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An evening satsang discourse on Brahmavidyā, the path to self-realization.

"Brahmavidyā is the path to knowledge. Vidyā involves vidhi—the techniques and learning process. The perfection from that learning, the mastery you realize, is called Jñāna, knowledge."

"The highest techniques for awakening dormant human qualities and abilities are found in satsaṅg. Through satsaṅg, even a foolish person can become a great speaker and a wise one."

Following a chanting of the Bhagavad Gītā, the speaker elaborates on Brahmavidyā as the science underlying the Yoga in Daily Life system. He explains the relationship between learning (Vidyā) and realized knowledge (Jñāna), and emphasizes the supreme importance of satsaṅg and guru teachings. The talk explores advanced concepts like astral travel through samādhi, warns against bad company, and advises a balanced approach to practice that avoids bodily torture. Stories of Ṛṣi Vālmīki and analogies about rain and pearls illustrate the teachings, which conclude with a blessing.

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Good evening and blessings to all of you. You have just heard the chanting of the 12th chapter of the Bhagavad Gītā by our students, the Brahmacharis of Viśvadīp Gurukul Ashram in Holy Bharat, Rajasthan. The Bhagavad Gītā is one of the most beautiful and holy texts, an immense source of knowledge. Our subject this summer is Brahmavidyā. Many of you have attended workshops, retreats, or seminars where preliminary kriyās and instructions on Brahmavidyā were given. Brahmavidyā is the path to knowledge. Vidyā is that which you are learning; that is why a place of learning is called a Vidyālaya. What is the difference between Vidyā and Jñāna? Vidyā involves vidhi—the techniques and learning process. The perfection from that learning, the mastery you realize, is called Jñāna, knowledge. Thus, Brahmavidyā leads to ātmā-jñāna, self-realization. Yoga in Daily Life is a science of body, mind, and consciousness. We are fortunate to have this scientific system, based on ancient, authentic literature. Its speciality is the subject of satsaṅg, which contains the highest techniques of yoga. The highest techniques for awakening dormant human qualities and abilities are found in satsaṅg. Through satsaṅg, even a foolish person can become a great speaker and a wise one. The entire satsaṅg is the science of Brahmavidyā, for in satsaṅg, there are the guru vākyas—the teachings. The guru represents all saints from Satyuga until today, who have been researching through meditation—without physical or electronic tools, which have limitations. With the citta that travels with the astral body and beyond, yogīs and ṛṣis were able to discover the entire universe, the caturdaśa loka, the ikṣa brahmāṇḍa, 2100 different solar systems. They discovered this through meditation and two kinds of samādhi: nirvikalpa samādhi and savikalpa samādhi—vikalpa, nirvikalpa, saṅkalpa, nirvikalpa, saṅkalpa. This is the regulation of your wish. When you enter samādhi through Brahmavidyā Kriyās—which we will continue to learn this summer and next—you go with a particular wish, a saṅkalpa, to realize or discover something. This is cervical passama, the samādhi. Samādhi is where knowledge, knower, and object—these three—merge into one. That is samādhi: gayā, jñāna, and gata. What is our aim, our target, our object? We wish to realize that knowledge. So the object, the knower who wishes to know, and the knowledge itself—these three together. In savikalpa-samādhi, you hold these three in your mind, but you must become one with all three to transit your consciousness through the endless universe. Otherwise, it is just talk. If Rāmjī speaks, listen. If Śirsate speaks, accept it. If Rāmjī speaks, you must do penance, sevā, kuś, and tapas. Karna, part I. I am Niamh. Āchar vichār āhar vihar, man, who shake a sookie given kill ye mahā puruṣa need char sādhanā batāyā. Subsea pala āhar tom kyā khāte ho? Yes, a cow and Vesa rega man mario de. La sky good good, or in a good, or in a person, in a bucket, or in a car goes your in a hurry, or a coin cut a go ahead on a. He had a Mario da polio mass beshavara bopper coin guy wanted to play a changeable kawar Maria gay job. Marie will ask at I have skid a. Buddhi-bṛṣṭa, oh, he gave you some of the low. John were cut a man. I’m Dave Nicky cut a heart, just like high on Vesa Rayman. Are we hard car job? I kiss. Satsaṅg is full of many fruits. It has many fruits. Where to go and where not to go? If you go to Kuṣaṅga (bad company), you will be destroyed. If you go to Duṣa, you will be destroyed and in pain for life. Saṅga has many fruits. Where to go for Vihāra? If you go to the wrong Vihāra, you will be in pain for life. He was crying all night long, and his mother had a snake on her head. She told him to take off his clothes. The boy held her hand and said, "I have held your hand." She said, "Did you eat milk?" Isn’t that right? She exposed herself there. So, the great men said, "Where and when should we not go?" How is our behavior? How are our thoughts? Are KCM, yeah. So today, would I? Such a good those couple, but I’ll go. I just so so good that they’ll go got him to see, but short on the a or some a. You see the army, I R, and we are then