Lord Krishna's WARNING: What If You DON'T Do Your Duty? Bhagavad Gita - Swami Mukundananda Karma Yog

Lord Krishna's WARNING: What If You DON'T Do Your Duty? Bhagavad Gita - Swami Mukundananda Karma Yog

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Full Text 1   Bhagavad Gita Chapter 3 Verse 26 Chanting “Verse”: the wise should not create discord in the intellects of ignorant people who are attached to fruitive actions (कर्म कांड) by inducing them to stop work, rather by performing their duties in an enlightened manner, they should inspire the ignorant also to do their prescribed duties.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-lvPLSTcYo&t=75  2   Shri Krishna says in this verse, Arjun, the great personalities, they have a responsibility, what is that ? that others should not be misled by them, this is a big responsibility.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-lvPLSTcYo&t=109  3   There is this story, you see, this i told you, the saints preach according to the level of the students or the people they find so, when the Buddha came 2500 years ago, He did not accept, He did not discuss the presence of God, even though He is the avatar of God Himself  He did not talk about God, in Buddhism, there is no God in Heian Buddhism, why ? because he saw the level of the people at that time, they were misinterpreting vedas, they were engaging in wrong customs in the name of devotion, they were exceedingly involved in the rituals,  so the Buddha said if this is the way you are practicing vedic knowledge, it is better that you don't follow the vedas, and He took them away and said just cleanse your heart, so His one message was cleanse your heart this is the essence of it all and He inspired people on this path, all right your rituals and all is fine but this is the essence of it.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-lvPLSTcYo&t=133  4   And there was a time when the whole of India was covered by Buddhism, it had spread everywhere and it was for the benefit of the people, however the journey had to continue, they had to be taken further,  so then of course you know that Shankaracharya came and brought back the vedas but before Shankaracharya came, Kumarila Bhatt, some of you may have heard his name, the guru of Mandan Mishra, he found everybody in Bharatwarash practicing the Buddhist philosophy, not accepting the vedas he said I have to do something about it,  he was an empowered acharya, so he first of all went and studied Buddhism in the Buddhist monasteries from Buddhist gurus and when he understood the philosophy deeply, then he said all right, now I shall engage in debate with you and engaging in debate with them he defeated them,  so he established the rituals, he brought everybody back into the vedas, you know this ritual is important, this ritual is important, the Mimansa Darshan, the Karm Kand  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-lvPLSTcYo&t=221  5   now he did his work selflessly only for the welfare of the people, he had no wrong intention but then he started thinking that people will misinterpret my actions,  this is his responsibility people will misinterpret they will say that he got knowledge from the gurus and then defeated them, this is guru droh (द्रोह), so he said, I must do prayschit (प्रायश्चित) (repentance), how to do it ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-lvPLSTcYo&t=305  6   so he lit a fire of Tush grass the Tushanal (fire from Tusha grass), which burns very slowly and he sat down on that fire, this is my repentance for doing guru droh even though I did it with good intent but I don't want others to be misled or to endeavor to copy me, so he was sitting on this fire  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-lvPLSTcYo&t=341  7   and along came Shankaracharya, Shankaracharya's task was to take people higher beyond the rituals, beyond Karm Kand, into gyan, into knowledge and the biggest acharya at that time was Kumaril Bhatt,  so Shankaracharya came to engage in scriptural debate (shastraath) with him but when he reached Kumarila Bhatt, he saw he's sitting on this Tushanall fire he said I had come to engage in shastraath (scriptural debate) with you, Kumaril Bhatt said it's not very convenient to have shastraarth right now because I am being slowly roasted on this fire by my own choice  but my disciple is no less than me, Mundan Mishra, you go and debate with him, in his defeat I will accept defeat  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-lvPLSTcYo&t=374  8   so the famous debate took place. Shankaracharya went to Mundan Mishra and then they had this long discussion and finally Mundan Mishra was defeated, Kumaril Bhatt realized that although he is doing the right thing, it should not set a wrong precedent for the general public  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-lvPLSTcYo&t=430  9   similarly Shri Krishna says, Arjun, the enlightened souls if they leave all duties, nothing to do with parents, nothing to do with this they are not wrong, they are absolutely right, but there will be then those who will prematurely start copying them  and they will neither do their duties to God nor to the world, so they will not become karma yogis or Karma sanyasis, they will become Vikarmis, so that is why Shree Krishna says, Arjun, the path that you choose you must keep this criteria in your mind  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-lvPLSTcYo&t=457  

Transcript

Intro

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when the buddha came 2500 years ago he

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did not discuss the presence of God even

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though he is the avatar of God Himself,

0:12

He did not talk about God

0:14

so his one message was to cleanse your

0:17

heart, your rituals and all is fine but

0:20

this is the essence of it, of course you

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know that Shankaracharya came and

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brought back the Vedas, he established

0:27

the rituals, he brought people back into

0:30

the vedas, you know this ritual is

0:32

important, this ritual is important,

0:34

Why ?

Bhagavad Gita Chapter 3 Verse 26 Chanting

“Verse”

1:15

the wise

1:17

should not create discord

1:20

in the intellects of ignorant people

1:23

who are attached to fruitive actions

1:27

by inducing them to stop work

1:31

rather

1:32

by performing their duties

1:35

in an enlightened manner

1:38

they should inspire the ignorant also to

1:42

do their prescribed duties.

