108 Discourses
of Guru Dev,
Shankaracharya Swami Brahmananda
Saraswati
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previously entitled
'Shri
Shankaracharya UpadeshAmrita'
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श्री शंकराचार्य उपदेशामृत
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ब्रह्मलीन जगद्गुरु भगवान श्री
शंकराचार्यश्रीमद्
स्वामी ब्रह्मानन्द सरस्वती जी महाराज ज्योतिर्मठ बदरिकाश्रम हिमालय
के पावन उपदेश
the
Hindi booklet edited by Rameshwar Tiwari
Hindi text online - हिन्दी में
translated into English
by Premanand Paul Mason
© Paul Mason 2006, 2007
Contents
1
By studying a catalogue how can you become wealthy?
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2
It is very necessary to see Bhagavan present everywhere.
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3
Man certainly endures the fruits of the karma he does.
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4
Nowadays people understand themselves to be very
intelligent.
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5
Finding satisfaction in anything experienced by the
senses is like imagining it is good to scratch an itch.
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6
The effects of the actions of a brief time are endured
for a long time.
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7
Value the human life. Act considerately.
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8
Your right is only in the action of karma; never desire
the effects.
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9
When a seed is roasted then no sprouting appears.
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10
Making the mistake of being worldly/transmigrated then
you have to fall again and again.
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11
Therefore the saying is that 'all is well that ends
well'.
हिन्दी में
12
Don't put your trust in craftiness and dishonesty.
हिन्दी में
13
The enemy and the friend are only the conveyance of
the effects of good and evil actions.
हिन्दी में
14
If any sin is done, then by telling the effects are
distributed.
हिन्दी में
15
In the name of Bhagavan the strength of sin fades, so
much so that wicked wrongdoings cannot be done.
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16
In truth Paramatma can give so much that much one
could not ask.
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17
The theory is that man's conduct and judgement are
really according to association.
हिन्दी में
18
Possessed of birth-sickness, the root of that great
terrible tree is desire.
हिन्दी में
19
By lack of satsanga (meetings with good men) is the
reason that miserliness and poor conduct spreads.
हिन्दी में
20
Don't look at the defects of others, trace your own
flaws up to the present and attempt to remove them.
हिन्दी में
21
For as long as you are breathing, pass the time
praying to Bhagavan.
हिन्दी में
22
He who sings the prayers of Bhagavan, his conduct
should be the best.
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23
If you are ready in the first place, then there will
be no suffering at the time of death.
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24
By gaining the one Bhagavan everything is naturally
obtained.
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25
He who protected you inside the womb protects you
right now too. Do not forget him.
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26
However many days there is to stay, live in peace.
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27
Develop one's own spiritual strengths.
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28
Be collected in your own mind and don't get involved
in any disputes about form and formless.
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29
Don't disgrace the position of work that you occupy.
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30
It is a dangerous thing to be greedy for wealth or for
a woman or a son.
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31.
Make efforts so that a relationship of oneness with
Paramatma occurs in this lifetime.
हिन्दी में
32.
Worry is more powerful and dreadful than the funeral
pyre; because the pyre is to burn the dead but worry burns the living.
हिन्दी में
33.
He is seeing everything that everyone does. Nobody can
escape his working being seen.
हिन्दी में
34.
The senses and the body work only in accordance with
man's mind. For this reason it is a necessity to take care of the mind.
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35.
Few people have a siddhi, but by their greediness for
siddhi a good many people are caused to get cheated.
हिन्दी में
36.
Showing the difference between the individual life and
Paramatma (the Supreme Self) is like distinguishing between paddy and rice.
हिन्दी में
37.
If you wish to experience happiness and peace then
don't search for outer things, only seek inside yourself.
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38.
That which is ours cannot be another's.
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39.
If Bhagavan did not resolve to come in the shape of an
avataara then how would publicity come for bhakti yoga?
हिन्दी में
40.
Omnipotent Bhagavan is ready to take on the burden of
all business management
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41.
Certainly by singing bhajana of Bhagavan you will get
mokSha, and you will get wealth, food, reputation and respect too.
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42.
Only Paramatma is suitable to be with the mind, and
anything else in worldly existence cannot satisfy the mind when it connects
to it.
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43.
If someone has a thirst for a seer of water then how
can that thirst be quenched with a sixteenth of a seer of water?
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44.
Apply the mind to business a little, and apply it a
lot to paramaartha (salvation).
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45.
How can the Omnipotent see his own devotees sorrowful?
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46.
On whom the grace of Bhagavan comes, all give help to
him.
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47.
Consider this that you are always thinking about
insignificant things.
हिन्दी में
48.
In darkness (nightime) you should sit with eye closed
and do japa of the mantra
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49.
'Loss of the mind is defeat, mastery of the mind is
success.'
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50.
Man acts according to the desire of the mind.
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51.
At whatever time there is attachment to worldly life
then at the same moment bow in the direction of Paramatma.
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52.
People say:- 'So-and-so mahaatmaa had fallen,
so-and-so maharshhi had fallen'.
