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Part 1: The Fire of Love and the Path of Yoga Hari Om and good morning, dear brothers and sisters all over the world who are with us through this webcasting from the Yoga in Daily Life seminar in Web, Hungary. We are deep in winter, outside it is freezing, but in our yoga seminar we all feel hot through sādhanā, through darśan and satsaṅg, through the mutual understanding and being together, we all feel warm. For us, it is not a dark, depressive, cloudy winter day. For us, this is a glorious, sunny morning. And we are expecting our beloved Guru Dev, Vishwaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramahaṁsa, Śrī Svāmījī Maheśvarānandajī to join us in this hall, which for the last 15 years has been filled by his love, light, his personal realization, strength, his purity, protection, and love. Mahāprabhujīp Karatā Mahāprabhujīp Karatā He Kevalam Purījī, Purījī... To be purified, even to be liberated, Gurudev enters this hall, and the joy, the happiness of love, is vibrating. Love is everything. Only love unites. Only love opens our nāḍīs. Only love expands through all the limitations of all five kośas. That love holds the universe together, unites everything, blesses us with a sense of existence, and opens all gates. All gates or blockages in our being, from the physical to the spiritual level of the human, only love can open. Love is that fire which removes the obstacles. Love expands, opens. Only love can take us really closer to the worthy aims of human life. The worthiest of all is God, Gurudev, our own Ātmā, the Self. There, we can come only to the purity of love, and then we will express and experience the love of purity. Then purity will show what love really means. Endless, endless ocean in which all our stiffness, weakness, confusion, ignorance, pain, and complexes will melt. Through the fire of love, we will just melt what is transient. We will melt and dive into the eternal. In these moments, when we are together with the embodiment of eternity, with Gurudev, we cannot compare it with anything else. Love came to teach us, to show us what love is. Through that love, we love anything that we love. To purify our love to divine love means to make all our other loves in human life pure and safe. Love should make us feel safe. That we learn that we may become that love which makes everyone around us feel safe, really accepted without any judgment. That is the love without backup, without expectations, without guilt, without fear. Direct, direct love that is divine. Endless acceptance through endless belonging. For that, we practice yoga, āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, bandhas, mudrās, kriyās, mantras, prayers, and saṅkalpas. We prepare ourselves, our nāḍīs, our bodies, and our minds to get that strength and courage to love. Therefore, the highest joy is darśan, to see, to be in presence, to be with, and to unite with the divine presence, the true presence of Gurudeva. His form, his body, is just an instrument, a tool, a picture which will help us so that through that vision we can enter into the heart of Gurudeva. The body sitting in front of us will open the gate of love again and again. Your yoga name for Gautama? And she was in the Himalayas and brought from the holy lake, Sarovar, Mansarovar, and so this is for, especially for the children who are handicapped, and through the Jadan school, so please, who is responsible to take money for the Gyānputra, who is collecting money for a disabled, handicapped child, okay? Either from a warm cloth, or a cycle, or education for handicapped children. Thank you. Who wrote a letter to me saying that she has nothing to do? She said she has nothing to do now. Okay, sit down. Okay. The question is, my student has a terrible headache. What technique or treatment do you recommend? I think every tenth person has a problem, a headache. And the main reason is this: all people who have terrible headaches, I realize they don’t drink enough water, not alcohol, water. These people, if they drink more than two liters of water every day—more than two liters, two and a half liters, and in summer three and a half liters—their headaches will be 80% better. The other 20% is through Anulom Vilom Prāṇāyām, and for better circulation, I stopped drinking coffee. There was one lady who had a very bad headache, a terrible headache in Vienna, and we found out that she was hardly drinking anything except 20 coffees per day. Coffee is very good, said against cancer and against many things. I