1:49

Shri Krishna says in this verse, Arjun,

1:53

the great personalities,

1:57

they have a responsibility,

2:02

what is that ?

2:04

that others should not be misled by them,

2:09

this is a big responsibility.

2:13

There is this story,

2:15

you see, this i told you, the saints

2:17

preach according to the level of

2:19

the students or the people they find

2:23

so, when the Buddha came 2500 years ago,

2:28

He did not accept, He did not discuss the

2:31

presence of God,

2:33

even though He is the avatar of God

2:35

Himself,

2:36

He did not talk about God,

2:40

in Buddhism, there is no God

2:42

in Heian Buddhism,

2:44

why ? because he saw the level of the

2:47

people at that time,

2:49

they were misinterpreting vedas,

2:52

they were engaging in wrong customs in

2:55

the name of devotion,

2:57

they were exceedingly involved in the

2:59

rituals,

3:01

so the Buddha said if this is the way

3:03

you are practicing vedic knowledge, it is

3:06

better that you don't follow the vedas,

3:11

and He took them away and said just

3:14

cleanse your heart,

3:22

so His one message was cleanse your

3:25

heart

3:27

this is the essence of it all

3:30

and He inspired

3:33

people on this path, all right your

3:36

rituals and all is fine but this is the

3:38

essence of it.

3:41

And there was a time when the whole of

3:44

India was covered by Buddhism,

3:48

it had spread everywhere and it was for

3:50

the benefit of the people,

3:53

however the journey had to continue, they

3:56

had to be taken further,

3:59

so then of course you know that

4:01

Shankaracharya came and brought back the

4:03

vedas but before Shankaracharya came,

4:06

Kumarila Bhatt,

4:08

some of you may have heard his name, the

4:10

guru of Mandan Mishra, he found everybody

4:14

in Bharatwarash practicing the Buddhist

4:16

philosophy, not accepting the vedas

4:20

he said I have to do something about it,

4:22

he was an empowered acharya,

4:25

so he first of all went and studied

4:27

Buddhism

4:30

in the Buddhist monasteries from

4:32

Buddhist gurus

4:34

and when he understood the philosophy

4:37

deeply,

4:38

then he said all right,

4:40

now I shall engage in debate with you

4:44

and engaging in debate with them he

4:47

defeated them,

4:49

so he established the rituals, he brought

4:53

everybody back into the vedas, you

4:55

know this ritual is important, this

4:57

ritual is important,

4:59

the Mimansa Darshan, the Karm Kand

5:05

now he did his work selflessly only for

5:08

the welfare of the people, he had no

5:10

wrong intention

5:12

but then he started thinking

5:14

that people will misinterpret my actions,

5:19

this is his responsibility

people will

5:24

misinterpret

5:26

they will say that he got knowledge from

5:29

the gurus and then defeated them, this is

5:31

guru droh (द्रोह),

5:35

so he said, I must do prayschit (प्रायश्चित) (repentance),

5:39

how to do it ?

5:41

so he

5:42

lit a fire

5:44

of

5:45

Tush grass

5:47

the Tushanal,

5:49

which burns very slowly

5:53

and he sat down on that fire,

5:57

this is my repentance

5:59

for doing guru droh

6:01

even though I did it with good intent

6:03

but I don't want others to be misled

6:07

or to endeavor to copy me,

6:10

so he was sitting on this fire

6:14

and along came Shankaracharya,

6:17

Shankaracharya's task was to take people

6:20

higher beyond the rituals, beyond Karm

6:23

Kand, into gyan, into knowledge and the

6:26

biggest acharya at that time

6:29

was Kumaril Bhatt,

6:31

so Shankaracharya came to engage in

6:34

scriptural debate (shastraath) with him

6:37

but when he reached Kumarila Bhatt, he saw

6:40

he's sitting on this Tushanall fire

6:43

he said I had come to engage in

6:45

shastraath (scriptural debate) with you,

6:48

Kumaril Bhatt said it's not very convenient to have

6:50

shastraarth right now

6:53

because I am being slowly roasted on

6:55

this fire

6:57

by my own choice

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but my disciple is no less than me,

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Mundan Mishra,

7:04

you go and debate with him,

7:06

in his defeat I will accept defeat,

7:10

so the famous debate took place.

7:13

Shankaracharya went to Mundan Mishra and

7:16

then they had this long discussion and

7:18

finally Mundan Mishra was defeated,

7:24

Kumaril Bhatt realized

7:27

that although he is doing the right

7:29

thing,

7:31

it should not set a wrong precedent for

7:34

the general public,

7:37

similarly Shri Krishna says, Arjun, the

7:40

enlightened souls

7:42

if they leave all duties, nothing to

7:44

do with parents, nothing to do with this

7:47

they are not wrong,

7:49

they are absolutely right,

7:51

but there will be then those who will

7:54

prematurely start copying

7:56

them and they will neither do their

7:59

duties to God

8:01

nor to the world,

8:04

so they will not become karma yogis or

8:07

Karma sanyasis, they will become

8:10

Vikarmis,

8:12

so that is why Shree Krishna says, Arjun,

8:15

the path that you choose you must keep

8:18

this criteria in your mind

 

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What are we all in search of? | Goal of Life - Part 1 by Swami Mukundanand

