My abs should look good, my muscles should look good So there's one boy who comes here; he does modeling So, he keeps looking at himself like this - "Is it sharp enough yet or not? The jawline!" It should be very sharp Are you going to cut vegetables with it? You want a sharp jawline? What are you going to do with that? Huh? Why? But I should have a sharp jawline, and I should have this and that - And the whole time, you are going crazy for this unreal show-off world! But remember Better than staying awake at night - like you sleep here (in time at night) - I hope so I don't know whether you do it or not because - We are not transgressing your privacy So, I don't know if you sleep or you are on Whatsapp or Facebook or what you are doing But if you sleep between 9:30 and 10 pm, then you can easily wake up at 4:30 am Well rested brain is now ready to lap up the knowledge And whatever you will then study in between say 4:30 to 7 am You will read it once and it will be imprinted in your brain And you will not forget it until the exam, actually you won't forget it even after the exam But here, you know what - Party is going on, dance is happening, huh? And in the meantime your father calls - "Son, you have an exam tomorrow" "There's an exam tomorrow?!" The father understood that he doesn't remember anything The boy's name was Mintu So, he called Littu - "Littu, there is an exam!" Littu called Shyam, "O Shyam, there is an exam!" "What will happen now?" "Hey Mahadev!" "Save me!" "Om Namah Shivaya, Om Namah Shivaya - please save me this time otherwise I will get a good beating from my father" "My picnic and parties will stop - please help me pass" Is it Mahadev Ji's responsibility to cover up your foolishness? He won't do that If you stay awake at night, your circadian rhythm will get disturbed In time, hormonal imbalance and PCOD can happen Your testosterone and estrogen levels will get disrupted And slowly you will move into the direction of getting sick Vikar (imbalance), disease and then where does the body end? In death So, these five attributes are there in our body Now if we consider that Atman is born then these five attributes should exist in Atman 1. There should be a change (of the form or the attributes) in Atman 2. It should grow 3. It should get diseased 4. Then it should began to decline 5. And then it should die So, one that diminishes, gets diseased, dies - it cannot be Atman What do we call it in Vedanta? Anatman Anatman Anatman - one that is not Atman is Anatman Now, with this point of view - our body is Anatman, meaning not Atman Our sense organs are Anatman Our mind, intellect, chitta (subconscious mind) and ego are also Anatman Similarly, everything we see outside in the world - trees, rocks, mountains This entire world made of the five elements What is this? Anatman In this Anatman, these five Vikaras (changes in the form or attributes) will happen But you are Atman-swaroopa That's why, you don't attain yourself Atman is never produced Diseases never happen in Atman Vikar never happens in Atman Atman never dies Huh? And Atman never wanders around - it is a very wrong myth So, Atman is never born That's why we call Atman 'avinashi' - one that can never be destroyed That's why we call Atman 'amar' - that which never dies That's why we call Atman 'ajar' - that will never ages, never gets old Chetan Mauraya? Chetan - yes The question is - "Can we have control over our senses, if yes how?" We can definitely have control over our senses and like I gave an example of a chariot Senses are like horses, mind is the rein and who is the charioteer? The intellect So, if the charioteer pulls the reins tight - the horses walk straight If the charioteer became unconscious, the reins got loose then one horse will move north, second will go south, third will go straight Like this, the chariot won't go anywhere The horses will be in trouble and the chariot won't reach anywhere Our charioteer akin to the intellect is asleep right at the moment, that's why, the reins of the mind are loose That's why, the mind sometimes says, "let's go to the cinema, first day first show" Ears say, "No, a singer is here, he has such a good song - I want to go and listen to that" Your skin says, "Let's get a new shirt, let's go to the mall" And a friend says, "Don't you want to have gol gappe (Indian snack)? It's raining, let's go and have gol gappe" Now look - your five senses organs all want to go in five different directions - where all would you go? You can't go everywhere And what happens is - you waste lot of your energy in that, why? Because the charioteer is sleeping - the intellect is sleeping Why do I stress on the importance of satsang; Why do we stress upon the reading of our ancient scriptures (carrying the eternal wisdom)? Because with these, we awaken our sleeping intellect The one whose intellect awakens, he will keep the reins of the mind tight The one whose reins of the mind are pulled tight, his horses-akin to the senses, will also move very well So what we need is - Enlightening your intellect and then this intellect will use the mind as it should Like - Ahh....an old man who has no teeth and not even dentures- meaning there by - a toothless mouth! Right? He has no teeth And you keep sugarcanes in front of him and say, "Please eat a sugarcane" "Please eat a sugarcane" He will beat you up with that same sugarcane, isn't it? He will say, "When I had teeth, I could eat sugarcane - Now since I have no teeth, how do I eat a sugarcane?" There is a time for everything and every act - right? When 9 - 15 years old boys and girls are watching pornography - it's exactly the same thing You are just wasting your energy You won't get married right now You won't be doing it as well And in the meantime, if you get into an experimental relationship - Then the chances of pregnancy will be there And some very unfortunate things happen, I remember a girl had come to this youth meditation retreat Her boyfriend made a video of her, blackmailed her and forced her to have relations with his friends And finally, she became so distressed because of this that she took sleeping pills Doctors saved her, it became a police case When police investigated, they found out that her boyfriend made this video of her In an inappropriate time The thing is that the so called - Look in your age, this love and all is just rubbish - it's only hormones That's why naturally you will like one another - the boys and girls But is it the boys and girls liking each other or is it the hormones which are liking the hormones? It's just hormones! If we give an estrogen injection to a very manly man, then he will become like a delicate woman and sit in a corner himself It's hormones And it's very natural, there is nothing wrong in it Boys and girls shouldn't be friends - absolutely, I am not saying that Of course you should have friendship - but then the friendship should be just a friendship It should not be sex-friendship This is your time to study and here you are romancing - you have six girlfriends on Facebook And two girlfriends on Whatsapp If not you, then someone else or someone else But what will you achieve through this? You are wasting your time You are supposed to prepare for your entrance exam and here you are going around with your girlfriend And for that, you need from your father - and if he doesn't give, then you steal You want money from your mother, if she doesn't give then you steal from her closet Your romance is making you a thief, your romance is making you a liar What happened in one place - that a boy and girl close to their school - And the teacher arrived there and caught both of them - "What are you doing here?" She said, "He is my cousin" Which cousin is this? Maternal of paternal - which cousin is this? The teacher knew the family so he called up the parents of both kids He called them on video and asked, "Which relative is this?" The mother said, "He is not" Public humiliation But these days, kids have become shameless so the girl started abusing the teacher - "Who are you to interfere? This is my life" "This is my time, whatever the ...blah blah blah...she kept on talking" Teacher said, "No problem child, you will get an answer to this tomorrow" They kicked her out of the school Now a third person recorded this conversation and uploaded it on Facebook Now the whole city was discussing this And whichever school she would go to, what would they say? She is the same girl who lies She is that girl who goes around and fights and she disrespected the teacher So, the principals and teachers had such an impression that she didn't get admission in any school She had to be sent to live with a distant relative - her whole life got disrupted And whoever she met would say something - There is no dearth of people who have got nothing to do, so they enjoy gossiping They add their own details and make up stories Such stories went around that her father in anger got her married off in the age when she was supposed to be in 11th standard Now, tell me what came out of all this? So, this time you have - this time is to focus on your education This is time to focus on your what career you want to pursue And you should prepare for that In this, if you wish to follow the footsteps of Laila and Majnu, then just remember what happened to Majnu You must watch Laila-Majnu movie What happened to her (Laila)? And what happened to Majnu? If you want that to happen to you - please go ahead With happiness - congratulations! Meaning if you want to ruin your life, then please go ahead - no problem! But, with this behavior of yours, how disturbed your parents will get - think about that too If you don't even think about them, then you should know what should be done at what time in your life So, eat sugarcanes when you have teeth and when you have no teeth, then eat khichadi (porridge) Even those with teeth, should eat khichadi - it's a very good thing At the right age, everything is good Once you have achieved your education target, once you have done that - And you know, it's such competitive world - it's really bad Right now in Delhi, the first cut out of Delhi University that was announced was 99.2% Meaning many kids would have got shocked just listening to this - that what is this?! 99.2% and then slowly they keep reducing it further And all those who have scored less than 75%, they have to go to a small college or to another city because not everyone can get in But, ahhh... With great difficulty you studied, passed and went to a good college and after that - The same girl-boy game is going on You studies go in a ditch, career goes to hell Lying to mom and dad, you make them crazy And many women said this to me - "That looking at the behavior of our daughters and sons, we are so saddened that we wish not to become a mother in the next life" Come on! How can you say that? So, when they narrate their stories, I feel for them but still I say that - "A child gets spoilt when he doesn't get the right direction" 'Aneka chitta vibhranta moha jala samavritah' The one whose chitta (subconscious mind) has no Gyana (the eternal knowledge) and is filled with only desires, Sri Krishna says, such one becomes delusional - such one gets lost It's like an illusory world and you are lost into that and you don't know how to come out of that 'Aneka chitta vibhranta' All the desires and wishes in chitta (subconscious mind) give rise to illusions The web of desires is such - 'samavritah' - it surrounds you completely 'Prasaktah kama bhogeshu' The one whose mind is full of attachments, one who wants to gratify his sensual pleasures - 'Patanti narake ashuchau' That person descends himself into the hell And 'ashuchita' His life becomes full of impurities Again, I am not saying that having a friendship is bad with an opposite sex I am not saying, going out and watching a movie or going for food or something is wrong But you need to learn where to draw your boundary Don't forget that boundary If you want to transgress that boundary, you can certainly do that You are a free bird living in a free country This is what's called 'vibhranta' There are many things here, since I have a cordless, there are many things attached - there is a projector so their channels and crashing with one another So they fix that If just three channels outside can cause disruption, then just think how much disruption can be caused by the thousands of desires that come in your mind So, it was a very good demonstration - thank you Rishikesh! Thank you very much
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