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Gurur Brahmā Viṣṇu Gurur Devo Maheśvara Gurur Sākṣāt Param Brahma Tasmai Śrī Guruve Namaḥ Dhyāna Mūlam Guru Mūrtiṁ Pūjā Mūlam Guru Padam Mantra Mūlam Guru Vākyam Mokṣa Mūlam Guru Kṛpā Om Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī, Śrī Śrī Devpurīśa Mahādeva Kī, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai. Salutation to the Cosmic Light, adoration to our Śrī Alakhpurījī Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā. Dear sisters and brothers, here in the beautiful Ashram, Śrī Devpurījī Ashram, Kapiti Coast, and to all around the world who are with us now through the webcast. As Gyanānand said, this Ashram is the most beautiful one, which he likes. Yes, it is. As Madhuram also mentioned, he thought he would be more homesick, but when he came here, he found the divine energy and atmosphere of Gurudev. And as Naginbhai said, he has certain feelings about certainty and uncertainty. It is said, man is a proposal, but God is a disposal. So, Mahāprabhujī, Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, there is one picture of him where he is sitting with his finger here like this, this mudrā. This mudra picture Gurujī beautifully expresses in the Līlāmṛta and in one bhajan. It was in the Khatu Ashram. In Khatu Ashram, we have two ashrams. One is outside, more or less like a jungle. Now there are people, many, many houses, and so on. It is a desert, with no roads, only sand. You have to walk a few kilometers through the sand, like walking here on the beach—dry sand and thorny bushes and small sandy hills. And there is this Khatu Ashram, you have a beautiful picture here, and Mahāprabhujī was always sitting there. There is a sitting place, a terrace you may call it, where Mahāprabhujī was always present, sitting on a nice bed made out of wood and woven from jute strings or robes. And there were round bhaktas coming and sitting; it was full. The story of the snake, if you know, in the Līlā Amṛt, where Mahāprabhujī also gave liberation—mokṣa—to him, happened just here. Many events of this picture are very historical. Now it is a little bit changed; there was more construction there. And the second āśram is in the village of Thattu. There are mountains, hills, and valleys, a beautiful ashram. Many bhaktas, you know, and there is one old, old banyan tree, a most beautiful banyan tree. Due to the little rain, many old trees died, but thanks to our bhaktas from India as well as from other countries, we tried to protect the tree. We made it in such a way that the tree gets a lot of water by collecting water, and that tree is truly beautiful. Under that tree, Mahāprabhujī was also sitting, and Gurujī. When Gurujī saw this tree again blooming, very beautiful and green, Gurujī was sitting there, and I came. Gurujī was looking at the trees, and Gurujī had tears in his eyes. I knew what fall, and then Gurujī said to me, “Mahesh, only this banyan tree is the witness who Mahāprabhujī was. This banyan tree knows that this was a Bhagavān incarnation, like Viṣṇu, and is residing here. This tree knows what was happening through Mahāprabhujī’s divine presence.” At the same time, Gurujī said, “But I am sorry for many people who did not recognize who Mahāprabhujī was.” Gurujī said it is like there are a few swans, beautiful swans, and many crows came because some people were having a picnic. After the picnic, they left behind things, and the crows came. At that time, someone made a gesture like this, and the crows flew away, but the swans remained. So Gurujī said, all these bhaktas who are coming and going, they are the divine swan of the Mansarovar. And where Gurujī is singing the bhajan, “Satguru Satsaṅgī Olu Avere. Olu Avere Nayan Bharja Avere,” I long for my guru brothers and sisters who come in satsaṅg. Just when I think of my satsaṅgīs who sit near my Gurudev, my eyes are full of tears. Yes, because I long for the satsaṅgīs, for the swans, not for the crows. So, Mahāprabhujī was sitting under that tree in Khatu, village āśram. And there were many bhaktas who came from South India, from Mumbai. Some of them were believers in Christianity, some were Sikhs, some were Buddhists. It was a big group of people who came, and they were all inspired by Gurujī. They had about four or five full train wagons. It was like a pilgrimage. And they came to Mahāprabhujī and sat, and Gurujī was sitting. So Gurujī said to Mahāprabhujī, “Please speak some blessings to the bhaktas.” So Mahāprabhujī just looked at Gurujī and said nothing. You