God Realization is not Difficult | Goal of Life - Part 7 by Swami Mukundanand

God Realization is not Difficult | Goal of Life - Part 7 by Swami Mukundanand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrH9t_Rzw7o&t=1s Full Text God Realization is not Difficult | Goal of Life - Part 7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrH9t_Rzw7o&t=1s Transcript  1  Nobody is happy, this is a realization that has to dawn, until it dawns you are chasing a mirage, we've spent our whole life chasing the mirage, many of you have come from India right,  when you were in school you thought, you know, right now I'm not really happy, if I get through college engineering college, I will be happy, when you got through engineering college, you said, right now I'm not happy, if I get a job I'll be happy, when you got a job you said, right now I'm temporary, if I get confirmed, I'll be happy when you became confirmed,  you said, right now things are not so good in India, if I get that USA visa then I'll be happy, so you came to USA, now tell me are you happy ? Swami ji, what happy ? same old story, same wine and different bottles, so the mirage is being changed, the whole life goes by,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrH9t_Rzw7o&t=12  2  until that fortunate soul wakes up and realizes that maybe the direction in which I am searching for happiness, is wrong and when does that awakening arise ?  when we decide that I am NOT the body, I am the soul and hence the happiness I am searching for is not in material things,  it is in God and the happiness that will satisfy my soul must be Sat Chit Anand, eternal, infinite, ever fresh - that is the kind of yearning my soul has, until we understand that, Swamiji will keep on lecturing it will not make a difference  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrH9t_Rzw7o&t=79  3  There is the story of Prahlad, you know, Prahlad got God-realized at the age of five, Narsingh Bhagawan manifested and then he grew up and became king subsequently, Prahlada ruled as an able and righteous king whose subjects loved him tremendously,  finally even it was time for Prasad to depart, God sent the vehicle from Go Lok, Shri Krishna said Prasad your time is up, come to my divine abode,  Prahlad said Maharaj, my public loves me more than their own life airs, I should leave them in misery and come to Your abode ? that's not correct on my part ! if You wish me to come, give me the permission, I will come with public.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrH9t_Rzw7o&t=145  4  God said, Prahlad, nobody in your public is interested in coming to GoLok, Prahlad said, Maharaj give me the permission, God said, all right, whoever wishes to come, bring him along, Sunday morning, Prahlad said there's little time but I'll get my ministers to work right away,  he asked his ministers to go into a survey, and prepare the list, we are getting a free ticket to GoLok, so the ministers, they went around, they went to one house, you know, there's this free ticket to GoLok, we are making the list, are you interested ?  that person said, are you crazy ? what happened ? I have just been engaged, after four months, I'm going to marry, do you think I'll go to GoLok ? okay you've got a point there, they went to the next person, you know, there's this free ticket to GoLok being offered by God, are you interested in availing the scheme ?  he said impossible, I have just married four years, I have got two little children, am I going to leave them and go ? they went to the next person, are you interested ? he said look at his IPL season, until the final is over, how will I go ? somebody who was waiting for the Super Bowl etc., not one person was interested  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrH9t_Rzw7o&t=207  5  Prahlad was extremely embarrassed, what face will I show to God, Shri Krishna understood Prasad's predicament, He said Prahlad, if any animal in your kingdom is interested, get that animal along, Prahlad asked his ministers to make a revised list,  this time they met with success, one Pig became interested, now the pigs in India, you know, usually stray pigs eating excreta, so the pig became interested, Prahlad said, Maharaj, a drowning man clutches on even a straw, one pig is desirous of coming to GoLok but it has put a condition, he wants ticket with family, the she pig and the six little piglets, they will all come together,  so Prahlad was told by God, alright, bring him along now, they started off, Prahlad is going towards the plane, he got on, he asked the pig you also get on, the pig came right up to the plane and then he stopped, he said wait, Prahlad said now what happened ?  the pig said, the food that I eat, excreta, will I get it In GoLok, Prahlad said you are going to the abode of God and you can't think of anything apart from excreta, the pig said what pleasure there is in it, what do you know ? taste it and see,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrH9t_Rzw7o&t=298  6  see the sharabis and the kbabis of the world, they say the same thing, are baba, why are you criticizing it ? take it & see the नशा in it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrH9t_Rzw7o&t=411  7  so God said, Prahlad, see nobody from your kingdom wants to come to the abode of God,  in the same way it's not that we can't become God realized, we don't want to become God realized and why do we not want to become God realized because of the first mistake we made, we forgot who we are, we forgot we are the eternal soul and we started thinking of our self to be the body.  When we decide that I am the soul & not the body, then we will search for happiness in God, presently our search for happiness is like churning lime water in the hope of getting butter out of it, butter is not in lime water, butter is in yogurt, in milk, similarly when we search for happiness in the right place, it will not be difficult to get it because God is sitting within us, “verse”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrH9t_Rzw7o&t=423  8  God doesn't need to be found by going over Vrindavan or going to Ayodhya, God is residing within us and He has not even laid any condition for His attainment,  He says you don't have money, doesn't matter, the poorest have become God realized, you don't have eyes, never mind Soordas was भगवत प्राप्त,  you don't have a leg, you can't walk to the temple, don't worry, those who were lame also attained God, you don't have a tongue, you can't chant His name, even that is not compulsory,  IF THERE IS ANY PERSONALITY IN EXISTENCE, THAT PERSONALITY MUST HAVE A MIND, GOD SAYS