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Part 1: The Glory of the Holy Incarnation Oṃ Tryambhakaṃ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṃ Puṣṭivardhanam, Urvārukamiva Bandhanān Mṛtyormukṣīya Mā’mṛtāt. Oṃ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ. Saha nāv avatu, Saha nau bhunaktu. Sukhinaḥ Sarve Santu, Niraamayāḥ Sarve Bhadrāṇi Paśyantu, Mā Kaścid Duḥkha Bhāgbhavet. Welcome, all our dear brothers, sisters, and spiritual seekers. You have had a long journey from different countries, and we are here in our beautiful ashram, the Mahāprabhu Deep Satsaṅg Foundation. A warm welcome also to all our dear brothers and sisters around the world who are with us through the webcast. Today, this satsaṅg is especially dedicated to the celebration of Christmas. We will come back to this subject later. Relax and enjoy. I also welcome our sannyāsīs from our Ālagpurījī Siddhapīṭha Paramparā and acknowledge their dedication to the service of this earth—for the well-being of nature, oceans, rivers, lakes, animals, and humans, for the harmony, health, and happiness of all. Let us begin the program. As usual, we have many things for the children. However, if they make too much noise, the baby Jesus will not come inside because he will be afraid. So they must be silent. Our satsaṅg begins with very beautiful and useful thoughts for life support. I welcome our dear brother from Brno, Koryčany, Střelice, and elsewhere—Mr. Squirrel. Please stand so everyone can see you. Thank you. Dobrý večer. Dobrý večer. Dobrý večer. Good evening. I am very thankful to Svāmījī for enabling me to share some interesting information with you. An interesting development has occurred in the Czech Republic. There is a secondary hotel school with a specialization in gastronomy and wellness. In this context, "wellness" includes vegetarianism. So, if you know of children around the age of 14 who are interested, they can apply to this school for this specialization. They will not only study vegetarianism but will also be provided vegetarian food. Their teachers will be vegetarians and yoga instructors as well. Do not look at the Christmas tree; listen to what he is saying. Today, the President of Yoga Day in Life, Dr. Repko—that is, the president of the Yoga in Daily Life Society, Martin Repko—met with the director of this school. The director was so impressed by Martin that he decided to establish a non-compulsory yoga subject for the entire school. If you are interested in studying at this school, you can find information here or in Tilak. Other schools will be informed after this seminar. If you act quickly, you can secure a place. It is also a boarding school, so students from Slovakia can study there as well. I would like to thank Svāmījī, and I believe this will support both vegetarianism and Yoga in Daily Life here. Thank you very much. We appreciate it. Someone was asking about leading a program against stress. That is Irena Lahodna from my side. It is okay; please speak with the organizers. I think we must give the children chocolate now so they go to sleep peacefully. Our parents can go with them to sleep. Thank you. There are many questions that will be answered after the lecture. Before that, we will sing a nice bhajan. Perhaps Sādhvī Śāntījī or Madhurām will lead it. I do not quite remember the bhajan—maybe from Lala Nanjī, or Śivānanda, or Brahmānanda, or perhaps Gajānanda. This bhajan means: "Fortunate is that country where Sadhguru Dev incarnates. Fortunate are the parents and mother who gave birth to such a great saint." This sentiment also applies to Jesus. Is there a bhajan ready? Yes, I am here. Thank you. Brahmā, Guru Viṣṇu, Deva Maheśvara, Śakṣācārya, Brahmā, Tasmai Śrī Gurave Namaḥ. Dhyāna Mūlam Guru Mūrtiḥ, Pūjā Mūlam Guru Pādaḥ, Mantra Mūlam Guru Vākyaṃ, Mokṣa Mūlam Guru Kṛpā. Gauna deshara oji sattaguruliya avatara, Deshara oji sattaguruliya avatara, Madhanya janani javiya oji charanakamallabhalliya pahadariya mahanushatannadipudara. Avipadeśe sattagurulīyatā. Sattagurulīyatā. The next bhajan will follow after my translation. You can look for a while, just one page. This bhajan glorifies the holy incarnations on this earth. We humans have divided the Earth into many pieces with borders. God did not divide it. Sometimes they quarreled, so God made continents. Different continents... when you go to a