The Tree of Life - Gaur Gopal Prabhu at the RWC16

and YouTube phenomenon a spiritual guru who's garnered tens of millions of views on YouTube because he has this innate ability to mix wit and humor to convey life-changing philosophical messages is the disciple of Radha not Swamiji and he relates of ISKCON Mumbai who am i speaking about ladies and gentlemen our pleasure to invite His Holiness Taj Mahal bucum karate vechile Mpumalanga theorem yet Kripa tomorrow monday sri guru munathara shri chaitanya Schwerin param anand the motto it is my great honor and pleasure privileged to be amongst all of you here this evening oh this afternoon I am still in Germany and my sincerest gratitude extends to Colonel David she Monte ray Lucca G and the whole radiant group for having invited me over for this wellness Conclave and to be with all of you to share a couple of thoughts this afternoon the subject matter I was asked to speak on is a spiritual wellness I travel a lot and I see that every country has a USB a unique selling proposition when we talk about the United States of America it has a USP liberty freedom comfort for the citizens when we talk about the United Kingdom it has a USP royalty the supremacy of the Queen when we travel to Japan Japan has a USP technology you travel to the Middle East Middle East has a USB oil and when we talk about India India also has a USP a unique selling proposition something that all of us are known for sometimes they say how do you recognize an Indian an Indian is known by a man or a lady who will use the shampoo till the last bit by putting water to the bottle how do you recognize an Indian you would know an Indian by a man or a lady who will use the beylin the rolling pin to squeeze the last bit of the toothpaste out of it at least how do you recognize an Indian Indian is a person who gives another person a missed call that culture doesn't exist in the world there's nothing like a missed call in the world by the way ladies and gents how do you know an Indian you would know an Indian by a person who will use a t-shirt till there's a hole in it and once it's used unusable in the day because as a whole of it you would probably start using it in the night and if it's still not usable in the night any longer you keep it for Holi and if it's not even usable for Holi then you use that pocha then you know for sure you know then that you are truly an Indian yes ladies and gentleman we are known for a sparing nature no wonder a lot of people this world of super wealthy in this country a super wealthy India is known for Bollywood India is known for its cricket India is known for its beautiful architecture magnificent edifices India is known for its similares India's known for his literary contributions in there is known to be a developing economy now indeed India is known for many many things but what India is specially known for on this planet Earth is its unique contribution in the field of spirituality wherever I travel in the world I see people glorifying talking about eulogizing the principle of spirituality that comes from this great land hopefully people from America people from Europe people from different parts of the world come to India to see the beauty of India but if you go to Rishikesh you go to the Himalaya there's a lot of people out there we're coming here to learn spirituality we're coming here to learn yoga were coming here to learn the inner engineering the inner ecology of life of course when we talk about wellness how can we neglect the principle of spiritual wellness this afternoon I thought I would share with you an analogy that one of my spiritual mentors his holiness Sachin undone Swami was a German by birth once told a it's a beautiful analogy it's called the tree of life whenever they look at a beautiful tree one of the most essential parts of the trees its roots a tree has three aspects to it essentially one is the roots the second is the trunk and third is the crown of the tree and when we talk about the roots a healthy tree has healthy roots the deeper the roots the stronger the roots the tree stands strong in storms cyclones hurricanes and tornados and the roots are not seen to our eyes ladies in German those roots are compared to our spirituality our achievements are seen to people our gadgets are seen to people or money is seen to people or accolades is seen to people our charisma is seen to people a success is seen to people what's not seen to the eyes of the people is a roots a spiritual development and therefore I always say if we do not work on what is unseen it's very difficult to sustain more the same one of my friends in Mumbai he purchased the very slick Lamborghini he's a wealthy guy he purchased a very slick posh yellow Lamborghini he's a Gujarati she called me from the showroom and he said to me Swamiji Hindi I'm available so amici up palaka ringi I said to him by dunya Puglia a boorish Coppola hearing it he said naming in Gujarati buglar means will you kindly touch your feet to my car Pegula car Kapil occurring a gaudy Kapil occurring a or fiscal occurring a which basically meant will you bless my car I said to him by lamboginny a Cohen occurring a pug ler Sadhguru KaBlam bogie decoupling I said please cover lock it haha the gentleman wrote to where I