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Blessing Is A Universal Power

A spiritual discourse on the power of blessings, discipline, and life's journey.

"Blessings have immense power. Anything is possible through the blessing."

"Life is a journey, not a destination. And on that journey to reach the destination, our journey should be on the path."

A spiritual teacher addresses seekers, beginning with the power of blessings for students during exams. He critiques last-minute studying, emphasizing year-long discipline and the blessings of parents and teachers. The talk expands into broader spiritual themes, explaining the creative power of Divine Śakti (Icchā Śakti), defining life as a sādhanā (practice), and interpreting the Mahābhārata as an internal battle. He shares an extended parable about a sage whose son's fate is altered through the universal power of receiving blessings, concluding that blessings are a solution for everything.

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Śrī Rāma Candra Bhagavān Kī, Deva Deva... Devīśvara Mahādeva Kī, Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī, Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Kī, Satke Sanātana Dharma Kī. Blessed self, spiritual seekers, the blessings. The blessings have immense power. Anything is possible through the blessing. Now is the time for examinations. Many students are trying to learn a great deal. When they attempt to learn too much at the last minute, they lose their concentration. For example, this cup is full of water now. If you try to put more water inside, it will run out. Similarly, if you try to learn everything at once at the last minute, only about 5% will remain in your memory; the rest will transform into tension. That tension will bring nervousness, and nervousness will bring fear. Fear will bring another cloud of ignorance. So even that 5% becomes a question mark: "Is this right? I read it yesterday, but I have forgotten." Therefore, there is a school system, an education system, where you attend school, college, or university for the entire year—ten months. What have you been doing for ten months, my dear? Now, at this time, you are trying to learn. Oh my dears, you did not guard your farm. The birds have eaten your crops, and now you sit and cry. That does not help you. All around the world, there is a ten-month school. Your gurus, teachers, and professors try very hard to teach you. Your parents try very hard to work and pay for your education. Your government and school systems maintain much discipline and have great concern, hoping the children of the nation will be the best in education. But if you did not learn earlier, is it okay to look in the books and sit now? It is better than nothing. I wish you all the best. Sometimes miracles happen, and that is due to blessings. I know, honey, guru karasake or... Āśīrvāda, blessing—the blessing of parents, a mother's, a father's blessing. When you get up in the morning, you must say, "Praṇāma Pitā Śrī, Mātā Śrī, praṇāma." Do not get up and say, "Hey, Papa." Yes, they copy me. I drink tea and eat toast. In my Marwāḍ, toast is called Ṭholo. Havarti Havarti says, "I want to eat Tholo." He says, "Eat Ṭholā." Big Ghat, Red Heart, isn't it? Big hogarā, big roṭī, cow's ghee, milk, curd. If you walk 12 km to school, at least, what does that student shine in the world like? A diamond? They are a kilometre away from Konijadan Gaon, and they said, "We need a school bus for our children." Exactly, it is 600 metres far, but they want a bus for the children. What do you expect from such students? No. What do parents expect from this? Bhagavān Rām—it is the time, it is the time of God Rāma's incarnation. This is Bhagavān Rām's good incarnation. Before Bhagavān Rāma was incarnated, there was the day and night prayer to the Divine Mother, Navarātri: divine energy, divine mother, divine consciousness. God Krishna said, "Hey Arjuna, from time to