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Part 1: The Glory of Holy Incarnations and the Living Earth Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Chant, Devīśvara Mahādeva Kī Chant, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Chant, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Chant. Good evening, all dear ones. Dobri Becher, Vshichni Miri. Welcome. Viteyte. Oṃ Tryambakaṃ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṃ Puṣṭivardhanam, Urvārukamiva Bandhanān Mṛtyormukṣīya Māmṛtāt. Oṃ Tryambakaṃ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṃ Puṣṭivardhanam. Oṃ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Sarve Śāntir Bhavatu. Welcome, all our dear brothers and sisters. Brothers and sisters, spiritual seekers, you have had a long journey from different countries, and we are here in our beautiful ashram, Mahāprabhudīp Satsaṅg Foundation. We will come back to this subject later; relax and enjoy. I also welcome our sannyāsīs from our Alakhpurījī Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā and their dedication to the service of this planet, for nature, oceans, rivers, lakes, animals, as well as for humans. Well-being, harmony, health, and happiness. And let us begin the program. As usual, we have so many things for children. And if they are making too much noise, then the baby Jesus will not come inside because he will be afraid. So they have to be silent. Our satsaṅg begins with very beautiful thoughts and very useful life support. And that is our dear brother from here, from Brno, and also from Koričany and Strilky, and we are not. Is Mr. Squirrel, and we welcome him. And you can stand so everybody can see you. Thank you. Good evening. Good evening. I am very thankful to Swamiji that he enabled me, as we gathered here, to tell you some interesting information. An interesting thing happened in the Czech Republic. There is a secondary school, a hotel school, and they have a specialization in gastronomy and wellness. And in this case, under wellness, they understand vegetarianism. So if you know about some children in the age of fourteen, and if they want to, they can apply for this school for this specialization, and they will have not only vegetarianism as a specialization, but there will also be vegetarian food, and their teachers will be vegetarians and yoga instructors as well. Don’t look at the Christmas tree; listen to what is being said here. The president of Yoga in Daily Life Society, Martin Repko, had a meeting with the director of this school. And the director of the school was so impressed by Martin that he decided to establish a non-compulsory subject, yoga, for the whole school. So if you are interested in studying at this school, you can find the information either here or in Tilak, and other schools will be informed after this seminar. So if you are quick, you can get a place there. And it is also a boarding school, so even students from Slovakia can study there, and it is in Kroměříž. So I would like to thank Swāmījī, and I believe that this will support vegetarianism and also yoga in daily life. Thank you very much. We appreciate it. Someone was asking about leading a program against stress and this and that. This is Irena Lahodná. I think we have to give children chocolate now, so they go to sleep. Or they are peaceful. Our parents go with them to sleep. Thank you. Thank you. There are many questions that will be answered after the lecture. Before that, we sing one nice bhajan. Maybe our sādhvī Śāntījī or Madhurām. That bhajan is somehow, I don’t remember, but... Baḍā ho bhāg un deś ra, jahāṅ satguru līlā avatār, baḍā ho bhāg un deś ra. I think from Lālā Nanjī, no? I think from Lālā Nanjī. Or from Śivānanda, or from Brahmānanda, or maybe from Gajānanda. Or Brahmānandjī. This bhajan means: The fortunate is that country where Sadgurudev incarnates. Fortunate are the parents and mother who gave birth to such a great son. So this also goes toward Jesus. Toī caraṇāravinda vandanā bāraṁ bāra lakhoṁ bāra. Is there Vajrayāna coming inside? Yes, I’m here. Thank you. Give me the text. The next bhajan, Hari Vāsniḥāra. But after my translation, you can look for a while. Just one page. Well, it is a glory of the holy incarnations on this earth. We humans have divided the earth into many, many pieces with borders. God did not divide. Sometimes they were quarreling, so God made continents. So, on different continents, when you go somewhere, like to a hotel, there is a continental breakfast. And I was so curious, what is a continental breakfast? So it was the, how do you call it, made out of corn, cornflakes, a little milk, a piece of bread, continental. In other continents, it was also similar. So, the language, the words, that is called PowerPoint. Well, God created this one earth. And men divided it into many pieces and are still fighting for that. This