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.'

traividyā māṁ somapāḥ pūtapāpā yajñairiṣṭvā svargatiṁ prārthayante te puṇyam āsādya surendra-lokam aśnanti divyāndivi devabhogān

Those who practice the vedic rituals and drink the soma juice worship Me indirectly seeking the heavenly pleasures. They go to heaven and enjoy sensual delights

Art of the day

Powerful Cognition

When we understand that the whole universe is divine,when we experience Vishnu, meaning when we experience eternal bliss,we attract Lakshmi, wealth!

te taṁ bhuktvā svargalokaṁ viśālaṁ kṣīṇe puṇye martyalokaṁ viśanti evaṁ trayīdharmam anuprapannā gatāgataṁ kāmakāmā labhante

Once they have thus enjoyed heavenly sense pleasure, they are reborn on this planet again. By practicing vedic rituals as result oriented actions, they are bound by the cycle of birth and death.

Powerful Cognition

Continuously, the universe cares for you. The Divine waits for you. It responds to your thoughts.

ananyāścintayanto māṁ ye janāḥ paryupāsate teṣāṁ nityābhiyuktānāṁ yogakṣemaṁ vahāmy aham

When you reside in My consciousness, always fixed in undivided remembrance, whatever you lack I give [yoga]. And whatever you have, I preserve [kṣema].

Powerful Cognition

I take care of you in all ways. I give them whatever they want spiritually and materially and I take care that it stays with them. I take care that nobody takes it away from them.

ye'pyanyadevatā bhaktā yajante śraddhayā'nvitāḥ te'pi mām eva kaunteya yajanty avidhipūrvakam

Even those who worship other deities, they too worship Me, O Kaunteya (son of Kuntī), but without true understanding.

Powerful Cognition We will have everything and nothing will be lost.

ahaṁ hi sarvayajñānāṁ bhoktā ca prabhureva ca na tu mām abhijānanti tattvenātaścyavanti te

I am the only enjoyer [bhokta] and the only Lord [prabhu] of all sacrifices. Those who do not recognize My true transcendental nature are born again and again.

Powerful Cognition

The whole of Existence responds to our inner space.

Introduction

Krsna speaks about the attitude with which we read scriptures or perform rituals. Scriptures have immense knowledge. Rituals have immense power. They are meditations, yet, they are useless if done with fear and greed.

When we do pious activities with fear or greed, though we see some transformation, we will go back to where we started. That is what Krsna means by Indra loka, the momentary transformation or elevation of our state. When we perform certain rituals: when we do puja, or prayer, or we read scriptures, it should become a meditation. Our ego, our fear, and our greed should not come in the way. Do things with intensity.

The next verse is the main core that reveals the secret. Krsna tells Arjuna and all of us: 'Those who always worship Me, those who always reside in Me, ananyascintayanto mam ye janah paryupasate, people who have become Me, people who reside in eternal consciousness: to them, I carry what they lack and I preserve what they have. I personally take care of them.' Understand, no other incarnation has revealed this truth so clearly

He says, 'If you reside in eternal consciousness, divine energy, bliss consciousness, I take care of you in all ways. I give them whatever they want spiritually and materially and I take care that it stays with them. I take care that nobody takes it away from them.' This is a beautiful statement and assurance'. Anyhow, understand, Existence responds to our thoughts. Only based 'on our thoughts, we create relationships, friends, society, our circle, and naturally, our whole world. Again and again, Vedanta says, drsti-srsti, we create what we see. We create the universe from the angle of our vision. When our drsti (vision) changes, the srsti (world around us) changes too. By changing our vision, we change the world around us.

In each one of us, the power of coincidence, the power to create, exists. All we need to do is open that. Understand that we have the power to create the coincidence. Trust that your consciousness is connected to the universe. Continuously, the universe cares for you. The Divine waits for you. It responds to your thoughts. We create what we want. We have the power to create the world when we are conscious, when we are in the waking state. When we can create a world in the dream state, can't we create that in the waking state? We can do it. Even now, we create our world.

'If we are creating our world, why do we create so many miseries?

The answer is simple. We do so because we have vested interests in our sufferings. Somewhere we feel comfortable when we suffer. When our inner consciousness changes, when we reside in eternal consciousness,we automatically attract the power of coincidence. We attract the power of coincidence. The moment we understand that the whole universe is pervaded by the Existential energy of Vishnu, we attract Lakshmi, Vishnu's consort, who represents wealth! When we understand that the whole universe is divine,when we experience Vishnu, meaning when we experience eternal bliss,we attract Lakshmi, wealth!

To help the child discover the inner bliss within them to create the life they seek. GOALS:

Assessments

• 1. What is the meaning of drsti-srsti?
• 2. What is meant by , 'ananyascintayanto mam ye janah paryupasate'.
• 3. Share an incident in your life when your divine consciousness manifested what you asked for?

Art of the day: DRAW the world

MATERIALS NEEDED:

• 1. Pens

• 2. Pencil
• 3. Paper

PROCEDURE:

Encourage the children to draw the world. Let the children draw as much of it as they are able to draw.

Inference:

Connect them to the fact the whole world is a holographic structure. What is drawn is the unique perspective and expression of how the child cognizes the world and what they can manifest through their vision.