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

आपकी भी दशा ख़राब चल रही है तो ये काम जरूर कीजिये! - Devi Chitralekhaji

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दैविक दुख यानी जब कभी हम कुछ प्रकृति

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के साथ छेड़छाड़ कर देते गड़बड़ करते हैं

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तो फिर प्रकृति उसका बदला लेती है भूकंप आ

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गया और पहले के समय में तो भूकंप ऐसे आते

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थे कोई सालों में आजकल तो ऐसे महाराज खेल

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जैसा हो गया अभी तीन दिन पहले ही आया था

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हम तो नहीं थे हम तो छिंदवाड़ा में थे पर

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खबरों में सुना था दिल्ली में भूकंप आया

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दोपहर को डेढ़ बजे

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हर दूसरे तीसरे दिन कुछ न कुछ आपत्ति

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विपत्ति देवता जब रुष्ट होते हैं तब वह

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कहते हैँ ले भैया तूने यह काम बिगाड़ा ले अब

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हम करते हैं और इसका उपाय एक ही है ये जो

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इतना सारा प्रकृति में चीजें बढ़ रहीं हैँ ना

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इसका उपाय है कि लोगों ने अपने घरों में

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कीर्तन करना छोड़ दिया संकीर्तन करना छोड़

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दिया संकीर्तन से सब देवताओं की जो रूष्टता

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नाराजगी सब दूर हो जाती जब उनको पता लगता

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है कि इस घर में कीर्तन होता है अगर किसी को भी

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लग रहा हो वैसे तो मैं उस विषय में ज्यादा

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जानती नहीं ज्यादा बोलती नहीं पर अगर

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किसी को लगता है भाई हमारा शनि टेढ़ा चल रहा

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शनि की साढ़े साती चल रही

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है अगर कोई उपाय कोई बताता भैया आप मानो

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ना मानो सबका अपना जीवन है जिसको जो करना करो पर

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अगर भागवत जी से पूछ रहे हो और अगर मेरी

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छोटी बुद्धि से पूछ रहे हो अगर किसी को

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लगता है कि उस घर के घर परिवार में कुछ

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देवता का शनि का राहु का प्रकोप है कुछ मत

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करो घर में पूरा परिवार बैठ कर के पांच दस

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मिनट कृष्ण नाम का राधा नाम का कीर्तन कर

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लो सारे दुनिया भर के जितने भी देवता है

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ना तुम्हारी सेवा में खड़े हो जाएंगे हाथ

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जोड़कर कहिए हुकम

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सरकार ऐसे ही नहीं कह रहे हम ब्रज में

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बड़े-बड़े देवता हमारी राधा रानी के चरणों

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में हाथ जोड़े ठाड़े (खड़े) हैं हे श्री जी एक एक

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आशीर्वाद दे दो एक आज्ञा कर दो ठाकुर जी

1:55

से शनि देवता आप कभी जाते हो कोकिला

2:00

[संगीत]

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पंजाब वाले तो बहुत एक तो दिल्ली वाले और

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पंजाब वाले दो ही तो प्राणी सबसे ज्यादा

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वृंदावन में पाए जाते

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हैं पंजाब वाले पंजाब में कम ब्रज में

2:12

ज्यादा पाए जा रहे हैं

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आजकल पर चलो बढ़िया है अच्छी बात है जगह

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तो बची है नहीं वृंदावन में

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पर श्री जी बुला रही है तो खुद ही

2:24

संभालेगी अपने आप जब बुलाने वाली वही हैं

2:27

तो संभालने वाली भी वही हैं

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तो कभी गए हो आप शनिवार को बड़ी भीड़ लगी

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रहती है पर कोई यह नहीं जानने की कोशिश

2:37

करता शनिदेव सबको छोड़ छाड़ के दुनियादारी

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ब्रज में पड़े हैं इसलिए पड़े

2:42

क्योंकि नंदगांव वहीं बरसाना वहीं कभी तो

2:46

निकलते आते जाते श्री राधा माधव दोनों जब

2:50

निकलेंगे और इस निकुंज में लीला करने यह

2:53

शनि देवता का स्थान तो अब विस्तार से बना

2:57

कोकिला वन जहां पर श्री राधा माधव नित्य

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लीला करने आते थे और शनि देवता वहीं बैठे

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रहते थे एक झलक मिल जाए इन दोनों की युगल

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की इसलिए वहां पर विराजमान है शनि

3:08

देवता अपनी सेवा करवाने विराजमान नहीं है

3:12

ठाकुर जी की उनके रूप का दर्शन करने

3:15

विराजमान तो अगर इतने बड़े-बड़े देव

3:20

जिनको देख के लोग डरते हैं वो अगर ब्रज

3:23

में श्री राधा कृष्ण के शरणागत है अगर आप

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उन श्री राधा रानी का नाम लोगे ठाकुर जी

