Part 4: Bhagavad Gita Chapter 16🔗

• 1. Are we controlled by destiny or free will?
• 2. Can creating a space by visualizing it in the present make the visualization a reality?
• 3. How does self doubt stop our visualization from becoming a reality?
• 4. What is belief and how is it different from faith?
• 5. Why is meditation central to all eastern religions?
• 6. What is surrender?

MATERIALS NEEDED:

Popsicle sticks (per child) Glue Scissors Paper Clamp/paper clips (to hold structures together while they dry)

PROCEDURE:

Use your creativity to create a miniature boat. Feel free to create variations of the design shown below

INFERENCE

Our little boat of life is caught in a whirlpool inside the ocean of life and death. Round and round we go deeper and deeper into this world of illusions. We must pray to Krishna to take on the role of our boatman, who would steer our life boat out of this whirlpool and take it to the seashore on the other side.

Procedure

Meditate upon the Power of Visualization. Close your eyes and sit in a comfortable position. Let us create the space within to make something into reality. Let us visualize that what we desire has already happened. Several thoughts in the form of doubts regarding the impossibility of the desire or doubt about your ability to create such a state, depression of past failures or complete distrust, may arise within you. Bringing your past hangover into the present is incompletion. Complete with all these thoughts and incompletions. Stay firm on your resolve to create the space within by bringing your future possibility into the present is Space. For Example. If we wish to get rid of back pain, and we keep saying, 'Let this back pain go,' it will never go. Every time we utter the words back pain, our mind latches more firmly onto the past hangover of pain. If we want to get rid of pain, we must complete with all self-doubts and create the space for health by visualizing that we are feeling healthy now.

Creating the space by visualizing it in the present, helps make things happen in reality. However self-contradiction, self-doubt, self-hatred and impossibilities disrupts the realization of the visualization. Complete with all these incompletions by bringing your future possibility into the present and deciding that you will not challenge the power of the space, but you will take the responsibility to fulfill that space

• 1. The topic of discussion is "Destiny is nothing but the end result of how we exercise our free will".

Destiny does not bind anyone; they are free to exercise their will. As are your thoughts, so is your will; as is your will, so your action, as are your actions, so is your destiny. Destiny is nothing but the end result of how we exercise our free will. However a constantly changing will fails to convert into result producing actions. When people are persistent in their will to surrender their ego at the feet of the divine and turn inwards towards universal love and oneness; they are liberated by Krishna