The ACHARYA SHREE YOGEESH Podcast
The ACHARYA SHREE YOGEESH Podcast
Paryushan 2023, Day 2: Diving into the Soul: Exploring the Role of Meditation in Paryushan
Paryushan is a celebration that promotes and support spiritual strength, fasting, reflection, and deepened experiences of the soul. We forget how valuable, precious and priceless we are. We don't value ourselves and our soul, and we blame God for everything. People want spirituality, they want the easy path and they don't want to take responsibility for anything. Spirituality requires a lot of will, courage, confidence and strength.
Acharya Shree suggests that meditation is one of the fastest ways, along with fasting, to burn karma because meditation, the real meditation, is a fire. He suggests to people to DIVORCE the WORLD and be with soul. Meditation is the real prayer - no asking, no listening, just being. Can you experience it?
In the Paryushan Series of 2023, Acharya Shree focuses on Meditation and sharing tips, techniques and teachings to help you arrive at your self. The path to Godhood is through the human body, are you ready for it?
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Jai Sadama, everyone. This is Sadhvi Sadheli Sri, here with my spiritual teacher and guru, acharya Sri Yogish, for the 2023 Paryushan series of Acharya Sri's podcast. Acharya Sri is a respected, enlightened one who has helped thousands of souls progress on their spiritual path and totally transform. Paryushan is an eight-day celebration of the soul, dedicated to reflection, fasting and spiritual learning. Welcome to all of our new listeners and thank you for tuning in Paryushan.
Speaker 2:Parva, the special celebration purely spiritual, and it is very hard to find this spiritual celebration. There are many celebrations, like in United States, 4th of July, but for what? For fun, and they think that is the life, our. We have a thanksgiving get-together, everything, and I don't get one thing in our country. When they get together, they, they are sitting for the lunch or dinner together and they start fight. Hey, family getting together, it's supposed to be peace, calmness. Oh, just one person will start. I have a regret. They say other person will start, I have a regret. And they start fighting, fighting. They leave the food and whoever is cooked whole day. Feelings get hurt, right, preparing for whole day, and now they are fighting. Hey, festival celebration means you supposed to be very happy, happy to be together, happy to be like, talk together, sit together. That is our real prayer work.
Speaker 2:In the beginning, if you read Vedas, veda is the very oldest book, actually one of the oldest in it in in the history Could be 5000 years to even more it can go. So it is written there Om Sahana Vavadu Sahana Upanakta Sahaviryaam Karva Vahayi Tejasvina Vahitam Ashtu Mavid Visha Vahayi. Om Shanti, shanti, shanti. They see the mantra they repeat before they say repeat before they start having lunch or dinner Om Sahana Vavadu, let's sit together, eat together Right and talk together, mavid Visha Vahayi, and like talk together. So have confidence, strength, everything together. Mavid Visha Vahayi. We never, never fight. If you read this mantra, it is the oldest book and what it says, never fight, it means they were fighting, otherwise why they will create this mantra. These days, people think this is the worst period of time we are living. Read that book, more than 5000 years old. They say Mavid Visha Vahayi, never fight and never hate. Book will not write or writer will not write if they were not hating, it means they were hating. It is the same nonsense going on till today. They found one oldest book in China. They claim there is 6000 years old book. The first line I was reading on that book what a time. These days, the brother hates the brother, father doesn't care about Brother, doesn't care about Daughter, doesn't care about the mother. They fight too much. They kill each other. That is the first line of the book and it is 6000 years old. This is our illusion that this is the bad period of time. Hey, it was always like that, otherwise why the book will write those lines?
Speaker 2:You think Jesus time was very good 2000 years ago. Hey, if it was good, why they crucify him? At least they don't crucify these days, except some real ignorant sects or religion. They think if somebody burned one book? I read a book, it is millions of books and they go crazy. They kill hundreds of people because they burn their one holy book. Hey, I understand those days it was handwritten, right, it was not available book. If somebody crazy guy burn your book, he's crazy. He may be ignorant. Why to kill because of his action all other people? Right, this nonsense still going on and that is not a good. Hey, if Jesus time was good, we think, oh, when Buddha was here, maybe very good. You know how many times Buddha was tempted to kill by other people? Do you know?
Speaker 2:We think that Mahaviraj time was very good. There were so many bad people. They even was putting the nails in his ear and they were just hammering it because he was meditating in the forest. He was not even in the city. They were throwing stones on them. It was a good time? There was not a good time. Good time is if you are good. If you are good, whole world seems to be good. If you have negative thoughts, if you have bad thoughts, if you have a hate, if you have a jealousy. Whole world seems to be jealous. Whole world seems to be hateful. Whole world seems to be everything different.
Speaker 2:One parents they have two children. They were very violent, both of them. They becoming teenager, they become worse. Parents don't know what to do. They send them into the boot camps or wherever they can be, straightened it out, but in vain, no success. Finally, they found out there is a one, guru Kulam. Guru Kulam means a spiritual teacher, but he lives in the forest that he straightened it out. Straightened it out all kinds of teenagers. They approach to him. That we have two children. Can you straighten them out, educate them? Oh, yes, of course, bring them here. They are teenagers, yes, I know, they are all teenagers here In my. Guru Kulam means there was like open they in the forest, beautiful flowers everywhere, garden lakes. They brought him.
