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Part 1: The Spiritual Path is a Razor’s Edge Pranām Swāmījī, Hari Om, dear brothers and sisters. I welcome you to the first seminar of this year here in Střílky Āśram. From my heart I thank Mahāprabhujī that we again have the possibility to meet our beloved Master. Cordially, we welcome you among us, dear Swāmījī. And we also welcome Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar, Śrī Svāmījī Vivek Purījī. White flowers for the old, and colorful ones for the young. We would like to congratulate our Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar, Swāmī Vivek Purījī—yesterday was exactly one year since he became a Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar. Exactly one year ago, he became Mahāmaṇḍaleśvarānanda. One is a follower, one is a flower, and the third is a fall over. So, it is not easy to be a disciple. That is it. Thank you, Mr. Om Prakash. And all the sannyāsīs, and all the brothers, sisters, bhaktas of Mahāprabhujī. Yes, indeed, this is the first satsaṅga and first seminar in this year, 2014. Of course, time does not make a difference. This is only for our material world to keep things in order. That is why we are counting the years. In reality, there is no time. Beyond time and space, one without a second, that divine consciousness, Brahman consciousness—but we are still far from there, so time calculation is made by the ṛṣis. And if someone here is an electrician, they should repair that light or take the bulb out. Therefore, of course, time is also very important for putting things in order. And that is why it is counted as a yuga. Kalpas, Vāṇī mantras, etc., etc. Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said in the Bhagavad Gītā, “Śāmbhavīm yuge yuge”—in every yuga I come. Similarly, in every Satya Yuga, Śiva again manifests. So, Viṣṇu comes often in the Yugas. Brahma is there, balancing the creation. And Śiva and the Śakti, they again come to manifest a new world, new positive consciousness, and new energy in the creation. There is called Mahāpralaya, and in Mahāpralaya everything goes to sleep. We do not know how Mahāpralaya will be. It can be a big earthquake. The earth will split. All will fall in, or a disease which cannot be controlled, or a flood, or a storm, or fire. These are the five elements. In these five elements, such a strong power comes. At that time, everything is finished. So, how long will you play the theater on the podium or the stage of this world? Therefore, God is merciful, and He gives us a limited, counted time in human life so that you will not come into that disaster. It is full of pain and suffering. There is nothing and no one to be helped here. But in one bhajana of Śrī Maṅgīlālajī, Mahāprabhujī’s disciple, he speaks very nicely about Mahāpralaya: What happens to the bhaktas? So before Mahāpralaya will take place, automatically, by Guru Kṛpālā, all will merge and come to Brahman before Mahāpralaya takes place. And that Mahāpralaya is then again, and then begins a new Satya Yuga. Then again, Śiva and Śakti have to appear. That consciousness awakes as Śiva. And his consciousness is around the entire universe. And that entire universe is called Śiva consciousness, or Śiva Liṅga. And so Śiva Liṅga means the entire universe. And it is said everything is round, and within that, the Śakti means that positive energy, which we may say is health: pleasurableness, happiness, joy, unity, peace, love, kindness, balance, that is called Śakti—Śiva and Śakti. Do not misunderstand Śiva and Śakti with the genders. You are also Śiva and Śakti. It does not matter if you are female, or it does not matter if you are male. You are also Śiva and Śakti in oneness. When you are very tired, you cannot anymore, then you say, “I have no more energy, I cannot anymore.” You still have consciousness. Śiva is there. Then the doctor comes, gives you some bomb inside, glucose in your veins, and you say, “Oh, thank you, now I feel better.” So that was the Śakti. We cannot separate Śiva and Śakti. In that way, after these Mahāpralayas, it becomes Dundākar, which means everything is emptiness. It is only like a fog, or smoke, or the light. But we cannot explain and decide. But in that Mahāpralaya, it is a long, long time. It is not only for one day. Do not think that in one day we will suffer a little and then hurry home. That will last more than four yugas. And in that period, those who have negative energy, negative thinking, they have to suffer so long. Then again, from that śūnyākāśa comes śivnāda, nādarūpa parabrahma. Śaṅkha nāda laike from the conch, muśal, śay—Oṃ karvindu sayuktaṃ nityadayanti yogina kāṃdaṃ mokṣaṃ caiva Oṃ kārayināmodama. That nāda is the Oṃ. That comes from Pūrṇa, and today is Pūrṇimā, the full moon. Pūrṇam adaḥ pūrṇam idaṁ pūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate, pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate. When there is pūrṇa, there is nothing empty. Complete is complete. What comes from complete is complete. What you take out of the complete is complete. And that completeness will ever be