Aparigraha. The power of self-restraint.

This video will explain the connection between self-restraint and happiness. Unrestrained life is comfortable, but paradoxically it leads to a greater and greater dissatisfaction, whereas the practice of restraint although difficult in the beginning, gradually leads to a perfect happiness. The video will also touch some sharp social and ecological issues of modern lifestyle.
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[@anupambhise3561]

Baba nam kevalam 🙏

[@Harideva-HungLuu]

🙏 Namaskar, Thank you. BnK 🌅🧘🕯️

[@Exceltrainingvideos]

Thank you Dada! This is indeed a very controversial topic. Many consumer societies will totally disagree with you. They will not throw tomatoes at you but fire canons! I still feel that Aparigraha makes a lot of sense in today's world. It's not about giving up everything but about using our resources properly. I find the concept very practical.

[@nandkishoredharmani900]

swamiji this is the best video on this topic.Swamiji even patanjali would have been proud to see his disciple speaking so eloquently on his discipline

[@VibrantLivingGuide]

Dada.... Namaskar 🙏

[@charismaticrings9506]

I am already living this life by value given to me by my parents....

[@TheGrapplingMonkey]

Dada, i followed you advice and started donating to Khan Academy, a free online learning platform that taught me chemistry better then any teacher ever could. It is good I can who gratitude that way.

[@wouterdesmedt1736]

Thank you dada, for another well explained topic. I'm so grateful to have found your channel last year, each time I'm amazed at how relevant these ancient teachings are today. I am sure that there are a lot of people in the world that do not find this principle controversial, but very needed instead - I know I do. And I had a good laugh with what you said about hoarders, so true!

[@charismaticrings9506]

Lovely and very inspiring

[@brianmunoz5201]

I just wanted to say thank you and you are amazing. What a gift your words are. I can feel your spirit through the camera.

[@TheGrapplingMonkey]

Dada, i focused on one Yama a week and have watched your Videos many times over. Also i consulted books and the Internet but i liked you Explanation the most and didn´t get tired of watching them again and again. Thank you very much. On the Topic of aparigraha: A few years back I possessed a lot of stuff and after a breakup i decided i had to give away what i couldn´t use. I was a long process in which my mind tried to trick me many times. Indeed i feel better having less stuff. It´s cleaner, less distracting and easier. However I have also had the Problem that i don´t want to spend Money on some things that would be trouly good for me. Some investments that I thought for a long time i enjoy very much. I think for me it´s to find what really makes me happy. Sometimes it´s not having a Thing, but it can be having another thing, too. In the end I am just another Person I am helping to be happy. This Yama will be an exercise in balance, concious consumption and self love for me. Namaste

[@miljana2204]

Thank you so much for great explanation as always! Much love and respect!

[@moose6284]

God sent you directly on my path brother. God bless you!!!

[@letitflowkaren]

I feel so much gratitude to get this knowledge! Thank you sooo much❣️ May God continue giving you all that it is needed so that you teach more and more people

[@anjanacharya1261]

I m so lucky to discover ur channel thanks sir

[@MeditationSteps]

Thanks and welcome

[@reinamichegarcia7218]

Today learning about this for the first time. Important lesson for me. Thank you to take the time to share this wisdom.

[@jan163]

I have just found your teachings and I thank you for all the wisdom and knowledge that you are imparting: I am trying to pass on some of this to my yoga students. Thank you.

[@ionutbasrutten1951]

Thank you my brother.Your work is helping me greatly. God bless you🙏 From ROMANIA🇦🇩 ADRIAN

[@micente4028]

I loved the teachings here. Thank you so much.

[@Reena250]

Dada, love ur child like innocence . Thank you so much

[@timhb193]

thank's 🙏

[@ebruistan4210]

🙏💕

[@amaliamdrbarbieri8147]

Love this explanation!! Thank you so much!

[@alexsyogastudio1320]

beautiful

[@carbontube7956]

The experience that I have had in my life so far fully confirms every single statement from this video. It is definitely not easy to follow this rule in everyday life, but it absolutely worths the efforts!

