Podcast details
- Recorded on: 19 Apr 2008
- Language: English
- Length: 0h 10m
Get it, gain it, realize it, receive it and give it
A discourse on the spiritual duty to share wisdom.
"If you have received something, you must share it. This is the law of the universe."
"Sharing is not an option; it is an imperative. It is a dharma, a duty."
Swami Avatarpuri delivers a satsang on the essential obligation to share spiritual knowledge. He explains that receiving wisdom creates a debt that can only be repaid by giving it to others, framing this sharing as a universal law and a sacred duty (dharma) rather than a choice.
Recording location: Czech Republic, Strilky, Seminar
Śrī Rām Jaya! Śrī Rām Jaya! ... Ś
Recording location: Czech Republic, Strilky, Seminar
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| Time position | Words |
|---|---|
| 00:00:00 | Śrī Rām Jaya! Śrī Rām Jaya! ... Śrī |
| 00:00:07 | Rām Jaya! Śrī Rām Jaya! Śrī Rām Jaya! ... |
| 00:00:14 | Śrī Rām Jaya! Śrī Rām Jaya! ... Śrī Rām |
| 00:00:21 | Jaya! Śrī Rām Jaya! Śrī Rām Jaya! ... Śrī |
| 00:00:28 | Rām Jaya! Śrī Rām Jaya! Śrī Rām Jaya! ... |
| 00:00:35 | Śrī Rām Jaya! Śrī Rām Jaya! ... Śrī Rām |
| 00:00:42 | Jaya! Śrī Rām Jaya! Śrī Rām Jaya! ... Śrī |
| 00:00:49 | Rām Jaya! Śrī Rām Jaya! Śrī Rām Jaya! ... |
| 00:00:56 | Doing duty, you can't go, do your work first. So in India we said, even I don't have time to die, I have so |
| 00:01:05 | much work, even I have no time to die, that is so. |
| 00:01:12 | This is the sādhanā, this is your sādhanā. Otherwise |
| 00:01:18 | you have everything and you will realize and you will die there. Hari Om. In India we said, in the forest a |
| 00:01:28 | peacock was dancing, who saw that? No one. |
| 00:01:33 | Or in the closed temple, the lamp is burning, no one sees. |
| 00:01:40 | So if you go and make all your sādhanā as a selfish, |
| 00:01:45 | what a pity that this wisdom will disappear with you. |
| 00:01:51 | When the doctor dies, the wisdom of the doctor, |
| 00:01:55 | knowledge will not go with him, and it will be finished. He is here in the picture, but a picture cannot make our operation. |
| 00:02:06 | Similarly, you people have immense spirituality, energy. |
| 00:02:14 | You are capable to do everything, therefore, do something good. |
| 00:02:22 | Bad, you need not try very hard. |
| 00:02:26 | Unfortunately, bad happens very quickly, but good will not happen so quickly. And that is the aim of human life, to achieve, realize, gain and distribute. |
| 00:02:43 | Get it, gain it, realize it, receive it, and give it. |
| 00:02:49 | That's it. If you keep everything with you and you die, what a pity. |
| 00:02:55 | Any siddhi you have, if you are not capable to give to someone, this siddhi will die with you. |
| 00:03:02 | Arya-Oṃ-Tat-Sat. So in this modern time and in this Kali Yuga, |
| 00:03:08 | many, many spiritual abilities disappeared, many disappeared. |
| 00:03:16 | Or some master gave to someone, but that one was not able to lead a disciplined life and didn't realize what it is. |
| 00:03:28 | Once someone gave me a beautiful water pot of Mahāprabhujī. |
| 00:03:36 | He said, Swāmījī, if you can bring me a radio from Europe with a tape recorder, I will give you this. |
| 00:03:48 | I said, well, it's very expensive and this and that. |
| 00:03:57 | He said, you can buy me, bring me a little cheaper one, otherwise I will not give it. |
| 00:04:05 | I opened my suitcase, and there was a small double player. I said, well, it is very expensive, but this |
| 00:04:13 | is a double, you know, you watch only one. |
| 00:04:18 | You can re-record, and there is a radio, and many, many stations, and bands, how many bands? |
| 00:04:26 | He said, then I will give you one thing more. I said, what? |
| 00:04:33 | Mahāprabhujī's water pot and Mahāprabhujī's shirt. |
