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

First Step to a GOLDEN LIFE 3 STORIES For Good Beliefs Part 2 by Swami Mukundananda

First Step to a GOLDEN LIFE   3 STORIES For Good Beliefs   Part 2   by Swami Mukundananda

Main Points:

1  This was how Hitler's Minister Goen worked, he openly said his philosophy was to tell a lie 100 times and it will become the truth but the Vedas say this is not the way to make your beliefs, there should be a better way to do it and what is that better way of doing it ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=0 2  they say, create beliefs based on reliable knowledge, when belief is based on infallible knowledge, the belief will be a sound one  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=31 3  like for example, 700 years ago in the Western  world the belief was that the Earth is flat, if you go too far away you will fall off, that was not the belief in India because in India even geography the subject is called भूगोल, study of the “round” earth, so 5,000 years ago they had that and  in the Western World it was that the earth is flat but then all of a sudden everybody's belief changed and they all started believing that the earth is round that was when Christoper Columbus he started sailing off to India and discovered America but how come the belief changed suddenly  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=52  4   so how did this belief of the Western World change all of a sudden that the Earth is around. It was based on solid knowledge when the knowledge became available, when the facts got revealed, people's beliefs changed  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=140  5  likewise, the Vedas say your beliefs should not be based on emotions, I feel, he feels – these emotions are all roller coasters, you should first of all try and get good knowledge, then create beliefs - so we are not realizing that we are the creators of our own beliefs and those beliefs could be limiting us  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=160  6  in one organization, a message went out through the intra organization channels that the biggest obstruction to your growth in the company has passed away, come and have final darshan. Everybody was so excited that the biggest obstacle has passed away.  So they all arrived into the CEO's office as per the communication. In a single file, they would enter and they would see a coffin lying there they would look into the coffin and find a mirror and see the face of their own self then realize, oh my God I am the biggest obstacle to my progress, nobody else and what is that obstacle - our own beliefs  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=192  7  one lady used to get a dream every week, in the dream, her monster would appear and the monster would start chasing the lady up the hills & down The valleys until she could almost feel its hot breath and then she would panic and the panic would wake her up to realize that it was just a dream, there was no monster and this dream would come week after week after week but on this one particular night the dream prolonged,  so the monster kept chasing her around the lake and up the mountains and then further down the valleys, in the cities, in the forest, it just continued until she finally arrived at a cliff's edge and now there was no where to go. She turned around and looked at the monster and said what are you going to do to me ? Now, the monster said lady, you decide it's your dream, it's your dream you have created it  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=254  8  so we don't realize our own subconscious, that's where the dream is coming from, we have programmed our subconscious, likewise we have created our beliefs , now if you created it wrongly, you are responsible for it, say this is one of the first things you need to do in your  life, get proper knowledge, how will you get proper knowledge, infallible knowledge is that which has come from above, like the Sacred Scriptures  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=337  9  50 centuries have gone by and the Bhagavad-Gita's knowledge is still valid, all the theories of science 400 years ago got outdated, they got overthrown, they were replaced even in fields of sociology, psychology, economics & everything, the earlier theories got replaced by new ones but here the knowledge of the Gita has withstood the test of time,  even today, every year, hundreds of books are published on Bhagavad-Gita for managers’ life lessons from Bhagavad-Gita leadership lessons from Bhagavad-Gita, why because it's knowledge coming from above and then we have the Saints,  who actually studied this knowledge, who imbibed it, who implemented it in their lives and realized it and who explain it to us   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=374  10  just like, if you wish to learn a material subject, the textbooks are there and the teachers are there, likewise