What are we all in search of? | Goal of Life - Part 1 by Swami Mukundanand

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Full Text 1# And most important thing we need to decide about our life, is its goal.  https://youtu.be/L39JYXGX5CI&t=9 2# If somebody is walking on the street and we ask him, “where are you going?” He says, I don't know. You will say then why you walking so fast ? what purpose is being served ?  https://youtu.be/L39JYXGX5CI&t=23 3# In the same manner, people are working hard in the world. Somebody in AT&T, somebody in Ericsson and now in Toyota.  But you ask them what for are you working so hard? They don't seem to have a clarity about the direction and focus of their life.  https://youtu.be/L39JYXGX5CI&t=44 4# A few decades ago in management science, a theory was introduced – M.B.O - is anybody familiar with the term? Management By Objectives. You determine the objective of the organization, break it up into sub objectives and then sub sub objectives.  So that each person is clear about what he or she is supposed to do. So, what is the Objective of our life and all the effort that we are putting in.  https://youtu.be/L39JYXGX5CI&t=75 5# I am going to prove today that all of us knowingly or unknowingly are in search of God. This may seem him like a very drastic statement.  There are so many people who claim there is No God. I am an atheist. However, I am going to proove that there is no atheist. Everybody is in search of God and he can search for nothing apart from God.  https://youtu.be/L39JYXGX5CI&t=116 6# You may say, how is that Swami Ji ? There is always a duality in the world. There are the believers and the non believers. There is the day and night, Dharma and Adharma, Ishwar and Maya. Similarly, there must be the atheists and the theists. How do you say that there is no atheist?  https://youtu.be/L39JYXGX5CI&t=166 7# I will prove it to you, but please listen very carefully to every word of what I say. Let's try and find out that all the endeavour that we are putting it -  what is it for?  One businessman is working very hard. Struggling it out. You ask that businessman? Why are you working so hard? Sir. What do you want? He says, I have launched this new Corporation. I wish to make it a success. Is that all?  Why do you wish to make it a success? He says, by virtue of that, I will earn a few million dollars. So you want money in that case, it's not merely the success of the organization that you have established.  That is a means for the money, you will earn from it. So, please tell me. Then why do you want money? Why do I want money? It will help me get the things of the world. What kind of things?  https://youtu.be/L39JYXGX5CI&t=199 8# Five kind of things, Things to touch, Things to see, Things to smell, Things to hear and Things to taste. God has given us all five senses and we want the objects of these five senses. The whole world is a subject of our five senses.  https://youtu.be/L39JYXGX5CI&t=295 9# So in that case money is also not the final goal. Money is only the means to get the things of the world. Let us ask a question again. Why do you want these five kinds of things? Why do I want them?  They will give me happiness. Peace, Calm, Joy, Bliss, Maja, Lutf, Anand. There are many names, that means we want ultimately happiness, that's right. For the sake of happiness, you wanted the objects of the senses. Very correct.  https://youtu.be/L39JYXGX5CI&t=327 10# and for the sake of the objects of the senses, you wanted money, that's right. And for the sake of money, you wanted to make your business is success. Very correct. And for the sake of making, the business is success, you were working so hard. That's right. So the entire chain, where did it end ? – in Happiness.  https://youtu.be/L39JYXGX5CI&t=380 11# What does a person want? Ultimately happiness. Now, you go and ask the series of questions in any of the 50 States of USA or any of the 194 countries of the world - to any poor or rich, young or old person. What do you want? That person says I want this again.  Again ask, why do you want it? He says, because of this. Why do you want that? Because of that, where will the chain end every time ? Tell me, in Happiness. In other words, all of us want one thing happiness. Now, let me ask last question. Why do you want happiness ? https://youtu.be/L39JYXGX5CI&t=409

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Cycle of Birth & Death |Reincarnation|Liberation from this Cycle by Swami Mukundanand

Cycle of Birth & Death |Reincarnation|Liberation from this Cycle by Swami Mukundanand

