Interview with Madhav, a child prodigy, on spiritual matters - he remembers 2000 sanskrit shlokas from holy books - conducted by Shri Amogh Lila Prabhu

1 Interview with Madhav, a child prodigy,on spiritual matters - he remembers 2000 sanskrit shlokas from holy books  https://youtu.be/QoM_YkzBMLY 2 बच्चे का नाम है माधव, माधव भगवान श्री कृष्ण का भी नाम है https://youtu.be/QoM_YkzBMLY&t=9 3 बहुत सारे ग्रंथ इस बच्चे ने याद किए हुए हैं इतनी छोटी उम्र में इतना spiritual knowledge के लिए प्यास होना ये बहुत ही अपने आप में अलग बात है https://youtu.be/QoM_YkzBMLY&t=17 4 मैं आठ वर्ष का हूं और मुझे आठ ग्रंथ याद है उनका नाम क्या है श्रीमद् भागवत,गीता, चैतन्य चरतामृत, चाणक्य नीति, इशोपनिषद, उपदेशामृत, ब्रह्म संहिता, पदम पुराण  https://youtu.be/QoM_YkzBMLY&t=57 5 इसके लिए आपको inspiration कैसे मिला  क्योंकि आपकी उमर के बच्चे पिक्चर देख रहे होते हैं, गाना बजाना देख रहे होते हैं, लड़को के साथ घूम रहे होते हैं https://youtu.be/QoM_YkzBMLY&t=79 6 जब मैं लॉकडाउन में पाच वर्ष का था, उस समय मेरे फादर ने कहा मेरे से कि "मनुष्य जन्म पाइया, राधा कृष्ण ना भजिया, जानिया सुनिया विष खाइया" - मनुष्य जन्म मिला है और तुमने राधा कृष्ण का भजन नहीं किया जानिया सुनिया विष खाया, यानी जानबूझकर विष खाने के बराबर है  https://youtu.be/QoM_YkzBMLY&t=104 7 तब मैंने एक दिन में 50 श्लोक याद करके आज 2,000 श्लोक याद कर लिए हैं https://youtu.be/QoM_YkzBMLY&t=137 8 आपकी पसंद के top three श्लोक बताइए और उसकी translation बताइए आपको वो क्यों पसंद हैं  https://youtu.be/QoM_YkzBMLY&t=167 9 Srimad Bhagavatam 1.1.3: “O expert and thoughtful men, relish Srimad-Bhagavatam, the mature fruit of the desire tree of Vedic literatures. It emanated from the lips of Sri Sukadeva Gosvami. Therefore this fruit has become even more tasteful, although its nectarean juice was already relishable for all, including liberated souls”. https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/1/3/ https://youtu.be/QoM_YkzBMLY&t=177 10 इसका जो पान करता है, इस संसार से, इस भौतिक जगत से पार हो जाता है और भगवान के धाम चला जाता है https://youtu.be/QoM_YkzBMLY&t=219 11 Srimad Bhagavatam 4.31.14 "As pouring water on the root of a tree energizes the trunk, branches, twigs and everything else, and as supplying food to the stomach enlivens the senses and limbs of the body, simply worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead through devotional service automatically satisfies the demigods, who are parts of that Supreme Personality". https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/4/31/14/ https://youtu.be/QoM_YkzBMLY&t=219 12 हरि परम नाम संकीर्तन, जो भगवान का हरि नाम है, नाम संकीर्तन, सर्व पाप प्रणाश सभी पापों को नष्ट करने वाला है  https://youtu.be/QoM_YkzBMLY&t=335 13 शास्त्र पढ़ने से पहले मैं सोचता था कि ये material world की जो पढ़ाई है इससे बड़े-बड़े काम बनते हैं पर जब मेरे को प्रेरणा मिली महाराज से कि तुम्हें भगवान की भक्ति करनी चाहिए, जब मैंने इन आठ ग्रंथों को पढ़ा, तब मेरे को पता चला कि असली रस तो केवल भगवान की महिमा है, यदि हम इस भौतिक संसार में फस जाएंगे और 84 लाख योनीयों में फंस जाएंगे और इससे फसने से अच्छा क्यों ना हम भगवान की भक्ति करके भगवान के लोक जाएं और क्योंकि जब घोर कलयुग आएगा, तब हम क्या करेंगे ? https://youtu.be/QoM_YkzBMLY&t=487 Prahlada Maharaja said: One who is sufficiently intelligent should use the human form of body from the very beginning of life — in other words, from the tender age of childhood — to practice the activities of devotional service, giving up all other engagements. The human body is most rarely achieved, and although temporary like other bodies, it is meaningful because in human life one can perform devotional service. Even a slight amount of sincere devotional service can give one complete perfection. https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/7/6/1/ https://youtu.be/QoM_YkzBMLY&t=530  14 शास्त्र पढ़ने और आध्यात्मिक ज्ञान के लाभ,  आजकल के बच्चे इस बच्चे को अपना रोल मॉडल बनाएं तो दुनिया में सब क्लेश खत्म हो जाएं https://youtu.be/QoM_YkzBMLY&t=743

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Understanding God's Purpose for Your Life | Swami Mukundananda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOBoSXHpbo Main Points:  1 this material energy is the cause of many problems under its influence, we are suffering in this world, everybody is running for happiness but not achieving it and the reason is the material energy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOBoSXHpbo&t=0 2 Maya is an insentient (incapable of feeling or understanding things; inanimate) energy and yet it is so powerful that the biggest people of knowledge are not able to overcome it, what is the reason for that? God is inspiring Maya, just like this cloth is insentient and yet the hand is inspiring it and the cloth is moving, if the hand gives up that inspiration the cloth is insentient again, in the same way Maya is insentient but by the power of God it starts working https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOBoSXHpbo&t=29 3 what is the function of Maya? its function is to trouble the souls until they realize that without God I cannot be happy, I need to surrender to God, that is why the Ramayan says "fire may emanate from the ice this impossible may become possible but with back towards God one can never be happy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOBoSXHpbo&t=80 4 now everybody realizes that we are not really happy but what they don't realize is that others are also not really happy, everybody thinks the grass is greener on the other side of the fence  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOBoSXHpbo&t=130 5 Vidur Maharaj had asked that everybody is running for happiness but everybody is experiencing unhappiness. What is the reason for that - it is the material energy, Maya.  