#1 thing You should Ask God For - 99% make this mistake by Swami Mukundanand

#1 thing You should Ask God For - 99% make this mistake by Swami Mukundanand

https://youtu.be/RsxiWXE-nvU Main Points: 1 people in the west sometimes ask me this question that swamiji there is so much of bhakti in India in some form or the other, spirituality is being practiced in every household practically, somebody is worshiping mother Durga, somebody is worshiping Laddu Gopal, somebody has got a shaligram and so on, then why is it that corruption is not getting eliminated from India, why is it that this bhakti is not cleansing the hearts and minds of the people  https://youtu.be/RsxiWXE-nvU&t=3 & https://youtu.be/RsxiWXE-nvU&t=409 2 when we ask God for material boons,  we are behaving like a child in the  jewellery shop,  put a child in a shop that is full of  jewels displayed everywhere but place a  chocolate in front of her  and then ask her beti take what you  want,  do you think the child will pick the  jewels ? absolutely not, for she has no  idea about their value ! Rrather her experience of happiness is  limited to the pleasure she has derived  from chocolates in the past  https://youtu.be/RsxiWXE-nvU&t=58 3 likewise in the spiritual realm we are  like little children,  our experience over endless lifetimes  has been of material pleasures, we have  no idea what is the Brahma-anand and the  Divya-anand and Param-anand in the realm of  God, so when we approach the Lord we ask  Him for those broken pieces of glass  the soul has come to the ocean of nectar  and is asking for a cup of poison,  how foolish  https://youtu.be/RsxiWXE-nvU&t=104 4 we need to understand there are  three kinds of affection,  the first is lust, the second is business,  and the third is love.  Lust is that relationship where the goal  is to take take,  what can I get ? my happiness is my  singular objective  2. Business is that that which is  characterized by give & take, give & take  and 3. Love involves give give give, where  the goal is the happiness of the Beloved  https://youtu.be/RsxiWXE-nvU&t=164 5 Do not do business with the Lord, the  concept of give and take comes very  naturally to us, we do it in the world  and when we engage in devotion we do the  same,  God, if you get my daughter married I will  donate a golden ring at the temple,   O Lord Venkatesh I will feed 100  Brahmanas, if you improve my health,  however this is not true bhakti, it is  tantamount to trading with God because  the intention remains what will I get in  Return,  this is why it is not true love it is  Business,  if we wish to  grow our loving devotion let's make  nishkam bhakti as the goal, in that bhakti  you don't think what God will do for me,  rather you think what can I do for the Lord  https://youtu.be/RsxiWXE-nvU&t=215 6 when we engage in such a selfless  attitude we never lose out because the  Lord is already a selfless Lover, He  showers His graces upon us,  as the saying goes  those who go to the Lord to get something,  actually  lose out as a consequence BUT those who go  to give to God, are the ones who are the  Gainers, in fact our scriptures say God  feels indebted for their nishkam bhakti  and offers Himself in service to such  devotees  The Srimad Bhagavatam statement, God says I get bound by the  Selfless Love of my devotees  https://youtu.be/RsxiWXE-nvU&t=292 7 there is another big problem here and  that our mind does not get  purified because the mind is still stuck  in material desires, if you go to  Hanumanji's mandir for 40 days with this manoti, oh Hanuman ji may my child become  all right  are you doing bhakti of Hanuman or of your  child, it is bhakti of your child, care of  Hanuman because the mind is attached to  the child  https://youtu.be/RsxiWXE-nvU&t=369 8 In continuation to Sr 1 above,  the reason is what seems to be bhakti of the Lord is actually bhakti of worldly desires, if you go to God for the fulfillment of worldly desires, your mind is not going towards the Lord and hence not getting purified https://youtu.be/RsxiWXE-nvU&t=447 9 the story of two neighbors who were envious / jealous of each other, so much so that they prayed to Shiva & got the boon from Shiva that let me become blind - listen https://youtu.be/RsxiWXE-nvU&t=469 10 Bhakti means “upasna”, to go and sit close to the Lord,   how will you go close ? by taking your   mind there and that requires freeing   your mind from material desires, if we   wish to avoid the kind of foolishness   that Ramdutt and Vishnudutt (story at Sr 9 above) did, we   must say,   my Lord, even if I ask you for material   boons, please don't fulfill them for I   don't know what is right for me, I have   been in ignorance since endless   Lifetimes, You are my benevolent   Benefactor, my well wisher and full of   knowledge and compassion, my Lord You   please decide what is best and You   bestow that boon upon me  https://youtu.be/RsxiWXE-nvU&t=775 Transcript Introduction 0:00 [Music] 0:03 people in the west sometimes ask me this 0:06 question that swamiji there is so much 0:09 of bhakti in India in some form or the 0:12 other 0:14 spirituality is being practiced in every 0:17 household practically 0:19 somebody is worshiping mother Durga 0:22 somebody is worshiping Laddu Gopal 0:24 somebody has got a shaligram and so on 0:26 then why is it that corruption is not 0:30 getting eliminated from India 0:33 why is it that this bhakti is not 0:37 cleansing the hearts and minds of the 0:41 People 0:58 when we ask God for material boons 1:02 we are behaving like a child in the 1:05 jewellery shop 1:07 put a child in a shop that is full of 1:11 jewels displayed everywhere but place a 1:15 chocolate in front of her 1:18 and then ask her beti take what you 1:22 want 1:23 do you think the child will pick the 1:25 jewels absolutely not for she has no 1:30 idea about their value 1:32 rather her experience of happiness is 1:37 limited to the pleasure she has derived 1:40 from chocolates in the past 1:44 likewise in the spiritual realm we are 1:48 like little children 1:51 our experience over endless lifetimes 1:54 has been of material pleasures we have 1:59 no idea what is the brahma-anand and the 2:04 Divya-anand and param-anand in the realm of 2:07 God so when we approach the Lord we ask 2:12 him for those broken pieces of glass 2:32 the soul has come to the ocean of nectar 2:37 and is asking for a cup of poison 2:41 how foolish 2:44 out here we need to understand there are 2:48 three kinds of affection 2:51 the first is lust the second is business 2:57 and the third is love 3:00 lust is that relationship where the goal 3:05 is to take take 3:08 what can I get my happiness is my 3:12 singular objective 3:15 business is that that which is 3:17 characterized by give & take, give & take 3:22 and love involves give give give where 3:27 the goal is the happiness of the Beloved 3:31 let's learn about it from the golden 3:33 Rules book Give and Take 3:35 do not do business with the Lord, the 3:40 concept of give and take comes very 3:43 naturally to us we do it in the world 3:47 and when we engage in devotion we do the 3:51 same 3:54 if you get my daughter married I will 3:57 donate a golden ring at the temple 4:00 O Lord venkatesh I will feed 100 4:05 brahmanas if you