हिन्दी में
53.
That the mind is not inclined towards bad actions and
that it flows toward good actions - this is really the man's primary effort.
हिन्दी में
54.
When you can be in the diamond business then why are
you blackening the hand in the brokerage of coal?
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55.
Now do such actions that do not become baggage for
future suffering.
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56.
The are many tyaagi and also there are many who are
generous; but make an effort to be attached and stingy!
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57.
In one's own life, most important is paramaartha,
understand that everyday business is secondary.
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58.
First do your own work, then help in the work of
others.
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59.
Every moment of life is very precious.
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60.
To hope for happiness and peace by knowing saMsaara is
desiring to search for light in darkness.
हिन्दी में
61.
Don't suffer unrest by having pointless worries.
हिन्दी में
62.
Why the insults and the red-coloured powder at Holi?
हिन्दी में
63.
The maharshhi people ate roots, tubers and fruits, and
were drinking water, but had the power to command emperors.
हिन्दी में
64.
If the value of one shloka of the Gita is understood
or even one line of the shloka is understood, then there can be happiness.
हिन्दी में
65.
There are various methods of remembering Bhagavan. You
should understand one's own suitable methods from gurus.
हिन्दी में
66.
That the food is not pure is the very reason that many
thoughts occur.
हिन्दी में
67.
The body of a human being is scarce, this is just what
the shaastra says.
हिन्दी में
68.
In truth worshipping any of the gods is really worship
of Bhagavan.
हिन्दी में
69.
'Having taken one guru, another you should not' - this
is all rubbish talk and is obstructive to the welfare.
हिन्दी में
70.
Your own house is full of rubbish and you travel to
sweep the house of another, this then is not intelligence at all.
हिन्दी में
71.
Take a look and consider one time, who are you?
हिन्दी में
72.
To drink gaMgaajala (water from the River Ganga) why
will you drink from the gutter?
हिन्दी में
73.
Some people set great measure by the magnificence of
the japa of aum.
हिन्दी में
74.
kShatriya, vaishya, shuudra and female sex are not for
the purpose of position of guru.
हिन्दी में
75.
The welfare of women is really only in the attachment
to husband.
हिन्दी में
76.
The shaastra is said to be the command of Bhagavan.
हिन्दी में
77.
Bowing the head is to surrender one's ahaMkaara (ego)
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78.
What do we say is a jagad.hguru?
हिन्दी में
79.
Meditating on insignificant things, the mind remaining
in the cycle of saMsaara, he will continue to be giddy in the head.
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80.
One does not become a mahaatmaa from clothes dyed in
ochre or the mark of a tilaka.
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81.
Take more effort in purifying the mind than in
collecting wealth.
हिन्दी में
82.
By the fire of knowledge one's own mass of karma
becomes ashes.
हिन्दी में
83.
To withdraw from saMsaara and to apply oneself in the
direction of paramaatmaa takes effort.
हिन्दी में
84.
But when the wood is rubbed then it can be lit and can
be used according to our wishes.
हिन्दी में
85.
By searching in the vegetable bazaar you will not get
a diamond no matter how much you want and try.
हिन्दी में
86.
Chant worship of Bhagavan - whether the mind is
attached or not attached.
हिन्दी में
87.
Is it best to experience the darshana of Bhagavan by
knowledge or with the sight?
हिन्दी में
88.
Can anybody who is unwell become healthy from formless
medicine?
हिन्दी में
89.
If you shall grow an acacia tree then you will really
have a thorn in you, no mango will be grown.
हिन्दी में
90.
Which people go to hell?
हिन्दी में
91.
Don't get the mind excessively involved in saMsaara,
apply it towards Bhagavan.
हिन्दी में
92.
To reach towards Bhagavan, then take the assistance of
his name.
हिन्दी में
93.
Suffering exists only in appearance, it is not real.
हिन्दी में
94.
The drunk happily accepts falling in the gutter and
remains there.
हिन्दी में
95.
The naastika (atheist) also has this wish that he is
being happy and serene.
हिन्दी में
96.
Only maintain good manners with worldly people, they
are not a basis for attachment.
हिन्दी में
97.
Happiness will not be being born in any caste.
हिन्दी में
98.
It is not proper to be wicked to the wicked, to go and
be abusive to those who are abusive.
हिन्दी में
99.
When saMsaara is separate from you then what will you
abandon?
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100.
All the pain and all of the unrest of saMsaara
(worldly existence) is really caused by aviveka (absence of discrimination).
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101.
Self-interest is prevalent.
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102.
Materialism is not capable of giving happiness and
peace.
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103.
'If that is in our destiny, that is really certain
that we will get it'
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104.
By self-restraint of the senses you will be happy in
your self
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105.
Live carefully - make proper use of existence.
हिन्दी में
106.
To see the heavenly form of Bhagavan, celestial vision
is needed.
हिन्दी में
107.
Don't forget that everyday business is really the way
of paramaartha (salvation).
हिन्दी में
108.
'By performing dharma, sin becomes destroyed.'
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