22-2-2004

The transcript was about Krishna, when someone had asked him to tell us about Lord Krishna.

The family that Arjuna refers to are ego and attachments, not cousins. There is a wealth of symbolism in Krishna’s message that must be understood. This is the symbolism that we need to now understand. Krishna was unwilling to fight against what he called the family. The family is someone we hold dear, those whom we really love, those who are closest to us, those with whom we have built up relationships over a long span of time. If one goes to see, our family really refers to our beliefs, our attitudes and all that we put out as, in a creation of an environment that will make us feel comfortable, that will make us feel complete.

This is the family that we do not wish to leave. That is why change is so difficult for each of us. It is almost like leaving one’s family behind. If one can go back and think about and experience a time when you had a shift in a family scenario, when either you left the family or a part of the family left you, you will understand that this shift was not at all pleasant. There was a deep pain, a deep hurt and sometimes a deep anger involved in this shift. This is exactly how, when we have to move away from our beliefs and our attitudes, from our habits, from our patterns, we respond, not from the soul level but from a level of pure panic. "Will I be able to make it without them?"

Just as we, on a physical level, build up our support system, which is maybe ours parents, our children, our grandparents, etc. They are the support system. We rely upon them. In times of crisis, we run to them. We ask their advice. So also, in times of crisis and we are not looking here at large crises situations, but even in small everyday critical moments that come, we run to that which we are used to. We run to our belief, something that we have developed for ourselves. They may or may not have been influenced by others but it is something that has stood us through the test of time. It has given us courage when we have wanted it.

Our attitudes, our beliefs, our patterns have led us through the most severe moments of our lives and naturally, when Arjuna now is faced with the option of having to kill those very same support systems, the Arjuna in us reacts violently, does not wish to pick up the weapon.

But in us is also Krishna. Krishna is the Divine spark that is in all of us. Krishna, when one studies the name, has the same sound as Christ. It is that energy within us, which can help us to pick up these weapons that we need to fight against these support systems.

The first of these weapons that we need to use is the weapon of change. It is a very strong weapon. It can help us to actually move a mountain. Why are we unable to move a mountain? Not because we don’t have the Christ energy, we do but we believe that we can’t. It is the same belief that tells you, you cannot manifest. It is the same belief that tells you that you are unable to use those tools, which the universe has provided to us.

So we need to accept first, that we are both Arjuna and Krishna and look at all those dear family ones that we are now being urged to move away from. When Krishna tells Arjuna to kill the family, he is not asking him to be callous and mean and a murderer. Krishna is asking Arjuna to look at the situation that is facing him and to see that what he is perceiving, is an illusion of a family system. He is asking him to see that those whom he perceives as cousins are those who wish to cause his downfall.

Our belief patterns, our mindsets, our habits are exactly that. They give us the illusion of helping us. They give us an illusion of building our comfort zones but in truth, they only want to cause our downfall, a downfall not physically, emotionally but definitely spiritually because the opposite of a downfall is a movement towards evolution. When there is no movement in an incarnation towards evolution, the opposite of that is considered a downfall. In an evolutionary cycle, there is no regression so the only downfall that you can face is non-movement because each one, as Krishna’s embodiment has come in this incarnation, only to move more and more towards the acceptance, awareness and recognition of the Krishna energy within us. And it is Arjuna, the physical embodiment that is stopping us. It is the fear that Arjuna faces. This fear is not true fear. It is really Arjuna’s desire not to act. Arjuna does not want to initiate change. Arjuna does not want to accept responsibility. Arjuna does not want to make the first move. Action is far more difficult than reaction. In reaction, I don’t make the first move. I only wait and then follow what has been set out for me. That is what Arjuna wished to do and that is what Krishna asked him not to do. And within us our Arjuna tells us reaction is so much easier. Why not wait? Why initiate everything especially when we don’t know what is the result of the initiation? Krishna in us, the Christ energy in us, tells us that the Christ energy is powerful. It not only initiates, it helps you to initiate knowing complete awareness what the result will be because not only will the Krishna initiate, the Krishna will manifest after the initiation.