for divine wisdom, we have the sacred books and then the Saints from them receive the wisdom, then on the basis of the wisdom, how will we create the belief ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=436  11  It is a Three step process to create the belief - 1. Shravan 2. Manan & 3. Nidhi-Dhyasan. And what is Shravan, hearing like you are hearing this knowledge or reading, now just hearing once will not suffice because the knowledge will be forgotten, because what you heard is all evaporated. So the scriptures advise us to hear again and again and again, this is the first step, if you are serious about creating good beliefs  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=464  12  and the second step is “Manan”, contemplate over it, revise it, revision will bring it in your conscious awareness, then the knowledge will become useful, otherwise it is like the knowledge in the books. You know that anger is a bad thing but when the attack of Maya makes you boil up, then later on you see oh my God what did I do, I shouted at this gentleman who is 30  years my senior.  How come I became such an animal, what happened to me ? The thing that happened was that anger is  bad thing, slipped out in the moment and  the scriptures  say the moment a human being forgets the  knowledge - that human sinks to the level  of an  animal  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=533  13   our humanness is unique in being aware of what is right  what is wrong, so the need to keep the  knowledge in our awareness and that will  come by contemplating over the  knowledge. Like a cow grazes grass for 2  hours and then sits and masticates it  for 6 hours, it takes it out, chews, puts  in the next stomach, takes it out, chews,   puts in the next stomach - likewise you  listen for 1 and a half hours and think  about it for 4 and half hours this is  “Manan”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=616  14   and the third step will create the  belief that  is Nidhi-Dhyasan, is  that with your intellect, make a decision that I am the  soul, not the body, the decision that my  happiness is not in this (worldly attachments) but in this (Godly path), so  once the intellect decides, then the  faith will get created and your work  will be done  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=663  15   The Kathopnishad has gone to the extent  of  saying that the  day you believe in the definition of  God, you will become God  realized, there's nothing further to  do  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=703  16   see the definition of God we all  know, if you got an Indian body  then everybody can give everybody else  a lecture that God is  sitting inside, वो तो घट घट वासी है & without His desire, not even a leaf will move that He is Ananda sindhu. The question is, who believes  that ?  The Kathopnishad says the very definition which  you yourself are saying, if you truly believe it, you  will achieve God  realization - that is the decision of the  intellect, the Nidhi-Dhyasan.  So the first golden rule for living  your best life is  to install good beliefs based on Higher knowledge of our Scriptures like Bhagavad-Gita, Srimad Bhagavatam etc.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDeBir3I6Q&t=728   Transcript 0:00 this was how Hitler's Minister Goen 0:05 worked he openly said his philosophy was to 0:09 tell a lie 100 times and it will become 0:12 the 0:14 truth but the vedas say this is not the 0:20 way to make your 0:23 beliefs there should be a better way to 0:27 do 0:28 it and what is that better way of 0:31 doing it they say create beliefs based 0:37 on 0:41 reliable knowledge when belief is based on 0:45 infallible 0:47 knowledge the belief will be a sound 0:52 one like for 0:56 example 700 years ago in the Western  1:00 world the belief was that the Earth is 1:05 flat if you go too far away you will 1:08 fall 1:10 off that was not the belief in India 1:13 because in India even geography 1:16 the subject is 1:18 called भूगोल study of the round earth so 5,000 1:23 years ago they had that and in the 1:25 Western World it was that the Earth is 1:27 Flat but then all of a sudden everybody's 1:30 belief changed and they all started 1:33 believing that the Earth is round that 1:36 was when Christoper Columbus he started 1:39 sailing off to India and discovered 1:42 America but how come the belief changed 1:49 suddenly supposing I tell 1:52 you 1:55 that if in 5 minutes you can develop the 1:58 belief that you will fly 5 feet in the air 2:02 just not actually fly just believe that 2:05 you can fly I'll give you a million 2:09 dollar easiest way to earn a million 2:12 dollars just develop the 2:14 belief that you fly 5 feet in the 2:17 air say Swami how will I develop the 2:20 belief so how did this belief of the 2:24 Western World change all of a sudden 2:26 that the Earth is around it was based 2:30 on solid knowledge when the knowledge 2:34 became available when the facts got 