Putra Gita

हिन्दी स्मोक टेस्ट लेख का संक्षिप्त विवरण।

Short description for the E2E smoke test article.

ग्रेटर नोएडा। जीबीयू में आयोजित एक कार्यक्रम में पहुंचे आचार्य प्रशांत ने कहा कि महाशिवरात्रि केवल अनुष्ठान का पर्व नहीं, बल्कि यह मनुष्य को अपने भीतर झांकने के लिए प्रेरित करती है। उन्होंने कहा कि शिव को केवल मूर्ति या रूप में सीमित कर देना उनकी व्यापकता को संकुचित करना…

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This article is related to restlessness.

Questioner: A lot of students that I talk to — it’s the fear of the society, it’s the fear of the unknown, it’s fear of the expectations that they are carrying, that pushes them to become an engineer and then they figure out that probably this is not something that they wanted to be. And that is the reality of a lot of individuals and not just engineers. Probably, here is something that is stopping me from taking a plunge of starting something of myself, right? Fear is something that is stopping somebody who is in a relationship for ten years to take that step to get married. Where does this fear come from? Acharya Prashant: Lack of love, which comes from lack of self-knowledge. You see, when I tie my sense of existence, my very identity, to something that is unreliable, I will have to be afraid. It’s like putting my heart on this table. Now, how can I live in security? The heart is out there on the table, anybody can take it away, anything can happen to it. Or the heart might grow legs and walk away on its own. My very existence has been subjected to something that is not in my control. Something that is definitely going to deceive me at some point, that is fear. My sense of self-worth comes from my monies, my bank account, I will be afraid. That bank account can be closed anytime, anything can happen. My sense of self-worth comes from my physical appearance. I very well know, time will take it away, I will be afraid. Right? Who am I? I am the one who is praised or worshipped by the society. Oh! I will be so afraid, so afraid! You talked of people working for their images, they would be living a cursed life. Because, their heart is out there in the hands of strangers. Their entire identity is tied to their image and the image is in the eyes of other people. So, the image can be distorted or can disappear any moment. Just imagine, how afraid they would be all the time. That’s with the ego. Because, the ego, as I said, is a fundamental sense of incompleteness. Therefore, to complete itself, it just associates itself to anything possible. And the things that you are associating yourself with, they are not reliable. They belong to the world and the world can take them away. They belong to time. They came with time and with time all those things will disappear. And you have tied your identity to those things. Now how can you rest in peace? That’s fear. If you do not have self-knowledge, you will always be afraid. My identity is linked to my husband’s identity. Now the husband has two legs. And the husband has a brain, a mind of his own. If your identity comes from your husband’s name, as happens in India at least, you would always be afraid as a wife. The husband can change his mind any day. You would always be, you know, having one eye on his secretary, and the other eye in his email and mobile phone. What’s he getting into? Who’s texting him? Why is he on the phone so late in the night? Because you are afraid if husband goes away, what happens to you? Your very existence depends on the husband. That’s fear. When you operate from the ego centre and make something very, very important for yourself and that something belongs to the world, it can go away anytime, and you are afraid. And in that fear, there can never be love, never be love. If you are afraid of losing something, you will be very violent towards it. Nobody lets his money go and have a walk down the road. What do you do? You lock up your money. That’s violence. When something starts becoming very meaningful to you, you lock it up. You don’t want it to have freedom. And that’s violence. So, love and fear just cannot go together. If you are dependent on something or somebody, you will be afraid. And that dependence cannot be called love. And that is a confusion, we often get into it. Just because you depend on somebody and somebody depends on you, you start feeling as if it is love, it is not. Questioner: Just like the way political parties think that people love them but it actually is fear. Acharya Prashant: Exactly! Love is a rare quality and rarer in politics. Questioner: So, if I am interested in a particular profession, do I not pursue it wholeheartedly? Do I pursue it wholeheartedly knowing very well that the results can either be zero or one? Acharya Prashant: One has to go into the very nature of interest. Aren’t we interested in cricket? Aren’t we interested in seeing songs in movies? Practically, everybody in India is interested in cricket, nobody in Brazil is. And nobody in India is interested in ice hockey. So, that’s how flimsy the whole thing about interest is. In India, if you don’t get a movie with songs, you say, “I am disinterested.” The movie would bomb. In Hollywood, if you have a movie with songs, that would raise eyebrows, what’s going on? Occasionally, you have an OD song but typically there is no song. So, that is the nature of interest. It is never something of the heart. Love and interest are not the same thing. Interest is something that is given to you by your body, by your environment, by random chance, your circumstances and all these. So that’s how your interests come to you. So, if you are interested in a vocation, first of all, you have to ask yourself, “Just two years back, I was interested in something else and two years before I was interested in that and when I was four years old, I was interested in becoming a fighter pilot. What happened to all those interests?” Today, I smile at those things and just shrug them off, “I don’t want to be a fighter pilot.” What you want to be today? Oh! I want to be an investment banker. What happened to the fighter pilot? You were so interested in that. And how do you know, tomorrow you will not be looking at this I-banker, just the way today you are looking at the fighter pilot. The self of a five-year old appears so naïve and immature when you are twenty-five. How do you know that at thirty-five, you will not look back at this twenty-five year old self and say, “What the hell! How was I taking this fellow so seriously?” So, interest is something that you must look at with healthy contempt. Interest, mind you, can even be induced in you. Interest can be aroused in you. That’s what the entire advertising industry is about. They can make you feel Interested in things that is intrinsically worthless to you. So, of what value is this thing called interest? But, then in today’s world, we place so much premium on this word 'interest.' Do what interests you, this, that. Whereas, it is wisdom to realize that interest is the last thing that you should ever go after. Then people come up and say, “No, should we do things that we are not interested in? No.

