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Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī, Dev Purīṣa Mahādev Kī, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jaya. Narayan Singh ji has come, but he is not saying anything. Good evening, dear brothers and sisters, here in this hall and on different parts of the earth. The blessing is coming to you finally from Śrī Viśvadīp Gurukul, Āśram, Jāḍaṇ, Pāḷī, Holy Bhārat. Dear practitioners of yoga and daily life, spiritual seekers and all the aspirants, for the last five or six days, you had a webcast from the Jaipur Āśram. There were different speakers, different views about spirituality, the way of life, and the aim of life. And I do believe that you got a lot of information and inspiration. There is one thought in the human mind: how does spirituality influence our life—not religion? Of course, religion is a part of spirituality. Where there is spirituality, there is religion; where there is religion, there is spirituality. Religion, which we call Sanātana Dharma. Sanātana means the eternal—the part of you that is eternal, your eternal essence. And that means relation. What relation do you have to your family members, your master, your friends, and to other humans? Relation. Dharma literally means principle, but it is said, dhāryate dharma—what you adopt, what you accept. Dhāraṇa karnā, dhāraṇa karne ke alag alag matlab hote haiṅ: kapde ko pehnānā bhī dhāraṇa karo, svīkār karo vo bhī dhāraṇa karo, dharma dhāraṇa karo, saṅkalpa dhāraṇa karo, niyama dhyāna dhāraṇa karo. So, dhāraṇ karo means take it, accept it, adopt it. To wear a shirt is also dhāraṇa karo—take it over you. And that means that through this saṅkalpa, through this commitment, through these decisions, you have to realize. So dhāraṇ karo comes to realize your aim. What? Realize your relation. So now realize relation, which in Latin language is also "relation." Realize and fulfill it, so realize your relation becomes relation. God Kṛṣṇa said in the 15th chapter, "Mame vaso jīva loke"—I live in this world, mṛtu loka—I live in the heart of every creature, not only humans. Jeeva Bhūta Sanātana. All these bhūtas, these creatures, this entity, Jeeva Bhūta Sanātana, they are my relatives, they are my essence, my light. Now, for that, when we would like to realize our relation—I mean, my relation to the cosmic one—so Ham. So means that, Ham means I. I am that, and that I am. Ahaṃ Brahmāsmi, I am the Brahman. I am Ātmā, Brahman. I, this Ātmā, is the Brahman. Tatvam Asi, that you are that one, you are this, I am that Ātmā. So, spirituality is that which you will follow accordingly. And every dharma, religion in this way, now, which is two kinds of religions in the world: one is called eternal religion, which is not made by any god or incarnation who incarnated in any forms. That is called Sanātana Dharma, the eternal Dharma, the eternal, original principle of the universe. That is Sanātana. And through that Sanātana, our body is communicating—all the organs of the body, all the functions of the body, and all the seasons. Without that Sanātana, not a blade of grass or a leaf of a tree can move. And second, religion is known as man-made religion. Means, when there was some incarnation—God Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, Buddha, Jesus, or what was spoken by Prophet Muhammad, and so on. But this was spoken in that human form. And then the believers or disciples wrote it down as a holy book. And they wrote these true instructions. So, no dharma, no religion on this planet is wrong or destructive or bad. All religions are good, uniting, preaching love, preaching faith, preaching confidence, preaching peace, preaching harmony, understanding, and what not. They said in the Quran it is written, if you kill one human, you kill the whole humanity. But the question is, if we all understand this and follow that, that is the main thing. If we understand properly and we follow properly, then there is no problem. The problem is not in religions; the problem is in people’s minds, where there is ignorance, so they do not understand. They change their opinion, they change their feelings. It’s very hard for some people to be confident, full of confidence, faith, loyal, what we would say. Look, there are some dogs, they are very loyal to the dog keeper—we may call the dog master. But there are some dogs which are very loyal to their master; suddenly, they get an illness in their brain, and then they attack their master. There are also dogs who are very loyal to their owners. But there are also such dogs that, after some time when they become old, develop a disease in their mind and eat their master. In our Marwari language, we say, so like this, there are some who get a certain conflict because it is in their karma, in that they stand very deep, and that suddenly awakens. But lucky is that dog which still doesn’t break out in its brain that kind of disease, and with great dignity and loyalty dies, and the whole family is unhappy about that. But the spirituality is there, that you are loyal to the holy preachings, and all preachings are the good holies. But we do not understand, and we fight, and we... So those who have negativity, they fight and speak negatively. Those who are positive, are positive. You ask me, one little child, "Swāmījī, can I have a toffee?" My God, I want to give the child a toffee, but I have no toffee. What should I give this child? I will say, "Well, I have the key." If I had a toffee, I would give a toffee, but I have the key, so I will give the key. But the child says, "No, but you can do miracles, you can