Bhagavad Gita Verse 11.29

Returning To Source – In Gita Verse 11.29 I see all people rushing full speed into Your mouths, as moths dash to destruction in a blazing fire.

Before Divine Eyes Arjuna was seeing everything as separate. Now with the Divine Eyes he can see that everything is rushing back to source.

Forget right now what Arjuna says. When we see the seed we cannot imagine its potential for becoming a tree. Unless seed goes into the earth it’s original source and then becomes a tree. Even at that time we see only a tree and not the seed. As we are familiar only with separate. We don’t understand that unless we return to the source we cannot grow into consciousness. When seed is sown in the earth it totally disintegrates and then only the growth is possible, tree is possible. When we go into our source and merge, become one with the source, then only growth is possible. The source acts as a catalytic agent. That source is nothing but our emptiness.

We can return to the source only when we become empty. Remember in fear you become empty. From your own experience, recollect whenever you had fear of death you were ready to drop everything. When Krishna revealed his opulence form, the whole existence was vibrating with his vibration. In that vibration everything in existence went through the fear of death. They dropped everything and all of them are merging into Krishna. Which is our original source.

In my Bhagavad Gita Verse 11.24, blog I wrote – The question is not of getting rid of anything; the question is only of understanding. Understand fear, what it is, and don’t try to get rid of it, because the moment you start trying to get rid of anything, you are not ready to understand it – because the mind which thinks to get rid of it is already closed.

This is the single note – emptiness. This is the lotus flower that Buddha transmitted to Mahakashyapa and Divine eyes that Krishna transmitted to Arjuna. And this is what all of the Buddhas have been teaching through the ages – be empty. The ego wants to be All. The All happens, but it happens through emptiness, and therein lies the difficulty, the impossibility of it. You can become perfect, but if perfection is the ideal, then you will miss it. You can become perfect through being totally empty. That seems inconceivable for the mind, because the mind says: To be perfect one has to make much effort, to be perfect one has to create an ideal in the future, and one has to make effort to reach the goal. The goal happens. Perfection comes to man, man need not go there. The goal comes to you. Nobody has ever gone to the goal. It has always been otherwise; the goal comes to you when you are empty. And to be empty is just the opposite, just the opposite of all efforts towards perfection, because perfection means you would like to be God himself. Perfection means you would like yourself eternally, infinitely, spread all over. Emptiness is just the opposite – you have to destroy yourself utterly. Not even a trace should be left behind. When your house is empty, the guest comes. When you are no more, the goal has been attained.

So don’t make perfection your goal, the goal happens indirectly. You, be empty, and you have created the situation for it to come. Because nature abhors emptiness, nothing can remain empty. If you empty yourself completely, you will be filled by the Unknown. Suddenly, from all directions the Divine rushes towards you. You have created the situation; it has to be filled. When you are not, God is. So remember, there cannot be any meeting between you and God. There has never been, and there will never be. When you are not, God is; when you are, God is not. They both cannot be together. Here you disappear, and suddenly the Total, the Perfect, the Whole appears. It has always been there. But you were filled by yourself so much that there was no space for it to come in. It was all around, but you were not empty. You are just like a house without doors – just walls and walls and layers and layers of walls. And remember, a house is in fact not the walls but the doors.

Lao Tzu says: What is a door? – A door is nothing, it is an emptiness; and from the door you enter. The wall is something, the door is nothing. And have you observed that the house is not the walls but the emptiness within? The very word ‘room’ means emptiness, space. You don’t live in the walls, you live in the space, in the emptiness. All that exists, exists in emptiness. All that lives, lives in emptiness. You are not your body. Within your body, just like within your house, space exists. That space is you. Your body is just the walls. Think of a person who has no eyes, no ears, no nose, no windows, no doors in the body – he will be dead. Eyes and ears and nose and mouth, they are the doors, they are emptinesses. And through that emptiness, existence enters into you. The outer and the inner meet, because the outer space and the inner space are not two things, they are one. And the division is not a real division. It is just like, you can go to the river, and you can fill an earthen pot with water. When the water is moving in the earthen pot, the river outside and the water inside the pot are the same. Only an earthen wall exists, and even that earthen wall is porous; water is continuously flowing out and in. Your body is also porous; existence is continuously flowing in and out. What is your breathing? – It is existence coming in and going out. And scientists say, millions of holes in the skin are continuously breathing in and out. You are porous. If your whole body is painted thickly, and only the nose is allowed to remain open, you can go on breathing, but within three hours you will be dead. Because the whole body breathes – it is porous. Existence continuously renews you. And inside who are you? Inside is an emptiness. When one realizes this emptiness, the ego simply disappears – it is a myth, it is a dream, it is a fallacy. Because you have never looked within, you have created a false ego. There is a necessity, because no man can live without a center. And you don’t know your own center. So the mind creates a false center; that false center is the ego. When you move inwards and look for the ego, you will never find it there. The deeper you go, the more you will laugh because the ego is not there. You are not there. Sometimes, just close your eyes and look for the ego. Where are you? Who are you? And emptiness surrounds you from everywhere; nobody is there inside. And this moment is the most beautiful and ecstatic moment possible. When you feel that there is no ego. When there is no ego, you are empty. And when you are empty, the Divine rushes towards you. You have created the situation.

When Arjuna becomes total, empty and he sees that everything is rushing towards Krishna’s mouth. He started realizing deathlessness. So now war will not be war for Arjuna. As he can see that everything without war also goes back to the source. War is just a situation where he can become totally empty. From emptiness he can fight the war.