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Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Aikī, Deveśvar Mahādev Aikī, Dharma Samrāṭ Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Aikī, Satya Sanātanadar Aikī. Good morning. Today is a beautiful day of Lord Śiva. It is the day of consciousness, the day of light, the day of energy, the day of liberation, and the day of mercy. Among all the goddesses—'goddess' meaning gods—do not think it signifies a lesser god. Some people say 'semi-god'. There is no semi-god. God is God. There is no 'semi'. 'Semi' is the name of a person, is it not? God is God. When we say more, we can say gods or goddesses. Sometimes the name 'goddess' is used for the female gods. Yes, they are very great, very divine. They are respected and adored even by Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva, because in spirituality and in the divine, there is no difference or discrimination of genders. Gender does not present any obstacles or anything that can be against spirituality. Therefore, in Sanātana Dharma, in Hinduism, in Vedic traditions, it does not matter if it is a masculine power or a feminine power; the embodiment of God can be in different forms. You see Śiva and Śakti, Gaurī Śaṅkar; Śiva and Śakti are one. And that is in everyone, in every human. In every man, half the person is known as Śakti and half as Śiva tendencies. In the consciousness of the man, there exists more feminine energy. And in females, there is also half male and half female; in their consciousness is more male power. That is in nature. Men think more about women, and women think more about men, except in some cases of psychic illness. Therefore, goddess—you can see gods and goddesses are mentioned, the female goddess and male god. But again, we have to remove this one word, and that we call gender. So, it is not used for female or male, only God. Among all these gods and goddesses, the most merciful is Lord Śiva and also Śakti, because there is a mother’s love. When we see in the form of the divine—be it Pārvatī, Śaktī, Lakṣmī, Durgā, Sarasvatī, Kālī, and so on—there we feel the love of a mother: protection, liberation, kindness, the divine. A bhakta, a devotee, a worshipper, does not have the consciousness of seeing as a female or a male, but only one, and that’s God. And when we see this in the world, then there will be equality, then there will be peace and harmony. Then there will be no discrimination, there will be no abusing; there will be pure love, like we spoke about yesterday evening. Do not see dualities. We spoke of this last of all. What in this entire universe is existing? Finally, we come to one, and that is the truth. And after this, all that is existing—how, what is it finally? It comes to one. That is the love, and that is why it is said, "Love is God and God is love." "Truth is God and God is truth." That truth is love, and that love is God. That means our devotion, our bhakti, without any doubts, is called transparent, spotless, nirañjana. There are no impurities; it is crystal clear, transparent, divine. That is where there is unity. Otherwise, it is merely emotion and intellect. Both emotion and intellect are not everlasting. But the jñāna, the ātmā, the bhakti, the prema—that is what we call God. And this lady who is talking on the radio is also—we do not say 'lady'; she is ātmā—but she should go far away to translate. It disturbs. Thank you very much. So, that is how we see it is our own benefit, our own advantage, our own interest, and that yes, we do trust. Can I disturb my webcasting, please? Ladies, can you go on the stage and do like they were doing always? Thank you, always technician. Take care that I don’t have to correct. So, it is our own benefit: how we see, how we feel, how we respect, how we value—that is very important for us. Where there is love, there is also no hate, no jealousy, and no anger of the kind which is damaging. Otherwise, where there is love, there is strictness also, and that strictness we need. So the Śiva principle, that principle, is so gentle, so pure, and with a little prayer he can give everything. And you know, God himself is surrendering to that bhakti or love. Kṛṣṇa, God Kṛṣṇa said, in the entire universe there is nothing which can limit me, which can create any obstacle. Only there is one, and that is stronger than me, Kṛṣṇa said, and that is love, bhakti. Also, in Karma Yoga, Kṛṣṇa said, "In the entire universe, in this endless universe, there is nothing which I cannot have." Everything is available to me. Still, I am acting; I am making karma. I pray, and I work. Because, he said, the people will follow and imitate what you did. So, for the sake of the humans, I am acting. Arjuna, even not doing karma is also karma, and that’s heavier karma, like you are lazy, you are doing nothing. Now, this is a very, very bad karma you are doing. First of all, you do not know the value of time. Secondly, you don’t know the time of your life. And therefore, it is said, not to value and not to respect the time, to neglect the time, is the biggest sin. Śrameka apamāna. Śrameka apamāna. Apamāna means humiliation, misuse, not following, discrimination. So if you are a lazy person, then you create the sin that you don’t respect what is given by God, which is very, very precious for our life. Nothing is more precious for our life than time. You have everything. You would like to enjoy everything. Doesn’t matter what you think at all. You are very happy. And now, a message came that only half an hour, or 20 minutes, or one minute, you have a life. You will die now. What