Video Information:
Month of Awakening, 11.01.2020, Advait Bodhsthal, Greater Noida, India
Context:
~ Why we fantasize in spirituality also?
~ Are spiritual guru and great man were really superhero?
~ How we are working against us assuming them as superhero?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Month of Awakening, 11.01.2020, Advait Bodhsthal, Greater Noida, India
Context:
~ Why we fantasize in spirituality also?
~ Are spiritual guru and great man were really superhero?
~ How we are working against us assuming them as superhero?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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00:00 Chapter 1, verse 30.
00:13 "O Krishna, I am not able to stand firmly and my mind seems to be whirling and I notice
00:23 the omens to be adverse."
00:24 Acharya ji, Pranam from the above shloka.
00:30 "I realize that at times I too feel paralyzed around my loved ones when it comes to taking
00:36 the right action.
00:39 My attachment towards them gets overwhelming at times and I find myself difficult to hold
00:44 steady.
00:46 Arjun, like me, seems to be giving all excuses possible for not doing the right thing.
00:55 He is willing to die but not ready to do the right thing.
01:00 In such situations, many times I have spent all my energy in maintaining my composure
01:07 which results in inaction and thus defiance of the right action."
01:12 Acharya ji, does the right action have to wait for my composure or can it proceed even
01:20 with trembling hands or unsteady mind?
01:24 Come on.
01:30 What makes you think that being the creature of this earth that you are, you will be able
01:42 to do the right thing without shaking, without having unsteady hands?
01:57 We seem to have romantic fantasies even in spirituality.
02:04 We have been fed a lot of spiritual notions it seems.
02:09 We carry images, rather long videos of how a really spiritual person is like, steady,
02:33 firm, unwavering, unshaking, doing the right thing without the least trace of discomposure.
02:46 Fantastic.
02:49 Heroic.
02:52 Superheroic.
02:54 That's what we want, right?
02:55 Superhero movies.
02:56 Juvenile.
02:57 So very juvenile.
03:02 What's your take on a spiritual master?
03:11 Some kind of a Batman?
03:20 Able to conquer everybody without getting even the slightest bruise.
03:35 That's what you find in superhero movies, right?
03:40 All the bad ones of the world are standing against your superhero and they are carrying
03:56 AK-47s, machine guns, stain guns, Tommy guns and a few nuclear reactors.
04:05 One or two bombs won't suffice, so they have brought along half a dozen reactors and
04:16 uranium and plutonium enrichment plants as well, so that bombs can be delivered in real time.
04:27 And then you're stood without so much as blinking his eyes, just whistles and blows them away.
04:44 That's what the movies have fed you, right?
04:50 And either willing or subconsciously, you have extrapolated the same story to the spiritual
04:55 domain.
04:58 How does the parallel scene look like in the spiritual domain?
05:04 Here is your realized master and in front of him are standing all the bad chaps.
05:11 Sam-krodh, mad-moh, loob, maya-mad, matsarya, bhaya and they are carrying all the destructive
05:31 weapons possible, property, sex, allurement, prestige, those are the nuclear weapons you
05:43 see to destroy you internally.
05:48 And then your spiritual master without so much as blinking an eye, just blows them away.
06:00 I command you to disappear by the power of the Lord.
06:11 Thy shall be no more and they're all gone.
06:19 Happy popcorn time.
06:25 That's your pop spirituality with popcorn fed to you by mom and pop.
06:42 You know what you have done to all the saints and the masters and the heroes who loved you
06:56 and fought for you, you have destroyed them, you have turned them into caricatures.
07:03 You have created images of their infallibility.
07:07 You have said they were supermen.
07:11 So I will not leave behind any trace of their fallibility.
07:17 I will not show that they too trembled.
07:19 I'll not allow it to be shown.
07:23 In fact, I will distort history to represent them as superhuman.
07:40 So Jesus for example cannot be shown to be afraid.
07:44 Buddha cannot be shown to be attached.
07:52 And if Krishna or Ram are shown to have human fallibilities, then there is a large hue and
08:03 cry and an uproar.
08:07 You say but how could Ram be so vulnerable to the opinion of an outsider that he really
08:17 shut the doors on his wife.
08:24 But if Ram is really an incarnation of Vishnu, why was he weeping so inconsolably over Lakshman's
08:38 fainted body?
08:42 If Ram is really God on earth, then why did he not know using his magical powers and clairvoyance
08:54 where Ravan had taken Sita away?
08:59 Why did he have to dispatch Hanuman?
09:11 Superheroes have to be perfect.
09:16 Superheroes can't have weaknesses, frailties.
09:21 Superheroes have to be cast in an image so distant, so distant that no relationship remains
09:35 possible between you and the image.
09:39 So that you can safely continue in your old rotten ways and say oh but that chap was superhuman.
09:49 He cannot be an example to me.
