Showing posts with label bhagavad gita. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bhagavad gita. Show all posts

Sunday, January 8, 2012

I have a Vision

I have a Vision of a new reality. One where people choose their path for realizing their own dreams, the true fulfillment of the desires of the love in their hearts placed there by the One Infinite Creator.

Non-resistance is the means by which this will be created. People simply do what they want to do, without focusing on that which might oppose or prevent them from accomplishing their aims. If their actions are guided by the principle of Reverence for Life (Albert Schweitzer), Service to Others (as opposed to service to self - as presented in the Law of One Series from Ra), and the Golden Way, "And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise" (Luke 6:31), and opposition arises, it will be overcome by non-resistance as stated by Lao Tsu "The submissive and weak will overcome the hard and strong." (full passage below 1), or even active acquiescence as taught by Jesus, "But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also" Matthew 5:39.

So many messages through innumerable sources have presented this approach such as ancient teachings to modern day movies such as The Matrix or Star Wars. One wins simply through surrender, or letting go. This is the ultimate act of faith, or trust where a person puts their state of being in the hands of the One Infinite Creator, God or All That Is. A simple act of stopping resisting and yielding to the progressive or "dominant" force sets up nature to do her thing - re-create. In other words, allow love to do its most natural act to bring forth new "When the uncarved block shatters it becomes vessels, The sage make use of these and becomes the lord over officials." (Lau Tsu, full quote below 2).

"Evil", or the progressive force always speaks loudly, and claims that evil, or the devil is at work. Its primary tool, or motivator is fear. This is an ironic circumstance to observe in this world. Those most claiming the religious "high ground" are the agents of their own demise. Evil consumes itself, eventually. Love patiently waits knowing that storms always subside, resting in "this too shall pass". Always after threats of destruction and death, strong wind and billowing sails will be the peace, and calm seas, the eternal calm, the peace that reside within "All That Is" - that which does all, and yet nothing to obtain "I have not work to do in all the worlds, Arjuna - for these worlds are mine. I have nothing to obtain, because I have all. And yet I work" (Bhagavad Gita. 3:22).

When one situates oneself in a state of knowing and surrender, they need not question. Following Ones heart, which resides within, just doing the best that you can, even at your current station in life, prepared to "let go" and not fight, following honest intent to do Love's beckoning cannot fail. This will reveal itself as the True path of salvation.

There are no enemies that can defeat God, Source, Love - because there are no enemies. All That Is is One Love, the One Infinite Creator watching the "wheels go round' and round" through your eyes.

Residing in the Now, the Present, the only true place of power, a person can come to experience and know truly how powerful they are, and following the Vision placed in their heart, in love, they will observe the manifestation of One Divine Harmonic Symphonic Orchestration that has been in the Mind and Heart of the One Infinite Creator for Eternity. And You are part of it.

"Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works." John 14:10 KJV
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." John 14:12, KJV
"The Lord of the world is beyond the works of the world and their working, and beyond the results of these works; but the work of Nature rolls on." Bhagavad Gita 5: 14
"This body, Arjuna, is called the field. He who knows this is called the knower of the field. 13:2 Know that I am the knower in all fields of my creation: and that the wisdom which sees the field and the knower of the of the field is true wisdom. Bhagavad Gita 13: 1

One need not lament, worry or decry day to day observances. Just rest when confronted with the dancing shadows on the wall, in one conscious deep breath at a time, if needed, knowing that you too, are an important, beautiful living tapestry designed, managed, supported, sustained, guided and created by Divine Love.

Full verse as cited above.
1. XXXVI - Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching, translated by D.C. Lau

If you have a thing shrink,
You must first stretch it;
If you would have a thing weakened,
You must first strengthen it;
If you would have a thing laid aside,
You must first set it up'
If you take from a thing,
You must first give to it.
This is called subtle discernment:
The submissive and weak will overcome the hard and strong.
The fist must not be allowed to leave the deep;
The instruments of power in a state must not be revealed to anyone.

