A Krishna Story No one Told You: This One Realization Can Make You God-Realized | Swami Mukundananda
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Full text 1 The soul and God are in the same place and Maya Is also in the same place. Because the world Is made from Maya and we souls are in the the world, so the soul and Maya are in the same place and God is pervading the soul and pervading Maya, so God, the soul and Maya are all in the same place, what is separating us, and what is the problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAwSR9VLOg&t=0 2 One lady celebrated her 110th birthday, so reporters came to know about it, they all poured in, one of them said what is the most exciting thing about your 110th birthday, the lady said there is no peer pressure, so God doesn't have any peer pressure, Because यस्मात् परं नापरमस्ति किञ्चित्। translates, There is nothing higher than that." or "Nothing exists beyond that." There Is Nobody Beyond Him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAwSR9VLOg&t=50 3 He is now revealing His glories for us, remember it's not because He has an ego, He is revealing it out of His kindness, the same act can be done with the intention of self-praise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAwSR9VLOg&t=92 4 The intention is the inner thing, we tend to jump to to conclusions from externals, so God is doing this glorification not because He loves to boost His pride but because it will nourish Arjuna's devotion and that is why He has now started off and He says Arjun, I am seated in the hearts of all living beings Aham Atma Gukesh अहं आत्मा गुडाकेश सर्वभूताशयस्थितः https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/10/20/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAwSR9VLOg&t=112 5 So God who sits inside must be a smaller God ? like if you go to Badrika Ashram, that is a bigger God, there also at Rameswaram, Dwarka and Jagannathpuri, that is a bigger God ? the God who sits inside us is a smaller God correct ? No, He is complete and perfect in His Golok, in the temples, inside us and everywhere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAwSR9VLOg&t=152 6 हरि व्यापक सर्वत्र समाना। प्रेम तें प्रगट होहिं मैं जाना॥” यह पद श्रीमद् रामचरितमानस (बालकाण्ड) का प्रसिद्ध चौपाई है। इसका भावार्थ और महत्त्व इस प्रकार गवान हरि (राम/विष्णु) सर्वत्र, अर्थात् हर जगह समान रूप से व्यापक हैं। वे सम्पूर्ण ब्रह्मांड में व्याप्त हैं, कोई भी स्थान ऐसा नहीं जहाँ वे उपस्थित न हों। परंतु वे प्रेम के माध्यम से प्रकट होते हैं। अर्थात् जहाँ प्रेम होता है, वहाँ उनकी कृपादृष्टि और अनुभूति होती है; प्रेम उनका आवास है। https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAwSR9VLOg&t=184 7 He is pervading everywhere equally. Now if we could actually believe that the Master of infinite universes is sitting inside me, imagine we would become God Realized, the disconnect is not because God is far away from us, the disconnect is our inability to have faith in this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAwSR9VLOg&t=188 8 God says I am standing in front of you, believe Me and I will reveal Myself. We say, is it so easy to see God ? how can that be ? God says if you don't have faith, then you have pushed me far from the beginning itself, I’m in no hurry, when you develop faith, I will show Myself to you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAwSR9VLOg&t=221 9 So imagine, He is closer to us than the closest thing. The word closeness also does not apply to Him, because let us say you bring one object close to the next and closer, closer, closer until there is a hair's breadth of gap, still there is a hair's breadth of gap and in the case of God, that gap is also obliterated (removed) यः आत्मनि तिष्ठति (He who dwells in the Self" ,the vedas say that He is sitting inside your soul & energizing you, so where is the question of distinction ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAwSR9VLOg&t=243 10 In the Srimad Bhagavatam, there is an interesting episode in the 10th Canto, the gopis when Shri Krishna was a little baby, His childhood leelas, the gopis would go to the house of Nand and Yashoda to have darshan of Shri Krishna, very interesting, now they make excuses, so they come to sell dahi, yoghurt, the one gopi comes dahi le lo dahi, obviously you should go and sell in a place where there will be demand for dahi, go and sell it in Mathura and you are coming to the house of Nand Baba who has got all the cows himself but she is not interested in selling dahi, she is thinking that this Nandlal, the son of Nand Baba, may come out and I may have darshan, so she comes, le lo dahi, take dahi and her mind is completely absorbed in Shri Krishna, so instead, she starts saying take Shri Krishna, Shyam Sundar Lo, Madhusudan Lo, she is selling God. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAwSR9VLOg&t=304 11 When Shukadev related this to Parikshit, Parikshit said Maharaj this thing is not comprehensible to my intellect because every mother loves her child, why were the gopis going to have darshan of Yashoda’s child ? Even the cows, you see the cows have got a very special property, this indian gow rani, if there is a herd of 500 cows, and you separate one calf from its mother and leave the calf, the calf will keep seeing, keep looking and go straight to its mother, if you have a buffalo’s child, go and stand anywhere but if the calf goes and stands next to another mother, the mother kicks the calf, you are not my child, get out. So even the animals they love their own child. Why were the gopis going to see the child of Nanda and Yashoda, This was a question by Parikshit, the listener of the Srimad Bhagavatam, addressed to Sukhdev, the speaker, “verse” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAwSR9VLOg&t=379 12 So Shukdev gives a tremendous answer, He says कृष्णमेनामवेह त्वम् आत्मानमखिलात्मनाम् “O Krishna, You alone are truly the Self (Ātman) of all selves (the entire universe).” जगद्धिताय सोऽप्यत्र देहीवाभाति मायया ॥ You should know Kṛṣṇa to be the original Soul of all living entities. For the benefit of the whole universe, He has, out of His causeless mercy, appeared as an ordinary human being. He has done this by the strength of His internal potency. https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/10/14/55/ Parikshit, this Krishna, He is not only Yashoda Nandan, He is the soul of everybody’s soul, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAwSR9VLOg&t=468 13 What does that mean ? See, you are the soul and you have a body, your soul is the body of God, and He is the soul of your soul, “verse” So that is the kind of relationship we have with God, the only problem that we have forgotten it. Otherwise the soul and God are in the same place, and Maya is also in the same place because the the world is made from Maya and we souls are in the world, so the soul and Maya are in the same place and God is pervading the soul and pervading Maya, so God the soul and Maya are all in the same place, what is separating us and what is the problem ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAwSR9VLOg&t=498 14 The problem is the consciousness, the consciousness has turned around, this is the vimukhta (alienation), viyog, and what is required is the sanyog, that is why, what is true Yoga ? This question is necessary in the USA, because you got so many yogas out here, goat yoga, beer yoga, hot yoga. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAwSR9VLOg&t=565 15 Jagatguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj says, हरि का वियोगी जीव, गोविंद राधे। साँचो योग वोही जो, हरि से मिला दे ॥ the jeev is in viyog with God, true yoga is that which will help the soul unite with God, हरि से मिलावे न जो, गोविंद राधे। वह योग, योग नहीं – कुयोग बता दे॥ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAwSR9VLOg&t=598 16 Tell me if that purpose of union with God is not served, it is not Yoga, it is Kuyog, That is what Tulsidas ji says in the Ramayana as well He says योग कुयोग, ज्ञान अज्ञानू, जहाँ नहीं राम प्रेम परधानू॥ If your spiritual practice does not have love, does not have devotion (bhakti) for God, then it is agyan, ignorance, it is Kuyog, it is Incomplete. So Shri Krishna says, look Arjun, I am sitting inside everyone, I am the beginning, the middle, and end of all living beings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAwSR9VLOg&t=642 17 In the Taittariya Upanishad, Bhrigu ji Maharaj story is related, you heard of sage Bhrigu, you heard of the Bhrigu Samhita, the Astrological Treatise. Bhrigu, wanted divine knowledge and Bhrigu said I need Guru, whom should I make my Guru ? and he decided my father Varun Devta, the God of of the oceans, so knowledgeable, he is a Brahma Gyani, there is no need to search anywhere, there is no need to Google for Guru and find out 5 billion websites of Guru, why not make my father as my Guru, Bhrigu went to his father and said Pitaji, today I am not here as your son but as a student, I have a query, that Supreme Divine Entity, somebody refers to Him as Brahman, somebody says Paramatma, somebody says Bhagwan Ram, Shyam, Krishna, Govind, Shiva etc., who is That ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAwSR9VLOg&t=693 18 So Varuna Responded यतो वा इमानि भूतानि जायन्ते । येन जातानि जीवन्ति । यत् प्रयन्त्यभिसंविशन्ति । Look Bhrigu, God is He, from whom all living beings have emanated, all of us have emanated from God, so He is the beginning of all beings, God is He within Who, everyone is situated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAwSR9VLOg&t=770 19 let us say that there is a mobile, now the mobile is being held by the hand, it needs a support for being held, so the hand is called Dharak in Sanskrit and mobile (thing which is held) is called Dharyamaan. Can the mobile become the Dharak of the hand ? it cannot, it does not have any basis, likewise God is the Dharak of all of creation, He is upholding all of us, we are all residing within Him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAwSR9VLOg&t=804 20 and what will happen when you will get liberated, You will go to His divine Abode, beyond Maya https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAwSR9VLOg&t=844 21 न तद्भासयते सूर्यो न शशाङ्को न पावकः। यद्गत्वा न निवर्तन्ते तद्धाम परमं मम॥ That supreme abode of Mine is not illumined by the sun or moon, nor by fire or electricity. Those who reach it never return to this material world https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/15/6/ Arjun, Where this Maya cannot go, where this Sun and Moon have got no entry, where going once you will never return, that is My Divine Abode, somebody calls it Vaikunth, somebody says Saket, somebody says Golok, somebody says Akshardham, that Divine Abode, so He is the end, He Is the middle and He is the source - the beginning of all of us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAwSR9VLOg&t=859 22 Now if somebody gave you a billion dollars, without revealing his name, who was this ? and suddenly you come to know it was this guy, would you not fall in love with Him ? so the knowledge will lead to love, and He is giving you the knowledge, by which you can love Him, if you think deeply about this knowledge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAwSR9VLOg&t=901 Standby link (in case youtube link does not work): A Krishna Story No one Told You This One Realization Can Make You God-Realized Swami Mukundananda.mp4