Miracles of Having Complete Faith in God | Swami Mukundananda
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Miracles of Having Complete Faith in God
0:02 single-minded devotion means all your faith is reposed in God you
0:11 don't have faith in your other crutches; see people think I am well protected
0:17 because I've got a million dollars in my bank balance my old age is taken care of
0:25 somebody thinks I'm well protected because my husband is the governor or
0:30 whatever; because I'm so intelligent; my health is all right I've got the life insurance
0:38 etc etc so this is taking the support of other
0:43 things and in the spiritual realm also
0:48 we take the support of these sadhanas that I will attain God because I have chanted
0:56 so much and because I have made focused my mind
1:02 etc etc but Jagadguru Ramnujacharya put it very well
1:09 when he said there are three kinds of people who
1:14 approach God; the first kind consider God to be the means
1:23 and the world to be the end, in other words
1:29 please give me the world so God is the means
1:35 the world is the end this is the first kind of people who go
1:40 to God is the sadhan (means) & the world is the "sadhya" (aim) their goal is
1:50 the world;
The second kind of people who consider
1:55 the world to be the means and God to be the end
2:02 in other words the sadhan (means) is a worldly thing; so much dhyan, so
2:08 much sadhana and the goal is God so through my
2:14 sadhana I will attain Him , my support & my faith, my sadhana is
2:24 good enough to take me there. These first two categories of people
2:31 don't attain God; the third category: for
2:38 them God is the means and God is the end
2:44 in other words their faith is not in their sadhana, their faith is in the grace of God by
2:54 His grace, I will attain him, I will do my sadhana to attract His
3:01 grace but it is not sadhana because he is not "sadhan sadhya" but He is kripa sadhya
3:09 He is attained by His grace alone & to attract His grace, I am doing Hare Rama Hare Krishna..
3:17 and doing so many things but ultimately it is His grace which will lead to His
3:23 realization; so those who depend upon His
3:29 grace, they will attain Him; now if we wish to engage in bhakti
3:35 Narad ji says remember this definition of ananyata' (none else) repose all your faith in the grace of
3:44 God alone; so we have to take out from the mind
3:51 ashray (dependence / faith) in your wealth
3:58 your faith in your relatives,
4:05 faith in your post, in your sadhana, so it's not that you stop
4:14 doing these things but internally you decide what is the value of these; you
4:20 have money today gone tomorrow; easy come easy go that is
4:25 the nature of Lakshmi; Lakshmi is called chanchala
4:31 she is very chanchal today; she is here today, tomorrow she's there
4:51 it doesn't take much; all of a sudden everything changes
4:56 health can change today you are alright and tomorrow one little germ
5:02 & everything changed; so if your faith is upon these material
5:09 cutches then you will be in tension because they may help you or they may not
5:15 and the other thing is these material crutches will lead to pride
5:22 the pride of post
5:35 when Daksh became proud, he was the Prajapati, progenitor
5:42 the mental child of Brahma when he became proud
5:47 I am the progenitor - everybody should respect me, the yagya was going on, he
5:55 deliberately entered late to see how people respond; everybody
6:01 stood up when Daksh came but Brahma, his father and Shiv Mahadev
6:09 kept sitting, Daksh felt insulted he did not see that hundreds have got up
6:16 he saw the two have not gotten up; such is the nature of the ego, the pride
6:22 it's like a beggar's vessel which never gets full; the more you get the more you
6:27 want - no satiation; that greed of respect
6:34 so Daksh felt insulted and he cursed Lord Shiva that this son-in-law of mine, he doesn't
6:42 know how to behave; I have given my daughter to him and he is not even
6:47 respecting me; what kind of behavior will he have because he resides in graveyards
6:52 and he puts ashes on his body I curse him that there will be no
6:58 worship of Lord Shiva in any yagya henceforth & at that time Brahma ji
7:05 contemplated
7:17 he said there is nobody born in this world in the material realm maya
7:25 who receives a post and doesn't become proud of it, so the "post vala ashray" or "dhan vala ashray"
7:40 it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a
7:46 rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
7:52 the Bible makes this very powerful statement where does the eye of the needle come
7:58 actually you know Jerusalem had this fortress around it and they would have gates
8:05 those gates were so small that when the camel came back
8:11 it had to be stripped of all the luggage so it could go through that was called the eye of the needle
8:19 that is why they said it is easier for the camel to pass through the needle
8:24 than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God and why
8:31 the pride will come I have got so much; Sugriv became proud he was the friend
8:39 of Rama who killed Bali and handed the kingdom to Sugriv
8:46 and said all right now find out where Sita is with the help of all your monkeys and bears
8:54 Sugriv having received this opulence; thought now I can drink at ease and I can sleep
9:01 in comfort and I've got all the luxuries
9:07 he forgot all about God, the wealth the maya separated him from
9:16 God and Rama said to Lakshman, Sugriv was supposed to find out
9:23 about Sita what is he doing go and inquire
9:28 Lakshman went to Kishkindha and he asked Sugriv "you were supposed
9:35 to find out about Sita" but Sugriv asked what Sita & what Rama
10:00 Lakshman can tolerate anything except an insult to Rama, so he put the arrow on his bow I'll show
10:07 Sugriv said it's all coming back to me now
10:13 I remember it all; pride of wealth
10:20 the pride of beauty
10:34 all these things create pride;
10:44 it is said that at the age of 16 even a female ass
10:51 donkey, the gadhi, even she thinks I'm an apsara ; the age is such and the gadha will think
10:58 he is Kamdev; ladies will always carry the comb in their hand
11:04 and they keep doing this to their hair so I asked one lady why do you keep
11:10 doing this all the time this is a hairstyle called flick so I
11:16 have to keep flicking it; unnecessary labor
11:22 once when Gandharva (divine musician) gave darshan to a lady she was below 30 in USA everybody is
11:30 below 30 in USA ; so Gandharva said ask for a boon
11:37 the lady started thinking what should I ask for the Gandharva said should I make you
11:43 beautiful, the lady said what I'm not beautiful she gave him a slap
11:51 so all these different kinds of pride ; they all come in the way and the
11:59 Lord is the master of the destitutes (पतित)
12:15 one devotee prays
12:31 my Lord I don't have humility
12:37 what to do that's why Your grace is not upon me so
12:43 first I pray to You to make me humble and once I am humbled and You will
12:49 definitely restore Your grace that is why in this spiritual realm the
12:56 cherished virtue is humbleness, the inner adornment
13:03 the external ornaments they are good if you purchase them it will help build the
13:09 Bay Area Center well that's about it ; the inner ornaments
13:16 the virtues are the lasting ones
13:25 and among those inner ornaments, the crowning virtue on the path of bhakti is
13:32 humbleness ; so if we hold the clutch of our external
13:39 attainments and external supports - firstly we block out the grace of God
13:46 and secondly we become proud so the example of Draupady was all
13:54 arranged by Shri Krishna to show to us what is the nature of surrender
14:01 so what Narad ji says here
14:07 renounce, restrict from your mind of these external
14:15 crutches - that was ably demonstrated in the surrender the famous surrender of
14:24 Draupady so katha vachaks are never tired of relating her example
14:30 with such an ideal example when Yudhishther lost in the game of
14:39 dice he had put at stake his wife Draupadi
14:44 now Duryodhna got the chance to humiliate her and he asked his brother Dushasna to bring her to the
14:52 assembly, dragged her to the assembly
14:58 nevertheless reaching there, Draupady saw big Dharma acharyas present
15:05 and she thought what will he do of me ; my five husbands are here
15:13 the five husbands or five mahaprush
15:53 Draupady's faith in her 5 husbands was finished
16:02 The truth is out ; nobody is mine in this world
16:14 So Draupadi took her cloth in her mouth
16:49 and started remembering Shri Krishna,O Shri Krishna I am in trouble here
16:56 at that time Shri Krishna was in Dwarka with Rukmini having His food
18:37 Draupady cried to Krishna "please come and save me"; now her surrender was complete
18:44 that was the moment that God was waiting for ; His condition of the Bhagavad-Gita
18:52 had been reached & surrendered to Me alone - that condition was fulfilled
19:00 immediately Draupady's cloth kept on increasing
19:26 Dushasan started sweating and fainted out there but he could not humiliate Draupadi that
19:35 was the kind of surrender that God requires to attain Him
19:42 Now what kind of surrender you can do ; if you complete the surrender in this life you will get His
19:47 grace in this life, if you say you know Swamiji in this life I've got some other ideas I'll do it in
19:55 my next life all right you will attain Him in your next life
