Harmony of Four Yogas
Swami Nikhileswarananda
Harmony of Four Yogas by Swami Nikhileswarananda
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2 Foreword
3 Contents
Day One 1
Day Two 22
Day Three 43
Day Four 67
4 Day One
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Dignitaries present here, dear friends. I am extremely happy to meet you all this evening. It is always a pleasure to talk to the enlightened audience of AMA. As you have heard the subject for the four day lecture series, is Harmony of four Yogas – for bliss and peace.
The modern man is in search of peace. Just now as you heard that most of the people are in tention, irrespective of age, caste, creed, color, nationality, whether India or abroad, whether developing country or developed countries, whether the parents or students, all are under stress and tension and all are in search of peace of mind. This is the very marked phenomenon and the rate of suicides is increasing at an alarming rate all over the world. So many books are getting published, and they are becoming best sellers. Derek Humphrey has written a book, The Final Exit. It is not available on the book shop. With great difficulty I got a copy from a Book Fair and wanted to see what is written there. Do you know what is written there? How to Commit Suicide and the book is selling like a hot cake. The best seller book of Japan is The Complete Manual on Committing Suicide – 3.5 lakhs copies sold in one year. Some people committed suicide while taking the book in their hand and dying in the manner in which it was told in the book! France’s best seller book is Suicide Users’ Manual. They all want to commit suicide and the rate of suicide is much more in the developing countries - which annuals as - our equation as ‘h’ is directly proportional to where ‘m’ where h = happiness, and m = money - rather wherever per capita income is more the rate of suicide is more. The rate of suicide among Schizophrenia patients is more. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, on an average at least one person from every family regularly goes to a psychiatrist, 25 per cent of the people in America are going regularly to psychiatrist. Lot of different types of mental diseases is coming out. We have never heard the names of those diseases. Those diseases are coming up in America and other developed countries and they are gradually in filtering. Affluence has come, Lugen Norosis, drug addiction, violence are spreading like wild fire. Special conferences on stress management are coming up, special courses on happiness is coming up. Now America has discovered a new thing, - that is so far we have been talking about GNP – but now they are talking about GNH. This means gross national happiness. Gross National Happiness survey, which they have taken it from Bhutan that development index, does not depend upon GNP, but GNH. So now Brazil has taken the lesson and they have started these conferences on happiness and peace and from all over the world they have got experts.
And you know there is recession in America and in India it is receding slowly. In America still it persists. But one industry is flourishing wonderfully. That is happiness industry. So many conferences, programmes on happiness and they are all in great demand, because everyone is under stress. So it is a special industry – happiness industry, where it is a
5 Golden Age for those who can give happiness. If you can give instant happiness you will have a very good market. So happiness industry is flourishing. According to the estimates of psychologists and the economists and sociologists, within the next five years, this happiness industry will be the fifth largest industry of the world! Not chemical industry or other industry but happiness industry. So people are badly in search of peace of mind. But all the methods described and prescribed, they do give them happiness; give some relief from the tension. But these are all temporary measures. Even the western model of stress management called Woo do dose, Hectaries, punching backs, etc. these are all not working. That is why now they are going for long term happiness, peace, and they are coming to meditation and yoga all over the world.
The Vedantic method of stress management is if you really want to get peace of mind, No. 1 is that we must know what we want in life. Everyone wants happiness and peace. And we think if we get a particular object we will be happy, but after we get the object, we again become dissatisfied. We want some other object. Once we get that object, we again become dissatisfied. This circle goes on and this is quite natural for every human being, why? Because thousands of years ago, our Rishis have declared man cannot be satisfied by finite things. He can never be satisfied. He can be only satisfied by infinite fulfillment and infinite happiness is the happiness and peace that every human being will be searching for. You cannot have it otherwise.