died. Diet hedging, very, very strong. Great effect on our is pretty true development. Therefore, no me, no date. Bodies who eat date with make the day. We are where to go and where not to go. Who shaṅghār? Sub-center with on and but. Then the distraction is cool shaṅghār, and development is in the sub-center. Sub-center uses techniques of the brim of it that you didn’t lock up about. Brim of it, they are about hot chariot. Are the guru, Śaṅkarācārya, in open each other? The brim of it behind by good guitar that you complete chapter about brim of it. There are eighteen steps of yoga according to the Bhagavad-gītā. Atha yoga-anuśāsanam—now the discipline of yoga begins. Bhakti-yoga, sannyāsī-yoga, karma-yoga—these are all part of the eighteen chapters. The yoga techniques are endless. You are the knower. The knowledge you wish to know is the object. When knower, knowledge, and object become one, then the astral body can take off. The higher the runway, the clearer the signals from the radars, and the better the weather. You can stretch your wings towards Vienna in that beautiful Austrian aeroplane—now known to the whole world. When this becomes clear... At that time, you are carrying two things. Either you have a saṅkalpa, a wish to know something from the universe, which keeps you more connected to your physical body and this material world. When you go into a dream and a mosquito bites you, you wake up immediately. Similarly, no matter on which planet or beyond the solar system your astral body is—cervical per some—you can return to your body instantly, without any time. The speed of our mind, and more than mind, our cetana, and more than cetana, the speed of our astral being, is thousands of times higher than what we call a webcast or anything else. There is no watch that can show us exactly second to second. There is no electronic instrument that can give you a signal here and there at precisely the same instant. Even with a computer beside you, there is a delay of a few seconds. If that will be in this pre-trial, in meditation, that is some kind of... Delay? We not so guy got destruction. Oh yeah, I got anything can cervical, but some are the nearly got by. Some are the means no any more reach. You just go, you get the knowledge, you bring the knowledge, but no particular reach. At the same time, the body is but effectively protected by your or guards, spiritual in. There is a story from Vālmīki. He was an Ādivāsī, a tribesman. Ṛṣi Vālmīki was from a tribe and worked stealing to earn money, more or less like a criminal. But then the great Ṛṣi Nārada met him and changed his entire life. Ṛṣi Vālmīki sat in meditation for years, thousands of years it is said. Termites built their mound over his body. Under that termite mound, there were snakes and different animals. Yet, Vālmīki’s body was not damaged; he sat there. If it is true that his body was not damaged by any creatures, he just had prāṇa flowing through. He was a bit weaker than you all because he did not eat. All Europeans think Ayurveda will make us immortal. Even Hanumanjī, who brought the immortal jāḍībūṭīs, was not immortal. So, eat and relax, meditate and pray, and enjoy the spiritual journey into the universe. Do not torture your body. By torturing the body and twisting it into different postures, you will not attain liberation. That is merely a theater: "I can do this posture, I can do that posture." That is for bodybuilders. God, but I know I could be, but I don’t believe. All right, when he rocked over the hillock, Amarā Bāul who scooped? He can sit. All Bāul was good, all about your most guy, and more and more capital of. A great one never said, "I’m a great one." So who can show that? Look, my posture: I can stay with one hand and my three legs up. A dog comes quickly and says, "Look, my one leg up and three legs down, I can also show." You see, yoga is different. "Karmasu kauśalam"—through skill in action, through karma yoga, you will be successful. Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said that those who, through yoga, have burned their karma become the siddha, the accomplished yogī. Brahmavidyā is within every śāstra, every grantha. It is the knowledge where knower and object... to some of these, a little bit, kalpa and cervical person. Before that, there are little kind. Of some of these, lay somebody suddenly, while singing bhajan, you go in some, or that’s called power samādhi. They are, the do gets up and they dancing when we are singing, but in some, man gets up and begin to dance. That’s called power samādhi. Never say why. Now I see why do you can take non-suttony. She will become busy because she really doesn’t know to whom she should look. Never go there. Now, Krishna is completely busy, but when Lord Krishna sees his face, he goes here. When Lord Krishna sees his face, he goes here. But what do you think of the checker? I’d like to get hard, not to get rid of them, making dancing inside our heart that dot the mark. That it domestic song for this month, in that this time, beautiful pop song was on the side may not have been. My heart, you don’t think was cool? Many-hearted dancing seat, how is the song of Śravaṇa? Śrāvaṇa kā mahīnā pāvan kar sor, merā hī dar jho, mein aise jāise van mein nāse mor. Bol so, "I wanna come money now, but I wanna got