Kripalu ji maharaj says Maya is not an enemy of God it is an energy of God and it's service to God is to trouble the souls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOBoSXHpbo&t=172 6 so the material energy performs various functions. First function is it allows the soul the freedom to act independent of God, so in this material realm the soul has this little bit of freedom - I can do what I like but then based on our karmas on our actions from time to time, it gives misery to the soul and that misery is also a form of Grace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOBoSXHpbo&t=208 7 it is God's way of indicating "don't go in the wrong Direction of the worldly pleasures"  but come to Me - just like the mother's Grace sometimes showers in the form of a hug to the child and sometimes she says I'll not speak to you & stand up by the side of the wall - both of these are forms of the mother's affection for the child, similarly the material energy Maya is serving God and one of the services it performs is to trouble the souls until they reach the feet of God  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOBoSXHpbo&t=250 8 no matter how much of effort you employ, you cannot conquer the mind without the grace of God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOBoSXHpbo&t=307 9 There are three pathways to God realization, the path of Karm yog the path of Gyan yog but none of them are complete without the addition of Bhakti  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOBoSXHpbo&t=355 10 an episode in the Srimad Bhagavatam Mahapuran, 11th Canto, Lord Krishna is giving knowledge to Udhav (His closest childhood friend) - this is also called the Udhav Gita, it is at a much higher level than the bhagwat Gita because the speaker speaks to the level of the listener https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOBoSXHpbo&t=375 11 Arjun was in ignorance thinking these are my relatives thinking of himself to be the body so Lord Krishna explained to him Arjun your true relative is God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOBoSXHpbo&t=406 12 In this 11th Canto 14th chapter first verse Udhav asks Shri Krishna question,  he says oh Shri Krishna in the Indian culture there are so many processes and pathways to the ultimate goal, every scholar who comes describe another path every book we read talks about another path and we see them practiced variously  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOBoSXHpbo&t=439 13 Lord Krishna said oh Udhav, in my Vedas I had talked about the path to God realization, however what happened was that a lot of people came to read the Vedas, now each person based upon his or her own intellect interpreted the Vedas differently – listen to the examples given https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOBoSXHpbo&t=530 14 and so many paths to God came into existence and some others, they got created by tradition - listen to examples https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOBoSXHpbo&t=664 15 and so many paths to God came into existence and some others, they got created by tradition - listen to examples like "I meet many people they say Swami ji in our house we never read the Ramayan,  what happened? what's the problem? you know if we read the Ramayan somebody will die in our house - strange traditions got established wrongly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOBoSXHpbo&t=664 16 the scriptures say do good and don't tell anybody about it, the pious merits of that will increase  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOBoSXHpbo&t=949 17 further examples of wrong traditions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOBoSXHpbo&t=1039 18 wrong use of upvas (fasting) - another improper use of fast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOBoSXHpbo&t=1370 19 Lord Krishna says Udhav so many pathways have been created and they are all wrong, they are all helpful and good but they are not sufficient to liberate you from the cycle of life and death they are not sufficient to take you beyond the material energy (maya), the benefits you get from them will all be temporary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOBoSXHpbo&t=1511 20 so how do you cross over worldly birth death cycle and reach the ultimate goal, the one essential addition in all of these rituals without which they are useless, alongside with which they all become beneficial, just like the one and the zeros, without the one they are all zeroes and with the one, they all keep adding up, so in the same way the one in this case is bhakti or devotion to God, without that bhakti, all the rituals are mere physical drill, a waste, an exercise in futility  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOBoSXHpbo&t=1574 21 reg. upvas, people ask "Swami ji, is it wrong to fast ? absolutely not, if you fast once in a while it will help your body some of the food stuck inside which has not been digested, it will get digested, the jathra agni the fire of digestion will get enhanced but if you want spiritual benefit out of it then you have to do it properly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOBoSXHpbo&t=1634 22 if after the pilgrimage the mind is in the World, has the pilgrimage served any purpose ? it has not, that is why Kripalu ji maharaj says you are going for the four dham yatra and God is sitting inside you, the Bible says the kingdom of God is within you, the goal should have been to purify the mind, if the mind is not getting purified through bhakti through devotion, the external ritual remains empty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOBoSXHpbo&t=1724 Transcript 0:01 this material energy is the cause of many 0:06 problems under its influence we are suffering in this 0:13 world everybody is running for happiness but not achieving it and the 0:20 reason is the material energy Maya so in this verse Kripaluji Maharaj 0:29 says that Maya is an insentient (incapable of feeling or understanding things; inanimate) 0:35 energy and yet it is so powerful that the biggest people of 0:42 knowledge are not able to overcome it what is the reason for  0:49 that God is inspiring Maya just like this cloth is 0:57 insentient and yet the hand is inspiring it and the cloth is 1:03 moving if the hand gives up that inspiration the cloth is insentient 1:09 again in the same way Maya is insentient 1:15 but by the power of God it starts 1:20 working and what is the function of Maya its function is to trouble the 1:27 souls until they realize that without God I cannot be 1:35 happy I need to surrender to God that is why the Ramayan 1:53 says fire may emanate from the ice 2:01 this impossible may become possible but with back towards God one 2:10 can never be happy now everybody realizes that we are 2:16 not really happy but what they don't realize