make toffees." I say, no, I cannot make miracles. It is very difficult to make miracles. But sometimes you can do the miracle, then the toffee comes, the toffee has come, the toffee of the key has come, so it is, you can only give what you have in your pocket. So, to understand spirituality, Gurujī said a beautiful story. There was a holy saint, his name was Dungarpur, and that Dungarpur, he was living in a district called Jalor, which is next to Pali district. This story is about, let’s say, about 200 years old, 150-200 years old, when the saint was living at that time. At that time, there was a smaller human population, less civilization, and many forests, jungles, thorny bushes, and many different things, including much wildlife. So, there were some yogīs or sādhus, what you call them, who had their hut and were living in the jungle, growing their little vegetables and some little fruits. Dungarpurījī, who was living in a grass hut, one day in the afternoon, around two or three o’clock, was sitting and chanting his mantra, and one hunter came. The hunter came and he saw Swamijī sitting outside, so he threw his gun in the Tahorani bush and went to Swamījī to make praṇām, to greet him. Swamiji said, "What did you throw there in that bush?" "Nothing, Gurudev, nothing." He said, "No, no, don’t lie. You did throw something." He said, "Yes, I am a hunter. I am very poor. I kill some animals and bring them for my children to survive. I have no job, nothing." Dungarpurījī said, "Do not kill innocent animals. Killing them is a sin. Don’t kill. Meditate, practice mantra, read all the books." You say, "I don’t know how to read." Then go to satsaṅg. You will be happy. You will have peace, harmony, and love in your house. And God will give you money, everything. He thought, "My God, this is very good. I don’t have to do anything. No running in the bush and killing animals. All repeating mantra, happiness, peace, good family, and work will come, and money will come. How nice!" So he said, "Swāmījī, where should I go to get a mantra? You can give me the mantra." Swamiji said, "Okay." Sādhu Mahārāj gave him a mantra, and there was an old mālā, so Mahārāj gave him the mālā for repeating the mantra. The hunter was thinking, "When I got a mala and mantra, I should give something as a token of my appreciation, but I have nothing." So he went to the bush, brought the gun, and gave it to Mahārāj as a donation. Mahārāj said, "What will I do?" He said, "Whatever you like to do is yours." So Mahārāj didn’t touch that gun, and said, "Put it in the hut, hurry up." Now he went home, and his wife was waiting in the kitchen, waiting for him to bring something to cook—maybe the rabbit, or the dog, or the fox, or the ox, or something of that kind. But he came with the mala in hand at home, and she was prepared to cook something for the children, for her, and for him with one cooking pot. Pots were made out of the clay, mṛttikā vartan. But the hunter came home while chanting his mantra: "Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān," just like Nārada Ṛṣi goes to Brahmāṇḍa in Triloka. One hand is Kattar, one hand is Vīṇā, and the other hand is Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa. Have you seen Bhīlanī? "Have you gone mad? You always used to hang yourself in your hands, but where did you get the garland today? There is no gun or anything. Have you gone mad?" They said, "Bring a ghost." I said, "Not a ghost, I have found a Gurujī. Just give me a mantra and I will be happy." They said, "Bring a deer and a rabbit." I said, "No, no, I will not commit a sin." They said, "The tabor is hungry." I said, "Give it to Bhagavān." I said, "Bhilani has come." He said, "Come and get in." They said, "Where is the stick?" I said, "The stick is there." They threw the stick at the mother. They said, "Mother, bring the stick and beat it hard; it will bleed." I said, "You forgot. I am not able to do this. I am hungry from the table." I was thinking that Bābājī has betrayed me. I thought that if I take the name of Bhagavān, I will be happy. I was so ugly that I thought I would be happy. When I came home, I was in a mess. My mother got angry. After two or three days, I said to my mother, "Why did you do this to me? Did you drink blood or saṅghnī?" She replied, "Go and go to Maharaj’s door. Maharaj, he has betrayed me." They went home. The wife was waiting to cook something, and he came with the mala. She was so angry. She said, "Where are the animals? You didn’t hunt them." He said, "No killing from today on, just no sin." Master said, "In home, it will be all peace and happiness, and God will give everything." She was angry, and she took her cooking pot and threw it on his head. The pot broke, and she was also injured. Blood was flowing, the hunter said. The sādhu told me that you will have peace, harmony, and love at home. If this is a symbol of peace, harmony, and love, what about restlessness, anger, and hate? And he said, "You will be happy. Practice mantra." When will I be happy? Look, blood is flowing. I have been practicing for only two hours. If I practice for a few days, my wife will sit on my chest and kill me. He went back to the Mahārāj in the jungle, and he said, "Mahārāj, you are the bigger cheater." He said, "Why?" "You gave me one mālā which cost only two paisa, two cents, and you kept my gun which cost two hundred rupees. Here is your mālā, please give my gun back." He said, "What you have donated, you have no right to ask back." But he said, "Take it. I didn’t ask you to give it to me, and I am not telling you that you can take it away. It is yours, take it. I