Why Should You Know God | Goal of Life - Part 3 | Swami Mukundananda

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1# If you understand why you want happiness, you will automatically start going in the direction of God. 

And if you can understand the nature of God, you will automatically understand why you want happiness.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKP0tb1sQ4&t=9 2# So let us now shift focus and delve into the nature of God. In the Yajurved, there is a section called the Krishna Yajurved, in that there is an Upanishad called the Taittiriya  Upanishad which has got three sections, Bhrigu-valli, Brahmanand-valli & Shiksha-valli.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKP0tb1sQ4&t=33 3# So from Bhrigu-valli, I am telling you an episode, there was this sage called Bhrigu. Some of you have heard his name Bhrigu Samhita is an astrological treatise, Bhrigu has been a great sage in Indian history. When he wanted knowledge, he thought whom should I accept as my Guru and then decided that when my father Varun, the god of the ocean, is such a great Brahma Gyani, then why search any further? Let me accept my father as my spiritual preceptor (Guru).  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKP0tb1sQ4&t=59 4# Bhrigu went to father Varun and said, father, today, I am coming not as your child, but as your disciple. That Supreme divine entity, somebody calls Krishna, somebody calls Ram, somebody calls Shiv, somebody says Brahman, somebody says Paramatma, Bhagwan, God, Lord, Allah, Khuda. Who is that? Varun answered “Verse” .  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKP0tb1sQ4&t=115 5# Bhrigu, God is He from whom the entire creation and everything that is, has emanated. God is He within whom all of creation is situated. God, is He into whom one day, this entire creation will merge. Have you understood ? Bhrigu said, father, from, within, into - this philosophical topic has gone over my head.  So, Varun then said, look Bhrigu,  if you wish to understand God, he is not a subject of words. It's not that I say rasgulla and you understand, you will need to practice austerities and gain realization.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKP0tb1sQ4&t=160 6# 3:50: So Bhrigu went off and in the course of his sadhana, he had a realization. “Verse”, the entire creation is coming from grain. People eat the grain and their body becomes रस रक्त माँस मेदा हड्डी मज्जा वीर्य (ras, rakt, maans, meda, haddi, majja, virya), the sequence. So, grain is the sustaining foundation of all creation, grain must be Brahaman.”verse”, with this discovery,  Bhrigu returned to Varun and said, father, is grain Brahman ? Varun was quiet, quiet means that you are wrong.  So again Bhrigu then again asked what is Brahman? He got the instruction. Again he went off to practice austerity. So the second time he had the realization that “Pran” (प्राण) is the basis of it all, when he gave this  discovery to guru dev, Varun was again quiet. Go practice a little more.  The third time, he found out man - the mind is Brahman, many people, they give so much emphasis to the mind, the mind is all that it is, we have that book, “The art of Mind Management”. So he said the mind and the thoughts are the basis of everything. I have now understood what is Brahman. Varun was again quiet. My child, Your austerities are not complete. Go and practice further.  Fourth time, Bhrigu discovered, “verse”, intellect is Brahman, the intellect is inspiring the mind, gurudev. Is this right? Gurudev said no, try once more.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKP0tb1sQ4&t=230 7#  The fifth and last time, Bhrigu discovered  Anand or Bliss is the nature of Brahman. It is from that Bliss that we have emanated, it is in that Bliss that we are all situated and it is into that Bliss that we shall merge one day. When Bhrigu said this, Varun, encouraged him, well done, my child. You have understood the nature of Brahman.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKP0tb1sQ4&t=415 8# So what is the nature of Brahman? Bliss, happiness, Anand. That is why there is a name for God in the vedas, Sat Chit Anand, Shrimad Bhagwatam is saying the Shree Murti of God is made of Bliss, not of flesh & bones. Padm Puran says God's stomach, hands, feet, face are all made of Bliss.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKP0tb1sQ4&t=465 9# So all these scriptures are telling us that God is of the nature of Bliss. There is a little distinction to be made here.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKP0tb1sQ4&t=531 10# Sometimes people say there is bliss in God, Sansar Mein Anand Nahin Hai Swami Ji Bhagwan Mein Anand Hai (संसार में आनंद नहीं है, स्वामी जी, भगवान में आनंद है), however, this statement of “happiness in God” is not correct. What do you mean by happiness in God? This is only a figure of speech, like people say, there is water in the ocean.  So what is the ocean? Is it the name of a vessel? Give me a synonym for ocean - a huge body of water is the ocean, correct. So ocean means a huge body of water and you said water in the ocean. That means water in a huge body of water. What kind of speech is that - that's only a manner of expression, the fact is that the ocean itself is water. You may say there is water in the ocean but it's not accurate.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKP0tb1sQ4&t=545 11# Similarly, somebody may say there is Bliss in God but that is inaccurate. God Himself is bliss, you can never separate God from Bliss. Like you can separate the Ras from the Gulla, you see the rasgulla, an Indian delicacy, has got two parts to it, the sugar syrup called the Ras and the cheese ball called the Gulla. Now, when you immerse the Gulla in the Ras and it absorbs the Ras, then the Gulla becomes Rasgulla, otherwise it is dry.  I don't think your mouth will water for the sake of a Gulla, but for Rasgulla it might.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKP0tb1sQ4&t=628 12# Similarly, if you say and there is bliss in God, it means that God is bliss-less and bliss came from outside, now He became blissful, but that's not what the vedas are saying. The Vedas are saying, know God Himself is Bliss. God is Ras. So God and Blsss are synonymous. God is Bliss. Bliss is God. You may ponder (think deeply), what is Swami Ji trying to tell us? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKP0tb1sQ4&t=683

