Friday, March 1, 2024

आपकी भी दशा ख़राब चल रही है तो ये काम जरूर कीजिये! If your condition is bad, then definitely do this ! - Devi Chitralekhaji

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Thursday, August 3, 2023

भगवद्गीता की महिमा | Dr. Vrindavan Chandra Das


क्या कोई भी भगवान बन सकता है? Dr. Vrindavan Chandra Das

क्या कोई भी भगवान बन सकता है? Dr. Vrindavan Chandra Das

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Transcript 0:00 भगवान गीता में कह रहें हैं "मेरा परम वचन जो है वो मैं बता रहा हूं अपने 0:02 हित के लिए सुन" और उसका अगला श्लोक है यह 0:05 श्लोक है 64 वां 18 अध्याय का और 65 में 0:08 श्लोक में भगवान स्पष्ट रूप में कहते हैं Gita Shloka 18.65 “Always think of Me, become My devotee, worship Me and offer your homage unto Me. Thus you will come to Me without fail. I promise you this because you are My very dear friend”. https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/18/65/ 0:10 मन्मना भव मद्भ‍क्तो   0:14 “मेरे भक्त बन जाओ” लोग भगवान बनना 0:17 चाहते हैं आज मैं पढ़ रहा था मेरे गुरु 0:19 गुरुदेव प्रभुपाद कह रहे हैं मोदी प्रभु 0:22 सुनोगे ना मैं पढ़कर सुना दूं आपके पैर के 0:24 नीचे जमीन खिसक जाए बोलते I will kick those people on their face 0:30 जो भगवान बनना चाहता है बेवकूफ है क्योंकि 0:33 भगवान बना नहीं जाता भगवान कोई post नहीं 0:36 है आप दास थे दास हो दास रहोगे सेवा करते 0:40 थे सेवा करते हो और सेवा करते रहोगे आज 0:44 बताओ मुझे एक व्यक्ति कौन भगवान बना है जो 0:48 यह claim करते हैं बड़े-बड़े कोई भगवान 0:51 नहीं बना प्रभु जी आज तक परंतु दास मैं  0:54 आपको सब दिखा दूंगा, भगवान को 0:57 मानते नहीं दास कैसे हो ? अरे चाहे politician  1:00 हो या IAS हो या businessman हो सब दास हैं  1:03 सब service कर रहे हैं सब सेवा कर रहे हैं 1:07 लो जी हम तो दिखा रहे हैं, आप दिखाओ एक 1:09 भगवान को जो भगवान बन गया हो जो नहीं 1:11 जी मरने के बाद बनेंगे post dated cheque ? 1:14 हमारे गुरु महाराज कहते थे post dated cheque 1:16 जिसमें account में पैसे नहीं है मैं एक 1:19 कदम और बोलता हूं अरे उसने वो post dated cheque 1:21 दिया जो बैंक ही नहीं है जिसका बैंक ही 1:25 नहीं है भाई उसका cheque दे दिया 1:27 हमें, तो पहला दिमाग से हटा दीजिएगा 1:30 भगवत गीता में clear है एकदम भगवान उवाच: 1:34 अर्जुन को कहीं नहीं कहा गया 1:36 भगवान, अर्जुन ने कहीं माना भी नहीं, दसवें  1:40 अध्याय में स्पष्ट रूप में कहा है ये हमारा 1:43 सबसे बड़ा भ्रम है कि हम भगवान 1:46 बनेंगे भगवान बना नहीं जाता भगवान था 1:50 भगवान है और भगवान रहेंगे यह गलत फहमी मत 1:54 रहना पहली 1:56 चीज भगवान ने भी कहा जो मेरी भक्ति करता 1:59 है वही मेरा जो भक्ति कर सकता है वही परम 2:02 है वही मेरा परम रहस्य है और इसी बात को 2:06 भगवान ने यह भी सातवें अध्याय में कह 2:08 दिया  Gita Shloka 7.19 बहूनां जन्मनामन्ते ज्ञानवान्मां प्रपद्यते  “After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare”.  https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/7/19/ 2:10 जो 2:14 व्यक्ति ज्ञान में आता है वह मेरी शरण में 2:16 आता है किसका वाक्य है ये भगवान श्री कृष्ण 2:19 कह रहे हैं, भगवत गीता में मेरे को कहीं 2:21 भी नहीं दिखा, आज तक नहीं दिखा, ना भागवत में 2:24 दिखा मुझे, कि तू भगवान बन 2:27 जाएगा, कैसे बन जाएगा ? ये सोच भी कैसे आती है ? 2:31 कोई नहीं बना भगवान भगवान थे हैं और 2:34 रहेंगे यह भगवत गीता का पहली चीज है 2:37 प्रभुपाद जी ने अपने introduction के अंदर 2:39 शुरू किया भगवत गीता उन्होने कहा 2:41 पहली चीज ध्यान रखना अगर यह नहीं मानते तो 2:44 भगवत गीता मत पढ़ो पहले इस बात को 2:48 Theoretical ही मानों, practical ना भी मानो 2:51 इससे क्या होगा आप author के अंदर या speaker के 2:55 अंदर doubt नहीं करेंगे अगर आप यहां बैठे 2:58 हुए हैं और मुझ पर doubt  कर रहे हो तो आप 3:00 एक पैसे की गिनती नहीं होगी, आपको फायदा 3:03 नहीं होगा 3:05 यह मेरा काम है कि मैं 3:07 आपको सत्य बताऊं और आपका काम है उस सत्य 3:11 को check भी करो, doubt मत करो check  3:15 करो check करने में और doubt करने में फर्क 3:17 होता है शंका करने में और उसको check करने 3:19 में फर्क होता है मुझे आप प्रभुपाद जी की 3:22 सबसे अच्छी बात यही लगी थी उन्होंने मुझसे 3:24 कहा था मुझे शिष्य नहीं चाहिए जो कि अंध 3:27 विश्वास करते हैं मुझे शिष्य चाहिए जो की 3:29 पहले 3:30 जाने और फिर शरणागत हो is this not intelligence? 3:35 यह क्या हमारी बुद्धिमता 3:38 की निशानी नहीं है हम कहां कह रहें हैं आप 3:40 बुद्धि बंद करके आइए बिल्कुल नहीं कह रहे