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How can you get real happiness and peace? By reaching the infinite alone you can get infinite happiness. Till you get infinite happiness and peace, you cannot fulfillment and satisfaction and you will be always searching for more and more peace of mind. Infinite alone and why so? Because our very nature is infinite, our nature is bliss. So unless and until we get bliss, we cannot get peace, because our very nature is bliss. You take a fish out of water and it becomes restless to go back to water. This is the proof. Why are we restless? Because we have come out of our nature. Our nature is to remain immersed in “Sat Chit Ananda”. Inside every human being there is a center of cautiousness, that is called Atman , and its very nature is Sat Chit Anand. This is what Vedanta says – our basic nature is Sat Chit Anand. Infinite existence, infinite knowledge, infinite bliss. That is our true nature. Says katoupanishad , inside every human being there is a center of cautiousness, irrespective of caste, creed, colour, religion, nationality, gender, etc…. »¯: S¢±ïü¯é |¢é¼ï¯é x¢é‡¢¢ï ¥¢y}¢¢æ Ýì ÐíÜU¢à¼ï J Îíà²¼ï ¼x¢Ú²¢ì Ϣ銲¢ S¢éÿ¢}¢²¢ S¢éÿ¢}¢ ÎÚçÿ¢|¢è JJ
There is a center of cautiousness, Atman, but it is not visible. If it is not visible, then what is the proof, what is the evidence? The modern man wants evidence. So the next line says it ‘Drishyate’. Some people have seen it. Some people have realized it. That is its documentary evidence. Drishyate.
Shlokas… but who have seen it…Sholkas..
6 Those who have got one pointed intelligence not the ordinary intelligence, who have got that fine intellect. The fine intellect is different from the ordinary intellect. Now the modern science has come to a SQ what is ‘Sooshmaya shooshma budhi’, - five years back we could not explain what is meant by the Rishis when they tell ‘Sooshmaya shooshma budhi’ - now we know it. The latest discovery of the modern science is SQ (Name of a person) – has written a book SQ – Spiritual Intelligence – the Ultimate Intelligence – where neurologically, biologically and psychologically, physiologically, from every point of view there is a concluding evidence that there is something called SQ which is a basis of both IQ and EQ. What is IQ? Intelligent quotient, what is EQ? Emotional quotient, Emotional Intelligence what is SQ? Spiritual quotient, Spiritual Intelligence. What is IQ? IQ will tell you how to play the game of life. What is EQ? EQ will tell how to play the game of life under changed circumstances and changed strategies. What is SQ? SQ will tell you whether you can play the life or not. That is your choice. What is the meaning of life, what is the purpose of life? Why are we here on this earth? What is the ultimate aim of our life - this is all SQ. Another discovery of the modern science is IQ is available with all the species including the computers, EQ is available only with a few species, but SQ is available only with the human beings. Whatever ancient scriptures say, out of 84 lakhs of species, only human being can have spiritual knowledge or spiritual realization, or self realization. Now the modern sciences know not 84 lakhs, there are 125 lakhs species. Of course now cloning is done, so it might have multiplied. But not much difference. Without any microscope they could discover 84 lakhs of species. Now the modern science says 125 but they also say out of 125 lakhs, only one that is human beings can have SQ. Nobody else. No other species can have SQ. So this SQ ‘Sooshmaya shooshma darshibhi’ only human beings can have got and that is its proof. Some have seen it. Drishyate. That is the documentary evidence. Narendranath Dutt, a college student in Kolkata wanted to know the truth, realize the truth; he read the books of all western philosophers like Stuart Mill, Kant, Hager, Spenar, and Johns and became an agnostic. He said, ‘I don’t believe in God, and his father was a very well known lawyer in the High Court of Kolkata. At that time Kolkata was the capital of India. So He said, I am a son of a lawyer and want documentary evidence for everything. And so whenever a saint would come to Kolkata, he will just go there and after listening to the saint he will say enough of your talk on God. Now answer my question. Have you seen God? Nobody could give a satisfactory answer. He used to become dissatisfied. But he wanted to know the truth.
One day he had gone to college – he was studying in Scottish Church College. That day the Professor of English Literature was absent and the Principal himself came to take the class of English Literature. He was teaching them the poem of Wordsworth – the name of the poem is ‘The Excursion’, in which the poet describes that by seeing the beauty of the nature he goes into a Trans – into a super conscious state in Samadhi. The students asked whether it is possible for a human being to go into a Samadhi state….the professor William ST said it is possible….I have seen one person who frequently enters that state of Samadhi. If you want you can meet that person, because he stays in Kolkata. There is a temple of Dakshineshwar of Mother Kaali. He is Ramakrishna Paramahans and Narendra Nath Dutt said, OK, let me also test this Babaji. He went to Dakshineshwar and when he went in the room of Sri Ramakrishna, he was talking to his devotees. He sat in one corner of the room. After some time, he said, now enough of your talk on God. Answer my question – Have you seen God? For the first he received a satisfactory reply. Shri Ramakrishna Paramahans – yes, I have seen God. Then he said, I am seeing him more intensely than I am seeing you and then he said, if you want, you also can see him. But you have to undergo spiritual practices. Science says H + O2 give H2O. Hydrogen is a gas, oxygen is a gas, and how can it give water? It is not a question of belief. Come to the laboratory, mix hydrogen and oxygen, have the
7 hydrolytic process and when you don’t get water, you say, I don’t believe in this equation. Similarly, Sri Ramakrishna gives the challenge, I have seen God you can also see him, but you have to come to the laboratory and experiment. Narendra Nath accepted the challenge, he underwent the spiritual practices. He also went into the super conscious state. He also had the realization of that supreme reality when he was in Kasipur in Kolkata at that time and after that because he had first hand encounter with the supreme reality. That is why he could declare on the top of his voice, in the World’s Parliamentary Religion at Chicago – it was in 9/11 when he gave his historic speech. It was 11th September 1893. Because we did not listen to his speech about Harmony of Religions, there was another 9/11 in 2001…..! The twin towers were broken. It was a different thing but he told about the harmony of religions in that World’s Parliamentary Religion. During his speech on Hinduism he repeated the sloka from the Upanishads, where the Rishis say,
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Amrutasaya Putraha What are you? You are the children of the immortal bliss…. That is the Vedantic concept. If you ask any student, what is a man, he will immediately reply ‘man is a social animal’. Because that is how they have been taught. That is the normal definition of a man. But Alvin Toffler says, man is an economic animal. After all he is an animal. Aristotle says, man is a political animal…. After all he is an animal. Benjamin Franklin says, man is a tool making animal…. After all he is an animal. This is the western concept. Vedanta says no you are not an animal….Who are you? Amrutsaya Putraha and then Swami Vivekananda gave that nectar of Vedanta. He said, You are the children of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings, not sinners, it is a sin to call a man so….It is a standing lie on human nature, come
8 upon lions, and shake up the dilution that you are sheep, your souls is immortal, spirits free, blast an eternal, you are not matter, you are not bodies, not you the servant of matter ……
He used to narrate a beautiful story which was very popular in America when he went there. …. There was a lioness, it was pregnant and when it was running after a flock of sheep, it jumped over the flock of sheep in order to have its prey – while jumping it gave birth to a small lion cub and that small lion cub fell into the flock of sheep. The lioness because of its labor went to the other side fell down unconscious and later on died. Now the small lion cub started weeping…. The mother of the sheep became kind. It started feeding the lion cub and this cub started growing. It was going with the sheep and he started taking grass like a sheep. It started bleating like a sheep and its behavior was of a sheep but it grew into a big lion. One day another big lion was going along the forest, and it saw a big flock of sheep and among that there was a small lion…and it was also bleating like a sheep. The lion became very much astonished. When it went near them, all the sheep started running out of fear. This small lion also started running with them. The big lion caught hold of it by its neck. Why are you afraid of me, you are a lion like me…..the small lion said, I am not a lion I am a sheep…. The big lion said, you fool, you are a lion and yet you are telling you are a sheep. So many times the big lion tried to explain it, but the small lion started weeping more and more, and became afraid. The big lion got annoyed, caught hold of the small lion, dragged near a pond, and asked him to look at the reflection, mine and yours. Your face resembles that of mine not the sheep. Now the small lion looked into the pond and got astonished. My face is not that of a sheep. Now remember, you are a lion like me, not a sheep. Roar like me…. it roared. Now you are the king of the forest then it became the king of the forest. Swami Vivekananda used to narrate this story and say this small lion was already a lion but it had forgotten that it was a lion. That is why it was so miserable, that is why it was eating grass, bleating and that is why it was miserable. Swami Vivekananda says that we are like the small lion – miserable, what will happen to my problem, financial, family, etc. Swami Vivekananda like a big lion comes, — no, you are atman, ever pure, ever blissful…..No, No, I am a miserable man. No, I am a body mind complex. My mind is very weak. I am so much under tension. I am miserable. Again Swami Vivekananda says that no, the all powerful atman is within. We said no… I am a miserable man. No, I am a body mind complex. Then Swami Vivekananda takes it, come have meditation….. Look within, Look the reflection within, meditate on what I have told you are a lion, you are a lion, you are atman….ever pure, ever blissful. That is why Swami Vivekananda says, come up lions, shake up the dilution that you are sheep…..your souls immortal, spirits free, last and eternal, you are not matter, you are not bodies, matter is servant, not you servant of matter. It is how all Americans got a new life, new hope, new expectation….. so far they were thinking that they are miserable creatures…… you are all divine, you are Gods and Goddesses…..you are not human beings……you have got infinite power within you…..infinite peace, infinite happiness…..infinite knowledge, infinite existence, that is your true nature. This body might be complex but is an external covering, and inside that is supreme consciousness…..and that is what you are…..that is your real nature……Sat Chit Ananda Rupa – that is your true nature……That is why Swami Vivekananda used to tell that you are divine, you are divine…. If any time I feel like blasphemy…..Swami Vivekananda told the Americans – if I feel like blasphemy, when I call you a man or a woman, which is a lie. You are not a man, woman, you are God, Goddess – you are divine, you are divine, you are divine. That is the first truth, that is the second truth…..and that is the last truth…..One day a lady devotee said, Swami, you are trying to hypnotize us, by telling again and again you are divine…..Swami Vivekananda said Madam, I am not trying to hypnotize you, I am trying to de-hypnotize you….if you go on telling I am a sinner, I am a sinner, you are already hypnotized, I am trying to de-hypnotize you. We are all thinking ourselves as a miserable
9 creature. Pray to the society, miserable creatures, body mind complex, under tension, so many weaknesses- body and mind. No that is not your true nature. That is only your external covering, come out. Manifest the divinity within. That is the message that Swami Vivekananda gave. America got this message, but again, because of the affluent society, because of the mad rush after gold and money, they forgot the message.
