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And that is why her name is also Joshīmātā. He is, of course, not from that ashram but from this area. So he will chant on the occasion of the holy Guru Pūrṇimā: first Guru Stuti, then Śāstrī Vachan. So we welcome our Paṇḍitjī. [Chanting begins] Śrīmat Śrī Laṣitam Jagadgurupadam Natvātmā Tṛptiṅgataḥ Lokākhyāna Praṇadūraṁ Niśaṅkaraṁ Śarmadaṁ Śrī Gurujanaka Madhebhyo Namaḥ. Dīpaṁ Samarpayāmi. Śrī Gurujanaka Madhebhyo Namaḥ. Ājmanīyam samarpayāmī śrī-gurucana-gama-debhyo namaḥ. Naivedyam samarpayāmī śrī-gurucana-gama-debhyo namaḥ. Ājmanīyam samarpayāmī śrī-gurucana-gama-debhyo namaḥ. Tāmbulam samarpayāmī śrī-gurucana-gama-debhyo namaḥ. Śrī pādam samarpayāmī śrī-guru-janakam deva-bhūtāya namaḥ. Dakṣiṇām Vādyam Samar Payāmi Śrī Guru Janakam Dev Bhūnam. I am the one who is the creator of the universe, I am the one who is the creator of the universe, I am the one who is the creator of the universe, I am the one who is the creator of the universe. That’s me, Śrī Guruvayana. Akhaṇḍa Maṇḍala Vyāptam Vena Carācaram Tadapadam Tarsitam Vena. That’s me, Śrī Guruvayana. Śrī Brahmānandam Parama Śukadam Kevalam Jñānamūrtim Viśva Tīdam Gagana Satriśam Tadvam Asya Udilakṣam Ekam Nityam Vimalam Achalam Sarva-dhī-sākṣi-bhūtam Bhava-dhīta-prapunaśaitam Ṣaḍ-gurum Tam Namāmi. Ajñāna-timirāndhasya Jñānāñjana-śalākayā. Cakṣur-melitam-mena Tasmai-śrī-gurum-na... [Chanting ends] Do you want to say something? This is the very special, very auspicious celebration, Guru Pūrṇimā. What is guru? Guru means ignorance, darkness. Guru means light. Who brings you from darkness to light, from ignorance to vision. Guru Brahma. My Guru is as Brahma. Brahma is the creator. My Guru, Viṣṇu, as a protector. My Guru, Maheśvara, means Śiva. Shiva Saru, who protects you from difficulties, obstacles, and problems. Guru Sakshat Param Brahma, who gives you the knowledge of Ātmā, the self. Aham brahmāsmi, I am ātmā brahmaṇa, that comes by guru, tasmē śrī gurve namaḥ, that’s I pray to my master, my teacher, my guru and all things. It means guru protects you at every point of your life, he creates the knowledge, he protects you and also he destroys your problems, obstacles. That is what I pray to my master. Mantra mūlam gurur vākyam. Mantra. When you listen, that is the mantra. Pūjā mūlam guru padam. When you perform pūjā, that’s the feat of gurudeva. When you get enlightenment, that is the blessing of the Guru. You know all these things. It means we are very fortunate to be here. There were two persons. He came to meet his master, but there was also God. God wanted to kiss him. Then he went to Gurujī. Gurujī said, "This is God." Guru says, "Pray to God," and God says, "Pray to Guru." Now, whom to pray? He was in between. Then again, Gurujī says, "Pray to God." But God says, "Pray to your master." How do you know him? It means the blessing of the master, Guru Kṛpā. You can reach that level. It is a blessing without a master. You can’t reach there. That’s why we have to pray first to our teacher, our master, our guru. Guru Pūrṇimā. Pūrṇimā is the full moon. When you perform pūjā or yajña or are together near the master, you get blessings and enlightenment in your life. The fullness of the knowledge, Pūrṇimā. Pūrṇamadaḥ, Pūrṇamedha, Pūrṇa, Pūrṇamadechade. It is full, that is full. And everything is full. It means you get the full, total knowledge to achieve your goal. And I am very lucky to be seeing him today. I was thinking for three years, where is Swamiji? I went to America, and I went to many countries with Swāmījī everywhere. And I said, "When will you chance to meet me?" I went again to Croatia, and this time, nature was very supportive. Some people asked me, and they met me. And they said we have a meeting, and I was just, I said yes, maybe I go or not because I have some appointment in the evening. But Gurujī says, "Come with me." It means I thought, "I cannot take my friends." I say, when he says, "Come," it means I have to go. It means something good