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O sākṣāt param brahma tasmai śrī gurve namaḥ. Dhyāna mūlaṁ gurur mūrtiḥ, pūjā mūlaṁ gurur padam, mantra mūlaṁ gurur vākyaṁ, mokṣa mūlaṁ gurur kṛpā. Oṁ dīpo jyotir parabrahma, dīpo sarva tamopahaḥ, dīpena sādhyate sarvaṁ, sandhyā dīpo namo’stu te. Oṁ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ. This is Śrī Deep Narāyaṇ Bhagavān’s salutation to the Cosmic Light. The light of the entire universe is the same light of our life, the same light which is in each and every atom. That cosmic light, which we are searching to realize, is already within ourselves. That cosmic light may lead us from darkness to light: Tamaso mā jyotir gamaya. But that light is only possible through Guru Kṛpā. Therefore, it is said, "Dhyānamūlaṁ Gurumūrtiḥ"—from the embodiment of the Gurudev, from the Guru Tattva, that light can be awakened in your heart and enlighten your Ājñā Chakra. The source of the light, which gives light to the whole universe—all the stars, all the planets, and the sun—is that original cosmic light, Prakāś Pañjam Ṛtaki Sāgar. That cosmic light resides in the ocean of nectar. That ocean of nectar is love, Param Ānanda, the bliss, supreme bliss. And that is resonating throughout the whole universe. The giver of that light is Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī. It is he who will bestow this light to all the seekers of spirituality, the aspirants who would like to attain that ātmā-jñāna, and those who are searching for peace, harmony, love, and contentment. Mahāprabhujī. Na ahaṁ kartā prabudhi pakartā. Mahāprabhujī pakartā hi kevalam. He who is doing. We are not the doer. We are just like instruments in his divine hands. Give thyself into his hands, and the light will be within you. It is that light that will protect you. That light which is within you will one day be visible, awakened, and it is that light which will enlighten our path to the Brahmaloka. Without Guru Kṛpā, it is impossible to get that light. And Gurudev, such as Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, Śrī Devpurījī, Holy Gurujī, and many thousands of the great saints of this world—the great holy incarnations of this divine planet where many, many great saints and incarnations have incarnated and manifested—that Light can be realized on this planet. Today is a very auspicious day. In India, this day is celebrated with great happiness and joy. Today is a more important day than Rakṣabandhan, more important than Dīvālī. Diwali is already at the door, and today will be Diwali, but today is a very significant day. Every house, every ashram, and every institution is adorned today. They call today Dhan Terash. Terash means the thirteenth, the thirteenth dark night after the full moon. Two days before Pavali, dhana means wealth, dhana means money. Now, who doesn’t adore money? There is one story. One day, God Viṣṇu was residing on the coiled, thousand-headed Śeṣa Nāga in the ocean of nectar, Sīrsāgara. That is the puñj of prakāś, puñj amṛta ke sāgar. In that amṛta, the divine light is residing. In the form of Viṣṇu and Lakṣmī, he is the faithful one. Where Viṣṇu goes, Lakṣmī goes. She is a faithful one. One day, Lakshmi was doing seva, massaging the holy feet of Viṣṇu. And there was one bhakta praying. Lakṣmī said to Viṣṇu, "Look how deep he is praying." Vishnu said, "Yes, Lakshmi, he is my bhakta, my devotee." Lakshmi dared to say, "Always, he was not saying the opposite." From time to time, she said, "Sorry, my lord, I would like to correct." "What? You will correct? Did I say something wrong?" "No, Lord, you didn’t say something wrong. But it’s something different, you see. A great bhakti disciple, a faithful one, even your wife or your husband will not say you are wrong. Instead of using the word 'wrong,' you can say it’s a little different—negative and positive." Viṣṇu smiled and said, "Yes, beautiful one. Tell my Lord, he’s not your devotee, he’s my devotee." Now, Viṣṇu said, "Yes, yes... My devotee is also your devotee." She said, "No, Lord. My devotee, he is my devotee." "How do you mean this?" "I can prove, my Lord, if you want." "Okay, how?" "Let’s go to the Mṛti Loka and let’s go to your Bhakta." He said, "Must we do this?" She said, "Yes, to make it clear for you. You become a sanyāsī, a sādhu. And I will also become a sanyāsī, a sādhu. And you go to your bhakta and tell him, 'Now is the monsoon time, chaturmās.' And you are searching for some place where you can do chāturmās, to stay four months