time I manifest myself through my yoga, māyā, yoga śakti, Devī." Therefore, it is said: "Yā devī sarva-bhūteṣu buddhi-rūpeṇa saṁsthitā, namastasyai, namastasyai, namastasyai namo namaḥ. Yā devī sarva-bhūteṣu dayā-rūpeṇa saṁsthitā, namastasyai, namastasyai, namastasyai namo namaḥ." The entire universe is governed by that Divine Mother, that Divine Śakti. The ātmā, the consciousness, is Chetan, is conscious. That has no desires. And Jada, this matter—what is that material? It can't do anything. How did this Rāṣṭi, this creation, take place? That was called the Icchā Shakti. Yā devī sarvaro viṣubhena. Icchā Śakti samastitā. Namaste, namaste, namaste. Śaṅkalpa and Vikalpa. Śaṅkalpa, Vikalpa, this is a subject of the mind. But still, there is Śakti. When there is no Śakti, no strength, no willpower, then your saṅkalpa, vikalpa—to make a resolution, make a decision, and break the decision, change your mind. "I change my mind." How is it to change the mind? Change your body first. That I cannot. Kya ki body have a strength, the shakti? Those restless thoughts appear, vrittis. Those vrittis cannot lead you to your destination. Life is a journey, not a destination. Ye jīvan jo hai, yātrā hai, gantavya nahīṁ hai. And on that journey to reach the destination, our journey should be on the path, not... and I don't keep but the head or said the bugged on the highway. This trade way to the divine Supreme Consciousness is called Sādhanā, my name. He showed you a low-key G who put this in, not gonna, but one Christian see. So the universal, he turned them. That cosmic law is called this, and not done that. A mom is the relation. Dharma means not the religion, but religion is a reflection of that. Realize your relation is the religion. Realize your relation to God, that becomes a religion, and that God is that Sanātana. Therefore, Icchā-Śakti, Mūla-Śakti, Brahma-Śakti—that is the cause of the entire creation. Eko-Hambhav-Śyāmī, Ananta-Brahman-Śāstra-Sūrya, in that endless universe, there was nothing, a void space, a dark blue void space. Bill Cole on the car, get on Neil Gagan. This make with R.I.P., R.I.P. Us be me, and I'm Brahman. Who can there be? A Brahma-jyoti record, or the air, that's called not the rule. Up a rubrum home car been loose a you come, Nick, that I'm you. That is called it, just like the it go. Home, but we'll see on me that is called the divine will, and that first comes, then other nāda-rūpa-parabrahma. After that, nāda-śiva-jyoti, that's why we all say "tamaso mā jyotir gamaya." Lead us from the darkness to the light, from the darkness of ignorance to the light of wisdom and knowledge. That's called guru. Guru means darkness, and ru means the light. "Tamaso mā jyotir gamaya, or mṛtyor mā amṛtam gamaya." It is said in Āyurveda, the first happiness is good health. The body should be healthy, the mind should be healthy, the senses should be healthy, the thought should be healthy. Therefore, "Mātṛ Devo Bhava." Mātā Pitā ko śīrṣa utthā kar ke jo praṇām kartā hai. Unko jo Mātā Pitā kā jo āśīrvād miltā hai, usko koī ṭāl ne saktā hai. Sahī bāt hai ki nahīṁ? When the child says, "Praṇām, Mother. Māta Jī, Pitā, Praṇām. Main school jaa raha ho." Then, "Jao beta, āśīrvād, dhyān se jānā." Now, "Ab tum kar dek, bye, bye." Then me keke, Jai. "Take care." Kya? Care khana ke pillu? Ke daloo? Look at the language. He goes and takes care of him. When he comes home, he says, "Āśramādu is received with humility." Anybody you see on the way, you say, "Namaste. Āśramādu, my son." "Good morning, uncle." He doesn't raise his head. He says, "Uncle, our language is good for us." That language is also good for them. If you are speaking the same language, then speak that language. What do you call the language? Don't call it Varaṇ Saṅkar. When the language becomes Varaṇa Saṅkara, then the thought becomes Varaṇa Saṅkara. And as the thought becomes Vāraṇa Śaṅkar, that person starts to mix things up. In this modern world, it