#1 Reason why Faith Speeds Up Your Spiritual Progress - Shree Krishna Reveals - Elaboration on *Gita Shloka* 4.39
https://youtu.be/2sRpT6U9ybc
The following gives you the main points from video (transcript of the video is available):
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The transfer of knowledge requires faith not Blind Faith
https://youtu.be/2sRpT6U9ybc&t=0
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Knowledge will destroy all the stress tension everything – why ? it will change our perspective
https://youtu.be/2sRpT6U9ybc&t=40
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What is the indication that your perspective is higher, the indication is param shanti - you will feel perfect peace- then no matter what happens your peace will not be disturbed
https://youtu.be/2sRpT6U9ybc&t=61
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even in the material world we have to surrender our intellect to receive knowledge but in the spiritual realm we do not surrender our intellect
https://youtu.be/2sRpT6U9ybc&t=180
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Even an ordinary grass cutter in India will tell you Bhagwan is ghat ghat vasi, He is antaryami,He is sitting in the heart we all know but do we have faith in this fact ? (so there is a difference between mere knowledge & having faith in that knowledge)
http://youtu.be/2sRpT6U9ybc&t=318
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Faith is one of the biggest things in life, wherever you place your faith that is how your life will become. For example the televisions and all they lead the children astray because they developed faith this is the way to happiness they lead them on a path of illusion or they fall into wrong association and the friends tell them that you know the real happiness is by taking narcotics (drinking alcohol) and that boy develops faith in that philosophy and he is led astray
https://youtu.be/2sRpT6U9ybc&t=349
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After many many lifetimes the soul develops this faith that it is worthwhile to go into satsang - so this Faith, wherever we place it, that will determine the direction (trajectory) of our life. In the world millions of sources are trying to pull our faith away from God - all the advertisements - you take this kind of soap, lux soap it is the soap of film stars, so it's trying to win your faith
https://youtu.be/2sRpT6U9ybc&t=430
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the transfer of
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knowledge requires faith not Blind Faith
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but well thought out well rationalized
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reasoned faith in the proper place
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wherever you place your faith that is
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how your life will
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become after many many lifetimes the
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soul develops this faith that it is
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worthwhile to go into
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satsang Sri Krishna says from that Faith
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Arjun you will get
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true perfect
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peace
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why knowledge will
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destroy all the stress tension
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everything why it will change our
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perspective what is the
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indication that your
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perspective is higher the indication is
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param
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shanti you will feel perfect
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peace then no matter what happens your
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peace will not be
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disturbed bhagavat Gita chapter 4 verse 39
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chanting is followed by translation and
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commentary by Swami Bhagavad Gita Chapter 4 Sloka 4.39 Chanting
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those whose faith is
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deep and who have practiced controlling
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their mind and
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senses attain Divine
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knowledge through such transcendental
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knowledge they quickly attain
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Everlasting Supreme peace Bhagavad Gita Commentary by Swami Mukundananda
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now
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having increased Arjun's yearning for
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knowledge He gives one condition out
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there Arjun in order to get this
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knowledge you will have to have
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shradha or
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faith
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the transfer of
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knowledge requires
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Faith even in the
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world the teacher
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teaches when we were
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small the teacher made one shape and
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said this is
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X everybody say x everybody said X this
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is why everyone say Y, everybody said Y
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now the teacher was teaching we were
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having the faith and we were receiving
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the knowledge supposing we said sir
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until you prove that this is X and not B
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I will not
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study the teacher will say how will I
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teach
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you if you do not have faith imparting
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knowledge is not
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possible so in the material side we are
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willing to surrender our intellect and
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we receive the
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knowledge in the spiritual side we don't
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surrender the
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intellect everybody thinks spirituality
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is common sense I know as much as the
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other why should I surrender my
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intellect so when we are not willing to
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do that we will not receive the
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knowledge because
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so this concept of faith comes
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in faith is a very big
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thing very big, in the Bible Jesus Christ
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says if you have faith the size of a
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mustard
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seed you can move
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mountains as the Kathopnishad says if you have
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true Faith you will attain God that's
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it says the definition of God we all
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know even an ordinary grass cutter in
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India will tell you Bhagwan is ghat ghat vasi He is antaryami
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He is sitting in the heart we all know
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but do we have
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Faith, that faith He says
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that same knowledge if you can have
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faith you will attain Him there's
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nothing further to
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do so that Faith develops
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slowly it is one of the biggest things
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in
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life wherever you place your faith that
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is how your life will
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become have you ever thought about it if
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you place your faith in the theories
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taught to you for example the
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televisions and all they lead the
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children astray because they developed
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Faith this is the way to
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happiness they lead them on a path of
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Illusion or they fall into wrong
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association and the friends tell them
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that you know the real happiness is by
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taking narcotics (drinking alcohol) and that boy develops
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faith in that philosophy and he is led
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astray so again the Bible says we walk
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by faith and not by
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sight why is it that you people are here
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by your
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sanskars by the association of saints
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etc you developed this faith that I must
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go to satsang I will get
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something after many many
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lifetimes the soul develops this faith
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that it is worthwhile to go into
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satsang so this Faith wherever we place
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it that will determine the
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direction of our
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life and in the
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world millions of sources are trying to
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pull our
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faith all the
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advertisement you take this kind of soap
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lux soap it is the soap of film
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stars so it's trying to win your faith
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you know this is the soap of film star
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and the other one says life
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buoy you take this this is the source
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of health it will kill all the germs in
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your body so all over they trying to
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pull your faith what is the spiritual
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process the spiritual process is don't
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trust your mind and intellect and your
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Senses, don't have faith in
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this they are
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incomplete they are
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Material, you will get misled if you
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go by virtue of your senses your mind
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your intellect if you have faith in this
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then place your faith in a higher
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authority in a perfect
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source so what is worthy of our
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faith Shankaracharya
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says he is defining what is the meaning
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of shradha to have this firm decision in
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the knowledge of the
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scriptures and the instructions of the
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guru that these are coming from the
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transcendental platform
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so they are free of the material defects
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they are truly worthy of our faith so
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when we place that element of
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Faith there everybody has to place their
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faith
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somewhere mostly we place it on our tiny
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intellect but if we place our faith
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on God but God is not there right now so
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through the mediums of the shastra and
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the guru
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then our path starts getting illuminated
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with Divine
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knowledge so that Faith
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automatically opens up the pathway to
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knowledge our Vedic heritage is full of
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such stories
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of how the disciple developed that firm
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faith and automatically the knowledge of
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the scriptures got revealed in the
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heart Shankaracharya !!one disciple was
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Sanand, Sanand was
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illiterate and when guruji would teach
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Vedant he would just sit in class and
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look at
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him he is saying something important so
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I must look but he could not understand
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what's going
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on one day he was washing guruji's
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clothes on the other side of the
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river it was time for the
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class all the disciples said please
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begin Shankaracharya said but Sanand is not
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here let's wait for
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him but guruji he is illiterate he
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cannot even understand what you
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say that is all right but he listens
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with very great
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faith so Shankaracharya just to show the
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power of Faith he called him
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now Sanand was on the other side of the
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river heard his Guru he
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ran he didn't realize there's the river
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in
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front so he ran and he put his feet on
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the
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water and Shankaracharya's life history
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says that under his feet the lotus
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flowers kept on blooming so he put his
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feet on them and he crossed over to the
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other side so when he came he offered
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his pranam and from his
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mouth praises of the guru in
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sophisticated sanskrit started emanating
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to the astonishment of the other
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disciples later on because the lotus
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flowers had bloomed under his feet he
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became known as Padma-pad so one of the
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four main Disciples of Shankaracharya were
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Suresvaracharya, Totakacharya, Hastamalaka, and Padmapada
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who are given the four different
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muths so by virtue of that faith he got
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the
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knowledge so
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The Svethashwar Upanishad 6.23 says
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to that Soul who has got staunch
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faith in God and His
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Guru all the meanings of the
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shastras automatically get illumined in
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the
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heart but this faith can also be very
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dangerous see if faith is placed in the
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wrong
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place it can lead us to
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hell if faith is placed in a
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wrong
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person and that person says all right
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now you do this this this, it can lead us
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to
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hell so that is why Blind Faith can be
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the most dangerous
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thing so if when we are placing our
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faith we should be careful
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where are we pacing our faith that is
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why it is
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said “पानी पियो छान के, गुरु बनाओ जान के”
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you first be careful before you
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accept somebody as Guru ensure this
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person is
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Transcendental has the ability to take
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us to the transcendental platform will
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not cheat us in any way and then
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you place your
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faith and on the shastras there is no
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problem everybody knows Bhagavad-Gita
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means perfect knowledge Vedas means
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perfect knowledge by virtue of growing
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up in that Vedic culture that faith comes
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naturally so without faith if you think
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you will get knowledge you are in for a
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disappointment
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people come and say you know swam ji I've
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got these 20 questions please give me
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the
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Answers, is that the way Shri
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Krishna said you will get
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Knowledge ?, He
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says this knowledge is not if
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you cannot answer my question I'll keep
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believing what I think I
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believe if you have the challenging mood
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Divine knowledge will elude
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you then you will say oh you know I
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asked that question and he could not
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give a suitable
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answer you could not understand the
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Answer,
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one standard one (Grade 1, class 1) student goes to Albert
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Einstein and he says you know you have
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presented this Theory e=mc square,
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can you prove it to
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me now Einstein looks at this
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standard one student he says
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do you know polar
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Integration, no I don't do you know
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calculus ordinary calculus, no I don't do
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you know Algebra, I don't even know what
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do you know I know that two fingers plus
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two fingers is four fingers
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Einstein says then I cannot teach you
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you cannot teach me that means your
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theory is
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wrong his theory is not wrong but he's
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not qualified to
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understand similarly this Divine
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knowledge has a process of being
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imparted and one of the features of that
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process Sri Krishna says is faith not
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Blind Faith but well thought out well
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rationalized reasoned faith in the
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proper place will lead us to
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knowledge and then He
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says from that Faith Arjun you will get
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true perfect
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Peace, why ?
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knowledge will
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destroy all the stress, tension
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everything why it will change our
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Perspective, somebody was telling me
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yesterday Swami ji you know I started
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this new Endeavor the same time you
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started your
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lecture and I heard from you inaction
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In action
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that while doing action you are still in
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the state of inaction and it has changed
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my
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Perspective, in other words knowledge
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gives us a different
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perspective and what is the
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indication that your
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perspective is
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Higher, the indication
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is
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Param shanti you will feel perfect
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peace He says not temporarily,
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temporarily you can get peace even
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through
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Chloroform, that's what the doctor does, !!
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he gives chloroform and now that
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person is at peace for the next six
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hours but Shri Krishna says
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This knowledge will give you
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permanent peace eternally, in other words
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then no matter what happens your peace
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will not be
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destroyed Bal gangadhar
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Tilak was a Karma Yogi he has
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written a wonderful commentary on the
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Bhagwat Gita very
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scholarly and he was also fighting the
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freedom war as his
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duty so he was asked that you know if
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India becomes free then what will you do
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will you strive to be the Prime
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Minister he said no I will get time to
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write my book on
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Calculus, other words he has got no
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interest in that he is doing his
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duty so I was reading a very interesting
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incident that he was put into the
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jail under some section because he was
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active in the freedom struggle so when
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he was being brought to be arrested he
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told his friend just find out statutes
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under this section and what are my
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rights etc and come and tell me in the
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jail and when that friend came to jail
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he found that Tilak is sleeping fast just
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snoring away now I imagine look at his
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Shanti, his peace and nothing can disturb
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his
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Peace, why ? as he is situated in
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knowledge I have to do my duty the
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results are in the hands of God I'm
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doing my duty doesn't
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matter so Shree Krishna says that
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knowledge will bestow such kind of
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perfect peace
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eternally that will be true knowledge
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