in one place." God Vishnu, in the form of a sanyāsī, went. That businessman, that saint, did not know it was Vishnu. How should he know? You never know who is coming in which form to you. Even you don’t know whether it is CID police, secret police, or not. How do you know? You don’t know what is going on in his mind or her mind. Vishnu said to the merchant, "Bhakta, I would like to make a chaturmās." He said, "Oh my Lord, Swamiji, what a great mercy of the divine. I am a blessed one. Please, may I offer you my house?" He said, "No, I don’t stay in any house. If you stay in some house, cāturmā will not be successful. In the ashram, temple, dharamshala, gufā, the cave, or a hut, or a tent, or under a tree, but not in a household’s house." Merchant said, "Lord, Gurudev, I have newly made a home." "No, we never stayed there." "You will be the first one who will stay in that house, my Lord. Stay, please, yes, bhakta. But one thing: when I will put once my āsana there, for four months nobody should move this āsana, my bed. It will be there for four months." He said, "I promise you, not only four months, lifelong, Gurudev." "Search which room you would like." There was a very nice, beautiful room, and Gurudev said, "This is the best room. Then please reside here. It is your āsana here. Do what you like. It is yours." Again he said, "Sheth Merchant, jiske mobile hai. Baar phaik do. Jao uth karke ya bandh karo. Anybody jiske paas mobile hai, ya to disconnect karo ya baar jaa karke vaar phaik do paani ki tanki mein. Again, I ask you, I will not move from here. Naiprabhu, stay here, please." So, Swamījī came and relaxed and sat in that room. Evening was a beautiful satsaṅg, and we were very happy. The whole family was happy. The whole village people were happy. All, oh, we are lucky. This Chāturmās and this monsoon time, we will have one saint for four months, only for us. The next day, Lakshmījī is coming. Also, Lakṣmī Jī is in the sanyāsī dress, an orange dress, very beautiful, young, with long hair and a strong body, the light, the radiance, the abhāma and aura. And she also came to see it and said, "Oh, Swāmījī, Swāmījī, welcome, welcome... how are you?" "Very good, Bhakta. I am going somewhere to find a place to stay for Cāturmās." Said, "Well, we have some Swāmījī already for Cāturmās, but I am very happy to offer you a place. How beautiful it will be, two Swamis in this village. Great." She said, "Well, I will talk after I’m thirsty. Give me water to drink." They brought water in the tree. She said, "No, no... I don’t drink out of this glass. I have my own glass." And she took from her jholī, from her bag, a golden glass, very big and heavy, half kilo gold in this glass. They put... said the merchant was thinking this. The lady must be very rich. She drank water, and she threw it. "Use and throw" began from that time. "Please, one glass more water." Again, water. She took the glass, a new one, and got water in the glass, drank, and threw it. After she did, it is my time to... Have a cup of herbal tea, neem tea. There was no coffee and such things, and they brought, and see, they brought a nice tray and a beautiful cup. She said, "No, no, I don’t take in this. I have my own cup." She took the cup and plate, nice and big, and she drank and threw it. The merchant said, "Swami, why do you throw this? It seems a golden pot." She said, "Yes, it’s gold. But I use only once. It doesn’t matter, my eating plate, or my bathing water bucket, or a spoon, or glass, or katorī, or cup, anything. I eat and throw it, and it must be pure gold." That merchant was thinking, "Oh, this Swāmījī will make cāturmāsa in my house. I will be the richest of the rich." He said, "I invite you not only for four months, but for four years, please." She said, "No, no... four months. But show me the place where is the best place to see," said the merchant man. He went with Swāmī Sādhu, the lady, and she went from one room to another room, from one house to another house. And then she saw one room, beautiful and nice and big. "This is my room." Swāmījī was there already, sitting inside, Viṣṇu. Vishnu smiled, "Oh, Lakṣmījī came already? Well, she went away and said, 'I want to have my āsana there, and this is my room. Otherwise, I will go.' He said, 'Please, this room, that room, other room, but not this one.' She said, 'Okay, I don’t care. I will go.' Finished, then, please." Wait for a while, have a cup of milk. And they brought a big glass of milk because he will have a big pot, then