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Śrīddhi pādayāla dayā ke sāga, Śrīddhi pādayāla dayā ke sāga. Bābā, kuchā Devadatta dīpadāyā, saba kuchā Devadatta dīpadāyā. Śrī Mādhava Nānjike Ānandabārī, Bābā kuchā Devadatta dīhi pādayā. Ambole Śrī Dīpnārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Devaiśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jai, Alak Purījī Mahādeva Kī Jai. Good evening to all dear brothers and sisters here in this beautiful, large tennis ground. Today we need not open windows; this is just right. Ādi Guru Bhagavān Śaṅkarācārya said that for a sannyāsī, the bed is the earth, the roof is the sky, and the family is the whole world. That is the avadhūta yogī. We have not reached that level of consciousness, but at least for the time being, we are sitting here as Buddhas for the entire family of yoga and daily life around the world—for all spiritual seekers here and in other parts of the world. Today, a special blessing comes to you on the holy occasion of our beloved Gurudev, Śrī Svāmī Madhavānandapurījī Mahārāj. Many of you have had darśan of Gurudev, and many know him through videos and his books. Today is the incarnation day of our beloved holy Gurujī, exactly twelve days after Kṛṣṇa’s incarnation. That is why, I think, Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī gave the name Madhavānanda to Holy Gurujī. Madhava is also Kṛṣṇa, and so our mantra is: Om Prabhu Dīp Madhav Kṛṣṇa Namaḥ. It is a beautiful mantra, and we shall repeat it. Many of you have received this mantra. Our world needs divine incarnations. This earth is still balanced on Dharma; it is Dharma that keeps this world going. We need the Dharmācārya and Dharmāvatāra. ‘Avatāra’ means one who comes into this world. Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said in the Bhagavad Gītā: "From time to time I come, I manifest myself here to uplift Yogamāyā." Yogamāyā withholds you. From that Yogamāyā also comes the science of Yogamāyā, which is given by Svayambhū Śiva. There are two types of incarnations: Nitya and Naimittika. Naimittika are those incarnations that come in every yuga. The same life lives here every day, every night. That is why they say so. Once, the great saint Nārada went to Bhagavān Viṣṇu and asked, "Lord, can you tell me who the saints are here on earth? I cannot understand them." To understand them, you have to open your heart, because in the heart is their residence. Saints dwell in each and every heart. In each and every heart, I am dwelling; I am living—as stated in the Bhagavad Gītā. In every creature, without my will, without my Śakti, not even a leaf of the tree can move. Everything is my śakti, my māyā, my giving. So, to sense, to know, you have to open your heart. Bhagavān Viṣṇu told this to Nārada. Nārada said, "Lord, can you explain this to me more?" Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said, "Nārada, telling will not give you that answer. You have to feel. You have to have devotion." You say, "Lord, I have devotion to you." Yes. But do you know who I am? I am Viṣṇu, in the ocean, the milky ocean, on the bed of the thousand-headed Śeṣa Nāga, and Mātā Lakṣmī is there. Bhagavān Viṣṇu said, "No. I am not here, Nārada. I am not living in this Vaikuṇṭha, nor in the hearts of the yogīs who meditate on me every day. I live there where my bhaktas sing my name with love, with devotion. There are the saints. Do you understand me?" Yes and no. All your answers are confusing. I see you as here, and you say you are not here. Many are meditating day and night on you, and you say you are not with them? If I tell them, no one will meditate on you. And then you said, "You are with those bhaktas, just a little thing by name." He said, "Yes, Nārada, don’t see the difference between me and the Self." How should I see them? One way: you are different; their life is different. Look what they are doing. "No, Nārada, it is I am. They are doing nothing. I am doing." Well, then I think I have to meditate more to understand you. Viṣṇu said, "No. Meditation will not help you. You got the duty, Nārada, and with that you got a blessing. You are that ṛṣi, that sage, without any hindrance, without any obstacles, without any barriers. You have the freedom and ability to travel throughout the whole universe, all the 714 lokas and 2,500 different sun systems. You know, Nārada, you cannot stay in one place." He said, "Yes, Nārada, my time is passing. I have to go, but I will be sorry, and I will not be peaceful, and I will again be wandering, traveling in this space. And I don’t know how to find you again. Please, give me blessings that I understand the sense." Then Bhagavān Viṣṇu said to himself, "The saints are my ātmā, not my other things, but my ātmā, my real self. I am the embodiment of the saints. They are not sādhus. That is the Viṣṇu