The fear of surrender

Devotee: Earlier you mentioned about the fear of surrender.
Is it true to say that most of the people are running away from this acknowledging or accepting this fear of surrender to who they really are?

Sri Swami Vishwananda: That’s very true, but many people do want it also.
You see the fear of not knowing- that’s what people are scared of.
But if you trust, you don’t bother. So there should not be any fear if you trust.

Here a nice "reggae version" of 'Om Namah Shivaya'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KdiV5SKKiU

How to become restless for God?

Sri Swami Vishwananda:

So, how to yearn for God?
How to become restless for God?
It’s by continuously begging to Him.
To continuously harass Him, by calling His name continuously.
It’s like... you see, human have been born in this world, as if God has given a game, a toy to a child.
The child plays with the toy, but after some time, the child will long for...? The mother!
And when a child yearns for the mother- try as best as you want, give another toy to the child to calm the child- the child will scream! The child will cry!
The more you try to divert the mind of the child, the more the child will scream and call to the mother.
Until the child has not found the mother, the child will not be attracted.
But such crying, if you develop such a restlessness for God, you will have Him.
You will realize Him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BWvRkkr3DM&feature=related
A tribute to the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Her role in the plan of salvation.

Do you accept yourself how you are?

Devotee 5: Swamiji, why do people then feel the need for an ego?
What is the problem really?
Because it’s not that they want to specifically be a bad person, to be egoistic.
But there must be a reason why people after all these centuries, since the Vedas, don’t change and don’t share.
So the ego- there mustbe some reason for it.
They are afraid or there must be something.
Not that they are bad, but something why they can’t do it….

Sri Swami Vishwananda: No, there’s nothing. Well, did I say they are bad? (laughing)

Devotee 5: No, but the ego like... What is the obstacle not to be in the ego?

Sri Swami Vishwananda: Because no one wants to look at himself.
How many people really accept themselves how they are? Hm?
No, I am asking.
Accept everything.
I ask you this question now – Do you accept yourself how you are?

Devotee 5: No, I don’t think...

Sri Swami Vishwananda: Like you, many will answer the same thing.
As long as you don’t…

Devotee 6: It’s hard

Sri Swami Vishwananda: Aha. (laughter) (laughing)
When this ‘difficult’ is gone, when you don’t see it as a difficulty, then you will know the answer for that.

A beautiful way to start your day:
Just smile and watch :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs1VBC1wqKU&feature=related
Healing affirmation card set with photography by Robyn Nola and affirmations by Karen Drucker.

To Love God is not a challenge

Devotee 7: Guruji?

Sri Swami Vishwananda: Yeah?

Devotee 7: Aren’t we just everyday facing so many challenges?

Sri Swami Vishwananda: Not really. (laughing) Challenges- challenges are not that…
What you create, what you sow, you are reaping.
That’s what is in everyday life.
It’s not a challenge.
To love God is not a challenge.
To realize God is not a challenge.


See below a wonderful Krishna Bhajan from Mirabai- the Indian Saint, who merged with Her Beloved Lord.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrYvBRp-gq8

Here an excerpt of one of Her very inspiring and authentic poems:

Nothing is really mine except Krishna.
O my parents, I have searched the world
And found nothing worthy of love.
Hence I am a stranger amidst my kinfolk
And an exile from their company,
Since I seek the companionship of holy men;
There alone do I feel happy,
In the world I only weep.

What is the use of having a teacher, when you can't listen?

Sri Swami Vishwananda:
What is the use of having a teacher when you can’t listen?
Well I see that everyday anyway. (smiling)
But people like to be ignorant.
They like to be always in their own drama.
They don’t really want to change.
Outside they say “Yes Swamiji, we want to change, we want to do what you say”, but inside they don’t really want.
When you say something, they say “Oh my goodness!” (smiling)
That’s what they like to be and they always like to stay the way they are.
But interesting (silence): Why do spiritual people don’t change?
Don’t take the excuse of Maya [illusion] or whatever, eh?
These are just typical excuses (smiling), so forget about Her.
She doesn’t tell you what you eat, She doesn’t tell you what to do.
So why when you have to change, you have to take Her as an excuse?
Once I have said it: There is something called spiritual pride.
Because we think we are better than anybody else.
We think that when we are spiritual, we are superior to anybody.
And everybody else has to listen. (laughing)
And that’s the mistake that many spiritual people make.
We don’t really want to listen, but we want everybody else to listen to us.
And when people don’t listen to us they are wrong, because we think we are right.
And that’s why we call us spiritual.
Even if the grace is there, they will be still blind, because they still always want to be blind.

