Mundaka Upanishad | Day 3 | #Knowledge with Swami Abhedananda | Introduction P3 & Shanti Mantra P1

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1:18 oh [Music] my God [Music] foreign

2:12 [Music] foreign [Music] thank you mom

3:05 okay Guru paramparam s [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music]

4:27 foreign [Music] foreign

5:21 is the freedom whether he is material person or whether he is a spiritual person but the problem is that material person wants the freedom from poverty insecurity he wants to secure the imaginarily insecure personality and he wants to give the joy

6:09 to the imaginarily unhappy personality and he wants to remove the sin by doing merits of the imaginary in full personality so this is called his this is called his life he is spending the problem is somewhere and he is trying to remove it somewhere the moment a person comes to the vedanta class instead of securing something from outside

6:54 and instead of getting the things to make happiness from outside the person is questioning the insecure personality because he has heard that there is some I which is naturally secured naturally happy and naturally sinless this freedom from the wrong eye is the goal of vedantic Pursuits freedom from the wrong eye

7:41 falsely insecure I falsely an FBI and falsely sinful eye vidhan says that in me there is only ever secured eye ever happy eye and ever sinless eye how what is the nature of that and how is it all these things this is the topic of vedant go ahead heard yesterday and then I had taken second thing called pramod and we had seen of knowing this eye cannot be the material means of

8:28 knowledge for material means of knowledge praman is for material things but wherever something is not objectifiable the means of knowledge is not the pratyaksh but this Brahman is there hmm yesterday's class you must have heard that then has many part it has poor part and anth part in that part of Vedas which deals with the notion of nature of iron

9:13 which propounds that this eye which is ever secure ever of the nature of joy and ever of the nature of her happiness it is complete it is Limitless so you need not go out to seek the freedom and limitlessness you can know this and be free now that portion of vedant or another name of vedant is also called upanishad [Music] an upanishad word I was saying yesterday where we left remember that

10:02 foreign that in Sanskrit there is dhatu like every word as a tattoo any word is foreign also we can make verbals

10:49 but converting the dhatu to the noun or verb needs suffix and I had told yesterday if you remember that there is a zero suffix it is called zero suffix it is called and you add it and convert these dhatu into agent right so three meanings means to disintegrate gamanam means to take and how Southern means to destroy

11:34 to destroy okay so now I will Define no pressure from two or three angles angle number one and that angle is of the what this population does what the submission does and this will also be called Brahma Vidya Brahma Vidya okay so

12:23 so that which disintegrates the product and that which destroys the sentient I am taking two two meanings proud of this the fruit of action which is already started it's already released when you have you are born the fruits of action for 60 70 years are more mainly fixed that is called prakash hmm so that which has already started fructifying difficult to change it so that knowledge which loosens disintegrates

13:11 so 2 meaning of the root sat is Anand when how because you know that I am not this prarab attacks the Angkor foreign but you have discovered I am the security cannot act on the Brahma therefore the effect of the purana will be less somebody was saying that supposing I have pain I have pain in headache is there or toothache is

13:56 there how will vedant take away the pain still I experience the brain pain supposing some pain is there so by knowing vedan pain won't go I said no pain won't go then before without knowing this knowledge you will think all the time I have pain I have so much of pain I have been after knowing it you say pain is there but it is not mine I am already Brahman in Consciousness pain is in me I am not painful so experience is not equal to me

14:43 this difference vedan gives you so pain will be there you may say ah that also you may say but you will not be overwhelmed by that you'll see the pain in the light of the consciousness this is the difference how is it possible it is possible it is possible supposing you have some fever or you have pain and you are suffering a lot God forbid why should you have pain even again and you heard that swamiji is also a lot of pain and he is calling you so when you will

15:31 hear my pain your pain will appear smaller in front of my pain so in the background of my pain your pain will become smaller new Valerie maybe you are lying down and you will you will get extra energy at that time you will see I was not able to get up I'm running around here and there because another pain the bigger background is there laughs so that which disintegrates or loosen the product that is called first meaning of second is sanchit karma that which totally destroys the sunshine because it destroys again again destruction sanchita means all fruits of

16:18 action which are in a storage millions of fruits of action which are in storage they are called sanchitkaram out of sanchit little portion is one person not even one person less than that not even one percent also his whole birth is going oh my God so much I am suffering and is still not one person no not even one percent billions of fruits of action oh my God but that knowledge which destroys that that is called the second meaning of sat this is not sat huh this is sad

17:04 don't confuse with truth that is this is the the current actually speaking oop plus knee plus sad foreign

17:54 meanings are there giving Joy because third meaning was to take that which takes you to the Anand not our ananji that which takes you to the Anand that that is called that is called another meaning of upanishad can you summarize it once more I am quite confused one meaning of three meaning of sad was there one to disintegrate otherwise to destroy and third one was to take I combined to I put this three I put in two groups now two groups the disintegrating and destruction is in

18:42 one group and taking is another group disintegrating and destruction is and that which takes you to Brahman that is we have we have put in from two groups three has been put into two groups I hope you have so is it clear now only but what you said in between Karma and all these things some Loop was there don't worry about that that those who are understanding Sanskrit for them I said if you are not understanding leave it in one class everything is difficult to

19:28 understand foreign word has to be added there foreign but you if you don't understand just catch the earlier point just three I divided into two destruction of Sorrows and one was one

20:16 was going to the foreign this is now let us see that in me so sadh tells about the brahmavidyan openi tells about the student no this is the second point there were two points already no this is that was all in one this is another point I tell you from three angles I will say operation explained we only explain the sad no another angle is there and now this angle I will see the word

21:01 open knee earlier we saw said now we are going to see open knee not that knee problem that is not the knee so this is not the knee that knee is not there always remembering your knee all the time needs so up and knee so very easy and simple meaning is cook means one who goes near to the teacher it describe the nature of a student you cannot have tuition on operation coaching on oppression you have to go to the teacher

21:52 when I say go go miss you to go be surrender go with faith you will see this parampara you will see in the mission itself in the beginning mantras you will see that foreign because of two reasons earlier they were approaching the teacher on their head they used to take one part and the pot was a fire and that used to indicate that when you go to the teacher

22:38 to indicate that you know I am also having a burning desire the food is called mundak another meaning of mundak is before the study they were doing mundan mundan shaving the head indicative of sannyas so that you are free from all other occupations you don't have to bother about any other thing you have lot of time it's not necessary that you will have three classes four classes you can have five classes also because student and teacher were in the gurukul so teacher was also free student

23:23 was also free so anytime he can call Guru used to call after dinner also he used to call after in the morning hours also four o'clock classes started so it was five five classes sometimes and whole Gita was over in one month so you high level of availability is required so that you are not distracted you can see the ashram living is different than the house living study make notes discuss go to your room again come here again go to the room again come here

24:10 you don't have to have another occupation so commitment level has to be very high as much as your commitment level to that extent you will understand and retain it there are less areas to distract and therefore mundan was done foreign and there are every mundak has two chapters so you can see three section each section is called mundak and E section has two chapters and therefore there are six chapters in total

24:56 I hope you are understanding this is up go there and no and second is knee means and know the nature of the self completely that means you have to know you don't have to go to serve the teacher you are serving to know about the nature of the self because you have lost faith in getting security joy and sinlessness from the world and actions then therefore you are wanting to know the self and therefore you are wanting to know self completely as Brahman that is called knee

25:42 upani this is second angle first angle was about sad second angle is about oop and knee is it okay not difficult at all difficult portion will come later on these are warm up going on warming up I still mean no pressure has to come [Laughter] so now comes the third angle the first angle about the brahmavidya

26:28 what it does and and second angle is about what is the nature of the student is committed to knowing the self completely committed committed students he comes with a student with all humility come to this teacher oop and knee he wants to completely know the nature of the cell this is the second meaning second angle so first angle is about the action of upanishad or brahmavatya second angle is from the nature of the student and third

27:16 angle is a small angle not very windy third angle is nature of brahmavidya and this nature of Brahma Vidya is indicated by the word up means close Which is closest you are going to know about something which is closest like that wall is far and this mic is closer that wall in this mic that that that is further and this is that Mike and this shawl this shall that's all in this body are you following it that this

28:02 following okay slept Okay so so that and this so that wall and this mic that mic and this shall that's all in this body that body and this might this mind that mind and this intellect that intellect and this samskar that samskar and this ignores that ignorance in in this self who like uh totally confused what is going on so that so tell me how you know something is closest lesser are the mediums closest closer it is lesser are the mediums closer it is because with the wall and this me there

28:49 are more mediums when the mic and me there is lesser medium between my between shirt and me there is still lesser medium so do you keep on going when there is no medium so where there is zero medium that is called the self the knowledge about that is called closest this is the third meaning I can tell third fourth fifth liter but three you keep in mind I hope these three things you will keep in mind throughout your life because if you are a student of operation you have to know it and without the studying of Prasad you won't have the peace

29:34 I hope this matches this much is sufficient right now one or two more points are there I don't want to take you into those details foreign I hope this is fine now I am going to there are 60 mantras total mundak and now I will come to The Shanti mantra we are now entering into the mission formally so Shanti mantras are there

30:21 and every Mission has Shanti mantra there are four Vedas as you know are there so you've heard this which mission is from which way somewhere so some with any from the same way will have same Shanti mantra what is from rigved

31:09 I mantra practice Krishna um foreign goodness I'm quite shant already [Laughter]

32:01 now please understand this point any time any fruit comes of anything because of two reasons self-effort and God's grace when these two combinations combined then only the fruit is there and in the God's grace your karma also comes so what will happen and what you will do there are two aspects every time acting on one is happening other is doing happening is stronger or doing is

32:48 stronger it depends sometimes you're doing maybe stronger happening maybe weaker sometimes happening is very strong doing is may not work it is possible you put lot of effort and still results are not there because what has to happen already was very strong and therefore your your result is this very minimum even you did a lot sometime you did not do still you got a very good result because happening was the grace factor or the day the effector was still strong

33:34 sometime either you did neither it happened both side disaster was there so very bad fruit came both sides it was negative neither you tried neither there was any from that there is because you have Karma Greece lot of factors are there around you then that will decide whether you will really what fruit will come at the end of the day so both factors have to be con calculated I'm telling you Grace does not mean God will give some Grace Grace includes your previous fruits of action also previous fruits of action that is called is there

34:19 so I can use the word adriften so there is a fight between and adrist means the earlier fruits of action also God's grace also your prayers also and all these factors combined together and make an address and right now praying is there you are putting effort so if you're you put lot of effort and if the otherist is not favorable your effort will not be having lot of food you are going against the current the current is 10 kilometer per hour and your is supposing five you are going against it so speed will be very less and current is hundred kilometer per hour against you and your is two kilometer per hour again so you will go

35:06 against it will be carrying away so these two fights are there all the time sometime addressed is very weak you did work and immediately it gave the fruit sometimes you also did not do others is not there both side is there and both ended human disaster you have put lot of effort but otherist is very strong nothing will happen you are flogging the dead horse

35:53 very strong product some disease happens people go to doctors after doctors nothing happened [Music] prayer is a way to prayer is a way you cannot do anything there are certain areas where you cannot do anything prayer is a way to manipulate others that factor where you cannot do anything physically now your breath has given up I cannot do much in this direction now and ultimately is produced directed controlled by God

36:39 and therefore you are doing the prayers so that you can slightly tackle this other aspect in your favor after sufficient prayer if prayathan is not there then otherist will not be made I hope those both words are clear means the self-effort and adrist means your karambhal plus God's grace plus your prayers plus blessings of somebody these four or five factors which are from outside from the past and the prison that will call adrisht is a very common word in purimansa they used at the restaurant very frequently

