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The Divine Dust of Grace

The spiritual lineage and the supreme refuge of the Guru's grace are expounded. India is the holy land and cradle of spirituality from which this wisdom originates. The divine paramparā flows from the Himalayan siddha Śrī Alakapurījī to Śrī Devapurījī and Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī, culminating in the present Satguru. The individual soul is bound in a cycle of action and reaction, birth and death. Liberation from this cycle is not the ultimate goal. The ultimate goal is Brahma jñāna, the realization of oneness, which is attained solely through the Guru's grace. The Guru is the boat to cross the worldly ocean and the very ocean of consciousness into which the individual wave must merge. Practice your dharma, for dharma protects those who protect it. Seek not mukti, but the divine dust of the Guru's holy feet.

"One in all and all in one."

"I beg for the divine dust of your holy feet. I don’t wish for mukti, for mokṣa, because mukti itself is a servant of Gurudeva’s feet."

Filming location: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Om param sukhadam kevalam jñāna-mūrtim dvandvātītam gagana-sadṛśyam tattvamasyādi-lakṣyam ekam nityam vimalāchalam sarvadṛśyakṣi-bhūtam bhavātītam triguṇarahitam Satguru tam namāmi. Om Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ. Shrī Deep Narāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī. Dear brothers and sisters, all the bhaktas around the world, the practitioners of yoga in daily life, the seekers of spirituality, and aspirants of self-realization. This blessing is coming to you specially today from the Holy Land, Bhārat, India. From our Guru Dvara, Om Śrī Alak Purījī Siddhāpīṭ Paramparā, Jaipur, Viśva Gurudev Āśram. As you all know, you were with me day before yesterday through the webcast, and I am already in the divine country, India. India is the country, this holy land where a number of holy incarnations were here, and a number of the great ṛṣis, hermitages, and śāstragurus. India is now a country of wisdom, the mother of spirituality, the mother of religions, and India is a cradle of culture. India has given to the whole world only beautiful things and brotherhood. Vasudeva Kuṭumbakam, our ṛṣis said: the whole world is a family of one God. Love each and every entity, if not more, then at least that much, as much as you love thyself. The land of the tapasvīs, the authorities, the land of the heroes, the land of the warriors who were fighting for the protection of the dharma, for the protection of mankind, for the protection of all creatures and nature, is Rajasthan, a colorful state in India. All of India is beautiful and colorful, but Rajasthan is also among them one of the most holy places. This land is blessed, one that so many great saints lived and incarnated on this soil. Similarly, like our Paramaśrad Gurudev, Śiva-svarūpa-avatāra, avadhūta, siddha-puruṣa, Śrī Devapurījī Mahādeva. Devapurījī, long ago, he met his great master, Śrī Alakapurījī, between the Kedārnāth and Badrīnāth hills. Alag Purījī still lives there. It’s called the place Satopat. It means the path of the truth, the path of the reality, and the door to heaven. You know, dear brothers and sisters, the five brothers, the Pāṇḍavas, and Draupadī, after completing their worldly mission, went to achieve salvation and come to the Swarga. They had to go through many difficulties. Their life was full of obstacles. But it is said, "Satyameva Jayate." Finally, the victory is there where the justice is, where the truth is. The four Pāṇḍavas and Draupadī, they couldn’t reach the place where Ālagpurījī was living. But the great Dharmātmā, Dharmarāja Yudhiṣṭhira, he managed to come and get the blessings of Śrī Alagpurījī. Dear brothers and sisters, it is said that from the heavens, a beautiful Pushpa Vāhan, a chariot, came in which Dharmarāja Yudhiṣṭhira entered, and his faithful dog managed to come. As it is in the five tattvas body, meaning with this mortal body, it was lifted up by that chariot called the heaven, to the heaven. Alakpuri ji’s presence is in the current śarīra, astral body, and in the form of light. Time to time, he appears to his bhaktas, and he gives the blessings. It is said that the great holy river called Alakhananda is named after our spiritual luminary Gurudev Alakpuri. You know, brothers and sisters, at the same time there was a great sage who lived named Bhagīrath Ṛṣi. The Bhagīratha Ṛṣi was the one who brought the divine Gaṅgā from heaven for the sake of all creatures and mankind, for the sake of the environment. On one side is coming Alaknanda, on the other side is coming Bhagīrathi. Both meet together at Devaprayāg, where Alaknandā and Bhāgīrathī come together like two divine lights merging into one place, and from there this river is known as the Gaṅgā. That is a short introduction to our spiritual paramparā, spiritual lineage. Śrī Alagpurījī is known as the Siddha Avatāra of the Himalayas, and he has many, many Siddha Bhaktas or devotees. Among them, one is