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दिल ख़ुदा का घर है। ( Urdu / Hindi )

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Ananta emphasizes that true spiritual life begins by turning inward to build a temple in the heart, warning that an exclusively outward focus leads to a hollow, 'zombie-like' existence devoid of actual life.

Focus on spiritual wealth more than anything else; construct the holy temple within your heart.
A life focused only on the outward world is a 'zombie life,' cut off from the source of life.
All worldly accomplishments come to zero when prana is taken away; only the heart's connection to God remains.

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Transcript

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Ananta

You say, 'I have zero spiritual experience.' You see, and I don't know what you're talking about. I don't even know that there is a God. But somehow I listen to what you're saying and I stay inward. After remaining inward for a few hours, for a few minutes even, are you better than before or worse? You're always better by turning towards God. And by grasping at the world, no matter how pleasurable that momentary experience may have seemed, are you better than before or worse? And that, if you're not able to see yet, that is very important to keep remaining inwards and your heart compass will develop where a sense of deepening connection or a disconnection will tell you whether you're truly alive or pretending to be alive.

Ananta

So when I call it a zombie life, I really mean it as a zombie life. It's like that which gives us life has been cut off from. So just like a bundle of prana and flesh and blood roaming around. Prana mixed with mind mixed with body just walking. No actual life. And one day the giver of the actual light of life will take the prana also away for everyone. When this prana is taken away, all our smartness, all our material wealth, all our worldly accomplishments, all that will come to zero. So focus on spiritual wealth more than anything else.

Ananta

How much have you constructed the Atma temple? The holy altar has been presented to you. This is a gift from God. To remain with it is to construct the holy temple in your heart. Who is that sage? The cobbler sage. Build the... how do you say Pusalar? So Sage Pusalar. One time the king of the land wanted to build a huge temple for Shiva, spend like a great part of his wealth, his treasury, and build this great temple for Shiva. And a lot of the construction had happened and one night Shiva came to this king in the dream.

Ananta

The Lord came and the Lord said, 'No, the temple to me where I will stay has already been built. The most magnificent temple has already been built.' And the king woke up in a panic and said, 'I am spending so much of my treasury and with so much love and devotion I'm building this temple, who has built this temple?' So Shiva told him in the dream that there's this man called Pusalar. You go meet him there. He has built the true temple.

Ananta

So this king tries to find this man. It turns out he's a beggar. He's like a beggar or a cobbler, something like that. Nothing comparative in worldly standards to the king, but the king has to meet with this man. So he goes to Sage Pusalar and says, 'Shiva has told me that his temple has already been built by you. How have you built this temple? I don't see anything around. Where is it? Where is it?'

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Ananta

So the Sage Pusalar told him that, 'I have built this temple at the only place where it can be built, which is in my heart.' You see, all the other temples are reminders of our heart temple, are representatives of our heart temple, are tools, devices to bring us to our heart temple. So we are privileged and blessed that this being that I call 'I am,' my Atma, is His presence. That is a privilege. But to spend the entirety of this life focused outwardly and forgetting about this presence of God would be a wasted life.

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