Elines Stark has written a beautiful book ‘The Gift Unopened’. In that she says what a tremendous gift Swami Vivekananda has already given to us in America. What a beautiful gift! He gave the nectar of Vedanta, a beautiful gift, which will solve all our problems of Americans and American society. But unfortunately, he has given the gift but the gift remains unopened. There she says, Columbus discovered the soil of America, but Vivekananda discovered the soul of America. He gave them the message that you are divine. Then he delivered lectures on four Yogas, Raja Yoga, Gyan Yoga, Bhakti Yoga and Karma Yoga. He has given wonderful solutions for all the problems of the modern society. He has given everything, but the gift remains unopened…. so today again you will get the gift – a packet of four Yogas.
All the knowledge, problem solution is there in these four Yogas. In these four days we are trying to give an outline. I don’t know how far I will be successful. If I can inspire you to read these books, four books, go deeper, because each and every Yoga takes a minimum of one year. Four Yogas will take four years and these four years’ I would like to condense in four days! If it gives you an outline, and if it inspires you to read these books, my coming here will be richly rewarded.
So the main thing is that Swami Vivekananda gave a gift which is remaining unopened. Unfortunately, in India also, we have not opened that gift. It was given to America, Why? Some people ask why he gave that gift to America. Because India was not ready. At that time India had many problems. Swami Vivekananda remembered the message of his Guru Shri Ramakrishna, no religion with empty stomach. So many people are having the problem of poverty, ignorance, illiteracy. First of all our people should be fed nicely, then only they will be able to understand spirituality. Our problems were different at that time. But America’s they had enough food more than actually what they should have. At that time what they needed was mental peace. That is why Swami Vivekananda gave the gift to them of these four Yogas, this Vedanta knowledge. But that gift remains unopened. It is high time that we open the gift.
Today it is the situation in India already we have moved away from Tamo gun to Rajo gun. Now is the time we can understand and justify and appreciate the gift that Swamiji has given, the gift of nectar of Vedanta. This alone will solve our problems, because what we want is peace and that will come through bliss which is our true nature. Our true nature is Sat Chit Anand. How do we know….? What is the rationale behind it? Rationale is this - What is the true nature of fish – to remain in water. Take out the fish, it will become restless. Similarly, our nature is Sat Chit Anand. Remove human beings from this, we are all restless. Every one of us wants to live. You ask any person when you want to die. What is your plan? He will answer that he doesn’t want to die. Even those persons who want to commit suicide it is not because they want to die, everyone wants to live – everyone wants an eternal life, it is because they are suffering….. We want eternal life; we don’t want to die….so nobody wants to commit suicide. Our very nature is existence. We want to live infinitely. Chit – knowledge. How much knowledge we want? Infinite Knowledge. We are not satisfied with any amount of knowledge……Ananda - happiness: we want infinite happiness. Every one wants infinite happiness. A man can never be satisfied with limited happiness; it wants
10 unlimited happiness because it is our true nature. Why are we so restless? We will be restless till we have got into that original thing — infinite knowledge, infinite existence, and infinite bliss. If you put the fish into water, the restlessness will go away. We are fish out of water – till we have realized our true self, till we have got our divinity, that restlessness will continue.
