TV Channel

Blessed Self, dear spiritual seekers, sisters and brothers around the world. The blessing is coming from the divine place, Viśwa Gurudīp Kulaśram, the holy land of Bhārat, Rājasthān. We are on the subject of these three, the four, many countries according to their culture, religion, belief, and so on. Is there blessing? Yes. Yesterday, there was just one example about one Ṛṣi's son, Mārtaṇḍa Ṛṣi. It was his blessing that not only prolonged his life a few years more or a hundred years more, but he is still living many, many ages. Is this possible? Yes or no? Yes, for them—those who understand the cosmic science, those who understand the spiritual science, those who understand what is God and cosmic consciousness, those who understand what is the energy, and those who understand what is the life. 'No' is for those who do not know anything, just stuck in the net of intellectual thoughts. That kind of intellect which is without juice, without bhakti, is a plastic apple. It looks beautiful, shining, but it is plastic. Similarly, the intellect which has no spirituality, which has no experiences in the knowledge of the cosmic function, the knowledge about the soul, jīvātmā, and ātmā and paramātmā. Definitely, intellect is the mighty tool which we got. It is that intellect which makes humans the better creature. But that intellect needs education. And there are two kinds of education: Parāvidyā and aparāvidyā. That's two kinds of education, lakṣārthī and vācārthī. Parāvidyā is the science of the entire universe. And aparāvidyā is just for this material world, that is also very important. That's very important for our life to live here, but that's not all. Lakṣārthī is that those who have made their saṅkalpa, their destination, the aim to know the Self, the Ātmā, the Paramātmā. Apnā lakṣya banā kar ke jo apne jīvan ko jītā hai, voh us lakṣya kī prāpti kar saktā hai. When you have one aim and you work for that, you achieve. Vācārthī is just what we call the bookworms. Empty intellect; there we cannot open, and we will not understand what is the blessing. Blessing has many forms, many, many forms. When we get prasād, what is that? It is called blessing, blessed food. When we go to the holy place, what is that? It is a blessing, to get the blessing. When we go to have a darśan, what is that? Darśan is a blessing. If we can get anything from the holy place, that is a blessing. If we get even a small, single hair of the saint, that is a blessing. If I am not wrong, then I read they kept very carefully and preserved the hair of the Mohammed. To see his hair is just a blessing. If there is right or true, there are even pictures from Jesus' coffin, which was on him when he died, they put on him. And it was like a print of the face of Jesus. It seems they said it is like that. What is that? Blessings. The dust of the holy feet of the saints or Gurudev, to have his blessings. To see the mother, father, or your loving person, your beloved one, is a blessing. Where there are blessings, there is unity. Where there are blessings, there is purity. Where there are blessings, there are divinities. Where there are blessings, there is clarity. And where there are blessings, there is liberty, liberation. Blessing means the union. Like the river merges into the ocean, that is a blessing. As long as the river is flowing, it is an individual river. But as soon as the river will merge or meet in the ocean, the river has to give up its own identity. Then we will call it the ocean. Similarly, when we get a darśan, blessings... We are not that one, whatever you call the sinner or the finner or thinner or ginner, but you are that one, that blessing that goes through and through. Each and every atom of our body begins to vibrate, though you don't know it. It's like recharging. The energy, yes, that's blessing, āśīrvāda. Who can give us blessing? Everyone. Everyone can give you blessings. Who is everyone? Not only humans. Oh, this is a new subject, my dear, now. Even the animals can bless you. How? Now, they will say, "Swāmījī is going too far." Yes, we have to go very far. We say here in India, bhūkhe ko bhojan doge, to voh nahīṁ, to unkī ātā jo hai, voh to āp ko āśīrvāda. If you give food to the hungry one, if not the person, but his or her intense time will bless you. Hunger. Hunger is the equal. It doesn't matter, humans or animals. Intense time is equal; it doesn't matter, human or the animals. Jāṭharāgni, the fire, the digestive fire, is equal; it doesn't matter, animals or humans. So, that stomach, that intense time will bless you, that you saved my life. So, give. When we give, that is a puṇya, a blessing and puṇya. Āśīrvāda or Puṇya, blessing and pūjā, both go parallel. When you first do puṇya, then you get blessing, and when you get the blessing, then you get liberation. There are some people waiting somewhere in the forest where the water is in the night. Poor animals come for drinking, and they kill them instead of giving them water or eating. That is not a puṇya, that