[Music] i was just reading a small story a disciple goes to the master and says oh master i'm not progressing in my sadhana at all what should i do help me master said did you see the sunrise in the morning the spectacular sunrise the disciples said yes i have seen that and while coming here did you see all those beautiful flowers blooming in the trees example said yes i did watch that master said did you see those drippings from the water pots and how nicely they were like string of pearls the huge spot in the monastery did you see that disciple said yes i i washed it master master raised his eyebrows clenched his teeth a bit and said because you are busy watching all this nonsense that's why the meditation is not happening that's why the progress is not happening and now just wonder this poor guy was just watching the sun and the flowers and the big water pot and master is saying this is all nonsense so this nonsense is stopping you from progressing in your sadhana and now look in your own mind what is your mind thinking about whole day and looking and hearing and touching and eating and smelling and going to this place going to that place and then you say oh i am not progressing in my dhyana well so much of nonsense is happening so a period of silence which has a depth a period of silence means where you curtail your senses from doing unnecessary seeing or hearing or talking or eating or it's like totally regimentation of all the five senses it's not about just tongue it's very easy not to talk but more difficult to regiment your eyes regiment your ears your ears are always hungry of listening about gossip political economical social somebody's family somebody's affairs who ran with whom who is having affair with whom what our political party is doing this and that your ears are filled with all this nonsense and whatever you listen see hear touch smell taste all the info is going in your subconscious and this is like further for the mind to think more and more and more and more so i i ate this cake i i had this coffee i went in this park i did this bungee jump i did this paragliding i went in this party i went to this market i went um to this monument and then photographing and then just putting it there and people are watching what you did and you are watching what others did and then you say i am not progressing in my sadhana which way would you progress i am not saying killing your senses is required but i am saying you use your senses very wisely for example let me say this is winter time and in winter the hunger is more in the daytime by evening as the cold increases your hunger actually decreases should decrease but at this time meaning the supper time in between say 5 pm to 8 pm normally many people eat their dinners so when they look at food and especially if they are in a restaurant or hotel or in french party or maybe their food is free wherever they they eat like a pig and they drink like anything and they totally forgot that with this full stomach they cannot sleep properly one of the great acupuncturists actually have said this that the reason for cancer happening to people is because they have too much of undigested food circulating meaning the residuals of that undigested food which is called an amma in ayurveda and toxin in english i would say so these very toxins become reason for the cancer to happen so the digestion is is poor but people eat and eat and eat and eat and eat so like digestion people use their mind more more more more more more more and then they have so much of undigested info in their subconscious and in the conscious mind and then they want to sit and oh and hundreds of ideas and thoughts are poppy popping up in the head oh why i cannot focus well you are ruining your own mind so using your senses meaning again back to my analogy you are at a place where the food is free or cheap or whatsoever but you still eat less because dinner should be like a proper eating poor person eating eat very less not filling your belly totally eating light diet easy to digest nutritious food hot food in winters never eating cold sandwiches never eating cold salads and europe and us have specially seen people eat only salad indeed in dinner time and then this all cold food is going to bring their digestive fires down and that is going to bring so much of coldness in the system they will be having blocked sinuses they will be having headaches they will be having migraines they will be having indigestion flatulence they will be having constipation they will be having skin troubles and in period of time few years down the line they'll be having tumors they'll be having cancers and they just enjoyed the free food that's it so we need to use our senses in a very gracious way very sensible very wise way very intelligent that's why i stress so much on food and it's not the food which you eat through your mouth it is the food which goes in through your eyes through your nose through your ears to your touch this all is like a fodder for the mind the more further the more thinking will happen see if you are say four people in a family then you have four lives to think about if you have 100 friends then you have 100 plus 4 people's life to think about and you have another 50 colleagues so now you have 100 and lives to think about and then you follow a party political party 100 more because all their activities and speeches and stupid statements which the politicians keep on giving and all that hatred which flies in the air so is your thinking increasing or decreasing now you want to do silence destroying a wish you will have to do a lot a lot has to be done you cannot just okay i am in silence some people put the stickers on the you know clothing which says i am in silence don't talk to me maybe it's a good practical thing but is your