Jnana-Karma-Sanyasa Yoga
Jnana-Karma-Sanyasa Yoga
Fire of Understanding
Sri Krishna spoke,
“1.92 Billion years ago at the dawn of history, in the early morning, upon this very same planet earth, O Arjuna, I told this knowledge, this yoga, to Visvasvan, the Sun god.
“He then educated his son Manu, organizer of our present Age & builder of a magnificent, colossal empire, depicting the very cream of intergalactic Space,
“Manu then transferred this yogic knowledge to his handsome son Ikswaku when he was in his teenage. Later he successfully succeeded his father, not only in empire, but also in wisdom and all great virtues of power born of this wisdom.
“Thus, O Arjuna, handed down generation after generation, from time immemorial, this age-old wisdom became known to all sagacious dynasties of the solar royalties. Founded on the backbone of this knowledge that civilization became known as the Golden Age, satya-yuga, for about 4 million years. Due to a long lapse of time after that it was lost; it is only now that its regeneration is taking place between you and I. A great redemption is at hand. You, O my dear friend, are the first exponent of this wisdom since then. Now for thousands of years in the future your fame will be immortal.”
Arjuna said,
“My friend, O Krishna, how come? You were born when I was born, you are my age, it’s too recent. And Vivasvan, that grand, towering One, whom I read and heard about since very young, he’s an Alpha of the history, a legendary hero. How shall I know you said this to him?”
Krishna responded, “You & Me, O my friend, have been born in the past many many times. You do not know them but I do. My advent, life span, and disappearance is like a flash of lightening. Usual birth & actions are arranged by Yogamaya, my pleasure potency. When and when moonshine of dharma is trapped by the world wide unrighteous, then and then I on earth sparkle & splash like lightening, and Yogamaya then manages a special form & nature, and plans to carry out certain definites; thus my frolics flow. For dissolution of the wicked& rejuvenation of the sagacious, for fixing up dharma I manifest age after age, never I miss. Whatever, however is my schedule & program, howsoever is my birth and pastimes-usual or unusual, peculiar or mysterious, they are divine- so much so that if their meanings are revealed in your heart, you become so pure thatyour transmigrational process stops. You become blissed outin immortal recognition. There arc innumerable vitaragas who have thus attained Me throughout history. Why just by knowing? Because knowing Me and becoming Me are identical and simultaneous! Because, o dear friend,
“As soon as you think of Me I think of you. By thinking& counter thinking we penetrate into each other You become Me and1 become you; that’s why sages are the very heart of mine and I’m the very heart of sages. I know sages and sages know only Me. Outside each other we both don’t know anyone else.
ye yathamam prapadyante tamstathaiva bhaja myaham
naham tebhyo managapi
“That’s why those who are searching for Me are searching for themself. Once they attain, whatever name, that’s your business, but 1 know that I’m attained by you. And you are just mine own…
“Worship, prayer, meditation, kirtan - are just varieties of ways of thinking of Me. By addressing it to others other than Me, only means your fruit orientation hasn’t yet ended. But that’s okay. You’ll get what you wanted but not Me. For Me, for your very you, just think of Me, just think of Me. Your remembrance I shall wear on my heart like a diamond necklace. The echoing of your singing in memories of Me I shall wear as my ear rings. It is only to wear these sacred ornaments, and to be sure which ornament is coming, that I divided the mankind by natural courses of their actiton as well as samskaric instincts into wisemcn, warriors, businessmen and workmen.
“Although this classification is based on degrees of the hold-on expectation of the fruit of action they constantly do, transcendence of fruit-expectation on the line of duty kicks out the entire system of classification. Tightening of expectations, hopes, passionate clinging, and unrestrictable urges, pile up a destiny of ropes and ropes of bondage through this classification system. Although I myself have classified people, still I am absolutely snow white clean and distant away from the thick, black ugly darkness of fruit-oriented psychology. Look at my so neat & clean white suit! Anyone who looks at my suit instantaneously takes a quantum leap out of bondage, or all ropes & ties of bondage are broken and torn out, and there he goes free.
“Freedom-seeking beings of all generations have engaged in the line of their duty remembering and keeping the above set neatly in their perspective. Therefore, you too like them should perform your action. The same course is awaiting you.
“What is action what is non-action what is inaction and how action binds even great intellectuals go deluded in deciding. So I want you to get it right!
“Action performed without a single tinge of darkness of doership is action not done but happened. Happening action is always by the will of the Cosmic and that’s Me; and in turn your very you. So happening is always interconnected with the Cosmic, and doing with doership is always glued up with super-glue to heavy-duty bondage focused around ego-your falseyow.”
Even though apparently renouncing, even though his swami silk robe is sparkling & shining, and he heroically abandons all family calling it maya, and goes to the Himalayas, sits on a hill top and looks very gorgeous, still. Krishna informs Arjuna, because there are still thick piles of doership in all his great actions and even he is in the limelight leading thousands, still in his each movement there is plentiful painful bondage of karma. So his renouncing and going to the Himalayas and meditating there is not good enough to equal the shoe making job of Saint Raidasa Baba. Because on the line of his duty as a cobbler he transcended the notion of all doership. If you see the contrast and penetrate the reality and evolve such a constant perspective that you spot right away non-action in action and inaction in action, then you are an actor for the Universe; a living instrument of the Cosmic; and a living symbol of the Divine. This spot-light perspective can be attained by,-
jntinagni dagdhah karmiUnam-
burning ablaze all your doership involvement in the sacred fire of wisdom. Then here you go, you become the holy sire.
“Arjuna, Kicking out fruit-oriented instincts, abandoning fruit-expecting attitudes, cleaning one’s hands off of the black, sticky dirt of doership notions, when you stay devoid of all your shelterings of sense objects and begin developing by & by experiencing the bliss & love within, in your true Self, or visualizing the Divine abode of mine within the effulgence of your inner Self, and when this enjoyment becomes still & stable & permanent, then whatever course of action you take, no matter on the line of duty or other’s duty, right or not right, however you are, such doing is not doing anything. It is just happening. The will of the Cosmic is materializing for fulfillment of some special purpose for the welfare of multitudes for the Universe, through the Universe, and in the Universe.
“Therefore begin with,–
yadrchchalabha samtusto
“Whatever comes unasked, undesired, unexpected, be content in it.
dvandatlto vimatsarah
“Stay arisen from the boundary of pairs of opposites; stay far away from the stinking filth of jealousy and grounded solid in equanimity of success & failure, hire and fire, flood & sunshine, earthquake & normal day. North Pole & Bahamas, should all be the same…
samah siddhava siddhou cha krtvapi na nibadhyate
“Whenever you reach this point of evolution of consciousness then doing all like Parasuram still you are doing nothing; and not doing anything at all like Dattatreya, you are doing a billion dollar job. Tough lawyer charges$500 an hour, yours will be $1500 for 15 minutes. That valuable your time and mind and your word become. Then how highly valuable is the association of such a mighty magnanimous being? Can you speculate & calculate? Being with him is satsanga. And how so generous… Have you seen any so oceanic hearted,- he never charges you a single penny! Rather he feeds you, gives you a place to live, talks to you with big smilings on his face. When you learn to develop stamina to sacrifice your accomplishments upon each innocent smile of his counlenance then you are destined to attain something worth having. Being karma-free is the only cost.
“Getting rid of passionate clinging, urges of lusting, except for working hard on the line of your duty, trying hard to live by wisdom and fixing yourself always for sharing, for participating in yajna all your karmas get gone lost in the bottomless abyss.
