BEWARE - 3 Diseases of the MIND that 99% Don't Realize | Control your Mind by Swami Mukundanand
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Full Text 1 everybody is getting affected by mental afflictions but very few recognize them the vedas call these as “Manas Rog”, diseases of the mind, anger, greed, desire, etc. so what if so many mental afflictions torment us, what will be the situation of the soul ? That is the plight of us souls in the material realm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g5jQOiYevg&t=6 2 The 3 Mental Afflictions: We are going to discuss the functioning of the mind which results in the development of anger, greed, desire etc. , the vedas call these as “Manas Rog”, diseases of the mind, like there are physical diseases, hepatitis, jaundice typhoid etc., we all know about them, so there are also mental diseases, anger, greed, desire etc., we have never seen them as diseases, we know that we experience anger but we don't know it's a mental affliction, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g5jQOiYevg&t=51 3 the Ramayan says “verse”, everybody is getting affected by these mental afflictions but very few recognize them, and when they don't recognize, where is the question of treating them ? But their consequences are disastrous “verse”, Tulsi Das ji Maharaj says, if you get one physical ailment, it cripples you for a whole day, Swami I could not come yesterday, my tooth was aching, one tooth ache is causing such problems, so what if so many mental afflictions torment us, what will be the situation of the soul, that is the plight of us souls in the material realm and hence the subject behooves a deeper study. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g5jQOiYevg&t=104 4 There is the subject of psychoanalysis and there have been many psychologists who have studied this human psyche and presented their theories, it started with Sigman Freud and then Carl Jung and then Adler and Maslow and McClelland etc. but you take the whole of Western psychology and then compare it with the vedic psychology, the vedas have separated each strand and given such a perfect analysis that leaves no scope for guess work or doubt, they start very simply, the two first afflictions, one is anger and the other is greed,
Anger:
take a look at anger - it is such an awful thing, people who are affected by rage and fury, they lose their intellect, they destroy property, they hurt, injure and even kill people.
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A case happened in Uttar Pradesh in India, two brothers were having a legal battle over their father's property, the mother used to stay with the elder brother, the two of them were thakurs, you know the land owners there are called thakurs, and they love to have big mustaches, which they twirl around in a circle if you see the thakurs of Uttar Pradesh,
now the case came up in the court and the judgment went in favor of the younger brother, in the evening the younger brother was returning and he was passing by the boundary of his elder brother and while passing by, he looked and he lifted up his moustache, indicating that I won,
the mother said to the elder one, if you have drunk my milk, teach him a lesson, the elder one in a rage of fury took a lathi (a staff) and started whacking the younger one, until he died,
now when the inquiry was done what was the cause of this murder, it came to light that the only problem was that he had lifted his mustache but the anger that resulted from it was so decimating.
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Once a father became subject to it, he was changing the wheel of his car while his son was on the other side and unknown to the father the son took a piece of stone and was scratching something on his BMW, after the wheel had been changed
the father came around, you have spoiled my car, he took the spanner and started hitting his son on his hand so hard that he made mince meat of the knuckles and son had to be taken to the hospital where the doctor said that these are unusable now, three fingers have to be removed, the father was crestfallen,
later on when the son came to consciousness and saw three fingers missing, he said, dad, when will these fingers grow back, the father felt greater regret,
totally shattered he walked back and took a look at what his son had scratched on his BMW, the son in his innocence had written dad I love you, now the father caught his head what did I do, this is the anger which destroyed the intellect, the first mental affliction.
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Greed
The second one is greed. Greed is such a thing, anger rises and subsides, but greed never subsides, it just goes on and on and on. One sadhu, he went to a king's court and the king said what do you want, ask and I I'll give you, the sadhu said maharaj, I have got my mendicant bowl, just fill this up with jewels, the king said that's all ?
you have come to the king of this country for and you're asking for one bowl of jewels, ask ! The sadu said, maharaj, greed is not good, just fill this one up, the king asked his servants to bring,
they kept on pouring jewels in bowl and no matter how much they put, it was not filling up, the king's treasure house got emptied, he admitted defeat, he said, O sage, what is the secret of your bowl ?
the sadhu said, o king, this is the human heart, it never fills up, no matter how much you have, you always want more,
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is there any rich person who says enough is there, any powerful person who says enough is there, any president or prime minister who says okay one term is enough, even two terms, it goes on and on and on,
no matter how much of fame, prestige, power, wealth, opulence you get, the nature of greed is, it wants even more, so this then is the second mental affliction, it is called Lobha, greed
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Desire
but then the vedas say these two are only Incidental, the bigger affliction is a third one , really, what is this third affliction, it is desire. Desire ? yes, what desire ?
desire to see, taste, touch, smell hear, desire for becoming rich and famous etc, these desires the vedas say are the biggest affliction of our inner world,
you can say what is wrong with desire swami ji, in anger people commit murder, in greed their whole life gets wasted and in desire they're only wanting, craving, I want rasgula, gulab jamun, harmless thing, no ?