is more precious for you, this one minute or all your wealth, your kingdom? What do you think? Just to save this life, you will be ready to give everything now. You realized what means the time? Oh, sorry. Therefore, Gurujī said in one bhajan, "Oh brothers, wake up. Your chance is going out of your hands. You are losing your chance. The ignorance is the sleep, your laziness, and the result of this laziness." It will be that many, many... many lives you will suffer, only because you were sleeping in this human life as a lazy one. And because you are lazy, because you have ignorance. A lazy person will not get anything in life. And if the lazy person gets something, they will get it and lose it again. Therefore, Kṛṣṇa said, not doing anything is also an action that you do. You are looking, sitting here, and one child is running and falling in the water, and that child can’t swim. But you are doing nothing; you are just looking, and the child died. That means also that you did nothing, which you could have done. It is burning. Your whole house is burning, and even you didn’t dare to telephone someone. Now we have telephones. Before, was there anything? Make a noise, a bell or anything. And similarly, you are ready to sit for half an hour or one hour with someone somewhere and drink the coffee and gossip. Do we need a half hour or one hour to drink? Little coffee, drink it. You want to drink one, two, three? Let’s go. The time of the gush a pink that we did not respect the time which God gave us, and we never know when and in which form may God is coming to us or standing in front of us, and we deny. So don’t think that God will always appear nicely dressed, with a flute in his hand, a nice crown with peacock feathers, and you know, smiling like Kṛṣṇa or Rāma. Don’t think that he will always come like this. And if he stands somewhere on the road like this, you will say, "Somebody is a crazy person." Because we cannot imagine that Kṛṣṇa is suddenly standing on the road like this, playing flute. So we will say, you see, someone is playing theater, and that is again wrong judgment, which we are judging. Who are we to judge wrong? So always be positive without discrimination. You should have that divine feeling in that love. It doesn’t matter if God is in female form or male form. It has divine light for us. It’s great. So, Śiva and Śakti. Śiva is consciousness. Śakti is that divine energy or love. That’s protection. That’s liberation, and that’s our aim. Now, God must not be dressed like Indians on the altar, or God must not be in some other incarnation somewhere, in form, or must not be like Jesus, the Son of God, what he used to say, suffering on the cross. Must we see him always suffering on the cross? We shall give Jesus a beautiful, nice form, nice dress, like yesterday we saw in the video. You haven’t seen? Someone has done a beautiful documentary film about one hero, a great personality of Slovakia, and there’s also given a picture in the church of Jesus, but very nicely: Jesus has curly hair, beautiful and nice dress, ironed, and you know, full dressed. It looks beautiful, nice, so we must not always see that he is suffering. This is to awake a kind of guilty feeling in us, and we should not feel the guilt. The time is gone, and we want to help him, we want to love him, we want to adore him. Our life we give him, so in different ways, but it doesn’t matter. If he is this form or that form or this form, our eyes should be very nice and clear, full of devotion, love, and respect. Because love should create happiness, not sadness. And even if it is sad, we have to understand. Jise śāstra kāṭe, na agni jalāve, bujhāve na pāni, na mṛtyu mitāve. No weapon can kill, no fire can burn, no element can destroy, and death cannot take away. I am Saccidānanda Ātmā. So many who fight for the Dharma, life was not easy. You know, especially now, to fight for the Dharma and world peace, it has become a sensitive point. It’s a hot potato. Who fights for peace is a target of a gun. Gandhiji fought for peace. Was killed? Many of your heroes in your country, they were fighting for peace and unity, were killed. It’s very hard because the āśram śakti is more. It is said there was one great saint, a Muslim great saint, and he used to say one mantra or something, "Annal Ḥaq." I don’t understand the language, but maybe in Urdu or in Persian language, "Annal Ḥaq" means I am the ātmā. No one can kill, no one can destroy. So, according to their belief, they said he should not do. But he was a great saint, Ātmajñāna. They prohibited him, but he kept on saying, preaching. Then they hanged him up. They crucified him, like Jesus was crucified. So it’s not only that Jesus was crucified. It happened many times with many others in this world. It doesn’t matter. He said, he said, Anil Ḥaq. He had nails in his head, a crown of thorns, and also nails in his hands and body. But still, he’s saying Anil Ḥaq. Blood was dripping, every blood drop was saying, "Anil Ḥaq." And so, his body died. But though the body died, still there were words coming out of "Anul Ḥaqq, Anul Ḥaqq." They thought, "Now he will become a ghost or something." Generally, they buried the body, but in this case, they burned his body. They burned his body, and all this fire and ash, what remained, they put together. And out of this ash was coming the word, "Anul Ḥaqq, Anul Ḥaqq." Then they surrendered him to Him. And then everyone accepted that there is some truth called Ātmā. So we humans wake up too late. We realize something too late, so there are many, many, many stories. Look, the Pitāmah Bhīṣma in