Shree Krishna Knows What’s Best for You – 6 Keys to Get Closer to God | Swami Mukundananda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY Main Points: 00:00 Introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=0 02:01 Align your wish to the Will of God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=121 03:36 Don't Desire Against the Will of God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=216 08:11 Have Faith in God's Protection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=491 11:29 Feel Gratitude to God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=689 15:16 Give up your sense of proprietorship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=916 18:55 Give up the Pride of Having Surrendered to God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=1135 Full Text: 1 (00:00) God says, as long as you are not surrendered to me, the law of karma applies. But when you do surrender, my grace will intervene. That grace will burn up your sins of endless lifetimes. They will all be burned and gotten rid of. Surrender is not an external act. It's not that by putting on a certain tilak you're surrendered, or going to a certain holy place you are surrendered, or saying a certain mantra you are surrendered. Surrender is a state of our consciousness and it has different aspects, facets to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=0 2 (01:24) This leads to the question, what is surrender? Six points need to be fulfilled for surrender. So let's take a look at what these important points are. The first one, anukulyasya sankalpah. What does that mean? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=84 3 (02:12) To align your wish with the wish of your sharanya, whom you are surrendering to? God and Guru. To desire in accordance with the desire of God. Why? Because surrender means to accept you are the servant of God. So the job of the servant is to fulfill the wish of the master. Whatever He wants, that is what I want. Such was the expression of the saints. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=132 4 (02:54) Mirabai says, if Shri Krishna wishes to make me laugh, I will laugh. If He wishes to make me cry, I will cry. If He wishes to ignore me, who are you? I don't know you. So be it. If He wishes to shower His love and accept me, so be it. But mere to “Giridhar Gopal, doosra na koi, jaake sir mor mukut mero pati sohi”. This is the expression of surrender. If we say, oh God, why did you do this to me? Then the surrender breaks. Surrender means whatever the Lord wants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=174 5 (03:35) The second point. Pratikulyasya varjanam Don't desire against the desire of God. It is the same thing as the first one. If you desire according to His desire, you will not desire against His desire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=215 6 (03:57) But just to confirm it, it has been reversed and negated. As they say, double negative. So first they said desire according to His desire. Now “prati kul yasya varjanam”. Don't desire against the desire of God. So how do you know what God wants? When you meet Him , you can ask Him . But before you meet Him , you have to gather the wisdom to understand what He wants through the knowledge of the scriptures and the knowledge you receive from the Guru. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=237 7 (04:35) So does God want us to be irresponsible? Does God want us to be a derelict? Does God want us to be wasteful in our senses, etc., to chase unnecessary pleasures? He doesn't, so don't do it. Very simple, don't want what God doesn't want. But the problem arises when God gives us a little suffering. When He gives us happiness, nobody complains. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=275 8 (05:10) Why did I get happiness? Why did my investment in the marketplace go up? Nobody asks this question. But when a little bit of unhappiness comes, immediately we complain, Why did God do this to me? Now the moment that thought comes, it becomes a pratikul sankalp, desiring against the will of God. God says, you do your bit, you do your best and you leave the results to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=310 9 (05:46) So to accept the results, this is surrender. There is a verse in the Bhagavatam, very powerful verse, it states that God's property will become your inheritance. The father's property becomes your daya-bhak ("inheritance" or "rightful heir."),if you can fulfill these three conditions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=346 10 (06:29) So remember these three conditions now. Write them in golden letters in your spiritual diary. Keep waiting for His grace patiently. Don't complain, I have been waiting for so long, He's forgotten all about me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=389 11 (06:49) No, delay is not from His side, delay is from our side तेरे करम करम मींस कृपा so one devotee says , “तेरे करम में कमी नहीं तू करीम है, कसूर मेरा है, झूठा उम्मीदवार हूं मैं”, we have not prepared ourselves for it, that is why is the delay. So keep on waiting patiently, whatever happiness or distress comes your way, just bear with it peacefully without complaining. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=409 12 (07:31) Whatever consequences of your karmas you get, bear with them without complaining. And with your mind, with your words, with your body, keep offering your devotion to the Lord. If you can fulfill this, then bhakti becomes your birthright, your inheritance. So this is the second point then, Pratikul varjanam, don't desire against the desire of God. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=451 13 (08:10) The third one, to always feel that He is protecting me and so I have got nothing to fear. Why should a little child in the parent's hands feel fear? The child knows. I have seen so many times fathers holding their children on top of the head and the child is laughing, ha ha ha ha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=490 14 (08:43) Because the child knows that my father is protecting me. So this is a game that is going on. Likewise, we are in the hands of our eternal father. What is the need to fear, we should have this faith that He is taking care of me? There was once a naval captain who after marriage went with his wife on her first sea voyage and on the high seas the ship got caught in a storm. It was tossing with the waves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=523 15 (09:23) There was complete pandemonium in the boat. Everybody was panicking. But this captain was calm and peaceful. That impressed his newlywed wife who said, my dear husband, this ship is tossing like this. People are all scared to death. You are not scared. I don't see any tinge of fear in you. The captain took out the sword from its sheath and he placed the blade on his wife's head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=563 16 (10:08) He said, my dear wife, the naked blade is on your head. Are you scared? She said, of course not. Why not? You know, the sword is in your hand and you are my well-wisher. Why should I be scared? The husband said, likewise, this ship, I have faith, is in God's hands. And God is my well-wisher. Why should I be scared? Whatever He does, it will be for my well-being. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=608 17 (10:46) Even if He kills me, it will be just to give me a better birth. Why should I worry? So the sign of surrender is that worry disappears. To worry means to that extent we are not yet surrendered. And to be surrendered means to be free of worry. “Jahi vidhi rakhe Ram, tahi vidhi rahiye”. This faith in God's protection is the third point in surrender. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=646 18 (11:27) And then is the fourth point. And what is that? To always feel gratitude for all the little graces that you receive. One is the final grace which will result in liberation from Maya and God-realization. That will be the final step. But on the way we receive so many little graces, to feel grateful, the earth that He has created for us, the air that we breathe, now we take it for granted, I breathe air so what? But you ask the COVID patients whose SpO2 count went down to 85 and below, how difficult https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=687 19 (12:20) they were gasping for mere oxygen. Now that entity without which we cannot survive five minutes, God has placed it in free fund all around us. At least feel gratitude that this is a blessing of God. We are breathing oxygen created by Him and we are not paying any taxes. So one father worked hard for his child. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=740 20 (12:56) Tell the child, be grateful to your father, he cut his stomach to feed you. The child says, why should I feel grateful? My father was doing his duty. His father did for him, he's doing for me. That would be considered ingratitude, ungratefulness. So to appreciate the blessings is gratefulness. Now we say that is prasad, blessing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=776 21 (13:27) Another name for it is prasad. Say it's all the prasad of God. You offer food and then you receive it as prasad. But in my opinion, even if you don't offer it, it is still prasad because without God's grace you could never have got it. How did the food get created? It was God's technology that enabled the creation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=807 22 (13:56) One lady, she cooked a meal and she brought it for me. So I said, Deviji, who made this sabzi? She said, Swamiji, I made it. I said, did you make the potatoes or did you make the cabbage? She said, no, no. My husband got them from the market. I only cleaned them and cooked them. So who made them? It was mud that transformed into edibles for us humans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=836 23 (14:26) Now that technology, does anybody else in the world have it? You take a lump of mud and go to Stanford and MIT and any of the Ivy League colleges and tell them, sir, I am interested in setting up a factory. One side we will put mud and the other side we'll get the chosen fruit or vegetable. All the Nobel Prize winners in the world will admit defeat. Impossible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=866 24 (14:54) So ultimately it's God's technology at work that enables us to get food. It is all His grace that enables us to get food, it is all His grace. To appreciate the blessings and feel gratitude is the fourth point in surrender. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=894 25 (15:14) And the fifth point is to keep this sentiment that all I have belongs to the Lord. It is not mine, it is His. Give up the sense of proprietorship because we came empty handed in the world and we will leave our hands empty behind and go, where is the question of taking anything with us? So this concept that this is mine, that is mine is our misconception. The whole world belongs to the Lord. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=914 26 (15:59) One of the most charitable people in Indian history who was famous for it was Raja Raghu. He was the ancestor of Lord Ram. Lord Ram's father was Dashrath of the solar dynasty. And Dashrath's father was Aj. And Aj's father was Raghu. So Raghukul name comes after Raghu. Raghu once did Vishwajit Yajna. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=959 27 (16:33) This Vishwajit Yajna has a rule. Whatever you have, you have to give it all in charity. Nothing must remain. So Raghu thought, look, like the clouds gather water from the earth, not for themselves, but to shower it as rain back on the earth. Likewise as king, I gathered taxes, not for myself, but for the sake of my public. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=993 28 (17:12) So he did the Vishwajit Yajna and he gave it all away. Now he donned the dress of a beggar and with a mud bowl he went out to beg his first meal after the yajna. He went and sat down under a tree. And out there some of his citizens were sitting, they didn't recognize the king has come. And they were talking, you know, our Raja Raghu, nobody is like him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=1032 29 (17:44) He's the most charitable person in history, etc. They were praising him profusely. And those words entered Raghu's ears. He said, hey, what are you all saying? They said, we are praising our king. There's nobody like him. He has given all his possessions in charity. So Raghu said, don't you dare say that again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=1064 30 (18:12) They said, who are you? He said, Raghu has not given anything, I know. They said, you are criticizing our dear king who is dearer to us than our life. We will beat you up. Raghu said, go and ask your King. When he came into this world, did he have anything? All that is in this world, he has acquired and the whole world belongs to God. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=1092 31 (18:40 ) So everything that he has belongs to God, this sense of proprietorship , to give it up, is the fifth point of surrender. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=1120 32 18:53 : And the 6th point of surrender is to surrender the pride of having surrendered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=1133 33 (19:04 ) To do the good deed and also forsake the pride of it. To think if I was able to do it, it was God's grace. See, you put in your best efforts. The results will always require your effort and God's grace. But the spirit of devotion is to attribute it all to God's grace. My efforts in this age of Kali, where was the question of getting this intellect of engaging in devotion? If I did come on this path, it was God's blessings that arranged, that connived for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=1144 34 (19:52 ) So to free yourself from any tinge of pride, you can never settle accounts with God. No matter what you do, the blessings you receive are always His causeless mercy. So when you surrender, also surrender the pride and attribute any success to divine grace. These six points will help us attract His grace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=1192 35 (20:29) So like I said, two things are necessary. You put in your effort and divine grace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj2LxwD8cY&t=1229 Standby link (in case youtube link does not work): Shree Krishna Knows What’s Best for You – 6 Keys to Get Closer to God Swami Mukundananda.mp4
