Bhagavad Gita - You Will Never Lose Faith In Krishna After Watching This by Swami Mukundananda
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1 Arjun, if you can understand the Divine secret of My birth and My pastimes, you will not take birth in this world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xK9uSbRVhY&t=5 2 again when we engage in bhakti keep in mind that Bhagavan does leelas, otherwise lots of doubts will be created if Ram is God how come He doesn't know where Sita is, very basic question if he is God he should be all knowing and if he's God, He should be all pervading, so there should be no question of His separation from Sita and he is experiencing viyog and he's also unaware of where Sita is until Hanuman comes and tells him that you know she's in Ashok Vatika so you will say how can He be God, we know that God is all knowing Ram doesn't seem to be all knowing so we have to keep the third point in mind that His leelas are Divine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xK9uSbRVhY&t=19 3 What is the difference between God’s Leela and karma. Karma is what we all do, we want happiness as we are devoid of happiness and for the sake of our happiness, we engage in karm (to become happy) but God is an ocean of Happiness, He has no need of external Happiness, Bliss is his Shakti Radharani, Sita ji, Parvati ji, they are the Hladini Shaktis. so He doesn't do karmas, He does leelas or you can call them Divya karmas so the Leela is an act banavat, dikhava, show. The all pervading Lord has taken on a form, what is this ? It is also His Leela, the all knowing God is asking where is Sita, this is also His Leela https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xK9uSbRVhY&t=82 4 God’s Leelas, if we don't understand like Parvati ji and like Garud ji, we will use our buddhi and bhakti will finish. It happened to Garud ji when Ram and Lakshman were tied in the Naag pash, you know Indrajit released those snake darts and Ram and Lakshman got tied, so Narad said that Garud is required because he eats snakes, he called Garud & Garud ate the snakes and released Ram and Lakshman but Garud found himself in doubt (Maya). Garud thought that people take the name of Ram and cut the bonds of Maya (Bhav Bandhan) and if Ram is getting tied in the Naag pash of a demon, what kind of Bhagavan He is ? Poor Garud was so confused, all his bhakti went for a six, he went to Brahma ji, he said Maharaj, my intellect is giving me a lot of trouble I have got too many questions and I don't have a guru for resolving them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xK9uSbRVhY&t=147 5 Brahma said Bhagavan's Maya has overcome you, it overcame me (Brahma) as well once upon a time. Go to Shankar ji, so Garud ji went to Shankar ji, who said you (Garud) have been overpowered by Illusion, go to Kakbushundi, he is of your category (bird), he is also bird, he will resolve your doubt, so then Garud ji went to Kakbushundi and Kakbushundi explained him the tatva gyan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xK9uSbRVhY&t=249 6 the same tatva gyan Lord Krishna is explaining out here. He is saying that look Arjun, keep this knowledge in your Intellect that in case you wish to do my bhakti, remember My birth is divine and My leelas are Divine, with that resolve of the intellect, now you will not apply the Buddhi - why did Bhagavan do this why did Bhagavan do that – and then you will engage in devotion so with that devotion you will purify the mind and when the mind is purified, the heart is purified you will receive My grace and when the grace comes you will be liberated from Maya and attain my Divine Abode & you will not take birth in this world again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xK9uSbRVhY&t=300 7 King Parikshit was the Listener of the Srimad Bhagavat Mahapuran. When he died because of the snake bite, his son Janamejaya was only 7 years old, subsequently Janamejaya grew up to be a great and valiant king https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xK9uSbRVhY&t=422 8 one day Janamejaya developed this doubt, he thought at the time when the Mahabharat happened between my warring ancestors, the Pandavas and the Kauravas, at that time the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna was also present upon the planet earth, why then did the Lord not ensure that the battle does not take place. With this doubt, he approached the great Maharishi Ved Vyas who explained to him there are certain things which are destined to be they are called Honi, jo hokar rahegi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xK9uSbRVhY&t=448 9 Janamejaya could not accept it, he said that with our purusharth, with our effort, we can change every aspect of destiny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xK9uSbRVhY&t=503 10 Ved Vyas said, all right, let me tell you a honi (which is going to happen) in your life, you cut it