2:37 revealed people's beliefs 2:40 changed likewise the vedas say your 2:44 beliefs should not be based on emotions 2:47 I feel he feels emotions are all roller 2:53 coasters you should first of all try and 2:56 get good knowledge then create 3:01 beliefs so we are not realizing that we 3:04 are the creators of our own 3:07 beliefs and those beliefs could be 3:10 limiting 3:12 us in one 3:16 organization a message went out through 3:19 the intra organization 3:22 channels that the biggest obstruction to 3:26 your growth in the company has passed 3:29 away 3:30 come and have final 3:33 darshan everybody was so excited the biggest 3:37 obstacle has passed 3:40 away so they all 3:43 arrived into the CEO's office as per the 3:47 communication in a single file they 3:50 would enter and they would see a coffin 3:53 lying 3:54 there they would look into the coffin 3:56 and find a mirror and see the face of 3:59 their own self then realize oh my 4:02 God I am the biggest obstacle to my 4:06 progress nobody 4:08 else and what is that obstacle our own 4:14 beliefs one lady used to get a dream 4:18 every week in the 4:22 dream her monster would 4:25 appear and the monster would start 4:27 chasing the lady up the hills down The 4:32 valleys until she could almost feel its 4:35 hot breath and then she would panic and 4:40 the panic would wake her 4:42 up to realize that it was just a dream 4:45 there was no monster and this dream 4:48 would come week after week after 4:51 week but on this one particular night 4:54 the dream 4:56 prolonged so the monster kept chasing 4:59 her around the lake and up the mountains 5:03 and then Further Down The Valleys in the 5:05 cities in the forest it just 5:09 continued until she finally arrived at a 5:12 Cliff's Edge and now there was no where 5:16 to go she turned around and looked at 5:19 the 5:20 monster and said what are you going to 5:23 do to me 5:25 now the monster said lady you decide 5:29 it's your 5:33 dream it's your dream you have created 5:36 it you 5:37 desire so we don't realize our own 5:41 subconscious that's where the dream is 5:43 coming from we have programmed our 5:46 subconscious likewise we have created 5:48 our beliefs now if you created it 5:51 wrongly you are responsible for 5:54 it say this is one of the first things 5:58 you need to do in your  6:00 life get proper 6:04 knowledge how will you get proper 6:07 knowledge infallible knowledge is that 6:10 which has come from 6:12 above like the Sacred 6:14 Scriptures 50 centuries have gone by and 6:19 the Bhagavad-Gita's knowledge is still 6:21 valid all the theories of science 400 6:26 years ago got outdated they got 6:28 overthrown 6:30 they were replaced even in fields of 6:33 Sociology psychology economics 6:36 everything the earlier theories got 6:38 replaced by new ones but here the 6:42 knowledge of the Gita has withstood the test of 6:46 time even today every year hundreds of 6:50 books are published Bhagavad-Gita for 6:53 managers life lessons from Bhagavad-Gita 6:56 Leadership Lessons From Bhagavad-Gita why 7:00 because it's knowledge coming from 7:03 above and then we have the Saints the 7:06 Saints who actually studied this 7:10 knowledge who imbibed it who implemented it 7:13 in their lives and realized it and who 7:16 explain it to us so just like if you 7:20 wish to learn a material subject the 7:22 textbooks are there and the teachers are 7:24 there likewise for divine wisdom we have 7:28 the sacred books and then the Saints 7:32 from them receive the 7:38 wisdom okay then on the base of the 7:41 wisdom how will we create the 7:44 belief three step process to create the 7:50 belief Shravan, Manan & Nidhi-Dhyasan 7:54 and what is 7:56 Shravan hearing 7:59 like you are hearing this 8:02 knowledge so this is step 8:05 one or 8:08 reading now hear 8:11 it just hearing once will not 8:15 suffice because the knowledge will be 8:17 forgotten 8:19 some simple people say swami ji I I heard 8:22 you last 8:24 year so I say you know you think so but 8:27 I don't think so 8:30 because what you heard is all evaporated 8:33 tell me what was the title of last 8:35 year's talk that I don't remember 8:38 Question. Why you said I’m remembering what Swami ji 8:40 spoke so the 8:46 scriptures say to hear again and again and 8:50 again this is the first step if you are 8:53 serious about creating good beliefs and 8:57 the second step is 9:01 “Manan”, contemplate over 9:05 it revise 9:07 it revision will bring it in your 9:11 conscious 9:13 awareness then the knowledge will become 9:17 useful otherwise it is like the 9:20 knowledge in the books 9:30 you know that anger is a bad 9:33 thing but when the attack of Maya 9:38 takes you 9:41 boil up then later on you see oh my God 9:44 what did 9:45 I do, I shouted at this 9:48 Gentleman who is 30  9:50 Years my senior. How come I became such an animal. what happened to me the 9:55 thing that happened was that anger is a 9:58 bad things slipped out in the moment and 10:02 