Happy New Year 2025 - It is Time to LIFT the Bar! Are You READY? by Swami Mukundanand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7NwOUrqO1o
*Gita Shloka* 9.22
“There are those who always think of
Me and engage in exclusive devotion to Me. To them, whose minds are always
absorbed in Me, I provide what they lack and preserve what they already possess
,i.e., योगक्षेमं वहाम्यहम्”
yoga—supply spiritual assets; kṣhemam—protect spiritual assets; vahāmi—carry; aham—I
https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/chapter/9/verse/22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7NwOUrqO1o Main Points: 1 God is saying to Arjuna if you engage in My Ananya (none other than Krishna) devotion then “yoga-kshemam vahamyaham”. God says I will do two things, the first is Yog and the second is kshema https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7NwOUrqO1o&t=38 2 Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) used to have "Yogakshemam Vahamyaha" as its logo, highlighting the company's aim to provide financial security and well-being to its policyholders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7NwOUrqO1o&t=42 3 shri Krishna says I will do the Yog, if you don't have divine knowledge that is needed for the Path, I will make arrangements for it if your weakness is lack of detachment, I will arrange for it if your weakness is lack of faith, I will help you strengthen it, and I will slowly do the Yog help you get what you don't have https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7NwOUrqO1o&t=130 4 and the second is Kshem, Kshem means what you have, I will protect it what spiritual assets you have managed to accumulate, I will ensure that they remain intact so, He is taking guarantee that if you engage in my devotion Arjun, I will protect you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7NwOUrqO1o&t=158 5 now in the world also, this helping sentiment is there, even to an unknown person you will extend a helping hand. Listen to example of one hospital emergency ward where there was an old man who was almost breathing his last and a military man walked In & he “acted” as the son of dying man just like a consoling “son” and then if it's your blood relative you are willing to help even further https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7NwOUrqO1o&t=183 6 Listen to the example of one father, he was poor and he was passing Away, so he handed over a sealed locket to his daughter saying that if you're in real trouble, use this locket, she kept it as her precious treasure till she was quite aged. The sealed locket remained a beacon of hope for her even though she then found that it was just a broken glass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7NwOUrqO1o&t=331 7 so this is what a worldly father is doing and God is the divine father so the divine father has got such a huge heart, He loves us so much more, only thing is that we are unaware of His love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7NwOUrqO1o&t=423 8 Listen to the humorous example of two neighbors, one old lady a strong believer and her neighbor was an atheist. So this lady would come out in the door way and said praise the Lord, praise the Lord the sun has come out & the atheist neighbor would get annoyed and say there is no Lord, finally God made atheist pay for groceries of old lady ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7NwOUrqO1o&t=444 9 so God says look, I'll maintain your yog kshem - now the question is do you really believe this verse ? do you really believe God is protecting you ? if you believe that the master of infinite universes is your protector and you believe He is sitting in your heart then the sign of it should be that fear should vanish that is why in surrender there are six aspects of surrender and the fourth point is that fear must disappear. The faith should come that He is taking care of me. Now do we really believe is the question, to what extent do we believe these things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7NwOUrqO1o&t=522 10 Mother Parvati asked Shankar ji that the scriptures are saying that you bathe in the Ganga and all your sins will be washed off, so she said all these pilgrims who are going to Kashi and taking bath, why are their sins not washed off ? Listen to what Shankr ji told & demonstrated to Parvati that sins are not washed off as people who do not believe that their sins will be washed off https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7NwOUrqO1o&t=576 