When a College Student Kept Asking Maharaj Ji Question After Question

Shri Hit Radha Keli Kunj, Vrindavan - an intimate conversation with Pujya Shri Hit Premanand Govind Sharan Ji Maharaj. Practitioners ask questions about their lives and sadhana, and Maharaj Ji answers them.

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Parth Verma from Maharashtra - Radhe Radhe Maharaj Ji, Radhe Radhe Maharaj Ji. Maharaj Ji, we are parts of God. What is the meaning of "part" here? The part of God is like the flow of the Ganges. If you take a spoonful of Ganges water, what would it be called? Ganges water. A tanker too would be called Ganges water, wouldn't it? Understand it that way. The part of the Whole is itself Whole.

Purnamadah Purnamidam Purnaat Purna Udachyate
Purnasya Purnam Adaya Purnameva Avasisyate

That is full, this is full. From the fullness, fullness has come forth. Taking fullness from fullness, only fullness remains.

What would be the part of the Supreme God? The Supreme God is the individual soul. That is why it is said - you have become identified with the body, haven't you? You are still God, child.

Maharaj Ji, how did I become separate from God? Due to attachment to this body. You have accepted this body as yourself, haven't you? Now that I have fallen under the spell of the body, the senses and mind and intellect - all of this is about experiencing, seeing, smelling, tasting. I am caught in it.

Do one thing. Reduce these identifications. The more you reduce them, the more you will attain your own bliss. When you attain complete bliss, then you have become a knower of Brahman. This means that same reality is everywhere, absolutely everywhere. Even in heaven, in hell - that same reality is there in all of it.

Understand it like this - like a large mansion made of sections. Below is the basement, above are eight floors. I mean, suppose at the bottom is the basement - the lowest regions, the earth region, the nether worlds - and above are the heaven worlds, the great worlds, the worlds of Brahma, the worlds of tapas, the world of truth. These are all infinite universes of that Supreme God.

How can anyone show His Maya, His divine play? The mother with miraculous form, mighty - in every pore appears millions and millions of universes. Universes emerging, created by Maya - in every pore, the Vedas speak. Worship, child, and everything will be understood.

And Maharaj Ji, like I am a college student, right - this is the bondage, child. "I am a college student." Who is speaking? Yes, this is acknowledgment, isn't it? That very thing does not let you experience the truth.

"I am a woman. This is my duty. I am a man. I am a householder." - this very thing does not let you experience the truth. One who knows Brahman becomes Brahman - as has been said - he has realized his true nature.

So the primary duty must be to fulfill the duty of a student. Yes. Regarding the fruit of duty - it seems to me - one day, you know, we are not a woman. But if someone gives us the role of a woman for one hour and pays us ₹1000, so for the sake of 1000 we become a woman for one hour, do we then become a woman? Even when we are being a woman, we still have the knowledge: "I am a man. I have just shaved my beard and mustache for one hour and become a woman."

Likewise, I am of the nature of the Supreme God. I have been given roles - of a father, a son, a student, or whatever else - but we are not recognizing the role as a role.

We are taking this to be true and have forgotten that. That is why we keep slipping. You said, didn't you - if someone is performing a role, and if they are earning ₹1000, then perform it daily, yes? In doing this, by fulfilling your duty, your identification with the body will be destroyed. That bodily feeling - like the feeling of being male - let that feeling be destroyed. If you follow true dharma, you will attain knowledge. Knowledge comes from following dharma. Ignorance increases from adharma.

So for us to attain knowledge - just as Arjun said, "I will not fight" - the Lord told him, "You must perform your duty, you must fight." Remembering God, remember Me while fighting.

Very good, children - I liked it. Wise ones, take benefit from this.

I had gone into bad company earlier, but Radha Rani's grace - she saved me. Yes, it was that way. Yes - now let's go. Good names - whenever I chant..

And like the 28 names of Radha Rani that you have - I know those too. And what you spoke of - Sadam Vrindavan Navlata Kandam Kala Kautuk Rasam Kishoram Jyoti Yug Matim.

Very beautiful, very beautiful! This is ours - this is our experienced shloka. If anyone does japa of this shloka, they will surely see both spiritual progress and worldly progress. And that Shri Mangal Gaan too - its recitation - what Mangal Gaan - yes, Jai Jai Shri Harivansh.

Very beautiful, very beautiful! I have really enjoyed talking with you, child in this new state. You have such a beautiful grasp. Go forward. God's special grace is upon you. Whoever comes to my home - just as you said - we should tell this to those who respect God, who have faith in God. I also tell them that Maharaj Ji says: do naam jap. So do naam jap.

Very beautiful, very good.

No, no - very beautiful. Go ahead slowly. God will pave the way ahead for you.

Vikas Yadav from Delhi - Radhe Radhe Maharaj Ji. Millions and millions of prostrations at your feet. Maharaj Ji, I have great curiosity to know these three questions. Please tell me - who am I? Where have I come from? And where am I going?

That you will see - where you are going. That is the question. So the last question is - where are you going? You will see. We will show you the path - you recognize where you are going. It has been said - you are that which is being sought.

Tat Tvam Asi - If you accept even the part, the part of the Whole is itself Whole.

Purnamadah Purnamidam Purnaat Purna Udachyate
Purnasya Purnam Adaya Purnameva Avasisyate

That is full, this is full. From the fullness, fullness has come forth. Taking fullness from fullness, only fullness remains.

Whatever remains as the remnant of that Supreme God, that too is itself Whole. So what you truly are - that "I" is, I am that Brahman.

Whatever comes after "I" is Maya. Like "I am so-and-so, I am so-and-so" - all this is Maya. Pure "I" is the form of God.

The first thing is - you are the form of God. When? When you give up identification with the body and experience your true nature. But now your true nature, endowed with extraordinary magnificence, is covered, and you are an individual soul identified with the body.

Right now you are ego-identified. By renouncing attachment to all three bodies—the physical, subtle, and causal—whoever realizes Brahman, whoever becomes established in their true form through the knowledge of Brahman, they are indeed the form of Brahman. Do you understand? Because of maya and ignorance and getting caught in fanciful illusions, that very pure Brahman is called jeev, and if you become free from this maya-illusion, then that itself is Brahman. Is that clear? There is nowhere you need to go and nowhere you need to come. Your existence is everywhere. Now you have forgotten yourself and gotten caught in this attraction created by maya—are you now thinking about going to hell, or are you performing good deeds to go to heaven, or are you doing bhajan to reach the ultimate abode?

Now you have to see this. Where will you go? Your conduct will determine this. Your thinking will determine this. Your goal will determine this. What is your goal? That will tell you. You are the supreme Self. You have nowhere to come and nowhere to go. The entire illusion of the dream—from here up to the abode of Brahma, all of this world made of maya, from here to the realm of Brahma, this entire world is made of maya. You are truth, you are the supreme truth. You are truth in all three times. Know your own true form—tat tvam asi. Are you following? This is pure spiritual discourse. It is not mixed with worldly matters.

If you practice sadhana with pure spiritual discourse, then you will understand our words. Otherwise this will just blow away in the wind. Are you following?

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