| 00:04:37 | I said, well, that's too little. I got so greedy, you know. |
| 00:04:51 | Okay, for one player you give me the pot, second shirt, but what about his bands? |
| 00:04:57 | He said, okay, then only one which I have, and this is Mahāprabhujī's shoes. |
| 00:05:06 | I said, give it to me. |
| 00:05:08 | For me, these were billions and billions and billions of dollars price |
| 00:05:14 | because it is from Mahāprabhujī. They are in my pillow, his shoes. |
| 00:05:22 | And one I got from someone else in our Vienna āshram. |
| 00:05:27 | And the shirt, water can. |
| 00:05:30 | Also Mahāprabhujī's beautiful bamboo walking stick is in the Vienna āshram. |
| 00:05:37 | I told the Viennese that one day when I am not anymore in this world, then please bring these three things back to Jadan. There will be a museum |
| 00:05:49 | of Gurujī and Mahāprabhujī, and so we have to keep that. |
| 00:05:54 | So you should know the value, you know the value of that. |
| 00:06:01 | In 1966, Gurujī gave me this mālā, we were in South India. |
| 00:06:08 | We were visiting Śaṅkarāchārya, Śṛṅgeri Maṭh, |
| 00:06:12 | and Śaṅkarāchārya gave Gurujī a meditation shawl and a Rudrākṣa mālā. |
| 00:06:19 | So, where we were staying, Gurujī said to me, well, I have a mālā Mahāprabhujī gave me, and this is for you. |
| 00:06:26 | So Gurujī gave me this mālā. |
| 00:06:30 | Sometimes some people say, beads are not equal, can be more beautiful ones. |
| 00:06:35 | I say, for me this is the best equal and beautiful mālā. |
| 00:06:42 | And so 1966, I am still having this mālā. And this mālā traveled with me round the world. |
| 00:06:51 | Thirty-fifth trip round the world which I had this year, so many, many times this |
| 00:06:58 | mālā. This is Gurujī's protection, Gurujī's protection, this mālā is a miraculous mālā. But |
| 00:07:05 | you should have a value, otherwise I lose it somewhere |
| 00:07:11 | and I take a new one and say Gurujī can give you a new mālā, he will not refuse. But it has a meaning. Often Gurujī's mālā when it was |
| 00:07:21 | broken, then Gurujī told me, give me your mālā, I must do my evening mantra. So I ran and I said yes, |
| 00:07:29 | and Gurujī was doing two and a half hours his mantra on this mālā, many, many times. |
| 00:07:35 | So you should have a value of your Gurudev's memory, |
| 00:07:41 | Mahāprabhujī's memory. And something, someone gave me the pieces, |
| 00:07:48 | small pieces rotten from the water can of Devpurījī, and that Devpurījī |
| 00:07:55 | had a water can out of a pumpkin, you know, there is a pumpkin growing two parts, |
| 00:08:03 | and so the Indians they let it dry and then they cut it for holding a handle, and there they used to put the water |
| 00:08:11 | inside to drink or go to bhikṣā. And someone gave me this, it's another miracle. And also the triśūla, |
| 00:08:20 | the bhallā of Śrī Devpurījī, one man gave me, he had hidden in his house and only |
| 00:08:29 | with a small razor, razor for shaving with the battery, you know, |
| 00:08:37 | cordless shaver with the battery. And I gave him and he gave me the bhallā and Devpurījī's, this piece of |
| 00:08:46 | this is tumbī and mālā of Devpurījī which was not used very much but gave him. |
| 00:08:56 | These are also in the Vienna Āshram. This treasure is in the Vienna Āshram, so you can feel the energy. |
| 00:09:06 | And also, someone gave me a piece of cloth. |
| 00:09:10 | This was the last cloth on the body of Mahāprabhujī. |
| 00:09:16 | So, I am collecting the treasures. |
| 00:09:18 | I am collecting from Gurudeva whatever I can, but that is my luck. |
| 00:09:26 | I am a fortunate one, and I thank him a million, a thousand times every day that he gave me this chance and that I can understand. |
| 00:09:37 | Holy Gurujī said in a nice bhajan, |
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