You throw domestic waste outside and make an announcement today I threw 4 Kg waste outside do you know? if you had seen then you would know I am a such a big renouncer no one says that but if someone gives up on wealth so pride in that renouncement too I gave up so much I left so much the path of devotion says do not give up if it gets dropped due to some passion then let it go because when it gets left behind then you will not make an announcement of it if you let go then you will tell a hundred people I gave up 20 Cr Objects of sensory indulgence were worth leaving they are meant to be dropped off now you may let go of them from the mind or you may physically leave them- which ever is possible one thing I must say is giving up completely is not possible reason being, body is there so will feel hungry will need clothes if it falls sick then will need medicine too and for all this money too is needed it is possible that you may in your cupboard 500 or 1000 shirts and trousers you keep how many do you have in your cupboard go back and count today how many you have and how many more you buy a 70 year old woman from her Chester she took out a red saree a very pretty one with beautiful craftsmanship she says, this is from when I became a bride I asked why do you still have it? she says these are memories I said of youth? she said no of my husband no one ever speaks the truth she was carefully holding on to it I said what will you do with it now you do not wear it or is there a plan say to wear it on your 75th birthday she said nothing like that this is no more in fashion so when it is not in fashion why are you holding on to it, give it away your daughter in law or your daughter would be happy to wear it she said no I am not able to give it, when I die after that they will get it after I die, I will give it I said what will you give then automatically people will get it, experience the joy of giving, give it with your hands whoever you give it to will be happy a lady was saying... she was wearing solitaires in her ears the big one, single piece diamond she was wearing, she said I have given away all, only this I have which I am wearing and I have told daughter in law, after I die these are yours I said are you out of your mind, why did you tell now only either just give it why did you say it? she said meaning? I said day and night she will be thinking when is this old lady going to die every time she looks at you, she will see these diamonds. why did you say so? she said but now I have said it after death you do not give automatically all is left behind everything gets left behind So what does A wise person do.. he says what will be left behind one day I give that up from my mind today itself left it Srimad Bhagwad says you do not worry about leaving the world if you give up then, you will be egotistic about it, so it is good that you only focus on one thing that in Krishna's sweet ambrosia how your mind can be rooted because if now see, the Vrindavan that is outside when you go there, no Krishna, will be seen playing the flute okay let's assume assume that some one who can play the flute making him wear a crown with a peacock feather with a yellow drape with earrings in ear lobe bangles in the hands, anklets on the feet, with an ornamented belt make him stand outside Bihariji's (Krishna) temple and ask him to play the flute too he may be playing the flute beautifully and he plays so will you accept him to be Krishna won't you ask 'from which drama' 'company are you from' 'who are you?' why are you doing this? how much money have you been paid? how much will you earn in a day? you will not accept him as Krishna you will know this that he is not the real Krishna get attached to the true Krishna that true Krishna is there within you but at that time when Krishna was present in his gross form then he by playing his flute he attracted everyone's heart and got them by his side so they would forget their home their family & the world now they say Krishna is so enigmatic he's so beautiful His appearance was so encaptivating and gracious One day his face he saw in the mirror the gem stone garland that he was wearing around his neck in that itself there were mirrors meaning there must have been a glass pendant he was playing with it and he saw his own face in it, so for a long time he kept looking at it and then to his older brother he says 'Ballu!' 'if I were Radha, then' 'I too would have married this one!' 'He is so beautiful!' He has seen his own image, his own reflection upon seeing that He is mesmerised so if others are mesmerised by Krishna then what is the big deal about it? In Srimad Bhagwad, the form of Krishna as described hearing of that form repeatedly Meera's mind became one with Him see you too look at the pictures & photograph you look at the idols too but you do not feel the same way the way Meera felt, the way Surdas felt reason being? the reason is that at some point in time or other lost in divine remembrance eyes must have closed, and in closed eyes that divine Darshan of Shree Krishna must have happened and after that Darshan that divine Darshan of Shree Krishna must have happened and after that Darshan the mind went away alone by looking at the photo/idol the mind doesn't go crazy like that? Meera didn't went