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OM JANANIM SHARADAM DEVYAM RAMAKRISHNAM JAGADGURUM
ADHAPADMETAYO SRIDHVA PRANAMAMI MUHURMUHUHU
VASUDE VASUDAM DEVAM KAMSACHANURA MARDANAM
DEVAKI PARAMANANDAM KRISHNAM VANDE JAGADGURUM
SARUPO PANISHADO GAVO DOBDHA GOPALANANDANAH
PARTHO VACHAH SUDHIRU BHOKTA DOBDHAM GEETAM RITAM MAHAH
MOOKAM KAROTI VACHALAM PANGUM LANGAYATE GIRIM
YATKRIPATAMAHAM VANDE PARAMANANDAMADHAVAM
Yesterday we had been discussing the verse of the 18th chapter Bhagavad Gita,
verse number 75. I believe about 8 minutes of the Zoom had vanished.
I do not know mysterious reasons. We have to accept these things.
But I will be recollecting what I had been talking about it.
Of course the full recording has been there. It is already posted.
And those who want to just listen, they can absolutely listen.
So we have been discussing. Now when you had shifted from the battlefield,
of course Sanjaya was not known.
Probably he was transiting from the battlefield to Hastinapura to report whatever has been happening.
Or because of the grace of Yasa, he had been given that marvelous insight.
He could see, he could hear, he could also see what people were thinking.
Everybody for as long as the battle lasted, for 18 days, he could do everything.
He was like God.
And Sanjaya was a well-wisher of everybody.
And he was of course a well-wisher of Dhritarashtra.
He was telling and giving in leaving Dhritarashtra in no undoubting terms
that you are doomed. Your sons are doomed.
The victory will come where there is Krishna, where there is righteousness.
There Vijaya will be there. Sri will be there.
Neeti will be there.
Every blessed thing that man desires will be there.
This is the one voice of every scripture, of every religion, O man, lead a spiritual life.
It's not meant only for spiritual people.
Even if you want to be worldly, you cling on to God.
I will summarize these things.
Well, we have completed this one.
So we have been reading this one.
Sanjaya was recollecting.
Already he told what has happened.
I have seen the divine universal form of the Lord by the grace of my Sadguru
who is none other than Yasa Maharshi himself.
And the peculiarity of this statement is that Dhritarashtra was none other than the very son begotten by Yasadeva.
Both Pandu and Dhritarashtra are the children begot through the wives of Vijitranga and Vijitravirya
because they did not have any issues.
And why did not they have issues?
Because they had terrible issues.
What were the issues?
They were addicted to pleasure, sexual pleasures and they must be suffering.
Both of them from venerable diseases, very venerable diseases and as a result they lost their lives.
Now to perpetuate the lineage, Yasa's mother Satyavati who of course begot Vijitranga, Vijitravirya through Shantanu, King Shantanu.
She requested Yasa to perpetuate the lineage.
That was permitted and nowadays it is done through laboratory testing etc. etc.
So really speaking the war was between the grandsons of Vedavyasa.
And yet he could not do anything.
Dhritarashtra would not do anything.
Pandu was not there alive.
All these problems have stemmed only from Vedavyasa I should say
because he is the root cause of this entire Kurukshetra war.
Anyway I am saying it in a light manner.
You should not take it absolutely that way.
It is very very important for us to understand this one.
Okay.
So here we are in the 17th.
Sanjay was recollecting.
Prajan samsmrutya samsmrutya samvadam imam adbhutam
Keshavarjanayoha punyam trishyamichamuhurmuhu
Prajan he Dhritarashtra imam Keshavarjanayoha samvadam
This dialogue between Shri Krishna and Arjuna.
What type of dialogue?
Punyancha, Adbhutancha
Even a mere reading or listening or meditating
that is conducive to great merit
because this is how advertisement works.
I have to insert here.
I did it so many times in the past.
When we go on reading something, hearing something again and again
For example, one of our senior Swamis used to make fun
The modern man's Bhagavatam, Kalikaala Bhagavatam is the newspaper
and there Shri Ramakrishna said
it is the most worldly thing in the world.
