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Part 1: The Oneness of Consciousness and the Mystery of Creation Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Devīśvar, Mahādeva Kī Dharm, Samrāṭ Satguru Swāmī Mahājānānjī Bhagavān Kī Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Aur Gajananjī Mahārāj Kī Good morning. Today is a very special, auspicious, and divine day because it is the full moon, Pūrṇimā, and the day of the incarnation of Hanumānjī. We call this Hanumān Jayantī, the anniversary of his incarnation. Hanumanjī is known as an incarnation of Śiva. As I have told you many times, there are different kinds of incarnations: Nitya Avatāra and Nimit Avatāra. Nitya means occurring every day or very often; Nimit means for a particular purpose. All holy saints, or Satgurus, are Nityāvatāra. Nimit avatāra comes in every yuga, or perhaps twice in a yuga. As our Arjun Purī sang yesterday from the 14th chapter, where Kṛṣṇa says, "Whenever dharma grows weak and adharma is suppressed, then, in every yuga, I come to destroy the āsurī śakti, protect the bhaktas, and again establish the kingdom of sanātana dharma." We know the trinity: Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva. First in the universe is Śiva, called Swayambhu. Shiva means light, truth, consciousness, and liberation. At the same time, Kṛṣṇa said, "Time to time, I manifest myself through yoga-śakti." That śakti is the energy present in the entire universe. This is why we speak of Śiva and Śakti. Shiva is the consciousness, and Shakti is the maintenance. This is not to be understood literally, as in women being Śakti and men being Śiva; that is wrong. There is nothing to say about gender. Shiva himself proves this as Gaurī Śaṅkar. His Excellency’s name is also Gaurī Śaṅkar. Half is Gaurī and half is Śaṅkar. Shankar is Śiva, and Gaurī is Śakti. In every male, there is more of the Gaurī Śakti. In every female, there is more of the Śaṅkar Śakti. The male is more in the memories and feelings of the Śakti, in the Gaurī. Females have more of that tendency, and it is stronger in the male, and they are always attracted towards the male. There is one coin. This coin originated from the earth, so the earth is stronger. When we throw it up, it comes back down. Why? Because it always goes to its origin. What we call gravity, we also call attraction. If it were completely separated, creation would stop. This is the material world. But of course, that consciousness represents Śiva. Satyam, Śivam, Sundaram. Satyam means truth. Shivam means Shiva—truth and Satyam, Shivam. Sundaram means beauty. This indicates Śiva: Satyam, Brahma, Satyam, Jagat, Mithyā. Shivam is that Shiva, Swayambhu, the consciousness. Sundaram is the beauty of the entire universe. Then where was the necessity of the śakti? It is said that consciousness has no desires at all, and matter can’t do anything. How, then, does creation take place? Therefore, there is the energy, the Śakti, which means activities and creative movements. When that movement is united with consciousness, then there is life. What moves is life. As long as your heart is moving, pumping, you are still alive because consciousness is also there. When it is not moving, it is death. But does our car also have consciousness? The car is also moving, but it does not have that consciousness. That pure consciousness is in life where God has entered himself. Each tree, every leaf, has consciousness at a lower level. There are many different kinds of fire. The strongest fire tattva is in the water, in the ocean. That we call dhāva agni. In śāstras, agni is fire. One kind of fire is physical fire, visible to our eyes. Also, lightning from clouds brings fire, so it’s called Dava Agni. That is when, in extreme cold, a whole tree begins to burn. Lava Agni is in volcanoes. Then there is Chitta Agni, when a dead body is burned. The Havana Agni is used in yajñas. The jāṭharāgni is the digestive fire in the body; krodhāgni is the fire of anger; kāmāgni is the fire of passion; and also vairāgni, the fire of longing or devotion. All great saints are poets and writers who write something very emotional and touching. You would like to read it again and again. That’s called viraha. Mahāprabhujī’s entire book is called the Padāviraṇī book. Mīrā’s bhajans are all on viraha. Surdas’s bhajans are also viraha bhajans. When God Kṛṣṇa went back to Veṅkuṇḍa, all the gopīs and gopas were unhappy. It is said Kṛṣṇa had 16,000 gopīs, meaning 16,000 female disciples. But there were double the gopīs, the male disciples. In Kali Yuga, which is the yuga of women, we emphasize more the female energy. When you have a particular government, you are on that side, and when you have another, you are on the other side. But there is equality. There is no imbalance. We say first Gaurī Śaṅkar; we do not say Śaṅkar Gaurī. No one has the name Śaṅkar Gaurī because first is mātṛ devo bhava. The mother is first. We say Lakṣmī Nārāyaṇa; we do not say Nārāyaṇa Lakṣmī. Or we say Sītā Rāma, first Sītā, then Rāma. Similarly, there is equality. Virahāgni is when God Kṛṣṇa went back; everyone was crying. Kṛṣṇa had