our beloved East Devatā Śrī Devpurījī Mahārāj, who met Dalekpurījī and received all these siddhis and all the blessings. Devpurījī Mahārāj spent time and lived in Rajasthan’s Sikar district. A beautiful village named after him is called Kailāś, because Śiva lives in Kailāś. And his great light, which incarnated in the form of Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, also in Rajasthan, district Khattu, Nagore, Badikattu, Mahāprabhujī is known as the Viṣṇu’s incarnation. Anyone who could think what God can do or what God can give, that was possible in the presence of Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī. A great, a great personality, a great divine soul, a great incarnation. His movements, his words, his kind look, and his mercy were indescribable. Blessed were they all who had darśan of Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, both Devapurījī and Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī. Mahāprabhujī was a disciple of Devapurījī. Who blessed our beloved Gurudev, our beloved Satgurudev, Hindu Dharmaṁ Sambharat, Śrī Svāmī Madhavānandapurījī Mahārāj. In 2000, at the time of the Mahākumāra Melā, Kāśī Tīratha, Kāśī Rāja, Tīratha Rāja, there, His Holiness was invited by the Śaṅkarācārya and Kāśī Vidyat Samāj, and they decorated him with the highest title, Hindu Dharma Samrāṭ. Guruji had been working 70 years continuously to spread the message of brotherhood. Satya Sanātana Dharma. Satya Sanātana Dharma means the eternal religion. Sanatana Dharma is not a religion, as we understand it nowadays. God Kṛṣṇa speaks in the Bhagavad Gītā, Hey Arjuna, I live in every entity. Every creature is my Sanātana, my relatives, my part. All are mine, and I am in the all. And so our dear Gurujī, whom our European Bhaktas call Holy Gurujī, said, "One in all and all in one." That one truth, that one dharma, that one reality, only the one Ātmā which is in all, and all are in that. Dear brothers and sisters, the Ātmā is eternal and the soul is individual. Soul is suffering. Soul is not Ātmā. Soul is the entity of individuality. It is carried, the individual karma. Every creature has its soul, and every soul has its destiny. And destiny is created through karma, through existence on this mortal world, the mṛti-loka. Karma, the action, the philosophy, or the theory of karma is the cause, the action, and the result. Every action has its cause, and every action has a reaction, and that reaction becomes the cause of the action. And so, every individual is involved in this action, reaction, action. This is the cycle. This is the cycle which we call rebirth and death. Many people do not believe in rebirth. Many say there is no life after this life. Yes, you have the freedom to say that. It’s your opinion. That’s all right. But reality cannot be changed through your belief. If you believe or you don’t believe, reality is the reality. And therefore, the reality is not based on or dependent on belief. It is, and that’s all. And therefore, since Ānanda, Adhikāla, in Ānanda Brahmāṇḍa Śūnyākāśa, all is space and consciousness, united with one great Śakti, that’s called Yoga. Yoga is that which balances the consciousness and space, harmonizing the consciousness and space and uniting these both. Śūnyākāś, where the cosmic sound begins, the OM, and that is the awakening of the cosmic consciousness, that is the awakening of the cosmic energy in the form of resonance. Nāda Rūpa Parabrahma. That resonance is known as the form of the Parabrahma. Parabrahma has no form, has no attribute, no tattva. It is just the resonance. And through this resonance, the Tarang, like a lake, and if you, in a peaceful lake, you throw a stone, it creates waves. And these waves are created like a round circle, like a disc. Similarly, that awakening of the cosmic sound, resonance, spread within no time into the endless. And so the waves are known as the individual, and waves create the qualities. So this individual soul, not the ātmā, the soul is fluttering on the waves of the times through the space, through the light and darkness, experiencing happiness and unhappiness. Finally, again, it has to merge into the oneness, in the same lake or in the ocean. Therefore, our beloved Gurudev said in one bhajan, now I got the happiness at the holy feet of my Gurudeva. The last and final shelter is only at the Gurudeva’s feet. Brahma, Viṣṇu, Maheśa, all are adoring and waiting for the Gurudeva. Therefore, it is said, "Meditate on the form of the Gurudeva." Whatever your Gurudeva tells you, that is a mantra for you. If Gurudev says, "Do this," then you should do that. There is a Guru Mukhī and Man Mukhī. Those who are manmukhī will face many troubles. And finally, we’ll miss the destination of the Brahmajñāna. Again, we have to go through this cycle of birth and death, action and reaction, action and reaction. Only the Gurudev can move or free us from the actions and the reactions, and that is through the Guruvatīyā, through satsaṅg. Satsaṅg is the boat to cross this worldly ocean. The name of the Gurudev is the boat. Those who will enter