Mei Kalvi | Introduction to Spirituality

0:00 Start with the verse of Bhagat Gita chapter 2.46. To the Brahmanana who has attained complete knowledge of the absolute truth. All the Vedas are only as useful as a resoire of the in a place where there is a from all directions to the Brahmana who has complete knowledge of the absolute truth. All the Vedas to the Brahmana who the one who has realized Brahman is a Brahmanana not the way we understand Brahman shatria sutra it's not that only a human being can recognize or realize it's not even realizing it's recognizing the one who recognize parabrahman is a brahma who

0:47 has attained complete knowledge of the absolute truth what is the absolute truth the absolute truth of the self Who is this? Who am I? Is the absolute truth here? This birth that we take as human being is to find out who we are. So today's lesson I randomly opened the page and it's talking about this. I was thinking how should I name this introduction because it's called aniga which means introduction to spirituality. Somehow I found that was a very vague topic. I wanted to adapt it in a way that it is more closer to us, more clearer to us. This whole life this search of spirituality is actually to understand one's own. To the brahana who

1:34 attain great knowledge of the absolute truth about oneself. All the vedas are only as useful as a reservoir of water in a place where there is a flood from all relations. You read 70 million Vedas and you don't understand it, apply it, get the clarity of it. It is like a flood of knowledge that is useless to anyone. And Bhagavan Krishna is saying you don't need to learn so many Vedas. You take as many as you can make a reservoir pool of knowledge be knowledge. Even if you take one Veda, you understand it. That is pathway to moka. Today's class is going to go in two parts. The first part is

2:19 about how to actually learn the weather. It is not like anything else we've learned our lives. It is not like learning math science, engineering degree, IT degree, agricultural, any of the sciences we learn. There are two forms of education. Paridya paravidya and carefully take notes. Okay, I'm just going to go with the flow. Parts of it is coming from taba. Parts of it is coming from many different upishads in them and some texts that are help supporting text to the veam and somes that has come through my teachers and research as well personal research and other people's research and I'm giving it the way I received it and al all the research parts of it. So there are two parts of edition. One is paravidya. Aparavidya.

3:05 Aparavidya is every education, every knowledge we've gained so far through school university college teachers so so on and so forth is all aparavidya. Including our karak practice, map practice, all the celestial practices all still aparavidya, sangeamya, nadamya. Anything else you think is also aparavidya. What you have not thought is become paravidya. Paravidya is knowledge directly from parabrahman god himself. The primordial source knowledge which is the supreme consciousness. So far there is no name for one. We are using the smallest tiniest thing called one. He she it doesn't have so it is actually referred as it

3:52 is what we refer in Tamil. Why I'm referencing Tamil is it's one of the languages probably the ancient languages because it's been spoken for so long but not written down so there is no evidence to say which is the oldest that's not important later on we'll understand all languages are the language of God in paravidya it's direct knowledge from Bhagwan it comes in three parts and puranas shri is the sound the vibration the initial vibr vibration that knowledge came to us human beings. It was heard by the rishies directly from Ishwara directly from Bhagan. Smitty is like how Ramayana was written, how Mahabharata was written. One read 700 verses the

4:39 Bhagat Gita and have understood clearly what that means. They have understood what life means. If you look one generation before, our grandparents would have read Bhagwat Gita every day at least for one or two hours. They would have associated with the Bhagwat Gita. Reading is not enough. You have to prolong with it. You have to be in a relationship with Veda. The third one is piranhas. All the piranhas are stories. Stories of the history of what had happened. It is to make it enticing. It is like watching Mr. and Mrs. Smith or Transformers. They make it really exciting so that people can understand spirituality through stories where they add like characters where they have superpowers so that it is fun to be

5:27 attracted to these stories. So it is another way that the siddhars and the rishies and the maharishes and the munas found a way to send knowledge of god through stories. When you drop into paravidya, we don't engage too much into puranas because puranas are just stories. It is not relevant for us because it is in the cusp of aparavidya and paravidya. Then comes three things that you have to remember. So what I have covered is two forms of education. One is paravidya and aparavidya. Paravidya's knowledge of God directly from God is heard knowledge like veas heard saw and inquired and researched about Gita and wrote it down. So it was given to us by third hand. Arjuna did not write nor did

6:14 Krishna Bhagan write. Same with Ramayana also. Wmiki G wrote he inquired and researched and wrote the best best Ramayana was written by actually Hanuman. Bhagwan Hanuman wrote the best Raa Ramayana. He engraved it on a rock and he broke it down to show how humble he is to Rama that he preferred Walmiki's Ramayana to be better than his own. So he demolished it because his Ramayana is in his heart. So this is but if Hanuman's Ramayana would have been accessed first that would have been Shrii because he was there with Bhagan Rama throughout his journey while he was in this realm and wrote it firsthand. So God's words written firsthand is shruti.

