1st and 3rd Sunday Study 6-21-26 Class 2 with Swami Tattvavidananda - Ishavasya Upanishad Mantra 16

[00:01:59]Mhm.

[00:02:12]>> [clears throat] [clears throat] >> So that first and third weekend the students have will have a flavor of the open a shot.

[00:03:44]So it is the prayer.

[00:03:47]Portion prayer at the time of death It also there.

[00:03:53]When is the death?

[00:03:56]Tomorrow or after 100 tomorrows?

[00:04:01]Not tomorrow, not after 100 tomorrows.

[00:04:03]It is now.

[00:04:06]Death is where life is.

[00:04:10]Breathe in life. Breathe out death.

[00:04:14]And uh it is What happened is I am a bit amazed how things work.

[00:04:22]Uh in orthodox circles, particularly in the circles of uh the so-called traditionalists, we should not talk about death.

[00:04:37]Even Vinoba Bhave mentioned it.

[00:04:40]When he talked about death, the people were aghast. "Oh, what are you talking about?"

[00:04:46]We have a proverb in Telugu, while sitting inside the house, you don't talk of death.

[00:04:54]There is a proverb like that.

[00:04:57]Like in the local to me, like that there is a proverb.

[00:05:00]So, we should not talk of death.

[00:05:03]There is a sutram, an aphorism, which says mrutih smrutih shuddhaye.

[00:05:12]When you think of death, your mind becomes pure.

[00:05:18]Suppose uh you are planning to expand your business, say.

[00:05:24]Think of death.

[00:05:26]Then this ambition will move out.

[00:05:30]And your mind becomes free from ambition, selfishness, greed. It becomes free from all that.

[00:05:38]The very contemplation, mrutih smrutih, you contemplate upon death, shuddhaye.

[00:05:46]It leads to purity of heart.

[00:05:49]The sutra is by Vinoba Bhave.

[00:05:52]Vinoba Bhave made sutras about Gita.

[00:05:56]Gita mainly. Upanishads and Gita go parallel.

[00:06:01]Uh they are called Samata Sutrani. That is the name given to those sutras.

[00:06:07]From there came this sutra Murti Smruti Shuddhaye.

[00:06:13]Because in the eighth chapter of Gita a similar discussion is there.

[00:06:18]So Poshan, hey Poshan, we have explained in Bhashya.

[00:06:22]Hey Poshan Jagat Poshanat Pusha Ravihi Pusha is Ravihi.

[00:06:33]Okay?

[00:06:34]Uh they made many devatas. That is another way of looking at it.

[00:06:39]Pusha is one devata. Mitra is another Mitraha, another devata. Ravihi, another devata. Aditya, another devata. There are 12 Adityas. Why 12? Like 12 months.

[00:06:53]The sun is different in every month. The earlier sun, he will do his duty for 1 month and he will go away and then new sun comes.

[00:07:03]As if that is how they count.

[00:07:06]Okay?

[00:07:07]So that is the Bheda Buddhi.

[00:07:09]But then Pusha is another devata. Somebody has a slapped him and he lost all his teeth like me. So like that.

[00:07:19]That is not a Upanishad. That is not a Veda. Okay?

[00:07:22]It is Veda Upanishad where all divisions are erased. So Pusha is Ravihi. The sun.

[00:07:29]Okay?

[00:07:30]And why Jagat Poshanat? Very well said.

[00:07:34]We have seen this. Photosynthesis is the origin of life on this earth.

[00:07:40]All life.

[00:07:41]So Tatha Eka Eka war of Shakti get Shakti it the air cut Shakti a rush of the total that it the heart to air cut Shakti he he moves or travels all alone that is the air cut Shakti and for this also I mentioned he has a chariot that are seven horses and somebody who drives those that tall those chariot that heart those horses etc. That is all story very symbolic.

[00:08:16]Seven horses represent seven la- race with GR and dusk how the sun is about to come how do you know? First you see the Usha's the dusk.

[00:08:31]So, half light that period which he which he proclaims the about the sun is about to arrive.

[00:08:41]That period is the that comes first then sun comes that is the driver of the chariot called a new who that is the name given to the chariot. So, Surya is going with his chauffeur and horses not like that.

[00:08:59]That that is all symbolic. I'm sorry to say I don't know whether you have noticed in India even today I'm saying from India I came from India you know. That's why I'm saying about India.

[00:09:13]So, I'm sorry to say even now they believe that there are horses at least flat sun goes like that.

[00:09:23]I told you with Arthur body Jataha look at the name of the book.

[00:09:28]So, earth is flat sun goes round and he is he indeed sits in a chariot somebody drives the chariot he doesn't have legs.

[00:09:38]He's a very lame person, but to drive the chariot you don't need legs.

[00:09:44]Hands you need.

[00:09:45]He holds the reins and he drives the seven horses which are yoked to the chariot and that is how the sun travels.

[00:09:55]They literally believe it, literally, even today.

[00:10:00]Very sad.

[00:10:01]What else can you say?

[00:10:04]But here you look at it. All these things are not there. Akashi.

[00:10:09]Ha Akashe.

[00:10:13]What is this Ha Akashe?

[00:10:16]So I mean not Ha, He, He.

[00:10:20]He Sandhi becomes Ha.

[00:10:22]Ha Akashe.

[00:10:24]Break it. He Akashe.

[00:10:27]So it is the Sambodhana for Akashi.

[00:10:30]Sambodhana Prathama Vibhakti becomes Akashe.

[00:10:34]In Hrasvat Sambuddhe, like that there is a Sutra I suppose.

[00:10:40]So Hari He Hare.

[00:10:44]Tatha Sarvasya Samyamanaat.

[00:10:49]Yamaha He Yama.

[00:10:53]Yama is not the God of death and all that.

[00:10:56]God of death is sun. Sun is considered the God of death.

[00:11:01]So um uh Asau As uh uh uh Asau Ya Udethi The Mantra the sun is uh coming up. Sa Sarvesham Bhutanam Pranaanaadayoti.