is that others are also not really 2:24 happy everybody is in touch with their own dissatisfaction and discontent 2:31 you know my wife she's such a nuisance she's an avatar of Chandi the other's 2:38 wife he must be very happy everybody thinks the grass is 2:44 greener on the other side of the fence and the fact is that nobody is 2:52 happy Vidur Maharaj had asked  3:05 everybody is running for happiness but everybody is experiencing 3:12 unhappiness and what is the reason for that the material energy 3:18 Maya the Kripalu ji maharaj says  Maya is not an enemy of God it is an energy of God 3:28 and it's service to God is to trouble the souls  so the material 3:36 energy performs various functions first function is it allows the 3:43 soul the freedom to act independent of 3:49 God so in this material realm the soul has this little bit of freedom I can do 3:55 what I like but then based on our karmas on our actions from time to time 4:03 it gives misery to the soul and that misery is also a form of 4:10 Grace it is God's way of indicating don't go in this Direction come to 4:18 me just like the mother's Grace sometimes showers in the form of a hug 4:25 to the child and sometimes she says I'll not speak to you stand up by the side of 4:31 the wall both of these are forms of the 4:36 mother's affection for the child similarly the material energy Maya is 4:43 serving God and one of the services it performs is to trouble the souls until 4:52 they reach the feet of God so because it is God's energy 5:01 by your self effort you can never conquer 5:07 it and the mind is made from that Maya hence nobody no matter how much of 5:16 effort you employ, you cannot conquer the mind without the grace of God  you may engage 5:25 in any kind of meditation any endeavor until God bestow 5:32 his grace we will not be able to conquer this 5:39 mind now Kripaluji Maharaj has completed his discussion of the three entities the 5:46 soul the material energy the Divine energy and God now he talks about the 5:55 pathways to God realization he says there's the path of 6:01 Karm the path of yog the path of Gan but none of them are complete without the 6:09 addition of Bhakti  in this regard I'd like to relate 6:15 to you an episode in the Srimad Bhagavatam 6:20 mahapuran 11th Canto Lord Krishna is giving knowledge 6:26 to Udhav this is also called the Udhav 6:31 Gita it is at a much higher level than the bhagwat Gita because the speaker speaks to the 6:40 level of the listener in the case of the bhagwat Gita Lord Krishna is delivering 6:46 knowledge to Arjun Arjun was in ignorance thinking these are my 6:53 relatives thinking of himself to be the body so Lord Krishna explained to him 6:59 Arjun your true relative is God and in Srimad Bhagavatam Sri Krishna is giving 7:06 knowledge to Udhav, Udhav is a Paramahans he is at an extremely elevated state of 7:14 realization so the Udhav Gita has very sophisticated 7:19 knowledge in this 11th Canto 14th chapter first verse Udhav 7:28 asks Shri Krishna question he 7:41 says oh Shri Krishna in the Indian 7:48 culture there are so many processes and pathways to the ultimate 7:56 goal every scholar who comes describe another path every book we read talks about 8:04 another path and we see them practiced 8:09 variously this leads to great confusion which of these is right and which of 8:15 these is wrong and why did so many pathways come into 8:22 existence oh Shri Krishna please illumine me so that I understand 8:31 what is my dharma what is my duty in this 8:37 world and thereby I'm able to do it this is a beautiful question because 8:44 this is the question before most people somebody explain to me what my dharma 8:50 is so that I can do it Lord Krishna 8:57 said oh Udhav 9:09 in my Vedas I had talked about the path to God 9:15 realization however what happened was that a lot of people came to read the 9:21 Vedas now each person based upon his or her own intellect interpreted the Vedas 9:31 differently just like suppose there's a bird sitting on a tree and the bird in 9:39 its language is saying something a group of people were sitting 9:44 below they started discussing what is the bird 9:50 saying one of them was a Trader he said listen the bird is saying 9:57 the bird is saying sunth, mirch, adrak, sunth, mirch, adrak" grocery items the other was a wrestler he said 10:06 you have got it wrong listen again the bird is 10:11 saying the bird is saying “dand, vaithak, kasrat, dand, vaithak, kasrat." exercises the third was a devote he said 10:17 you both are not listening carefully listen again the bird is saying “Ram Sita Dashrath” 10:22 so each of them interpreted the 10:28 voice of the bird according to their own mentality in the same way Lord Krishna 10:36 said that four kinds of people came to read the Vedas some were tamasik some 10:43 were rajasic some were satwik (satogun) and some were Gunatit (above the three gunas ,i.e., material modes of nature) some were affected by the mode of 10:51 ignorance some by the mode of passion some by the mode of goodness and some 10:57 were beyond the three modes each of them found a different meaning 11:04 to the same Vedas that I had manifested and hence so many paths came 11:11 into existence and some 11:17 others they got created by tradition 11:24 how there was an ancestor he started something 11:30 his son said my father used to do like this so I also do like this the son  11:36 said my father's father used to do like this so I also do like this the son’s son’s son said my father's father father used 11:42 to do like this and that is why I do like this now that tradition got 11:48 established like I meet many people they say Swami ji in our house we never read 11:56 the Ramayan what happened what's the problem you 12:02 know if we read the Ramayan somebody will die in our 12:07 house how did you reach that conclusion no this is going on from my father's 12:12 father's father's father's time what does that mean in the time of 12:18 one of your ancestors the Ramayan was being read at home and somebody passed 12:24 away yes so today also if we read the Ramayan somebody will pass away 12:30 now what kind of logic is this ? this is self-created logic tell me 12:38 how many ancestors have you had oh I must have had thousands and 12:43 millions and how many days are there seven days from Sunday up to Saturday so all 12:53 these ancestors must have died in one of 7  days yes so then none of these 7 days 12:59 should be auspicious to you why is it that only the Ramayan is not auspicious to 13:05 you if you say that somebody passed away because of the Ramayan then on each of 13:11 these seven days some ancestors passed away should be inauspicious but a tradition got 13:20 created once I was sitting on the steps of a 13:26 temple and a lady came she stopped on the first step she took 13:33 the water in her hand and she sprinkled it on one side of the step and then on 13:39 the other side of the step and then she threw it from under the left arm pit 13:46 then she caught her ears like this and went up and down then she took a circle 13:51 and did like this and walked into the Temple when she came out I asked her 13:59 Davi ji what is it that you were doing she said Swami ji I don't know I 14:08 have been observing my mother-in-law do this and that is why I do 14:13 it as luck would have it 5 minutes later the Mother-in-law also 14:20 came she took the water in her hand she sprinkled a little on the first 14:25 staircase left side and then on the right side she put it from under the left armpit and she caught her ears she 14:32 went down and she went up she did a little like this took a circle and went in when she came out I asked her mata ji 14:41 what is it that you were doing she said Swami ji don't ask me when I was small I 14:47 used to watch my mother-in-law do this that is why I do it now the 14:52 mother-in-law's mother-in-law mother-in-law square is not alive that you ask her why 14:59 was she doing it but the tradition got established so Shri Krishna says Udhav 15:07 in this way hundreds and hundreds of paths kept getting 15:12 created and he describes some of them in the Srimad Bhagavatam 15:29 He says one party came they said perform 15:35 Karma dharam the path of rituals just do the 15:41 Karm kand everything will happen another party came they said the 15:49 path of rituals in this age of Kali impossible how can you follow all the 15:56 six rules alright then you tell us what to do so they 16:03 said earn a name for yourself after death the only thing that 16:09 will remain is the name that is why one businessman went to 16:15 a temple and he donated a fan with his name his father's name his grandfather's 16:21 name all on the fan I will die but this man will remain 16:26 here somebody went to sevakunj in Vrindavanand he put a 16:32 brick there with this whole dynasty on it this brick will come to save me at 16:37 the time of death now whatever you did all your life you will get the karmic 16:44 reactions the fan and the brick are not going to come and save but it is a 16:50 disease it's a wrong understanding while the scriptures say 17:02 do good and don't tell anybody about it the pious merits of that will 17:10 increase the bible says let not the left hand know what the right hand gives in 17:19 charity but still people have this urge I need to earn a name so a third party 17:27 came  17:32 they said this is all nonsense all you need to do is to enjoy 17:39 yourself eat drink and be merry the epicurean (getting pleasure from food and drink ) philosophy amongst 17:46 the Greeks it has its version in the Indian culture Charvak’s theory Charvak was a 17:54 gross materialist he said 17:59 there is no afterlife there is no soul you are the 18:04 body the moment the body is destroyed it's all over so while you live just 18:10 enjoy 18:20 yourself if you get happiness from ghee beg borrow or steal but drink the ghee 18:27 and be happy Charvak gave his 18:32 Viewpoint, another party came they said this philosophy is totally ridiculous 18:40 eat drink and be merry there must be something higher in 18:46 life all right then you tell us what to do so they said satya tell the 18:56 truth the truth will be 19:01 victorious now another party came they said you know the truth will be victorious in this age of Kali if you 19:09 speak the truth people will not let you live there was one young 19:15 boy his father instructed him that look you are now in your adolescence and you 19:23 need to get some spiritual wisdom so go to the temple every day in the 19:29 morning Pandit does the katha you listen to the katha the boy went to the temple 19:37 that day panditji was relating the katha of Harish 19:43 chandra there is no sin as big as lying and no merit as good as saying the 19:52 truth so the boy made a resolve henceforth I will always tell the truth 19:59 he came back his father had a small shop he sat in the shop to do his duty 20:08 one customer came he said do you have such and such item he said here it is what is the 20:15 price so he remembered I had to tell the truth he said you know we are selling it 20:21 for $145 but the cost price is only 20:26 $45 that customer went off what is the point the next one came again he said 20:33 you know this is $350 The marked price and the cost at which we purchases it is 20:40 175 now the father heard father said my child you are running us out of business 20:46 what has happened the child said father you asked 20:52 me to go to the temple and listen to the katha so from pandit ji I learned 21:00 the truth will be victorious and that is why I made a resolve henceforth I will 21:06 only speak the truth and nothing but the truth the father caught his 21:14 head he said my child I sent you to the temple to the katha but I forgot to tell 21:20 you how to listen to the katha when you sit there you put your 21:27 cloth in front let all of pandit ji's katha come in this 21:33 cloth but when you get up you just shake the cloth like 21:39 that everything I have heard let it all remain here pandit ji the knowledge you 21:45 gave was invaluable but what I received from you I offer it 21:52 back to you for me my worldly knowledge is fine my child just look at me for 25 22:01 years I've been going to the temple to listen to pandit ji katha and till today I have 22:08 not shaken one inch from my place you went one day and transformed 22:14 yourself completely some people said you know this is not a very practical philosophy 22:22 we'll tell you a better way to do it do “dum (दम)” control your  22:30 senses