Chandogya Upanishad Lecture 55 on 30 November 2024

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OM JANANIM SHARADAM DEVIM RAMAKRISHNAM JAGADGURUM PADAPADMETAYOH SRIDHVA PRANAMAMI MUHURMUHU OM APYAYANTUM AMANGANIVAKPRANASYAKSHUH SHROTRAM ATHO BALAMINDRIYANICHA SARVANI SARVAM BRAHMAHU PANISHADAM MAHAM BRAHMANIRAKURIYAM MAMA BRAHMANIRAKARO ANIRAKARANAM ASTVANIRAKARANAM ME ASTU TADATMANI NIRATE YAUPANISHAD SU DHARMA TE MAI SANTU TE MAI SANTU OM SHANTI SHANTI SHANTI HA RE HE OM OM May my limbs, speech, vital force, eyes, ears, as also strength, and all the organs become well developed. Everything is the Brahman revealed in the Upanishads. May I not deny Brahman. May not Brahman deny me. Let there be no spurning of me by Brahman. Let there be no rejection of Brahman by me. May all the virtues that are spoken of in the Upanishads repose in me. I am engaged in the pursuit of the Self. May they repose in me. OM PEACE PEACE PEACE BE UNTO ALL So we are studying the 7th chapter of the Chandogya Upanishad which is called Bhumananda or Brahmananda. So far we have completed section 3 of this 7th chapter which 3rd section is called Mano Brahma Upasana. What is the essence of what we discussed? Mind contains and is the cause of both speech as well as names or information. Always a cause is greater than the effect. So mind so far as we have studied is greater than both these which is speech and name. Therefore O Narada, contemplate on mind as Brahman. That means what? I am the mind. So if I am the mind, it cannot be different from me. And what does it mean? It means, let us find out all the possibilities of our particular mind, all our capacities and try to manifest them and serve God with these manifestations. For example, a musician must develop to the utmost his capacity to sing and to render bhajans or ragas but use that talent to manifest his divinity. That is the only way he can manifest. Supposing he manifests but he does not serve God, then he will get many things. He becomes a Sakami, a man with worldly desires. He will get, so far as his talent is recognized, wherever his talent is recognized, to that extent he becomes famous, powerful, respected and also endowed with lots of money, prestige, power, property, etc. But for those who want to progress in spiritual life and the simple truth is at the very beginning we do not 100% turn our mind towards God. So therefore, first is purely worldly desires. Second, along with fulfilling worldly desires, some amount of devotion to God, gratefulness to God and offering to God whatever talents we have. But when a person progresses, he will further, he says, there are better things out there, so I don't want any worldly desires, not even a mixed worldly desire. I want to become totally a spiritual aspirant. Of course, it will come or this tendency will continue until the end of this 15th Upasana. Otherwise, we have to consider that person has reached or completed the 15th Prana Upasana and realized identity with Saguna Brahma and thereafter there is nothing for him to do except to wait for the grace of God to become one with the indescribable Nirguna Brahma. So we have discussed so far. So far as the mind is concerned, mind is Brahman. Brahman means Atma. Atma means I am the mind. That means I am the master of the mind. I am the controller of the mind. So a person who contemplates mind as God, naturally comes the understanding this mind is also gift of God and therefore it belongs to God. Therefore, it is the grace of God. Therefore, I have to surrender myself and receive grace of God. So such a person becomes a master of many, becomes free. This is called the result for the Sakama Upasaka. But for spiritual sadhakas, mind becomes fine, mind becomes firm, mind becomes pure, mind becomes controlled and concentrated, mind develops extraordinary memory and the mind strengthens only the desire for God realization. That is the result of contemplating mind as Brahma. Naturally, Narada, we always have to add this at the end of every Upasana including the 15th Upasana that Narada was not simply sitting there. I understood it intellectually. Now is there something greater? No. And the teacher also will not understand. Why? Just as in a school or college, unless a student passes a particular class, he will not be allowed to sit in the next class. So he asks, and this will repeat until the very end and how do we know what is the end? When he doesn't repeat it. Is there something greater? That means he reached the last or the goal and that's why he knows instinctively there is nothing higher. Of course, the Guru says, you are only at the beginning stages. This is only the third step. Of course, there is something greater than mind. Then Narada requests, May my Guruji, Acharya instruct me so that I can be enlightened, I can do the contemplation and I can identify myself with that. With this begins the fourth section called Sankalpa Brahma Upasana. Fourth section, seventh chapter, fourth section. What is this Sankalpa? Firm determination. Some people translate it as willpower and