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Guru Swāmīmasa Satya Sanātandha. Guru Swāmīmasa Satya Sanātandha. Oṁ. Dīpa jyoti parabrahma, dīpaṁ sarve mohanaṁ, dīpānāṁ sajate sarvaṁ sandhyā, dīpaṁ sarvaṁ satyam, śubhaṁ karoti kalyāṇam, ārogyaṁ dhanasampadā, śatrugṇi vināśāyaṁ. Deepa Jyotir Namastute, Deepa Jyotir Namastute, Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī, Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva Kī, Hindu Dharma Samrāṭa Guru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī. Good morning, dear brothers and sisters around the world, to all spiritual seekers, all practitioners of the spiritual path, and all dear bhaktas of the Gurudev. This blessing comes to you from the holy Himālaya, Annapūrṇā. Today is the anniversary of Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, our grand master, our Satguru Dev. He was incarnated in 1800, and his life was full of miracles. There are two kinds of miracles. One is when a person practices techniques to achieve some siddhi, a supernatural power to perform miracles. For spiritual aspirants, this kind of siddhi is called māyā, illusion. The second kind of miracle or siddhi accompanies a divine soul who comes to this planet; automatically, those divine things happen in the presence of the holy saint. These are Riddhi and Siddhi. Riddhi means luck, prosperity, happiness, harmony, joy, and bliss. Siddhi means perfection. These two come with the holy saint to serve them and to protect all the devotees or bhaktas who follow such a holy incarnation. Saints are also of two kinds. One is born or incarnated as a saint. The second achieves a certain level of consciousness through practice, meditation, and prayer in this life, acquiring the quality of a saint. But the holy ātmā, the holy soul, the holy saint who comes with divine will, is nirguṇa—the formless, omniscient, omnipresent reality in each and every atom, everywhere, in everything. For the sake of the bhaktas, the devotees, the pure souls, all creatures, and this earth, that nirguṇa form of God manifests or incarnates in a human body composed of five elements. Such a great divine light we call Satguru Dev. Why Satguru Dev? Satguru comes from Satya Loka. The definition: Sat and Guru. "Guru" means darkness, and "Ru" means light. Satguru Dev comes from Satyaloka and brings the light of Brahmajñāna to remove the darkness on this planet. This is the definition of Satguru Dev. Satya Satguru Dev resides in Brahmaloka and Satyaloka; they are the same. As the Vedas say, "Brahma Satya, Jagat Mithyā." Why do we say Brahma Satya? It means Satyaloka is the Brahman, and Brahman is the Satyaloka. So Gurudev comes from Satyaloka, bringing satsaṅg from there, and that satsaṅg is a part of Satyaloka. When you are in satsaṅg, you are in Satyaloka. When you are in satsaṅg, you should have very pure, positive qualities and devotion. Then you will experience the light of Brahman, of Satyaloka. If we have negative thinking, conflict with people, or feel disharmony with someone, then we bring Naraka Loka, the mortal world, into Satya Loka. Those who come to satsaṅg or spiritual meetings but have conflict with others will not get the taste of Satyaloka. They will not realize the consciousness of Brahman, of "Brahma Satya, Jagat Mithyā." That is why many people, though they go to satsaṅg, cannot understand or acquire those qualities. Then they speak negatively: "I don't like the people there. The people are greedy. People are selfish. These people are not good." Who is saying this person is not good? It is not that person saying it about you; it is you, and that is your quality speaking out and projecting your feelings onto others. It means you did not understand the presence of the Satguru's wave. You did not understand the values of the Satyaloka satsaṅg, which is the way to Brahmaloka, to become one with Brahman. Mahāprabhujī said, "The fortunate are they who can get the satsaṅg." I am longing for my brothers and sisters of the satsaṅgs. When I think of my guru brothers and sisters, my eyes fill with tears. Why? Because they are sattva. They also come from Satyaloka and are going to Satyaloka. How beautiful is their soul, how beautiful is their inner self. But you cannot see another's mind, feelings in their heart, or what is going on in their intellect. So who are you to decide who has quality and who does not? You have to know what is going on in your own feelings, emotions, intellect, and citta-vṛttis. It depends on you. Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī incarnated; he came with his divine will. Before entering his mother's body, he appeared, and Śiva himself came and gave darśana and blessed the holy mother, Chandanādevījī. The Holy Mother of Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, whom we adore very much, is the God Mother. She is the Holy Mother, and Śiva himself came to her during meditation on Śiva Rātri, gave her darśan, and blessed her. He said, "O Mother, I have come for your darśan to give you the good news that the light of Brahman from Satya Loka, Viṣṇu Svarūpa, will be your son, and I will come to see him again." Read the Līlā Amṛta, the holy scripture of Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī. It is available in nearly 10 to 15 languages. Then you will know what Mahāprabhujī means and what he means for all the bhaktas. When you bring light into a room, automatically the room is lit and darkness disappears. Will you say the light performs a miracle? How will you define the siddhi of the light? As soon as light is in the room, darkness goes away. Did this light chant a mantra? Did this light perform some kind of sādhanā? No. Because light itself has the quality to remove darkness. So wherever Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī went, automatically happiness, joy, and harmony were there. People had many questions, but when they had darśan of Mahāprabhujī, automatically all questions were answered. Mahāprabhujī saved many lives. In certain cases, people brought the dead body of a child or someone and insisted, "Gurudev, you are the universal one, you are the mighty one, you are the Lord of our heart. Please bless my child that he comes to life again." Yes, it happened. The person who received the light has since passed away, but their children are alive and are devotees of Mahāprabhujī. Mahāprabhujī's presence itself was a miracle. His presence was the light. He blessed this earth and all creatures and humans who came to him. He even appeared many times in different parts of the world, giving darśan to bhaktas. Mahāprabhujī led a very simple life and did not travel much. Someone said, "When water is flowing, it remains clean. If water remains in one place, it becomes stagnant. At Chimilar, a sādhu, a saint, should constantly travel." Someone asked Mahāprabhujī this question. Mahāprabhujī said, "Yes, sādhus should travel constantly, and water should flow constantly—if the water is in little quantity. But a real sādhu and Sadguru is like an ocean. An ocean is in one place. If the ocean were to travel, the whole earth would be washed away and submerged. Therefore, the ocean has its life, its meaning; it is the life of this planet, the blood of this planet. So Sadgurudev remains in one place, and their being there is like the sun in the sky, giving light and warmth to all." Likewise, Mahāprabhujī lived nearly 135 years and blessed the people. In 1963, according to the moon calendar on Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa Poṣa Māsa, the 4th day, Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī went to Brahmaloka. Mahāprabhujī told many disciples, and especially told only Gurujī—our Sadgurudev, Hindu Dharma Samrāṭa Svāmī Madhavānandajī Mahārāj. Gurujī was in Ahmedabad, residing in the ashram, and Mahāprabhujī sent a message that he should come to Khaṭṭū. Gurujī went there. In Nilayamṛti's writing, our Gurudev recorded everything. Mahāprabhujī exactly gave him the time and date that he would leave his physical body and go again to Satya-loka, to Brahmaloka. Disciples do not want to believe; we cannot imagine such a great saint passing away. Even if your friend told you they would die in three days, you would not believe. But exactly on that day, Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī called some bhaktas near from Khaṭṭū and held a satsaṅg. He gave a beautiful lecture and sang a bhajan for them. In the morning Brahma Muhūrta, Mahāprabhujī had prasāda, gave them prasāda, and said, "Now is the Brahma Muhūrta, and it's time; it's a door, a straight way to Brahmaloka in the Brahma Muhūrta." If you can meditate and pray in the Brahma Muhūrta, definitely your consciousness will proceed towards Brahmaloka, to the Brahmarandhra, according to Kuṇḍalinī Yoga sādhanā and cakra sādhanā. When consciousness reaches the sahasrāra, then your door will open very soon to Brahmaloka; that is called Brahmarandhra. So Brahma Muhūrta, the auspicious hour one hour before sunrise—it begins one and a half hours before, when dawn begins—is when your consciousness merges into that dawn light and unites with the rising sun. Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, in his ashram Badīkhāṭū in Dhonā, where his Samādhi now is, gave some instructions to the bhaktas. Mahāprabhujī said the mantra "Oṁ Śohaṁ," and his divine light merged into the universal cosmic light. This is the case where many holy saints and yogīs can perform sādhanā and depart. It is said that for them, messengers come; someone receives them. Those who have negative karma, negative qualities, anger, hate, jealousy, doubts—they are like a dirty pot. They will be the client of Yama. So Yama will send his messengers to bring that person and lead them towards Naraka Loka or Pitṛ Loka, or into many other realms of suffering. "Janam janam dukha pai." Such a one will suffer for many, many lives. Only one chance has been given to us by merciful God: this human life. This human life is for purification. This body is very precious, though it is not immortal. This body has all the symptoms of nature, and nature is constantly changing. Look at the trees: beautiful new leaves come, beautiful green leaves, then they become yellow and fall down. All kinds of weather, all kinds of suffering are there. Different insects and bugs may eat that leaf. Similarly, this body is also like a leaf. As Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said in the fifteenth chapter of the Bhagavad Gītā, it is like a banyan tree with roots down and branches up. But this human tree has its roots in the brain and branches down. So this body is compared to nature, to a tree. But in such a tree, there are different qualities, like medicinal herbs. In this sense, in a yogī's body, there is a quality inside. The body is the body; it is the five elements. The body has vikāra; it has all kinds of blood, hormones, glands—everything is the same. But inside is something very precious. If you can acknowledge, realize, or understand that yes, in your body you have that jewel, within you have that diamond, within you have an immortal treasure, then you will take care of this body. You will take care of your emotions and your intellect. Because every positive thought will lead you to enlightenment, and every negative thought will lead you to darkness. It depends on us how we understand our life, how we behave toward others and all creatures. So Mahāprabhujī, in that Brahmaloka Brahma Muhūrta, chose the time and went to Brahmaloka. That is what we call Brahmalīna. When a normal human dies, we say they died or passed away. Some say they went to God: "Bhagavān ke pās chale gaye, Rāmjī kī śaraṇ ho gaye," went to the center of Rāma, or "Bhagavān ke pās pahuñch gaye," went to God. But when a holy saint, even God himself who came in a mortal body, departs, then we say "Brahma līna ho ke." Brahma means the supreme Brahman, and līna means became one, became one with Brahman. That is the specialty. Brahma Muhūrta, early morning: you may go to sleep earlier, but do not miss this time. Brahma Muhūrta is very, very precious, given to humans. Gurujī said those who sleep during Brahma Muhūrta will lose many beautiful karmas and good luck. It is said when overloaded sins are present, the person likes very much to sleep during Brahma Muhūrta; the sleep becomes very sweet for them. But some people automatically wake up when dawn rises, even if they go to bed late, like birds. As soon as dawn comes and the sun rises, birds awaken, flowers awaken, animals awaken. This is the law of nature, connected with sunlight and the sun's movement. Similarly, humans have the same talent, the same thing, but humans have left nature, gone against nature, and created their own qualities, trying their own nature. The nature given by God is perfect, and the nature developed by humans is imperfect. Follow the Vākyas of the Gurudev, meaning all the holy saints, what they are saying. Where was the need for Mahāprabhujī to awaken a Brahma-mūrti when he himself is Brahma-svarūpa? No. This body and what is inside it are very precious, and we must understand them very carefully. So Mahāprabhujī gave the blessing and said, "Oṁ Sohaṁ Saguṇa Brahma." Deep Paripūraṇ went to the Paripūraṇ, and we add one word more: Namaha. "Oṁ Sohaṁ Saguṇa Brahma Śrī Dīp Paripūraṇ Nārāyaṇamaha." At that time, the light of Mahāprabhujī's consciousness, the Ātmā, departed. Now, people think in normal language: when someone dies, it is not good for us; it is a bad day, not a good day. No. For a holy saint who came freely, gave his blessings, acted positively on this planet, blessing and working, and then, like a successful warrior, a hero, went again—it is free will. So he went again to Brahmaloka. We remember that, like Brahman. I remember one word in Christianity: what you call Good Friday. Actually, it is not a Good Friday; it is called a God Friday. Why God Friday? Because that was the day the light, the consciousness of Jesus, is believed to have gone to Brahman. You see, entire Christianity celebrates this Friday, Good Friday. Therefore, you must understand: in every religion, even when Mohammed went back, let us also remember and celebrate. When Kṛṣṇa, when Rāma, when all—because all follow the same path, all go through the same way. Therefore, we always remember and hold satsaṅgs and bandhārās on the day our Gurudev or a saint passed away. When on this day you sing bhajans and remember them, then from Brahmaloka this light still has a relation, a connection to us, and that light comes to you. You get that light by seeing the glory of that particular great saint. That glory awakens in you and will lead you. And when you give someone food or something, you are losing something. What are you losing? Negative qualities. Giving means you are giving your good things, and with this, your negative things are purified. So people stand in line; people in many ashrams are on the waiting list for the next bandhārā, the next satsaṅg of the anniversary of Gurudev from my side. Because with this, you do immense good for yourself. Those who understand, they do. Those who do not understand, they just go to enjoy the food; that is also something. That is why we celebrate: we remember, we sing the glory, we wish all good on the day this divine light merged into itself again. A drop of water falls into the ocean and becomes one with the ocean again. So from Satya Loka, the Satguru came, brought the satsaṅg, and brought the Satya Sādhanā through the Brahma Randhra to come to Brahma Loka. This is the definition. Therefore, Mahāprabhujī himself, when Devapurījī went to Mahāsamādhi, there is a beautiful bhajan full of viraha. I have explained to you many times: virahāgni. There are different kinds of fire. Vairāgiṇī means longing, spiritual longing, love. Mīnā says, "Dharad kī marī bandh bandh, dono merā koī dharad na jāne." She says, full of the pain of searching, longing for God, "I am searching Him from one forest to another forest." So when Devapurījī went to Mahāsamādhi at the time in Brahmaloka, in Kailash Ashram, Sikar district, Rajasthan—a beautiful place, immense with divine energy, still vivid with the energy of this Mahāsiddha, Śiva-svarūpa, adbhuta Devapurījī's samādhi—you must go there. Then your sādhanā will be successful. Make your saṅkalpa in front of the Dhūnī, the fireplace of Devpurījī, and I can tell you it will be fulfilled. But at the time of your saṅkalpa, your heart should be pure. Do not make a saṅkalpa that a person should be unhappy because you do not like them. Such wishes Gurudev does not fulfill. Gurudev fulfills good things. You have to become a servant of the one you do not like. That is it. There, your ego, your pride, your jealousy, your anger—it does not like others. That means you are that one, not the other one. So you have to surrender to that one, serve that one, to find what you search for, what you are longing for. First, you should find it there. Therefore, many people make saṅkalpa, but it does not come true because your saṅkalpa is negative, not pure. You should come from a pure heart. Devapurījī went into Mahāsamādhi at three thirty in the morning, around 1945 or somewhere near that time. At that time, Ādi Gurujī was sitting with Mahāprabhujī in Khaṭṭū. Mahāprabhujī said to Ādi Gurujī, "Mādhavānand, put on the ghee lamp." Gurujī put it on. And Gurujī said, "Now Gurudev said, 'Śiva went to Śiva-loka back.'" Gurujī did not understand. Gurujī said, "What do you mean? Śiva-loka." Śiva-loka is Brahma-loka, Satya-loka, among the 14 lokas, including Bhūr-loka where we are. "Devapurījī, Śiva comes from Śiva-loka, and he is just now going to Śiva-loka. So put the light in. His light remains here also with us." And Mahāprabhujī sang a beautiful bhajan that evening. Maybe I will explain it in the next webcast: "Jagadariya, aṭhaṅga jala bhariya, adh vichā cal rahī jā, āj kai visar yasa mahā." Oh Gurudev, why did you separate from me now? "Jag daryā vāthaṅga jala bhariyā." The saṃsāra is that endless ocean. "Ad biche chadrai jahāj." And my boat is only in the middle of the ocean. Who will bring me to the mainland? Oh Gurudev, do not leave me alone. Then holy Gurujī closed his eyes and had Devapurījī's darśan. Realizing, Mahāprabhujī told holy Gurujī to go and perform the ceremony and whatever needed to be done. So this taught Gurujī how it was. So though Brahmaloka, Śivaloka, Satyaloka, satsaṅg, and Sadguru—these are all the same. Only those who have awakened this Brahma Jñāna, awakened the Anāhata Cakra and Ājñā Cakra, will understand. Others are, as Mahāprabhujī said in his Vidyāndeep Gītā, like a spoon that cannot test the taste of pudding, honey, or halwā because it is an iron spoon. So though you sit in satsaṅg, you do not understand because you are closed. Nothing can go through. You have to become a soul. So Brahmaloka, Śivaloka, Satyaloka, satsaṅg, and Satguru are all the same. And who knows? You are also Satguru. But you have to look inside. You are looking too much outside. With little things, you have doubt, anger, jealousy. "I