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The nature of Vikara

The anatomy of vikāra and the flow of knowledge is the topic. Human bodies share the same construction, yet distinctions create vikāra. Physical vikāra is the body’s material nature. Mental vikāra includes desire, anger, greed, delusion, pride. Jñāna protects by guiding conduct, diet, and thought. Sāttvic food is prescribed, yet anger can still explode like popcorn from heat. Another popcorn expands limitlessly from joy. A jñānī remains unshaken even under attack, offering the other cheek. Intellectual knowledge alone is noisy and ego-strengthening. A principal mocked God to a meditating yogi. The yogi, slightly stirred, showed God hung tiny cherries on large branches and huge melons on thin vines. Divine sense lies beyond intellect. Suppressed anger burns the Mūlādhāra Cakra. Expressing and releasing anger quickly prevents tension. Antaḥkaraṇa impurities must be purified. The body inevitably returns to earth, so inner purification is essential.

“Jñāna is one of the best protectors for our life.”

“Knowledge is that knowledge where there is no ignorance.”

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Devādidev Deveśvar Mahādev Kī Jai, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānjī Bhagavān Kī Jai, Satyasanātan Dharma Kī Jai, Alakhpurījī Mahādev Kī Jai, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvarānanda, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvarānanda… Vishvaguru Devā Kī Jai. Good evening. Was it a good day? How was the anatomy? I didn’t mean your anatomy. Okay, yours is also very good. So, we are all human here, for example. And look how God has done, or prakṛti, nature, has done the construction of our body. It doesn’t matter—old or young, Europeans, Chinese, Japanese, or Africans—the construction of the human body, eyes, ears, the hearing system, vision, nose, inhalation, prāṇas—that’s very, very interesting. The blood, the blood colour, organs, all are the same. Why do we make a difference? And then it’s called vikāra. And vikāra is also in everyone. It’s not easy to remove the vikāra. Physical vikāra is whatever physical material exists in this body—solid, liquid, etc. So even our bones are vikāra, the bone called asthi, all kinds of liquid, in whichever form, that comes from the water element, the flesh or the muscles. Our knees, ankle joints, hip joints, spine, etc., getting old or used, become vikāra. But though it is not permanent, yet if you see the anatomy of our thumb or the fingers, only this much part of the body, as our thumb, what a science is in it. And why did God give this? To feel comfortable. To be able to do everything, but use it in a good way. Similarly, there is mental vikāra. That is not visible. We are all dormant under our intellect. Krodha, krodha is that thief which will steal everything from your door. Kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, ahaṅkāra—ahaṅkāra also. These are all we can have under control or make them weaker. And for that, many, many techniques have been given. Jñāna, jñāna is one of the best protectors for our life. What to do and what not to do is in Āhār, Vihār, Āchār, Vichār. First comes from Āhār. Nourishment. And nourishment is called sāttvic food, and when you make a sāttvic… what we should eat, what we should not eat. Even to protect oneself from these vikāras, onion is not good, garlic is not good. But for people who don’t eat garlic and onions, I have experienced many times that their anger is like, you know, popcorn. When you put a corn kernel on a hot pan, within no time, it pops up, it explodes, and it becomes popcorn. Phūlā ho jātā hai. So there are two kinds of popcorn. One comes out of anger, jealousy, hate, humiliation, etc. And the second, out of happiness, for everyone. It doesn’t matter—humans or animals, flowers, nature, bees, good food, good taste. Now, it means they come up like popcorn. It was a solid, but that heat expands. From that popcorn technique, the bombs are exploding. Technology has learned how popcorn comes—small or big, explosive. But it has its limitations: 100 metres, 200 metres, 10 metres, 2 metres, etc. But happiness, from happiness, from joy, that kind of expanding is limitless. So we say it has no border. Kuśyanka? happiness now, besides from the vikāra, which is in the mind, in the mental vikāra. Immediately, you are jealous of someone. Why is this translator sitting next to him every day? But you don’t know, Prem Lata has been with me for two years. And every day, in the evening, at home, she would sing a song for me. Which song? Even, it doesn’t matter where I was, but she was always—her mother, her father, when they brought her into the bed, she was singing, “Good night, Swamiji.” So, anyhow, we—not only the humans—these are called meat-eater flowers. Where the bird, the bee, or the animal sits, it closes. Do you know this? Do you know them? In your lips, there are sweet words, smiling, but in your armpit you have a knife. So these are the vikāras. And when there is jñāna, then it doesn’t matter. Even if someone beats you with shoes on your head, the jñānī will not become angry. And that’s what also Jesus said: if someone gives a slap on your cheek, don’t fight against, but offer the second cheek. Who has this kind of energy and power to endure? There are rarely any Christians who are following Christianity. Who saw the chick? We didn’t see the chick; we saw the gun. And when he saw the gun, it was fun for him. That’s it. So, Jñāna, Jñāna Kī Gaṅgā Behtī Hai, there is a flow of the river of knowledge, so actually the purpose of practicing yoga, and meditations, and prayers, and yajñas, the mantras, yantras, tantras, everything. And that is for becoming a human, that kind of human, what we think as the divine, as self-realized. As a wise person, and in wisdom, there are different kinds of knowledge, and