so the willpower is very important here. And what is this willpower? We will see now. So we have seen that the name is an effect, speech is the cause. Without speech, nothing can be uttered. Without getting instructions, speech, then we cannot get knowledge or very little knowledge. But speech cannot come out unless a language is mastered and that is mastered by the mind. And speech cannot also be given unless the person knows what is it by what I want to speak. Simple example, if Einstein meets a small baby, he will not talk about special theory of relativity. So there was a funny story, a small boy of five years, one day entered into Sriram Krishna's room because he heard from his aunt who used to come to bathe there practically every other day and then this boy observed there is a Sriram Krishna's room and it was full of people and they were eating and naturally the boy was attracted to that eating part and he asked his what is happening auntie in this room and then she explained there is a sadhu and he gives upadesham. She was not intelligent enough to understand her nephew or explain properly. That is the trouble with most of us. We get angry with children and say don't you understand what is your understandings are and what is the understanding of a child. We can never put ourselves in the shoes of the children. So one day this person, this young boy entered into Sriram Krishna's room and Sriram Krishna was sitting alone. That day no one was there and the boy entered. He did not observe Sriram Krishna sitting and then he said Sriram Krishna observed him and asked him, who are you? A small boy, he became a bit hesitated said me, Ami, I am. Of course Sriram Krishna can put himself in anybody's shoes and then second question, ki chai, what do you want? And then this boy heard from his aunt, this sadhu gives upadesham, said upades chai, I want upadesham. Immediately Sriram Krishna called Ramlal Lada and said this child has come, give him some upadesham, nice sweet and the boy was happy, Sriram Krishna was happy, everybody was happy because at that time the boy should not be given a upadesham, he must be given only a sandesham, not upadesham. So like that a person must have that capacity and until that capacity is reached, the further vistas will not open. Sanath Kumara was an authorized teacher. As Sriram Krishna says, he is authorized by God. And Narada was an apt disciple, adhikari purusha. So guru was an adhikari and sishya was also an adhikari. So he said sankalpa, the essence is that I am going to talk about what is this sankalpa and you will have to contemplate sankalpa as the highest goal, as your highest goal at this time because you have already mastered a scale below. Now the present scale and that is called sankalpa, that is called willpower. So behind the will, we simply cannot understand how deeply these great souls, rishis know about the modern psychology. In fact, there is nothing called modern and ancient but if we have to talk about modern psychology or western psychology, severely circumcised, limited because whoever doesn't accept two things, one punar janma, Hindus fortunately accept that we had lakhs, millions of births because all the experiences, they coalesce, they are kept in memory, that is very important and some of them are very strong and they who become strong samskaras, undetermined and these strong samskaras influence the mind what to think. Simple example, a person who is a keen student of music, as soon as he is a bit grown up, his mind will determine, I want to learn music. A foodie, a person who knows only how to gulp, swallow, the moment he becomes a little, before also he will be only looking at where is food coming, mom, mommy means food, auntie means food, father means food, elder brother and sister means food, neighbors means food. So you see, the mind will not simply speak but before speaking, it has to understand what is it that I want to really speak about and samskara will determine. So this is what we are going to talk about it. Behind the mind also, there are so many samskaras which are more concentrated in their nature and by an analysis of the workings of the mind, we can to some extent at least realize that this is the activity of a specified thought and that is what the psychologists are expected, they are trained to find out why this person is suffering, what is the experience which caused a particular thought and that thought produced some kind of negative effect and in order to remove that negative effect, we must know what caused it in the first place. So this will is called sankalpa. This is why fourth chapter is called Sankalpa Brahma and sankalpa in puja time also, we do many sankalpas and everywhere we do sankalpa. Sankalpa means strong determination. So determination or also called willpower, that is what is called sankalpa. So that precedes our thinking in the mind and what is influenced by this will come out as speech and so will is prior to the general thinking faculty of the mind. Only when a person, so he determines that this is what I am going to think and then only he will think how can I express it so that the person to whom he is going to express or the reader for whom he is going to write, his ideas can be conveyed. So will is very creative. What does it mean? Supposing a person says I want to enjoy some sweet then it goes into what is called spiraling action. So where is the best restaurant and what is the price ratio and what is the trouble ratio, how far do I have to drive the car or travel, etc. etc. According to that capacity it becomes creative. So it is superior to any ordinary thought because it is only a creative thought that finally controls us, makes us think, makes us speak, so makes us learn also. When there is a will or a determined activity of the psychological organ there arises the general thinking of the mind. Then only follows the expression. First speech will come that requires a language how to express properly and then how to put it modulation of the speech etc. A very interesting comparison is say Ramakrishna. He was determined that whether God existed or not I want to know about it. How? By realizing if I can have experience of God and in this case as a divine mother then I know the scriptures are teaching correctly otherwise Ramakrishna will never accept and for that the scriptures teach. If you want to realize divine mother you will have to do certain actions called sadhanas. So before doing any particular sadhana he will divide his mind into two and one part is the examiner another part is the examined. So the examiner questions what do you want? I want to realize God. Are you 100% sure? Not 99% 100% yes I am sure. Are you prepared to do everything that is indicated? Yes. If it hesitates then he will not take it up immediately without thinking. Just as a person the Vedanta Sara teaches whose head is has caught fire and it is burning uncontrollably and then he sees at a small distance a pool of water and what do you think the person will do now? So his one goal in life is how quickly he can run and fall into that water and put out the fire and cool the head and become peaceful. Even if God comes at that time he will push him aside and say I have first let me make my head cool and then we will talk about it otherwise you will be more of a headache. So that is the kind of earnestness, one-pointedness and that is called determined activity of this psychological organ called mind. So then the creativity starts. How quickly can I obtain what I want? So everything that we utter or recite or chant is a form of speech and the speech is caused by the mind but not only that in this section we are going to say that here is a person who wants some higher Ananda that means higher Loka that means he wants to do some Yajnas, Yagas etc. So it is clearly there. A person who wants to go to the Swarga Loka. Going to Swarga Loka means obtaining that state of consciousness where a person completely experiences happiness limited to that particular state of consciousness. Swarga Loka means higher Loka means higher experience of Ananda or I would even put it this way any experience doesn't matter. It could be hellish experience but that would be also Swarga Sukha only. You may be wondering what are you talking about. So there are so many Narakas described in our Puranas and the lowest or the highest amount of torture is given in the Patala. Now supposing somebody has been thrown into the Patala and he is shouting his heart out please save me somebody and perhaps somebody will take pity and promotes him from the Patala to a little higher hell where the pain is less and experiencing that lesser pain and comparing it with the earlier pain. Will this fellow be happier or not? We also do that when the temperature is 120 outside or 140 outside and you get a shade and a bit of cool breeze where the temperature is 135 instead of 140. Oh what a relief but if you enter into an air conditioned room of course you will enjoy great for a second then you feel like I want to be in between the heat and cold not this much of air conditioning. Everywhere we have got complaints only. So what is meant is that if a person wants to go higher loka he will perform Yajnas and Yagas and our Vedas. Rig Veda tells this is the collection of mantras and that the next part is called Brahmana portion of the Taittiriya Brahmana for example. So there how to use these mantras exactly and what type of rituals have to be done and that has to be learnt only through speech. So a person called Hrithvik he knows about it and perhaps he is teaching to his disciples or children because I have become old I may not be able to do it long time. Now I will teach you from next time onwards you will do it. So everything that we utter or recite or chant is nothing but speech and the quintessence of speech in its most sacred form is the mantras that are enumerated in the Vedas and these mantras contained in that portion of the Veda that is called Brahmanas and they tell these are the rules regulations how you have to perform. So if we perform actions which lead to specific results