one good friend. One of the gopīs was crying and asked Uddhava, Kṛṣṇa’s friend. Sūrya Dās writes and sings: "Hi Uddhava, please tell me, what is the difference between Yoga and Vyoga? When you realize the yoke, you become one. And yoke means separation. When you are separated, then again you are one, alone. You say that I am lonely. Finally, you have to become alone, one. Because only that one is the truth. Finally, Eko Brahma. To tenacity, where there are two, is not reality." It doesn’t matter how much you love or how deep a relation you have, even like a mother and child; sooner or later one day it will be separated. That’s why Vedānta does not believe in duality, because there is only unity, one. But that one is in all. That consciousness, Śiva consciousness, is in everything, and everything is one. So Śiva, Viṣṇu, and Brahmā are called the trinity. According to the Mahāśivapurāṇa, Brahmā and Śiva manifest and create Viṣṇu. They tell Vishnu, "Go and perform tapasya." Out of that tapasyā fire comes the water element. When it is very hot, you sweat. Fire brings water out. When you are freezing cold, as it becomes colder, your hand begins to burn. You hold a snowball; the beginning is cool, and then it feels like your hands are burning. It is said that from the navel of Viṣṇu comes a lotus. Then Shiva manifests as Brahma. Shiva asked Brahma to take a seat on this lotus to begin creation. It is not correct to say Brahmā is born from Viṣṇu’s navel through the lotus. As you remember, last time His Excellency spoke about body, mind, energy, and how the soul comes, the water element. First, where the jīvā, the soul, is, that is as a seed, as Viṣṇu. He is the protector. This Veṅkuṇḍa, or the Milky Ocean, is again a mother body. In that body, the embryo develops, and that embryo is a lotus. Then comes the buddhi, intellect, Brahmā, the creation. In this trinity—Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva—there is cosmic law, just as we have parliament and law. When in one yuga an incarnation comes, Viṣṇu is coming. At that time, Shiva comes to take care of it. When Shiva is incarnating, then Viṣṇu is coming in Śiva. So, when God Rāma incarnated as a Viṣṇu incarnation, Hanumānjī came to support, maintain, and organize. We see Hanumānjī as an embodiment of Shiva, and finally, he manifested as Śiva. When Bhagavān Rāma went back to his world, Vaikuṇṭha, or Rāmaloka or Śivaloka, Bhagavān Rāma said to Hanumānjī that all the bhaktas of God Rāma, including all the monkeys and bears, went with him to Brahmaloka. This means God doesn’t love only humans. God can and will liberate every creature. God loves every creature. In these 24 incarnations, none of them ate meat. All major religious figures were also vegetarian. Buddha was Hindu and a complete vegetarian. When Buddha went for bhikṣā, he walked with a technique called in yoga Udāsī Mauna. Udasi Mauna is like appearing sad, and Mauna is silence. He stepped while looking to see if there were any ants under his feet. If you follow Buddhism, you should not eat meat. Muhammad was a Rajput, a Kshatriya warrior, and it is said he was also vegetarian. Jesus was also vegetarian. So, do we follow them or not? All these incarnations love God. God loves all creatures; all are his children. So today, my dear, is Hanumān Jayantī and the full moon. It is beautiful, and I wish you all the best and the blessings of Hanumānjī, from Śiva, and so on. We are very happy and thankful to His Excellency, the Ambassador of India to Hungary, Śrī Gaurī Śaṅkar Gupta Jīnaka. Gupta means different names and meanings. Gupta also means hidden, confidential. So hidden, you never know what is hidden in him. He is going to manifest something today. His Excellency represents the Indian government here, but I would say he is more a philosopher and Vedāntic than a politician. It is said that only a king can be successful who has yoga vidyā, rāja yoga, and politics. Mahatma Gandhījī writes on the last pages of his biography that if one thinks spirituality or religion and politics cannot go together, then that person does not know what religion is and what politics is. As I told you yesterday, spirituality and management: if there is no spirituality, then management leads to the condition we see in the world economy today. I am very happy that His Excellency came, and he has written many books. One of his latest books has just appeared. We are going to integrate the book, so ask His Excellency for it. You can remain seated; otherwise, the photo will not come. The book is in Hungarian and English. Beautiful. Mystery of Life. Orange. I’m waiting for your retirement. Also, I would like to welcome our dear one from Hungary who made a great effort. What is your name? Joseph. Joseph. Always, when we do something, we say, "Where can I get it?" So I got you someone you can get it from, a direct address. It is published by a publishing house available in, I think, all bookstores in Hungary. Sometimes people say, "I want to have a signature," so I requested His Excellency if he could sign some books already now. So there are some books with his own signatures. Of