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[1:12] Omar
[1:21] Shagar
[1:27] Janimat. Come
[1:30] om shanti shanti shanti.
[1:36] Oh propitious goddess,
[1:45] divine mother of the universe in human
[1:48] form.
[1:51] Distress of our souls remove us thou.
[1:54] Givest us contentment and peace.
[1:57] Thy children who offer all to thee,
[2:00] makest them content and free.
[2:03] Oh great mother of the worlds be our
[2:05] salutations ever unto thee.
[2:11] Om Mahalakshmi
[2:13] Saraswati
[2:16] Kali
[2:18] Shada
[2:21] rapicious goddess
[2:24] killer of misery and souls resigned
[2:28] by saints and sages worshiped. Oh mother
[2:30] kind
[2:33] savior of religion in every age.
[2:40] Oh sharda
[2:43] mahalakmi be our salutations ever unto
[2:46] thee
[2:48] shanti shanti shanti
[2:52] oh peace peace peace
[3:00] welcome to our first class after several
[3:04] weeks break due to our retreat on the
[3:07] mainland in the Pacific Northwest where
[3:09] We talked about
[3:11] uh divine mother Dorga and the goddess
[3:14] of nines
[3:15] and known in the scriptures as far back
[3:18] as the rigveda as being such and and at
[3:22] least one of the several schools of
[3:24] shocktism that we find in India that
[3:26] that are major schools which we've been
[3:29] looking into very deeply because those
[3:32] of us who have come into spiritual life
[3:34] under the umbrella you might say or
[3:37] guidance of Sri Rama Krishna Par Mahamsa
[3:40] which we feel very fortunate about um
[3:43] belonged to the Kali Kula family or that
[3:46] family of mother Kali because his ideal
[3:48] was that and as the songs say he
[3:51] awakened her from the cremation grounds
[3:53] of India and now with her name is
[3:56] spreading spirituality
[3:58] uh uh abroad even outside of India
[4:02] because his great disciples Swami
[4:04] Vivikananda was really the first to take
[4:06] all these inner core teachings and take
[4:09] them outside of the boundaries of that
[4:11] subcontinent
[4:12] and deliver them to people whom before
[4:16] had heard very little about such things.
[4:18] Uh we might call it authentic
[4:21] spirituality that he brought to us based
[4:24] in atmagan knowledge of the true self or
[4:27] non-duality which he said was the most
[4:31] profound philosophy the world had ever
[4:33] received. Padvita Vanta he made some
[4:36] very specific quotes about the
[4:38] superiority of of that Indian onity
[4:42] and those of us who have come across
[4:44] this of course have found very great
[4:47] attraction to it and that ring of truth
[4:49] which is one of those
[4:52] articles that mother Durga holds right
[4:54] chundra ganta she's that's the third
[4:56] aspect of dorga she holds the bell the
[4:59] ganta and u so we
[5:03] We worshiped her in the nine days
[5:05] recently. Shilaputra,
[5:08] Brahmacharini,
[5:10] Chandra Ganta,
[5:12] Kushana
[5:15] uh and then um Katyani,
[5:20] Scandamata,
[5:24] uh Karatri
[5:27] and uh
[5:30] Mahagawi and City. I think I got all
[5:32] nine from memory. So we've just
[5:35] worshiped nine aspects of her in the
[5:38] nine days called navaratri very much
[5:40] like the nines of the shria family which
[5:44] is that family of triura sundari which
[5:47] we've come across very deeply because of
[5:50] our recent study of the triura uponad in
[5:53] the in the rig vda in the vadas and uh
[5:58] and the atarba vda I believe and then
[6:00] also the triura tapini hupanad which
[6:03] appears there. So those
[6:07] great goddess of nines are prevalent in
[6:11] all the families and we have now upon us
[6:15] after our completion of the durguja
[6:18] navaratri
[6:20] today. This is the first uh goddess uh
[6:25] holy day that we can observe after
[6:28] navaratri has ended. That's mahalakmi
[6:30] puja. So why I started out chanting to
[6:34] her
[6:35] and we have a great teaching called the
[6:37] asta lakshmi which I've created a new
[6:40] chart for of course so that we can give
[6:44] her a thorough rendering of all those
[6:46] eight aspects because along with her
[6:49] that would make nine again wouldn't it
[6:51] so the eight forms of lakshmi now we're
[6:54] looking at deeply after we've worshiped
[6:56] the eight nine forms of da so it's a
[7:00] very beautiful oto October, November
[7:02] period for India and for everyone in the
[7:05] world who has discovered the divine
[7:07] mother reality uh prior to this like
[7:11] those great teachings of Advite of
[7:13] Adanta in India um very hidden from view
[7:17] uh we were fortunate to find them in
[7:19] this lifetime you might say that we were
[7:21] even born in this lifetime to discover
[7:24] divine mother uh and as we do hopefully
[7:28] the whole world will after us we're
[7:31] we're we're like put on the spot you
[7:34] know to recognize her find a great guru
[7:37] for her like we did with Shir Ramak
[7:39] Krishna follow her with the four yogas
[7:42] like Swami Vivikananda has asked us to
[7:45] do as vantas so this beautiful coming
[7:49] together of shakra va vanta and vanta
[7:53] itself and yoga is upon us to practice
[7:56] that's sadna and that will be the
[7:58] subject of my seminar next month when we
[8:02] uh when we come to that time but first
[8:05] of all we'll have this Lakshmi puja
[8:07] today and we'll have it next Sunday too
[8:09] I'll give I'll give four of the
[8:12] teachings on four of the astral lakshmis
[8:15] today and I hope get it all finished in
[8:18] our time and then the other four will
[8:20] come next Sunday the Sunday after that
[8:22] is kali puja so we're very fortunate to
[8:25] have these divine mother holy days
[8:28] falling on the Sundays so we can give
[8:31] classes. The Sunday after that, actually
[8:34] the Monday after that is Jagadatri Puja.
[8:37] She's the holder of the worlds. A very
[8:39] powerful aspect of Dorga. So we kind of
[8:41] started with Durga and we'll go through
[8:44] the goddess as she appears in Vashnavism
[8:47] and in Tantra and we'll end up back with
[8:49] a great form of of the of the mother of
[8:52] the worlds who holds the worlds. That
[8:54] will be that Sunday's class. So uh the
[8:58] only thing that can come after that
[8:59] besides a few weeks of rest where we can
[9:01] catch our breath after all the worship
[9:03] of these great powerful aspects of
[9:06] shockti will be holy mother's birthday
[9:08] in December our own shriardi so of
[9:11] course I included her in my opening
[9:13] chant today with the other great aspects
[9:16] lakshmi sorvati and dorga or ki that's
[9:19] often called tree davi in India it's one
[9:22] of the great uh condensed grouping of
[9:26] goddesses. If you want to really cut it
[9:28] down to its essence, it's hard to do
[9:30] with her because she's ever won. But she
[9:33] has so many essences and uh expressions
[9:37] of herself.
[9:40] Uh like with the thousand names of
[9:42] Lakshmi and Sahasham, we know that it
[9:46] can get that vast with her qualities and
[9:49] attributes that fill the worlds. Whether
[9:52] you look at the worlds as a Chiron
[9:54] Garba, a cosmic egg that was born from
[9:57] her union with Shiva
[10:00] and the tantric tradition and or whether
[10:02] you look at it through the Kashmir shism
[10:04] view where you've got this this nine uh
[10:08] nine uh tririconas stacked on top of
[10:11] each other called Shriantra and all the
[10:14] nine goddesses there and the nine
[10:16] helpers and the nine yogas to practice.
[10:18] We'll look at that too at that coming
[10:20] seminar next month.
[10:22] So we're rich in goddess teachings.
[10:25] We've been given a lot. But we do need
[10:27] to contemplate them. It's not enough in
[10:29] invadant just to shy to hear it. But you
[10:33] have to go then and uh roll it over in
[10:36] the mind and contemplate it. I was
[10:39] speaking on that just yesterday morning
[10:40] at sought song saying it's very
[10:42] important for us to not just to
[10:44] meditate, not just to hear and then
[10:46] meditate but to have time for
[10:48] contemplation in between. It's often an
[10:51] overlooked step, but that's what mana
[10:53] means in vanta. They want you to hear it
[10:56] and then go away
[10:58] into a forest or near a river or on a
[11:01] hike or away from the world, society,
[11:04] and so forth, and sit and just put your
[11:06] mind on those teachings for a period of
[11:09] time, an hour, a day, a week. Go to a
[11:11] three-day retreat. You can get those
[11:13] right here at SRV. or uh take take a a
[11:18] month or so to worship the goddess
[11:20] because we had that teaching Lord Vishna
[11:22] gives teaching of how to worship Sri
[11:25] Dora over a month's time not just nine
[11:28] days and we've we've looked at that
[11:31] before in one of our teaching charts. So
[11:34] back to the teaching charts you can see
[11:35] here if you get your first look at it uh
[11:38] because it would probably be good to
[11:39] give you an advanced notice of that but
[11:42] a very quick look for it through it so
[11:44] we can cover ground in these two weeks
[11:46] of time we you know two weeks means only
[11:49] you know an hour and uh 3 hours or so
[11:53] that we'll have to do this in the two
[11:55] week two Sundays but there you can see
[11:57] the beautiful chart there Mahalakshmi's
[11:59] eight divine aspects they're called the
[12:01] ashta Lakshmi because ashta means eight
[12:04] in Sanskrit. Subtitle there is the
[12:08] material and spiritual wealth of the
[12:10] goddess. Uh, so I looked at all the
[12:13] English words
[12:15] that could
[12:16] probably be better used in wealth
[12:19] because wealth of course has sort of a
[12:21] strange connotation attached to it
[12:23] especially in materialistic term country
[12:27] where people are so attached to wealth
[12:28] and have forgotten the divinity behind
[12:31] it right or how to use it correctly.