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Full Text 1  one of the most important decisions related to belief that we make in our life is whether to believe in the concept of rebirth or not to believe it.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkMbbrOR1qw&t=0  2  This becomes a game changer in regard to values, for example, if there is no next life, then this life is all there is, we are created upon birth and we cease to exist upon death, in that case there are not deep consequences of our actions.  This leads to a materialistic viewpoint eat, drink and be merry.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkMbbrOR1qw&t=16  3  The indian materialistic philosopher Charwak stated “Verse” this life is only for four days, whatever gives you happiness, do it, if you get happiness from ghee clarified butter, beg, borrow or steal but drink that butter, don't worry about the hereafter.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkMbbrOR1qw&t=50  4  The Naya Darshan says “verse” this one point differentiates the believer from the non-believer. The believer is who, the astik (आस्तिक) is who ?  one who believes there is an afterlife because that person's value system will be different, he will feel that whatever I do, has consequences, let me ensure my actions are pure.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkMbbrOR1qw&t=83  5  On the other hand, one who says there is no hereafter will say you can get away with whatever you do  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkMbbrOR1qw&t=122  6  so what is the basis of belief in rebirth ? Can it be scientifically established ? Astonishingly the Bhagavad-Gita gives us the most powerful logic for the establishment.  Your body is continuously changing in this life itself from birth to childhood to youth to old age. Take a look at your family album, there's a two-year baby you say that is me, then there is a ten-year-old, you say that is me, there is a young adult getting married that is me, there is a middle-aged person that is also me now which is you amongst all these ?  if you were the body, you have changed so many times, the soul has changed so many bodies in one lifetime itself, scientists estimate that within seven years all the cells in the body they die out & new cells get generated in their place which means that within seven years we've got a completely new body.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkMbbrOR1qw&t=134  7  Shri Krishna says in the same way at the time of death as well just as it did during life, the soul changes bodies, the enlightened soul is not bewildered by such a change.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkMbbrOR1qw&t=238  8  Again the Bhagavad-Gita says that in the morning we get up, we take off our old clothes and after bath we put on a new set of clothes, we don't change but we change our clothes, similarly what we call the phenomenon of death is not the end of the existence of the soul, it is the soul changing its clothes which is the body.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkMbbrOR1qw&t=257  9  This also explains why there is so much of a difference between different children right from the point of birth, they have been child prodigies like Mozart was a genius composer, creating music at the age of four, how did this come about ?  The phenomenon of rebirth explains it was his activities in the past life which impelled him to possess that musical propensity in this life, similarly the concept of rebirth also explains why some are more unfortunate than the others.  Right from birth, if a child is born blind and that child asks what did I do to be born blind, what will you answer that child, if you say it was the will of God, that will not be believed because God is kind, compassionate, He is the loving father, why will He want anybody to be born bind ? The only logical answer to this is that it is due to actions in the past life.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkMbbrOR1qw&t=308  10  Without accepting the concept of past life, all creation then becomes illogical. The moment we bring this concept into our framework of knowledge there becomes a logic and a purpose behind all creation which is the gradual evolution of the soul towards the ultimate perfection of God realization  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkMbbrOR1qw&t=401  11  The Nyaya Darshan gives another proof of the existence of God, it says that a little baby, how can it come to know how to suck milk from the mother's breast ? the baby is too small to understand lectures and tutorials,  how can the mother explain to it that my child when I put my breast in your mouth, this is how you are to drink the Nyaya Darshan says the child has drunk the mother's milk in innumerable lifetimes in the past even in the animal species and that is why when the mother puts her breast in the child's mouth, the child having those recollections of the past immediately starts drinking.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkMbbrOR1qw&t=432  12  There is another piece of evidence proposed by the Nyaya Darshan for the existence of rebirth. It states that take a look at a little baby, without reason that baby sometimes becomes fearful, sometimes becomes joyous,  sometimes becomes morose (bad-tempered) and miserable, why the fluctuation of moods in a little baby, the Nyay Darshan is saying that it is remembering things from its past life, how does that work ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkMbbrOR1qw&t=493  13  you see the process of death is such that a whole lot of impressions in our memory bank are wiped out by the pain of death and then the pain of rebirth is even more than the pain of death for the baby.  A whole lot of more impressions are wiped out and yet a few residual memories do remain with that little baby they are causing the baby to become joyous, miserable, fearful but then as the baby tends to grow up the impressions of this life fall so strongly upon the child that they erase the impressions of the past life completely.  Beta, my child, I am your mother, yes mommy, I am your father, yes baba, now the new impressions are falling strongly nevertheless many times children have the experience of déjà vu (already seen) what is déjà vu ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkMbbrOR1qw&t=540  14  I've seen this before, this concept of deja vu is widely accepted, that whatever is going on, the memories are there in the subconscious, they are coming out, a person is unable to perceive why a situation is seeming familiar  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkMbbrOR1qw&t=613  15  when I was growing up, when I was an eight-year-old there was a little girl in our neighborhood, she was about five years and her mother was a friend of my mother, her mother would tell my mother that my child sits and reads the namaz born in the Hindu household at the age of five without any exposure to Muhammadan customs,  she sits in that vajrasana and placing her hands like this reads the namaz, she would say, I do not encourage her, I don't wish her to remember too much one year later I asked my mother and she said her friend has told her that the daughter has now forgotten the same (doing namaz).  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkMbbrOR1qw&t=634  16  There have been innumerable instances of people remembering their past lives all around the world in all cultures, now these are all exceptions to the rule, the rule is that we forget but as an exception a few people remember,  thereby giving us yet another reason to believe that world and life are not irrational and illogical - whatever we do stays with us, we have the opportunity to build our destiny and grow to the highest perfection from lifetime to lifetime, and that is why we should be optimistic, we should be cheerful, keeping our faith in this concept of rebirth  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkMbbrOR1qw&t=687  Transcript 0:00 one of the most important 0:03 decisions related to belief 0:06 that we make in our life 0:09 is whether to believe in the concept of 0:12 rebirth 0:13 or not to believe it. 0:16 This becomes a game changer 0:19 in regard to values, 0:22 for example, if there is 0:25 no next life, 0:27 then this life is all there is, 0:30 we are created upon birth and we cease 0:34 to exist upon death, 0:36 in that case 0:38 there are not 0:39 deep consequences 0:41 of our actions. 