Book 5 · Part 1 · Chapter 7
Sayings, aphorisms and short parables
From the text: A run of aphorisms: yama means three hours, so holding your breath for three hours is pranayama; strict discipline keeps you from idiotic acts …
66 sections from 41 Darshans · 6,776 words · 1 section of Guruji’s book listed
Fatal Wisdom
Fatal Wisdom
There was a story of one fakir, who was supposed to be so powerful to be able to influence the planets. The king called him, showed him one planet or a star and asked to remove it. He said “Ok, I will just remove it”, but all the court continued to see that star twinkling in the sky and fakir was claiming: “Yes, I have erased this star from the sky”. Nobody believed him and he was beheaded by the emperor. And after 4 centuries after this incident scientists were looking with a big telescope into the sky and saw that the star was no longer there. Because for 4 centuries the light had been coming towards the Earth and people thought that they saw the star, but it was just a reflection on earth, that was coming to the Earth. So fakir actually removed that star. He was powerful enough to remove that star, but he was weak to remove the emperor. So what was the use? And the emperor was powerful enough to erase that fakir. That means: never show your wisdom in front of ignorant people, it may prove dangerous.
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What is happiness
Everything is temporary, even sadness
Q: Okay, what I want to say is that happiness is a temporary thing — he doesn’t feel happy all the time.
Shailendra: Everything in this world is temporary. Nothing is permanent. Even sadness. All the problems, happiness, satisfaction.
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To rule in Hell eng
YouTube clip, ASR: 'better to rule in hell than to serve in heaven' — and ruling in hell is far harder than ruling heaven.
It is better to rule in hell than to serve in heaven. And you will agree ruling in hell is far more difficult than ruling heaven. Remember that.
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How realisation begins?
YouTube clip, ASR: realisation begins when you see you are not important to the world — yet you remain the hero of your own life story.
I will say I will add one more thing. You may not be so important to the society in the world. You may be the most insignificant fellow but you are the hero of your life story. So for your story you are important than us.
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Aphorisms
Aphorisms on means, practice, killing and dignity
I have always lived beyond my means. >> Finally means are catching up. Well, practice is a method of convincing ourself that we can do that. That is called practice. It is not my personal statement. More people have been killed in the name of God and in the name of love than in the name of devil and hate. >> Yeah, we need to consider that also. That is true. >> Beauty of India is dignity. A naked Naga sadhu look more dignified than a person wearing three-piece business suit. So dignity is everywhere. Even if you are going naked here, you will continue to appear dignified.
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What is happiness
Everything is temporary — even sadness
Q: Okay, what I want to say is that happiness is a temporary thing — he doesn’t feel happy all the time.
Shailendra: Everything in this world is temporary. Nothing is permanent. Even sadness. All the problems, happiness, satisfaction.
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ABOUT SENSE OF HUMOR
Humor, bodily steadiness, personal ritual, astrology and dependence on spirits
ABOUT SENSE OF HUMOR
The sense of humor is a gift from god; or to find humor in any conditions. For this – I salute Hodja Nasreddin : you must read this book. He and his donkey – they were dying from hunger; and he was the real character! He said to his donkey: bastard, you die when we get habitual of going hungry. This is the essence!
STUPIDITY AND WISDOM
From stupidity comes the real wisdom. Because the moment you begin to realize what is stupidity and what is being stupid: the wisdom begins from that moment, remember that!
According to Sankhya yoga, Kapil Muni says that you recognize and eliminate different elements of what the world is made of or Creation is made of. As you will continue to eliminate, and when you've eliminated almost everything; what is standing there finally will be the Creator. So: this statement I just gave about stupidity is exactly dealing with Sankhya yoga: eliminating stupidity – then you’re becoming wiser.
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APHORISMS
Aphorisms: kutastha communication, nonduality, dreams, karma and Earth's mind
APHORISMS
Q: what is yama? Guruji: yama means three hours. If you’re able to regulate and control your breath for three hours – then it can be called pranayama. And ayama means dimension also. There are two words: yama and ayama; pran-ayama means you begin to enter into the dimension of the prana. Then it will be called pranayama.
Who is miserable? Who is able to remain in miser all his or her life – he is really miserable.
Following the very strict discipline, daily routine, keeps you freedom from doing idiotic things.
I will say – the most important question person can ask to the God is: how are you? This is the very important question – because everybody is asking something from him; how many devotees and how many saints are saying – are you ok, sir? How are you? Maybe god will like it. Q: what if god is having a bad day today? Guruji: he’s not having a bad day – he may have bad millennium or bad century.
