I'm excited to present to you some information about Naga Gita today. The mind the mind has been this disgusted many ways in the Vedic tradition and one of them is and I've mentioned this once or twice to you earlier, but I'll mention it again we keep talking about it, that the outermost layer of the mind often has, by default, some negative emotions in it. These emotions can range from jealousy possessiveness, egotism, sense of feeling. Less, or smitten. Angry greedy. And they're kind of the uppermost layer of the mind.

And they are known as Muslim. And Muslim in Sanskrit also means it's almost like a waste product. And our mind has some of that so, very quickly. The first reaction can be jealousy, or spite, or anger, or greed, or envy, possessiveness, these kind of emotional states are usually the first feeling or emotion and that's the outermost layer of the mind. The most superficial layer below that is known as the layer of some restlessness. It is known as Vic shape Aha.

And because of that, there is an inherent tendency to be a bit impulsive, a bit speeded up a bit urgent at all. times we don't know why. But we feel this urgency. And it's coming from this layer underneath. I want to fall asleep but I want to fall asleep now. urgency, there's a restlessness, that is a distractibility and it's an outward movement constantly.

So there's always a desire to think and think some more, there is a desire to assess and assess some more, there is a desire to talk and talk some more, there is a desire to lemon and lemon some more, there's a desire to laugh, but now I'm going to laugh a lot. So, there is just a quickness a tendency towards what in Sanskrit is known as Chantel constant motion. So this is what's happening in the second layer of the mind. In the deeper layer of the mind, a deeper to that the deepest layer, there is dense ignorance. And it is known as our learner. And what our know does is it has a nature of covering.

So it covers us from an inherent knowingness, all the shastra all the Vedic teachers, all the wise teachers of every tradition, not just the Vedic tradition tell us that happiness, peace and security live within you. Many traditions tell us this, many rice teaches us look within. But why is only an occasional person, a Buddha and not every other person who sat under a tree to meditate? Why not? Because it is only the one Buddha who could penetrate through that dark layer of ignorance, which is composed of Thomas and it has one and only purpose of being like an obstructive wall between the self and the mind. So we just hit this wall All.

And when we dwell there a lot It feels like it can feel like depression, heaviness, darkness. So look at an average mind. On the surface. It's super sensitive. It has all kinds of negative emotions that can get triggered, even if a person bypasses us on the freeway, and an emotion can get triggered and we can say something unpleasant. Why?

Because our mind is composed of that negative emotion. We see somebody being successful, and instead of enjoying the success, we can get a twinge of envy or even anger. Why? Because that's where the mind is. So say we decide, well, I won't be envious. I think I'll do my own thing.

We can't do it. Why because we are restless. So the mind goes from this task to that task, to procrastination to making a list to making a new Left are starting a new notebook to read changing the furniture to changing the country. I guess I'll just change my progression, restlessness. And if we, if we go through that restlessness, well, there's depression, there is sorrow, there's darkness. And the human mind just goes from this to this.

Do you see that? There's an average uninitiated mind, this is not your mind and not my mind. This is the human mind, the human mind. And the shastra begins with observation. shastra is those great Vedic texts that have three purposes. What they do is they command what we should do or not do.

They enlighten us about our own self and ultimately they protect us. So there's a whole body of wisdom literature from India, known The Vedic literature, which is known as shastra, shastra tells us that this is it this is the mind. But here are some ways that we can. We can overcome our negative emotions a layer of negative emotions, instead of making leaving it negative. We can purify that layer. We can have pure pure emotions.

Instead of being restless. It can become composed, steady, calm, focused. And instead of being unenlightened, ignorant, at the deepest level, there can be the light of self knowledge and greater knowingness. This can happen, says the shaft how the shell says okay, let's look at the Vedas. The Vedas give us this and the Vedas. They are In number, the rigveda the Sama Veda, the yogic VEDA and a third of a VEDA.

And the Euro VEDA is further divided into two parts known as the Shukla, your VEDA and the Krishna VEDA. So, there are these Vedas a very large compendium of mantras and these mantras are almost I don't have the exact number right now, but definitely more than 25,000 mantras if you put them all together, so, they are very large body of wisdom, tradition, and we are told, well, this knowledge has the way has the has the knowledge that if we have it, the ordinary person, our mind will no longer be filled with negative emotions which cause us suffering will no longer be rash. Lesson wondering because of which we cannot achieve our goals and will no longer be stuck in darkness. So that the concept of self and an inner empowerment remains a beautiful dream but doesn't become our destiny. And that we can actually achieve everything we want.

And these Vedas are have different not only different books but they have different sections. So the first part is known as the mantra Hagia or the Samhita Baba, Baba min section. And the first part is that then the second part is known as Brahma Nevada. third part is known as our net powder. And the fourth part is known as the opening chapter. Now, interestingly, let's begin with the first, second, third and fourth these are each VEDA is broken up into these four sections each, whether it's So in the first part, some hit our the mantra haga let's just call it the mantra part.

In the first part of the VEDA, there are all these hymns to various deities, like the God of air, the god of fire. What do these hymns do? What these hymns do is they, they they bring an enough divine enough environment, so that a regular person like you and me, stop blaming others, and first look inward. So at least that's good. We start diagnosing the situation, that we can blame others only so much. It's I, I can directly connect with the divine and work on myself.

That's what the first part does. It brings a more spiritual attitude in the journey towards us. In the second part known as the brahmana bog. It teaches us that correct attitude and the correct actions to take in day to day life in professional engaged life. So Brahma Lubanga teaches us karma yoga. And according to the Vedas, when we study Karma Yoga, our negative emotions get purified.

