Part 5: Bhagavad Gita Chapter 7🔗

The problem is that these saṁskāras operate at an unconscious level and drive us from unawareness to unawareness, from incompletion to incompletion. Therefore, we end up acting instinctively, but unlike our cellular brethren, without listening to Nature Human beings are given intelligence so that they can rise above instinct and logic and operate out of intuition. This intuition is born from awareness. It comes through meditation. With awareness, we understand that there is truly nothing that we can be attached to, since everything is impermanent. The same is true of aversion.

It arises from insecurity and fears. What is there to be afraid of in life? Every occasion that we are afraid, we actually die inside us. If we shed our fear of death, we lose all our fears. When we move into awareness, through meditation, we settle within the boundary of our body-mind and we enter the present moment.

When we are in the present moment there is no duality of like and dislike, attachment and aversion. We respond to each event as it unfolds with clarity, with intuitive intelligence, with completion and we are always right.

Help children understand that it takes intelligence to recognise the Divinity of Kṛṣṇa Let children understand that attachment and aversion are useful for growth and survival And that human intelligence is there not to stop listening to Nature, but to raise us

• Why does Kṛṣṇa repeatedly declare that He is enlightened?
• When the formless Divine expresses as a form, is the choice of the form (the shape) important?
• What are some of the reasons people come to a Master?
• How do single cells show attachment and aversion?
• Why is there truly nothing that we can be attached to?
• What does aversion arise from?

MATERIALS NEEDED:

• 1. Paper
• 2. Coloured pens

PROCEDURE

Sketch the scene where Kṛṣṇa offers Duryodhana the choice of either Kṛṣṇa unarmed or His Yadava army, and Duryodhana choses the army. However Arjuna jumps at Kṛṣṇa's offer, all Arjuna wants is Kṛṣṇa.

INFERENCE

Duryodhana chose the utilitarian army! That was all Duryodhana could see. That was his level of awareness, steeped as he was in ignorance.