Thursday, July 27, 2023

You’ll Never Control Your Mind Without This – Shree Krishna’s Forgotten Truth Bhagavad Gita Chapter 6 Sloka 10-12 | Swami Mukundananda

You’ll Never Control Your Mind Without This – Shree Krishna’s Forgotten Truth Bhagavad Gita Chapter 6 Sloka 10-12 | Swami Mukundananda


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEiTmThmYo8  1   Sri Krishna is talking about meditation to Arjun. He explained that whether you are karma sanyasi or a karm yogi, it's not the external renunciation but the state of the mind which is most important.  So that mind Sri Krishna said, can be your enemy, it can be your friend. He said to purify the mind you engage in meditation. He is describing further about meditation.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEiTmThmYo8&t=0  2   Bhagavat Gita chapter 6 Dhyan Yog the Yoga of meditation “He must hold the body, neck and head firmly in a straight line and gaze at the tip of the nose, without allowing the eyes to wander.  Thus with a serene, fearless and unwavering mind and staunch in the vow of celibacy, the vigilant yogi should meditate on me having me alone as the supreme goal”.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEiTmThmYo8&t=34  3   Supposing all day long you see movies and at the end of it you say okay now let me sit for meditation, will you succeed in meditating ? So it is not just what you are doing during that meditation period but what you do through the day which will affect the quality of your meditation.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEiTmThmYo8&t=128  4   That is why in the Yog darshan, Maharshi Patanjali says, yam,niyam, asan, pranayama, pratyahar So what is pratyahar? The ahaar of the senses.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEiTmThmYo8&t=165  5   The senses of ours. The Kathopnishad says that the creator Brahma made these senses outwardly oriented, so the senses by themselves will not run inside, they will run outside only. Now we think of aahar only as what we eat. But from the spiritual viewpoint all the senses are getting aahar.  So if we want to move ahead in Yog, withdraw those senses like the turtle, when it spots a danger what does it do, it withdraws its arms and leg and even the head, it all just becomes a shell and then it waits and hears and when the it seems it is safe, it'll poke its head out. It has learned the art of withdrawing its hands and feet.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEiTmThmYo8&t=185  6   Similarly the expert meditator has to be adept at the art of withdrawing the senses. That is the pratyahara of these senses.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEiTmThmYo8&t=257  7   Now neurology tells us that there is a chemical in the brain called dopamine, and that dopamine is the chemical that causes confusion. All the wrong decisions we take is because of dopamine.  The dopamine always promises us there is happiness there but there is never any fulfillment, only hope. So dopamine gets stimulated and in this modern day environment there is constant stimulation.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEiTmThmYo8&t=275  8   So the mind, the brain has gotten addicted to stimulation. When was the last time you ever got bored? At least never since the advent of iPhone. Because from all sides there's entertainment pouring in, little tit bits of interesting information.  You can always switch from the different platforms, from the different instant messaging Systems, you can always check the email, So the brain gets stimulation. Will I get some interesting tit bit of information there?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEiTmThmYo8&t=318  9   That is why nowadays intermittent fasting has become common, right? Give your digestive system a little break, 16 hours of break once in a while and it will improve your digestion. So when you eat, you'll actually be able to eat more. You'll make up for that fast.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEiTmThmYo8&t=367  10   So likewise now people are realizing that you need a dopamine detox, why? Because all the stimulation from all sides and what is happening to the brain is constant dopamine, dopamine, dopamine.  