Arjun and his brothers chose to follow the will of Krishna, who is the Divine Himself, even though they wanted to do things differently and there were many pressures on them. They did this out of a feeling of love, trust and friendship for Krishna.

However, the Pandavas final success lay in following a key secret instruction of Krishna’s given to Arjun on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. This secret instruction works today as well to give the same success.

• The secret is a simple one: to become interactively connected to, and be aware of, the Divine and consequently merge one’s will in Divine Will for all actions.

In the course of normal living there is no such automatic empowered connection to enable a highly meaningful relationship with the Divine.

By special empowering processes such as initiation into the KQ Force and Reiki, the healing energy of the Divine Will flows into one’s consciousness and actions to change our balance of karma, even when we may be ‘wrong’. This allow us to benefit from Krishna’s Divine association similar to the way Arjun and the Pandavas benefited and with the same end-result.

• When one becomes empowered and thus conscious of the Divine Will flowing through one’s life, then the imprisoning, binding karmas of all types are overcome by that Grace. On the other hand, if one acts driven by false ego then one is surely lost because the capacity to hear the Divine is lost.

Aligning ourselves with Divine Will does not mean that we are enslaved, but rather that we are sensitive to knowing what to do in harmony with the natural Divine purpose in our lives. By being in our true natural state we are whole and complete–healed.

Krishna makes this clear in His healing instructions to Arjun on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. In the 18th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita He significantly uses the word ‘durgani’ (fortress or prison house) for karma that exists in the jurisdiction of Devi (Durga-Devi) that binds us to repeated birth-death cycles. This is a state of perpetual imprisonment.

We can study Krishna’s defining instructions on how to be liberated from these repeated cycles of birth, death and old age in this Devi Dhaam as recorded in the Bhagavad Gita (18.66).

TEXT BG 18.66

sarva-dharmān parityajya
mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja
ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo
mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ

SYNONYMS

sarva-dharmān—all varieties and levels of occupational duties and religious activities; parityajya—give up by renouncing; mām—unto Me; ekam—only; śaraṇam—take shelter of; vraja—go; aham—I; tvām—you; sarva—all; pāpebhyaḥ—from fear of sinful reactions; mokṣayiṣyāmi—deliver; mā—not; śucaḥ—grieve.

THE KNOWLEDGE

First, Krishna says to Arjun: ‘sarva-dharmān parityajya, mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja’ — Give up all varieties and levels of occupational duties and religious activities (dharma), and take shelter of Me exclusively.

He says this because there are many levels of dharma varying from individual personal duties, to duties aimed at salvation from material pains, and to the ultimate highest duty towards oneself and our source of origin–the Supreme Divine.

Changing bodies and changing designations
What we consider as being our duties arise out of bodily designations and our occupations. These include considerations of place of birth, family, community, faith and religion, personal occupation, country and so on.

One can change one’s name, citizenship, living place, religion, faith, politics, and now with surgery one can even artificially change the bodily form’s sexuality as well. As we age in time our bodily cellular structure also changes.

We can also change how we choose to act in relationship to others and we regularly re-define how we perform our ‘duties’ to others. We also regularly re-assess and respond to how others fulfill their duties towards us.

Among all the changes in our bodily designations and occupational duties there is, however, a constant factor.

• We can understand this constant factor from personal experience: that is–that even while the body changes at the cellular level daily, our sense of personal identification remains unchanged. In other words we experience a continuity of our personal identification even though our bodily designations and parts or cells may change.
• Our unchanged consciousness of personal self, or the I-consciousness continues even in changing bodies in this lifetime and there is no evidence to suggest that this process stops once the material body fails or dies. Scientific proof for this ‘reincarnation’ process is here.