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Why do we want to be Happy? | Goal of Life - Part 2 by Swami Mukundanand

Why do we want to be Happy? | Goal of Life - Part 2 by Swami Mukundanand

https://youtu.be/aQI4ji7rhDM?si=WTpPGZ2SVo6ZCxu5 Full Text 1   Why do you want happiness ? It's an addiction ! it's a good try but there is something deeper, see an addiction grows but happiness is something you want from the time you were born, the first thing we did when we were born we raised a slogan, give me happiness, give me happiness, give me happiness  https://youtu.be/aQI4ji7rhDM&t=9  2   you'll say Swamiji we raised that kind of slogan when we were born ? we could not even say ABCD क ख ग घ, what was the first thing we did upon birth ? we cried, why did we cry ? because in the process of birth, we experienced misery.  By crying, we revealed our nature, I have not come into this world for misery, I have come for happiness, give me happiness and from that day until today, all that we have been doing is for the sake of happiness.  https://youtu.be/aQI4ji7rhDM&t=46  3   Is there any soul who wants misery in opposition to happiness ? None, isn't that astonishing ? otherwise we are all different, our facial appearances are different, our fingerprints are different, that's the reason behind photo or bio matrics,  if we all had the same fingerprints then photo or bio matrics would have served no purpose but the 7 billion people on the planet Earth have all got different fingerprints, that is the extent of variety that God has filled into this creation  https://youtu.be/aQI4ji7rhDM&t=98  4   our voices are different, people give me a call, I have just landed in America, people ring up, Radhe Radhe, Swamiji, you have reached ? yes, I've reached, who's speaking ? Swami ji, you please guess ! how will I guess ?  is this a video call or FaceTime or Skype or something ? no, no, you have to guess from my voice, now the voice has got a few decibels within those few decibels, there is such variety that you can remember fifty thousand different kinds of voices and sounds,  our bodily aromas are also different, you may not realize but the dog perceives it because the dog has a powerful nose. Go and meet your friend who has a dog at home, the dog sees you from far and starts barking, you go close and the dog comes to sniff you and then the dog is quiet, this smell is familiar to me, it's in my file, he's a friend of mine, so our bodily aromas are different,  in other words we are all different in every way, no two trees are alike, no two leaves of a single tree are identical, such is the nature of this world, yet in the matter of happiness, we are all identical, we all have that one slogan that “I want to be happy”.  https://youtu.be/aQI4ji7rhDM&t=149  5   Now ponder again, did anybody teach us ? Look my child, you must seek happiness, it should not happen that you start running after misery like we were taught in so many ways when we were growing up, my child, speak the truth don't ever tell lies, never steal anybody's property, our parents instructed us, our teachers taught us in the same manner  but did our elders instruct us while we were growing up, my child you must seek happiness ? it should not come about that you run after misery, this instruction was never given to us, please listen very carefully everybody,  otherwise we did not learn even the slightest bit of knowledge without being taught, we did not even recognize our mother until we were trained that this is your mother, beta, say mummy, so we found all these elders repeatedly pointing towards that lady and telling us to say mummy, we also said mummy, in other words every little bit of knowledge we had to learn, then where did this huge chunk of knowledge come that I should make happiness as the goal of my life  https://youtu.be/aQI4ji7rhDM&t=265  6  and we do so many things in this world, varieties, completely opposite, both of them for the sake of happiness, sometimes we sit, sometimes we stand, they are both opposite activities but both are done for the sake of happiness, right now you're sitting and listening to Swamiji's lecture, are you experiencing happiness ?  