“Today I will give you the essence of the 1st chapter.”

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Today I will give you the essence of the 1st chapter. There are lot of insights you can have from the 1st chapter of Bhagavad Gita AVY so many things can be learnt. There is a book called Uddartha Deepika commentary on BG by Madhusudananda Saraswathi a great Parmahamsa an enlightened Sadhu. From his commentary I will give you some of the deeper insights. First thing goal of the human life is dharma, artha, kama, moksha. Dharma means learning the societal rules and regulations and absorbing, internalizing and living. Artha creating wealth within the m eans of societal rules and regulations. Kama enjoying as much as you can within the boundaries of Dharma. Moksha going beyond all this three. See a normal man can easily go beyond artha and kama becos the wealth and pleasure becos they do always bring suffereing and always give feeling of not enough. Becos of their intrinsic nature of saying not enuf…going beyond wealth and pleasure is very easy. You don’t need a very subtel intelligence for it. …oh its okay, all these things are enough! But of course there are some Raakshasaas sitting in wheel chair btu does not want to leavet he throne. Those demons are different. But acommon human b eing feel at times the pleasure and wealth artha and kama at times are boring – it is enough, okay. But it is unfortunate human beings get stuck with what you call or the so called Dharma.

Please understand, whatever you call as Dharmais just some of the dos and donts vidhi nisheda created to keep some of the social structure, social fabric stable so that the human beings can live in less problems, they don’t need to spend much time in reinventing many of the life realted truths. Pl und, for example if eveyr human being has reinvent electricity, bulb, fan by the time he reinvents everything to live the life, his life is gone. It is not possible to reinvent everything realted to the outer world. that is why the infra structure is created where all the things are available. You come, the moment you take birth you see everything is there ready and grow with all this. so you don’t waste time in reiniventing. I tell you same there are thousands of wonderful things related to inner world and social set up the mind set up of human beings you don’t need to eringvent again & again &* again. So the inner infrasturcutre created is dharma. But neither outer infrast not inner infrast can lead you to enlightenment. When you need to achieve moksha enligh you need to go beyond both inner infrast and outer infrast. Some time such simple solutions for your huge problem, was discovered by yuour apretns, by your grandpa, great grand parents. But if it is not handed over to you as an understanding or rule, you may need ot work again reinventing the whole thing waste of time, waste of energy reinventing the whole thing. but those rules and regulations are only created for convenience and better life in the world. they are not created for the purpose of enlightenemtn. Becoming one with the cosmic nature.pl und many simple solutins are found for the so called complicated problems you have in many of the elders life. You may not need to reinvent again.

Story for you guys –

When NASA first started sending up Astronomers, they quickly discovered ball point…..developed a pen that writes in zero gravity upside down, under water, ….the Russians …pencil to write!

Your great grandparents would have discovered pencil. Who knows?...again 12 billion and reinventing to avoid reinvention all the understandings and discoveries of the inner world and a smooth life in the society is compiled and put together as dharma. Please understand but sometime Dharma can be misunderstood, misinterpreted, misused maybe outdated also. some of the rules you think can get outdated like the train time table of 2009 and go and stand on the platform waiting for the train. Somebody says this train wont come today…you forget it is last year’s time table. Of course in Bharat even if you have this year’s time table you may not get the train. That is different. Okay. Some time Dharma becomes old time table, old schedule, old understanding. That is the reason incarnations land to upgrade the time table newly. To write new updated principles. To remove the interpolations and remove unnecessary things from whatever you understand as Dharma. Krishna is a Smrithi kaara incarnation came down to create new Smrithi, new way of living, came down to create new understanding about Dharma, new energy and new experience.

Nachashreyo anupashyaami….

I am quoting one verse from 1st chapter. 1st chapter, 31st verse –

Where Arjuna says – Besides even after long consideration I do not see any good to be derived my own people in the battle.

Swajanam – swajanam…I think that is a strong engram which Arjuna had. If I was in Krishna’s position, I would have called Bheema to beat Arjuna. Then I would have told Arjuna – Arjuna, your swajana – see what he is doing! Sometime with the so called dharma, the so called ideas, the so called rules & regulations, not only you miss moksha, you miss even basic intelligence. Life is for eternal expansion! That is why you are programmed with the basic instinct of expansion. The basic instinct you carry is of expansion! But in course of time, in the understandings of Dharma means making you live more happily productively joyfully creatively in the society, some sadist fellows enter to manipulate. They create some vidhi nisheda dos and donts just to…so called Dharma. Again & again incarnations land on planet earth to remove this sadistic interpolations in Dharmic way of living.