पृथ्वी को बचाने के लिए यूनाइटेड नेशंस की सीओपी ने यह शर्त रखी थी कि 2030 तक वैश्विक तापमान 1.5 डिग्री से अधिक नहीं बढ़ना चाहिए। हमने वह सीमा 2025 में ही लांघ दी है। यह आने वाले बहुत-बहुत बड़े विनाश का संकेत है। आदमी के इतिहास में इससे ख़तरनाक पल कभी नहीं आया। उस ख़तरे को चुनौती देने के लिए ही यह "ऑपरेशन 2030" है, जिसका उद्देश्य है कि आम आदमी में चेतना जगाई जाए — “देखो, तुम्हारा ग्रह विनाश की ओर कितनी तेज़ी से बढ़ रहा है। तुम अपने बच्चों के लिए एक ऐसा ग्रह छोड़कर जा रहे हो, जहाँ आफ़तें ही आफ़तें होंगी।”

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A strange situation is that a beautiful woman’s life is perhaps more complex than an average-looking woman’s life, because a beautiful looking woman has a lot of men eyeing upon her, and she can get whatever she wants. And what you will get for your beauty, that is the real…

If you do not like the result that comes from the right action, then your like is not right. The result is still right. Challenge your likes and dislikes, not the rightness of the result.

प्रश्नकर्ता: कृष्ण अध्याय नौ में बताते हैं कि वे सब भूतों में समभाव से व्यक्त हैं, वहीं अध्याय दस में बताते हैं कि जो कुछ भी विभूतियुक्त, कांतियुक्त और शक्ति युक्त है, वो कृष्ण की अभिव्यक्ति है। अध्याय नौ में कृष्ण कहते हैं कि ऋग्वेद, सामवेद, अथर्ववेद मैं ही हूँ…

या निशा सर्वभूतानां तस्यां जागर्ति संयमी। यस्यां जाग्रति भूतानि सा निशा पश्यतो मुने:।।

जो सब जीवों के लिए रात्रि है, वह आत्मसंयमी के जागने का समय है और जो समस्त जीवों के जागने का समय है, वह आत्मनिरीक्षक मुनि के लिए रात्रि है।

—श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता, अध्याय २, श्लोक ६९

प्रश्नकर्ता: जब…

श्रद्धावान् लभते ज्ञानं तत्पर: संयतेन्द्रिय: | ज्ञानं लब्ध्वा परां शान्तिमचिरेणाधिगच्छति || ४, ३९ || जितेन्द्रिय, साधनापरायण और श्रद्धावान मनुष्य ज्ञान को प्राप्त होता है तथा ज्ञान को प्राप्त होकर वह बिना विलम्ब के तत्काल ही भगवत्प्राप्तिरूप शान्ति को प्राप्त हो जाता है। —श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता, अध्याय ४, श्लोक ३९प्रश्नकर्ता: आचार्य जी,…

प्रश्नकर्ता: नमस्कार, सर। आज का सबसे पहला प्रश्न जो है वह सनातन के ऊपर है कि सनातन माने क्या? और ऐसा क्या है जिसको वास्तविक रूप में सनातन कहा जा सकता है?