you know in acting just to satisfy me, you can say yes, Swami ji, but supposing I continue speaking till eleven o'clock at night, will you keep sitting ? I'll test that out at eight o'clock, you see, I've got to get up. What happened ? you were sitting for the sake of happiness, Swamiji, you have become so boring, I'm bored, sick, getting up is giving me happiness, you see doing one activity when the happiness dried up, you don't wish to do it any longer, now you wish to do the reverse but that reverse also you wish to do only because it will give you happiness. Sometimes you wake up, sometimes you go to sleep, at night you go to sleep at home.  https://youtu.be/aQI4ji7rhDM&t=380  7   Does sleeping give you happiness ? oh yes, lots of it. According to the Vedas, the highest bliss in the world is the bliss of deep sleep, not dream sleep,  in dream sleep the same माड़ धाड़ continues, somebody is running after you, you are running after somebody  but when you stop dreaming, at that time you don't experience anything and when you wake up you realize you say I slept so peacefully, I did not experience anything, that experience of not experiencing anything, according to the Vedas is the biggest bliss of the material realm, it is not yet the bliss of God but a glimpse of it.  https://youtu.be/aQI4ji7rhDM&t=482 8   So you enjoy sleeping ? yes, Swami ji, all right you take leave from office four days, just keep sleeping, we'll create a fund to compensate even if it's unpaid leave, you just have to sleep 12 hours, can I get up ?  no, keep sleeping. 16 hours, I have to get up, no, keep sleeping, how long will I sleep, why you were saying that sleeping gives you happiness ?  now I'm bored of sleeping, I need to get up, again when the activity became boring, the person wishes to do the reverse and why the reverse ? because that will now be the source of happiness, so all day long we do contradictory activities but we are searching happiness in both of them,  https://youtu.be/aQI4ji7rhDM&t=545  9   in fact we even cry for happiness. Intuitively you may feel that there is happiness in laughing and misery in crying but the vedas inform us that crying is also a pursuit of happiness.  Ask somebody, why are you crying ? my father in India passed away so I went to cremate him and I came back and my mother passed away, so I went to cremate her and came back and my house got burnt. So ?  My question is why are you crying , if there is misery in crying, you got the misery of your father passing away, the misery of your mother passing away, the misery of your house getting burnt, if some activity gives you unhappiness, why will you do it ?  There's no rule in America that if your father has passed away you better cry otherwise you'll be put in jail for three years, then why does a person cry ? you know all that misery I got from my father passing away, mother passing away, my house getting burnt,  by crying I’m taking it out, this is giving me relief, if I don't cry, I'll go crazy - so what happened ? when the misery became too much, the person is crying and experiencing relief, that means even the crying is a search for happiness  https://youtu.be/aQI4ji7rhDM&t=607  10   so we come to this conclusion that 24 hours a day, all we do is in the pursuit of happiness and the search has been going on since the time we were born - let us then try and understand why do we want happiness ?  this is the defining foundational question of spirituality and the answer to this has been given in the Vedas, if you can understand why you want happiness you will automatically start going in the direction of God and if you can understand the nature of God, you will automatically understand why you want happiness  https://youtu.be/aQI4ji7rhDM&t=730  Transcript 0:09 Why do you want happiness ? 0:14 It's an 0:19 addiction ! it's a good try but there is 0:24 something deeper, see an addiction grows 0:27 but happiness is something you want from 0:32 the time you were born, the first thing 0:36 we did when we were born we raised a 0:40 slogan, give me happiness, give me 0:43 happiness, give me happiness, 0:46 you'll say Swamiji we raised that kind of 0:50 slogan when we were born ? we could not 0:53 even say ABCD क ख ग घ, what was the 0:59 first thing we did upon birth ? we cried, 1:04 why did we cry ? because in the process of 1:09 birth, we experienced misery. By crying, we 1:15 revealed our nature, I have not come into 1:19 this world for misery, I have come for 1:22 happiness, give me happiness and from 1:28 that day until today, all that we have 1:33 been doing is for the sake of happiness. 1:38 Is there any soul who wants misery in 1:43 opposition to happiness ? 1:47 None, isn't that astonishing ? otherwise we 1:54 are all different, 1:55 our facial appearances are different, our 2:01 fingerprints are different, that's the 2:03 reason behind photo or bio matrics, if we all had 2:07 the same fingerprints then photo or bio matrics 2:10 would have served no purpose but the 2:13 7 billion people on the planet Earth 2:17 have all got different fingerprints, that 2:21 is the extent of 2:23 variety that God has filled into this creation, 2:29 our voices are different, people give me 2:35 a call, I have just landed in America, 2:37 people ring up, Radhe Radhe, Swamiji,  2:41 you have reached ? yes, I've reached, who's 2:44 speaking ? 2:44 Swami ji, you please guess ! how will I 2:48 guess ? is this a video call or FaceTime 2:51 or Skype or something ? no, no, you have to 2:53 guess from my voice, now the voice has 2:57 got a few decibels within those few 3:01 decibels, there is such variety that you 3:04 can remember fifty thousand different 3:07 kinds of voices and sounds, our bodily 3:13 aromas are also different, you may not 3:17 realize but the dog perceives it because the 3:22 dog has a powerful nose. Go and meet your 3:27 friend who has a dog at home, the dog 3:30 sees you from far and starts barking, you 3:35 go close and the dog comes to sniff you 3:37 and then the dog is quiet, 3:41 this smell is familiar to me, it's in my 3:44 file, he's a friend of mine, so our bodily 3:48 aromas are different, in other words we 3:52 are all different in every way, no 3:57 two trees are alike, no two leaves of a 4:02 single tree are identical, such is the 4:07 nature of this world, yet in the matter 4:12 of happiness, we are all identical, we all 4:18 have that one slogan that “I want to be happy”. 4:25 Now ponder again, did anybody teach us ? 4:32 Look my child, you must seek 4:36 happiness, it should not happen that you 4:39 start running after misery like we were 4:46 taught in so many ways when we were 4:49 growing up, my child, speak the truth 4:52 don't ever tell lies, never steal 4:56 anybody's property, 4:58 our parents instructed us, our teachers 5:03 taught us in the same manner but did our 5:06 elders instruct us while we were growing 5:09 up, my child you must seek happiness  ? it 5:15 should not come about that you run after 5:17 misery, this instruction was never given 5:23 to us, please listen very carefully 5:30 everybody, otherwise we did not learn 5:37 even the slightest bit of knowledge 5:40 without being taught,  5:43 we did not even recognize our mother 5:47 until we were trained that this is your 5:51 mother, beta, say mummy, so we found all 5:56 these elders repeatedly pointing towards 6:00 that lady and telling us to say mummy, we 6:03 also said mummy, in other words every 6:09 little bit of knowledge we had to learn, 6:14 then where did this huge chunk of 6:18 knowledge come that I should make 6:20 happiness as the goal of my life and we 6:27 do so many things in this world, 6:30 varieties, completely opposite, both of 6:37 them for the sake of happiness, sometimes 6:40 we sit, sometimes we stand, 6:45 they are both opposite activities 6:49 but both are done for the sake of 6:52 happiness, right now you're sitting and 6:56 listening to Swamiji's lecture, 6:59 are you experiencing happiness ? you know 7:04 in acting just to satisfy me, you can say 7:06 yes, Swami ji, but supposing I continue 7:11 speaking till eleven o'clock at night, 7:13 will you keep sitting ? I'll test that out 7:20 at eight o'clock, you see, I've got to get 7:24 up. What happened ? 