lived and he said to me well we'll go for about 15 minutes drive I said fair let's go we started off as we were driving I was in the passenger seat the guy in the driver seat car halted at a traffic light and there was another guy right next he kind of turned around and he saw the slick yellow Porsche Lamborghini in Mumbai a rare sight to see and his eyes went big Wow and straight after he looked inside the car and he saw me and his eyes went bigger and he had this expression on his face Joshua me gob I wanted to pull the window off and said marry by you marry garden a map Agatha joke o'clock or never I it's not my time at the 15 minutes drive had turned into 2535 rather at the end of 35 minutes I said to him look I need to get by because I need to attend a meeting can I can you drive back what this man did shocked me to the core probably will shock you to the core this man started crying like a baby these weren't tears of joy this these were tears of anguish and pain you know how to detect tears of joy and sorrow you just use your thermometer to check maybe because tears of joy are cold and tears of anguish are warm of course next time anyone cries don't take a thermometer thing are you happy you're I asked him to park the car on your sidewalk I said to him what happened the great difficulty he spoke and he said this three days back my wife has filed papers for divorce I love her my children love her she's one of the best mothers that one can ever have and we don't want to miss her tried everything possible just doesn't work and of course I tried to console him pacify him and then I was thinking to myself the world sees his Lamborghini the world sees his success the world sees his bank balance the world sees his popularity the world sees all of these things and I sit with the who's who in the country and when they confide with me I see what's happening inside ladies and gentlemen yes the trunk of the tree is visible to our eyes ladies and gentlemen he has the crown of the tree is visible to our eyes but the roots of the tree which are underneath the soil which are invisible to our eyes is our inner development a spiritual development and unless we make that spiritual development and our spiritual growth strong the storms the Hurricanes the cyclones of life do get over to us and bog us down pull us down in life therefore I say some people are the so poor so poor so absolutely poor that all they have is money and as I say if you want to know how rich you are then count all those things you have that money cannot buy I'm not saying money is bad I'm not saying we shouldn't have money I'm just saying that we can't connect that as the be-all and the end-all of life Krishnamoorthy gee thank you for your financial advice and I'm sure that advice must be taken very seriously in order to really keep it going and life going at the same time we also need to look at the roots and that's why I say the roots strengthening the roots happens by connection connection to our own selves connection to divinity that's why meditation yoga chanting prayer is gaining such popularity all over the world because everyone says that the unseen routes need to be strengthened so that the tree is strong and when those roots are strong the second aspect which is the trunk of the tree the trunk of the tree is a physical and emotional well-being that's the trunk I'm a trunk can stand strong and a trunk and stank's table only the roots are deep and strong if the roots aren't deep and strong the trunk is dodgy and wobbly a hurricane or a cyclone can shake it sometimes even uprooted from the very core I remember very well in the year 2009 18 I believe it was 9th of July I receive a phone call from my mom half 1:00 in the morning and she was crying on the phone I guessed it the inevitable has happened my father was bedridden from Parkinson's disease I knew something untoward had taken place obviously my father had passed away I went for the cremation my father's body was lying on stage a few family friends a couple of relatives were all there talking a few good words about my father it's quite amazing you know when you're born people love you and when you die people love you in between you to manage it's quite funny when you were born hey they'll do all that and when someone dies a chata either a may bolna me born in America too move on let me talk something good about that person they started talking about my father always good thing in all of that and then one member who was the leader of the community I belong to and who also happened to be family spoke a few words about my father he said he said actually this man would have looked longer but the cause of this man's death is a son he called me the killer of my father did you hear that could there be an insult worse than that that night when I went to my mom's house even after years of my spiritual practice I was tossing and turning as this words rang in my ears that I was the killer of my father it was because of my me that my father had died ladies and gentleman my mind was restless my emotional state had been disturbed and when your emotional state is disturb you can't sleep you can't get anything after life your experience of life is proportional to your emotional state therefore William Blake said the mind can make heaven out of hell or hell out of heaven that night as I tossed and turned I remember one statement my guru rather not Swami the author of the journey home did if you can grab it read it beautiful book he said do not give the remote control of your emotions to someone else that man by what he was saying was pressing a button on the remote control and making me feel trash I depend on you to say that your talk was great and feel good and I depend on you to say that my talk was bad and I feel trash that means I've given the remote control to you I feel good because you make me feel good I feel bad because you make me feel bad and how shallow is life well I don't have the guts to take the control of my emotions in my own hands ladies in general we have to learn how to take the control of our feelings in our own hand I I will not allow any damned person under the Sun to make me feel good or bad by what he or she says if they say good fine that's good appreciation nice I'm happy with it and even if they trash me fine it's their opinion it's the way they think lady in German the trunk is our physical and our emotional stability and I'm not getting too into the physical well-being because of paucity of time obviously and the last one is the crown the crown is a contribution to the world the crown is where the fruits come the crown is where the leaves come the Crown's where the flowers come and the fruits are for others the flowers are for others the leaves are for others the shade that the crown of the tree gives us for others our contribution to others sanskrit is an amazing language because in sanskrit if you want to call someone an ass or a donkey you call him way shockin and then now next time if you want to call someone a donkey say hey why shucks ed and then God he'll think you're composing a poetry on him I must tell you I must tell you you know and Sanskrit is amazing because in Sanskrit ice-cream is called Duke - our Carra uke the he McGonagall Agha - now if you want to say mango ice cream you would say amra Duke - our kara uke the he McGonagall Agha - and if you want to order it God to say amra Duke - ayer keroh uke the he McGonagall other to Aniyah by the time you order it it will melt away you know I am saying this I'm saying this because people say that life is like an ice cream you should enjoy it before it melts it'll indeed melt away I say life is like a candle you should bring light to others before it melts but the ice cream melts and the candle mates but the ideology behind the ice cream is selfish enjoyment and the ideology behind the candle is selfless contribution selfless service to others and each of us in our own ways must learn how to contribute like the crown of the tree I must end with this little thing that I want to say this last one point I would like to mention is this if you have ever been on flight the members of the cabin crew will come there and say ladies and gentlemen this is a seatbelt I know this you have buckle look I know I know some pilots are sitting here I must apologize if there be a lack of oxygen supply in the cabin oxygen masks will drop from the cabin above your heads secure your mask properly and breathe normally make sure your oxygen mask is secured properly before you help others god I thought this is the height of selfishness but if you don't keep yourself in place you can't help others if you don't have resources you can't share your resources if you don't feel love you can't share love if you don't feel hope you can't give hope if you don't feel uplifted you can't uplift others therefore be selfish first care for your roots care for your trunk because only when your roots and trunk are in place than the crown can give others how many of you look to like to look beautiful any of you like to look handsome those who are not raising the hands thing they are already good-looking anyway that's another that's another story of it one lady came to cloth teacher came to class and wrote on the whiteboard I am beautiful which tense is it the students is past tense madam you know our hour late late president shri abdul kalam ji said a very nice thing which left a deep mark on me he said if you really want to look handsome give your hand to some and you will automatically look handsome because handsomeness is not about beauty and looks it's about how we contribute to people I conclude by saying if you are beautiful it's God's gift to you if you live your life beautiful it's your gift to God and therefore the Tree of Life is about three things roots unseen to the world deepen them by connection to the divine connection to God your spiritual practice your meditation your prayer the trunk which is about cultivation of emotional and physical wellness emotional stability do not allow others to remote-control you and three the crown is about contribution giving returning back a sense of purpose because the purpose of life is a life of purpose and thus the Tree of Life teaches us three things connection cultivation and contribution ladies and gentleman I wish to thank all of you very very much for your kind attention thank you very much you

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Length: 20min 45sec (1245 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 06 2016