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Om śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ. Salutations to the cosmic light, the Lord of our hearts, omniscient and omnipresent. In the divine presence of the Supreme All, dear brothers and sisters, good evening. To all the spiritual seekers, aspirants, practitioners of yoga, and blessed souls around the world who are with me now, at least through the webcast, I greet you. If you have a birthday, I wish you a happy birthday. The blessing is coming to you specially from a very divine place: the holy country, Bhārat, India, Rajasthan, Om Viśvadīp Gurukul, Swāmī Maheśvarānanda Āśram, Educational Research Center, Jhāḍan District, Pālī. You are observing the Samādhi place of our reverent, universally worshipped Satgurudev Hindu Dharma Samrāṭ Swami Śrī Madhavānandjī Mahārāj. Samādhi means his mortal body is residing here, while his immortal soul, ātmā, is merged, one with the universe. But still, his presence, his divine energy, the divine radiance reflecting here on this place—lucky are they, blessed are they who can be here on this part of the planet. Many of you know, dear brothers and sisters, today is a very special day: the anniversary of the universal worship of Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī of Baḍīkhāṭū, district Nāgaur, Rājasthān, India. You all know about Mahāprabhujī, and you have read the Līlā Amṛt, the divine glorious līlā, the divine glorious play, Miracles of Lord Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, written by our Satguru Dev, Holy Gurujī, His Holiness Swami Mādhavānandajī. India has given birth to numerous holy saints, whom you may call incarnations, you may call the ṛṣis, you may call the saints, or you may call the holy men. Hardly one village will you see in India where there has not been a great holy saint incarnated. No village is left, not a small farmer’s village, where there was no divine soul incarnated. What can I tell you? The dignity, the spirituality, the divinity of this holy soil of India. All twenty-four incarnations were placed in India. Bhagavān Śrī Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī was an incarnation of Lord Viṣṇu. Svayambhū Śiva is the first in the creation of the entire universe. Even when there were no stars and no moons, śūnyākāś, void, dark space, wherein that cosmic consciousness, Divine resonance awoke—that’s called Aum. Through that Aum, that Svayambhū Śiva manifested his cosmic form, created many stars, planets, and thousands of sun systems. All visible and invisible elements in the entire universe, in the endless universe, that is known as the body of the Svayambhū, Śiva. Consciousness. Śiva means liberation, Śiva means beauty, Śiva means truth: Satyam Śivam Sundaram. On this planet, on our mortal world, this beautiful planet, Śiva, Svayaṃ Bho, manifested himself on the holy Mount Kailāśa in the Himalayas. From there, divine laws happened. Brahmā and Viṣṇu, many sages and ṛṣis, all followed after Śiva. From there, from Kailāśa, Śiva himself was residing in the Satyuga time of the Samudra Manthan, when Asuras and Devas were churning the ocean. Out of that churning, fourteen ratnas came out; one of those was poison. The Devas did not know, and the Rākṣasas or Asuras did not know what to do with the poison. If the poison were thrown in the ocean again, the life of the ocean would be destroyed; it would die. If they threw it on the earth, the earth would be destroyed. That poison came again in Kali Yuga in the form of atoms, in the form of pesticides, in the form of urea, as what you are putting in. They went to Lord Śiva ultimately. Even Viṣṇu has to go to Śiva to solve problems. And Śiva will go to Viṣṇu too. Both are together; it is very hard to understand Śiva and Viṣṇu. Viṣṇu is praying to Śiva, and Śiva is praying to Viṣṇu. What a beautiful harmony, coordination, mutual understanding: two in one and one in two. At that time, Lord Śiva moved from Mount Kailāśa to a place between Kedārnāth and Badrināth. There is a very high hill peak where Śiva was residing, and there