crazy in love merely looking at the photo in Meera's dreams too there was Krishna Krishna was in her thoughts you close your eyes can you not see your son's face? yes you can very nicely you can see the truth is when you sit to chant the Guru Mantra sometimes you see your son, your husband sometimes something else you see just as for you this world is true, similarly for Meera, Krishna's that form became a visible reality you may have never done something like this in life then how will you have experience of it a sage was narrating that he started chanting the Shiva mantra day and night day and night some sixty thousand mantras chants he would do in a day sixty thousand to a lakh mantras meaning 6 to 7 hours he would sit and do Japa and when he was not doing japa then he would read the Shiva Puran he was in silence, would not meet people was living in solitude in a cottage a few minimalistic food items he had in the cottage drank water have some light food that's it all day he would chant Mantra all day reading scriptures he would meditate on Shiva he said; 'just about 15 days had gone by' 'after fifteen days' 'the state was such' 'that he felt' 'that when I did Japa' 'Mahadev Himself would be sitting in front of me' 'once or twice' 'I heard such sounds' 'sometimes I could hear the conch' 'and sometimes hissing sound' 'I felt as if a snake had slithered past' 'when I closed my eyes' 'I could see Neeleshwar Mahadeva' 'during sleep in his dreams I would see Shiva' 'when I would sit to chant' 'I felt as if with me' 'someone else too is sitting, many a' 'times I would open my eyes to see' 'in the beginning I felt scared' 'what is happening' 'then I felt, I am chanting Shiva's name' 'whatever will happen, will be good only' 'nothing bad can happen' 'with that thought I set aside my fear' he said and then continuing to do so by the fortieth day came such a feeling came over my body such that this body is not mine this body is Shiva's body 'while performing the Anushthana' 'once or twice' 'when I came out of my room' 'there was a snake there' 'now on seeing the snake too, there was no fear' 'felt they are Ganas of Shiva' 'wherever an important person goes he will send his servant first' 'He Himself will go later' 'with that thought & feeling' 'felt no fear on seeing the snake' 'quietly for whatever work' 'I had come out, I did' 'filling water, washing clothes' 'I did all of that, the snake kept sitting' 'then came back in' 'closed the door and sat again' This is the Mantra Japa's, emotion's, and Anushthan's effect the deity whose Mantra you chant that deities form that deity's true essence begins to become one with you if Meera became immersed in love if Meera went crazy for Krishna then it had nothing to do with Krishna's photo or idol with that form of Krishna a meeting somewhere may be in a dream or wakeful state but there was something because of which even if someone explained to her teach or tell or threaten her to leave devotion of Krishna, she would say now I cannot leave it your life is dear to you, was it not to Meera? you feel afraid, did she not feel afraid too? no, she was not afraid whole society, her family, all on one side, she was alone on one other side but for her the form of Krishna had become true and the perceptible world despite being visible had become a lie that is why she loves her true Krishna and does not care about the illusionary world love, yearning, longing in separation Jap, Sadhana, by developing these virtues after this quest, this austerity then the union the union is blissful and the sign of that union is Holi sign of that union not the quest the quest begins first a day before in northern India in some areas they burn Holi 'Holika Dahan'- Holi is burnt and then the next day they play with colours meaning love longing yearning in the fire of quest- the one who has burnt off their mind the one whose ego has got annhliated The holi of colours is for that one the one whose mind is still active the one whose ego is still alive the one whose anger is still alive for such a man the holi of colours has no meaning so it is said first do Holika Dahan Now the mind's lust, anger one does not burn, outside one gathers four sticks of wood and sets them on fire. Strange, isn't it? the mind's vices one does not do away with but outside four broken four rotten sticks one gathers burns them and says this is Holika Pujan, This is not how Holi Pujan is done With the fire of pure wisdom, the mind's vices the greed & attachment for objects of indulgence, worldly craving must be burned and the one who burns them for such one, it is Holi the colourful Holi is for those for a long time, Shri Krishna kept testing the Gopis for such a long time Krishna with his love through playing his flute through His playfulness through His divine dramatics kept attracting their minds towards Himself and when their minds completely connected with Him became one with him, it is said then then Krishna played a lot with colours this ritual of Holi this began with Krishna before that it was not there so the meaning of Holi is not hooliganism the way it has become today Holi has a very deep subtle meaning is there and it is related to love with pangs of separation (from the divine)
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