which you see now. And saints are in my each and every hair, in my every atom. Like rain in the clouds, go and serve them." So, Nārada said, "Thank you. Now I understand." So, Naimittika and Nitya avatāra—these are two avatāras. But to become a saint, to come to Dāsī Maunā... It is not that one is running here and there and talking and joking; that is not a saint. Such a one sends seeds to saṃsāra like a disease, an infectious disease. If you are a sādhu and again you go between the clouds and sit there and make jokes, then already you are infected. Then you will lose that quality, and that will be inhaled again by that Divine. Then you remain like peanut salt; the whole nut is eaten by the moss. This is the saṃsāra. That is why the saint goes far. We are in the forest, in the mountains, or sitting on one side. Others, they have to try to become a saint. One was sent by some divine consciousness—divine, Śiva, Brahmā, Viṣṇu—and others try the sādhanās to get to that consciousness. This is the difference. Within two minutes or one minute, you should know who is a sādhu and who is not. In thousands, you will not find. In millions, maybe, but in billions, one or two. With the cloth, with the uniform, you are not a saint. It is the inner color. Therefore, Kabīr Dās Jī said about Chadariya: "Jeb chadar bandh ghar āyī, rangreje ko dīnī." When it came ready-made, then I gave it to that man who is giving the color. Lalo, lalo kar dina—made completely red, of the red into the red. So that Rangrejā, that color which is giving you that would dye your cloth—that is Gurudev. That can give you this Rangrejā, this color. But if you have not accepted it, otherwise very soon, after one or two washings in the washing machine, it will get pale, a little bit dry in the sun. It will get pale, and then spots will come on it. But on that color, no spot can come. The sun has no power to remove that color. My dear, it is not easy. So, our Satguru Dev was that incarnation. He had that color, the color of that bhakti. As Bhagavān Viṣṇu said: "I am there where my bhaktas are." In bhakti, devotees, in consciousness, intellect, and the heart and mind—no doubt. Doubt is a drop of poison. It will kill all your divine spiritual energies. It is the drop of lemon juice which will spoil the whole good milk. Try, keep vairāgya, keep sādhānā, little speaking. Every word that you talk, you lose energy. Day before yesterday, I spoke about the strength of mauna. But mauna is such a rich food, rich nourishment; every stomach cannot digest it. Every stomach cannot digest it. Either diarrhea, or constipation, or vomiting, or running to the doctor. This is called jñāna-gajā. That is the solid strength, the richness of the knowledge. That is the fourth milk. I am always thinking that I will write or dictate something about my life with Gurujī. Gurujī has written a little bit in Līlā Amṛt. From childhood, my interest was not towards saṃsāra. I felt like a stranger on this earth. I was searching; I wanted to be something. One day I heard many times about Holy Gurujī, but this small, young boy did not know what is Holy Gurujī. Gurujī was the younger brother of my mother. I always did not say or understand who is who, but I said, "My uncle." I wanted to see my uncle. My father had passed away. Gurujī came to my mother to give her blessing. When Gurujī came, such a personality! I said yes. That is what I am searching for. I want to be like him. I would like to be with him. But unfortunately, I had no chance to approach him, as Gurujī arrived in my birthplace as if being attacked. Within no time, the whole village knew that Gurujī had come. We little children had no chance to approach him. He did not know who I was. Otherwise, he may have called me. Perhaps he knew. He stayed about forty minutes and then left. While sitting in the car—it was an open jeep; there were not many cars at that time, I think in 1963—only to see the jeep, people were coming. What is the car? Desert, no roads, no petrol stations. The jeep was started like this, and I was trying to come closer. People said to the children, "Go away." Somehow I managed to go under, and I made praṇām to Gurujī. He looked at me and gently smiled. That smile entered my heart. So I had only one wish now, nothing else: I would like to be with Gurujī. I told my mother. She said, "I doubt. At least we do not know where he is." I said, "I want." She said, "Okay. Mother is mother." After one and a half years, Gurujī made a beautiful ashram in his birthplace, Nepal. The minister of Rajasthan came for the opening ceremony. The state of Gurudeva was there, Mahāprabhujī. So, Gurujī sent a postcard invitation to my mother. It was Guru Pūrṇimā, the 13th of July. I think it was Wednesday, the lucky day of Gaṇeśjī. Anyhow, I was begging my mother that I wanted to go with her. I was the