Part 2: Bhagavad Gita Chapter 7🔗

In Bharat kids play with wooden dolls. For one doll, they will drape a sāri and say, 'This is mother.' They will dress another in a dhoti and call it father, then brother, and so on. They say, 'Mother is cooking. Father is going to office,' and place the father doll in a small car. And then, they will say, 'Sister is going to school.' They will make cry sounds as though the sister cries not wanting to go to school. This seems like a game for kids.

But please understand, you play the same game too in your life. You catch somebody and say, 'You are my mother, you are my father, you are my wife, you are my husband, you are my son, and you are my brother.' And if that doll doesn't behave according to your frame or your image, you say, 'It's not a good doll,' and you throw it away and cry.

In the same way, when somebody doesn't behave according to your frame, you feel they hurt you. You want all the people in your life to play their role the way you want them to play.

When that doesn't happen, you feel hurt. Only a person who is a little mature thinks, 'What am I doing? How many times will I do this same psychodrama?'

Kṛṣṇa says, 'One who understands that the cause of all causes is Me, realizes the ultimate divine. He realizes thus, 'How many times will I play the same drama? How many times will I make the same mistakes?'

Until this realization, the whole thing is repeated again and again without end, without the experience.' 'The person who has understood, who has knowledge of this truth, surrenders unto Me, surrenders to the Master, an enlightened being, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all there is. Such a great soul is rare.

Only if you go with an attitude of love and gratitude, with maturity, only then do you see a living enlightened Master. The moment you see an enlightened being as He is, you will become enlightened. There's no doubt about it.

Help the children understand the seven different levels of approaching God, the five attitudes with which we relate with a Master or God, and the four types of people Kṛṣṇa says come to Him. Encourage them to understand what makes them dear to the divine, and how rare it is to find great souls that connect to the Master.

• What is an important difference between prayer and meditation?
• Name some of the different kinds of people who approach the Master or God.
• Who are the four types of people in the community system?
• How many paths are there between disciple and master?
• What does Kṛṣṇa say the wise people do that makes them the best people?
• How should we experience every moment, each outgoing breath and each incoming breath?
• What do you need to do for your worship to no longer be selfish?

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. Paper

1. Colored pens Photos or a slide show of different images of Kṛṣṇa, or have a Kṛṣṇa deity