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

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

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दैविक दुख यानी जब कभी हम कुछ प्रकृति

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के साथ छेड़छाड़ कर देते गड़बड़ करते हैं

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तो फिर प्रकृति उसका बदला लेती है भूकंप आ

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गया और पहले के समय में तो भूकंप ऐसे आते

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थे कोई सालों में आजकल तो ऐसे महाराज खेल

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जैसा हो गया अभी तीन दिन पहले ही आया था

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हम तो नहीं थे हम तो छिंदवाड़ा में थे पर

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खबरों में सुना था दिल्ली में भूकंप आया

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दोपहर को डेढ़ बजे

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हर दूसरे तीसरे दिन कुछ न कुछ आपत्ति

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विपत्ति देवता जब रुष्ट होते हैं तब वह

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कहते हैँ ले भैया तूने यह काम बिगाड़ा ले अब

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हम करते हैं और इसका उपाय एक ही है ये जो

0:42

इतना सारा प्रकृति में चीजें बढ़ रहीं हैँ ना

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इसका उपाय है कि लोगों ने अपने घरों में

0:47

कीर्तन करना छोड़ दिया संकीर्तन करना छोड़

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दिया संकीर्तन से सब देवताओं की जो रूष्टता

0:54

नाराजगी सब दूर हो जाती जब उनको पता लगता

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

0:59

लग रहा हो वैसे तो मैं उस विषय में ज्यादा

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जानती नहीं ज्यादा बोलती नहीं पर अगर

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किसी को लगता है भाई हमारा शनि टेढ़ा चल रहा

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शनि की साढ़े साती चल रही

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है अगर कोई उपाय कोई बताता भैया आप मानो

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ना मानो सबका अपना जीवन है जिसको जो करना करो पर

1:19

अगर भागवत जी से पूछ रहे हो और अगर मेरी

1:21

छोटी बुद्धि से पूछ रहे हो अगर किसी को

1:23

लगता है कि उस घर के घर परिवार में कुछ

1:25

देवता का शनि का राहु का प्रकोप है कुछ मत

1:28

करो घर में पूरा परिवार बैठ कर के पांच दस

1:31

मिनट कृष्ण नाम का राधा नाम का कीर्तन कर

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लो सारे दुनिया भर के जितने भी देवता है

1:37

ना तुम्हारी सेवा में खड़े हो जाएंगे हाथ

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जोड़कर कहिए हुकम

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सरकार ऐसे ही नहीं कह रहे हम ब्रज में

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बड़े-बड़े देवता हमारी राधा रानी के चरणों

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

1:52

आशीर्वाद दे दो एक आज्ञा कर दो ठाकुर जी

1:55

से शनि देवता आप कभी जाते हो कोकिला

2:00

[संगीत]

2:01

पंजाब वाले तो बहुत एक तो दिल्ली वाले और

2:04

पंजाब वाले दो ही तो प्राणी सबसे ज्यादा

2:06

वृंदावन में पाए जाते

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हैं पंजाब वाले पंजाब में कम ब्रज में

2:12

ज्यादा पाए जा रहे हैं

2:15

आजकल पर चलो बढ़िया है अच्छी बात है जगह

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तो बची है नहीं वृंदावन में

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पर श्री जी बुला रही है तो खुद ही

2:24

संभालेगी अपने आप जब बुलाने वाली वही हैं

2:27

तो संभालने वाली भी वही हैं

2:30

तो कभी गए हो आप शनिवार को बड़ी भीड़ लगी

2:35

रहती है पर कोई यह नहीं जानने की कोशिश

2:37

करता शनिदेव सबको छोड़ छाड़ के दुनियादारी

2:40

ब्रज में पड़े हैं इसलिए पड़े

2:42

क्योंकि नंदगांव वहीं बरसाना वहीं कभी तो

2:46

निकलते आते जाते श्री राधा माधव दोनों जब

2:50

निकलेंगे और इस निकुंज में लीला करने यह

2:53

शनि देवता का स्थान तो अब विस्तार से बना

2:57

कोकिला वन जहां पर श्री राधा माधव नित्य

3:00

लीला करने आते थे और शनि देवता वहीं बैठे

3:02

रहते थे एक झलक मिल जाए इन दोनों की युगल

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की इसलिए वहां पर विराजमान है शनि

