Present Yourself In The Present To The One Who Is Always Present Gita 15.07

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Present yourself in the present to the one who is always present. We live in an uncertain, we live in uncertain times, in an ever-changing world where sudden and severe upheavals can fill us with fear, even panic. How can we stay calm amid such uncertainty, such fear? One way is by redefining our conception of our place and purpose in the world.
If we think that we are meant to control things around us, then the more we find that things, things changing uncontrollably, the more we will become demoralized, distressed, devastated. Gita wisdom offers us a better way to live, not by controlling but by contributing. It explains that we all are parts of a whole far bigger and wiser than ourselves.
We are spiritual beings who are parts of the supreme spiritual reality Krishna. As long as we stay disconnected from him and try various ways to control and enjoy life, we struggle and suffer, being afflicted by fear and pain. How does Gita recommend that we live? For contributing means we live not for controlling but for contributing.
That means we present ourselves to God in a mood of service and contribution service. Oh, Lord, how can I serve you? And such service is not demeaning, but it is uplifting. And such service doesn’t turn us away from the world in otherworldly escapism, but it brings powerful pragmatism in our approach to the world.
The Lord is always present both within the world and within our own heart as the immanent divinity, the super soul. So we try to infuse ourselves with the attitude of presenting ourselves to him with our intelligence. We are meant to be a part of a plan that extends beyond us.
And thus we understand that we, by that connection, the divine can face problems that are far bigger than us, that the super soul is orchestrating the world for everyone’s spiritual evolution, that beyond the chaos that we see is a divine plan that is always operational. And critical for the service attitude is to be in the present. Why? Because once we understand that we are not the masters, we aren’t meant to be controllers, then we understand we are not masters of the past, nor are we masters of the future.
But we have been given the present in which to play our part. When we, when understanding this, we start presenting ourselves in the present to the one who is always present, we start finding that we can always take small steps to make things better, no matter how dim or grim they seem to be. And when we do this in a mood of service, we are guided from within to notice doors that you would otherwise have overlooked, to access insights and powers that we didn’t know we had.
And thus by acting as instruments of the divine, we all can contribute not only to make things better in this world of fear, but to also raise our consciousness ultimately to attain the spiritual level that is forever beyond all fear. Thank you.