GIVE ME THIS MIND THAT IS ALL I WANT, LOVE ME WITH THIS MIND, ATTACH YOUR MIND TO ME  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrH9t_Rzw7o&t=521  9  BUT IN ENDLESS LIFE TIMES WE HAVE GIVEN THIS MIND TO THE WORLD, TO BETA, BETI, HUSBAND, WIFE, SON, DAUGHTER, FATHER, MOTHER, JALEBI, SAMOSA, TELEVISION, WE HAVE ATTACHED OUR MIND EVERYWHERE BUT WE HAVE BEEN SUCH MISERS THAT WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GIVE THIS ONE MIND TO GOD  AND THAT IS ALL THAT HE WANTS, SO TODAY WE DECIDED THAT THE GOAL OF LIFE IS TO ATTAIN GOD BECAUSE FROM HIM, WE WILL GET THE HAPPINESS THAT WE WANT, THE NEXT QUESTION WHICH WILL NOW COME UP IS HOW DO WE ATTAIN THAT HAPPINESS OF GOD  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrH9t_Rzw7o&t=595  Transcript 0:12 Nobody is happy, this is a realization 0:18 that has to dawn, until it dawns you are 0:23 chasing a mirage, 0:25 we've spent our whole life chasing the 0:28 mirage, many of you have come from India 0:31 right, when you were in school you 0:34 thought, you know, right now I'm not 0:36 really happy, if I get through college 0:38 engineering college, I will be happy, when 0:42 you got through engineering college, you 0:44 said, right now I'm not happy, if 0:46 I get a job I'll be happy, when you got a 0:50 job you said, right now I'm temporary, if 0:53 I get confirmed, I'll be happy when you 0:56 became confirmed, you said, right 0:58 now things are not so good in India, 1:00 if I get that USA visa then I'll be happy, so 1:05 you came to USA, now tell me are you 1:07 happy ? Swami ji, what happy ? same old story, 1:12 same wine and different bottles, so the 1:16 mirage is being changed, the whole life 1:19 goes by, that fortunate soul wakes up and 1:25 realizes that maybe the direction in 1:29 which I am searching for happiness is 1:32 wrong and when does that awakening arise ? 1:38 when we decide that I am NOT the body, I 1:43 am the soul and hence the happiness I am 1:48 searching for is not in material things, 1:52 it is in God and the happiness that will 1:57 satisfy my soul  2:01 must be Sat Chit Anand,  2:06 eternal, infinite, ever fresh - that is the 2:11 kind of yearning my soul has, until we 2:18 understand that, Swamiji will keep on 2:21 lecturing it will not make a difference, 2:25 There is the story of Prahlad, you know, 2:29 Prahlad got God-realized at the age of 2:32 five, Narsingh Bhagawan manifested and 2:35 then he grew up and became king 2:40 subsequently, Prahlada ruled as an able 2:44 and righteous king whose subjects loved 2:48 him tremendously, finally even it was 2:54 time for Prasad to depart, God sent the 2:58 vehicle from Go Lok, Shri Krishna said 3:01 Prasad your time is up, come to my divine 3:06 abode, Prahlad said Maharaj, my public 3:11 loves me more than their own life airs, I 3:16 should leave them in misery and come to 3:19 Your abode ? that's not correct on my part !  3:23 if You wish me to come, give me the 3:27 permission, I will come with public. God 3:33 said, Prahlad, nobody in your public is 3:36 interested in coming to GoLok,  3:40 Prahlad said, Maharaj give me the 3:42 permission, God said, all right, whoever 3:46 wishes to come, bring him along, Sunday 3:49 morning, Prahlad said there's little time 3:53 but I'll get my ministers to work right 3:55 away, he asked his ministers to go into a 3:58 survey, and prepare the list, we are 4:01 getting a free ticket to GoLok, so the 4:06 ministers, they went around, they went to 4:10 one house, you know, there's this free 4:12 ticket to GoLok, we are making the list, 4:14 are you interested ? that person said, are 4:16 you crazy ? what happened ? I have just been 4:20 engaged, after four months, I'm going to 4:22 marry, do you think I'll go to GoLok ? okay 4:26 you've got a point there, they went to 4:28 the next person, you know, there's this 4:29 free ticket to GoLok being offered by 4:32 God, are you interested in availing the 4:34 scheme ? he said impossible, I have just 4:37 married 4:38 four years, I have got two little children, 4:40 am I going to leave them and go ? they 4:43 went to the next person, are you 4:44 interested ? he said look at his IPL 4:47 season, until the final is over, how will 4:49 I go ? somebody who was waiting for the 4:53 Super Bowl 4:54 etc., not one person was interested, 4:58 Prahlad was extremely embarrassed, what 5:01 face will I show to God, Shri Krishna 5:05 understood Prasad's predicament, 5:08 He said Prahlad, if any animal in your 5:12 kingdom is interested, get that animal 5:14 along, Prahlad asked his ministers to 5:19 make a revised list, this time they met 5:22 with success, one Pig became interested, 5:27 now the pigs in India, you know, usually 5:30 stray pigs eating excreta, so the pig 5:34 became interested, Prahlad said, Maharaj, a 5:37 drowning man clutches on even a straw, 5:41 one pig is desirous of coming to GoLok 5:45 but it has put a condition, he wants 5:52 ticket with family, the she pig and 5:57 the six little piglets, they will all 5:59 come together, so Prahlad was told by God, 6:03 alright, bring him along now, they started 6:07 off, Prahlad is going towards the plane, 6:11 he got on, he asked the pig you also get 6:15 on, the pig came right up to the plane 6:20 and then he stopped, he said wait, Prahlad 6:25 said now what happened ? the pig said, the 6:29 food that I eat, excreta, will I get it 6:34 In GoLok,  Prahlad said you are going to 6:39 the abode of God and you can't think of 6:43 anything apart from excreta, the pig said 6:48 what pleasure there is in it, what do you know ? 6:51 taste it and see, see the sharabis and 6:57 the kbabis of the world, they say the 6:59 same thing, are baba, 7:00 why are you criticizing it ? take it & see 7:03 the नशा in it, so God said, Prahlad, see 7:09 nobody from your kingdom wants to come 7:12 to the abode of God, in the same way it's 7:16 not that we can't become God realized, we 7:20 don't want to become God realized and 7:24 why do we not want to become God realized because of 7:32 the first mistake we made, 7:34 we forgot who we are, we forgot we are 7:40 the eternal soul and we started thinking 7:43 of our self to be the body. When we 7:48 decide that I am the soul & not the body, 7:52 then we will search for happiness in God, 7:58 presently our search for happiness is 8:01 like churning lime water in the hope of 8:06 getting butter out of it, 8:08 butter is not in lime water, butter is in 8:12 yogurt, in milk, similarly when we search 8:18 for happiness in the right place, it will 8:21 not be difficult to get it because God 8:26 is sitting within us, “verse” 8:41 God doesn't need to