Thrive in Adverse Circumstances!
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- čas přidán 10. 07. 2020
- Dada explains the importance of tribulations as helping agents to reach our spiritual goal.
By firmly adhering to the moral principles of Yoga and constantly striving to expand our consciousness through meditation we develop a strong nervous system, a strong mind. This strength enables us to withstand the huge energy release which comes as a result of the awakening of Cosmic force within us.
We become like a burnt seed (dagdha biija in Sanskrit)-whatever happens to us either positive or negative we can withstand it knowing that they are merely the expressions of the Law of Cause and Effect that we have created from before. It is this detachment from the vagaries of physical existence which marks a significant advancement in our life long spiritual journey.
00:11 What is the key-point of sadhana? Who is sadhaka? How does the «seed» burn?
04:38 Conflicts between white and black sides. Laws of nature
07:01 2 challenges. How to pass through tribulations?
10:18 What is a meditation about?
13:07 Why do we suffer?
18:34 The fighter`s song
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"and when you seat for meditation and the sky hits you with thunderbolts, mercilessly, you stay strong in your sadhana, you stay strong in your morality. And after that the sky is clear, the sun shines, and you are seated there, like a new man! , a new woman!, with the brightness and a freshness, and optimism, and faith! Isn't beautiful? So we have to become like that!! "
So so inspiring
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Big namaskar from portugal to all of you
Thank you Dada, perfect timing.
Namaskar 🙏
The path of Suffering is the ultimate path 🙏🏽
Year after year these videos keep appearing at just the right time. Wonderful. I can't thank you enough
Thank you again Dada!
Thank you for all the precious lectures. It helps me to understand ongoing life around me and practice in my spiritual passages. Namaskar namaskar with much of gratitude. 🕉
O Dada, that dandelion you talk about is such a beautiful metaphor. I wish I could be as strong as that flower. As a true sadhaka. Thank you and your amazing team for your tremendous help. Namaskar 🙏🍀🌿⚘💖☀️
Ohh how we love your soul dada.. all the way from east africa 🌍.
Thank you so much for your teachings and wisdom 🙏🙏🙏
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Thank you Dada! Whenever I lack discipline and do not keep up with my practice(for whatever reason) I continue to observe how this affects me. I can now more clearly see how my practice or non-practice effects my inner and outer self. Also,I feel that even though I am striving to improve, I can accept my failures and use them to strengthen my practice.
Thanks for sharing
Namaskar! Taaaandava! rsrs :D Thanks for the video! very inspring!
Thank you Dada.. Always so wonderful to hear you talk
Your positivity is infectious.. 🤗
Yes I do feel the goal in life is to become much much stronger.. whenever I am in difficult situations..it is hard for me to see the positive light at the end of the darkness.but definitely letting go whenever possible is surely the most freeing experience and things do change.. life never stays the same.. we only feel like the bad times were longer because we pay too much attention.
Thank you for this motivational talk ,
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Thank you, my sister.
Thank you Dada for another great message.
Thank you Dada IT really help me to hear this. You are always inspiring and help me to thrive
Thank you Dada, namaskar
I love you Dada, your words are amazing . Your wisdom and knowledge is so deep. Thank you for making me smile so many times 🌹🙏🏼
Thank you, my sister.
CLAP...CLAP...... this one of your best talks. love it!!!!
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Sometimes it seems to be too many "friends" for such a weak me )) but anyway, what to do... Thanks a lot for such a burning topic.
Pranam, Dada. The Bengali song sounds very sweet in your voice.
Terawatts of energy are passing through that person!
I can't believe what I see... again and again: surprise, wonder, impression, amazement!
Na ma skar
And he has already recorded hundreds of hours of stuff like that. It is freakin' unbelievable. I will enjoy it very much if you see fit to let me know in a while how you have enjoyed discovering his work at some point with a reply. I am sooooooo jealous that you, no doubt, can also enjoy the Russian language recordings. Sometimes I listen to them even though I don't understand a word of it. Sometimes I don't need my mind to know: I just want the learning to go IN. Maybe if my brain can be prevented from handling each of the words, my heart can just absorb them. It's such a pleasure not to have to filter almost at all. It's like floating. Welcome. Glad you are here too.
@@andrologues I'm so sorry, I didn't really understood your request: what exactly would you like me to reply?... (my understading of English isn't perfect, at all!)
@@andrologues yes, your heart (any heart) knows better then your head - where to go, ... how... whitout words... presice understandings...
Namaskar to you!
Just the title alone is so inspiring!
Wow, very inspiring. I feel now like Raktim Keshalay =)
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Namaskar Dada! I cannot believe the synchronicity of the arrival of this video in my path. I feel so blessed, so grateful to receive this message at this very moment. Yes, Dada, it IS BEAUTIFUL. Thank you, Dada, for this gift, this knowledge, this life lesson, this inspiration, this Love. Namaskar, Jason
Спасибо вам за урок! Я уже готова была перейти в другой мир но ваше видео меня отвлекло и развлекло! Я на final path towards perfection, осталось накачать мышцы. Любовь это ключ ✌️
"the union with GOd, do you think is a joke?" you make me laugh so much, Love
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Oh Dada, just such an opportune video! I have been undergoing the greatest tribulations ever, everything was pretty much taken from me - physical and mental health, anyone to rely on - literally nobody could I depend on, not family, not health etc services, just nobody. I tried to maintain my practice but eventually succumbed to all manner of baser behaviour eg I've eaten flesh 3 times now and I gave it up at 12 years old , am 49 now. All manner of really awful, really primitive behaviour has come to the fore and I've given in to some of it even though part of me was screaming 'NO!' I did some of it anyway. Does this mean I failed or is it a process of seeing if one can relinquish it finally?
Now I've just watched this video I feel reborn and positive again. Thank you 😊
I think this is severe testing as I recently spent a year purifying myself and experiencing such heights of pure love nearly all the time I finally felt ready to offer my life totally and unconditionally to God, and did so, these trials occured about 2 weeks later and now it's 2 months in, have been in both a medical hospital and a psychiatric one . Golly it's been tough. How do you know if you've failed or prevailed?
I thought I'd failed dismally but on watching your video it's all just dropped away and, like you described, I've come out into clear skies and sunshine again. I just hope it lasts! Sometimes this feeling doesn't - have experienced it many times before 🙂
Anyway, thank you dear heart, just what I needed, I've loved your videos for a while now. Thank you thank you thank you and peace be with you
Kirsty
Keep on pushing towards the light, you will be victorious!
yeah, this is a good path and a good goal. great video, inspiring. thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
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Dada, I just want to say that I love you, you are my light guiding me. I'm a romanian living in england, I miss home soo much, friends, the sun of summer, and the nature but if I want to strive I have to endure and also enjoy my time here, thru you I find power in myself to go forward and to shine ! Thank you and your team for this channel love you all!! Namaskar!
Me too exactly word by word, except ireland. Thank you all 🙏 and thank you baker for expressing so eloquently what I also feel 💕🙏
Many many thanks
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Thank you so much Dada for your valuable and very inspiring words. You help us to be strong and to follow the right path for reaching our goal. Thanks. Rainjan.
You are most welcome
That story about the hard drive made my day Dada! Too funny! Would love for you to share more stories like this and to know more about your life - a video about your life would be wonderful!
Will do
Dada, I always like your videos. U have a sincerity that’s deeper than everything else & that leaves an abiding impression. It keeps calling me back
Thank you, Amrta. I grow fond of your comments and friendship.
Meditation steps thank u very much Dada. I hardly have a moment when my mind is still when I meditate ...yet I try for 30 minutes everyday.
I remember your petals analogy & your promise of the sweetness & profundity of meditation, which u have warned isn’t a shallow diversion or relaxation escape. And hence, for now I dig in everyday.
Tho to deepen my interest & practice, I’m looking for a group practice, sooner than later, maybe in Europe...if this is destined for me it’ll happen at a time when I go annually to be with my son in USA from India. 🙏🏼
thank you Dada I´m going throw a painful separation and this audio helped me so much... It gets me back on track with full inspiration to keep going...
Meditation and spirituality will bring happiness and vanquish your pain. My best wishes and blessings to you.
Been through many challenges and come through still feeling positive. I feel ready to assist others on their journey.
If I can overcome and reach the stage that I have, then I think others can reach their potential too.
In the process of learning a new skill....life is a learning platform.
Yesterday is HISTORY
Tomorrow is a MYSTERY
Today is a GIFT
That's why it's called the PRESENT.
Namaste 🙏😁🎼🎶🎵👩💻💜😁🙏🏴
Wonderful words, Linda. Myself, I'm such a coward. And what I've gone through made me a bitter person. But what I want is to thrive on tribulations. Just like Dada says a sadhaka should. Thanks for your comment. It offers support somehow 🙏⚘💛🧡❤
Beautiful inspiring words. Do u reach out to people around u or those far away too?
Both Amrita 🙏🙌🙌🙌🙏💜🎼🎶🎵💝
LindaM66 what’s the thing that comes from your own experience that can guide other souls/people flotsam & jetsam on life’s high seas?
