 Good morning. Welcome y'all for the day three and we'll start with three chant of Om and Then we proceed to the top so Today we are going to have Dr. Alokji as our special speaker Yogeshwara Krishnaha that is the caption we gave for him The source of all good is wisdom and wisdom begins with self knowledge Today our journey is in the third phase of training Trinary structure of the universe number one soma physical part light enters into us number two Psychological part the psyche linked to the soul Then third newest spiritual part in man Naranarayana concept of Sri Krishna's Mahabharata. So it's a continuation like it's a series of Unfoldment of our psychic as well as our divine presence the indwelling spirit and Without much delay Our our speaker Alokji knows how to take us in this beautiful journey Allo, please That's okay. Don't worry. We can leave it We can leave it. No problem. Anyways, it's being recorded. That's okay. Namaste So I've been asked to speak on Gita for the youth yog yogeshwara krishna and as I was entering there was a request to share my life journey So life journey is there on YouTube in different places But there is a similarity of a certain kind and I would connect it with the Gita The Gita starts in a very interesting way It is it's setting itself is very fascinating It is not given to somebody sitting in an ashram who has gone to seek philosophical answers about life so normally when we seek knowledge we go and Go to some ashram meet some guru and he teaches us something. It's not not like that that the Gita is given Gita is not given to a man who is considered conventionally holy Wearing a certain kind of dress adopting a certain kind of life of all the characters in the Mahabharata Arjun would not be considered typically a holy person He's a good human being. He's a sattvic human being. He's a silk skillful human being expert in his own field But he's not you know if you consider going by these standards of holy Conventional morality then Vidur will top the list and if you go by these standards of Truthfulness virtues then Yudhisthira will top the list But Gita is not given to them Gita is given to Arjuna So the similarity that I find with my little story is that just as Sri Krishna seizes upon Arjuna in a moment of crisis on the battlefield well Sri Krishna in the form of Sri Aurobindo Seized upon me in the in Knot place One of the busy places after known when I was also tired looking for a way So that's the similarity rest of it is all available if there's a question I'll be happy to share but look at the beauty of the beginning of Gita We have all our notions about God. He's found here. He's found in a temple. He's found in a church He's found at this place in that or that place But the Gita starts when the seeker the seeking and the sort come together in a moment of Crisis in a moment of apocalypse when the seeking has reached its point where one is void of all answers That's when the answer comes from the divine. It's very fascinating. Look at it this way that Krishna Was always with Arjuna and that is one of the questions. He says my god. Who are you? I always felt that you know You're my friend. I have put my arms around you. We have chatted. We have walked together. We have played games had fun But who are you who is sharing such profound wisdom and that's when she Krishna reveals who he is now this is very interesting that there is a moment that the divine chooses to reveal himself to us and He loves to play He's a he's a player not his player ever born so he breaks all conventional ideas about himself and Reveals us in ways that we had not expected but that was the need of our soul in a given moment So that is the grand start of the Gita and right in the beginning. It's very Beautiful that who is the adhikari of the Gita? It's not like we can just read a book and remember all the Sanskrit and we become the You know adhikari one who is ready for the initiation this adhikar Bheed used to exist in ancient Indian times and should be the speaks about it the mother speaks about it now Also, it is there but not in a very obvious way Outwardly so there are two characters in the Gita with whom it starts So one is Duryodhana Why Duryodhana didn't get the Gita? Why Bhishma didn't get the Gita? Why Drona didn't get the Gita? They were equally great people. I mean Duryodhana also he was he was a brilliant warrior for all his defects He was ambitious egoistic, but he was a brilliant warrior He was not happy that to just defeat them in a game of dice. He wants to Karna. He is you know Known for a generosity. He's also a valiant warrior He also likes to do things that are right in the checklist But why they didn't receive the Gita now it starts with a man on the other side Which is Duryodhana. He is looking at the entire army of Pandavas and he very boastfully says you know, they have good people strong people, but look at our army Defended by Bhishma Drona charia Karn This and that and myself and you know, what is that army in front of us? Now this is one kind of humanity which measures the measurable and There is on the other side Arjuna. He is Contemplating the imponderable see the difference Duryodhana has measured the measurables and he has declared we are the winners before the battle start But what both have missed Duryodhana as well as Arjuna is that there is an immeasurable element in our life With which we must connect that is the divine Some people may use the word factor X the incalculable aspect of destiny of life of creation Which we don't know all the measurables Do not amount to that one single Krishna unarmed Sitting on the chariot and piloting the ways. There's an aphorism of Shravinda where he says If you have the entire world with all its army and shrapnels on one side and Krishna unarmed and alone Choose Krishna Now this is where we see the division begins to appear Arjuna has chosen Krishna both do not know They don't know the incalculable, but Duryodhana is too self-satisfied with the measurables So he is very proud. He is happy. He knows everything. He has probably done puja in his own Shiva temple Come and he is very happy. So he has done all the right things according to him Chosen Krishna's army everything Arjuna also is a villain barrier, but he has made one thing which ultimately changes destiny Very difficult to understand that it requires a leap of faith the Gita emphasizes that man is his faith So what is that faith that Arjuna has some or the other some deeper instinct in him knows that Krishna is The one who I must choose the divine. I must choose and so he chooses Krishna and She Krishna is the chariot here that image itself is so wonderful the Gita describes its image from the Upanishads Shravinda has upgraded this image several times in his famous Savitri can to book one can to for the world sailor on the flow of time So there is given the image of the ship and the waters which are more beautiful perfect image but here the image is of the chariot the horses there is of course She Krishna holding the reins and there is the Arjuna who is the Who is whom the chariot is supposed to carry through the battlefield So this image as the Upanishads will reveal to us and she Krishna himself reveals in the Gita is this is the image of a total being so horses are the energies life energies which are flowing through the senses now if we If we just contemplate on this chariot we get the secret if we allow to be driven by these life energies without any range Without any direction. It's almost like sitting in a car and autopilot car not even a you know Driver car. They're switching on and saying take me wherever you wish to the result is obvious Isn't it? So this is where the first lesson we learn we can't be driven by the senses We can't be driven just by the life impulses is there in the image itself So there is something which controls these life impulses the sixth sense in us the mind that is the rain So one has to activate the mind mind must decide it must hold at least it must restrain them But who will decide mind is an ignorance, but out of the mind there emerges something Still higher in all developed human beings and that is called but the the discerning intellect And the Gita starts from there when Arjuna raises a question He has done the wisest of all things that one could ever do he knows Knows quite a bit. You know as we see from his questions. He's not just an order. He has read Sankhya He has read Gandhi ji he has read some of the books in Harvard University He has had a brush with JNU students. He has read all this, huh? He's not an ordinary human being so he's when you see his questions. He's very fascinating But he wants to know more, you know, there's a very beautiful saying by Shri Ramakrishna There is hope for two people One the unlettered peace and who is full of you know, just humble gratitude for the Lord He doesn't know anything and so he is ready for everything and The one the other one who having read all the scriptures Yet feels the sense of incompleteness. There is something more one needs and that need has awakened in Arjuna And it is awakened in a very strange way not philosophically, but as a problem of action. That's why Geetha The mother has spoken about the Geetha. She has said Geetha will yet liberate a sick sure window says Geetha will yet liberate humanity Four great events in the history and he speaks about Christ crucifixion The Trojan war the third is Krishna's exiled