Geeta Enlightened

To satisfy the ego we repress nature, and thus feel apart from it. But if we engage with it, and pull the weeds to give love to the little seeds, we understand the seeds we sow are the fruits we will harvest. Likewise, if we plant seeds of love, the world will change.

The one, who does not help to turn the wheel thus set in motion, is lost in sensual indulgences, and sins; his life is wasted. (16)

The bees draw pollen from the flowers and give honey. It is a wonder how far they travel to give one drop of honey! But do they know what they give us? The giving does not know the receiving end.
In order to enjoy the honey we have to tend the flowers. But those who only want to enjoy the honey without tending the flowers eat in sin.
We can pay back nature’s debt by giving vibrations, (vital energy) to flowers and also human beings to balance them. But if we steal from nature without giving in return we become victims of our own actions.

William Blake said it all;
“Everything that lives,
Lives not alone;
Not for itself.”

Likewise, to find oneself one has to lose himself in the service of others. Those who make offerings in temples, churches and mosques but forget their suffering brotherhood, what would they avail from their offerings?

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Arjuna’s intellect does not allow him to reconcile the two approaches suggested by Lord Krishna.

One enters the room from the left and the other from the right. The introvert enters through the door of emotions while the extrovert enters through the door of intellect.

They both meet inside the room and join hands. It is not about which approach is better, but their convergence.

For instance, all the seekers want to reach the top of the hill. One takes a spiral route, the other a zigzag one and the third makes a beeline, but eventually they all converge atop the hill.

Hence, to come to terms with reality a Hindu must be aware of the essence of Prophet Mohammed, Christ, Buddha and vice versa.

All the prophets and incarnations mouthed the same source. But as human beings were at different levels at different times, they said the same thing in different ways. Hence, some superficial differences appeared on the surface.

Unfortunately, these were used to split the human race. If we desire world peace we have to reconnect the dots. We have to bear in mind that no single prophet revealed everything, for the subject was too vast, and their duration on earth was too short to cover it completely. Besides, most of their effort was wasted in facing aggression and suffering.

Gita Enlightened - By Sahaja Yogi, Yogi Mahajan
Chapter 14 Extracts
According to ancient scriptures three shaktis or energies emanated from the Adi Shakti. They manifested three modes (gunas) - sattwa, rajas and tamas respectively. The permutations and combinations of these three modes create, preserve and transform everything in the universe.
In the previous chapter it was stated that the Spirit is the knower of the field, and is not affected by its modifications. However, though the Spirit is never tainted yet it is fettered by the three modes because of ignorance cast by Maya.
The three modes of nature cause three configurations of the mind. Rajo guna is caused by the configuration of ego. Tamo guna is caused by the configuration of conditioning or super ego.
Satwwa guna is the configuration where one tries to rise above the ego and conditioning. It is the state most conducive for learning. But if a seeker gets obsessed with learning for the sake of learning, he loses the plot.
Lao Tze states;
“To attain knowledge add every day.
To attain wisdom remove things every day.”
Thus, sattwa guna gets knotted if a seeker goes on knocking at the door without knowing what to seek!
Furthermore, a sattwa person could have a mental obsession for doing charity, non-violence, non accumulation, tolerance, sympathy, and indiscriminate trust. As he seeks credit for being righteous he falls back in the ego. For instance, busy bees and social workers get caught in the ego ‘we are doing for others’. Even while doing a duty or social service the ego plays up in the guise of doing a noble deed.
A rajasic configuration gets knotted when a person becomes so futuristic the he cannot stop planning. He tries to keep future events under the control of the ego, and thus, the fear of leaving things to chance binds him. Furthermore, as the future does not exist, his planning recoils, and thus, he suffers from chronic anxiety. In extreme cases he becomes manic.
The tamasic configuration is the opposite of the rajasic. While the rajasic is luminous like the Sun, the tamasic is dark and dense. While the rajasic is the aggressive solar energy, the tamasic is the lunar energy that accepts aggression. While the rajasic is an extrovert, the tamasic is an introvert. While the rajasic is over confident, the tamasic doubts himself.
While the rajasic is futuristic that he forgets the past, the tamasic lives in the past and is oblivious of the present. While the rajasic gets bound by over activity, the tamasic gets knotted by inertia.

Bhagvad Geeta Chapter I (Stanza 38 to 47)

Arjuna says: Those who are blinded by greed cannot see the consequence of the destruction of family and friends. But we who have the discretion to see it should avert this sin. In the destruction of the family, the ancient traditions are destroyed, consequently the whole society falls in lawlessness. When law lessness arises, O Krishna, the women of the family are debased and when women are debased then there is confusion in the social order (castes). (38- 41)

When the foundation of the family is destroyed it brings hell to both the perished and those who destroy it, as the de-parted souls do not receive the offerings of the rice and water. (42)

As a consequence of destruction of family, the traditional laws of cast and social order are destroyed. It is said that the consequence of such deed is hell. (43-44)

It is indeed a pity that despite our power of discretion we are enticed by greed and power, and thus misled to commit the sin of slaying our kinsfolk. I would rather cast my arms and die at the hands of Dhritarastra’s sons.” Thus expressing his remorse Arjuna cast away his bow and arrow, and sorrow-fully resumed his seat. (45-47)

Our social order rests on the scaffolding of the family unit. If the family unit is uprooted, the society caves in. Through the passage of time a set of unwritten values wove into the warp and weft of the society. The mother emerged as the nucleus, and the bonding force. Because of his greater physical strength, the father emerged as the breadwinner. The grandparents and elders became the fount of age-old wisdom and guidance. While men protected and cherished their family, women developed emotional strength in the warm glow of their husband’s protection.

The fact that nature intended women as the primary nurturer also gives them greater emotional strength to bear the challenges of life.

Both the parents are indispensable to the growth of the progeny. A child who is denied love becomes insecure. Psychology teaches us that the child’s mind is receptive to all the thoughts and feelings of the mother from the stage of a 4-monthold embryo in the womb. Her traumas affect the child. Therefore, the tranquility of the mother is central to the balanced growth of the child.
Children get perverted when they are unable to open their hearts or feel unloved and rejected. It is not difficult to understand that a woman has a more vital function to perform, than man because she has the earth quality to bear. Where the bearing power is exhausted, the scaffolding of the society collapses - the family unit breaks, traditions crumble, and people are driven to the point of no return. Under such circumstances, only a mother’s love can bring home the lost ones. Total self-sacrifice underlines that bearing power - a sacrifice which only motherhood has the capacity to build. Her sacrifice cannot be measured nor weighed. It is unconditional and spontaneous. It is encoded in the DNA passed on to her from the Primordial Mother. Perhaps, that is the reason why the mother image has been worshipped since the beginning of time. It is precisely this DNA of motherhood that is Arjuna’s worry because war crushes the scaffolding of the family unit that the mother provides.

And it is precisely Lord Krishna’s worry too - the only difference is that Arjuna does not know how to unwrap the package, whereas Lord Krishna does. Thus, Lord Krishna is the guiding force to map the DNA of love and unity.

Arjuna felt it wrong to fight his own kith and kin. Thus, in his limited vision, he decided to rather die than to destroy the Kauravas. Imagine the stage for the greatest war is set - a war of such magnitude that has never been seen, a war whose results were far more devastating than either of the World Wars. The preparations, the colossal momentum, and Arjuna drops his bow, and suddenly brings it all to a grinding halt, “I will not fight.”

-Yogi Mahajan, Sahaja Yogi, Extracted from Geeta Enlightened

When Gita was written down, people started following the book word by word not understanding what Shri Krishna said to Arjuna, ........you have to fight.

At this time you have to fight for Dharma, for the truth. And you have to fight. Then he said, I can’t kill my uncles, I can’t kill my grandfather and I can’t kill my relations. He said, who are you killing? They are already dead because they have no Dharma. If you have no Dharma then you are already dead.

To overcome all kinds of ritualistic nonsense of religion, Shri Krishna’s advent was there.
It was a very important event but I don’t know how many people understand that. Shri Krishna has said it as clearly as anybody could say it. -
Very, very clearly - that you have to go beyond your dharmas, that means you have to become a person who is religious innately and not to become a person who is just outwardly something like Christian, Hindu; Moslem. No! Inside! Inside you have to become. You cannot bind God in any rituals. That’s why he came on this earth; to tell you that you should not try to bind yourself by rituals which are nonsensical. These were his teachings, so many years back, six thousand years back.

Shri Krishna treated Draupadi as a sister. As you know, they tried to insult Draupadi by pulling out her sari. It was Shri Krishna who helped her because she was his sister and she was such a powerful lady. She is also responsible for the Mahabharata. She is the one who brought forth, she is the one who told that you have to fight the Kauravas. She absolutely told them very clearly that you have to fight the Kauravas. And in such a way that they should not only be defeated but that they should be destroyed. Because the chastity of women is very important and any-one in India who tries to mo**st the chastity of a woman is to be cursed, is to be destroyed. And this was a very great message of Mahabharata. That only because she was insulted so much, all the war took place and all of them were destroyed.

When Gita was written down, people started following the book word by word not understanding what Shri Krishna said to Arjuna, you have to fight.

