Speech of HH Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji – Day 2 Datta Jayanti – December 21, 2018 – Mysore
Compiled by Chandra Sekhar Chaganti
Sri Mahaganapataye namaha
Sri Saraswatyai Namaha
Sri Padavallabha Narasimha Sarasvati
Sri Guru Dattatreyaya Namaha
How many people observed today’s SGS Post?
Regularly see SGS posts and observe and like. That is the namaskaram you do to Swamiji.
What post came today?
You are not liking everyday, that’s why you don’t know. Even if it is in a different language you don’t understand you must do read every post. Do you know how much difficulty Appaji is going through to make these posts? About 30 members are working on this. Giving salvation easily is what swamiji likes. “Simple Good Sayings”. There are posts about Vedanta, social work. Daily 200,000 people are seeing the posts in more than 186 countries. Everyone who have smart phones should install and read posts everyday. Solutions to your problems will be there. All posts are translated to English also. How lucky are people who can understand english. They get 12 sayings everyday. This is my dream come true. I don’t even like phones. I get irritated, because lot of people are getting worse because of Facebook except our datta devotees. People who come to “Datta line” are not getting worse. Initially I scolded lot of people including college kids also. After college is done, you can get a phone to get news. I told several people to get a phone also. Except half percent of people in Datta devotees, everyone is following Swamiji’s advice on phone usage. Many swamiji devotees are not maintaining too many friends on Facebook, they are only friends with other fellow devotees. If they get any bad post, they are unfriending. Swamiji then thought, how to get other people who are not yet devotees, to read good things? Then SGS MMS videos were started. It started growing and became a huge tree. Many people who were not devotees came into the subscription to MMS. You don’t get anything bad. You will get good experiences, good posts. For devotees, SGS Posts is Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji Posts. For others, it is Simple Good sayings. Think how many people are reading daily posts in 186 countries. Because of Telugu bhagavatam, many telugu speaking people installed. Because of anjaneya charity many kannada speaking people installed.
Hindi is the first language in india after sanskrit, so it is good to learn hindi. Everybody should learn Hindi. German, Russian, Spanish were also added later. Every post has english also. You get answers for your questions in today’s or yesterday’s posts. Everyone has some thoughts and questions. Those questions get answered by SGS Posts. It is something that comes to your home, your hand. Who in this world doesn’t have smartphones? Only 10% people have feature phones, everyone else has smart phones. We must use smart phones which are becoming cheaper by the day in order to propagate the philosophy of datta, Goddes, hanuman, for social service.
It is useful for little kids. Their knowledge of english language will improve. Memory power will improve also. Our difficulties will also get solutions from Swamiji. I didn’t like Facebook initially. I was angry because of lot of kids were getting badly impacted. Through Facebook meeting people who are bad, falling into infatuation – were all the side effects of Facebook. I slowly started moving them towards the good sayings through MMS. Some employers are also providing the phones. I observed for 2-3 years, to see the reactions of the people. to see what the advantages are. Many thousands of people followed. About 80,000 people followed the MMS messages. The reaction was good. I was very happy. I felt that because of this, social service, morality and God messages could be propagated. It was difficult to stop this because so many people were following it. I asked all the kids, who can help with this. We asked everybody who knows some English and some computer knowledge. Then we started computer room in the ashrama and had volunteers who are students to help 1-2 hours each day. I asked Hira aunty to look at the messages from speeches. Then I asked Archana to write few messages. Then I asked few Kannada and Telugu scholars to take good messages from speeches and write them as short messages. Then we got thousands of messages. Then we sent these messages to change the language and ensure the language is understandable. It is not easy to do 12 messages per day. WE must take the sayings, get them translated. it is not easy. In order to write a book, write an email or run a magazine, how difficult is it? I requested Datta for help. I need 24 hours of time to do all this.
Learning the photoshop, getting the pictures, stock photos, videos editing etc. It’s a huge effort. I am reaping the fruit of this effort and I am happy today. You must all help for propagating SGS Posts. Even non-devotees need to be told about this great app. You can feel proud of getting the app installed for so many people. “I got 100 people to get installed” – you must proudly say this. When you go to weddings or any other family functions, continue this effort. This is a good cause. Don’t leave anyone. I am asking ministers and other officials to install also. Anybody who comes to see me, I am telling them to install SGS Posts first. This is swamiji’s prasadam. Is there any other prasadam? This is the knowledge which is most important. One drop of nectar (amrutha) is sufficient – you don’t need 2 litres. Garuda has brought amruta for celestials. Their cousins (serpent gods), were trying to grab it from him and the nectar has spilled in this ruckus. That’s why I ask everyone to come in orderly fashion in a queue. The person who is distributing will go away if you don’t come in line. There is a system and you must follow it. Everyone has thirst for knowledge. But order should be followed. Arjuna asked krishna, you have said “I” several times why? Krishna said you must listen till the end. you must not assume bad intention. You must wait till the end. “Is this all?” should not be the thought when people are serving you the food. There are more dishes coming. Don’t finish white rice before you get sambar. It is only the mistake of the person eating, if he didn’t wait.
