In this Video FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
- What is the significance of Shree Shivkrupanand Swamiji’s teachings within the RSS?
Swamiji’s teachings emphasize unity, selfless service, and spiritual growth, serving as guiding principles for RSS members in their societal contributions. - How has Swamiji’s influence impacted the social initiatives of the RSS?
Swamiji’s teachings have encouraged RSS members to actively engage in social welfare activities, promoting harmony and cultural preservation. - Is Swamiji’s influence limited to spiritual aspects within the RSS?
No, Swamiji’s teachings have a holistic impact, guiding members not only spiritually but also in their commitment to societal well-being. - What qualities of Swamiji’s teachings resonate strongly with RSS volunteers?
The emphasis on unity, discipline, and selfless service deeply resonates with RSS volunteers, driving their actions and mindset. - How does Swamiji’s legacy continue to influence future generations of RSS members?
Swamiji’s enduring legacy ensures that his teachings remain foundational, guiding future generations of RSS members in their pursuit of societal welfare.
Audio Transcript –
(00:06) My greetings to all the virtuous souls who have come, I am starting today’s program with an incident that happened in my life. When I had just come to Mumbai, there used to be many small camps in Mumbai for eight people. Camps of 10 people. When the camps started with such small camps, a writer used to come there.
(00:59) He was a doctor who had written books on yoga and meditation for 30 years and after every program he I used to argue with me, Swami ji, you have said this in today’s sermon and it is written in that scripture that this used to happen every time and secondly, there were less people and he used to come to all the sermons , so I said slowly – Gradually I got to know him, we became very friendly and I used to respect him a lot, he was very old, then one day I laughingly told Doctor Sahib, Doctor Sahib has a request, then he said, can you stop my thumb impression tomorrow morning.
(01:43) Can you come to my house, then he started laughing, why are you saying this, I said, you come, then I will tell you, then the next day, actually he came to my house at 6:00 in the morning, I was sitting meditating, he also came, he also meditated. He sat down to meditate and meditated for about two and a half hours and when he woke up after about two and a half hours, he said, Swamiji, I have been writing books on meditation and yoga for 30 years, but I have never had such a good meditation, such a beautiful meditation. I didn’t even think so,
(02:20) why did I tell him, look, you came with the car, no, he said yes, so you came to my house with the car, did n’t you park the car outside and slowly and slowly came to the house on foot, okay, in the same way as you left the car today. Well, you have left the knowledge of books and have come here leaving behind all the knowledge of books, what happened because of that, you have
(02:52) come here like a thumb, then because of that you have attained the experience i.e. the book can take us to God, the experience of God. Can’t I make them understand the same things like there is a picture of a cow in a book, if there is a picture of a cow then we can get information from the cow, a cow has two horns, a cow has four legs, a cow gives milk and drinks milk.
(03:15) Sweet buttermilk tastes good but whether the cow in the picture will give milk or not, it can never give milk, in the same way a book cannot give us experience, a book can only give us knowledge, it can guide us, it can tell us, that is why I am telling you. I am requesting you to leave all the book knowledge you have till date and sit with me for an hour.
(03:44) Do not bring book knowledge in between because I have not read even a single letter in my life. It is not a book, not even a single letter has been read, so I will not talk about even a single book in this program of mine because I do not have the knowledge of the book, so leave the knowledge of the book and come to the knowledge of experience. You will discover a new field of experience within it.
(04:06) Okay, second, I have not read even a single word here, but the Theosophical Society invites me to give lectures again and again in London. That society of learned people is full of books for three months. They have a library and I tell them, you look at a picture of a cow for a whole year, drink milk for a day, when you have so many books, then why do you call mine, I have not read even a single word, that’s why you call me. Because you get to drink milk, then the meaning of saying is that the cow in the picture
(04:39) cannot give milk. Knowledge can be gained from books but experience cannot be achieved. Experience is a different path, there is a different path which can be achieved through yoga. Others like you. Do you see, there is a field near your house and inside the field, a farmer is regularly pouring water there, regularly pouring cots there and after that you see that every day he pours water.
(05:13) He puts a cot there every day and one day you asked him, he puts water here regularly every day, why does he put a cot here every day, then he said, ‘It is my wish that a good quality mango tree should grow’, then you said, ‘You fool, unless there will be a mango seed’ How will a mango tree grow? Yes, you are giving fertilizer, you are giving water, but the tree will grow only when there is a seed, but this is not the foolishness we are doing in spirituality, are we doing puja, performing rituals, chanting, performing havan ? You are doing it, but where is the seed of spirituality? Look, if you
(05:50) find the seed of spirituality, then all the other things are there, but there is no seed of spirituality and you are doing all this, nothing will happen from this, after passing through all these paths, I have come here to you. You will also be curious as to which beach is mine and why am I here? That is what I am coming to tell you today.