Only a man, who has lost his mind, can smile; only mad man can laugh: otherwise in such times who can effort the smile?
Sometimes it’s impossible – not to react, but try it. I’ve seen many times in social situation: we want to cut somebody’s nose and make him run naked on the main road – but we just smile and behave nicely. It requires more strength. And also fear of police(smiling)
Mother Earth is giving us absolutely for free – and we create business out of it. This is an effort to make something pure and fine.
“Putnik” came in only three days, I’ve not wrote the single poem before. And it sounds best in Russian: I’m putnik, be my sputnik. In no other language it sounds so poetic.
LIFE AND DEATH (DEFINITION ) Union of the spirit with the physical body – it is life, separation of spirit from physical body is called death. Union is life – separation is death.
WOMAN SUPPORT
This story will be fantastic for many – but it’s true story.
My elder sister got married – she was a professor in hindi literature. And my brother-in-law – he was senior engineer in one plant, which was built in Russian collaboration; it is about 30 hours journey from Gwalior. That was after marriage; I was taking my sister there, we went by train – and it was some service problem or something and my brother-in-law couldn’t come – so I went there. I was studying in high school then. When I was coming back – we couldn’t find the reservation so my brother-in-law just put me in one wagon without reservation and told me that when conductor come he will arrange some work for him. it was a reserved compartment but it was so crowded – it was something. My nature – I can rarely asked: sir, may I sit? Or something – you can call me arrogant or let’s say resolved person; I was just sitting on my attaché – but so full of crowd. There was boards, people were sleeping in that; and can you imagine young person sleepy more than old one? I just falling asleep every minute and cursing my brother-in-law also for his resettlement. I was very good at cursing from the beginning. Then about 3:30 or 4 o’clock in the night one lady, who was sleeping on top – she may have look at me, that young man is suffering; she was newly married and they were going to Delhi. She came down. And she just said – go and sleep on the top where I was. I answered that I’m ok, I’m fine – I was already very furious. She told me again – and I said: I told you, I’m ok here. Suddenly she became very emotional – it’s a touching story – and she show me: see, this is my husband, he is a navy officer. He was called in some emergency; in 71 the war wit Pakistan start – it was just before that. He has been called to report and we couldn’t find the proper reservation; they will go in first class or by air – and we were travel in the second class sleeper. He was sleeping there. We were just been married for 5-6 months; I was looking at you from my board and I couldn’t sleep. I was just imagining that I’m just been married, I may have children some day – maybe I will have a son; and looking at you I was thinking – suppose if my son were suffer like him, how he must be feel? Tears came into her eyes and she said – go and sleep there. I was speechless, I went up there and I got up about 12 o’clock in the noon time – I don’t know how she managed, I was just out. Then in the morning she introduced me to her husband, he was senior navy officer, with a beard and they offer me breakfast. I will say – she has left the fantastic memory and I realized: support of the woman is very important in anyone’s life.
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APHORISMS
English counterpart of Russian aphorisms: wording strength and preserved paradox
APHORISMS
I’m saying that we listening for this for many years since we were children; that one should have simple living and high thinking. Okay, this is also good thing, but now I realized that it’s absolutely different thing: high living, but simple thinking. That means when a person has achieve some very high things, living standards – after that sometimes those very high living standard becomes very simple to him and then a very simple way of thinking starts. Because he already achieve – then only simple thinking will remain. We need to remember that.
We say in India that saint and rich man are almost same: because if you serve the saint – he will become happy and will bless you; and if you serve the rich man and he will become happy – he will give you money. Money is also big blessing from god. So they are same.
PROCESS OF UNDERSTANDING
He asked me a question and the answer I give is: when you eat food – it doesn’t digest instantly, but the process of digestion begin. Similarly, when you go through some great spiritual experience – you will not understand it immediately, but the process of understanding will begin with the experience. So we must have patience.
VEGETARIAN
I never said: stop smoking or stop drinking, nothing. Listen yourself and go on. That’s how progress happens. Absolutely natural – that’s the point.
so don’t try to force?
Guruji: no-no, just keep practicing regularly – everything will happen. When you will start respecting life – you will become vegetarian.
when I’m just sitting quietly – my mind is very quiet, but when I’m starting practice – every possible thoughts are coming to me, why?
