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We need a boat to cross the ocean

A satsang discourse on spiritual community and the festival of Diwali.

"Satsaṅg is the boat to cross the ocean of Māyā, the worldly ocean."

"Deep is the flame. So today is the day of the light. Param Sukh Dāī... the highest happiness, a divine bliss."

The lecturer leads a satsang in Vienna, discussing the power of spiritual community and the significance of Diwali. He explains satsang as a vessel guided by the Guru, shares updates on charitable projects, and translates devotional bhajans celebrating the divine light incarnate. The talk emphasizes love over jealousy, the importance of spiritual practice, and the inner light of wisdom.

Filming location: Vienna, Austria

Sītā finished. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī. Śrī Śrī Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva Kī. Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Kī. I would need one text with big letters: "Sadgur Jagme Aaya Mere." Thank you. Maybe a bhajan book, a little bigger one than this. As I told you yesterday, about the year 2012, it is more or less going to end in eight weeks. And our dear brothers and sisters around the world, the practitioners of our scientific system, yoga in their life, and more other projects for the protection of the wildlife, the forest, rivers, water harvesting, and also for disabled animals. One year before, we donated one ambulance for those animals which had accidents on the road, to bring them into one veterinary hospital and veterinary care. At the same time, we have this hospital, Śrī Svāmī Mādhavānand Austria Hospital in Jārdhān. And unfortunately, I don’t know the numbers of the peasants, but we had a few eye camps in Pali district. And for the people from the rural area, they got the glasses, reading glasses. Some had a little kind of operations and so. And thanks to all our devotees, bhaktas, who are working and supporting these different projects. So today, some of our Vienna bhaktas, including our dear Kṛpā Devī from Vienna, or is it from Koper, Ljubljana, they made today a kind of flow market, yard sale. And as I can read, they have got 1,100 euros for 36 Augen operations in Jardin. So we got that. And this is from the flow market, 26th and 27th of October, 2012. Thank you very much. And our sister, Annapūrṇā, she’s taking care of the money, so I would like to hand over. I didn’t look in. So, I think you should check it. So, thank you. As well as our dear sister Kṛpā Devī from Carrington, Spital, and the Drow, so thank you. This is for the hospital. Who is taking care of our YouTube programs? Her work is like a selection of pearls on YouTube. So, selected pearls of the wisdom, selected pearls of the light, the selected pearls of love, the selected pearls of the divinity. So, there are thousands of YouTube videos out there, and I don’t know if you see how many people are looking per day. Please come. That’s why I’m repeating. And so I would tell, or request everybody, the year is going to end. So our Swamiji TV is free as a support for the spirituality, peace, good health, and well-being of our planet. So it would be important that you pay whatever you can as a donation, so that we can continue this year and also the next year. So this year, still, we need about quite a few thousand ceiling. Your euros, and so please, you can support a little bit in this way. And also, until that next year, we can continue also. Thank you very much. Yes, Prashim. There are daily about 1,800 and up to 2,500 or 3,000 video clicks a day, per day, around all the globe. So there are really many, many. And I did not mention before, because there are different topics, and there are also videos with āsanas, and people can do the āsanas at the same time. Guided by Swāmījī. There are also videos with meditations. There are videos with different topics, and if you want to have something special, then just type in whatever you want. If you want to know something, what is Swāmījī talking about? Love, or what is he talking about? Different? Then just type it in, and you will find all the videos with this topic. So it’s really very, very valuable for all of us. Thank you. Blessings of Gurudev to everyone. Welcome you all here to the satsaṅg. And I think we are blessed ones, we are lucky ones that we have already three satsaṅgs. In Vienna, especially here in our Gurujī Āśram, it is a record. Because for a long time, nearly