All other methods of stress management are temporary methods. They may give temporary relief, and permanent relief will come only when we get bliss. Without bliss real peace will not come…..That is why in the Katoupanishad it is told, there is an eternal atman, behind which there is an eternal principle called Paramatman – the supreme self…. Inside that self, which is eternal, supra eternal, supreme consciousness. That supreme reality is controlling the whole universe…….those wise people who have realized this Parmatman within this atman, those realize that supreme reality, they alone will have infinite happiness and peace and nobody else can have…..
The source of infinite joy, infinite bliss is already within us. We don’t have to get it from outside; we don’t have to import it. It is already there, but we are unaware about it. But that is why Kabir says
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It will be available at a moment’s notice, but we have to search for it, within and not outside. At present, we are trying to search the latest model car, house, dress, theatre, etc everywhere but later on we will find this entire search will end in futility. It will give us happiness, peace, but cannot give us everlasting peace, happiness, fulfillment because our very nature is infinite. We cannot be satisfied less than infinite. We want infinite joy, infinite bliss, infinite existence, and infinite peace. That is why this supreme reality, which is within has to be manifested. What is the proof? The proof is: Ramakrishna Paramahans said he has seen it. Swami Vivekanand has seen it. Those people who have experimented have seen. Now it is for us to experiment. Before experimentation we cannot say it is not there. We have to experiment and find out for ourselves. Otherwise it is of no use. So how to experiment this supreme reality which is within us? It is within us and we have forgotten it because of our true nature.
There is a special kind of deer called Himalayan deer. Inside the Himalayan deer’s naval, there is kasturi – musk. That Kasturi deer is running fast, because from somewhere it is getting the smell of musk. In search of that it is running fast and ultimately it becomes exhausted and dies. Then it was found out that the musk is already there in its naval itself….. similarly, we are like that deer in search of happiness and peace everywhere we are going round the corner, sometimes we go to Switzerland, sometimes to Mt. Abu…. sometimes we feel that the latest car model will give us happiness etc. All ultimately ends up in frustration which is very natural. We cannot be satisfied by finite. Then why we are not able to realize that there is an infinite within? Kabir says, there is a screen hiding the reality. We have to remove this screen then we will realize that infinite Atman, infinite supreme self having infinite knowledge, bliss and existence. But we have to remove the screen. How to remove the screen? Swami Vivekananda beautifully gives, in the introduction to Raja Yoga, the gist of the whole process how to remove the screen. We don’t have to do anything else. We don’t have to go to Himalayas to purchase this Samadhi or to
11 purchase this Atman and we needn’t go to America. Nowhere we have to go. Wherever we are we can practice it, we can get this infinite knowledge, infinite existence because it is not outside, but is within. It is already there, and you don’t have to get it. Only you have to discover it. We have forgotten about it. That’s all. Someone asked Vivekananda I want to realize my self, my atman, my supreme self, he said, forget about it. That person was puzzled. Never think that you have to get the atman, or you have to get the knowledge, you are already dead – only do not allow the mind to think that it has not reached That’s all. You are already divine, not that you have to become divine. You are already there. Only this dilution is there, remove this dilution that I am not divine….It is the negative process we have to give. We have forgotten our true nature. We don’t have to get realization, we don’t have to realize the self; what we have to do is that never allow the mind to think that you are not in the infinite. You are already in the infinite. But we want to think like that…..but our body consciousness comes in between. It comes because of the screen. The screen of ignorance, the screen of ego, the screen of selfishness. So we will have to remove that screen. How to remove that screen of ignorance, of ego, of selfishness?
There are four methods to remove that screen. We are already divine. We have got infinite knowledge; we have infinite existence and bliss. Everything is there. Remove the screen it is there. How to remove the screen? Four methods for removing the screen. How? Swami Vivekananda gives all the Vedantic knowledge in his introduction to Raja Yoga. He says each soul is potentially divine. The goal of human life is to manifest this divinity within by controlling nature external and internal. Do this either by work, worship, psychic control, or philosophy by one or more or all of these and be free. This is the whole of religion. Dogmas, rituals, temples, churches, mosque are but secondary details. This is the gist of whole of religion. And this is the aim of religion: manifest the divinity within by controlling the nature external and internal. There are four methods for this – Raja Yoga, Gyan Yoga, Bhakti Yoga and Karma Yoga. By unselfish work (Karma Yoga), worship – devotion (Bhakti Yoga); Psychi control i.e. Raja Yoga and by the true knowledge (Gyan Yoga). The knowledge of the infinite, knowledge of the ultimate. That is knowledge of self. We know we have tremendous knowledge about the whole world - whether there is a log of wood on the mars…. Or not we know. Whether water has been discovered in the moon that we know. What is happening in mars, in moon, in other planets, in world, in universe, etc. we have so much knowledge about bio technology, genetic engineering, but we don’t have knowledge about ourselves. That is the tragedy. We don’t have knowledge about our own mind, about ourselves, whereas we know so much about the whole world. The knowledge of the supreme self is the true knowledge, (Shloka) the knowledge by which you can realize the ultimate the infinite that is the reality….. Here Swami Vivekananda says these are the four methods of obtaining, realizing that infinite, just manifest in the divinity, removing the screen.
Swami Vivekananda says that we have four methods of this manifest in the divine…. Raja Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Gyana Yoga and Karma Yoga. In all these Yogas, there are books. We have prepared a set of these four books. You read these books and the last day we will have questions and answers session. You give your questions in advance on the third day after reading the books. I would try to give answers on the last day.
But today I will tell you, some people asked, which is the best method best Yoga. Now Vivekananda says every yoga is a best yoga. It depends on you for your temperament. For some Karma yoga will be clicking more, for some Raya Yoga, for some Bhakti Yoga and for
12 some Gyan Yoga. Gyan yoga is the shortest cut, because the very moment you can realize, remembering that you are already realized. Within a fraction of a second you can have a realization, provided your mind is so pure, it is a short cut, but it is very difficult. Rishis say that the path of knowledge is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a drawn sword very difficult but it is a shortest cut for those who can afford it. for those who has not got the power of discrimination, power of renunciation, because that will demand renunciation – if you think the whole world is false, give it up – my God, I cannot give up my children, I cannot renounce…..that is not the path for you. But there is hope for you. This is all full of Maya. The Gyan yoga says, this atman is real, everything else is unreal – in the sense not that is not existing, but today it is there, tomorrow it is not there……when you are in sleep, you are having a dream…..When you are getting up in the dream, you are a King, now no more King. You are back to square one. Similarly when the dream is over, the whole thing goes. This is all Maya. Whatever we are seeing is all Maya…
Swami Vivekananda was at his best when he was giving lectures. You will see his meditation pose. When delivering lectures on Maya he went into super conscious — Samadhi state. That was when he was delivering a lecture somewhere; he went into Samadhi after the lecture. So heightened, so fascinating, beautiful lectures on Maya. There he gives a beautiful story: Narada came to Lord Vishnu. Lord, please show me what is Maya? he asked. He said he will show you that and after three days, he said, Narada, let us go for a walk, for an outing. They went to a desert. After walking some distance, he said to Narada, I feel thirsty, can you fetch me some water. Narada went to a nearby village and went to a house and knocked the door. The door was opened by a very beautiful girl. Narada had love at first sight. He started talking to her, and the whole day he was talking to her. He became infatuated, the girl also became infatuated. They talked endlessly. He forgot he came to fetch water for the Lord. He then told her father, he wanted to marry his daughter. The father was very happy. Now Narada has become a ‘Gar Jamai’ ….son in law. The whole property of that person came to him. Narada and his wife were enjoying the family life. They had two children also. After 12 years of nice life, there was a sudden flood. Because of the flood, at night the flood was severe the whole village was swept away. Narada’s house has also gone. He took shelter under a tree. That tree was also drowned. He was floating under water with one hand. He caught hold of his wife in one hand and the children on his shoulders. He started swimming. Currently the current came, and one child was swept away. He started shouting my son has gone. Because of that he lost the grip on the second son and the second son also went. Then his wife also drowned. He was just thrown away by the waves…..on to the bank of the river. He was crying because he has lost his family…. At that time suddenly a soft voice came – Narada, where is my water? I am waiting for half an hour….. 12 years I have been married and getting children and enjoying, and you are saying half an hour….. Lord said, this is ‘Maya’. This is very difficult to cross. How to cross, what is the solution? ….Sri Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita,
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Bhakti Yoga – if you don’t believe in God, do not worry, there is Karma Yoga; if you cannot have Karma Yoga, there is Raja Yoga. There are four methods. The best method I will tell you at the end of the lecture.
Last day I am going to tell you what is the best method of this four. That is suspense. Last day I will tell which is the best of the four Yogas. Tomorrow we will have to have at 5.30. We will talk about Bhakti Yoga, and then Raja Yoga, Karma Yoga……