Guruji: it is like cleaning the room after the very long time: dust will fight, then it will settle down.
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Darshan №1
Six timelines belief, attachment/care, development, anger ethics and nonduality
There was a rich man, he had a servant, who was following his master’s orders to the tip. One time his young son started to cry – he wanted to make shit; so he told the servant – take him, he want to make shit. Because the order was for shit servant make him sit and said: you shit – but not urine should come, because the order was for shit. Master was ordered only for shit! He was threatening the child, and child began to cry; and he said: Master, he is not doing anything – but he is crying. Oh, break his head! – and the servant took the stick and broke his head. Following orders also requires that you must be intelligent enough. Having common sense is one thing, but being nonsense is nothing. I think it’s a very wise story. It’s very famous story in our villages.
You must have enough sense to catch the essence of the order. Otherwise the results will not be good. From another point of view this servant was trying to take revenge from that master for some grudge – which master was not aware of, so he just hang on to the words and did exactly what he was saying. That is another aspect of the story.
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Darshan №13
Quantity-quality, individualized practice, compassionate pandemic response and memory
Does shame exist for old sinners?
Guruji: Only if he is caught. Otherwise no. Because he’s wise now.
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DIFFERENT SHORT TALKS
You never know — the ant story
YOU NEVER KNOW
…she was very happy, because she found possible husband and she was trying to make a home in one piece of dirt. She was very happy and she was discussing with the grasshopper: that I will make a home and all this things happen and I will love him, he will love me, we will have so many children, we will have the big colony in future. And one grasshopper telling her: but I saw – I was flying to somewhere and I saw that there was something very long and when the sun was going down, the light was running on top. Then ant begin to argue it is not possible, it cannot be like this; he was just trying to describe a lamp booster.
She said: don’t disturb my mind, I’m just waiting for my friend and make a nest with him. suddenly the whole ground begin to shake; they think what’s happening? And suddenly the big shadow was seen, they were crushed under something and they were no more. And before one other ant was saying: your lover was running away with another ant – and she was crying, why god this happened? And suddenly ground begin to shake, something crushed them and that was their death. From other point of view: the school was done, children was running crossing the ground – and one child crushed them, that was the end of their lives. So amazing: our world is also like this: you never know.
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DYING IS ALWAYS FRIGHTFUL
Wisdom — Chanakya's jewels
WISDOM
Chanakya said it and I’ve read it 55 plus years back: there are only three most expensive jewels in this creation: food, water and sweet words. Idiots considers stones as jewels. I agree with him absolutely.
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GURU& DISCIPLE
Wise ant — education
WISE ANT
what is the best idea about education?
Guruji: you should learn everything about your past also; then you should also become aware of the present situation, what you’re represent. Then give your contribution for the better future.
so education should prepare us to…?
Guruji: without knowing your past how you will know what is good and what is bad? You’re actually sharing the experience of so many people, who accumulated all these records. Yourself simply cannot do it everything alone. I will quote Babaji here: be wise like an ant: if there is sugar and sand together he takes only the sugar and leaves the sand. This is the big mixture of education; so take the best and leave the rest.
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HIGH STANDARD IN YOGA
Lazy person will attain liberation
LAZY PERSON WILL ATTAIN LIBERATION
The question came: that many people are doing many difficult tapas and following extreme discipline to rise above karma; and my simple observation is: a lazy person is the luckiest of lucky person, who is so lazy to do anything:
he is just lying down doing nothing: he is also beyond karma.
I think most of the lazy persons will attain liberation. Think on that!
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HIGH STANDARD IN YOGA
Greed
GREED
Greed, gives us great inspiration to achieve most difficult things. Because we are greedy!
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HIGH STANDARD IN YOGA
A tree can never outgrow its roots
A tree can never outgrow its roots. No matter how high you go in your life – you roots will always remain inside. No one outgrows them. They will keep giving you nourishment: we just need to keep that in mind.
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I WAS YOUNG, I AM STILL YOUNG
Impossible things
IMPOSSIBLE THINGS
The only thing impossible
I’ve discover and understood:
to make human beings see the reason.
It is almost impossible!
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I WAS YOUNG, I AM STILL YOUNG
A girl and a diamond
A GIRL AND A DIAMOND
A girl with a diamond
Is always a happy girl
And a man, who cannot afford
To gift a diamond to a girl,
He is not man enough!
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KNOWLEDGE
Nasretdin's donkey — smart man can get out of any situation
You know that famous story of Nasretdin?
