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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 .
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Video Information: 22.05.2019, Month of Awakening, Advait Bodhsthal, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
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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00:00Bhagavan has put it from the last Avadhika Gita
00:16equal in pain and in pleasure,
00:20equal in hope and in disappointment,
00:24equal in life and in death.
00:30And complete as you are,
00:33you can go to your rest.
00:37And then again from Chapter 10,
00:41Look on such things as friends, land, money, property, wife and bequests
00:46as nothing but a dream or a magician's show
00:51lasting three or five days.
00:58Shri Ramacharya ji,
01:02I have never experienced this equal state
01:07nor have I ever lived like the people and
01:11objects are temporary.
01:16I understand they are temporary in an intellectual sense
01:22but that has not brought much change in life.
01:27Please guide this so-called family man, worldly man
01:34who is able to satisfy neither family nor God.
01:44Thank you for the hand-holding and patience.
01:57Gautam, these are descriptions.
02:03These are just descriptions. These are not teachings.
02:14Point comes,
02:18when teachings become unnecessary,
02:25they look childish,
02:31at best,
02:35they resemble a joke,
02:38at worst,
02:40they sound like insults.
02:53Thirsty, very thirsty.
03:00You demonstrate this to me.
03:04You demonstrate this to me.
03:08Then would you also teach me?
03:13Drink it.
03:15Drink it.
03:19If you have to teach me,
03:22the thirst even, to drink it,
03:27whether my thirst is a fraud
03:35or your water is a sham,
03:42I am really thirsty and the water is really pure.
03:48Then merely demonstrating the water is enough.
03:59Equally, if I am here and I claim that I am really thirsty,
04:08then you do not need to motivate me
04:14to go to the river.
04:24You merely describe the way.
04:30Having described the way, you would not even bother to say go.
04:36If after all the description you still have to say go,
04:41then that is a blemish upon the power of your description.
04:51So, when it comes to
04:57purest utterances, they are merely
05:02declarations, descriptions,
05:10grand announcements without a purpose, without a context, without a background.
05:20Do not say, now that we have told you the truth, this is what you ought to do with it.
05:32They will not come with a user manual, the Upanishads.
05:38The Upanishads just are.
05:43They will not tell you how to use them.
05:49They are only for the ones who know what the use of peace is
05:58and who knows what the use of peace is, the one who is burning with peacelessness.
06:07Thirsty one knows what the use of water is.
06:11Having shown him the water, you do not have to describe him that to a molecule.
06:19You don't have to tempt him to come to the water.
06:33The news is enough.
06:59The passengers are waiting at the platform.
07:03The announcement is enough.
07:06The train is arriving.
07:09Does the announcement also say, now the passengers must rush towards the train or their respective bogies?
07:17Does the announcement include that?
07:21If you really want to depart, the news is enough.
07:26But if you have made your little hut on platform number 8, as many people do,
07:36then announcements come and go, you never go.
07:44There are many who live on the platforms.
07:57Lots of us come and go.
08:05Most of us come and go, day and night.
08:13There are announcements and every announcement heralds an opportunity.
08:22The ones who don't have to go, don't go.
08:26And then there are the ones who are seen running after the trains, huffing, puffing, but somehow catching.
08:42Does this tempt you?
08:44If it does tempt you, then proceed.
08:50If it doesn't tempt you, then seek the company of some of those who you see as eager to board the train.
09:06Ask them, why do you want to depart?
09:08I don't want to depart.
09:10I'm a worldly man, I want to stay put.
09:20If it hurts you too much, do not seek instruction from them, rather seek to convert them.
09:29Present your own example to them and tell them how you prefer staying on the platform rather than departing.
09:41Try to convince them.
09:43Maybe you will save a few of them some unnecessary hassle.
09:52If you can convince a few aspiring passengers not to board, maybe you are doing everybody some good.
10:03But do get into a conversation.
10:09Do ask them, what is it that charms them?
10:14Why do they look at the horizon with such thirsty eyes?
10:27Why do they put their ears to the track and want to listen to the beat of the approaching train?
10:38Why are they so eager?
10:41You tell them why you are so lukewarm and you ask them why they are so much in heat.
11:08Engage them.
11:14And we are not saying that.
11:21It's a pre-decided debate.
11:24Maybe you will prevail.
11:30Maybe you would convince an Ashtavakra not to depart.
11:40All I can say is begin the game of engagement and play honestly.
11:50If you see that what they are doing is the right thing to do, then don't wait for the next train.
12:00Hold their hand and board.
12:20You know, you have been young.
12:41And even in a worldly way, one can show you the image, the picture of the most beautiful woman.
13:06But one cannot make you fall in love with her.
13:15One can read out to you the most touching poem.
13:33But one cannot force you to admire her.
13:49She walks in beauty like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies.
14:03Did something happen?
14:09And if nothing happened, then it cannot be made to happen.
14:24Not because the situation is hopeless, but because you are determined.
14:41And therefore, an Ashtavakra is far more wise than an ordinary teacher who teaches through instruction.
15:04Ashtavakra says why waste energy?
15:08Instructions are anyway not useful beyond a point.
15:31You can instruct a fellow to come and sit down in front of you and hear you out.
15:44But you cannot instruct a fellow to resonate with you.
15:51That is beyond instruction.
15:56Instructions would happen only when the fellow wants it to happen.
16:27Equal in pain and pleasure, equal in hope and in disappointment.
16:32Equal in life and in death.
16:35And complete as you are, you can go to your rest.
16:44Nor are you equal in pain and pleasure, nor are you equal in hope and disappointment.
16:51Nor are you equal in life and death.
16:53Nor are you complete, nor are you restful.
16:56Then why is Ashtavakra telling all this to you?
17:02See 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.
17:22Do you like what you hear?
17:25Then come over.
17:27Else, bread form to you, you to your bread form.
17:49This 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.
18:18Hmm.
18:20Hmm.
18:39Teachers who are just beginning are overloaded with the energy of
19:03a mature enthusiasm.
19:11Having got it, they think it can be transmitted equally easily.
19:24So they strive.
19:28They try very hard.
19:36The ones like Munya Ashtavakra are veterans, seasoned professionals.
19:57They know that it doesn't help to flog a dead horse.
20:12The horse has probably come to enjoy the flogging.
20:20Leave it to itself.
20:24And maybe then it would run.
20:28And if it doesn't run, it doesn't have to run.
20:33All horses are entitled to their own self-determined quota of flogging.
20:52Who is Munya Ashtavakra or any other teacher to make a horse run against its own free will?
21:15So they won't flog the horse.
21:17They would simply whisper in the horse's ear.
21:22This green grass on the other side of the mountain.
21:29They leave it to the horse.
21:38Real teachers are real non-doers.
21:44They won't make the effort of cutting the grass and bringing it to the horse.
21:54They would say enough has already been done.
21:59The rest is upon the horse.
22:05Maybe the horse has fallen in love with some yellow and pale dead grass right where he is lying.
22:20It's okay.
22:22The horse is entitled to all kinds of experiences.
22:43It's a fine art.
22:53How much must one be exposed to therapeutic radiation?
22:59If the exposure is too little, then there is hardly any therapy.
23:08If the exposure is too much, it's worse than having little therapy.
23:24It's a fine art.
23:54Friends, land, money, property, wife, nothing but a dream, a magician's show lasting three days, five days.
24:16And he doesn't say hence.
24:21He leaves the rest to your wits.
24:28You decide.
24:31He has told you what these things are.
24:37The rest is upon you.
24:49You are welcome to scrutinize the fact of his utterances whether these things are or are not for three or five days.
25:01That much you can scrutinize.
25:07But after the scrutiny, your sweet will.
25:15Having seen that these things are indeed ephemeral, your free will.
25:26This is the point beyond which no scripture works.
25:35This is the point beyond which no teacher, no guru can help you, rather would help you.
25:45This is the point to which you must be brought and left alone.
25:53This is the point after which either your suffering works or your deep prayer.
26:09Either you should be so badly suffering that you refuse to let the teacher go when he is about to drop you and disappear.
26:38Or you should be so convinced about the need to depart.
27:08That you pray to get the decision, the motivation, the energy and the legs to run.
27:36What to do then, Gautama?
27:49I have already told you. Engage these people.
27:53Converse with them.
27:56See what Muni Ashtavakra has to say to you and see what you have to say to him.
28:11After all, if you want to stay put on the platform, you must be sure of yourself, right?
28:22If you are sure of yourself, why shy away from an honest conversation?
28:36If your reasons are genuine, they will hold out.
28:48If they are not genuine, then they must burn out.
29:04Keep talking to them.
29:13Maybe some of what charms them will rub off on you.
29:27That's why the sages have emphasised so much on the importance of right company.
29:49Be in the company of the one who is found a lot in the company of the one.
30:06How do you know that you must be with somebody like Ashtavakra?
30:10Because Ashtavakra is continuously in the company of the one.
30:16And that's how you must also choose your friends and partners.
30:21The one you spend so much time with.
30:24Is he usually found in the company of the one?
30:32Or is he someone who is rarely found in the company of the one?
31:02You are saying you are a family man, a worldly man.
31:24What kind of world is yours?
31:26In your world, you are at the centre.
31:32You 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.
31:44What's your personal world full of?
31:48Who are the residents of your personal world?
31:55You aren't talking of the 8 billion people of this planet.
32:02You aren't talking of the trillions of other sentient beings on this planet.
32:11And obviously you aren't talking of the myriad forms of consciousness that might be existing throughout this universe.
32:23When you say the world, when you say you are the worldly man, you mean 5 people, 10 people, 20 people, 50 people, 100 people.
32:34These are the people that constitute your world.
32:38It's a very misleading expression, the world.
32:48Because it is never the world.
32:52It is always my world.
32:55Nobody lives in the world.
32:58There is no subjectivity that is being admitted.
33:04We act as if there exists an objective world, the world.
33:12But 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.
33:25So, who is it that fills your world?
33:33Who all make up your world?
33:37Are they people like Ashtavatar?
33:42When you say you are a worldly man, what you essentially mean is that you are in the company of a few people.
33:48Right?
33:51When you say you are a worldly man, what you mean is that you are in the company of a few people.
33:56These are the few people that constitute your world.
34:00So, it's a question of company.
34:04Whose company are you exposing yourself to?
34:15And I have already given you a very easy thing to
34:27use as a test.
34:38The one you are with, is he with the one?
34:53See where your time is going.
34:58Look at the faces that occupy your consciousness.
35:02Look at the ones you are conversating with day in and day out.
35:10Conversating whether in your imagination or physically or on your mobile phone.
35:16Who are these people?
35:21Are they in the company of the one?
35:23If they are not, then rest assured, their company would pull you away from the company of the one.
35:34And equally, the company of Ashtavatar would pull you towards the one.
35:39If you are finding yourself distanced from the one, now you know the reason, Kusangati.
35:47And it won't announce itself as bad company.
35:52It comes in different names.
35:59It comes with nice, fair, clean, polished faces.
36:07It won't say that neither do I belong to him, nor would I let you belong to him.
36:20The quality of your company can be assessed only by the impact it has upon you.
36:34What is the impact it is having upon you?
37:04You have to be very careful because there is a clear conflict here.
37:26Declaring yourself as a worldly man
37:51and your world does not include Ashtavakas, does it?
38:06Declaring yourself a worldly man, you are asking me,
38:10why don't the utterances of the knowers, the sages bring about a real change in your life?
38:27Because they stand outside of your immediate world.
38:34They are not part of your intimate world.
38:38Your intimate world consists of people who not only have nothing to do with the sages,
38:48but who might actually be in active or passive hatred of the sages.
38:55Those are the people who constitute your inner circle.
39:02And you do not need to judge a person by his words alone.
39:13Want to check the quality of the people you are keeping as company?
39:19Check just one thing.
39:20Whose company do they love?
39:23Whose company do they love?
39:32Ask this question.
39:53Who is the friend of your friend?
39:55Who is the friend of your friend?
40:08Is your friend amongst the ones closest to the one?
40:17Or is your friend amongst the ones who are farthest from the one?
40:24Your friends are your world, Gautaman.
40:41And your world is your identity.
40:45That's what you are calling yourself as.
40:47I am a worldly man.
40:49I am just parsing that.
40:55What does it mean to say I am a worldly man?
41:00You mean to say that you are in the company of a few people.
41:04That's what you mean.
41:19Right?
41:41Young kids know that, you know.
41:48In a class.
41:55Let's say, a normal school.
42:04The kind of schools we all have been through.
42:07A normal, usual school.
42:13And the teacher always has her favorites.
42:21And if you are a newcomer to the class,
42:28you immediately smell who the favorites of the class teacher are.
42:37And then you want to be friends with them.
42:45Even class 4 students.
42:52Not divine students.
42:54Very worldly kids.
42:56Know
43:06how to
43:12reach the teacher.
43:20Don't you?
43:30And the newcomer also smells
43:33that there is a particular gang in the class that the teacher does not quite approve of.
43:41And if the newcomer decides to belong to that gang,
43:45then the newcomer has already sealed his fate.
43:53The gang is a world.
43:56In Kodambani, you are a worldly man.
44:06Why do you
44:09so stubbornly want to belong to the gang that the class teacher dislikes?
44:23You knew better than that when you were a class 4 kid.
44:27How have you forgotten even basic common sensical knowledge?
44:39God is the class teacher.
44:41Ashtavakra is the front bencher she loves.
