Why Kṛṣṇa Repeats
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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM śrībhagavānuvācaparaṁ 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
you as per the space you carry. Everything—your reality of God, society and reality of universe is experienced by you as per the space you carry. Whether it is the great realities of cosmos or realities of mind, the space you
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.