Video Information: 25.07.2020, Shastra Kaumudi, Greater Noida, U.P.
Context:
What is the importance of knowledge?
Does Understanding come from knowledge?
Is faith more important than knowledge?
What is knowledge?
What is devotion?
Which path is better: Knowledge or devotion?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Context:
What is the importance of knowledge?
Does Understanding come from knowledge?
Is faith more important than knowledge?
What is knowledge?
What is devotion?
Which path is better: Knowledge or devotion?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00 This body is made of finite, mortal, earthly elements.
00:20 What happens to this body and where this body comes from is no secret at all.
00:27 This body comes from other bodies and all the bodies arise from the soil just as all
00:39 parts arise from the soil and who does not know what fate each of these parts meet.
00:50 The soil carries no specific form.
00:58 When it takes the form of a pot, then it assumes a particular name and individuality.
01:10 But that name and individuality are just playthings for a little while.
01:19 Sooner than later, the pot again meets the same earth and the pot and the earth become
01:29 indistinguishable.
01:35 This is the peaceful, silent realisation.
01:45 Remember the futility of this body.
01:51 Remember how misplaced is your belief in anything valuable that can emerge from body identification.
02:13 Please understand, what is it that we say?
02:18 I, who am the body, will achieve this.
02:24 I as the body will reach there.
02:29 I, who am the body, will amass wealth.
02:40 Whatsoever we want to do, we want to do as the body.
02:47 Whereas the body is just earth, waiting to meet the earth.
02:54 It is not even waiting to meet the earth.
02:56 It is already just earth, soil.
03:00 Time as an intermediary, time as an illusion has deceived us.
03:06 We think we walk on the earth.
03:09 No.
03:10 There is just the earth.
03:15 There is just the earth.
03:16 It is not as if you are walking on the earth.
03:19 It is not as if you have stepped on the soil.
03:23 There is just the soil.
03:24 Soil on soil.
03:25 You remember Baba Bulleh Shah?
03:31 There is just soil on soil.
03:33 The soil is waiting for us.
03:45 And that is the reason why I say, you see, that the Upanishads are the source of all
03:52 spirituality irrespective of place, time or a particular branch of religion.
04:06 Upanishads are the very core of religion.
04:11 Religion without any name.
04:12 Not any particular religion.
04:16 Upanishads are the heart of religiousness itself.
04:21 Now from this heart a lot of streams can emerge and those streams will have names.
04:29 Irrespective of what the name of the religious stream is, at its heart sit the Upanishads.
04:41 Irrespective of where that stream was flowing.
04:47 That stream could have been that of the Ganga in the alluvial plains of India.
05:02 That stream could have been the Yellow River in China.
05:08 That stream could have been the Danube or that stream could even have been a desert
05:22 river in the sands of Arabia.
05:30 At its heart lie the Upanishads.
05:34 However if one has not studied the Upanishads, it will be very difficult to understand religion
05:42 at all.
05:43 Any religion.
05:46 Equally, if one resonates with the Upanishads, one will be able to appreciate all religions,
06:01 any and every religion.
06:05 Because all the streams, all the religious streams, whenever they flew and wherever they
06:11 came from, they all have the same heart.
06:18 The outer characteristics are different.
06:21 The heart is the same.
06:25 You know.
06:27 Your hand definitely looks very different from your leg and your eyes surely do not
06:36 look the same as your ears.
06:39 Yet they are powered by the same heart.
06:42 Are they not?
06:45 Same is the case with all religious extensions.
06:51 That which we call as religions are not really religions.
06:57 They are religious streams.
07:00 They could be called as extensions of the one unified body of religion itself.
07:08 So religion is a body.
07:11 One particular religion you can call as its arm, one you can call as its nose.
07:15 It depends on your mood.
07:21 Whatsoever is the stream, the power is coming from the Upanishads or you could say that
07:29 the power is most neatly expressed in the Upanishads.
07:36 Therefore, the Upanishads are a must if you are a genuine seeker of the truth.
07:52 So that's what the body is all about.
07:59 In all our life, we have been just glorifying the body itself.
08:06 I am your friend.
08:10 The moment I say that, what has actually been put on a pedestal?
08:16 The body.
08:17 I am a body.
08:18 You are a body.
08:19 Friendship is a side affair.
08:23 The central thing is that I have considered you and me as a body.
08:29 I am your wife or I am your husband.
08:32 What's the foremost and central assertion here?
08:36 You are a body.
08:37 I am a body.
08:38 Whatever we have done, we have just done as bodies.
08:43 Even to God, when we have prayed, we have prayed as bodies.
08:50 Oh my God, I have just come to your temple or to your church or to your mosque.
08:57 You have come to a mosque.
08:59 The truth doesn't move.
09:02 What has come to some place?
09:06 Obviously the limited body.
09:08 The 70 kilograms that you call as yourself.
09:10 This is me.
09:12 The 70 kg is me and I have come to the temple.
09:17 This body is not you and yet whatever you have done, you have done as the body.
09:26 If you can just take away this much.
09:28 Remember, remember, remember.
