Video details
Desert tour with Swamiji in Australia 2011
A devotional hymn and discourse on the supreme importance of the Guru's grace.
"What is the use of a beautiful form, a virtuous wife, glorious fame, or wealth as immense as Mount Meru, if the mind is not attached to the lotus feet of the Guru?"
"What is the use of fame that has spread in all directions, of being a lord who bestows boons... if your mind is not attached to the lotus feet of the Guru?"
The video features a sung Sanskrit hymn that rhetorically questions the value of all worldly and spiritual attainments—including family, wealth, scholarship, fame, and power—without devotion to the Guru. This is followed by devotional invocations praising the Guru as the savior and ultimate refuge. Accompanying remarks analyze the text's repetitive structure and logical focus on Guru devotion as the singular essential prerequisite.
This text is transcribed and grammar corrected by AI. If in doubt what was actually said in the recording, use the transcript to double click the desired cue. This will position the recording in most cases just before the sentence is uttered.
The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:
- Yoga in Daily Life - The System
Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda. Ibera Verlag, Vienna, 2000. ISBN 978-3-85052-000-3 - The Hidden Power in Humans - Chakras and Kundalini
Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda. Ibera Verlag, Vienna, 2004. ISBN 978-3-85052-197-0 - Lila Amrit - The Divine Life of Sri Mahaprabhuji
Paramhans Swami Madhavananda. Int. Sri Deep Madhavananda Ashram Fellowship, Vienna, 1998. ISBN 3-85052-104-4
