The Divine Bliss, which is the source of all happiness, is related to its Knowledge that was revealed in its original form by the Supreme Divine power, Krishna, during His miraculous appearance in this world. That was the Gita. The origin of all the spiritual “isms” and the knowledge of all the knowledges, which has now been further simplified by His Divinity Swami Prakashanand Saraswati, the foremost disciple of Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj, who is the Supreme Divine descension of this age.
The Gita is not only a philosophy. It is a promise of God.
मन्मना भव मद्भक्तो मद्याजी मां नमस्कुरु |
मामेवैष्यसि सत्यं ते प्रतिजाने प्रियोऽसि मे ||
Man-manā bhav mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru.
Mām evaiṣhyasi satyaṁ te pratijāne priyo ‘si me.
It tells to merge all the spiritual formalities into the exclusiveness of loving devotion to the Supreme form of God, and you will receive His vision.
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The Divine souls,
In the last meeting I described about the name and form of Krishna; these two are the main forms. The name includes all the virtues of Krishna, whatever He has, in His personal form, and both are omnipresent. I gave an example that just like there’s ice and when ice ismelted and evaporated into the air, the molecules are the same. Ice you can touch but when it becomes oxygen you cannot touch it, but substantially both are the same.Just like a piece of camphor and the perfume of camphor are virtually both the same.The perfume part is the same.It is just a very weak example but there is something to understand.
So, in the Divine world although there is some difference in name and form,some ‘perceiving difference’, but there’s no difference in experience.‘Perceiving the difference’ means a Saint is seeing Krishna and another Saint is simply taking the name of Krishna in his heart.This kind of difference. But what they’re experiencing?The same(thing) –there’s no difference. A worldly name has no virtue, no power;it’s simply a sound, and worldly objects are obviously different things. In the Divine world, there’s no such thing as “lifeless”. Everything in the Divine world is the expansion of Krishna’s own personal personality.
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You can say like this: Krishna Himself,with all of His virtues in its full potency, has become the name. Okay. The same Krishna has become the Divine abode where He lives. The same Krishna plays and does leelas. The same Krishna is in the heart of every Saint. So, every Saint represents Krishna in full, not in parts. So, for that reason, all of these – nam, roop, leela, gun, dham, jan meaning- name, virtues, form,leela, abode and His eternal associates – are all one and that is called Krishna phenomena. You can also say Krishna tattwa.So, in Krishna phenomena it’s all included, and they all have equal importance, equal value, equal virtues. That is Krishna’s form and with all of His forms, Krishna is omnipresent. That’s enough to understand for now.
Now one question remains:do we really desire Krishna?“We”means the people of the world. What is their actual desire? Do people desire only liberation from material bondage, or do they also desire liberation plus Krishna? What do they desire? Let us think over it.What is an initial desire of a human being in general?
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Suppose you go to your friend, you are visiting him, and you see him lying on the bed. “Oh, he had a heart attack!” He’s old, has a heart attack and is almost dying on deathbed. If you ask him,“Do you want to die?”The man will be very angry,“Do you wish me to die?!”
“No, I don’t wish to die, but do you want to die?”He would say,“No, I don’t want to die! I want to live!”Even though he’sold and on his death bed andhas a heart attack, but he does not want to die becausedeath is not in our nature. You want to live,yet you know you will die one day. You know for sure that you have to die one day, yet you don’t want to die. Your first desire is that I don’t want to die.
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Anyone in the world wouldn’t like to be called stupid or foolish or ignorant or illiterate – no one. Even if he is a perfect dope, buthe would not like that kind of word. Why? He wants some knowledge,understanding.Being knowledgeablemeans receiving knowledge,and that is also another of your desires. You want to know something. A little boy goes outside, and looks where this road goes, what this sign says. He cannot read but he wants to know. The little boy is a few years old. He has a curiosity to know from very childhood, when you all are curious to know, when you are very young. “Who is this other guy who is next to my mother?” “He’s your father.”But you didn’t know because he liked your mother first and then became your father.
From that point on there are some people who are so studious that they cannot live without studying. We call them bookworms.I have seen some people who arevery old, retired,with weak eyes, then someone reads for them some book.However, it is all just the desire of knowing, the desire to know more, to learn more. How much more? We don’t know.There’s nolimit, but you want to have all the knowledge, whatever we can have. It’s another very common desire. I’m talking of common desires not uncommon desires. So having knowledge, receiving knowledge, maximum knowledge, is a common desire. Living forever, although it is impossible, is a common desire. Do you want something else apart from knowledge or living forever?
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Oh yes! You want to live happily. Happily? Yeah. Why not miserably? No, happily. But why happily? You don’t know, but you want happiness.And looking for that happiness, you do all kinds of things. You have got five senses in your physical body. Through all those five senses you perceive the world, and through every perception you desire to have some comfort, to comfort yourself, and to make yourself happy. You always desire – it’s the desire of happiness.So, the whole world, every soul in the world,has these three things in common, beyond any doubt. Then you have some more personal desires, but I’m talking of common desires.
Is that all? No. No. There’s something more. You see a little boyfive, six, seven years old. He’s gone out with his mother. Mother was shopping and the boy sees a toy in the shop, “Mom, mom, I want that toy!” He likes it. Mother says, “Oh, no. We have enough toys!” The boy says, “I want it!” And he starts crying without tears because he’s imposing a cry; he’s not really crying. He’s that wise enough. Then he really cries. Then he just throws his hands and feet. Itmeans, he is demanding his mother should yield to him. She said, “Okay, don’t cry. I’ll get it for you.” And he’s happy.
