The Easiest Path to Reach God - MUST WATCH by Swami Mukundanand

The Easiest Path to Reach God - MUST WATCH by Swami Mukundanand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyYhdRfaWIg Full Text 1  That bhakti is above and beyond karma, gyan and ashtang yog. The vedas talk about a part of karma, another of gyaan, another of bhakti another of ashtang yog.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyYhdRfaWIg&t=0 2 Sage Narada has written one of the most important texts in regard to the path of bhakti-yoga, he says this bhakti that I am describing is above and beyond the other means which is karma, gyan and ashtang - now you may say that you know he is just liking his own path but really there is a science behind it which we will try to understand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyYhdRfaWIg&t=26 3  what is this karma karma does not refer to working in the office or cooking at home, the word karma in the vedas has come for the ritualistic practices and ceremonies, so the rituals described in the vedas are extremely elaborate and if you wish to do them you must fulfill the rules and regulations and there are six such conditions to the karmas Verse  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyYhdRfaWIg&t=71 4 the scriptures say “desh”, “kal“, “padarth“, “karta“, “mantra“, “karm“ - when all these are fulfilled you will get the fruit of karma - that means the place where you are doing it must be pure, the time must be appropriate, the material used must be pure, the person who is doing the yagya must be pure, the person who has arranged must have the pure intention, and the mantras used must be perfect, like for example you have heard Yajurvedi Brahmins reciting mantras Verse  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyYhdRfaWIg&t=129 5 Now while saying these mantras they indicate with their hands and they lift and lower the scales, what is it that they are doing ? is it just an interest of theirs ? No, to each syllable of each mantra of the Yagya ceremony a scale has been attached, that needs to be enunciated and indicated with the hands  but the condition is there must be not a difference of even one scale or you will not get the fruit - just like if a huge air bus, one wire has come off, the plane does not fly, you may say such a huge machine has been grounded because of one wire, that is how it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyYhdRfaWIg&t=211 6  so in the ritualistic section the vedas are very strict why because they want to dissuade us from that side. The fruit of these rituals is materialistic, verse, perform the rituals and achieve material benefit, so the vedas say, look, if you are insistent, go ahead but we will make it difficult for you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyYhdRfaWIg&t=279 7  that is why even King Dashrath ji maharaj (father of Lord Rama) during the Ramayana, when he wished to do a Putrakamesthi Yagya, there was only one brahmana on the whole planet earth who was able to execute it properly, Vashisht ji did not do it, he said I am not competent, verse,Sringi Rishi performed it, verse, so these rituals or karma kand are extremely stringent and if you do them properly what is the fruit not god realization but materialistic benefit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyYhdRfaWIg&t=315 8  in other words you dig a mountain and find the mole hill, that is why Lord Krishna who is the source of all the vedas in the Bhagavad-Gita, He is dissuading us from going towards the rituals, He says, don't get attracted by the flowery language of the vedas that promise you material rewards, understand that they are temporary and they will all be snatched away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyYhdRfaWIg&t=377 9  maximum you will get from karma kand is swarg, swarga kamoyajet, but even the attainment of the celestial abodes will be temporary, verse, “swarga swalpa anta dukh dai”, so this is the path of karma kand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyYhdRfaWIg&t=428 10  yet four-fifths of the vedic mantras are related to karma kand - 80,000 out of one lakh veda mantras are related to the karma section, you will say when that is not the goal then why so elaborate descriptions ? because the vedas are realistic, they know that majority of humankind is not interested in God realization,  most people want materialistic benefits so rather than letting them become frivolous, they say all right, at least remain under the shelter of the vedas, today you don't want god but you have faith in the vedas, tomorrow you may rise further and say what was the use of all this let me choose a higher goal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyYhdRfaWIg&t=455 11  now come to the second part, the path of gyan yoga, the goal out here is by intellectual analysis to understand that I am not the body, I am not the mind, I am not the intellect, and "Swarupevasthanam", to become situated in the self, not in theory, we all know in theory that I am the soul, who doesn't know that, but in realization,  which means all these designations we have I am a Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, indian, american - all the designations of the body, to cut them all away, I am the pure soul, by realization, so in the path of gyan the endeavor is to stop the thinking process, and finally allow the mind to reach the state of nirvikalp samadhi, ,i.e., no thinking, like a stone does not think the same manner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyYhdRfaWIg&t=534 12  but what many people don't realize is that merely by self-knowledge liberation will not happen, liberation requires knowledge of God, the Shvetashvatara Upanishad of the Yajurveda says verse only by knowledge of God will you be able to cross over the ocean of life and death,  there is no other means so the path of gyan needs bhakti for its completion, when the gyani engages in bhakti he draws the grace of God and through the grace of God, he is able to know God and then reach the ultimate goal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyYhdRfaWIg&t=622 13  that is why in the Bhagavad-Gita, Lord Krishna says the final salvation will not happen by your effort, it will be My prasad or my grace, so gyan needs bhakti for its completion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyYhdRfaWIg&t=700 14  the third is ashtang, in this ashtang yoga maharshi patanjali has built bhakti inside because he says "Ishwara pranidhanat samadhi siddhih" ,i.e., you will only reach samadhi when you surrender to God, in other words every path has the prerequisite of bhakti and if you remove bhakti what happens ? Verse  where love for God is not included that is not yoga, it is kuyog and it is not gyan, it is agyan , ignorance. So the first point is bhakti is necessary in every path but here Devarshi Narada states that bhakti or devotion is above and beyond all the others (,i.e., karm, gyan & Ashtang yog) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyYhdRfaWIg&t=732 Standby link (in case youtube link does not work) The Easiest Path to Reach God - MUST WATCH Swami Mukundananda.mp4

The Biggest Problem in Life that Bhagavad Gita Helps Solve for You by Swami Mukundanand

The Biggest Problem in Life that Bhagavad Gita Helps Solve for You by Swami Mukundanand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLgXE7HO00 Full Text 1 Biggest Problem in Life that Bhagavad Gita Helps Solve for you:  a patient was suffering from griping stomachache and he went to the doctor's clinic, the doctor was not there in his chamber the patient was waiting in each moment was seeming like an age long finally when the doctor came the patient expressed his problem to him and the doctor said not to worry I've got a medicine here in the cabinet and this will cure it right away  he administered the dose to the patient and in less than a minute the patient's stomach ache started subsiding the patient said Doctor The Cure was right here and I was suffering because of my lack of knowledge of it the doctor said that is exactly what it is human beings suffer in so many ways because they lack knowledge of the Cure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLgXE7HO00&t=0 2  Ved Vyas says, verse, the main cause of the suffering of humankind is ignorance, there is nothing as sublime (beautiful) in this world as pure wisdom even in the material realm one little bit of knowledge can make such a big difference,  you know there is an affliction (disease) called scurvy the doctors here will be knowing, it gets caused when you don't receive any intake of vitamin C for a month at a stretch and that is why in the olden days the sailors who would be in their ship for one month or two would get afflicted by scurvy  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLgXE7HO00&t=64 3   and it is such an awful disease so the colonialists who came from Europe to America in the 15th, 16th century they were getting afflicted by scurvy because of the sea voyage because probably they didn't access vitamin C.  There was one vegetable that could have solved their problems and that was tomatoes, which were full of vitamin C, and yet these colonialists who died in huge numbers because of scurvy never took advantage of tomatoes for many decades because some of them had carried them to Europe and  there one person had misinformed that this is like the Wolf Peach and if you eat this it will cause frothing in the mouth and it will cause twitching of the body and even death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLgXE7HO00&t=122 4  Everyone believed that misinformation and that was the reason that although the cure for scurvy was right in front of them but they did not utilize until somebody informed them it is not the case and then they started healing themselves  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLgXE7HO00&t=200 5 we all know wisdom makes such a huge difference. A patient was suffering from griping stomachache and he went to the doctor's clinic, the doctor was not there in his chamber, the patient was waiting & each moment was seeming like an age long,  finally when the doctor came, the patient expressed his problem to him and the doctor said not to worry I've got a medicine here in the cabinet my cupboard and this will cure it right away.  He administered the dose to the patient and in less than a minute the patient's stomach ache started subsiding the patient said, doctor the cure was right here and I was suffering because of my lack of knowledge of it, the doctor said that is exactly what it is, human beings suffer in so many ways because they lack knowledge of the cure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLgXE7HO00&t=225 6  Ved Vyas says the main cause of the suffering of humankind is ignorance. Of course somebody may say that it is lack of availability of vaccine in developing countries that's why humankind is suffering, these are all smaller reasons  and the main cause why we are unhappy, the main reason why we are not blissful, we are not experiencing love and the light of knowledge, is the ignorance that is enveloping our soul.