3:08

देवता अपनी सेवा करवाने विराजमान नहीं है

3:12

ठाकुर जी की उनके रूप का दर्शन करने

3:15

विराजमान तो अगर इतने बड़े-बड़े देव

3:20

जिनको देख के लोग डरते हैं वो अगर ब्रज

3:23

में श्री राधा कृष्ण के शरणागत है अगर आप

3:26

उन श्री राधा रानी का नाम लोगे ठाकुर जी

3:28

का नाम लोगे सब देवी देवता रास्ता खोल कर के खड़े

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हो जाएंगें खबरदार इससे भैया पंगा नहीं लेना

3:36

होता नहीं शहर में जिसकी पहुंच जरा ऊपर

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वाले अफसर से हो तो आस पड़ोसी भी कह देते

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भैया इससे पंगा नहीं लेना इसकी पहुंच बहुत

3:43

ऊपर तक है तो जिसकी पहुंच हमारी राधा रानी

3:46

तक हो जिसकी पहुंच हमारे श्याम सुंदर के

3:49

साथ हो किसकी हिम्मत की टेढ़ी नजर उठा कर

3:52

के देख ले और उल्टा कोई टेढ़ी नजर करेगा

3:55

तो उसको पकड़ के और पटक नहीं लगा देंगे

3:58

खबरदार इसको छुआ तो

4:01

काहे को डरते हो डरने की आवश्यकता क्या है

4:05

अरे हम राधे जू के बल अभिमानी पड़े रहे

4:09

अलमस्त भजन में क्योंकि हमारे सर पर राधा

4:13

रानी हमको डरने की आवश्यकता नहीं ब्रज के

4:18

प्रेमियों को तो बिल्कुल डरने की आवश्यकता

4:27

नहीं

 

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First Step to a GOLDEN LIFE 3 STORIES For Good Beliefs Part 2 by Swami Mukundananda

First Step to a GOLDEN LIFE   3 STORIES For Good Beliefs   Part 2   by Swami Mukundananda

Main Points:

