Speech of HH Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji in the morning – November 19, 2014 – Princess Town, Trinidad
Jaya Guru Datta
Harihi Om Tatsat
Sri Guru Datta
Jaya Guru Datta
During this month, Narayana smarana/remembrance of Lord Narayana, singing Narayana bhajans, and chanting Narayana mantras are very important. Narayana’s Dasavataras/ten incarnations are very powerful. Very powerful mantras are” Lakshmi Narayana, Suryanarayana, Satyanarayana – all these are Narayana mantras to protect our bodies and our homes. Satyanarayana puja, vrata, and katha/story are very important to perform in temples and in our homes. You can perform this vrata. If it is difficult to do it at home, you can do it once a month in the temple. You can book in advance, including your friends. You can continue for as long as you want, no calculation or restriction for number of times you can perform. As long as you have the facility, do it. After Satyanarayana katha, you eat Satvic food without onion or garlic. Only some rice, roti, some sweet, a little vegetable. Do naivedyam to Satyanarayana.
Datta murti is Satyanarayana. The center is Lord Maha Vishnu for Datta. The three avataras are in Dattatreya, including also Brahma and Siva. The most powerful is Narayana who is in the middle. Narayana means Bhagavatam. South Indian people and North Indian people also, in every home Bhagavata katha is read and listened to. In 7 days the story is read. Now Swamiji is doing a series for 4 years about Bhagavatam on TV in an elaborate way. The 10th chapter of Bhagavatam about Krishna’s birth and his childhood activities are described. Read your English version of this part of Bhagavatam. We cannot all visit Dwaraka or Mathura or Brindavana. We visited last year. We made a katha. 12,000 people accompanied Swamiji to Mathura and Ayodhya also. Bala Swamiji also tells the stories. Do Satyanarayana puja.
Since you took a human life, don’t waste this good chance. There is some purpose to this human life. It is not for only eating, drinking, having children, fighting, having a house, and dying. This is not our job. Fighting, misunderstanding, quarreling, hospital, court, house, money re-distribution are all nonsense. No use for all this. If you go to that higher court, you are asked what you did on this earth. We cannot answer. I quarreled, went to court, splitting house, babies, and finished.
This relationship is very rare. You don’t know who you are, who is your husband, who is your relative, who are your children, whatever connection you have with them, it is only until death. After death you don’t know the connection. Where is your child? Where is your house? Where is your money? Where is your fight? No one. No brother. No sister. No father. No court. It is not good.
We are satsanga people. We follow Sadguru. We are satvic, sadhu/gentle, silent people. We are satisfied people. Sometimes our ego, our desire, anger, passion, greed, envy, arrogance, jealousy, our animal behavior, ambition, possessiveness, come out. You must fight your karma, your ego, and all your inner enemies. You have a gold watch. After you die, who will take it? No guarantee. Okay. God has given such a beautiful husband, beautiful child, beautiful small house, beautiful relations, okay. Nice. Be quiet. Be polite. Be without ego.
You are witnessing so many people dying, fighting till old age. Who is the loser? That soul is the loser. Not the outside people. Outside some people are crying and some are laughing. You yourself are the loser. So, don’t lose. I want you to gain something. Find out about Bhakti/devotion, Jnana/spiritual knowledge, and Truth. You must learn more. You don’t know which place is ours. Our forefathers were in India. They came here. We did not want but they came. We took birth here. So we are adjusting in this country. We do work here. We are satvic people. We do bhajans, and satsanga.
We are respecting our dharma. We follow dharma as much as possible. Our dharma is a great dharma. So, don’t lose this dharma. Other dharmas do not have rituals like this. They sit, pray, eat and leave. No communication with God. It is only like military prayers. Compare for yourselves and you will understand. Their own dharma may be good, no problem. If you took birth as a Hindu, maintain it. Don’t change your mind, your attitude, or your body. There are no rules and regulations if someone else wants to come to our dharma. All are welcome. But if you go to another dharma, there are rules and regulations. After that no devotion. Only quantity and there is no quality. The two should go together, quality and quantity. You know about this.
We give respect to other dharmas. Because we feel that they are all our brothers and sisters. Our dharma tells us to respect other dharmas. Don’t hesistate. Don’t quarrel. They are calling Allah and Jesus. I am calling Siva. My Siva is capable of taking those forms as Allah and Jesus. Their God is capable of taking this form as Siva. What you believe in, is our Siva. Your Jesus is also is my Siva. God can take any form.
We are all Vedantis. Without murti we pray. We don’t want any image. Our heart is our temple. We don’t want temple building and sitting there. Our traveling temple inside our heart we want. So many different forms and finally He is formless. What is God’s actual form? He is formless. Minus zero. Nothing. Only space. God is everywhere. God is light. Agni/Fire. We don’t want to put our hands in it. We get burned. Very powerful agni.
Water is very powerful. If we go to the ocean, and enter it, we cannot fathom or surface. We cannot enter agni, an active volcano. God is like a volcano, an ocean, like air. God is like rains, like space. Our God is Truth. Our God is silence, politeness, dharma, without ego. Our God is without form. Our God has all forms. This earth, and other planets are also our God. He is Surya, Bhaskara/the sun, He is giving light always. He is the ocean, air, space, and fire, if you close your eyes, and chant Omkara. After one hour, there is no Omkara also. You feel sleepy. No problem. Sleep. You are flying in Omkara. He is Viswaroopa/form or the Universe, and He is Viswagarbha/holding the Universe in His womb.
God is in my body. He is protecting. I am free from fear. Anything that happens is by God’s wish. Whether I am screaming or laughing, it is all by God’s wish. If I am speaking and if you are hearing me and following, it is all God’s wish. Everything is in His hands. We are all puppets. Puppets have no movements; they have no voice.
Somebody gives them voice and movements. We are watching this puppet show. We are applauding. It is all a real show. But if you go deeply, it is not a real show. It is only a puppet show. My grandfather was a puppet. He is gone. No maintenance. One puppet is lost. Where is your uncle? That puppet also is lost. There is nobody. Only photos. So many photos. Why? No maintenance. Whose responsibility is it? God’s. They are His puppets, what He was showing.
What I am saying is: We are all puppets in your hands, O God. Please forgive us. We have done mistakes due to our ego. Our inner enemies like desire, greed, anger, envy, arrogance, delusion have made us commit mistakes. Please God, show me light. Give me light. Give me Jnana/spiritual wisdom. I want to rise higher. Here, way below, it is not good. I give respect here. With your company I want to be uplifted.
In the beginning Swamiji said: Do Satyanarayana Vrata in your house or in the temple.
I am happy.
Jaya Guru Datta
Sri Guru Datta
Om Namo Narayanaya
Sri Guru Datta