Please click:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqCji-oDTlA
Guru Ashtakam was written by Shri Adi Shankaracharya and tells about the necessity of the Guru and attaching our mind to the Lotus Feet of the Guru.
Also, given are extracts from a lecture of Swami Vivekananda on the need of a spiritual Guru. Hari Om!!

Do you know what is Self-realisation?

Sri Swami Vishwananda:
So you want Self-realisation, eh? (People:”Yes.”)
Eh? (louder:”Yes!”) I don't think so... (laughing)
Human beings are so to proud to even ask for Self-realisation!
First let us clean ourselves.
We ask for something, we don't even know, what it is.
Or how do you know, what is Self-realisation?
You have read it in books, you have heard somebody talking about it?
Do you know, what it is?? Eh? (laughing)
So, why do you ask for something, that you don't know!?

He has given you His sweet name.
He have given you His form to meditate on.
Know that the mind has to be focused on Him completely, first.
Then, you will know what is Self-realisation.
Then, you will know what is surrender.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGAQmu3tNLk
Subramanyaashtakam is a hindu sacred chant which is sung for Lord for the new generation people and released as a part of Sacred Chants Album.

How to remove the thorn of ignorance?

Devotee: Is it really our decision to say “God we only want you” with any consequences? Is there a free will or not?

Sri Swami Vishwananda: Well, there is a certain degree of free will. (laughing)
God never forces anybody.
Otherwise everybody would already be realized. (laughing)
You know, He doesn’t need to do much. (laughing)

Devotee: Because the people of the Jnana yogi say ‘everything is perfect’.
I understand this, but they say there is no way.
You don’t need meditation; you don’t need anything, because every moment is perfect.

Sri Swami Vishwananda: Yes, of course.
It’s good to see it like that, but how many Jnanis have attained the Divine? Not so many. (Smiling)
In the last Satsang I have given, I explained that we need certain knowledge, but
knowledge has a limitation also.
I gave an example: When you have a thorn in your feet, you take another sharp object to remove it, but you don’t keep both of them in your pocket.
You throw both of them away.
The same: when you have the thorn of ignorance inside your feet, you need the
thorn of knowledge.
But at the end, you have to discard both of them.

On the left side: Jnana Mudra. Putting your fingers in this position brings you knowledge and wisdom. It is the gesture of knowledge (as it is often depicted in many pictrues of great Yogis)- In this the index finger is bent so that its tip is joined with the tip of the thumb. The other three fingers are spread out.

Goddes Kali is the Mother of the Universe.
Kali is considered as the dynamic aspect while Siva is considered as the static aspect of the divine. they are inseperable.

Maa Kali is worshipped as the goddess who removes ignorance and all the negativities for a seeker in the path of Truth.
Maa Kali's dance signifies the dynamic, active aspect of the Divine, and the dark color of her skin indicates that the processes of the creation are disolved in Kali.

To invoke Kali inside of you, a good opportunity may be to chant for example following song (Sri Kali Kavacham), or just to meditate on her: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOCGA5rhxss

Babaji's gift for all of us

Sri Swami Vishwananda is telling us the story, of how Babaji manifested a gift for a devoted Lady.

Sri Swami Vishwananda: Now I tell a you story: There’s a lady who also is a very close devotee with Babaji.
So one day, when she was always around Babaji.
One day when she was leaving the place where Babaji, she needed to go somewhere.
Babaji called her and said, “Here.”
Babaji, just picked a stone, and gave it to her.
To receive something directly from Babaji was very great, because He doesn’t give personal gifts to everybody
. He will not come to you and say, “Oh here take this for you.”
He can if He really want, but only rarely He does that.
This lady was so happy to get a stone from Babaji.
And Babaji just put His hand over the stone.
It was like a light.
It print imprinted the Aum (OM) sign on the stone.

Devotee 2: What a gift.

Sri Swami Vishwananda: Well…then Babaji said, “ Keep this gift, till the time I come to you and tell you to whom (laughing) to give it.” (laughter).

Please click here to download Govinda Marshall's Book on Babaji and the 108 Siddhas.
This book was highly recommended by Sri Swami Vishwananda.

