BG 4.25 | 3 Ways to Serve Lord Krishna - Which is the Highest? Bhagavad Gita Inspiration

 BG 4.25 | 3 Ways to Serve Lord Krishna - Which is the Highest? Bhagavad Gita Inspiration

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE

Full Text  1  सेवक सेब्य भाव बिनु भव न तरिअ उरगारि। भजहु राम पद पंकज अस सिद्धांत बिचारि   If you wish to cross over the ocean of life and death, you will have to have the seva bhav, the desire to serve so how will we reach the “Atmahuti” (surrender of mind (atma) to Krishna) which Lord Krishna is talking about.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=07  2  there are few things to be understood when it comes to Seva, or giving in charity, the first is what should I give in charity, the second is to whom should I give in charity, and the third is how should I give in charity, किसका दान, किसको दान, कैसे दान  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=34  3  Some yogis worship the celestial gods with material offerings unto them, others worship perfectly, who offer the self as sacrifice in the fire of the Supreme truth, two verses ago Lord Krishna said that the Karm Yogis is working in Divine Consciousness they offer the fruits of their works to God as sacrifice, O Lord I am doing this for your pleasure, He then in the previous verse said that in Divine Consciousness, in that sacrifice everything becomes divine  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=94  4  the word in Sanskrit is “Yagya” (Yajna), the connotation in people's mind is the fire sacrifice, where there's a fire burning and with the ladle you're offering the oblations “verse”, so he said that you know in this Yagya everything is Brahman in Divine Consciousness but he goes on to give an extended meaning of yagya, it is not just the sacrifice performed with fire, the sacrifice can be done in a variety of ways  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=153  5  so sacrifice means a voluntary austerity that you accept for a higher purpose, like for example a child sacrifices video games to get good grades in school, you sacrificed a long weekend in Las Vegas to come to this Satsang, it is a sacrifice all the same, so you sacrifice something lower to achieve something higher.  Without sacrifice nobody, nothing worthwhile can be achieved in life because anything that is worthy of attaining always lies upstream. So of course those who know what is the spirit of sacrifice they do it in Divine Consciousness for the pleasure of the Lord but not everybody is in that Consciousness.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=210  6  Shri Krishna says there are people who have not yet reached that blossoming of the consciousness, so they engage in sacrifice with the spirit of fruitive rewards, I will do this I will get this in return and then they find it is more tactically advantageous to worship the celestial gods, because they will be easily pleased and they will give material rewards, so people worship Saraswati to get knowledge, they worship Kuber to get wealth and so on and so forth.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=285  7  however Shri Krishna says true sacrifice is offering the very self, to offer yourself and seek nothing in return, that is called at “Atmahuti” (atma-ahuti actually), this “Atmahuti” leads to an explosion of God’s Grace  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=331  8  there was one Yogi Shri Krishna Prem who was born in Germany and something inspired him, maybe sanskar of his past life & so looking for spirituality, he came to India and there he settled down and never left India ever again, he became a Krishna devotee, this was many years ago about 80 90 years ago,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=357  9  so he writes that in this world of dust and din whenever anyone has given true “Atmahuti”, merging himself in the flame of love divine, there is an explosion which is God’s Grace for no true “Atmahuti” in this world can ever go in vain so this “Atmahuti” he's saying this is what the scriptures say  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=384  10  & Saint Kabir also said “verse”, if you want to drink the cup of divine Love, “शीश दक्षिणा दे”, you will have to give your head as Dakshina, “verse” one who's greedy, one who's attached, cannot offer the head, & in vain they talk about love but they don't understand what it is to really love, to understand love you will have to give your head.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=415  11  now somebody is saying “Atmahuti”, somebody is saying give your head, Tulsidasti says सेवक सेब्य भाव बिनु भव न तरिअ उरगारि। भजहु राम पद पंकज अस सिद्धांत बिचारि ॥ If you wish to cross over the ocean of life and death, you will have to have the seva bhav, the desire to serve so how will we reach the “Atmahuti” which Lord Krishna is talking about.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=460  12  we need to understand out here there are few things to be understood when it comes to Seva, or giving in charity. The first is what should I give in charity, the second is to whom should I give in charity and the third is how should I give in charity.