37:27 I hope this point is clear and now that the student is going for the teaching understanding of Prasad a lot of obstacles are about to come ignani how is it I'll tackle that portion number one to have faith that there is something called Atma brahmanasatra itself is difficult in this highly materialistic world because Eyes Ears everything is showing something outside the child is small everybody says what you want to become your should become doctor in business man you should become have a good uh you know politician or you should have money you

38:13 should have power you should have wife you should have husband everybody is showing outside goals only you open television a lot of advertisements are there you walk on the roads big big Holdings are there showing this shirt this band this eatable is there so whole world is bombarding you with lot of external goals all the time peer pressure is there then Society is there then relations are there everybody is only after you what you go and study something you will get lot of money in that company that company is there in this big jungle and problematic external world to think that there is something called God atna Brahman that itself is very difficult to have that number first difficulty yeah

38:59 itself is difficult because you are surrounded by materialistic thing foreign to get somebody to tell about that God another difficulty and okay Faith was in your hand but to somebody to tell about the Gita or the Raman that that is very difficult somebody is is there or was there or any book is there second difficulty third difficulty for you are seeing difficulty deliberately I am using because I am conscious of what I'm saying third point

39:47 even if somebody is there to go and approach that person itself is a very difficult thing I can get somebody in my life that I can go to somebody and live and be there even for one week it is difficult forget about humans the third difficulty for difficulty even when I am living with that person to have faith in his words for a long time that itself another four difficulties there maybe I don't like his way of teaching although I like to know about Brahman but the way it is I don't like I want to know I want to know about ramayana but the way he stays I don't like this is time I mean something I

40:34 don't like fifth difficulty maybe I like what he doesn't like [Laughter] he doesn't like to teach me many teachers said I don't teach you the punji did not teach very easily he used to no go to that teacher I won't teach you I'm not bound by you that I have to teach you I have no such contract I will not teach anybody this was the punji style hardly any student was there one two student whole life imagine that such a giant spiritual master do not teach well you know everything

41:20 but I don't want to teach you'll waste my time this is fifth difficulty six difficulty this combination of Seeker teacher and the text for a long time this is also very difficult some issue comes up some text I don't understand seven difficulty some subjects are so difficult and subtle I can't understand also I can't buy heart also I had heart attack so this is seven difficult laughs you wonder whether I'm really fit for

42:06 all these things already entered huh and then you wonder where I have come really I'm fit for all these things but I am wasting time eight difficulty self-doubt set ninth or eighth seventh self-doubt doubt on yourself now really I'm fit for all these things I know it all very good but I think I'm not that good and fit I have dialed the wrong number [Laughter] but now you already have dialed

42:52 I don't think I am fit it is a it is Imagine cell tower not the real sellout is there nobody has said other than you anything can be improved if there is something lacking you can always get over it it's not that if something is lacking you cannot get over it you have already defined yourself wrongly and you have love to Define yourself as coordinate to a person you are in love with your negative image and what happens when a teaching comes that energy is not coming from your side you feel I'm not fit that thought has taken away your energy sometimes Sanskrit class used to come before the classes started some people said yeah I can't understand you hello a pleasure is putting forth effort he

43:37 already is discouraged after that your energy is less to grasp subri was there subri subri said I want this to come I can't make it I said I believe that I said no you don't leave the course and he is there he sat and sat and he continued and at least he can read all the sanskriting so you discourage yourself also because sometimes subject will become very subtle Sanskrit will become difficult and all this discipline will be too much so you you give up ultimately and you sit with already negative marks you are going in reserve you already have defined you have not put effort and you you unnecessarily are

44:24 discouraged you can still catch up without eating eating ketchup so [Laughter] it nine difficulty body is not okay back pain instance I can't sit straight I can't sit straight I think I will make one custom made some cage kind of and and in that Custom Image I'll fit and there'll be screw it will tighten it

45:09 foreign [Laughter] it's a good idea you can try I can't sit straight problem is starting then there's a feed pin is there then my headache is tired this 9 10 difficulties are there will 10 difficulty teacher is not well it happens teacher is not well T four months five months teacher is missing

45:54 a new teacher comes now you don't understand how to cope up with the new one some substitute comes the same subject this flow of one teacher starts from something else you wonder what is this teacher is not well or teacher is you know I I can't understand lot of difficulties are there and most of it apart from your shraddha and self depreciation that is on prathna is from others which teacher you will meet I don't know will you be healthy or unhealthy I don't

46:39 know acha will my intellect sufficient I don't know whether I understand or not because topic will be very subtle at times and contrary to our experiences you feel I'm in the world say you are in the world is in you totally they will talk diagonally diagonally opposite of what your experience is I feel I will die this you never die [Music] the topic is like that and therefore we need a prayer

47:25 to enhance those negative factors which will hamper my pursuing of this knowledge of vedanta out of this 10 11 factors when these will come to hamper my growth huh one more factor is there other term comes in between I had to go my father is not well my mother is not well many students come to vedant then they have to leave because father is not well mother is not well but I have to earn money for the house I am very interested in vedan but there is nobody to win the win the bread there are no bread winners only bread eaters are there Okay so

48:13 so I have to win the bread Breadwinners are required now who will be there I have a loan there house loan is there I have to look after my mother I have to look after my father I have to look after my uncle ah they are already old neither this side neither they should pass away or they should live properly they're not passing away also so I don't know how to live with them lot of these factors are there they are going to hamper your hamper your study of vedan and spiritual life and you will not be able to continue for a long time

49:00 you are not a long-term player in this area one month two months at the most you will this Karma will stop you that others is not powerful and now you cannot do something I can put effort but that area I can't manage it to handle that area to manipulate that area I need now prayers and this is where your partner enters and therefore every upanishad and every vedantic text starts with a very very effective and potent prayer I hope you are understanding this issue

49:46 don't take this prayer slightly there are lot of things around you rather than what you see there are a lot of unseen things in you and around you which will not allow you on this path efficiently and effortlessly even if you are in this path you will unnecessarily drag more and slide and walk less you'll be dragging sometimes because the you don't have so much seven eight factors which are required you will be struggling you you are as if going against the current you will feel inside current or outside current and therefore you need to have much more prayers in your life

50:33 there's a point where self-effort I have done what has to be done I have to call God he has to intervene divine intervention is required otherwise either you leave the path or you will be in the path for the namesake or your progress will be very very slow or or there will be some external factor from the family friend Etc will come and they won't allow you to go without hindrances studies will not continue for a long time and because our ignorance is very thick and our vasnas are very deep we need a long time in the hall and therefore tremendous prayers alone

51:19 can help us out to manage and manipulate a drift area let's move that move ahead I've already read that can you continue not tired means what calling like that foreign

52:06 people have two years maybe here auspicious by many years by many years maybe here auspicious bye foreign plural is there is like prime minister has allocated different Ministries food Minister agriculture minister

52:52 so he is finance minister is there is there is there those who make coincidences may I hear auspicious tell me wise you know why because what you have to hear very Less in zero control who will say what around you who will say what is not in your control who will abuse who will praise who will say that means please give me around somebody who talks something very beautiful at least

53:38 his words should take when the when the word has dharm in it has bhakti in it has brahmagyan in it that is called bhadram means that which takes to devotion dispassion knowledge Dharma these are called bhadram auspicious that takes away my vasnas let me hear something you bring somebody in my life who can tell all these things otherwise somebody will come in he will start saying something to invoke and provoke your vastness to provoke your to provoke your some

54:23 instinctive life he'll tell the story of film or he'll tell about worldly thing or how the neighbor is not seen nowadays a dog is not barking of the neighbor dog is not there nog is not working this side here who doesn't part no huh inside the house so much you know so you can see that you take bath or see the neighbor

55:09 [Laughter] you hear something which will bring in Dharma which will bring him bhakti of God which will bring in this passion which will bring you brahmagyan so Dharma bhakti and brahmagyan these four things that bring that is called badram and please note I am repeating it is not in your hand who will come to assist you around it is not in your hand what you will hear