So at least don't read it in the morning
because that will disturb our mind
that will make us more worldly
and of course nowadays nothing comes free
everything is repeated again and again
in the form of advertisement
Advertisement is nothing but listening or hearing
and then slowly as in the second chapter
the Lord had outlined
Go on brooding over something
slowly attachment comes
out of attachment comes desire
desire will turn into anger
anger will bring in delusion
delusion will make us bereft of all logical thinking
rational thinking
we become irrational, insane
and that leads to wrong decisions
and wrong decision ultimately lands us
in the greatest destruction which is suffering
So marvelously said
but the same thing can also help us
in a very positive way
whether you like it or not
go on studying, go on reading, go on listening
just as we go on eating
even the most unpleasant unsavourable food
savoury food in course of time
turns to be very very tasty
so also everything through repetition
and that is the psychology of advertisement
and so the Lord says
this is punyam
it gives us tremendous amount of merit
because it transforms from within
like a catalytic agent
it itself will destroy
slowly bring about a change
but in this case a change for the betterment
a change for spirituality
and abhutam
it is also marvellous
samvadham
this kind of conversation
dialogue
dialogue means a teaching
that is in the form of questions and answers
and very easily put forward
is very helpful to most of us
I can also tell you
not always
because there is a book called Yoga Vasistha
and there is also a conversation
but it is a very tough book
purest advaita is presented there
that is everything is delusion
a magical show
nothing is real
excepting the self
it is true
absolutely true
but the way it is presented
it can create lot of problem
but with Bhagavad Gita
it is very practical
Yogashastra
Yogashastra means
the teachings can be practiced
it is not difficult to understand
but it is of course difficult to practice
Ramakrishna used to say
very easy to say
sa ri ga ma pa dha ni
but extremely difficult
we have to practice again and again
then only we understand the difference
between ni and dha
between dha and pa
between pa and ma etc etc
only such people
who have got tremendous
aesthetic sensitivity
only they can do it
the essence of what I am talking is
easy to understand
our goal is very far away
so it looks
naturally it will take time
but let us start intelligently
what is intelligent start
let us find out
where we are in this
path of the spiritual journey
and let us start from there
and then it is good
because the more we improve
in our sadhana
the better will be
our spiritual progress
but what is spiritual progress
we become immortal
we become wise
and our happiness
increases by leaps and bounds
geometrically it increases
we get this discussion
in the Taittiriya Upanishad
second chapter
very aptly titled
Anandavalli, Brahmanandavalli
a deep discussion
on how to attain
higher and still higher
and still highest happiness
now coming back to our speech
so this wonderful conversation
by the grace of Vyasa
Sanjaya
had been hearing it
and as I mentioned yesterday
never forget
as it takes
more than two hours
for us to understand
Bhagawan was not going to
he was a very practical person
he must have finished it
within a minute or two
the very essence of it
and he can give that understanding
through what I call
intuitive understanding
by his grace
and Arjuna categorically says
in the 10th chapter
I have complete faith
that means I have accepted
whatever teachings you have given
but I would like to experience them
so both understanding
and experience
can come only by the grace
and that grace
was also extended to
Vyasa's grace
which is none other than
Krishna's himself
Krishna's grace
so that was extended to Sanjaya
Sanjaya is remembering
because this is something unforgettable
because
any experience
especially that which creates
the greatest joy
greatest happiness
greatest bliss
and only spirituality
can produce that greatest
and that can come
only when we progress
in spiritual life
both increment in happiness
and spiritual progress
they are interlinked
like when as a man
goes on climbing
higher and higher a mountain
his vision extends
for a long distance
like that
the happiness increases
both qualitatively
and quantitatively
now memory is very
closely associated
with this kind of memory
because
we remember only two things
two things only
impress us or force us
to remember again and again
what is it the most painful
maybe somebody
had beaten us, maybe somebody
had insulted us
we feel like committing suicide
we develop anger
hatred towards that person
we can never forget
and as we go on meditating
upon that incident
our anger, our hatred
proportionately