another party came they said what will happen by controlling the senses 22:35 the mind is the cause of bondage and liberation do “sham (शम)” learn to control the 22:42 mind yet another party came they said no we'll tell you the most powerful 22:50  spiritual practice and what is that perform a fast 22:55 do an upvas which fast to perform any the Monday 23:02 fast or the Tuesday fast or the ekadashi fast or the amavas fast and if you can't 23:09 figure out which is suitable for you create a new 23:14 fast Santoshi mata fast etc., so what do you do on the day of a 23:21 fast you don't eat, do you do any spiritual meditation contemplation no no 23:27 no no just don't eat today is ekadashi so today we will 23:34 do the fast what happens is that on a normal 23:39 day people don't think about food but when ekadashi is coming the day of fasting 23:47 two days in advance people have started meditating on food the mother says ekadashi is coming my 23:55 child what will you eat you are not allowed to eat any grains, what is it that you will eat ask the husband all the 24:03 children so everybody gives their preference and keeping that in mind the 24:09 phalahar the allowed food is made and a whole pile is made so now they sit down to eat the 24:16 ekadashi food and the rule is you must eat only once a day in a little while 24:22 the stomach is full now what to do some people say look if you get up 24:28 you won't be able to eat again just keep sitting 24:34 there after 1 hour when you again become hungry eat a little more and sitting if you become exhausted 24:42 you can lie down if you fall asleep never mind the fast is not broken you can wake up and 24:48 then again eat it you see people with their Innovative 24:54 mind have created new kinds of foods, pandit ji was telling us a few days ago 25:00 that they have the normal day halwa of course and the ordinary halwa but now they've got the ekadashi pizza as 25:11 well so some people say what is going to come out of these fasts Lord Krishna 25:17 says Udhav so many pathways have been 25:23 created and they are all wrong 25:37 Udhav said wrong my Lord they have got truth they have got austerity they have got rules 25:44 and regulations how are they wrong Shri Krishna said not wrong Udhav 25:50 they are all nice they are all helpful and good but they are not sufficient to 25:58 liberate you from the cycle of life and death they are not sufficient to take 26:06 you beyond the material energy the benefits you get from them will all be 26:14  temporary so how do you cross over and reach the ultimate goal 26:32 the one essential addition in all of these without which they are useless 26:41 alongside with which they all become beneficial just like the one and the 26:47 zeros without the one they are all zeroes and with the one they all keep adding up 26:54 so in the same way the one in this case is bhakti or devotion to God without that 27:04 bhakti all the rituals are mere physical drill a waste an exercise in 27:14 futility see what is the meaning of this word fast in Hindi in Sanskrit the word 27:21  is upvas people ask Swami ji is it wrong to 27:29 fast absolutely not if you fast once in a while it will help your 27:37 body some of the food stuck inside which has not been digested will get digested 27:44 the jathra agni the fire of digestion will get 27:49 enhanced but if you want spiritual benefit out of it then you have to do it 27:57 properly so the word for fast in Sanskrit is 28:04 upvas and what does upvas 28:11 mean to go close to God that 28:16 Is upvas now if you stop eating and you're only thinking when 28:22 will it be 12 midnight and I'll eat today I am celebrating Shivaratri 28:28 so then your mind has gone close to food the fast is not serving any purpose 28:37 instead of that if you had eaten and then engaged in remembrance of God that 28:44 would have been more beneficial people go to holy 28:54 pilgrimages oh I need to go to Badrinath Ashram 29:01 my guide has told me that if I do the four Dham yatra then I will definitely 29:07 attain Go-lok before going to Badrinath Ashram 29:12 there's a spiritual sentiment I need to go for holy pilgrimage the son says father if you go 29:20 what will happen to this big business doesn't matter I have to make my 29:26 spiritual earnings now undertaking so much of inconvenience 29:34 going by trains going by buses for that holy pilgrimage and with so much of 29:41 spiritual sentiment oh Badrinath Ashram is coming I am so close 29:48 now and once you have darshan the mind changes my god there are so many flies 29:56 here and this hotelier is troubling me unnecessarily there's so much of dirt 30:02 out here how is my business running I hope my child is taking care of 30:09 it you see before the pilgrimage the mind was in 30:15 God after the pilgrimage the mind is in the 30:20 World,  has the pilgrimage served any purpose ? it has not that is why 30:28 Kripalu ji maharaj  30:45 says you are going for the four dham yatra and God is sitting inside you the Bible 30:53 says the kingdom of God is within you the goal would have been to purify the 31:00 mind if the mind is not getting purified through bhakti through devotion the 31:06 external ritual remains empty and that is why in the 31:15 Srimad Bhagavatam, Shri Ved Vyas 31:26 writes in this human form o souls your primary duty is to engage in loving 31:35 Devotion to God and that devotion means to see him in everyone Standby link (in case youtube link does not work) Understanding God's Purpose for Your Life Swami Mukundananda.mp4

The EASIEST & MOST POWERFUL Way to RECEIVE GOD's GRACE by Swami Mukundanand ji

The EASIEST & MOST POWERFUL Way to RECEIVE GOD's GRACE by Swami Mukundanand ji

