Sri Krishna as Revealed in All Levels of Reality - 8. Swami Krishnananda

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16/03/2020.
Spoken on May 1, 1983)

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#The fact that we have an opponent outside us, something with which we cannot reconcile ourselves, of which we always have to be very cautious with drawn swords, only shows that we have not found a Krishna in our life, because to find a Krishna in our level is to find a principle of harmony, the secret of communion with that opposing element which is staring at us as the reality of life. 

##In the Bhagavadgita itself we are told that a particular form, a degree of reality, may stand against us as our own enemy if we are not in a position to find a means of uniting ourselves with it.

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#Srimad Bhagavad Gita : Chapter-6. Slokam-5.

"Uddharet atmanatmanam natmanam avasadayet

atmaiva hyatmano bandhur atmaiva ripur atmanah."

##BG 6.5: "Elevate yourself through the power of your mind, and not degrade yourself, for the mind can be the friend and also the enemy of the self."

#Atmaiva hyatmano bandhur atmaiva ripur atmanah (Gita 6.5). 

##Our environment is our friend, and our environment is also our enemy.

###The inimical character which seems to be manifest in our environment is the opposition that we are facing in our life. This happens because the environment, the atmosphere in which we are placed, which is our so-called chariot, is constituted of such characteristics as are not easily reconcilable with the vehement affirmations of our egoistic personality. The assertions of our egoism stand in the way of this coming into a blend or union with that which stands outside as our opponent. It is Sri Krishna himself that is opposing you.

#### Your larger personality stands outside you as the atmosphere outside. It is not really outside; it is a larger expansion of your own being, and so when you fight with the world you are fighting with your own self. And this larger being is the Sri Krishna who includes Arjuna also within himself because the particular is swallowed up by the universal, as it includes the universal. As the individual is in the universal, the environment should not stand outside you. You have to be in union with that atmosphere.

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#Now, what is the atmosphere we are speaking of?

##It is nothing but the particular level in which you find yourself. And what are these levels?

### I have already given a hint as to what they are. So right from the outward social involvement which is a location in which we find ourselves, we have to raise our spirits gradually to the higher dimensions thereof until we scale the ladder of evolution inwardly through the practice of yoga and reap that perfect unanimity and uniformity of being where the supreme Krishna, the eternal universality, engulfs the individuality of Arjuna. And in the Viratsvarupa, Arjuna himself finds himself vanishing, as it were.

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#Thus, the yoga of the Bhagavadgita is a cosmic performance expected of every individual, every human being in every walk of life, in every profession, in every undertaking, and at every moment of time. 

##Thus, there is no moment in our life when it cannot be a yoga. There is no outside atmosphere which we are confronting with which we cannot attune ourselves if only we have a mind to do that.

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To be continued ...

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