#1 Happiness Mistake Humans Do – Shree Krishna’s ONLY Way to Divine Bliss by Swami Mukundanand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40UH1AcYXDg Main Points: 1. 0:00–0:29: When senses are subdued and virtues like compassion and patience arise, one begins to taste sattvic happiness, as described in both the Bhagavad Gita and the Bhagavat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40UH1AcYXDg&t=0 2. 0:38–0:48: The video introduces Chapter 6 of the Gita — Dhyan Yog — with chanting, translation, and commentary by Swami Mukundananda. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40UH1AcYXDg&t=38 3. 1:16–1:37: A self-controlled yogi, united with God, becomes free from material contamination and attains perfect happiness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40UH1AcYXDg&t=76 4. 1:42–2:55: Swamiji explains the three modes of happiness: tamasic (from ignorance, anger, intoxication), rajasic (from sensory pleasures), and sattvic (from inner virtue and peace). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40UH1AcYXDg&t=102 5. 3:06–3:28: Even devotees can fall prey to tamasic pleasures; addiction becomes their life’s goal, showing the pull of lower happiness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40UH1AcYXDg&t=186 6. 3:30–4:36: Most people chase rajasic happiness — sensory and romantic — but it lacks true fulfillment and leaves one restless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40UH1AcYXDg&t=210 7. 4:41–5:32: Sattvic happiness arises when desires fade and the mind becomes calm; this is the joy experienced by the jnani (knower of the self). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40UH1AcYXDg&t=281 8. 5:54–6:52: The jnani’s path begins with “Brahma is me,” evolves through “Aham Brahmasmi,” and culminates in deep meditation and silence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40UH1AcYXDg&t=354 9. 7:03–8:06: In nirvikalp samadhi, ego dissolves and the triad of knower, knowledge, and known vanishes — yet traces of maya remain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40UH1AcYXDg&t=423 10. 8:11–9:12: The jnani experiences immense bliss of the soul, but only through true yoga and union with God does one attain Brahma-sparsa — the infinite bliss of divine contact. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40UH1AcYXDg&t=491 Full Text
Intro
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When the senses have become subdued, the
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mind has got a little relaxed from the
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passions
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and some extent of virtue has started
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developing kindness, compassion,
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empathy, sympathy, caring, patience,
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tolerance. So now a little bit of joy
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starts coming. That's the sattvic
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happiness. Bhagwan Gita and the Bhagwat
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both are saying and that sattvic
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happiness is also what the Gyani gets.
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Bhagavat Gita Chapter 6 Dhyan Yog the
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Yoga of meditation shloka chanting is
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followed by translation and commentary
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by Swami Mukundanandanda Though
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[Music]
Bhagavad Gita Chapter 6 Sloka 28 Chanting
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yogi
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[Music]
Bhagavad Gita Chapter 6 Sloka 28 Translation
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the self-controlled yogi
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Thus uniting the self with God becomes
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free from material contamination
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and being in constant touch with the
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supreme
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achieves the highest state of perfect
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happiness.
Bhagavad Gita 6.28 Commentary by Swami Mukundananda
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There are different levels of happiness
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in the world.
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[Music]
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There is one tamasic happiness the
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happiness you get from the mode of
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ignorance.
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So examples of it is the happiness you
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get from narcotics.
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Dum maro dum
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the happiness you get from intoxicants
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the happiness you get from anger
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now you question Swami G there's
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happiness and anger there's so much
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happiness
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people say you know he was troubling me
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he had created hell for me I was so fed
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up I taught him such a lesson he will
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remember all his life
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so That pent up anger was vented. It
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gave a sense of relief. Ah
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that is also happiness. It is tamasic
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happiness.
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Now are there people who run after
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tamasic happiness? There are so many who
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run after intoxicants.
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I have got
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well established devotees in the Satsang
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very prestigious
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and the teenage child becomes an addict
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they try and put him in the rehab he
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runs away from there put him in the
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rehab runs away from there oh my god so
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he has made the goal of his life tamasic
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happiness
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now beyond that is the rajasic happiness
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the happiness ness we get from the
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objects of the senses.
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This is what the majority of humankind
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is running after. The happiness of the
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senses
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and
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There is no real satiation and still the
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world is crazy after this.
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If there was actual happiness in love in
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worldly romance then what would have
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been the situation? Without actual
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happiness people are going crazy. So
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this is the rajasic happiness. There is
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it's bigger than tamasic
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and then bigger than that is sattvic
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happiness.
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sattvic happiness you get when the senses
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have become subdued their desires.
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The mind has got a little relaxed from
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the passions
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and some extent of virtue has started
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developing kindness, compassion,
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empathy, sympathy, caring, patience,
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tolerance.
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So now a little bit of joy starts
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coming. That's the sattvic happiness.
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And that sattvic happiness is also what
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the gyani gets. The gyani who makes it
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the singular objective to meditate upon
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the self.
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The gyani says there is “advaith” there is no
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separate god. I am god. So I'm
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meditating on the self.
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The gytani gets sattvic sukh.
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The Bhagavan Gita and the Bhagwan both
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are saying you get sattvic happiness from
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Gyan Yog. So little bit of philosophy.
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You see the Gyani sadhana goes like this.
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They start off “tat tvam asi”
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that Brahm is me. That Brahm is you.
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He tells himself that Brahma is you.
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And then he goes on meditating
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and then reaches this point. Aham
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brahmasmi
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I am the Brahma.
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Now there's a promotion in the sadhana.
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So the “shravan manan nidhidhyasan”
is Aham Brahmasmi
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and that sadhana continues. Then this
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gyani reaches the stage of brahasmi.
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The aham is now going by way of Brahmasmi and
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then he goes further further further
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just “asmi” ! I am
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and the sadhana rises even higher now
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the gyani is quiet he has reached
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nirvikalp samadhi
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you heard the word right nirvikalp
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samadhi for gyanis it's the supreme
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desirable state to be achieved.
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But even in the state of nirvikalp
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samadhi
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maya has not gone.
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There are a few entities of maya that
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are remaining. Through the gyan sadhana
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the gyani said I'm not the body. I'm not
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the mind, I'm not the intellect.
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And then he said I'm not the ego as
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well. So when the gyani cuts the ego now
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the triputy (trichotomy)
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gyata
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gyey and gyan, knower, object to be known and
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Knowledge, this trichotomy finished
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because the ego of the knower finished
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that is the stage of nirvikalp samadhi
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now the gyani is situated in
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self knowledge
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true realized
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But even in that state two entities of
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maya have not gone Prakriti, Mahan. So that
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gyani doesn't experience
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“brahma sparsh” the bliss of God, he only
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experiences the bliss of the soul and
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ythe soul being a drop of the ocean, the guani gets
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huge bliss. It is immensely bigger than
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the tamasic happiness mode of ignorance,
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rajasic mode of passion, sattvic mode of
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goodness. It's even bigger than that.
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The bliss of God is infinite. “यो वै भूमा तत्सुखे” (see note below)
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So now Sri Krishna has said that when
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somebody practices true yoga
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& attaches the mind to God now the “Brahma sparsh”,
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union with God and experience of that
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ultimate bliss happens.
Note:
“यो वै भूमा तत्सुखे”
यह वाक्य छान्दोग्य उपनिषद (7.23.1) से लिया गया है, और इसका गहन अर्थ है:
"That which is infinite — that alone is bliss." (yo vai bhūmā tat sukham)
🔍 भावार्थ:
• भूमा का अर्थ है असीम, अनंत, अविभाज्य परमात्मा।
• उपनिषद कहता है कि जो सीमित है, उसमें सुख नहीं है।
• सच्चा सुख केवल उस परम सत्ता में है जो सीमाओं से परे, अखंड, और स्वरूपतः आनंदमय है
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