for example Dasaratha wanted children so he performed a Yajna called Putra Kameshti Yajna and he got. So another person wants to please Divine Mother Lakshmi he will get it. Kalidasa pleased the Divine Mother called Saraswati and Mother blessed him and he prays also. Vagartha Vivasampruktau Vagartha Pratipattaye Jagathah Pitravvande Parvati Parameshwaram So actions lead to results. Results result in experiences and therefore the desires are fulfilled for some time the Samskaras will become stronger but there is a law. Law of happiness as soon as a person attains a specific amount of happiness his mind very soon becomes bored with that he wants still higher type of happiness. So then ultimately he will be redirected towards the Upanishads and contemplation of the Upanishads etc which is called one that state of life is called Vanaprastha Ashrama and but what is the root speech the speech is all the knowledge is rooted in speech. Speech is rooted in mind. Mind means mind is rooted in this willpower. Willpower that means is directed by the Samskaras. So much we have to understand. So will is a general name which comprehends within itself any kind of specified intention or desire. So whether it works inside our mind or in the individual's personality or externally in nature therefore now the Upanishad tells us that everything in this world is a specific intention behind its very existence itself. What does it mean? So we see nature. You see perhaps a bird and it is flying. We see the flying. Do you think that flying is what is called random flying or has it a specific purpose? From birth to death we have a specific purpose. We are traveling towards our own self to manifest our divinity and this bird also I want to evolve further. I don't want to be a bird all the time but for this life I have to fulfill this bird's mission. So therefore it has to survive. So it is in search of food and it has to be extremely cautious that other birds of prey will not going to end its life. So therefore it must have sufficient knowledge what to do, what to escape, where food can be got and then of course propagation will come, then offspring will come. So small ducklings or chickens or kittens or young ones or monkeys whatever it is or young children everything is there. So in South India a young boy will be sent to an Acharya and such people are called Brahmacharis and you know every Brahmachari is equivalent to 100 monkeys. Brahmachari sata markadaha. There is a saying like that. Restless. So the Upanishad is Chandogya is telling us we don't simply act. For example you are sitting and listening. You are not simply okay I'm getting bored or I'm getting sleepless. Swami's speech will give very nice sleep, very refreshing mind. No, maybe a little bit that also is there but anyway you want to understand what is this Chandogya, what does it teach us and whether it can help me to become a bit wiser, knowledgeable etc. So therefore whether it is internal that is thinking well or external there is an intention and not any intention, a specific intention. A person who is hungry his thoughts and his actions will be specific. A person who smells danger he has got specific thinking and how I can escape counter is danger. So behind every one of our actions you sit and say even if you are restlessly moving your leg there is a intention behind it. So therefore everything in this world even the five elements that is pancha bhutas. What intention? So what are the pancha bhutas? Akasha, space, air, fire, water and earth. But what do they do? That my Ishwara had willed and out of that will we are born and what does he will? That we have to make this entire creation both internal, subtler as well as gross or external. That is the intention. So that is how the sun is shining, the moon is shining, the fire is shining, the lamps are shining, the air is blowing. Everything is working only for the fulfillment of that kama, sankalpa. So that is what he says. Tanihavaya Tanih, Sankalpa Ekayanani, Sankalpa Atmakani, Sankalpe Pratishtitani, therefore Sankalpa. They have concentrated in Sankalpa and they are embodiments of Sankalpa and they are firmly rooted in Sankalpa. So that is called willpower and that will or intention is a universal power. It works throughout the universe. So Tasyabhasa Sarvamidam Vibhati. So we have got this Katopanishad saying, it is by His will. The sun is shining, the air is blowing, the earth is standing still, etc. So we are all nothing but the expression of the wills. And what is the will? So far as we are concerned, human beings are concerned, that's what Swamiji made crystal clear. Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest to this divinity and the way, do this either by work or worship or philosophy or by psychic, any method. But regain your memory of who you are. So this will is self-assertive. We cannot escape it. That willpower is found in every action of creation in the heavens, on the earth, in the wind, in space, in fire, in water and all the modifications called elements, not elementals. Not only elements but in all the elementals. Elements means Bhutas. Elementals means Srishti. Both Sokshma Prapancha as well as Thula Prapancha. The whole world therefore is rooted in will. The world is will in generality as well as in particularity. That is why philosophers have summarized the whole world is nothing but will. First, it is the will of the divine. Secondly, that will had crawled within each one of us. What is it? That I want to go back to my parental home. Therefore, the will is behind everything. So this is the point that is clearly manifested in this particular section. Therefore, Narada is instructed by Sanat Kumara that higher than the mind, that means which is subtler than the mind and which is the controller of the mind and which controls the mind, there is this will and that he should direct his meditation or contemplation so that he can master this will. What does it mean? That is what Swami Vaikunanda says that willpower. Oh, I want muscles of iron and nerves of steel and gigantic wills which nothing can thwart and Swamiji had such a will. Sri Ramakrishna had such a will. Holy Mother, Parag disciples, if you read the incidents in their life, every saint and sage, first he becomes a strong willpower. Without that willpower, success is impossible. So what we need to really acquire is this willpower and there are beautiful books on willpower in many western psychologists have researched on it. Is there something called willpower and how does it work and I have already expressed what I read about it but I will tell you they have evolved a particular test for school children whether there is a willpower. So there is some suite and the children are called and the suite is kept in front of them and then they are asked. So now the examiner keeps the suite and then says I'm going out and until I return you have choice. You can eat this suite any time you want but if you can wait until I return and I see that you have not eaten, you have developed a willpower not to eat then the reward will be I will give you one more. So you will get two suites not one but for that you have to wait. So hundreds of thousands of children have been tested and that suite is called marshmallow. So many students could not resist they looked here and there after a second or two so they just opened their mouth and Indrayasvaha Vaishvanarayasvaha they swallowed it and they were happy but there were a few and they waited even though they were looking at it even though they were tempted but they resisted that temptation that is called willpower and then the trainers came examiners came and they rewarded as they said now follows the real experiment. So does this willpower make any difference in the lives of these tested students and they followed them not one or two years but more than 30 to 40 years and then they concluded after these experiments. This is what we have to admire in the western people they have such wonderful qualities once they decide to do something they make a thorough job of it not like our people who take up something and give it up very easily. So what did they find these people who had the willpower they passed every one of them brilliantly and they obtained far superior jobs to compared to other students who had no willpower and their family life is comparatively much more happy than everybody else their jobs were happy their lives were much more happy lives. So there is a willpower and there is a way to develop it and the more we develop it the more we get benefit and that is what this Upanishad Rishi has been crying out to us since the very beginning. So what happens he will be free to the extent that willpower can function he will be happy and he will have power, position, happiness, creativity everything will be better. So the person who is rooted in such a will is not distressed in any manner whatsoever so he can reach regions that are higher that he reaches also whatever here regions he reach are free any kind of distress not only on this earth but everywhere. Now oh Narada you contemplate Narada must have done that I told you earlier and he comes and says I have mastered it I know now he became embodiment of Sankalpa that means what I am not going to give you up until you take me to Brahman. So Narada says so I see there must be something else so is this all or is there something superior than this Sankalpa will and then of course Sanat Kumara says yes yes then please instruct me. Sankalpa Vava Manaso Bhuya. So the teaching starts what I gave you the very essence of this fourth section and if you have heard about it we do not need to spend much time so here goes Sankalpa Vava Manaso Bhuya. A most logical way how the deduction is made these are object lessons even if we want to become logicians so Sanat Kumara is feeling will or determination is surely greater than mind. Verily when one wills then only he thinks about it in his mind then only he expresses it in the form of speech and then only that speech will give birth to all the information and then what is this information or Nama and then he