three or four years, we didn’t have continuously three days of satsaṅgs here. Though in Vienna, the āśram and all the āśrams around the world, they have at least once a week satsaṅg. And in Vienna, they have two, at least the satsaṅgs twice a week. Satsaṅg is the boat to cross the ocean of Māyā, the worldly ocean. It means the ocean is symbolic, and Gurujī said that if one would like to cross the ocean and you go and jump in and swim with your own arms and strength, still you can’t cross the ocean, because not only that if you are strong enough or not, but there are many waiting for a warm-blood breakfast. So we need a boat, and this boat, Kāveya, the captain of our boat is the Satguru Dev, or when we give the satsaṅg. Satsaṅg is that on which subject one speaks; that holy saint, or that great person, or the philosopher, symbolically becomes a captain for us. So if you sing a bhajan from Mahāprabhujī, he is now captain of the satsaṅg, or Kabīr Dās, or Sūr Dās, or Holy Aśiṣī, or many other saints. As soon as in your thoughts that particular holy person comes, or a great person, a philosopher or a scientist, then that person is here with the energy body or with the subtle body, that even the person doesn’t know, but that body, that energy, is here. Even though a great saint has left ages before, as soon as we remember, it is there. Like this modern technology, just now Kṛpā told you about YouTube. So you just type the name, and out of the thousands of different YouTubes, that one is selected, and it comes. So you type the name, and it comes, that one. Similarly, you remember that, and that cosmic energy, the divine energy, comes and takes its place in our consciousness, in our imagination, in our intuition, in our feelings, and in our intellect. So, when you think of your mother, you feel the love of the mother. When you think of your father, you feel the love of the father. If you think of your sister or brother, immediately you feel that love of the sister and brother. And if you think of your colleagues, how nice they are to you, their kindness and humbleness appear as love to you. And if you think of an enemy, then that kind of aggression, that kind of anger appears in us. So, it is said, chitta vṛtti, the thoughts which we have in our minds, that create immediately either light or darkness. So, it is said in modern psychology also, they said, negative thinking means poisoning thyself. And positive, no sorry, the negative thinking is poisoning thyself, and positive thinking is enlightening thyself. Mind, which brings a thought, and the thought is a thousand times stronger than any physical thing. One word, one thought can destroy your strength and make you completely broken inside. So, these thoughts, what we think, how we think, that develops our self-insight. And so, when we think about our mother, our father, our grandfather, our grandmother, we feel that protection, we feel that care, we feel that love, or whatever it is. Similarly, when we think of God in human forms, it could be out of the 24 incarnations, the Narasiṃha Avatāra, the Varāha Avatāra, the Kaśyapa Avatāra, Rāma, Ādi Kṛṣṇa, or others. When you think of Jesus, just the name, and it comes that in the front. And what does that mean, Jesus? That quality, that love, that wisdom, that everything. So, satsaṅg, when you lead a satsaṅg, if you think that you will lead a satsaṅg, you can’t lead. You may sit there with your ego, and nicely, my dear brothers and sisters, our life is complicated. It is you who speak, but if you sit there and say, "Nāhaṁ kartā, I am not the doer, Prabhudeep kartā, the Prabhudeep is the doer, Mahāprabhudeep kartā," he kevalam, Mahāprabhudeep is only the doer. You may say Bhagavān, any name, it means it is said. O merciful Lord, the string of my life is in your hand. So, tan, man, and bachan, through the action of the body, through the thinking of the mind, and the words, all these three, mānasā, vācā, karmāṇā, mānasā is mind, vācā is words, and karmāṇā is through the body, karmendriyas, whatever I do, Lord, is in your name. Now, when you speak on behalf of God, you have no right to misuse the name of God. You have to speak that truth about God’s hate. Then you become the right person who can lead the satsaṅg. When I am sitting here, I never think that I am giving and speaking. It is Gurudev who is talking. Aisa mera satguru andar bole, like that my Gurudev is talking in me. So holy Gurujī said in one beautiful poem, "Sab ghaṭ mera sanyā, or koī ghaṭ khālī naye." In every heart my God is dwelling, in every heart, even in the heart of the ant. In every creature, even the plants, there is a light of God. That light of God means God itself. Sab gath mera shayya. My Lord is dwelling in every heart. Koi gath khali naye. No heart is empty or without God. Balihārī us gāth kī. But my adoration is to that heart. Pragat bole aaye. In which heart, God then begins to speak. That heart, that body, that person we adore. So when you take yourself as only the instrument and he is talking through you, then his responsibility is not yours. Devapurījī said, "Gurudev takes upon himself the destiny of the devotees." So God takes upon Himself the destiny of all creatures and all devotees. So, satsaṅg is a boat to cross the ocean, and Gurudev, or the person who will lead the satsaṅg, is your captain. Guru Nānak Sāhib, thank you very much. Guru Nānak Sāhib said in Guru Granthā, a holy book. First is that Guru Granthā. At the end, Nānak Sāhib is writing, "Guru Granth Ko Jāniye." This is a book of the Gurudev. Guru Granth Ko Janiye, the book of the Gurudev. If you have that truth and love, you will realize that God, or that in this book, everything. If you don’t have that, you may read it. It is just a paper. You read newspapers also, so adore any divine holy books. So Guru Nanak said, "The name of the Gurudev is that boat." Those who will come in or enter into that boat will cross the ocean. With trust, with love, with devotion, with confidence. If you remain inside, śrāvakār sevade sevade means here, remain there, guru par uttaran har, then be sure your guru dev, that captain, he will bring you to the mainland. So if you jump between, out of the boat, it is not a mistake of your guru dev, then. So it depends on you, you have possibilities. You have it, so use it or lose it. So satsaṅg is the highest technique. The satsaṅg is one of the places and one of the gatherings where it all has the same feelings. If you come and observe someone with negative thoughts, then Mahāprabhujī... Said the spoon is in the honey, but that spoon cannot taste that honey. So you are in the satsaṅg, but you don’t have those feelings, and you have doubts, then you are that one who will not have a taste of the jñāna amṛta. Yesterday, I translated to you one bhajan: "Amar ho jisko khāne se mitāī ho to aise ho." So welcome you to the satsaṅg, and wherever you are, in which country or which town or village, you have a center, āśrams of yoga and daily life. Everywhere there is satsaṅg. And if any bhakta, your guru brothers and sisters, comes for three days for, let’s say, some business tour or for something, they should know that in this village or in this city, there is a yoga and daily life center, or āśram. You have a right to go there, practice there, pray there, or attend satsaṅg. And all the center managers, or those who look after the center, the center members, teachers—everyone has these feelings to welcome you. So you are around the whole world; wherever yoga and daily life are, you are welcome there. People are searching, "Where can I go and practice yoga and daily life?" Many times, people are sending me information. I am now in Tokyo. Where can I practice Yoga in daily life, Swamiji? I have been here for 10 days, and I am missing it. There are some people teaching there also, so we approach them. Of course, in some countries we don’t have it. But when you are a guru brother or sister who is practicing this Yogānanda life, you should welcome them and don’t put the condition that you have to pay $20 now. No, no. If a guest comes into your home and you give them food, and then you say, "But you have to pay 50 euros," that’s not good. So money is not our midpoint and our priority. We do care, we do love, and we do support all who come to our āśram. And when they go, of course, everyone, they put some donation. But if someone is coming and he’s staying 10 days and 20 days and 30 days and brings one friend, more, and two friends more, then we can think a little bit about what we should do. So we should welcome. That will bring beautiful waves of oneness and harmony. And there are many crazy people that are jealous. Oh, why are there so many here in the harmony? Now, I said, "Overthink something, how to disturb them." I call the troublemakers; they are mentally ill, mentally ill. So love unites, and ignorance divides. Respect is uniting, and jealousy is dividing. So many of you are