and show me. 5 years from today, don't go horse riding and if you do, do not go on a white horse, and if you do ride on a white horse, don't go in the northern direction and and if you do go northward, do not fall in love with a beautiful girl, if you do, don't bring her home to get married to her but even if you do make her your queen, do not kill any brahmans on her prodding you but you will definitely do it and because of the sin of killing brahmans you will develop leprosy on your body and die from it. I have told you a honi in your life, cut it and show me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xK9uSbRVhY&t=514 11 that put Janamejaya in a tremendously pensive mood. He returned from there in deep thought, what have I been told. Alright Ved Vyas said 5 years from today, do not go horse riding I will give it up right away, however when the 5 year period was coming to an end, the urge to ride on a horse became so strong Janamejaya could not resist & listen to the story how the entire “honi” prophesy (भविष्यवाणी) came out to be exactly true – proving the destined had to happen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xK9uSbRVhY&t=580 12 he now remembered what Ved Vyas had said, so he went to Ved Vyas and said oh sage, the “Honi” (destiny) you had described has indeed happened, how can I be saved, Ved Vyas responded, I had told you nevertheless, there is one solution, go to Vaisampayana rishi and hear the entire Mahabharat from him. As you keep hearing one by one chapter the leprosy from one by one limb of your body will start getting healed but the condition is do not create doubt anywhere, and if you do that corresponding limb will not be cured. I have told you the solution but I am also telling you that you are going to doubt because of which your knees will retain the leprosy and you will die from it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xK9uSbRVhY&t=805 13 Janamejaya was now happy and sad, he proceeded from there to Vaisampayana rishi and he pleaded before the sage to hear the great stories about his ancestors, his father Parikshit, his grandfather Abhimanyu, his great grandfather Arjun. Vaisampayana rishi began relating the story and thus the Mahabharat is the dialogue between Vaisampayana rishi and Janamejaya. As Janamejaya continued to hear one by one chapter, the leprosy from one by one limb of his body started getting cured, however at one point Vaisampayana rishi related that Bhimsen had such strength if he lifted an elephant by the trunk & turned it around and threw it, the elephant would reach satellite velocity and begin circumambulating the planet earth. Hearing that Janamejaya guffawed loudly, oh Sage you expect me to believe such rubbish, Vaisampayana rishi said if you do not believe, let me prove it to you, he lifted a hand and one elephant who had been rotating since the time of Bhimsen came and fell upon the earth. Vaisampayana rishi had proved the point but the doubt that Janamejaya had, resulted in the leprosy from his knee not getting cured and because of that Janamejaya passed away. This story is placed in the Mahabharat to convey to us all the instruction that if you wish to benefit from the leelas, the pastimes of the Lord, then apply your mind to them to increase your love but don't apply the intellect because God does Leelas (as explained earlier above) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xK9uSbRVhY&t=871 14 apply your intellect towards the world, that I am not the body I am the soul, why do I still repeatedly get attached to the world, here use your whole intellect towards the Names, Forms Virtues, Pastimes and Abodes of Lord. Apply your mind to increase your love - that is the way to benefit from these scriptures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xK9uSbRVhY&t=1012 Transcript 0:05 Arjun if you can understand the Divine 0:10 secret of my birth and my pastimes you 0:14 will not take birth in this world 0:19 again when we engage in bhakti keep in 0:22 mind that bhagavan does 0:26 leelas otherwise lots of doubts will be 0:32 created if Ram is God how come he 0:35 doesn't know where Sita is very basic 0:41 question if he is God he should be all 0:44 knowing and if he's God he should be all 0:47 pervading so there should be no question 0:50 of his separation from 0:52 Sita and he is experiencing viyog and he's 0:57 also unaware of where Sita is 1:01 until Hanuman comes and tells him that 1:03 you know she's in Ashok 1:05 Vatika so you will say how can this be 1:08 God we know that God is all knowing Ram 1:12 doesn't seem to be all 1:14 knowing so we have to keep the third 1:16 point in mind His leelas are 1:22 Divine what is the difference between 1:25 Leela and 1:27 karma karma is what we all 1:31 do we want 1:34 happiness we are devoid of 1:37 happiness and for the sake of our 1:39 happiness we engage in 1:44 Karm but God is an ocean of 1:48 Happiness he has no need of