Video- HH JAS Morning Class

Morning class by HH Jayadvaita Swami in Sridhama Mayapur, 06 January 2010:

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Super Ultra Fantastic Like You Never Had It Before!

Jayadvaita Swami

We have two kinds of needs, material and spiritual. I can't deny that I have basic material needs, like eating for example. 'Well I'm spiritually realised I don't eat anymore', um...No, you need eating, sleeping. Can't really do without it. Mating. Another basic human need. And defending, we need to defend ourselves from time to time. We need to have some security. The animals do these things: they sleep, they mate, they defend. Humans beings do these things, and they're necessary. But they are not everything.
"What's your goal in life?"
"Well, to eat, to sleep, to have sex, and, defend myself."
Oh great that's really fantastic!


Yeah! Every dog does that! Are we no better than dogs? Two legged dogs. So, fine, They need to do what we need to do.
But that's not our purpose. Not that 'Why, am I living to eat? Why, am I living to sleep? Why, am I living to fight? Why, am I living for sex?'
No, those things should be, as much as needed. But we try to pump them up, you know: Eating! Eating! New experiences in Eating! Super ultra fantastic like you never had it before! Eating. And what is it? It's what the dog does. The dog is as happy eating his little bone as you are in your top of the world restaurant. At the end of the meal he's eaten you've eaten, he goes to sleep you go to sleep, he's happy you're happy. It's the same for all of us.

The fantastic ultra super-nothing-like-it-newest-greatest, never before experienced sex life that the human being has is the same as the sexual experience of the mosquito. They get sexual satisfaction, we get sexual satisfaction. Now you're looking like 'uh no, really?' Yes really! It's the same. There's nothing qualitatively different, about what the animal gets out of it, and what we get from it. It's the same thing. You know it really is. We like to think that there's something, you know, categorically different. It's not. It's not, it's the same thing. But human society, pumps it up it - tries to make it something that's going to just turn your life into permanent euphoria, and the result is...........disappointment. Because it can never match the expectation. If the expectation is just, heaven! When the reality sets in we're going to be disappointed! That's the, you know, the sorry truth about love in the material world. Well sex in the material world.
It's built up to be like nothing else under the sun, and really it's the same old thing. Which again is not to say, you know, stop it, but, to try to, fix our happiness on that, is going to result in a big let down in the end.

(Jayadvaita Swami 10/2007)

Not Complete, Not Satisfying....Limited!

There's the material world and there's the physical disappointment.
You know we wanted, we didn't get it!
Or we wanted it, we got it and we lost it!
So there's that disappointment.
And there's, yeah, a deeper psychological or spiritual disappointment.
'I got it but I felt empty' or 'I have it all but I feel empty' right?'
The biggest richest, most educated whatever, they feel something's not complete!
Something's not satisfying!........... The physical, there's a limit on how much happiness can you get out of one little sense. It's limited!

(Jayadvaita Swami 10/2007)

Let's Talk About You

Audience: If everyone tries to achieve spiritual happiness then they're not going to get married. The human race is going to go back down....

Jayadvaita Swami: If everyone tries for spiritual happiness, then nobody's going to get married and that's the end of the world....

Audience: And there's no children being made...

Jayadvaita Swami: Of course everybody's trying to move things in that direction, knock down the population so, you know, let's try it for fifty or hundred years! Try it the other way let's do this!

But I doubt that there's serious endanger of seeing that happen, that everyone goes stark raving spiritual and that's the end of marriage!
You know it's kind of like everyone's going to get rich: It's just not going to happen. That won't happen. But it is just as well, not everyone's going to be a PHD candidate. Not everyone's going to do so many things. Not everyone's going to be a philanthropist. But let's not talk about everyone, let's talk about, you. Let's talk about me, let's talk about us. You know what the whole world does we can leave till later. But you! Is it a sensible proposition for you to invest your energy in investigating or even pursuing spiritual happiness? That is really the question before us.

(Jayadvaita Swami 10/2007)

The Temporary Thing

Jayadvaita Swami

Live for the moment or seize the day and then get what you can out of it now,

You can take that approach......But
if there's something higher while you're busy seizing the temporary thing, you're losing the better thing.
The person who gives up the eternal for the temporary, loses both! He loses the eternal because he gave it up, and he loses the temporary, because it's temporary! And the person who gives up the temporary for the eternal does not lose anything! Because the temporary he gave up he's going to lose anyway and the eternal's permanent!

(Jayadvaita Swami 10/2007)

SB 4.1.57 - By the Glance of the Lord

During the month of kartika in Vrindavan Jayadvaita Swami gave a short but powerful class with complementing questions and answers. One of the questions was "Why is there still religion when we have modern science?". Maharaja answered quickly and forcefully and gave 4 reasons:

• Birth, disease, old age and death
• What is the purpose of life?
• Why we suffer in this material world?
• Who am i?

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Higher Purpose, Higher Taste

Jaydvaita Swami:
I'm not saying you know, somehow or other, if the chocolate tastes good put a rubber band around your tongue or something because you know you just did the wrong thing. No. There's a natural pleasure that comes from, well Bhagavad Gita analyses it by saying the contact with the senses with their objects: that I see something nice, my fingers touch something nice, you hear something nice, contact of the senses, with, an object, of the sense. That results in a certain amount of pleasure. Okay. We don't say deny it, pretend it's not there. But just accept what it is. It's really kinda small time. It's not the ultimate thing that a human being lives for when he's living for the truth,........It's not the be all and end all.
It's just, that's business as usual. Like here you're coming to university, everyday you're eating. Now is this why you have come? Okay, you get a certain amount of satisfaction when you eat maybe the foods good, you're happy about that, But you have a higher purpose here. ..... we're talking about there's a higher taste. When you get the higher thing, automatically you just come, you lose interest in the lower thing. It's not that someone has to drag you away kicking and screaming you just say 'I found something better!'