Speaker 2:Teachers said only one condition Up to four years. You cannot contact them. And don't try to even contact me. If you want, I can take them in. He said yeah, yeah, take it. They wanted to get rid of them because they were creating a lot of trouble every day. Neighborhood oh, he beat my son. He hit my son In the school. They were out because everyone they were beating, they were violent, they were very angry. They accepted all of his condition that I will contact you after four years. You come First night. They tried to escape but the teacher was very wise, intelligent. He has a wall around everywhere. On the wall there were wires. He put at night quarantine so nobody can escape. They tried and they get shocked and they have no choice. They were start fighting with other children. They just hit them all the other. After a week they begin to settle down. Teacher began to teach them Time passes Once you put the date, that's it.
Speaker 2:Date arrives very quickly. Do you think that people think, hey, we want to leave 100 years? 100 years will be passed so quick. It just seems like 100 years, very big period of time. But if your life is very happy, if your life is flowing smooth, if your life is very much in peace, calm, everything goes very quickly. It passes too quickly. But if your life is in trouble, then it seems like one day, even one day. It seems like a very, very difficult to pass. What is hell? Not even one day it is easy to pass there. It's too much suffering, too much pain, too much. It is too much everything. That's what we call it hell. What is hell? You can see hell here too. You never know.
Speaker 2:One day one lady called me from India. She knew me. She said I have a one trouble Two jain nuns. They come to our home to just to have a, like a bagging food. That is our system. They go bagging food to the house to house and they wait for them. They treat them very well. They say my mother-in-law. So she had a problem, health problem. She was old, 93 years old already. Her both kidney failed when they were here. They she asked them give me one while If I go to unconscious, because now they cannot change my kill. I am too old, right? So I don't want to be given even water or food in unconscious state. Let me die in peace. Can you give me that vow? It's a big thing. Unknowingly, those who know, they give to her that vow. She was okay. After a week she went unconscious. One day it was not a problem.
Speaker 2:One day they see the second day she is in an unconscious but she is without water, even though she is in unconscious state, but she is a coma kind of. But her all gestures, everything the gestures of her face. She wants water. She is like a fish without water. Her hands move her. This and my children? They cannot tolerate. Mom, we are going to give her grandma water. She took the vow but we cannot see that. She is like a fish without water. We want to give her water and my husband comes at in the evening. He wants to give water. I was the only one that she took the vow. She is in coma. That's what her wish was Not to give her water, not to give her food. Two days gone. Third day, they couldn't tolerate it. She called me that.
Speaker 2:What do I do in this situation? I try to stop my children, I try to stop my husband, but they insisting too much. I know you, can you advise me something? I said let me meditate. I meditated, ninety-three years old, both kidney failed. What I am going to suggest now? They cannot afford dialysis and Shiva is not able to go Too old. You will. I am delivering you the message of Perusion today. It is for everyone. It's very good message.
Speaker 2:What do I do in this situation? She said let me meditate, call me. After couple of hours she called. I told her now you will think I am very cruel. I will suggest you don't give her water for two more days, the two days they are fighting with me. That I thought you are very compassionate, loving, I told, whatever you think about me. But that's what my suggestion to you Now. Problem is one day more. Her husband stops going to the work. Her children, they don't want to go to school, they want to sit around her. They serving her, they do, but no water, no food. Somehow, with difficulty, we passed the fourth day and she called me again that can I give today water please? I told you not two days. One day passed. Next day she called me that the day doesn't want to pass. It seems like it is years, years passing.
Speaker 2:I told you you will feel night that way that after night passes you don't have to call me. You give her water, that's it Okay. At night nobody wants to fall asleep because they see her situation. She is like she wants water. She wants her all.
Speaker 2:Gestures, eyes, mouth, everything. She opens, sometimes in the coma. She shakes her hand, she shows them, gestures. I want water. I want water. Whole night, 12 hours. It seems like 12 years. It doesn't pass. It doesn't pass 4 am.
Speaker 2:She opened her eyes and she began to talk. First thing we give the water. And she asked the water we give it. We couldn't believe. We called the doctor. Doctor came he said the Perusion Masses for everyone. Doctor came he checked both kidneys have begun to work. Both kidneys began to work, function. Whatever it was problem in the kidney infection or something was there. It got healed within 5 days because no water.
Speaker 2:In Russia there is a school. They put the people. They cannot heal, they cannot treat their disease, sickness, but they have to fill up the form that if in this process, if you will die, we are not responsible. They take their those people. They have no cure. Doctors failed. Medicine doesn't work anything. They put them there 10 days, no water and very like 1-2% people die in that process, mostly people. They come back to the heal.