know, just a look. Then Mahāprabhujī made this mudrā, like this. So Gurujī is explaining to me now what that mudrā was. First, what Gurujī had experienced is that all bhaktas, or all people who were there who believed in Buddha, saw Mahāprabhujī as a Buddha. Those who believed in Jesus suddenly saw the simplicity of Jesus. Some saw the Divine Mother, Kālī, and some as Kṛṣṇa, Hanumān, Gajānanda, and so on. After half an hour, they spoke. Mahāprabhujī had been sitting in this mauna for half an hour, and all who were sitting, they just remained like this. They were looking at Mahāprabhujī like you are looking at me now when I am talking and you are listening. And they said, “How did they not see the finger of Mahāprabhujī here?” Only what Gurujī saw and that cameraman who took the photo. They said, “Mahāprabhujī spoke so much about the Bible.” Others said, “Yes, but it was wonderful about Guru Granth, about this.” They said, “Yes,” and about Navarātri and the Divine Mother. They spoke so much. And they were sitting in Khatu; there are many Muslims, but one said, no, mostly Mahāprabhujī spoke about Allah and singing bhajans. Well, the Holy Gurujī didn’t say anything. Then, Holy Gurujī asked Mahāprabhujī, “What means this mudrā?” So Mahāprabhujī said, “This mudrā means: Don’t ask me, I know everything. This mudra means: Be silent in oneness. This mudra means: Don’t talk negative. Always speak divine and good things for everyone. Each word from your mouth should come like a falling flower. And this mudrā said: Without your asking, I know. And I will give what you need.” So sometimes Mahāprabhujī said that we are begging, “God, do please me. God, help me.” Why are you screaming to God? He knows. So it means God doesn’t know, and you are asking Him now, “You give me this.” So it is said, “Jo ichhā karahī manamahī.” What bhaktas wish in their mind, Guru kṛpā durlabha nahī. Nothing is impossible through the Guru’s grace. And the same thing in the Rāmāyaṇa is said: “Jo icchā karahī manamahai, hari kṛpā durlabha nahīṁ.” One day, it is written in the Holy Rāmāyaṇa from Tulsīdājī: One day, Bhagavān Śiva and Pārvatī were sitting somewhere on Mount Kailāśa, in the hills and glaciers. At that time, there were a lot of glaciers. Śiva is sitting, and Pārvatī is sitting there. Pārvatī is asking a question to Śiva: “My Lord, you are the source of wisdom. You are the source of everything. You are the first one, and you tell so many techniques: this, that, this pūjā, that pūjā, this prārthanā, that mantra, that kriyā, this. Lord, I can’t do all of this. It is too much. You speak about Viṣṇu, my God, yugas and yugas. After you immediately speak about Brahma, then you speak about the Divine Mother. So what should I do? The Viṣṇu or Brahmā or the Divine Mother, and this mantra, that mantra, yantra, tantra, kuṇḍalinī—all of this is a science which is given by Bhagavān Śiva. And Yoga is also given by Bhagavān Śiva.” So Bhagavān Śiva smiles and looks to Pārvatī. Pārvatī, with folded hands, said, “Lord, give me a simple technique. You can’t give me complicated, just very simple.” Then Bhagavān Śiva said to Pārvatī, “Umā, kahu nija anubhava apnā.” Pārvatī’s second name is Umā. “Umā, kahu nija anubhava apnā.” Oh Umā, I tell you my own experiences. Who said? Śiva. Still, after all this science and Vidyā, I spread it, I brought it. But finally, the judgment is this; the result is this. O Umā, I tell my own experiences. The meditation bhajan of the Gurudev, Hari Bhagwān Bhakti. The one truth, the ultimate truth, that truth is Hari. Bhajan Jagat Sab Swapna, and this saṃsāra is a dream. He said, “What I am telling you, the next second it becomes a dream.” What was, before half an hour, ten minutes, fifteen minutes, five minutes, became a dream. Gone. Passed. When the river is flowing, you cannot bathe twice. In that water, you can bathe only once. You take a deep dive in the river, come out, and he said, “Oh, very good water. You take once more,” but that water is gone already. And that is a Jñānī, a wise person. He doesn’t take that dirty water which is gone. Again, the new. And that is called Guru Kṛpā, Gurudev’s blessing, Gurudev’s light. “Umā, kahu nija anubhava apnā, hari bhajana eka satya jagata sapanā.” So, Mahāprabhujī said to Gurujī, and Gurujī said, “Yes, my Lord, I know, but still I thought that all are sitting in front of you and you are just sitting silent, so I thought you give them blessings.” So, Mahāprabhujī again said, “Why do you tell me this? Do you think I don’t know that I am to give them a blessing, or