[00:11:24]Like that there is a Anuvaka, a paragraph in Aruna Prashna which is all about sun.

[00:11:31]So while he is in the east, he's taking away all the life forms of their their lifespan from all the life forms that are on the earth. That is how he's coming up.

[00:11:45]Therefore, sun coming up, it is a proclamation of impending death.

[00:11:52]Then as you stir mighty, now he's setting.

[00:11:57]So, what are the other aspects of mighty? That is the mantra.

[00:12:05]So, one more time, he's setting. In the process, he's taking away another piece of lifespan from all the life forms on the earth. So, sun's rise and sun's set setting, they are markers of impending death.

[00:12:25]We are hurtling towards death by one more step, one more step.

[00:12:30]That is the sun. So, sun is the god of death.

[00:12:34]That is one meaning. Another meaning, sun Yama the Yama sun Yama it is.

[00:12:40]Drop some Yama the sun Yama the Yama.

[00:12:44]One who commands and controls everything this universe.

[00:12:48]You see the universal mind what is also called cosmic mind, cosmic consciousness. Sometimes called cosmic person makes and un-makes everything. It makes and un-makes everything.

[00:13:02]So, life infinite, [snorts] like the cosmic person the life that doesn't change you know, that is the same. It is infinite, undivided, ever present, and ever active.

[00:13:17]Always controlling and commanding things in this universe, starting from atoms to stars and galaxies. That is the universal power. that power is called Yama and therefore address will be Hey Yama.

[00:13:34]You see, you have to understand that there is a power.

[00:13:38]You can contemplate upon it. You can relate to it, but you cannot define it.

[00:13:45]It's a mysterious power that creates and moves everything.

[00:13:52]Plants, if you go to into your forest, if you step into the forest you find older trees, medium aged trees and the new trees are coming and those trees which have died they are falling. They are degenerating and bio-degeneration that bio-degradation they merge in the soil. So, all processes are going.

[00:14:16]So, it is the mysterious power which makes the older trees die, which makes the middle-aged and young trees grow and which makes the seeds sprout and which makes the degradation of the fallen trees. It is a mysterious power.

[00:14:35]Same thing applies to human societies.

[00:14:37]People become old and they yield place to the new.

[00:14:42]There is a statement like that Lord Tennyson, the old yieldeth the place to the new. Something like that. So, that power it makes everything, it unmakes everything, creates everything, moves everything. That is the power, it is called Yama.

[00:15:01]That's why in Vedanta Yama is the sun god, that is the Yama.

[00:15:08]Who ends everything.

[00:15:10]But in Purana what happened this is cinema Purana rather.

[00:15:14]There is a very the Yama you must have seen in the movies. He is very stout and black riding a water buffalo male water buffalo having a rope in his hand like all these cowboys.

[00:15:31]They carry a rope in their kit. So like that this Yama also carries a rope and a one mason his shoulders with a mustache and all that.

[00:15:42]That is the kind of Yama they they imagine. It's okay they're good to their imagination who am I to say one way or the other.

[00:15:52]But that is not the Yama here.

[00:15:54]Here Yama [snorts] is the address to the rising sun. Hey Yama.

[00:16:00]Tath Rashmi nam Prana nam Rasana nam cha Swikaranat Suryaha.

[00:16:12]He's called Suryaha. You know what he You know that rope they put in the hands of this stout Yama. That rope is a symbolic. It means the rays of the sun. The ray Rashmi.

[00:16:30]It means a rope which is used to tie things and also it means the ray ray of sun. So the rays of sun fall upon us.

[00:16:39]They may not fall upon us if you go outside they will fall upon you. You may be sitting inside also but they do their job. What? They take away a piece of your life.

[00:16:51]Just like the rays of sun fall upon a water pond and by evening the water pond has lost some of its water. Some water is evaporated. The sun has pulled up all the water. So he's pulling up all the water through through the rays infrared rays and he's pulling up all our lives also a piece of our life is pulled away by those rays. This is what he's doing.

[00:17:20]So, Rashminam means the prana nam rasanam just we got an a Surya. Surya had etymology sweekaro the Surya.

[00:17:33]There is a dhatu.

[00:17:35]So, who pulls towards himself, that is the sun. Pulls what? He throws out rays and pulls them back. And in the process, he pulls back all the moisture on the surface of the earth.

[00:17:51]From the trees, from the leaves, from the ponds, from everything, moisture is pulled back.

[00:17:56]And also moisture is life. Up away prana.

[00:18:01]So, up away prana up away prana like that you must have heard in Chandogya.

[00:18:08]So, water is life.

[00:18:10]And food is not life. Food is manaha.

[00:18:14]Annamayam. Annamayam apomayam prana. Tejomayi vak. So, food is not the prana. Food is mind. Means your mind is what you eat.

[00:18:30]Therefore, eat properly because it becomes the mind. Eat sattvic food, mind becomes a sattvic. Rajassic food, mind becomes a rajassic. Not only eating, drinking also included. Rajassic things you consume.

[00:18:45]So, my tamasic mind becomes a tamasic.

[00:18:48]Man is what he eats.

[00:18:51]Annamayam his omniam anaha.

[00:18:54]And life is waters.

[00:18:57]Therefore, he takes away waters, which means he takes away life. That's why he's called Surya. Hey Surya.

[00:19:08]You see, uh like a is the beginning of all alphabet.

[00:19:14]A alone becomes everything. In Sanskrit we say like that. Akshara nam karosmi.

[00:19:21]All syllables, 52 of them in Sanskrit, 26 in English, double in Sanskrit, 52.

[00:19:29]All of them begin with a. And I am that a.

[00:19:34]Why? What is the greatness of a? A alone becomes every other syllable.

[00:19:39]A becomes ka.

[00:19:41]A a ka ha ga gha everything is a a a only.

[00:19:47]You allow that the voice box to be twisted a little while saying a. Like a.

[00:19:53]Put some aspiration into it. Ha.

[00:19:58]You said ha only. Put aspiration into it it becomes saha.