Small story –

One guy goes to the doctor. Have you taken my advice and slept with the window open? Patient says – Yes. Doctor asks so your asthma disappeared completely? Patient says my watch, TV, IPOD everything disappeared not asthma!

Understand sometime some rules do completely opp to what is expected. Dharma the so called rules and regulation sof the society…pl und incarnation is a new edition of consciuoenss. Every time a incarnation happens, the fight between Dharma & Moksha happens visibly. See the whole fight between Arjuna and Krishna is fight between Dharma & Moksha. Whatever Arjuna says will almost sounds like truth but not true. Und something which sounds like truth, not true. Whatever Arjuna says here is something which sounds like true but not truth.

Small story – there was a party and the girl introduces the boy to her father and mother. After the party, father goes to the boy and asks will you take care of my daughter, what are your plans for the future. The boy says I am a toro scholar and I read all the sacred scriptures. The father says that is okay but how are you going to provie a beautiful house for my daughter. He says I will read tora and God will provide a house. He says how are you going to provide a beautiful wedding ring for her. He says I will pray hard read tora and God will provide for us. He asks what is your plan for medical insurance to have a beautiful car and the old age. This guy says I will read more & more sacred scriptures, God will provide for us. Finally the man comes back, wife asks him did you talk to your daughter’s fiancé, would be what is his plans. The father answers he has no job, he has no plans but one good thing is he thinks I am God! If you have not caught it, wait for tomorrow morning ☺

The vidhi nisheda, dos and donts defer, change, transform themselves time to time. Looks like truth, not truth is the intrinsic quality of Dharma. Please understand Dharma is a poor substitute for Moksha. Like this man there is no plans anything but when he says God will provide it almost looks like it sounds true. You can’t argue with him then he will start talking – Oh you mean to say God will not provid for me? the arguments will go in the wrong direction. The words can be twisted.

Let me define Dharma. Dharma is something where the words are manipulated in such a way which is not practical, but forced down your throat almost like made or coherced to make it practical! I was seeing a one liner –God does such paradoxical things he creates such beautiful women finally turns them into wives. So exactly this one liner will match for what you call as Dharma….as a net not as a garland! When words are created like a net, looks like ultimate but not ultimate.

Nachashreyo anupashyaami swajanamaave

Arjuna, Arjuna is talking all the words he learnt from the school. He is repeating like a parrot. Small story –

One child was very happy that he is getting a baby brother. So he runs to the school and tell the teacher my mom said I am getting a baby brother. He was jumping around. After few days the mom made the child to feel the kicks of the baby inside the tummy. And that day he goes to the school. Teacher asks how is your baby brother is he growing? This guy says I think something wrong happened. I think my mummy ate him! ☺

Arjuna is talking just like a child. For the spectrum of a child it is very logical. He was coming on the way, mother caught him and ate him and that is why he is kicking in the tummy! See if a child talks that way you can at least forgive. But Arjuna talking, I don’t think it is forgivable. The 32nd verse

Krishna, I do not anchor after victory. Then what for you came to the war? Because he cannot ..he goes on. See I want to expand on this chapter at least few days. Because so many times you all go on abusing the science of enlightenment, abusing the scriptures…having a convoluted brain, having a perverted thinking. The convulsion and perversion using the logic and concepts creating certain thought trends which looks like flowing sometimes named wrongly as Dharma. It is not even Dharma – named wrongly. These fellows are spreading news. What will happen to society? Sun TV kind of fellows start their news – they say good morning! And proceed to tell why it is not. They start their evening news – tell good evening! And proceed to tell why it is not! ☺

Let us analyze some more verses to know the Arjuna’s mind

Apitrayasya raajasya hetoho

Even for the sake of the kingdom extending into the three worlds, I don’t want to wage this war!