Once again, the explanation of chariot and charioteer. Our chariot is our physical embodiment, everything that we are on the physical, which means physical mind, physical body, physical emotions and also that part of physical spirit that we can experience readily. But who is actually guiding, pulling the reins? Is it the chariot that is driving itself or is it the charioteer? In this we are asked to find out from our point of view, at this moment of now, "Is my chariot being driven or am I just allowing it to run amok?" Because when this chariot runs amok, it does not then look to see who or what is being destroyed under its wheels. If we have to stop this chariot from running amok, the charioteer has to be given not only the invitation but the permission to take over the chariot. The charioteer will not do anything. He will remain silent, seated in his place, waiting to take the reins in his hands but it is the chariot that must give him permission and invitation to move it. That is where so many of us falter. We forget to give the charioteer this permission. The charioteer is again Krishna, the Christ energy within us. We MUST invite and permit the Christ energy to take over all parts of the chariot. The wheels, these are the actions that we take, the moves we make, the direction in which we go. The charioteer must be asked to take over the reins so that, that which guides our movement, that which points the direction will be the Christ energy and not Arjuna’s chariot in physical embodiment. The charioteer must be asked to take over the chariot completely, the place where we sit, the actual body and structure of the chariot. That is our entire life, from our thoughts, which are the framework of the chariot to the very seat, which are then the status or position that we have reached. Even that must be taken over by the charioteer.

Let the charioteer guide your thoughts because you cannot remain thoughtless. Let the charioteer guide your emotions because you cannot remain without feeling. Let the charioteer give you the permission to move because without that permission your wheels may run amok, either getting stuck into a rut and not permitting you to move anymore or they may run over and destroy another. Anger is one such wheel movement when your chariot is running without any control. You can only be a chariot in physical embodiment. You can never be the charioteer. The charioteer can only be a higher dimensional spirit self of yourself. There is no one else who is the charioteer. In a very large sense, you are the charioteer and in a small sense, you are the chariot and unless you invite your larger essence to come in and take control of this chariot, your chariot will sometimes run amok.

There are moments in time when our chariot gets stuck. Our wheels get stuck in morass, in mud and try as we might, we can’t push them out. We sometimes take the help of others to lift our chariot out but even that proves a strain. Those are the times when life seems to come to a standstill, when we just don’t know where to move, how to move, what action to take. When even reaction comes to a stop because somehow there is no one to react to. It is in those moments that the charioteer must be asked, the charioteer need not push, he need not pull. All he will do is to involve the chariot in the movement. He will ask the chariot where it wants to go, what the chariot wants to do and if the chariot wishes to go where the charioteer knows, there is again a mudslide. The charioteer will very gently put different options before the chariot so the charioteer will never take action without the involvement of the chariot. That is another fear that we must get out of, that when we allow the Christ energy to take over it will mean a stop to our free will. That will never happen. In every moment of time, your free will, will always be primary, never be the secondary focus.

Here we are looking at two aspects of the mother, the physical embodiment, which the child lives in and also the relationship between us and the feminine part of ourselves. When I say, feminine part of ourselves, I mean our large all-encompassing energy, which has both aspects living simultaneously, masculine and feminine.

We first discuss the physical embodiment. There is the child in each of us. That child is the essence of our soul but our soul has not yet evolved to a stage when it has become completely without desire. Our soul does have its desire. Its desire to play. Its desire to have fun. Its all innocent and yet this desire is still present. The mother, the physical embodiment is now aware that pleasure, fun and desire are illusion and so we force ourselves into telling our child Krishna, "You cannot eat the curd. You cannot break the pot. Can you not see that it is only an illusion?" But the soul essence in us can see that and yet it can see a much larger truth that "Where I am at present, in my child state of evolution, I do need to break the pot. I do need to steal the butter. I do need to have my fun." And the mother, which is the intellect, which has now learnt so much, insists that this is not all true, that it must come to a standstill. And therefore there is the conflict between the child and the parent, where the parent now puts in, "This should be done. This should not be done. This must be handled. His cannot be handled. This must be achieved and you must not now indulge in these activities." The child is unwilling to accept that because the soul essence is not, maybe as knowledgeable as the intellect but it is far wiser and it knows in its wisdom that these desires must be fulfilled. It is only in their fulfillment that Krishna will be satisfied and it is only when Krishna is satisfied, will we allow the true Christ energy to develop and grow.