So therefore, the Vedas through its brahmana paga section teaches Karma Yoga, which teaches us right action and right attitude in day to day engage to relationship relationships and work. And because of that, and that's the area of a maximum negative emotions get triggered, does it not? When we work together when we cook together when we eat together, when we make babies together when we when we choose a precedent together, that's where we all have a lot of negative emotions. Our mind gets very triggered. So that's where Karma Yoga is very important for us and the way that teaches it. Then in the r&d and paga, which are nx were written in the forest retreats, the rishis had gone into retreat, and they had written the RNA, that is where they teach pastina yoga or bhakti yoga, because of which the restlessness of the mind becomes centered so they teach various types of meditations, various types of spiritual practices like gaiety mantra that calms the entire mind.

So therefore, this is also contained in the VEDA. Finally the Upanishads the Upanishads they The Punisher section of each VEDA, each VEDA openshift section of each VEDA teaches us self inquiry. Does he get these outside me or is it inside me? am begging for happiness everywhere, does it ultimately live in a transaction between this person and me? Or is it something I have to look within? In fact, I have to disengage and look within?

And where is the ultimate security? Am I going to get it from my family, my government, my colleagues, my lover, my partner, my children, or am I going to find that ultimate security within me? This nature of self inquiry known as vinyasa yoga, this comes from the Upanishads. And what neon yoga does is it completely removes that darkness that, that that wall between I am my true self. So it gives me it enlightens me. And so my whole mind becomes transformed.

Instead of negative emotions. I have positive beautiful devotional emotions, instead of restlessness. I have a calm steady claim of a mind and instead of darkness and self ignorance and lack of self knowledge of what I should do, what were Who am I? What should be my real deep motivations? Who can I depend on? I don't know any of this right?

This all this lives in self knowledge. This comes from the Upanishads. Okay? Now that's very interesting. So we can go to the VEDA study something like 25,000 plus mantras, study ancient Sanskrit, but for the common person that's not easy. And then we come to this Bhagavad Gita.

Only 700 verses and 700 is very easy compared 25,000 verses to be found in sections of different books. kita has a very special place. So if you are suffering from your own mind me I see hands is your answer. And then I have great pride in introducing this. This is compiled by my own great grandfather, Uttarakhand, Deepika she our buddy Baba. And to get us to Gita as were found in ancient times, one in the Java Island in Indonesia, on Palm leafs, and one on copper plates in furrow cupboard in what is known as otter Pradesh.

These two gators were amalgamated together to come up with 84 verses which was all edited and gone. entered upon by Baba Baba. And these 84 verses are considered probably the seed of the 700 verses. Because the Gita was taught by the guru to the shisha from the master to the disciple in the middle of a battlefield and probably 84 verses was all he really needed to convey. So, this is considered the default verses are the bhagwad Gita is considered as the very basic utterance of Krishna to Arjuna. And then 700 verses grew as with time, some some of these each shloka from the 84 were then further expanded to explain the point.

So, therefore, if you were to study this, all these slow costs can be found here. But if we were to only study this, we get the gist of the data So, this is highly respected it is in very several additions It was first printed in 1933 or 34 sorry I should know, but I have forgotten and since then it has been constantly in print and there are many scholars who go by this, but there is no I mean there is no they study both Gita scholars study both texts. So, I'm very happy that this book contains a foreword by Baba Baba. And in the earlier print, of course, and then much later, after its many reprints, I see that there is a full word added by Baba here. And there are some beautiful words that I might read from you for you. So, we are definitely in the bhagwad Gita family tradition.

And for those of you students who will continue to study with me, in the anchor group, which goes forward and studies the Bhagavad Gita, I'm thinking that we will also go And then do a recap of the 84 shloka us from Alibaba commentary, which is right here. So, the bhagwad Gita 700 verses an interesting background to the stacks. It is said to have been authored by a Rishi Vyasa. To whose tradition we associate with scholarly tradition we associate with in our sampradaya in our lineage and the teachings happen of all places in a battlefield. Okay. And the Gita is in the form of a discourse between guru known as Lord Krishna and the shisha known as Arjuna.

It is so interesting that this is not a battlefield that happened a long time ago in the inbox of history. Because this battle actually represents the battle that we are dealing with every day. Do you know there is a battle you deal with when you want to take that extra scoop of ice cream or not? There is a battle. There is a battle that you face when you have to say no or yes to your boss on some matter or the other. There is a battle we deal with when we are facing unethical or cruel behavior by our own loved ones.

We don't know what to do what not to do. So therefore this it's very interesting that the spiritual teachings are not taught, and off a mountain near a river with a waterfall on a meditation mat. This was taught in a very critical situation where this young prince Arjuna No, he was not so young at that time, maybe in his 40s. But Arjuna had to claim his right to what was rightfully his his land, his throne, which had been easily taken over by his cousins. And for 30 years Arjuna had contemplated and debated what should be the right action. He didn't know what to do.

And because he was a psychotic person, a pure hearted person, he tried everything. Non non battle ways of getting back his land his right to his kingdom. But the evil cousins known as collectively known as Carver's were really evil. So, finally, a conclusion had come that the right thing to do is to go to battle, because this is not a battle for my land. This is a battle for righteousness for dharma. But when it comes to the battle field, his cousin, Krishna, Krishna was his cousin.

And also his guide. He had asked Krishna to be his charity. So he says to Krishna full of strength, and vigor of warrior was about to slay many people. close to where that next army is standing Let me see who are the people who are trying to please my evil cousins. Let me go and see. Let me get more adrenaline pumping through me.

And you know gurus they play a trick on you. Krishna was his guru. So what he did was he took erogenous chariot close to where, and the opposing army. His own grandfather, his beloved grandfather, Bish ma was standing. And Drona Acharya, one of his teachers, one of his gurus were taught him warfare, archery, he was standing there. And while the evil cousins were there, led by the elders of the evil cousin, they have 100 of them, known as daurio, Donna, they were there for you returns wanted to have not only their land but his land also.