It is all just poetic way of this Arjuna who has faught so many wars just for small small things not even for big things. Just for the sake of Draupadi, he went and broke the bow. So many times he has waged different bows just for small small things. Suddenly this guy has become almost a great Paramahamsa. He says Apitrayasya raajasya hetoho. Pelple come to me. many of these Arjunas come to me and they try to teach renunciation to me. Renunciation is a ripening not a happening becos of frightening. Pl und renunciation is a happening becos of ripening not a happening becos of frightening. If you are in fear then the decisions you make is moving out of life. That is not renunciation. Pl und moving out of life is not renunciation! Falling out of life is renunciation or growing out of life is renunciation. I think this is the best word I will use – growing out of life, growing to the next spectrum is renunciation – not moving out of life. Here Arjuna was trying to move out of life. If Krishna would have allowed that would have been the worst sin and the whole history would have cursed Krishna. Nobody why nobody even I would not have uttered Krishna’s name. your close friend…but Krishna never m isses his responsibility. I cannot chisel, carve, visualize, create more perfect character than Krishna! Even now thousands of politicians think they are Krishnas. N.T.Rama Rao really believed he was Krishna& thousands of strategy planners think they are Krishnas. Still Bollywood heros think they are krishnas and almost all the spiritual gurus think they are Krishnas. Understand only if you are a ahimsa vaadi you think you are Gandhi…only people of that field wll feel connected to that hero. For example, only the spiritual leaders think they are vivekanandas. You wont see a cinema hero think he is a Vivekananda. You wont see a politician thinking he is a Vivekananda. Same way any hero, any leader only that field ppl think they are a reincarnation, his energy..but see Krishna almostin every field people think they are Krishna…feel connected with Krishna. See for you to even feel you are Krishna means you vibrate with the ideology he represents, you vibrate with what he stands for. He is the hero from ordinary village hut to the palace, huge palaces who lives he is a hero. In Bharat go to village huts where they make their daily living by working 8 hours a day you will see a place for Krishna. And go to a huge palaces which represents Bharatn culture, you will see a shrine for Kirshna. A man who has influenced almost all fields of Bharatn psyche. To him Arjuna is trying to teach Dharma. That is why I am saying the argument between Arjuna and Krishna is fight between Dharma and Moksha, between an incarnation and dharma…incarnations mission is update dharma. All path finders are path breakers. Now the fight happening in between me and the meidia. Media is modern day Arjuna. Hope this Gita will make them understand. Of course some section of meida is not even honest. At least Arjuna is honest here in his confusion. Arjuna still talks about the spectrum of Krishna even though he is confused he only talks about the spectrum of Krishna. He says living in hell is inevitable…narake aranyato vaso - 44th verse.

He says that living in hell becomes inevitable if we do these things. But sometime in your confusion you don’t know whom you are talking to. He says to Krishna about hell. Actually I don’t know how Krishna responds. I am completely irritated. I would have told get out, get lost, who cares for you. I would have directly picked up the bow and arrow and finished off all the fellows. After all it is my avataric mission…maybe if Arjuna did not budge I would have done it. or he is using this as a chance to deliver the great message Gita which is also his avataric mission. Maybe he puts this on record so that all the future incarnations find the courage when ….when moksha is expressed, people loose always the convoluted perverted ideas we carry about dharma and fight with moksha. I don’t know how Krishna did not get irritated

A man had 6 children and was so proud of his achievement. He was so proud that he started calling his wife mother of 6. Naturally if you call someone mother of 6 especiallly women anything remotely reminds them of their age and their looks wow that’s it. either you are in hell or she is in hell. One night they went to a party. He diceded it was time to go home and wanted to find out if his wife was ready to leave. He shouted shall we go home mother of six. She was completely irritated and looses her discretion and shouted back, anytime you are ready, father of four! She watns to take away the pride this guy carries! ☺

Nakankshe sukhaani – 32nd verse – Arjuna says I am not even interested in pleasure. Nakankshe sukhani. If you see all the words Arjuna is using very organized, chosen words.

Shreyo bhoktum baikshyaam apeeha loke - it is better in this world to live even on alms. Actually in next chapter he comes back with this argument.

Ne kshema taram bhavathi – he says this war will not be beneficial to me.

Some time you yourself don’t know what is right or beneficial to you. whenever the disciples come to me and try to argue, I always tell them if I agree with you, we both will be wrong. I wanted to agree, but if I agree with you, we both will be wrong ☺ Big big words we use does not make any meaning! I want to talk about it again & again because if you understand the Krishna & Arjuna the conversation, if you understand the Arjuna’s m ental set up you will avoid thousands of problems. More than you I will avoid millions of problems. If you und the Arjuna’s mental set up you will avoid thousands of problems in your life, I will avoid millions of problems.

That is the reason I will go on expanding on the AVY. I can say this chapter is so powerful. If you und this chapter, you will not need the whole BG at all.

