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Video Information: Shabdyog Session, 18.02.2018, Advait Bodhsthal, Noida, India
Context:
"The continued repetition of ‘I am Self-Brahman’ constitutes the sole mantra-japa leading to Mukti (Liberation). All other mantra-japas connected with diverse gods should be firmly eschewed, as they aim at mundane objectives other than the Self. All other mantra-japas always entangle one inextricably in the bondage of worldly enjoyments."
~ Ribhu Gita
(Chapter 6, Verse.37) .
~ How to live as Brahm?
~ What is meant by living like Brahm?
~ How to live truthfully?
~ How useful is mantra-japa?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Video Information: Shabdyog Session, 18.02.2018, Advait Bodhsthal, Noida, India
Context:
"The continued repetition of ‘I am Self-Brahman’ constitutes the sole mantra-japa leading to Mukti (Liberation). All other mantra-japas connected with diverse gods should be firmly eschewed, as they aim at mundane objectives other than the Self. All other mantra-japas always entangle one inextricably in the bondage of worldly enjoyments."
~ Ribhu Gita
(Chapter 6, Verse.37) .
~ How to live as Brahm?
~ What is meant by living like Brahm?
~ How to live truthfully?
~ How useful is mantra-japa?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00So, what is Parameswari saying?
00:21She is saying, Dear Acharyaji, all differences we perceive and all concepts are only thought
00:28forms which is the cause of our sorrow.
00:32To be free, we need to abide in the firm conviction of I am Brahmaself.
00:38This is the only sadhana and meditation prescribed by Ribhu.
00:44I am in family and relationships.
00:45I have my daily routines.
00:47Ribhu has mentioned in one verse about practice of faith.
00:52Kindly tell me with day-to-day simple examples of incidents on how a person who dwells in
00:59the bhavana of I am Brahmaself will respond.
01:03Kindly tell me what is the best sadhana and meditation I can do so that my illusions will
01:08dissolve and I establish in my true nature with love and gratitude, Parameswari.
01:15Very good question, Parameswari and very useful to all the listeners.
01:29Parameswari is saying that she is a householder.
01:33She is in relationships.
01:36She has a family.
01:37She is a worldly woman with a sincere heart.
01:45She is saying, how do I remain in sadhana?
01:52How do I practice my meditation?
01:54Because what Ribhu is saying is that the only meditation is I am Brahmaself.
02:00Parameswari, listen carefully.
02:06I am Brahmaself means I am not limited, right?
02:11I am not limited.
02:12I am not in need.
02:15Because whatsoever is limited would always be in need.
02:17If it is limited, it can be enhanced, increased.
02:22It can be added to.
02:24Are you getting it?
02:30If you are the Brahmaself, then you are not someone who can be enhanced or diminished.
02:40Go into the implications of this.
02:44If you are the Brahmaself, then you don't have to worry about your well-being.
02:52Neither can you be harmed, nor can you be benefited, which means that in your relationships
03:03and in your day-to-day dealings, you will not act as if your own interests are at stake.
03:14That is the implication of living as the Brahmaself in the middle of the world.
03:24You are asking how to be the Brahmaself and still be a worldly woman who has her family,
03:34her relationships and her house to take care of.
03:39We don't take care of our family or relationships.
03:42Ordinarily, we just keep taking care of ourselves.
03:47We may act as if we are very worried about our husband or our son, but are we ever worried
03:52about anybody other than ourselves?
03:57That is because you do not abide as Brahm.
04:02You abide as someone very limited and hence someone very vulnerable.
04:08You never take care of your daughter or your son.
04:11You only have your own personal and petty interests in your mind.
04:17And to make matters worse, you act as if you are talking of others' welfare.
04:23The one who will abide as Brahmaself will only take care of the genuine interests of
04:31the other.
04:33She will not act to fulfill her own little insecurities.
04:45A mother who abides as Brahm will be really a divine mother.
04:52Now the daughter will truly prosper.
04:58And a father who does not abide as the Brahmaself will be a very dangerous father because he
05:05will ask his son to do things that the father likes, not things that are really good for
05:13the son.
05:18Do you now see why there is so much conflict in the world and why relationships are a hell?
05:26Because we are related to the other as incomplete people, not as Brahm.
05:35We go to the other to latch on to the other.
05:38We go to the other to be dependent on the other or to make the other dependent on ourselves.
05:44We go to the other so that some of our expectations can be fulfilled.
05:51If you abide in the Brahmaself, can you ever use the other to fulfill your personal desires?
05:58Please tell me.
06:00If you abide as Brahma, would you ever use your husband or your father or your daughter
06:07or your son to fulfill your personal expectations?
06:10No, you will not do that.
06:12Then you will genuinely ask, what is really in the interest of the other person?
06:18What is really in my wife's or husband's or son's interest?
06:23And you will do only that.
06:24And do you know what is the only welfare that you can bring to the ones related to you?
06:32Bring them unconditional freedom.
06:35That is the only duty of husband, wife, father or mother or a friend or a neighbor or anybody.
06:45That is the only way you can be truly related to the other.
06:50Bring freedom to the other.
06:51Bring joy to the other.
06:53And that is also the only definition of love.
06:55When you are concerned not about yourself but about the welfare of the other, only then
07:01you can say that you love.
07:03Otherwise you are just a parasite.
07:05Otherwise you are just trying to extract your pound of flesh.
07:13Brahma does not extract any flesh from anybody.
07:17Brahma does not say, I gave you birth, so now you do what I am asking you to do.