don’t know, my hands are up. But too much is too much, for the liver is not good. Also, Sarabhita Āsana every day, this exercise will keep us better, not to have the headache. Some people, by nature, have a time of weather changing, inwardly and outwardly. So, mostly ladies have more headaches. You can see they are inside, so they should relax. They should learn to love others, not themselves. I mean, you don’t have a headache, and she doesn’t have a headache. But this is a normal analysis. Time of the weather changing, time of menstruation, times of pressures, and things like this. So we are on these exercises, and in the worst case, you can have a painkiller. Though it’s not so good. Doing everyday netī, doing Brahmrī Prāṇāyām, and doing some exercises bending forward to release and stress the back muscles and neck muscles will release the headache. Enough? I can talk the whole day about headaches. I have a lot of headaches. There’s another question someone asked: “Who has a birthday, a 50th birthday? Who was it?” So all the best. In a few days, he will have a birthday. One question was, what is a religion? So you were in the religious class, so you must know what religion is, no? In every school, there is a religious class in many countries, except India. India is a country of the origin of religion, but now, unfortunately, its constitution is different. And religion is coming from relation. Sanātana is a relation. That this ātmā, this jīvātmā is related to God. This is a relation, and our duty is to realize this: that we are a part of God. So, to realize your relation becomes religion. So they said, “Why is yoga not a religion?” Because yoga is the father of religions. There are three: universe, consciousness, and uniting energy, and that’s yoga. Any more? Nothing. You can ask questions, but there are no answers. Very clearly. So, we come to our program. This weekend we had a very interesting program. Day before yesterday, Friday evening, according to spirituality, what was, means the Christmas or every holy festival. Morning, yesterday we had a meditation, and after, I spoke about meditation: to come to the inner clarity, to solve certain problems, to get the answer which you have been waiting for many years, and so on, is through meditation. Meditation is the way, and meditation cannot be done without having pure antaḥkaraṇa, manas, buddhi, citta, and ahaṃkāra. This has to be purified through karma yoga, through bhakti yoga, through jñāna yoga, through rāja yoga, then comes meditation. Then we had a third meeting yesterday evening. His Excellency, the Ambassador of India, he spoke about the meaning of the sun. The importance of the sun in our life means for the whole planet, means for existence. Those who read the Mahāśiv Purāṇa and those who have seen the Mahāśiv Purāṇa, many have it at home. Many we saw in Strilky in summer last year, and how the Swayambhū Śiva appears. Because everything is coming from Swayambhū, who has manifested himself to make the creation. Before, there was only śūnyākāś, and there Śiva becomes the creator of Viṣṇu and tells him, “Go, Viṣṇu, and do tapasyā, perform tapas.” And through the tapasyā of heat—the fire, Viṣṇu is the fire—the water element was also created. And so, how important are the air, water, five elements, tattvas, or mahābhūtas? Now, what happens when we do something extra? Okay, the sun is there, we know. Okay, the sun is very important, rising. It is a fire, and so on and so on. Okay, everything. There were two worlds, which the ambassador told. When one dies, there are two paths, Candrayāṇa or Sūryayāṇa. Chandrayāṇa means the moon, Sūrya is the sun. According to the yogic science and wisdom, and it is actually those yogīs who discovered all of this, what science is accepting now, they have to accept. So it was already discovered long, long ago. And so, according to the Kuṇḍalinī Yoga, there is the Candraṇāḍī and Sūryanāḍī. Then there is one psychologist who wrote a book from America, Life After the Death. And he wrote too, “Life Beyond Death.” Where he speaks, his experience is that he interviewed people from different parts of the world, from different cultures, religions, believers and non-believers. Those people who had a kind of death, the doctor declares, “He died, this person,” and then after half a minute or one minute, came back to life. How do they call clinical death? Now he interviews the people about what happened, and someone tells the first main thing: everyone tells him they saw a tunnel. I went through one tunnel that was full of light, one tunnel that was cold with a little blue light, and one that just appeared into the light. So this is when the soul leaves this body. Prana, actually, when it goes through the Iḍā Nāḍī, Chandra Nāḍī, then you have the feelings and visions of the blue light. And that means you again will have to go in the procession. The moon rises at different times, growing from a half moon to a full moon, then back to the dark and half moon; this means it changes. Sūrya Nāḍī is coming to the sun, and that is the Suṣumnā uniting. In our big chart of the Nāḍīs in the “Hidden Powers in Humans” book, you see that chart, that from Sahasrāra Cakra there is one stream which goes directly from Sahasrāra Cakra to the heart. And that’s the heart, which is still, say, the seat of the jīvā and the light of the ātmā. So this all is a science which is spoken in yoga scriptures by yogīs. Everything was very detailed and explained. And Suṣumnā, when it awakes, that is rare, in rare, whose consciousness is really purified, who has no anger, who has no doubts, who has no jealousy, who has no negative words in mind, in the dictionary, in the dictionary of that person’s mind, mental dictionary, intellectual dictionary. There is no word, existing negative against someone, and speaking or writing or behaving or doing wrong to someone. In the twelfth chapter of the Bhagavad Gītā, Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa, God Kṛṣṇa, is saying that the devotee who has the same love for friends and enemies is dear to me and will come directly to me, and that is not easy for us all, still. So we have jealousy, we have greed, we have anger, we have hate, we have a lot of ambitions, and we are very far from that Sahasrāra Cakra. Maybe we just try to awake in Mūlādhāra according to that science. So truth is truth, and it’s not me who is telling. You can look in your inner mirror; you know better than anybody. One saint said, I went to search and see in this world some bad people, but I didn’t find anyone. And when I searched within me, no one was worse than me. So before we blame someone, before we tell someone, we should search ourselves. Every negative thought is one layer of negative black color on our antaḥkaraṇa, where mālavikṣepa and āvaraṇa are increasing, because antaḥkaraṇa, mana, buddhi, citta, and ahaṅkāra are getting polluted day by day by our qualities. If you accept it or not, that’s not a question. If you are or not, that is not a question. But it is those who do not have these qualities who are authorized to come to the Sahasrāra cakra and to go to the Brahmaloka. And for that, human life is given. And in human life, freedom is given, complete freedom if you want to go here or there. That’s your decision. You must decide because God gave you a good intellect. He gave you a good mind. He gave you good qualities. Think. You think something, I will try only how it is once. You broke it. And when the glass wedge falls down, it is broken, okay? We will collect each piece of glass nicely, and with the super glue, we will try to put it together. But still, it is broken. So, can we bring ourselves back to that creator as we were born? Where Kabīr Dās said, “Jitakamal Kacharka Banachat Tatvaki, Pune Kacharka Banaya Tatvaki.” So you know the meaning of this bhajan, and the last sentence that I want to tell: the great saint Kabīr Dās said, “Kabīr Dās also got this soul, the soul of the body, and he gave it back again to the hand of the gods or Mother Nature as pure as he got it.” It’s not an easy job. We all cannot be like that, but at least we can try to be like that. So, it is in our hands. If you cannot do good, then at least do not do bad. That is the principle. At least you remain certain that in the next life you will again have a human life. Otherwise, you never know. So, at the time when the jīva leaves the body, there are different situations. And great Tulsīdās said, “Prārabdha pele rachā pīse rasa śarīra.” The first was created, Pralabdha. Pralabdha is destiny. And destiny is the fruit or the result of our karmas. So all our destinies will be put together at the time of the last breath of this life. Then destiny will take you. You know, often I tell one poem about the leaf which falls from the tree. And the leaf will be immediately taken in the direction the wind blows. Or there is no wind, and it will just fall near the trunk of the tree. So, how is your destiny? That is very important. And for that, it is still in our hands. It is still not too late. Now, the light, it is so important that