Video Information: 22.05.2019, Month of Awakening, Advait Bodhsthal, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Equal in pain and in pleasure, equal in hope and in disappointment, equal in life and in death, and complete as you are, you can go to your rest.
~Ashtavakra Gita (Chapter-5, Verse-4)
Look on such things as friends, land, money, property, wife, and
bequests as nothing but a dream or a three or five-day conjuror's show.
~Ashtavakra Gita (Chapter-10, Verse-2)
How will the worldly man be Truthful, if his world hates the Truth?
What is the difference between worldly man and Godly man?
Why world hates the Truth?
How to be equal in pain and pleasure?
How to attain a stable state of mind?
Music Credits: Milind Date .
Context:
Equal in pain and in pleasure, equal in hope and in disappointment, equal in life and in death, and complete as you are, you can go to your rest.
~Ashtavakra Gita (Chapter-5, Verse-4)
Look on such things as friends, land, money, property, wife, and
bequests as nothing but a dream or a three or five-day conjuror's show.
~Ashtavakra Gita (Chapter-10, Verse-2)
How will the worldly man be Truthful, if his world hates the Truth?
What is the difference between worldly man and Godly man?
Why world hates the Truth?
How to be equal in pain and pleasure?
How to attain a stable state of mind?
Music Credits: Milind Date .
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00:00Vadhaman has quoted from Dashtakya Gita.
00:16Equal in pain and in pleasure, equal in hope and in disappointment, equal in life and in
00:25death, and complete as you are, you can go to your rest.
00:37Then again from chapter 10, look on such things as friends, land, money, property, wife and
00:45the ghosts as nothing but a dream or a magician's show lasting three or five days.
00:52Shri Ramacharya ji, I have never experienced this equal state nor have I ever lived like
01:08the people and objects are temporary. I understand they are temporary in an
01:19intellectual sense but that has not brought much change in life. Please guide
01:27this so-called family man, worldly man who is able to satisfy neither family
01:36nor God. Thank you for the hand-holding and patience.
01:57Vadhaman, these are descriptions. These are just descriptions. These are not
02:06teachings. Point comes, when teachings become unnecessary, they look childish.
02:29At best, they resemble a joke. At worst, they sound like insults.
02:52I'm thirsty, very very thirsty.
02:59You demonstrate this to me.
03:03You demonstrate this to me.
03:07Then would you also teach me?
03:12Drink it.
03:14Drink it.
03:18If you have to teach me, the thirst even, to drink it,
03:23then either my thirst is a fraud or your water is a sham.
03:38I'm really thirsty and if the water is really pure, then merely demonstrating the water.
03:53Equally, if I'm here and I claim that I'm really thirsty, then you do not need to motivate me to go to the river.
04:23You merely describe the way.
04:29Having described the way, you would not even bother to say go.
04:35If after all the description, you still have to say go, then that is a blemish upon the power of a description.
04:46So, when it comes to purest utterances, they are merely declarations, descriptions, grand announcements without a purpose, without a context, without a background.
05:17They would not say, now that we have told you the truth, this is what you ought to do with it.
05:31They'll not come with a user manual, the Upanishads.
05:37Upanishads just are.
05:39They'll not tell you how to use them.
05:46They are only for the ones who know what the use of peace is and who knows what the use of peace is, the one who is burning with peacelessness.
06:02The thirsty one knows what the use of water is.
06:10Having shown him the water, you do not have to describe him that to a molecule.
06:17You don't have to tempt him to come to the water.
06:32The news is enough.
06:34The passengers are waiting at the platform.
07:01The announcement is enough.
07:05The train is arriving.
07:08Does the announcement also say, now the passengers must rush towards the train or their respective bogies?
07:16Does the announcement include that?
07:19If you really want to depart, the news is enough.
07:25But if you have made your little hut on platform number 8, as many people do, then announcements come and go.
07:38You never go.
07:40Right, Kothaman?
07:43There are many who live on the platforms.
07:55Lao Tzu's come and go.
08:00Hmm?
08:03A star walker's come and go.
08:06Day and night, there are announcements and every announcement heralds an opportunity.
08:17The ones who don't have to go, don't go.
08:24And then there are the ones who are seen running after the trains, huffing, puffing, but somehow catching.
08:33So, does this tempt you?
08:43If it does tempt you, then proceed.
08:48If it doesn't tempt you, then seek the company of some of those who you see as eager to board the train.
09:01Ask them, why do you want to depart? I don't want to depart.
09:09I'm a worldly man. I want to stay put.
09:19If it hurts you too much, do not seek instruction from them. Rather, seek to convert them.