1  This was how Hitler's Minister Goen worked, he openly said his philosophy was to tell a lie 100 times and it will become the truth but the Vedas say this is not the way to make your beliefs, there should be a better way to do it and what is that better way of doing it ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=0 2  they say, create beliefs based on reliable knowledge, when belief is based on infallible knowledge, the belief will be a sound one  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=31 3  like for example, 700 years ago in the Western  world the belief was that the Earth is flat, if you go too far away you will fall off, that was not the belief in India because in India even geography the subject is called भूगोल, study of the “round” earth, so 5,000 years ago they had that and  in the Western World it was that the earth is flat but then all of a sudden everybody's belief changed and they all started believing that the earth is round that was when Christoper Columbus he started sailing off to India and discovered America but how come the belief changed suddenly  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=52  4   so how did this belief of the Western World change all of a sudden that the Earth is around. It was based on solid knowledge when the knowledge became available, when the facts got revealed, people's beliefs changed  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=140  5  likewise, the Vedas say your beliefs should not be based on emotions, I feel, he feels – these emotions are all roller coasters, you should first of all try and get good knowledge, then create beliefs - so we are not realizing that we are the creators of our own beliefs and those beliefs could be limiting us  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=160  6  in one organization, a message went out through the intra organization channels that the biggest obstruction to your growth in the company has passed away, come and have final darshan. Everybody was so excited that the biggest obstacle has passed away.  So they all arrived into the CEO's office as per the communication. In a single file, they would enter and they would see a coffin lying there they would look into the coffin and find a mirror and see the face of their own self then realize, oh my God I am the biggest obstacle to my progress, nobody else and what is that obstacle - our own beliefs  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=192  7  one lady used to get a dream every week, in the dream, her monster would appear and the monster would start chasing the lady up the hills & down The valleys until she could almost feel its hot breath and then she would panic and the panic would wake her up to realize that it was just a dream, there was no monster and this dream would come week after week after week but on this one particular night the dream prolonged,  so the monster kept chasing her around the lake and up the mountains and then further down the valleys, in the cities, in the forest, it just continued until she finally arrived at a cliff's edge and now there was no where to go. She turned around and looked at the monster and said what are you going to do to me ? Now, the monster said lady, you decide it's your dream, it's your dream you have created it  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=254  8  so we don't realize our own subconscious, that's where the dream is coming from, we have programmed our subconscious, likewise we have created our beliefs , now if you created it wrongly, you are responsible for it, say this is one of the first things you need to do in your  life, get proper knowledge, how will you get proper knowledge, infallible knowledge is that which has come from above, like the Sacred Scriptures  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=337  9  50 centuries have gone by and the Bhagavad-Gita's knowledge is still valid, all the theories of science 400 years ago got outdated, they got overthrown, they were replaced even in fields of sociology, psychology, economics & everything, the earlier theories got replaced by new ones but here the knowledge of the Gita has withstood the test of time,  even today, every year, hundreds of books are published on Bhagavad-Gita for managers’ life lessons from Bhagavad-Gita leadership lessons from Bhagavad-Gita, why because it's knowledge coming from above and then we have the Saints,  who actually studied this knowledge, who imbibed it, who implemented it in their lives and realized it and who explain it to us   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=374  10  just like, if you wish to learn a material subject, the textbooks are there and the teachers are there, likewise for divine wisdom, we have the sacred books and then the Saints from them receive the wisdom, then on the basis of the wisdom, how will we create the belief ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=436  11  It is a Three step process to create the belief - 1. Shravan 2. Manan & 3. Nidhi-Dhyasan. And what is Shravan, hearing like you are hearing this knowledge or reading, now just hearing once will not suffice because the knowledge will be forgotten, because what you heard is all evaporated. So the scriptures advise us to hear again and again and again, this is the first step, if you are serious about creating good beliefs  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=464  12  and the second step is “Manan”, contemplate over it, revise it, revision will bring it in your conscious awareness, then the knowledge will become useful, otherwise it is like the knowledge in the books. You know that anger is a bad thing but when the attack of Maya makes you boil up, then later on you see oh my God what did I do, I shouted at this gentleman who is 30  years my senior.  How come I became such an animal, what happened to me ? The thing that happened was that anger is  bad thing, slipped out in the moment and  the scriptures  say the moment a human being forgets the  knowledge - that human sinks to the level  of an  animal  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=533  13   our humanness is unique in being aware of what is right  what is wrong, so the need to keep the  knowledge in our awareness and that will  come by contemplating over the  knowledge. Like a cow grazes grass for 2  hours and then sits and masticates it  for 6 hours, it takes it out, chews, puts  in the next stomach, takes it out, chews,   puts in the next stomach - likewise you  listen for 1 and a half hours and think  about it for 4 and half hours this is  “Manan”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=616  14   and the third step will create the  belief that  is Nidhi-Dhyasan, is  that with your intellect, make a decision that I am the  soul, not the body, the decision that my  happiness is not in this (worldly attachments) but in this (Godly path), so  once the intellect decides, then the  faith will get created and your work  will be done  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=663  15   The Kathopnishad has gone to the extent  of  saying that the  day you believe in the definition of  God, you will become God  realized, there's nothing further to  do  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=703  16   see the definition of God we all  know, if you got an Indian body  then everybody can give everybody else  a lecture that God is  sitting inside, वो तो घट घट वासी है & without His desire, not even a leaf will move that He is Ananda sindhu. The question is, who believes  that ?  The Kathopnishad says the very definition which  you yourself are saying, if you truly believe it, you  will achieve God  realization - that is the decision of the  intellect, the Nidhi-Dhyasan.  So the first golden rule for living  your best life is  to install good beliefs based on Higher knowledge of our Scriptures like Bhagavad-Gita, Srimad Bhagavatam etc.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=728   Transcript 0:00 this was how Hitler's Minister Goen 0:05 worked he openly said his philosophy was to 0:09 tell a lie 100 times and it will become 0:12 the 0:14 truth but the vedas say this is not the 0:20 way to make your 0:23 beliefs there should be a better way to 0:27 do 0:28 it and what is that better way of 0:31 doing it they say create beliefs based 0:37 on 0:41 reliable knowledge when belief is based on 0:45 infallible 0:47 knowledge the belief will be a sound 0:52 one like for 0:56 example 700 years ago in the Western  1:00 world the belief was that the Earth is 1:05 flat if you go too far away you will 1:08 fall 1:10 off that was not the belief in India 1:13 because in India even geography 1:16 the subject is 1:18 called भूगोल study of the round earth so 5,000 1:23 years ago they had that and in the 1:25 Western World it was that the Earth is 1:27 Flat but then all of a sudden everybody's 1:30 belief changed and they all started 1:33 believing that the Earth is round that 1:36 was when Christoper Columbus he started 1:39 sailing off to India and discovered 1:42 America but how come the belief changed 1:49 suddenly supposing I tell 1:52 you 1:55 that if in 5 minutes you can develop the 1:58 belief that you will fly 5 feet in the air 2:02 just not actually fly just believe that 2:05 you can fly I'll give you a million 2:09 dollar easiest way to earn a million 2:12 dollars just develop the 2:14 belief that you fly 5 feet in the 2:17 air say Swami how will I develop the 2:20 belief so how did this belief of the 2:24 Western World change all of a sudden 2:26 that the Earth is around it was based 2:30 on solid knowledge when the knowledge 2:34 became available when the facts got 2:37 revealed people's beliefs 2:40 changed likewise the vedas say your 2:44 beliefs should not be based on emotions 2:47 I feel he feels emotions are all roller 2:53 coasters you should first of all try and 2:56 get good knowledge then create 3:01 beliefs so we are not realizing that we 3:04 are the creators of our own 3:07 beliefs and those beliefs could be 3:10 limiting 3:12 us in one 3:16 organization a message went out through 3:19 the intra organization 3:22 channels that the biggest obstruction to 3:26 your growth in the company has passed 3:29 away 3:30 come and have final 3:33 darshan everybody was so excited the biggest 3:37 obstacle has passed 3:40 away so they all 3:43 arrived into the CEO's office as per the 3:47 communication in a single file they 3:50 would enter and they would see a coffin 3:53 lying 3:54 there they would look into the coffin 3:56 and find a mirror and see the face of 3:59 their own self then realize oh my 4:02 God I am the biggest obstacle to my 4:06 progress nobody 4:08 else and what is that obstacle our own 4:14 beliefs one lady used to get a dream 4:18 every week in the 4:22 dream her monster would 4:25 appear and the monster would start 4:27 chasing the lady up the hills down The 4:32 valleys until she could almost feel its 4:35 hot breath and then she would panic and 4:40 the panic would wake her 4:42 up to realize that it was just a dream 4:45 there was no monster and this dream 4:48 would come week after week after 4:51 week but on this one particular night 4:54 the dream 4:56 prolonged so the monster kept chasing 4:59 her around the lake and up the mountains 5:03 and then Further Down The Valleys in the 5:05 cities in the forest it just 5:09 continued until she finally arrived at a 5:12 Cliff's Edge and now there was no where 5:16 to go she turned around and looked at 5:19 the 5:20 monster and said what are you going to 5:23 do to me 5:25 now the monster said lady you decide 5:29 it's your 5:33 dream it's your dream you have created 5:36 it you 5:37 desire so we don't realize our own 5:41 subconscious that's where the dream is 5:43 coming from we have programmed our 5:46 subconscious likewise we have created 5:48 our beliefs now if you created it 5:51 wrongly you are responsible for 5:54 it say this is one of the first things 5:58 you need to do in your  6:00 life get proper 6:04 knowledge how will you get proper 6:07 knowledge infallible knowledge is that 6:10 which has come from 6:12 above like the Sacred 6:14 Scriptures 50 centuries have gone by and 6:19 the Bhagavad-Gita's knowledge is still 6:21 valid all the theories of science 400 6:26 years ago got outdated they got 6:28 overthrown 6:30 they were replaced even in fields of 6:33 Sociology psychology economics 6:36 everything the earlier theories got 6:38 replaced by new ones but here the 6:42 knowledge of the Gita has withstood the test of 6:46 time even today every year hundreds of 6:50 books are published Bhagavad-Gita for 6:53 managers life lessons from Bhagavad-Gita 6:56 Leadership Lessons From Bhagavad-Gita why 7:00 because it's knowledge coming from 7:03 above and then we have the Saints the 7:06 Saints who actually studied this 7:10 knowledge who imbibed it who implemented it 7:13 in their lives and realized it and who 7:16 explain it to us so just like if you 7:20 wish to learn a material subject the 7:22 textbooks are there and the teachers are 7:24 there likewise for divine wisdom we have 7:28 the sacred books and then the Saints 7:32 from them receive the 7:38 wisdom okay then on the base of the 7:41 wisdom how will we create the 7:44 belief three step process to create the 7:50 belief Shravan, Manan & Nidhi-Dhyasan 7:54 and what is 7:56 Shravan hearing 7:59 like you are hearing this 8:02 knowledge so this is step 8:05 one or 8:08 reading now hear 8:11 it just hearing once will not 8:15 suffice because the knowledge will be 8:17 forgotten 8:19 some simple people say swami ji I I heard 8:22 you last 8:24 year so I say you know you think so but 8:27 I don't think so 8:30 because what you heard is all evaporated 8:33 tell me what was the title of last 8:35 year's talk that I don't remember 8:38 Question. Why you said I’m remembering what Swami ji 8:40 spoke so the 8:46 scriptures say to hear again and again and 8:50 again this is the first step if you are 8:53 serious about creating good beliefs and 8:57 the second step is 9:01 “Manan”, contemplate over 9:05 it revise 9:07 it revision will bring it in your 9:11 conscious 9:13 awareness then the knowledge will become 9:17 useful otherwise it is like the 9:20 knowledge in the books 9:30 you know that anger is a bad 9:33 thing but when the attack of Maya 9:38 takes you 9:41 boil up then later on you see oh my God 9:44 what did 9:45 I do, I shouted at this 9:48 Gentleman who is 30  9:50 Years my senior. How come I became such an animal. what happened to me the 9:55 thing that happened was that anger is a 9:58 bad things slipped out in the moment and 10:02 the scriptures 10:06 say the moment a human being forgets the 10:10 knowledge that human sinks to the level 10:14 of an 10:16 animal our humaness is in the 10:20 unique in being aware of what is right 10:25 what is wrong so the need to keep the 10:29 knowledge in our awareness and that will 10:33 come by contemplating over the 10:36 knowledge like a cow grazes grass for 2 10:41 hours and then sits and masticates it 10:46 for 6 hours it takes it out choose puts 10:50 in the next stomach takes it out chews 10:52 puts in the next stomach likewise you 10:55 listen for 1 and a half hours and think 10:58 about it for 4 and half hours this is 11:03 “Manan” and the third step will create the 11:07 belief that 11:12 is Nidhi-Dhyasan which is  that with your intellect make a decision this 11:17 is 11:20 it that 11:23 decision the decision I am the 11:27 soul not the body the decision my 11:31 happiness is not in this but in this so 11:36 once the intellect decides then the 11:40 faith will get created and your work 11:43 will be done the Kathopnishad has gone to the extent 11:48 of 11:54 saying the 11:56 day you believe the definition of 12:01 God you will become God 12:04 realized there's nothing further to 12:08 do see the definition of God we all 12:11 know you know if you got an Indian body 12:15 then everybody can give everybody else 12:17 lecture God is 12:22 sitting inside, वो तो घट घट वासी है, Without His desire, not even a leaf will move. He is Ananda sindhu.  the question is who believes 12:32 That. The Kathopnishad says the very definition which 12:36 you are saying if you truly believe you 12:40 will achieve God 12:42 realization that is the decision of the 12:45 intellect, the Nidhi-Dhyasan  12:48 so the first golden rule for living 12:52 your best life is 12:55 install good beliefs Standby link (in case youtube link does not work): First Step to a GOLDEN LIFE 3 STORIES For Good Beliefs Part 2 Swami Mukundananda.mp4

Why Bad Things Happen To Good People | What is Good What is Bad | Part 2 by Swami Mukundanand

Why Bad Things Happen To Good People | What is Good What is Bad | Part 2 by Swami Mukundanand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfBC5XRahPc

Main Points: 1   From God we can expect perfect justice but the problem arises when in the court of God we see injustice, what injustice, why are we seeing bad things happening to good people? This makes us all squeal (to make a loud high noise because of pain, fear). Why, this person is so nice & why are bad things happening to him or her Or we see the reverse. Good things happening to bad people and that shakes our faith.  Here Swami ji is giving you a paradigm (a typical example or pattern of something) that “grow from within and succeed in life” but Swamiji in the world we see the reverse, it is the 'chalu, the chant' the person who's clever and who knows all the tricks of the trade, who's succeeding. What are you teaching me about how to succeed in life.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfBC5XRahPc&t=52  2  Once I was asked to give a lecture on this topic so I said let's ask Mr. Google first. I googled why do bad things happen to good people and I came up with 1 million websites. This is the question of millions of people, it's the question of majority of the people.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfBC5XRahPc&t=120  3  There was a Jewish rabbi (rabbi is a Jewish religious leader and teacher who is qualified to interpret Jewish law and lead worship. The word "rabbi" comes from the Hebrew word rav, which means "master" or "teacher"), called Harold Kushner, he wrote a book on this theme. What happened was that he had a child who developed progeria, progeria is a disease that causes premature aging.  His poor child started growing prematurely and in front of his eyes by the age of fourteen he was manifesting the symptoms of an eighty-year-old and then he passed away. It created a lot of questions in Kushner's mind.  Kushner said I am a rabbi, I have never done anything bad in my life and my child was born with this disease & my child, there is no question of his doing anything bad. Why did I suffer? Why did my child suffer? Is God truly just?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfBC5XRahPc&t=149  4  So he considered two possibilities, either God is not all good as we are thinking Him to be, he's got a streak of evil or mysteriousness in him & that's why he is doing bad to good people.  Or he is not all-powerful, he wishes to do good but he loses out because there is the Satan and then Satan is victorious. So he considered these two alternatives and he concludes in his book that God cannot be having any evil in him otherwise he's not God.  He settled for the second alternative that he wants to do good but then you know Satan is so powerful and God is not all-powerful so he loses out. This was his analysis  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfBC5XRahPc&t=219  5  but this analysis is not very accurate from the Vedic perspective, we don't believe there is any Satan, because if there is a Satan who created Satan. God created him, why did God create a Satan?  There is no such thing as Satan, there is only God and absence of God. Just like light and darkness - are they two entities? No, darkness is not an entity but the absence of light is darkness. When a room is dark, is there something in it? No, it's only light being absent.  Are heat and cold two different entities? of course not, you keep taking away the heat and what remains is cold. That is why you cool something remove the heat until something reaches absolute zero, you cannot cool it further because you have removed all the heat. In other words cold is just the absence of heat, so similarly there is no being called Satan who could have been the source of evil  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfBC5XRahPc&t=283  6  It is our distance from God that is creating this evil. Then why is it that God is allowing bad things to happen to good people? This is what we are going to discuss and the discussion is going to throw up some very deep truths, you know the more complex the question, the deeper is the truth that it unearths and that is what is going to happen in today's discussion.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfBC5XRahPc&t=375  7  Let us first of all consider what is a good thing and what is a bad thing. When we say, why are bad things happening to good people, what is a good thing and what is A bad thing? Life is a continuum of events where some things are pleasant & some things are unpleasant. There was once a Chinese farmer, he had his patch of land where he lived with his family and one day a horse came running in, a wild horse now horses are expensive and it was a poor country, so the neighbors came to congratulate,  Wow! you have got a free horse such a good thing has happened to you, the wild horse ran into your farm. The farmer said good thing or bad thing, God alone knows. Listen on .. in the end farmer’s son got injured seriously because of horse BUT he was thus saved from being recruited forcibly in military for fighting a dangerous event of war.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfBC5XRahPc&t=415  8  So now what was a good thing or a bad thing that happened to the farmer & his son - how do you decide? The fact is there are always these dualities of events taking place in our life. We wish to lead a linear existence, nothing unpleasant and uncomfortable should happen to me but the fact is those things which are apparently painful and difficult and challenging also benefit us in so many ways and later on we say oh this was a blessing in disguise. The difficulties become opportunities for progress that is the way this life is  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfBC5XRahPc&t=632  Transcript 0:00 Kushner said I am a rabbi I have never done anything bad in my life 0:08 and my child was born with this disease my child there is no question of doing 0:17 anything bad. Why did I suffer? Why did my child suffer? Is God truly just? 0:28 0:52 From God we can expect perfect justice 1:01 but the problem arises when in the court of God we see injustice, what injustice 1:13 why are we seeing bad things happening to good people? This makes us all squeal. 1:23 Why this person is so nice, why are bad things happening to him or 1:30 her Or we see the reverse. Good things 1:36 happening to bad people and that shakes our faith 1:42 Here Swamiji is giving you a paradigm that grow from within and succeed in life and 1:49 Swamiji in the world we see the reverse it is the 'chalu the chant' the person 1:56 who's clever and who knows all the tricks of the trade who's succeeding 2:00 what are you teaching me about how to succeed in life.  Once I was asked to give 2:09 a lecture on his topic so I said let's ask Mr. Google first. I googled why do 2:17 bad things happen to good people and I came up with 1 million websites. This is 2:25 not alone my question this is the question of millions of people it's the 2:29 question of majority of the people.  There was a Jewish rabbi called Harold Kushner 2:39 he wrote a book on this theme. What happened was he had a child who 2:45 developed progeria, progeria is a disease that causes premature aging. His poor 2:56 child started growing prematurely and in front of his eyes by the age of 3:03 fourteen he was manifesting the symptoms of an eighty-year-old and then he passed 3:08 away. It created a lot of questions in Kushner's mind. Kushner said I am a rabbi 3:20 I have never done anything bad in my life and my child was born with this 3:30 disease my child there is no question of doing anything bad. Why did I suffer? 3:39 Why did my child suffer? Is God truly just?  So he considered two possibilities 3:52 either God is not all good as we are thinking him to be he's got a streak of 3:59 evil or mysteriousness in him that's why he is doing bad to good people 4:05 Or he is not all-powerful, he wishes to do good but he loses out because there 4:15 is the Satan and then Satan is victorious. So he considered these two 4:23 alternatives and he concludes in his book that God cannot be having any evil 4:32 in him otherwise he's not God. He settled for the second alternative that he wants 4:38 to do good but then you know Satan is so powerful and God is not all-powerful so 4:43 he loses out. This was his analysis  but this analysis is not very accurate from 4:53 the Vedic perspective we don't believe there is any Satan, because if 5:00 there is a Satan who created Satan. God created him, why did God create a Satan? 5:09 There is no such thing as Satan there is only God 5:16 and absence of God. Just like light and darkness are they two entities? Light, 5:26 darkness? no darkness is not an entity the absence of light is darkness. When a 5:39 room is dark is there something in it? No it's only light being absent. Are heat and 5:48 cold two different entities? of course not, you keep taking away the heat and 5:55 what remains is cold. That is why you cool something remove the heat until 6:02 something reaches absolute zero, you cannot cool it further because you 6:08 have removed all the heat. In other words cold is just the absence of heat, so 6:15 similarly there is no being called Satan who's the source of evil , it is our 6:21 distance from God that is creating this evil. Then why is it that God is allowing 6:29 bad things to happen to good people? This is what we are going to discuss and the 6:39 discussion is going to throw up some very deep truths, you know the more 6:46 complex the question the deeper is the truth that it unearths and that is what 6:55 is going to happen in today's discussion.  Let us first of all consider what is a 7:01 good thing and what is a bad thing. When we say why are bad things happening to 7:09 good people what is a good thing and what is 7:12 bad thing? Life is a continuum of events where some things are pleasant some 7:22 things are unpleasant. There was once a Chinese farmer he had 7:30 his patch of land where he lived with his family and one day a horse came 7:38 running in, a wild horse now horses are expensive and it was a 7:44 poor country so the neighbors came to congratulate, Wow  7:52 you have got a free horse such a good thing has happened to you, the wild horse 7:59 ran into your farm. The farmer said good thing bad thing God alone knows.  A few 8:12 days went by, the horse that was now living in the farm it ran away back into 8:20 the wilderness. The neighbors came to commiserate so bad your horse is lost 8:29 what a bad thing has happened to you. He said good thing bad thing this the 8:35 future will let us know. A few more days went by that horse which ran away it 8:44 gathered its twenty friends other horses and ran back with twenty friends. The 8:52 neighbors came to say my god you have hit a bonanza twenty free horses what a 9:00 nice thing he said nice thing or a bad thing that I am not so sure. 9:07 A few more days went by and the farmers young son he was trying to tame one of 9:15 those 20 horses and he was thrown off by this wild horse as a consequence 9:22 of which his leg suffered multiple fractures. Now he was lying in bed and 9:30 the doctor told him you will need complete two years to recover. The 9:38 neighbors again came to give their consolation they said Oh Rama Rama Rama. What a 9:44 terrible thing, he said terrible or wonderful let us see. A few months went 9:52 by the neighboring Kingdom declared war on this kingdom and the poor King had a 10:01 little army. To strengthen his army he asked his soldiers to go and recruit all 10:07 the youth between the ages of 18 and 24 from the countryside. The soldiers went 10:15 around, the children of all the neighboring farmers were recruited and 10:20 send into the battleground without certainty of their coming back 10:25 or not this farmer's son who was lying there with a fractured leg the soldier said 10:32 let him be. So now what was a good thing and what is a bad thing how do you 10:38 decide? The fact is there are always these dualities of events taking place 10:45 in our life. We wish to lead a linear existence, nothing unpleasant and 10:55 uncomfortable should happen to me but the fact is those things which are 11:03 apparently painful and difficult and challenging also benefit us in so many 11:12 ways and later on we say oh this was a blessing in disguise. The difficulties 11:23 become opportunities for progress that is the way this life is  Standby link (in case youtube link does not work): Why Bad Things Happen To Good People What is Good What is Bad Part 2.mp4