Deh Shiva bar mohe ihai (The spiritual battle within)|| Acharya Prashant, on Guru Gobind Singh(2019)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Deh Shiva bar mohe hi hai, Shubh karmante kabhoon na taroon,

00:07Na daroon, arisoon jab jaye ladoon, Nishchay kar apni jeet karoon,

00:14Arusikhoon apne hi manakoon, Ih lalach hao gun tav uchroon,

00:20Jab aav ki audh nidaan bane, Ati hi ran mein tab jooj maroon.

00:31Translation says,

00:33O Akal, give me this boon, May I never ever shirk from doing good deeds,

00:54That I shall not fear when I go into combat, And with determination I will be victorious,

01:04That I may teach myself this greed alone, To speak only of Thy praises.

01:17And when the last days of my life come, I may die in the might of the battlefield.

01:33With reference to the above verse, I request you to elaborate on its significance in today's world.

01:41As I have always encountered this verse being used as a battle anthem.

01:47But it appears to me that battles are not gross in our day to day life.

01:54Then how to live a life in the light of these beautiful verses of Guru Gobind Sahab?

02:11Shubh Karam, Arisoon jab jaaye ladoon,

02:25Sikhoon, Gun tav uchroon,

02:36Ati hi ran mein tab jooj maroon.

02:49All these refer to the same one, the same thing.

02:58And when you see that obviously the Guru is talking of just one because he is devoted to just one.

03:16Then you realize what he is advising with respect to your day to day practical life.

03:30He says, Deh Shiva bar mohe hi hai, shubh karman te kabhi na taroon.

03:41So he is asking the Akal Purakh, the Lord, the God, he is asking Shiva,

03:57that he should never deviate from the path of auspicious deeds.

04:13This in itself is a total and complete prayer.

04:21But fortunately for us, there is more.

04:27And that helps deepen the understanding of the seeker.

04:33What has Guru Gobind Singh asked for?

04:37Auspicious deeds.

04:38And he says, I want nothing else.

04:41Deh Shiva bar mohe hi hai.

04:43This, only this.

04:47Nothing else do I want.

04:48I should be committed to the good.

04:51I should be committed to good deeds, auspicious deeds.

04:54Then he further says, Na daroon arusoon jab jaaye ladoon.

04:59So now you know what those auspicious deeds are.

05:04Now those auspicious deeds are being talked of in other words.

05:11Now you are being given another angle to look at those auspicious deeds from.

05:18Now you are being given another way to understand what those auspicious deeds are.

05:27What are those auspicious deeds?

05:29The auspicious deed is to not to be afraid of the enemy when you are in the middle of the fight.

05:38Na daroon arusoon jab jaaye ladoon.

05:42Ari means the enemy.

05:44Na daroon arusoon jab jaaye ladoon.

05:49Which battle is he talking of?

05:52He is talking of the inner battle.

05:56The ego sense wants to reach the truth, Shiva.

06:05But is being misled, blocked, bewitched by Prakriti.

06:16That is the battle.

06:18That inner battle can sometimes manifest as a worldly battle as well.

06:25But in essence even the worldly battle is an inner battle.

06:32Do you see what the battle looks like?

06:36There is the ego sense.

06:38It is being called by the truth.

06:44But it is being mesmerized, enthralled or being violently stopped by the forces of Prakriti, Maya, the world.

06:57This is the battle.

07:01The I sense, the ego is embattled.

07:04On one hand is love, on the other hand is the conditioning.

07:13This same inner battle can outwardly happen in a laboratory, in a battlefield, in a legislative assembly,

07:28in a household, in a classroom, in the streets, in a hospital, in a temple, anywhere.

07:42But irrespective of where that outwardly battle apparently happens,

07:48it is essentially an inner battle in which the ego is poised between truth and Maya.

07:58Getting it?

08:12Truth, enlighten, so it is attractive.

08:17Maya, enthralls, so it is sometimes even more attractive.

08:27Where to go?

08:30That is the battle.

08:34Outwardly it may happen that sometimes, not always, you have to fight a physical enemy for the sake of your true love.

08:52That too is essentially the same inner battle.

09:00The one who is steadfastly fighting the inner battle is as much of a warrior as the one who is shedding blood in an external battlefield.

09:19Both must be equally praised for their courage and valor.

