Discourses from Most revered Param Pujya Shri Dr. VishwaMitr ji Maharajshri
How to convert action into karmyog ( Action enjoined with Divinity) [ An humble attempt to translate His Divine words in English]
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Dear ladies and gentlemen! Everyday, standing at the door with folded handed a prayer is offered to you all that in your mind kindly keep chanting RAM RAM. Kindly do not talk on the way. Throughout the day, do chanting, etc etc. Many devotees do this too. The ones who do not do it, kindly start doing it from today. It’s beneficial for you only. How much earning you’ll do, it’s yours alone. All of it will go in the Lord’s court with you. This is the earning that will go with you. Big gardens lands, mansions, hotels, etc. will remain here only. Only the earning from the Name will go with you. It will be an intelligent decision if we do more and more of this earning and at the same time perform our duties well.
Heard great praises. Banti has narrated many talks about the village. The village of Manali had organized Shrimagbhavad katha. Great praises have heard. Many people listened to it with great reverence. It’s a beautiful thing. The pollution of the environment gets diluted, the environment does not get polluted. If it gets polluted then the pollution is taken care of. So these events should be organized. After listening to it intently then it needs to be contemplated. What have you heard? It needs to be brought into practice. Then one gets fruit of listening. Then the katha gives its fruit.
King Preekshit listened to this katha with great intensity. A listener like Prikshit and a speaker like Maharaj Shukhdev, both the listener and the speaker are devotional, if a conjunction like this happens, then dear devotees, only in 7 days, one attains salvation. This is the declaration of Shrimadbhavad katha, this is not only with Bhagvad katha but Ram katha as well, any Bhagvad katha, Shiv katha, with any katha it’s the same thing, the speaker needs to be such, the one who has experienced himself , what he is saying, he has implemented in his own life and the listener too, such that he also tries his level best, is interested in, is eager to implement. If we only listen, then for the moment you listen you are benefitted. At that time there is less remembrance of the world. For that time the mind is focused.
May God bless such that these kinds of events are organized. You all may keep going, and listening. The Divine company is a very sublimated thing. Katha is fine. The orators of katha ( story) do story telling. The Divine company is with a saint, with Truth. There is a huge difference between the two. The Divine company is Divine company only. It’s meant to be done and not listened to! The story is to be listened. Never forget this difference. The difference is minute. You come to do satsang. You yourself do Shri Amritvani paath. You do paath of Bhakti prakaash, Ramayan ji, Gita ji. This is called the Divine company. This is called satsang.
You listen to stories ( katha) . Then also do many kathas are being organized. It’s very good. The environment does not get polluted. If it is there, then it gets cleared out. If you get an opportunity then may these events continue to be organized, and never hesitate to participate in them. You never know from where we learn something that changes our life forever!
The discussion in Gita ji is going on. We all are laborers. From a house wife to the owners of hotels , we all are laborers. We labor and we eat. You have a jewelry shop, He is also a laborer , a worker breaking stones on a road, is also a laborer, bank manager is also a laborer, the Prime Minister of a country also a laborer , the President of the entire world, he is also a laborer. Wherever one does something and gets something in return ,whether in terms of a paycheck or any other thing, there one is a laborer. That is labor.
The homemakers cook food and give it to the husbands, the children. Somewhere there is a desire that today they will appreciate the rice that I have made. Wherever this desire comes, there the act becomes a labor.
The same thing, if a person thinks that the food will be cooked, the ladies , the homemakers have to cook food, have to eat the food and give it to the family too, only this emotion if it gets transformed that I am going to the market to get vegetables and I have return home fast as I have to cook food for my Lord, then your visit from home to the shop is also worship, coming back from the market is also worship, you have made the food at home, that is also a worship, you have to wash hands, some dirty fellow may not enter inside, some dog or cat, etc, you do not allow as you need to maintain purity. The manner in which the food is made for the Lord, the same is made for the family. The family will get it, the family will eat it, but your emotion is, that it is being made for my Lord. This will make your action into worship. This will make an act into karmyoga.
Now dear lady, you will not get food. Now you’ll get prasaad. Why? Because you made the food for the Lord and offered it to Him. You offer the prasaad to the Lord, O son! When you go to the temple. You buy a box of sweets from Manali Sweet and give it to the pundit and the pundit offers it to the Lord, and from there he gives two ladoos to you and you receive it from both hands. The box you give from your one hand but when he gives you the ladoos back, then you take with both hands. Why? It has become prasaad. Only by changing the emotion, that this food is for the Lord. These actions are for the Lord, the Supreme Being, then that action, does not remain an action, it is as if , that action no longer brings in hand cuffs, the action no longer causes bondage. It becomes the tool for salvation. This action is called Karmyoga.
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