Video Information: Shabdyog Session, 18.02.2018, Rishikesh, India
Context:
How to understand the Ribhu Gita?
Why did God create the universe?
What is the meaning of living in this universe?
Why don't we ask those questions that really matter?
Why do people like to listen to stories that personify God?
What are the real things in our daily lives?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Verse:
On the eternal and infinite screen of
Sat-Chit-Ananda-Self-Siva,
by his own power, Sakti is projected as the moving shadow picture of the universe in manifestation and into that again it is absorbed in dissolution.
Chapter - 7: Verse - 35 .
#acharyaprashant #truth #mysticism
Context:
How to understand the Ribhu Gita?
Why did God create the universe?
What is the meaning of living in this universe?
Why don't we ask those questions that really matter?
Why do people like to listen to stories that personify God?
What are the real things in our daily lives?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~
Verse:
On the eternal and infinite screen of
Sat-Chit-Ananda-Self-Siva,
by his own power, Sakti is projected as the moving shadow picture of the universe in manifestation and into that again it is absorbed in dissolution.
Chapter - 7: Verse - 35 .
#acharyaprashant #truth #mysticism
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00:00Verse 14 very prominently points to my question and the verse says on the eternal and infinite
00:25screen of sat chit anand, self shiv by his own power shakti is projected as the moving
00:32shadow picture of the universe in manifestation and into that again it is absorbed in dissolution.
00:39The question therefore is what is the need for the self to project on its screen the moving
00:48shadow picture of the universe which we see around us including ourselves as the body and the mind.
00:55Why is there a need for truth or God to split itself into this duality of the existence?
01:06Answers from some scriptures say that it is just a play or leela but these answers do not satisfy me
01:15and they just stop my questions. However, the inner turmoil to know continues and doesn't
01:23really end. Acharyaji, please help me understand this. Thank you. The scriptures have told
01:34that the nirakar became sakar, that the nirgun became sagun, that a dvayat manifested
01:44as dvayat just in its own reasonless playfulness. There was no cause.
01:56It had no need really. His question really is why did God create the universe?
02:05Why did everything spring up from nothing? Why did a dvayat turn into this multiplicity
02:13of dualities? And when the scriptures tell him that there is no reason, it just is.
02:24It is called leela of the infinite. It does not satisfy Pradeep.
02:33Pradeep says no, no, no. That is not a satisfactory answer. I want a deeper answer.
02:39It is great that you are not satisfied because all the answers that the scriptures are giving
02:45are incorrect and misleading. I will today give you the right answer. I will today tell you why
02:50God created the universe. God created the universe so that he can torment Pradeepji.
03:01Unless the universe is created, how will Pradeep become dissatisfied and ask such deep questions?
03:15If there is no universe, where will this question come from?
03:19The sole purpose of the universe, I tell you Pradeepji,
03:23is to come to a point where you can ultimately ask, what the hell is this?
03:31Simple, innocent and direct truth does not satisfy you. What are you looking for?
03:39Some conspiracy theory? Yes, there is conspiracy. God had a wife and the wife kicked him out
03:50of his house. Now, if there is non-duality, then there is only one house. And what has the wife
03:59done? The wife has kicked God out of the house. So God needs a place to go to. So he created the
04:08universe. He created the universe so that he may live in the universe. And the ancients say
04:16that because God had been pushed out of his house, he used to live on the earth in the
04:26old golden days. I in fact saw him rolling on the beach here. I too am quite old you know.
04:39But then, in one of the Dwadgames, Pradeepji came and Pradeepji started asking God all
04:48his great questions. And that was when God left earth and went back to his wife.
04:53He said, the wife tortures me, but that torture is preferable to the torture of such great questions.
05:04And since then the earth is godless. Now you know why the earth is so evil? Because you went to God
05:11and totally confounded him with such deep questions. God does not have sufficient depth
05:26to answer such questions. And when God was here, you would queue up outside his humble hut.
