So today we are exploring.
Our Bhagavad Gita journey.
Today we're looking at chapter 2,
Verse 7.
This is our third class in the series,
So if you're new to the Bhagavad Gita,
I highly recommend going back And we have a playlist here under my profile.
And just go back and listen to the first three talks because that'll sort of help.
Prepare you,
You know,
Going forward if you want to continue on the Bhagavad Gita journey.
But in summary,
Where we're at,
There is a battle going on.
A battle between.
Arjuna's family and friends,
Uncles,
Grandfathers,
Kinsmen,
Brothers,
Everybody.
And they,
Through all kinds of difficulty,
Have split into two sides.
One side are his hundred evil cousins.
And on his side are his four brothers and himself,
And then the rest of the kingdom has split between them.
Arjuna is in his great white chariot,
And his charioteer is Krishna.
And Krishna is essentially his great teacher.
But when we look at this story as a metaphor,
Arjuna is all of us.
And Krishna is our highest self.
It is the God that we pray to.
It is our divine guidance within.
It is whatever.
That wise aspect that lives within you is.
And basically,
Arjuna has looked around the battlefield.
And his heart has broken.
And he's looking around and he's like,
How can I kill all these people?
How can I battle?
What is there possibly to win from this,
From killing my grandfather,
From killing my teachers?
I don't want to,
I don't want to do it.
And he essentially slinks down into the chariot and says,
I don't know what to do.
So I'm going to read the verses that we've already covered.
And then move into the verse that we're going to do today.
As Arjuna sat there,
Overwhelmed with pity,
Desperate,
Tears streaming from his eyes,
Krishna spoke these words to him.
Why this timidity,
Arjuna,
At a time of crisis?
It is unworthy of a noble mind.
It is shameful.
And does not lead to heaven.
This cowardice is beneath you,
Arjuna.
Do not give into it.
Shake off your weakness.
Stand up now,
Like a man.
Arjuna said.
When the battle begins,
How can I shoot arrows through Bhishma and Rana?
Who deserve my reverence.
It would be better to spend the rest of my life as a pauper.
Begging for food than to kill these honored teachers.
If I killed them.
All my earthly pleasures would be smeared with blood.
And we do not know which is worse,
Winning this battle or losing it.
Since if we kill Dhrishtarastra's men,
We will not wish to remain alive.
I am weighed down by pity,
Krishna.
My mind is utterly confused.
Tell me where my duty lies.
Which path should I take?
I am your pupil.
I beg you.
For your instruction.
So today,
This is the part we're looking at.
I am weighed down by pity,
Krishna.
My mind is utterly confused.
Tell me where my duty lies.
Which path should I take?
I am your pupil.
I beg you for your instruction.
I'm going to read another version of it.
This is Paramahansa Yogananda's version of this verse.
With my inner nature overshadowed by weak sympathy and pity.
With a mind in bewilderment about duty.
I implore thee to advise me what is the best path for me to follow.
I am thy disciple.
Teach me.
Whose refuge is in thee.
Can you guys relate to that?
You know,
That moment in your life.
Where you're like.
I don't know what to do.
I've done everything I think is right.
I've done all I can.
I've tried.
I've battled.
I've worked hard.
I've screwed up.
I have done things.
And now I find myself at the end of the road.
And I don't know what to do.
This is what they call a dark night of the soul.
When everything that we've ever learned in life from our parents,
From society,
From our schools,
From our churches,
From our governments,
From our books,
From everything,
Our friends,
All of those things that we've learned all the way through our lives have woven together into something that we believe is true.
And we are truly.
Doing our best to live according to those principles.
Like,
We are really,
Really trying.
And we're trying to have integrity,
And we're trying to be righteous,
And we're trying to do the right thing.
And then we find ourselves.
Between a rock and a hard place.
And we finally give up.
And it's like we put our head down.
And rely.
What universe?
What,
God,
What do you want?
Like,
What am I supposed to do here?
And what's interesting is.
.
.
This is the moment where everything can change.
This is the beginning.
Of our soul's path.
This is where we release all the teachings and all the trainings and even all the ideas in our own mind about all of the the traumas we've had and the difficulties we've had and then all the stories in our minds and everything it's just like this Enough!
