Wisdom of Katha Upanishad
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hey Thomas do we have clock caught up I
can just get a clock and just put it here so welcome to the first of three
sessions on the katha upanishad this session and the one in the afternoon in
the evening today and the one in the morning tomorrow so do try to attend all
three if possible it's package D the
core of Vedanta are the Upanishads they are the the form part of the most
ancient living religion of humanity the Vedic religion and the opening chefs
form part of the Vedas the highest philosophical teachings of the Vedas are
found in the Upanishads among all the Upanishads and there are many 108
definitely and there many more but among all of these 10 Upanishads are of
particular importance probably because some 1,400 years ago adi shankaracharya the great philosopher
nan duelist philosopher he selected 10
of these to write commentaries on bashyam and these 10 opening shots with
adi shankaracharya commentary they found the basis of
it is in fact from these opening shots that Shri Shri Krishna thought Arjuna in
the bhagavad-gita in fact the message of the Gita is the same as the message of
the Upanishads maybe in a more practical way Shri Krishna selected in fact in some of the
verses in the bhagavad-gita you find the ones just taken almost verbatim from the
cut rope initial one Swami was saying that Shri Krishna without any
attribution but without any kind of reference you know coolly plagiarized
everything the vanity non copyrighted and he coated them so carefully in in
the in the bhagavad-gita so the bhagavad-gita is also one of the core
texts the part of the vedanta canon the core literature of advaita vedanta
vedanta and the philosophical issues arising from the Upanishads are
discussed threadbare in another text called the brahma sutra those are
cryptic in the sutra form aphoristic form 555 sutras where which discusses
all the questions that we may have when we listen to the opposition's opening shots are inspired poetic bhagavad-gita
is more like um like a sermon like a practical teaching how to apply it in
life and Brahma sutras are philosophical so the Upanishads the bhagavad-gita and
the Brahma sutras together they are known as the pressed on a tree on the threefold foundational texts of Vedanta
Upanishads bhagavad-gita and Brahma sutras now the ten Upanishads there's a
nice little verse in Uttarakhand where they study it so they they had the ten Upanishads in other words he gotta brush
nah you know it moon demand okay theory he later a young church and opium
prahara Nia come Taha just a way of memorizing the names of the open issues
so he shop initial ten open Ishod katha Upanishad fresh nope initial disturb and
then I Turia type T reopen Isha chandogya real arnica commando Kim among
all of them maybe the most popular might be the one which we are going to take up
today it's also very simple it's also very interesting and comprehensive cut
rope initially it was certainly Swami Vivekananda's favorite he would quote often from it especially when he came to
this country and he gave talks in the late nineteenth century last decade of the 19th century he would often quote
from the cut rope initial and he would praise in high it would give high praise to its sense of poetry philosophy the
ethics so cut rope initial he would recommend it to his disciples to memorize it the carbonation even now in
Swami Vivekananda's birthday every year in balloon mud in the room where he lived because he liked classical music
so much so early in the morning noted classical musicians they come and sing there and one of the things that's done
there is a beautiful chanting of the control condition that's also done every every every year so what I'll do is I
have selected some verses from the control condition and we will take it in three stages in the first stop today we
shall learn about the foundational teachings of Couture finish and how we prepare for spiritual life and perhaps
this is the most important of the three talks because this if we get it right at
least to some extent the rest is not so difficult the second will be after the
preparation initial preparation investigating the self how do I realize
this self which we daren't the promises mean that I am this immortal self existence consciousness bliss how do I
realize that a process will be taken up process of investigating Who am I and
the third talk will be on the self itself what is the nature of the type
image reality that will be maybe the most abstract of the three tops that will be tomorrow so many of the
Upanishads they are based on a story see they are often in the form of dialogues
between guru and shisha a spiritual master and the student something in the fall but dialogue is
very easy to learn because it's in the form of questions and answers discussions so we also find often the
questions we have in our minds are being asked by the student and the teacher gives answers to that one of the most
popular books of Swami Vivekanand there is the talks with sowing Vivekananda was his disciple Sharad Chandra asked so
many good questions and he took care to note down what strong they become the said in his diary so that's part of the
complete works of Americans and many people love that and next to that letter so there is a living touch of a
spiritual master when a book a lecture is a little more impersonal but your in
your life writing a letter that's more personal and when you are actually talking with someone someone puts
questions to you and you give answers that's most personal so the Upanishads are in that form form of question and
answer and cut open we should also it like that and that is made more
interesting with a story so often there's a little story added to the opener ship this story is a story of a
little boy Nachi kata who Shankaracharya estimates was in his preteens so maybe ten not
eleven years old or something like that and it's ancient India the Vedic India
this was before the era of temples and poachers at that time religion meant big
sacrifices fire sacrifices where the priests would light up a fire and
put offerings into it chanting hymns to the Vedic gods that was the original form of Vedic Hinduism and such a fire
sacrifice is the scene where this begins the hero of our stories little boy
called Nikita so he's a well-known character in Hinduism one of the most
ancient I would say maybe he was the first Vedanta student you're all without
the students now so we are all in the lineage of national educator he is the
first batch aluminum so he representing
all of us he asks these questions which you find in all the Upanishads and in the Gita and after that down till today
even something that shirechin grasped Swami Vivekananda similar questions and the teacher is none other than the god
of death god of death Yama now really terrifying teacher so but we
are getting ahead of ourselves now the fire sacrifice is going on and nachi
katha is there and his father is conducting this fire of sacrifice the different kinds of sacrifices one of
these sacrifices was that you perform a big ritual and you give away everything
everything means everything whatever you own you give everything away and you start afresh why would anybody do that
what was the purpose of these fire sacrifices the idea in ancient India was
not very different from what we have got today conventional religion means having a
good life here and a good life hereafter so good life here would mean you'd be
healthy and be prosperous you'll have good relationships you'll be happy here have a good family life and hereafter
would mean heaven and the Indians don't have just one heaven they have many many heavens so there are superior and
inferior grades of heavens and depending on how much merit we have got in the in
the bank in the cosmic bank how much good we have done how much merit we have earned you get to go to the higher
heavens you can go to Malibu or you can go to Hawaii and go further and further of him
better and better places or Fiji or something like that so there are higher heavens that was the idea of religion
and it is more or less so we have progressed in knowledge and in technology but not much more in wisdom
even till today all over the world whether you go to a Hindu temple or to a
Christian Church here most of the times you will find what is being promised there is a good life happiness now a
good nice life here real spirituality
comes after that it's a search for truth in Hinduism the idea is you can go to
these heavens but they are all impermanent if the heavens are something like an endless party you're partying
all the time but as you know too much chasing too much pleasure after sometime nothing is pleasing anymore Summerset
mom writes that if you change pleasure single-mindedly very soon you find nothing freezing anymore after that a question comes to
the human soul it is this all that there is all success we get in life a
beautiful life here and maybe the promise of heaven afterwards that's also
kind of extended good life but what is the meaning of all of this what is the
truth behind this game this goes round and round once your merit is finished once you
have exhausted all all the medicube earned by these sacrifices you come back from heaven and back here again and if
you want to go to that heaven again again you have to earn a lot of milk by this sacrifice or that sacrifice something so Vedanta starts with a
search for wisdom beyond this heaven concept good life here happy life in
heaven but beyond that is what is there what is the reality of this universe Who
am I is there any permanent peace and happiness to be had so that search is
spirituality the search for God the search for the truth about oneself search for the truth
about this universe which we are experiencing whether it's here or in heaven whatever so that will come in the open issues
before that is the the realm of desired sacrifices karma kanda Upanishads are
what are called a onaconda the realm of knowledge the portion dealing with knowledge so here you find the
transition note you caters father is performing a big sacrifice by which he hopes to go to some high heaven and
educate the watches the rituals being performed and all the guests have come you have to feed the guests and you have
to give away all your possessions to the guests everything but no chiquita find
something strange he finds his dad is giving away lots of things and in those
days were wealth meant cattle well meant cattle and that's not so strange in this
country just about 100 years ago wealth meant cattle about 150 years ago yes so
so farmland and cattle into that Smith you had the whole culture of cowboys and
all so in the in Vedic times also wealth and to for a long time in India weldment
cattle now nachiketa saw what his dad was doing was he had kept all the good
cows hidden away and the cows which had become old if you're not giving milk which would not give cows and all those
he was donating and the guest probably knew what he was doing but what could they do they were polite and you have to
take it away unless he gets a solid his father and dad was cheating this is giving away the stuff he didn't need and
he says to his dad whom will you give me
to and your son so you're going to give everything away right so whom will you give me to and at first is that doesn't
respond and then is being asked three times then his dad gets annoyed and he
says victory to Adhamiya t I give you to debt it's more or less like here you say
go to hell something like that I give you to death and that Chiquita says some very
interesting hard-hitting truths to his dad before he goes up into the land of death because he's that I sent him to
death so he goes away to the land of death it's okay I'll go to that but before that he says importance of being
honest he says what is the use of all these rituals
unless one means it whether they're true or not comes later but you say you
believe it and you are doing it and you want some results and yet you're doing it half-heartedly you really don't mean it and then he
says look at life it gives us short sermon on the the transience of life
this is all mostly in biblical terms you know in in the in the in the Bible you
find look upon the corn of the field they are here today are not I'm not they are not here tomorrow in the same
way nothing greater says look upon this corn that I think twas such him look
upon this all these fields these plants they come they aren't here today and
tomorrow they're cut down our lives are they any more than this so when life is
so temporary and fleeting what is the point of trying to save this little bit for myself and give away the other this
this kind of dishonesty our look at the way our ancestors have live and live
their lives should we not come up to that standard at least and then he decides to go up to
the land of death because his dad is told him to go to death and you know it openly share this poetry so the little
boy goes to the land of death and then death is out he's a busy man
he's a busy God because there's so many people dying all right it requires a personal attention so he's on tour and I
think his assistants tell her Chiquita you have to mate he's not another at home so no she kisses all day would you
like to have something tea or coffee or something like that I'm not making it up entirely I'm making a little bit it's
not tea or coffee he did not eat they asked him would you like to have something to eat he says no
I'll wait until death comes back I have to talk to him three days and three
nights little boy waited at the door of death without eating now when death comes back his assistants
maybe they say he must be looking over I had to catch up what all the work
paperwork that's piled up or what's the marks they are on the table you know this and that and and there's this
little boy waiting for you very obstinate little kid he's come here and he wants to talk to you it seems you can
see the assistance of death sort of rolling their eyes debts and he said
that was a boy so obstinate didn't he eat he's sitting there for three days so death rushes are all times
you know greets the little boy and he says that a little child you've been
waiting here three days and three nights waiting for me it's a great signify if a guest comes to the house and you do not
feed the guest so I'll give you three boons whoever you are
I'll give you the three boons no Chiquita introduces himself and he's
very happy he's got three boons you can ask for any three things so the first thing that netiquette asks now you
can see the story so touching in this little kid so what he's really worried
about is his dad being mad at him so the first thing he asks death is when I go
back home let my dad not be mad at me let it let him be pleased with me now
see how clever he is Shankar Acharya points it out nobody comes back from the
land of death so he could he could have asked that you know the first bonus okay
let me be alive again let me go back to my life as a kid in my dad's home he
didn't ask that he said when I go back taken for granted there's this man to whom God appeared
and after a lot of austerities and said what do you want and he said let me eat
with my grandson on on golden plates he's already asked for three boons in
one boon that they'll have a lot he'll have a long life because he's going to see his grandson and he's going to have
a child and grandchildren but a second go and third is they're going to be sorry seventeen eater on gold plates so
well and children and long life is going on as for all of it in one sentence so naughty kata is as clever as that he
asks for that when I go back let my father recognize me let him be pleased with me let him not
be mad with me anymore and you can imagine Yama the fierce god of death maybe a faint little smile
maybe his might in a little and he said all right your father will be very happy
to see you when you go back good that's done important things out of the way the
second thing you asks for is what's the best fire sacrifice because I see all the grown-up people and it's like today
people are going to temples or churches and all and so in those days all the grown-up people were performing these
sacrifices so what's the best sacrifice by which I can go to the like the highest heaven best whatever kids today
would say and Yama teaches him a particular file sacrifice and Yama is so
happy with him he says from now on this fire sacrifice will be called nachiket Agni will be named after you and he
teaches him that soul educators gets that also out of the way conventional religion best that can be had in life
then he comes to the real question the third question and Yama says ask what
what more do you want I don't want anything but there's something I want to know there's a question about life and
death about the self what is the truth today kids would say in America
give me like like give me the truth you know I want to know what what really exists
I remember in ramakrishna mission Delhi where there was a brahmacari
and their little by staged up play once on the Chiquita and Yama this is a
well-known play in India sometimes schoolchildren staged it so yeah my own magic ater and the months there help the
children to set up the play so they set it up but they didn't rehearse to them
and I remember swami atmost an on the G mothers who is now the president he's very ill now but he was at that time the
general secretary of the order he was visiting so just set up in his honor and they were teachers and they were the
students guardians the parents would come to see the play about an audience of 500 or 600 people and the kids set it
up but it was a disaster they forgot their lines and of course the audience
enjoyed it solidly but the kids were sweating they were like somehow let it and let it come to an end and there was