this boat, be sure Gurudev will bring you to the mainland. Land. He will let you cross the ocean. And so, Gurudev, like a wave of the ocean, it again merges into the ocean. There is no difference between the ocean and the waves, but no ocean, no waves. So the ocean is the Gurudev. The ocean is that Brahman. So this individual consciousness, the individual soul, will merge finally into the Cosmic Consciousness, not a mokṣa. No, no, not that I want to have mokṣa. Mokṣa is just a little part of its completeness. Moksha is different from what we said, Brahma jñāna, that is what we need. It is said, Guru Sāhab, yeh caranoṁ kī rāj denā, dayā lo mo yeh nahīṁ, maiṁ māṅgoṁ mukti ke sādhanā... Oh my Lord, oh my Guru, I beg for the divine dust of your holy feet. I don’t wish for mukti, for mokṣa, because mukti itself is a servant of Gurudeva’s feet. Then what more do I need? If I can get that divine dust on my head. There was one elephant who went for bathing in a lake, a beautiful lake, clean, and the elephant was very happy to be in the water. It is a very rare occasion where an elephant can be completely relaxed, as if it is lifted. Otherwise, the elephant has a very heavy body. Now, we others can go on the tree or this, and we can jump, but the elephant cannot do this. But when the elephant comes into the lake, oh, that is, his joy is indescribable. And he takes the water with his trunk, and he puts water on himself. He makes his own shower. Bathroom, no? So now you know, in the modern world, you go to the bathroom, you turn on the tap, and water is coming, shower. That is imitation of the elephant. Yes. This technology is developed from the elephant. So you can say elephant bathroom. Yes. We provide you elephant bathroom. And you go inside, what? There is a shower. Beautiful. Everyone likes to do this. Everyone is filling and dressing and completely. So, body with the neem powder or the neem soap—biological, organic—nothing can be compared with the neem soap. No skin disease. You don’t need this blim-blam here and here and here, you know, the poor ladies. Morning, sit in front of the mirror and make this and that, you know. Poor ladies, they do so many things that man is happy. And evening again, they come and put this cotton in the alcohol and clean again. Everything you know and more, after cleaning this skin, is disappointing. If you use the neem powder, you don’t need any cosmetic. We need a cosmic, not a cosmetic. That’s it. So, the cosmic energy through the biological, organic things, that is the best thing. Neem. Nīm Nārāyaṇa. Nīm Nārāyaṇa. Like God, Vishnu has thousands of names and qualities. Similarly, the neem tree also has thousands of qualities. And in that home, in that house, if in the front of the house or in the garden a neem tree is there, that neem is Nārāyaṇa. Devatā kā nivās hai, where the Devas reside. Now, they are removed, and they are called Vignavela. Vignavela. Say, his name is Vigna. Now, Vigna is placed. So, what to do? Everything is removed, so that Moksha, Gurudev, I need your blessing, not a Moksha. And that one, you can get through Guru Kṛpā. So, yabham guru-charan sukha-paya, yabham guru-charan sagar-ler-samaya, sagar-ler-samaya, yabham guru-charan sukha-paya, Deep Narayan Bhagwan. After having a beautiful bath in the clean lake, the elephant was taking a trunk full of water and again cleaning. And then he came out and walked away from the lake. After a few meters, where the dry dust was, he began to take the dust with his trunk and put it on his body. Now, there are different opinions. So they asked someone, "How stupid is the elephant? He was bathing so nicely, clean water and this, and again he put the dust on his body." So someone said, because of the mosquitoes, he will put the dust, and then mosquitoes will not stick. You know, an elephant doesn’t feel mosquitoes. It’s called elephant skin. Someone said, "Well, may he have an allergy." So he tried to calm down. Then they asked some bhakta. Bhakta said, "Why don’t you ask the elephant?" They said, "We don’t know the language, and who dares to go near?" Well, that bhakta who could speak the language of the animals, communicate with the animals. Like our Param Gurudev, Param Sadgurudev, Devpurījī, he could speak with every creature. He would tell, say something, and all the snakes would come. And he will tell, "Do not bite anyone." He had a language which animals could understand, and then they would go. In that area, no people were beaten by snakes or scorpions. Many, many miracles of Devpurījī are indescribable. When he was sitting, then animals were sitting there. When he was talking, dogs, snakes, scorpions, birds, sometimes some deer, none of them were afraid of each other. All were peaceful and calm. So that bhakta, he went in the sūkṣma śarīra, you have to go to the astral body, you have to go to your subtle body to understand someone’s thoughts, because this physical brain will not understand. Yes, the heart will understand a little bit, love of the other creatures, but to understand them completely, we have to learn to come