[00:20:03]Say a but put some something whatever you need to put you put it. A a ka.

[00:20:10]A becomes a ka kha ga gha nga.

[00:20:14]So akuhavisarjaniyaanam kanthaha. That is how.

[00:20:20]Therefore a becomes everything. Now you say put the mouth not like a a lot like that.

[00:20:27]Like that you put. You say a.

[00:20:31]Say a.

[00:20:33]It becomes u.

[00:20:34]So just by changing the position of the mouth a becomes u.

[00:20:41]You put like this and say a.

[00:20:45]>> [laughter] >> It becomes e.

[00:20:47]Okay. So a becomes everything.

[00:20:51]Vowels, consonants, everything. Akshara nam karosmi Gita. So similarly a is the a is everything of the alphabets.

[00:21:01]Similarly God is everything of this entire creation.

[00:21:06]And that God is in the form of sun before us, origin of this universe.

[00:21:11]That is the meaning of Prajapati.

[00:21:14]Okay?

[00:21:15]Prajapater apatyam Prajapatyah Prajapati means the originator of the entire life on the in this universe.

[00:21:27]That is the Prajapati.

[00:21:28]And one aspect of that Prajapati is in the form of solar orb.

[00:21:36]Moon is another aspect. Other planets are also different aspects of the same Prajapati. More than planets, all other stars are also aspects of Prajapati.

[00:21:46]Because the star star is a burning orb.

[00:21:51]Planets are just sitting there material things. The star is burning.

[00:21:56]Why the universe is warm?

[00:22:00]Universe is warm, you know, there is heat.

[00:22:03]Even in Antarctica also there is some heat.

[00:22:07]Also, universe is warm because the stars are burning.

[00:22:13]And who put the stars burning there?

[00:22:15]Prajapati.

[00:22:17]And one of the stars is sun. That's why Prajapati apatyam, the offspring of Prajapati.

[00:22:24]Then he's called Prajapatyah.

[00:22:27]That is the name of God in the form of the solar's [snorts] orb. Therefore, you see whatever is great and wonderful, that is God.

[00:22:39]Yad yad vibhutimat sattvam yat tad urjitam eva va tat tad devavagachchatvam mama tejomsha sambhavam.

[00:22:51]Gita Wherever you find something great, something wonderful, that is God.

[00:22:58]One aspect of God.

[00:23:00]Same is the case with the sun. So, he's a sun Prajapati is the God.

[00:23:06]Prajapati is a the originator of all life, that is God.

[00:23:11]Prajayante Prajaha.

[00:23:13]Praja in Sanskrit is progeny in English.

[00:23:18]One and the same.

[00:23:20]So, the originator of all life is Prajapati. His offspring is Prajapatya.

[00:23:28]Make it into Sambodhana. Hey Prajapatyam.

[00:23:34]So, these are all the addresses of the God in the setting sun.

[00:23:40]Now, the sun is withdrawing his rays.

[00:23:42]Vyuhum.

[00:23:44]Vigamaya.

[00:23:46]Rashmin Swan.

[00:23:50]Please withdraw.

[00:23:52]Vigamaya withdraw gather up. Vigamaya means to spread.

[00:23:57]Vigamaya gather up. Gather up means what? Withdraw the rays.

[00:24:03]So, you see the sun spreads all his rays in the while he is rising and uh covers the entire world universe. In particular, the globe thereby making life possible. All life is a direct product of the sunlight.

[00:24:24]Everything is born from sunlight.

[00:24:26]Without sunlight, there is no life.

[00:24:29]And therefore, sun is in every life form because when you are eating a a vegetable, you are eating canned sunlight.

[00:24:43]How is that?

[00:24:46]Suppose you are eating a gulab jamun.

[00:24:49]It is not gulab jamun. It is sunlight.

[00:24:51]Where is sunlight? It is canned. Canned food will be available, in you, So, the canned sunlight is available as gulab jamun, as laddu, as rice, as curries, as sambar. All of it is canned sunlight. That is what you are eating.

[00:25:09]Therefore, the sun is not just a sitting there.

[00:25:14]He's everywhere. He's through rays, he creates this entire universe. That's why the God is the painter who is in the picture.

[00:25:26]Sun is the creator who is in the creation. He's in you, in me, everywhere. There is sun in the form of calories. This is one interesting thing which you should know. Scientists should know this anyway. Even the non-scientists also, particularly students of Vedanta should know it.

[00:25:43]So, food is measured in calories. Do you know that?

[00:25:48]They measure in calories. If you go to Dunkin' Donuts, he will tell 330 calories, 420 calories, 350.

[00:25:56]He doesn't say old-fashioned donut, new donut, old donut. He He doesn't say that. He puts calories there.

[00:26:03]That means you are eating calories. And you are not eating donuts, you are eating calories. Calories is the measure of heat. Heat is measured in calories.

[00:26:14]That is the unit for heat. And the heat is coming from the sun.

[00:26:19]Very nice. The painter is in the picture. Unfortunately, people drink the buddhi, dualistic thought. They separate the picture from the painter and search for the painter.

[00:26:34]That is how people do.

[00:26:35]Hey rabba, why you Why you asked him to separate? You don't separate. When you don't separate, there is no search here left. Therefore, that is how the sun is understood here, prajapatya.

[00:26:48]Vyuha vigamaya rashmin swan. Now, it is time you have spread yourself through the race into this entire globe. Now it is time he's setting. So gather up all your race and pull back.

[00:27:09]Read the prayer, you know. Read the prayer.

[00:27:12]So you should be alert to these truths of life.

[00:27:17]You should be alert to see God in all these phenomena. Sun rising God, sun setting God. So sadha savadhana bhavya.

[00:27:30]You should always be alert to the presence of God.

[00:27:35]What happens with us is we think of God only when we enter into a temple.

[00:27:43]Once you come out of the temple, now it is time to forget about God.

[00:27:49]Like that.

[00:27:51]Once uh I was inside a temple, a rowdy the there are rowdies, you know, in India we have.

