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Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya. Śrī Śrī Devpurījī Mahādeva Kī Jaya. Dharma Samrāṭ Paramahaṁsa Śrī Svāmī Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya. Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramahaṁsa Śrī Svāmī Mahāśāṅjī Gurudeva Kī Jaya. Dear Guru brothers and sisters here in Jadan and in the world, dear yoga friends, today we witnessed again one exceptional event here in Jadan. Why I am saying exceptional, amazing, you will see very soon in a few minutes through the webcast, because our video team recorded what happened, and you will understand. As you all know, our dear Matajī, Full Purī, now after she becomes a sannyāsī, she got a new name, Puṇyānanda Purījī Mahārāj. So she left her body and went to Brahmaloka, to Mahāprabhujī, Gurujī, and other great souls. It was the final event of a series of events, a long battle where Matajī was fighting, or let us say, for her life. It is said for us humans to work, but the result is in the hands of God. So Yamarāja Bhagavān decided that it was time for Māṭājī to leave this mortal world and come back to the celestial realm, to Brahmaloka, next to Mahāprabhujī. We who know her, who have known her for a long time, adored her; we were always immersed in her love. In this case, in this moment, I would like to thank the entire team of dedicated karma yogīs who were with Māṭājī all these days, day and night, trying to do their best. They were doing their best to help Māṭājī so that her health condition would improve. Especially, I would like to thank Gayatrī, then Dr. Vera, Gaṅgā, Pārvatī, and Prem Pūjā. Of course, I should not forget Umā Purī and Mānsā Devī, who are all the time with Swāmījī, taking care of Swāmījī and Mātājī. Matajī left her body yesterday around 4:30 in the afternoon. It is natural that we informed some people that Matajī passed, and it happened like an avalanche. People from all parts of Rajasthan were just flowing into the ashram to pay their respects to Māṭājī and to Svāmījī. They were coming from Jodhpur, Udaipur, Jaipur, and Delhi. They were family members, bhaktas, people who came occasionally to the ashram, and many unknown people. They are from all castes. They are people who came by buses, and they are people who came by red cars with the red and blue lights. And they were sannyāsīs, many, many sannyāsīs. And all these people together made one fantastic event. The event of respect, the event of love, the funeral, as we say in the West, is usually a sad thing. But Swamiji transformed that sad thing, which is common in the West or in the East, into the glory of respect and love. Respect is a great thing. It shows, is that red line after the many, many numbers are written, summary. It shows the picture of the life of that person. It is Swamījī’s love, Swamījī’s humbleness, Swamījī’s will to help his life’s work, which means help, help, help. It is that which brought so many people, thousands of them, today in just a few hours after they were informed that Māṭājī passed away. They came to Jadan and paid their respects to Māṭājī and to Swāmījī. In India, the mother is the first guru, and the sādguru is the last guru. You know that Māṭājī was the sister of the great saint, Holy Gurujī, and the mother of the great saint, Swāmījī. And it was that fact, that the mother of the great saint passed away, that brought so many people together. So, I invite you to see what happened, and before that, I would request Swami Niranjan Purī to say a few words about your impression. Thank you for listening. Hari Om, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jehu. Dear Guru brothers and sisters, I would like to dedicate a few words of praise to Māṭājī’s glory. To Matajī as we knew her, as we loved her here in Jadān, and still we love her, we are loving her, and we will love her. Because she was a great example for us, and there were two very remarkable principles regarding her nature. The first principle is of the universal mother, because she was not a mother only to Swāmījī and to the family from Rupavas in our eyes, but she was a mother to everyone who approached her. Everyone who came to Matajī, everyone was accepted and welcomed. For everybody, Māṭājī had sweet words, blessings, and prasāda. Whoever approached her got prasāda from her own hands. One would take a little, but Matajī would say, "No, no... gaṇale lo, gaṇale lo," and she would call the person back and give more, more, "Just take more." She was only giving, and the same was with her blessing, and it was not just any social gesture. That was a true blessing. That was a transfer of energy. I remember two or three times when I came to Māṭājī in quite desperate condition. Just somehow, accidentally, she was there, so, okay, Māṭājī, let’s greet her. I came to her, and she gave the blessing, and immediately the feeling of the physical and psychic problems just disappeared through that blessing. Because Matajī was a saint, often she would feed us the prasāda. Prasad is giving us because she wanted to see the children eat her prasad. And everyone has for her child, she would tell us, "Ah, meetā betā," that means sweet son, or "meetī betī, meetī bājī," sweet daughter. And even Swamiji is Matajī’s son, she would always address him Bābjī, because her relation to Swamiji was spiritual, and that spiritual aspect of Matajī is what will stay, a great example to everyone who can observe it, who could observe it. Matajī was completely free. She could do whatever she liked, let’s say. Still, she would spend all day in the spiritual sādhanā. Whatever free time she had, she dedicated in some way to her practice. She never missed the morning and evening prayer. Whoever was in her seva had to sing the morning prayer with her. And then Māṭājī would go for darśan to Śiva Mandir. In the Śiva Mandir, she was very spontaneously making the pūjā. If there was still a deepak on the altar, she would ask for the jyoti, for the deepak. And then she would go from mūrti to mūrti. And you know, she had already quite a trembling hand, but still, with full attention, she would give her āratī, her prostration to every picture or mūrti in the mandir. She would make abhiṣeka and then give her blessing through the water to all sides. And she would ask for prasāda and offer the prasāda first to the mūrtis and then to everyone who was there. And then she would sit outside on the veranda and just make mālā, being available to everyone who came, who wanted to speak to her, to share with her his or her problems, and to receive her blessing. When Matajī came to Bhaktisāgar, she always greeted the altar very reverently. When she was leaving, even though there were bhajans going on, she was very loudly telling her Jai Jayakar to the altar. So she was in this great example. Often, she would go to Gosala to give her prasāda or charity to the cows. And if she was out of the ashram and there was, let’s say, Amāvasyā or any spiritual festival, then she would send a message that either some five kilos of laddus should be distributed in the Gosala, or we should give three coconuts to offer at the Śiva Mandir, and so on. So this was, and this is, our Māta Jī. She will stay in our hearts, in our memories, she will stay in our present, and she will be with us in our future. So thank you, Māṭājī, for everything, and we hope that we will be your good children and that we will follow the Satsaṅgatana Dharma as you have been doing your whole life. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Gavana, Kī Jaya, Śrī Puṇyānanda Purī Jī Mahārāja, Kī Jaya. It’s running. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Satguru Dev Kī Jai. There’s not much left to say, but it was a very beautiful day. I was lucky enough to spend a lot of time right next to Swāmījī today, and I saw several times tears coming into his eyes. And I think what I observed at those times, what was so much touching, was there were people that I had not seen for six or seven years, Śrī Śrī... Nothing to do with Matajī’s biological family at all, nothing at all, but who were very close to her emotionally, one gentleman from Jodhpur, Lakṣmīnārāyaṇjī, who somehow at one stage, only a few years ago, just became really, really close. To Matajī, their whole family took her on somehow as their own and have cared for her so much when she’s been in Jodhpur. And it’s not a small thing for somebody to shave their head here, but he was also shaven. And there were a few other people like that. It was such a sign of respect, which doesn’t just go, you know, it’s no formality. It’s something that’s really coming from somewhere deep, deep within the heart. It was beautiful. And the other thing, when I was next to Swamiji and involved with all of the sādhus there, so what I wanted to share was the energy which the other sādhus put into the function, and the love and respect which they gave to it. It was very touching, and there were a few times when they were arguing quite strongly with each other about what should be done, but it was out of passion, you know, it was out of the fact that this should be done right. It wasn’t something between them; it was about what was going on, and that it should be perfect. That was great to watch. I want to share two stories about Māṭājī. One is, I guess for me it may be a legend, but I’ve heard it from many members of Swāmījī’s family. And another one is a little bit funny, but I love it so much, and it sums Matajī up for me. First, those who knew Matajī from doing seva will all know that she had one hand that had been broken when she was young. And it was a little bit deformed because of that knot straight. As I was told what happened, Matajī was riding on a horse, and she was carrying one of her children, which sometimes I heard was Swāmījī, but I don’t know if it was him or one of the other children. In one arm, as she was riding the horse, she fell off. Now, as she fell off, she broke her hand, but the child didn’t have a scratch. That’s a mother, you know. They take their own injury, but the child came first. She made sure, as I heard, that she landed so that the child was in her arm and was actually up off the ground, didn’t even touch the ground. But she landed on the other side, and that’s why her hand was broken. And the other story, it’s a day of celebration, so I can enjoy telling this story. It shouldn’t be too serious. We once had here in Jadān a movie being filmed. It was an Indian movie, like a Bollywood movie. They were doing one dance scene, and this was here near the Bhakti Sāgar. This was many years ago. The car park was still dirt, and none of these roads were here. And maybe it was about 10 years ago, 10 or 12 years ago. Before there was even a hostel and a school in the Swastik building. And part of the dance scene involved one man, one young man, and one girl. The girl was angry with him, so she was walking away, and he was walking behind her, trying to get her to come back. As he’d touch her shoulder, she’d turn around and get angry with him, and they were doing this scene again and again because they couldn’t film it right. So she’s walking away here towards the Bhakti Sāgara, and the guy’s coming behind and going, you know, to come back, and she’s turning around and looking upset with him. Next thing, Matajī was coming from her room with a stick above her head. And, I mean, she was using her stick at that time to walk, but she was so angry she had a stick above her head, and she’s walking here towards them, going, "This fool, how dare he assault a woman in the ashram? I will beat him, I will beat him,..." and off she was going, and Bikramjī was coming from behind, and Bikramjī was nearly running, which he didn’t do very often either, and he came to Māṭājī and said, "Māṭājī, no, no, it’s only a movie, it’s only a movie, it’s not real, it’s not real." And she wouldn’t believe him, and she was keeping going, and I wasn’t quite sure whether they should film that or if they should film that which was going on with Māṭājī and Bikramjī, but it was so beautiful, and it was Māṭājī, you know, she cared about everybody. She cared about everybody’s protection. Any lady who was here, any of the teachers who stayed here, any of the wives of teachers who stayed in our hostel, after being one or two months here, they’d form this bond with Matajī where they would always be sitting there in the afternoon. The same with the students who were in our college, the girls who used to come here and go by bus from our car park back to the village in the afternoon. They never went home without spending some time with Matajī, and they just loved it there. It was a special part of the ashram there that was Māṭājī, that was this energy that everyone was attracted towards. So today we celebrate that, and we keep it in our hearts, and now the samādhi is there in the future. We will go to remind ourselves of that, of that beautiful time which we had with Māṭājī, the time we shared with her and that love which we will continue to share with her. Om Bole Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Śrī Śrī Devpurījī Mahādeva Kī Jaya, Dharma Samrāṭ Paramahaṁsa Śrī Svāmī Madhavānanda Purī Jī Mahārāja Kī Jaya, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramahaṁsa Śrī Svāmī Maheśvarānanda Purī Jī, Satguru Deva Kī Jaya, Sādhvī Puṇyānanda Purī Jī Mahārāja Kī Jaya. This is a spiritual lecture about Yoga in the Indian tradition. Sanskrit and Hindi terms include chakra, prāṇa, kuṇḍalinī, ātmā, Brahman, saṃskāra, dharma, prāṇa, satsaṅg, Hari Om. Śakti vohī hai, mahī hai, aur añjal hotā hai, sajan toī milan kī bār bār umed, aśva caraṇ mīna ghar, moī milan nahī hai jīva ke dānā likhā raitā hai, dāne dāne purī jī kā khāne vāle kā hamāre maharṣi gragācārya ke uttam kul, me hamāre pitāśrī Kṛṣṇa Rāmjī Paṇḍit Gragācārya. Mahāprabhujīp Karatā Mahāprabhujīp Karatā Jai Rabhāṅ Jī Paraprabhudīp Karatā Mahāprabhudīp Karatā... Shri Veṅkaṭeśvarānanda Purījī Maheśvarānanda Purījī Maheśvarānanda... He Kevalam He Kevalam... And now it will be Māṭājī’s Sonsī, in which you will have strength. This will be after 16 days from today, and there will also be a program of Guru Pūrṇimā. You are welcome, you are welcome. Om Śrī Alakh Purījī Mahārāj. Then later we will add more. Kumbha Mahāprabhujī Dīpa Karatā He Kevalam... Mahāprabhujī kī Karatā Mahāprabhujī kī Karatā... Pūrā Masāl Lāho.