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This desire is the mother of anger and greed, why does anger arise ? when you make a desire and it is obstructed, it is unfulfilled, your expectation is unmet that leads to the outburst of anger,
you desired that your child should be obedient and disciplined and the child did not conform to your desires, it made you angry,
you desired that people should offer me respect, they neglected you, you became angry. Anger is always the consequence of an obstructed desire, it can never come without that, so now we have understood when we make a desire and it is hindered, it results in fury,
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now supposing that desire is fulfilled, then what happens ? the desire subsides for a little while and then it comes back with redoubled intensity - that is the enigma of desires. “verse”
this is a beautiful verse of the Srimad Bhagavatam Mahapuran, Ved Vyas has written, “verse”, the kamna or desire is such it is never going to go away by fulfilling it, if you say you know, swami ji, everything is all right but that one desire I have, if that desire gets fulfilled then I'll have no further desires, you are a simpleton (fool) because the moment it is fulfilled it is going to become double,
just like if you have an itch, now you say I have got one little out here, let me scratch it, ah, now I don't have any it anywhere but does it solve the problem after a little while it comes back and then after a little while it comes back so also are all kinds of desires “verse”, slowly slowly as you keep fulfilling the desires, it results in greed, so what is greed? Greed is an intense desire
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Transcript
Introduction
0:06
everybody is getting affected by mental
0:09
afflictions but very few recognize them
0:14
the vedas call these as “Manas Rog”,
0:20
diseases of the mind, anger, greed, desire,
0:24
etc. so what if so many mental
0:29
afflictions torment us, what will be the
0:33
situation of the soul ? That is the plight
0:38
of us souls in the material
The 3 Mental Afflictions
0:51
realm. We are going to discuss the
0:54
functioning of the mind which results in
0:57
the development of anger, greed, desire
1:03
etc the vedas call these as “Manas
1:08
Rog” diseases of the
1:12
mind, like there are physical
1:16
diseases, hepatitis, jaundice typhoid etc.,
1:21
we all know about
1:24
them, so there are also mental
1:28
diseases, anger, greed, desire
1:32
etc., we have never seen them as
1:35
diseases, we know that we experience
1:39
anger but we don't know it's a mental
1:44
affliction, the Ramayan
1:55
says “verse”, everybody is getting affected by
1:59
these mental
2:01
afflictions but very few recognize them,
2:06
and when they don't recognize, where is
2:08
the question of treating
2:12
them ? But their consequences are
2:16
Disastrous “verse”,
2:31
Tulsi Das ji Maharaj says, if you get one physical
2:37
ailment, it cripples you for a whole
2:40
Day, Swami I could not come yesterday, my tooth
2:44
was
2:45
aching, one tooth ache is causing such
2:50
problems, so what if so many mental
2:54
afflictions torment us, what will be the
2:58
situation of the soul,
3:00
that is the plight of us souls in the
3:05
material
3:07
realm and hence the subject behooves a
3:12
deeper
3:16
study. There is the subject of
3:20
psychoanalysis and there have been many
3:24
psychologists who have studied this
3:27
human psyche and presented their
3:31
theories, it started with Sigman Freud
3:34
and then Carl Jung and then Adler and Maslow
3:38
and McClelland etc.
3:41
but you take the whole of Western
3:46
psychology and then compare it with the
3:49
vedic
3:50
psychology, the vedas have separated each
3:54
strand and given such a perfect analysis
4:00
that leaves no scope for guess work or
4:04
doubt, they start very
Anger
4:08
simply, the two first
4:11
afflictions, one is anger and the other
4:14
is greed, take a look at anger - it is such
4:19
an awful thing, people who are affected
4:24
by rage and fury, they lose their
4:28
intellect, they destroy property, they
4:31
hurt, injure and even kill people. A case
4:37
happened in Uttar Pradesh in
4:40
India, two brothers were having a legal
4:44
battle over their father's
4:48
property, the mother used to stay with
4:51
the elder
4:54
brother, the two of them were thakurs, you
4:57
know the land owners there are called thakurs,
5:00
and they love to have big mustaches,
5:03
which they twirl around in a circle if
5:05
you see the thakurs of Uttar Pradesh,
5:10
now the case came up in the
5:15
court and the judgment went in favor of
5:18
the younger brother, in the evening the
5:21
younger brother was returning and he was
5:24
passing by the boundary of his elder
5:28
brother and while passing by, he
5:31
looked and he lifted up his
5:35
moustache,
5:36
indicating that I
5:39
won, the mother said to the elder one, if
5:43
you have drunk my milk, teach him a
5:47
lesson, the elder one in a rage of fury
5:51
took a lathi (a staff) and started whacking
5:55
the younger one, until he
5:57
died, now when the inquiry was done what
6:01
was the cause of this
6:04
murder, it came to light that the only
6:07
problem was that he had lifted his
6:10
mustache but the anger that resulted
6:14
from it was so
6:18
decimating. Once a father became subject
6:22
to it, he was changing the wheel of his
6:25
car while his son was on the other side
6:30
and unknown to the father the son took a
6:33
piece of stone and was scratching
6:36
something on his
6:39
BMW, after the wheel had been changed the
6:42
father came
6:44
around, you have spoiled my car, he took
6:48
the spanner and started hitting his son
6:51
on his hand so hard that he made mince
6:56
meat of the
6:58
