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Part 1: The Divine Language of Mantra One more bhajan. Thank you. The venue for our weekend retreat is the Agricultural College of VEB, located in the northwest of the country, surrounded by an environmentally protected area of abundant natural beauty. Our respected and beloved Master, Vishwaguru Muhammad al-Ashwar Paramahansa Swami Maheshwaranand Purījī, introduced the system of Yoga in Daily Life in Europe 42 years ago, and to our own compatriots more than 32 years ago. Since then, it has been widely practiced and has reached almost all cities and larger rural communities and villages. In Hungary and globally, Yoga in Daily Life has gained recognition for the physical, mental, social, and spiritual health it provides to committed practitioners. His Holiness Swamiji aims to convey to us the highest levels of Vedic knowledge and spiritual understanding, while simultaneously urging us to lead a very down-to-earth life, wrapped in the service of the whole creation. As an ambassador of peace, His Holiness Swamījī has initiated numerous activities in the realms of global peace and sustainability. The annual World Peace Summits organized under his guardianship are regularly attended by more than 1,500 delegates from all corners of the world. Swamiji also collaborates with, and has received accolades from, a great number of prominent global leaders. In cooperation with the Premier of New South Wales in Australia, he has planted over six million trees. The latter is an expansion of Swāmījī’s symbolic peace tree, building and fevers. In his homeland, particularly through the Countess Health Education Veterinary and other projects of the Om Ashram in Jadan, Rajasthan, Swamījī tangibly translates the lofty ideas of the UN Millennium Development Goals into reality. Gurudev, please allow us to express our infinite thankfulness for your presence, love, protection, and kindness, and we humbly ask you to be lenient in the face of our mistakes. Dear Swamiji, you are reverently requested to address the audience. O Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai. Śrī Śrī Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva Kī Jai. Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī Jai. Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai. Blessed self, spiritual seekers, bhaktas of Śrī Gurudev, here in this hall and around the whole world, who are with us through the webcast, welcome you and bless you. Thank you, Hungarian organizers, Krishnanand and all his friends. Keśe namsapānam. Indeed, Hungary is a beautiful country, with beautiful soil, and it is a blessed country. Also, this agricultural university, where we are having the retreat, has lasted many years. I am very thankful to Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī that we could come together here. I am happy to see you and welcome you all. The subject is the mantra: the practicing of mantra, receiving the mantra, the levels of mantra, and the achievement through the mantra. This subject, which we spoke about already in two weekend programs in the beautiful country of the Czech Republic. Wisdom or knowledge cannot be measured with kilometers or kilograms. The knowledge is endless. One can never say that now I have learned enough, I don’t need to learn anything more. That’s a big mistake. The goddess of wisdom, Divine Mother Saraswatī, she is the pattern or goddess of learning. All students, from nursery school through the higher education of university, are considered disciples, devotees, or bhaktas of the Goddess Saraswatī. The Saraswatī, it is everywhere, Sarav, Satyam and Si. Don’t think it is only Indian God. There is no Indian God and no European God. But there is only one God, who may have more names. The human roots, the human dynasty, the human culture, the human traditions, the human family relations as a dynasty. In this modern way of living, culture is getting lost. Almost all is written out. Many don’t know from where the grandparents came. Many lost the original relation because where there is a human, there is a culture, and where there is a culture, there is a human. And humans have very solid and healthy roots, what we call the joint families. Therefore, when we speak about spirituality, spirituality is not divided into nations, cultures, or what we call religion. God cannot divide it between nations, cultures, and mere belief. One parent has five children, and every child says, "It is my father." Others say, "It is my father, it is not your father." But for all, there is only