it goes on increasing
but it is also the same truth
when applied to
a most happy thing
in fact most of
our so called desires
are more intimately
associated with
our memory rather than
with our actual experience
because we experience
something which is pleasant
that passes away
but the effect remains
in the form of the
memory and then the memory
plays havoc, it goes
on imagining how wonderful
it is and day by day
minute by minute it
goes on increasing its hold upon
us, proportionately
intensity of desire also
grows and that is how
we are caught
either in the spiritual world
or in the worldly bondage
of course now
we are in the worldly bondage
so this most marvelous
conversation, why is it
called so marvelous
I will come to that very soon
yesterday I covered it
but because the
video has gone I will repeat it
so here Sanjaya
earlier he was telling that
this conversation between
Bhagwan Krishna
and Arjuna whom
Sanjaya had
labelled as Mahatma
Mahatma means we are all
Atmas but
Jivatmas, individual souls
but really
the real meaning of Mahatma
is one, who
knows, I am the Paramatma
Mahatma
not great
but the only Atman
which is infinite, which is
eternal, which is
called in popular terms
Sat, Chit and Ananda
so that experience
Arjuna had, that's why
this
grieving Arjuna had
now become a rejoicing
Arjuna
and some of the changes
that have taken place
I am going to talk about it
very soon, so
Arjuna had heard this
he pondered over it
he understood it
and he experienced it
and he became a Mahatma
the idea is
anybody can become
because this teaching is not
confined to only that
particular time when Krishna taught
it is universal
universal means applicable
for all times, for the whole
world, not only for
one person, so
Arjuna had become blessed
by hearing
and by realizing, anyone
we
anyone of us, we are all
Jivatmas like Arjuna
if we also
can listen
because this teaching actually
is Bhagawan Himself
when we are reading, studying
the Gospel in the Bible
or the Gospel
of Sri Ram Krishna, or the Gospel
of Buddha, or the Gospel
of Sri Krishna, really
speaking, you don't need
another person, because this
knowledge itself is Bhagawan
that is why
Brahma with Brahma
Eva Bhavati, a knower
of Brahman, becomes Brahman
knowledge has the
power, through knowledge has the
power to transform us
it works even in worldly
affairs also, that is
why Sanjaya labeled Arjuna
as Mahatma, and there
is no need for him to label
Bhagawan Krishna as Mahatma
because he knew
especially after witnessing
that universal vision
along with Arjuna
he could, Sanjaya also
could understand, Krishna
if he had not understood before
is not a human being
but he is a Paramatma
himself, Ishwara Himself
and what to speak of
Arjuna, to whom directly
Sri Krishna addresses
his teaching, and it is
interesting to know, he was
not teaching Bhishma, he was
not teaching Drona, he was not
teaching any of the Pandavas
excepting Arjuna
picking up, selecting him
because he was the closest
also because
he was the instrument, also
because in the Puranas
every time God
incarnates, he comes as the
incarnation and he will bring
his most intimate companion
one
body is for the sake of
experiencing and
expressing, another body
is for digesting it
and propagating it
that is how Dharma Stapana goes
so with Christ, there was Peter
there was Paul, with Buddha
there was Ananda, with Krishna
there was Arjuna, with Chaitanya
there was Nithyananda
with Sri Ramakrishna
there was Swami Vivekananda
because those bodies
particularly the bodies
of incarnations of God
can never be suitable
for certain type of Rajasic
works, more Rajoguna
is needed to propagate
to give talks
to give lectures etc
so Arjuna
had become Mahatma, like that
this Arjuna
who was sunk in grief
because of
delusion, after hearing
he became transformed
and we can also
do the same thing
as what Sanjaya says
that the Gospel preached by
the Lord had captivated
his heart so much that he had
lost his relish for anything else
how do we know?
here it says
below it comes
only one memory
comes to him again and
again and again and again
what is it?
Rupam Atyad Bhutam Hare
we will come to that very soon
so Sanjaya
was being transported with joy
and overwhelmed with
love, his hair was
standing on end
now we have to say
it is not only Bhagavad Gita
if anybody says
this transformation can
happen only through the teaching of
Bhagavad Gita
and through Bhagavan Krishna
he will be a fanatic
God has no such
division, he came
as Buddha, he came
as Christ, came as
Chaitanya, he came as Ramakrishna
he will come many more times
in future but in
the past he came innumerable
times, innumerable
are the incarnations
and as I mentioned earlier
every time he comes
he teaches only one thing
spiritual life
is the only type of life
there is no choice
with regard to spiritual life