is a sin. One side is the pain of hunger, and the other side is the pain of your arrow or bullet, which you shoot to kill that animal. There is no sin beyond that. The face of an animal is looking for water in the jungle. In the day, it is scary that a human will kill me. At night, it comes in the darkness to drink water, and for it, how terrible a sin it is, to quench the fire in its belly, to drink water, it has come hungry and thirsty, and to kill it is a great sin. So, animals can bless you. You see on their face, you see on their attitude. Now we go further. Not only the animals, the plants will bless you, the trees will bless you. When you go for a weekend or one week holiday and you come home, what are you doing with your house plants? You open your door, and first you go to your plants to give them water. You love them, and you can't imagine how happy that thirsty plant is when it feels the vibration when you just open the lock of your door to enter. Hope is there. Now, someone came and will give me water. And when you open the water tap, the sound of the water makes the plant already happy. Hope. Hope is the walking stick from the cradle to the grave. Do not disappoint that hope. And when you give water, within no time, the plant is again getting new life, and you are happy. What do you think more than having the blessing from that? So similarly, when you plant some flower plants and have a very nice garden with lots of flowers, then the honey bees come, and they bless you. Then butterflies come, they also have some nectar from them, they bless you. So on this planet, there are a lot of possibilities for us to get the blessings. Therefore, when someone comes and does some work for you, for the ashram, or for some sādhus, and the sādhus say, "What can I give you?" In India, mostly all say, "No, Gurudev, nothing, only your blessings." But we need someone who understands the blessings. If you don't understand blessings, then he's gone. So there's one simple story which I want to tell you. There was one man who was taking care of the cows. Every morning he used to collect the village cows and go into the forest, and in the evening come back with the cows. When he took his cows and went half a kilometer, one kilometer far, one hill, a mountain came, and from there one cow came and joined the cows every day. When he came back in the evening towards the village, when the mountain came, the cow just separated and went towards the mountain. The man was getting paid by the owners of the cows from the village, and he was thinking, "This cow is coming with me every day, and there is nobody there. No one pays me, and from whom is the cow?" So one day, what happened? He decided to follow the cow. So he went behind the cow. The cow was going near the mountains, big rocks, and she was entering into a cave. He was going behind, getting darker. You hold the tail of the cow, how to do? So he was going behind the cow. The cow was walking, walking... Very dark, he thought, "Oh my God, I should not have done this. I don't know what the cow will do with me or where she will lead me, but whatever the cow will do with me, I will not leave her all alone." I will not leave her tail. Pūchh pakaḍ ke cal rahā hai. After a 10-15 minute walk through the cave, he suddenly saw some light, some smoke, some dhūnī. And there were sitting some ṛṣis. Beautiful rock, big cave. Nearly three or four hundred square meters. A nice light from somewhere, and they also had dhūnis, a little waterfall. He saw at least some humans and was happy. One sādhu came and said, "Yes, brother, thank you, you brought our cow home. Come and sit down here." Have a darśan of Gurudev. Gurujī was sitting there near the dhūnī. Guruji blessed him, "Come, my son. You know what you call in Christianity, that Jesus is the son of God. But in our religion and our culture, all are the sons of God. Anyone comes, we say, and if the girls come, we say all are daughters and sons of God. And you have only one son of God? Our population is big, no?" Yes, so now you have the opportunity in every house to get a blessing of the Son of God. Everyone, even we call our horse, our horse is the son of God. And our serenchita, both dogs, they are also, yes, we do say. Our culture, all are the, each and every, each and every soul, every creature, each and every entity is the light of God, the son of God. That is called that knowledge which will understand the blessing, and if you don't see God in them, you will not understand the blessings. What an ignorance. There are some people, when they kill the animal, they give the blessings to the animal and they kill. Do you think God will accept this? No, no... There is a pop we will speak about after that. This is a blessing I am talking about. That man said, "Gurujī, praṇām. I only was curious from where the cow is coming, to whom this cow belongs, but I am very happy to have your darśan and I want to go back." He thought that Gurujī will give me some money or something because I am taking