But people like their common grandfather, their common archery teacher Drona they were not there because for evil reasons, they were there because it was a duty to be there to support the king, the evil king. So, when our hero Arjuna, sees his own grandfather, and sees his own archery guru, something happens to him. He starts having the memory of his love and affection and his reverence for his grandfather and his guru. And I guess it seems right to how can I kill them Krishna? He says How can I raise my bow against these beloved people? It may be better that I don't fight.

It may be better that I give up my land and I give it to them. The Evil King, the Yoda, the evil Prince Toyota, now let me give it to them. I can't deal with it. And after 13 years of deliberation, some time of diplomacy, he had finally come to this conclusion that yes, it was the heartbreak to have a war. But then when he saw his uncle's brother in law's nephews, and other known faces in the army, he became very weak. He didn't stop crying because he had some amount of supply in him or mind control but he became very weak.

His eyes were active, shimmering with yours. And his famous bowl Gandhi, VA, he put on the floor and he could not find. And if you look in your own life, sometimes we have to take a strong action against the very people we love. Sometimes we have to speak up or say something, or do something, because it's the right thing to do. And we're unable to do it. Because we have threads of attachment.

Do you agree? Yeah, we have threads of attachment, which make us weak. So the first chapter is all about the yoga of Arjuna depression or collapse. He collapses the face of what he had wanted to do. He had wanted to achieve something. So we had the most dire scenario war and bloodthirsty calls, and Arjuna who had been not only his, his land had been taken away, the way the and those evil cousins scheme to take away the land is also very evilish.

They, what happened was that the remoteness father, his name is Geeta rashtra, who was the king at that time, he was blind. He said that I'm getting old. So let me divide up this kingdom between my sons, the Carver's and between my brothers sons, the eponymous Pandava, of which Arjuna bill noble hearted face and the blind sounds evil Children are 100 and number known as core of us. So he divided it up. And what are five noble prints the Pandavas did was they built up their kingdom to great glory known as Hasina, for they were beautiful South ignoble beings. And there has been a poll shown like 100 songs.

It had so much beauty and, and, and nobility. And they also married princess dropper, the who, and that was a very strong political alliance. All of this was growing. Guess what happened to Kaurava and his other 99 brothers. Guess what happened in their mind. They all got jealous.

They got envious, but greedy, and they just got angry with what an uninitiated mind does, at the success and the happiness and the comfort and the peace and the pleasures of his five brothers of their cousins. So What is schemed was they said let's call them on a game of dice. And they they cheated on that game and do rio de na and his brothers 99 other brothers I'm saying do do the nine the 99 other brothers are the core of us. They cheated and they unfairly took away her snapper from the five noble Prince. On top of that, they they ill treated and they mistreated their wife in public. On top of that is said that you get exiled for 12 years.

And then the 13 year you can come out and in case and you have to still live in, in secret, and in case we spot you, you have to go back to exile for 12 years which in effect me Instead, the kingdom would be enjoyed by due to dinner with the blind king and his hundred evil sons. And the blind kings role was just blind. He was just like the king. He could have said, No, this is unfair. I won't let that happen. But he had love and attachment for his hundred sons.

So he had what's called learned helplessness. But after all, I'm blind. But after all, I am myself a victim. So how can I help and how can I stop? So he was just a helpless, blind king. The hundred sons were aggrandizing greedy, cheating.

Malefic. And guess what the five nice people to guess what the nice people do. They don't speak back. They don't talk back. They fight back. They just go into exile.

Isn't that what nonviolent people do? They just go and they go and be in exile. That's what they did. And in the 30th year they were found out, but it updates all well. So they went back and said, Look, we've lived for exile in 12 years, and one years we have lived in six secrecy. So 13 years have passed.

Can we have our kingdom back please? they asked very politely. Guess what do you do? Then? I said, Nope. Just a flat out.

No, no. Isn't that what happens? Sometimes? You you feel like you've earned it and then you get a No, no. So the five brothers the Pandavas. They go to their common cousin Krishna was a cousin to both.

God is a cousin to both the evil and the good. So they go to Krishna and they say to Krishna, we don't want to go to war. Isn't that what normal people don't want? We don't want to go to war. We don't want to confront we don't want to have to ask Can you please explain the core of That they should give us our land back. We'd like diplomacy first.

Good job. So Krishna goes and tries all kinds of diplomacy. And guess what do you know the evil Prince? Says the leader? Nope. I want war.

I want more. They can come and take it from me otherwise I'm not giving. I'm fighting for war. So you can see that with all these slights and insults and humiliation, it was time for the panda was to claim not only what was theirs, rightfully, but also readdress the humiliation, and to also relieve the world of those sinful hundred sons. It's very interesting. You know, that blind King this entire Battle of the Mahabharata which is the bigger epic, in which the 700 verses of the Bhagavad Gita are located is really the Battle of the human being and an internal saga.

You know that blind King, it represents our own blind, rudderless ego mind and it has hundred desires that it tends to overlook and let them do their thing. Isn't that what we do? We just wear a blindfold, and we let our desires karma and even compromise Dharma at times. And that is what this blind King and the hundred sons beginning with do not represent. It's very interesting that this blind King had a wife What was her name? granddaddy, who could see when she first married the blind, she could see the beautiful, radiant bright woman.

But out of false loyalty to an unworthy husband's false loyalty, undeserved love to an undeserving husband. She says, Oh, I'm a great woman of great character. I if you are suffering from blindness, my master, I too shall become blind in my empathy for you. And she took on a blindfold and put it on her eyes. So those she had eyes she became blind. This is called foolishness.