7:03 It's thirdand knowledge. It is this information is not so important but it's good to know. It gives you values to know where this information knowledge is coming from. The way to understand this knowledge, this one is very important. Three steps. First one is listening, which is what you're doing right now. Listen to the sound of the vom, the knowledge of the vom. Whatever is getting downloaded through the veum, listen carefully. Take it in. Second one is clear your doubts. Third one is contemplate your doubts. Second step is very very important. until you don't have any doubts at all. Zero doubts. You keep asking doubts. Bombard me with doubts because here I am your doubt clearer. I'm a student. I'm same as you. No difference. You can ask me questions

7:50 because I had spent more time with the teacher and the teachings. That's all. If I can't clear the doubts, I will go find the answers to your questions from the sources I have got knowledge and we'll clear it together. Third one is contemplation. This knowledge has to be contemplated. If you don't contemplate it, the knowledge will also get finished. It will just go out. That's how it works. Maya will not keep us close to this knowledge. So be very aware. There are a lot of interesting things that we need to understand about where we are, what realm we are in. Listening, inquiring and contemplating. These are the next three. Then comes to understanding who are we? Can you guys show me your body?

8:41 This is my body. I take this hand, okay? And I place it on the side. This hand is gone. This is still my body without that. That that hand is gone on the side. Then I take this leg and I put it on the side. My body is still here, right? This is my body. No. One hand missing, one leg missing. Two years, one nose gone. Still my body, right? I take this go. So why I need two legs? One leg is gone. Why do I need two legs? I take this and put it aside. Still body is here, right? This hand also I put it aside. Where is the body now? Head also I have taken and put it aside. Are you saying this headless, legless, handless, armless, faceless, hairless, noseless is the body or all those parts in pieces

9:27 are body? Which one is my body? So there is no body, right? Are you guys in agreement to this? If head is gone, body is also gone. So when a person dies, the person who's coming to bury Abdullah, tell do they say, "Let's bury Abdullah. Let's carry Abdullah to the burial grounds." What do they say? So the body is actually not Abdullah. When you don't have your body, you are still you. So who's this you is the question here. Who's this person? One thing for sure uh we we've got is the clarity here we've got is we are not our body. It's pretty straightforward right? It's proven. If we take all the parts of

10:13 our body and put it there no one is saying this person is dead because there is atma still there. Jatma is still very much there. Body is chopped into pieces and gone on the side. So we identify ourselves so much with the body but this body is not us. Are you guys in agreement to that? So it doesn't matter if it is fat, ugly, skinny. It doesn't matter because our body is actually a decaying decomposing thing. Right now what do we do in the morning? We wake up in the morning. We brush our teeth. We take a shower, shave, and then we put clean clothes on or we go to the toilet. So much maintenance we have to do for the body and we go and present ourselves to someone or something. If we don't do any of those things, the body will

11:00 stink. Why is the body stinking? The body is stinking because it is decomposing. The breath smells. The nose has like flem and gooey stuff that leaks. Ears have wax. Eyes have gooey stuff that comes out. If the tear glands are not clean timely, if the hair is not nourished, it'll smell badly. Excrettory system. If you don't clear your bowels in a day or two, God help the people around. It'll be a gap this chamber. So this body is walking compost. That's what this body is. This association and lack of understanding of what is this body. You have an attachment to this body. My body is going through this. Oh, my body is going through that. Oh, my body is fat. My body is out of shape. I have a

11:47 fat belly. My skin is too dark. My skin is too fair. I'm too skinny. I'm too fat. All these type of things so much we worry and wrapped around question who is worrying who worrying this body is fat. Who's worrying this body is got a belly punch? Who's worrying this is got a dark too dark too light? Whatever the problem is, too many pimples, skin is not okay, nose is off shape. Who's worrying in you? In us, in each of us, who's worrying? Your mind has something to do with who you are. Your reflection of this body. Without the mind, it will not even look at it. When the mind checks out, the body is frozen. For example, if you're driving a car or a bike from A to