7:26 you were sitting for the sake of 7:28 happiness, Swamiji, you have become so 7:31 boring, I'm bored, sick, getting up is 7:34 giving me happiness, you see doing one 7:39 activity when the happiness dried up, 7:42 you don't wish to do it any longer, now 7:45 you wish to do the reverse but that 7:48 reverse also you wish to do only because 7:51 it will give you happiness. Sometimes you 7:56 wake up, sometimes you go to sleep, at 7:59 night you go to sleep, at home, of course, 8:02 Does sleeping give you 8:05 happiness ? oh yes, lots of it. According to 8:10 the Vedas, the highest bliss in the world 8:15 is the bliss of deep sleep, not dream 8:21 sleep, in dream sleep the same माड़ धाड़  8:24 continues, somebody is running after 8:28 you, you are running after somebody but 8:30 when you stop dreaming, at that time you 8:33 don't experience anything and when you 8:37 wake up you realize you say  I slept so peacefully,  I did not experience 8:48 anything, that experience of not 8:53 experiencing anything, according to the 8:57 Vedas is the biggest bliss 8:59 of the material realm, it is not yet the 9:05 bliss of God but a glimpse of it. So you 9:11 enjoy sleeping ? yes, Swami ji, all right you 9:16 take leave from office four days, just 9:18 keep sleeping, we'll create a fund to 9:22 compensate even if it's unpaid leave, 9:24 you just have to sleep 12 hours, can I 9:28 get up  ? no, keep sleeping. 16 hours, I have 9:33 to get up, no, keep sleeping, how long will I 9:37 sleep, why you were saying that sleeping 9:40 gives you happiness ? now I'm bored of 9:44 sleeping, I need to get up, again when the 9:48 activity became boring, the person wishes 9:53 to do the reverse and why the reverse ? 9:56 because that will now be the source of 10:00 happiness, so all day long we do 10:04 contradictory activities but we are 10:07 searching happiness in both of them, in 10:12 fact we even cry for happiness.  10:18 Intuitively you may feel that there is 10:22 happiness in laughing and misery in 10:26 crying but the vedas inform us that 10:32 crying is also a pursuit of happiness. 10:36 Ask somebody, why are you crying ? my 10:39 father in India passed away so I went to 10:45 cremate him and I came back and my 10:47 mother passed away, so I went to cremate 10:51 her and came back and my house got burnt. 10:54  So ? My question is why are you crying , if 11:00 there is misery in crying, you got the 11:05 misery of your father passing away, the 11:08 misery of your mother passing away, the 11:11 misery of your house 11:13 getting burnt, if some activity gives 11:16 you unhappiness, why will you do it ? 11:21 There's no rule in America that if your 11:25 father has passed away you better cry 11:27 otherwise you'll be put in jail for 11:29 three years, then why does a person cry ? 11:35 you know all that misery I got from my 11:39 father passing away, mother passing away, 11:41 my house getting burnt, by crying I’m taking 11:45 it out, this is giving me relief, if I 11:51 don't cry, I'll go crazy - so what happened ? 11:56 when the misery became too much, the 11:59 person is crying and experiencing relief, 12:05 that means even the crying is a search 12:10 for happiness so we come to this 12:14 conclusion that 24 hours a day, all we do 12:20 is in the pursuit of happiness and the 12:24 search has been going on since the time 12:28 we were born - let us then try and 12:34 understand why do we want happiness ? this 12:40 is the defining foundational question of 12:45 spirituality and the answer to this has 12:50 been given in the Vedas, if you can 12:55 understand why you want happiness you 13:00 will automatically start going in the 13:03 direction of God and if you can 13:08 understand the nature of God you will 13:13 automatically understand why you want 13:17 happiness 

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Lord Krishna's WARNING: What If You DON'T Do Your Duty? Bhagavad Gita - Swami Mukundananda Karma Yog

Lord Krishna's WARNING: What If You DON'T Do Your Duty? Bhagavad Gita - Swami Mukundananda Karma Yog

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Full Text 1   Bhagavad Gita Chapter 3 Verse 26 Chanting “Verse”: the wise should not create discord in the intellects of ignorant people who are attached to fruitive actions (कर्म कांड) by inducing them to stop work, rather by performing their duties in an enlightened manner, they should inspire the ignorant also to do their prescribed duties.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-lvPLSTcYo&t=75  2   Shri Krishna says in this verse, Arjun, the great personalities, they have a responsibility, what is that ? that others should not be misled by them, this is a big responsibility.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-lvPLSTcYo&t=109  3   There is this story, you see, this i told you, the saints preach according to the level of the students or the people they find so, when the Buddha came 2500 years ago, He did not accept, He did not discuss the presence of God, even though He is the avatar of God Himself  He did not talk about God, in Buddhism, there is no God in Heian Buddhism, why ? because he saw the level of the people at that time, they were misinterpreting vedas, they were engaging in wrong customs in the name of devotion, they were exceedingly involved in the rituals,  so the Buddha said if this is the way you are practicing vedic knowledge, it is better that you don't follow the vedas, and He took them away and said just cleanse your heart, so His one message was cleanse your heart this is the essence of it all and He inspired people on this path, all right your rituals and all is fine but this is the essence of it.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-lvPLSTcYo&t=133  4   And there was a time when the whole of India was covered by Buddhism, it had spread everywhere and it was for the benefit of the people, however the journey had to continue, they had to be taken further,  so then of course you know that Shankaracharya came and brought back the vedas but before Shankaracharya came, Kumarila Bhatt, some of you may have heard his name, the guru of Mandan Mishra, he found everybody in Bharatwarash practicing the Buddhist philosophy, not accepting the vedas he said I have to do something about it,  he was an empowered acharya, so he first of all went and studied Buddhism in the Buddhist monasteries from Buddhist gurus and when he understood the philosophy deeply, then he said all right, now I shall engage in debate with you and engaging in debate with them he defeated them,  so he established the rituals, he brought everybody back into the vedas, you know this ritual is important, this ritual is important, the Mimansa Darshan, the Karm Kand  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-lvPLSTcYo&t=221  5   now he did his work selflessly only for the welfare of the people, he had no wrong intention but then he started thinking that people will misinterpret my actions,  this is his responsibility people will misinterpret they will say that he got knowledge from the gurus and then defeated them, this is guru droh (द्रोह), so he said, I must do prayschit (प्रायश्चित) (repentance), how to do it ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-lvPLSTcYo&t=305  6   so he lit a fire of Tush grass the Tushanal (fire from Tusha grass), which burns very slowly and he sat down on that fire, this is my repentance for doing guru droh even though I did it with good intent but I don't want others to be misled or to endeavor to copy me, so he was sitting on this fire  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-lvPLSTcYo&t=341  7   and along came Shankaracharya, Shankaracharya's task was to take people higher beyond the rituals, beyond Karm Kand, into gyan, into knowledge and the biggest acharya at that time was Kumaril Bhatt,  so Shankaracharya came to engage in scriptural debate (shastraath) with him but when he reached Kumarila Bhatt, he saw he's sitting on this Tushanall fire he said I had come to engage in shastraath (scriptural debate) with you, Kumaril Bhatt said it's not very convenient to have shastraarth right now because I am being slowly roasted on this fire by my own choice  but my disciple is no less than me, Mundan Mishra, you go and debate with him, in his defeat I will accept defeat  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-lvPLSTcYo&t=374  8   so the famous debate took place. Shankaracharya went to Mundan Mishra and then they had this long discussion and finally Mundan Mishra was defeated, Kumaril Bhatt realized that although he is doing the right thing, it should not set a wrong precedent for the general public  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-lvPLSTcYo&t=430  9   similarly Shri Krishna says, Arjun, the enlightened souls if they leave all duties, nothing to do with parents, nothing to do with this they are not wrong, they are absolutely right, but there will be then those who will prematurely start copying them  and they will neither do their duties to God nor to the world, so they will not become karma yogis or Karma sanyasis, they will become Vikarmis, so that is why Shree Krishna says, Arjun, the path that you choose you must keep this criteria in your mind  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-lvPLSTcYo&t=457  

Transcript

Intro

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when the buddha came 2500 years ago he

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did not discuss the presence of God even

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though he is the avatar of God Himself,

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He did not talk about God

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so his one message was to cleanse your

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heart, your rituals and all is fine but

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this is the essence of it, of course you

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know that Shankaracharya came and

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brought back the Vedas, he established

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the rituals, he brought people back into

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the vedas, you know this ritual is

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important, this ritual is important,

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Why ?

Bhagavad Gita Chapter 3 Verse 26 Chanting

“Verse”

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the wise

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should not create discord

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in the intellects of ignorant people

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who are attached to fruitive actions

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by inducing them to stop work

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rather

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by performing their duties

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in an enlightened manner

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they should inspire the ignorant also to

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do their prescribed duties.