He claimed that he could make any donkey a man. There was one rich man, but he was not too smart –and he said ok, I have a donkey which I love very much – can you make him a man? How much it will cost? – only 10000 dinars; so give me in advance and a donkey – it will take 20 years. Then the rich man became to worry – how it is generally possible? After 20 years what will happen? He said don’t worry: in 20 years either this donkey will die or that man will die or I will die – so let’s enjoy 10000 dinars. Then after 20 years that man was still alive and Nasretdin was also alive and the donkey was sold; and the man asked – where is my donkey? He answered: you don’t know? I’ve made him a man and he became educated so much so he became the main wiseman of the city – see? Go, go. He said – o my donkey, you’re so great now. – you bastard, you called me a donkey! And the clash begins. That means: smart man can get out of any situation.
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Kriya Yoga, body and consciousness
The Robert Frost quotation
So, I think, this brief introduction is enough now. As you will progress, you will learn more and more and more. And I will just quote Robert Frost here, a very famous British poet:
" Woods are dark and deep
and have a lure for the adventure
Miles I have covered
yet miles to go before I sleep."
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mr. SHADOW
Power: talking is good, achieving is hard
again we stop near the power
Guruji: actually it is very interesting to talk about power, but to go all the way to achieve power is very difficult and very troublesome. Talking is good. You like to see heroes and follow the hero, but who wants to be a hero? It’s too much worries.
everybody wants, but everybody wants to go easy way
Guruji: there is no easy way.
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MYTHOLOGY OR REAL STORIES
I have a dream
I HAVE A DREAM
If you will not have any ambition – then why you will work?
What is the need for hard work – until unless you are a slave?
Slaves have no ambitions. And they work hard and get punishment for nothing.
If you want to progress in anything – you must have something in your ambition.
You must have a dream to follow! Otherwise – what you will do?
Think! And decide!
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NO SNAKE – NO STORY
Aphorisms
APHORISMS
From the song: go to sleep early – because your lover will come in your dreams.
Quote from famous actor – his wife’s name is Savanna; he said: my and Savanna’s friendship is so deep and so thick that even marriage failed to affect it.
Song: just give everything for a sake of a smile of someone, share someone’s pain, borrow pain of someone. You should have love for somebody in your heart – I don’t know anyone, who doesn’t believe in this; for me – life means this.
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QUOTE FROM CHANAKYA
Quote from Chanakya
QUOTE FROM CHANAKYA
Well it is by Chanakya, I will try to translate:
It is very easy to make a wise person understand
something,
You can even make a fool understand something,
But a person who is not wise and not a fool, even God cannot make him understand!
Remember, it was said by Chanakya!
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QUOTE FROM CHANAKYA
Life is magic
LIFE IS MAGIC
People are talking that magic is superstitious thing – one should not believe in magic it’s all technic; but I think: every life is magic.
Whatever we have seen – is magic.
And they try to understand the mechanism behind it: so it’s just a technic or something – but what about life?
It is the greatest magic I see.
Enjoy magic!
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Samadhi; Babaji; Telang Swami; Lahiri Mahasaya; Autobiography of the Yogi
Deformed body, divine expression
I think it’s impossible situation – that person has developed mind and ugly appearance at the same time?
Guruji: physically he maybe deformed, but the beauty will express herself anyway.
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Samadhi; Babaji; Telang Swami; Lahiri Mahasaya; Autobiography of the Yogi
Deformed body, divine expression (continued)
but his mind must affect his body and the face also?
Guruji: of course? The expression and the emotions will be divine – it is true.
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SELF – REALIZATION IS THE GRACE OF THE GURU
People with closed eyes — physical and mental blindness
PEOPLE
WITH CLOSED EYES
we’re practicing with closed eyes?
Guruji: most of the world is living with
closed-eyed people; sometimes we try to open them. Most of us pass through life
with closed eyes. We need to open them from time to time.
There
are 2 type of blind people: one who are physically blind, and others who are mentally
blind. World is full of them.
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SHANI ASHTAMA
Aphorisms
APHORISMS
Here in the grassroots level they say: the person, who deceives the Guru and also deceives the friend either become the blind or a leper. This is grassroots level wisdom.
If a rat will find a piece of turmeric – he will think he owns a mall . It is the definition of arrogance and feel very proud.
Not everybody should become a bridegroom: there should be people who will follow him to the marriage, support him. Not everybody should becoming a hero: what is the hero without an audience?
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SHIVA IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
Suggestion from Guruji — never accept defeat
SUGGESTION FROM GURUJI
This is friendly suggestion to the young generation:
I will say – accept the good council from experienced people; accept good things in life, learn out of it; but never ever accept one thing: never accept defeat for whatever you have set out to achieve.
Never accept defeat!
But accept good counselling, share the experience, accept good things from elderly people, from your parents, listen to them; accept and respect them.
Never accept defeat.
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SHIVA IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
Aphorism — better to rule in hell
APHORISM FROM GURUJI!
IT IS BETTER TO RULE IN HELL
THAN TO SERVE IN HEAVEN
AND YOU WILL AGREE
RULING IN HELL IS FAR MORE DIFFICULT
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SHIVA IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
Aphorism — better to rule in hell (continued)
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SHIVA IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
Suggestion from Guruji (repeated)
SUGGESTION FROM GURUJI
This is friendly suggestion to the young generation: I will say – accept the good council from experienced people; accept good things in life, learn out of it; but never ever accept one thing: never accept defeat for whatever you have set out to achieve. Never accept defeat! But accept good counselling, share the experience, accept good things from elderly people, from your parents, listen to them; accept and respect them. Never accept defeat. Thank you!
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SHORT STATEMENTS
Sarva mangalam; logic and force
SHORT STATEMENTS
“sarva managalam” – what does it mean?
Guruji: everybody should be happy and good. Mangalam is wide meaning: everybody should be prosperous, healthy, - everybody should remain good.
On logic someone can give the stronger logic and shatter your logic. Nothing can be proved out of it. You must learn to prove something illogically. Then they will understand.
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SMASHAN AND SUSHUMNA
Aphorisms: limitations, ambition, attention or awareness
APHORISMS GURUJI
ARGUING FOR LIMITATIONS
As long as you continue to argue for your limitations, they will remain yours forever!
Try to get over them!
BE AMBITIOUS!
That can be the only motivation you can have in your life !
Be ambitious!
ATTENTION OR AWARENESS
Attention! It brings so much tensions in your life. Add tension, this is an Army command. So, awareness, is the better word. It will not bring any tension In your life.
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SMASHAN AND SUSHUMNA
No interfere
NO INTERFERE
Well, in my 67 years I’ve never tried to interfere in anyone’s life.
But on the interesting side: everybody has tried to interfere in my life. But it’s ok: it increased my tolerance to the great heights. Thank you!
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SMASHAN AND SUSHUMNA
Become normal
BECOME NORMAL
When people hear that I’ve been practicing Kriya yoga for 42 years and they think I’m not normal, I’m extraordinary; but I keep telling them – in the beginning I was thinking I’m a normal person. After 42 years of very regular practice, now, I have begun to be a little normal. So, you think and you also do something to become normal.
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SMASHAN AND SUSHUMNA
Quality of the diamond
QUALITY OF THE DIAMOND
When you polish a diamond and cut it from different angles and create an angles in it,
it improves the brilliance of the diamond; but it’s basic nature was already a diamond.
So, you cannot polish a coal or any other thing and convert into a diamond. The quality should be there from the beginning; but with enough handy work, intelligent work, you can make them brilliant, like a diamond.
Thus speaks Shailendra Sharma!
It is said that diamonds are the best friends of the girl.
Diamonds are forever!
They are the best form of the carbon which is the source of life.
And every girl is looking in love steadiness, strength and continue
This diamonds represents!
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TEA
Develop your will and find the way
DEVELOP YOUR WILL AND FIND THE WAY!
Everybody says – and they had heard it since their childhood that there is will – there is way; I will add to it: there is no will – there is no way.
So people with no will keep searching for ways and they never find it because they lack will.
So, develop your will! Find the way!
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Telepathy and intuition
Achieving everything you want — only then considered
when you achieve everything you want - then your mind is free?
Guruji: only then you will be considered. Before nobody will consider you.
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VEGETARIAN&MOTHER
Maharaj Jaswant Singh — Story 1, the brahmin's thin puri layer
MAHARAJ JASWANT SINGH
STORY 1
Never ask the brahmin how that you will satisfy him whatever he desires. Always remain careful.