12:32 B. Who's driving? The mind is the one which is riding the bike. The mind is put the body to learn to be in that cognition. The mind is the one that is balancing, not the body. All these warrior arts, ancient celestial arts, sacred arts we train, all of that is actually to train the mind. It has got nothing to do with the body. The body as a byproduct turns out to be slimmer, physically adapted and muscular and all those things because the mind wants the body to be of a certain grade so that it is compatible with the direction it wants to go. It's got nothing to do with the body. It is the truth. So much we are clear if I will not go past this because what is coming next you need to

13:20 be clear that you are not your body. Take time take time to contemplate this like once this session is over lie down flat look at the ceiling or sky take a deep breath and just relax and think about this contemplate about this. Now comes the part of the mind. There are four parts to the mind. Manas consciousness, chitta memory, Buddha intellect and aankara ego. When we are looking at something and we are deciding something, we are constantly operating from these four realms. Rajan, I don't understand why do I have to be so jumpy in my life? Why don't I think before I act? Why am I acting and then thinking why did I say this? Why did I write this? Why did I do

14:06 this? And the question there is who's doing it? One of these four guys of your mind is doing it. Identify who's doing it. Is it is it the ego? Is it the intellect? Is it the coming from a memory from past or is it the consciousness? When you identify this, you become clear who's doing this, who's actually in action, who's taking control of this decision, this choice. Now we understand this body is not us. Then when we associate so much with the body, the anankara is so heightened. I want to have muscle. I want to look a certain way. I want to like no one else can. I want to be seen doing this. That is in the physical

14:52 sense. Then if you take it in a company, I want to be the CEO. I want to be the director. These are all desires. Mortal desires. It's good to have mortal desires because initially when you take birth the purpose of the birth only is to complete all the desires you have like Babai's mantra ita because of it only there is a ja that takes place constantly it's just constantly born and over and over infinite millions of life we have taken if you are sitting and Doing this we've already done veda vantam in our previous jam we touched it and left it somewhere that's why the word veeda is attracting

15:39 us somewhere it's like a magnet it's pulling something in us is vibrating it's pulling to us suddenly the ears are listening suddenly the eyes are watching carefully how small consciousness is that's where we are we are in that smallest quadrant when you say you're not the body then who are you is that small quadrant There along with that is a buddhi intellect that helps us in taking decisions through inquiry. We research, learn, upgrade skills and we solve problems through buddhi but not always. Sometimes we use our memory to solve problems. Memory from this life, sometimes memory from past lifetimes. And in that memory if those past

16:24 memories were stored from ego then that ego memory will be coming back again. But if the memory is from an intellectual place the intellectual memory will come back again. Sometimes some of us can access memory from our consciousness. The consciousness will have memory of where we actually came from. Then comes the aankara the ego. The ego is the reason why we take birth. If we didn't have ego, we don't have birth. So we take birth just to attend to the hankara. How do you attend to the hankara? Shouldn't be hard on yourself. Okay. Ego is actually there to help. Even this ita to learn veda is because we have moka.

17:09 All of us each of us have moka here. That is also it. Who has the ita? That ahankar only has that it. So there it is working in favor of the manus the consciousness. Moka here is liberation. Okay. So MTI here is liberation. MTI and moka are two two different meanings. MTI means to liberate. Moka is to become one. Merge merge with the supreme consciousness which means no birth. This is not when we die. This is not after you die you get mukti mti moka. This is while you're alive. You and I will be conversing as liberated beings through the knowledge of Veda, through the teachings. It has been misunderstood by a lot of people thinking that when they

17:55 die they will get the they die they'll get moka. That is not the way it works. MTI is when we very much alive on a dayto-day basis. Liberation is very much alive. What are we getting liberated from? We getting liberated from our thoughts. Where do the thoughts arise? Thoughts arise from the mind. It arises from these four quadrants of the mind. These four parts of the mind. When you master these four parts, you have to inquire where is this thought coming from? Is this my ego? Is this my memory? Is this my buddy? Consciousness will not give you thoughts. Consciousness will only power. When you get to that place of thoughtlessness, then the consciousness is sitting there waiting for you. The

18:41 reason for the different sizes is the ego is so fat. My ego is very fat. It took me some time to recognize my own ego. So it is obvious that I need to work on my aankara. Then comes the memory. Usually we are running through the memory of we used to train like this. I run these workshops. So if you take the memory the memory will either be from aankara or it'll be from buddhi like something that would have done taken intellectual decisions like how healing warrior tribe video should have been that is coming from buddhi we are collecting information we are researching and placing it in a way that it's going to work. So that would be in the memory in the cache memory. So in

19:27 the future if you're going to do something it'll pick what we've done already and it'll throw it there. Chitta does that. We have to analyze this coming from intellect or is it coming from ego if it is coming from ego continues. Ego keeps getting fed more and more. When you're absolutely still single thoughtlessness, your consciousness is awake. That is the end result of all of this is to be in that state more longer which will happen in time as we start understanding the knowledge. For that we need to shave and shed off the ego first. Anankaram has to be shaved off. The ego is big because without that we wouldn't be here because the ego is what has that wish. I want to be HD graduate.

20:14 I want to be a Google director. I want. So identifying yourself with something outside is the hankara. Something simple as well. Not anything great. The opposite is also hankara. I'm the worst person to be working in it. I'm useless. That is also aara. In Kali Yuga we'll have a lot of that. Lot of people put themselves down. They'll shame themselves and they'll glean so much guilt. Guilt, shame, anger, frustration all comes from mahankara. The mind when it is not having any of the lower consciousness states is a liberated mind. MTI. This is how you inquire. Why is my mind restless?

20:59 We all know we all have ego and we all know we are not our body. So there is nothing to be shameful. There's nothing to be separated about it. Okay? So you don't have to be in duality. Why is my mind restless? Is the manas restless? Is the buddhi restless? Is the chitt restless? Or is the anka restless? So it's the ego that is restless. You are not restless. That's where if you identify yourself as your ego, your ego is restless. Don't need it. The moment you identify as the ego, then you're restless. But when you identify yourself like I am not my ego, I'm not my mind, then you are not restless anymore. You're getting closer to the truth. If you don't remember, keep it as your

21:45 screen for a few days. You'll become familiar with these four parts. Every time you look at that screen and say, "Who's doing this? Who's thinking? Who's doing? Who's singing? Who's writing? Well, I'll just recap quickly. He spoke about two forms of education. Raidya is knowledge from grace. Aparavidya is every other knowledge that we learned so far from ABCD to engineering degree. Then we spoke about three things. The way to learn Vedas is through these three things. Listening, inquiring and contemplating. So what we doing is we are inquiring back and forth. We are inquiring. You're throwing a question. You're listening first and then you're inquiring. Contemplating will happen when you finish from here or while

22:30 you're here only it will you start reflecting on these thoughts. Then we spoke about body. This is our body. If it is our body then if we put all the parts of the body aside is it still the body or not? And we all came to the conclusion that we are not our body but this body is a decaying decomposing compost that is walking around powered by the mind. Then the question came who is the mind? What is the mind? So we here we discovered that the mind has four parts and these four parts roll the mind. The four same four parts controls the body as well. The second part what we're going to talk about is what is spirituality. Who is a sad? Who's a monk? Reunate a monk, a sadhu, a sasi is all one person

23:19 the same. They're all seeking moka. They're all seeking liberation, ultimate freedom, complete freedom. Freedom from who? Freedom from the thoughts of the mind. So here what are we renouncing? When we saying we renouncing attachments, what is the attachment here? among a sadhu a renunciate a syasi is a careful person is an alert person who what is he careful about what is he alert about he's alert and careful about the four parts of the mind every thought that is coming he's very careful in analyzing before he speaks it and actions it that is a sadhu a sadhu is a person who is alert and careful who has the knowledge

24:06 or is learning the knowledge of the Veda. If we are not careful, even if parabrahman comes and stands in front of us, we can't see, we can't know, we can't feel. Hence, we have to be careful because our thoughts cannot be anything diverted away from ishwara alone. We are renouncing everything that is untrue which is a lie. This is not about renouncing my house, my wealth, my family, my children, whatever else I own. It is about renouncing everything that is untrue. That is a syasi. What is untrue? We spoke about this earlier today. If this body is not you, which means this is untrue. This is asset.