course, we don’t have a thousand books here. In English, they say, "Only the bird finds the first cherry." So there are some. Your Excellency, the floor is yours. First of all, let me express my sincere gratitude to Swāmījī for his very generous and kind words and also for formally launching the book today in front of all of you, the devotees of Swāmījī. Swamiji has already given you a very profound talk on the creation of the universe and the oneness, or the singleness, of the consciousness which constitutes this universe. Now, Swamiji has directed me to speak something about the mysteries of the universe. So, I will make my attempt to talk to you on this issue a little. Like Dala. Like Dala. You know, when you sit down at night and look at the vast blue sky above you, you see millions of stars, the never-ending sky, horizons not to be seen anywhere. This universe, which has been described or discovered partly by scientists, has been admitted by scientists themselves to be infinite. I’ll give you some scientific statistics about what science says on the universe. As of today, science says that only 4% of the universe is known to them. Do you know how much that 4% constitutes? 78 billion light years is the diameter of that 4%. And you know what a light year is? The distance sunlight travels in one year. In one second, sunlight travels 300,000 kilometers. In one second. So in one year, how much will it travel? And then in 78 billion years, how much will it travel? You can’t even imagine. Even the most sophisticated computer available today cannot make this calculation. Science also says there are at least 100 billion galaxies in the known universe, only 4%. The galaxy we live in is only one of those galaxies, in which there are many solar systems. So each one of the hundred billion galaxies has, say, about four hundred billion stars. Each one of them. So imagine the enormity of this universe. Man has only gone up to the moon, and they have sent a vehicle up to Mars, but there are billions and billions of Marses and moons around this universe. So the question arises: can we really understand this universe? Can we understand the mysteries of this universe? Yes, we can. Let me give a small example of how. You see a huge tree outside in the garden there. If you start counting the leaves and branches and the flowers and the fruit of the tree, you will end up spending years, and even then you may not find everything out. But if you understand the seed of that tree, that small little seed can tell you what this tree is all about. Look at our own body. We don’t understand what the human body is all about, what a miracle it is. Part 2: The Mystery of the Insensible It is the most miraculous creation of the universe. The food we eat is inanimate; it is not alive. Yet it becomes alive as soon as it enters the body. And from this live, conscious body, we produce hairs and nails, which are dead. So how do the conscious, or animate, and the inanimate exist together in our own body? It is said there are millions of microbes, millions of tiny insects, living within us. You eat yogurt, and it contains millions of microbes. These are the mysteries of creation. How can we understand them? These mysteries are not so difficult to understand. Let me give you some examples to clarify how we can move forward. First, we must understand that as things become progressively smaller and subtler, they become more powerful. The most powerful thing is insensible—it cannot be sensed by our organs. Consider food. It is very important for survival. You can see it, touch it, and smell it. It is sensible. You can live without food for perhaps sixty days. But you cannot live without water. Water is more important than food. Water is sūkṣma—thinner, more subtle than food. How many days can you live without water? Maybe five or ten days. Even more important than water is the air we breathe. Air is even thinner. You cannot see it or touch it; you only feel it when you breathe. How many minutes can we live without air? So, as it becomes thinner, it becomes more powerful. Thinner still than air is space—the empty space surrounding us. If this space did not exist, none of us could exist or even conceive of existing. Science does not know what this space is; it cannot even define it. Yet this empty space is one of the most powerful elements of creation. Thus, as things become thinner and more subtle, they become more powerful. Let me give another example from our own body. We have this huge body, of which we are often proud. But this body is controlled by the senses. If we had no eyes, ears, nose, or tongue, what would this body be? It would be like a vegetable. These small senses control the body. In old age, when the senses fail, you become like a vegetable. But the senses themselves are not the most powerful element in the body. The senses are controlled by the mind. It is the mind that sees, the mind that hears, the mind that tastes—not the senses themselves. The senses are merely instruments. All of you have ears here, but you will not hear me unless your mind is with me. Where does the mind exist? It