Podcast details
- Recorded on: 4 Jul 2002
- Language: English
- Length: 0h 23m
Naham Karata - God is the Doer (from Upanishads)
A video featuring a continuous, meditative chant.
"Oṃ Saccidānanda Oṃ Saccidānanda Oṃ Saccidānanda"
"Oṃ Saccidānanda Oṃ Saccidānanda Oṃ Saccidānanda"
The video consists solely of the repeated chanting of the Sanskrit mantra "Oṃ Saccidānanda," representing the divine qualities of existence, consciousness, and bliss. There is no speech or narrative beyond this single-pointed, devotional repetition intended for meditation or spiritual focus.
Recording location: Hungary, Vep, Summer seminar
Oṃ Saccidānanda Oṃ Saccidānanda Oṃ Saccidānanda Oṃ Saccidānanda ... Oṃ Saccidānanda Oṃ
Recording location: Hungary, Vep, Summer seminar
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| 00:01:46 | Oṃ Saccidānanda Oṃ Saccidānanda Oṃ Saccidānanda Oṃ Saccidānanda ... Oṃ Saccidānanda |
| 00:01:56 | Oṃ Saccidānanda Oṃ Saccidānanda Oṃ Saccidānanda Oṃ Saccidānanda ... Oṃ Saccidānanda Oṃ |
| 00:02:06 | kiñcit jagat yam jagat, Īśvara, Parameśvara is everywhere. |
| 00:02:16 | This world, what we see, what we can touch, |
| 00:02:21 | all this is in the presence of the Brahman and the whole universe. |
| 00:02:41 | Offer everything to God, and you know nothing belongs to you. |
| 00:02:53 | It is given to you. |
| 00:03:02 | You have the right to use and live with it, but you have no right to abuse and destroy it. |
| 00:03:12 | You have the right to use it, but you do not have the right to abuse it or destroy it. |
| 00:03:23 | Or to harass them. |
| 00:03:37 | According to this mantra, the ṛṣis say, |
| 00:03:49 | "Oh my bhaktas, oh my devotees, oh my children, oh human, you should know |
| 00:04:05 | one thing, that the only one who is the creator of this world, only one." |
| 00:04:24 | There is only one who is the protector of this world. |
| 00:04:37 | And there is only one who is the liberator, or destructor, or dissolver of this world. |
| 00:04:46 | And there is only one who is able to free the souls in this world. |
| 00:04:57 | He is the mighty one everywhere. |
| 00:05:05 | He is everywhere, the omnipresent. |
| 00:05:15 | Do not think that you are doing, do not think that you did. |
| 00:05:27 | And do not think that you can do. |
| 00:05:34 | Do not think that you will change the entire planet. |
| 00:05:43 | Whatever is happening, it happened and will happen only through his power. |
| 00:06:01 | Therefore, keep in your mind, keep in your heart, |
| 00:06:12 | the name of that Almighty One constantly; gently remember him, mantra, practice his name. |
| 00:06:33 | Understand and know everything is his. |
| 00:06:43 | According to the śāstras, the scriptures, whatever you are doing, |
| 00:06:53 | it is a ceremony to God. |
| 00:07:03 | Our life is a ritual to God; our life is a ceremony to God. Therefore, according to the rules and regulations |
| 00:07:15 | which are given through the śāstras to us, |
| 00:07:24 | we should do those karmas according to our dharma, or our duties. |
| 00:07:40 | Our dharmic and karmic duties, obligations. |
| 00:07:58 | While performing these right duties in your life. |
| 00:08:10 | Right nourishment, right behavior, which I tell often. |
| 00:08:28 | Ācār, vicār, vihār, and āhār, these are four things. |
| 00:08:38 | Vicār, ācār, vihār, āhār; ācār |
| 00:08:44 | is behavior, how we should behave |
| 00:08:50 | in this world, towards the humans, |
| 00:08:57 | towards the animals, towards the nature. |
| 00:09:05 | What should be our behavior, that is called our ācār. |
| 00:09:22 | Vicār is the thinking process, how we should think. |
| 00:09:32 | What we should think, which kind of thinking is dominating in you? |
| 00:09:42 | Healthy or unhealthy, if they are selfish or negative? |
| 00:09:57 | Vicāra, whatever you are doing, you should use your vicāra. |
| 00:10:11 | For example, you are going for a walk, and there are two paths leading. |
| 00:10:26 | Now you have to think which path you will take, and according to your thinking, you will take that path. |
| 00:10:45 | So whatever we are doing, or would like to do, we have many options. |
| 00:10:57 | And for that option, we have to think. |
| 00:11:01 | It is your thing, what you think, what you would like to think. |
| 00:11:14 | There is nothing which can happen without your thinking. |
| 00:11:25 | Āhār is nourishment. |
