Kritaghna
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"Ungrateful" — the classification for harming, insulting, or showing ingratitude toward parents, teachers, or a Guru; as stated in the Shiva Mahapurana, there is no expiation or atonement for this sin.
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What is Kritaghna, and why is there no atonement for ingratitude?
Harming, insulting, or showing ungratefulness toward parents, teachers, genuine helpers, or a Guru classifies an individual as Kritaghna (ungrateful) — as stated in the Shiva Mahapurana's episode of Shankhachuda, there is no expiation or atonement for this sin.
The second stage is self-congratulation, and mockery of the pandits
Beyond that there is another matter, he says. All right, you did it by rule, you have come to the second stage: you rose in the morning, bathed well at daybreak, used no bad substance of any kind, did his pujan by rule, did everything. And having done the pujan you rose, and as soon as you take the prasad, or even before taking it, how much do you sit and say — arre, what a splendid puja we did, what a fine puja it was, we enjoyed doing the puja; these pandit people do not know how to do puja, these people somehow get the puja done, see how splendidly we did it, we read the mantras, arre, it was a delight to read the mantra of Brihaspati Dev; such a puja brahmins would not do, these brahmins today are looters — and it begins at once.
A brahmin is not brahmin by birth alone, and mocking your own father while doing puja undoes it
Where you have that self-intoxication about the puja — this itself is the maya of puja, he says. Brihaspati Dev at once did his play. A brahmin and a scholar do not only mean someone who is a brahmin by birth: you may yourself be a brahmin and be seated there, and you make fun of your own father, saying papa does not know it properly, he manages somehow, see what a splendid puja we did — and the story is finished. You think the guru ji does not read the mantras properly, that he reads them in a great hurry, that there is no enjoyment in his puja, that he cuts corners; see how splendidly we did it — and the story is finished, brother.
The pujan of Brihaspati Dev goes void at the very spot where the scholar or father was insulted
So keep in mind, he says: where you rose and insulted the scholar, the brahmin, the guru, the father — right there your doing the pujan of Brihaspati Dev has gone in vain. Keep this in mind too.
A screenshot counted the recitations as a favour done to the deity
A screenshot was sent to him, he says, in which the name he does not recall but which was probably from some girl. She had written that she had recited the Kamakhya Kavach 1100 times, Maharaj, and her CA was not cleared — what benefit did she get from 1100 recitations of the Kamakhya Kavach? The person who had received it asked what to reply. The speaker said he answered that it is entirely right: she should go to Kamakhya and ask Kamakhya Mai herself that there is no strength in her kavach.
"We took your name 1100 times, now do my work" is the seed of durgati
Those who walk on this path of doing favours — we took your name 1100 times, now do my work — have no path, he says; go on abusing as you sit and that itself will do you good, but do not do sadhana at all. This is a cause of durgati; do not sow the seed of durgati, he says: that we will do your seva but with a show of obligation, saying we did it so many times and did not get this, so we will not do it.
Better not to do it at all than to do it in that spirit
Those greatly motivated by the Akshay Kumar and Paresh Rawal film, he says, should consider that in life the devi-devatas will kick people like them later, but their own saubhagya kicks them first. It would be better that they simply do not do it at all, and let their durbhagya go on running.
The tantric heritage survived undestroyed in every field, but those practising duplicity can still harm a few through influence
Even so, thank those forebears that this heritage has remained alive to this day in every field, the speaker says: the most fierce regions of tantra, everything, still stands everywhere; it was not destroyed. So in the present time too, those doing duplicity at a high level will not destroy things by their duplicity. But it is certain that, taking two or four or ten people into their influence, they will become entirely capable of doing them harm.
How do people of rakshasa disposition operate against a sadhak?
Save yourself from such people, the speaker says, because they will try to deceive you in every way. First they will win your trust; and each time you try to advance, in the field of sadhana or in the field of life, they will damage you through money, one hundred per cent. Winning over your practical dealings, they will make every effort to destroy your respect. They will try to stab you in the back, and if they succeed in stabbing they will try to belittle you for the rest of your life. Doing all this gives them self-satisfaction. These are of rakshasa disposition — Ravana was a Brahmin, but he was still a rakshasa.
People now sit and publicly abuse the very gurus they learned from
People are sitting and abusing their own gurus these days, the speaker says — good gurus. He has seen it on YouTube and on their Facebook: they sit and abuse the very people from whom they learned. Now the whole world knows that those are their gurus — so what will the people who follow us learn, if we speak against our own guru?
What happens to one who turns another away from the bhakti marga?
So if you are removing somebody from the bhakti marga, the speaker says, if you are removing him from the bhagavat marga, then you are yourself building your own coming prarabdha. This much only was his attempt — to put it into your subconscious mind: brother, wake up, do not commit an offence.
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