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Swamiji in Jadan, Autumn (4/10)

The path to divine realization is through the living master, the Gurudev, who guides the disciple from darkness to light. Yoga is the union of individual consciousness with cosmic consciousness, a science of body, mind, and soul. The ultimate goal is Brahma Jñāna, achieved through inner peace and contentment. The mind is like a destructive monkey or a blind ox pulling one into worldly desires. Spiritual practice requires constant inner vigilance, forgiveness, and the eradication of anger and ego. One must be awake and alert on this journey, for the human life is given for God realization. True wealth is inner peace and satisfaction, not external possessions.

"The individual consciousness merges into the cosmic consciousness through the guidance of the living guru, the living master."

"The best wealth, the biggest wealth, is that śāntoṣa dhana. When inside you are satisfied and have peace, then all money and wealth is just like dust."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Sajjana Sattva Guru Garai Kālī Kālī Ārṣa Ṭāne, Kālī Kālī Ārṣa Ārṣa Ṭāne, Kālī Kālī Ārṣa, Kālī Kālī Ārṣa. Sajjana Sattva Guru Garai Kālī Kālī Ārṣa. Sajjana Sattva Guru Garai Kālī Ārṣa Ṭāne kari rāmi lechandana saṅga. Kari dāna saṅga hoja, rānī Gaṅgā me nirati hoja, rānī Gaṅgā me bhāgirati hoja. Bhakta he suno, śakti sattva guru gara kari kari. Ārṣa Kālī, Kālī, Ārṣa. Kālī, Kālī, Ārāśa Ārāśa, Ārāśa Ārāśa, Ārāśa Guru Kālī, Kālī, Ārāśa. Guru Kālī, Kālī, Ārāśa Kālī, Kālī, Ārāśa Ārāśa, Ārāśa Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān. Viśva Guru Mamandaleśvara Paramantra Naśvaraṇānanda Guru Devatī Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Alak Purīṣa Mahādeva kī, Devaiśvara Mahādeva kī, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Gurudeva kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma kī, Jaya Jaya. Adoration to the cosmic light, Lord of our hearts, omniscient and omnipresent. Adoration to our divine master. Good evening, dear brothers and sisters here in Jadan Ashram, Rajasthan, district Pali, and also all dear brothers and sisters, practitioners of Yoga in Daily Life, practitioners of the different spiritual paths, spiritual seekers. Very good evening to all of you. This divine message, in the form of a blessing, is coming to you from Jordan. And to those who have a birthday today, I wish you a happy birthday and pray for your good health, harmonious, happy, long life with spiritual development. Happy to see you all here and through the webcast. God bless you forever with all the good qualities and good things. Yoga, you know, is a science of body, mind, consciousness, and soul. It is a way to the divine self, or what we call the way to God. In the Bible, it is mentioned Jesus was sitting with his disciples and discussing different spiritualities and different paths. The disciples ask Lord Jesus, "What is the better way?" Jesus, as a master, said, "I am the way to the Holy Father." You may see Brahman. Who said this, master or guru, to whom? To the disciples. What does this mean? Not that embodiment of Jesus only, but that Guru Tattva, that divine light, divine energy of the Master or Gurudev, which is transforming the consciousness of the disciple, so that the consciousness of the disciple may proceed, expand to the unity with the Supreme. The individual consciousness merges into the cosmic consciousness through what? Through the guidance of the living guru, the living master. If it is only limited to a particular incarnation, avatāra, or a holy saint, slowly, slowly, this world will be swallowed by the darkness of ignorance. It is the Gurudev who reminds us from time to time, and prays and teaches us, "Tamaso mā jyotir gamaya," mercifully leading us from the darkness of ignorance to the light of wisdom. Every master, every Gurudev, no matter which part of the world, is a way to the supreme for the disciples. If a disciple makes a mistake that creates doubts and separates from or leaves the master, that is one of the great mistakes or great tragedies which can happen to that disciple. Therefore, the master is praying for the disciples too. The master is praying that, "Me and my disciple," and the disciple is also praying, "Me and my master may live in harmony, in love, in understanding, and in divine light." Otherwise, no spiritual practice can lead you to your ultimate goal. The ultimate goal of human life is to achieve Brahma Jñāna or Ātmā Jñāna. There are many different techniques you may call yoga. Yoga means something that brings you into harmony. Something brings your body, mind, and consciousness, or your intellect, into balance, and that leads you to unity. Therefore, yoga means union. Yoga means oneness, individual consciousness with the cosmic consciousness. We disciples can make many mistakes to destroy our inner peace. We make many mistakes to destroy our inner balance. We make many mistakes to create inner anger. We make the mistakes which create the doubts within us. You never know in which way the supreme power, God, or your Gurudev will test you. That, if you are angry or not, if you lose your inner peace, the śānti or not. Every one of us, several times a day, repeats "Om Śānti, Om Śānti," which means peace within me. First, peace within me. If you are peace, you can create peace. If this bulb has no electricity, it cannot give light. Yes, in India there are many ladies whose name is Shanti. Name is Shanti, but inside is a shanti, restlessness also. The name of the man is also many times Shanti, Shantilal, Shantiram, Shanti Dev. Name is Shanti, but inside is a shanti. Name is Lakshmi, that Goddess of wealth, but is very poor, very, very poor, begging. You ask, "What’s your name?" "My name is Lakshmi." Then Lakshmi, the real Lakshmi, is ashamed about that. And Lakshmi said, "Why did they give the name to this person?" Lakshmi’s name is Vijay, victory, but fearful all the time, afraid and fear. You are not a brave. Not a hero, you cannot have victory. Similarly, that peace, the śānti, should develop in your heart. Then, śānti will come. Another form of the śānti is santōṣa, contentment. Our beloved Satgurudev, Swami Mādhavānandjī Mahārāj, used