be found 8:46 by going over Vrindavan or going to a 8:49 Ayodhya, God is residing within us and He 8:54 has not even laid any condition for 8:57 His attainment, He says you don't have 9:02 money, 9:03 doesn't matter, the poorest have become 9:06 God realized, you don't have eyes, never 9:10 mind 9:11 Soordas was भगवत प्राप्त, you don't 9:15 have a leg, you can't walk to the temple, 9:18 don't worry, those who were lame 9:21 also attained God, you don't have a 9:25 tongue, you can't chant His name, even 9:28 that is not compulsory, if there is 9:32 any personality in existence, that 9:36 personality must have a mind, 9:40 God says give me this mind that is all I 9:47 want, love Me with this mind, attach your 9:55 mind to me and in endless life times we 10:01 have given this mind to the world, to 10:05 beta, beti, husband, wife, son, daughter, 10:08 father, mother, jalebi, samosa, 10:12 television, we have attached our mind 10:15 everywhere but we have been such misers that 10:19 we have not been able to give this one 10:23 mind to God and that is all that He 10:27 wants, so today we decided that the goal of 10:32 life is to attain God because from Him, 10:37 we will get the happiness that we want, 10:41 the next question which will now come up 10:44 is how do we attain that happiness of 10:49 God Standby link (in case youtube link does not work): God Realization is not Difficult Goal of Life - Part 7 Swami Mukundananda.mp4

The goal of life is to seek God, sat-chit-ananda | Part 4: Goal of Human Life by Swami Mukundananada

The goal of life is to seek God, sat-chit-ananda | Part 4: Goal of Human Life by Swami Mukundananada

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1 God is ocean of bliss - Vedant Darshan says and we are His little parts. So we are naturally drawn to that bliss. Just like a river flows to the ocean. The river was created from the ocean.

It was the water vapor of the ocean that rose up into a cloud & the cloud then came to the land and poured down and gathered into the river and the river is now flowing, where - to the ocean, how long will the river flow - until it meets the ocean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK_tI3wQDSg&t=0 2 So, similarly, we are little parts of the ocean of bliss, which is God. So we are naturally seeking bliss. So what I have just explained to you all is three natures of God : Sat Chit and Anand.  God is Sat, eternal, as his little parts we seek to be eternal, hence, we have the desire for life.  God is chit - full of knowledge. As his fragments (अंश), we also wish to be full of knowledge, like Him, hence the yearning to know.  God is Anand and as his little tiny fragments, we also wish to be आनंदमय like God. So Sat Chit Anand is the nature of God.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK_tI3wQDSg&t=68 3 From these three aspects of God, comes our nature, to seek life, to seek knowledge and to seek bliss.  That is why the conclusion is that whether we know it or not, we are all searching for God. Some people they may deny & say I don't believe in God. But do you believe in happiness? Of course, I am trying to be happy 24 hours a day – but that happiness that you are seeking is God.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK_tI3wQDSg&t=147 4 It's like a child goes to the mother and says mummy I don't believe in your husband. The mother says, my dear child, what are you speaking? Do you believe in your father? Yes, I love my papa but I don't believe in your husband. The mother says my dear child, that person whom I address as husband, you address as father, they are not two personalities, they are two ways of addressing one personality.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK_tI3wQDSg&t=183 5 Similarly, somebody may say I am an atheist, I don't believe in God, even that person is engaging in devotion of happiness, and that happiness is God Himself in this matter.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK_tI3wQDSg&t=216 6 There is no duality, you know, even the biggest materialistic philosophers in our Indian tradition, there was Charvak & so Charvak’s philosophy. You may have heard his words, famous words. He said that you are the body, when the body is finished, you are finished. There is no after life. No need to waste your intellect over such matters.  As long as you live, be happy. If you get happiness from ghee, beg, borrow or steal but drink ghee. You know, translated to today's context beg, borrow or steal but take your Vodka and be happy. So although Charvak is so materialistic, what is Charvak’s goal?  Charvak wanted happiness, and in the west we have had so many materialistic philosophers, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx,  Adam Smith, Berkley etc. They have written big tons of literature.  And when you read them, you will find that they were also proposing different theories on how to be happy. So we all want to be happy. That means we all want God. So our goal is determined & the goal of life is to realize God. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK_tI3wQDSg&t=230 Standby link (in case youtube link does not work): The goal of life is to seek God, sat-chit-ananda Part 4 Goal of Human Life by Swami Mukundananada.mp4

Why did we come into this World? | Goal of Life - Part 5 by Swami Mukundanand

Why did we come into this World? | Goal of Life - Part 5 by Swami Mukundanand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6m74gA88s Full Text 1  we had progressed in our discussion to this point that we understood why we want happiness because we are fragments of the ocean of bliss and every fragment is drawn to its source.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6m74gA88s&t=10  2  Now why have we not got happiness till today ? The answer to this is actually very simple and obvious that we are searching for happiness in the wrong place, like let's say, you wish to go from Dallas to San Antonio, San Antonio is southward  and you are going northward from San Antonio & hence you are getting further and further away, similarly we are also searching for happiness in the wrong direction, as we don't know where happiness lies. The reason for this confusion is ignorance.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6m74gA88s&t=26  3  We have this veil of ignorance that has covered us & where did the ignorance come from ? Ved Vyas in the Srimad Bhagavatam has explained the reason for ignorance, he says that this soul is “vimukh” to God,  let us suppose this is God and this is the soul, the soul instead of having its face towards God has got the back towards God. Now when you put your back towards God, you get covered by Maya and that is why we are here. God is not only “Anand (Bliss)”, He is also light, knowledge.  