God Has a Bigger Plan for you - You'll NEVER Worry Again if you Realize this
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Main Points: 1 Bhagavad Gita Chapter 12 verse 16
"My devotee who is not dependent on the ordinary course of activities, who is pure, expert, without cares, free from all pains, and not striving for some result, is very dear to Me". https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/12/16/
because they have understood that no matter how much you get, the inner state will remain the same, so they value something else beyond worldly gain, it's all a question of your values https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p62OMtcfKiM&t=16 2 some ignorant (short sighted) persons take bribe as they think that money is everything & the worldly gain is the highest thing -that is their value system, yet some others think pleasing God is the highest thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p62OMtcfKiM&t=150 3 listen to what Bahubali did, son of Rishabhdeva - when he was about to become King, how he finally realized & said “I forgot to respect my elders, fie (used to express disgust or outrage) upon this Kingdom that made me behave like this, I don't want it (all the kingdom), it's all yours (his brother Bharat) and he walked off into the forest and became a monk ; so imagine his indifference to worldly gain and what enabled him to have that indifference - his value system which said there's something more important than worldly gain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p62OMtcfKiM&t=218 4 likewise, the saints say look, the most valuable thing in the world is the nature of our inner self because that is what will please God; in that matter, there should be no compromise - if I need to reject some material things I will do it and that rejection happens easily. Why does it happen easily for the devotee because the devotee has got another inner treasure and in front of that inner treasure, this worldly treasure looks puny (small), just like if you are in the dark and someone gives you a lamp you'll say wow he's giving me such a big thing BUT if you are standing in the midday sun and somebody gives you a lamp, you say, put it there by the side because you got the midday Sun, so to be able to reject worldly pleasures like that you have to have the inner treasures (of taste of Godly divine bliss & fearlessness) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p62OMtcfKiM&t=415 5 and that is why Lord Krishna says, My devotees, O Arjun, are indifferent to worldly gain and then He Purifying your Mind and Heart says “shuchi” (clean, pure) they are internally and externally pure - internally pure because the heart is the temple for God, so as Shri Aurobindo said you must keep the temple of your heart clean if you wish to install God in your heart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p62OMtcfKiM&t=490 6 supposing you go to your friend's house and you find that in the friend's living room, there are five dead cockroaches lying there, are you going to remain there for long in this filthy place ? You’ll like to get out of here immediately, likewise we say O God please come and reside in my heart and God says look you've got anger and greed and desire and hatred and envy, clean all this up then you call me. So that is why the devote is in internally pure and then the external becomes a reflection of it, so the external is what we learned in childhood that cleanliness is next to Godliness - but now the internal cleanliness automatically leads to external cleanliness, so “shuchi” is required https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p62OMtcfKiM&t=537 7 The Power of Practice Daksha (skillful), the devote is skillful - why is it that everybody is not skillful ? because it takes effort to be skillful, you need to apply yourself, to dedicate yourself to master your craft or trade or whatever you are doing, if you wish to really do something well, you need to exert yourself but people take the shorter & easier path of no exertion / effort, that is why there's so much of competition at ordinary level but at extraordinary level there is very little competition because very few people exert themselves to become extraordinary. The devote has got a motivation to do the best and that motivation is because the devotee consecrates (dedicate formally to a divine purpose) the work to the Supreme God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p62OMtcfKiM&t=591 8 some say that I am so renounced I've renounced my seva as well but it's not right. Actually, you should renounce the fruits of the seva but not the seva itself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p62OMtcfKiM&t=668 9 CEO of IBM Thomas Watson, his slogan in the days when IBM was right at the top, his slogan was as of this moment stop doing anything less than excellent work, so don't make perfection your goal as that will be a neurotic Behavior because when you find a defect, then you will go into depression, why am I not perfect ? So make excellence your goal, am I doing the best that I can do ? even then there will be mistakes but I need to exert myself to the utmost and that is what brings about growth in skill and talent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p62OMtcfKiM&t=686 10 Anders Ericson, he is the master in the topic of practice, he says that hundreds of thousands, millions of people practice golf all their life but there is no growth in skill, so who says practice makes perfect ? You can keep practicing tennis - does everybody become like a superstar in tennis ? he says it is deliberate practice which means every time you are practicing, you are exerting yourself - what are my shortcomings, push yourself to eliminate them and that is how we grow our talents. Virat Kohli, when he was like superstar of the world in cricket, I just read his testimonial, he said when he goes to practice at the nets every day, he goes with this mindset that in these two hours, I need to improve in some department of the game and that is deliberate practice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p62OMtcfKiM&t=745 11 so when you decide what I'm doing is for the sake of God, then He must be offered the best that we can offer and that is why in the field of devotion, you find everything super excellent - whether it is literature or it is singing or it is dancing - because the devotee is skillful in the service of God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p62OMtcfKiM&t=827 12 How to give up Worries? “udasin” means without cares, First ask yourself “is there something that's troubling you in life” ? yes, can you do something about it ? yes, then why worry but if you cannot do something about it, then also why to worry because you cannot do anything about it? In any case why worry ? But the devote has a greater reason not to worry - the devote has a trust that O God, I can't understand why these things are happening, I really feel that I should be having the best career and I should be having this way but things are not going on the way I aspire, nevertheless O God I realize that You must have a greater plan for me and these difficulties are part of Your plan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p62OMtcfKiM&t=866 13 if all our wishes could get fulfilled today, we may not become the way God wants us to become, because we are like the children in the jewelry shop. You put a child in the jewelry shop and you put the chocolate in front and say beta take what you want, is the child going to take the $50,000 Diamond ? the child only understands this Hershey chocolate is so delicious. So likewise, if God says take what you want, then what will we say O God, give me a trip around the world but if we leave it to God - may my Lord please don't do what I ask You to do, because my desires are all wrong, my intellect is material, You decide what is good for me and then you do accordingly with me my Lord https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p62OMtcfKiM&t=946 14 God has a Bigger plan for you - Have Faith devotee says to Lo Surrender myself to to You, You henceforth become the Director of my life and supposing we insist that God, it has to be that way, now God is also a gentleman, He may say all right, okay, let it be, if you're insisting so much and so many times we have seen in life that if you insist something must happen and it does happen, later on you say what a mess it is so. Rather than that, the devote says I do my best my Lord and then leave all these plans at Your feet - whether You sanction them or reject them - because I understand there's a greater plan which You have for me and for everybody else https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p62OMtcfKiM&t=1015 15 now you people are ambitious for your children, what do you think ? is God not ambitious for all of us ? You are also strict with your child, the child doesn't appreciate the strictness - I wanted that chocolate cake fifth helping but mommy did not give it, I was just watching video games and Papa said stand up against the wall, papa is so bad. Papa says beta, when you grow up then you will realize that papa was doing it for your welfare. Likewise we also complain God did not fulfill this or that desire of mine but we must realize that He has got a greater plan for us - that faith is there in the heart of the devote - I