give the milk. And he went to the Swāmījī and said, "Swāmījī, please, one request: can you change the room?" He said, "What? I told you yesterday, I will not change till four months." Again, he went to the other Swāmījī and said, "No, only that room." Again, he came to Swamiji, and again, there, Lakṣmījī said, in the form of a sanyāsī, he did not know that it was Viṣṇu and Lakṣmī. Lakṣmījī said, "I told you, you cannot fulfill my wish. I go." He said, "No, no, please don’t go, please don’t go. I pray, I request you, please sit. The room will be free within five minutes, please take a seat." He went to the room and he said, "Swāmījī, this is not your father’s house, get out from here, otherwise I will get the police." Bhagavān Viṣṇu said, "I told you." "What did you say? It’s okay, good. I was very kind to you. I was a good host and everything. Always yes, yes, yes. It means not that you have your house forever. My house, out." Vishnu took his āsana, put it in his armpit, and his kamaṇḍalu. Narayan, Narayan, Narayan. Vishnu is doing the Om Namah Shivay mantra. Which one? Om Namah Śivāya. Om Namah Śivāya... And then he said, "Cleaned," and with the water nicely, and made a beautiful new bed, and said to Lakṣmījī, "Welcome, please. Room is waiting for you." She came in, but where is the sādhu? Swāmījī was here. "Oh, I throw him out," Lakshmi said. "My boy, because of my gold, you throw away, send away that sādhu. Because I produced so much gold. You are greedy for the gold, not me. Now, somebody will come with the diamonds. What will you do? He will throw me out. Therefore, I will not stay here. I go." So Lakshmījī went away. After a few kilometers, Lakshmījī came to Viṣṇu and said, "My lord, excuse me, sorry, you had a trouble." Vishnu said, "I understand, the whole world is your bhakti. Savi Lakshmī jī ke pūjārī hai, especially in Kalyuga." Let’s go back. So Lakṣmī and Viṣṇu went to Śrī Sāgar again to show this, that people are looking for wealth, not for God, not for spirituality. The spiritual light is getting day by day dimmer and dimmer because Mahātmā Gandhi said, "Mother Earth has enough for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed." So greed has risen up, therefore people adore today as a day of wealth. But authentic, according to the śāstras, according to the mythology and the reality today, it is not Dhanteras, but Dhanvantari. Today is a day of Lord Dhanvantari. Long ago, in Satyuga time, the Devas and Asuras wanted to be immortal. From the very beginning, Adi and Adi Kāl say, two forces are fighting: Āsurī Śakti and Devīk Śakti. Sometimes Devīk Śakti is dominating, and sometimes Āsurī Śakti is dominating. In Kali Yuga, it is more Āsurī Śakti. They would like to be immortal. Devas and Asuras. Devas are those who did good work: seva, karma yoga, bhakti, many things. And they came to the heaven, to the Venkuṇḍa, svarga. They couldn’t come to mokṣa, brahma loka, only svarga loka. Brahma loka is only when the guru kṛpā is there. In the swarga, after enjoying all the benefits of your good karma yoga, niṣkāma karma yoga, your bhakti, and your sādhanā, you came to the swarga, and now you have a heavenly life, a godly life, a divine life. But it is said, "Swarga ke karma pūrī ho jāne, phir vah chaurāsī me ānā paḍegā." Isi liye dev bhī bhagavān se prathānā karte haiṅ, "He Prabhu, all the divine souls who come to what they call the svargaloka, you may call the heaven." They pray to God. God, all the benefits of our good deeds, when this is credited all to us, what is after? After, again we have to go to the marti-loka, the mortal world. Lord, be so merciful and give us this human life, that we may do guru-bhakti, guru-sevā. So that again, through the human body, let me serve Gurudeva. As much as you have devotion and faith, your divine light becomes brighter. When you have doubt and anger, your divine light goes off. Like you have a candle flame in your hands, and wind comes and blows it off. Your doubt, uncertainty, your complexes, that is your enemy. The biggest rock, biggest distraction, the lemon in the milk, is doubt. Doubt is a crack in the wall, newly made, a building, but there is a crack, and that building’s life will not be very long. Therefore, bhaktas should try their best and block all the negative thoughts, negative hearing, and negative reading, and all the gashaping. You should have a self-protector, like a bio-protector. You should be protected from those bacteria’s blackmailing. Otherwise, you can’t come through. Chukhe ko charasi, when once you miss, you will fall down again. That’s why it is said this path is like the sharpness of a knife. So to come to the Brahmaloka, to immortality, devas and asuras. It is said that at that time, everything was very big. They took one rock, a big mountain, one big hill. And they took one snake, a very, very long snake from the ocean. And they coiled the snake around the mountain, a very big hill, and they began churning the ocean to bring nectar. And it is said fourteen Ratnas came out from the churning of that ocean. 