Associate With Your Consciousness🔗

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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

trividhaṁ narakasyedaṁ dvāraṁ nāśanamātmanaḥ kāmaḥ krodhastathā lobhas tasmādetattrayaṁ tyajet

There are three gates leading to this hell: lust, anger and greed. As they lead to the degradation of the soul, these three are to be abandoned

When we shed these we are liberated etairvimuktaḥ kaunteya tamodvāraistribhirnaraḥ ācaratyātmanaḥ śreyas tato yāti parāṁ gatim

Those who have escaped these three gates of hell, O Kaunteya, behave in a manner beneficial to the (evolution of the) soul, and thus (gradually) attain the supreme destination

Anger must be evolved into Authentic Action, Lust into Caring and Compassion and Greed into Contentment and Abundance through the process of completion with all these negative emotions.

yaḥ śāstravidhimutsṛjya vartate kāmakārataḥ na sa siddhimavāpnoti na sukhaṁ na parāṁ gatim

But he who discards scriptural injunctions and acts according to his base impulses attains neither perfection, nor happiness, nor the supreme destination

These emotions are negative or demonic if they are experienced in the context of "me" and with the intention of self-gratification; they only lead to further delusion. However, when the context is changed to "you" and with the intention of enrichment of the other person; they evolve into positive energies that lead us closer to the supreme destination.

tasmācchāstraṁ pramāṇaṁ te kāryākāryavyavasthitau jñātvā śāstravidhānoktaṁ karma kartumihārhasi

By the regulations of the scriptures, one should understand what is duty and what is not duty. After being versed in scriptural injunctions, one should act accordingly

The scriptures teach that you are not separate from the whole; but an intrinsic part of the great harmony of Existence. The Scriptures help deeply embed higher cognitions about your existence into your heart, and love for god, for the self and for others flowers within you

As long as we are bound by anger, lust and greed, we are in bondage; we are in suffering. We live in it day after day and suffer. Kāma, krodha and lobha: lust, anger and greed when we shed these we are liberated. When these three combine, they create moha, or delusion. At one level these emotions are desires. Desires are energy. Lust is what drives us into reproduction and it is essential for the survival of species. Greed is the extreme expression of our survival needs. Anger is often the driving force to get things done. They achieve positive results, too. However, Kṛṣṇa refers to the expression of these emotions in the context of self-gratification. He refers to the gratification of base impulses. The baseness of the impulse is related to the intention, the context.

As long as these are expressed with the cognition of 'me,' they are base and demonic impulses. There are no liberating features. Lust can be transformed when it is expressed in an unselfish and unattached way. Lust will then totally disappear. Compassion and caring will be in its place. Lust is one aspect of the broad spectrum of desires. Unending desire is greed. When a desire is truly fulfilled, it leaves us. Karma is unfulfilled desires that goad us into action. We can never fulfill our desires because many of these desires are not truly ours. We borrow these desires from other people. There is never contentment. Each desire is the seed of suffering. You must complete with your lust, anger, greed, conflicting desires, and identify your true desires, the prārabdha karma, with which you are born into this world. When you imbibe the science of creating the space to have the energy to fulfill them. Your karma dissolves.

Above all, all the non-mechanical parts of your brain are awakened. Many powers which you have inside and you don't know, are awakened. The 'I' blossoms into 'you' effortlessly.

At this stage, we shed anger as well. Anger and guilt are byproducts of desires. What we cannot acquire makes us angry. Anger produces guilt. Being angry towards a person is fruitless. Much of the negativity expressed towards others comes back to us. It depletes our energy. Anger or even guilt is also often an expression of one's inability to do something. It is a self-centered emotion born of one's weakness, powerlessness. Suppression of anger does not help. It can actually lead to chronic diseases like cancer.

When we learn to complete with the emotion of anger instead of controlling it, it becomes energy instead of a disability.

