This Story Will Leave You Speechless !! True Love for Lord Krishna Explained by Swami Mukundananda

This Story Will Leave You Speechless !! True Love for Lord Krishna Explained by Swami Mukundananda

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1  Narad ji is explaining the external nature of bhakti first, so what is the external form of bhakti - Extreme love for God  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7QBBL6Avuw&t=5  2  once Narad ji was in Vrindavan and there he found a gopi sitting in meditation, so Narad ji thought what does the gopi meditate upon ? I've heard of Niranjan gyan (the spiritual knowledge or teachings centered around the concept of "Niranjan," which in Sanskrit means "spotless" or "pure," essentially signifying a supreme being without any impurities or flaws, often used to describe God) I've also heard of Surandhran (Sun) dhyan but what is the dhyana of the gopi.  So Narad ji sat down beside her, after an hour, when the gopi opened her eyes, Narad ji said deviji can you please satisfy my curiosity, what were you meditating upon the gopi said Narad ji, forget it, no please Narad ji said you know like I'm so curious you have to tell me and gopi said I was trying to take my mind away from Sri Krishna narad said, what ? everybody tries to draw the mind away from the world and on to God, you're doing the reverse ?  The gopi said what to do, His form is so embedded in my mind, whatever I do, He lands up there - if I'm churning the butter, it seems that he's coming and dropping the pots, if I'm cleaning the floor, it seems he's running on it, if I'm putting the children to sleep, it seems like he's waking them up. Now I understand that it is not Him  but it's my mind playing tricks, the mind has got so unified with him that His form comes everywhere, that is why I was striving so hard to take my mind away from Him but I was not succeeding, Narad ji was extremely impressed  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7QBBL6Avuw&t=24  3  Narad ji said “verse”, big big yogis in their meditation strive that somehow or the other, they should withdraw the mind from the world and attach it at the feet of God and they don't Succeed, and look at this gopi, she's trying the reverse sadhana and not succeeding, Narad ji is saying such immense love is bhakti  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7QBBL6Avuw&t=148  4  other saints were asked, what is the nature of bhakti. Tulsidas was asked, so he said “kami hin nari pyari jimhi, Lobhi hin priya jimi dama, timhi Raghunatha nirantar, Priya lagahu mohen Ram” he says, like a greedy man loves wealth, he's always anchoring for it.  There is the story of one sethji, he had his shop and the most blissful part of the day would be in the evening when he would count his notes, one day note counting rounds were going on and one was over, second, third time his wife said that come on, it's time for dinner, she invited him three four times, he did not come so finally she got so frustrated,  she took the sweet dish kheer one spoon and put it in his mouth that this will wake him up but his mind was elsewhere and he thought that oh, I have eaten the sweet that means the meal is over so he said all right now I need to wash my hands my meal is over,  Tulsidas ji says just like a greedy man yearns for wealth and a young boy yearns for a young girl, a bhakt loves God  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7QBBL6Avuw&t=191  5  There is the story, that one woman, her beloved was coming from out of station, so this girl was going running to meet her beloved, at the same time Akbar was touring his kingdom for an inspection, so being a Muhammadan, he used to say the namaz five times and in the namaz they spread the sheet and then they sit on it and say the namaz.  So Akbar had spread his sheet, they consider it sacred, they consider it a representation of Allah, and he was saying the namaz when this woman was running to meet her beloved, she did not realize & she placed her feet on that sheet but Akbar saw it, so Akbar said to Birbal that this woman should be brought to my court.  Now the next day the woman was brought to court, Akbar said you ran on my namaz sheet, the woman said absolutely not, badshah salamat, “I am telling that you ran”, No I did not,  Akbar said, “then, am I mistaken” ? “I very clearly saw you ran over my sheet” The woman said, I have no recollection of It, so the woman said that o great king, you were worshiping the Supreme Lord and yet you had recollection on who is stepping on my sheet,  I was running after a worldly beloved and I was totally oblivious (ignorant) of what had happened, don't you even have that much of absorption in your divine beloved as I have got in my material beloved ? So Tulsidas says that kind of complete absorption in God is bhakti   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7QBBL6Avuw&t=295