At this time you have to fight for Dharma, for the truth. And you have to fight. Then he said, I can’t kill my uncles, I can’t kill my grandfather and I can’t kill my relations. He said, who are you killing? They are already dead because they have no Dharma. If you have no Dharma then you are already dead. So what is there to kill or not to kill? And this message was in Kurukshetra he gave to Arjuna. But then he said, you have asked me to kill these people because I have Dharma in me. I am killing them all right. What beyond this? What is beyond that? So he described Sahaja Yoga. Beyond this was Sahaja Yoga. First he described in the second chapter who is the man who is balanced. Then he says that such a
man is never angry. He does not get angry. Inside he is absolutely at peace. So what he described later on is really the modern times or we can say our Sahaja Yoga. In which he said how a person should become. He did not say how to become that. But the description is just like Christ said that if somebody slaps you on one face you put the other face, other side of the face. All this is actually description of Sahaja Yoga, of the future. Not at the time when Kauravas were fighting the Pandavas, it was not at that time. During that fight he told him that if you become balanced, then you can transcend all these problems, all these understandings that you have and you become absolutely peaceful with yourself.

On one side he said you have to fight. Now in modern times we do not have to fight Kauravas. There are no Kauravas.

The five Pandavas had to fight the Kauravas. So now what are these five Pandavas? They are our senses.

Or we can say they are the cosmos divided into various elements. They have to fight the Kauravas which are within us. Now there are 100 Kauravas, not one. It is if you extend it then we can say the nature has to fight something that is against the
nature. Now people will say anger is natural. To be aggressive is natural. ‘That is’ not. Anger and all these things may have been natural but now we must know that we have the natural capacity to ascend. It is natural to go higher. It is natural to be balanced. It is natural to be a Sahaja Yogi. This is also within us. Now the
building up of the spiritual self is our work. And that’s what we have to do.

Prince Arjuna is ushered in the battlefield, where he sees his friends, uncles, cousins and kinsmen in the enemy lines. Upon facing them, a storm brews in his mind, ‘If our people are going to be killed in battle, what use is such a war?’

He came to the battlefield to fight, but blinded by emotions he banishes the thought of war.

Arjuna says: I will not fight. Of what use is this victory? Those for whose sake we desire kingdoms, enjoyments and pleasures, they stand here in battle renouncing their lives and riches.
These I would not kill, though they kill me; even for the kingdom of the three worlds, how much less for the sake of this earth! (33- 35).

From whatever angle we look, our own perspective defines the scenery we see. As Arjuna looks through the lens of his emotions, he sees only one side of the coin. But life is both. Hence, he does not know what he is up against.

Much like Arjuna, we too are unaware of what we are up against. We are reluctant to face ourselves - we talk of peace but are not prepared to deal with the evil that destroys peace. We try to run away from ourselves in the hope of finding peace in the serenity of snow-clad mountains. In the refuge of Noah’s Ark we think we are safe while the rest of the world drowns. But how can
we escape the tsunami raging next door?

- Yogi Mahajan

Introduction to Mahabharata
by Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

To overcome all kinds of ritualistic nonsense of religion, Shri Krishna’s advent was there.

It was a very important event but I don’t know how many people understand that. Shri Krishna has said it as clearly as anybody could say it. - Very, very clearly - that you have to go beyond your dharmas, that means you have to become a person who is religious innately and not to become a person who is just outwardly something like Christian, Hindu; Mos-lem. No! Inside! Inside you have to become. You cannot bind God in any rituals. That’s why he came on this earth; to tell you that you should not try to bind yourself by rituals which are nonsensical. These were his teachings, so many years back, six thousand years back.

Shri Krishna treated Draupadi as a sister. As you know, they tried to insult Draupadi by pulling out her sari. It was Shri Krishna who helped her because she was his sister and she was such a powerful lady.

She is also responsible for the Mahabharata. She is the one who brought forth, she is the one who told that you have to fight the Kauravas. She absolutely told them very clearly that you have to fight the Kauravas. And in such a way that they should not only be defeated but that they should be destroyed. Because the chastity of women is very important and anyone in India who tries to mo**st the chastity of a woman is to be cursed, is to be destroyed. And this was a very great message of Mahabharata. That only because she was insulted so much, all the war took place and all of them were destroyed.

When Gita was written down, people started following the book word by word not understanding what Shri Krishna said to Arjuna, you have to fight.

