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.

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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.'

rāgadveṣaviyuktaistu viṣayānindriyaiścaran ātmavaśyairvidheyātmā prasādamadhigacchati

The self-controlled man, moving among objects with his senses under control, free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace

The only way, the Lord says, is to control one's senses, complete with oneself and surrender to Him, the Universal energy, and achieve everlasting peace.

prasāde sarvaduḥkhānāṁ hānirasyopajāyate prasannacetaso hyāśu buddhiḥ paryavatiṣṭhate

All pains are destroyed in that peace, for the intellect of the tranquil-minded soon becomes steady

Ground yourself in the completion of the present.

nāsti buddhirayuktasya na cāyuktasya bhāvanā na cābhāvayataḥ śāntir aśāntasya kutaḥ sukham

A person not in self awareness cannot be wise or happy or peaceful. How can there be happiness to one without peace

Stay fully in the space of completion, and based on the truth of integrity and authenticity, act.

ndriyāṇāṁ hi caratāṁ yanmano 'nuvidhīyate tadasya harati prajñāṁ vāyurnāvamivāmbhasi

He loses his awareness of the present moment when his mind follows the wandering senses, just as the wind carries away a boat on the waters.

Be complete and focus completely.

Kṛṣṇa reveals two very important truths here in the last two verses. One is that you can never be peaceful unless you are complete, conscious. The other is that you cannot be complete if you are led by your senses. Therefore, as long as your senses lead you into what you think is a pleasurable journey; you cannot really be happy or peaceful. It is just another trick your mind is playing on you. Your happiness is not real happiness. It is just a gap between two periods of sorrow. What you hear, what you think you hear, what you see, what you think you see, and so on, all these sense inputs are unreliable, incomplete cognitions.

Anybody who succeeded, till that success happened, he only failed! But if he had held on to his past record, success should not have happened in his life. This journey never stops all through your life unless you make a serious attempt to complete with it. Your mind, on itsown, would never want to stay in the present moment, which is the only moment of truth. Self- completion, svapūrṇatva is the only direct method to reclaim your space of completion. This is your basic right. Reclaim it!

Drop the past records. The past track never gives you the confidence, the possibility. Unless you see the possibility, life does not flow in you! Excitement does not happen in you. The past records always bring deep sorrow, because by nature, past records are death. Possibility, by nature, is Life! The past record is neither as bad as you remember, nor worthy of being remembered. Possibility is life. Life is possibility, not past record.

Kṛṣṇa says, 'Get away from your senses; escape from their control; ground yourself in the completion of the present. Only then can you be at peace. How can there be happiness for one without peace, aśāntasya kutaḥ sukham? (2.66).

What is this present moment? What is this completion?

When we do the self-completion process, our mind and inner space becomes integrated and authentic and stops moving back and forth between the past and future, it will by itself land in the present moment. The present moment is what we are doing now. If you are reading this book, don't half read this book and half listen to music; don't half read this book and half talk with someone. Either be complete and focus completely on what you are reading or don't read at all.

When you settle into the space of completion, you are out of the clutches of your senses and mind. You will still see and hear, but none of what you see and hear will divert you from what you are integrated to doing. You will be aware of only what you are doing in that present moment. This is what we call meditation.

Meditation is nothing but being integrated completely to what you are doing at a particular moment. When you plan for the unimaginable, when your nervous system is loaded with things that you are not able to even comprehend, the excitement that oozes in your nervous system is bliss!

Understand, bliss does not come to lazy bums! Bliss does not happen to people caught in the pastrecords. This is what Kṛṣṇa says will lead you into peace and very soon to being steady—prasanna-cetaso hy āśu buddhiḥ paryasvatiṣṭḥate (2.65). When you are complete, your senses are in your control instead of you being under their control. You become peaceful, you are in bliss

❖ Helping each child settle in the space of completion.

❖ Helping each child experience meditation, being established in the present moment.

• ❖ When does real success happen?
• ❖ When does real happiness happen?
• ❖ What is the direct method to regain your space of completion?
• ❖ What should we do with our past records and why?
• ❖ How can you get out of the clutches of your senses and mind?
• ❖ Define meditation?
• ❖ How can you become peaceful and experience bliss?

MATERIALS NEEDED:

• 1. Paper
• 2. Pencil

• 3. Eraser. (No pen because they will need to erase)

PROCEDURE

Ask each child to draw a situation that made them unhappy in pencil. Then ask them to hold that paper and help them complete with the incident. When they are complete, ask them to erase their drawing. Conclude by asking the children how they feel at the end of the process and ask them to explain why dropping the past is important.

INFERENCE

This art activity will help the children understand that past records need to be dropped in order for them to be in a space of completion and experience bliss.

PROCEDURE:

Ask each child to pick one activity that they want to do for 5 minutes and tell them that they have to engage it with it fully, and to be completely involved in it like nothing else exists.

INFERENCE

When you engage fully in the action without getting distracted, you experience the present moment. You experience completion. You experience bliss. You move towards being established in the space of completion.

Discuss what is Unclutching and Lead the group into the unclutching meditation to help them get grounded in the present moment.

CONCLUSION Completion brings peace and bliss..