Choose Happiness – In Gita Verse 10.2 Neither the hosts of demigods nor the great sages know My origin or opulences, for, in every respect, I am the source of the demigods and sages.
Now Krishna is giving distinction between the unconscious person who follows demigods and sages. He says both of them don’t know my originality. Still I am a source of the demigods and sages.
He means that demigods who follow the cause and sages produced the effect. People who follow the cause are the laws of science. People who produce the effect are the law of religion.
In my Bhagavad Gita Verse 10.1, the blog I wrote Religion says: Produce the effect and the cause follows.
This will look magical; you can even call it “The Law of Magic.” The first is the law of science and the second is the law of magic. Religion is magic, and you can be a magician. That’s what Krishna teaches you: to be the magician, to know the secret of magic.
Try it! You have been trying the other your whole life – not only this but many other lives also. Now listen to Krishna! Try this magic formula, this mantra. Create the effect and see what happens; causes immediately surround you, they follow. Don’t wait for the causes; you have waited long enough. Choose happiness and you will be happy.
What is the problem? Why can’t you choose? Why can’t you work on this law? Because your mind, the whole mind, which has been trained by scientific thinking, says that if you are not happy and you try to be happy, that happiness will be artificial. If you are not happy and you try to be happy that will be just acting, that will not be real. This is what scientific thinking says that, that will not be real, you will be just acting.
But you don’t know: life energy has its own ways of working. If you can act totally it will become real. The only thing is, the actor must not be there. Move totally in it, then there is no difference. If you are acting half-heartedly then it will remain artificial.
If I tell you to dance and sing and be blissful, and you try half-heartedly, just to see what happens, but you remain behind…and you go on thinking: This is just artificial. I am trying but this is not coming, this is not spontaneous – then it will remain acting, a waste of time.
If you try, then try wholeheartedly. Don’t remain behind, move into it, become the acting – dissolve the actor into acting and then see what happens. It will become real and then you will feel it is spontaneous. You have not done it; you will know then that it has happened. But unless you are total this cannot happen. Create the effect, be in it completely, see and observe the results.
Krishna can make you kings without kingdoms; you only have to act like kings, and act so totally that before you even a real king will appear as if he is just acting. And when the whole energy has moved into it, it becomes reality! Energy makes anything real. If you wait for kingdoms they never come.
Even for a Napoleon, for an Alexander, who had big kingdoms, they never came. They remained miserable because they didn’t come to realize the second, more basic and primal law of life. Alexander was trying to create a bigger kingdom, to become a bigger king. His whole life was wasted in creating the kingdom, and then there was no time left for him to be king. He died before the kingdom was complete.
This has happened to many. The kingdom can never be complete. The world is infinite; your kingdom is bound to remain partial. With a partial kingdom how can you be a total king? Your kingdom is bound to be limited and with a limited kingdom how can you be the emperor? It is impossible. But you can be the emperor. Just create the effect.
Swami Ram, one of the mystics of this century, went to America. He used to call himself Badshah Ram, Emperor Ram. And he was a beggar! Somebody said to him: You are just a beggar, but you go on calling yourself the emperor. So Ram said: Don’t look at my things, look at me. And he was right, because if you look at things then everybody is a beggar…even an emperor. He may be a bigger beggar, that’s all. When Ram said: Look at me! – In, that moment Ram was the emperor. If you looked, the emperor was there.
Create the effect, become the emperor, be a magician… and from this very moment, because there is no need to wait. One has to wait if the kingdom has to come first. If the cause has to be created first, then one has to wait and wait and wait and postpone. There is no need to wait to create the effect. You can be an emperor, this very moment.
When Krishna says, Be! Just be the emperor and see: the kingdom follows…. I have known it through my experience. I am not talking to you about a theory or a doctrine. Be happy, and in that peak of happiness you will see the whole world is happy with you.
There is an old saying: Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry, and you cry alone. Even the trees, the rocks, the sand, the clouds…if you can create the effect and be ecstatic, they will all dance with you; then the whole existence becomes a dance, a celebration.
But it depends on you, if you can create the effect. And I say to you, you can create it. It is the easiest thing possible. It looks very difficult because you have not tried it yet. Give it a try!
Krishna says that the sages who produce the effect they have not known my origin but they have known their own origin and they experience me. Demigod and his host follow the cause they also have not known my origin but they have not known their origin also. When they have not known their origin they have not experienced me. So sages through their own experience know that I am their source but the demigod and his host will not.
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