“Today I will start the Satsang on Bhagavad Gita, 2nd chapter Sankhya…”

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Today I will start the Satsang on Bhagavad Gita, 2nd chapter Sankhya Yoga 39th verse –

“esa te 'bhihita sankhye buddhir yoge tv imam srnu buddhya yukto yaya partha karma-bandham prahasyasi”

“What has been taught to you concerns the wisdom of Sankhya. Now listen to the wisdom of Yoga. Having known this Partha, you shall cast off this bonds of action.”

Bhagavan is saying I gave you the pure philosophy, pure science. Now I will teach you the applied science making theology into practicality, making pure science into the practice. See when a pure science is taught, nobody has a problem because it is like a “oh! this whole world is a illusion, you are beyond birth and death” and in a way it gives a kind of a intellectual kick also. Now you know more than others. Now you know something which others don’t know. It gives you kind of intellectual kick. It goes on and on and on. That is why sometime I see in Vedanta monasteries people study for 12 years, 12 years they spend just on studying. In theology seminaries people spend 12 years just studying because it gives you intellectual kick. But here neither Bhagavan is interested in teaching for 12 years nor Arjuna will have time for 12 years. In one chapter Bhagavan finished giving the essence sacred secrets of life. Not only that, he gives even the smruthi, the practical action - instruction for action. He says very clearly come on stand up! Have the will to fight and go ahead. He gives the exact command to Arjuna. What a fortunate being! The commander of the universe is personally commanding him. It is always easy the instruction gets lost down the way. When a CEO gives an instruction, it never reaches the 4th or 5th level as it is unless it is a written communication.

In early days I used to make people play a game just to teach. I will sit all the 100, 200 people who are participating in the program. Say one word to the first person, he should tell this to the other person in the ears without others hearing it. Please understand I have done this game at least 100 times. Not even once the word I uttered came back! The instruction is what you hear, exactly tell that. That’s all! In front of the eyes in 10 minutes what I uttered always comes completely opposite! In front of my own eyes what I utter comes completely opposite then don’t you understand how the words go around. I tell you communication always gets either altered or broken down the line. But here, Bhagavan is directly communicating with Arjuna. That is why I tell you blessed are those who are directly working with enlightened beings, blessed are those who are directly working with incarnations. Because there is no down the line. Communication, the instruction, command is straight. Here Bhagavan gives straight smruthi. Sruthi means pure science. Smruthi means day to day instructions how to go about - how many times you need to stand, how many times you need to sit, how many times you can marry, what we should eat and what we should not eat, how many times you need to take bath all these are called smruthi - dos and don’ts instruction manual. Sruthi is vision statement. Vision statement is Sankhya, smrithi is instruction manual. Now Bhagavan is going to teach how the vision statement is becoming manual. The procedure for creating manual. That is what I call science of Yoga. Now Bhagavan is introducing science of Yoga to Arjuna through which the vision statement gets converted into mission statement the manual. That is why he is saying this is the wisdom of Sankhya or reasoning that has been imparted to you. Now listen to these ways of application or yoga being united with which knowledge you will be able to break away from the bondage of action.

(10:12) Let’s enter into the next verse (40th verse) –

“nehabhikrama-naso 'sti pratyavayo na vidyate svalpam apy asya dharmasya trayate mahato bhayat”

There is no wasted effort or dangerous effect from this. In the beginning itself Bhagavan gives a clarity. Even a little knowledge of this, even a little practice of Yoga, protects one from great fear. See just like modern days, even in those days always there was a taboo associated with the mystical sciences. See now when I talk about Kundalini Yoga, Kundalini awakening, why do you think all the media is abusing me left and right? Because always low intelligence is afraid of the higher possibilities. You feel wow that is too big. Better let me close my eyes and believe that it does not exist. Media is low intelligent donkeys. Understand, it is catered to common mass. Unfortunately, common mass is kept as low intelligent donkeys by media. Media does not like intelligent beings. That is why, they give feedback about everybody. They never accept feeback about themselves from anybody. You won’t see any media accepting the feedback about themselves from anybody. They are designed to keep mass in darkness, in ignorance. Anything new you are afraid, you feel who knows what it is? Fear of new. We can create one more word – newophobia. Phobia of anything new is the fear with which you are suffering the moment you took birth and till the death because every moment is new, everything is something new. Every person you meet in your life is new. Even if you are lived with your spouse for 25 years, every meeting is new. Understand. If you think you know the person it is going to be as usual, you will straight away have some blow. Then you will realize - Oh it is new! Every moment life teaches you, shakes you, shocks you surprises you to remind you everything is new. Everything is new.

(15:29) Oh, here already they have done a googling and brought the information - Centophobia. The whole un verse cosmos is suffering with this centophobia. Centophobia is the central phobia of planet earth. Anything new you are afraid. But with death comes to you, it is going to be new. When life comes to you it is going to be new. Constantly it is going to be new. Person who is caught in centophobia dies without even coming out of his house. See his house we should not call it as a house. We should call it as cemetery with key! Even now, millions of people die without even crossing their state in Bharat. Please understand inside this one country millions, I am not saying lakhs, millions I can even safely say crores. Crores of people die from the birth to death without crossing their state. What do you think is the reason? Centophobia – fear of new place, new things, new ideas. First thing a man needs to do breaking this fear of centophobia. I tell you life with a spiritual understanding living enlightenment is so beautiful but it is so difficult to inspire or convince somebody to take up this ideas, the clarity into his life.

(18:05) Now I am sitting and defining exactly what is enlightenment. I am sitting and listing out some 100 truths if you understand and take all your decisions based on it, all your cognizance, all your cognition is happening based on that 100 decisions you are living enlightenment. I am just doing postmortem on me, on my own inner space. See now part of me is frozen on living enlightenment means it is sealed. Now I cannot lose living enlightenment. That core I am cutting into pieces, analyzing getting the black box report, postmortem report. How this freezing has happened, how this solidification has happened. what are the components of this solidification? Just 100 truths. If you change the way you take cognizance, the way your cognition happens, that is changed done. You are a jeevanmukta. It is so easy and so rewarding. But unfortunately, it is very difficult to convince somebody in the initial level because centophobia – whole world is suffering from centophobia! We are open, honest, integrated public spiritual institution. Why do you think people are afraid of us? Centophobia. Media suffers with centophobia and it exploits the common mass’s centophobia.

(20:30) Krishna a great master - Jagath Guru, the universal teacher removes the centophobia first from Arjuna. He says come on, don’t have centophobia. Maybe in Arjuna’s eyes Bhagavan saw the trace of centophobia when he used the word Yoga, I have heard too many things about Yoga, I don’t know what it is, I don’t know why Bhagavan is trying to teach me yoga! Even now, the moment I utter the word the science of Tantra I see the centophobia. I have heard too many things, no, no, no, who knows what it is? Having centophobia is a civil mistake. Taking decisions based on centophobia is crime. Fortunately Arjuna’s love for Bhagawan is more powerful than his centophobia. So Bhagavan is clearing the centophobia through this verse saying here there is no wasted effort or dangerous effect from this no side effect, no after effect. Even a little knowledge of this, even a little practice of yoga protects one from great fear. I am translating now newly please understand now my English vocabulary has increased and moreover now I have little time to collect more dictionaries and present it in a better way. So from today, I am going to give two translation for Bhagavad Gita. One the earlier translation which I did with the help of team. Now new translation I am doing with the help of a another one team because now I feel every day I need only 4 sloka, 5 sloka. Even if I spend 5, 10 minutes, I can sit with the dictionary and refer bring more better words. So my own new translation -

(23:18) “Here there is no abandoning of an attempt, nor is there diminishing of experience. Even a minute level of this practice saves one from intense fear.”

“nehabhikrama-naso 'sti pratyavayo na vidyate svalpam apy asya dharmasya trayate mahato bhayat”

There is no wasted effort or dangerous effect from this. Even a little knowledge of this, even a little practice of Yoga protects one from great fear. Here there is no abandoning of an attempt, nor is there diminishing of experience. Even a minute level of this practice saves one from intense fear. The centophobia is removed. Bhagavan says even the minute level, not just a minute level, minute level of this practice saves one from intense fear. When I introduce the Kundalini Yoga that is the way I will try to introduce because when you see flying, levitating. Naturally you will feel – what is this? this guy just moves the hand and people are levitating! I don’t know, I may get controlled by him. Don’t be afraid.

