Being without Becoming | Swami Anubhavananda Saraswati

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda - Vedanta Society of New York

Swami Anubhavananda Saraswati explores the essence of 'being without becoming' through humor, philosophy, and practical wisdom, emphasizing self-realization over external achievements. The talk blends Vedantic teachings with relatable life examples, urging listeners to embrace their inherent happiness and inner peace. It challenges the constant pursuit of change and highlights the importance of pr

Key takeaways

• True happiness is inherent, not acquired.
• Striving to become creates suffering.
• Sleep symbolizes the return to our natural state of being.

Transcript preview

Good morning everybody and welcome. We are very privileged to welcome today our smiling swami. Swami anubavandaji. He is a parry-verajac, a wondering monk who travels the world through throughout the year. He is a parry-verajac, a wondering monk who travels the world throughout the year. his message, be happy. Additionally, he has written many books on Vodanta and is known as the smiling Swami due to his joyful and loving nature. The topic of his talk today is being without becoming. Swami, Jay, thank you for coming. Last, the sleeping gants, good. Those of you who know the happy mantra chant. Those of you who know the happy mantra chant, those of you who do not know, pretend that you are chanting. Life is it time in pass. Kiafara, kia for up for a kara, I'm not able to go. Where ever, I never, what ever you are. Me hundred percent, kara nahatakkah, kishi kowah mahatkah ho. Who vast you live at zero complete level? Monsmeiro, O'be happy. There are two aspects of our life. There are a way nama. Tasmay Sri Sri Gura way nama. There are two aspects of our life. One is knowledge. Second is action. Now I am told to speak on being becoming and yoga. So I'll try to confuse you as much as I can. Knowledge does not create anything. That knowledge which creates is not spiritual life. That knowledge which creates is not spiritual life. That knowledge which reveals is not spiritual life. That knowledge which reveals is not spiritual life. That knowledge which reveals is not spiritual life. we are told. If you chant Gaietyri Mantra for maybe very little 24,000 times, then you will realize. What will you realize? I wasted my life. I wasted my life. that if you chant this mantra for so many years this will happen so this knowledge demands a follow of action only by listening nothing will happen now the second thing now those of you or those of us who know now this is baguan Ram or christian of Paramahms Nothing. But those of us who do not know, he will have to ask, hey, who is that. So two types of knowledge is. One yoga is that which demands follow of action. Second, yoga is that which demands follow of action. Second, yoga is that which doesn't demand follow of action. Man is being. He becomes husband. So when the being falls that fallen being is called as becoming. By birth we are man or woman. But after we are born because we do not know that we are divine whether we want or we don't want. We are divine. We are divine. We are divine. We are divine. Whether we want or we don't want, we are divine. We are divine. Whether we know or we don't know, we are divine. Because we do not recognize our own divine nature, then we like to add something. And why this happens? Because the basic error in our life. We are all seeking happiness. Do not seek happiness. Then express happiness. You don't have to become anybody. But when you have to get happiness, then you have to depend on something. See? Otherwise, the simple example. A young IT expert, good job, a lot of money, Suddenly one virus enters in his head. What a life without a wife. See? Then the moment he starts imagining, wife is a source of happiness. But he has a source of happiness. But he has not understood. Wife is an abbreviation of a sentence. PDF, is it a word? No, it is a small sentence. What is that portable? Document file, PDF. See, wife, worries invited forever. But this dumb man doesn't understand this. And then he gets married. So by birth, he is a man. by fault he has become a husband. So now the spiritual practice will be what? Discover that you are born happy but you became miserable. So this fall from being being not any breath mistake. And what are the mistakes? We are seeking happiness. Why we seek happiness? Why not miseries? Think. For this we'll take some small example. In a pan we are kept from water. fire. What will happen? The water will become hot. Simple experiment. We draw the fire. Now what will happen to the water? It will slowly give up, be attentive. It will slowly give up the acquired heat. Water, by nature, is not hot. And therefore the moment an opportunity comes to the water, no more heat applied to me, no more fire applied to me. Therefore, immediately the water will start giving up the acquired quality of heat. How long? Till it comes to its natural state. learning from our experiences, then we are marching from becoming to being. But present our life is we are struggling from living the being and getting lost in the becoming. See, friends. So we all want to sleep, not now. We all want to sleep. Why we want to sleep? What do we get? Observe, not now. Observe. What is sleep? Sleep is a conscious process of giving up everything and whatever we have become. So what is sleep? First of all, we give up our achievements, failures, friends, enemies, country, citizenship, health, disease, everything we give up. We come back to our home. Then after coming home, we give up all the things in the home. We go in our bedroom below the quilt. We come back to our home. Then after coming home, we give up all the things in the home. We go in our bedroom below the quilt. And there also, we are not able to sleep. I don't know what is happening, but I want to sleep. I want to sleep. And then we start yoga. First, we try shavasan. Oh, the sleep is not coming. Then we turn on the left side. See, left karvatasan. I don't know what is the name. He is sleep. It's not coming. Then again we struggle. For what? To give up. Then we turn to the right side. Right karmata. It's still not coming. What should I do? Then we do boujangas and come. And in that struggle to give up, the last thing be attentive. The one who was giving up everything, the world achievement, failure, relations, possessions, everything is given up. By whom? By eye? And ultimately, till this eye is valid, sleep will not begin. When even this eye, who wanted to sleep, when even this eye is dropped, they will not begin. When even this eye, who wanted to sleep, when even he is dropped, they are, they are, they dropped. the Sun Geth begins. Krr. See, when we are awake if we talk loudly we feel like I'm so sorry sorry. When we are in deep sleep the husband and wife, the husband and wife, the husband has no courage to look at even the slippers of his wife. But when they sleep together, where from the courage comes? And he starts snoring, observe. Nobody snores hurriedly. Can you imagine? Kark, kark, kark, krkirk, krkirk. No. There it is the seventh swar. My whenever you are happy you are not in a hurry. Our whole life is, do this, go, go, go, go, go, we are like a person in a poultry farm. All I am telling you from my experiences, on, and wow, go, go, go, go, go. We are like a person in a poultry farm. All I am telling you from my experiences, Anoubao. to go to some big huge poultry farm my friends one of the top poultry farms of India he took me there so he said you can go inside but be quiet he has done all disinfection so that my wisdom should not go to the birds so he disinfected me and said he said so I went and stood there looking what is that what is there and they came and started pecking. The way they start pecking by foot, the moment I'd, the whole poultry from cock, cock, cock, cock, exactly this is our life. Whole day, cock, cock, cock, come, go, you, see? So in being, there are no efforts. In becoming, there are no efforts. In becoming, there is no rest. See, therefore, the Patanjali is yoga and my Anubha yoga, there is a difference. Patanjali's yoga is yoga ha, chitavruti, ne'rodaha. Why you should stop thinking? God has given us eyes to see. See God has given us here. See? See? See? See? See? Given us mind to think. No, Chittur-Tinniroda. And all these fellows, they are silently suffering. Therefore, outside in their meditation courses. First level of meditation, second level of meditation. Outside, there is a board. Don't disturb meditation in progress bracket we are already disturbed. Friends, meditation is an experience. It is not an action. Like the same word love. When it becomes action and when it is experience, what is the difference? A boy and a girl. And young boy girl came to meet me in Mumbai. So Amigy, please bless us. So what far? Why should I bless you? Amigy, we have fallen in love and therefore we want your blessing. I said, you have already fallen. What can you know? See? See, if you have fallen, you will get hurt. And that hurting is called as marriage or wedding. See? In the language of Bombay, mad person is called as Veda. So those who get married, they are wedding. See? Now, this is meaning of love, where it is action. The mother loves the child. Is it an action or experience? Think. Our whole life is not discovering the bliss that we are. And therefore I want to do yoga. So Patangulis yoga is not discovering the bliss that we are. And therefore I want to do yoga. So Patangulis yoga is Prakrith Pradhan. the Sancho philosophy and Sancho are believing that there is one soul per body like there is one soul per shoe. What a spelling you may keep it doesn't matter it is the soul. Therefore in our goa we have got a very good dish. Soul curry very tasty. we have to break that wrong notion. Let yoga be not precruthi-oriented, but Purusha-oriented. See? That will be from being to becoming and from becoming to becoming to becoming. Ashtanga yoga, 8. Yama, Niama, Asan, Prana, Pratyahar, Dharana, Dyan, and Samari. Eight of them. You will see most of these people who get into the yoga-mat business. Like you know these terrorists, they move with a A-47. What are you going? I'm going to go yoga. Oh good. Friends, life is like a cup of tea. It depends how you make it. You make it better and suffer. You make it better and suffer. You make it too light and don't enjoy. You make it too light and don't enjoy. It should be optimum. You make it better and So out of this eight, first is Yama, second is Niamo. These two are bypassed and they directly come to D'Aasana. See, do you think Pazanjali was dumb to unnecessarily added earlier to? And the ten principles, the Aimsha, Satya, Astheya, Upperigariya, Brahmincharya, Shaocha Sanchoi Tafas, Swadhyya, Ishwara, Zevna Shao Shatoshihvaa Tvaihāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā principles are the one which are given maximum importance in life and then we come to the arson. See I was in a cottage in Mitz-Pilani India. So on the first floor I think my lectures were there. Very wide staircase so many big number of students. So when they saw that I am going So some of them came running so that they want to go before me and sit in the class. So when I was going, they came running and youngsters are youngsters. Therefore instead of going step by step they started jumping first, sixth, seven, and in that one or two of them failed down. See? So I said to them, see how the steps are wrong. They are making you fall down. We are all expert in blaming others for the problems of our life. When the steps are given, go step by step. Friends, there is no shortcut in life. If you observe shortcut, you will be cut short. No shortcut. So they will not go systematically. directly coming to As an Pranao. So now let us start. We have to reach our own being. How through knowledge? Simplest example, then it will become easier. How much of time, energy, efforts are