07:23Brahma says, to really give birth is to give freedom.
07:28And if I cannot give you freedom, then I am very dangerous for you.
07:36That is why abiding as Brahma is even more necessary in a family.
07:44Someone who is living in isolation, if at all he can live in isolation, is at least
07:50not dangerous for many people.
07:52Why?
07:53Because he is in isolation.
07:55But if you are in a family, then you are related to 10 people.
07:59And those 10 people include many vulnerable ones also.
08:03A little kid is there, an old parent is there, a diseased neighbour is there, or someone
08:12who is emotionally attached to you is there.
08:16And you are not abiding as Brahma, so who are you?
08:19Someone who is afraid and someone who must first take care of his own insecurities and
08:24interests.
08:26So what will you do then?
08:28What will you do to these 10 people?
08:29How will you use them?
08:31If you are internally insecure and there are 10 people around you, what will you do with
08:35them?
08:36Tell me, what will you do with them?
08:40You will just use them for your own selfish interests.
08:44And that is what 99.9% of parents do, and husbands do, and people do, and wives do.
08:54Because they are not complete within themselves.
08:56And this completeness is called the Brahmabhau.
08:59Because they do not abide as Brahm.
09:01So they just use anybody they come upon or come across to fill their internal hollow.
09:10Get a husband so that he can be exploited.
09:12Get a wife so that she can be consumed.
09:17Have sons so that later on you can pile upon them.
09:24Have daughters so that later on you can tell them that you get married as per our choice
09:31and you live a life of our decision.
09:39You know who does all these things?
09:41Such things are done only by those who have not lived spiritual lives.
09:48People who are averse to spirituality will be very exploitative, violent, and dangerous
10:01for everybody including themselves.
10:08Unless a wife lives as the Brahma self, the husband's life will be hellish.
10:20Unless the father lives as the Brahma self, he will keep torturing the son.
10:38Look at your lives, honestly, and ask yourself, do you really want the other's welfare?
10:48Or is it just that whenever you are talking of the other's welfare, you are only looking
10:55to extend your own desires through the other?
11:00Through the other.
11:01The other is just a means, the other is just a medium.
11:05And what are your own desires?
11:06Are they pure desires?
11:07Are they desires for liberation?
11:10No.
11:11Your own desires are very corrupted desires.
11:14And now you want to load your son with the same desires.
11:18Do you call this love?
11:23Are you a loving parent?
11:24Are you a loving husband?
11:25Are you a loving uncle?
11:27No.
11:28But you still have the mouth and the balls to keep talking.
11:31And not only keep talking, keep claiming loudly that my son is not listening to me
11:37or my husband is not listening to me.
11:40Why should they listen to you?
11:41To get exploited?
11:42To become a victim of your own securities?
11:49Are you really giving them sagely advice?
11:53And if you are giving them sagely advice, why would they not listen?
12:00And if they still do not listen, in spite of your advice being sagely, then leave them.
12:05Maybe their time has not arrived.
12:08One day they will return to you.
12:11Are you getting it?
12:16Parameshwari, living as Brahm self does not mean that you just drop the world, renounce
12:26everything, recede to a corner and keep chanting.
12:31Drop all those images.
12:33Living as Brahm self means living with fullness in this world that seeks to make you feel
12:47little mean, petty and incomplete all the time.
12:57The society, prakriti, religion, education, the bombardment of the media, they all can
13:10potentially make you feel so small.
13:19Living as Brahm means living in the middle of all that bombardment and yet retaining
13:26one's inherent fullness.
13:29You cannot make me feel little.
13:34You cannot make me feel complexed.
13:43I am neither inferior nor superior.
13:49You cannot turn me neurotic.
13:54You cannot pass on your own insecurities to me.
14:00You cannot make me inherit your rotten life.
14:06That is what it means to live as Brahm.
14:12I will not be belittled and because I am not belittled, now I am so much and so big that
14:26I will give.
14:29The one who lives as Brahm gives, gives abundantly and gives unconditionally.
14:39What else will you do when you have so much?
14:41You can only distribute and distribute without expectations.
14:46One mark of the person who is petty and mean and not spiritual is that he keeps expecting,
14:52please do this, please do that.
14:56He feels that the entire world is there just to fulfill his expectations.
15:00Of course he has no handle, no control on the entire world.
15:04So he wants to control those who are dependent on him.
15:07You are my wife, you do what I say.
15:09You are my daughter, you must follow my instructions.
15:13You are my son, you must do my bidding.
15:20When you abide as the Brahma self, you have no expectations left for yourself because
15:26you are already supreme, already at the peak.
15:31Now you can only give.
15:36Now even if you have expectations, those expectations are for the other's welfare, not your own.
15:43You say I have arrived, I have retired, I am peaceful and complete.
15:47My story has ended.
15:50If I am alive now, my only objective is that your story too must end.
15:56I am now not breathing for my personal pleasure.
16:00Now I am breathing so that your breath does not go waste.
16:11If you want to be a good wife, be a Brahma wife.
16:15If you want to be a good lover, be a Brahma lover.
16:19If you want to be a good husband, be a Brahma husband.
16:27Brahma husband is called a Bhasband.
16:36No more hubby, call him bhabhi.
16:41Only then would there be peace in the family.
16:43If he is hubby, then there would only be quarrels.
16:48He must be bhabhi.
16:52Now peace.
16:55No more lover, lover.
17:04And baby should be baby, Brahma baby.
17:09Now it's all right, otherwise baby is very dangerous.
17:17Getting hit.