one parent: mother and father. Similarly, for the entire creation, even the trees, mountains, oceans, rivers, lakes, and ponds, it’s only one creator, one God. Therefore, we should not fight in the name of religion, in the name of spirituality, or in the name of God, which is what we need nowadays. So, Mother Sarasvatī, maybe it is a name in Sanskrit. Sanskrit is the mother of many languages of the world. I would say 93% of the languages or more are from Sanskrit, originating from the Sanskrit language. While we are not going in that direction. So the Saraswatī is sitting in our buddhi, in our intellect, and she is giving the abilities to learn. So the mantras, of course, are a blessing of Bhagavān Śiva. All yantras, chakras, mantras, all the spiritual signs, including the language is a blessing of the Swayambhu, that Śiva. Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, whenever we come together, don’t think that I know what Swāmījī will tell. Maybe 99.5%, Swāmījī will tell the same thing. But this other half percent you don’t know, and that half percent was missing when you could have got that word. You opened the heart of your lock of your heart, or the door of heaven is opened. Many people think I will achieve everything quickly. Many people come and say, "Swāmījī, what is the quicker way?" Is there a quicker way? One day, one asked the Holy Gurujī, "What is the quicker way?" Gurujī said, "The quicker way is to the hell through Kuṣāṅga. Do you want to go there?" He said, "No, no." I said, "Heaven." So you haven’t. You see, in the heaven, slowly, step by step, don’t hurry. Those who are hurrying and think now they are masters are mistaken. Then it’s blind leading the blind. So mantra, mantra is a divine language. And human language is a mantra. Animal’s language is a mantra through the melodies, rāgas. The nature, the wind, sound of the wind, sound of the water, sound of the desert, sound of the forest, sound of bees, it’s a beautiful resonance, the melodies. That’s called nāda, nāda-rūpa-para-brahma. But there are few people who understand their language. In my knowledge, I think there are three whom I heard about. One was the friends from Assisi. They said he could understand the language of the animals. Seor, Devapurījī could call any wild animals from a far distance and give them some instructions on where to go. If we call the wild animals, they will never come to us. And before we give them instruction, they will just disappear. So Devapurījī and Holy Guru, Mahāprabhujī, which you can read in the Holy Līlā Amṛt book. Holy Guruji always said, either silently to me or to a few persons, otherwise, Holy Guruji said, if you will tell that you know everything, people will not let you in peace. Siddhis are not for demonstration. And the wise man, the wise person knows even when things are getting wrong. But a wise person doesn’t think of the present, but of the long-term future balance. Therefore, in the Holy Rāmāyaṇa, the great saint Tulsīdās is writing a beautiful, a very beautiful sentence about mantra. Many mantras he wrote, many, many inside, but one mantra is good for this evening’s subject. Someone went to Tulsidās and asked, "Is there any good mantra that I can hypnotize all, that all will follow me?" Tulsidas said, "Yes, I have that mantra. Should I tell you? Also, don’t hypnotize me." Tulsidas is writing in holy Rāmāyaṇa, "Vāśīkaraṇa mantra eka yahī hai, my dear, to make all friends." There is only one mantra, Vāśīkaraṇa. Vāśīkaraṇa means to make friends, or somebody will say, "Oh, he hypnotized everyone." The Vāśīkaraṇa mantra is only this one. This is the mantra through which you will have our friends. Which mantra? Give up harsh words. Or give up negative words. That’s it. That is a Vāśikāra mantra, which means never tell someone hard words. Don’t tell some heavy words. No negative talking, thinking. Human is born nearly like a god, but what is a filtering through the human? Through the satsaṅg or kusaṅga, that depends. Asuras and devas look equally no different. They have two eyes, they have two ears, they have one nose. Asuras don’t have two noses, but the quality, and that quality is. While all the times hearing negative feeds in your brain. Tulsīdharjī said, "He said, if you bring the darkness into the light, darkness will disappear." Similarly, if you have that gurubhakti, that realization of the Gurudevs, even all negative words that come inside will turn into the light, into the wisdom. But Tulsīdharājī said himself, even if you feed a snake with milk, it will produce poison. That’s it. So