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Mahavatar Babaji is the name given to an Indian Saint by Lahiri Mahasaya and several of his disciples who met Mahavatar Babaji between 1861 and 1935. Some of these meetings were described by Paramahansa Yogananda in his book "Autobiography of a Yogi"(1946), including a first hand telling of Yogananda’s own meeting with Mahavatar Babaji. Another first hand account was given by Sri Yukteswar Giriin his book "The Holy Science".All of these accounts, along with additional meetings with Mahavatar Babaji, are described in various biographies of those mentioned by Yogananda. Mahavatar Babaji’s given name and date of birth are not known, so those who met him during that period all called him by the title first given to him by Lahiri Mahasaya. "Mahavatar" means "great avatar", and "Babaji" simply means "revered father". Some of the encounters included two or more witnesses—discussions between those who met Mahavatar Babaji indicate that they all met the same person.(Source: Wikipedia)

We were always longing for the Divine

Just like the Hindu Saint Mirabai from Rajasthan, who was yearning all Her life for Krishnaji, Sri Swami Vishwananda is explaining us today that all of us had the same longing century for century. The same is for Christian Saints (see picture with St.Faustina and Her vision of Jesus) or Saints from any other Religion.

Devotee: I feel, that this time is a very energetic time. So everything changes and a lot of people die and all the new things coming up and... yeah, I think it's a very energetic time and it's very important to come back to our roots and to rely on God.
So, is it right, that this time is very important for the future?

Sri Swami Vishwananda: Well... it's not only this time.
This time is more clear, more open to the outside, but- always people were longing for the Divine!
It's not now; now, we can see it because of technology- you have computer, you have all these things, who enable people to look for new things and to grow on their spiritual path.
But always, century for century, people were searching!
Human is born to go back to the source.
But as long as you don't have reached the source, you will still search, no?
So all the times were good!
Even now, it is very good.
So, you should profit from it!
And like I said: technology makes everything easy.
If you wouldn't have a car, you would not have reached here, you would reach here maybe tomorrow, whatever.
So, because of that...
Also it's much easier to realize onself.
It can be easy, if one wants it.
That was the whole thing yesterday, and even today I am talking about it!
But the longing has to be there!
As long, as you don't yearn for God, you can forget about it.

And here the music, that surely describes the desire of all of us to finally reach God-realisation, to merge with the Supreme Lord, who is the Creator of everything:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3KcdKDiRGI
Sainya main Girdhar ke - Bina Mehta - Mirabai

Be loyal and obedient towards your Master!

Sri Swami Vishwananda about what it takes to have a harmonic Guru-disciple-relationship:

Sri Swami Vishwananda:
When the disciple comes into contact with the master, the disciple has to be...? Loyal! Loyalty!
Loyalty not only towards the master, but loyalty also towards oneself!
It’s only through loyalty towards yourself, that you will be able to be loyal towards your master and towards the outside.
The second thing you need is: obedience.
Obedience doesn’t mean slavery- Because, often people think that to be obedient is just to become the slave of the master.
No! It’s the opposite actually.
Like I said before: it’s not you, who is the slave of the master; but it’s the master, who is the slave of you.
But in the mind you have ignorance, you have the pride, the ego... all these things- That's why you have to listen to one who has already overcome it!

A wonderful video of a great Master and one of our Gurujis- Shirdi Sai Baba:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEMrDDXVuUk

From being proud into being positive

Here now the second part about pride.

Sri Swami Vishwananda: Second, like I said: When pride arises, you will think of knowing better than anybody, even better than the teacher himself.

You will start lecturing others.
And what will happen, if they do not have the same idea as you?

They are wrong, you are right.
And when this happens, God gives you again experience in life: Good, bad, joyful, painful, happy or sad.
Why? That you become strong.

So this is personal.
But what people very often do is that they go around, talking positively, but they talk towards their own negativity.
What happens?
It poisons other people.
This is also another form of pride.
As you are all on the spiritual path you have to be positive.

Today i found a nice video, which i really needed, when i woke up and which helped me a lot- to be positive, to be grateful for the "small things" in life, like a smile of a friendly person or a small sunray coming behind the cloud.
Hopefully it will also help you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j_Vj779yqE

Concering the picture: Just a simple message- Be positive :-)

How to detect pride?

The pride and the ego belong to the category "the greatest obstacles on the spiritual path". But if we really want and offer God our ego and negative qualities, we can easily change and become positive, loving and humble.
See here which advise Sri Swami Vishwananda gives you concerning that topic:

Chaturananda: How to detect pride?