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0:05 Narad ji 0:06 is explaining the external nature of 0:11 bhakti first 0:13 so what is the external form of bhakti 0:17 extreme love for god 0:24 once he was in vrindavan 0:29 and there he found a gopi sitting in 0:32 meditation 0:36 so narada thought 0:39 what does the gopi meditate upon i've 0:42 heard of niranjan gyan 0:45 i've also heard of surandhran dhyan 0:49 but what is the dhyana of the gopi 0:53 so narada sat down besides after an hour 0:56 when the gopi opened her eyes narada 0:59 said 1:00 deviji can you please satisfy my 1:03 curiosity what were you meditating upon 1:07 the gopi said naradji forget it no 1:10 please please 1:11 now forget it narada said you know like 1:14 now i'm so curious 1:15 you're not telling me my curiosity has increased 1:17 further you have to tell me 1:20 and gopi said i was trying to take my 1:23 mind away from sri krishna 1:25 she's sitting and trying to yank her 1:28 mind away from god 1:31 narad said what everybody tries to 1:34 draw the mind away from the world and on 1:37 to god you're doing the reverse 1:40 the gopi said what to do his form is so 1:42 embedded in my mind 1:44 whatever i do he lands up there 1:48 if i'm churning the butter it seems that 1:50 he's coming and dropping the pots 1:53 if i'm cleaning the floor it seems he's 1:55 running on it 1:57 if i'm putting the children to sleep it 1:59 seems like he's waking them up 2:02 now i understand that it is 2:05 not him it's my mind playing tricks 2:09 the mind has got so unified with him 2:13 that his form comes everywhere that is 2:16 why 2:17 i was striving so hard to take my mind 2:21 away from him but i was not succeeding 2:24 the narada was extremely impressed  2:28 he said “verse” 2:41 big big yogis in their 2:44 meditation strive that somehow 2:47 or the other they should withdraw 2:50 the mind from the world and attach it 2:53 at the feet of god and they don't 2:56 succeed 2:58 and look at this gopi she's trying the 3:01 reverse sadhana 3:03 and not succeeding narad ji is saying 3:06 such immense love 3:11 is bhakti  other saints were asked 3:16 what is the nature of bhakti 3:21 tulsidas was asked so he said 3:40 he says “kami hin nari pyari jimhi, Lobhi hin priya jimi dama, timhi Raghunatha nirantar, Priya lagahu mohen Ram” he says, like a greedy man 3:44 loves wealth he's always 3:47 anchoring for it there is the story of 3:51 One sethji 3:52 you know he had his shop 3:56 and the most blissful part of the day 3:58 would be in the evening when he would 4:00 count his notes 4:03 so after he would close the shop he 4:05 would sit and count 4:07 one day he was going on and counting one 4:10 was 4:10 over second third time his wife said 4:13 that come 4:14 on it's time for dinner she invited him 4:17 three four times he did not come 4:20 so finally she got so frustrated she 4:23 took the sweet dish the kheer 4:25 one spoon and put it in his mouth 4:29 that this will wake him up but his 4:32 mind was elsewhere and he thought 4:35 that oh i have eaten the sweet that 4:37 means the meal is over 4:39 so he said all right now i need to wash 4:41 my hands my meal is over 4:44 the tulsi das ji says just like a greedy 4:47 man 4:48 yearns for wealth 4:51 and a young boy yearns for a young girl  4:55 there is the story that one 4:58 woman her beloved was coming 5:02 from out of station so this girl 5:05 was going running to meet her beloved 5:09 at the same time akbar was 5:12 touring his kingdom for an inspection 5:16 so being a muhammadan he used to say the 5:19 namaz five 5:20 times and in the namaz they spread the 5:23 sheet 5:24 and then they sit on it and say the 5:26 namaz 5:29 so akbar had spread his sheet they 5:31 consider it 5:32 sacred they consider it a representation 5:36 of 5:36 allah and he was saying the namaz when 5:39 this woman was running to meet her 5:41 beloved 5:44 she did not realize she placed her feet 5:46 on that 5:47 sheet but akbar saw it so akbar said 5:52 to birbal this woman should be brought to my 5:55 court 5:58 now the next day the woman was brought 6:00 to court 6:02 akbar said you ran on my namaz sheet 6:06 the woman said absolutely not badshah 6:09 salamat 6:10 i am telling you ran no i did not 6:14 akbar said then am i mistaken 6:18 i very clearly saw you ran 6:21 the woman said i have no recollection of 6:23 it 6:24 so the woman said that o great king 6:29 you were worshiping 6:32 the supreme lord and yet 6:36 you had recollection on who is stepping 6:38 on my sheet 6:42 i was running after a worldly beloved 6:46 and i was totally oblivious of what had 6:49 happened 6:50 don't you even have that much of 6:53 absorption in your divine beloved as i 6:56 have got in my material beloved  7:00 so tulsidas says 7:03 that kind of complete absorption 7:08 that is bhakti