0:43 This leads to a materialistic viewpoint 0:47 eat, drink and be merry. 0:50 The indian materialistic philosopher 0:52 Charwak stated “Verse”  1:04 this life is only for four days, 1:07 whatever gives you happiness, do it, 1:10 if you get happiness from ghee clarified 1:13 butter, 1:14 beg, borrow or steal but drink that 1:17 butter, don't worry about the hereafter. 1:23 The Naya Darshan says “verse” 1:30 this one point differentiates the 1:33 believer from the non-believer. 1:37 The believer is who 1:39 the astik (आस्तिक) is who ? 1:42 one who believes there is an afterlife 1:46 because that person's value system 1:49 will be different, 1:51 he will feel that 1:53 whatever I do, has consequences, 1:57 let me ensure my actions are pure. 2:02 On the other hand, 2:04 one who says there is no hereafter 2:08 will say you can get away 2:11 with whatever you do, 2:14 so 2:17 what is the basis 2:19 of belief in rebirth ? 2:22 Can it be scientifically established ? 2:26 Astonishingly the Bhagavad-Gita gives us 2:30 the most powerful logic 2:32 for the establishment. 2:50 Your body is continuously changing in 2:54 this life itself 2:57 from 2:58 birth to childhood to youth to old age. 3:04 Take a look at your family album, 3:08 there's a two-year baby you say that is 3:11 me, 3:12 then there is a ten-year-old, you say 3:15 that is me, 3:16 there is a young adult getting married 3:19 that is me, 3:20 there is a middle-aged person that is 3:22 also me 3:24 now which is you amongst all these ? if 3:27 you were the body, you have changed so 3:30 many times, 3:32 the soul 3:33 has changed so many bodies 3:36 in one lifetime itself, 3:39 scientists estimate that within seven 3:43 years all the cells in the body 3:47 they die out & new cells get generated in 3:50 their place 3:52 which means that within seven years 3:55 we've got a completely new body. 3:58 Shri Krishna says in the same way at the 4:02 time of death as well 4:05 just as it did during life, 4:07 the soul changes bodies, 4:11 the enlightened soul is not bewildered 4:15 by such a change. 4:17 Again the Bhagavad-Gita says that 4:39 in the morning we get up, we take off our 4:42 old clothes and after bath we put on a 4:45 new set of clothes, 4:47 we don't change but 4:49 we change our clothes, 4:52 similarly what we call the phenomenon of 4:55 death 4:57 is not the end of the existence of the 4:59 soul,  5:00 it is the soul changing its clothes 5:04 which is 5:05 the body. 5:08 This also explains 5:11 why there is so much of a difference 5:14 between different children right from 5:17 the point of birth, 5:20 they have been 5:21 child prodigies like Mozart 5:24 was a genius 5:26 composer, creating music at the age of four, 5:31 how did this come about ? 5:33 the phenomenon of rebirth explains 5:37 it was his activities in the past life 5:41 which impelled him to possess that 5:45 musical propensity in this life, 5:49 similarly the concept of rebirth also 5:53 explains 5:55 why 5:56 some are more unfortunate than the 5:59 others. 6:00 Right from birth, 6:03 if a child is born blind 6:06 and that child asks 6:09 what did I do to be born blind, 6:13 what will you answer that child, 6:15 if you say it was the will of God, 6:18 that will not be believed because God is 6:22 kind, compassionate, 6:24 He is the loving father, 6:26 why will He want anybody to be born 6:29 bind ? 6:31 The only logical answer to this 6:35 is that it is due to actions in the past 6:39 life. 6:41 Without accepting the concept of past 6:45 Life, 6:46 all creation then becomes illogical. 6:50 The moment we bring this concept into 6:53 our framework of knowledge 6:56 there becomes a logic and a purpose 6:59 behind all creation which is the gradual 7:03 evolution of the soul 7:06 towards the ultimate perfection of God 7:09 realization, 7:12 The Nyaya Darshan gives another proof of 7:16 the existence of God, 7:18 it says that 7:23 a little baby, 7:25 how can it come to know 7:28 how 7:29 to suck milk from the mother's breast ? 7:33 the baby is too small to understand 7:36 lectures and tutorials, 7:38 how can the mother explain to it that my 7:41 child when I put my breast in your mouth, 7:43 this is how you are to drink 7:46 the Nyaya Darshan says the child has drunk the 7:50 mother's milk in innumerable lifetimes 7:54 in the past even in the animal species 7:58 and that is why 7:59 when the mother puts her breast in the 8:02 child's mouth, 8:04 the child 8:05 having those recollections of the past 8:09 immediately starts drinking. 8:13 There is another piece of evidence 8:15 proposed by the Nyaya Darshan 8:18 for the existence of rebirth. 8:21 It states that 8:28 take a look at a little baby, 8:32 without reason that baby sometimes 8:34 becomes fearful, 8:36 sometimes becomes 8:38 joyous, sometimes 8:41 becomes morose (bad-tempered) and miserable, 8:44 why the fluctuation of moods in a little 8:48 baby, 8:50 the Nyay Darshan is saying that 8:52 it is remembering things from its past 8:55 life, 8:58 how does that work ? 9:00 you see 9:01 the process of death is such 9:04 that 9:05 a whole lot of impressions in our memory 9:09 bank are wiped out by the pain of death 9:14 and then 9:15 the pain of rebirth is even more than 9:18 the pain of death for the baby. 9:21 A whole lot of more impressions are 9:24 wiped out 9:25 and yet 9:26 a few residual memories do remain with 9:30 that little baby 9:32 they are causing the baby to become 9:35 joyous, miserable, fearful 9:39 but then as the baby tends to grow up 9:42 the impressions of this life fall so 9:45 strongly upon the child 9:47 that they erase the impressions of the 9:50 past life completely. 9:53 Beta, my child, 9:55 I am your mother, yes mommy, 9:58 I am your father, yes baba, 10:01 now the new impressions are falling 10:03 strongly 10:05 nevertheless many times children have 10:08 the experience of déjà vu (already seen)  10:10 what is déjà vu ? 10:13 i've seen this before, 10:15 this concept of deja vu is widely 10:18 accepted, 10:21 that whatever is going on, 10:23 the memories are there in the 10:25 subconscious, they are coming out, a 10:29 person is unable to perceive why a 10:31 situation is seeming familiar 10:34 when I was growing up, when I was an 10:37 eight-year-old 10:38 there was a little girl in our 10:40 neighborhood, she was about five years 10:44 and her mother was a friend of my mother, 10:47 her mother would tell my mother 10:50 that my child sits and reads the namaz 10:55 born in the Hindu household at the age 10:57 of five without any exposure 11:01 to Muhammadan customs, 11:03 she sits in that vajrasana and placing 11:07 her hands like this reads the namaz, 11:10 she would say, I do not encourage her, I 11:13 don't wish her to remember too much 11:17 one year later I asked my mother 11:20 and she said 11:21 her friend has told her that the 11:24 daughter has now forgotten the same (doing namaz). 11:27 There have been innumerable instances 11:30 of 11:31 people remembering their past lives 11:35 all around the world in all cultures, now 11:38 these are all exceptions to the rule, 11:41 the rule is that we forget but as an 11:44 exception a few people remember, 11:48 thereby giving us 11:50 yet another reason to believe 11:53 that world and life are not irrational 11:58 and illogical - whatever we do 12:01 stays with us, 12:03 we have the opportunity to build our 12:06 destiny and grow to the highest 12:08 perfection 12:10 from lifetime to lifetime, 12:13 and that is why we should be optimistic, 12:17 we should be cheerful, 12:19 keeping our faith 12:22 in this concept of rebirth Standby link (in case youtube link does not work) Cycle of Birth & Death Reincarnation Liberation from this Cycle Explained by Swami Mukundananda.mp4

