The Pursuit of Bliss

Jagadguru Shri Kripaluji Maharaj's Final Lecture - Man Karu Sumiran [Subtitled Eng] Its all about the Mind and how to use the mind  to aid your sadhana and its importance.  O Mind! Meditate Upon the Lotus Feet of Shri Radha Rani This was the final talk given by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj, Bhakti Bhavan, November 11, 2013 One with true spiritual knowledge addresses his mind, “Listen, mind!  Meditate on the lotus feet  of Radha Rani.”  Every sense organ performs its respective function.  The tongue performs the  function of speaking; ears perform the function of hearing; eyes perform the function of seeing;  the nose performs the work of smelling; skin performs the function of touching, and the mind  performs the function of thinking.  But here the devotee is asking the mind to listen.  He is telling not the ears, but the mind to listen.  Imagine someone asking his eyes to listen attentively.  Eyes can...

Sat Sattya Sattya Ho - By Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj (English Translated Lecture)   "Sat Sattya Sattya Ho Govind Radhey Sang Sattya Sattya Ho To Lakshya Dilaa De" You are no doubt familiar with the word 'Satsang.' 'Sat' means 'Saint,' and 'Sang' means 'Association.' If 'Sat' (Saint) is 'Sattya Sattya', (a true Saint), and the 'sang' (association) with him is 'Sattya', (true), then the ultimate goal of God-realization can be attained. The Vedas say: "Tadvijnanaartham sa Gurumevabhigachhet samitpaanih shrotriyam brahmanishtham" (Mundakopanishad) A true saint is one who possesses theoretical knowledge of scriptures and a practical experience of God. A genuine saint is one who can impart to us the theoretical knowledge of Vedas and Vedic scriptures. Furthermore, he must have attained darshan of God; he must possess the treasury of divine-love-bliss. If he has a chec...

The Real Meaning of Devotional Practice (Hindi with English subtitles)

Shri Krishna Janmashtami (Video Lecture by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj Ji ) - Eng Subtitled

Shri Jaganath Puri Dham Speech by Jagadgru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj Ji (with english subtitles) Part 1 Part 2

How does present day meditation that's taught differ from ancient meditation taught thousands of years ago in India?   Although there are an abundance of different styles of meditation, yet it is unlikely that there is any meditation being taught today which did not have its roots in ancient India.   Someone may add their own personal twist to give a different flavour to any particular form of meditation, but the main categories of meditation remain the same as they have always been.   The reason is that our mind has two main facets: the intellectual mind and the emotional mind.   These are two facets of the same mind.   Thus, there are two main categories into which all forms of meditation are divided: intellectual and emotional.   Intellectual meditation is done from the brain area; the activity of the mind is focused in the 'head' or 'brain' of the meditator.   Emotional meditation is done from the heart area; the activity of the mind is f...

If someone asked you "What is the highest Grace of God" what would you say. As such, God doesn't do anything except Grace. Killing a demon is a Grace since all demons killed by God went to Golok. Punishing a sinner is a Grace because of which he starts moving towards God. If there was no punishment, all of us would have gone astray. So God cannot do anything but Grace. Only due to Grace He created the world, He took us out of His belly, brought us in this world and revealed the Vedas. What a Grace it is that God can only be found by doing nothing or surrendering, not by doing Jap(repeating the name), Tap(austerities) or Yog. Just as when we were born, we did not do anything. At that time, our mothers did everything. As we started doing something, our mothers reduced doing something for us. When we started doing everything for ourselves, our mothers stopped doing anything for us. So even if someone tries to write each Grace of God for ten million kalps, they will ...

(Synopsis of a lecture given by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj in Shyama Shyam Dham, Bhubhaneshwar, India. This lecture was given 2 or 3 years ago, but the topic is as relevant now as it was then.) Today is the last day of this year. Tomorrow, the world will joyfully celebrate the new year. But this is wrong. Because this is actually not a joyful situation. Rather it is an occasion for remorse. Imagine you saved 100,000 rupees. If you spent 50,000 of this, you don’t celebrate. Instead you think, “Oh, now only 50,000 are left!” Eventually only 2,000 are left. Now only 1,000 are left. Similarly, this human body was given to us by God to attain our ultimate aim. How much closer have we come to that aim? How much devotion or upasana did we do? Upasana (devotion) means to go ‘pas‘, close. The meaning of upasana is to go close to God. How much closer to God have we gone? For example, someone is feeling cold. Before him there is fire. The closer he goes to the fire, the more his feeling of...