If you turn your back to the light, what do you have in front of you, your shadow, darkness, so we turned our backs to God & we got covered by the darkness of the ignorance of Maya, that is why we are here in this physical material world.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6m74gA88s&t=88  4  Many times people ask why are we here ?, students ask more than elders, see students still have curiosity, they wish to know and as elders we have established our beliefs, there is nothing further to know, you see,  when I go to a school they will ask so many questions, a three-year-old will ask me Swamiji what is Shri Krishna’s second name ? oh my God, only a three-year-old can ask that !  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6m74gA88s&t=169  5  So once I was giving a lecture in India, lecture series but there was a student who used to come and attend and he would engage in questions with me, so once the series got over, I was to go to the next town,  he said, Swamiji, I have vacation, can I join you, I will also do Seva, I will volunteer, I said sure, so he accompanied me to the next town as well  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6m74gA88s&t=204  6  Now on Sunday the lecture got over early, we were taking a late evening walk, he asked me this question, why did we come here, not into this town but into this world, why did we come here ? I pondered on how to answer his question, there was a cinema hall in front, I said do you have money for tickets ?  he said, yes Swamiji, I said go and get two, he said for whom I said for you and for me, he said Swamiji you will see a movie ? I said yes, in your company, so he got two tickets and with those we entered into the Indian cinema hall  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6m74gA88s&t=236  7  the cinema hall it was all pitch dark, one usherer (the seating person) with a thin beam torch looked at the tickets and with the beam of the torch, he indicated walk up the stairs, we went up there, another usherer with a thin beam torch saw the tickets and indicated us to sit on those two seats,  myself and the student, we sat down, now the night show was already going on, a whole plot was unfolding on that cinema screen, there was so much of apparent excitement,  a hero, a heroine and a villain, a car chase, a helicopter chase, a policeman. Within 15 minutes this student was completely engrossed in the movie, I hope he doesn't, I hope he does,  I saw that he has forgotten that I am sitting next to him, I said hey, he said, shh…., I said listen, he said, don't disturb, so I caught his little finger and pulled it, oh Swami ji, I said, why did we come here ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6m74gA88s&t=287  8  you see 15 minutes ago, he had asked me why did we come here into the world, now I turned the tables & I said why did we come here into the cinema hall ? he scanned his whole brain he could not get an answer,  I said never mind, come out now, you will understand the answer to your question, so I said look when we were in the cinema hall you had completely forgotten who am I ? why am I here ? who is next to me ? what purpose is being served ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6m74gA88s&t=375  9  and the white light in those days, you know, the cinema was different, there would be the celluloid and an intense white light that would pass through it, gather colors and fall on the screen,  so that colored light, you were mistaking it for the reality, this is the hero, this is the heroine, that illusion you had fallen into was because of the darkness of the cinema hall, darkness is conducive to illusion, hallucination.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6m74gA88s&t=417  10  Now supposing the hall manager had come and put on the main light, all the illusion would be finished, o where is my chappal, I hope I've not dropped my handkerchief, let me be the first one into the scooter stand and get out from here,  now you are back in reality, the illusion was because of darkness, light dispels it. Similarly, Maya is the darkness, God is the light, the knowledge, why are we in Maya ?  because we have turned our backs to the light, when you turn your back to God it is natural to be covered by ignorance and because of that Maya, we are here, so what is the illusion out here ? that we have forgotten who we actually are ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6m74gA88s&t=455  Transcript 0:10 we had progressed in our discussion to 0:14 this point that we understood why we 0:17 want happiness because we are fragments 0:22 of the ocean of bliss and every fragment 0:26 is drawn to its source. Now why have we 0:31 not got happiness till today ? The answer 0:38 to this is actually very simple and 0:41 obvious that we are searching for happiness 0:44 in the wrong place, like let's say, you 0:49 wish to go from Dallas to San Antonio, 0:54 San Antonio is southward and you are 0:57 going northward from San Antonio & hence you are getting 1:03 further and further away, similarly we 1:08 are also searching for happiness in the 1:12 wrong direction, 1:14 as we don't know where happiness lies. The 1:21 reason for this confusion is ignorance. 1:28 We have this veil of ignorance that has 1:32 covered us & where did the ignorance come 1:37 from ?  Ved Vyas in the Srimad Bhagavatam has 1:43 explained the reason for ignorance, he 1:50 says that this soul is “vimukh” to God, 1:55 let us suppose this is God and this is 1:59 the soul, the soul instead of having its 2:03 face towards God has got the back towards God. 2:08 Now when you put your back  2:11 towards God, you get covered by Maya and 2:16 that is why we are here. God is not only 2:21 “Anand (Bliss)”, He is also light, knowledge. If you 2:27 turn your back to the light, what do you 2:32 have in front of you, 2:34 your shadow, darkness, so we turned our 2:40 backs to God & we got covered by the 2:44 darkness of the ignorance of Maya, that 2:49 is why we are here in this physical material world. Many times people ask 2:54 why are we here ?, students ask more than 2:59 elders, see students still have curiosity, 3:03 they wish to know and as elders we have 3:06 established our beliefs, there is nothing 3:09 further to know, you see, when I go to a 3:13 school they will ask so many questions, a 3:16 three-year-old will ask me Swamiji what 3:18 is Shri Krishna’s second name ?  