Shanti Mantra of Katho Upanishad

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Today I will enter into the Shanti Mantra of Kathopanishad... Please recite along with Me.

ॐसहनाववतु।सहनौभनक्त ।सहवीय करवावहै। तेजिस्वनावधीतमस्तु।मावद्वषावहै॥ ॐ शािनतः शािनतः शािनतः॥

Om sahana vavathu I Sahanau bhunaktu I Saha veeryam karava vahai I Tejas vinava dheeta mastu I Ma vidh vishava hai I Om shanti shanti shanti hi II

Please repeat:

Om sahana vavathu I Sahanau bhunaktu I Saha veeryam karava vahai I Tejas vinava dheeta mastu I Ma vidh vishava hai I Om shanti shanti shanti hi II

I first want to introduce this concept of shanti mantra which is unique to Bharatn education system pre Macaulay. Please understand. So, when I say Bharatn education system I mean pre Max Muller, pre Macualy our original education system... Listen. The shanti mantra concept is unique only to Bharatn education system. If you see the meaning of this mantra, it’s so beautiful where student and teacher both of them sit together and say, “Let there be no enmity between us.”😊 Why will a student and teacher sit and pray to Lord, “Let there be no enmity between us!” Understand, unfortunately many time students denies the possibility of his ignorance and holds on to what he thinks as right. Master has to expose himself, please understand Master has to expose student to himself. He has to expose him to himself which creates lot of pain. Lot of incompletions are attacked, shaken. So, there is a possibility for a student to develop subtle anger, vengeance, violence towards the teacher thinking that whatever I say he is saying, “No” to it. Whatever I say he is saying, “No” to it.

Anything which makes me happy he is denying it. Maybe he is not just interested in teaching, he is interested in putting me down! There is every possibility you can start developing the anger. Understand! As a victim of the students’ anger, victim of the disciples' anger I tell you this. Many times I have been a victim of this disciples’ anger, who are not matured enough to learn but who go on uttering, repeating stupid words like a parrot, “No, no I have surrendered myself to you. I have surrendered myself to you. Please teach me exactly as it should be taught. Please make it happen as You want it to happen.” The moment I put My hand on the puss, “No”. Even breaking your ideas about Me is part of My job. Understand!

Many times I have been a victim the so called students’ anger... The very education process in Bharatn tradition is awakening you. It is not just giving some words, ideas, concepts, theories, theologies, it is awakening you. Sometime the fact you are having may be right but the context you are having will be wrong. So, the facts also will be written off. Understand! The fact you are having maybe right but the context you are having may not be right. So, during those moments not just the context, even fact will be written off. Till you change your context, this fact is not going to be useful for you anymore. Go and come back.

If you see in upanishads, Master asks the disciple, “Go”, He gives two cows and says, “Go, come back after it become thousand cows.” When disciple comes back after it become thousand cows Master says, “No, go and come back.” Disciple could not understand, “What is this? It’s already became thousand. Why is He not accepting me?” He went and sat and meditated, meditated suddenly he saw in that his mind got dissolved. He himself become like one more cow. When he realized the context of Master’s words, came back with thousand cows, Master said, “Come on, receive the thousand and one cows.”

When the context is not right even if the facts are right you’re written off. So, in this whole process of awakening so much of patience is required from the side of student. So much of understanding is required from the student side... Shanti mantra sets the context of Bharatn education system. And in Bharatn education system there is no higher and lower means teacher is not considered as higher than you. Student is not considered lower than the teacher. Because it is very clear, teacher also goes on learning by teaching. Please understand. It is a student who makes person into teacher. It’s a student who makes the person into teacher. It’s a teacher..., listen teacher cannot be self centric and education is such both constantly gets enriched. Playing the role of a teacher for millions for last more than twelve years, I wanted to tell you this. I started teaching I think in 2001 and now it is 2015, almost fourteen years. Being the teacher, playing the role of a teacher also for millions for last fourteen years I want to tell you, “I Am enriched more than any of My students by teaching.”

Please understand! All My classes the only person who attended is Me. 😊😊 The only person who attended all My classes is Me. Students change but teacher is same. And fortunately I have the habit of sitting aside… sitting beside and listening to what I Am saying. Understand. I Am in such a peaceful space not only I Am teaching, I am able to sit beside Me and listen, listen, listen. Listening to Paramahamsa Nithyanada for last fourteen years, I Am telling you, “I Am enriched more than any student.” That’s the truth. Understand! The whole context of Bharatn education system is introduced in this one verse, in this one shanti mantra. In Bharatn education system the first context set about education is:

Let both of us be together and be protected. Let us not hurt each other. Let us not cherish enmity towards each other. Let’s not cherish anger towards each other.