For example:
How much of you is a worker (ex) Do you feel you are very responsible, finish work on time. How much of you is a person who likes shopping (ex) I did not like to spend more time on shopping (or) I love to go for shopping etc How much of you like to be intelligence, creative (ex) I like to dance, I like to read, I like to create poems (or) I like to sing or draw.
This gives a clear view of how much of what forms your body. If intelligence forms you, you will be very happy, energizing and growing rather than having greed or fear forming in you. If anger forms you - you will have lots of negativity.
The concepts of hell and heaven and sin were created to insert guilt and control people. Arjuna is not a fool. Arjuna understands all this perfectly. Yet, he voices his doubts as if ignorant and confused. He acts out of compassion for humanity when he articulates these doubts so that the divine Krsna can answer them, to everyone's benefit.
pāpam evāśrayed asmān hatvaitān ātatāyinaḥ tasmān nārhā vayaṃ hantuṃ dhārtarāṣṭrān svabāndhavān
Therefore, it is not proper for us to kill the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra and our relations
The problem that Arjuna faced is one that we all face when asked to do unpleasant things to people we know. To face this incompletion in one's relationships, one must first develop detachment that allows action without worrying about the consequences.
svajanaṃ hi kathaṃ hatvā sukhinaḥ syāma mādhava
How could we be happy after killing our own kinsmen, Mādhava?
As long as the path is right, whatever destination the path takes one to, will also be right.
yadyapyete na paśyanti lobhopahata cetasaḥ kulakṣayakṛtaṃ doṣaṃ mitradrohe ca pātakam
O Janārdana, these men, blinded by greed, see no fault in killing one' s family or being treasonable to friends, incur sin
Relationships are nothing but our own extensions.
kathaṃ na jñeyam asmābhiḥ pāpād asmān nivartitum kulakṣaya kṛ taṃ doṣaṃ prapaśyadbhir janārdana
Why should we, who clearly see the sin in the destruction of a dynasty, not turn away from this crime?
Complete with everything.
Here is Arjuna's dilemma spoken plainly. The problem that Arjuna faced is one that we all face when asked to do unpleasant things to people we know. It is always easier to criticize and punish people one does not know. To be faceless is to be fearless. With people one knows, there is a danger of breaking the relationship through perceived negative behavior, even when it may be fully justified. To face this incompletion in one's relationships, one must first develop detachment that allows action without worrying about the consequences. This detachment only comes from completion with every relationship with oneself and with others in one's life. One follows the path of completion and leaves the result to the process. As long as the path is right, whatever destination the path takes one to, will also be right.
Vedic civilization is established on completion. You realize your potentiality, you establish yourself in the space of completion, you are God! Understand, only if we start living completion, we will understand the quality of life. When there is incompletion, your life is stolen away from you.
Completion is removing the delusion of incompletion, which makes you cognize that the other is separate from you. Understand, incompletion has no existence; it is only a delusive cognition. Incompletion is the delusive cognition that stands between you and the Whole. Complete with everything.
To overcome this isolation, this incompletion we need to realize that no man is an island. We are all connected at the spiritual level.
When we arrive on planet Earth, we are complete, integrated beings. We are open to all possibilities. Over time, we build walls believing that these walls will keep us safe and that the connections that we have established inside the walls are ours to keep.
We create a delusory cognition that we possess everything within the wall. Slowly, the open space we started with becomes a maze and we are lost inside! The islands need to be bridged. We need to complete with everyone, with everything instead of isolating them and competing. Competition does not ensure survival; completion does. Understand, with competition you may have survival success, but you will never expand. Success in crisis moments is only survival success, not life success. Success in life happens only with completion.
Arjuna is pleading with Kṛṣṇa, 'Please tell me, am I right? Please tell me, should I withdraw from this battle?' As we will see, Kṛṣṇa never gives him a single instruction but gives him inspiration. He gives him the whole inspiration based science of Gītā śāstra, so he can find his own answers and he raises himself by himself!
To help understand incompletion and completion. To understand To ascend to be able to complete, Even when connected by kinship to our enemies
- 1. What dow we fear to do unpleasant things to people we know even when they deserve it and why is it easier to criticize and punish the people we don't know?
- 2. What is completion?
- 3. What is Advaita?
- 4. How does life become like a maze?