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[1:11] Oh
[1:19] shakra.
[1:25] Our salutations to Mahammaya,
[1:29] the abode of good fortune
[1:33] who art worshiped by gods,
[1:37] assuras,
[1:39] human beings alike. We salute thee,
[1:43] oh Mahamayoya, Mahalakshmi,
[1:47] wielder of the conch, the disc, the
[1:50] mace, our eternal salutations to thee,
[1:54] obeisances to thee.
[1:57] For there shines Brahman. May that
[2:00] Brahman protect us. May that Brahman
[2:02] sustain us. And may Brahman illumin our
[2:05] thinking process. Free us from faults
[2:09] impediments.
[2:11] and reveal to us the essence of the
[2:14] scriptures. Om peace, peace, peace.
[2:19] Peace be unto us. Peace be unto all.
[2:31] Now we are into our second of four
[2:34] classes over this D divine mother
[2:36] holiday that is since Navaratri passed.
[2:39] This is the second of a could be a two
[2:42] class series on the divine mother
[2:44] mahalakmi because last Sunday was
[2:46] Lakshmi puja. Today is just the
[2:49] following Sunday which is halfway
[2:51] between her birthday and Mother Collie's
[2:54] birthday next Sunday which we will be
[2:56] celebrating and some teachings on the
[3:01] eight divine missiles of Mother Collie
[3:04] uh which we've had at a retreat or
[3:06] seminar before but I don't think we've
[3:08] had it at at a at a class a recorded
[3:11] class. And then the following Sunday is
[3:14] right next to jagodatri pujas. We have
[3:16] all these divine mother aspects here.
[3:20] That's why I'm calling it a kind of a a
[3:22] month of Sundays kind of series. Today
[3:25] not being a specific holy day but a
[3:28] Sunday caught in between those other
[3:30] three aspects of the goddess is however
[3:33] All Saints Day. And being All Saints
[3:35] Day, it's also the day that our founder
[3:38] Lex Hixon passed from the body. So uh
[3:42] it's very uh wonderful propitious day
[3:45] for us here at SRV associations as we
[3:49] remember him and all he did for us and
[3:53] uh his universalminded
[3:56] approach to all religions just like the
[3:58] great master that he followed and got
[4:01] initiated into Shir Krishna Parahamsa.
[4:04] So all of that is a kind of a timeline
[4:07] that we can center ourselves in as we do
[4:10] this month of Sundays on the goddess.
[4:14] Uh Maha Lakshmi is you in some sort of
[4:18] classic rendering you've got Maha Kali
[4:21] and you've got uh you've got Mahasar
[4:25] Swati, Maha Lakshmi and um so sometimes
[4:29] this is called tree tree or the three
[4:32] great goddesses that you can pretty much
[4:35] point out the whole pantheon of
[4:39] different aspects of divine mother. I
[4:41] mean there are thousands of names for
[4:43] her in scriptures that are sung around
[4:46] the world every day
[4:49] by priests and and by devities. So when
[4:54] you center in on on any one of them you
[4:57] don't exclude the others. It's uh maybe
[5:00] it's a good mudra you know if you know
[5:03] put the one behind the three or put the
[5:05] one in front of the three. that these
[5:08] three goddesses of called tree
[5:11] uh are all one goddess and appearing in
[5:14] different aspects and the different
[5:16] aspects are centered around three of the
[5:19] most important
[5:21] facets of life as you can see from or as
[5:25] you saw from last week's chart uh that
[5:29] we had the um
[5:32] the eight mahalakshmies featured and The
[5:36] subtitle was of that was basically um
[5:40] the material and spiritual wealth of the
[5:44] goddess. So that's kind of what you're
[5:46] covering when you talk about tree. She
[5:48] wants us to be um taken care of on the
[5:52] spiritual level and taken care of on the
[5:55] material level. And there's also of
[5:57] course wisdom, knowledge taken care of
[6:01] on the intellectual, psychological level
[6:05] which yoga is specific for when you
[6:07] practice it. Wants to have that mind
[6:10] pure and the prana flowing and u you
[6:13] know so clar clarifying all of those
[6:16] things is quite often falls to these
[6:20] three great aspects in terms of what
[6:23] we're studying today. We can talk about
[6:25] mahalaki but we might as well be sitting
[6:27] in the atmosphere of sarasati because
[6:29] all of the words we're using are so
[6:32] powerful and infused with with shakti
[6:35] power and with deep meaning. Uh so we
[6:39] have to press them.
[6:42] There's a kind of birthday for me today
[6:43] too because I am working on my five
[6:46] 500th chart. So I just reached 500 and
[6:50] auspiciously enough the chart is called
[6:53] pressing the soma with lord Shiva. So
[6:56] you'll see that in the seminar later
[6:59] this month. This is November first day
[7:01] of November already. So um come to that
[7:04] seminar and see how we press the soma
[7:06] and that that has to do a lot with
[7:09] Sarati as I'm saying but um it's also
[7:12] one of the main aspects in order to
[7:15] attain liberation which is really pretty
[7:17] much mother collie's atmosphere but then
[7:21] it also
[7:23] is definitely a reference to how we can
[7:27] set ourselves up for this wisdom which
[7:29] means as we've often heard in
[7:31] vivikananda You can't teach wisdom or
[7:34] knowledge to someone with an empty
[7:36] stomach. So, uh this is a very important
[7:39] aspect. World hunger, starvation going
[7:43] in one direction and then feeding all
[7:45] beings and having all beings fulfilled
[7:47] and satisfied as the Buddhists like to
[7:50] say is going the other direction to
[7:51] that. Uh and have this abua
[7:56] tenant of India brought out. We were
[7:58] talking about that earlier this morning.
[8:01] uh that it's not just um the rich get
[8:04] rich and the poor get poorer or um
[8:08] basically people don't bring their
[8:10] attention to the fact that wealth has to
[8:12] be distributed equally not out of just a
[8:16] sense of fairness and justice but
[8:18] because that's the natural law of the
[8:19] universe. There has to be a balance to
[8:21] everything and that's yo what yoga wants
[8:24] to bring back yogic practice wants to
[8:26] bring back to us. So in that way then
[8:29] we'd be concentrating on this principle
[8:31] of abuda and altruism. Altruism is a way
[8:35] of trying to work that out in the world.
[8:37] But beyond altruism is this just sense
[8:40] of natural harmony where everyone has
[8:44] gotten over grasping uh selfish grasping
[8:47] and greed
[8:49] uh which which are traps and um problems
[8:53] in both Buddhism and the danta that are
[8:55] noted in the teachings but also have
[8:58] gotten into this idea of taking care of
[9:00] one of one another with selfless service
[9:03] in the true karmic karma yogic type of
[9:07] way. So all of this is kind of a preface
[9:09] to that fact that if we have this Abua
[9:12] principle set forward first which India
[9:14] was very good at doing and which lasted
[9:17] in the forecast system for several
[9:19] thousand years and is always coming back
[9:22] as a something to emulate for societies
[9:25] in the world. Then we can go on to
[9:28] nishas means once every all the affairs
[9:30] are settled we're fed we're clothed
[9:32] we're housed and everyone's uh satisfied
[9:36] in that way and they're not uh wanting
[9:38] for the basics at least of life because
[9:41] you know if you follow follow and
[9:44] worship divine mother kie then sometimes
[9:47] you find a lot of renunciate souls who
[9:49] don't even care about the basics they're
[9:51] just concentrating on liberation and
[9:53] liberation alone to get out of the whole
[9:57] samsaric cycles and get beyond rebirth
[10:01] in the body and that has to be seriously
[10:02] considered too you can see what I'm
[10:05] saying here is if you look at the
[10:06] goddess the three aspects of the goddess
[10:09] basically Lakshmi sarati and ki or call
[10:12] her durga then she's she's satisfying
[10:15] all ends of our life the the main aims
[10:18] and ends of our life have to be uh
[10:21] equally paid attention to so that's why
[10:24] the subtitle this chart we used last
[10:26] week is that it's the material and
[10:28] spiritual well-being of beings that um
[10:32] Maha Lakshmi is putting her attention
[10:34] on. So we'd have to sort of maybe go
[10:37] beyond the old style
[10:40] uh definition of Lakshmi is oh just give
[10:42] me wealth and um number one I don't care
[10:46] if anyone else gets it as long as I get
[10:48] it and number two just give me wealth or
[10:51] give everyone wealth if you want I'd be
[10:53] happy but don't give me any spiritual
[10:55] wealth after that those are two problems
[10:58] that are of an old style definition that
[11:01] India doesn't agree with defin the
[11:03] ancient rishies don't agree with. So we
[11:06] have to have this balance again. So last
[11:09] week we went into that and looked at the
[11:11] first four of the mahalakshmies. Just a
[11:15] quick review one was uh adilakmi.
[11:18] I'm using the word abundance across the
[11:20] board. That's the spiritual abundance
[11:23] that she stands up for. But she insists
[11:26] that you have must have peace of mind to
[11:28] get it. And that's why you see people
[11:30] might be rich, but if they have restless
[11:32] restless minds, then their their wealth
[11:35] is escaping them like water through the
[11:37] fingers. It says in the scriptures, you
[11:39] can't hold on to it or can't hold on to
[11:41] air. So that peace of mind just gives
[11:44] you an open policy, open-minded,
[11:46] open-handed policy. And then the air is
[11:49] all around you. You don't need to grasp
[11:51] it. Wealth will come to you naturally.
[11:53] That's sort of the message of Adi
[11:55] Lakshmi. Adi means original. So it's
[11:58] very telling that the original Lakshmi
[12:01] has to do with um peace of mind and and
[12:05] spiritual abundance. That's the first
[12:07] foot she starts off on. Second, there is
[12:10] across the board dana lakshi. Uh then it
[12:14] should be given to everyone. Danum is a
[12:16] kind of giving out of everything that
[12:18] you have and sharing with others. And so
[12:20] you realize that wealth is to be used
[12:24] for raising a dharmic family if you're a
[12:26] householder and also then uh giving to
[12:29] monasteries and being your your teachers
[12:31] who are going without so that you can
[12:33] have these great teachings and uh they
[12:36] need to be supported too. So that's an
[12:38] important part of donum. So it's in the
[12:41] very word and it's in the second lock
[12:43] there very much and it's all for the uh
[12:47] collective good of of the many not for
[12:49] your personal ego. So at least the monks
[12:53] most of them will escape that problem
[12:55] but the householders run the risk of
[12:57] that problem basically is that you I
[12:59] want I begin to want to take the wealth
[13:01] just for myself or just for my family
[13:05] and no other family. So that goes
[13:07] against that obodia tenant right the
[13:10] third lakshmi is donolaxi this is a
[13:12] quick review of the first four I'm sorry
[13:15] da laki planitude plentitude of of uh
[13:20] food that comes uh from conscious
[13:23] offering to the deities so that's an
[13:26] abundance of prasad that she's
[13:28] representing there first was a spiritual
[13:30] abundance second was the material
[13:32] abundance third lakshmi is this
[13:36] abundance of nourishment or sustenance.
[13:39] But there's always, you know, a a an
[13:43] accompanying teaching that goes with
[13:45] each one of these. With the spiritual
[13:46] abundance, it was that has you have to
[13:48] have and treat it with peaceful mind.
[13:52] The second was it has to be dharmic
[13:54] wealth collectively for everyone. And
[13:57] the third here is when you offer food,
[13:59] it has to be blessed with your mantra.
