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In life, the jīva has to face many kinds of incidents. But the jīva takes birth with the karmas performed in its previous birth. And it is fortunate to receive a Satguru. Only the one who knows can know; the other cannot know. And it is also true that if they are not blessed, then no one can know them. Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa gives an instruction, but Arjuna says, “How can I know that you are that which you say you are?” So Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa says, “Arjuna, you will not be able to know, and you will fall into delusion, if I reveal my form.” So he said, “This is not possible, tell me.” Then Bhagavān manifested all the Brahmāṇḍas—all the heavens, hells, earths, Devas, Gandharvas, Rākṣasas, Asuras, Naras, Śūras, Indras—all of them within himself. Arjuna closed his eyes and said, “Prabhu, I cannot bear it, I am unable to bear it. This, your universal form which is...” He Kṛṣṇa, He Gopāl, He Karuṇā Nidhān, Ab To Āp Vāpas, Āpne Us Mānav Ākār Mein Vāpas Pragat Ho Jāo, To Jānne Vālā Hī Jān Saktā Hai, Dūsrā Nahī̃, Kamar Harī Siṅgh Jī Ne, Śaṅkar Siṅgh Jī Ne, Jo Anubhav Batāe Hain, Yeh Pārtikṣ Hain, Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagvān Ne Kī. This soul, this Jīvātmā, comes into this world according to past karma, the destiny, and it is that destiny which plays the game with this soul. This soul experiences all kinds of happenings in this life—pleasure and displeasure. Sometimes it’s a pleasure, sometimes it’s displeasure. Life is a struggle. But blessed are they who, before coming to this planet, before coming to this earth, spend a few minutes with God, if you believe in God, and pray: “Lord, you are sending me into this mortal world, but my life, my being is all in your hands.” So when someone is spiritually developed, when someone is happy, wealthy, healthy, wise, we used to say this person must have been praying to God before coming. He or she was not in a hurry to come. Others who were Hari, jumping, crowd, like a flood—and they will go like a flood back. Very practical, the reality, whatever Hari Singh and Śaṅkar Singh Jī told, their life experiences. Just now they spoke in Hindi, the Marwari language. Hari Singh Ji, unfortunately, he had no luck to have the love of parents. He didn’t see his parents; they died. His uncles were devotees of Holy Gurujī. Holy Gurujī brought them to Mahāprabhujī, and Hari Singh Jī from very childhood. He spent some time with Mahāprabhujī and with Gurujī. He is saying whatever he has—a happy life, four daughters, one son, all are happily married, and the one son who is the lawyer—he wouldn’t think that his life could be like this, where there were no education possibilities, but by Mahāprabhujī’s blessing, he got schools, education, and everything. He told about his experiences, spiritual programs, practices, meditations, and so on. At the same time, our dear Śaṅkar Siṅgh Jī is telling his own experiences. He was born in a village near Bola Guda, hardly three kilometers away. And the entire village people, they were devotees of Mahāprabhujī. It is the time when Mahāprabhujī came and stayed for twenty-four years in the Bolā Guḍā area, from Kāṭhū. He taught that once his mother and some other people were coming with an ox chariot, and it was monsoon. There was a small river, not very much water inside, so they thought they would cross. And as soon as they came near, near the middle of that creek or the river, the water rose up. The oxen were raising their faces up, only their noses were outside of the water, and the chariot was fluttering like a boat, and all his... Mothers and ladies, they were screaming and calling Mahāprabhujī, just now what he told, I’m translating. What did your mother say? All these ladies were calling Mahāprabhujī, “Gurudev, Gurudev,” like a bhajan. Gurudev, śaraṇ tumhārī cintā meṁ miṭāde, Gurudev, śaraṇ tumhārī cintā meṁ miṭāde. Śaraṇīpraṇa Bhagavān. So the ladies were screaming, calling Gurudev, Gurudev, Mahāprabhujī. At that time Mahāprabhujī was sitting in Balagoda Ashram and having his satsaṅg. People were sitting, and Mahāprabhujī suddenly, his Brahmadhyāna, the Trikuṭī, suddenly there was like a turning cakra. There was a tension in between the eyebrow center. At that time, in that minute, the chariot was pulled out by someone pulling on the ropes. And they came out of the river very comfortably, without any loss or damage. Hey boy, sit down, sit down. So, in that minute, Mahāprabhujī opened his eyes, and people said, “Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī, what happened? One minute you were indifferent; the impression of your face was...” Mahāprabhujī said, “If I had waited one minute more, a big tragedy would have happened.” They said, “What? You will know after some time.” And because it is only two to three kilometers distance, after half an hour, the people came with an ox and a cart, and they