earth has a special energy. And this earth is known as a living planet. Each and every grain of sand is living. This crystal is also living. The crystal also lives and grows. It depends on the level of consciousness. And when the children make lots of noise, then this consciousness is polluted. So they request that children below the age of four—not four hundred, four years old, five years old—kindly bring them the chocolate bar. So it is something like a magnet. The cosmic energy, cosmic consciousness is directed to this earth because those ātmās, the souls, different souls, which were created in the very beginning by Svayaṃ Bhūṣiva, all are living in this mortal world. That is why Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said, in the 15th chapter, “Mamey Vaso Jīva Loke,” I live in this world of life, the jīvas here. Jīva Bhūta Sanātana, they are all my essence, my relatives, myself. So, time to time, again, that cosmic light, that cosmic energy, manifests on this earth. But the glories can only be sung by one whose Anāhata Cakra is open. Those who understand those saints or their master, others cannot. And those who understood, they are very humble and very kind. This morning we had a little lecture about Sevā. So when the saint becomes more humble, he makes more sevā. Anyhow. So, the rare bhaktas are they who realize and understand the Gurudev, what the Gurudev is. For others, not. What does their presence here mean? So, one of our disciples of Mahāprabhujī, Swāmījī Brahmānandajī, who was living near Bīkāner, in Lilā Amṛt, described it very much in detail. And you should read what he is saying. Something great. Some German philosopher said, or some Western philosopher said, “Time will come that human will think such a person walked on this earth,” like Mahātmā Gandhījī. We are also walking. Deer are also walking. Pigs are also walking, but what is the difference? That is different: the quality, the spirituality, the divinity. And those such saints are on this earth in many different parts of the world. Some are acknowledged by people. And some can’t acknowledge or can’t understand the quality. Like in the dust we broom it, the diamonds also. This earth is surviving through such a great sense. And those great sages did not have an easy life. Any incarnation and sense around the world. Those stones which I threw, they were diamonds, and I cry for them as I search. So, such great universal luminaries were with us and are with us, but we are blind with ignorance. Mālavikṣepa and Āvaraṇa are very thick, so rare are those who understand. All cannot be Hanumānjī. All cannot be Arjuna. You have to have long sādhanā. Our grand master, the Guru brother of our beloved Satguru, Holy Gurujī, and therefore he is our grand uncle master, the cousin master. We have equal adoration for them as for Holy Gurujī. Because they are all kṛpā of Mahāprabhujī. You have to understand, develop that quality. Otherwise, you can’t write the poems. It has great meaning. We can have many other poems, which also have great meanings. The green bees do... Yeah, this is also a nice song. What does it reveal? What are our spiritual meanings? If you think it has a great meaning, in every season, in every condition of the weather, the green is life. Turn and bow, I’m sitting. Who has that strength? Abilities, and power of enduring the good pleasure and unpleasure. Titikṣā, which is the principle of Jñāna Yoga. From the Satsampati, where comes the Titikṣā. If you don’t pass the Tītikṣā, you have no entry toward the step toward self-realization. But you are all self-realized, so forget Tītikṣā. Eat, drink, and enjoy. We will see many, one mantra goes through different lives. So the realization and knowing something, my dear, not in intellect, but in the heart, that can disappear, but this cannot. After researching the whole world, yogīs, while sitting here, can scan the whole world. They have a navigator in them. Where is this happening? And the swan knows where the swans are flying and sitting. And crows know where the crows are sitting, and very soon they will fly away. You make it little like this, and all the crows will fly away. And you do like this, the swan will not even look at you like this. Look at the majesty of the swan. The movement of the Haṃsa is different; only the Haṃsa can do it. One man trained one crow. How quickly my crow can fly. How many postures can he sew in the sky? So, he let it go free. And when we par, par... like this, up and down, and this, we go down and up, and the crow came back. The other one said, “Now you look at the flight of my Paramahaṁsa, the swan.” And you see, when the haṃsa takes off, it is like a Luft Hansa. In Hindi, luft hansa means, luft means to disappear. Hansa means the soul, the swan. And now, Air India. Okay. Tatra. Tatra Air. Well, so the swan expands his wings, stretches his wings, and