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Many greetings from Jodan, dear Guru brothers and sisters, dear friends around the world. I just wanted to introduce our subject today. We had yesterday the great opportunity to visit Mount Abu. Most of you must be familiar, as Mount Abu is described, and lots of stories that happened there have been described in the Līlāmṛta, the divine life of Mahāprabhujī, written by our dear Gurujī Māta Vanandājī. We have seen several sites around Mount Abu. One of them is the Gurushikhar, where the famous saint Dattātreya lived. We also have seen the Nakī Lake, where the story of an officer, a police officer insulting a Hindu man there, had been given a lesson by Devpurījī. You might remember all of these stories and many others. I really wish now that if Muhammad Al-Ashfar, Jaswaj Purījī, would tell us a little bit more of the background of these stories and the sites that we saw yesterday. I think it’s good news that now he’s Niranjan Purī from Jhārān. But I don’t know what his wife is going to say. We had a most beautiful trip around Mount Abu yesterday. It was a very special atmosphere. I think, as a group, it was very special for everybody. In the morning we were with Swāmījī in one village, and then at about 7:30 we left towards Mount Abu. At the top of the mountain, the first thing you come to when you go up is actually a toll gate where they stop everybody, and you pay some toll for taking the car into that area. And of course, that’s when Gurujī’s līlā started, because the man on the toll gate said, "Oh, you’re from Jhadan. Really? Gurujī was staying two months in the house next to mine in 1983." And so he was asking everything about Gurujī and Swāmījī and the ashram and so on, and then sent us through. We went first yesterday to Gurushikhar, where Dattātreya’s dūnī and gufā are. It’s the highest point in Rajasthan. Beautiful view, and in the middle of summer, beautiful temperature. Much cooler than here, and there the dūnī is burning akhaṇḍa. So it’s been burning continuously since the time when Dattātreya was doing his tapasyā there. When you come into the gufā, it’s covered in the daytime with ash, but it’s still smoldering underneath, and you can see the smoke coming out through the middle. Every morning they’re doing a havan there and doing pūjā and keeping the fire burning. One Mahenjī was sitting there and just giving out prasād of the ash from the dūnī. It’s quite a small cave, but very, very beautiful and a very powerful place to visit. When you look in the cave, there’s also one small photo of Devpurījī. So I think that says something about the link that is there, and the time that Devpurījī spent there, and the importance that he has to the area. Also, just nearby to that is one place where there are the Charaṇ Padukā of Dattātreya in another cave, a very, very small cave, and that’s really the topmost point that is there. After that, we went back down to the Abu town area, Mount Abu, and we first went to the Mandir which, when you know from the Līlāmṛta story, when the collector stopped the pūjā being done, said it was too noisy. We went to the Mandir where that was actually happening. It’s called Duleshwar Mahādev Mandir. In 1999, I was lucky enough to spend about three weeks there with Gurujī. And immediately when we saw Mahāprabhujī from there, he recognized us, and he said, "Oh, you come from Jhadan. Gurujī was staying here." I said, "Yes, I know he was in that room there, room number 15." And he was remembering that time very fondly. We were there in the daytime, so the āratī wasn’t going on, but I can remember very vividly from when we stayed there that I could understand which āratī caught the collector’s ears, because it’s so loud even now. There were about twenty young brahmachārīs when I was there, and they all had this gong, and they were all going for the whole prayer, and it was going for a very long time. It’s really beautiful, really special. Then from there we walked down to the Nakī Lake, which is also part of that story from the Līlāmṛta, and to the Devpurījī Ghat, which is the place where Devpurījī was staying. It’s still marked. Some people call it Devpurījī Ghat, some people call it Mahādev Ghat, but the first locals that we asked, I said, "Where is Devpurījī Ghat?" I thought we were at the right place because Gurujī had said it was there. And they said, "Yeah, yeah, that’s here, that’s here, that’s right here." We had darśan there and put a little bit of water on our heads, then walked around the lake. We also saw the place where, as Gurujī told me, the general area of the hills where the story was with the Aghorīs. If you remember from the Līlāmṛta, when Devpurījī appeared before them as a child. Gurujī was pointing out that it was in that hill there. And in that area, we also had the darśan of one of the largest cobras I ever saw. I think it would have been 10 to 12 feet long. It was huge, and it just kept going along the rocks near where we were walking, and kept going with us. That was our time up in Abu. It’s really quite a special place, and you can really feel the atmosphere there. And to be there in those places, which are part of the stories from the Līlāmṛta and also of the time of Dattātreya, I think it really puts some things in, brings them to life again. And then after that, we came back down and met Swāmījī in Rani and then had darśan in Nipal, which was also very beautiful. We had a beautiful couple of hours there and had some satsaṅg and darśan in Gurujī’s room and then came back here to Jadan. So I hope that Swāmījī will tell us a bit more about Dattātreya and Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī. Śrī Śrī Deveśvar Mahādev Kī. Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī. Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhupādāya Nārāyaṇāya. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpāya Nārāyaṇāya. Haṁsabhādas Prabhu Śaraṇa Parāyaṇaṁ. Haṁsabhādas Śaraṇa Parāyaṇaṁ. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Haṁsabhādas Prabhu Śaraṇāparaṇam. Haṁsabhādas Prabhu Śaraṇāparaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇa. Hum sabha bhakt prabhu sharan parayanam. Hum sabha bhakt prabhu sharan parayanam. Oṁ namah siri prabhu diva narayanam. Oṁ namah siri prabhu diva narayanam. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī, blessed self. Dear spiritual seekers, brothers and sisters, Bhaktas and the practitioners of the divine path of yoga and daily life. A very good evening, and blessings coming to you from Holy Land India and the divine place Vishwadeep Guru Kul Jadan. Today is a very special day, and it is the full moon, Pūrṇimā. And it is believed also today is the anniversary of the great saint Kabīr Dās. Not only in India but around the world, wherever the devotees of Kabīr Dās are, they are celebrating the anniversary of the birth of the great Kabīr Dās. Kabīr Dās is known as the waver of God’s name. His poems, his bhajans, and his writings are very inspirational. The time when Sūrdās, Tulsīdās, Kabīr Dās, Tulsīdās, Sūrdās, they were Saguṇa Bhakti. They were doing the saguṇa bhakti, and Kabīr Dās was a nirguṇa bhakti. Saguṇa bhakti means he who worships a personal deity or personal god. Means, like in our prayer, "Nirguṇ sī sarguṇ banāye bhaktan ke hitkārī." From nirguṇa, from the formless, God takes the form, material body, saguṇa, for the sake of the bhaktas, for the sake of the devotees. Saguṇa means the form, all the qualities, all the senses, body, mind, thoughts, intellect, but within is that divine light. Nirguṇa is that omniscient, omnipresent, only like a space which you cannot touch, you cannot smell, you cannot see, and you cannot hear. Arjuna is asking Kṛṣṇa in the twelfth chapter, "O Lord, what is better, to worship the omniscient or to worship the omnipresent?" Kṛṣṇa’s answer, yes, both are good, but for the humans, for humans’ intellect, for humans’ mind, for humans’ consciousness, for the humans’ understanding, saguṇa, worship is better with the form. Why? Because it is that form which will inspire you, it is that form which can answer you, it is that form on which you can hold, you can have a dialogue. And therefore, in Sanātana Dharma, actually, Sanātana Dharma is only nirguṇa, but it advises how to reach that one. Kṛṣṇa said to Arjuna, "It doesn’t matter through which path you will go, ultimately I will be there." Therefore, for the sake of seekers and devotees, Kṛṣṇa said, "Arjuna, from time to time I manifest myself through my yoga māyā, through yoga śakti." That yoga śakti is that universal power, the balancing, uniting, harmonizing. It is that. It is a chetan ke toh ichhā nahīṁ, jaḍ se kush nahīṁ hoy. Only chetanya, the consciousness, can’t do anything. And the material can’t do anything too. Chetan ke to ichchā nahī. That one has no desires. Jad se kus nahi hot. But which is the dead material can’t do anything. How was the world created? How did the creation take place? Then it is said, icchā śakti. Icchā śakti. Icchā means the willpower. Now, does God have a willpower? Yes. Otherwise, he would not incarnate. When the nirguṇa appears in saguṇa, God said again, "Arjuna, in the entire universe, in the endless universe, there is nothing which I can’t achieve or I can’t have or get." But still I am doing karma, still I am working, I am acting, because what I will do and what I will say, the people will follow. Therefore, Saguṇa, Tulsīdās said, "Chalata phirata tīratha santa." And it is said, Kabīr Dās said, "Sant sahib mein antar nahī." That in one of the bhajans of Kabīr Dās, he said, "Sant sāhib kā ghar, santon kī māī. Sant sāhib mein antar nahī." Sāhib means God. And you know, in the last centuries, the beginning of the last centuries, no one was talking about Sir, Madam, Sāhib. When the Mughals came, the word was Sāhib. And when the English came, also the words were "Sāhib." You see the many documentary films where they always address sāhib. But now I don’t know why