external 1:53 happiness Bliss is his Shakti 1:57 Radharani, Sita ji, Parvati ji, they are the Hladini Shaktis 2:00 so he doesn't do karmas he does 2:05 leelas or you can call 2:08 them Divya karmas so the Leela is an 2:16 act banavat, dikhava, show. the all pervading Lord has taken on 2:19 a form what is this it his Leela the all 2:23 knowing god is asking where is Sita what 2:25 is this this is also 2:27 Leela so that Leela 2:30 if we don't 2:32 understand like Parvati and like garud ji 2:37 we will use our 2:39 buddhi and bhakti will 2:42 finish it happened to Garud ji when Ram and 2:46 Lakshman were tied in the 2:49 Naag pash you know Indrajit released those snake 2:53 darts and Ram and Lakshman got 2:56 tied so Narad said that Garud is required 3:01 because he eats snakes he called 3:04 Garud & Garud ate the snakes and released Ram 3:09 and Lakshman but he got caught 3:12 himself he 3:14 Said “verse” 3:28 people take the name of 3:31 Ram and cut the bonds of Maya Bhav 3:37 Bandhan and that Ram is getting tied in 3:41 the Naag pash of a demon what kind of 3:44 Bhagavan He is 3:45 this now poor Garud was so confused all 3:50 his bhakti went for a 3:53 six he went 3:56 to 3:57 Brahma he said Maharaj 4:00 my intellect is giving me a lot of 4:03 trouble I have got too many questions 4:06 and I don't have a guru for resolving 4:09 them Brahma 4:19 said Bhagavan's Maya has overcome you it 4:22 overcame me as 4:24 well once upon a time go to Shankar ji 4:30 so Garud ji went to 4:31 Shankar ji 4:39 said you have been overpowered by 4:43 illusion go 4:45 to Kakbushundi he is of your category he is also 4:50 bird he will resolve your 4:53 doubt so then Garud ji went to Kakbushundi and Kakbushundi 4:57 explained him the tatva gyan 5:00 but the same tatva gyan Lord Krishna is 5:03 explaining out 5:05 here he is saying that look 5:09 Arjun keep this knowledge in your 5:13 intellect in case you wish to do my 5:17 bhakti remember my birth is 5:21 divine and my leelas are 5:25 Divine with that resolve of the 5:28 intellect now you will not apply the 5:31 buddhi why did Bhagavan do this why did 5:34 Bhagavan do that and then you will engage 5:37 in 5:40 devotion so with that devotion you will 5:44 purify the 5:46 mind and when the mind is 5:50 purified the heart is purified you will 5:53 receive My 5:54 grace and when the grace comes 6:01 you will be liberated from Maya and 6:04 attain my Divine Abode hence Lord Krishna 6:08 says such a big thing that Arjun if you 6:13 can understand the Divine secret of my 6:17 birth and my pastimes you will not take 6:21 birth in this world 6:24 again so if you wish to say this 6:28 material world is so bad mask mandate 6:31 no mask mandate vaccination no 6:33 vaccination forget it I don't want to 6:35 come here again then have this verse 6:39 accept it understand it make it fit in 6:43 your heart and stop applying the buddhi 6:47 to the leelas of God then without going 6:50 backward forward backward forward you 6:52 will only go forward cleansing your 6:56 heart through the simplest path of 7:02 Bhakti King 7:04 Parikshit was The Listener of the Srimad Bhagavat 7:09 mahapuran when he died because of the 7:12 snake 7:14 bite his son 7:16 Janamejaya was only 7 years 7:20 old subsequently Janamejaya grew up to be a 7:25 great and valiant 7:28 king what one day Janamejaya developed this 7:33 doubt he thought at the time when the 7:36 Mahabharat happened between my warring 7:41 ancestors the Pandavas and the 7:45 Kauravas at that time the Supreme Lord Sri 7:49 Krishna was also present upon the planet 7:53 Earth why then did the Lord not ensure 7:58 that the battle does not take 8:01 place with this doubt he approached the 8:05 great Maharishi Ved Vyas 8:09 who explained to him there are 8:13 certain things which are destined to be 8:18 they are called Honi, jo hokar rahegi 8:23 Janamejaya could not accept it he said with 8:27 our purusharth with our effort we can change 8:32 every aspect of 8:34 Destiny Ved Vyas said all right let me 8:37 tell you a honi in your life you cut it 8:41 and show me 5 years from today don't go 8:46 horse 8:47 riding and if you do do not go on a 8:51 white horse and if you do ride on a 8:55 white horse don't go in the northern 8:58 Direction and and if you do go northward 9:02 do not fall in love with a beautiful 9:05 girl if you do don't bring her home to 9:09 get married to her but even if you do 9:12 make her your queen do not kill any 9:17 brahmans on her prodding 9:20 you but you will definitely do it and 9:25 because of the sin of killing 9:28 brahmans you will develop leprosy on 9:31 your body and die from it I have told 9:35 you a honi in your life cut it and show 9:40 me that put 9:43 Janamejaya in a tremendously pensive 9:47 mood he returned from there in deep 9:50 thought what have I been 9:53 told all right Ved Vyas said 5 years from 9:57 today do not go horse riding I will give 10:02 it up right 10:04 