| 00:11:31 | Whatever comes to our body in touch, it has influence. |
| 00:11:44 | It affects our body, our mind, |
| 00:11:54 | emotions, consciousness, and so on, so you should know what you are eating |
| 00:12:04 | and how it will influence you. |
| 00:12:14 | And vihār, where you are going. |
| 00:12:21 | Vihār means where you are heading. |
| 00:12:27 | Where you should go and where you should not go; if you will observe this |
| 00:12:38 | and go to the right places, you will be happy; if you go to the temple, there |
| 00:12:53 | will be a different situation, and if you enter the cave of the lions |
| 00:13:02 | or the tigers, there will be a different situation. |
| 00:13:14 | So where you are going, before that you should have vicāra, utilize the vicāra. |
| 00:13:22 | And so, ācār, vicār, āhār, and vihār. |
| 00:13:43 | Ṛṣi said it is very important, while doing all this, |
| 00:13:51 | while following these four principles as your kartavya, as |
| 00:14:01 | your obligation, pray to God to |
| 00:14:08 | live a hundred years healthy. |
| 00:14:16 | Movable, capable, so still we have a long way, a hundred |
| 00:14:30 | years; if we will not live a hundred years, this is |
| 00:14:39 | not a guilty one, but we |
| 00:14:45 | did not follow these principles. |
| 00:14:52 | Somewhere we made a mistake. |
| 00:14:59 | We did not understand and utilize ācār, |
| 00:15:07 | vicār, āhār, and vihār. Likewise, your whole life you |
| 00:15:21 | should dedicate to Parameśvara. |
| 00:15:34 | Understand like this, that according to the śāstras, doing your own dharma |
| 00:15:43 | and dedicating this life to God. |
| 00:15:59 | By living like this, it's like a prayer, ceremony, pūjā to God. |
| 00:16:11 | Whatever you are doing, feel it's not for you. |
| 00:16:26 | Whatever you do, feel it's not for you; everything is for God. Everything I have given into your hands, O Lord. |
| 00:17:03 | Lord, if I will be successful, if I will |
| 00:17:14 | be the winner or loser, it's in your hands, Lord. |
| 00:17:27 | Come to Thee. |
| 00:18:09 | Remove all my sorrows. |
| 00:18:18 | Likewise, otherwise, whatever you are doing, whatever you are doing, bhogas, enjoying, don't say it is for you; it is for God. |
| 00:18:33 | So it is appropriate: whatever you do and enjoy, whatever you get joy from, do not think that it is for you; it is for God that you live it. And for all that which you desire, in God, in your life, |
| 00:18:47 | do not say that it is for you; let it be for God. If you do it like this, the karma will not tie you. |
| 00:19:01 | Now, let us say, someone can say, "Okay, I kill animals and eat meat, and I will say it's not for me,"so what? |
| 00:19:20 | And now someone will say, "Excellent, I can kill animals, I eat their meat, and I dedicate all of that to God."Who says I must say B too? If one says A, you |
| 00:19:33 | must also say B, so there are people like this. Then God says, "You did not follow āchār, |
| 00:19:46 | vichār, āhār, and vihār, because before the saint, |
| 00:19:59 | those shall not kill. Be kind." |
| 00:20:11 | And killing an animal is not a kindness. |
| 00:20:19 | So God has given freedom to the humans to do whatever they like, and God told, "If you will remain here and do accordingly, |
| 00:20:31 | everything will be forgiven. But if you do out of this, it will not be forgiven." |
| 00:20:57 | So this is the way: though you are doing, you are not affected by that. |
| 00:21:20 | "Karma tvoji nare nalipyate."O human, |
| 00:21:27 | then you will not be affected by karma. |
| 00:21:36 | O čoveče, tada neđeš ita anyatha na astin nahi; otherwise, there is no other |
| 00:21:44 | way. There is no other way to be free from the karma; whatever we will do will be |
| 00:21:53 | counted as our karma. Therefore it says, "Kartā is akartā, and akartā is kartā."Though |
| 00:22:02 | he or she is doing, but is not doing, and though he or she is not doing, but is doing. |
| 00:22:09 | Kartā bhartā, who is doing, has to pay back. |
| 00:22:35 | Therefore say, "Nahaṁ kartā, Prabhudīp kartā, Mahāprabhudīp kartā hi kevalam." |
| 00:22:53 | God takes upon Himself the destiny of the devotees. |
| 00:23:01 | God takes upon Himself |
| 00:23:09 | the destiny of the devotees. |
| 00:23:18 | God takes upon Himself the destiny of the devotees. |
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