14 Ratna came out. Ratna means jewelry, the jewels. Now, a jewel must not be only the precious stones. The jewel must not be something like a pearl. But it can be something different. Very, very valuable, the best, only and only and only that one, that’s all. And so, there were coming many, many, also what they call alcohol came out of this. There is no two alcohols, only one alcohol. It can be little or more. Finally, came God Viṣṇu with Amṛt Kalaś. And Amṛt Kalash means, Kalash means the pot. In that, his hand, the pot was full of the nectar, and before also the poison came. And we know poison is a poison. When they produced, they came, the poison out of the ocean begins to come, the poison. No one wants to drink that poison. Who is ready to drink the poison? But if they throw poison anywhere on the earth, the earth will be destroyed. If they throw the poison into the ocean, the ocean life will be destroyed. Though it is coming out of the ocean, it is a production of the ocean, but that can destroy the ocean. Like your own feelings and your thoughts come out of you, and that can destroy you also. Within you is a poison, and within you is a nectar. Within you is everything. Within you is the ocean of bliss, and within you is the fountain of joy. Within you is the immortal Ātmā. Kill this little "I" and lead a divine life. That is within you. Your positive thought is your nectar, and your negative feelings, no matter towards whom, are a poison. And you are poisoning day by day when you think negatively about anyone, or are jealous, or anything. Why can’t you think a little positive, clear? And if you think clearly, you are on the path of immortality. No problem, you take off, off you go. But not now, at the end of life. It means not that you die now, live long. The question was, who is going to take the nectar or the poison? Then, whenever in this universe some trouble came, all ran to Lord Śiva, Svayaṃbhū. Shiva is gracious, Shiva is a very, very merciful one. With a little request, he will say, okay. Shiva said to the Devas and Asuras, "Oh, what have you done? Out of your greediness, out of your selfishness, out of your ignorance, out of your stupidness, what have you done? Why? Your ātmā is immortal. You would like to be immortal in body. No question." They said, "But Lord, what to do with the poison? We all will die." Śiva said, for the sake of all creatures, not only for the sake of the Bharta, for the sake of all the creatures, and for the sake of even for the ocean, he should not have given you this poison. Better he should have kept the poison within him as it is, but give it to me, I will drink it. And Bhagavān Śiva, the Lord of the entire universe—Śiva means the consciousness. Shiva means the bliss, Shiva means the Brahma, Shiva means the divine, Shiva means the glory, Shiva means the beauty, and Shiva means the truth: satyam, śivam, sundaram. And Shiva took that poison, but he kept that poison near his viśuddhi chakra. In the throat, his whole throat and body became blue because of the poison, but through the practice, it seems that through the practice of Ujjāyī Prāṇāyāma and Jālandhara Bandha. Jalandhara Bandha to keep that poison there. And Ujjāyī Prāṇāyāma in Jālandhara Bandha, and with the Khecarī Mudrā, while receiving the nectar from the Bindu Cakra. He neutralized the poison with the Amṛta from Bindu Cakra. And that’s why the name of that Chakra became Viśuddhi Chakra. Viśuddhi, where the poison is purified. At that time, since that time, the Lord God Śiva’s name added one more name: Nīlakaṇṭha Mahādeva, the blue-throated great God Śiva. And today, God Viṣṇu finally, the Viṣṇu appeared with the nectar, which also was produced from the ocean. And because Viṣṇu is residing in the ocean, Viṣṇu. An entire universe in each atom. That Shakti, that consciousness, that power is there, is called Viṣṇu. Nectar came, and that nectar, which is called in Āyurveda, amṛta. When you drink that amṛt, you will