09:23But it is just that when we see blood being spilled, it is a little more spectacular.

09:33We feel a little more reverence.

09:37But the outer warrior and the inner warrior are in the same dimension.

09:45Anybody who is fighting the force of Maya is a warrior.

09:53So, Guru Gobind Saheb says, na darao arison jab jaye lado.

10:05The enemy is big and severe.

10:12And fear appears so natural.

10:18Fear must not be natural because fear is not your nature.

10:21Nishchay kar apni jeet karo. Be determined. Fight it out.

10:28Your victory lies not in the outcome but in the fight.

10:33Victory is not the upshot of the battle.

10:39Victory is the essence of the battle.

10:43There is a great difference. You must understand.

10:46Prakriti programs you to look only at the upshots, the results.

10:52Are you getting it?

10:55You tried hard. You did not get the fruit.

10:59As an ape, you are trying hard and you did not get the fruit.

11:03You will sleep on an empty stomach.

11:07And your condition would be no better than another ape who is sleeping on an empty stomach

11:13because he did not try at all.

11:16Prakriti knows only results. Prakriti respects only results.

11:21Are you getting it?

11:23There is a fire. Both the saint and the sinner would die.

11:27Because Prakriti is material and material does not care for enlightenment.

11:33The result would be the same. The material result would be the same in case of a fire.

11:38Are you getting?

11:40In a spiritual battle, it is not the result that counts.

11:45It is the battle that counts.

11:48The battle is the victory.

11:50To fight is to be victorious.

11:56Are you getting it?

12:00But if you look for an ultimate victory,

12:03as sometimes those people who look for some ultimate event called enlightenment,

12:12then you are just playing by Prakriti's rules.

12:23You have walked straight into the trap.

12:27It is Prakriti that teaches you to go for one final result.

12:31Aim it and get it.

12:33And if you are targeting enlightenment,

12:36then you are actually targeting to live by an unenlightened Prakriti.

12:46Because it's she who is teaching you to live by accomplishments.

12:55Are you getting it?

12:58Just fight.

13:01That's the Jeet that the Guru is talking of.

13:12अरु सिखहो आपने ही मन को इह लालच हव गुन तव उचरो

13:21I know that my mind is desirous of something.

13:27Feeling incomplete, it seeks something.

13:32I will be a good student and teach my mind that only one greed is acceptable.

13:42The greed towards truth.

13:47I will keep forever reciting the name of God.

13:51I will be attached to his name and that is the only worthwhile attachment.

14:01You see in this battle, I am facing something impossible.

14:12I am fighting because I am body identified.

14:17Had I not been body identified, there would have been no need for any kind of spiritual practice or seeking.

14:24And because I am body identified, so I feel incompleteness, I feel attraction, I feel attachment, I feel greed, aversion, all these things.

14:36So what do I do?

14:38Here is a great method.

14:40Target all your impulses towards God.

14:47If you have greed, be greedy towards God.

14:51If you have anger, be angry on not getting God.

14:57If you are attached, be attached to the truth.

15:02Target whatever you have towards him.

15:05Use whatever you have towards him.

15:12If you can sing, sing of him.

15:14If you can run, run for him.

15:19If you are given to thinking, try thinking of him.

15:25If you are so emotional, turn your emotions towards him.

15:30जब आउ की आउध निधान बने अतेही रण में तब जूज मरू।

15:48And when the time has come, then I should gladly disappear.

15:59Neither should I be afraid of physical death nor should I be afraid of dissolution into you when the opportunity comes.

16:11Just as it is important that the warrior in the physical battlefield is not afraid of physical death,

16:21it is equally important that the warrior in the spiritual battlefield is not afraid of dissolution when it comes.

16:33That's your last test.

16:36That's what the enemy measures you on.

16:40Alright, you are a very skilled fighter, but can you remain unflinching in the face of death?

16:50That's what would be asked of you.

16:54Similarly, in your spiritual pursuit, you would be asked, alright, you have a very dedicated ego.

17:01It is prepared to give up everything.

17:04Finally, is it prepared to give up itself?

17:11If it cannot give itself up, what is the point in other austerities?

17:21You are giving so much to the Lord, you say you are submitted, but you are constantly

17:32failing the last test and the last test is to give yourself up.

17:36Just as the last test for the physical warrior is to lay down his life, when in the physical battlefield,

17:49don't hesitate to lay down your life and in the spiritual field, don't hesitate to lay down your ego and both are one.

18:06The physical warrior cannot lay down his life willingly if his ego is not fully dedicated to a noble cause.

18:18And the spiritual warrior cannot let his ego dissolve if he is very mindful of the body.

18:29The spiritual warrior must be prepared to give up the body.

18:35The physical warrior must be egoless to give up the body.

18:41Both are one.

18:51The world is a battlefield.

18:55We all are embattled.

19:00Spiritual practice is to fight well.

19:26There is the mind and there is Shubhankar as well.

19:41The mind is designed to do something.

19:46You have a choice in going along with the mind or not.

19:55There is the mind and then there is you.

19:58Do you find it necessary to comply?

20:04You do, but it's not necessary.

20:09You mentioned that the physical death and the spiritual death both are required.

20:23But usually we nowadays see that there have been such instances where people are ready for their physical death.

20:29But that would not necessarily mean the spiritual death.

20:34And somehow also we revert to the things what the Sikh gurus have done and the disciples.

20:41But is it right to assume that it was all done with a spiritual?

20:47The battle is essentially internal.

20:49Remember that.

20:51The battle is essentially internal.

20:54Outside you only have its manifestations.

20:57He said the manifestation could be in a laboratory, in a house, in a temple, in the street or in a battlefield.

21:05So whatever you are doing and wherever you are doing it, the real thing is internal and therefore it has to be one internally only.

21:15What is certain is that if the manifestation is external and you are afraid of losing physical life, that surely means you are losing the battle.

21:29However, it does not mean that in the external battle, if you are prepared to lay down your life, you are necessarily winning the inner battle.

21:39Please understand this.

21:42A reluctance to lay down life is a sure-shot indicator of the presence of an ignorant ego.

21:51But an eagerness to lay down life is not a sure-shot indicator of a surrendered ego.

22:01So don't get confused.

22:06It has to be understood like this.

22:09A real spiritual warrior would be prepared to lay down his life.

22:15However, that does not mean that everybody who is prepared to lay down his life is a spiritual warrior.

22:23Is that clear?

22:40So when we talk of terrorism and terrorism is specifically talked in terms of kind of religious war.

22:52So at the same time, even though they are prepared to lay down their life, they say that they are warriors of God.

23:06But at the same time, there is an ego inflating which is going on.

23:10It is a battle against ignorance.

23:14We said the real battle is essentially internal.

23:17And internally, it is a battle against ignorance.

23:21Another name for Maya is Agyan, ignorance.

23:26Avidya, ignorance.

23:28On one hand is clarity.

23:31The truth is Bodh Swaroop.

23:34On one hand is clarity.

23:36On the other hand is Agyan, Avidya.

23:41So in the battle you are against ignorance.

23:44Whereas, if you are fighting propelled by ignorance, then obviously it is not a spiritual battle.

23:57If you are talking of many people who motivated by false ideals, take to the battlefield,

24:13cause the death of others and their own death.

24:18Then you have to ask, are they motivated by light or by ignorance?

24:26What is their central inspiration?

24:33Where are they coming from?

24:36The spiritual warrior is fighting against ignorance.

24:41He is not fighting as an ignorant one.

24:47Whereas these people that you are talking of, who cause bloodshed in the name of religion etc.

24:54You have to ask, are they fighting as soldiers of clarity or are they fighting motivated by just ignorance?

25:10Do they really understand or are they just enthusiastic and energetic?

25:18You have to go to one of those young people and check, what is their real inspiration?

25:26Is it clarity or is it some kind of hazy ideal?

25:39If the inspiration is coming from lucidity, the great clear truth, then he is indeed a spiritual warrior.

25:50But if the motivation is coming from some random story or some hackneyed ideal,

26:01then he is not a warrior against darkness.

26:05Then he is a soldier of darkness.

26:12He has no clarity.

26:16Therefore, what is he fighting against?

26:19He is fighting against light actually.

26:21Check his clarity.

26:23Check out whether he is clear about what he is doing.

26:26He has passion, but does he have clarity?

26:29That's the thing to check out.

26:31Mere passion is not sufficient.

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