Speaker 2:This is called Perusion Message Tapasya. Tapasya means like tapah. Tapah is a fire. When you don't eat anything, the fire begin to increase in your body and that fire will kill all kind of bad bacteria, whatever infection is growing, even cancer cell. Now it is a discovery, new discovery. If somebody dies in 1 year, 21 days fasting, they don't have to do. Continue 21 days here and there, 2 in 1 month, 1 in another month, 3 in another month, finish 21, 1 year, no cancer. It's a new discovery. Why? Because fasting begin to kill the cancer cell. Cancer cells, they are growing in the body. They begin to die. But people have to have courage, strength, confidence that they can do it. People think they cannot do it. Everything is possible If they have confidence, if they have courage, if they have strength, if they have will to do and what God gave you according to Christianity, will, hey, use your will. Don't blame God that you take care of everyone, not me.
Speaker 1:Everybody is rich.
Speaker 2:I am poor. Everybody is healthy. I am sick. No, don't blame God. God gave you already a will. If you have a will power, use your will. You don't know that you have all this priceless diamond in you but you don't see them Because we still blame God. You don't have a justice, god. Look, I am poor, I don't have a house, I am homeless, I don't have anything Right? Hey, use your diamonds. You have a big diamonds in your hand. If you use it, you will be surprised.
Speaker 2:Perusion makes you stronger. You think that the fasting will make you weak. No, it becomes stronger. Energy begins to come back. After five days it enters in you. Some kind of. It means your energy source is there. You need to be wake up. It is very difficult because the problem is they. We don't want to straighten it out ourselves. After seven days you begin to teach them. They become totally different after six months, one year, four years. Teacher was satisfied. That's okay. He contacted the parents. Parents were very happy to bring them back. They wanted to see the transformation Before the parents were coming and they came to get them. Teacher wanted to test them, both of them. Let's see if they are. Whatever I teach. They grasp it fully. But one thing I am going to tell you the person who is positive remain positive forever. Person who is negative remain negative forever. First brothers, I want to ask you one question before your parents come.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:That what you think about this whole universe. He was very negative. His approach was negative. He became a better person, but negativity didn't leave him. Since thousands of years we are carrying the whole idea. Violence is same, negativity is same, fighting is same, jealousy is same, hate is same. One father he was teaching a child a math and every time he correct him, he does the mistake again. Father got a little angry. He slapped him. You are not concentrate fully. Be here. You are doing mistake again and again. How many times I will correct you, Little boy? He began to cry. Father said why you crying? Did I hit you little too much? No, that why you crying? The more, he asked, he cries even more. That why so loud? Did I hit you? I am sorry, did I hit you too much? No, that. Why you crying, then? But I want to ask you question Did your father hit you?
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, he hit me If I did something wrong. What about your father's father? He treats your father. Oh, yeah, he did too. What about grandfather's father? Yeah, he hit him too. That why you are asking so much that I am asking that how long this nonsense will go on. Continue. This is don't think that our past time was very good. Read the book, you will be surprised.
Speaker 2:Geeta. Geeta is known, very famous book in India. The first line of herarian Yadah yadah hidharmasya glani rebhavati bhareta, abhiyuthanam madharmasya tad atmanam srijamyaam. First line of Geeta, and it is the most popular book in the world actually, and most like the fasted selling book, the best selling in the world. Yadah yadah hidharmasya glani rebhavati bhareta. Krishna is declaring that when the real path is going down, the people are allergic of Dharma, our spirituality. Abhiyuthanam madharmasya and all the bad paths come. So on the way, tad atmanam srijamyaam. I come back to straighten them out. The line is telling yadah, yadah, hidharmasya, then ever the people get allergic of Dharma, people get allergic of spiritual path. That I come again and again and again. It means Krishna came the worst time. People were already allergic, otherwise he will not write that line that I come. That time it was.
Speaker 2:Look at this book is almost 3500 years old. What does it mean? It was always there. He is testing, he is student. That what you think about this universe? That tell you the truth, my master. This whole universe is ugly, what? Look at the star twinkling. For what? What is the purpose of twinkling? Sun is shining. For what shining? If I am here or not here, he still will shine. All these birds singing, chirping, what is the meaning? And God doesn't have a sense. That's what he said. Look at, he doesn't have even intelligence. We are more intelligent than him. That big tree, a little fruit on the top and little ivy crawling on the ground. A watermelon is so big. Hey, big thing, big fruit, small thing, small fruit, no intelligence. Right, they didn't know anything about it.
Speaker 2:And look at if he was so intelligent, wise. Look what he did Between two nights. He made only one day Too much dark. He could have created more light, right, teacher got a little shocked too, because he never taught him that way. He was a little scared.
