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

Listen to The SWEETEST Story of Hanumanji and Lord Ram on Hanuman Jayanti 2025 | Swami Mukundananda

Listen to The SWEETEST Story of Hanumanji and Lord Ram on Hanuman Jayanti 2025 | Swami Mukundananda

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Full Text Listen to The SWEETEST Story of Hanumanji and Lord Ram on Hanuman Jayanti 2025 Swami Mukundananda.mp4 1  Now Rama and Lakshmana proceeded forward, they were coming close to Rishyamukh Parvat where Sugreeva used to stay with a few of his ministers,  Sugreeva is a strange kind of a patra (character), he is कामी (lustful), he is a भोगी (pleasure-seeker), he is a भगोड़ा (fugitive), he runs away from the battle ground and yet he is a devotee and Rama accepts him as well, that is the पतित पावन God,  so in the court of Bhagwan, everybody is allowed, blind or lame, whoever comes to the refuge of Bhagwan, they will all be accepted.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtEwRTWNuvY&t=0  2  And that is the story of Sugreeva, so Sugreeva, he used to reside there out of fear of his brother Bali, Bali was the king of Kishkindha and there had been a fight between Sugreeva and Bali and Sugreeva had come running (left the battle) and started staying there,  so Bali would not come to Rishyamukh Parvat (mountain) because he had been cursed by a rishi about it, so Sugreeva was with Hanuman who was his minister  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtEwRTWNuvY&t=55  3  and Sugreeva saw the two princes walking by, seeing them Sugreeva got scared, who are these Hanuman ? Hanuman said, I don't know, it is possible they are Bali’s people, go and find out and tell me, if they are, I am going to run from here. “verse”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtEwRTWNuvY&t=89  4  Hanuman took on the form of a Brahmin! He disguised hiself and he came and asked so many questions (from Ram & Laxman), this is the same Hanuman, who tore heart and gave darshan of Ram and Sita, and here he is not even recognizing who Ram is, he says who are you ? so Ram also is not recognizing, who are you ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtEwRTWNuvY&t=139  5  Ram says, look, I and he (Laxman)are the children of Dashrath and I had my wife with me and one Rakshas came and stole her and he took her away, so we are searching where has she gone Hanuman said, all right, I understood, so Hanuman said alright, then I am leaving, Ram said, arey Vipra (Brahmin), you asked our introduction, so please tell me, who are you ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtEwRTWNuvY&t=172  6  The moment he said said that, now Hanuman had the epiphany (a moment of sudden and great revelation or realization), he said o you are Ram, you are my Ishtdev (इष्टदेव, my beloved God) and he fell at the feet of Ram and started crying,  so Ram lifted up, embraced Hanuman and said Hanuman you are my dear devotee, you are twice of Laxman. So, Hanuman said, Maharaj,  I asked you your introduction because I was in ignorance I was in Your Maya, I am under maya and that’s why I could not recognize You, but why did You not recognize me? see, both of them are acting, is hanuman under Maya ?, obviously not, he is the highest form of Shankar, highest rudra, so where is the question of maya and  Hanuman says I don't recognize You because I was under maya. Why did you not recognize me ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtEwRTWNuvY&t=226  7  Ram says this is the leela, the devotee hides his originality and Bhagawan hides His originality, that is when the leela begins, so nevertheless now Laxman should feel bad that I have been with him for so long and this person has just come and Ram says that he is double of me  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtEwRTWNuvY&t=318  8  so Hanuman said, Maharaj, there is this Sugreev vanar raj, who stays on the top of the mountain, so what you do is, You go up and meet him and make friendship with him, he has got the resources, he can help You find Sita.  Ram said, all right, then ask him to come down, Hanuman said, Maharaj, he is already up, why are you bringing him down, you go up, Ram said how will I go up ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtEwRTWNuvY&t=343  9  Hanuman said, no problem at all, both of You just sit on my back and I will take you up, Lakshman said, what does he mean, sit on the back, even if he says sit on the shoulder it makes some sense, he is saying on the back,  nevertheless Hanuman made his form big and Ram and Laxman sat on his back and in one leap Hanuman reached the top of the mountain,  Lakshman said that definitely Ram had said he is double of me, I am Shesh-avatara (the Sheshnag Snake), I lift up the earth but he lifted me up, he must definitely be double of me. There Hanuman lit a fire and he introduced Ram to Sugreeva, so he explained Ram's background and he explained Sugreeva Background, so Ram established friendship with Sugreeva  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtEwRTWNuvY&t=388  Transcript 0:00 Now Rama and Lakshmana proceeded 0:03 forward, they were coming close to Rishyamukh Parvat 0:08 where Sugreeva used to stay with a few of 0:11 his 0:13 ministers, Sugreeva is a strange kind 0:17 of a 0:18 patra (character), he is कामी (lustful), he is a भोगी (pleasure-seeker), he is a 0:23 भगोड़ा (fugitive), 0:26 he runs away from the battle ground and yet 0:30 he is a devotee and Rama accepts him as 0:33 well, that is the पतित पावन God, 0:37 so in the court of 0:41 Bhagwan, everybody is 0:44 allowed, blind or lame, whoever comes 0:49 to the refuge of Bhagwan, they will all be 0:53 accepted. 0:55 And that is the story of 0:58 Sugreeva, so 1:00 Sugreeva, he used to reside there out of fear 1:04 of his brother 1:06 Bali, Bali was the king of 1:09 Kishkindha and there had been a fight between 1:13 Sugreeva and Bali and Sugreeva had come running (left the battle) 1:16 and started staying there, so Bali would 1:20 not come to Rishyamukh Parvat (mountain) because he had been 1:23 cursed by a rishi about it, so Sugreeva was 1:27 with Hanuman who was his 1:29 minister and he saw the two princes walking 1:34 by, seeing them Sugreeva got 1:38 scared, who are these Hanuman ? Hanuman said, I 1:43 don't know, 1:43 it is possible they are Bali’s people, go and 1:49 find out and tell me, if they are, I am 1:51 going to run from here. “verse” 2:19 Hanuman took on the form of a Brahmin! 2:23 He disguised hiself 2:24 and he came and asked so many 2:29 questions, this is the same 2:32 Hanuman, who tore heart and gave darshan of Ram 2:36 and 2:37 Sita, and here he is not even recognizing 2:41 who Ram 2:43 is, he says who are 2:48 you ? so Ram also is not recognizing, who 2:52 are you ? he says  so look, I and he are the children of 3:09 Dashrath and  I had my wife with me and one 3:17 Rakshas came and stole her and he took her 3:20 away, so we are searching where has she gone 3:23 Hanuman said, all right, I 3:29 understood,  so Hanuman said alright, then I am 3:35 leaving , Ram  3:38 said,  3:40 arey Vipra (Brahmin), 3:44 you asked our 3:46 introduction, so please tell me, who are you ? The moment he said 4:01 said that, now Hanuman had the epiphany (a moment of sudden and great revelation or realization), he said 4:06 o you are Ram, you are my Ishtdev (इष्टदेव, my beloved God) and he fell 4:12 at the feet of Ram and started 4:16 crying, so Ram lifted up, embraced 4:19 Hanuman and said Hanuman you are my dear 4:23 devotee, you are twice of 4:27 Laxman. So, Hanuman 4:29 Said, Maharaj, I asked you your introduction because I was in ignorance 4:43 I was in your Maya,  I am 4:53 under maya and that’s why I could not 4:55 recognize You, but why did You not 4:57 recognize me? 4:59 see, both of them are acting, is hanuman 5:04 under Maya, obviously not, he is the highest 5:07 form of Shankar, highest rudra, so where is the 5:10 question of maya and Hanuman says I don't 5:12 recognize You because I was under maya. 5:15 Why did you not recognize me ? 5:18 Ram says this is the leela, the devotee hides his 5:22 originality and Bhagawan hides His originality, 5:25 that is when the leela 5:27 begins, so nevertheless now Laxman should feel 5:32 bad that I have been with him for so long 5:35 and this person has just come and Ram says 5:39 that he is double of me, 5:43 so Hanuman said, 5:46 Maharaj, there is this Sugreev 5:49 vanar raj, who stays on the top of the 5:54 mountain, so what you do is, You go up and 5:58 meet him and make friendship with 6:02 him, he has got the resources, he can help 6:06 You find Sita. 6:09 Ram said, all right, then ask him to come 6:13 down, Hanuman said, 6:16 Maharaj, he is already up why are you 6:20 bringing him down, you go 6:24 up, Ram said how will I go 6:28 up ? Hanuman said, no problem at all, both of  6:33 You just sit on my back and I will take you 6:36 up, the Lakshman said, what does he mean, sit on the 6:40 back, even if he says sit on the shoulder it makes 6:43 some sense, he is saying on the back, nevertheless 6:47 Hanuman made his form big and Ram and 6:51 Laxman sat on his back and in one leap Hanuman 6:55 reached the top of the 6:57 mountain, Lakshman said that 7:00 definitely Ram had said he is double of me, I 7:04 am Shesh avatara, I lift up the earth but he 7:07 lifted me up, he must definitely be 7:11 double of me. There Hanuman lit a fire and he 7:16 introduced Ram to 7:20 Sugreeva, 7:22 so he explained Ram's background and he 7:26 explained Sugreeva 7:29 Background, so Ram established friendship with Sugreeva

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How God Speaks to Us - Listen to Your Inner Voice or Conscience by Swami Mukundanand

How God Speaks to Us - Listen to Your Inner Voice or Conscience by Swami Mukundanand

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Full Text 1  God speaks to us in many ways and one of them is the little voice within us, the voice of our own conscience.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yei3aFpge5c&t=0  2  there was once a blind widow lady who used to live by the seaside with her Illiterate teenage daughter. Since they had no other means of sustenance, the daughter would do the only thing that she knew,  she would dive into the ocean in search of precious stones and if at all she found any, she would sell them off in the market and that would bring the food to the table for both of them.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yei3aFpge5c&t=13  3  One day she left for the ocean and did not return by night time, when 48 hours went by the mother realized that the worst of her fears must have come true,  in all likelihood her daughter probably dived into the ocean and went so deep that she did not return, a few more days went by, the mother was famished (extremely hungry)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yei3aFpge5c&t=54  4  she knew that her daughter used to collect stones in a jewel box on the shelf, she groped her way to the box, she found some polished objects there, with great hopes she took the box to the nearby jeweler and explained her predicament,  she said, sir, I am in dire trouble, my only daughter has died in the ocean, I am blind, I have no means of survival, can you please purchase these stones and give me a few thousand dollars so that at least I can continue eating for the next few months,  the jeweler opened the box and was astonished by what he saw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yei3aFpge5c&t=90  5  he said, mother, I don't have the money to buy the jewels in this box, I will contact the Jewelers Association, we all together can definitely earn from this but we will have to put a fund together by all of us contributing for it, in the meantime I am giving you $300, come back in 10 days.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yei3aFpge5c&t=148  6 This kind and honest jeweler, he called for a meeting of the Jeweler's Association, there he explained to them what had happened and showed them the jewels and the box,  they chided (criticize or blame) him, what a fool you are, that blind lady was unaware of what she was giving you, you could have taken it all for a few thousand dollars, now you are telling us that this is worth five million and we all need to contribute to it, she was blind & she could not have seen.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yei3aFpge5c&t=182  7  The jeweler said, yes, the lady was blind but my conscience was not blind, I could have cheated her  but I could not have cheated my own self. In the same way, all of us have this voice of conscience, that speaks to us from within,  if we listen to it, if we choose to be true to ourselves, we will never be false to the other, this is a simple way of aligning our actions and our thoughts with truth, with goodness, with honesty and with the will of God  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yei3aFpge5c&t=225

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9xBy22E_hI&t=4s Full Text  1  We progressed to this point in the discussion that if we can get knowledge of God, where is He, who is He, what is He, what is our relationship with Him? Then on the basis of that we will develop faith, and through faith we will get love.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9xBy22E_hI&t=5  2  How then do we get knowledge of God? Whom should we ask, who is God, what does He do? Who will answer these questions for us? If we ask worldly people, they don't know for themselves. How will they tell us? That will be like (verse) the blind leading the blind.  Let's say that in some place a lot of blind people gathered. One blind person said sir, I wish to go to the Radha Krishna temple but I am blind. Can you please take me someone? The other blind person thought I am blind but the blind man doesn't know I am blind. He said, "oh blind man, hold my hand I will take you.  Now the two blind people, they started off. They did not reach the Radha Krishna temple. They fell into a ditch on the way. Similarly if we ask worldly people in the office, over a cup of tea, "my dear friends what do you think is God? What do you believe in and what is your opinion on life after death?"  That will only be intellectual entertainment. It will have no pure spiritual value. So you can't get knowledge of God from worldly people.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9xBy22E_hI&t=31  3  What about the great God-realized Souls, the Saints? The Saints know God. From the Saints, we should be able to find out about God. But the problem here is how to find a Saint?  Supposing 25 Swamis come from India to DFW area every year. How to find out which of them is a God realized Saint? And these Saints will not put any board like in India, if you wish to find a doctor, you just go around MG road seeing the board; every town has an MG road, right? so you check the market and see okay doctor Mukherjee, MBBS, MD, FRCS, London, heart specialist. Hmmm looks good, let me go and show him.  So a Saint will not put up a board, "God realized, attained God." Somebody may be a Saint. But we will never know. So initially knowledge of God will not be from the Saints because you can't find a Saint, you can't recognize a Saint. Then what to do?  Why not ask God Himself? if you want knowledge of somebody instead of going to a third party you go to that person, "sir, you please tell me about yourself." So in the same way if you want knowledge of God, rather than ask anybody else you ask God Himself.  But how will God answer? God has answered. Where? In His Vedas. These Vedas are not a human creation. They are directly the Word of God. (verse)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9xBy22E_hI&t=139  4  Whenever God creates the world, He manifests the Vedas. Just like you purchase a machine, and you get the manual along with it. So the Vedas are the manual. God has manifested His knowledge there and when He dissolves the world, He assimilates the Vedas back into himself.  Historians say, the Rig Veda is one of the oldest books in the world. But in my opinion this word oldest is a misnomer. Don't say oldest. The RigVeda is eternal. It has always existed.  Just like God is eternal His knowledge is also eternal. It doesn't have to be newly created in Stanford and MIT. Knowledge of God is His Shakti, His energy.  Ever since a fire has existed, its heat and light have existed. Ever since God has existed, His Bliss has existed, His knowledge has existed. So God's knowledge is eternal. When He created our world, He first manifested the Vedas in the heart of the first born Brahma. Brahma passed the Vedic knowledge to his disciple, he passed it on to his disciple, he passed it on to his disciple.  In this way the Vedic knowledge came through the parampaara, hearing it through the ear That is why another name for the Vedas is Shruti. Shruti means that knowledge, which is received through the ear.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9xBy22E_hI&t=271  5  However, 5,000 years ago, when the lord Himself took avatar as VedaVyas, he looked into the coming age of kali and he thought the people of Kalyug, which means us folks, we will not be shrutidhari. We will not have the capacity to hear and remember. In fact we will forget in three hours flat. Do this.  "All right Swamiji." After three hours, "did you do it?" "I forgot Swamiji." What a fantastic memory you have, you forget in three hours.  So VedaVyas could see all this. He decided now a book will be needed. He put that knowledge in writing and he divided the one body of knowledge into four parts, the RigVeda, YajurVeda, SamVeda, AtharvaVeda.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9xBy22E_hI&t=392  6  So he is called Veda Vyasa, the divider of the Vedas but nobody calls him Veda Rachayita or Veda Pranita, the writer. He is the divider. The writer is God Himself.  So the Vedas are Sanatan (eternal) and the path, the science that the Vedas are teaching, the science of God realization is an eternal science. It is non-sectarian. That is why they call it sanatana dharma, the eternal path.  The word 'hindu' doesn't come in the Vedas. That word developed historically. The mongals on the other side of the hindu kush, they said the people living on this side are the hindus. But the vedas are not teaching us Hindu dharma, they are teaching us Sanatan Dharma, the eternal religion.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9xBy22E_hI&t=452  7  Actually all religions are eternal, because they are talking about the eternal God and the eternal soul. But they are giving limited knowledge, like the pocket dictionary and the complete unabridged Oxford dictionary.  It is like ten blind man went to see an elephant; one grabbed the tail. Because he was blind, he gave his decision, "my dear friends this elephant is like a rope." The 2nd grabbed the leg. Again because of lack of vision, he decided the elephant is like a tree trunk. The third put his hand on the stomach.  He said the elephant is flat like a wall. The fourth got the Tusk. he said the elephant is pointed like a spear. The fifth got the ear. He said, the elephant is like a fan. Now they all started fighting.  Somebody with eyes came. He said, look there is no reason to fight. You are all describing the elephant, but you are describing a section/portion of the elephant. All this together is that elephant. In the same way, sometimes dharmas start fighting. My religion is right, yours is wrong . Mine is right and yours is wrong, and yours is so wrong that I need to kill you.  But the Vedas say, look you are all right; please don't fight!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9xBy22E_hI&t=525  8  But you are describing a section of the knowledge and the entire spectrum of knowledge from ABCD of spiritual knowledge till where it goes, it is all there in the Vedas. Those Vedas then are the authority. (verse)  Any spiritual principle must be validated on the authority of the Vedas. See, if we do that we'll never make a mistake. otherwise everybody comes up with a new theory.  And you say, where did you get this theory from? "This was told by God to my guru in a private room." God told your guru in a private room?  And the Vedas are telling us something, and the same Vedic knowledge is given by Sur das, Tulsi das, Meera bai, Tukaram, Narshi Mehta Namdev, Shankar Acharya, Madhavacharya.  "They are all wrong, and what my guru was told in a private room is right." So - beware of such things. Any spiritual principle must be on the authority of Vedic knowledge.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9xBy22E_hI&t=617  9  That Vedic knowledge was elaborated in the 2 Etihas, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata including the Bhagavad Gita, the 18 puranas, like the Bhagavad purana, the Shad Darshan like Mimansa, Vedant Nyaya, Vaishesik, Sankhya, Yog, and the hundred Smriti texts, the thousands of Nivandhs.  These are elaborating the Vedic knowledge. Hence they are called Vedic literature. So this entire body of Vedic literature. Just like there is the constitution of America, and commentaries written by lawyers. All these can be used to understand the Constitution.  Similarly we use all the Vedic knowledge. So let's find out from the Vedas about God.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9xBy22E_hI&t=705  Transcript 0:05 We progressed to this point in the discussion that if we can get knowledge 0:12 of God, where is He, who is He, what is He, what is our relationship with Him? Then 0:22 on the basis of that we will develop faith, and through faith we will get love. 0:31 How then do we get knowledge of God? Whom should we ask, who is God, what does He do? 0:43 Who will answer these questions for us? If we ask worldly people, they don't know 0:53 for themselves. How will they tell us? That will be like (verse) 1:02 the blind leading the blind. Let's say that in some place a lot of blind 1:15 people gathered. One blind person said sir, I wish to go to the Radha Krishna 1:23 temple but I am blind. Can you please take me someone? The other blind person 1:29 thought I am blind but the blind man doesn't know I am blind. He said, "oh blind man, 1:35 hold my hand I will take you. Now the two blind people, they started off. They did 1:43 not reach the Radha Krishna temple. They fell into a ditch on the way. Similarly 1:51 if we ask worldly people in the office, over a cup of tea, "my dear friends what 1:59 do you think is God? What do you believe in and what is your opinion on life 2:05 after death?" That will only be intellectual entertainment. It will have 2:12 no pure spiritual value. So you can't get 2:19 knowledge of God from worldly people. What about the great God-realized Souls, the Saints? 2:27 The Saints know God. From the Saints, we should be able to 2:33 find out about God. But the problem here is how to find a Saint? 2:42 Supposing 25 Swamis come from India to DFW area every year. How to find out 2:51 which of them is a God realized Saint? And these Saints will not put any board like 3:00 in India, if you wish to find a doctor, you just go around MG road seeing the 3:06 board; every town has an MG road, right? so you check the market and see okay 3:11 doctor Mukharjee, MBBS, MD, FRCS, London, heart specialist. Hmmm looks good. let me go and show him. 3:18 So a Saint will not put up a board, "God realized, 3:26 attained God." Somebody may be a Saint. But we will never know. So 3:36 initially knowledge of God will not be from the Saints because you can't find 3:42 a Saint, you can't recognize a Saint. Then what to do? Why not ask God Himself? if 3:52 you want knowledge of somebody instead of going to a third party you go to that 3:58 person, "sir, you please tell me about yourself." 4:03 So in the same way if you want knowledge of God, rather than ask anybody else you 4:11 ask God Himself. But how will God answer? God has answered. Where? In His Vedas. 4:24 These Vedas are not a human creation. They are 4:31 directly the Word of God. (verse) Whenever God creates the world, He 4:41 manifests the Vedas. Just like you purchase a machine, and you get the 4:47 manual along with it. So the Vedas are the manual. God has manifested His 4:55 knowledge there and when He dissolves the world, He assimilates the Vedas back 5:01 into himself. Historians say, the Rig Veda is one of the oldest books in the world. 5:12 But in my opinion this word oldest is a misnomer. 5:17 Don't say oldest. The RigVeda is eternal. It has always existed. Just like God is 5:28 eternal His knowledge is also eternal. It doesn't have to be newly created in 5:36 Stanford and MIT. Knowledge of God is His Shakti, His energy. Ever since a fire 5:44 has existed, its heat and light have existed. Ever since God has existed, His 5:50 Bliss has existed, His knowledge has existed. So God's knowledge is eternal. 5:56 When He created our world, He first manifested the Vedas in the 6:03 heart of the first born Brahma. Brahma passed the Vedic knowledge to his 6:11 disciple, he passed it on to his disciple, he passed it on to his disciple. In this 6:17 way the Vedic knowledge came through the parampaara, hearing it through the ear 6:25 That is why another name for the Vedas is Shruti. Shruti means that knowledge, 6:32 which is received through the ear. However, 5,000 years ago, 6:39 when the lord Himself took avatar as VedaVyas, 6:44 he looked into the coming age of kali and he thought the people of Kalyug, 6:51 which means us folks, we will not be Shrutidhari. We will not 6:57 have the capacity to hear and remember. In fact we will forget in three hours 7:03 flat. Do this. "All right Swamiji." After three hours, "did you do it?" "I forgot Swamiji." 7:12 What a fantastic memory you have, you forget in three hours. So VedaVyas 7:18 could see all this. He decided now a book will be needed. He put that knowledge in 7:25 writing and he divided the one body of knowledge into four parts, the RigVeda, YajurVeda, 7:32 SamVeda, AtharvaVeda. So he is called Veda Vyasa, the divider 7:39 of the Vedas but nobody calls him Veda Rachayita or Veda Pranita, the writer. He is 7:47 the divider. The writer is God Himself. So the Vedas are Sanatan (eternal) and the 7:58 path, the science that the Vedas are teaching, the science of God realization 8:05 is an eternal science. It is non-sectarian. That is why they call it 8:17 sanatana dharma, the eternal path. The word 'hindu' doesn't come in the Vedas. 8:25 That word developed historically. The mongals on the other side of the hindu 8:32 kush, they said the people living on this side are the hindus. But the vedas are 8:38 not teaching us Hindu dharma, they are teaching us Sanatan Dharma, the eternal 8:45 religion. Actually all religions are eternal, because they are talking about 8:51 the eternal God and the eternal soul. But they are giving 8:56 limited knowledge, like the pocket dictionary and the complete unabridged 9:02 oxford dictionary. It is like ten blind man went to see an elephant; one grabbed the 9:11 tail. Because he was blind, he gave his decision, "my dear friends this elephant 9:17 is like a rope." The 2nd grabbed the leg. Again because of lack of vision, he decided the 9:25 elephant is like a tree trunk. The third put his hand on the stomach. He said the 9:31 elephant is flat like a wall. The fourth got the Tusk. he said the elephant 9:36 is pointed like a spear. The fifth got the ear. He said, the elephant is like 9:42 a fan. Now they all started fighting. Somebody with eyes came. He said, look 9:49 there is no reason to fight. You are all describing the elephant, but you are 9:56 describing a section/portion of the elephant. All this together is that 10:05 elephant. In the same way, sometimes Dharmas start fighting. My religion is 10:12 right, yours is wrong . Mine is right and yours is wrong, and yours is so wrong that I need 10:17 to kill you. But the Vedas say, look you are all right; please don't fight! But 10:27 you are describing a section of the knowledge and the entire spectrum of 10:33 knowledge from ABCD of spiritual knowledge till where it goes, it is all 10:41 there in the Vedas. Those Vedas then are the authority. (verse) 10:51 Any spiritual principle must be validated on the 11:00 authority of the Vedas. See, if we do that we'll never make a mistake. 11:06 otherwise everybody comes up with a new theory. And you say, where did you get this 11:12 theory from? "This was told by God to my guru in a private room." God told 11:20 your guru in a private room? And the Vedas are telling us something, and the 11:25 same Vedic knowledge is given by Sur das, Tulsi das, Meera bai, Tukaram, Narshi Mehta 11:30 Namdev, Shankar Acharya, Madhavacharya. "They are all wrong, and what my guru was told in a 11:35 private room is right." So - beware of such things. Any spiritual principle must 11:45 be on the authority of Vedic knowledge. That Vedic knowledge was elaborated in 11:53 the 2 Etihas, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata including the Bhagavad Gita, 11:59 the 18 puranas, like the Bhagavad purana, the Shad Darshan like Mimansa, Vedant 12:07 Nyaya, Vaishesik, Sankhya, Yog, and the hundred Smriti texts, the thousands of Nivandhs. 12:12 These are elaborating the Vedic knowledge. Hence they are called Vedic 12:17 literature. So this entire body of Vedic literature. Just like there is the 12:26 constitution of America, and commentaries written by lawyers. All these can 12:34 be used to understand the Constitution. Similarly we use all the Vedic knowledge. 12:41 So let's find out from the Vedas about God. Standby link (in case youtube link does not work) The Method to Know God How to Get Knowledge of God Swami Mukundananda.mp4