mind silent and if the mind is silent and the silence has not happened and until the real silence happens in the mind in vedanta we say only a silent mind is eligible to listen to this higher knowledge if your mind is distracted and in anxiety and is broken and in his disarray and is disorganized if you come to me to listen to vedanta you won't give get even an iota of my wisdom which i am giving so mana gives you the eligibility to understand and digest the wisdom so it becomes very important yes everybody has to work make money run the household but then you can always have few gaps like for a week maybe for 15 days and you stay at one place you eat very less maybe just twice like we do in this ashram just twice we eat we don't keep on eating whole day and then no snacking in between we are saving our time time is precious well vastner's call it time is money but i say no time is precious that is enough you don't have to bring dirty money into it we use our time properly so the those small maybe a week long or maybe 10 days long silence meaning silence of all the senses and training the mind to be attentive and aware and conscious this gives you a good ability and eligibility for listening the brahma vidya the higher knowledge it's a very interesting question yes patil says my age is 20. i do want to walk on the beautiful path i have watched the patanjali yoga sutra series due to which vairagyan dispassion towards the material world came into my mind the urge to see and run behind it has also decreased gurudev i want to learn asana pranayama mantra etc please guide me how can i start my sadhana how can i increase my dispassion and i also think that currently my mind is not ready for brahm gyan once it gets clean and pure then i will understand and read all the brahma sutras please guide me how can i walk on this beautiful path dear yash if you have already done brahma sutras whenever and why would you need me to to tell you anything more because brahma sutra is the ultimate crux of brahmavitya so it's just delaying the train because you are not trust properly for the train but if you really wish to finish your journey then just board the train and don't worry about your clothing meaning as you go by as you go by in your life as you keep on doing your sadhana as you keep on following more and more in love and doing seva and doing a very regimented practice of asan pranayam swadhyaya listening to satsang or coming to ashram and living here for a longer time this will give you nice window to be a better person and to have a satwik pure mind which progressively will make you eligible for brahmagan but you don't have to read the sutras of brahmanyan before coming to me leave that work for me don't do everything and moreover the brahms sutras should not be read by yourself which are sagar or upanishad or brahma sutra should always be studied under the master not sitting in library and just having a you know read a quick read onto the books that's not sufficient that is not even going to work other than making you egoistic oh i have read brahm sutras and i it's very interesting i am recalling one lady she said to me that guru ji you always have said that upanishads are great and yet you are not teaching us upon issues so in this lockdown i have started reading and studying all the upanishads and on the top now i am going to write a book on the upanishads i really felt is she demeaning me or is she just appreciating herself that you were not teaching us upanishads because you said you are not ready and not eligible for it yet you know satwik mind is not there and hell to everything with this very dirty mind i am going to do the openness not only read it i am going to write a book and then she said i am going to make that book so popular i am going to pump in two three five crores into it i was listening ah what a blabbering of a ignoramus child she said i'll make that what do you call that the best book in the book club the most sought after book and she isn't even realizing [Music] that you shouldn't even dare to speak this kind of wording in front of a guru ever ever that's why that word jesus that where is that those who achieved everything they are saying it happened to me because of thy grace of lord and here they are saying oh you never taught us upanishad and now i have started reading upnishas on my own and very soon will write a book and publish it and make it number one in whole world i said my good wishes to you may you succeed and maybe win that what's odd award called pulitzer award or something like that may you win that and she was gloating and i said what the hell so you don't have to read upanishads and brahma sutras before coming to me just try to make your mind wise enough read enough listen enough what i have already taught just go into that if if you can really digest what i have already taught you will be in a very good place but without fulfilling all that don't be in a rush and don't even delay it because i am not eligible hence i'll work on myself and be eligible well then i don't know how many lives will go by and still you won't be eligible it's like saying to the doctor because i am sick and i'm vomiting and there's a diarrhea and i'm smelling horrible i cannot come to you i'll first heal myself be cured and when i'm all healthy then dear doctor i'll come to you doctor will say what for what for will you come to me it is tricky i can understand if you don't have a pure mind gana will not work for you but that doesn't mean that you stay away from me to make your mind pure and when it will be pure then you will come to me how do you know by that time i will be physically alive and present i can't give you any guarantee how to can you give me this guarantee [Music] you
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