Welcome, everyone. Welcome in person and welcome on the webinar. I know that in this moment in this moment right now, we are going to plant new seeds and embark upon a journey and meet some characters who live inside us. And in this moment, not in the past moment, not in the future that has yet to come. We shall make a decision between within ourselves as to which character and whose journey do we want to follow? And what shall happen on this journey.

So are you excited Historians have their job cut out. They like to find timelines for stuff that has happened to humanity or rather what humanity has done to itself. So the historians are very kind and they keep up with our amazing acts of stupidity as well as acts of enlightenment and greatness and courage. However, I want to tell you, that the bhagwad Gita is probably timeless and we shall leave it that way. And As a result, the bhagwad Gita is relevant to us in this moment now. And the Bhagavad Gita, a great teaching from India, from the great Vedic sages, tells us in this moment today, that each one of us sitting here is split.

We are split between that aspect of ourself, which leaves them dwells and transacts in this empirical reality, and seems to then become of that empirical reality, and then belong to it, and then probably and ultimately a subject to that empirical reality, a slave even in bondage to that empirical reality, what do you agree? And then there is an aspect of ourselves which is forever free which is limitless, which cannot be denied, because it keeps exerting itself. It keeps questioning this empirical bondage within us. Right within you, you question Do I deserve to be so confused? Do I deserve to be so oppressed? Do I deserve to be shamed?

What shall be my freedom will hate set me free or unconditional love is pride the right way to go or humbleness. But nowhere and definitely not in a sustainable manner. Do I find that really Why is it so? Because there is a split. And bhagwad Gita is that beautiful, celestial, divine song of the Lord that shall heal this split. So in this journey we meet two characters.

And both these characters are Guess what, in common parlance, equally stuck. One is stuck to tremendous unexamined hatred, but the other is equally stuck to unexamined affection. One is stuck to pride and vanity, and the other stuck to the need to feel humble. And even if I didn't, but unexamined Equally stuck. One is stuck to one thing to do, to act to take action to be decisive and the other is stuck to the perennial confusion. To be or not to be, to do or not to do is paralyzed.

One is stuck to their image, their desire to somehow hold on to a throne, whether it rightfully belongs to them or not. The other is stuck to holding on to the entire world and letting go of a throne, even though it was for theirs to hold on to keep protect and preserve. Both are stuck. Both are stuck These two stuck characters we are going to explore today because they come by interesting names. The one who is stuck into hatred cunningness manipulation, power grams, and a grabbing tendency to women to power to last to money to material things is known as do to dinner. And the one who is stuck to family and elders and traditions and affection and the burden of carrying this whole world unto his own shoulders is Arjuna.

Naturally we will all vote for Arjuna I mean, yeah. After all, we fancy ourselves to be noble artists, spiritual seekers. That's a good choice. Actually. Both these characters are in serious need of health. And this is a very unique situation because most religions tell us, it's enough to be good.

If you're noble, check your religious, if you're pious, you're good. If you take care of your family, you are good. If you worry about the world, you are good, but only bhagwad Gita says if all of that is coming from an unexamined space, if all of that is happening from an unconscious place, then my dear Arjuna, you are stuck. Gotcha. So let's take off those caps of I am holier than thou. Let us begin from the beginning.

Let us own these two characters who dwells within us in our own being. Have you tell me experience for no reason. anger and hatred and envy as somebody else's rise and glory, yes or no, nobody shall look at you. Yes. And have you felt fear, paralysis, confusion, and blame and guilt, just because you had to stand up for yourself and the whole world was telling you, you should stand up for yourself. God came and told you you should stand up for yourself, but you couldn't, because you were feeling this unnecessary affection for the one who abused?

Yes. This is a human dilemma. This is the human dilemma. And there was this one. One great teaching the one and only known as the bhagwad Gita that begins Thus, it opens like this. It opens to us To not only recognize the Arjuna within us, the hero within us, who shall ultimately move along and find a mentor and a guide and a teacher, but also to accept the daurio the inner within us.

And when this split is healed, we shall find much amazing potential that was awaiting our discovery. So, the bhagwad Gita is a self discovery process. And we do have to acquaint ourselves with these characters without shame or guilt. And then find a way to find another self within us. The God's self within us, the transcendent self within us, the highest Self within us. So, therefore, the bhagwad Gita is a great poem of 700 verses.

It is sometimes explained as a great philosophy. Sometimes it is explained as it he has a history, glimpses of historical characters. Sometimes it is extolled or dismissed as mythology. I shall tell you what I think Bhagavad Gita is dear friends to my life. It's a rude awakening cause to me, wake up show now. Because when I was born, and this is confession time, I think the daurio the novel's more active and dancing, a dance of darkness and blindness within me more than even the Arjuna but it was at the feet of my teacher that I could laugh at both and say hey, come down Now both of you.

And instead of staying blind in our attachments to our positions, let me at least open my eyes. And it was a rude wake up call because who wants to wake up please tell me it is fun to be asleep asleep in our positions, our judgments, our biases, but these very positions, judgments and biases Dear students, keep us locked in our suffering. We don't need many people we can self destroy ourselves. So therefore let us not worry about whether this awakening call shall fall upon you with a rude jolt. Or she let come to you with beautiful fragrance and the Zen Bell bells and you know some violence playing to make your May you have the better version of it, let me bless that to you. But wake up your shell.

Because to remain asleep and to and to continue to levy leading a life from a default space of presumptions and assumptions is pretty dangerous. Not only for ourselves because we live in self created health, subjective health, but for this planet and the world and of course others. So to wake up to a greater spiritual reality and potential is urgent. And what better way can this urgency be defined than to give the background of a battlefield? And do you know what that other dialogue happens between our Hero Arjuna and his mentor, his guide, his friend, his guru Krishna, in almost like suspended animation time has stopped. And probably for you too, time has to stop.

You have to let go of constantly churning on those concerns that you had been churning upon. And a break has to happen between who you were in terms of your thinking operators and who you shall become. This is a time cleaved in the middle of the past and the future. It is right here in this momentous present. And so in a momentous present which is timeless that can be given historical dates. Why should we?

We can attend to that some other time? Why not in this present moment, let us suspend everything else to understand and appreciate a few gems from Bhagavad Gita. Such as the power of Bhagavad Gita that no matter what I prepare to teach you, I teach you something else. Such as the power of Bhagavad Gita, when I think I'm going to cry and break down I become stronger, and a taller version of myself, such as the power of Bhagavad Gita, when I think that this is how I have to structure things are spontaneous, unstructured, formless, exhausts, inexhaustible, indivisible power, then seems to guide me to something else. So I can tell you that I can vouch for the power of the bhagwad Gita. And I personally as a human being, who was born with the fractured split, that affects all of humanity can tell you that the time comes when the split starts healing, just simply by hearing of this knowledge and a whole different being then lives dwells and plays cannot or whichever locard dimension you plan to play in, let me know Are you excited?