the devas approached Śiva and gave him that poison. Śiva said, "Give it to me," and he drank. Body is body, nature is nature. It doesn’t matter who is who. Who will drink the poison will die, doesn’t matter. But what did Śiva do? He stopped the poison in his throat and made yogic kriyā: ujjāyī prāṇāyāma, khecarī mudrā, jālandhara bandha. These are the three kriyās in yoga which can deoxidize the body from poisons. And that is in yoga a very powerful kriyā: jālandhara bandha, khecarī mudrā, and ujjāyī prāṇāyāma. Swāsa for swāsa, inhalation, exhalation, ascending, descending, breath, concentrated. And Śiva neutralized the poison. Now, that mountain is known as Nīlakaṇṭha in the Himalayas, between Kedārnātha and Badrīnātha. The highest peak of the mountain is called Nīlakaṇṭha, that name comes from Lord Śiva. From that time, from Nīlakaṇṭha Mahādeva, after a long time, there appeared a great saint called Alakhpurījī Mahārāja. Those people there call him Alakhpurī or Alakhpurī. At the time when the Pāṇḍavas went to svarga, Satopat, after winning the battle of Mahābhārata at Kurukṣetra, the Pāṇḍavas went back to Hastināpur. They got their kingdom, and finally, all the five Pāṇḍavas and Kuntī—not Draupadī, sorry—they made their way to heaven. They went through the Satopada. Draupadī and four Pāṇḍavas all remained in the snow, in glaciers. Itanā ṭhaṇḍī meṁ vo baraf ke śamān ho gaye dhacc. Only the Dharmarāja Yudhiṣṭhira with his dog managed to come through, and he got the blessing of Alakhapurījī. Because they said, without having the blessing of Alakhapurījī, there is no way to Svarga there. And so, Alakhpurījī was from that time living still in his current śarīra, transparent body, just like a fog. From heaven came Seṅgāsanā and took Yudhiṣṭhira, and Yudhiṣṭhira’s very loyal, obedient soul, his dog, also went. With the body, with these five elements, the mortal body went to heaven. That’s called coming to heaven. The whole body went towards heaven from there. That is Alakhpurījī. The same Alakhpurījī who is still awake in the Himalayas. His cave is also there, about 4,000 to 5,000 meters high, where there is only snow. There is no rock. Some of our disciples have gone there and have brought photographs. And there it is written on the cave: Devpurījī’s cave. So our tradition, our spiritual lineage, comes from Kailāśa to Nīlakaṇṭha and Satopāṭha to Alakhapurī Jī. From there a river comes out; the name of that river is Alaknandā. Have you heard the name of the Alaknanda River? The name of the Alaknandā River has come from our Alakhpurījī, Bhagavān. So the tradition of our Purīs is so old. There is no one from today’s time. There is no one from Purī or Adurī. Now, that Alakhapuri, in the name of Alakhapuri, Alaknanda River, and from there, the great sage Bhagīratha—some say from the command of Bhagīratha, some say that Bhagavān Maharṣi Bhagīratha called Gaṅgā Māyā from the sky and asked. Gaṅgā for the welfare of the living beings. The name of that river is Bhāgīrathī. From here, Bhāgīrathī comes from Gaumukhī, and from here, Alaknandā comes, and the union of both is called Dev Prayāg. Now, the name is not Dev Paryag. Paryag means to meet. Dev means Devatā. Where there is union of Gods and Gods, that is called Dev Prayāg. They say that when Alaknandā and Bhāgīrathī had a union of the two rivers, Alakhpurījī and Bhagīratha Ṛṣi had a disciple named Gaṅgā. So the name of this river, he had done a very good work of virtue, so he named it Gaṅgā. Since then, the name of this river has become Gaṅgā. With the blessings of Alakh Purījī, in the mountains of the Himalayas, Devpurījī, the great tapasvī yogī, with the power of Śiva—that is, with the power of siddhi—Devpurījī returned to India and Rajasthan. Devpurījī had such miracles: he could go through rock, he could walk on water. He could carry fire in his hands, tie it in his clothes, and take the dhunī with him. There would have been a terrible rain. There would have been 10 to 15 feet of water all around Devpurījī. Devpurījī says, "Father, there is rain in front of you, why don’t you get wet?" I