is behind that. That is the purity of the heart. We trust our master. He protects us and wishes all of you good health, wealth, happiness, and prosperity in your life. Sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ, sarve santu nirāmayāḥ, sarve bhadrāṇi paśyantu, mā kaścid duḥkha bhāg bhavet. Thank you, Swamijī. Thank you. No, he will speak. Dukha is here, come on. Who has gone? No one has gone. No one has gone.... No one has gone. Go now here. So, here. So the Kambhikanthī Altar is here. Very good. Hari Om. Praṇām Swāmījī. Praṇām to you Swāmījī. Tri guṇa rahitam. Hari Om and dear Guru, sisters and brothers. We are all watching us through the webcast. On behalf of the Indian ashram, I welcome you. Swamiji, give us the special blessing before going to India. We come here to the ashram, to the Guru Kṣetra, to the seat of the Śrī Alak Puruṣottama Viparamparā, outside from India, and we can have his darśan here. Really, lucky ones. Here this evening, and yes, it’s said Guru Pūrṇimā is, yeah, some door is opening in space and time, so that a lot of divine light comes to this planet. And I think the key to this goal is Vāmcī Veś. And she already, we already opened a little bit in the seminars by giving us some techniques of the Brahma-Vidyā-Kriyā, so that we also can open for this divine light, and maybe we can get more of this. So, yes, what to say. Everybody waits now for Swamiji’s ashram and for his lecture. We want to thank especially Śrī Paṇḍitjī, Dr. Dinesh Chandrasati, a very famous Vedic astrologer. Thank you, Paṇḍitjī, on behalf of the ashram. Thank you, Swamiji also. The paper belongs to me. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. But you didn’t give the Panditjī āsana. Some yoga mat, give him some yoga mat. Yes. From Sīnāyat, gate or the gate, internet gate or the gate-net, is gate-net, ah yes, that’s it. Anyone comes, we should give them āśīrvād, Bīrājī, Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān, Devādidev, Deveśvar Mahādev, Hindu dharma, Sambharād, Satguru, Swāmī. Madhavān, Bhagavān, Ādyaguru Bhagavān, Śaṅkarācārya, Sanātandhar, Blessed Self, here brothers and sisters, bhaktas, spiritual seekers here in this hall and around the world, those who are with us on the webcast. Due to technical complications or mistakes, our Vedcast began late, so sorry to be a little late. We are happy and lucky to see our dear Panditjī, Dr. Sethi, and what he spoke about Guru Mahima, the glory of the Gurudev, also chanting the mantras. These mantras are for welcoming and introducing the Gurudev. It is so long, it takes about 15 to 20 minutes, and then we said, "Welcome, His Holiness." So this comes from our paramparā of Ādi Guru Bhagwaṅ Śaṅkarācārya, and Guru paramparā is not new. It is sanātana. It is beginning with the creation in the entire universe, not only on this planet or earth. In Vedic astrology, we don’t consider our Earth as a planet. But why, that I don’t know. Maybe Panditjī will tell sometime when he comes back. Anyhow, it’s already the 10th, or 8th or 9th day of this period of the time of Guru Pūrṇimā, which began from the new moon day and is coming to the full moon. Also, some people will go a few days later because, due to this modern way of life and different distances and times. The first Guru Pūrṇimā is that when Bhagavān Viṣṇu, who took the form of the varāha, in the form of this big wild boar, like a pig, but not a pig, they have a different other name, varāha, that brought the earth out of the ocean, first time. Everything was under the water, and water is the body of Bhagavān Viṣṇu. And Viṣṇu itself is known as a fire. Fire only can exist in the water. The water is from Bhagavān Viṣṇu’s tapasyā, where Bhagavān Śiva tells Viṣṇu, "Ātapa kījī, you make a story, tapasyā." And out of that water comes—anyhow, it’s a long story. So, first time when Earth was brought out, Varāha Avatāra, And when the first light of the moon and the sun, the first touch was on the earth, that was Guru Pūrṇimā. That light, tamaso mā jyotir gamaya. That is Pūrṇa began. Brahman is Pūrṇa, complete. And what comes from complete is complete. When India used to say, "Egg of peacock," we need not to put color inside. The baby which comes out of the peacock bird automatically will be colorful. So Pūrṇa, the Brahman is complete, the Pūrṇa. And what comes from that? We, as Ātmā, are Pūrṇa. And when you take something out of the Pūrṇa, it remains Pūrṇa, and the other is also Pūrṇa. So Pūrṇa will always be Pūrṇa. The mantra which he decided, "Pūrṇam adaḥ, Pūrṇam idam," and you know all the mantras, completeness. Our endless journey throughout the ananta-brahmāṇḍa, śāstra-sūrya, thousands of the sun systems and ananta-brahmāṇḍa, many, many universes. The definition of Brahmāṇḍa we call Hiraṇyagarbha egg, the golden egg. That Brahman is that entire, and within the Brahman, that consciousness is that egg which gives the babies. That is my opinion, and my feeling is that when Christianity, they have Easter, and they are decorating the egg. I don’t know if they eat it or if they are just decorating it like this. But that is the symbol of that Brahman that comes from the Vedas. Yathā brahmāṇḍe tathā piṇḍe. Brahmāṇḍa, brahmāṇḍa. O brahmāṇḍe jo hai. That brahmāṇḍe. Yathā brahmāṇḍe, what is in that egg, in the piṇḍe, in this body. And what is in the body is there. Brahma Satya, Jagat Mithya. The second Guru Purnima is the incarnation of Bhagavān Vedavyāsa. Bhagavān Vedavyāsa was the first who compiled the Vedas. Otherwise, it was always as a Smṛti and Śruti. Śruti, Smṛti. Śruti, what you have heard. Smṛti, what you remember, that you can give back further. But Bhagavān Veda Vyāsa was trika-darśī, knower of past, present, and future. Bhagavān Veda Vyāsa thought, in coming time and especially in Kali Yuga, the human memory will be lost, and the humans will run towards materialism too much in this material life, which we see now. In Kaliyuga, God is money. If I remember correctly, once Jesus said in front of the temple, people were selling gold. So he said, "This gold is not the real God. Don’t believe in this gold." What I am telling you is a way to God. Now, what in the Bible do they say? Don’t believe in the wrong God. God instead of God. I am the way to God. But originally, it is, don’t seek God in this God. Learn the Guru Vākya, what Gurudev is guiding you. After a long, long time, some things change. So the Vedas were brought and spoken or given to Brahmā, who has four hands. In each hand, he has four Vedas, and so it was spoken, heard, learned by heart, and given furthermore. So it’s called brahmaniṣṭha-śrotriya. Now we are of the Brahman, and who can speak? Tell us something. What? What the Śruti was telling at that time, smṛti remains in your memory, what you heard and what remains in you. Śruti is Smṛti, and for that we need now a Śrota. We are all śrotā, listening, and śrotriya is the speaker. The Śrotriya, out of that memory, from that Śruti. So what was spoken? Remember, give and receive us. But this capacity, we lost it. When we asked someone, "Can you dictate your number?" Minimum five times we asked again and again. Very few people are there who remember the telephone number immediately. To learn chanting, only chanting one Veda, you need six to eight years, only one. And still, you don’t know what that chanting is. Then you have to learn the grammar, Sanskrit grammar, then you will understand what it was. After this, Bhagavān Vedavyāsa made it easier, and he brought the story along, because Vedavyāsa’s thoughts were so fast. He was not talking so slowly. I am talking, you know. So I said, "My dear ladies and gentlemen, it is my great privilege to welcome all of you on behalf of our association." Have to overthink, but Ved Vyāsa was going like that. It is called when you speak, jaisā tel kī dhar, tel kī dhar kī tarah tumhārā vivek gyān jo hai caltā rehnā cāhiye. Clear? Yes. So when we take oil and we pour the oil, you see how the oil flows. Very equal, not drop by drop. Water goes drop by drop, but oil is