And so Gandhara here represents what do we do with our reason be blindfolded to there is a part of us that could possibly see she could have told her husband. She could have been His eyes, but in such she also wears a blindfold. So we have a blind husband and wife, husband by birth wife by foolish choices, infatuation, her wrong loyalty misplaced loyalty blind. They have spawned hundred sons beginning with Dario Luna, who are who who only want they want more. And they they they live there they have the typical mind they are negative emotions, anger, jealousy, rivalry, restless and completely ignorant of Who are they really they're just in that moment fighting, wanting claiming desiring conquest. So very interesting that in spite of all Reasons for him to go to war.

When the actual time to go to war comes Arjuna becomes weak, more than weak, he loses, he gets deluded, he does not know whether it is harmik to go to war, or other harmik he actually tells Krishna, this will be great adharma if I go to war, and he's a warrior by birth, and by his work is shatta Varna. We have talked about varnas in this classroom. It's his duty to go to war. But he was he said, I think and hazardous and he sounded just like all of you. He said, I think I should renounce the world. So it was time for him to go to the Himalayas and become pseudo spiritual.

I think I shall renounce the world. Spoken just like any other person, who get stressed out and say this time for me to renounce the world in a very grand manner, which meant I think I'm escaping this. So his, so Dharma appeared like non Dharma to him. Duty felt like it was wrong. And his strength became he forgot his own strength he had. He was such a mighty warrior.

He was such a mighty warrior that the divine celestial said gathered up in the heavens to cheer and look Arjuna is coming. You know when some great player is coming on the field, in tennis, or basketball or cricket or whatever, even the opulent party gets excited, a great player is coming might lose from that. player that watch that player. In the same way when Arjuna was about to fight, even those hundred cousins and their supporters are saying, we're going to watch our original fight today. Arjuna was that kind of a mighty warrior, a legendary warrior. And the entire world had taken sides.

It was a beautiful ethical battle that had been drawn out and this mighty Arjuna with nobody less than Krishna was a king and also known for some spiritual powers, although some people question that he, he, he was being the charity here and there he sits there and talks like a depressed person, knowing not what to do. And I think this happens to a lot of us at a crucial juncture. And on a day to day level, we don't know what to do. We get confusion between what path will lead me to Dharma, which is Dharma is that which is a right action, and the right action. It's not just a self serving right action, it is an action that will not violate anybody else. Plus it will have immediate benefit and long term benefits.

So what is Dharma and what is a Dharma Dharma can sometimes give us instant pleasure. But in the long run, it will give us sorrow, that is our dharma. So we get confused between what should we do? What should we not do? And so in the first chapter, we really have a discussion of this whole battlefield and what happens to origin so Arjuna despondency, which is a universal despondency gets introduced. Plus we get introduced to guru and shisha, we get introduced to a master and disciple tradition, where a master explains to the disciples is very useful.

Now it's interesting that first Arjuna sees his grandfather and his teacher and his cousins and his nieces and not nieces and nephews and his brother in law's and other people. And he gets very shaken up and he gets confused. So he develops a delusionary state of mind known as more Hmm. Once more harm occurs, he starts babbling. Isn't that what happens to all of us also? What?

When we are clear, we can say something in few words. Yep, I'm doing it. No, I'm not doing it. This is how I'm doing it. But when we are unsure we blabber. So, there is some blabbering from Arjuna.

He gives all kinds of reasons to Krishna. Why he should not fight. Why this war will damage the whole planet and nature and all those kinds of things in black And then finally, because he's a vise person ultimately that is why Krishna Stokes spoke to him. He sees his own blabbering and he says, Krishna, I am confused. Please help. This is the Parampara the student says, teacher, I have an issue, please help me.

It takes some of us many lifetimes to accept that I have a confusion. It takes many lifetimes. We keep blaming, no no but it is those people. It is that person's habits. If that person's personality, it is my karma it gods are against me. But we rarely come to this understanding of Krishna.

I am confused and until that Time Krishna was just trying to wake him up but finally he starts teaching. So then from chapter two, verse 11, all the way to chapter 18. So 17 chapters are in a way that teaching that happens. And at the end of all of this teaching, Krishna asks Arjuna is your Maha is your own mental self created delusion clear now? He says, and Arjuna says, Yes, it's clear, I'm going to war. So, you can understand why these 700 verses or these 84 verses are very critical for us to because once we know this wisdom that's contained these 84 belong to the 700.

They are not separate. Once we have this system to Then on the battle grounds of life, we shall have a better determination or keenness as to what we have to do. So, therefore, this is a time immemorial book or wisdom that empowers us, and it helps us discover the right path. So now, a very interesting question, why did Arjuna spend so much time 700 verses talking to Arjuna and extending how to go to war, or us God after all, he could have gone to the Rio the night and said don't fight. He could have gone to the Rio then I explained to him, don't fight, and then there would be no war. And life would be all sweet and wonderful and non violent and cheerful and pretty right.

So, I wrote his answer down in case you asked this question. And so here's what Arjuna says. Gianna, Gianna nacelle me. The Jana had a mama Tell me why is she gay shahidi Sabina Yata unique tatanka he says look at what the answers do do they know when Krishna was just beginning to talk to him about Dharma Dharma? Here is what this particular candidate answers low Krishna. I know what is Dharma and I know what is other malls deep down I know that what is the wrong path?

I should not have gone there. I should not go the I know it. And I know what is the better part. But it looks like Like, it looks like the gods of all the senses are sitting in my heart and they are directing me what to do. So I am following my senses. My sentence says here is a beautiful woman drop a tea grabber.

Here is some more land go for it become more powerful, be devious, do whatever. Because I am just following what my mind is seeing. I'm just going I know. And I want to tell you that most of us are like, we are hearing inside us an inner voice, which says, this is the right path, but we don't have an interest in following it. We also have an impetus saying don't follow that path. Don't take this action.