says in the name sacred formulas mantras are there all the mantras are nothing but names and in these mantras they how to perform them as sacrifices so the mantras have to be used in the form of these sacrifices that is what the Brahmana portion of any Veda describes then we move further. All these indeed merge in the will that means they are the result of the will and mere up of the will and abide in the will that means all these are possible only because of the will and what is the example heaven and earth willed air and akasha willed water and fire willed through the willing of these rain wills through the willing of rain food wills so please instruct me further beyond will but then before that there is something still something has to be added karma so what happens through the willing of food we'll come back to the meaning prana's will through the willing of pranas sacred formulas will through the willing of sacred formulas acts will through the willing of the acts the world wills through the willing of the world all things will this is will worship will will indeed is the goal of all these beginning with mind and ending in sacrifice from will they arise and in will they all abide heaven and earth willed air and akasha willed water and fire willed through the will of heaven and earth etc the rain comes now through the will of the rain food grows through the spread of the food the prana's will become strong through the will of the prana's the it is possible to utter strongly the sacred hymns and through the will of the sacred hymns a result of the sacred hymns the sacrifices become successful and through the will of the sacrifices the world wills that means world will gain get higher and higher experiences and through the will of the world everything wills such is the will therefore meditate on will as brahman so this is what is said i have read bit now i will go and then i want to briefly analyze what it is actually so narada asked after he contemplated on the mind and controlled the mind so this mind seems to me to be an effect that means thinking and thinking simply doesn't fall from the sky so there must be some desire behind and after that desire there are many desires which desire for now for example a brahmachari 12 or 13 years old he wants to become a brahmachari a student and master the vedas or science or arts whatever or computer science whatever but then there are many desires but they will come in future but for the moment only these desire why because he wants to marry yes i want to marry but not now let me master the subjects let me have a good livelihood and after that only i want to marry and enjoy life bring up the children teach them what i know so there is a beautiful blueprint how life should be led not like today's world where anybody can do anything even some small children also learned how to kill of course they are not to be blamed either their poor sanskaras or what they learned from their parents or elder brother and sister we are all what is called anukarana priya that is imitation lovers that is called fashion what is fashion imitation so very briefly so sankalpa or firm determination is greater than mind so we already saw only when there is a sankalpa will then only the mind starts thinking what the determination wants i want for example to think about meditation so only when he thinks or i want to master music then he says to everybody i have a desire to master music then he searches for information that is also part of the nama speech ends in nama so such and such place there is a good music teacher is well known so i want to become a student of him so this is how the sankalpa influences the mind mind works in that way and it manifests in the form of speech and speech expresses itself in the form of a particular language which are called words or sentences and for that only a great what is called grammar are taught for the students so sankalpa is greater than that and then not only that if anybody has achieved anything suppose you have become a good cook or good teacher how did you get because you had a sankalpa you did what is necessary you underwent teacher's training after of course completing some then that is what he said will in will will is the root cause of everything that is achieved in this world and everything in this world you have money you have house you have good family you have got good friends you have got enemies you have got sufferings they're all because of the your will power strong will weak will good will wicked will etc therefore sankalpa atmakani everything is nothing but manifestation of sankalpa sankalpe pratishtitani they are firmly rooted that means if you don't have that sankalpa they will not manifest themselves if you don't desire to become a master of music you are not going to be a master of the music you can add any number of examples so samakaruptam yavapudvi look at the sky and then the earth they look as if they are deeply merged in this concentration of this willpower samakalpetam not only that how did how did earth become earth