everyone goes towards the light. Part 2: The Spiritual Light and the Story of Mīrābāī Even when we place a seed in the ground, it begins to grow and sprout, and it comes in the direction where the light is. Where the light is nearer, it grows into that light. Every branch of the tree is searching for light. And so, our soul is also searching for that light. And that light we humans call spiritual light. So, through festivals, through fasting, through prayers, and through worship, we can take that light within more consciously, and we can follow it more easily. That is why it is understandable for humans, and humans can understand, and humans are capable, and humans can act to create the light. Now, light does not mean only this brightness. The light which we call enlightenment. Many people think, "Now I will have light in me; in me, thousands of lamps will be burning." Oh God! Then we don’t need a heater. You will be very nice, radiating the heat. This is a physical light, and the other one is a spiritual light. So we have to develop that spiritual light through different sādhanās. And all sādhanās, anything that you do—āsanas, prāṇāyāma, saṅprakṣālana, kriyā yoga, haṭha yoga, nāda yoga, mantra yoga, sādhā yoga, any yoga—the point is that we purify. Fasting, praying: we purify, we cleanse. Because when you are so bright and pure, then you can come to the pure. Quality unites. When there are truly pure qualities, then it is one. But when there is impurity in the quality, then it is duality. And when there is duality, you can say conflict or division. It will be divided again. So we have very nice, let’s say, rice, and it comes to the kitchen. We take the rice in the plate and look to see if there are any stones. It can happen that some stones come in, so the stones have to be taken out. And if you don’t clean, then who will take out the trash? It’s not acceptable. And look how many stones we have in our behaviors, in our life. And of course we have this māyā, this world. Somehow, stone came. But can we collect it and put it out? And for that, we have to do the sādhanās. Then the light comes. Enlightenment is that wisdom, that knowledge, which you cannot compare with this physical light. And therefore Mahāprabhujī said in one bhajan, a beautiful bhajan, where there is no sun, no dark, and no light. There is an Anurūpaha in that form which is indescribable. Therefore, that light, that sun, is that indescribable knowledge. The physical subject is different from the spiritual subject. There is one story about the great Mīrābāī. And I am very happy to hear that in Yugoslavia there are also ladies called Mīrā. The name, no? Many words are together, no? I was in Prague last weekend, and there was a professor, an Indology professor, Professor Vacek, and she told me, "Swamiji, this is a Sanskrit name, Vacek." In Sanskrit, in Hindi, "vācak" means "who is speaking" or "who is reading." And also, when you go to the Bhagavad Gītā, "Arjuna uvāca"—Arjuna is speaking, he is going to say. So there are many words and names that have a very deep meaning. Well, Sanskrit is the mother of many, many languages. Anyhow, so Mīrā, when she was very small, one day her mother—she was from a royal family, a king’s family. And sitting with her mother, and her mother was combing her hair, the hair of Meera, a small girl, two, three, three years old, three or four years. And some wedding procession was passing. And Meera was looking and said, "What is this, Mummy?" What is this, mother? And mother explained to that girl, she married that man, her husband, and this. So she said, "Then whom will I marry now?" So, mother just said, "You marry Kṛṣṇa, God is good." And that, you know, a child’s brain is very pure, very... they take very seriously anything you tell them. You know, in the Upanishad, the name I have forgotten at present, the ṛṣi’s son, you know. The son is asking his father, "And to whom will you give me, father?" And the father was angry, "I give you to Yama, to death." He said, "OK, I accept." And he came to Yama to get Brahma Jñāna. What was the name? Do you remember somebody? Nāśiketa. That’s it. Thank you. Then you are getting a little older, and then there are many layers over the memories. And she accepted Kṛṣṇa. And you know, Kṛṣṇa was her spiritual Īśṭa Devatā. And of course, Mīrā was very dedicated to her guru, Rāyadāś. The whole story, you know, I don’t want to tell you, because Krishnānand told me at 10 o’clock we had to close. And I was late, 15 minutes, so I have 5 minutes more. Anyhow, her marriage was not