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Oṃ tryambakaṃ yajāmahe sugandhiṃ puṣṭi vardhanam, urvārukam iva bandhanān mṛtyor mukṣīya māmṛtāt. Oṃ tryambakaṃ yajāmahe sugandhiṃ puṣṭi vardhanam, urvārukam iva bandhanān mṛtyor mukṣīya māmṛtāt. Oṃ Tryambakaṃ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṃ Puṣṭi Vardhanam, Urvārukamiva Bandhanān Mṛtyormukṣīya Mā’mṛtāt. Oṁ tryambakaṁ yajāmahe sugandhiṁ puṣṭi vardhanam, urvārukam iva bandhanān mṛtyor mukṣīya māmṛtāt... Oṁ Tryambhakam yajāmahe sugandhiṁ puṣṭi-vardhanam Urvārukam iva bandhanān mṛtyormukṣīya māmṛtāt. Oṁ Tryambhakam yajāmahe sugandhiṁ puṣṭi-vardhanam Urvārukam iva bandhanān mṛtyormukṣīya māmṛtāt. Hold the water pot like this on the palm. Once more, please. Hold the water pot like this. Not like that. If your hand is trembling, then of course you can hold it like this. Oṃ Tryambakaṃ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṃ Puṣṭi Vardhanam, Urvārukamiva Bandhanān Mṛtyormukṣīya Mā’mṛtāt. Oṃ Tryambakaṃ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṃ Puṣṭi Vardhanam, Urvārukamiva Bandhanān Mṛtyormukṣīya Mā’mṛtāt.... Come this side. Now sing Śivo’ham, Śivo’ham. Chant Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya. Change the melody. We have one option. Thank you. Those who are sitting very far behind have an option to come here in front and sit, but without pillows and without big bags. You are most welcome to come from the back and sit here in front. We have nearly five meters of space. Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya. Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya... Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya! Oṁ! Śivāya, Śivāya,... Śivāya. Now we will have a little different melody. Oṁ tryambhakaṁ yajāmahe sugandhiṁ puṣṭivardhanam, urvārukamiva bandhanān mṛtyormukṣīya māmṛtāt. Oṁ tryambhakaṁ yajāmahe sugandhiṁ puṣṭivardhanam, urvārukamiva bandhanān mṛtyormukṣīya māmṛtāt. Oṁ tryambhakaṁ yajāmahe sugandhiṁ puṣṭivardhanam. Feel the resonance of this mantra throughout your whole body. It has a very divine vibration. It is healing for each and every cell of the body. It is tranquilizing our mental waves, harmonizing body, mind, and soul. It awakes within us the Svayambhū Śivajyoti. Svayambhū Śivajyoti. The sound, what is that? This heater, close it, or heat up? Okay, you feel cold? Who feels cold? Hand up, please. One person, you come here, sit this side. Yes, sit near me, you will be warm. Oh, now feel the vibration, be one with thyself. Feel this divine atmosphere and Svayambhū Śiva, Ādi Anādi. You come this side. Continue. You again fell into the old melody. Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya... Those who came late and would like to make the abhiṣeka, you are most welcome. So please continue, and now we’ll come to some bhajan. But you must chant mentally, "Oṁ Tryambhakaṁ." Again. Siddhānanda Rūpaṁ Śivo’haṁ. Let them sing, we cannot. Om Śrī Devīśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai. Śrī Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī Jai. Viśva Kūrma Maṇḍaleśvara Śrī Svāmī Īśvarānandjī Gurudeva Kī Jai. Ādi Guru Śaṅkarācārya Bhagavān Kī Jai. Oṁ Kāra Bindu Sanyuktaṁ Nityam Dhyāyanti Yoginaḥ. Kāmaṁ Mokṣaṁ Ca Mānuṣāṇāṁ Dadāti. Om karayā namo brahmānandaṁ bharmasukham kevalam jñāna-mūratim vandātītam gagana-sadrasyaṁ tāsmasyādi-lākṣiyam ekaṁ nityām vimala-ācalam sārvatī-sākṣipūtītam tri-guṇārahitaṁ uthiyanka chittanina jashro chit chakranetre. Jātī chittānandarū chittasam chavāvāsakośa. Na vādipādo na jopāsthapayu, Jitānāṃ śivu, jitānāṃ daṃ śivu. Na me tviṣā rāgo na me lobha mohau, Madho naivam etsarya pavakṣaḥ. Itānandaru śivo’ham, Na pāpa na śaukyaṁ na duḥkhaṁ, Na mantra ayakya ahaṁ bhojanam. God bless you. Dhanānandarū Śivo’haṁ Śivo’haṁ Dhanānandarū Nirvikalpu Hirakaru Vyāpyasar Sarveya Bhavānśiva Śrī Devīśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai. Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya. Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya. Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya... Om Namaḥ Śivāya, Om Namaḥ Śivāya,... Om Namaḥ Śivāya. We all know that it’s the day and night of Svayambhū Śiva. Around the whole world, this festival is celebrated. Each and every Shiva temple and the millions of the bhaktas are worshipping throughout all the continents. So we are lucky that we can be here today and that we are Śivamaya. Shiva Maya means one with Shiva. Feel his energy, feel his light, and feel his blessings. We are here in the Vape; it is a very big luck, a fortune, to be with the Gurudev on Mahāśivarātri day. In yoga, we have two great festivals: Mahāśivarātri and Guru Pūrṇimā. For both, it is great luck, a great blessing, to be with our Gurudev in the shelter of the Paramparā. What is Mahāśivarātri? We know almost everything from Swāmījī. The meaning of Śiva, Swāmījī also said last time. When we speak about the Śiva Liṅgam, that is the whole universe, and inside is the Śakti. But in yoga, we must look not only directly, but also in the secret meaning. When we spoke about the Śiva Liṅgam, we also said that our head is the Śiva Liṅgam, and inside is Śiva, the Conscience. For us, for Yoga in Daily Life, for Śrī Ālāpurījī Siddhāpīṭ Paramparā, Mahā Śivarātri has also one very, very great meaning. If you read Līlā Amṛt, we know that on the night of Mahāśivarātri, the mother of Mahāprabhujī was meditating, and she said that she would not stop her meditation until Śivajī would come to her. She had a real decision: fasting and meditating until Shiva would come in her meditation. In Strelka, Swamiji spoke about two things which are very hard for us: fasting and Mauna. Imagine us when we want to sit in meditation and say, "We will not stop meditation until Śivajī comes and we have a darśana of Śiva." Maybe in the first 15 minutes, it’s okay. But after that, maybe he will not come. And our decision is slowly melting like ice in the sun. That is our problem. Our determination and our decision that we will fast and we will have a meditation, that is very important. Now, when we have Mahāśivarātri, for us it is also a new year. Somehow it is a new year. Every day is a new year, but for us, for seekers, for bhaktas of Śrī Devapurījī, Mahāśivarātri is also a new year. On this new year, Mahāśivarātri is good to decide something, to have a saṅkalpa, especially for our spiritual life, for our sādhanā. When we decide something, try to be really like the mother of Mahāprabhujī. She was determined to sit and meditate until Shiva would come. And when we have such determination, Śivajī will come. In her meditation, Śrī Devapurījī came. And he said that in nine months, the incarnation of great light will come on this planet. And that is the Dīvālī, the birthday of Mahāprabhujī. For us, Mahā Śivarātri has an even deeper meaning, because of the first announcement that the great light, the deep, will come on this planet. What is to be said on this occasion of Mahā Śivarātri? Only be aware: what is this Mahā Śivarātri? It is not only to come to the Śiva Liṅgam and make Abhiṣeka, but there is a meaning: that we also must come down and have peace inside in our mind. Because this Abhiṣeka is also making down our high wave of emotion and also our vṛttis. And only through that yoga, chitta vṛtti nirodha, we will gain our aim. Swamijī just now said that everywhere in the world, Abhiṣeka is singing whole-night bhajans and kīrtans, but somehow I will say that we are the most lucky, because the embodiment of Śiva is with us. In this energy, try to be. You know the story about a spoon: if we put a spoon in the honey, it depends on the material of the spoon, metal or wood. A metal spoon may stay in the honey for a thousand years, but after washing, it will be without taste. But a wooden spoon, only after 10 days, will take a nice, pleasant taste of the honey after washing. For us, if we are open, and if we try to be a wooden spoon, this occasion of Mahā Śivarātri and this divine energy of Śivajī will make that nectar, that amṛt, remain in us. But if we are like a metal spoon, we will lose almost everything. Whether we are a wooden or metal spoon depends only on our state of mind. If we are all the time quarreling inside in our head and all the time a little angry and bitter, we will be mentally poor. And we will lose this divine opportunity to be in this energy and have a darśan. Also, if you watch a webcast, there is also the possibility of using a metal or wooden spoon during the webcast. I will tell you an anecdote. About 35 years ago, I saw my grandma watching television. On television was the Pope giving a service. And she was sitting in the chair with a cup of coffee and a cigarette, watching the TV. She was a really good Catholic, but in that moment she was completely like a metal spoon. At the same time, in the same way, watching a webcast with Swāmījī during Mahāśivarātri or any other occasion, with good thought, with the same feeling, same ambiance, we will not have 100%, but we will have a lot of this opportunity to have a darśan. But if we are watching it like some other movie, we will lose this opportunity. When we have these two things in practice, what Swamiji said in Sri Lanka, that is very hard for us: fasting and mauna. Mauna is not only when we are not physically speaking. At the same time, when we are without speaking, when we are in the silence, who knows what is in our head? And really, for us, it is really hard to have a mauna, but inner in the head, without thought. Yesterday in Zagreb, we had a really nice Mauna. When we finished Abhiṣeka, after prayer, we had a Prasāda, and people were fasting the whole day. In that moment, when we got a nice fruit salad, it was completely Mauna, because people were so satisfied with this prasad. I thought, "It would be excellent for our meditation to have the same state of mind." Now when we are here, when we have the opportunity to make Abhiṣeka and also to be with Swāmījī and have a darśan, try to have mauna. Yes, we are singing mantras and bhajans, but also try to have a mauna, an antar mauna, a silence. I will not speak anymore for tonight. I think that is a great luck, and try to be and utilize this time with the Swāmījī. On this very auspicious occasion of Mahāśivarātri, there is no festival which is called Mahā. Only the Śivarātri is called Mahāśivarātri. There is only one who is called Mahādev. Meditation on Mahādev is the highest meditation. We know the spiritual science of yoga, the mantras, the yantras, all the philosophies, including the Devanāgarī. It is by that Lord Śiva. Let’s experience a little bit. You sit in meditation posture. You may keep your eyes open or closed. And take the mala in your hands. Observe your whole being here. Feel your body. Feel the resonance in the body, which is resonating in each and every atom of the body and also radiating out of your body. The Divine Śivajyoti within ourselves as Ātmajyoti is getting brighter and brighter. Let’s spend a few minutes in the presence of that Mahādev, Svayaṃbhū, Śiva. With this mantra of immortality. You know, one of the names of Śiva is called Tryambakam. And where you see Śiva’s four heads, four hands, and with two hands, he is making Abhiṣeka. Śiva and Śakti in oneness. Further, we will speak after. So with your mala, you will change the pole of your mala after each mantra. And you will chant all together. This is what we regularly sing, and now we chant for the meditation. Where we observe ourselves within our whole being. All the kośas, the five kośas, are resonating in and out of your being. As in the Vedas, this mantra is described. Oṁ tryambhakaṁ yajāmahe sugandhiṁ puṣṭivardhanam, urvārukam iva bandhanān mṛtyormukṣīya māmṛtāt. This mantra removes the fear of the dead. This mantra is a healing mantra for those who have problems, what we call phobias. This mantra is protecting us from accidents. This mantra liberates us from the bondage of this world very smoothly, without any suffering on both sides, neither we nor our other family members. Feel the vibration. Oṁ Tryambhakaṁ yajāmahe sugandhiṁ puṣṭivardhanam, urvārukamiva bandhanān mṛtyormukṣīya māmṛtāt. This mantra goes through and through, also purifying our chakras. That Ādi Śakti, Mūla Śakti, Pūraṇa Śakti, Divya Śakti, Viśva Śakti, that which is dwelling in the power of the Kuṇḍalinī from the foundation, which is the foundation of the entire creation, that is sustainable. That Divine Śakti makes its path to all the cakras and merges into the Sahasrāra Cakra. It means that energy and consciousness become one in eternity. Oṃ Tryambakaṃ yajāmahe sugandhiṃ puṣṭi-vardhanam, urvārukam iva bandhanān mṛtyor mukṣīya māmṛtāt. Now, close your eyes and enter into your inner space, and try to see your physical body as transparent, at least. And the waves of this Śakti, of the Śiva-Śakti, let your inner space expand and listen to the resonance of this Mahāmṛtyu Jaya Mantra. The resonance, how far goes one with your inner self? That’s not your voice, that’s not your chantings.