complete. God is perfect. And what creation comes out of God is also perfect. And that perfect is Pūrṇa. Therefore the Pūrṇimā today, full moon day, for this planet, for our earth, has a great, great meaning. Today, one should fast very strictly. In forty-four years, in one thing I felt—in many things I passed, came through—but in one thing I felt, I could not become successful: to give the European that they will really fast according to the principles. There is no one, not a single disciple I found in the entire Western countries who can fast properly. So here I felt, perhaps in the next life I will try better. You cannot fast, or you cannot do the things, until you really feel it in your heart and in your soul. Yes, they are fasting. I am fasting. I fast. It is not solid, no problem. Chocolate. It is chocolate. That is it. I tell you one example. In Islam, there are many, many holidays also. And one, I think, fourth night or one month called Rozā. Ramadhan, Ramadhan. We are very devoted believers or practitioners of Islam. We only eat or drink after first seeing the moon. In Pali, there was one elderly lady, ninety-eight years old. She was a Muslim and very ill, and they took her to the hospital. The doctor wanted to give her glucose, and she said, “Careful, do not put any foreign things in my body until Rozā is not over.” They said, “Mother, you will die.” She said, “What can happen more just than to die? But if I break these, my rules, principles, I do not know how many lives I will suffer.” The doctors and nurses were standing and listening to her. That means one understood something. Otherwise, today you practice yoga. Then you practice some kind of—what they call, oh my God, what is that? Aerobics—oh, this is also yoga. Then, nowadays, something comes: Pilates. Someone told me, I do not know, I never saw what Pilates is. But in Australia, some man told me, “Gurudev, it is just nothing like in a nightclub.” He used some words which I do not want to tell you. So, everything is good. Okay. But it is the discipline, and understand what life is and what my aim is. So do not break this. To be born as a human means not that you have completed your 8.4 million cycles of life. This is just given to you now, the chance. Use it or lose it. So life is a journey, not a destination. And this journey should lead us to our destination in this life. Otherwise, again, the game is lost. The game is lost. You try to climb high on the rocks. It is hard work. But you did it. And the last half meter before you could come up, the rope broke and you fell down. So, do not celebrate the day of your success. Wait until the sun sets. What is yours? For what are you here? Ko’haṁ, katam idaṁ jātam, ko ve kateṣu vidyate? So this is Pūrṇimā, pulmon. And it has no sense for me. When I talk about Pūrṇimā, it should not happen, but my blood pressure goes high. And then I surrender my bow, my arch, I surrender my weapon, and say to Mahāprabhujī, “I failed in it.” I would be one of the luckiest men in the entire universe, not in the world, if one of my European disciples would understand what fasting means. All who are sitting left and right to me, orange and yellow, all. So, it is not easy. It is said the bhakti and spiritual path is like the sharpness of a knife, and on that you have to walk. Khaṇḍegī dhār. You are practicing yoga. Your yogī is khaṇḍegī dhār, the sharpness of the sword. Do not take it too easy. It is said in the Purāṇas—you know the Purāṇas means very old, old scriptures: Vedas, Purāṇas, Upaniṣads. And it is said, from that, we have one nice symbol. Like this, like this, and like that. You know, all very good. We understand, but we are not capable of doing it. Therefore, Mahāpralaya time, which I pray to Mahāprabhujī that before that, as Maṅgīlālajī said in his bhajana, that they will come to the Brahmalokas. So please understand, and of course there is one exception. And for that you have to work if you have diabetes or you are pregnant. Or, if you are taking some medicine, you must eat something. This is an exception. And for that, on that fasting day, you must make eleven or twenty-one mālās more. And yes, twenty-one mālās. And how must you eat? Also, you should give to birds or other animals. So that you could not follow this principle, not that you do not want, but this is something which you must do. So it is given, exception is given, but not for these healthy people. Keeping mauna and fasting—I failed in it. So maybe, when my last minute of my life comes, Gurudev will ask me, “Mahesh, did you fulfill your mission?” I will say, “Yes, Lord,” except for two things: that I could bring the people to understand what fasting means, and mauna. So, this is what you have to understand. Similarly, your yoga way—it is not a sport. It is not bodybuilding. It is not a body culture. Even if you are a bodybuilder and have muscles like this, like a buffalo: one day we will put you under the earth or on the fire. How long will you keep this body? There were great heroes. They are not existing anymore. You know, in Europe also you can see. You can see the beautiful statues sitting