Enough!
I've had it!
Well,
This is where Arjuna is.
Exactly.
I feel the same.
What the hell am I supposed to be surrendering to?
That's a great question.
Greetings Katrina and all.
I was on a walk just before the talk and had the same question,
What now?
Fall down to our knees in exhaustion.
And what's interesting.
.
.
It's very often.
In these moments,
We consider it a weakness.
We think there's something wrong with us.
That we're in this state of confusion and lostness and it's like,
What's wrong with me?
That I can't see my way through this.
What's wrong with me?
How come I can't figure this out?
But the truth is.
.
.
The reason we have these dark nights of the soul,
The reason we have these moments of reckoning in our lives,
Is because we seek integrity.
Because somehow we're realizing that there are things inside of us that don't fit.
There are things inside of us that are leading us astray.
It's because we seek integrity.
It's because we seek soul alignment that we want to live our Dharma.
We want to live our true path.
That's why these moments come.
Let's say you wanted to climb the Himalayas.
And Let's say that there were really wise locals.
That had lived on the mountains their whole life.
And they knew exactly what was needed.
They knew it all.
They'd been up and down those mountains so many times.
But let's say here's me over here in Canada.
I've got chat GPT.
And I've got my books,
And I've got some ideas of my own.
I'm going to climb that mountain like no one else has ever climbed it,
You know?
And I'm just going to all full of myself,
Right?
All full of my own ego,
And my own importance,
And my own everything.
And I'm going to figure out my own way.
And then I'm going to talk to some of my friends,
And I'm going to go to my local sports store,
And I'm going to see what's on sale.
I'm going to put my own gear together.
So I do.
And I really try hard.
And to feel this,
Feel into what I'm saying,
There's a mix in there.
There's a mix of true desire,
True courage,
True aspiration.
There might be some things amuck in my pack.
Some things that maybe the people in my local sports store here in Goddridge,
Ontario,
Canada,
Don't know about the situation over in the Himalayas.
So I get over there.
And I have some local people to help me climb the mountain.
I get climbing them out.
And I don't really want anyone's help.
Because I'm doing this for me.
I'm climbing this mountain for me.
I don't want to climb the mountain knowing that everybody else told me how to do it.
This is my soul's path.
This is my spiritual pilgrimage up the mountain.
I need to know that I did it on my own.
So we start climbing the mountain.
And bit by bit,
You know,
In the beginning it's easy enough.
Then we've made camp a few nights and we've had some challenging weather and we've had some surprises that weren't in my guidebook.
And then after a little while,
I have to start dropping things out of my pack.
Because I've realized that these aren't helping and they're just weighing me down.
And then I started to realize it's actually things I have in my pack that are going against me.
That actually,
They don't work at all.
And eventually,
Maybe.
I end up at the side of the road.
Exhausted,
Beat down by weather.
Hungry,
Who knows what.
And I ask for help.
And I say,
I'm sorry,
You guys know this better.
I need help.
The crazy thing is.
.
.
Asking for help?
We're still the ones climbing the mountain.
But why wouldn't we ask for help?
Why wouldn't we?
Seek guidance.
And I'm not talking about asking someone.
You could ask someone,
Which is along the line of the tradition,
Especially in India,
That you would find a guru,
Right?
You would find a wise person to help you on your journey.
But what they're really saying.
Is that there's a wise person right inside of you.
But how often will we just not stop to listen?
You know,
There's a saying that Let's say your teacher says,
You need to meditate 10 minutes a day.
And you're like,
Oh,
I don't have 10 minutes a day to meditate.
And then the teacher says,
Then you need to sit and meditate for an hour.
If our lives are so spinning out of control.
That we can't take 10 minutes.
Not for some crazy yogic discipline thing that I read in a book.
That I can't take 10 minutes to sit down.
And listen inside.
To connect with my soul.
Soul to connect with my highest self.
I can't take 10 minutes.
To listen within,
Like what you really think.
You know,
Sadhguru,
He's a funny guy.
He's not my favorite,
You know,
But he's a funny guy.
And someone asked him once,
Will you meditate so that we can hook you up to machines and measure you and stuff,
Right?
And he's such a wisecracker.