no, there is no choice
because a mango
seed doesn't have any choice
excepting manifesting
as a mango tree
an apple tree
an apple seed has
no choice but to become
the best apple tree
and that is what it
endures, in this regard
there is a very remarkable
statement by Swami Vivekananda
once he said
supposing there is an apple tree
and it yields 400
apples, 399
are rotten
defective
but one particular apple
is perfect
Swami Vivekananda says
everybody's attention is usually drawn
only for that
399 rotten apples
because the fellows who are
looking are rotten apples
but the
possibility that if it
can yield one
wonderful
perfect apple
that shows the potentiality
now try to remove all the
defects and then all the
399 also
will turn out to be perfect
apples
what was Swami Vivekananda
indicating by this
each soul is potentially divine
however evil he might be
however unrighteous
he may be, however
worldly he may think he is
the potentiality
the teleology
each soul is
potentially divine
and that alone will
force everything
else to
subside and that alone
will try, there is no
doubt about it, understood
in this life, even the
most evil person is trying
to manifest his divinity
but by mistake he thinks
I want power, I want
possessions, I want to
have power, suppress everybody
it doesn't matter
in the form of selfishness
but one
very wonderful psychological
truth
the more evil a person
the more
is the power
for him to transform
from evil to good
this is what we need to understand
crystal clearly
Swami Vivekananda was very fond
so see
an Alexander
a Caesar, a Napoleon
a Genghis Khan
from the viewpoint
of history they were the
most powerful people
nobody could resist them
but they
might have for this life
have used it for selfish purposes
but once their attention
turns to spiritual life
they will just
outrun anyone of us
because the potentiality
has been increased
by a million
fold but only
temporarily we are only
judging everything by the standard
of one life
but what is one life
in comparison to infinite
time even if a person
had gone through millions of births
but there will come a
time when he will turn
from our viewpoint oh millions
of lives but from
the viewpoint of infinity
what is a billion billion billion
billion lives
it is absolutely nothing
it is like a powerful
computer chip
by the time you give a
command it doesn't even show
you it has done it is
it does it so fast
in future it will do so
much so this is a
wonderful psychological fact
the more wicked
the more obsessed with love
like Romeo Juliet
Laila Majnu etc
and so on way
Kananda used to admire now
all that is needed
is to turn that direction
towards God
and it will happen
because no
intense love is
capable of being received
by some small
instrument just as
a billion volts
thunderbolt can
fuel can destroy
any fuse in this world
like that this tremendous
power of love because
love is knowledge
love is energy
maybe this person
for a few lives has
directed it towards what we call
unrighteous thing and
that I would not say even that
because if
we accept the law of karma
then if anybody
is suffering
because of the instrumentality
of whether it is Hitler or
Genghis Khan or anybody
it is not because of them
they are mere instruments
in the hands of Ishwara
but really our own
karma is what brings us
either happiness or
unhappiness
so let us return back
this most pleasant experience
and then
most wonderful experience
of witnessing this
divine lord
equivalent to Arjuna
if Arjuna could become Mahatma
Alpa Atma had become Mahatma
Sanjay was also
an Alpa Atma
and he must have become a
Mahatma because
just as we say funnily
only one thief can
cognize the other thief
only one Mahatma can understand
the other Mahatma
so fanaticism should
not be there any scripture
because every scripture
teaches about God and
God only created the scriptures
so God only manifesting
in the form of Chit
that's what we call a scripture
and any scripture
in the past, in the present and
in the future provided
it doesn't violate
the established Vedas
Bible, Koran etc
but interpreted
properly it is capable
of taking us out of this
selfish narrow
suffering this
pit of Samsara
transmigration and uplift us
make us free forever
that is the
real result
and we now go into the
77th verse
Samsmritya
and Sanjay
his words cannot
stop because
he had such an experience
his mind was overflowing
and he cannot contain it
just as a happy
news unless it is shared with others
cannot be contained
otherwise the fellow will go mad
his blood pleasure
and blood pressure both
will grow uncontrollably
so Sanjay
was in that state after having
this vision it is impossible
for anybody to be what I
call ignorant
and then petty minded
selfish minded etc
he is uttering the same
words but slight
slight change in the 77th
so what is he
telling?