Speaker 2:He asked the other brother the same question, that same question to you. He was very positive, his approach was very positive. He said my master, I think this universe is so beautiful, the way star twinkles look so beautiful, the way the sun shines, the moon lights, so calm, so peaceful. The way the birds sing, the way the flower blossoms. It seems like nature is so beautiful, dancing, laughing Right, and I think God is very intelligent. The most wisest thing I see in my eyes that if he could have put the big fruit on the tall tree, if the animal is sleeping underneath and the wind comes and it falls down watermelon and fall on the tree, on the animal, he will die. He put those big fruits on the ground. Nobody gets hurt. Very intelligent and I think God is the wisest. Look at that. He made only one night between two days. Look at how you see the things. One night between two days. It's too much light. Dark is very little. Parents came he said take them away.
Speaker 2:Because no matter what you do. It is saying in India that the dogs tell if you keep in one device to straighten it out, even 12 years it will not going to be straightened out.
Speaker 1:It will be still that way.
Speaker 2:Many people, no matter how much you teach them, they never going to be straightened out. And the person who wants to straighten it out? They don't need it anything, just little thing. They need, little advice they need. And little advice can change their life, their transformation.
Speaker 2:Perusion is a purely spiritual celebration. It gives the message you live close to your soul. That's what in the Perusion time we do. Fasting, fasting has two, three words Tapa, fire, upavas, upavas means be close to your soul, means all distraction gone. Upavas, upavas is the best word. Upavas means near, vas means to live, to live near your soul. Don't live near to your senses, your body, your mind. Just disconnect, at least for eight days at least. So you try to live with yourself, try to find the self, try to find your own, which is alive inside of you. That is the message of the Perusion and the best remedy for that to find it.
Speaker 2:Jhanam, that's what I was trying to tell you Yesterday. I mentioned Sriram, srisam jaha, sarirasya, moolam jaha, dumasya ya savasya sadhu dhammaso taha jhanam vidhi yate, like the most important in our body is the head. Most important in our body is the head. If there is no head, can you believe that? What is going to happen. You don't know where you are going to walk. In the head there arise. In the head there are senses Ear, your nose, your mouth, your all touch, taste, smells, hearing and sight. And in your head there is a mind. That's why it is most important part of your body is your head, but if you use it properly, that is the best instrument in your body the head. The head is the most beautiful and most important part in your body. Srisam jaha sarirasya, the whole body, very important part of the body age your head. Moolam jaha dumasya ya. Most important part of the tree is the roots. If there are no roots, the tree will not survive. That's what they are trying to teach you. I told you isi bhasyaṁ sūt, 22nd chapter and 14th shloka verses Savvasya sādhu dhammasya.
Speaker 2:Taha jhānam vidhiyate. The people who are on the spiritual path. All these sādhus means who is? Who are on the spiritual path? Savvasya sādhu dhammasya. Whatever their techniques are or whatever techniques they are following to improve the spiritual, highest Spiritual height, any techniques they were following, taha jhānam vidhiyate, the best technique to improve themselves or to reach to the highest state of consciousness, taha jhānam vidhiyate. Meditation is the best one. All the other. If you do the prayer is not the best one. Prayer is a good one, not the best one. Or mantra may be the good one, not the best one. In this sutra they are saying taha jhānam vidhiyate, the best thing among all the practices, whatever you are following.
Speaker 2:He didn't talk about the religion, because religion, mostly it's based on fear. I don't condemn religion, because religious people are still good. If they are really religious, I think they are still good. If the huge religion by their selfishness is a different story, they are huge. Then If somebody goes to the church just to show that I am in the church doesn't mean he or she is a good person. But if they go by heart, he enjoys, she enjoys everything everybody enjoys there Then it is a good to go. They enjoy it.
Speaker 2:Sometimes even one word can change your whole structure, whole life structure. It can transform you. Even one word, but if it goes into your heart, that's what the real prayer is, not just to recite the prayer. The real prayer is when you are wholeheartedly present there. How are you going to be wholeheartedly present there when you totally get disconnected? Disconnected from where All your senses, mind, all distraction, whatever you have in your life? I tell another gross word divorce the world. It is like a divorce Disconnecting means you are divorcing it. When you divorce, you just be in the peace. Divorce the world. How are you going to divorce? Today, no matter what happens, I am not going to eat. You divorce you left the food. Divorce it. No matter what happens, your all distraction will go away. And when, wholeheartedly you are present, into the temple or church, into the lecture, fully the people. Sometimes they are into the lecture but they are not there. It is a problem Because their mind is going somewhere else.
Speaker 2:You never know, One husband was pushed by the wife every day. Go to the satsang, go to the spiritual discourse, it is not an opportunity. Again and again and again Go there. One day he said she is never going to stop, I better go. It was in the evening. He went there Because the whole day he was working, poor guy, and was pushed by the wife every day, every day. He decided to go. A few hundred people there he sat down to and he sat down. He was late already. He was little backward open area. It was not in the building, good weather, in the par, the delivering the lecture. He was so tired he fell asleep. He fell asleep Many people.