has been proved by mind science that who mixes things up? Even if he is a contractor, he can mix it in cement, add more or less mercury, add it in gold, add ghee. Why was this thought born? Why was this thought born? A lot of research has been done on this. So it is said that the one whose blood is mixed talks about mixing. The real fathers do not have sons. That is why it is said, "Kṛṣṇa jāne so Gītā." Arre, Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa ko toh wohī jāne se pahle Gītā samajh pāyegā. Gītā to woh Vedon ke aur Upaniṣad ke ant me gāthā gaī. Wo Upaniṣadon se Gītā banī hai. Some people think the Bhagavad Gītā is about a war inside. Which war? War is within you. Not in Bhagavad Gītā. Ātmā is Kṛṣṇa and mind is Arjuna. And Ahaṃkāra, ego, is the Duryodhana. Ambition is the Bhīṣma. And Lobh, Lobh... Janay, Voh Andī Gāndhārī. Voh Gāndhārī. Andar se, Tumhare vure vichāra kī Gandh ā rahī, Gāndhārī. Voh andhī ho gayī. Buddhi, Buddhi jo hai, voh strī liṅg hai. Hai ki nahī? Toh us buddhi ko, patti chhaḍ dī. She also became blind. And her husband, what was his name? Dhṛtarāṣṭra. He said he is a wise man. So this is how this life is a Kurukṣetra. Kurukshetra, Dharmakṣetra. Immediately said, Kurukshetra, Dharmakṣetra. You yourself, Pāṇḍava. So, dharma kṣetra, i.e., the human body is the dharma field of justice. Human body, dharma kṣetra, kurukṣetra. And that is the Kurukṣetra where these two, the ignorance and knowledge, the justice and injustice, are fighting within ourselves. Therefore, it is said, "Anahonī guru kar sakhe." There was one Ṛṣi. There was one ṛṣi. His children were not being born. He himself was not being born. Kabīr Dājī, someone told him that the mind does not die. How to calm the mind? How to meditate? My mind? I can't stop the mind. I can't kill the mind. So Kabīr Dājī replied, "The mind did not die because 'Man marā na mamatā marī.' Arey, terī mamatā nahī̃ gayī abhī tak. Ṛṣi ho gaye to kyā ho yā? Hajāro marsya tapasyā kī, lekin mamatā mare chitabar konī. Mare tabar konī. Arey mare, arey voda. Tabar to kī dā hangā? Niyat hu lo viyo ke." Kar tapasyā, lekin dukhī mare tabar koni tapasyā kare? Rove ṛṣi hajāro, marsyā tak. Bhagvān Śiv kī kṛpā se unko ek putra kī prāpti ho gayī. So our Paṇḍitjī, who is from Lundāvās, his jyotiṣ was that, no, Ṛṣijī Mahārāj, no child is written in your destiny. So why couldn't he do an Āṇavānī Guru? In our Kailash Ashram, Sikkar district, there was a boss in Dhingpur village. He didn't have children. Dev, all the Vedas said that he wouldn't have children. He will be old, he will be above 50 years old. Devpurījī went for bikṣā early in the morning. She was making rotī for the family members. Devpurījī said, "One rotī for one child, two rotīs for two children, three rotīs for three children." She was making roti for the family members. There were only three rotis; she took them and gave them to Bābā Gurudev. Look at the blessings. Okay, dear, you will get three sons in the greed of your son. They are still working in Jaipur. Anahonī Guru kar sākhe aur honī deth mitāī, par Brahm Gurudev hai, sab kus deth banāī. Aage chalte hai, Ṛṣi kī santān ho gai. Nārada Ṛṣi ākar ke kahatā hai ki, "Are, maine to Bhagavān ke bāra pūchā ki, iske seth ke aur Ṛṣi ke bachchā nahī̃ hai." Aur Bhagavān kahatā, "Inkī likhā huā nahī̃ hai. Kān se āge?" Yeh kya rāj-nīti hai, Bhagavān? To Bhagavān kahtā hai, that there is a slight difference between a saint and me. What is the difference? A saint can correct my mistakes, but even I cannot correct the mistakes of a saint. If I make a mistake, the saints can correct it. But if a saint makes a mistake, even I cannot correct it. That must be a protocol, a universal protocol. Nārada Ṛṣi was very happy. After five years, again, the ṛṣi came. No, Nārada came. And the ṛṣi was very unhappy, sad. Nārāyaṇa said, "Ṛṣi, why are you so sad? You are so happy you got a son." He said, "Yes." If you have, you have a problem. And if you don't