(Jayadvaita Swami 10/2007)

"Do you Want To get Old?" No! "Diseased?" No! "Dead?" No!

(Jayadvaita Swami 10/2007)

We're all connected. we all belong to....we're all parts of the Supreme. And now we're acting as if we're disconnected, and that disconnectedness is causing us untold difficulties.

What is that difficulty? No one wants to get old, we're all going get old. Some of us are already well into it, some of us are so far away, but everyone has to get old but no one wants to. Everyone has to get diseased and no one wants it. No one wants to die, and everyone's forced to. And birth also is something that we have to accept. Without argument. And that's also painful. These are all, unnatural for us, therefore we don't like them.

If you asked me 'Do I want to get old?'
“No I don't want to get old!”

'Diseased?'
“No!”

“Dead?'
“No”

Why not?



Why don't we say “Well it's great you know, I'm looking forward to the experience ?” .........Because it's unnatural to us!
Even a cockroach, you try to step on him and he runs away.
Why? He wants to live forever. He doesn't want to die.

In our present situation we're in an unnatural condition, because we have separated ourselves from that Supreme Reality. On the platform of reality, there's permanence, there's knowledge, hence, therefore we are looking for knowledge.
We want knowledge, we want more knowledge, because it's natural for us to have knowledge. But in the material situation our knowledge is blocked, our knowledge is confused, and in our natural state we'll have clear knowledge.
Knowledge, existence, permanent existence, and joyfulness.

If we advertise “Do you know we are having a program this evening and you'll all be unhappy”
You wouldn't be here! We are looking for happiness. Why? Because it's natural.
But we're trying to get happiness by owning something and, you know what it's like to own something, as soon as you own it, it starts becoming less valuable, Hm? And then you lose it, or it breaks, or it's no longer what you wanted. The whole material world is like that, it does not satisfy, because we are spiritual beings, by nature, and no amount of matter is going to satisfy a spiritual being.

It just will not work!

So it's another kind of an illusion to think that this is mine, this is mine and I can hold onto it and it will make me happy. The whole world is trying to do that and failing. It does not work. Fullstop. And even the poorest man will be happy if he has inner realisation of who he is, what his relationship is with the Supreme, how to act in that relationship…..He will be happy!

(Jayadvaita Swami 10/2007)

While you are young ....Go For It!

(Jayadvaita Swami 10/2007)

There's an interesting history in one of the Puranas about a child named Prahlada. He was spiritually advanced from his childhood. He met a great sage and became an enlightened little boy.
He was trying to get his friends on board, saying: 'Come on! Let's do something! Let's chant Hare Krishna, let's hear something about spiritual advancement.'
The kids said: 'Come on! You know we’re five years old, let us play. And when later in old age you know, when we're grandparents we will do this stuff.'

He said: 'You better do it now!'



'Why?'
'Okay, you're going to spend say, ten years, fifteen years of your life as kids, and you're going to be kicking balls around and doing all that kind of thing. Then you're going to hit middle age, and then it's: you see a girl you think she's nice, and there's all of that kind of, interaction.”

So you're busy with that, for another few years and then you get married, and then you're working hard to support your family. See to your home and your relatives, your job and all of that. And then you're old, and by this time you're fagged out. You know, where's your spiritual realisation, if you're leaving it until then: you're too busy now because your kids, you're too busy later because you're chasing boys and girls around, you're busy after that because you're working and supporting your family. And then at the end, you don't even know when the end is going to be. Now you think you're going to live to seventy and you're cut off at forty, or twenty!

Apart from that he said to them: 'Okay you got 24 hours a day, subtract ten or twelve because you’re asleep during that time. So you just cut your life in half.”
You're going to live a hundred years really there's only fifty of real time! Your spiritual time is less.
So he said, 'Now, when you're young, and you have the time .....Go for it now!”

(Jayadvaita Swami 10/2007)

Highest Point Of Service

(Jayadvaita Swami 10/2007)

I don't mean to say that everybody's just a shameless hedonist. You know that as soon as we pile out of this room we're all going to be going looking for the nearest club and doing whatever it is that, turns our senses on. I don't mean to say that. Some of us get our, our pleasure from doing some altruistic work. Some of us from doing some political work, some of us from doing some, all sorts of things……Generally: we don't work however unless we're paid. As much as I say I love my work, if you don't pay me I won't be there Monday morning.


So I work because there's something that I want to get, which I think is going to, in some way maybe make my life happier. Or let’s say that I'm really an altruist I'm just working selflessly, for The Red Cross….. Now I'm no longer just working for my own interests, I've extended, let's say I'm not such an altruist but I'm working for first just for me, then I get married, now I'm working for, you know me and my wife, and some children, so, it's not just me. I've extended my area of interest, I'm interested in making others happy. Let's say I go beyond that now I want to work for my country. I want to work for mankind. So in fact the broader you go, the higher you are. The more exalted your life is. But it's still within the realm of limitation. I care about mankind but I, chomp on the animals, for example. Or I love my country and I stomp on the country next door. Or I love my family and I compete with ten other families. So my altruism or my, yeah my altruism, is still within the conditions kind of a state.

If you extend it further, if you extend it to the ultimate point, where your goal is of service, It's not just to serve yourself, not just to serve your family, not just to serve your country. Not just to serve mankind, but to serve the Ultimate, to serve the Supreme. ……You've come to the highest point of service. And when you are there, you’re automatically going to be serving, everyone.

(Jayadvaita Swami 10/2007)