from Vrindavan and the fourth is the colloquial in the battlefield of Kurukshetra and the last one will yet liberate humanity and the mother says with the coming of Sure window's own Version interpretation call it revelation of the Geetha its action has become manifold to all who have read the Geetha in this Sanskrit and with its whatever Tika analysis and this is on the Geetha You'll see the difference. It says literally a sea as he a sea of difference It's something which is which happens magically and one of the reasons is that they see Geetha is given on the battlefield She Krishna is an Hari Arjuna is an Hari you can literally read it in two hours if you go step by step So there it's very much You know realistic event because he has gone a little early Arjuna says show me all these fellows whom I have to fight and She Krishna knows what this fellow is going to going to happen to him in the middle of the battle Because Arjuna is not like Duryodhana. He's a Satvik cultured person So suddenly in the middle of the battle when he's face-to-face with Bhisma Drona He will say I don't think this is a good thing to fight So she Krishna Himself awakens in Arjuna. What is called in yoga is Vaishnavi Maya Vaishnavi Maya creates moha Asakti suddenly his mind is overcome with all kinds of attachments and He experiences an inner crisis. His problem is not philosophical He believes that he knows the philosophy because as we can see he knows about Sankhya He knows some doctrines. He knows some virtues how to live because he has grown up in Gurukul where all these things were taught But now none of it is helping him to act Because the choice is caught between two Equal rights see it's very easy to choose Things are between apparently good and bad, but here there are two equally valid standpoints So one valid standpoint is as a Shatriya He's called upon to fight all options of No war have been exhausted and he should fight to defend those who are under his care. They look up to him It's not just his individual matter. There are people whom he represents and stands for he's the representative Leader of humanity. He just can't say that. Okay, I won't fight because it is repercussions on everyone That's the first thing that she Krishna reveals to us that your actions are not just for yourself That's why there was such a great emphasis on in the ancient Indian thought to create the Aryan type of humanity because When there are ideal role models, then people follow it Otherwise in the absence of a role model the society will go into perdition. So that's where it begins He says look here. I have one aspect of him is he should fight He's it's an ideas battle as a Shatriya. You should fight a righteous battle But at the same time that he's fighting against those very people To defend whom one fights the battle and so he says that if I fight Men will die. They will be a perdition women will be left, you know, without Progeny all this will happen all the convention cool I will be a destroyer of my own cool And then she Krishna says that first thing you must know is to set up the highest standard of conduct For humanity. You are the shriest. You are the Aryan If you are overcome with this kind of weakness this more himself has brought the more But he is the one who because it's there hidden inside him. He's a good. He's a very Arjuna is a lovely combination of art and science. He is on one side the the archer in Mahabharata The archer nobody comes near to him. He had such deadly weapons He never used but at the same time his artistic side is developed He's he knows how to dance. He knows how to sing music. Everything is developed and of course he has a very wonderful As we see in the Mahabharata essence of humor intimacy friendship with Krishna. So he says what should I choose? I'm caught. So he has read some of the prevalent ideas Okay, some of these doctrines we speak about sannyasa. He says I think best is I don't know what to do So I think best is that I take to sannyasa. Sannyasa is I abandon life action And take refuge in my solitary escape into Nirvana So this is the ideal unfortunately we have We were on the words of accepting it as even a national ideal But she Krishna came again a sure window Right in the battlefield of a new Kuru Shetra He once again reminded us through his writings that don't Uttisthata Jagrata prapibhara Wake her eyes There's a goal. There's a work to do It's not just a random play, which is taking place. There is a purpose here So she Krishna chites Arjuna. What kind of weakness? It's an unarayan spirit to run away to escape to be a cowardly person to clean your own hands and look mr. Clean Whereas the world goes to Perdition not to take the lead when you are called upon to lead this another kind of Weakness that many of us. No. No. No. I pray if you are called upon to lead the leaders of mankind He belongs to that category so he must take the lead and He must proceed with action and he says that do you really believe that a sannyasi is You know this gospel that you have run away withdrawn You are no more into the world So sometimes if a sannyasi says I've renounced the world Ask what have you renounced? Your body your dress your workings your actions your food your drinking your breathing Even your ego of a sannyasi. I am a sannyasi What is the announced? Renunciation is not walking away from home because anyways It never was yours Renunciation is not leaving your wife or husband. They never wear yours You are with them, but did you did you don't possess them like you possess a property? That was a mistake that you this to admit By putting them on the game of dice So, what have you really renounced so she Krishna reminds him that Greater than this kind of a ascetic renunciation is Tiaga Tiaga is a inner process It is where you renounce inwardly This clinging Aspect with which we cling to things people situations circumstances if we are in that state We cannot know the right principle of action because we'll all the time be attached and driven by Mohan So this inner renunciation Geeta stretches which is directly Stresses which is directly in line with the Upanishads and that is called Tiaga for some of us Who may or may not be aware sure Bindo? Before he came to Pondicherry One of the epithets with which his friends used to call him was Tiaga Rajan Because he was literally a living example of a Jeevan Mukta renunciate He was doing everything even Surat Congress. You see the photograph. He's he who are ordered to split it, but sitting in such Quiet you know when you look at his picture even the picture when he's a little This is the of course the photograph symbolizing ultimate renunciation, but it's all inner Inner renunciation if there is inner renunciation, we don't need to renounce anything outwardly It is only when we are clinging to things that we need to renounce outwardly So it is a sign of a crudeness of nature if you look at it like this that you have to go away Into some kind of a sannyasa You know nature is refined when you have renounced the sense of the doer Then you don't have to do that So he first explains to Arjuna the difference between Tiaga and Sannyasa and then he starts him on Wonderful journey, but before doing that he removes from him the fear that haunts humanity Consciously or unconsciously That is the fear of death, you know, it's very interesting if I start with that But it looks like it is natural inevitable. He's a Shatriya. He's battling. He's thinking that he's going to kill people So whether he should do it or not because these are his relative But she Krishna's teaching is far more generalized at least when I read it. I realized this is not just death It's loss. I will lose I will lose this I lose that that's why she one of the answers that she Krishna says if you lose your honor You are as good as dead Starts with that. You're going to lose that This is you're not considering that so loss in a larger sense And there he says there is somebody within us who never loses anything who never gains anything It is on a great journey a great purpose gain and loss belongs to your outer personality to your nature But not to your true self. So the first thing that we it teaches us to You know to differentiate is between the movements of nature and the self now they are too They are basically one but in two poises Meaning thereby when the one self leans towards action, then it becomes identified with Prakriti It loses itself in Prakriti But when Prakriti Reaches back into its own quiet and state its origin then it becomes Purusha First thing is to learn to separate the two That's what the Gita teaches and the process of doing it by using the discerning intellect Meaning thereby if we have to act what are the things involved in action? What we should do what should be the motive what should be the will within what should be the purpose of action? All this is inevitable in action. So first thing is to gain recover knowledge Why I should act it's no point in just acting blindly mechanically Just because you know these often it well I have to act according to my duty and that's how Gita is interpreted by many doing your duty doing it well and Sherbinder says none of this nonsense The Gita is not a gospel of duty and he gives an example It is a duty. I will give more, you know example which Happens it is the duty of a child to listen to parents. That's how it is told to us What is the parents command you to do something and I