आचार्य प्रशांत: देखिए, सनातन का अर्थ होता है वो जो काल की सीमाओं से के बाहर का हो।…

सङ्करो नरकायैव कुलघ्नानां कुलस्य च ।। पतन्ति पितरो ह्येषां लुप्तपिण्डोदकक्रिया: ।।1.42।।

saṅkaro narakāyaiva kula-ghnānāṁ kulasya cha patanti pitaro hy eṣhāṁ lupta-piṇḍodaka-kriyāḥ

When the castes mix, that spells hell for the family. It destroys the family, in the way that the ancestors all fall because they are deprived of the Pindokdakriya.…

Overview

We want to reach the end of wanting. We want completion, fulfillment in such a final way that we are left with nothing to want anymore. That’s the destination. Born a human being, you will have to act. Act rightly. Act for the right purpose. Live for the right…

प्रश्नकर्ता: प्रणाम आचार्य जी, अर्जुन कहते हैं कृष्ण से कि ‘धृतराष्ट्र पुत्र चाहे मुझे मार भी दें तो भी उनसे लड़ना तो ग़लत ही है।‘ हमारे आम जीवन में भी ऐसे ही चलता रहता है कि हम इमोशनल ब्लैकमेल (भावनाओं से किसी को नियंत्रित करना) करते हैं बहुत बार, या…

प्रश्नकर्ता: कुछ दिन पहले आपने एक उदाहरण दिया था, एम एच ३७० का, कि हम जो खोज रहे हैं वो हमें कहीं मिल नहीं रहा इसलिए यूनिवर्स (ब्रह्माण्ड) इतना बड़ा है कि लगातार हम खोजते जा रहे हैं। तो स्पेस (स्थान) की तो बात उससे समझ में आ रही है।…

प्रश्नकर्ता: अभी आप कह रहे थे कि श्रीकृष्ण अपनी बारी का इंतज़ार कर रहे हैं और बाकी सब लोग अपने बारे में बोले जा रहे हैं। तो क्या इसका सम्बन्ध इससे है कि श्रीकृष्ण का कर्मफल और प्रारब्ध कट चुका है लेकिन बाकी सभी का कर्मफल और प्रारब्ध अभी जारी…

कुलक्षये प्रणश्यन्ति कुलधर्माः सनातनाः।

धर्मे नष्टे कुलं कृत्स्नमधर्मोऽभिभवत्युत ॥४०॥

"कुल के नाश से, चले आ रहे कुल के धर्म नष्ट हो जाते हैं और कुलधर्म के नष्ट होने से पाप समस्त कुल को दबा लेता है।"

~ श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता, अध्याय १, अर्जुन विषाद योग, श्लोक ४०

आचार्य प्रशांत तो अर्जुन के…

आचार्य प्रशांत: श्रीकृष्ण की निकटता सीखनी है अर्जुन से; अर्जुन के भीतर का कोहरा उधार नहीं ले लेना है। और हमारी हालत ज़बरदस्त है, हमारे पास वो सब कुछ है जो अर्जुन के पास है, बस एक चीज़ नहीं है। हम हर मायने में अर्जुन हैं, अर्जुन का पूरा नर्क…

कथं न ज्ञेयमस्माभिः पापादस्मानिवर्तितुम्। कुलक्षयकृतं दोषं प्रपश्यद्भिर्जनार्दन ॥३९॥

"तो कुल क्षय से होने वाले दोष को देख-सुन कर भी हम लोगों को इस पाप से निवृत्त होने का विचार क्यों नहीं करना चाहिए?"

~ श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता, अध्याय १, अर्जुन विषाद योग, श्लोक ३९

आचार्य प्रशांत: इसी आशय के तर्क आगे भी…

आचार्य प्रशांत: देखिए, बात को समझिए। गीता, सांख्ययोग में, शुरू के कुछ श्लोकों के बाद से भी आरम्भ हो सकती थी। पहला अध्याय तो पूरा ही अर्जुन के विषाद का निरूपण है और दूसरे अध्याय के भी कुछ आरंभिक श्लोकों में अर्जुन की ही व्यथा है। कृष्ण की ज्ञानवर्षा तदोपरांत…

आचार्य प्रशांत: श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता, प्रथम अध्याय, अर्जुन विषाद योग। देखेंगे कि श्रीकृष्ण अर्जुन के सब भावुक, मार्मिक वक्तव्यों को किस प्रकाश में देख रहे हैं। तो अपनी ही मोहजनित पीड़ा को आगे अभिव्यक्त करते हुए अर्जुन कहते हैं:

यद्यप्येते न पश्यन्ति लोभोपहतचेतस: |

कुलक्षयकृतं दोषं मित्रद्रोहे च पातकम् ॥३८॥

यद्यपि ये…

प्रश्नकर्ता: आपकी जो बाकी शिक्षाएँ हैं वो भी मुझे बिलकुल गीता से मिलती हुई लग रही हैं। आप जैसे पहले कहते थे कि हृदय में शिव और भुजाओं में शक्ति। तो अभी आप बोले कि हृदय कोमल होना चाहिए और बलिष्ठ भुजाएँ होनी चाहिए तो बिलकुल वो बातें एक जैसी…

तान्समीक्ष्य स कौन्तेयः सर्वान्बन्धूनवस्थितान्। कृपया परयाविष्टो विषीदन्निदमब्रवीत् ॥27॥

अर्जुन उवाच।

दृष्ट्वेमं स्वजनं कृष्ण युयुत्सुं समुपस्थितम्।

सीदन्ति मम गात्राणि मुखं च परिशुष्यति ॥28॥

वेपथुश्च शरीरे मे रोमहर्षश्च जायते ॥29॥

गाण्डीवं स्रंसते हस्तात्त्वक्चै व परिदह्यते।

न च शक्नोम्यवस्थातुं भ्रमतीव च मे मनः ॥30॥

“जब कुन्तिपुत्र अर्जुन ने अपने बंधु बान्धवों को वहाँ…

यावदेतानिरीक्षेऽहं योद्धकामानवस्थितान्।

कैर्मया सह योद्धव्यमस्मिन् रणसमुद्यमे ॥22॥

“मैं इन सब युद्ध करने की कामनाओं से अवस्थित योद्धाओं को देखूँ कि किन वीरों के साथ मुझे युद्ध करना होगा।”

~ श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता, श्लोक २२, अध्याय १, अर्जुन विषाद योग

आचार्य प्रशांत: क्या जानते नहीं हैं अर्जुन कि किनके साथ युद्ध करना होगा?…

आचार्य प्रशांत: हम सबके भीतर, हम कितना भी छुपा लें, पर होता है कोई जो सत्य को छोड़ नहीं सकता। हम स्वयं को कितना भी भ्रम में रख लें, एक तल पर सच्चाई हम सबको पता होती है। वास्तव में अगर सच्चाई पता ना हो तो स्वयं को भ्रम में…

प्रश्नकर्ता: नमस्ते, आचार्य जी। मैं ईशावास्य उपनिषद् पढ़ रहा था जिसमें नौवाँ, दसवाँ, ग्यारहवाँ श्लोक था विद्या और अविद्या पर। तो उसमें यह लिखा था कि अविद्या इज़ ऑब्जेक्टिव नॉलेज एंड विद्या इज़ अविद्या विद सेल्फ नॉलेज (अविद्या भौतिक ज्ञान है और विद्या भौतिक ज्ञान के साथ-साथ आत्म-ज्ञान है)।

तो…

प्रश्नकर्ता: आचार्य जी, जैसे मैं पहले किसी सत्संग में जाती थी, वहाँ पर कुछ बातें बतायी जाती थीं। अष्टावक्र गीता पर आपने बताया कि आज यहाँ पर उसकी उपयोगिता नहीं है। और अष्टावक्र जी ने जैसे बताया है कि ब्रह्म-ही-ब्रह्म है, आत्मा-ही-आत्मा है। तो अभी कुछ दिन पहले मैं अपने…

आचार्य प्रशांत: इन सैकड़ों श्लोकों की यात्रा करेंगे हम। इस यात्रा में ये सोच कर आगे नहीं बढ़िएगा कि आप पहले से कुछ भी जानते हैं। हर जगह रुकिए और पूछिए — ये क्या हो रहा है? उसको आदत-सा बना लीजिए, अभ्यास करिए।

जो अभ्यास आपका बाहर की तरफ़ रहता…

आचार्य प्रशांत: पहले ही अध्याय में, अच्छे से देखिए, दो हैं जो परेशान हैं। कौन? रणक्षेत्र में दो हैं जिनकी चिंता पहले ही अध्याय में हमारे सामने आ जाती है — दुर्योधन और अर्जुन।

इस बात को अच्छे से पकड़िए। चिन्ताग्रस्त होना बुरा नहीं है; दुर्योधन वाली चिंता रखना बुरा…

सञ्जय उवाच।

दृष्ट्वा तु पाण्डवानीकं व्यूढं दुर्योधनस्तदा। आचार्यमुपसङ्गम्य राजा वचनमब्रतीत् ॥२॥

पश्यैतां पाण्डुपुत्राणामाचार्य महतीं चमूम्। व्यूढां द्रुपदपुत्रेण तव शिष्येण धीमता ॥३॥

अत्र शूरा महेष्वासा भीमार्जुनसमा युधि । युयुधानो विराटश्च द्रुपदश्च महारथः॥४॥

धृष्टकेतुश्चेकितानः काशिराजश्च वीर्यवान् । पुरुजित्कुन्तिभोजश्च शैब्यश्च नरपुङ्गवः॥५॥

युधामन्युश्च विक्रान्त उत्तमौजाश्च वीर्यवान् । सौभद्रो द्रौपदेयाश्च सर्व एव महारथाः॥६॥

अस्माकं तु…

प्रश्नकर्ता: प्रणाम, आचार्य जी। बहुत बहुत धन्यवाद। आपके कोर्सेज़ को मैं यूट्यूब पर भी सुने हैं। कुछ मैंने ऑनलाइन सत्र भी अटेंड किए है।

मेरा जो प्रश्न है वो ये है कि मेरा मोटिवेशन लेवल बहुत फ्ल्कचुएट(ऊपर-नीचे) होता है। दिन में ही कई बार बहुत डिप (नीचे) में भी…

In fact, if there is one unpardonable crime, it is bad parenting. You are not even killing someone, you are disfiguring someone and sentencing him to live an entire life. How does that sound? It’s like chopping off somebody’s limbs but ensuring that he lives—and he lives an entire life…

One can become an entrepreneur, for example, in the field of killing animals, cutting animal flesh, and supplying freshly cut flesh to people at their doorsteps. And this might be a successful business model.

This kind of an entrepreneurship is idiocy, perversion, profanity. The evil was present right in the…

Love is when you start seeing the deep desire beneath all your superficial desires. Love is when you start seeing what you are really really thirsty for. Superficially, the desires of different people are different. Deeply, we all share one desire.

So, what is it that happens in love? In…

Let nobody say that he or she is making the right choices in life because she does not know. We all know. We prefer to suppress the inner knowledge. It’s an inner conspiracy against ourselves, just because we want to continue enjoying certain privileges in life—certain physical privileges, material privileges,…

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…

Emotions, they can do whatever they want to do. It doesn’t matter how I am feeling. What matters is what I must do.

Ask yourself: Had you not been feeling this way or that way, what would have you done? And you will get a very good answer.

When you…

The approach of self-help is: “I am sad because my desires have not met fulfillment. So, the way to help myself is: fulfill desires.” It’s a dimensional difference. Therefore, self-help pleases but helps not. It is not then ‘self-help’; the genre should be more correctly called ‘self-gratification’.

And if you…

When the woman is fighting the man or vice versa, then it becomes very immaterial to both of them what is happening to the child. In the process of winning that petty battle, what is happening to the kid becomes insignificant. Not only is the kid in bad company, he…

Does a kid realize why he is being attracted to the butterfly, to the toy, to the rainbow, to the mother’s breast, to anything? Does the kid realize? Like an animal he is just pulled along by his deep tendencies. He is an animal, and that is why education is…

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…

What is the nature of a gymnasium? The gymnasium only gives you obstacles. Have you ever noticed? You want to raise something—what is the gymnasium giving you? Weights, and weights are obstacles against the rise. The gymnasium really does not support you, it actually obstructs you.

The world is anyway…

The situation of Krishna reflects the situation of every real teacher. You have to pull up the one lying in dirt and make him fight the highest battle. You don’t merely have to polish and shine an already existing ornament in gold; the task of the teacher is to take…

Channelize your desire. You must know what you are really hungry for. Your central and primary desire is not sex. Sex may appear overpowering, tempting, but that is really not what you ultimately want. Figure out what you really must have, and then sex will be assigned automatically, inwardly, its…

“Why do you want to follow their science? We will follow our science!” This kind of thing too you are hearing these days, no? This science and that science, as if there are multiple sciences all opposed to each other. Spiritual sciences! What kind of foolishness is this? Pandit-ji is…