A 75-year-old person was saying that whenever I see myself in the mirror I ask this question Where did my glowing skin go? Where did my tight skin go? Dark circles are there under the eyes, can't see anything properly, have to wear glasses. I see my face in the mirror and ask myself that What has changed? When did it change? I didn't realise! Because you were busy in earning money, making a house, making excuses, lying, gossiping and stealing, being dishonest and corrupt. During this time, the body that you are living in, the body through which you were enjoying worldly pleasures, in the meanwhile, that age has gone, the body has changed. And what happened? They say, this happened that the way we look in the mirror doesn't give our eyes any pleasure. You must have noticed when old age people sit amongst the youngsters they recall their young age. They say what sort of a youngster you are, when we were young, you can't even walk properly. We used to do 100 dand (push-ups), you get tired in eating two chapatis After eating 20 chapatis, we used to ask for more, We were like this, what are you! All the time, they like to do comparison. No doubt, the coming generation is a bit physically and mentally weak, both. What to eat, what not to eat, they don't understand. They don't get up in the morning, they like watching T.V till late at night, they like watching online programs so much. They forget to sleep. What sort of a young person that can be who hasn't watched the sun rising up. Normally, who sleeps till late, takes foolish life decisions, takes decision in fervour, we call them young. In appropriate sense, a young person will be whose wisdom is youthful. The one who thinks, who contemplates. The one who doesn't think, doesn't contemplate... How can we call them young? When the thinking capacity decreases or put it this way medically speaking, when your grey cells age and when new neurons and synaptic connections are not being made that is a sign of ageing of the brain, now the brain is getting weak, old, tired and exhausted. New neurons get formed when there is energy in the body when you are eating right and sleep very well. The brain is strong when there is energy in your body. Where does the energy come from? Eating right and healthy food, a good peaceful sleep at night, and the major systems in your body should work properly, meaning your blood work should be fine, no low blood pressure, no high blood pressure, your pancreas should be fine, the insulin should be neither less nor more, When you don't worry, as soon as you worry, your body releases cortisol and cortisol takes your body in a very agitated mode so the heart beat increases, BP increases, more glucose is released in the muscles, the body goes to fight or flight mode, fight means to resist, flight means to run. The situation of fight and flight should be there in the body, take for example, you were walking and encounter a snake now what will you do that moment? Fighting with a snake is difficult then what to do? Run. The body needs energy to run so our autonomous system get switched on as soon as we see danger, our brain bypasses it and reflexes take over. The sympathetic system is switched on. The person runs without looking here and there. A person was running like this, the other person asked- Brother, why are you running? He says- A snake is there. Where? he says- See it is there, a black coloured snake. "Wait let us see." They got some huge sticks there. They thrashed the snake's tail. 'It is dead, it is dead.' The other person said- 'It doesn't die if you thrash the tail, take it out.' When they dragged the snake out, then everybody started laughing because it was not a snake it was some woman's hair extension! Hair extensions- they are long hair. The females attach to their hair if they are less Their hair looks thick and good then. So it was somebody's hair extension but he thought it was a snake. Now, the body had to run, the body was on flight mode, So the heart rate increased, BP increased, muscles changed, cortisol increased in the body. But won't it take time for the heart rate to normalise? It takes more time as its more annoying when people make fun that look he thought that the wig was a snake, It hurts a bit and you think as if you were a fool Now how will the person explain, it was just a delusion, can happen to anyone. So nature has created our body in such a way that whenever necessary it can run and when needed it can fight as well. When your mind creates fear or stress in your brain, What will happen? If this doesn't happen, then what? If that doesn't happen, then what? Now the snake that you created in your brain through delusion, because of those snakes your body keeps on releasing cortisol and body is in permanent fight and flight mode. What will happen because of this? Because of this, brain haemorrhage happens. The nerves break down, clots are formed. and if this clot is formed in heart's region, liver's region, pancreas region or any region, wherever the rupture occurs, it breaks down and the problem starts. If you look at the snake and then run, its still understandable but when you create unreasonable thoughts in your brain, create fake hypothetical situations If this happens, then what?, If that happens then, what?, If this doesn't happen then what? In this, the body only suffers. You should remember this that a human life is very precious. There is no exchange. Like, you know, there is a scheme, a TV exchange scheme. Our mother nature hasn't created any scheme like this. We cannot say that our body is not right, please give me a younger one. A beautiful one, a thin, a tall one or give a smart one. There is one scheme, only one but for that the body has to die. The body dies, then burnt in fire, then the preparation will take place if there is a new birth, then for the whole body to change, the body has to die for a new body to take birth. Now, if you look at a small baby of about few months, 2 years, 3 years or 5 years, if you see them they don't remember anything of the past. A new game starts for them. The attachment of the old mother hasn't gone yet, now the attachment of new mother will commence. This is my mother, this my father, these are my siblings, this is my house. So the web of me and myself starts unfolding and working from a new side. Adi Shankaracharya ji calls this as- "punarapi jananam punarapi maranam punarapi janani jathare shayanam" Birth will take place again and again, death will take place again and again, being in the mother's womb again and again, when will you understand? By god's grace and the good karmas. Both should be there. God's blessings and good deeds, then only there is spirituality and a master's comes in your life. If the human acts reasonably, along with using his time wisely, fulfilling the duties and responsibilities properly, whatever they are, consciously following them, paying attention to his meditation and spiritual practices, understanding it slowly and steadily..... A possibility arises to for a big change in your life but keep this in mind, The particular order of birth, the sequence of birth which is going since eternity that has put so many desires and so many sanskaras (impressions) in our mind because of that, again and again we like the world's glare so much but we don't like peace. It is so weird. So if you have an opportunity to sleep late would you take it or would you leave it? Lets do this, if you get a chance to sleep till late, will you take this chance or leave it? Put your hands up if got an opportunity to sleep till late and they will take it? Yes, yes. People sitting at the back are not answering. Here, they will sleep. Well done! They say we will sleep! Now, who all are saying, they won't sleep, they'll wake up? Oh! see, this little kid is saying we will get up, very good very good. Now, let us move the game forward, those people put your hands up who say won't tell the truth. That we won't tell what will we do, we won't speak the truth! To save your face, you obviously would want to give an answer which will make me happy. Right? So if I am asking if you get opportunity to wake up, to sleep late, would you take it? And may be you expect me that I'll be happy, that yes we will not sleep at all, we will get up. Guruji will be very happy. The answer should not be what will make me happy, it should be that will make you happy. I remember a little girl was telling me, the truth is that I would like to sleep till late but because getting up is necessary so I will get up anyway. Because getting up is necessary so out of compulsion, I will get up. But if I get a chance then I like to sleep.
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