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Acharya Prashant Ji speaking during a ShabdYog Satsang at Advait Bodhsthal, Greater Noida on 4th July, 2019.
Context:
What is forgiveness?
What is compassion?
What is truth? and how to go towards it?
Why don't animals have compassion?
How are we different from animals? what is the scale?
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Acharya Prashant Ji speaking during a ShabdYog Satsang at Advait Bodhsthal, Greater Noida on 4th July, 2019.
Context:
What is forgiveness?
What is compassion?
What is truth? and how to go towards it?
Why don't animals have compassion?
How are we different from animals? what is the scale?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00Dear Acharyaji Pranam, Parameshwari it is.
00:11Today I was reading about brain and conditioning.
00:14Our brain is shaped by moment to moment experiences.
00:22These experiences put the brain in a certain form and these experiences also bring about
00:30deformities in the brain.
00:33Acharyaji, I have some memories about people in brain that do not allow me to feel free.
00:41I feel a certain uneasiness when I think about them.
00:45What is Shama or forgiveness?
00:47What is Daya or compassion?
00:49Kindly show me light on this Acharyaji, Parameshwari Omkatar.
01:03Forgiveness, Parameshwari is not having the need to forgive.
01:18Forgiveness is to not having the need to forgive.
01:22As long as there is a need to forgive, it means you are still sticking to the small
01:30things in the brain, hurts, distortions, you are still talking about those little things.
01:38You feel offended.
01:40Because you feel offended, so the question of forgiving the other person arises.
01:47Should I forgive?
01:48Should I not forgive?
01:49Real forgiveness is when you have gone beyond the little things of the brain and have totally
01:57forgotten the hurt.
02:00That which you are calling as permanent distortion of the brain is nothing but the attachment
02:06of I-self to all the little taints.
02:10The distortion does not just stay on.
02:15The distortion stays on because you get attached to it.
02:24It's like something staining your cloth or your skin.
02:29Do you know how the stain happens?
02:33Something in the cloth reacts with the spoiling agent, the dirt.
02:43Only a friendship happens.
02:48If I put some grease on this kurta, the grease is different from the kurta.
03:00They are two different entities.
03:03How does it happen that grease meets the kurta and then the grease doesn't come off?
03:11How do the two become one?
03:13The two become one because a bond develops.
03:16It's a chemical bond.
03:19Actually chemistry takes place.
03:23They become brother and sister or friends or mother and son or husband and wife.
03:32That's how the cloth gets distorted.
03:35That's how the brain gets distorted.
03:36The brain develops a friendship with nonsense of the past.
03:42A chemical bond develops.
03:44On one side of the chemical bond is the memory of the past.
03:49Who is on the other side of the bond?
03:52You Parameswari, the I.
03:55The I is getting bonded with, attached with that memory.
04:02The I has developed a definition with respect to that memory.
04:08So now the memory will gain life.
04:13It will become a permanent taint on the brain.
04:17Otherwise the memory will just wither down, fall off, go away.
04:25If some totally non-reactive material comes to this, would the cloth still get stained?
04:34No, because there will be no reaction.
04:38Putting it in a more exact way, if any material, whether reactive or non-reactive, comes to
04:44a cloth that is made of a non-reactive material, would the cloth ever get stained?
04:53If my kurta is made of a material that cannot react, will the kurta ever get dirty or spoiled?
05:01Because there can never be any reaction.
05:04This kurta is never going to get attached, it doesn't react.
05:08It has no need for company.
05:10It does not form any bond with anything.
05:16You have formed bonds, Parameswari, with all the little things here and there, past, future, wherever.
05:23How to get rid of those bonds?
05:26Let's go back to chemistry.
05:29Tell me how does the soap function?
05:32Because the bond between the cloth and the dirt is there.
05:38Now how does the soap function?
05:41Soap comes and offers a reaction, an energy, stronger than the energy between the cloth
05:53and the dirt.
05:56So the cloth says, I do not want the dirt, where is the soap?
06:03The dirt also says the same thing, depends on the type of soap, there are many kinds
06:07of soaps.
06:09The dirt also says the same thing, better than being with the cloth, I want to be with
06:16the soap.
06:17So the bond between the cloth and the dirt is broken.
06:23Spirituality is disruptive.
06:25Spirituality definitely implies breaking of bonds.
06:29What else is freedom?
06:32Breaking of bondages.
06:37When you address it fondly, then you call it a bond.
06:42When you look at it really, then you call it a bondage, they are the same.
06:48So don't worry about the reaction between the cloth and the dirt, that reaction has
06:55already happened.
06:56The bond is there.
06:57Now you have to bring in the soap and the water, don't talk too much about the dirt.
07:04Now move towards the soap.
07:08Remember the definition of the soap, something so important, so reactive, so full of energy
07:15that it disrupts the existing and ongoing chemistry.
07:22Your ongoing chemistries have to be disrupted, your existing patterns have to be broken with
07:30something that has higher energy than your current patterns.
07:36That is the only way, that is real forgiveness.
07:40The stain itself is gone.
07:44In general, when we say forgiveness, what do we mean?
07:47We mean the stain is there and I forgive you for staining me.
07:52That is very bad kind of forgiveness.
07:54You are telling him, you know the stain is there, but I forgive you.
07:57Real forgiveness is when the stain itself is gone.
08:00Now the fellow may come to you and say, please forgive me, and you will say, for what?
08:05The stain itself is not there, there is no problem.
08:10You haven't committed any crime.
08:12Maybe you tried to hurt me, I didn't get hurt.
08:15So there is no question of forgiveness.
08:17Similarly, you have asked what is Daya or Compassion.
08:23First of all, compassion is not Daya, compassion is Karuna.
08:27Daya is mercy.
08:28Very, very different.
08:29I have spoken a lot on it.
08:32What is then compassion?
08:34Compassion is to see that people are needlessly walking around in spoiled kurtas.
08:41Compassion is to become a soap seller.
08:49So Parameshwari, when is your laundry coming up?
08:59The fellow comes to you saying, my cloth is spoiled forever, forever and he is weeping.
09:07My fond kurta, my fond kurta, jeeni chadariya, jeeni chadariya, gone, gone, totally gone.
09:15Jaake babul se nazre milaun kaise, ghar jaun kaise, all is gone.
09:19Laga chunari me daad chhupaun kaise, storm.
09:25And he is weeping buckets.
09:30And you know that you have the soap in your pocket.
09:33So with a mighty swag you are looking at the fellow and saying needlessly weeping.
09:39Now you, come over, just hand over the cloth to me.
09:46That's compassion.
09:47To not to become a participant in the other's dirt and filth and tears, instead help him
09:59out by cleaning him up.
10:07What is mercy or daya?
10:09Oh, too bad, so bad, your kurta is gone.
10:16You know, it happened with my cousin also, just two years back, he lost his kurta, here,
10:27come over, weep, my shoulder is there, Kanha is my name.
10:38When you are very merciful then your name is Kanha, when you are compassionate your
10:42name is Kanha.
10:43Get the difference?
10:44Just too many people are Kanha, when you want to cry you go to them, if you don't cry
10:53the relationship is gone.
10:57In dharmashala we were talking a lot about agony aunts, their sole purpose in life is
11:03to help others cry.
11:09That is mercy.
11:12A very ugly thing.
11:19Compassion is to not to weep but to apply the soap.
11:27You can either weep with others or you can clean them up, decide.