Verses 5.27–5.29🔗

Here, ‘Me’ refers to the supreme witnessing consciousness, the Kṛṣṇa consciousness; it is not the six-feet Kṛṣṇa frame. I always tell people, the outer Guru, the Master is needed only to awaken the inner Guru. Once the inner Guru, the consciousness is awakened, the outer Guru needs to be dropped. Just like after burning the dead body, the very stick that is used to stoke the wood is dropped into the same pyre, so also the outer Guru needs to be dropped. For the first time, Kṛṣṇa gives a beautiful technique to move your energy from fear and greed to divine consciousness, eternal consciousness. Your fear is rooted in the svādiṣṭhāna cakra, the energy center situated two inches below the navel.

Your greed is rooted in the mūlādhāra cakra, the energy center that is in the root of your spinal cord. Kṛṣṇa gives us the technique to elevate ourselves from these two cakras to the eternal consciousness, the ājñā cakra at the brow center, where the eternal consciousness resides. When we have elevated our self toājñā,wegobeyondouregoormind.Weareallcaughtinthemūlādhāra and svādiṣṭhāna, fear and greed. That is why, continuously, we can watch and see that we have a sort of a tensed feeling. We will be continuously holding our mūlādhāra and svādiṣṭhāna tightly. Now, just feel yourself in your mūlādhāra area. You will see that you are tightly holding yourself in tension. Kṛṣṇa explains how to relax that area, how to stop the fuel coming from greed and fear, and get the amṛta-dhāra (flow of nectar) from the eternal consciousness.

Shutting out all external sense objects, keeping the eyes and vision concentrated between the two eyebrows, suspending the inward and outward breaths within the nostrils and thus controlling the mind, senses and intelligence, the transcendental who is aiming at liberation, becomes free from desire, fear, and the byproduct of desire, fear and anger—all three. One who is always in this state is certainly liberated. First, He gives the technique to enter that state. Then He says if you can stay in that state, you are liberated. Now, at least let us try to have a glimpse of this state that Kṛṣṇa explains in this verse. I will guide you step by step through this meditation.

Please try to enter that state. Meditation Please sit straight and close your eyes. Let your head, neck and backbone be in a straight line. Intensely pray to that ultimate energy, Parabrahma Kṛṣṇa, to give us the experience of this meditation. First, visualize all your senses completely shut; your eyes are completely closed. Don’t allow any visualization to happen inside your being. You should close the eyes too, because we continue to see things from behind our eyelids even though we shut our eyelids. Visualize that your eyeballs have become completely dark. You are seeing only darkness in front of you. Visualize your ears are shut. Visualize your sense of touch is shut.

Visualize your smelling capacity is shut. Visualize your face to be shut. Feel deeply that all the five senses have been shut down. Sannyāsa Yogaḥ Live All Your Possibilities 411 Inhale and exhale as slowly as possible. Slowly, let your nostrils blow the air. Let your consciousness reside between the two eyebrows. In a very relaxed way, be aware of the space between your two eyebrows. Don’t concentrate; don’t tense yourself. Just be very relaxed, have a deeply relaxed awareness. Let your mūlādhāra cakra, located at the base of your spine, be relaxed. Let your svādiṣṭhāna cakra, located just below the navel center, be relaxed. Let your whole consciousness come up to the ājñā cakra, which is between the eyebrows.

Concentrate on the space between the eyebrows. Visualize cool, soothing light in the ājñā cakra, in the space between the eyebrows. Relax in the ājñā cakra. Forget all other parts of your body. Forget about the body, mind and the world; remember only the ājñā cakra, the space between the two eyebrows. Go deeply into the ājñā cakra, in the space between the two eyebrows. Visualize a beautiful, cooling, soothing light in the ājñā cakra. Let you experience beautiful, blissful light in the ājñā cakra. Don’t tense yourself; let your awareness be in the ājñā cakra in a very relaxed way; let your consciousness rest in the space between the two eyebrows.

Relax in the same space of eternal consciousness. Let you be beyond the body and mind. May your intelligence be awakened. Let you work from your eternal consciousness. Let you have the pleasant awareness of the ājñā cakra. Let you all have the grace of the divine consciousness. Let you be established in the eternal consciousness. Let you all be in, with and radiate eternal bliss, nityānanda. Om śānti, śānti, śāntihi... Om tat sat. Relax. Slowly, very slowly, you can open your eyes. Try to remain in this mood at least for the next ten days. Understand: Don’t concentrate by force. Have a pleasant awareness. When you keep the pleasant awareness around your ājñā cakra, your whole energy will be directed towards the Eternal Consciousness.