Jam mom some beings are unteachable cannot be taught. Bhagavad Gita clarifies that so you might realize after this class that you are unteachable, or you might figure out your teachable, probably you are teachable, because you have come you have voluntarily come to listen to our discourse. So we have these two cousins Arjuna the hero and Yoda now the villain and both of them are Prince and they are engaged in a battle for a throne. The Throne of hasta, Nupur and how amazing that the evil villainous do Yoda had such confidence in his thinking that From the very beginning he plotted and schemed, so much so that he built a house of vaccine inflammable material, a beautiful house, and he invited our hero Arjuna and his four other brothers together called Pandavas. The five panels, sons of Pando to come and be there in that house. You know what he planned to do?

He planned to put a matchstick to that house. He wanted to kill his brothers, his cousins, he had come to that level, because he didn't want any opposition anyone claiming the throne, which was rightfully belonging to Arjuna as a brother, he would have ascended the throne to the thrush side belong to the five brothers and the air as a brother already mentioned last time about various episodes of Four dice games, in which unfairly with unfairly unfair means and through very clever cheating. Not only was the wife the queen of the five quarter was insulted, publicly, almost sexually molested publicly, almost, but for the intervention of divine for such as Krishna, but they were also banned, banished to live in exile for 12 years. Well 12 plus 113 years and then when they came back to us for their throne even then the jealous envious lusty desirous the reorder now was full of himself to be able to utter disdain for no and in spite of all of this our good hearted valued full of values in India with a better sense carry person he was very well value full of values.

Noble hearted, God fearing hero Arjuna does not want to kill them in war. Why? Why Has that happened to you? Where you had to stand up and take a stand for what is right and you couldn't because some unclear strands or threads of attachment glued you to that person. So, you became cloudy you could need a love that person now reject that person. So they were both stuck and that stuckness has a name in Sanskrit, it is called raga.

You know music is the, the music also in Indian music we say raga raga is in English called what is called in English from music, melodies melody Sanji, that melody, Melody. But you know how somebody sings melody and it comes through your years into your heart, right? And then even when that singing stops, when you walk out of that room, do you see you're also still singing that melody? Then when you sleep, that melody remains within you, right. So raga is a Sanskrit word, it comes from the root word range which means color. So what happened was when you listen to that raga it color your consciousness.

So if in the classical Indian music is amazing, the divine is unparalleled. So when they sing the raga to, to awaken your senses, all your senses of Akin, when they sing the raga how to make you sleep you fall asleep Why? Because that raga has entered your being and taken over and you have actually warranty opened all your doors and windows I said, Take me. But do you know that something like that is happening also in our relationships? And for no reason? For no reason, my dear friends and still We are saying to the ones we love or we are things that we want.

We are saying here, I shall open all my doors and windows, take me over, allowed me, bound me. I cannot now even think whether I need you or I don't need you. I don't even have the freedom to figure out if you are serving me or this relationship is not serving me, because I am for some reason, in a very blind way in a very unexamined way caught and caught. So it is not just a psychological preference to have a throne or have a relative in my life, it has become a need. It has become a dependency and that is known as raga So the Rio de nada villainous cousin, his raga was for even that part of the kingdom calling the pastor that had been given to Arjuna and Arjuna would have lived in peace. He said, Okay, I don't want to entire kingdom.

I'll be happy even with this smaller part of the kingdom call in the pasta. I want that too. I wanted if I don't have it, I shall not live in peace. It came to this level that our hero said, Okay, give me five villages. I shall make peace with it. But raga for even those five villages for so much.

He was willing to go to war and put the whole planet through such a huge war that is unthought of. And our Arjuna has Raghava has that Do I have a car And his 99 other brothers who treat me in such a way, and yet I cannot kill him. I cannot go to war with him. Because after all, we have grown up together. After all, what I see in the opposite army, my own grandfather, my own uncles, my own other brothers, my own relatives. So killing this one villain I could have probably, but I could possibly not go to war, because in the process, I might lose more than I might gain.

And with all these kinds of defilements and confusions, ultimately, he too was gripped over by Raka Are you with me? And after raga heartaches over, we are not clear thinking people, Avi and after that what began was shoka are suffering and grow the hunger Why? Me, why should I lose something self pity and righteous anger, which ultimately led to the full blown mental symptom called Maha, or Maha, with Maha can be described as delusion, but I shall like to call it the fools anger, the fools affection, the fools loyalty, the fools love, and even the fools Dharma, where we think we're doing the right thing, but it's only the fools version of the right thing. hasn't happened to us, when we were so caught up in the love or hatred of something, that it triggered all kinds of emotions within us, such as suffering, pity, self pity and anger.

And then ultimately, it led to a very confused relationship with that object. And then we can where we should not go to war. Such as endogenous case, he went to war. And in our Jeunesse case where he should have stood up for himself. He did not stand up for himself. So every time when we have abused when we should not have, there's no reason for abuse, when we abused we ever do that now, and when we took abuse, we will Archer sit with that.

But Krishna taught us neither give abuse nor take abuse. There is another way. So there is another character who is about to enter our story here it's getting very juicy. Before he comes in, let's explore further you know, these two characters are almost like propensity is within us. These are like traits within us. And basically bhagwad Gita the end, the end, the end, not the end, but the the biggest benefit one of them one of the biggest benefits of studying the Bhagavad Gita and an understanding it beyond the story is to then wake up from our unexamined attachments.

So, we saw that both of them started out with unexamined attachments, but one of them Arjuna Arjuna attracted, attracted some teaching. Bye bye. Krishna was like a cousin or actually a maternal Uncle of sorts similar aged maternal uncle, and he attracted teaching from Krishna Krishna was well known. He was the judicious king. He was respected mentor. He was a mediator between feuding kings and he was a vice versa.

But you see what happened was that why they do do not get taught, but are they not taught? Because even though Arjuna, our hero got confused, even at the height of his confusion, he took ownership of his confusion. He did not just blame others constantly. He did not want to only be evil to others. So there was an inherent goodness and inherent piety and inherent soulfulness to Arjuna that attracted him. A teacher that made him And a dictionary or a verb, the vessel to receive knowledge.

When is Look what Arjuna did what was said was just before the war was starting, and he was still willing to fight the war because he had taken 13 years to debate on. It's the right thing to do. He told Krishna Krishna, can you take me from where they were standing with their own armies, the good forces in the middle of the battleground, where I can view both the army See, please pay attention. So when we let go of our one comfortable position, and when we dare to take a center position, at that time, when we dare to do that, we survey all our options. And Krishna brought him there in the middle, where he was away from his own cheering army and he could see the strength of the other army. And more than that he could see the characters in the other army, which were, they had all grown up together at one time until the throne succession war had broken out.