[00:27:59]The gang leaders.

[00:28:01]They are there in our midst, they are there. They are nice people.

[00:28:05]They have their own lifestyle.

[00:28:07]So the rowdy he's always surrounded by three rowdies in preparation, younger rowdies.

[00:28:15]So he enters the he they great devotees.

[00:28:18]They give donations to the all Ganapathi utsava is done by the rowdies only.

[00:28:23]Nayakan you must have known.

[00:28:25]Anyway >> [laughter] >> so he comes into the temple. I knew him.

[00:28:30]There are three of his supporters. I was sitting inside. He's telling that Are there?

[00:28:37]We are going inside the temple.

[00:28:39]Talk properly. Don't talk to the normal language. We street language don't talk.

[00:28:45]Understand? They said how about then they came inside.

[00:28:50]And then the moment he steps out of the temple, now you can talk anything.

[00:28:56]This is the attitude. I told the example of a rowdy. Maybe we are not much different from that. So, it should not be like that. Sadashiva Nena Bhavyam and a foreign zone by Vinoba Bhave from Samata Sutras. You should always be alert to the truth, awake to the real. You should be awake to the real. Sadha, there is the real.

[00:29:22]The sun in the morning, rising sun, setting sun. Sat. In between, that is the real. Why do you search for real unreal here and there? So, ever be ready.

[00:29:36]And so, Samuha Ekikuru.

[00:29:42]The idea is when the sun rises, all the rays which are inside him as one, let us say, have now become spread out as multiple countless rays.

[00:29:57]>> [snorts] >> Now, the reverse process, the reverse thing happens. All the rays are gathered up and they are pulled inside. They become one.

[00:30:08]Vigamaya, gather up. Samuha, make them into one in yourself. So, that is the idea. That's why he says, Upasamhara.

[00:30:19]Te Te Jaha. That is the meaning of Ekikuru Samuha. Means your brilliance. Te Jaha is the brilliance.

[00:30:29]The word Te Jaha means light plus heat.

[00:30:33]Put together, it is called Te Jaha.

[00:30:36]It is only the wavelength difference, you know.

[00:30:39]Light is a certain band of wavelengths on this side on the red side. And you go beyond the red side, you get heat.

[00:30:49]They all put uh taking some heat also.

[00:30:52]You hear You see the heat of the sun.

[00:30:54]Heat and light put together is called teja. So, oh sun, it is time for you to withdraw all this tejas, the heat and light.

[00:31:06]Tavakam jyotihi. Tavakam means that which belongs to you. Jyotihi, the brilliance. It is time to withdraw. You are setting.

[00:31:17]Okay?

[00:31:23]Don't get disappointed because you will come back tomorrow morning again.

[00:31:28]Not to get disappointed.

[00:31:31]Not to be disappointed at all. Suppose someone goes, not to be disappointed, not to be unhappy. Nirasha naiva.

[00:31:39]Sutram.

[00:31:40]Don't be disappointed. He will come back tomorrow.

[00:31:43]And similarly, some elderly person has gone, not to be disappointed. Why do you Why do you cry? Some other child will appear elsewhere.

[00:31:53]So, that that is the spirit in which you have to look at the sun who is the god of death, Yama.

[00:32:01]Then look at the mantra.

[00:32:03]Tejo rashmin samoha teja. Teja there it should be comma.

[00:32:08]Not after samoha.

[00:32:10]Samoha teja.

[00:32:12]Te teja tavakam jyotihi upasanghara. You withdraw that. All light as well as heat, you withdraw.

[00:32:22]Then the mantra goes, "Yat te rupam kalyanatamam tat te pashyami."

[00:32:30]This is the prayer.

[00:32:31]>> [snorts] >> You have a form.

[00:32:34]The most ferocious and frightening and also the most enjoyable and soothing soothing form.

[00:32:42]You have both ghora aghora.

[00:32:47]In Rudra they say So, Lord Shiva has a frightening form as well as very pleasing form.

[00:32:55]So, ya te Rudra Shiva tanur aghora papakashini.

[00:33:03]You must have heard.

[00:33:04]So, hey Rudra, ya te Shiva tanu.

[00:33:08]Your form which is very auspicious, aghora, not frightening, apapakashini, which which presents before us the glory of punya.

[00:33:23]Apapa is punya.

[00:33:25]Okay?

[00:33:26]So, like that it is described.

[00:33:29]Rudra is the sun.

[00:33:31]What you call Rudra?

[00:33:33]It is sun.

[00:33:34]Because if you go to Rudra adhyaya, you see soon asau yo vasarpati.

[00:33:42]Asau the sun.

[00:33:44]Yaha avasarpati, rising up and up and up.

[00:33:48]Nilagrivo vilohitaha.

[00:33:51]Look at the horizon eastern horizon when the sun is rising.

[00:33:56]It is a here and there there are a few black clouds and most of it is a ready.

[00:34:04]Vilohitaha. All over ready. Nilagrivaha.

[00:34:09]Here and there a few black clouds are hanging. That is the nilagrivo vilohitaha. That is the rising sun.

[00:34:19]Not some gentleman sitting somewhere.

[00:34:21]He's very ready person.

[00:34:23]And then he has a black spot here.

[00:34:26]Okay, you can take like that if you wish. But that means this.

[00:34:31]This is not that that symbolizes this.

[00:34:46]To see the glory of God who is in the form of the sun, you need not be highly educated and uh qualified highly qualified person.

[00:34:57]You can be as illiterate as a cowherd cowherd, not cowboy.

[00:35:05]Cowherd.

[00:35:07]So, gopa adrusham. Gopa they protect the cows.

[00:35:13]Cowboys don't protect the cows. Okay, you know that very well.

[00:35:17]So, they protect the cows. So, he's a cowherd boy.

[00:35:22]Uh cowherd he helps the cows.

[00:35:26]And uh uneducated, that means uneducated. And he looks at the god of sun. In India, they do namaskar also.