hotel, they speak of a "continental breakfast." I was curious: what is a continental breakfast? It was corn flakes, a little milk, a piece of bread. On other continents, it was also similar. So, the language... the words that are called "PowerPoint." God created this one Earth, and man divided it into many pieces and is still fighting over them. This Earth has a special energy and is known as a living planet. Each and every grain of sand is living. This crystal is also living and growing. It depends on the level of consciousness. And when children make lots of noise, this consciousness is polluted. So, the request is that children below four or five years old be kindly brought to the chocolate bar. Thank you for understanding. The Earth is like a magnet. Cosmic energy, cosmic consciousness, is directed to this Earth because those ātmās, the souls, which were created in the very beginning by Svayambhū Śiva, all live in this mortal world. That is why Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said in the 15th chapter: "I live in this world of life of the Jīvas here. Jīva, Bhūta, Sanātana—they are all my essence, my relatives, myself." Time and again, that cosmic light, that cosmic energy, manifests on this Earth. But its glories can only be sung by one whose Anāhata Chakra is open, who understands those saints or their master. Others cannot. And those who understand are very humble and very kind. This morning we had a small lecture about Seva. So, when a saint becomes more humble, he performs more Seva. In any case, the rare bhaktas are those who realize and understand the Gurudev. What is the Gurudev? For others, it is not. What does their presence here mean? One of the disciples of Mahāprabhujī, Svāmī Brahmānandajī, who lived near Bīkāner, described this in great detail in the Līlāmṛta. You should read it. What he says is something great. Some German or Western philosopher said: "A time will come when humans will think, 'Such a person walked on this earth like Mahātmā Gandhi.'" We are also walking. Deer are also walking. Pigs are also walking. But what is the difference? The difference lies in the quality, the spirituality, the divinity. Such saints are on this Earth in many different parts of the world. Some are acknowledged by people, and some cannot be acknowledged or understood due to their quality. It is like brooming dust—the diamonds are swept away too. This Earth survives through such a great presence. And those great saints did not have an easy life. Read the histories of any incarnation or saint around the world. See how we humans treated them cruelly. But afterwards, we cry. One man was throwing away many, many stones. One day, he suddenly realized, "Those stones which I threw were diamonds," and he cried, searching for them. Such great universal luminaries were with us, and they are with us, but we are blind with ignorance. Mala, Vikṣepa, and Āvaraṇa are very thick, so rare are those who understand. All cannot be Hanumānjī. All cannot be Arjuna. You must have long sādhanā. So, Brahmanānjī Mahārāj, our grand master—the guru-brother of our beloved Satguru, Holy Gurujī—is therefore our grand-uncle master, our cousin master. We have equal adoration for him as for Holy Gurujī, because they are all the kṛpā of Mahāprabhujī. You must understand this. Develop that quality; otherwise, you cannot write the poems. They have great meanings. Now we can have many other poems which also have great meanings. "O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum"—the green tree. This is also a nice song. What does it reveal about our spiritual meanings? If you think it has a great meaning: in every season, in every condition of the weather, it maintains a green life. Many other trees, as soon as a little cold comes, drop their leaves. So, how can you compare the Tannenbaum with some other trees that turn yellow and shed their leaves at the first sign of cold? Perhaps there are some ṛṣis and sages who possess that strength, ability, and power of enduring pleasure and displeasure, which is the principle of Jñāna Yoga from the Sādhana Sampat, where Titikṣā arises. If you do not pass the test of Titikṣā, you have no entry onto the step toward self-realization. But you are all self-realized, so forget Titikṣā. Eat, drink, and enjoy. We will see many vantras go through different lives. So, my dear, realizing and knowing