Verses 15.9–15.10🔗

The one whose inner eyes of knowledge is open, can see everything. The living entity, the spirit, leaves one body, takes another body and gets new eyes, ears, nose, tongue and sensing body according to the saṁskāras it had in its causal layer and enjoys the new mental setup.’ Here Kṛṣṇa reveals another secret. He says, ‘You create a body according to the root thought patterns or saṁskāras in the causal layer, adhiṣṭhāya manaś cāyaṁ (15.9).’ There is an Indian science called sāmudrika lakṣaṇa śāstra, the technique of studying body features. By observing our physical body structure, experts can read and reveal our mental setup. They know the relationship between mind and body.

Kṛṣṇa says that we create our sensory organs, according to saṁskāras in our causal layer. Kṛṣṇa says that living entities create all five senses through the mind or mental setup. This happens not only when we take another body. Every day when we wake up from deep sleep, our senses are recreated. If we change our mental setup, within a short time, our face changes. . - Puruṣottama Yogaḥ No Questions, Only Doubts 1105 You Create Yourself Every Moment Our ‘mind, manaś ’ is the intelligence spread all over our body. It is the intelligence that resides in our cells. Each cell carries genetic intelligence. Body and mind are not separate entities.

It is just body-mind or mind-body, one system. Within this body-mind system, scientists say that every moment of your life thousands of cells die and thousands of new cells are created. This is a constant process that Nature, the universal intelligence, dictates. It does not happen because of us; it happens in spite of us. In a period of a little under two years, every part of our body, every cell in our body, gets renewed. Our body as it was a year ago is not the body it is today. This is not fiction; it is a proven scientific fact. Then why do we behave the same way as we have for years?

Why do illnesses plague us for years, even though the cells are no longer the same? Each cell as it dies, leaves behind a memory that the newly created cell follows. That is the bio-memories, saṁskāras within us. The saṁskāras ensures the continuation of a pattern despite complete changes in the body-mind system. These saṁskāras are more powerful than the rest of the body-mind system. It decides and drives. The deep sleep we go into everyday is a rehearsal of our death process. We die and are reborn. Our subtle body leaves the gross body and returns reenergized if we allow it to. It is in our hands to maximize this process of rejuvenation that happens automatically everyday.

Through meditation we can clear our saṁskāras and be reborn. We can change our features, our character and behavior, all by reprogramming our saṁskāras. That is why people radiate grace after they start meditation. Beauty is created by make-up. Grace is radiated by meditation. Grace makes the occupant feel at home. It soothes the atmosphere. Beauty creates excitement. Beauty moves the other person into rajas (restlessness). Grace creates calmness, satva. Grace puts the other person in energy. People reminisce about great Masters like Rāmaṇa Mahaṛṣi and say that He imparted wisdom through silence. It is the Enlightened Master’s grace that penetrates the other person’s energy and changes that person’s saṁskāras.

All that we need to do in an Enlightened Master’s presenceisjustbe,beopenandsilentandallowtheMaster’seternalgraceto penetrate us. There is nothing that we need to do. The Master’s grace does whatever is needed. One version of the great Indian epic Ramāyaṇa says that when princess Sītā, the incarnation of Devi Lakṣmi, entered the court of King Janaka, her father, all the great kings, monks and mystics stood up automatically. This was not a protocol. The grace she radiated caused this response in them. Beauty can create only temptation in the other person. Only grace can create respect. The grace radiating from Sītā’s being made everybody stand up. Zen Buddhism says that if we can walk on a lawn without killing the grass or creating a path with our footsteps, we are eligible for Sannyāsa.

I doubted this. After all, the whole body weight is there. How can grass bear such a load and not leave imprints? Once I went on a safari in South India. I sat on an elephant and the caretaker came along with me. It was evening. It became dark. The caretaker had no torch or light. I asked him how he would find his way back home. He replied, ‘I have created a path by my daily walk that I can follow even in darkness.’ I asked about the elephant because it traveled with him everyday. He said, ‘The elephant’s feet do not create a path. The elephant and other animals do not destroy grass as they walk over it.’

I started calculating the load exerted by one foot of the elephant. At the least, it works out to four times that of an average man. However, it did not create a path. It did Puruṣottama Yogaḥ No Questions, Only Doubts 1107 not kill a single blade of grass. In spite of the physical mass, there was no damage to the environment. The negativity, arrogance, violence, negative saṁskāras in our causal layer, makes us feel heavy on earth. If we feel heavy around our navel area, we carry negative saṁskāras. The feeling of heaviness is not connected to our weight. It is due to imprints in our inner space. A person who feels light radiates grace from his being and he never creates a path on a lawn.

He never kills a blade of grass by his walk. We are spiritually evolved souls only when our feet do not create a path, when we float while we walk, when we do not go against nature. Here Kṛṣṇa says, we create our senses according to our root patterns, saṁskāras. This happens not only when we die and take birth; we redesign our senses to suit our root patterns everyday, when we wake up too. If we wake up with the right mental setup, we will have our senses accordingly and for the whole day we can enjoy it. If on the other hand, we get up with negativity, we suffer.

The few moments immediately after we wake up are crucial. Whatever we feel will be reflected the rest of the day. If we radiate joy, our whole day will be joyful. If we are irritable, our whole day will be irritable. Do this with the space of completion everyday at least for twenty-one days. You will be amazed at the changes that happen within your bodymind. You will develop grace and equally important, you will learn to love yourself, which means that you can love others without difficulty. Kṛṣṇa further says, the type of senses we create determines the type of sensory objects we enjoy. If we create positive senses, we enjoy a positive life.