Don't eat this food. Don't talk like this, but have no interest in resisting and we just follow what is coming to our mind. And so therefore due to dinner was unteachable. The other night was another thing, just before the war because he's a common cousin. Krishna went up to do the nine he was both of them went up to Krishna, whose side will you be on? So, Krishna says for one of you, I can join you and the other person can have my my army, my cavalry, my elephants, my horses.

So guess what do the nachos. The material minded person could not see the guru waiting and said I want your horses and your cavalry and I want Want your people, your men to fight in my army? and Arjuna said, I want you. I want you, you're my friend, you're my guide. And so what started out as cousins, which became friends later revealed itself to be guru, and thank God. So it's very interesting that from the very beginning, Krishna is projected as a very intelligent person, very wise person, but as an avatar, as a guru, and then as an avatar, it gets revealed in Bhagavad Gita.

Other some people such as God, another hundred friends even call him a scoundrel, so many times without a spiritual sight. You can have a very divine person amidst you. But you might not take benefit from them because you don't recognize them. Because your mind it cannot see why was due to dinner like this And why was Arjuna lead on a whole process? Why is this entire text relevant to us? Let me explain a little bit.

So the shastra says the VEDA says that this is very common teaching that the mind there are two faculties of thought within the mind within the thinking operators known as Cheetah one is known as mind the other is known as intellect. Okay, so mind is known as Manas. An intellect is known as Budi Have you heard of the word booty? There is also ego known as omkara. There is also memory known as Smithy, but I will just focus mind and intellect right now for you. This is a very popular teaching this is not a unique teaching in Vedanta.

I'm just bringing it forward for you to pay attention to they are both made up of thought, but what is the difference between mind and intellect Do you know? Does anybody know? Okay. You are saying that body or intellect can discern and discriminate which mine cannot do. Why? Because mind is driven by the senses.

Okay, close. Yes. Possibly can make progress So, very good. Both of you Connect the mind both of them are thoughts. But it is a mind when the thoughts are still in a state of flux. Mind is in a state of flux.

So it's constantly changing. So there is nothing you can work with. It's constantly changing based on input. So it sees a beautiful woman, and the mind becomes lusty. Then it sees an old woman who's dying. And the mind starts saying, oh, no life is so miserable.

So it just changes. So the mind is constantly changing. At the intellect level, the mind starts the same part, start slowing down, and start stabilizing into more concrete ideas, building blocks of thoughts. So this is a difference. A very big difference. That the mind the mind can only look outwards so it's only reality is outwards.

So it relies on the senses and it conjures up reality based on what it's these booty or intellect is that internal thoughts scope that can actually look within. So, the mind cannot report to you I am calm or even if you notice your anxiety, this is all invert that is the work of the intellect which says I am you know it's a deeper level, a deeper deliberation that can happen with the level of intellect. Now what the mind likes to do is it likes to trick us. The mind likes to imagine and it imagines all kinds of scenarios, future scenarios, past scenarios longer today. lattitude scenarios, it likes to you know, I was writing to one of the students, then it looks like a bowl of noodles, that that's the mind. There, everything is all like that.

Okay. And the intellect, on the other hand is, you know, a sorted out structure. So the mind likes to imagine, and so it likes to trick us. So we think we got it, but we didn't get it. Oh, but it should be this way. But it's that way.

Oh, it should be up there, but it's down there. Oh, but I thought I got it. It should be x. It's why because it's that's just the way it is. On the other hand, the intellect instead of tricking us, it guides us. It informs us it turns on the light and investigates discrimination, whether that is the case or not.

How wonderful Have an intellect, the mind, past or future. It's very skittish in the present. It lacks memories, IT projects in the future and it keeps spinning stories. story after story after story after story after story after story story as a story in that story. There's another story from that story. Let's open another story.

In the story, there are three windows three stories, similar story, fifth stories, story after story after story, such as the nature of the life of the mind. The intellect, on the other hand, there's to be present in the present and say what that is past. So we need only that much information from it. That's the future. Let's not rush too much. It can Slowly create a more moment by moment, present moment.

Reality reports it's not trying to create a story it can see beyond the story and said that's a story. It is only people like do do the nine the evil brothers who are like, yeah, I want this so I have a story. So let's go to war and they are ready for anything. It's impulsive. It's excitable. It gets easily is urgency at all times.

I feel urgent need to do this. Anytime anything feels urgent. You want to question? Is it really urgent? Now that word doesn't live in my vocabulary. Nothing is urgent.

That's just my mind think it's urgent. A lot of the times I have time to take five breaths, and a walk around my neighborhood and it's still not urgent. not urgent to this is all the mind doing it. Yeah. But whereas So, so therefore, I wrote some things. So the mind tends to be caught up in a vortex every mind, even Arjuna his mind in that battlefield got caught up in a vertex of this and that and if and but it's caught up in a vortex and the intellect guides us through the vortex intellect sounds wonderful.

So we are all pretty saved by our own intellect. But the thing is that the intellect is asleep for all of us, until it is awakened and fortified and strength. So human beings have been given a marvelous thinking Operators so we think we are thinking, but the real thinking doesn't really happen by the mind because it changes it starts by the second by the nanosecond, the real thinking operators is only the intellect which things through and things, one chain of thought to a conclusion to the next chain of thought. And clearly it drives the thinking process to the objective goal and stays there. So new belief system can be created. So when we say we're thinking, human beings are thinking beings, probably not.

We have to own our thinking apparatus, which is the intellect. And we have to think that right now we can think that anytime I had all these scenarios, and then one clear light came Through which connected this thought rejected that pot move forward in a reasoning way, in a discerning manner, in a logical manner, in a rational manner than that is my intellect. So therefore my rational thinking faculty, his intellect and by irrational thinking faculties by mind. But most of us are driven by the irrational thinking faculty. And when we are hundred percent driven by our intellect, we have what is known as normal. But when we are only driven by the mind and what lives there is feelings and emotions, and quirks and attitudes and whims and memories, then we are probably to the degree with which the mind versus intellect plays out in us to that degree.