have, you have the problem. Now you have the son, why are you unhappy? Yes, but in his fate, the Pandit of Lundavas said that after 14 years of his life, after 7 years, it's over. Now sons, they have died on their hands. There is no more bhajan for the father. If a son is given a bhajan on the bed, it becomes a burden for the father. I was happy that I got a son. But I have now found out through astrology that his life is only seven years. Therefore, I am unhappy, unhappy, unhappy. Nārada went to Bhagavān Śiva. Shiv Bhagavān has ṛṣi kī pukār suno, āpne putra to de diyā. Bhagwan Śiv said, "There is only one way, and that is Āśarīvāda blessing." Whose blessing? Anyone's blessing. Narada came back to the Ṛṣi and said, "I have one solution, ki kya? Teach your child only one thing. Make praṇām to everyone. It doesn't matter who is there. Praṇām." Now, this child is getting up in the morning and is saying, "Everyone said, 'Bless you, bless you, bless you.'" Whole day he is going, praṇām, praṇām, praṇām. Blessing. After seven years, Dharmarāja sent a message. YAMRAS, bring the child. YAMRA KHANCHE CHAMRA. So Nārada came. The child stood up and said, "What should I do?" Go and catch Lord Shiva's liṅga and keep doing abhiṣekam: "Trayambhakam yajāmahe sugandhim puṣṭivardhanam, urvārukam iva bandhanān mṛtyormukṣīya māmṛtāt." Bhāskar, Candraśekar. Now, in the Śiva's temple, Yama cannot go in. Yama is standing. That child is looking there. Praṇām, Yama Rāj, Praṇām. Now, Praṇām is going to Yamarāja. He will also say, "Blessings." So Yama went back to Yama Rāja. He said, "You have blessed me." What did he say? Arre, iski jindagi karte karte ab udar dharamraj kehte hai, "Arre, Ramyaas, jaldi leka ho mere paas, dusra kaam hai." Yamraj gaya, khud uski bhi takat nahi. Even Yama couldn't take the life of that boy. Phir kaha ki, "Kya kare?" To kaha ki, "Isko amartatva kya? To ashrivaad hum nahi de sakte." Jaana toh padega, but we cannot tell him, "Be immortal." But we can do one thing: "Āyuṣmān bhava." Long live. "Āyuṣmān bhava." Phir Yamarāja ātā hai, toh bolā, "Abhī toh Āyuṣmān bhāī chal rahā hai, bhāī." Uskī sīmā kahāṁ hai? Tell me, where is the border? Where is the border? When someone blesses you and tells you, "Long live," he didn't ask Yajasrājī or Yogājī to tell you that. "Long live," and then after, illness came. So, Yogājī, where is the limitation? He said, "Blessing has no limitation." That boy became a great saint, and till today he is living in the Himalayas. Jiskā kyā nām hai? Māṛ Taṇḍā Ṛṣi āśīrvād kī bāt ye bhāī. Therefore, subhe uth kar ke bachan sabi ko pranaam karo, mata pita ko pranaam karo. Blessing is the solution for everything. It is universal power, and that's why everywhere you get the blessing in the name of God, in the name of the Holy Father, Holy Son, Holy Spirit, or Holy Gurujī. All are one, in all and all in one. Nārāyaṇa, Śrīman Nārāyaṇa, Śrīman Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa, Śrīman Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa, Dīp Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa, Dīp Nārāyaṇa, Dīp Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa, Deep Nārāyaṇ, Nārāyaṇa Satya Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa Satya Nārāyaṇa,... Nārāyaṇa Lakṣmī Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa Lakṣmī Nārāyaṇa. Sat Siddhānanda Bhagavān Śaṅkara Bhagavān Syāvara Rāma Candra Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa Kanayālāla Devadhī Deva Śiva Śava Rūpa Devapurījī Mahādeva Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Hindu Dharma Samrāṭ Satguru Svāmī. Madhavānandjī, Bhagavān Ādi Bhagavān Śaṅkarācāryakī, Saviṛṣi Munī Mahātmāokī, Mātā Pitā Gurudevakī, Hara Hara Madhe Śānti Śānti, Viśva Guru Mamandaleśvara Paramahaṁsāmi Maheśvarānandajī Gurudevakī. Tomorrow evening, see you again here or through the webcast. At the same time, all the best and bless you.

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