whose consciousness, whose vṛttis, whose intellect is poisoned? Anything, even if you tell something positive, will turn into poison. There was one man who was giving challenges, saying, "I am the best one, I am the wise one, and no one can defeat me." And he used to have a kind of announcement, challenges. Any wise person can come and ask me the question, or I will ask them. So a great learned one came, and he asked, questioned them, and they told the answer. He said, "No, that’s wrong." Then they said, "Then tell, you tell." He said, "It means you don’t know." So whatever others say, he said, "No, that’s wrong." That was his mahā-mantra. So when the cup is full of water, you can’t feel more because all will go out. Mantra is a language of the goddess. That’s why Devanāgrīk mantra is a language of the humans. And that language has wisdom. That wisdom is love, mercy, humbleness, kindness, bhakti, devotion. Then a human will come to that destination. Life is a journey, not a destination. But this journey, which direction will it lead us? Essence of all wisdom, spirituality, the great persons try to put in a very compact way, in very compact words. For example, the word "God," we humans introduce God. Did God introduce us? No, we introduced God. So at least God should be thankful to us. We introduced God. Now, it is since God has existed for ages, yugas and yugas. Since that time, from Satyugas and Manmantras and Kalapas, till today, you and me and many great persons, this world is full of wise people, full of great people. Thanks to God, there are only a few stupid people. But since that time, day and night, around the world, many NGOs, many organizations, many religions try to explain what is God. What is God? Look, what can be more compact than this? Not an engineer God, or professor God, or farmer God, or the driver God. No, only one word: God. Now we are fighting. Now we are telling what can be, what can be, what can be. The blind people went to see the elephant. One was touching the legs and said, "What is an elephant?" Oh, it’s only one pillar. The other was touching the stomach of the elephant and said, "Oh, it’s a water tank." The third was touching the tail and said, "This is a big rope." The fourth was touching his trunk and said, "Oh, it’s a water hose." Everyone, according to their limited knowledge, said what the elephant is. So we are still... Try to find out what is God. Similarly, they said spirituality, spiritual, adhyātmik, that’s all. And we are talking and writing books and books and books. What is spirituality? It means how much knowledge is there, and now this modern technology, what you call it, little stick, you have the whole library, you can record it. How compact this little stick. So we are coming to the little. The great people used to put the science of the entire universe in a very clear and compact way. That’s what we call their language. It was like a śloka, a Bhagavad Gītā śloka, poetry, a very nice poem, and stories. They kept the drama. Then I was painting chakras, yantras, many different yantras like Śrī Yantra, Gāyatrī Yantra, Bhairav Yantra, Lakṣmī Yantra, and Kubera Yantra. Kubera is the treasurer of the gods. And when you put a Kuber Yantra in your house, on the east north corner of your room, I think money will begin to come more. But that yantra, the Kubera yantra, should be designed very millimeter, exactly, according to the Vedic mathematics. Vedic mathematics, this is divided one second into forty-nine. My God, how much? We can’t imagine. One second in forty-nine. That much measurement, if you do the, which yantra I said? Vepa, not a vepa, or Kuber. Then that will make your house and family prosperous. But if there is some centimeter wrong, whatever you earn, it goes out. You have to be very careful. A little, simple example. Every morning, men stand in front of the mirror and put the white soap here. Don’t blame the women only, that they are standing and doing like this, no? The man spends more time than women, makes like this. Parvati, true? So I was looking at how many minutes I need for this. So I said, "Oh God, in this many minutes I could do my two malas." So I said, no more shaving. So when you take the razor blade for shaving, how careful you have to be. And previously, people used to have big, this shaving knife, no? On that piece of cloth. If you make a little mistake, you cut it, and the blood comes. Similarly, practicing mantra, practicing spirituality, and keeping those symbols, chakras, yantras, mantras, tantras, has to be very exact. Part 2: The Importance of Precision in Spiritual Practice Pronunciation is very exact. I always give this one example among many. When I first came to Austria, people would ask me, "Would you like to eat some gummies?" I would say, "Yes, I would like to eat gummies." So, 'gummies' and 'gummies'. Meanwhile, thanks to my Prabhujī, I could pronounce 70 percent better. 