2. XXVIII - Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching, translated by D.C. Lau

Know the male
But keep to the role of the female
And be a ravine to the empire.
If you are a ravine to the empire,
Then the constant virtue will not desert you
And you will again return to being a babe.
Know the wite
But keep to the role of the black
And be a model to the empire.
If you are a model to the empire,
Then the constant virtue will not be wanting
And you will return to the infinite.
Know honor
But keep to the role of the disgraced
And be a valley to the empire.
If you are a valley to the empire,
Then the constant virture will be sufficient
And you will return to being the uncarved block.
When the uncarved block shatters it becomes vessels. The sage make use of these and becomes the lord over officials.
Hence the greatest cutting
Does not sever.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

13 Verses, and Chapter 13 of the Bhagavad Gita

For some strange reason I felt compelled to extract all of the 13th verses from the Bhagavad Gita. This book came to me, from a friend, totally out of nowhere - in a Spanish speaking country. I am on about my 6th reading. I have felt from the beginning that the 13th Chapter is the most comprehensive and descriptive of the relationship between the ONE and our human experience.

I am just sharing this here because I continue to get evidence that 13 is a very powerful number. Maybe there is some greater weaving of truth from this idea. Otherwise, I guess just because it came to me to do, so I could inculcate the truth of this ancient wisdom more deeply. With Love - Andy

The Bhagavad Gita Translated from the Sanskrit with an introduction by Juan MascarĂ³, Penguin Classics, 1962.


Krishna speaks to Arjuna on the field of Battle

1:13 Then the rumbling of war drums, the stirring sound of cymbals and trumpets, and the roaring of conch-shells and horns filled the sky with a fearful thunder.

2:13 As the spirit of our mortal body wanders on in childhood, and youth and old age, the Spirit wanders on to a new body of this the sage has no doubts.

3:13 Holy men who take as food the remains of sacrifice become free from all their sins; but the unholy who have feasts for themselves eat food that is in truth sin.

4:14 The four orders of men arose from me, in justice to their natures and their works. Know that this work was mine, though I am beyond work, in Eternity.

5:13 The ruler of his soul surrenders in mind all work, and rests in the joy of quietness in the castle of nine gates of his body: he neither does selfish work nor causes others to do it.

6:13 With upright body, head, and neck, which rest still and move not; with inner gaze which is not restless, but rests still between the eye-brows;

7:13 How the whole world is under the delusion of these shadows of the soul, and knows not me though forever I am!

8:13 And remembering me he utters OM, the eternal WORD of Brahman, he goes to the Path Supreme.

9:13 But there are some great souls who know me: their refuge is my own divine nature. They love me with one-ness of love: they know that I am the source of all.

Arjuna – 10:13 Thus all the seers praised thee: the seer divine Narada; Asita, Devala and Vyasa. And this is now thy revelation.

Sanjaya – 11:13 And Arjuna saw in that radiance the whole universe in its variety, standing in a vast unity in the body of the God of gods.

Krishna – 12:13 The man who has a good will for all, who is. Friendly and has compassion; who has no thoughts of “I” or “mine”, whose peace is the same in pleasures and sorrows, and who is forgiving;

13:13 His hands and feet are everywhere, he has heads and mouths everywhere: he sees all, he hears all. He is in all, and he is.

14:13 Darkness, inertia, negligence, delusion – these appear when Tamas prevails.

15:13 I come into the earth and with life-giving love I support all things on earth. And I become the scent and taste of the sacred plant Soma, which is the wandering moon.

16:13 “I have gained this today, and I shall attain this desire. This wealth is mine, and that shall also be mine”

17:13 And a sacrifice done against the holy law, without faith, and sacred words, and the gifts of food, and the due offering, is a sacrifice of darkness.

18:13 Know now from me, Arjuna, the five causes of all actions as given in the Sankhya wisdom, wherein is found the end of all works.

Chapter 13 in total

Krishna

1 This body, Arjuna, is called the field. He who knows this is called the knower of the field.

2 Know that I am the knower in all the fields of my creation; and that the wisdom which sees the field and the knower of the field is true wisdom.

3 Hear from me briefly what the field is and how it is, what its changes are and whence each one comes; who is the knower and what is his power.

