The Divine Bliss, which is the source of all happiness, is related to its Knowledge that was revealed in its original form by the Supreme Divine power, Krishna, during His miraculous appearance in this world. That was the Gita. The origin of all the spiritual “isms” and the knowledge of all the knowledges, which has now been further simplified by His Divinity Swami Prakashanand Saraswati, the foremost disciple of Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj, who is the Supreme Divine descension of this age.
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The Gita is not only a philosophy. It is a promise of God.
मय्येव मन आधत्स्व मयि बुद्धिं निवेशय |
निवसिष्यसि मय्येव अत ऊर्ध्वं न संशय: || 8||
Mayyev man ādhatsvamayibuddhiṁniveśhay.
Nivasiṣhyasimayyev at ūrdhvaṁnasanśhayaḥ
It tells to merge all the spiritual formalities into the exclusiveness of loving devotion to the Supreme form of God, and you will receive His vision.
Swami Prakashanand Saraswati on the Bhagavad Gita: Ultimate Scripture | Gita Series Part 1, Speech 1
The Divine souls!
In the last meeting, I explained that every soul has a desire to live forever and has the desire to have knowledge, the desire to be happy, the desire to have fame, and the desire to rule others. Out of those, three are important. You want to live to enjoy your life, and your ruling tendency or desire of fame. You want to become great. It means you want knowledge, you want happiness, and you want to become great. These are very important ones, these three. And if you consider out of these three…You see to become great is sometimes so strong that it bypasses the other two, meaning whenever you have a winning situation, you feel you are something -anywhere (in life). Suppose you bet and you win. You pass some exam; you did something great. Whenever you have a chance to show your own pride you feel great. Sometimes people, to become great in the world and to gain more fame, do so much effort day and night. Even they sacrifice their physical happiness, physical comfort just to become big in the society. Imagine this desire is so strong. Although we know as I explained yesterday that physical comforts or emotional comforts are almost the same. Just like a queen embraces her child and a beggar embraces her child, in both situations the happiness is the same.
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We also know that rich also get sick and poor also get sick; rather rich people have more sickness than poor people. They also die. They also get old – all the big people. So where is the difference? Emotional happiness is the very same. Sickness, health, weakness, old age, death are all very common. Then why do you want to become big? Something which pushes you from within and you don’t what know that is. You just want to be popular in the society, to become great, to show your vanity or to be at the height; you want to become like this. And this tendency is seen in every field, every walk of life.
Swami Prakashanand Saraswati’s Gita Series: Eternal Wisdom | Gita Series Part 1, Speech 2
In every field, you find this kind of thing. In a worldly field, in any kind of field, you can say.Even those who are not very learned“spiritual”-called people, also fall for this thing, and they spend their life in getting more praise instead of finding God. Anyway, in all the fields of life you find this tendency is very predominant in your life. Is it worth it? You see, suppose you gain famebut after your death people start forgetting you.
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We see in our history that big kingdoms arose, and they fell, forgotten. We are doing the same thing from uncountable lifetimes -going higher and coming down, rising up and coming down, going again higher and coming down, rising and falling, rising and falling. We are doing this from uncountable lifetimes and we never get tired. You start a business; you are at loss. You hope for the next year, but next year again is further loss. If you keep on having loss every year, you will change the business, “Oh no, it’s not worth doing.” But in this business, you are a loser all the time, meaning always you are a loser. Say for instance you are born and you grew up and have some desires. Are they fulfilled? Not all. You will live with your unfulfilled desire for your whole life. You die with your unfulfilled desires. So, you live with your unfulfilled desires. You die with the unfulfilled desire and again reincarnate, again do the same thing, again reincarnate again do the same thing. That cycle is going on since uncountable years, uncountable lifetimes and will go on forever until you find some solution to this problem and this riddle.
Prakashanand Saraswati Reveals the Hidden Truths of Krishna’s Descent | Gita Series 1, Speech 3
Is it only on this Earth planet? No, everywhere mayais there, and I have explained that mayahas created this physical world and has also created celestial worlds -the worlds of gods and goddesses.
इन्द्रो वांश्यति ब्रह्मा पदम्
Indro vanshyatibrahmāpadam.
In the celestial abode there’s a king called Indra. He has all the physical comforts, all the emotional comforts, whatever could be imagined, whatever you can imagine. He has all kinds of physical and mental comforts. He has everything, yet he is not very happy:
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“Oh, my abode is lower and Brahma’s abode is higher!I want to go over there!”
“But you have all the physical comforts.”
“Yes, but one comfort is not there – the comfort of becoming the great.”
You cannot become the greatest. You can become great, but not the greatest. That never happens in this world. There’s also in the celestial world, sometimes the election of a presidentship like prajapatior president. So lately there was an election during this manuvantar. And that (manuvantar) goes on for billions of years, not for thousand years. There was a Mr. Daksh. He was made presidentor Daksh prajapati. It’s all in the Puranas and Ramayan -when Daksh became Prajapati (president), he gained a big pride:
Swami Prakashanand Saraswati on Krishna’s Eternal Meaning | Gita Series 1, Speech 4
“Oh! I am now president!”
And from the very first day that he accepted the throne he started insulting his colleagues, his friends and other people. And he came to that extent that even God Shiv was rebuked by him themost. He neglected, rejected, discarded (Shiv ji),
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“I don’t want God Shiv in my company!” To that extent – it’s just a brief story. Then lots more things happened. However, this kind of possessing mentality goes up to there. Up to where? Up to Brahma’s abode – from here to Brahma’s abode. So, Gita says,
आब्रह्मभुवनाल्लोका: पुनरावर्तिनोऽर्जुन |
Ā-brahm-bhuvanāl-lokāḥpunarāvartino ’rjun.
“Up to Brahma is the field of maya, the field of desires and disappointments, and the field of limitations.”
So up to there are all disappointments and desires. Does Brahma also think that he wants to become something more? No, it stops over there. But have we ever thought, why are we doing this thing from life after life? We have no idea. We don’t know. But something pushes from within, and you go ahead to become great, to have more happiness, to have more knowledge. Unless you find the answer of this riddle, you will not be contented, you will not satisfied. Gita answers. Gita says,
Swami Prakashanand Saraswati on Krishna’s Infinite Divine Form | Gita Series Part 1, Speech 5
ममैवांशो जीवलोके जीवभूत: सनातनः ।
Mamaivānśhojīva-loke jīva-bhūtaḥsanātanaḥ.
Ved also says,
यो वै भूमा तत्सुखं…
Yovaibhūmātatsukham…
आनन्दं ब्रह्म…
Ānandambrahm…
विज्ञानम् आनन्दं ब्रह्म…
Vigyānamānandaṃbrahm…
…महतोमहीयान् …
…mahatomahīyān…
All these verses are from the Vedas;they mean,“We are part of the Divinity.”We – all the souls.
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And what is Divinity? God. God is the greatest –‘mahatomahīyān’ (महतोमहीयान्). He is greater thanthe greatest and He is the greatest. Nothing could be beyond Him. And His love is great. So great that it can’t be imagined – ‘bhūmā’(भूमा) -unlimited love, unlimited happiness. ‘Vigyānamānandaṃbrahm’(विज्ञानम् आनन्दं ब्रह्म…) – vigyān(विज्ञान) – He also has knowledge and it’s also endless. So endless knowledge, endless happiness and endless greatness all these three things are in God – endless knowledge, endless happiness, endless greatness. They’re the same three we desire in our life. This is the reason.
Swami Prakashanand on Krishna’s Omnipresence and Divine Reality | Gita Series Part 1, Speech 6
So Gita said: “Oh souls,” Krishna says, “you are all part of Me, part of Divinity, but you have forgotten. You have forgotten your status. So, you are striving for that thing in this world. But you are a fraction or a part of the Divinity. That’s why you cannot be happy in this material world. You have to come to God.”
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There’s no other way. So, we see, after all those disappointments from life after life and in this life also, millions of times we get disappointments from minor to major. Yet we keep on doing the same thing over and over and over and over again and again and again because, “Something is pushing me from within to go ahead and find the maximum, to go ahead and find the maximum love, maximum happiness, maximum knowledge, maximum greatness. But that does not exist in this world, and we have no other way to find. So, we keep on trying in the same field, the same thing life after life. When we understand Gitawe understand, “Oh yes, we have to find that thing somewhere else, and that is God.”
Swami Prakashanand on Worshipping God in Five Divine Forms | Gita Series Part 1, Speech 7
So, Brahma is knowledgeable. He’s not a part of the material kingdom because He has produced the Vedas. He was the first to receive knowledge from Krishna. When He prayed to Krishna He got the knowledge. So, He is knowledgeable. He knows. He is contented. So Brahma’s seat is not a material seat. Brahma is a Divine personality. Brahma’s seat is actually a seat which is called Brahma. Sometimes a great Saint sits on that throne. Sometimes a Divine personality sits on that throne, but always that throne is Divine. But below Brahma, up to this mundane world, everything is material, and in this material realm, only disappointments are there. Why disappointments? Because there are limitations, that is the reason. Why disappointments? Because there are limitations here.
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We have happiness here. It’s not full of misery. This whole world is full of happiness, but limited happiness. And limitations make you miserable. Limitations. Mentally miserable. Suppose you have something, and your friend has something better than you. Then you feel miserable mentally. So in this way, in this limitation, you feel unhappy. So, unhappiness is of two kinds: mental unhappiness and physical suffering. Physical suffering also comes from your past bad actions because they all feed back on each other. To get something in the world, you sometimes do wrong things. You did wrong things, wrong actions, and you were punished. And when you were punished, you got some suffering, physical suffering. And why did you get physical suffering? Because of wrong deeds. Why did you do wrong deeds? Because you were ambitious. Why were you ambitious? It is because of your own inherent nature to be ambitious, to have the greatest thing.
Swami Prakashanand on Taoism & Confucianism: Divine Paths | Gita Series Part 1, Speech 8
In this way, they all feed back on each other; meaning this world is full of disappointments, full of miseries, full of happiness, and full of complete limitations. So, there’s no perfection in this world. Absolutely no perfection. And you are striving for perfection. You see, all of you have happiness and life. All the souls are happy at times. They have some life to live, and they also sometimes feel great when they have some kind of winning situation – all the souls. So they have all those things already in their life, but in their life, it is not sufficient because they want the greatest, the maximum, and that is not here. So, we have everything in limited quantity; that’s why we are unhappy. We have a limited life, limited happiness. That’s why we are unhappy. We want the greatest, the maximum, the supreme, the absolute, the ultimate, and that is not here. That is only in the Divine world. That’s the main difference between this world and the Divine world.
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I’ve explained the Divine world when I was describing Krishna’s abode, and in that abode only Krishna’s Divine personality has become everything: name of Krishna, form of Krishna, abode of Krishna. Saints in that abode are also in the form of Krishna. They represent Krishna. So, in that Divine world, everything is just blissful, just bliss of bliss, and in this world, everything is limited from a tiny, small thing to a greater thing – even that is also limited. So, limitations make us miserable. We don’t want that, but we don’t know that we really desire that thing. This is a misunderstanding. It’s called illusion, a misunderstanding or ignorance, or agyān.
This agyāncould be removed with gyān. It means misunderstanding or ignorance could be removed with knowledge. What does Gita give? Knowledge. I told you before that Gita gives you the right knowledge, the right understanding. You have some understanding that was not correct. Just correct the understanding, and you are on the right path because you are searching for perfection, but you were searching for perfection in the wrong place. Just change the place and it’s all right. You are already doing the right thing, but in the wrong place. Searching for the right thing in the wrong place. This is a misunderstanding. And you understand you are looking for God. Then that becomes karm yoga of the Gita. At this point, before we derive a conclusion, there’s one more question to be considered.
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Gita said,
ममैवांशो जीवलोके जीवभूत: सनातन: |
Mamaivānśhojeeva-loke jeeva-bhūtaḥsanātanaḥ.
This soul is part of the Divinity. “Mamaivānśh,” Krishna says. Shankaracharya has said in his bhashya of Brahma Sutra that the soul and God are the same, and on that version, many cults have been formed nowadays, many cults with many branches. “Soul and God are the same.” Other acharyas contradicted this completely, “No!No!It is the wrong notion, the wrong statement, the wrong philosophy! Completely wrong philosophy! Soul is soul and God is God!” Soul is a servant of God. Soul is a part of God. These are the two, mainly.
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Some say, “Soul is a servant of God.”
Some say, “Soul is a part of God.”
But the soul is not God. And God is not soul. Soul cannot become God, and God cannot become soul. But Shankaracharya said that God and soul are the same – at one place. So, this contradiction I’ll remove in the next speech. That’s all for today.
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