a Swami what helped them to set it up and he has said the most important verses into the play was in Hindi but
the most important verses when they'll be the penalty come and I will chant it in sanskrit at that time the actors the
kids should just stay there on the stage from the background i'll play the harmonium and chant it in sanskrit and
when the time came for the first important verse the kids are standing there and we leave her in the backstage
in looking on well that swami not to be found at that time he's going to take a washroom break at that time and the kids
are standing there waiting for the Sanskrit chanting to come there looking like this and and the audience is in splits you know they are clapping and
hooting so it was a disaster so it time came for a third boon to be asked and
the kid who was playing Yama another bad Caitlin over well-built and hefty kid
looking specially Spears he says well the Chiquita asked for the third boon and somebody in
the audience shouted that tell him I don't want anything at least this thing will come to an end this place
we will be saved of the further torture so nachiket asks this question this
beautiful question the fundamental spiritual question really I am pretty
basic it's a minutiae a stick taking I am Musti teach I kill a tad viddhi Aman
Ashish destroyer hung varnish of or a sweetie this is one 120 if you have got
the book you don't have to follow in the book I just tell you some of you have got the books I just mentioned which
verse I am referring to which mantra and referring to one dot one dot twenty this
is where the Upanishads really starts with the question what's the meaning of
this question Nachi creator says to Yama I have a question I don't want anything anymore but I have a question I have a doubt and
everybody has to start after death some people say that we exist some people say
we don't exist and I would like to know the truth about the self nature of the
self this is my third boon now we have to be careful what he is asking remember
he was part of the Vedic culture in various accepted that after that you do exist in some form because you go to
heaven after all you are performing all these sacrifices for going to heaven so religion every religion
accepts that there is some existence after death post-mortem existence if everything is
finished and that there's no need of religion that becomes just materialism
so all forms of religion every religion the world will say that we have
something after death that is there so now you get also knew this and he believed it but what he was asking is
not this ritualistic kind of thing you know where you perform some rituals and then you go to heaven and you come back
again that's all right but what is the reality about the self who am I am in
this body nachiket and then this body will die will go to heaven will come back again whatever but
who is this reality what is the nature of this self that is the question is
asking and that is the subject matter of the Upanishads the very word Upanishad
this control finish is also important because Shankar Acharya and his beautiful commentary and cut off initially he begins with an explanation
of the word Upanishad here you find the detailed explanation of the word open Isha I will not go into that but
basically the word open Ishod means brahma vidya the knowledge of brahman
spiritual knowledge in products simply knowledge about the ultimate reality that is the meaning of the word
definition and Shankar Acharya says the book open it should be the secondary meaning we say we are reading cut or
finisher then you when we say we're reading katha Upanishad have you got a copy of the cattle Phoenicians then
you're talking about a book you are not talking about spirit and knowledge you know talking about having a copy of the knowledge you're talking about the book
so the book is in secondary sense it's called an open issue the real sense of the word Upanishad is brahma vidya an
introduction you can see Sankara serious community how he derives the meaning brahma Vidya the knowledge of Brahman
from the world open Isha and this is the question he asks yama and then follows a
long period i'm several personal mantras where yama tempts nachi kata moment
nachiket asked this question yama sort of is startled this little kid asked me
such a question is you don't need to know this no need to know you don't need to know this lets you get a sense that's
my only question look boy I have I've got so many other things to offer you
you have no idea you're a kid there's so many enjoyments you don't live long you
want to have children and grandchildren you want to rule over a kingdom it all
of that is in my power you say just say the word you will get it but don't ask this question you want something beyond all this
people you up your diet is performing these sacrifices to go to heaven so all the things which he hopes to get get
which he believes you will get in heaven I can give it to you in this life itself now III charlemagne Yamanashi the yama
yama says to an educator human beings mortal man cannot think of such
enjoyment they died didn't even think of such enjoyment it's so much beyond their
ability to think of all those enjoyments I'll give to you he says prior chunga's brought they are
such under the practice were sequential you make a list like a Christmas you the
things which I want make a list of whatever you want his perpetual Christmas for you there's no limit to
what you can ask for so ask for these and don't ask me the question he wants
to see what educators reaction is most people we would say that okay I want
both I want all those things and the question also and if you are first to it
many of you stood back or you know if you forced to it given a choice this are the question make up your mind so okay
I'll ask the question later and maybe they're books I can always read it up but let me I can't get these things
anywhere else I can always go to an attentive aide on the class and find out these things for me but all the nice
things goodies is offering let me get that that won't get that in life Nachi kata is not food he says whatever you
are offering me at the end of it all you are there death I will die you are not
saying that I'll become immortal I will die whatever you offer me it comes to an
end and when it comes to an end it's as good as it was never there at that
moment when it's all gone money is gone relatives wife and children and husband
and they're all gone grandchildren are all gone when the job is gone health is gone name and fame people have forgotten
me I'm an old and dead and dying at that moment it's as good as as if all of that
never happened just memories for me people are forgotten about it that's it
so it's no good offering me all these things you are there and then he also says serving 3 our
ninja Ryan theater all these things which you offer me food drink and be
merry our capacity to enjoy is limited our capacity to enjoy is limited you
know I love books so I've been accumulating books when I came to the United States I thought I don't have to
give up all my books and but luckily some books were being transported from
India to USA by ship to our Center in Los Angeles so a few more crates was no
problem for girls I could send them over free by ship so I decided to select the books I I wanted to keep and send them
over when I was selecting them I found to my horror so many books which I had not read years ago I purchased them away
I know it's there I have not read it but I hope to read it in future so it's there and I was reading karma yoga by
Swami Vivekananda at that time and I saw at that very moment so I mean very
kindly sane a fool may accumulate all the books in the world he will read only
those he deserves to read so I decided I
stopped buying books and start reading the ones I've got right now which have transported be great difficult but not
just books anything how much can you eat how many varieties of ice cream can you
eat how many types of cars can you write up how many places a vacation can you go
to it's enormous choice especially in this country in the United States of the
20th and 21st century you have more choice than was available to humanity
earlier in earlier times maybe a few kings and queens had choice most people
did not have much choice but what you will consume now where you will stay what you will wear where you will go and
visit how you will live what job you will do such tremendous choice is there
today right now today how you entertain yourself tremendous choice is there so
this variety but how much can you consume how much
can you consume very little of it because we don't have that capacity to consume so an educator says serving
three on each aren t th er all the sensory systems decay and deteriorate
and over our overloaded very fast when you try to enjoy life it's no good I
want that and he's cheeky is a little kid so he's a little cheeky to the to Yama
and he says Dalai Lama ha Dominic Tahiti yum I promised I will give you Evan Lee