Lord Krishna teaches how to FOCUS the MIND by Swami Mukundanand

Lord Krishna teaches how to FOCUS the MIND by Swami Mukundanand

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Full Text 1  The intellect rules the mind. God has bestowed the human intellect with the power to control the mind if it so decides. Shree Krishna says if somebody can strengthen that decision, intellect will be one-pointed and the mind will come into focus. You will shoot towards the goal like an arrow.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PIKfiUR_DI&t=1  2  Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 Sloka 41 Chanting  व्यवसायात्मिका बुद्धिरेकेह कुरुनन्दन | बहुशाखा ह्यनन्ताश्च बुद्धयोऽव्यवसायिनाम् || 41|| vyavasayatmika buddhir ekeha kuru-nandana bahu-shakha hyanantash cha buddhayo ’vyavasayinam O descendent of the Kurus, the intellect of those who are on this path is resolute (marked by firm determination), and their aim is one-pointed.  But the intellect of those who are irresolute is many-branched. How to Focus the Mind He says that Arjun, in order to traverse this path, you will need a resolute intellect.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PIKfiUR_DI&t=34  3  We have come to this point that you need to give up attachment. This attachment to the world happens in a variety of ways. One is positive attachment –  The object of your attachment, the wife or the husband or the children or the parents or the ice cream or the chocolate. Your mind keeps going there. Again and again and again.  Sitting there, if your mind is repeatedly going to chai (tea) you can understand that your mind is attached to the chai, the tea. That is why the thought of the tea is coming again and again. That is positive attachment.  The scriptures say, “Even if you are negatively attached, that is also attachment.” In other words, if there is hatred, whom do you hate? That fellow, he did bad to me 3 years ago. Listen, listen, he’s so bad. Listen, he’s so bad. He did this to me. He did this to me. The same bhajan/kirtan is going on.  Just like in positive attachment, your mind goes there Similarly, in hatred also, your mind goes there. Whether you love the world or you hate the world - Either way, the scriptures say, “Your mind is attached.” Or you fear the world. Or you envy the world. Or you detest the world. Or you loathe (to hate somebody/something) the world. All this is different forms of attachment.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PIKfiUR_DI&t=94  4  If somehow, you attach your mind to God, gopyah kamad bhayat kamso dvesac caidyadayo nrpah Whatever way their mind went to Shree Krishna, the mind got attached to the Supreme Lord And they all got purified. When the mind goes to something pure, it becomes pure.  And the reverse, whatever way we bring our mind to the world, as the world consists of the three gunas (three material modes of nature), the mind becomes dirty. Detachment means that you are neither to love the world, nor to hate it, nor to fear it.  Kabira khada bazaar mein sabki mange khair Na kahu so dosti na kahu so bair Na Dosti, Na Dushmani, neither friendship nor hatred  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PIKfiUR_DI&t=216  5  Like a mother, she has lost her son in the fair/exhibition She’s looking around. Where has he gone? Where has he gone? From a distance, she saw one little boy there She thinks it’s her child.  She goes running - beta, beta She reaches the child and sees, Oh he’s somebody else Immediately, she becomes neutral to him. That is detached. She doesn’t say, “Now, not my child, Never mind, let me lift up this child and hug him and get motherly love from him.”  Nor does she start fighting - I thought you were my child Why did you turn out to be somebody else? It was my mistake. I thought he was my child He’s not really. Forget it.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PIKfiUR_DI&t=291  6  Similarly, detachment means earlier, we were thinking. The world is the source of happiness. We were running after the world. 1 million; 2 million; 3 million.  Now we understood that there is no real happiness in the world. What to talk of 3 million? Those who got 30 billion are not happy. So we have become detached.  We don’t start fighting - Why are you doing this? We become neutral.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PIKfiUR_DI&t=355  7  What am I supposed to do? Living in this world, I am supposed to go towards God. Let me focus upon that. Detachment means ‘Neutrality.’  Shree Krishna says that in order to develop that kind of detachment, Arjun, you will need to have a resolute intellect. In other words, your intellect will have to tell you to be firm in this knowledge that the world is not mine.  The world does not have the happiness that I want. That is vyavasayatmikabuddhi - A resolute intellect The moment the intellect makes that strong decision, the work is done. You don’t need to take the mind away. The mind naturally comes away. If your intellect is not resolute, the mind will start running towards the world as well.