“I think still people are catching up with the new time ☺ usually it…”

Tuesday, August, 23, 2011

Prayer. I welcome all the devotees, disciples, satsangis, samajis sitting with us at this moment in 233 places through eNtv, in 12 places through 2 way video conferencing having Nayana Deeksha, in 73 cities, in 9 countries!

I think still people are catching up with the new time ☺ usually it will be 8.30 now last two days 7.30, 7 o’ clock itself. So people are trying to catch up the new time. Two way Nayana Deeksha are – Ohio, Malaysia, San Jose, Singapore, Dallas, Phoenix, Toronto Kailash, Seattle Chidambaram, Bangalore North, LA Arunachala, Port Washington, Guadeloupe. Malaysia blessings to the new office opening. Blessings to Dr. Karthik and Dr. Sri Nayaki, blessings to both of you, your office will be successful, your business will be successful. My blessings!

I will continue my introduction on Gita & Krishna. If you see how Krishna is setting stage for expressing Gita it is amazing! Very clearly shows he wants to say something he is creating a stage. Maybe he wants to give the essence of his life in words to people to experience, follow his message. When a incarnation happens, his message is his life in words, his life is his message in living! Whatever is in the form of bio memory in him is called life, whatever is in the form of verbalization in him is his message. So the life & message do not differ. Life itself is message. Message is lived. Maybe it is time Krishna feels that he wants to verbalize the core main thread of his message. He wants to express all the beautiful things he is living. He wants to express the secret of his lila, his avataric mission. The most secret, most powerful close to heart informations can be shared only to a friend. Please understand not to father, not to mother, not even to beloved. Krishna did not deliver Gita to Radha. No. he did not deliver Gita to Rukmini. No. He did not deliver Gita to any one of his 16,000 beloveds. No. It can be shared only to a friend. Even if you have something to talk about your beloved, you go to your friend. ☺ Even with beloved there is some risk. You can’t reveal too much because the person may start judging you. The person may start giving her own or his own reason. But with friend no fear of being judged. It is heart to heart truth. You can reveal the truth, you can reveal the ultimate. Of course later on the relationship gets riped between Krishna & Arjuna and Arjuna feels Krishna as Guru, it ripes into Guru disciple relationship. That is different. But the stage is set. The foundation is built on friendliness. That is why Buddha when he declares about his next incarnation, he says very clearly I will be embodiment of friendliness – “Maitreya.” “Maitreya” means embodiment of friendliness! He says I will be Maitreya - the Buddha. Because in future teaching can be done only with friendliness. Bharatn youth is suffering just because there is no friendliness between students & teachers. I have seen many countries teachers, students, and their relationships. The worst is Bharatn. We had a great trend of Guru disciple relationship which no other civilization can boast. No other civilization can understand

But unfortunately the western idea of Guru & disciple living in a different places entered Bharatn life style and destroyed our Guru Sishya parampara. The whole Guru & disciple tradition. That is why I insist and encourage in all our devotees education institutions let the teachers & students live in the same campus at least. Build teachers’ quarters next to the students’ hostel. As much as possible let them see each other from morning till night in all normal activities, simple life style, ordinary behaviors. I tell you the best way to mold a teacher is making him live with the students. I have seen when I was studying one teacher was alcohol addict. Nothing could be done about him. The warden was very close to me. The warden used to see that every day I will be ringing bell and doing aarthi and, of course initially it was a big nuisance. Then later on when they saw my sincerity and intensity, naturally they felt connected, he became very close to me and asked me please do something, do you have any idea? I told him just get into the hostel, make him live in the hostel. Give him one room, make him liv e in the hostel. That’s it. What happened neither he knows nor I know, from that day the whole drinking stopped. Because he knows next room students are there you can’t misbehave. You can’t do anything wrong. And they are watching what time you are coming back to your room, going out of your room. They are watching. So make teacher live with students. That is the best way to train the teachers. Not only that when the teachers are really sincere, intense, trained, the students grasp not just syllabus or portion or lessons, the very life style, body language of the teacher. In Bharat we had this great tradition of teacher and students living in one campus. There evolved Guru disciple relationship. Unfortunately, when the western way of living entered, the privacy of the teacher is separate, the life style of the student was different. Then two big conspiracy happened – 1. The impractical teachings were forced on students. 2. Teachers themselves do not know the side effect and after effect of what they are imposing on the children, what they are imposing on the kids. 2nd – because it is impractical, students also don’t follow. Imposed impractical things and try to suppress people and when they can’t, when they become hypocritical, give them psychiatric solutions. This is the way of British. This is exactly what I call western life style. Imposing impractical rules impractical laws.

See when a teacher does not need to live with a student he can go on bragging anything, he can go on talking anything, he can go on pushing anything. Student does not need to know about whether teacher himself is able to follow it or not. But when it is impractical, students also stops following. Unfortunately, the students when they stop following they become hypocritical and the down fall will not be small. Please understand, when a student starts smoking, it will not stop there. It only starts there. In one action, hypocrisy starts the downfall, falling into abyss. It will not be stopping anywhere – taka, taka, taka, taka, taka over that’s all! I can remember one incident in my life. For some time I was not getting flowers to do puja. Then I thought alright what is there even Vishnu used to do puja only with the flowers, from a flowers of his being. So first few days I started continuing my puja without going for flowers. I may have to walk around 1 Km if I want flowers when I was in the polytechnic. First few days I compromised alright I’ll mentally offer the flowers. Then next few days grinding the sandal paste was a big job ☺ and after next few days, going and bringing fresh water. I could see very clearly a man who lived his whole life doing puja, my whole life was a worship, a long prayer, unbroken prayer. Even for me, within 20 days I was there seeing just with deity and me! Even the fresh clothes are not there! Then I realized oh God! Where have I headed? Almost these deities are there, I am sitting. Neither paadyam, nor snaaneeyam or aachamaneeyam is available physically and I have slowly started getting comfortable. So when the degradation starts you will not even know the extreme you are falling! Immediately I woke up. Wow! No. Next day I added that one km. Then I realized why collecting all these objects and doing any ritual physically is so important. One great saint Manikyavasagar he sings songs even to pluck flowers. When plucking flowers for Shiva he sings songs. When he grinds paste for shiva he sings song, when you make clothes for him, he sings a song! I realize when you do it physically, when you do it physically, please understand – when you do it physically experience becomes muscle memory then it becomes bio memory! Never otherwise. I tell you all Vedanta, all verbalization, all words which does not require any action just puts you in some hallucination and you are there sitting, sitting, sitting, and thinking, thinking, thinking, finally landing in some hallucination or depression or some psychosomatic disorders. That’s all! Unless it becomes action it does not get riped as muscle memory or bio memory! That is why Vedic Tradition gives so much of emphasis, importance to visiting the temples or even in your own house having a puja room. Doing physical actions in reverence or in devotion towards some representation of divine. It can be a deity or it can be a ordinary stone or a photograph - it can be anything. But reverence shown in body - only becomes part of your experience. Not otherwise. When a Guru & disciple lives in one place the practical laws will be taught. Hypocrisy will not happen. A Guru will know the struggles of disciples. He will amend the rules or he will create more stringent regulations or he may create deeper understanding. So disciple living with a master, student living with a teacher in same campus is inevitable for extraordinary achievements. If you want extraordinary achievements, student should live with the teacher, student should live with the master. Only then the friendliness will flower where the most confidential, the personal research and development can be shared. Please understand no one will have any problem or feeling of shyness when you share somebody else’s R & D. For me to share Kirshna‘s R\&D with you I will not have any shyness, I will not have any reservation because if you doubt you will be doubting only Krishna not me. But to share my r\&d, my research & development, my personal experience, I will have my own reservation. I will wait till the deep friendliness ripes in you, I will wait till you come out of your dip, your depression, I will wait for you to be more mature, I will wait for you to understand my logic of my conclusions. Sometime you may catch my conclusions with different logic. Even then the complete knowledge is not transferred. After you experience if you develop your own logical steps that is perfect. In Vedic Tradition it is allowed. Krishna does not say I am the last prophet. No! He does not say I am the only son of God. He says very beautifully I happen again & again - Sambhavami yuge yuge! He does not even say I come down. If he comes down, people expect the same height, weight. They will ask for same peacock feather. That is why he is not saying I will come down. He says Sambhavami - I happen. Krishna is a happening. He is not a personality or an individuality. He is a happenin! Sambhavami Yuge Yuge – I happen again & again! We allow the possibility of updation. When a disciple experiences he has a right to update, amend, alter his Guru’s statements his own Guru’s statements. When Sureshvaracharaya became enlightened, naturally he added, commented, contributed his original research & development by writing vaarthikaas on Shankara’s bhaasyas. Whatever commentary Shankara wrote on Upanishad, Gita, Brahma Sutras many books, many of them Sureshvaraacharya wrote vaarthikaa - means commentary on commentary to express his own R\&D. We allow updation and we encourage updation. We don’t have a problem. But when the transfer of knowledge is happening, when the transmission of lamp is happening, when the initiation is happening, when you are ripening to self -realization, enlightenment not only you need to catch the conclusion of the Guru, you need to catch the very logical of the steps of the Guru to reach those conclusions. So personal research & development can be shared only to a friend. Only with tremendous friendliness you can share your struggles. I tell you if I don’t share my struggles, I will not be contributing to all of you my original inventions. Whatever I achieved without struggle are all somebody else’s inventions, somebody else’s R\&D.

When I read Upanishads I did not have complications, conflicts with many of the concepts. It means what? All those concepts were there R\&D, not my R\&D. So if I share those things I will be giving you only shaastra pramaana – the truths revealed by the ancient masters. Sometimes which may not be practical for you. You may not be able directly apply it in your life. But only when I explain my struggles, only when I explain my conflicts, the concepts with which I had conflict, the concepts with which I fought, the concepts with which I had struggle, the concepts with which I need to work, to convince myself, to awaken my bio memory to experience those truths only those incidents, those conflicts, those contradictions, those struggle are my original contributions. Only they are my research & development. Understand they will be directly practical to you in your life because I am carrying my body in the same spectrum you are carrying your body. In the same time frame. When krishna says Sambhavami yuge yuge - he only bothers about the time, he does not say I will happen in same place again & again. He says I will happen again and again based on time. See he is only saying at different times I will happen again & again. He is not saying I will happen in different places again & again ☺ Because he is more bothered about change of time than the change of geography. He knows the future is going to run based on geography. The moment the communication revolution has happened geography has lost value, borders have lost value. Still some perverted politicians go on hold the concept of border.

I have a vision - borderless planet earth where the whole administration should be with universities not 8th grade failed politicians! Most of them can’t even think to run their family. Just because they learnt few ideas, tricks of the trade from somebody, unfortunately they get to rule. All intelligent people move out of this dirty fight. That is the worst thing happened to politics. All intelligent people doesn’t want to fight. The fellows who want to fight naturally will not be intelligent. That is one of the worst thing happened. Even if you see in Gita, Arjuna’s logic seems to be very intelligent. It does not want to fight. But krishna emphasizes intelligent people need to enter into fight. I can say this whole scandal is Gita taught to me by cosmos. I was not interested in fighting because of my intelligence. I said what is there it is okay let us live our life. But like krishna says to Arjuna – no, fight, that is life. Cosmos told me fight, destroy the negativities. This is life! The whole rumor and scandal is Gita taught to me by the cosmos. Now I can speak on the Gita taught to Arjuna by Krishna!

Only to a close friend with whom you can open your heart, your struggles can be opened. Only when you are able to respect somebody more & more by knowing his struggles, the conflicts he went through, the success he achieved, you become friend to him. By knowing somebody’s conflicts and struggles if you start judging him, there is no friendliness. It is a relationship waiting to vomit enmity. It is a seed sown with poison. Here Krishna shares Gita to his close friend Arjuna to whom he can really show Vishwarupa. With whom he has freedom to say do it - Kaunteya son of Kunti - do it! Finally, he goes to the extreme of saying sarva dharman parityajya, mam ekam saranam vraja - give up all your concepts and ideas about right or wrong, just surrender to me, I’ll lead you. To say these words, what an intimate understanding and feeling connect ion should have been there between Krishna and Arjuna. He says drop your life at my feet, I will not cheat you, I will think for you. I will see to it you achieve the ultimate – Moksha ikshyami maashuchaha – I will liberate you. Too much for a man to tell these words to another man. Please understand now Krishna is God for you. When he was in the body he had enough scandals around him. At least I don’t need to permanently run away from one state to another state. But this guy had to run away from UP to Gujarat just because of the scandals around him. the whole Mathura and Brindavan too much of scandals, too much of rumors. He was not able to handle. So he had to permanently shift to Dwaraka and create his place to be out of these rumors and scandals. Understand, he had enough problem. Now this book seems to be like teachings, words uttered by God to man. Please understand, when it was told, it was a man to m an. Then how can a man say surrender unto me I will liberate you? That level of intimacy and feeling connection was there between Arjuna and Krishna. I tell you any bhaava any attitude you maintain towards God or Guru gets fulfilled based on the percentage of the friendliness in that bhaava. Understand, any deity becomes God based on the percentage of energy staying in that deity. Same way any bhaava becomes complete, fulfilled, radiating, based on the percentage of friendliness in that bhaava. Whether it is daasa bhaava or sakha bhaava or vaatsalya bhaava or Mathura bhaava or maha bhaava – any bhaava the friendliness, the percentage of friendliness you carry, the percentage of friendliness in that bhaava makes the bhaava successful, makes the bhaava complete, makes the bhaava fulfilled brings the result of that bhaava. Here the highest truth is revealed to Arjuna because Krishna has a freedom to express his research & development, his R\&D. Understand, I assumed the friendliness which existed between Arjuna & Krishna between all of us! With this presumption I start talking on Gita. I am not presuming you are going to judge every word I am uttering, I am presuming you are going to imbibe every word I am uttering. I am not giving you arguments, I am giving you judgments. Understand presuming this friendliness I am also going to go on sharing my R\&D, the conflicts I had, the contradictions I crossed, the discrepancies with which I need to work, the hypocrisy which I crossed, the inefficiency which I worked with. I am also going to share all those sacred secrets. These are the most dear to the heart. When something is most dear to your heart it is sacred. The most sacred secret of my life, my personal struggle to achieve enlightenment and to realize my avataric mission and t execute my realization, to radiate my realization whatever I went through I will share with you all through the Gita satsang. If I go on speaking krishna’s research and development, it may not be directly useful for many of you. Many of you feel it is inadequate, not enough. If I add my struggles, my conflicts, whatever I went through in my life along with the clear logic through which I crossed, clear steps with which I experienced, clear steps with which I raised myself, naturally, it will be directly useful for you. It will be directly helpful for you. You can directly achieve what Arjuna has achieved! When I say oh Arjuna’s! I presume the relationship which existed between krishna & Arjuna exists between us. I can understand the anxiety with which Arjuna comes to Krishna. The feeling with which Krishna starts sharing the truth with Arjuna. The tremendous friendliness which existed between Arjuna & Krishna is responsible for this greatest book Gita to happen. Understand Gita is not a book written with lot of thinking, planning, time, everything. No. the whole thing is finished within 1 ½ hours! It is a spontaneous expression of great revelations to a person who is close to your heart. Only to a person who is close to your heart you can reveal the truths close to your heart. Because I presume now the deep friendliness between us, I hope & expect the Gita will be delivered again! Gita will be delivered again in its pristine purity! I am not speaking on Gita just to talk about only krishna’s R\&D, research & development, I am speaking on Gita to talk about all the masters happened in the lineage of krishna all their R\&D, ultimately my own R\&D, research and development with these great truths. It is for this purpose incarnations happen. It is for this purpose Krishna leaves the future open by saying “Sambhavaami yuge yuge” – I happen again & again! Why should he happen if he can’t even update his own earlier editions? He happens to update the versions and make it into reality. He happens to update his old versions and to make the updated versions as an experience to people, to make it as a reality to people. The Meenakshi temple of Madhurai was built by a stapadi who came down again & again 6 times assuming body because I didn’t want some other fellow, it is very difficult to transmit this whole master plan and the knowledge to every guy. So I was very clear the same guy who conceived and created the master plan has to come down again & again till the whole basic things are set & completed. Even during the gap time after his leaving the body and again he assuming the body and growing up to at least 18-20 years, even those 10-20 years either work will be stopped or whatever he has started that will be continued and completed. That’s all! That is the way the whole thing was done. That is why if you see from the Garbha mandir to the outer most prakaara, the fine carving even the nail shape or the eye line shape will be same. There will not be any difference. If you see the Garbha mandir dwara paalakaas and the outer most prakaara the gopuraas dwara paalakaas - the eye line cut and the lip cut and the nail cut will be same because conceived and executed by the same stapadi architect. So understand there are some things even if you take new new births only you will be able to do it. He took again & again new new births and executed whatever he conceived. Same way divine again & again takes new new bodies, new new forms updates, amends and executes the truths he expressed & expressing. The greatest part of the Vedic Tradition is allowing the future possibility - the allowing of the growth, allowing the amendment. It is not frozen. Anything frozen is dead, old, can’t be used for future. Can’t be regulated. You can’t run your life based on something which can’t be updated, which can’t be added. Here Krishna wants Gita to be a practical living life style, not a dead book in museum, not a book to be in museum for pride. He wants this book to be in your heart as a life guide. That is the reason he allows possibility, that is the reason he allows amendment, that is the reason he allows the future and he leaves the future open!

Let’s prepare our self with a deep friendliness. So that Gita can happen here again in its updated, new & clear edition and nuclear version of consciousness! Sit for few minutes surrendering to Krishna. Ask him for the deep friendliness to happen between us so that the Gita can be delivered in its pristine pure form. Let the Kundalini energy in you all be awakened. Let you all experience deep friendliness so that the Gita can happen here between us!

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