chariots and singing and dancing and musical instruments and things like that I'm the Chiquita says the value of our
hominid ability keep your chariots and dancing and singing to yourself you go
and sing and dance I want an answer to this question you use that language because there's a kid and Yama is so
pleased he's not annoyed he says I wish I had more students like you so you
would be so hot yellow would be so happy to see so many students like yeah I'm a ticket I here know who have given up a
nice weekend you could have a relax and watch TV at home when you come to attend debate on the class so that's what Emma
wants that you want to you give up the the transient pleasures of life and seek
wisdom so not Chiquita does that and Yama is very happy and says I wish I had
more students like you and then Yama starts the teaching I'll go back and
forth a little bit I'll tell you where I'm selecting about what I'm reading
Yama's teaching starts from the second canto but what I am reading now is one
three four one three four one point three point four non-retina midi sherry
rum rotten eva to put him to solder
timothy manna program IVA
indriyani high on our who wish a youngster should go char on Hartman
dreamin oh you dumb poked a yahoo Manisha huh I translate and then we will
all read it together this is the takeaway from today's lecture that's why I want you to repeat it what it means is
Yama says to nachiket ah he gives him a model a structure a
conceptual structure to think about himself think about yourself as the
passenger in a chariot the body is the chariot the horses are the same sagas
the horses which pull the Chinese are five horses five sense organs and the
paths their horses are running it's a very strange kind of car which runs on five lanes at the same time don't do it
you'll get a ticket here but this this car it runs on five lanes eyes run on
the on the path of forms the scene yours here tongue tastes no smells and skin
touches the five sense organs run on five sense objects and the mind is the
reins with which it charioteer holds the horses the mind is connected to these
horses the five sense organs and the intellect is the driver would the
intellect is the driver who holds the steering wheel the mind is like the steering wheel of the car and the wheels
of the car are like the sense sense organs and the driver is the is the
intellect and who are you normal anything that's what we are he says you
are none of this you are not the body you are not the sense organs you're not the mind you're not even the intellect
your mind which thinks I am now listening to a talk by Swami the internet which is trying to
understand in Upanishad you are none of them you are quite apart from them
you're quite apart from the body - you are the passenger in the body and in the
in the chariot at Marathi no moon didn t know yourself to D to be deep passenger
sitting in the back you ever you're rich you have a shopper the intellect who's
driving the car of your body through the path of life you are that that that
person there and this model is what he teaches Nachiketa so let's repeat this person and with this mantra we'll go
into it ma teaming with the Atman
latinum degree sharir imrat amoeba -
Sharon rock amoeba to put into solemn
duty would dim to solemn with mana
practically whattcha whattcha indriyani
high on our injury re higher
vishal youngster sugar on Beyonce shugo
chara Hendry Amma no yoga more yoga poke
take your money Sheena Sheena what does
it mean at mother yourself retinol with D know yourself to be the passenger in
the chariot shareer imrat amoeba to simple sanskrit body is the chariot but
dim to salat in with thee let the know the intellect which is thinking right now which is trying to understand this
right now remember that's the driver it's not you it's not you it's the
driver mana practically immature so what's the wheel which the driver is holding its the mind mind is the range
which connects it to the horses what are the horses indriyani hyah hyah horse the
sense organs are called horses vishaya and Stacia boats are on the sense
objects are the paths they run along Atman Briana no yoke Tom hooked it Yahoo
Manisha how do you become an experiencer you the self who you really are remember
nachiket has asked Who am I really what's the truth here what's going on here you what you really are with the
mind and the intellect in the body using the senses you are called bhakta Volta
means the experiencer something translated as enjoy but need not only be enjoyment only we can be suffering
mostly suffering Bach thumb is the one who enjoys and suffers suffers enjoys
and suffers what this world when all the time it's what you call life the life which
were leading now is you having forgotten what you really are identified with the
it's like a person who's sitting in the car and forgotten the teaser he the passenger he thinks and the whole
car the car and the wheels and the intellect the driver and then the
steering wheel all of that I am and now driving along the pathways of life he's
forgotten his own separate existence that's what you are now yama will use this to describe the
fundamentals of spiritual life what he will say I'm not going to the verses what he will say basically is this these
three are important the horses in the chariot the mind which holds the horses
in check and the driver the charioteer these three are important pay attention
to them your intellect the driver the wheel which is used to control the car
and the car itself the weasel the sense
organs the horses which the horses have to be good the mind has to be good and
the intellect has to be good he says what it means to be good and how do you train them and how do you perfect them we will see if those are in shape then
you will reach the your goal in life if those are out of order all your efforts
will be sabotage your efforts in spiritual life even your efforts in secular life everything will be sabotage
if those three are not in order you see let's take them from outside in
inverts the sense organs first what we
see what we taste and what we hear there's this professor of psychology
here in America Jonathan hate hid t hide hide I think he's written this book
their happiness hypothesis it sounds like one of those new self-help books but it's a pretty serious work actually
he takes up this very interesting question we all want to change we all
want to be good we all want our lives to be better but
why is it that after reading so many books listening to so many lectures doing so many practices we really don't
seem to change much if you go out to the books book shops now one of the richest
and well-stocked sections will be the self-help section so many books which
promise that you can revolutionize your life you can have friends you can communicate better you can manage your
time you can you can lose weight you can you can meditate you can be absolutely
fit all those things are promised and all of it in seven days they promise you
all of that and it's easy and it can be done fast if that's so true why isn't it
working that's the question he asks and the answer he guessed is very interesting he
says we are not an integrated personality we have an intellect you can
map it to what yama says thousands of years ago before Jonathan height he says even intellect but we also have sense
organs and he says a good model look at
the model he gives a good model is like a man riding on an elephant the elephant
rider he gives that model you see the elephant rider that the Maheu
the person who controls the elephant he understands where he wants to go he can read a map the elephant cannot read the
map and the elephant is not interested in your map now if the elephant listens
to the instructions given by the Maha the mouth will reach the destination if the elephant does not listen if the
elephant is not in a listening mood the elephant is much stronger than the mouth the Mahad cannot drag the elephant where
he wants to go the elephant is going to win every time if the element wants to go there eat bananas from the shop it
will do that you can't stop it it's an elephant after all exactly like that the
intellect is convinced by books the intellect is convinced by talks
the moment you read a very nice book to get up early in the morning and do yoga
your life will be much better you can this and it's true it's not false it's true if you were able to get up in early
in the morning and do yoga every day within a few weeks months years your life would be measurably better it's
true it's not false but why can't we do it the reason is the intellect doesn't
have to do the yoga the yoga is supposed to be done by the body and the body has
its own intelligence it's like the elephant the body has a certain height points it out our body has an autonomous
intelligence we actually neuroscience is beginning to show even the gut has its own intelligence everywhere in the body