https://youtu.be/3KixNXibg7A Main Points: 1 God is Deenanath the friend & savior of the destitutes https://youtu.be/3KixNXibg7A&t=0 2 There are three pathways to God realization https://youtu.be/3KixNXibg7A&t=35 3 karma refers to karma kand the rituals but it practically impossible to follow in Kaliyuga https://youtu.be/3KixNXibg7A&t=60 4 second is the path of Gyan, this path is even more difficult https://youtu.be/3KixNXibg7A&t=184 5 The path of bhakti is a simple path & the Best as declared by God Himself https://youtu.be/3KixNXibg7A&t=302 6 why Bhakti it is easy to say it is simple but difficult to do it, Bharath (brother of Rama) example https://youtu.be/3KixNXibg7A&t=349 7 if some find bhakti also difficult, there a fourth path of humbleness (humility) because God is deenanath, the friend & savior of the destitutes https://youtu.be/3KixNXibg7A&t=450 8 why has God not bestowed His grace on us destitutes/ fallen souls since ages immemorial ? https://youtu.be/3KixNXibg7A&t=484 9 Because of the two reasons 1. we have never considered ourselves as fallen & 2. we have never considered God as the savior of the fallen https://youtu.be/3KixNXibg7A&t=531 10 in the Narad Bhakti Darshan, Narad ji says God hates one thing Pride, and loves another thing Humility https://youtu.be/3KixNXibg7A&t=568 11 the day pride goes out from our hearts, God realization will be ours, Saint Kabir says “जब मैं था हरि नहीं, अब हरि हैं मैं नहीं“  (मैं is the sense of self), it is our pride that blocks God’s grace to us https://youtu.be/3KixNXibg7A&t=673 12 the pride makes us think i am this body i am the mind i am the intellect https://youtu.be/3KixNXibg7A&t=1019 13 1.first of all recognize that your pride is your enemy and 2. realize that I wish to get rid of it because only then I will be a recipient of God's grace, 3. replace pride by practicing humbleness (humility) https://youtu.be/3KixNXibg7A&t=1441 14 Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (avtar of Krishna & Radha combined, 500 years ago) made this the basis of his philosophy,  He said that consider yourself more insignificant than a blade of grass trnad api su-nicena taror iva sahisnuna amanina mana-dena kirtaniyah sada harih trnat api — than downtrodden grass; su-nicena — being lower; taroh — than a tree; iva — like; sahisnuna — with tolerance; amanina — without being puffed up by false pride; mana-dena — giving respect to all; kirtaniyah — to be chanted; sada — always; harih — the holy name of the Lord. TRANSLATION “ *One who thinks himself lower than the grass, who is more tolerant than a tree, and who does not expect personal honor yet is always prepared to give all respect to others can very easily always chant the holy name of the Lord*.” https://vanisource.org/wiki/CC_Adi_17.31 https://youtu.be/3KixNXibg7A&t=1607 15 Humility actually is not the fourth path to God BUT it is the third part only ,i.e., the basis of bhakti itself  https://youtu.be/3KixNXibg7A&t=1670 Full Transcript 0:00 God is Deenanath the savior of the destitutes 0:07 He says I am adham uddharanhar Kripaluji maharaj asked a question 0:14 he said when God is Deenanath 0:20 and we souls are in maya since endless lifetimes we are fallen 0:28 then why has God not bestowed that grace upon us 0:35 the pathways to God realization 0:45 are described as three in the scriptures 0:50 one is karma the second is gyan and the third is bhakti 1:00 karma refers to karma kand the rituals 1:07 these rituals described in the scriptures are so complex 1:13 they are practically impossible to follow in this age of kali 1:34 the scriptures state that any karma kand requires 1:40 six upakarana six items to be fulfilled the place 1:47 should be perfect that time should be perfect 1:54 mantra recitation should be perfect the material used should be perfect the 2:00 person getting it done should have the proper intention and so also the person 2:06 doing it the vedas are saying 2:11 in this kalyug karma dharma is practically impossible 2:16 to follow in the age of Dvapar when Dashrath ji maharaja wanted to 2:24 do putreshti yagya there was only one brahman in the whole 2:31 planet earth who was familiar with its procedures so Vasisht ji did not do it 2:39 he asked Shringy rishi to come  2:54 so the path of karma or the path of rituals is extremely complex 3:04 the second is the path of gyan this path 3:10 is even more difficult 3:22 to walk on the path of gyan is like walking on the edge of a sword 3:31 what will happen when you walk on the edge of a sword you lift one foot and the other gets cut 3:38 lift the other foot and the first gets cut so also is gyan yoga 3:46 because as per gyan yoga this world does not exist 3:53 we are utilizing the world but you are supposed to think it doesn't exist 3:59 if you read the yoga Vashisht that is what it is all about the world is mithya it 4:05 is non-existent in that case the scriptures also don't exist 4:11 and there is no difference between me and guru so it is such a confusing 4:18 perspective for an ordinary mortal 4:23 it is klesh prad that is what lord Krishna told Arjuna 4:31 Arjun this path of stopping your mind from thinking 4:37 of meditating on the formless light is klesh prad for one who is embodied 4:44 you are embodied you have a body and you want to meditate on the lord 4:50 without any body of His, it is very difficult Arjun 4:56 it's not impossible but full of challenges 5:02 and the path of bhakti is a simple path 5:07 in this path of bhakti you want to sing you sing the glories of god 5:13 you want to dance you dance to His keertans you want to read you read about His 5:18 pastimes you want to celebrate festivals celebrate Diwali , Ramnavmi etc so you 5:26 dovetail everything to God that is why it is called easy 5:34 so this easy part is the one for us all 5:40 now what to do if somebody finds bhakti also difficult 5:49 why it's easy to say it 5:54 and difficult to do it why 6:00 because bhakti means to serve 6:12 so when Bharath was walking to go and meet Rama in the forest 6:19 the Ayodhya vasis told Bharath 6:24 why don't you sit on the chariot you are now the yuvaraj of ayodhya the crown 6:32 prince so sit on the chariot and go, Bharath said sit on the chariot 6:41 you know what is my dharma  6:57 It is that where the master's feet have fallen my 7:02 head should fall so Ram walked barefoot out here 7:08 and i sit on a chariot i should walk on my head out here 7:13 how can anybody walk on the head that is why this bhakti is also 7:20 easy to say and difficult to do so what should somebody do 7:30 if they find bhakti also difficult is there a fourth path 7:38 you see the fourth part is humbleness (humility) just become humble 7:45 why because God is deenanath 7:50 the savior of the destitutes He says i am adham udhaaranhar 7:59 the rescuer of the fallen souls  8:04 so in this path all you need to do is to consider yourself as 8:10 fallen to bring actual humbleness 8:15 i am insignificant,  Kripaluji maharaja asked a question 8:23 he said when God is 8:28 the friend of the fallen and we souls are in maya since endless 8:36 lifetimes we are fallen then why has God not bestowed that grace  8:44 upon us the answer to this question is twofold 8:51 firstly we have never considered ourselves as fallen 8:59 and secondly we have never considered God as the savior of the fallen !!9:06 all we need to do is to empty ourselves of pride 9:13 so in this part there is nothing to do become humble 9:18 in the Narad Bhakti Darshan 9:28 God hates one thing 9:35 and loves another thing now Naradji's statement contradicts his 9:41 isht dev lord Krishna's statement because lord Krishna said in the gita 9:47 ….sarva bhutah…. 9:53 i am equitable towards all 9:59 neither do i have any friends nor i have any enemies 10:05 nor do i put partially love someone nor do i hate someone  10:11 nor am i partial to someone so God is equitable and makes sense 10:19 because He's our father, if you the children ask papa do you love 10:26 me more or do you love my sister more and papa says look beta 10:32 we have five fingers in the hand now we love all five of them isn't it likewise i love all of you 10:40 so our eternal father also says that you are all my children 10:45 so God says i don't have any partiality any hatred 10:52 but Naradji says  11:00 God hates one thing what is that 11:05 the pride in our hearts and he loves another thing 11:13 the humble (humility) spirit see even the bible says 11:20 blessed are those who are poor in spirit 11:25 for they shall inherit the earth all the religious traditions of the 11:32 world have recognized that the biggest enemy of spiritual 11:38 progress is pride this pride 11:45 the day it goes 11:51 God realization will be ours 11:56 saint kabir put it so well he said as long as i had pride in my heart God was 12:02 not there 12:08 जब मैं था हरि नहीं, अब हरि हैं मैं नहीं  (मैं is the sense of self) Kabir sais jab main tha Hari nahin, jab Hari hai main naahi 12:18 now God resides and i don't, “प्रेम गली अति साँकरी, या में द्व ना समाए”    12:30 the street of divine love is very narrow two personalities will not reside in it 12:38 either you keep your lord or you keep your pride 12:44 so what is the problem in receiving grace it is the pride that blocks it 12:53 this pride is there now you ask yourself do i have 12:59 any pride ask yourself what answer do you get 13:06 no swamiji i don't have any special pride but the point is with what did you ask 13:13 yourself with your intellect and the pride is sitting in that 13:19 intellect so the intellect cannot spot its own defect 13:25 the intellect will give you the decision that i have got no pride 13:31 but the scriptures tell us the guru knows that if there was no pride you would 13:38 have become God realized so 13:43 don't ask your intellect ask the scriptures 13:50 once akbar and birbal you know the stories of akbar and birbal 13:56 so akbar was the muhammadan king of delhi at that 14:02 time and he went out on his elephant into the town 14:07 birbal was on the side whereas standing by the wall 14:13 of lal killah was a drunkard he had taken one too many 14:21 he looked at बादशाह Akbar and he said 14:29 hey you will you sell me your elephant now imagine the insolence (rude and disrespectful behavior)of it 14:35 in those days the king had so much of power and this guy 14:41 in an urchin's dress is saying will you sell me your elephant 14:47 akbar boiled over with rage and he said let this man be presented in 14:53 my court now that man's 14:58 intoxication came down he realized he had made a fatal mistake 15:05 the king all he needs to do is to let him be hanged and gone so he went and fell at birbal's feet 15:12 because it was well known that birbal is so wise he said 15:17 oh minister you need to save me now birbal told him there's a little 15:24 trick so the next day he was brought to akbar's court 15:30 akbar said did you ask from me to sell my elephant to you 15:35 he said badshah salamat i said no such thing i have no need for elephants 15:43 and even if i need elephants i don't have money to buy elephants and if i did have money to buy i would 15:49 not buy from you i'd go from the market and buy it 15:54 Akbar said you are speaking reasonably today what happened to you yesterday 16:01 if it was not you then who was it who asked me to sell the elephant 16:07 that person said i know that gentleman and you give me 24 hours time i will 16:13 present him in your court akbar said so be it 16:19 24 hours later that man came with his bottle and he put it in front of akbar 16:27 akbar said what insolence is this he said it was the bottle 16:32 what do you mean i mean at that time i was intoxicated 16:38 so my intellect was inebriated the alcohol had destroyed my intellect 16:47 now when that has gone away i am back to my senses 16:53 akbar laughed and said all right go likewise the pride is sitting in our 16:59 intellect and if we ask ourselves the answer you'll get is yes i'm very humble 17:06 but the fact is it is this pride that is the biggest defect of the 17:13 material realm where does it come from 17:20 it is the first contact point between the soul and maya 17:28 the pride makes us think i am this body i am the mind i am the intellect 17:37 so the pride is making us identify with this false me and false mind 17:47 this pride is the cause of all kinds of conflicts in the world 17:56 there's a book what they don't teach you at harvard business school 18:04 it's a book of street smarts i read it when i was in business school 18:10 what they don't teach you at harvard business school so one statement i liked very much from 18:17 that book it says you know most corporate executives 18:23 are big balls of ego with hands and feet sticking out 18:30 keep this reality in mind but that is a fact 18:35 all of us have this huge ego inside us and the path of spirituality is the 18:46 very reverse so this ego is coming out of 18:54 misidentification this is mine this is mine this is mine 19:00 now one mouse found a hundred dollar bill 19:06 hundred dollars for a mouse that's big money 19:11 so it sat down on the bill the mouse was in the jungle 19:18 an