told the story. When they came, Mahāprabhujī said, “Now you ask them what happened.” It is Kailash, Shankar Singh is saying, there was one blind man coming near Mahāprabhujī’s ashram, Khabbala Guda, eating there, sitting. And one morning, Mahāprabhujī said, “Something will happen now.” And the people said, “What?” “This blind person will now begin to see again.” They said the doctor said his retina is finished, he can’t see anything. Mahāprabhujī said, “Well, he will see.” Afternoon came two, three doctors for darśan. And one of them was an eye doctor and said, “Mahāprabhujī, can we look at this boy’s or this man’s eyes?” People said, “This man has killed so many peacock birds and other wild birds and animals, and out of that, he sinned; he became blind.” Mahāprabhujī said, “Yes, that’s true, but now he did so much guru-sevā, so his sins are cleared up, he will get vision.” The doctor looked at his eyes and said, “Well, Gurujī, we doubt that he will get his eyesight again.” Mahāprabhujī said, “Well, you do or you don’t do, he will see.” So, the doctor put some drops in and performed a kind of minor operation. I don’t know what kind of operation they do so quickly. And they put one bandage on his eye. After three days, they opened, and he could see everything. Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān. This is not, I am saying, what Śaṅkar Singh just told. Similarly, there was one man in the village who had a problem getting married. And Mahāprabhujī told one day that today would be the best day for that person. And they said, “What?” And he got engaged with very good, very rich people and something. So that’s a little thing, but it happened. At the same time, from the Gandhārī doctor, Rāmchandra’s father, Śaṅkar Siṅghjī, you see, read in the Lilāmṛt. And they asked the grandmother of Ram Singh, “My son has no children, and he married twice but has no children. Please, can you bless Mahāprabhujī well? He will get one son, but he will not stay with the parents, and he will also marry twice.” Still, the child was not born, and it happened that it was Doctor Ram Chandra who is living in Atlanta. He didn’t stay with his parents. He went to America and so on. And you know the whole story. This is Śaṅkar Singh telling it. So, Mahāprabhujī is the incarnation, is the divine, no doubt. He could give and do everything that a human brain would think God can do. Now, if you don’t believe, it’s your ignorance. And the human intellect, the human brain always thinks more negative than positive. What they call in German, Nāya, Nāya. Something they said, Nāya. In English they will say, “Well, always thinking negatively.” But it is there. Guru Kṛpā, Gurudev, you don’t know. You don’t know that reality. What you see is only the body. What you see is just like a normal human, like this, like you. But what is inside, that you don’t know. Therefore we said, “Jatana Pushe Sadhuki.” Do not ask the saint their caste, gender, or country. Push Lījī Gyān, ask for the knowledge, blessings. Mol Kijī Talvār Kā Pada Rehne De, Miyāṅ. If you want to buy a sword, a sword which you want to buy, then ask what this sword will cost, not the cover of that sword. So what is inside, you don’t know. So, this is very important: through meditation, you can realize. Therefore, those who have their inner eyes open, like Gurujī said in the bhajan: Śrī Dīpanīrañjana Sabadhukapānyan Prabhudīpanīrañjana Īṣī Mantrasī Hove Mana Mañjana He Sīmā Jñāna Sabhā Dukha Bhajana Prabhudīpane Hṛidhe Kamala. Kamala is the lotus. Hṛidhe is the heart. That heart is like a lotus. Here, the eye of the heart will open. Jo dale nīta namaka añjana, añjana means the paste for the eyes, an ointment. If you put in the everyday ointment, your eyes will become good and you will have your vision again. Which ointment? That kind of ointment means devotion, bhakti, belief, trust. Then that heart will open, the unfoldment of the petals of the lotus of the heart. Each unfoldment of each petal will open that such divinity, the love, the understanding, the mercy, the kindness, the happiness, the joys. Lucky are they who have this, and lost are they who, though they are with Gurudev, do not realize this. Mahāprabhujī said, “Like a spoon in the pudding, in the halvā, that spoon cannot taste the halvā, though it is all the time inside it.” Similarly, the persons who have negative karmas from the past and, by chance, have the opportunity to serve Gurudev, but still, you cannot experience the taste of that divinity, that greatness. You have to come above all this. So there were two or three examples. These people who saw Mahāprabhujī, who were sitting near Mahāprabhujī, who had a prasāda from Mahāprabhujī, they had a mantra from Mahāprabhujī, and as Śaṅkar Siṅgh Jī said, till today any kind of his wish is fulfilled by the name of Mahāprabhujī. Thank you, Śaṅkar Siṅgh Jī. Thank you. Ya, kaun karā tak tak? You want to say also? Our Colonel Sahab, he is a retired army colonel, and he would like to say a few of his experiences in English. Bring this. Avatārpuri, sit down. You are feeling sleepy. You will feel hot under the pillow. Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai Gurudev, Kichardho Me Sastrāṅg Praṇām. I would like to tell my experiences of life, what I have come across, and there are a few experiences I have, but I will not go for very old ones. I will just take on the last three years of the experiences, how it has happened, what has happened. As you know, the mother is so kind, so merciful, so powerful that she is ready to give her life for her child. For example, a cow knows that a tiger is coming and can eat her. But when there is a calf, a small calf, she is not going to leave that calf. She will face the tiger with her horn. Give her life, but until the last, she will protect the cow. Similarly, the Gurudev, we say, “Tumheve Māta Śapita Tumheve Māta.” Okay, dear Guru brothers and Guru sisters, I have no ambition to speak anything. But when Swamijī called me to speak something, I will be very short in my speech. Our main goal, which we took on this way to come to Jadan, is our faith in Swāmījī. I think everybody feels that we are very faithful in Swamiji’s work, in Swamiji’s words, in everything we got from Swamiji. And one of our main goals is again to improve our faith in Swamiji’s teachings. In this way, we heard many, many nice speeches this evening. We heard about many nice experiences with Swamijī. And from my point of view, I will speak only one thing to think about. The main or highest principle for us is that we heard about all the experiences that were done. When Swamiji was helping many people, but from my point of view, it’s very important to know that the main thing is to think about what did not happen to us. That means it’s really, really interesting to think about this and to improve our faith in Swāmījī, because many, many things were not happening for us in any lokas. That’s very, very important for us. Thank you, Swamijī. This is a spiritual lecture about Yoga in the Indian tradition. Satguru samaya bhajo re bhavan dhiri dhiri. Baya pakrayu bharajo kurayane badang avo dhiri. Satguru milya itni tale, are kaal jaal jam sot. Sees na maya depare to lakpa paaki poti. Satgurū Ke Darbār Mere Manva, karle vichaar, o karle vichaar, Naam Hari Jī Kusar, O Naam Hari Jī Kusar, Sapnā jai so re sansār, Sapnā jai so re sansār, Deepu kare che pukār, Manva karle vichār, Naam Hari Jī Kusar, Āyobhav mein dey dār, Sat Saṅg mā īśār. Kare bhāvase tohe pār, manvā karle vicār, nām Hari jī kushār. Sapnā jaiso re sansār, dīpū kare che pukār, manvā karle vicār, nām Hari jī kushār. Ho, ab tu ne Munīdhar, ab tu ne Munīdhar dekho Hari ko dīdār, ar dekho Hari ko dīdār jāo Dhani ke darbār, jāo Hari ke darbār, yā meṁ phark nasār, o yā meṁ phark nasār manvā karle vicār, o karle vicār, nām Hari jī kusār. Sapnā jai so re sansār, sapnā jai so re sansār. Dīp karatā Mahāprabhujī, dīp karatā he, dīp karatā he dīp… Nirdhār Chetan, āp nirdhār lakhe jī sarjan har o lakhe jī sarjan har. Manvā karle vichār o karle vichār, nām Hari jī kusār o nām Hari jī kusār. Sapnā jaiso re sansār, dīpū kare chē phukār. Manvā karle vichār, nām Hari jī kushār. O Karor Guru Saṅgh Pyār Manvā Karle Vicār, O Karle Vicār Nām Hari Jī Kushā Sapnā, Jai So Re Sansa Sapnā, Jai So Re Sansa Dīp Kare Che Pukār, Ho Dīpu Kare Che Phūkā, Gurudev Hai Apar Mohsen Dīnī Shāh. Bhavai Uttaryohun Paar, Bhavai Uttaryohun Paar. Manva Karle Vichar, O Karle Vichar. Naam Hari Jī Kushar, Sapnā Jai So Re Sansār. Sapnā Jai So Re Sansār. Deepu Kare Che Phūkāl, Guru Satgur Bhagavān Kī Jai. Guru Sabhī Na Karj Na Isare... Koṭī upāye kare koī chāye, koṭī upāye kare koī chāye, na bhava sindhu tare. O na bhava sindhu tare, gurusa bhinakara jainai sāre, ananta bhinakara jainai sāre. Gaṅgā jāo Kāśī jāo, Gaṅgā jāo Kāśī jāo, cāro dhāma phire, o cāro dhāma phire. Vanavairāgī udāsī agyāne, Vanavairāgī udāsī agyāne, Dara Dhan Visre. Koti upāye kare koī chāye, nabhava sindhu tāre guruta bhinakāra jñaisare bhūtane toṣis nivāve, bhūtane toṣis nivāve. Bhāṭa beṭa dhare, bhāṭa beṭa dhare, pāpī nīve nai sat guru āge, pāpī nīve nai sat guru āge, kasṭa aneka bāre, kasṭa aneka bāre. Guru sabhina kārya nai sāre, thāndatābhina kārya nai sāre. Koṭi upāya kare koī chāhe, koṭi upāya kare koī chāhe, nabhavasindhu tāre. Guru sabhina kārya nai sāre. Vrate upavāsa kiye bahutere, bandhu bhūkhmāre binā jñāna, ātmā nai mukti kahit, sant saṅge. Koṭī upāye kare koī chāye, koṭī upāye kare koī chāye, na bhava sindhu tare. Guru sabhinākar jñānai sāre, Śrī Dīp kahe guru char na tan man arp kare. O śaraṇ parāyaṇ ho jāve to nirbandhan visre, gurusā bhinākarj naisare, aṇḍatā bhinākarj naisare. Koṭī upāye kare koī chāye, nabhava sindhutāre guru sabhīna karaja naisāre, guru satguru bhagavān kī jaya. This is a spiritual lecture about Yoga in the Indian tradition. He Kevalam He Kevalam... He Kevalam Śiva Padmanābham This is a spiritual lecture about Yoga in the Indian tradition.