[14:02] It has to be turned into pride because
[14:04] of the um depending on the teaching the
[14:07] three, four, five, seven or eight
[14:09] different kinds of impurities that are
[14:11] in food. Um we looked at that recently
[14:15] at the retreat. And where were we
[14:17] looking at that recently also at the
[14:19] last class, didn't we? Last Sunday, we
[14:21] looked at the whole Prasad chart uh
[14:24] about holy mother's take on food. You
[14:26] probably remember that or can look back
[14:27] on it. I took that whole new chart on
[14:29] purs
[14:31] on it particularly in accord with how
[14:34] many different hidden impurities there
[14:37] are in food. We know the ones that are
[14:39] there from you know lack of nourishment,
[14:44] lack of nutrients in soil, not enough
[14:46] rain, not enough sun. Then after that we
[14:49] next thing we would go to is oh it's
[14:51] been sprayed, it's not organic, so
[14:53] forth. These are all kind of obvious
[14:55] impurities in the food. But when you got
[14:57] into the subtle ones, nobody thinks
[15:00] about them. And that's how the food gets
[15:02] harvest. What mindset is it gets it gets
[15:05] harvested?
[15:07] uh if if it's harvested with uh chanting
[15:11] the mantras of mahalakmi over it same
[15:14] when it was planted then um you'll
[15:17] you'll have the food rid of that defect
[15:21] of uh of uh trying to trying to make
[15:24] money off of it rather than uh trying to
[15:28] follow Lakshmi's dictims and say this
[15:30] has to be given as pure as possible into
[15:32] the hands mouths systems and prana
[15:36] of other beings, right? Uh it goes very
[15:39] deep in India. I'm looking on the wall
[15:41] here behind and there's charts about
[15:44] this how uh taking up the food and how
[15:48] it helps the condalini uh rise uh in the
[15:51] sushimumna and uh if it has these
[15:55] poisons in it then it's not it's going
[15:56] to have a negative effect which it has
[15:58] been doing for some people and uh
[16:01] without that more complete understanding
[16:04] of the uh the the seven chakras or the
[16:09] nine wheels as We've been looking at it
[16:10] lately. So this uh is you bless the food
[16:15] with with u the mantra that you've been
[16:18] given and you offer it to the deities
[16:20] inside of you. That is you can just eat
[16:23] it but um is the is is the god of the
[16:28] taste buds going to accept it? Is the
[16:31] god of digestion going to digest it
[16:33] properly?
[16:35] Is the god of aroma going to enjoy it
[16:37] the way it should? or the gods going to
[16:39] get the rsome out of it if you do
[16:41] everything unconsciously as opposed to
[16:44] doing it consciously. So conscious
[16:46] eating has become uh somewhat popular
[16:49] mindfulness and so forth but it's not
[16:51] quite going the distance to what India
[16:52] means by pursad it's a very powerful
[16:55] word so I'm going into that teaching
[16:58] even deeper than I did last week but
[17:00] that's the third lock so you can see how
[17:03] pretty much it's going from spiritual
[17:05] benefit to this uh wealth for everybody
[17:09] and then her next foot forward is this
[17:12] oh you're taking food then you better
[17:14] make sure that is offered and is and
[17:16] that it's purified food that it's pad.
[17:20] So it very much follows the recent
[17:22] manifestation
[17:24] uh of divine mother Shriarda Davi whom
[17:27] we worship here in the SRV and what she
[17:30] talked about and thought about in this
[17:33] day and age for our highest good. The
[17:35] force Mahalakshmi there is Daria
[17:37] Lakshmi. It's kind of a word that's very
[17:41] powerful has several different mission
[17:43] uh meanings.
[17:45] But uh it kind of gives you courage. It
[17:48] gives you perseverance.
[17:50] And um you can see that uh you you have
[17:54] to be um worshiping her with this spirit
[17:58] of u of persevering all trials and
[18:01] tribulations that come to you. If if you
[18:04] started there and backed up, if you
[18:06] didn't have nourishing food, you
[18:08] wouldn't have that stamina to forebear
[18:10] all trials, would you? So you can see
[18:12] how one is connecting to the next like a
[18:14] like a chain link you know and one just
[18:18] goes to the next in a dharmic connection
[18:20] uh that they all depend upon each other
[18:22] so you can't just take one of these
[18:23] aspects and walk away and say I've got
[18:25] it this is what the mother wants you to
[18:28] do in fact you know the the the
[18:31] ashtakmies the ashtracalies
[18:34] you know the the navarinas of the shri
[18:38] kula system the nine dorgas I mean Isn't
[18:41] that all about connection? Nobody's
[18:43] looking at that and saying, "I'm just
[18:45] going to worship one and forget the
[18:46] rest." They may do it day by day and
[18:49] forget them all. That's a problem. But
[18:51] you really should be following
[18:53] consciousness as she's presenting it.
[18:55] Here's an aspect of myself and I'm your
[18:58] mother. So, it must be an aspect of you
[19:00] too, right? So, you make those
[19:03] connections in your mind and keep them
[19:04] in mind. And that's always the way in
[19:07] which uh higher learning comes. We're
[19:10] getting to those lakshmi next then uh
[19:12] that that has to do with vijaya and
[19:15] vigil.
[19:16] So let's go to in order then take God
[19:19] gajilaxi next and get into this class u
[19:22] and try and wrap up the mahalakshmies in
[19:25] these two class periods we have you see
[19:28] there goshi has under her abundance of
[19:31] noble power sometimes they call this uh
[19:34] how to protect yourself against more
[19:37] powerful beings in the world than you
[19:39] who do not have the dharma sometimes
[19:42] that's pointed out in this way is that
[19:44] she wants to protect you against
[19:46] powerful beings. I mean, animals in in
[19:49] the forest, you're not as powerful as a
[19:51] tiger that's about to jump on you. So,
[19:54] that's a kind of protection. But she's
[19:56] talking about here too, protection in
[19:58] the human human species. How there are
[20:01] much people much more powerful and much
[20:03] more wealthy with her wealth who stand
[20:06] above us and beyond us and can wield
[20:09] that power over us. So, she wants it to
[20:12] be all power to be wielded noly. It's
[20:16] it's a great responsibility to have
[20:18] power and we haven't seen that that much
[20:21] um uh evidence of that kind of noble
[20:23] power in our country and in in our age
[20:27] in our world as much lately. We always
[20:30] the media always emphasizes the the
[20:32] misuse of power and then you know
[20:34] everyone says oh that's a horrible thing
[20:36] but the emphasis should be on those who
[20:39] have gotten yogic power and who are
[20:41] using it for the highest good of living
[20:43] beings. How so? By giving them spiritual
[20:46] wealth, by giving them uh courage, by
[20:50] giving them uh pure food to eat, make
[20:53] sure they get sustained and then by
[20:56] living uh helping them to to gain the
[21:00] courage and the power to sustain all
[21:02] trials in this very difficult world in
[21:05] the embodied condition. So that's um how
[21:08] we kind of arrive at the fifth
[21:10] connection here. I'm going to be calling
[21:12] them connections because they're all
[21:14] aspects of one one great goddess. So you
[21:17] see the the uh the uh quote there. A
[21:21] view towards protecting all species
[21:24] is based in selfless service combined
[21:27] with a sense of responsibility.
[21:29] So what is that sense of responsibility?
[21:32] Let's look here for a minute and uh take
[21:36] a an accompanying chart. So we can see
[21:39] that what they're talking about here is
[21:40] one of the great principles of India is
[21:42] called Yagya sacrifice. Now I could have
[21:45] brought the five sacrifice chart but
[21:48] we're all pretty versed in that here in
[21:50] Hawaii and we remember that it's
[21:53] sacrifice to the lower subspecies are
[21:57] called animals and plants. So you want
[21:59] to be taking care of the environment
[22:01] because that's very important to keep
[22:02] the natural balance of things. So that
[22:05] food for all again you know it connects
[22:07] all the way back to these other
[22:09] lakshmies she was just looking at. So
[22:11] there's that kind of yoga in and in in
[22:13] it all you can see there it listed
[22:15] called Buddha yoga service uh to
[22:19] subhumans. Krishna says behold my forms
[22:22] by hundreds and thousands manifest and
[22:25] divine and of multicolors and many
[22:28] shapes. So sometimes he says there are
[22:31] many manylegged cities running around in
[22:34] my world. There's beings with thousand
[22:38] legs and 100 legs and and eight legs and
[22:42] six legs and four. But my favorite is
[22:44] that two-legged one. He likes the human
[22:46] being best of all. kind of goes in in
[22:49] accordance and agreement with with how
[22:51] in Christianity the lord you know
[22:53] finally produced mankind and was very
[22:56] pleased with that it's the rig vda says
[22:59] that too and they brought the spirit a
[23:02] cow body the spirit said don't like that
[23:04] that much brought him a horse body nah
[23:07] bought him a human body there I can get
[23:09] into that and uh then the lord was
[23:12] pleased and the soul was pleased so the
[23:15] human being has that if we go back one
[23:17] have noble
[23:19] quality in them. A quality to be noble,
[23:22] to act noble, to think nobly, to eat
[23:24] nobly and to do nobly, noble things to
[23:28] people. So this is all about Buddha
[23:31] Yagya. You have to start with all the
[23:33] species and give give it equally. That's
[23:36] aba in a more universal way. up the side
[23:40] then you see the next kind of yoga is
[23:42] nar yoga having created mankind in the
[23:45] beginning together with sacrifice the
[23:47] lord said by this shall you pro
[23:50] propagate
[23:53] that's sacrifice to mankind so we're
[23:56] remember we're looking at this in in
[23:58] accordion
[24:00] right this noble way of proceeding that
[24:02] you keep these five sacrifices in mind
[24:05] every day and uh then you see
[24:09] The next one is on the left hand lower
[24:11] side. Petriog is sacrificed to your
[24:13] ancestors.
[24:16] That one sees who sees the supreme lord
[24:18] is remaining the same in all beings in
[24:20] the dying and the undying. Sri Krishna
[24:23] says so
[24:25] know if your ancestors pass they've gone
[24:28] into another realm into a different
[24:30] atmosphere and they're still alive. That
[24:33] is their soul never dies.
[24:35] If they're transmigrating, it's not only
[24:37] their soul that hasn't died, but their
[24:39] mind hasn't died either. That's
[24:41] something that's not said very often.
[24:42] The body died only. And the the prana
[24:45] left that form, but the mind still has
[24:47] the prana in it. Psychic prana, right?
[24:50] And it's going to go from place to place
[24:53] uh this thirst for life forever quench.
[24:57] Van just said why? Because it drags from
[25:00] birth to death and death to birth of
[25:02] soul. So that's an unconscious passing
[25:04] on the moonletit path Krishna calls it
[25:07] they come and go along that path but if
[25:09] they go the sunlit path they go never to
[25:12] come back again. So that's a very
[25:14] beautiful teaching in the Gita. These
[25:16] are all from the Gita. These great five
[25:18] sacrifices are being commented on by
[25:20] him. So betray is a sacrifice to your
[25:23] ancestors who are not dead by any means.
[25:26] They just went into another room and
[25:29] that room is where? Within you. Why?
[25:32] Because Jesus said the kings of heaven
[25:34] are within you and that's where they
[25:36] went if they still have a mind that
[25:38] wants to embody it again. Right? It's
[25:40] the mind that takes on bodies
[25:43] uh and God and at remain free of them.
[25:47] Brahman and Atman.
[25:50] So that's why we want to treat the the
[25:53] body mind mechanism to the teachings of
[25:55] Mahalakshmi in all her forms so that it
[25:57] will benefit in the highest way and it
[26:00] can then take its choice whether it
[26:02] wants to take a birth again or if it was
[26:05] wants to come back into this cosmic
[26:07] dream then like Rivani can say well it
[26:10] may be a dream but if I'm going into it
[26:13] I better become a conscious dreamer and
[26:16] and live a divine life in the dharma and
[26:19] leave that behind. as your as your uh
[26:22] your heritage, your inheritance.
