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Atma Is Shiva
4:45 - 5:56|Recorded on 1 Mar 2014
Morning Lecture by Vishwaguru Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda from Vep, Hungary.
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Morning Yoga practice, Umag, Croatia (5/9)
6:00 - 7:31
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From: 29 Sep 2010
A guided practice integrating Sūrya Namaskār, āsanas, Prāṇāyāma, and meditation.
Begin with Sūrya Namaskār, synchronizing breath and movement to generate warmth. Feel its influence on body, breath, and mind. Practice dynamic movements to deepen postures, adjusting speed to warm the body. Then practice Kāṭha Praṇām to feel its distinct influence. Proceed to specific āsanas like Aśva Sañcālanāsana and Meru Ākāra Nāsana, moving with awareness and avoiding strain. Feel each posture's effect. Transition to Prāṇāyāma, practicing Anuloma Viloma with focused breath. Visualize cleansing with exhalation and receiving vitality with inhalation. Conclude with meditation, repeating a mantra or performing mental worship to cultivate stillness and awareness.
"Feel the complete influence of Sūrya Namaskār on the body, on your breath, on your mind."
"Visualize that with each exhalation, all toxins leave the body, and with each inhalation, health, happiness, and contentment enter."
Filming location: Umag, Croatia
You are the ocean of bliss
7:35 - 8:44
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From: 1 Jun 2008
The self is bliss, Ānandoham. Negative thoughts poison the body and mind; divine thoughts purify and create protection. The power of thoughts comes not from the brain, heart, or soul, but from the universal Ātmā. The soul is individual, while the Ātmā is the formless, universal reality that never changes. Within you is the fountain of joy and the ocean of bliss. Kill this little “I” and lead a divine life. Material happiness is temporary, like bubbles on water. Eternal bliss is the divine, the origin to which all beings seek to return. Even Śiva and Pārvatī could not please everyone, showing outer criticism is inevitable. Therefore, relax, do not control thoughts, and find inner peace. The parrot’s tale reveals wisdom must be left behind and alertness protects consciousness. Contentment makes one truly rich, not outer wealth. Take time daily to meditate, repeat a mantra, or simply experience inner happiness. Negative karma and destiny bind, but self-realization liberates. The final destination is to merge into oneness, the immortal bliss.
“Within you is the fountain of joy, and within you is the ocean of bliss. Within you is the immortal Self.”
“When I was here, he was not there. Now he is here, but I am not there. Because the street of love is so narrow, two cannot walk together.”
Filming location: Vép, Hungary
DVD 439
Gurudev is a goldsmith
8:50 - 9:29
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From: 1 Aug 2005
Welcome to the spiritual home. Its atmosphere is a blessing of presence.
You have entered the Ashram, which is a Paras-stone. Contact transforms your substance, like iron to gold, but three qualities remain: sharpness, form, and danger. The Satguru, as a goldsmith, can break these with the hammer of knowledge. This process is a beautiful pain. We are here for lectures on Nāda-Yoga and practice. Questions can be submitted for public or private answer. Prayer and singing happen daily. Prasāda, a blessed offering, is distributed. It grants Satbuddhi—good intellect and thoughts—which leads to world peace. It brings Siddhi: health, joy, and prosperity. The divine itself seeks blessing. True value is understood through devotion, not transaction. Distribute prasāda intuitively, not by counting. We also celebrate birthdays and offer collective prayers for specific intentions. Heartfelt good wishes are a powerful blessing.
"An iron knife is united with the Paras. What happens? The knife turns into gold."
"Prasāda means blessing. Blessing means Prasāda."
Filming location: Strelka Ashram, Europe
DVD 224
Don't expect miracles
9:35 - 10:21
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From: 22 Aug 2017
The soul’s journey to Brahmaloka through the guru’s grace demands endless patience, for the guru shepherds the devotee across lifetimes until liberation.
Worldly life is everything, but the guru follows the soul to Brahmaloka over vast time. The greatest error is to postpone spiritual effort, saying “Tomorrow” or “Next year.” Expecting swift miracles leads to psychic illness—depression, hallucination, false imagination. The only miracle is death; otherwise, the soul waits long in the queue of other realms. The guru’s blessing, given as shelter, protects the disciple until the journey’s end. Purifying the soul’s accumulated karma, heavy as tons of debris, requires ages. Negative thoughts create parallel difficulties. The guru can grant instant liberation but refrains. A farmer delayed joining the guru due to attachment to his son. He waited for his son’s marriage, then a grandchild, then to repay debts. He died and was reborn as a cow, still attached to family duties. The guru visited, offering liberation, but the soul postponed. As a dog guarding the house, it again delayed. As a cobra shielding its grandchild, it was killed by family. The soul became a worm, the lowest form. The guru placed the worm in a lotus offered to Vishnu. At Vishnu’s lotus feet, the worm attained moksha. The guru’s grace carries the soul to Brahmaloka even when karma worsens.
“Do not expect any miracles. And if you want to expect miracles, then you will become psychically ill: depression, hallucination, wrong imagination.”
“Even if your karma is getting worse and worse, one day it will be that you will get into the Brahmaloka.”
Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic
