Why is God not visible ? | Part-3 | Swami Mukundananda

Why is God not visible ? | Part-3 | Swami Mukundananda

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Full Text 1   But the fact is, all of us have seen God. Really! When? In our past lives. Does God possess senses like we do? Does He have eyes and ears? The Vedas say,  “verse”, God doesn't have any senses. He is not like us. He is not limited by these five senses and the mind. But if He doesn't have senses, then how does He see?  if He doesn't have ears then how does He hear? Well Swamiji, God is only light. This form is human creation. But tell me then how is He seeing, hearing, tasting? We know that wherever any soul prays to God, God is able to hear, how does He manage to do that? So the Vedas again give a contradictory answer.  They say “verse” Everywhere are God's ears, everywhere are God's eyes. Whatever you do He will see. Whatever you say He will hear. Nothing is unknown to Him. Everywhere are His hands and His feet. We'll say, I can't understand such a God. That is exactly what I'm telling you. You can't understand a God who is so contradictory.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEsMZPwWZg8&t=0  2   “verse” God is as hard as a thunderbolt. When mahapralay takes place, all the souls are crying. But He hardens Himself. You are crying, you are dying, never mind. I don't care. He's that hard! and at the same time, His heart is softer than a flower.  Wherever any soul sincerely prays to him with a selfless devotion, God melts and reaches there to Grace him. So He's hard, He is also soft. Hence the Atharvavediya Mundaka Upanishad says that through lectures, through dissertations, you can neither explain God nor can anybody understand God. Nor can you understand God through the width of your intellect.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEsMZPwWZg8&t=134  3   But Swamiji, I'm a post graduate from UT Dallas. Why can't I understand God? I'm so intelligent. Tell me, this intelligence of which you have such pride ultimately it is only two fingers in length. Isn't it? That is our intellect and how big is God? He is infinite. How will you fit that infinite in your tiny, little intellect?  It is like some people were desirous of measuring the depth of a lake. So one person took a scale that was two feet long. He immersed the scale and said my dear friends I have measured the depth of this lake. Take a look, two feet. Everybody noted the lake is two feet deep. Now the next person came, he had a scale that was five feet.  He immersed his scale and he said the first person was wrong, look in front of you I'm measuring it. It's five feet. Everybody noted five feet. Now one after the other people kept coming to measure the depth of that lake.  The extent of their scale, to that extent they kept declaring its depth. In the same way, to the width of our intellect we explain the personality of God. Our intellect is limited by its own experience.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEsMZPwWZg8&t=214  4   The Nyay Darshan calls this the "Koop Manduka Nyay." (Koop,कूप =well, कुआं) Do you know what is "Kupa Manduka Nyay? The frog in the well logic. There was a frog who used to peacefully live in a little well. It was very familiar with the periphery of the well and it would cover the whole width in four jumps.  One day a frog came from the ocean. There is one breed of frog that lives in the ocean as well. So the ocean frog came hopping along and jumped into the well. These two frogs started doing a little chitchat. He said, where is this place you have come from. The other frog said, I have come from the ocean. The ocean? how big is it? is it as big as my well? No, it's very big! so the frog jumped four times. He said is the ocean two times the width of my well? The ocean frog said, no much bigger! He said 10 times? Even bigger! Hundred times? The ocean frog said even bigger than that!  The well Frog said you liar, how could anything be more than hundred times the size of my well? The well Frog has lived its entire life in the well. That is all it knows. That is the limit of its intellect. Similarly what you have experienced, what you have understood, that is the limit of the intellect.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEsMZPwWZg8&t=322  5   The vedas are saying, God is beyond this. And even if you get the intellect of Saraswathi or the intellect of Brihaspati, let us say it's available for auction on eBay suppose, and you purchase the intellect of five, six Saraswathis, even with that you cannot know the Lord, because that is still finite and the Lord is infinite.  So the mantra is saying, if God Himself were to come here and explain His own personality, even then you would not attain Him. Why not Swamiji?  If God comes here, I will see Him, I will become God realized. It's not so simple. God is sitting in your heart. Are you becoming God realized? God is pervading every pore of your body. Is it helping you in any way?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEsMZPwWZg8&t=435  6   No, but Swamiji you know if the avatari Bhagvan, Krishna avatar, Ram avatar, if I see Them, then I'll definitely become God realized. No you won't, because Their divine form is beyond matter and your senses are material.  With these senses when you see Him, He will seem material to you. That is why Shri Krishna says, Arjun when I descend in this world as an avatar, the materially conditioned souls are unable to recognize me, because they don't have divine eyes.  Is it that we have never seen God? Sometimes we think you know these Swami's and Mahatma's, they keep talking about God. Who has ever seen God? Has anyone seen Him at all? But the fact is all of us have seen God. Really! When? In our past lives.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEsMZPwWZg8&t=527  7   This is not our first life. We have come on this planet innumerable times. When Lord Krishna was here five thousand years ago and lived on this planet for 125 years, it's possible we were right here.  It's possible we saw Him. When Lord Rama was here for eleven thousand years, it is possible that in our past life we were there in Ayodhya or Dandakaranya or Kiskindha So it's quite likely we saw Him and these avatars, Rama avatar, Krishna avatar, have taken place innumerable times.  And we have had innumerable past births. So the probability is that in some past life or the other we actually saw God. However we were not able to benefit, because His form was divine and our eyes were material.  So the Vedas say by none of these schemes and none of these gimmicks can you ever reach God. You will say Swamiji, all right you have told me in a hundred ways how I cannot know God. Now please tell me how I can know God.