August 29, 2015
Speech of HH Sri Datta Vijayananda Teertha Swamiji - August 29, 2015 - Datta Giri
If there is no spirituality for your body, it catches termite inside resulting in down fall. It will not give you what ever is required to you. You are not your body. But there is happiness from your body. We feel we are our body. But joy and happiness comes from body. This body is of 5 gnana indriyas and 5 karma indriyas. These 5 gnana indriyas should be useful to gain gnana - knowledge. The 5 karma indriyas should be useful to do good karmas - good deeds. Once this happens, the jeevi - the creature residing inside you will merge with Paramatma. It is of no use having the body if that body is not properly utilised or if the body is not useful for us.
What is body ? It indicates Janma or birth. Why this birth or why this body ? Because, it has to be useful for us. Helping others comes later. First it has be useful for us. First do good for yourself. Be selfish in this matter. It has to be good selfishness. Nobody is selfless in this world. Can anyone live without eating ? Eating is selfishness. But why are we eating ? Not just to grow. Not just to live. This life and body should be useful for us. Are you thinking about this ? Are you listening carefully to me ? Do you understand my language ? The body has to be useful for us. This is a wonder. This language is little difficult to understand in the beginning.
The purpose of the body is that it should be useful for us. If not, what is the use having it ? Here, use does not merely mean happiness of body, not just eating or sleeping. Not just physical happiness. Something beyond that should be there. That is true happiness. We have to make all possible efforts to give that happiness to the creature inside with your intellect and mind. How do you give this ? By making proper use of the body. You have to be useful for yourself first. Others come next. Whose ever body is useful for his own creature inside, such people are useful for the entire world too. That is why that selfishness is important here.
You must be wondering why Swamiji says to be selfish. It is not good right ? This selfishness is beyond selflessness. The selfisness what we know and what we think are different. Eating, sleeping, living in AC rooms, cars, bungalows...this is what we know about selfishness. We are not speaking of that here. Making the inner creature happy is what we are talking about. The one who ate stomach full says, I'm happy. This word happy is not coming from the body. It is the word of the inner being. You must maintain this inner happpiness. Make it permanent. For such state, we must be on piligrimage with the body. No choice.
For such piligrimage only, today you all were brought to Dattagiri. This is true loka yatra - piligrimage. We feel fresh after picnics. All the stress is relieved. But, if you come to such Kshetras, the creature inside you will be satisfied. The effect of a normal picnic is only for a week. But the effect of piligrimage to such spiritual places will be there for one year. If you do this for every full moon, how effective would that be ! Think about it. You all are very close by to this place in Hyderabad. Keep coming to Dattagiri. Dont expect too many facilities and arrangements. Dont look for a sweet or hot water. There is no proper road for Giri Pradakshina - circumambulation of the hill. You should not be asking for all these. Give little strain to your body. That is good for your health. Pilgrimage has the power of giving good health. So keep coming to this place.
You all are in Hyderabad, living closeby. After coming here, you should not spoil the place or spoil yourself. Both are important. What do you mean by spoiling the place ? It is spoiling the divine vibrations here. Vibrations are filled all over here by our speech or by Nama Sankeerthana. The air here in Dattagiri and in Hyderabad, both are same. For some days, if everyone stops using vehicles, all the pollution will be gone and the air there in Hyderabad also will be fresh. Then, what is the difference ? The power is in the vibrations. So, you should not chatter after coming here. Talk only that is important. Or just do Nama Sankeerthana. Then, that gives energy to us and also to the place. Fill this energy first inside you. This is important. Dont litter the premises. Similarly dont spoil your body also. Go back home energetic. Then you will see its result.
What is the result ? Your body wont feel the stress. The word stress is so very frequently heard these days. This was not there earlier. Stress is a recent concept. Why do you feel the stress ? Because, such activities have gone down these days. For stress relief, weekend partying is only a temporary relief. It will be stressful again. People wait for weekends again after Monday. The power of inner happiness can be had only by spirituality. That is why we all have come here. Dattagiri is a wonderful place. Almost everything is available here. But few more activities are left out. You must enquire and do the needful. We dont live for 1000 or 2000 years. The work we do remains permanent. As long as that work remains, we remain. What do you mean by we remain ? It means that Sadguru's grace remains on us.
Jaya Guru Datta !
Compiled by Bala Aati