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It means he wants to command, to dominate even his own mother. He’s just a little boy yet he wants to demand. So, when there’s a demand, a demand of commanding, it means there’s a desire to rule. From that point…You see, in every field of life every, in every walk of life, in every country big or small, there’s always fighting for having more power to command others. They want to be great; means they want to rule the others. Is that all? There’s one thing more.
Again, start from childhood.There’s a little boy, suppose he got first class mark in his class, and he passed his fourth class.He looks around in the class, “I got the mark, first class!” He wants to become popular. This popularity instinct from your very childhood stays for your whole life. You want to get fame, name in the world.And it is so deep for getting fame and name you will sacrifice lots of things for getting fame. That’s it;name and fame.To become famous, to become great, is also your very inborn instinct. Anything more? No. That’s all.It includes everything: no death; life, knowledge, happiness, ruling power, fame with no bad name.You don’t like bad name; you like good name. It doesn’t matter how good one is or how badone is; it makes no difference. He wants to be good and have a good name.Doesn’t matter if he’s bad even. However, these are humans’ natural instincts. We all desire for that thing, to fulfill all these five kinds of initial desires.
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Then we have our own personal desires. What personal desires? Just like for instance, you want to get fame. To get fame you have to do something. And what to do, how to do, how to accomplish, who can help you, who you can manipulate, who you can reject in society, in your friend circle…?All this you have to think. They are your personal actions. Anyway, your main five kinds of desires are always there. But you if you think deeply, is there anyone in the world who is not going to die? No one. Everyone has some amount of life. Even the boys who are dead before birth, they lived a few months in the womb of mother. There are few who live more than 100 years. It doesn’t matter. One has to die one day.
Suppose there is a great yogi, and he has overcome his material physical demands – he may live a few hundred years. A very, very great yogimay live a few thousand years yet he has to die one day. Even (if he lives) a few thousand years, what does it matter? In billions of years of lifetime what is a thousand years? It’s immaterial. So, in this way we know that we have to die but we desire for no death.
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Everyone knows that whatever amount of time he will spend in study willnot be enough. There are thousands of languages, hundreds of languages of the country. Then there are millions of other languages: bird language, animal language, fish language, worm language; they all talk. Every living being talks.Then plant language; they all have something to communicate. When two life things communicate to each other they have some indication, some sound. And what is language?Just sound. What else?Sound.That’s language. Nothing else. So, there are millions of languages in the world. Can anyone learn all that?Impossible. Absolutely impossible! Yet you desire to be perfect in language and know all of that. You cannot be all-knowing yet you desire to know everything.
The third thing is happiness. Have you seen anyone who is always happy 24 hours for years and years and years up till death?No. You can’t find a single example even in the history. What is our history? It’s the history of disappointments and failures and possessions and defeats and wars. That’s our history. That’s our history. It’s not the history of happiness. No. There was never any one who came in this world who was always happy. I’m talking about a material being. But you desire for happiness forever.
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Again, your fame. You will see in the world that no one has a following, a complete following,which always praises you. There are always two parties next to you. One party likes you and the other party dislikes you. Always for good people, for bad people, for everyone there are two parties. The party of your kind likes you. The party of other kind does not like you.Always it happens.
And you cannot rule anyone. Once a king was passing by with his courtiers, riding on the elephant, the famous elephant – a white elephant. So, he happened to pass a monk who was sitting under a tree and just gazing – probably he was thinking of God. As he (the king) came by he then came down from his elephant and humbly asked that monk,“Can I do something for you?”
The monk said,“See,these two flies are bothering me.Just catch them and throw them away. These two or three flies are bothering me. Just do it.”The king said,“I can’t catch the fly!”
“You are a king of India!?”
“Yeah.”
“And you cannot catch a fly!?What kind of king you are?”
The king says, “I can grant some money. I can make a palace for you. I can do this kind of thing, but I can’t catch a fly!”
“Then please go away! I don’t need anything else if you can’t rule even a fly!”
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And again, if you rule on someone, they accept your ruling helplessly. Nobody likes to be ruled. You see, there are two parties, both like to rule on each other. No one likes to be ruled. Mother wants her son should be obedient. Son wants his mother to, “Succumb to my needs!” Both are trying the same thing. That thing never happens. And that can never happen. It’s impossible to happen because both are trying same – ruling each other.These are all impossible things in the world. Do we know that? Yes, we know that. We all know that. Then why do we all desire for the same thing when we know it is impossible?
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One more thing; one might say that, “I have less happiness. I want some more happiness.” Okay. How much more you want? Tell me:10%, 15%, 20%?How much more? Suppose you have a convenience of a million dollars.How much more do you want? “Oh, just 10, 15 more.” And your house servant just earns 500 a month. How much does he want?Just 500 more a month. If he gets 500 more a month, he will desire for 2,000 more a month because desires never end. You cannot pinpoint that you want that much. You cannot pinpoint it, because in every stage the amount of happiness you receive is the same. Take a local example. Suppose a mother is embracing her own child. She feels happy. Motherly emotion – vatsalya ras, “Oh my child!” Fine. And the mother is a queen. Yes. In the same kingdom a very poor beggar also has a child, and she embraces her child. How does she, the beggar, feel? She says, “My child!” It’s the same happiness. When the queen and the beggar have the same amount of happiness, then what else do you want? We cannot figure it out. What the puzzle is, I’ll explain in the next speech.
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