You will receive energy from Eternal Consciousness, from immortality, amṛtatva. You will be driven from above by the Eternal Consciousness. If you are driven from below by fear or greed, you are man. If you are driven from above, you are God. Let you learn the science of how to connect yourself with the Divine energy, how to be driven by the Divine Consciousness. Let you live all your possibilities. Let you function through the Eternal Consciousness. Thus ends the fifth chapter named Sannyāsa Yogaḥ, ‘The Yoga of Renunciation,’ of the Bhagavad Gītā Upaniṣad, Brahmavidyā Yogaśāstra, the scripture of yoga dealing with the science of the Absolute in the form of Śrī Kṛṣṇārjuna saṃvād, dialogue between Śrī Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna.

Look In, Be Complete Before Any Conclusion You are your best friend and you are your worst enemy. Whether you wish to degrade yourself or raise yourself by yourself is in your hands. Krsna gives the technique to unite with Him in yoga, the Supreme Consciousness by becoming a Yogi. c h a p t e r Dhyāna Yogaḥ ... We will start with a beautiful history from Mahābhārat: Once the elders of Kuru royal family wanted to test the intelligence of their new generation of princes, the Kauravas and the Pāṇḍavas as to—who is more intelligent and wise—Kaurava kids, the hundred sons of King Dhritarāṣṭra or Pāṇḍava kids, the five sons of King Pāṇḍu.

So, they devised a competition. They said to all the Kaurava and Pāṇḍava young princes, ‘You will be given one gold coin. With that one gold coin, you will have to fill your palace house!’ This was the test laid out for them. The Kauravas took the gold coin and sat together. Naturally, hundred brains will mess-up any plan, any program. See, you can have hundred hands but not hundred brains. Be very clear, all great things are done by hundred hands and hundred legs, but not by hundred brains. Brain should be only one. In life, unfortunately, we have thousands of brains, but not a single hand! So, these hundred Kaurava brains all sit together, intensely discuss, argue, and even fight among themselves, ‘How can we fill the whole house with one gold coin?’ they speculated.

Each brain came up with its own strategy, just to be pulled down by the other. Then, finally after enough squabble and confusion, they came to the conclusion, ‘The elders are all cheats, they are abusing us, trying to exploit us, and making us feel we are failures!’ After this whole drama of blaming others, of feeling deprived and cheated, finally they decided that for one gold coin they could get only hay grass, which is the left over chaff of grains and paddy after crop harvesting. Look In, Be Complete Before Any Conclusion Dhyāna Yogaḥ Look In, Be Complete Before Any Conclusion 415 Here, the Pāṇḍavas sat together into the listening of dharma.

Even though each Pāṇḍava is a peerless specialist with unmatched expertise in some field, they all were always aligned under Dharmarāja, dharma! Understand, Yudhiṣṭra, the eldest of the Pāṇḍava brothers is Dharmarāja, the king and embodiment of dharma! Listen! All the five Pāṇḍavas are sons of Nature born as immaculate conceptions of Divine powers. Yudhiṣṭra is dharma incarnate, who along with the four Pāṇḍava brothers, embodies all the four tattvas of integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching, empowered with the powers of words, thinking, feeling and living. Bhīma, the son of Vāyu (wind god), represents the physical valor, the strength of integrity and authenticity. Arjuna, the son of Indra (the king of gods), is Nara incarnate, the highest evolved human energy of Nārāyaṇa, Lord Kṛṣṇa.

Arjuna is physiological power, the power of feeling awakened by responsibility! Both Bhīma and Arjuna are totally different expressions of unique divine powers. The ability to thrash is different, the ability to aim is different! Arjuna, the embodiment of physiological power, has the ability to aim and shoot, which needs mastery over the body, mind and senses. Nakula embodies the sense of intelligence and the space of possibility that is awakened by authenticity, the power of thinking. Nakula is one of the most intelligent strategy planners, who plans all the war strategies. Sahadeva is the aligner of time, he is a great astrologer expressing integrity, the power of words. All of them are always aligned under Dharmarāja Yudhiṣṭra.

Because they are aligned to dharma, Pāṇḍavas are like one brain having ten hands, all together united to express enriching, the power of living. Listen! I am defining Dharma. The power of your words, the power of your thinking, the power of your feeling, and the power of your living, this is Dharma. Dharma is aligning yourself to the flow of the Cosmos. So, they all sit together aligning to Dharmarāja and discuss, ‘What will fill the whole house with one gold coin? When our elders say then it is possible.’ Please understand, you can look at this test of intelligence from two possibilities. One group looks out and wails, ‘I think these elders are all fools.

They don’t know what they are asking us to do. They are just trying to prove we are all small fellows.’ This is the thought trend of Kauravas. Then come the sons of immortality, Pāṇḍavas, who look in and wonder, ‘When elders say, then there must be way. They are trying to teach us, educate us, and enrich us through this. When elders say, it is possible.’ So finally, Pāṇḍavas also decide to fill the house with one gold coin! How they did it, let us see! At the time of supervision, all the Kuru elders—Grandsire Bhīśma, Droṇa, Vidura, and Dhritarāṣṭra assembled; they first went to Duryodhana’s palace house. On reaching, they saw the whole house full of hay and all these Kauravas were standing outside!

They could not even get into the house! Bhīśma asks them, ‘What happened? Why are all of you standing outside?’ Kauravas reply, ‘What can be done? You only told us that we have to fill the whole house with one gold coin; what else can we get with just one gold coin? So we filled it with hay grass. Here you see! We won the competition!’And all these Kauravas are now standing outside! Neither these hundred brains nor the Kuru elders are able to get into the house. Dhṛitarāṣṭra, the father of Kauravas becomes very happy! He hurriedly concludes, ‘See my sons and their intelligence! They filled the whole palace house.

They should be declared victorious!’ Droṇa, the teacher of Kurus and Pāṇḍava princes, once a poor Brāhmaṇa, was supported by King Dhritarāṣṭra. So, whatever Dhṛitaraṣṭra says becomes the conclusion for Droṇa; and so, he simply agrees to the blind king’s conclusion. But, Bhīṣma stops Droṇa, saying, ‘Wait! Let us go to the other house also to see, and then decide who won the game.’ On entering the Pāṇḍava palace home, they see the whole house is Dhyāna Yogaḥ Look In, Be Complete Before Any Conclusion 417 filled with light and perfumed with fragrant incense. Understand, for that one gold coin, they bought earthen lamps and lighted them up along with pleasing, special perfumed incense.

The moment the elders entered, the Pāṇḍavas washed their feet, gave them seat and fruits. Enriching them thus, Pāṇḍavas tell them humbly, ‘Please see, the whole house is filled! Filled with light and perfume, pleasant smell!’ Of course, the blind King Dhṛitarāṣṭra is not ready to accept this! So, he goes to every corner, puts his sharp nose and smells to investigate if every corner is filled with pleasant perfume. He finds that all corners have the pleasant fragrance. Finally, the Kuru elders come to the right conclusion and declare that Pāṇḍavas won the game. Pāṇḍavas stand victorious! Please understand, listen! Completion is creating a space which is full where you can Live!

As the space of Pāṇḍavas is full with light and filled with pleasant fragrance, so is the inner space of completion full with power and filled with the fragrance of bliss­ —ānanda gandha, where you can live. Both palace houses are full. You also always keep yourself full; but the question is do you keep the house full like Kauravas or Pāṇḍavas? Find out that! Is your inner space like Kauravas or Pāṇḍavas? That’s all! Have you brought the hay and filled it all around your house, or have you brought the pleasant smell and the light within? Please understand, completion keeps you full and gives you the fulfilled space to live!

Incompletion keeps you full but never fulfilled; you will never be able to live there. Because of their deep incompletions, Kaurava brains fight violently. Finally when they get tired of fighting with their incompletions, they get utterly confused, and jump to the wrong conclusion of filling their house with hay! The Pāṇḍavas who are full with the space of completion and filled with the power of living, beautifully enrich the elders and enrich themselves, enjoying the light and fragrance! Please understand, the modern day CEOs, leaders are filled with stress. What is stress actually? It is nothing but filling yourself with hay! You are filled not fulfilled. You are occupied but not useful.

Before making one decision, when you think about it two hundred times, you are tired just like the Kaurava brains! Usually, when there are so many incompletions fighting in your brain, either your projects die down, or they take a totally opposite turn! Reduce the incompletions you infuse on yourself; reduce the abusal you do to yourself. Reduce the mental setup of Duryodhanas’ on you. Duryodhanas’ are nothing but bunch of incompletions, no power! Actually, they took the decision of buying the hay and filling the house because they were not able to handle the whole confusion and fight among themselves. So, they just jumped to the wrong conclusion, ‘let’s do something!’

Listen! Any decision made out of incompletion in the mood of ‘let’s do something’ is suicide! So understand, ‘let’s do something’ out of incompletion, restlessness generated by incompletion, is the pesticide! If you do it just for yourself, it is suicide; if you do it for the family, it is homicide; if you do it for many people, it is genocide. What Pāṇḍavas did is out of the pure space of completion. I tell you, when you create the space of completion, every moment you create a new way of thinking, new way of feeling, new way of knowledge, new way of being, and a new way of making yourself available to society and to humanity.

Look in, create the space of completion before coming to any conclusion! This is the message of this chapter. The sixth chapter of the Bhagavad Gītā, Dhyāna Yogaḥ starts with Kṛṣṇa’s words. In this chapter Arjuna is not asking any questions to Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa continues His answers from the previous chapter. Attain The State Of Yoga