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=498  13  So the first point is what should I give in charity. of course Lord Krishna says give your Atma but how will you give this Atma and make the “Atmahuti” ? the Atma is tied to the mind because in the materially bound state our consciousness is determined by the consciousness of the mind, so the only way you can offer your Atma is that you offer your mind  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=530  14  now somebody says, guruji I've offered my Atma to you but I am not able to control my mind, guruji says how have you offered your Atma to me ? you can only do “Atmahuti” if you have mastered the mind, and then the controlled mind you offer here to Gurudeva, here Shri Krishna with all the love of my heart I offer it to you.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=563  15  so to reach “Atmahuti”, you will have to surrender the mind and the mind is attached to the world so what do you do ? you start spending a little bit of your time in Seva, if I engage myself in Seva activities, then slowly slowly the mind will start developing that chintan, that contemplation, happiness of God and Guru  but now what to do, the body is engaged in the world, in today's world you have to spend eight to ten to 12 hours a day in your work because the multinational corporations they don't pay you easily they squeeze you dry for every dollar they give to you, that is why I decided to quit after three months but since those days it has got far worse  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=597  16  so all day long you are working in office, now if your Guru says please take out 12 hours, 15 or 20 hours a week to do Seva, you say guruji I just don't have time so then the third best thing is that what you earn you start doing Seva with that earning.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=663  17  so this is how you reach the top most “Atmahuti”, you start with the lowest steps “verse”, there is seva with तन मन धन, with your material possessions, with the body, with the mind but the step begins from with our material possessions, we start serving and then slowly slowly we get this privilege of serving with the body as well  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=684  18  and when we serve in the body, now we come in the spiritual devotional realm, then the mind develops this chintan I wish to give happiness to God and Guru when the mind is constantly harboring that thought, now the mind is surrendered and at that time then the “Atmahuti” takes place, so we have to begin from the lowest step  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=721  19  and then the second point to whom should we offer the service, so you can offer to a Satwik Patra, Rajasik Patra or Tamasik Patra and Nirgun Patra, here also there are four kinds or four kinds of vessels  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=754  20  One is Tamasik Patra, your village gunda he says Ganesh Puja is coming, you better cut a receipt in my receipt book, otherwise I'll see you, you say my God, to save myself I may as well give him a thousand rupees and he goes with the rest of the gundas, he starts drinking out there, the thousand rupees is well utilized for drinking this is the tamasik Patra, now he commits sin and you offer to him, you are also culpable for that sin  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=776  21  and the higher than this is Rajasik Patra, this is in the mode of passion, that if you give here your name will be placed on that blade of the fan, your name, second blade your father's name, third blade your grandfather's name, sometimes I go to temples and dharamshalas in India and every bit, whichever a name can be placed, it is there, people say you know I will die but the fan will remain out here with my name on it, so this Seva done with the desire for name and fame, this is the mode of passion  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=809  22  and then there is Satwik Seva which is motivated by compassion, You are moved to pity seeing the suffering of others and that inspires you to offer medicines to offer food and articles of necessity  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=850  23  but the highest is Nirguna Seva that is which we offer to God that O Lord this is for your pleasure, and since the guru is engaged in serving God we say gurudev this we are going to help you in your mission, so the material sevas will be of bodily help and the Divine Seva will help in uplifting the soul, so this is about whom to offer the Seva  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=870  24  and the third is how to offer it so a lot has been written in the scriptures of the world, the Bible says let not the left hand know what the right hand gives, in other words you give away the pride of having given away  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=906  25  there was the play enacted of Rahim Khan-i-Khanan (see note 1 below), Rahim he was a noble man and he had lots of wealth so he used to give in charity but when he would give, he would put his eyes down and then offer in charity, and that news reached Tulsidas who was his contemporary, they were all the saints in the bhakti movement of medieval India when there were hundreds of saints all over India  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=930  26  so Tulsidas wrote to him “verse” ऐसी देनी देंन ज्यूँ, कित सीखे हो सैन ज्यों ज्यों कर ऊंच्यो करो, त्यों त्यों नीचे नैन (कर = हाथ,hands) what is this style of giving that you have learnt, as your hand engages in higher and higher activities of giving, your eyes go further and further down, what style of giving is this ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=966  27  so that was when Raheem wrote back his famous Doha “verse” देनहार कोई और है देत रहत दिन रेन। लोग भरम मो पे करें, ताते नीचे नैन।, it all belongs to somebody else (God actually), but people are saying that Rahim is so wonderful, Rahim is so charitable, so feeling embarrassed, I put my eyes down, that is the spirit of how to give.  Jagatguru Kripalu ji maharaj, he said that this is the spirit of Seva where while giving, you think I don't have anything worthy of giving in me the heart says it is his kindness that he is accepting it, so while giving think that I am so blessed that he is accepting my offering,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=997  28  and the third point while giving feel that I have given nothing at all, so this is the spirit in which you give, and when you start from the lowest step तन धन मन slowly it builds up until we reach the point where the mind is offered in love and that is when the “Atmahuti” (surrender of mind (atma) to Krishna) happens  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKipWsmiBrE&t=1064  (see note 1 above)  The play refers to the life and works of Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan, also known as Rahim, a prominent figure during the Mughal era in India. He was a poet, scholar, and general in Akbar's court. His most famous works are his dohas (couplets) which are known for their wisdom and moral teachings  Standby link (in case youtube link does not work) BG 4.25 3 Ways to Serve Lord Krishna - Which is the Highest Bhagavad Gita Inspiration (1).mp4

How to Measure Your Surrender to God? Swami Mukundananda

How to Measure Your Surrender to God? Swami Mukundananda  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94DTznpliHs  Full Text 1  We have a free will, God has given us the ability to choose, how do we use that free will is the critical thing in all of creation.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94DTznpliHs&t=0  2  Like we have been discussing in the lectures that the powerhouse has given you the energy now, what you do with it is your free will. In the same way God has given us the ability to see, hear, think - what we are doing with it ? It is our free will.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94DTznpliHs&t=19  3  So your question is that when we are not yet surrendered, how can we assess where we are ? First of all understand what it means to surrender and then measure yourself against that ideal.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94DTznpliHs&t=39  4  So you may have heard surrender means to align my desires in accordance with the desires of the guru, not to desire against the desire of the guru, to have faith that God is protecting me, to feel gratitude, to think all I have belongs to Him, and to be free of the ego, so this is how the scriptures have defined the state of the surrender.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94DTznpliHs&t=60  5  Now you measure and if you want to put it all in one, the first of these six points is in itself complete, Aanukulyasya Sankalpaha, to desire in accordance with the desire of the guru, so if this is our mental state what do I want - whatever my guru wants, that means we are surrendered.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94DTznpliHs&t=96  6  To the extent it is not there as yet, guruji wants this but I want this, or to feel upset, to have mood off, all these things are indicative of lack of surrender.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94DTznpliHs&t=124  7  The third point of surrender is to have faith that God is protecting me. What is the sign ? Sign is that you are free from fear, if you are surrendered, you have no fear, if you have fear, you are not surrendered, the two don't go together, so check yourself, do i have fear or have I become fearless ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94DTznpliHs&t=146  8  These all require introspection, the ability to read ourselves very carefully, so it is all a work in progress, wip, we are all works in progress.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94DTznpliHs&t=178  9  To see our deficiencies is good, it makes us humble and makes us realize that the goal is far but becoming aware of that we should not become dejected, we should then make this gap as intolerable to us I know this is where I should be and this is where I am,  the next thing is this gap is not tolerable to me "O my divine beloved, this life without Your love is worse than death", which means now we are inspired & hence I will do my best to be as i know how i should be.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94DTznpliHs&t=196  10  Somebody said, o Lord, please make my actions in line with my knowledge, what a beautiful prayer, we have the knowledge, this is how i should be.  The devotee says, Lord, make my actions in line with that So to want to be the best that we know we are supposed to be, is the goal, the yearning of our sadhana, our spiritual practice  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94DTznpliHs&t=251 

Standby link (in case youtube link does not work) How to Measure Your Surrender to God Swami Mukundananda.mp4

The Way Shree Krishna Energizes your Mind - UNLOCK your Mind's Hidden Powers | Swami Mukundananda

The Way Shree Krishna Energizes your Mind - UNLOCK your Mind's Hidden Powers | Swami Mukundananda  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M  Full Text:   Bhagavad Gita Chapter 10 verses 4, 5  “Intelligence, knowledge, freedom from doubt and delusion, forgiveness, truthfulness, control of the senses, control of the mind, happiness and distress, birth, death, fear, fearlessness, nonviolence, equanimity, satisfaction, austerity, charity, fame and infamy – all these various qualities of living beings are created by Me alone”  https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/10/4-5/  1  from Me alone arise the varieties of qualities in Humans, such as Intellect, knowledge, clarity of thought, Forgiveness, Truthfulness, control over the senses and mind, joy and sorrow, birth and death, fear and courage, nonviolence, equanimity, contentment, austerity, charity, fame and infamy.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=47  2  All qualities in us manifest from Shri Krishna, He says look, when some quality manifests in people to an exceptional extent, it is My power that is enabling it, I am the ability in humans.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=86  3  Consider this intellect of ours, now sometimes you realize that this intellect is getting enhanced by some power, when He wishes someone to succeed in business, he enhances that person's intellect there, so you find that this guy is otherwise quite less intelligent  but how come he's got such amazing business acumen based on his past sanskars which he doesn't know but God knows, God gave the karmic results and enhanced the ability to earn money, well likewise God may want certain changes to happen in the world  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=182  4  when kripaluji Maharaj’s video first started coming on TV, I was in charge of his video editing department and it was a complete mess because there were three formats around the world, there was the pal format, the ccam format, and the ntsc format and changing from one video format to other was a horrendous thing because of the difference in the number of frames per second  and that got me wondering that supposing that kind of mess had happened in the computer field where there were multiple successful operating systems it would have been so chaotic for the world to interact with one another,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=236  5  is it possible that God enhanced the brain of Bill Gates to make him succeed in such a big way that Windows became the dominating system worldwide, to reduce this kind of confusion, so sometimes God wants things to happen  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=286  6  like the British may take credit for having conquered the world but Swami Vivekanand felt that they don't deserve the credit, he said the purpose of the British Empire was only to tie the world in one language and if you think about it there's something to it  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=310  7  someone asked Maharishi Shri Aurobindo, how come once India was at the top and then after that it became the Middle East, Greece and then moved on from there to Rome and then Portugal and Portugal disappeared in Spain and from Spain to France to England and then America and then back now, then China and now back to India.  What is all this ? He said God's plans are inconceivable, He lifts one area, drops the other etc so when He wants something to happen, He gives the intellect & He says I am the intellect in humans.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=330  8  Shree Krishna is the Knowledge in Humans, I am that knowledge that enables you to distinguish spiritual things, spiritual wealth from Material wealth, right from wrong.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=373  9  Shree Krishna Provides us the Clarity of Mind; again He says I am Asammohan, - the freedom from confusion, do you have that experience of clarity ?  some people have it to a tremendous extent like Einstein did and he said if you cannot explain something easily enough, you don't understand it clearly enough. So he (Einstein) was free from Asammohan (confusion).  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=391  10  Whereas a little mosquito it went on its first flight around and when it came back to the parents, they said how was your first flight, he said so amazing, wherever I went, people were clapping for me but that was his confusion.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=427  11  Ability to Forgive comes from Shree Krishna Shri Krishna says the ability to see clearly comes from Me and the ability to forgive, forgiveness requires so much of spiritual maturity, forgiveness is one of the most difficult things,  people can give up attachment but they are unable to give up bitterness over the wounds that God created in their hearts and yet some people possess this ability  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=449  12  and one of them was Nelson Mandela because for a couple of hundred years a particular class of people had practiced Apartheid in South Africa which was totally irrelevant to the modern world and they persisted with it and he was leading the movement against it.  They hurt him so badly they threw him in jail for 27 years in the harsh South African winters, he would wear a skimpy shirt and half pants for all they gave him and he was made to break lime in the quarry where his eyes literally got blinded but he was still free from bitterness  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=492  13  and later on when it became evident that Apartheid would be removed and Nelson Mandela would take over the new state, that country was on the brink of a civil war, imagine the pent-up hatred in people of all the victimization and discrimination that had been meted out to them  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=544  14  and here was a person completely able to forgive and he steered the country away from civil war. He was asked on the 60-minute show in the United States that when you walked out of prison did you not feel bitter for what they did to you for 27 years ?  He said you know I realized that I will need to throw this away completely, to do the work that I am ordained to do by God so that ability to forgive and move on which is essential to everyone for Spiritual progress without which you can never progress because you remain pinned down, Shri Krishna says that comes from Me  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=574  15  Shree Krishna enables us to Control our Senses, He also says from Me comes the satya, the truth, “Dum” (दम) the Restraint of the senses, the senses are always hankering for their objects and yet human beings somehow or the other, they develop the ability to pull them back and one such person who had that ability to an astonishing extent was Arjun  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=630  16  now Arjun's foster father was Indra, we all know his mother was Kunti, so he went to meet Indra in the Celestial Abodes and Indra of course spoke to Arjun but he thought that Arjun needs some entertainment at night, so he instructed the most attractive of his apsaras, Urvashi to go to Arjun at night and Urvashi reached arjun's chamber and knocked,  Arjun said maata (mother), at night you are here ? Urvashi was shocked, he had called her mother, she said I have come to give you joy, he said impossible, you are the mistress of my father how can I accept you ?  He rejected an Apsara from Swarglok, how can a human being have that kind of sense control ? Shri Krishna says Arjun, I empower people like that  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=667  17  Shree Krishna helps us develop Self-Restraint He goes on further, He says I am also the restraint so “Dum” is the control of the senses Shree Krishna enables us to Control our Mind, “Shum” is the control of the mind, when you feel angry, is it better to vent your anger or to subdue it ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=743  18  One person was at the flight counter when all of a sudden the announcement started flashing that the flight has been cancelled and when he came to check in the clerk said I'm sorry sir, the flight has been cancelled and that sent him into a rage, he said what a lousy Airlines you are, how could this happen to me,  I had such a meeting and he started banging upon the desk and no matter what the clerk would say he was not willing to cool down ;  behind him was another passenger that passenger said, sir I am noticing that you are banging on this for the last 3 minutes but it's not helping, why don't you do one thing, you speak to the clerk, I'll bang for you, that annoyed him he left and the clerk said sir that was a very funny joke of yours,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=770  19  nevertheless this guy said I am so sorry my flight is cancelled but I have an important meeting in the evening, can you please arrange for something else for me ? do I need to go to another Airlines or do you have a contact ?  they said sir we do have the connections, give me a couple of minutes, I'll see what can be done and she put him on another flight, so was it better to be angry or to be solution oriented ? this ability to control the mind, Shri Krishna says, it comes from Me  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=827  20    The perception of Self comes from Shree Krishna, He says bhava I am the perception of the self what is your perception of the self ? do you have awareness of your defects ? can you take stock of where you are ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=860  21  one monk used to carry a mirror in his luggage, so from time to time he'd pull it out and take a look and that was very irksome to some of his devotees and they said guruji, you are supposed to be free from bodily consciousness and why do you from time to time take a look at the mirror ? the college teenagers they do that.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=879  22  Once one lady came and sat in my prachan and every 2 minutes she would put her hair like this, because it was short cut, so it would come in front and then she'd lift it up, so I said devi ji, why don't you just tie it up behind she said Swami ji this is a particular hairstyle, it's called flick, so I have to keep flicking it, now for teenagers it's all right it's acceptable  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=909  23  but guruji why do you do it why do you see yourself in the mirror ? Guruji said whenever there's a difficult situation, I take a look to remind myself that who is the culprit, where do I need to work upon,  I remind myself not to be a part of the problem but to be a part of the solution The awareness of Self comes from Shree Krishna his awareness of the self, where am I ? what are my emotions ? what am I doing ? Shri Krishna says that is coming from Me  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=938  24  Ability to Face Difficulties and Live comes from Shree Krishna, He is also saying that the Abhava, the experience of death, the fear of death itself. This fear of death is there in everyone and it is ensuring that we continue to live despite the difficulties this is called “jivesna”, the natural desire to live.  If somebody is in miseries, he says how terrible my life has become, if I die it'll be better, now you go and place your hands on his neck, he will say what are you doing ? tell him, you said if I die it'll be better, I'm going to help you. No no no no, I was just saying it out of frustration, I don't want to die, nobody wants to die  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=972  25  the patient who is on the hospital bed, unable to walk to the restroom, has a bed pan, cannot eat, has a tube going in, the leg is hanging from the roof, that patient also says doctor, I hope I will not die.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=1032  26  Why this yearning to live, fear of death. God has made it that way so you don't chicken out in front of the struggles of life, you continue to bear with the karmas, clear the account, learn the lessons to lead a better life in the afterlife, so Shri Krishna says that look Arjun all these qualities are coming from Me  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=1053  27  but does that mean that we should not try to cultivate them because we heard That only by His grace, can you know Him - both are necessary, your efforts and His grace. God helps those who help themselves.  Napoleon Bonaparte, who was one of the finest Generals in Europe, his philosophy was when you pray pray as if it depends on God but when you fight, fight as if it depends on you.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=1086  28  So that is exactly what Vashisht told Ram “verse”, externally do your best but internally remind yourself it's all God's grace that allows it to happen  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=1130  29  so Shri Krishna has started telling Arjun his vibhuties (opulences) and how will these vibhuties help us cultivate devotion in our heart, He will soon be telling us and continue the description of these vibhuties, we look forward to savoring these by His grace and by your effort  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuhMGsBc4M&t=1148  Standby link (in case youtube link does not work) The Way Shree Krishna Energizes your Mind - UNLOCK your Mind's Hidden Powers Swami Mukundananda.mp4

Who is Shree Radha ? | Vedic Scriptures Revealed This About Radha Rani -by Swami Mukundanand