the scriptures 10:06 say the moment a human being forgets the 10:10 knowledge that human sinks to the level 10:14 of an 10:16 animal our humaness is in the 10:20 unique in being aware of what is right 10:25 what is wrong so the need to keep the 10:29 knowledge in our awareness and that will 10:33 come by contemplating over the 10:36 knowledge like a cow grazes grass for 2 10:41 hours and then sits and masticates it 10:46 for 6 hours it takes it out choose puts 10:50 in the next stomach takes it out chews 10:52 puts in the next stomach likewise you 10:55 listen for 1 and a half hours and think 10:58 about it for 4 and half hours this is 11:03 “Manan” and the third step will create the 11:07 belief that 11:12 is Nidhi-Dhyasan which is  that with your intellect make a decision this 11:17 is 11:20 it that 11:23 decision the decision I am the 11:27 soul not the body the decision my 11:31 happiness is not in this but in this so 11:36 once the intellect decides then the 11:40 faith will get created and your work 11:43 will be done the Kathopnishad has gone to the extent 11:48 of 11:54 saying the 11:56 day you believe the definition of 12:01 God you will become God 12:04 realized there's nothing further to 12:08 do see the definition of God we all 12:11 know you know if you got an Indian body 12:15 then everybody can give everybody else 12:17 lecture God is 12:22 sitting inside, वो तो घट घट वासी है, Without His desire, not even a leaf will move. He is Ananda sindhu.  the question is who believes 12:32 That. The Kathopnishad says the very definition which 12:36 you are saying if you truly believe you 12:40 will achieve God 12:42 realization that is the decision of the 12:45 intellect, the Nidhi-Dhyasan  12:48 so the first golden rule for living 12:52 your best life is 12:55 install good beliefs Standby link (in case youtube link does not work): First Step to a GOLDEN LIFE 3 STORIES For Good Beliefs Part 2 Swami Mukundananda.mp4

God's Biggest Blessing to you is this - Conquering the 5 Defects of the Mind by Swami Mukundanand

God's Biggest Blessing to you is this - Conquering the 5 Defects of the Mindby by Swami Mukundanand

https://youtu.be/8CbzdrOYwTY 00:00 God's Biggest Blessing to a soul 00:40 How to Surrender to the Guru? 03:10 How to develop Faith in Guru? 05:09 The Power of Faith in Guru 07:49 Why we need a Guru? 10:45 The 5 Defects of the Mind 12:47 Why Surrender to the Guru? Main Points: 1  God's Biggest Blessing to a soul is finding a guru and getting connected with that guru through shradha, faith but we receive benefit from the guru only by submitting our intellect before his higher understanding  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CbzdrOYwTY&t=0  2  How to Surrender to the Guru? the vedas relate the story of Rishi Gautam and his exemplary disciple Satyakama. Gurudev called his students over and explained the problem that the cows of the ashram were in distress and they needed to be tended to by taking them to a far away grass land.  Only Satyakama was willing for this arduous and challenging guru seva. Gautam said, my child, take good care of them as your service to your guru & when you find that their number has grown from 400 to 1,000, bring them back here  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CbzdrOYwTY&t=40  3  Satyakama did his seva dutifully and he tended to the cows with so much of love as a devotional offering at the feet of his guru, the number of the cows kept on increasing until it reached a thousand but he was so immersed in his seva he didn't even realize that the number of 1,000 had been reached. The king of the celestials Indra came over and said Satyakama do you know that your guru's instruction has been fulfilled by you  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CbzdrOYwTY&t=89  4  on Lord Indra’s inspiration they started returning to the guru ashram, it was a 4 day journey, involving four night halts and at each halt, Indra instructed knowledge of one of the Vedas to Satyakama  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CbzdrOYwTY&t=131  5  when the disciple reached his guru, he said Maharaj I have fulfilled your instruction. Sage Gautam, his face beaming said, my child, I can see the glow on your face, you have become a knower of Vedic knowledge, this is a prime example of the benefit of surrendering your intellect before the guru  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CbzdrOYwTY&t=151  6  How to develop Faith in Guru? let's read about it from my latest book, Spiritual Secrets from Hinduism. Once we find a God realized guru, we must then diligently (doing it thoroughly and well) adhere to his instructions, this is just as when we are sick we go to a doctor, we explain our symptoms to the doctor, beyond that we do not use our intellect, we trust his expertise,  the doctor diagnoses our problem and tells us the remedy, take this medicine two tablespoons three times a day for one month and you will be cured, we follow the doctor's instructions and get well.  Now suppose we used our intellect, the doctor has told me to take a little medicine every day for one month let me take it all today so that I will get cured in one day itself, if we were to do this the doctor would not be able to treat us. Similarly the guru can only cure us from the disease of ignorance if we follow his instructions  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CbzdrOYwTY&t=182  7  The Shvetashvatara Upanishad states that for those who have implicit and complete faith in God and their guru, the purpose of all the Vedic scriptures gets revealed in their heart by divine grace  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CbzdrOYwTY&t=275  8  The Power of Faith in Guru. The inspiring story of Shankaracharya's disciple is very relishable amongst his legendary Students, Hastamalak, Totakacharya,Mandan Mishra who was Sureshwaracharya. There has also been one illiterate disciple, called Sananda. He could not understand any of the scriptural teachings but had implicit faith in Guru Shankaracharya and he would dutifully engage in seva.  When gurudev taught Brahma-Vidya, he would sit and just keep staring at his guru's face without understanding a syllable  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CbzdrOYwTY&t=308  9  one day it was time for the class, the other disciples said to Shankaracharya, please begin gurudev, he said Sananda is not here as yet, let's wait. They said, guru, he doesn't even understand, so what difference will it make. Shankaracharya said he listens with great faith, so guru called out Sananda & Sananda, his disciple, was on the other side of the river washing gurudev's clothes.  When Sananda heard Shankaracharya calling his Name, immediately with all his devotion he felt the need to come over to him. Without thinking, he started walking on the water and the story goes that wherever he placed his feet, lotus flowers bloomed from below, making it possible for him to walk across water.  He reached & did the prostrate obeisance and the stuti praises for gurudev that emanated from his mouth were in sophisticated Sanskrit, amazing all the other disciples. Since then, he became known as “Padmapad” the one under whose pada (feet) the padma (lotuses) had blossomed and he became one of the four major disciples of Adi Shankaracharya  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CbzdrOYwTY&t=362  10  Why we need a Guru? the takeaway for all of us is the need to surrender the intellect to guru and why so   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CbzdrOYwTY&t=467  11  our intellect is affected since eternity by a disease known as Avidya or ignorance Quoting a verse, “Because a person who has been covered by ignorance since time immemorial is not capable of effecting his own self-realization, there must be some other personality who is in factual knowledge of the Absolute Truth and can impart this knowledge to him”. > (Bhagavatam 11.22.10)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CbzdrOYwTY&t=476  12  Why we need a Guru? Vedvyas says that avidya is “Anadi”, i.e., since eternity. You cannot remove it by the power of your own intellect because the intellect is the one affected by the ignorance, just like if you wish to lift yourself up from the ground by holding your boot straps, it will not be possible   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CbzdrOYwTY&t=499  13  the interesting story is told of one cowherd boy, Gopal, who would every day milk his cow which was the Gujarati Gir cow having long horns and this particular cow's horns were inclined towards each other. The cowherd boy would eye the gap between the two horns on the top of the cow's head and ponder (think) if can my head fit into the in the gap between two horns ?  One year went by, finally the curiosity got the better of him, he said let me try it out, he held the cow's horns and managed to push his head in but it startled the bovine who lifted her head thereby raising his feet above the ground and he now felt threatened that this was a situation of death by hanging.  The villagers came running, grabbed the cow extracted the poor fellow and said my dear Man, “Aviveka paramapadam”, i.e., before doing anything, you must think otherwise it can invite the biggest calamity. Did you not think before putting your head there ? He said who says, I did not think, I thought for one year and then did it but the thinking itself had its faults because it was an activity of the defective intellect  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CbzdrOYwTY&t=529  14  The 5 Defects of the Mind likewise the Vedas say that no matter how intelligent you may feel,  your intellect suffers from five defects, Maharishi Patanjali calls them Panchaklesh what are these avidya, asmita, rag, dvesh, abhinivesh.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CbzdrOYwTY&t=644  15  Avidya is the Ignorance by virtue of which we have forgotten that we are the soul and we are thinking that I am the body, mind & intellect  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CbzdrOYwTY&t=666  16  “Asmita” is the pride, whether we realize it or not, the defect of the false ego exists in the material condition state in all of us  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CbzdrOYwTY&t=676  17  and Rag, attachment to the worldly things. Dvesh, means hatred, resentment for something that has hurt our self-interest  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CbzdrOYwTY&t=693  18  Abhinivesh, the fear of death, even though we know that we (our soul) are eternal, an old man man who has been badly injured and is terribly sick in the hospital, he cannot visit the restroom, has a bed pan on the bed, cannot eat, has a tube going in the mouth the leg is suspended from the ceiling, such a man also says doctor, I hope, I will not die, please save me.  Arey Baba do take care of your body but why so much of anxiety ? The whole body machinery is spoiled, if you were to go, God would send you back with a new machine but the clinging to the body results in the fear of death  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CbzdrOYwTY&t=707  19  Why Surrender to the Guru? Another defect of the intellect the Vedas say is that the idea of making a guru is goes beyond our intellect. Just like in case you need to fight a case in court, you get an advocate because you are unfamiliar with law.  The Advocate understands the matter and instructs you accordingly. Likewise in the spiritual realm as Well, there are so many things our intellect cannot comprehend at present  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CbzdrOYwTY&t=760  20  one maverick (a person who does not behave or think like everyone else, but who has independent, unusual opinions) disciple used to be often disobedient. His Guru had grown old, the disciple said gurudev, you will attain maha samadhi any day, what will happen to me ? Gurudev said, my child, do your sadhna daily, my Grace will be upon You.  Gurudev, the singhasan will come from Golok for you, can I latch onto it and accompany you ? what loss will there be of yours ? Gurudev said “Kya Jata Hai” (what is there to lose ?) Now the singhasan came, the guru sat on it to go to the abode of God and enter the nitya leela, the disciple also held on.  They were crossing the lokas Bhu, Bhuvar, Swarga, Mahar, Jana, Tapa, Satya, but in between the disciples intellect started getting better of him, he said Gurudev this place we are going to, Golok - are there cows there ? yes beta.  Gurudev, are the cows black or white in color? beta they are both. Gurudev, how big are these cows ? when you reach there you'll find out maybe they are this big, now he released the Singhasan and back he returned to the earth plane  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CbzdrOYwTY&t=826  21  so the scriptures are telling us  mayyarpita-mano-buddhir (BG 8-7),  mayi — unto Me; arpita — surrendering; manah — mind; buddhih — intellect; mam — unto Me;  “Therefore, Arjuna, you should always think of Me in the form of Krsna and at the same time carry out your prescribed duty of fighting. With your activities dedicated to Me and your mind and intelligence fixed on Me, you will attain Me without doubt”.  https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/8/7/  mayi buddhim niveshaya (BG 12-8)  mayi — upon Me; buddhim — intelligence; nivesaya — apply  “Just fix your mind upon Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and engage all your intelligence in Me. Thus you will live in Me always, without a doubt”.  https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/12/8/  Surrender your intellect to the guru, learn the sadhna, follow the instructions and progress on the spiritual path.  Having understood Guru-tattva in our journey, thus far we shall now enter into Bhakti and final topic will be meditation & personal sadhna  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CbzdrOYwTY&t=918  Transcript: God's Biggest Blessing to a soul 0:01 one of the biggest of the Divine 0:04 blessings is finding a guru and getting 0:08 connected with that Guru through shradha, 0:11 faith but we receive benefit from the 0:15 guru only by submitting our intellect 0:20 before his higher understanding How to Surrender to the Guru? 0:40 the Vedas relate the story of Rishi Gautam 0:44 and his exemplary disciple 0:48 Satyakama gurudev called his students over 0:52 and explained the problem the cows of 0:55 the ashram were in distress and they 0:58 needed to be tended to by taking them to 1:01 a far away grass land only Satyakama was 1:07 willing for this arduous and challenging 1:11 Guru 1:12 seva Gautam said my 1:16 child take good care of them as your 1:20 service to your Guru when you find that 1:24 their number has grown from 400 to 1,000 1:29 bring them back Satyakama did his seva 1:34 dutifully and he tended to the cows with 1:38 so much of love as a devotional offering 1:42 at the feet of his 1:44 Guru the number of the cows kept on 1:47 increasing until it reached a thousand 1:51 but he was so immersed in his seva he 1:54 didn't even realize the number had been 1:58 reached the king of the celestials Indra 2:02 came over and said Satyakama do you know 2:06 that your guru's instruction has been 2:10 fulfilled by 2:11 you on his inspiration they started 2:15 returning to the guru ashram it was a 4 2:19 day Journey involving four night halts 2:24 and at each halt Indra instructed 2:28 knowledge of one of the Vedas 2:30 to 2:31 Satyakama when the disciple reached his Guru 2:35 he said Maharaj I have fulfilled your 2:39 instruction sage Gautam his face beaming said 2:45 my child I can see the glow on your face 2:49 you have become a knower of vedic 2:54 knowledge this is a prime example of the 2:58 benefit of surrendering your intellect 3:02 before the guru let's read about it from 3:05 my latest book spiritual secrets from 3:09 Hinduism once we find a god realized How to develop Faith in Guru? 3:13 Guru we must then diligently adhere to 3:17 his 3:18 instructions this is just as when we are 3:21 sick we go to a doctor we explain our 3:25 symptoms to the doctor beyond that we do 3:29 not use our intellect We Trust his 3:36 expertise the doctor diagnoses our 3:39 problem and tells us the 3:43 remedy take this medicine two 3:47 tablespoons three times a day for one 3:49 month and you will be 3:51 cured we follow the doctor's 3:54 instructions and get well now suppose we 3:58 used our 4:01 intellect the doctor has told me to take 4:04 a little medicine every day for one 4:09 month let me take it all today so that I 4:12 will get cured in one day 4:15 itself if we were to do this the doctor 4:19 would not be able to treat us similarly 4:24 the guru can only cure us from the 4:27 disease of ignorance 4:30 if we follow his 4:33 Instructions 4:35 The Shvetashvatara Upanishad 4:49 states for those who have implicit and 4:53 complete faith in God and their guru the 4:59 purpose of all the Vedic scriptures gets 5:03 revealed in the Heart by divine 5:08 grace the inspiring story of The Power of Faith in Guru 5:12 Shankaracharya's disciple is very 5:16 relishable amongst his legendary 5:20 students 5:22 Hastāmalak, Tōtakāchārya,Mandan Mishra who was Sureshwaracharya 5:28 there has also been one illiterate 5:32 disciple called Sananda 5:34 he could not understand any of the 5:38 scriptural teachings but had implicit 5:42 faith in Guru Shankaracharya 5:44 and he would dutifully engage in seva 5:49 when gurudev taught BrahmaVidya he 5:53 would sit and just keep staring at his 5:57 guru's face without 6:00 understanding a 6:02 syllable one day it was time for the 6:05 class the other disciples said to 6:08 Shankaracharya please begin 6:11 gurudev he said Sananda is not here as yet 6:16 let's wait they said guru he doesn't even 6:21 understand what difference will it make 6:24 Shankaracharya said he listens with great 6:28 faith 6:30 he called out 6:32 Sananda his disciple was on the other side of 6:36 the river washing gurudev's clothes when 6:40 Sananda heard Shankaracharya calling his 6:43 name immediately with all his devotion 6:47 he felt the need to come over to him 6:52 without thinking he started walking on 6:55 the water and The Story Goes wherever he 6:59 placed his feet lotus flowers bloomed 7:03 From Below making it possible for him to 7:07 walk across he reached & did the prostrate obeisance  7:12 and the stuti Praises for gurudev  7:17 that emanated from his mouth were in 7:21 sophisticated  7:24 Sanskrit amazing all the other disciples 7:28 since then he became known as 7:32 Padmapad the one under whose pada (feet) the Padma 7:37 lotuses had blossomed and he became one 7:42 of the four major Disciples of Adi 7:46 Shankaracharya  7:47 the takeaway for all of us is the Why we need a Guru? 7:51 need to surrender the 7:54 intellect and why 7:56 so our intellect is affected since 8:01 eternity by a 8:03 disease what is that Avidya or 8:19 ignorance  Because a person who has been covered by ignorance since time immemorial is not capable of effecting his own self-realization, there must be some other personality who is in factual knowledge of the Absolute Truth and can impart this knowledge to him. > (Bhagavatam 11.22.10) Why we need a Guru? Vedvyas says that avidya is anadi since 8:26 eternity you cannot remove it 8:29 by the power of your own 8:33 intellect because the intellect is the 8:36 one affected by the 8:39 ignorance just like if you wish to lift 8:42 yourself up from the ground by holding 8:45 your boot straps it will not be 8:49 possible the interesting story is told 8:52 of one cowherd boy a 8:55 gopal who would every day milk his cow 8:59 which was the Gujarati Gir cow having 9:02 long horns and this particular cow's 9:05 horns were inclined towards each other 9:09 the cowherd boy would eye the gap 9:12 between the two horns on the top of the 9:14 cow's head and Ponder can my head fit 9:19 into the 9:21 Gap one year went by finally the 9:25 Curiosity got the better of him he said 9:28 let me try it out 9:30 he held the cow's horns and managed to 9:34 push his head in but it startled the 9:38 bovine who lifted her head thereby raising 9:43 his feet above the ground and he now 9:46 felt threatened that this was a 9:49 situation of death by hanging to reduce 9:52 the pressure on his neck he grabbed the 9:55 cow's neck which startled the creature 9:57 further and it started lifting its back 10:00 feet moving in alarm the villagers came 10:05 running grabbed the cow extracted the 10:09 poor fellow and said my dear 10:16 Man Aviveka paramāpadam before doing anything you must 10:19 think otherwise it can invite the 10:22 biggest Calamity did you not think 10:25 before putting your head there He said 10:28 who says I did not think I thought for 10:32 one year and then did it but the 10:36 thinking itself had its faults because 10:40 it was an activity of the defective 10:44 intellect likewise the vedas say that no The 5 Defects of the Mind 10:48 matter how intelligent you may feel  10:51 your intellect suffers from five 10:55 defects Maharishi Patanjali calls them 11:00 Panchaklesh what are these Avidyā, asmitā, rāg, dvesh, abhinivesh.  11:06 Avidya is the Ignorance by virtue of 11:10 which we have forgotten that we are the 11:12 soul and we are thinking that I am the body, 11:14 Mind & 11:16 intellect asmita is the 11:20 pride whether we realize it or not the 11:24 defect of the false ego exists in the 11:29 material condition state in all of us 11:33 and then Rag, attachment to the worldly 11:37 things 11:39 Dvesh, means hatred, resentment for something 11:43 that has hurt our self-interest and 11:47 Abhinivesh, the fear of 11:51 death even though we know that we are 11:56 Eternal an old man 11:59 man has been badly 12:03 injured and is terribly sick in the 12:06 hospital cannot visit the restroom has a 12:09 bed pan on the bed cannot eat has a tube 12:12 going in the mouth the leg is suspended 12:15 from the ceiling such a man also says 12:18 Doctor I hope I will not die please save 12:22 me Arey Baba do take care of your body 12:27 but why so much of anxiety 12:29 the whole Machinery is spoiled if you 12:32 were to go God would send you back with 12:35 a new 12:36 machine but the clinging to the body 12:40 results in the fear of death another 12:44 defect of the intellect the vedas Why Surrender to the Guru? 12:48 say the idea of making a guru is going 12:53 beyond your 12:55 intellect just like in case you need to 12:58 fight a case in court you get an 13:02 advocate because you are unfamiliar with 13:05 law The Advocate understands the matter 13:09 and instructs you accordingly if you 13:13 need to go for a testimonial in the 13:15 witness box you stand up and do as The 13:19 Advocate 13:20 does the other Side’s Advocate tries his 13:25 best to get some statement out of you to 13:29 exploit but you stick to the 13:32 instructions and get the edge in the 13:36 case likewise in the spiritual realm as 13:40 well there are so many things our 13:42 intellect cannot comprehend at 13:46 present one maverick (a person who does not behave or think like everyone else, but who has independent, unusual opinions) 13:50 disciple used to be often 13:53 disobedient his Guru had grown old the 13:57 disciple said Gurudev 13:59 you will attain Maha samadhi any day what 14:03 will happen to 14:04 me gurudev said my child do your sadhna daily 14:09 my Grace will be upon 14:11 you 14:13 Gurudev, the singhasan will come from Golok for 14:17 you can I latch onto it and accompany 14:21 you what loss Will there be of 14:24 yours 14:27 Gurudev said “Kya Jata Hai” (what is there to lose ?) now the singhasan came the guru 14:30 sat on it to go to the abode of God and 14:33 enter the nitya leela the disciple also held on 14:39 they were crossing the 14:43 Lokas Bhu, Bhuvar, Swarga, Mahar, Jana, Tapa, Satya, but in between the disciples 14:47 intellect started getting better of him he 14:50 said 14:51 Gurudev this place we are going to, Golok - are 14:55 there cows there yes beta, Gurudev are the 15:01 cows black or white in color Beta they 15:05 are both Gurudev how big are these 15:09 cows when you reach there you'll find 15:12 out 15:14 maybe they are this big, now he released the Singhasan and 15:18 back he returned to the Earth plane so the 15:21 scriptures are telling 15:27 us mayyarpita-mano-buddhir (BG 8-7),  mayi buddhiṁ niveśhaya (BG 12-8) 15:32 Surrender Your intellect to the guru 15:36 learn the sadhna follow the 15:39 instructions and progress on the 15:42 spiritual path having understood Guru-tattva in 15:48 our journey thus far we shall now enter 15:53 into Bhakti and final topic will be 15:59 meditation personal sadhna Standby link (in case youtube link does not work): God's Biggest Blessing to you is this - Conquering the 5 Defects of the Mind Swami Mukundananda.mp4