Speeches of HH Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji – November 21, 2014 – Carapichaima , Trinidad
Speech in the morning
Jaya Guru Datta
Sri Guru Datta
Jaya Guru Datta
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Jai Veera Hanuman ki Jai – Bajaranga bali ki Jai
So we are all children of Lord Hanuman. He gives good and bad. Don’t suffer. Take happily as a good challenge. In Penal and South I was there for 4 days. There were powerful vibrations. Here there are different vibrations. There is a special energy here, a powerful energy is here.
Maruti, Koti surya teja Maruti is here. What does it mean? Ordinary meaning is: koti is ten million. He has the radiance of 10 million suns. But it is not the correct meaning. Koti means countless. That is another meaning. That is without mathematics. Countless rays. How many rays? You cannot calculate, the number of rays even from a battery light. Lord Hanumanta. Lord Surya. Lord Moon. Stars. All give rays of light. But the rays do not come from them. Not according to Vedanta.
In Vedanta way, in His focus the atoms automatically take light. Light is not coming from Surya. Surya is only burning. His job is not giving light to the different directions. Science thinks that a man-made battery light is coming from the flash light/torch. We think that torch gives light with the help of electricity. That is our scientific statement. But Surya/the Sun is not man-made. He is self-effulgent. He generates light out of himself.
Who is He? He is invisible. The Atman. The Parama-Atman. It means beyond Atman. Transcending the Atman. Behind and beyond. Paramatma is not a god at all. He is formless. He has no taste, no heat, no cold, no light, no dark. Parmatman is with form or formless. His taste is tasteless. How many miles? He is everywhere. You, I everywhere, that light is always there. It is not coming and going. Paramatma’s energy is neither coming nor going. He is tasteless. Such a transcendental energy is Paramatman. Who is He?
Who am I? You are nothing. No address. After 100 years no address. after 1000 years, no history also. History also is lost. You become the formless Paramatma. No? Take birth in this shape again? Never. That status we want. Vedanta says our journey, our destination, the last station is Parmatma. We want to stay back with Paramatman. We don’t want to keep coming back. Slowly this buddhi (intellect) also took a little bit of form. Buddhi, Paramatma, sense organs are they all separate? No. There is confusion.
No coming. No going. Everywhere. No taste. I agree. Final destination. I agree. But what is final? No particular place. Place itself is Paramatman. Spaceless is Paramatman.
Who am I?
Big problem to solve, this question. What is this karma? Why I took birth? Why death? Why suffering? Who is the one crying, laughing, suffering? …
What is love? What is affection? What is jealousy? What is hate? What is this drama, this Creation? Always a question mark. No solution. No result. What can we do? Sometimes we are questioning ourselves. Why? After death, what is my job? Before my birth, where was I? Where was my house? Where is my grandfather? No grandfather? No mother. No father. You also know, one day … Why I am thinking nonsense? I don’t want to think. Vedanta is a disease, I think. Psychological crack, I think.
Vedanta also says, think only about yourself. If you know something, new questions come. So, better don’t think. Knowledge is necessary, but knowledge cannot analyze. That is why our saints say. With your karma, with your intellect, your sense organs, you can think about your Self, your surroundings only. That is dhyana (meditation).
Om. Who am I? Om. Am I buddhi? Om. Who am I? Am I my nose, my ear, my hair? Who am I?
We are all flying with this earth. Because the earth is a part of our body. Body is like mud, bones are like stones, blood is like flowing water. My real mother is the earth. We came from the earth and we return to the earth. Garuda Purana says that this body belongs to this earth. So it is not necessary to think about this body. It goes back to its own house. After 10,000 years, even the bones are shrinking, disintegrating, and only a small part is left. Mother Earth will not lose its own property.
What about buddhi? Buddhi is only waves. No form. Powerful waves, slow waves means slow buddhi, sleepy buddhi, then angry buddhi, cracky buddhi. This intellect is acting in so many ways, bad and good. How to control this Intellect? Jeevatman controls this buddhi. It is inhalation and exhalation. That jeevatman is controlling this intellect. Sometimes these two are quarreling. How can I control? Practice high thinking, polite thinking. We don’t know which is our planet. We are one human group. We came as a group.