going in such a way, there is no movement. And a crow cannot fly even fifty meters without moving. And you can wash the crow with the best shampoo. Still, it will be black. And certain people can attend many satsaṅgs. They didn’t understand, or don’t understand, what is a Gurudev, what is Guru Bhakti. So Brahmānandajī said, “Baḍā ho bhāg un deś ra, Satguru Līlā Avatār. The glory to that country, fortunate that country.” Where the Satgurudev incarnates, baḍā ho bhāg un deś ra, that land we call holy land, a holy place, Svaté místo. My adoration and glory, glory, glory to that mother who gave birth to such a saint. Every mother is a mother, whether human or animal, but holy mothers are the holy ones. Like Holy Maria, like Chandradevījī, Mahāprabhujī’s Divine Mother, our Divine Mother, many, many mothers around the world, the world has not died out from such Divine Mothers and Divine Fathers. They are preserving the beautiful pearls or diamonds and give them to the world from time to time. Dhaniya, glory, thanks, lucky, fortunate. Dhaniya, dhaniya, janani javya. Janani means the mother who gives birth. Jahāṁ caraṇa kamala balihāra... Have you some other text? I can’t read this from Gajānanda. So, yes. So, “Jahāṁ caraṇa kamala balihāra,” my adoration to her lotus feet. The holy saint says, “I bow down to the holy feet of that mother who gave such a divine light to this world.” Because that one came, Manuṣetāṁ vipudhāra. These saints are coming from Amṛloka, the immortal world. They accept they are manifesting in the human body, Manuṣyetān vipudhar. Vipu is like a God, Bhagavān. They incarnated here. Baḍā ho bhāg un deś ra, glory to that country. Jaya Satguru Līlā Avatāra. There are two kinds of Satguru. One is incarnating as the holy master, the holy saint. And one becomes a guru after long training, meditation, and doing guru-sevā. Like Mahāprabhujī was incarnated as the holy divine, as it is. But Buddha was incarnated as a normal human being, but his sādhanā, his practice, made him be called the Lord Buddha. So we are all sitting here like Buddha, and let us say, who will become the Buddha? Buddha means bodha. Bodha means knowledge. Bodhi means the intellect. The knowledge of ātmajñāna, that is called Buddha. So when Siddhartha becomes the Buddha, enlightenment. Intellect enlightened means ātmajñāna, self-realization. Po śvitsanī intalak samānā ātmā jñāna sebera realizāśī. You see, languages are very peculiar, you know. Some meanings are different; it can be one language, you know. We say milnā. And what is in your language? Milnā is “dear one.” Mila dia. Nebo milada. So, there are differences. It doesn’t matter. Amar lok se āve hojī, manuṣya tanu vipra dhār, dukhyāne sukhyā kare hojī, kīnā haṅs udhār. They make the people who are in trouble happy. What kind of trouble? Part 2: The Troubles of Birth and Death, the Guru’s Grace, and the Birth of Light The suffering of birth and death, the anguish endured across life after life—that is called duḥkha, which is deeply troublesome. Dukhya ne sukhya kya? Sukhya means happiness. Symbolically, they liberate them. Kina Hans Udhar—they have liberated those souls, those jīvātmās. What happens when such a saint incarnates on this earth? And when we come to know them, when we see them? Even if we do not recognize that this one is a saint—a saint does not become one through a uniform. Mahāprabhujī said very clearly, "Sāch binā sudre nahī." Without truth, without truthfulness within you, "Sāch binā sudre nahī." You may practice many techniques, many sādhanās, and many other things—yet sāch binā sudhre nahī. Chāhā tum gṛhastha meṁ raho, chāhā parivrājaka bano. It does not matter whether you become a sanyāsī and take on different cloth—black, green, red, orange, yellow, pink, white—or whether you remain a householder. A householder can be the holiest of all. In Gujarat, India, there were many holy saints. And of one of them, it is said that a chariot came from the sky, from Brahmaloka, and took him with it. That saint is called Jalāl al-Bābā. In his āśram today, thousands and thousands of people receive prasāda every day. And there is written, "Please, no donations. Just eat and go." Where does it come from? How many volunteers are there? That is how it is, and yet we do something different. Tomorrow, a sandwich will be available to those who want to take it and buy it. It is fine; we will buy it. We are still not at that point. Just take it. How much will one take? At least something. In Maharashtra, Saint Tukārām, a very ordinary householder, was a great holy being. The divine chariot also came and shared his glory. In the Mahābhārata, the chariot came for Yudhiṣṭhira, right there where Ālakhpurījī’s seat is, and the village of Alkapuri stands. His brothers and Draupadī could not go with him; all of them were frozen in the snow. But Yudhiṣṭhira’s dear dog had walked with him all the