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का नाम लोगे सब देवी देवता रास्ता खोल कर के खड़े

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हो जाएंगें खबरदार इससे भैया पंगा नहीं लेना

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होता नहीं शहर में जिसकी पहुंच जरा ऊपर

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वाले अफसर से हो तो आस पड़ोसी भी कह देते

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भैया इससे पंगा नहीं लेना इसकी पहुंच बहुत

3:43

ऊपर तक है तो जिसकी पहुंच हमारी राधा रानी

3:46

तक हो जिसकी पहुंच हमारे श्याम सुंदर के

3:49

साथ हो किसकी हिम्मत की टेढ़ी नजर उठा कर

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के देख ले और उल्टा कोई टेढ़ी नजर करेगा

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तो उसको पकड़ के और पटक नहीं लगा देंगे

3:58

खबरदार इसको छुआ तो

4:01

काहे को डरते हो डरने की आवश्यकता क्या है

4:05

अरे हम राधे जू के बल अभिमानी पड़े रहे

4:09

अलमस्त भजन में क्योंकि हमारे सर पर राधा

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रानी हमको डरने की आवश्यकता नहीं ब्रज के

4:18

प्रेमियों को तो बिल्कुल डरने की आवश्यकता

4:27

नहीं

 

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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

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4Mk8hnxsY  Full Text  1  what is so difficult in becoming simple ? the difficulty is in being clever, in being cunning, simpleness is a straightforward behavior, the difficulty is that in the world we have become habituated to cleverness  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4Mk8hnxsY&t=0 2 we discussed that God's eternal law is that one who surrenders to Him receives His grace, we also discussed that this surrender is a state of doing nothing and by doing nothing if we receive His infinite grace, then God is causelessly merciful  & so if this is the nature of God that merely by surrendering to Him, we become the benefactors of his causeless grace and by virtue of His grace, we receive His divine knowledge, His divine bliss, His divine love, we get released from material bondage, we attain the supreme destination, then why is it that we have not yet surrendered to God ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4Mk8hnxsY&t=17  3  infinite lifetimes have passed away. Is it that yesterday for the first time we came to know this law ? is it that in past lifetimes we were not aware of this causeless nature of God and his eternal rule of surrender ?  That cannot be the case we have had innumerable lifetimes and innumerable times we have met saints and we have read the scriptures and these saints and scriptures informed us that look, God is an ocean of grace and mercy, surrender to Him and you will receive that mercy,  so we cannot say that we were unaware of this law and hence we did not do our Sharnagati (i.e., we did not surrender). We knew this law and despite knowing it, we did not surrender to God. Why was that so ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4Mk8hnxsY&t=104  4  There were certain obstacles in that surrender, certain difficulties we faced in surrendering to God, these difficulties still exist, we need to understand them and overcome them, unless we understand these,  unless we remove these deficiencies in our surrender to the Lord, even today we will not be able to become recipients of that divine grace. What were these difficulties, what were these obstacles primarily ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4Mk8hnxsY&t=190  5  There are eight problems in surrender, the few of these are called “kapuyacharan”, a few of these are called “tustis” let us take a look at the “kapuyacharan” “kapuyacharan” means “galat acharan”, defective thought, defective behavior the first of these this is called “Jihm bhav”  Jihm bhāva" (जिह्म भाव) — संस्कृत में जिह्म का अर्थ है टेढ़ा, छलयुक्त, कपटी, तो जिह्म भाव का अर्थ होगा "कपटी प्रवृत्ति" या "कुटिल मनोभाव" what is “Jihm bhav”? 

it is lack of simplicity, in order to surrender to God one must possess a simple heart “सरल स्वभाव ना मन कुटिलाई, निर्मल मन जन सो मोहे पावा”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4Mk8hnxsY&t=243  6  the Lord says I am NOT impressed by cleverness, by cunningness, by deceit, I'm impressed by a simple trusting childlike heart but the problem is that interacting with this world we learn to become clever,  first we practice cleverness with our friends and then with our relatives and when we engage in our profession, we learn cleverness there.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4Mk8hnxsY&t=306  7  One shopkeeper in India was telling me Swamiji what to do, my trade is like this, when I open my shop in the morning, I make a resolve "Jhoot hi bolunga, jhoot ke sivny kuch nahin bolunga"  I shall only speak lies that is the only way I can sell my goods to customers so all this cleverness that we have learned while dealing with the world, this needs to be thrown away and we need to go back to the state in which we were born, a simple trusting child.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4Mk8hnxsY&t=361  8  There is a beautiful story in this regard that is very commonly told by grandmothers in India, there was this sanatan dharam mandir, a temple with many deities of different forms of God, the pundit ji had kept an orphan child to help him in the puja, the child would get food to eat and be taken care of and pundit ji would have his assistance in the worship, so it was a win-win situation for both,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4Mk8hnxsY&t=404  9  one day pundit ji had to go for a holy pilgrimage a teerth yatra, so he told the child, look the way I have been offering food to God, you must offer in the same way and only after God has eaten should you eat the Prasadam, I will be away for two months and I'm going to leave ration for two months,  the child said all right. He was a very trusting child and when he would accompany pundit ji in the puja he would ask who is this ? pundit ji would say he is Hanuman, he is an avatar of Lord Shiv, so the child would believe it, he would not see deity as a piece of stone but see the deity as the lord Himself,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4Mk8hnxsY&t=448  10  so the next day the child prepared the food items, placed them on the plate, took the plate to the altar and requested the deities, O Lord, please come and receive this food eat to your heart's content, now the deities were unmoved, they had remained still for all these years of worship by pundit ji,  the child was expecting them to come and eat because when pundit ji used to make the offering, he would have the curtain closed and child did not know what was going on, he thought maybe the deities have not liked his cooking, so he took it away trashed it, prepared another meal, brought it and requested O Lord, please eat it,  now the deities were still not willing, so he started crying, he said you don't like my cooking, all right, if you are not going to eat, I will also not eat, he went hungry that night,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4Mk8hnxsY&t=508  11  the next day again he prepared a meal with his faith and devotion and he placed it on the altar and he said O Lord, please come and receive this food, the deities were again unwilling to move ;  so this time the boy picked up a stick he said, look, if you don't eat, pundit ji will get annoyed with me and he will dismiss me from this job, I'm an orphan where will I go, what will I do, you better eat or I will beat you with the stick,  now that stick was a symbol of his faith, his conviction, that this is God, that is the kind of faith that comes from a simple heart ; that is what God was waiting for  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4Mk8hnxsY&t=585  12  He says “verse”, I'm not Impressed by Scholasticism, I'm impressed by the trusting heart ; so when that boy picked up that stick that my Lord you had better eat or I'll whack You with it, what was there for the Lord ?  He who is all-pervading in this world is also present in His deity, so the deity started moving, they reached the plate and they started gobbling up the food, Hanuman he was eating away so that little offering finished quickly,  the boy came replenished it, replenished it again, the result was that the rations pundit ji had left for two months, got over in a week, so now what to do ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4Mk8hnxsY&t=652  13  So,this orphan child got a big task upon him, he would go to the market and beg from shopkeepers, sir, please give me something, I need to offer in the temple. Pundit ji returned in one month's time instead of two months, he said my child, I'm very hungry, give me something to eat,  the boy said pundit ji, you know we have got nothing here, I have to go and do bhiksha (begging) and then bring it. Pundit ji said, what do you mean ? I had left ration for two months, it's just one month over, there must still be food for one month did you go and sell it all in the market and see movies with the money ?  No no pundit ji, how would I ever do something like that, I will not lie to you, what could I do, God used to eat so much and Hanuman ji would keep eating away, pundit ji said really ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4Mk8hnxsY&t=717  14  all right, offer it in front of me, let me see how they eat, now the boy went again, prepared a plate and brought it & placed it on the altar as before and requested the deities to please come and eat this time, the deities were not willing to move, so the boy became annoyed because he would be proved a liar,  he picked up his stick once again, he said, will you eat or not or I'll whack you with it again the deities started giggling (laughing), they came to the plate and started eating pundit ji, seeing the spectacle, was so shocked, he fainted there,  he thought in all my life, in all my worship I have never even seen the light of God and look at this little child, God was actually coming and eating from his plate, how fortunate he was.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4Mk8hnxsY&t=787  15  So that is the trusting heart, the simple heart that it enables us to win the grace of God right away. Now the saint Narayan said, “verse” what is so difficult in becoming simple ? the difficulty is in being clever, in being cunning,  simpleness is a straightforward behavior, the difficulty is that in the world, we have become habituated to cleverness and like the tail of the dog, it's crooked, no matter how much you pull it, when you release it again it becomes crooked,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4Mk8hnxsY&t=853  15  similarly our habit in the world, when we go in front of God and guru, we start the same habit there, what should I increase and say, what should I decrease and say, how should I get my work done from the Guru & from God, all this cunningness comes as an obstacle to our surrender, so if we wish to succeed in doing sharnagati, we need to understand this first obstacle and to get rid of it by developing a simple heart.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4Mk8hnxsY&t=923 

  

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