Mahābhārata, you see, who was also fighting for the peace and protection of the Dharma of his dynasty, and he got his arrows in his body so many that he fell down, and he was like hanging, sleeping on the bed of the arrows, hundreds of arrows through his body. But still he was alive, because he had a blessing, icchā-mṛtyu, icchā-mṛtyu. Many, very few people have this, or few had this. You are not immortal. They asked the God, Brahmā, to give me immortality, but Brahmā said, "This I cannot give you." But you can find something, or ask for something, that you cannot be killed by this, or this, or this, and that I can give you. But sooner or later, one day you have to die. That’s it. So, Icchāmṛtyu means you will not die unless you don’t wish to die. But one day you have to wish to die. That was a blessing for Bhīṣma. You’ve seen Mahābhārata in the videos. The Pitāmaha Bhīṣma, the great warrior Bhīṣma, who denied, he didn’t marry for the sake of his father. This story is long; I will not tell you all. Because the king, his father, fell in love with a girl who was the daughter of a man who had a boat and earned his money by letting people cross the ocean and rivers. He didn’t want his daughter to marry that king. The king was suffering. Because only one condition was that her son should become the king. And you know, in the kings everywhere around the world, the eldest son is the king. So the eldest son was already the Bhīṣma, and the father was unhappy. Father was between now. He can’t take the rights of his son, Bhīṣma. But at the same time, he can’t live without that lady. He wants to marry her, so he was depressed. He was in depression and suffering. He didn’t come out of the house. Depression, depression. So you know, the depression was there at that time also, before five or six thousand years. It’s not new, and there were also treatments for depression, you know. Depression treatment is to give the person what he or she is liking. Okay. Many girls are in depression because they can’t get the boy whom they want to marry. Or many, many men, they are in depression and suiciding because they can’t get that woman. This is the sign of ignorance, or whatever you call it; we are not going in this direction. So, Bhīṣma came to know that his father’s wish was this. So, he went to the father of that lady and said, "I quit my rights. I will not become king." The king will be your son. He promised her father. And her father said, "Yes, Bhīṣma, I understand you very well." And thank you that you are ready to do this. But you know that you have rights only to deny your rights, but you cannot take the rights of your grandchildren. Your children’s rights you cannot take away, and your grandchildren’s rights you cannot take away. This is like in inheritance: when you have one man married to three or four women and has three or four children, you know that man is dead; he is already under the earth. He’s under the earth, and who is in the lawyer’s office? The children from three ladies. So before you do something, marry here and there, please do something before that. You don’t have nothing behind, or sell it, get rid of it. Except this body, nothing is there. So don’t do this to your children. It doesn’t matter, ladies or men or women, I tell you, don’t create complication for your children, or your brothers and sisters, for your families. So this is also a reason that you should not get divorced and don’t marry again. You have one child. And when you marry, you know how the other child is suffering. Anyhow, then Bhīṣma said, "My love, my aim is that my father is happy." It is said that when children come to know what a parent’s wish is, they should fulfill it. And disciples come to know what a master’s wish is, they should fulfill it. And direction also. So Bhīṣma said to the father of that girl, I promise you that I will not marry. Are you happy now? Because I will not marry, I will have no children, and no one will fight for my rights. Then he said, "Okay." And then he got married, and then the whole Mahābhārata complication began. This blind king, and that, and this, and that—everything still began. So the Bhīṣma, who was married, Bhīṣma was now as Gaṅgā-putra. And so he had the blessing of Icchā Mṛtyu, that no one could kill him. Only he will die when he wishes. Now I want to die. So, though he had so many arrows in his whole body and he was lying on the bed of arrows, blood was flowing, but still life was there; he didn’t die. At the end of the Mahābhārata, the five Pāṇḍavas came, because they always respected him like a grandfather, and said, "Grandfather, bless us and give us some instruction on what we should do in our life." Viśva said many things, and he realized his mistakes also. And he said to Yudhiṣṭhira, "Dharamarāj Yudhiṣṭhira, you are the king of Dharma because you followed the Dharma." I tell you the best thing you could do is ahiṃsā, non-violence. Ahiṃsā paramodharma Pitāmabhīṣma said this to Yudhiṣṭhira. And since that time, this word ahiṃsā came, non-violence. The words, thoughts, and words were born by the intellect, or vivekā or buddhi, of Bhīṣma. And that word, that sentence, we still carry on: Ahimsa. Non-violence towards any creature, physically, mentally, emotionally, intellectually, socially, politically—in every aspect, non-violence is very important. Because when you are not doing physically, but mentally you are doing, then it is very gentle. But this very gentle frazil has a more terrible effect than just to chip once more head away and hurry home. That you will not suffer. But when you are criticizing negatively, have