of that divine lord called Hari
who is a Hari
he who by his mere
presence by his mere
will can melt
can destroy
can remove all
the evil propensities
that means ignorance
because light
instantaneously destroys
darkness, knowledge
instantaneously destroys
ignorance
that is called the person
or the being or that knowledge
that embodiment of
knowledge and he is called
Hari and whoever
gets that
a bit of that Hari's
quality light instantaneously
there is no way
helplessly like
a small iron filing
is drawn towards
a powerful magnet
there is no help but
to become merged in one
Ramkrishna expresses it so beautifully
when a huge ship
is passing by the side
of a
magnetic hill as soon
as it comes sufficiently near
all the nails
and joint
makers everything will come loose
and the boat has to
sink then and there
there is no other way
in metaphorical language
Ramkrishna was expressing
if anybody can manage to come near
God then immediately
instantaneously helplessly
all his ignorance
darkness, bondage
grief, limitedness
and imperfections
everything will be
completely destroyed
and that is what he is expressing
what he said earlier also
what is this Hari
power
atyadbhutam roopam cha
and that
roopa, that
form, here we should
not think a form is a form
light has no form
but it manifests through
every form, electricity
has no form but
it manifests through the
heater, through the fan
through the magnet
through many many other instruments
every computer works only
either battery power
or direct AC power
it doesn't matter, through like electricity
electricity itself has no form
but we can cognize it
recognize it, oh heat is coming
oh fan is moving
so like that
it is boiling
it is cooking, it is giving light
and it is attracting
iron particles
through the effects we can infer
what is the original source
and that is Hari's
most marvelous
indescribable form
we have seen in the second chapter
also trying to describe
about the Atman
so Bhagwan Krishna himself says
so the nature
of the Atman is
ashtarya, means never before
experienced by anybody
and he who tells
he tells about this and his
telling, his teaching itself is
the greatest wonder
and the person who listens
for the first time, this marvelous
thing, he also becomes
overwhelmed with this marvelous
thing, ashtarya
ashtaryo vakta, kushalo
asyalabdha, Katha Upanishad
tells us, rare indeed
is this person who can
express, who can express
only the person who experienced
it and who can receive
it, only a person who is fit
who is pure, who is ready
to receive, unless
both the giver and receiver
they are in harmony
it is impossible
that is why we have to pray to God
Sahana Vavatu
protect us together
Sahana Vunatu, let the
teacher have the capacity
to transmit, let the disciple
have the capacity to receive
that is why Shri Ram Krishna
used to tell to many visitors
go and see the buildings
go and see the gardens
because there is no point
in your sitting here
so this is what telling
and as often
poking, as I remember that
most wonderful form of Krishna
great is my astonishment
ashtarya
poking and I rejoice
again and again
means unbroken
happiness
this is not like
ordinary happiness
every object in this world
they can give some happiness
but it is a broken happiness
by time, by space, by causation
by the body
and by the mind
but this is beyond the body
beyond the mind, it is not limited
by time, by space
by Vastu
Desha Parichcheda, limitation
by space
Kala Parichcheda, limitation by time
Vastu Parichcheda, limitation
by another object
a second object is completely
absent because it is
one infinite
eternal reality
so to go back
Hare He, He is termed
God is termed, Parabrahma
is termed as Hari
association of any kind with Him
what is association?
reading about Him, listening about Him
thinking about Him
meditating upon Him
talking about Him
praise one, the person
who does, anyone of them
from all sins, ignorance
and sorrows
and the Lord robs the devotee
of his heart
the Lord simply removes
the mind, destroys the mind
that is why God is called
the greatest thief
in the world
in Rudra we chant
salutations to the
emperor of thieves
every other thief can only take
our possession
but this thief, he just steals
our heart and
as Jesus Christ says
your heart will be
where your treasure is
and that treasure is
Lord Hari
and Tath, Advatham Roopam
qualified by the adjectives
of Tath, Tath means
we have to
understand, there is a word
Tath, that means
that and there is
Idham, this one
and this is called
this, whatever is
experienceable by the five sense organs
is this, but Tath
means what is beyond
the ken, beyond the capacity
beyond the power
of the five sense organs
beyond the ken of the
mind itself
from where the mind
and the speech, much less the speech
return back baffled
because an effect can never
return and understand
the cause
so Atyadbhutam
refers to the most wonderful
and divine cosmic body
of the Lord, which he had
revealed before Arjuna, by hearing
pondering, singing
talking, the virtues
glories, exploits
the divinity, greatness
and the sacred names of
Bhagwan Sri Krishna, Bhagwan
Christ, Bhagwan Buddha
everywhere, by perceiving
and touching his form
a man becomes rid
of every possible sin
not only he is rid of sin
but he is also rid
of the very
causes of the
sins, samskaras
themselves will be
completely destroyed, that is the
power of Hari
samsmritya, samsmritya
remembering