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PIKfiUR_DI&t=395  8  Any of you if you so decide - No matter your favorite food item may be in front of you - If you are confirmed there is poison in it, you will never take it. If there is no poison in it, then you may break the rules of dieting. Let me take more. It doesn’t matter. The doctor is not watching.  This knowledge is not resolute that this is harmful for me. That knowledge has to become firm. Knowledge is all available, it is for us to utilize it and to make a strong resolve accordingly.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PIKfiUR_DI&t=487  9  One woman came to me and said, “Swamiji, baki sab to thik hai sab bahut gussa atta” Everything else is all right but I have a lot of anger in me. What should I do? Give me some gem of knowledge to destroy this I said, “Deviji, does anybody want to harm themselves?” No.  Supposing, I give you a pin and say, “Jab it into your arm.” Will you do it? No. In the same way, anger harms you. You get angry at the other person but the anger resides in you. He is the object and you are the receptacle in which the anger is residing It burns your heart. It burns your blood. It dirties your mind. It’s like jabbing a 100 pins in your arm.  Why should you harm yourself? The lady said, “Swamiji, that is a wonderful piece of knowledge.” I said, “But it will be no use to you.” Why? Because you don’t really believe it. When that opportunity for anger comes, this knowledge will slip out of the mind.  You will make the mistake and later on, you will regret “Oh oh I became angry.” That knowledge has to be utilized by the intellect. That is vyavasayatmika buddhi - Resolute intellect.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PIKfiUR_DI&t=537  10  If the intellect becomes resolute in this decision that I am not the body, I am the soul And hence the happiness I want, will not come from these things. Your mind will come off from the world in a moment.  Presently, that strength of decision is not existing. We do have a general notion. How much do you struggle for the world for worldly attainments? How much do you struggle for God? That shows that at present, our decision of the intellect needs to be strengthened.  Shree Krishna says here, “Arjun, if somebody can strengthen that decision towards God, his intellect will be one-pointed and the mind will come into focus. If you strengthen that decision, you will shoot towards the goal like an arrow.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PIKfiUR_DI&t=644  Transcript Intro 0:00 Bhagavad Gita Gyan Yagna by Swami Mukundananda 0:01 The intellect rules the mind. 0:04 God has bestowed the human intellect with the 0:07 power to control the mind if it so decides. 0:12 Shree Krishna says: If somebody can strengthen that decision, 0:18 intellect will be one-pointed and the mind will come into focus. 0:22 You will shoot towards the goal like an arrow. 0:27 Bhagavad Gita Sloka Chanting is followed by translation and commentary by Swami Mukundananda 0:34 Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 Sloka 41 Chanting 0:36 व्यवसायात्मिका बुद्धिरेकेह कुरुनन्दन | बहुशाखा ह्यनन्ताश्च बुद्धयोऽव्यवसायिनाम् || 41|| vyavasayatmika buddhir ekeha kuru-nandana bahu-shakha hyanantash cha buddhayo ’vyavasayinam 0:54 0:57 O descendent of the Kurus, the intellect of those who are on this path is resolute, and their aim is one-pointed. But the intellect of those who are irresolute is many-branched. 1:21 How to Focus the Mind 1:24 He says that Arjun, in order to traverse this path, 1:30 you will need a resolute intellect. 1:34 We have come to this point that you need to give up attachment. 1:42 This attachment to the world happens in a variety of ways. 1:51 One is positive attachment - 1:54 The object of your attachment, the wife or the husband or the children 1:59 or the parents or the ice cream or the chocolate. 2:02 Your mind keeps going there. 2:04 Again and again and again. 2:08 Sitting there, if your mind is repeatedly going to chai (tea) 2:13 you can understand that your mind is attached to the chai, the tea. 2:20 That is why the thought of the tea is coming again and again. 2:27 That is positive attachment. 2:30 The scriptures say, “Even if you are negatively attached, 2:30 that is also attachment.” 2:35 In other words, if there is hatred, whom do you hate? 2:40 That fellow, he did bad to me 3 years ago. 2:44 Listen, listen, he’s so bad. Listen, he’s so bad. 2:48 He did this to me. 2:50 He did this to me. 2:53 The same bhajan/kirtan is going on. 2:56 Just like in positive attachment, your mind goes there 3:01 Similarly, in hatred also, your mind goes there. 3:07 Whether you love the world or you hate the world - 3:13 Either way, the scriptures say, “Your mind is attached.” 3:20 Or you fear the world. 3:23 Or you envy the world. 3:25 Or you detest the world. 3:27 Or you loathe (to hate somebody/something) the world. 3:30 All this is different forms of attachment. 3:36 If somehow, you attach your mind to God, 3:39 gopyah kamad bhayat kamso dvesac caidyadayo nrpah 3:52 Whatever way their mind went to Shree Krishna, the mind got attached to the Supreme Lord 4:01 And they all got purified. 