Yesterday I saw humming birds. I sat for half an hour, one hour watching them. Their own work is going on. group work. After 7 years they die. We mix with one group. We say hi, bye. It is all only temporary. Jaya Guru Datta, how are you? Good night. Temporary connections. Come and go. Control your buddhi through your jeevatman. This jeevatman goes to Paramatma. Jeevatma that this body is its property. When this property is given back to the earth, the Jeevatma goes back.
Rays come. automatically they hide. We think the ray has gone back. No. something is hidden like this. We think this is science. NO. It is God’s Creation. We think the ray is closed like a flower. No.
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No feeling. no actions. no color. Paramatma is always there. Jeevatma mixes with this kirana/ray.
Next class is later. We will see afterwards. This is very tough Vedanta. Tough travel for Jeevatma. It is very difficult to understand. This is one part of Vedanta. Close your eyes. Don’t fall down. Be aware. Who am I? What is my journey? What is the prana sound? My breath, heart sound, blood flowing like rivers, what kind of ocean? Any nama you think. We need to control; that is why take support of nama. Only one light you visualize. Or look at it. Light will always stay. The light with your energy will exchange your connection. Even with air, the light will be steady. It is not miracle. Do meditation. Study. Test it. Do meditation. Don’t sleep. If you sleep, no use for your meditation. Your meditation is spoilt. Too much eating, talking, work, strain, automatically you sleep. Too much struggle, jealousy, you sleep. You must control these types of hindrances to your meditation. You see agni jwala (a flame of light), that jyoti, practice seeing. After closing your eyes, the light is always in your buddhi. No thinking, no japa, no mantra. Mantra is only in the beginning.
Slowly, no more mantra chanting. Only inside japa. Then that is also closed. Only silence. Last month we had classes in Germany and last year in Switzerland. 200 people in one class. 6 hours, pin drop silence. Small children also sitting. No coffee, no tea, less eat, good sleep, no phone ringing, no time, no itching. Clean body, daily twice head bath, no spices, full stomach, good protein fruits, plenty of sleep 7-8 hours, sip water only a little bit.
You people, I don’t know. I don’t think you can do it. You will be defeated. Your mind is always filled with so many bad things. You must control that. Which is the sleeping state? Practice that with awareness. That is meditation. Deep sleep with awareness is meditation. You practice. It is good penance. Very powerful penance. I like it very much. Possible or impossible? Lie is also possible. You practice and tell. You must hope to do it.
You are capable. You are sitting here for 3-4 hours. So you are capable of meditation. In bhajan, you sit and sit. For meditation, chair, sofa, padmasana (lotus pose), no problem. Comfortable pose or posture. Any pose. Only that pose you continue for six hours. That is why decide for yourself which pose. Don’t keep changing your position. You must control your body. He is a big saint or scientist if he can sit without moving for so many hours. That is the result, the achievement – Asana siddhi, mantra siddhi. Don’t think. You are sitting here but your mind is running to your car, to your house. You must control. Your body, buddhi, and jeevatma – keep all in one place. That is meditation. Keeping them different is not meditation. That is cheating yourself. Jeevatma, intellect, and sense organs are all in your control. A little practice is necessary. Control speech. Control food. Then if you sit for meditation, within half an hour you are going somewhere. This earth is Paramatman. You are included in the Paramatman.
Om namo hanumate namaha
Om namo hanumate namaha
Sri Bajarangabali ki Jai
May be next year, 12th year, there is a gigantic program in the ashrama. You must cooperate, and coordinate. We will win. We are all the same, Hanuman’s children.
Sri Guru Datta
Speech in the evening
Jaya Guru Datta
Harihi Om Tatsat
Sri Guru Datta
Jaya Guru Datta
A very good idea the MMS – Musical Message Sayings. Daily 45,000 people are reading the MMS. This is the third year running. Each year we are using a different method, social, spiritual, musical, and also some other different, different subjects. It is very necessary to read. Only 3-4 lines and some good quotations.
You go ahead with this book and go through these quotations, you will understand, and my be your question will be answered in this book. Vedanta, Purana essence is given in only one or two lines. From each of Swamiji’s speeches, discourses, Katha, like Bhagavata katha, bhajans, advices, 3-4 devotees always taking quotations. Each day 200-300 quotations are produced. Concentration is very important with Swamiji’s speeches, bhajans, and all activities. These quotations are for your proper understanding in your daily life.
