Verses 14.1–14.4🔗

By repeating the truth again and again, Kṛṣṇa tries to create the right inner space of completion in Arjuna. Please understand why Kṛṣṇa repeats Himself. He literally uses the same words again and again. Why? Why should Kṛṣṇa repeat? Kṛṣṇa is a Master who is result-oriented. He persists with what He wants as if Arjuna is going to get enlightened today, but He is ready to wait until the last person gets enlightened. He is the embodiment of Enriching, which is the constitution of life. His whole life is a play from the space of enriching. He is radiating the power of not giving-up on people with His uncompromising compassion.

He is not easily satisfied with the attitude, ‘I said whatever I had to say; whether he wants to listen or not is up to him.’ . . . Guṇatraya Vibhāga Yogaḥ FindYour Root PatternAnd Complete 1011 No! Kṛṣṇa takes the responsibility to make Arjuna responsible. Again and again, He repeats Himself because He wants to create a bio-memory of His teachings, the space of completion in Arjuna’s inner space. He does this so that even if Arjuna misses listening to the teaching the first time, perhaps he will give his authentic listening the next time. That is why He repeats the truth again. Carry the Right Inner Space Any transmission of knowledge, energy or experience happens between us only when you give your listening!

In the Upaniṣads, it is told that when the young seeker Śvetaketu was initiated by his Guru, his Guru said to him only nine times, ‘Tat Tvam Asi! Tat Tvam Asi! Tat Tvam Asi!’ (You are That!) Śvetaketu became enlightened just by hearing those words! Then how come you don’t become enlightened even if you listen to ‘Tat Tvam Asi!’ nine thousand times? You have to be carrying the right inner space! Listen. On the rock, seed cannot sprout as a tree. In the right fertile ground only, the seed can become tree. In the right inner space only, the teachings can become reality. Let me define exactly what is the right inner space!

Right inner space means where all the root thought patterns of suffering are destroyed. All the root thought patterns are destroyed where your inner space is fertile for experiencing the higher ideal and ideas. Listen! Inner space means when you close your eyes and look inside, how you feel and what you feel as you, that is your inner space. In that inner space, if you suddenly feel as if you have taken bath in the cold water and the whole thing inside is in eternal peace, and there is no agitation; it is all completely in peace, in restful awareness, in completion, that is what I call inner silence or the right inner space.

It means the space where all your root patterns of suffering are destroyed. You may wonder, ‘When will I experience the right inner space or inner silence?’ Whenever you want, that’s all. It is actually you who needs to feel tired of wandering around. Unless you feel tired of wandering around or if I have to use a strong term— fooling around, your mind will continue to go on fooling around, being in incompletion. Instead of the real source of joy, you will just go around and try to taste everything. When I say everything, I mean everything. I tell you, your mind needs to be little tired of roaming around, only then will it look in and decide to find and destroy the root patterns and create the fertile ground of the right space.

Here Kṛṣṇa says, ‘I shall declare once more, I will speak to you about the ultimate Truth, through the knowledge of which all the Sages have attained Supreme perfection.’ śrī bhagavān uvāca paraṁ bhūyaḥpravakṣyāmi jñānānāṁ jñānam uttamam I yaj jñātvā munayaḥsarve parāṁ siddhim ito gatāḥ II 14.1 You need to have tremendous love and patience. I tell you, in any field, life happens to you, completion happens to you, only when there is tremendous love for people and a decision not to give-up on people. Kṛṣṇa is expressing the power of passion and the power of patience. Listen. I am not tired of my own past. That is why I can repeat the same principles any number of times, without changing a word, without changing the tone, for any number of classes!

When you are not tired of your own past, you are a jīvan mukta, living enlightenment. Whether we believe it or not, man by nature is a mechanism. Not only at the body level, he is a mechanism even at the level of the mind. At most, we can call it a bio-mechanism, yet he is still a mechanism. He works based on memories, the root patterns or what we call mūla vāsanā in Saṃskṛit. If you have a certain pattern in you as a compulsive disorder, it is a bio-memory. It is just dead memory. If you get frightened, you will run away. If you have some thoughts or doubts that a person doesn’t love you, Guṇatraya Vibhāga Yogaḥ FindYour Root PatternAnd Complete 1013 that person doesn’t care for you, all other thoughts will immediately wake up, and you will be in depression.