that beautiful, indescribable
marvelous form
and remembering
see, even in this worldly life
there are
lovers for example
genuine lovers
once they meet
and perhaps it is only for a short time
the beloved becomes
completely possessed of
the idea of the lover
the lover becomes possessed
of the beloved
and then she or he
can never forget the
beloved, the very remembrance
of it, the remembrance of
a child by a mother, the remembrance
of a truly
good friend, remembrance
of a great master
by the servant, the remembrance
of a great servant
a loyal servant
by the master, this
can never be erased from
the very heart, it is a wonderful
psychology, that means
if we understand, why is our mind
restless, restless means
the mind remembering
so many different things
and if you enquire into
why is the mind remembering so many things
that's all because
at some time they have
given us a greatest
impetus, impression,
influence, either positively
or negatively
that's why
Hinduism also helps
a person, are you
an enemy of God, then there is
a better chance for you to reach
him sooner than even a
person who claims he is a lover
he is a bhakta, he is a devotee
so samsmrutya samsmrutya
a very natural
phenomenon, this is the purest
psychology and one
who has been in the presence of the lord
even for a billy second
he can in his whole life
can never forget it
this happened to, just
I am mentioning it
so that we can enjoy it
Narada at the age of 5
lost his mother who died by
a snake bite
he was overcome with a tremendous amount
of dispassion, then
he wanted to take complete
refuge in lord Narayana
so he was initiated
he went into the forest
and he started this astakshari mantra
Om Namo Narayanaya
and very soon
there was a flash
like lightening, I get it
in the Kena Upanishad, like a
vidyatupasana, a flash
of Narayana, that one
seconds, it just
lord Narayana's form appeared
transformed the whole life
of Narada and then it
disappeared, Narada was grief
stricken, oh lord
why did you bestow upon this
why did you withdraw it in a second
I would like to see it
again and again and again
and a divine voice came down
from heavens, said oh Narada
I have bestowed it
now this will never
make you forget me
and your longing by the minute
will be going on increasing
and very soon
you will have my constant vision
this is what happened to
Sri Ramakrishna, when we study
as a student
the life of great
master, that is Sri Ramakrishna's
life as written by Swami
Sharadhanji Maharaj, Sri Ramakrishna
he was praying for the
vision of the Divine Mother Kali
and he was not getting it
some experiences of course he was
getting but he was not happy
one day he decided to put an end
to his life, he ran like one mad
and at that moment
this pure consciousness
came like a huge
tsunami
and rolling waves
surrounded him
and this pure consciousness
he says in funny language
made me unconscious
consciousness and made me
unconscious, like
Maitreya he complains to
Agnivalikeya, you have
led me into the greatest grief
what is it, you said
there would be no consciousness
then Agnivalikeya
had to clarify, you misunderstood
my teaching, it is not that
the small
awarenesses, every
single awareness
that you are experiencing
before this consciousness
they all become completely
merged into that pure
consciousness, you yourself
will melt away into it
and your constant experience
will be, I am
that, Aham Brahmasmi
Sri Ramakrishna wanted
that, he could not
tolerate
one second separation from
that divine experience
he wanted it all the time
and then he went on
praying and of course
the Divine Mother very soon
showed him that one
so one second separation
Tat Virahe
Paramavya, Tat Vismarane
Narada Bhakti Mastra says
Paramavya Kulatayati
tremendous restlessness
comes, like a child
who becomes restless when he is
separated from his beloved mother
even for one millisecond
this is called
Samsmritya, Samsmritya
he can never forget, he may not be seeing
but he can never forget it
and sometimes
separation is advocated
so that this
remembrance goes
on growing in tremendous
strength
and not only remembering
that wonderful form
which can never be forgotten
not only that, even that marvellous
conversation, it can never
be also forgotten
because in this world
you will never get that kind of
conversation in the whole world
that is Bhagavad Gita
so how do we
know, it is most marvellous
he says, so
what did we do, how
does it deserve
the title called Atyadbhutam
not only Adbhutam but
Atyadbhutam
and then what happened
here are the changes that take place
and we have to measure
our spiritual progress
not how long we do Japa, how long
we meditate, because
this dichotomy, this
dual personality, split personality
that when we sit for
meditation, we are very very
sincere, but this
sincerity ends only
as soon as we get up, like Sri Ram
Krishna says, that as soon as the
person comes out, all the sins
are waiting outside the door
and just like a person
who goes to take bath in the Ganga
as soon as he comes back
all the sins that were waiting
for him, eagerly
how can we lose
our friend
with whom we are for so many
aeons, the jump upon his
shoulder and our selfishness
our lust, our anger
our desires, our
hatreds, our attachments
everything, our indifferences
everything comes back
and we forget until
we sit for the next Japa
Dhyana, this is the dichotomy
this is the tragedy
we should avoid, everybody