way through the cold and ice. When Yudhiṣṭhira entered the chariot, the clever dog jumped in before him, and they took off. So not only a human—animals too are liberated when they live with holy saints. My dear ones, rare are those who will understand this. If the whole of mankind understood, there would be no fighting, no quarreling. But, unfortunately, that is not the case. When we have a darśan, our troubles go away. It is very rare to understand what darśan means. Our Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī said, "Gurudeva Darśana Danna Ho, Gurudeva." For darśan, people come from far distances, walking for days and days to all the pilgrimage places where holy saints dwell. We go for darśan there; saints are still present. Guru caraṇam yatsar tīrath he, voh ved purāṇāgate. Where the Gurudev’s holy feet step, that very walk becomes holy. Vikāras—do you know what vikāra is? This body is full of vikāras, impurities, pain, illness. Ye śarīra vikāra se bharā hai. So when our dear Muktāmaṇī performs a lovely Āyurveda abhyaṅga, it addresses these vikāras. Vikāra. Naraka—in hell there are only vikāras. So, darśan se dukkh dhūre, darśan se dukkh mite ho jī, sūtī naraka vikāra. Through darśan, suffering is removed; you are liberated from naraka and from vikāra. Then, on whom does Guru Dev’s mercy fall? What happens to that one who is freed from naraka and vikāra? What will happen to the one freed from that burden? Such a bhakta, such a person— There is Yamarāja, the king of death. Death cannot come near that one. The saints are nourishing even the king of death. The king of the dead has no strength or power to approach such a bhakti. Do not be afraid, dear one: even Yama will not look at you. You have such bulletproof security, that aura of blessings. But you have to become a bhakta, my dear. Look at what is inside you. Swāmījī said something small, and you were so affected. You are prospering. But to take offense is the ego inside; it is full of vikāra. Inside there is vikāra, a great deal of vikāra. In German, this is "Mulm"—the sort of thing that lies in the basement for years, many old things. Even Yama does not dare to look at you, Kālī, Neroni Asake. Death cannot come near them; they even eat that Kālī. "Eat" means neutralize, destroy. Without the Satguru, one cannot cross, ho jī. Without the Satguru, no one can cross this ocean of ignorance, this ocean of saṃsāra. Bin Satguru nahī tarsake hojī, cāj sūr narmunī avatār—not even the sūr (the great heroes), the naras (humans), the munis (great sages), nor even the avatāras can obtain liberation on their own. It is easy for them to manifest and play the beautiful cosmic theatre as gods. Now, new will come. Yes, Brahmā, Viṣṇu—they also must go through the cycle. The cosmic law has one highest principle, and that is called the Guru principle, the Master Tattva. Guru and Master—this is only a problem of language. So the master, that element, that tattva: there is Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Maheśa, and Īśvara Parameśvara, Parabrahmā. The Parabrahma is Guru. Brahmā, Guru; Viṣṇu, Guru; Devo Maheśvara, Guru is all these three. And Guru Sākṣāṭ Parabrahma—that is the Parabrahma Tattva. Therefore, Tasmai Śrī Gurave Namaḥ—I bow down to that Guru Tattva. Thus, even an avatāra cannot become a Satguru; only a sūrya nāma avatāra can. Every avatar had a guru—every one. When we speak of Jesus, he also had a guru, his master. Jesus said to his disciples, "I am the way to the Father, to Brahman." And Jesus said, "I am on the way to my Father, to Brahmā." Śrī Guru Īśvara is higher than Īśvara, a thousand times and more. Krodha guṇa adhika. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Guru Milia Hoji—I received my Gurudeva, Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī. Mahimā Agam Apar—his glory is beyond everything and limitless. Brahmanand Purī Vinvejī, Brahmanand Jī, says this glory: "Kina Adham Udhar." He liberated me; otherwise, I would have gone to Adhaguni, to other kinds of lives. Kṛiptān Bhagavān Brahmā Nānjī Mahārāj Mādhav Kṛiṣhṇa Bhagavān. The next bhajan we will sing afterwards. My dear ones, this time is the time of Christmas, the arrival of Jesus. We celebrate and welcome it. For the last 45, 44 years, I have been more connected to this festival, Christmas. Before, we did not even know what Christmas was, just as you might not know what Diwali is. They placed the baby Jesus completely naked, without any clothing. That is your imagination. But I told the organizers, "I will give you some money; please bring a little piece of cloth and put it under him, and cover him also with a cloth." We did it. It is not against anything. Can you understand the situation of his mother? Can you imagine what situation his mother was in? Those nine months were not pleasant for her and her husband. Everyone left them alone. Joseph, the