4:03 When the mind goes to something pure, it becomes pure. 4:08 And the reverse, whatever way we bring our mind to the world, 4:14 The world consists of the three gunas The mind becomes dirty. 4:22 Detachment means that you are 4:23 neither to love the world, nor to hate it, nor to fear it. 4:28 Kabira khada bazaar mein sabki mange khair Na kahu so dosti na kahu so bair 4:43 Na Dosti, Na Dushmani 4:47 Neither friendship nor hatred 4:51 Like a mother, she has lost her son in the fair/exhibition 5:01 She’s looking around. Where has he gone? 5:05 Where has he gone? 5:06 From a distance, she saw one little boy there 5:10 She thinks it’s her child. 5:15 She goes running - beta, beta 5:19 She reaches the child and sees, Oh he’s somebody else 5:25 Immediately, she becomes neutral to him. 5:30 That is detached. 5:31 She doesn’t say, “Now, not my child, 5:34 Never mind, let me lift up this child and hug him and get motherly love from him.” 5:40 Nor does she start fighting - I thought you were my child 5:44 Why did you turn out to be somebody else? 5:47 It was my mistake. I thought he was my child 5:51 He’s not really. 5:53 Forget it. 5:55 Similarly, detachment means 5:57 Earlier, we were thinking. 6:01 The world is the source of happiness. 6:07 We were running after the world. 6:09 1 million; 2 million; 3 million Now we understood that there is no real happiness 6:18 in the world. 6:20 What to talk of 3 million? 6:21 Those who got 30 billion are not happy. 6:26 So we have become detached. 6:27 We don’t start fighting - 6:29 Why are you doing this? 6:30 6:31 6:33 We become neutral. 6:35 What am I supposed to do? 6:38 Living in this world, I am supposed to go towards God. 6:43 Let me focus upon that. 6:48 Detachment means ‘Neutrality.’ 6:53 Shree Krishna says that in order to develop that kind of detachment, 7:00 Arjun, you will need to have a resolute intellect. 7:10 In other words, your intellect will have to tell you to be firm 7:14 in this knowledge 7:15 The world is not mine. 7:19 The world does not have the happiness that I want. 7:26 That is vyavasayatmikabuddhi - A resolute intellect 7:34 The moment the intellect makes that strong decision, the work is done. 7:42 You don’t need to take the mind away. 7:44 The mind naturally comes away. 7:47 If your intellect is not resolute, 7:56 the mind will start running towards the world as well. 8:07 Any of you if you so decide - 8:09 No matter your favorite food item may be in front of you - 8:13 If you are confirmed there is poison in it, you will never take it. 8:20 If there is no poison in it, then you may break the rules of dieting. 8:25 Let me take more. 8:27 It doesn’t matter. 8:29 The doctor is not watching. 8:32 This knowledge is not resolute that this is harmful for me. 8:39 That knowledge has to become firm. 8:45 Knowledge is all available 8:47 It is for us to utilize it and to make a strong resolve accordingly. 8:57 One woman came to me and said, “Swamiji, baki sab to thik hai sab bahut gussa atta” 9:07 Everything else is all right but I have a lot of anger in me. 9:12 What should I do? 9:13 Give me some gem of knowledge to destroy this 9:20 I said, “Deviji, does anybody want to harm themselves?” 9:26 No. 9:27 Supposing, I give you a pin and say, “Jab it into your arm.” 9:33 Will you do it? 9:35 No. 9:36 In the same way, anger harms you. 9:40 You get angry at the other person but the anger resides in you. 9:45 He is the object and you are the receptacle in which the anger is residing 9:51 It burns your heart. 9:53 It burns your blood. 9:55 It dirties your mind. 9:57 It’s like jabbing a 100 pins in your arm. 10:02 Why should you harm yourself? 10:06 The lady said, “Swamiji, that is a wonderful piece of knowledge.” 10:09 I said, “But it will be no use to you.” 10:13 Why? 10:15 Because you don’t really believe it. 10:17 When that opportunity for anger comes, this knowledge will slip out of the mind. 10:24 You will make the mistake and later on, you will regret 10:27 “Oh oh I became angry.” 10:31 That knowledge has to be utilized by the intellect. 10:38 That is vyavasayatmika buddhi - Resolute intellect. 10:44 If the intellect becomes resolute in this decision that 10:51 I am not the body, I am the soul 10:55 And hence the happiness I want, will not come from these things. 11:01 Your mind will come off from the world in a moment. 11:07 Presently, that strength of decision is not existing. 11:14 We do have a general notion. 11:18 How much do you struggle for the world for worldly attainments? 11:23 How much do you struggle for God? 11:29 That shows that at present, 11:33 our decision of the intellect needs to be strengthened. 11:38 Shree Krishna says here, 11:39 “Arjun, if somebody can strengthen that decision towards God, 11:45 his intellect will be one-pointed and the mind will come into focus. 11:51 If you strengthen that decision, you will shoot towards the goal like an arrow. Standby link (in case youtube link does not work) Lord Krishna teaches how to FOCUS the MIND Swami Mukundananda Bhagavad Gita.mp4