44:46If you want to curry favor with the class teacher,
44:51better make friends with the front benchers.
44:58Not the back benchers who are seen in the class once a month.
45:04Who appear in the class only on special occasions.
45:11You know, it's Independence Day. Let's go to the school.
45:17You aren't coming to the school for the sake of learning or for the sake of teacher.
45:21You're coming to the school for the sake of ladoo.
45:24What are you here for? For learning or for ladoo?
45:27Ask yourself.
45:31If you're here for the learning, you would have been seen quite frequently here.
45:36But if you were seen here only on special days,
45:39it means you aren't here for the teacher. You're here for the ladoo.
45:50Examine your world.
46:20Hmm.
46:47It's a conflict we said. Somebody has to lose.
46:52You can't have two winners in this.
47:00Somebody will be brought to his knees.
47:05And somebody would hang his boots.
47:31If you're in a party.
47:42And the faint music of a fakir outside the party venue enthralls you.
47:50One of the two has to win because the fakir won't enter the party.
47:55The fakir won't enter the party nor would the party admit the fakir.
48:00You have to belong either here or there.
48:09The party is loud. The fakir's music is faint.
48:14You are inside. The fakir is outside.
48:17The odds are greatly against the fakir.
48:24Strange things happen.
48:42The party is your world.
48:52Question yourself again and again on this.
48:56Does your world really have to be like this?
49:07You aren't talking about an objective reality that you can't reach.
49:11You're talking about your self-created nest.
49:16You're talking about relationships that you on your own volition walked into.
49:27And on your own volition are sustaining on a daily basis.
49:38You're talking of jobs you carry out by way of proper legal agreements.
49:48You aren't talking of things that are insurmountable.
49:58You aren't talking of the indispensable realities of life.
50:12You're talking of choices, mind you.
50:16You're talking of things very much within your control.
50:21You push the buttons. You pull the levers.
50:31You board the train.
50:36You swipe the card.
50:39You sign the letters.
50:41All that requires your conscious agreement.
50:46Your world is nothing but a reflection of your deliberate agreements.
50:55The agreements are in the mind and therefore invisible, subtle.
51:02What you call as your world is a representation of the inner agreements that you make.
51:14Where is Ashtavakra in your world, Gautam?
51:17Except on the four days of math, not four days.
51:23One or two days when you choose to send over a question.
51:2828 days of the month.
51:33Is he there in your world?
51:35No, because you're worldly man.
51:38Even on the two days when you send over your questions.
51:41Is he really there with you the entire day?
51:48So on 28 days, your Ashtavakra quotient is zero.
51:53Zero AQ.
51:55And on two days when you do send over your questions, then your AQ is maybe 0.1.
52:07For one or two hours of the day, you decide to listen to me.
52:14Holding forth on Ashtavakra.
52:17All in all, what's your net AQ?
52:23Across the month.
52:3098% of your time, you are choosing to be with the ones who are not with the one.
52:38Mind you, and repeat it to yourself again and again and again.
52:42Look at the faces of your colleagues in your office.
52:44Are they with the one?
52:45Then why are you hobnobbing with them?
52:47Why are you breaking bread with them?
52:50What are these parties?
52:53What are these smiling exchanges?
52:57Are they with the one?
53:02Then why are you with them?
53:06What crushing need compels you to sell your soul?
53:15I'm not insinuating.
53:17I'm asserting.
53:47Go to your Facebook contacts.
53:58Look at your LinkedIn contacts.
54:00Who are they?
54:01All right.
54:04Here's a check.
54:07When a new contact request comes to you.
54:11What do you check in the fellows profile?
54:14Do you check whether he's with the one?
54:17You don't.
54:18You rather check whether he's going to be useful to you when you make the next job switch.
54:24Did you ever give this criteria even 5% weightage?
54:32How spiritual is the fellow?
54:35Before you accept somebody's friend request.
54:39Do you bother to inquire how deeply spiritual is the fellow?
54:46But you know, just as a college student doesn't bother to check the spiritual quotient of a girl who makes a pass at him.
55:07An industry veteran doesn't check the spiritual quotient of another professional who sends him a 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?
55:39Fine.
55:42Don't check that.
55:44If you do not check the SQ of the people in your vicinity, then your world will remain a spiritless world.
56:00Shorn 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.
56:19Your SQ is the average SQ of all people in your contact list.
56:30It's an identity.
56:33AP's law.
56:35Note it down.
56:50Next law.
56:51More in the language of calculus.
56:54Your distance from the one will tend towards the distance of your nearest one from the one.
57:14Your 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 and 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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