Who is Shree Radha ? | Vedic Scriptures Revealed This About Radha Rani -by Swami Mukundanand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPnz9O0ub34  1  thousands of Laksmis (Godesses of Fortune) are “ansh” (different manifestations) of Radha, they have all manifested from Her, from the left side of Radharani, Mahalakshmi the goddess of fortune manifested What do Vedic scriptures reveal about Shree Radha  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPnz9O0ub34&t=0  2  Atharvediya Radhikopnishad states that one divine entity has taken on two forms Shaktimaan and Shakti, the Energetic and the Energy ; the source and its powers Krishna Radha, Shiv Parvati, Rama Sita, Narayan Lakshmi and so On,  so the relationship between them is of Shaktimaan and Shakti, they are in a way inseparable, just like you cannot separate the whiteness from milk similarly Radha and Krishna are eternally One,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPnz9O0ub34&t=21  3  people ask did they get Married, it's always a mistake to evaluate the Leelas of God with material Intellect, does God need to get married ? they are the Shaktiman & Shakti &  only for our benefit they may engage in worldly pastimes but they are eternally beyond that ;  that is why Ramayan says, you may say water and aquapura H2O are two different words but they refer to the same thing similarly you can say that Sita and Rama are two different words but they refer to the same divine entity  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPnz9O0ub34&t=95  4  and just like the Energetic takes on different forms as Krishna as Rama, as Narayan, as Shiva, as Narsimha etc. ;  similarly that Shakti also takes on different forms as Radha, Sita, Lakshmi, Kali, Durga, Parvati ;  that is why in the Brahmavaivartak Puran, Shri Krishna is offering praises to Radharani  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPnz9O0ub34&t=153  5  Krishna says “verse”, O Radha, these are all your different forms, that divine YogMaya energy has taken on all these different forms ;  some people ask why is it that in the Srimad-Bhagavatam there is no mention of Radharani, Srimad Bhagavatam is popular it talks about Shri Krishna Leela and it doesn't mention Radharani ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPnz9O0ub34&t=193  6  The reason is that Sukdev ji, the speaker of the Srimad Bhagavatam is the great devotee of Radharani, he is Leela shuk (shuk is parrot), He is the divine parrot in their pastimes, he has so much of love for Radha that if he takes the name Radha, he faints unconscious,  he had to complete the Srimad Bhagavatam in seven days if he had fainted out there the Srimad Bhagavatam would have remained incomplete, that is why he is avoiding mentioning Radha but he is indirectly mentioning her  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPnz9O0ub34&t=262  7  when Krishna from the Rasmandal disappeared with one Gopi, the others are saying this one Gopi must have particularly worshipped Krishna, this word comes "Anayaradhito",  so indirectly he is mentioning Radha, the intention is definitely there and ultimately Srimad Bhagavatam is written by Ved Vyas, this is not the only purana that Ved Vyas wrote, apart from the Srimad Bhagavatam, Ved Vyas has written 17 more, in all 18 puranas,  in six of them he talks about Radha Ji, the Padma Puran says thousands of Lakshmis (Goddesses of Fortune) are "Ansh" of Radha they have manifested from Her birth ;  in the Narad Puran he says from the left side of Radharani Mahalakshmi, the goddess of fortune manifested,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPnz9O0ub34&t=315  8  in the Adi Puran Ved Vyas writes “verse’, in the Matshya Puran, he says “verse’, In the Devibhagwat Puran, he says “verse”, in the Brahma Vaivartak Puran, he says “verse”, first worship Radha and then worship Krishna ; so there are so many pramans (evidences) in the scriptures of the Radha 'Tatwa'  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPnz9O0ub34&t=400  9  but some people still remain unconvinced, they say the ultimate authority are the Vedas, if Radha Tatwa is there, the Vedas should also mention it, the fact is that the Vedas do mention it, during the Maharas, Shri Krishna took Radharani & went away,  The Vedas are saying and if some pundit (scholar) says no, the word Radha here means something else, there's another mantra to testify “verse”, here Radha is referred to as the daughter of Vrishbhanu, now there is no further scope for Interpretation  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPnz9O0ub34&t=454  10  it is the Radha Tatwa that is being referred to in all these scriptures, so the Radha Tatwa is Sanatan or Eternal like the Krishna Tatwa, She is the YogMaya Shakti, the divine power.  The Maya Shakti, we all know is the material energy, Maya, this is insentient, it doesn't have consciousness, and the other is the YogMaya, that is the all-powerful Shakti (energy).  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPnz9O0ub34&t=524  11  The all-powerful shakti YogMaya is such that God remains in bliss by virtue of it, He is taking care of all the works of the world and He is still in His bliss, how does He do it ?  with that YogMaya and by power of YogMaya, He is creating his divine Abode Golok & by the power of YogMaya, He is doing His leelas (pastimes) ;  that is why when the Maharas was to be done, first of all Shri Krishna took shelter of Radha, Radha ji, I don't have any powers, the power is You - if I need to do anything, I will need Your help, so with the help of YogMaya He created a mind and then the Leela began. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPnz9O0ub34&t=568  Standby link (in case youtube link does not work) Who is Shree Radha Vedic Scriptures Revealed This About Radha Rani.mp4