Desires and Controlling senses
You must deserve to consume or get a boon. Sometimes we don’t even know what to ask God?
We must ask only after thinking for the correct wish to God. someone has performed many years of penance. God appeared and asked which boon you want. He smelled a dosa and asked vishnu for dosa. vishnu gave him 200 masala dosa and left. Desire and anger are always pestering you. and the senses run towards them. Many of us think, when we get old, we will get renunciation. But that’s not true. When you get old, the senses don’t vanish. When you ask a old man if he wants to get married, he would say, who would marry me? instead of saying I don’t want to do it.
Desires don’t just go away. Even when senses don’t work, the mental desires remain. Some people don’t die even when their organs stop. When they smell beer or cigarettes then they die. Even while dying they think, what company beer this is. How old it is? etc. When you die, you are not useful for anything. why is this? Why do we sustain people in vegetative state force feeding them? If he is useful for someone, then you can sustain the life. Desire and anger don’t leave us. Many people struggle because of them. We “Want” a lot. We don’t wait to eat until the rice becomes cooler and burn our mouth. We must get rid of desires and anger. That’s why we must practice standing in line at temples. True VIPs don’t take shortcuts. They go in a queue. The true happiness you get by walking to God (on a hill station) on a steps or standing in a queue, is not gotten by taking shortcuts or going opposite in a queue. If you wait for the rain like chātaka bird, each drop of first rain, will be like amrutha (nectar). jataka bird waits for the rain. We must be like the bird, waiting for the mercy of God. We must wait for the cooking to finish even while being hungry. Then we relish the meal so much. Even if it’s not so delicious, you will enjoy it more. When we are not hungry, even the best food will not taste good. When you go to canteen and have vadas, the rasam in kitchen doesn’t taste good. We must develop our hunger, for food or also spirituality. then only sadguru’s words, are better understood. When the mind is right, every word of sadguru will become vedanta. Because they are searching for hidden meaning. Every word has a weight. When we have spiritual hunger, we get it. That’s why datta has taken 24 gurus. If we have trust in sadguru, we get the meaning. When our stomach is full, then we try to find fault with the food they are serving. Some people come from bangalore to eat ashram saru (rasam). Shankar’s children make the best saru. I don’t know if it is ashrama water that has magic. Swamiji quotes the bhajan – “Sachchidanandana roti”.
We get so much hungry and sleep well when we come to ashram. But swamiji asks us to wake up at 5. Otherwise we don’t get bathroom time. Sometimes we think, perhaps the programs should start late. but we must not relax. When a dog is near it’s owner, it gets relaxed. when the family is away, the dog is very alert. Similarly, we get relaxed in the ashrama. when we go home, we have all kinds of trouble in our mind. When we come to the ashram, we leave everything to swamiji and relax. There are so many things happening, but we don’t even pickup the phone. We avoid all troubles as long as we are here to postpone all our troubles.
(back to story)
The serpents who tried to grab the nectar have licked the nectar after spilling on darbha grass. When we stand in the line Appaji gives prasad to everyone. When people dont have discipline, assistants are will distribute. You will get the sin, for making people miss the opportunity of taking the prasad from Appaji.
On vaikuntha ekadashi day 70k people came and got upma. If we don’t have the discipline we will miss the good prasadam like serpents. Let’s have the discipline and read the SGS posts everyday. Swamiji spent so much time to make each post. It takes one minute to check it for you.
Today ksheerabhishekam was performed on datta jayanti and bhagavadgita certificates were given. Teach Bhagavadgita to all kids. They will increase memory power. They excel in studies. They become good citizens. Our swimming pool Sarojamma also got bhagavadgita. One day I scolded her saying instead of talking a lot why don’t you read. She started from that day and finished in one year and got the gold medal. The volunteer who cleans prayer hall got bhagavadgita memorised while cleaning. In America there was complete transformation in more than 1000 households because of Bhagavadgita. kids are not watching TV either. Bhagavadgita is heard in all rooms of the house including the bathrooms. Today mantra CD got released. We went to a studio and recorded for testing. RK swamy played. I didn’t even know recording was going on. Everyone must have the cd in their home. listen to mantras in it. you will get rid of all your troubles. Cd players have reduced being everywhere. There are gayatri mantras for various deities and shantirastu sung very slowly. I will starting asking everyone who comes for darshan queue whether they have taken CDs.
This time there is a special naivedyam (food offering) for Datta. It can be consumed within a month. I told our devotees will eat in 2 hours.
This is given as prasadam for poojas. It is called gulpavati. Datta’s favourite food is panchakajjaya. It is made with help from CFTRI (Central Food Tech Research Institute, India).
note compiler: Loosely translated while the upadesham was given. Seeking sadguru’s pardon if I didn’t get it completely right.