something is not in the intellect but in the heart. Intellectual knowledge can disappear, but what is in the heart does not. Memory will disappear, but love in the heart will not disappear. This is the difference between intellect and heart, between prayer and heart. That is it. Svāmī Brahmānandajī says that after researching the whole world, yogīs, while sitting here, can scan the entire world. They have a navigator within them that knows what is happening everywhere. The swan knows where other swans are flying and sitting, and crows know where other crows are sitting and will very soon fly away. You make a little gesture like this, and all the crows will fly away. But if you do the same, the swan will not even look at you. Observe the majesty of the swan. Haṃsa—the movement of the Haṃsa is different; only a Haṃsa can do it. One man trained a crow. "See how quickly my crow can fly! How many postures can he perform in the sky?" So he let it go free. It went up and down, this way and that, and then came back. The other man said, "Now observe the flight of my Paramahaṃsa, the swan." You see, when the haṃsa takes off, it is like Lufthansa. In Hindi, "luft haṃsa"—"luft" means to disappear, "haṃsa" means the soul, the swan. It disappears into the sky and safely lands in New Delhi. Air India. Okay. Tatra Air. All airlines are good. Well, so the swan expands its wings, stretches them, and moves in such a way that there is no visible effort. A crow cannot fly even 50 meters without constant flapping. So, only the swan knows where the swans are. That is why there are bunches of crows, and swans are very rare. In this saṃsāra, the swans are the saints, and the others are the crows. You can wash a crow with the best shampoo, and it will still be black. Similarly, certain people can attend many satsaṅgs but do not understand what a Gurudev is, what Guru Bhakti is. So, Brahmānandajī said: "Vadā ho bhagun deshra Satguru liyā avatāra." Glory to that country where the Satguru Deva incarnates. That land we call the holy land, the holy place—svaté místo. My adoration and glory to that mother who gave birth to such a saint. Every mother is a mother, whether human or animal. But holy mothers are holy, like Holy Mary, like Chandraṇdevījī (Mahāprabhujī’s divine mother), our divine mother. There are many, many mothers around the world. The world has not been deprived of such divine mothers and divine fathers. They preserve the beautiful pearls or diamonds and give them to this world from time to time. Dhānya—glory, thanks, lucky, fortunate. Dhānya jananī jāvya. "Jananī" means the mother who gives birth. So, yes. Jahā caraṇa kamala balihārā—my adoration to her lotus feet. The holy saint says: I bow down to the holy feet of that mother who gave to this world such a divine light. Because that one came—Amṛloka se āvyā ho jī, manuṣe tān vipudhār. These saints come from Amṛloka, the immortal world. They accept, they manifest in the human body—Manuṣetān Vipudhar. "Vipud" is like a god, Bhagavān. They incarnated here. There are two kinds of Satguru. One incarnates as the Holy Master, the Holy Saint. Another becomes a Satguru after long training, meditation, and guru-sevā. For example, Mahāprabhujī was incarnated as the holy divine Agni. But Buddha was incarnated as a normal human being; his sādhanā, his practice, made him be called the Lord Buddha. So, we are all sitting here like Buddha. Let us see, who will become the Buddha? "Buddha" means Bodha. "Bodha" means knowledge. "Bodhi" means the intellect. The one with that knowledge is called Buddha. So, when Siddhartha becomes the Buddha—enlightenment, intellect enlightened—that means ātmajñāna, self-realization. You see, languages are very peculiar. Some meanings are different; it can vary from one language to another. We say "Milna." And what is it in your language? "Milna" is "dear one." "Miládi." Or "Milada." So, there are different terms. It does not matter. Part 2: The Liberating Power of the Saint To nevadī. Amar lok se aviā hoji manus ten vipudhar, Dukhīāne sukhīyā kare hojī kīna haṁs udhār. They make the people who are in trouble happy. What kind of duḥkha? What kind of trouble? The troubles of this birth and death. Suffering in many, many lives. That’s called duḥkha. That is troublesome. Dukhyā ne sukhyā kare, sukhyā means to make happy, to liberate them symbolically. Kīnā haṁs