where there are clusters of nerves nerve centers there is an autonomous intelligence functioning they're quite
apart from the intellect and that is like the elephant he does not respond to
books there is an e there is an intelligence in the tongue in the sense
organs it does not respond to the died chart it has got its own agenda that
chart is convinced your intellect but he does not convinced your tongue tongue doesn't read those bad charts it's
interested in the experience it gets when it eats that you know chocolate fudge or something that's what is
interested in yes and it has a power of its own like the elephant it controls
action what it will do the tongue it's
my business what I eat after all I'm going to do eating the fancy intellect is not going to do the eating so I'll
eat what I like you tell the intellect you read will read what you like but what I eat is my
business after lying on the one who doing the eating one person was saying a
minute I'm seeing few taste buds a
cluster of primitive cells on on my
tongue not the whole time just a part of the time dragging a mountain of a man into a pie
shop this huge strong guy may be a biker
I saw that huge bike parked outside a bar and this big guy the beer and huge
guy you know he's going in there to stuff himself with food and drink who's
pulling him along look a tiny bit of sense pulling him along I saw myself in a we had gone to visit
all gentlemen in a rehabilitation centre assisted living center and outside in
the of the smoking area there was this man sitting on a wheelchair sick and
history is there to smoke a cigarette now I'm thinking look at this look at
this power of that the taste the experience of having a smoke it says to
the body and mind I know they were sick I know you can hardly raise your hand but you have to smoke it's my demand I
remember I saw a movie long time ago it was about a ghost as a kid at that time
this is a Hollywood movie I never thought I'll come and live in Hollywood now the story was the person is dead and
he's to smoke a lot and the way they have shown it is healed like a faint
mist now like a man who goes for something misty and he's standing in front of a cigarette vending machine in
a train station and trying to grab a packet of cigarettes but he can't he cannot grab anything physical in this
world because he doesn't have a body desperately trying to grab that by
seeing that even as a kid I studied a little bit of Vedanta but what struck me
was no wonder that Vedanta says it's our desires which forced us into newer and
newer words what that person that ghost needs at that moment is a body more than anything else he wants a body do you
think who'd want to be born in this world have suffered enough we do we demand to
be born in this world we think we right now he said I know I wouldn't want to weren't born in this world just you wait
when the body is not there the first thing we want again the ordinary no no I said to God a new body
what can poor not do gives us a new body ok go out and play so the senses have their own agenda and
Jonathan Hyde points it out intellect understands intellect has its plans it's
died charts it's rumored daily should you land to do lists the body has its own thing I want to wake up early in the
morning intellect agrees it would be a good thing but early in the morning it's the body which has to come out of the
blankets into the inner and out of the comforter into the freezing cold I don't have to tell you about freezing cold
here in Cedar Rapids so the body refuses tells thing to like you keep your fancy
ideas I'm not getting out into that cold now I want to sleep a little more so what Jonathan Hyde says what does the
elephant respond to the important question is what does the elephant respond to the elephant responds to
training the elephant responds to have it in training what do you train as an
elephant to do or any other animal to do training it is not reading when you train a dog or an elephant or whatever
any animal or shop or the shampoo the veil or whatever they are trained through reward and Punishment and
through different protocols to respond to injury new habits in them not new
ideas so the senses have to be trained
Yama just says Yama and in this he says if your horses are good then you will
reach your goal the passenger will reach is goal and if the horses are not good will be derailed go off track in the
same way the senses have to be trained did not respond to arguments they do not
respond to books they do not respond to good intentions they do not respond to Vedanta lectures if their intellect
which responds but the senses respond to training so since senses have to be trained
getting up early in the morning you have to make a habit out of it practicing yoga every day you have to
make a habit out of it eating healthy if to make a habit out of it daily habit of
study the interest of studying the scriptures or wait on the opening shots make a habit out of it
you see in the lives of all great spiritual practitioners they all had
strong good habits how to replace bad habits with good habits is a science in
itself and I just recommend the latest book very nice book has been written recently the power of habit Charles
Duhigg D u hig G power of habit using modern psychology positive psychology a
very scientific method very nice way they approached it how do you break out of bad habits how do you generate and
set up good habits but the point here is at the sensory level it has its own intelligence remember it's the elephant
the body and the senses they have to be trained once it is trained it's very
interesting just as bad habits are difficult to overcome good habits are also difficult to break you may be
amazed at this person who gets up so early in the morning spends hours in meditation you ask that person he says I
cannot help it I'd be quite unhappy if I did not do it it's become a habit over
years a Swami who was in the ICU about
to die in a few days time old Swami we heard the story now in the ICU in the
hospital you cannot make out whether it's day or night it's all these lights are on and the
nurses of the busy moving around and we're surrounded by sick people dying people and the doctors said the nurses
said they're on duty that the Swami would get up exactly at 3:40 in the morning
I don't know how you didn't have a cop you'd get up you would struggle up in
the bed like this and start repeating the mantra habet a lifelong habit 4050 years of
doing that it's become a habit he's not putting forward an enormous amount of willpower I have to get up and meditate
even though I am dying I have to do that no it's become automatic now so the
sense is at the level of senses very important desires operate at the level
of senses at the level of the mind at the level of the intellect so the level of senses we have to train them and in
training at least one thing I've mentioned a good routine is necessary stick to the good routine sitting in for
meditation early in the morning and evening repeating the mantra for the Guru has given whatever spiritual
practice we have been initiated into you we all know that guru has told us to make a habit out of it so a habit of
sitting down at the same time you'll find the mind comes down at the same time it gets ready for meditation it's a
creature of habit body is a creature of habit the senses are a creature of habit now we come one step deeper the mind
itself mana - it's like the wheel in the hand of the driver it's what controls the senses
your wheels of the car are perfect they are all in running order senses are well
trained but what happened why is the car going this way and that way you know the driver sits down to drive the car and
the wheel comes up in his hand how could you go in to drive the wheel is not connected properly mind why at the level
of mine what does Yama recommend he recommends that senses ought to be trained the horses are to be trained the
mind he says some a nazca he says some a nazca the sanskrit words america is
literally translated into a word which is familiar to most people today especially those who are interested in
Buddhism some anezka literally translates into mindfulness into
mindfulness you see we live our lives in a fog of unawareness most of the time we
are operating on default what are you doing how are you sitting are you aware of it what are you thinking
are you aware of it what do you what are you stalking are you aware of it no we
are not conscious we are always slipping off no when we see in this old slapstick
comedy movies somebody slips on a banana and falls down with laughing squirrel but he laughs well we are always
slipping on the banana peel we are slipping up into the past or into the future all the time all the time we are
operating in the mode of what if he firmly what if this happens or what if
that happens and if only if only I'd said this if only had done that if only
had taken this job instead of that job if only I'd married this person instead of that person if only I had gone to
this place instead of that that place and so on if only regrets about the past things
thinking about the past it's gone it's gone and thinking about the future
anxieties hopes expectations about the future the continuously slipping off
never here and now mindfulness is being here and now Salman asked our awareness
one thing that the desires our samskaras hate is light being thrown upon them
our samskaras the inherent tendencies you know how they are found at first it
comes up as a thought or it comes up as something we see or something we taste not so important then next day the mind
begins to dwell on it that person behaved suppose somebody behaves badly with you at first you are
surprised and nothing much but in the mind begins to dwell dwell on it I'm the injustice of it I didn't do
anything to that person why did that person be why was he rude to me people are always taking advantage of me and
the rude I should be more assertive mind starts dwelling upon it resentment base up and the next time you
see somebody are attracting that way irritation comes down a flash of irritation and then anger
and it becomes a pattern becomes a pattern greed
it doesn't nothing starts with greed even the most tastiest food are the things which we like we get a little bit
of it this is a feeling it's nice that's the beginning and then mind dwells on it
it would be nice to have some more okay and then you go out and I'd stock it up
in the refrigerator and then you start snacking on it morning afternoon of the evening and it becomes a samskaara a
tendency when the time it becomes a tendency it's already run a groove into
your mind and we tend to start repeating that all of this happens that first burn
of it's nice what it may be nice but not the divert why but we forget it's not
work like it's nice I want to taste that again I want to see that again I want to hear that again I want to touch that
again I want to be in that place I want to be with that person I want to do that
work and not this work it starts there but liking then we think about it it the
groove becomes deeper then we start doing it groove becomes even deeper and in certain cases like addictions it's no
longer a groove which is the Grand Canyon it's been dug deep into our minds
it's extremely difficult to change at that level extremely difficult some scar is changing some scars is difficult some
scars are deep past ways nowadays they are saying that actually did they're
physically earlier they have to say that all the neural connections in the brain are set by the time you're 6 or 7 years
old it's that's it now they are saying that this neuroplasticity and all that yes strong
connections are made in childhood but all the time the brain is dynamic keeps changing we are saying a person who
becomes in a gross sense becomes addicted to a drug the neurology of the person changes it seems they're saying
that certain receptors died out other receptors become larger in number so the body the nervous system now is designed
to demand that drug physically designed to do that so the craving they're feeling is a
physical cream that samskaras become a Grand Canyon so what this
process hates is awareness aware this
all you have to do is see what's happening Salman Aska mindfulness at the level of
and now how you are mindful I mean this famous Buddhist teacher is their thick not hang if you have read not read this
book you should read that book miracle of mindfulness miracle of mindfulness it's based on the personal meditation
thick not hung he's a Vietnamese Buddhist monk he often comes to USA you
give lectures but his best-selling book is the miracle of mindfulness it's as
simple as this right now if you try it it's connected with the breath you
[Applause] breathe it goes like this I'll show you once and you can try it it goes like
this one simple practice breathing in I am here here breathing out now breathing
in here nowhere else breathing out now breathing in and happy
breathing out I smile repeat this cycle
reading in here breathing out
now just now not to win one minute ago not even one minute later breathing in I
am happy breathing out I smile that practice they
have many variations of this practice but basically it anchors us to the
present here and now otherwise we are always slipping up our monitor in fact
in Hindi Bengali there the words are all monoski on Namaskar someone Eska means
being with the mind let the mind be there right now be aware of it someone asked a miracle of
mindfulness when Zen teacher was asked what is your miracle he says my miracle is when I cut
the wood I cut wood when I draw water from the well I draw water from the well
that is why a miracle so the miracle should be when I do the dishes I do the
dishes or you can combine it I do the dishes and repeat the mantra but
basically you are I their swami very kinda puts it in a powerful little
mantra I can say in English he says goodness will come power will come glory
will come all that is great and excellent will come when the sleeping soul is roused to self conscious action
self conscious activity what is the self conscious not in a bag mad since I'm
self conscious of myself no I have Airness what's going on in the mind what's going on within in the senses in
the mind in the intellect that is called someone Oscar when all the time the moment you feel am not aware come back
to awareness gently without regrets Oh hours had passed before I look back
into myself doesn't matter look into yourself now gently don't be veil it that's also a trick of the mind I'm no
good at this then you go off on another trip a guilt trip No just come back to awareness someone
asked oh this process of unconscious living or semi-conscious living cannot bear the light of awareness it
short-circuits this process that's my awareness is extremely important Buddha many got nirvana when he was
walking towards South not before he gave the first seven minutes the story goes
this Shepherd by coward boy saw him and so amazed to see the look on his face
and asked him not who are you at this Houston Smith in his book on his book on our world religions Buddhism chapter one
asks writes this many people have been asked who are you very few in history
have been asked what are you this little biased but what are you are you a god
when this is enough are you an angel Buddha says no are you man what this is
no then what are you he says I am the awakened I am Buddha
Buddha literally means they're vacant meaning thereby the rest of us are not fully awake we are not in sleep either
though Vedanta tends to have that effect on people putting them to sleep but we are semi away sleep at least no problem
you are not up to any mischief if you are sleeping buts any awake lot of mischief is going on so someone asked
and the third one final one today is you go deeper the driver himself
remember the vehicle the sensory system that's one training is important the
mild away someone Eska mindfulness
training they say sir - wah the good horse is good horses are training horses
training or habit good habits are necessary at the level of the mind mindfulness now at the level of the
Internet the intellect is what decides most of the time we do not decide it
works by default whatever the sense is present to us whatever the mind does
with that processes it the intellect says yes intellect does not exercise its
filtering power is in default it just goes by default you know in
computers when you boot it or whether these days is a default setting so whatever is programmed into it that will
happen if you switch on the computer but you have an option of changing it you have to catch it at that moment in
earlier computers you have to give you 5 seconds or something like that to go in there it's exactly like that the
intellect has a tiny window of opportunity before the senses and the mind translated into actions into words
into thought into words and action thinking words an action they start before that the intellect has a tiny
window of opportunity to say yes or no to select to permit or not to permit
normally we don't use it we don't use it it just happens by automatically the intellect listens to the whisperings of
the senses this is nice and the intellect sort of gives in though the intellect may know better so this in our
monastery in India this is Swami where he was telling me see how the intellect
functions get diabetes and the doctor told him you should not take sweets now rasgulla comes let's cool a is a bengali
sweet it's very sweet so it comes and everybody there is a person coming with a bucketful of that and and giving to
everybody and Swami the tongue says I
want and the intellect says no doctor clearly I said no you should not take it
and sort of an intellect is the half-awake the intellect sort of gives in to the demands of the tongue and says
all right give me half of and sometimes
they would be there's this funny idea that it's full of set up the Rasulullah