they are always saying, "Sir." In Hindi, sir means the head, and this is a ḍhaḍ. This is a body, this is a head. Only the head, sir, is a Rāhu. And that is Ketu. So we divide it in two. Kabīr Dāsjī said, "Between God and saints, there is no difference." Difference, but this only can be realized and felt and seen by those who have achieved spiritual consciousness. The house of the saints is in the gods, and the house of the gods is in the saints. If the person is like Kabīr Dās, who can say such things, such a realized great personality, who are we to judge, to say yes or no? Yes, we can say yes and no, but what the holy saint says, that is the eternal truth, and we cannot change that truth with our judgment. So mostly, many saints are incarnated on those particular days, like a full moon. The coming full moon is called Guru, and Guru Pūrṇimā is the anniversary of the great Vedavyāsa, Bhagavān Vedavyāsa. So this day, today, is a very significant day. The last Pūrṇimā was about Mahāvīra, who started the movement of the Jainas. And before was the Buddha Pūrṇimā, also the Buddha. The Buddha. So there is something on this planet, the moon, and the connection to our earth. When the moon is completely illuminated, it has a special energy radiating on our planet. So on this day, I wish you all the best and blessings of all great incarnations on this globe. Many, many,... Many saints, many, many saints. Our duty, our dharma, and our benefit is that we adore them. Don’t say only my God, and only my days. God is not incarnated only for one; the sense doesn’t come. For only one, the tree doesn’t leave. For only one, the lake doesn’t carry water. Only for one, rain doesn’t rain. Similarly, the saints do not incarnate and live only for one. In the heart, the heart of the saint is like an ocean, and all have a place in the ocean. But to know this, we have to open our spiritual eyes, we have to open our consciousness and purify that. The great Mīrā was that time also, that was Rāyadājī Mahārāj, a very great saint. Kabīr Dāsjī, a very great saint. You know the story of Mīrā, which also, she didn’t have an easy life. No saint in this world has had an easy life. You may take the example of the West; I don’t know many saints from the West, but the friend from Assisi, he didn’t have an easy life, even the people began to throw stones. Or, Jesus didn’t have an easy life. His mother didn’t have an easy life. And many. This is called Ādi and Ādi Kālī. Asuras and Devas. The negative and positive energy. Āsurī Śakti, Devīk Śakti. These two Śaktis are continually fighting. But Satyameva Jayate, because he said, "For the sake of the bhaktas and dharma, I incarnate," Kṛṣṇa said. Well, Mīrābāī had a hard life. Her brother didn’t accept her coming back to his house, and so on. Her bhajans are beautiful, we adore her, everything, but the time when she lived, unbelievable. She was completely one with divine consciousness, adoring Kṛṣṇa, and her husband was in doubt. Some were gossiping and saying that she was in love with somebody else. Mīrā had a separate room; she had her altar and meditation. Her husband had his room beside hers. But negative talk and gossip can create doubts. Her husband supported Mīrā very much, and he respected her. He had a lot of understanding, a mutual understanding, that she go on her path. But her family members didn’t like her. When they realized that her husband was supporting her and he gave her tolerance, then some told Mīrā is in love with someone. Then, of course, her husband got in doubt, and they said, "Every night, or every full moon day, or certain day..." Someone is visiting her. Well, again his ear became like this, and his eyes. Then he put the guards around her room, and every hour he changed the guard and told them strictly that any time they realized that Mīrā is with someone in her room, immediately they should inform him. One day, around 2:30 or 3 o’clock, Mīrā was laughing and talking. The guard listened. Yes, now she is talking to someone. He silently went and told the prince, "Mīrā is talking to someone." Dispirited, jealous, and angry, a person is capable of doing anything. He woke up, he took his sword. And, of course, there is no question of knocking on the door. With his sword, he broke the door. Enter in. Mīrā got up from her bed and said, "You are here this time?" He said, "Yes, Mīrā, I came to kill you." He said, "Why? Because you have someone whom you love." She said, "Yes, that’s true. With whom were you talking? Sitting with my beloved." Who is that one? You know, Kṛṣṇa. Where is he? He’s sitting just now here, but my dear, you can’t see him with these physical eyes. To see my beloved one, you see, open the inner eyes, the spiritual eyes. He thought she was now completely schizophrenic. She is completely mad, and he said, "I have enough from you; I will chip your head." Stand up in front of me. She said, "No problem. You can’t chip me; it’s only my head." She stood in front of him, and he took his sword, cut her neck, and what did he see? Four Mīrājās standing in front of him. Same dress, same color, a true copy, a ditto copy. And someone is holding his sword and said, Rāṇā, careful. Only cut the head of that Mīrā which belongs to you. Now, how should he know which one is that? He threw his sword. And he went away, and he said, "I am crazy. I can’t understand." There is one bhajan: "Māri sevā mein sāl garam, Rāṇā jī maro kai kar sī." Vishka pyaala Rana bhejiya di jo mira keha. Vishka pyaala Rana bhejiya di ya mira keha. What can Rāṇā do to me when my protector is Raghunāth, God Rāma, the Kṛṣṇa Raghunāth, the lord of the dynasty, Raghu? They sent the snake in the one basket and gave it to Mīrā. Mīrā opened it, and it became a beautiful necklace out of the snake. Similarly, the bhajan is going further. Mīrā is standing for Char or Ana. Kill that Mīrā which belongs to you. Finally, he has to surrender to her. So we have to develop our spirituality. We have to develop spiritual consciousness. When you don’t practice every day, you have to practice with devotion. Maharishi Patañjali said, "For a practitioner, for a sādhaka, a yoga practitioner, he or she should adore their techniques as you adore God." Then your sādhanās will be successful. You are making mālās, and you are in doubt. You are meditating, and you are somewhere swimming and thinking to go on a beach. Go there, go there. Where are you? Where is our thinking? What kind of energy is created? One negative thought creates a new fire, and one positive thought creates calmness, tranquilizing happiness. Mind is mighty, mind is mighty. What we call the Rāvaṇa has ten heads. That Rāvaṇa is our mind, and this mind is connected with the ten indriyas. And these ten indriyas are that mighty Airāvata, mighty elephants. Therefore, practice, then you will realize, yes, but now my consciousness is showing me the reality, the beauty. So all great saints, all the incarnations, they come to this planet only for the sake of the bhaktas. Because God said, our beloved Devapurījī said, God takes upon himself the destiny of the devotees. Gurudev takes the destiny of the devotees. Gurudev has to suffer. When you give the mantras, you give the blessings, you take the karmas. You know what Jesus said, "I die and I am on the cross because of your sins." And I came to take away your sins. And therefore, we have to understand those great souls and prayers. Today is the Pūrṇimā, beautiful Pūrṇimā. And how many millions of devotees are fasting, praying, and happy. Not only in India, but around the world too. You know, when the moon is shining, in all the ancient cultures, maybe you call the Australian Aborigines, or the Maoris, or the Hawaiians, or the Indians, or the Inca people, or all these, or the Africans, or the Indians. This beautiful energy receives from the full moon. That is a great light. So today I wish you all the best and blessings of Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī and Oligurījī. Bhagavān Dattātreya, you may know, you don’t, many don’t know. Bhagavān Dattātreya was the nephew of Bhagavān Kapila Muni. The Dattātreya’s sister, Anuśrīyā, she was the sister of the Dattātreya. No, the Kapila Muni. It’s a beautiful story, and I will have extra satsaṅg to tell you about Anuśriyā. Oh, very great, Anuśriyā. She changed Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva into little babies. Three little babies, and that’s why in Dattātreya’s picture you see all three in one: Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva. And he loved the animals. Always, you will see the dogs all together. The dog is a symbol of hiṁsā, and the cow is a symbol of ahiṁsā. So that he can bring the hiṁsā and ahiṁsā prāṇī together. Where a tiger and a goat can drink milk together from one vessel, what do you want more? But that comes when you develop the love. And that comes through practice. If you cannot practice in such a way to change your consciousness and your feelings, then you can do sādhanā your whole life, but always you will be in doubt, and you are out from where Brahma Jñāna is. There was a fox, and the fox was searching for his food. The fox has a very good nose, and he smelled something very nice. He found a coconut. Good. He tried to bite it, but you know, it’s a hard nut to be opened. Sometimes when you can’t understand someone, then you say, "Ah, this person is a hard nut to crack." Fox gave up and wanted to go away. He went ten meters far, but his senses, the indriyas of the smell, again brought him back. Again he tried to bite, but he couldn’t open the coconut. Again he went, again he came, but he couldn’t open it. So it is said, "Rām nām nārel hai, man siyār guḍāyon le jāt, phoḍiyā to phūṭe nahī̃, girī kān se khāī." Rām nām nārel hai, the name of God, the spirituality, that is the coconut. And mind is that fox, and tries to roll this coconut but can’t open. It tries to open but can’t open. It cannot taste, it cannot enjoy that nut, that real nut which is inside. So our head, our ego, our ignorance is such a hard nut. If you can, through your daily practice, nyāsa, prāṇāyāma, and mantras, you may be able to open that nut, and then you will enjoy that time. You will say, at that time, your inner self will say, "Abham mast huve rām." Raspe ke Rām, raspe ke moye lāge. Duniya kis abhīr so pīkī? Of a hummer must have I a rahmah recipe k? Rahmah recipe k-mo a lucky. Duniya kis abhīr so pīkī? Now I became a divine when I drink that nectar of the God’s name. Then all the other nectars of these worldly things are a test place. At that time, Vairāgya appears. That time the third eye will open, and then you will see: Ekobrahma Duttanasthi, the one truth reality is the Brahman, and the other is the duality. So, my dear ones, all the best. Wish you all the best. Tonight is also, they said, Chandragraha, and it is believed in Ayurveda that you should not look at the moon when there is an eclipse. Because that is very harmful for your eyesight. Now, many people don’t care, so they put it in a spiritual way, and you don’t know how many creatures, very fine living life, will die during this period when the moon is in eclipse. And therefore they change their dress, they wash their dress, they wash the curtains, they clean the house. Like in an operation theater, when a doctor or patient goes out of the room, they clean and spray the whole room. This is scientifically proven that within this period, how much negative energy develops, and that also harms your eyesight. And the next day, they are making puṇya, puce. Puṇya means to give something. Feed other creatures, feed the birds, feed the dogs, feed the animals, the cows, the buffaloes, the deer, the rabbits, the ants, everything, feed. Punya, punya means doing good; pāpa, punya. Punya is a virtue, pāpa is a sin. So when you can do some punya, then your pāpas are less, and your good qualities come to the plus. It is said on the full moon day you should never be angry, and the next day you should not be angry, and the third day you should take care that you are not angry, and the fourth day absolutely calm, and the fifth day happy, and the sixth day sat-sampatti. Brahma-lokatā-bhogācāra, teja-sādhana-satsampati-kāye, jinse hove ānandapara, śraddhā-vīrya-smṛti-samādhi-prajñā, karipuram samādhāna-vicāra. So this is the sādhanā. Seventh day, all seven chakras are illuminating. On the 8th, it is not so late. Oh my God! The sahasrāra chakra is open. You know, on the 9th it is verified. Then, on the 10th, no more life anymore, because you are in Brahmaloka. 11th: Oh, you are only one, because "ekobrahman duttay nasti." And 12th: Okay, live well, I am going. And 13th: It means no fighting. And 14th: Oh my God, all the poor life living is behind you. Again, the full moon will come, the new moon will come. So everything has its definitions. But if you are, from the full moon till again the amāvasyā and new moon, angry, jealous, and hateful, then all that you have done is again in pollution. Because after the full moon day, you enter into the dark, dark phase. And in darkness, you have to create the light. And when the light faces that, you have the opportunity to look at everything and clean it out. So he said, "Sūraj ko chalta na dekhā, Aur baḍatī dekī na vel, Yogī ko tū bhajtā na dekhā, Yahī kudrat kā khel." Sūraj ko chalta na dekhā, you look to the sun, you will not see that sun is moving like this. But still going. The vine which grows, the plant, we don’t see, oh, it’s coming up, coming up like this. But next morning we see, oh, two new leaves are there. Similarly, you don’t see a yogī if he’s meditating or what he’s doing. But for 24 hours, he or she is active in sādhanā. Mukh me Rām, hāth me kām. In your mouth you have mantra, the name of God; in your hands you have work, karma, karma, karma yoga, karma yoga, yoga, karma kauśalam. O Arjuna, your yoga sādhanā will be successful through karma yoga, yoga, karma śukauśalam. Today is enough. I wish you all the best. Tomorrow, again, at the same time, will be the webcast. Webcast, and I hope I will also be here. I have to go to Jodhpur, and good news: all Māṭājī is coming tomorrow out of the hospital, and we will accommodate her in our Śrī Svāmī Mādhāvan and Austria Hospital because still she needs a little bit of medical help, so she can be there, and you will have all the time to have Māṭājī’s darśan and sit, and like this. And many bhaktas who came from different countries, tomorrow they are traveling. After tomorrow, they are going. Wish you all the best and very... Good journey, take care. Much love and blessings to all the brothers and sisters and Bhaktas of Mahāprabhujī, wherever you are. Wish you all the best, good health, long life, and spiritual development. Oṁ Tryambhakaṁ Yajāmahe. Sugandhim pustivardhanam varvarukam yavandhanat mṛtyurmukṣirmām mṛtāt. Oṁ śānti śānti... Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Devī Īśvara Mahādeva Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān.