Shrimad Bhagwatam (English) - Talk 31 | Swami Anubhavananda

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:28]They also have the same instruments through which we function such as the body, the speech, and the mind.

[00:00:43]They also come across similar problems like our health problems, the situation in the world.

[00:00:55]This is also common for them and us.

[00:01:01]And yet, the wise man perform better in this world.

[00:01:09]What is that which makes the difference in the performance of an average person and a wise man?

[00:01:23]The difference lies mainly on their ability to keep under their own control the faculty through which they are functioning.

[00:01:39]The secret of their success in life lies secondly on the clarity of their goal or destination that they are reaching.

[00:01:57]Third, how they interact in a given situation.

[00:02:04]So, these three points make all the difference between the wise and the otherwise man.

[00:02:14]Now, if we take these three factors, the clarity of vision about the goal.

[00:02:29]Now, then we function in this world, the stamina that is required for successful performance is drawn from the inspiration.

[00:02:48]An individual who is inspired, he is never short of stamina.

[00:02:57]He is never short of the dexterity which is required for So, where from we get the stamina?

[00:03:10]And how do we get inspired?

[00:03:13]Inspiration is drawn from the goal that is selected by us in life.

[00:03:22]And higher the goal, more difficult the goal is to achieve, more inspired we are.

[00:03:33]If our goal is to get a cup of tea after reaching the office, that a person reaches the office with perspiration, not with inspiration.

[00:03:48]And if a person has to get a lot of money because of something, some project, some meeting.

[00:03:59]If he has [clears throat] to go and meet somebody and he is going to get 1 million dollars in that meeting.

[00:04:10]A person who is going to office to get a cup of tea and the person who is going for a meeting where he is going to get 1 million dollars.

[00:04:23]There will be a different approach.

[00:04:28]This tea brand fellow he will say Such people neither have the vision nor have the greatness to give a chew in life.

[00:04:53]Therefore to have a success in life which is seen in the lives of the great master their success is drawn from the greatness of goal.

[00:05:10]Greater the goal more he will be great.

[00:05:16]Now what could be the goal for us?

[00:05:22]What is the greatest thing?

[00:05:25]That which is most difficult is the greatest.

[00:05:31]Now if our goal is that to sleep in a meditation class same thing.

[00:05:40]So then such a person doesn't have to be tired.

[00:05:43]He walks from there country to leader.

[00:05:49]So no Italian quarter of my What what could be the goal is difficult to achieve and with clearing higher and human very simple goal and very difficult at the same time.

[00:06:08]Keeping the mind under our total control.

[00:06:14]Everything about mind.

[00:06:17]First the mind should be the way we want.

[00:06:24]Second thing the mind has no freedom to offer suggestion.

[00:06:32]And third thing the mind must be available to us when we want.

[00:06:44]These three things are desired to be the goal of our life.

[00:06:52]>> [screaming] >> Then we will work sincerely to this end.

[00:06:59]Then different techniques are discovered by each seeker.

[00:07:07]As to what is that which disturbs our mind.

[00:07:15]How the mind language is away.

[00:07:21]And how we are taken to an unknown destination as if choice left me.

[00:07:30]So we will start in terms of what are those objects what are those people what are those situations in our life.

[00:07:44]our life because of our mind is taken away to discover that.

[00:07:55]And if we are able to discover that point number 1 2 3 4 5, these are the five points because of which the mind is disturbed.

[00:08:09]Then we act on these five points.

[00:08:12]Are these five points able to create disturbances in the mind because those five points have got the ability to disturb me or I have become a weakling before those five [clears throat] points.

[00:08:32]For example, let us take a simple example of a cup of tea.

[00:08:38]Now, a cup of tea in the morning if this is able to disturb me, then we find out is this cup of tea really capable enough to disturb everybody in the world?

[00:08:56]You will come to know that there are many people who don't get disturbed because they don't take tea.

[00:09:05]If some people are able to be undisturbed by a cup of tea and if I get disturbed because of a cup of tea, who is responsible?

[00:09:19]Not the cup of tea, but it is my slavery.

[00:09:24]It is my undue importance that I have given to that particular object.

[00:09:33]So, to control mind, what should intelligent approach?

[00:09:41]All those objects in this world to which we have given undue importance, they discover strength and ability to disturb us.

[00:09:59]If I have given importance to something or somebody, it is I alone who has to be ready to denounce that importance.

[00:10:16]And it is not something new. This is what we all do.

[00:10:21]We only have decided this is very important.

[00:10:26]And then we only get disturbed.

[00:10:29]For example, once there was a marriage in Arya Samaj tradition.

[00:10:39]Now, these Arya Samaj people, they don't believe in muhurta.

[00:10:46]And therefore, they feel that a proper muhurta according to Jyotisha Shastra is avoided because they don't believe.

[00:10:57]And I was also supposed to go and bless the couple.

[00:11:05]So, I reached there and they had announced that the marriage will be taking place at 9:00.

[00:11:14]And the Panditji has not come.

[00:11:18]And the time was waiting.

[00:11:20]So, the other the father-in-law and the mother and mother-in-law, everybody was disturbed and agitated.

[00:11:30]Then they came, "Swami Ji, what is to be done?

[00:11:34]I said, never mind, I will switch off my watch.

[00:11:40]And then wait till the pandit comes.

[00:11:42]They will start 9:00 and then leave.

[00:11:45]Oh, no, no, not like that.

[00:11:47]We have decided to do at 9:00. We must do it.

[00:11:51]I said, who has decided?

[00:11:53]You have decided.

[00:11:54]Now you decide.

[00:11:55]We will do it after pandit ji comes.

[00:12:00]But will it be right? Actually, what is right, what is wrong?

[00:12:05]You see, you have removed the whole plan from below our feet.

[00:12:10]This is what we do in life.

[00:12:12]I said, you are according to Adi Shankara, do not believe in muhurta.

[00:12:19]What is muhurta?

[00:12:21]It's a particular time that is fixed.

[00:12:25]Instead of the time it is according to your and my whims and fancies, we use some particular science, Jyotisha Shastra, according to that we fix the time. Either you fix the time according to the muhurta or you fix the time according to your convenience.

[00:12:44]We only have fixed the time and then we are dancing to the tune of that time. And when we are not able to do it, we get frustrated.

[00:12:55]So, why don't you do this thing? Change the whole attitude. We will have the marriage in the morning after pandit ji comes. Relax.

[00:13:04]Where is the dividend?

[00:13:06]I said, this is the how we create problems for ourselves.

[00:13:12]We decide that we will reach a particular place at 7:00.

[00:13:19]It is a good, we should decide.

[00:13:22]We should put forward effort, no doubt about it.

[00:13:26]But that doesn't That should not become an obsession.

[00:13:33]And when it becomes an obsession, what happens is we are prone to disturbance.

[00:13:44]And we ourselves have created this situation.

[00:13:48]Therefore, if we want to have proper control over the running of our mind on account of any cause, we will all discover that we have given undue importance to that particular person, to that particular object, or to that particular situation.

[00:14:15]And because of our giving importance to that, we get disturbed.

[00:14:22]What is required, we have to devalue.

[00:14:25]And when we devalue, we see the life becomes beautiful. For example, we should be punctual, we should be sincere, we should do our level best.

[00:14:38]There is no doubt about it.

[00:14:41]But, to expect everybody to be punctual, everybody to be the best, everybody to be perfect is the height of foolishness.

[00:14:55]It can never happen.

[00:14:59]>> [clears throat] >> I read a story in a magazine.

[00:15:04]There was a man and a woman married, love marriage.

[00:15:11]And they were after the love was over, then they got married.

[00:15:21]>> [laughter] >> And after marriage, what will you start?

[00:15:26]Dharmakṣetra Kurukṣetra.

[00:15:29]So, when they got married, within a period of a year or two, the first Tuesday night when all the marriage evening, so the young couple has only place and they okay, you just you should be very much really very much over. Then I blessed them.

[00:15:55]I said, I give you three blessings.

[00:15:58]First blessing, first 10 years of your marriage, you are mad for each other.

[00:16:06]You only for each other, nothing else.

[00:16:10]You become so mad, not at each other, but for each other.

[00:16:19]Then the second 10 years, they made for each other.

[00:16:26]You sacrifice for each other.

