To gain everything, all you have to lose is yourself. To remember your original full potential in consciousness, including full bliss and knowledge, all you need to do is relinquish the ego.
Give up misidentification with the body and mind, and find your true nature as consciousness beyond the limitations of this body and mind. Not only is there knowledge available of all things, but also of past, present and future.
Not only is there happiness and joy as your constitutional position, there is deep love and bliss. All of this is yours, it's you, once you transcend the ego.
Who needs money when you have it all in consciousness? Money is for people who still suffer from scarcity or lack of something. Once you remember and awaken your original nature, you need nothing more. You will anyway attract everything that you need. It's a matter of electrical frequency plus magnetism.
And that original nature only gets awakened when you come into contact with the Divine. It's a spiritual awakening. Yoga means to connect with God. Once you master yoga, you're in touch with your deity, with the source, and all else follows.
Some people are still approaching God as an order supplier, as a place to order their daily bread, their house by the sea or color TV. This materially motivated worship is naive at best and ignorant at worst.
Once you have a million dollars, all your ten cent problems are over. When you truly make contact with the source, you don't need to ask for crumbs and trinkets. You're blessed with streams of golden consciousness that quenches all other trivial thirst.
Motivated sacrifice is always tinged by that selfish motivation, and is not real sacrifice. It's work for pay. Selflessness comes from compassion and from already feeling connected or linked up with your deity, so that you already feel fulfilled.
And as a byproduct of that feeling of union, alignment or wholeness, you naturally feel inspired by compassion to share the nectar with all the other struggling souls.
With your small arms, how much of the unlimited flow of consciousness, psychic energy, shakti, mercy, blessing or grace can you really hold? Perhaps a drop. Sometimes that's all you need. One drop of mercy and your life is changed forever.
It's available to all but only received by those who really want it, and to the extent that they have relinquished other fleeting desires based on body and mind.
The mercy is available and it's flowing unlimitedly for all. Are you able to tap in, free from sin, and win? Purity is the force which attracts the mercy. If you're free from personal motivation, then you qualify.
That's why lust, anger and greed block the flow of mercy. It's an internal process of purification of heart which finally attracts the blessings of consciousness and its awakening by linking up with that super consciousness and original cause of all causes.
One you realize that the original source is conscious, you see things as they really are and you taste the endless love.
Bhagavad Gita ch4:25
daivam evāpare yajñaṁ
yoginaḥ paryupāsate
brahmāgnāv apare yajñaṁ
yajñenaivopajuhvati
SYNONYMS
daivam—in worshiping the demigods; eva—like this; apare—some; yajñam—sacrifices; yoginaḥ—the mystics; paryupāsate—worship perfectly; brahma—the Absolute Truth; agnau—in the fire of; apare—others; yajñam—sacrifice; yajñena—by sacrifice; eva—thus; upajuhvati—worship
TRANSLATION
Some yogīs perfectly worship the demigods by offering different sacrifices to them, and some of them offer sacrffices in the fire of the Supreme Brahman.
PURPORT
As described above, a person engaged in discharging duties in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is also called a perfect yogī or a first-class mystic. But there are others also, who perform similar sacrifices in the worship of demigods, and still others who sacrifice to the Supreme Brahman, or the impersonal feature of the Supreme Lord. So there are different kinds of sacrifices in terms of different categories. Such different categories of sacrifice by different types of performers only superficially demark varieties of sacrifice. Factual sacrifice means to satisfy the Supreme Lord, Viṣṇu, who is also known as Yajña. All the different varieties of sacrifice can be placed within two primary divisions: namely, sacrifice of worldly possessions and sacrifice in pursuit of transcendental knowledge. Those who are in Kṛṣṇa consciousness sacrifice all material possessions for the satisfaction of the Supreme Lord, while others, who want some temporary material happiness, sacrifice their material possessions to satisfy demigods such as Indra, the sun-god, etc. And others, who are impersonalists, sacrifice their identity by merging into the existence of impersonal Brahman. The demigods are powerful living entities appointed by the Supreme Lord for the maintenance and supervision of all material functions like the heating, watering and lighting of the universe. Those who are interested in material benefits worship the demigods by various sacrifices according to the Vedic rituals. They are called bahv-īśvara-vādī, or believers in many gods. But others, who worship the impersonal feature of the Absolute Truth and regard the forms of the demigods as temporary, sacrifice their individual selves in the supreme fire and thus end their individual existences by merging into the existence of the Supreme. Such impersonalists spend their time in philosophical speculation to understand the transcendental nature of the Supreme. In other words, the fruitive workers sacrifice their material possessions for material enjoyment, whereas the impersonalist sacrifices his material designations with a view to merging into the existence of the Supreme. For the impersonalist, the fire altar of sacrifice is the Supreme Brahman, and the offering is the self being consumed by the fire of Brahman. The Kṛṣṇa conscious person, like Arjuna, however, sacrifices everything for the satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa, and thus all his material possessions as well as his own self—everything—is sacrificed for Kṛṣṇa. Thus, he is the first-class yogī; but he does not lose his individual existence.
Reference: Bhagavad Gita As It Is, translation and commentary by Swami A C Bhaktivedanta, original MacMillan 1972 edition, freely available at prabhupadabooks.com.
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