(06:15) I am a resident of Nagpur and in my childhood I used to live in Shraddhanand Peth in Nagpur and it was such an old time when there was that Abhyankar effigy, there was a garden there with the effigy and in the garden my maternal grandfather was there. I used to sit with him and Nana ji would wait for another 10 minutes and see a car. When he used to wait for 10 minutes then a car would be seen there and after that he would be in a hurry to go home. He could not see it in the dark or me at that time.
(06:41) If I didn’t understand then at that time my maternal grandparents were my world, I used to go to Hanuman ji’s temple with my maternal grandfather in Bardi and later I used to go to cow protection with my grandmother, this is this world and that other one, tell Nana ji, no cow protection, let’s go, he said.
(06:59) Nani’s God is there and tell Nani that let’s go to Hanuman ji’s temple and said Nana’s God is Nana’s God. I was five years old in my childhood and that’s when I understood that it is up to anyone to believe in God. One can consider anyone else as God. Nana’s God is different Nani. God is different but the world of both is going on, so what is meant to say is that apart from believing in God, one can also consider anyone else as God.
(07:24) Okay, later on, some guru would come to our house, that grandmother used to say that she was the personification of God through him. God speaks and my grandmother, the whole world, what my grandmother is saying is the truth, but later I saw that he was hospitalized and fell ill again and again. I told my grandmother, granny, God is not there, it is your false imagination that God exists.
(07:48) If God existed then he would not have kept his mike in good condition. Either it is not his mike. Which of the two is true, but Nani was not ready to accept anything, she was not ready to accept anything, she too was not ready to accept anything. She scolded me that small children should not ask such questions and she always used to tell me that God is immortal, God was there yesterday, God is here today, God will be there tomorrow also, you had understood that God cannot be a body, why can any body be like this? What was there yesterday,
(08:22) what is there today, what will be there tomorrow, I tell my grandmother, Nani, I searched for the God of today, I searched for the God of the present and if I find that God, I will share it in the whole world and this is what I have been doing for the last 28 years.
(08:43) I have been doing it since then and today this work has reached 65 countries and people from 65 countries have received the blessings of God, so what Nani used to say, at that time everything seemed true, everything seemed right, after that I saw a The Muslim fakir who used to stand in front of the mosque with peacock feathers, used to bless everyone who came, used to bless everyone who came, did not ask the person who came about his caste, did not ask about the religion of the person who came after that.
(09:09) I saw a Hindu monk, he used to give bhavati prasad to anyone who came, he also did not ask the person’s caste, he did not ask the person’s religion. I told my grandmother, Nani, how do Hindus bless Muslims and Muslims bless Hindus? He blesses Is there only one God Is there only one God but Nani had no answer for that too Later I saw that 16 people were going by boat to Haridwar and 16 of the 16 boats sank and 16 died. Then I Argued with grandmother.
(09:44) Grandmother says, God is there, God is there, where is God? Hey Baba, accidents happen on the road, but it is understandable that those who are going to see God, those who are going to see God, they also have to face God. If God doesn’t save then God is nothing. It’s just your imagination. Nani doesn’t say that.
(10:05) If I didn’t talk like this, I used to suppress it every time. After that, when I used to go to Krishna’s temple, the priest who used to sit close to Krishna felt like that. The one close to him is very close to him but his illusion also got dispelled. In the story of Satyanarayan, the next day when he had come for worship, I saw that instead of rup, he started arguing with his grandfather by saying rup two, then I said no, God, God, everyone.
(10:34) God is speaking, God is speaking but no concept of God came, no feeling came and a kind of confusion came to him, then it changed into curiosity that we have to lose God, we have to find God, then someone said. If you read this book then you will find God. The book was lying around, God was not found, someone said, chant Gayatri Mantra, you will find God.
(11:00) 24000 people chanted Gayatri Mantra, God was not found, someone said, do Havan, you will get it by performing Havan. I believed whatever anyone said that this By doing all this, God will be found. I did all that but did not find God. I did not find God, but a curiosity was awakened from within that God is not to be searched for. I had promised my grandmother that if I searched for God, I would not search for God. So, as many rituals as I can perform.
(11:24) Even after doing all that, God was not attained, then what happens is based on my experience. But I can say that it is not possible to attain God through physical efforts. When this is not possible, then what do we do? Then prayer was born. Nothing, I started praying everywhere.
(11:50) Wherever I went, I used to pray and even prayer was nothing . I started crying again, I used to cry a lot that when will I attain God, it is not that I did not get education, good education, I studied till M.Com, got a job as a marketing manager, did service in Calcutta, but was unsatisfied.
