Notes by Aarya M

Lesson:

What happens when you trust someone? You begin to feel lighter. For example, if you ever learned swimming, perhaps at some point, someone held you up in the water just enough to help you float. You still had to paddle your arms and legs, but they supported you. Eventually, they slowly helped less and less, and you could eventually swim on your own confidently. 

Similarly, Bhagwan will support us just enough to help us grow and become independent, as long as we trust. Bhagwan gives us a map, and a guide to support us.

If you were asked how much your parents love you, it would be impossible to show. However, we do not just have 2 parents, we have 4. 2 of them are our biological parents, and the other 2 are our divine parents. Although our biological parents love us very much, they are not permanent. Our divine parents will stay with us forever. 

To help better understand this, Sumanji gave us 3 H’s to think about.

Humans (they are with us today, like our parents, teachers, and more, but eventually move on)

Heart work (It is the map, which tells us what to do, influencing our nature, and guiding us)

Happiness (this is not material happiness, but rather the happiness that is your nature, that is you.

In the Shrimadbhagavatam, a disciple of Krishna (Rishi Udava) was witnessing Krishna leaving this world. He asked Krishna what the world would do without him, without Krishna to guide everyone. Krishna responded that he would live on in the Srimad Bhagavatam.

If you drop quarters in muddy water, you cannot see it. But you know that they are there. So you wait till the mud settles, then take the quarters. The only way to find what is always with you is to let your mind settle, like the mud.

Imagine you are looking for your homework, and panicking, not knowing where you kept it after you finished it last night.Then, your mom or dad says that it is in your bag. With that one piece of knowledge, you go from sadness to happiness. 

The word Bhagavatam means:

Bha – light or happy

Ga – to feel

Va – the best

Ta- a way to move

The Srimad Bhagavatam is the way to move into feeling light and happy. Whatever we trust is what we become, so when we engage in the triangle with Bhagavan, the map, and the guide, we become the thing we seek.

The closest friends are the ones where you don’t have to say or do anything. When you are close with someone, you can sit in the same room as someone else and not need to talk. Our goal is to make this friendship with Bhagavan. To do that, we have to be together. 

Dynamic:

Write down one bad thing that happened today that made you feel unhappy.  Next, think about a time when you wanted something, like a toy or game, but didn’t get it, and how it made you feel. When we don’t get something we want, it isn’t easy to remember that we are happiness. Now imagine taking that unhappiness to our trust triangle. Take it through the map, to our guide, and to Bhagwan. Usually we know why we are not getting what we want. So take that to each part of your trust triangle, and imagine what they would say to you.

RAW: 

Everyday this week before you go to bed, take a scrap of paper and write down the name of one human you spent time with today (humans), and one thing you learned (heart work). Sit quietly for one minute and think, I am here, I am (happiness).