Character Sketch🔗

• Śakuni, the maternal uncle of Duryodhana embodies the pattern of self-hatred, which is cunningness personified.
• Droṇa represents all the best knowledge one imbibes and the teachers one encounters, who guide us but are unable to take us through to the ultimate flowering of enlightenment. It is difficult to give them up since one feels grateful to them. This is where the Enlightened Master, the incarnation steps in and guides us.
• Duryodhana, represents one's ego or root-pattern, the most difficult to conquer as it leads one to self destruction. One needs the full help of the Master here. It is subtle work and even the Master's help may not be obvious, since at this point, sometimes the ego makes us deny and disconnect from the Master as well.

• Karṇa is the repository of all good deeds and it is his good deeds that stand in the way of his own Enlightenment. Śrī Kṛṣṇa has to take the load of Karṇa's puṇya, his meritorious deeds, before he could be liberated. The Enlightened Master guides one to drop one's attachment to good deeds arising out of what are perceived to be charitable and compassionate intentions. He also shows us that the quest for and the experience of enlightenment is the ultimate act of compassion that one can offer to the world.

Bhagavan Ṣri Kṛṣṇa, the 8th most powerful purnāvatar of Ṃaha Viśnu, is the embodiment of pure celebration, boundless love, compassion, and completion.

Bhagavan Ṣri Kṛṣṇa is the only incarnation demonstrating and expressing Ṣarva Ṃangalatva all the auspicious qualities and all dimensions of an avatar during His physical happening. The līla Bhagavan Ṣri Krsna is one of sheer innocence and simplicity, in a peace-loving, diplomatic, conflict-free way.

Karṇa is the repository of all good deeds and it is his good deeds that stand in the way of his own Enlightenment. Śrī Kṛṣṇa has to take the load of Karṇa's puṇya, his meritorious deeds, before he could be liberated. The Enlightened Master guides one to drop one's attachment to good deeds arising out of what are perceived to be charitable and compassionate intentions. He also shows us that the quest for and the experience of enlightenment is the ultimate Till now everyone blames Bhagavan Sri Krishna for this Kurukshetra war but that's the greatest sacrifice Bhagavan Sri Krishna did to save the planet Earth. If Kurukshetra was not conducted at that time under the controlled conditions and direct supervision of Bhagavan Sri Krishna, planet Earth would not have survived more than three years.

Character Sketch act of compassion that one can offer to the world. Bhagavan Ṣri Kṛṣṇa, the 8th most powerful purnāvatar of Ṃaha Viśnu, is the embodiment of pure celebration, boundless love, compassion, and completion. Bhagavan Ṣri Kṛṣṇa is the only incarnation demonstrating and expressing Ṣarva Ṃangalatva all the auspicious qualities a nd all dimensions of an avatar during His physical happening. The līla Bhagavan Ṣri Krsna is one of sheer innocence and The wide spread availability of the Astra shastras without Shastra, without the knowledge and vision, was posing a huge threat to the whole of humanity and planet Earth, and for life itself. The greatest achievement of Bhagavan Sri Krishna is destroying all the weapons in one controlled condition and saving planet earth, eliminating the nuclear weapons and the knowledge of these nuclear weapons to save humanity from total annihilation.

conflict-free way.

simplicity, in a peace-loving, diplomatic,

Bhagavad Gītā appears in the heart of Mahābhārat in Bhīṣma Parva, the sixth chapter of its eighteen chapters. Veda Vyāsa, the narrator, in glorifying the Gītā sings, 'the one who drinks the water of Ganges (the sacred river for Hindus) attains liberation, what to speak of the one who drinks the nectar of Gītā?

Gītā is the essential nectar of the Mahābhārat, bhāratamṛta sarvasvam as it is directly spoken by Nārāyaṇa, Bhagavān kṛṣṇa Himself.'

The armies assembled in the vast field of Kurukṣetra, now in the state of Haryana in modern day Bharat. All the kings and princes were related to one another, and were often on opposite sides. Facing the Kaurava army and his friends, relatives and teachers, Arjuna was overcome by remorse and guilt, and wanted to walk away from the battle out of total powerlessness unbecoming an invincible warrior among warriors.

Śrī Kṛṣṇa's dialogue with Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukṣetra out of His utmost concern and love for him and humanity is the content of Bhagavad Gītā. Of its seven hundred and forty-five (745) verses, Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa sings the Gītā in six hundred and twenty (620) verses responding to Arjuna's fifty-seven (57) enquiries.