3:21 oh my God, only a three-year-old 3:24 can ask that ! So once I was giving a 3:29 lecture in India, lecture series but 3:33 there was a student who used to come and 3:34 attend and he would engage in questions 3:38 with me, so once the series got over, I was 3:43 to go to the next town, he said, Swamiji, I 3:46 have vacation, can I join you, I will also 3:49 do Seva, I will volunteer, I said sure, so 3:54 he accompanied me to the next town as 3:56 well, now on Sunday the lecture got over 4:01 early, we were taking a 4:04 late evening walk, he asked me this 4:07 question, why did we come here, not into 4:13 this town but into this world, why did we 4:17 come here ? I pondered on how to answer 4:22 his question, there was a cinema hall in 4:24 front, 4:25 I said do you have money for tickets ? 4:29 he said, yes Swamiji, I said go and get 4:33 two, he said for whom I said for you and 4:36 for me, 4:37 he said Swamiji you will see a movie ? I 4:40 said yes, in your company, so he got two 4:44 tickets and with those we entered into 4:47 the Indian cinema hall, the cinema hall 4:51 it was all pitch dark, one usherer (the seating person) with 4:55 a thin beam torch looked at the 4:57 tickets and with the beam of the torch, 5:00 he indicated walk up the stairs, we went 5:04 up there, another usherer with a thin 5:07 beam torch saw the tickets and indicated us to  5:09 sit on those two seats, myself and the 5:14 student, we sat down, now the night show 5:19 was already going on, a whole plot was 5:24 unfolding on that cinema screen, there 5:27 was so much of apparent excitement, a 5:30 Hero, a heroine and a villain, a car chase, a 5:33 helicopter chase, a policeman. Within 15 5:39 minutes this student was completely 5:42 engrossed in the movie, I hope he doesn't, 5:45 I hope he does, I saw that he has 5:50 forgotten that I am sitting next to him, I said hey, 5:53 he said, shh…., 5:57 I said listen, 6:01 he said, don't disturb, so I caught his little 6:05 finger and pulled it, oh Swami ji, I said, 6:12 why did we come here ? 6:15 you see 15 minutes ago, he had asked me 6:19 why did we come here into the world, now 6:22 I turned the tables & I said why did we come 6:26 here into the cinema hall ? he scanned his 6:30 whole brain he could not get an answer, I 6:33 said never mind, come out now, you will 6:37 understand the answer to your question, 6:40 so I said look when we were in the 6:45 cinema hall you had completely forgotten 6:50 who am I ? why am I here ? who is next to me ? 6:57 what purpose is being served ? and the 7:01 white light in those days, you know, the 7:03 cinema was different, there would be the 7:06 celluloid and an intense white light 7:08 that would pass through it, gather colors 7:12 and fall on the screen, so that colored 7:15 light, you were mistaking it for the 7:19 reality, this is the hero, this is the 7:21 heroine, that illusion you had fallen 7:26 into was because of the darkness of the 7:31 cinema hall, darkness is conducive to 7:35 illusion, hallucination. Now supposing the 7:40 hall manager had come and put on the 7:42 main light, all the illusion would 7:47 be finished,  o where is my chappal, I hope 7:50 I've not dropped my handkerchief, let me 7:52 be the first one into the scooter stand 7:54 and get out from here, now you are back 7:58 in reality, the illusion was because of 8:03 darkness, light dispels it. 8:07 Similarly, Maya is the darkness, God is the light, 8:12 the knowledge, why are we in Maya ? because we 8:16 have turned our backs to the light,  8:20 when you 8:23 turn your back to God it is natural to 8:27 be covered by ignorance and because of 8:30 that Maya, we are here, 8:33 so what is the illusion out here ? that we have 8:37 forgotten who we actually are ? Standby link (in case youtube link does not work): Why did we come into this World Goal of Life - Part 5 Swami Mukundananda.mp4

Why Should You Know God | Goal of Life - Part 3 | Swami Mukundananda

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1# If you understand why you want happiness, you will automatically start going in the direction of God. 

And if you can understand the nature of God, you will automatically understand why you want happiness.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKP0tb1sQ4&t=9 2# So let us now shift focus and delve into the nature of God. In the Yajurved, there is a section called the Krishna Yajurved, in that there is an Upanishad called the Taittiriya  Upanishad which has got three sections, Bhrigu-valli, Brahmanand-valli & Shiksha-valli.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKP0tb1sQ4&t=33 3# So from Bhrigu-valli, I am telling you an episode, there was this sage called Bhrigu. Some of you have heard his name Bhrigu Samhita is an astrological treatise, Bhrigu has been a great sage in Indian history. When he wanted knowledge, he thought whom should I accept as my Guru and then decided that when my father Varun, the god of the ocean, is such a great Brahma Gyani, then why search any further? Let me accept my father as my spiritual preceptor (Guru).  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKP0tb1sQ4&t=59 4# Bhrigu went to father Varun and said, father, today, I am coming not as your child, but as your disciple. That Supreme divine entity, somebody calls Krishna, somebody calls Ram, somebody calls Shiv, somebody says Brahman, somebody says Paramatma, Bhagwan, God, Lord, Allah, Khuda. Who is that? Varun answered “Verse” .  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKP0tb1sQ4&t=115 5# Bhrigu, God is He from whom the entire creation and everything that is, has emanated. God is He within whom all of creation is situated. God, is He into whom one day, this entire creation will merge. Have you understood ? Bhrigu said, father, from, within, into - this philosophical topic has gone over my head.  So, Varun then said, look Bhrigu,  if you wish to understand God, he is not a subject of words. It's not that I say rasgulla and you understand, you will need to practice austerities and gain realization.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKP0tb1sQ4&t=160 6# 3:50: So Bhrigu went off and in the course of his sadhana, he had a realization. “Verse”, the entire creation is coming from grain. People eat the grain and their body becomes रस रक्त माँस मेदा हड्डी मज्जा वीर्य (ras, rakt, maans, meda, haddi, majja, virya), the sequence. So, grain is the sustaining foundation of all creation, grain must be Brahaman.”verse”, with this discovery,  Bhrigu returned to Varun and said, father, is grain Brahman ? Varun was quiet, quiet means that you are wrong.  So again Bhrigu then again asked what is Brahman? He got the instruction. Again he went off to practice austerity. So the second time he had the realization that “Pran” (प्राण) is the basis of it all, when he gave this  discovery to guru dev, Varun was again quiet. Go practice a little more.  The third time, he found out man - the mind is Brahman, many people, they give so much emphasis to the mind, the mind is all that it is, we have that book, “The art of Mind Management”. So he said the mind and the thoughts are the basis of everything. I have now understood what is Brahman. Varun was again quiet. My child, Your austerities are not complete. Go and practice further.  Fourth time, Bhrigu discovered, “verse”, intellect is Brahman, the intellect is inspiring the mind, gurudev. Is this right? Gurudev said no, try once more.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKP0tb1sQ4&t=230 7#  The fifth and last time, Bhrigu discovered  Anand or Bliss is the nature of Brahman. It is from that Bliss that we have emanated, it is in that Bliss that we are all situated and it is into that Bliss that we shall merge one day. When Bhrigu said this, Varun, encouraged him, well done, my child. You have understood the nature of Brahman.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKP0tb1sQ4&t=415 8# So what is the nature of Brahman? Bliss, happiness, Anand. That is why there is a name for God in the vedas, Sat Chit Anand, Shrimad Bhagwatam is saying the Shree Murti of God is made of Bliss, not of flesh & bones. Padm Puran says God's stomach, hands, feet, face are all made of Bliss.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKP0tb1sQ4&t=465 9# So all these scriptures are telling us that God is of the nature of Bliss. There is a little distinction to be made here.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKP0tb1sQ4&t=531 10# Sometimes people say there is bliss in God, Sansar Mein Anand Nahin Hai Swami Ji Bhagwan Mein Anand Hai (संसार में आनंद नहीं है, स्वामी जी, भगवान में आनंद है), however, this statement of “happiness in God” is not correct. What do you mean by happiness in God? This is only a figure of speech, like people say, there is water in the ocean.  So what is the ocean? Is it the name of a vessel? Give me a synonym for ocean - a huge body of water is the ocean, correct. So ocean means a huge body of water and you said water in the ocean. That means water in a huge body of water. What kind of speech is that - that's only a manner of expression, the fact is that the ocean itself is water. You may say there is water in the ocean but it's not accurate.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKP0tb1sQ4&t=545 11# Similarly, somebody may say there is Bliss in God but that is inaccurate. God Himself is bliss, you can never separate God from Bliss. Like you can separate the Ras from the Gulla, you see the rasgulla, an Indian delicacy, has got two parts to it, the sugar syrup called the Ras and the cheese ball called the Gulla. Now, when you immerse the Gulla in the Ras and it absorbs the Ras, then the Gulla becomes Rasgulla, otherwise it is dry.  I don't think your mouth will water for the sake of a Gulla, but for Rasgulla it might.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKP0tb1sQ4&t=628 12# Similarly, if you say and there is bliss in God, it means that God is bliss-less and bliss came from outside, now He became blissful, but that's not what the vedas are saying. The Vedas are saying, know God Himself is Bliss. God is Ras. So God and Blsss are synonymous. God is Bliss. Bliss is God. You may ponder (think deeply), what is Swami Ji trying to tell us? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKP0tb1sQ4&t=683

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Why do we want to be Happy? | Goal of Life - Part 2 by Swami Mukundanand

Why do we want to be Happy? | Goal of Life - Part 2 by Swami Mukundanand

https://youtu.be/aQI4ji7rhDM?si=WTpPGZ2SVo6ZCxu5 Full Text 1   Why do you want happiness ? It's an addiction ! it's a good try but there is something deeper, see an addiction grows but happiness is something you want from the time you were born, the first thing we did when we were born we raised a slogan, give me happiness, give me happiness, give me happiness  https://youtu.be/aQI4ji7rhDM&t=9  2   you'll say Swamiji we raised that kind of slogan when we were born ? we could not even say ABCD क ख ग घ, what was the first thing we did upon birth ? we cried, why did we cry ? because in the process of birth, we experienced misery.  By crying, we revealed our nature, I have not come into this world for misery, I have come for happiness, give me happiness and from that day until today, all that we have been doing is for the sake of happiness.  https://youtu.be/aQI4ji7rhDM&t=46  3   Is there any soul who wants misery in opposition to happiness ? None, isn't that astonishing ? otherwise we are all different, our facial appearances are different, our fingerprints are different, that's the reason behind photo or bio matrics,  if we all had the same fingerprints then photo or bio matrics would have served no purpose but the 7 billion people on the planet Earth have all got different fingerprints, that is the extent of variety that God has filled into this creation  https://youtu.be/aQI4ji7rhDM&t=98  4   our voices are different, people give me a call, I have just landed in America, people ring up, Radhe Radhe, Swamiji, you have reached ? yes, I've reached, who's speaking ? Swami ji, you please guess ! how will I guess ?  is this a video call or FaceTime or Skype or something ? no, no, you have to guess from my voice, now the voice has got a few decibels within those few decibels, there is such variety that you can remember fifty thousand different kinds of voices and sounds,  our bodily aromas are also different, you may not realize but the dog perceives it because the dog has a powerful nose. Go and meet your friend who has a dog at home, the dog sees you from far and starts barking, you go close and the dog comes to sniff you and then the dog is quiet, this smell is familiar to me, it's in my file, he's a friend of mine, so our bodily aromas are different,  in other words we are all different in every way, no two trees are alike, no two leaves of a single tree are identical, such is the nature of this world, yet in the matter of happiness, we are all identical, we all have that one slogan that “I want to be happy”.  