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLgXE7HO00&t=310 7   Why Lord Krishna spoke Bhagavad Gita? In the Bhagavad-Gita, Lord Krishna is revealing Divine knowledge to Arjun, now think who is speaking this knowledge, it's coming from the Lotus mouth of God Himself, when you keep that in mind you benefit more from the knowledge, the chitta shakti gets added,  otherwise knowledge becomes devoid of chitt so Lord Krishna is bestowing that knowledge but for others to benefit from it faith must be established, without faith, people don't utilize it and to create faith in Arjun in the knowledge that he is bestowing Lord Krishna in this verse is giving its credibility https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLgXE7HO00&t=356 8  like for example there are weight reduction diets, they have this package for reducing weight but why will anybody adopt it, so they give testimonials “before & after”, people look, wow, now the faith is getting created  so likewise Lord Krishna, He is developing faith in Bhagavad Gita. The Master Teacher, if he just says Arjun, here is the knowledge Arjun will hear it but never implement it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLgXE7HO00&t=433 9 so to establish the credibility, Lord Krishna says Arjun this knowledge I am giving you is not just to make you fight the war, it is the same science that I've bestowed in the beginning of creation, so God bestowed it to Brahmaji as we all know, verse, Srimad Bhagavatam says but here,  God says that He also bestowed it to Vivasvan, the Sun god and the Sun god bestowed it to Prajapati, the progenitor of humankind that is Manu, and Manuji Maharaj, he bestowed it to the first king of the solar Dynasty which was Ikswaku so he is saying that this is how the knowledge came and that also helps create bhav towards it  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLgXE7HO00&t=472 10 if you go to somebody's house, let us say it was your grandfather used to live there who is no more, and you are going around and then your father says you know this is the chair on which your grandfather sat for 20 years, now you look at the chair differently, the chair is the same, but the way you look at it has become different, you have got that gyan chakshu (eyes/vision) now.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLgXE7HO00&t=540 11 Likewise you go into a temple and there is an idol made of stone, somebody who is unaware of its importance thinks it's an idol, but then you look at it with the eyes of knowledge, the pran pratishtha was done, we invoked the presence of the Lord in these deities and millions of souls till today have worshiped it –  now the bhav increases and if somebody tells you, you know, it was actually first given to Jagadguru Ramanujacharya by Hanuman ji himself, who manifested it, now the way you look at that deity will be completely different, layers of devotion will have gotten added. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLgXE7HO00&t=575 12  likewise Lord Krishna is telling Arjun, look, it came to Manu and our Manuji Maharaj, he lives for 30 crore 67 lakh 20,000 years & our Manu ji maharaj Vaivasvat Manvantar, he is already 12 crore years old,  so this knowledge, this science is so old and that also is a limited description because God is eternal and the soul is also eternal so the science of God realization is eternal that Eternal science Lord Krishna says Arjun I am now discussing it with you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLgXE7HO00&t=631

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The MOMENT of God-realization | Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 Verse 72 by Swami Mukundanand

The MOMENT of God-realization | Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 Verse 72 by Swami Mukundanand

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Full Text   1  The Lord desires his little parts to grow in divine virtue and become perfect like himself. We revere (respect) saints of the past like Sordas, Tulsidas, Meerabai, Tukaram, Guru Nanak, Kabir and Narsi Mehta We too must strive to become like them - transcendental in virtue and qualities for that is true spirituality.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIQB7_W1a_o&t=4 2  Swami Vivekananda put it so well when he said these great prophets were not unique, Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 Verse 72 Chanting, They were human as you and I and they had attained super consciousness and you and I can do the same. 

