The Princess of Kashi | Swami Sarvapriyananda | Mandukya Karika- "No Mind" | VedantaNY

[Music] the story goes that there was a prince um there was a kingdom in ancient india where in the court a play was staged and in the play one of their roles was the roles of the the role of a little girl who was the princess of kashi kashi you know benares that was a big city in ancient india now they couldn't find a little girl to play the role so the queen said the prince is can be dressed up the prince was a little boy at that time five years old so he can be dressed up as a girl as a princess and he can be the princess of kashi so they dressed up the prince as a princess and the play was staged and the boy looked so cute the mother said the queen said make a painting today it would be so easy you know just click but selfie or something but make a painting and the coat painter made a made up painting a portrait of the boy dressed in as the princess of kashi and that he titled it named it the princess of kashi dated it and so and so forth 15 years passed the prince was quite grown up 20 years old now doing all kinds of princely things and then one day he was exploring the palace and he goes into one of the old storage rooms underground and he discovers he looks around the old stuff and he discovers this old painting wipes the dust off it and sees the princess of kashi and says oh she's about my age look at the date so she must be as old as me and he falls in love with her and he says this is the princess i want to marry unless i marry this princess i will never be happy in life again a royal wedding recently but he's shy he can't tell his mother or his father the king or the queen and they notice something is wrong with their son because he is moping and he doesn't seem to be interested in anything anymore finally a wise minister goes and asks him what ails you prince you can confide in me and the prince says well what can i tell you i am in love. very good who is she oh she's the princess of kashi good a princess perfect um this is very good where did you meet her i haven't met her i've seen her picture a picture very good where is the picture well it's down there it's um i'll i'll show you it's an old picture it was taken it was painted when she was five years old a date says many years ago 15 years ago um then the minister says wait a minute old picture and the princess of kashi can you take me to that picture and the prince takes him down into that cellar and shows him the painting and the minister sees that and tells the prince prince you need to sit down for this that is not the princess of kashi so whoever she is i'll marry her no prince many years ago there was this drama staged a play was staged in the court and we needed to have a person who would play the princes of kashi and we found you to be the perfect one to play the princess of kashi so you are that that thou art tattoo and the prince sits down now what happens to the desire in the prince's mind it is called in sanskrit sankalpa i want this what happens to the desire it disappears immediately why did it disappear because he could not fulfill it because the princess of kashi it does not exist apart from him he alone is the princess of kashian always has been this idea of duality something apart from him which is nice and which he wants this led to the sankalpa in the mind and that sankalpa that desire i want this it could be the other way around also something bad i want to avoid this i want to get this i want to avoid this ragadvaisha this is at the root of samsara he disappeared immediately why did it disappear because duality dwita disappeared there is no second thing no person called princess of kashi apart from me this is what the prince realized dwight the duality disappeared the moment duality disappeared sankalpa in the mind also disappeared that there is something out there which i have to achieve or get no it is me and when the san kalpa is gone raga dwesa attraction repulsion is gone it is me alone what is there in me to be gotten rid of or what is there in me to be achieved it's always there with me i am myself so when the duality goes merges back into the non-dual self the sankalpi it's a very beautiful story actually it applies so directly to this he says when the reality is understood when one realizes the truth about oneself and that that's princess of kashi is none other than me then the mind does not do a sankalpa that i want this why graya bhave because there is no separate reality to grasp graham the mind becomes non-grasping this non-grasping ever free mind he says this is no mind this is no mind and this is freedom look the difference here is the prince still has his eyes open the yogi would have said don't look at the princes of kashi keep your eyes closed if you don't think about it it will be all right the non-dualist advaitin says keep your eyes open experience the world as it is but rooted in the knowledge of the self that i am the non-dual self this entire world shining forth this world is your princess of kashi this word yes this is your princess of kashi the good and the bad all of it is you not the slightest difference between you you by you i mean the real you that's why god part of us said once you realize the truth about yourself after that not as a body and mind then everybody else is about if you're a body everybody else is a body also if you are a person everybody else is a person also if you are pure consciousness then the entire world you see appears in you the pure consciousness samsara disappears you see this is the important thing difference between the yogic approach and the vedantic approach the yogic approach seeks to free you by erasing samsara shutting down samsara it's like you're watching a movie a horrifying movie you've forgotten it's a movie you're scared what's the way to come out of being scared the yogi will tell you switch up the movie the vedantin is telling you see that it's a movie then the most horrifying movie also you'll enjoy it you'll give oscar award to it the more horrifying the more oscar words you will give to it samsara goes away [Music] [Music] foreign

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Keywords: Swami Sarvapriyananda, Princess of Kashi, Kashi, Princess, Banaras, Story, Sarvapriyananda stories, No Mind

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Length: 8min 14sec (494 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 27 2018