[Music] so we take your questions from the study of gita the questions which are arising first question what happens to gyani after death of the physical body what happens is that the body just immerses in the elements and that's it like in a state of sushrupti or the deep sleep the mind goes into the ocean of not knowing or agyana and the self is the one who is witnessing the state of sushupte so it has no implication on the self the seer similarly the physical does the body which is product of the five basic elements just merges into the five basic elements that's why in the hindu tradition burns the body because this resolution of the body will happen much quickly so this wooden fire is created and the body is kept in and and just in few hours the solid body turns into an ash the water part of the body just evaporates air actually has already left the body the dhananjaya prana is the one which is working up till the decomposition is total and all these activities are happening in the ethers in the akasa so the gross body just merges into the subtle body and after few days what hindus do is that they will collect whatever of small little bones which are left and then take it to ganga and we'll just immerse it over there and so it's like whatever was left is given to the river and the river is going to spread it out and it's all terrain so the ganges the delta of ganges actually if i say the underneath soil of ganges is actually just filled with those millions of bodies which the part of there has been immersed by their loved ones in the ganges because the hindus also believe that ghanais is the most sacred technically and scientifically speaking it is the one river which has a bed where the earth's magnet is the strongest and that's one of the reason that the ganga water if you keep it in a bottle for years it will not have any worms cropping up into it it stays just like that it's so strongly magnetized water so the ganga is also considered to be the purifying river the most sacred so where should the remains of that mortal body go they say in the more sacred place so that's a beautiful tradition where it's just a few grams of the you know body which is left so the water is gone into the air vaporized and the fire consumes all the muscles and ligaments and whatever is there and just few grams maybe most if i would say then it might be 400 grams or 500 grams maybe at the most those parts which couldn't be turned into ash so those are collected and it goes in that will happen to a person who is not enlightened that's going to happen to a person who is enlightened so because the body's mechanics are going to be same there isn't going to be any difference you can't say that oh gyani's body will suddenly exhume some fragrance out of it these are all you know mythological stories which the followers wish to create for their you know masters and gurus and they say the body was oozing out fragrance and this and that well that's not true yeah in certain cases if it's a gyani is also a yogi then we have seen we have heard actually i would say that the body doesn't go through that rapid change so it takes a little more longer time and that's why in the yogis case sometimes they are not burnt their bodies are just buried because why it is important to burn for a normal person is that this person has so much of attachment with the physical frame that there is a possibility that the individual soul doesn't understand that the body is gone so the body is burnt the body is burnt but in case of a yogi or in a case of gyani they say it doesn't matter it's like just last month one of my childhood friends for me [Music] he died so what they do is they make the body sit up in a you know sitting up position not in a prone position and then bathe him and dressed him up with a new set of clothes and then put the tilak garlanded him and all the other sadhus were just doing kirtan and singing and dancing they lift him up in a palanquin and take to the ganges and then you know tie a big rock with the body and just put it in the ganges for so so for most of the sannyasis that's the rule that they'll get there you know that's the tradition and that's how they will dispose of the body but in certain cases um they believe still in burnings because they think it's not good to put it in ganges so like my sannyas guru puja maharaja his body was cremated in a funeral path that was lit up and we were all sitting by and we watched the whole thing that where the body that beautiful body that white beard his turban he's got his hands and face and we can see all and then those wooden logs are kept and the fire is given and it's like a homa which is happening a homo in which the body is the offering being given to the fire and the fire just exhumes the whole body now when for a gander there is no residual vasanas or strong impressions or desires hence the mind is actually already submerged into that maya you can say and that unit of the mind is already in oneness with the macroscopic maya body just goes into elements and about the self that was or that is already brahm and there is no change going to happen over there to self atman is me so no change over there question is the universe is said to be evolving does the gyani evolve even after attaining the supreme knowledge now see gyana is happening the knowledge is happening in the periphery of the intellect and intellect is something which can always be grown let me give you an example say if buddha comes in these days back again and mahavira comes back or guru nanak comes back again so they would find this world very weird because all the electric gadgets and all the electronics and all the vehicles around them in their