Inner Power – In Gita Verse 10.24 Of priests, O Arjuna, know Me to be the chief, Bṛhaspati. Of generals I am Kārttikeya, and of bodies of water I am the ocean.
Krishna says that in all the act whether it is religious rituals performed by Bṛhaspati, or fought war where Kārttikeya, son of Shiva is general or bodies of water ocean, he is present in all as formless, the inner force.
Human beings have an inbuilt drive or urge to search for the inner power that is needed to reach our true potential. This search is the search for the origins and meaning of life itself.
We are here, we have life – but we don’t know what life really is. We can feel our energy, but don’t know where this energy comes from and to what goal this energy is going. We are that energy, we have glimpses of its true source and our connection to it, and those glimpses keep us going even when it seems we will never find what we are seeking – but still we do not know what that energy is.
To know life and it’s inner force we need to understand deathless – The deathless: the deepest longing in life is to experience the deathless, the immortal, that which can never be destroyed. What can one gain by attaining something that will come to an end? What will be truly gained? What value has something that comes into your hands only to slip away? What you have gained will start to disappear in the same moment that it is gained, rendering all your efforts useless.
That is why we only call someone whose search has been for that which, once found, is never lost again, a brahma jnani, the knower of the ultimate reality. A brahma jnani is one who has found that from which there can never again be a separation, which has a beginning but no end. This is a little complex because you understand that everything that has a beginning has to have an end. There is nothing in this world that is seen to begin but not to end. Everything is seen to come and go. Is there any experience, any realization, that can be eternal – from which there is no possibility of separation?
This is the search for brahma jnani, the search to know the ultimate reality.
The search for the ultimate reality is a search for the eternal, the beginningless, the endless – for that which has always been, for that which is never destroyed and which will never die, for that which will never come to an end. And only if you attain this will you know life. Only if you become one with this will you know the immortal, the deathless. Until you have become one with this, your life will be trembling in fear, like a leaf in the wind because death will shake you from everywhere; you will constantly feel the winds of death. The fear will end only when you know the ultimate truth, only when you become one with it. And where fear ends and fearlessness begins, there is the sunrise of life, there is the dawn of life.
But can this be attained through money? – Because man puts his whole life’s effort into accumulating money. In this way he hopes to be able to know something that does not die. But when the same hands that have earned the money perish, how can the money that was earned with those hands survive? When the creator is himself so ephemeral, his creation is bound to be even more so.
Wealth, money – these are just deceptions. They create an illusion of permanence. When you have money you feel as if you have something secure and permanent with which you can fight against the momentary nature of things. You think that with the support of money you may even be able to make some arrangements against death. That is why people are so mad to accumulate money. This madness reaches to a point where you even forget why, in the first place, you had started accumulating money.
Then you just go on accumulating money and you lose yourself in the process. You had begun in the hope that it could save you – you did not notice the point when the means became the goal.
This is one of man’s most basic diseases: letting a means become a goal. What you thought to use as a means to something becomes your master. What you wanted to attain by a certain means is finally lost in all your efforts, in the means itself.
Krishna says that once you know you’re deathless, you know your inner force, which is Me. Then you will live in this world but not for accumulating anything, power, money, love anything. You will live with everything as religiousness, courage to go in and become flow.
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