And so they get them all hooked up and they're like,
Okay,
Can you meditate now?
And he goes,
What do you mean?
They're like,
Well,
Meditate,
Do what you do.
And he goes,
So you want me just to sit here?
Well,
Yeah,
I guess if that's what meditation is,
You want me to just sit here and not move?
And just breathe.
And the funniest thing is,
When he tells this story,
He sat there,
Completely went inside.
I guess what happened is the measurement started going off the charts,
Like they thought he was dead.
His heart rate slowed so far down,
Everything,
His pulse went so far down,
They thought he was dying.
And I don't know how long he stayed there.
I'm sure the story's changed with urban myth over time.
And then finally someone woke him up,
Or not woke him up,
But brought him back.
And he was like,
I thought that's what you wanted.
And so anyway,
I tell this story because When we think of sitting and meditating for 10 minutes,
Really,
What we're seeing?
Is to sit down.
Do nothing.
Close our eyes.
And just be with ourselves for 10 minutes.
Because the crazy thing is that every single one of us is connected to the divine.
Is the divine,
However you understand the world.
Every single one of us,
No matter what state of being we're in,
No matter how quote,
Far along the path we are,
Which is nonsense,
It doesn't matter.
Every single one of us.
Half the time when we're confused about what we need to do next,
The truth is,
We already know what we need to do next.
We just don't like it.
Carolyn Mace used to say that.
Oftentimes,
A dark night of the soul happens.
Because we've prayed for guidance,
We got the answer,
We didn't like it,
So we're basically waiting for a second option.
Our highest self knows.
But we just don't slow down to listen.
That's essentially what we're talking about.
And how important it is to do this and how important it is to come to this place of confusion.
So that we will stop.
We will stop all the crazy horses running in our minds.
It's interesting to imagine what it would take.
To stop all the wild horses of our mind.
We can call it a monkey mind if we want,
But I don't know about you,
But they feel bigger than monkeys if they're really flying.
Do you know what would that take?
In the context of this particular question.
Study.
The evil sons.
The other side,
The caravas,
They call them.
These are our senses.
These are our.
Primal,
Not primal,
But there,
I guess there are primal needs,
The desire for pleasure,
The fear of pain,
All these kind of things.
And these are the things that we sort of live within most of our lives.
You know,
We make choices because that's going to feel good or that's going to look good to our parents or that's going to look good.
We do this thing,
You know,
Even sometimes we go to school,
We get an education because this is what my family's always done.
And I need to look successful and I need to have make a six figure income or I need to have a big car.
I need to have a big house and I need.
So we make all these choices based on pleasure.
Based on security.
And these would be all these senses that Arjuna has to fight against.
Then on Arjuna's side,
He has his four brothers.
The Pandavas,
Because his dad was Pandu.
And the Pandavas,
These are our virtues.
These are the virtues within all of us of gratitude.
Of humility.
Of courage.
Of faith.
Wisdom.
Every single one of us also has all of those.
And it's amazing in the Gita,
Because there are only five warriors.
On the side of the virtues.
But there's a hundred on the side of the senses.
I don't know about you,
But that's what it can feel like inside.
It can feel inside like there's a hundred against me.
We are outnumbered 20 to 1.
There's this desperation inside that's like,
I can't overcome it.
I've been doing it like this for so long.
This is how my family's always done it.
Like,
Imagine someone who,
You know,
I don't know,
They come from a family of lawyers or something,
And they've all got to do the thing,
And they've always got to go to law school,
And they got to go to Harvard,
And they got to do this,
And now they got this whole life,
And the big house,
And the big cars,
And the big everything,
And the important social circles and everything,
And they've done everything.
But they never wanted to be a lawyer.
Maybe they wanted to open a fish truck or something.
Or maybe they wanted to do something completely different.
What would it take?
They're living this huge,
Crazy life.
Imagine what it would take.
That feels like a hundred warriors.
But then over here on this side.
The courage,
The courage.
Is actually.
To close your eyes,
Have faith in your path,
And follow it.
That's the courage.
It's almost easier when you really think about all these sensories,
The senses,
The senses on this side,
Right?
Or these sensory feelings.
That's the easy way.
Go towards pleasure.
Avoid pain.
Children can do that.
And they're all interwoven,
And they're all interwoven in ideas that we've learned.
And it's so hard.
This is where Arjuna sits in the middle.
He's already spoken to Krishna saying he's sort of like spoken all the words of the senses but don't you understand and this won't feel good and I don't like this and this is how my family's always done it and this is my duty in life and this is and he's just spouting spouting and spouting all the desires of all of the senses and the fears and the success and the security and all that and he's just spouting and spouting and Krishna Being the great teacher is just listening.
Because he knows that this is just the voice of the senses.
This isn't even Arjuna.
Not yet.
Arjuna hasn't even arrived.
These are all just like a million tentacles.
So Krishna waits patiently.
Let's.
.
.
Arjuna Tucker himself out with all the arguments.
As to why he can't do the thing,
He can't do it.
And then finally,
Arjuna says.
I'm done.
I surrender.
Please help me.
Please be my teacher.
I give up.
This is a really big deal.
Because many people say that this particular Verse is the beginning of the Bhagavad Gita.
Everything else was sort of background.
Because now Krishna will start to speak.
Now,
We will now hear the wisdom of Krishna for all of us.
But we can't get there.
Until we empty our cups.
No teacher can teach us anything.
As long as we already think we know everything.
There's nothing to teach.
If the people there already are like,
Well,
I already know anything,
I'm just kind of here.
Whatever,
Maybe you'll have a little gem for me,
But I already know,
I'm already pretty much on the path.
And it's all good.
But this is why historically in India,
A teacher would only work with a student.
Who was absolutely dedicated,
Like absolutely.
And not because the guru was all full of themselves.
But because you actually can't learn anything.
Until the student has an open heart.
It's an illusion that we're learning anything at all.
Until our heart is broken open.
What are we surrendering to?
Someone asked that earlier.
Sometimes we can surrender.
To a practice.
It could simply be something like.
I just want to start meditating every day.
And normally,
You'll have heard something or someone has said,
Oh,
You know,
You could do this practice.
And something in you went.
That sounds right.
But I can't start now.
Maybe I'll start after Christmas.
Or maybe I'll start once I get settled in my new job.
Or my new place,
Or my new whatever.
But we're not right now.
And of course,
We don't do it.
And then a year goes by and someone's like,
Oh,
Well,
What should you do?
And they're like,
Well,
There's this practice.
And this is what I mean when we all actually have guidance inside of us.
It's sitting right there,
What the thing is that we need to do.
And so it's interesting when we think of why,
Like the difficulties that we tell ourselves why we can't do them.
So for example,
I teach Kundalini Yoga.
So one of the practices is to do one kriya or one set.
Every day for 40 days.
It's hard.
It's hard if you've got a busy life or even if you don't have a busy life.
But you're not used to taking time for you and your health and your inner wellness and all that.
We'll find a hundred excuses why we can't do it,
Even if we do it badly.
We'll still find a hundred excuses why we can't take that time.
So it's interesting once we let go of all the senses.
The pleasure,
The pain and everything,
Like those little voices in our heads.
So all of a sudden,
Someone You know,
You wake up,
You sit there and you're like,
Okay,
I've had it.
You're in Arjuna's space and you're like,
I've had it,
I'm done with these health issues,
With these mental health issues,
With my fatigue,
I'm just done,
Done with it.
And then some little voice in your head says.
Maybe you could do a kriya.
Every morning.
And some part of you is like,
That's right,
That's right.
It wouldn't be right for everybody,
But it's right for you.
In this moment,
This is what we need to do.
So you're all gung-ho.
Tomorrow morning,
I'm going to wake up.
This is what I'm going to do first thing.
And what happens the next morning?
You're lying in bed.
And it feels so good.
And it's so warm.
These are the voices of those senses.
Of the desire for pleasure.
And you don't get up.
And then all day you think about it.
Oh,
I should have got up.
Oh,
And now,
That's okay,
I'll start tomorrow.
So then instead,
And it could be anything,
It could be every day at noon,
I'm gonna meditate for 20 minutes.
It doesn't matter,
It doesn't matter what it is.
But like let's say you actually do give up.
And you actually surrender to your inner guru.
You surrender.
Like you are like wide open,
Wide open.
I will do anything you ask.