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEsMZPwWZg8&t=608  Transcript 0:00 But the fact is, all of us have seen God. 0:06 Really! When? In our past lives. 0:21 Does God possess senses like we do? Does He have eyes and ears? The 0:31 Vedas say ,...sanskrit verse... 0:38 God doesn't have any senses. He is not like us. 0:46 He is not limited by these five senses and the mind. But if He doesn't 0:55 have senses, then how does He see? if He doesn't have ears then how does He hear? 1:02 Well Swamiji, God is only light. This form is human creation. But tell me then 1:09 how is He seeing, hearing, tasting? We know that wherever any soul prays to God, 1:19 God is able to hear, how does He manage to do that? 1:24 So the Vedas again give a contradictory answer. They say 1:30 “verse” 1:40 Everywhere are God's ears, everywhere are God's eyes. Whatever you do He will see. 1:51 Whatever you say He will hear. Nothing is unknown to Him. Everywhere are His hands 2:01 and His feet. We'll say, I can't understand such a God. That is exactly 2:09 what I'm telling you. You can't understand a God who is so contradictory. 2:14 “verse” 2:23 God is as hard as a thunderbolt. When mahapralay takes place, all the 2:33 souls are crying. But He hardens Himself. You are crying, you are dying, 2:42 never mind. I don't care. He's that hard! and at the same time, 2:51 His heart is softer than a flower. Wherever any soul sincerely prays to him with a 3:01 selfless devotion, God melts and reaches there to Grace him. So He's hard, He is 3:10 also soft. Hence the Atharvavediya Mundaka Upanishad 3:17 says that through lectures, through dissertations, 3:26 you can neither explain God nor can anybody understand God. 3:34 Nor can you understand God through the width of your intellect. But Swamiji, I'm 3:43 a post graduate from UT Dallas. Why can't I understand God? I'm so intelligent. Tell 3:51 me, this intelligence of which you have such pride ultimately it is only two 3:57 fingers in length. Isn't it? That is our intellect and how big is God? He is infinite. 4:05 How will you fit that infinite in your tiny, little intellect? It is like 4:13 some people were desirous of measuring the depth of a lake. So one 4:20 person took a scale that was two feet long. He immersed the scale and said my 4:28 dear friends I have measured the depth of this lake. 4:32 Take a look, two feet. Everybody noted the lake is two feet deep. 4:38 Now the next person came, he had a scale that was five feet. He immersed his scale 4:45 and he said the first person was wrong, look in front of you I'm measuring it. 4:50 It's five feet. Everybody noted five feet. Now one after the other people kept 4:57 coming to measure the depth of that lake. The extent of their scale, to that 5:04 extent they kept declaring its depth. In the same way, to the width of our 5:12 intellect we explain the personality of God. Our intellect is limited by its 5:22 own experience. The Nyay Darshan calls this the "Koop Manduka Nyay." (Koop,कूप =well, कुआं) 5:31 Do you know what is "Kupa Manduka Nyay? The frog in the well logic. There was a frog who 5:40 used to peacefully live in a little well. It was very familiar with the periphery 5:47 of the well and it would cover the whole width in four jumps. One day a frog 5:56 came from the ocean. There is one breed of frog that lives in the ocean as well. 6:02 So the ocean frog came hopping along and jumped into the well. These two frogs 6:09 started doing a little chitchat. He said, where is this place you have come from. 6:15 The other frog said, I have come from the ocean. The ocean? how big is it? 6:21 is it as big as my well? No, it's very big! so the frog jumped four times. He said is 6:32 the ocean two times the width of my well? The ocean frog said, no much bigger! 6:42 He said 10 times? Even bigger! Hundred times? The ocean frog said even bigger than 6:51 that! The well Frog said you liar, how could anything be more than hundred 6:57 times the size of my well? The well Frog has lived its entire life in the well. 7:06 That is all it knows. That is the limit of its intellect. Similarly what you have 7:15 experienced, what you have understood, that is the limit of the intellect. The 7:22 vedas are saying, God is beyond this. And even if you get the intellect 7:30 of Saraswathi or the intellect of Brihaspati, let us say it's available for 7:39 auction on eBay suppose, and you purchase the intellect of five, six Saraswathis, 7:46 even with that you cannot know the Lord, because that is still finite and the 7:53 Lord is infinite. So the mantra is saying, 8:02 if God Himself were to come here and explain His own 8:11 personality, even then you would not attain Him. 8:17 Why not Swamiji? If God comes here, I will see Him, I will become God realized. 8:30 It's not so simple. God is sitting in your heart. Are you becoming God realized? 8:39 God is pervading every pore of your body. Is it helping you in any way? 8:47 No, but Swamiji you know if the avatari Bhagvan, Krishna avatar, Ram avatar, if I 8:53 see Them, then I'll definitely become God realized. No you won't, because Their 9:00 divine form is beyond matter and your senses are material. With these senses 9:09 when you see Him, He will seem material to you. 9:19 That is why Shri Krishna says, 9:23 Arjun when I descend in this world as an 9:32 avatar,  the materially conditioned souls are unable to recognize me, because they 9:42 don't have divine eyes. Is it that we have never seen God? Sometimes we think 9:53 you know these Swami's and Mahatma's, they keep talking about God. Who has ever 9:59 seen God? Has anyone seen Him at all? But the fact is all of us have seen God. 10:08 Really! When? In our past lives. This is not our first life. We have come on this 10:19 planet innumerable times. When Lord Krishna was here five thousand years ago 10:26 and lived on this planet for 125 years, it's possible we were right here. It's 10:34 possible we saw Him. When Lord Rama was here for eleven thousand years, it is 10:41 possible that in our past life we were there in Ayodhya or Dandakaranya or Kiskindha 10:49 So it's quite likely we saw Him and 10:55 these avatars, Rama avatar, Krishna avatar, have taken place innumerable times. 11:02 And we have had innumerable 11:12 past births. So the probability is that in some past life or the other 11:21 we actually saw God. However we were not able to benefit, because His form was 11:29 divine and our eyes were material. So the Vedas say by none of these schemes and 11:37 none of these gimmicks can you ever reach God. You will say Swamiji, all right 11:47 you have told me in a hundred ways how I cannot know God. Now please tell me 11:55 how I can know God.

Is Anybody Truly Happy | Goal of Life - Part 6 by Swami Mukundanand

Is Anybody Truly Happy | Goal of Life - Part 6 by Swami Mukundanand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THXjEaNsEAc Full Text 1  so what is the illusion out here, we have forgotten who we are, all of us have forgotten & what are we thinking I am Gujarati, Marwadi, Punjabi, Sindhi, Marathi, Bengali, Indian, American, Mexican,  actually I am the soul, this knowledge has disappeared & when we have forgotten who am I, where is the question of remembering who is mine ? only God is mine.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THXjEaNsEAc&t=10  2  You ask anybody, who are you Swami ji, my name is Ramesh Sharma on Ramesh Sharma ji, this Ramesh name you got when you were three year old, what were you called before that ?  You know my nickname, my parents used to call me,for the first 3 years, they would call me Pappu, So when you were Pappu you were a different person and when you became Ramesh, did you change ? No,no, I’m the same person who was Pappu, so obviously you were neither the name Pappu nor the name, tell me who are you ?  right now I am a systems analyst in AT&T and I am assigned to be promoted to deputy general manager. All right, so systems analyst is your introduction, when you get promoted, will you change, no I will not change, then you are neither deputy manager nor the analyst, you are apart from these designations, tell me who are you ?  Swami ji, you should have guessed from the name Sharma, I am a brahmin, this brahmin is the designation of your body, do you know that in your last life, you were a kshatriya, in the life before you were a vaishya and in the life before, you were a shudra, your soul can sit in any body, how does that matter,  there are so many cars in the parking lot, somebody is sitting in a Toyota & you ask him who are you, I’m a Toyota Cameri, Now make him sit in a Honda, ask him who are you, I am a Honda, people will say what kind of ignorance has overcome the citizens of Allen you ask the driver for introduction and they introduce their car, So same way, we have forgotten the nature of the self https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THXjEaNsEAc&t=40  3  Well Swami ji, I’ve heard in kathas, I’ve read in books, that I’m the soul, you have heard, is that your introduction ? if somebody says I have heard that I am Govind Mahajan  So, you have heard that you are Govind Mahajan, you have no experience of yourself ? So we forgot ourselves & started thinking that we are the body even though we know that we will leave this body one day,  you know, everybody says upon death, such & such person left the world for heavenly abode, for Golokvas or whatever, even in the communist countries the same statement is given, last night at 8pm, such & such great party leader comrade Brezhnev left the world & next morning at 10 am, thousands of people have lined up at Comrade Brezhnev residence,  you ask them why they have come, they say we have come to see Comrade Brezhnev, But you did not hear the news that he has left the world how will you see him when he has left the world, the only way you can see him that you also leave the world, then you see him in the other world,  no, he has left the world but his body is there, we’ve come to see the body for his last darshan last time, that means Comrade Brezhnev was not the body, so you are also not the body you are the eternal soul, we forgot that  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THXjEaNsEAc&t=174  4  and from there, a compounding mistake began, what is the compounding mistake ? you start from here two plus two is equal to 7 now all the computation that you do, the mistake will not only remain, it will start compounding,  similarly, if we decide that I am the body, now the whole mathematics changes now the goal of my happiness is how to give happiness to the body.  Now we started chasing the bodily happiness, what should I eat so to get happiness, what should I hear so I’ll get bliss, we started finding happiness in the objects of the senses of the body, and in this search nobody got happiness.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THXjEaNsEAc&t=298  5  Has anybody here got happiness ? Is anybody truly happy ? Can anybody sincerely lift their hand and say yes, swami ji, I’ve found perfect bliss. Vedvyas says only two kinds of people are happy in this world,  one that person is happy who has attained God and who is relishing the bliss of God and second person that person is happy who is a mad man, the mad man is happy because he does not know that he is unhappy  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THXjEaNsEAc&t=377  6  like your neighbour who has drunk too much & fallen into the gutter & you say Govind bhai, why are you lying in the gutter ? Govind bhai says I’m lying in my bedroom, where else am I lying,  he has drunk and that’s why the gutter seems bedroom to him, similarly Vedvyas says that a God realized saint can say I am happy and the mad man can say I am happy, everybody else will have to admit that so far I have not got the happiness that I want, I’ll get it but not so far.  So we are all not happy but yet we are running in the same direction, right now i have got one million, if I can have three million, I’ll definitely be happy, right now I’ve an H1B visa & if I get Green Card, my happiness will have no bounds, so we are all running but you know that you are not fully happy, you don't know that nobody is happy  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THXjEaNsEAc&t=438  7  if you came to know that the people ahead are also unhappy then you would know that there is no point running in this direction addition, it is an exercise in futility  but our illusion is that we think I’m not happy, but the other guy must be happy. My wife, you know, she is an avatar of Chandi, but his wife, he must be happy and if you came to know that no husband and no wife is happy, you don't believe it ? I am telling you according to the scriptures  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THXjEaNsEAc&t=523  8  There was one man who used to always complain to God O God, you put all the miseries in my name, so God thought let Me open his eyes, God came at night in his dream and told him to take all his miseries and put in a bag and come to the Radha Krishna temple, I’ll meet you there  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THXjEaNsEAc&t=565  9  he woke up, he said wow what a vivid dream it was. He picked up all his miseries & put them all in a gunny bag, put the bag on his shoulder and came out of his house, it was 4.30am in the morning, it was dark he found his neighbours are also coming out, all groggy eyed with one bag each, what, God gave my neighbours also the same dream ?  So they are also unhappy ? I thought they are very happy, they have got such a big car, such a big wonderful courtyard etc and they go for holiday in a boat, and his bag is bigger than mine, I wonder what is in his bag ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THXjEaNsEAc&t=598  10  They all reached the temple God started speaking from above, God said, look, I’ve driven nails in the walls, you can hang your bag, one from each nail, stand by the side of your misery bag, and survey all the others, select any bag that catches your fancy,  the lights will go off for 10 minutes, in those 10 minutes, you can do a switch whichever bag you selected, you go & stand in front of it & when lights come on, whoever is by the side of whichever bag can take it & go away, it will be fair exchange, the lights went off, after 10 minutes, the lights came back again,  it was found that each person was still standing by the side of his own bag everybody said, let’s play it safe, at least I know what is in my bag a little bit of knee & a little problem from the child, a little financial constraint,  the others’ bags, who knows Zeika virus is spreading now a days, H1N1 virus has not died, what if he has got H1N1etc., what will I do ? So, everybody selected their own bag and they went out  and the illusion they had that I am not happy but the other guy must be happy was dispelled nobody is happy This realization has to dawn Till this realization dawns, you are chasing a mirage  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THXjEaNsEAc&t=671  Transcript 0:10 so what is the illusion out here, we 0:13 have forgotten who we are, all of us have forgotten  0:16 & what are we thinking 0:20 I am Gujarati Marwadi Punjabi Sindhi Marathi 0:24 Bengali Indian American Mexican, 0:28 actually I am the soul, this knowledge has disappeared & when we have forgotten who am I, where is the question of remembering who is mine ? only God is mine.  in the 0:40 You ask anybody, who are you 0:44 Swami ji, my name is Ramesh Sharma 0:48 on 0:49 Ramesh Sharma ji, this Ramesh name you got 0:54 when you were three year old, what were you called before that ?  0:56 You know my nickname, my parents used to call me,for the first 3 years, they would call me Pappu, 1:07 So when you were Pappu you were a different person 1:10 and when you became Ramesh, did you change ? 1:13 No,no, I’m the same person who was Pappu, so obviously you were neither the name Pappu nor the name, tell me who are you ? 1:24 right now I am a systems analyst in AT&T and  I am assigned to be promoted to deputy 1:33 general manager. 1:34 All right, so systems analyst is your 1:38 introduction, when you get promoted, will 1:41 you change, no I will not change, 1:42 then you are neither 1:46 deputy manager nor the analyst, you 1:50 are apart from these designations, tell me who 1:54 are you ? 1:55 Swami ji, you should have guessed from the 1:58 name Sharma, I am a brahmin,  2:06 this brahmin is the designation of your body, 2:10 do you know that in your last life, you were a kshatriya, in 2:14 the life before you were a vaishya and in the life before, you were a 2:17 shudra, your soul can sit in any body, how does that 2:21 Matter, there are so many cars in the parking lot, 2:25 somebody is sitting in a Toyota & you ask him who are you, I’m a Toyota Cameri, 2:32 Now make him sit in a Honda, ask him who are you, I am a Honda,  2:35 people will say what kind of 2:38 ignorance has overcome the citizens of Allen 2:41 you ask the driver for introduction and 2:45 they introduce their car,  2:48 So same way, we have forgotten the nature of the self,  2:54 Well Swami ji, I’ve heard in kathas, I’ve read in books, that 2:59 I’m the soul, 3:02 you have heard, is that your introduction ? if 3:06 somebody says I have heard that I am Govind Mahajan 3:13 So, you have heard that you are Govind Mahajan, you have no experience of yourself ? 3:17 So we forgot ourselves & started thinking  3:21 that we are the body even though we know that we will 3:27 leave this body one day, you know, everybody 3:32 says upon death, such & such person left the world 3:38 for heavenly abode, for Golokvas or whatever, 3:44 even in the communist countries the same 3:49 statement is given,  3:51 last night at 8pm,  3:53 such & such great party leader comrade 3:57 Brezhnev  3:59 left the world 4:03 & next morning at 10 am, thousands of  4:08 people have lined up at Comrade Brezhnev  4:11 residence,  4:13 you ask them why they have come, 4:17 they say we have come to see Comrade Brezhnev,  4:20 4:21 But you did not hear the news that he has left the world 4:26 how will you see him when he has left the world,  4:30 the only way you can see him that you also leave the world, then you see him in the other world, 4:36 no, he has left the world but his body is there,  4:41 we’ve come to see the body for his last darshan last time, 4:45 that means Comrade Brezhnev  was not the 4:49 body, so you are also not the body 4:53 you are the eternal soul, we forgot that 4:58 and from there, a 5:01 compounding mistake began,   5:05 what is the compounding mistake ? you 5:09 start from here 5:11 two plus two 5:14 is equal to 7 5:18 5:20 now all the computation that you do, the mistake 5:25 will not only remain, it will start 5:27 Compounding, 5:30 similarly, if we decide that I am the body,  5:35 now the whole mathematics changes 5:42 now the  goal of my happiness is how to 5:46 give happiness to the body. 5:49 Now we started chasing the bodily 5:53 happiness, 5:56 what should I eat so to get happiness, 5:58 what should I hear so I’ll get bliss, 6:03 we started finding happiness in the  6:07 objects of the senses of the body, 6:11 and in this search nobody got happiness. 6:17 Has anybody here got happiness ? 6:22 Is anybody truly happy ? 6:25 Can anybody sincerely lift their hand  6:28 and say yes,  swami ji, I’ve found 6:32 perfect bliss. 6:36 Vedvyas says only two kind of  6:39 people are happy in this world,  6:54 one that person is happy who has attained  6:59 God and who is relishing the bliss of God 7:05 and second person that person is happy who is a mad man,  7:10 the mad man is happy because he does not know that he is unhappy  7:18 like your neighbour who has drunk too much & fallen into the gutter 7:24 & you say Govind bhai,  7:26 why are you lying in the gutter ? 7:28 Govind bhai says I’m lying in my bedroom, where else am I lying,  7:33 he has drunk and thats why the gutter seems bedroom to him, 7:40 similarly Vedvyas says that a God realized saint can say I am   7:50 happy and the mad man can say I am 7:54 Happy, 7:55 everybody else will have to admit 7:59 So far 8:01 I have not got the happiness that I want, I’ll get it but not so far. 8:08 So we are all not happy but yet we are  8:13 running in the same direction, 8:16 right now i have got one million, if I can  8:19 have three million, I’ll definitely be happy,  8:24 right now I’ve an H1B visa & if I get Green Card, my happiness will have  8:27 no bounds, so we are all running 8:33 but you know that you are not 8:37 fully happy, you don't know that nobody is 8:42 happy  8:43 if you came to know that the people ahead are also 8:48 unhappy then you would know that there is no point  8:52 running in this direction addition, it is an exercise 8:55 in futility 8:58 but our illusion is that we think I’m not 9:02 happy, but the other guy must be happy. 9:05 My wife, you know, she is an avatar of Chandi,  9:09 his wife, he must be happy 9:13 and if you came to know that no husband and no wife is happy, 9:20 you don't believe it ? 9:23 I am telling you according to the scriptures  9:25 There was one man who used to 9:29 always complain to 9:32 God 9:34 O God, you put all the miseries in my name,  9:38 so God thought let Me open his eyes,  9:42 God came at night in his dream and 9:46 told him to take all his miseries and put in a bag 9:51 and come to the Radha Krishna temple, I’ll  9:56 meet you there 9:58 he woke up, he said wow what a vivid dream it was.  10:20 He picked up all his miseries & put them all in a gunny 10:25 bag, put the bag on his shoulder and came out of 10:30 his house, 10:31 it was 4.30am in the morning,  10:35 it was dark 10:37 he found his neighbours are also coming out, all 10:41 groggy eyed with one bag each,  10:45 what,  10:47 God gave my neighbours also the same dream ? 10:51 So they are also unhappy ? 10:54 I thought they are very happy, 10:56 they have got such a big car, such a big wonderful courtyard etc and they 11:01 go 11:01 for holiday in a boat, 11:06 and his bag is bigger than mine, I wonder what is 11:09 in his bag ? 11:11 They all reached the temple 11:15 God started speaking from above,  11:19 God said, look, I’ve driven nails in the walls, you can hang your bag, one from each nail, 11:24 11:29 stand by the side of your misery bag, 11:33 and survey all the others, select any that catches your 11:38 fancy,  11:41 the lights will go off for 10 minutes, 11:44 in those 10 minutes, you can do a switch whichever bag you selected, you go & 11:52 stand in front of it & when lights come on, 11:56 whoever is by the side of whichever bag can take it & go away, 12:00 it will be fair exchange, 12:04 the lights went off, 12:07 after 10 minutes, the lights came back again,  12:13 it was found that each person was still 12:17 standing by the side of his own bag 12:21 everybody said, let’s play it safe, 12:26 at least I know what is in my bag 12:29 a little bit of knee & a little problem from the child, 12:33 a little financial 12:35 constraint, 12:37 The others’ bags, who knows 12:42 Zeika virus is ng now a days, H1N1 virus has not died,  what if he has got H1N1etc., what will I do ?   12:52 So, everybody selected their own bag and they went out and 12:58 the illusion they had that I am not happy 13:02 but the other guy must be happy was dispelled  13:05 13:06 nobody is happy 13:11 This realization has to dawn 13:15 Till this realization dawns, you are chasing a mirage Standby link (in case youtube link does not work): Is Anybody Truly Happy Goal of Life - Part 6 Swami Mukundananda.mp4

God Realization is not Difficult | Goal of Life - Part 7 by Swami Mukundanand

God Realization is not Difficult | Goal of Life - Part 7 by Swami Mukundanand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrH9t_Rzw7o&t=1s Full Text God Realization is not Difficult | Goal of Life - Part 7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrH9t_Rzw7o&t=1s Transcript  1  Nobody is happy, this is a realization that has to dawn, until it dawns you are chasing a mirage, we've spent our whole life chasing the mirage, many of you have come from India right,  when you were in school you thought, you know, right now I'm not really happy, if I get through college engineering college, I will be happy, when you got through engineering college, you said, right now I'm not happy, if I get a job I'll be happy, when you got a job you said, right now I'm temporary, if I get confirmed, I'll be happy when you became confirmed,  you said, right now things are not so good in India, if I get that USA visa then I'll be happy, so you came to USA, now tell me are you happy ? Swami ji, what happy ? same old story, same wine and different bottles, so the mirage is being changed, the whole life goes by,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrH9t_Rzw7o&t=12  2  until that fortunate soul wakes up and realizes that maybe the direction in which I am searching for happiness, is wrong and when does that awakening arise ?  when we decide that I am NOT the body, I am the soul and hence the happiness I am searching for is not in material things,  it is in God and the happiness that will satisfy my soul must be Sat Chit Anand, eternal, infinite, ever fresh - that is the kind of yearning my soul has, until we understand that, Swamiji will keep on lecturing it will not make a difference  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrH9t_Rzw7o&t=79  3  There is the story of Prahlad, you know, Prahlad got God-realized at the age of five, Narsingh Bhagawan manifested and then he grew up and became king subsequently, Prahlada ruled as an able and righteous king whose subjects loved him tremendously,  finally even it was time for Prasad to depart, God sent the vehicle from Go Lok, Shri Krishna said Prasad your time is up, come to my divine abode,  Prahlad said Maharaj, my public loves me more than their own life airs, I should leave them in misery and come to Your abode ? that's not correct on my part ! if You wish me to come, give me the permission, I will come with public.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrH9t_Rzw7o&t=145  4  God said, Prahlad, nobody in your public is interested in coming to GoLok, Prahlad said, Maharaj give me the permission, God said, all right, whoever wishes to come, bring him along, Sunday morning, Prahlad said there's little time but I'll get my ministers to work right away,  he asked his ministers to go into a survey, and prepare the list, we are getting a free ticket to GoLok, so the ministers, they went around, they went to one house, you know, there's this free ticket to GoLok, we are making the list, are you interested ?  that person said, are you crazy ? what happened ? I have just been engaged, after four months, I'm going to marry, do you think I'll go to GoLok ? okay you've got a point there, they went to the next person, you know, there's this free ticket to GoLok being offered by God, are you interested in availing the scheme ?  he said impossible, I have just married four years, I have got two little children, am I going to leave them and go ? they went to the next person, are you interested ? he said look at his IPL season, until the final is over, how will I go ? somebody who was waiting for the Super Bowl etc., not one person was interested  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrH9t_Rzw7o&t=207  5  Prahlad was extremely embarrassed, what face will I show to God, Shri Krishna understood Prasad's predicament, He said Prahlad, if any animal in your kingdom is interested, get that animal along, Prahlad asked his ministers to make a revised list,  this time they met with success, one Pig became interested, now the pigs in India, you know, usually stray pigs eating excreta, so the pig became interested, Prahlad said, Maharaj, a drowning man clutches on even a straw, one pig is desirous of coming to GoLok but it has put a condition, he wants ticket with family, the she pig and the six little piglets, they will all come together,  so Prahlad was told by God, alright, bring him along now, they started off, Prahlad is going towards the plane, he got on, he asked the pig you also get on, the pig came right up to the plane and then he stopped, he said wait, Prahlad said now what happened ?  the pig said, the food that I eat, excreta, will I get it In GoLok, Prahlad said you are going to the abode of God and you can't think of anything apart from excreta, the pig said what pleasure there is in it, what do you know ? taste it and see,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrH9t_Rzw7o&t=298  6  see the sharabis and the kbabis of the world, they say the same thing, are baba, why are you criticizing it ? take it & see the नशा in it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrH9t_Rzw7o&t=411  7  so God said, Prahlad, see nobody from your kingdom wants to come to the abode of God,  in the same way it's not that we can't become God realized, we don't want to become God realized and why do we not want to become God realized because of the first mistake we made, we forgot who we are, we forgot we are the eternal soul and we started thinking of our self to be the body.  When we decide that I am the soul & not the body, then we will search for happiness in God, presently our search for happiness is like churning lime water in the hope of getting butter out of it, butter is not in lime water, butter is in yogurt, in milk, similarly when we search for happiness in the right place, it will not be difficult to get it because God is sitting within us, “verse”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrH9t_Rzw7o&t=423  8  God doesn't need to be found by going over Vrindavan or going to Ayodhya, God is residing within us and He has not even laid any condition for His attainment,  He says you don't have money, doesn't matter, the poorest have become God realized, you don't have eyes, never mind Soordas was भगवत प्राप्त,  you don't have a leg, you can't walk to the temple, don't worry, those who were lame also attained God, you don't have a tongue, you can't chant His name, even that is not compulsory,  IF THERE IS ANY PERSONALITY IN EXISTENCE, THAT PERSONALITY MUST HAVE A MIND, GOD SAYS GIVE ME THIS MIND THAT IS ALL I WANT, LOVE ME WITH THIS MIND, ATTACH YOUR MIND TO ME  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrH9t_Rzw7o&t=521  9  BUT IN ENDLESS LIFE TIMES WE HAVE GIVEN THIS MIND TO THE WORLD, TO BETA, BETI, HUSBAND, WIFE, SON, DAUGHTER, FATHER, MOTHER, JALEBI, SAMOSA, TELEVISION, WE HAVE ATTACHED OUR MIND EVERYWHERE BUT WE HAVE BEEN SUCH MISERS THAT WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GIVE THIS ONE MIND TO GOD  AND THAT IS ALL THAT HE WANTS, SO TODAY WE