Pretzels! Cooking Lab Number Two!

We had a great time in our second cooking lab today making pretzels! A big thank you to Manasi mataji who helped us to make pretzels!

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Seeing Krishna Everywhere

yo mām pasyati sarvatra

sarvam ca mayi pasyati

tasyāham na pranasyāmi

sa ca me na pranasyati

For one who sees Me everywhere and sees everything in Me, I am never lost, nor is he ever lost to Me. (BG 6.30)

In this verse, what Krishna is saying is that if you can see Me everywhere and see everything in me, I am never lost to you, and you are never lost to me. Krishna’s instructions are focusing your mind so you can see Him everywhere. This verse is important because Krishna is giving Arjuna the exact vision of what will happen if you surrender to Him. A specific example of what I mean that Krishna is everywhere, is seeing him as the supersoul through  everyone else’s soul.

This verse connects to my life because it’s telling me what exactly I need to do in Krishna consciousness. I need to see Krishna everywhere and see everything in Krishna, so Krishna is never lost, nor am I ever lost to Him. Actually, one time in school, I was thinking about this verse and a new kid walked in. By seeing Krishna everywhere, I could see him as a spirit soul and not a “fat kid” as what other kids thought.

In class this previous Sunday, we were talking about equal vision. To have equal vision, you need to see everyone as a spirit soul of Krishna. I think it relates to this verse because you have to see Krishna everywhere to see everyone as a spirit soul.  Seeing everyone equally reminds me of the BG verse 5.18…

vidya-vinaya-sampanne

brahmane gavi hastini

suni caiva sva-pake ca

panditah sama-darsinah

The humble sages, by virtue of true knowledge, see with equal vision a learned and gentle brahmana, a cow, and elephant, a dog, and dog-eater [outcaste].

The humble sages use equal vision and see all those things equally like how we can see all things equally by seeing Krishna everywhere.

In conclusion, this verse (6.30) is what you need to do in Krishna consciousness: see Krishna everywhere and see everything in Krishna so, Krishna isn’t lost to you and you aren’t lost to Krishna. That is the truth.

Reflections written by Rashi Matha

Forgetting the Lord

TEXT 2.22

vasamsi jirnani yatha vihaya

navani grhnati naro parani

tatha sarirani vihaya jirnany

anyani samyati navani dehi

As a person puts on new garments, giving up the old ones, the soul similarly accepts the new materiel bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.

   

 In this verse Krishna explains to Arjun on how the soul in each and every body moves on as each body dies. The only reason that the soul can move to another body is because of the super soul. As stated by Srila Prahbupad in the purport, he says that "the Mukanda Unpanisad as well as the Svetasvatara Upanisad, compare the soul and Super soul to two friendly birds sitting on the same tree." Arjuna is the soul sitting on the tree engrossed in eating a fruit while Krishna the Super soul just watches. We are like Arjuna, we are the soul. We are so engrossed in our fruitful activities, we sometimes forget about Krishna.

    This verse popped out to me because when I read the purport I could relate to at times and be like, "Yup, that like me". It's not only one person who forgets Krishna at times but everyone does. When we are doing schoolwork, or housework, we are so engrossed in what we are doing we forget about Krishna.This forgetfulness is why we struggle to easily accept the Lord as our Supreme spiritual master. But as soon as we do we become free of all lamentations.

Reflections written by Keshav Agiwal