And the problem is the brain is getting desensitized, it needs more and more and more dopamine. So if you do a dopamine detox, slowly the brain will come back to normal. That is the pratyahar. Pratyahar means the withdrawal of the senses from the world. Like the turtle you take them in.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEiTmThmYo8&t=397  11   And then Sri Krishna also gives some external things. So He says that you sit alert, in the Brahma sutra there are four sutras in regard to how to meditate. So Vyas has said there sit down and meditate.  Now you say Guru ji can I lie down and meditate? Guruji says if you are really expert you can but if you are little less expert don't do it otherwise you will fall asleep in a short while, that is why it is said while meditating don't even take a “teka” (a cushion as a support for back), don't say, okay I'll meditate, let me also rest my back and meditate why this mind is so lazy, it's looking for opportunities to switch off.  Now it doesn't look for such opportunities when you are eating when you are getting the aahar for your senses. Why? Because the mind gets the material rasa. It is a material mind. It gets the material rasa. The mind says this is all right.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEiTmThmYo8&t=448  12   But when you take the mind in the spiritual realm, now the mind is in the reverse area. It's a material mind in the spiritual realm. Well, it is natural. The mind says this is not so interesting.  Unless you've got a whole lot of prem (love) then of course the mind finds that interesting then the world is uninteresting. But until you reach that level of surety, don't trust the mind.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEiTmThmYo8&t=538  13   That is why sit alert. So the yoga darshan says, sit and do your meditation, later on you can walk along and also do your meditation. That is also possible. But initially just sit down.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEiTmThmYo8&t=570  14   So “samam kaya-shiro-grivam” Shri Krishna says “Sit Erect”, do not sit tilted. and then He says “dharayann achalam sthirah” So you focus, keep your eyes not fully open, not fully closed. What is the sense of that?  See Shri Krishna is just being practical. These eyes are the windows to the world, so if you keep the eyes open, you will get distracted, and if you keep the eyes fully closed you may fall asleep, so Shri Krishna is being realistic.  He says you keep them half open and half closed. And further he says focus, don't let the world get in through the eyes, so keep the eyes focussed on the tip of the nose. And then you engage in meditation.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEiTmThmYo8&t=592  15   So He has earlier explained the kind of aasan, it need not be too high, not too low. Maharshi Patanjali has said "Sthiram, sukham, asanam." He says when you sit for meditation these three things should be there.  Firstly you should be able to sit sukhmay, comfortably. If you are forcing yourself into padmasan and it's uncomfortable for you then naturally your mind will meditate on the pain in the legs and you'll not be able to think of your meditable object. So sukham (comfortably), and asam means sit down and sthiram, sit stationary.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEiTmThmYo8&t=664  16   So likewise Sri Krishna also says in whichever posture you are able to sit stationary you sit down, focus your eyes, control your senses, and now meditate, on what? So he has said, “Meditate on Me”.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEiTmThmYo8&t=725  17   Now you read varieties of commentaries on the Bhagavad-Gita, people have the art. Sri Krishna is saying straight, “Meditate on Me”. but somebody says He is telling you to meditate on the soul within,  somebody says He is telling you to meditate on your lifeairs, some master yogis say that there is no Mahabharat, it is only your body but we will learn from Sri Krishna in the next verse, He will clarify it even further.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEiTmThmYo8&t=751 