Anger needs to be completed with and transformed into the positive energy of authentic action. What Kṛṣṇa asks us to do is to complete with the negative emotions like lust, greed and anger and create the space, with responsibility, to transform them into positive energies. He tells us that these are gateways to hell so long as we use them from the root cognition of 'me.' When we do completion and transform these emotions into energy, by creating the space of 'you', these same emotions become gateways to heaven, gateway to bliss.

Bliss is never an achievement on our part. Whatsoever we do to achieve bliss is doomed to fail. Bliss always comes from the beyond as a gift. We must be passively receptive to it. We are not to be aggressively active for it, just be receptive like a womb. We must be feminine to receive bliss. We must become pregnant with God. When ego or 'I' disappears, anger, greed and lust also disappear. What is left is bliss

God is not a person but the impersonal presence. The very life or Existence is God and the living energy is God. And to trust in it means to stop struggling against it. Struggling against it creates misery; it is trying to go upstream. Trust means surrender, going with the stream. And going with the stream is bliss. All misery is because of the ego and its struggle, its resistance. Trust means that resistance has been dropped. You don't think of yourself as separate from the Whole; you are just an intrinsic part of the great harmony of Existence. Then bliss is natural. The way to bliss is through the heart and through devotion. The real transformation happens when your energy moves from the head to the heart. When you reach the heart, you reach the core of your consciousness.

Listen, remember the most important thing! God loves us: He has not given up on us, He is not indifferent to us and He is continuously concerned about us, He cares. The deeper this idea enters your heart, the better, because when you feel more loved by God, you will be able to have love for God, and you will have love for others. That's how we are able to love: if we are loved, we can love. If we are not loved, we don't know how to love; we don't know what love is. God is our substance, our very being. He is not something outside us; He is our innermost core. We do not need to seek and search for Him. Only this has to be remembered: we have forgotten it. God is not lost; only we have forgotten who we are

Don't be identified with the body. Don't be identified with your mind, country, race or religion. Don't be identified with anything. Don't think, 'I am this' or 'I am that'. Remember, neither 'this' nor 'that'. That is one of the secret teachings of the mystics: neti-neti, neither 'this' nor 'that'. If you can avoid both polarities, day and night, life and death, body and mind, then slowly a third energy arises in you, a third force arises in you. That is consciousness. That's your reality. That is freedom—freedom from fear, anxiety, misery, freedom from the world, freedom from the wheel of life and death. Then you are a witness, watching, a mirror reflecting but not getting caught in any reflection. When you are a witness, the 'me' and 'mine' drop. What remains is identification with your energy, with your state, not your status. In that state, you are one with all. You are in the space of Living Advaita, oneness. You become Divine.

Teach the students to not associate themselves with any identities associated with their status in the world, their body or their mind. instead they must become associated with their energy, their state of consciousness. encourage The Students to learn to be in a stance of receptiveness within their being at all times, so that they can forever enjoy their divine presence that permeates everything at all times.

• 1. What are the three gateways to hell Kama, Krodha, Lobha?
• 2. What is Greed?
• 3. Name one positive and one negative result associated with Greed?
• 4. How can Greed be transformed into Contentment?
• 5. What is Anger?
• 6. Name one positive and one negative result associated with Anger?
• 1. How can Anger be transformed into Authentic Action?

MATERIALS NEEDED:

Paper Pencil Acrylic paints Fine Art Brush Colour Palette

PROCEDURE:

All artistic depictions of Krishna show a peacock feather adorning his head. Let us draw a peacock feather on a paper with our pencils. Now try creating your own perfect colour pallet for painting the feather. Mix various acrylic paints in the basic colours with gold and/or silver paint to make colours. The colours could be called Pearl Blue, Turquoise Blue, Olive Green, Pearl Metallic Green, Chrome Yellow, Golden Yellow, Bronze, and Pearl Metallic Gold. Paint your feather with these unique colours to give your painting a realistic finish.

The very life or Existence is Krishna and the living energy is Krishna. Krishna loves us. He cares about us. Krishna is our substance, our very being. Krishna is not something outside us. He is our innermost core. Let us celebrate Krishna in our inner and outer world!