improve my health Trading with God 4:08 however this is not true bhakti it is 4:13 tantamount to trading with God because 4:18 the intention remains what will I get in 4:23 return 4:24 this is why it is not true love it is 4:28 business 4:30 if we wish to 4:32 grow our loving devotion let's make 4:36 nishkam bhakti as the goal, in that bhakti 4:41 you don't think what God will do for me 4:46 rather you think what can I do for the *Selfless attitude* 4:51 Lord 4:52 when we engage in such a selfless 4:56 attitude we never lose out because the 5:00 Lord is already a selfless Lover he 5:03 showers his graces upon us 5:06 as the saying goes 5:15 those who go to the Lord to get something,  actually 5:19 lose out as a consequence those who go 5:23 to give to God are the ones who are the 5:27 gainers in fact our scriptures say God 5:31 feels indebted for their nishkam bhakti 5:35 and offers himself in service to such 5:40 devotees 5:49 The Srimad Bhagavatam statement, God says I get bound by the 5:53 Selfless Love of my devotees! now instead 5:59 of that if we go with the formula oh God 6:02 please do this for me oh Lord I need 6:06 this work to be done *Material desires* 6:09 there is another big problem here and 6:13 what is that our mind does not get 6:17 purified because the mind is still stuck 6:21 in material desires if you go to 6:25 hanumanji's mandir for 40 days with this 6:29 manoti oh Hanuman ji may my child become 6:33 all right 6:35 are you doing bhakti of Hanuman or of your 6:38 Child, it is bhakti of your child, care of 6:43 Hanuman because the mind is attached to 6:47 the child! *Spirituality* 6:49 people in the west sometimes ask me this 6:52 question that swamiji there is so much 6:54 of bhakti in India in some form or the 6:58 other 7:00 spirituality is being practiced in every 7:03 household practically 7:05 somebody is worshiping mother Durga 7:07 somebody is worshiping Laddu Gopal 7:09 somebody has got a shaligram and so on 7:12 then why is it that corruption is not 7:16 getting eliminated from India 7:19 why is it that this bhakti is not 7:23 cleansing the hearts and minds of the 7:27 people the reason is what seems to be 7:31 bhakti of the Lord is actually bhakti of 7:34 worldly desires if you go to God for the 7:39 fulfillment of worldly desires your mind 7:42 is not going towards the Lord and hence 7:47 not getting purified *Story* 7:49 there's the story of two neighbors 7:52 Ramdutt and Vishnudutt who developed 7:55 envious feelings towards each other a 7:59 competition began Ramdutt went on a 8:02 cruise to Alaska and posted the pictures 8:04 on his Facebook profile Vishnudutt also went 8:07 for a trip to Hawaii and posted his 8:10 pictures Ramdutt got a Mercedes Vishnudutt 8:13 got a Tesla that competition became 8:17 so stiff they developed deep bitterness 8:20 for each other 8:21 one day Ramdutt decided the only way to 8:25 go ahead of Vishnudutt would be to get 8:28 a boon from bhagavan Shiv early in the 8:32 morning at 5 00 am he reached the 8:34 Shivalay in that locality he offered his 8:38 pranams to the shivling and sat down 8:40 under a tree and began chanting the 8:43 names om namah shivaya however sometimes 8:48 evil minds think alike that very day 8:51 Vishnudutt had the same inspiration and 8:55 at ten past five he too reached the same 8:57 shivalay he offered his pranams to the 9:00 shivling and sat down under another tree 9:03 in the courtyard however he heard the 9:07 sound om namah shivaya coming in a jiffy 9:10 he understood what his neighbor was 9:12 doing he decided let's see who is able 9:16 to appease 9:19 first he began chanting om namah shivaya 9:25 as the time went by around seven 9:29 o'clock 9:30 darshanarthi started arriving by nine 9:33 o'clock the darshanarthis the temple ! 9:35 were pouring in and they all witnessed 9:38 these two people 9:40 completely absorbed in chanting the 9:43 names of lordship 9:45 they thought two mahatmas have 9:48 manifested in our neighborhood with 9:51 great reverence they would go and do 9:52 pranam 9:54 moved by their apparent devotion they 9:57 would offer flowers and some even place 10:00 dakshina there it was now evening time 10:04 Parvati asked Lord shiv Maharaja those 10:08 two are taking your name incessantly 10:11 since morning please go and give them 10:13 darshan 10:15 lordship said Parvati I will but they 10:18 will not benefit nevertheless on her 10:21 request he first stood before Ramdutt and 10:25 said beta I have come ask what you want 10:28 Ramdutt  opened his eyes at darshan of 10:32 lordship he was thrilled and said 10:36 Maharaj I do wish to ask but I have a 10:39 question before asking can you please 10:42 tell me have you yet given darshan to 10:44 Vishnudutt that 10:46 lordship said not as yet but I will do 10:49 so after speaking to you 10:53 Ramdutt was then in a dilemma 10:57 he said oh my God what should I ask now 11:01 if I say give me a five bedroom house he 11:06 will say give me a 10 bedroom house if I 11:09 say give me one billion dollars he will 11:11 ask for two billion dollars 11:14 so Ramdutt  had a sudden brain wave he 11:17 said my Lord upon meeting Vishnudutt  that 11:20 whatever you give to him give me double 11:22 of that Lordship Maharaj 11:24 Bhole Baba Shankar ji said “Tathastu”  11:28 after that lordship went before Vishnudutt 11:32 and said beta I have come open your 11:34 eyes 11:35 Vishnudutt, he beheld the Lord in front 11:39 of him offered pranam 11:43 lordship said beta you have been 11:45 engaging in the chanting of my name what 11:48 do you want 11:50 Vishnudutt that said Maharaj I will 11:52 definitely ask for a boon but first 11:54 please tell me what have you given to 11:56 Ramdutt  11:58 lordship said whatever you get he should 12:01 get double 12:03 Vishnudutt that saw the futility of his 12:06 exercise now because at the end of it he 12:09 would still remain at 50 percent no 12:11 matter what he asked 12:13 but he too suddenly got an inspired 12:16 brain wave and said there's only one way 12:18 to move ahead Maharaj please make me 12:21 blind in one eye 12:23 Lord Shiv again said “Tathastu” 12:28 Vishnudutt became kana “he lost one eye) and Ramdutt  12:32 became andha completely (totally blind) and the 12:36 devotees of the locality who were 12:38 thinking two mahatma's have manifested 12:40 realized they were not mahatmas at all 12:44 they seemed to be engaging in devotion 12:47 but the mind was elsewhere placed 12:55 Bhakti means “upasna”, to go and sit close to the Lord *My Lord* 12:59 how will you go close ? by taking your 13:03 mind there and that requires freeing 13:07 your mind from material desires if we 13:11 wish to avoid the kind of foolishness 13:13 that Ramdutt and Vishnudutt did we 13:17 must say 13:25 my Lord even if I ask you for material 13:29 boons please don't fulfill them for I 13:32 don't know what is right for me I have 13:35 been in ignorance since endless 13:36 lifetimes you are my benevolent 13:40 benefactor my well Wisher and full of 13:45 knowledge and compassion my Lord you 13:48 please decide what is best and you 13:51 bestow that Boon upon me !so somebody may 13:56 ask here is it wrong to ask for bhakti, 13:59 for Gyan, for vairagya ? not really once you 14:02 decide I wish to love the Lord and my 14:05 goal is to serve him 14:08 for that service if you ask for bhakti 14:12 it is still selfless intention 14:16 so pray God give me devotion so I may 14:21 serve you, bless me with Divine knowledge 14:25 so I may offer it in your loving service 14:28 help me get detached 14:31 so I may do 14:33 Bhakti for Your pleasure in this way ask for 14:39 divine gifts with which you may serve 14:43 your lord 14:53 thank you

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To Love HIM or To Not Love HIM - The surest way to reach God | Swami Mukundananda

To Love HIM or To Not Love HIM - The surest way to reach God - by Swami Mukundanand

Main Points:

1 gyani says there is only one entity Brahman and nothing else, that this world doesn't exist, it's all an illusion, you yourself are God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=0 2 shankaracharya realized this problem, he says one must always (1) respect The Vedas, (2) must always respect the guru and (3) must always respect his material mother, is saying these three personalities even the sannyasi must respect  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=90 3 so if the guru is there and we are there, we are already in “dvait” (,i.e., not one, but two)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=154

(reference on “dvait” (द्वैत, i.e., not one, but two): He is the supreme eternal. He is the supreme living entity. So the whole yoga system is to concentrate mind on the Supreme Self. We are not Supreme Self. That you can understand. Supreme Self is God. This is dvaita-vada. Duality. Duality means God is different from me. He is supreme. I am subordinate. He is great, I am small. He is infinite, I am infinitesimal. This is the relationship. https://vanipedia.org/wiki/Prabhupada_0656_-_Those_Who_Are_Devotees,_They_Have_No_Hate_for_Anyone

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Gyan yog sadhana has its limitations, through gyan yog sadhna, the gyani comes to know the self, however that gyani is still not liberated, gyani at his peak, has destroyed swarupa varika (like) Maya, he has not destroyed guna varika Maya https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=167 5 Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita: Arjun this Maya will not go by gyan yoga, whatever you do it will only go by My grace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=199 6 so if a Gyani's Guru is a brahmagyani not an atmagyani, that Guru will say, yes beta now surrender to Shri Krishna, “Aham Brahmasmi” ("I am Brahman") - this will not take you any further https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=239 7 so the gyani at the very end, also surrenders to God  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=293 8 Tulsidas ji he says in the Ramayan, this Maya is not mithya, it's not an illusion, it is a Shakti of God so you may keep on saying “jagat mithya”, but your work will not be done, only when Ram ji (God) does His grace will you get liberated  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=370 9 the way to reach God is through bhakti, although there are so many paths, each path requires the addition of bhakti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=409 10 That yog is kuyog (bad yog) which doesn't have bhakti in it and then gyan is agyan which is not imbued with love for God  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=540 11 somebody can say if bhakti is essential, then why are all the other paths there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=557 12 the reason is everybody's sanskars are different, based on sanskars many people are not able to develop faith in bhakti, bhakti is the easiest, what is the difficulty, it is lack of faith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=591 13 I just need to love God and I will attain him - people cannot believe that how can it be so simple to attain God - so they unnecessarily look for cumbersome methods - listen to examples https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=617 14 God does not need us to sleep on a bed of thorns, He is ocean of grace and mercy, He says (first have faith in Me) close your eyes and run,but some lamppost or tree may come in the middle, Shri Krishna says don't worry I will maintain the yoga kshem ( https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/9/22/) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=762 15 although bhakti is so easy because people don't have faith in it that is why all these other paths are there but the day you develop faith in the grace of God, your bhakti path is clear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=792 16 so Jagatguru Ramanujacharya said:  three kinds of people approach God : (1) the first are those for whom God is the  means and the world is the goal ,i.e., such people say katha “सुख संपत्ति घर आवे , कष्ट मिटे तन का”  such people never attain God  (2) the second are  those for whom the world is the means and God is the goal,  by this yagya, I will attain him by this kind of practice, I will attain him, in  other words, by my practice I will attain him so they also don't attain him and for the  (3) third God is the means and God is  the goal, their whole faith is in the grace of God how will I attain Him ? by His grace,  it doesn't mean I just sit down doing nothing but I will put in my best effort to attract  His grace but I know always that my effort is  finite and unless His grace comes, I will  never consummate (complete) this journey so that faith in the grace of God  helps us develop Nishtha (faith) towards bhakti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=815  17 that nishta (faith) in God is very important - like digging of wells example (listen) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=929 18 what we have been doing in endless lifetimes, is a little bit of this and a little bit of that... (hence we are still not God realized) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=970 19 those who give up material desires and engage in Devotion to God, will cross over the ocean of birth and death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=1064 20 Take the bow (धनुष) of vedas / upanishads and put on it the arrow of bhakti and let the edge of it be भाव (sentiments), with this, now you go to hunt for the Supreme Divine entity, in other words use scriptural knowledge to do bhakti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=1131  21 there is one Bhagwad Gita which Lord Krishna spoke to Arjun and there is Udhav Gita which Lord Krishna spoke to Udhav (best & closest friend of Krishna since childhood), Udhav was a renounced paramahans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=1158 22 look it is only through bhakti that I am  Known,  He says look Arjun, God is everywhere but  by bhakti alone and no other means now (I am known), when He says by bhakti alone that  should become good enough but Shri Krishna knows that these worldly souls will still do तर्क वितर्क कुतर्क   so He says by no other means (other than bhakti)    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=1186  23 without engaging in Bhakti you will not cross over this ocean of life and death, this is an irrevocable Divine principle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=1297 24 when Jesus was asked “you gave us so many instructions,tell us what is your most important   instruction, so he said the first and foremost   commandment is to love the Lord, thy God with all thy heart and all thy might and   all thy soul that is the most important commandment  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=1331  25 Veda Vyas, he wrote the Mahabharata which has the Gita embedded in it, he wrote the 18 puranas, he wrote the vedanta darshan and after all this he started thinking what is the conclusion of all these scriptures, to read all the scriptures you need a lifespan of 500 years,who can live till the 500 years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=1427 26 So Ved Vyas ji thought that let me encapsulate it and give it to all the people, it is interesting to know How Ganesh ji helped him write these shastras  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=1479 27 in the 18 puranas, there are 4,00,000 verses & out of these there are 8,000 koot (difficult) shlokas, such verses which are so intricate that even Ganesh ji had to think, however look at the ability of Veda Vyas he doesn't even need to think, he just goes on speaking to Ganeshji https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=1640 28 in the Padma puran Shri Ved Vyas ji is saying, our   Lord, I have churned all the scriptures and   contemplated over them again and again   they are all telling us that we need to love God and attach our   mind in loving absorption upon God & that   is the conclusion of the scriptures  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=1663 29 Kabir ji's famous words “पोथी पोथी पड़ जग मुआ, पंडित भया न कोय, ढाई अक्षर प्रेम के  पढ़े सो पंडित होय”      he says reading the pothies (granths), the whole world passed away,   nobody actually became a Pandit but   these two and a half syllables of प्रेम Prem (Love) the one who understood and   made it practical is the true Pandit, the Bible & the Quran Sharif also support same point  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9yfGdNsNY&t=1708 Transcript 0:00 so the gyani the advice now remember advaith is not the only 0:07 interpretation of vedant advice 0:13 he says there is only one entity Brahman 0:19 and nothing else 0:29 so there's only one entity Brahman then what is this world 0:35 the gyani says it doesn't exist it's all an illusion 0:40 but then if there is one entity then there is God and there is me so we are 0:46 Two, the gyani says you are under confusion you yourself are God 0:53 so there is only Brahman and nothing else and you are Brahman 1:01 however if there is only Brahman and nothing else 1:06 then what are The Vedas from which you are getting Gyan of Brahman 1:14 because if you accept The Vedas then there is Vedas and there is Brahman so 1:19 there are two and if you say that The Vedas are mithya 1:24 then how can you get knowledge of Brahman from the mithya Vedas 1:30 shankaracharya realized this problem in his philosophy so he said before brahmagyan Vedas are 1:38 Satya and after brahmagyan Vedas are mithya 1:43 when we all know something that is Satya is always Satya 1:49 and second who is the guru then if there is only one entity then who is 1:55 the guru shankaracharya himself is admitting 2:11 he says as long as you live even this vedanti sannyasi must always 2:19 respect The Vedas must always respect the guru and must always respect his 2:27 material mother, is saying these three personalities even 2:34 the sannyasi must respect so if the guru is there and we are there 2:40 we are already in “dvait” (द्वैत) (,i.e., not one, but two) now we came to this point that (reference on “dvait” (द्वैत, i.e., not one, but two): He is the supreme eternal. He is the supreme living entity. So the whole yoga system is to concentrate mind on the Supreme Self. We are not Supreme Self. That you can understand. Supreme Self is God. This is dvaita-vada. Duality. Duality means God is different from me. He is supreme. I am subordinate. He is great, I am small. He is infinite, I am infinitesimal. This is the relationship. https://vanipedia.org/wiki/Prabhupada_0656_-_Those_Who_Are_Devotees,_They_Have_No_Hate_for_Anyone 2:47 through Gyan yog sadhana it's a genuine sadhana I am not saying it's wrong I'm 2:53 only giving its limitations, through gyan yog sadhna, the gyani comes to know the self 3:03 however that gyani is still not liberated 3:10 he has destroyed swarupa varika (like) Maya, he has not destroyed guna varika Maya 3:19 for guna varika Maya Lord Krishna says in the bhagavad-gita 3:32 Arjun this Maya will not go by gyan yoga whatever you do it will only go by 3:41 my grace, so the gyani in samadhi realizes 3:47 I have reached the last stage of this sadhana 3:53 and Maya is still there now what to do 3:59 so the manduk upanishad has got an interesting mantra 4:04 it says the mukt will have to get mukt 4:12 in other words he was thinking I will be mukt but he is not mukt 4:18 now he will have to get truly liberated by grace of God 4:24 so if his Guru is a brahmagyani not an atmagyani 4:31 that Guru will say yes beta now surrender to Shri Krishna 4:38 surrender but guruji you are saying just keep on repeating “Aham Brahmasmi” 4:45 Beta, this will not take you any further now you need the grace of God and for that 4:53 Grace you will have to surrender so the gyani also at the very end 5:01 surrenders to God hence I was telling you in the morning the bhagwan Gita says “verse” 5:16 this is the end stage of Gyan marg and what is the last one fourth line of 5:25 that verse  5:30 now he's doing bhakti and through bhakti, next verse, now he comes to 5:38 know God so Kripalu ji Maharaja is saying that look when that gyani does 5:47 Krishna bhakti by God's grace he gets 5:52 Brahma Gyan and in the path of yog we already 5:57 discussed patanjali has himself said it “samadhi 6:02 siddhari ishwar pranidhanat” that for siddhi you will have to surrender 6:10 and tulsidas ji he says in the ramayan, verse 6:23 he says this Maya is not mithya, it's not an illusion 6:32 it is a Shakti of God so you may keep on saying “jagat mithya” 6:39 Your work will not be done, verse 6:49 Only when Ramji does His grace will you get liberated from Maya so the gyani has to 6:57 do bhakti to complete the path, the ashtang yogi has to do bhakti to 7:03 complete the path and the bhakt doesn't need any other sadhana, verse,   7:20 in other words the way to reach God is 7:26 through bhakti although there are so many paths 7:33 each path requires the addition of bhakti 7:38 just like there is the mythical Amrit, Amrit is the Divine ambrosia 7:47 you drink it and you become immortal so if you like you take Amrit by itself 7:57 or if you like you mix it in water and take it you will still become immortal 8:03 or if you like you mix it in milk and take it you will still become immortal 8:10 but what is making you immortal is not the water or the milk it is Amrit  8:18 similarly bhakti you can mix with Gyan and it becomes full-fledged Gyan yog 8:27 or bhakti you can mix with ashtang and it takes you to the goal or else you do 8:34 bhakti by itself but if you remove bhakti then what happens 8:41 Yoga, kuyog -  tulsidas is getting so annoyed he says verse 