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I know not survive EDM cutter Baba hey be just be
nominee Thomas to love it Bashar bhai shiny shiny shiny day we've all
assembled here for
the occasion of Guru Poornima what does it mean
what is its relevance in our life is it just doing a puja having a
function and that's
the end of it and we're back to our mundane
humdrum living or is there something that
we can learn from it these
ancient masters our forefathers who sacrifice their lives sometimes
dedicated
their entire life to the research culling of knowledge
about ourselves
the world and how we can relate to the world in such
a way that
we become successful happy and reach that elusive state of
perfection or excellence is the theme and this theme is more relevant
today in
the 21st century than it ever was before because as external
development worldly development success and prosperity comes to us
which it should come the greater is
the need for internal enrichment
to balance it otherwise that which is a blessing becomes a curse
so
what is its relevance in life today first of all
we have enormous
potential that potential the best among us at Don Bradman words were
Shakespeare Einstein luminaries like this have barely touched upon
five or ten percent of our potential not to speak of the rest of us
and
so, therefore,
speaking of incremental growth is meaningless from
five percent if you go to 10 percent 15 percent it has no meaning
what you have to look at is exponential growth today in
the world
people believe that you achieve success excellence and you grow to
your level of incompetence this is a Western concept the Vedanta
concept as you is that you grow to your level of perfection
the very
fact that they conceived of human perfection and that they told us
that our birthright is to reach that state we are born in the
world
not to die like mere mortals but to somehow find our way to perfection
to excellence
why the Western world believes that you reach the level
of incompetence is because somewhere down the line we lose focus you
look at examples like Maradona
fabulously talented footballer what
happened to him what happened to Shan Wan what happened to all
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what happens is along with
that excellence come the fringe benefits and they mistake the perks
for the job and they get carried away by it that's how we lose focus
so therefore you have people like Michael Jordan who thought he could
play baseball yet with the Williams sisters who started walking
the
ramp and designing jewelry you had other sports people opening
restaurants and when they lost focus they lost their competence they
lost everything therefore it is the gurus in the past the greater the
talent of the student
the more they protect them protected them from
media glare protected them from public adulation and the greater the
incubation
the longer the incubation period the more the studentship
the greater was the achievement of the student today nobody has the
patience to persevere with it persevere with studentship
so the first
thing that we learn is to think big Noguchi we is being small-minded
small-mindedness is when a person decides to leverage his or her
talent for personal profit and gain and that's the end of
the
person's talent instead if you think big and decide to reinvest
redeploy offer your talent and gratitude to that divine providence
that gave it to you in
the first place what great achievement will
you'll achieve
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the infinite is that you will gain the finite mind you the byproduct
of just the seeking never mind the achievement and
the case study
that we have before us you know modern management speaks of case
studies case study
we have before us is that of nachiket us Netta
caters and Lord Yama formed a formidable team they said they were
the
Guru Yama was a surely of octa a wonderful teacher and the student
was Cuccia Halabja was a clever student a topper you see today's
concept of a spirit of spiritual life is that when a person feels
in every other Avenue in
the world and he has no other option than he
takes to spirituality this is absurd how can a person was failed in
the world succeed in spirituality which is far more difficult what
you need is a person who's achieved the best in
the world crucial
alumni and this combination results in a lasting benefit to humanity
proven by
the fact that today many thousands of years later we are
discussing this modern education has boiled down to as u.s. the survey
said information transmitted from the notebook of
the minds of
either have boiled down to education today this is not what true
education what he speaks off is
the Guru does not instruct he
inspires he doesn't merely transmit information and data but he
illumines
the soul of the student and such was this wonderful team of
magic APIs and Lord Yama now we have to go into
the background of the
story because you may or may not know it nachiket his father was vada
shave who performed a sacrifice the Vishwas Accra Files and in
the
sacrifice when you perform a sacrifice you're supposed to offer gifts
and badges shava nachiket his father offered as gifts he claimed that
he'd given everything he possessed as gift but
the truth of the
matter was he gave cows that were completely useless they were
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the useless things that
you have you accumulate in one corner in one cupboard and whenever
there is somebody's but they are dividing anniversary or something
like that you pick it up to give it a nice aking and the fancier the
gift-wrapping
the bird useless is the gift that opens a church says
joyless is the world's to which he goes who give such gifts remember
that and nachiket
the sees his father do this and he's filled with
deep compassion for the father because he knows what the result of
this is going to be
so he keeps asking him he says I am also your
possession who are you going to give me to father he asked once and
the father disregards it the second time he asked ignores it the third time
the father gets
so irritated we also get irritated with children and
say things that we don't mean
so did he says I'll give you to rock
your death the only difference between us and him is that his son at
Akitas took it seriously
the father regretted the decision but he
said remember you're
the ancients remember your forefathers who
honored their commitment and fulfilled it doesn't matter what he said
so he goes in search of lord Yama fearless pursuit of truth and the
first thing is what helps him to on this path is Shraddha Shraddha is
faith in one's infinite potential faith in the goodness of truth
faith in the power of
the infinite Furniture says the opposite of
faith is cynicism we say call such people self-centered personalities
with ailments and grievances ever complaining that
the world does not
satisfy them as against this a person with Shraddha is a person who
as Joe Goldsmith says has belief in a thing which you do not know
until you come to know what you believe in which is Atman
the spirit
we don't know it and yet deep within us there is something which
tells us there is there's got to be something beyond
the world and
you perceive it until you come to know it until you become one with
it Rabindranath Tagore says faith is like the bird that sings while
the dawn is still dark and Shankar Acharya says Shraddha is
the
capacity of the intellect to take in knowledge to absorb it to
integrate it into your system until it becomes an inseparable part of
you and with this Chaka he gains what is known as nakshatra MooMoo
chakra is
the desire for liberation comes when
there is an awareness that you are imprisoned what is
the difference
between a home and a prison is you also go into your home but it's
called a horn because you have
the freedom to move out of that home
whenever you choose to and reenter a prison is one in which you are
condemned to remain you've lost
the option of moving out and this the wonderful personality of ours the body mind and intellect we have
converted it from a home into prison because we've lost by our own
volition our own choice we've shut out the option of operating
outside
the body-mind and intellect and therefore it is that it's
become a prison and when you become aware that you are imprisoned
that is this urge for liberation every creature has it in
the morning
if you go for a walk and you see a dog being brought out for a walk
what how much does the dog pulls at its leash to break free every animal
has that
so does the human being but then this questioning this quest
comes to all of us
the problem is the pressures of mundane living
squashes at all and we're back to our humdrum mundane existence
completely shut out from
the mystery and the wonderment that makes
life so meaningful and on occasions like this we revived this
questioning mode it's exactly like taking your car for servicing
the car that is in perfect condition nothing is wrong with it and yet you
find
the pickup is slow it starts jerking it says some little
problems come up and when you take it for service in a couple of
hours it comes back absolutely fit what a difference that is our
personality
so every time you go out into the world you lose this you
pick up your energy your enthusiasm all that wanes away and it comes
back when you re-expose yourself to these higher values
so this boom
except for the awareness that you are imprisoned and
the desire for
liberation when that happens netiquette as goes to heaven in search
of Lord Yama and he has to wait for three long days for Yama to
return
because Yama is very busy with the London bomb
blasts
so he waits then he says how people in Yama's household
are very perturbed because they have to make a brand a brahmana boy
wait it says a brahmana guest comes like fire in those days they had
immense respect for a sattvic individual something that we don't have
today that it the punish up cells
the foolish man who doesn't give to
a brahmana gets destroyed where are
the sattvic people today in it is
the stalk people who maintain society, not commerce and yet we have
no respect for them the scientists the thinkers this
the authors
the poets the musicians
the philosophers and if in any society has no
respect for them that society is doomed is what the Upanishads says
so anyway then they had great respect so when Lord Yama comes back
they tell him this is Brahm Brahmin boy has come and he's waited for
three days
so Yama goes to him with great respect Yama himself has
great respect for him he says obeisance to you O Holy One and he says
I give you three boons now if you and I were given three boons what
would we say make me a multi-millionaire you know there was a government officer who once in his tours in
the district found an old
jar and he rubbed it by mistake the genie popped up and the genie
said I give you three boons exactly like Yama
the government official
said make me a rich man I instantly became rich second boon take me
to the most exquisite holiday resort in
the world straightaway he
went - where is it Langkawi third my third wish is that I should
never have to work again you know what happened straight back to the
government office he went
so magic Etta's wasn't like this what are
the boons that he asked for you see nevermind the guru from the
shisha we learned
so much the student nachiket as a young boy right