very nice. Oil or melted ghee. So, the wisdom, vivekā, jñāna should flow like oil, and that’s called vāta, or speaker. Now, who should, who can write so quickly? We all, we said, what did you say? Please, can you tell once more? Okay, 9867. What was the last one? Can you tell? So you said, "Okay, thank you. You go bring the other secretary." So when you are searching for a job for an interview, then you must be very careful. Because they will ask you for some numbers, and then you don’t know. Anyhow, so Gaṇeśa jī, Bhagavān Gaṇeśa said, "Okay, Vedavyāsa jī, I will render you my service." He said, "Very good." But Ved Vyāsa jī said, "Look, I don’t want to repeat again." Gaṇeśa jī said, "Agree, done." But Gaṇeśa jī said, "I am my principal too." He said, "What? If you wait for one second, I will not write anymore." So shall it be done, and so it goes. Vedas, many other granthas, vidyās, are given by Bhagavān Veda Vyāsa. So this is the day of the incarnation of Bhagavān Veda Vyāsa, the Guru Pūrṇimā. So we celebrate Guru Pūrṇimā, which is also known as the Veda Vyāsa Pūrṇimā or Guru Pūrṇimā, Bhagavān Ved Vyāsa. We adore him as a Gurudev. Guru means darkness, ignorance. Guru means light. He who leads us from the darkness of ignorance to the light of knowledge, enlightenment, Ātmā-jñāna. As Dr. Seth said about one mantra, it was Guru Nānak. It is written in Guru Granthā, the holy book, Guru Granthā. So, I went to Gurudev, and God was there, standing in Gurudev. So, now as he said, he wanted to go to God, and God said, "No, first we are master." And the master said, "No, no, first we are God." So, it was like this. So, it is a beautiful poem. In front of me both are standing, Gurudev and God. To whom should I first greet or bow down or adore? Balihārī Gurudev kī. My adoration and my thankfulness, this credit goes to my Gurudev. Gurudeva batai, he show me the God, therefore first is my Gurudev and then is the God. So any, even the modern system, can continue without the guru principle. Everything will be collapsed. If you learn flying as a pilot, the pilot had his guru who taught him how to fly. You cannot learn yourself and go and sit in an airplane and say, "I have a book and I know the computer, I will fly." Okay? We are sitting, four hundred people inside, a lot of luggage, and please sit down, take your book. Me, take off. If there is a moment, I have to go somewhere to wash my hands, you know. So without a guru, you can’t become a pilot, you can’t become a doctor, you can’t become a surgeon. Even in the European system, you can’t become an electrician. You are not allowed to change cables unless you have proper schooling. Also, you can’t drive; you have to go to driving school. So that is your master, guru. Swimming teacher, football teacher—everywhere we meet, that’s called a guru. So today, you can’t drive, and then you go to driving school and you have that teacher. After 10, 20 days, or one month, he’ll give you the key and the license and say, "Now you drive." Yes, off you go. Same person, nothing changed. There are no four eyes, not three or four ears. Legs are two, hands are two, everything. That changed in you, that you became a very good driver. Knowledge that was given in you, that ability, hidden powers were awoken by that guru. So that was your driver guru. You should adopt him as your driving guru. Knowledge to learn from anyone; on the boats, we can learn. Bhagavān Dattātreya, even he accepted once a snake as his guru, because a snake is always going this serpentine walking, curves, and when he sees his hole, just straight he slides in. So he said, yes, aha! So long as we don’t find our way, we are going like these curves, one day here and one day there. But when we see the Gurudeva, we have the straight way. The river was his guru. Rivers are also going like this, but when you see the ocean, after this ocean, all the curves of the earth are finished. It merges into the ocean. So it is not only a personal guru, what we call. It is all. You are also