[26:25] That's three of the of the sacrifices uh
[26:28] that we're looking at here in terms of
[26:30] God's luxury. How about rishiaga?
[26:33] Sacrifice to the sears.
[26:36] Cherished by sacrifice, the wise shall
[26:39] enjoy the enjoyments you desire the you
[26:42] desire. But a thief is he who enjoys
[26:45] without returning anything. There's a
[26:48] great Lakshmi teaching in that isn't
[26:50] there because that goes back and echoes
[26:53] against the board in each one of these
[26:55] other Lakshmi is that uh they you that
[26:58] obaya wanting to feed everyone equally
[27:01] wanting everyone to have wealth enough
[27:03] to satisfy their basic ends and needs
[27:06] and then having equal access to
[27:08] education and then having equal food uh
[27:11] food nourishing food to take. It's just
[27:13] all across the board the difference
[27:15] between one who has the highest good out
[27:18] highest thought for you and the one
[27:21] who's a thief and steals as Krishna says
[27:23] and doesn't give back uh once they've uh
[27:27] entered into the body and into the human
[27:29] race. They have four different
[27:32] sacrifices they can do along with
[27:34] sacrifice to nar human and they're only
[27:37] doing sacrifice to the ego right to
[27:41] their own ego. That's a thief who takes
[27:43] and doesn't give back. So it's written
[27:46] into the dharma that that's something
[27:47] that you need to be aware of. And u in a
[27:51] darkened age there are more egos like
[27:54] that around than than not. And uh fewer
[27:57] of the rare souls that teach this kind
[27:59] of wisdom and uh who give it to us. Uh
[28:03] the the final yoga at the top there is
[28:05] dva yoga and Krishna says about that
[28:08] longing for success in action on earth
[28:11] they worship the gods for quickly is
[28:14] success born of action in the world of
[28:16] man.
[28:18] Uh I wish that was true. Uh but higher
[28:21] success takes longer. Uh you can see in
[28:24] this day and age as consciousness falls
[28:27] down and has its relationship with
[28:29] matter that there are a lot of people
[28:31] getting rich quick and uh they don't
[28:33] have a lot a lot of work to do to do it
[28:36] because of the advanced mechanisms of
[28:38] science and technology. It makes it
[28:40] possible for clever people to get rich
[28:41] very quick. And so you have a lot of
[28:43] people who are who are stripped of what?
[28:49] Responsibility.
[28:50] You know, that's what we're talking
[28:52] about here when we say noble. The the
[28:54] noble appro approach of Lakshmi, right?
[28:57] She wants everything to be used nobling.
[29:00] Wealth, food, lands,
[29:03] wisdom, knowledge. Everyone has to get
[29:05] it equally. And they have to be set up
[29:08] for that. so that they uh um
[29:12] uh can come to it uh with with as pure
[29:15] and a spirit and as courageous a spirit
[29:18] as one can have. And and if you have to
[29:23] go through trials and tribulations to
[29:24] get it, then you're going to need that
[29:26] strength that carries you through. Um so
[29:30] that's a quick look at what we might
[29:32] look at if we looked at God actually and
[29:34] went to a a related teaching these five
[29:38] yogas.
[29:40] Um
[29:41] just as a quick passing because I'm
[29:43] going to run a few charts by you pretty
[29:46] quickly uh to to give instances of these
[29:50] teachings. down here at the bottom we
[29:52] can see how many other sacrifices are
[29:54] listed in the vadas
[29:57] um the scriptures
[29:59] you can sacrifice to the senses
[30:04] to the sense actions
[30:07] you can make offering to the goddess of
[30:09] wealth
[30:10] uh you can offer yogic practice to the
[30:13] lord I do my practices for you oh lord
[30:16] and can put them into his hands you can
[30:19] sacrifice your breath, you know, you do
[30:22] conscious breathing and instead of
[30:24] thinking, oh, I feel good, I breathing
[30:26] or instead of waking up your prana just
[30:29] for your own selfish purposes, you offer
[30:31] the effect of the breathing back to the
[30:33] Lord. I breathe because of you
[30:36] s
[30:38] or ham, right? It's a natural breath.
[30:41] You go, you breathe in, ham,
[30:45] you breathe out. It's a natural mantra
[30:47] you're saying all the time. So it's not
[30:49] a mantra if you're not conscious of it.
[30:51] And it's even more uh powerful if you're
[30:54] conscious of it by giving it back to the
[30:57] lord as sacrifice. You gave me this
[31:00] breath. Here it is back. Right? It's
[31:02] your breath I'm taking. I mean u
[31:08] you are one with that very very deity
[31:12] that you're worshiping and offering to.
[31:14] So this also has non-dual ramifications.
[31:19] Then there's an offering there as
[31:21] sacrifice to the lord. You can offer to
[31:24] the hearing and sense objects that is
[31:28] sound. You can offer sound
[31:32] music um mantras recitation of slokus
[31:36] all offered back to the lord. Those are
[31:38] yoga you do. Everything becomes a yoga,
[31:41] a sacrifice back to the source.
[31:44] And austerities are some beings who are
[31:46] very good at offering austerities back
[31:49] to the Lord. They do very amazing
[31:52] austerities. So they can get the
[31:54] attention of the Lord and the Lord will
[31:56] give them boons for doing these
[31:58] austerities. But only if they're offered
[32:00] back and they're not taken to the self
[32:02] for selfish purposes.
[32:05] You can offer sacred study and that's
[32:07] one of Sri Krishna's favorite of all the
[32:10] offering of sacred study. So uh that's
[32:14] pressing the soma as we just said right
[32:17] chart 500 uh you have to learn from Lord
[32:21] Shiva how to do that how to place the
[32:23] mind on the soma as you know they
[32:26] actually did press a soma in the ancient
[32:28] times uh it was a plant that grew in the
[32:32] Himalayas so they went looking for the
[32:35] soma plant they plucked it and harvested
[32:38] it brought it back and they pressed it
[32:39] between stones and there is a juice that
[32:41] comes from
[32:42] And then you do certain preparation with
[32:44] the juice. There's a whole series of of
[32:47] ritual done on pressing the soma.
[32:49] Interestingly enough, they don't know
[32:51] what that plant was nowadays. So they
[32:54] don't have any scientific or biological
[32:56] name for it. They don't know what it was
[32:58] that they were gathering up in the
[32:59] mountains called Soma plant. They just
[33:02] hear the description from the rig of how
[33:04] they gathered it and pressed it and
[33:06] drank it and offered it to in the
[33:07] rituals in the pujas. I think it's very
[33:11] beautiful that um we don't know what it
[33:13] was because then it leads you to the
[33:16] spiritual significance of offering soma.
[33:18] How to press the wisdom. That's the real
[33:20] meaning of soma. In between there's this
[33:23] dangerous occult power zone which you're
[33:26] going to take the soma since you don't
[33:28] know what it was and call it an
[33:29] intoxicant. Oh, they drank it because
[33:31] they could get high. No, the only high
[33:34] that lasts is wisdom. Wisdom taking the
[33:37] teachings. And so it was all uh a ritual
[33:40] for pressing the soma in the mind which
[33:43] Shiva teaches in the triura upanishad
[33:47] and in the triuranad specifically to the
[33:50] gods and to the pjapatis and to
[33:52] brihastiti and to the god of fire who's
[33:55] being offered to he teaches these this
[33:58] pressing of the s in the spiritual way
[34:00] but there is a ritual that was done
[34:02] physically in the ancient times that you
[34:05] can read about and uh That's in charge
[34:09] 500. You can come to seminar and and see
[34:11] how that is, how that how that goes. And
[34:14] in fact, the soma was not the ambrosia
[34:17] that made you really high and
[34:18] everything. It was very bitter to taste
[34:21] and you had to add milk to it and and
[34:24] barley and things like that to make it
[34:26] even palatable. So, I mean, they go they
[34:29] go with the fancified imagination on
[34:31] this kind of thing and and superimpose
[34:33] things that aren't true on it. The real
[34:36] purpose of it is to go towards that that
[34:39] ritual pressing of scripture in the mind
[34:43] between the two hard flat rocks of your
[34:46] mind to squeeze that juice out of it and
[34:49] then drink it after you prepare it.
[34:52] Anyway, something to say about offering
[34:54] sacred study because that's that's what
[34:57] uh engages the sears in sacred study for
[35:00] so long and their fieldalty becomes
[35:03] completely to the goddess of wisdom in
[35:05] that way and then they want more of it.
[35:08] They go to the goddess of abundance.
[35:10] Give us more s. So the whole thing is is
[35:14] uh connected and controlled and and uh
[35:17] provided by the divine mother in her
[35:20] aspects.
[35:21] So offer food and this energy of course
[35:24] is back to the the the uh the uh da
[35:28] lakmi and so everything has to be
[35:31] offered to the deities as pride.
[35:34] That's all for this chart. I'm going to
[35:36] go through three charts very quickly for
[35:38] you around this gaja lakshmi or no not
[35:42] around we've just completed god lakshmi.
[35:45] take up um Santana Lakshmi and read what
[35:50] is about her. So you see there are the
[35:52] abundances of family blessings
[35:56] or heritage or lineage you could say.
[36:00] There are many ways you could put it. Uh
[36:02] we're trying to make this as
[36:04] comprehendable as possible to a western
[36:06] culture. Uh so
[36:09] uh uh that art is not unknown to people
[36:12] but there are a lot of what what's the
[36:15] phrase I'm thinking for right now in the
[36:17] west
[36:19] dysfunctional families out there and and
[36:22] Shiva and Shaktis who marry and don't
[36:24] stay together even after having
[36:26] children. There's a whole problem with
[36:28] the dharma in terms of family and and
[36:30] how to make family a sacred connection.
[36:33] I'll show you that next. It's called
[36:36] these these uh sacred connections that
[36:39] the rishies uh looked on. But first of
[36:42] all, let's read about her. Unconditional
[36:44] love and attentive care ensure the birth
[36:48] of noble souls within a family lineage
[36:52] lived in harmony.
[36:54] So
[36:59] I would say that um I had a few
[37:02] experiences of leaving America and going
[37:05] to India on pilgrimage and and uh
[37:10] maybe a dozen times in my life so far
[37:13] maybe more. So
[37:16] one thing that did strike me was uh
[37:19] amongst this extended family of Shamak
[37:22] Krishna Parahamsa in Kolkata area which
[37:25] is not a city that you'd call you know
[37:28] clean and pure and and peaceful it's
[37:31] very noisy and very polluted and it's
[37:34] grown up from tent city and from the war
[37:37] from the wars uh so sitting amongst the
[37:40] families of Sham Krishna who invited me
[37:42] to have food with them in little tiny
[37:44] huts inside of this this city called
[37:49] called Kolkata and feeling like I was I
[37:53] was being accepted by this beautiful
[37:55] family of of a wife and husband and
[37:57] children and how natural they were to be
[38:00] living in such squalid condition but
[38:02] being in total harmony with it. uh and
[38:06] then comparing that against the homes
[38:08] that I went to in the west that I grew
[38:10] up with and how chaotic they were and
[38:13] how disobedient the children were and
[38:15] how uh how u unable to raise a dharmic
[38:20] family the parents were because they
[38:21] didn't have dharma given to them by
[38:23] their parents. So there was a great
[38:25] contrast there that I saw in my own life
[38:28] when I sat in a truly dharmic family who
[38:30] didn't have laxshmi in abundance wealth
[38:34] lakshmi u but were perfectly happy and
[38:37] content and peaceful and living in
[38:39] harmony so I saw that you know in my own
[38:42] experience so very beautiful kind of
[38:44] experience to have so if we look at
[38:49] santana lakshmi then we're talking about
[38:53] beings being born from from a higher
[38:56] perspective. And I wanted to show you a
[38:58] few um a few charts about that. This one
[39:03] in particular kind of events
[39:07] um
[39:09] this teaching from Santana Lakshmi.
