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Bhagavad Gita
Jnanakarmasanyasa Yoga- chapter 4, verse 35
Letís start the morning satsang. In Bhagavad Gita, 4th chapter, Jnanakarmasanyasa Yoga,
35th verse
Yag-naatvaa na punar moham evam yaasyasi paandava
Yena bhootaanya-sheshena drakshyas-yaatman-yatho mayi
Translation :
Experiencing which, O Pandava, you will not have this confusion once again, for you will
discern that all life forms, with no exception, are in your own self as they are in me.
It is such a pleasure to have knowledge bomb every morning. I donít know about you guys,
I am having it. Such pleasant space in the morning; I wake up and take bath slowly in
my own way. My way of taking bath is ñ I need to have water in a huge tub, almost like
a, what you need for elephant. Really, I cannot take bath with less quantity water, two bucket,
three bucket. No! I can live without food but this cleaning is a big ritual for me.
And still I do all the rituals; aachamaneeyam, everything, and then only I will take bath
as prescribed by Manu. Manu says seven times you have to wash after you finish your motion.
So seven times I use soap. Iíll count. Sometime if I am in hurry, at least seven times Iíll
touch. And then my taking bath is like a - if you have seen the deity of Amritakateshwara,
he will be sitting with two big vessels and pouring on his head. Thatís the way Iíll
take bath. Means the whole body will become cool. Now I have one more thing added ñ Puja.
In this Madurai Adheenam tradition I have to perform Shiv puja every morning. What puja
Iíll perform? The moment I sit, already in Samadhi! And, but I have my own way. Iíll
put little vibhooti and little kumkum, little sandal and little water and flower; all that
and itíll take two hours for me. Because by the time I put kumkum Iíll fall into Samadhi.
Then again settle down and pour little water. Anyhow after all that I come and sit here.
Itís like in pure inner space, a bomb ñ a knowledge bomb. This what exactly I want
even you guys to experience. Morning have enema so that stomach is clean, take bath,
come with a fresh inner space and do the Guru puja. Then this energy bomb, the experience
knowledge bomb falls on you. If your stomach is clean, this verse can directly become experience
in you. Please understand, Bhagwan says ìO Partha, Pandava, again and again you lose
the experience of the ultimate, the remembrance of the ultimate truth. Do not miss that. Have
some experience which will remind you to experience the ultimate truth always.î
See what is ultimate truth here ñ Bhagwan says very clearly ñ all life forms are part
of your own self. That is the ultimate truth. Bhagwan says you forget again and again this
truth because of confusion.
Here Bhagwan is using word Moham. Na Aham is Naaham. Ma Aham is Moham. You surrendering
yourself is Naaham. Namaha - Naaham. You being destroyed is Moham. Ma Aham ñ Moham.
If a horse comes and sits at your feet and obeys your command it is Naaham. Na Aham ñ
surrendering. You just throw a bomb at a horse and it dies and falls ñ that is Moham. Ma
Aham.
The key word in this verse is Moham - Ma Aham. Bhagwan says ëAll life forms are part of
youí. This is the ultimate truth. But you again and again forget this truth because
of Moham. Moham word should not be understood as a *** or greed. Please understand ***
or greed is only the bomb. That is not Moham. Moham means destroying yourself - the confusion.
Bhagwan says the Moham, the confusion takes away this truth - All life forms are part
of you. It is being taken away from you again and again ñ Punah Punaha. He says get into
some experience which will not take away that ultimate from you again and again. Itís a
very subtle subject ñ please listen intensely step by step. First all life forms are part
of me. This is the truth. Now once you understand that sometimes you feel that, yes, if you
take a handful of clay; if this is clay, If I understand this clay, if I know this clay
thoroughly, then I know all the clay on the planet Earth thoroughly. Please understand,
if I take handful of clay and understand it thoroughly then I know all the clay on planet
Earth. Same way your life ñ when you know you are living, when you are life, then all
life forms on the planet Earth is you! It is part of you!. All the clay and the clay
in your hand is not two different. All the life and the life in your body is not two
different.
You feel, almost Iím understanding, but not! I think I understand, but not! For this understandings,
you need to have two thing ñ one, the stomach ñ clean stomach and the throat with ghee.
If you pour little ghee in your throat the ghee in the throat awakens subtle parts of
the brain. Still in Ramakrishna Mutt, morning before the teachers start the class, there
will be a whole day classes, the shastra classes, Patanjali, and all other shastra classes.
Before entering into the class, they will give the ghee in the spoon. You will have
to have the ghee in your throat and sit for the shastra. I asked why this tradition? It
started by Sri Ramakrishna. It was given to Sri Ramakrishna by Totapuri. Itís directly
from Naga sampradaya. The pure cow ghee ñ ghee made out of cow milk, you have to pour
it in your throat, at least a spoon. The ghee is in your throat and the stomach is clean
the subtle truths you will understand. If the ghee is in your throat, you wonít fall
asleep. Try. Try to have a spoon of ghee early morning when you sit for satsang. You will
never fall asleep. Itís from Naga sampradaya. It was given to Ramakrishna by Totapuri and
Ramakrishna has given to all his disciples. Stomach should be clean, ghee should be in
the throat. Then you will catch all these subtle truths. Anyhow, today you may not have
that but understand the truth at least. You do accept many times all life forms are part
of me ñ I am part of the all life forms. But the problem is when you make serious decisions
in your life this truth is forgotten. You donít make decision based on this truth.
Why? The Ma Aham, confusion. The cognizance you take about the problem becomes more powerful
than the ultimate solution you carry in your inner space.
Please understand, all of you have thousands of ultimate solutions ñ Love, compassion,
joy, part of life. I am part of life and life is part of me. All this, all of you have it.
But when a problem comes, when you are expected to make decision, when you need to take cognizance
about some issue, about some problem, the cognizance of the problem looks powerful in
you than the cognizance of the ultimate solution, spiritual truth.
I tell you, please understand, I am breaking one of the important myth - The power of problem
in your inner space, and the power of solution in your inner space ñ ultimate solution in
your inner space. If the power of ultimate solution is more, you are a jeevan mukta.
If the power of problem is more, you are bound soul. Now you need to know a very important
truth ñ The power of problem can never be reduced, the power of solution can never be
increased by mental practices. It is simply your hormonal space!
Please understand, all I am trying to tell is ñ by keeping your stomach clean you will
become enlightened. You donít need any other practice. You do not need big pranayamas,
kumbhakas, puja, yoga, work, karma yoga. No! It is a simple truth. Power, the power of
solution feels smaller than the power of the problem just because of your stomach. Your
bodyís sickness, it has nothing to do with your mind, I tell you. You might have practiced
controlling anger and *** for 35 years. If your stomach is upset, a little bit of food
which does not suit your stomach is enough, all your 35 year practice in the air. You
will be screaming. You will be shouting. Whole thing boils down, the key word Moha, boils
down to bodyís hormonal situation. Bodyís chemical space, balancing your bodyís chemical,
establishing yourself in the ultimate understanding again and again and again is Alchemy. I tell
you, just keep the stomach clean. When I say clean, I donít mean empty. I am not saying
donít eat and all that. If you do not have digestion problem, if you do not have constipation,
if you are sitting with a - Ramakrishna says, keep your head and stomach always cool, because
both are connected. See now I am telling you from my experience. Morning I came and sat
in the seat. My whole stomach is clean. Such beautiful inner space because just now I finished
my puja. I am coming and sitting. This verse feels like a bomb on me. Means, such a strong
impact this one line has created in me. But I can see so many of you, unfortunately sitting
- ìHe says, we have to believe, Okî.
The verse, I am giving you the clear meaning. It doesnít create an explosion in you. I
want you to know, the explosion happening in me and the explosion not happening in you,
there is no mental practice needed for this. That is what I want you to understand. Do
not say ìOh Swamiji has practiced and he became enlightened. That is why it is causing
explosion in him. I am not, thatís why it is not causing.î No! It just needs chemical
balance. Nothing else! And you may say, ìNo no. He is talking just to encourage usî.
No! Meenakshi-Sundareshwara is witness. Keeping him as a witness I promise, what I am saying
is truth. It just needs a chemical balance. Nothing else! Your body needs to be clean.
