Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 22Three wishes. A father. A fire. A secret. If you set them side by side, you might not see the pattern. But there is one, and it tells you something about how the ancient sages thought a human life should be ordered. This is Dharma Katha, Season One, Pitru Paksha. Episode twenty-two, on our fourth day. It is a short one. We have heard how the boy Nachiketa waited three days at Death's door, and how he refused every temptation to ask his one question

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 21There is a question that everyone carries, and almost no one asks out loud. What happens when we die? A boy sits in front of Death himself. Death has just offered him any gift in the universe. And the boy says: I already know what I want. Tell me that.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 20 first.Source note. Label: scripture. This story is from the Katha Upanishad, first adhyaya, first valli, verses twenty to twenty-nine, and second valli,

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 20Death was not at home. A boy stood at his gate. He had walked a long way, on nothing but his father's angry word, to reach the house of the god who ends all lives. And the god was out. There was nobody to receive him. No servant. No bowl of water. No bed.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 19 first.Source note. Label: scripture. This story is from the Katha Upanishad, first adhyaya, first valli, verses seven to nineteen. The Sanskrit lines

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 19A boy watches his father give away cattle. It is a great occasion. There are priests, and fires, and the whole household has gathered. The father has promised to give away everything he owns. And the boy, who is still young, is standing at the edge of the courtyard, watching the cows being led past him.Source note. Label: scripture. This story is from the Katha Upanishad, first adhyaya, first valli, verses one to six. The Sanskrit lines quoted are

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 18In many Indian households, at the bedside of the dying, or in the days after a death, someone leads a cow to the door. A priest says a few words. A rope is placed in a hand. And a gift is made that the family may have thought about for years. Why a cow? And why then?Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 17 first.Source note. Label: text and tradition. The passage on the gift of a cow being equal to the gift of land, on giving a cow at the end,

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 17Every road in the old stories has a river at the end of it. The Styx of the Greeks. The Sinvat Bridge of the Persians. In India, it is the Vaitarani, and it has one very unusual feature. You cannot cross it by strength, or by wealth, or by cleverness. You cross it by a gift.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 16 first.Source note. Label: text and tradition. The description of the river Vaitarani, its width, and its effect on the sinful is

“Sometimes mother Yashoda used to ask Krishna to bring her a wooden plank for sitting. Although the wooden plank was too heavy to be carried by a child, still somehow or other Krishna would bring it to His mother. Sometimes while worshiping Narayana, His father would ask Him to bring his wooden slippers, and Krishna, with great difficulty, would put the slippers on His head and bring them to His father. When He was asked to lift some heavy article and was unable to lift it, He would simply move His

ಶಾಂತಿಯನ್ನು ಹುಡುಕುತ್ತೇನೆ ಎನ್ನುವ ಹೆಸರಲ್ಲಿ, ಹಲವರು ಬೇರೆಬೇರೆ ಕೆಲಸಗಳನ್ನು ಮಾಡುವುದನ್ನು ನೋಡುತ್ತಿರುತ್ತೇವೆ. ನಿಜವಾಗಿಯೂ, ' ಶಾಂತಿ' ಎಂದರೆ ಏನನ್ನೂ ಮಾಡದೇ ಇರುವುದಾ? ನಿಜವಾದ ಶಾಂತಿಯನ್ನು ಅನುಭವಿಸಲು ಏನನ್ನು ಮಾಡಬೇಕು? ಈ ವೀಡಿಯೋದಲ್ಲಿ ಸದ್ಗುರುಗಳು ವಿವರಿಸುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಶಾಂತಿಯನ್ನು ಹುಡುಕುತ್ತಿರುವ ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ನೋಡಲೇಬೇಕಾದ ವೀಡಿಯೊ ಇದು!#peaceofmind #sadhguru #kannada ಸದ್ಗುರು ಕನ್ನಡ ಅಧಿಕೃತ ಟೆಲಿಗ್ರಾಮ್ ಚಾನಲ್‍: https://t.me/sadhgurukannada ಸದ್ಗುರು ಕನ್ನಡ ಅಧಿಕೃತ ಫೇಸ್‍ಬುಕ್ ಚಾನಲ್‍: /sadhgurukannada ಸದ್ಗುರು ಕನ್ನಡ ಅಧಿಕೃತ ಇನ್‍ಸ್ಟಾಗ್ರಾಮ್