'Gummies' means, in Hindi, "lost one, you lost." Then I went to Czechoslovakia in '73, and they said, "Swāmījī, would you like to have gimize?" So I said, "What is gimize?" "Gummies and gummies." And they asked me, "Can you bring me a glass of water?" or "message," I said. Where's your water in the kitchen? And I said, "So, Gimuj is in the kitchen." Okay, the Germans will understand and forgive me because they will say, "He is a foreigner." So, meanwhile, we come to know 'Gimuj' and 'Kikhe'. Otherwise, I used to say 'Astaraiq'. Astaraiq. Now I learned 'Astaraiq'. So this is different. And now with computer translations, when you say 'Astaraiq', then I don't, they write 'Astaraiq'. Similarly, in India, in Hindi we say "gurujī kī kuṭiyā," the hut of the gurujī, the cottage. "Gurujī kī kuṭiyā," and the European tongue cannot say "gurujī kī kuṭiyā." They say "gurujī kī kutya kutya," and "kutya kutya" is a hut; 'kutya' is a female dog. Now I said, "Gurujī kī kutya," and she translates, "Gurujī’s kutya," and in the webcast, who is listening will write an article, "Gurujī kī female dog." So this is a language. Okay, everyone cannot speak perfectly. We cannot talk. The Hungarian language is a beautiful language, a very melodious language. Very good poems, great writers in Hungarian. And I have heard that only one city, Szeged, has how many, nine or thirteen Nobel Prize winners? What a country, what a folk, the Hungarians. Very clever, very intelligent. But don’t think that your country is not so. Your country is also very good. Every country is very good, but India is a little better. Thank you. Sorry. No doubt. So, when you practice mantra, or you keep some symbols in your house, you should know that every symbol has some energy radiating, so you should know which kind of pictures you should put in your sleeping rooms, which kind of pictures should be put in your study room, which kind of pictures and symbols should you put in your office? This is not only because of belief, but is it true? It’s true. I told yesterday, I told twice in my lecture, I will not tell the whole story, but one of my Bhakta from Austria, he was always carrying with him one folding pyramid, and I said, "What is that?" He said, "It’s very good." I said, "What?" He said, "This shaving razor blade, he has already had it for more than one year with him. He doesn’t buy new ones." I said, "Why?" Because after using, I clean and put it in the pyramid. The next day, it is like new. Oh, I said, "Yeah, okay, good, very good, but I don’t need anymore." Then he gave an experiment: bought a milk, one liter, and from the same bottle, one cup of milk we put in the pyramid, and one cup of milk outside. The milk in the pyramid was five days as fresh as it is, and which was outside, you can imagine how it was. So, the pyramid should also be designed very accurately, and therefore, astrology is a mathematics: the yantras, chakras, tantras. Mantras are all like mathematics and the same. You have to put in the poetry that, when you write a poem, in one poem you can put so much wisdom that people will try to translate it for many, many years. Like the Bhagavad Gītā, one śloka, the Bhagavad Gītā is translated in almost all the languages of humans, even in dialects. But no one is able to change that mantra or the śloka. Still as it is. Similarly, your practice, your mantra has to be perfect, and you have to learn to pronounce it perfectly. Not that instead of kuṭiyā, you say kutya. That’s it. Instead of kuhya, you say kihya. Yeah, then in the kikhe is kikhe harpsen. This is okay, kikhe harpsen. You know what is chickpeas? Chickpeas. Chana. So in the kikhe is kikhe harpsen. Swāmījī lives in Wien or in Carentan, so it’s thus. So, mantra, therefore this weekend, this retreat, again we shall renew our memory, our practice, and let’s come again to the right track. We have to practice, and we have to understand. After this poem or this song comes the mantra. And mantra is only a short sentence or a short word. And after that, mantra comes again, still something more, very compact, and that’s called the bīja mantra. And bīja means the seed. You have a big tree; it is very big. And now, the compact thing from this tree is the one