Right Now Is The Goal – In Gita Verse 1.28 Arjuna said: My dear Kṛṣṇa, seeing my friends and relatives present before me in such a fighting spirit, I feel the limbs of my body quivering and my mouth drying up.
It’s a good sign that even in Arjuna’s unconsciousness he went to Krishna. He did not turn to Krishna for his Desire. Read carefully this verse – when he says that “seeing my friends and relatives present before me in such a fighting spirit, I feel the limbs of my body quivering and my mouth drying up” – he recognizes his unconsciousness. He turns towards light – Krishna.
When we are unconscious we don’t turn to God, light. We definitely go to God and temple for our desire, to fulfill our desire for an objective world, but never ask how we can re-establish, in our subjectivity.
Arjuna was saying that the indication of his fear, body sensation – which he wants to work on. This signifies that he wants to work on his fear, his body quivering, mouth drying up – all this was driving him towards his Unconsciousness. He is becoming unconscious towards his subjectivity, disconnected with the Universe. He needed Krishna’s support to re-connected with his subjectivity.
Arjuna is not taking all these symptoms as negative or positive but looking how and with whose support he could again reconnect with his subjectivity. There is nothing like negative or positive. Our self-alertness at that moment is playing a key role in our life.
Right Now Is The Goal:
Buddha has told again and again to his monks, “I don’t say not to be angry. I say “while you are angry, be alert.” This is really one of the fundamentals for mutation. “I don’t say not to be angry. I say: while angry, be alert.” Try it. When anger comes, be alert. Look at it. Observe it. Be conscious of it. Don’t be in a slumber. And the more alert you are, the less angry. In a moment when you are really alert and anger is not – the same energy becomes alertness.
Energy is neutral. The same energy becomes anger. The same energy becomes hate. The same energy becomes love. The same energy becomes compassion. The energy is one; these are all expressions. And there are basic situations in which energy can become a particular mood. If you are unalert, energy can become anger, energy can become sex, energy can become violence. If you are alert, it can become – the alertness, awareness, consciousness, doesn’t allow it to move in those grooves. It moves on a different plane – the same energy.
Buddha says, “Walk, eat, sit. Whatsoever you do, do, but do it fully conscious, mindful, aware that you are doing it.”
Once it happened that Buddha was walking and a fly came and sat on his head, on his forehead. He was talking to some monks, so without really paying any attention to the fly, he just waved his hand and the fly left his forehead. Then he became aware that he had done something not fully aware, because his awareness was towards the monks to whom he was talking, so he said to the monks, “Excuse me for a minute.” He closed his eyes and he raised his hand again. The monks were amazed at what he was doing, because now there was no fly. He raised his hand again and waved his hand near the spot where the fly was – it was not there now. He brought his hand back and then he opened his eyes and said, “You can ask now.”
But those monks said, “We have forgotten what we were asking. Now we want to ask you what you did. There was no fly – it was there previously – so what did you do?”
Buddha said, “I did as I should have done before – fully consciously raising the hand. It was not good of me. Something had been done unconsciously, automatically, robot-like.”
Such alertness cannot become anger, such alertness cannot become hate – impossible.
In Bhagavad Gita Verse 1.27, it mentions that Arjuna became overwhelmed with compassion and spoke thus.
Word compassion says that even in Arjuna’s Unconsciousness the fragrance of his consciousness and subjectivity.
This verse says that he turned to Krishna for his fear, means – as Buddha says “I don’t say not to be angry. I say “while you are angry, be alert.” – Arjuna turning towards Krishna is turning towards his Subjectivity.
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