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Who Am I ? Explained by Swami Mukundananda

 Who Am I ? Explained by Swami Mukundananda

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Full Text  1  we always have this perception of the I, I am happy, I am sad, I am hungry, I am Full, I am feeling hot, I'm feeling cold, the experience of I always remains but what is this I, that is the question from which our spiritual quest begins  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKV11cTs7hA&t=6   2  on the Temple of Apollo, at Delpha in Athens, are inscribed the Greek words “Know Thyself”, in the Gita Shri Krishna says to know the difference between the field of activities and the knower of that field of activities is the beginning of knowledge  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKV11cTs7hA&t=42  3  it is said that the wise old man of Greece, Socrates was fond of asking people to think who are they? There is an anecdote about him that lost in deep thought he was walking through the marketplace when he collided into a policeman,  the policeman got agitated and said, you careless fellow, you're not even looking where you're walking, “who are you”, Socrates responded I've been pondering over that question for the last 40 years, if you get to know, “who I am”, please inform me  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKV11cTs7hA&t=76  4  so this question is important, science has its take upon it and the spiritual traditions of the world have their take upon it. Science does not accept the existence of a nonmaterial entity, the spiritual spark called the “soul” as the basis of life in the body, science says that this body consisting of matter is leading to consciousness (i.e., matter is creating consciousness)  but matter does not possess consciousness, science says when matter becomes more complex, then it creates consciousness within itself, that is why this bunch of chemicals within the bag of the body is what you are. The problem with this is that if we are a bunch of chemicals and consciousness is originating from chemicals, then how do you explain the phenomenon of death, death then becomes a chemical reaction, a reaction has taken place in the body which has dismissed consciousness from it,  however any chemical reaction is reversible, if sufficient conditions are provided to it and that is why if death is a mere chemical reaction all you need to do then is to reverse that reaction and bring the dead person back to life.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKV11cTs7hA&t=122  5  there have been people who have had such faith in their scientific viewpoint that they believed in future, the science would bring dead people back to life, it is said of Walt Disney that his faith in science was such that he did not pass on his property to his children,  rather he wrote In his will that his body should be put in the deep freeze and maybe 300 years later when science evolves to that point that they can make dead people alive then again he will continue with his life, Walt Disney was in the deep dreeze but his children were pretty annoyed about it but because they were not able to access the billions of their father,  so one day people found that from the deep freeze, an awful stink was emanating, they inquired what had gone wrong, on opening it they found Walt Disney's body was stinking, somebody had pulled out the plug of the deep freeze, so that experiment could never be verified.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKV11cTs7hA&t=241  6  However IF it is a fact that we are a bunch of chemicals and consciousness is created from it, to prove it, let us create life in the laboratory BUT that has never been done. You may say, swami ji, have you not heard of invitro fertilization ? yes but in that invitro fertilization, you are starting with life itself, the sperm and the ovum.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKV11cTs7hA&t=326  7  Begin with mere chemicals and from chemicals create life, forget about creating a human being just create a mosquito, if you cannot create even the slightest, the lowest kinds of life in the laboratory, then what right do we have of saying that it is scientific & that we are a bunch of chemicals without any proof for it ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKV11cTs7hA&t=355  8  One Nobel Prize winner Albert Giorgi said, in my search for life, I ended up with electrons, protons and neutrons, somewhere along the journey consciousness slipped out of my hands, now in my old age, I am retracing my steps to find the basis of consciousness.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKV11cTs7hA&t=386  9  the spiritual traditions in the world inform us that there is a spiritual spark within us, non-material which is the soul, the spirit, the atman that is the source of consciousness, now you may say that why can I not detect that spiritual spark in medical experiments and research ?  