[12:34] Dharmic use of wealth that we'll get
[12:36] that teaching today as as we go through
[12:38] these these ashaki
[12:41] lakshmies. So I looked through all the
[12:44] words in English and just chose
[12:45] abundance because that will escape that
[12:48] kind of strange dichotomy uh that is
[12:53] attached to the word wealth and make it
[12:56] look like it can go beyond just getting
[12:59] wealth, lands, money, jewels, gold uh
[13:03] you know which is of course rampant in
[13:05] the society is what everyone wants. And
[13:08] even though they know somewhere inside
[13:10] of them, most everyone has heard by now
[13:11] that wealth cannot
[13:14] bring you love and cannot fulfill you
[13:15] spiritually, they'll still go after
[13:17] that. Um, so it sort of uh demonstrates
[13:22] the fact that we're not valuing
[13:24] spirituality
[13:26] or or the divine within us, the atman,
[13:29] the lord god. Put it in bakti terms, put
[13:32] it in terms of ganam. uh there there's
[13:36] only a small percentage of people uh who
[13:40] really value that kind of depth of
[13:42] spirituality even though there are you
[13:45] know several billion people in the world
[13:48] who do believe in God and then there's
[13:51] also several billion people in the world
[13:52] who do not believe in in God uh I forget
[13:56] the numbers right now but I looked them
[13:57] up a few months ago to see how many uh
[14:00] people were relig religious in the
[14:03] different religions of the world and how
[14:05] many were agnostic and atheist and uh
[14:08] and irreligious even against religion.
[14:11] So with that being the case here in the
[14:14] Burlo loca or in this physical world,
[14:17] it's a good subtitle for the the chart
[14:19] to say the material and spiritual wealth
[14:23] of the goddess so that we can go beyond
[14:25] that and find out what spiritual wealth
[14:28] consists of. Uh
[14:32] that's probably the accent you get in
[14:35] the Ki Kula family. Uh because you're
[14:38] taught to renounce and detach from from
[14:41] things that you know are usually
[14:43] considered uh what people want to
[14:45] possess. So the teaching is always vivik
[14:48] varog discriminate between the changing
[14:51] and the unchanging the essential and the
[14:53] non-essential then withdraw from the
[14:55] non-essential and the changing. So that
[14:58] puts you automatically poised to be able
[15:01] to receive a transmission of spiritual
[15:04] wealth from your guru uh from a guru
[15:06] who's teaching that kind of um kalikula
[15:10] transmission. So that's a very good
[15:12] advantage we have with mother kali and
[15:14] mother dorga. Uh but it shouldn't be
[15:16] missing in the shria family that is the
[15:19] family of Lakshmi. Um it's really not
[15:22] missing in terms of the family of
[15:25] Saraswati either but you have so much
[15:27] scriptural wisdom there. You've got
[15:29] goddesses like Guyatri and and uh you've
[15:34] got goddesses uh that uh
[15:39] like Cvitri, you know, that that really
[15:42] honor the scripture, the word and the
[15:44] arts and sciences, you know, like like
[15:47] music and poetry and so forth are
[15:50] focused on in that particular family of
[15:52] the mother, that aspect of the mother,
[15:55] that third family. And there's two other
[15:57] families in India of goddess worshippers
[15:59] that are not quite as prominent as these
[16:01] three. Basically you've got tree davi
[16:03] again family of kalidorga the family of
[16:06] lakshmi and the family of Sarasati and
[16:09] under each one of those goddesses falls
[16:11] a whole host of her helpers you know
[16:14] been calling them like the avar as we
[16:17] studied a few weeks ago. So basically
[16:22] you can see here that in the family of
[16:24] Mahalakshmi she has eight divine helpers
[16:27] or aspects too. We can go through it
[16:29] real quick. Um there you see Adi Lakshmi
[16:34] and then here remember I'm using the
[16:36] word abundance then across the board
[16:40] uh dana Lakshmi. So there's spiritual
[16:43] abundance coming from Adi the original
[16:46] Lakshmi. Adi means the original or
[16:48] foremost and then material abundance
[16:51] coming from Dana Lakshmi and then from
[16:54] da Lakshmi you'll have the abundance of
[16:57] prasad that is food crops and and
[17:01] various things to eat and sustain
[17:03] yourself with and then daria lakshmi is
[17:06] an abundance of courage
[17:09] uh gaja lakshmi is this fifth she's the
[17:12] abundance of of uh of uh noble
[17:17] power,
[17:18] how to how to handle power correctly.
[17:21] That would be very helpful, wouldn't it?
[17:23] In today's world amongst our leaders,
[17:25] how to how to be noble when you have
[17:26] power given to you and not become
[17:29] corrupted by it. For instance, uh sana
[17:32] Lakshmi is is number six. Abundance of
[17:35] family, the blessings of a family is
[17:39] very important in the in the three shria
[17:42] family. And then you have uh vijaya
[17:45] lakshmi that's abundance of achievement.
[17:48] Vijaya vijaya mean great victory right?
[17:51] So you we want great victory over all
[17:54] the problems of of the earth and so
[17:56] forth. Uh the how to how to attain um
[18:02] uh victory over challenges and trials
[18:06] and uh always hold your own in the world
[18:08] of embodiment. Uh then you have
[18:10] Vigilakshmi
[18:12] and this is where the word the
[18:14] expression last but not least comes in.
[18:17] She's very she's very prominent. It's
[18:19] why she connects where very well back to
[18:22] Adi Lakshmi abundance of of
[18:24] spirituality. So basically that's the
[18:26] abundance of wisdom that we find so
[18:29] prominent and prevalent in the Sarasati
[18:32] family with again with goddesses like
[18:34] Kayatri and and Sabitri. So not to get
[18:38] too confused or overwhelmed by too many
[18:40] aspects of God. uh you might say this is
[18:45] one of the beautiful things of
[18:46] contemplating the non-dual Brahman is
[18:49] because uh if if you can if you can rise
[18:52] to the occasion which is the occasion of
[18:54] formlessness like like samadei or in
[18:57] deep sleep then you know it's a very u
[19:01] uh profoundly simple experience samadei
[19:05] natural like sahaja it's called sahaja
[19:08] samadei but if you look into the worlds
[19:11] the the worlds the realms of these
[19:13] chakras, these different locas, these
[19:17] these these different um avaras we're
[19:20] calling them and uh all the trionas of
[19:25] the shriantra or shri chakra it's called
[19:28] you'll find how complex that is and in a
[19:31] very beautiful orderly way that's very
[19:34] fulfilling and that's what we find with
[19:36] Mahalakmi she's she's there on the scene
[19:40] you know to infill all of this with
[19:43] abundance so that you can get the most
[19:46] out of your experience in on earth in
[19:49] the world and in the heavens too. The
[19:51] the harakasha they talk about and uh so
[19:54] that's very important to u millions of
[19:57] beings who worship the divine mother. Uh
[20:00] that's just a quick introduc
[20:02] introduction to the astralis lakshmis
[20:06] for you. Um, and we want to take these
[20:09] one at a time to give them a little bit
[20:11] more accent, but it's a it's a chart.
[20:16] Um, we can start out with its very
[20:19] central um quote here.
[20:23] Real abundance is a plentitude of
[20:25] wisdom, particularly of the non-dual
[20:28] type,
[20:30] combined with the ability to renounce
[20:32] what is changeful, reject what is
[20:35] elucory, and undergo a host of
[20:37] austerities
[20:39] even in the midst of wealth, success,
[20:41] and enjoyments.
[20:43] It conduces to the fullness of knowing
[20:45] God as it truly is. So if you want to
[20:49] know the non-dual Brahman, then of
[20:51] course you're not going to be able to do
[20:53] so if you're attached to outer things,
[20:56] external things like the external world
[20:58] or the body or the senses or objects.
[21:02] That's all yogic 101 teaching, isn't it?
[21:04] We've we've had that for decades and
[21:07] decades when we first came to true yoga.
[21:10] Uh so we got that teaching of the
[21:12] detachment from senses and objects and
[21:15] then the dissolution of everything back
[21:17] into the subtle senses and the subtle
[21:20] objects in dream further dissolution
[21:22] back into formlessness and deep sleep.
[21:24] So this is the way um one awakens to
[21:28] spirituality and starts the inward
[21:31] inward ascension we call the spiritual
[21:33] journey. Uh so that's u why this
[21:38] non-dual wisdom becomes prevalent in the
[21:42] shaky path and Mahalakmi is not one to
[21:45] stint on that either.
[21:48] Um
[21:49] let's jump right into the uh
[21:51] accompanying charts then and look at um
[21:56] this um
[22:01] this first ailaki. All wealth is of the
[22:05] soul and requires inner peace so as to
[22:08] be able to lead to liberation.
[22:10] So you see that people are wealthy but
[22:13] they don't have peace of mind. Right? So
[22:15] that's a problem. Uh and um
[22:19] I think I put it up here that we can see
[22:24] some aspects of peace. How to get peace
[22:27] so that you can handle wealth properly
[22:30] so that it will lead to liberation.
[22:33] We'll look at that in in soon because
[22:35] one of the great mother teachings is
[22:37] four-fold dharma ara kama and mokia. You
[22:42] want righteous use of all of this
[22:44] abundance and and that you get a chance
[22:48] to do that when you're granted the
[22:49] second fruit by mother called ara and
[22:52] then you're getting a chance to fulfill
[22:54] yourself rather than get way laid by
[22:57] attachment in kama which is desire for
[23:00] legitimate fulfillment of of earthly
[23:04] wealth that you've received. Everyone
[23:06] according to their own karma gets their
[23:09] abundance of wealth or lack of wealth
[23:12] depending. And then this of of course
[23:14] the beautiful thing leads to moia or
[23:16] mukti. It's called liberation. So the
[23:19] four-fold fruits of life we can look at
[23:21] that in a minute to make sure we uh
[23:23] reassess that here with the ailakshi
[23:28] sheakshmi. He really wants to make sure
[23:32] that um everything that we receive is
[23:35] received uh with equan economy you see
[23:40] of mind. You want to be economous in
[23:43] your re receal of wealth and the passing
[23:46] of wealth. It has to pass through you
[23:49] and it's the same with material wealth
[23:51] as it is with spiritual wealth. the
[23:53] spiritual wealth will all of a sudden
[23:55] become much more uh meaningful in your
[23:58] life and much more prevalent in your
[23:59] mind if you can do this with sata in
[24:03] mind or with peace of mind is the goal.
[24:05] So here you see some uh we'll go through
[24:09] uh some of this uh these prescribed
[24:12] pathways to this creassence of mind.
[24:15] They they say they're basically you can
[24:17] look at these
[24:19] in uh seven different ways to get peace.