24:53 This body is asset. It is decaying. It is not true. This body is untrue. Asset means untrue. Okay. Then this we need to renounce. We need to renounce all this bodily that we attachments we have saying this I am this body. This body is you. This body is me but I am not this body. Difference is there right? I can't say that my body is taking a session on Veda and dissociate from this body. This body is me but I am not this body. I'm using this body to deliver. So it is my vehicle. It is my car. We've all done some our own deep searching and seeking and like massive research here and there. So many gurus and so much

25:39 devotion and all that. We've crossed many oceans in many lifetimes and even in this one otherwise we wouldn't be sitting here. Have anyone seen an immortal body or known somebody who seen an immortal body? There there can be an immortal body right here right sitting on my shoulder. I can't see. Can you see that's energy? This energy between here and here it is assert. It is not true. The hankara can play many roles. One of the roles is imagination. Very strong imagination that your entire will fall for that. In karmakandanda you have access to all those things but it is not true. So talking about karmakandanda babai is actually not in his physical body. So all the people we all coming from an aada that was lineage of bambi. Babai is not in physical body.

26:26 You cannot touch him. You cannot talk to him. Like the way we are conversing, you cannot have conversation with him. So it is chitta to chitta conversation. And then steps in between and takes its own turn to the way it wants to suit the situation based on the karma. It's too intricate to go into detail. So I don't want to talk about it because we are not learning karmakanda. We're doing nyanakanda. This part of the thing I want to make sure who is a sadhu. I want to make sure that part is clear because sadhu is someone who following the knowledge of the Veda. Renunciate who's renouncing the asset the untruth of self. There is immortality. What is immortal here is the consciousness is immortal. Vam is immortal. The communication from God is

27:13 immortal. That is the only thing that is immortal here. Everything else is mortality. It will die. It is ass. The only thing that is immortal here is veam. So sadhu another important point a sadu does not care where he drops his or her body is not scared of death because they have realized that they are not their body. A fully realized a fully recognized person that they are atma drop of paramatma they are not scared of whatever happens to this body. So don't be scared. Just be in full awareness of who you are. That is all. This whole journey of understanding Veda in one line if the way I've understood this to complete the lesson in every subject,

28:01 every corner become aware of who you truly are. The truth about you. You cannot be killed. You are an immortal ja. The body will die. Regardless of what sadena you do, you can live extend you prolong your life for 150 years but it will go fragile and frail and decay and it will still decompose. It is decomposing as we speak. There was a guy I forget his name he wrote a book on immortality. Somebody said and this was in my class it actually happened. One of the classmates he said ja mti ja something and uh it's about immortality that you can live imitously up to thousand years. The teacher asked who's the author, where is he? He passed away.

28:47 So someone has written a book on immortality and he died himself. There are lot of siddhis and stuff like that that we will cover a little bit of that later on. That is all in the realm of maya. There is a lot of things we can do but we don't that is not eternal liberation that will keep us trapped here. So we also spoke about karmakanda and yan nakanda. Karmakanda is all the things that we've done so far is falls into karmakanda. Karma means action. Kanda means scriptures. Xanda condomi no scroll is condom. All the mantra japa singing song doing like ancient arts anything that is action based. Even

29:33 doing like and all that is karmakanda. It does not give a moka. It'll take you to that point. But nana is important. Nana is knowledge, wisdom is important to transcend. You have more nana than in your entire lifetime until now that you've been practicing karmakanda. This clarity you didn't have about your body or your mind. You've completed something for decades. We've been living in this lifetime. Not even previous jasmas. You've got the knowledge already knowing that you are not this body. You are all not this mind. Conscious is not operating through you. Ego is operating through you. Memory is operating through you. Intellect is operating through you. It is operating this body. Karmakanda

30:19 has not given that knowledge to us in the years of training in the lifetimes of training. It has brought us to the edge of the river where Nyanakandanda will quench our thirst. this hunger. However, saying that all of the arts, everything that we learned, mantra, japa, martial arts, karak, whatever else we've learned, right? Puja, sanita, singing, all of that will give this physical form is disiplined to become a vessel. So, it can contain the carefully. It's kept the vessel clean. That much karmakanda we owe to should be through practice of karmakandanda and nanakanda. It is totally your choice to maintain this

31:07 vessel. You need to keep a little bit of karmakanda to keep the vessel running. Don't try to do like look at my biceps and look at my muscle and hey I should lose my belly fat. Don't do karmakanda for that because now you become aware that you are not the body. So the ahankara is the one who wants to be flat belly and all those things. So what is teaching right now this atma called Rajan in this mom's like this decaying body that you looking at the consciousness that is holding on to this decaying body is this anunda this bliss that it's experienced it is sharing profusely it cannot hold it it cannot contain it but it has to be careful who it shares it to because this knowledge

