Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

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हमारा मिजाज हमेशा दूसरों और परिस्थितियों पर निर्भर करता है। नतीजे आपकी उम्मीदों के मुताबिक नहीं रहे। इसलिए अब आपको मनोबल बढ़ाने वाले किसी प्रेरक वक्ता की ज़रूरत है। जैसे ही वह व्यक्ति चला जाता है, आपकी ऊर्जा भी थम जाती है। लेकिन जीने का एक और तरीका भी है। अपने भीतर गहराई में, मुझे एक ऐसा बिंदु मिलता है जिसे कोई बाहरी परिस्थिति छू नहीं सकती। जो कुछ भी होता है, वह सतह पर ही घटित होता है। वह स्थिर, उदासीन और तटस्थ बना रहता है। तब आप सचमुच स्वतंत्र होते हैं।

Something is very wrong somewhere. The first thing in liberation is: do not be dependent on somebody, at least for your bread, for your basic sustenance. What kind of empowerment is this that happily accepts dependence on somebody else’s money on a date, and also for an entire lifetime? It…

पारस में अरु संत में, बड़ो अन्तरो जान। वो लोहा कंचन करे, ये कर दे आप समान।। ~कबीर साहब

प्रश्नकर्ता: जैसा कि आप कहते हैं, कि जितना जल्दी हो सके अपने को पूरा अर्पण कर दो, या ख़त्म कर दो, पर यदि इसे समझेंगे और करेंगे, तो अपने अपूर्ण स्थिति…

यदा नाहं तदा मोक्षो

यदाहं बन्धनं तदा।

मत्वेति हेलया किंचिन्-

मा गृहाण विमुंच मा॥८- ४॥

अनुवाद: जब तक 'मैं' या 'मेरा' का भाव है तब तक बंधन है, जब 'मैं' या 'मेरा' का भाव नहीं है तब मुक्ति है। यह जानकर न कुछ त्याग करो और न कुछ ग्रहण ही…

We all need space. Man’s inner nature is freedom. When I say man, I mean both man and woman, mankind. Just as you need free mental space, you also need free physical space.

In fact, I find the idea of a shared bed quite vulgar. The double bed is an…

Real relaxation is about relaxing even in the middle of activity. You are relaxed even as you exert yourself. You are relaxed even as you are running. You are relaxed even as you are drained out. You are not waiting for a special activity like going to bed or sitting…

If Facebook is satisfying you, it is not called as time wasted. Full stop. If the purpose of time is your satisfaction, and if doing all kinds of nonsense on Facebook satisfies you, then you cannot call it as wasted of time.

The only thing that determines whether time or…

Know your duty and give yourself totally to it. Will there be pleasure? No sir, not at all. There would be some higher than pleasure, more fulfilling, more satisfying than pleasure. Pleasure is a turncoat: today one thing, tomorrow another thing.

The one who lives by his duty, his dharma…

You are a bird; your nature is to fly. You don’t need to be taught your nature; you need to be freed from the cage.

But we are pretty special characters. Instead of opening the door of the cage, we try to teach the bird to fly within the cage,…

It is a very common and a very harmful misconception to take dhyāna as something. Dhyāna is nothing. Dhyāna is not an object. Dhyāna is not a thing. Dhyāna is not a routine, not a practice, not an exercise. Dhyāna, rather, is on all these things. Dhyāna is what…

We deeply disagree with freedom. We may keep saying we want it, but we agree only with the cage. Why do we agree to the cage? Because the cage gives us fruits and vegetables. Freedom means, no more fruits and vegetables. Freedom means, now you are on your own. Go,…

बहुत सारा मेडिटेशन वगैरह वही है जो आपको झटका नहीं खाने देगा। ज़िन्दगी बर्बाद चल रही है, सबकुछ आपका ग़लत है, लेकिन सुधरने की कोई ज़रूरत नहीं। आधे-एक घण्टे बैठ करके गाइडेड मेडिटेशन कर लो, वहाँ तुमको गुरुजी कान में बता देंगे कि तुम एक सरोवर के किनारे बैठे हो,…

Companionship is wonderful. Be with one person, ten persons, anybody who helps your mind be centered. Being with such a person or a group of persons is wonderful.

If marriage is another name for beautiful companionship, marriage is wonderful. But what matters is not the social institution of marriage but…

ये मेडिटेशन चीज़ क्या है? मैं बताता हूँ यह चीज़ क्या है, यह फ़र्ज़ी चीज़ है, यह फ़रेब है, यह आत्म-प्रवंचना है, ख़ुद को धोखा है। यह जीवन के आमूलचूल बदलाव का तरीका नहीं है, यह कुछ समय का आध्यात्मिक मनोरंजन है। यह आपको आपकी गंदी दिनचर्या के तनाव से…

सिकंदर दुनिया में सिर्फ़ एक ही है असली; कौन? जो घड़ी को हरा दे। वरना बहुत बड़े-बड़े बादशाह हो गए, सब से जीत लेते हैं, किससे हार जाते हैं? घड़ी से; घड़ी से जीत कर दिखाओ तो बात है! समझ में आ रही बात?

वो टिक-टिक लगातार याद रहे। कलाई…

In vikarma (sinful action) you say, “I am already liberated and I don’t need any liberation.” In vikarma, the one who is in bondages is so deeply dishonest that he starts proclaiming his liberation and says, “I am already liberated. Who needs liberation? I am happy and I will…

When you live from a point of simple, basic fulfillment—which is fortunately your established nature—then victory and defeat, neither of them can mean too much. People have called that equanimity. You can use any other name.

Equanimity is not about being indifferent to this and that. That indifference is not…

A certain word falls upon your ears and there is an instant reaction, is there not? Your entire body can get heated up. One word falling on your ears can raise your temperature by two degrees within two minutes. Is it not a chemical reaction?

This body is a bunch…

You have one life. Never settle down. Keep aiming for the higher than the highest you have known. And irrespective of how high you have come, something higher still remains and beckons. Respond to its call.

Probably you have no exposure to what all is possible in life. Therefore, of…

In the office you are Mr. Nice; in front of the wife you are Mr. Submissive; then in the bar you will be the most raucous and unmanageable drinker, breaking bottles, throwing tantrums, inviting brawls.

The mind knows that it is suffering in one condition, but it is not intelligent…

Human beings are not born human beings; they have to be educated to become human beings.

A human baby needs to take two births before it can be rightfully called as a human being. There is ignorance, there is greed, there is envy, there is lust, there is fear, there…

When you break up in the material way, you leave the house.

When you break up in the spiritual way, you leave who you are. That’s a great break up.

And in this break up the other person will not even know that you have broken up, because externally you…

Pain is a great method of Prakriti (physical nature). It helps you know that you need to go to the doctor. But too much pain can just bring your system down; it can cause an internal collapse.

Pain is a great messenger, but pain by itself is not the remedy.…

When his mother asked him, “Why don’t you get married?” Bhagat Singh replied, “I am already married, and her name is Freedom.”

Now, it behooves a Bhagat Singh to not get married to a woman because he has committed himself to freedom, but to every Tom, Dick and Harry it…

Real meditation is the courage to let life change. If you keep meditating without allowing life to change, this meditation is merely self-deception.

And when I say life must change, I am not talking of something imaginary; I am talking of things very, very tangible. I am talking of your…

Attachment would forever remain a problem with someone if he sees himself as the body. Now, you want freedom from attachment, but you don’t want freedom from body-centricity. That cannot happen.

For example, you are highly lustful, or gluttonous, or physically lazy, whatever; or let’s say you are very particular…

If the fact of your enslavement curdles your blood, it means there is free spirit in you. But that free spirit gets invoked only when presented with the fact of slavery. If you do not know that you are enslaved, your free spirit remains dormant. Or, if you keep presenting…

The car manufacturer wants me to be a buyer, so I look at his car and turn into a prospective buyer.

The woman wants me to be an attending man, and I turn into an attending man as per her dictate.

I become what the other wants me to become.…

The more you expand your material universe, the more you invest in twenty thousand things around you, the more difficult will it be to walk free.

You go to a normal middle-class, upper middle-class household, and you see all those things, and each of those things needs to be taken…

With every passing breath, with every passing day, with every passing year, you should be getting actually better and better. And by betterment I do not mean accumulation of wealth or knowledge or stuff; you should really be getting better as you advance in years. You should be getting better,…

Questioner (Q): You said that when there are options, choices, there can be no freedom. Earlier I used to think that I am free if I have choices, but Vedanta says that freedom can be only in choicelessness.