because of sankalpa how did the heaven become heaven because of sankalpa how did the air become air because of sankaalpa how did the space become because of sankalpa how did waters become because of sankaalpa how did agni become agni because of sankaalpa So what happens? Because of these five elements, so because of the man's will of sacrifices, etc., ultimately then the divine presiding deity's grace comes in the form of Varsham Sankalpate. So our prayer to Lord's presiding deity is grant us rain. You see, in those days that was the agricultural society. So that reflects all these words. So what happens? God's grace comes and then they cultivate Varshashya Sankalpate. Because of the will of the Varsha, that means rain has come. And then because of rain, Annam Sankalpate. The resultant, what is that? Because of rain, if there is no water, there would be no food. And then what does the food do? So as soon as there is food, strength, energy, that necessary force, power is obtained only through food. Of course it has to be digested, etc. Then what happens? Pranas. That is your energies, all the powers, both cross body, subtle body, they become very strong. Otherwise, weak Prana, weak Sankalpa, and weak desire. Desire is not weak, but it becomes weak. That means you will not be fulfilled. So what happens? Prana. You become strength. You are able to talk strongly, speak strongly, chant strongly. So you chant with enthusiasm, with power, with energy. Have you seen some of the great world movers? Or Hitler, wicked person, but he had the power. And when he used to speak, they swayed millions of people, especially most of the Germans, they became enemies of, or what they call, anti-Semitic people. Even though they were good people, but they were moulded by one person's speech for a long time. And we are also like that. And that Hitler now is called that which hits us. And what is that hit? That hit is called AI. That hit is called algorithms. So, So mantras, you understand, they have to be uttered. You understand, you determine to utter them. Then you will have to get how to perform the sacrifices. They are called karma, kanda, karmani. And then through, what happens? Your whole world becomes the resultant of what you do. So, karmana here means all the karma kanda, rituals. Rituals, in the modern times, you get training as a computer expert. That is the ritual. And as a result, you become an expert computer guru. And then you get very good job according to your intelligence. Sometimes they will give you lakhs of rupees per month. If your intelligence is great, that intelligence is the result of all these, what is called sankalpa, strong will power. So, So, every person is living in his own world. All the worlds are the resultant of this strong determination. And, That means everything in this world is the resultant of this power of sankalpa. Such is the sankalpa. Therefore, And then, praise of sankalpa. That means strong power of determination or will power. All these that have been described earlier. They are all made concentrated because of this sankalpa. Concentration comes because of sankalpa. They are the resultant of sankalpa or strong will. And they are firmly rooted in sankalpa. And what some of the examples are given, And the heavens and earth. And all the five elements. So, what happens? The result as we discussed earlier. So, Then as a result, So, let the Varna Deva give us His reign. Then, Sankalpate means as if determined, I will make this person plenty of food. So, the result will be Annam. And the result of Annam will be Pranah. That is all the energies. And when the person is strong, He is able to chant very strongly and very firmly, Very determinedly, And Sankalpate Mantrana. So, all the Vedic Karmakanda is possible because of this strength. So, the essence is, Everybody, everyone, everything in this world is the resultant of that pure will power. And that original will power came from Brahman Himself. I find myself alone. So, I feel a little bit frightened. That is to say, He wants to play Srishti. So, He does it. He desires. And then He becomes Pancha Bhutas. First is subtle, Then the cross, And a combination of all this is His entire universe. And then He becomes the presiding deity, etc. Therefore, Narada Sankalpam Upasva. That you contemplate Sankalpa. That means you cultivate Sankalpa. That means you develop will power. And will power gives you everything. Then, wherever the will power functions, You will be the master. You will enjoy. Your life will be full of happiness. This is the resultant of Sankalpa Brahma Upasana. If you are Saguna Brahma, you enjoy things. And if you are a worshipper or seeker of Nirguna Brahma, Ultimately, it will make your mind very strong, concentrated, focused. And slowly, it will take you to higher regions. And finally, you will reach Brahman. We will talk the details in our next class. Om Jananim Shardam Devim Ramakrishnam Jagadgurum Adapadmetayo Sritva Pranamami Muhurmuhu May Ramakrishna Holy Mother and Swami Vivekananda Bless us all with Bhakti. Jai Ramakrishna.