“nehabhikrama-naso 'sti pratyavayo na vidyate svalpam apy asya dharmasya trayate mahato bhayat”

This is the word for you also. There is no wasted effort or dangerous effect from this. Even little knowledge of this, even a little practice of Yoga protects one from great fear!

(26:05) Let me enter into the next verse. Sankhya Yoga, 2nd chapter of Bhagavad Gita, 41st verse -

“vyavasayatmika buddhir ekeha kuru-nandana bahu-sakha hy anantas ca buddhayo 'vyavasayinam”

The old Translation – “Joy of the Kurus all you need is single pointed determination. Thoughts of the irresolute are many branch and endless”

My own new translation – “Oh descendant of Kuru dynasty! Here there is a firm preservance of purpose but for those who do not have perservance, their purposes are many branch and limitless!

Bhagavan says very clearly you need only one thing determination firm preservance of purpose. People who are not able to preserve their purpose. Who don’t have perseverance of their purpose, their thoughts go in thousands of branches in limitless way. Keyword for any success, password for external and internal success is determination! Perseverance! Beautiful word Bhagavan is using in Sanskrit “vyavasayatmika buddhihi!” “vyavasayatmika buddhi” Ready to persevere go through the hardships stand with perseverance, determination. In Sanskrit agriculture is also called as vyavasaya means you need to plough the land, sow the seed, wait for the crop to grow, remove the weeds finally you get the result of what do you want. Get the grain. “vyavasayatmika buddhihi” Tremendous perseverance.

(30:13) Understand I wanted you to know some of the basic truths. When Buddha declared life is suffering. When I read that statement first I said no, what is this? This fellow such a pessimist. Started with the statement life is suffering. Now I agree with Buddha with all respects. Unless you learn that word first, you do not develop perseverance. Man do not develop “vyavasayatmika buddhi” – perseverance unless he understands that statement – life is suffering. Life is dukkha. See the big problem is when you feel life is joy, when you believe life is joy, you tend to wander. You take up one project. Suddenly you feel the other’s project glitters more. The other side is more greenery – wow! I think that life is more joyful, more green, more shining, more palabala! Let me jump! You jump there. From there when you look at the other side – wow! that looks more shiny, more beautiful, more powerful, great! Let me jump there. You jump there. Markata Vairagya in Sanskrit we have the word called renunciation of the monkey. Monkey renounces one branch to catch another branch. But it does not stay with that branch. Within 2 seconds, it catches some other branch and renounces this branch also ☺ Markata Vairagya – renunciation of the monkey. No.

(32:36) When Bhagavan Buddha says life is suffering. His first statement is that only life is dukkha – suffering. I attest, I second his opinion. Only when you understand life is suffering, you will learn perseverance. When you take up a project, when you face suffering you will understand – aiy life is suffering. Let me stand with this suffering, with this project and see the end of it. Truth is life is joy. Fact is life is suffering. Till you experience truth, better be with fact. “vyavasayatmika buddhir ekeha kuru-nandana” - Perseverance in any level in any project whether it is the inner world or outer world understand even living enlightenment is a project – Jivanmukti is a project. You take it up. It’s a project you take it up to achieve the end of it. In the initial level believing life is suffering will be much better because we will have perseverance when you face different sufferings, different problems. You will know – no, life is suffering. Let me be stable. The stability will happen in you when you don’t understand life is suffering, the stability does not happen in you.

(35:17) I think one of the biggest mistake I have done is I told the truth too early to people. I said life is joy! That is why, when the small suffering came they did not have perseverance, determination “vyavasayatmika buddhi” they ran away! The other day one of my Swami met one ex-organizer. And showed that document which was telling about the male hormone level in my body. you all may be aware that male hormone level in my body is only six year old. When that organizer heard about his tears were there in his eyes the ex-organizer. He literally felt Oh God! I am cheated by the wrong informations, false information. He asked my Swami it seems why did you not tell all these things earlier to me? My Swami naturally said - What do you mean earlier? We were in a big war. There was a war, attack on us. Who has the time to discuss anything with whom? Only now we have time we can talk to each other and we are telling. But the poor fellow he feels the tremendous suffering, misery, feeling miserable that he missed it! Now the ego is too much! Naturally, you can’t take the decision of coming back. It is very difficult. Because not only you are convinced by others’ appraisal, opinion, briefing and you also went ahead and appraised, briefed, gave opinions to others. It is like a collective suffering. This is what I call collective delusion. You delude me, I delude you.

(37:32) What they call? There is a term I learnt two days before – quid pro quo - you scratch my back, I scratch your back. Just two days before I was learning this word. I have teachers all around me. See when you are ready to learn, you will have teachers, everybody all around you. Quid pro quo – you scratch my back, I will scratch your back. Let both of us be together. This is the way the collective illusions are spread, collective delusions are created. For thousands of years people were believing earth is flat because of collective delusion. You scratch my back, I scratch your back. Collective delusion is the worst suffering a man can have. Poor fellow because he did not understand life is suffering, when there is a small attack on us, they all ran away, disappeared. Anyhow, see in a pond there will lotus and birds. Birds come to have fish, their food or water. When the pond has a problem, some less water, or its drying, all the birds will fly, escape. But the lotus plants will stay there and die! I discovered my lotuses and I realize all the birds which come to only eat and drink only for fish and water. Now I know the eagles, vultures and the lotus, lily. Now I know the difference between eagles and vultures and lotus and lily.

(40:12) When you know life is suffering, you will have the perseverance, you will have the determination, you will have the “vyavasayatmika buddhi” of lotus. I tell you never a lotus and lily dies. When the water comes again, they are back to life. Because those seeds stay in the sand. Even if you remove all the lotus, all the lilies. See how many hundreds of times, how many times, at least hundreds of times we have cleaned our Manas Sarovar and we don’t plant the lily and lotus again. See it is there again! We drained, cleaned, and emptied, removed even all the mud, all the slush. Even if you say the seeds were there in the sand, we removed all the sand. We broke the wall, we removed all the sand. It’s cleaned so many times. But the moment fresh water is there, lily and lotus is there! Understand whoever stayed as lily and lotus, of course pond itself never dried completely. That’s one. Second even if it dried, when the water comes again the lily and lotus will be back to life flowering. If you believe life is suffering, you will have the perseverance of lotus and lily, you will have the determination to be stable and achieve. “vyavasayatmika buddhi” Fixed resolve. I tell you which is the basic requirement for external and internal enlightenment, external and internal success, external and internal achievements.

(42:46)Let us enter into the next verse. In Bhagavad Gita Sankya Yoga the 2nd chapter 42-43 verses. Because this two verses are connected -

“yam imam puspitam vacam pravadanty avipascitah veda-vada-ratah partha nanyad astiti vadinah”

“kamatmanah svarga-para janma-karma-phala-pradam kriya-visesa-bahulam bhogaisvarya-gatim prati”

Translation – “Foolish ones speak a lot taking pleasure in eulogizing words of vedas oh Partha, saying that there is nothing else”

“Men of little knowledge are very much attached to the flowery words of the vedas which recommended various fruitful activities for elevation of heavenly planets resulting in good birth, powers and so forth being desirous of sense gratification and opulent life they say that there is nothing more than to this, than this to living”

Bhagavan is breaking the mental set up, pattern which was prevalent at that time. See first he spoke about the collective delusion. Now, he is straight away landing on collective pattern. Now he is proving he is a universal teacher Jagath Guru. I will expand on these 2 verses in tomorrow Satsang because you need lot of time for it. I need to go through word by word and lead you to the step by step level of understanding with deep patience and perseverance.

Now the essence of today’s Satsang is perseverance – “vyavasayatmika buddhi.” Just sit with this one truth – “vyavasayatmika buddhi” Determination to stay and see the end in the inner world enlightenment and outer world success. Come on, close your eyes and sit straight. Take the strong resolve, make the strong resolve – create determination through determination. I bless all of you sittign with us at this moment in 615 places through eNtv, in 11 places through 2 way Nayana Deeksha, in 228 cities, in 19 countries – Let you all achieve, experience, express, radiate, and share the eternal bliss – Nithyananda! Thank You!