11 likewise shri Krishna is saying, I will protect you, why are you fearing ? Now imagine if the commissioner of police of one city says you don't worry, I will put my force to protect you, you say good, I have a big assurance and Bhagwan says I am sitting inside your heart & protecting you, now we need to have faith in that protection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7NwOUrqO1o&t=752 12 protection !this verse there has been a scholar called Jagannath Mishra who has written a commentary on the entire Mahabharat and the Gita is a part of the Mahabharata so he wrote a commentary on this verse Jagannath Mishra said no, let me correct it, Shri Krishna says I will maintain the yogkshem, Krishna must have said it by mistake, so he corrected it and said “dadhamyaham”. Vahamyaham means I will protect my devotee, he said shri Krishna must have actually meant dadhamyaham, i.e., I will ask My (God’s) people to protect, you know such & such angels, you please come & protect so Jagannath Mishra cut the words of the Gita book, made it “dadhamyaham” (instead of Vahamyaham) & went off to bathe in the river. Now Shri Krishna knows everything. Listen how Krishna practically convinced Jagannath Mishra that it was indeed Vahamyaham (I will protect my devotee) & NOT Dadhamyaham (I will ask My (God’s) people to protect) that God actually meant in Gita https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7NwOUrqO1o&t=786 13 But there is a caveat (condition) here, now you say ok God will protect me but God says if you “Ananya (none other than Krishna) chintan” – only if you engage your mind in My loving devotion and absorb your mind in me alone - Ananya (none other than Krishna), then to such a person, I will take complete care. So, it is necessary for us now to engage in devotion and then receive shri Krishna’s protection and that devotion must be Ananya (none other than Krishna) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7NwOUrqO1o&t=1003 14 as per Jagatguru Shri Kripalu ji Maharaj, this word “Ananya (none other than Krishna)” is very important, it is the key word. We have all engaged in devotion in endless life times but we were not Ananya (none other than Krishna), our mind was divided - a little love for God, a little for the world, a little for status, a little for prestige, a little for comforts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7NwOUrqO1o&t=1041 15 Shri Krishna says “mam ekam (love Me alone)” - God needs you to lift the bar and make your devotion exclusive for Krishna, make your love exclusive for Krishna, now whether you do it in one year or five years or whenever but that kind of devotion is what God will need because only that kind of devotion will purify the mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7NwOUrqO1o&t=1082 16 see the problem is what we do is love God a little & also love world a little. Suppose there is a dirty linen & you wish to clean it, so on this side you are putting soap but on the other side you are throwing dirt. Now that cloth is not going to get cleansed. Likewise, you use your heart to love God and then again use it to love the world, so all the cleansing that was going on, is undone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7NwOUrqO1o&t=1117 17 and Shri Krishna wants Ananya (none other than Krishna) bhakti. Understand this condition, I've repeated it many times in the 8th chapter, He says that to that soul I will easily be attained, so in the entire Gita only in one place shri Krishna says I am easily attained, everywhere else He is saying very difficult, so to one soul He says you do this Ananya bhakti to Me (Krishna) and I will meet you easily, you make your heart exclusive for Me and then see the magic, I am guaranteeing you Arjun that I will maintain your yogakshem, you don't need to go to the Life Insurance Corporation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7NwOUrqO1o&t=1161 Transcript 0:00 do you really believe that God is protecting you 0:05 if you believe that the master of infinite 0:09 universes is your protector and you believe 0:13 that He is sitting in your heart then the sign of it 0:16 is that fear should vanish 0:19 that is 0:21 why in surrender there are six aspects of 0:26 surrender and the fourth point is 0:31 that fear must 0:34 disappear, the faith should come that He is taking care of me 0:38 He is saying to Arjuna if you engage in 0:42 devotion then “yoga-kshemam vahamyaham”. there used to be only one insurance company in india 50 years ago, lic, life insurance corporation of india & they used to have their logo as “yoga kshemam vahamyaham” they pulled it out of this 1:08 verse shri Krishna says I will maintain the 1:11 yoga-kshemam. LIC says we will maintain your 1:16 yoga-kshemam so what will you do will you protect me 1:19 no when you die, we will give insurance amount to your relatives but this is coming from shri Krishna’s 1:27 verse He says I will do two things the first 1:31 is yoga and the second 1:34 kshema so what is yoga then I will give you what 1:38 you don't have, shri Krishna I don't have that 1:42 one billion please give me shri Krishna says what 1:46 spiritual treasures you don't 1:49 have that I will give you I will not give you 1:54 what you ask I will give you what I think is 1:58 right for you 2:00 this is the whole problem right if He gives us 2:02 what we asked, the problem will be solved at least so 2:05 we think shri Krishna let this happen shri 2:09 Krishna let that happen 2:10 shri Krishna says I will do the yog if 2:14 you don't have divine knowledge that is needed for the 2:18 path I will make arrangements for it if your 2:23 weakness is lack of detachment I will arrange 2:27 for it if your weakness is lack of faith I will 2:31 help you strengthen it and I will slowly 2:34 do the yog help you get what you don't have 2:38 and the second is 2:41 kshem, kshem means what you have I will 2:45 protect it what spiritual assets you 2:49 have managed to accumulate, I will ensure that they remain intact 2:58 so, He is taking guarantee that if you engage in my devotion 3:03 Arjun I will protect you now in the 3:08 world also this sentiment is there 3:12 even to an unknown person you will extend a 3:16 helping 3:19 hand in one 3:21 hospital emergency ward there was an old man 3:26 who was almost breathing his last 3:32 and a military man walked 3:35 in the nurse said to the 3:39 man who was remembering his son, he was foggy in his head 3:44 but he was remembering my child son 3:47 and the nurse said there is your son and then she called and 3:53 said your father has been waiting for you so that man came 3:58 and saw the old man and held his hand and 4:01 sat 4:03 down and kept on giving him consoling 4:07 words through the night the nurse said should I get 4:10 some chair for you it's okay the nurse said I should 4:14 move the fan around it's fine he sat there all 4:18 night long and the old man was mumbling something 4:22 and holding the soldier's hand his son's hand so 4:27 he 4:28 thought until he breathed his last and his hand 4:32 became life less and then the soldier went to the 4:36 nurse and informed 4:39 her the nurse said I'm so sorry she was about 4:45 to commiserate (to console that man) for the death of his father, then the 4:49 soldier said who was this the man the nurse said 4:54 your father, he said I never met him before why 4:58 didn't you say so I realized that he was 5:01 looking for someone and I happened to be around 5:04 so I thought let me fill in he's not able to 5:06 know let him feel that his son is with him now imagine that in the world also this 5:15 kind of gesture is not uncommon to help someone 5:18 else and then if it's your blood 5:23 relative you are willing to help even further 5:26 for your blood relative you will do so much more 5:31 one 5:33 father he was poor and he was passing 5:38 away so he handed over a locket a sealed locket 5:42 to his daughter if you're in real trouble use 5:46 this 5:47 locket she kept it as her precious treasure 5:51 and she went through bad times and difficult 5:54 times the father passed 5:56 away but slowly this girl 6:00 her financial condition started improving 6:02 she got married her life became 6:06 settled and she was now enjoying a good life 6:11 curiosity remained what had my father given me 6:15 she took it 6:18 to the jeweller and said can you please open this jewel 6:23 box the jeweller saw that it was so tightly sealed 6:28 finally he had to take a hammer and smash it and it 6:31 got 6:32 scattered and he looked at the round thing 6:36 inside and he said lady this is only broken 6:41 glass your father had given you 6:44 glass and the lady said absolutely not Mr 6:49 jeweller he did not give me the glass he gave me 6:53 the most precious thing he gave me hope it 6:58 was the hope that he gave which was the basis of 7:02 my 7:03 life, so this is what a worldly father is doing 7:08 and God is the divine 7:11 father so the divine father has got such a huge 7:17 heart He loves us so much 7:20 more only thing is that we are unaware of His love 7:24 there were two 7:27 neighbors one old lady a strong believer and 7:31 her neighbor was an atheist so this lady would come 7:35 out in the door way and said praise the lord 7:39 praise the lord the sun has come out 7:42 and the neighbor would get annoyed and say there is no 7:46 lord and she would say today the rose has blossomed 7:50 praise the lord but the lady was going through 7:54 tough times and one day she said o lord ive 7:59 got no groceries in my house what will I eat 8:03 tomorrow so the 8:05 neighbor he arranged for some groceries and put them 8:09 at her door 8:11 step the next day when she got up and opened the door she 8:15 said grocery is here praise the 8:17 lord the neighbor said ha caught you there no lord 8:24 I arranged for this 8:26 grocery the lady said 8:29 praise the lord you arranged for the groceries and you also 8:33 arranged for the devil to pay for 8:42 them so God says look I'll maintain your 8:48 yog kshem now the question is do you really believe 8:52 this verse 8:53 do you really believe God 8:57 is protecting you if you believe that the master 9:01 of infinite universes is your protector 9:06 and you believe He is sitting in your heart 9:09 then the sign of it should be that fear should vanish 9:13 that is why 9:15 in surrender there are six aspects of 9:20 surrender and the fourth point 9:25 is that fear must disappear 9:27 the faith should come that He is taking care of 9:32 me now do we really believe is the question to 9:36 what extent do we believe these things mother 9:40 Parvati asked Shankar ji that the scriptures are 9:45 saying that you bathe in the ganga and all your sins 9:49 will be washed 9:50 off so she said all these pilgrims who are going 9:54 to kashi and taking bath why are their sins 9:58 not washed off ? 10:01 she asked Shankar ji that the puraanas are saying “verse” vishnu puraan says 10:17 what to speak of bathing you stand apart 10:20 from the ganga and say hey gange & your sins will be washed off 10:24 and the person who actually bathes, there is no 10:28 doubt left 10:30 why are these pilgrims’ sins not getting washed off? 10:33 mother Parvati is questioning Shiv ji, 10:38 Shiv ji said Parvati the problem is they don't believe it, these people who are bathing 10:43 don't have faith in 10:49 this they hear it, they say it but they don't believe it so he said let me show you 10:56 give you demonstration 10:59 sa as per plan Shankar ji and Parvati they reached 11:02 kashi in 11:05 disguise shankarji by his yog maya he 11:16 created a ditch of punk, wet mud, & he fell into it as an old man and Parvati as an old woman started wailing outside my husband has 11:19 fallen into the ditch he has been cursed if he is 11:24 not removed by tonight he shall die please 11:27 help 11:29 hearing her cries any passerby would be 11:32 moved and would come but when they were about to go 11:36 to save Parvati, Parvati in the form 11:39 of the old lady would say but I need to tell you 11:43 that there is a caveat (condition) out here that the person who goes in must 11 :48 be fully 11:49 sinless if the person has any sins on the account 11:53 that person’s head will 11:56 burst these people would come out from the bath in the 12:00 ganga on hearing it, said oh, 12:03 no 12:08 chances all of them they had come out from the bath 12:13 but they did not really believe that those sins will be 12:16 washed until evening, one young lad came 12:21 & Parvati said look you must be sinless he said 12:24 I just had a bath where is the doubt and he 12:27 went and saved Shankar ji Shankar ji said look he 12:30 is the only guy 12:32 who believed, right, likewise shri Krishna is saying 12:38 I will protect you why are you 12:41 fearing ? now imagine if the 12:46 commissioner of police of one city says you don't worry I 12:50 will put my force to protect 12:54 you, you say good, I have a big assurance and bhagwan says I am sitting 12:59 inside your heart & protecting you now we need to have 13:03 faith in that 13:06 protection this verse there has been a 13:11 scholar called Jagannath 13:15 Mishra who has written a commentary on the 13:19 entire Mahabharat and the Gita is a part of the 13:21 Mahabharata so he wrote a commentary on this verse 13:24 as well so when he came to this verse he 13:28 looked at this “verse” Jagannath Mishra 13:39 said no, let me correct it, shri Krishna says I will 13:44 maintain the 13:46 yogkshem, Krishna said it by 13:49 mistake so he corrected it and said 13:53 “dadhamyaham”. vahamyaham means I will protect you my devotee, he said 13:59 shri Krishna means dadhamyaham,I.e., I will ask people to 14:02 protect, you know such & such angels you please come 14:05 14:08 & protect so Jagannath Mishra cut the 14:13 words of the Gita book, made it “dadhamyaham” (instead of vahamyaham) & went off to bathe in the river now shri Krishna knows everything Shri 14:26 Krishna said my God he is writing commentary on 14:30 my Gita in his purport he can write what ever 14:34 he wishes but why he is changing the 14:37 original, from “vahamyaham”, he has changed to “dadhamyaham” shri Krishna came 14:44 there you know his face knocked off, as a little boy and He brought a whole lot of 14:54 rations so Jagannath Mishra did not have any 14:58 food at home and his wife was complaining 15:01 that look God is not protecting you so He came 15:04 with all these rations, knocked on the door Jagannath 15:09 Mishra's wife opens up and she says this little boy 15:12 carrying all the ration on the head with face all smashed 15:15 up, so who are you the boy said that Jagannath 15:20 Mishra has sent these rations for 15:23 you and the lady said why is your face so 15:26 beaten up, he got annoyed & hit me many 15:30 times she got so mad what's with my 15:34 husband getting annoyed at a little boy so she took 15:38 the ration and sent the boy off and Jagannath 15:42 Mishra came back from his bath in the river 15:45 his wife started pouring upon him have you 15:49 lost your senses in your old age is this the way to 15:52 behave he said what are you talking about she 15:55 said what was the need to beat that boy ? which boy are you talking about ? you sent the boy and you 16:02 didn't even 16:03 realise you put so many groceries on his head 50 kg can a little boy 16:07 hold so much ? finally Jagannath Mishra figured 16:11 out what was the colour of the boy He was blue 16:14 coloured oh my God now he understood that 16:19 shri Krishna himself had come. I 16:23 corrected his words so He is showing I am 16:26 bruised all over I am maintaining your 16:30 yogkshem and to show what his words are 16:34 correct He 16:43 created that pastime but again there is a caveat (condition) here, now you say ok God will protect me but He says if you “Ananya (none other than Krishna) chintan” - if you engage your mind in my loving 16:56 devotion and absorb your mind in me alone - Ananya (none other than Krishna) 17:04 then to such a person I will take 17:08 complete 17:11 care so it is necessary for us now to 17:16 engage in devotion and then receive shri 17:20 Krishna’s 17:21 protection and that devotion must be Ananya (none other than Krishna) as per jagatguru Shri Kripalu ji 17:31 maharaj this word “Ananya (none other than Krishna)” is very 17:36 important 17:38 it is the key to it we have all engaged in 17:43 devotion in endless life 17:46 times but we were not Ananya (none other than Krishna) 17:49 our mind was divided a little love for 17:54 God, a little for the 17:56 world, a little for status, a little for prestige, a little 18:01 for 18:02 comforts and shri Krishna says “mam ekam” 18:08 I need you to lift the bar and make your 18:13 devotion 18:16 exclusive, make your love 18:19 exclusive, now whether you do it in one year or 18:23 five years or whenever but that kind of devotion 18:29 is what I will 18:31 need because that kind of devotion will purify the 18:37 mind see the problem is what we do is love God 18:41 a little, love world a little, “verse” 18:54 suppose there is a dirty linen you wish to clean it, so on this 18:59 side you are putting soap but on the other side 19:03 you are throwing dirt. now that cloth is not going to get 19:07 cleansed. likewise you use your heart to love God 19:13 and then again use it to love the world, so all the cleansing that 19:17 was going on, is undone. 19:21 and shri Krishna says none of this ghapad shaped (,I.e., none of this nonsense) 19:26 Ananya (none other than Krishna), understand this condition I've repeated it 19:30 many times in the 8th chapter He says “verse” to that soul I will easily be attained, so in the 19:45 entire Gita only in one place shri Krishna 19:48 says I am easily attained, everywhere else He is saying very difficult “verse” so to one soul he says you do this and I will meet you 20:00 easily you make your heart exclusive for me 20:04 and then see the magic I am guaranteeing you 20:08 Arjun I will maintain your yogakshem you 20:12 don't need to go to the life insurance 20:14 corporation
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