after coming out of the
meditation, now
how can I reconcile, how can
I harmonize my
inner life with the
outer life, this is the
struggle only meant for
sincere persons
only a person
endowed by God's grace
with faith can continue
this victorious struggle
everybody falls by the
roadside, at least for some
time, not forever, so
why was Sanjaya glorifying
that vision, glorifying that
conversation, he saw in front
of his eyes, Arjuna
the whole Bhagavad Gita starts with the first
chapter, remember
Arjuna Vishada Yoga
that Vishada
tremendous grief, he himself
confesses, even if I get
all the three worlds, any
world, any worldly object
any experience of the
worldly object is not going
to assuage my tremendous
grief, please show me the way
out, who can show, God
only God can show
God, nobody can show
who can make us infinite, only
infinite can make us infinite
this Arjuna having
heard it, he categorically
replies, my delusion
is gone, I know now
I am not Arjuna, I am
the Mahatma, I am the Paramatma
and he who was grieving
now is floating
in joy, not worldly
joy, but spiritual joy
that means I will do
what needs to be done
as mere instrument in the
hands of God, and then
Arjuna specifically says
Dharm Samud Cheta, my mind
is completely confused
what is right, what is
wrong, and then he himself
says, now I know
Smriti Labdha
I know that I am
Brahman, there is no more
delusion, and I will do
I will never fight
Nayocha Iti Govinda, Muktva
Tushnin Babubaha
Arjuna gave up his
bow and arrows and simply
slipped onto the floor
Nayocha, I will never
fight again, Iti Govinda, this is
my final decision, and then
the same man, he got
up with a lark
and then he took up the same
Gandiva, he says
O Lord, Karishe Vachanam
Tava, I am going
to do your
bidding, because whatever
I am now, is all because
of your grace, so
those Ahankara and
Mamakara, that is
I-ness and My-ness, I am Arjuna
I am Pandavas, I am
wronged by these fellows
these are greatest
unrighteous people
they have to be killed, all
these things have been completely
destroyed, so that
ignorance which covered
his pure knowledge
or even rationality
has completely
destroyed
and then he who
forgot his duties
now he took up and said
I will do my duties, but
I am a pure Karma Yogi
and he thought I am a
man with body, but
now I know I am Paramatma
not only I know I am Paramatma
Bhishma, Drona,
Duryodhana, Dushasana, good
evil, everybody is a
Mahatma in truth
and he who sat
down, now he took up
the horses
reins in his hand
that is completely
self-control and this
transformation within a few
minutes by the teaching of Sri Krishna
was completely witnessed
by Sanjaya right in
front of his eyes, as I said
Gita did not take place
2 hours or 3 hours
or 1 hour or half an hour
because remember the battlefield
Russia will not be waiting
for Ukraine to discharge
these things, before it does
will do it, so we
have to remember, rest is only
complete exposition
for the sake of Alpabuddhis
Mandamathis like ourselves
this is what is called
remembering that universal form
remembering those unforgettable
conversations and
they are again and again
reminding me coming to
my memory and I was
most wonder struck, I don't
have any merit to my credit
but it is all because of the
Sadguru's Kripa
Yasak Kripa and above all
it is all the Kripa of the
Divine Lord Krishna
so now
Sanjaya is describing
I don't know if such kind
of description was coming
like when we read
the Gospel of Sri Ram Krishna
we see in front of our eyes
Sri Ram Krishna sitting, devotee is
sitting, he is talking
he is singing, he is entering
into Samadhi again and again
and that is the greatness
perhaps there is no other book
which can bring because
this is something which M himself
had experienced and
remembered it again and again
meditated upon it and
what flowed in a most
limited manner in the form
of words and printed
in the form of book is only
probably one millionth
of its effect but just
understand when M was
talking these things
like Sanjaya was talking
with his devotees and that's
what he did after the
passing away of Sri Ram Krishna from
1886 until his
passing away in 1942
or 43 I don't remember
exactly so
even though I am trying
to remember O Dhritarashtra
O Rajan I do not have
any Tripti
I do not have any satiation
that is why I cannot
forget because I am not
remembering the memory
has overpowered me
this is how this is
a beautiful hint how should we
study the Bhagavad Gita any
scripture Bhagavad Gita means any
scripture how should we listen
how should we read how should
we learn how to understand
how to meditate
so indirectly or rather I would
say directly this is a most
beautiful Suchana
that is signature for
us every human being
if he wants to be happy
if he wants to be successful
in this world or in the other
world worldly wise or
spiritual wise it is how
he will have to do it
and then not only that
the outcome of the battle can no
longer be doubted that is going
to be even more directly
told at the face
flinging as it were
this harsh truth
which Dhritarashtra never said
there is something very interesting
when Vyasa appeared before
the war he said
to Dhritarashtra I will also
give you that power where
sitting here you can see everything
very strange
answer came from Dhritarashtra
said
father Vyasa Deva
he should of course address him
as a Rishi Muni
it is thank you for your
kind offering but I cannot