[24:23] You can get it through devotion bakti
[24:26] and many people have that deep devotion
[24:28] for Mahalakshmi or those bashnavas for
[24:30] instance followers of Krishna followers
[24:33] of shriam at the top there you see bakti
[24:36] is the greatest uh path towards peace
[24:39] you have that love of god peace of mind
[24:41] comes to you almost naturally uh another
[24:44] way is through dian yoga meditation
[24:48] peace people have said peace comes to
[24:50] you via meditation
[24:53] And then going down the left hand side
[24:56] by controlling the mind that's called
[24:58] sadna. Uh calming the chittis of the
[25:02] mind is called in yoga by patanjali. You
[25:05] want to control the mind so that it's
[25:08] always even uh in in in the coming and
[25:11] going of of wealth both material and
[25:14] spiritual. You you remain very
[25:16] even-minded about it. We're just going
[25:18] to go around the circle there. The the
[25:20] fourth thing is ananda. Uh by seeking
[25:23] bliss of course peace will be demanded
[25:26] of that. The fifth is atma vichara. You
[25:30] can get peace through self inquiry as
[25:33] famous path of uh of uh
[25:37] nettini they call it or atma vichara
[25:40] which was practiced early on and
[25:42] probably evidenced most most uh recently
[25:46] by Ramano Maharshi when he took up that
[25:49] path but the ancient ones you go back to
[25:53] Lord Bishta for that he teaches atma
[25:55] vichara in the uh yoga bishta scripture
[25:59] So you can find everything about how to
[26:02] um inquire into the nature of your true
[26:05] self. How that gives you peace is that
[26:08] the ego will never give you peace. You
[26:10] might have discovered that. So you you
[26:13] want to go move away from the ego and
[26:15] detach which is again one of those
[26:18] beautiful teachings of the Kalikula
[26:20] family is detach renounce and then the
[26:23] ego is then not given charge anymore and
[26:27] you begin to take refuge in the divine
[26:30] mother and that's uh that's this u
[26:36] wonderful way of which you can get
[26:38] purity of mind. Uh then next and
[26:41] penultimate is the nish kama karma. You
[26:46] can just give up all your fruits of uh
[26:49] desire for the fruits of your action.
[26:51] Krishna says that in the Gita he has
[26:55] four ways in which you can you can
[26:58] slowly and gradually make your way
[27:01] towards peace of mind. And he says in
[27:04] the end if nothing works then try nama
[27:07] karma. Try not desiring the fruits of
[27:09] your action and just do all actions for
[27:12] the Lord alone and give up all actions
[27:14] for the ego again or for other other
[27:18] beings. You can serve them but u you you
[27:22] can't become embroiled in in their own
[27:25] uh ability or inability to become
[27:29] satisfied by what's served to them. Then
[27:32] you have that last way of c peace of
[27:36] mind called ganam wisdom about atman and
[27:40] maya. So the atmaan as we just said and
[27:44] what she's saying here in the beautiful
[27:46] chart we were just looking at the cover
[27:48] chart that's one of ashi's and and also
[27:52] uh the divine mother's uh main
[27:56] uh conccommatants for for gaining peace
[28:00] of mind. The quote here from the
[28:02] satosharopon shad says like oil present
[28:05] in sesame seeds
[28:08] patina concealed in copper that's that
[28:11] green stuff that comes out you put a
[28:13] penny near moisture for a while and gold
[28:17] are gold hidden in rivers the wise seek
[28:21] for that special quality of equinimity
[28:23] of mind that abides deep within the ever
[28:27] peaceful atman which is of course the
[28:29] true self as contrasted to the ego self
[28:33] which can never bring about that
[28:35] fulfillment. So this is a a beautiful
[28:39] illustration in the background of gold
[28:41] ore hidden in rivers. We have to be that
[28:44] um conscious to be able to see the gold
[28:48] of the otman
[28:50] that divine mother is shining upon us as
[28:53] our own inner qualities uh from her
[28:56] aspects and then go mining. Go mining a
[29:00] mind uh the internal part of the mind
[29:03] and stop mining external nature only.
[29:06] That's only material wealth there if you
[29:08] can get it because that's even sometimes
[29:11] difficult to get except for a few
[29:13] fortunate ones. And then those few
[29:15] fortunate ones, some of them are divided
[29:17] then into those who are worthy of using
[29:20] wealth and those who are unworthy of
[29:22] getting it. There's there's ways of
[29:24] getting wealth uh unjustly in the world.
[29:27] you may have noticed and people have
[29:30] that and uh then it begins to bring them
[29:33] not only lack of peace of mind but
[29:35] karmas untold. So that's a rundown of a
[29:40] very simple chart which is a very old
[29:42] chart we put out early in early times in
[29:44] SRV. So why were we looking at it?
[29:47] Because we wanted to as we go back to
[29:50] the Mahalakshmi chart, we wanted to
[29:52] flesh out what Adilakshmi means when she
[29:55] says all wealth is of the soul but it
[29:59] requires inner peace to be effective for
[30:02] liberation.
[30:04] So we can see lifetimes of wealth could
[30:07] be lived but you could never get
[30:08] knowledge or samadei like Sham Krishna
[30:11] had. Just look at India at the state
[30:14] when Sharma Krishna came you know it was
[30:16] in dire straits
[30:18] uh and look at America today how there's
[30:22] this huge gap between the wealthy and
[30:23] the poor and uh you know the shrinking
[30:27] middle class they call it and so forth
[30:29] how some are just hogging the wealth and
[30:31] others are unable to get it that's two
[30:34] kinds of karmas there that's going on
[30:37] but the people in between that are able
[30:40] to to gain sufficient wealth, sufficient
[30:44] food, sufficient clothing, sufficient
[30:47] housing are those beings who worship the
[30:50] divine mother of the universe or worship
[30:52] God. She provides them with everything
[30:54] they need. And that's the meaning of
[30:56] Mahalakshmi. She's the goddess of
[30:58] abundance. She's the goddess of
[31:00] provision. She's the goddess of
[31:02] sustenance. That's huge in the Shri Shri
[31:05] Kula family of India. That's what um the
[31:08] devities of the goddess run towards in
[31:11] her.
[31:14] There's one Lakshmi we've looked at then
[31:16] one of the eight. Let's look across to
[31:18] Donna Lakshmi.
[31:20] Dharmic wealth is used for the
[31:22] collective good of all not for the the
[31:25] ego.
[31:27] It's also used for charity. So in that
[31:31] way then let's look and make sure what
[31:33] we know what dharmic wealth is all
[31:34] about. We're going to be running through
[31:37] four quick charts with four um small
[31:42] short dissertations on four lakshmies.
[31:46] That's what this class is all about. So
[31:47] you see there this chart comes up to in
[31:51] in accord with Donna Lakshmi. Um, and
[31:56] so,
[31:58] uh, in this this chart, what I did was
[32:00] combine the four fruits of life with the
[32:03] four boons of life because I thought
[32:06] that's a mother teaching too that's very
[32:08] important. So, you can see first the
[32:11] divine mother's boons to us. Those
[32:14] people who are receiving just enough for
[32:17] their sustenance and their happiness and
[32:19] their contentment and their peace,
[32:21] they're not receiving
[32:23] additional about that more than they
[32:26] need because it might threaten their
[32:28] peace of mind. It might threaten their
[32:33] search for spirituality.
[32:35] So there's there beings who are she's
[32:38] treating very tenderly in that way.
[32:40] She's she's got in mind for them the
[32:42] fourth fruit liberation.
[32:45] But beings can come can run ary of that
[32:49] goal of liberation if they don't have
[32:51] dharma art and kama first. It's a very
[32:53] important teaching. I've even seen
[32:56] recently some of the more they call them
[32:58] the TV guras nowadays are not teaching
[33:01] the right order of these four fruits.
[33:03] They're having you get wealth first. You
[33:05] can have an abundant life. come we can
[33:09] give you money just like we have but
[33:11] there's no dharma first then then that's
[33:15] uh transgressing mother's great great u
[33:19] dharmic law of the four fruits so the
[33:22] four bo then are are wonderful to look
[33:25] at uh yatus yatam is manu yatram is the
[33:29] human birth
[33:32] and uh as of yesterday in satsang one
[33:36] question came up uh how important in his
[33:38] holy company. So I gave a good five or
[33:41] 10 minute talk on that at satsang
[33:43] yesterday about the importance of sadu
[33:46] satsa
[33:48] shankar says you know satsang
[33:53] moati
[34:01] you get mti or liberation from life uh
[34:05] by first having holy company. So holy
[34:08] body is what's going to be needed to get
[34:09] holy company. Then uh man sees man,
[34:13] woman sees woman, man sees woman, woman
[34:15] sees man. The uh the great teachers are
[34:19] both of rishies were were both male and
[34:21] female. They have teachings to give to
[34:23] you if you have the humility and
[34:25] patience to to go sit in front of them
[34:29] and share like we did yesterday at
[34:31] satsang with a group of people the great
[34:34] teachings of India. And then what?
[34:38] Contemplate them. Go somewhere and
[34:40] contemplate them. And then come back for
[34:42] more. And then go some prayer and
[34:44] contemplate those. This is a constant
[34:46] way of getting rid of negative karmas in
[34:48] the mind. Better than that, after
[34:50] negative karmas are gone, it it begins
[34:52] to build good samscaras in your mind. So
[34:56] then you're born with um
[34:59] with the ability to know yourself in in
[35:02] the next lifetime.
[35:05] Remember Christian had a very beautiful
[35:06] story. He said a man bought some land
[35:09] near a river.
[35:14] He went to look at his land. So he's
[35:16] walking around that land and wondering,
[35:17] "Oh god, how much work I'm going to have
[35:19] to do to get the water from that river
[35:21] all the way to my field so I can
[35:23] irrigate it and plant. It's going to
[35:26] take me days and weeks of working and
[35:28] digging. It's going to be backbreaking
[35:31] and sweating in the hot sun." So he's
[35:34] walking around thinking about that but
[35:35] he started chanting the mantra of the
[35:37] mother of the mother of uh of food the
[35:42] the mother of abundance Lakshmi started
[35:44] chanting her mantra as he walked around
[35:48] the land thinking well I'll just have to
[35:49] do the work all of a sudden he his foot
[35:52] brushed against a hidden hose in the
[35:55] ground and it started gushing water so
[35:58] Sham Krishna said imagine his relief and
[36:01] joy
[36:03] Now he doesn't. It just saved him weeks
[36:05] and weeks of work. What does all this
[36:07] mean?
[36:08] It means that some people are born into
[36:10] life with spiritual wherewithal.
[36:13] Some people are not born with that. Why?
[36:16] Because they didn't do spiritual
[36:17] practice in their previous lifetime.