31:52 given in the wrong hands they'll turn it into monetary benefits They'll start putting publishing videos and putting things and it become chaotic. It will become ugly. They'll only understand and associated with assat untrue the lies of the world. So it has to be careful. Grace is giving the access. I will teach. But teachers said teach. You're ready to teach. You teach. Whenever you find people you teach. I'm not saying body is not important. Body is important because that keeps us healthy. But that is not priority. Once you enter Nyanakanda, whatever you learned from karmakanda, you let it go. Hold on to whatever you need to keep that body functional. If you are teaching karmakanda, your arts that you're teaching to people and

32:38 that's your livelihood to feed yourself and keep yourself safe in an environment in a house shelter, you do that which is perfectly fine. But start thinking from the four aspects of the mind. Start understanding you and operate from the nyan. Your functionality will change slowly slowly it will happen. Don't have to rush it. Slowly slowly you understand and formulate it. Whenever you have doubts throw it in the group let's brainstorm get clarity and inference and then contemplate and function. So this is about karmakandum and yanakand I'm speaking as a student of veeda. I'm not a teacher. I'm not a guru. I'm not a nachara of the vea. And that is the next subject.

33:24 Lesson one is about that. Who is the guru? I'll introduce you to the guru. Let's understand what is the in the age old times when an assana teacher used to teach. They left everything and they didn't have anything. So no food, no shelter. Whatever they had is what they had. Students used to go and give aris vegetables or dal and they would sweep his little heart under the tree wherever he was. If there was birthday or Diwali somebody celebrating thing they will give him a doi like a piece of clo to wrap around that he can use to wrap. This was how it was. They looked after the teacher. Teacher here is the one who caring like passing on knowledge is the teacher. Later on when times changed

34:12 they gave money as duina because it was convenient for them to give people to give money rather than for them to go and buy the rice buy the dal buy what he likes does not like they don't know what sadhu eats or does not eat I'm replacing the word teacher to sadhu okay sadhu is teaching sadhu is not the teacher so they used to go and give money initially sadhu did not take they didn't know what to do with So they just let them leave it there and it'll just sit there. My teacher is like that. I gave the ashana as I'm used to giving the ashana because my karmakanda teachers have told me always give the action when you learn something which is so deeply drilled in my system that I buy him fruits. I buy him food, clothing, everything in a bag

34:59 and I go give he doesn't even touch any of this. He'll eat the fruits clothes. I think he'll donate it. Sometimes he'll wear it. I don't know. He's like a really living the way that it was meant to be. So I asked him about dina and he told me when the vedum is heard in your ears and you're processing it and you're saying it veum is the true dina in yanakanda. Suppose one day I became frail and we are still teaching and doing these things. Somebody will look after them will look after they will do the ancient way provide food basic things whatever is needed for the functionality of life and that's it. need to deal money cuz that becomes more transactional, more karma associated spirituality. What is anigum? Why is everyone running after

35:45 spirituality? Someone who's thei who's a sadhu and someone who a an ordinary person, a simple person, someone who's doing a day-to-day job, someone who's picking garbage on this road, cleaning like working for PWD or municipality or council worker, they should understand what is spirituality. That's the way one should explain what is spirituality. So what is spirituality? You have to be careful in the way you talk also. Okay? Because your thoughts has to be communicated clearly. It should not have gap in the middle and the action should speak the thoughts and the words. When you say suffering, what suffering? Who suffering? All these questions are there. Is it the hankara who suffering? Because the hankara is the only one who suffering. So spirituality is to get rid of the hankara is what I'm gathering.

36:31 Spirituality means to get rid of the ego of suffering. What is spirituality? Follow this scriptures to know who we are. To know about the truth, truth and lie, to know where we call body and subtle body. Uh understand how to get rid of the ego suffering that creates suffering. Super all of these are correct answers 100% true answers. Who is God? What is God? How do we explain that to them? We can't say God is not my body. God is not my mind. God is not in the subtle body. God is not in Ganachar also. So then where is God? He needs something. If he say point out to the temple and say God is here in the temple, this is God. The person with low

37:17 IQ will understand. Oh yeah. Okay. So he's connecting. Oh, this is spirituality. Talking to God and seeing God and recognizing God is spirituality. Is the way he understands. This is answer outside of your answer. Okay. So all the things you said is correct only. It's not wrong. I'm adding to it. So think about it as another dimension of the same answer. So connecting to God, talking to God, conversing with God, having a relationship with God is spirituality. Then the question comes, how do I see God? So if you say the statue of Ganesha is God to a farmer, he'll be like okay this is God and he'll do puja and he'll give the whatever offerings and he'll do