said to Indra, be careful. If you get wet on me, you will be in trouble. There are still such great men in our era who walked on Nakhatalāb, who gave a report to the army of the British; it is written in Līlā Amṛt. That is Devapurījī, our grand grand master. Similarly, one day on Śivarātri, the Divine Mother, from Śrī Udaipurījī Mahārāj, Harivāśinī Gaon, District Nāgod, Rajasthan—Chandan Devījī, her name was—she sat down and made a saṅkalpa: "Āj meṁ Śaṅkar Bhagavān kā darśan karūṅgī, nahīṅ to upās kholūṅgī nahīṅ." And why is it that the devotees of Bhagavān are the ones who go to them? They are more hasty, they want to take more tests, and Bhagavān stays away from them. The devotion of lies, not obeying the Lord, the truth, the truth, the Madana, the Gopāla. Doesn’t God look good? These days, God is adorned, and God is adorned, and He is adorned. Rādhā said that Kṛṣṇa had spoiled everything. In a night, Chandān Devījī had a vision. Śiva himself came and made a praṇām and said, "I will come to see Viṣṇu. He himself will incarnate as your son," and disappeared. She was sitting in meditation in Brahmamūrti. And say it in meditation or in dream, God Śiva came and said, "Mother, I will come soon and see you. Now, Lord Viṣṇu is coming in the form of Nārāyaṇa from your womb." He became invisible. Mother’s eyes opened in the morning. She woke up and began to imagine who came, who said Śiva was and Viṣṇu, I don’t know what this was. She couldn’t understand. But after nine months, the next day on Dīvālī, Rāmasamā kā din jo kahte haiṁ hum, Dīvālī night, early morning, four o’clock, Mahāprabhujī incarnated. It is said that in Haribāsānī, when the lamps of Dīvālī were lit in the evening—there was no electricity at that time; they used to light the lamps with oil—when the lamps were extinguished, they woke up at four o’clock. And there was a shower of flowers on that village. There was no flower of Akanāra. In Haribāsānī, there is no flower of Akanāra. No one has found it. There is only Kheḍrīya. In Kheḍrīya, the Bhagnumis have also cut the leaves. They have lost it. So, Mahāprabhujī incarnated, Devpurījī came, and the rest you can read in the Līlā Amṛt. After 135 years, he told Gurujī before that, "I will live on this and this and this day." That time was then, 1963, 5th of December, in Brahmamūrta, Wednesday. According to the sun calendar, according to... The Indian sun calendar, we are following this, called the moon calendar. So Indian days and dates are followed by the moon calendar. And the moon calendar was post-Kṛṣṇa Caturthī, so Povad Chauth. Today is Povad Chauth, Mahāprabhujī. This day was Brahma-Lean. So, in memory of our universally worshipped Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, we all bhaktas have gathered here to pay our homage and respect to our Lord Mahāprabhujī, who brought the message of Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī to us, our beloved Holy Gurujī, His Holiness Swami Mādhavānandjī Mahārāj. Dear brothers and sisters, this night is dedicated to Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī. Many devotees you see here and up at the gallery are coming from different parts of the world, as well as from different parts of India. All devotees here will be singing beautiful bhajans the whole night. You see, many great singers are sitting, many artists, kalākār artists, singing beautiful Rajasthani folk melodies, folk songs, bhajans; you will enjoy. It is very hard to translate. Recently, just now we were sitting and listening to a bhajan. It was in a very Rajasthani language: to the maṇḍak, a frog. "O frog, give up the attachment to this little pond. Go and live in the endless ocean." So, this world, māyā, is a small pond. Brahmaloka is the endless ocean. "Oh, my soul, divine, give up this hope in this world. Accept disappointment, suffering, conflict, confusion, and pain. Troubles, nothing else is here. Come on, let’s... Go to the Paramanand forever and ever." Here sitting is our Mahant Jī, Śrī Kailāś Purī Jī of village Khardi, district Palli, Rajasthan. He will sing such a nice Prabhāti