a so me right here at a deal." May yes a day see, but I mean I G more very good part, saw a very small way happy person. He sings, "I will come and not be seen this hour." This is not one month because I just need a beautiful rain to come. But when it does, so how nice, the breeze, the wind, the rain comes at night, a whole nice cool breeze. My heart is dancing, and all the partners are dancing happily. You saw that last night at one o'clock, the rain came. Everyone woke up, everyone was happy. Nobody could sleep. However, our heart is dancing, like a peacock dancing in the forest. Similarly, a bhakta’s heart dances in the name of the divine Gurudev, God. Not externally—that is madness. I used to dance in the forest. External display is a business to attract people. We will also attract people so that more may come. Over yet? I might give technique. Tell who he first, that means, and then will. But the, but give it. And Mara’s look at Bob, we have this a big bug, but get back up. I got a lot of a bionic by anyone at all. Do that. Such a thing, what I want to have to buy, developers not to you, yeah, big Mahāpolice, but, but, and that I have. When a speaker is speaking, there should be no noise, no instruments playing, and no one should get up and move. If everyone is looking around, they cannot concentrate. That is why in English we say, "Be silent." When you are silent, then each and every drop of your ātmā... the mīl or give out... mice? Great use, small eat like a poll, papaya up, you pew pew, papaya up on in a peak, I... That being drinks. It wishes to drink only direct water from the rain, or like that fish which gives the best pearl—it receives a direct drop from the ocean. That yields the best quality pearls. So, Brahma-jñāna, which we are going to practice further, involves knowledge, the object of knowledge, and the subject—you. You should keep your body healthy; do not torture it. Take care of your body. Practice classical yogic postures, āsanas, according to the scientific system of Yoga in Daily Life. Very soon, we will have a daily lesson on our webcast, showing exactly how it should be performed perfectly. Then, "Brahma with the I" will dwell in the Brahmajñānī. The brāhmaṇa, the true brahmin, is the one who knows Brahman. It is just wrote that he has had to go to the, but even I got the idea pre-registered, got to argue with traveling and giving the preaching. This would be any split the car, not only is what we did in the wildlife. One can keep listening through our webcast, especially from some programs in Europe. Every day, one or two lectures on Brahmavidyā will be available. That is something great. I wish you all the best, my dear ones, here and there, anywhere in the world. God bless you. Yoga is not for demonstration, like acrobatics in a circus. No torturing. Be gentle. The body needs gentle care, not harsh treatment. That is why it is called wellness—awareness of wellness. It is not a torturing taste; it is wellness. Wellness brings body, mind, and soul into harmony. Eat, drink, work, meditate, practice āsanas, prāṇāyāma, satsaṅg, and adhyāya (study). Eating together in one place is like a bandarā; it is called laṅgar or sāmu. There, Annapūrṇā comes herself, and even Bhagavān Śiva goes begging for food at her door. You prayer and a poor knee sadha, poor knee Shankar prana, one away John, where are you? Siddhartha mbiksham matata, Devo pita bandhava below. I get them at the pool, and I made, I’m. Before eating, there are two things. First, to invite the divine elements, divine energy, or God, who provides and blesses us with this food. Secondly, when we are about to sit and food is placed before us, our appetite awakens. At that time, when we chant, the solar plexus, the Maṇipūra chakra, begins to work. Therefore, after chanting, your food will be properly distributed in the body. Om Pūrṇam Adaḥ Pūrṇam Idaṃ Pūrṇāt Pūrṇam Udacyate Pūrṇasya Pūrṇam Ādāya Pūrṇam Evāvaśiṣyate. What is the meaning of "Māra Ek Purī"? Keep two. Pūrṇam Veda Pūrṇāt Pūrṇam Ādhyate Pūrṇasya. He doesn’t sit straight. His stomach hurts. Yes, that’s it. He doesn’t look at Māra Ek Purī. What is the meaning of Māra Ek Purī and Māra Ek Purī? He is not looking at Thali. He is looking at Bhajan. Therefore, our spiritual energy arrives there. That time becomes mahāprasād. Secondly, when you chant all together, our Maṇipūra chakra, our solar plexus, becomes active. The appetite increases. All the stomach's juices and everything begin waiting—they are workers waiting. The soul... so goes from here, and then prāṇa, apāna, samāna, vyāna, and udāna—all these five prāṇas begin to supply the good things there and here. Then come the fine qualities of nourishment; that is an upa prāṇa. There are five prāṇas and five upa prāṇas. These are all subjects of Brahmavidyā. Today, I would like to wish you all the best, a good evening, and the divine blessings of Bhagavān Śrīdīp Nānā Mahāprabhujī. Until next time—tomorrow, according to Holy Bharat time, our 8 o'clock webcast. Om śāntiḥ śāntiḥ... Sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ, sarve santu nirāmayāḥ, sarve bhadrāṇi paśyantu, mā kaścid duḥkha bhāg bhavet. Om śāntiḥ śāntiḥ... Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Bāsmātī Kar Lū.

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