[39:13] You can see that it's a chart that's in
[39:15] footfalls, but we haven't looked at it
[39:16] very much at all over the years. Um
[39:20] and um
[39:23] it's all about uh pities they're called
[39:28] uh basic essential connections that come
[39:31] in fives. Uh we know that contication is
[39:35] a very important thing in cosmic uh sank
[39:39] yoga for instance. So where that gets
[39:43] brought out is in the titeria panishad.
[39:46] The quote says here, "The illumin seir
[39:48] who revealed this essential wisdom by
[39:50] his deep intuition, having grouped the
[39:53] various elements of existence, declared
[39:56] that the entire universe of gross and
[39:58] subtle worlds is based in sets of
[40:00] five-fold principles
[40:03] and that one set of fives enables and
[40:05] preserves the next set of fives. The
[40:08] seere opens up cosmic vision by knowing
[40:11] this principle of fives based on facts
[40:14] known to all.
[40:16] So some things are known to all in
[40:19] science, in biology, in math, in in
[40:23] arts. But how deeply are they known as
[40:25] connections. So this is where this idea
[40:27] of Yahis comes along. They looked at
[40:30] everything as a grouping like we are
[40:33] doing with the goddess here, right?
[40:35] Eight of them. So nine duras and so
[40:38] forth. uh the uh 10 dos of vahava. I
[40:43] mean there's groupings everywhere of the
[40:44] goddesses. So there she's trying to kind
[40:46] of tell us this that you forgot to look
[40:50] at things you know as collections
[40:53] these cosmic principles as collections.
[40:56] Sure, they'll all merge into oneness
[40:58] later. But that's why people jump to
[41:00] advita without knowing the groupings and
[41:02] then they run ary or run a foul of
[41:05] advite realization and come falling back
[41:07] down find themselves reborn again
[41:10] without the essential wisdom to get moa
[41:13] dharma first ara then common next and
[41:15] moki at the end. This is kind of a a
[41:19] four-fold rule. So basically then you
[41:22] can see here out of the vdas what these
[41:25] ancient viais were. First they meditated
[41:29] on the universe
[41:32] and the earth the firmament the
[41:34] atmosphere and the air in it. Second
[41:36] they meditate when they meditated on
[41:38] learning they included teachers students
[41:41] study and the imparting of wisdom that's
[41:43] called transmission of wisdom.
[41:46] On the right hand side they meditated on
[41:48] light. they included fire, sun, water
[41:51] and lightning into it. Then when they
[41:55] they concentrated on what we're talking
[41:58] about right now with uh Santanol Lakshmi
[42:02] offspring and and lineage, family
[42:04] lineage, they when they concentrated on
[42:06] progeny, they they thought father,
[42:08] mother, offspring, and procreation.
[42:11] U if you put all of these together as
[42:13] connections then you see that they're
[42:16] they're groupings of five that you
[42:19] actually meditate on before you have
[42:21] children
[42:24] and uh you do it in dharma and uh then
[42:28] as the chart just told us if everything
[42:31] is done in that kind of awareness then
[42:34] good offspring start coming to those
[42:36] that family line. I mean we look back at
[42:39] India and see the rishies and how they
[42:41] rishies and how they married and how
[42:44] they had children and wrote us the
[42:46] uponads right spoke us the uponads they
[42:49] got written down later. So all of this
[42:51] was passed from illumined householder
[42:55] rishies to the children who plastered it
[42:58] to their children and they learned it as
[43:01] in in meditating and contemplating on
[43:03] these cosmic uh quintuplications. I I
[43:07] wrote a whole book about it that you can
[43:09] look at because we concentrate in Sanka
[43:12] yoga on the five elements, the five
[43:14] senses, the four-fold mind plus cosmic
[43:17] mind is also five, the five ton matras,
[43:20] the five active senses. I mean there's
[43:23] 24 in all maybe 25 some people say and
[43:26] if you add the atman in there, the
[43:28] perisha there's 26. So basically you've
[43:31] got these sumpkic renderings of con
[43:34] principles that follow the five-fold
[43:36] quintuplic quintuplication process that
[43:39] this is an ancient vic teaching that put
[43:42] it in terms of yahitis. These are
[43:44] essential connections that you don't
[43:46] just meditate on uh by random or thank
[43:50] god that they happened. This is the very
[43:52] foundation of it. Just like there are
[43:55] seven chakras and there's a basic chakra
[43:58] for those and just like there's nine um
[44:02] tririconas in the shriantra and they all
[44:05] connect to each other. Uh these are
[44:07] essential connections that are true uh
[44:10] at all times. It's not you're just
[44:12] discovering them. And you know the same
[44:15] principle comes up with uh realizing
[44:18] your right. You're going to have to
[44:19] meditate on things that aren't the otman
[44:21] in order to understand that the atman is
[44:23] different from them, isn't it? So your
[44:27] ego is one of those things that's not
[44:29] the otman and causing you a lot of
[44:31] problem. So you're going to have to
[44:33] understand the ego to realize that it's
[44:36] separate from the it's the chaff and
[44:39] it's not the wheat and people are taking
[44:41] it as the the essence but it's the
[44:43] non-essence of everything. And you go
[44:46] back on all the different forms of
[44:49] mahalakmi, you'll find out that people
[44:51] aren't getting the wealth they need or
[44:53] they're getting too much of the wealth
[44:55] that they want and not being able to use
[44:57] it responsibly simply because of that
[45:00] reason. They haven't meditated on these
[45:03] connections as eternal principles.
[45:06] Um they're stumbling upon them in lower
[45:08] knowledge. They're discovering them and
[45:10] assigning their name to them. Right?
[45:12] It's the ego's play. I see some
[45:16] constellation in the sky. I'm g to put
[45:17] my name on it because no one's looked at
[45:19] it yet. So this is the ego fumbling
[45:22] through life forever. But if you go to
[45:25] any side of kind of a teaching like the
[45:27] yogis or like the ashta
[45:30] or like the four-fold fruits dharma kama
[45:34] ara and moia and you find out that
[45:37] you're not discovering anything new at
[45:38] all. You're uncovering the truth of
[45:42] existence and you are at the foundation
[45:44] of it.
[45:47] Uh so this is why we call Brahman a
[45:50] non-doer. We don't think of God as a
[45:52] creator. That's the mind that's
[45:54] projecting all of that. The mind has
[45:56] happens to have some very powerful
[45:58] things in it like Brahma, Vishnu and
[46:00] Shiva. That's the cosmic mind. So
[46:04] all deference to them and all reverence
[46:07] to them. Then we start to look at what's
[46:08] beyond them. Uh we can't get to it
[46:11] unless we look at these essential
[46:13] connections and note them. And by the
[46:17] way offer to them, right?
[46:21] Every in every one of these
[46:24] ashta lakshmi
[46:26] is mentioned the offering. You have to
[46:29] offer pressing the s is all about
[46:31] offering it back to the source. It's not
[46:33] about drinking it or any other thing.
[46:36] It's all about getting it, procuring it,
[46:39] having it, possessing it, and offering
[46:41] it back to the source where it came
[46:42] from. So that's the real meaning of the
[46:44] word via in Sanskrit. It all has to be
[46:48] tied with sacrifice and giving. Selfless
[46:51] giving, not self, not selfish grasping,
[46:54] selfless giving. And it's one of the
[46:57] things that needs to be very pronounced
[46:59] now in in u United States, Europe, the
[47:03] western constant and pretty soon in the
[47:05] whole world which is taken to this
[47:08] material search. The search for
[47:10] satisfaction in in in
[47:13] matter is the um futile search for
[47:18] satisfaction in Maya. Right.
[47:27] And um in the middle there I was talking
[47:29] about the ego self without having gone
[47:31] to it but there you see the lower jaw
[47:34] the upper jaw speech and the tongue
[47:37] are put together with the ego self as a
[47:40] five-fold conjunction conjunction a good
[47:43] English word for via
[47:46] and uh so here's the essential
[47:48] conjunction you know you're here's a
[47:50] five and here's a five and there are two
[47:52] fives and you're coming together like
[47:54] this into one, right? That's what
[47:56] namaste really means. And uh people
[48:00] don't know that. Uh it's it's uh
[48:04] saluting that that which always is.
[48:07] It's not discovering something new that
[48:09] once had a beginning and might have an
[48:11] end later. It's it's affirming that this
[48:14] always is the truth. It's just like
[48:17] saying that thou art or a braas me and
[48:21] so forth. Um anyway this is a
[48:24] fascinating aspect and it's very well
[48:27] brought forward by Santana Lakshmi and
[48:29] what she wants to events for us. Let's
[48:32] end this and I want to go to another
[48:34] chart about about Santana Lakshmi uh
[48:37] with the bottom quote. One should
[48:39] meditate upon the elements that compose
[48:42] the universe namely earth, intermediate
[48:46] space, heaven, sky, the four, the eight
[48:49] directions, fire, air, sun, moon, stars,
[48:52] water, herbs, plants, trees, ether, and
[48:56] one's body, including skin, muscle,
[48:58] bone, and marrow. Then meditate on the
[49:01] five senses and the five pranas. Then
[49:04] contemplate M the universal term of
[49:07] compliance which is one with Brahman
[49:10] that's from the titad.
[49:13] So where did this science of fives this
[49:16] quintuplication process come from? The
[49:19] vdas the earliest times it wasn't lord
[49:23] copia that put it together uhh out of
[49:26] his his own meditations out of nothing.
[49:29] It was there in the earliest times and
[49:32] uh he just recognized them and then put
[49:35] them into five-fold
[49:38] um system of sumpka. That's something
[49:41] called enumerating, right? You're
[49:43] enumerating what's there. But what's
[49:45] there is always been there and always
[49:47] will be there. It's just appearing and
[49:49] disappearing. It's coming from your mind
[49:52] and then manifesting as Krishna says
[49:55] here. And then it's going back to an
[49:56] unmanifested state. Well, all the time
[50:00] nothing's really happening. The one soul
[50:02] is looking on, seeing it do this, and
[50:05] then having its realizations that it's
[50:07] not the changing, it's the unchanging
[50:10] that's important.
[50:20] There's one more look at God Shalakshmi
[50:23] about families that I want to take you
[50:25] into
[50:27] as we
[50:29] as we wrap up this class and that's
[50:32] another teaching by by Lord Krishna.
[50:39] It's a little bit more pertinent to
[50:42] family and it's just a beautiful list
[50:45] that I've always loved that you can
[50:48] really kind of skip over and rush past
[50:51] if you're reading the Bhagavad Gita, but
[50:54] you shouldn't. I mean, this is like this
[50:57] is the knowledge that we're missing
[50:59] about rebirth in the West. why it's not
[51:01] taught in schools. Should be taught in
[51:04] grade school to the children all the way
[51:05] up through high school into college that
[51:07] we're in a series of births here. And
[51:09] this that that fact alone will rid us of
[51:12] the of the false knowledge that we're
[51:14] the body, wouldn't it? Oh, I can't be
[51:16] the body because I'm taking many bodies
[51:18] through a series of cycles.
[51:21] So that's the first thing it would come
[51:22] clear to us and we wouldn't be forced to
[51:25] to uh look upon our body as the only
[51:28] reality which is a big problem in in uh
[51:31] the west. Uh after that other
[51:34] realizations could come forth from that
[51:36] like how to get off the wheel. That's
[51:38] what Buddha was teaching to the Hindu
[51:42] race. The Indians 550 years before Jesus
[51:46] showed up and told you birds have nest,
[51:49] foxes have have holes, but you have no
[51:51] place to lay your head here. He was as
[51:53] much saying you're not a body that
[51:55] happens once in time. And then the whole
[51:58] teaching of time can be, you know, held
[52:01] suspect.
