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The Holy Land and the Path of Devotion

The holy land is where divine incarnations and saints appear. These incarnations, both eternal and timely, manifest through the supreme power of Yogamāyā. Their earthly lives are marked by immense suffering, as seen with the parents of Krishna, the exile of Rama, and the crucifixion of Jesus. This demonstrates the pervasive nature of destructive, demonic forces in the world. To succeed in spiritual life, one must cultivate increasing devotion. True devotion is love that grows as attachment diminishes. The door to divine love requires the surrender of ego; one must bow to enter. Do not be a coward filled with doubt, but a hero who can surrender. Your birthplace, where you first drew breath, is a holy heaven to be adored. The spiritual path has no duality of gender; it is an inner condition realized through sincere practice.

"Day by day, my bhakti should increase, not decrease. That is where the love is increasing and where the attachment is decreasing."

"In the door of love, there is no space for the ego."

Filming location: India

Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī, Deveśvara Mahādeva kī, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān kī. Yesterday we had a satsaṅg in Hindi, and today, a little bit in English and a little bit in Hindi. All are happy. First of all, with the blessings of Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī, and Gurujī, I welcome you all from holy Bhārat. No doubt, Bharat, India, is a holy land. The country where God incarnates is called holy. The country where holy saints incarnate is called holy. There are two kinds of incarnations: Nitya and Nimitta. Regarding the Nitya incarnation, Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa clearly said in the Gītā: "Yuge yuge sambhavāmi," O Arjuna—in every yuga I come through my Yogamāyā. This means even God Himself has to come here to be incarnated, and for that, He needs that Divyā Śakti, the Universal Śakti, called Yogamāyā. That Yoga Māyā is Mūla Prakṛti, the Mūla Śakti, the Universal power. After that, there are many: Tripurasundarī, and many, many names—Kālī, Śakti, Durgā, Gāyatrī, Sāvitrī. They all come after. First was that Yogamāyā. God incarnates with an immense amount of miracles and an immense amount of pain. Some incarnations, even before birth, are already manifesting those līlās which are very painful. See the situation, the condition, the life period of Devakī, the mother of Kṛṣṇa, and Vasudeva. That Āsurī Śakti even put the father in prison, and the sister also, and the brother-in-law too. How much torturing, cruelty, and suffering the mother and father of Kṛṣṇa had to face. Why couldn't Kṛṣṇa avoid this? But it ought to be, to show the people that there can be Rākṣasas, Āsurī Śakti like this. For Asuras, there is no father and no mother, no guru, no disciples, and no son and father relations. Asura means destructive. There are Suras and Asuras. Śūra are the heroes, and Asura are the Rākṣasas. What pain that poor Devakī had to go through. We all receive and celebrate Kṛṣṇa, but very little do we remember Devakī. Yes, we do sing "Devakī Nandan," but Devakī is only Yaśodā. Yaśodā’s song comes. Who made the cake, but who is eating the cake? Therefore, Bhagavān Rāma also didn’t have an easy life. It must be like that—how much his mother suffered. It must be that the father of four sons died without their presence. What was the destiny of Sītā, and why? How much did Rāma have to suffer? We say that Bhagavān Rāma was enjoying, and he was enjoying. Father, do devotion so that the son may know where to go. Therefore, in this world, anyone who comes as a great spirit, a great soul, finds Asuras attacking. There are very few hens, and there are very few crows. Few swans, but many crows. There is a beautiful, big bird here which is called Ulu, the owl. It is very big, as big as a peacock. But the crows are so aggressive that they are afraid of coming out. The crows do not know that if they wanted, they could do good to us. So the beautiful owl, which is as big as a peacock, is kept from coming out of its nest by the crows. But the crows don't know that if the owl wanted, it could finish them in two days. No more crows would be there. Āsurī Śakti is more. See the life of Jesus, the life of Jesus’s mother, and also the father of Jesus. After we humans realize our stupidity, that we made a mistake, it is said: "Christ, I die for you to take your sin away." It is wrongly said, "I die because of you." In this way, because I came to help and you didn’t understand, you crucify me. But still, I will love you. Parents are parents, whatever children will say. Gurudev is Gurudev, whatever disciples will do; the love will be there. Gautama, Gandhiji, and many other social and spiritual workers who wanted to bring peace to the world became victims of the gun. Because the Mūrtis are there, but they know they have to come here to clear all this. If not in their presence, then after, at least, they will cry and realize their mistakes. So where the holy saint is, there is nityāvatāra, everyday incarnation, and nimitāvatāra is time to time: "yuge yuge sambhavāmi"—every yuga I come through my Yogamāyā. Among this, if you keep your path, your sādhanā, and wish to be successful in your human birth, then keep your bhakti. Day by day, my bhakti should increase, not decrease. That is where the love is increasing