Śrī Kṛṣṇa persuades Arjuna to give-up his powerlessness unfitting an Ārya—the spiritually evolved one who understands human life and urges him to raise himself again as Parantapa—the conqueror of enemy, and take up arms and vanquish his enemies. They are already dead,' says Śrī Kṛṣṇa, 'All those who are facing you have been already killed by Me. Go ahead and do what you have to do. That is your responsibility. Do not worry about the outcome. Leave that to Me.'

yasya nāhaṅkṛto bhāvo buddhir yasya na lipyate hatvā 'pi sa imāl lokān na hanti na nibadhyate

One who is egoless, whose intelligence is not of attachment, though he may kill, is not the slayer and is never bound by his actions.

When we surrender, we learn to include everything.

Kṛṣṇa says that spiritual practice, that is the state of satva, is difficult in the beginning, and it is like poison; however, it becomes life-giving nectar in the end.

Sensual pleasures born out of rajas, on the other hand, seem like nectar in the beginning but become poisonous. In the tamasic state, Kṛṣṇa says, one is deluded as if in sleep, laziness and illusion. Every human is in one state or another.

Of course, one who has reached that level of completion does not think of killing. As long as we have the idea of 'I' and 'mine', we attack or kill. When we exclude, we kill. On the other hand, when we surrender, we learn to include everything

One thing we need to understand. We kill others only when we feel insecure. We do not need courage to make war. We only need cowardice. Only cowards go to war. They are afraid for themselves and kill others. To kill others, we do not need courage. We simply need cowardice.

The person who is courageous never kills others. He is established in non- violence. Only cowards continuously try to hurt others. A courageous person does not try to hurt others. That is the reason Kṛṣṇa makes this bold statement one who is not entangled in ego, even if he kills, does not kill.

Kṛṣṇa emphasizes here: May you be liberated from entanglement. May you liberate yourself from ego, yasya nāhaṅkṛto bhāvo. He does not ask Arjuna to kill. One problem is that people give their own meaning to words. They have their own delusive cognition.

Kṛṣṇa uses killing as an extreme example to make Arjuna think. The focus is on non-attachment arising out of egolessness, which is the space of completion. You need to know, completion done in the space of completion transforms your personality, transforms your being, heals the intense, constant, agitāted violence you carry towards you and others.

When one no longer feels the need to survive, anything that one does is without attachment and without expectation. When a person is in that state, he is truly in completion with Existence. If such a person destroys, it is similar to the destruction caused by Nature, which happens at a different frequency and understanding level as I explained earlier.

Kṛṣṇa makes this statement to drive the point home to Arjuna that it is his responsibility to stand up and fight instead of running away from the battlefield.

Helping children/teenagers understand what is courage. -Helping children/teenagers experience their natural space of completion.

• 1. What do we do when we exclude?
• 2. What happens when we surrender?
• 3. When do people kill others?
• 4. How does a courageous person act?
• 5. What is Krishna emphasizing on?
• 6. Why is Krishna making such an extreme statement to Arjuna?

MATERIALS NEEDED:

Paper, Markers, pen, Eraser, Scissors, Glue, etc.

PROCEDURE

First, remind the children that a truly courageous person is always established in non-violence. Then, ask them to make a card to someone in their life which they find most courageous. Ask them to write down the reason why they feel this way by giving an example of a situation where the person showed courage.

INFERENCE

A courageous person never tries to hurt others.

MATERIALS REQUIRED A Big paper on which all the children can draw or write a word.

Pens, markers, erasers, etc.

PROCEDURE:

Ask each child to close their eyes for 3 minutes while contemplating on the truth: "Kṛṣṇa inspires you to realize the truth of your natural space of completion, not to kill." Tell them to witness whatever comes in their inner space during that short meditation (any image, letter, word, sentence, etc.). Then, at the end of the meditation, ask each child to draw or write what appeared to them on the same big piece of paper (all children draw and write on the same paper).

You can then enjoy the masterpiece together and ask each child to describe their experience (how the word, thought, image appeared, how they feel the big piece of paper looks with everyone's contribution on it, how completion makes them feel, how they would know if they are not in the space of completion, etc).

INFERENCE

Completion transforms your personality, transforms your being, heals the intense, constant, agitāted violence you carry towards you and others.

First, engage in a short discussion about the real message that Krishna is giving Arjuna here. Then, read this small story to the children/teenagers and ask them to discuss whether the way that the boy acted and reacted is aligned to what Krishna is teaching Arjuna.

Once there was a little boy in a Zen monastery training to be a monk. One day, when he was cleaning his master's room he accidentally broke his master's favorite teacup. He wanted to confess to his master about the teacup, but was scared that he would punish him.

He approached the Master and asked him, 'Master, isn't it true that everything that was born has to die someday?' The master replied, 'Yes.' The boy then showed him the fragments of the broken cup and said, 'It was time for your teacup to die.