55:56 you don't know who will come to say words some boys are there constantly their husband are shouting and screaming constantly in the house is going on cut cut cut our wife is complaining and nagging all the time moment you go to the house same cdk City Stars he is like that she's like that enough I've heard why you want to meet him where I have come from and where I have gone

56:41 means by many years as if my two years have become many years because devathas can bring somebody in my life and place that person around me so that I can hear auspicious so that all these 12 factors can be manipulated which I had mentioned the exact meaning all right

57:27 [Music] it is those who do yajan of the god Manu protects the one who do you who do worship of the god that is called Devas who are recipient of praise recipient of worship may I see something good I don't see everything he is mad he is bad some people have this proofreading nature every everything they see fault he has

58:13 like that everywhere they will pick up fault this becomes a nature they would understand but I have seen that a person has four qualities and supposing two is not good it is nature to pick those two and leave the four like the crow even the pearls are there Crow will pick up certain dirty thing only foreign I am not able to see something positive something good something something inspiring from some person everywhere I pick up he's like that he sleeps till late he gets a plate he eats a lot he he doesn't dress properly his hearers are not okay everywhere I pick something and a problem is moment you

58:58 have a negative after that there's no feeling of giving so worshiping attitude is gone after that you don't feel like giving anything because you already have negative about you I don't have to do anything with you and if you say swamiji your hand is very bad actually you are saying to me and this whole thing is dealt from 10th and into 11th chapter of Gita is just meant for this point only this room darshan and yoga tackle this aspect of our personality please see don't see anger alone see with the anger supposing my hand is bad I have pain or my any part of the body is bad that

59:43 has mean I am mad one part is bad but other parts are also okay not all parts are so bad give me the capacity to see something good and positive and auspicious I can be little I can purify the Mind through the people around me I should not the be the dirt picker and scavengers I should not be you know very negative about the world and everybody nothing good is there let's pick up something let us talk something about everything is not so bad there is something good also

1:00:31 but once once already have I have a firm opinion after that you don't change Europe that is where mistake is maybe he will change maybe he has done something better also don't put something if somebody in a box you know somebody took his child to guruji and he said you know guruji bless him that he can become like you why are you limiting him maybe he can become better than me so don't limit him because you have a limited Vision about you who knows most sinful person can become great person tomorrow next part and the one was appearing very good he may be worse another day you don't know

1:01:16 where the Maya takes to anybody you cannot you don't know what how it goes the world goes the mysterious ways are there of this mind please allow that portion of the God only he can look and handle we can't make it we should protect our faith and our mind that's the only thing we have to do so you protect that let me see something auspicious let me see and meaning auspicious is let me see Angie with I with Danga his ABCD habits are very bad but D E F G H are very good

1:02:02 this way won't develop hatred with the person you know I understand ABCD is not but this this is very good don't neglect that person don't have a partialist you have you are you are colored in your vision and this way we we disturb our mind protector of the worshiper meaning that is also a uh again not actually hmm time is over we will see more tomorrow I thought it will complete the prayer

1:02:47 so you can just recap the whole thing what we talked about we talked about first thing was while who is the sansari and who is the sadha who works on the imaginary eye freedom freedom from imaginary eye then we talked about operation there were three angles took Mission sad is from the angle of agency whatever pressure does and upani will tell about the seeker and third was the meaning of oop third angle was there then we came to the prayer factor I said there are two one is breath in aspect other is others to fact aspect and the otherist

1:03:32 is meant is very uncontrollable area prayer you can do effort as much as possible but others too cannot do much adrist can only be touched by prayers there is no way to access the others and there are 11 12 factors which are around you and which is which will not allow you to study or meditate or do Manan for a long time because of 7 11 12 factors and ultimately the transmigration will continue and therefore we need a prayer and I told the prayer of all the operations and this prayer also is beautiful prayer about which we'll enter tomorrow

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