Please understand, memories which stay in you and make you continuously respond unconsciously in the same pattern again and again, is bio-memory. If you learn the essence of the lessons you need to catch from the bio-memory, and live spontaneously based on that essence, it becomes bio-energy. Understand. For example, you see a snake and you know that you may die if the snake bites. This situation can become a bio-memory in you—that even if you see the photograph of a snake, you may step back. I have seen people who don’t even touch a snake’s photo on the TV screen or computer screen! This is bio-memory. See, I am not saying that you should not have bio-memory of snake fear or go and catch the snake!

No! If you learn just the intelligence from that incident, you are clear that snake bite can lead to death, so you don’t go near the snake, but you don’t have the compulsive patterns related to snakes and snake fear. You only have the intelligence. Then, that same thing becomes bio-energy. Understand, in every situation, if you catch bio-memory, you will miss the bio-energy. If you function on just bio-memories, you are a bound soul. You are a baddha jīva, entangled soul. Living in bondage! Not only that, when you are living here, you also accumulate more and more muscle-memory. All the patterns you accumulate and continue to accumulate are muscle-memory.

The confusion between muscle-memory and bio-memory is a confused memory! So for every act, you will not know the right reason; if you know the reason, you do not know how to act. It is a kind of chaos. Listen! Man is continuously caught in the web of these confused memories in his mind and his being, because he works based on root patterns that have been stored in his bio-memory, and accumulated as his muscle-memory. So, you do not know the reasons for the act you performed! Muscle-memory is the memory you accumulate in this janma (lifetime). Bio-memory is the memory you bring from the past births. Even in this birth, the muscle-memory can become bio-memory.

When you psychologically collapse, with whatever ideas you elevate yourself and stand up, those ideas will become bio-memory in you, even though you accumulated them in this body. Does God exist? Many religious rituals are designed to build the right musclememory and bio-memory in us. Going to a temple or a satsang (spiritual gathering) reinforces our desire to move forward spiritually. They create the right space—the environment, the mood for the right decision to happen. These actions cannot liberate or enlighten us. However, they can create the right inner space in us and program our unconscious mind, the muscle memory and bio-memory to work in a particular way. They can rewire us.

In the Vedic tradition, the power of sound is used. Vedic chanting is nothing but becoming It just by declarations. Every morning you declare, ‘Aham Brahmāsmi Ahaṁ Brahmāsmi, Ahaṁ Brahmāsmi (I Am That)! Śivo‘ham Śivo‘ham Śivo‘ham (Śiva I Am).’ Just the declaration! Such a powerful declaration. Especially the collective declarations. You are in that right inner space. Science is about facts that can be recorded. Spirituality is about the truth that needs to be experienced. That is why our scriptures never bothered about historical accuracy and factual details. They dealt with issues that affected our consciousness. To understand our scriptures, we cannot use logic. Truth has nothing to do with our head.

It has everything to do with our being. People ask me, ‘Can you prove the existence of God?’ Listen! Everything is experienced by you as per the space you carry. Everything—your reality of God, reality of yourself, reality of society and reality of Universe is experienced by you as per the space you carry. Whether it is the great realities of cosmos or the realities of life or Guṇatraya Vibhāga Yogaḥ FindYour Root PatternAnd Complete 1015 the realities of mind, the space you create, creates your reality. God can only be experienced when we drop our root patterns and create the space of completion. How can we prove His existence through the logic of our mind?

If we can comprehend Him through our mind, our patterns how can He be in any way superior to us? How can He then be God? God can only be experienced. He cannot be proved or disproved. He cannot be believed or disbelieved. If you wish to experience God, come to me and be in the space of listening. If you have courage, find your root thought pattern and complete with it and I will show you God. You will experience Him in you. Kṛṣṇa wants to take Arjuna there, to the space of completion. In fact, He already took him there when He revealed His cosmic form to Arjuna through Viśvarūpa Darśan Yoga (ch 11).

Now, Kṛṣṇa wants to take the rest of humanity to the same space of completion. So again and again, without giving up on us, He repeats the techniques of completion so we may realize our divinity. In His deep compassion He gives us a chance to catch the lifeline. He is throwing us so that we can be saved. You can achieve My State For the first time, Kṛṣṇa says that we will reach His state. So far He said, ‘Worship Me. Surrender unto Me.’ Now He says, ‘You will achieve the same state in which I am. Anyone can attain the transcendental nature like My own, mama sādharmyam āgatāḥ.’ idam jñānam upāśritya mama sādharmyam āgatāḥ I sarge ‘pi nopajāyante pralaye na vyatthanti ca II 14.2 We can achieve the state in which He is.

Kṛṣṇa is the first Master courageous and bold enough to declare that Enlightenment is available to everybody; anybody can achieve it. Enlightenment is not an accident. It is an incident that we can create. Until the time of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Upaniṣads, Brahma Sutras and other scriptures spoke as if Enlightenment was an accident. Some people became enlightened; however, nobody knew why. Nor did they know why others could not get it or how exactly to get it. Nobody knew. Kṛṣṇa is the first Master who showed how to achieve Enlightenment. He showed the exact Science of Enlightenment. We can experience it through our conscious decision to create the space of completion.

He says that by being fixed in this knowledge, ‘One can attain— mama sādharmyam āgatāḥ.’ He doesn’t say, ‘You can attain it,’ indicating only Arjuna. He says one can attain it, meaning that anybody can attain it. Kṛṣṇa beautifully declares, ‘By establishing yourself in this knowledge, you can achieve the experience, or you can establish yourself in the same state in which I am, like My own.’ ‘Mama’ means ‘My own’. Kṛṣṇa declares, ‘This truth will directly lead you to the state in which I am established—mama sādharmyam āgatāḥ.’ There are very few concepts Kṛṣṇa repeats in Bhagavad Gīta. One concept is, ‘understand me, you will become God’. It may look very arrogant for an onlooker.

Kṛṣṇa says, ‘understand my Divinity, you will become God’; ‘understand Me you will become Me!’; ‘understand My inner space, you will achieve that space’. It means that when you understand the inner space of Enlightened beings, without even missing a single step, now you know the method to reach that space. See, when you look at the personality, the power, the valor, the courage of an Enlightened being, you take Him for granted and think, ‘He is from a different plane. He will be like that only.’ That is why when people say, ‘I am God’, I feel, ‘No! Don’t use that word and take me for granted.’ The moment you use that word, you stop studying my personality which will make you as God!

Listen! Personality of the enlightened being is not a person, it is personification. When you grasp the personality of an enlightened being, suddenly you know why you are the way you are, why you behave the way you behave. You know all the possible confusions and incompletions. And you will see, you will simply know the methodology to experience completion, pūrnatva. Guṇatraya Vibhāga Yogaḥ FindYour Root PatternAnd Complete 1017 You are Eternal, Not limited by Birth and Death Kṛṣṇa talks about the truth that one is eternal, and not limited by birth and death. The state of being eternal transcends creation and dissolution. It transcends the past and future. Eternal is to be here and now.

Eternal is the present moment of completion. He declares—sarge api nopajāyante pralaye na vyathanti ca (14.2). Brahma is the Lord of creation. Creation is of the past. To exist in the physical plane, we need to have been created. To maintain is the job of Viṣṇu. Maintenance is about the future. It is about how we wish to be, what we wish to have, our desires, our expectations and everything related to the future. Śiva is the Lord of the present. He is the Destroyer of the future, making it flow into the past, by way of the present. He is the Master of the here and now. Śiva is the Rejuvenator, not just the Destroyer.

The present always rejuvenates. In Saṃskṛit, Śiva means ‘causeless auspiciousness’. The present is the most auspicious; whatever happens in the present is auspicious. We should develop the attitude of accepting what happens in the present as auspicious. Past, present and future, all three are in the same DNA seed of Kāla! Listen! If Kāla is the seed, past, present and future, all these three are in that seed, in the form of DNA. Your attitude towards the past and your attitude towards the future will be same. If you think that you are powerless, you were powerless in your past and you will be powerless in the future also. Understand, the impact of the past enters as a perverted inadequate cognition in your present and destroys your future.

Listen! Your inner space experiences the past and future in the same language, in the same way. I will tell you how your past is built. Incidents, your perceptions and your self-assessments are the pillars on which your past is built. If you complete yourself now, if you complete your perception and self-assessments, sixty percent of your past will be burnt! Then can your past stand as it is now? No! It will just be with facts. So, your past will lose its power over you. Your past will be transformed. That is the way your future will be transformed. You need to catch it and live it! The words you utter inside and outside you is hundred percent you.

It is not bad news. It is good news. Understand, because you can change now! If you utter the word now and complete, ‘I drop the past; it has no power over me’ ‘I am declaring and committing to myself that I am a winner. I am a success. I am Śiva— Mangalatva (auspiciousness)!’ You can be complete now! By declaring that you are complete, just once in the present, you can finish off all your millions of declarations in the past. Because when time and space cross, the declarations you make are alive and powerful! Time and space always cross in the present moment. In any legal system, the latest order will be the order that will be executed.

