leading meaningful lives latest final 3
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LeadingMeaningful
Lives
AN
INTERESTING
FINDING …
To Live, Love, Learn, Leave a legacy
THE FIRE WITHIN
Social
Spiritual Mental
Physical
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Prahalad Maharaj in Srimad Bhagvatam instructs
kaumära äcaret präjïodharmän bhägavatän iha
durlabhaà mänuñaà janmatad apy adhruvam arthadam
One who is sufficiently intelligent should use the human
form of body from the very beginning of his life to practice
the activities of devotional service.
Fundamental Question
Who am I ?
Lord Krishna explains
The BODY and SOUL are distinct just as
The bird and the cage are dis tinct
The driver and the car are
distinct
Today, All of us focus on…
• The externals of satisfying the needs of the
body only…
• Gas in the car, but driver starving!
• Cage polished; bird dead!
4 things which we all are busy with
Eating
Animals also eat butnot is such a gorgeous way
Sleeping
Animals also sleep but may not in a cozy bed in an aircontioned room
Mating
Animals may also may do so, but not in a gorgeous fashion as man
Defending
Animals do in a crude way. We do using the missiles and
nuclear arsenals.
Scriptures point out
that...
... if we spend all our time in
• eating,• sleeping,• mating and• defending...
...then we are no better than
animals.
dharmeëa héna paçubhir samänam
- M a h a b h a r a t a
Without real religious principles, we are no better
than animals.
dvi-päda-paçu
Animals with two legs.
Western countries have reached summit of
material advancement
Luxurious Houses
Skyscraper Buildings
Jet Planes
Latestmethods of
communication
In spite of all this advancement, men are
dissatisfied full of anxiety stresseddepressed
& above all unhappy
W e w a n t t o
r e m a in y o u n g
f o r e v e r …
B u t …v e r y s o o n w e
s t a r t g r o w in g o ld a n d o u r
b o d ie s b e c o m e
w e a k & f r a i l
& we are no longer
beautiful
We want to re m ain
he althy, But…
But, much against our
wish we encounter
various diseases
Some chronic
Ronald ReganU. S. President, 1980 -1988
Nov. 5 1994, Regan announces…
“I have recently been told that I am afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease...I now begin the journey that will take me into the sunset of my life.”
Althoughwe are
advanced in medical
science…
…& have latest
technology at our disposal
Still our plans of good health & happiness are thwarted with
newer & newer diseases
“I am the greatest”
Mohammed AliWorld Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Today, he is suffering from PARKINSON
disease…
…he can’t even lift a cup of coffee
Pa in
d ise a s e
s t ar v a t io
n
A n d
F ina l ly
,
d e a t h
WHY ?
In human life we are endowedwith intelligence to inquire
Who am I ? Who is God ? What happens after death ? Why am I suffering ? What is the real aim of my life ?
...one who can perceive birth, death, old age &
disease as REAL PROBLEMS is in
knowledge.
Also, if we analyze our lives, we are
constantly tormented with…
adhyätmika kleças
miseries due to our body and
mind
adhibhautik kleças
miseries due to other living
entities
adhidaivika kleças
miseries due to natural calamities
duùkhälayam açäçvatam
Krishna also points out that in essence, this material world is
A place which is MISERABLE
& TEMPORARY
What is the solution ?
We are in a place which is MISERABLE & TEMPORARY
mäm upetya punar janmaduùkhälayam açäçvatamnäpnuvanti mahätmänaùsaàsiddhià paramäà gatäù
Bhagavad-gétä 8.15
“After attaining Me, the great souls, who are yogis in devotion,
never return to this temporary world, which is full of miseries, because they have attained the
highest perfection.”
p a r a s t a s mä t t u b h ä v o ’n y o
’v y a k t o ’v y a k t ä t s a n ä t a n a ù
y a ù s a s a r v e ñ u b h ü t e ñ u
n a ç y a t s u n a v in a ç y a t iB h a g a v a d -g é t ä 8 . 2 0
“Yet there is another unmanifest nature, which is eternal and is
transcendental to this manifested and unmanifested world. It is
supreme and is never annihilated. When all in this world is annihilated,
that part remains as it is.”
Spiritual World• Blissful
• Eternal
• Freefrom allshortcomings of the material world
Our eternal home, wherewe all originally belong to.
Towards the end of Bhagavad-gétä,
Krishna reveals his M O S T
C O N F ID E N T IAL instruction
“Because you are My very dear friend,
I am speaking to you My supreme
instruction, the most confidential
knowledge of all. Hear this from Me,
for it is for your benefit.”
ma n -ma n ä
“always thinkof Me”
b h a v a ma d -
b h a k t o
“become My devotee”
ma d -y ä j é
“worship Me”
mä à n a ma s k u
r u
“offer your obeisances unto
Me”
mä m e v a iñ y a s i
s a t y a à t e
p r a t ij ä ne p r iy o ’s i
me
“Thus you will come to Me without fail.
I promise you this because you are My very dear
friend.”
janma karma ca me divyamevaà yo vetti tattvataù
tyaktvä dehaà punar janmanaiti mäm eti so ’rjuna
Bhagavad-gétä 4.9
“One who knows the transcendental nature of My
appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take
his birth again in this material world…”
“…but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.”
which is eternal, full
of knowledge,& completely
blissful
labdhvä su-durlabham idaà bahu-sambhavänte
Srimad Bhagavatam 11.9.29
“We have attained human form, which is very rare, after
many many lifetimes.”
Polishing Cage, but forgetting the hungry
parrot
Pampering the body,
but forgetting the soul
mänuñyam artha-dam anityam apéha dhéraù
Srimad Bhagavatam 11.9.29
“Although human life is temporary, it affords one
opportunity to attain highest perfection.”
So what should we do ?
Vedic Scriptures favorable breeze
Spiritual Master expert captain to steer
the boat
Human Body boat
EFFECTIVE TIME EFFECTIVE TIME MANAGEMENTMANAGEMENT
lies inlies inBALANCING
KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS AND YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
TO HOME AND FRIENDS
Learn the perfect
knowledge contained in
Bhagavad gita
It helps you increase• Confidence
• Concentration • Time
• Will Power •Personality
•Above all……. •Freedom from this world of suffering and
return to the abode of eternal bliss