The Only Purpose of Our Human Life is to Attain God | God Realization by Swami Mukundanand
https://youtu.be/wwt9igTmSBw Full Text 1 In the human form of life you must strive to know God, that is the consummation (fulfilment, success) of human life, not just to make a bank balance of a few million dollars, a human life is meant to know God https://youtu.be/wwt9igTmSBw&t=2 2 there was once a teacher who taught his students that this world we live in has gotten created by itself, it was made by nature, it doesn't have an intelligent Creator, he then gave homework to the students to make a map of the world and bring it the next day, one of the students used to come to the Radha Krishna temple of Dallas and attend the Bal Mukund classes, so he thought of a way of opening the eyes of the teacher, he brought a paper, scribbled some lines and threw some colors, next day as they all came to the teacher's class, they were submitting their home work on the teacher's desk, he also slipped his sheet In https://youtu.be/wwt9igTmSBw&t=39 3 now the teacher came to his desk, he started looking at the sheets one at a time and evaluating them, 6 marks out of 10, 8 marks out of 10 etc etc until he came to that scrap of paper, seeing that he blew over in fury, what is this ? who has made this ? whole class was quiet, again he repeated himself who has made this, tell me or I'll punish all of you, that boy who had made it, got up, he said that in my opinion nobody has made it, what do you mean nobody has made it ? it's right here sitting with all these colors and lines, somebody must have definitely made it ? https://youtu.be/wwt9igTmSBw&t=101 4 No Sir, in my opinion the paper flew in by chance and fell onto your desk, the pencil flew and by chance some lines got scratched, the colors flew and they filled up on this sheet, that is how it got made by nature accidentally, the teacher said what nonsense are you speaking, somebody must have definitely made this and in my opinion, you must be the boy who made it, how can it be happen just by itself ? https://youtu.be/wwt9igTmSBw&t=159 5 The student said that you are not willing to believe that a little map of the planet earth can be made by itself and you taught us yesterday that the actual thing, the whole of creation, not just a map, got made just by itself. Just as it is sheer common sense that this must have a creator, my common sense tells me that this entire universe must also have a Creator, that is the Supreme Lord, https://youtu.be/wwt9igTmSBw&t=201 6 that is why in the Brahma Sutra, the first sutra states “Athato Brahma Jijnasa”, in the human form of life, you must strive to know God, that is the consummation of human life, not just to make a bank balance of a few million dollars, human life is meant to know God, so the first sutra Ved Vyas has written in the Vedanta Darshan, is “Athato Brahma Jijnasa”, now, strive to know God and what does now mean ? Having attained the human form. https://youtu.be/wwt9igTmSBw&t=247 7 And then the second Sutra comes “verse”, people will ask who is God ? the Ved Vyas answers it directly in the second sutra, God is He, who has created this world, now somebody may ask, is Ram God, is Shyam God, is Shiv God, is Durga God ? who is God ? He says, God is He who has made this world, very simple logical but of course that one God has got innumerable forms, so we must worship God in any of His forms. https://youtu.be/wwt9igTmSBw&t=299 8 In the Bhagavad-Gita, Shri Krishna has expressly stated “verse”, He says, Arjun, I will maintain the Yog Kshem, He will protect you, do you realize when you drive the car, just today we had the experience, our car was cutting into this lane and the other car was cutting into this lane at the same time and they were going to nicely bounce against each other, however God is protecting us, He says “Yog Kshemam Vyamham”, you surrender to Me and I will maintain your Yog Kshem, so He says, you need to engage in devotion to Me alone, https://youtu.be/wwt9igTmSBw&t=346 9 again He says in the Bhagavad-Gita, “verse”, Arjun, I am sulabh, I am easily attained, otherwise He says I am very difficult to reach, “verse” He says that out of thousands of human beings, one strives to know Me, out of thousands who strive to know Me, one truly knows Me as I am, so He says in this verse that God realization is so difficult and yet in this verse in the eighth chapter, 13th verse, he says, “I will easily be attained”, how will You be easily attained ? Arjun, if you do “Ananya bhakti”, https://youtu.be/wwt9igTmSBw&t=428 10 so what is this “Ananya bhakti”, twice we have heard in the Bhagavad-Gita, surrender to Me alone, again He uses the word eva (“एव”), eva (“एव”) means alone, this much Sanskrit everybody knows, right ? again He says, Arjun, attach your mind to Me alone, https://youtu.be/wwt9igTmSBw&t=515 11 and not only the Bhagavad-Gita, in the Srimad Bhagavatam, He says, “verse”, He has repeated it two times, this is Udhav Gita of Srimad Bhagavatam, श्रीमद भागवत, Udhav, IF YOU WISH TO RISE BEYOND DUALITY, IF YOU WISH TO BECOME FEARLESS, IF YOU WISH TO ATTAIN THE SUPREME DESTINATION, THEN YOU WILL HAVE TO SURRENDER TO ME ALONE, SO THIS ONE WORD IS SO IMPORTANT, BY NOT UNDERSTANDING THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS WORD, WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO ATTAIN GOD SO FAR. ALONE. https://youtu.be/wwt9igTmSBw&t=568 12 In past lifetimes also we engaged in bhakti but the mind was divided between God and the world, we did a little bhakti of God and then we also attached the mind to the world and God says, look, I'm a Perfectionist, until you reach that point, you stay here, once you are qualified, I will call you to My Abode. So we have to understand that if we are serious about attaining God, then we will have to do “Ananya bhakti”, https://youtu.be/wwt9igTmSBw&t=627 13 and what does Ananya bhakti mean ? Ananya bhakti means न + अन्य, the mind should be attached to nobody else BUTonly the Supreme Divinity. One may ask, why is this condition there ? what is the problem ? we love the world, we love God as well, what is the problem here ? All the scriptures & all the saints are saying & emphasized “Ananya bhakti” https://youtu.be/wwt9igTmSBw&t=683 14 and what is the problem if we are not Ananya ? There is the divine realm, God’s Names, Forms, Virtues, Pastimes, Abodes, Devotees, the Guru - this is the pure realm, if we attach our mind anywhere here, the mind gets purified and if we attach our mind anywhere in the world, this is the region of the three gunas, the mind will become impure, so you attach your mind a little to God, it gets cleansed then you attach it to the world, it becomes dirty, then again attach it to God, it becomes cleansed then again attach it to the world, it becomes dirty, this is like going to go further, you take four steps forward and three steps back, then two steps forward and four steps back, in this process, we are not able to cleanse the mind “verse” Ramayan says that if you take a cloth and on one side you apply soap and on the other side you keep on applying dirt, do you expect the cloth to be cleansed ? https://youtu.be/wwt9igTmSBw&t=773 15 Similarly, God says, you resolved that your goal is to attain the Supreme, then why do you keep loving the world ? Why do you keep attaching the mind to the world ? That means you are not serious, that means that you have not decided that I need to apply myself or you have got the chalta hai (“चलता है”) attitude but if you do decide that I wish to attain God, then we will have to think of how to implement this one word, God alone, for the mind’s attachment. https://youtu.be/wwt9igTmSBw&t=867 16 Now in the world, there are varieties, there are sattvic entities and personalities, there are rajasic entities and personalities and there are tamsik entities and personalities, so wherever you attach the mind, that is what you will get. https://youtu.be/wwt9igTmSBw&t=918 17 One father had four daughters, First daughter he married to a very qualified young man, he was brilliant, he appeared in the civil services and got through into the IAS and became a senior officer, he is now called saheb, and the daughter who got married to him became mem saheb. Second daughter got married to young man who was a bit of a loafer, not too brilliant and he kind of scraped through and became a clerk, so he became a babu, the daughter who was married to him is now called “babuain”. Third one got married to a saint, that saint became a guru and the daughter who was married to him, became “guru ma”, now she is called guru ma and Fourth unfortunate girl was married to a drunkard, this drunkard would drink as much as could float a ship, so naturally he became bankrupt at the fastest route and he was now begging, he got the title of bhikhari and the girl who was married to him is now called bhikharin, the wife of a bhikhari. https://youtu.be/wwt9igTmSBw&t=943 18 She says my dear father, what is this ? we are all daughters of the one father and one of my sisters is called guruma, and the other is called mem saheb, the third is called babuain and I am called bhikharin, the father says wherever you got married that was the title you received and that was the property you received. https://youtu.be/wwt9igTmSBw&t=1049 19 Like the girls is our mind and like the husbands are the objects and personalities of the world, tamsik, rajasic, sattvic, gunateet, mode of Ignorance, mode of passion, mode of goodness and divine. So what are the tamsik objects, alcohol tambakoo, pan masala etc this is all tamsik and bhoot pret, you know so many people they worship the ghosts and spirits. https://youtu.be/wwt9igTmSBw&t=1082 20 When I was in standard five, six, seven, I was going to a convent school, so this worship of ghosts and spirits is more common, they would do planchet (a small board supported on wheels, and fitted with a vertical pencil, used for automatic writing) , the students they call a spirit and get answers and you ask the spirit, who are you ? the spirit says I'm Hanuman, and it sometimes says I'm Mahatma Gandhi, Kripalu maharaj made fun of that, later on when I came to Kripalu ji maharaj, he was saying that he was staying in somebody's house and this guy used to do planchet and he would call the ghosts and spirits, now the spirit you asked who are you ? the spirit used to lie and this devotee said maharaj ji, Hanuman comes, Kripalu ji maharaj says it is impossible, so devotee said I'm telling you, Hanuman ji comes Kripalu ji maharaj said you do it in front of me, so he sat by the side, now he had his system of calling, the spirit came, so this guy asked, who are you ? the spirit answered I'm Hanuman, Kripalu ji maharaj said look Hanuman is the biggest of the gyanis, so Kripalu ji maharaj asked him a question on sanskrit grammar, now the spirit says, next time don't keep this guy next to you. Kripalu ji maharaj says look these (spirits & ghosts) are materially conditioned souls in the material realm, so that tendency to lie is there, they are saying they are Hanuman, why should Hanuman come in that planchet but there are people who worship ghosts and spirits, it's very common, in some of the other dharmas, it's very very common, even in india and so many places, so this is tamsik, https://youtu.be/wwt9igTmSBw&t=1126 21 Shri Krishna says, Arjun, whomever you worship, that is what you will attain, “verse”, you worship the celestial gods for material rewards, ok and now I have to do sixteen Fridays, to worship Santoshi maan and I will get this. So you worship the celestial gods and you will go to their abodes and when the punya is depleted, you will come back, you worship human beings, you will come back in the material realm and you worship the ghosts and spirits, you will go to the nether regions, “verse”, if you attach your mind to Me, Arjun, then you shall come to My Divine Abode. https://youtu.be/wwt9igTmSBw&t=1255 Transcript 1 0:02 In the human form of life you must strive to know God, that is the 0:13 consummation of human life, not just to make a bank balance of a few million 0:21 dollars, a human life is meant to know God https://youtu.be/wwt9igTmSBw&t=2 2 0:39 there was once a teacher who taught his students that this world we live in has 0:47 gotten created by itself, it was made by nature, it doesn't have an intelligent 0:55 Creator, he then gave homework to the students to make a map of the world and 1:03 bring it the next day, one of the students used to come to the Radha 1:10 Krishna temple of Dallas and attend the Bal Mukund classes, so he thought of a way 1:18 of opening the eyes of the teacher, he brought a paper, scribbled some lines and 1:27 threw some colors, next day as they all came to the teacher's class, they were 1:34 submitting their home work on the teacher's desk, he also slipped his sheet 1:41 in, now the teacher came to his desk, he started looking at the sheets one at a 1:50 time and evaluating them, 6 marks out of 10, 8 marks out of 10 etc etc until he came to that scrap 2:01 of paper, seeing that he blew over in fury, what is this ? who has made this ? 2:13 whole class was quiet, again he repeated himself who has made this, tell me or 2:22 I'll punish all of you, that boy who had made it, got up, he said that in my opinion 2:32 nobody has made it, what do you mean nobody has made it ? it's right here 2:39 sitting with all these colors and lines, somebody must have definitely made it ? No 2:46 Sir, in my opinion 2:49 the paper flew in by chance and fell onto your desk, the pencil flew and by chance 2:57 some lines got scratched, the colors flew and they filled up on this sheet, that is 3:03 how it got made by nature accidentally, the teacher said what nonsense are you 3:11 speaking, somebody must have definitely made this 3:16 and in my opinion, you must be the boy who made it, 3:21 how can it be happen just by itself ? The student said that you are not willing to 3:31 believe that a little map of the planet earth can be made by itself and you 3:41 taught us yesterday that the actual thing, the whole of creation, not just a 3:49 map, got made just by itself. Just as it is sheer common sense that this must 3:58 have a creator, my common sense tells me that this entire universe must also have 4:07 a Creator, that is the Supreme Lord, that is why in the Brahma Sutra, the first 4:17 sutra states “Athato Brahma Jijnasa”, in the human form 4:24 of life, you must strive to know God, that is the consummation of human life, not 4:37 just to make a bank balance of a few million dollars, human life is meant to 4:44 know God, so the first Sutra Ved Vyas has 4:49 written in the Vedanta Darshan, is “Athato Brahma Jijnasa”, now, strive to know God 4:59 and what does now mean ? Having attained the human form. And then the second Sutra 5:07 comes “verse”, people will ask who is God ? the Ved Vyas answers 5:20 it directly in the second sutra, God is He, who has created this world, now 5:29 somebody may ask, is Ram God, is Shyam God, is Shiv God, is Durga God ? who is God ? He 5:37 says, God is He who has made this world, very simple logical but of course that 5:46 one God has got innumerable forms, so we must worship God in any of his forms in 6:03 the Bhagavad-Gita, Shri Krishna has expressly stated “verse”, 6:13 He says, Arjun, I 6:23 will maintain the Yog Kshem, He will protect you, do you realize when you 6:34 drive the car, just today we had the experience, our car was cutting into this 6:42 lane and the other car was cutting into this lane at the same time and they were 6:47 going to nicely bounce against each other, however God is protecting us, He 6:56 says “Yog Kshemam Vyamham”, you surrender to Me and I will maintain your Yog Kshem, 7:08 so He says, you need to engage in devotion to Me alone, again He says in 7:20 the Bhagavad-Gita, “verse”, Arjun, 7:33 I am sulabh, I am easily attained, otherwise He says I am very difficult to 7:42 reach, “verse” He says that out of thousands of human beings, 7:58 one strives to know Me, out of thousands who strive to know Me, one truly knows Me 8:08 as I am, so He says in this verse that God realization is so difficult and yet 8:19 in this verse in the eighth chapter, 13th verse, he says, 8:27 “I will easily be attained”, how will You be easily attained ? Arjun, if 8:35 you do “Ananya bhakti”, so what is this “Ananya bhakti”, twice we have heard in the 8:46 Bhagavad-Gita, surrender to Me alone, 8:56 again He uses the word 9:04 eva (“एव”), eva (“एव”) means alone, this much Sanskrit everybody knows, right ? 9:17 again He says, Arjun, attach your mind to Me alone, 9:28 and not only the Bhagavad-Gita, in the Srimad Bhagavatam, He says, “verse”, 9:46 He has repeated it two times, this is Udhav Gita of Srimad Bhagavatam, श्रीमद भागवत, 9:53 Udhav, IF YOU WISH TO RISE BEYOND DUALITY, IF YOU WISH TO 10:01 BECOME FEARLESS, IF YOU WISH TO ATTAIN THE SUPREME DESTINATION, THEN YOU WILL 10:09 HAVE TO SURRENDER TO ME ALONE, SO THIS ONE WORD IS SO IMPORTANT, BY NOT 10:20 UNDERSTANDING THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS WORD, WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO ATTAIN GOD 10:27 SO FAR. ALONE. In past lifetimes also we engaged in bhakti but the mind was 10:38 divided between God and the world, we did a little bhakti of God and then we also 10:48 attached the mind to the world and God says, 10:58 look, I'm a Perfectionist, until you reach that point, you stay here, once you are 11:07 qualified, I will call you to My Abode. So we have to understand that if we are 11:15 serious about attaining God, then we will have to do “Ananya bhakti”, 11:23 and what does Ananya bhakti mean ? Ananya bhakti means न + अन्य, the mind should be attached to 11:43 nobody else BUTonly the Supreme Divinity. One may ask, why is this condition there ? 11:54 what is the problem ? we love the world, we love God as well, what is the problem 12:01 here ? All the scriptures & all the saints are saying & emphasized “Ananya bhakti” 12:53 and what is the problem if we are not Ananya ? There is the divine realm, God’s 13:01 Names, Forms, Virtues, Pastimes, Abodes, Devotees, the Guru - this is the pure realm, 13:11 if we attach our mind anywhere here, the mind gets purified and if we attach our 13:21 mind anywhere in the world, this is the region of the three gunas, the mind will 13:30 become impure, so you attach your mind a little to 13:36 God, it gets cleansed then you attach it to the world, it becomes dirty, then again 13:42 attach it to God, it becomes cleansed then again attach it to the world, it 13:47 becomes dirty, this is like going to go further, you take four steps forward and 13:53 three steps back, then two steps forward and four steps back, in this process, we 14:00 are not able to cleanse the mind “verse” Ramayan says that if you take a cloth 14:17 and on one side you apply soap and on the other side you keep on applying dirt, 14:27 do you expect the cloth to be