[@chirlsaylor6351]

I just want to say that I love you...and am so happy I found your videos..I soo connect w u

[@MeditationSteps]

Thank you, Chirl.

[@susannec659]

So glad I discovered your channel! Thank you so much.

[@slalialley3786]

"the peanut butter jars became larger..."🌾

[@mateusbarbosa5958]

Thank you.

[@beoklifevlog3369]

Thank you again Dada for getting me back from Maya perspective. It's so beautiful and so simple but in the same time it is so serious, it seems that we are so immature in the human evolutionary, it seems that we are going to the highest level of our negative mental propensities until some "Big Bang" or something that will change our psyche will change us to leave as we really are, Supreme Consciousness or do you believe that change will happening in individual level, that in same speed it really is happening? Namaskar!

[@chaththa85]

💐🙏🙏🙏💐 ❤️☺️

[@CoolStuff1]

Thank you

[@injujuan8993]

Thank you sooo much Dada! I get inspired each time I listen to you. Grateful 🙏❤❤❤

[@chirlsaylor6351]

Thank you for your service to everyone ♡♡♡

[@meerakarthikeyan8292]

U spoke to my soul guruji. ...pranam

[@dkardale]

Thank you for wonderful knowledge...

[@KartikShahaol]

Love you brother, You explained aparigraha so simple and effective.. thanks

[@pedrosilva-im2kk]

You are my GURU!!! Namaskar DaDa..

[@j.jthompson7639]

Very correct!

[@sarthakkulkarni5797]

Thank you Dada. Pranaam

[@nomercy22222222]

very well explained dada

[@DidiyogasalsastudioTM]

very good explanation!

[@rashmikantadas1484]

Thank you dada for aprigraha video with so much clarity

[@gouravsaha8552]

thank you for these vedios dada,

[@belafiguti]

Namastê! Thank you very much, I am enjoying the classes too much! Could you please send the link to the book?

[@bonngairaoi]

Thank you for your wisdom, so helpful and illuminating. The Universe is a conscious being! We need constant reminding. All things belong to the Divine. Please spell the author of book mentioned.:"The Guide to Human Conduct"

[@MeditationSteps]

Namaskar, you can buy the book here: anandamargabooks.com/portfolio/a-guide-to-human-conduct/

[@charismaticrings9506]

@@MeditationSteps this also going to check out

[@geettiwari8607]

Namaskar baba Plz add English subtitles.

[@MeditationSteps]

Namaskar brother, we are in the process of adding English subtitles for all our videos. It has to be done manually, so will take a couple of months to complete all the videos. Thanks

[@GeorgeSax]

Dada it confusing letting the material world go, because much of my energy is focused on making money, like working and looking for shows to play (I am a musician) although I have applied these teachings to my life because I believe higher being has been looking after me giving me everything I need (Because I am doing what God wants me to do) am I supposed to stop working and looking for work and just let things happen?

[@Harideva-HungLuu]

🙏 The Spiritual Approach is: Subjective Approach, and Objective Adjustment. It means to start changing ourselves, and still make adjustment to the World, until We can help make the World change. Let's say some of Us have Evolved to Highly Elevated Spiritual Beings, but the World hadn't. So the Higher Spiritual Beings, have to make the ( Objective) Adjustment to the World, and work to increase the Evolvement of the Collective. Even in the arts community, if everyone thinks everything is about business, they would expect the artists to perform the way they want. In the Spiritual Community, it's a choice to be in a Spiritual Family. If someone decides to join the Spiritual Family, the Spiritual Father will take care, of the minimum needs. Without a personal relationship to the Spiritual Father, no one will guarantee the minimum needs. It's a give and take. It's choosing to join the Spiritual Family, or working in a business? You want to take the good part of the Spiritual Family and the Good part of your job, which is your income? Both come with requirements: Spiritual Family: Discipline. Income: do what your customers want. You want both? Then join the Spiritual Family with Discipline, and work with your customers so, together, the Relationships change from business, to Selfless- service to others. Your income will not be a Business contract, but gifts from the Heart. BnK 🌅🧘🌄

