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0:15 so far we have seen Kripalu Ji Maharaj said there is one divine entity , our vedas are very clear, there is one entity however the vedas also say that there are two entities
1:11 there is a tree - on the tree are two birds one bird is eating the fruit of the tree the other bird is watching not interfering the first bird sometimes when it tastes a bitter fruit it becomes unhappy when it tastes a sweet fruit it becomes joyous the other bird is a friend of the first bird but does not interfere only notes the karmas 1:54 this verse has come in the Munduk upanishad it is there in the Shvetashvatara upanishad as well it states the bird & the tree is this body in this body the first word is the atma the soul the second word is the Paramatma the supreme soul the atma is tasting fruit in the body these are the fruits of past karmas 2:29 if a good fruit comes the atma becomes happy if a bitter fruit comes the atma becomes miserable the Paramatma the second bird is a friend of the first bird but he doesn't interfere he just keeps watching and noting again 2:54 the same upanishad the next mantra says what is the solution to this problem It says if the first bird just turns around towards its friend all its problems will be solved. In other words the soul has its back to God and what it needs to do is to turn around towards him 3:41 so the veda mantra is very clear that there are two entities the atma and the Paramatma but there are other veda mantras that are stating that there are three entities 4:14. there is one kshar tattwa (perishable) so what is perishable the material energy everything in the world perishes and there is one akshar imperishable - the soul and there is one ish lord of both kshar and akshar 4:44 by knowing these three entities one can cross over the material energy so here in this mantra of the Shvetashvatara upanishad three entities are being talked about. 5:20 one is Aj, the second is Aj, and the third is Aja ? 5:27 what does aj mean ajanma (without birth) in other words eternal 5:34 so God is eternal the jeev (soul) is also eternal 5:41 and maya is aja also called the material energy 5:48 has existed ever since God has existed. So these three entities 5:54 are eternal and will always remain the vedas are talking about three entities 6:19 again the upanishads are saying there is one bhogya brahm, one bhokta brahm & one one prerak brahm 6:35 bhogya brahm is what you enjoy the material energy let me squeeze some more pleasure out of 6:43 it that is the mistaken goal of the soul how to do bhog of the material energy maya. 6:55 jeev (soul) is bhokta brahma 7:02 and their lord the prerak brahma is bhagawan 7:07 By knowing all three you can reach your goal again the vedas are saying there are three entities 7:22 so how come in some places the vedas said there is one entity then they said no there are two entities then they said no there are three entities 7:35 Kripaluji Maharaj is explaining in this verse he says these two entities 7:43 jeev and maya they are the shaktis 7:48 of God they are the energies 7:54 of God just like the Sun 8:00 is the energetic and it possesses energies 8:06 what are the energies of the Sun the heat and the light 8:15 so these energies are one with the Sun 8:20 that is why people say swamiji the Sun has come through the 8:27 window you sit down there sit in the drawing room the Sun has come 8:33 the Sun has come into your drawing room if the Sun comes in the drawing room 8:39 will we remain the temperature on the surface of the Sun is 1 million degrees centigrade 8:47 so we are going to evaporate very soon if we are going to be there 8:52 but the point is that the Sun light is considered 8:57 non-different from the Sun and that is why when the Sunlight has 9:03 entered through the windows into the drawing room in speech we say the Sun has come 9:12 so similarly this maya and jeev 9:18 are shaktis of Bhagavan. Narada ji Maharaj is the guru of the 9:26 celestial devatas that's why he's called devarushi 9:32 Naradji in his Pancharatra says 9:46 he says just like the Sun is in one place 9:51 in the solar system but by its light 9:57 it illuminates the entire eight planets 10:03 although it's in one place similarly there is one supreme divine 10:08 entity by his innumerable energies 10:13 He is pervading and inhabiting 10:18 all of creation. the Kripalu Ji Maharaj 10:24 is talking about jeev as a shakti and maya as a shakti 10:31 and then he's saying there's a third shakti of God as well 10:38 what is that yoga maya 10:44 yoga maya is the divine shakti Shri Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita 10:55 that due to yoga maya, Arjun although I am seated within you 11:03 I am not perceptible by anyone, even the doctor who puts the stethoscope 11:09 to the chest cannot perceive Me sitting inside 11:14 because I keep myself hidden with the help of My yoga maya 11:21 the yoga maya is His divine all-powerful energy 11:26 Kripaluji Maharaj says look the shaktis or energies of God are 11:33 infinite everything about God is infinite 11:40 His forms are anant, His names are anand 11:47 His abodes are anant, His devotees are 12:06 in the second verse of the fourth chapter of the 11th canto 12:12 that one who thinks he can count 12:17 the infinite divine attributes of God 12:22 has got a childish intellect 12:34 one may succeed in counting the specks of dust on the 12:39 crust of the earth ; that impossible may become possible but 12:46 the innumerable qualities of God nobody can count that is why one name 12:53 for Bhagavan in our vedas is ananth 13:06 so God's shaktis are also infinite 13:12 but the problem is that the human brain is finite and the human brain can only understand 13:19 so much ; that is why to explain things to us 13:26 these archaryas have simplified that immense knowledge 13:32 and presented it to us in such a way that we can grasp it 13:40 I'm reminded of a story of Narada ji 13:46 he came to our earth planet and he went to a village in india 13:53 he found a vedic scholar now the vedic scholar was reciting 14:00 mantras and Narad ji came, the scholar was delighted he said 14:07 please come and be seated he washed the feet of dev rishi, did his 14:13 Narad ji said do you want anything 14:19 the scholar said Maharaj you go and meet Narayan in Vaikunt 14:26 next time you go please ask him when will I get liberated from the material energy 14:34 Narad ji said it's a small thing I'll do it ; after that Narada went to a cobbler 14:41 the cobbler was stitching somebody's shoes when he saw Narada he also was over joyed 14:48 Narada of course was saying Narayan Narayan. So narut came along 14:59 and this mochi also welcomed him and washed his feet he said I am blessed my 15:05 whole heart has been sanctified today with your presence. Narada said do you want a boon 15:12 Maharaj you have the ability to go to Vaikunth 15:18 and meet Narayan next time you meet him please ask him 15:23 when will I attain God realization 15:29 Narada from there he went to Vaikunt and Narayan said Narad ji how are you 15:35 doing. Narada said Maharaj, I am in great bliss in your devotion 15:42 so Naradji where did you go today ; Maharaj I went to a little village in 15:47 भारत वर्ष ; whom all did you meet maharaja; I met a vedic scholar 15:55 and a cobbler ; they both were curious to know when they will attain you 16:01 Narayan said tell the scholar that it will take him 16:08 as many lifetimes as there are leaves in the tree in his courtyard 16:15 and tell the cobbler that this is his last life. Narada said Maharaj, this doesn't make 16:23 any sense the cobbler is stitching shoes and the scholar is reciting ved mantras 16:32 Narayan said when you meet them again they are going to ask you 16:39 what was narayan doing tell them that narayan was 16:45 stringing an elephant through the eye of a needle 16:51 he was taking the elephant through the eye of the needle you will understand the answer I have 16:57 given. When Narada with that message first went to meet the vedic scholar 17:05 the scholar said Maharaj, did you have darshan of Narayan. Narad ji said yes I did 17:12 what was he doing when you met Him ; Narad said he was taking an elephant 17:18 through the eye of a needle ; the scholar started laughing about 17:24 you think, I am such a fool that I'll believe something like this I have also got some sense up here how can anybody 17:31even a string to be passed you have to put on your glasses and try five times before it goes in ; how can an elephant go 17:38 through ; what did He say about my liberation; Narad said now he understood why 17:45 Narayan said it's going to take you as many lifetimes as there are leaves in 17:53 on the tree in your courtyard ' from there he went to meet the cobbler 18:00 the cobbler again welcomed him ; Maharaj did you go to Vaikunth; Narada said yes I did 18:07 what was Narayan doing when you met him ; Narada said he was taking an elephant 18:13 through the eye of an needle ; the moment the cobbler heard he started dancing 18:27 Narada said "you believed? " Can God take an elephant through the eye of a needle 18:34 that illiterate cobbler he said maharaj 18:39 my God is such that from a little seed 18:44 He manifests this huge banyan tree when God can do so much 18:52 what is the difficulty for Him to take an elephant through the eye of a needle 18:57 the fact is that God is "kartum akartum, anyathakartum samartha" 19:04 He can do the proper things, the contradictory things and both of them simultaneously 19:12 so to limit God to the level of our intellect ; I can understand him to be only so much little 19:19 which is not a very complete definition of God 19:25 hence Kripaluji Maharaja is writing here that the shaktimaan has got infinite shaktis 19:34 but in order to grasp it ; just divide them into these three 19:41 one is maya one is jeev and one is para shakti 19:49 the Vishnu Puran says the same thing so after explaining that there are these three main shaktis yoga maya, jeev and 20:29 maya ; now let's see what he talks about in regard to the jiva now he's explaining the relationship of the jeev (the soul) 21:46 with the Paramatma ' what is our relationship 21:53 with the world it's a temporary relationship 21:59 one day we will leave everybody and go away by ourselves 22:06 today we heard in maharaji's lecture in the morning that when we leave 22:12 we will have to make this last journey by ourselves 22:19 so all these temporary relationships will come to an end 22:25 and with God we have a permanent relationship 22:31 what is our relationship with him he is our eternal father 22:36 some people look on him as the eternal mother 22:41 and the vedas also say o soul you are the child of God 22:52 Shri Krishna says I am the seed giving father 22:59 so He is our father we are his little children 23:04 agreed yes but there's a problem here if we are the children of God 23:11 then we should be like God ; from a human being a human being is born 23:18 from an elephant an elephant is born from a horse a horse is born ; you don't find horses taking birth from 23:25 elephants and humans taking birth from horses and elephants taking birth from humans 23:32 like father like son if we are God's children we should be like him 23:38 He is sarva-shakti 23:44 and we souls are alpagya (with little knowledge) ; we have this little knowledge we are under maya 23:51 we are being afflicted by tri-gun 23:57 all the melodies of the material energy then how 24:03 come we are his children 24:09 actually Shri Krishna has said in the Gita "all being are my children" 24:18 this soul is not a child of God in the manner 24:27 as in the world from a father and mother a child is born 24:33 the soul is a fragment of God 24:39 ansh because the soul is a fragment of God 24:45 it is considered child of God ; like you can say the earth is a child of 24:53 the Sun it's a little fragment or you can say a little rock is a child 24:59 of the mountain so in the same way the soul is a 25:05 fragment of God 25:11 the brahma says 25:19 the soul is a tiny bit a little drop of the ocean 25:36 so now our relationship with God has become more clear 25:42 what is our relationship with him we are his tiny little fragments 25:51 so far so good does it make sense but there's still a problem 25:57 if we are little fragments of God then is God like some boulder who was 26:03 hit with a hammer and he got fragmented ; you know Microsoft has this 26:10 defragmentation feature possibly you could defragment the souls back into God 26:16 and if God got fragmented in this manner then he became less than before 26:23 in what way is the soul a fragment of God the Paramatma 26:38 the soul is not a fragment in the way a boulder is fragmented 26:46 the soul is the shakti of God the soul 26:53 is an energy of God because it is an energy in manner of 27:00 speaking you can say it as a fragment of God like the material energies and energy 27:08 of the Supreme ; yoga maya is also a shakti of that Shaktiman 27:14 and the soul is also shakti 27:25 so what is the nature of this shakti Kripaluji Maharaj says 27:32 it is "tatastha" now we are going to get a little philosophic be prepared 27:43 "tatastha" means it is a borderline energy 27:49 there is one bahiranga shakti, external energy that is maya 27:55 because God is Chaitanya (sentient), maya is jada so it's a bahiranga 28:02 external energy of God and then there is the internal energy of 28:08 God which is yoga maya ; yoga maya is serva samarth all powerful 28:15 just like God is all powerful 28:22 so the soul - is it a part of maya shakti ? it cannot be if the soul was a fragment 28:29 of the maya shakti the soul would have been jad (insentient) like maya 28:36 now supposing I say that Shaniel, you're sitting just like the dholak 28:43 what kind of simile have you given here 28:48 don't compare me with the dholak, the dholak is insentient and I am sentient 28:54 so the soul is sentient, it is not a part of maya shakti 29:02 is the soul a part of yoga maya if we had been a part of yogmaya we 29:09 would have been sarva-samartha (all capable) like Durga Sita Kali Lakshmi we would also have been 29:17 sarva-samartha so we are not a part of yoga maya either. 29:23 then we are in between - we are sentient we have consciousness but we are tiny 29:33 just like there is the Sun and a little spark 29:40 the Sun will not get extinguished but the spark can get extinguished 29:45 so because we are tiny the material energy has overpowered us 30:06 jeev is the borderline energy and bheda- abheda means simultaneously one and different 30:15 so we are tiny and hence because we are 30:21 the material energy maya has overpowered us ; 30:28 consider this analogy it is night outside 30:34 now put light lamps all over ; 30:40 yesterday there was a lot of fireworks going on when we were going back we saw the fireworks right 30:46 but did the night disappear despite the fireworks it did not disappear 30:52 and suppose the stars are also there in the sky it's a cloudless night 30:58 now will the night go away it will still not go away 31:04 and suppose it's a full moon night 31:11 all these together don't have the ability to remove the 31:19 darkness of the night 31:38 the moment the Sun rises the night has disappeared 31:44 you may not be able to see it it's a cloudy morning even without being able to see it 31:51 the Sun has still made the night vanish 31:56 so like the Sun is God and 32:02 like the little star is the soul hence Chaitanya Mahaprabhu said 32:09 Krishna surya sama, maya hoye andhkar, Jahan Krishna, maya nahin adhikar ,i.e., Krishna like Sun but maya is like darkness & wherever Krishna is there, maya cannot exist there. 32:18 and moment krishna is gone then the material energy maya overpowers us 32:30 so originally we are supposed to be as the shakti of God ; what is the 32:38 the work of the shakti what is the shakti supposed to do 32:48 the shakti is supposed to serve the shaktimaan, the shakti has got only one purpose to 32:55 serve the shaktimaan and hence our original nature is servant 33:01 of God ; not only our nature the nature of everything in creation 33:31 every living entity and non-living item they are all servants of God 33:39 some of them know it and some of them don't know it so originally we are 33:44 supposed to be a servant of God because we are his shakti 33:49 but the problem is that we are under the material energy maya 33:55 and in this illusion the attitude of serving has not gone 34:02 BUT the only problem is now we are serving maya 34:08 somebody is joru ka gulam there is that story about Akbar 34:15 Akbar said that Birbal it be announced in his court 34:20 that all of my ministers whichever of them is not joruka gulam 34:26 not a servant of his wife, tomorrow they will stand on this side and all the others will stand on this 34:32 side so the next day everybody came and stood on this side they are all servants of 34:38 their wife ; she is the high command and one person came and stood on this side 34:44 so Akbar said you are not a servant of your wife he said actually I am but she asked me 34:49 to stand on this side 34:55 the wife is serving the husband ; you are serving your children ; you are serving your boss 35:01 the boss says your job is in danger and you need to work harder ; so morning & night you're serving your boss you are 35:08 serving Ericsson and Samsung and all these people ;so we are all doing 35:14 service of the material energy maya 35:20 but originally we are all servants of God
