One important verse in the Gita (Ch 12 Verse 20) states: Those who revere the dharmic way to immortality, and completely engage themselves making Me as their ultimate goal with all faith, are exceedingly dear to Me. What a grand idea this verse conveys! The Lord has clearly declared therein that those who have these qualities, that is, those who trust Him as the only ultimate goal and are attached to Him single-mindedly — they are dearest and nearest to Him. Note the expression, 'righteous way to immortality' (dharmya-amritham) used here. Ponder over it and draw inspiration from it. The nectar of the Lord's grace is deserved only by those who adhere to the Lord's dharma. Simple folks believe they have devotion toward the Lord, but they do not pause to inquire whether the Lord has love towards them. People who pine to discover the Lord's love are rather rare. That is really the true measure of spiritual success.
Do we listen to Swami's voice, can we see him talking about the verse of the Gita standing in front of all the people gathered at his feet listening to him with outmost attention? Isn't it a wonderful picture?
Yesterday he told us that contemplation is neglected.
Have we asked ourselves what contemplation is? Do we know how we contemplate, and the difference to meditation and concentration, did we ever think it over and ask ourselves questions about it? It is not meditation and it is not concentration, therefore, what is the joy of contemplation?
If we listen to it, we get aware of it that it is a gift, a precious gift of immortality and if we listen, we know we worried for nothing, nothing ever changes, energy doesn't get lost, only the body level are changes, on the energy level are no changes and if we listen to the divine words and how he is talking about the 20 verse of chapter 12 in the Bhagavad Gita he is telling us, listen, listen, listen (listen, think it over, absorb) and enjoy the truth in the divine words.
Those who revere the dharmic way of immortality and completely engage themselves making Me as their ultimate goal with faith, are exceedingly dear to Me. (That are Krishna's words)
How do we understand it?
He talks about being engaged in the dharmic way of right action, the way of immortality and if we completely engage ourselves and make him our ultimate goal with faith, we are dear to him, we listen to Krishna's words. We can ask ourselves, are we engaged to that type of faith?
Everything we got in life, what we know and have, will be lost the moment the body dies, it is all present in him only, he is the owner, he is the knower and he is the doer. If we are awake in him we will lose nothing, because he remains present. Engaged in that type of commitment to him, nothing of it and no matter what it was in life will get lost if we are awake in the divine and we don't need to worry at all about it.
It is only the body that dies and nothing is ever lost on the energy level and that is the quality of our life if we know that it is his Lila. If it is real in him, the wealth his his, the knowledge is his, the doer is he, everything will still be present in him in the moment of death and go on with him and will not get lost, but when we think it is ours and we are not aware that it is his, it is only dust and it will all be gone for good. That is the joy of contemplation.
It is precious, nothing on the relative, passing clouds level can be a compensation for the divine reality or give us what he gives us, with him we get it all, on the relative level no matter how much we struggle we lose it all.
But how do we listen? How do we think it over? How do we see it in our own life?
What is the dharmic way of immortality?
There are for sure people not knowing what Swami means by dharmic way of immortality, are you one of them or not?
Right action is Dharma and immortality means no change, no birth and no death, it has to be experience, not only thought, we are children of immortality not of futility.
What is futility? Did you ever ask yourself what Swami is talking about? Did you examine if you understand it right and not wrong?
He said yesterday that contemplation on the eternal reality of the divine is neglected.
We finish in the center the study help and asked them if we think we do not neglect it and if we were just a few participants who found the joy of contemplation of the wisdom of the Lord? If they would only have a slight idea about the precious joy, they would not have missed it. But they missed it and they still don't know about that joy and neglect contemplation.
We should not live in the illusion that we know it if we don't and we should face the fact that we actually don't know it and the study help has not changed it.
We should not live in a dream with open eyes thinking we know it, when we actually go on neglecting that joy of contemplation in the reality of the divine. If we would just have a small idea about the greatness of that joy present in his words, we wouldn't have missed it all.
It feels like Darshan, if we live the joy, but as they don't know and the study help didn't help them to get into it and discover the joy of it, we have missed it all.
We have to tell, it is of no use to keep silence, it is not a way to realize our immortality.
One important verse in the Gita (Ch 12 Verse 20) states: Those who revere the dharmic way to immortality, and completely engage themselves making Me as their ultimate goal with all faith, are exceedingly dear to Me. What a grand idea this verse conveys!
Do we get that great wisdom and feel the divine? Do we know what he means?
We cannot enjoy it if we don't know. Why we don't talk about the joy of contemplation?
If we are only in the relative life and worry only about job and cannot stop it, we are not able to listen really, we are too much overshadowed by the relative. If we are the non-changing being level, we are successful and we gain it all and if we are on the changing relative level we lose it all. How can we worry only about the relative changing level if we will lose it all, we should worry that it gets lost anyhow and only the divine can save us from losing it, but we have to listen and we should not neglect contemplation.
