People often tend to lie they will give you fake compliments and, will fulfill their interests through you they will benefit themselves by befooling others will befool you by repeatedly giving you respect this is why the ones who like to gain respect aren't wise people the ones who give respect are wise people just think over what I have said most of the time we like to get good compliments from people but we are so...so miser we never give good compliments to others just think over do you really do this? Are you liberal enough? to pay good compliments to people around you do you make a point? to say good and nice things about the people who are around you you never do that although you like very much when someone else says good things about you and this one thing is so surely clear to me and I wish to make it clear for you also that most of the times, when someone is giving you a good compliment, is not doing it with all sincerity they have some vested interest they want something from you maybe today, maybe tomorrow and they are preparing the ground in your heart that whenever they ask anything from you, you won't be able to say no to them just because they have placed you at a higher pedestal be very liberal to give good compliments to others but if someone gives such compliments to you be smart enough to say it, say....for example, someone says you look very nice Hmm you can always say please give this compliment to my parents because my parents' genes are in me so, if I have a good face or good physique, it is because of my parents thank you very much but I have nothing to do with this body, or shape or size if someone says that you are very intelligent don't be a fool and give a smile be very cautious and say- Well! that is a good training of my teachers my teachers have trained me well and with God's grace my brain works well and I can remember all the things, whatever I read so, thank God I have a good brain thank God that my brain is functioning but most of the time, when someone gives you a good compliment you are just ready to grab it and take all the mileage out of it and that is a big pitfall and that is going to be a big trap for you be nice to people actually the more nice you are to others somewhere one day or the another day all these niceties are going to come back to you because whatever you give to others it is going to come back to you that's another law When your sanskaras (innate impressions that carve out tendencies), are virtuous then, all these things automatically manifest in you, because parents the environment of your house, everybody's thought process is like that.. so, the child learns from his parents, he learns passively and when the parents' make their child sit and understand some virtuous thing, then the child learns that but more than that, the environment of our house has a greater impact on us now I ask you, in your house the elders of your house- mother, father, grandmother, grandfather all the family members who stay in your house do they wake up at five in the morning? the ones whose family members wake up, raise your hand okay, keep your hand down they wake up at five, so do you also wake up at five in the morning? okay, whose family members wake up after eight in the morning? and, after nine? okay! that's fine When you are sleeping and your family members are awake, now I am asking the next question when those family members wake up then after waking up do they.. practice yogasanas? raise your hand and answer okay, that's great and then do they also practice jap (mantra chanting)? that is great so, when they are doing mantra chanting, what are you doing at that time? Yesterday I had said this thing that in order to keep the body and brain healthy yogasanas are immensely useful along with it, we had also included one more thing and that is if we practice mantra chanting then even by practicing mantra chanting, many beautiful changes come in us In our body there is a networking of glands yesterday you had watched a video, about the pituitary gland similarly, there's another gland in our brain which is called pineal gland likewise, in our throat, around this place in our kantha kupa there is a gland by the name thyroid gland similarly, further below thyroid is one more gland, which is called thymus gland in a similar way on the top of our kidneys there is a gland- adrenal gland similarly, in females and males two glands, which we also call as gonads in females, it is in the ovaries and in the males, it is in the testes so, from the brain and, to your genitals these are some major glands along with these, some small glands are there in our intestines also are there in our mouth also our entire system of the body, in order to make it function some specific chemicals are needed like from our pituitary growth hormone is released when you sleep till a certain age, like if I say till the age of twelve years sleeping for 8 hours is also good enough because how much you sleep, during that time from the pituitary gland, growth hormones are released; hormone means a chemical these growth hormones they grow your bone structure, strengthen your muscles in your body, with the passage of time the changes that should come, all those changes happen during your sleep Similarly, our from our pituitary gland, thyroxine from our glands TSH ACTH many chemicals of this kind, are released from the pituitary Then, in a similar way, your thyroid gland this is such a gland which not only releases the chemical, but also stores it it has storage as well but when will these stored chemicals get released? when the order from pituitary will come When will the order from pituitary come? When hypothalamus will give the order When will hypothalamus give the order? what the blood temperature is, what the properties of blood are, the analysis of these properties is done by hypothalamus then, it gives orders ahead and after receiving the order, pituitary further