Remove the ankle weights of the ego, tear open every Velcro of attachment, and let the primal wound be healed in the stillness of the Heart. Choose the upper death drive now: dissolve the false “I” into the ocean of pure Awareness, and let love strike the xylophone of the chakras until wisdom resounds and freedom becomes your only law. Then transmit that vibration to a world at the end of its story.

As the structures of the old world dissolve and every illusion collapses into paradox, this teaching unveils the ultimate realization: all that appears is but light projected upon the screen of consciousness. Through vivid metaphors and crystalline insight, the teaching reveals the nested structure of reality—from the ego’s flickering dream to the infinite intelligence that projects it—and the supreme freedom of awakening from identification with the character in the movie of life. Shunyamurti reads chapter eight ("The Yoga of Nonduality”) from A Bhagavad Gita for the Final Days: Here, every paradox resolves itself. Every world arises and dissolves within the eternal Self. Nothing is to be achieved, yet everything is realized.

The precarious situation the world is now in at every fractal level, from the macro social political level to the micro-emotional, can be considered similar to that of Zugzwang, a position in the game of chess where one must make a move, but every option loses. In this timely and urgent teaching, Shunyamurti reveals that this deadlock is of a divine nature, acting as the final catalyst for the soul to choose to awaken from the illusion of the burden and control of a fictional ego character and return home to the stillness of the Self.

Before one begins the serious practice of self-mastery, one must accurately assess the state of one’s mind and the amount of control one has over it. This will determine the correct approach required. Once the initial attitudinal re-orientations have been made, will power will flow into the practice and resistance will morph into fascination and delight.

As socio-political tensions rise, natural disasters escalate and the world collapses into its dénouement of history. Many countries, if not already at war, are preparing their citizens for war—to be at ground zero. In other words, they are preparing for death. But what is of greatest importance in this moment is to be spiritually prepared for death. Shunyamurti offers some questions for us to ask ourselves in order to process our honesty and intent and in order to directly confront this imminent inevitability. Am I aligned with the will of God? Have I fulfilled the mission I was sent here to achieve—my responsibility to love and serve the light? Ultimately, this alignment can be felt only in the heart and results in a dead mind, an ascension to the fundamental Source of mind for whom all that appears is an illusion. To prepare for death is to prepare for eternal life, to disappear as who one thought one was.

The One Self is pure, free, absolute Consciousness—beyond all contexts, paradigms, and frames of reference. Language and thought cannot grasp the unknowable Power that abides as the Self of all beings and pervades the entire cosmos, ordaining all that unfolds in the holographic dream field. This Supreme Presence is intolerable to the ego mind because nonduality is like an acid that will quickly break down the ego complex, dissolve it, and absorb it back into the Self. This is why vampires hide from the Light and cannot stand the sight of a cross. The ego is a vampire feeding on the life blood and energy of the bodily vehicle and the soul within. To be successful, the spiritual process of liberation from ego requires perceiving and overcoming the snare of thought constructs and mental chatter.

Shunyamurti reveals why the Bhagavad Gita is a time-released teaching—a terma designed for this very moment at the end of Kali Yuga. We are all Arjuna now, standing on the battlefield of the soul, faced with the choice: surrender the reins to God or remain trapped in the ego’s illusions. In this powerful satsang, Shunyamurti explains Krishna’s first instructions to Arjuna: do not mourn, endure all conditions, discover the indestructible Self, and fight the only battle that matters—the inner war against ignorance and ego.

Shunyamurti reveals the urgent relevance of the Bhagavad Gita for our own time of spiritual emergency. The Gita’s battle is not about outer enemies but about the soul’s fight against the ego and its false belief in good and evil. Krishna’s instruction to Arjuna—to see pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat as the same—is the key to individuation: the union of the individual self with the Supreme Self. Shunyamurti explains why this teaching is harder for the postmodern ego to grasp, how our culture has lost the way, and why only radical surrender to God-consciousness can bring freedom from despair, guilt, and nihilism. This teaching is both a warning and an invitation: to put the ego into the fire of truth and awaken to the indestructible Self.

The human ego in its current models is a fragmented and internally conflicted operating system. This condition creates affective and cognitive deadlocks, repetitive self-sabotage, delusional projections, and stunted capacity to function as a responsible adult. Spiritual practice must focus on the integration and resolution of contradictory attitudes and drives. Once accomplished, your consciousness can expand to higher levels of intelligence and creative power that can blossom into total freedom and fulfillment.

According to the Jewish tradition, we are in the High Holy Days. According to the news, we are in the lowest unholy days. Both are true. As global tensions escalate, this paradox points directly to the teaching of the Bhagavad Gita: The war to be concerned with is the inner battle between your ego and your soul. The Gita has inspired much of modern Western philosophy—from Schopenhauer and Hegel to Nietzsche and beyond—yet none of those thinkers got the real message being transmitted. Accurate understanding of the Gita’s profound instructions is essential now for physical survival in this time of tribulation and, more importantly, for spiritual salvation.