udhār, they have liberated those ones, that ātmā, jīvātmās. What happens when a certain saint incarnates on this earth? And when we come to know them and see them—and even if we don’t know that this one is a saint, for the saint doesn’t become so through a uniform. Mahāprabhujī said very clearly: without truth, bhakti, truthfulness in you, you may do many, many techniques and many, many sādhanās and many things. Sādhanā bina sudhareja, ne jādam rākho, ne, chāho tum gṛhastha meṁ raho, aur chāho parivrājaka bhejo, doesn’t matter; either you become a sanyāsī and take the different cloth—black, green, red, orange, yellow, pink, white—or you remain a householder. A household can be the holiest one. In Gujarat, India, the state has many holy saints. One of them, it is said, had a chariot come from the sky, from Brahmaloka, and took him. That’s called Jalāl al-Bābā. In his ashram now, even every day, thousands and thousands of people are getting prasād, eatings, and there is written, "Please, no donations, just eat and go." From where it comes, how many volunteers are there? Everyone gets equally. Seva: when you eat and you go, people come immediately, clean everything, and put new plates there. There is a whole area, like our Sīlikī Ashram ground. That is a blessing of the saints. That’s it. And we do something different. Tomorrow, the sandwich will be available to those who want it. They can buy it. It’s okay, we will buy. We are still not at that point. Just take it. How much will one take? At least one can take that much, where the car boot is. Let it. For that we need tyāga, love, and Śiva bhāva. And there are people still; they say, "Please don’t do," but they are putting something in the ashram. In Maharashtra, Sant Tukārām, a very normal householder, was a great holy one. The divine also came and shared it for him. In the Mahābhārata, for Yudhiṣṭhira, the chariot came just there, where Ālakapurījī’s seat is, and Ālakapurī village is there. His brothers and Draupadī couldn’t go with him. All were frozen in the snow. But with Yudhiṣṭhira, when his dear dog came with him all the way through the cold and ice—the dog was walking all the time with him—so when Yudhiṣṭhira entered into the chariot, the dog, clever dog, before Yudhiṣṭhira could go in, he jumped in also. And it took off: Yudhiṣṭhira and his dear dog. So not only humans, but animals are also liberated when they live with the holy saints. Therefore, Mīrābāī said and Kabīr Dās said, "Lord, even if I have to become a dog in the next life, let me be the dog at the door of the saints’ āśram or the saints’ place, where I will get prasāda, mahāprasāda." My dear, rare are those who will understand this. And if we understand that, all of mankind, there will be no fight. There will be no quarreling, but unfortunately. When we have darśan, our troubles go away. It is very rare to understand what darśan means. Bhagavān Dīpnārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī said, "Gurudeva darśana dāna ho, gurudeva darśana dāna ho, cetana yama dāna ho, cetana yama dāna ho." Darśana: people come from far, far distances, walking days and days, to all pilgrimage places. Where the holy saints lived, we go for darśan there. Saints are there still. Guru Charaṇaṁ Yatser Tirat Hevovedu Purāṇa Gathe: where the Gurudev’s holy feet step and walk becomes holy. Darśan se dukh dūr ho jā, sute nerek vikār. Vikārās. You know what’s vikār? Vikār, kisko kehte? Vikār. Je sere vikār se bharā. Impurities. Pain. Bolest. This body is full of vikārās. Vikārās. So our dear Muktāmaṇī, when she is doing nice Āyurveda abhyaṅga, and she says all what is a malm, or what is it, goes out. What is called amar vikāra narak means the hell. In the hell, there’s only vikārās. They’re eating you. Like the termites eat the roots of the trees, it develops vikāra inside. So darśan se dukkh dhur, darśan se dukkh mite, ho jī, sūti nareka vikāra. Then you are liberated from nareka, from vikāra. After that, on whom is Gurudev’s mercy? On that one, what happens? That one is liberated from nāraka and vikāra. That bhakta, such a person. What power does the king of death have? He does not come near to such a person. He does not come near to such a person. They are nourishing the king of death, the saints. The king of death has no strength or power to come near to such a bhakta. Even Yama will not look at you. He said to me, "I don’t want his prasad." Many sitting here, many, many, they are smiling because they know whom Swamiji is talking to, but I don’t open that curtain. Offending is ego inside. That is touching your ego. Máme spoustu vikāry. Even the Yama doesn’t dare to look at you. Death cannot come near to them. Even they eat that Kāla. "Eat" means neutralize, destroy. Bina Satguru nahī tarsakehojī. Bina Satguru, no one can cross this ocean of ignorance, the ocean of saṁsāra. Without the Satguru, even the sun, the great heroes, the humans, the great saints, and even the avatāras cannot get liberation. It’s easy for them to manifest it and play the beautiful cosmic theater as a god. But the yuga’s time is past, and time said, "Your Holiness Brahmājī, Your Divinity Viṣṇu, please vacate the stage. Now a new one will come." Yes, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, they also have to go through the cycle. So the cosmic law has one highest principle, and that’s called the guru principle. Master, tattva. Guru and master, this is only a language problem. That’s all. So the master of that element, that tattva, is there: Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Maheśa, and Īśvara, Param Brahmā. The Par Brahma, it is Guru Brahma, Guru Viṣṇu, Guru Devo Maheśvara. Guru is all these three. And Guru Sākṣāk Par Brahma, that is Par Brahma Tattva. Therefore, I bow down to that guru-tattva. So, even avatāra cannot. So every avatāra had a guru. Every. When we are talking about Jesus, now he also had a baptizer, his master. And Jesus said to his disciples, "I am the way to the Father, to the Brahman." Śrī Guru Īśvara says, "A deep hazy Śrī Gurudev is greater than Īśvara. Śrī Gurudev is greater than Īśvara. Krodha guṇa adhikāra thousand times more and more." Tisíckrát je víc Svádhipa Nārāyaṇ Guru Miliya Hoji. I got my Gurudeva Bhagavān Deep Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī. Mahimā agam apar. His glory is beyond everything and limitless. Brahmanand Purī Vinvejī, Brahmanandjī is saying this glory, Kina Adham Udhar. He liberated me, otherwise I would have gone to Adhaguni, meaning the other kinds of lives. The next bhajan we will sing after. My dear, this time is the time of Christmas, the arriving, the coming of Jesus. We celebrate, welcome, and for the last 45 years, 44 years, I am more connected to this festival, Christmas. Before, we did not even know what Christmas was. Yeah, because you don’t know what Diwali is. Because there is a majority of different religions. I was in Salzburg last weekend, and I saw they put one basket, and in the basket, some kind of grass and something like a nest for the bird, and put completely naked, without any dress, the baby Jesus. Okay. 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 as a cloth, and cover him also with a cloth. We did it. Also, it’s nothing. Can you understand the situation of his mother? These nine months for her and her husband were not pleasant. All left them alone. The father was also maybe in doubt, and the mother still did not know what was happening. The evidence is this. What brought her to give birth to a child in the animal stall? Where the donkey and some goats were living. This, dear Maria, had not even one room and some cloth or something that she could wrap her fresh-born child. Either we are making a mistake and showing it in such a way, or if it was like this, we don’t celebrate the Christmas of Jesus, but we celebrate the glory of Mother Maria. That she went through such a pain, and that time people were more nasty than now. Just a few decades ago, some decades, when you got a child without marriage, in German language they said, "a not-real child." Now, in these two decades, two, three decades, we try to understand everything, but that time was not easy. So I felt such a pain in my heart that this mother had no help, and she had to give birth on the grass, dry grass on the high. No one was there. Only one donkey was looking, and some goats. So this is the day of understanding our dear mother’s systems, mother’s principles, and in spite of such great obstacles—maybe people were more nasty than we think; maybe they were throwing stones—but she preserved this baby in her body, and she gave the birth of the cosmic light, the birth of the universal love, the birth of the mercy, the birth of the truth, and the birth of that