brilliant oh it's inspiring to just read of the boons that he asks
what are
the wounds that he our number one when I left my home my
father was most disturbed can you imagine the state of
the father who
by my mistake in a moment of weakness
I give you tomorrow Tia and
this boy actually takes his word for it he was most disturbed he says
please appease my father's agitation because it's not his fault that
has to Yama granted that boon and his father was instantly appeased
ii teach me Agni fire sacrifice look at
the way he goes about it the first obligation is to your family having completed that next to an obligation is to society to the nation to
the world how many of us
think in terms of contributing to
the world and here is a young boy
when given three boons all he had to say was teach me ugly sacrifice
and Yama was thrilled at it he taught it with to
the last detail and
nachiket has learned it and fulfilled it so magnificently
so
beautifully that Yama was
so pleased he said I give you a bonus extra the boon that henceforth this ugly sacrifice will be named after you
nachiket us it will be called
the nachiket our sacrifice and he gave
him a garland then he said now ask for your third boon he little did
he realizes what netiquette is was going to ask for a third boon teach
me brahmam it they are that about which
the greatest of human beings
have doubts they don't know where they're going to go after death
they don't know what's in store for them they don't know anything
about their life that is what I want to know that's when Yama was
completely taken aback not because he didn't have
the knowledge not
because he did not want to teach but he wanted to make sure that
natchok ëthis was not coming on a mere whim or fancy that he really
wanted it now what we learned from this is just ask him for bhrama
with you are not gaming it just asking for it look at what he gets in
return Yama says choose sons and grandsons who will live a hundred
years you will have cattle elephants horses gold immense territory
you'll live a long life you will become a ruler of
the world you know
you don't understand this it has to be interpreted in our language
what he means is you will have
the fortune of Bill Gates Aishwarya
Rai's Beauty Roger Federer's capability what else Mr. Shekar sends
captivating voice all of that he gives him netiquette as is least
interested he sits there waiting patiently
so Yama says that you get I'll give you something that is very difficult to get in the world
all these heavenly joys will get the pleasures that are difficult to
get in
the world the damsels in heaven you'll get by now navigators
is has reached
the end of his patience
so he replies Schwab Rafa
Marquez si identity all these are transient temporary or Antico death
what a fabulous statement imagine if you were offered to forget
the whole world this KBC - is coming up suppose you were told guarantee
to cross you will get you will say forget Brahma whaddya forget
everything focus he had he refused to budge he said all these are
temporary transient what are you offering Miyama schwa bhava means
that which is here this moment next moment it will not be there for a
young boy to understand that and to stick to it and then he says
serving Rihanna J&T Teja it takes away the ways of
the vigor and the vitality of the indulgence of the senses a peace serve to give them album
ever also all life is short and the last nail in the coffin is
survivable hasta bandha Tahiti
so keep your horse's dance and song and
give me Brahma medium when he says this Yama is thrilled to bits a
hope with him at Ottawa oh what a fabulous intellect you have magic
Atlas he himself admires him he says even
I settled for heavenly
pleasures
I just got a young ugly sacrifice and
I got the
heavens George Yeo is refused even heavenly pleasures then he started
why Yama did this entire exercises to make sure that it nachiket s
was a qualified student number one Viveca the capacity to
discriminate between
the permanent and the impermanent which
educators have amply demonstrated all of these qualities vairagya
disinterest dis passion for that which is temporary shed sympathy
the
six ethical qualities of sense control mind control
the teacher
endurance Parati withdrawal shrug toss a Madonna all of these magic
ëthis has and the difference between a well-prepared student and an
in a prepared student is
the difference between a dry matchstick and a
moist one now in the monsoons if a matchstick gets moist wet however
much you rub nothing happens with an in a prepared student that's what
happens
the Guru gives all his might everything he knows there is no
reaction from
the student whereas if you are well prepared to do
like all of you are I can see it on your faces slightest suggestion
is enough to spark off that illumination and nachiket us proves that
and
so the first thing that Yama tells him is even to hear of it is
so difficult in the world nowadays he is talking about then
Satya-yuga what must be our condition why is it you see generations
and generations of Indians were brought up on a diet of great stories
stories of Rama exploits of Krishna Sudama Janaka Sita shibori which
inspired people to live up to at least aspire for that state today
what are children exposed to cartoons
the whole time Cartoon
Network's will become a network of cartoons Swami Vivekananda says
the touch of
the soul can paint the demos Jerry place into the
brightest of colors it can throw a sweet fragrance into
the vilest of
places
so that touch of the divine is what is this thing nowadays and
in the Mundaka Upanishad he gives the imagery of two birds one
the two
birds the friends they are sitting on the same branch
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