Bhagavad Gita

Character Sketch

Bhagavan Ṣri Kṛṣṇa, the 8th most powerful purnāvatar of Ṃaha Viśnu, is the embodiment of pure celebration, boundless love, compassion, and completion.

Bhagavan Ṣri Kṛṣṇa is the only incarnation demonstrating and expressing Ṣarva Ṃangalatva all the auspicious qualities and all dimensions of an avatar during His physical happening. The līla Bhagavan Ṣri Krsna is one of sheer innocence and simplicity, in a peace-loving, diplomatic, conflict-free way.

Karṇa is the repository of all good deeds and it is his good deeds that stand in the way of his own Enlightenment. Śrī Kṛṣṇa has to take the load of Karṇa's puṇya, his meritorious deeds, before he could be liberated. The Enlightened Master guides one to drop one's attachment to good deeds arising out of what are perceived to be charitable and compassionate intentions. He also shows us that the quest for and the experience of enlightenment is the ultimate Till now everyone blames Bhagavan Sri Krishna for this Kurukshetra war but that's the greatest sacrifice Bhagavan Sri Krishna did to save the planet Earth. If Kurukshetra was not conducted at that time under the controlled conditions and direct supervision of Bhagavan Sri Krishna, planet Earth would not have survived more than three years.

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Bhagavad Gītā appears in the heart of Mahābhārat in Bhīṣma Parva, the sixth chapter of its eighteen chapters. Veda Vyāsa, the narrator, in glorifying the Gītā sings, 'the one who drinks the water of Ganges (the sacred river for Hindus) attains liberation, what to speak of the one who drinks the nectar of Gītā?

Gītā is the essential nectar of the Mahābhārat, bhāratamṛta sarvasvam as it is directly spoken by Nārāyaṇa, Bhagavān kṛṣṇa Himself.'

The armies assembled in the vast field of Kurukṣetra, now in the state of Haryana in modern day Bharat. All the kings and princes were related to one another, and were often on opposite sides. Facing the Kaurava army and his friends, relatives and teachers, Arjuna was overcome by remorse and guilt, and wanted to walk away from the battle out of total powerlessness unbecoming an invincible warrior among warriors.

Śrī Kṛṣṇa's dialogue with Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukṣetra out of His utmost concern and love for him and humanity is the content of Bhagavad Gītā. Of its seven hundred and forty-five (745) verses, Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa sings the Gītā in six hundred and twenty (620) verses responding to Arjuna's fifty-seven (57) enquiries.

Śrī Kṛṣṇa persuades Arjuna to give-up his powerlessness unfitting an Ārya—the spiritually evolved one who understands human life and urges him to raise himself again as Parantapa—the conqueror of enemy, and take up arms and vanquish his enemies. They are already dead,' says Śrī Kṛṣṇa, 'All those who are facing you have been already killed by Me. Go ahead and do what you have to do. That is your responsibility. Do not worry about the outcome. Leave that to Me.'

śrībhagavānuvāca paraṁ bhūyaḥ pravakṣyāmi jñānānāṁ jñānamuttamam yajjñātvā munayaḥ sarve parāṁ siddhimito gatāḥ

Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa says: I will declare to you again the Supreme wisdom, The knowledge of which has helped all sages attain Supreme perfection.

By repeating the truth again and again, Krisha shows his persistence and compassion towards his disciple. He patiently waits for his disciple to create compassion towards his disciple. He patiently waits for his disciple to create the right inner space needed to completely absorb the ultimate knowledge.

idaṁ jñānamupāśritya mama sādharmyamāgatāḥ sarge'pi nopajāyante pralaye na vyathanti ca

By becoming fixed in this knowledge, one can attain the transcendental nature, like my own, and establish in his Eternal Consciousness, that one is not born at the time of creation, or disturbed at the time of dissolution

When the inner space of a person is devoid of root patterns of suffering, devoid of agitation, and completion, it experiences eternal peace and in restful awareness.

mama yonir-mahad-brahma tasmingarbhaṁ dadhāmyahaṁ saṁbhavaḥ sarvabhūtānāṁ tato bhavati bhārata

The total material substance, called Brahman, is the source of birth, It is that Brahman that I impregnate, making possible the births of all living beings, O son of Bhārata.

Krishna is the source of the whole of creation. We can establish ourselves in the state of Krishna Consciousness through knowledge about the science of enlightenment and our conscious decision to create the space of completion.

sarvayoniṣu kaunteya mūrtayaḥ saṁbhavanti yāḥ tāsāṁ brahma mahad yonir ahaṁ bījapradaḥ pitā

Arjuna, understand that all species of life are made possible by birth in this material nature, and I am the seed-giving father.

Krishna's message is an inspiration, that plants within us a seed of seeking for answers to our philosophical questions, which can only be answered by self discovery.

