"Existence is Your Friend!
There are two ways in which we can live. First, we can embrace and welcome reality, in which case our
ego or root pattern must dissolve because only then can we face reality. Please understand that this reality is
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God. God is not some entity hidden in some remote corner of the Universe or in the sky. He is the reality
around us.
The second way of living is how most of us live: We create a shell, a dream world around ourselves to
defend a false ego which has no substance in reality. This is what is meant by māyā—illusion. Since we are
hidden in this capsule of our unreal world with our ego as the center, we cannot feel the immediate presence
of God, who is actually the closest to us.
The prāṇa (vital energy), the air that we breathe, which is going inside our body and coming out, is not
our property. It is the property of Existence. We do not need air to survive. We need prāṇa to survive.
Constantly, we take prāṇa through the air from the Cosmos. If the incoming breath carries more prānā than
the outgoing breath, we are going towards life. Then, we expand, we strengthen our body, our energy. If the
outgoing breath carries more prānā than the incoming breath, be very clear, we are going towards death.
Understand that whatever we think of as our being cannot function, if prāṇa doesn’t go in and come out.
The first thing Kṛṣṇa teaches as rājavidya rājaguhyaṁ (secret of all secrets), is that Existence is not your
enemy. It responds to your thoughts. It continuously cares for you. It is intelligence.
If you live with the attitude of enmity with the Whole, even when you live, you will constantly be tortured. When
you live with the feeling of friendliness or sakha bhāva, with the attitude that Existence is your friend, that
Existence is your own, you feel a deep easiness.
Above all, more than the easiness, you will feel deeply connected to Existence. Even if the wave thinks that it is
different from the ocean and starts defending itself from the ocean, ultimately it will fall into the ocean, however
much it tries to defend itself! By its very nature, the wave starts in the ocean, exists in the ocean and falls into
the ocean. If it understands that it is a part of the ocean, it will be utterly relaxed. It will live a blissful life. If it
fights the fact, it will fight with the ocean. But eventually it has to fall into the ocean.
The ultimate secret that Kṛṣṇa wants to reveal is that Existence, Parāśakti, Brahman, is your friend,
not your enemy. It is intelligence and it responds to your thoughts. This is the first understanding.
Next, in this chapter, Kṛṣṇa says, ‘I am That.’ He says, ‘I am the whole of Existence.’ In the next
chapter, He gives the experience of the Cosmic consciousness to Arjuna. These chapters lead Arjuna step-by step to an elevated consciousness.
In the previous chapter, rājavidya rājaguhyaṁ yogaḥ Kṛṣṇa says, ‘Drop your enmity with Existence,
against the Universal energy, Brahman and Ātman.’ In this chapter, Vibhūti Yogaḥ, He says, ‘I am the same
energy. Not only you don’t need to have enmity, you can have deep love.’ Now, He explains how to feel
connected to Existence. In the next chapter, Viśvarūpa Darśana Yoga, He gives the Cosmic experience to
Arjuna that He is in the whole Cosmic consciousness.
First, He removes enmity, then, He creates the feeling of connectedness, deep friendliness. Finally, He
gives the advaitic (non-dual) experience. These three chapters lead Arjuna step-by-step. They elevate Arjuna
from a low level to a higher level.
Let us study this scripture, Yogaśāśtra, with intense devotion and deep sincerity. Along with
Arjuna, we will grow into completion. We will not miss it.
Kṛṣṇa says, ‘For your benefit, because you are My dear friend, I shall speak to you further, giving
knowledge that is better than what I have already explained.’ Kṛṣṇa explains His glory not for His own sake
but for Arjuna’s sake. Kṛṣṇa does not explain His glory to show His ego.
Here, Kṛṣṇa does not speak about Himself out of ego. Whether Arjuna accepts it or not, Kṛṣṇa is Kṛṣṇa.
Kṛṣṇa was in a blissful state even before Arjuna became His disciple. Kṛṣṇa will be in a blissful state even
after Arjuna becomes His disciple. Irrespective of whether Arjuna is His disciple or not, Kṛṣṇa is in the same
blissful consciousness.
Even with all His glory, He allowed Arjuna to call Him by His first names. He never said, ‘Don’t you
know who I am? How dare you call me by my first name?’ He never carried a business card!
Even when Arjuna was talking to Kṛṣṇa in a friendly way, He was humble. Kṛṣṇa responded to Arjuna in the
same way that Arjuna spoke to Him. Kṛṣṇa is simple and humble. Before the Gītā started, at the time of the Gītā
and after the Gītā, Kṛṣṇa is the same, eternally.
He explains so that Arjuna will understand, intranalyze and experience Him. When Kṛṣṇa says, ‘I am,’ He means
the cosmic consciousness, the egoless being and the enlightened energy. Again and again, He expresses the glory
of enlightenment, the glory of ātmajñāna (knowledge of the Self). That is why He is so complete and confident.
With such clarity, with such integrity and authenticity, He explains, ‘I am Everything.’ Even to utter these words,
you need courage."
-Bhagavan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam – (Jeevan Mukti Bhashya)
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