cleansed ? Similarly, God says, you resolved that 14:37 your goal is to attain the Supreme, then why do you keep loving the world ? Why do 14:45 you keep attaching the mind to the world ? That means you are not serious, that 14:52 means that you have not decided that I need to apply myself or you have got the 15:01 chalta hai (“चलता है”) attitude but if you do decide that I wish to attain God, then we 15:10 will have to think of how to implement this one word, God alone for the mind’s 15:18 attachment. Now in the world, there are varieties, there is sattvic entities and 15:29 personalities, there are rajasic entities and personalities and there are tamsik 15:36 entities and personalities, so wherever you attach the mind, that is what you 15:43 will get. One father had four daughters, the first daughter he 15:54 married to a very qualified young man, he was brilliant, he appeared in the civil 16:04 services and got through into the IAS and became a senior officer, he is now 16:12 called saheb, and the daughter who got married to him 16:17 became mem saheb. The second daughter got married to young man who 16:27 was a bit of a loafer, not too brilliant and he kind of scraped through and 16:34 became a clerk, so he became a babu, the daughter who was married to him is now called “babuain”. The third one got 16:53 married to a saint, that saint became a guru and the daughter who was married to 17:01 him, became “guru ma”, now she is called guru ma and the fourth unfortunate girl 17:09 was married to a drunkard, this drunkard would drink as much as could float a 17:17 ship, so naturally he became bankrupt at the 17:21 fastest route and he was now begging, he got the title of bhikhari and the girl 17:29 who was married to him is now called bhikharin, the wife of a bhikhari. She 17:36 says my dear father, what is this ? we are all daughters of the one father and one 17:43 of my sisters is called guruma, and the other is called mem saheb, the third 17:49 is called babuain and I am called bhikharin, the father says wherever you got married 17:56 that was the title you received and that was the property you received. 18:02 Like the girls is our mind and like the husbands are the objects and 18:11 personalities of the world, tamsik, rajasic, sattvic, gunateet, mode of 18:21 Ignorance, mode of passion, mode of goodness and divine. So what are the 18:30 tamsik objects, alcohol tambakoo, pan masala etc this is all tamsik and bhoot pret, 18:46 you know so many people they worship the ghosts and spirits. When 18:55 I was in standard five, six, seven, I was going to a convent school, so this worship 19:01 of ghosts and spirits is more common, they would do planchet, the students they call 19:08 a spirit and get answers and you ask the spirit, who are you ? the spirit says I'm 19:15 Hanuman, and it sometimes says I'm Mahatma Gandhi, Kripalu maharaj made fun of 19:21 that, later on when I came to Kripalu ji maharaj, he was saying that he 19:26 was staying in somebody's house and this guy used to do planchet and he would call 19:32 the ghosts and spirits, now the spirit you asked who are you ? the spirit used to 19:39 lie and this devotee said maharaj ji, Hanuman comes, Kripalu ji maharaj says it is impossible, 19:46 so devotee said I'm telling you, Hanuman ji comes 19:49 Kripalu ji maharaj said you do it in front of me, so he sat by the side, now 19:55 he had his system of calling, the spirit came, 19:59 so this guy asked, who are you ? the spirit answered I'm Hanuman, Kripalu ji maharaj said 20:07 look Hanuman is the biggest of the Gyanis, so 20:14 Kripalu ji maharaj asked him a question on sanskrit grammar, now the spirit says, next time 20:22 don't keep this guy next to you. Kripalu ji maharaj says look these 20:28 are materially conditioned souls in the material realm, so that tendency to lie 20:34 is there, they are saying they are Hanuman, why should Hanuman come in that 20:38 planchet but there are people who worship ghosts and spirits, it's very common, in 20:45 some of the other dharmas, it's very very common, even in india and so many 20:49 places, so this is tamsik, 20:55 Shri Krishna says, Arjun, whomever you worship, that is 21:12 what you will attain, “verse”, you worship the celestial gods for 21:19 material rewards, ok and now I have to do sixteen Fridays, to worship Santoshi maan 21:28 and I will get this. So you worship the celestial gods and you will go to their 21:34 abodes and when the punya is depleted, you will come back, you worship human 21:42 beings, you will come back in the material realm and you worship the 21:47 ghosts and spirits, you will go to the nether regions, “verse”, 21:52 if you attach your mind to Me, Arjun, then you shall come to My Divine Abode.