By repeating the truth again and again, Kṛṣṇa tries to create the right inner space of completion in Arjuna. Please understand why Kṛṣṇa repeats Himself. He literally uses the same words again and again. Why? Why should Kṛṣṇa repeat? Kṛṣṇa is a Master who is result-oriented. He persists with what He wants. He is the embodiment of Enriching, which is the constitution of life. His whole life is a play from the space of enriching. He is radiating the power of not giving-up on people with His uncompromising compassion. He is not easily satisfied with the attitude, 'I said whatever I had to say; whether he wants to listen or not is up to him.' No! Kṛṣṇa takes the responsibility to make Arjuna responsible.

Any transmission of knowledge, energy or experience happens between us only when you give your listening! In the Upaniṣads, it is told that when the young seeker Śvetaketu was initiated by his Guru, his Guru said to him only nine times, 'Tat Tvam Asi! Tat Tvam Asi! Tat Tvam Asi!' (You are That!) Śvetaketu became enlightened just by hearing those words! Then how come you don't become enlightened even if you listen to 'Tat Tvam Asi!' nine thousand times? You have to be carrying the right inner space! Listen. On the rock, seed cannot sprout as a tree.

In the right fertile ground only, the seed can become a tree. In the right inner space only, the teachings can become reality. Let me define exactly what is the right inner space! Right inner space means where all the root thought patterns of suffering are destroyed. All the root thought patterns are destroyed where your inner space is fertile for experiencing the higher ideal and ideas.

Listen! Inner space means when you close your eyes and look inside, how you feel and what you feel as you, that is your inner space.

In that inner space, if you suddenly feel as if you have taken bath in the cold water and the whole thing inside is in eternal peace, and there is no agitation; it is all completely in peace, in restful awareness, in completion, that is what is called inner silence or the right inner space. It means the space where all your root patterns of suffering are destroyed. You may wonder, 'When will I experience the right inner space or inner silence?'

It is actually you who needs to feel tired of wandering around. Unless you feel tired of wandering around or if I have to use a strong term fooling around, your mind will continue to go on fooling around, being in incompletion.

Instead of the real source of joy, you will just go around and try to taste everything. Your mind needs to be a little tired of roaming around, only then will it look in and decide to find and destroy the root patterns and create the fertile ground of the right space. Whether we believe it or not, man by nature is a mechanism.

Not only at the body level, he is a mechanism even at the level of the mind. At most, we can call it a bio-mechanism, yet he is still a mechanism. He works based on memories, the root patterns or what we call mūla vāsanā in Saṃskṛit. If you have a certain pattern in you as a compulsive disorder, it is a bio-memory. It is just a dead memory. If you get frightened,

You will run away. If you have some thoughts or doubts that a person doesn't love you, that person doesn't care for you, all other thoughts will immediately wake up, and you will be in depression. Please understand, memories which stay in you and make you continuously respond unconsciously in the same pattern again and again, is bio-memory. If you learn the essence of the lessons you need to catch from the bio-memory, and live spontaneously based on that essence, it becomes bio-energy.

For example, you see a snake and you know that you may die if the snake bites. This situation can become a bio-memory in you that even if you see the photograph of a snake, you may step back. I have seen people who don't even touch a snake's photo on the TV screen or computer screen! This is bio-memory. See, I am not saying that you should not have bio-memory of snake fear or go and catch the snake! No! If you learn just the intelligence from that incident, you are clear that snake bite can lead to death, so you don't go near the snake, but you don't have the compulsive patterns related to snakes and snake fear. You only have the intelligence. Then, that same thing becomes bio-energy.

Understand, in every situation, if you catch bio-memory, you will miss the bio-energy. If you function on just bio-memories, you are a bound soul. You are a baddha jīva, entangled soul. Living in bondage! Not only that, when you are living here, you also accumulate more and more muscle-memory. All the patterns you accumulate and continue to accumulate are muscle-memory

The confusion between muscle-memory and bio-memory is a confused memory! So for every act, you will not know the right reason; if you know the reason, you do not know how to act. It is a kind of chaos. Listen! Man is continuously caught in the web of these confused memories in his mind and his being, because he works based on root patterns that have been stored in his bio-memory, and accumulated as his muscle-memory. So,

So do not know the reasons for the act you performed! Muscle-memory is the memory you accumulate in this janma (life time). Bio-memory is the memory you bring from the past births. Even in this birth, the muscle-memory can become bio-memory. When you psychologically collapse, with whatever ideas you elevate yourself and stand up, those ideas will become bio-memory in you, even though you accumulated them in this body

Does God exist? Many religious rituals are designed to build the right muscle-memory and bio-memory in us. Going to a temple or a satsang (spiritual gathering) reinforces our desire to move forward spiritually. They create the right space the environment, the mood for the right decision to happen. These actions cannot liberate or enlighten us.

However, they can create the right inner space in us and program our unconscious mind, the muscle memory and bio-memory to work in a particular way.