morning bhajan. You will enjoy. I suggest you don’t sleep tonight. Indian time, 2:30, he will begin—2:30 or 3 o’clock—and in Europe it’s only 8 or 9 o’clock. You are lucky ones. You will enjoy the singing. And here, sitting very classical—not only the folk, but classical. They are all very nice artists sitting with beautiful instruments, and they are going to sing a beautiful devotional song. "Oh, my Gurudev, oh Lord Giver, bestow upon me the devotion. If you want to give me, oh Giver, then give me bhakti, devotion. No money, no wife, no husband, no children, no wealth—all I can get, I will, I can do it. But bhakti, from where to get, my Lord? Guru bhakti is, in all the bhakti, the best devotion. But bhakti is declared guru bhakti. All sub-gyān, so gyānī, gyān, so ātmā gyān, in all different knowledges, only the self-realization is the best, highest knowledge. Bhaktirō Gyāna Dātā Dījī, O my Devan. Ka Dev, O Lord of the Lord, Janam Dhar Vishrung Nahi, Bhulunga Nahi. Many, many lives I repeat to come on this mortal world, I will never forget you, my Lord. Please bestow thy grace on me, your merciful look on me, just let... Make me feel thy divinity. All this material love and touching efforts, all you are in this, all in this dirtiness of this māyā world. But how to come, my Guru? They hold my hand, hold my Gurudev, my hand, and let me cross the ocean of ignorance." Today, my dear brothers and sisters, enjoy. If there’s some bhajan, I will translate, or I will sit here, or I may not be here, but all these beautiful people will be here. They are singing, and you... We will also be with, and we will try to record that one day. You can get a record. I bless you all. Today is a day dedicated to the yoga of devotion, Bhakti Yoga, and to our beloved Mahāprabhujī in his memory, on his 45th anniversary. So I welcome you and thank you, and all those who are here from different worlds, different parts of the world. To all who are listening to my voice and are watching me via the webcast, you are all very much welcome from my side. Āśīrvād. We are celebrating the 45th anniversary of the worship of Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī in Jardhan. People from different countries have come and sat here. And see that the land of Rajasthan, the land of Tapas, the land of Tyāga, the land of Śūravīra, Bhūmi Rajasthan, and all the people who are sitting here from Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Maharashtra, and other places—and in the Deśī language we will be listening to your bhajans. You will be listening to bhajans today. We will be telling you about Bhakti Yoga... We talk about such knowledge, devotion, and karma every day. Today is Bhakti Yoga. You listen to the bhajan. You are welcome, because love is one. Love is not two. Truth is one. Truth is not two. God is one. Truth is not two. Soul is one. Jīvātmā is one. In the same way, devotion is one. Whether we believe in any religion, whether we believe in any religion. This is that kind of love. Why is this a house of love and not a house of free will? Śiṣ utār caraṇ dhare, pausey gar ke mā, kāyarman mane śaṅkare, prema kā marak baṅkare. Śūra devī śiśa arpaṇa jānakāre prema kā māraka banakāre. So such great men are sitting, see, like Swami Vivekānanda jī, wearing a turban. You will also sing bhajan. Our Ganesh Purījī Mahārāj, Mahant Śrī, you will also do that. Purījī Mahārāj, Mahantjī will sit in our maṇḍapa. All the good brothers will sit and sing bhajan. You all are invited. You all sit with us in the satsaṅg. Maybe Roger, yeah, I’m dicker a up. Near our idea, Guru Dev in the Durvāsā Samrāṭ Swami Madhavānandjī Mahārāj, keep on in samādhi. I am here. You can get part is very, very much money or income near guṇa so rūpa. Do I’m so be kiss at me or śakun so rūpa? Say yeah, be Rāj man, hey. Up cash Fagot hey, up cash Fagot hey. Both Shri Deep Narayan Bhagavān kī, Deveśvara Mahādeva kī, Dharma Samrāṭ Satguru Swāmī Madhavānanjī Bhagavān, Satya Sanātana Dharma kī, Sab Ṛṣi Munī Mahātmā kī, Mahāt Pitā Gurudeva, Har Har. Mahādeva. Mahā Kāṭha Dukkha Bhāga Bhave Om Śānti.