Speaker 2:They have a problem and that's why they cannot enter into the meditative state. I am going to tell you that problem. Many people, they sleep open mouths and when they sleep by open mouth, their old age comes quicker. I am going to give you secret Never sleep open mouth, you breathe through your nose. If you breathe through your nose, your old age is very far. But the people who breathe through their mouths, that's what she was the guy. He fell asleep and suddenly a dog was running around and you know dog's habit they lift their leg and they pee. His mouth was open and the pee went in there, but he was so sound asleep he may be swallow little bit. And he opened his mouth and he woke up almost satsang Discourse was fully finished, people were going away. He went back to home, his wife was telling, asking him how was the satsang? Because I go every day. It looks like a nectar to me. Even one word they say it goes into my heart.
Speaker 1:It's like a nectar.
Speaker 2:So good, so beautiful. What did you feel that? Yeah, I felt nectar too. I am not lying to you. But you said nectar is sweet, but it was salty, salty. Then did you fall asleep there? No, no, no, I felt very good there. But you are wrong. Nectar is not sweet, it was salty. She couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2:The people sometimes they come to the right place, but they don't come wholeheartedly, they don't learn things. The best thing is consider your head. He is the most important part of your body. Like the roots of the tree is very important for the tree. Same thing.
Speaker 2:All the spiritual practices, whatever you follow, all religious practices, whatever you follow, the best technique or very important technique for you taha jhanam vidhi yate, only meditation. In meditation, there are no words. In meditation, you get disconnected from everything. What is meditation? You are totally in silence, not silent from the words, silent from your body too. You don't know where your body is sitting, you don't know where your mind is. Your mind is totally, because you totally left them for few minutes. And if you leave them for few minutes, you have no other choice. You jump into the meditative state, and meditative state is the real prayer. Remember in our this little on this earth. There are almost 5000 languages and dialects on this little earth, 5000. God has to learn 5000 languages and dialects. No, god will not understand your language. God understands only your silence. And silence will happen when you are wholeheartedly present there. You don't compare, oh, I learned this. When you are listening the lecture, I heard this. It means you are not here. If wholeheartedly you are present, your prayer begins, that real prayer. I call it meditation. Taha jhanam vidhi ethe. Meditation is the real thing and meditation, how is the meditation? I can go in detail, but I am going to give you one little thing, one more little idea to you.
Speaker 2:When you hear it is in one scripture in Jains. It is called Bhagavati Sutra. Bhagavati Sutra is the largest scripture of Jain religion. It has 72000 questions and answers. Whatever your questions and answers are, you read that scripture. You will be shocked. They are asking like my question. It seems like it is your question, because 36000 questions, 36000 answers, so it is total 72000. It is a very big scripture and it is a treasure. Actually, I was reading there three words Savane naane, ya vin naane. Savane naane, ya vin naane. It is a Bhagavati Sutra. It has a chapter. They call it shatak, second shatak, second chapter, and fifth udeshak means fifth kind of bear. You will see it when you read it. So that's what I am quoting is from there Savane naane, ya vin naane.
Speaker 2:When you hear the knowledge, when you hear the real thing, it becomes vin naane. Vin naane means vigyaan, vigyaan means the biggest science. But if you hear it right way, if you don't hear it right way, it will not go into your heart. Because what people have? Tendency that they fall asleep. They come to show that they are in the church or into the temple or into the spiritual discourses but say naane, they win naane. If you hear the knowledge, if you hear the real thing, it becomes your vigyaan, biggest science, science of the soul. And the science of the soul when it becomes, it goes into your heart fully. And when it goes to your heart you will understand thing. Before that you will not.
Speaker 2:It is written there three kind of listeners. First kind of listeners are like a pan. When you are cooking the bread, you have a pan and the pan is very hot. If you drop a few drops of water there, what is going to happen? As soon as it does, it is burned. As soon as somebody hears, it is gone. They forgotten fully. That is the first kind of listeners. Like the water drops on the hot pan. First kind of listeners are that they don't learn anything. No matter how much good thing you pour into them, they won't listen. Second kind of listeners. Second kind of listeners are the water drops into the lotus flowers. The water drops. They stay into the lotus flower. If you have seen it and they look so beautiful, they stay there. But how long till the wind doesn't come. If the wind comes, something, distraction comes something. All this drops gone. Whatever you heard it, you will be forgotten fully. What is distraction? Somebody say, hey, let's go to the casino. Distraction, right, let's go to the bar, we will drink something, enjoy the life. Distraction Whatever you heard is gone. Go to the party, go to this, let's go to the dance, but you will go something. You think it is the life. It is the life. It is also whatever you heard. Let it go into your heart, but it doesn't go. It is like the water on the lotus flowers leaves. They stay for a while, but after that it is forgotten. Right, it is totally forgotten. That is the second kind of listener.