guru principle and disciples’ protection. That was Jesus’ definition of his coming, but still they did not realize. They did not accept. For a blind person, a diamond and a piece of stone are the same. Through which difficulties they went, and mother was always following, father was always following. My dear, one day I was sitting in my room, and there is one tree. Many trees, but one is a thorn tree, and on the small branch of the tree, one bird made a nest. That nest reminded me where you put Jesus. Don’t make the mistake. We should give a good place and good dress to our Lord Jesus. If they couldn’t do it, at least we should do it. The bird gave about four or five eggs, it seems. After every half hour, she comes and sits on that. And very soon, it seems that five babies came out of the eggs. The mother is so busy getting some food, bringing a full pig, something to eat. All five babies opened their mouths and tried to take it away. But Mother knew how much she gave to someone. And she divides. And she sits nearby, looking at the babies, very happy. But the other ones say, "Still, I’m hungry, I’m hungry, I’m hungry." But I have Mommy, and she looks everywhere to see if there is no danger. And she flies 50 meters far, maximum 100 meters, and again brings something. Always, her eyes are there where the baby is. Maybe the father was also there. I was observing from my terrace, and a stupid crew came. And within no time, he took it in his mouth, and it is, how do you call it, crawls and flies away. But he flew quickly. The nest was empty. She dropped what she had in her mouth. And she was looking, "Where are my babies?" That time, in my heart, was a great pain, the love and pain of the mother. And that’s why it is said in Vedic Dharma, Sanātana Dharma, ahiṁsā paramo dharma—non-violence. And they begin to say, "No eating meat." If you eat, you are making some mothers definitely unhappy. You cause the pain to their womb. It doesn’t matter, cow or buffalo or goat or sheep or bull, that pain comes to us. Similarly, there was the pain of dear Holy Mother Maria. Can you imagine that her son had to carry the cross? And not only were they beating him, but the mother knew, the father knew, and they couldn’t do anything. That was the Kali Yuga, and it is the Kali Yuga. We can’t do anything. In which way, how they crucified him. Can you imagine his pain? And enduring the pain, Tītīkṣā. That is a Titixa. All left. Blood is dropping. Mother came. What was her condition? Can you imagine this picture? Her head on the cross, on the wooden log. She had to take down her son and spend the night with him. My dear, every mother is the same mother. We don’t wish that any father or mother experience such a horrible, terrible situation. Not only your children, but all creatures. Automatically, every mother becomes vegetarian. They understand the pain of their womb. Mother knows the pain of giving birth to a child. But her hope and love are bigger than the pain. And when this child is taken and killed away, then that pain is a thousand times more than the pain of the birth and carrying of the child. So this is the time of Christmas, that we forgive. We create friendship, we have understandings, and we have adoration for such a mother. That, for me, is a true Christmas. Others are decoration. Australians wish on Christmas Day for a hot day, sunshine, that we can go to the beach and have a sunbath. And we wish for a lot of snow and a white Christmas. Yes, the sun is white, the snow is white. This is a human’s imagination. I don’t know if it was snowing also when Jesus was born in Jerusalem. Did the snow come there? Sand storm? So how do you compare the Christmas with the green tree? But that’s our culture. We live here, and we adore our nature. More than 10, more than 1 million years already. It is officially said 950,000 years, 950,000 years when God Rāma was incarnate. And at that time, this light tree was created. And so this tree is called the Diwali tree, Diwali. And the same we have the same for our Christmas. So you can see the union, similarity, one 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. So I pray to the Almighty, I pray to Jesus and Divine Mother Mary, and our Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī, Gurujī, and our Chandran Devī Mother, 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, you know, baby.