used to say this is a child Supposing the parents say that get money as dowry For your wife should he do it or should he not do it his intrinsic sense will revolt If it's truly worth a human being he will say no But then he is violating the principle of duty So you see this dilemma comes all the time That's why the mother said in the supramental world authority by the ego is gone But there is another authority which has to replace it that comes a little later So duty is something which is born out of human ignorance human mind has constructed these ideas and So on and so forth. What is the other way that we act upon through what is called as conscience morally Am I doing something which is right? Am I doing something which is wrong? So the problem of conscience is it arbitrarily divides life into one of the most boring ways of looking at it life and that is good and bad White and black with no shades of gray Is it possible life doesn't move like that? So we have these you know I used to have these moral science classes and of the most boring ones Except that you get marks very easy to remember because do's and don'ts very easy to remember But life doesn't morality is good for in ignorance it helps us, but it cannot be the highest standard of conduct Then there is social conformity What everybody is doing But that humanity has gone past that we want no education, you know that revolt of the 60s 70s with that's not what we want Just conformity again conformity means being driven like a pack of sheep Or maybe a herd of Those Buffaloes that's not what man is meant for there is an individual element in man Which must awaken to its own evolutionary necessity? That's why the Gita brings in the idea of Sankhya of many souls Each of us are in a way on our own unique journey, but we are not alone. There is the larger contact Gita will bring it so it says you look inside and make your choice So it's not enough that we are just driven by society then there is another aspect scriptural knowledge Which is religion? So I must act according to my scriptural rules and injunctions So there is again another way of looking at It's a morality, but here it is somebody has told in the religious books And we know how dangerous following of religious books can be especially when the mind has no understanding of the Vision from where that scripture was born. It doesn't understand, you know, so it Follows the word but loses the truth. That's why the Gita gives two wonderful injunctions to us It says first of all Shabd Brahmati vartate, Shobindra also speaks about it. He said you have to go beyond the written word or the spoken word Even in the Gita in the end Shikrishna says that and Shobindra emphasizes It's very good to have the written word. Shastra is important But at one point a misapplication of Shastra can be as much cause of evil in this world As it's true and right, you know as anything else as not reading the Shastra So it's important to go beyond that second the difference between scriptural knowledge and true knowledge So Gita Shikrishna tells Arjuna, I know you're going to quote from here and there. I mean not in so many words Is I know I know what you're going to do But you know something Arjuna to somebody who has realized that truth within all This scriptural knowledge uses the word Vedavada You have read all the Vedas yet all this knowledge to a realized person is like a Water in a small little vessel while he is standing surrounded by the ocean of light That is its significance. So it's important but a very very relative thing We must leap from word to site from scripture to realization So he settles from there now Arjuna has to ask he can't know you know after that quote unquote So now he has to have his own questions because he had no answers left So he starts with questions. So what should I do? He has told him fight then he tells him first thing you must gain knowledge Knowledge is superior to action He says hold on. Hold on. You just asked me to fight Now you are saying knowledge is superior to action. Don't confuse me with your words So, you know divine takes us through Apparent confusion towards greater knowledge people who are very neatly stuck in systems believing they know Do not know that's how the Isha of Nishat put Sita. We get them. We don't have it. Yeah, I don't know So Arjuna is now confused. What do I do? So he says first gain knowledge. You can't act just mechanically Just driven by all kinds of things that I am doing karma yoga There are people who run from morning till night. I am once someone told me I don't need to read or Geeta or anything. I'm already doing karma yoga. So I said yes, the monkeys are also doing karma yoga What's the big deal Yoga is union with the divine karma is karma when we unite make it a means towards union with the divine Then it is karmic otherwise it just karma and karma is of various kinds And there is karma or karma we karma, but that's a different aspect altogether Normally we do karmas or are impelled to do karmas By compelled by these strands of nature three fold strands of nature So there is this Thomasic Prakati it tells us look here Sleep time and sleep time can you don't know, you know, it can cease during a talk So if you have that I used to tell my students don't snore Your sleep time is your sleep time Don't that's why perhaps in such places you don't have desk so that you can but I had learned the art of putting my Hands like this and sleeping into sleep when anatomy classes were going on and Suddenly teacher would say alok alok then my friend would nudge me Yes, ma'am. What are you doing ma'am meditating? Oh Thank God she didn't ask me who taught you I would have said school of nature Thomas You don't want to act, but you have to act treasury You're doing the same thing, but Thomas is like, you know, somebody says you're lifting stones. What are you doing? Don't you see I'm lifting stones Then these rajas Rajas brings all that vitality and action. I must do this. I am the doer. I am the enjoyer. I'll gain this Later on people will say he did so much For that one is doing so the same person lifting stone. What are you doing? I mean straining my name in the future people will say this was the man who did this You know, there is this kind of it Training sometimes given is something called it Jutaki seva. I don't know whether you've heard or not in some of the places Guru Dara you have you know people will their work is to Keep the chapels in place when people are going and it's people why for envy for this You know why because you may be a big general you may be a big fellow and you are doing it now You see how ego creeps in Arey such a big man and he was doing Jutaki seva. Now you see ego finds its door It's not that which makes you humble True humility is to know that you are nothing before the divine. That's what Arjuna has developed. He's not saying It's good. It's a good training for crude ego. It is good training for momentarily at least it's good too But that's not Geeta is not saying any of these things as seva. It is speaking of divine service We are not here to show to the world that we are the sevaks Rajas likes to do that even in service of the divine it wants its name to be enshrined Look at instrument of God. Wow No, no, it teaches a true instrument of God discovers he's nothing But it's God who is everything so the Geeta is taking Arjuna step by step through that process So he says if you want to gain knowledge Want to know what is to be done not to be done first you turn this discerning intellect Which is a faculty given by nature? To evolved human beings This is one of the markers of an evolved humanity without a discerning intellect man is only as The great yogi king Bhartahari said Shabindras translated his you know writings in The century of life very humorously he has noted many truths. He says I have met number of Animals who didn't have horns didn't have a tail and we're walking on toes So he could add they were also vegans and organics So that's not what is the hallmark of humanity? Hallmark of humanity is the discerning intellect and this discerning intellect is in a rudimentary way in everybody every human being That's why we have a need to justify our actions Because we must to whatever way even the man who gets angry just if I you know so and so said something Therefore I got angry You need to this rudimentary thing the man who blows up children Women who doesn't have even the courage to take on a combat Face-to-face such a cowardly person. He says I'm doing correct. Why because my scripture says so So we have a need to justify the most crude levels, but then When this faculty is driven by outer and downward propensities then it is at the mercy of The horses for discerning intellect has two movements. One is what the Gita causes the Bhavushakha naam Buddhi, what is Bhavushakha naam? Oh, you know, let's Read the Gita today. I'm going to do half an hour reading of the Gita Suddenly a friend phone comes phone a friend. Can we Go to the mall. There is a new sale going on. Oh, yeah, and you know, there's a good outlet for food Oh, wonderful driven by everything external That is what is called Bhavushakha naam WhatsApp messaging Bhavushakha naam means it is branching out in all kinds of thing driven by external touches You want to turn to God and you know you go there and you might oh, it's so hot Maybe there's the first thing the divine wants us to be trained in So that's why the Gita speaks about equanimity but before doing that it's Bhavushakha naam We have to learn to turn this intellect inward and upward Downward means we may be doing any action, but our eyes are on the fruit So I take a dig at all this, you know because see common person having an eye on fruit is understandable But you have these kathas You have these but your eyes either on the throne Next who will become the next cardinal next Pope next Maulana Next Mandaleshwar, Mahamandaleshwar next Jathedara everywhere. It is the same Or it is an eye on what is the money that I'm going to get after the Katha and Give me in cash because it's all nowadays. It is reading everyone Now that is not the right use of intellect. We are not even adhikari So what is the right use of intellect turn it inward in search of something deeper? Which can govern us in search of the soul in Search of that which is untarnished unblemished by all these events and circumstances Then we discovered the soul within independent of the movements of nature turn it upward seeking for a higher truth for a higher principle for good for beauty For that which is the source of all things all beings. So first thing is when we turn inward and upward then initially, there is a wall of all our Tamil Rajasic and Satvik nature do's and don'ts of life governed by certain principles of the scriptures We want to look for something beyond I do not at least that point even the Satvik scripture is unable to guide him and Then by the force of this turning upward We begin to enter into another state and that is called gyanah So gyanah is nothing to with reading of scripture. They may prepare us for that But when the intellect is turned inward and inward then we realize gyan yoga. So what what is the sign of such a gyanee? Does in all these Sanskrit slow cars by heart Can you give lot of talks anywhere? None of this is a sign of gyanee He is not dependent upon being hailed by the crowd. So the Gita speaks about what is the sign of a pandita? So it treats all men events circumstances with an equal vision Now this equal vision There is a deeper truth which she Krishna reveals later because if we catch it half then it would mean oh wow I have a snake so nice. Let me catch it and put it in my pocket That's our equality. No, I can put it do it if you are Shiva. That's the examples First discover the Shiva, then you can pick up the snake But if not do a namaste don't harm the snake equal vision Say that Shiva has come but Shiva in his raadra group Too dangerous to get too close Say namaste Nag Panchami Maybe keep some milk and quietly watch that too only the cobra will try it. Don't try this with Mamba, okay. So there also there's a hierarchy cobra is king of snakes naga So this equality towards things events circumstances People often quote it some are lost to Kanchan for him mud is as good as Kanchan, what does it mean? Does it mean if he has Money, he will throw it away into mud and see it's all the same No, that does it does not mean blurring of distinctions It means if Kanchan comes to him. He knows he's a trustee. He's not excited. Oh my god. I got so much money but if Mud comes to him. He says, okay, I will turn it into a shivelling gum. That is what it means He can use everything if wealth comes he can use it to serve the divine That's how Mirabai says in one of her bhajans He says that metho saavari karang rachi and she says karna fakiri fir kya dilagiri sada magan me rahna ji To go to mutti and mang jadava. Go chit karakish. If you want me to Braid my hairs with pearls. I'll do it for you Not to impress people. How good I look how good I look What to such a person is the praise and blame of mankind, but for God he does She does Krishna do I look good? something of your charm or if she is to Have hairs flowing because there's nothing then she says goes to Krishna and says how do you like my Kali rope? Either which way it is to please the divine and not for anything external So we are like trustees. What comes to us? We receive it as gift of God what goes from us It goes from the divine within to the divine in others that is the state the Gita is asking us Awakening through equanimity equanimity is the first sign Not only of a gun, but of a karma yogi and then the other thing he says is His being has become vast and impersonal So what is the sign of that? Desires and everything will come and pour into it without creating a turbulence You know, it's like a sea often when people are harassed by this problem that problem one of the simple solutions is Oh pond become the river or river become the sea Oh see become the Akash Ganga The smaller we are the more miserable we are even if we pursue Yoga with that idea how much I am progressing. Oh, I did this I did I forget yourself remember the divine That's what we are here for Not one place the Gita speaks that kind of language that we are used to speaking Become vast growing the vastness of God. So he becomes impersonal. There is a self-existent peace with that dwells within him So you arrive at that state. That's the first thing to be acquired So I'm gonna say, okay, okay, fine. Now. What do I do? He's no act again So once again speaks about size when you know, he speaks about All this gyan I say yes, yes, I've heard so Sannyas is better. Isn't it we draw from action and then so he said no No, don't get me wrong I am talking of inner Tiag inner turning upward turning of the intellect. I'm not talking of leaving anything outwardly Tiag is superior to Sannyas and in a state of Tiag now you act So now he says what should I do Tiaga? Tell me now. What should I leave? Should I I'm wearing gold chain. Shall I leave it? Shall I divorce my wife? I or shall I say I have no wife No child shall I say any of these things? She Krishna says don't be a fool. Don't play with words So what shall I renounce? He says Step by step renounce first the fruit of your actions act, but only to God the fruits belong In this poem the Rishi Is beautiful poem the divine worker I face earth's happenings with an equal soul In all are heard thy footsteps And then he described very beautifully Failure is Cradled on thy deathless arms Fortune is thy passage seen through mirrored glass No, it's like policemen Failure is glass Now it's like pulling the carpet below your feet all the time we act because of results People even do not act if they know that this is going to be Failure, that's why foresight is hidden from man. He will not act So Act but know that fruits not belong to me. This is the most practical thing common sense actually anybody 17-18 will understand and it by 40 you 100% know and if by 41 doesn't know this simple fact of life Without reading the Gita and then you are going to be fooled Fruits don't belong to us. Anyways, which way you look at it? Whether you call it destiny fate God chance random accident They don't belong to us. What will come out is not dependent on our action alone. There are host of factors And that the Gita explains but that may not be so necessary to the central teaching about you know How the fruit comes but fruit doesn't belong to us. Okay first thing This is now How do I act? I was always acting I am you want me to fight a war and you want me to lose He says no, I didn't say that You're not fighting a war to lose You don't fight a water lose you're fighting a war to win then He says you fight a war to win, but if you lose don't get this heart And how do I means it doesn't mean that I do work indifferently sure sure window makes it very clear That if I say I'm not acting for results. There was a man sitting in one of those sure window centers and One day sandalwood trees were stolen Bangalore So next day we came we saw they're stolen now, you know sandalwood trees don't belong to anybody. They belong to government So you are not supposed to cut them sell them So we had it and we had told the government that you know when they said okay when it grows up He'll take it away and they compensate you whatever it so Next morning he said what did you do? He says I was watching as a witness. I saw they were being taken That reminds me of Dara in sure wind wash them Dara would sit in his room With one cigarette in his mouth or his two hands and two mosquito coils in his both these feet princely state no of Hyderabad and he's sitting and meditating from the open window somebody is stealing his You know clothes Then someone entered and saw that these are clothing swings in Dara So he says yes, I know he said I'm admiring how this fellow has found this idea of Putting this thing and stealing the whole thing Geetha is not asking us to do any of these foolish things We have to act With an eye on perfection why because then it is no more my action It is we are doing it for the sake of the divine See how things will change every day Shabri is cleaning the floor Plucking the fruits Even that lady tasted are they okay? Every day for 35 years. He was doing this It was not a temple in which he was doing this Eva, but by her seva her kutir has turned into a temple Even now, you know, it's a place which is celebrated All the people told her you're doing foolish things come there's a course on meditation going around the corner You can't pay we will pay for you learn meditation technique and realize God. This is I don't know I'm just waiting for Rama. I know intuitively he'll come or a why will he come to you? We have already is going to kill the room, you know, Ravana. You are a small