, ‘Please listen to Me and realize your Self and be liberated.’ One in a million may heed His words and start on this path.

He then says that only one in a million who starts on this path will eventually find his own Self, and thus find Me. In these verses Kṛṣṇa explains who He is. Kṛṣṇa explicitly separates Himself from His manifested energies in these verses.

What we perceive as manifested energies — the five natural elements that are earth, water, fire, air and ether, and the three inner elements of mind, intelligence and ego — are His energies no doubt, yet they are not Him.