28 Aug 2011_Bhagavad Gita-Responsibility is a Power

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I wanted to introduce these words used here by Sanjaya - the words to mention Krishna and Arjuna. He uses the word Kutakesha for Arjuna. Kutakesha means man who conquered the sleep. Rishikesho means man who conquered, mastered all the senses. M going to fight. Then what will happen. See here, conquering the senses means ability to control, conquering the sleep means ability to explode; two different dimensions of conquering. Conquering the sleep means no laziness, no tiredness; all the things related to sleep laziness, tiredness, the chronic fatigue, everything has only one root. Arjuna is a guy who has conquered that.

See kutakesha is one of the great quality - conquering the sleep. When you are able to conquer the sleep something happens to your brain. Not just non mechanical parts of your brain is awakened, extraordinary creativity and the feeling to take responsibility… please understand conquering sleep not only means that ability to live without sleeping or ability to sleep whenever you want, as long as you want. It also means ability to take the responsibility.

Many time people are afraid to accept new type of life. They don’t want to take up new kind of life. They don’t want to make new major big decisions and they have a very nice word to cover up their laziness ‘we take life as it comes’. If you are waiting for the life to take the major responsibilities for you, it will take the major decisions for you, it will do; but after giving you strong kicks. Very beautifully Vivekananda says better you take the responsibility and make decisions; otherwise Maya will start doing. Maya means the nature, the world will start doing. But the difficulty is when Maya starts doing, you will be given such a strong message, sometimes it permanently impairs some of your capabilities and freedom. an who conquered all the senses is driving the chariot. Man who conquered the sleep is 4:41

It happened. Let me give you one example. One guy who was our devotee started having some affairs. Wife came and cried to me.

I said ‘call that guy’.

I called him and said ‘what is this?’

Then he said ‘Swamiji, you should only stop me’.

I asked him ‘what do you mean that I should only stop you? You want me to take your car keys and hide it or what?’

He said ‘no, no, no, you only should take care of me, you only should stop me.’

I said ‘don’t you see it is such a nasty way of escaping from the responsibility?’

Anyhow the fool went away dodging me. He had some serious accident, a very powerful injury in the back and muladhara tup! Fuse gone! Very difficult!!

See if you have listened and taken the responsibility on your own it would have been totally different. But when the life teaches that becomes totally different. Sometime your life may connect, your motives may go parallelly with the motives of the cosmos, but that is not enough. You should have the complete understanding which cosmos is carrying.

Please understand not just in being in tune with the cosmos as a accident…. you see here the Arjuna’s motive and Krishna’s motive are touching each other at one or two points as an accident….war…. that’s all. That is the only common point. But other motives are all different. But Arjuna needs to imbibe all the logics of Krishna, all the motives of Krishna, completely. Till you understand the whole, you can’t exactly catch the truth. See, if Arjuna is not understanding all the logic or the reason with which Krishna is functioning he may miss something.