and where the attachment is decreasing. Where there is love, there is happiness and freedom. And where there is attachment and ignorance, there is suffering. There are changes. Therefore, after all this: O Lord, when will you fill my pot of love? Which one? My heart. Our heart is that pot which should be filled with bhakti. So a Mahātma said: "Oh my Lord, giver, give me, if you want to give me something, then give me bhakti." Dāna means donation. "Janam dhar visru nahi." Give me such a devotion that even if I have to be born again, I’m not separating from you. Because separation for a bhakta from Bhagavān or from Gurudev is separation from your incarnations. The chain is broken, and you fall again into the chaurāsī, chukarne chaurāsī, kalpa. "Kalpata reo. Phir bhi kabhī na kabhī to sunegā." If you have devotion, then God will not forget. "Kalpa Madakasav Kuriye said, 'Samariya ki Rachna Rudiye.'" Is there a bhajan or not? It is a very beautiful bhajan. So, we know that God is Ātmā and He doesn’t have pain or doesn’t suffer. Who said this? "Gurudev bhakti karte ho, beta, my body knows." Who said that Jesus was not feeling pain when he was crucified? Look, one injection. An injection is, in a way, a dare. "Kaal jaari lappi khaun, lappi khaun gare kaal jo. To aise ātaon mein khilā thog diyā." If Lord Kṛṣṇa and all incarnations, all these great souls or great incarnations or the great light, whatever we may call them—when they have to come to help, then without that Yogamāyā, Yoga Śakti, they also can’t come. The union of the five elements in the body, through which the body is made or created, whatever it is—these are the five elements. The five elements coming together is already yoga. And keeping them together balanced, harmonized, and unified is that yoga. It means not only God Kṛṣṇa or any other incarnation, but even a little egg of the bird, a small egg of the fish, cannot be created without that yoga, the energy which is bringing together. And there is also this energy, this light, this love. Therefore, this is the house of love, not the house of a theater player. Love means bhakti. Bhakti. So don’t think that "I’m here, and this is okay, I’m enjoying, it doesn’t matter. Swamiji said always like this and that, but let it be." Then you are lost. Then you are lost. In the door of that house of God’s love, only those can enter who will offer their head. What does offering the head mean? Ego. All kinds of ego. When the ego is there, then you can’t enter the door. There is no space. In the door of love, there is no space for the ego. And that’s why in ancient times, in every temple and ashram, the doors were so narrow that you had to bow down to go there automatically. Or in the palaces of kings, where they were really living inside, there was a narrow space where two couldn’t walk together. One had to go, a small, narrow door. When they go down, up, somebody was sitting up, tip the head area till the next person comes, chip it, chip it area where that booze, but the data that they get zero. That’s it. "She shoot our children very if." You take off your head of ego and surrender at the holy feet of the Gurudev. Then you can enter into the house. But this coward, this mind is a coward, very fearful. The coward has doubts. So when you have doubts towards Bhagavān, towards Māta Pitā, towards Gurudeva, then you are a coward. You are not a hero. You can’t be successful. "Kair. Kair man māne śaṅkare." Kair means coward. He is not a hero. A hero can give. A coward cannot. "Kair man māne śaṅkare. Prem kā mārak baṅkare." The path of love is very beautiful, great. "Śūra deve śiṣa"—only heroes, the heroes can do. "Arpan Jhankare," that is the something that you can surrender, that you can give to Gurudev. "Shab kush diya aapne, bhaith karun kya, Nāth. Mām, hṛde ko baiṭh karuṁ, joḍuṁ dono hāth. Kaunsā hirde, myā hirde, thodā so kai kai diyā kai. Mene bāsī yun kai diyo. Kāno kare, alo kare alo." If a little bit something is said—"Oh, Swamiji told me this and this, I don’t want this, I don’t want that." Who said that I don’t want? Every morning you are singing Guru Gītā: "Mam hirde bhet karu jodu dhano hat," and "Gurujī kī thodī bāt, or khāī nī uskī lāṭ," then what will happen, brother? So, incarnation—all incarnations who came had a hard life. Now, your parents, your mother and your father, also had a hard life. They know how they gave you birth. The mother knows how she gave you birth. And they know how they look after you and give you education, give you protection, give you food, and everything. Put you from the wet nappy to the dry nappy. Forgotten? Don’t forget, don’t forget this. "Man manī kartā hai, wo kabhī safal nahīṁ hotā hai." Man manī means one who uses their own mental will cannot be successful. Surrendering has to happen. Therefore, as it is said, Holy Gurujī in Līlā Amṛt wrote: My adoration to the Holy Mother of Prabhu, the father of Prabhu, and the brother and sister of Prabhu, and to that spot of the earth, the spot where Mahāprabhujī was born. My adoration to Dīrī, and I pray to thee, O Mahāprabhu, dwell. In the heart of Madhavānanda Gurujī, he went to Kachras where Mahāprabhujī incarnated. He put the earth sand on his head. Even now, people said Mahāprabhujī was long gone, he was not there. Holy Gurujī said his divine energy is immortal, that will never vanish, it will be ever there. And Matajī, the mother of Mahāprabhujī, adores when Mahāprabhujī’s brother came. Holy Gurujī made me see