to the astral body, to speak with that subtle body to the other subtle body of that creature, which is not so easy. It is very easy to say and difficult to do. They asked the elephant, and he asked the bhakta, "Why do you put this dust on you? You had such a beautiful bath. Your skin was shining, and so you make it dirty again." Elephant said, "My dear friend, you don’t understand. You humans are losing the reality." He said, "What I am searching is the charaṇ raj, the dust of some holy saint. Maybe some holy saint walked here. I took the bath to have at least my skin clean and put that dust on my head." That I will get mokṣa, brahma jñāna, bolśanātan dharma kī jaya. Therefore, it is a rājadevā gurusaṁśraye caraṇārvinde, not mokṣa. Nāhīṁ maṅgu mukti ke sādhan, mukti dāsī guru caraṇaukī. Indraloka ke bhoga na māṅgu, Indra sampati na māṅgu, dharapat kī Prabhu sampati na māṅgu. Kī rājā dena gurushram dhā? Kī rājā dena dayālu moye charaṇau? Kī pad kamalau Prabhu charaṇau? Kī rājā dena? Kī rājā nai me māṅgu, tī ke sādhanā nai me māktī dasī. Guru caraṇau kī prabhu, mukti dāsī. Guru caraṇau kī rāja denā. Shri Deep Dayal Charan Raj Maan Shri Deep Pravda Yahi Binti Lala Nand Ki Prabhu Yahi Binti Lala Nand Ki Raj Dena And so, from that beginning of the creation of the entire universe, Ānanda Brahmāṇḍa Śāstra, Sūrya’s endless universe, and thousands and thousands of sun systems are created by one principle. That’s called Sanātana. And that Sanātana, that awakening of the consciousness through the Aum. Aum Karvindu Sayuktam Nityadhayanti Yogina Kamdam Mokstam Cheva Aum Karayanam O Namaha. Out of that one resonance, out of that one consciousness, these all sun systems were created, said by great sages. Now, modern science is talking about galaxies, so many galaxies and so many sun systems. This has been explained already long, long ago by the yogīs: "Caudha Loka, Ikṣo Brahman." Caudha Loka and Ikṣo Brahman, 2,100 universes have been realized by yogīs many times, our Gurudev said. Sadhavaya Javrat Hamara Ham Bethhe Barambara. The glory of the Gurudev, the glory of the holy saints, which also throughout India, many, many saints were, of course, also in many other countries, other parts of the world, they were also holy saints and holy incarnations. They all have brought this one preaching: the truth is one, dharma is one, justice is one, love is one. That divine consciousness is one; everything is one. Therefore, one in all and all in one, and that you can realize. Through the practicing of yoga, which originated from India, yoga is not only physical postures. Yoga is not at yoga, or yoga is not what you call the yoga particular look. There is a thing: one is called Haṭha, and then is called yoga, then. It is called Rāja, but finally, yoga. Bhakti, finally yoga. Karma, finally yoga. Or dharma, there’s only one dharma. We say Sanātana dharma, Hindu dharma, Yaudi dharma, Isāī dharma, Islām dharma, bodh dharma. Finally, we have to come to the dharma. So dharma rakṣita rakṣitaḥ. If you practice and protect your dharma, dharma will protect you. And if you will not protect your dharma, dharma cannot protect you. Dharma means your duty, your obligations. What is the dharma of the father? What is the dharma of the mother? What is the dharma of the husband, and what is the dharma of the wife? And what are the dharmas of the children? Today, this young generation does not know the children’s dharma, and that is why we are suffering. Because parents have forgotten, they don’t know what a father and mother’s dharma is. It’s very easy to get a child, but it’s very hard, very difficult to educate that child. You bring that Jīvātmā into a human body, and again you direct them in a different direction: money, money... Money, money,... and funny, funny, funny. That’s it. There is nothing else. Very few parents are there now who will tell their children with love, with great attention, to give them education, spiritual education, the love to the neighbors, love to the society, love to the country, love to the world, love to the environment, love to the other creatures, and finally, to understand what is the human life, so love to life. So what is the dharma of the human? What makes you the human? Not your two hands and legs and two eyes, and here the monkeys have also, the animals have also. But humans have particular qualities; that quality makes the human, and we have to realize that quality. So I am very happy to be with you, dear brothers and sisters around the world, and this message is coming to you from the Holy Land, India. I will be one month in India, and from time to time there will be a webcast so that at least we can meet or see each other through the webcast. Wherever you are, I wish you all the best. I wish you good health, harmony, love, long life, spirituality, and a happy life. If it is your birthday, I wish you a happy birthday. God bless you. Tomorrow, I will be with you again at this time through the webcast. Till then, all the best, and God bless you. Shanti, Shanti,...

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