that they need a blessing? Silent. All that you need, God will give.” Antaryāmī. Ghaṭ ghaṭ meṁ rehne vāle antaryāmī. Antaryāmī means the Lord who lives in our heart. But that Lord lives in everyone’s heart, in every creature. Therefore, it is said, “Sab ghat mera sāyā, or koī ghat khalīnā.” In every heart is my Lord. In every heart. “Banihārī us ghāṭ kī pragat bole āyī.” But I adore, I bow down to that heart in which God speaks. When we speak the Guru Vakya, it means not the words of what your Gurudev is telling. Guru Vakya are the Vedas. Brahma Vakya, what Brahmā taught in the Vedas, what Brahmā said within the Vedas. Upanishads, Śāstras, Ṛṣis, Ṛṣi Vākya, Guru Vākya, Ṛṣi Vākya—so that we are repeating again and again, but the Rāmāyaṇa said, I quoted the Rāmāyaṇa, so that’s not my words, that’s the Rāmāyaṇa’s words, but they are alive in me. When I sit to talk, I am not talking to complain that someone one day about tree or council or this—no. When I talk, then that’s not my words. There is another one talking, light, to inspire, inspire the people. And then it is said, Gurudev said one day, “Oli Gurujī, when you are talking, giving satsaṅg, it is not you who is talking.” Mahāprabhujī said one bhajan, “Esa Mera Satguru Andar Bole,” like that my Gurudev speaks within me. If you are true bhaktas, if you just misuse the words and teachings of your Gurudev, then you are not a true bhakta. You will fail. Artificial will fail. When you steal a passport from someone or print a passport and try to cross the border, now everything is in the computer. You know, you can’t cross. You will be caught. That’s true. So, using that wisdom, the Gurudev is not yours. Be happy and feel worthy that God or Gurudev has chosen you. So, that time when we are talking, you are not complaining anymore. You are not telling that you are sad in this way. You are not the one who makes people confused, but you are the one who motivates. Who motivates them to cultivate in their heart that divine light, the divine name of God. You are inspiring. You inspire, yes, I will do. And that’s what Mahātma Gandhījī said, “Yes, we will do.” Be the change you want to see, and then others said, “Yes, we will do.” The word that the American President Obama used for his election was Gandhijī’s sentence, quoted: “Yes, we can do it.” And then also this, her, the wife of the ex-president of America, Hillary Clinton, she said, finally she understood and said, “Yes, Mr. Obama, we will do.” And so, there is nothing that you say we can’t. That was the word spoken, that I can’t. Jesus was so dispirited, and the Holy Father said, “My son, who are you that you said you can’t? It is I with you. I send you there.” When your last energy is gone, then the new energy will awaken you. That was one of the theories and teachings of the last century. There was one called Rajneesh from Pune, and many call him now, I don’t know what they call him, Osho. Rajneesh was saying, “Get rid of all your energy, then the chakras and all energy will awaken you.” And that will be fresh and new energy. I went to Hawaii, and I met many bhaktas in Hawaii. Many times I was there. Now they are very sad that I have not been there for five or six years, so I have to go to Hawaii. So there was one disciple, and he was a marathon champion, a runner, and he taught many things and techniques. He said when he is running in a marathon or championship, then after they are tired, suddenly they get so much energy, and then somehow they can’t coordinate their steps because the body becomes so light, like you are levitating. But they said they have to have half kilo, quarter kilo weight on their ankle joints, on their feet to keep this balance to run. And finally, he said, “Swāmījī, a time comes when we think we can’t, but the inner motivation is that I will, and I want to do it.” Suddenly, who knows how, inside awakes such energy. All tiredness is gone. Your muscles, your ligaments, your joints, your heart—everything supports you. New energy. Similarly, all our negative pollution from our mind, negative feelings, tāṅse, māṅse, karamse, Vācā Manasā Karmaṇā—Vācā Manasā Karmaṇā. Through my words, through my mind, and through my physical actions, Lord, I don’t know how to worship you. Whatever mistake happens, forgive. Vācā, Manasā, Karmaṇā. That time, energy comes back. And that’s why Rājneesh gave one technique, a very, called Express Bhastrikā, kind of technique, you know, they were doing, standing on a spot, jogging, and then we do, like a locomotive, this Kriyā of the Rājneesh, you