Speech of HH Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji on Christmas eve – UPH Mysore – December 24, 2012
Hari om tat sat
Jaigurudatta srigurudatta
Om namo hanumathe namaha
Merry christmas! And happy new year! And happy datta jayanthi! Happy hanumath jayanthi!
There is a trinity. Three festivals at same time we are very lucky Datta devotees. Especially at this place and this time, very precious time. I am very happy. Very happy to see messages songs. Similarly all stories like this if you go bhagavata, mahabharata, krishna’s birth. They all are very happy time. Rama’s birth also very happy time. So like a merry (Jesus Chirst birth), also very happy time. There are so many festivals with different messages. Especially new messages. New age people. We need and it is necessary to learn the new messages. Finally we are searching jnana (knowledge ) not moksha, bliss/happiness. We are searching for happiness! Hapiness! Maybe you feel this human incarnation of yours is waste. NO it is very precious. Human being (birth ) is very precious. Very lucky. If you go to animals, they have only 3-4 senses but human beings have 6 senses. Maybe in mahatmas/saints there are 7 senses. So finally you all pray to lord Datta and Hanumantha to give you good sens. Good jnana and good bliss and to lead us from darkness to light.
The Significance of the Christmas tree is that you are growing and growing. You are not dead. Some people say death is dead. NO death means making way for growing next birth, next birth … utill you get the highest birth.. that is salvation. Some people get salvation soon. Some people get late. Some people with good sadhana and good Guru, they get salvation in 2-3 births. Some people 10 births, etc.
In indian customs, there is a game called “parama-pada-sopana” (snake and ladder game). Parama-pada is ladder. Sopana is steps. We are going step by step, but suddenly ignorance (agnana) comes into us and we fall down (like the snake eats). Again we start from zero. We roll the dices, we need the number one, but the dices dont give that number. The snake eats us and again we fall down and start from zero. This falling down and starting from zero happens so many times. IT IS VERY RARE TO WIN. We take so many births like “parama-pada-sopana ” (just we reach high but when the dice when rolled gives the wrong number, then the snake eats us and we start all over … similarly the births). It is a different game. WE are all very safe in a big cage or a big tree where we get some shadow, fruits and flowers. Such tree in indian philosophy is called Dharma Vruksha (tree of righteousness). You must follow what your Guru says.
Once again, it is festival today. I am very happy. We are all One. There is some difference like different taste, different path. It does not matter as our goal is the same. Some people take ship, some swim, some take flight, some walk, some people sit and travel to atma with meditation, so it does’t matter, we all are jogging. So take suitcase and travel, travel, travel. Two suitcases are there. One is good merit and the other is good sin? Oh good sin?? Like a good ghost. So we are always travelling and travelling.
I am very happy. About birds also. Inner meaning we can’t understand. We follow only happy and follow only. Support birds programs.
Courtesy: Sridhar Matukumalli