[36:20] Those who are standing in front of us
[36:22] right now are great teachers. The great
[36:24] beings who come to us have mastered life
[36:27] uh master they become masters of life
[36:29] and mind and the remover of the misery
[36:32] of the devities by practicing soden in a
[36:35] previous lifetime. Uh of course there
[36:37] are some that are past masters. They
[36:40] never had to practice. They're just
[36:41] perfect souls. Yes, those exist too. But
[36:44] the ones usually that come to earth to
[36:46] teachers have gone through the ladder of
[36:48] involution. They've they've they've
[36:51] mounted the ladder and they've memorized
[36:53] the steps like our Patanjalis and our
[36:57] Lord Copulas and beings like that uh
[37:01] like like Brigu and his line whom whom
[37:04] Durga was born from at one time
[37:07] basically they've mastered these steps
[37:08] and then come back to tell you about
[37:10] them. So that's what he means about the
[37:12] foot bumping against a hidden hose.
[37:14] These people just come with all of this
[37:17] available and then all of a sudden it
[37:19] comes gushing out of them. Other people
[37:21] are standing around saying God's injust.
[37:25] He gave that person wisdom and he didn't
[37:27] give us anything in this lifetime. But
[37:29] that's not the case. It's all a matter
[37:31] of karma and practice. And that's the
[37:33] beautiful purifying message of mother
[37:36] India against the uh the the whole idea
[37:39] of salvation and sin. For instance,
[37:43] contrast to that, this is a much better
[37:45] way, much more wise way of looking at at
[37:48] your own life and people's predicament
[37:51] here on earth. So practice the real
[37:54] lesson he's trying to to give you is
[37:57] what?
[37:59] Do sodena now.
[38:03] Do sodena now.
[38:07] When
[38:09] so what is your sadena? I say go get a
[38:13] human body which you have great get holy
[38:16] company great hear the teachings then
[38:19] what do you do you go and contemplate
[38:21] them that's part of your sadna don't
[38:24] just jump into meditation you can
[38:26] meditate 10 or 20 years without the
[38:28] wisdom and you won't go go anywhere you
[38:31] won't get enlightenment it's happening
[38:32] all the time with thousands of people
[38:35] particularly in the west today
[38:37] contemplate those teachings and
[38:39] understand them drive them deep into
[38:42] your minds some scars come out next time
[38:46] shining didn't I give that teaching
[38:48] yesterday you always give the elephant
[38:51] its bath when
[38:54] at the end of the day because if you
[38:57] give it at the beginning of the day when
[38:58] it's wet it'll just roll and get muddy
[39:00] the bath was useless. So the elephant
[39:03] driver puts the elephant in the in his
[39:06] bath stall, gives him a bath at night
[39:08] and puts him straight into his stall and
[39:10] the animal falls asleep, comes out in
[39:12] the morning all dry and all clean.
[39:14] Doesn't matter if it rolls.
[39:17] So that's how you prepare for your life
[39:20] in the future should you have one. And
[39:23] who knows if you're going to or not?
[39:25] Maybe only you do, but the mother knows.
[39:29] And so we we uh beseech her. I was
[39:32] thinking of nice words, you know, to to
[39:34] to
[39:37] use in terms of propitiate or make
[39:40] offering to or surrender to we beseech
[39:44] her, you know, for for the ability to do
[39:47] soda now. Do sodena now, not later.
[39:53] Not a post-mortem emancipation. we're
[39:56] we're interested in. It's the knowledge
[39:58] that we are free at this moment and
[40:01] there's a veil in front of knowing that
[40:03] soda dissolves that veil.
[40:07] So mother's four boons uh are very
[40:10] important. You see what's the third one?
[40:12] Uh then you have a desire to be free
[40:17] said and vavas concurred afterward.
[40:21] fathers of yoga and vodata who said u
[40:24] you know there are people who are born
[40:27] with a desire for freedom but they never
[40:29] realize it
[40:31] lifetime after lifetime. It's the first
[40:33] kind of yogi of four kinds of yogi
[40:35] actually five kinds of yogis and yoginis
[40:39] uh is that one who is born to be free
[40:41] but doesn't realize it in that lifetime.
[40:45] I used to think is that well I really
[40:47] like I really great that you can play
[40:49] the piano. It was I I played piano once
[40:54] uh and uh I never pursued it. I never
[40:58] mastered it. I just played it a little
[41:00] while and let it go. So I heard that a
[41:02] lot in my musical career with people and
[41:05] musicians.
[41:06] But that person who centered on the
[41:08] piano, concentrated on the piano,
[41:10] learned the piano, mastered the piano,
[41:12] concertized the piano and offered music
[41:15] to the divine, existing in the hearts
[41:18] and minds of all beings was the master
[41:20] of piano from then and from then on.
[41:23] See, so that's that's what's meant by
[41:26] this ability to um not only just desire
[41:30] for freedom, but to attain it the
[41:33] ability to have it right now. Otherwise,
[41:36] it just passes people by every lifetime.
[41:39] Oh, I really wish I could have gotten
[41:41] free. Oh, I didn't get free. Woe is me.
[41:44] I'm going to hell. Or I'm not I'm not I
[41:47] have to have another lifetime. I have to
[41:48] work out my karma.
[41:51] Vivananda said, "Blast your karma. Take
[41:53] your karma and wind it up in a bag and
[41:55] throw it in the nearby river and be free
[41:57] right now." And so what's going to help
[42:00] you do that according to mother's boons
[42:02] here is a human birth some holy company
[42:07] and some spiritual practice and a desire
[42:10] for freedom. The fourth one is a pure
[42:12] mind chit chudy and that really
[42:15] emphasizes what I just said about
[42:18] bumping a hose and watching water gush
[42:20] out. Uh that pure mind is what you're
[42:23] seeing uh wi with people who already
[42:26] have got spirituality when they arrived
[42:29] here and we've met a few of them in our
[42:31] lifetimes like our gurus.
[42:35] Then then we can look at with that said
[42:37] at divine mother's four fruits of life.
[42:40] Uh dharma is first as we said then ara
[42:45] then kama then mokia. So dharma is of
[42:48] course spiritual life per se. Uh that's
[42:52] a good definition for it in English.
[42:54] Righteousness doesn't quite do it.
[42:56] Again, that word has a kind of um
[43:00] stigma attached to it. Righteous,
[43:02] unrighteous, you know, better than thou,
[43:06] holier than thou kind of stigma attached
[43:07] to it. So look at it and say that to
[43:10] live a spiritual life is dharma. That's
[43:13] dharma. And uh then right livelihood
[43:17] comes that anything that comes to you is
[43:18] done inside of that dharmic mind that is
[43:22] always uh grounded in spiritual practice
[43:26] and spiritual realization. And then
[43:28] finally the desires that arise in your
[43:31] mind they will get fulfilled. Holy
[43:34] mother used to say that my children
[43:36] don't worry about the desires that come
[43:37] up in your mind. The more they come up
[43:40] and the more they go the better for you.
[43:42] So he says, "You're going to satisfy
[43:44] them because you've taken refuge in me,
[43:47] the mother. Their desires will come up.
[43:49] They'll get satisfied and they won't
[43:51] rise anymore." That's called
[43:56] what do you ask God for? Near Vasa, she
[44:00] said. See, so if you see God, if you
[44:04] can, then ask him for this boon near
[44:07] Vasana. May my desires all be satisfied
[44:10] so that I won't be drugged from birth to
[44:12] death and death to birth again. My soul
[44:15] won't be dragged from here and there. Uh
[44:18] as Vivicananda said in his beautiful
[44:21] poem. So um same for your desires then
[44:26] your desires will get fulfilled your
[44:27] your livelihood will get fulfilled and
[44:29] finally you will get that moia and uh
[44:33] there's a quote down here by divine
[44:35] mother the pure mind does not easily
[44:39] become pure but remember the mind is
[44:42] everything you will have to carry the
[44:44] mind with you when you try and realize
[44:47] Brahman so at the present stage the mind
[44:50] is very important
[44:52] It is the pure mind that shows man the
[44:54] way. One fulfills all desires in this
[44:57] life and reaches liberation when the
[45:00] mind becomes steady. Shall we go back
[45:03] and look at the
[45:06] how the mind becomes steady and see
[45:09] different ways in which you can ensure
[45:11] with your sadna done now in this
[45:14] lifetime.
[45:16] You've got at least seven choices there
[45:19] in which to make the mind steady and
[45:21] make it peaceful so that your desires
[45:23] will not rise up again in later in this
[45:27] lifetime or in another lifetime. and uh
[45:30] therefore u uh swerve you off the track
[45:34] of of the goal of life particularly in
[45:37] terms of moka or mukti liberation.
[45:43] Shamak Krishna adds his two bits in here
[45:45] if you want to call it that a man is
[45:47] born to no purpose who having received
[45:50] the priceless boon of a human body is
[45:52] unable to realize God in this lifetime.
[45:55] So this is going to be emphasized by
[45:59] both the Kali Khula family in India,
[46:01] mother worshippers of Durgakali and the
[46:04] Shri Kula family of Chipura, Sundari and
[46:06] Lolita and Mahalakshmi. Those families
[46:09] will concur with this absolutely that
[46:12] you you need to have that human body for
[46:14] one and then you need to dedicate it to
[46:18] the service of the divine mother and the
[46:20] lord the universe and that's
[46:24] sharagata that's self-surrender and then
[46:27] everything that will happen to you will
[46:29] happen in terms of these fours you'll
[46:32] see you'll get a human body holy company
[46:35] desire for freedom a pure mind you'll
[46:38] you'll uh live a dharmic life. You'll
[46:41] you'll get right livelihood without any
[46:44] impediments in the way and all your
[46:46] desires will be legitimate and they'll
[46:49] get fulfilled landing ending in mokia or
[46:52] liberation.
[46:54] So that's a quick run through of a of a
[46:59] chart that's actually uh a teaching
[47:01] that's not very complex anyway the four
[47:04] fruits but it's just one of the
[47:05] signature mother teachings.
[47:10] So we've looked at Adi Lakshmi and Dana
[47:13] Lakshmi. Now let's look at da Lakshmi.