is in the thin air. Can you touch, smell, or hear it? No, it is not sensible; it is beyond the perception of the sense organs. Even beyond the mind is the intellect, which keeps telling the mind what to do and what not to do. It advises, "Do this, don’t do that. This is good for you, this is not." Where does that intellect exist? Can you show it to me? Can anybody see it? So it is even more subtle, and thus more powerful. Now, Swāmījī just said that everyone has consciousness, given by God to all of us. What is that consciousness? That consciousness is even more subtle than the mind, intellect, and the space we discussed. I will return to that shortly. Let me give one more example: time. We talk about time constantly. Where does it exist? Can you show me? Can anybody touch, hear, or see it? It does not exist anywhere in a tangible form. Yet it controls all of existence. With time, we grow old. We grow every second. Why? It is time that makes us grow from a fetus to childhood, to youth, to old age. So we must realize that things which do not exist from our limited viewpoint do exist somewhere. Our senses are not sensible or powerful enough to perceive subtle existence. I was speaking about space and how powerful it is. Let me illustrate with a few examples. Whatever exists in this universe exists within this empty-looking space. The air we breathe, essential for us, exists here. Can we see it? No. The sun’s energy, vital for the survival of all species, is absorbed in this space. Why do we feel hot or cold? Because the sun's rays are more or less present in this space. When you hang wet clothes, the water evaporates and disappears into this space. Millions of tons of water evaporate from the oceans every second and vanish into space. There is a vast amount of water in this space. All the sounds we produce exist meticulously in this space. If you put one hundred thousand cell phones in this room, each would receive its signal perfectly. How could this happen if there were no intelligence in this space? Consider a huge hundred-story building set on fire. It turns to smoke. Where does the smoke go? It disappears into space. These are but a few examples; there are many more. Despite all this, if you point a remote control here at a television there, the signal will still be received, and the TV will function. All these complex elements—water, air, dust, sound, energy—exist simultaneously in this space, and everything works perfectly. This is the power of the insensible. Now, imagine the power of something even more insensible than space and time. That is the power of the universal consciousness Swāmījī spoke of earlier. That insensible element, which we cannot comprehend with our senses, is the root cause and support of this entire creation. In the Upaniṣads, it is called Brahman. This means it has the capacity to expand itself infinitely. It can grow larger than you can conceive, and it is this Brahma that expands into this universe. It can also withdraw it all back. Many people ask, "Where does God exist? Where does Brahma exist?" They must understand the power of the insensible and the principle that as things become subtler, they become more powerful. Not only are they more powerful, they also become more unified. You can separate this table from this sofa, but can you separate space? Space is one, unified across the entire universe. So is time. And the creator of time and space is even more supreme than they are. That supreme creator exists everywhere, and that is what we call the soul, the human soul, or the part of universal consciousness that exists within us. No medical or other science has been able to identify what it is that leaves the body when a person dies. As soon as that insensible part departs, the entire body becomes useless. In short, this is the mystery of the universe. You do not need to travel to planets, stars, moons, and galaxies to discover it. How would you go? We cannot even count the hairs on our own body. Can any scientist correctly count them? That is mere counting, not even analyzing what they contain or how they form. No science can truly analyze the billions of stars, galaxies, and planets, and who knows what else exists out there. We need only understand one simple fact: the universal consciousness is beyond the perception of our senses. It is the most powerful element, which creates this entire universe and also exists within each of us. We call it the Ātmā in our body. Now, let us briefly understand the power of this ātmā. I told you that as soon as it leaves the body, we die. How does it enter the body? In the Bhāgavata Purāṇa and the Bhagavad Gītā, it is clearly described that when conception begins, when the sperm enters the body, the soul enters through the sperm. No conception is possible without the soul entering the sperm. The sperm alone cannot grow into a fetus and a body. It is the soul that enters the sperm, and then conception occurs. It is the soul that sustains this body throughout our life, and the moment it leaves, we die. But let us also see what we experience daily, though we often do not recognize or pay attention