Dovetailing With the Supreme Consciousness

The Swami’s main stress is on what he calls “dovetailing your consciousness with the Supreme Consciousness”… Krishna is the Supreme Consciousness.  Arjuna, as the representative individual consciousness, is asked to act intelligently in collaboration with the Supreme Consciousness, then he will be free from the bondage of birth, death, old age and disease. 

Consciousness is a popular word in America.  There’s consciousness expansion, cosmic consciousness, altered states of consciousness, and now – dovetailing the individual consciousness with the Supreme Consciousness.  This is the perfection of consciousness, Prabhupada explains.  This is the love and peace that everyone is really after.  And yet, Prabhupada talks of it in terms of war. 

So we shall not suffer a pinch if we dovetail our desires with the Supreme Lord.  We simply have to learn the art – how to dovetail.  Nothing has to be changed.  The fighting man did not change into an artist or a musician.  If you are a fighting man, you remain a fighting man.  If you are a musician, you remain a musician.  If you are a medical man, you remain a medical man.  Whatever you are, you remain.  But dovetail it.  If by my eating the Lord is satisfied, then that is my perfection.  If by my fighting the Lord is satisfied, then that is my perfection.  So in every sphere of life, we have to know whether the Lord is satisfied.  That technique we have to learn.  Then it is as easy as anything.  We have to stop creating our own plans and thoughts and take the perfect plans from the Supreme Lord and execute them.  That will become the perfection of our life.