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Section: BHAGAVAD GITA BOOK XII, VOLUME XII

Content: Selfless In Action Authored by THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

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Content: THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism (“SPH”) Nithyananda Paramashivam, is recognized as the 1008th living manifestation of Paramashiva, Paramavatar of Paramaśiva as per Sanatana Hindu Dharma (“Hinduism”) and by His predecessors of enlightened masters and adepts. The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism (“SPH”) Nithyananda Paramashivam, is reviving Hinduism as the 1008th Acharya Mahamandaleshwar (the head for all spiritual leaders) of Atal Akhada (ancient apex body of Hinduism).

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Content: THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM The SPH was coronated as Mahamandaleshwar (Supreme Spiritual Head) of Maha Nirvani Akhada (largest apex monastic order) and the youngest Mahamandaleshwar, ordained as the 233rd Guru Mahasannidhanam (Pontiff) of Thondai Mandala Aadheenam, ordained as the 293rd Guru Mahasannidhanam (Pontiff) of Shyamalapeeta Sarvajnapeetam, ordained as the 23rd Guru Mahasannidhanam of Dharmamukthi Swargapuram Aadheenam, and coronated as the 203rd Emperor of Suryavamsa Surangi The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam is the reigning spiritual emperor of 20 ancient traditional Hindu kingdoms and the reviver of the most ancient, most peaceful, still-living and long-lasting demonstrable system that shows the possibility of peaceful co-existence amongst people.

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Section: Hinduism

Content: Hinduism is the most ancient, most peaceful, still-living and long-lasting demonstrable system that shows the possibility of peaceful co-existence amongst people despite fundamental differences in their preferences and realities. Over the last 50 years, the effects of meditation and its significant impact on stress, crime rates, violence, political decision making and even war in local and global consciousness is well established. Hinduism was once practiced freely in over 56 nations across the continent from Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Burma, Sri Lanka, all the way to Singapore, Malaysia, and Cambodia and Indonesia, and in 200 states, 1700 samasthanas (provinces) and 10,000 sampradayas (traditions).

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Content: The KAILASA with de facto spiritual embassies operating across over 100 countries and having presence across the globe as the largest spiritual knowledge source on Hinduism is spiritually governed with the life positive, all-inclusive, universal policies sourced from Hinduism revived by The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam. Having enriched and enreached more than one billion individuals over the past 27 years the KAILASA raises the voice to protect Hindus, defend Hindus and preserve the Hindu narrative for the world.

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Section: INTRODUCTION TO BHAGAVAD GITA: SONG OF GOD

Content: Srīmad Bhagavad Gītā is the ultimate sacred scripture of yoga, Yogaśastra and the pristine glory of the Vedic culture, the eternal living tradition called sanātana-dharma. It belongs to the whole Universe for it is delivered to the Universe by the source and embodiment of Universe. We salute and bow down to Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who spoke the Bhagavad Gītā out of His infinite love and compassion for all beings.

Content: Whenever unrighteousness, adharma becomes predominant and dharma, righteous living declines and the Yoga of Enlightenment is lost, Parabrahma Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Consciousness appears again and again to revive this sacred yoga, to protect and to enrich the devoted beings; and destroys adharma to re-establish the pure and everlasting dharma.

Content: Gītā is also called Brahmavidyā—the Knowledge of Brahman, the supreme absolute truth; it is Jīvan Mukti Vijñāna—the Science of Living Enlightenment.

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Content: As with all scriptures, it is the knowledge and experience that is transmitted verbally as Śrī Krṣṇārjuna Samvād, an intimate dialogue between Master of the world, Jagadguru Lord Śrī Krṣṇa and His dear devotee and disciple, Arjuna. It is called śruti in Samskrit, meaning something that is heard.

Content: Gītā, as Bhagavad Gītā is generally called, translates literally from Samskrit as ‘Sacred Song of God’. Unlike the Vedas and Upaniṣads, which are stand alone expressions of Truth, the Gītā is written into the greatest Hindu epic, the Mahābhārat, called a purāṇa, an ancient historical happening. It is part of the recorded history of the greatest tradition, the paramount civilization in all its Divine grandeur and its human complexity, so to speak.