20:01 and if you say my swamiji um right now a few lifetimes my decision
20:07 is that actually it is the jalebis and rasgullas which are the real blessed God
20:13 I don't know ; okay you surrendered him after a hundred lifetimes but when you affect such a
20:21 surrender that is when you will draw the grace of God
22:22 course if you say you are also my support, okay ; no I don't you need you, I've got my
22:29 wealth and my this and that ; you see it's like a little child when
22:35 the child is little she depends fully on the mother
22:41 and the mother fully cares for the child so the mother was saying, oh the month of
22:47 November has come I have to make a sweater for my child; oh the child has done excreta;
22:55 let me clean it up the child doesn't care just lying there
23:01 and laughing and crying and eating that's all child does ; but now the child becomes a
23:07 five-year-old now he starts doing a few things so the mother stops doing a few things
23:15 in equal proportion;
23:20 On child becoming bigger, mother is
23:25 doing that much less; same child has now become an 18-year-old teenager
23:34 he is doing everything & mother has stopped doing everything; coming from office the father asks where
23:41 is Pappu today, the mother says he is gone somewhere where his friends
23:48 must have gone to see a movie he's become loafer now ; the mother has distanced herself now
23:56 earlier she was doing everything for the same Pappu while coming from school
24:01 if he was 20 minutes late the mother and father would start sweating what
24:07 happened he's a little child I hope nothing has happened let's phone up the school and find out
24:13 so when Pappu was doing nothing mother and father were taking full care when he
24:20 started doing a little bit they started doing little less when he started doing everything they stop doing everything
24:27 like a true copy in God's laws; He says if you are not surrendered to Me
24:36 I am the law of karma I will note your karmas and give the
24:44 result; as you start surrendering, I know the
24:50 extent of surrender and bestow My grace accordingly
24:55 and when you reach the state of complete surrender then your whole burden is upon Me
25:22 as long as Gajraj had faith on his own strength, he was the king elephant
25:30 so he was having this duel with the crocodile, the Gajaraj had been dragged to the edge
25:39 of the stream and the crocodile was in its natural habitat; so slowly it started gaining strength
25:48 Gajraj realized that it's not in my capacity and that is when he surrendered
25:55 and the moment he surrendered he did not even take the name he just said O My God he lifted a flower and offered it at that time, Vishnu was with Lakshmi
26:10 on Kshirsagar when Gajraj did his surrender
26:18 so Vishnu immediately started off, Lakshmi said what is happening to Vishnu
26:46 and the Lord had already killed the crocodile
26:59 Lord got attracted by that kind of surrender
27:05 so God does protect to the extent of our surrender no matter what our प्रारब्ध is when we surrender, He does extend his protection
27:18 that is the story of an army that was invading
27:27 and defeated army was running helter skelter
27:34 one of the soldiers from the losing army was running for his life
27:40 and he came to a cave, so he thought let him hide inside the
27:46 cave he went and hid there and when he said O Lord you alone are
27:52 my protection today; Thy will be done if you wish please
27:58 protect me; the moment he prayed like that, in a few minutes
28:04 a spider came and started making a web on the entrance of the cave
28:11 he said what kind of a joke is this I prayed for the Lord, and I have got a
28:18 spider and the spider is making this kind of web
28:23 is this God's sense of humor
28:33 but in a few minutes the web had completely blocked the
28:41 entrance and half an hour later the army men came
28:46 so they said do you think anybody is hiding in that cave, one of the soldiers said impossible
28:52 there's a spider's web how could he have slipped under the web they cannot be anyone here
28:58 so the soldiers went off and that is when he realized: wow if God
29:06 is on your side then a spider's web can be like an iron rod
29:12 and if God is not on your side and iron rod will be like a spider's web
29:18 as they say
29:25 if Krishna decides to protect you then who can kill you & if Krishna decides to kill you then who can protect you
29:56 you will not get wood to light a fire in the forest you may be in
30:03 & even though at side of the ocean you will not have water and you may reside in Kuber's house but
30:09 you will have to fast for lack of food in other words God's grace will make all
30:15 the difference and if you have Grace, who can do anything to you