They can rewire us. In the Vedic tradition, the power of sound is used. Vedic chanting is nothing but becoming It just by declarations. Every morning you declare, 'Aham Brahmāsmi Ahaṁ Brahmāsmi, Ahaṁ Brahmāsmi (I Am That)! Śivo'ham Śivo'ham Śivo'ham (Śiva I Am).' Just the declaration! Such a powerful declaration. Especially the collective declarations. You are in that right inner space.

cience is about facts that can be recorded. Spirituality is about the truth that needs to be experienced. That is why our scriptures never bothered about historical accuracy and factual details. They dealt with issues that affected our consciousness. To understand our scriptures, we cannot use logic

God can only be experienced when we drop our root patterns and create the space of completion. How can we prove His existence through the logic of our mind? If we can comprehend Him through our mind, our patterns, how can He be in any way superior to us? How can He then be God? God can only be experienced. He cannot be proved or disproved. He cannot be believed or disbelieved. If you wish to experience God, come to me and be in the space of listening. If you have courage, find your root thought pattern and complete with it. You will experience God in you.

Kṛṣṇa is the first Master who showed how to achieve Enlightenment. He showed the exact Science of Enlightenment. We can experience it through our conscious decision to create the space of completion. He says one can attain it, meaning that anybody can attain it. It means that when you understand the inner space of Enlightened beings, without even missing a single step, now you know the method to reach that space. Personality of the enlightened being is not a person, it is personification.

When you grasp the personality of an enlightened being, suddenly you know why you are the way you are, why you behave the way you behave. You know all the possible confusions and incompletions. And you will see, you will simply know the methodology to experience completion, pūrnatva.

In Saṃskṛit, Śiva means 'causeless auspiciousness'. The present is the most auspicious; whatever happens in the present is auspicious. We should develop the attitude of accepting what happens in the present as auspicious.

Understand, the impact of the past enters as a perverted inadequate cognition in your present and destroys your future. Listen! Your inner space experiences the past and future in the same language, in the same way.

How your past is built?

Incidents, your perceptions and your self-assessments are the pillars on which your past is built. If you complete yourself now, if you complete your perception and self-assessments, sixty percent of your past will be burnt! So, your past will lose its power over you.

Your past will be transformed. By declaring that you are complete, just once in the present, you can finish off all your millions of declarations in the past. Because when time and space cross, the declarations you make are alive and powerful! Time and space always cross in the present moment. In any legal system, the latest order will be the order that will be executed. Even in your life, only your latest declaration will be executed. Śiva is completion. Completion is auspiciousness. If you declare completion now, you are complete. When you complete, you transcend the past and the future. Wherever you go, you are going to be carrying this auspiciousness, radiating it. You will be a moving auspiciousness.

The Great 'why' Kṛṣṇa is trying to answer philosophical questions that can never really be answered: How is the whole Universe created? If everything is God, why is the Universe created? How are we born? Whoever tried to answer these questions just created another philosophy.

When it comes to Cosmic questions, unless you discover your answer, you will never be in peace. 'Why' related to the outer world can be answered by the law of the land or the outer world science. But all the 'whys' related to cosmic law, all the 'whys' related to life can be answered only by yourself by discovering it

The religion you discover is your religion, not the religion you are born in, is your religion. Answer you discover is your answer! For this great 'why' you have to discover an answer. If you accept my answer for 'why', you will be living for my answer. At the most, my answer should be an inspiration for you to find out the answer for 'why'. Kṛṣṇa tries to answer these questions as an inspiration for Arjuna to find his own answer for his 'why'.

However, this answer is not the ultimate Truth. He says, 'Please wait until the teachings are over.' Normally when we don't receive an answer for our philosophical question,

We will be stuck with that 'why'. Kṛṣṇa says, 'I am the seed-giving father, the pitā, I am the root cause for everything ahaṁ bīja pradaḥ pitā (14.4).' 'Why', this 'great why' is Kṛṣṇa's seed put inside you and sent, so that you won't rest until you become a tree. Understand, each seed has an energy called 'vīrya' that does not rest until it produces more seeds.

Until then, it cannot rest. Even if you destroy the seed or eat the seed, that vīrya goes into your body and does its job in some other way! Here, Arjuna also comes back to the same great 'why' again and again and gets stuck.

I am the seed-giving father, the pitā, I am the root cause or everything—ahaṁ bīja pradaḥ pitā (14.4).' 'Why', this great why' is Kṛṣṇa's seed put inside you and sent, so that you won't rest until you become a tree. Understand, each seed has an energy called 'vīrya' that does not rest until it produces more seeds.

For the sake of inspiration or just for the sake of giving him an understanding, Kṛṣṇa gives an answer. Listen, Kṛṣṇa's words can be fully understood only when we experience the consciousness of Kṛṣṇa. Until then, it is just a cognition. Even if it is a cognition, it is okay. Proceed with this new cognition into the next chapters, into the next verse.

Suddenly, when you see the result, we will understand that whatever you have cognized is the truth. Kṛṣṇa makes this declaration so that you can understand the truth. You can discover the root cause based on which you cognize your whole life, based on which your consciousness functions.

Impress upon the students that transmission of ultimate knowledge, cosmic energy or higher dimensional energy experience can happen between the Master and disciple only when the disciple is completely receptive, in deep silence, complete, focused inwards and witnessing his inner space.

❖ Why does Krishna repeat the same words and ideas again and again?
❖ How does one experience his/her inner space?
❖ What is the right inner space?
❖ What is bio memory, muscle memory and bio energy?