We are insane rational or irrational? It's, don't take it personally This is the human universal situation. So what the bhagwad Gita is trying to tell us. What Bhagavad Gita is saying is that that his wife, the blind wife is like a blinded intellect, and the hundred spawned desires and actions, which lead to adharma and ultimate ruin and destruction. They represent a mind which do not have an intellect to guide it. So, the Bhagavad Gita says that your own mind becomes your bundle or your friend, when it is paired with its intellect.

And that same mind becomes our own enemy when the intellect is Separated from it. So, therefore, we have in the case of the evil evil hundred brothers and their blind father and mother, purposefully blind and born brain blind, we have a scenario of a typical rudderless. conscience less mind is just feeling, reacting, acting, etc. With the Pandavas we have rational intellect, but then we have the collapse of the intellect due to attachments, because more ha and attachment came over. And so what happens is, if the intellect is not fortified, then an attachment can come over and the intellect can collapse. So until the intellect is Truong fortified, you will notice that you're moving in a rational manner, and you're enjoying life.

And you're creating Dharma and enjoying the fruits of Dharma, and then come across some very strong attachment or emotion and boom, you collapse into the irrational. And that's where you have an episode. And so our Arjuna was having an episode of intellect failure and the complete mind taking over. And above that this mind I told you it looks like a bowl of noodles to me. These noodles grow in find it very quickly. So once it starts feeling sorry for itself, it can feel sorry to the point of committing suicide.

Once it falls in love, it will fall in love to the point of going to Las Vegas and marrying the wrong person. Anything can happen here. Happiness sorrow, sex, crime, this all happens at the level of the mind. It grows at the speed of like a computer virus, very fast. intellect on the other hand, holes and grows slowly. Such as here in the Satsang idea after idea, every satsang that you come to, what do you grow?

Do you grow a muscle? Do you grow a bone? Do you grow more calcium, you grow and nurture, and fortify and strengthen your intellect. So much so that when I'm not there, your intellect rescues you from your own mind. Yes or no me I hear. Yes.

Yes. So you say surely you did it. You've helped me but actually you're intellect which is meant to be your inner guide, your inner force, your own mind is meant to help you helps you to until our own intellect has developed the mind, it keeps saying, it keeps going. It interacts even with a guru in a mind manner, you know with the mind, I, I want to sit in front of the guru and I like the guru alot, or I'm going to stay there in order the guru. Guru didn't look at me so I don't like the guru. The Guru liked me.

So I like the guru. It's all just changing constantly. intellect occurs, the students stabilize. And the guru understands who's the guru, who am I what is shastra what is Ishwara who is Brahman and understand the scheme and understands their part. So this intellect tends to drown out remains actually latent until it is activated in ancient days to the Gurukul system of education, this is what we nurtured the intellect. Nowadays in education we fill the mind with information.

And we have no concerns about the intellect. So, either due to past life or something if we have a better intellect, we have a better life. But in case we don't we have an impulsive life, we have a reactionary life. We just live based on whatever if our family is nice, we have a good life. If our family is dysfunctional, we have a bad life because the mind cannot find anything but to react. Whereas the intellect can look at a difficult situation and say, I think I'm fine.

I'm going to melt this difficult situation and meditate. If it's a good situation, the intellectual safe. Okay, good time to review my shastra. So the intellect can find its way. So this is really important for you to know that what bhagwad Gita is actually trying to do is not trying to. It's a kind of religion, it's the highest text of the Hindu tradition, I have to tell you that.

Why? Because it is empowering, each being to become a caretaker of their own self and fully aligned with Dharma, and thereby the cosmic Dharma also takes place. So it is a very high order, high standard text, and at least the way I will teach it, I do want to tell you that there are several ways of studying Bhagavad Gita. This is perhaps the Upanishads are not so easy to translate or teach or preach. And Brahma sutras so esoteric that only Baba could deal with it. bhagwad Gita is one of the easier texts so it has so many commentaries so many interpretations, so many YouTube teachings, so many renderings so many versions, that you need not come back here to somebody like me to study you can teach yourself.

Now, there is a difference between studying Bhagavad Gita like a story, or like, like a text of teaching good things that you can do on your own. But when you receive teachings slowly, systematically, with periods of time in between for you to listen, then practice manam contemplate and finally you do need to know what does that mean? We say here and what do we call what how do we translate mediastinum in medical practice, what is practice? What is the Practice of bhagwad Gita. Here's the practice. Let me clarify to you what I expect from you in this curriculum of Bhagavad Gita.

Next time you have an emotional problem, you use this knowledge of mind versus intellect to deal with it. When you start using knowledge to encounter emotional problems, right, because ignorance or the our darkest part of the mind comes out in our relationships, does it not? Our restlessness, our negative mind, our restless mind, and our ignorant dark minded all comes out personified in intimate relationships, intimate or professional. So next time you have relationship issues, how about you use the knowledge of bhagwad Gita to to deal with it internally, not not preach to them internally. Then you shall know That you are really learning Bhagavad Gita. You can always pick up a book.

Then I want to tell you that regarding books, there are various versions of Bhagavad Gita. We have the advanced version of it by Shankar Acharya Shankar Acharya is commentary, and then Barabbas commentary, then they can be where they can be vishesh to death. So there are all these versions of it. So, if you pick up a random text and start reading the commentary, it might take you completely differently. There is one teaching of Bhagavad Gita very popular in the planet, which wants you to consider yourself as a servant of Lord Krishna. That's also one way, but that is not the way I am teaching you.