away however when the 5 year period was 10:08 coming to an 10:10 end the urge to ride on a horse became 10:14 so strong Janamejaya could not 10:18 resist so he called his Commander in 10:21 Chief and said I will go riding but on a 10:25 brown horse arrange for one 10:29 the Commander in Chief said yes your 10:33 majesty now when Janamejaya came down to the 10:36 stables he found a white horse had been 10:41 ready his heart went 10:44 dhak dhak he asked the commander-in chief I 10:47 had asked you to arrange for a brown 10:51 horse but your majesty the brown horses 10:55 had been taken elsewhere this was the 10:57 only good stallion 11:01 Janamejaya thought never mind I had been warned 11:05 not to go northward I will go towards 11:08 the 11:09 South he took off at great 11:12 speed he began hunting a deer the deer 11:17 was running away but then it suddenly 11:20 changed Direction and began running 11:24 Northwood before Janamejaya realized he was 11:28 hungry he was thirsty he reached the 11:32 lake and there he discovered a beautiful 11:38 girl he became enchanted right 11:41 away and requested if she would marry 11:45 him she said she would on one condition 11:50 that he would make her his chief 11:53 Queen Janamejaya brought her back on the 11:57 horse when they reached the palace she 12:01 insisted that not a moment be lost in 12:04 conducting the marriage 12:07 ceremony Janamejaya found out that the 12:09 brahmans had gone for conducting rituals 12:14 elsewhere so as a 12:17 solution he got the sons of these 12:20 brahmans to conduct the marriage 12:24 rituals at the end of the ceremony the 12:27 new Chief queen of Janamejaya was giving dakshina 12:33 to these Brahman children when in a gust 12:36 of wind her top cloth began 12:40 flying seeing her body revealed in that 12:44 manner these Brahman children began 12:49 laughing that hurt the pride of lady and 12:55 she fumed to the king they have insulted 12:58 me they must be punished I wish to see 13:01 them all 13:02 dead the king had become enslaved by her 13:07 charms and he obeyed her commands these 13:11 Brahman children were killed the 13:14 consequence of that sin of brahmanas was 13:18 that in a few months time Janamejaya 's body was 13:23 covered with 13:25 Leprosy he now remembered what Ved Vyas had 13:31 said so he went to Ved Vyas and said oh 13:35 Sage The Honi you had described has 13:39 happened how can I be 13:43 saved Ved Vyas responded I had told you 13:47 nevertheless there is one 13:50 solution go to Vaisampayana rishi and hear the 13:54 entire Mahabharat from him as you keep 13:59 hearing one one chapter the leprosy from 14:03 one one limb of your body will start 14:06 getting healed but the condition is do 14:09 not create doubt anywhere and if you do 14:14 that corresponding limb will not be 14:18 cured I have told you the solution but I am 14:21 also telling you that you are going to doubt 14:24 because of which your knees will retain 14:28 the leprosy and you will die from 14:31 it Janamejaya was now happy and sad he proceeded 14:37 from there to Vaisampayana rishi and he pleaded 14:42 before the sage to hear the great 14:45 stories about his 14:48 ancestors his father Parikshit his 14:51 grandfather Abhimanyu his great 14:54 grandfather 14:56 Arjun Vaisampayana rishi began relating the 15:00 story and thus the Mahabharat is the 15:04 dialogue between Vaisampayana rishi and 15:08 Janamejaya as Janamejaya continued to hear one one 15:13 chapter the leprosy from one one limb of 15:16 his body started getting 15:19 cured however at one point Vaisampayana rishi 15:24 related that Bhimsen had such strength if 15:28 he lifted an elephant by the trunk 15:31 turned it around and threw 15:34 it the elephant would reach satellite 15:39 velocity and begin circumambulating the 15:42 planet 15:44 Earth hearing that Janamejaya guffawed loudly 15:50 oh Sage you expect me to believe such 15:54 rubbish Vaisampayana rishi said you do not believe 15:59 let me prove it to you he lifted a hand 16:03 and one elephant who had been rotating 16:05 since the time of 16:07 Bhimsen came and fell upon the 16:11 Earth Vaisampayana rishi had proved the point but 16:15 the doubt that Janamejaya had resulted in the 16:20 leprosy from his knee not getting cured 16:24 and because of that Janamejaya passed away 16:29 the story is placed in the 16:32 Mahabharat to convey to us all the 16:36 instruction that if you wish to benefit 16:40 from the leelas the pastimes of the Lord 16:44 then apply your mind to them to increase 16:48 your love but don't apply the 16:52 intellect apply the intellect towards 16:55 the 16:56 world I am not the body I am the soul 17:01 why do I still repeatedly get attached 17:04 to the world here use your whole 17:07 intellect towards the names forms 17:10 virtues pastimes and abodes of Lord 17:14 apply your mind increase your love that 17:18 is the way to benefit from these 17:22 scriptures