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Why Bad things Happen to Good people | Is God Truly Just | Part 1 by Swami Mukundanand

Why Bad things Happen to Good people | Is God Truly Just | Part 1 by Swami Mukundanand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csh5kj2HNg0 Main Points:  1  Circumstances don't come without reason, they come as teachers and they wish to teach us. If we wish to attract good circumstances, start by developing good thoughts but then there is something that breaks our faith in this paradigm and what is that?   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csh5kj2HNg0&t=23  2  When we see bad things happening to good people it goes against our sense of justice. You see there are three things in contention that we can consider, one is justice, second is injustice and third is Grace. Nyaya, Un-nyaya and Kripa.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csh5kj2HNg0&t=47  3  What is justice? Consider for example a worker who slogged in the factory all month long, at the end of the month the factory owner gave him his Justice salary. This is what you deserve here is what you get, this is justice.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csh5kj2HNg0&t=86  4  What is injustice? The worker he put in his efforts and then the factory owner at the end of the month said, you know, on the fifteenth of the month you came late by one hour, instead of coming at a.m. you came at , here I am going to subtract half your salary go! This is Un-nyaya or injustice   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csh5kj2HNg0&t=111  5  and the third is grace, Kripa. The worker says, Saheb I have to get my daughter married, I need so much of money, can you please give it to me, the bank will not give me a loan. The factory manager says okay, I'm gifting so much and I am giving so much as loan which I will deduct from your salary on a monthly basis. This is Grace or Kripa.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csh5kj2HNg0&t=145  6  The judicial system of the world is involved with ensuring that there is a justice. Justice is important to ensure that people stay away from crime because when bad things draw bad consequences others become discouraged from doing it. It's a very simple principle.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csh5kj2HNg0&t=170  7  about 30 years ago, management consultancy book had come out called the one minute manager. It taught how to manage in one minute. It says when you get a subordinate first of all help the subordinate understand what is good behavior, clarify the goals, this is what you're supposed to do, this is the output I want, this is how you should behave.  Let him or her define the goals of good behavior in half a page simple and easy, then someday catch that subordinate doing well and give a one-minute praising for one minute, you re-confirm that behavior.  Oh so wonderful you are doing well and I am very pleased. You confirm the good behavior and later on someday, if you catch your subordinate doing badly you give a one-minute scolding, only one minute scolding.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csh5kj2HNg0&t=214  8  Sometimes parents they start giving half day long scoldings then that is not productive. Just let the subordinate know that this is bad behavior. When you repeatedly administer this one minute praising, one minute scolding, it will fashion behavior. Why? Because everybody's behavior gets molded by consequences, pleasure and pain, pain can fashion even the behavior of animals.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csh5kj2HNg0&t=298  9  There's a story of Akbar and Birbal - a goat was trained in not eating fresh green grass - by fashioning its behaviour by punishment.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csh5kj2HNg0&t=334  10  Parents tell me, Swamiji you know my child is so unruly, how to train my child. I said look I don't have any experience but I'll tell you about this one minute manager, the same principle applies. You have to teach children with consequences, some parents stay away from those consequences and what happens, spare the rod and spoil the child.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csh5kj2HNg0&t=471   11  Kripaluji Maharaj, you know he grew up in a village, so his relatives were all simple Villagers, so he would say that when their children would not study, what would he do? They would bring the children my child doesn't study. Maharaj ji would not adopt the one minute manager, he would take the child and lock the child up.  Now after 24 hours the child is saying, chacha take me out take me out. Maharaj ji would let him remain there, until he decides that it is too painful not to study, then he would say, all right, come out.  In other words any behavior can be fashioned with consequences and that is why we have the judicial system of any country in place, because when justice is fair, justice is timely and justice is firm, it reduces crime.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csh5kj2HNg0&t=507  12  Once in Orissa the SDTM sub-divisional judicial magistrate used to come and attend my lecture and then he became a friend he would meet me etc, he said Swamiji I am totally incorrigible. I don't take any bribes.  Ever since I moved into this district the crime rate has fallen because people have understood that you cannot get away and when you get away what happens ? Take a look at the pirates of Somalia, any ship passing by the Suez Canal going close to Somalia gets looted because it's a broken country & the rule of law doesn't exist so people say, never mind, do what you like, there will be no consequences.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csh5kj2HNg0&t=562  13  In the court of God also, the principle of justice holds. God has the law of karma - if you do good things, good things should happen to you, if you do bad then bad things, should happen to you.  God is also the judge, in fact worldly judges have limitations, they depend upon Witnesses, they depend upon evidence, either of these could be misleading the judge doesn't know what the convict is thinking and even if the judge had that yogic siddhi and could know the mind of the convict, he will know what the convict is thinking today, he doesn't know what the convict thought five years ago at the time of the crime  but in the case of God, He is all-knowing, He doesn't need any witnesses, plus the worldly judge can make mistakes in interpreting laws. Because laws have different interpretations and that is how advocates make their money because cases get reappeared at higher and higher levels. You know, this judge misinterpreted.  In the case of God, He is the one who created the law, He doesn't need any lawyers, He doesn't need any police, He is the witness, He is the police and He is the judge, hence from God we can expect perfect justice!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csh5kj2HNg0&t=623  Introduction 0:23 Circumstances don't come without reason, they come as teachers and they wish to 0:31 teach us. If we wish to attract good circumstances start by developing good 0:38 thoughts but then there is something that breaks our faith in this paradigm 0:47 and what is that?  When we see bad things happening to good people it goes against 1:00 our sense of justice. You see there are three things in contention that we can 1:11 consider one is justice second is injustice and third is Grace. Nyaya, Un-nyaya and 1:26 Kripa.  What is justice? Consider for example a worker who sloged in the 1:38 factory all month long, at the end of the month the factory owner gave him his Justice 1:46 salary. This is what you deserve here is what you get, this is justice.  1:51 What is injustice? The worker he put in his efforts and then the factory owner 2:02 at the end of the month said you know on the fifteenth of the month you came late 2:07 by one hour, instead of coming at 9:00 a.m. you came at 10:00 here I am going 2:14 to subtract half your salary go  This is Un-nyaya or injustice  2:25 and the third is grace, Kripa. The worker says, Saheb I have to get my 2:34 daughter married I need so much of money can you please give it to me the bank 2:39 will not give me a loan. The factory manager says okay, I'm 2:45 gifting so much and I am giving so much as loan which I will deduct from your 2:50 salary on a monthly basis. This is Grace or Kripa.  The judicial system of the 3:00 world is involved with ensuring that there is a justice. Justice is important 3:12 to ensure that people stay away from crime because when bad things draw bad 3:24 consequences others become discouraged from doing it. It's a very simple 3:34 principle,  about 30 years ago management consultancy book had come out called the 3:42 one minute manager some of you may have read it. It taught how to manage in one 3:51 minute. It says when you get a subordinate first of all help the subordinate The One Minute Manager 3:58 understand what is good behavior, clarify the goals, this is what you're supposed 4:04 to do this is the output I want, this is how you should behave. Let him or her 4:12 define the goals of good behavior in half a page simple and easy 4:21 then someday catch that subordinate doing well and give a one-minute praising for One Minute Praise 4:33 one minute you re-confirm 4:36 that behavior. Oh so wonderful you are doing well and I am very pleased. You 4:44 confirm the good behavior and later on someday if you catch your subordinate 4:51 doing badly you give a one-minute scolding only one minute scolding.   One Minute scolding 4:58 Sometimes parents they start giving half day long scoldings then that doesn't.. 5:05 is not productive. Just let the subordinate know that this 5:11 is bad behavior. When you repeatedly administer this one minute praising one 5:18 minute scolding one minute praising one minute scolding it will fashion behavior

Consequences 5:24 Why? Because everybody's behavior gets molded by consequences, pleasure and pain 5:34 pain can fashion even the behavior of animals.  There's a story of Akbar and 5:44 Birbal. The Mughal emperor Akbar and his wise minister Birbal. So Akbar said 5:58 Birbal is there anybody in my kingdom who can train a goat to desist from 6:07 eating green succulent fresh grass? 6:13 Birbal said huzoor it's not a problem give me one month's time. Akbar said 6:21 all right. Birbal went and purchased a goat. Now he 6:27 would put the green grass before the goats nose and every time the goat would 6:33 go for it Birbal would take a stick and whack it on its mouth. When the goat kept 6:40 on receiving the whacks one after the other 6:43 after the other, even the little goats brain understood that it's not worth it 6:51 Forget it, it's too painful. After one month of such training Birbal took the goat to 6:59 the Emperor. The goat in one hand the stick in the other he said my goat has 7:09 become a vairagi- it's become detached from grass, you try it out it will not 7:17 eat. Akbar said really, he said come on bring the most tasteful grass in my garden 7:26 the servants brought it. Akbar himself put it before the goat, the goat looked 7:35 at the grass it looked at Birbal's stick. Birbal, he shook his stick the 7:43 goat understood you know I'll get a whack, forget it it pulled back. Even the 7:51 goats behavior had got fashioned by consequences. Parents tell me Swamiji you 7:58 know my child is so unruly how to train my child. I said look I don't have any 8:05 experience but I'll tell you this one minute manager the same principle 8:11 applies. You have to teach children with consequences some parents stay away from 8:18 those consequences and what happens, spare the rod and spoil the child.  8:27 Kripaluji Maharaj, you know he grew up in a village so his relatives were all simple 8:32 villagers so he would say that when their children would not study what would he What would he do 8:39 do? They would bring the children my child doesn't study 8:44 Maharaji would not adopt the one minute manager, he would take the child and lock 8:49 the child up. Now after 24 hours the child is saying 8:55 Chacha take me out take me out. Maharaj ji would let him remain there, until he decides 9:01 that no it's too painful not to study then he would say all right come out. In Justice is timely 9:08 other words any behavior can be fashioned with consequences and that is 9:15 why we have the judicial system of any country in place, because when justice is 9:22 fair, justice is timely and justice is firm, it reduces crime.  Once in Orissa the 9:35 SDTM sub-divisional judicial magistrate used to come and attend my lecture and 9:40 then he became a friend he would meet me etc he said Swamiji I am totally 9:47 incorrigible. I don't take any bribes. Ever since I moved into this district 9:54 the crime rate has fallen because people have understood you cannot get away and 10:01 when you get away what happens, take a look at the pirates of Somalia, any ship 10:07 passing by the Suez Canal going close to Somalia gets looted because it's a 10:13 broken country the rule of law doesn't exist so people say never mind do what 10:19 you like there will be no consequences.  10:23 In the court of God also 10:26 the principle of justice holds. God has the law of karma if you do good things good things 10:36 should happen to you, if you do bad then bad things should happen to you. God is 10:43 also the judge, in fact worldly judges have limitations they depend upon 10:53 witnesses they depend upon evidence either of these could be misleading 11:01 the judge doesn't know what the convict is 11:06 thinking and even if the judge had that yogic siddhi and could know the mind of 11:14 the convict he will know what the convict is thinking today, he doesn't 11:19 know what the convict thought five years ago at the time of the crime but in the 11:25 case of God he is all-knowing he doesn't need any witnesses, plus the worldly 11:35 judge can make mistakes in interpreting laws. Because laws have different 11:42 interpretations and that is how advocates make their money because cases 11:49 get reappeared at higher and higher levels. You know this judge 11:53 misinterpreted. In the case of God he is the one who created the law he doesn't 12:01 need any lawyers, he doesn't need any police, he is the witness, he is the 12:06 police and he is the judge hence from God we can expect perfect justice  Standby link (in case youtube link does not work): Why Bad things Happen to Good people Is God Truly Just Part 1.mp4