[@Yakuo]

☮️🙏🕉

[@Mohanadeva]

I think it is beautiful and freeing, your wellbeing is my wellbeing. My wish is that everyone get this realization that we’re family. Welcome home Thank you so much! Namaskar

[@Hansel783]

Dada, I love reading books. I try my best to only read a little bit everyday, but once I get ahead in the book and am enjoying it, I keep reading obsessively for hours and want to finish the book before I do anything else. I tell myself I will not read anymore,, that this is the last book, as reading prevents me from getting anything else done. Am I addicted? I guess you can call this as over-indulgence as well. Dada, do you ever struggle with over-indulgence? Is there anything you have trouble resisting and need to practice self-restraint with?

[@MeditationSteps]

The ultimate cure is to do meditation, overtime it creates balance in body and mind, so addictions diminish and do not own you anymore.

[@ishwarsanghvi3846]

I am impressed by the explanation of Aparigraha.I am still not able to understand why do we still have a communist mindset other than the acceptance of the Capitalist system{which in my opinion is the right system for delivery of well being to the humanity]where probably 10 people would inherit about 50% of the world wealth.Let me know why the non acceptance of these guys and hope they deliver to the well being of the humanity as probably you and I would deliver.Thanks and appreciate your understanding and interests in the well being of humanity.

[@charismaticrings9506]

The book is not available on the link mentioned

[@MeditationSteps]

Thank you for the information. Check the book on the link: sattva.digital/node/219

[@LavenderFieldsForever]

Interesting how yoga teachings are similar to Jesus’s teachings 💜

[@sofimazi555]

truth = wisdom = truth Regardless of culture or religion . very natural...

[@pedrofleurymoreira4257]

Namaskar, dada. If possible, I would like to see a video talking specifically about the law of attraction in the point of view of the Yoga psychology. Cheers from Brazil.

[@MeditationSteps]

Namaskar, brother. Thank you for suggestion. I will have to think it over, and when the inspiration will come, i will do it.

[@jan163]

Dada, can you give more details about the book you referred to, I cannot find it. Thank you. Namaskar

[@MeditationSteps]

The Book " Guide To Human Conduct" can be downloaded here: sattva-shop.ru/books/philosofy/guide-human-conduct

[@pablodejuan2096]

I always feel hippier 😂😂🕉

[@Cārvākā80]

I understand that it is a way to one's happiness.. I agree .. I know it's part of one of our Upanishads reaching.. but I see a loophole here at a macro scale .. it has also some resemblance to the core of communism which no country practically implemented .. in other words, communism may have taken this idea somehow.. but what is the incentive of good work.. or will there be any competition.. ?

[@13c11a]

Why do you sit in the cold to teach? Do you eschew ordinary comforts and protections from the elements? Is it part of the teaching itself, since I assume your students would sit in the cold with you. Thank you.

[@rabeyasalam5303]

Namaskar Dada. I have visited the link for the book "Guide to Human Conduct" and made the donation for download. However, I am not able to download the book. Can you please suggest what to do?

[@MeditationSteps]

If you give us your email, we can send manually.

[@rabeyasalam5303]

@@MeditationSteps Thanks a lot. My email is [e-mail]

[@rabeyasalam5303]

Namaskar Dada. I wanted to ask you a question about Guru. It may sound bit weird, may I consider somebody as Guru who has departed already? In my case, I could connect to the songs, poetry and phylosophy of Rabindranath Tagore so deeply that I feel like He is the Guru for me. Is it possible?

[@MeditationSteps]

Yes, it is possible. Though Rabindranath is a madhyama guru (middle grade), he has inspired millions of people with his pure expressions of the higher mind, but still for the spiritual elevation there is a need to be initiated by higher grade of Guru. I too accepted the person who is physically no more and consider myself as his disciple.

[@rabeyasalam5303]

@@MeditationSteps I am so glad that you answered my question. Dada, would you mind suggesting me the name of higher grade guru(as mentioned in your reply) to be initiated by? For your kind information, I am living in Australia. Thanks a lot for your great help and support.

[@MeditationSteps]

@@rabeyasalam5303 I am a disciple of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti. He was the most outstanding guru of the last several centuries. I suggest that you practice the basic method of meditation for at least 100 hours, you can find the course on that at meditationsteps.org . After that, I can find an acarya, capable of initiating you.

[@mugaboelijah539]

2 Corinthians 6:14-18 Warning Against Idolatry 14 Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? 15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial[a]? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”[b] 17 Therefore, “Come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”[c] 18 And, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

[@sofimazi555]

OK SO what are you trying to say?

[@anadisattvasudeva6315]

Dada, here is no link for the book ...

[@MeditationSteps]

The Book " Guide To Human Conduct" can be downloaded here: sattva-shop.ru/books/philosofy/guide-human-conduct

[@anadisattvasudeva6315]

thank you Dada, can you pease post link of this book that you are talking about?

[@MeditationSteps]

We are in the process of making a layout, also i gave a task for my team to create a website to present important books. Unfortunately everything takes time, but we working on it.

[@eusoualessandra]

Meditation Steps how about now, is it possible to correctly know the name of the book you adivised?

[@MeditationSteps]

The Book " Guide To Human Conduct" can be downloaded here: sattva-shop.ru/books/philosofy/guide-human-conduct

[@fancyoo8670]

This is difficult for me.. i would love more money so i can travel more. I have a huge greed to see more . Learn more about different cultures

[@fancyoo8670]

This world is confusing. People try to tell you spending money is happiness. I can find happiness without spending money but the people i hang out with act like in cheap or poor just because I'm content without drinking Starbucks or not needing to eat at a restaurant. I'm spending 30 days without spending money. Eating food i already have . I see it as asetya. Stealing by having greed or wastefulness. It's difficult concept while spending tunes with others. The earth suffers from out greed and waste

[@cheenikkathodi]

You don't need thumberg like activist to talk of sustainable lifestyles. It's just a matter of looking back at Eastern Indian philosophies that is frowned upon as paganism. It's a great way to reduce your carbon footprint.

[@Mahesh-rb8xf]

wth how does the universe decide what's good or bad.

[@TallAndThin123]

do you ever chant the maha mantra hare krsna?

[@MeditationSteps]

When meditating, Baba Nam Kevalam mantra or a personal mantra is repeated.

[@TallAndThin123]

@@MeditationSteps but the maha mantra is more potent

[@borisnahalka3027]

30 sec into a video: aparigraha create space! which will be needed in Dharana and Dhyana. ok, let's go on. 8 min. into a video: Aparigraha is is about shifting the desire from outside many desires to only one inner desire. to know and experience the truth about yourself. or maybe better put the desire of freedom. grrrr, please don't mix Sadhanas, Santosha is about something completely different. 12 min into a video: no no no, forget the others, Patanjali was never ever concerned about others. he is concern about individual spiritual progress, nothing more and nothing less. if you need others, do Bhagti Yoga or something else. 14 min. into a video: no no no, if you start to think and even worse, being engaged in saving humanity, saving the planet, you only create more mess. why? because you are the mess, so anything you create will be a mess. go back to your own backyard and clean your own mess. get rid of anything that is not serving you and most importantly stop accumulating. by accumulating I mean body impressions, emotional and mental impressions, and start consciously creating them always anew. why? because all you are up till now is accumulation. this needs to stop or rather shift into a creation. which is everlasting, it is a never-ending process. eh, sorry, but this is by no means all about Aparigraha. as much as I like you as a person, you are under a lot of delusions, and unless you get rid of those, your own spiritual progress will be a long struggle. so my Russian friend, get back to a source (yoga sutra) , and get back to the core of the teachings, not adding, but rather removing interpretations, and then we can talk.

[@wildeevolution]

I laughed out loud when I pictured people hoarding money like a mentally ill person hoarding things. Of course mental illness isn’t funny but It’s true! I will never see money in the same way again. Thank you for that. 🤍