If you go through Vedanta, you cannot understand. For beginners it is a tough subject, Vedanta, Bhagavad Gita, Purana, Mahabharatha, Bible or Quoran. If you simply read them, so many questions and so many doubts are raised.
Who will give the answers? If you go through the same books repeatedly, the book will have the answers for your questions. Any religion, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Christianity, Islam, in the beginning you don’t understand.
When you study deeply again and again you will understand that it is only one tatva (spiritual principle), one moral, one God, there is no separation. It is the same – that is the conclusion. It is very difficult to come to that conclusion. Still there are doubts and questions again and again. In the Bhagavatam there is a conversation between Lord Krishna and Uddhava. For 124 years, throughout his entire life, Krishna cleared so many doubts. Even at the last moment Uddhava was asking about doubts.
We are all human beings. It is normal to have doubts. It is natural. So, as much as possible, read good books, seek good advice, attend good satsang, have good spiritual association, and do good meditation. Believe in yourself, believe in God, don’t have doubts and questions.
Jnana is like an ocean. No end. Knowledge is like a ball, no end, and no beginning. Like a round ball shape. The beginning is like the end and the end is like the beginning. We begin bhajans and when we sing mangalam, we think it is the end. But the end is the beginning. There is no permanent end. Always it is the beginning. It is repeating. If you get tired, you can stop. But Jnana is never tired. It is always there.
Different kinds of roots we have. We can choose any root, any taste. Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, Bhagavatam, Tulasi Ramayana, Sundara Kanda, Hanuman Story, all have different tastes. You select for yourself. You want silence. Okay. Go ahead. Silent prayer is also God. Service of humanity and service of nation, social activities, it does not matter, go ahead. After some time , slowly you want to find out who am I? You will come back to the spiritual way. There are different ways of spiritual teaching and different types of moral support. If you do not practice, your children will not practice. Believe or not believe, this drama will become a truth. Your children also will believe, and will practice truth.
Don’t say that you do not believe in God. After you grow old, you will ask, what is this maya (illusion)? It is better to begin with something. Somebody was asking where is God? How do you get association with God? One who says I do not believe in God will become the first devotee. One who says he believes in God, and is a great devotees, thanks, but some day, he will lose his belief. Such people think that God is their own servant. But you are the servant, not God. You think, daily I am chanting Ram rama rama. You are demanding from God, you must protect me Rama. I am suffering. So I do not believe in you. You are the loser. Not God. Not Rama. It is your loss. Something is missing.
Without asking, pray. That is nishkama karma, prayer without desire. Don’t ask any questions, wishes, demands, or boons. Simply leave it to God to give what He wants, for you in life, your children, your health, your knowledge.
Don’t demand. If you demand, so many questions will arise, and one day you may go mad. Without question, without a business attitude, you pray. You do decoration in puja and ask give me something. Without puja or decoration also He is beautiful. Without special abhishekam also He is clean.
Rains come automatically. Are you controlling? Morning the sun rises and light is coming. Who is controlling? Air is blowing. Who is controlling? At night you keep some small lights and you pay a bill for that. In the morning so much light comes automatically. Who is paying the bill? Which company? Surya Company? Bhaskara Company? You put a small fan, your bill is increasing. This big fan, this breeze is coming. Are you paying a bill for it? Air, rains, sunrise, moonlight, breeze, sunlight. Who is paying the bills?
Earth Mother is giving natural food. Even if you do not cultivate, earth is giving some different type of food to save your life. That is why God is great. He is giving air, food, and light. Why do you keep begging? You should only beg for Jnana, knowledge. Silly desires simply are not good. Leave it up to God to do what He wants.
This is a beautiful booklet, I am very happy. A very good devotee of Appaji. Her idea is very good. Especially the birds in this. The birds have good sense. They have human feelings. We need this booklet.
Vinayaka is the beginning sound. We give form. He is only sound. No form. Big letter.
Bhajan: Jai Ganesha herambha
This bhajan gives the full story of Ganapati. Hindi language is our mother tongue. Sanskrit and Hindi, we must learn. After that any other language like English.
Bhajan: Ambe ambe Vaishnavi
In 8 lines the whole story of Mother Goddess is in this bhajan.
Bhajans: Chala sakhyanu, Pavo sharana, Rama namaki, Pavana nandana
Sarvecha ..
Sri Guru Datta