Content: No other epic or part of an epic has the special status and space of the Gītā. No other book but the Gītā gives a scientific, systematic, applied science of living joyfully in completion, while empowering the human action-field with authenticity to evolve into a responsible Divine play-field.

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Content: Called the royal supreme knowledge and the royal secret of secrets—rājavidyā rājaguhyam (9.2), this one sacred book conveys the essence of knowledge contained in all written and oral vedic truths to enrich the simplest to complex humans at all planes. It holds within itself the direct key to every possible human enquiry, the solution to every dilemma of emotions, and the sublime righteous path and goal of every quest of rising or falling civilizations for every age, time or geography. As a consequence of the presence of the Gītā, the Mahābhārat epic itself is considered a sacred Hindu scripture.

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Content: Gītā arose from the super consciousness of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme God, the complete Incarnation Puṛṇāvatār, and is therefore considered Gītāśastra—the essential scripture, knowing which, one is liberated from all incompletions, yaj jñātvā mokṣyase asubhāt (9.1) and Gītopanisad—the essence of all Upaniṣads, the purest and highest knowledge to be ever known and cognized because it gives the direct experience of the Self—pavitram idam uttamam pratyakṣāvagam dharma (9.2).

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Content: Gītā is the ultimate practical teaching on the inner science of spirituality that expresses as outer victory and success in life now and after. It is not, as some scholars incorrectly claim, a promotion of violence. It is about the impermanence of the mind and body, and the need to go beyond the mind, ego and logic. The answers of the Divine, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, transcend time and space. Śrī Kṛṣṇa's message is everlasting and joyfully performed, and is as valid today as it was on that fateful battlefield over five thousand years ago. The science of Gītā is the eternal technique of living in completion; the song of Gītā is the eternal life-enriching nectar, having no expiry date, time or age!

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Section: WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE MAHABHARATA?

Content: Mahābhārat, literally meaning the great Bhārata, is a grand narration about the nation and civilization, which is now known as India. It was then a nation ruled by king Bhārata and his descendants. Look into your life! Your whole life is nothing but the Mahābhārat War. The Mahābharāt should be read again and again to understand the intricacies of life, the complications of life, and the ability to handle life. The true story of this perfectly recorded epic is about two warring clans, Kauravas and Pāṇḍavas, closely related to one another. Dhṛtarāṣṭra, the blind king of Hastināpur and father of the 100 Kaurava brothers was the brother of Pāṇḍu, whose children were the five Pāṇḍava princes. It is a tale of strife between cousins and ultimately between dhārmic and adhārmic, righteous and unrighteous civilizations.

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Section: WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE MAHABHARATA?

Content: Since Dhṛtarāṣṭra was blind, Pāṇḍu was made the king of Hastināpura. Pāṇḍu was cursed by a sage that he would die if he ever entered into a physical relationship with his wives. He therefore had no children. Vyāsa says that all the five Pāṇḍava children were born to their mothers Kuntī and Mādrī through the blessing of divine beings. Pāṇḍu handed over the kingdom and his children to his blind brother.

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Section: WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE MAHABHARATA?

Content: Kuntī, who is the embodiment of tapas, spiritual penance, had received a boon when she was still a young unmarried adolescent, that she could summon any divine power at will to father a child. Before she married, she tested her boon. The Sun god, Sūrya appeared before her. Karṇa was born to her as a result. In fear of social reprisals, she cast the newborn away in a river. Yudhiṣṭra, Bhīma and Arjuna were born to Kuntī after her marriage by invocation of her powers, and the twins Nakula and Sahadeva were born to Mādri, the second wife of Pāṇḍu.

Section: WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE MAHABHARATA?

Content: Yudhiṣṭra was born to Kuntī as a result of her being blessed by Yama, the god of death, dharma and justice, Bhīma by Vāyu, the god of wind, and Arjuna by Indra, god of all the divine beings. Nakula and Sahadeva, the youngest Pāṇḍava twins, were born to Mādri, through the Divine Aśvini twins.