[47:17] Plentitude of food comes from conscious
[47:20] offering to the deities within
[47:24] and in the five elements. So there are
[47:27] deities that we've looked at that occupy
[47:31] um
[47:33] earth, air, fire, water, and ether like
[47:36] the sun god, the goddess of the moon, uh
[47:39] the goddess of fire agny, the goddess of
[47:42] the sun sura
[47:44] and moon chandra. So there are the way
[47:47] India Indian philosophy looks at this is
[47:50] there deities in everything and it's a
[47:52] beautiful way of gaining back respect
[47:55] and reverence for nature and for forms
[47:59] because a lot of that has gone by the
[48:00] wayside now hasn't it? There's not a lot
[48:03] of respect for for u nature and the five
[48:07] elements and the living entities that
[48:10] that that abide in it. Nor is there a
[48:13] lot of reverence or respect for any gods
[48:16] or goddesses in western culture. They're
[48:19] pretty much we pretty much abandon them
[48:22] along with abandoning our ancestors. So
[48:25] there's levels of consciousness that
[48:27] will only be found as you medit as you
[48:29] contemplate in the teachings and open up
[48:31] the nadis passageways of the mind back
[48:34] inside to the kingdom of heaven within
[48:37] you. You'll find the ancestors first
[48:39] then you'll find the deities next.
[48:42] different levels of a pantheon of
[48:43] deities existing right inside of you as
[48:46] if there is no other place for them to
[48:49] be except within you. So this is what is
[48:52] meant by abundance of pride. You have to
[48:56] make everything an offering to the lord.
[49:00] And so to do that you make everything an
[49:03] offering to the god of fire. For
[49:04] instance like we did a couple weeks ago
[49:07] at our retreat. uh did a beautiful fire
[49:10] ceremony before durapuja
[49:12] and and uh s offered it all to Sri Ramak
[49:16] Krishna Bhagabate Shri Ramak Krishna
[49:21] we said and then offer we all offered
[49:23] things into the fire there at sunset out
[49:26] in the woods beautiful uh uh ceremony we
[49:29] did and then we did the full 10 article
[49:32] worship of divine mother dura after that
[49:35] so that's all offering of everything
[49:38] here to everything within. Everything
[49:41] really is the goddess, but she has
[49:44] aspects. We're finding that out. And
[49:46] inside of those aspects are there to
[49:48] make offerings to so that the beings
[49:51] that abide under the control of those
[49:54] aspects also get their due. And without
[49:57] doing that, then the culture becomes
[49:59] worldly, becomes materialistic, and it
[50:02] becomes ridden with karma. Bane
[50:04] painbearing karma as you're seeing
[50:06] happen to all the materialistically
[50:09] oriented um countries in the west in
[50:13] recent times and where where their
[50:15] armies went to what happened to peace
[50:18] and why war came and why the goddess
[50:22] were perpetuated the gods were
[50:24] perpetuated in the wrong way and not
[50:27] made adequate sacrifices to in the
[50:30] dharma first dharma principle A himsa
[50:34] nonviolence second truthfulness
[50:37] third non covetousness of other people's
[50:41] properties and goods I mean just go back
[50:44] to the teachings of yoga the yamas and
[50:46] yamas and you've got the dharma right
[50:48] there how to live
[50:50] and so they transgressed that so they
[50:53] suffered they fell and the fell because
[50:57] the gods and goddesses got put off by
[50:59] that kind of adheric life they didn't
[51:01] want to come to Earth. Who would the
[51:04] saviors came to earth wasn't a picnic
[51:07] for them we found out?
[51:09] So basically this is all about da lakshi
[51:13] but lakshmi but it can be put in terms
[51:16] of um
[51:19] a deeper teaching
[51:23] and of course given by our divine mother
[51:25] shishara Davi. So whereas these two
[51:28] charts I just showed you are what you
[51:30] call old war horses, this chart is very
[51:34] new. I I think we showed it once. So she
[51:37] says there um uh that
[51:42] her famous teaching from pure food one
[51:44] gets pure blood and from pure blood one
[51:48] gets a strong and pure mind
[51:51] then one gets pa that's ecstatic love
[51:54] for God. So holy mother's great teaching
[51:58] about how to render everything here pure
[52:00] and then make it an offering to the
[52:02] deities within you and to the lord and
[52:05] to the mother herself. Right? So this is
[52:08] like the divine mother coming forth as
[52:11] da lakshmi saying where are my offerings
[52:13] my children why aren't you thinking of
[52:15] me every bite every bite you put in your
[52:19] mouth without thinking of me turns to
[52:22] poison. Holy mother said you first offer
[52:25] everything in in front of you that
[52:28] you've prepared or cooked
[52:30] uh with the mantra you know and then
[52:33] then after it's the food is purified and
[52:36] offered to the deities then you take it
[52:39] that's the deity of the tongue right
[52:42] first that's the deity of smell next
[52:47] deity of sight then the deity of touch
[52:51] the food being swallowed the deity of uh
[52:56] ether right that everything exists on I
[53:00] almost brought the chart brahmar panam
[53:02] brah mahavir brahanautam
[53:05] the great food blessing by Sri Krishna
[53:07] nita you can see how each one of those
[53:10] words about Brahman uh adds up in that
[53:13] chant to sanctified food and how to
[53:15] offer it to Brahman we say it all the
[53:17] time have we gone and contemplated it
[53:20] recently
[53:21] quietly with a pure mind anywhere that
[53:24] if you do that then you're following the
[53:26] dharma and the mind will follow you
[53:31] so quickly here uh you can see some of
[53:34] the great facets of her teaching
[53:37] uh
[53:42] you can see uh the four types of clarity
[53:46] that's called ana prasad clarity of food
[53:49] chitta prasad clarity of mind some
[53:52] prasade clarity of mood
[53:55] and adyatma prasade clarity of spirit
[53:58] this is an ancient teaching in India
[54:00] that you really don't find so well
[54:03] fleshed out anywhere else in the world
[54:06] you people sit down and have food they
[54:08] may offer it to a deity or offer it to
[54:10] god but if you want to go deeper with it
[54:12] this is what's really happening the food
[54:14] has to be made pure the mind has to be
[54:18] its thoughts have to be made pure And
[54:21] the mood in which you prepare the food,
[54:23] offer the food and take the food also
[54:26] has to be clear and equal.
[54:29] That's why peace of mind is so
[54:30] important. And then the uh the uh the
[54:36] spirit in which everything is done uh is
[54:40] has to be positive. Everything has to be
[54:42] rendered clear and positive. And that's
[54:46] teaching the four types of food which
[54:48] she summated down when she said from
[54:50] pure food one gets pure blood then gets
[54:53] pure energy and one gets pure mind and
[54:56] then one gets pure love. So all of this
[54:59] is a way how to treat everything here
[55:01] dharmically so that art and kama are
[55:04] fulfilled and that mokia comes without
[55:07] any impediments in the way because
[55:09] there's lots of places in the realm of
[55:11] art and kama that can u act as blockages
[55:15] to people. They're always falling and
[55:17] tripping over those stones because
[55:20] dharma wasn't put first like nonviolence
[55:23] like truthfulness like non- covetousness
[55:28] uh and and more
[55:30] always have to check it against that. Um
[55:34] I put here another beautiful teaching
[55:36] from India. There are to to sort of uh
[55:41] complete this there there are subtle
[55:43] defects in food that you can get rid of
[55:46] by following this this earlier four
[55:48] teachings
[55:50] um that usually don't get removed by
[55:53] people's prayers. I can say that much.
[55:56] Uh thank you God. And Sham Krishna said
[55:58] why should you thank God for something
[56:00] that's just given to you automatically?
[56:03] Do do you you know
[56:06] do do you give birth to children and
[56:08] have the neighbors take care of them and
[56:10] thank them? It's all like within you.
[56:13] >> So that means that these subtle defects
[56:16] collect over time from deities not being
[56:19] appeased in the proper way dharmically
[56:23] throughout a whole period of time of
[56:25] your life and therefore defects are are
[56:28] are um appearing in the crops of your
[56:31] field. That's why we're going to get to
[56:33] her the goddess of agriculture soon. So
[56:38] basically uh these are the four subtle
[56:41] defects that people don't think about
[56:43] much. First they do think about
[56:45] infertile soil lacking in water and
[56:48] sunshine sunshine.
[56:50] Uh and then food grown in farms and
[56:53] fields where profit is the main concern.
[56:55] People don't think that uh unless
[56:58] they're living as dharmic and they're
[57:00] sharing the food with others and u
[57:02] they're trading uh and uh they're not
[57:05] demanding too much price for their work
[57:08] everything is just and fair then that
[57:10] can be that kind of defect can be u
[57:14] overcome. But basically an industry
[57:17] that's becoming less and less likely
[57:19] that uh with uh all of the uh greed
[57:23] that's involved with making as much
[57:25] money as possible on any given crop the
[57:28] food begins to soak in that vibration
[57:30] and become impure and that's not the
[57:33] pure food that shishara wants you to
[57:35] eat. If you eat that food then you
[57:37] better be doing some very strong sodna
[57:39] to remove the defects in that impure
[57:42] food that you're taking in some like I
[57:44] have to teach people in prison this for
[57:47] for decades. Well, how do we practice
[57:50] that art of pure food in prison? We're
[57:54] just having to eat what they give us. So
[57:56] I said, well, here's a mantra for you
[57:57] and here's a way to think about it so
[57:59] that you can remove these de defects
[58:01] with your mind before you eat the food.
[58:03] you can reduce the negative in them.
[58:07] That's why you hear in India sometimes a
[58:09] vegetarian monk you know never got
[58:12] enlightened but this man who ate pork
[58:15] got enlightened as such odd things
[58:18] happen. Uh it's because the vegetarian
[58:21] monk evidently didn't have the right
[58:23] mindset when he was taking his food. But
[58:26] this man who was eating meat, he did
[58:28] have the right mindset and he could he
[58:30] had the power to neutralize all the
[58:33] negativities that's in that type of food
[58:36] which is called rajas and he was able to
[58:39] overcome rajas with his mind and not
[58:42] suffer from the impurities of food. So
[58:46] such things like that are considered in
[58:48] spiritual life in India. And uh you can
[58:53] certainly trace it back to to um uh the
[58:57] desire for for um the wrong desire for
[59:01] arta right
[59:04] wealth uh abund you know you it's the
[59:07] goddess of abundance is not there in
[59:09] that that particular perspective of arta
[59:12] she wants you to she'll give you
[59:14] everything that comes from the world but
[59:16] you have to receive it right treat it
[59:18] right and ingest it right and use the
[59:21] energy from getting food correctly.
