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My Lessons to Learn

Ideals can be pondered, but it is a different story to live those ideals. Knowing about something is not wisdom. Implementing the knowledge at the right time is wisdom. This I know from MyKrsnaGuru.
There are many spiritual text to study, the Bible, the Quran, the Torah, the Vedas just to name a few and it is the Bhagavad Gita that was first chosen for my one on one satsangs with KrsnaKnows. About that same time, Krsna launched an afternoon group satsang studying the Bhagavad Gita. The group was formed to accommodate the need of one student and at the request of others. I ask if I could join the group and Guruji said, “of course.” Since then, Krsna has painstakingly conducted a verse by verse exposition each weekday.
Here I will describe how I experience the Bhagavad Gita. The Bhagavad Gita is a part of the Indian epic Mahabharata, and although it is just a small portion (Eighteen Chapters), with guidance, it reveals all that one needs to conduct themselves in this life and proffers many paths to end the cycle of birth and death. Just the summer before joining the live satsangs, I read the Gita on my own. But I did not understand the depth of the lines.


The Gita is the amazing dialog of the Pandava Prince Arjuna and his charioteer, Lord Krishna. Arjuna is bewildered by the situation in which he finds himself. The Prince asks Sri Krishna to bring him to the center of the battle grounds. Arjuna can see his friends, teachers and relatives intermixed among the ranks of the Pandavas’ army and the Kauravas’ army, both lining the sides of the battlefield of Kurukshetra. Prince Arjuna is an accomplished warrior, yet he himself is unwilling to perform his duty. Unable to see the righteous path, he asks Lord Krishna, the knower of truth, to guide him.


At first, Krishna urges Arjuna based on worldly reasons, and when that doesn’t move Arjuna to action, Krishna goes deeper. Still Arjuna is baffled. He asks the Supreme Lord to please take charge of him. Sri Krishna informs the prince that the destiny of these kings and warriors is already written. He informs Arjuna of their own eternal relationship. Lord Krishna states, “In fact, there was never a time when I was not, or when you or these kings were not. Nor is it a fact that hereafter we shall all cease to be.” (Chapter 2,V12).
This group study of the Bhagavad Gita began November 2017, and it is now September 2018. KrsnaKnows patiently teaches, but I am only able to absorb just a pin drop of all that he has expounded. His lessons are full of examples that help me. Many times I’ll listen to the older recordings of his teachings, in hopes of grasping this Truth. The blessed Bhagavad Gita is like a map with many routes all leading to the One Supreme Divine Consciousness.


Reflecting on the Gita satsangs is part of my daily practice, sitting quietly in the hours of Brahmamuhurta, (3:30am and 5:30 am), there are no outside interruptions, just inner interruptions of mind and ego, lol. By His grace, there is more inner space now. It was not easily learnt by me that the One I seek outside myself has always been with me. Thank you dear Krsna.   

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