to it. For example, right now I am in a conscious state. I can touch this, see you, feel, and listen. What happens when you are suddenly overtaken by sleep? You do not know where it comes from, but your body and senses become completely helpless. Where does sleep come from? Even if there is a fire, a sleepy person may say, "No, I am sleepy, I cannot get up." All your senses and your large body become helpless. Then you enter the state of dreams. In that state, your soul, your mind, creates a new world for you. This present world disappears, and a new world is created where you live as a participant. Look at the power of the soul: it creates a world for you every day. Then you go into deep sleep, where there are no dreams. In that state, both the created dream world and this world completely disappear. They do not exist for you. Even the bed you sleep on does not exist. This is the power of the soul given to you. You experience it each and every day, but we do not realize or recognize it. I will end here. To understand the mysteries of creation and the universe, we must understand the power of the insensible. We should not place too much emphasis on our sense organs, for they are not reliable or powerful enough. Hurry home. Thank you, Your Excellency, Śrī Gaurī Śaṅkarjī. It is endless, and we should not go somewhere that is ending. We must still travel through infinity. Our life is a journey, not a destination. We hope Śrī Gaurī Śaṅkarjī will continue with us through infinity until we come to unity. Yes. What scientists want to do—just reach one planet? How many millions of dollars do they spend? They could spend those dollars on this planet, on a just-born child in a poor family, and support them. That would be the best planet. You cannot even count the hairs on your head, for by the time you reach the end, new ones have already grown. Thank you very, very much. There are some books in English and some in Hungarian. I request some volunteers to stand so there is no crowding in one place. Mukti from Slovenia has a birthday today. All the best. Satya Devī Borek from Budapest has a birthday, and her son was born. They have spent 70,000 forint for one prasāda. Thank you very much, and all the best. And one... Babīch Mūlder Maida, Suraj Devī also has a Yoga and Daylife Diploma, so please come. I wish you all the best and a good journey. There was a question yesterday about a baby who does not want to eat anything, only a little mother’s milk, and is already more than two years old. Do not worry. Leave it as it is. Feed the mother as long as she has some liquid. There were other questions about diet, which I spoke about yesterday. There is a question. Perhaps this is for Śrī Gaurī Śaṅkarjī. I cannot read it. "As a care, there’s no Russian country. Who is it? It fits. We are subject to the TMA house up to logic. Short time again, the emptiness beyond the space is filled by diode existence." That is what somebody has said from science. And then what? Beyond that existence, can they explain to me? And what is beyond that? There can be no answer to that. It is an infinite process. And if nothing exists beyond that, what do you mean by that? So this is a question that cannot be answered by science. If you think a little more, you will realize this has no meaning at all. Thank you. There is one question. One person has lost one kidney and practiced āsanas. Yes, carefully. Another question is about schizophrenia and some psychic disorders. I think one must be constantly under medical care. Do not meditate; do not do too much prāṇāyāma. But do physical exercises and go for a walk. You have to be in a state of deep meditation. You should not practice meditation, you should not practice pranayama, and you should walk. Okay, thank you very much. Time does not exist at all, because time is man-made. There is no time. But there is movement, so we think that is time—something is growing. That growth we may count somehow. So there is no time, but the sun does not stop turning. In one second, how many? Three hundred thousand kilometers. One second. And the first ray was counted by ṛṣis. When something turns so quickly, the first ray is out of the computer brain. But there is one ṛṣi sitting. The computers are not enough for this. The ṛṣis discovered it, and here is a ṛṣi sitting. He counted and gave the name to that first ray of the sun: Uṣāpānī, the first touched by the sun ray, the healthiest water. Thank you, all the best. Take care and come home safely. There was a question about a girl who is a teacher, an assistant teacher. So tell me, okay? Kṛṣṇa Nānjī. Praṇām Gurudev, Praṇām Excellence, Praṇām Gurudev, Praṇām Your Excellency. I would like to thank you, I would like to thank you all for this time we could spend together. Maybe there is no time, but our happiness is endless that we could spend this time with you. We thank His Excellency Gaurī Śaṅkar Gupta Jī very much for his beautiful words, through which our minds have been illuminated. And we thank all of you that we could be together, and we look forward to the next moment when we can be together again. We’ll be right back.