So, if that's the way you should learn from the Acharya of that tradition, this I wanted to clarify that the goal is not how much Bhagavad Gita you studied, the call is not I went through a chapters of Gita. The question is how many chapters went through you? That's the goal. So there is no room for shastra vasana here, some kind of a mind base neural approach to bhagwad Gita, how much how many mantras? How many chapters? How much did I do?

It's like, hey, if you got few things and you live them, your life changes. So, the whole goal, what happened was that he, he collapsed, his intellect, collapse, just like if somebody who has a drinking problem they drink. At that time, their intellect, collapses, and their mind suffices to say, I deserve to drink after all. My wife beats me every day, so I'm going to drink After all, I don't I didn't choose the president I have. So I will drink you know, we can find any reasons to drink political one sounds kind of heavyweight. So I'll drink for the following reasons.

Then the next morning, the person regrets drinking and comes to people like me to say I don't want to drink. What why they're doing this, why are regretting because now intellect is back. So what we don't want is a plunging intellect. First, if you don't have an intellect, you've only been leading a life of the mind. You must be suffering. Welcome home.

Let's start activating your own intellect. Number two, if your intellect plunges, you want to fortify it with the knowledge of Bhagavad Gita because that is what happened with Arjuna. In the entire Mahabharata here is nothing but the hero. And then comes bhagwad Gita just before the Bhagavad Gita started, his intellect failed him and his mind made him such that Lord Krishna had to say to him, women fight in a certain manner men fight in a certain manner Who are you? I, you've lost your complete personality. You What are you?

You know, Lord Krishna had to be strong with him in the beginning, before he started enlightening him here to further because the best way was to first give him an electric shock and wake him up. So he had become so big. So that is one thing and when the mind or does that time last topic when the mind is ruling us and not the intellect There is a disease that occurs, a viral disease of the mind that occurs. And I've gone through it before but I'd like to go over it again. It's a syndrome and it's called raga shoka Mohan syndrome. Like you have at the pitaka.

You have lava Shaka Maha in Vedanta. Okay. What is the raga? You know, what is attachments? What's wrong with attachments? That make things fun anymore, okay.

So let us discuss raga Han. These are also very many Six teachings of what is raga that I shall go over. We all there are two words one is known as Rog raga The other one is known as Prema. Prema means love. Okay. Bhagavad Gita wants us to love bhagwad Gita doesn't want us to have selfish attachments.

It's all about love, ultimate love and love song teaches us to become true lovers. So let us let us look at Rog, most of us in the name of love, have nothing but an attachment and this attachment has certain qualities number one, that attachments that we have to our loved ones. They are they are manufactured with the thread of selfishness. We are attached because we want something from that relationship. Yes or no. If you look deep down it's a selfish boarding round is attachment.

Whereas in love, there is selflessness. We love not for what Vishal get we just love period. It goes into Bhakti and devotion and selfishness number two breeds. One thing I want from that relationship, this is wrong. I want this is the kind of love we have in the human beings. I love you because you fulfill me because you have To me up, these are all the songs out there you fill me you, what is this?

Why are you empty? First of all? First of all, so it's not I already got this Vedanta question then how to switch it off and you know, so selfish, then I want and then additional. If you don't fulfill me It's all a baby. Isn't it like this, this is the love we are professing to each other. This all raga and because of the route of selfishness want and conditionality, we are also naturally driven sooner or later to some other ma will take some action, we will do something some behavior that's going to be self gratifying and it will harm our Other other planet because we are consumers have attachments attached.

Let's look at blame love. If it is love it will be selfless. If it is love it will also want it's not ready to be some sacrificing martyr but it also think of what giving what other also wants. What does the person wants not just my list of want my my need for strokes my need for st my need for love, my need for comfort. There are many relationships, people come to me and say, Why should I stay in the relationship whatever wherever my needs met. So after a long time to ask, did you meet any need?

Oh, I know. There were so obsessed with their needs. But in love, the person will think of giving even before one If and it won't be conditional on your video, if you don't meet my needs, I am not going to continue loving. And so, they will be Dharma, that my shall be maintained. So, wherever there is a Dharma, such as in raga surah sorrow, because Papa karma, negative karma is created and sorrow comes back and there is punim joy, love, the person comes, the person is selfless, the person is giving more, the person is not putting all these limits and conditions and the person is holding on to them and the person is looking younger than they are and joyful. And the other person who had all these attachments and grandiose attachments is becoming better and happier and unhappy We're getting smaller and smaller, and we have to acknowledge that raga is an issue that we all have either towards objects or people.

And then what does raga does is it leads to another complication, which is known as shoka. or frustration. We get frustrated, we get angry, we get frustrated. It brings in grief, self pity, victimhood, and a lot of irritability. Very frustration. A feeling of lack of empowerment because we're not getting our attachments, right.

Shaka and after Shaka, the final stage happens which is more haha. In which was kind of in doing a dharmic things we are manipulating we, we want we want our needs met. We want that person in our life because it needs to fulfill our So we're doing all of this by Maha we, our mind completely forgets what is the right path and it starts believing that other karma after all, I can have an affair. After all, it's okay for me to cheat occasionally, after all, we start justifying, you know, justifying heavenly bargaining, because it's because we have the mind has gone into a delusional stage and Dharma other monk get confused completely. The answer at this date the intellect has completely suppressed. So when we have more ha, intellect or delusion, mental delusion, intellect, a surprise and the mind just feels justified in its victimhood in its anger and bitterness and it's unethical actions, and then guess what happens it becomes a syndrome because when one is in delusion, one has Get more attachments and then when has yet more more suffering more frustration around managing those attachments because attachments don't last those attachments are temporary living beings die or disappear or betray us because they themselves are suffering from raga Shaka Maha objects don't last.