guru. Now you have abilities, very, very many things. You are not only the person who doesn’t know anything, you are the person who knows anything. So Guru Pūrṇimā is remembered for adoration and devotion to the Guru Dev. And this is when one spiritual year completes. On this Guru Pūrṇimā, the disciples will take Saṅkalpa, the vow that, "Guru Dev, till now I had these and these sādhanās." I made this and these mistakes. This all I surrender to thee, my Gurudev. And I make Saṅkalpa, and I promise you that I will do all these sādhanās and everything that you are saying. I surrender and offer all five kośas: annamaya, prāṇamaya, manomaya, vijñānamaya, and ānandamaya kośas. I give you the key in your hand. O merciful Lord, the rope or the string of my life is in your hands. Be kind enough and sometimes move towards me. I move towards you, closer, not only there, other side, please. Asī kṛpā ho jāye, bring me closer to thee. So this is the day of completing our sādhanā and beginning a new year. We have, in this modern world also, I think in India and in some countries, we have the March. The 31st of March is a financial year. In the West, like, off-grabbing, no? What is a financier in the West like? I don’t know, the 16th? December? Good. Those three are involved, okay? They are good. So this is like, for spiritual people, this is a financial year. The Gurudev will ask you the text. And what are the texts? More practice. If you were doing five malas, now you have to do two malas more. That’s it. So this is what we are all coming, doing practice, Guru’s kathā. So, on the real Guru Pūrṇimā day, fast. Get up in the morning, wash yourself, make the prayers, listen to the Guru Gītā, and do your āratī and sādhanā. Go to work, come home in the evening. Again, take a shower, change your dress, make āratī pūjā, then make very nice prasāda and eat, and again listen to Guru Gītā or spiritual meditation, and so on, if your family situation allows. Otherwise, you come to the ashram, around the world, everywhere in our ashrams there will be Guru Pūrṇimā ceremonies, festivals, you are welcome to share. Here also in Vienna, and I will be, I think, in India, in the ashram. So the Indian bhaktas, they let me make a promise that you will be here on Guru Pūrṇimā and Gurujī’s Mahāsamādhi. So, but we will have this technology, webcast, 24 hours will be live program going on, different programs. So whenever you wake up or you have time, you can look. Wish you all the best and many, many,... Many blessings of Devapurījī, many blessings of Mahāprabhujī, and many blessings of our dear Gurudev, Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ, Mahāprabhujī, and Holy Gurujī. And many good wishes and much love from me. I pray for you and for me also that Sadgurudev leads us on the divine path and we may complete our journey in this world. To come out of this 8.4 million’s life circle, the only chance remains is this human life. Chuke ko Chaurasi, if we miss again, we will fall into the circle of Chaurasi again. Nothing will go with us, this body, okay? We shall keep it healthy as far as possible. The body will not go with us, nor will anything else. What goes with us is only our sādhanā, our practice, our mantra, and following our Guru-vākyā, and learning the Guru-gītā, and awakening within you that Guru consciousness. Guru is not a physical body. Guru is that knowledge which we call. In every heart, the light of God is dwelling. God is in every heart. Adoration to that heart in which He speaks. Mahāprabhujī said, "Aisā merā Satguru andar bole," like that my Gurudev speaks within me. So, I wish you all the best and many spiritual developments and achievements. We shall forget all our mistakes. We surrender all our good and bad to Mahāprabhujī, and we pray for His divine mercy and guidance. With these words, we wish you a divine Guru Pūrṇimā, and we look forward to seeing you again. Śrī-Deepanaya-Bhagavad-gītā. Devī-Īśvara-Mahādeva-gītā. Mādhava-Kṛṣṇa-Bhagavad-gītā. Sanātana-Bhagavad-gītā.