you see the ancient spiritual giant suppose we say ram we all love shiram we love sri krishna
so these are ancient spiritual giants so we say but it's so easy to recognize them and while in
modern times why is it so difficult to suss them out the answer is this over thousands of years the
stories of ram and krishna have been polished up so much that the image that we have regarding this
kind of super personality that you know this kind of glamorous you know personalities with wonderful
looks and all that and we feel that the modern kind of spiritual giant should look like that
you know this kind of polish version that we've been given regarding ram or sri krishna or even
the fashion vishwami there's this kind of very polished image that you give it a long beard and
all this so in a way we idealize them to such a great extent they are no longer they don't no
longer appear ordinary so what is happening is this we expect that if there's a modern
giant of course he comes in the same way you know you know with all the glory and all that
why should it be that the spiritual giants never make a show of their spirituality they
don't color them you know for their forehead with all this colorful powder and all that
or huge kind of malas and rudraksha they don't do that that's a spore sign that means the person is
actually trying to somehow promote himself by these external signs and signals and symbols
the real giants will not do that they will they aren't bothered with all this external showmanship
or looking like you know grand like this magnanimous characters that we have in
the historic period they are not prepared to do that that is why they appear very ordinary
an ordinary human being cannot recognize them because they think they must look like they're
doing forearms and all that they don't do that to the contrary it is important for us to recognize
i'll just give you a few examples look at the lives of some of the modern personalities
who made no show of their spiritual greatness they never made any show no drum meeting no sectarian
movements nothing and yet they were in magnanimous personalities as spiritual is some of the ancient
giants i'll tell you one example somebody said mr lakani we like hanuman we like to uh
say wonderful it's a very ancient hero and you've got this look it's a polish image of hero of a
great personality was a great helper of shiram a wonderful story he was a very brave warrior no
doubt but now you you're polished of the image so much that he must be flying and he must you know
you know all this imagery that you get now if you find him more than hanuman he will not have
any of that you know externals and you say oh i miss the miss the plot i'll tell you truthfully
you see the ancient hanuman spent his life looking after the interest of sriram a more a very ancient
very important spiritual personality i am giving you one example my mentor swami vivekananda is
no different from hanuman he said but it doesn't have a tail he doesn't fly of course he doesn't
see this is the problem you kind of created this extra imagery that doesn't allow you to relate to
modern giant it doesn't have a tail it doesn't fly and yet the same message coming through in
our times why what's the importance of hanuman and vivekananda they both talk about they are
messengers of strength empowering humanity they both are here to empower they focus on the idea
of you know this powerful idea of becoming you know in in order for you to make progress in any
field you must be full of energy full of you know strength they both have messengers of strength
so we have kind of because we expect you know the modern personality to also have a tail and fly
about and jump and you know swallow the sun and all that doesn't happen so we can ignore we are
gonna say oh no in fact at one of these you know meetings with university i told the university
boys look my friends you're singing hanuman chalice i wish you well i have a lot of love for
i'm playing here is a modern giant called viva khanam equal in every sense as the as the ancient
man messenger of strength suited our own time why don't you sing vivekananda and they were no no we
can't do that okay then carry on see as we are fixated on this kind of very idealized imagery
of ancient prophets or ancient spiritual giants we cannot easily relate to more than once who appear
very ordinary but this is the extraordinary part of them they don't want to make any show
this is a sign of a truly spiritual giant they are not how to make external showmanship
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