fruit. And more compact than the fruit is the one small seed. And this seed represents the entire big tree. So similarly, the bīja mantra of your mantra is very, very important. Bīja mantra, it will come to you automatically. And therefore, after practicing all the mantras, sādhanās, all the prāṇāyāms, all the kriyās, when you achieve the higher level of consciousness, what we call samādhi, I hope some of you will experience. I ask someone, "What is your best? Did you experience samādhi?" He says, "Swāmījī, every night." Some nights are not so good. I say, "How? What does it mean?" He says, "Good eating and good drinking." Then I sleep so good, that’s my samādhi. So the samādhi, that was it, why I said it’s going to my mouth. So samādhi, so finally, when we come on the highest level of the consciousness, to the self-realization, then again, as I said, sabīja samādhi and nirbīja samādhi. If you have sabīja samādhi, means still you are not there. Now, bīja means the seed. What is the seed here? For us, in spiritual samādhi, it is vāsanā, desire. A very one thought only, karmic, that will not let you go, because that seed has a life to grow again. This human life, the human temptations, and human prapañca. One seed of this tree remains somewhere in your sūkṣma śarīra or somewhere. It falls on the soil, and it will grow again, the tree. Sooner or later, this sabīja samādhi will lead you again to the charāsi, again to this rebirth and death. We have to get rid of that seed, then we come to the Nirbīja Samādhi. The samādhi where there is no more seed. And therefore, it is said, Yogāgni, Karma Dagdhani. Yogāgni, Karma Dagdhani. Agni means fire. Through the fire of yoga, it means your yogasādhanā, your practice. Karma Dagdhani. Dagdhani means you burn out all the karmas, all the seeds. Then remains only one, your bīja mantra. And your bīja mantra is the straight highway to the final destination. Then our life, which is known as a journey, becomes the destination. And then you become a destination for all; everyone comes there where you are in that supreme consciousness, higher consciousness. We decided, we like, we wish that in this human life chance, we would like to come to that level of the consciousness, Nirvīja Samādhi. Or the same Samādhi is named Savikalpa Samādhi and Nirvikalpa Samādhi. You know, we call it Yoga Nidra Saṅkalpa. Saṅkalpa means to have one wish and then again give up your wish. Similarly, Savikalpa Samādhi. There is no kalpa, no kalpanā, no desires, no wish. It’s called Nirvikalpa Samādhi. In Savikalpa Samādhi, you still have the attachment: my house, my bank, my car, my bike, my dog, my cat, yes, everything. But sometimes you don’t say "my husband," but the husband always says "my wife." Oh, God said, "Oh, God, my wife." Then God said, "But you thought I am the God." You said, "Oh God, my wife, how nice, nice of the husband." So from this, all spiritual techniques, and all, then finally, we need that guidance, and who can give us. Like in Hungary, there are many printing presses. You can print everything. Even you can print the Hungarian passport. No problem, print it. But as long as the government, the authority of the Hungarian government’s authority, doesn’t give the stamp, that passport has no value. Rozum is, again, similarly, there are many mantras, but that mantra which is given by the spiritual paramparā, and that’s succession. In Hungary, there were many presidents, and some ex-presidents are still living. But also, there are other friends of the president. But the stamp and signature are of the real president who is in position. And yes or no, this system is coming from the guru paramparā, and you need a stamp everywhere on your diploma. You will say, "No, I studied three years of medicine." I don’t want to go and have an examination anymore. You type, print the certificate or diploma, and then you make a stamp and put it there, and you sign it and say, "Look, I am a doctor." That is not valid. You need it from that professor, and the professor is a proper sir, you know, a proper sir. You are not a proper sir, therefore, in the name of the guru, in the name of the teacher, many people who are halfway, not even halfway, begin to guide. Then it is misguiding. So therefore I said, you and me, we are all students. Our Gurudev is Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī, Holy Gurujī, and we are trying to come. But Gurujī has given me, Mahāprabhujī has given him that stamp. And that’s why the paramparā, the roots, are very important. So, sabīja samādhi, nirbīja samādhi, or savikalpa