a very great learned person, if someone says, “Ah, that was a stupid lecture,” will become very angry. Abhishek Khorak, so the intellectual knowledge is called a bean without anything inside, because the moth has eaten the inside. Empty beans make more sound, but this intellectual knowledge makes a person more egoistic. Proudness is called self-fishing, self-prizing. So one day, a scientific principle, the principle of science—science must have some sense—and that one scientist who has scientific knowledge, if he does not understand the sense of science, and if he doesn’t understand the meaning of science, then it’s nonsense. So, and then, in principle, he went for a walk in the forest. A nice park, beautiful park. And there were beautiful big trees and beautiful cherries. Ripe cherries. Can you close your eyes now? Close your eyes and imagine a very nice heart, a big, cherry-red heart. And it falls into your lap. Now, you take this cherry in the mouth, bite it, and the juice explodes in your mouth. Don’t swallow too quickly. Okay. So there was one yogī sitting there under the cherry tree. A big cherry tree, it was about 10 metres. And the principal had a hat and a walking stick, an English gentleman. And he saw one yogī meditating. Every day. When he goes for a walk, he sees that when a yogī is meditating under the tree—the same tree—the principal, he studies, primary school, middle school, high school, college, university, everything. No one knows. So the principal had in his heart mercy, compassion. To do something for this stupid man, I should teach him something. So he goes, walks towards this person who is meditating. And then he was doing prāṇāyāma. The principal thought, he must be mad. He said, “Man, what are you doing here?” He said, “I am meditating, remembering, Bhagavān kā nāma smaraṇa kartā hū, I remember, repeat the name of God.” He said, “Who is God? Where is God? How is God? What does He eat? What does He drink? What does He look like? Where is that? There is no God.” So, the stronger your intellect, the more your spirituality goes down. God has no senses. He said, “What do you say? God has no sense?” The yogī took his bāla under the neck. And he said, “What do you say, that God has no knowledge? No common sense.” Then he was angry a little bit. The practitioner of yoga, the yogī, said, “My vikāra comes out a little bit.” A little bit angry, not very angry. He said, “Sir, what is the proof that God has no sense?” The yogī had good vivekā, like our Paṇḍitjī. Immediately he knows when some ancestors are attacking over there, he already says, “Guru Dev.” So he said the mantra. That yogī said. The yogī said, “Guru Dev. This poor man, this innocent man, a foolish man with dry knowledge, God, give him some lesson.” So when such a time comes, then God definitely gives to you. Jogī said. No, no, it’s not no. Can you imagine what your science will tell if God would have hung such a big melon on the top? Kumbha, what would have happened to your melon? Your entire science, all the universities and colleges and what you have learned, all is gone. Then he said, “Oh yes, we must research this.” He said, “Sir, it is not necessary to research.” There is something, so it is. What are the vikāras in our body? There are certain centres in the body, like cakras. Cakras, also in the brain centres, in the heart centres, they are also holding that kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, ahaṁkāra, all many, many things, and many other things: jealousy, anger, hate, etc. You see, those are not killed, but even humans are killing humans. We should have that heart. So, practicing yoga, or as you call it, as a religious person reading the holy books, but if someone talks a little against, or something happens, or you come a little late, then you are angry. Then, this vidyā is nothing. Vidyā is that which we call vidyā. Viddhyā is that viddhyā where there is no aviddhyā. Knowledge is that knowledge where there is no ignorance. Light is light, not darkness, and we go close to the light to read or see. And darkness will always be darkness. Therefore, understand what we are doing. First, understand your body. Understand the whole anatomy of the body. I don’t want to tell you that you should drink alcohol and eat meat. But sometimes these people are more calm than those vegetarians. So this is having the tāmasic guṇas in the body, tāmasic energy in the body. We call it kāma, the power of desire. How much strength? A person who is very weak has more anger, and a person who has more strength has less anger. So the anger is sitting in certain cakras, and a person who cannot express that, if you are angry, you are angry, but you don’t open. If you are angry, then you should tell it, it was finished, Hari Om. Don’t always chew like chewing gum. Yes, just swallow it, finish, digest, and it will go away. So those who take in and make the tension in the body immediately attack your Mūlādhāra Cakra, and the Mūlādhāra Cakra begins to burn like a chili inside. Hojee, Hojee… Ho. But whoever has the mūlādhāra burning will say, “Don’t worry, I will solve it very soon.” Therefore, knowledge is very important. Therefore, it is it. Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān, Kī Jaya. Vikāra. These are different kinds of vikāras. And because the antaḥkaraṇa is not purified. Man, buddhi, citta, and ahaṁkāras. Man, buddhi, citta, and ahaṁkāras. And because there is impurity. And because there are still impurities in them, Mālvik, Śepa, and Āvaraṇa, we have to work on this subject. It doesn’t matter how long you will keep your body healthy, with bodybuilding and everything. One day, this body will go under the earth. And one day he will get under the ground. It is said, Mātī kahe kumāraku tū kyā roṅde moī, Toī Harī Oṁ Dīp Nār Bhagavān, Kī Jai, Sanātana Dharma, Kī Jai, Harī Oṁ.

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