so now this narendra is strongly attached to rawa krishna because you see he says
he has found a place where spirituality can be experienced firsthand somewhere you can dish
out spirituality it becomes closely attached to sri ramakrishna now the way ramakrishna is
training narendra is quite unusual you see with others you would say okay rakhal singh and dance
uh la tu ser me look after me that's your job with narendra he pulled out ashtavakra samhita
knows all this stuff he's unlettered but he knows all the key scriptures of the
hindu tradition he pulled out the ashtavakra now if any of you have studied ashtavakra
if he doesn't thrill you this is the height of advaita vedanta
advaith pure rest of the way there is no room for dwight there is a most severe you know one of the
critical comments the only limitation you have is you think you are limited this is how it starts
you know the only meditation you need is no meditation you are that already there's no room
for all these meditation nonsense this is the way advaith ashtavakra goes it's a very high powered
philosophy very few people are even will get close to advaitha or to the idea of vashtavakra
but see look just to show you what is this advaith all about we hear about it that this unity that
kind of links all of us is what advaith is all about you may think is theorizing it is
not theoretical you actually can experience advaith i'll give an example when ramakrishna
had practiced advaithapuri recognizes identity with this underpinning to this universe called
brahman or atman in that state you know when he was stalin still in that mood i tell you real
real example you feel so much at one with the whole of the creation if you look at somebody
you feel one with that person give an example one of these days in this state of advaith when
ramakrishna was standing near the bank of the river ganga two fishermen kind of came
stopped their boat and they were having a quarrel the ram question was watching and
a sausage linking with that they were having a quarrel and one fisherman you know they are rough
and rough and ready one fisherman got fed up and really smacked that on the back really hard you
can hear the smack boom right across the bank of ganga smacked him really hard the moment he
heard around question went ouch and he's you know burning brother came running what happened mama
what happened he said ah i'm hurt so they you know looked at the back it was swollen and red
he could actually experience what that fish was getting because become one
wow it transferred physically transferred the the unity or the linkage that we have
with the rest of creation is not just verbal it is not just intellectual it is real you feel that
so whenever i'm questioning that mood is very delicate you're gonna hurt him if you hurt anybody
you hurt him especially he looks at him he's hot i tell you how it's how extensive this is
sometimes you know when you look at the grass in the in the temple garden the grass just
ordinary grass and somebody is mowing the grass cutting the grass if you look it goes or somebody
stepping on the grass stepping on it you go oh as if somebody is stepping on his chest you have
to take him away so this otherwise is not just a mere intellectualizing you actually can experience
and now narendra was the perfect candidate for advaith he has come to present that to the world
and it was necessary to train him so the book that ramakrishna took out to
teach his disciple is ashtavakra samhita people who shadow nobody heard the name
i tell you if you want a thrill of your life this is the most thrilling text of the hindu
tradition i would say far more dynamic than the open issues it still says stays in the
background because it's so severely advaith there is no room for dwight nothing is purest advaith
so i started telling vivekananda to study this because now i couldn't be bothered
he's like that is very rude to his master cause him old man you know fool idiot look
we are not supposed to copy him and tell our teacher stuff like that but he was very rough
so he said nah i'm not going to study then then ram question said look can you read
it out to me i want to hear it that's the excuse so that boy has to read it
he said read it out to me i want to listen to it so read out and you would hate but you
start reading and you turn this page and read you know unhappily keep reading the thing that
comes out of the way this essentially all this is manifest into the same one appearing as many
so viva kind of threw the book aside this is nonsense he said this is nonsense he went out
and there was somebody equally kind of ridiculing wrong question sitting outside he found him his
name is hajra his hajira this old man is mad he's asking me to read this book it must have been
written by equally mad people in the book it said this pot is brahman this water is brahman this
glass is brahman now how ridiculous can you be everything is brahman how can everything brahman
this is the most ridiculous thing i've ever read must be written by some mad people
and he was making fun of ramakrishna and ashtavakra samhita and advaitha
this is vivekananda classic vivekananda he fought his master he lived with his master
for six years the six years were real fun sparks between the master and the disciple real sparks
any no hesitation he said what stupid thing this book is teaching about
this jug is brahman this glass is brahman this water what's god they're different they sing
brahman they're asking me to believe that this is height of philosophy written by mad people
and while they were laughing and making fun of it rang krishna came out of his room smiling
came near standard stuff for ram krishna and touched him don't do that don't let him do that
touched him so naren said um i don't know what happened but after he touched me i looked around
and i realized that everything is same everything is made of the same material
same thing becoming manifested all this different world he said i'll keep quiet i see to how long
this experience continues because i don't trust this experience maybe just temporary problem
with my brain it was like that i'll just keep quiet and see how long this experience lasts
event in the state of state of mind home when he went home he felt that his body was not his own it
was somebody else's because he was gonna day's mood and his mother put some food on the plate
and you start eating he said the food and me and the body is same he can't distinguish he's still
eating so sometimes you'd eat too much he won't stop because he can't feel his body he doesn't
know his body full now he would keep eating and they have to snatch the plate away said enough
or sometimes you don't eat at all this went on he would walk on the street look these are his words
he said i would open the street and i would see the horse and carriage rushing towards me
now normally we kind of duck we walk away we don't stand in the front and embrace the horse
and carriage he said i would stand in front of it because i can't see i see the same thing
this and that is same he doesn't want to take himself away he says somebody to pull me away
otherwise i'll get killed he said then i would go near that particular garden or whatever and
i would see the railings and i would hold the railings because it's when you look imagine when
you're having a duet experience you hold the railing but you think somebody else is doing
it it's not for real like like you know like shadow one shadow holding another shadow he said
now hit my head on it with on the railing to see if it's real because the whole thing appears one
he said this experience lasted for many days and then i put my hands at this is not nonsense it
can be experienced with a touch wrong krishna good the highest experience in the most simplest words
one day this vivekananda went to ramakrishna said look i want to be established in god realization
and find mukti i want to be released from this bondage of this life and become one with divine
spirit please please bless me so i become i reach i get salvation if you like the english word
bless me so i do that wrong question looked at him in a very sad way oh dear i didn't
expect you to sing so low sing so low asking for salvation brahmagnan in ishvargnan i didn't think
you'll sing so low said ram krsna look at the language of the master my boy you are not here
this is like a beggar this is so petty of you you are not here for your own salvation my boy
you are here for the salvation of all of humanity why are you asking for the trivial thing
see lifted the student to his level and that is why he was preparing this boy for it for greater
work i told you he has come to present the most comprehensive vision of spirituality and ram krsna
is aware that the aspect of spirituality that will engulf the whole world not india the whole world
is advaith giving dignity to humanity lifting humanity to the level of god this is the new
vision of spirituality suited to this age and ramakrishna knew who is the carrier of
this particular message she was preparing his tool sharpening his tool this video was being prepared
turning into a very powerful tool of advaith this vision of spiritualism spiritualizing humanity
new word spiritual humanism you are special not because you are a lump of matter
but you are the most clearest vision of spirit on earth divinity of mankind
not reserved for just some ascetic who goes in meditation the chaos but for the whole of humanity
that we've comprehensive made available to the whole of humanity not just to some few select
for this he was training his disciple and vivekananda said okay but again ram question
would test viva kanan too and you would say now you see how good this mother code is you
know i did this tantra i go to ashta siddhi all these magical miraculous powers siddhis
and you're going to do great work for me in the future so why don't i pass them on to you
that answer keep it to yourself i just want the highest i don't want all this magic business i
want the highest experience i don't want your siddhis and rav krishna would smile
his student is ready he's not going to be he was not going to get digressed
easily he is the right right material and this relationship continued at later stage ram krsna
started to suffer from cancer it's time for him to pass away give up his body at this time
well i will not talk about that part but during this part one day he called vivekananda to him
he said come here my boy i'm going to become a true fakier a true ascetic today everything
i've acquired i wish to pass on to you you're going to inherit if you like my
spiritual wealth and so i'm going to say i was sitting in front of me i could feel
tremendous like a power coming from his body into my entering my body and went into deep meditation
in one of these days when swami vivekananda was one day practicing meditation
and ram question was suffering sitting upstairs in the room
and virgo was struggling to meditate and close his eyes and go into deep meditation
suddenly if these are his words it's nice to hear
what spiritual experience all like he said i suddenly felt a light at the back of my head
suddenly an image like this and suddenly see a light coming out from the back of your head
and slowly engulfing your whole system and you go into deep meditation these are his words
i was feeling the highest bliss the body sensation disappeared the idea that nirvikalpe
samadhi the highest meditation with what he achieved and then when he wanted to come back
into the normal state suddenly he could not find his body i'm telling you these are his
words he said i started shouting where is my body the mouth is speaking we can't feel the
body he can't feel the mouth he's screaming hey brothers where is my body so the brothers
disciples ran up to ram question and said these guys are saying where is his body
and ramkus said let him be like that he's been bothering me all his life for this experience
let him sit like that for a little bit more don't rush leave him like that
you see what ram krishna promised he had delivered he is producing this powerful
weapon of spirituality suited to the modern age it produced a fireball called swami you see look
here is this ramakrishna appears very rustic laid back hardly lived went outside his temple
in the little house temple room he stayed all his life and yet he was molding the little room
he was molding various personalities were going to change the face of spirituality in
the face of modern religion it was molding them preparing them and of course the most masterful
preparation was his master disciple this chief disciple called vivekananda
here is a fireball he created and the fireball is not meant for india it is meant for the greater
humanity for the world a modern proponent of religion can never look after the interests of
just one brown-skinned people of one subcontinent of the subcontinent it must be relevant for the
whole world otherwise he is not truly a spiritual giant is still if you like a a little kind of a
minor phenomena just for the indian subcontinent he was not meant to do that so he was preparing
the tool that will universalize his message not meant just for the hindus in india but for the
whole of humanity and this messenger this fireball is called vivekananda he picked it up prepared it
and threw it to the west he knew he's going to come to the west
so the preparation has begun i'm going to stop there for the moment
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