Indian Monk Explains Bhagawad Gita In 7 Minutes | Gaur Gopal Das on TRS
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0:00 have you read the bhagat Gita yes okay like what's in that book why do people say that you open any page of it and you'll get your answer why do people say
0:07 things like that sure sure I think the first thing to know is let's let's remove the religion aspect from the bhagat Gita totally bhagavat Gita is not
0:17 a religious book it is a book which uh gives you the way to live right and the setting for the bhagat Gita is the battlefield of kurukshetra the
0:28 Mahabharat where Arjun is confused right and Krishna becomes his mentor and gives him guidance in a way that he can now start doing what is meant to do right so
0:39 every young man or lady is going to have confusions every young person is going to have those dilemas to do or not to do to be or not to be that's exactly how
0:52 the Gita begins it begins with confusion it begins with dilemas it begins with u a lack of meaning M right and then uh Krishna kind of guides Arjun through and
1:05 empowers Arjun to make his own choices Krishna only acts as a facilitator right and empowers Arjuna to understand that he is way too more
1:16 powerful than the people is going to face in the battle every young man and lady needs to understand that they are way more powerful than what they are
1:25 going through at the moment their confusions are smaller than them their challenges are smaller than them their problems are smaller than them their
1:34 heartbreaks as painful as they are but are still smaller than them and they have the capacity to overcome that those pains that they're going through so I
1:43 think that's precisely where books like the Gita help a lot because they build in you that sense of confidence and strength and strength fortitude that I
1:54 have the power as a spiritual being to overcome everything that's going on going on in my life and I have the power to be able to make the difference and
2:06 that impact because I am a spiritual being can you can you reference like three big lessons from the bhagat Gita that stayed with you specifically uh one
2:15 of the lessons that stayed with me from the Gita is a particular text from the second chapter of the Gita which talks about uh the summer and the winter
2:25 season right and this particular text says that the summer the winter season keeps coming and going every year seasons change and just because the
2:34 seasons change we never stop performing our duties let's say for example it's Chicago and the temperatures areus 27° C people don't stop their work still let's
2:48 say it's delh it's 43° C people are still on and going on with their regular life with a few adjustments here and there obviously so this text of the Gita
2:58 chapter 2 tells tells us that we have to learn to tolerate the ups and downs and not be distracted from what are main purposes like when we talk about
3:08 tolerating uh failures and pains we can understand but we also have to learn to tolerate our success and the good times because both distract us you know
3:20 usually we only look at the negatives as distractions but even the positives distract us from what we meant to be doing that's something that really kind
3:29 of St with me the second thing that I uh really kind of resonate with with in the Gita is a verse from the sixth chapter which talks about the mind being a
3:41 friend or an enemy to you it depends on how you deal with the mind okay if you befriend your mind the mind will become you become your friend and will Empower
3:54 you to do what you want to do but if you don't deal with it rightly then the mind will become your enemy and will lead to your downfall uh I'll give you an
4:04 example you want to get up early in the morning to go for a jog or for a workout because you know you want to be fit you know your days are busy and you decide
4:13 this is going to be my uh plan for the year 2020 correct you set up the alarm clock to wake up early in the morning like 5 6 whatever and when the alarm
4:23 goes what's the mind saying the first thing you slept last late last night take it easy oh or maybe this is not the right thing for you to do the mind's
4:33 constantly playing games right now if you have a mind which is constantly giving these kind of reasons you're not going to wake up right on the other hand
4:42 if you learn to train your mind using the proper intellectual process right proper spiritual process your mind can be your greatest asset in your friend
4:51 which is meditation good books meditation books right correct friends correct friends the right kind of company all of these are inputs so that
4:59 your mind kind of becomes a friend and the third thing from the Gita that connects to me a lot is how do we start looking at the presence of
5:07 divinity everywhere in every aspect we don't have to necessarily go to a place of worship to look at the presence of divinity you can look at the presence of
5:17 divinity in nature you can look at the presence of divinity in other people you can start looking at the Splendor of the Creator or the creation or you can start
5:26 looking at the Splendor of the Creator in the creation M you know which is precisely why this is something that I usually tell people is when you look at
5:35 somebody who's better than you you know and especially if they are in the same field usually there is insecurity M there's insecurity that he's this guy is
5:46 doing better than me in what I am doing or there is Envy jealousy sometimes it goes to the extent of sabotaging that other person's work
5:55 as well you know and it has happened in the world happens all the time so when you start looking at Divinity in creation you start looking at how
6:06 Divinity is empowered somebody to do something in a special way that person has been gifted by higher Powers right and to sabotage that person's work or to
6:18 be envious about the person or to be feel insecure means actually insulting somebody who's given that gift to him you know but if I look at that
6:28 person and and derive inspiration from that person I can seek that inspiration to follow my aspiration M you know that that aspect of the Gita also kind of
6:39 really resonates with me that you start looking at Divinity everywhere and in every place around you including people who are doing better because it's not
6:50 them you can see straight away very often I see people who do remarkable stuff and they usually when they speak they say it's they doing it and of
6:59 course they're doing it no doubt that there's a part of part that they're doing but you can tell that they there's something Beyond them that's kind of
7:07 making them do it whether it's acting speaking singing something an element which is not necessarily effort not their effort you know X Factor X Factor
7:18 and when you start appreciating that X Factor as Divinity oh that's something that really kind of connects to me as
7:28 well for