Guarding The Senses (14.9-14.12)🔗

Kṛṣṇa further explains the three modes. 'Bhārata, sometimes goodness, satva, is prominent, defeating rajas (passion) and tamas (ignorance), and at times, ignorance defeats goodness and passion. In this way, there is always competition for supremacy (14.10).'

We are not completely caught in satva or rajas or tamas. We swing between satva, rajas and tamas. Kṛṣṇa says the manifestations of the modes of goodness, satva can be experienced when all the gates of the body are illuminated by knowledge. This is the technique.

The gates of the body are the gates through which we cognize: we receive knowledge through the five senses. He says that we should keep these five carefully guarded by prakāśa (illuminated knowledge)– sarvadvāreṣu dehesmin prakāśa upajāyate (14.11). We should ensure security at these gates and knowledge is that security.

Kṛṣṇa says, let us have the protection of knowledge at the five gates, and we will reside in continuous bliss. Completion is Bliss. When we protect our senses with satva, we will not allow negative patterns to enter our inner space. Do not infuse your Consciousness with powerless thoughts of incompletion that create suffering in you. Continuously add thoughts of completion that give power, bliss and peace.

Be Reborn with Gods (14.13-14.17)

Kṛṣṇa uses powerful words to describe tamas: ignorance, madness, illusion, inertia and darkness. One can quickly slip from rajas to tamas. Listen, the activity without any meaning that we find in tamas is not the same as activity without a purpose that we experience in satva. Please do not confuse the two.

Tamas, darkness, is generally born out of the ignorance of our true Self. We can only remove darkness by bringing in light. Same way, we dispel ignorance by bringing in the science of completion, pūrṇatva. Upaniṣad says—tamaso mā jyotiṛgamaya—meaning, let my darkness be removed by light. Let the light and wisdom of Kṛṣṇa, the Jagadguru, dispel your darkness and tamas.

Kṛṣṇa tells us where the person goes after death when steeped in these attributes of satva, rajas and tamas. A sātvic person becomes Divine. A tāmasic person chooses a lower life. A rājasic person continues to suffer due to greed.

Please listen! Every birth is your declaration of completion. Kṛṣṇa says that a person living in satva goes to higher spaces, the abodes of the realized sages. He becomes Divine*. When we are in satva*, we live in restful awareness, the space of enlightenment. We stop thinking about ourselves and we start living for others.

Our true nature is Divine. We are one with the Universal energy, God, Parāśakti. We can just experience it. Throughout life we run away from the core of bliss, the space of completion.

Let me define Completion. Completion is removing the delusion of incompletion, which makes you cognize the other is separate from you; the delusive cognizance, the delusive cognition.

Where Do We Go From Here (14.18-14.20)

Kṛṣṇa provides the key to liberation here. Those who go beyond the three guṇas, beyond the activity-producing attributes, beyond the root patterns and complete, are free of bondages and enjoy bliss in this world. This is the assurance of the Master. This is a guarantee.

These words are a great technique.

Step one is realize that our thoughts, words, and activities arise from one of the three root patterns, guṇas—satva, rajas and tamas.

Step two is the understanding about which guṇa, root pattern is doing what to us; what disempowering cognition that guṇa is building about our inner image (mamakāra), our outer-image (ahaṁkāra), others' image (anyakāra), others' expectation about us, and life's image (svānyakāra).

Step three is to do the completion and the creation process; do completion with that guṇa or root pattern and do creation of the satva guṇa, the right inner space to create the reality that we want. Finally we transcend satva guṇa and enter into nirguṇa or 'no guṇa state'. If we are complete, unattached by all that is happening, we act out of satva guṇa.

Here Kṛṣṇa assures, 'Those situated in the mode of goodness gradually go upward to the higher planes, ūrdhvaṁ gacchanti sattva-sthā (14.18).' A continuous tireless completion process creates the basis for higher level practices, for higher planes.

The realization that completion helps you move out of fantasies and creates your reality as you want, can only come as a result of learning the Science of Completion.

Going Beyond The Guṇas (14.21-14.25)

With great clarity, Kṛṣṇa explains the nature of one who has transcended the three guṇas. He explains what we need to do to become a triguṇa rahita, to become liberated from the influence of the three guṇas.

One who is beyond the three guṇas is unaffected by their play of emotions. Whatever happens is right for him. Success and failure mean the same. Friend and foe make no difference. Poverty or richness has no influence. Such an attitude of total detachment requires one thing: complete trust.

When we trust that whatever happens is what needs to happen, we are totally detached. Then whatever happens will be right. Such trust can only come from surrender.

Expression Of The Divine (14.26-14.27)

Kṛṣṇa concludes the chapter by asserting that the transcendental state is beyond the three attributes of nature, guṇas, is Brahman, Cosmic Consciousness, the space of Completion. He says you reach this through devotion. He says that He is that Brahman, the source of Eternal Bliss brahmaṇo hi pratiṣṭhāham (14.27).

Kṛṣṇa speaks as Parabrahma Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme energy and not as Vāsudeva Kṛṣṇa, the individual. He is in the expanded consciousness of Brahman, and beyond the three guṇas. He is the Source of the guṇas.

It does not matter who our Master is. What matters is our trust, our surrender based on the level of our completion, our guṇa, and not the Master's state. Even if we worship a stone and surrender to it from a complete inner space, we will be liberated. It is true.

Surrendering not even bothering to whom you are surrendering, as a quality of surrendering is Enlightenment. That space of completion alone liberates us. This is what Kṛṣṇa means by devotion, bhakti-yogena sevate (14.26), which is unfailing in all circumstances. Nothing more is needed. Anyone that we surrender to totally, is Kṛṣṇa and we then fall into Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the Consciousness of Completion.

Let us pray to Parabrahma Kṛṣṇa, the Universal Consciousness, the Ultimate Energy, to give us all this understanding in our life, to make us experience the truth that He teaches and to establish us in Completion, and make us radiate Eternal Bliss, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM.