Today #DEVDIPWALI celebration with pujy Gurudev in #GURUPADUKAVANM @#Artoflivinginternationalcenter #BangaloreAshram 10000 Lamp Todays Transcript: Sri Sri: Greetings to everyone on Guru Purab and Dev Diwali. 15 days ago, there was Diwali. It was on the new moon, where we lit the lamps and greeted each other to move from darkness to light. Now, 15 days later on the full moon also we celebrate. Moon signifies the mind. Mind sometimes becomes like new moon and full moon; it goes up and down. But when you determine to celebrate, then you transcend the mind. You go into the realm of pure consciousness. Your own dimension of something which is even beyond intellect. That something which gives you strength to endure. Sri Sri: Hmm… Very nice. Was it good? How many of you enjoyed the meditation? See thoughts and emotions come one their own. You do not create them. The thoughts come on their own. When they come, then you realize. As they come you realize. Now, you can get caught up in it or you can witness it. When you become witness to the thought or emotion, then they move like a cloud. When you identify with the thought or emotion that you have created it, then the problem comes. The sky stays and the cloud passes. The same with our mind, thoughts come and don’t say, ‘I created it’. Thoughts and emtions do come. They have their own chemistry how they come. Food, environment, your background, education, environment, health causes the thoughts and emotions to come. When they come, you are a witness to it. It is ignorance to identify with the thought and emotion. Breaking the identity with the thought and emotion is freedom. You can focus on improving your health, environment and food habits. Do pranayama. Q: They say whatever we say becomes our experience. Sri Sri: Nobody knows. You have an intention and when the intention will manifest you cannot say. Time has its own course. It will take its own time. You know it is Divine grace. Grace makes things happen quickly. Japa, tapa, sadhana, prayer all this is there to hasten the good happenings. Q: Sri Sri: Never mind. As the healing happens the faith comes back immediately. Faith is much stronger than other things. Good company and friends can help the faith to come back in life: faith in the Divine, faith is Self, and faith is society,. All three need good company to become firm. Always know that faith is stronger than doubt. Doubt comes as and shakes you, then you say never mind I am going to go. Momentarily, doubts may cloud you but faith wins. Q: Sri Sri: Now, you cannot say that “: I do not have any power at all” . There is something you can do and something you cannot do. Like you cannot increase your height after 21 years. But your weight, you can change. You cannot say you can change everything. You can pray, I want to become 7 feet tall. But weight, you can change. if you have to book 2.5 seats in train or plane, it is better you take care and reduce Q: Sri Sri: It is not in Yoga Sutra. It is Bhagavad Gita. ‘Yogastaa Kuru Karmani’. Be established in yoga and act. To act you need skill and the skill comes your yoga. Yoga is skill in action, that you get by uniting with yourself. When your mind, memory, intellect , and being is united then there is harmony, sharpness in mind, refinement in emotions, all this happens. Q: Sri Sri: When you feel you are different, only then the word union comes. Union with God is only to say that the waves are different from the ocean. Waves are rising in the ocean but it appears that it is coming out and going in. This is the ultimate truth. To experience that, this is the beginning. Well, the vedas say that the creation is eternal. It did not even happen. It just exists. It expressed itself. The infinity expressed itself. It did not take another material and create it. The wave is a part of the ocean, it appears to be rising and falling, but it is part of the ocean. Three things are anaadi; three things are without beginning and without end. Like a tennis ball. When truth is spherical, there is no beginning, there is no end. Yet at each point there is beginning and end. Like a dancer is there and he dances sometimes. Similarly, the bramhan is there and sometimes the material, Self, Universal spirit (Divine, Parmatma) is there. Q: Gurudev, what is this magic that you do which brings just positive transformation in people’s life? Sri Sri: You have said it is magic. If you explain then it does not remain magic. Love, honesty, simplicity and that is what you are . The simplest thing is the highest. And that is what we are all made up of. Q: What can be understood by the heart and mind? Sri Sri: Heart feels; mind understands. Both are essential. You cannot be very emotional and be wiggly wiggly. And you cannot be stuck in the head. Life is a combination of both. Clarity in mind, purity in heart, and sincerity in action: this is our motto. Q: What is the connection between varsh and Bharat? In olden days, India was called Bharat Varsh. Sri Sri: Varsh means continent. In olden days they used to call Bharat Desh and Bharat Varsh: Indian sub continent. Q: After committing sins the entire life, the Gita says that the last thought has a lot of impact. Sri Sri: The last thought is very strong. What you have done the whole life, that will have a deep impact on the last thought. That is why they say do good deeds, the end can come at any time.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 15:27:18 +0000
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