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Shri Krishna says in this verse, Arjun,

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the great personalities,

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they have a responsibility,

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what is that ?

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that others should not be misled by them,

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this is a big responsibility.

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There is this story,

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you see, this i told you, the saints

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preach according to the level of

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the students or the people they find

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so, when the Buddha came 2500 years ago,

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He did not accept, He did not discuss the

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presence of God,

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even though He is the avatar of God

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Himself,

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He did not talk about God,

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in Buddhism, there is no God

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in Heian Buddhism,

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why ? because he saw the level of the

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people at that time,

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they were misinterpreting vedas,

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they were engaging in wrong customs in

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the name of devotion,

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they were exceedingly involved in the

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rituals,

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so the Buddha said if this is the way

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you are practicing vedic knowledge, it is

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better that you don't follow the vedas,

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and He took them away and said just

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cleanse your heart,

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so His one message was cleanse your

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heart

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this is the essence of it all

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and He inspired

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people on this path, all right your

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rituals and all is fine but this is the

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essence of it.

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And there was a time when the whole of

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India was covered by Buddhism,

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it had spread everywhere and it was for

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the benefit of the people,

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however the journey had to continue, they

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had to be taken further,

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so then of course you know that

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Shankaracharya came and brought back the

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vedas but before Shankaracharya came,

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Kumarila Bhatt,

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some of you may have heard his name, the

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guru of Mandan Mishra, he found everybody

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in Bharatwarash practicing the Buddhist

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philosophy, not accepting the vedas

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he said I have to do something about it,

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he was an empowered acharya,

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so he first of all went and studied

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Buddhism

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in the Buddhist monasteries from

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Buddhist gurus

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and when he understood the philosophy

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deeply,

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then he said all right,

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now I shall engage in debate with you

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and engaging in debate with them he

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defeated them,

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so he established the rituals, he brought

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everybody back into the vedas, you

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know this ritual is important, this

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ritual is important,

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the Mimansa Darshan, the Karm Kand

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now he did his work selflessly only for

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the welfare of the people, he had no

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wrong intention

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but then he started thinking

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that people will misinterpret my actions,

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this is his responsibility

people will

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misinterpret

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they will say that he got knowledge from

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the gurus and then defeated them, this is

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guru droh (द्रोह),

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so he said, I must do prayschit (प्रायश्चित) (repentance),

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how to do it ?

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so he

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lit a fire

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of

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Tush grass

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the Tushanal,

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which burns very slowly

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and he sat down on that fire,

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this is my repentance

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for doing guru droh

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even though I did it with good intent

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but I don't want others to be misled

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or to endeavor to copy me,

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so he was sitting on this fire

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and along came Shankaracharya,

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Shankaracharya's task was to take people

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higher beyond the rituals, beyond Karm

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Kand, into gyan, into knowledge and the

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biggest acharya at that time

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was Kumaril Bhatt,

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so Shankaracharya came to engage in

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scriptural debate (shastraath) with him

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but when he reached Kumarila Bhatt, he saw

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he's sitting on this Tushanall fire

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he said I had come to engage in

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shastraath (scriptural debate) with you,

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Kumaril Bhatt said it's not very convenient to have

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shastraarth right now

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because I am being slowly roasted on

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this fire

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by my own choice

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but my disciple is no less than me,

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Mundan Mishra,

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you go and debate with him,

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in his defeat I will accept defeat,

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so the famous debate took place.

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Shankaracharya went to Mundan Mishra and

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then they had this long discussion and

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finally Mundan Mishra was defeated,

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Kumaril Bhatt realized

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that although he is doing the right

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thing,

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it should not set a wrong precedent for

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the general public,

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similarly Shri Krishna says, Arjun, the

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enlightened souls

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if they leave all duties, nothing to

7:44

do with parents, nothing to do with this

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they are not wrong,

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they are absolutely right,

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but there will be then those who will

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prematurely start copying

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them and they will neither do their

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duties to God

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nor to the world,

8:04

so they will not become karma yogis or

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Karma sanyasis, they will become

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Vikarmis,

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so that is why Shree Krishna says, Arjun,

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the path that you choose you must keep

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this criteria in your mind

 

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