Krishna would not have grown into the youth that he was, into the wise sage that he was if his childish pranks were constantly suppressed and curbed. This is what we need to tell our mother. "I am the young Krishna. In my complete awareness of truth and illusion I still need my illusions. I know they are illusions but I need them. I know that breaking the pot and stealing the butter may not be according to the intellect, the mother, the right thing to do, but I still need to do it." And let Krishna do this in awareness, let Krishna have fun, let Krishna be satisfied. Let the mother envelop Krishna in an embrace.

Here is the end of conflict between the mind, which tells you, "Do this and don’t do this" and our desires. We do have our desires and we must, we must acknowledge and give vent to these desires knowing that only when our desires are satisfied, it is only then that a completion of one cycle will come in and another cycle will then beautifully start by itself. We can all look back at our childhood and smile at all the various mischief that we did when we irritated the teacher, played pranks on our friends, pulled our baby sister off her cot, gave a blow to our brother who refused to listen and all these now bring a smile on our faces.

Do we now want to still indulge in childish pranks? No, we don’t because we have finished, completed this cycle of our lives. But if we were constantly stopped at that time, if permission was never granted for childish pranks, you have what we term as immature adults. You see young men and sometimes not so young men indulging in childish things, which makes us feel, "How immature! How childish! When will he grow up?" He can’t till he has completed the full desire, he cannot move on to another cycle. And age is not proof of growth. So also with Krishna. Those desires that are within us, let us give them the permission to complete themselves in fullness because only then will we be ready for another cycle.

The other part of the feminine energy within us. Very, very often many of us allow our feminine energy to become a very severe feminine energy. It has been explained to us that feminine energy can create and if we are in our temperament, in our natures very, very severe in our judgments, rather opinionated, what we do then is to become a severe mother that creates an illusionary Krishna outside of yourselves who will insist on always breaking your pot. This has to be understood that very, very often situations occur not because they need to occur but because in your severity, in your harshness in your use of feminine energy you have actually created those situations. If you would be complete again in your feminine energy, which means all creating, without judgment, without opinion, what you would create is the beautiful Krishna, the embodiment of only Christ energy.

This is again an aspect of our physical embodiment, which we do not wish to acknowledge. We do not want to be termed very often, weak, meek, submissive, timid. When you are male, you do not want someone telling you that you’re a wimp and so several, several beautifully creative men will go into what they will call, masculine professions because to dance, lets say, would be wimpish, to sing would not be masculine or male. Once again, these are all boundaries that we have put. We must accept that none of us is completely male energy and none of us is completely female energy. At different times in our lives, as we desire we experience the predominance of one of these energies but that does not make you either all-powerful nor does it make you submissive and weak. It is only an aspect that you are experiencing and Krishna as the lover knows that true love is complete unity.

In our stage of evolution, the masculine energy is predominant as the universal energy but now the Krishna in us, knows that it is time for the female energy to awaken, to move and to unite with the male energy. We cannot only execute, we cannot only command. We have to now create and it is only when we accept that in creation there is no submission, in fact in creation there is all strength, it is then that we will become Krishna the lover. In us we will unite masculine and feminine energy.

Here is a look at each one of us from a huge unity of energy that we sometimes forget, that all of nature is within us and we are within all of nature. When we see Krishna as the cowherd, we need to remember what is very, very important today, conservation of all forms of nature that are before us. We must actively do this just as Krishna actively played the flute, that music with which nature was created. We too must actively take a step not to destroy nature. Just using used newspapers, lets say is not actively taking a step. Yes, use the used newspapers but ensure that you spread this awareness to everyone. That is the music of the flute, when your music expands, when others can hear what is the truth of preservation, when others will begin to understand and appreciate the music that you are playing on your flute. That is the time when nature will once again begin to flourish and blossom. So all of us have to become Krishna the cowherd and know that all these cows around us are our responsibility that we can create, we must preserve and we can also destroy.

The trinity is deeply within each one of us. We are the creator if we desire to be. We certainly are the preserver and at present we are undertaking the role of destroyer. But a destroyer can play two parts. He can destroy that which is not necessary and therefore in turn again become the creator. And he can destroy that which is vital and never make possible the task of the creator. That is Krishna’s cowherds message to us.

To end this, I will just read out a small poem which in the same channeling came from Lord Buddha.