Recollections: Do you understand my English ? - Sri Swamiji

December 25, 2006

Dear All,

Following discourse of Sri swamiji is very INTERESTING and IMPORTANT.

Jaya Guru Datta

With Best Regards,

Lakshmi Prasad.P

Hyderabad

Chicago - July 26, 2002

There is a proverb in Telugu which says “ My fortune depends on your compassion”. So, only a staunch devotee can demand. One has to suffer one’s Karma. It should not be a business devotion. Guru can give moral support. You have to walk alone in your path. You have to live to your Karma. It is your sole responsibility. Our good and bad in life is due to our Karma. We have to enjoy or suffer for it. Then why follow a Guru? To develop a good way of life so that the Karma dissolves and you have a better life next time.

Bhagavad Gita suggests NISHKAAMA KARMA. Your prayer should be demand less.. It is difficult. But at least you should not pray for fantastic or for turn around results. Nothing happens in one day’s prayer. Your Karma is deep seated and needs years and years of prayer and Sadhana. Lead a disciplined spiritual life and it will certainly support you in difficult times. Nobody can help you because they too have their own problems. One may compassionately listen to your woes for one day, two day or three days. Thereafter, they will exclaim “You know, we too have our problems”. In these days of modernity even to find a patient listener is difficult. People mock at you when you unburden your heart. We have to have courage and face our problems. Face and experience difficulties with a stoic and string heart. Swamiji can give you moral support and be a good friend. Even I cannot give you promises because such promise will be a false statement. Sadguru will not take your Karma

because you alone are responsible for it. It is like body pain. You alone have to suffer the pain. Doctors cannot suffer for it. A good Sadguru will make the Karma feel light so that you don’t get dissolved. in to it.

Sadguru can help you not to make the same mistake of committing the same Karmic mistakes. He can be a good guide. You cannot demand guidance. You can only beg for it. Surrender and beg. Your exhibitionistic devotion will not make me compassionate. I see your heart and decide about the amount of attention you will get from me. Keep on chanting Rama Rama and Shiva Shiva. Complete surrender is very difficult. Even Draupadi of Maha Bharata found it difficult. When she was being unrobed forcefully, with one hand she held on to the small amount of clothe on her body and with the other hand she was pleading Lord Krishna to come from Heaven and protect her. Krishna did not come. He came only after she pleaded with two hands. She had to surrender all her efforts and then only did Lord come. Many think that they have surrendered. You all are still committing sins. You are house holders with children, wife and business and jobs. Sitting amidst all this you cannot fully surrender and

follow a Guru. Even a Yogi in Himalaya would have completely surrendered. He also would feel that it would be very cold and would desire for a pull over. Vedanta is good to discuss about. But practicing it would be a difficult one. It is not for everyone. That is why Sri Swamiji suggests Bhakti Marga.

Do you understand my English ? (The audience roars a YES). Swamiji disliked English as a child and if anyone spoke English I used to close my ears. See now…. I am forced to speak English. This is my Karma. I am lazy. I am still not learning it. I need assistants so that they get blessed. But you people do not take their help. You want direct connection. Many people do not want to speak to Prasad or Radhakrishna. They ask me directly for a programme and I agree but forget. On the day of programme, it gets cancelled because it is not in their dairy. It is good to have a second person know the programmes. It is for your protection only. It is a great sin to say that you have direct connection with Swamiji. Swamiji is like a child and forgets it. Swamiji keeps them as assistants. So, you must contact them for fixing Swamiji’s programmes. To run such a large organization, Swamiji will need assistants and they have to be protected.

So, you want Moksha, I will sing a long Bhajan and this is like the ten commandants. But this Bhajan gives 120 commands. Try to follow at least a few of them.

I remember a funny story. One foolish person climbed a drum stick tree. He was about to fall as the tender branch was about to snap. Shiva and Parvati who were going in the sky saw this. They debated as to who should go and protect. Then Narada too came there and joined them. He suggested that Shiva should go if that person shouted Ayyapppa and Parvati should go if he shouts Ayyammma. But that foolish person shouted Ayyo I am dying and fell and died. So you must always practice the name of God so that you always chant the name of God and stop the chant of Money and computer and bank balance. Practice the names of Krishna, Govinda and Narayana. When you are old, weak and dying, you will automatically chant these names.

Jaya Guru Datta.

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