But he stood there in the middle. And so when we come into the middle, we are going to have to now make some paradigm shifts. We are going to go through a lesson, we are going to have to go deep within ourselves and come back with our own unexamined attachments, unnecessary grief and anger and the fools delusional propensities are more ha that is born as a result of it. Okay. So he came in the middle and he attracted a teacher such as Krishna, and you know, it's very interesting that look at the difference in the wish the talk Okay, so in, in chapter one itself, in the opening scene which I shall go verse by verse in the group that goes forward with me. But in, in the chapter one, and in the verse three itself.

The scene opens, the bhagwad Gita opens. And it begins with Dario Turner. In the third he, he looks at the Yoda. Now the evil cousin looks at the vast army of the core of us, and the strength of the five brothers, the invisible warriors, such as Arjuna be mom. And also he's terrified, you know, because he had, he was being pompous and he wanted to, oh, yeah, I will go to war and yeah, you come get the get the throne from me. If you do.

Too and I shall fight you. And, oh, you know, it's full of all kinds of, you know, posturing. But interestingly, when we have sinned, a part of us knows we have sinned. And that makes us a coward. Deep inside, we are fearful. So what he does is when he looked at the vast army of the five panda the good brothers, he walks to his to their common archery teacher.

They had a common archery teacher, Nunez Drona Chara, Chara Drew, and Acharya drone had taught very faithfully very beautifully. The art and skill of archery to both the sets of cousins who how had he known that one day he would have to take sides and he had not taken sides because he was evil. He had taken sides because he belonged To a kingdom that was supporting the evil Prince de Rio de la so he was just there doing his Dharma, his duty. So, when he sees the powerful army, he gets nervous and he walks up to his archery guru to that common archery guru and look how he talks. So he says, Basha Tom bondo put on um, cha cha moon. VO da da da da da, da Vinci, Shanna de Mata dava Shana de Mata.

So he is how he talks. He said did you see? Did you see what a vast army has been assembled by your Intelligent student, the son of Drupada, who has become the commander in chief of the five panto cousins, which in essence was saying, ready to go Guru Ji Did you know know better than to teach that dumb Drupada son archery back in 20 years ago? Because Did you know know better that one day he'd be standing against us? Class ad guru. Great way to go.

So this is how he was censoring his guru. He chose the fight. He built up the war. He called for the war cry. He was bloodthirsty. He had almost molested Draupadi he's the one who was lusting for what did not belong to him.

He could not find satisfaction within him. And then when he gets nervous, he wants to put the blame is that not what we do? But then look at his, how he crosses the limit. He goes and puts the blame on his guru. Whereas, let's look at how Arjuna talks to Krishna Arjuna gets confused. When he sees his grandfather and his guru.

He says I would rather let go of this kingdom. I would rather than being the ruler of this earth, I should rather retire in a hermitage. I would rather give up the throne than to kill them than to hurt them. With who have won has nurtured me through blood and under through knowledge, what shall I gain and such and such talk he has. And finally, you know, he says to Krishna in the next chapter, chapter two verse seven, he says, I have understood that I have here though via friendly because they were up till now friendly. We are not friends, you're superior to me in knowledge.

And let me be your decide. Because you can be friends with somebody who is equal in your knowledge, but I am inferior to in knowledge, I am confused. I have carpal Nitasha which means I have confused my my I have covered up mine. My power, my knowledge, my capacity, which smallness and fear. I have collapsed. I have a collapse being right Now, so out of compassion, can you teach me please, can you please teach me and he uses the word May I be or shisha?

Shisha means disciple. So he actually converts a friend into a guru. So he promotes Krishna, who has been as chatted here and advisor to a mentor. The mentor then becomes his guru. The Guru then transforms into Vishnu, avatar Lord, and then Vishnu reveals Brahman, absolute, nameless, formless reality. So due to our Jonah's, willingness to accept I'm fainthearted.

His transparency I need help. I'm confused and even his opinion Which muddled him, but did not convert him into a demonic being. He was an addict sorry, he receives the teaching. Do you see how subtle these lessons are? This is not a book which says this is what happens. This is what happens.

This is the interpretations of the Bhagavad Gita. And actually Krishna teachings begin from chapter two, the 18 chapters of Bhagavad Gita, verse 11. So many great commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita spiritual commentaries, including by these Tantra Chara really begin from chapter two verse 11. But I believe that this chapter one is very important, and many others also believe it. And I love teaching from this chapter itself, because this is where we meet the Yoda and Arjuna. And then we are introduced to Krishna, who was at first being the chairman He was just driving the chariot of Krishna, how can I help Krishna?

How can I help the Rio de now their common relative said and the Rio de la he is he had materialise. Material ambitions, material dreams, material aspirations. And he said, Can I have your army? Can I have your horses? Can I have your elephants? Can I have your swords?

Can I have your treasure? Krishna said take it. And so too we do do that too. When even when we go to our gods, sometimes we say can I have a Mercedes? materialize a material hole in their soul to be filled with material power. And what does Arjuna seek Arjuna seeks human support, love guidance.

A friend, a guided best, who knew he would find a guru God and supreme in that same beam and he said, Can I have you by my side? Krishna. So, somewhere a student who is teachable knows it they are inborn with that propensity as to what do they value many of you have shown up here to value the teachings of bhagwad Gita to listen to it, to give yourself an opportunity to fill yourself with non material, but spiritual treasures. You could have left important jobs, important money making opportunities. So somewhere a student makes a choice and then they live with that choice. A student asked for help without projections, without deflection of blame.

And a student comes with Vinay comes with humbleness and says, Please take me as a disciple and teach me from your video compassion, from your compassion you teach me. So he elicited, Krishna has compassion and then Krishna taught him, but as Krishna teaches, Arjuna humanity gets taught. And Krishna first gives Arjuna who is caught up in the empirical world with an empirical intellect with an empirical concern in this world he or now my cousin's my relatives, my teachers, my people, what will happen? What will not happen? Should I should I leave everything and go when that'd be a better thing to do? What should I do?

He gave him empirical imperatives or empirical motivations to get up and go to war. So he gave empirical counter arguments, which were enjoining Arjuna. To wake up to his Dharma of being a warrior, King protector of as people a brave soldier. And that is what a teacher does in the beginning. teacher says, rake up your hands, you have legs, you need not beg. You can work you can have self esteem you can have respect.

You need not be dependent on others doesn't teacher if you've had a teacher, first they give you empirical strength. And then so the teacher in the first six chapters through the science of karma Yoga, Krishna teaches Arjuna in that suspended time, when nothing else was happening, but this teaching, Krishna teaches Arjuna about the right attitude to hold within themselves as a soldier, as a warrior, as somebody who has to go to work, and the right action to take. So the whole science of karma yoga unfolds in chapter one to six. So it's an empirical teaching. It is a here and now teaching. But when I read it, and I'm an Acharya, I'm a teacher.

