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Bhagavad Gita Chapter 1

Shift the battlefield onto the land of creation.

sañjaya uvāca dṛṣṭvā tu pāṇḍavānīkaṃ vyūḍhaṃ duryodhanas tadā ācāryam upasaṅgamya rājā vacanam abravīt Sañjaya said: O king, looking at the Pāṇḍava army in full formation, Duryodhana went to his teacher and spoke

Whether you are blind or have physical eyes, you continue to see through your inner eyes.

pasyai 'tāṃ pāṇḍuputrānām ācārya mahatīṃ camūm vyūḍhām drupada putreṇa tava śiṣyeṇa dhīmatā

O my teacher, behold the great army of the sons of Pāṇḍu, arrayed for battle by your intelligent disciple, the son of Drupada

You actually have the power to simply manifest the reality of your choice!

Mahābhārat beautifully says, 'Let the fight be in kurukṣetra!' In Saṃskṛit, kurukṣetra means space of creation. Kuru means doing. Let the fight be in the space of creation. The whole place of fight should not be with the lowest realm, but with the highest realm! So, you will always be in the middle. In the fight itself, you will always be in the middle, and in the end you will be at the peak.

Look into your life. Now all your fight is, 'Will I lose this job or not?' 'What will happen if I fall sick, if I am alone?' 'What will happen if I become bankrupt?' 'What will happen if this happens, that happens?' Then you console yourself, 'All that will not happen! Don't bother!' This is the fight you always do! Shift from the zone of fight into positive creation.

Listen! You are fighting in the wrong zone of your life. For example, if you are all the time afraid of becoming bankrupt, decide, 'I am going to be a billionaire.' So, in your inner space the fight will be about — will you become a billionaire or not. You may have millions, but the fight will no more be of self-doubting thoughts of bankruptcy or not. Let the fight always be in kurukṣetra, the zone of creation, not in the zone of destruction. All your worrying, all your thinking, all your basic cognition is, 'Will I lose this job or not?' Even in your nightmare dreams, you will only be worried about, 'Will I lose this job or not?' No! Always let your fight be, 'Will I become CEO or not?' not 'Will I lose this job or not?'

Shift the battlefield onto the land of creation! Let kurukṣetra be the battlefield dharmakṣetre kurukṣetra. Please listen! The fight in your life, if it is in the field of creation, you are living in dharma. If it is in the field of failure, you are living in adharma. This is the meaning of this first śloka (verse) of the Gītā.

We can all be like Sañjaya, with our third eyes open instead of being blind like Dhṛtarāṣṭra. This is one of the messages of Gītā. Whether you are blind or have physical eyes, you continue to see through your inner eyes. Dhṛtarāṣṭra blinded by his self-doubts, saw only his sons, who represent his incomplete identity. Listen. The third eye is not just an eye; it is the very source of consciousness.

Third-eye is nothing but conscious-seeing. Consciously seeing our incompletions, our inner conflicts is the first step in opening the third eye, the energy center located between the eyebrows. Third eye can be awakened with right thinking.

Please listen! Your life is nothing but seeing. Seeing is your life. If you can see something through the eyes, you can experience it with your physical body. If you can see something with your mind, you can understand it with your mental body. If you can see something with your consciousness, you can control it, as the Lord of it. We are all blind in one sense or another, and Dhṛtarāṣṭra represents the majority of mankind in this aspect. Blindness in this case is not only the physical inability to see. It essentially represents the inability and the absence of desire to discriminate between right and wrong. It represents the non-integrity to separate completion from incompletion.

Let me define root thought pattern:

The first strong cognition you receive in your life, which influences you to continue to function based on the same cognition, is a root thought pattern! It is the pattern you develop when powerlessness takes you over for the first time in your life. Your pure cognition is imbalanced and your mind is born!

Let me define right thinking, the thinking based on dharma:

Aligning all your thinking based on the cognition of the four principles—tattvas of integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching is right thinking.

ū

Is you fulfilling the word and thought you give to yourself and to others, and experiencing a state of 'pūrnatva' — completion with yourself and with life.

ś

Is you being established in the peak of your capability, and responding to life from who you perceive yourself to be for yourself, who you project yourself to be for others, and, what others expect you to be for them.

ā

Is living and responding to life from the truth that you are the source of, and therefore, you are responsible for all happenings in and around you.

ā ā

is you taking responsibility with integrity and authenticity, that you are committed to continuously enriching, which is expanding yourself and life, in and around you.

These four spiritual principles awaken four great inner powers in you. Each tattva is the key to unlock a corresponding power in you. Now, I will reveal these four inner powers that manifest when Kṛṣṇa's message is internalized and lived. Listen! You actually have the power to simply manifest the reality of your choice!

Please listen. We are not seeing what IS. We are only seeing what we want. We create what we want. When Duryodhana cognized, 'It is there! I am seeing and I need to control it,' he already lost the game! He was fighting a losing war! He was feeling powerless! He put all the blame on what IS, 'It is there! What can I do?'

Helping the child understand how right thinking brings success in life.

  • 1. How is life Mahabharat?
  • 2. What is integrity?
  • 3. What is authenticity?
  • 4. What is responsibility?
  • 5. What is enriching?
  • 5. What is right thinking?
  • 6. What is a root pattern?
  • 7. What is blindness?
  • 8. What happens when we blame someone else?
  • 9. What does "we can all be like Sanjaya" mean?

MATERIALS NEEDED:

  • 1. Paper
  • 2. Magazine pages with color
  • 3. Paint and paintbrush
  • 4. Glue

PROCEDURE

Tear some colors from the magazine pages, blues, greens oranges. Start at the top of the paper, sticking the light blue pieces down with glue.

Then make the first layer of hills with the dark blues and purples. Make sure the make the hills go up and down. Then the dark greens, followed by the greens, with the lightest greens and oranges in the foreground. Use paint to add details such as trees.

Inference:

Becoming aware of our inner conflicts can manifest the power of third eye, which unfolds the power of intuition within us and helps us make better decisions.

MATERIALS NEEDED:

  • 1. Paper
  • 2. Magazine pages with color
  • 3. Paint and paintbrush
  • 4. Glue

PROCEDURE

Tear some colors from the magazine pages, blues, greens oranges. Start at the top of the paper, sticking the light blue pieces down with glue.

Then make the first layer of hills with the dark blues and purples. Make sure the make the hills go up and down. Then the dark greens, followed by the greens, with the lightest greens and oranges in the foreground. Use paint to add details such as trees.

Inference:

Becoming aware of our inner conflicts can manifest the power of third eye, which unfolds the power of intuition within us and helps us make better decisions.

Magic Bottle Trick Effect:

The magician asks for a volunteer from the audience who looks inside a bottle to make sure it's an empty container. The volunteer returns the bottle and then examines a magic wand to ensure it is normal. The magician drops the wand into the bottle (noting how easily it falls in).He/she turns bottle over and lets go of the wand. The wand magically remains suspended in the bottle.