9:00 That yog is kuyog which doesn't have bhakti in it and then gyan is agyan which is not imbued with 9:08 love for God in other words bhakti is essential for 9:17 reaching God now this somebody can say if bhakti is 9:24 essential then why are all the other paths there 9:30 why is this complex part of gyan yog you go so high and then from there you do 9:38 bhakti and ashtang yoga why is this part so difficult why are all these paths created 9:45 why did God not just present the path of bhakti everybody do this 9:51 the reason is everybody's sanskars are different 9:58 based on sanskars many people are not able to develop 10:04 faith in bhakti, bhakti is easy 10:10 the easiest, what is the difficulty lack of faith 10:17 I just need to love God and I will attain him ah how can it be so simple 10:24 no no no no no no I'll tell you you leave your house and live in a cave in 10:29 the Himalayas and don't sleep on a bed you have to 10:35 sleep on a bed of thorns and you are not allowed to wear clothes otherwise everything will be wrong 10:42 and you should only eat dry leaves and for two hours every day you do 10:48 shirshasan you hang from the roof of your cave and you will meet God 10:53 ah this must be a wonderful sadhana , in other words if it's something is simple 11:01 we don't realize the value of it if it is complicated we think it must be very 11:08 special now if somebody says how do you do pranayama and I say you know you just do 11:15 the nasagra mudra and you do your pranayama so simple swamiji doesn't know anything 11:22 all right I tell you you take your left hand and you put it behind the back and 11:29 three fingers should be visible not the fourth otherwise it will be all useless and your right hand you take it over the 11:37 head and it must not cross the chin otherwise it will all be useless and now you do it 11:43 ah this must be a special pranayama right 11:50 see similarly somebody says how do you attain God 11:56 say love him and you attain him really ah, this is a bogus sadhna 12:01 love him and you attain him ?  12:08 Ok you do khand yoga I've read it in a book khand-yog means your meditation you have to split 12:16 your body into half and then you take out a lamp from there 12:22 and you offer that lamp to God and you will attain him, if God requires us to do those kinds 12:30 of things then he is not God he is a madman 12:36 if he is actually God why does he need us to cover ourselves with ashes why 12:42 does he need us to sleep on a bed of thorns God says 12:47 that 12:53 He is ocean of grace and mercy he says close your eyes and run 13:00 close the eyes and run but some lamppost or tree may come in the middle 13:06 Shri Krishna says don't worry I will maintain the yoga kshem  you just come 13:12 towards me in other words although bhakti is so 13:18 easy because people don't have faith in it that is why all these other paths are 13:25 there but the day you develop faith in the grace of God 13:35 Now your bhakti path is clear, so Jagatguru Ramanujacharya said 13:41 three kinds of people approach God the first are those for whom God is the 13:49 means and the world is the goal 13:55 God is the means and the goal is सुख संपत्ति घर आवे , कष्ट मिटे तन का  14:07 so if God is the means and the goal is the world that is first category of 14:13 people they never attain God the second 14:19 those For Whom the world is the means and God is the goal 14:25 by this yagya I will attain him by this kind of practice I will attain him in 14:32 other words by my practice I will attain him 14:38 so they also don't attain him and for the third God is the means and God is 14:45 the goal their whole faith is in the grace of God how will I attain him by his grace 14:53 it doesn't mean I just sit down doing nothing I will put in my best effort to attract 15:02 his grace but my I know always that my effort is 15:08 finite and unless his grace comes I will 15:13 never consummate this journey so that faith in the grace of God 15:23 helps us develop Nishtha (faith) towards bhakti 15:29 and that nishta (faith) is very important you see people dig a hundred Wells 15:39 you dig in one place three feet water did not come out dig in the second place 15:45 two feet it's a bed rock out here water is not coming you dig in a third place 15:51 dig three feet four feet five feet you've dug a hundred Wells and water has 15:57 not come out anywhere and if you can make a firm resolve and 16:02 keep on digging in one proper place that water will definitely come 16:10 so what did we do in endless lifetimes a little bit of this and a little bit of 16:17 that swamiji I have been doing satsang for 16:22 the last 30 years how did you do satsang, every swamiji and 16:29 panditji ji who came to Dallas I went to listen to all of them 16:36 so then you must have got complete Clarity on how to attain God 16:42 what Clarity swamiji I am totally confused because one said that you yourself are 16:49 God the second one said that you do Homa (havan, yagya) and you will attain God and the 16:54 third one said that you attain nirvikalp (free from difference or doubt) samadhi and you will attain God and then I did a little of this a little of that 17:00 a little of this a little of that little I forgot little I remembered wrongly and little I made a khichdi of it all 17:08 so this is the example of digging a hundred Wells so through the scriptures once and for 17:16 all understand and fill it in every pore of your body how will you attain God 17:25 what do The Vedas say everybody understands what is upasana verse 17:44 those who give up material desires and engage in 17:51 Devotion to God will cross over the ocean of birth and death 17:57 and the shweta upanishad states yes 18:11 those who consider God and Guru as non-different and engage in their 18:18 devotion they shall get liberated from Maya 18:25 verse 18:51 Take bow of vedas / upnishads and put on it the arrow of bhakti and let the edge of it be भाव (sentiments) 18:58 Sentiments, with this now you go to hunt for the Supreme Divine entity 19:05 in other words use scriptural knowledge to do bhakti 19:11 and the bhagavatam says Udhav Gita 19:18 there is one bhagwan Gita which Lord Krishna spoke to Arjun and there is 19:31 Udhav Gita which Lord Krishna spoke to Udhav (best & closest friend of Krishna since childhood) so Udhav was a renounced paramahans 19:39 he is speaking to that renounced paramahans and he says 19:46 look it is only through bhakti that I am 19:52 known as 20:05 he says look Arjun God is everywhere but 20:12 by bhakti alone and no other means now (I am known) when he says by bhakti alone that 20:19 should become good enough but Shri Krishna knows that these worldly Souls will still do तर्क वितर्क कुतर्क  20:27 so he says by no other means (other than bhakti) now come to the ramayan 20:40 tulsidas he says come over to that Riverside 20:46 and they have an oil mill there is it a special oil mill yes they are 20:54 churning the river sand and extracting oil impossible how can oil come from Sand 21:02 then he says come over to my house I will give you butter 21:07 is it a special butter yes we churn the water and extract butter 21:14 again you will say impossible how can you get butter out of water 21:20 he says this impossible may become possible 21:37 but without engaging in Bhajan you will not cross over this ocean of life and 21:44 death this is an irrevocable  21:51 and irrevocable Divine principle so from The Vedas till 21:58 the ramayan every scripture has given us the same bhakti 22:05 and this bhakti is what the religions of the world talked about 22:11 when Jesus was asked you gave us so many instructions tell us what is your most important 22:18 instruction we cannot keep so many in our head so he said the first and foremost 22:24 commandment is to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and all thy might and 22:30 all thy soul that is the most important commandment what to love God 22:38 is it so difficult to understand you are supposed to love God is it so 22:45 difficult what is the problem why can people not understand that you're supposed to love 22:51 God Shri Krishna says in the bhagavad-gita Veda is 23:03 he says Arjun by All The Vedas I am to be known 23:09 I am the creator of The Vedas I am the true knower of The Vedas and I 23:17 am the object of Vedic knowledge so what is the goal of all the Vedas to 23:24 know God now you can keep on doing your Kundalini jagran if you don't have faith 23:30 in God all right something is better than nothing but the day you have faith in God there 23:35 is no need of that you just do radhe radhe and keep trying to improve your 23:41 bhakti that is why you know this 23:47 story our panditji related a little while ago but just because it's topical 23:52 I will repeat it Veda Vyas he wrote the Mahabharata which has the 24:00 Gita embedded in it he wrote the 18 puranas 24:06 he wrote the vedanta darshan and after all this he started thinking 24:12 what is the conclusion of all these scriptures I have written so many scriptures what 24:19 is the conclusion of all these scriptures so to read all the scriptures you need a 24:25 lifespan of 500 years now who can live till the 500 years 24:32 dementia strikes by the age of 90 itself so even if we live we won't be able to read the scriptures the way it was 24:39 So Ved Vyas ji thought that let me encapsulate it and give it to them verse  24:51 I have churned all the scriptures and contemplated over them again and again 24:59 now I imagine if Ved Vyas starts contemplating what will be the consequence of that 25:07 because when he had to write the Mahabharata he did not need any contemplation 25:14 he said look I am not going to take a quill and write this 25:19 I will only keep speaking somebody needs to keep writing 25:25 who will write a scripture which has a hundred thousand verses 25:30 the people readied Ganesh ji is, The Giver of buddhi  25:39 Ganesh accepted he said I am prepared and I present myself you 25:46 keep speaking I will keep writing but 25:52 I have a condition you will not stop anywhere in between if 25:59 you do I'll put my quill down and I'll not pick it up again 26:05 and that was a challenge and with Ved Vyas felt a little doubtful 26:11 about himself I just keep speaking in case I need to think a little bit he'll 26:17 put the quill down and the scripture will become incomplete 26:23 Ved Vyas said all right Ganesh ji you have given me your condition 26:28 now I hear my condition I will continue speaking and you will 26:34 keep writing but whatever you write you will first understand the meaning of the 26:40 verse and only then will you put it down now he got some respite so he would 26:48 speak and Ganesh ji would understand right away and put it down, again would 26:53 speak Ganesh he would put it down but wherever Ved vyas needed a little break 27:00 he would compose a difficult verse so Ganesh ji would now start pondering 27:07 what does that mean and Ved Vyas would get respite he would go and do his 27:13 nityakarama his morning abolutions and take a little snack and return 27:20 that is why in the 18 puranas the 4,00,000 verses there are 8,000 koot (difficult) shlokas   27:30 such verses which are so intricate that even Ganesh ji had to think 27:36 however look at the ability of Veda vyas he doesn't need to think he just goes on 27:43 and on speaking that way that we are here in the Padma puran he's saying our 27:50 Lord I have churned all the scriptures and 27:58 contemplated over them again and again 28:07 they are all telling us that we need to love God and attach our 28:16 mind in loving absorption upon God that 28:22 is the conclusion of the scriptures and that is what all the saints said as! 28:28 well hence Kabir ji's famous words “पोथी पोथी पड़ जग मुआ, पंडित भया न कोय, ढाई अक्षर प्रेम के  पढ़े सो पंडित होय”    28:38 he says reading the pothies (granths) the whole world passed away 28:45 nobody actually became a Pandit 28:55 and these two and a half syllables of Love Prem the one who understood and 29:02 made it practical is the true Pandit, who is the true pandit, who has learned 29:11 love for God although Veda said it, the Bible said it, and the Quran Sharif 29:18 it ends out here,  verse 29:36 Allah has made you so that you love and 29:45 worship him one who does so is called insan and one who doesn't do that is 29:51 called shaitan so  30:01 your primary duty is to develop love for God and Guru nanak says a verse 30:25 there is no scripture like Gita, there is no personality like the guru and there is 30:32 no path like the path of divine love so how will you attain God 30:41 how will you attain God bhakti I thought we were all say in 30:47 unison how will we attain God that's right now the confusion of many 30:53 parts is all dispelled now we are firmly situated so he is 31:00 going to further elaborate on this path of bhakti we will see in the subsequent 31:06 verses

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Shree Krishna's Ultimate Advice for Fast Progress | The Bhagavad Gita 4 38

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Main Points: 1 this ocean of material existence that we are in, Sri Krishna said Arjun you seat yourself in the boat of knowledge and you cross over it, Pure knowledge is the most wonderful thing to possess and that knowledge will be revealed to you from within when you attain purity of heart, pure knowledge will not come from outside, it will come from the inside  https://youtu.be/8gsPCxJxwCA&t=2 & https://youtu.be/8gsPCxJxwCA&t=709 2 Sri Krishna  says Arjun those who engage in devotion  and purify themselves, I seated in their  hearts destroy their ignorance with the  torch light of  knowledge;  so there is one knowledge  which you get from outside and there  is one knowledge that you get from inside;  that is the knowledge that is Awakening  from inside through realization, strive  to attain pure  knowledge - that is the purpose of your  human form of life, do not delay in this  process of bhakti outside, it will come from the inside  https://youtu.be/8gsPCxJxwCA&t=35 & https://youtu.be/8gsPCxJxwCA&t=757 3 Bhagavad Gita Chapter 4 Sloka 4.38 Chanting  in this world there is nothing as  purifying as Divine  knowledge, one who has attained purity of  mind through prolonged practice of  bhakti yog, receives such knowledge within the  heart in due course of  time  https://youtu.be/8gsPCxJxwCA&t=94 4 Krishna further inspired Arjun to  have faith in the names, forms, virtues  pastimes of God by keeping Divine  sentiments thereby getting a basis to do  Bhakti or  devotion then he went on to explain the  process of  yagya and said there are various kinds  of yagya or sacrifices that people  engage  in, the Perfection of yagya is to do it  as a sacrifice to  God, this yagya leads to  purification and  enlightenment, so the yagyas that are done  are best done in  knowledge    https://youtu.be/8gsPCxJxwCA&t=175 5 in order to get  knowledge Sri Krishna asked Arjun to  approach a  guru, in this case Sri Krishna himself is  the guru of Arjun so Arjun's problem is  solved ; we may say if the problem gets  solved like this can we also solve our  problem, we also make Sri Krishna as our  Guru, that's not possible for us, Arjun  was in the Avatar  काल (period), God was in front of him so he was  able to accept him as a  guru now if this is not  Avatar काल (period), you need a saint through whom you  can receive this  knowledge   https://youtu.be/8gsPCxJxwCA&t=240 6 because when we go ahead on this path a lot of doubts will arise, how will we resolve these doubts, somebody says I have made Hanuman as my Guru but how will you resolve your questions when they come, you need somebody who is in front, who can resolve your doubts - otherwise there was one Guru 5,000 years ago and everybody after that keeps accepting that Person as the guru there is no need of any more gurus so we need a live teacher who can explain these truths to us    https://youtu.be/8gsPCxJxwCA&t=302 7 Further Shri Krishna says when you  receive that  knowledge then by virtue of that  knowledge, you will cut aside all sins,  you will become free from sins, you  will get beyond all miseries and seated  on the boat of this knowledge you will  be able to cross over this vast ocean of  life and  death, this material world is like an  ocean, at each step there are  dangers and  uncertainties, nobody knows what will  happen at the next  moment   https://youtu.be/8gsPCxJxwCA&t=347 8 nobody knows what will  happen at the next  moment : Japan example https://youtu.be/8gsPCxJxwCA&t=407 9 nobody knows what will  happen at the next  moment : example of a brilliant Indian doctor https://youtu.be/8gsPCxJxwCA&t=427 10 nobody knows what will  happen at the next  moment : cancer example  https://youtu.be/8gsPCxJxwCA&t=427 11 In Mahabharat the Yaksh had asked Yudhishthar the question what is most astonishing in this world, so Yudhishthar Maharaj said the most astonishing that at every moment people are dying, others are watching but they are thinking I will not die   https://youtu.be/8gsPCxJxwCA&t=545 12 The end is in death, we all have to   go one day and when will that death come   who knows, it could come at the next   moment. Harinakashyapu asked Prahlad you   are 5 years old and you are doing   Bhakti, Bhakti should be done in old age,   that is what the materialistic people   say, who don't understand the spiritual   knowledge, they say Bhakti is for old age   ,not for a 5 year   old Prahlad said father, what is the   definition of old   age, somebody who's close to death is   old, how do you know what is my lifespan,   I could die tomorrow,   5 year olds also pass away that means   it's possible I am also   old, so Bhakti should never be   delayed so Prahlad gives this advice he   says durlabh,   the human birth is very   rare but it is temporary it can be   snatched away at any time that is why do   not delay in this process of Bhakti   https://youtu.be/8gsPCxJxwCA&t=605 13 Vashisht had instructed Ram,    he said, Ram if to get knowledge you   need to do Bhiksha, you need to beg in the   street, it is   worthwhile rather than leading your life   in   ignorance, so that is your Primary Duty   in this human form to try and get that   knowledge, that knowledge shakti has been   given to us   humans, the power of   getting knowledge is not given to the animals    https://youtu.be/8gsPCxJxwCA&t=874 14 You can change your guru if needed BUT getting the right spiritual knowledge is very important to achieve the purpose of life https://youtu.be/8gsPCxJxwCA&t=948 ! Transcript 0:02 this ocean of material existence that we 0:05 are in Sri Krishna said Arjun you seat 0:09 yourself in the boat of knowledge and 0:13 you cross over it pure knowledge is the 0:18 most wonderful thing to 0:20 possess and that knowledge will be 0:24 revealed to you from within when you 0:27 attain purity of heart, pure 0:31 knowledge will not come from the outside 0:35 it will come from the inside Sri Krishna 0:39 says Arjun those who engage in devotion 0:43 and purify themselves I seated in their 0:48 hearts destroy their ignorance with the 0:52 torch light of 0:54 knowledge so there is one knowledge 0:57 which you get from the outside and there 1:00 is one knowledge that you get inside 1:04 that is the knowledge that is Awakening 1:07 from inside through realization strive 1:10 to attain pure 1:12 knowledge that is the purpose of your 1:15 human form of life do not delay in this 1:19 process of bhakti who knows what will 1:22 happen 1:24 tomorrow bhagavat Gita chapter 4 verse 1:28 chanting is followed by translation and 1:31 commentary by Swami 1:34 Bhagavad Gita Chapter 4 Sloka 4.38 Chanting 1:58 Bhagavad Gita Chapter 4 Sloka 4.38 Translation by Swami Mukundananda 2:01 in this world there is nothing as 2:06 purifying as Divine 2:08 knowledge one who has attained purity of 2:12 Mind through prolonged practice of 2:16 yog receives such knowledge within the 2:20 heart in due course of 2:27 time in this chapter 2:31 we saw how  2:34 Sri Krishna established Arjun's faith in the 2:40 knowledge he is 2:42 giving by revealing to him that this is Bhagavad Gita Commentary by Swami Mukundananda 2:46 an eternal science which he had 2:50 previously instructed to the sun God as 2:55 well he further inspired Arjun to  3:00 have faith in the names, forms, virtues 3:04 Pastimes of God by keeping Divine 3:11 sentiments thereby getting a basis to do 3:15 Bhakti or 3:19 devotion then he went on to explain the 3:23 process of 3:25 yagya and said there are various kinds 3:28 of yagya or sacrifices that people 3:32 engage 3:34 in the Perfection of yagya is to do it 3:39 as a sacrifice to 3:42 God this yagya leads to 3:47 purification and 3:50 Enlightenment so the yagyas that are done 3:54 are best done in 3:58 Knowledge 4:00 in order to get 4:03 knowledge Sri Krishna asked Arjun to 4:07 approach a 4:10 guru in this case Sri Krishna himself is 4:14 the guru of Arjun so Arjun's problem is 4:21 solved we may say if the problem gets 4:24 solved like this can we also solve our 4:27 problem we also make Sri Krishna as our 4:33 Guru that's not possible for us, Arjun 4:37 was in the Avatar 4:40 काल (period), God was in front of him so he was 4:44 able to accept him as a 4:48 guru now if this is not 4:51 Avatar काल (period), you need a saint through whom you 4:56 can receive this 4:58 Knowledge 5:02 because when we go ahead on this path a 5:05 lot of doubts will 5:08 arise how will we resolve these 5:12 doubts somebody says I have made Hanuman 5:16 as my 5:17 Guru but how will you resolve your 5:20 questions when they 5:22 come you need somebody who is in front 5:26 who can resolve your doubts otherwise 5:30 there was one Guru 5,000 years ago and 5:33 everybody after that keeps accepting 