I'm also a mother. Okay. I'm also a citizen of this country who, who pays taxes? Well, at least my partner pays the taxes and I sign it, where he tells me to those teachings come in handy. Because if I do not have the right attitude towards engaging in this world, through my actions, I can get overwhelmed, tired, fatigued, irritated and feeling selfish and broken down. But I start, I started learning about Karma Yoga, and two kinds of mega attitudes that I can have while engaging in this world through my actions.

And what are those two mega attitudes that Lord Krishna taught right here in Bhagavad Gita. So he says that when you do any work, whether you're cooking for your son, whether you're teaching your students, whatever work you are doing, you do it with a sharpener booty, which means you do it as if you are making an offering into the supreme totality. It's a, it's a, it's a joyful offering. And you know, for last two months without stop, I had guests at my home. And every day I felt happier. Every day I felt stronger.

Every day I completed all my work. You know why? Because everything I did for them was not for them. Everything I did, I was, it was my joyful bouquet of offering into the totality, divine totality, because it sure is not the name of one God. But each means the supreme reality, which is in every particle, which is in everything, every organ, every organism, every living being every inorganic, organic area. believer.

And so that's one attitude when you offer. Now prior to that when I was young and I had to offer even a candy to my sister, it could create a stomachache for me. Let me just tell you. So I'm telling you that even if we have to offer more than one candidate to a person, we can feel squeezed small. Our survival instincts will take over and we will start calculating what did I get? And when will I get back?

And is it worth giving or not? But Karma Yoga said, Give because you are limitless. tap into that limitless attitude. And then give and you shall find you are filled with so much limitless gifts. So I'm giving an example. Then, when you receive as a result, as a result of hosting these guests for two full months I received love, affection, all kinds of things.

Maybe some gifts Ishwara prasada booty receive as if it is a gift back from the universe. It is a it has come to you so there is no cosmic mathematics here. So these are some of the teachings that we work upon and we learn from Makita. And so first Arjuna is taught by his guru Krishna, the shisha and this guru talk. And first he got some impeccable teachings that support us in our transactions. Why me?

I have students who have problems with their boss. I have people I know people who feel afraid walking into their corporate office. And we have to go back to Karma Yoga attitude 101 you are not giving your eight hours nine hours to this boss or to this company, which gives you Only you know this much money you are giving to the totality the whole universe has orchestrated for you this opportunity to give and to receive and as they start giving from this pure place, they start receiving from a pure place. And so, there is if less is received that is equanimity, if more is received, then also there is equanimity. One does not get arrogant, or breaks down as a result. So, these beautiful themes are taught.

And you would wonder, really, Krishna needs to go to battle Krishna do really have the time to teach him all this. But this was needed because when we lose our inner strength, and our direction and our calling as to what to do. We have to go back to Karma Yoga ABC. Because without Karma Yoga, we are only somehow floating in a very disturbing ocean of emotional problems. And we are only creating what is called karma, which is just actions without any strategy without any spiritual blessing. Without any grace.

It's only karma, karma karma. So, guests coming to my home is a great opportunity for Sonia to create karma hell for herself. But guests coming to my home for two months with karma yoga. I'm comfortable, my health is good. My friendships are blossom, my plants are growing, my animals are fed, my profession is doing well. My job is well, the gods are pleased the planets are on their orbit and all as well.

Because with karma, we have brought in yoga, the union with what is the highest potential and as a soldier, as, as the King, who should rightfully the noble King, who should succeed the throne and protect the people of his kingdom, because if his queen can almost get molested, can you imagine what was happening to the women and the helpless children and the women of that Hasina poor, where the Rio de had claimed his right to that kingdom, and then his brother to Shasta and so many other evil brothers, were all there, the hundred of them, what was happening in that kingdom? It was time that are Did not calculate me and mine and what's gonna happen to me, he had to move and saying, I am doing this, I'm going to do my duty, and I will offer my best, what shall happen is now for Ishwara or that supreme reality will bring back to me, you see, so he had to detach.

After that, Krishna takes him beyond the empirical plane. And we also at some point in our spiritual journey, deserve to go beyond duty and Dharma into another sphere, even a more subtler sphere. And it is the sphere of the invisible self. There is a god self, which is lying latent within each one of us. And Krishna says that once we discovered that self then we shall Attend to the empirical problems, these minor these problems will become minor from this absolute plane. So, the microcosm of our day to day world relationships, confusion, confusions, doubts, they all become elevated alleviated no elevated, they become alleviated, they become elevated.

Well remember English is my second language, but for Krishna helping me right now here, so become elevated. And so, this, this higher plane, Krishna could have just stopped there. But Krishna keeps taking us along the journey and introduces us to the concept of self, why self realization is important and the methods to self realize. So, the methods to self realize come in the middle section, which is from chapter seven onwards to 12. And in this we study the teachings of bhakti yoga, also personal yoga, meditation, devotion, surrender, how to focus our own mind so that it doesn't distract us from experiencing ourselves etc. So, the methods are taught here.

So, we who are also now Arjuna is actually receiving teachings from Krishna via Arjuna v to learn these methods and become more calm, and we also become more supported more health, because we are now living in a more focused journey, which is more inwards rather than outwards and distracted and disturbed. And finally, In the last six chapters, we are given the greatest. And the final knowledge of neon yoga are the teachings of the self listening to which we awaken completely and fully and irreversibly. There is no fear of falling asleep, because ghanim is a knowledge of our own Supreme Self, which is one with God, and listening to that knowledge and contemplating upon it, and practicing it in our day to day life in our emotional challenges. It relieves us of all sorrow. So Brianna is that a Brahma with the eyes that knowledge which relieves us from human sorrow.

So the final teaching comes in the form of the final six chapters. And so therefore, one who was unteachable, and the other who was not only teachable, but he became a willing D Ongoing on a student. And the journey began all the way from chapter two. Verse 11, Krishna starts speaking and he does the maximum speaking in the Bhagavad Gita. And ultimately, the initial disturbance of Arjuna is addressed and resolved at the end. And Arjuna says, I am now ready to do my duty, which is go to war, when I was a child, and when we don't know bhagwad Gita, we think that Bhagavad Gita is about going to war.

How many of you believed in that? Anyone know why Wow, amazing? Well, when you're a child, you think about what Gita is about, you know, Krishna saying, Come on, pick up your Gandhi even go to war. So I had heard this and I thought it's about going to war. But really, what it's about is doing the right thing at the right time after due understanding and examination, and if that means going to war than not losing our courage and our inner understanding, and actually then going to war and coming through victorious, how many of you do you feel are have a day to day war in your own life today? Please tell me then this war is an allegory.