knuckles and son had to be taken to the
7:01
hospital where the doctor said that
7:04
these are unusable now, three fingers
7:06
have to be
7:09
removed, the father was
7:12
crestfallen, later on when the son came
7:15
to consciousness and saw three fingers
7:18
missing, he said, dad, when will these
7:20
fingers grow
7:22
back, the father felt greater
7:27
regret, totally shattered he walked back
7:31
and took a look at what his son had
7:34
scratched on his
7:36
BMW, the son in his innocence had written
7:41
dad I love you, now the father caught his
7:46
head what did I
7:48
do, this is the anger which destroyed the
7:53
intellect, the first mental
Greed
7:58
affliction. The second one is
8:03
greed. Greed is such a thing, anger rises
8:08
and
8:09
subsides, but greed never subsides, it
8:13
just goes on and on and
8:18
on. One sadhu, he went to a king's
8:24
court and the king said what do you want,
8:28
ask and I I'll give you, the sadhu said
8:32
maharaj, I have got my mendicant bowl,
8:36
just fill this up with jewels, the king
8:40
said that's all ? you have come to the
8:44
king of this country for and you're asking
8:46
for one bowl of jewels, ask ! The sadu said,
8:51
maharaj, greed is not good, just fill this
8:54
one
8:55
up, the king asked his servants to
8:59
bring, they kept on pouring jewels in
9:03
bowl and no matter how much they put, it was
9:07
not filling
9:10
up, the king's treasure house got emptied,
9:14
he admitted
9:15
defeat, he
9:17
said, O sage, what is the secret of your
9:23
bowl ? the sadhu said, o king, this is the
9:27
human heart, it never fills up, no matter
9:32
how much you have, you always want
9:35
more, is there any rich person who says
9:40
enough is there, any powerful person who
9:43
says enough is there, any president or
9:47
prime minister who says okay one term is
9:51
enough, even two terms, it goes on and on
9:54
and
9:55
on, no matter how much of fame,
9:59
prestige, power, wealth, opulence you get,
10:03
the nature of greed is, it wants even
10:09
more, so this then is the second mental
10:16
affliction, it is called
10:19
Lobha,
10:21
greed but
10:23
then the vedas say these two are only
10:28
Incidental,
Desire
10:30
the bigger affliction is a third
10:35
one ,
10:37
really, what is this third
10:40
affliction, it is
10:44
desire.
10:46
Desire ? yes, what desire, desire to see,
10:52
taste, touch, smell
10:55
hear,
10:57
desire for becoming rich and famous
11:03
etc, these desires the vedas say are the
11:07
biggest affliction of our inner
11:12
world, you can say what is wrong with
11:15
desire swami ji, in anger people commit
11:19
murder, in greed their whole life gets
11:23
wasted and in desire they're only
11:26
wanting, craving, I want rasgula, gulab
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jamun, harmless
11:34
thing, no ? This
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desire is the mother of anger and
11:44
greed, why does anger
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arise ? when you make a
11:52
desire and it is
11:55
obstructed, it is
11:57
unfulfilled, your expectation is
12:01
unmet that leads to the outburst of
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anger, you
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desired that your child should be
12:11
obedient and
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disciplined and the child did not
12:16
conform to your desires, it made you
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angry, you desired that people should
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offer me
12:24
respect, they neglected you, you became
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angry.
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Anger is always the consequence of an
12:33
obstructed desire, it can never come
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without that, so now we have understood
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when we make a desire and it is hindered,
12:46
it results in
12:48
fury, now supposing that desire is
12:53
fulfilled, then what
12:57
happens ? the
13:00
desire subsides for a little
13:05
while and then it comes back with
13:10
redoubled
13:13
intensity - that is the enigma of desires. “verse”
13:31
this is a beautiful verse of the Srimad
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Bhagavatam
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Mahapuran, Ved Vyas has
13:42
written, “verse”, the kamna or desire is
13:45
such it is never going to go away by
13:49
fulfilling
13:51
it, if you say you know, swami ji,
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everything is all right but that one
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desire I have,
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if that desire gets fulfilled then I'll
14:01
have no further
14:03
desires, you are a simpleton (fool) because the
14:07
moment it is fulfilled it is going to
14:09
become
14:11
double, just like if you have an
14:14
itch, now you say I have got one little
14:17
out here, let me scratch it, ah, now I
14:20
don't have any it anywhere but does it
14:23
solve the problem after a little while
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it comes back and then after a little
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while it comes back so also are all
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kinds of
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desires
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“verse”, slowly slowly as you keep fulfilling
14:45
the desires, it results in
14:49
greed, so what is
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greed? Greed is an intense desire
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