One story connected with Jaswant Singh: you see the wit of the brahmin here. He sent one of his ministers in Mathura, Mathura is a holy place. He told him – just find a good brahmin and feed him whatever he desires till he is absolutely satisfied. The minister came to Mathura, find a big brahmin – those days brahmins were very big and they were also eating bhang ad their average bodyweight were from 150 to 200 kilos. That minister said – the king has order me to feed you, fill you up whatever you want to your satisfaction. Brahmin said: think again! But it was king’s order. And brahmin said: now feed me with….what, you know? The thin layer which appears over a puri by frying. He said – you fill me up with this thin layer, just this very thin thing. He began to eat; and from morning to evening – he was not satisfied. Then minister touched his feet and said: please, forgive me and give him 1000 coins and said – please, let me go. Brahmin said – ok, go, but you asked me! It is my choice.
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A yogi’s joke about freedom
Instagram clip: a yogi's freedom — when everything comes to you 'absolutely for freedom' (likely 'for free')
From a yogi's point of view, real freedom is when everything is coming to you absolutely for freedom. That is freedom.
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Kings, yogis, fire and water
Instagram clip: 'Raja, jogi, agni, jal' — kings, yogis, fire and water need careful dealing, from a Parashurama story
Raja Jogi Aganijal Inki Ulti Reet, Darte Rahiyo Parashraam Ye Thodi Rakte Priet It's so happened that Parashraam was very disturbed and he found the brother of Rasputi Jupiter, somewhere living in Banaras. He guided him to the Tatre and he told this thing. Raja yogi aganjal in ki ulti reed darte raiyo parashraani thodi ratti that means a king, a yogi fire and water they have very strange ways because they have very little affection so deal very carefully with them
you cannot live without fire you cannot live without water but when the time comes fire will burn you water will drown So a king, as long as he is okay, everything is good. If he becomes angry, no head remain. With yogis also, if their mood is okay, everything is good. Otherwise, we don't know what nature will do. So remain careful. That's the moral of this thing. Thank you.
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The temporary nature of the world
Instagram clip: the world, sin and virtue, devotion and evil are all temporary
This world is of temporary nature, even sin and virtue, devotion, evil, everything is temporary by nature. Study that, go forward.
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Cruelty, humanity and being good
Instagram clip: not 'be human' but 'be good' — cruelty is not bravery
Well, I am very afraid nowadays to say that let's be human, because I see that only human beings are doing the most cruelest of the cruel thing, just for profit and out of jealousy and just to prove their power. And I will say cruelty is not bravery. Only most unhuman things are seen done by human beings. So I am very afraid to say be human. I will just say be good. Thank you.
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Leaving room to step back
Instagram clip, ASR: a physical demonstration turned into advice — always keep room behind you to step back.
See, I will put my hand in it so I will not hurt you. And just see. Because you cannot step back, you will fall on the chair. Whenever you are facing a situation, always look around and be sure there is enough space behind you to step back. If there is no space behind you to step back, you will fall. And this principle will apply in every weight of your life. Take care.
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Freedom and its price
Instagram clip, ASR (garbled): on freedom — nothing comes for free; a heavy price must be paid.
I want to talk about freedom. For this. As a graspable man, my observation is, nothing comes for free, even your will. You have to pay a very heavy price for a very devil with father. Be ready for that. Yeah.
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Faith, rain and a child’s umbrella
Instagram clip, ASR: the child who alone brought an umbrella to a rain yajña — having faith is good.
No rains, nothing. So some people decided to do a yagya for invoking the rains. Big crowd gathered, but only one child was having faith. Only that child took umbrella with him. He was sure it would rain because there's so much thing is going on. Having faith is good. It saves you from time to time.
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Tao Te Ching — The Yogic Way
Tao Te Ching, chapter 15 — Guruji's commentary
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STRENGTH IN SOFTNESS
STRENGTH IN SOFTNESS
They say that it is a surprise for many people that a strong man cannot be soft. But the real strength, let’s say, about steel, is measured by its tensile strength, the ability to bend under stress. Remains brittle and fails. So the real strength lies in softness.
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Some Flowers And Some Thorns
Some Flowers And Some Thorns
Brightness of the sun, which for a lay observer is blazing, is also the cause of illuminating the moon. Those alone, who can bear with the intense brilliance of knowledge and can reflect it, appear cool like a moon in this world. But remember the coolness is but a scaled down form of brilliance of knowledge. One who emits light must burn. That the moon is chosen to reflect light of the sun by its grace is an observation of earthlings. Truth is that the sun is shining, blazing with the brilliance of his own knowledge, it completely overlooks whether its brilliance is being reflected or not by anybody. The modest moon, which cannot hold even a minute part of its brilliance, only reflects it; may appear to be emitting moonlight to be a casual observer with narrow vision.
Those who can realize the burning of the sun in his intense self-earned brilliance know that the life of a realized person is also like burning in the fires of wisdom.
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Beauty in frightfulness; compassion and touch
Ultimate beauty can be grasped by realizing the beauty in frightfulness and by applying it gracefully.
Heart touching compassion springs up only when attraction for physical touch is over.
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A short verse about living in one's own way
In my style I shall live,
In my manner I shall breathe,
Free to live the way I like.
Forced to live not its way
A plant also dies out
Forced to live not it’s way
A man is ruined too.
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Birth as a race won; using the human life
Everybody who is born on this earth is one in millions. It is not easy to imagine how competitive it was to be born. The competitions later faced during lifetime, are nowhere as fierce as the one for taking a birth.
Millions of almost identical sperms raced for taking birth, and everyone amongst the racers knew that the winner alone would take birth; the laggards will all perish.
We all are here after winning such race at our level. But lo and behold, we yet do not realize the importance of this hard earned human life. Should we fritter away such precious gift or should we harness this opportunity, which has fortunately come our way to make our life meaningful. Those who could imagine a wee bit about the competition of birth, made great efforts, conducted several experiments, performed penance, developed various schools of thought (which we call as Shastras) in order to attain totality! All this because it was so difficult to win this competition even once and even a thought of winning it time and again is almost impossible. For this reason we all who are born after winning this great competition, should not fritter away this great opportunity and develop ourselves in totality so that we no more need to participate in this competition.
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Expression of a rejected person
Humming of expression of a rejected person begets same attention as a birdsong against the tumult of drums, and people ignore it even if it is heard. Those who shield themselves by their arrogance care little for the wounds of others urges. This is perhaps why all efforts are made to ignore every great expression but alas they are not aware that when the spear of inspiration blows, what flows from it is embraced by time, and is also embellished by time itself. Oh! Look at the vexation of those who ignore these expressions, their own progeny bows before these expressions. Those who can see might see; those who can understand, might understand that this statement of mine has an approval of history.
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Introductions; the sage; youth and decisions
First introduction causes recognition; last introduction is the result of knowing.
If you find experience that is generally associated with old age, together with the innocence of childhood, you surely are meeting a sage.
Far-reaching decisions are always taken in youth, after growing old one is so much tied up by petty decisions of the past that one in no longer capable of taking big decisions.
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Truth in the heart, failure, questions, imagination, unwilling relations
When truth springs up in the heart, there is no field in which success is remote.
A person should stand up like a wall across a road to failure, then only he will succeed.
The more the questions posed to a person, the higher grows his ability to answer.
Imagination is always more enticing or more frightful than the reality.
When relations are carried on rather unwillingly, it is clear that their end to imminent.
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Paths; helping the distressed; thinking big; sin and holiness
There is no path in the world, which does not take those treading upon it to some-where.
You cannot help distressed people by being yourself in distress. When a person identifies all causes of his distress and distances himself from them, then only he is capable of giving some comfort to a distressed person. Unless he is not himself established in peace he cannot tell others to be peaceful.
Everybody has the capacity to think big and even bigger, but the prowess to materialize these thoughts is rarely found.
One who has never committed a sin can never understand holiness. It is difficult to identify great people without having ever interacted with wicked people. And yet if you desire to become great yourself you have to cleanse your mind of the filth of wickedness.
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Nature and emancipation; commands; dishonesty; fast and slow
When a man is advancing according to his nature; he is closer to emancipation.
One who receives commands feels how comfortable his commander must be. But perhaps he cannot estimate the fight for reaching the stage of issuing commands as well as the responsibility and dutifulness behind every command.
Now a days we are living in an age when dishonesty is practiced with total honestly and adulteration in every substance is at its purest form, and lies are spoken with complete truthfulness, which are true only in the form of falsehood.
Those who are advancing slowly can never keep company with those who are advancing fast. When one begins to advance faster and while advancing when it reaches the limit of beatitude he finds that those who started with him, due to their slowness no one knows when and where they were left behind. Those who slowed down themselves to keep their company out of attachment beget only frustration and circumvention. A person needs to put in great efforts to attain the totality of advancement and be established there by overcoming all hindrances.
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History and riches; conferred attachment; keeping mum
No body is recognized in the history for his riches. People can be recognized only for their acts.
