Be Gambler – In Gita Verse 10.36 I am also the gambling of cheats, and of the splendid I am the splendor. I am victory, I am adventure, and I am the strength of the strong.
Krishna says that life is Gambling.
In my Bhagavad Gita Verse 6.34, blog I wrote One never knows whether one will be able to make it or not. It is a gambling, but only the gamblers know what life is.
Krishna says Put everything at the stake. Be a gambler!
Risk everything, because the next moment is not certain, so why bother? Why be concerned? Live dangerously, live joyously. Live without fear, live without guilt. Live without any fear of hell, or any greed for heaven. Just live.
Understand difference between Risk And Cleverness: You must be a hundred percent here, then work becomes possible.
What to do? Your mind is cunning – clever, you call it, but it is cunning. It calculates, it cannot take a risk. That’s why you have been wandering for so many lives. You were near Buddha, you were near Jesus, you have seen Mohammed – you have seen many masters, but you bypass them just because of your cleverness. Your cleverness is your stupidity. Even with a Buddha you calculate – and what can you calculate? Life is such a mystery; it cannot be explained in terms of logic. And a person like Buddha is so mysterious that whatsoever you come to conclude will be wrong, and by the time you have concluded Buddha will have changed. By the time you have come to a decision, Buddha is not the same – because Buddha is a river, a river-like phenomenon, flowing. Conclusion will take time, and you will miss it.
Religion is for those who are like gamblers, who can take risks. If you are not a gambler then something can happen, but if you are a businessman then nothing is possible. Be certain about your search. If you are really in search, then don’t be afraid. And Krishna says: even with a master who is false, Pseudo, you are not going to lose anything.
Krishna says to you, life is the only truth there is. There is no other god than life. So allow yourself to be possessed by life in all its forms, colors, dimensions – the whole rainbow, all the notes of music. If you can manage this simple thing… It is simple because it is only a question of let-go. Don’t push the river, let the river take you to the ocean. It is already on the way. Relax, don’t be tense and don’t try to be spiritual. Don’t create any division between the matter and the spirit. Existence is one, matter and spirit are simply two sides of the same coin. Relax, rest, and go with the river.
Be a gambler, don’t be a businessman, and you will know more of God because the gambler can take risks. The gambler is non-calculative, he can put all that he has at stake. But the thrill of the gambler when he stakes everything and waits – what is going to happen now? At that very moment a window can open. That very moment can become a transformation of the inner gestalt.
Be a drunkard, drunk with life, with the wine of existence. Don’t remain sober. The sober person remains dead. Drink the wine of life. It has so much poetry and so much love and so much juice. You can bring the spring in any moment. Just give a call to the spring and let the sun and the wind and the rain enter into you.
Be courageous like a gambler. As courage Allows you to Live in the Present: This is the essence of courage. To allow the unknown future to take shape and be willing to move out of the mind and into the moment. So instead of trying to manipulate life to avoid uncertainty, simply take an innocent and gambling attitude instead. There are no guarantees here that things will go right, there is only danger and mystery, courage means to be willing to go forward nonetheless.
Krishna says once you live the life as gambling ready to risk and put everything on the stack to grow in consciousness you will find me as your splendor and your inner strength.
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