am angry. I am jealous. I am this." How will we come through? We are stuck in a thorny bush with three different kinds of thorns, like hooks on this side, that side, and this side. Whichever way you move, it strikes you. So we are stuck with jealousy, anger, doubt, greed, hate, or selfishness. How will we free ourselves from this thorny bush of life's situation? Satsaṅg. Satsaṅg is where we clean all our thorns and rocks. But go to satsaṅg with a pure heart and listen to the Satguru's bhāṣya. Your satsaṅg should not be a kind of meeting for society, parties, or such. Your satsaṅg is not for arguments or discussion. Your satsaṅg is to drink the nectar of divine wisdom spoken by Satguru. "Prakāśa puṇyam ṛta keśak śrī-dīpahārī mahā-dhānī. Prakāśa puṇyam ṛta keśak śrī-dīpahārī mahā-dhānī. Prakāśa puṇyam." Like the sun is a light, the source of light. "Amṛt ke śagal" and the ocean of nectar. "Deep Harī Mahā Dhani hai." Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī, through his bhajan, gives us freedom. Why do you not take it? Take it. Drink it. Therefore, Holy Gurujī says, "When God will fill my pot of love..." You know, the pot of love is never full. No matter how much God gives you, still we want more and more and more, until we burst into Brahman. And that... is the satsaṅg. So, my dear brothers, sisters, aspirants, practitioners, devotees, bhaktas of Gurudev, I bless you in the name of Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī, Holy Gurujī, Alagpurījī, and all holy saints on this planet. May they give you that love and knowledge so that again your heart melts, you understand, and you surrender. There is only one way: surrender. No other way. You are living, but you are like the dead. What does that mean? It means no ego, very pure. Many people in the world read Bibles and listen, and they also say, "You have to die to live." So you have to die to live, which means you have to kill your ego. You have to kill your jealousy, hate, and such. Then you are living as the divine Self. Then you are living like a hero, like a saint. So Śivaloka, Brahmaloka, Satyaloka, Satguru, and Satsaṅg—you know, how is the connection like this? Now, if you are clever enough, wise enough, and if you have love enough, begin immediately, now. Do not delay. Who knows if you will have your next breath again or not? Once you exhale, you do not know if you can inhale again. It is said we cannot trust our breath, when we will be able to breathe in and out. Therefore, do not miss any time for satsaṅg. Mahāprabhujī said, "Let the world scream or gasp." I have to do the satsaṅg. Mīrābāī said, "By eating halvā or ice cream, you can say many people may not know the halvā in the world." Our webcast is in 217 countries, so the whole world knows. Mīrābāī said, while eating ice cream, if your teeth are rubbed, do not worry. If you eat ice cream, it is tasteful. Similarly, when you meditate and go to satsaṅg and people laugh, let them laugh. In Rajasthani language, it says, "Sira khāne se dāḍ ghasē toh ghasne de, aur Bhagavān kā bhajan karne se log hasē toh hasne de." Because people who laugh at you or are angry with you will never be your helper. They will never be your people. They cannot liberate you. Decide whom you will follow. Therefore, Śiva-loka, Brahma-loka, Satya-loka—Satguru came here to us and brought the satsaṅg. "Satguru nām jahāj hai, chādeś utre par, jo śraddhākar sevāde, guru par utāran har," Guru Nānak said. "Satguru nām jahāj hai." He said, Gurudev's name is a boat. Those who will sit in it, who will accept it, will cross the ocean with devotion, belief, and confidence. Sit in the boat; your Gurudev will bring you to the other side of the ocean. Otherwise, you will be the victim of a hungry shark. This day, I pray to Mahāprabhujī to accept us. It does not matter how we are, but Gurudev, bless us and accept us as we are. Bless us, please forgive all our mistakes, please forgive all our sins, and listen to our prayers, Lord. Listen to our prayers. Listen, listen, listen to my heart song. ... I will never forget you, I will never forsake you. I will never forget you, I will never forsake you. So Gurudev, Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, I humbly pray for thy bhaktas around the whole world, all practitioners of yoga and daily life. Bless them, lead them, and free them from all the bondage of karmas, and bring them to your Brahmaloka. Accept my humble prayers. Bless me, protect me, guide me. I am Thine, O Mahāprabhujī. Bless me. Give me strength, give me śakti, give me bhakti, give me vairāgya, and give me strength to serve Thy bhaktas. Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī. Dev Puruṣamā Dev Kī. Madhav Krishna Bhagavān Kī. Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī.