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Be the ocean of the mercy

A satsang discourse on meditation, divine grace, and the purpose of human life.

"If someone gives dhyāna to his own mind, he will run away from the Brahma Jñāna."

"Without dayā (mercy), a human life is not a human life... Do something more than the animals, and what is that? Meditation, prayers, seva, humbleness, calmness, clarity."

A speaker leads a satsang, weaving philosophical explanations about the light of the Supreme Self (Ātmā Jyoti) and the necessity of divine mercy (dayā) with a lengthy parable. The story describes a skeptical, non-vegetarian man from a royal family who is transformed into a devoted disciple after a miraculous rescue and a meeting with the guru, illustrating the power of grace to liberate one from ignorance and worldly bondage. The discourse concludes by defining the human aim as transcending base animal instincts through spiritual practice.

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

If someone gives dhyāna to his own mind, he will run away from the Brahma Jñāna. Janam maraṇ bhava bandhana chūṭe, Janam maraṇ mokṣa hove taṭkāl. Bhajore bhajore siri prabhu dī, Parabrahma pura soṭaṁ svāmī... Pūjya Bhagavān Dīpanārāya Bhopānake Bhopāl, Hare Hare Kahe Mādhvānanda Hamār, Kahe Mādhvānanda Jī Hamār, Śrī Prabhupāda, Śrī Prabhupāda, Śrī Prabhupāda, Śrī Prabhupāda, Śrī Prabhupāda. Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī Jai, Viśvar Mahādeva kī Jai, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān, Satya Sanātana Dharma. Bhajore Manohar Śrī Pūjya Dīpa Dayāl, Parabrahma Puruṣottama Svāmī Karade Najar Nihāl, Bhajore Manohar Śrī Pūjya Dīpa Dayāl. O my mind, meditate, repeat the name of Dīpadāyālā. Deep is the light, deep is the flame, deep is the jyoti. There are two kinds of lights, or flames, or jyotis, whatever you call them. One light is called the light of Brahman. That is not to be compared with these physical lights. That light is living light, that light is eternal light, that light is the ātmā. And this ātmā you cannot see with this physical eye. To see that ātmā, you cannot use any kind of light, but only the light of wisdom, the light of knowledge. So, the physical light, material light, or the light of the Brahman, the Supreme, the wisdom, the knowledge, the Ātmā. So, deep means both. That’s why it is said, "Oṁ Dīp Jyoti Parabrahma." Om Dīp Jyoti Parabrahma. This Deep Jyoti is the Jyoti, the light of the Parabrahma. Prabrahmā, Brahmā, and the Ātmā. Om Dīpa Jyoti Parabrahma. Dīpaṁ Sarve Moharaṇam. This light of the Brahman removes all the darkness or the ignorance everywhere. Moha. Moha means ignorance. Moha means darkness. Moha means illusion. So when the Ātmā Jyoti, when the Ātmā Jñāna will appear, then this Moha, this ignorance will disappear. Om Dīpa Jyoti Parabrahma, and that is the light of the Parabrahma. Bhajore Manohar Śrī Pūjā Dīpa Dayāl. Daya. Daya means mercy. Daya means Kripa. Daya means forgiveness. The great one has Daya, and the little-minded one is like creating the troubles. A beautiful, nice, big engine car, when it passes on a highway, it doesn’t make any sound. Just, you are sleeping near, and you hardly notice the car pass. A small knowledge moped is drilling in your ears, not only near but kilometers far, and it is also stinky. Dayā, Dayā, we all wish to have Dayā. Mahāprabhujī, Śrī Rāmacandra, Kṛpā, Pavan-suta Hanumān. A key day, they are dharmaka mūlah. Mūla is roots, mūla is a foundation, mūla is a horizon, mūla prakṛti, mūla Śakti. So they are dharmaka mūlah. The dharma is based on dayā. I must see on the day when dayā I will disappear from the heart. Dead in no doubt about dharma... So they are, and they are at a macabre mūlā, a popā, a mūlā, a beam on, and the roots that call the foundation basic of the scene. He’s a beam on ego. They are Lou, a booster, and it to my re are ya. Oh, they are do, oh merciful. Mahāprabhujī, now I came to Thee. I was sheltered to Thee so deep. They are Bajorēmān. Was Śrī Pūjā deep? They are Parabrahma Puruṣottama Swāmī. That deep that jyoti is Parabrahma jyoti. Nirguṇa says Saguṇa banāyī bhaktānake hitakārī, manifesting from Nirguṇa to Saguṇa for the sake of the bhaktas, Parabrahma. Purushottama Swami, the highest in the humans, that is Parabrahma. Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa is Purushottama. Bhagavān Rāma is Purushottama, great sage. Oh Bhagavān, Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī is a Purushottama, Uttama Puruṣa. My Uttama Puruṣa, he is also Puruṣa, but the better quality. Water is water, but very nice, filtered. Water is a different water than water which is flowing near the street. There’s also water, but the quality, that quality of consciousness which comes from the cosmic light, and they come by their own will. They are not born out of their... Karma or destiny; other all creatures and we, we are bounded to those karma, and we are coming and going. We hope, we hope that we will not anymore have those karmas to come and go. Parabrahma Puruṣottama Swāmī, card even a journey hall car baby, he can make, he can make. Nagar Nihal, if his divine look, just for a second or a minute, his gracious look can destroy all your bad karmas and sins. Everything is possible. Therefore, Guru Nānak said, Guru Nānak said about what is not possible for us to realize, that Mahāprabhujī can do for us. Oh, a holy day to meet. And what is going to happen? Such great masters can remove that obstacle from the path. Therefore, good day also. That is the law of Gaṇeśa. By the... I made a... but the day was good. By the... I’ll... Please come, please come, please come. O Gajānand Gaṇapati, my Gurudev, every second, every minute, every eye movement, is my request, my prayer. Accept me as your servant. But I don’t mean a good, but the good. Therefore, on a holy good look at the sake of a whole, need to meet I are, brother, good day or so because the data. But now I, so there was a man from the royal family, you will lead in the līlā Amrit. It’s probably a poor, and that person, why? He was the kind who, at least, did not believe in God or anything, and he was not vegetarian. He was consuming a lot of alcohol. One day, he met Holy Gurujī in his house. His wife and his family members were great devotees. So one day they invited Gurujī for eating because he was not at home, and they didn’t tell Holy Gurujī that their father, or the house here, is against all spiritual movements and is angry. So Gurujī accepted the invitation, and then they heard that he’s coming back. They were so worried, "Oh God, he, the stupid one, is coming. What a pity. He will come, and he will shout at Gurujī, or he will say, ‘What are you doing here? Go!’ What will we see?" But... With which face will we face the Gurujī? And one said, came and said, "Gurujī, we are sorry. Such things can happen." Mahāhogorī Gurujī said, "Why are you sorry? What happened will happen, and what should not have happened happened, and what did not happen will happen." They didn’t understand what this is. What should happen will happen, and what happened will not happen; what did not happen, that will happen. Guruji had a very nice lunch, singing bhajans. And of course the person came. He went in and out, in and out, and then he sat on one chair, looking at Gurujī and listening to his bhajan. He came near, and people were afraid that he would push Ramījī down from his chair. Like that he was, really. He came and sat near Guruji, folded his hands, and listened, listening. And he said, "Please, can you accept me as a disciple?" He said, "Today something happened?" Holy Gurujī said, "Yes and no." So he said, "Why not?" Gurujī said, "Yes, why not? Because my Gurudev, Bhagavān Dīpñaya and Mahāprabhujī are still residing in his physical form. He is a Gurudev. I inspire you, and I will take you there. Who is that?" Then Gurujī told him one bhajan. Mahāprabhujī is a saviour. Mahāprabhujī is a protector. Mahāprabhujī is a liberator. Mahāprabhujī is omniscient, omnipresent. Mahāprabhujī is everywhere. And he said, "Are you sure, holy Guru? Did not all is here? Thousand percent certain? Complete?" Okay, so he will give me mantra. Gurujī said, "Yes, till that." You can repeat the name of Mahāprabhu: "Om Guru deep namaha." Okay, done. When should we go to Khattu? Or he said, "Whenever you like, I’m ready. But I have now a saṅkalpa for two months to be in monsoon here in Debor, and then I will go." He said, okay. One day he was coming from his farmhouse. At that time there were not many cars and jeeps, and he had a very nice ox and ox cart. He was sitting on it. Coming suddenly from the mountains, because these are hills near Udaipur, heavy rain came and a creek was flowing with a strong current—a kind of small river. Without knowing, he just went in with the ox cart, and now the oxen were swimming and struggling. And the car, or the coach, whatever you call it—buggy—was fluttering like a boat. And he said, "That man, Guru Deep and Khattu, if you can save my life here, then I can believe that you will save me from the ocean of ignorance. And if you can’t save me here, how will I believe that you will liberate me from the ocean of ignorance?" And it happened that suddenly the whole ox, cart, and ox and everything, like someone is pulling them nicely out, and there was no movement on that. And brought on the bank of the river, on the other side. He stood there, thinking like this. He’s describing; I was not there. Don’t say, "Swamiji, have you been there?" I was not there. But he describes, he was standing one minute. Is it possible? And he hears the voice, "Don’t worry, possible or not, you are saved, my son, that’s all." Looking, no one. He came and he told this story to Holy Gurujī. Then Holy Gurujī said, "Yes, you must have a clarity in your mind, the aim of your life, the human life, how to achieve Gurujī." So, Gurujī is saying this bhajan, then he said, "Sorry, this bhajan book I will print with my own expenditures." That time was not so expensive, but money was little. So, only Gurujī said, "You can, we can have one of your photo, a passport photo." I tell you the nature of the person. So he said, "Okay, no problem, let’s go to the photographer, Guruji, and I will give you my photo that we can print." In old printing books, this photo is there inside. So he told the photographer, "Make a photo of me." So the photographer was arranging everything, and he was sitting like this. And the photographer said, "And a little smile, please." He got up and gave one slip on his file. "I’m not your wife, that is a smile to you. I told you to make a photo. That’s all, you see." What kind of people are in the world? He said, "Okay, okay, sir, okay." Holy Gurujī said, "Oh, God." In one, should I bring him to Mahāprabhujī or not? But he came home and he said to his palace, "From today onwards, no chickens here, no pigs, and no alcohol at all. Clean everything, whitewash everything, and wash everything, because in four days, Pūrṇimā is coming, and Gurudev, Swami Madhavānandjī, is coming for eating. We have to welcome him in purity, you see?" An honī guru kar sakhe, or honī detā mitāī par brahma gurudeva hai, sab kusā detā banāī. Though Mahāprabhujī was not physically there, now, if through his presence, 500 kilometers distance or 600 kilometers distance, his blessing can work effectively, then doesn’t matter if he is physically here or not, but his presence and his name are with the bhaktas. What is your aim? He said, "My aim is now to get liberation and mokṣa, ātma-jñāna." Then Gurujī sang the bhajan. Bhajore manuva śrī prabhudī padayāl. Oh my, my, oh my brother, repeat mantra of my property. Kill why? Because part a brum up, but part a brum up or so Thomas army. Part a brum poor so Thomas army got a day a.m., a.m.... but your a by the Prabhu Dīpā, Parabrahma Puruṣottama Swāmī, Karādeve Najar Nihāl. Will he do this? Gurujī said, "Yes." What is his speciality? He said, afterwards, when you will see, I will finish the bhajan. So he went with Gurujī, or alone, I don’t know, that I can’t tell, now Khatu. When he saw Mahāprabhujī, his tears began to fall. And Gurujī was looking, what’s happening? Mahāprabhujī didn’t do anything. Mahāprabhujī was graciously sitting there, and he had this beautiful, merciful look on him, and he was melting like snow when the sun is rising, and said, "Mahāprabhujī, from today onwards, I promise you I will not drink alcohol. I will not eat meat, I will not do hiṁsā, I will not shout." And Mahāprabhujī said, "But I didn’t ask you to give up everything. I didn’t ask you to give up." He said, "Lord, you need not ask me loudly. You have asked me and given me sannyās." Mahāprabhujī said, "You got it. Follow the path." Therefore, he said to Mahā Gurujī, "Gurujī, it seems to me that Mahā Rob, which is like an in and out the same Berman, yes, therefore it is it. And I had a bad, I had a buddy poor, and I, and I had a bad, I had a Joe. The had by maybe saw by Joe a man who are sleeper boobie per day, I’ll." Gurujī said, "Yes, in and out, antarbāhya, paripūraṇa, paripūraṇa." Pari means above all, and pūraṇa means complete. Mahāprabhujī, he was paripūrṇa. Purāṇa mādhā, purāṇa midam, mantras, you know. That either sitting near him, or remembering him, or repeating his name, or looking at his photo, he is radiating that paripūrṇā. But you must have that feeling and respect, or devotion, in the heart. Many people change the altar in the heart. Often they put Mahāprabhujī’s photo here, then another photo here, and then another photo here. Don’t change the altar of your heart and the vision altar, the beautiful vision in your Chidākāśa, in your Bhṛumadhyas. If you change, you have changed one life. Again, you have to be born to continue the new life. I love you. I love you... Bhajore manuva śrīpūjya deep dayā, jo koī dhyān dare nijaman se bhāge bharam janja. Janam maraṇ bhava bandhan chūṭe, janam maraṇ mokṣa hove taṭkāl. Bhajore manva śrī prabhu, bhajore manva śrī prabhu. Parabrahma pura soṭaṁ svāmī, Parabrahma karadeva nā jāra nihā jore. Śrī Prabhu de pādhāya bhajore manva, Śrī Prabhu. But Gurujī said, jokai dhyāna dare nijaman se, if anyone will meditate nijaman se. Man is mind, but on mind, why? There are two minds: Nijaman or Dvijaman. The mind is only one. Yes, there are different minds in one person. One is that you are inspired, you are confused, you are guided, influenced by your mind. Do this, don’t do this, do this. That is not your own mind. That is a blackmail, or a very good spiritual suggestion. But that time, when you meditate, live all away, chitta vṛtti nirodha, that time our Prabhujī said, "Who meditate as a Nijaman from your thyself, your real mind?" May mera nija-apahum tatva-masi nirmoh kartahum may vandana meri mujhako. That time when you meditate with your Nijaman, with thyself, without someone’s influence, give all Kalesha, Ali, or dunya copper pints away. All is straight survey. Be drooled? I said, "In dice, that’s called me." Given that time may or may not need op, I am my is that the L that is op or the cell may may not need to hop on that from a senior boy, and I am that, that the messy about all that, that bad. I am Brahmasmi, Brahman, Tatvamasi, Nirmoye. I am Nirmohi, no moha, no andhakāras, no ignorance, because that jyoti, param vishāl, is inside. To write a bhajan, you have to achieve that level of consciousness to explain. Jñāna, pause, Ravi; taha, pause, Kavi. So you have to very quickly look around the entire universe. And so, like it is, Kabīr Dās is now the waver of God’s name. How beautiful you can create, make patterns on the carpets or anything. May Mera Nijaap Hoon Tatva Masi Nirmoye. Kartā Hoon Mewandana, I pray, I adore. Mera Mujhko Hoon, my adoration to myself. Because so-hum, I am that which I am, you are me, and I am you, there is no duality. Duality is a problem; duality is all the problem. Jealous, hate, angry, offended, no, this, that, what is this? It is a beautiful game, but one day we will lose this game. Therefore, concentrate on that. At that time, bhrama is doubts. Jāñjala is creating stories in the mind, confusion. Patañjali is something like a net. You can’t come out of this spider net. Brahma and Janaka. They are, they are merciful. Body bogus, it doesn’t bother me. The fortunate one, the fortunate, when are they blessed? Are they lucky? Are they who could see Mahāprabhujī and who have seen body bogus? It doesn’t. Bother me more and more than a Gopāla mop rubble is the more on Kṛṣṇa Mohan, mohako haran karne wāla, who can remove the ignorant. And Mohan, who can attract our entire being to the divine Self. Moha kā haran. Mohan, man ko bhanewala, which our jñāna indriya likes, the Mohan. Madan Gopāl, mad kā haran karne vālā. Madh ko haran karne vālā Madan aur madh ko daman karne vālā Gopāl. That God is like an innocent small child. Therefore, say, "Hum bachche dil ke hai, Bhagvān ko lagte achche, lekin khāte hai phal kāche kāche. Voh ne lagte achche, hum bachche dil ke hai sachche." Very nice: we children with a pure mind, and God loves us so. Then they told Guruji, "But you were there, and he came, and you were not afraid." Mahāprabhujī Gurujī said, "Why should I be afraid?" Bhajore Manohar Sri Prabhu Deep Daya, Bhajore Manohar Sri Puja Deep. Parabrahma Purusottama Swami, Parabrahma Karadeva Najar Niyal. So Gurujī said, "Why should I be afraid?" Gurujī said, "For me, on my head, he’s the God of me. He’s my protector. Every second, Mahāprabhujī looks at me and takes care. Like a fresh-born baby, always the mother looks, how is the baby, how is the baby. Similarly, Gurudev looks after the disciples." How is that? But there should be a disciple, not a girl. Also, I say, "Kāl kā khel, kāl kā khel, kya hī khel hai." In a reggae pulse, challenge a call, call me, "Ho jā, kalesh." So Mahāprabhujī, then that man, he made a śaṅkar pā, and he made his vow to follow this divine instruction of Guru and Mahāprabhujī, and he entirely changed his life and became humble. A great holy person that’s called the aim of life. What is the purpose of life? Khānā, pīnā, bhogṇā, paśubhī parama sujāno. My dear friends, eating, drinking, sleeping, and having children—animals have also. Many, if you are doing only that, then there is no difference between animals and you. Do something more than the animals, and what is that? Meditation, prayers, seva, humbleness, calmness, clarity, and inside, be the ocean of mercy, dayā. Without dayā, a human life is not a human life. And therefore, God created the humans. Humans are the form of the dayā. So realize within thy heart dayā. And don’t let come in, dayā, some kind of ego or doubts. Then that dayā will turn into something different, like spoiled milk or spoiled yogurt. You cannot gain anymore that butter of the mercy or butter of the vivekā. Therefore, human life’s aim. We will continue tomorrow, for today is enough. Wish you all the best, and the aim of human life, the purpose of human life, let us make clear. I will make it so long, I will talk until it becomes clear to you. All right? Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavānakī, Deep Dayālaya. Pramoye satsaṅgī jo kare, kī pramoye satsaṅgī jo Prabhu dīp dayā layā. Rāj sum. Wish you all the best and blessings of Mahāprabhujī. Om Śānti.

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