Is Anybody Truly Happy | Goal of Life - Part 6 by Swami Mukundanand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THXjEaNsEAc Full Text 1 so what is the illusion out here, we have forgotten who we are, all of us have forgotten & what are we thinking I am Gujarati, Marwadi, Punjabi, Sindhi, Marathi, Bengali, Indian, American, Mexican, actually I am the soul, this knowledge has disappeared & when we have forgotten who am I, where is the question of remembering who is mine ? only God is mine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THXjEaNsEAc&t=10 2 You ask anybody, who are you Swami ji, my name is Ramesh Sharma on Ramesh Sharma ji, this Ramesh name you got when you were three year old, what were you called before that ? You know my nickname, my parents used to call me,for the first 3 years, they would call me Pappu, So when you were Pappu you were a different person and when you became Ramesh, did you change ? No,no, I’m the same person who was Pappu, so obviously you were neither the name Pappu nor the name, tell me who are you ? right now I am a systems analyst in AT&T and I am assigned to be promoted to deputy general manager. All right, so systems analyst is your introduction, when you get promoted, will you change, no I will not change, then you are neither deputy manager nor the analyst, you are apart from these designations, tell me who are you ? Swami ji, you should have guessed from the name Sharma, I am a brahmin, this brahmin is the designation of your body, do you know that in your last life, you were a kshatriya, in the life before you were a vaishya and in the life before, you were a shudra, your soul can sit in any body, how does that matter, there are so many cars in the parking lot, somebody is sitting in a Toyota & you ask him who are you, I’m a Toyota Cameri, Now make him sit in a Honda, ask him who are you, I am a Honda, people will say what kind of ignorance has overcome the citizens of Allen you ask the driver for introduction and they introduce their car, So same way, we have forgotten the nature of the self https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THXjEaNsEAc&t=40 3 Well Swami ji, I’ve heard in kathas, I’ve read in books, that I’m the soul, you have heard, is that your introduction ? if somebody says I have heard that I am Govind Mahajan So, you have heard that you are Govind Mahajan, you have no experience of yourself ? So we forgot ourselves & started thinking that we are the body even though we know that we will leave this body one day, you know, everybody says upon death, such & such person left the world for heavenly abode, for Golokvas or whatever, even in the communist countries the same statement is given, last night at 8pm, such & such great party leader comrade Brezhnev left the world & next morning at 10 am, thousands of people have lined up at Comrade Brezhnev residence, you ask them why they have come, they say we have come to see Comrade Brezhnev, But you did not hear the news that he has left the world how will you see him when he has left the world, the only way you can see him that you also leave the world, then you see him in the other world, no, he has left the world but his body is there, we’ve come to see the body for his last darshan last time, that means Comrade Brezhnev was not the body, so you are also not the body you are the eternal soul, we forgot that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THXjEaNsEAc&t=174 4 and from there, a compounding mistake began, what is the compounding mistake ? you start from here two plus two is equal to 7 now all the computation that you do, the mistake will not only remain, it will start compounding, similarly, if we decide that I am the body, now the whole mathematics changes now the goal of my happiness is how to give happiness to the body. Now we started chasing the bodily happiness, what should I eat so to get happiness, what should I hear so I’ll get bliss, we started finding happiness in the objects of the senses of the body, and in this search nobody got happiness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THXjEaNsEAc&t=298 5 Has anybody here got happiness ? Is anybody truly happy ? Can anybody sincerely lift their hand and say yes, swami ji, I’ve found perfect bliss. Vedvyas says only two kinds of people are happy in this world, one that person is happy who has attained God and who is relishing the bliss of God and second person that person is happy who is a mad man, the mad man is happy because he does not know that he is unhappy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THXjEaNsEAc&t=377 6 like your neighbour who has drunk too much & fallen into the gutter & you say Govind bhai, why are you lying in the gutter ? Govind bhai says I’m lying in my bedroom, where else am I lying, he has drunk and that’s why the gutter seems bedroom to him, similarly Vedvyas says that a God realized saint can say I am happy and the mad man can say I am happy, everybody else will have to admit that so far I have not got the happiness that I want, I’ll get it but not so far. So we are all not happy but yet we are running in the same direction, right now i have got one million, if I can have three million, I’ll definitely be happy, right now I’ve an H1B visa & if I get Green Card, my happiness will have no bounds, so we are all running but you know that you are not fully happy, you don't know that nobody is happy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THXjEaNsEAc&t=438 7 if you came to know that the people ahead are also unhappy then you would know that there is no point running in this direction addition, it is an exercise in futility but our illusion is that we think I’m not happy, but the other guy must be happy. My wife, you know, she is an avatar of Chandi, but his wife, he must be happy and if you came to know that no husband and no wife is happy, you don't believe it ? I am telling you according to the scriptures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THXjEaNsEAc&t=523 8 There was one man who used to always complain to God O God, you put all the miseries in my name, so God thought let Me open his eyes, God came at night in his dream and told him to take all his miseries and put in a bag and come to the Radha Krishna temple, I’ll meet you there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THXjEaNsEAc&t=565 9 he woke up, he said wow what a vivid dream it was. He picked up all his miseries & put them all in a gunny bag, put the bag on his shoulder and came out of his house, it was 4.30am in the morning, it was dark he found his neighbours are also coming out, all groggy eyed with one bag each, what, God gave my neighbours also the same dream ? So they are also unhappy ? I thought they are very happy, they have got such a big car, such a big wonderful courtyard etc and they go for holiday in a boat, and his bag is bigger than mine, I wonder what is in his bag ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THXjEaNsEAc&t=598 10 They all reached the temple God started speaking from above, God said, look, I’ve driven nails in the walls, you can hang your bag, one from each nail, stand by the side of your misery bag, and survey all the others, select any bag that catches your fancy, the lights will go off for 10 minutes, in those 10 minutes, you can do a switch whichever bag you selected, you go & stand in front of it & when lights come on, whoever is by the side of whichever bag can take it & go away, it will be fair exchange, the lights went off, after 10 minutes, the lights came back again, it was found that each person was still standing by the side of his own bag everybody said, let’s play it safe, at least I know what is in my bag a little bit of knee & a little problem from the child, a little financial constraint, the others’ bags, who knows Zeika virus is spreading now a days, H1N1 virus has not died, what if he has got H1N1etc., what will I do ? So, everybody selected their own bag and they went out and the illusion they had that I am not happy but the other guy must be happy was dispelled nobody is happy This realization has to dawn Till this realization dawns, you are chasing a mirage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THXjEaNsEAc&t=671 Transcript 0:10 so what is the illusion out here, we 0:13 have forgotten who we are, all of us have forgotten 0:16 & what are we thinking 0:20 I am Gujarati Marwadi Punjabi Sindhi Marathi 0:24 Bengali Indian American Mexican, 0:28 actually I am the soul, this knowledge has disappeared & when we have forgotten who am I, where is the question of remembering who is mine ? only God is mine. in the 0:40 You ask anybody, who are you 0:44 Swami ji, my name is Ramesh Sharma 0:48 on 0:49 Ramesh Sharma ji, this Ramesh name you got 0:54 when you were three year old, what were you called before that ? 0:56 You know my nickname, my parents used to call me,for the first 3 years, they would call me Pappu, 1:07 So when you were Pappu you were a different person 1:10 and when you became Ramesh, did you change ? 1:13 No,no, I’m the same person who was Pappu, so obviously you were neither the name Pappu nor the name, tell me who are you ? 1:24 right now I am a systems analyst in AT&T and I am assigned to be promoted to deputy 1:33 general manager. 1:34 All right, so systems analyst is your 1:38 introduction, when you get promoted, will 1:41 you change, no I will not change, 1:42 then you are neither 1:46 deputy manager nor the analyst, you 1:50 are apart from these designations, tell me who 1:54 are you ? 1:55 Swami ji, you should have guessed from the 1:58 name Sharma, I am a brahmin, 2:06 this brahmin is the designation of your body, 2:10 do you know that in your last life, you were a kshatriya, in 2:14 the life before you were a vaishya and in the life before, you were a 2:17 shudra, your soul can sit in any body, how does that 2:21 Matter, there are so many cars in the parking lot, 2:25 somebody is sitting in a Toyota & you ask him who are you, I’m a Toyota Cameri, 2:32 Now make him sit in a Honda, ask him who are you, I am a Honda, 2:35 people will say what kind of 2:38 ignorance has overcome the citizens of Allen 2:41 you ask the driver for introduction and 2:45 they introduce their car, 2:48 So same way, we have forgotten the nature of the self, 2:54 Well Swami ji, I’ve heard in kathas, I’ve read in books, that 2:59 I’m the soul, 3:02 you have heard, is that your introduction ? if 3:06 somebody says I have heard that I am Govind Mahajan 3:13 So, you have heard that you are Govind Mahajan, you have no experience of yourself ? 3:17 So we forgot ourselves & started thinking 3:21 that we are the body even though we know that we will 3:27 leave this body one day, you know, everybody 3:32 says upon death, such & such person left the world 3:38 for heavenly abode, for Golokvas or whatever, 3:44 even in the communist countries the same 3:49 statement is given, 3:51 last night at 8pm, 3:53 such & such great party leader comrade 3:57 Brezhnev 3:59 left the world 4:03 & next morning at 10 am, thousands of 4:08 people have lined up at Comrade Brezhnev 4:11 residence, 4:13 you ask them why they have come, 4:17 they say we have come to see Comrade Brezhnev, 4:20 4:21 But you did not hear the news that he has left the world 4:26 how will you see him when he has left the world, 4:30 the only way you can see him that you also leave the world, then you see him in the other world, 4:36 no, he has left the world but his body is there, 4:41 we’ve come to see the body for his last darshan last time, 4:45 that means Comrade Brezhnev was not the 4:49 body, so you are also not the body 4:53 you are the eternal soul, we forgot that 4:58 and from there, a 5:01 compounding mistake began, 5:05 what is the compounding mistake ? you 5:09 start from here 5:11 two plus two 5:14 is equal to 7 5:18 5:20 now all the computation that you do, the mistake 5:25 will not only remain, it will start 5:27 Compounding, 5:30 similarly, if we decide that I am the body, 5:35 now the whole mathematics changes 5:42 now the goal of my happiness is how to 5:46 give happiness to the body. 5:49 Now we started chasing the bodily 5:53 happiness, 5:56 what should I eat so to get happiness, 5:58 what should I hear so I’ll get bliss, 6:03 we started finding happiness in the 6:07 objects of the senses of the body, 6:11 and in this search nobody got happiness. 6:17 Has anybody here got happiness ? 6:22 Is anybody truly happy ? 6:25 Can anybody sincerely lift their hand 6:28 and say yes, swami ji, I’ve found 6:32 perfect bliss. 6:36 Vedvyas says only two kind of 6:39 people are happy in this world, 6:54 one that person is happy who has attained 6:59 God and who is relishing the bliss of God 7:05 and second person that person is happy who is a mad man, 7:10 the mad man is happy because he does not know that he is unhappy 7:18 like your neighbour who has drunk too much & fallen into the gutter 7:24 & you say Govind bhai, 7:26 why are you lying in the gutter ? 7:28 Govind bhai says I’m lying in my bedroom, where else am I lying, 7:33 he has drunk and thats why the gutter seems bedroom to him, 7:40 similarly Vedvyas says that a God realized saint can say I am 7:50 happy and the mad man can say I am 7:54 Happy, 7:55 everybody else will have to admit 7:59 So far 8:01 I have not got the happiness that I want, I’ll get it but not so far. 8:08 So we are all not happy but yet we are 8:13 running in the same direction, 8:16 right now i have got one million, if I can 8:19 have three million, I’ll definitely be happy, 8:24 right now I’ve an H1B visa & if I get Green Card, my happiness will have 8:27 no bounds, so we are all running 8:33 but you know that you are not 8:37 fully happy, you don't know that nobody is 8:42 happy 8:43 if you came to know that the people ahead are also 8:48 unhappy then you would know that there is no point 8:52 running in this direction addition, it is an exercise 8:55 in futility 8:58 but our illusion is that we think I’m not 9:02 happy, but the other guy must be happy. 9:05 My wife, you know, she is an avatar of Chandi, 9:09 his wife, he must be happy 9:13 and if you came to know that no husband and no wife is happy, 9:20 you don't believe it ? 9:23 I am telling you according to the scriptures 9:25 There was one man who used to 9:29 always complain to 9:32 God 9:34 O God, you put all the miseries in my name, 9:38 so God thought let Me open his eyes, 9:42 God came at night in his dream and 9:46 told him to take all his miseries and put in a bag 9:51 and come to the Radha Krishna temple, I’ll 9:56 meet you there 9:58 he woke up, he said wow what a vivid dream it was. 10:20 He picked up all his miseries & put them all in a gunny 10:25 bag, put the bag on his shoulder and came out of 10:30 his house, 10:31 it was 4.30am in the morning, 10:35 it was dark 10:37 he found his neighbours are also coming out, all 10:41 groggy eyed with one bag each, 10:45 what, 10:47 God gave my neighbours also the same dream ? 10:51 So they are also unhappy ? 10:54 I thought they are very happy, 10:56 they have got such a big car, such a big wonderful courtyard etc and they 11:01 go 11:01 for holiday in a boat, 11:06 and his bag is bigger than mine, I wonder what is 11:09 in his bag ? 11:11 They all reached the temple 11:15 God started speaking from above, 11:19 God said, look, I’ve driven nails in the walls, you can hang your bag, one from each nail, 11:24 11:29 stand by the side of your misery bag, 11:33 and survey all the others, select any that catches your 11:38 fancy, 11:41 the lights will go off for 10 minutes, 11:44 in those 10 minutes, you can do a switch whichever bag you selected, you go & 11:52 stand in front of it & when lights come on, 11:56 whoever is by the side of whichever bag can take it & go away, 12:00 it will be fair exchange, 12:04 the lights went off, 12:07 after 10 minutes, the lights came back again, 12:13 it was found that each person was still 12:17 standing by the side of his own bag 12:21 everybody said, let’s play it safe, 12:26 at least I know what is in my bag 12:29 a little bit of knee & a little problem from the child, 12:33 a little financial 12:35 constraint, 12:37 The others’ bags, who knows 12:42 Zeika virus is ng now a days, H1N1 virus has not died, what if he has got H1N1etc., what will I do ? 12:52 So, everybody selected their own bag and they went out and 12:58 the illusion they had that I am not happy 13:02 but the other guy must be happy was dispelled 13:05 13:06 nobody is happy 13:11 This realization has to dawn 13:15 Till this realization dawns, you are chasing a mirage Standby link (in case youtube link does not work): Is Anybody Truly Happy Goal of Life - Part 6 Swami Mukundananda.mp4