09:28Present your own example to them and tell them how you prefer staying on the platform rather than departing.
09:40Try to convince them. Maybe you will save a few of them some unnecessary hassle.
09:49Trains are anyway overcrowded. If you can convince a few aspiring passengers not to board, then maybe you are doing everybody some good.
10:02But do get into a conversation.
10:08Do ask them, what is it that charms them?
10:13Why do they look at the horizon with such thirsty eyes?
10:26Why do they put their ears to the track and want to listen to the beat of the approaching train?
10:37Why are they so eager?
10:40You tell them why you are so lukewarm.
10:50And you ask them why they are so much in heat.
11:07Engage them.
11:13And we are not saying that.
11:20It's a pre-decided debate.
11:24Maybe you will prevail.
11:29Maybe you would convince an ashtavakra not to depart.
11:40All I can say is, begin the game of engagement and play honestly.
11:49If you see that what they are doing is the right thing to do, then don't wait for the next train.
11:59Hold their hand and board.
12:18You have been young and even
12:46In a worldly way, one can show you the image, the picture of the most beautiful woman.
13:05But one cannot make you fall in love with her.
13:14One can read out to you the most touching poem.
13:32But one cannot force you to admire her.
13:48She walks in beauty like the night, with cloudless climes and starry skies.
14:03Did something happen?
14:08And if nothing happened, then it cannot be made to happen.
14:23Not because the situation is hopeless, but because you are determined.
14:37And therefore, an ashtavakra is far more wise than an ordinary teacher who teaches through instruction.
14:56Ashtavakra says, why waste energy?
15:07Instructions are anyway not useful beyond a point.
15:26You can instruct a fellow to come and sit down in front of you and hear you out.
15:43But you cannot instruct a fellow to resonate with you.
15:48That is beyond instruction.
15:52The resonance would happen only when the fellow wants it to happen.
16:22Equal in pain and pleasure, equal in hope and in disappointment, equal in life and in death.
16:35And complete as you are, you can go to rest.
16:44Now neither are you equal in pain and pleasure, nor are you equal in hope and disappointment,
16:51nor are you equal in life and death, nor are you complete, nor are you restful.
16:56Then why is ashtavakra telling all this to you?
17:02He is saying, if this sounds charming enough, then come my way, boy.
17:10Else you can have your way.
17:15Do you like what you see?
17:18Then come over.
17:21Do you like what you hear?
17:24Then come over.
17:26Else, platform to you, you to your platform.
17:50This is the way of the accomplished teacher.
17:53This is the way of the teacher who has seen the futility of trying too much with the student.
18:23Teachers who are just beginning are overloaded with the energy of
18:53their immature enthusiasm.
19:10Having got it, they think it can be transmitted equally easily.
19:23So they strive.
19:27They try very hard.
19:29But the ones like Munya Ashtavakra are veterans, seasoned professionals.
19:50They know that it doesn't help to flog a dead horse.
20:11The horse has probably come to enjoy the flogging.
20:16Leave it to itself and maybe then it would run.
20:27And if it doesn't run, it doesn't have to run.
20:32All horses are entitled to their own self-determined quota of flogging.
20:44Who is Munya Ashtavakra or any other teacher to make a horse run against its own free will?
21:14So they won't flog the horse.
21:16They would simply whisper in the horse's ear.
21:21This green grass on the other side of the mountain, they leave it to the horse.
21:38Real teachers are real non-doers.
21:42They won't make the effort of cutting the grass and bringing it to the horse.
21:53They would say, enough has already been done.
21:58The rest is upon the horse.
22:00Maybe the horse has fallen in love with some yellow and pale dead grass right where he is lying.
22:19It's okay.
22:21The horse is entitled to all kinds of experiences.
22:31Hmm.
22:42It's a fine art.
22:52How much must one be exposed to therapeutic radiation?
22:58If the exposure is too little, then there is hardly any therapy.
23:07If the exposure is too much, it's worse than having little therapy.
23:23It's a fine art.
23:27It's a fine art.
23:29It's a fine art.
23:31It's a fine art.
23:33It's a fine art.
23:35It's a fine art.
23:37It's a fine art.
23:39It's a fine art.
23:41It's a fine art.
23:43It's a fine art.
23:45It's a fine art.
23:47It's a fine art.
23:49It's a fine art.
23:51It's a fine art.
23:53It's a fine art.
23:54It's a fine art.
24:00Friends, land, money, property, wife.
24:04Nothing but a dream, a magician's show.
24:10Lasting three days, five days.
24:16And he doesn't say hence.