DECIDED THAT THE GOAL OF LIFE IS TO ATTAIN GOD BECAUSE FROM HIM, WE WILL GET THE HAPPINESS THAT WE WANT, THE NEXT QUESTION WHICH WILL NOW COME UP IS HOW DO WE ATTAIN THAT HAPPINESS OF GOD  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrH9t_Rzw7o&t=595  Transcript 0:12 Nobody is happy, this is a realization 0:18 that has to dawn, until it dawns you are 0:23 chasing a mirage, 0:25 we've spent our whole life chasing the 0:28 mirage, many of you have come from India 0:31 right, when you were in school you 0:34 thought, you know, right now I'm not 0:36 really happy, if I get through college 0:38 engineering college, I will be happy, when 0:42 you got through engineering college, you 0:44 said, right now I'm not happy, if 0:46 I get a job I'll be happy, when you got a 0:50 job you said, right now I'm temporary, if 0:53 I get confirmed, I'll be happy when you 0:56 became confirmed, you said, right 0:58 now things are not so good in India, 1:00 if I get that USA visa then I'll be happy, so 1:05 you came to USA, now tell me are you 1:07 happy ? Swami ji, what happy ? same old story, 1:12 same wine and different bottles, so the 1:16 mirage is being changed, the whole life 1:19 goes by, that fortunate soul wakes up and 1:25 realizes that maybe the direction in 1:29 which I am searching for happiness is 1:32 wrong and when does that awakening arise ? 1:38 when we decide that I am NOT the body, I 1:43 am the soul and hence the happiness I am 1:48 searching for is not in material things, 1:52 it is in God and the happiness that will 1:57 satisfy my soul  2:01 must be Sat Chit Anand,  2:06 eternal, infinite, ever fresh - that is the 2:11 kind of yearning my soul has, until we 2:18 understand that, Swamiji will keep on 2:21 lecturing it will not make a difference, 2:25 There is the story of Prahlad, you know, 2:29 Prahlad got God-realized at the age of 2:32 five, Narsingh Bhagawan manifested and 2:35 then he grew up and became king 2:40 subsequently, Prahlada ruled as an able 2:44 and righteous king whose subjects loved 2:48 him tremendously, finally even it was 2:54 time for Prasad to depart, God sent the 2:58 vehicle from Go Lok, Shri Krishna said 3:01 Prasad your time is up, come to my divine 3:06 abode, Prahlad said Maharaj, my public 3:11 loves me more than their own life airs, I 3:16 should leave them in misery and come to 3:19 Your abode ? that's not correct on my part !  3:23 if You wish me to come, give me the 3:27 permission, I will come with public. God 3:33 said, Prahlad, nobody in your public is 3:36 interested in coming to GoLok,  3:40 Prahlad said, Maharaj give me the 3:42 permission, God said, all right, whoever 3:46 wishes to come, bring him along, Sunday 3:49 morning, Prahlad said there's little time 3:53 but I'll get my ministers to work right 3:55 away, he asked his ministers to go into a 3:58 survey, and prepare the list, we are 4:01 getting a free ticket to GoLok, so the 4:06 ministers, they went around, they went to 4:10 one house, you know, there's this free 4:12 ticket to GoLok, we are making the list, 4:14 are you interested ? that person said, are 4:16 you crazy ? what happened ? I have just been 4:20 engaged, after four months, I'm going to 4:22 marry, do you think I'll go to GoLok ? okay 4:26 you've got a point there, they went to 4:28 the next person, you know, there's this 4:29 free ticket to GoLok being offered by 4:32 God, are you interested in availing the 4:34 scheme ? he said impossible, I have just 4:37 married 4:38 four years, I have got two little children, 4:40 am I going to leave them and go ? they 4:43 went to the next person, are you 4:44 interested ? he said look at his IPL 4:47 season, until the final is over, how will 4:49 I go ? somebody who was waiting for the 4:53 Super Bowl 4:54 etc., not one person was interested, 4:58 Prahlad was extremely embarrassed, what 5:01 face will I show to God, Shri Krishna 5:05 understood Prasad's predicament, 5:08 He said Prahlad, if any animal in your 5:12 kingdom is interested, get that animal 5:14 along, Prahlad asked his ministers to 5:19 make a revised list, this time they met 5:22 with success, one Pig became interested, 5:27 now the pigs in India, you know, usually 5:30 stray pigs eating excreta, so the pig 5:34 became interested, Prahlad said, Maharaj, a 5:37 drowning man clutches on even a straw, 5:41 one pig is desirous of coming to GoLok 5:45 but it has put a condition, he wants 5:52 ticket with family, the she pig and 5:57 the six little piglets, they will all 5:59 come together, so Prahlad was told by God, 6:03 alright, bring him along now, they started 6:07 off, Prahlad is going towards the plane, 6:11 he got on, he asked the pig you also get 6:15 on, the pig came right up to the plane 6:20 and then he stopped, he said wait, Prahlad 6:25 said now what happened ? the pig said, the 6:29 food that I eat, excreta, will I get it 6:34 In GoLok,  Prahlad said you are going to 6:39 the abode of God and you can't think of 6:43 anything apart from excreta, the pig said 6:48 what pleasure there is in it, what do you know ? 6:51 taste it and see, see the sharabis and 6:57 the kbabis of the world, they say the 6:59 same thing, are baba, 7:00 why are you criticizing it ? take it & see 7:03 the नशा in it, so God said, Prahlad, see 7:09 nobody from your kingdom wants to come 7:12 to the abode of God, in the same way it's 7:16 not that we can't become God realized, we 7:20 don't want to become God realized and 7:24 why do we not want to become God realized because of 7:32 the first mistake we made, 7:34 we forgot who we are, we forgot we are 7:40 the eternal soul and we started thinking 7:43 of our self to be the body. When we 7:48 decide that I am the soul & not the body, 7:52 then we will search for happiness in God, 7:58 presently our search for happiness is 8:01 like churning lime water in the hope of 8:06 getting butter out of it, 8:08 butter is not in lime water, butter is in 8:12 yogurt, in milk, similarly when we search 8:18 for happiness in the right place, it will 8:21 not be difficult to get it because God 8:26 is sitting within us, “verse” 8:41 God doesn't need to be found 8:46 by going over Vrindavan or going to a 8:49 Ayodhya, God is residing within us and He 8:54 has not even laid any condition for 8:57 His attainment, He says you don't have 9:02 money, 9:03 doesn't matter, the poorest have become 9:06 God realized, you don't have eyes, never 9:10 mind 9:11 Soordas was भगवत प्राप्त, you don't 9:15 have a leg, you can't walk to the temple, 9:18 don't worry, those who were lame 9:21 also attained God, you don't have a 9:25 tongue, you can't chant His name, even 9:28 that is not compulsory, if there is 9:32 any personality in existence, that 9:36 personality must have a mind, 9:40 God says give me this mind that is all I 9:47 want, love Me with this mind, attach your 9:55 mind to me and in endless life times we 10:01 have given this mind to the world, to 10:05 beta, beti, husband, wife, son, daughter, 10:08 father, mother, jalebi, samosa, 10:12 television, we have attached our mind 10:15 everywhere but we have been such misers that 10:19 we have not been able to give this one 10:23 mind to God and that is all that He 10:27 wants, so today we decided that the goal of 10:32 life is to attain God because from Him, 10:37 we will get the happiness that we want, 10:41 the next question which will now come up 10:44 is how do we attain that happiness of 10:49 God Standby link (in case youtube link does not work): God Realization is not Difficult Goal of Life - Part 7 Swami Mukundananda.mp4

The goal of life is to seek God, sat-chit-ananda | Part 4: Goal of Human Life by Swami Mukundananada

The goal of life is to seek God, sat-chit-ananda | Part 4: Goal of Human Life by Swami Mukundananada

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1 God is ocean of bliss - Vedant Darshan says and we are His little parts. So we are naturally drawn to that bliss. Just like a river flows to the ocean. The river was created from the ocean.

It was the water vapor of the ocean that rose up into a cloud & the cloud then came to the land and poured down and gathered into the river and the river is now flowing, where - to the ocean, how long will the river flow - until it meets the ocean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK_tI3wQDSg&t=0 2 So, similarly, we are little parts of the ocean of bliss, which is God. So we are naturally seeking bliss. So what I have just explained to you all is three natures of God : Sat Chit and Anand.  God is Sat, eternal, as his little parts we seek to be eternal, hence, we have the desire for life.  God is chit - full of knowledge. As his fragments (अंश), we also wish to be full of knowledge, like Him, hence the yearning to know.  God is Anand and as his little tiny fragments, we also wish to be आनंदमय like God. So Sat Chit Anand is the nature of God.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK_tI3wQDSg&t=68 3 From these three aspects of God, comes our nature, to seek life, to seek knowledge and to seek bliss.  That is why the conclusion is that whether we know it or not, we are all searching for God. Some people they may deny & say I don't believe in God. But do you believe in happiness? Of course, I am trying to be happy 24 hours a day – but that happiness that you are seeking is God.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK_tI3wQDSg&t=147 4 It's like a child goes to the mother and says mummy I don't believe in your husband. The mother says, my dear child, what are you speaking? Do you believe in your father? Yes, I love my papa but I don't believe in your husband. The mother says my dear child, that person whom I address as husband, you address as father, they are not two personalities, they are two ways of addressing one personality.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK_tI3wQDSg&t=183 5 Similarly, somebody may say I am an atheist, I don't believe in God, even that person is engaging in devotion of happiness, and that happiness is God Himself in this matter.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK_tI3wQDSg&t=216 6 There is no duality, you know, even the biggest materialistic philosophers in our Indian tradition, there was Charvak & so Charvak’s philosophy. You may have heard his words, famous words. He said that you are the body, when the body is finished, you are finished. There is no after life. No need to waste your intellect over such matters.  As long as you live, be happy. If you get happiness from ghee, beg, borrow or steal but drink ghee. You know, translated to today's context beg, borrow or steal but take your Vodka and be happy. So although Charvak is so materialistic, what is Charvak’s goal?  Charvak wanted happiness, and in the west we have had so many materialistic philosophers, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx,  Adam Smith, Berkley etc. They have written big tons of literature.  And when you read them, you will find that they were also proposing different theories on how to be happy. So we all want to be happy. That means we all want God. So our goal is determined & the goal of life is to realize God. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK_tI3wQDSg&t=230 Standby link (in case youtube link does not work): The goal of life is to seek God, sat-chit-ananda Part 4 Goal of Human Life by Swami Mukundananada.mp4

Why did we come into this World? | Goal of Life - Part 5 by Swami Mukundanand

Why did we come into this World? | Goal of Life - Part 5 by Swami Mukundanand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6m74gA88s Full Text 1  we had progressed in our discussion to this point that we understood why we want happiness because we are fragments of the ocean of bliss and every fragment is drawn to its source.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6m74gA88s&t=10  2  Now why have we not got happiness till today ? The answer to this is actually very simple and obvious that we are searching for happiness in the wrong place, like let's say, you wish to go from Dallas to San Antonio, San Antonio is southward  and you are going northward from San Antonio & hence you are getting further and further away, similarly we are also searching for happiness in the wrong direction, as we don't know where happiness lies. The reason for this confusion is ignorance.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6m74gA88s&t=26  3  We have this veil of ignorance that has covered us & where did the ignorance come from ? Ved Vyas in the Srimad Bhagavatam has explained the reason for ignorance, he says that this soul is “vimukh” to God,  let us suppose this is God and this is the soul, the soul instead of having its face towards God has got the back towards God. Now when you put your back towards God, you get covered by Maya and that is why we are here. God is not only “Anand (Bliss)”, He is also light, knowledge.  If you turn your back to the light, what do you have in front of you, your shadow, darkness, so we turned our backs to God & we got covered by the darkness of the ignorance of Maya, that is why we are here in this physical material world.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6m74gA88s&t=88  4  Many times people ask why are we here ?, students ask more than elders, see students still have curiosity, they wish to know and as elders we have established our beliefs, there is nothing further to know, you see,  when I go to a school they will ask so many questions, a three-year-old will ask me Swamiji what is Shri Krishna’s second name ? oh my God, only a three-year-old can ask that !  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6m74gA88s&t=169  5  So once I was giving a lecture in India, lecture series but there was a student who used to come and attend and he would engage in questions with me, so once the series got over, I was to go to the next town,  he said, Swamiji, I have vacation, can I join you, I will also do Seva, I will volunteer, I said sure, so he accompanied me to the next town as well  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6m74gA88s&t=204  6  Now on Sunday the lecture got over early, we were taking a late evening walk, he asked me this question, why did we come here, not into this town but into this world, why did we come here ? I pondered on how to answer his question, there was a cinema hall in front, I said do you have money for tickets ?  he said, yes Swamiji, I said go and get two, he said for whom I said for you and for me, he said Swamiji you will see a movie ? I said yes, in your company, so he got two tickets and with those we entered into the Indian cinema hall  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6m74gA88s&t=236  7  the cinema hall it was all pitch dark, one usherer (the seating person) with a thin beam torch looked at the tickets and with the beam of the torch, he indicated walk up the stairs, we went up there, another usherer with a thin beam torch saw the tickets and indicated us to sit on those two seats,  myself and the student, we sat down, now the night show was already going on, a whole plot was unfolding on that cinema screen, there was so much of apparent excitement,  a hero, a heroine and a villain, a car chase, a helicopter chase, a policeman. Within 15 minutes this student was completely engrossed in the movie, I hope he doesn't, I hope he does,  I saw that he has forgotten that I am sitting next to him, I said hey, he said, shh…., I said listen, he said, don't disturb, so I caught his little finger and pulled it, oh Swami ji, I said, why did we come here ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6m74gA88s&t=287  8  you see 15 minutes ago, he had asked me why did we come here into the world, now I turned the tables & I said why did we come here into the cinema hall ? he scanned his whole brain he could not get an answer,  I said never mind, come out now, you will understand the answer to your question, so I said look when we were in the cinema hall you had completely forgotten who am I ? why am I here ? who is next to me ? what purpose is being served ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6m74gA88s&t=375  9  and the white light in those days, you know, the cinema was different, there would be the celluloid and an intense white light that would pass through it, gather colors and fall on the screen,  so that colored light, you were mistaking it for the reality, this is the hero, this is the heroine, that illusion you had fallen into was because of the darkness of the cinema hall, darkness is conducive to illusion, hallucination.