here. If the Viennese people will think, why did you come here? You will say, "Sorry, I didn’t come for you, I came for satsaṅg, for Mahāprabhujī." But be sure, the Viennese will never say it like this. You should know that the Bhaktas, organizers of the Vienna event, have very big hearts. And the heart is so big that you can’t see. See, they are all in. So welcome you all here and there, everywhere, those who are with us on the webcast, and the broadcast was good. Weathercast, snowing, and our dear Umāpurī, she had a seminar, and she, they are looking, and they said everything. It is white, snowing, just in a wild field. So this is Austria, the Lower Austria part. So everybody, welcome. Now, I was thinking today to translate one bhajan, but our dear Mahimā, the Monica, she is saying a nice bhajan, a morning rāga, that I would also like to translate. So listen carefully, and time to time we can open little windows, and time to time, open means just clean it, keep it like that, and then close it. Thank you. Time is now for the Dīvālī. What is time? Dīvālī. Dīvālī means, Dīvālī is one of the very ancient festivals, and for more than 10,000 years or more, it is about the God Rāma’s coming back after spending 14 years in the forest. When the God Rāma came, the people were so happy. And they were decorating the trees and putting the oil lamps. At that time, there were no candles or wax. And they were decorating the trees; they were hanging fruits and sweets so that people who came hungry could get something to eat, not in their house. Only, but the holy streets, few kilometers in a different direction of Ayodhyā, where the God Rāma incarnated and where God Rāma lived, that’s called Sūryavaṁśa, the dynasty of the Sun, those kings and... They were putting nice water somewhere, clean waters they were putting somewhere, milk, the yogurts, and many, many things, and some toys for children if they are coming with the children. So it reminds me that of Dīvālī also, when now after this. Two thousand years, we are two to twenty-two thousand, yeah. Two thousand years of Jesus’ life that you are decorating this Christmas tree, and there’s a Dīvālī tree. So it’s very good, very nice. So now is the time exactly when Dīvālī is coming, and that is exactly the time when Jesus is coming. So you see, all, it’s not a coincidence, but it is a counted time in the space, and when on this planet some divine light should come. They are not different; they are all one. One in all and all in one. If you have negative thinking about other religions, then you are in duality. You don’t know what God is. So when we speak, "God is love and love is God," then it should be like that. So Holy Gurujī is singing, he made a beautiful bhajan one day on Dīvālī morning. He is saying in his Vājan, "Today is the Dīvālī, Deepāvalī." Deep is the flame. So today is the day of the light. Param Sukh Dāī. Param is the highest. Sukha is happiness, so it means a divine bliss. Today is the day of that light that is a divine bliss. The light of the universe came into this saṃsāra, onto this planet, onto our mother earth. So the Lord of the universe, as a light, came into this world. In every direction is a beautiful light, like a dawn rise, beautiful. Balahal is like when a beautiful dawn light is coming and the sun is coming. From the darkness to the light. Now, in the winter nights, it’s very dark. And then you see suddenly dawn from a mountain high up, or from the desert, or from an aeroplane. How beautiful it is, and so is the light. When the holy soul or a holy saint or whole incarnation comes for the bhaktas, it is the dawn of happiness and joy. Valhalla, it’s how beautiful the light is there. Jyoti timrī mitāī, so the darkness is gone and light has appeared. Ānanda maṅgal gāve nar nārī, and all the men and women, they are singing the song of the happiness and harmony. Ānanda is bliss. Maṅgala is happiness, the joy, the happiness. Ghar ghar bāte hari kī badā’ī, and everyone going from one house to another. Do you know the God has come? Do you know God has come? You know, on the 24th, according to Catholics, the evening of the 24th of December, as we said, is Holy Eve, and everyone is decorating the trees, and children have to wait in the other room. And then the bell is ringing, and they come, and they say, "But you didn’t tell me when Jesus came." The parents said, "Yeah, but he was in such a hurry." But he left for you something here. He said, "Good." And the next