Goals of Life - Sri Krishna Gopal Mishra.

August 24, 2006

[This article is submitted with the kind permission of Sri Krishna Gopal Mishra - Jagannath] Sri Ram During every journey of life, there are just 3 goals: 1) ‘self realization’ 2) ‘livelihood’ (without threatening the nature and self), and 3) ‘co-existence’ with others with love (= peace + happiness+ detachment). When you fail in these 3 goals, you will need to stay in same class once again, and will need additional thing called 4) ‘security’ (=measurement+ laws+ medicines + arms). Bhagwat Gita deals with each of the (3+1 goals) in a very typical way for ‘Grihastha’ (house holder). This e-mail was a reply to Sri Ravi about responsibility of livelihood and its importance, and how ‘family responsibility’ is not a distraction from a path of Bhagwat Gita. Family responsibility is also an important duty to Sri Krishna. This is His job that you do as a custodian. Your child or any bodies’ child is really no different. When you say that it is ‘your’ child, this is an attachment and a cause of the sorrow, and pleasure and fear. Treat your child, and your employers, and neighbors as manifestation of Sri Krishna and co-exist with all of them in perfect balance. You cannot be held responsible for any one of your actions for action towards others because you cannot really control rest of the world. You are just a delivery boy and the entire system runs the way it is designed, with or without you. Sri Krishna in Bhagwat Gita gives an answer when I was trying to understand it and get relief from my false sense of responsibility. Sri Krishna says this in article 22 of Chapter 13 of Sri Mad Bhagwat Gita: UPDRASTA NUMANTA CH BHARTA BHOKTA MAHESWARh PARMATMETI CHAPYYUKTO DEHESMIN PURUSHh PARAh: This means: First of all, Sri Krishna is never in the front (face to face), He is always standing

behind. By this way, He is UPDRASTA (looking from back). He is like a projector operator in a cinema. He puts up the reel and the world as we see it comes before us, in the 3 dimensional realities. As a person watching that cinema, you cannot help yourself and just react. Sri Krishna watches you doing this reaction against the sense of the cinema that is shown by Him from the back of you. If you are really clever and recognized this concept, you are big success. After that Sri Krishna becomes ANUMANTA (or giver of inner consent) to what ever you decide in your pure heart. That means, if you ask Him why things are not coming in the way it should be, He will advise the course of action from the heart. In this position, you loose

power to react because you now know the source of reality, and do not get unnecessarily angry on others, and remain free from bias. Sri Krishna will then turn into BHARTA (provider). You will be very very surprised that by your changed behaviors, certain people that have never known you will get to know you. They will then beg to become your clients or employers whether or not you have any usefulness to them or not. What ever you do, they will buy. In this way, your family

obligation and your own will be borne by Sri Krishna. For example, take a case of Ustad Bilmilla Khan. He was playing Shahnayee (a little known music instrument) and this became a source of his and his families’ livelihood. Similarly it is happening with me. I have no skills, no knowledge and no behavior but I find my clients coming and giving me the work. I now recognize my clients’ true identity. And as a result, I take care of them and do all that I can do. Because Sri Krishna is now becomes a BHARTA. Food or income given by Sri Krishna in disguise of clients is actually staying with us, and I now have a house built that I could never have by hard work so far. When the Bhagwat Gita did not reveal me this knowledge, I was earning money but that was going down the drain. Very soon, all desires come to an end. Because any small thing given by Sri Krishna (by whatever

means) is enough and desires cannot raise their head, and leave you forever. When desires are fulfilled, Sri Krishna looses this job of a provider (BHARTA). He then becomes BHOKTA (consumer). The bhakta of Sri Krishna has to co-exist (live and work) with others without any of His own desires. You will start understanding the true experience of love. At this condition, He is hungry of a food or other action made with nourishment of deep love. When nutrition is less, you eat more food, but with high nutrition the quantity becomes small. You will not need food or comfort of 5 Star hotels but a hermit of a loving friend. With a hungry of love, the BHOKTA is looking for food every where to find pious people and relish to watch their true work. Sri Krishna can travel from India to US to Brazil to wherever for a 100 mg of food of the Bhakta. This condition of Sri Krishna is called BHOKTA. He is looking for deep love wherever it is. He can buy, beg, borrow, or steal. In Gokul, He was famous for stealing the milk products from houses of His Bhakta. Remember! He is now a BHOKTA or consumer of pure love. That bhakta with Sri Krishna as BHOKTA turns to be MAHEASWAR (Shiva – knower of advaita/ non duality between nature and spirit). I have no entitlement to write about this state and beyond. From MAHESHWAR, Sri Krishna is PARMESHWAR. Dear Ravi, you should look carefully every person or organization who gives you money, and respect. Suspect him as Sri Krishna. Take care of Him, He wants to take care of your family through you. This is His duty that you are appointed to serve the family that you now have from 6 billion people at the earth. If you once loose any of your children, you cannot find him/her in the world with 6 billion populations. To leave them, and be ‘sanyasi’ and finding an excuse

of leaving His assigned battlefield of life is not what Sri Krishna has ever taught. Had you a duty of a renunciation, Sri Krishna would never have given you a family and responsibility by Himself. Read this e-mail carefully, and read again till these are absorbed in your mind. Regards K G Misra "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.

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