elephant came walking by so elephant did not notice the mouse 19:24 because elephants are huge creatures the mouse was insignificant 19:30 so the elephant very nonchalantly (in a casually calm and relaxed manner) placed its leg over the mouse and walked off 19:38 the mouse looked at the elephant in anger didn't you notice i'm sitting on a 19:44 hundred dollars now you'll say the mouse was crazy 19:50 but all of us are crazy like that whatever little we have we identify with 19:57 this this is mine this is mine that is mine and besides that we identify with our 20:05 titles our positions i am so and so i am like this i am like that 20:10 i am beautiful i am handsome i am intelligent i follow 20:17 i am a swamiji all these identifications 20:25 they are all false identifications once one person went to attend 20:33 the rathyatra so you know lord jagannath when He comes 20:39 to the bordeaux the big street it's a three kilometer (two mile) long 20:45 street extremely wide probably 20:50 30 meters wide or something and then he goes there 20:57 so now of course it's getting covered on television but 30 years ago it there was no live coverage 21:04 so on the day of rathyatra over a million people would fill up the 21:10 street he said what a sight it used to be so they would all see jagannaji from far 21:18 and they're doing dhandavat so prostrate obeisance that is called 21:23 dandavat with all their devotion villagers come from here and there we want to 21:28 participate and from far they lie down flat on the floor 21:34 and one dog happened to walk in front of the rath the chariot 21:41 and the dog saw this guy is doing pranam that guy is doing pranam he said you know i must be something 21:47 they are doing pranam to me that is the pride of the dog 21:54 the dog doesn't realize there is lord jagannath behind 22:00 they are all doing pranam to lord similarly we may think i'm like this i'm 22:08 like that but we don't realize all these qualities are bestowed by someone 22:17 and they can also be snatched away but whatever one may have 22:23 the pride is quick to come 22:41 if somebody is young if somebody is powerful if somebody is rich 22:48 etc it's very difficult not to be 22:53 proud that is why it is said 23:03 at the age of 16 the gadhi the gadhi is the female horse 23:09 the gadhi even she thinks i am an apsara the age is such 23:16 the age is intoxicating one gandharva celestial angel 23:23 came and gave darshan to a lady so you know the vanity (pride) of ladies 23:30 gents have their own vanity ladies have their own vanity so the gandharva said 23:36 ask for a boon as she realized oh she said what should i ask 23:41 so the gandharva prompted should i make you beautiful she slapped him 23:48 you mean i'm not beautiful now you'll laugh but this is the pride 23:55 of all of us in some way or the other 24:01 and this is what we need to target 24:08 so if you remember the yoga sutras maharishi patanjali says 24:14 practice the reverse thinking if you wish if you can first of all 24:21 recognize the pride as the enemy and second 24:27 realize i wish to get rid of it because only then i'll be a recipient of 24:34 grace if you say okay i wish to keep pride and i also wish to keep God 24:39 no hope the gopis made this mistake 24:44 when the maharas started the gopis were at such a high level 24:50 the lord Krishna was dancing with them God is dancing with them imagine what 24:56 privilege but then the gopis made a mistake they were looking at Krishna 25:03 and suddenly they started looking at themselves i must be special that's why he's 25:09 dancing with me and the moment they looked at themselves 25:14 the sight from Krishna, the consciousness shifted 25:22 जब मैं था हरि नहीं, अब हरि हैं मैं नहीं  (मैं is the sense of self) मैं, the pride has come so Shri Krishna disappeared 25:29 so we now have to do the prati paksha bhavanam as maharishi patanjali says 25:37 first of all recognize the devil that pride within you 25:43 second aspire to get rid of it and third 25:50 to replace it by practicing humbleness (humility) 25:56 the moment we think we have pride it is a sure shot indication that we 26:04 have forgotten God see the firefly can be proud at night 26:13 it's very glorious at night you seen fireflies at night, wow 26:18 but when the sun rises can the firefly be proud ? its pride is only in the absence of the 26:25 sun likewise when we forget God we can say oh you know i made a double storied 26:31 house but if you remember God made the whole world and much more 26:37 then what is there to be proud about so replace it with thoughts of humbleness 26:47 Chaitanya Mahaprabhu He made this the basis of his philosophy 26:54 he said that look 27:05 consider yourself more insignificant than a blade of grass 27:11 don't tell others i am more insignificant than a blade of grass that is false humility 27:19 from inside you consider yourself more insignificant than a blade of grass 27:26 and be extremely tolerant don't seek amanina 27:35 don't seek prestige for yourself give all respect to others 27:44 in this state do kirtan all the time 27:50 always chant the glories of God so that critical point 27:59 must be prioritized in our spiritual practice 28:07 and must be the focus as the culprit 28:12 so Kripalu ji maharaj says with humbleness see yourself as fallen and 28:18 then pray to the lord you are the rescuer of the fallen my lord 28:24 now please grace me and this is the fourth path 28:31 actually it is not the fourth path i duped you all 28:36 it is the third part the basis of bhakti itself but just  28:43 To put it as a wake-up call i mentioned it as a fourth but the fact is 28:48 that humbleness (humility) itself is the foundation of all bhakti the radha krishna temple 28:56 invites you to a week-long spiritual journey as we present the life 29:01 transformational series based on the science of happiness by swami mukundanan 29:07 an iit and iim alumnus and amazon's best-selling author of a profoundly 29:14 inspiring line of books like the power of thoughts, signs of mind management 29:19 bhagavad-gita and more the seven-day complementary offering includes in-person yoga 29:26 meditation kirtans refreshing morning walks and structured lectures 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