4 This has been sung by seers of the Vedas in many musical measures of verse; and in great words about Brahman, words of faith and full of truth.

5 The five elements, the thought of “I”, consciousness, sub-consciousness, the five powers of feeling, and the five of action, the one mind over them, the five fields of sense perception;

6 Desire, aversion, pleasure, pain, the power of mental unification, intelligence, and courage: this is the field and its modifications.

7 Humbleness, sincerity, harmlessness, forgiveness, uprightness, devotion to the spiritual master, purity, steadiness, self-harmony;

8 Freedom from the lust of the senses, absence of the thought of “I”, perception of the sorrows of birth, death, old age, disease and suffering.

9 Freedom from the chains of attachments, even from a selfish attachment to one´s children, wife, or home; an ever-present eveness of mind in pleasant or unpleasant events;

10 A single oneness of pure love, of never-straying love for me; retiring to solitary places, and avoiding the noisy multitudes:

11 A constant yearning to know the Inner Spirit, and a vision of Truth which gives liberation: this is true wisdom leading to vision. All against this is ignorance.

12 Now I shall tell the of the End of wisdom. When a man knows this he goes beyond death. It is Brahman, beginingless, supreme: beyond what is and beyond what is not.

13 His hands and feet are everywhere, he has heads and mouths everywhere: he sees all, he hears all. He is in all, and he is.

14 the Light of consciousness comes to him through infinite powers of perception, and yet he is above all these powers. He is beyond all, and yet he supports all. His beyond the world of matter, and yet he has joy in this world.

15 He is invisible: he cannot be seen. He is far and he is near, he moves and he moves not, he is within all and he is outside all.

16 He is ONE in all, but it seems as if he were many. He supports all beings: from him comes destruction, and from him comes creation.

17 He is the Light of all lights which shines beyond all darkness. It is vision, the end of vision, to be reached by vision, dwelling in the heart of all.

18 I have told thee briefly what is the field, what is wisdom, and what is the End of man´s vision. When a man knows this he enters into my Being.

19 Know that Prakriti, Nature, and Purusha, Spirit are both without beginning, and that temporal changes and Gunas conditions, come all from nature.

20 Nature is the source of all material things: the maker, the means of making, and the thing made. Spirit is the source of all consciousness which feels pleasure and feels pain.

21 The spirit of man when in nature feels the ever-changing conditions of nature. When he binds himself to things ever-changing, a good or evil fate whirls him round through life-in-death.

22 But the Spirit Supreme in man is beyond fate. He watches, gives blessing, bears all, feels all. He is called the Lord Supreme and the Supreme Soul.

23 He who knows in truth this Spirit and knows nature with its changing conditions, wherever this man may be he is no more whirled round by fate.

24 Some by the Yoga of meditation, and by the grace of the Spirit, see the Spirit in themselves; some by the Yoga of the vision of Truth; and others by the Yoga of work.

25 And yet there are others who do not know, but they hear from others and adore. They also cross beyond death, because of their devotion to words of Truth.

26 Whatever is born, Arjuna, whether it moves of it moves not, know that it comes from the union of the field and the knower of the field.

27 He who sees that the Lord of all is ever the same in all that is, immortal in the field of mortality – he sees the truth.

28 And when a man sees that the God in himself is the same God in all that is, he hurts not himself by hurting others: then he goes indeed to the highest Path.

29 He who sees that all work, everywhere, is only the work of nature; and that the Spirit watches this work – he sees the truth.

30 When a man sees that the infinity of various beings is abiding in the ONE, and is an evolution from the ONE, then he becomes one with Brahman.

31 Beginningless and free from changing conditions, imperishable is the Spirit Supreme. Though he is in the body, not his is the work of the body, and he is pure from the imperfection of all work.

32 Just as the omnipresent ether is pure because intangible, so the Spirit dwelling in matter is pure from the touch of matter.

33 And even as one sun gives light to all things in this world, so the Lord of the field gives light to all his field.

34 Those who with the eye of inner vision see the distinction between the field and the know of the field, and see the liberation of spirit from matter, they go into the supreme.