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 16There is a clerk in the court of death, and he has never made a mistake. He sits on a throne, with a great ledger. Every kind word, every cruelty, every secret act and every act done in public, is written in it. And when a soul arrives at the end of the road, he reads it out. Welcome to Dharma Katha, Season One, Pitru Paksha. Episode sixteen, on our third day. It is a short one. In the last episode we walked the road of Yama, and at the end of it we

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 15Every traveller knows the first rule of a long journey: pack for the road. Food. Water. Something for the cold. Money for the unexpected. You do not set out across a desert with an empty bag. Now suppose you are told that you are about to walk a road eighty-six thousand yojanas long, and that you may carry nothing with you.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 14 first.Source note. Label: text. The account of the thirteenth day, the length of

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 14Imagine building a person out of rice. Not as a metaphor. Imagine, for a moment, that a family sits down each morning and forms a small ball of cooked rice and sesame, and says a name, and that with each ball, something is built. On the first day, a head. On the second, a neck and shoulders. On the third, a heart.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 13 first.Source note. Label: text. The passage about the ten days of rice-balls, the four

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 13There is a moment that every family knows, or will know. A room, quiet. A person in a bed, breathing slowly. The people who love them, standing close, saying nothing, because there is nothing that is enough. And then the breath stops.Source note. Labels: text and tradition. The account of the dying person, death approaching like a serpent, the last vision in which all worlds appear as one, the moment that seems an age, the two messengers, and the

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 12Look at what a man carries to a riverbank in Pitru Paksha. A small copper vessel of water. A pinch of black sesame seeds. A few blades of green grass. And sometimes, a handful of barley. Nothing else.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 10 first.Source note. Label: tradition. The uses of kusha, sesame and barley in the rite are living tradition, and the reasons given, purity, protection, association with Vishnu, dearness to the ancestors, the

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 11A father sits alone in his hermitage. His son is dead. He has performed all the proper rites for the body. The fire is out. The mourners have gone. And now, in the silence, he does something no one has ever done before. He begins to cook.Source note. Label: scripture. This story is from the Mahabharata, Anushasana Parva, section ninety-one in the Ganguli translation. The lineage from Brahma to Atri to Dattatreya to Nimi to Srimat, Srimat's thousand

“Rupa Gosvami says that as long as we are in this material world we have to act; we cannot cease acting. Therefore if actions are performed and the fruits are given to Krishna, then that is called yukta-vairagya. Actually situated in renunciation, such activities clear the mirror of the mind, and as the actor gradually makes progress in spiritual realization he becomes completely surrendered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Bhagavad-gita, 9.28 Purport)

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 10Hold out your hand and imagine there is water in it. Cool, clear, ordinary water. The kind you drink without thinking. Now imagine that this water is a message.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 6 first.Source note. Labels: the water in the Ganga story is scripture, from the Valmiki Ramayana, Bala Kanda, sarga forty-one and forty-four. The details of the tarpan rite, the direction, sesame, kusha and the three offerings of water, are living

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 9The river of heaven fell from the sky, and she was furious. Not with the earth. Not with the king who had called her. She fell in a rage of pride, with a single thought in her mind: I will sweep away the god who dares to stand in my way. She hit his head.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 8 first.Source note. Label: scripture. This story is from the Valmiki Ramayana, Bala Kanda, sarga forty-three and forty-four. The details of Ganga's pride

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 8At the end of a thousand years, a voice spoke from the sky. The man standing in the fire had no idea how long he had been there. His skin was dark from the sun. His arms had stopped hurting long ago. He had stopped thinking about himself. He was, by now, only a wish, standing on two feet: let the river come.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 7 first.Source note. Label: scripture. This story is from the Valmiki Ramayana, Bala Kanda, sarga

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 7How long would you keep trying at something if you knew you might die before it worked? A year? Ten years? A whole life? Now imagine you are not the first to try. Your grandfather tried. He failed. Your father is trying, and he too is going to fail. And you are told: this is your task too, and you may fail, and even so, you must not stop.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 2 first.Source note. Label: scripture. This story is from the Valmiki

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 6On a rooftop in the early morning, a woman places a plate. It holds a little rice, a spoon of lentils, a piece of bread. She sets it on the parapet, steps back, and waits. She is not waiting for a guest. She is waiting for a crow.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 1 first.Source note. Label: tradition. The custom of kaak bali, the offering to the crow in Shraddha, and the belief that ancestors may come in the form of a crow, are living