samādhi, nirvikalpa samādhi, that’s called sahaja samādhi, bhāva samādhi, tandra samādhi, nidrā samādhi. There are many different kinds of samādhis, but finally, is the one called nirbīja samādhi. That’s our aim. But attachment is too strong. It’s not easy to get rid of it. We would like to separate, like a nice picture slide. You got it, and now you cut the slide and you take off, and the cheese is getting longer and longer. That is your and my attachment. That’s your and your parents’ attachment, husband-wife’s attachment. One ṛṣi had one beautiful deer, and the ṛṣi died. But while dying, the ṛṣi’s sorrows were all for the deer: "Who will take care of my deer? Who will give them water? Who will give them food?" And the result of that, that ṛṣi had to come back to that deer in her stomach and was born as a baby of that deer. In the Upanishads, you can read it. There is a beautiful story about that ṛṣi. So, in the last minutes of your life, wherever your bhāvanā, your desire goes, there your soul will go again. Therefore, before anything happens, we make everything in order. Then we are happy. Let us take off. So, mantra practice is that spiritual science which purifies our antaḥkaraṇa, purifies our negative energy, purifies our intellect, purifies our consciousness, and develops positive energy as a light in our whole body. Our aura becomes very pure and pleasant. So mantra, this mantra’s ṛṣis have given, and then it is called gurumukhī and manmukhī. And especially in our tradition, in Sikh religion or the Sikh tradition, where Guru Nānak Sāhib was the last one. And there he said, "Are you gurumukhī or manmukhī?" Guru Mukhi means you have got the Guru Mantra, and Mana Mukhi means you have no Mantra. You want to do whatever you want to do, it no one is your responsible. So you have to be a Guru Mukhi, and then it gives you principle, and it is said. There is one beautiful bhajan in Gujarati language. Holy Gurujī used to sing it beautifully, a nice bhajan. It is from Gujarat, the Kathiawar district. A beautiful bhajan, and I’m not a good singer, and I cannot sing in Gujarati, but it is said, "Gurujī Nānamanī O Mālā." Say, "Dokma Gurujī Nānamānī O Mālā." Say, "Dokma." "Dok" means my neck, and "Mālā" is this mālā. This mālā is the name of my Gurudev round my neck. This mālā, He put me in the discipline, in the principles, in spirituality, this mālā. I can’t lie. I can’t take any money from others, what they call corruption. And I cannot walk on the kuśāṅgas because in my neck is the name, the mālā of my Gurudeva’s name. "Gurujī nā nāmanī o mālāse dokmā." I will bring you the whole text, and then you will sing. And so, when you are Guru Mukhi, then you must always have a Rudrākṣa in your, round your neck, all the time, say Rudrākṣa. If not the whole Rudrākṣa mālā, I also have a little Rudrākṣa in my altar. This is a sannyās type. Yes. And this Rudrākṣa is that power in it. It’s just the fruit of a tree. But the power of that spirituality, that discipline, that vīja mantra, the seed, is inside. That was given by the Master. So human life means discipline. And discipline means achievement, and achievement means liberation. And that comes through our Guru Mukhī. Not only your case, I will say, "I am your disciple, yes, I will follow you, I am your mantra," then yes, Gurudeva, I love you, my Gurudeva. And after five years, you say, "No, Gurudeva, I don’t want to be your disciple, can I send you your mala back?" What would I say? Don’t send me your mala. I will not say. You can send my mala back, but how will you send the mantra, which is in your each and every blood cell? Give me that, Mr. Jalāmalikam, Salāmalikam. It’s very easy. I don’t want to follow you. Everywhere, Rām, Rāmukyandar hogayā. Gajānand was writing one bhajan. Sometimes I want to leave you, but how to leave thee when you are within me? That’s it. So that is ignorance, emotion. So, Guru Mukhi is a safety, and everything is achievements. Therefore, mantra and mantra have immense positive energy, what we call the power. And that’s the yajñas, havan, all wedding ceremonies, any kind of ceremonies, they are connected with the mantras to purify and collect that positive energy, like a pyramid or a yantra or a cakra. So, my dear, tomorrow we will speak again about mantras, and I wish you a very good evening. To all the bhaktas here and there, all the best, and God bless you. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Śrī Śrī... Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva Kī Śrī Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī Jaya Om Śānti