24:21He leaves the rest too.
24:25Pure wits.
24:27You decide.
24:30He has told you what these things are.
24:36The rest is upon you.
24:47You're welcome to scrutinize the fact of his utterances.
24:51Whether these things are or are not for three or five days.
25:00That much you can scrutinize.
25:06But after the scrutiny, your sweet will.
25:14Having seen that these things are indeed ephemeral, your free will.
25:20This is the point beyond which no scripture works.
25:34This is the point beyond which no teacher, no guru can help you, rather would help you.
25:44This is the point to which you must be brought and left alone.
25:51This is the point after which either your suffering works or your deep prayer.
26:00Either you should be so badly suffering that you refuse to let the teacher go when he's about to drop you and disappear.
26:30Or you should be so
26:42so convinced about the need to depart
27:03that you pray to get the decision, the motivation, the energy and the legs to run.
27:34What to do then, Gautama?
27:48I already told you. Engage these people.
27:52Converse with them.
27:55See what Muni Ashtavakra has to say to you and say what you have to say to him.
28:03After all, if you want to stay put on the platform, you must be sure of yourself, right?
28:21If you're sure of yourself, why shy away from an honest conversation?
28:34If your reasons are genuine, they will hold out.
28:46If they are not genuine, then they must burn out.
29:03Keep talking to them.
29:06Keep talking to them.
29:12Maybe some of what charms them will rub off on you.
29:26That's why the sages have emphasized so much on the importance of right company.
29:34Right company?
29:48Be in the company of the one who is found a lot in the company of the one.
30:04How do you know that you must be with somebody like Ashtavakra?
30:10Because Ashtavakra is continuously in the company of the one.
30:15And that's how you must also choose your friends and partners.
30:20The one you spend so much time with.
30:23Is he usually found in the company of the one?
30:29Or is he someone who is rarely found in the company of the one?
30:59You are saying you are a family man, a worldly man.
31:24What kind of world is yours?
31:30In your world, you are at the center, right?
31:36You are not talking of the world.
31:38You are talking of your world.
31:40You say you are a worldly man.
31:42You are talking of your personal world.
31:45What's your personal world full of?
31:53Who are the residents of your personal world?
31:56You aren't talking of.
31:59The 8 billion people.
32:01Of this planet.
32:05You aren't talking of the trillions of.
32:08Other sentient beings.
32:10On this planet.
32:14And obviously you aren't talking of.
32:18The myriad forms of consciousness that might be existing throughout this universe.
32:25When you say the world, when you say you are the worldly man, you mean.
32:305 people, 10 people, 20 people, 50 people, 100 people.
32:35These are the people that constitute your world, right?
32:44It's a very misleading expression, the world.
32:48Because it is never the world.
32:51It is always my world.
32:54Nobody lives in the world.
32:56The world.
32:58There is no subjectivity.
33:01That is being admitted.
33:04We act as if.
33:08There exists an objective world, the world, but there is nothing called an objective world.
33:14It's always your world.
33:17And that's why your world is very, very different compared to your neighbors.
33:20So.
33:22Who is it?
33:26That fills your world.
33:29Who all make up your world?
33:33Are they people like Ashtavalkar?
33:38When you say you are a worldly man, what you essentially mean is that you are in the company of a few people.
33:44Right?
33:45When you say you are a worldly man, what you mean is that you are in the company of a few people.
33:50These are the few people that constitute your world.
33:54So, it's a question of company.
33:57Whose company?
34:02Are you exposing yourself to?
34:09And that's why you are in the company of a few people.
34:12And I've already given you a very easy thing to.
34:25Use.
34:29As a test.
34:36The one you are with.
34:41Is he with the one?
34:52See where your time is going.
34:57Look at the faces that occupy your consciousness.
35:02Look at the ones you are conversating with day in and day out.
35:06Conversating whether in your imagination or physically or on your mobile phone.
35:13Who are these people?
35:17Are they in the company of the one?
35:20If they are not, then rest assured their company would pull you away from the company of the one.
35:27Would pull you away from the company of the one.
35:33And equally, the company of an ashtak would pull you towards the one.
35:39If you are finding yourself distanced from the one, now you know the reason.
35:46And it won't announce itself as bad company.
35:51It comes.
35:57In different names, it comes.
36:01With nice, fair, clean, polished faces.
36:06It won't say that.
36:09Neither do I belong to him.
36:12Nor would I let you belong to him.
36:20The quality of.
36:22Your company can be.
36:24Assessed only by.
36:29The impact it has upon you.
36:33What is the impact it is having upon you?
