Time is revealing all secrets || Acharya Prashant, on Guru Granth Sahib (2019)

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Video Information: Shabdyog Session, 17.04.2019, Advait Bodhsthal, Greater Noida, India

Context:
~ What is time?
~ Where does the time stops?
~ What is beyond time?
~ Who is plundered in life?

घड़ीआ सभे गोपीआ पहर कंन्ह गोपाल ॥
All the hours are the milk-maids, and the quarters of the day are the Krishnas.

गहणे पउणु पाणी बैसंतरु चंदु सूरजु अवतार ॥
The wind, water and fire are the ornaments; the sun and moon are the incarnations.

सगली धरती मालु धनु वरतणि सरब जंजाल ॥
All of the earth, property, wealth and articles are all entanglements.

नानक मुसै गिआन विहूणी खाइ गइआ जमकालु ॥
O Nanak, without divine knowledge, one is plundered, and devoured by the Messenger of Death.

Music Credits: Milind Date
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Transcript

00:00 (Music)

00:07 Anuradha here.

00:11 Quoting from the Guru Granth Sahib.

00:28 (Hindi)

00:34 (Hindi)

00:39 (Hindi)

01:04 All the hours are the milkmaids. All the quarters of the day are the Krishnas.

01:13 The wind, water and fire are the ornaments. The sun and moon are the incarnations.

01:23 All of the earth, property, wealth and articles are all entanglements.

01:32 O Nanak, without divine knowledge one is plundered and devoured by the messenger of death.

01:49 Acharya ji Pranam. Kindly explain these verses.

01:55 Truth is obvious. The truth is obvious.

02:08 If your eyes are not layered with your concepts, attachments, moha and mamta.

02:31 So Guru Nanak Dev Sahib ji says, time itself will be the revealer.

02:41 If you know how to exist.

02:46 All the hours are the milkmaids. All the quarters of the day are Krishnas.

02:54 Time, which is your life, will itself be the revealer if you know how to exist in time.

03:01 The wind, water and fire are the ornaments. Sun and moon are the incarnations.

03:11 The sun, the moon, the planets, everything in the universe, every little speck of dust will be an expression of the almighty truth.

03:26 If you are humble enough and know how to kneel.

03:37 But that won't happen because we have something else. What do we have?

03:41 We have property, wealth, articles and these are entanglements.

03:45 And when you have these, then, O Nanak, without divine knowledge one is plundered and devoured by the messenger of death.

03:56 When instead of having an innocent eye, clear of concepts, clear of mental and physical vrittis, what you have is a lot of physical and social conditioning,

04:11 then Nanak Sahib puts it very bluntly.

04:16 He says, you would simply be consumed by time and taken away by the messenger of death.

04:24 You are just too attached.

04:26 To what? To obviously these things.

04:32 All the objects that are there in life.

04:36 Two kinds of attachments are there.

04:40 Physically, one is like an animal and is conditioned to be attached.

04:52 To the ones around him.

04:55 Especially to the ones one has blood relations with.

05:04 The calf is attached to the cow, the cow is attached to the calf.

05:10 And that is the great entanglement the Gurus have warned against.

05:18 They are saying you will totally miss Krishna if cow and calf is all that you know.

05:22 In fact, if your physical tendencies are so strong that you cannot look beyond the cow-calf business, then Krishna is not for you.

05:35 That's what the body does.

05:43 This person is mine, this person is mine, that person is mine, this is my family, or that is my friend.

05:51 That is the attachment, that is the entanglement.

05:59 And then there is the second level of attachment and entanglement.

06:04 Mental, money, my property, my wealth, my money.

06:13 Even in this second level there is an even more subtle attachment.

06:20 My prestige, my reputation, my fame.

06:24 It can become even subtler, my knowledge.

06:34 So from the most gross object to the most subtle object, you can get attached with anything.

06:48 Actually, we get attached with everything.

06:53 We do not even need to choose among the objects of attachment.

07:03 We randomly and generally, indiscreetly get attached to anything and everything that comes our way.

07:11 Therefore, you will find a person attached in all ways possible.

07:17 At the grossest level, she would be attached to her body, her babies.

07:32 And then she would be attached to parents, husband, friends, relatives.

07:40 Then she would be attached to money, furniture, car, bed, house.

07:46 Then she would be attached to reputation, self-esteem.

07:57 Then she would be attached to knowledge, including spiritual knowledge.

08:02 So objects keep varying in terms of their grossness or subtlety.

08:13 But the faculty of attachment remains the same.

08:18 The "I" is so lonely, it keeps finding something, rather everything.

08:27 To latch on to.

08:30 And when that happens, then the obvious truth is ignored.

08:37 Then time keeps passing away without delivering you the message.

08:43 Time, Anuradha, is the great messenger.

08:49 But you will miss the messenger if you are busy in your own little world.

08:56 My this, my that.

09:00 The messenger will keep knocking.

09:04 And you will say, "No, no, no, it is not the messenger knocking. It is just the tick-tock."

09:09 "Oh, it's not tick-tock, it is knock-knock."

09:14 "Oh, you never thought tick-tock is knock-knock?"

09:19 "But that's what all the Gurus have always told you. It's a great mantra."

09:28 "You can enter the practice of Jap, chanting with it. Tick-tock is knock-knock."

09:43 We keep missing the message of time.

09:46 We keep passing through one sour experience,

09:53 and enter into the other, and we never really learn.

10:12 Nanak says, "If that is how you are living,

10:17 then not liberation, just physical demise is your fate."

10:27 Nanak Saheb doesn't say that you will not be liberated, that will be your punishment.

10:40 He says your punishment will be that you will waste the great opportunity of liberation,

10:45 and would be instead taken away by the wrong one.

10:54 You could have escaped the world on the great chariot of liberation.

11:01 The angels could have come to take you.

11:09 The angels could have been your escorts to the other dimension.

11:13 Instead, now see who is taking you away.

11:16 You are being dragged away by the buffalo man.

11:21 How would you like to live?

11:27 Escorted by angels or dragged by the buffalo?

11:37 Hmm?

11:39 The angels are pretty tender creatures.

11:48 They cannot carry any weight.

11:51 But if you have attachments, you are very fat,

11:56 and then it requires a buffalo to take you away.

12:00 Now you know why a buffalo is needed.

12:05 When the myths came up, there were no cranes.

12:08 Otherwise they would have said that Yamraj is a crane driver.

12:14 Angels are such delicate little things.

12:21 Therefore, they carry only the ones who have lived lightly.

12:25 If you are very very light, without any attachment, then angels will take you away.

12:32 But if you weigh 200 kilograms with all your beliefs, concepts, and mamta and this and that,

12:38 then it requires the holy crane, the great buffalo to give you a ride.

12:47 Are you getting it?

12:54 Be very cautious.

12:59 Spirituality is about shedding all internal fat.

13:03 You know, they say, 'Satvam Guna' is the guna of lightness.

13:16 They said that the tamasic mind becomes heavy even in a physical way.

13:25 Even the body would become fat.

13:29 And 'Satvam Guna' is the guna of light. Light has no weight.

13:36 Just light, prakash. Prakash has no weight.

13:53 Be just light.

13:55 Be just light.

14:02 Good.

14:04 [silence]

14:06 [music]

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Time is revealing all secrets || Acharya Prashant, on Guru Granth Sahib (2019)

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