Content: Dhṛtarāṣṭra had a hundred sons through his wife Gāndhārī. The eldest of these Kaurava princes was Duryodhana. Duryodhana felt no love for his five Pāṇḍava cousins. He made many unsuccessful attempts, along with his brother Duśśāsana, to kill the Pāṇḍava brothers. Kuntī’s eldest son Karṇa, whom she had cast away at birth, was found and brought up by a chariot driver in the palace, and by a strange twist of fate, joined hands with Duryodhana.

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Section: WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE MAHABHARATA?

Content: Dhṛtarāṣṭra gave Yudhiṣṭra one half of the Kuru kingdom on his coming of age, since the Pāṇḍava prince was the rightful heir to the throne that his father Pāṇḍu had vacated.

Content: Yudhiṣṭra ruled from his new capital Indraprastha, along with his brothers Bhīma, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva.

Content: Arjuna won the hand of princess Draupadī, daughter of the king of Pāñcāla, in a svayaṃvara, a marital contest in which princes fought for the hand of a fair damsel.

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Content: In fulfillment of their mother Kuntī’s desire that the brothers share everything equally, Draupadī became the wife of all five Pāṇḍava brothers. Duryodhana persuaded Yudhiṣṭra to join a gambling session, where his cunning uncle Śakunī defeated the Pāṇḍava king. Yudhiṣṭra lost all that he owned—his kingdom, his brothers, his wife and himself, to Duryodhana. Duśśāsana shamed Draupadī in public by trying to disrobe her. The Pāṇḍava brothers and Draupadī were forced to go into exile for fourteen years, with the condition that in the last year they should live incognito or ajyāata vāsa.

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Section: At the end of the fourteen years, the Pāṇḍava brothers tried to reclaim their kingdom. In this effort they were helped by Śrī Krṣṇa, the king of the Yādava clan, who is the eighth divine incarnation of Bhagavān Viṣṇu.

Content: At the end of the fourteen years, the Pāṇḍava brothers tried to reclaim their kingdom. In this effort they were helped by Śrī Krṣṇa, the king of the Yādava clan, who is the eighth divine incarnation of Bhagavān Viṣṇu.

Section: However, Duryodhana refused to yield even a needlepoint of land, and as a result, the Great War, the War of Mahābhārat ensued. In this war, various rulers of the entire nation that is modern India aligned with one or the other of these two clans, the Kauravas or the Pāṇḍavas.

Content: However, Duryodhana refused to yield even a needlepoint of land, and as a result, the Great War, the War of Mahābhārat ensued. In this war, various rulers of the entire nation that is modern India aligned with one or the other of these two clans, the Kauravas or the Pāṇḍavas.

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Section: Krṣṇa offered to join with either of the two clans.

Content: Krṣṇa offered to join with either of the two clans. He says, 'One of you may have Me unarmed. I will not take any part in the battle. The other may have my entire Yādava army.' When the offer was first made to Duryodhana, he predictably chose the large and well-armed Yādava army, Nārāyaṇī Senā, in preference to the unarmed Krṣṇa. Arjuna joyfully and gratefully chose his dearest friend, his life mentor and his Guru, Krṣṇa, Nārāyaṇa, to be his unarmed charioteer!

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Section: THE SIGNiFiCANCE OF MAHABHARAT

Content: This whole history is such a beautiful happening. Mahābhārat is actually your life! Every character in the Mahābhārat teaches so much! We don’t need to go anywhere for our life success or fulfillment or for anything else that we may desire. We don’t need to study any other book to learn the human psychology or the science of living and leaving. Whether we seek righteous living—dharma; or we want to learn business or administration, economy or abundance—artha; or we want to create the best rich lifestyle—kāma; or we want to be a leader and want the enriching life of being enlightened—mokṣa, for all these purposes, we don’t need anything other than the Mahābharāt!

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Section: Study each character. We will not find any more characters in our life than the characters described in the Mahābharāt!