@@amritachakraborty8827 overcoming severe depression and seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Encountering several spiritual awakenings, which can be scary at first!
Thank you Dada, I remember when I was young, I was in the Navy in San Francisco and I saw the Hari Krishna's and thought i poorly of them a bunch of hippy's brainwashed into some kind of cult. I had to break that pattern of dogmatic thinking and I have, also I used to go to church but was not a believer, I just went because I believed in the moral principles. I have also been uncomfortable with the singing and raising of hands and never participated, thats still a problem for me.
Life is too short to be too careful. I also felt that it looks strange, but I wanted to experience it, to let go of control and flow with the cosmic wave. Now I really don't mind what other people might think (and to be honest, i think not so many are actually interested in my person, so why should it bother me). We are too much centered on our persons, but the world does not revolve around us, for most of the people it does not matter whether we raise our hands up or act in other strange ways.
Namaskara Dada,
Thanks again on another great video. You are a psychology Master too!!. I love the way you continue to inspire us in the path of spirituality.
I agree life is full of roses and thorns and we need to endure the thorn to better appreciate roses of life.
Many of the thoughts you spoke were looking like aimed at me - especially the unnecessary efforts of ours towards social status, prestige, and what others think about us.
You mentioned about two parts of Sadhana- Following Laws of Nature (Yama, Niyama ) and Lifting consciousness. I understand Yama, Niyama, but want to know what exactly needs to be done to lift consciousness.
With Sincere Pranams,
Srinath.
Namaskar, Shrinathji. Meditation is the most important tool fir elevation of consciousness.
Dada I was wondering if you can add some background soothing soundtrack music as well.
Namaskar Dada, your beautiful words have lifted me up. I am going through certain tribulations and I will keep coming back to this for inspiration. Dada, is it possible that for some reason, cosmic energy descends on a sadhaka whose nervous system is not strong enough? What happens in that case?
Thank you
Namaskar
Thank you Dada for this video. Please have you any guidance on how to thrive after being told you have a cancer that modern medicine cannot cure and whose outlook is very gloomy? And how to deal with the weakness and sickness that treatment brings? I have come through many challenges in my life that I did not think I could survive but this one seems insurmountable as I have gone from being a positive healthy person to a person without hope, who has to rest in bed almost all day and whose body has been weakened and changed. Thank you
Sorry for the late reply.
My grandmother was told that she has only one week to live, the doctors told my parents that she has incurable brain cancer, that only few centimeters of the brain remain intact, and rest is gone. But my grandmother survived and lived another 15 years and she was a light of our family, she died at the age of almost 90 years. I believe, that one must accept whatever fate awaits, and place one's trust on God, utilize time in meditating and thinking about God. These are precious moments, they matter a lot. A miracle is possible, but we should not cling to matter, rather we should cling to spirit and fill our heart with love and acceptance.
Thank you 🙏 this was really helpfull to hear. Lately I’ve been experiencing big differences between saddnes and joy and surrender makes it easier. Can asceticism burn Karma too, or can only life create these "opportunities"?
I have explained how it works in my talks about karma, there is more comprehensive reply there.
How do you attain the strong nervous system? Thank you for video
Through spiritual practice and enduring tribulations.
The Sanskrit word Sadhana means "tool". In the context of the Yoga, it means spiritual practice. Life is never black and white. it has all the colours of the rainbow. and all the shades and combinations in between. If your life is a sequence of black-and-white moments, you are basically a computer. one and zero. and even with quantum computing, it is getting more advanced than that. so you are like an old generation of computers.
Karmic seeds, deep in the unconscious mind can be burned only through constant/uninterrupted awareness. it has nothing to do with positivity or negativity, it has everything to do with your ability to see and to be awake.
The true seeker knows only one kind of suffering. Suffering from the pain of ignorance. What is suffering? An antagonistic stance against the present situation. something is not as it should be. seeker feels the pain, in fact, he/she feels more pain because he/she is more sensitive, more receptive, more vulnerable. But suffering? no. only from knowing, that I still do not know.
different laws of nature for different kinds of beings? seriously? You should have washed your mouth after uttering those words because it stinks like shit.
Yama and Niyama have nothing to do with morality. Morality is a human construct which is constantly changing due to current circumstances. Yama and Niyama are universal principles, way beyond morality independent of time, space and beings. Yama and Niyama say: "no matter who you are, where you are or when you are, you do this, this will be the outcome. you do that, that will be the outcome."
what is confusing to me when I watch your videos is your persistent dualism. good vs. bad, white vs. black, spiritual vs. materialistic and so on and so forth. Yoga teaches the complete opposite. be inclusive. don't divide. Seek unity.
There is no Sadhana to attain Samadhi. Sadhana requires effort. Samadhi can never be achieved through effort. not even meditation. Effort is needed to prepare. Preparation for higher energies is achieved through Asana and Pranayama Sadhana. Preparing the mind for meditation and Samadhi is achieved through Pratyahara and Dharana Sadhana. After that, there is nothing you can do other than just sit and wait. If you prepare well, it will come. If you didn't or you still want to do something it will not. it is very simple, but not easy.
one thing is true though. The closer you get to breaking the cyclical motion, the faster the wheel of Karma seems to move. So, yeah, the spiritual path is not always a walk in the park. Another fact that might look discouraging/depressing is that the seeker must abandon the Hope. Hope is for a better future. Seeker is done with the future and done with the past. The seeker seeks to see what is now and here. it is shifting the perspective from the horizontal line of time to the vertical line of eternity. In such a situation, there is no place for hope, belief or even faith. Those are things that prevent you from seeing clearly. The only thing you need is trust.
Be strong, be tough and you will break. be soft, be adaptable /flexible and you will endure. Meditation has nothing to do with being strong or weak, meditation is a sudden disconnection with duality. If somebody says: "it was a good meditation", you can be sure there was no meditation at all.
I finish here because it is already way too long of a comment, but I might come back to it later.
Thank you Dada for this I love all of your videos? Question: who sings the song at the end of these videos? It's beautiful
It was recorded on the fifth day of continuous singing mantra and was sung by Dada's friends
@@zhashtam Thank you they should record their singing it is very beautiful!
Dada can you please send me the song
Dada, you are a general in the silent army that overcomes my walls. When I peak through the door, your face is smiling. I resist but I see surrender is just a matter of time. I would ask you to stop but you wouldn't so what's the point.
Дада на английском!!! Ааа
Вас приятно слушать на любом языке.
Dada. Where can I find a meditation teacher near me? Miami,Florida USA
Love you dada
You can write to Dada Diiptimanananda facebook.com/dadadiiptimanananda he is in USA
Thank you Dada for this brilliant video! ❣❣❣I was just wondering if you could write down the words of the purple sprout song in the description box? I'm already singing it in my head 😁😁😁😁😍😍😍😍😍🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗 🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
Raktim kishalay (ámi)
Sojá pathe cali ámi
Báṋká pathe kabhu kabhu nay
Ámár sumukhe áche shyámala shobhá
Ámár dupáshe áche aruńa ábhá
Uṋcu shire cali ámi
Niicu shire kabhu kabhu nay
Ámár báhute áche vajrera bal
Ámár áṋkhite áche drśt́i vimal
Sojá kathá bhávi ámi
Báṋká kathá kabhu kabhu nay
@@MeditationSteps Thank you so much!!!💖💖💖🙏💖💖💖
I would love to visit your retreat or Ashram, I don't know how you address it.
We are in Russia, and my colleagues are in USA, in India, Taiwan and Korea
Do you know about tourettes syndrome? It's involuntary obsessive movements for example rising your eyebrows, blinking rapidly, tightening your neck. Some rare cases also have obsessive swearing (even if you don't want to!). I'm very curious if you have an explanation for it!
I will study it.
How come you have no guided meditation videos?
I believe that guided meditation is not really ideal. We need to exercise our own will power, and it does not happen during a guided meditation. Guided meditation is acceptable only for a complete beginners for a few times to only get some idea about meditation.
@@MeditationSteps Okay, thanks for the response :)
Namaskar Dada, my cat ran away today and even though i know It's all in the grand schema of the surpreme consciousness, i am disheartened. She has always had a comfortable life and life on the street is dangerous here in India, especially cuz of the so many dogs. In theory I know the supreme takes care of all his creation, but i am not able to experience the surrender in action. What do I do? Please advise.
If you have done all you can to remedy the situation, try to accept.
@@MeditationSteps thank you for the response Dada, tried everything i could. Part of me is devastated that she will live a uncertain life, but part of me is fine knowing that She will not have to live in a confined space of a small house. Total acceptance will come if i am totally detached. And its easier said than done. Will keep trying. Thank you again for your response. Means a lot.
@@MeditationSteps found her Dada, She was hiding in the generator room in the basement. Was a very stressful day, but all's well that ends well. Not sure what the learning from the experience, but I guess I need to get over the attachment. So I feel less pain. Be like manager/caretaker in this world. Thank you so much Dada!
Congratulations!
Your hard drive story was funny 😂
Life has more black parts :(
Burn them this time n strive strong in yama, niyama.... to get samadhi at the end in the next one or the next after the next. Stay strong.