One guy asked his friend who lived his whole life who got married…that guy responds well I have learnt that marriage is the best teacher or all it teaches you reverence forgivance…and all other greaet qualities you would not have needed if you stay single.

I tell you if catch this 1st chapter, you may not need the whole BG. Only if you miss the words in this chapter, you may need the next chapters. If you understand the mental set up with which Arjuna is playing the games, you will see you also play the same games with life. For all of you life is Krishna. You continuously argue with life and life is constantly teaching Gita to you. all you need is you are like Arjuna not ready to listen. Just giving your own meaning to the words. A one liner – manager asks the staff why you just stopped in your table, you don’t do anything in your table. This guy says what is this, in the bus station wehre bus stops, train station where the train stops. On my desk I have work station, work stop.s in bus s…

These are only words with which you can play not for life. If you understand all your fight with life is the words with which you are playing, you are not letting Krishna speak to you about the BG. See when I speak about Arjuna continuously you may think why I am talkiign the same thing again & again. I am talking the same thing but you are not listening. What can I do? …tell us when Swamiji is going to speak or tell if he is not…I said tell tehm…even if I come and speak I will speak the same thing..instead of speaking the same thing I told replay the same thing! It is not even the question of war is right or wrong. Is Arjuna’s decision making right or wrong? That is the main thing first need to be attended. See war is not going to dertermine who is right. It is only going to determind who is left – 2. I am not saying war is right or wrong. And it is not even all about war. See the funny thing the scripture which is delivered in the war field inspires somebody to wage the world’s worst war, is the root cause of the religion which is the only hope for them world peace. See the paradox! Hwo Arjuna IS MISSING the updated version of consciousness Krishna trying to hold on to the old train time table the so called Dharma the perverted convoltued ideas processed by his brain which is too preliminary. Understand, just by understanding Arjuna you can evolve yourself to the level of Krishna.

I will continue to do psycho analysis of Arjuna at least in one more Satsang to drive the point deeper. Now we will enter into today’s kriya for clarity and peace. To come out of the state in which Arjuna is in now. Let us enter into the Shanti kriya. Kriya for stress management. Sit in comfortable posture. Come to linga mudra. This is linga mudra where the hands are locked…the healthy fire is activated in the stomach it reduces the body heat. That is why when our people levitate, their body heat drops to around 4 to 6 degree. We discovered during our research when they levitate 4 degree and when theya rematerializing 6 degree drops….feel the energy radiating all over the body from linga mudra. The moment you keep this you suddenly feel the whole body is suddenly alive, active. Either left thumb or right thumb keep it erect. And inhale and exhale in a strong and deep way at least 3 minutes. Means you will be able to do 20 to 40 times. Anything more than 20 around 40 is okay. It may take at least 2-3 mintues. Then next skanda chakra. Pl und these are powerful krisyas to balance your bio memory not just muscle memory bio memory itself and remove the confusion and depression, infuse shanti peace into yoru cellular memory. Skanda chakra rotate shoulder muscles. One of the major muscle groove where stress accumulates easily. The shoulder is the froup of muscles where stress accumulated easily. Relax those muscles. Rotate front and back. Front at least 11 times, back at least 11 times. Then sit and inhale with Omkara, exhale with Hreemkara. Pl und 3 step – the linga mudra and inhaling, exhaling for 3 minutes and skanda chakra rotating 11 times front and 11 times back as wide as large circles as possible. And inhaling Omkara, exhaling Hreemkara. Lets start, I will guide you with the 3 steps. The mudra should be near the Ananda Gandha. When you inhale and exhale fee that you have awakened the healthy fire in the body. feel like your whole body is like a homa gunda, homa of fire. Inhale and exhale as intensely as possible. Feel your whole body is burning with healthy fire. All your unnecessary fat is getting burnt.

Do it intensely the sound of the breathing should be audible to you. feel the whole body burning. keep the thumb erect. Only then you will feel the circulation. Keep the thumb straight. Now keep your hands on the shoulders. Let us go to the next step – skanda chakra rotate your hand in the front 11 times with the same breathing intense breathing from the whole, use the whole body and breathe. Rotate at least 11 times, you can go up to 21 times also. but don’t miss the breathing. Heavy breathing. Whole lungs should be filled. Now again rotate the opposite side with this same intense breathing.

Now sit in samaana mudra and inhale through Omkara and exhale through hreemkara naturally you will use the nose and the mouth. Do it at least 21 times (you should say the Omkara, hreemkara out loudly)

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