36:53You have to be very careful.
37:15You have to be very careful.
37:19Because.
37:23There is a clear conflict here.
37:44Declaring yourself as a worldly man.
37:51And your world.
37:54Does not include.
37:57Ashtavakas.
37:59Does it?
38:05Declaring yourself a worldly man.
38:08You are asking me.
38:10Why don't the utterances of.
38:15The knowers, the sages.
38:18Bring about a real change in your life.
38:24Because.
38:26They stand.
38:28Outside.
38:30Of your immediate world.
38:32They are not part.
38:34Of your intimate world.
38:36Your intimate world.
38:39Consists of people.
38:43Who not only have nothing to do with the sages.
38:48But who might actually be inactive or passive.
38:51Hatred of the sages.
38:55Those are the people.
38:57Who constitute your inner circle.
39:03And you do not need to.
39:06Judge a person.
39:09By his words alone.
39:11Want to check the quality.
39:13Of the people.
39:15You are keeping as company.
39:17Check just one thing.
39:18Whose company do they love?
39:27Whose company.
39:29Do they love?
39:49Ask this question.
39:51Who is the friend of your friend?
40:03Who is.
40:05Friend of a friend.
40:11Is your friend.
40:13Amongst the ones closest to the one.
40:15Or is your friend amongst the ones.
40:18Who are farthest from the one.
40:36Your friends are your world.
40:37Gudaman.
40:41And your world is your identity.
40:43And your world is your identity.
40:45That's what you're calling yourself as.
40:46I am a worldly man.
40:52I'm just parsing that.
40:54What does it mean to say.
40:56I am a.
40:58Worldly man.
40:59You mean to say that you are in the company of a few people.
41:03That's what you mean.
41:12Yeah.
41:40Even kids know that you know.
41:42In a class.
41:54Let's say.
41:57A normal school.
42:03The kind of schools we all have been through.
42:06A normal.
42:07Usually.
42:10School.
42:12And the teacher always has her.
42:14Favorites.
42:20And if you're a newcomer to the class.
42:27If you immediately.
42:29Smell.
42:31Who the favorites of the class teacher are.
42:36And then you want to be.
42:38Friends with them.
42:43Even class for students.
42:51Not divine students.
42:52Very worldly kids.
42:55Know.
43:05How to.
43:12Reach the teachers.
43:19Don't you?
43:29And the newcomer also smells.
43:33That there is a particular gang in the class.
43:35That the teacher does not quite approve of.
43:38And if the newcomer decides to belong to that gang.
43:42Then the newcomer has already sealed his fate.
43:50The gang.
43:52Is a world.
43:53In Gautam.
43:54You are a worldly man.
44:04Why do you.
44:06Why do you.
44:09So stubbornly want to belong to the gang.
44:11That the class teacher.
44:13Dislikes.
44:23You knew better than that.
44:24When you were a class 4 kid.
44:26How have you forgotten.
44:27Even basic common sensical knowledge.
44:36God is the class teacher.
44:38Ashtavakra.
44:40Is the front bencher.
44:41She loves.
44:44If you want to curry favor.
44:46With the class teacher.
44:49Better make friends.
44:51With the front bencher.
44:56Not the backbenchers.
44:57Who are seen in the class.
44:59Once a month.
45:02Who appear.
45:03In the class.
45:05Only on special occasions.
45:11You know.
45:12It's Independence Day.
45:13Let's go to the school.
45:17You aren't coming to the school.
45:19For the sake of learning.
45:20Or for the sake of teacher.
45:21You are coming to the school.
45:22For the sake of laddu.
45:24What are you here for.
45:25Learning or for laddu.
45:27Ask yourself.
45:31If you are here for the learning.
45:32You would have been seen quite frequently here.
45:36But if you are seen here.
45:37Only on special days.
45:38It means.
45:39You aren't here for the teacher.
45:40You are here for the laddu.
45:51Examine your world.
46:05Hmm.
46:28Hmm.
46:35Hmm.
46:46It's a conflict.
46:47We said you see.
46:48Somebody has to lose.
46:52You can't have two winners in this.
46:59Somebody will be brought to his knees.
47:02And somebody would hang his boots.
47:28If you are in a party.
47:30If you are in a party.
47:41In the faint music of a fakir.
47:44Outside the party venue.
47:46And thralls you.
47:49One of the two has to win.
47:50Because the fakir won't enter the party.
47:54The fakir won't enter the party.
47:55Nor would the party admit the fakir.
48:00You have to belong either here or there.
48:09The party is loud.
48:10The fakir's music is faint.