“Bring one kg of clarified melted butter in a silver bowl, put 2 kg rice, herbs, dry fruits, leaf powder on a silver plate, many kinds of fragrant flowers on another, water in a silver glass, a snow white conch, and kindle the consecrated fire with chants of the Vcdas and slow rhythmic conch sound toots. Then begin offering oblations chanting your mantra mentally and offer in the fire with some loud svaha. While doing this process ignite your intuitive process and will strongly with devotion, faith and homage that your individual consciousness is offered as an oblation into the flames of cosmic consciousness. When you started you felt that the whole world, including your body & mind, were textured with delusive reality of dream and by the completion of all you find and see all things including your mind & body as mere compositions of Bramhic blissful reality. Vedic chants with sama music going on in the background, fragrant fire blazing, sitting around the alter all your loved ones, friends, relatives, husband, wife, sons, brothers pouring loving oblations you unite in one bramhic tie of reality. Your relationships become deeper and lasting. By the end you find the consecrated fire is Bramha, oblations too are Bramha, wife too is Bramha, husband too, me too…I am Bramha and I am entering the deepest core of heart in deep meditation that which you touched, the Mystic transcensia that too is truly Bramha.”
Krishna has been invited again and again in huge, million dollar international scale Rajasuya & Asvamedha yajna ceremonies. He has seen and lived and relived all that. So whenever he finds an opportunity he takes off and mentions yajna… We can concisely recite them,
“Some offer oblations of the purified focus in the seven consecrated fires of the chakras, from Muladhar to Sahastrar. Oblations of inhalation and exhalation into the fire of kumbhak.
“Others offer oblations of music, embrace, beauty, deliciousness, perfume, into the fire of the senses with no desire at all for sensation.
“Still others offer oblations of reading words of wisdom into the fire of the brain.
“Others offer oblations of one’s life in the line of duty into the fire of sacrificial history or cosmic life.
“Yajnas are finer & superior according to the degree of wisdom inherent. They culminate and complete into wisdom. Wisdom means expansion from petty mindedness to broad heartedness to magnanimity to cosmic-consciousness. Here is the last fire…
sarvam kamiakhilam partha jnanc pari samajryate
“To this laudable goal there are many subgoals to be discovered based on your individual history of samskaras over the last billion years. It is not an easy job, therefore, go and travel & explore holy places bathe in holy Ganga, visit sacred temples, humbly walk in Himalayas and find the real sage, some Tattvadarsi… Offer innocent, hearty obeisances, offer your humble services and he will bless you with understanding of the mystery. Knowing which you will be free…
yena bhutanyasesena draksyasyatmanyatho mayi
“Then you will see that your consciousness is such a vast expansion of oceanic, nectarine illumination in which all beings abide in their bramhic reality. Then you will see their allness submerging and unifying in Me, the satchidanandam…
api cedasi papebhyah
sarvebhyah papakrttamah
sarvam jnana plavenaiva
vrjinam santarisyasi
“Because, just like blazing fire burns away all the fuel, the same way the fire of wisdom burns away all karmas. No doubt about it…
yathaidhdmsi samiddhognir bhasmasat
kurute arjuna jnanagnih sar>
akarmani bhasmasat kurute latha
There is nothing else more sanctifying more purifying, more illuminating than wisdom.
This heart-experienced wisdom is attained when the required maturity point is reached through practice of yoga of equanimity…
na hi jnanena sadrsam
pavitram iha vidyate
tat svayam yogasamsiddhah
kalenatmani vindati
“Therefore, Oh Arjuna, evolve yourself into amiability of homage from which sense discipline and attentiveness spontaneously flow. Because that is how you attain the ambrosial wisdom, attaining which, sanctity, serenity, and placidity permeates all life…
middhavan labhnte jtianam
tatpartih samyatendriyah
jnanam labdhva parani
santim ucirenadhigacchati
“If you miss to fill any quota of homage that empty space will attract nothing but suspicion and negative argument. Then more non-understanding or misunderstanding will creep in and to the suspicious a definite downfall is certainly destined. In order to dispel such inauspicious possibilities, O Arjuna, through yoga of love divinize your actions by dedicating them to Me, and cast all suspicion to the winds of folly where they belong, forever gone, thru yoga of understanding. Being thus Self-established karmas will not bind you.
“Pierce your suspicions then through the sword of yogic understanding and be firmly established and steady in yogic equanimity; thus stand boldly, undaunted, and ready for battle.”
Jnana-Karma-Sanyasa Yoga, Song Of Enlightenment
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