care of his cow. When he wanted to go, Gurujī was sitting near the Dhūnī, and there was some grain, what we call the barley, jau. Only one handful he taught this cowboy. He brings his soul near, and Gurujī gives him a little jau. You can't make even one chapati from that. He was disappointed. Better he should have just sent me away. "Why did he insult me with just this little thing?" But he took it and made a knot, a little knot, and put it like this under his shoulder, and he walked out. Gurujī told one of his disciples, "Please guide him out till the door of the cave." He went when the sādhu came till the door. He accompanied him and said, "Son, go, bless you." The sādhu went again into the cave, and that man was so angry. He opened it and said, "Here you are!" He threw all the grains and went away, put his salt like this, and went home. His wife said, "Where have you been? Is everything okay? You are late." Nearly one and a half hours, he said this and this. He told about the story, you know. He gave me just one handful of jau barley, and she said, "Where is that?" "I threw it." "You should not have thrown it." I opened it. Then he saw a few jewels were hanging on his sword. They were sparkling like diamonds. He took it, one, two, three. Each had so much prize, you can't imagine. He said, "Let's go back and search." They went, but they didn't find anything. That's it. So, it's not a quantity, but quality. Blessing is a quality, not a quantity. And that quality is the supreme, the cosmic, but that we have to understand, and we can understand if we come to the parāvidyā. Aparāvidyā cannot give us. Therefore, the center, brain centers, and chakras, they are divine chakras, but they have to be connected to the heart chakra. Always come from here down here, and always go from here up. Up. If you only run behind your heart, according to the heart, you can be mistaken. And if you go only according to the brain, you are mistaken. But when both are together, then you are saved. This is Brahman and this is Māyā. This is Śiva and this is Śakti. This is Brahma and this is Jīva. Brahma and Jīva come together, become Śiva, Āśīrvāda, blessings, blessings. So now, humans can give us blessings, animals can give us blessings, and even the vegetation, plants can give us blessings. Further, tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow evening, if it's time for the webcast, I will tell you more about this. The subject will go on for a few months; it's interesting. And if you have anyone's suggestion or some ideas—not ideas, but experiences—with anything to experience the blessings, then please let me know. Because learning is always, always, always welcome. Knowledge has no end. Even the mother, Saraswati, the goddess of wisdom, also has in her hand at all times the book. Jñāna, therefore Jñāna Gaṅgā. Jñāna Vijñāna Tṛpta Ātmā, therefore Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa and Mahāprabhujī said in Vijñāna Dīp Gītā, "Jñāna Vijñāna Tṛpta Ātmā." Jñāna Vijñāna, the knowledge and science, both are together, that Ātmā knows is Tṛpta Ātmā. And tṛpta ātmā means content, satisfied, no more desires. That tṛpta ātmā will go as long as jñāna vijñāna nahī hai, to bhukhī bhukh hai, ye purī duniyā bhukh ke andar taras rahī hai, ye jīvarājī bhukh ke andar laṭak rahā hai, hunger, hunger,... And this jīva is hanging in the hunger. Someone has hunger about food. Someone has hunger about beauty. Someone has hunger about health and good health and a good figure. Someone has hunger about a house and this and that. And yes, Jīvarāja is hungry, and if you tell something, he becomes angry. And that's why you are always worried, so hungry, angry. Worry, and then we are in a hurry, that's why stress is there. Everything is lost. Tomorrow we'll come? No, tomorrow? Not sorry, in the next webcast, day after tomorrow. Tomorrow I'm in Khattu Ashram. You are all welcome from different parts of the world to Khattu Ashram. We will be only some hours. And then we go to the beautiful Shiva temple opening of the Shiva temple. We will make a video and show you after. Until then, āśīrvād, blessing, blessing,... only blessing. What we need is blessing, and that blessing is what Gurujī is singing. In one bhajan, "Prem kā pyālā, hari kab merā bhar se? Prem kā pyālā, hari kab merā? Ad na bhikhārī hum khade khade tar se. Ad na bhikhārī hum khade." The bowl of love, when Bhagavān, Gurudev will fill, what with which love? Blessing, blessing. It's very hard to understand the blessings. Even if someone tells you hard words, or Gurudev tells you hard words, that's a blessing. The Subrahmanyam Swami from Hawaii, Kauai Island, the Hindu monastery, once he came to Vienna, and he said, "When you meet a Gurudev or someone who is strict, he is a Gurudev." But who is very good? Yes, please, yes, please. He is still not a Gurudev. But others don't understand this. Because they are out of their limitations. Blessing, blessing, blessing. Āśīrvād, āśīrvād, āśīrvād. Next time, next time, we will come again.