In this video, Dr. Pillai explains a better model to live life is to surrender to god. If you do not want to live the same life where people get old, get diseases, go to nursing home, and die then surrender to god is the only way out. Commit to the model of surrendering to god. Surrender your life to him, he will uplift you and give you a better life which is not possible to create yourself.
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2600 years ago the Buddha was worried about the human race, particularly its destiny to go through suffering from birth to death. He thought that he should find a way out and life should not be this suffering.
He quit his kingship. He quit worldly life and then through a very hard process of meditation, penance, he found a way out. He said that there is a way out for suffering and that is to attain Nirvana which means getting beyond the mind, ego, and karma and experience emptiness. And once you do that you are finished. Then you don’t even come back to this life again to suffer.
What he did was great. But is it possible for anyone to do that other than the Buddha? Some Yogis and Siddhas do manage to do that, but they are very exceptional beings, following model of asceticism denying life.
So there is no option to stay in this world and also attain Nirvana because once you take to that path, you have to give up everything. 24 hours of meditation, not worry about clothes, money or shelter. You don’t worry about anything. Is that possible? It is possible but not for everyone. 99.999% of the people can’t do that.
So what is the way out? The life is such that you get old, get diseases and die of pain. That’s guaranteed for everyone and as I am talking about this, I was not thinking about anything at all. I was thinking about the Modern Western life where we kind of compromise, learning to compromise as we are all going to die. So at-least we make more money so that there is a better Nursing Home where you can better manage your pain and then die and then that’s a better way of dying rather than on the street, uncared for, without money.
That was my line of thought to talk in favor of the Western Model which is a practical model. The Social Security System, the United States to provide security for everyone came out of this compromise with the death reality, that everybody is going to die and at-least everybody is going to have some security and then die.
So that’s what I was going to talk next but then without my mind getting involved, there was another though that came to me and that was the thought about Jnanasambandar and he was worried about this human life of getting old, diseased and then die. So he didn’t want to go through that process.
So he went to a temple and at that temple, he was talking to Siva and he told Siva, it’s in the ten verses that he composed there quite spontaneously, ‘One day I am going to get old, lose my eyesight, lose my hearing and lose my teeth and lose my energy and then die. But I am not willing to do that. I do not want to wait until I get old and die. That I am going to surrender to you.’
It is a place called Pennadam or Thoonganaimadam and he said, ‘it is not acceptable to me’, and he was also recommending that to all the Yogis who went into the path of meditation, transcendence and then Samadhi. He told them it’s not going to work. What is going to work is just come here to this temple of Siva and Parvati and surrender yourself to the Siva of Thoonganaimadam
Odungum Pini Piravi Kedendru
Udai Udaithaaya Vaazhkai Uzhiya
Thavam Adangum Idankarudhi
Nindreer Ellam
Adigal Adi Nilakkizh Aalam Vannam…
You surrender to God. Come to this Thoonganaimadam and surrender your life to him. Then he will uplift you. Come and worship him.
So I am very thankful. But I was thinking about this at all. I was trying to justify the Western Model of checking into a nice Nursing Home with all the cares that are available. If there is a stroke, the doctors come and take care of you.
There is rehabilitation after the stroke. So that is the model that everybody is committed to. But nobody has ever committed themselves to the model of surrendering to God. So the very fact that he gave me this idea, this thought of remembering Thoonganaimadam itself is a message to me and all of you. The best model is the model to surrender to God and then he will give you a better choice, not a Nursing Home choice.
God Bless.
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