Sri Swami Vishwananda: Well, when you are proud yourself, it’s very difficult to know about it. Only when you are out of it, you can know about it.
Easy, when you are in it, you will always praise yourself.
You will always say that whatever you do is right.
All will be centred only on you, not the inside you, but the outside you.
That’s how to detect pride.
But how to dissolve it?
Once you have detect it, once you know this pride is there, try your best at all time to control it. There are a few ways.
Pride always makes you to be the front-one.
‘I know better than anybody else, others don’t know anything. '
I know best.
What is that? (Someone: arrogance) That’s it.
So how to put it away is to put yourself always at the back.
I mean not physically at the back, but inside.
When the mind says “Oh how wonderful you are. How great your wisdom is. How great you know about things.”
If you go into it, you are done.
But the moment you detect it you have a feeling, no?
That’s what I was saying yesterday.
The moment you feel that there is pride, don’t go into it.
Be humble.
It will not make you big or small, but it will make you rise into spirituality.
It will strengthen you on your spiritual path.Watch here another Clip where Sri Swami Vishwananda is talking about the greatest obstacles on the spiritual path:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVzFNk-cWaU

If you really want something, make it happen!

Devotee 12: I was wondering what you have to say about the concept, that we can co-create our Universe.
By using the power of the mind or visualization, we can create anything…

Sri Swami Vishwananda: Yes, the belief has to be there.
This is the state of the mind also, how to better use the mind.
If you really want something, the belief in it will make it happen.
But the mind has to be focused and clear about it, because the mind is always jumping.
Today you want this; tomorrow you want that- then how it will be clear?
It will never be clear.
So, when somebody really wants something, everyday the mind is so much focused on that, that it makes it happen.
This is by learning to control the mind.
It’s true that you create your own universe.
You create your own world, your own reality, because this is the power of the mind.
The mind is very powerful.
Like scientists themselves said, also in the Vedas it is said: Human beings use only 5% of
their mind, 95% is still dormant.
Imagine you would use this 95% and the 5% would be dormant, but it’s sad- only a few people do that. (smiling)


Here i would like to share with you a wonderful link to an amazing movie. I haven't watched it yet, but my Dad gave me the book at the weekend and now i already finished reading it. The books called "Heal your life", just like the movie. It is about what Guruji is always preaching: If we change or thinking and become positive, our whole life will automatically change and become just how we want to have it. We are our own creator and the director of "our life".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYCamVx4fSQ


This entertaining and inspirational movie based on the best-selling book of the same name is hosted by author and teacher Louise L. Hay. This film gives penetrating insights into Louise's fascinating personal story; and shows how her views on self-esteem, abundance, and the metaphysical causes behind physical ailments were developed. It also reveals how she applied these concepts to her own emotional, spiritual, and professional life. A number of luminaries in the fields of self-help, philosophy, health, spirituality, and New Thought join Louise, giving their take on success, happiness, and the myriad ways in which people can heal their own lives. And there are also gripping firsthand accounts from others who have been positively affected by Louise's work.

Be pure in your mind

Today Sri Swami Vishwananda is talking about purity. When we are really pure in the heart and in the mind, there will be no more judgmenet- not towards us, but also not towards other. We will not criticize anymore, because we don't know the reasons or the heart of the other person or why he or she is reacting how we perceive it as the 'observer'.

Devotee 11: Guruij, when we hav

e to rise beyond ‘good’ and ‘bad’ and there is ‘good’ and ‘bad’ and we want to be perfect, what is purity in that?

Sri Swami Vishwananda: Purity is the state of your mind; so how you think of things. 

If you think of something is pure, it will be. 

But purity is not the way what you understand of purity. 

What do you understand of purity? 

Tell me firstly. 

Devotee 11: I always make the decision or the distinction between ‘good’ and ‘bad’

Sri Swami Vishwananda: So...

Devotee 11: to judge and..,

Sri Swami Vishwananda: So, how can you be pure? 

That’s what is said in the Bible also: Be pure in the mind. 

You still have the judgment like that. 

Devotee 11: Hm

Sri Swami Vishwananda (laughing): Purity is a word only.

Be inspired by a wonderful video, that in my opinion has

 a very puriyfing influence on body, mind and soul:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ0h1sb1IFI

Many have wondered who the Divine Mother is, yet she is part of all spiritual traditions as a Presence. This video was created as a communication of her Being.


Music - "Devi Prayer" from the album "Sacred Names of Mother Divine" by Craig Pruess and Ananda. Heaven on Earth Music.co.uk - 

God is beyond good and bad

Somebody recently asked Sri Swami Vishwananda about the meaning of being 'perfect'.