see the destruction of my
own people that means
his guilty conscience is
100% clear
that the outcome is already
known but he doesn't want to
face it doesn't want to hear it
only a mad man can do that
so he said
let me hear from somebody
the effect of hearing is
much less than the effect of
seeing whereas Sanjaya
was an impartial person
Bhagawan's grace was upon him
in the form of Vyasa
so he can do everything
so there is absolutely
no doubt in fact
it's a marvelous book
is this Mahabharata
when it is said
Duryodhana himself went to his mother
Gandhari who was a very
virtuous type of woman
very foolish woman
very stupid woman like her husband
she also became blind
to Dharma and everything
instead of showing the right way
to her husband simply
observing the life
what is called a chaste wife's
life however evil
the husband is
that doesn't show chastity at all
chastity is truly
a spiritual virtue
not a worldly virtue
so when
Duryodhana went she blessed him
and how did she bless
he did not say you are my son
you are going to get victory
which is you are going to
conquer you are going to come out
victorious simply
she said
where there is
righteousness
there would be victory
and that is being corroborated
in the last shloka
so this is what
Sanjaya wants to tell
Dhritarashtra all the time
though he asked what happened in the battlefield
what he was eager to
understand to listen
is are my
children successful
are they going to win the war
or not but strange
thing was when Sanjaya
started already after the passing
away of the Bhishma after the
10th day already
more than 20 children of
Dhritarashtra were completely
destroyed by Bhima and others
and that news also
he gave to what is this
old fellow blind fellow still expecting
to see and
Sanjaya continues
Yatra Yogeshwara Krishna
O Rajan
Dhritarashtra where there is
God Krishna Krishna is
not Shri Krishna of the
Vrindavana he is the Paramatma
Sarva Bhuta Antaryami
Antaryami he is the
indweller of everything in this world
not only living, non-living
entire creation
and he is a Yogeshwara
Yogeshwara means he is the most
powerful personality in the
whole world because he is Ishwara
and he is only
running all these things
and not only that
Yatra Parthaha
Dhanur Dharaha Parthaha
where there is this
wonderful wisdom
Bhagwan represents
wisdom in its highest form
and where this recipient
a sadhaka
the apt student
purified
he wants something that is
completely logical, completely
rational, completely righteous
completely pure
completely spiritual
when these two things come
together what happens
Tatra in that place
Shri, first of all
there would be tremendous happiness
Shri means
Aishwarya it is said but I would
like to translate the greatest happiness
will be there, Lakshmi means
happiness, what will you do if you are
a billionaire, you can't even digest
100 times
boiled water also, what are you
going to do with all your money
most people cling to these things
even though they are unable to
even to digest what you call
water, boiled water
Vijayaha
success, victory
that there always will be
there, Bhotihi
all sorts of possessions
any possession, you want to
become a scholar, you want
to become a musician, you want to
become a poet, you want to become a
sculptor, you want to become a writer
you want to become a
most marvelous scientist, you
want to become a greatest administrator
you want to become a greatest statesman
what do you desire
everything your desire
will be fulfilled because
you are with God, you are in God
you are God
that is the
ultimate message, Vijayaha
Bhotihi, all possessions
anything you desire and
merely such people do not desire
anything, Dhruvanithi
there will be permanent
righteousness and Bhagwan
in the form of law can
never be transgressed by
such a person, O
Dhritarashtra, O stupid
fellow, O blind fellow
O ignorant fellow
Mamavati, this
is my experience
this is my rational
conclusion, now
you will have to understand
accept it and for 13
years this Dhritarashtra
lived afterwards as a terrible
mentally desolate
state and even
though this marvelous story
I will recollect, recount
in my next class but
like a most miserable fellow
inside longing,
weeping for his dead sons
along with his
wife at the same time
that he had not
the courage until Sanjay
himself will one day
goad him and Bhima was
indirect instrument for that
so that we will see
in next class, so this is the
Charama Shloka, this is
God, where there is Krishna, the Lord of
Yoga and where Arjuna
the builder of the Gandiva is
there surely will be fortune,
victory, prosperity
and right conduct, such is my
conviction and this is the
last shloka and this is also
otherwise known as
Eka Shloki Gita, one shloka
that is to say O man
where you are a devotee
and God is present
and where you and God
are in harmony, in proximity,
in closeness
all the
effects, the results
the fruits described
earlier will be worse
there is absolutely no doubt
about it, we will
discuss and then I will after
completing this one, I will give you
a short summary of the 18th
chapter, after that I
propose to give you an
entire synopsis
of the 18th chapters
just for the sake of
our recollection and then
with that our blessed journey
of this 18th which
started several years back
may Ramakrishna holy mother and Swami Vivekananda bless us all with Bhakti. Jai Ramakrishna

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