myself with my own eyes, the father of Sureshpurī, yes. That is: "If you don’t accept me as your servant, then let me serve your servant, and through that, accept my service." If you don’t serve me, then let me serve the one who will sweep your court. And whatever service I am doing, I am doing it for you. I am serving you only. That is called Bhakti. When there is a new crossing, it is not done by talking. Otherwise, some outsiders will say, "If you meet me for free, then say thank you." And if you meet me for free, then say thank you. You’ve got to hang over to 11 away, but she knows behind up, so that spot. That place is the holy, and therefore hardly there’s one, some village in Bhārat, in India, in which village in the history some not holy place, a holy saint have been born or incarnated. "Chandan, a mere deśī, marty tappo. Bhūmī har grām hai, har bālā hai, Devī kī pratimā baccā baccā Rām hai." This is the evidence of India, that this is the land of God, the land of Divya, and the land of Dharma. Do not compare Holy Bhārat with this modern civilization, how people are doing. Doesn’t matter what they are doing, still in their blood there is that divine quality. You need not to give color in the egg of the peacock bird. The baby which comes out of the peacock egg automatically will be colorful. So, doesn’t matter. If you are Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, or Isai, who is a breath on this earth first and live here, have flowing in there whence the holy prāṇa. That’s why Bhagavān Rāma said: "Svargase bhī mujhe merī janmabhūmi ati priya hai. Svargase bhī merī janmabhūmi ati priya hai." So it doesn’t matter if you are living in India, but your birthplace, your country, you should adore as a heaven, don’t neglect. People may be different, yes, here too, but where you first breathe that prāṇa, first you open your eyes, that light that vents in your consciousness. That is dwelling within you; therefore, it is holy. Therefore, because the holy saints are born, and holy—to be holy—life is not easy. It is very bitter to swallow down, very bitter. If you can’t swallow down, then you are not holy. Attachment—my children, my grandchildren, my this—yes, what are you? That will not make you holy. That will make you a good mother, or a good father, or a good grandmother, or grandfather, or caretaker. Your children give their children to your mother because they have a free babysitter. And what is Dadī? She looks at her child with love. There is a story, right? She looks at her grandchild, a cobra, a snake, a black snake, a snake. She sees her son’s grandson crying because the rays of the sun were going in his eyes. He was sitting on a boat, and when the sun was setting, he put his hand on the boat and started laughing. He said, "Jāthanī was in a hurry." She came to get water, but the pot was broken. She came to get water, but the pot was broken. Jathānī came to get water, but the pot was broken. Mahārāj said, "I have heard the Gāyatrī Mantra. I will send them to Mokṣa." Jathani said, "Baba ji, when Gayatri will come, I will send them to Moksha." Then Maharaj said, "Wait." Maharaj said, "Talk to your subtle body. The suffering is the attachment." This attachment will torture you until the last minute of your life. Like the mother of Jesus was suffering until the end, the mother of Kṛṣṇa was suffering until the end. Therefore Kabīr Dāsjī said: "Mat kar moha tum hari bhajan ko mān re, mat kar moha hari bhajan ko mān re." Don’t run into that again, from where you free yourself, again and again running there. "Kutam kabilo sāthnī āve." Koi saath nahi chalega, nobody will. Only your spiritual sādhanā and detachment means love all. If you are suffering for your grandmother, who will suffer for other grandmothers? You are suffering for your grandchild. There are many children in the world. All are your grandchildren. Except all your grandchildren, all are your mother and all are your father, for whom you cry. There is a beautiful story I will not tell today, maybe tomorrow. Therefore, "Moha kā bandhan toḍ diyā, mere cañcal citta ko moḍ diyā. Moha kā bandhan toḍ diyā, mere cañcal citta ko moḍ diyā." Therefore, no doubt, Bharat is the holy land. Millions of the holy incarnations, both males and females. In spirituality, there are no dualities. There is no duality of gender. Even Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa, even Bhagavān Śiva is praying to Annapūrṇā Mother and going for the bhikṣā. So, don’t think that you are a female and you cannot be a Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar, Ācārya, or something. Forget Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar. What is a Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar? Make your sādhanā, and the Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar will come to you to adore you. Yes, that’s it. Not a position, but an inner condition, spirituality. It is in your hands. You came to Jatam. You have it. So, use it or lose it. That’s it. That’s all. Till tomorrow. Wish you a very, very good evening and good night. Prabhu, Deepa Niranjana Sabha Dukha Ba. Hove man manjan, Śrī Dīpane jan sab dukha ban. Prabhu Dīpane ranjan sab nema siddhyāveto darśan pā. Devī Devatā kare sabā vandanā. Devī Devatā kare sabā vandanā. Śrī Dīpa Nirañjanā, sabā Prabhu Dīpa Nirañjanā. Sabā dukha dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī jeho. Hari Om Tat Sat.

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