become immortal. Therefore, it is said, "The first happiness is a healthy body." A healthy body is capable of doing sādhanā. If you have no healthy body, it is an obstacle for your sādhanā. If you have an ill mind, an unhealthy mind, you cannot do the sādhanā. Therefore, the body and the mind both must be healthy. When the mind is not healthy, then anger comes, jealousy comes, doubt comes, greediness comes, selfishness comes, and what not. And when the mind and body are healthy, divine thoughts come, forgiveness comes, understanding comes, oneness comes, light comes, wisdom, love, everything comes through the healthy. Hate is a distraction, and love is for unity, to unite. So Ayurveda is that many years old. Now, some books are writing that Ayurveda is 5,000 years old. Is it stupid? They don’t know. Was Dhanvantari only from 5,000 years ago? Many yugas have gone, and therefore the two things: yoga and Ayurveda. These are the two wings for a bird to fly to the Brahmaloka, and therefore today is a day of Āyurveda and for the Lord Dhanvantari, to worship the Lord Dhanvantari. Therefore, it is said, "Asato mā sad gamaya," lead us from the unreality to the reality, that we may think positively, that we may understand all, that we may forgive all, that we may see only the good things in all. Lord, let me see and hear and speak all the good things. "Tamo soma jyoti irgamaya." And lead us from the darkness of the ignorance, darkness of the suffering, darkness of the pain, darkness of the problems. Lord, lead us to the light of the wisdom, happiness, and love, and joy, and clarity, and understanding, and everything. "Mṛtyūrmāṁ mṛtyam gamaya," and lead us from mortality to immortality, that we realize self-realization, ātma-jñāna, that I am immortal. "Sarve śāṁsvasthir bhavatu." That’s only possible if everywhere there is good health, not only for humans. Animals should be healthy, vegetation must be healthy, the herbs should be healthy, the water should be healthy, the soil should be healthy, the environment, the space must be healthy, the atmosphere should be healthy, and my body and my mind should be healthy. Therefore, it is said, Sarve Śyam Svastir Bhavatu. Everywhere, not only that, I should be healthy. Sarve Śyām. Our health depends on our surrounding healthy atmosphere. Nowadays, pesticides. Nowadays, putting so much poison in vegetables while growing them. The crops are growing, the fruits are sprayed. So much poison is given. O human, you are poisoning yourself, you are poisoning your children, and you are poisoning all creatures. You are poisoning the old vegetation, and you are poisoning Mother Earth. You are poisoning the water because of greediness, and very soon the Earth will reject even this kind of fertilizer. It will not grow where you put this artificial fertilizer, which is like creating a cancer for the earth. And that will make a cancer for the people, too. And that’s why we see the mental disease. Physical disease, emotional disease, intellectual disease, many, many. And sarveṣāṁ śāntir bhavatu. Everywhere should be peace. If there is no peace, everything will come to destruction. And sarveṣāṃ maṅgalam bhavatu, harmony, happiness, harmony. And sarveṣāṁ pūraṇam bhavatu, pūraṇam. May we all achieve fulfillment. Come to the Brahma jñāna, Brahmaloka. Loka samastā sukhino bhavantu. All the different worlds should be happy. Nāma kartā, I am not the doer. Mahāprabhujī deep kartā. Mahāprabhujī is only doing, Mahāprabhujī deep karta hi kevalam. Om Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... So today is the day of the Lord Dhanvantari, and I wish you all the best. Whatever you will begin to change in your diet today, that will be very, very influential on you. Today you should adore all the plants. God Kṛṣṇa said, "Through the moonlight, I..." Enter to the vegetation as a nectar, and this nectar means that Amṛta. And today we shall respect the vegetation, respect the nature; we should adore it because nature is our life. Without that, we can’t live. So I wish you all the best. Happy Dhanvantari day. Happy day. Wish you good health, happiness, peace, harmony, love, understanding, and clarity, and pray to God to give you positive thinking. Otherwise, you are that fish which is in the water but still thirsty. Om Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ. Śrī Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Devāśvar Mahādev Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān. Satya Sanātan Bhagavān Dhanvantarījī kī Jai.