Wait – In Gita Verse 3.43 Thus knowing oneself to be transcendental to the material senses, mind and intelligence, O mighty-armed Arjuna, one should steady the mind by deliberate spiritual intelligence and thus – by spiritual strength – conquer this insatiable enemy known as lust.
Krishna tells that once your inner energy touches your third eye, you will be balanced – for outer and inner – for you it will not be department life but comprehensive life, you will start using your body through your inner senses, body will act but not as doer or for any desire or for any goal. It will be only responding to the present moment, from their spiritual senses.
He guides Arjuna that, act from your inner senses so that you can fight this war without any enmity.
We live our life from judgements, interpretations, so when we act we use our outer senses only. We never become self-conscious and drop our judgments to respond in the present moment.
We are not able to wait, we are always in a hurry to act.
Silently waiting is a lesson for your whole life. Don’t desire, but wait.
These are two dimensions, very significant, to be understood. When you desire, you are aggressive to catch hold of something. In the ordinary world desire is the way because so many people are competing, struggling for the same thing. Moreover, the outside world is the world of quantity. It is not inexhaustible; everything outside is exhaustible. You cannot wait, because while you are waiting others may grab the whole thing.
The inner world is totally different. There, a desire is a disturbance, an obstacle, because in the inner world you are alone – no question of competition. Nobody else is trying to go ahead of you; nobody is pulling your legs from behind.
And the inner world is so delicate that if you are aggressive you will destroy it. It is like being aggressive to a rose flower: you may get it, but it will not be the same rose flower that you had seen dancing in the wind, in the rain, in the sun. It will be something dead – just a corpse, a memory, and nothing more.
The inner reality is even more delicate. The very desire is enough to prevent you from getting it. Hence a totally different approach is needed: that is, of silently awaiting.
The guest comes.
The host just has to be patient.
And in the subjective field of consciousness, there is nothing to grab. It is not a quantity, it is a quality. If you are silently waiting – with no desire, no expectation – there comes one moment when your silence is total and your waiting is unpolluted. Then the doors open. You are taken into your own innermost shrine. That has been my teaching.
And this is a good opportunity to give a chance to silent waiting. While you were with yourself, you were so filled with the universe, with universal presence, with universal words, that you never thought about waiting: universe was available. Now the universe can be available not from the outside but only from the inside. And that is a great meeting – of utter fulfillment, of absolute joy. So don’t make it, despair, don’t fall into anguish. Don’t feel that you are far away from the universe.
You are far away only when you are not silent, you are not with yourself. You are far away only when waiting is not there; otherwise you are very close to the universe. Wherever you are, the silence will join you with the universe. And your waiting will prepare the whole ground for the meeting, which is nonphysical, nonspatial, nontemporal.
Use this opportunity – and remember always that whatever happens has to be used as an opportunity. There is no situation in the world which cannot be used as an opportunity.
Krishna is saying that once you experience intangible energy through your body you transcend yourself from all your desire, goals and lust. As when through your body you experience the intangible means you have experienced the whole in seed form. As soon as you experience the universe from within you allow it to grow that seed without any hindrances. Your desire, goals and lust are a hindrance for the growth of your consciousness, which wants to grow as a tree, vast, whole.
He again tells Arjuna if you act from your subjectivity then only you will know how the same war can become Divine Will. This is transcendence of all our senses of desire to desireless.
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