09:52 He could do what he did because he was extraordinary, special, divine, belonging to the beyond.
10:00 He was transcendental.
10:01 I am not.
10:03 He belonged to the skies.
10:04 I live on the earth.
10:06 So I have therefore no responsibility to learn from him or live like him.
10:15 Such an obnoxious inner conspiracy towards yourself.
10:19 Bad, very bad.
10:24 It is from that mindset that this question tonight is arising.
10:32 The questioner is saying that when I do the right thing, often I find myself trembling.
10:41 And then very innocently he asks, does the right action have to wait for my composer
10:47 or can it proceed even with trembling hands and unsteady mind?
10:52 Sir, madam, one hallmark, one unmistakable quality of right action would be that it would
11:03 require all your guts.
11:09 It is only false action that you can comfortably undertake.
11:17 Falseness is never troublesome.
11:18 Truth always is.
11:19 Whenever you will be doing something that would be real, you would know it by the discomfort
11:29 it would cause to you.
11:33 You are asking me, is it possible to act rightly with trembling hands?
11:41 I am saying you can act rightly only with trembling hands.
11:53 Understand the theory part of it.
11:57 The heart, the truth inside you acts rightly.
12:03 But it acts through your body and mind.
12:07 And the mind is habituated to falseness.
12:12 So through a false vehicle, the project of truth is being undertaken.
12:20 What will that project do to the vehicle?
12:27 Are you getting it?
12:32 Truth is like acid and you are supplying it through a pipeline that is clogged with rubbish.
12:47 You are using the pipeline just to supply the acid, supply the acid to the point of
12:55 action.
12:59 But in the process of transportation, what will the acid do to the pipeline, to the vehicle
13:07 of supply?
13:11 Cleans it, sir.
13:15 Cleans it.
13:17 This difference in description makes all the difference in life.
13:25 That which you call as erosion will be resented.
13:34 That which you call as cleansing will be supported.
13:39 The moment you call the action of acid upon the pipe as erosion, you will not support it.
13:48 So be very cautious in the choice of your description.
13:57 Are you getting it?
14:03 Whenever you will do something that is worthwhile, it would be characterized by a shake-up,
14:14 a tumult in your life.
14:20 And that is the reason now you know why so few people do anything that is truthful.
14:30 Who wants discomfort?
14:33 Who wants to feel unsettled even if the settlement is a false settlement?
14:40 Are you getting it?
14:46 So just because something makes you uneasy, do not drop it.
14:58 More often than not, unease is a sign of the approach of truth.
15:07 And just because there is something you can comfortably do, don't continue with it.
15:14 Chances are your comfort is a false and harmful comfort.
15:34 There is nobody, I'm assuring you, who has had it easy.
15:49 Drop the superhero myths.
15:51 Even they had it as difficult as you have.
16:03 What do you think?
16:04 Would Kulli walked out leaving Yashodhara and the toddler behind in the middle of the
16:15 night?
16:18 No, he was trembling.
16:30 He felt his insides crashing into a thousand pieces.
16:39 It was not easy.
16:44 After stepping out of the door, I tell you three times he pulled himself back.
16:55 Several voices within him told him, "No, no, no, leave it.
17:03 Alright, tomorrow.
17:05 Tonight is not the time.
17:10 See how peacefully she sleeps.
17:14 What will she see in the morning?
17:17 Tomorrow, tell her everything and then bid her goodbye."
17:28 And then another voice that said, "But what's the need to quit like this?
17:37 Can't it happen in the palace itself?
17:44 Can't you continue to be a prince or a king, a husband and a father and still get the clarity
17:53 that you want?
17:54 Can't you?
17:55 Can't you?"
17:56 It's never easy.
18:04 It is never easy for anybody.
18:07 Be it a prophet, a saint, a soldier, a scientist.
18:25 Our constitution is such that it opposes truth.
18:31 So if you want to live by the truth, you will have to live against yourself.
18:42 Just that if you are determined to live against yourself, with time, gradually, you find that
18:50 your internal resistance to truth drops.
18:58 But you cannot wait for that resistance to drop.
19:03 You are saying, "Should I wait to be composed before I undertake the right action?"
19:10 No, no, no.
19:12 Your resistance against truth will drop only when you commit to yourself that you will
19:19 stay with the truth in spite of the resistance.
19:25 You stay with the truth.
19:28 Don't mind the resistance.
19:29 Bear it.
19:30 Cry and bear it.
19:31 Weep and bear it.
19:32 Wince and bear it.
19:33 But bear it.
19:34 And if you keep bearing it, then your resistance realizes that it's futile to insist.
19:52 Resistance gradually drops.
19:54 Now there is just you and the truth.
19:58 The resistance is slowly fading away.
20:06 But that will happen after long.
20:10 You can't wait and that won't happen if you keep waiting.
20:14 So you have to start right now.
20:16 [Music]