didn’t even touch it." But it is said, what you have given, you have no rights, dāna pe tumhārā koī bhī adhikāra nahīṁ hai, aur māṅg rahe ho to pāpa hai. But even if you ask back your donation, it is a sin. He said, "Mahārāj, you told me there will be peace, harmony, love, and understanding in the home. Look what happened to my wife, what she has done." Only two hours of practice, he took the gun and wanted to go away. Swamiji said, "Give my mantra back." He took the gun and went away. Mahārāj said, "I didn’t take the gun, but at least give me the mantra." He started thinking about how to give that mantra back, because Gurujī spoke a mantra in his ear. He said, "Take it as you gave. Take it as it is you gave." Then Mahārāj said, "Swāmījī said, there was one very nice stone plate where he sometimes sits and meditates also." Mahārāj said, "Now dust your ear on this stone." Us pathar pe bola, "Tere kaan ko jharka de." Kaan ko jharkaya to andar se kesar nigla. Kya nigla? Adha chamach. From his ear fell out half a spoon of saffron powder. The hunter went away. This is the real story. It’s not a made-up story. Then Dungar Purījī wrote a poem, a beautiful poem: "Kacche Ghade Neer Nahi Theere." When you want to make a pot out of the clay, and this clay pot is still not burnt, it’s still wet, not dried, you cannot hold water inside. First you have to put it in the fire. "Kacche Ghade Neer Nahi Theere," or "Nahi Theere Kages Me Para." You can’t carry the quicksilver in paper. Can you try to put it in a container, make it pocket-sized, and put it in your bahaya? It will run away. Kaccha gharai neer nahī thare, nahī thare kāgaja mein para, Bugalā motī ko kyā kare, motī haṁsā kā chārā. What does a kingfisher do with the pearl? The pearl is the food of the swan, haṃsa. So, kaccha gharai—those aspirants, those practitioners, they still did not get the tapasyā and guru bhakti, guru kṛpā, guru sevā; they are kacche. They are like that pot which is not burned through that agni of the tapasyā, agni of the enduring something, the tīkṣā; then it will fall apart. It will miss the way, and they did not know the value of spirituality, mantras, and blessings. The kesar came out of this. So, we have to understand, we have to go through the sādhanās, but live the normal life. But practice confidence. Chand talāī, sūraj talāī, mahā puruṣa kī bachan kabhī nahī̃ talāī. Even the moon and sun may change their direction, but the words of the saint or guru will never change. Power is in the mantra. Zahorī Gurujī used to say a very beautiful poem: Since the name has been placed in the heart, brothers, sins are destroyed, just as a spark of fire burns old dry grass. Since that time when I put the name of God, my mantra, in my heart—"Jabse nām hirde dharā"—in that time, in that moment, on that day, in that constellation, which was one of the most beautiful and divine constellations of my life, you got the mantra, but you did not know the value of the mantra. You dust it out, that’s all. In human life, the most precious and best constellation is when you receive the initiation. Jabse nām hirde dhara, on that time when I took this mantra and put in my heart—jabse nām hirde dhara, hirde means the heart, dhara means accepted or put in my heart—bhayo pāp ko nāś, the sins were destroying. It begins to destroy the sin. Like what? How? I have the sins from many, many lives. How will this one mantra destroy my sins? Gurujī said, "Yes, yes, yes. How? Master, explain to me." Jaisī cīn kī āg kī paḍī purāne ghās. There is tons and tons of dry grass and a little spark of the fire falls on the grass. What happened, boys and girls? A little piece of fire can burn not only tons of grass but the whole forest. You see in Australia the bush fires. You see in the summer in our Aravalli parts the fires. Did you see the fires in the Himalayas during the Kumbh Melā time? Where the bamboos? Tomorrow, I will tell the story about the bamboo and the sandalwood. So, jabse nām hirde dharā, bhayo pāp ko nāś, jaise chingī āg ki padhī purāne ghās. Believe, trust, keep it, hold it, value it, adore it, surrender to it. You will see definitely that all karmas will burn, and you will remain like inside a precious jewel, which is untouched by fire. There is a spirituality, there is a sādhanā, there is a confidence. Slowly, slowly, just slowly, slowly. With a slow mind, everything happens. When the gardener slowly waters, the season comes and the fruit appears. Slowly, slowly, my friend, slowly, everything will come slowly. Like a gardener gives a lot of water to the tree, but when the season comes, then the tree will give fruit. Similarly, in your life, a time will come when you will harvest the spiritual fruits or seeds to give to the world. But before that, if that illness has attacked your brain, then you will not give the fruits, but you will give only the thorns. And when the thorns are there, then remove the thorns, don’t spread also the thorns on the way. That’s spirituality. So slowly. Chadnāre Bhai, Sīkar Par Chadnāre Bhai, Chadnāre Bhai, Sīkar Ghar Chadnāre Bhai, Īmān Vah Dheere Dheere Chāl, Gagan Ghar Chadna Bhay, Īmān Vah Dheere Dheere Chāl, Gagan Ghar Chadna Re Bhay, Śastra Kos Gagan Yopar Vān Par Hai Raghurayī. Śāstra koś gagan ke vān par hai, Raghurāyī, man dheere dheere chāl. Gagan chadnāre bhai, manvādī. Vishwaguru, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Paramahaṁswāmī, Maheśvarānandajī, Gurudeva, Kī Jai Om. Kī Jai. So, for today, that is enough. Wish you all the best, and very good evening, good night, or good morning, depending on where you are on this planet. God bless you. Till next time, adiós.