times all these things were non-existent so even they'll have to learn how to switch the light on or how to use a mobile phone or how to you know adapt into this modern times so the intellect is something which can always be groomed more make make it more better for example the intellects purpose of understanding the brahmavidia was to realize what the self is but pertaining to the external world like if you put me in a airplane and make me sit in the cockpit and say that okay now you fly because you were again he should not fly the plane i cannot or you put me in a satellite and you asked me to run it and take it to the orbit of the moon i cannot do it so if i want to do that then i'll have to learn and one point more which i would say is that to evolve the intellect or not that's a very personal choice of the gurney again he might do again he might not do because inside there is all light there is no darkness left so there is no reason to learn anything but as long as the physical body is there and especially if a gun is a is it in a teaching mode meaning is making other people understand and make them learn so obviously the ghani will have to ace up his or her art of speaking or knowing about what's happening in the science or what's happening in the like languages and there's so much to learn then there's no end to that but for the self there is no reason to learn anything so this evolvement can be just pertained to the external world or if the person is going to interact with others like if somebody comes here speaking french i other than just few words i i don't know i cannot converse with them if somebody comes of spanish i can manage but if somebody speaks german i cannot romanian no check no now if i want to it's either island or i tell them to go and learn english or learn hindi if you want to understand me so these are things which are have actually no binding onto the gyani so that's evolvement if we say is just to do about the interaction with others not about self so in a way there is no need for any kind of involvement but if a ghani is a in the public sphere and so then the ghani would like to because a teacher has to have all the tools right question how does a gyani yogi experience samadhi does a gyani yogi experience kundalini energy like in raj yoga see kundalini is a very big thing for most of the westerners and even in india also there are section of people who are going gaga over the kundalini but in the in the field of the self-realization that kundalini doesn't play any role at all and kundalini is not a something which a vedantic student should aspire for also it's just an experience it's just one of the experience which one gains and it can also come by blessing it can also come because of your past spiritual practices it can also come by um i would say the mysterious blessings of the divinity around you or it can the kundalini can awaken even in bhakti it's not that necessarily you have to follow the the chakra sadhana to experience that so kundalini for a vedantic student is not something on which a student would like to or should actually waste their time i would say because it's just an experience it's a huge explosion and then it will be gone so you can have that experience or not have the experience doesn't makes any difference at all and all those stories which have people have been you know listening or reading about you know it's magical and right away this happens and that happens it is i would say more of an exaggeration and people love those mysterious exaggerations and they have so many stories they have so many divine places which they think are hidden in himalayas like shambhala or siddhasramas where all these yogis are living right and then they said those yogis are not visible to naked eye and how did you find out now the writer is trying to say i have that great vision and you don't have so i have seen all those people who read these kind of stories end of the day they get really depressed because even if they say go to kailasha or months or over your own mind can project some things and make you believe that you saw something but otherwise what so it's like you know alice in the wonderland and our mind is so powerful that if it can create a world in a dream it can definitely create a siddhas room and siddhas are there and you know i remember in my childhood i had one of my friend who after getting up from her dhyana she would write pages and pages and like brahmaji came and then vishnu also came and they were all pouring flowers on my head and they were worshipping our guru and five six pages of you know all these things and i would wonder i don't see such stuff and she's saying oh my god so what am i lacking so i really went into very sad state that i am not a good sadhak i don't see all this stuff she is and we are both sitting together you know knee to knee you know together but you know one day what happened as i opened my eyes you know it's sometimes very difficult to open your eyes after a deep meditation and i'm trying to open my eye and and and i just you know i just looked like this and she was winking towards me looking as if i opened eyes or not oh my god that day i understood that she was kind of competing with me that who opens the eyes first is that that was silly but that that was her game and the more you know i explored this whole thing this came out that well mind is very creative and mind can be very imaginative and surely there can be some great experiences when you are meditating but for a vedantic student kundalini or these special experiences are not to be sought after rather they become very big obstacles [Music] you
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