on the horse, and how they are controlling the horse, and at the same time, how heavy the weapon they have in their hand. And all we who are sitting here, I do not see one person who can control such a strong energy of the horse and take this weapon in the hand consciously. So that is gone. Now, what are we? We are the plastic bag of the organic, non-organic food. In our blood, we have plastic. In our lungs, we have a nice layer of plastic. So we do not need plastic surgery anymore—no strength. When your nourishment has no strength, your body cannot have strength. So we have to search: is there something which has life, energy, and strength that we can eat? So it means Mahāpralaya has begun already. All we are victims of many, many, many diseases, and there is nothing pure to eat, drink, or inhale. This has just begun, the torturing of self. So in the beginning, before the critical situation comes, we say begin to practice. Not because you are teaching yoga for the money. Many are teaching because of the money. Many times people are telling me, “Swamiji, now we are in another time. Yoga in daily life is very simple.” I say, yes, simple but powerful, simple but successful. No, we need something strong. One lady gave me an example about seven years ago. We had a lecture in Sydney Āśram, and she was coming from the Paramahaṁsa Rāmakṛṣṇa institution. She gave an example about simplicity, and she gave the example of the Second World War. So there were three who were the main persons fighting. One was Hitler. The other was from Russia—what was his name? Stalin, Stalin. And the third was from France, or someone. No, America... Mussolini, Mussolini, Italy. Okay, does not matter. And they met together, like always, they did in some clubs and restaurants, and said, “Oh, today you are the best.” The best one? You talk badly about me. But I give you one more vodka to drink. So they were sitting and discussing, “Who will be the winner in this war?” And there was a big villa with a nice swimming pool. So, Mr. Hitler, he took the gun and he tried to shoot fish in the water. It was not successful. The other one, he said, “I will catch.” He jumped in and tried to catch fish, but he could not. And he tried to catch the fish with his hands, but he did not manage to do it. For five hours, four or five hours, failed. Then Stalin said, “Well, it is very hard to be successful, a winner.” And they were drinking coffee, so he was sitting near the swimming pool. And with a spoon, he tried to throw the water out. And they said, “What are you doing? Are you crazy?” He said, “I am not crazy. I am going to win. What do you mean? I will catch the fish alive, and this is my technique, spoon by spoon, put the water out.” And he did. Part 2: Day by Day, Stone by Stone: Discipline, Fasting, and the Purification of Consciousness “Day by day, stone by stone, who sang this song?” That’s it. For the friends from Ashish. So, if you understand and would like to be successful in this life and reach the Brahmaloka, then yoga in life is perfect for you and your practitioners. Yoga in life is the blessing of Alakhpurījī, Shiva, Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī. It is not merely exercise—and not exercise in the sense of building up your heart muscles—but it is a treatment for your body, mind, and soul: physical, mental, social, and spiritual. It is about physical, mental, social, and spiritual balance. When I speak about Pūrṇimā day, I sit and think. I cannot swim to catch the fish; I swim through the whole Western world. Fasting is a principle, a discipline. Aṣṭāṅga Yoga Anuśāsana. Anuśāsana. And then there is given what one should not do. Fasting has a great effect on your physical health, your mental health, your spiritual health, and your intellect. And your consciousness, and the best of the best—what you could do for your body to remove certain hidden toxins, like cancer treatment or prevention—is fasting. God gave us everything within our body. That which is not good for the body, God gives certain energy and immunities in the body to remove those things, which you cannot remove through antibiotics. And that is, the best is fasting. Fast for ten days, only water. Two months, only water, and then die. So you have to consult with your doctor or someone; and this fasting means your body is eating more than every day, but eating those restless energies, unnecessary energies, foreign bodies in our body, and all dead cells which are stuck somewhere. Before eighty, ninety, or a hundred years ago, people were more disciplined, fasting and so on. They had less cancer. Nowadays, unfortunately, nearly every third person has cancer. So, fast. One Mahātma said that it is not easy to master the ten senses, but two are very hard: the gender desires and the taste of the tongue. Very, very hard. Suddenly, the hand goes there even if it’s very dark. So we are experts in these things. One king said, “If someone can bring me one goat…” Many people agreed to become king, so they brought their goats, which were eating all day, and then they brought them to the king. The stomach of the