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Part 1: The Narrow Path: Steady Climb to the Celestial Abode Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī, Śrī Śrī Deveśvar Mahādev Kī, Satguru Svāmī Mādhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī, Sabhī ṛṣi muni mahātmāõ kī, Oṃ Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinaḥ, Sarve Santu Nirāmayāḥ, Sarve Bhadrāṇi Paśyantu, Mā Kaścid Duḥkhabhāgbhavet. Bhagavān bhavet, Oṁ śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ. Thank you. Salutation and adoration to our Satguru Dev, spiritual seekers, sisters and brothers, here in this hall and around the world. The blessing is coming to you from the holy land, Bhārat, Viśvagurū Dīp Āśram, Jādan. Today is another beautiful day, and this day is so beautiful that today the entire world was released from tensions for one hour only. But to give such a release from mental tension is something that happened between 1 and 1 p.m., according to New Delhi time. Did you notice, or do you still have tension? You see, there was a special energy flow in the universe—perhaps some scientists will someday understand it clearly. The influence of the different planets was something very divine. Yesterday we spoke about the path and the journey. As long as you are on the path, you have not yet achieved enlightenment or self-realization. As long as you have a path or a direction, it means you are still not at your destination. And when you reach your destination, the path ends. There is no more path. In modern technology, we have the navigator system. The navigator constantly guides you, reminding you to turn left, turn right, go straight, and even to observe the speed limit. It also warns: “Careful, radar, camera”—true or not, it says something. Perhaps you are not as far ahead in technology as people in India; Indians are very far ahead. In that sense, Gurudev is that navigator, guiding us through every curve of life and at the same time warning, “Take care, observe this path,” and reminding us of the speed limit. Now you might think Swamiji is making an imitation. I am not making an imitation; I am making a comparison. A hundred years ago, Mahāprabhujī said: Chala gaganagar chaḍhna re, chaḍhna re bhāī, śikhar par chaḍhna re bhāī, O manvā dhīre dhīre chal gaganagar chaḍhna re bhāī. Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān says, observe the speed limitation. Oh my mind! Slowly, slowly. It means that going too fast is prohibited. Those who think, “I will practice and in a few years or a few days I will get self-realization,” either become crazy, confused, or give up. Forget that. Continue slowly but surely. Therefore, do your daily duty—dincharya, your everyday programs—observing and fulfilling all your social duties and worldly duties. Don’t just sit thinking, “I will only meditate for myself; it doesn’t matter what happens in the world.” No. Slowly, slowly, because you have to reach your destination, śikhar ghar, the highest home, Brahmaloka. Purījī kahī manvā dhīre dhīre chāl, gaganagar chaḍhna re bhāī, o manvā dhīre dhīre. Gaganagar chaḍhna re bhāī, Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān kī, galīyā̃ choṭī, rāt andherī, raste meṁ ciknāī, dagamag pāv tumhārā, tū paḍegā ū̃dhī khāī. Mahāprabhujī said, “Galīyā̃ choṭī—the streets are narrow.” It means our experience is very small. Our knowledge, our vivekā, is very thin. And the path is so narrow because there are many vikṣepas, a lot of ignorance and darkness. Galiyā̃ chhoṭī rāt andherī—the dark night means ignorance. Raste meṁ ciknāī—it is a very narrow, little road, and you have a torchlight with a very weak battery. You have to recharge it again through satsaṅg and the practice of mantra. Chiknair Galyan, Choti Raat, Andheri Rastai Mein Chiknai. Even the part of the path you are on, it is very narrow and very slippery, very slippery. And that slipperiness means many temptations: good temptations, bad temptations. What is a good temptation? Sometimes you like certain things, and when something appears, in the beginning you go “Aha!” and then you try to spoil your spirituality. One day in Australia, Jasarājī told in his satsaṅg about a person. Someone told him, “Okay, I tell only you, don’t tell anybody.” He said, “Okay.” And the next day, the whole world knew. The other person was angry: “I told you, my darling, don’t tell someone or anyone.” He replied, “Yes, my dear, I didn’t tell anyone; I told everyone.” Those are your conditions, those are temptations. And when it is negative, you can’t wait; you are itching. Like the story of the camel and the fox—you know it very well. Temptation, that is the ciknāī, meaning very slippery, oily. In old times, wise people had only sand or small stones on their bathroom floors, because they were wise. Now we make very nice ceramic tiles, because we are civilized, we are wise. In the old days, no one would fall down in the bathroom and break their hip joints. But we wise people have created something so beautiful that many people break their hip joints, or knees, or what not. That is the output of our wisdom. And that was the old-time output of those wise people. If you slip, you will fall into a deep hole. Khai is a channel dug for canalization—what we call khai, gālī, nālī. So you will fall into the deep hole of canalization, and there will be different kinds of liquid inside. Har Har Mahādev! Canalization water, you know—organic shampoo inside, Naraka Loka. You can’t come out, because everything is slippery. Slowly, slowly, langsām, langsām, slowly. Āch Pachi Śambheli Hokar Mohanirag Sunai… Āch Pachi Śambheli… Pāñca pacchīśa bhelī hokar mohani rāg sunāī. Om Ādi Redhe Chal Gagan Gara Chadhnaare Bhai. The twenty-five qualities—the five tattvas, the five jñānendriyas, the five karmendriyas, the five prāṇas, and the five upaprāṇas—all these twenty-five together will sing such a beautiful melody to you. Pāñca pacchīśa bhelī hokar mohani rāg sunāī. Rāg means the melody. Mohani means that which attracts your attention, that which captivates your mind. Rāg sunāī mohe man terā. Through that sweet melody, your mind will be attracted, and it will misguide you, leading you in the wrong direction. That is kusaṅga—unwholesome company. In the beginning, it is so nice, so sweet, but it is like when you catch a chicken by throwing some seeds: it comes closer and closer, you bring it into the room, and then you catch it. With these twenty-five, you have to be careful. Follow what it will say? Obey, obey, obey. Not away, away. You can’t leave me—it is like that. When the road misguides you, you miss your destination. You are in a very big hurry. Modern technology is sometimes very useful for making comparisons. You are in a hurry to go to the airport on a beautiful long highway, and you miss the exit. The next exit is about 15 kilometers away, and you have to drive 15 kilometers back and make a circle. Check-in time is finished. You wait and drink coffee the whole night. Similarly, that exit—don’t miss your exit. Like a rope dancer, we are all looking, smiling, and laughing. And the dancer is also laughing, but the tension is in the concentration on the rope. So, my dear, you lost the way because you were misguided either by the co-driver, or by your mobile phone, or you didn’t focus on the exit sign. Pāñca pacchīśa bhelī hokar mohani rāg sunāī, rāg sunāī mohe man terā. Through these sweet feelings… Dr. Shanti said, “Don’t eat anything hard for one hour,” and you came back from dental surgery and someone gave you some good, hard nuts to eat. Śrī Śrī… A long, long way to the highway. That’s it. When you miss that exit, then you go in chuke ko chorāsī. What is chorāsī? The 8.4 million life cycles. So Gurudev is guiding; Gurudev is that navigator who will guide you. But if you don’t follow, and Gurudev says, “Now the exit is on the right,” but he says, “Ah, you are going so quickly.” Behind his car, on the left side, on the right side—oh God, you are nervous. You are preyās. Nervous means preyās. Now you are in the hands of others, which means on the highway you can’t get out. Don’t miss it, don’t miss it, don’t miss it. Manvā dhīre dhīre chāl, gaganagar chaḍhna re bhāī, manvā dhīre dhīre chāl. Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān: without knowing, if you try to climb up, you will fall down to the ground. Without Satguru Dev, you don’t know. Mārga jhīnā—the path is very narrow. Many people want to go to the Himalayas to climb rocks, and they don’t follow the master, the teacher, or the guide’s instruction. Many are lying there at heights of 6,000 to 7,000 meters, because even a helicopter can’t land there; no ambulance can come. No rescue is possible, so they are frozen, they become frozen glaciers—part of the glaciers. So many bodies in the Himalayas; you can’t imagine. Now, due to the warm climate, glaciers are melting, and many bodies are emerging. Therefore, those who try and say, “I don’t need Gurudev, I don’t need a Guru”—this is propaganda, it is negative. You need a Guru for everything, even for cooking. Especially now, the demand for cooking courses worldwide—cooking courses are usually full. So this is not just a cooking course, but many, many things. Without a master, without a teacher, without Gurudev, you do not know. If you try, you will fail. Satguru bīn mālūm nahī̃ paḍtā mārga jhīnā—without Satguru, the thin path is not known. Chadariyā jhīnī re jhīnī, kī Rām nām ras bhīnī. Chadariyā jhīnī re jhīnī. Now you can compare. Kabīr Dājī also said, “Chadariyā jhīnī re jhīnī—the cloth is very thin.” The body, this prāṇa that we have, is very thin. But the human life is soaked in the name of God. If you come out of that, then you fall down immediately, without a second. Fall down. Therefore, I often ask: how many times, my dear, have you changed the altar of your heart? This altar is very easy to change, but when you change the altar in your heart, you fall down. Yet still, there is a thin thread hanging. It can still pull you out. Don’t blame your Gurudev. It is you who fall down. Manvā dhīre dhīre chāl gaganagar chaḍhna re, dhīre o manvā dhīre dhīre chāl gaganagar chaḍhna re. Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān, Dev Puruṣa Satguru Sāheb, my Satguru Dev, Dev Puruṣa Sāheb, means God. Swāmī Dīp Sanyāsī dīnī saṅketa, Satguru Sāheb Śrī Dev Puruṣa dīnī saṅketa—my Gurudev Dev Puruṣa gave me the indication: go in this direction, follow satsaṅg, avoid kusaṅg. Avoid, avoid criticism, don’t listen to negative words that will come. Part 2: The Bird of the Cage: Nobody Knows Thy Pain Maybe you pollute your chidākāśa. When it is polluted, then you need to dilute it or do dialysis. It is not easy to dilute. Some germs remain inside, and the roots will grow again. Hopefully, you will wake up and get up again. So, a person who thinks, "I will get liberation quickly, I will read this book, I practice this"—it is the only way to distract thyself, slowly, smoothly. When you go to the holy pilgrimage of Mount Kailash, for certain kilometers, okay, you can go quickly, but after a certain height, each step for you is like walking one kilometer. Every leg coming up costs you so much energy. That’s it. Dere, dere… slowly, slowly. Therefore, Satguru Dev is that navigator. But when you enter into the Brahmaloka, Satguru Dev, what will he say? "Gurujī, you have reached your destination." Until then, this navigator will guide you, but the navigator can only tell you; you must follow. Then you will miss the way, then Gurudev will say again, new calculation. New calculation through the Caurāsī Lākh Jīvajū. What happens to the one who comes then, who missed it? Guru Vakya. It is not I am telling, it is not my words, it is the Gurudev’s words. I am a disciple like you, a simple person like you. But aisā merā Satguru andar bole, it is He stalking within me. Sab ghaṭ merā Saiyā, koī ghaṭ khālī na āī. Balihārī us ghaṭ kī, pragat bole āī. In every heart is my Lord, but adoration to that heart in which He Himself speaks, so Gurudev speaks in me, aisa mera Satguru andar bole, "Well, my dear, you lost the way. You lost the way. You lost the way." Hopefully, not you who has lost the way, where you landed. Oh, there is one beautiful song, a bhajan, you can say, by one very great singer. I know that melody, and my melody, my throat is like a broken bamboo flute. You have to learn. You have to learn. O Pinjare Kā Pansire, Terā Dard Na Jāne Koī, My dear, you fall down and land it in one case. Symbolizing this. Pinjare kā pansīre, O bird, O bird of the cage, Terā dard na jāne koī. Now, nobody knows your pain. You are also, in this case, inside. This body is also a case, and you are inside. Nobody knows your pain. May you smile. May you make up. You may act. There are many heroes, what you call the actors and this and that. Acting, they can be good, but how much pain they have inside. Nobody knows your pain. You lost the way, my dear. I wish I could have followed my Guru’s words. So this is one beautiful song. It is very, very old, and we will play it for you these days, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, the original saying. What is the name of the singer? Kavi Pradeep, and he wrote it. It is his property, not my property. I am only an interpreter. O bird of the cage, nobody knows thy pain. We have many different kinds of pain. Physical pain is nothing, zero. But other pain which you have, because you lost, my dear, you lost. Once, when I was learning German, one of the German persons, whose name begins with E and K and A, said, "Double S." Selba suld. His word is for me Guru Vakya. Also, this person’s word is for me Guru Vakya. While that is not me, it is all of you. How much pain you have, nobody knows. Pyār se to khāmosh rahe, bhitra bhitra roī. Outside you are khāmosh, you are smiling in the big parties. Sattis, ever dancing, nice, make up, this up, blim blam, blim blim, klum klum, klum… kl. Person to person, but my path. Therefore, Gurū Nānak Sāhib said, "Terī bītī umar hari nāma binā, ab tū smaraṇa karale mere manā." Till now your life is gone, but now begin, begin… begin. Kā Na Sakhe Tu Apnī Kahānī. O my dear one, even you cannot tell your stories, your suffering. Terī bhī pañsī kyā jindagānī re? O bird, what is your life? You also have such a life, what a life! Vasiṣṭha Daina Libana, Bhe Iṣṭa Daina Libana Pañsī terī kyā jindagānī re? What is your life, O bird of the cage? Vidine Terī Kathā Likī Āṁsūme Kalam Duboe Re. The destiny has written thy story, and that pencil was dipped in the ink of your tears, the ink of your tears. Or, Vidhātā herself, when Vidhātā wrote your story of destiny, she begins to cry, and her pencil was dipped in the ink of her tears. That is the condition of the person who is lost in the darkness, in kuśaṅgas, in this and that. Get up, wake up, and concentrate. Love thyself, adore thyself, pray to thyself. Say, "Oh my dear one, now open your eyes and follow the path." As long as the path is not achieved, and the destination is not achieved, and there are many exits, and there are many blind streets, and there are many traffic circles, round and round, round and round, ḍākolā ḍākolā, Vidhine terī kaṭhalikī asume kalam dubhoī, terā dard na jāne. Koyi, O bird of the case, nobody now understands thy pain. Chupke chupke rone vale, silently crying, silently you are crying when you are in the bathroom, when you are alone, when you go to bed. Inside you are crying, outside you are smiling, because that pain is a hidden pain, nobody knows. And great Mīrā Bāī said, "Mīrā dard na jāne ko, dard kī mārī ban ban ḍolūṁ." Mīrā said, "Mīrā dard na jāne ko," and nobody knows my pain, "dard kī mārī," I am tired, I am wounded, like a wounded soldier in the battlefield, hungry, thirsty, tired, wounded. She said, "I am searching for my beloved in the forest, here and there." You know the song of Mīrābāī. And this bhajan is, I think, an imitation of the ideas of Mīrā’s bhajan. Of course, one gives inspiration to others. And then you write your own, from your own intellect, on Viveka, you write. Someone said to Ali Gurujī, "Gurujī, the good books and good words and good bhajans and good poems," Everyone has already written: Mīrābāī, Kabīr Dās, Tulsī Dās, Sūr Dās, and so on. Now, what should we write? It is said, "Cream, cream have they eaten, now we have only this buttermilk, chas." Gurujī said, "You are very wise, you tell good things, but you don’t know." He says, "They ate butter, now what should we do? Drink tea, Sansār." Gurujī says, "What happened to us when we ate butter?" Add four of love, two days and one night. They ate only the cream; they didn’t eat the cow itself. Feed thy cow with the grass of love, and milk day and night. You will have enough cream. So, Viveka, what God has given us—the intellect God has given us—is to serve, to help, not to destroy. And don’t miss, don’t fall into it. Chupke chupke rone wale, tera dard na jāne koī. You are crying silently. Chupke chupke rone wāle, rakhnā chupā ke dil ke sāle re. You are crying silently and trying to hide your wounds in your heart. Therefore, Mahāprabhujī said, Hirde kamal kī āke khul jāve, hirde kamal kī āke joḍale nita nāmaka añjana. On that wounded wound of the heart, there is only one ointment, and that is thy mantra, deep niranjan, śabdukha bhanjan. When Kamal’s eyes open, that time the eyes of your heart will open. O God, how many people I misguided in the wrong direction. Criticize, negative, this, that. If you can show the one way, you will have very good karma. If you misguide one, you will have many, many karmas too. Chuppake chuppake rone wala, silently crying, rakhna chuppake dil ke chale re, you are keeping the hidden wounds in your heart. O my friend, O bird of the cage, listen. For whom are you fighting? For whom are you supporting? For whom are you creating this and that? For whom are you saying it’s mine and thine and theirs? Listen. This is a land of stone, foolish one, this is a land of stone, foolish one. Here, no one is yours, oh stupid one. "Foolish one," you can say with love also. Vision blurred, constantly. Are you crazy? You can say to your best friend also, but are you crazy? So you can use these things in different ways. Bistu Blurred, Nakke No, I don’t believe that. Get up, don’t be so stupid. This is called simping with love, but such simping is also a good remedy. This world, this world is of stone, not soft like butter. It means the heart of the people is like a stone. And Gurujī wrote one prayer, "Lord, make my heart soft like butter." That heart will melt as soon as you see spirituality, satsaṅg, Gurudev, wisdom, practice; this heart. Yahāṁ koī na terā hoī, here nobody is yours. You may think it is yours. O bird of the cage, nobody knows thy pain. Therefore, meditate, practice your mantra, clean your thoughts, and always sing. Satguru Nām Kama, Satguru Nām Kama… Sāṅkhya, Sāṅkhya. Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jaya, Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān, Sat Kṣaṇatān Dharma Kī Jaya Ho, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Paramahaṃsvāmī Maheśvarānandajī, Gurujī, Deva Kī Jaya Ho. So, when the way is guided, keep on your track on the way. On the day when the destinations realize your way is finished, you will not look anymore into the map, the road map, because you are already at home. So we have to find a good way, and we shall keep on this way to come to the destination. I wish you all the best, and I do hope that you do not have any wounds in your heart. If then, please use this ointment, "Deep Niranjan Sabduk Bhanjan, Ishi Mantra Se Hoi Manmanjan," and I pray to Mahāprabhujī for our mutual understanding, harmony, love, and that we walk hand in hand on the divine path of Om Śrī Alakh Purī Jī, Siddha Pīṭh. Om Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Tomorrow is the Mahāsamādhi day of our beloved Satguru Dev, Swāmī Madhavānandjī. And tomorrow evening, after the prayer, the new daily time, 7 o’clock, the webcast will begin. Several hours it will go, continue. Many good singers’ bhajans, especially the folk melodies’ bhajans, which are disappearing slowly, slowly. Many people told me, "Swāmījī, how happy we are and thankful that you keep alive these melodies, bhajans, and this, because everything is now getting like a film." Songs, different melodies, so you, my dear brothers and sisters, you can record if you want the bhajans, everything. There will be a whole night, time to time webcast, also next morning on the 3rd of October. In November, there will also be some morning lectures and programs, and this program is also dedicated to the people. World peace is in the interest of our beloved Satguru Dev Swāmī Madhavānandajī, under the umbrella and on behalf of Śrī Swāmī Madhavānandajī World Peace Council. So you are most welcome to come and attend. Wish you all the best, and God bless you. Om Śānti.