And when that alarm goes off in the morning and you wake up,
You just get up.
And you just go do the kriya.
Because you have surrendered to you.
You've surrendered to your highest self.
You've surrendered to courage and faith and virtue and integrity and all those wonderful things.
That's what you're surrendering to.
And you get up and you do the Kriya,
And maybe you like it,
Maybe you don't like it,
It doesn't matter.
Because you did it,
Because this is what you promised,
And this is you in alignment with you.
And then you do it every day.
And two weeks later,
What happens?
You feel different.
Life starts to change.
You start to sleep better.
You start to feel better.
People don't bug you the same.
This is the benefit of listening to a teacher,
Teacher within,
Someone you trust,
Doesn't matter.
But as long as we actually say,
You know what,
I'm willing to open up to this.
I mean,
This was me.
When I was 29 years old,
Lots of you guys know this story,
When I had the breast lumps.
I reached my very greatest dark night of the soul.
Because I had done everything I thought was right,
And I thought I was living right,
And I was actually deeply depressed.
Deeply depressed to the point that I didn't think I could ever get out of it.
And my body manifested illness.
And a teacher appeared.
And he appeared,
Like it sounds all very bizarre,
But of course he had already been in our lives for a couple years,
Because he was helping us transition our farm to organic.
We had a big dairy farm then.
And I didn't actually know much about the healing work he did.
Until.
.
.
I was sick.
And until I realized that I was so depressed.
And I had no idea where to turn,
And I had no idea what to do.
And he appeared.
And he said,
Let me help you,
Essentially.
And I was laid bare before him.
I can still feel that feeling.
Of being completely open,
Like completely.
And in that state,
I was able to feel him.
I was able to actually experience this man who was living in another dimension.
If you saw him on the street,
You couldn't have fathomed that this was Jim.
He's this great big dude,
You know,
That goes hunting with the boys.
Like he's,
You'd never ever guess.
There's no long robes and long hair.
There's nothing,
Nothing you'd imagine.
And yet you sit and look into this man's eyes and you just feel the entire universe expand and you suddenly know that you're a part of it.
You're a part of this whole place.
But I couldn't have got there.
If I hadn't.
Been laid bare.
If I hadn't completely collapsed.
And the benefit.
I am forever changed from those years.
I forever see the world differently.
Because of the time I got to spend with him.
We all have this.
We all have this right here,
Right now.
You don't need a gym.
You don't need that.
It can be something as simple As saying,
You know what?
I'm going to sit in silent meditation for 20 minutes a day for 40 days.
And I'm going to let my higher guidance guide me.
Or maybe you're going to sit and journal.
Every day.
You're going to,
You know what,
I'm going to sit,
You know,
I did a program called the artist's way.
Where you basically had to get up every morning and do three pages,
She called them the morning pages,
And you would just get up and you would write for three pages,
Even if it was gobbledygook,
Didn't matter,
Just write for three pages,
Get it all out,
Empty your consciousness.
And the crazy thing is,
What happened is,
And the point of it,
Is that you get all the gunk out.
So there's room for creativity to flow.
Maybe that's your way.
Maybe that's the discipline.
Discipline.
Disciple.
Discipleship.
Not discipline,
Punishment.
Disciple.
Like,
What do you want in life?
Who do you want to be?
What is your soul's path?
And the way to get there is to.
.
.
Virtue,
Courage,
Faith,
Inspiration,
Listening.
It isn't the path of the senses.
It isn't following pleasure and avoiding pain.
There's another aspect within us that actually will elevate us,
That we have a gym inside of every one of us right now.
That can help us.
Every one of us has a Krishna inside of us.
That's what the Gita is all about,
Is not having some teacher out there that has all the answers,
That Krishna is inside.
It's a huge deal,
A huge deal.
He also talks about There's the part where he says,
Tell me where my duty lies.
Which path should I take?
And this is a huge deal.
And in this specific case.
He's particularly torn between what he might call his family dharma.
That he must love his kinsmen and all that kind of thing.
And his,
In that time,
His caste dharma that he was of the warrior class,
That his job is to protect and fight against the wrongdoers.
That's his job.
How often do we feel this struggle?
How often do we feel this battle between our duties?
Our duty to ourself?
Or our duty to our family,
Or our duty to society,
Or our duty to our friends,
Or our duty to our spouse,
Or our duty to our parents,
Our duty to our kids.
How often,
Like this idea of duty.
Obligation I made a promise.
Whether we made the promise or not.
I made a promise.
That's how powerful it is inside.
How often in life like this is a real current struggle.
You know,
I have it all the time.
I am so wired.
For kind of family,
Relationships,
Love,
All that.
I mean,
It's all I teach.
It's all I'm into.
But I'll tell you.
Probably one of my number one social challenges.
Is how to do what I believe is loving and kind with my spouse,
With my family,
With community,
With everybody.
And still prioritize.
My path.
Katrina.
Independent of everybody else.
Like right now,
I'm writing a new book.
And I have to consciously prioritize that over everything.
And I have to say no to things,
And I have to tell people that I can't do things that I normally do.
Because I have to write this book.
And especially when inspiration hits.
I have to do it and i'll tell you the battle inside of me it's like yeah but they're expecting you to do this and they when they're going to be disappointed and what are you going to do and in my heart i'm like This is my Dharma.
This is why I'm here.
This is what I'm supposed to be doing.
So this battle.
That Arjuna is having.
Is our battle,
Is our struggle,
As we live as a soul in community,
In the village.
How do I find my way?
Suits everything.
And the last thing I want to mention.
Is.
When they talk about surrendering,
When Arjuna surrenders to Krishna and he just says,
I will do anything you say.
" And he does that.
This isn't blind.
Passivity.
He's not just simply closing his eyes and letting Krishna do it.
All the way through the Bhagavad Gita as we journey,
As now Krishna begins to teach.
Arjuna is having a conversation with you.
Arjuna's in there.
He's like,
Yeah,
But what about this?
And what about that?
And then that will cause Krishna to share something else.
It's such a curious thing,
This.
.
.
Idea that a teacher is supposed to just fill us with information.
If you really work like one-on-one with a teacher.
It's actually the student guiding the entire journey.
If the student says nothing.
The teacher has nothing to share.
I do counseling with people or I do energy grids with people.
And it's always interesting when people come to me to have an energy grid reading.
And they have all kinds of questions.
They're like,
Okay,
Well,
Here's what's going on in my life right now,
And I have all this confusion about this,
And I really want to know this,
And da-da-da-da-da.
We have the juiciest conversations.
You know why?
Because their open-heartedness and their questions.
Change me.
Something happens inside of me and I'm no longer Katrina Voss.
I'm no longer that person.
It's like I become whatever it is they need.
And the more they ask,
The more comes out of me.
It's the most amazing experience.
And by the end of our time together,
It's like,
Oh,
Wow,
That was great for both of us.
It's amazing.
I love it.
That's why I love doing it.
But then there are people.
Oh,
They heard that I do these things or whatever these energy grids and things.
So I chart their grid and we have a chat.
And they're like,
And I'm like,
So like what's going on in your life?
Nothing really.
You know,
Just wondering if the grid can tell me anything at all.
You know how much the grid tells them?
Do you know how much inspiration comes to me?
Zero.
Nothing.
It is the most painful hour.
Just because you just sit there.
And nothing's happening.
The grid lays quiet.
I mean,
I can go through the.
.
.
Well,
Pluto is in your first chakra,
Which means that your soul's path is.
.
.
So-and-so is in your second chuck.
And this means,
Da-da-da-da-da-da.
I'm nothing more than ChatGBT at this point.
I'm just spitting out whatever the facts are.
And then.
Eight minutes later,
We're done.
There's nothing to say!
And they're like,
Well,
Do you have any other insight about Pluto there?
I don't.
I don't have any insight because that's not how it works.
That's not how it works.
True teaching happens.
True teaching happens through dialogue.
That's how it works.
Like even all of you guys here,
Even though we're not necessarily having true dialogue.
Do you know that I couldn't put this class together without you here?
It comes out of me differently because you're here.
I don't understand it exactly.
But I can feel it.
I mean,
Even all of your intentions of being here to study the Gita together,
Not just with me,
But together.
That heightens me.
That takes me to a whole other level.
I mean,
Even for me,
I can listen to this later and be listening to it going,
Wow.
Because it was all of us that put these classes together.
And it's not the same,
Me just sitting in front of a camera.
It doesn't feel it at all.
Yeah,
We're mutually motivated.
Everybody's dancing.
Everybody's playing.
So while Arjuna is saying,
I want to be your disciple,
I bow to you,
I'm listening,
I'm open,
Krishna's like.
Wonderful.
Now we will begin.
We will begin.
And now becomes,
Now for the rest of our journey through the Gita,
Is now this amazing dance,
This amazing dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna.
It's so,
So lovely.
But you really get to come to that place.
I'm going to back up a little and then read what we just did.
Arjuna said,
When the battle begins,
How can I shoot arrows through Bhishma and Drona?
Who deserve my reverence.
It would be better to spend the rest of my life as a pauper.
Begging for food than to kill these honored teachers.
If I killed them,
All of my earthly pleasures would be smeared with blood.
We do not know which is worse,
Winning this battle or losing it,
Since if we kill Dhrishtarastra's men,
We will not wish to remain alive.
I am weighed down by pity,
Krishna.
My mind is utterly confused.
Tell me where my duty lies,
Which path I should take.
I am your pupil.
I beg you for your instruction.
I would love to know what.
.
.
Your personal takeaway is from that.
What can you take away from this then?
You know,
Shifts your day,
Your world.
I would love to know.
Or if you have any questions.
And I'm happy to chat about whatever you're having.
Is rolling through your mind.
We have to ask and be willing to listen.
The expansiveness in being humble.
In order to receive the guidance we seek,
We have to be completely open to receive.
It has to be co-creating.
Let's see.
The first thing that comes to mind is community.
This community motivates me and helps me be centered.
Be a disciple and learn,
Let go of conditioning.
When I do my breath work in the morning,
It changes my whole day.
So many nuggets.
I like the one about a hundred warriors on the side of the physical world and five in the spirit world.
That's a beautiful way of saying it.
Yes!
Even if it's not the answer I like,
It is the answer.
I was literally thrown down on my knee,
Broke it in five pieces,
And then I could move forward.
And leave my verbally abusive husband.
Wow!
Isn't that wild when life is the most brilliant metaphor?
In a meta way,
To surrender means we open up wholly to ourselves with the questions we seek answer for.
Not just I surrender as an affirmation,
But as an action.
That's blowing my mind.
That's amazing.
Asking myself,
Highest self,
Again and again and again.
It's uncanny how we all will do it tomorrow.
Isn't it?
Tomorrow's like a magic day.
Conviction comes to mind as in making the choice and living committing to that choice.
Coldly.
We cannot learn when we think we already know.
Surrender.
I have one more question for you guys.
Where is it easiest for you to connect with your highest self?
If you are completely lost.
What do you do?
Where do you go?
What is it that you do?
That brings you clarity.
As to your path.
Walking in the woods.
During and after yoga.
In nature,
Always go to the ocean.
Being alone,
Walking amongst the trees.
Listening to a song on repeat and walking.
Therapists.
Through dance,
Music,
And laughter,
And hugging my dogs.
Walking outside,
Definitely.
I go to my soul,
I always receive the answer on a God Talk with Nature.
Silence.
The shower is when I get the clearest answers.
Be quiet.
Listen to that quiet voice,
Not my ego.
In nature and also in meditation.
Talk to myself journaling.
Showers are good when it's zero below.
I have to be doing something where I'm not really thinking.
I just crouch down at random places in my house in silence,
And then something happens.
Oh,
Me.
I needed God talk with nature.
After several miles walking in the forest,
I have to outwalk the voices.
Totally.
I think that's what we do a lot.
With exercise and with yoga.
I think that's why I'm so drawn to kundalini yoga because it's so active.
The voices can't survive the kriya.
As for me,
Not for everybody,
Lots of people love Hatha Yoga,
But the voices just drive me crazy,
But I need something to actually with the voices.
I know the right way when I meet the opposition.
I feel the right path the strongest at that point.
Chanting and doing the 108 chants.
Well,
Thanks,
Everybody.
We'll see you guys later.
Have an amazing day.
Have an amazing week.
Maybe we'll see you Friday.