https://youtu.be/aQI4ji7rhDM&t=149  5   Now ponder again, did anybody teach us ? Look my child, you must seek happiness, it should not happen that you start running after misery like we were taught in so many ways when we were growing up, my child, speak the truth don't ever tell lies, never steal anybody's property, our parents instructed us, our teachers taught us in the same manner  but did our elders instruct us while we were growing up, my child you must seek happiness ? it should not come about that you run after misery, this instruction was never given to us, please listen very carefully everybody,  otherwise we did not learn even the slightest bit of knowledge without being taught, we did not even recognize our mother until we were trained that this is your mother, beta, say mummy, so we found all these elders repeatedly pointing towards that lady and telling us to say mummy, we also said mummy, in other words every little bit of knowledge we had to learn, then where did this huge chunk of knowledge come that I should make happiness as the goal of my life  https://youtu.be/aQI4ji7rhDM&t=265  6  and we do so many things in this world, varieties, completely opposite, both of them for the sake of happiness, sometimes we sit, sometimes we stand, they are both opposite activities but both are done for the sake of happiness, right now you're sitting and listening to Swamiji's lecture, are you experiencing happiness ?  you know in acting just to satisfy me, you can say yes, Swami ji, but supposing I continue speaking till eleven o'clock at night, will you keep sitting ? I'll test that out at eight o'clock, you see, I've got to get up. What happened ? you were sitting for the sake of happiness, Swamiji, you have become so boring, I'm bored, sick, getting up is giving me happiness, you see doing one activity when the happiness dried up, you don't wish to do it any longer, now you wish to do the reverse but that reverse also you wish to do only because it will give you happiness. Sometimes you wake up, sometimes you go to sleep, at night you go to sleep at home.  https://youtu.be/aQI4ji7rhDM&t=380  7   Does sleeping give you happiness ? oh yes, lots of it. According to the Vedas, the highest bliss in the world is the bliss of deep sleep, not dream sleep,  in dream sleep the same माड़ धाड़ continues, somebody is running after you, you are running after somebody  but when you stop dreaming, at that time you don't experience anything and when you wake up you realize you say I slept so peacefully, I did not experience anything, that experience of not experiencing anything, according to the Vedas is the biggest bliss of the material realm, it is not yet the bliss of God but a glimpse of it.  https://youtu.be/aQI4ji7rhDM&t=482 8   So you enjoy sleeping ? yes, Swami ji, all right you take leave from office four days, just keep sleeping, we'll create a fund to compensate even if it's unpaid leave, you just have to sleep 12 hours, can I get up ?  no, keep sleeping. 16 hours, I have to get up, no, keep sleeping, how long will I sleep, why you were saying that sleeping gives you happiness ?  now I'm bored of sleeping, I need to get up, again when the activity became boring, the person wishes to do the reverse and why the reverse ? because that will now be the source of happiness, so all day long we do contradictory activities but we are searching happiness in both of them,  https://youtu.be/aQI4ji7rhDM&t=545  9   in fact we even cry for happiness. Intuitively you may feel that there is happiness in laughing and misery in crying but the vedas inform us that crying is also a pursuit of happiness.  Ask somebody, why are you crying ? my father in India passed away so I went to cremate him and I came back and my mother passed away, so I went to cremate her and came back and my house got burnt. So ?  My question is why are you crying , if there is misery in crying, you got the misery of your father passing away, the misery of your mother passing away, the misery of your house getting burnt, if some activity gives you unhappiness, why will you do it ?  There's no rule in America that if your father has passed away you better cry otherwise you'll be put in jail for three years, then why does a person cry ? you know all that misery I got from my father passing away, mother passing away, my house getting burnt,  by crying I’m taking it out, this is giving me relief, if I don't cry, I'll go crazy - so what happened ? when the misery became too much, the person is crying and experiencing relief, that means even the crying is a search for happiness  https://youtu.be/aQI4ji7rhDM&t=607  10   so we come to this conclusion that 24 hours a day, all we do is in the pursuit of happiness and the search has been going on since the time we were born - let us then try and understand why do we want happiness ?  this is the defining foundational question of spirituality and the answer to this has been given in the Vedas, if you can understand why you want happiness you will automatically start going in the direction of God and if you can understand the nature of God, you will automatically understand why you want happiness  https://youtu.be/aQI4ji7rhDM&t=730  Transcript 0:09 Why do you want happiness ? 0:14 It's an 0:19 addiction ! it's a good try but there is 0:24 something deeper, see an addiction grows 0:27 but happiness is something you want from 0:32 the time you were born, the first thing 0:36 we did when we were born we raised a 0:40 slogan, give me happiness, give me 0:43 happiness, give me happiness, 0:46 you'll say Swamiji we raised that kind of 0:50 slogan when we were born ? we could not 0:53 even say ABCD क ख ग घ, what was the 0:59 first thing we did upon birth ? we cried, 1:04 why did we cry ? because in the process of 1:09 birth, we experienced misery. By crying, we 1:15 revealed our nature, I have not come into 1:19 this world for misery, I have come for 1:22 happiness, give me happiness and from 1:28 that day until today, all that we have 1:33 been doing is for the sake of happiness. 1:38 Is there any soul who wants misery in 1:43 opposition to happiness ? 1:47 None, isn't that astonishing ? otherwise we 1:54 are all different, 1:55 our facial appearances are different, our 2:01 fingerprints are different, that's the 2:03 reason behind photo or bio matrics, if we all had 2:07 the same fingerprints then photo or bio matrics 2:10 would have served no purpose but the 2:13 7 billion people on the planet Earth 2:17 have all got different fingerprints, that 2:21 is the extent of 2:23 variety that God has filled into this creation, 2:29 our voices are different, people give me 2:35 a call, I have just landed in America, 2:37 people ring up, Radhe Radhe, Swamiji,  2:41 you have reached ? yes, I've reached, who's 2:44 speaking ? 