fry. I don't know So she is doing it meticulously well Every day why because she is doing it for the sake of a lot Will the Lord come she cannot say Only the Lord knows When we live life this way even sadhana and yoga Or tell me give me a guarantee when I will become super mentalized Well, if you go by guarantees, then there are people around the corner who will take two thousand dollars in two days They will show you orange light And after 10 days when there is pain in the joints, you will say, you know, it's because of super mental transformation going on in my joints I'm speaking of all the things I've seen in this world course on pranic healing and somebody after two days, I Was just reading by the way in that place Overhead a conversation between the master and the learner. I had seen orange light. Oh Oh So you're already in contact with the super mental Just turn my So you see this is not what it's all expectations expectations now when you have expectations The mind will even create formations even when it turned to God like a blank slate. That's what the mother says I'm like a blank slate you inscribe your will on it That is the state we have to arrive at The mother says there was a man who told me I am going to I am ready to follow the will of God Only one thing I cannot do if you ask me to raise a sword I'll never do it, but I know God will never say so and the mother asked him. How are you so sure? How are you so sure what God will say not say So all these things which are like cobwebs. So we have to Surrender the fruit of actions and this state develops only when we are Dedicating our action to the divine not for the ego and these things can be very subtle We may be dedicating to the ego and it may yet look like the divine We may live in an ashram for 50 years and never step out and get the pride. See I have never walked out See ego can work. I am a dedicated soldier of the mother all these masks of the ego and They cannot go unless one has inwardly practiced you they don't go by simply, you know And somebody asked your window That sir. I believe those who are very close Physically close to you. They are the first going to be the first batch of Supramentalized humanity He says oh in that case my desk and the That block of wood will be the first one see all these conceptions. We all interfere with the divine play Yes, we are at a place where we should be this okay And be true to whatever you're doing, but the action is done to the divine not even to an institution or community and all In human cycle yesterday we were reading Not even to the communal ego the ego has to be sacrificed at only one altar and that is the divine So he says remember and offer remember and offer remember and offer This is a wonderful state in one of Guru Nanak story, you know Young lad dad was going out. He said take care of the shop. He's okay When he comes he sees Almost everything is gone Hardly any money in the drawer He says what happened? He says I was counting when I have to give You know how many how much of wheat I have to give so with the scoop I was counting on these scoops So I had to give 14 scoops. I count it 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 5 11 12 13 Thera means you for you that is Lord. So I kept saying tera tera tera. It's a story Everything belongs to the Lord when we live in that state actually we arrive at a large inner freedom No burden. Oh my god. This is mine. This is my this is not ever journey. This is Krishna's journey It looks like your journey But he's the fellow who is taking us through all this. So after this karm yoga dedicate everything to God and Wait for his impulsion service uncle for Sannyasi and he kept all these states will develop an ashraya You are dependent only on the divine then after a while She Krishna now starts revealing to him the nature of God and this whole world is a great yagna How they affairs of the world are being conducted Why action belongs to you but not the result because it's a yagya in yagya at the end you get Prasad Everybody gets his own share So that's how he reveals something very tremendous powerful and it's one of the Central points of the Gita's teaching one that we are not alone. The divine is within us first truth That there is the divine inside the imminent divine and asuras know him not so who is the asura who? Troubles and tortures the divine in the body. How does he torture the divine in the body? He lives his life for fun from drinks to painful Okay tattoos To loud noises See who is trouble Ganpati research. I know I keep saying poor fellow Ganpati can't run away. No Durga puja I don't know you whom are you inviting with all those Bollywood songs? Durga or my sister so we torture the divine. What else? You know when we have a secret place. We put nice agarbattis nice smell perfume So what is that agarbatti inside? Aspirations beautiful aspiration Faith these are the flowers we should offer but what we offer instead come across the lobe Muhammad the mad sir Bham So it's like a horror. It's different thing that the divine will bear all this But what we are doing with the divine? That's what is important So he says not like the Titans who do not know they despise the divine in the body That's why they destroy this world. This is meant for our pleasure Later on he will describe these two types of humanity the Titan the asuri and that they became a very important chapter How much ever we may like to you know, it's not about racism It's not about racism is on the surface. You are this you are that's not about racism It's about the deeper sense of humanity walls through two stages and maybe half in between And these two stages are in the beginning mankind is asuric when it's turned only toward the body as the self vital desires as the self and The other is David when it turns towards some knowledge wisdom self-control self mastery Swadhyaya he doesn't have dhambha Vanity asura has vanity as a wealth wealth of vanity You see people often they take great pride on their Cell phone they have all the ministers names You know it's a misfortune If you are in a problem She will which is the minister he may not pick up he may not even recognize you, huh? And you have all your life lived to please this fellow But if you don't have any of these whom will you call? Like prela diva say hurry hurry hurry ma ma ma And then he is the 24-7 friend the friend who never fails Only friend who never abandons never condemns Such is Krishna to Arjuna such is the divine to man Narnara and always together and in their union lies the secret of perfection So when we learn to call all these people of their place, huh? Whatever it is But they are not friends You know minister is my friend Oh ask him whether you are his friend or not But divine is your friend ask the divine. Yes, so many beautiful stories of Krishna of mother sure been though who is a friend the divine is the sure friend so dedicate to him live for the divine Everything for the sake of the divine So she Krishna begins to reveal first is this that the divine is inside and he gives you in a process of concentration And then he says but you know time to time I even take a human body. I Stand in the forefront. He's not just inside as some imminent because very difficult inside divine outside divine upward divine What is the divine like? So it's very difficult for us to understand. We want living example So he takes a human body and gives his example. It's called sure been though emphasizes this in the Gita It's one of the most important doctrines God's own example That's often say that, you know, okay, read the life divine to eat everything that should be the written wonderful But read his life. Of course nowadays. I have to say from the right source But even that has been corrupted but read his life. See how uplifting it is sure been to his life unique from reception adventure of consciousness Supreme or this other one, you know, quite a few other way you feel so uplifted move deeply just by reading his life because there is You know, how yoga is what yoga should be beyond all these cuttings of the internet So God stands in the forefront. Why his nature we must put on as he put ours Our life is a paradox with God for key. So then the Gita brings in this doctrine of double nature So we all know this my nature this my but the Gita says there is another nature para prakriti my nature So where is this my nature only to God there? No, he's in this body. So he is here with his nature That's why so we can and I opened with this Thundering applause and he says I am proud to come from a land where we believe that man is not a fallen being But his true nature is divine This is the secret truth our nature hides. There's a surface nature Rajogon, Tamogon, Satogon, and there's a deeper divine nature from which they have immersed She Krishna does not describe much of it. Little bit. He gives us hints. Why because If everything he would have told Arjuna's problem was different He was waiting for all of us little little Arjuna to come and for him to come as sure Abindo And then to say what this divine nature can do transform or so that That was held back. There's a lot. She Krishna holds back when he says I am the Vyakta I am the Avyakta when he shows his great vision. I am the sole doer But lot he holds back But then there is a double nature in man So this nature we have to exchange for the two divine nature and how do we do it by offering? This is the original plan of demonetization Where you exchange your old currency and you get new currency? So this is always a win-win benefit. We shouldn't do it for benefit, but giving yourself to God is the most logical practical the best business deal ever No footnotes no mutual risk Whatever we give to God is returned back to us not tenfold. That's an ignorance But divine fold it changes into its divine We give knowledge by trying to think of God. He gives us wisdom Beyond scriptural knowledge. We give him human love. He fills our hearts with the sweetness of divine love We give our actions. How do we give our actions as yajna? Sacrifice What is yajna is another very beautiful thing about the Gita? What is yajna? Yajna is again not again lighting a fire outside. You know one can do that. It's okay Yajna is to light up the inner flame of aspiration when we offer all actions. He doesn't say only these actions every action Sir, not everything is very pleasant. Okay. Offer it Sure. Yes, nothing is hidden from me. It's Oryo Yatha Sarva Lokasi Chakshua. I'm the soul witness Offer it to me. Sir. I'm very shy ashamed if you act like that like gopis I'll take away all this shyness virtuosity everything from you. Okay. Okay. I'm offering. I'm going to kill these people What can be worse? I'm offering it to you and Then when we offer an action it is purified. This is the action of fire. What does fire do? It destroys what cannot be purified. It destroys the ego What does fire do? It refines the base metal Action done for crude motives becomes an action done for the fulfillment of divine will upon earth It changes motive changes when we offer it. What does fire do? It uplifts everything upward What does fire do? It gives heat and light the divine energy to do the action and the divine wisdom to do the action So this offering constant state of remember and offer is a key practice of the yoga of the Gita And we can do it before an action. We can do it after the action in between whenever we remember Satat smaran This way it takes us and builds to a grand climax and he says, you know, what turns on give everything to the divine Offer to the divine everything Love the divine adore the divine think of the divine now comes a problem That told on Krishna. I've heard that, you know path of tapasya and you are talking of surrender to surrender to divine Pray tell me which is better? He says, you know both ways you will reach me Because I am the one behind, you know, what is the Gita saying? Okay, we'll come to that in a moment This is either ways, but the path I'm giving you is shorter Easier more delightful Anyway, I'll be there behind but when you offer to me, I'll hold you by my hand and take you up So you live a good company. You don't want a good company the best company of the divine even if there is an Avalank you don't mind Even if you are buried under heaps of rubles you are with the divine How beautiful life becomes this is I'll take you it's much easier tapasya path means so much more difficult You will exhaust yourself and ultimately you'll reach but a long journey and you will reach only up to the Impersonal there is something greater than that you will reach there if you take the path of bhakti and surrender So the Gita now begins to reveal who is the divine. He's not just some mechanical power behind creation Such a divine won't be worth pursuing He's certainly not the divine who is the conception of religions Busy with a skeptor and our carrot and a rod You're doing good. Take this carrot promote it You're doing evil. I am going to punish you with the rod There is only one place the Gita speaks about this but in a very different sense Those who are asuric. What does Gita do to them? Is is I cast them into more and more asuric birth meaning thereby your choice? Asura implodes by his own bloating ego. That's the interesting part Mother was asked this. She says he will be destroyed by his own bloating ego You can't tell him that you know change course and to those who are dedicated to him I grow in them the Godhead that is the reward So the Gita changes this whole idea of karmic theory. You will be born in a big family rich family The Gita does and doors this saying of the Bible. It is easier to make a You know camel pass to the eye of a needle than to make a rich man turn to God He doesn't talk all that, you know, you've done good karmas. You are born in rich family in Across the globe maybe because of bad karmas who knows Good karmas. So it says there are three kinds of karmas Mechanically done karma it it only creates more and more delusion. It doesn't help every day. I'm going offering flowers Okay, you can do it, but that's not what is going to bring wisdom inside us Unless God wanted takes your offering seriously For some reason one particular day you suddenly remembered God. I'm offering these every day today. I'm in crisis So the Gita speaks of four kinds of bhaktas to inferior and to higher the inferior kinds are Everyday you were going Okay, I've done mice duty rest of the time 23 hours 59 minutes your duty But one day we are in crisis. You say I don't know help me Lord We may believe or not believe doesn't matter and the help come that is the earth It's an inferior kind of bhakti because it's done with a motive and the second kind of bhakti is artha arthi It's good to have you know exchange of her with God if I give Bell patra he will give me tamar patra or swan patra Shiva will say I can give you a moksh fool and you are busy only gathering this If I Do this particular bhajan? God will look after my family children. They will get educated the divine responds to that also He says as is your faith the Gita says faith is important as is your faith So I respond to you if you want to receive only this much. Well, he also acts like a beggar and gives us only He also acts like a poor man gives us only outer riches But when we approach him for jnana the two higher kinds of bhaktas true knowledge, I Want to know who are you? Then he gives wisdom and then beyond it is the knower who loves God The more you know him the more you love him who else will you love and Then he says who is this divine because everybody speaks of God. Yes. Yes. Yes But what is this divine home be at all? So the Gita takes us through several chapters passages. Who is this divine? He says one divine is three fold in three levels. We can meet him Sure in every mutable element of creation is hidden Same thing in the Isha Upanishad yad kinsha jagatyam jagat everywhere. He's there. Oh, are you sure? Yes in every movement. He's hidden deep within That's why nature we feel happy Why because that divine presence is hidden and then But I am also beyond nature beyond this mutable world in the immutable silence of nirvana Akshar Brahma Parma This is where many people stop nothingness Holy nothingness the holy ghost Forgetting the father and the son So wonderful is a spirit all around Why should I want anything else? Shivoham Shivoham Such is Anand Arjuna may be about to utter that he says hold on Beyond sure and akshar and the purushottama And the divine being from whom all these existences emerge in some I effuse There are beings in whom I feel their nature with this touch And they become my vibhuti's who are doing my work in the world But even that is not the highest consummation. The highest consummation is to know me alone And in that knowledge everything ceases Then Arjuna says sir, who are you? Are you not krishnada yadava? Oh, that's my vibhuti. That's my birth. I'm also the vibhuti vrishnic land Sir, who else are you? I am Rama. I am the purush. Sir, please don't confuse me. Tell me who are you? At the end, he is Arjuna is desperate Then he reveals a Vishrupa that is the second level at which we understand the divine individual and the cosmic all this manifestation is Nothing else, but his doings all getting and having and death and birth and the cycles of creation the gods and the asuras and the Gandharvas and the celestial beings and The rakshasas and asuras and the five element. They are all within him Beautifully, you know, he who knows is freed from all fear, but initially Arjuna is struck with awe and fear because your ego is lost He sees himself going inside and then emerging Ego is lost. It is such a freedom But the ego is that's why people don't want to surrender because one will lose the ego But what one will get is far greater So because of this Arjuna is afraid. Why because he's an accomplished person He is Kante. He is Bharata his path He is Dhanurdhara of preeminence None is equal to him He is Arjuna, which means the pure white He is Mahabhahu Even his physical being is designed by nature to be an instrument of God Mahabhahu Dhananjaya, he has conquered his sleep his nature Such an Arjuna suddenly discovers he is nothing God is all and we are nothing Then we become everything one in God. So when he reveals first he prays He's afraid then he prays he says I can't behold it And then in that cosmic vision. There is also the transcendent Avyaktoham Everything is escaping on all sides into some infinity. So these three terms of the one divine are revealed there It's a very powerful This what we have to always remember the divine is not just within me is also in the cosmic movement That's why we should take interest in what's happening in the world. It's part of the divine movement Otherwise we all become isolated Moksha Vadins and then when he sees that in a way Gita is Could be the closed chapter now, but then he speaks to Arjuna About the Threefold nature which already we have spoken about and then he says, you know what Arjuna the secret of man who he is is in his faith Something very interesting It is by faith that we arrive Shaddha Vaan and a lot of faith is the man Gita goes on to say What is this faith? It is not about belief in a create custom nothing because he's already liberated. Who is this Purushottama? How to worship him? He says I am everywhere the God of the Gita is everywhere and in everything He's not please we should not limit him to one space. There are spaces which are wonderful manifestations But he's not limited there. He's everywhere and in everything. How to worship him? He says Patram Pushma Phalam Thoya offer this water this flower Everything I receive and done with faith and devotion And then it gives the science of one who is a Bhakta of the Lord. No, what is the sign is always full of sweetness It's always full of joy There's no fear Bhakta of the divine Is equal soul to all beings my three corona evascha science of the Bhakta so then Toward the end and he says man is his faith. What is that faith deep within us the light or the lamp of faith burns It is what we are and what is that faith faith in what? We can say our will to be I May profess in a creed Which believes in God But my faith is the world will come to an end All in fiddles will be destroyed. That's my faith Doesn't matter what I believe in outwardly if my faith is in fully filling my coffers With gold that's my faith real creed. I may go to temple every day That's what but if my faith is that man has a beautiful destiny and all of us have a beautiful destiny This world is impregnated with seeds of light which have sprung from the heart of God Then my faith is that I'll become divine. That's my will to be faith impels us. It takes shape in us as will to be So we must guard this faith And then at the end and he says how to guard this faith. That's one part and Toward the end he see Krishna says all this I have told you I have done My bit now I'll tell you the greatest of all secrets What is the greatest secret? After all this something else is going to tell me Is it all that I've said is fine you There he speaks about so that how how to choose choose on the basis of Dharma the God inspired action Which within which is a natural it is embedded in our soul so Dharma So Dharma means each one will have his own inner inspiration to act in a certain way one must go by that That's so Dharma. It's very There you know, we have Krishna speaks about Chaturvanya the evolution of soul and how so Dharma is not a fixed thing So Dharma in fact Dharma itself is something evolves yadah yadah dharma sigla Dharma is not something fixed Before we come to the last word because the Gita starts with Dharma shetre Kuru shetre Samadheta youthsava The path of action is the path of unfolding Dharma Dharma unfolds Dharma is that which stands as the bedrock of all existence But Dharma is also that in the movements of life unfolds the divine truth, which is hidden within all that takes us closer to the divine And the divine unfolding is Dharma All that takes us away from the divine and the divine unfolding is a Dharma's what a vast definition So he's already told him all that so Dharma Dharma is himself come as the upholder of Dharma But right now he's engaged in a massacre on the battlefield Because that is how the path of Dharma opens Otherwise vanity will go behind many layers behind if the codes of Arjuna of Duryodhana begin to rule so they must be removed and so it is Arjuna's Dharma even as a shatriitis is so Dharma So he's revealed all about so Dharma about Dharma act according to Dharma higher law deeper law not according to ego and desire He's a but I'll tell you a still greater secret Serve Dharma man mana how we start with that Man mana how Madhavata Madhyaji Maa Namaskar Become my mind Think of God and mind will begin to automatically be shaped That's why I read sure window the least that will happen is least The mind will begin to be suffused by the light of sure what more Just by reading because we are dwelling upon the thought of God That's why he's written all this not for keeping them nicely and Gifting to others Man mana how Madhavata Don't try to please the world don't try to please your ego don't try to please your relatives Don't try to please the authorities don't try to please this or that hundred people So somebody I want to please no My ego no last whom should I please? Madhavata please the Lord Who else is worth pleasing doesn't matter the world thinks of you this way that way, but the divine will always love you So Madhavata Madhyaji Maa Namaskar Become my minded my lover my devotee bow unto me Some people say oh very egoistic It is the perfect chore for our ego bow unto the divine to remember that we are nothing without the divine With that attitude Maa Namaskar this Namaskar is to bow before the divine However much we may have gained in knowledge however much the world may whatever degree nothing we are nothing before the divine That is the ground for knowledge to pour in Madhya Ji Maa Namaskar then the divine is promising in return This is my word of promise I will never abandon you. They who turn to me are never abandoned in life or in death so Thomasic work Brings moha Rajasic works brings pleasure and pain Satvic work brings Sukhum and Prakasham, but divine work It those who give themselves to the divine The divine gives himself to those for them are seas of light and knowledge and love and ananda and everything else So he says I will never abandon you in life or in death While fighting you remember me when you fall you remember me in death you remember me And I'll take care of all the rest in your life. And then he goes still further serve dharmaan parityaja Ultimately my super parava ultimate walk Serve dharmaan parityaja. So Dharma is that you can't understand Serve dharmaan parityaja maa may come sharnam raja Abandon all dharmas meaning thereby all standards of conduct you're confused till okay Abandon all standards of conduct and what do I do? I? Become a nomad. No become God mad Serve dharmaan parityaja maa may come sharnam raja take refuge in me alone Aham toa serve pape pyo Mokshe shami maa shucha. I'll free you liberate you From all sin and evil do not grieve do not fear what a great assurance the letter of sure bindo and that letter says sincerity Strength if it is spiritual is a great power spiritual strength born out of tapasya a greater power is sincerity But the greatest of all powers is grace have I not reminded you n number of times about this great word of the Gita Abandon all dharma then take refuge in me alone. I will deliver you from all sin and evil and fear Do not grieve Thus closes the Gita and when Sanjay who is the scribe see Sanjay is Only I will just ask you on the way and this so interesting who said the Gita these are technical answer and These are deeper answer technical answer is Sanjay Isn't it? It's a technical answer technical answer is if they're in Vyasas Mahabharata, so Vyasas written it But see these two answers do not satisfy Gita is the outflowing of Krishna into the vessel called Arjuna and Wherever there is a human vessel Ready to receive the complete influx of the divine consciousness by giving oneself completely to the divine There there is victory There there is truth there. There is light there. There is fullness of the spiritual life and There there is perfection in human clay namaste gone way beyond but As long as nobody snored it is okay. Do you have any questions any questions? We can take quick. I think no questions Okay guarding the faith. Yes. Yes. Yes Yes, so faith is your will to be It is the deepest treasure. It is going to carry the journey of your life Now what happens when faith is not yet very strong? This will to be it can be misled by all kinds of forces take it like a little plant It can be eaten by animals or a little lamp. It can freak her when the winds wind is Flowing or a little sapling So this will to be has to be guarded. How do you guard by not one is don't start declaring it everywhere? You are exposing it There are all kinds of human beings. So the Gita says don't speak about it To people who are hostile and full of doubt Because one is not strong enough inside but when faith and will to be has changed into knowledge and wisdom Then you are like an inferno Whatever comes into it gets burned When the tree has grown big even a tornado cannot operate So in the beginning it is important to guard the faith by being careful about whom we Our you know companies in today's time so important because we have this liberal idea You know meet and mix and so that's why the asuric and David type of humanity the Gita speaks about and Caution says it speaks about you know the god lovers with whom you want to interact All idea is to nurture and nourish Because in the beginning that's why these spaces have been created like or will like the ashram So that you can nurture this You are in the world Everything of the world is there, but yet So but even there you will have all kinds of humanity So guard it in this sense that don't let this diamond treasure. We just exposed to anyone and everyone It's a treasure given by the divine Keep it carefully That's what it caution says against and one can grow it satsang these kind of meetings are meant to grow it Reading mother and sure been though reading