THINK PSYCHOLOGICAL NOT CHRONOLOGICAL🔗

Don't think these are chronological concepts. They are psychological. If it were chronological, then do you think that the millions of people who die in those six months become enlightened? Enlightenment is not an accident! It is a pure conscious choice. So be very clear, when He says agnir jyotir ahaḥ śuklaḥ.

He means if we are conscious ... agnir jyotir ... means when your being is conscious ... when your being is fully alive, awakened, naturally you go up. (śuklaḥ means going above, kṛṣṇa means going down). If we live throughout life centered on the eyes, our energy leaves through the eyes. At the last moment, we open the eyes and the soul leaves. If we live throughout life centered on the tongue, eating, our mouth opens and the soul leaves through it. So if we live throughout life centered on higher consciousness, our energy leaves through the sahasrāra, the crown cakra, the energy center on the top of our head.

brahma brahmavido janAH

Kṛṣṇa says brahma brahmavido janāḥ. He means that if we have always lived with our attention focused towards higher consciousness, we will travel in that path and disappear into Brahman. We will become enlightened.

So be very clear, these conditions are not chronological. They are psychological. Bhīśma waited until his mind settled, until he felt completely peaceful, till he was able to forgive and complete with everybody and himself, and till he was able to reach conscious awareness. Then he entered enlightenment.

Next, Kṛṣṇa says that the person who passes away from this world during smoke, the night, the fortnight of the waning moon or those six months when the Sun travels in the south, referred to as Dakṣināyaṇaṁ, reaches the Moon but comes back again. Again, this is psychological. They can't say that in these six months nobody can become enlightened. They can't say, 'During the six months of dakṣināyaṇaṁ, the Enlightenment gates are locked, no entry. Only at uttarāyaṇaṁ time, the gates are open. Come at that time.' No! They can't say, 'Dakṣināyaṇaṁ time is non-working hours and only uttarāyaṇaṁ time is working hours.' There are no working hours for enlightenment. It is purely because of the conscious choice of one's being.

LIGHT & DARKNESS

Kṛṣṇa says that according to the Vedas, there are two ways to pass from this world: one in light and one in darkness—śukla-kṛṣṇa gatī hy ete jagataḥ śāśvate mate. When one passes in light, he does not return, but when one passes in darkness, he comes back again ekayā yāty anāvṛttim ananyāvartate punaḥ (8.26). What does Kṛṣṇa mean by light and darkness, śukla kṛṣṇa? They refer to the levels of consciousness one has reached. If a person leaves the body without knowing what drove him all along—his saṁskāras, his desires, fears, guilt, etc., which we call root thought patterns—then this ignorance is what He refers to as darkness.

BREAK YOUR ROOT THOUGHT PATTERN

If you look inside, the reason for your low inner space, powerless inner space will be some root thought pattern. Break that! Reclaim your freedom! Declare your freedom! Raise your inner space to the peak joy, fulfillment, and excitement.

Please understand, when Śwetaketu, a young seeker mentioned in Upaniṣads, was initiated by his Guru, his Guru said only nine times — 'Tat Tvam Asi! Tat Tvam Asi! Tat Tvam Asi!' (thou are that), and Śweta-ketu became enlightened. Why then, even if you listen to 'Tat Tvam Asi' nine-thousand times, you don't become enlightened? Carry the right inner space! On the rock, seed can not sprout as a tree.

In the right fertile ground only, the seed can become a tree. In the right inner space only, the teachings can become reality. Right inner space means where all the root thought patterns of suffering are destroyed. Listen! All root thought patterns are destroyed where your inner space is fertile for experiencing the higher ideals and ideas.

When we become aware of these root thought patterns and are free from them, we leave the body and become liberated. This is what He means by light. He says that when this happens, the being does not return to the body.

Impress upon the students that we need to have the right inner space where all our root thought patterns of suffering are destroyed and where your inner space is fertile for experiencing the higher ideals and ideas.