[52:02] You can look at it from a distance, say,
[52:04] "Wait a minute. I'm witnessing time,
[52:05] aren't I? Where did it come from? You
[52:08] know, and start finding out its origin
[52:10] inside yourself because it went away in
[52:12] deep sleep and it came back and waking.
[52:14] So, it must be happening somewhere in
[52:16] me.
[52:19] Anyway, going at it from the standpoint
[52:21] of convincing people that they've had
[52:23] other bodies, Krishna pulls no punches
[52:25] when he reads in the Gita these slokas.
[52:28] First, he says, "Among thousands of
[52:31] beings, scarcely one strives for
[52:33] perfection.
[52:35] And of those who strive and succeed,
[52:38] scarcely one knows me in truth. So how
[52:41] does one come to know the Lord in truth?
[52:45] Whether that Lord for you is Krishna,
[52:48] Buddha or Christ or Ramach Krishna. Um
[52:53] by seeing uh that there's a sequence and
[52:56] I mean it's very interesting that we
[52:58] just looked at the conjunctions, right?
[53:01] I mean here's a conjunction for you of
[53:04] of bodies and gocha suntan lakshmi is
[53:08] like you know there is one of the
[53:10] mahalakmi saying you have an abundance
[53:13] of bodies you have an abundance of
[53:15] children I mean how many thousands of
[53:18] children does a man have inside of him
[53:21] in his sperm he's got thousands of
[53:23] children just a simple human being
[53:27] they're all in potential
[53:29] thankfully mother takes one and works
[53:31] one out and hopefully does it
[53:33] dharmically. But basically go Santana
[53:37] Lakshmi is as if she's saying there
[53:40] you've got thousands of lifetimes to
[53:42] live if you want them. Uh and uh you can
[53:45] also get beyond them and just have that
[53:47] one final lifetime that that the
[53:49] Buddhists are talking about and and get
[53:52] your liberation and moia like like the
[53:54] advidance are talking about. So here's
[53:57] how this goes in Krishna's own reading
[54:00] the riot act on what we don't know in
[54:03] the west first of all you can be through
[54:05] your good actions I mean that should be
[54:07] obvious by now that if we looked at
[54:10] sacrifice we should be doing dharmic
[54:12] actions dharmic eating right that's one
[54:15] lakshmi you know dharmic noble action
[54:18] that's another lakshmi dharmic spreading
[54:21] of wealth to everyone that's another
[54:22] noble action so we should be doing good
[54:24] actions and if we are you're born in the
[54:27] world of the righteous.
[54:29] Ever wondered why some people are born
[54:31] with really bad parents and bad families
[54:35] and negativities, born with evil
[54:37] evildoers and and uh suffer accordingly.
[54:42] That that happens as much or more than
[54:45] having being born in a in a good
[54:46] prosperous family. But here's the next
[54:48] thing. Then they're born into the house
[54:50] of the pure and the prosperous.
[54:53] So you have to earn Lakshmi's wealth by
[54:57] following the dharma. Basically people
[54:59] who don't form the d follow the dharma
[55:01] dharma either have either have no wealth
[55:05] or they have wealth before they're ready
[55:06] for it. That's really the two rubs on
[55:09] the whole thing about lakshmi for the
[55:12] adharmic people. And then you see them
[55:14] doing enjoying themselves with that
[55:17] wealth and doing so much of evil actions
[55:19] with it. I'm not mentioning any names
[55:21] right now, but I know some are probably
[55:23] going through your heads in politics and
[55:26] science and so forth and in the near
[55:28] recent future and in the present right
[55:30] now using wealth in a way that's not
[55:33] dharmic and uh and and uh causing more
[55:37] karma to the world and to its living
[55:39] beings. That karma is being erased by
[55:43] Lakshmi if you follow her dharma. And
[55:44] this is what gets you free which is
[55:47] evidenced. Next the third level of birth
[55:50] is seeks acknowledge and is born into
[55:52] the family of yogis. So from good good
[55:56] moral ethical families dharmic families
[55:58] we'd like to call them born into the
[56:01] house of the pure and prosperous not
[56:02] just the prosperous the pure and
[56:04] prosperous. And then from there the next
[56:07] lifetime and this is following the
[56:09] thread of your yoga right because you
[56:12] haven't realized the otman with your you
[56:16] know with your uh good ethical family
[56:19] right we stand the risk of not realizing
[56:22] the otman in this lifetime because of
[56:24] our born even though we were born with
[56:26] good ethical people it takes more than
[56:28] just being born in a good ethical family
[56:32] takes more than morals and ethics to
[56:33] realize
[56:35] the self. That's the highest thing you
[56:37] can do here.
[56:39] But you're enjoying upon to do it. So
[56:41] then then so you go to a place of pure
[56:45] puress and prosperity where you have
[56:47] time on your hands and that in that way
[56:50] then you're able to spend more time in
[56:54] sodena
[56:55] spiritual practice meditation study
[56:58] press that s you know uh increase your
[57:02] bi to the lord do selfless actions
[57:06] um meditate all of those four yogas come
[57:10] to you and And that when you're not
[57:12] pressed upon by by by seeking of wealth
[57:15] by all means
[57:18] that's the third level. So this is how
[57:20] they strive for perfection and try and
[57:23] know him. A few of them do that. The
[57:26] next level is strives for higher
[57:28] knowledge among spiritual seekers. So um
[57:32] they are born in the family of yogis.
[57:34] But what did he say there? A a birth
[57:36] like this is difficult to attain in this
[57:39] world.
[57:40] I'm not reading all these quotes. You
[57:42] can do them later. But basically, that's
[57:45] one thing that he says about being born
[57:47] with yogis and yoginis because they're
[57:49] usually not having children. Yogis and
[57:52] yoginis are practicing yoga in the old
[57:54] style fashion anyway in India and
[57:56] they're getting off of the life wheel
[57:58] and uh they don't need children. They
[58:01] don't want them anymore. So if they do
[58:04] happen to them, they're going to be
[58:05] raising them dharmically. That's goes
[58:07] back a step. born with a pure and
[58:09] prosperous, right? Those people are
[58:11] ready to handle children and want them.
[58:14] U so basically you're you're going
[58:16] deeper and deeper into this level of um
[58:19] of the treasure of the oneness as we
[58:21] were saying yesterday.
[58:24] So when you strive for higher knowledge
[58:26] amongst people who are teaching it like
[58:28] fathers and mothers who are yogis and
[58:30] yoginis
[58:32] then you're among seek spiritual seekers
[58:34] and adeps and that's where holy com
[58:36] company called sadhu satsanga becomes
[58:39] available to you. We see so many people
[58:42] who are seeking knowledge but they don't
[58:44] have holy company. We saw so many people
[58:46] who have degrees, who have uh uh who
[58:50] have high position in society, but
[58:52] they've never attained holy company yet.
[58:55] You meet somebody like our birthday boy
[58:57] today, Lex Hixon, you know, who has
[58:59] passed away on on this day, um born on
[59:03] Christmas and passed away on All Saints
[59:06] Day. He was,
[59:09] you know, had all this wealth from two
[59:12] wealthy families, his own and the one he
[59:14] married into. and he practiced soda and
[59:16] then he went on uh seeking for the
[59:18] highest truth. So there you have that
[59:21] idea of uh getting holy company. He had
[59:24] it in spades. Boy did Mahalakshmi ever
[59:27] give him an abundance of family. You
[59:30] know Santana Lakshmi. She looked at him
[59:32] and said you're going to have it all.
[59:34] You're going to have a Sufi family.
[59:35] You're going to have a pedantic family.
[59:37] You're going to have a Buddhist family.
[59:38] I'll even give you a Zen Buddhist
[59:40] family.
[59:42] Yeah. So uh and I you'll have an eastern
[59:44] orthodox Christian family too. We know
[59:46] this about him. So that's abundance of
[59:49] mahalakshmi at the level of sana you
[59:52] know. Uh so uh that's a great example in
[59:57] our own time and life. The finally he
[1:00:00] says transcends rights and rituals and
[1:00:02] seeks after yoga.
[1:00:06] uh so and then ends up purifying the
[1:00:10] mind through many births and reaches
[1:00:11] perfection. So thus striving with
[1:00:14] assiduity that purified and purified
[1:00:18] over many births that being a reaches
[1:00:21] the goal supreme
[1:00:23] which takes us back up to the top quote
[1:00:25] there and he says further the one
[1:00:28] established in yogi yoga is deemed to be
[1:00:31] superior to aidics to men of knowledge
[1:00:35] and to those first in the performance of
[1:00:37] rights and rituals. Therefore, Arjuna
[1:00:40] he's talking to on the battlefield. Be
[1:00:42] thou a yogi.
[1:00:45] So, he's holding up this yogic lifestyle
[1:00:47] is the highest and best. And he he's not
[1:00:51] satisfied just to do that, but he's
[1:00:53] going to show you how it leads to the
[1:00:55] Lord in terms of the subject of rebirth.
[1:01:01] So, we need to be taking this on from a
[1:01:04] young age. We need to be our parents
[1:01:06] need to have gotten it. They need to
[1:01:07] have passed it to us. That's why India
[1:01:10] produced the Ram Krishnas and
[1:01:11] Vivicanandas that we're seeing nowadays.
[1:01:14] Neither of them who had families,
[1:01:17] children, bloodchild. They just had the
[1:01:19] world family
[1:01:21] and uh neither of them had any money.
[1:01:26] Chir Christian Vimand they were total
[1:01:29] acetics as far as that goes and there
[1:01:32] they were rich with everything that
[1:01:33] Lakshmi gives. Anyway, very beautiful to
[1:01:36] look at that. And uh that's even not all
[1:01:40] that I I had to show you about Santana
[1:01:43] Lux. She's getting most of the attention
[1:01:45] here. But basically, if we want to take
[1:01:48] a quick look at this, we'll round it
[1:01:51] out.
[1:01:52] And uh
[1:01:55] I thought of a way to teach this chart
[1:01:57] very quickly. Here's your pallet, right?
[1:02:00] You're an artist and you want to paint a
[1:02:02] lifetime. So what do you have as your
[1:02:05] materials? You have uh your pure will to
[1:02:09] do it to embody. You have cosmic wisdom
[1:02:12] given to you by your gurus and your
[1:02:15] rishies and all that. You have a clear
[1:02:18] mind to do it with. You have strong
[1:02:20] intention and resolve to be born in a
[1:02:22] good family and you have spiritual
[1:02:25] adeptship that you gained from previous
[1:02:28] practice. Right? do practice now so in
[1:02:32] the future you'll have everything that
[1:02:34] the great souls have that you don't have
[1:02:35] now. And finally, far-sightedness. You
[1:02:39] have this insight and this foresight in
[1:02:41] you. So if you have that pallet and you
[1:02:43] have a paintbrush and you're ready and
[1:02:45] you've got these canvases up here, then
[1:02:48] you can see what you can begin to do
[1:02:50] with them. Since we are at the bottom,
[1:02:52] let's start at the top. Attainment
[1:02:55] attain jven mukti in this last uh uh
[1:02:58] attaining jven mukti or liberation in a
[1:03:01] past lifetime.
[1:03:04] Selecting the country and culture of
[1:03:07] your choice.
[1:03:09] Assuming
[1:03:10] gender and physical body of your choice.
[1:03:15] Spiritual practice and attainment in
[1:03:17] previous lifetimes
[1:03:20] which I just mentioned. choosing dharmic
[1:03:23] parents praying to entering the room
[1:03:25] into the womb.
[1:03:27] You have all these things that you know
[1:03:30] allow you to do this right in your soul
[1:03:32] in your atman. So you just take them out
[1:03:34] and you start painting your country your
[1:03:37] life. I mean this is a Tibetan Buddhist
[1:03:39] teaching basically they're the most
[1:03:42] recent ones that have put this forth to
[1:03:43] us that you're you can hear about
[1:03:46] conscious birthing from birth and you
[1:03:48] know from Sri Krishna as we just looked
[1:03:50] at in the Gita but the Tibetans have
[1:03:52] come along later now and said well
[1:03:53] here's what you're actually doing or not
[1:03:56] doing when you're born consciously or
[1:03:59] not consciously and sometimes you're
[1:04:02] born unconsciously and you become
[1:04:03] conscious during your that lifetime and
[1:04:06] then you remember that you had parents
[1:04:08] before and children before and knowledge
[1:04:10] before and it's coming forward to you
[1:04:14] and that's an awakening. The spiritual
[1:04:16] awakenings is something that happened in
[1:04:18] a previous lifetime. Sometimes that
[1:04:20] happens to people. The mic veil just
[1:04:23] lifts and gets thinner and thinner as
[1:04:25] you get closer and closer to the goal
[1:04:27] through your spiritual practice.
[1:04:30] Choose dharmic parents. Then arrange
[1:04:32] life circumstances in order to
[1:04:34] neutralize your karma. Oh, I didn't do
[1:04:37] so well last lifetime. I didn't get
[1:04:40] moia. And you're looking back on your
[1:04:42] past lifetime from a disembodied state
[1:04:44] in your soul, in your mind soul,
[1:04:48] and you say, I want to go back and do
[1:04:49] that again and do better. So, what what
[1:04:52] tripped me up last time? Oh, I see that
[1:04:55] particular strand of karma that I
[1:04:56] followed that I should have neutralized.
[1:04:59] I'm going to have to go back and do some
[1:05:01] practice and neutralize that so it'll
[1:05:02] never bother me again and I can get free
[1:05:05] and get liberation in that very lifetime
[1:05:09] up here. Right back to Jven Mukta. You
[1:05:12] gain Jven Mukta in a previous lifetime
[1:05:18] experiencing a conscious death at the
[1:05:21] time at the end of your last lifetime is
[1:05:24] a great speaking about the Tibetan
[1:05:26] Buddhists. I learned that one from Jang
[1:05:28] Gong Kuru Rimpache when I was with him
[1:05:30] on Maui here island across the channel
[1:05:33] there talking about that a lot uh how
[1:05:37] you have to have that conscious death in
[1:05:39] order to get uh a conscious birth. So
[1:05:43] you want to do your practices and
[1:05:46] realize everything the great souls are
[1:05:48] telling you so you can become u you can
[1:05:51] gain victory over death.
[1:05:54] I have received a command from who? From
[1:05:59] the divine mother of the universe. What
[1:06:02] did she say? Death must die.
[1:06:05] On the battlefield of life, death must
[1:06:07] die. One of Ram Prasad's beautiful
[1:06:10] poems.
[1:06:12] Setting up manifestation of one's work
[1:06:15] and mission in life. There are people
[1:06:17] who have come here like say Swami
[1:06:18] Vivikananda. They didn't have anything
[1:06:20] to gain. Krishna said that too about his
[1:06:22] life. there's nothing more for me to
[1:06:24] have. Shiva is called up to common
[1:06:26] because he has no more desires. So these
[1:06:29] beings come and manifest themselves in
[1:06:31] bodies to help you realize that same
[1:06:34] free state that is as vivan say I want
[1:06:38] everyone to be free. Free is the air
[1:06:40] they be they breathe. Oh, excuse me. I
[1:06:43] mean you know attain realization that
[1:06:46] they're always free. He he he came back
[1:06:49] and and uh qualified that
[1:06:54] sincere comm compassion to all
[1:06:57] to help all beings gain that
[1:07:00] emancipation as I just said and then
[1:07:02] that nandal perspective that transforms
[1:07:05] all appearances into reality.
[1:07:09] It's just all mother. Now strip away the
[1:07:11] coverings. There she is behind
[1:07:13] everything,
[1:07:15] every object, every act, every word,
[1:07:18] every insight,
[1:07:20] every every aspect of space,
[1:07:24] every name, every form. There's just
[1:07:26] mother behind it. Mother, mother,
[1:07:28] mother, ma, ma, ma. The last words Sham
[1:07:31] Krishna said before he passed from the
[1:07:33] body. Ma ma, it's all mother.
[1:07:41] And speaking of that, in case we want a
[1:07:44] nice handy analogy to help us convince
[1:07:46] us of what Krishna just told us in this
[1:07:48] series of lifetimes and what this chart
[1:07:51] called the pallet of conscious future
[1:07:53] lives is telling us. Shamakrisha said,
[1:07:57] "The potter puts his pots in the sun to
[1:07:59] dry.
[1:08:01] Both the baked and unbaked ones.
[1:08:05] A cow happens to walk over them and
[1:08:07] break some of them. The baked pot shards
[1:08:10] that are broken he throws away. But the
[1:08:12] soft ones though broken he gathers up
[1:08:15] and shapes them into a lump. From this
[1:08:18] lump he forms new pots. In the same way
[1:08:21] so long as a man has not realized God he
[1:08:24] has to come back to this earth.
[1:08:27] So Shramak Krishna uses these great
[1:08:30] village scenes that he saw in his life.
[1:08:32] when he saw that happening and cows
[1:08:34] walking over pots and the pot are
[1:08:36] getting busy and working again, he well
[1:08:38] there they go again being reborn, right?
[1:08:41] Um but u you know hopefully you're one
[1:08:44] of the baked pots. The cow walks over
[1:08:48] you. The cow of death walks over and
[1:08:50] breaks you into shards. You'll never
[1:08:52] have to be reformed into a lump again.
[1:08:55] And that lump will not have to be a lump
[1:08:57] of flesh and bone. Because remember
[1:08:58] Buddha said, "I'm not going to build any
[1:09:00] more houses.
[1:09:02] Not of wood, not of stone, not of mud
[1:09:06] and straw, not of flesh and bones."
[1:09:09] Right? We just had the vi teaching here,
[1:09:12] right? That beautifully said trees,
[1:09:14] walks, plants, ethers, one's body,
[1:09:17] all of that has to be meditated upon.
[1:09:19] Why? So I'll never take it on again.
[1:09:22] that I'll never imagine myself falsely
[1:09:25] to be that body and those elements. That
[1:09:28] those are aspects in me, but they're not
[1:09:30] me.
[1:09:33] Um, so let's not come back into the
[1:09:37] potter's hands again, you know, not in
[1:09:40] not in ignorance. If we're be reformed
[1:09:42] at all, let's be reformed as a jan
[1:09:45] mukta. So I didn't know if I would
[1:09:48] finish all three charts under sunnalmi
[1:09:52] but I did and we still have time to look
[1:09:54] at mother's other two aspects. Let's go
[1:09:56] back to that
[1:09:59] kind of a tour to force on the eight
[1:10:03] mahalakshmies that we're getting here. I
[1:10:05] hope it's beneficial to everyone here
[1:10:08] and will be beneficial to everyone who
[1:10:10] sees it in the future with these through
[1:10:13] these videos. So the seventh mahalakshmi
[1:10:17] is the vijaya lakshmi. See there
[1:10:20] abundance of achievement. Who doesn't
[1:10:22] want that? I would say that
[1:10:26] she will grant you success in all
[1:10:28] endeavors. Um but as Krishna just told
[1:10:31] us there are very few people who come to
[1:10:34] know me. They all come to know um the
[1:10:38] world the five elements the body and
[1:10:40] they come to know their egos. We hope if
[1:10:43] they come to know their ego's good, then
[1:10:45] they'll know that they're not the ego.
[1:10:46] But if they if they propagate the ego,
[1:10:50] then that's going to be what comes back
[1:10:52] to be reborn and worked out again and
[1:10:54] again. So all of those things again to
[1:10:57] be meditated on to
[1:10:59] diminish their influence over your
[1:11:02] thinking mind
[1:11:04] so that those kinds of thoughts will not
[1:11:06] enter. And when they do enter, you'll
[1:11:08] reject them right away. No, I'm the
[1:11:10] atman. What are you talking about?
[1:11:12] That's nonsense.
[1:11:15] I'm not a body mind mechanism. I'm not a
[1:11:17] psychophysical being. I'm not the five
[1:11:19] elements. I'm not my thoughts.
[1:11:23] Those are all um uh uh
[1:11:27] right now belonging and in possession of
[1:11:29] the mind ego complex. I I renounce them.
[1:11:32] I'm the atman ever free and never bound.
[1:11:36] So, Bijay Lakmi uh wants you to
[1:11:39] celebrate that, you know. Vaya means
[1:11:41] just victory basically a Jai Jai where
[1:11:45] he's saying pujas and all of that. So
[1:11:49] the clip there says effort and victory
[1:11:52] free of pride conduc to the attainment
[1:11:55] of both earthly and spiritual welfare.
[1:11:59] Um as a quick aside
[1:12:02] and a conccommatant
[1:12:05] is that look straight? I don't know if
[1:12:07] this is going crooked or not but
[1:12:10] basically we have this teaching of the
[1:12:14] varn ashram. So if we look at Vijay
[1:12:17] Lakshmi and she's talking about um
[1:12:20] having victory and getting achievements
[1:12:24] then it has to be done in the dharma
[1:12:26] right and so that's why this chart is
[1:12:28] very good to take a glance at according
[1:12:31] to Hindu dharma and its practices and
[1:12:34] you can see of course hardly anyone
[1:12:36] better than Sriam to uh show to us the
[1:12:40] beauties of a perfect uh family life
[1:12:44] with Rah and Sitta uh uh being at the
[1:12:47] foundation of that and how they
[1:12:49] conducted themselves in life and uh all
[1:12:53] the achievements here shown in this
[1:12:55] image that were the main facets of of
[1:12:59] Sith Ram's beautiful divine dharmic
[1:13:02] life. So in the Bhagavad Gita it said he
[1:13:06] from whom this evolution of all beings
[1:13:09] by whom all this is pervaded
[1:13:12] worshshiping him with with his own duty
[1:13:14] mankind attains perfection
[1:13:18] and he goes on to say later that u
[1:13:22] better is one's own dharma
[1:13:24] though imperfect than the dharma of
[1:13:26] another well performed. So he really
[1:13:29] gives a very strong opinion about that.
[1:13:32] That one who fulfills the duty ordained
[1:13:34] by his own nature avoids all
[1:13:36] transgressions. So even if you're not
[1:13:39] given
[1:13:41] the best life and the best lot that you
[1:13:43] thought you should get, the the hand
[1:13:45] that you got dealt was not to your your
[1:13:48] liking. Like painting that palette we
[1:13:50] just looked at, right? You could have
[1:13:52] painted a better picture of yourself in
[1:13:54] life. uh even then you should go follow
[1:13:57] through with perseverance. That's one of
[1:14:00] the last lakshmi's courage,
[1:14:02] perseverance, right? You keep her there
[1:14:05] and you follow through and conduct
[1:14:07] everything and and complete it to the
[1:14:10] best of your ability. That's your own
[1:14:12] dharma. Um, but she comes to a
[1:14:14] conclusion in your life. Better that is
[1:14:17] much better than that. It's that
[1:14:18] borrowing the dharma of someone else and
[1:14:20] trying to complete it even though you
[1:14:23] got wealth, you got prosperity, you got
[1:14:26] success, you got fame and so forth.