[00:16:31]And thereafter, whole life only for each other.

[00:16:36]And whatever way you understand, only for each other.

[00:16:39]That way you can apply.

[00:16:42]So, like that there was a couple got married.

[00:16:46]And within a period of a year or two, there was a discord in the family.

[00:16:53]Because she was a totally different kind.

[00:16:59]She was wilder in her perspective.

[00:17:04]And very disorganized.

[00:17:07]Where are the things will be there.

[00:17:10]She will be never properly dressed.

[00:17:13]She will never arrange any place properly.

[00:17:16]And this boy, very methodical, very deep thought, everything perfect.

[00:17:22]And she was exactly equally not That was one reason.

[00:17:30]Which was creating a commotion in their life.

[00:17:34]And ultimately they decided that we cannot stay together.

[00:17:41]So she said even if we cannot stay together, yet we should stay together.

[00:17:49]You should, but I can't. You don't You don't stay with me. I stay.

[00:17:54]>> [laughter] >> And she was not disturbed by that.

[00:17:59]And then he knew that she is not bad. She's just like that.

[00:18:05]And anyway, you want me to stay in separate room?

[00:18:11]So like they continued.

[00:18:13]And then one day this man he goes to her and takes her, "Let's go to Chowpatty."

[00:18:24]And goes to Chowpatty.

[00:18:26]And whatever she used to like that bhel puri he used to like because I star.

[00:18:34]And she was multi-star.

[00:18:36]>> [laughter] >> Everybody is here, who is there?

[00:18:42]See how many people are enjoying life.

[00:18:44]Why do you become a danger? What is wrong with that? Stand properly.

[00:18:49]>> [laughter] >> Is it a photographic session?

[00:18:55]And then he thought, "Let me be with her."

[00:18:58]And she was very stylish.

[00:19:01]Very comfortable everywhere, talking to even that bhel puri wala, anybody, and very lovingly.

[00:19:09]And when he went there he found that she was so popular.

[00:19:15]>> [laughter] >> Anybody, whether it is a big man owning a big industry or is it the ordinary rickshaw walla, with everybody she had a friendship.

[00:19:29]And this man has created a prison wall around himself.

[00:19:35]An isolated living in imprisonment, created by himself.

[00:19:42]And then he decided, "Anyway, how does it matter?

[00:19:48]I have been living so systematically and I am systematically miserable.

[00:19:55]And she is leading a life so free of all tensions. She is also happy and everybody wants her. And with my methodicity, with my perfection, everybody keeps me away.

[00:20:10]What is this perfection for? To make me perfectly miserable?

[00:20:15]Or what is the purpose of life?

[00:20:18]The purpose of life is let us express joy at every moment."

[00:20:26]From that day he changed his attitude away from perfection.

[00:20:33]You be perfect as you should be.

[00:20:36]But the world we have to accept Now, in this when this is done, will that man ever get disturbed because of his wife? No.

[00:20:49]Because now he had accepted her as she is.

[00:20:55]So, what is the principle?

[00:20:57]What disturbs us is the undue importance that we have given to the worldly objects.

[00:21:06]And thereafter, we want the whole world to behave according to our mind's dictation. It will never happen.

[00:21:18]And when this is understood, you will see your mind will not entertain any poisonous weed which will destroy the fragrance of beauty within.

[00:21:35]Such a mind is absolutely calm.

[00:21:39]Such a mind is undisturbed.

[00:21:44]And if this is the goal you keep in life, that nothing should disturb you.

[00:21:53]Not people should be like this, things should be like this. Our goal should be we don't get disturbed.

[00:22:01]Now, if that is the goal, you will see you will discover your own technique.

[00:22:06]How to control the mind.

[00:22:08]Because the goal is clear.

[00:22:10]Like you have got the crash-proof watch, waterproof watch, in the same manner, we should have disturbance-proof mind.

[00:22:22]The mind that refuses to get disturbed.

[00:22:28]This is how the great mahatmas live with their disciples.

[00:22:35]>> [laughter] >> Om swasti >> Hari Om.

[00:24:37]Hari Om.

[00:24:45]Hari Om.

[00:24:51]Hari Om.

[00:24:54]Hari Om.