38:03 to that statue and he'll say I'm talking to God and he'll go and talk to God like hey I'm not getting harvest in the field I am not getting my son married he's how to say he wants a European girl and he we are from a village where will I go looking for a European girl all these troubles he'll go and cry to Ganesha and Ganesha will bless him with the tinder to find European girls in Maharashtra village 3 hours close to Pune that's how God works no like does miracles in our day-to-day lives but for that farmer it works like that suddenly like European girl is showing photo and all they fallen in love his wishes is coming true if you're not your body you're not your mind how can a statue become God statue

38:50 is man-made imagined by a human that is decaying. So there's a question that arises in the intellect. So then who is God? Whoever God is just like how you and I are conversing, God should also be conversing with each of us. And that is spirituality. That is now I'll ask you a question. Take a moment to think deeply. Can you think of your dad? Can you all think of your dad for a moment? Can you see his image? Can you see him? We can all remember who our dad is. Or think about it. If you don't have a father, that's okay. Think about your mother. Alternate. You can all think. So, can you think about my granddad? I use your third eye and do all the kind of stuff

39:37 and find out no how my grandfather looks like. All of you guys have got siddhis and stuff. It's like asking a bachelor man like someone young, handsome, good-looking. Can you think about your wife? Hey, what's wrong with this guy? I'm not even engaged. I don't even have a girlfriend yet. Let alone he's asking think about my wife. I don't know. I'm not married. I don't have any anyone to think about. So, how can we think about a god that we have not seen? If I say think about Ganesha, how can we think about Ganesha without actually seeing him? Someone who drew a picture of Ganesha, who sculptured a picture of a statue of Ganesha is what we are referring by. But have we actually seen Ganesha? Something to question. Think

40:24 about it for a moment. So someone asked me a question about Babai. Have I actually seen Baba Babai? No, I have not seen Babai. Because of the images and the visions that I've seen of Babai, it was the mind has a way to connect with the spirit of Babai. But I have not seen Babai Gi. That is the truth. If we haven't seen someone, we can't think about them. How do I know this is how Babai looks like? We are going by people who drawn pictures or images, printed images of him. But have we physically seen him? So it's like telling that farmer the god is the statue. You talk to the statue and the statue does not talk back. I'm not saying don't go to temple. I'm not saying don't do puja. Please don't quote me on this. become

41:09 aware of what you're doing. Next time you go to the temple, you'll be more aware. When I asked Ganesha for my son to get a European wife, Ganesha gave tinder side to the sun and then he found a European girl and he got married. That is not Ganesha's doing. We create the mind itself creates an ankar itself creates a response colon response and creates that response that I asked for this and it has come this way but it is actually is not it's happening in our own mind spirituality is about having a clear communication with God hearing his words seeing his words you are in relationship that is spirituality this much you have to

41:55 understand this takes the huge equation about spirituality away where we are going to church and mosque and temple and having puja part at home and woriing things and where it is not interacting with us you're not hearing anything is not talking back so this is what spirituality is this and Veda says this it is clearly saying don't go and look for god somewhere saying talk to me directly don't go talk to something that you think is me talk to me directly. Babai's mantra is what guys itana what are we doing right here this is ita of babai that we get into no one is teaching yana right they're

42:41 all talking about it and they teach ka anyone teaching yana so that question is getting answered all those things that you felt is fine it comes through ka but it is not permanent it is temporary it is assert the only thing that is permanent permanent is truth is the only thing that is permanent. Hence it's in his mantra it says it is in his will that we are here. All of us are basan paravan is someone who has written preached the text taught the text share the text to say who is God. Exactly whatever is coming through this servant's mouth is what Babai's work

43:29 was. So in his ita in Babai's ita nana has to come to the ba of him but he is not the god he's not the guru also he's a paravan paravan who a servant of god like this helplessly there's nothing else I could do apart from share this truth once you get it you can't you'll also be like that only it will take some time maybe 6 8 months 1 year 2 years whatever time it takes there's no limit time is irrelevant you'll talk to god you will hear All of those things will happen. Conversation will happen full on depending on how much shad you have. How much listening, inquiring and contemplation. These three things are important. When you have so much of that all of this will happen. We understand what is spirituality now because we are

