An enlightened master is without worry about what others want or think.🔗

Live in a blissful mood, in a blissful way, in utterly relaxed consciousness

Ask the children to take turns on these steps:

• 1. Tell a story as if you are God or Mother Nature and have to take care of everything in the world. What would all your commitments be?
• 2. Second, tell a story as if you are a king or a queen and explain what all your commitments would be.
• 3. Do the same as a mom or dad and finally as a kid. Now that we know from this exercise that our commitments are really small and that we can really keep them, let's be integrated with our commitments starting from today

List and discuss the commitments you have given to others over a week and see if you have kept them. List the commitments you have given to yourself and see if you have kept them. Why did you miss any commitments? Complete it and over the next to B week observe the word you give to yourself and others.

Integrity means honoring every word you utter to yourself and others. Each time you honour the word you give to others their confidence in you grows. Each time you honour the words you give to yourself, your confidence in you grows. Success is nothing but you having confidence in you and others having confidence in you. That is all; life is complete.

"Existence is intelligence", therefore our thoughts and actions are directly related to the reality we seek to manifest. When we live life by honoring integrity to ourselves and others, the Cosmos in turn aligns us to living our best reality. Understand that Existence is intelligence. You will never die because you will be in Existence somewhere in some form. This body may move, however, you will be there forever. When we understand the whole cosmos is intelligence, our whole life will be blessed with what we want.

God Answers To You When You Are In Consciousness

Authored by

THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

mām hi pārtha vyapāśritya ye'pi syuḥ pāpayonayaḥ striyo vaiśyāstathā śūdrās te'pi yānti parāṁ gatim

O Pārtha (son of Prithā), anyone who takes shelter in Me, women, traders, workers or even sinners can approach the Supreme destination.

When devotion matures, consciousness flowers.

kiṁ punar brāhmaṇāḥ puṇyā bhaktā rājarṣayas tathā anityam asukhaṁ lokam imaṁ prāpya bhajasva mām

How easier then it is for the learned, the righteous, the devotees and saintly kings who in this temporary miserable world engage in loving service unto Me.

When we have a clear view about what we really want, then we will spend all our energies in fulfilling those needs, without worrying about what others want or think.

manmanā bhava madbhakto madyājī māṁ namaskuru māmevaiṣyasi yuktvaivam ātmānaṁ matparāyaṇaḥ

Fix your mind on Me, be devoted to Me, worship Me, and bow down to Me. Thus, uniting yourself with Me by setting Me as the supreme goal and the sole refuge, you shall certainly come to Me.

All one needs is devotion to attain Krsna consciousness. The point Krsna makes here is that irrespective of caste, a person who has faith and devotion to Him can attain Him.

When we think that the Whole is our enemy, we will be continuously antagonizing it. When we understand that the Whole is our friend, we will relax and enjoy the whole of Existence.The whole chapter reveals this single secret: that is the cosmic energy the whole universe, is intelligence. It responds to our thoughts and again and again, It answers our dreams, our thoughts, and our very consciousness.

Again and again, Krsna talks about the correct understanding of rituals and sacrifices made in front of God. We see numerous people going to the temple. They take one hundred and one coconuts and break them in front of the deity. In the Tirupati temple of Lord Venkatesvara, people offer their hair as a sacrifice. If we offer hair and pray and come back home,nothing is going to happen. When we sacrifice something, it represents the surrender of our ego. When we sacrifice our hair in Tirupati, we surrender our ego to Lord Venkatesvara.

People ask me, 'Are sacrifices wrong? Is worship and sacrifice for a particular deity wrong?' No, it is not wrong. We should understand that we are not worshipping or sacrificing to that one particular deity. We must go beyond that. When we make a sacrifice from our being, we merge with the Existential energy. We do not see a difference between one deity and the other. Every deity will then appear the same.

Everything is Krsna or Rama or Jesus or Buddha. This is what Krsna says here. He is the only enjoyer of all sacrifices. When we understand his transcendental nature in everything around us, any small thing that we give from our whole being to even a rock becomes a sacrifice. That rock need not be carved into a statue of Krsna or Siva. We need not name it because we see the energy behind that rock.

These two verses must be carefully understood. If not, they can be conveniently used as a justification to do whatever one wants. See, Krishna does not give a license to do whatever we want here. If we are classifying an action as good, bad, saintly, or sinful based on guidelines laid down by society or someone else, then be very clear we operate at the conscience level. No action is good or bad in itself.

There is a deeper layer of operation called consciousness. Conscience is different from consciousness. In consciousness, we become spontaneous. When consciousness flowers, we know what needs to be done and what is right at that point in time. When this happens, even if an action seems to violate the norms of society, it is always for the good. It may not be evident to society, but a person operating from consciousness can never do anything against the benefit of humanity. Krsna killing demons may appear like the act of a criminal. Yet He established truthfulness and justice by doing it.

When devotion matures, consciousness flowers. Devotion may seem different from knowledge when it is not ripe. Krishna says that His devotee never perishes. Devotion is not simply offering worship daily to Krsna's photo, lighting camphor, lamps, and offering garlands. When one is a true devotee of Krsna, he becomes Krsna. He experiences Krsna consciousness. The ultimate consciousness is whereno good, bad, evil, or virtue exists.

Devotion, knowledge, and wisdom appear to be different when they are not ripe. When they mature, they become the same. One experiences true wisdom at the peak of devotion or peak of knowledge. Krsna says, 'Anyone can reach Me through devotion, whether they are women, traders or workers, or even sinners.' He makes a point that there is no pre-qualification.

Krsna's message is the same. All one needs is devotion to attain Krsna consciousness. The point Krsna makes here is that irrespective of caste, a person who has faith and devotion to Him can attain Him. A person may follow any profession: if his inner space is cleansed, he can attain and experience Krsna consciousness. All practices like meditation and rituals, cleanse the inner space. When this space is cleansed, transformation automatically happens.

In the last verse of this chapter Krsna says, 'Engage your mind, always thinking of Me. 'Please understand that the whole universe, the whole cosmos, is intelligence, and it responds to our thoughts, it responds to our consciousness, to our very being. The entire universe responds to each and every thought that we have.

So we must be careful about what we think. See, our inner space reflects the outer incidents. The entire universe responds beautifully to each and every thought. When the thought patterns are positive, only positive incidents are attracted

To help the child understand how operating out of pure consciousness cleanses our inner space and the entire universe responds to us.

• 1. What is the difference between conscience and consciousness?
• 2. How can we cleanse our inner space?
• 3. What is the qualification to attain Kṛṣṇa consciousness?

MATERIALS NEEDED:

• 1. Paper
• 2. Pencils
• 3. Sketch pens
• 4. Eraser