[59:24] That's what it means. It turns into pure
[59:26] mind, pure prana and pure enemies. That
[59:29] now you've found the art of offering
[59:32] everything to her and to the deities
[59:34] that are in the food and now you're able
[59:37] to act with that inner power of
[59:40] spirituality
[59:42] that Shriramakrishna said, "Well, Narin,
[59:45] he can go west. He can go anywhere. He
[59:47] can even eat meat with them and not be
[59:50] touched by any impurities.
[59:53] So he knew that Swami Vandanda had that
[59:56] power to transform everything that he
[59:58] was doing everywhere he went on every
[1:00:02] level. So he didn't have to worry about
[1:00:04] his great disciple
[1:00:07] Vivicanandon.
[1:00:09] Another thing here is that food
[1:00:11] harvested by workers with dull minds
[1:00:14] interested only in making a living also
[1:00:17] puts impurities in food. See, these are
[1:00:20] things that people never think about.
[1:00:21] They just take the food. They won't even
[1:00:24] bless it generally. What to what to what
[1:00:28] to speak of blessing it specifically for
[1:00:30] that particular kind of defect. See, oh,
[1:00:33] I got this food from who? Nobody really
[1:00:35] cares. the people who are conscious
[1:00:38] care. Oh, I got that from a market. Oh,
[1:00:40] I got that from an organic market. Oh, I
[1:00:43] got that from, you know, a commercial
[1:00:45] field. Oh, I got that from, you know, a
[1:00:48] village marketplace. Oh, I got that from
[1:00:50] my friend who has an organic garden. Oh,
[1:00:53] I got that from a friend who uh uh is a
[1:00:58] is not so sensitive in growing food, is
[1:01:01] not so conscious. So all of this carries
[1:01:04] a mark with it in the food and it's it's
[1:01:07] a residue in it and uh that that needs
[1:01:10] to be destroyed by the power of the
[1:01:13] mantra and so everything you offer you
[1:01:16] offer it with the mantra with the
[1:01:18] specific idea of purifying that then
[1:01:21] it's prasade.
[1:01:23] Why is that good? Because then
[1:01:27] then it's uh holy company. See it's one
[1:01:32] of the four boons of mother. You visited
[1:01:34] holy company and you saw them eating
[1:01:36] prasad. They didn't eat anything that
[1:01:38] wasn't prasad.
[1:01:40] I never went to my teachers ashram vant
[1:01:44] society and ate any food that wasn't
[1:01:47] offered to her
[1:01:50] quite often with great ceremony with a
[1:01:52] puja involved and so forth. So there I
[1:01:55] didn't eat any uh impure food at the
[1:01:58] ashram. It just wasn't there. It was
[1:02:00] thought of and considered to be prasade,
[1:02:04] holy food, sanctified food.
[1:02:07] So it's very important. The fourth thing
[1:02:09] here is food cooked under the influence
[1:02:11] of negative thoughts and moods. So you
[1:02:14] see where we're moving here. We're
[1:02:15] moving here from the soil to the owners
[1:02:18] of the farms to the workers on the farms
[1:02:21] and now to the cook, the chef, the
[1:02:24] people who are actually preparing food
[1:02:27] and what their thoughts of their mind
[1:02:29] get now get into the food that's got
[1:02:31] three subtle defects in it. And now
[1:02:34] they're adding a four subtle defect. And
[1:02:36] this is the food that's coming to your
[1:02:38] table at a restaurant or the food that's
[1:02:40] coming to you from a neighbor's house or
[1:02:42] from at a at a you know a city banquet
[1:02:46] or at a at a you know
[1:02:50] at a fast food restaurant. Um so at all
[1:02:54] those levels fifth tier is food that's
[1:02:58] not blessed or consecrated.
[1:03:00] So that's a basic rule of thumb. Even if
[1:03:02] food comes to you impure and it's not
[1:03:06] possible to turn it down or it's
[1:03:07] impolite so forth. Then you've got your
[1:03:09] mantra there and with the rays of your
[1:03:12] eyes and the thoughts of your mind,
[1:03:14] you're looking at that food before you
[1:03:16] take it and you're saying, "Mother of
[1:03:18] the universe, purify this food of all
[1:03:20] its negativities and poisons. I offer it
[1:03:23] to you and then you take it." See, so in
[1:03:27] the moment on the run, you know, in
[1:03:30] step, you're you're purifying everything
[1:03:33] around you. uh and uh that's what she
[1:03:37] wants that's what she asks of you.
[1:03:42] Uh we can cap this off by just reading
[1:03:44] this. First of all, subtle poisons form
[1:03:48] when cyclic phases of ingestion,
[1:03:50] digestion, energization,
[1:03:53] sublimation, and absorption take place
[1:03:55] daily in the atmosphere of unconscious
[1:03:58] actions. dull and restless moods and
[1:04:02] imbalanced, stressful and angry thoughts
[1:04:04] happen.
[1:04:06] So that's the first kind of variety.
[1:04:09] That's the dynamic of how this happens
[1:04:12] in these upper five teachings we just
[1:04:14] had. There are also subtle poisons that
[1:04:16] can be prevented from forming. Well,
[1:04:19] how? By mindful acts, by keeping one's
[1:04:22] mind in an balanced condition, and by
[1:04:25] maintaining thoughts at a high level.
[1:04:28] Um a person at a very high level can
[1:04:30] take food uh that's given uh and not
[1:04:34] affect not suffer from the effects of it
[1:04:36] because their mind is at a very high
[1:04:38] level and their body is following their
[1:04:41] mind of course that's what she she says
[1:04:44] above here is you know from pure food
[1:04:47] you get pure blood and from pure blood
[1:04:49] you get pure mind right so that's where
[1:04:53] the mind becomes very important and the
[1:04:55] level of thoughts and intelligence of
[1:04:57] the mind become extremely valuable for
[1:04:59] you. There are also subtle poisons that
[1:05:03] are present in food and once they are
[1:05:06] you can remove them by conscious
[1:05:08] conscious recitation of the guru given
[1:05:10] mantra.
[1:05:13] This works if you know the meaning of
[1:05:16] the words and combine it with focused
[1:05:19] concentration. See, so you know what the
[1:05:22] the words mean and then you concentrate
[1:05:24] on the food and you say the words and
[1:05:27] then it's done. You know, it shall be
[1:05:29] done. It's done by mother. I have
[1:05:32] followed the rules of dharma and of food
[1:05:34] ingestion and I've uh made the offering
[1:05:39] to the deities and I've uh ended up
[1:05:43] offering an entire thing to the divine
[1:05:46] mother of the universe.
[1:05:48] Here's
[1:05:52] how that works. According to some
[1:05:55] teachings from whom I just mentioned
[1:05:57] earlier, Lord Vashisha, when the
[1:05:59] illumined mind made pure by realization
[1:06:01] of the revealed scriptures and the words
[1:06:04] of the teacher utters the begums coupled
[1:06:07] with the names of God over the food
[1:06:10] offering, the combined power of focused
[1:06:13] awareness with the vibration of the word
[1:06:15] destroys negative elements in it.
[1:06:19] and brings forth the satic quality
[1:06:21] inherent therein.
[1:06:23] Transforming food to pride.
[1:06:27] The result is called ojas. It nourishes
[1:06:30] the spirit and then further sublimation
[1:06:32] is accomplished by the adept soul. It
[1:06:35] turns ojas into tjos which is the subtle
[1:06:38] power to awaken others. You can see how
[1:06:41] important food is to India. How it
[1:06:45] should be important to us. you know that
[1:06:48] it's just not just a matter what's the
[1:06:50] subtitle up here like not so much a
[1:06:53] matter of organics as a matter of own
[1:06:56] right so we've come part way in some of
[1:06:59] us in in the west in America and so
[1:07:01] forth in the 60s and so forth by by
[1:07:05] standing up against in insecticides and
[1:07:08] you know poisons and so forth and trying
[1:07:11] to get that uh out of our industrialized
[1:07:14] system but we didn't really go the full
[1:07:17] way that India went towards the meaning
[1:07:20] of pride and how uh you have the power
[1:07:24] inside of you when you're given the
[1:07:25] mantra to concentrate focus it on the
[1:07:27] food and remove those defects at the
[1:07:30] subtle level that's the little level
[1:07:33] that happens not in the eating of the
[1:07:36] food and a little bit but more in the
[1:07:40] the u bloodstream right and then not so
[1:07:43] much just in the bloodstream but more in
[1:07:45] the thoughts
[1:07:46] that that uh occur in your mind after
[1:07:49] the blood passes through the brain and
[1:07:51] then the brain turns into thought. Those
[1:07:53] those that that energy allows you to
[1:07:57] think clearly, right? So that's why back
[1:08:00] here uh uh food cooked under the
[1:08:04] influence of negative thoughts and moods
[1:08:07] or food harvested by workers with dull
[1:08:10] minds, right? How can you stop that on
[1:08:14] this earth? You yourself are going to
[1:08:16] have to take that poison that was
[1:08:18] deposited there by dull minds and with a
[1:08:20] higher mind turn it into prasade before
[1:08:23] you take it and she will help you do
[1:08:26] this. Uh she's already given you four
[1:08:29] boas and four fruits. What more do you
[1:08:31] need? Uh a little practice with the
[1:08:34] mantra is what you need. And when do you
[1:08:37] do the practice
[1:08:39] now? Do practice now. So this becomes an
[1:08:43] ongoing aspect of your life. You're
[1:08:45] you're blessing food all the time. At
[1:08:48] the puja before chidura a couple weeks
[1:08:51] ago at the end of navaratri we we
[1:08:54] blessed that food so much over two hours
[1:08:56] that there couldn't be one shred of
[1:08:57] defect in that food we ate as pursade
[1:09:01] after the puja we and it all tasted uh
[1:09:06] ecstatic and it tasted just delicious.
[1:09:10] It's gave us exquisite enjoyment because
[1:09:14] we had completely purified that food and
[1:09:17] g offered it to all the deities not just
[1:09:20] the mother but all the subities Ganesha
[1:09:24] and goddess of fire beforehand you know
[1:09:29] and so that's what you have to do in an
[1:09:32] ongoing way through your whole life you
[1:09:34] have to keep up this high standard with
[1:09:37] food.
[1:09:41] Uh so that this is a a way of um
[1:09:51] here's a last way of putting it and then
[1:09:53] we'll go on to the the last uh ashmi
[1:09:56] because this is kind of a big one for
[1:09:58] for us and for the west.