44:15 going on the spiritual path. Spirituality is near. You need to meet need to see like converse with the paramatma that is spirituality. Now to meet a paramatma to meet a god one needs a guru correct to meet to get in touch with the parabraman one needs a guru without a guru how will you reach guru is the guy who will show us the way and that will be lesson one so far what we've seen is introduction to Michael introduction to who you are so recap quickly we spoke about karmakandum nyan dina that we are not the body, we are not the mind. About the four parts of the mind, how to learn the Veda, inquiring and

45:01 contemplating. We also spoke about how to analyze the self. Who's actually which part of the mind is operating and why we take why we are in the loops. We spoke about ego, intellect, consciousness and memory in depth. Then we spoke about paravidya and aparavidya. In depth we spoke about smuti puran direct knowledge is shruti indirect knowledge is smruti purana will entice you with the story depth of the story that you can lose track of the reality so lot of reality checks have happened here check in body spirituality truth and truth we also spoke about babai's mantra because we are associated with babai we spoke about babai's mantra it

45:48 is in his will that this knowledge got passed on to it is in his will it is knowledge is getting shared with you. It is in Parab Brahman's God's ultimate lord's wish that this is happen Baba G is the catalyst paran the work he left behind for the humans us including the mantra in karmakanda is for us to get to nyanakanda whatever he's meant to teach us he taught us his job is done now we are already in nyanakanda this much clarity if you have you can proceed ahead here if you have any doubts message me feel free to drop voice messages all those type of things. The next first lesson after this introduction is who's the guru? You need

46:33 a guru. Guru has to show the way to parabram and the guru is in everyone's house. Every one of you that I'm looking at is in your house sitting there quietly waiting for you to be awake to seek knowledge that the guru is with you has been with you all along. the 10 verses in Tamil and the 10 transcription and my audio to the group so that everyone has access. So these first 10 verses you guys recite it every day you recite it audio recording and send it to me. One a day is fine. Eventually would like you to memorize it. You will not understand the meaning which is perfectly fine. It is hard to understand. By then you would have recited these 10 verses and keep in communication.

47:20 Do man, do inquiring, do contemplation, ask questions and read the verses. It is written in Tamil. which I've transcribed it in English letters of the sound and I've read it in one full audio so that you can hear how it sounds and you can actually read it and then you can recite it. If you can't memorize it, it's okay. It's understandable but try to memorize it. Okay? by just by listening. Whenever you are in a state where it is too much thought going on and you can't process, just play my audio of the vom and let the vibration of the sound fall into your ear. Just listen to it. Next class,

48:08 I'll explain every verse in detail the way it is supposed to be interpreted. By the time we get to class 7, you will be in a place where you will know how to interpret a VM a verse. When you read the Ved, you will interpret it exactly the way it is supposed to be interpreted, not any other until then you don't access any other Vam. Try to not read on your own because your Ahankara will do the reading like it will try to interpret the way it wants to interpret. It will not interpret the way it's supposed to be interpreted. We've covered a lot. Usually my teacher will teach for like 10 hours a day non-stop. We'll get like 15 minutes lunch break and it has to be in person. I was his first student who he agreed to

48:55 teach online. [clears throat] He said it was Grace who gave him that. When I went to him, he said quit your job and come leave everything and come. I'll teach you. I I'll share the knowledge. He said then I said I can't do that because I you know I've got bills to pay and I can't just quit the job and what to do we all living a life no illusionary life then he said okay so he gave me introduction speech which was went for many hours as well but not as extensive as what we've done which is quite short and brief because this knowledge that has been shared has come from many other sources and other teachers as well. He was so staunch about not teaching online at all because of the num amount of asset impur knowledge that is out there. He didn't want to deal with online teaching at

49:41 all. I was his first online student. He gave me grace gave the opportunity to this this to get this knowledge in the middle of the sea through online like this. Many challenges came like from shaving my head off to becoming a monk and dressing like a monk and eating satic food and all those type of things through different teachers. So such hunger like starvation for this knowledge the hard yards is done knowledge is here it's coming to you like this. So why I'm sharing this story so that you know it is not easy bhagan doesn't make it easy for us to get this knowledge. So whatever you have done in your lifetimes before and this lifetime so much puna that it has come to you so smoothly you

50:29 didn't have to go through what this aden went through. Aden means servant. So I'm honored to be serving you all. Nandri, Namaskar.