Speaker 2:Third kind of listeners are amazing. They are like, what do you call that? Oysters, oyster, oyster, oyster. It is in the ocean, oyster. There is a time, if the rain happens and they are seeking the water to drink, it has to be real timing. There is a special planet. It is called Swati Nakshatra, special planet in the sky. People don't know. India knows a lot of things about it. Swati Nakshatra. When it is that timing, when it shines, when it really twinkles, when it really is visible and it comes once a month, swati Nakshatra. And when this oyster is thirsty, is seeking the water and rainy happens, when rain happens, whatever drops it swallows coming out of the ocean and how many drops goes into that stomach, in that creature's stomach, you will be surprised. All these drops becomes pearl, real pearl. Now, whatever pearl you are buying, they are artificial pearls they do. They put in their mouths special chemical. It becomes a pearl. But real pearls is very expensive, real pearl, you are never going to believe it. Sometimes this oyster is very big. Sometimes it is very not normal. It is big. You will be surprised. Sometimes you don't know what you have in your hand.
Speaker 2:When fisherman he was fishing into the ocean, his boat went little further because they get a greedy. Little more, little more, little more, and the storm happened. He didn't have much in with him, he didn't know that that storm is coming. He got lost. His boat went somewhere else. His body went somewhere else In the ocean. It is real, it happened in Philippines. Amazing that body. He must almost die. But he found one big rock into the ocean. It was speaking. He grabbed that rock and when he grabbed it somehow he was a liar.
Speaker 2:One day, two days, three days, and people were searching, all the boatmen. Somehow they found him unconsciously. They gave him little water. He drank. He came to the unconscious. He said I want to keep this. He saved my life. There was a piece of rock there and they helped him. They took that rock with that. This is my life. He saved my life. If this rock was not here I will be dead. He took He'll have a little heart. He lives in there one bed Underneath. He put that rock.
Speaker 2:Few years passed. He just loved this rock because it saved his life. He doesn't know anything about him. What it is it was if something, fire broke, all the hearts began to burn. He ran somehow, people trying to save whatever they can save. Fire was so bad and he couldn't save either anything. His bed was burned, everything was burned.
Speaker 2:He was searching and when he was searching he found that rock. And there was a person who was also walking. He was a knowledgeable man. When he was taking this rock he saw hey, it is unusual rock. Oh, that is it. Only that is only safe. It saves my life. I don't care about my heart or my bed. It burned, it burned, but it's still life, still there.
Speaker 2:He said hey, it seems like unusual rock. I know how to test, how to test the rocks. Let me go to the lab and test it. Come with me. He came, he tested in his lab. He found that, hey, you are millionaires, you are a poor. You don't know even you are millionaires. That, what, that? You are not a poor. You know this is not a rock. This is the biggest pearl in the world. That may be that creature Oyster. Oyster was maybe unusually big and it created this biggest pearl. This is the biggest pearl in the world. People don't know that he he was thinking he is poor, but he is the richest one. You never know how your destiny changes. 12 years he was thinking it is a rock and now he became the richest person. It really happened. It is not a story. I don't tell stories, usually Tell stories sometime, but it is real. Incident happened, and in Philippine.
Speaker 2:So it is the third kind of listeners are like oyster how, whatever they grasp, they keep in there and it becomes a pearl, it becomes the most beautiful thing. Those third kind of listeners, they are the best. They make out of it pearl, priceless beauty, priceless thing. So if you are the third kind of listeners, you are already a spiritual. You can go in meditative state very quickly. But if you are two kinds of listeners you will have a hard time. So the your listening knowledge can become science of the spirituality, the real science of the listening it becomes when you are third kind of listener. But if you are too good, first, two kind of listener, it will not become the science of knowledge. No, then you can. You will have a hard time to go to the meditation and meditation.
Speaker 2:The biggest thing is I told you it is in your head, your mind, even your brain I mentioned yesterday is most valuable. It has billions of bulbs and you don't know you have a valuable thing. You think, oh, it is little brain. Hey, your little brain has one billion light bulbs, they are blinking it. It is counted now. And those little bulbs, they are like chips. They hold the memory. That's what I call it Our mind, because brain is a processing mechanism. Brain is a processing mechanism and all our thoughts, all our ideas, they go through that process. And what? Who storage it? Billions bulbs, like one chip, can store a lot your brain can store. Can you believe you have billions chips? How much memory you can store? That's what, all the memories it is possible to come back to you. But you have to go backward. How you go to backward? You have to think about your mind, because mind, even more than your brain, mind is the biggest storage in the whole storage we think it is the whole earth become storage. Mind is bigger than that, even still. It carries so many memories, it carries so many information and they are, you are able to bring them back again and that's why there are system now, primal therapy.
Speaker 2:They are trying to take you towards your womb. It's a very well known. They try. They try to connect you to your babyhood. They will try to connect you to your when you were in the womb.
Speaker 2:In the womb, after six months, when you are, all senses are developed. They hear it. Whatever mother hears, it, baby hears too. Whatever mother craving, baby craves too. You be careful about that time. Whatever you crave, that's it, your baby going to grow same way.
Speaker 2:Last three months are very critical to raise the baby in the womb because baby will grasp everything that you are doing it. If you are eating too much ice cream, baby will be just want ice cream, nothing else. Be careful. If you eat junk food, that time your baby is going to eat junk food. You drink too much wine. You're not supposed to, but people are people. They smoke. The baby will be affected by it. So it is better. Three months are very important. The memory can bring it back because baby listens. Baby hear it, baby does. Mother is meditator, baby will be meditator. It all depends on what you are that time. Everything is possible. But I am going to give you one more sutra. It is from the Aradhana Sutra. Aradhana Sutra is the Jains scriptures.