Even in your life, only your latest declaration will be executed. Śiva is completion. Completion is auspiciousness. If you declare completion now, you are complete. When you complete, you transcend the past and the future. Wherever you go, you are going to be carrying this auspiciousness, radiating it. You will be a moving auspiciousness. There are two kinds of people. The first type looks at everything suspiciously. They find everything unsatisfactory, incomplete. These people say, ‘All very well, but…’ They cannot say anything without ‘butting’. Such people can never be happy. Their logic gets sealed in inadequate cognitions when incompletions drive them. They live with an idea of what life should be, rather than accepting it as it is.

They are purely materialistic. When you are driving out of incompletion, you may have one dimension success in the life. But you will fail in life itself! Listen! One dimension success in life is not success. For example, if you have a root thought pattern of fear or shivering in you, even if you make billions of dollars out of that root pattern, you will not achieve satisfaction. Because the reason why you are making money is to feel secured. You will feel secured only when you break that pattern, not my money! It is wrong strategy, for the wrong reason! Guṇatraya Vibhāga Yogaḥ FindYour Root PatternAnd Complete 1019 Life has no ‘ifs’ or ‘buts’!

But our fear does not even allow us to think that there is a space where there is no ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’. This space of no ‘ifs’ or ‘buts’ is Enlightenment. The second type finds everything to be auspicious! Whatever happens is as it should be. They welcome life as it is. They carry the space of completion. These are the people who Kṛṣṇa says transcend creation and dissolution, past and future—sarge api nopajāyante pralaye na vyathanti ca. They live in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. The Great ‘why’ Kṛṣṇa is trying to answer philosophical questions that can never really be answered: How is the whole Universe created? If everything is God, why is the Universe created?

How are we born? Whoever tried to answer these questions just created another philosophy. Out of frustration, someone once asked me such questions, ‘Why are we born? Why this whole drama of taking birth, meditating, then achieving enlightenment? Why? For whose sake is this drama? If we must end up working out our karma, why do we create karma in the first place? What is the reason for this?’ You need to know one important truth. When it comes to Cosmic questions, unless you discover your answer, you will never be in peace. ‘Why’, ‘the why’ related to the outer world can be answered by others. ‘Why should I drive the vehicle from the left?’; ‘why should I drive a vehicle at all?’

‘Why’ related to the outer world can be answered by the law of the land or the outer world science. But all the ‘whys’ related to cosmic law, all the ‘whys’ related to life can be answered only by yourself by discovering it. I tell you, the religion you discover is your religion, not the religion you are born in, is your religion. Answer you discover is your answer! For this great ‘why’ you have to discover an answer. If you accept my answer for ‘why’, you will be living for my answer. At the most, my answer should be an inspiration for you to find out the answer for ‘why’.

Kṛṣṇa tries to answer these questions as an inspiration for Arjuna to find his own answer for his ‘why’. However, this answer is not the ultimate Truth. He says, ‘Please wait until the teachings are over.’ Normally when we don’t receive an answer for our philosophical question, we will be stuck with that ‘why’. Kṛṣṇa says, ‘I am the seed-giving father, the pitā, I am the root cause for everything—ahaṁ bīja pradaḥ pitā (14.4).’ ‘Why’, this ‘great why’ is Kṛṣṇa’s seed put inside you and sent, so that you won’t rest until you become a tree. Understand, each seed has an energy called ‘vīrya’ that does not rest until it produces more seeds.

Until then, it cannot rest. Even if you destroy the seed or eat the seed, that vīrya goes into your body and does its job in some other way! Here, Arjuna also comes back to the same great ‘why’ again and again and gets stuck. For the sake of inspiration or just for the sake of giving him an understanding, Kṛṣṇa gives an answer. Listen, Kṛṣṇa’s words can be fully understood only when we experience the consciousness of Kṛṣṇa. Until then, it is just a cognition. Even if it is a cognition, it is okay. Proceed with this new cognition into the next chapters, into the next verse. Suddenly, when you see the result, we will understand that whatever you have cognized is the truth. Kṛṣṇa makes this declaration so that you can understand the truth. You can discover the root cause based on which you cognize your whole life, based on which your consciousness functions. Natural Attributes, Gunas