At this time you have to fight for Dharma, for the truth. And you have to fight. Then he said, I can’t kill my uncles, I can’t kill my grandfather and I can’t kill my relations. He said, who are you killing? They are already dead because they have no Dharma. If you have no Dharma then you are already dead. So what is there to kill or not to kill? And this message was in Kurukshetra he gave to Arjuna. But then he said, you have asked me to kill these people because I have Dharma in me. I am killing them all right. What beyond this? What is beyond that? So he described Sahaja Yoga. Beyond this was Sahaja Yoga. First he described in the second chapter who is the man who is balanced. Then he says that such a
man is never angry. He does not get angry. Inside he is absolutely at peace. So what he described later on is really the modern times or we can say our Sahaja Yoga - in which he said how a person should become. He did not say how to become that. But the description is just like Christ said that if somebody slaps you on one face you put the other face, other side of the face. All this is actually description of Sahaja Yoga, of the future. Not at the time when Kauravas were fighting the Pandavas, it was not at that time. During that fight he told him that if you become balanced, then you can transcend all these problems, all these understandings that you have and you become absolutely peaceful with yourself. On one side he said you have to fight. Now in modern times we do not have to fight Kauravas. There are no Kauravas.

The five Pandavas had to fight the Kauravas. So now what are these five Pandavas? They are our senses.

Or we can say they are the cosmos divided into various elements. They have to fight the Kauravas which are within us. Now there are 100 Kauravas, not one. It is if you extend it then we can say the nature has to fight something that is against the nature.

Now people will say anger is natural. To be aggressive is natural. ‘That is’ not. Anger and all these things may have been natural but now we must know that we have the natural capacity to ascend. It is natural to go higher. It is natural to be balanced. It is natural to be a Sahaja Yogi. This is also within us. Now the building up of the spiritual self is our work. And that’s what we have to do.

1995-1221 Shri Mataji Interview by Yogi Mahajan, Hindi, Mumbai

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From the Author's Desk:
Mr. Yogi Mahajan
Author, Geeta Enlightened

Though, I was blessed with everything early in life, yet, somewhere in my heart I was missing something in my evolutionary process. I could not quite put my finger on it. As I leafed the Gita, I was astonished by Lord Krishna’s words – you are the Spirit.
“Who…me? No way! What’s he talking about?”

It is hard for the brain to accept something that is not rational. But what cannot be known by the rational can be experienced by the heart.

Experience is true learning.

A five-year experiment in living off the grid - isolation, renunciation and asceticism ended abruptly on a chance meeting with Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi. “How can you find the meaning of life by leaving it?”

Through her simple and loving guidance I understood that the meaning of life is as simple as breathing, but it is difficult for a complicated mind to understand something as simple as the Spirit.

The Gita tells us that the Spirit is a living process. But to connect with it, we have to put our attention inside. However, even if we try, we cannot put our attention inside because our brain is wired to take the attention outside - not inside. Hence, something has to happen in our awareness for it to go inside. And that happening is self realization.

This is the reason why Lord Krishna, Lord Jesus Christ, and Lord Buddha spoke of self realization.
Without Self-realization the Spirit escapes our attention.
This commentary should not be considered as a literal translation of the Gita, but a humble attempt to share its essence. Its essence is universal, and was also unambiguously communicated by Raja Janak, Lord Buddha, Lord
Mahavira, Abraham, Moses, Lord Jesus Christ, Prophet Mohammad, Zarathustra, Lao Ste, Confucius, Socrates and Guru Nanak.

Though apart, they spoke in one voice. Unfortunately, the followers complicated their essence, and thus grew up as enemies of other versions.

The seeds planted by Lord Krishna in the human awareness have made us understand that we are one Spirit in different bodies. This unique awareness not only gives us the tools to master ourselves, but also to transform a broken world
with the power of our compassion.

- Yogi Mahajan

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Gita Enlightened
Author - Yogi Mahajan, Sahaja Yogi
Dedicated to Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Daring warriors and terrific kings flash and fade on battlefields.
Whence descends on the battlefield the mighty Krishna;
He sorts good and evil.
Brings victory to the righteous and vanquishes evil.
Praise be to him, salutations Lord Krishna.

Where descends the Primordial and vanquishes evil.
She nurtures the roots of life.
Transforms desolate mind deserts into singing
gar-dens of Almighty’s Glory.
Praise be to Her, Salutations, O Mother of the Uni-verse.

In compassion She bears all human pains.
Exuberantly restores all nature’s care.
Her mighty hand protects innocence and tender shoots.
Patiently She gently guides the seeker’s
ascendance In the battlefield of myth and reality.

Her nature gives and not receives.
To her nothing can be offered.
A humble mortal bows before Thy resplendent glory.
In gratitude from the deepest core of his being.
Before the battle cry, pray for Thy compassion to all beings.

Shri Mataji - Launch of Gita Enlightened
20th February, 1986

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi - Program Public - Despre Bhagavad Gita
Shankar Hall, New Delhi, India
20 februarie 1986

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1986-0220 Shri Mataji - Launch of Gita Enlightened Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi - Program Public - Despre Bhagavad GitaShankar Hall, New Delhi, India20 februarie 1986