At 10:30 am, Daaji recorded the first episode meant for Sansad TV with the crew in the backstage office of the main meditation hall. Everything was quiet, and Daaji flowed into a description of Spirituality with such clarity, reiterating his favorite examples and analogies which he never tires of sharing in precise words and details about the Heartfulness practice and its various aspects including Pranahuti.
One hopes that those hearing this later on TV would lend a careful ear and try for themselves such an unassuming practice which would be so much to their benefit.
He described the how peace can be cultivated by meditation with the reference of the Shloka of the Bhagvad Gita, Chapter 2 verse 66.
नास्ति बुद्धिरयुक्तस्य न चायुक्तस्य भावना |
न चाभावयत: शान्तिरशान्तस्य कुत: सुखम् ||
nāsti buddhir-ayuktasya na chāyuktasya bhāvanā
na chābhāvayataḥ śhāntir aśhāntasya kutaḥ sukham
One who cannot mind his senses is one who is lacking in steady wisdom and intelligence and also lacks proper feelings or sentiments (thoughts). A person who cannot think properly and focus his mind to make decisions, cannot have peace of mind, and without peace of mind, there can be no happiness.
One beautiful analogy Daaji made went straight to the heart. He said, “What if I hide one kilo of gold in a square space of land, about a few acres in width and length? And what if I also told you that there is a treasure buried here and what if I also gave you the latitudinal and longitudinal measurements of where to locate it? Would you not go completely berserk looking for it? Digging all over till you found it? Then when I say ‘You have God hidden in Your heart, worth more than all the gold in the world, which will make you immensely rich,’ why would you not close your eyes and dive deep in meditation to seek it? Why would you spend so much time not doing precisely that? Mediation is the way to dig for that treasure; dive deep and you shall have the pearls, Babuji has said.”
Daaji’s way of giving simple everyday examples is stunning. At some point, he spoke about balance, and he simply picked up a rectangular box from his table, showed it to the camera, and said, “If you want to hold this box in a balanced manner, what would you do? You would look for the middle, the center, and put your finger under it, like this right (demonstrating it with his fingers while holding the box in balance)? So where is the center of human life? The heart, and why would you not quieten and balance it by meditation?”
He later emphasized the famous couplet:
चाह गई चिंता मिटी, मनुआ बेपरवाह।
जिनको कछु न चाहिए, वे साहन के साह॥
One who has no desires will worry no more, his mind is carefree. One who needs nothing is akin to the King of Kings.