books which contain this wisdom So that's our must card any word Yeah, she's a shetra. Yeah, that's true So shetra is actually it is not the starts with the body But the entire field in which we are working nature or the mind it's included So normally we think I am it's like identifying I take this example of some people identified with the house They do take care of the house, but they are over identified with the house Now we must understand that there is the dweller of the house, which is other than now when we understand it we can Bring better changes and I'll give an example With the same house analogy because that's how I Understood when I had seen it. I say that this is my house. I have inherited from my parents now What happens with that mentality? You don't want to bring in any change You want things to remain as they are static you are attached to the house for the sake of the house The people who do that But then when you are not attached to the house But that's a plot given to you how you want to do it you want to make it beautiful You may even reconstruct the whole thing make it into something beautiful So this idea that this nature of ours is a field given to us to work upon It's not finished the idea implicit within it is that it is a field we have to till it The seeds are there and they must spring over a period of time and we have to tend the whole process of preparing the soil and watering it guarding it against all the dangers and Letting these seeds of the divine within us blossom So that's why one of the meaning of the word aria itself is the tiller of the soil the farmer So this is the meaning of this nature is not a finished product. There is a higher super nature But by telling this very nature which is given to us will discover it There are many implicit ideas we don't have to discard something but till it remove the weeds for example Till it properly go deeper into it Superficially it doesn't work superficially when we try to change nature. We just learn an artificial smile So that's not what it is, but when we really have worked upon it, then there is something from within that emerges So that's what is the shaitra shaitra. So who is the knower of the field? It is the divine within Mind cannot know it is part of the shaitra the vital cannot know body of course Great importance given to that because it is the pot in which all these things are taking place Yes, please well, there are even Beautiful words. I would prefer David assi because that word has very deep connotations and has been one of the words which have been misused misunderstood by Sections of humanity which want to portray and paint everything in a dark light So I would consider it as David assi, which I come originally. It is goddess Yalama. I'm not going into that story where you know Who was it Germany his wife Parshuram's mother who was beheaded and but who was the David assi? They were temple dancers and they were courtesans So the rich and the wealthy They were you know something like what modern day we use the word as you know prostitution and call girl That's how it is portrayed, but look at the deeper meaning behind it On one side a woman is only pleasure object on the other side She is eternally married to the divine and she's a servant of the divine whatever happens in a physical life She continues to remain pure by the very fact that she's a servitor of the divine. That's a great significant image. I Love this image of David assi that she love and there's number of stories one story is when someone asked drop the How come your pativrata? Why what's the problem? You had five husbands So she says yeah, but I loved only one. Oh, then you were unequal So it is right that you loved Arjuna more. She says no Then how come your pativrata? chased pure Despite having five husbands, which is contrary to all scriptural This is because in my heart there was only Krishna I loved only Krishna So this is a very great conception But servitor of God goes to any extent like this is still a limitation where life is divided into two one which is an external life and The other which is an inner life. So one is to become David ass inside Where inwardly I am a slave of God, which is powerful You know say God servant is something God slave is better But even in my outer life when I do what the divine wants me to do. I'm not attached to any activity So there I use this example that if you approach the divine through Knowledge he brings you into a study room And he shows you some of the plans some of the books past knowledge he reveals Gyan yoga If you love, you know, you want to you love the divine you work for the divine He you will know all his will in different activities But when you love is so utterly has to become a slave Then he will call you in his bedroom slave is no rest or a spite And if you are a lover and a slave beloved in slave Then at midnight he will suddenly wake up and say hey, you know, I Want to tell you what's going on in my heart? What is it Lord? Something I'm going to do tomorrow day after tomorrow all the future plans You can't share with anybody. So the slave of God and His lover and beloved knows What the gyan yogi does not know and the karm yogi yet does not know because he's still engaged in the action That is the slave and lover of God. It's a very profound thing and it is only possible if God grants it and The slave of God has no Shubhinder gives that example The sword is a joy in the play the sword is a joy when it is put back into the sheath The sword is a joy when it is broken and cast aside that equal joy discover So the slave cannot ask why you are keeping me here? Why you are giving me this work that work all of it belongs to God and As he wills as he wills slave will only say let I will be done Let I will be done that I will be done and not mine and yes, it's very powerful and beautiful Not rather but nature Radha is nature surrendered to the divine So that is true if you see the mass of humanity all evolution is like that So we are at an evolution the juncture and mass of humanity is like that's true It's identified with nature. It believes in self-fill ego. That's what the masses are That's what the mind and you know reason as the highest office fair enough. That's one part and There's somebody will take care of that humanity who is hiding But there is another humanity which is feeling that need to change I think that's what is important if we just divide humanity into those who are identified with nature and those who have found The soul there will be a big gap But there are those who have begun to turn their discerning intellect within an upward in Search of a greater principle of light and truth and it is with them that the hope lies Those who have found the soul have found the soul. They are free and Those who believe in nature nothing else higher. They live according to mind as you said according to their own conceptions The divine will deal with them and sometimes when we don't understand the flute Then we have to face the Sudarshan Chakra That's life So there is a section of humanity which refuses So when you don't hear the flute then the divine comes in the battlefield of Kurukshetra. Okay. Take me face me You're not ready for the flute. So that's a path humanity chooses Well, this time we know for certain that a reasonable number of humanity will cross this critical barrier Where in a mass destruction like Kurukshetra and Pralaya will not be necessary and That's where the hope lies the mother use the word even if there's a handful Use the word hundred should be those book of hundred human beings who are ready To give themselves completely to become pure cold And he says it is true that humanity has not become and it's also true that time is pressing So all that one can say the sooner the better and the hope lies with those who are fortunate enough to have felt the need and the call of the flute and are ready to abandon everything and Dance to the tune of Krishna. There are these people who are growing everywhere and I see more and more of this among the younger lot That's so satisfying Not like old time you saw the old timers sitting and talking But the younger lot who come with a clean slate who are not baptized into a religion and They are ready for something great. I mean Some of my students have come and I was saying that they are such wonderful people and I see them And this is a kind of humanity which is there It's so beautiful So always there is hope we should be die-hard optimist simply because God is the leader of the human March as simple as that I am Even if everything smashed I would have complete trust that all will be well Okay, Namaste Alokji took us a beautiful journey like Who is Adikari? We all are we are selected for that and he showed us how we have to progress and now we have to evolve because As he said Duryodhana, Bhisma and Karna are not given for that Only Arjuna is selected by the Divine same way it is now It's our poise our stance that we should take forward this The Gita is given to us past two days It is like a fluorescence of knowledge how to receive how to receive in physical body And now he is telling us it is you Gita is given to you for us We take forward this Live within Abandon all that must take refuge alone in the Divine This is the message of Gita in the light of Sri Aurobindo. We are Arjunas. Thank you Alokji for this beautiful presentation and tomorrow we'll be having Dr. Belu Meheras