father, was perhaps in doubt, and the mother still did not know what was happening. The evidence is this: what brought her to give birth to the child in a place meant for animals, where a donkey and some goats lived? Dear Mary had not even one room, nor any cloth to wrap her newborn child. Either we are making a mistake in showing it that way, or if it truly was like this, we do not celebrate Christmas just for Jesus. We celebrate the glory of Mother Mary, who went through such pain, and that at that time people were more nasty than now. Just a few decades ago, when a child was born outside marriage, in German they used a derogatory word. This mother had no help; she had to give birth on dry grass. No one was there—only a donkey and some goats looking on. So this is a day for understanding our dear mother’s systems, our mother’s principles. And in spite of such great obstacles—perhaps people were more nasty than we think, maybe they were throwing stones—she preserved this baby in her body and gave birth: the birth of the cosmic light, the birth of universal love, the birth of mercy, the birth of truth, and the birth of that Guru principle. The mother was always following, and the father was always following. My dear ones, one day I was sitting on the veranda of my room in Jadan. Many trees grow there, and one is a thorn tree. On a small branch of that tree, a bird had made a nest. That nest reminded me of where you place the baby Jesus. Do not make the mistake. We should give a good place and good clothing to our Lord Jesus. If they could not do it then, at least we should do it now. The bird had laid about four or five eggs. Every half hour she would come and sit on them. Very soon, five babies came out of the eggs. The mother was so busy finding food. She brought something to eat, and all five babies opened their beaks wide, trying to take it. But the mother knew how much to give to each; she divided the food fairly. And she would sit nearby, watching her babies, very happy. But still they would cry, "I’m hungry, I’m hungry!" She would look everywhere. If there was no danger, she would fly fifty meters, at most a hundred, and bring something again. Her eyes were always on her babies. Perhaps the father was there too. I was observing from my terrace when a stupid crow came. In no time, it snatched one baby in its beak and flew away. The nest was empty. At that moment, there was a great pain in my heart. The love and the pain of a mother. That is why it is said in Vedic dharma, Sanātana dharma, ahiṃsā paramo dharma—non-violence is the highest duty—and they begin to say, "Do not eat meat." Similarly, think of the pain of dear Holy Mother Mary. Can you imagine that her son had to carry the cross? They beat him, and the mother knew, the father knew, but they could do nothing. That was the Kali Yuga, and it is the Kali Yuga. We can do nothing. In what manner they crucified him—can you imagine his pain? And enduring that pain is titikṣā. All left. Blood dripped. His mother came. What was her condition? Can you picture it? Her head against the cross, against the wooden log. She had to take down her son and spend a night with him. My dear ones, every mother is the same mother. We do not wish that any father or mother should ever experience such a horrible, terrible situation. Not only with your children. When a child is taken and killed, that pain is a thousand times greater than the pain of birth and carrying the child. So this is the time of Christmas: that we forgive, we create friendship, we have understanding. We wish for a lot of snow and a white Christmas. The shining sun is white, and snow is white. This is a human imagination. I do not know if it was snowing when Jesus was born in Jerusalem. Did snow fall there? Or a sandstorm? So why do we associate Christmas with a green tree? But that is our culture. We live here, and we adore our nature for more than ten, more than one million years already. It is officially said to be 950,000 years ago when God Rāma incarnated, and at that time this tree of light was created. So this tree is called the Diwali tree. And the same we have for our Christmas. You can see the union, the similarity, the common need. Then why should we fight? So Christmas is happiness, but you have to pay the price of this happiness. That price is very heavy, my dear, very heavy. I pray to the Almighty, I pray to Jesus and Divine Mother Mary, and our Mahāprabhujī, Devpurījī, Gurujī, and our Mother Chandraṁdevī, that they bless us. Bless us and help us to understand. So I wish you a divine, blessed, holy Christmas and a prosperous, happy New Year. With this, I will finish my Christmas talk today, with one prayer, baby. Om Śānti, Śānti... Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Śrī Dev Purīṣa Mahādeva Kī Jai, Dharma Samrāṭ, Satguru Svāmījī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jai.