Part 4: Bhagavad Gita Chapter 15
independent energy or power. At any given point in time, you are either used by the frequency of your self or the frequency of your mind. Please listen to the truths. First, you have a frequency of consciousness in you. Second, you have the frequency of mind in you. The frequency of the mind is the pattern, incompletion, suffering present in you. Third, at any given point in time, you are either used by the frequency of your soul, ātman, consciousness or the frequency of your mind, the patterns. Kṛṣṇa is the destroyer of our root thought patterns, saṁskāras. Saṁskāras are products of
darkness, our unconscious.
Darkness is not a positive entity. It cannot be shifted from point to point. However, it can be destroyed by light. The presence of light dissolves darkness. The presence of awareness of completion, our frequency of consciousness destroys saṁskāras. Darkness has no existence of its own. It only exists when there is no light. We cannot create darkness. It is the absence of something. From Me comes Light, Fire, Life energy Kṛṣṇa further expands on His pervasiveness. In the form of light and heat, He is the Sustainer of all beings within this Universe. He says that He is the energy of the watery moon and through this energy He is the life energy within plant life, puṣṇāmi cauṣadhīḥsarvāḥ somo bhūtvā rasātmakaḥ. In the form of light and heat, He is the Sustainer of all beings within this Universe. He says that He is the energy of the watery moon and through this energy He is the life energy within plant life, puṣṇāmi cauṣadhīḥ sarvāḥ somo bhūtvā rasātmakaḥ.
Kṛṣṇa affirms that He is Brahman and through His manifestation of the various natural elements of space, air, fire, water and earth, He is responsible for plant life and therefore for food and human beings.
Without plant life, there is no food. Without food, there is no body and mind. Body and mind become food for others after death. Food is an expression of divinity. The energy behind food is both the creator and destroyer of saṁskāras.
Most of us treat food as a basic necessity or an object of sensual pleasure. We ignore it or become addicted to it. We need to be aware of what we eat. Before eating, offer gratitude to the Universe for what you have received and meditate upon the food. Traditionally Hindus offer oblations to the Divine and chant prayers before eating.
Major changes happen when you follow these customs with awareness. What Kṛṣṇa implies here as well is that food is divine since it has His imprint on it. We tend to take food for granted. Offering food to other living beings, has been considered a form of worship in Hindu tradition. Food has always been considered the repository of the Divine.
Impress upon the students that dhyāna, meditation, is best suited for spiritual progress and for the realization that one's self is part of that cosmic Self. - Helping students understand that food is divine.
- 1. Why is food considered divine?
- 2. Why must we offer oblations and offer gratitude to the Divine before partaking food?
- 3. Do Samskaras have a positive energy?
- 4. How can they be destroyed?
- 5. Does our mind have any independent energy?
- 6. What does not mind reflect?