48:14You are inside.
48:15The fakir is outside.
48:16The odds are greatly against the fakir.
48:22But let's see.
48:24Strange things happen.
48:29Hmm.
48:42The party is your world.
48:44Huh.
48:51Question yourself again and again on this.
48:55Does your world really have to be like this?
49:00Hmm.
49:06You aren't talking about an objective reality that you can't reach.
49:10You're talking about your self-created nest.
49:15You're talking about relationships.
49:18That you.
49:23On your own volition walked into.
49:26And on your own volition are sustaining on a daily basis.
49:37You're talking of jobs.
49:40You carry out.
49:42By way of.
49:43Proper.
49:44Legal.
49:46Agreements.
49:47You aren't talking of things.
49:50That are.
49:52Insurmountable.
49:56You aren't talking of.
50:02The indispensable.
50:05Realities of life.
50:11You're talking of choices.
50:13Mind you.
50:15You're talking of things very much within your control.
50:20You push the buttons.
50:22You pull the levers.
50:24Hmm.
50:30You board the train.
50:35You swipe the card.
50:38You sign the letters.
50:41All that requires your conscious agreement.
50:45Your world is nothing but a reflection.
50:49Of your deliberate agreements.
50:54The agreements.
50:56Are in the mind and therefore invisible.
51:00Subtle.
51:01What you call as a world.
51:04Is a representation.
51:06Of the inner agreements that you make.
51:13Where is Ashtavakra in your world, Godaman?
51:16Except on the four days of math.
51:18Not four days.
51:19One or two days when you choose to send over a question.
51:2528 days of the month.
51:29Is he there in your world?
51:32No, because you're a worldly man.
51:34Even on the two days when you send over your questions.
51:38Is he really there with you the entire day?
51:45So on 28 days of the month.
51:48So on 28 days.
51:51Your Ashtavakra quotient is zero.
51:53Zero AQ.
51:55And on two days when you do send over your questions.
51:57Then your AQ is.
52:00Maybe.
52:020.1.
52:06For one or two hours of the day you decide to.
52:10Listen to me.
52:13Hold him forth on Ashtavakra.
52:15All in all.
52:18What's your net AQ?
52:21Across the month.
52:2898% of your time.
52:30You are choosing to be with the ones who are not with the one.
52:36Mind you.
52:38And repeat it to yourself again and again and again.
52:40Look at the faces of your colleagues in the office.
52:42Are they with the one?
52:43Then why are you hobnobbing with them?
52:46Why are you breaking bread with them?
52:48What are these parties?
52:51What are these smiling exchanges?
52:56Are they with the one?
53:00Then why are you with them?
53:05What crushing need compels you to sell your soul?
53:13I'm not insinuating.
53:15I'm asserting.
53:42Go to your Facebook contacts.
53:58Look at your LinkedIn contacts.
53:59Who are they?
54:03All right.
54:05Here's a check.
54:08When a new contact request comes to you.
54:12What do you check in the fellows profile?
54:14Do you check whether he's with the one?
54:17You don't.
54:19You rather check whether he's going to be useful to you when you make the next job switch.
54:27Did you ever give this criteria even 5% weightage?
54:32How spiritual is the fellow?
54:36Before you accept somebody's friend request.
54:40Do you bother to inquire how deeply spiritual is the fellow?
54:53But you know, just as a college student doesn't bother to check the spiritual quotient of a girl who makes a pass at him.
55:10An industry veteran doesn't check the spiritual quotient.
55:21Of another professional who sends him.
55:25A contact request.
55:27That's too much to ask for and so impractical it sounds.
55:32You see, we are going to relate on a worldly plane.
55:36Why check each other's SQ?
55:40Fine.
55:42Don't check that.
55:45If you do not check the SQ of the people in your vicinity, then your world will remain.
55:57A spiritless world.
56:01Shorn of spirituality.
56:05If you want to check how deeply spiritual you are, check the SQ of people in your vicinity.
56:15As they say, a man is known by his company.
56:23Your SQ is the average SQ of all people in your contact list.
56:30It's an identity.
56:31It's an identity.
56:33AP's law.
56:35Note it down.
56:49Next one.
56:50More in the language of calculus.
56:53Your distance.
56:55From the one.
56:57Will tend towards.
57:03The distance of your nearest one from the one.
57:13Your distance from the one will tend towards the distance of your nearest one from the one.
57:23So if your distance from the one is 5 units.
57:26And your great friend's distance from the one is 200 units.
57:31Then very soon your distance from the one will be 200 units.
57:43AP's first and second laws.
57:46The third is coming.
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