know, was doing, and people were completely exhausted, exhausted, and suddenly they got such a, so much energy, so much energy, and their body became light, and they just sat, and they were hours and hours in meditation. No drugs, no, no... but strictly prohibited. No kind of drugs now. Only divine, divine tonic, not a toxin, but divine tonic. That tonic comes through the Guruvākya and through the exercises. But again, people misunderstood. They use it in a different way. Because they are more crows than swans, more stones than diamonds. So, there is one beautiful old film, a very old film, in black and white, which was made in Gujarat, and that film was called Mother India. It is very old. Now, maybe they did a new one, I don’t know. I think I saw in my whole life this one, Mother India, then about Gandhījī, and once I saw one film, King Hariścandra, and once when I was in America they asked me to go and see The Last Temptation of Jesus. That’s all. I went to the cinema hall. Rest of my life, I went to the cinema hall many times, but to give lectures. Anyhow, that film is beautiful, and this whole story I will not tell you. And there, that lady who was playing as a mother, India, or this, she said she had a very hard life and this and that. I think it was that. “Lakḍī jal ke koilā bhaī, aur koilā bhaī ke jal ke bhaī rākh, meṁ abhāgan aisī rahī na rahī, lakḍī na bhaī rākh.” She said, “I am that one, not a fortunate one, but an unfortunate one.” Like what? The wood burned, became coal, and the coal burned and became ash. She said, “Neither do I remain the wood, nor do I become the ash.” It means between the coal, black. And so the people begin the spiritual practice, and then comes their ego inside and doubts, and the karmic attack on them; they remain like the black coal. The black coal, wherever you touch, it will bring the black, and that’s what we call blackmailing, black talking. The light from white powder, from what you call the lime, you touch it, and the dress will be white. Everything, Avidhyā, it means ignorance. When the Vidyā is everything, it becomes Brahma Svarūpaha, Brahma Svarūpaha. So, my dear, this, your ashram, or our ashram, Śrī Devpurījī Ashram, or what we call the Roymati or the Kapiti Coast, and this space where it was a church, Purījī, Purījī... “Purījī vahā uḍ jāye, aise yāgyānī satsaṅg nahī suneṅge ki uḍ jāyeṁ. Candan makkhī parihare, durgandhī uḍ jāye.” There was sandalwood paste, which has a very good smell, aroma, and when a fly came and sat on the sandalwood paste, for her it was such a strong, strenuous smell. Suddenly, I saw that one dog was making some toilet, and the smell came. The fly immediately flew from the sandal and sat on the dog’s coat. Because the nature, the quality of that fly, is not for the sandalwood but for the dirt. The third, but if this would be a honey bee and some toilet is there, she will fly away even from the beautiful blossoms and go to search for other blossoms. Yes or no? Therefore, like this, those who have inner quality will not listen to the satsaṅg; they will either get up and go, or in the satsaṅg, they will sleep. So Bhāgyasālī, lucky are they, fortunate ones are they who can have the satsaṅg, who can have a darśan, who can win. Because this human life is very precious and is given to us. Therefore in India we say, “Samay kā durupyog mat karo.” Samay kā durupyog, yānī samay kā durupyog kā mādhav pāp hai. Five months ago, I had a talk with one of my good friends; he is a very great philosopher, and we were talking together, and he said, “Swamiji, you know, that to waste time is also a sin.” How do you waste time? He said, gossiping, listening, looking, and doing stupid things is the best way to waste time. Wasting time means you are wasting time; it is a sin. God gave you such a precious human life, human time. And therefore, Holy Gurujī said in his bhajan, how is this bhajan? “Bar bar nai pai, bhai tum jagore. Tera avasar bhi, bhai tum jagore. Bhai tum jagore, tera avasar bita jai. Bhai, tera avasar bita jai.” Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī, Dev Purījī Bhagavān Kī, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī, Sanātana Dharma Kī. So, my dear, this āśrama, Dev Purījī’s light, Sadāśiva Bhagavān Śaṅkara, and this Capital Coast, I wish you all the best and many blessings. Madhuram is here, and of course the Edinburgh Bhaktas are asking him to come back, but he will come some days. Thank you. My dear, I wish you all the best and blessings. See you again through webcast or through life. Om Śānti.