Powerful Krishna Consciousness to Free your MIND from Worries and Negativity by Swami Mukundanand
- 1 0:00 the conditioned soul in material consciousness is not seeing itself as the soul, it is identifying itself with the body & then the bodily identifications I'm Gujarati I'm marwari I'm Sindhi I'm Bengali I'm Indian I'm American I'm Chinese I'm Mexican I'm a human being and even worse I am the mind https://youtu.be/dRMouFwOSyI&t=0 2 0:27 we don't even realize that the mind is different and I am different, the mind creates thoughts, think this, think this think this and we keep identifying with the thoughts, the scriptures say you are not thinking BUT your mind is thinking, why don't you distance yourself from the mind, the end of all problems. But that so happens with practice of self knowledge, slowly we learn to see our ourselves as the soul distinct from the body, distinct from the mind and finally even distinct from the intellect https://youtu.be/dRMouFwOSyI&t=27 3 1:11 Shri Krishna says such a soul situated in karma yog resides in the city of nine gates in detachment, neither thinking of himself to be the doer nor thinking of himself to be the enjoyer of what is this city of nine gates, the embodied beings who are self-controlled and detached reside happily in the city of nine gates free from thoughts that they are the doers https://youtu.be/dRMouFwOSyI&t=71 4 2:27 God Krishna says that there is a City, in the city is a House, in the house there's a Courtyard, within the courtyard is a secret ,one who knows that secret knows everything that is to be known https://youtu.be/dRMouFwOSyI&t=147 5 3:24 the city He talks about is the body, in the body is the heart and the courtyard is the space of the heart and in that resides Bhagavan, so one who knows that Brahma, he knows everything that is to be known https://youtu.be/dRMouFwOSyI&t=204 6 3:46 now here He's giving a similar analogy, he is saying that there is a city with nine gates and this is our body, it has got the nine gates two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, mouth, anus & genitals are the nine gates to this body https://youtu.be/dRMouFwOSyI&t=226 7 4:15 now the purified soul resides in the body like we all do but the difference is we are identified with the body that is not so serious, even more serious is we are identified with the mind and we are identified with the intellect and we are identified with the ego and hence we are in this bound state https://youtu.be/dRMouFwOSyI&t=255 8 4:42 now the mind is a mischievous monkey and this mischievous monkey called the mind is throwing up thoughts, it has an algorithm of its own sometimes, it says I am so happy I so blessed to be in swami ji's retreat and then after a few moments it says oh you know but I could have I had these other options, this was not the only thing I could have done, maybe I made a wrong choice, so this is all being thrown up by the mind, not by the soul, the mischievous monkey called the mind is throwing up these thoughts that is its Job, we the Souls, the mistake we are making is we are identifying with these thoughts and that is why we are saying now I'm Inspired, I'm not inspired based upon the state of the mind https://youtu.be/dRMouFwOSyI&t=282 9 5:44 but the realized Souls they create a distance between the mind and themselves and seeing that mind as separate from them they can understand oh at this moment the mind is trying to seduce me with a not so wholesome thought, with a nonbeneficial detrimental thought, it is my choice whether I accept it or I don't, I choose not to https://youtu.be/dRMouFwOSyI&t=344 10 6:18 now the moment you dissociate yourself from the thought, it loses its Power, so the thoughts, they do come in all kinds there's no limit to the kinds of negative thoughts and then if we see them as a part of us they grip us https://youtu.be/dRMouFwOSyI&t=378 11 6:43 like one lady she came to me she said swami ji, my brother died of cancer a few months ago, first she said I'm in depression, I'm so Sorry, so she said my brother died of cancer 5 months Ago, I said oh really so ? is that the reason for your depression no no that is all right, I have released that, the problem is I have started thinking that I will also get cancer and then I heard in your mind management that if we think some thoughts again we attract that those circumstances to our life so here I'm thinking I will get cancer, I will get cancer and I'm just thinking that will attract cancer to my life so I'm really and seriously worried now https://youtu.be/dRMouFwOSyI&t=403 12 7:39 what is the mistake the lady is making, the mistake is she's attributing those thoughts to herself, I am thinking like This, now the next moment I'm thinking Like that , that's not the way to do it, the moment you adopt the thought, moment you see yourself as the source of it, it becomes energized and then it becomes stronger and comes to you again and worried now & again until it starts creating a new neural pathway and you feel that you are in the grip of this negative Chintan, now we realize that some of these thoughts they don't align with our goals or they may not even align with our values, they may be immoral so when people have those thoughts, why am I thinking like this, the moment they start doing that they have energized the thought that's exactly what the thought wanted, the power and you have empowered it https://youtu.be/dRMouFwOSyI&t=459 13 8:50 instead a more enlightened way Is, okay a thought has come but I'm not interested, like the birds fly in the sky - they just fly away one moment here, the second moment they are gone, it's not that you have to chase every bird that comes, it is the same with these Thoughts, that freedom comes from self knowledge when you deeply contemplate the fact that you are not your mind, you are the “seer” of the mind, the soul, that monkey mind can work to your Benefit but also it can work to your Detriment, so it is for you to train it the way you want now https://youtu.be/dRMouFwOSyI&t=530 14 9:46 supposing you are in the dark and a stranger accosts you all of a sudden, you see this big hulky guy, you have two options either to run from there or to attempt to fight him because you know that he's going to mug (torment) you, so you have to either fight this danger or run away from it but supposing you're walking on the street and little children start Heckling (bothering) You, so is it advisable to fight them ? no because they will only be provoked, is it advisable to run no? because they'll run after you, so in this case the advisable thing is to ignore them they'll say you know we teased him , let's tease the next guy likewise the moment you accept the thought as your own that thought gains an energy and the moment you distance yourself from it, it loses its energy https://youtu.be/dRMouFwOSyI&t=586 15 10:51 that is the basis of the sakshi, witness consciousness so in sakshi the self realized sages they surf the emotions and sensations in the body, they can even surf the pains in the body, surfing (ride over them) means they just surf it that is why their ability to tolerate pains because they see the pain is coming and they say okay it is coming but I distance myself from it, that same sakshi has become popular in the western world in a diluted form as mindfulness https://youtu.be/dRMouFwOSyI&t=651 16 11:36 so in mindfulness this knowledge is not there in the mix that I am the soul but the concept is given of watching your Thoughts, so the Intellectuals, the academicians, the Scholars, they find this a very convenient philosophy there is no need to believe in either the soul or in God, no need to have any kind of faith and yet you have this powerful tool for mind Management mindfulness https://youtu.be/dRMouFwOSyI&t=696 17 12:09 but it's in original form in the vedas, it is the witness consciousness Shri Krishna is saying the same here, He says Arjun this self realized souls, they stay in this body and they remain in witness consciousness, so they are able to retain their elevated state of thoughts and consciousness https://youtu.be/dRMouFwOSyI&t=729 Standby link (in case youtube link does not work): Powerful Krishna Consciousness to Free your MIND from Worries and Negativity Swami Mukundananda.mp4