If we create negative senses, we suffer a negative life. The type of senses we create determines what type of objects or pleasures attract us, and we experience that. Our senses, intelligence and our body-mind system create the energy field around us. This energy field attracts similar energy fields. If we are negative, if our perceptions are negative, we attract people with negative mindsets and descend into a vicious cycle. However, if we do completion with all our negativity, sufferings of the past and do the creation of a space of positive emotions and positive perceptions, we attract like-minded, positive people and situations. Completion, Completion, Completion! The energy field of completion.

I tell you, just by completing with your past lifestyle, you can get out of all your sufferings of the past. Just by declaring completion with all the past mental setup, you can get out of all the side effects, after-effects, and impact of the past over you. So, completion forms the basic truth, the basic principle. The whole energy field supports you to fulfill your life as you want. This space is extremely important in spiritual progress. It is easy to make progress and evolve when we are with a Master. However, when we get into the company of people who are not following the path, it is easy to slip from our path.

Only Eyes of Knowledge can See Kṛṣṇa provides a wonderful punchline in the middle of this chapter. ‘Fools, vimūḍhā’ He says. Kṛṣṇa uses the Saṃskṛit word ‘mūḍhaḥ’ that means ‘fool’. Fools can neither understand how a living entity can quit his body nor what sort of a body he enjoys under the spell of guṇa, the attributes and moods of nature. Only those whose eyes are trained by knowledge can see these things. The first thought with which we get up from our bed plays a major role in our enrichment throughout the day. What is our first thought usually? First we feel awake. We feel our body. Then it may be the fear that we must go to our office or it may be the greed to finish some work.

At the stroke of the thought, fear or greed, our body jumps out of bed. We connect to our body through fear or greed. Kṛṣṇa says that if we catch our body with fear or greed, we attract more and more fear or greed throughout the day. There are many gates to enter the body. Never enter through the fear or greed gate. Get up with a spiritual thought that brings completion in Puruṣottama Yogaḥ No Questions, Only Doubts 1109 you. Remember your Master or favorite God and thank Him. Thank Him for the extended life. Everyday that you wake up is an extension to your life on planet Earth.

Thank Divinity for the grace, for the extension. Let your first thought be spiritual. Practice it consciously for a few days. Then it will become your routine. Don’t connect to your body with fear or greed; you will attract more and more greed or fear. Listen. Waking up from bed is not our birthright. Of course, birth itself is not our right. It is a pure gift from Existence. Be grateful to the Divine for this day and extension here. Completion forms the basic rule for gratitude, enlightenment, and liberation. Please listen to these basic truths! Grace is flowing in you forever! Life is flowing in you just to make your life as you want!

Life is not sadistic. God is not sadistic. And God is not enjoying your conflicts and complications. Don’t think that! Please listen, if you are able to wake up in the morning and if you are able to breathe, understand that His Grace is there on you. He wants you to fulfill your life as you want. If we wake up from bed with spiritual thoughts of completion, that consciousness stays with us the whole day. If we are made to get up from bed by incomplete material thoughts, we start our day with incompletions—irritation, worry, and agitation. The entire day we carry the same irritated mood. Whenweareindeepsleep,weareintouchwiththecausallayer.While waking up, we travel along the other three layers and reach the physical body.

The three layers are like a shopping mall with various saṁskāras. According to our causal layer, we pick up the related saṁskāras and contact our physical body and design our senses accordingly. Just for twenty-one days, every night before sleeping do self-completion with all your incompletions for at least forty-two minutes; reliving and relieving your past sufferings and root patterns. This completion process will directly work on your causal layer. Always sleep in the space of completion. And wake up with a spiritual thought of completion. Then, check your face. It will be changed. Your eyes will have a new look. Your body will have the grace. One more thing, understand, if you have dreams, whatever type of dreams it may be, whether it is good or bad, or whatever; if you have dreams, then you have incompletions in you.

When you start doing completions every night, your dreams will reduce. Listen. I am defining dreams. Incompletions expressing when you are unconscious is dreams. Incompletions expressing when you are conscious is thinking. If you have a dreamless sleep, I guarantee, you will have birthless life! If you have dream-free sleep, you will have birth-free, death-free life! That’s all. I am not putting forward a theory. I have experienced this. A few hundred thousand people around the world practice these words. From that authority, I tell you, this process of completion is a vibrant technique. Don’t contact the body with tamas or rajas (depression or restlessness). If you get up with greed or fear, you design a body that radiates greed or fear and thereby attracts incidents that put you in greed or fear.

When you travel from the causal layer to the physical body, pick up completion, the satva (peaceful or blissful) saṁskāras. Have a spiritual thought of completion as the first thought. Think of your Master orGodoranythingthatgivesyouaspiritualmemory.ThatiswhyinIndia, ancient Mystics tell us to meditate early in the morning. At least for a few seconds be in a blissful mood. Your inner space will be fresh and new. Kṛṣṇa says, ‘Only those whose eyes are trained by knowledge can see the truth of this science, paśyanti jñāna cakṣuṣaḥ (15.10)’. The whole science of completion is before you. He says fools cannot understand and only those with eyes of knowledge, can see. The choice of being a fool or a man with eyes of knowledge, jñāna-cakṣu is left to us. The choice is completely ours. Awareness Not Achievement