[00:35:35]They the cowherd boys, they look at the sun and do namaskar.

[00:35:39]And then uh udahar yaha, the uneducated village ladies young and middle-aged. Old people cannot carry the pitcher with water on their shoulders. So, udahar yaha, they go outside the village to fetch water in their pitchers. They go with empty pitchers and fill the with water and bring for drinking purposes. In India, the villages used to be like that.

[00:36:04]Nowadays, Nal Se Jal, our Prime Minister's program is in operation. So, you get the tap water into your home, but in those days, you have to carry the water. And those ladies, while carrying the water on their shoulders towards walking towards the home with a heavy burden of water on their shoulders, they look up at the sun.

[00:36:29]They are looking direct into the face of God.

[00:36:34]This is Veda.

[00:36:36]So, for them, the painter is in the painting, not elsewhere.

[00:36:43]So, your form, the most auspicious that form of yours I am looking at the deity mantra. Pashya. Yatte tava rupam The means of tava Whatever form you have What kind of form? Kalyana tamam Atyanta shobhanam The most inspiring, most pleasing That is the atyanta shobhanam rupam The rising sun in the eastern horizon nilagrivo vilohitaha That is the form.

[00:37:26]For that, you need not be a highly qualified person. You need not be a solar physicist.

[00:37:32]There are people who are to study solar physics. You need not be a scholar of solar physics.

[00:37:38]You can be as illiterate as a cowherd boy and look at or a village illiterate young woman and look at the glory of the sun which is the most fascinating and inspiring. Same thing applies to the setting sun also.

[00:37:58]Okay? Rising and setting.

[00:38:02]Tatte tava Atmana prasadat Pashyami I am looking at your form, the most auspicious. Of course, it is the setting sun. Most auspicious form form I am looking at it.

[00:38:20]What I am looking at is not different from my own innermost self.

[00:38:28]He's going to say so Hamas me.

[00:38:31]Therefore, I'm looking at myself when I'm looking at you.

[00:38:37]At the most auspicious form when I'm looking at you, I'm indeed looking at myself.

[00:38:44]Look at that.

[00:38:46]See, prayer should be like this. This is the prayer.

[00:38:51]You do not have any desires in this prayer, you know.

[00:38:55]What is a prayer? You should understand.

[00:38:58]This is the right context to to understand the prayer. We have uh fortnight students also here.

[00:39:07]They visit us once in a fortnight.

[00:39:09]Therefore, it is it is an occasion to understand the significance of prayer.

[00:39:16]Prayer of supplication, oh God, give me this, give me that. That kind of a prayer, prayer of self supplication, how where from it is coming? How it is born?

[00:39:27]It is born from self pity.

[00:39:31]You look at yourself as insufficient, unsatisfactory, inadequate, wanting this, wanting that.

[00:39:39]And out of that consciousness, that conditioning, arises a prayer. Oh God, danandahi, yashodahi.

[00:39:49]Give me good name in this society so that I become a celebrity. Give me a lot of wealth. What will you do with a lot of wealth?

[00:39:57]What kind of a prayer it is?

[00:39:59]There is some more thing, dwisho jehi, kill my enemies.

[00:40:05]I spoke prayer bolte hai.

[00:40:08]Aisa ban gaya. It became like that.

[00:40:11]Prayer of supplication is born of self pity.

[00:40:17]Also, I'll tell you one more thing. You pray when you are in difficulty, some difficulty is there. You pray you are in difficulty.

[00:40:24]Means when there is sorrow, people pray, right? That they are advised also like that. You pray when you are in sorrow.

[00:40:31]And but suppose you are in happiness, you are in joy, nobody asks you to pray and you also don't pray.

[00:40:41]Look at this prayer.

[00:40:42]It is coming out of a self self-pity or it's coming out of a a full heart.

[00:40:51]So, people know to pray only prayer of supplication, only in difficulty and sorrow.

[00:40:59]In joy, in happiness, they don't even think of a prayer. They don't even remember the glory of God.

[00:41:06]That's why sadha savadhane na bhavyam in adversity, not only in adversity, but in prosperity also. You should be alert to think of God, God consciousness.

[00:41:20]You should cultivate it and then say a prayer out of happiness, a prayer coming out of the cheerful consciousness, not from self-pity.

[00:41:34]That is the way you have to do. Then one more thing here what you have to notice is in this prayer, what we are describing, there is a unification.

[00:41:44]You are talking of unity between the devotee and the God. Atmanaha prasadat pashyami.

[00:41:51]By your blessing, I'm able to see your auspicious form. By your blessing. What your What kind of your You who happen to be my innermost self.

[00:42:03]Atmanaha sun is the atma.

[00:42:06]So, that is the kind of prayer. Whereas this In this prayer, there is unity.

[00:42:13]You have read just now so hum asmi. I am that. That is the unity prayer. Whereas, this is self-pity.

[00:42:23]Self-pity is deeply embedded in the mind in human beings. Deeply embedded.

[00:42:29]So, they see a revenue collector, a big officer, immediately self-pity will flow out. Ready with self-pity. Uh hello, sir. Welcome, sir. Please come. So, uh please take seat. You won't say that to a your chauffeur.

[00:42:47]>> [snorts] >> To an ordinary person, you will say don't say that. You say that to a to a rich man only.

[00:42:56]To a powerful man.

[00:42:58]Means what? There is self-pity sitting there.

[00:43:02]And you it comes out in daily daily interactions. And also, it comes out. The moment you enter into the temple, the self-pity pours out.

[00:43:16]That is not the way prayer.

[00:43:19]So, you see because what happens is what is the root of separation? Why you don't say I am worshipping the God who happens to be my own atma. Why don't you say that?

[00:43:31]You never say that because the prayer, the worship is coming out of self-pity and hence it becomes the origin of separation.

[00:43:42]If there is self-pity in me, you cannot say you cannot pray to another self-pity guy.

[00:43:50]So, that is origin of separation. The self-pity is the origin of separation.

[00:43:56]You see, that which thinks itself separate. You think yourself separate.

[00:44:02]You don't say atmanam Ramam pashyami.

[00:44:05]You don't say you go to Rama temple, would you say, "I'm looking at Rama who happens to be my own innermost self."

[00:44:12]Would you say that?

[00:44:13]If you say, you are the true devotee.

[00:44:17]That is the true religion.

[00:44:20]Therefore, when there is self-pity, it separates. And that which looks [snorts] at itself as separate brings in only more division and more pain.

[00:44:36]So, with the sense of separation, you go to the temple or a place of worship or whatever situation to your puja gudi, you enter with a sense of separation, and self-pity is the origin of all prayers that brings in only division, more and more division, and also more pain.

[00:44:57]So, let us say, the person is in sorrow.

[00:45:00]Let us say.

[00:45:01]He pray He prays. The prayer coming out of sorrow, coming out of self-pity.

[00:45:06]Suppose the prayer is answered. Let us say, the prayer is answered.

[00:45:11]He finds an answer. Means he's looking for some money. And he prays and goes out and somebody gives him the money.

[00:45:17]So, the prayer is answered. Some people say like that.

[00:45:21]He's investing in stock. All prayers he do, and then invest, and the stock has soared up, and he became rich. So, my prayers are answered.

[00:45:33]Okay? Suppose the prayer is answered.

[00:45:35]Now, the separation will continue or it will vanish?

[00:45:40]It will continue. What will happen to self-pity?

[00:45:45]It will continue.

[00:45:49]So, when prayer is answered and you are rewarded for your prayers, your self-pity continue to echo in that reward.

[00:46:02]Therefore, just because the prayer gets answered, you won't become happy person. You remain in want and separation and sorrow in a different form.

[00:46:16]Therefore, the assuming that the response to the prayer, the desire is fulfilled or the prayer is answered, the No, the entity remains small with self-pity and and divisive.

[00:46:36]And pain Pain or sorrow in one form or the other, it continues.

[00:46:42]Sorrow won't go away. Suppose suddenly I get a million dollars in lottery. There are lottery tickets are sold here and there.

[00:46:50]You pull a put a bill into it, it will push a ticket to you.

[00:46:55]And after 3 days, you put the ticket into it, no win. Sorry, it will say.

[00:47:02]Suppose you win. Suppose you win.

[00:47:05]A million dollars you win.

[00:47:07]You will now live in a more luxurious surroundings, the same unhappy life.

[00:47:12]Nothing more.

[00:47:14]Therefore, prayer should be uplifting, inspiring.

[00:47:18]That is the way the prayer should be.

[00:47:20]Uh the repetition of prayers just repeat the prayers.

[00:47:26]This prayer is not meant for repetition.

[00:47:28]Every single time it should sound fresh and new to you.

[00:47:34]That is the way it should sound.

[00:47:35]Otherwise, it becomes a repetition of prayers. Repetition of prayers becomes repetition of words.

[00:47:44]No spirit in them. Just repeat. Did you notice a tape recorder doing a very good prayer?

[00:47:52]It does.

[00:47:55]In some of the temples where put a mic there.

[00:47:59]We are competing with another religion.

[00:48:01]That is how it happens. Originally, they were not there. Other other religious people put mics and make a big sound.

[00:48:08]So, we should react to that. Otherwise, they will never understand what they are doing. We have to react. If you don't react, that goes without uh uh questioning. So, if you also react, then the government will wake up.

[00:48:22]Otherwise, it won't even wake up.

[00:48:24]Therefore, it is correct to to put a mic.

[00:48:26]And the priest, you know what he will do? He will He will put a key, old-fashioned key, and opens the door, and puts the switch on, and the mic starts a-blaring the prayer.

[00:48:39]You must have seen a tape recorder making prayer.

[00:48:42]What does he What is it doing? It is repeating words. What are you doing?

[00:48:50]That is the point.

[00:48:53]So, this kind of repeating prayers without understanding, without spirit, without inspiration, without love, it becomes a self-hypnotic and self-enclosing exercise.

[00:49:08]>> [snorts] >> I have done some valuable prayer. That is self-hypnosis.

[00:49:15]And you feel good about it. You start feeling great about it. It is self-enclosing.

[00:49:22]That is not the true religion. That is not The true prayer is far from that.

[00:49:28]So, in the true prayer, there is no self-pity. There is only wonder.

[00:49:35]And then no desires, no fears, only wonder is there. And then there is inspiration, upliftment, fulfillment, because you are not seeking anything.

[00:49:48]And then look lo behold, there is no separation.

[00:49:53]Atmanaha uh prasadat pashyami.

[00:49:58]It is that the sun god has blessed me that I am able to see such an auspicious form of the sun.

[00:50:04]It is as good as the innermost self has blessed me that I have the joy of looking at the most auspicious form of the sun.

[00:50:15]Kinja Some more is there. What is that?

[00:50:19]Kalyananda the devashyami. Yosavasau mantra is Yosavasau purusha. Sohamasmi.

[00:50:26]What you are looking at the solar orb, it is not dead matter or it is not lifeless gaseous giant.

[00:50:36]It is not that much only.

[00:50:39]That is how the description will be like that in a different context.

[00:50:44]There is a book on solar physics, suppose. It describes the sun as a gaseous giant or whatever. Inside there are gases, outside there is there are there are flames this and that temperature very high, then corona, like that some description will be there.

[00:51:00]Very physical description. But then inside that solar orb for what all the material thing it is inside that solar orb there is a purusha.

[00:51:16]That is how we look at it.

[00:51:18]Now, I am looking at you.

[00:51:21]What are you? A bag of bones and flesh and blood. Is that what are you?

[00:51:28]No. Am I saying hello to a bag of blood, flesh, and bones?

[00:51:33]No. Then to whom I am saying hello?

[00:51:36]To the purusha.

[00:51:39]That is what is not male female thing.

[00:51:41]This purusha is not male female. It is not about gender.

[00:51:45]So, I am looking at the Purusha in the other in you.

[00:51:50]It's just the same as you are looking at the Purusha in this bag of bones.

[00:51:56]If you don't look at Purusha, then one bag of bones marrying another bag of bones giving birth to a few new bags of bones. Is that what it is? No, it is Purusha all the way.

[00:52:10]>> [snorts] >> So, same thing applies to the solar orb.

[00:52:14]It is not just a bag of just a sphere of uh fire and flame and the gases and the nuclear reactions, fusions, this and that. Not only that, it is also Purushaha.

[00:52:29]The Prajapati Brahman is sitting in that solar orb.

[00:52:35]So, Yaha asau Purushaha in the solar orb, there is a Purusha. Asau means pointed out at a distance. Asau Purushaha, then there is a Purusha here as much.

[00:52:48]And that Purusha and this Purusha are not separate.

[00:52:53]I am the same Purusha. I told you when you visit the temple, what is the third step?

[00:53:00]This only. So, Aham asmi. Did you Do you remember I told three steps?

[00:53:05]The third step is the God that I that I perceive in the outside in the in the image is no different from the innermost self.

[00:53:18]That is the third step. Then your temple visit is complete.

[00:53:22]A very similar thing with reference to the setting sun.

[00:53:27]Kincha Aham Natutwam Brutyavadyache Look what Shankara says.

[00:53:39]Dear sir dear Oh God, I'm not asking you like I dasoham dasa dasoham. I am the dasa servant and then I'm your slave. I please bless me. Give me this, give me that.

[00:53:56]No.

[00:53:58]Not like this dasa culture it is an offspring of dualistic religions and it is not there in ancient literature.

[00:54:09]In Ramayana Sri Krishna Hanuman says dasoham kosalendrasya Ramasya krishta karmanaha in Sundara Kanda that dasa has acted and not servant, certainly not slave.

[00:54:28]Okay?

[00:54:30]That is how the sloka is. But during 15th 16th century the more useless you are the more God's blessings will be more upon you.

[00:54:45]So I'm useless and God is all great.

[00:54:49]Okay?

[00:54:50]You see, there was a temple and the worker, the person who cleans the places etc. one attendant is employed and he he works there. He's a doing a menial job of cleaning the place and all that.

[00:55:05]And so and then the Guru Maharaj comes and he stands before the God, oh God, I am dasa, I'm surrendering myself unto you.

[00:55:16]Like that he prays.

[00:55:18]So Guru Maharaj goes away. Then this man thought I he also should pray like that.

[00:55:24]So he goes and prays, I am dasa, oh God, like that he prays. Then the Guru Maharaj hears the prayer. He comes back, era, what are you? What am I?

[00:55:34]If I am dasa, you cannot be dasa, you have to be dasa dasa dasa.

[00:55:40]How dare you say dasa?

[00:55:43]>> [snorts] >> I am dasa. You are dasanudasaparamavadidasadasa.

[00:55:49]You That is what you are.

[00:55:52]I say dasa, you also say dasa? How dare?

[00:55:58]This is the culture.

[00:55:59]Separation, division.

[00:56:02]So, therefore, no, not like that. Oh god, Shankara, he anticipated this kind of a thing already. He says, "Oh son, I am not I am not begging you, nayache.

[00:56:17]Natutwam yache, I'm not begging you.

[00:56:21]Just like a servant or a slave, I'm not begging you. Then what is the prayer then?

[00:56:28]Yoso adityamandalastha vyahrtyavayavah In the solar orb sits a purusha.

[00:56:43]Which means abides astha, abides a purusha in the solar orb.

[00:56:48]And the the name of the the How to purusha means generally you have a head, trunk, and legs.

[00:56:58]That is the way you want to look at the purusha because we happen to be that, you know, in a way. So, I am the purusha, head, hands, trunk, and legs, etc. So, similarly, let us visualize a purusha in the solar orb. His What are his limbs? What are the limbs of the purusha in the solar orb?

[00:57:19]Vyahrtyavayavah.

[00:57:22]Vyahrti, you know, bhu bhuva suvariti va I still heard it.

[00:57:33]Three Vyahrutis. Vyahruti is an utterance, sacred utterance.

[00:57:41]Bhur iti vyaharat Bhagwan said Bhu.

[00:57:46]That became a sacred utterance.

[00:57:50]Okay? Suppose the boss says "chair".

[00:57:56]Suppose he says then all the servants "Hey, chair, chair, chair, chair." They run for the chair.

[00:58:02]Why so? What is this chair? Boss said chair.

[00:58:08]You [snorts] understand? Bhagwan said Bhu.

[00:58:13]He also said Bhuvaha.

[00:58:16]And then said Suvaha. Om Bhur Bhuva Suvaha.

[00:58:21]That is the Yajur Veda. Om Bhur Bhuva Svaha. That is the Rig Veda. Who take out? Both are valid, okay? So these are the These are the utterances. The boss came into the dining hall put the chair chair plate and food. Three things he said. And all the servants are busy taking care of those three words, right?

[00:58:45]Similarly the boss of the universe said Bhu, Bhuvaha, Suvaha.

[00:58:52]And that boss that God is sitting in the solar arbor. Now Shruti visualizes not that there is a person standing there. You should not take it as a person. Person like your body, my body, he also has a body. Then he will have problems with the body. All problems that we have he also will have. So not like that.

[00:59:15]Bhur iti Shiraha, Bhuva iti Bahuhu, Suva iti Pratishtha.

[00:59:22]Like that mantra is there. Shankara has that mantra in his mind. So Vyahruti Avayava Purushaha. The person who has these Vyahrities, the sounds, sacred sounds as his limbs. Like what? Bhu is the head. Bhuvaha Bahu.

[00:59:42]Take it like that. You need not account for every single limb. Okay, general terms. Suvah Pratishtha. Pratishtha is Padau, on which stands. That is the two feet. They are called Pratishtha.

[00:59:59]So, Suvaha, Bhuvaha, Bhu. That is the Purusha.

[01:00:04]Om is the God who is present in the form of a Purusha. Bhu, Bhuvaha, Suvaha in the solar orb.

[01:00:13]That is the God.

[01:00:15]Purushakaratvat What is the meaning of Purusha?

[01:00:21]He's explaining the word Purusha.

[01:00:23]So, you call God Purusha because we have visualized the God as though he has the same shape as the human being.

[01:00:33]Purushakaratvat Purusha.

[01:00:36]This is the anthropomorphic God.

[01:00:39]Okay, you can take it like that. For the purpose of prayer, you can take it like that. But more appropriately, Purnam Va That is the Purusha.

[01:00:50]Purnam Fullness Purnatvat Purusha.

[01:00:55]Okay. Two meanings Shankara gave here.

[01:00:59]In a different place, he gave a third meaning. Purushayanat Purusha. Who abides in this body mind as the Atma.

[01:01:06]That's why Purusha. That Purusha.

[01:01:09]So, Ayoshavasya Purusha Sohamasmi. We are finishing it now. Okay, in two minutes.

[01:01:15]Ah, Purushakaratvat Purnam Va Purnam Va Anena Prana Buddhyatmana Jagat Samastam Iti Purushaha That is the definition of the Purusha.

[01:01:33]This entire universe is made complete, full, Poornam.

[01:01:40]By By what? By God. How? Prana Buddhyatmana.

[01:01:46]You look at all the life forms. Every one of the life forms has a life in it and intelligence in it. Buddhi is intelligence.

[01:01:55]So, as Prana, life, and as Buddhi, intelligence, Bhagwan pervades the entire universe of the life forms and hence Poornam Anena Iti Purushaha Anena Ishwarena in the form of Prana Buddhi, Prana Buddhyatmana, Sarvam Poornam.

[01:02:17]Everything is filled.

[01:02:20]Poor is the Dhatu.

[01:02:23]From that Poorna comes.

[01:02:25]Poor Poorane, that is the Dhatu.

[01:02:28]Poorayati, that Take a vessel and put water, filled it with water. That is called Poorayati.

[01:02:36]Similarly, take every life form, put life and intelligence into it.

[01:02:42]That is how it is filled with life and intelligence. Now, it is Poornam, filled. Poorno Ghata pot filled with water. So, Poornam, life form filled with life and intelligence.

[01:02:57]That is the Poorna.

[01:03:00]Poorna also also is the meaning of the word Purushaha. Puru Poornatvat Purushaha.

[01:03:07]Originating from the Dhatu Poor Poorane.

[01:03:11]Finally, Purishayanatva Purushaha Puri, this body mind. In the pur pur saptami ek vachanam, puri. Puh puro puraha saptami ek vachanam, puri puroho purshu.

[01:03:29]And that is the dhatu shabda, very interesting shabda. It gets dirgham in certain places.

[01:03:36]So, you know, ruvo rupadhaya.

[01:03:40]That is the sutra. Ruvo rupadhaya.

[01:03:44]So, upadha gets to dirgham.

[01:03:46]Okay? Pur becomes upadha dirgha, pur.

[01:03:53]Uh so, that is how called purusha. Three meanings he gave, purusha.

[01:03:59]Purushakaratvat purusha. Purushayanat purusha. Purnatvat purusha. That purusha is in the solar orb. Same purusha is here. So hamasmi.

[01:04:13]Bhavami.

[01:04:15]I am the same purusha. I am that.

[01:04:19]That is the prayer. That is the third step which I was saying in the context of visiting a temple. Let us say the mantra. Pushan ekarashe.

[01:04:32]Yama surya prajapatya.

[01:04:36]Vyuharashmin samuhateja.

[01:04:42]Put a comma there. Not after samuh but after teja. That will be better.

[01:04:49]Yatte rupam kalyanatamam.

[01:04:54]Tatte pashyami.

[01:04:57]Yosavasau purusha.

[01:05:01]So hamasmi.

[01:05:04]So yaha asau purusha asau purusha saha aham asmi. Like that he used that asau twice.

[01:05:14]Om purnamadah purnamidam >> Pranams to Swamiji and namaskarams to all.

[01:05:44]With the blessings of Lord Dakshinamurti, Pujya Swamiji, Swami Viditatmananda Ji, and Swami Tattvavidananda Swamiji, and all other mahatmas, board members, and valued devotees and supporters of Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, we are very happy to announce the 40th anniversary of Arsha Vidya Gurukulam on Sunday, the 16th August this year, when we will celebrate it with Swami Tattvavidananda Ji's anniversary message on the basics of teachings of Upanishads, and witness a great play, Eksha Prashnalu.

[01:06:27]We cordially invite you all to this event.

[01:06:31]We request you to be a part of this grand event. This is your ashram.

[01:06:37]You made this possible over the years with your service, dedication, commitment, and contribution. So, please attend without fail, and make this event a grand success. Thank you all. Thank you so much.

[01:06:57]>> One more announcement. So, many visitors are here for the weekend may not know that there's been 3-week course where Swamiji's been unfolding the Ishavasya Upanishad. It's all been carefully recorded, the video and the audio. So, I'm announcing the order form in the hallway on the table. You can order your recordings. I I will put those onto USB drive for you.

[01:07:22]So, if you fill out the form and you give it to me or put it under the door, I create the USB, I tape it to your form and I give it to the bookstore where you can go and pick it up after the course on Tuesday. It should be there by 1:30 p.m. Or it can be sent to you.

[01:07:40]And anybody who is just visiting also can order like that. The extra complicated information is about discounts for people who are here for the full 3 weeks can get 25% discount.

[01:07:52]But that's only available till the last day of the course. After that, we can't keep track of who was in the course so easily. So, any questions?

[01:08:02]Okay, one more thing is if you only want audio and you don't need the USB drive, you can pay $50 to get all of the audio recordings and get a link to a Google Drive folder and we'll put your Gmail in there so you're approved to download directly from internet. Okay, thank you for your patience. Thank you, Swami G. Hari Om.

[01:09:01]>> I'm going to go to the bathroom.