05:38Somebody would say, give me this. God would say, alright. Then the next one would say,
05:45I do not want anything for myself. But don't give the previous one what he wanted.
05:51Now God is in a deep query. He is supposed to be the grantor of all wishes. But what does he do
06:02when all that you wish is that the other must not get his wish?
06:15Pradeepji, why not keep it simple and honest? Why did God create the universe?
06:25Is that what bugs you in your daily life? Don't you know? Don't I know?
06:31Is that what is keeping you so restless? Look at your daily routine. Look at your 24 hours.
06:45Are you frustrated by this question? Why don't you ask questions that really matter?
06:51You will not ask about your job, about your wife, about your kids, about your fears and insecurities.
07:04About those things, you know very well what you have to do. You know all the answers.
07:13And you take quick and definite decisions.
07:16You will not be inquisitive about where your daily reactions come from.
07:23You will not ask, why am I not bold enough? Why am I not strong enough? Why have I chosen weakness?
07:36Instead, you are asking such transcendental questions.
07:46If God is really merciful, why did the lion kill the deer?
07:58Why are there only two genders? Or maybe two and a half?
08:06What is the significance of two and a half? Why should not there be eight genders?
08:10Let there be more choice.
08:16Why is gravity precisely 9.8 m per second square?
08:22Does God know mathematics?
08:29Why does God prefer ellipses over circles?
08:37Ellipses over circles? Why is nothing really truly circular?
08:49Yes, keep asking. These questions are such great escapes, great and dishonest.
09:00Such questions have zero value. Ask something that is practical.
09:04Ask something that will really help you lead your daily life.
09:12What will you do with stories related to God?
09:15Is God a story? You already have enough stories. You better end those stories.
09:21Do not ask for more stories.
09:27But you want to live in stories. You don't want to end the existing stories. You want to add.
09:34And so many books are full of so many stories about Godhood, stories about God, stories about
09:46the various saints, kings, priests, prophets.
09:58And how you stick to those stories, don't you?
10:01People will not talk of the Gita. They will very fondly remember stories related to Krishna.
10:09And then what is their life? Very story-like.
10:14No truth in the life then, only stories.
10:30A Kathavachak once came to me. You know Kathavachak? Storytellers.
10:50So, he was all the time talking of the Bhagavad Purana, stories related to Krishna, Vishnu.
11:09I said, you really love Krishna? He said, yes.
11:13I said, the Purana is wonderful. But why don't you talk of the Gita?
11:20Shreemad Bhagavad Gita. He said, people don't like that.
11:30As long as I entertain them with stories,
11:36spicy stories that personify the God, that invest God with human qualities,
11:44in which there are tears, meetings, separation, man-woman relationship,
11:55flowing hair, flute, song, river, dance, sensuality.
12:03Sensuality, a little bit of titillation as well.
12:18People are happy. It is not as if these stories really arouse devotion in them.
12:26They are just getting entertained. But then that's what they want, entertainment.
12:30If I start talking of the Gita, the pure essence, then they run away or doze off.
12:40And then to again wake them up, I have to tell them a spicy story.
12:46I have to tell them of how God ran away with the clothes of the naked women and then people wake up.
12:55And then people wake up. Now, yes, now something interesting is coming our way.
13:19And they would narrate the story as if it happened right in front of them.
13:24And they would add their two bits, not two bits.
13:28Two bits of the original would remain. Rest all would be their own confabulation.
13:35And then, you know, the goddess told her friends,
13:42tonight I am feeling very, very restless.
13:50What were you doing in her bedroom?
13:56Stories. Tell them to really narrate one shloka from the Gita and they would fail.
14:06And even if they narrate a shloka, ask them, what really does it mean?
14:10And they would not know, but they will be full of stories.
14:20Come to the point.
14:26Keep the story aside.
14:31Talk of the real thing.
14:41Spirituality is not intellectual gossip.
14:55Spirituality is your flesh, your blood, your very breath.
15:00You have to pay for it with your life.
15:05And if you are not paying for it with your life,
15:07then your questions will have no quality.