don't understand all things I leave it to You, O God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p62OMtcfKiM&t=1074 16 one child’s grandmother was knitting a sweater, so the child says Dadi what are you doing, she said I'm knitting a sweater for you. He looked from this side he said Dadi what is all this mess ? this is not a sweater. Grandmother said my child come and look at it from my side, child came around and looked and a beautiful pattern was getting created so from his side it was looking like a mess but from the grandmother's side it was falling into place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p62OMtcfKiM&t=1127 17 likewise, from our side, we may say everything is wrong BUT God says don't worry, everything is under my Dominion, you just do your bit and you leave the rest to Me, so the devotee is Make a Promise – Never Worry Again without care. So let us make a resolve, you touch your neighbor on the shoulder and say from today I will be without care https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p62OMtcfKiM&t=1167 Transcript (checked all Transcript, now make main points) Bhagavad Gita Chapter 12 verse 16 0:16 those who are indifferent to 0:23 worldly 0:25 gain externally and internally pure 0:31 skillful without cares untroubled and 0:35 free from 0:37 selfishness in all 0:39 undertakings such devotees of mine are 0:43 very dear to me How to get your Value system Right? 2:01 they are indifferent to worldly gain and 2:05 why because they have understood that no 2:09 matter how much you get the inner state 2:13 will remain the 2:17 same so they 2:19 value something else Beyond worldly gain 2:25 it's all a question of your values 2:30 now somebody is in the office in the 2:32 government 2:34 office and another person comes up and 2:37 says can you break this rule for me says 2:41 no I'll give you 2:43 $500 no I'll give you 2:47 $10,000 impossible 100,000 okay put it 2:53 here see these values are 2:56 important but 100,000 is more important 3:00 so the decision is made based on the 3:03 values we have now everybody's got 3:06 different values if your values say that 3:11 worldly gain is the highest thing then 3:14 you will say any which way let's have 3:16 the worldly again why not but if your 3:20 values say that no you know this is not 3:24 as valuable as people are making it out 3:27 to be then you will go by your other 3:33 values so you will be 3:37 indifferent 3:38 so take a look at what bahubali did 3:45 Rishabhdeva we have heard his name from the 3:48 Srimad Bhagavatam he was also the first Tirthankar in 3:51 the Jain 3:53 religion so Rishabhdeva before retiring 3:57 to the 3:58 forest he divided his kingdom amongst 4:01 his nine 4:03 Sons now the eldest Bharat had aspirations 4:07 of being Emperor chakravarti 4:11 samrat so he started subjugating his 4:15 brothers and getting their Kingdom under 4:18 his 4:20 Dominion but there was one problem one 4:24 of the brothers bahubali he 4:27 resisted Bharat had grown very fast 4:29 powerful and bahubali said so what I got 4:33 this Kingdom from my father who is Bharat 4:37 to cast his evil eye on my 4:40 share so a war became inevitable between 4:44 the two brothers and counselors on both 4:47 sides said why do have a 4:50 war look you are brothers avoid 4:53 Bloodshed settle this in a more amicable 4:57 fashion let us have a wrestling match 5:00 between the two of you without any 5:03 weapons so bahubali and Bharat they got 5:08 into a wrestling match and bahubali was 5:13 dominating until Bharat realized that he 5:16 is going to 5:17 lose so finally against the rules of the 5:21 contest Bharat invoked a weapon he had got 5:25 from his father called the chakra 5:28 ratna and he discharged it towards 5:32 bahubali however the chakra ratna went 5:35 to bahubali and 5:37 stopped Barat had forgotten the rules of 5:40 the weapon it cannot be used against 5:43 family 5:44 members now bahubali got 5:47 annoyed you took recourse 5:52 to Injustice how dare you in his anger 5:57 he had twice the strength he lifted Bharat 6:01 and threw him on the ground and got onto 6:03 his chest and I was about to smash him 6:06 to 6:08 death when he suddenly 6:12 regretted and he jumped off and he said 6:15 forgive me dear 6:17 brother in my Greed for the kingdom I 6:20 forgot to respect my elders Fie (used to express disgust or outrage) upon this 6:24 Kingdom that made me behave like this I 6:27 don't want it it's all yours and he 6:30 walked off into the forest and became a 6:32 monk so imagine his 6:35 indifference to worldly gain and what 6:40 enabled him to have that indifference 6:43 his value system which said there's 6:45 something more important than this it is 6:49 the life that I lead it is the way I 6:53 become from inside which is more 6:55 important likewise the saints say look 7:00 the most valuable thing in the world is 7:05 the nature of our inner 7:08 self because that is what will please 7:11 God in that matter there should be no 7:15 compromise if I need to reject some 7:19 material things I will do it and that 7:24 rejection happens 7:27 easily why does it happen easily for the 7:30 devotee because the devotee has got 7:33 another treasure this is the inner 7:37 treasure and in front of that inner 7:39 treasure this treasure looks 7:42 puny just like if you are in the dark 7:45 and someone gives you a lamp you'll say 7:49 wow he's giving me such a big thing and 7:53 if you are standing in the midday sun 7:55 and somebody gives you a lamp you say 7:57 yeah put it there by the side because 7:59 you got the midday Sun so to be able to 8:04 reject worldly pleasures like that you 8:07 have to have the inner 8:10 treasures and that is why Lord Krishna 8:15 says my devotees O Arjun are 8:19 indifferent to worldly gain and then he Purifying your Mind and Heart 8:23 says 8:25 shuchi they are internally and 8:28 externally 8:31 pure internally 8:34 pure because the heart is the temple for 8:39 God so as Shri Aurobindo said you must keep 8:43 the Temple of your heart clean if you 8:47 wish to install therein the living 8:51 presence if you want to bring God in 8:53 your heart God says look clean it 8:57 up supposing you go to your friend's 9:01 house and you find that in the friend's 9:04 living room there are five dead 9:05 cockroaches lying there are you going to 9:09 remain there for long in this filthy place 9:12 get out of here likewise we say oh God 9:16 please come and reside in my heart and 9:18 God says look you've got anger and greed 9:21 and desire and hatred and envy clean all 9:23 this up then you call me so that is why 9:27 the devote is in internally pure and 9:31 then the external becomes a reflection 9:34 of it so the external is what we learned 9:37 in childhood right cleanliness is Next 9:39 to 9:40 Godliness but now with the internal 9:43 cleanliness automatically leads to 9:46 external cleanliness so shuchi and The Power of Practice 9:51 Daksha the 9:53 devote is 9:57 skillful so 10:00 why is it that everybody is not 10:04 skillful because it takes effort to be 10:07 skillful you need to apply yourself to 10:11 dedicate yourself to master your craft 10:15 or trade or whatever you are 10:19 doing 10:21 and that is very easy a mentality of 10:25 compromise if it happens it happens but 10:29 if you wish to really do something well 10:32 you need to exert yourself so people 10:36 take the shorter path you know it's all 10:41 right that is why there's so much of 10:43 competition at ordinary at extraordinary 10:47 there is very little competition because 10:49 very few people exert themselves to 10:51 become 10:53 extraordinary now the devote has got a 10:57 motivation to do the best 11:00 and that motivation is because the 11:03 devotees consecrating the work to the 11:08 Supreme now you say okay I am so 11:11 renounced I'm renounced from my seva as 11:14 well whether it's all right it's not all 11:16 right that's not you renounce from the 11:19 fruits of the seva but not the seva 11:23 itself this mentality of doing something 11:26 just ordinary you know the 11:30 CEO of IBM Thomas Watson his slogan in 11:36 the days when IBM was at right at the 11:38 top his slogan was as of this 11:43 moment stop doing anything less than 11:47 excellent 11:49 work 11:51 so don't make Perfection your goal that 11:56 will be a neurotic Behavior because when 11:59 you find a defect then you will go into 12:01 depression why am I not perfect make 12:05 Excellence your goal am I doing the best 12:09 that I can do even then there will be 12:12 mistakes but I need to exert myself to 12:17 the utmost and that is what brings 12:21 about growth in skill and 12:25 talent so Anders Erikson you heard of 12:29 Anders Ericson right he is the master in 12:32 the topic of 12:34 practice he says that hundreds of 12:38 thousands millions of people practice 12:42 golf all their 12:44 life but there is no growth in 12:47 skill so who says practice makes perfect 12:51 you can keep practicing tennis does 12:54 everybody become like a superstar in 12:57 tennis he says it is deliberate practice 13:00 which means every time you are 13:03 practicing you are exerting yourself 13:06 what are my 13:08 shortcomings push yourself to eliminate 13:12 them and that is how we grow our talents 13:18 so virat kohli few years ago when he was 13:21 like Superstar of the world in cricket I 13:24 just read his testimonial he said when 13:27 he goes to practice at the Nets so 13:31 the cricketers they go for net practice 13:34 so he says I go for 2 hours practice at 13:36 the net and every day I go with this 13:41 mindset that in these two hours I need 13:44 to improve in some Department of the 13:47 game and that is deliberate practice so 13:52 when you decide what I'm doing is for 13:55 the sake of God then he is the best and 13:59 he must be offered the best that we can 14:03 offer and that is why like I said in the 14:06 field of devotion you find everything 14:10 super 14:11 excellent whether it is literature or it 14:14 is singing or it is dancing because the 14:18 devotee is skillful in the service of 14:23 God and How to give up Worries? 14:26 udasin means without 14:33 cares you may have heard of this 14:39 formula is there something that's 14:42 troubling you in life ? yes, Swamiji, can you do 14:47 something about it yes then why 14:50 worry so is there something that's 14:53 troubling you in your life yes can you 14:56 do something about it no then why 15:01 worry in any case why 15:05 worry but the devote has a greater 15:08 reason not to worry the devote has a 15:13 trust that O God I can't understand why 15:18 these things are 15:20 happening I really feel that I should be 15:23 having the best career and I should be 15:26 having this way but things are not going 15:29 on the way I Aspire nevertheless oh God 15:34 I 15:35 realize that you must have a greater 15:39 plan for 15:40 me and these 15:42 difficulties are part of your 15:46 plan if all our wishes could get 15:49 fulfilled 15:50 today we may not become the way God 15:54 wants us to 15:55 become because we are like the children 15:58 in the jewelry shop you put a child in 16:01 the jewelry shop and you put the 16:03 chocolate in front and say beta take what 16:07 you want is the child going to take the 16:10 $50,000 Diamond the child only 16:14 understands this Hershey chocolate is so 16:17 delicious so likewise if God says take 16:20 what you want then what will we say oh 16:23 God give me a trip around the 16:24 world but if we leave it to God May 16:37 my Lord please don't do what I ask you 16:41 to do because my desires are all 16:45 wrong my intellect is 16:47 material you decide what is good for me God has a Bigger plan for you - Have Faith 16:52 and then you do accordingly with me my 16:55 Lord I Surrender myself to to you, you 17:00 henceforth become the director of my 17:05 life and supposing we insist God it has 17:08 to be that 17:10 way God is also a gentleman he may 17:14 see all right okay let it be if you're 17:16 insisting so much and so many times we 17:19 have seen in life that if you insist 17:22 something must happen and it does happen 17:24 later on you say what a mess it 17:27 is so rather than that the devote says I 17:32 do my best my Lord and then leave all 17:36 these plans at your feet whether you 17:40 sanction them or you reject them because 17:44 I understand there's a greater plan 17:48 which you have for me and for everybody 17:54 else now you people are ambitious for 17:57 your children so you think God is Not 18:00 ambitious for all of us but you are also 18:03 strict with your 18:04 child now the child doesn't appreciate 18:07 the 18:09 strictness I wanted that chocolate cake 18:12 fifth helping but mommy did not give it I 18:16 was just watching video games and Papa 18:18 said stand up against the wall papa is 18:21 so 18:22 bad beta when you grow up then you will 18:25 realize Papa was doing it for your 18:27 welfare 18:29 likewise we also complain God did not 18:31 fulfill this desire of mine God did not 18:34 fulfill that desire we realize that he's 18:37 got a greater plan for 18:40 us but that faith is there in the heart 18:44 of the devote I don't understand all 18:47 things I leave it to you one child’s 18:53 grandmother was knitting something 18:57 sweater so the child says Dadi what are 19:00 you doing she said I'm knitting a 19:02 sweater for you he looked from this side 19:05 he said Dadi what is all this mess this 19:08 is not a 19:10 sweater grandmother said my child come 19:13 and look at it from my side he came 19:16 around and looked and a beautiful 19:19 pattern was getting created so from his 19:22 side it was looking like a mess from the 19:25 grandmother's side it was falling into 19:27 place so likewise from our side we 19:30 may say everything is wrong and God says 19:33 don't worry everything is under my 19:36 Dominion you just do your bit and you 19:39 leave the rest to me so the devotee is Make a Promise - Never Worry Again 19:43 without 19:45 care so let us make a 19:48 resolve you touch your neighbor on the 19:50 shoulder and say from today I will be 19:54 without care