Conferred attachment is called delusion.
While again and again explaining to the people, I have realized that unless one doesn’t grow realistic enough to realize his non-realization it seems not possible to explain him anything. From the moment I realized this I prefer to keep mum. While realizing this you get to feel that ‘look, how nonrealistic is realization, that it is not realistic enough to realize even itself’.
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Attachment as a kite string; wrongs; bondage; democracy; crime
It is necessary to remain attached somewhere for experiencing the height of life much in the same way as the string of the kite allows it to kiss the heights of sky only as long as it is attached with somebody. No sooner than this connection breaks, it falls down upon the ground.
When wrongs are committed time and again; the life also goes the wrong way.
Bondage is a must for maintaining existence.
All over the history so far, crimes are committed the most in the history of democracy only.
Crime in one such word or an imaginary vice which is despicable when found in others but one would rationalize the same and even nurture within him.
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Miracle as a thought; crime behind fortune; crisis
Miracle is a thought. Those who lack the capacity to understand, everything that they don’t understand is a miracle. One who realizes the thought is established in right thinking, and for him miracle is a thought.
There is a crime behind every big fortune.
Just as we have the liberty to commit crime we also have the strength to prevent crime. This must have been the reason why legal system developed in the society.
When a big crisis confronts a man and he somehow musters courage and puts in efforts to resolve it, then from the moment he decide to face the crisis, his personality begins to grow stronger.
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Grace in destruction; reasoning; death's statics; ultimate spirit; the indolent
Self styled sentimental and grace-admiring people are often found to be aggrieved because grace was outraged or because ugliness came to the fore, and this was done and was witnessed being done. Attention should also be given to other facet of this and they should realize that what appears on plain observation may look like grace being destroyed, but destruction also has its own grace. What is called as grace is merely a thought and thought is comprehended when one realizes that whatever until then was being considered as grace was limited by the limitations of word and vision. The real understanding of grace is born only upon rising above the limitations of word and vision. In my opinion, there is nothing in this universe, which is not graceful.
People take refuge behind massive reasoning to justify their limitations.
It does not seem possible to understand the dynamics of life without first understanding the statics of death.
Knowledge of ultimate spirit begins after knowing the soul. Ultimate spirit means knowing the ultimate divinity of one’s soul.
Most of the indolent people who are living a disoriented life are mentally at par with those eunuchs who reach wherever celebrations are going on just for clapping.
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Footprints; success in failure
It makes no difference as to what misfortunes we suffered. While selecting the right path for our life tears, obstacles illusions of joy, everything disappears without leaving any mark and a person who pours his heart upon some pages of paper along the impassable path of journey of life be certain that he surely will leave his footprints. Perhaps the meaning of life is implied only in leaving footprints.
Pain of not getting success causes disinterest from life to many people. But they should understand that although they were not successful in what they desired to do, but success her fully embraced them in becoming unsuccessful. They have been fully successful in scoring various kinds of failures in life.
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Nectar and 'position'; paths; the future
Only after tasting position can one realize the value of nectar.
Paths never allow those who traverse upon them to become slack. No sooner than the traveler buries himself in thoughts, an abstractive stroke alerts him to tread alertly towards his goal.
Future is what but an expansion of present.
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Guruji's aphorism | Shree Shailendra Sharma
Guruji's aphorism | Shree Shailendra Sharma
You need to work hard. Put enough effort and ambition to become powerful enough and achieve anything. If something exist in your imagination it existing somewhere. Anything is possible. All that you have – your food, your clothes, your house – some time before it was a part of imagination and took a great power to make it real. Everything starts from the imagination of the mind. I think it’s an idea of creator or society to make your mind busy every time. Otherwise the empty mind could create the absolute dangerous situation.
As a yogi I will say: it doesn’t matter to me, what society or the world is thinking about me. The society or the world should worry, about what I’m thinking about it.
You know the difference between the saint and the sinner? The saint has no past and the sinner has no future.
I’ve never asked for forgiveness from anybody. And I’ve not forgive anyone.
(I’ve never asked for forgiveness from anybody, because I’ve never do harm to anyone. And why I should forgive someone who did harm to me. I never initiate fight from my side, but I m always answer well.)
Everybody makes mistakes. Sometimes mistakes even might to be good entertainment. But only the fool makes one mistake twice.
All of you are so much attached to that condition you call ” normal”, to your comfort zone. But if you want to achieve supernatural results – you can not remain ” normal”
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