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UNTOLD Power of Visualizing God in your Mind during Meditation
00:17 to remember to engage the mind and
0:20 remembrance of the Lord
0:23 along with that you do any kind of
0:26 bhakti or no other bhakti if you like
0:29 keep your mouth shut and just remember
0:32 that is also enough
0:34 Kabir ji says
0:50 keep the mouth closed and open
0:54 the door from the inside
0:58 so smarn, remembrance of Lord (स्मरण) is compulsory ; along with that you keep anything
1:02 how to do that स्मरण or that meditation
1:08 Kripalu ji maharaj says bring the image of the Lord
1:12 before you
1:15 that is The "Roopdhyan"
1:18 it is so easy
1:21 you try and remember your father
1:24 you will never be able to make the exact
1:28 image and if it's not the exact image
1:31 it's not your father it's something else
1:33 but in the spiritual realm Krishna says
1:37 you visualize me as you wish
1:40 I only see your sentiments you create
1:44 the sentiments that He is my Divine father
1:47 and I will give you the fruit
1:51 so to do Roopdhyan of Krishna of God is
1:56 the easiest thing
1:59 but here some people question
2:02 that look you are making an image with
2:05 your mind
2:07 and the mind is material
2:11 so the image you are making is also
2:14 material
2:16 we don't believe in all this we just do
2:19 nirakar ; we worship the form less
2:23 you may have heard this argument in the
2:26 world
2:27 so you question them
2:29 okay
2:30 worshiper of the formless Mr Nirakarwadi
2:34 what do you meditate upon
2:37 I meditate upon light
2:40 how do you make that light with my mind
2:44 but if the mind is material the light it
2:48 is creating to meditate is also material
2:53 only thing is you have created light
2:56 with the mind we have created the form
2:58 with the mind; both of these are materials
3:11 wherever this mind goes is only the material
3:15 realm
3:17 so how will you cross it
3:20 Krishna says look don't you worry
3:24 right now
3:26 no matter what you try
3:29 you can never bring the Divine form of
3:33 the Lord to your mind
3:38 but with the help of your materially
3:41 visualized form, keep increasing your
3:45 love
3:46 that is your homework
3:50 that your job right now is to increase
3:53 your love and to increase your love, why
3:57 meditate on light why not meditate on
4:00 the Form that captivates you
4:03 and when we reach higher
4:06 God will add his divine power to
4:10 our meditation
4:11 that is called the "shudh satwa"
4:15 when that gets added you will start
4:18 perceiving that Krishna is there
4:22 you see in the state of bhav bhakti even
4:24 before God realization the perception
4:28 will start coming oh there He is
4:31 in other words the meditation will
4:33 become enlivened
4:36 so that is the beauty of this Rupadhyan
4:40 that you can do
4:43 and alongside with that
4:46 you can visualize his pastimes
4:51 and in the case of pastimes as well you
4:55 don't need to restrict yourself
4:58 to the pastimes from the Bhagavatam or
5:01 the Ramayan
5:03 what the Bhagavatam says is a tiny speck
5:08 of the infinite pastimes of God
5:13 avatara.
5:18 Rama
5:23 Tulsidas ji says innumerable ways God
5:27 took the Avatar and he every time he did
5:31 different pastimes
5:35 talks about five different Ram avatars
5:38 now suppose God was to take Avatar today
5:46 there's nothing stopping him
5:51 would he repeat the pastimes that he did
5:54 5000 years ago
5:57 supposing he put a peacock crown
6:00 and he started running around
6:02 people would have said he's a mdman
6:06 so what the children of today play
6:09 He would be obliged to play the same
6:12 games
6:13 He would be obliged to dress in similar
6:16 manners and because His leelas have
6:20 been infinite
6:25 can anybody count the waves in the ocean
6:28 in all the Seven Seas of the world
6:32 similarly who can count the avatars Shri
6:36 Krishna went to the extent of telling
I have had so many avatars that it
6:58 becomes difficult to count from the
beginning of eternity
7:03 so you visualize Him as you wish you
7:05 visualize His pastimes as you wish
7:09 He is coming to my house I am welcoming
7:12 Him in this way increase your love for
7:16 Him
7:18 so what is the benefit of Roopdhyan
7:23 the mind will get absorbed
7:27 and supposing you don't do Roopdhyan
7:30 the mind will start running here & there
7:34 that is exactly what happens people do
7:36 People read scriptures
7:37 and the mind is going here and there and
7:42 why; the mind says look I will not remain
7:46 empty
7:48 give me some work to do otherwise then
7:51 I'll find it myself
7:54 so you have to give your mind some work
7:58 to do ; otherwise kripaluji Maharaj says
8:01 your sadhana
8:04 will be like a body without the prana
8:11 when the prana depart from the body
8:14 the body is worthy of being eaten by the
8:18 jackals and the Eagles
8:22 you throw a dead body outside and within
8:25 20 minutes you know an eagle comes to
8:27 pick it up
8:29 the eagle comes to know right up there
8:32 all the squirrels are moving and this
8:34 one is not moving it is dead it comes
8:37 down to pick it up
8:39 similarly in your sadhana you may be
8:42 doing kirtan you may be doing anything
8:46 but if you don't engage the mind in Roopdhyan
8:49 it will start running
8:53 there was once a
8:56 man he got a new house and he opened up
8:59 the attic and he found a kettle there
9:03 so he started rubbing the kettle
9:06 and the spirit of the kettle you know
9:09 the gin (जिन), they call in Hindi the जिन
9:11 manifested
9:13 so he said look I will fulfill your wish
9:16 whatever you want
9:18 but don't
9:20 keep me unoccupied otherwise I will kill
9:23 you
9:24 so this man said all right then now I've
9:27 got somebody to fulfill my wishes all
9:30 right Mr Jin I am feeling very hungry
9:33 please arrange for food
9:35 so the Jin went in a jiffy he came here
9:39 it is
9:40 so what next command please tell me
9:43 look don't keep me unoccupied otherwise
9:47 I'll kill you ; yes okay give food
9:50 for all my neighbors as well
9:51get me a new set of clothes okay here it
9:58 is; next come on, now slowly he started
10:01 running out of wishes to get fulfilled
10:03 the Jin said be quick don't let me be
10:07 empty for a moment finally he was not
10:10 able to think of anything; Jin went
10:13 after his throat I am going to kill you
10:16 give me some work to do in one hour
10:18 otherwise you'll be dead
10:20 this man went to a guru he said you know
10:24 it was like opening the Pandora's Box
10:28 I got this jin out of the kettle and now
10:31 he doesn't let me live
10:33 he says give me some work to do
10:37 right; the same is our mind says give me
10:39 some work to do
10:41 the guru said very simple ask the jin to
10:44 put a rod into the earth
10:46 tell him to climb up till the top and
10:49 when he comes to the top let him come
10:51 down and when he comes down let him go
10:53 up and when he goes up let him come down
10:54 when you have some work to do ask him to
10:57 do the work and then again go up and
10:59 down up and down
11:00 now the Jinn got tamed in the same way
11:06 you are doing your kirtan
11:14 and the mind is thinking about tea
11:19 and samosa
11:22 so, mere speaking doesn't engage the mind
11:28 to engage the mind you need Roopdhyan ;
after that you say Govinda, Gopal anything that appeals to you and then when the
11:42 image is there you start cultivating the
11:45 sentiments whether it is a "milan ka dhyan" (meditating on union with Lord) I am
11:49 with my beloved
11:52 I am longing for him all these
11:56 sentiments will come after Roopdhyan
11:59 Kripaluji Maharaj says the moment the
12:03 Roopdhyan disappears what you are doing is like a body with
12:09 the life air gone out of it ; he has emphasized Roopdhyan so strongly here