Content: Study each character. We will not find any more characters in our life than the characters described in the Mahābharāt! Any character we see in our life is mapped to Mahābharāt’s one character. They are either half or full representation of some character. To know how to handle them and even handle yourself, just see how Śrī Kṛṣṇa handles them and handle them the same way. The Mahābharāt war is a representation of life as it was lived in that age. Vyāsa, its author is an unbiased historian who recorded the whole history as it happened without trying to apply any makeup. People ask whether the Mahābharāt war happened at all!

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Content: THE SIGNiFiCANCE OF MAHABHARAT

Section: THE SiGNiFiCANCE OF MAHABHARAT

Content: If the Mahābharāt was a story and not history, Vyāsa should receive multiple Pulitzer prizes for his highly creative work! The Mahābharāt is the longest literary work in the whole world with hundred thousand Saṃskṛit verses—the longest poem ever written with such delicate harmony of unmatched poetic perfection. It is larger than the Greek epics. Vyāsa had no computer, no tape recorder with speech-to-text capabilities. He dictated and Bhagavān Ganeṣa wrote it down!

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Section: CHARACTER SKETCH

Content: Yudhiṣṭra is embodiment of Integrity—the power of words, vāk śakti.

Content: Bhīma is embodiment of Authenticity—the power of thoughts, mano śakti.

Content: Arjuna is embodiment of Responsibility—the power of feeling, prema śakti.

Content: Sahadeva is embodiment of Enriching—the power of living, ātma śakti.

Content: Nakula is embodiment of causing reality for others.

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Section: Śakuni

Content: Śakuni, the maternal uncle of Duryodhana embodies the pattern of self-hatred, which is cunningness personified.

Section: Droṇa

Content: Droṇa represents all the best knowledge one imbibes and the teachers one encounters, who guide us but are unable to take us through to the ultimate flowering of enlightenment. It is difficult to give them up since one feels grateful to them. This is where the Enlightened Master, the incarnation steps in and guides us.

Section: Duryodhana

Content: Duryodhana, represents one’s ego or root-pattern, the most difficult to conquer as it leads one to self-destruction. One needs the full help of the Master here. It is subtle work and even the Master’s help may not be obvious, since at this point, sometimes the ego makes us deny and disconnect from the Master as well.

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Content: Karṇa is the repository of all good deeds and it is his good deeds that stand in the way of his own Enlightenment. Śrī Krṣṇa has to take the load of Karṇa's punya, his meritorious deeds, before he could be liberated. The Enlightened Master guides one to drop one's attachment to good deeds arising out of what are perceived to be charitable and compassionate intentions. He also shows us that the quest for and the experience of enlightenment is the ultimate act of compassion that one can offer to the world.

Content: Bhagavan Śri Krṣṇa, the 8th most powerful purnāvatār of Maha Viṣṇu, is the embodiment of pure celebration, boundless love, compassion, and completion. Bhagavan Śri Krṣṇa is the only incarnation demonstrating and expressing Śarva Mangalatva all the auspicious qualities and all dimensions of an avatar during His physical happening. The līlā Bhagavan Śri Krṣṇa is one of sheer innocence and simplicity, in a peace-loving, diplomatic, conflict-free way.

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Content: Till now everyone blames Bhagavan Sri Krishna for this Kurukshetra war but that's the greatest sacrifice Bhagavan Sri Krishna did to save the planet Earth. If Kurukshetra was not conducted at that time under the controlled conditions and direct supervision of Bhagavan Sri Krishna, planet Earth would not have survived more than three years.

Content: The wide spread availability of the Astra shastras without Shastra, without the knowledge and vision, was posing a huge threat to the whole of humanity and planet Earth, and for life itself. The greatest achievement of Bhagavan Sri Krishna is destroying all the weapons in one controlled condition and saving planet earth, eliminating the nuclear weapons and the knowledge of these nuclear weapons to save humanity from total annihilation.

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Content: Bhagavad Gītā appears in the heart of Mahābhārat in Bhīṣma Parva, the sixth chapter of its eighteen chapters. Veda Vyāsa, the narrator, in glorifying the Gītā sings, 'the one who drinks the water of Ganges (the sacred river for Hindus) attains liberation, what to speak of the one who drinks the nectar of Gītā?'