2:44 Swami ji, you please guess ! how will I 2:48 guess ? is this a video call or FaceTime 2:51 or Skype or something ? no, no, you have to 2:53 guess from my voice, now the voice has 2:57 got a few decibels within those few 3:01 decibels, there is such variety that you 3:04 can remember fifty thousand different 3:07 kinds of voices and sounds, our bodily 3:13 aromas are also different, you may not 3:17 realize but the dog perceives it because the 3:22 dog has a powerful nose. Go and meet your 3:27 friend who has a dog at home, the dog 3:30 sees you from far and starts barking, you 3:35 go close and the dog comes to sniff you 3:37 and then the dog is quiet, 3:41 this smell is familiar to me, it's in my 3:44 file, he's a friend of mine, so our bodily 3:48 aromas are different, in other words we 3:52 are all different in every way, no 3:57 two trees are alike, no two leaves of a 4:02 single tree are identical, such is the 4:07 nature of this world, yet in the matter 4:12 of happiness, we are all identical, we all 4:18 have that one slogan that “I want to be happy”. 4:25 Now ponder again, did anybody teach us ? 4:32 Look my child, you must seek 4:36 happiness, it should not happen that you 4:39 start running after misery like we were 4:46 taught in so many ways when we were 4:49 growing up, my child, speak the truth 4:52 don't ever tell lies, never steal 4:56 anybody's property, 4:58 our parents instructed us, our teachers 5:03 taught us in the same manner but did our 5:06 elders instruct us while we were growing 5:09 up, my child you must seek happiness  ? it 5:15 should not come about that you run after 5:17 misery, this instruction was never given 5:23 to us, please listen very carefully 5:30 everybody, otherwise we did not learn 5:37 even the slightest bit of knowledge 5:40 without being taught,  5:43 we did not even recognize our mother 5:47 until we were trained that this is your 5:51 mother, beta, say mummy, so we found all 5:56 these elders repeatedly pointing towards 6:00 that lady and telling us to say mummy, we 6:03 also said mummy, in other words every 6:09 little bit of knowledge we had to learn, 6:14 then where did this huge chunk of 6:18 knowledge come that I should make 6:20 happiness as the goal of my life and we 6:27 do so many things in this world, 6:30 varieties, completely opposite, both of 6:37 them for the sake of happiness, sometimes 6:40 we sit, sometimes we stand, 6:45 they are both opposite activities 6:49 but both are done for the sake of 6:52 happiness, right now you're sitting and 6:56 listening to Swamiji's lecture, 6:59 are you experiencing happiness ? you know 7:04 in acting just to satisfy me, you can say 7:06 yes, Swami ji, but supposing I continue 7:11 speaking till eleven o'clock at night, 7:13 will you keep sitting ? I'll test that out 7:20 at eight o'clock, you see, I've got to get 7:24 up. What happened ? 7:26 you were sitting for the sake of 7:28 happiness, Swamiji, you have become so 7:31 boring, I'm bored, sick, getting up is 7:34 giving me happiness, you see doing one 7:39 activity when the happiness dried up, 7:42 you don't wish to do it any longer, now 7:45 you wish to do the reverse but that 7:48 reverse also you wish to do only because 7:51 it will give you happiness. Sometimes you 7:56 wake up, sometimes you go to sleep, at 7:59 night you go to sleep, at home, of course, 8:02 Does sleeping give you 8:05 happiness ? oh yes, lots of it. According to 8:10 the Vedas, the highest bliss in the world 8:15 is the bliss of deep sleep, not dream 8:21 sleep, in dream sleep the same माड़ धाड़  8:24 continues, somebody is running after 8:28 you, you are running after somebody but 8:30 when you stop dreaming, at that time you 8:33 don't experience anything and when you 8:37 wake up you realize you say  I slept so peacefully,  I did not experience 8:48 anything, that experience of not 8:53 experiencing anything, according to the 8:57 Vedas is the biggest bliss 8:59 of the material realm, it is not yet the 9:05 bliss of God but a glimpse of it. So you 9:11 enjoy sleeping ? yes, Swami ji, all right you 9:16 take leave from office four days, just 9:18 keep sleeping, we'll create a fund to 9:22 compensate even if it's unpaid leave, 9:24 you just have to sleep 12 hours, can I 9:28 get up  ? no, keep sleeping. 16 hours, I have 9:33 to get up, no, keep sleeping, how long will I 9:37 sleep, why you were saying that sleeping 9:40 gives you happiness ? now I'm bored of 9:44 sleeping, I need to get up, again when the 9:48 activity became boring, the person wishes 9:53 to do the reverse and why the reverse ? 9:56 because that will now be the source of 10:00 happiness, so all day long we do 10:04 contradictory activities but we are 10:07 searching happiness in both of them, in 10:12 fact we even cry for happiness.  10:18 Intuitively you may feel that there is 10:22 happiness in laughing and misery in 10:26 crying but the vedas inform us that 10:32 crying is also a pursuit of happiness. 10:36 Ask somebody, why are you crying ? my 10:39 father in India passed away so I went to 10:45 cremate him and I came back and my 10:47 mother passed away, so I went to cremate 10:51 her and came back and my house got burnt. 10:54  So ? My question is why are you crying , if 11:00 there is misery in crying, you got the 11:05 misery of your father passing away, the 11:08 misery of your mother passing away, the 11:11 misery of your house 11:13 getting burnt, if some activity gives 11:16 you unhappiness, why will you do it ? 11:21 There's no rule in America that if your 11:25 father has passed away you better cry 11:27 otherwise you'll be put in jail for 11:29 three years, then why does a person cry ? 11:35 you know all that misery I got from my 11:39 father passing away, mother passing away, 11:41 my house getting burnt, by crying I’m taking 11:45 it out, this is giving me relief, if I 11:51 don't cry, I'll go crazy - so what happened ? 11:56 when the misery became too much, the 11:59 person is crying and experiencing relief, 12:05 that means even the crying is a search 12:10 for happiness so we come to this 12:14 conclusion that 24 hours a day, all we do 12:20 is in the pursuit of happiness and the 12:24 search has been going on since the time 12:28 we were born - let us then try and 12:34 understand why do we want happiness ? this 12:40 is the defining foundational question of 12:45 spirituality and the answer to this has 12:50 been given in the Vedas, if you can 12:55 understand why you want happiness you 13:00 will automatically start going in the 13:03 direction of God and if you can 13:08 understand the nature of God you will 13:13 automatically understand why you want 13:17 happiness 

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