this is funny idea that if you squeeze out the setup and take only the cheese Valley won't be so harmful you know doctors say
that's not true anyhow many people have had that there so a funny thing happened all the monks
were sitting in this old monk who was not supposed to eat sweets so every time he would come with the rasgulla he would
say squeeze it out and gave me the sweet remove the setup from it he would say
squeeze it now this young novice would come who did not know Bengali and you're
serving it he just understood what he meant by that he said squeeze it and give it so he was seeking to this old Swami and he heard
squeeze it so he squeezed the setup on his plate and took away the sweets and
everybody all around all the other monks say you they burst into laughter just like you saw what had happened intellect
does not use its power of decision yah mama tells no Chiquita a very beautiful
verse the mantra which I will repeat you
come to one to one one to one I repeat
that a new trio and neo-deava play DUP
na na t pollution Sunita tayo shreya
Adonis Assad who bhava te o TR Tod europeo every needy Yama says to
Nachiketa that all the time before you two things are coming the good and the
pleasant shreya and prayer prayer means Pleasant nice Sri means what is good the
good and the pleasant are coming all the time before you now one who selects
whose intellect selects the pleasant over the good never attains his goal in
life whatever may be the goal in life and the one who selects consistently the
good over the pleasant will attain the goal of life what does it mean once you have a goal
it may be making a million dollars it may be realizing God then what happen is everything in life becomes
clear once your goal is selected once the goal is selected what will take me
towards the goal and what will not take me towards the goal becomes clear we should be able to attain it what is the
problem the problem is there are a lot of things which the elephant likes the
elephant likes bananas bananas may not be good for your it may not be relevant
to your goal in life the ma who is going there with the elephant wants that now you are on the elephant you are in this
body and mind you have selected a goal means who has selected the goal your intellect has selected the goal I want
to realize God or I want to be healthy and lose 50 pounds or I want to give up
smoking I have selected the goal intellect but the body the sense organs
they have their own priorities so for them certain things are nice Pleasant
which may be quite contrary to your goal the energies of the body and mind they
flow automatically towards what's pleasant for the body and mind it may not be what's good for you so there is
often a contradiction you see the pleasant and the pleasant and the good
are like two salespeople who come before you they're rarely selling the same
thing they are often selling two different things so it's contradictory now unfortunately the players the
pleasant ones the salesperson is a much better salesperson partly because we are
willing to listen to him he's got all this he's got a nice laptop and a projector and he has got this nice
products and he gives you lots of things and he says see both of them have the
same goal both of the multimedia selling the same product happiness the present
and the good both of them ultimately is selling the same thing you will be happy if you listen to me that's what both of
them are same the thing is the one who's selling the pleasant that says when he says you will be happy right now he'll
be happy straightaway but what he does not say is this happiness will will destroy you
he said happiness will go away very soon life will be gone very soon nothing will
be pleasant in life I won't be my health will break down I will be able to eat
this I won't be able to go there I won't be able to watch that movie nothing will but very soon and then the pleasant salesman will disappear from
our life she won't come anymore and the salesman of the good just
shrugged his or her shoulders you didn't listen to me the salesmen we're selling the good what
is according to our goal in life is not a particularly good sales but not at any fault of that salesman but it's because
we don't listen we are not interested what they are selling is what the good
salesman is selling is what will give us happiness truly lasting happiness but if you take a little bit of time takes a
little bit of effort and it's true for anything in life you want to be a good
good student and get into Harvard or something like that that also requires that immediately life becomes divided
into what's pleasant and what's good the pleasant has a power of pulling us off
track he says if you follow the pleasant you'll be pulled up you're the path to
your goal and you'll be swept away you will not attain your goal and ultimately
the unfortunate thing is the pleasant is ephemeral it will come and go and then we are left high and dry time has gone
body has aged our resources have been spent and then we are left with nothing
it's a shimira it's it's something like a mirage which dilutes us if it did give
us some kind of permanent happiness I would say we say that okay we got something out of it but it does not so
prayer one who takes up the prayer here they are father who pray over Neath the
one who selects the pleasant and gives up the good even after deciding that
that's my goal and this will take me to my goal and don't take that I take that this I take this one then I will fall away from that goal he
says that means I will not attain my goal in spiritual life and selecting the
pleasant you may have a nice time for a short while but it it ends fast now I will just conclude here sum
up the take away from this talk this is the foundation of spiritual life sensory
level at the level of the mind at the level of the intellect senses mind
intellect women but the takeaway from this talk is the chariot model charge it
or car whichever is easier to remember remember the chariot you are the passenger in the chariot the chariot is
the body the horses are the sense organs the facts they run upon are the sense
objects you decide what they have to run upon the mind is the one by one by which
you control the sense the horses and the chariot if the range is the wheel of the
car the intellect is your driver now Yama says all three have to be taken
care of otherwise no spiritual life no success in secular life alocs is possible you can see in your own lives
you are all successful people you have been successful to the extent that you have controlled these three manage these
three self-management to the extreme that we have not been able to do it they have not reached the heights we would
have liked to reach so the senses have to be Yama says son a schwa good horses
good horses translates into training training translates into habit so at the
level of senses the takeaway is habits an effort consistent effort to create
good habits and overcome bad habits here the solution is only training not
reading not thinking not even wishing for it actual hard work to do generate
high good habits at the level of the senses go deeper the mind at that level
mindfulness be here be now watch yourself watch what what is happening at
the level of the senses what is happening at the level of the minds mind and what is happening at the level of the intellect watch it throw the light
of away what are my senses doing what am I thinking
what am I saying what am i doing at the level of the mind speech and action
someone asked oh so the key word here is mindfulness and at the level of the
intellect decision intellect can take decisions it's a great power in my life
we make a mistake of taking a decision once at the beginner on you know 31st December make a to-do list for my New
Year's but mostly the needs unimplemented because we do not exercise the power of decision consistently in
our time when do you have the power of decision all the time at this moment also you have right now
the power of deciding but you will do do with your body now what you will say now what you will think now we make a
mistake by thinking that I take decisions but it's difficult to hold on to my decisions you see what the trick
is holding on to the decision is a long-term thing one hour one day one
month one year that's difficult but what's completely easy and easily doable
is holding on to it for 10 seconds for one minute only everyone can do that and
after that what do you do you take another decision - next minute I will hold on to it why take one decision continuously
exercise the intellect that's what yoga is saying all the time the pleasant that
the good keep coming to you all the time you have to decide not default not automatic automatic then we go the way
of the senses what the senses whisper into the intellect until it will do that with awareness take decisions
continuously take decisions if you fail a thousand times no problem because right now is a chance for a fresh
