so beliefs are so vital to our life they practically determine the direction we
will take if your belief is the biggest thing in the world is money that is the
direction you will take that will establish the value and based on that
you'll make the choices they're scarier investment banking and nothing else this
decision if I can get a faster but why not your whole direction of life we'll
go there and if your belief is no happiness is not in that green buck it
is somewhere else it is in God then you will come and attend a Swami G's lecture
why do you listen to a bearded Swamiji some of the other there's a belief
inside you you know that the source of wisdom that can really help me where did
that belief come from where do beliefs come from usually they just happened to
us your religious beliefs you may be a Hindu or a Christian or a Jew
whatever did you consciously choose those beliefs Swami ji that has happened
to me I was born in that family and their social heredity there's physical
heredity the children resemble their parents and the social heredity in
America they say the son of a Republican is a Republican the son of a Democrat is
a Democrat yeah you know this Ivanka Trump I was hearing because the speech
was going on in the house I was staying in she was saying I was not earlier on
Republican because my father was a Democrat then he changed so I have
changed some beliefs just happened to us through
the generations some beliefs are due to the environment we live in if somebody
is born in the ghettos the slums of the harvick and has only seen misery and
failure the dreary side of life the chances are
that person's belief is I can never succeed in life that is why some of the
best things we can give to our children is a good set of beliefs children who
believe they can succeed very often do so beliefs could be a result of the
environment beliefs could be the result of experience if one agent cheated you
and the second agent also cheated you let's say for example property agent or
whatever then based on your experience you decide all property agents are
cheats now that belief may not be right but it is your belief based upon your
limited experience so beliefs are happening to us most of the time but
that is not the way forward that is random chance and that is a throw of
dice what is the belief that happened to you fortunately for us we don't have to
let beliefs just happen we can create beliefs we can choose beliefs there was
a drunk father he had two sons the father died in middle age due to serious
of the liver the sun's grew up without that paternal
guidance in their teen years the elder son became a drunk like the father an
alcoholic inveterate incorrigible the younger son was a teetotaler he would
never touch that thing when people came to know of this difference they did an
interview correspondents asked the elder son why do you drink the elder son said
look my father used to drink what else could I do having grown up in such a
family they asked the younger son why don't you drink he said I saw my father
drinking how could I ever drink in that environment the environment was the same
the beliefs that these two brothers created were radically different in
other words the choice of belief exists in us what do you choose to believe the
Bible says we walk by faith not by sight you are walking in life you are thinking
you're walking with your eyes you are mistaken you are walking with your
beliefs the cut-open assured of the Krishna Yahweh it says if you could only
believe in the definition of God you would become God realized what does that
mean the definition of God he is all-pervading he's seated with him he is
our Eternal Father we all know this right everybody the astok semaj
everybody knows but the point is do we believe it
we know God is everywhere do we believe the way they say that very definition of
God if you only chose to believe it you would become God realized there is
nothing further to be done in other words the cut-open assured is
highlighting the power of beliefs so the values that we hold in life are
determined by the beliefs that we have nurtured within us now the whole thing
is logically being extended sometimes people say Swamiji you speak very
logically I say you know with all these engineers in USA God wanted and
engineers for me to explain on the basis of logic so we shall proceed logically
we have understood that the decisions are determined by values and values are
determined by beliefs how our beliefs created this I will not tell you today
otherwise you'll stop coming from tomorrow to understand how beliefs are
created and how we can create the empowering beliefs that will take us
ever forward upward higher we will discuss this tomorrow bully Everett
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