Content: Gītā is the essential nectar of the Mahābhārat, bhāratamṛta sarvasvam as it is directly spoken by Nārāyaṇa, Bhagavān kṛṣṇa Himself.'

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Content: The armies assembled in the vast field of Kurukṣetra, now in the state of Haryana in modern day India. All the kings and princes were related to one another, and were often on opposite sides. Facing the Kaurava army and his friends, relatives and teachers, Arjuna was overcome by remorse and guilt, and wanted to walk away from the battle out of total powerlessness unbecoming an invincible warrior among warriors.

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Section: Śrī Kṛṣṇa's dialogue with Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukṣetra out of His utmost concern and love for him and humanity is the content of Bhagavad Gītā. Of its seven hundred and forty-five (745) verses, Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa sings the Gītā in six hundred and twenty (620) verses responding to Arjuna's fifty-seven (57) enquiries.

Content: Śrī Kṛṣṇa's dialogue with Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukṣetra out of His utmost concern and love for him and humanity is the content of Bhagavad Gītā. Of its seven hundred and forty-five (745) verses, Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa sings the Gītā in six hundred and twenty (620) verses responding to Arjuna's fifty-seven (57) enquiries.

Section: Śrī Kṛṣṇa persuades Arjuna to give-up his powerlessness unfiting an Ārya—the spiritually evolved one who understands human life and urges him to raise himself again as Parantapa—the conqueror of enemy, and take up arms and vanquish his enemies. They are already dead,' says Śrī Kṛṣṇa, 'All those who are facing you have been already killed by Me. Go ahead and do what you have to do. That is your responsibility. Do not worry about the outcome. Leave that to Me.'

Content: Śrī Kṛṣṇa persuades Arjuna to give-up his powerlessness unfiting an Ārya—the spiritually evolved one who understands human life and urges him to raise himself again as Parantapa—the conqueror of enemy, and take up arms and vanquish his enemies. They are already dead,' says Śrī Kṛṣṇa, 'All those who are facing you have been already killed by Me. Go ahead and do what you have to do. That is your responsibility. Do not worry about the outcome. Leave that to Me.'

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Section: १२.१६

Content: अनपेक्ष: शुचिर्दक्ष उदासीनो गतव्यथ:। सर्वारम्भपरित्यागी यो मद्भक्त: स मे प्रिय: ॥ १२=१६ ॥

Content: anapekṣaḥ śucirdakṣaḥ udāsīno gatavyathāḥ | sarvārambhaparityāgī yo madbhaktaḥ sa me priyaḥ

Content: POWERFUL COGNITION

Content: Become free from wants, be selfless and you shall be untroubled, liberated and you will reach Krishna.

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Section: INTRODUCTION

Content: He who is free from wants, who is pure and skilled, unconcerned, untroubled, who is selfless in whatever he does, he who is devoted to Me, he is dear to Me. Kṛṣṇa now moves into higher gear. Once you let go of joy, anxiety and anger, once you transcend these emotions, you reach a state of calmness that takes you close to Him.

Section: INTRODUCTION

Content: Now, He moves from ‘nissangatvam’ to ‘nirmohatvam,’ from emotional non- attachment to non-attachment to desires. We need to understand the difference between ‘wants’ and ‘needs’. Needs are necessary for us to survive on planet Earth, like the basic needs of food, shelter, etc. The great Jain master Māhāvira says, ‘The moment you are born on this planet, the Universe sends everything with you that you need.’ We just need to trust the Universe and we shall get what we need to live. We shall not want anything else. However, we end up seeking more.

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Section: Basic needs are no longer enough. Everything we have is a match for what others have. It is a constant cycle of 'What next? What next?' Even before we start enjoying what we have got, we make a plan to get more. There is no joy in having, the joy is in chasing. There is no end point to this chase. When you become the richest in your family, you need to become the richest on the street and then the richest in the town, then the richest in the country and then the richest in the world.

Content: Basic needs are no longer enough. Everything we have is a match for what others have. It is a constant cycle of 'What next? What next?' Even before we start enjoying what we have got, we make a plan to get more. There is no joy in having, the joy is in chasing. There is no end point to this chase. When you become the richest in your family, you need to become the richest on the street and then the richest in the town, then the richest in the country and then the richest in the world.

Section: There is no end. Wants are endless. Wants are suffering. Wants are born out of comparison with others. Needs, our basic needs, carry the energy within them for fulfillment. Wants only carry the seeds of our own suffering.

Content: There is no end. Wants are endless. Wants are suffering. Wants are born out of comparison with others. Needs, our basic needs, carry the energy within them for fulfillment. Wants only carry the seeds of our own suffering.

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Section: In one of the sessions, people are asked to make a list of their desires, their needs and wants.

Content: In one of the sessions, people are asked to make a list of their desires, their needs and wants. They fill pages with it. They are asked to review the list many times. Then they do a meditation process. At the end of the meditation, they are asked to recollect from memory their list of desires. What they can recollect is usually a fraction of what they have written. It is as if they started with a large tree full of leaves, their desires, and during this meditation the tree shed almost all its leaves, as if the leaves were dry and dead. What it retained glowed like golden leaves. Whatever is left in their memories, those desires glow like gold. They are the ones that carry the energy for their fulfillment! These desires are the true desires that they carry.

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Section: If the process is done with awareness, these desires are always selfless desires.

Content: If the process is done with awareness, these desires are always selfless desires. They may enrich the individual, no doubt, but they always enrich humanity. Only such selfless desires carry the energy of the Universe with them for fulfillment. When our desires are our own true desires, when they reflect our real needs, when they express themselves in our inner energy, we don’t feel any desperation about trying to achieve them. The realization comes that, as a matter of the natural course of events, these desires will be fulfilled. We are not driven and we are not troubled. We accept that these will happen. Therefore, Kṛṣṇa counsels Arjuna, ‘Become free from wants, be selfless and you shall be untroubled, liberated and you will reach Me.’

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Section: GOALS:

Content: Impress upon the students that the Universe is programmed to fulfil all our needs. While our wants are endless and driven by comparison with others and bring us suffering.

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Section: ASSESSMENTS

Content: What is nissangatvam or emotional non-attachment? What is nirmohatvam, or non-attachment to desires? What is the difference between 'wants' and 'needs'? What are our true desires? Are they always selfless?

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Content: ART OF THE DAY

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Section: ART OF THE DAY: T-SHIRT PAINT

Content: MATERIALS NEEDED 1. Fabric Paint 2. Brush 3. A clothing item eg. T-shirt, Stoles, Saris etc. PROCEDURE Select a part of the dress that you wish to paint on. Now with a pencil draw any spiritual image or symbol and paint it. An example is shown below to inspire you. PROCEDURE Truth begins where logic ends.

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Content: ACTIVITY OF THE DAY

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Section: ACTIVITY OF THE DAY: PROCEDURE:

Content: Make a list of all your desires, your needs and wants and write them down in your notebook or on a sheet of paper. Review your list many times . Next, your class coordinator will guide us through a group meditation process for 10 minutes. Relax and settle into yourself in restful awareness.

Content: After the meditation, please recollect from your memory your list of desires and rewrite them on a fresh sheet or page in your notebook. You will have more clarity about your desires after the meditation. Your new list is usually a fraction the earlier list. If the meditation process is done with awareness, these desires will always be selfless desires.

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Section: ACTIVITY OF THE DAY:

Content: ACTIVITY OF THE DAY: INFERENCE: Our selfless desires carry the energy of the Universe with them for fulfillment. we don't feel any desperation about trying to achieve them. The realization comes that, as a matter of the natural course of events, these desires will be fulfilled.

Content: WORKSHOP OF THE DAY

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Section: WORKSHOP OF THE DAY:

Content: WORKSHOP OF THE DAY: VAAKYARTHA SADHAS Topic of discussion is “Wants are endless” Conclusion: “Needs” carry the energy within them for fulfillment. “Wants” carry the seeds of our suffering. A person who is free of wants is dear to Krishna.

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