09:30 The Upanishads are not saying forget your past and enjoy the present.
09:35 The Upanishads are emphasizing again and again.
09:40 Don't forget, don't ever forget what you have been doing all your life.
09:43 All your life you have been making the central mistake and the central mistake is to think
09:49 that life belongs to the body.
09:52 The central mistake is to think that the body lives.
10:00 Tell me, tell me, tell me.
10:06 I mean, he is your friend, right?
10:11 Had he had no consciousness, how valuable would he be to you?
10:17 Why?
10:19 The body is the same.
10:26 You are attracted to a woman, let's say.
10:32 If her consciousness distorts, how valuable does she remain to you?
10:36 I mean, I am not even talking of an absence of consciousness.
10:40 I am talking of just distorted consciousness.
10:42 Does she remain valuable to you?
10:45 And yet we behave as if the body is the real thing.
10:50 Had the body been the real thing, then you would have continued to preserve the body
10:57 even after death.
10:59 And today you have scientific medical means to preserve the body for a really long time.
11:05 I mean, those means were there even in the days of the mummies.
11:14 And today those means are far more advanced.
11:17 You can preserve the body.
11:18 Would you do that?
11:23 Your best friend passes away.
11:25 Would you preserve the body?
11:28 Why not?
11:29 Your friend is the body.
11:30 You are the body.
11:31 The friend is the body.
11:32 And the body can be preserved.
11:33 Why don't you preserve the body?
11:36 But that appears so stupid.
11:38 If that appears so stupid, then kratosmar kratamsmar.
11:41 Remember this is what you have done to your friend all his life, all your life.
11:45 You have looked at him just as the body.
11:48 Have you bothered to really know his real name?
11:54 His real name is consciousness.
11:58 His real name is the little self, the ego.
12:03 I call it the atripta chetana.
12:05 That's what our one shared common name is, the real name.
12:09 We all are unfulfilled consciousness.
12:16 Are you getting it?
12:21 But is that how we look at each other?
12:23 No.
12:24 We look at each other as bodies.
12:26 And that is even more tempting if the other body is alluring, belongs to the other gender
12:33 or is alluring in some other way.
12:35 The body is of let's say your little kid.
12:39 Then it becomes even more difficult to look at your kid as actually consciousness in motion.
12:48 You care for his body.
12:50 Do you care so much for his consciousness?
12:54 Really not.
12:57 The kid comes to you, the kid is hungry and that will disturb you.
13:04 Right?
13:06 But what if the kid is really hungry from within?
13:08 Do you even detect that?
13:11 The kid returns from the playground.
13:14 It's evening time.
13:16 There's a scratch on his leg.
13:21 And you will be alerted.
13:22 Oh, what is it?
13:24 Where did you get it from?
13:26 Let me clean the wound.
13:28 Let me put some aid on it.
13:32 What if there is a mark on his consciousness, on his mind?
13:37 Are you worried even a little bit?
13:42 There's a little scratch on the body and an alarm is raised.
13:53 And so much on the mind.
13:58 Nobody bothers.
14:01 That's what must be remembered.
14:03 That's what we have done throughout and that's what we are not to do any further.
14:08 Getting it?
14:13 The past is a great resource.
14:15 It is not to be wasted away or thrown away or forgotten.
14:24 If you do not really decode your past, you are bound to repeat your past.
14:35 Are you getting it?
14:43 If you have not been able to unravel your past, then you will simply relive your past.
15:01 So forget all the propaganda coming from the neo-spiritual circles that say that past is
15:16 something to be just kept aside and you have to move on and life is in the present.
15:21 So what will you do with the past?
15:25 No.
15:29 Go back.
15:30 Return to the past again and again.
15:33 Why must you return to the past again and again?
15:36 Because your fundamental tendencies have not changed.
15:39 So when you are returning to the past, you are actually looking at yourself as you are
15:44 right now.
15:45 Are you getting it?
15:49 You cannot look at yourself as you are right now because in this moment there is no space,
15:54 no allowance for that.
15:59 So how will you know who you are?
16:01 You are someone who hasn't really changed.
16:03 Very few people really manage to transcend their old self.
16:08 So who are you?
16:10 You are much the same as you were two years back.
16:14 So how do you know yourself?
16:17 Just look at what you did two years back.
16:18 That's exactly what is happening in your life right now.
16:23 Worse still, that is also what is waiting to happen tomorrow.
16:30 Unless you attend to the past, learn clearly from it, your past will just rename itself
16:40 as your future.
16:44 Actually there is no future.
16:47 It's just the past returning to you in another name and that's the punishment you get for
16:56 not learning from the past, for not remembering the past.
17:02 Therefore the Upanishad is saying, "Om Krato Smar Krato Smar Krato Smar Krato Smar" and
17:08 do that again and again.
17:10 See how the cycle is operating within you.
17:13 See how you are much the same as you were at the age of five.
17:18 See how only the external stuff has changed.
17:21 See how the inner tendencies have just not evolved or sublimated.
17:27 Are you getting it?
17:31 [Music]