Devotee 9: The question is: Jesus said “Be complete or perfect, just as Mom and Dad or the Father is perfect. Does that mean we have to be perfect like this or can we be also perfect with all our bad qualities?

Sri Swami Vishwananda: Well, perfection, when you are perfect, that’s just what I spoke right now, when you are perfect there is no good, there is no bad. (laughing)
You see: in the mind of men, we see good and bad and we think that God is good.
He can’t be good only, because He is also the bad one (laughter) and He is above this.
But when we say we are perfect, we are good, we are still far away from that.

Devotee 9: What should we really strive for? What does it mean to be perfect
then?

Sri Swami Vishwananda: To understand it with the mind will be difficult.
But, let’s say, we have just to try not to judge, not to judge ourselves, not to judge others.

Listen here to a really, really wonderful song with beautiful Lyrics dedicated to our Lord of Lords Jesus.
Hillsong United- Lord of Lords:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFkY5-Xp710
There are even subtitles :-)
Beholding your beauty is all I long for
To worship You Jesus with my soul's desire
For this very heart you've shaped for your pleasure
The purpose to lift your name high

We all want to go back to 'Mama'

Sri Swami Vishwananda about the yearning of the Motherly Love.

Sri Swami Vishwananda:
When a child looks at the Mother, it doesn’t matter how the Mother is in the outside, but the inside knows it, the inside recognizes.
An example with Lilli [the little daughter of a Devotee] itself. (smiling)
I oftenterrorize her. (laughing)
But it’s nice to see, it’s nice to feel, how the longing for the Mother is there.
The first thing when I hold her, she said “I want to go to Mama”. (laughter) (laughing)
But that’s what we all want actually. (laughing)
She knows it now.
For sure when she grows up she will forget about it, but deep inside, it will always be there.

Deep inside each one of us, we long for that. (smiling)
But very often we are so proud of ourselves.
We are so proud; there is so much pride in ourselves that we say ‘No’ to it.
But there, Her hand is always open and She is ever ready.
Like for Navaratri I was saying “When you go to the Mother, She will hold you.
She will handle you.
You don’t need to do much, She will do it.”
But the first step is for you to long for Her, it’s up to you to go in Her lap.
If you don’tmake the step, She will not force you.
She will be patiently waiting for you.

Watch here a nice tribute to Mother Mary: ( with the Song "Let it be" by Paul McCartney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne4h9Ii4fHI

When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me,
speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me,
speaking words of wisdom, let it be

Self-inquiry, Detachment and Prayer

Devotee 2: Swami, what is the difference between self-inquiry, detachment and prayer?

Which has the most intensity?
Sri Swami Vishwananda: You see- all are different actually.
All three are in a certain
category. What was your question again? Prayer? (Devotee 2: Prayer, self-inquiry)
And? (Devotee 2: And detachment) Detachment.
Well, we all start with prayer. (Smiling) It’s a certain stage that builds a foundation.
What is prayer firstly? Prayer is not what we read, but how we converse with the Divine.
Firstly, we have to learn to listen, to do the real Prayer we have to know and learn to listen, to listen deep inside of ourselves.
But this comes to the point of self-inquiry.
We pray, yet it’s nice to feel the Divine, but there is a longing.
Actually Self-inquiry is about realizing why we are here.
These are the four questions that I always ask:
1. Where do we come from ?
2. Where we are going to?
3.Who are we?
4. And where are we?
These four questions.
This is about Self-inquiry.
When you start asking these questions towards yourself, trying to find out really who we are behind this physical body, behind this mind and even behind the heart; and automatically
when one realizes that, there will be certain detachment, certain things that you will have to let go, but this happens also by itself.
Listen and repeat here the OM NAMO NARAYANAYA Mantra:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBy0nU2rPEY
(Vishnu, (from the Sanskrit root 'vish', to pervade) is the second god of the Hindu trinityd(see Trimurti) and as the preserver of the universe represents mercy and goodness. He is said to be the cosmic ocean 'nara,' meaning water, which was the only thing in existence before the creation of the universe. For this reason, He is also known as Narayana, or 'one who moves on the waters'. )
For your information:
It is a mantra said in times of trouble to re-establish harmony and balance. Many powers come from saying this mantra. It also aids in attaining enlightenment.

So just try it and see what happens ;-).

How the Divine Mother sees

Sri Swami Vishwananda about the Divine Mother and how She not only protects and helps us, but always watches over Her children. Like Mary did for Jesus or Yashoda for Krishnaji.

Sri Swami Vishwananda: For Yashoda to have Krishna, even if He was not born from Her, She had done a lot of penance, so that the Lord can incarnate inside of Her.

For sure that aspect (Sri Swami Vishwananda was previously talking about Mother Mary) of the Divine Mother also, in previous lives has done lots of penance, so that Christ Himself is born inside of Her.
It’s of no use if I will tell you that She was compassionate or loving, all this stuff, because She was, She is still, when all of you know about that.
But what else can I say?
Well, a lot I can say about Her.
I had the chance to see Her (smiling), several times actually.
So, really, if Mothers would be like Her, the world would change.
No, because She really sees everybody as Her child.
This is how the Universal Mothers see.
Human Mothers see only our possession, 'our child is ours', but the Mother feeling inside sees everybody as a child.
And that’s how the Universal Mother sees, you know?
She sees everybody as Her own.
So that’s why She cares for everybody.

Listen here to a wonderful tamil composition by Oothukkadu Venkata Subbaier. "Sri Krishna- Thaye Yashoda by Yesudas"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeOyT3ufjRI
This song describes the mischief of young Lord Krishna, as the gopis describe to hHs mother Yashoda.
The young Krishna who is the Supreme Lord, is also the darling of the gopis and pet of the masses of brindhavan gokulam.
The vrajpuri, The gopis together say: Oh Mother Yashoda, listen to the antics of your Gopalakrishnan who created the Universe with his Maya (illusion).

Whenever you do your duty, do it properly- Gita

Today we are talking about our duties and if it is our responsibilty if we hurt somebody, while performing our duty or not. An interesting question indeed.

Devotee 14: Swamiji, we say not to hurt somebody. When somebody is doing some duty and during the course of having all the duty, if he or she has to hurt someone, then He is not responsible for it. Is it?



Sri Swami Vishwananda: No, it is said in the Gita [Bhagavad Gita] that whenever you do your duty, do your duty properly.
Even if it hurts somebody, it doesn’t matter.

That’s how it is for the soldiers.
When they go to war, they are serving their country and they are protecting their country, their duty is to serve and to protect their country.
And they don’t create any Karma, even when they are fighting.

Krishna spoke Bhaghavat Gita to let Arjuna realise his Duty as he says "If you will not fight this righteous war, then you will fail in your duty, lose your reputation, and incur sin.People will talk about your disgrace forever. To the honored, disgrace is worse than death. You will go to heaven if killed in the line of duty, or you will enjoy kingdom on earth if victorious. Therefore, get up with determination to fight, O Arjuna.Just do your duty to the best of your ability without becoming discouraged by the thought of the outcome which may be success or failure, gain or loss, victory or defeat. By doing your duty with this attitude, you will not incur sin or Karmic bondage"

Watch here an very interesting excerpt of the movie "Mahabharata" from Peter Brooks:
It is the scene when Arjuna drops his bown, ready to give up and then gets a lecture of Sri Krishnaji. Enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ol6d66VoPM&feature=related

"Out of a million, only a few willl attain me."- Krishna

Sri Swami Vishwananda is talking about one of the greatest obstacles that keeps us away from attaining the Divine: The fear of letting go. So let's just change and become able to realize the Divine Light and Love of Sri Krishnaji.



Sri Swami Vishwananda:
Isn’t it said in the Gita?
Krishna said: “Out of a million, only a few will attain me.”
Because we hear things, but we are still deaf.
Why?
Because we don’t want to change.
We say “Yes, we want to change.” But in reality, very few, really, really, really sincerely want to change.

Okay, just here now, with a small group- then we will multiply it by a million afterwards.
How many sincerely will do anything to attain, to receive the grace of God?
Sincerely, eh?
Just lift your hand. Anything, I mean anything, any, any, any, anything! (laughter)
Any test that God gives you? You will bear it.
(Devotee 5:Bear it or go into this thing? (laughing))
Sri Swami Vishwananda: Not about going, well, this is up to… It’s just a question.
We don’t need to know what kind of tests God gives us… (laughter) (laughing)
Otherwise it would not be a test. So sincerely.
(Devotee 6: If He guarantees us that we will attain Him if we do it) (Some people are lifting their hands)
Even from those who have lifted their hands I can pick out…maybe one or two from that. (laughing)
(Devotee 5: So and what is then our obstacle?)
Each one has their own obstacle. The fear of letting go.

So why fear? Watch here one of the sweetest videos, i have ever seen. Sweet Krishnaji dancing with His eternal Queen Radharani. Please watch and feel the joy increasing in your heart :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPDTMJ-MWaI&feature=related