gives orders to all glands automatically Now our body's most important gland that is all of these glands are very important but still we can say, two of the glands are the most important, for now, and in context of chanting, in context of doing the mantra jap one is the pituitary and the second is your thyroid gland one is pituitary and the second is your thyroid gland and when you do chanting you are actually putting a great affect on your these two glands the first thing and the foremost thing you can always check and you have always experienced this when someone says a good word to you, you feel good right? when someone says a bad word to you, you feel bad when someone insults you, you feel angry; when someone gives you good compliment, you feel happy What did the other person give to you? Set of words What was it? set of words and behind those words were the intentions like to you someone who really loves you really loves you...be it your mother, father be it your grandfather, grandmother, or whosoever it is the one who really loves you when such a person calls you to come nearby and says- you fat person, come here how would you feel? Would you get angry? I will narrate an incident from Canada when I visited there for the first time, then one family which had migrated there from a village, situated near Ludhiana in whose house I stayed then, that lady tells me that when we came here then looking at the beautiful children, their blonde hair, fair complexion and, mothers bring their children out in the park to play and, are taking them for a stroll in a pram, and when they would pamper them by saying my goldie lock, my beauty, my... fairy my doll; she told they would use such beautiful words to address she said- when we saw their children and then saw ours, we thought our children are dark complexioned neither do they have blonde hair, nor are they fair complexioned their children were healthy and plump, and ours she said- just like I am mouse-like-thin, so is my child going to be like, since I don't have a well-built body myself then how would my child be well-built now when they would pamper their child, on seeing them, even I would feel like giving such beautiful names to my child I wasn't that well read, didn't go to any illustrious school, didn't have interactions with influential people she said, seated on the back of a buffalo, we used to go to take a bath in a thatch she said, we have come from such a place, and now suddenly we are seated here in Toronto and are seated amidst such people, but the desires in everyone's mind are like that only every person feels the same inside so she said, I also lifted my child and started pampering her my 'channan-mannan'(addressing the child playfully), my 'chamchadik' (a bat) the child is dark complexioned and thin so, she said as the ones around me are all foreigners, how would they understand what I am saying but, one day what happened, I was playing with my child and a Punjabi woman came from behind she came and said- are you mad, you are referring to your child as 'chamchadik' Is your child a bat? she said- no, that's not the thing, I couldn't understand as I was just calling her that way out of sheer love when the child grew up she told her daughter that I used to call you 'chamchadik' now, what do you think, when the daughter must have heard this, she must have felt angry on her mother? yes? she knows this, that my mother loved me so much that, in order to express her love the words that she used the question is not about this...how immense her love was that even she, with a wish to pamper her child, to express love to her child used to speak such words through which now, the child is not able to understand it at that time, but mother derives happiness by speaking those words okay, when the child grows up and, the mother and father, still call him by the name that they used to address him during his childhood like, often names of many people....if a boy has chubby cheeks, then they would call him by the name 'Golu' whatever the actual name might be 'Golu' and, I visited one person's house he is father to four children himself and his mother calls him 'Golu' I said now that he has grown up, why are you still calling him Golu? Call him by his actual name they said what can we do, we have become habitual now and he too does not find it bad that my mother is calling me by this name; this means it is not the words that trouble us behind those words, the intentions that exist, the feelings that are there we feel upset because of them did you understand? It is not the words that make us happy we the emotion that lies behind those words, we are affected by that emotion Now, in the same way while doing mantra chanting what mantra you are uttering more important than that is the emotion that you have while practicing the mantra how are your feelings like how your thinking is like you grasp a mala (prayer beads) in your hand and begin to chant 'Ram Ram' in such a way, as if you are throwing stones at somebody yes! uttering 'Ram Ram' this way because somebody has told that one should complete two cycles of a mala everyday, so while practicing, they are keeping a note- if they completed a cycle on the mala or not neither the mind is engrossed in it, nor is there any emotion so, practicing mantra chanting this way will yield no benefit When you do your chanting at that particular moment it is very very important that you should be clear in your heart and you should have lots of great good feelings about the mantra about the time which you have been given to do and sit in peace, in prayerfulness so those intentions, those feelings are very very important secondly when you do the chant what do you do? You are using certain words and every word is going to produce a certain vibration right Every word's vibration that exists that vibration brings about an effect on our glands
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