[1:10:02] Though gratitude should always be
[1:10:03] forthcoming,
[1:10:05] thanking God for what? Food is not
[1:10:07] necessary. His divine shocki efficiently
[1:10:11] sustains all beings as a matter of
[1:10:13] natural course.
[1:10:16] She's giving food to everyone. They just
[1:10:18] not maybe treating it in the the kind of
[1:10:21] ways that promote spirituality.
[1:10:24] Well, that's obvious here, isn't it?
[1:10:27] Thus, what must be of greater concern is
[1:10:29] how to remove defects from all food that
[1:10:32] is ingested on this planet.
[1:10:34] Better than synthetic food is produce
[1:10:38] raised in fertile soil. And much better
[1:10:41] than fast food is homegrown food.
[1:10:44] Further, better than food sprayed with
[1:10:46] chemicals is organic food. But even
[1:10:49] homegrown organic food has types of
[1:10:52] subtle poisons in it which are caused by
[1:10:55] negative vibrations rather than by
[1:10:57] physical defects.
[1:11:00] As human beings handle food, it gets
[1:11:02] tainted by the thoughts in their minds.
[1:11:05] Praying does not remove these but the
[1:11:08] conscious repetition of the mantra given
[1:11:10] by an illumin perceptor can neutralize
[1:11:13] them.
[1:11:14] So I went whole hog on this chart some
[1:11:17] months ago.
[1:11:18] and just read the riot act on how to
[1:11:21] treat food and how we're not treating
[1:11:24] food and how we're treating food only
[1:11:26] partially and thinking you know just
[1:11:29] maybe thanking God and then praying or
[1:11:32] putting some sort of a few words of
[1:11:33] blessing on it as opposed to this kind
[1:11:36] of no knowledge of the dynamics of how
[1:11:38] the poisons where they originate from
[1:11:41] how they get into the food and how
[1:11:43] they're removed
[1:11:45] and um that how they get into the food,
[1:11:49] you know, is a matter of our own doing.
[1:11:51] That is humanity. We can stop this and
[1:11:55] if it can't be stopped all the time in
[1:11:58] all conditions and all situations, then
[1:12:00] we should develop the power to
[1:12:02] neutralize it before we eat it. If it
[1:12:05] comes from sources that we can't um u
[1:12:09] help, you know,
[1:12:11] people won't become conscious and wake
[1:12:13] up to the importance of food and that
[1:12:16] they may be harming others through
[1:12:18] things that they're doing like farming
[1:12:20] and industry and chemicals and all of
[1:12:22] that. uh then it's going to be up to the
[1:12:25] individual to take a stand for for the
[1:12:29] dharmic family you know for the children
[1:12:32] of the goddess for the children of god
[1:12:35] and uh practice these this art of sacred
[1:12:40] pride
[1:12:41] and uh so this is in part and an
[1:12:45] important part of this aspect of lakshmi
[1:12:48] called da lakshmi she will u as it says
[1:12:52] Their attitude of food comes from
[1:12:55] conscious offering to the deities within
[1:12:58] and to the five elements out of which
[1:13:01] the food is made. Right? So air uh
[1:13:04] earth, water, fire, air, and ether.
[1:13:07] We've studied them philosophically.
[1:13:09] We've studied them
[1:13:12] uh in evolutionally, right? And how how
[1:13:16] we take them to our senses.
[1:13:18] Earth with smell, taste, water with
[1:13:22] taste, fire with sight. We've made all
[1:13:25] those connections philosophically, but
[1:13:26] now it comes down to us to enact what we
[1:13:29] know from that study of philosophy and
[1:13:32] put it right into the act of eating
[1:13:36] and the act of ingestion and and the
[1:13:38] inner act of of extracting essence.
[1:13:42] What's it called again? Ojas,
[1:13:45] which makes us shine when we eat good
[1:13:47] food. Just like the sun, the sun's
[1:13:50] always shining. The moon is healing at
[1:13:52] night. All the herbs and all the gardens
[1:13:55] with it with her light. The sun in the
[1:13:57] morning is coming and nourishing
[1:13:58] everything. Is really very hard to stop
[1:14:02] the sun and moon from doing their job.
[1:14:06] Uh air pollution would be the first
[1:14:09] thing you think of. Oh, the sun's rays
[1:14:11] can't get through. The moon's rays can't
[1:14:13] get through as well. We better clarify
[1:14:15] the air here. And so it's all back to
[1:14:18] the five elements and the deities
[1:14:20] therein and how we treat them. Uh so
[1:14:23] this is not only a teaching, it's rather
[1:14:25] a plea, you know, to to all of us to
[1:14:29] become conscious of uh planting, growing
[1:14:33] uh and using divine mother's precious
[1:14:35] pride for
[1:14:40] material and spiritual wealth. Right?
[1:14:43] And connect the two. Don't stop at any
[1:14:46] juncture along the way but make it all
[1:14:49] one complete circle of harmony at the
[1:14:52] level of prasad and that's what da
[1:14:55] Lakshi is saying in the remaining
[1:14:57] minutes here which we do have time for
[1:15:00] uh is lakshi lakshmi so basically she uh
[1:15:07] um
[1:15:10] that means this kind of uh patience
[1:15:15] there's one word to put it and it also
[1:15:18] like courage there's how to be
[1:15:20] courageous it says here a courageous
[1:15:23] spirit is one which is not only patient
[1:15:27] but also availed of the ability to for
[1:15:30] forbear all trials so you can see
[1:15:33] there's little insignia as beho be you
[1:15:35] know put into any each of these
[1:15:37] lakshmies
[1:15:39] oh I should show this again so should I
[1:15:43] rest in the room but You can see all
[1:15:44] these little epitets here like fields of
[1:15:47] grain and you know a badge of courage
[1:15:50] and so forth or in each one of these. So
[1:15:53] you can see that for lakshi lakshmi it
[1:15:57] means this kind of courage that we need
[1:15:59] to to create in us fearlessness was
[1:16:03] swami gi like to call it uh and u so
[1:16:07] that we can overcome all trials. So, I
[1:16:10] don't think although we've looked at
[1:16:12] these old war horses, um I don't think
[1:16:15] we've probably ever shown them side by
[1:16:17] side, but they have much the same images
[1:16:20] in both of them. So, maybe you can uh
[1:16:24] switch back and forth between them for
[1:16:26] the benefit of those looking on to the
[1:16:28] class. But
[1:16:30] uh in terms of uh
[1:16:35] Daria Lakshmi Lux Lakshmi then you can
[1:16:38] see here this first
[1:16:41] uh
[1:16:43] way of
[1:16:46] becoming courageous right so this image
[1:16:50] is a very famous image in India it's you
[1:16:53] see it you probably even see it on the
[1:16:55] on the web sometime if you look under
[1:16:57] vanta and yoga and so forth. But you can
[1:17:00] see these teachings have been put
[1:17:01] together with the um word pratiba which
[1:17:06] means according to Sharam Krishna the
[1:17:08] power of intelligence.
[1:17:11] He used to say that a flint you know
[1:17:13] will strike sparks the minute you take
[1:17:15] it out of a river even when it's wet but
[1:17:18] an ordinary rock will not be able to
[1:17:20] strike sparks. Uh so that flint is this
[1:17:23] special power of intelligence inside of
[1:17:26] us. He's talking about that even when
[1:17:29] it's wet, that means it has to live in
[1:17:31] the world, it still will strike sparks
[1:17:33] of intelligence. And that's the courage
[1:17:36] we need. That's the courage and the
[1:17:38] forbearance that we need to always have
[1:17:40] against the what's been called the
[1:17:43] vagaries and vicissitudes of the world
[1:17:46] or the challenges and trials of Maya.
[1:17:49] You can see Lord Buddha's teaching down
[1:17:51] here. He says u gods and goddesses
[1:17:56] father and mother or any other kith and
[1:17:59] kin cannot confer greater benefit than
[1:18:02] that of than that of well-directed
[1:18:04] intelligence. This is Lord Buddha.
[1:18:08] This intelligence is incomprehensible
[1:18:10] and exceedingly subtle. It wonders
[1:18:14] wherever and whenever it desires.
[1:18:17] Therefore, the wise ones carefully watch
[1:18:20] over this intelligence which resides in
[1:18:22] the cavern of the heart and utilize it
[1:18:26] to free themselves and others from the
[1:18:29] shackles of Mara. That's the problems of
[1:18:31] Maya.
[1:18:33] So, uh this special intelligence called
[1:18:36] Pratiba, he named himself after. Another
[1:18:38] word for it would be Buddhy or the
[1:18:41] Buddha. Uh so, that's um of course not
[1:18:45] just
[1:18:47] uh nominal intelligence but it's
[1:18:49] spiritual intelligence. So you would
[1:18:51] have to go back to the goddess of
[1:18:54] adakshmi you know to understand the
[1:18:56] special intelligence that she talks
[1:18:58] about. The image itself is fairly u uh
[1:19:04] obvious. The elephant there is being uh
[1:19:08] grabbed by an alligator in in the waters
[1:19:10] when it was feasting nicely on on and
[1:19:14] cooling itself. So that unreal and
[1:19:18] apparent dream reality that the elephant
[1:19:19] has got itself into is called pratiba uh
[1:19:24] pratibas pratibas basika sorry
[1:19:28] pratibasikas.
[1:19:30] It's the unreal or apparent dream
[1:19:32] reality. Uh and um uh the courage of
[1:19:36] this poor soul that's caught by this
[1:19:38] predicament is that it's still offering
[1:19:40] the Lord a lotus flower picked from that
[1:19:44] very ocean, the lake that it's it's uh
[1:19:47] cooling itself in. So that's what needs
[1:19:50] to happen for the soul. It needs to have
[1:19:52] such courage and such forbearance that
[1:19:56] um it will be able to turn to the Lord
[1:19:58] even when in the worst of conditions and
[1:20:00] circumstances that happen in this world
[1:20:04] um all the way up to um u taking your
[1:20:07] last breath in the body called death.
[1:20:10] So uh pratibasa next to that was pratiba
[1:20:14] as we said that's depicted here by Lord
[1:20:17] Vishnu who is Lakshmi's great consort.
[1:20:21] So Bak Mahalakshmi day is a good mention
[1:20:24] good day to mention uh Lord Vishnu.
[1:20:27] There he is coming in on Garuda. You
[1:20:30] know he he rides on the broad back of
[1:20:34] Garuda uh whom is his mount through
[1:20:38] which he he moves through dimensions to
[1:20:41] reach you. And then what he's bringing
[1:20:44] there is his own power uh pratibikaba
[1:20:48] that's called the power of intelligence
[1:20:51] which removes obstacles.
[1:20:54] Those obstacles are called pratibika
[1:20:57] power of obstruction which is
[1:20:59] represented by the crocodile. So you see
[1:21:02] Vishnu is casting his his uh beautiful
[1:21:06] chakra at and cutting off the ele the uh
[1:21:10] alligator's head. So that's the great
[1:21:13] the great chakra, you know, that that he
[1:21:16] casts as a weapon to destroy obstacles
[1:21:19] for beings who are in uh predicament
[1:21:23] like like this soul has gotten himself
[1:21:25] into. Um
[1:21:28] so Lord Buddha commends that highest
[1:21:31] intelligence in this way. Um the last
[1:21:35] quote there is everything the world
[1:21:38] manifestations therein enjoying
[1:21:40] suffering and departing the power of
[1:21:43] conjuring up the realms of name and form
[1:21:46] can and should be directly designated
[1:21:48] and attributed attributed to one's own
[1:21:51] intelligence.
[1:21:53] Other factors such as fate, destiny,
[1:21:56] karma and even grace also reside within
[1:21:59] and spring from that self-same power. So
[1:22:02] that's how highly regarded and and uh
[1:22:07] touted uh highest intelligence is by
[1:22:11] beings like Lord Buddha and Swami
[1:22:14] Vikananda. Uh they they have this
[1:22:17] highest estimation of that that's going
[1:22:19] to be the power that's going to remove
[1:22:22] all in obstructions there. Um now keep
[1:22:25] this in mind while in the remaining
[1:22:27] minutes we look at a similar image
[1:22:30] because it happened to fill out this
[1:22:33] teaching on Daria Lakshmi
[1:22:37] and that's where the same Garuda
[1:22:40] bird with Vishnu on its back is
[1:22:43] beginning to descend upon the soul who
[1:22:46] is now free of obstructions and fully
[1:22:49] dedicated to the Lord in the form of his
[1:22:52] own concert there or the devity
[1:22:55] uh could be either aspect of Lakshmi or
[1:22:58] it could just be the devity him or
[1:23:00] herself is offering a garland to the
[1:23:03] lord as the lord comes into uh the
[1:23:07] picture uh of the mind and uh this is
[1:23:11] where Sri Krishna says the imperishable
[1:23:14] is Brahman the supreme its dwelling in
[1:23:17] individual bodies is called adiyatma
[1:23:21] adi buddha pertains to its the parish
[1:23:23] able nature around it and the perushia
[1:23:27] is the aid dvata.
[1:23:29] Ishvara am the soul sacrificer called
[1:23:32] the ad a yoga a very beautiful four-fold
[1:23:35] teaching again in the in the gita about
[1:23:38] adiaga adi buddha adida da and adi yoga
[1:23:43] so basically when you look at that
[1:23:45] teaching you can see it posted here
[1:23:47] basically the the uh adyatma is
[1:23:50] Brahman's presence in everything you see
[1:23:54] and um inside and out and the second
[1:23:57] thing mentioned there is the Adidata,
[1:24:00] the soul herself. You see, if you say
[1:24:03] that he's the the only male in all of
[1:24:07] the world and all souls are females
[1:24:09] coming to him with their offerings. You
[1:24:12] know, this is with this garland. It's a
[1:24:14] much different uh kind of courage and
[1:24:17] fearless fear fearlessness than this
[1:24:19] soul had earlier when it was subject to
[1:24:22] this problem of pratibas.
[1:24:25] Um now it's in a different situation
[1:24:28] isn't it? Now it's conscious of uh the
[1:24:32] reality of of the parusha and the ai
[1:24:35] ayaga the sacrificer himself as he's
[1:24:38] represented here on geruda
[1:24:42] and then number three there is the ai
[1:24:44] buddha all around both of them is
[1:24:47] perishable nature
[1:24:49] um shri krishna calls that my outer form
[1:24:53] right in the gita right there's there's
[1:24:56] property of two kinds one is It's the
[1:24:59] outer form
[1:25:00] proc which is the five elements and all
[1:25:03] the objects. The other is like the life
[1:25:06] force within. We call it prana in
[1:25:09] spiritual life. That's the inner form of
[1:25:11] procriti in its unmanifested state. So
[1:25:14] that's all around them outside and
[1:25:16] inside nature is there in its two forms.
[1:25:20] Um in the west we don't have any uh any
[1:25:25] cause or any teaching that leads us to
[1:25:27] unmanifested nature. So we don't believe
[1:25:30] in anything but external nature. That's
[1:25:32] why we practice the involution of our
[1:25:35] five elements back to our dreams dream
[1:25:38] elements tan matras of our five senses
[1:25:42] back to our dream senses. the uh the uh
[1:25:46] uh the s subtle senses.
[1:25:50] So we have to practice these sets of
[1:25:52] fives meditating. That's why you go
[1:25:55] somewhere and do soda now and
[1:25:58] contemplate these teachings for hours
[1:26:02] in private and then go to holy company
[1:26:04] and get some more to to to do the same
[1:26:06] with. It's a wonderful way to use the
[1:26:09] mind. Who said that? See this is the
[1:26:12] most wonderful way to use the mind. We
[1:26:14] just heard that teaching
[1:26:17] Lord Shiva about pressing the soma. He's
[1:26:20] telling the gods, we had this at the
[1:26:22] retreat. He's saying, "Oh, you gods, if
[1:26:25] you can take what I'm saying and you can
[1:26:27] you can do this mantra around it and
[1:26:31] then put it into teachings, contemplate
[1:26:34] it. This is the best way to use the mind
[1:26:38] said. So he's in in joining upon them
[1:26:41] and encouraging them to spend time in a
[1:26:44] silent study
[1:26:46] focused inside not just meditation that
[1:26:49] tries to empathy the mind but focused on
[1:26:53] the best parts of the mind. Didn't she
[1:26:56] say in that chart we just looked at that
[1:26:59] pure food, pure blood, pure energy, pure
[1:27:02] mind, then pure love. Right? So that
[1:27:05] mind has to be made aware of everything
[1:27:08] that's in it in the form of highest
[1:27:10] wisdom. She loves wisdom the most.
[1:27:13] That's why she's called the wisdom
[1:27:15] goddess. And both of these ashakshmies
[1:27:20] uh the first one and the second one uh
[1:27:23] uh aakmi all the way down to vigil which
[1:27:27] we'll look at next week
[1:27:30] events this important uh cycle of
[1:27:34] gaining this highest wisdom to get rid
[1:27:37] of root ignorance so that you can see
[1:27:40] yourself again
[1:27:45] says says in the Gita this Vishnu says
[1:27:48] in the Gita that knowledge is the mo the
[1:27:51] best purifier in all the three worlds.
[1:27:57] uh to finish that up then we have this
[1:27:59] fourth principle there you see a Buddha
[1:28:02] was the uh was the changing nature or
[1:28:06] procity in two forms but then himself he
[1:28:09] says I am the great sacrificer Ishvar's
[1:28:13] sacrifice is to come into nature to free
[1:28:17] the soul from all its limitations which
[1:28:19] is most evident here in this chart and
[1:28:22] you those of you who are looking on
[1:28:24] might not be uh able to uh keep up with
[1:28:28] it all. But you can see even by looking
[1:28:30] here that this soul is really uh the old
[1:28:33] self and this is the new remade self.
[1:28:36] This is why it's very beautiful to put
[1:28:38] these two side by side to see the
[1:28:40] transformation.
[1:28:43] Um yes, we've just come to the end of
[1:28:46] our time. Uh there are other teachings
[1:28:49] on this chart.
[1:28:51] Read my book. It's called Footfalls of
[1:28:54] the Indian Rishies. You can find both
[1:28:55] these charts and it and do your own
[1:28:57] contemplation back and forth as you as
[1:29:01] you look.
[1:29:05] We have done four astralies in our hour
[1:29:08] and a half. Uh we'll do another four
[1:29:10] next week. So be on hand. I'll give you
[1:29:12] one final look at this because actually
[1:29:15] uh
[1:29:17] one one thing that I want to read early
[1:29:20] on that could be repeated next week
[1:29:23] would be this quote at the top. This is
[1:29:25] from the ashta lakshmi stotrum.
[1:29:28] Oh Madhava's love that's Krishna's love
[1:29:31] that's her ma Mahalakmi is the love of
[1:29:35] Sri Krishna
[1:29:36] sister of the moon praised by Vic
[1:29:39] rishies kindly dissolve the
[1:29:42] transgressions of this dark age and
[1:29:45] drench us in wisdom world wisdom words
[1:29:50] born of revered Brigu
[1:29:53] his lineage the subtle power in all
[1:29:55] mantras giver of the knowledge of all
[1:29:58] things. Bestower of abundance of
[1:30:01] chariots, horses, elephants, writer on
[1:30:04] Garudas, broadback,
[1:30:07] of sterling virtues born, indicator of
[1:30:11] all right pathways to God, raised by all
[1:30:14] apicious sounds,
[1:30:17] anointed with sacred vermillion,
[1:30:19] worshiped heartily by gods and sears,
[1:30:22] and be decked with jewels.
[1:30:26] Conscient drums sound mainly to honor
[1:30:28] thee. O mother, bless us all with
[1:30:31] profuse wealth both material and
[1:30:33] spiritual
[1:30:38] lakshmi storm.
[1:30:40] So good place to end with that.
[1:30:52] Daviarini
[1:30:55] Mahasari
[1:30:58] dari
[1:31:03] mahadei pranamiari
[1:31:10] mahasari
[1:31:12] darana darini
[1:31:16] oh
[1:31:29] We propitiate
[1:31:31] and extol the mother of spiritual power
[1:31:35] worshiped by the gods and all living
[1:31:37] beings.
[1:31:39] We recognize the allospicious source of
[1:31:42] all religions,
[1:31:44] the allseeing one
[1:31:47] who oversees all worlds.
[1:31:50] We recognize her as the all aspicious
[1:31:53] source
[1:31:55] that offer countless obeasances to her.
[1:31:58] The one adored by all luminators
[1:32:02] who confers upon even the rishies their
[1:32:05] eternal joy.
[1:32:08] Oh,
[1:32:19] shanty.
[1:32:21] Shanty,
[1:32:24] shanty.