This war is an allegory it is it is symbolic. And all of it is symbolic. If you look at those five brothers also, let's look at their names actually, you know, so let me just see if I followed my story or I completely went away from it. Okay, five brothers. They are also symbolic, actually five brothers and hundred evil brothers, villainous brothers five noble brothers teachable brothers. Though the eldest known as yudish, Terra, it's as his symbolic.

He is symbolic of somebody who does Miss Miss karma, karma or selfless action. Actually, when you look at your distress personality, you this show was somebody who really wanted to uphold dharma. He wanted to do the right thing because it's the right thing, and not for any personal aggrandizement. So he was he was a hero of karma yoga in our story here. The other brother is Bhima. And Pema has he's, you know, he is upheld as a very strong warrior.

Very strong. A huge body very beautiful muscles, great internal strength external very strong. And so he represents courage. Origin Why did Krishna talk to Arjuna and not to others because Arjuna represents our ability. It is known as which our shield our ability to think our ability to engage in deeper questions, analysis and and threat through the darkness to find a resolution. So even our ability to think and ask questions and contemplate even that is a strength.

Then knuckle, no knuckle means one who does not go through our cold our agitation. So Nicola is being sterile, be non agitated, even through the difficult war that faces us, and Sadiq Saha. Deva means the One who has done surrender to the VA one who is constantly not doing it from a personal ego, but the constant experience of a spiritual presence and absolute spiritual reality that coexists with this empirical reality. So interestingly, these are only five brothers, one who can act selflessly the and uphold the Dharma, the other who is courageous to go through the journey. So if you are that, if you can dare to be a bit selfless in your actions, believe in spiritual courage. Except that we can think through our problems actually actually think most of us only feel and react, feel and react, do we actually think and use the thinking operators called with your intellect to come to some new understandings?

Can we use our thinking versus merely beating our chest anger or sorrow? Can we remain? Can we make ourselves less agitated through meditation etc. and can all this time constantly remember that though I live in this empirical reality that is closing in on me, there is a higher spiritual reality that I'm going to wake up to, and that there is spiritual presence there is God and I am going I am being helped visibly or invisibly. And apparently, these five symbolic powers were enough to overcome the hundred evil brothers, each one of them representing evilness from there. Apparently, the evil brothers have a father known as rashtra.

And he is shown as I mentioned earlier, to be blind. And so interestingly, typically when we start our spiritual journey as per Bhagavad Gita, Our ego which is the king is also blind. And it gives birth to 100 evil tendencies, hundred evil tendencies. And each tendency just wants grabs and calculates that am I going to lose five villages? Should I have a cow now? Should I like you know, behave like a abandoned person?

Should I go and fight any kind of battles for what is worthy or what is unworthy I'm in the Rio de la caja de Rio de la could have just lived with his own kingdom. His father had divided up saying okay, you hundred euro has Singapore, these five can ruler in the Presta he could have just lived like that. But it was not enough for him. Why? Because once once and that's how typically our ego is. So therefore the king who could have given Justice but could not give justice because another divine justice is required, which requires the expansion of our thinking from this very narrow, worldly material thinking to a more spiritual thinking.

And these five qualities of these five brothers represents just five seeds of more thoughtful, more mindful, more spiritual, more conscious values and beliefs that we can embody within the mind, but a higher mind known as booty or the intellect. Or they know so this is where I was coming to. So the human being, each one of us, the human beings, we're leaving the spirit out of it just for now. The human being the functioning human being the being born and dying human being is known as Jeeva. The human being is divided up into three empirical parts the body, Shara, the mind, Manas, and the intellect known as booty, okay. And the body has located within the body we all need a body because his body is very important because it is located 10 sense organs, five, our organs of sensory perception and five our organs of action.

So organs of sensory perception are what, what eyes, nose, tongue and those five and the five organs of action are like hands, legs, reproductive organs, elimination organs and organ of speech. So this mouth is interesting. It also creates karma by speech and it also tastes so mouth goes in both The pieces, these 10 organs, they live in the body. And so the five sensory organs receive the world, right? And they give the information to the mind. And the mind refers it back to a higher level mental functioning.

It's all made up of thoughts, but it's a higher level mental functioning called body or the intellect. And the intellect then says, do this. Don't do that. Eat this. Don't eat that. Go there.

Don't go there. Then their mind goes back to the motors organs and says to the lads, don't go to a cherish Sonia. She only looks really calm, but she's not a very pleasant teacher. Stay away so the legs move back. Okay, so it's like the booty is deciding how much distance to keep with the teacher. Where to set what not just a funny example.

But it's like that right now. So the body is I had explained last time that the in the mind thoughts are just coming like a river, you know, and that mostly they're at the level of sensations, feelings, perceptions, they're raw, but then the intellect is where they are becoming more decisive misciagna Makka booty. So based on past experience, memory etc, it gives it gives a order and then the motor organ splayed out, okay, all good. So, the sense organs actually feed into the mind, mind talks to the intellect, intellect gives back the direction to the mind, the mind goes and talks to the motor organs and the motor organs do accordingly, such as they will use the hands to eat to to bless someone or to slap someone because based on what the intellect tolls, or they will use the legs to walk towards buying drugs.

Or they will walk back from not buying the drugs right. So, this is based on the intellect. Now, the intellect is of two kinds, the intellect itself can be spooler or Sushma, Grace or subtle. Now, when it is Grace intellect, it can help us understand, some basic functionings and we can get by in life, we can entertain ourselves we can, we can, you know earn some money, we can complete some pollution markers like our time karma, but it is only when our certain intellect is awakened through interface with divine teachings with a spiritual teacher, that our higher abilities of Dharma and of Moksha or self realization awakened within us, most of the time and for Utley though as it begins to reorder now, do you tend to reorder not had any intellect working for him? Probably in his own way. He was seeking entertainment by molesting a queen, respectable queen.

He was seeking you know, survival by wanting more and more Kingdom's. So ideally the intellect is supposed to help us but sometimes the intellect can get so corrupted by mental qualities of Rajasthan Thomas which agitation and heaviness, that and depression and ignorance that the intellect is not supporting us. So we call it good the clamshell or we call it a blind intellect, or we call it like it's an intellect, but is as good as no use. So have you heard an alcoholic or a drug addict? I know everything. Yeah.

Don't tell me to Nadia. I don't want to know about AI or whether yoga Vedanta. I know everything I shall teach you come sit with me. Have you heard people Like that they are full of I know it, but do they know. So probably at that level, when that happens to us, it can happen to us. Our intellect has fallen asleep, or it has become corrupted the hard drive has become corrupted.

And at that time is just the senses. They bring in the smell of the alcohol. The mind says I deserve alcohol. After all, my mother in law is nowadays visiting, so I should get drunk. And it gives itself a reason to get drunk and it gets drunk. My mother in law poor thing was just watching Oprah Winfrey on TV, leave her alone.

She's not telling you to get drunk, but the mind justifies and so the intellect has become so corrupted. We don't even want to use it. So at that time, the person becomes a self destructive monster. The person is self fulfilling negative professors. The person doesn't need anybody to hurt them. They hurt themselves.

The person becomes a victim and aggressor becomes confused, disturbs relationships, and even the substance abuse hurts the planet hurts the environment. And God forbid if such people are in like important powerful political positions, then also we are in a bit of a quandary. Because then the person may just, you know, use tweets or social media. So, I mean, as an example, so, so we had a blind King, with Russia in timelessness, and we have sometimes blind you know, government officials who are in similar situation where they are, they are blind, because they don't have help from their intellect. And so what bhagwad Gita does and these teachings do over these next, you know, 17 chapters is it expands the intellect and it opens the intellect to its subtle propensities and it has Thereby the the mind, the mind becomes our friend, rather than being our enemy, the whole mental apparatus becomes our friend.

So it's highly symbolic. So the battle is not really outside, but it is within bhagwad Gita invites you to understand that there is an ongoing battle between that which is deathless, which is yourself eternal metta and that which is perishable, the body and the mind which is Annette there bhagwad Gita invites you to look at the battle between what is the ultimate absolute reality septum or Brahman, and what is this, what we see and we conjure a reality you see in the same room if there are, you know, some 70 people here and another 70 on the webinar more I don't know. Each person is looking into the same reality but based upon their mental apparatus and their intellect, they are conjuring their own realities Do you see? So these are subjective realities. And so there is a battle between subjective reality, what we think is the reality?

And what is the reality that we are really one though we experience separation, okay? There is a battle going on between our own with our own ability to discern between right and wrong between what is beneficial and non beneficial versus more harm which is that foolish, remember foolish delusional attachment to how things should be. So there is a battle that is going on between truth and untruth that we tell ourselves. So therefore, there is all these battles and bhagwad Gita says let's look at it. Let us not remain stuck and act from that stuckness And how interesting because it was so easy to say, Don't act like the real donor. Don't be selfish, be selfless.

And look, our hero Arjuna was being so selfless, he was willing to give his kingdom and everything to his evil king. Height of selflessness, shouldn't you don't think so? But who are you giving the kingdom to? Is that selflessness? Or is that escapers? Thank you.

And so now I come to the next part, when each one of us and this bhagwad Gita says that it is not the outer circumstance, which is the problem. It is how we interpret that outer circumstance. And then we make it Oh, this circumstance is giving me sorrow or joy. For example, when something happens in our life, one person could Make it a big deal. You brought up the issue of the mother in law, so we'll keep it up. And we'll say, oh my mother in law is visiting or my mother in law is demanding on my mother in law is critical.

So all hell has broken loose. Another person can say, my mother in law is demanding and she is critical. It looks like that's the only experience she's had in life. Let me love her some more. Let me take her on a picnic. I think she deserves a break from herself.

Two different two different responses. So is the mother in law the cause of joy or sorrow? Or is it us and our interpretation of it that causes the joy or sorrow? So this gets revealed in Bhagavad Gita. And typically what Bhagavad Gita says is that when a difficult situation comes in front of us, we all have three reactions. Typically.

The first one is Escape, I just want to not deal with it like Arjuna was doing let me escape from it. So one is escape. So flat out escape, whether it is your elevated Cara straw, you want to escape from it, whether it is you know, whatever it is you want to escape it. The other one is we want to force fix it to the way we want to see it. So we will lose all our health and our well being in trying to contort it so we had an image of a mother in law from a story we had read of this, you know, this mother in law who kind of you know, walk six inches above earth and she came and thank you for marrying my daughter. And you know, now that that unimaginable mother in law, and we had this imagination, so now we're gonna take the mother in law we have and just force fitter to be this.

Do you see that? So we In all our time, manipulating what is real in the present moment, because it's almost like boxing, but we're losing our energy disturbing our door shows disturbing our soldiers in the process. Okay. And the third one is when we can neither escape it, nor can we manipulate it to change, then what do we do? We talk about it. And when we talk about it there is this, this this slant of self pity pyrrha amok, you know, sorrow.

You're like, No, well, yeah. But there's always this, this, this, this, you know, the sense of limitation, this justified. Talk about your sorrows. So we build it and we seek validation of ourselves. Like how we're stuck and we seek anybody want to leave? Okay, so remember what I said is a rude wake up call.

That's why it makes us take responsibility but you know, I like it. Because I would like to talk about it. But then often, when I'm when I was practicing bhagwad Gita, you practice bhagwad Gita. So when you're practicing the Gita, your lemon thing and you catch yourself and say, Wait, I can hold it in, I can hold it in. This goes with another sadhana that we teach here in advance with Dan called the teacher and the teacher. It's a very beautiful teaching it says, when a difficult problem comes bad it and don't talk about a great one because when you And you don't talk about it on top of that, because if you bear it, but talk about it, in weakens you.

So, if you see Arjuna first he tried to escape. First it so completely escaped, you know, then he tries to fix it. We will discuss this in chapter as we go verse by verse Then he tries to change how it looks, he starts doing what's called as bleep bargaining plea bargaining around it. And then finally he gets into just alignment. Why need my if, why do I have to kill my grandfather and my guru in that ad? Why me?

Why do I have to deal with this? So he just starts learning. So all three things are there. But but but then what Krishna says is look These are your three default options. But here let me pick you up from your stock, empirical, scared space and show you who you really are. And when that false substance less smallness that has befallen each one of us is revealed to us.

When I realized I need not be ashamed, I'm not ashamed. When I realize I need not be apologetic for who I am that I'm not apologetic. So when I am revealing the frivolousness of the indulgence of my smallness, My real nature that is inexhaustible Li big In fact, it is not only big, but it is one with absolute reality Brahman. And in fact in chando Punisher there's a whole teaching of that thomassie that means that Tom means you assume it's Are you are that you is equal to that that is equal to you. It ends with that. So we begin with this good hearted, noble hearted being crushed by his own blood relatives.

Slowly finding that they are not his relatives, the story of my relatives, your relatives, tell stories when he went to that level of baby Goodness. Then he realized that these are all characters, there is only one God everywhere. And suppose I remember my teacher telling me, suppose Shinya, God comes to you and gives you a hard time. It's still God. All he wants you to say stand up for yourself and said, Don't do it. Don't be scared of God.

And if God came and seduced you don't lose your dignity to God. It's just God. God is everywhere. These are all characters. It's a dark shit tra grupo de mcshea tre Kurukshetra. Some of ATIA youth sama, ha, Mama de pon the vice chairman, Kim Corvette Sandra.

This is the first verse of this grand 700 verse poetry, which begins with this blind egotistic King grip Rasta asking His chatter Dr. Sanjay his person who had the power to look into what was happening in the battlefield, and he asked a small question, really small question and you know how to small Gita begins with a question mark by the ego by the blind King saying, oh, all the warriors have enthusiastically collected on that battlefield called Kurukshetra, which is also the field of dharma. He knew it. And he says, How did my boys do? Mine? Mom, aka how he had raised pandas children, because those five boys had lost their father early. He could have said, How are the children doing?

Oh my God, they are fight they know. He says, in our critical moment, the man who had to give justice he sits there and says How did My boys do versus Pandu sons. So he had already done me and mine, Kim Corvette Sandra, tell me Sanjay. Sanjay was the name of Sanjay was the name of the narrator who is looking, who has divine sight daughter Vyasa has given them to look and tell. So such a small, let's start with this this one verse this blind, gets this Lion King gets in us. And then Sanjay tells a story.

And Sunday I watch. He tells the story and in which Arjuna watch Arjuna talks, then Bhagwan Krishna talks and at the very end, we come to this conclusion that in any time, when they are students like Krishna, Arjuna and teachers like Krishna, then only truth and peace shall prevail because As long as this Parampara or tradition of a discourse that does not leave a small from where we began, but expands us and opens us to our potential and makes the state the ultimate responsibility, not just the responsibility for my grandfather and my uncle, but it makes us take the ultimate responsibility for the protection of septum and Dharma in this universe, then we become free to act. And we can do that once we recognize that we may have relatives etc. But we are not off them. This is all what is known as Leela. It has all been pre manufactured.

There's a setup. And what happens is we get lost in that setup. I as a teacher itself right now can get lost in the setup of my students, not my students, seniors. Students, Junior students, and all kinds of teacher politics can begin right here. Instead, instead, when I show up as a teacher, due to bhagwad Gita, I remember that I am only playing a role and who is speaking to me, through me is supreme reality and who is hearing a supreme reality who is making this happen is supreme reality, then all I have to do is do my work in a in the proper way, do my duty, do my Dharma and leave the fruits of my action to that Supreme. So therefore, we have taken things a bit too personally I will say, and collapsed ourselves into very small, tiny relationship webs and construed a story of oppression and aggression and either is not okay.

And of course in this bhagwad Gita, Yoda was untouchable, the untouchable self destroy themselves. So he became he destroyed himself. He destroyed his kingdom. He destroyed all his brothers died, his parents died or living death. He was unrepentant till the last and probably still unrepentant somewhere in the samsaric really probably got a Vedic a flyer to come to bhagwad Gita but I'm not going to that one. So Monday if daurio denies more of it within you, at least we can try to become Arjuna and openly accept that I need help.

And if the Arjuna has already brought you here, then stay through that journey. verse by verse. I would say, if ever you get the opportunity, once in this lifetime, if possible and complete, because that is the invitation. So who composed bhagwad Gita who compose Bhagavad Gita is a teacher known as Vyasa cha cha cha Vyas. He's known as also Krishna vipin. And there is he's a character in the Mahabharata as well as he's the compiler of the MA Bara.

Sometimes it's said it is not sure who wrote the original epic Mahabharata, which is of hundred thousand verses, in which bhagwad Gita dwells with 700 verses. But because at one time in India at one time, there is possibly that there was a group of People known as Vyasa, and they were scribes or compilers, it was a prestigious title to be a vassal. But in our sampradaya we consider Vyas as a teacher, a living being and in fact our prayers you know it can be Narayana Samadhi Vyasa Shankara mme a SMA da riparian Tom, when the guru or it could be you know, Sadashiva, sir are so different sampradaya or educational lineages begin either with Vishnu Narayana, or with Sheila and we begin with Narayana Vishnu. And then we agree that he his extension, in fact, is considered a minor of Tara Vishnu. NASA, then from vast site went to Shankara Chara and eighth century, then to a smooth Acharya to our immediate teachers, from a Yoda from where I come from, and and myself Do we offer our gratefulness to this one to this guru Parampara.

So, it is said that he went into a more deep meditation. And he came out with spontaneously up on a ship. He came out with 10 million show cards versus of which hundred thousand became the Mahabharata of it 700 became the Bhagavad Gita, of which the 84 is the are the Bhagavad Gita by my great grandfather. So vassa is known to have, you know, compiled the Vedas because the Vedas were not India, South India, East West, they were all living orally in different sampradaya and so he only he had the ability to collect them, compile them, edit them into first three books and then the fourth one came so rig some your journal my pelvis later and he is also said to have composed the eight implants. A parents are neither history, they're not history. They are not.

I don't even know if they're mythology. They're definitely awakening stories for the common person. Because I'm sure when we compile the Vedas it was you know, elite can understand the Vedas, intellectual elites. So, the neurons are for the common person. Okay. So they are living stories I would say.

There is another Brahma sutra, which one received but Brian is supposed to have compose which we believe, but some say that we are such era compose that also. So So, the opening shots, which are the last portion of the Vedas, the Brahma Sutras, and the Bhagavad Gita, okay 700 verses these three are considered Pestana, three are the main classic tradition, teaching Vedanta, and Vedanta. These are three main bodies okay? And Mahabharata itself the story of hundred thousand verses, and Ramayana, which is a story of the prince of a Yoda, and how he overcame the Evil King Ravana and established the victory of good or evil. These two stories they are considered their spiritual teachings spiritual stories with deep philosophy. They are considered Smithy or what is recalled, as well as at heart so they carry semi historical value.

But the Bhagavad Gita which is contained inside the Mahabharata, is considered an original Shruti which means This is not history, this is not a story. This is the living teaching originally transferred to the rishis which appeared to the rushes from the Lord within in a hedge way in a natural way without effort, okay, Are you understanding? So where does this where does this bhagwad Gita live okay. So I mentioned that there are 18 parents okay? of which the third parent is known as the Brahmaputra, okay. In the Brahmaputra and somewhere in the middle section 100,000 verses of the Mahabharata lives.

The Mahabharata is divided into 18 sections called perverse fervor. And in the sixth part of a which is called Bish ma parva from chapter 25 to 40 to the 700 versus less So it actually has a location. Okay? And this is only the 700 verses, okay? So it is important, it's important to know, hey, where does this come from? Because in a Vedic school such as ours, we only study what is the authentic shastra are the authentic scriptures.

And so therefore Bhagavad Gita is as authentic as you can get here right now. So I wanted to share with you, and this is not original. And this is just from my exploring the world wide web. But I wanted to share with you some of the comments of great Maha purusha great beings who have said a few words about Bhagavad Gita would you be open to receiving that? Have you heard of Albert Einstein? So he says, When I read the Bhagavad Gita and reflect about how God created this universe, Everything else seems superfluous Mahatma Gandhi Do you know him?

When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to bhagwad Gita and find a verse to comfort me. And I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita versus a fresh joy, a new meaning from it every day. Have you heard of Henry David Thoreau? Okay. Am I pronouncing his name correctly?

In the morning I bathed my intellect in the stupendous and cosmic auto philosophy of the bhagwad Gita in in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seemed puny and trivial. Have you heard of Sri Aurobindo. He's he says, The bhagwad Gita is a true scripture of the human race. Live in creation rather than a book with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization, have you heard of Harman has? Have you read his book The Siddhartha? Otherwise you must.

The marvel of Bhagavad Gita is it's truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom enables philosophy to blossom into religion. Have you heard of Ralph Waldo Emerson, you must have had a magnificent day to the Bhagavad Gita. It was the first of books It was as if an empire spoke to us. Nothing smaller, unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and time it had pondered, and does dispose of the same questions which exercise us today. Have you heard of Rudolf Steiner Waldorf school people? Okay.

He writes, in order to approach a creation as sublime as the bhagwad Gita, the full understanding as sublime, as above. Gita with full understanding, it is necessary to attune our soul to it. And finally, have you heard of all those Huxley? awfully? Bhagavad Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endearing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of parent philosophy ever revealed.

Hands its enduring value is subject not only to India, but to all of humanity. I could go on and on, but I wanted to share these because I have followed these great people in their different work and I have great respect for what they bring to humanity and to human civilization. And I feel thrilled, that here at medica, we are going to be studying this bhagwad Gita not only for two more classes, but for Perhaps the rest of my lifetime because we're going to take it up. And if you do decide to study further, all you have to do is to join an online group where I shall be teaching you on a monthly basis and going through the shloka. As if you are looking for a spiritual path that takes you home to you and reveals your inner guru and reveals to you that you are not different from God.

And this is not a God that looks a certain way he dresses a certain way talks a certain way. But that absolute reality, then this is the teaching for you. If you are looking to expand our intellect and let it help you and navigate your life, and this is the teaching for you, because it is not a somebody hora dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna what it is between the sub guru Krishna and you Soul. So this is very, very important for you, you know to remember that. So I am inviting you all on a spiritual journey. Many of you students have already written to me how you're looking forward to the ongoing diligent study.

I want to tell you that in India, nowadays, it has become common to memorize the Vedas, to memorize the Gita to memorize the shloka is and just chant them without leaving them. But I sampradaya not everywhere, but it's becoming common, let's just say, but the deeper sampradaya is, and there are still some sampradaya is still alive, to remind us that this knowledge has to be lived. It has to be contemplated and as To bless your relationship with your mother in law, allow it to bless you in your relationship with your cousins with your boss, with your neighbor, with your own self, and then with God. So therefore, I teach a more psychological and deeper interpretation of it. I am not in a rush. I don't know how long my soul will dwell in this body.

But I can say that I'm committed to teaching it. And if more of you show committed, if I find our Jeunesse, I can even teach more times a month, who doesn't want to teach and learn bhagwad Gita? Do you think I only teach? Do you think I don't learn? Of course, we are all Sitting at the feet of the great Lord Krishna jagad guru and we are learning from him. So every time I learn, I feel like my hair on my skin rises.

When I read Bhagavad Gita. I feel like My breath has become different as I'm teaching the Bhagavad Gita. And everyday I read the Bhagavad Gita everyday and my students know that. So this is a living document. And because the the Bhagavad Gita is my family's main document, and I talked about it in my last class, which is on YouTube, you will know the history of the bhagwad Gita to, which is amazing. This knowledge has been available for life, and we are all battling over in other than us.

And then it's not enough to be goody two shoes Arjuna It is time to have an awakened Arjuna and Arjuna who understands how to hold that goodness and carry through and not collapse. And to connect that goodness of godliness, and then not to just find the god outside but then within and then let this whole drama dissolve. So it is a great teaching a great science. So as you come along on this journey with me, what are you going to bring in your backpacks? Elmi water. Well let it be hot water, okay.

I would like you to bring with you shut down. You know shut di is a Sanskrit word. When you come to me and bhagwad Gita, be aware that they will be the death and destruction of some daurio then as within you some old attachments, some old belief systems that don't serve you. And as you practice some of this learning as it comes back to you, and then you practice it, you shall have more and more trust and faith in this, but at least when you start, bring a functional faith, start with that. And then let bhagwad Gita, earn your faith all the way. Just bring an opening mindedness to it.

The Hindus are an envious lot, because this is their religious book. They are very lucky. This is the book that the Hindus recite every day. The many limit it is their highest value system. But you can see and you shall find out that this is not just a Hindu grant. This is humanity's grant humanity's scripture, because it teaches us how to really enjoy our human hood and how to really make choices that resound to this universe, you know, so.

So if you're coming with me, come with shatta come with joy, come with new enthusiasm. Come with TSA, you know, the Sonata. person is a state persona, persona athma you know persona that word. It's a happy within yourself state. Like the thing the cat got the cream, and now she's smiling. So I want you to come with pasinetta.

And you might already be engaged in battles. So you don't have position as you cannot talk to you for five minutes about a certain battle. Remember, it's all in suspended animation. All the battles have gone to the margins. They're all just like you know, because of x. y you change your conditioning and understanding and you break open that small cost of sorrow and fear and you grow and grow and grow. And then you come back back to animation and you know how to deal with it right?

So this is the beauty of it. So you have an opportunity to descend deep into yourself. You're going on a five to 10,000 year old, timeless perennial journey. I experienced joy the part of teaching it to you. So you're welcome. And thank you so much.

Every time I open the Bhagavad Gita at night I would have been leading my Medical journey to the best of my awakened self. And then just when I'm about to go to bed, I read one verse, and my lid pops open. And I become so big and bigger than my house bigger than the planet bigger than the universe. My consciousness is huge. And then I put a little show now to bed and I look after the world. You know, this bhagwad Gita is a great sort of a channel into the divine.

So bring on anything to do the nine you laid on the table, bring on your arginine you laid on the table and let Krishna do his work. And that's how it is. Okay, enough of magical talk. Let's Get Real that Tomasi you are that we always end with a beautiful mantra which we shall go line by line because I want the new students to learn it so the old students should not chant with me. Wait for me to chant then you chant Okay, so I will chime in and we will revisit old ones together. Oh Santo, Masada Maya Tama Soma, Judah, Maya, MIT to me Ma o Sha de Sha de Sha de o Cheyenne, Cheyenne, Cheyenne.

Oh bees bees. Bees. Oh, she Krishna one day she Krishna Chaka guru. So we are recognizing Krishna As a teacher for all beings, in various stages of transformation, even that original glory or the now lost somewhere, because we all need the teacher to teach us how to live, how to grow, how to thrive, and how to recognize our own true self. So thank you for joining