decision as you keep doing that it will get easier very soon the more you do it
take decisions throughout the day more you do it and just not think about the past we sabotage ourselves were thinking
about past failures don't think about it's gone really really come more we
take decisions the easier it this prepares us for spiritual life this
is the passenger in the chariot will reach destination destination is enlightenment freedom moksha then so the
one to repeat again three things we take away from this habit mindfulness
decision senses mind intellect Oh
Shante Shante Shante hurry so we still
have time for maybe a couple two or three questions it's 12:20 tell that you have to wrap up right so in the evening
class we will take up next part of Emma's teaching the the path of the
child to realize Who am I what is the technique he will teach us a technique it's subtle so I can already see people
are going in their minds ah so the real thing is being saved up for the evening it's true that's that's a deeper thing
but I would always say that the real thing is this I would urge all of you
and all of us including myself to think more about this than anything else highest vedanta awaits you there's no
problem there the real problem is here without this without this foundation
everything that we build upon it will one day collapse with this foundation
the rest of it is not so difficult it happens quite easily it follows as a matter of course yes so there was this
body of spiritual knowledge the Rishi's who developed these ideas who got this
realization and then expressed it in these pumps that's what became dope ownership so Rishi's we're the enlightened persons with the teachers of
mankind so they gave this knowledge to us and it's more or less common to all of the
all the Vedas so sometimes you'll find out the original verses being repeated
in different opening shots and in the Gita later on and later on you will find Shankar Acharya coating that and the
other great masters of non-duality like vidya and your mother Suzanne Saraswathi
in different forms rachael acharya coating the same thing so communicate I
think I don't again seminars and workshops and things like that but they
definitely had a very vibrant spiritual culture that then people used to go and learn from each other we find in definitions themselves how sages and
things are going all the time going to each other and they would communicate they would speak to each other it's not
that they were always sitting quietly and if they got an idea and they give out offers they tout they debated the
quarrel and they came to certain conclusions that was the common heritage
of Vedanta that's why it's repeated and it's common to all of us how can you
find the persons who gave this the names are not found but it's a common heritage to all of humanity not just for in dues
or anything like that it's an impersonal teaching you see there is no question of a God to believe
in separate you know idea of this person this particular name this revelation know what you are talking about here is
your own reality after what is he talking about it's talking about your body it's talking about your own sense organs he's
talking about your mind it's talking about your intellect and talking about the reality talking about the reality
behind this intellect the passenger in the chariot of your own body there is
no question of believing in something out there this is look at what exists
right now and investigated a philosophical investigation spiritual investigation is that the continuous
noise in the head the voice in the head result of chattering and often it's meaningless naturally this and that all
the time that's the intellect intellect and the -
thoughts emotions feelings at the level of the mind continuous input is there at
the level of the senses and the intellect has this ideas concepts ideas
decisions so all the time the three are active sensors are active mind is active
intellect is active the mixture is what you call this the background noise of our life it's much better to engage it
that's why the Guru says you can repeat the mantra whenever you want that's a very good practice it's a powerful thing
which effects the intellect first and then the mind and even ultimately the senses on the whole body yes oh yes oh
is all the time go wrong in the sense it takes the wrong decision mostly because
of lack of awareness we are not aware of what's going on intellect takes an
automatic decision habit default decision I want that sweet I know the
intellect knows that I have diabetes and the dog and the doctor has told me doc has told me not to eat sweets that
information is their senses demand it the mind runs after the senses senses
are not in the control of the mind and the intellect is supposed to act as
a decision-maker and though the internet says this just this once won't matter so
it all of it falls in line with the Census and the we are pulled into the swing shop or something yes yes now the
thing is often adults also cannot make their own decisions not because we
cannot we do not that's the sad part of it we don't use that power of decision and children often are even more unable
to use the power of decision so they that's why in childhood habit circle so
if the have good habits inculcated they'll keep on doing the right thing
good habits good training is is very important but the training to make
decisions also is important the child should be allowed to make decisions again and again maybe we would fail it's
your decision but the consequences should also we'll find out often the child makes a wrong decision and the
parent shields the child from the consequences that officer should not be there and the power to decision should become clear I make the right decision
in the long run not in the short run in the long run I am happy I see that for
myself the child should be given experience due to she see that for himself or herself one thing to remember
is one thing which helps the intellect to make good decisions his calmness of
the mind and the in end senses because the intellect has a very small window to
make a decision before the mind and senses start acting so if you can be a
calm person maybe even a little slow-moving person then the decisions are better then a
fast reacting person that's why meditation they are now to some actual
experiments they have proved that meditation helps us in our decision-making process
certain parts of dil I think left brain and some something they it becomes a prefrontal cortex they are saying that
it becomes more active when a person is more meditative because it gives it a
chance to act it seems that our primitive and animal brain it reacts
fast and the more modern they call it the neocortex or something so that takes
time to react intellect works through that that's why you should give the
intellect I'm glad it's better not to is doing something good do it
doing something that's little dicey wait you give it time
maybe the intellect will take a better decision so meditation is very helpful for the intellect intellect becomes
stronger more able to take a decision and implement it if you are meditative patience is a great purchase patience is
not suppression I'm angry but okay I have to be patient I will not say a harsh word that person is boiling inside
already that's not patience patience says alright this person behaved rudely I'm
not affected by it doesn't matter just a few words anyway if you react fast then
you are at the mercy of the world I read about dr. hunt
Julian Hunter John Hunter something a subject in England who was who was very
rigid and he would react very fast to criticism and he said it's it's a
tragedy that my blood pressure is at the at the mercy of the whole world anybody contradicts me and you know the
horror of it was in a medical conference somebody stood up and criticized what he had said and he was so furious he
stalked out of the room fell into the hands of a fellow physician and of a heart attack Swami Vivekananda says
you are slaves slave to a good word slave to a bad word just a little bit of
praise and so happy what does it matter if somebody praises that I know what I am doesn't make me one bit better or one
bit worse somebody criticizes I am completely in positive psychology they
call it catastrophizing everything is ruined in my life it's horrible
he has said or she has said something critical about me really I am awful no
it's not true so the intellect which helped if you are
a patient person the holy mother used to say in that show judge from a shaman
goony there is no virtue equal to patience and sri ramakrishna played on
this world of fun Jay Chou Oishi Roy in now - Asha in Bengali what it means is
the one who forebears who is patient he will he will live he will exist in
continued he will prosper the one who does not forbear who reacts will be
destroyed
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