00:00By good deeds, the saropa, which is this body, the robe of honour,
00:29is obtained, and by his kindness, the door of salvation opens.
00:39The question is, looks like it's indicating a mechanism of reincarnation and a way to
00:49get out of it.
00:51Acharya ji, please clarify on what's liberation and freedom from cycle of birth and death.
01:05It is by his grace that the human body is obtained, and by his kindness, the door to
01:34salvation opens.
01:54The human body, the human birth, the human life is an opportunity.
02:06It's a great opportunity to be thankful for.
02:15However, it is merely an opportunity.
02:32Human birth does not guarantee salvation.
02:42As a human being, you have a definite and a great chance to look at yourself, to detect
02:56your patterns, to put a finger on your weaknesses and bondages, and thereby know them, falsify
03:15them, fight them, eliminate them.
03:34You are saying, Abhilash, is there a process?
03:44What is liberation from cycle of birth and death?
03:51The process is honest self-observation.
04:02The process is not to deceive oneself.
04:18A process can obviously help only those who want to take the process to its end.
04:41It is the end that makes the process not only tolerable but actually enjoyable.
04:57Freedom is our nature.
05:02When you love freedom so much that you cannot tolerate living in foolish confinements, then
05:31the process has begun.
05:39What does it mean to be liberated from birth and death?
05:57The meaning holds relevance only for a human being.
06:06If you look at an animal, it has no consciousness of bondage or very little consciousness.
06:15Therefore, it has very little incentive to rise in consciousness or gain freedom from
06:28consciousness.
06:31In some sense, the animal is blessed.
06:37It feels alright just as it is.
06:43It does not really have to attain anything.
06:48It does not feel an inner dissatisfaction.
06:55Therefore, you do not find animals ponderous or ruminating.
07:12But man stays dissatisfied and being dissatisfied, man keeps trying one thing after the other.
07:27This endless sequence of trials and errors is called the sequence of birth and death.
07:41So birth of a new hope and then the hope got smashed, death.
07:52And then another hope, another journey and the journey again ends blindly.
08:09And then you invest yourself in some other opportunity and that attempt to fails, death.
08:27Attempt failure, attempt failure, attempt failure.
08:32Freedom from these endless attempts and endless failures is success and that success is the
08:42object of all spiritual process.
08:46If there is something that you so keenly want that you are endlessly trying for it, why
08:52don't you actually attain it?
08:57That actual attainment, that actual success is spiritual liberation.
09:03You are now liberated from trying again and again.
09:09Every successive trial is a new birth.
09:18Every successive failure is a new death.
09:25Why keep trying and failing?
09:27Why not try rightly and succeed?
09:36You are anyway investing so much time, so much energy, so much of yourself in all these
09:43daily struggles.
09:46You are anyway not living very peacefully or comfortably.
09:52You are anyway embattled and besieged.
09:58If you are indeed fighting a war, why not fight rightly?
10:09If you are indeed getting so tired, why not invest your energy rightly?
10:19So spiritual practice is not about making additional effort.
10:25It is about acting wisely, not acting additionally.
10:39Actors we already are.
10:41There is hardly anybody who is having a paid holiday here.
10:51We all are laborers.
10:53Life is making each one of us toil and if toiling we indeed are, then we better toil
11:07with some discretion.
11:13Alok Bhute has quoted, Nanak says the answer is to stay in the will of God.
11:34Then what should we say that on hearing it he starts loving us and then early in the
11:50morning think about and recite the greatness of the true name, Vaheguru, God.
12:03Recite his name.
12:07So he asks, Dear Acharyaji, Pranam.
12:12From the above verse, Nanak Saheb says to attain God, one needs to stay in God's will.
12:25In another verse, Nanak Saheb emphasizes on reciting God's name and His greatness.
12:40What is the importance of recitation?
12:48Is reciting one of the ways to stay in God's will?
12:58What does he mean when he says, what should we say that on hearing it he starts loving
13:07us?
13:18Recitation, Alok here refers to constancy in remembrance, constancy in remembrance.
13:37Recitation could either be mental or physical depending on what kind of personality you
13:49are.
13:53If you are thought identified, mind identified, then you may recite within, but if you live
14:06on a gross plane and are more body identified, then you better recite physically, verbally.
14:22It is important to commit yourself to the act, the commitment and the constancy is important.
14:36You are investing yourself, you are saying I could have thought of a thousand things,
14:46but in my thoughts is his name and therefore I am displaying how much I value him.
14:57You are saying I could have uttered a thousand things, there are a thousand words and a thousand
15:09topics keen to be spoken of, but of all these I chose the name of God and that is a proof
15:24of my commitment towards him.
15:31This throat, this tongue, these lips, they could have been used in the service of anybody,
15:41but here look I am committing them to the service of the one truth and that commitment
15:57is what makes him love you because that's the next part of your question.
16:06You are asking what do we say that can make him start loving us, do not say anything that
16:20does not include him, that's all.
16:27Say whatever you want to, but let him be present in all your utterances.
16:38Think of whatever you want to, but let him be present in the stream of your thought,
16:55like scented water, there is scent in the scented water everywhere and water is water,
17:14it would serve its ordinary purposes, you can use it to quench your thirst, you can
17:24use it to take bath, so all the ordinary functions of water are there to be performed,
17:38but nevertheless the water is scented.
17:48Let your thoughts and actions be like scented water.
17:57Let them fulfil their perfunctionary duties, let them meet their usual purpose, but even
18:15as they meet their usual purpose, they should continuously carry the scent of the beyond,
18:26so this is just tea, but in the process of making the tea and sipping the tea, there
18:43still can be the scent of the beyond.
18:54You meet a friend, obviously there is going to be conversation, friends converse, the
19:04conversation is there, like any two usual friends chit-chatting, but can that conversation
19:15carry the scent of the beyond?
19:20So there is the conversation as usual and there is the fragrance of heaven, the husband
19:33and the wife, they will eat meat and fight, let them fight, but can the fight have the
19:47scent of the beyond?
20:04That's recitation, that's recitation, a continuous presence of the holy within which everything
20:29is happening and because everything is happening within the continuous presence of the holy,
20:41everything is rendered holy by the presence.
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