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It is a very fascinating issue. What are the conflicts? Conflicts of Arjuna, take for eg. It is the conflict of duties on one side and his humanitarian concern on another side. So it all happened on the war field. And one side his heart and another side his intellect. When there is a conflict between his intellect telling you have to form your duty, duties re most, you are a kshatriya, you are a warrior, you have come here to wage war and in the process you have to kill and whoever comes in front is your enemy, you have to kill them. Don’t take into consideration he is a teacher, his father, his mother, etc. whoever comes in front you have to kill and win the war, that’s your duty. Other side humanitarian consideration, should I kill my own teacher who has brought me up and can I kill the greatest of the Jnani who is worth the worship, Bheeshmapitamaha. Big conflict. Love, compassion, magnamity and corresponding renunciation. Are they just not better than performing the mechanical duty sense. Look at the conflict. So he thinks it may be better that I renounce everything and go to Himalayas rather to fight and create a bloodstream in the name of duty. That was the conflict. Such conflicts are bound to come up in every one of our lives. If it has not come yet we have not entered into spiritual realm. The stage will come as you progress in our lives, such questions are going to come. What is it that you call as duty? What is the goal of our life? What is the difference between duties for the parent and duties for the nation? Which is better of the two? All number of such conflicts can come. So Krishna says yes the power of Jnana can remove this darkness, can remove these conflicts and all your doubts can be warded off. You are telling that you are the greatest sinner because you have come here with the averseness to get the kingdom and all the wealth and the affluence associated with that, yadrajasukhalenahantum sajanumudhyatavayam. What a shame, shame on Pandavas. We people. Why we have come here with a selfish attitude to kill all these people so that we can get the kingdom and all the wealth and the affluence associated. Therefore he feels that we are creating a big sin and we are the worst of the sinners. If a person kills one person he will be put into the highest punishment, capital punishment. But look at what we are doing, our own people kith and kin, everybody we are going to kill. Is it not going to be the biggest sin. Is bringing evoking the concept of sin? So Krishna assures, don’t worry even if you are the sinner of the highest type you have got a wonderful day ahead of you. Probably you did all this in darkness and therefore you can overcome all these. I normally give the example of the people who are in prison, work in prison, Yoga for prisoners, we have been doing that. One of our very senior, very elderly teacher, his name is Jindal and in Jaipur jail he started going and teaching them. And this group of prisoners slowly started coming for the Yoga class. But the most brilliant and the worst of the terrorists there, he is a person who has knocked off ten heads, he was given complete imprisonment for whole life, he was the most difficult to handle. But with his very loving and affectionate teacher as he was he brought him to counsel answered all his questions one by one, one by one and he got his conviction and he started coming to the classes. He was fascinated as to how Jindal at the age of 78-80 years was doing all his asanas and the kriyas so effectively and how he channelized his specialty and he got fascinated, he wanted to learn. Jindal said you have to completely change your lifestyle. You have get up early in the morning at 4.30. he told how we do that here in Prashanti Kutiram and do a similar thing and set yourself into the right track where the right knowledge, it can delectable all darkness and he started meticulously following all the things with the total will and since he was a leader all other people started and the whole atmosphere started changing. Everybody will get up at 4.30, 5’o clock, they come, they sit for the prayer and do the meditation, then ready for the Asana class, then the Pranayama, by 7.30, 8’o clock they are all ready and after breakfast they will go and do all the duties that were given by the jailor. And the whole atmosphere turned into a wonderful atmosphere like this. Jindal was so very happy, he was thrilled. I thought now we have been able to replicate Prashanti there. And in an year’s time Jindalji went to the jailor and told that these people have become so good, you see their behaviour and why don’t you relieve them, release them from the jail. So the jailor looked, talked to each one of them and recommended to the higher authorities and lot of authorities also saw the big change that has taken place. Then the leader of the team was recommended, and so he was called by the judge the next session and the judge asked what do you say. Sir I did all my mistakes, I regret so much that we thought the knowledge in my ignorance, I was propelled by the hate that was infused in me and I killed all these people and I feel so bad but now thanks to our Yoga teacher, now I have completely transformed, the love and affection has come in my life. And if I am given a chance I m going to serve the people in the entire area, in my villages, in my surrounding villages and it is all left to you for your judgment, sir. And it happened, the judge released him and he was brought into our conference in Delhi. Jindalji brought and had a beautiful talk with him and he shared his experience. This is what he chose, what Krishna is telling, darkness maybe there, ignorance maybe there for years and years, you maybe the worst among the sinners but if you bring the Jnana, sarvum Jnana pravenayvah gurjinamsantarishiyasi. You will be able to cross this ocean of sin, cross the ocean of misery, cross the ocean of this disaster. Such is the power of Jnana. Therefore by Jnana you can bring about the total transformation, a total transformation initially at the buddhi level, cognitional transformation. Then it will start bringing about tremendous changes in our lifestyle. So it is this cognitional transformation that we have to bring about. If you bring about then all your asanas, pranayamas, mudras, bandhas, kriyas, everything will help us to bring about the transformation of the personality with a value system in our lives, with a clear directionness to where to go in our lives. Therefore the Jnana yoga is considered to be the supreme. Sarvam jnane parisamapkti, they said, everything ends up in the Jnana. So unless you have that Jnana, unless you have that understanding, unless you have that inner awareness, all the practice that we do can turn very mechanical. It may not elevate you to become a better person, great person, a super person, a great human being and reach the highest which is the goal of Yoga. So Yoga is meant to elevate ourselves. Therefore Jnana is a supreme support for the whole thing.
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