Nothing else! This verse will create the same shocking explosion in you, how it creates
in me. Now I can tell you, this shock which I had, shock is not the right word, the explosion
which I had now when I read this verse, it will stay with me in my body at least for
next 3 days. I will be there in that bhava continuously. This can happen in you without
any mental, spiritual discipline or practice. Just by the right body - means keeping your
body clean. If your stomach is relaxed, you donít have much load and constipation in
the stomach and you are sitting, a cool feeling in the body, that is enough. This verse can
cause the same explosion in your body because this does not need any mental spiritual practices.
Understand, there are different different truths. There are some truths; you need a
heavy spiritual practice to understand it. For example, this is a matter. This can be
dismantled and teleported and assembled somewhere. To master this truth, you need a heavy practice,
mental practice, pranayama practice. But I am not teaching you that now. Same way there
are some truths which I said yesterday- The attitude of imbibing. There is no end to practice
those truths. Itís like even though I have mastered pranayama still I continue to breathe8.
Even though I mastered the science of eating, I can live without food for any number of
days. If my disciples can live without food for twenty seven days, why canít me? But
I continue to eat, when I can, and same way, when I mastered the science of breath ñ even
though I mastered the science of breath, I continue to breathe. Even though I mastered
the science of eating, I continue to eat. Same way even though I mastered the science
of imbibing, I continue to practice it. There are some truths even after mastering you continue
to practice. But there are some truths, once you master you canít practice.
Unclutching ñ I canít practice Unclutching. Once you master it, you canít practice. You
stay in it. Unclutching, Ajapa japa, all these once you master, you canít practice. But
feeling connection, even after you master, it goes on growing. You canít practice but
it goes on growing. There are some truths which need heavy practice. There are some
truths, once you master you donít need to practice and you canít practice. There are
some truths, even after you master, you will continue to practice. There are some truths
for which you donít need any practice ñ just a balanced body. It is just a knack.
You need to keep the body clean and keep it there when the truth is told to you. This
truth, the truth - ëAll life forms are part of youí, which Bhagawan says, does not need
any spiritual practice. Prior to the experience and post experience, please understand, prior
to experience and post experience you do not need any practice for this truth. It needs
clean stomach, thatís all!
In Vedanta, there are some truths you donít need any practice, just clean body! Same way,
there are some truths, if your body is utter sickness, that truth will work out. That is
death experience. If you are in a complete chaos, the truth about the death ñ the moment
it is told it will become experience in you. That is what has happened to Ramana Maharishi
in Madurai. He was actually sick. It has happened just in the same street. The south tower street
is there, we are in thirku avana moola vethi, go to the south tower and straight that street.
I request, I recommend all the devotees to go and have darshan of the place and come
back. Itís a small house, Bhagawan was sick for two and half days. Third day morning only
this experience happened. He had a fever and slowly slowly that fever has started developing
and entered kind of a terrible confused fear. The child was terrorized, maybe he was not
able to communicate his fever to others or nobody was able to understand he was terrorized
inside. Fever may be a small thing only if the doctor sayís and he gives the medicine
and you see any progress. If you donít know about medicine, if you are not given knowledge
or confidence, fever can terrorize your inner space.
Bhagawan felt terrorized inside, what is happening, I donít know. In that mood, when a small
suggestion about death came, it became experience. That is why even now in Buddhist monasteries
when somebody falls sick, they will use even that atmosphere, ambience, space to give enlightenment
to that person. In Zen monasteries if you fall sick they will give you medicine, but
whole day 2-3 monks will sit next to you and remind you about many sacred sentiments. Many
sacred secrets, they will remind you, because during the sickness there are some sacred
secrets will click with your body.
Even in Dhyanapeetam I want this tradition to start. If somebody is sick and lying down,
they should be constantly listening to the different sacred secrets I revealed in many
different verses, in Shiva Sutras or in Bhagavad Gita or Yoga Sutra. This three are the back
bone of Hindu tradition. How to experience this truth and not to lose the experience
of this truth? Bhagawan says Moha- confusion is the reason why you lose this truth. Please
understand, Moha is not related to mind, related to body. Moha is not related to mind, it is
related to body. Moha, Kaama, Krodha all the three are physical experience not mental experience.
Jealousy, Attention- need, Ego all three are mental experience not physical experience.
Please understand, Moha, Kaama, Krodha, even Bhaya, the lower three chakras are physical
experience. To conquer the lower three chakras you need to prepare the body not mind. But
unfortunately you try to constantly prepare the mind and fail. The top three ñ Attention-
need, Jealousy and Ego, for this you need to prepare mind because they are mental experiences.
But the ***, Fear and Confusion means worrying, these three are physical experiences. You
just need to keep you stomach clean and light. Nothing else! You just need to carry your
body gracefully. Nothing else!
Where you hold your body, please understand, you always hold your body in Swadhishthana.
That is why constant tense feeling in Swadhishthana! Donít hold the body in Swadhishthana. Walk
with the legs, not from Swadhishthana. While you walk, feel you are putting the foot on
the ground. But now, you are holding your Swadhishthana and pushing the body. For example
the bullock cart- the spot where the bullock and the cart is connected, that is spot the
whole tension falls. When the bullock pulls the cart, the spot where the cart is first
experiencing the pull, that spot, you can call it the touch spot ñ the spot where the
touch happens, the transmission of pull, pulling power happens. Same way Swadhishthana is the
spot where the transmission of the touch between your will and the body happens. Donít do
that. Walk with the legs, talk with mouth, work with hands. Stop using Swadhishthana.
Let the pressure be on the parts of the body which is functioning. How to do it? When you
walk, remember you are using only your legs to walk. When you work, remember you are using
only your hands to work. Just few days of remembrance is enough. Donít make this again
as a mental practice. No! It is a physical thing. Even remembering that you are walking,
you need to do mentally. See how sick human beings have become? Itís very unfortunate.
Moha can be dispelled only by training the body, not the mind.
Mind can never be out of Moha, mind can never be out of Roha, mind can never be out of Soha
by itself. It is only the body, which needs to keep the mind out of Roha, Moha and Soha.
It is so unfortunate the Vedantees have forgotten the body, preparing the body. And they go
on beating the mind till the end and die in depression. And it is so unfortunate, Siddhantees
have forgotten body and mind and both! Even the mental struggle has stopped in course
of time. It has all ended in who receives Poornakumbha and gives Poornakumbha, who is
respected and who is old.
The other day there was a criticism; somebody was criticizing about me ëHa! He is self-styled,
started ten years before, we are the oldestí. Of course, now their criticism holds no more
value because now I am representing the oldest Hindu religious organization. Thatís different,
but I also wanted them to understand what do you mean by oldest?
In Zen tradition there is a beautiful example. One enlightened master was sitting. One monk
who was the head of the old monastery, who is the inheritor of the oldest monastic tradition,
a pontiff of an old monastery comes to this enlightened master. This master is sitting
and drinking cup of tea; this pontiff comes and says ìDo you know I am the pontiff of
this monastery, oldest Buddhist monastery.î
Zen master did not speak, usually they donít speak. He finished his cup of tea and poured
the water, washed that cup and pored it in another one cup and emptied that cup, poured
little more water in that cup, washed it and poured in another one cup and emptied that
cup, poured little more water in that cup and washed it and poured in another one cup
and gave it to this pontiff and said ëplease drink this teaí. Pontiff was shocked, and
said ìWhat do you mean?î Master said ìAn experienced person drinks original cup of
teaî. Pontiff drinks the washed, washed, washed, washed, washed water! Truth ñ what
is there, my ancestorís predecessorís predecessorís predecessor had a cup of tea. What is there
in that? Fool, you have the cup of tea. And very strangely and rarely, impossibly, now
both are meeting in one body. I donít know what is going to happen!
Unfortunately these Siddhanta monasteries have been reduced to who is old, whose tea
cup is old. Older the tea cup, tea smell reduces. Vedantees fight with mind and forget the body.
Siddhantees fight with others and forget body and mind both. This is where the fate of Siddhanta
and Vedanta.
I tell you, work on your ëBodyí. This great truths you should imbibe by working on your
body. Early morning if you do yoga and then take bath in cold water, come and sit and
do the Guru puja, listen to these great truths, straight away it settles down in your inner
space. Yoga simply happens in your inner space. Vedantic experience simply happens in your
inner space. You need just prepared body. Nothing else!
Now sit for few minutes. Donít work on your body; donít work on your mind. Leave both
to me. Donít unclutch; donít try to do any technique. Donít even try to feel the presence
of Meenakshi Sundareshwara. Donít even try to feel my presence, just sit. Drop your body,
drop your mind. Let me do what I need to do. Let me do what I have to do. Let me do
my homework. You just sit.