Epi-138 Janasri-20 Jan 2013 -Morning Satsang -same as Anchor Your Ship!

Video Title: ‘Know Death for no Death. Part 1’

I welcome you all with My love and respects.

शतायुषः पुत्रपौत्रान्वृणीष्वा बहून्पशून्हस्तिहिरण्यमश्वान् ।

भूमेर्महदायतनं वृणीष्व स्वयं च जीव शरदो यावदिच्छसि ॥ २३ ॥

śatāyuṣaḥ putrapautrānvṛṇīṣvā bahūnpaśūnhastihiraṇyamaśvān |

bhūmermahadāyatanaṃ vṛṇīṣva svayaṃ ca jīva śarado yāvadicchasi || 23 ||

एतत्तुल्यं यदि मन्यसे वरं वृणीष्व वित्तं चिरजीविकां च ।

महाभूमौ नचिकेतस्त्वमेधि कामानां त्वा कामभाजं करोमि ॥ २४ ॥

etattulyaṃ yadi manyase varaṃ vṛṇīṣva vittaṃ cirajīvikāṃ ca |

mahābhūmau naciketastvamedhi kāmānāṃ tvā kāmabhājaṃ karomi || 24 ||

With this sloka on authenticity through the Kathopanishad.

The translation of this verse:

‘If you thinkest of any other boon equal to this ask for wealth and long life. Be ruler over the wide earth oh Nachiketa I shall make you enjoyer of all desires.’

So I’ll continue. Yama is shaken. He offers everything else. He says: “Any other boon, ask. I will give you. I’ll make you enjoy everything - Wealth, long life, ruler of the world. I shall make you enjoy all desires, any desire you want.” Understand, we forget and tend to forget. Till you don’t understand the truth of death, even during all desire as a under current the fear is going to exist and because of that you are not going to enjoy it, you are going to just roll, roll, roll, roll on the fear and get into death.

It is like a, there is a huge river and you are going in the, by boat and that huge river goes and becomes a falls. The huge river is the death fear and falls is death. Whatever size boat you may be having, whatever pleasures you may be having in that boat; you may be having all variety food - cooked, uncooked, all the people whom you want, all the wealth you want, but understand, the boat itself flowing in the current of fear, death fear, very soon where it is going to just fall into death. Then what is the use of all the pleasures inside the boat?

Tell me, there’s a huge river, which is flowing and dropping as a falls and Yama says: “I will give you everything you want and a ship, have a ship and everything you want, but you are going to be in that river.” What is the use? You may be enjoying everything inside the boat but you are going along with the current. Just imagine, this is exactly the position we are in. First anchor the ship, with the truth of realization of fear of death and death. Stop the flow of the boat along with the current. That is the first priority.

Instead of that you are saying, “No, no, no, no, no, we can stop. Later on when we are about to fall into the falls...” No. No. That is not going to work. That is not the way it is going to work.

एतत्तुल्यं यदि मन्यसे वरं वृणीष्व वित्तं चिरजीविकां च ।

महाभूमौ नचिकेतस्त्वमेधि कामानां त्वा कामभाजं करोमि ॥ २४ ॥

etattulyaṃ yadi manyase varaṃ vṛṇīṣva vittaṃ cirajīvikāṃ ca |

mahābhūmau naciketastvamedhi kāmānāṃ tvā kāmabhājaṃ karomi || 24 ||

Don’t be cheated by what all is available inside your ship. Remember, ship is floating, going along with the current of the river which is very soon or little late, going to make a big fall as a falls. If you are in that kind of a ship, will you be asking the boon? ‘Let me have a swimming pool in this ship. Let me have one beautiful restaurant in this ship. Let me have all the best jewels and the decorative materials in this ship?’ What will you ask, if you are intelligent enough, ‘First let me anchor stop flowing along with the current.’

Nachiketa is intelligent enough. Yama is trying to play silly game, that’s a right word I’ll use, silly game with nachiketa. Yama should know a person of Nachiketa's capability, Nachiketa's state, who can just come to his gate by the power of authenticity... I expected little better intelligence from Yama. I tell you, he is playing. Yama is doing. He is trying to play. Even for negotiation, what he is offering is too silly. He is saying: “I’ll give you anything you want - Wealth, long life, ruler of the wide earth. Nachiketa, I shall make you enjoy all the desires” But what is the use? The ship is floating, flowing with the current. Sooner or later it is just going to fall into the falls. “No, no, no, I will elongate the length of the river.” You will come and fall after 200 years! 😃

Anchor it. Stop the flow! Stop flowing with the river. Till then, don’t be diverted. Don’t be swimming in the pool, in the ship. Don’t be sitting in the restaurant and eating. Don’t be enjoying all the jewels till you are ensured, you have anchored the ship, it is not going with the flow of the current.

Anchoring the ship is knowledge of death. Know death before life. Know, know about the death. Then you will have no death. K-N-O-W death. N-O death. If you know death, no death.

एतत्तुल्यं यदि मन्यसे वरं वृणीष्व वित्तं चिरजीविकां च ।

महाभूमौ नचिकेतस्त्वमेधि कामानां त्वा कामभाजं करोमि ॥ २४ ॥

etattulyaṃ yadi manyase varaṃ vṛṇīṣva vittaṃ cirajīvikāṃ ca |

mahābhūmau naciketastvamedhi kāmānāṃ tvā kāmabhājaṃ karomi || 24 ||

If you think, any other boon equal to this, ask for wealth and long life, be ruler over wide earth. Oh Nachiketa, I shall make you enjoyer of all desires.

How it looks, you know, “Oh Nachiketa, I’ll paint your room in the cruise in nice color you like. I’ll put a beautiful bed. I’ll get you whatever you want. I’ll give you a Olympic size swimming pool inside the ship. I’ll give you a best cruise, best restaurant, best experience of the cruise. But you are flowing in the water, very soon you fall into the falls. 😃

“See, I’ll change all the tap into gold tap in your bathroom; everything I’ll change it into gold, including basin. Understand, this is the lesson you need to know. Whatever is diverting you, from the first priority of anchoring the ship is inauthenticity; all your inauthenticity asking you to postpone, divert.