(12:16) From within, there was curiosity, it was unequal, that God has to be found, there was an effort to find only one solution, nothing, I used to sit on the bank of the river, I used to look at the water of the river, after seeing I used to think only one thing, this particle of water, sometimes or the other. After reaching some place or the other, I will attain the ocean.
(12:44) After reaching there, this particle of water will cease to exist as a river. It will be called the ocean after reaching there. When will there come such a moment in my life when I will go there and become God, my body will cease to exist? He used to pray this way all the time while sitting near the river. I am telling you all these things because when such intensity awakens in your mind then Guru comes into your life and is nothing like a market.
(13:30) Due to this I had gone to Kanpur, at that time there was a bank strike, the bank was going to remain closed for four-five days, no work was going to be done, so there is Kanchan Hotel in Kanpur, above the station road, which has now been closed, I found it at a suitable corner.
(13:49) But when it was closed, I stayed in it, stayed in it, and while sitting like this, I saw that every time I sat in solitude, I was sitting in concentration, I saw three things again and again. The temple of Pashupati Nath was visible and a very good one. Babaji with a fair complexion and a long beard was visible and after that a Shiva temple was visible at a hilly place.
(14:18) I don’t know what was the relation between these three things but she kept seeing these three things again and again and suddenly it came to my mind why not go to Nepal. Pashupati Nath is nearby from here , so it’s nothing, tell the hut owner, if you get any call, don’t say anything, just go out, don’t tell me anything else, no one is leaving your room, it was like there was no trunk at that time, I called with great difficulty in a day.
(14:43) It seemed nothing, from there again went to Gorakhpur, from Gorakpur to Sonali, went to Jag Hai, from there went to Bhairwa and from Bhairwa, went to Kathmandu by bus the next morning and after reaching Kathmandu, it was night, stayed in a hotel for the night, there was a hotel after mountain crossing.
(15:09) The next morning he went to see Pashupati Nath and wanted to perform Rudrabhishek. When he reached there, the priest of the temple was watching me. I was so surprised that I was so surprised that I got nervous even in the office. I didn’t tell you even at home that I was going to Nepal. How did he know that I have come here? After saying no, an old Nepali gentleman has been waiting for you in the temple for three days.
(15:44) Who is the Nepali gentleman and what? Do you understand? He was not able to do Rudrabhishek also. He did not feel like doing Rudrabhishek. He did Rudrabhishek but did not feel like doing it. When he went and met the businessman, he said, I have come from a village named Shibu and there is a cave in the Himalayas on the hill behind us, that cave.
(16:06) I don’t know what is the name of Shiv Baba but we consider him to be the incarnation of Shiva, we call him Shiv Baba and whenever I had given darshan, neither has he sent me to bring you, Sara Na, I suddenly started feeling like a mystery. Who is Shibu village, who is Nepali Baba, who is Shiv Baba, I was not able to remember anything, but there was so much power in his voice, so much strength, it was as if I was hypnotized, I walked with him, I did not remember anything, there was nothing for me to go back.
(16:47) And after that I went by bus and then on foot. After traveling like this, I reached Shibu village. After reaching there, there was a small Shiva temple. He stopped me there. Next morning, he went very high up the hill and made me sit on a stone early in the morning and said, that’s enough now. Keep sitting here and you will get nothing.
(17:09) I have been sitting since morning became afternoon, evening has come, it was about to get dark then I saw that an old gentleman was sitting and coming out of the cave in front. Meaning of sitting and the mouth of the cave is so small . I was so sad that I couldn’t go out from there standing there. After that, as he came near me, I suddenly remembered that this is the same saint who comes to my mind again and again.
(17:40) I prostrated before him, he got up and He hugged me and said that I have been waiting for you for 40 years. After that he took me to his cave. There was nothing in the cave, there was a Yagya Kund and there was an Otley where he was sitting the next morning after drinking water, Sir. he placed his hand on And as if I placed my hand on my head, I went into samadhi for three days, when I woke up after three days, he was smiling and said, I have done the work which my Guru had assigned me, you will come on this path and your A lot of work will be done with your hands.
(18:20) Your field of work is Gujarat. You will go to Gujarat and work. That day I accepted him as God. Why did I accept him as God? After realizing him, after meeting his soul, my search for God ended. He was not God in my body. He was a man with two hands and two legs, he was an ordinary human being but still he accepted him as God because after meeting him the search for God would have ended.
(18:58) Today Ram Bhai said, Na Guru Guru Brahma Guru Vishnu Guru Devo Maheshwara Guru Sakshat Parabrahma Tasma Guruma. We keep saying these mantras many times in life, many times keep listening but keep on listening and keep on speaking. I have experienced this mantra and after that I experienced it as if I considered it to be God. What happened, two or three incidents happened simultaneously to me.
(19:33) The search for God is over and I have found God in life. I have found God in life. I have found this solution. This is the biggest solution in life. I have found God. I have found God. This is the biggest solution in life. This is the solution that I have found. And after that, the introvert state which he had achieved by doing penance for 40 years, I attained that state in a moment and after that, my search for God ended, I experienced God within me.
(20:10) Today, after traveling to many countries, you will find I can say with full confidence that there are different methods of worship in the world, we call it religion, it is not a religion at all, it is a method of worship, there are many methods, there is only one religion, there is one human religion, your religion can be different, your method of worship can be different.
(20:36) My method of worship may be different, but the religion of both of us is the same, that is the religion of man, that is to say, if somewhere in the whole world there is a concept of a living God, then it is not found anywhere else in Indian culture. Everywhere there is God, that is, whatever has happened or is no more, is God.
(21:05) Only Indian culture is the only culture in which Guru is considered to be Parabrahma. Guru is considered to be the actual God. He is considered to be God. Then the question comes, my grandmother used to say. God is annihilation, God was there yesterday too, God will be there today too, tomorrow also, then how can Guru be considered as God ? Guru has a body.
(21:37) Guru can be considered as God because Guru’s body is not God, the Supreme Consciousness flowing from within the Guru is God . If you consider the Guru as a body, then you will not be able to receive anything from him. Just like when we go to a temple, there is an idol kept inside the temple. If we consider that idol as a stone, then it is a stone, but if What happens if we consider him as a god? He becomes an instrument for our bowing down.
(22:06) We can attain the introvert state kept within him. We can become introverts. This word introvert is not a word. You also experience it. How do you experience it? Tell me, see, like someone. There is a famous temple in this temple, you stand in a long queue for six hours, your legs are hurting, your back is hurting, still you are standing because what is there to see, to see the deity, and as soon as you go to see the deity, The priest there, the security guard there orders you to go ahead in one minute, next to next to next to next to next to next to next to Khas,
(22:47) and later you come home and after coming home, again after eight days, after 10 days, after 10 days, you go to a friend. He said, “You go, then you get ready to have darshan in the temple . Hey Baba, you are a human being, you have intelligence, think a little with intelligence, where one has to stand in line for six hours, where one minute is turned away and after that, like this.
(23:23) ” Will you ever go to a place in life or will you never go but you are ready to go to that place, it means that if your body did not get anything by going there, then what did you get by going there, one minute in a minute is telling a lot. In the few seconds in which you saw that idol, did you attain self- satisfaction, did you attain self-happiness, did you attain self-peace, was it because of the idol, was it because of the temple, was it because of the idol? Neither has it happened because of the temple, I have done a lot of research on this also . Some saint, some Mahatma
(24:12) had achieved introvert state by doing penance throughout his life. He remained introverted for 4040 years of his life and he was an introvert. While copying the life of the idol, it was transferred inside that idol so that whoever visits the idol of this deity becomes introverted, the same incident happened, as soon as you saw that idol, you became introverted.
(24:54) So God is not in the idol, God is within you, He is within you. If you become introverted, you attain God. This phenomenon is just like whether your face is yellow or black. To see that, you need a mirror. You need a glass. It is like when you go in front of a mirror, you come to know whether your face is black or yellow, similarly God is within you, God is within you and after that as soon as you go in front of the idol, it works as a mirror for you.
(25:28) Reflecting makes you introverted and after being introverted, think for a moment if you were introverted, you would get self-happiness, you get self-satisfaction, you get self-peace. If you always remain introverted, how happy you will be, how good you will be. Now see, no Corona. At that time, all these temples, mosques and gurudwaras were closed, the seekers did not make any difference because they did not go there, they used to experience the introverted God within themselves, the ashram in which you are sitting, in that ashram, on
(26:05) the day of Mahashivratri, at 3:30 in the night. Also 5 Hajj people come, how come I perform the ritual for 45 days and after that the ritual ends on Mahashivratri. When I come out, there are 45 Hajj people, 5 Hajj people are outside even at 3:30, ready to listen to the sermon.
(26:29) To listen to the lecture, people say Swami ji, this is a miracle for us, there is no Shiva temple, nothing, why do so many people come, everyone experiences God within themselves, if they experience God within, then this Guru is the real Supreme Brahma, this is the mantra. I have not heard of the experience that I have experienced it live.
(26:52) On what basis will you say that the saints with whom I meditated in the Himalayas, there is no temple, no idol, no rosary, no garland, no one to meet there. There is no book, there is no Purana, there is nothing. Everyone experiences God within themselves and if they are introverted, then being introverted is yoga .