day we said, "Frohe Weihnacht." So everyone, we are greeting you. On Dīvālī day, we tell everyone, "Next day, Rām Rām Sā," or "Harī Om," or "Jai Śrī Kṛṣṇa," or so. This is all traditions are the same. So they are giving badāī. Badāī means congratulation to everyone. They are congratulating for the... Divine light, ṛṣi, muni, yogī, deva, gandharva. When Mahāprabhujī was incarnated, that time all ṛṣis, munis, yogīs, devas, and gandharvas—Gandharva is the singing who is in heaven. Heaven singer, the singer, Gandharva. They are in the Swargaloka, you may say heaven. And Jai Jai Kar Pushpa Barsai, and the flowers were raining from the sky. That is exactly what we read: when Mahāprabhujī was born, or incarnated, the lamps lit automatically and flowers fell. It was beautiful. Hari Har Brahmā karat stuti. Hari, Har, and Brahmā. Hari is Viṣṇu, Har is Śiva, and Brahmā is Brahmā—Viṣṇu, Śiva, and Brahmā, the protector, liberator, and creator. Hari Har Brahmā karat stuti. Viṣṇu, Śiva, and Brahmā were performing the āratī to Mahāprabhujī, just as we say, "Guru Brahmā, Guru Viṣṇu." There is a beautiful prayer: Guru Devo Maheśa Harihara Brahmā Satguru Kī Āratī. Another prayer states: Harihara Brahmā Kartṛ Turīḍ Nārada Sarada Mahima Gai. Our great ṛṣis, Nārada and Sarada, all are declaring and singing the glory of the Mahāprabhu, for he appeared here, deep within this world. On this planet: Dhanya Nar Nagar Kulban Dhanya Ho Bhūmi Saguṇa Brahma Āyī Śrī Dīp Gosāī. Blessed is that village, that family, that house, and that land where Mahāprabhu Dīp Hari incarnated in this Gosāī family. Man Mohan Prabhu param manohara. Man is the mind. Mohan is the one who can attract our mind. Automatically, he does not need to tell you, "Love me"; we love him already. When you are walking and see a tree with beautiful flowers, automatically your eyes go there. The flower does not tell you, "Look how beautiful I am." It might be a cherry tree, an apple tree, a magnolia tree, or any flower. Our eyes are drawn to it. When the beautiful moon is shining, the moon does not say, "Look how beautiful I am," but we look. How beautiful! So it is with truth, light, and beauty—they attract automatically. So who is so stupid, or unlucky, that they would not look at this divine beauty and instead look somewhere in the garbage? Automatically, Bhagavān, the divine, is that which attracts us automatically. Nobody invites you, but you are there. You are coming. Everyone has many duties and families, yet something brought you from hundreds or thousands of kilometers away. Some have come from far away, like Navisad, which is about 800 kilometers from here, or from different places. That is the power of that love, that light of the Gurudev, and because you devotees understand. Man Mohan—he who attracts us, Mohan. Man is the mind, and Mohan is Kṛṣṇa’s name. Man Mohan Prabhu, Param Manohara is not only he who attracts us in this worldly life, but he is Param Ānanda, the Supreme, the beauty of the eternal Satyam, Śivam, Sundaram. Kar Darśana, Jan Sab Harsai. When you have darśana, everyone is happy. When we go, all thousands of us, to Gurujī, when we went or go to Khaṭū or anywhere and we have darśan, everyone is happy. No one says, "Don’t be happy." You know, that is divine equality. That is called equal love. That love is God. But sometimes there is jealousy between people. They say, "Why? I think they should all come to me, or they should go there and not here." It is like a man who has a very nice, open shop where many customers come. Then somebody thinks, "Oh, this street is good. Many clients are coming. I will also open a shop there." So he opens a shop, and another says, "Why should the customer go there?" But the previous shopkeeper is so harmonious and good that everyone still goes there. And he is jealous: "Why do they go there? Why don’t they come to me?" When you drive from Jaipur to Jardhan, on the way there is a shop called Jodhpur Sweets that sells samosas and kachoris. It is so good that people from Delhi, New Delhi, order from that shop. People stand in a queue; all taxis and buses stop there. People thought it was a very good place, so many opened the same kind of shop, but nobody goes to them. They are so jealous of him. When he opened the shop, Holy Gurujī was there. There is a place called Dark Bungalow, a government guest house built in British times. Whenever it is midway, Gurujī would go there to rest a little. He is a government officer. This man