a negative thought, and try to disturb and try to harm someone with backbiting. That kind of hiṁsā, that kind of violence, is more terrible and painful than just to kill it once. There are many kinds of suicide, self-murder, many. One jumps in the water or hangs up, or this and that. Okay. It’s not okay, but you died immediately. But the second kind of suicide, which will kill you slowly, slowly, your whole life, and that is called drugs. That is also suicide. An alcoholic is so dependent and is lifelong torturing his life and family and everyone. That alcoholic... He is killing, slowly, slowly, that painful life he has so long. He is killing with some other kind of drugs. Therefore, we have only one kind of drug, and that is our food and water. We need nourishment, that’s all. And the second is our devotion, bhakti. To God, bhakti to all humans, to all creatures, to everyone, and therefore, in one, in one bhajan, it is said, "Now I am so happy." I am in divine intoxication. Divine. That is the name of God. The rest of the test of the world is testless. So happy are they who constantly have a love for, and good wishes for, everyone. Understand, forgive, bondage. And suffering is that you hate someone, and you are a jealous person who has jealousy toward someone. It means you don’t like that person, but it doesn’t matter what you are doing. Before going to sleep, instead of having a picture of God in your mind, you have a picture of that person whom you don’t like when you get up. You don’t have a picture and thought of your father, mother, or your Gurudev, or God, whatever you call, but that person about whom you are jealous. When you go shopping and looking for something nice, you would like to give to someone, but you are jealous of someone. That picture is all the times in front of you, more than God, but you don’t like that. And that is already the fruit of this, that you have more than what you don’t like. So when Kṛṣṇa was a few years old, only a few years, from Gokul, he said he is going now to Mathura. And they said, "Why, Kṛṣṇa, are you going to Mathura?" There is a devil, Kaṃsa is there, and he is searching for you to kill. So Kṛṣṇa said, "Yes, he is my uncle, and I must go to visit him." They said, "Don’t go. He is so angry with you, and he is searching day and night to find you." Kṛṣṇa said, "That’s why I am going." Because he thinks of me so much, it doesn’t matter who thinks how. Angry or happy or this, I must go. You see, so that when you think about your enemy or someone you don’t like, and you are jealous, that one is all the time in front of you. So, what you think and who thinks of you, you are always together. So, thinking power is very strong. The mind is stronger than the body. And the speed of the mind is very, very high, a very high speed. Nothing is quicker than the mind. When we call it the entire universe, now we know everything, the entire universe. That is mind speed. Sun, moon, Jupiter, you know, within, though even this was too slow, what I said. But the mind is quicker. Similarly, as the mind is quicker, the quicker mistakes are taking place. That quickly, we take over the negative karmas. Therefore, we pray and we think of God more. And that is called divine consciousness, Śiva, and that divine Śakti, that is called the Śakti. That is the unity, the unity of consciousness and love. The unity of that matter and consciousness. That is the unity of Jīva to Śiva. So our jīva, we are the śakti, and Śiva is that consciousness. And Jīva and Śiva are very near. Like you have water in your hand, and you see there is one drop hanging. In the palm, you have water, and a water drop is hanging here between the fingers. And you are standing on the ocean near. Now the distance is only a few centimeters. When this drop, which is originated from the ocean—doesn’t matter how, through the steam, clouds, rain, and so on—but it is the origin of that ocean. Now, this drop, boond, it will fall into the ocean, become Śiva ocean, one with the ocean. Similarly, this human life is that where this jīva, the soul, is so close; little distance is to liberation and to everything. It will fall again, so hold it on the origin, on Śiva. Same water, you can have it go somewhere in the Sahara, in the sand, or on the dry stone. It will be sucked into the stone or the sand. And this one big drop, in how many thousands and billions of drops it has to become again to get steam. And, to again, if all this collective energy will come again to there or not. Therefore, we are that boond, we are that drop, we are that jīvā, we are that human. And we should not leave the ocean; we should be on the ocean, in the ocean, near the ocean. So that, finally, it drops into that ocean. So finally, our Jīva becomes one with Śiva, Śiva-loka, that is divine, great. So Monday is a beautiful day for fasting. Monday is a beautiful day for thinking, to become one with that divine consciousness. This. So, actually, I wanted to have a meditation today for the Mūlādhāra Chakra and its elements, fire, but in the next lecture it will be. So, I wish you today a very nice day, many blessings, and pray to Devapurījī, Alagpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, and Gurujī, our holy lineage, Alagpurījī Siddha, that ever and ever hold you above that ocean of immortality, that you drip into that divinity. Remain under the center of the Gurudev. That’s it. Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Deveśvara Mahādeva, Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān, Satya Sanātana Dharma, Oṃ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ.