Your MIND Will Function Perfectly if you Do this - Shree Krishna's 2 Step Guide by Swami Mukundanand
00:00 Bhagavad Gita Chapter 12 verse 8 01:28 Importance of Mind in Spirituality 06:20 Surrender your Mind to God 08:39 Surrender your Intellect to God 10:07 How to Control the Mind? 13:09 How to Focus your Mind on God? 15:23 3 Defects of the Mind 19:04 Perfection of Mind and Actions Main Points: 1 knowledge is one thing, its practical implementation is another https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukw0DMLwR4Y&t=76 2 Importance of Mind in Spirituality: now the question arises what to do, Krishna says look Arjun you do these two things, offer your mind to me, how do you offer your mind, let all your thoughts become Godly, so let every thought be for His pleasure, imbued with His consciousness, then the mind is offered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukw0DMLwR4Y&t=81 3 offen this one point is invariably missed out, everybody is going to the temple all around the world but what are they doing they are doing physical bhakti, take the arti plate and do a physical drill and the mind is elsewhere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukw0DMLwR4Y&t=112 4 Kabir says माला फेरत जुग भया, फिरा ना मन का फेर….” , look you kept on rotating these japa beads and the whole age got rotated but the mind remained the same, now put it down, change your focus change your understanding and start rotating the beads of the mind, remember the mind is so important your Bondage or Liberation from it will be determined by the state of your mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukw0DMLwR4Y&t=215 5 God says it is alright physically you are engaged in bhakti but what I see is where is your mind ; if physical bhakti could result in God Realization, by now we would all have attained enlightenment because if in one lifetime we've taken the name of God Once, then in so many lifetimes we've taken the name of God innumerable times ; we've been to the holy places, we have kept purificatory fasts, we have done all kinds of chants and praises and everything but we have not paid attention to the mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukw0DMLwR4Y&t=265 6 Surrender your Mind to God: that is why Shree Krishna says, offer your mind to me and to offer the mind you don't even need to go to Vrindavan, you can sit right here and take your mind to Vrindavan, now we all want to go for sacred baths but the manu smriti says God is inside You, the day you accept this, that day there is no further purpose going to bath in the Ganga or to visit Kurukshetra, you just sit here and think I'm bathing in the Ganga you will get the same fruit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukw0DMLwR4Y&t=380 7 Surrender your Intellect to God : the second thing Krishna says is to offer your intellect to me, even more important than the mind is the Intellect, this intellect is so important that we move in our life in accordance with the beliefs of our intellect, if your intellect is convinced that money is the most pleasurable item in the world, your whole life deviates in the direction of earning money, if your intellect is convinced that is power and prestige that brings the greatest bliss, you are in the pursuit of that and if your intellect is convinced that true happiness and fulfillment is in God, then you find yourself in a spiritual satsang like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukw0DMLwR4Y&t=517 8 How to Control the Mind? the intellect is the supreme amongst all the machinery that God has given to ss, we say my mind is not under control, actually it is completely controllable by the intellect, the day the intellect decides, it will control the mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukw0DMLwR4Y&t=600 9 the anger is always flowing downwards (from more powerful to less powerful), upwards (from less powerful to more powerful) it is being controlled by the Intellect, so this intellect is so powerful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukw0DMLwR4Y&t=623 10 How to Focus your Mind on God? once the intellect decides, it can bring the Mind under control, now we say my mind doesn't stay in God, what is the reason Swami, the reason is your intellect is not yet fully resolved that what I am looking for I will get it from God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukw0DMLwR4Y&t=781 11 that is why Lord Krishna says that this Intellect, you offer it to me and why should we offer it to him, what does it mean? it means that you make it run in accordance with that higher knowledge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukw0DMLwR4Y&t=819 12 even in the world where you find your intellect doesn't suffice, you take support of somebody with bigger intellect like the dependence on lawyers, doctors, drivers of cars, aeroplanes etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukw0DMLwR4Y&t=840 13 3 Defects of the Mind :so here Sri Krishna is saying that look Arjun your intellect is defective https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukw0DMLwR4Y&t=922 14 our intellect has suffered a reversal, what is that reversal, reversal number 1. It is “Anitya”, the temporary things we are according them as much value as if they were permanent, when you know you will leave it all behind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukw0DMLwR4Y&t=915 15 reversal number 2. It is “Anatma”, the body which is not the self, which is made of mud, we see it as the self ,i.e., though we are not the body but a soul, we consider ourselves as the body only https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukw0DMLwR4Y&t=1032 16 reversal number of our intellect 3. “Dukhesu”, all the miseries of the world, you know what is the reason for them, the desires that we make, so these desires we make for happiness but we are making them in the wrong direction and the consequence we are experiencing misery, so the nature of the world is, this is an illusion of happiness and you run after it, it's like running after a mirage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukw0DMLwR4Y&t=1095 17 Perfection of Mind and Actions : we can change this whole situation of reversal of our intellect, it's not that we become enlightened and get Divine intellect and then all the problems will be solved, today itself you run your intellect according to Divine knowledge, what my guru has given, what the scriptures has given and you move, do your actions accordingly, so your actions will be perfectly aligned, when the intellect is surrendered, so Lord Krishna says do these two things Arjun, you will then live in me because our consciousness is united in Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukw0DMLwR4Y&t=1141 Transcript Bhagavad Gita Chapter 12 verse 8 0:07 May 0:11 [Music] 0:20 [Music] 0:29 [Music] 0:38 [Music] 0:41 so now that he has said Arjun this is it 0:47 learn to love and devote yourself to God 0:53 so now the question arises we are 0:57 convinced of the path we have reached 1:00 one level of understanding so what to 1:05 do just because you know how to go from 1:10 here to 1:12 Louisiana doesn't mean that you have 1:14 reached 1:16 Louisiana knowledge is one thing it's 1:18 practical implementation is another so 1:21 now when the question arises what to do 1:24 he says look Arjun you do these two Importance of Mind in Spirituality 1:28 things he says offer your mind to 1:32 me how do you offer your mind let all 1:36 your thoughts become 1:40 Godly so let every thought be for his 1:45 pleasure imbued with his 1:49 Consciousness then the mind is 1:52 offered this one point is invariably 1:56 missed 1:57 out everybody is going to the 2:01 temple all around the 2:03 world but what are they doing they are 2:07 doing 2:09 physical take the arti plate and do a 2:12 physical 2:15 drill and the mind is 2:19 elsewhere I wonder how much pit G will 2:22 be getting in the thali 2:26 offering or you take your body and do 2:30 marching to the holy places badri dri 2:34 jagat Puri 2:36 rameswar when I first started going to 2:39 Gujarat and I do inter city travel I 2:42 would see hundreds of people on the 2:45 road so I would ask what are they doing 2:48 on the road somebody said Swami G one 2:51 person is going from here to 2:54 ran walking 40 kilom somebody is going 2:58 from here to amaj 200 km somebody is 3:01 going to dwara 400 km walking so they 3:05 doing physical bi the intention is good 3:10 but the mind is 3:12 unfocused the mind is thinking my God 3:15 it's a hot day and I'm hungry and I'm 3:18 thirsty So Physical biti we have done it 3:22 for many life times 3:25 now it's time to move 3:28 ahead and the 3:45 words Kabir says look you kept on 3:47 rotating these beads japa so you kept on 3:52 rotating them and the whole age got 3:56 rotated but the Mind remained the same 4:00 now put it down change your focus change 4:04 your understanding and start rotating 4:06 the beads of the 4:09 mind so 4:11 remember the mind is so 4:15 important your bondage or Liberation 4:19 from it will be determined by the state 4:23 of your 4:25 mind God says it is all right physically 4:29 you are engaged engaging in biti but 4:31 what I see is where is your mind if 4:37 physical bi could result in God 4:40 realization by now we would all have 4:43 attained 4:45 Enlightenment because if in one lifetime 4:49 we've taken the name of God 4:52 once in so many lifetimes we've taken 4:55 the name of God innumerable times we've 4:58 been to the holy places we have kept 5:02 purificatory fasts we have done all 5:05 kinds of chants and praises and 5:08 everything but we have not paid 5:11 attention to the 5:14 mind one person 5:19 grandfather he had given his shoes to 5:21 The 5:23 Cobbler and he was sitting in his Puja 5:26 room in the morning time doing his 5:28 worship 5:30 when his friend another grandfather in 5:33 the neighborhood came to 5:35 meet and asked so and so there harad b 5:41 no my father-in-law is not there 5:46 presently he's at the cobbler's shop and 5:49 he's asking how much for the stitching 5:51 of the shoes and the cobbler is saying 5:53 12 anas and he's saying I'll give you 5:55 only four 5:57 anas so the grandfather came came out 6:00 what are you talking about don't you 6:02 know I was 6:03 inside yes father-in-law you were inside 6:06 but three times you came out and asked 6:09 has the cobbler returned my shoes as yet 6:11 or not so you were physically doing the 6:14 worship and your mind was at the gobler 6:17 shop so I just told him where your mind Surrender your Mind to God 6:20 is that is 6:23 why SRI Krishna says offer your mind to 6:29 me 6:31 and to offer the 6:33 mind you don't even need to go to 6:36 vavan you can sit right here and take 6:40 your mind to 6:42 vinda now we all want to go for 6:46 sacreds but the man 6:49 [Music] 6:58 says God is s inside 7:01 you the day you accept 7:05 this that day there is no further 7:08 purpose going to Bath in the ganga or to 7:12 visit kurukshetra you just sit here and 7:16 think I'm bathing in the ganga you will 7:20 get the same 7:23 fruit that is why there was one saint 7:27 called s ravidas 7:29 heard of his name this s 7:33 ravidas his saying was he was a 7:37 cobbler and great Kings were his 7:41 disciples so somebody used to ask him 7:44 come let's go and B in the 7:46 ganga and ridas would say 7:52 look if my mind is pure the ganga 7:56 manifests right here for me in this part 8:01 and he actually proved it to that guy 8:03 it's a huge story but the point is that 8:09 physically you may or may not engage in 8:12 devotion but the Mind must be absorbed 8:17 and that is why in this satsang we have 8:21 used this three-fold 8:23 process now there is no Puja going on 8:26 here right just chanting hearing and 8:29 remember in because minimum physical 8:32 encumbrances they are just assisting in 8:35 your inward 8:37 Journey the mind and the second thing he Surrender your Intellect to God 8:40 says is the 8:43 intellect offer your intellect to me 8:48 even more important than the mind is the 8:52 intellect this intellect is so 8:56 important that we move in our life in 9:02 accordance with the beliefs of our 9:06 intellect if your intellect is 9:11 convinced that money is the most 9:14 pleasurable item in the world your whole 9:19 life deviates in the direction of 9:22 earning 9:24 money if your intellect is convinced 9:28 that is power and Prestige that brings 9:31 the greatest Bliss you are in the 9:34 pursuit of 9:36 that and if your intellect is convinced 9:40 that true happiness and fulfillment is 9:44 in God then you find yourself in a 9:46 retreat like this so why did you come 9:50 here because your intellect told you 9:53 that this is the best use of this 9:57 weekend that is why 10:00 the intellect is the Supreme amongst all 10:03 the Machinery that God has given to 10:06 us we say my mind is not under How to Control the Mind? 10:11 control actually it is completely 10:15 controllable by the intellect the day 10:18 the intellect 10:20 decides it will control the 10:23 mind have you ever seen it's a very rare 10:27 site where people scream at and Shout at 10:30 their 10:31 boss I have seen husband screaming and 10:33 shouting at their 10:36 wife but I've never seen people 10:38 screaming and shouting at their boss the 10:41 same 10:42 person the boss says that you are a fool 10:45 you are a loafer yes sir yes sir yes 10:48 sir what happened to all of your anger 10:51 you know out here if I become angry I 10:53 lose my job so with the intellect they 10:56 control their anger when they realize 10:59 that it's 11:00 dangerous which means they have the 11:03 ability to control the mind if the 11:07 intellect SW 11:10 decides and then they go home and throw 11:13 it all upon the 11:15 wife and the wife what will she do she 11:19 vents her anger on the 11:22 child child what to do he shows his 11:25 anger to the dog so the anger is always 11:28 flowing down words upwards it's being 11:31 controlled by the 11:34 intellect so this intellect is so 11:39 powerful now if I ask you do you all 11:43 enjoy the work that you 11:45 do 90% of the people word white they say 11:49 you know I don't enjoy it I just do it 11:52 because I have to do 11:54 it most of the 11:56 people many years ago in in 12:00 India one guy said to 12:03 me today I'm so happy I said what 12:07 happened oh the government has declared 12:09 a 12:10 holiday I said why he said the president 12:13 has 12:16 died he said come on the president has 12:19 died and you're saying I'm so happy you 12:21 know the main thing is I have got 12:24 Holiday from 12:25 work that work is seeming so terrible 12:29 now you say it happens only in India it 12:32 happens more in America because here you 12:34 have restaurants TGI Fridays right so 12:37 everybody loves the weekend and yet when 12:40 you work for 8 hours 10 hours 12 hours a 12:44 day just keep your mind under control 12:48 and keep working how does it become 12:51 possible the reason is the intellect has 12:56 decided the mind says can I sit at home 12:59 with my family the intellect says you 13:01 lose the job carry on working once the 13:04 intellect decides it brings the Mind 13:07 under control now we say my mind doesn't How to Focus your Mind on God? 13:11 stay in 13:13 God what is the reason 13:16 Swami the reason is your intellect is 13:20 not yet fully 13:24 resolved that what I am looking for I 13:28 will get it from 13:30 there yeah I'll get it from there but 13:33 you know the 8 to 900 p.m. serial on TV 13:37 is also very 13:39 enjoyable so the mind gets divided that 13:42 is why Lord Krishna says that this 13:47 intellect you offer it to 13:49 me and why should we offer it to him 13:52 what does it mean means that you make it 13:55 run in accordance with that higher 13:57 knowledge 14:00 even in the world where you find your 14:03 intellect doesn't 14:05 suffice you take support of somebody 14:08 with bigger 14:10 intellect like let's say you are 14:12 involved in some kind of legal matters 14:16 there's some 14:17 case that you don't have an 14:20 understanding of the law so you go and 14:22 consult a 14:24 lawyer in that field the lawyer is 14:27 expert 14:29 so the lawyer says okay now you will go 14:31 by my intellect when you go into that 14:35 witness box if the opposing lawyer asks 14:38 this you say like that and if he asks 14:41 that you say like this and if he says 14:43 anything further just keep 14:46 quiet so because in law matters you are 14:49 zero you go as per his intellect and you 14:53 win the case the opposing lawyer says my 14:56 God this guy just could not get anything 14:58 out of him 15:00 well the same we do in with doctors as 15:04 well we know that this doctor has a 15:07 lifetime in this field this doctor is 15:11 expert so if I want my body to be 15:16 treated my intellect doesn't have the 15:18 capacity I Surrender my intellect to the 15:22 doctors so here SRI Krishna is saying 3 Defects of the Mind 15:24 that look Arjun your intellect is 15:30 defective my intellect is defective how 15:34 dare you say that well in the materially 15:38 conditioned State no matter how much of 15:41 a Super Genius we may be our intellect 15:45 has got some 15:48 defects Mahi panjali in his yoga Dar has 15:52 called 15:53 it 15:55 P Aya 16:00 however the same defects of the 16:02 intellect in the bhagat they are simply 16:06 explained 16:15 by he says that our intellect has 16:20 suffered a 16:22 reversal what is that 16:27 reversal the temporary 16:30 things we are according them as much 16:33 value as if they were 16:36 permanent when you know you will leave 16:39 it all behind have you ever heard of a 16:43 billionaire taking 1 billion with them 16:45 after 16:46 death ever people ask how much did that 16:50 nuggers 16:51 H the big businessman of town how much 16:54 did he leave when he died nobody says 16:57 how much did he take away 16:59 well the answer is he left everything 17:02 isn't it he left everything so we know 17:05 it is all temporary but yet we don't act 17:09 with that knowledge intellect doesn't 17:11 have the 17:12 faith an Atma the body which is not the 17:17 self which is made of 17:21 mud we see it as the 17:24 self now imagine supposing now I saw the 17:28 that parking 17:29 [Music] 17:31 lot the hotel parking 17:34 lot variety of different cars so you go 17:38 and ask one driver who are you sir he 17:42 says I am a 17:45 Toyota and you ask the next person who 17:47 are you he says I'm 17:51 Ford and the third person he say I'm 17:54 Nissan my God these people are crazy I 17:58 asked the driver who they are and they 18:00 introduce their car so 18:03 likewise we are introducing our bodies I 18:06 am this body and one day it's going to 18:09 go back to Mud so this is the second 18:12 reversal of the intellect 18:15 andu all the miseries of the world you 18:20 know what is the reason for them the 18:23 desires that we 18:26 make so these desires 18:29 we make for 18:31 happiness but we are making them in the 18:34 wrong 18:35 direction and the consequence we are 18:39 experiencing misery so the nature of the 18:43 world is this an illusion of 18:47 happiness and you run after it it's like 18:50 running after a 18:53 mirage you can keep running for the end 18:56 of the rainbow you will just keep on and 18:58 on on running so this is the third 19:01 reversal of our intellect Perfection of Mind and Actions 19:04 and we can change this whole situation 19:08 it's not that we become enlightened and 19:10 get Divine intellect and then all the 19:13 problems will be solved today 19:15 itself you run your intellect according 19:18 to Divine knowledge what my Guru has 19:21 given what the scriptures has given and 19:24 you move do your actions accordingly so 19:29 your actions will be perfectly aligned 19:32 when the intellect is surrendered so 19:36 Lord Krishna says do these two things 19:38 arj you will then live in me because 19:42 your Consciousness is united in 19:47 me so nice correct but too 19:51 idealistic we are not at that stage 19:54 Krishna what to do s Krishna says don't 19:57 worry listen to the next course 20:08 [Music] Standby link (in case youtube link does not work): Your MIND Will Function Perfectly if you Do this - Shree Krishna's 2 Step Guide Swami Mukundananda.mp4
