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00:20No, the truth is all the time there, but if you remember, I said truth is quite sleepy.
00:27Truth is a non-doer.
00:30Truth loves to relax.
00:37Now add this to the fact that the truth appears to you in the form that is relevant to you.
00:52And then you will realize why Krishna says,
00:58that I come to you as a saviour, as a rescuer, when there is a decline or loss of dharma.
01:14You get the question?
01:15What he is saying is, if the truth is a continuity, ever present, without interruption,
01:24then why is Krishna saying that he comes only periodically?
01:28Why is he not there always?
01:30He is there always, but to whom?
01:34To the one who is tuned into him always.
01:38If you are tuned in always, then Krishna is there always for you.
01:48The headmaster is always there in the school.
01:52But when the class gets particularly noisy, then he shows up with the stick at the door.
02:02Only at that moment does he physically show up with the stick at the door.
02:06Does he mean that all this while he was not there in the school, he was there?
02:13Probably he was also watching using the CCTV.
02:16He was watching the class, the class was not watching him.
02:21When does the class get to watch him?
02:23Only when he shows up.
02:25So when Krishna is saying, I show up when there is a decline in dharma,
02:31what he is saying is, you will see me in that particular moment of great decline of dharma.
02:37That does not mean that Krishna comes only episodically.
02:42He was there always, you were not able to see him.
02:45And because you were not able to see him, hence you got noisy as a class.
02:50The entire fall in dharma happened precisely because you were not able to appreciate that Krishna is there all the time.
02:58Had the class known that it is being watched by the headmaster using the CCTV camera,
03:05would the class have dared to get noisy?
03:10Same is the condition of mortals.
03:13They start thinking that Krishna is not at all there just because Krishna is not physically evident.
03:20So they get noisy like all the Kauravas did and all the other mischievous ones did.
03:26And then Krishna has to show up in his physical form carrying the stick or the Sudarshan Chakra or whatever.
03:48If the decline is always happening, then it would have been a free fall.
03:52If there is something that is always happening, then there is no end to it.
03:56And the world would have continuously kept sinking to lower and lower depths.
04:02That is not the case.
04:04There are periods of fall of dharma, then there are periods of resurgence.
04:10So it continues that way.
04:22No, no. Going inside and knowing the subject and object together are just the same thing.
04:35Yet, it is more clear when you say that you must know both subject and object together.
04:43Just as the Upanishads say, you must have Vidya and Avidya both.
04:47It's a clearer way of saying, go inside.
04:52Because what is it that you will find when you go inside?
04:55Will you find only the subject?
04:57The mind is the subject.
05:00But does the mind ever exist without objects?
05:04So even when you go inside, you will find both the subject and the object.
05:11But it's not a very wise way to say that spirituality involves going inside.
05:20Technically, what is being said is correct.
05:23Spirituality does involve going inside.
05:25But remember that when you go inside, what you find there is a lot of outside.
05:33That inside cannot exist without the outside.
05:38The mind is a crucible that is full of the world.
05:43Right? So it's the same thing.
05:48So there is a subject and there is the world that the subject projects and is surrounded with.
06:12What do you identify with? The world or the subject?
06:17When you say there is I and there is the world, who are you? I or the world?
06:32I. So you are identified with the subject or the object?
06:36With the subject. Right?
06:39So if you are in trouble, who is to be explored? The subject or the object?
06:48Who is the troubled one? The subject. Right?
06:52So when we say you will find Krishna within,
06:56you go into the suffering of the I and you will find that the I is eager, anxious
07:08to reach a point of finality.
07:13That point of finality is euphemistically called Krishna.
07:21Are you getting it?
07:23Krishna is that which keeps you unsettled, crazy, desirous, probing, longing.
07:41That is what is meant by saying that when you will go within, you will find Krishna.
07:48Why will you find Krishna only when you go within?
07:51Unless you probe that I, how will you know what that I is so desirous of?
08:01Probe the I and your probe will necessarily take you to the finality that this I is so eager to come to.
08:18Getting it?
08:19That does not mean that Krishna is sitting somewhere in your head or in heart and dancing or playing the flute.
08:26It only means that your insides are experiencing a severe lack or deficiency or absence of something.
08:39So Krishna is to be realized through his absence.
08:47It is his absence that makes you crazy.
08:51It is his absence that keeps you so disturbed, even neurotic.
09:01You are missing something.
09:06That something that you are missing is Krishna.
09:11But once you, the funny part in this is, once you know that you are missing something, you will get what you are missing.
09:19And then you can say, yes, I went inside and found Krishna.
09:30Spirituality involves the discipline of restraining yourself from image making.
09:45I have repeatedly said that the spiritual path proceeds via demolition, negation.
09:58Not via construction or affirmation.
10:02So if it is said that there is Krishna inside you, then you have to proceed very carefully with this statement.
10:15The Krishna inside you is not a positive image.
10:20The Krishna inside you is a void, a vacancy.
10:24A gaping hole asking to be filled up.
10:30That's the only way you can experience Krishna in your lives.
10:37You cannot experience Krishna as a beautiful something.
10:48You cannot say, oh, you know, I was there in that temple and I had my Krishna moment.
10:56You cannot say I was there on the mountains and the gurgle of the stream made me experience Krishna.
11:04All this is just fantasy, wishful image making.
11:10Krishna is to be experienced in your midnight wails.
11:16Krishna is to be experienced in your daily torment.
11:21Krishna is to be experienced, as I said, in that which you are badly missing.
11:33Not in that which you are positively experiencing.
11:39Your positive experiences will not take you to Krishna.
11:42They will only take you more and more into the rut of the world.
11:46That's where they come from, the world.
11:50On the other hand, the void within stubbornly refuses to be filled in by the world.
12:00That's where Krishna is.
12:02The one who is beyond the world and the proof is that everything in the world
12:08proves insufficient in filling up that void.
12:11Why does it prove insufficient?
12:13Because it is a Krishna-sized void.
12:16It's a huge infinite void.
12:19Therefore, the entire world cannot fill it up.
12:22Krishna is to be experienced through your pain.
12:26Not through your bliss.
12:29Those who say, oh, I am experiencing Krishna bliss, Krishna bliss, are just fooling themselves.
12:36Krishna is there in your tears.
12:40In everything that keeps you mad.
12:50Getting it?
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