The Three Factors for Spiritual Success is based on a discourse by Shrii Shrii Anandamurti. They were used in a presentation delivered by Dada Rain

2. The Three Factors for Spiritual
Success
From the teachings of
Shrii Shrii Anandamurti
Presented by Dada Rainjitananda

3. Pran'ipa'tena
pariprashnena sevaya'

4. Success
• How to be successful in life?
• What is success?
• Real success.

5. Success in the physical plane
 I have done
 Keeping my body – sensory and motor organs
– continuously engaged in action I have
obtained various objects or done various
actions which give me the feeling of success.
 Or which society recognizes as evidence of
success.

6. In Mental Plane
 I feel successful for what I have.
 Or for what I have done
 Or for what I know
 Personal recognition
 Social recognition

7. In Mental Plane
 Side Effects:
 much intellectual development may bring mental
imbalance.

8. Temporary Success
• Material objects do not last.
• Social standards change.
• Intellect fades away.

9. How to measure success?
Satisfaction
Happiness
Inner peace
Temporary or Permanent
Limited or unlimited
Finite or Infinite

10. Real Success
2,500 years ago a Prince, though having
all the material wealth and pleasures of
life, left his palace in search of a way to be
successful in life.
A way to attain permanent success.

11. Spiritual Success
What is spirituality?
Spirituality deals with the permanent, the
infinite, the unchanging.
Spirituality deals with the feeling of
permanent bliss or Ananda

12. The Three Spheres
• Physical
• Mental
• Spiritual
• A matter of subtlety

13. Understanding Spirituality
• Many try to understand spirituality by
thinking, by reading, by using the intellect.
• The intellect only reaches
the lower mental plane.

14. Understanding Spirituality
• Spirituality can not be understood by mere
intellectual thinking.
• Spirituality is to go beyond one’s own
mind.
• Beyond one’s “I-ness” into the Cosmic “I-
ness”.

15. Attaining Spiritual Success
• To reach the spiritual sphere one has to
transform one’s individual “I” into the
Cosmic “I”.
• One’s “I am” into “You are”.
• the drop of water becomes the Ocean.

16. The First Factor
The first factor is Pran‟ipa‟tena
Surrender to the Cosmic Entity

17. “Pran'ipa'ta means complete
surrender to the Eternal Entity. The
mental attitude that "whatever is, is
from the Eternal Entity and nothing
is mine" is pran'ipa'ta.

18. One who has ego, one who thinks
that one's intellect, wealth and other
things are one's own, is the greatest
fool.”(from Discourses on Krs‟n‟a and
the Giita by Shrii Shrii Anandamurti)

19. What is Surrender?
Pitr purusebhyo namah rsi devebhyo namah.
Brahma'rpanam' Brahmahavir Brahma'gnao
Brahman'a'hutam.
Brahmaeva tena gantavyam' Brahmakarma
sama'dhina'.*
The act of offering is Brahma (the Eternal Entity);
that which is offered is Brahma; the One to
whom the offering is made is Brahma; and the
person making the offering is Brahma.
One will merge in Brahma after completing the
duty assigned to him/her by Brahma.

20. Surrender
Surrender does not mean passivity.
Surrender means activity.
Pro-activity.
The realization of the activity of the
Cosmic “I”.
Everything is done by the Cosmic “I”
and not the little “I”.

21. The Second Factor
 Pariprashna
 It
means “Questions”. To ask
questions.
 Sometimes people ask questions
only for the sake of knowledge, only
for the sake of debate, but it is not
pariprashna.

22. Pariprashna
 Pariprashna means to know what to
do and how to do.
 That is, the person is prepared to do
something.

23. Pariprashna
 He/She is prepared to do spiritual
effort (sa'dhana„), and for that
purpose he wants to know how to
do, what to do.
 This special type of question is called
pariprashna.

24. The Third Factor
 Seva’
 Service
 Selfless service to other beings.
 Offering maximum service to others and
minimum service to oneself.

25.  Do all the good you can
 In all the ways you can
 In all the places you can
 To all the people you can

26. Pran'ipa'tena
pariprashnena sevaya‘
Surrender, Proper
questioning, Service

27. • The Three Factors for Spiritual Success.
• Pariprashna
• You may ask your questions now.

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