Brihadaranyaka Upanishad Ch.1.4 Lecture 31 on 09 May 2026 Q&A

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These Varanas, you were going to explain to us with some AI company, Maharaj, that the architects and all those people you had mentioned that they formed the Brahmana, Brahmanas class. So the people who set before us the goal of life and how to live life, they are called philosophers in Socratic language, they are called Brahmanas in Hinduism. So architect means, don't mistake the English word architect of building, civil engineer.

Architect means one who builds. Here architecture of the whole life. In today's world, Maharaj, so we have thinkers, people coming up with new ideas.

So they will be Brahmanas, you had told us. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You have to be very clear about it.

Suppose there are AI thinkers, they have brains. What is the motive behind that brain? Are they teaching us the final goal of life? No way. They are fighting within themselves to like hell.

Yeah. And they're cheating each other. Yeah.

And they are not, they are telling that you just pay us monthly subscriptions and we will ruin your life. Literally they are going to ruin our life, isn't it? Yes. When tomorrow jobs are gone.

Is it helpful or is it a ruination? Ruination. All for what purpose? They want to become rich. Yeah.

Anyway, what is telling? Only those people who live a godly life, who knows what is the real purpose of life and who knows the secrets of the essence of the, true essence of the scriptures. So they lead their life and they are there to teach how they obtained this higher state of life. They are called Brahmanas.

Naturally, they alone are architects. So in this connection you have to understand they need not be what we call by birth Brahmins. You have to get rid of that idea.

Was Swami Vivekananda a Brahmana by birth? No. What about Swami Adbhuta? Adbhuta Ananda? No. But what wisdom they are giving? Yes.

They are the true architects of life. Every saint, in other words, is a real Brahmana. This is beautiful mantra if you remember.

Keep this in mind. If a person is, every Brahmin's baby is a Brahmin or he passes stool and urine in the bed. There is no difference at all.

Yes. But when that person develops certain wonderful samskaras and supposed to develop after the sacrament, then that person is entitled to be called as second born, second time, second birth. And that person, if he studies the scriptures, means understands the teachings of the scriptures, tries to live this life, then only he is entitled to be addressed as And finally that leads him to the knowledge of Atman or Brahman.

Then alone he is entitled to be called a We have to understand, even a sincere Brahmana who is leading that kind of life, he can be also called a Brahmana. Even though he may not be a realised soul, but he is very sincere about his goal of life and he will never mislead anybody. He will also try to help everybody.

So we have to take help of such people. We don't need a Brahmagnani. Brahmagnani is not going to come and run and then say, Oh you want to realise God, I will help you, I will help you.

And they start fighting with each other. All these modern Brahmagnanis, they go on fighting with each other. You have no right.

He is my disciple.