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A divine, spiritual
program was held at the home of Smitaben and Mahendrabhai Patel. They
organized a beautiful yagna program in the backyard of their home with
each family having their own yagna kund. Pujya Swamiji's asana for the discourse was set up just
in front of the beautifully setting sun. He spoke on the meaning of
life.
The Meaning of Life
Pujya Swamiji
July 23, 2005
Transcribed by Karla Becker
In Indian Culture, the whole
purpose of all the cosmos
is for all to be happy and for all to be healthy. Indian
Culture never prays for one community or one family.
Whenever we offer our prayers, we offer them for all.
May all be happy. May all
be healthy. May all be enlightened.
Beauty is on the inside. No matter how much beauty there is on
the outside, if there is no beauty on the inside, all will disappear.
The materialistic world will be there. But peace will be lost.
True happiness will be lost. To bring true happiness in, we have
to
pray for all.
Alone in this world, you cannot
be happy. The whole world is working
for everybody. You can conquer the whole world with your wisdom,
with
your knowledge, your
intellect, but until you have trained your mind and
transcended, you cannot be the
true conquerer. One small habit, one small
drug, one small cigarette, takes
them away, and they are defeated -- one small
habit that they can’t live
without. The conquerer is not the one who can
conquer the whole world.
The conquerer is the one who can conquer his own mind.
The key for happiness is not only
for Indians, not only for Hindus, but for the whole world.
It lies in the mantra of "what a
beautiful life." Everything relies on water, on air, on
fire,
on all of the elements.
Without one of them, nothing would survive.
We need to give the message to
all of them that everything, oh God, belongs to you...
my heart my mind. So many
thoughts we take into our mind...good thoughts, bad thoughts.
So much of the thoughts are
"What for me? What for me? What for me?"
Wonderful are
the people who say..."What
for you? My whole life is for you." The greatest
Shakti in
your life is when you begin to
live for others.
How to use that Shakti?
Become holy, share with others. Look at nature.
The true aim of life is to become
yagna, a living sacrifice. Let your life become
sacrifice. No one becomes
Mahatma in one day. Every day, go forward. Go
find your beauty. Keep
sending your kisses every day, and that will become
your true yagna. Create
that divine corner in your life for your yagna. And I tell
you if you do not want to be
cornered in your life, create that corner. And you
will never be cornered...thank
you.
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Question session begins:
Question: "Sometimes I
feel like religion is the basis of all the trouble in this world
–
the conflict in the Middle East, 9/11. Almost all the wars are
religion-based. How do
you explain, and what can you do
about it?"
Swamiji: "People who
live the life of their religion, believe me, they will not take the
life of another. If it divides
people, it is not religion. It is something else. It is a
law
of the universe that if you unite
creation, then all live in harmony. If they are divided,
that is when wars begin.
God never creates heaven for those people who create
hell for others. War can
never be holy. Love is holy -- not hatred -- not war.”
Bhagwati: "What
they're fighting over is land and power. Muslims are on one side,
and Jews are on another
side. The country of Iraq, for example, are
Muslims,
and the people going into Iraq
happen to be Christians or Jews, or Americans. If the
country of Israel were given to the
Palestinians, and if the Americans walked out of
Afghanistan and Iraq, people would not come into Europe
and the US
because
the people were not Muslim.
They're using religion. If
every single Jew walked out of Israel and migrated to
Jordan, the
Palestinians would not follow them and kill them. If India handed the
entire land
of Kashmir to Pakistan,
they would not follow them to kill them.
At the very top, the realized
masters of the different religions are speaking 95%
the same language. The
leaders of the nations are saying the same thing, that
everyone is one with the same
creator.”
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In the words of the Adi Shakti
(Primal Power) mantra –
Ek
Ong Kar, Sat Nam, Siri Wahe Guru
"There is one Creator whose
name is Truth.
Great is the ecstasy of that
Supreme Wisdom"!
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