Speaker 2:They have two main sects. One is Shwetambara, one is Digambara. Shwetambara is the wear the white robes and Digambara monks. They go even further. They think this is a possession. They don't even renounce clothes too. That sect only the monks. They do it. They are counted monks, maybe hundred something in India. So they remain same. Because who wants to be totally naked among the city?
Speaker 2:Mahavira's time it was different. Mahavira's time, 2600 years ago, there was a clothing industry. People used to live naked most of the time. They hardly have a little private part to cover it. Even if somebody has one saree, they used to think she is very rich. Now there are thousands sarees in the closet. They don't know which one to use. Thousands of dresses we don't know what one to use. Our scarf has so many. Which one fit on this colorful dress? We spent a lot of time. That time was maybe better. It had only one dress. There was no wise of time.
Speaker 2:But now they say the Aradhana Sutra, that is, digambara sect. They have 84 scriptures. One of the scriptures is called Aradhana Sutra. In Aradhana Sutra there is an 84th sloka. They talk about the meditation Lavnava eva salil joe. Janam cittam viliye jas tas suhasu dhanam appa analopas payaseish. This is a prakrit language, very old language. Lavnava eva salil joe.
Speaker 2:Like the salt, when you put into the water, it merges with the water, it becomes one with the water. There is no salt, it is visible at all. It becomes part of the water, like the salt dissolves into the water. Same way, janam cittam viliye jas suhasu. That if your mind dissolves into your meditation, janam. That if you go into Nirvikalpa Samadhi, nirvikalpa Samadhi means like your mind is totally dissolved. When your mind is totally dissolved, like the salt into the water, same thing All your thoughts, all your mind dissolves fully. They are not present there at that time. That if their mind is dissolved totally, what happens? Tas suhasu ho dhanam. That whatever they are carrying the good thoughts or bad thoughts, good are positive or negative jealousy or hate, violence or anything, whatever they are carrying deceitfulness, greediness, who carries this? Your mind? If there is no mind, they don't carry it. A butterfly doesn't have a developed mind.
Speaker 1:It has little mind.
Speaker 2:Little mind, so they don't have a jealousy or hate. One butterfly is drinking the pollen from the one flower. Another butterfly can drink there too, but not human. Hey, you are taking my whole food away. This is mind right. Jealousy, hate, everything, negativity. You don't want to share it, they share it. If you don't have a mind, you can share it, all these animals. They drink water into the one pot, right, but we don't. That's the main issue here.
Speaker 2:So your mind has to dissolve fully, like the salt dissolves into the water. And when it dissolves fully, what happens? Tas suhasu ho dhanam, all your bad thoughts or good thoughts, shubha asubha. Shubha means good. If your mind is good, that also will dissolve. If your mind is asubh bad, it also will dissolve. Shubha subh dhanam. They begin to burn all these thoughts. Means, when it dissolves, it will burn.
Speaker 2:Appa analo payasai. And what is the real fire of your soul Will be visible. Means, the real light of your soul will be visible when shubha shubh, all these bad, good thoughts have. Everything begin to dissolve Like your mind, your matter, your, whatever. You carrying. It means. We call it in Sanskrit chittam. Mind is a chitt. His mind has many kind of minds.
Speaker 2:If I go in detail, it will be one more lecture. So when your mind totally dissolves, like the salt into the water, then you reach into the nirvikalpsamadhe. Your atma, your soul's. Anal means fire, payasai, it will be visible, it will be shining. Your soul begin to shine. That is the dhyana, that is the meditation. If you want to really meditate, you have to follow this process. The process is very simple. Process is I gave you an example Salt in the water. Mind dissolves totally. Once the mind dissolves totally, your light will be fully shining. What is your light really? Your appa-analo. Appa means your soul-atma, analo means your fire or your light. It will be payasai, it will be visible everywhere. But it can happen into the nirvikalpsamadhe because the mind is totally dissolves and mind cannot be dissolved because it is a many kind of.
Speaker 2:I wanted to talk about it today because in Bhagavati Sutra I am going to mention, but I am going to explain you tomorrow in Bhagavati Sutra, like the biggest scripture, where the 36,000 question and 36,000 answer, in the 12th chapter we call it Shatak and in the 10th Udeshak, there are eight kinds of soul, eight kinds of atma, eight kinds of spirit. They talk about it and they are using the name of spirit, atma. That is kind of the mind, and there are many kinds of mind. Many kinds of mind. When you are a child, right, you just play, you just have fun, you just eat. That is your mind.
Speaker 2:That time, when you become a little bit young, teenagers, your mind changes, right, you get attracted to someone, your hormones begin to change in your body, your mind becomes totally different. Then another, then you, they become indulged into the sex or other things or eating or drugs. Even their mind becomes totally different. And they start earning money. Their mind becomes totally different and according to changes in our life, our mind changes too. So how many types of mind we can find? An ek chitta means many different kinds of mind you can find, but till you become ek chitta. Ek chitta means only one mind, one mind. How it is going to happen? Ek agrata. Ek agrata means one-pointedness. When this happens, one-pointedness is your mind. Then your mind is totally stable. Otherwise it will go here and there and to be one-pointedness. That is the real meditation.
Speaker 2:Now I am going to give an example. One girl she was in love with someone and he told her meet me in that garden outside of the city, because we considered love is a blind, a young girl. She didn't consider the consequences, what can happen there. She just went there in the evening time, in the evening, sun setting down and the place. He told that I will meet you there. He was not there. So she got a little scared. She wanted to find. Maybe he is in another place. So she is walking around this big garden and dark happened already. She couldn't find him. She said, wow, it is dark, I want to go back home. He is not here. So now she tried to go out. It was a big wall around that garden and only one door. Now the door is closed. She cannot go back home. She wanted to go back home. She said, if I can find the tree, some kind of, if I climb up and jump on the other side, because to climb up is very difficult, right, but to go down is very easy, just jump it. But climbing up to the high is very difficult.
Speaker 2:When you climb to the mountain, it is not easy to climb. You will get deadly tired, right. But when you climb up, it is a technique you bow down. Did you ever notice your body bow down. And that is the way to get success. Success is only people. They get success when they bow down Because now they don't have ego.
Speaker 2:Where there is ego, you cannot climb up. You have to bow down. That is a symptom of success that the person who is egoistic, sooner or later it will fall down. But when you are going down from the mountain, you know why you are going down, what you are doing now your body. You cannot go down unless your body is straight. Your body is totally erect. Erect means you are full of ego, and ego will you go down? But it will. You will fall down. Downfall. Downfall happens when you don't bend at all. Let from the mountain climbing up down.
Speaker 2:She was searching. She couldn't find anything. In the dark. Her eyes doesn't not visible. She thinks now there is a broken tree, seems like.
Speaker 2:She tried to climb up that tree and somebody screamed hey, are you blind? A sannyasi, a swami. He was meditating in that garden. He is. He was a kind of vagabond. His hair was so long and he was meditating totally and she fell down suddenly. I am sorry. I am sorry. I thought it was a tree. I wanted to climb up. I want to go back, that swami. Instead of getting angry he thought wow, she is teaching me something. She told the whole story, please forgive me. I came to meet my lover but I couldn't find him. I wanted to go back because this is a dark. I thought it is a tree. I am so sorry. I heard you.
Speaker 2:He thought look at her. She is totally blind. She is in love, she is on me that I got distracted. If somebody climbs you, what is the meaning? I got so distracted. I am not stable like she is. She is totally forgot. She is totally become a blind.
Speaker 2:And he learned that is called one-pointedness. When somebody is one-pointedness, thinking one thing, they are totally gone. They are taken by that thing. If your mind becomes like that and the Swami learned from her that she is one-pointedness I am not, I got distracted. She is not distracted, she came. So the one-pointedness that's what they are talking to him in the Sutra that Appa Analo Payasai, when you are totally one-pointedness, all your good or bad things whatever good or bad is not a big difference. They are still thoughts, they are still they. Don't let you be one-pointedness. Happiness and anger is the same. You think you are happy, but in the real sense happiness and anger is the same thing.
Speaker 2:We call it chittasya adhyavasaya, whatever going on into your mind. It is all mind. It is all mind business. We call it man vachankaya vyapar. We call it this mind business, vyapar. It is going on into your mind always, like your business going on Same way. All thoughts are going on into your chit, into your mind. Either they are bad either they are good. They make no big difference. Both are both good or bad. They are blockages into your meditation and they both have to go. They both have to dissolve Means. Mind has to dissolve fully because till the mind exists, your good or bad thoughts will exist, your good or bad business will exist. Once the mind dissolves like the salt into the water, then your appa and alopeya say, your fire of yours, your shining of your soul will be visible. That is called dhyan, that is called meditation. And not only that. It is more further.
Speaker 2:I am going to explain to you in this parvayushan. If you can find who you are, if you can find why you are here, if you can find what you want to be, attend parvayushan. Parvayushan is a purely spiritual celebration and these are the best days. Why million people I am talking million, at least one million people Could be more Fasting one month. They want to be just in India and abroad.
Speaker 2:I am not talking only India. Abroad too, somebody may be fasting in Dallas, new York, one month Maybe, not much, but if you count all over them, million people. They want to be distracted, whatever distraction, they want to be all distraction gone, all all these distractions caused by your senses and mind. So if you are not distracted at all, you are not into it, then it means you are into the parvayushan and several million people they may be. Eight days are common fasting, but one or two days you cannot even count them. So many people are fasting and they want to fast, they want to experience, they want to realize Appa and Elo, what is the light of my soul? That is parvayushan Jai Siddhatma.
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