so happy, because she married with the parents. It was an arranged marriage from the parents’ side, and she was not happy, and she didn’t have any relation to her husband. She respected him very much, but she said, "I am sorry." Her husband was also very disappointed, and, you know, that’s just how it is with everything. Someone told her husband, "Maybe she has some other boyfriend." You know what, we will all think like this, no? Immediately we will think, "Aha, what, aha?" Anyone goes to anyone; we will not think positively. First, we will think, "Aha, it must be something." I have a nice, clean dress with one color, and suddenly there is a black spot; you will always look only at this. I have a beautiful, nice beard, you know. I hope it’s beautiful, but... And now you imagine here is hanging one, the sprout, the salad piece of... And you will look to me, you will talk to me, and I’m talking, but I don’t see. But many of you will say, "I don’t know what he means." And when Vivek Purī is showing me like this, he doesn’t have a beard, I think he is a chink. So, we always go to that negative point. That’s it. That’s human nature. Always go. Animals don’t do that. Animals are divāna; they don’t care. But we think negatively. So, that prince, the husband of Mīrā, put guards around her residence. 24 hours, and no guard can be longer than 15 minutes. Because maybe she is friends with the guards. That’s another problem. So, and I told them strictly, whenever you find that she is talking to someone in her room, let me know immediately. And so, once at about 3:30 in the morning, Meera was talking and laughing and dancing, and he heard. He went quickly to the other room where Meera’s husband was sleeping. He knocked on the door and got out. But he said, "Sir, Mīrā is talking to someone in her room." And you know, angry husband, jealous husband, dispirited husband, then sometimes comes āsurī śaktis out. Yes? We have both. We have devī śaktis and āsurī śaktis. My God! Sometimes a person can become more than a devil, you know. So, thanks to God that God gave the injections. Do you remember I told you? When did I speak? Day before yesterday, spiritual injection. And that’s why we are all only 1% aware about our āsurī śaktis. All the spiritual śaktis are there. So he got up, and near his pillow he always had this sword, sword... and ran. He listened, yes. Meera is talking to someone very clearly, no doubt. You can record. There was no telephone. That time, unfortunately, there was no detector phone; otherwise, I could have given it to Devpurījī to listen. Of course, he didn’t knock on the door, he just broke the door with his shoulder. And went in. Meera was sitting on her bed. She stood up and she said, "You are here this time? Any problem?" He said, "Yes." She said, "What? You were talking to someone here in this room." She said, "Yes. Yes, I did. You were laughing." He said, "Yes." With whom did you speak? With my beloved one. Who is that? Of course, who can it be? Then, Kṛṣṇa. Where is he? He is sitting here. I can’t see him. She said, "Yes, that I can understand." You don’t see. You cannot see my beloved one with these physical eyes. You cannot see God with these eyes. You need another eye to see him. And then you will understand that he is just with you and me. Husband thought, "Now she is completely schizophrenic." Hallucination? Schizophrenia? And I have had enough of this. He said, "I have enough." He was screaming, "I will kill you." She said, "No problem." Get ready. He took his sword. She was standing. She said, "Okay, no fear. Why?" Terī Satguru rākhe lāj, cintā matak, anirvaira niśaṅkar, kabhī matak tum anirvaira ho, niśaṅkar kabhī matak. Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagvān kī, and he took his sword to chip off her neck. And suddenly someone held the sword and said, "But he feels that someone is holding it." But what happens? Four mīrās are standing there, not only one. Exactly same dress, same hair, same look, ditto copy. Smiling, a voice came, "Careful, kill only that mīrā which belongs to you. Don’t make a mistake." Now, how should he know which is the real Mīrā now? So he threw his sword, and he said it was crazy, and he went away. So, this miracle no scientist will understand. I can understand this scientist. It was in a magazine written last week that scientists are searching for God, and they didn’t find Him. Ah, they are very, at least they are very correct that, of course, they didn’t find it. They should come to me; they will find it. So, you cannot see God, you cannot see spirituality, you cannot compare it with this physical world. You have to awake. You must have the other energy. That will be the beloved of God. That’s it. So, there is a bhajan from Mīrā. Beautiful bhajan. This is Rajasthani dialect. Gurujī was singing so nicely, and he was playing his kartāla so nicely. People were all so happy when Gurujī explained also so nicely these bhajans and stories. So God is there where love is, and we will not understand that person. Always we will think it’s crazy. Always we will think it’s schizophrenic. Always, we will think, "Oh God, it’s not normal. Who is normal?" Who is normal? It was wintertime, snowing, and on a highway, on the wrong direction, on the left side, one man was driving with his wife, and the radio was on. The radio said, "Careful, one ghost is driving on the wrong direction." And that man was so angry, he said to his wife, "From them, what does it mean? Once, there are so many, so many wrong directions." So, it depends on who. So, who are we to judge someone for something? And if you judge someone for something, you are responsible. The karma comes to you. Therefore, first judge thyself. That will come to that divine world, that Janamana Maraṇa Gurūvar Me Chalūsa Onades. So, when we offer the water, you know, and when we look to the light and we make these prayers, or Gāyatrī Mantra prayers, or Śiva Mantra prayers, that enters into our consciousness. It’s not that we are offering water there; we are making abhiṣeka. To our jīvātmā, to get liberation. So, this is two worlds, the worldly and the spiritual. They always have a conflict because they don’t understand each other. Others will understand, but they don’t want us to understand them also, in this way. So, I wish you all the best, and once more, for the coming year, a happy year, I wish you a very nice Christmas evening with your friends and families. May all conflicts go away, and may you purify your antaḥkaraṇa so that you will never be negative to anyone. Or if you are, then on Christmas Day, go there and bring it here. I was so angry all the time. Now this is here, okay? Be with a friend. Oh God, other people said yes. Do, do, look, make some example, go there. Śrī Śrī... Bosnia, Macedonia, and other parts of Europe. So please drive slowly and carefully. Wish you all the best and a very, very safe journey. God bless you, and see you soon, wherever that may be. Next Sunday, in one week, I will fly to India, and we will have a little Christmas satsaṅg on Saturday. But, of course, you must not come; you are already here. If the weather is very bad, then it is not good, but still, if you come, you know Vienna is... Small, but the heart is big, you know. Even the Croatian heart can merge into the Vienna heart. Still, we have more space, you know why? Because I am living there. So, of course, you are always welcome. Our Vienna Bhaktas are happy. Otherwise, see you next time. God bless you. Mahāprabhujī protect you, and all the best. Oṁ Namaḥ Kārata Dīpa Kārata Mahāprabhujī Dīpa Kārata Bhagavānakī. Also, I would like to tell you all that many friends, or our brothers, sisters, or bhaktas, are doing their best to fundraise for the hospital, for children, and for poor people. I would like to inform you that in India, our Mahāmaṇḍaleśwar Swāmī Jāsrāj Purī got an instruction from me, and in the name of our society, we distributed thousands of blankets to the poor people. Now it’s very cold, winter has come this year, and also we give them a little money, not very much. Mahāprabhudīp Karatā, Mahāprabhudīp Karatā, He Kevalam, Mahāprabhudīp Karatā, Mahāprabhudīp Karatā, Parint. It goes officially because, as I always said, I... We want only officially, nothing should be done that money is not declared or something like this. So it goes to our account, Janputra, for children’s accounts, for poor accounts, and like this, and then goes bank to bank and comes from bank, and we give the check to distribute the things we are doing. So it is very correct, so anytime you can go and check. If you want, so thank you. This is also one of the things, a message which I want to tell you. Yes, that’s all. All my dear brothers, sisters, bhaktas, practitioners, aspirants around the world who are with us through the webcast. Wish you all the best, divine blessings. And if you are believing in Christianity, I wish you a good, happy Christmas. New Year’s and New Year. Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Devīśvara Mahādeva, Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān, Sanātana Dharma.