1493: Vishnu's the Socket and We're the Plugs
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
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🗓️ 16 December 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
'Properly understood and applied, (prayer) is the most potent instrument of action.' - Mahatma Gandhi / Prayer is a yogic means to cultivate inner strength, clarity, and resolve / Similarities in Dhruva and Aditi - both had devotion mixed with material objective, but both surrendered to a valid spiritual guide, both performed devotional practices with extraordinary focus and determination, both were purified through devotional acts / we don't lose dignity when we pray / through recognition of Vishnu's greatness one can align with the source of power and get connected, like a plug aligns with a socket / Vishnu agrees to become Aditi's son
SB 8.17.4-20
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| 0:55.2 | In Sanskrit, it's called Sambhandagiana, the knowledge of the nature of the connection. |
| 1:01.5 | Like, just like a plug fits into a socket, right? |
| 1:04.7 | But if the plug's not like if you go to another country and your plug isn't designed for the socket, then the alignment won't |
| 1:13.4 | take place and there'll be no energy flow. There'll be no connection. |
| 1:16.7 | Right. |
| 1:17.5 | So in offering these prayers, in a sense, our disconnection from Vishnu is because we ignore the |
| 1:26.7 | truth of who he is and who we are. |
| 1:30.0 | We kind of try to step into his position and we try to pose as the central figure in the |
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