The reason is that since it is spiritual, it is beyond the perception of our material Instruments, like for example if an automobile engineer were to find out the source of motion in the car and go from the wheels backward,  he would say that the wheels are moving because of the axle rod, the axle rod is moving because of the pistons in the engine, the pistons are moving because of the accelerator, the ignition switch, the steering wheel, so this is the source of all the motion in the car, however there is a driver behind all these who operates them  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKV11cTs7hA&t=416  10  similarly a doctor may say the body is functioning because of the heart, the kidneys, the liver, the pancreas, the gall bladder etc., but the spiritual spark is energizing them all and hence they are working, the moment the soul leaves the body, the heart kidneys liver pancreas gallbladder are all there but activity has ceased because the basis of life is no longer there  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKV11cTs7hA&t=500  11  so the soul cannot be perceived by physical instruments, however the symptom of the Soul consciousness can be perceived, the soul is the basis of life, wherever you find life, whether it is the plants, the animals, the birds, it means there is the soul within them, without the soul this is all dead matter.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKV11cTs7hA&t=534  12  Information regarding the soul is more completely and precisely presented in the Vedic scriptures, what is the size of the soul ? The soul is tiny, how tiny ? Mundak Upanishad states, take the tip of a hair, cut it into 100 parts,  take one of those parts and cut it further into 100 parts, that is impossible, nevertheless if you could do it, the size you would get is the size of the soul and this is also merely a literary expression because the soul is subtle.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKV11cTs7hA&t=570  13  that tiny soul, how does it spread consciousness throughout the body ? The Brahma Sutra says the nature of the soul is like the nature of a source of light, there is a light on the ceiling, the light is 2 m away from me but its energy is reaching right here, the Brahma Sutra says in the same manner the soul is in the region of the heart and yet it is spreading consciousness throughout the body ;  that is why if you poke a thorn into your finger, you will experience the pain - what happened ? it's paining, that means the finger has life, how come when the soul is in the heart the life has spread all the way till the finger, that is the nature of the soul, it spreads its consciousness throughout the body  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKV11cTs7hA&t=635  14  again one could ask that life is the quality of the soul, how come it was passed on to the body ? the answer is given again by Ved Vvas in the Brahma Sutra, he says for example there is fragrance in a flower but the flowers of the garden make the whole garden fragrant and when you enter a garden, you immediately perceive the fragrance, wow beautiful flowers, very aromatic in this garden,  similarly the soul like the flowers spreads its fragrance or its consciousness into the body and how come it got passed through to the entire body, again Ved Vvas makes a sutra in the Brahma sutras, the aphorisms, he says look at the property of chandan or sandalwood paste, to cool your body,  you do not need to apply sandalwood paste all over you, just apply it on the forehead and the property of sandalwood is that it cools the entire body, similarly the soul staying in one place makes this whole body conscious, that is why the Brahma Sutra says accept the existence of the soul, perceive your self as an eternal spiritual being  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKV11cTs7hA&t=705  15  Swami Vivekanand said “Thou Art Souls Immortal, Spirits, Blessed, Free and Eternal, matter is your servant and not you the servant of matter”, the moment you get this realization of your real self, your personality becomes centered, people will talk about how to center themselves,  I respond it's the easiest of things, see yourself through shastra chakshu (eyes of shastras/scriptures) even though you may not as yet have had realization of your soul nature, see yourself through the eyes of the scriptures and the moment you bring this thought,  this piece of knowledge into your intellect that I am the Eternal Soul, I am not body, I am not matter, I am a part of the Eternal God, you will be centered and you will be focused upon He of whom your soul is a part, this is the knowledge of the Soul  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKV11cTs7hA&t=813  Standby link (in case youtube link does not work): Who Am I Explained by Swami Mukundananda.mp4