5:36 that Person as the guru there is no need 5:39 of any more 5:40 gurus so we need a live teacher who can 5:44 explain these truths to 5:47 us  further Shri Krishna says when you 5:50 receive that 5:52 knowledge then by virtue of that 5:57 knowledge you will cut aside all sins 6:02 you will become free from sins you 6:07 will get beyond all miseries and seated 6:13 on the boat of this knowledge you will 6:17 be able to cross over this vast ocean of 6:23 life and 6:27 death this material world is like an 6:32 ocean at each step there are 6:36 dangers and 6:40 uncertainties nobody knows what will 6:44 happen at the next 6:47 Moment, Japan was sitting pretty as a 6:51 wealthy secure nation they didn't know 6:54 that a tsunami of 6:57 9.2 scale is going to hit all of a 7:00 sudden and disturb the country 7:07 totally many years ago there was a very 7:10 Junior doctor who came to 7:14 me in Bhuvaneshwar 7:17 Orissa, he and his wife were full of pride 7:21 he said Swami ji I am one of the four 7:24 doctors in the country selected for this 7:27 this and I got the 7:29 president award and he was going on then 7:33 he and his wife was saying 7:36 that you know why is it that our 7:39 colleagues they do not like us and why 7:42 is it that we do not get credited for 7:45 what we are doing in other words they 7:47 wanted even more 7:49 recognition and they were coming to me 7:52 please give us some mantra so that we can 7:54 go further ahead in 7:56 life the whole planning was 7:59 now he's one of the four in the country 8:02 according to him but still the ego the 8:06 material ambitions are not satisfied and 8:10 he is going to Baba to get 8:13 mantras one year later I got a call on 8:17 my 8:18 phone what happened oh he's had a 8:22 terrible accident there's been a head 8:24 injury and he's become like a child you 8:28 please come and meet him in the 8:30 hospital so I went the poor fellow was 8:34 he was like almost lost his head he was 8:38 seeming like a real child he was crying 8:41 Swami ji, his wife was crying, one moment 8:45 here the other moment there that is the 8:48 nature of this world anything can happen 8:52 to anyone at any 8:55 time nobody thinks you know I'm going to 8:59 get 9:00 cancer but it's a reality all of a 9:03 sudden it pops 9:05 up in fact the Mahabharat says nobody 9:09 even thinks I'm going to 9:22 die the 9:25 Mahabharat the yaksh had asked Yudhishthar 9:29 the question what is most astonishing in 9:33 this 9:36 world so Yudhishthar Maharaj said the most 9:41 astonishing that at every moment people 9:44 are 9:46 dying others are 9:50 watching but they are thinking I will 9:54 not die he died I will not 9:57 die nobody is conscious of the fact 10:02 that this human life is dead 10:05 end the end is in death we all have to 10:09 go one day and when will that death come 10:12 who knows it could come at the next 10:16 moment where Harinakashyapu asked Prahlad you 10:21 are 5 years old and you are doing 10:24 Bhakti, Bhakti should be done in old age 10:30 that is what the materialistic people 10:32 say who don't understand the spiritual 10:35 knowledge they say Bhakti is for old age 10:39 not for a 5 year 10:41 old Prahlad said father what is the 10:45 definition of old 10:49 age somebody who's close to death is 10:54 old how do you know what is my lifespan 10:57 I could die tomorrow 11:00 5 year olds also pass away that means 11:02 it's possible I am also 11:06 Old, so Bhakti should never be 11:23 delayed so Prahlad gives this advice he 11:27 says durlabh 11:31 the human birth is very 11:33 rare but it is temporary it can be 11:38 snatched away at any time that is why do 11:42 not delay in this process of Bhakti who 11:46 knows what will happen 11:49 tomorrow so this ocean of material 11:53 existence that we are in, Sri Krishna  11:56 said Arjun you see seat yourself in the 12:01 boat of knowledge and you cross over 12:05 it pure knowledge is the most wonderful 12:10 thing to 12:11 possess and that 12:15 knowledge will be revealed to you from 12:19 within when you attain purity of 12:27 heart pure knowledge will not come from 12:31 outside it will come from the 12:37 inside Sri Krishna says in the 10th 12:55 chapter Arjun those who engage in 12:59 devotion and purify themselves, I   13:04 seated in their 13:06 hearts destroy their ignorance with the 13:10 torch light of 13:14 knowledge so there is one knowledge 13:17 which you get from the 13:19 outside and there is one knowledge that 13:22 you get inside 13:25 Maharishi patanjali says 13:32 that samadhi is filled with 13:37 knowledge that is the knowledge that is 13:40 awakening from inside through 13:44 realization why because the soul is by 13:48 nature 13:50 chit the soul is divine 13:54 energy but it has got covered so when 13:58 the covering is removed automatically 14:02 the knowledge of the 14:04 Soul shines 14:07 forth so Shri Krishna says that pure 14:12 knowledge will come from within and it 14:15 is the purest of 14:19 things strive to attain 14:24 it strive to attain pure knowledge 14:29 that is the purpose of your human form 14:32 of 14:34 Life. Vashisht had instructed Ram,  14:52 he said Ram if to get knowledge you 14:57 need to do Bhiksha you need to beg in the 15:02 street it is 15:03 worthwhile rather than leading your life 15:07 in 15:09 ignorance so that is your primary Duty 15:12 in this human form to try and get that 15:16 knowledge that knowledge shakti has been 15:20 given to us 15:22 humans the power of 15:24 knowledge not to the animals haven't 15:28 got it to this 15:32 extent so this human form has got this 15:36 speciality of knowledge and the purpose 15:40 of the human form is to exercise that 15:44 power and receive the Divine 15:48! Knowledge, many times people say you know 15:52 Swami ji I have got stuck in my search 15:56 for 15:57 knowledge what 15:59 happened I made a 16:02 guruji when I was 11 years 16:06 old one Baba jicame to the house my 16:09 mother gave him 11 rupees, he said a 16:12 mantra in my ear and he went off I don't 16:15 know where he's gone and he doesn't know 16:16 where I've gone but now I've got this 16:20 Guru and you cannot now I stuck with him 16:25 I cannot change my Guru so Guru cannot 16:28 be changed so I'm stuck now how will I 16:31 get 16:32 knowledge remember the important thing 16:36 is to get knowledge, not to get stuck 16:39 with the 16:40 guru if your work is not done from there 16:45 you go ahead and find another 16:47 Guru in your past life you had another 16:51 Guru in the previous to past life you had another 16:53 Guru if you go to one doctor and you're 16:56 not cured you go to the next Doctor 17:00 you're not cured you go to the third 17:02 doctor because you have to cure 17:04 yourself you don't say you know now I've 17:07 got this doctor whether I live or I die 17:10 what to do similarly you don't say you 17:13 know now I'm stuck whether I go to 17:14 heaven or hell your human form was for 17:19 getting true knowledge so go and find 17:22 the right Guru and get that true 17:24 knowledge the guru will give you the 17:26 theoretical knowledge you will do it 17:29 practically and you will get the 17:31 Enlightenment from within which Shri 17:34 Krishna is talking

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