[1:14:29] People are doing that all the time,
[1:14:31] riding in on the backs of others,
[1:14:33] climbing up the ladder on the backs of
[1:14:35] others. But that person who knows that
[1:14:37] they have a dharma to fulfill from their
[1:14:40] past lifetimes and they come here and
[1:14:42] fulfill it with inside of the dharma,
[1:14:45] that's what he's most concerned about
[1:14:47] here. when he gives this very um strong
[1:14:50] opinion about it all and you know we we
[1:14:53] know the teaching about the four the the
[1:14:55] varnisha and you can see it there from
[1:14:59] bottom to top you might say the sudras
[1:15:01] or the workers they do selfless action
[1:15:05] consisting of service to all casts and
[1:15:08] all classes in the duty of the sudra
[1:15:11] born of their own nature so they haven't
[1:15:13] been dealt the best hand workers they
[1:15:16] don't have a a lot of wealth. They don't
[1:15:18] have everything working out perfect in
[1:15:20] their lives. They hopefully are getting
[1:15:22] the the uh uh blessings of God, right?
[1:15:28] And and da Lakmi basically
[1:15:31] may we be protected from the powerful.
[1:15:35] They're they're serving the powerful yet
[1:15:37] they're getting spurned by the powerful.
[1:15:39] So it's a very difficult level at that
[1:15:41] level of the worker the sudra and the
[1:15:45] outcast and and lower the untouchable.
[1:15:48] So um that's um
[1:15:52] a contradiction that's
[1:15:55] would would be nice to be rectified in
[1:15:57] this world if we ever see that. Gandhi
[1:15:59] was trying to do that. Well, basically
[1:16:01] you have this
[1:16:03] selfless person who's serving everyone
[1:16:06] yet nobody's giving them their due. So
[1:16:09] it's very difficult position to hold and
[1:16:12] it's why Krishna is giving this
[1:16:13] teaching. This varnishama is very
[1:16:16] ancient and has been going on for a long
[1:16:19] time only fell from its high position
[1:16:22] and its order in more recent times
[1:16:26] which happens in every kalyuga
[1:16:29] and in the cycle. Uh next you would go
[1:16:32] to the vishas agriculture, cattle
[1:16:35] raising, business of trade, selling and
[1:16:37] earning based in honesty. These are some
[1:16:40] of the duties of the vicea born of their
[1:16:43] own nature. So that nature you're born
[1:16:45] into, you're completing the the karma
[1:16:49] that's um connected to it. The you know
[1:16:52] the viais of it, the connections to it,
[1:16:55] you're completing that. And um these
[1:16:59] particular beings are definitely going
[1:17:00] to want the blessings of uh the goddess
[1:17:03] of agriculture, right? Food and so
[1:17:07] forth. when they plant their gardens,
[1:17:09] they're chanting the mantra of a goddess
[1:17:12] of harvests. Um that's that's done now
[1:17:16] even now in India by the farmers. They
[1:17:18] don't just go out there and say how much
[1:17:20] money can I make on this much acreage
[1:17:22] growing these kinds of plants and how
[1:17:25] much money can I save by not doing that
[1:17:27] and so forth. They're going out there
[1:17:28] and saying, you know, saying the mantra
[1:17:31] deluxe and saying, "May the harvest be
[1:17:32] fruitful, oh mother, and may it benefit
[1:17:35] all beings." What happened to that
[1:17:37] thought, you know, in our I guess
[1:17:39] otherwise, isn't it going to if you go
[1:17:41] out there in any other mindset, isn't it
[1:17:43] going to put
[1:17:45] an uh corruption in the food? Didn't we
[1:17:49] just say that last week? That pride in
[1:17:52] that field is got a defect in it before
[1:17:55] it even gets picked, before it even gets
[1:17:57] to the chef, before it gets to your
[1:17:59] table. Because someone stood there
[1:18:01] thinking that way about the whole field,
[1:18:03] right?
[1:18:05] I'll talk about your the depth of
[1:18:07] conscious living and what you have to do
[1:18:09] to be dharmic. Um something that needs
[1:18:12] to be looked at very deeply and for a
[1:18:15] long time by uh particularly by western
[1:18:18] cultures now as some of this ancient Vic
[1:18:21] wisdom and yogic practice sumpkick u
[1:18:26] cosmology
[1:18:27] and tantric worship gets into our
[1:18:30] culture by degrees.
[1:18:36] The chatrias are next. Heroism, vigor,
[1:18:39] firmness, resourcefulness, fearlessness
[1:18:42] during encounters, generosity, and
[1:18:45] lordliness are the qualities of the
[1:18:46] chhatrias. You're going to want to have
[1:18:49] some of these lakshmies on your side. If
[1:18:51] you're a warrior of a warrior class or
[1:18:54] cast, you can see how deep the dharma
[1:18:58] glows and how far the via and
[1:19:01] connections extend themselves
[1:19:03] inside of just a study of eight things
[1:19:06] that the goddess
[1:19:08] events for you. She exemplifies these
[1:19:11] things for everyone. You have to go back
[1:19:13] and study her.
[1:19:16] Wherever you find any goddess in our
[1:19:18] cultures in the west, where is the
[1:19:19] goddess? How can I go follow her? Who is
[1:19:23] she? Does she even exist? Nobody likes
[1:19:25] her.
[1:19:27] Even the women get the worst of of the
[1:19:29] world. So, you know, where's the goddess
[1:19:31] in all this? Oh, you go to India and
[1:19:33] she's all there is. You don't even have
[1:19:36] to scratch the surface very far to find
[1:19:41] Rama loving Sitta Krishna worshiping
[1:19:43] Raja. And Ramach Krishna is saying that
[1:19:45] shard is so powerful that she's the
[1:19:47] power and I can't even lift my own
[1:19:49] finger without her. So the goddess is
[1:19:51] there in everything and everywhere.
[1:19:54] She's in everything but she's not an
[1:19:56] object. She's everywhere but she
[1:19:59] transcends space
[1:20:01] and uh
[1:20:05] and she's uh permeating everything
[1:20:09] without being a form they say. So she is
[1:20:13] rather hard to find. So that's why all
[1:20:17] the more reason why we need to
[1:20:19] definitely scratch the surface of uh of
[1:20:22] some lack of goddess worship here and
[1:20:25] look at a teaching like this in the
[1:20:27] west.
[1:20:29] If kie frightens you and Sarati's behind
[1:20:33] beyond the can of your understanding,
[1:20:36] you don't have wisdom words and music
[1:20:38] and things in you. There she is.
[1:20:42] conducting everything in your life
[1:20:46] and the Brahmanas should know this. So
[1:20:48] if we go up to the final end of this
[1:20:50] teaching we uh connection to to uh
[1:20:55] Vijaya Lakshmi we're talking about then
[1:20:57] you can see that quote serenity
[1:20:59] self-restraint austerity purity
[1:21:02] forgiveness uprightness knowledge
[1:21:04] realization perception of what is and
[1:21:08] what is beyond life and death. These are
[1:21:10] qualities of the Brahmanas. Wow. That's
[1:21:14] I mean you see thehatrias and the
[1:21:15] Brahmanas have a lot of qualities that
[1:21:18] they've been given by the grace of
[1:21:20] Maharalakshmi. They have an abundance of
[1:21:23] everything and uh you know the the
[1:21:25] shudras don't have that abundance of
[1:21:27] wealth but the merchants do. They have
[1:21:30] an abundance of wealth. Usually they're
[1:21:32] successful. So this goddess of
[1:21:35] achievement, we just talked about this
[1:21:38] the goddess of food and pride, we talked
[1:21:40] about the goddess of of um being ready
[1:21:45] for any kind of challenges and trials
[1:21:47] and she'll sustain you through them if
[1:21:49] you persevere. All these goddesses when
[1:21:51] you look at them are are um so
[1:21:54] beneficial and worthy of your worship.
[1:21:58] um not not just on the merit alone of
[1:22:01] that you want to get things because
[1:22:02] that's sometimes a misrepresent
[1:22:05] misrepresentation of of what Lock me and
[1:22:07] who she really is but just because you
[1:22:11] want to be in harmony like this family
[1:22:13] you want to have a family that's always
[1:22:15] in harmony and doesn't have the problems
[1:22:17] of dysfunctional problems that are in
[1:22:19] the world I want to have a shakti
[1:22:22] relationship which is the essential u uh
[1:22:26] and pure a gender idea in India. If it's
[1:22:30] not the one, it's the two. If it has to
[1:22:32] come to the two, it's going to be Shiva
[1:22:33] and Shakti and they're going to get
[1:22:35] along perfectly and conduct matters um
[1:22:39] with like the rishies of India did with
[1:22:41] these great families that you look back
[1:22:44] on say what did my child do? A child
[1:22:47] wrote it wrote an aanad.
[1:22:50] What did that do? It liberated thousands
[1:22:53] of people and is still doing that now.
[1:22:57] millennia after my birth, right?
[1:23:09] Let's use the remain remaining minutes
[1:23:11] then to look at the final Lakshmi
[1:23:13] because we will we will arrive there.
[1:23:16] Uh and you know it's not like next week
[1:23:19] we can't continue this on a little bit
[1:23:21] about Lakshmi because it's Kali Puja and
[1:23:24] we'll be talking about her divine
[1:23:26] missiles. Uh but um it's not like we
[1:23:30] have to so you know be so um niggerly
[1:23:34] with our time you know we can we can
[1:23:37] give a little bit more attention to
[1:23:41] Vijay Lakmi because she's definitely a
[1:23:43] very powerful and final aspect of
[1:23:45] Mahalakshmi says there wisdom leading to
[1:23:48] higher truth
[1:23:50] based in intellectual growth and
[1:23:52] spiritual practice
[1:23:54] refineses awareness and you see the open
[1:23:57] book there as sort of her symbol. So
[1:24:00] each one of these has a symbol which is
[1:24:02] very nice. So that uh higher truth based
[1:24:06] on growth of the intellect and not just
[1:24:10] in lower lower knowledge because the
[1:24:12] intellect can grow in that but it has to
[1:24:15] be focused on that pressing the soma
[1:24:18] idea. So you want to be able to to take
[1:24:21] the wisdoms of of the rishies and the
[1:24:23] uponads. Take the wisdom of Shiva
[1:24:27] amongst the gods and goddesses. take the
[1:24:29] wisdom of
[1:24:31] your gurus, your spiritual perceptions
[1:24:33] that you met in your lifetimes and press
[1:24:37] it, you know, and come to that higher
[1:24:38] intellectual understanding
[1:24:40] um which is, you know, which goes beyond
[1:24:44] just um apara vija they call it in India
[1:24:47] and takes you to par vija. So that's why
[1:24:50] I brought this chart as a quick capper
[1:24:53] on the eight mahalakshmies
[1:24:56] that talks a little bit more about Fiji
[1:24:58] Lakshmi,
[1:25:00] the abundance of wisdom.
[1:25:03] Isn't that beautiful? That when you look
[1:25:05] at Lakshmi, you think wealth and you
[1:25:07] look at Sarati, you think wisdom. But if
[1:25:12] you look at them both at once and put
[1:25:13] them together, then you've got an
[1:25:14] abundance of wisdom.
[1:25:17] And so that's how um uh liberation is
[1:25:22] gained.
[1:25:23] Higher higher insight and understanding
[1:25:25] is gained by that precious commodity
[1:25:28] called ghana. Ganam atmaagan knowledge
[1:25:32] of your true self. I and my father are
[1:25:34] one kind of knowledge. Um in India then
[1:25:38] you could say that if you went to Vija
[1:25:41] Lakshmi and she wanted to show you the
[1:25:44] connections and how to grow
[1:25:46] intellectually then they would probably
[1:25:48] point you out if they were uh if they
[1:25:52] were really following the teachings of
[1:25:54] the ancient rishies like copula of sanka
[1:25:58] patanuli of yoga vavas of vadanta right
[1:26:02] so that's what these three this triple
[1:26:04] gem here is the three great philosophy
[1:26:06] ical footfalls of India.