goat was like a drum. He said, “Your Highness, my goat is completely satisfied. Not hungry at all, can’t eat anymore.” So he said, “Bring, please.” And he had very nice green leaves. He did like this, and the goat came and began to eat. He said, “Take your goat.” So no one was capable, or no one could be successful, in bringing one goat which would not immediately attack again while eating. So then one man trained his goat. When she had eaten enough and he saw something the goat wanted to eat, he was hitting her mouth. It took some years, and then one day he fed his goat and brought it near the king. The king took the nice green branch of the tree, and he saw the goat. At the same time, the man was standing, and he saw the little goat. A stick and a goat didn’t eat because the stick was there. That’s it. So we all need a stick of discipline, because, definitely, we were a goat in our last life. Why not? Goats are good. It is said, however much goat meat you eat, that many times you have to become a goat. So, to understand and do something, and don’t be attached to your body. Of course, our body has desires. We have hunger, we have thirst, we are ill, we are healthy, we feel cold, we feel warm. We are not used to what we call Einstein. We had no dress; we spent the time under the stones or the rocks—that was also time, Satya Yuga times, but we are talking about the ṛṣis and so, no? Now, in the film, they are nicely dressed and beautiful. And it comes, Śiva and Śakti, Pārvatī, Lakṣmī. And Satya Yuga is creating, and I am wondering. Was there so much makeup also? So nicely made up and everything, and dressed, and nails were nice, and there was nothing. Even the nails were longer, and it was going like this. But we create what we like, so Śiva is different than how we see. But we haven’t seen before, or we haven’t seen him or her at all, so we can believe like that. But now we know what the real picture of Mahāprabhujī and Gurujī is, so now we know. And if someone shows us some wrong picture and says, “This is Mahāprabhujī,” we will say, “No, no, no.” Or your Swāmījī. It doesn’t matter how he is. Therefore, Pūrṇa, we are coming from the Pūrṇa, completeness. And we have to become Pūrṇa. But we have many layers of clouds over our soul. There are so many layers, we can’t come out. These are the karmic layers. These are different energies which come to our body. And that energy disrupts us, so there are certain meditation techniques. There is also one person who is giving a meditation retreat. I don’t know what technique they call it. It’s called something, I’ve forgotten. And when he gives the seminar retreat, there are about a thousand people, or five hundred, or a hundred. And you have to apply. Then they will send you the questions. And you have to fill in an answer. And then they will decide if they will accept you or not. So you are not talking with anyone, only computer to letter to letter. And so many questions. Even you don’t get so many questions to get a visa for some country. Then they said, “There is a fixed sleeping place with one mat and one blanket on the floor. This place is only two square meters or something. Your eating place is fixed; only you will sit there and eat. And your own medicine mat, asana, and given place—there you should sit only. And keep the distance between two bodies at least one and a half meters. And not even mistakenly do you touch someone’s body. Eating will be only this and this. And you have to get up at that time and practice.” Many, many things. If you agree, then you send back, “I read, I understood. And my own decision, my responsibility, please accept me.” Then you go there. And so many people are waiting on the waiting list for his seminar. And really, the serious practitioners are going there. 99.8% of us will fail. We will not be accepted for his seminar. So, the changing of the energy, when touched to somebody, immediately brings a layer of his or her energy into your body. So, how many times would you touch someone? Each of her energies has many layers on you. How many different kinds of nourishment have you had? So there are many, many experiences and feelings. All of it is in our body. It is said two are immortal now in this world. One is ātmā, and second is plastic. So this plastic we can’t destroy. And so that is in our body, in the air, everywhere. So similarly, certain energy, going and talking and sitting with certain negative people who are against your path or your principles, that destroys your many, many years of work. If you have so many negative layers within your citta, your consciousness, then you can find out very easily yourself. It’s not difficult to find out. And that is, are you offended by some things? Are you angry? Are you greedy? Are you selfish? Are you negative? Are you talking negative words? The light will give the light, but if it has a red filter on it, it will give the red light. Are you selfish? If someone tells you something, you explode like popcorn on a frying pan. This is your analysis to know who you are and how you are. So, my dear, who am I to declare you have many, many negative layers? Such a layer we can only purify by constantly remaining in that consciousness, as Gurujī said, “O Mahāprabhujī, please dwell in my eyesight.” O Mahāprabhujī, please dwell in my eyes. Nitha Nitha Prem Mera Adhika Badhi Jo, day by day my devotion, my prayer, my love should grow. It should grow. It should not go down. It should not become less. Increasing, it should not decrease. Sometimes it’s hard. Why is it sometimes hard? Because suddenly that negative layer comes up. Then you don’t like this place. You don’t like these techniques. You don’t like these people. You don’t want this. Liking and disliking, that in between is a certain energy. So, like it is said, “Chandan makkī par hare durgandhi vaha ut jāī, aisī agyānī satsaṅg narsune unge kī ut jāī.” Like a one fly… One man was preparing a sandal paste, which has a very good smell, a very, very nice fragrance. So the fly came and sat on that sandal paste. But she was not feeling pleasure, and suddenly someone made dirt somewhere. A child made a toilet. And immediately, that fly flew onto the toilet. The Chandanamakhi Parharī, that fly which was sitting on the sandal pest, flew to the dirt. Similarly, that person who has the very, very negative layers in the antahkaraṇa will go away from real spirituality to the gossiping society. If you put a honey bee on the dirt, even you put it in some vase, and put the dirt, and put this fly inside, she will die. Because her karma, her quality of life was on the blood of flowers. Therefore, sometimes even if something is dear to you, but negativity, you must go away. And, of course, do not think that you are not a divine person. Don’t say, “Mahāprabhujī is talking in me.” There are some people who say, “I am born as Mahāprabhujī.” And one day, I went to Mahāprabhujī, like this. “Mahāprabhujī, what did you say? Mahāprabhujī said, what? Mahesh, I didn’t say anything. Calm down.” But I said, “This person is telling that you are talking to him.” He said it is his ignorance, but they said, “You are incarnating in that.” He said, “Yes, my bhajans incarnate in them. If they will follow, then it’s okay.” So, my dear, don’t dream. It’s not easy; it’s like that. Often, I get emails: “Guru Dev, now I’m pregnant. And I dream, Holy Gurujī is incarnating, he is in my body.” I said, “Yes, wait and see. I will come for the darśan.” It’s not like that, my dear. Don’t dream, it harms you. Don’t make yourself in this way that the others think that you are holy. But is it true? I speak what Mahāprabhujī spoke through the bhajans. I realize that, bhajans. I feel that, and I realize it is good. And so I’m talking to you. So Mahāprabhujī said, “Don’t be angry; be nice to all. Work to all.” Mahāprabhujī said to Holī Gurujī, when Holī Gurujī took sannyāsa, “What is my duty? In which way can I serve you?” Mahāprabhujī said, “Serve the entire creation as a service to me.” That’s it. And protect yourself from negativity. So when there are still many negative layers, other energy from some others, then some days you are good, then again you are angry or offended. Chittai hoto esi, what a terrible spot of some fat or something. Anek janam dhoye man ko, citte ho to aisī ho. Phaṭāḍe man viṣayāse, khāte ho to aisī ho. Paramār ho jisko, khāne se miṭṭhe ho to aisī ho. I will translate maybe tomorrow if you remind me. Therefore, some people come here and say, “Well, today is full moon and Guruvār, we should fast.” And someone else said, “No, why not? We can fast at home; here we paid money, so we must eat. How to take our money back?” That’s it. So you take your money into your stomach. Doesn’t matter, even if it’s poison. I paid for it. And there are some others who think differently. One man didn’t like medicine and doctors. And he was always talking bad about medicine and doctors. And one day he said to his friend, to whom he was always talking very negatively, “Can you go with me to the doctor?” “You?” “Yes, me. I realized something. Come, we must go to the doctor.” So the doctor brought some medicine. And you have to pay, of course, a fee to the doctor. Then he went to the medical shop and bought the medicine. Then he went for a walk with his friend over the bridge. A big river was flowing, and he threw the medicine in the water. His friend said, “I think you are mentally not in order.” He said, “I think I am perfect mentally.” “What do you mean?” He said, “What do you mean? That I am not mentally good.” He said, “You talk bad about doctors. And now you went to him, and you gave him money. You talk bad about medicine, but you bought the medicine. And how stupid you are, putting the medicine away. Why did you pay?” He said, “You know, my dear, because the doctor also has to leave something. So I begged only for that, that he get some money. Then why did you buy the medicine? The pharmacy must also live. Then why did you throw the medicine in the water? Because I also want to live.” Thank you. So you sing the bhajan, so webcast, Hari Om, tomorrow what time is it? The program begins tomorrow. What time in the morning? My lecture. Okay, tomorrow’s webcast will be between 11 and 12.