They worked on giving up those desires using the buddhi Yog, the yoga of the intellect, cultivating and practicing all this knowledge and they achieved the goal. Tthat brahmi Sthiti or state of liberation can be achieved even while living in the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIQB7_W1a_o&t=45 3  So when that state arises, what happens to our soul? Shri Krishna now answers. Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 Verse 72 Chanting,  एषा ब्राह्मी र्थ नैनां प्राप्य विमुह्यति | स्थित्वास्यामन्तकालेऽपि ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृच्छति,  Such is the state of an enlightened soul that having attained it one is never again deluded. Being established in this consciousness even at the hour of death, one is liberated from the cycle of life and death and reaches the supreme abode of God. What happens to the soul upon God Realization? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIQB7_W1a_o&t=90 4  Shree Krishna says, “Arjun, when the soul reaches that point-” Shree Krishna is developing the knowledge. Here, his emphasis is on giving up desires. When he comes to the 9th chapter etc., his emphasis will be on developing the desire for God, which is devotion (bhakti). 

Here, He has just mentioned virtues of not desiring. He says,  “Arjun, when the soul perfects that art, when the soul attains mastery over this desire and is able to eliminate them totally, the soul reaches the brahmi sthiti, the state of enlightenment.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIQB7_W1a_o&t=169 5  Right now, we are under the bondage of maya, the material energy. This material energy has bound us in ignorance. In that ignorance, we are thinking, “I am the body. This world is mine. This world will be mine. I will not leave it ever.” This person is mine. That person is mine. 

In this consciousness, we are doing karmas and the karmas are binding us and this bondage is of many lifetimes. There are the karmas binding us from endless lifetimes. There is the avidya (ignorance).  There are the three gunas of ma attva guna, rajo guna, tamo guna. Mode of goodness, passion and ignorance. There are the panchakleshas of the intellect, the panchakoshas of the body. So many bonds of the material energy have got the soul in its mesh.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIQB7_W1a_o&t=221 6 Then what happens, Shree Krishna had mentioned it a few verses a :52 “When you attach your mind to me, you will receive divine grace.” 

He says, “Arjun, when that grace will descend, by that grace, you will get not just freedom from desires, not that. Not only dukha niviritti (leaving of) but Athyantika dukha niviritti - the cause of maya, that itself will be cut asunder.  In other words, you are bound by maya.  God will cut that bondage and release you from the bondage of maya. Maya will still exist. The world will still exist. Prisoners get released from the prison. The prison still exists. They are freed from it. The world will still exist. You will get released. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIQB7_W1a_o&t=287 7  In other words, you may still be alive. You may still be in the world. You may still be living. Maya will no longer bind you.  That is called jeevan mukt avastha - Liberated even while in the body. He who reaches the jeevan mukt avastha - Maya is no longer binding him or her.  That person has been released.  There are no karmas there. There is none of the avidya, or the ignorance, there. That person "swairam charanti munaiyopi na nahya manas" is walking and working in the world, totally free. For the sake, for the benefit of others.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIQB7_W1a_o&t=347 8 And then when that person’s prarabdh is finished, that person leaves the body and goes to the divine abode of God, never to come back again. That Brahmi Sthiti, or state of liberation, can be achieved even while living in the world.  Arjun, you can do it. Prahlad did it. Dhruv did it. Ambarish did it. Prithu did it. They were all big and powerful kings. They had bigger kingdoms than yours in the kingdom of Hastinapura. They worked on giving up those desires, using the Buddhi Yog, the yoga of the intellect. Cultivating and practicing all this knowledge, and achieve the goal, Arjun. You can also do the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIQB7_W1a_o&t=400 9  When that state arises, the Vedas say, “bidyate hṛdaya-granthiś chidyante sarva-saṁśayāḥ kṣīyante cāsya karmāṇi tasmin dṛṣṭe parāvarei” Hridhaya grantish - the bondage in the heart is cut asunder. All the doubts are dispelled because of the torchlight of knowledge.  Kshiyante chaasya karmani - that sanchit stockpile of karmas of endless lifetimes is burnt. Tasmin drishte - one is united with God, seated in the state of God-realization. That state of God-realization is what Shree Krishna says, “esha brahmi sthiti.”  The state in being seated in Brahm, being enlightened. All glories to Shree Krishna All glories to Shrimad Bhagavad Gita. All glories to Jagadguru Shri Kripaluji Maharaj https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIQB7_W1a_o&t=460 Standby link (in case youtube link does not work) The MOMENT of God-realization Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 Verse 72 Swami Mukundananda.mp4

A Story that'll Awaken your Love for Shree Krishna - Feel the Presence of God | Swami Mukundananda

A Story that'll Awaken your Love for Shree Krishna - Feel the Presence of God | Swami Mukundananda 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srvBUCcvWik   Full Text 1  do you worship Thakur ji at home? yes swami ji, so you must be offering bhog? Yes, I do. How do you offer bhog ? swami ji, it is so simple, I take one thali, I put all the food in it and I put the plate on the altar and then I ring a bell, close my eyes, then open the eyes & then I take away the plate and start eating  but tell me when you close the eyes and then you open the eyes, did you see how many rotis did God eat today ? which sabzi got minus from the plate, which dal did he select more today, did he eat the sweet or not ? did you see all this ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srvBUCcvWik&t=14 2 no swami ji, why not ? God doesn't eat. If God doesn't eat, then why are you offering it ? if it is your decision that God is not going to eat then why are you offering ?  you are very correct in saying that God does not need to eat, the Vedas define him that God neither feels thirst nor feels hunger nor does he become old nor does he become sick, this is the Vedic definition of God, however when it comes to the love of the devotee, the bhav of the devotee, then God does become hungry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srvBUCcvWik&t=65 3   Go and see in Vrindavan, Sri Krishna is going himself to the houses of the gopis and stealing the butter, how hungry He has become, He is eating the half eaten berries of Shabari, that is His hunger, He went himself to the house of Vidhurani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srvBUCcvWik&t=125 4   you may have heard of that episode from the Mahabharat, when the battle of Mahabharat was becoming imminent, Lord Krishna went to try and forge a treaty and he went to the assembly of the Kauravas and said, Duryodhan, the Pandavas are your brothers ?  Duryodhan said absolutely, they have the right to live ? Absolutely & in order to live they need some land because they are kshatriya  warriors. Duryodhan said absolutely.  Lord Krishna said in that case let them have five small villages they will be contented and we will avert this war, Duryodhan said absolutely NOT, oh the amount of land on the tip of a needle, even that much I will not give without war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srvBUCcvWik&t=150 5   So Sri Krishna realized it's futile to explain to him, as a last recourse he showed Duryodhan his Virat roop, His cosmic universal form, the one that he will subsequently show to Arjun on the battleground of Kurukshetra during the dialogue of Bhagwat Gita,  He showed that same form to the evil Duryodhan but Duryodhan was still not impressed, some people say chamatkar ko namaskar but Duryodhan did not do any such namaskar, he said who is this joker and what is He doing ? tie Him up in a rope and throw Him in the cellar,  Dhritrashtra had to intervene Dhritrashtra said look Duryodhan enough is enough, don't mess with Keshav or you'll have to pay for it,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srvBUCcvWik&t=207 6 when Duryodhan came to his senses he said "All right all right Sri Krishna forget all this discussion, let's have a meal I have got chappan bhog ready." 56 kinds of items. Lord Krishna answered very aptly,  He said, a person eats for one of two reasons, either he eats because he is hungry or he eats because it is offered with love, in this case neither am I hungry nor do you have any love, besides I have an invitation from Vidhur's house.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srvBUCcvWik&t=281 7 Now Vidhur was sitting in the assembly when his name got announced, he was no longer minister, he had been taken out of that post, he was sitting at the back, he got up, that Krishna is going to come to my house and I have got no arrangements for Him, he ran to the market to see what he can get,  in the meantime Krishna had already reached his house and he started banging on the door, Vidurani, Vidur's wife, was bathing when Krishna started banging Vidurani’s door she said "Who's there?" Kaki I'm very hungry, please open https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srvBUCcvWik&t=339 8 Vidurani realized that God has come to my door and God is hungry, oh this is my chance to serve Him, how did God become hungry ? because for many many years Vidurani used to meditate if Krishna comes to my house I will make Him sit here, no no no this is not good enough,  I'll make him sit here no no no no no, I will feed Him this no I will feed Him that, she used to meditate in her mind and Krishna sitting in everybody's hearts knows everybody's thoughts, He knew all the devotion that Vidhurani had done  so without being asked, He landed up now Vidhurani lost her senses, my Lord has come, she ran out she was an old old lady, she didn't even realize she's not wearing clothes, she opened the door Krishna came to know Kaki has lost her consciousness, He took His pitambar and put it on her he said "will you not call me inside?" Vidhurani said "Come come come come."  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srvBUCcvWik&t=386 9 Now she made Him sit and what to offer Him, she had a few options but she was not able to think because she was overwhelmed in loving devotion, the nearest were the bananas she took those and in her absorption she's dropping the fruit and the banana peel she's putting it in Krishna's mouth,  Krishna is eating that banana peel enjoying, wow I have never tasted anything like this, You'll say You've never tasted anything like this like banana peels ? I heard your Golok Divine Abode has got so many tasty things ? no no no, I am tasting the love of the devotee,  God was relishing the bhav (loving devotional sentiment) with which Vidhurani was offering those banana peels.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srvBUCcvWik&t=477 10 In the meantime Vidur ji came he had come from the market, what happened today Krishna offered so much respect in front of everybody, He announced my name that He is going to come to Vidur’s house, let us prepare and then he looked inside Vidurani was sitting with Krishna putting banana peels in His mouth,  Vidur ji really lost his temper, God has come to our house and this is how you treat Him ? so he brought the halwa puri etc which he had purchased, Krishna please forgive me take this, she doesn't think properly, Krishna ate the halwa puri but he said Vidur ji, don't mind the sweetness in those banana peels is not in this halwa puri.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srvBUCcvWik&t=540 11 God relishes the love of the giver not  the gift of the  lover so when you offer bhog to the  Lord, make this sentiment that He is going  to eat it, after offering when you open  your eyes at least think for a  moment, even today He did not come to eat  Pratyaksh  Sakshhat.  He came for so many for Dhanna jaat  and for Sadna kasai  etc. that means means I don't have any  devotion,  thinking like that if we feel a little  remorse, we will get a few numbers but we  decide in the beginning itself that He  cannot  come, then where is that  faith ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srvBUCcvWik&t=600 12 see I'm only trying to prove that  we need to go further ahead we must not  be contented I am already a  devotee that is the biggest enemy of  devotion.   In three things be fully  contented, in your  spouse, in your wealth and in the food  you eat, whatever sookhi roti it's all fine.   In three things never be  contented, in your study of the  scriptures, in your giving in charity and  in the remembrance of the Lord. Always  think I have done nothing as yet for God, I need  to do so much more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srvBUCcvWik&t=657

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3 Ways to Believe Shree Krishna is God - Your Test of Faith | Swami Mukundananda | BG 10.12, 10.13

3 Ways to Believe Shree Krishna is God - Your Test of Faith | Swami Mukundananda | BG 10.12, 10.13 

https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/10/12-13/  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpW4DI-OMkY Transcript  1 Arjun said "You are the Supreme Divine Personality, the Supreme Abode, the Supreme Purifier, the eternal God, the Primal being, the unborn and the Greatest - the great sages like Narad, Asit, Deval & Vyas proclaimed this and and now You are declaring it to me Yourself  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpW4DI-OMkY&t=52 2  so Shri Krishna gave Arjun a sample of his vibhutis prior to this in the chapter and now after that Shri Krishna said that Arjun I am the Supreme, verse,    Arjun now responds and he says So You are the Param Brahma, You are the Divine Ultimate Abode, you are the Supreme Purifier, earlier on great sages said this Narad said it for You, Deval said it Ved Vyasa said it, why is Arjun quoting these sages ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpW4DI-OMkY&t=114 3  because to determine the veracity (truth) of a spiritual truth, there must be some authoritative basis, otherwise anybody can say anything, any speaker can come and make any claim that so and so is the greatest, the question will be why should we believe in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpW4DI-OMkY&t=182  4 so in our Vedic Sanatan Dharma, which we call Hindu dharma, the Vedas are considered the authority, verse, any spiritual principle must be validated on the authority of the Vedas, this is the ultimate test, do the Vedas say it ?  now somebody says I've got a different theory, say where did you get it from ? this God gave to my guru ji in a private room, the credibility will become questionable and that is why the Vedas are referenced as the authority by all.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpW4DI-OMkY&t=210 5  The great sages who write the scriptures, Tulsi Das ji the writer of the Hindi Ramayan, he says, verse, the Ramayan I have written is not a figment of my imagination but it is from the Nigam Agam Vyakaran Puran, also Ved vyas when he wrote the Srimad Bhagavatam, he says, verse, this Srimad Bhagavatam is the import of the Brahma Sutra and the Upanishads in fact for the brahma sutra also he says, verse, this brahma sutra is as per the shastras, so the authority must be there for validation. Even if God comes and says something against the Vedas, we have the right to reject, verse,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpW4DI-OMkY&t=265 6  Buddha, he did not accept the Vedic authority and propagated his version of the truth so in our Hindu samaj we offer our utmost reverential respect to the Buddha as an avatar, his name is in the 24 avatars and the dasa (10) avatars but we don't accept his philosophy as completely valid,  he is God, why don't we accept his philosophy as valid ? because it's not based on the Vedas. Why did God not base his philosophy on the Vedas ?  because the situation demanded a deviation when the Buddha came, people were misinterpreting the Vedas they were using the Vedas to justify animal sacrifice which was a complete aberration (deviation) of the original meaning, they were so immersed in ritualistic practices, they had sidelined the purification of the chitt (consciousness)  so Buddha decided if he debates with them on the real meaning of the Vedas, verse, then usually discussions don't reach a conclusion, people keep on insisting their perspective is right, so he just took everybody away from the Vedas. Now the misinterpretation that was happening stopped. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpW4DI-OMkY&t=344 7 Although what he said was a subsection of the Vedas, verse, he says cleanse your heart that is the real essence, verse, which is also in the Vedas, verse, so that is why in this Vedic Sanatan Dharma the validation from the Vedas is essential but the question is that how do you know that we are interpreting the Vedas rightly ? how do you understand the Vedas ?  through the guru, now the guru says look this is the truth, the Gita says it, Srimad Bhagavatam says it Ramayan says it etc etc and I am explaining it to you, I am not creating a new truth, the truth is eternal, I am just revealing it to you but then again initially at least the question can arise how do I know my guru's interpretation is right ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpW4DI-OMkY&t=449   8  so the third metric here is all the other gurus in history, what did Narad say, what did Ved Vyas say, what did all the other gurus say, so this becomes guru, shastra and sadhu, sadhu means all the other gurus,  so this trinity guru, sadhu & shastra is used to validate any spiritual principle then it becomes acceptable as authentic so Arjun is saying that the great sages said it, the scriptures declared it, O Shri Krishna today You Yourself are also telling me that You are the ultimate source of everything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpW4DI-OMkY&t=523 Standby link (in case youtube link does not work) 3 Ways to Believe Shree Krishna is God - Your Test of Faith Swami Mukundananda BG 10.12, 10.13.mp4