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6m74gA88s&t=417  10  Now supposing the hall manager had come and put on the main light, all the illusion would be finished, o where is my chappal, I hope I've not dropped my handkerchief, let me be the first one into the scooter stand and get out from here,  now you are back in reality, the illusion was because of darkness, light dispels it. Similarly, Maya is the darkness, God is the light, the knowledge, why are we in Maya ?  because we have turned our backs to the light, when you turn your back to God it is natural to be covered by ignorance and because of that Maya, we are here, so what is the illusion out here ? that we have forgotten who we actually are ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6m74gA88s&t=455  Transcript 0:10 we had progressed in our discussion to 0:14 this point that we understood why we 0:17 want happiness because we are fragments 0:22 of the ocean of bliss and every fragment 0:26 is drawn to its source. Now why have we 0:31 not got happiness till today ? The answer 0:38 to this is actually very simple and 0:41 obvious that we are searching for happiness 0:44 in the wrong place, like let's say, you 0:49 wish to go from Dallas to San Antonio, 0:54 San Antonio is southward and you are 0:57 going northward from San Antonio & hence you are getting 1:03 further and further away, similarly we 1:08 are also searching for happiness in the 1:12 wrong direction, 1:14 as we don't know where happiness lies. The 1:21 reason for this confusion is ignorance. 1:28 We have this veil of ignorance that has 1:32 covered us & where did the ignorance come 1:37 from ?  Ved Vyas in the Srimad Bhagavatam has 1:43 explained the reason for ignorance, he 1:50 says that this soul is “vimukh” to God, 1:55 let us suppose this is God and this is 1:59 the soul, the soul instead of having its 2:03 face towards God has got the back towards God. 2:08 Now when you put your back  2:11 towards God, you get covered by Maya and 2:16 that is why we are here. God is not only 2:21 “Anand (Bliss)”, He is also light, knowledge. If you 2:27 turn your back to the light, what do you 2:32 have in front of you, 2:34 your shadow, darkness, so we turned our 2:40 backs to God & we got covered by the 2:44 darkness of the ignorance of Maya, that 2:49 is why we are here in this physical material world. Many times people ask 2:54 why are we here ?, students ask more than 2:59 elders, see students still have curiosity, 3:03 they wish to know and as elders we have 3:06 established our beliefs, there is nothing 3:09 further to know, you see, when I go to a 3:13 school they will ask so many questions, a 3:16 three-year-old will ask me Swamiji what 3:18 is Shri Krishna’s second name ?  3:21 oh my God, only a three-year-old 3:24 can ask that ! So once I was giving a 3:29 lecture in India, lecture series but 3:33 there was a student who used to come and 3:34 attend and he would engage in questions 3:38 with me, so once the series got over, I was 3:43 to go to the next town, he said, Swamiji, I 3:46 have vacation, can I join you, I will also 3:49 do Seva, I will volunteer, I said sure, so 3:54 he accompanied me to the next town as 3:56 well, now on Sunday the lecture got over 4:01 early, we were taking a 4:04 late evening walk, he asked me this 4:07 question, why did we come here, not into 4:13 this town but into this world, why did we 4:17 come here ? I pondered on how to answer 4:22 his question, there was a cinema hall in 4:24 front, 4:25 I said do you have money for tickets ? 4:29 he said, yes Swamiji, I said go and get 4:33 two, he said for whom I said for you and 4:36 for me, 4:37 he said Swamiji you will see a movie ? I 4:40 said yes, in your company, so he got two 4:44 tickets and with those we entered into 4:47 the Indian cinema hall, the cinema hall 4:51 it was all pitch dark, one usherer (the seating person) with 4:55 a thin beam torch looked at the 4:57 tickets and with the beam of the torch, 5:00 he indicated walk up the stairs, we went 5:04 up there, another usherer with a thin 5:07 beam torch saw the tickets and indicated us to  5:09 sit on those two seats, myself and the 5:14 student, we sat down, now the night show 5:19 was already going on, a whole plot was 5:24 unfolding on that cinema screen, there 5:27 was so much of apparent excitement, a 5:30 Hero, a heroine and a villain, a car chase, a 5:33 helicopter chase, a policeman. Within 15 5:39 minutes this student was completely 5:42 engrossed in the movie, I hope he doesn't, 5:45 I hope he does, I saw that he has 5:50 forgotten that I am sitting next to him, I said hey, 5:53 he said, shh…., 5:57 I said listen, 6:01 he said, don't disturb, so I caught his little 6:05 finger and pulled it, oh Swami ji, I said, 6:12 why did we come here ? 6:15 you see 15 minutes ago, he had asked me 6:19 why did we come here into the world, now 6:22 I turned the tables & I said why did we come 6:26 here into the cinema hall ? he scanned his 6:30 whole brain he could not get an answer, I 6:33 said never mind, come out now, you will 6:37 understand the answer to your question, 6:40 so I said look when we were in the 6:45 cinema hall you had completely forgotten 6:50 who am I ? why am I here ? who is next to me ? 6:57 what purpose is being served ? and the 7:01 white light in those days, you know, the 7:03 cinema was different, there would be the 7:06 celluloid and an intense white light 7:08 that would pass through it, gather colors 7:12 and fall on the screen, so that colored 7:15 light, you were mistaking it for the 7:19 reality, this is the hero, this is the 7:21 heroine, that illusion you had fallen 7:26 into was because of the darkness of the 7:31 cinema hall, darkness is conducive to 7:35 illusion, hallucination. Now supposing the 7:40 hall manager had come and put on the 7:42 main light, all the illusion would 7:47 be finished,  o where is my chappal, I hope 7:50 I've not dropped my handkerchief, let me 7:52 be the first one into the scooter stand 7:54 and get out from here, now you are back 7:58 in reality, the illusion was because of 8:03 darkness, light dispels it. 8:07 Similarly, Maya is the darkness, God is the light, 8:12 the knowledge, why are we in Maya ? because we 8:16 have turned our backs to the light,  8:20 when you 8:23 turn your back to God it is natural to 8:27 be covered by ignorance and because of 8:30 that Maya, we are here, 8:33 so what is the illusion out here ? that we have 8:37 forgotten who we actually are ? Standby link (in case youtube link does not work): Why did we come into this World Goal of Life - Part 5 Swami Mukundananda.mp4