The Lord has clearly declared therein that those who have these qualities, that is, those who trust Him as the only ultimate goal and are attached to Him single-mindedly — they are dearest and nearest to Him.
Swami is discussing it with us, do we hear it?
If we just read it and forget about it, we don't listen, we just read and that is only the mind.
If we listen to him we have to listen on three levels, we listen with the ears and we think it over and find the right knowledge and that means we see it in our own life and it gets confirmed on the self-level, without contemplation we will not be able to realize the self.
We cannot just read it and think we understand it, that is the mind only. We have to listen on all three levels to get into the divine reality of Brahman, the basics wisdom and into the reality of our own self.
Note the expression, 'righteous way to immortality' (dharmya-amritham) used here.
Do you note the expression and the joy we feel in listening to it?
Ponder over it and draw inspiration from it.
Did we ever ponder over it and draw inspiration from it or do we not think about it and neglect it and is it too much effort for us to think it over and to contemplate about it?
It seems easier to think we are in silence, we don't have to face it and look at the reality that we don't do it, someone could notice it, therefore, it is easier to avoid it in silence, we don't talk. It is a way to avoid it so we don't have to face the reality that it is easier to avoid it than to face truth of not being what we think we are or what we would like to be, not as great and knowing everything, not a legend on the spiritual path, no heroes, what is probably hard to face, we rather avoid it so we don't have to face our own failure on the spiritual level and that fact that we are not able to let go of the relative level and therefore, we are not able to listen to Swami.
We don't want to know, it makes it as we think easier. It keeps us in the illusion that after all we could get it if we would not have that much work. We don't want to know, because it arranges us to not know who we really are, as we would have to face the fact that we are not who we would like to be, but we are in the grip of the relative world and our senses. On that level we will lose it all and it doesn't serve us to ignore it.
We don't lose anything if we would focus on the divine energy. He was in the dream before he left the body and said, 'I am on a place where gold and silver flows'. I wondered about it and we have to find the right answer. On the relative realm and the world level we will lose it all, it will be gone and we with it, it is only dust, no value, passing clouds, next life we will not even have a memory left, maybe we will be the opposite, poor and nobody, no money and no divine and why, we were not able of letting go.
The nectar of the Lord's grace is deserved only by those who adhere to the Lord's dharma. Simple folks believe they have devotion toward the Lord, but they do not pause to inquire whether the Lord has love towards them.
Do we get the message? Simple folks doesn't inquire if the Lord has love towards them and if we don't enquire, we have to listen to Swami's words, we are part of simple folks. What are we?
He said he is the man who comes in our dream to awake us and he also said that it has to be deserved and he was throwing up in the dream that cannot be the reflection of love, but that is how we wake up and realize it is not the way we think it is.
He is the man who is in our dream to wake us and we have to get aware of it and wake up, we have to find the right answer and then it has to be confirmed by contemplation of his divine reality.
People who pine to discover the Lord's love are rather rare. That is really the true measure of spiritual success.
Do we listen to his words? He is telling us that we have to discover the Lord's love, did we do something about it or did we just hide in silence and hiding from the Lord how can we get his divine love? Our love, if it is not pure love, has no real value for the divine, it is based on illusion only, it is his love we share, it is his presence, it is all his, nothing is ours.
If we listen to those wonderful words, he is telling us that it the true measure of spiritual success and we can measure ourselves if we are a success or a failure, but we think that we actually do rather avoid it to not have to get aware of it, we don't want to know or that is the feeling I get if we don't want to know we avoid it all and most of all that we have to change. There is nothing we can hide from him.
If we don't have the courage to face it and we avoid it, we are not as great and brave as we would like to be. If we are that attached and we don't want to know, it is harmful and keeps us on that relative level unable of letting go, it is destroying us.
God we think, God we are, dust we think, dust we are.
It keeps us on the level of dust if we are not able to let go and there will be nothing left, not even a trace of it, but if we know he is it all, and it is all in him, nothing will be lost.
We have to live and realize that energy level, we have to be it. It is like the difference of good health or getting Alzheimer, death is taking over as a big forgetting and by that we are going into the darkness of forgetting everything, only energy remains and next life will be Karma, Swami has gone and if we didn't use the opportunity he gave us to wake up, there will be no memory of worldly wealth, it will be all gone with him, it will all dissolve in dust.
If we focus on divinity it all will be in him, because he is the wealth, he is everything, he is the energy and nothing ever will get lost, he is the parents, he is the lovers, he is everything.
We have to listen to Swami to get to that higher level of consciousness and if we don't listen, we are actually stupid and our worst enemy and that is mind only. It is the meaning of engaged in a dharmic way of immortality.
We have to listen to be able to feel the joy in his words ... he is the truth, he is the wealth, he is the gift, he is the doer, he is the knower, if we lose him and are dust, we lose it all, if we are realized in him, we win it all.
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