[1:26:09] Centuries and millennia will come and go
[1:26:11] as India's sacred philosophical systems
[1:26:13] dissolve and reemerge continually. But
[1:26:17] these quantum leaps and spans of time
[1:26:21] never erode the intrinsic connections
[1:26:24] that bind these eternal daras fast into
[1:26:27] one inseparable and indestructible truth
[1:26:31] principle.
[1:26:33] So the aeri connections have been a big
[1:26:35] part of this teaching and here they are
[1:26:37] again you you have to um approach the
[1:26:41] lord of copula of of of sanka and say oh
[1:26:45] lord copula give me your wisdom what'll
[1:26:48] he do for you there you see he'll tell
[1:26:50] you about the 24 cosmic principles and
[1:26:52] you're walking the path now of ska
[1:26:55] inside the mind
[1:26:57] the next thing you'll find is there are
[1:27:00] eightfold powers
[1:27:02] Next thing you'll find is there's dar
[1:27:05] dar mula mula arta there are 10
[1:27:09] different uh teachings to get there then
[1:27:12] tvidya
[1:27:13] uh band mosha there are u
[1:27:18] three kinds of bondage and three kinds
[1:27:20] of liberation that's a beautiful
[1:27:22] teaching that comes from lord copula and
[1:27:25] sia
[1:27:27] nvada there are nine complacencies that
[1:27:31] you have to kind of examine and watch
[1:27:33] out for. And finally, yay, you know, so
[1:27:37] ancient with Lord Copula, it's why
[1:27:38] Krishna says of these great sages, uh,
[1:27:42] you know, I am copula
[1:27:44] triuna, right? He brought out the three
[1:27:47] gona teaching from the from the ancient
[1:27:50] scriptures and placed them in a context
[1:27:52] that we could that Patansi later in yoga
[1:27:56] could uh and vivas later in vant could
[1:27:58] make prominent for us in this day and
[1:28:00] age which right now is one of the
[1:28:03] greatest ways of um helping our mind get
[1:28:06] over its its imbalances. Oh there's the
[1:28:09] goona right the minute you become aware
[1:28:12] of the changes of your mind. Holy mother
[1:28:14] said then you become aware that that the
[1:28:16] mind is still under control of damas or
[1:28:20] sometimes rajas or sometimes sattva and
[1:28:23] pretty soon you're smoothing out all
[1:28:24] three and staying in sattva and that
[1:28:27] gets absorbed in pure sattva and you you
[1:28:30] go beyond triuna triunam you go beyond
[1:28:37] trunatita
[1:28:40] you go beyond the three goonas which is
[1:28:42] one of the names of Sharamak Krishna's
[1:28:44] great disciples.
[1:28:46] So that's all what we mean by taking to
[1:28:52] Vigilakshmi.
[1:28:54] Um you can't stand and complain in front
[1:28:57] of her and say I don't have any
[1:28:58] teachings. Oh well here take this trip.
[1:29:01] It's called sa yoga. Let's study it
[1:29:04] together. Let's press the soma from it.
[1:29:06] Right?
[1:29:08] Secondly then you see there's uh
[1:29:11] patanjula or patanula is a name for
[1:29:14] yoga. You see there's another pathway to
[1:29:16] follow which vijaya lakshmi is I'm sorry
[1:29:20] vigil is saying here take this path next
[1:29:24] and connect that 24 cosmic principle
[1:29:27] teaching you just got with all its
[1:29:29] facets to the practice of yoga. If
[1:29:32] you've managed to to see the goonas and
[1:29:35] get control of them, you're fit for
[1:29:37] yoga. So what does he give you first? U
[1:29:40] everything that Copula gave you as 24
[1:29:43] cosmic principles he gives you as
[1:29:44] alamanas.
[1:29:46] That's called alana yoga. So basically
[1:29:49] you're going to want to meditate on air,
[1:29:52] earth, fire, water and ether, seeing,
[1:29:54] tasting, touching, hearing, smelling,
[1:29:56] the five ton mantras, the five subtle
[1:29:58] senses
[1:30:00] and compare them all to your waking,
[1:30:02] dreaming and deep sleep state. So
[1:30:05] already patani is beginning to lean
[1:30:07] towards vanta when it does that
[1:30:11] only the alana is becoming a bit more
[1:30:14] refined in vant isn't it your ishum
[1:30:19] now you understand 24 cosmic principles
[1:30:21] and their their order and everything and
[1:30:24] how to practice them and get beyond them
[1:30:28] then you're ready to come before the
[1:30:30] form of lord and said I've accomplished
[1:30:31] that and uh And uh Vijay Lakshmi just
[1:30:36] told me I can get the highest truth from
[1:30:38] you now. Right. She's giving me
[1:30:41] abundance of truth.
[1:30:44] I want to be infinitely wealthy in the
[1:30:48] realm of spirituality.
[1:30:50] Ram Prasad sings in one of his songs.
[1:30:55] Well, beyond the alambanas, yes, it does
[1:30:58] connect to ashtanga eight limbs. Don't
[1:31:01] restrict it to just limb three and four
[1:31:03] please. It's not a hot the prana thing.
[1:31:06] This is the whole shooting match that
[1:31:08] will that will purify your whole system
[1:31:12] as that what this is what Lakshmi wants.
[1:31:15] Just like you don't want to restrict
[1:31:16] everything just to gaining wealth, lands
[1:31:18] and riches and all that. They also don't
[1:31:21] want to in yoga restrict it just to a
[1:31:23] body and breath. It's got to go much
[1:31:26] beyond that. In fact, it has to start
[1:31:27] with the yamas and nyamas which are now
[1:31:30] kind of in question in western cultures
[1:31:35] right from the very beginning. Aimsa
[1:31:38] nonviolence
[1:31:39] we have to look very seriously at
[1:31:41] nonviolence when all the wars are going
[1:31:43] on.
[1:31:45] So you're up the steps there and you're
[1:31:47] going on towards sa vigana right those
[1:31:49] are the seven great stages of knowledge
[1:31:51] which are where you're finding them
[1:31:54] inside of you by degrees there are seven
[1:31:57] lower and there are seven higher
[1:31:58] actually these are the seven higher ones
[1:32:02] and then you find the nine entouas that
[1:32:04] are trying to keep you from attaining
[1:32:08] that highest truth
[1:32:11] and uh at that point then you're you're
[1:32:13] well launched on the path of yoga You
[1:32:15] can see all of these paths leading to
[1:32:17] the highest mountains in the distance.
[1:32:21] And uh with the few minutes have we've
[1:32:25] gone over we'll take the last two
[1:32:27] minutes just to complete this because
[1:32:29] all of this leads to the beautiful and
[1:32:31] blessed path of adanta which is very
[1:32:34] universal in this time. Anyone can
[1:32:36] follow it. It's not even just purely
[1:32:39] Hindu anymore. Although I would say you
[1:32:41] can't take the Hindu out of it. Uh
[1:32:43] because you know this has come from a
[1:32:45] long time in mother India. M divine
[1:32:48] mother herself has been in India all
[1:32:51] this time whereas we haven't found her
[1:32:53] in other traditions very readily at all.
[1:32:56] So you can see there Vanta wants you to
[1:32:58] start out you know with a condensation
[1:33:01] of what Sia was giving you right uh and
[1:33:06] u by by
[1:33:09] condensing them all into you know your
[1:33:11] your koshas
[1:33:13] is your the five elements five senses
[1:33:15] and all of that and the inner senses and
[1:33:18] all that began to come straight across
[1:33:21] to the anamaya kosha the pranomaya kosha
[1:33:24] the monomaya kosha the began kosha and
[1:33:27] the nandanda mayak kosha five koshas. So
[1:33:31] that's how vant is going to consolidate
[1:33:33] all of this you learned in san yoga
[1:33:36] which is cosmology and practice and then
[1:33:38] turn it into realization. So you can
[1:33:40] look at everything and say, "Oh, I
[1:33:42] already know that. Here I am in a body.
[1:33:44] I know I'm not a body. Here I am with
[1:33:46] energy. I know I'm not energy. Here I am
[1:33:48] with the mind. I know I'm not the mind.
[1:33:50] Here I am with the intellect,
[1:33:53] but I know the intellect has to be
[1:33:55] expanded.
[1:33:56] And here I am with bliss, you know, my
[1:33:59] true self, the
[1:34:03] soant's
[1:34:04] cutting very high, starting the very
[1:34:06] high step. You can see next it wants you
[1:34:08] to do the four kinds of uh realize the
[1:34:12] four kinds of treasures in you and you
[1:34:15] know practice uh discrimination,
[1:34:17] detachment
[1:34:19] and inner peace, self-control and so
[1:34:21] forth. You have all of those in your
[1:34:23] mind because we've we've studied them so
[1:34:26] much before. And then just like yoga is
[1:34:29] taking the sapa vigana bumikas and
[1:34:32] telling you in vidanta they appear as
[1:34:35] they're called sa they're called
[1:34:37] sapagana chakshu a way of seeing ganam
[1:34:41] the third eye opens and you see this
[1:34:43] ganam is existing in you it's just like
[1:34:46] you're looking out from a high a high
[1:34:49] plateau and you can see everything down
[1:34:51] below you when the third eye opens
[1:34:53] Krishna says that when that eye opens
[1:34:56] you see everything and you see the lord
[1:34:57] Lord coming and going from place to
[1:34:59] place in many bodies. Very beautiful
[1:35:02] descriptions of it in the Gita.
[1:35:09] Ganachak shushah he says uh that
[1:35:13] ganachak shushaha the third eye has to
[1:35:16] open
[1:35:17] and then he says there are five elements
[1:35:19] and essential facts of non-dual
[1:35:21] philosophy come to the four in vdanta
[1:35:24] and get get studied and realized that's
[1:35:27] where one two three four leads from uh
[1:35:32] uh leads to advite
[1:35:36] the capper of it all the foundation
[1:35:38] underneath it all. It's both the
[1:35:39] foundation and the top of of the
[1:35:42] mountain includes everything and that
[1:35:45] gives you that essential non-dual wisdom
[1:35:48] that will lead to mokia from dharma. So
[1:35:52] how mahalakshmi then uh in eight aspects
[1:35:57] gives us this beautiful uh path of the
[1:36:00] goddess uh which
[1:36:04] happens to fall particularly under the
[1:36:07] important opus opus that I talked about
[1:36:10] starting out this class of your material
[1:36:14] uh abundance and your spiritual
[1:36:16] abundance both taken as important side
[1:36:20] by side That's what we need to do with
[1:36:23] the teachings that the the goddess has
[1:36:25] given us. So we went a little over but
[1:36:29] we did get uh to see everything that I
[1:36:32] had planned for this class and we'll go
[1:36:34] on towards next Sunday's Mahakali class
[1:36:37] since this Ki's birthday. So beautiful
[1:36:40] Navaratri first then Mahalakshmi then
[1:36:43] Kali then Jagadatri the holder of the
[1:36:46] world. That's all what you're having
[1:36:48] here with SRV in this month of Sundays
[1:36:52] on under the great umbrella of advite
[1:37:34] Rock team.
[1:37:54] Sh.
[1:38:09] Oh mother, supreme in human form,
[1:38:13] grant her of boounds and of bliss.
[1:38:16] distress of our souls. Remove us thou
[1:38:20] and givest us contentment and peace.
[1:38:24] For I for thine is the only ship that
[1:38:28] can ferry across this earthly sea.
[1:38:31] Oh great mother of the worlds,
[1:38:34] be our salutations ever unto thee.
[1:38:42] Oh
[1:38:44] shanty
[1:38:46] shanty
[1:38:48] shanty
[1:38:52] har