came to Gurujī and brought him something to eat. Gurujī said, "You will always give to all. When you gave to me, you will give to so many." Now he sells thousands of samosas and kachoris per day, while others sell only 100 or 200 pieces. That is Guru Kṛpā. That is something divine, but jealousy is there. And when jealousy is there, in the end the jealous person will be the loser and will be angry at himself or herself. Mahāprabhujī was a beautiful small child, and from birth onward he always had a very sweet smile on his face. In the village, people say that their grandparents told them they never heard Mahāprabhujī cry as a small child. He was always happy, always smiling, and his smile is called the divine smile. That smile is the smile of God. When you smile a little and talk nicely to someone, you feel sympathy, love, respect, friendliness, and kindness. Some people say, "Yo, drink my coffee." Do you like this? Yo. One Swamiji said that when you do not smile, 62 muscles in the body are in tension. When you smile, only four muscles are in tension, and all others are relaxed. There is a lot of tension because the face has to expand a little. That is in psychology. It is face reading, also eye reading. You can see in the eyes how a person is thinking, and you can see on the face how a person is standing or looking. How are you? So, the beautiful divine smile of Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī. As he was a small child, Śrī Dīp Dayālu Bālak Anupam—indescribable—everyone would like to come and look at him. You know, when small children are here, everyone likes to say, "Hello, how are you?" Children do not invite us, but we like to see them. We are happy even seeing a little piglet or a puppy. They are such babies. A child is a form of pure love and God. Children say, "We are children in our mind, we are truthful, that is why God loves us." Children say, "We are little children, we are truthful in our heart, God loves us, and so we are the children of God." Why don’t we have the same feeling in our heart? But as we grow bigger, we become jealous. "This is my toy." Then, in time, you will forget this toy and have another toy. And when somebody looks at your other toy, you are jealous again. Then, when you have had enough of this toy, you look for another spiritual toy. So there are levels of feelings. Then the pollution is over there. Dīp dayālu, bālak anupam, madhur, mushkad, manhar, lehi, adbhut, śobhā, varṇin jai. What a divine glory of his! I cannot describe it. Deva, ṛṣi, muni jai jai gai. Even devas, ṛṣis, and munis are chanting his divine glory. Adbhutam śobhā varendrasai, deva, ṛṣi, muni jai jai gai. Mādhāvānanda kahe, ānanda parā. And therefore, Gurujī said, "I have endless joy." Bhal bhal aisī Dīvālī āī. Gurujī said, "What a great Dīvālī is in my life, because when Dīvālī is here, I remember this Mahāprabhujī incarnation, this light for all." And therefore, it is said in another bhajan that our Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī himself sang a beautiful bhajan: "Early morning, Brahmamuhūrta, early morning you should get up and meditate, even half an hour, and then you can go to sleep. But do not forget those minutes." Just sit on your bed where you are, sit and chant your mantras, and remember this. That is great. This is a bhajan Mahāprabhujī wrote. What did he say when he got up? He said, "Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī came," or "Mahāprabhujī came." We can focus this on any Gurudev: Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī, Holy Gurujī. Satguru Jāg Me Āyā, Merā Satguru Jāg Me Āyā Re. Morning Rāga. My Gurudev came into this world. You wake up and get the message that Gurudev came. "Oh, my Gurudev came here. My Gurudev came here. Gurudev came in this saṁsāra." Who is a guru? All holy creation is a guru. You have the gospel, and everywhere in all the Bible’s teachings, it says, "Master and disciple." There is the mountain preaching. The master is talking to disciples. So, guru means the teacher, the master, and guru means God. So, do not be allergic to the word. If you misuse the word "guru," you are discriminating against the language, the culture, and the religion. Satguru āyā mere man bhaiyā. My Gurudev came, and I am so happy. My mind is joyful. Merā dil harsāyā re. My heart is dancing, my heart is so happy. I was so happy, and I came to greet him. I touched his holy feet. What happened when I came to him and bowed down? He put his divine hand on my head. Through this, he imparts a blessing or energy, whatever you call it. So your mother, father, elder brother, sister, neighbors—when they touch your head, it is a blessing. And why here? Because this is the most important part of our being. From here, it also transfers into the heart. All these beautiful brain centers receive divine energy, and we become healthy. So get blessings, get blessings. And if you have no one there to bless you, then sit in meditation and say, "Gurudev, put your hand," and you put your hand there. And you feel it, the hand of Mahāprabhujī. Mānasik pūjā. In mānasik pūjā, you can realize everything. You feel that you are with him physically, in front of you. That is why Gurudev, Mahāholī Gurujī, every day for 40 minutes, would sit like this and perform Mānasik Pūjā to Mahāprabhujī. From Brahma Muhūrta, three o’clock waking up, till lunchtime. What was Seva Gurujī doing? Seva. It is not easy, but it is beautiful, and then it is divine. Maybe sometimes it does not come in your Seva vision, but keep on. Do not change the inner altar. Do not change your feelings. Okay, if not here, I will go there, and so on. Then, it is all Durgānanda. There is no Ānanda. It is Durgānanda. And it is a Phaṇḍā. Durkānanda is a Phaṇḍā. Phanda means troublesome. Samānsik, divine, pūjā, always. What did he do? He put his hand and touched my head. Sohaṁ śabda diyā sarvānme nābī māyā samayāre. He gave me the sohaṁ śabda. "I am that. You are that one." Immediately, the blessings and this word merged into my nābhi, the Maṇipūra Chakra. When your mantra is seated in your Maṇipūra Chakra, in the heart and memory, the heart and memory can only pick up something which is in the Nābhi, because that is the center point of your life. This is the first year; the beginning of your life is from the navel. That is very important. Chakra. As soon as that word went into me, it became a prakāś, a light. Light, not like this. Do not think that it will be something like this physical light. People are always mistaken. "I meditate, and I see such divine light." Others say, "What? I did not see. How can you do that?" I said, "Yes, it will come." "Oh, beautiful light. Can you tell me how?" So this is not physical light; it is the light of wisdom, the light of confidence, the light of love, the light of happiness, the light of security, protection, harmony, contentment. That is a light, not something that we think of here. So, lagat śabda. Śabda is that word. Bhaya prakāśa became God, the light. Saiyā āya jagāya re. He woke me up. He woke me up from my deep sleep of ignorance. When Gurudev wakes you up, you are the luckiest one. It means, from your perspective, we are all sleeping in the sleep of ignorance. Not that you sleep there and Gurudev says, "Get up." Not like that. You are awakened inwardly. Chetan. Chetan kā chelkā svāmine dikalā diya de. Like that. Āvata Javata Ara Urad Bheech Ārad Mantra Dhayare. Āvata Javata Ara Urad Bheech. Āvata means coming, Javata means going. Ara means inhalation, Urad means exhalation. While my breath is coming and going, half of the mantra begins to light my breath. It means "so" inhale and "haṁ" exhale. "So" is the nāda, according to nāda. "So" means "that," and "haṁ" means "I." I am that, and that I am. So one day when you realize, then you will see what it means. But do not say tomorrow or today, go home and say, "I don’t need anything now, I am that one." And that one is the "I am." So your wife will say, "What are you talking about? I don’t understand. What are you talking about?" "I am that, I am that, and that is me." She says, "And?" "We will go to my psychiatrist tomorrow, no problem." So, without realizing, and even if you realize, you should not play. These are very serious things. So, practice this mantra, and you will see inside the sound, the clang, the resonance of this mantra, Vijñāna. And that will spread into your whole body as strength, as happiness. Fear will disappear, certainty will appear, and then all your wishes will come true again. All obstacles will disappear, but with śraddhā, confidence. Doubt will throw you out, aryomtasat. It means rejected. Now you go to some best shop, where someone is buying the best things, and he or she is selecting the best pieces. A little defect, and it is rejected. So, when we have a doubt, we are out. No discussions, no arguments. Without argument, you are out. No doubt. Okay? Chandra Sūrya, or Iḍā Piṅgalā, Śukmanā sej milāire, Chandra Sūrya. This means Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumnā, Śukmanā sej samāire. Automatically, they are coming to that harmony which we want to realize. Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumnā flowing in one level, Sahasrāra Cakra. Chandra, Suraj, or Ida, Pingala, within myself, that Nāda has awakened. And "or" means what is in the heart? In that heart, that light has awakened. Jyoti is flame, the flame of devotion, bhakti, clarity. There is no more doubt, there is nothing anymore: purity, clarity. But if that... Flames are temporary; there is not that light. At that time, that mantra, and this jyoti goes ascending and descending consciousness. This is the subject of the chakra and kuṇḍalinī. We do not have so much time today to talk about everything, but one day we will speak on this subject more. So, bīja, pavana, nābhi, dhāraya, so apāna and samāna, both prāṇas on the nābhi, on our Maṇipūra chakra, ulṭā, bāṅk, ghar, āyāre. Now, what happens in the Viparītakaraṇī mudrā is that the Śakti, the energy, is flowing in the other direction. So this is all ulta. We think it is going down, but no, it is going from down to up again. This is the Kriyā Yoga. Who would understand the Kriyā? And there is a beautiful Kriyā which we call the Sudarśa Kriyā, and now one Kriyā is called Triśūla Kriyā. Devapurījī gave it, but I have not explained it much. That Triśūla Kriyā is very strong, very good Kriyā, okay? So prāṇa and apāna begin to flow through this. In the merudaṇḍa, in the spinal column, are such beautiful, fine waves. A gentle resonance is inside, pleasant, not unpleasant. Prāṇa apāna ulta kar donu, khīcha kabana chaḍhāya re. So prāṇa and apāna both went opposite. It is poetry. Like now you are stretching your archery, your bow, and your file. Now, you are going directly to the sahasrāra cakra. What you have in Kriyā Yoga, when you are opening your sahasrāra cakra with the golden arrow. Khicha kaban chadhaere, bharkuti mein taar laagyo, bijli si chamkaere. Bṛkuṭī, trikuṭī, so the bṛkuṭī is here, bhru is the eyebrows. Yes, bṛkuṭī, kuṭī is the center of it. So trikuṭī, bṛkuṭī. So here it is, and then you see like lightning in the clouds. Again, that is beautiful. So when you sometimes touch here, suddenly light comes from it. That light is then the real light of the ātmā that goes now to the sahasrāra cakra. Haria, Lal or Dhola, Pila, Shyam, Rupa, Darsai, all kinds of colors appear. Haria is green, Lal is red, Dhola is white, Pila is yellow, Shyam is like Kṛṣṇa or Śiva or Viṣṇu, Rupa is the beauty, the form, Darsai means now you see all these different lights. Seven kinds of colors, and all the seven chakras above are getting this. Jino jino bhaje bhaje, surat sahaj gharai pahire. Now, is there beautiful inner nāda, happiness? Very fine. Jīna means very fine, very fine. Surat says, "Gharai pahire." Automatically, your concentration, your sūtra, your attention, your awareness, comes to the right place of your heart and to the brain. So you are completely balanced and happy and peaceful, with no fear of anything. They are all the longing, all ending. Say Devpurījī, pūrā guru pāyā. So Mahāprabhujī said, "I got my pūrā, complete, the Divine Satguru Dev, Devpurījī." Charaṇaṁ śīṣa nivāya re. And that is why Mahāprabhujī said, I bow my head to my Devpurījī’s holy lotus feet. Svāmī Dīpā Satguru ke śaraṇe, Mā Prabhujī said, "I at the centre of my Gurudev’s lotus feet, Hari Bhajan Gūn Gayā Re, where I sit at the centre of my Gurudev’s holy feet, and I sing this bhajan, Hari Bhajan Gayā Re, the glory of God, which I change." So these two bhajans are perfect for our Dīvālī or Christmas or this beautiful time of the changing of the entire nature. Now it is withdrawing. From the spring onwards, we were blossoming outside everything. And now our indriyas, our self, we are withdrawing into the Self, and inner beauty awakes, the inner sun is rising, the light. If you do not realize this, then depression comes, deep depression, you know. So, I wish you all the best and many blessings till the next satsaṅg. We have an immense amount of wisdom inside. You cannot imagine, a lifelong amount. Even if we translate, that is called Guru Vakya, the divine words. And that is how their feelings, what they are saying, and what is singing. So these are great things. So I pray to Mahāprabhujī for your well-being, happiness, good health, and all the best.

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