youngest child, the last one. So my two brothers said, "Mother, you take him. Otherwise, he will give us a lot of trouble." We walked ten to fifteen kilometers. There was a bus; monsoon bus sent about eighty or sixty kilometers, and it stopped because the seasonal rivers stopped; the bus could not go. We waited. Then my mother and I walked twenty-five kilometers. Around this time, we came to my mother’s house. But I said, "Where is Gurujī? I want to go there." I said, "Gurujī, Mother, the program was finished." We had nothing to do with the minister; it does not matter who was who. And again, I saw Gurujī was walking in the center of the ashram. A few hundred people were sitting in the salon, and I saw Gurujī. No electricity there. It was a gas lamp with kerosene oil. I went and made a praṇām, and I just looked at it and walked. Immediately I thought, "He did not bless me." Mother was making praṇām, and my uncle, Mother’s elder brother. So my uncle introduced Holy Gurujī to me. Holy Gurujī then said, "Achā, good. You go to school?" "Yes." That is all. My wish was to stay with Gurujī. I told my mother, "Please tell him." She said she cannot. If he refuses, then what will you do here? I said, "It is my problem, tell him. How is your mother?" She did not tell him. After two days, we went somewhere to visit my mother’s sister. She was married. I stayed in my uncle’s house, my mother’s house, and my mother went to the ashram; it is just a river crossing. Gurujī was sitting, and both brother and sister had a talk. Then Gurujī was telling like this to my sister, "I think, let your son be with me." She said, "As you like, I cannot say no." My mother came, and I was coming to her, walking in the middle of the river. It is a river, no water. When it rains, water comes quickly and goes quickly away. And she said, she asked me. I said, "What?" "If you would like to stay with me." I was jumping in the river out of my great joy. And again I told, are you making a joke or are you serious? They said, "He said you." And what did you say? "I will overthink." Oh God! But it happened. And whatever I got, He was great, very disciplined, and a minimum of eighteen hours he was repeating his mantra and prayer. Always on his tongue was the name of Mahāprabhujī. "Mahāprabhujī will do. Mahāprabhujī will do. Mahāprabhujī will bless you. Mahāprabhujī said this." That divine heartbeat. I experienced many, many things with him. We were once sleeping in the ashram in Ahmedabad, dear Āśram. Until twelve, Gurujī was making his mantra; I was sleeping. Then Gurujī lay down. It was winter, and he had a blanket over him. I woke up. Then I was frightened. I saw that his whole blanket was illuminated. I thought, "My God, the fire is burning. Gurujī is inside." I said, "Wake him up." And Gurujī took the blanket off and said, "Is something wrong?" There was no more illuminating light that I saw with my own eyes. So Gurujī gave me many, many blessings, much knowledge, all teachings, rich blessings. Where are they? Who can understand the Guru? And I can tell you, how much love He gave me, no one could give me in this world. How much trust he had, and also he was a strict number one. Sometimes I was praying to Mahāprabhujī, "Please send Gurujī somewhere for one month." Truth is truth, and when you get the message, Gurujī has come. One part of me was very happy, dancing, and the other part, oh God! Now the hard time is coming. Many sādhus came to Gurujī, many tried to become siddhis, but all failed. And at last, Gurujī gave me all his spiritual wealth, and whatever it was, material wealth. After I read what he wrote: "Mahesh, I hope and I do expect that you will give the pure teaching of Mahāprabhujī Deva-Bhūrīdhī to everyone, without any differences. And āśrama should remain āśrama. Do not sell them or make any different activities. This should be the center of Mahāprabhujī for all devotees." He used to write me letters when I came to Europe. There are so many letters. I will put some letters in my biography. How much he loved me. How many blessings he was. He was always writing, "Immortal Ātmā, dear Maheś, the grace, blessing, and kṛpā of Mahāprabhujī. May the rain of nectar shower on you." Such were the words of Gurudeva. Unfortunately, now ten years have passed, and we cannot imagine that already ten years have gone by since Mahāprabhujī left his physical body. But he is very vivid with us. I am sure he is looking and smiling and thinking, "What am I telling all?" But he will bless me. So this is the day and memory, such a beautiful memory of Gurudeva. But Gurudeva can give no one something. The rest you will hear after. I wish you all the best and all the divine blessings of Holy Gurujī. May he protect us, bless us with good health, a happy long life, spiritual development, and ātmā jñāna. You know them. He speaks Croatian still. And the Mahāmaṇḍaleśwar Swāmī Jñāneśwar Purījī, you know, many, many years he is living in India. Now he is taking care of Gurujī’s āśram in Jaipur. He has many, many bhaktas there. He came after six years, so we welcome him, and I think he should tell something today. Many of you are expecting, waiting to hear what they have to tell us. So the flowery cure, Jñāneśvaram. I think one length can run on people for the video, no? This length. You will translate in English. Okay. I hope I won’t have to answer. I was hoping I would not have the chance to talk. But Guru Dev is Guru Dev. Everything that I am and everything that I have is thanks to him. I had the chance and the possibility to spend nine months with Holy Gurujī, more or less just with him, mostly. And to witness his strictness and the great, great love that Gurujī had for me and for everybody that was around us. Actually, there are no words that could express how much and what I got from Gurujī. Not that I do not wish to be able, but I do not know how to express this. Of course, when I met Swamījī in 1989 and when I wanted to become a sannyāsī immediately the next year, Swamījī said, "Wait a little bit," and that little bit was sixteen years. Many things happened in these sixteen years. Now, it is not that I am only a sannyāsī, but also a Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar, which is a great honor for me. And I, of course, have to thank everybody here for supporting me over these last fifteen to twenty years. Because you were a great support for me. For us, it is a great, great honor to be Mahāmaṇḍaleśvars. And for Swamījī, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar is just like a small sign which you get when you are a pioneer. Because, however much Swamījī is trying to tell us and to make some excuses, he is actually the real saint—that saint about whom Swamījī was telling in the beginning of today’s satsaṅg. Holy Gurujī was such. I do not know if he was meditating eighteen hours a day. For me it was looking like it was twenty-four hours a day. If he was sleeping, that was maximum three to four hours. And he mostly liked the night hours because that was the most peaceful time. To be with him is a great honor. To be with Swamījī is also a great honor. What we need to know is that Swāmījī gives us so much. What we should know is that Swāmījī is giving us so much, which is a great advantage, and we can be thankful that we have someone like Swāmījī because he is giving us again and again and again the same thing until we finally are able to catch it. It is not one or two or three chances. In Svāmījī’s dictionary, that is not existing. In his dictionary, it is endless until you pass, and then when you pass, then it is to be continued. Then goes a little bit harder task. In India, when I was there before I got sannyās, I had about three to four months of rest when it was totally peaceful; there was no activity. I had about three to four months of very peaceful time when there were nearly no activities. And after sannyās, that was three weeks, and now after this Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar dīkṣā, again it came to three days. So when we are with Swamījī, the things are speeding up, there are more things happening. And when Swamījī is speaking about sannyāsīs and how they should be, I am just feeling sorry that I am not able to follow what he is speaking. Of course, I am always hoping that he will have enough patience, as he has had till now. But we are trying. I had that luck with Swamījī, that I first met Swamījī. Then I started to read the holy books: Upaniṣads, Vedas, Purāṇas, and so on. And now, in the last few years, I started to study Sanskrit and came up to very difficult Vedānta texts. This is one philosophical way that is describing the beginning of the universe, and it is very difficult. After I was trying hard to understand two pages of one of these texts for a few hours, in satsaṅg I found that it is the same. In satsaṅg, I found out that the same thing which was in these two pages was sung in the bhajans by Mahāprabhujī and Maṅgīlālji in two of their bhajans; the same thing was described. In such a simple way, I immediately understood what was going on, and I asked myself, "What was this?" So in our bhajans, as much as we think that there is not there, there is a lot of knowledge which is hidden. Simpler than that, I would like to thank you again for the support that I got from all of you, and I would like to ask from our dear Swāmījī, who is actually Viśva Gurujī. "Viśva" means Earth, but it means Universe, but it means also a universe that is actually his real title. Thank you. So tomorrow, 10 o’clock, will be again webcast. All of our dear brothers and sisters around the world, see you tomorrow, according to the Duga Uvala time, 10 a.m.