So, these temporary attachments we have all this happening. So they it leads to yet more. So gradually. This is what I mean it becomes a very uncomfortable, unhappy bowl of noodles, that's the mind that raga show combo world up into each other and that is the typical mind. So how interesting that Krishna if it looked at how unpretentious bhagwad Gita is look at how real it is. Could have completely staged Krishna and Arjuna in Arjuna about to drink too much alcohol one too many little bit socially okay?

Even healthy for you according to iomega but one too many alcohol is an alcoholic and Krishna comes up in this beautiful manner and says Oh my dear Arjuna do not die in that alcohol because if you have refer to that I'll call jack understand. So you will have shoka have and you don't get enough alcohol and you have more haha so you are thinking that you are justified Pinkett and you're just harming yourself and you think that's also okay. So you're all confused and here to help. Let me give you the sermon or Bhagavad Gita makes total sense. Instead, we have a very, very difficult situation where Arjuna has to actually killed his own grandfather in a very difficult situation. As a designer difficult situation, he has to kill his own grandfather.

He has to kill his own teacher of archery. Not because they are specifically bad or evil, but because they have in their own version of Dharma, sided with evil. And so therefore Arjuna is taught about raga. He's having raga to them. So there's a little Stark bit. Oh, clearly the teacher out of it.

We just leave the grandfather out of it. How wonderful if he just had to kill the cousins. But this is where we get diluted between. But after all, I love this person. Haven't we heard of people who are sexually abused by their own family? Remember, and then they won't speak up about the family member.

Why? Because I love that person. Doesn't that happen? Right? So, don't we don't? So ultimately the question is Arjuna.

Are you colluding with evil? Or are you colluding with truth? suck them? dharma. So there is a very dire direct teaching. Our life situations may not be such that we have to kill our grandfather, or kill our archery teacher.

But what it's really saying is that the stacks may be really high. And you may still may have to choose dharma. And you might want to have your intellect handy. And not have a mental noodle blowout and not have raga. And then first, he had rago. I'm attached to them.

I played on their lap. I know I need them around, or file a society without answer. Sisters use useless society, all the men will die then who will take care after the pictures and the judge knows. And he made all this arguments for his raga ha, then he had shoka he was suffering, he was restless, and then he had more haha. And he said, No, no, I think this is very non dharmic and I think I'd shoot the dharmic thing is to let the evil people roll. And, and, and I think the dharmic thing is for me to renounce, to go and live in the mountains.

So that was all Mohan because he he completely had quit. And if he had quit, then entire India will be the descendants of those evil Prince. So with this, I begin with a bang. The teachings of bhagwad Gita and I hope that all of you walk away embellished by these words written by Baba in the foreword to the Adi Baba Gita, this is in Hindi so I'll translate to the best of my capacity in the moment. She Krishna Ji marazzi Hamada, he does a damn sunglass Tipperary token dish pumpkin curry. Chai see is a Carrera Tommy me It's time for semester planning critical up not up something or submit a server VRP Bhagwan Give me that ruka Shankar please go from key us into lockers yeah hate the militia g vodka and Wow, so Baba saying in the foreword at Indy And in conclusion, this is my prayer to shake ashna that all the people who do the study who do the learning of Gita, they get motivated to have to do Nish calm, selfless Karma Yoga, and the great inner truth and with deep reverence and Bhakti and with an alertness to nanum to self knowledge, may they start leading their daily life in such a way, that in all lifestyle, in all life's which they look at all beings in this world, all creatures, and they see the one common self they see their own self in all beings and They see that God Brahman servile yuppie who is dwelling in everything and maybe see there without a roof or messy maybe see them with these humble human eyes maybe see like Arjuna got the darshan of Krishna in his VR in his full form as Brahman.

He gave Arjuna that glimpse, maybe also get that glimpse of that ultimate reality with the everything every particle stopped this arm colliders collapsed. Okay, it does and becomes one with that seamless After all, this of human life First class and I invite all of you to continue three more classes with me over here. And feel free to invite your friends and family who you feel are ready for stretching their intellect and awakening it. Because to tell others about Bhagavad Gita is an act of Jeremiah everybody. We shall close with a sadomasochism. In this mantra we chant from the BladeRunner Punisher, this is an open Asiatic mantra.

And in this chant, this is our This is our prayer. This is our resolution for our own self. This our mother father, Uncle cousin doesn't tell us policia teaches truths. That come the mind and awaken the intellect. And bhagwad Gita is a teaching of those Upanishads. And this BladeRunner mantra we chant every night in the class and I hope each and every day in your homes because it says that I want to journey.

I want to journey I personally want to journey. I was told you should do this, you should do that you should do this. But here's what I want to do. I want to journey from the untruth that I'm a small, useless, shamed, broken crazy person, to the truth. That I am that profound being. I want to journey from the darkness of my mind, to the light of knowing my own self through the same mind.

And I want to journey from identification of who I am just with this body which dice to My Immortal nature, my spirit. Oh, I said oh ma comma, Tommaso ma Jo de Gama Malaya do Ma Ma Tom de Maya. Oh Ciao, Sha de, Sha de, Sha n t o p, p p and can you say see Krishna, when the target guru so throughout our Bhagavad Gita study, we are going to tank the guru of this universe Krishna, for giving us this brilliant teaching of Bhagavad Gita and in the online study in the more detailed study, we will do a more What is it called? in English? article gobble dead English. No.

We will do one more Mmm hmm. We'll do a break down and then we will also chant. We will also learn some To bhagwad Gita itself. So we will pray we will do a more prayerful study of the bhagwad Gita where I will teach you some chants, which we will chant to the Bhagavad Gita herself because she is considered a living goddess. And she and we will chant to her and we will tank Lord Krishna. And then we will study and also some very important lockers, which are like life changing lockers, I will teach you how to change them also, so that you can chant them and know them.

And mainly I invite you to listen, contemplate, and then use the knowledge in your emotional problems in life, which is known as needed.