Why did we come into this World? | Goal of Life - Part 5 by Swami Mukundanand
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we had progressed in our discussion to this point that we understood why we want happiness because we are fragments of the ocean of bliss and every fragment is drawn to its source.
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Now why have we not got happiness till today ? The answer to this is actually very simple and obvious that we are searching for happiness in the wrong place, like let's say, you wish to go from Dallas to San Antonio, San Antonio is southward
and you are going northward from San Antonio & hence you are getting further and further away, similarly we are also searching for happiness in the wrong direction, as we don't know where happiness lies. The reason for this confusion is ignorance.
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We have this veil of ignorance that has covered us & where did the ignorance come from ? Ved Vyas in the Srimad Bhagavatam has explained the reason for ignorance, he says that this soul is “vimukh” to God,
let us suppose this is God and this is the soul, the soul instead of having its face towards God has got the back towards God. Now when you put your back towards God, you get covered by Maya and that is why we are here. God is not only “Anand (Bliss)”, He is also light, knowledge.
If you turn your back to the light, what do you have in front of you, your shadow, darkness, so we turned our backs to God & we got covered by the darkness of the ignorance of Maya, that is why we are here in this physical material world.
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Many times people ask why are we here ?, students ask more than elders, see students still have curiosity, they wish to know and as elders we have established our beliefs, there is nothing further to know, you see,
when I go to a school they will ask so many questions, a three-year-old will ask me Swamiji what is Shri Krishna’s second name ? oh my God, only a three-year-old can ask that !
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So once I was giving a lecture in India, lecture series but there was a student who used to come and attend and he would engage in questions with me, so once the series got over, I was to go to the next town,
he said, Swamiji, I have vacation, can I join you, I will also do Seva, I will volunteer, I said sure, so he accompanied me to the next town as well
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Now on Sunday the lecture got over early, we were taking a late evening walk, he asked me this question, why did we come here, not into this town but into this world, why did we come here ? I pondered on how to answer his question, there was a cinema hall in front, I said do you have money for tickets ?
he said, yes Swamiji, I said go and get two, he said for whom I said for you and for me, he said Swamiji you will see a movie ? I said yes, in your company, so he got two tickets and with those we entered into the Indian cinema hall
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the cinema hall it was all pitch dark, one usherer (the seating person) with a thin beam torch looked at the tickets and with the beam of the torch, he indicated walk up the stairs, we went up there, another usherer with a thin beam torch saw the tickets and indicated us to sit on those two seats,
myself and the student, we sat down, now the night show was already going on, a whole plot was unfolding on that cinema screen, there was so much of apparent excitement,
a hero, a heroine and a villain, a car chase, a helicopter chase, a policeman. Within 15 minutes this student was completely engrossed in the movie, I hope he doesn't, I hope he does,
I saw that he has forgotten that I am sitting next to him, I said hey, he said, shh…., I said listen, he said, don't disturb, so I caught his little finger and pulled it, oh Swami ji, I said, why did we come here ?
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you see 15 minutes ago, he had asked me why did we come here into the world, now I turned the tables & I said why did we come here into the cinema hall ? he scanned his whole brain he could not get an answer,
I said never mind, come out now, you will understand the answer to your question, so I said look when we were in the cinema hall you had completely forgotten who am I ? why am I here ? who is next to me ? what purpose is being served ?
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and the white light in those days, you know, the cinema was different, there would be the celluloid and an intense white light that would pass through it, gather colors and fall on the screen,
so that colored light, you were mistaking it for the reality, this is the hero, this is the heroine, that illusion you had fallen into was because of the darkness of the cinema hall, darkness is conducive to illusion, hallucination.
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Now supposing the hall manager had come and put on the main light, all the illusion would be finished, o where is my chappal, I hope I've not dropped my handkerchief, let me be the first one into the scooter stand and get out from here,
now you are back in reality, the illusion was because of darkness, light dispels it. Similarly, Maya is the darkness, God is the light, the knowledge, why are we in Maya ?
because we have turned our backs to the light, when you turn your back to God it is natural to be covered by ignorance and because of that Maya, we are here, so what is the illusion out here ? that we have forgotten who we actually are ?
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Transcript
0:10
we had progressed in our discussion to
0:14
this point that we understood why we
0:17
want happiness because we are fragments
0:22
of the ocean of bliss and every fragment
0:26
is drawn to its source. Now why have we
0:31
not got happiness till today ? The answer
0:38
to this is actually very simple and
0:41
obvious that we are searching for happiness
0:44
in the wrong place, like let's say, you
0:49
wish to go from Dallas to San Antonio,
0:54
San Antonio is southward and you are
0:57
going northward from San Antonio & hence you are getting
1:03
further and further away, similarly we
1:08
are also searching for happiness in the
1:12
wrong direction,
1:14
as we don't know where happiness lies. The
1:21
reason for this confusion is ignorance.
1:28
We have this veil of ignorance that has
1:32
covered us & where did the ignorance come
1:37
from ? Ved Vyas in the Srimad Bhagavatam has
1:43
explained the reason for ignorance, he
1:50
says that this soul is “vimukh” to God,
1:55
let us suppose this is God and this is
1:59
the soul, the soul instead of having its
2:03
face towards God has got the back towards God.
2:08
Now when you put your back
2:11
towards God, you get covered by Maya and
2:16
that is why we are here. God is not only
2:21
“Anand (Bliss)”, He is also light, knowledge. If you
2:27
turn your back to the light, what do you
2:32
have in front of you,
2:34
your shadow, darkness, so we turned our
2:40
backs to God & we got covered by the
2:44
darkness of the ignorance of Maya, that
2:49
is why we are here in this physical material world. Many times people ask
2:54
why are we here ?, students ask more than
2:59
elders, see students still have curiosity,
3:03
they wish to know and as elders we have
3:06
established our beliefs, there is nothing
3:09
further to know, you see, when I go to a
3:13
school they will ask so many questions, a
3:16
three-year-old will ask me Swamiji what
3:18
is Shri Krishna’s second name ?
3:21
oh my God, only a three-year-old
3:24
can ask that ! So once I was giving a
3:29
lecture in India, lecture series but
3:33
there was a student who used to come and
3:34
attend and he would engage in questions
3:38
with me, so once the series got over, I was
3:43
to go to the next town, he said, Swamiji, I
3:46
have vacation, can I join you, I will also
3:49
do Seva, I will volunteer, I said sure, so
3:54
he accompanied me to the next town as
3:56
well, now on Sunday the lecture got over
4:01
early, we were taking a
4:04
late evening walk, he asked me this
4:07
question, why did we come here, not into
4:13
this town but into this world, why did we
4:17
come here ? I pondered on how to answer
4:22
his question, there was a cinema hall in
4:24
front,
4:25
I said do you have money for tickets ?
4:29
he said, yes Swamiji, I said go and get
4:33
two, he said for whom I said for you and
4:36
for me,
4:37
he said Swamiji you will see a movie ? I
4:40
said yes, in your company, so he got two
4:44
tickets and with those we entered into
4:47
the Indian cinema hall, the cinema hall
4:51
it was all pitch dark, one usherer (the seating person) with
4:55
a thin beam torch looked at the
4:57
tickets and with the beam of the torch,
5:00
he indicated walk up the stairs, we went
5:04
up there, another usherer with a thin
5:07
beam torch saw the tickets and indicated us to
5:09
sit on those two seats, myself and the
5:14
student, we sat down, now the night show
5:19
was already going on, a whole plot was
5:24
unfolding on that cinema screen, there
5:27
was so much of apparent excitement, a
5:30
Hero, a heroine and a villain, a car chase, a
5:33
helicopter chase, a policeman. Within 15
5:39
minutes this student was completely
5:42
engrossed in the movie, I hope he doesn't,
5:45
I hope he does, I saw that he has
5:50
forgotten that I am sitting next to him, I said hey,
5:53
he said, shh….,
5:57
I said listen,
6:01
he said, don't disturb, so I caught his little
6:05
finger and pulled it, oh Swami ji, I said,
6:12
why did we come here ?
6:15
you see 15 minutes ago, he had asked me
6:19
why did we come here into the world, now
6:22
I turned the tables & I said why did we come
6:26
here into the cinema hall ? he scanned his
6:30
whole brain he could not get an answer, I
6:33
said never mind, come out now, you will
6:37
understand the answer to your question,
6:40
so I said look when we were in the
6:45
cinema hall you had completely forgotten
6:50
who am I ? why am I here ? who is next to me ?
6:57
what purpose is being served ? and the
7:01
white light in those days, you know, the
7:03
cinema was different, there would be the
7:06
celluloid and an intense white light
7:08
that would pass through it, gather colors
7:12
and fall on the screen, so that colored
7:15
light, you were mistaking it for the
7:19
reality, this is the hero, this is the
7:21
heroine, that illusion you had fallen
7:26
into was because of the darkness of the
7:31
cinema hall, darkness is conducive to
7:35
illusion, hallucination. Now supposing the
7:40
hall manager had come and put on the
7:42
main light, all the illusion would
7:47
be finished, o where is my chappal, I hope
7:50
I've not dropped my handkerchief, let me
7:52
be the first one into the scooter stand
7:54
and get out from here, now you are back
7:58
in reality, the illusion was because of
8:03
darkness, light dispels it.
8:07
Similarly, Maya is the darkness, God is the light,
8:12
the knowledge, why are we in Maya ? because we
8:16
have turned our backs to the light,
8:20
when you
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turn your back to God it is natural to
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be covered by ignorance and because of
8:30
that Maya, we are here,
8:33
so what is the illusion out here ? that we have
8:37
forgotten who we actually are ?
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