Acharya Prashant (AP): And isn’t there great joy in being choiceless? You…

Questioner (Q): In the spiritual journey, it is very, very difficult to find companionship, community, or like-minded people—people you can talk to about your experiences on this journey. So, it becomes a very lonely conquest. It is obviously a very lonely conquest because eventually it is a conquest of the…

Questioner (Q): I have heard you say that no two human beings are equal. But if that is the case, then how can the possibility of liberation exist on a larger scale? We have adapted and evolved in various fields throughout history, but can the same happen when it comes…

Questioner: How can we help each other towards liberation?

Acharya Prashant: This question arises first of all because one perceives a difference, a separation, a dividing line between oneself and the other.

So, you are asking, “How can we help each other towards liberation?”

Liberation is liberation from this dividing…

Questioner (Q): What is liberation?

Acharya Prashant (AP): What is bondage? There is nothing called liberation, nothing at all. It’s just that because there is bondage, hence there is liberation. In the absence of bondage, you are liberated from liberation as well.

Q: Is meditation the only way to attain…

Questioner (Q): What is consciousness?

Acharya Prashant (AP): Consciousness is your universe around the center that you are, the little ‘I’. Consciousness is the entire universe around that, and therefore ordinary consciousness always hinges on ‘I’, ordinary thought is always anchored to the self. You will find it very difficult…

Questioner: What is the difference between death and liberation? How can we be liberated while alive?

Acharya Prashant: These are two very different things in the sense that they happen to different entities.

You are driving your car, and there is a point that you must reach. But you are,…

Questioner (Q): I have a question on these four commonly quoted methods: śama (restraint), dama (taming, subduing), daṇḍ (chastising, punishment), and bheda (division, difference). None of these methods seem to work. What to do? How to understand these methods correctly?

Acharya Prashant (AP): There are an infinite variety of methods,…

चित्तमूलो विकल्पोऽयं चित्ताभावे न कश्चन । अतश्चित्तं समाधेहि प्रत्यग्रूपे परात्मनि ॥

cittamūlo vikalpo’yaṃ cittābhāve na kaścana ataścittaṃ samādhehi pratyagrūpe parātmani

This apparent universe has its root in the mind and never persists after the mind is annihilated. Therefore, dissolve the mind by concentrating it on the Supreme Self, which is…

Questioner (Q): I am studying philosophy at Hansraj College, and I have read that Hegel’s philosophy was that mankind has been increasing its power by increasing its knowledge about itself and its surroundings. This kind of a philosophy might suggest that our projected purpose is to become the most powerful…

एवं देहद्वयादन्य आत्मा पुरुष ईश्वरः। सर्वात्मा सर्वरूपश्चसर्वातीतोऽहमव्ययः।।

इस प्रकार आत्मा पुरुष या ईश्वर स्थूल एवं सूक्ष्म दोनों प्रकार के शरीरों से भिन्न है। अतः मैं सर्वात्मा, सर्वरूप, अविनाशी और सबसे परे हूँ।

~ अपरोक्षानुभूति (श्लोक ४०)

आचार्य प्रशांत: (प्रश्न पढ़ते हुए) शंकराचार्य के श्लोक को उद्धृत किया है, “आत्मा स्थूल…

यत्राज्ञानाद्भवेद्दवैतमितरस्तत्र पश्यति। आत्मत्वेन यदा सर्वं नेतरस्तत्र चाण्वपि।।

“जहाँ अज्ञान से द्वैत-भाव होता है, वहीं कोई और दिखलाई देता है। जब सब आत्मरूप ही दिखाई देता है, तब अन्य कुछ भी नहीं रहता।”

~अपरोक्षानुभूति (श्लोक ५३)

यस्मिन्सर्वाणि भूतानि ह्यात्मत्वेन विजानतः। न वै तस्य भवेन्मोहो न च शोकोऽद्वितीयतः।।

“उस अवस्था में सम्पूर्ण…

Questioner: If positive and negative, good and bad, beauty and ugliness are all a matter of personal perspective, then can universal positivity, universal goodness, or universal beauty exist? If it is the majority that decides, then is the majority the judge of the deeds to be done by one in…