bhagavad gita report

Report on last evening's Bhagavad Gita meeting: Arjuna is on the floor of his chariot, dejected and world-weary. He asks his chariot driver, Krishna for advice. Big mistake! He may not want to hear what Krishna has to say. Krishna says we are made up of three energies: Inertia, Activity, and Light. Inertia is the ground floor, the muck from which the lotus springs. Activity is the horizontal world, the world of lists and their accomplishment, the world many of us believe to be Reality. Light is the vertical world, the realm which births all that is. We humans can choose which realm to cultivate. Our attention is the tool we use to do so. Whatever we attend to, we become: inertial muck, ceaseless frenetic action, the light of Awareness. The light of Awareness reveals our "own-being," the nature and character of who we are. Our destiny and our responsibility is to express, advance, unfold the essence of who we are at core. This ongoing flow is the river of our karma (think genetic inheritance and outpouring -- we are the ones up to bat now for our ancestral flow).