to say often in satsaṅg this poem. You may have many elephants or gold, with the full of the elephants. You may have the golden birds, or you may have the mines of jewels, but you are not happy. Still, you have no content. This wealth is only temporary wealth which you have; it will grow day by day, the desires. So you must have that kind of wealth. The best wealth, the biggest wealth, is that śāntoṣa dhana. Dhana means wealth. When inside you are satisfied and have peace, then all money and wealth and pelt and dill is just like dust. Nothing can make you happy, only the santoṣa and śānti. But the destiny is testing, the master is putting the needles to know how a disciple can get angry or not. So there is one story. There was a small village with very nice people, merchants. And in that part of the village nearby, that village was a very beautiful small ashram. In that ashram was living one Swamījī, very famous. People followed him, people adored him, people respected him, and people used to come for advice. Swāmījī was very peaceful; he had a very peaceful nature, and lifelong he was trying to be kind. It doesn’t matter what happened, always smiling. If he tells you, "You are stupid," say thank you. It’s good that I am stupid, not you. Someone says you are ugly. He said, "Oh, that is very good. Thank you." At least I am ugly, and you are beautiful, so enjoy. In that village, whenever Swamiji used to walk through the streets, a crowd of people and disciples would follow him. And all different religious people were living in that village. Swamiji was walking through the market, and there was one shop from one Muslim. And that Muslim, he liked to make jokes. When Swamiji came walking by his shop, he said, "Swamiji, I have one question. Can you answer?" Swamiji stopped and said, "Yes, but what is your question, my son?" He said, "Swamijī, what is the difference between your beard and the tail of the donkey?" And the disciples, like Phul Purī and Yogīs and Jasharāj Purī and Autar Purī and all these Purīs and Sabjīs, they were so angry, they wanted to catch him and beat him. Swamiji said, "No, no, don’t do this." Swamiji said, "Time will come, I will answer you, my son." Bless you, and Swamiji went away. Time passed, time passed. When Swamiji went away, that Muslim felt very pity in his heart. Gandhiji said, "We will not take the weapons." But this fight without a weapon for a right, the subtle is also sometimes more painful than the bullets. So that Muslim, he felt very pity, very unhappy. He sat down and said, "O my Lord, what has happened to my intellect? Why have I insulted such a great man with such words? What happened to my intellect, that such a great personality, I insult him?" Swamiji didn’t feel any discomfort, he just went. Years and years passed. About fifty years passed. Swamiji became older and older, crossed a hundred years. This body is made out of five elements. Dharma of the body is to be born, grow, be a child, a teenager, young, a family father, an old man, an old wife, a woman, and Hari Om Tat Sat. The rest is all, it’s all nonsense. Go away, quietly, quietly. Rām nām sat hai, atīt gayā gath hai. So the last day came. Swamiji was a yogī. He did not disturb, nor did he feel disturbed in his inner peace. He did not become angry. He was not sad, but at the last minute of his life, the last hours of his life, he called one disciple and said, "Go and call that Muslim fellow to me." So, disciples say, "Why, Swamiji?" He said, "Go." People went to his shop and said, "Swāmījī is calling you. He is very ill, and it seems that he will pass away." That man felt so sorry, so unhappy. "I am that person who, some years ago, asked, 'With which face will I go to Swamiji?'" But order is order, guru is guru, master is master, parent is parent, elderly person is elderly person, wise man is wise man. All juniors have to always follow seniors’ advice. And he went with great respect. Swamiji said, "Oh, my son, I was waiting so long. Come, sit here near me." He didn’t dare to sit, he said, "No, no,..." "Sit down, sit down." He sat down. "My son, you know, I was observing myself, the last 50 years, if I get angry. What you told me that day, remember?" He said, "Excuse me, I was so stupid, I was so ignorant. Just out of my mouth slid the word. I didn’t mean that, Master." Master said, "No, no, it doesn’t matter if you mean it or not. It was a training for me, lifelong. The last 50 years, whenever I remember it, it reminded me: śānti, forgiveness, peace. Śāntoṣ, accept, understand, my son. Now I am going away from this world. I owe you one answer. If I will not answer you this, then I have to again take a birth in this charāśrī lakṣa yoni to answer your question. Only for this, I’ve paid all my karmas back. I tried all hard, my account is completely cleared up. Only one left, that I owe you something, and that’s one answer." He said, "I don’t need an answer, forgive me, that I need." He said, "I gave it to you already long ago, you did not know. My answer is this, my son: there is a difference between a beard and a donkey’s tail." Om Shanti, Om Shanti, and Swamiji passed away. So, anything you promise, anyone asks you for something, don’t get angry. If someone refuses you, don’t get angry. That is a training, that is a practice, that is a yoga. Not only that, every day you practice left and right, left and right, stand up, sit down, stand up, walk, run, sit, jog, that. Śīrṣāsana, shoulder asana, sarvāṅgāsana, bhujaṅgāsana, all āsanas, no āsana, śrīyānāsana, everything. They are good for your health, but real yoga is what we call the yoga in daily life, the inner yoga. Inner Yoga is your master who will teach you, and when he tells something, guru vākya, you remember. Yesterday I told about guru vākya and guru sevā. You don’t know in which way God will accept your service. We mostly do that kind of karma yoga which we like very much, and we avoid, we hide, we escape that which we don’t like. You have to die in order to live. In the Bible it is also said, you have to die in order to live, meaning you must kill your ego. So tomorrow you tell everybody, okay? "You are stupid. You are a crazy person. I hate you." Then they will say, "Can I talk with Swamiji? Swamiji, I’m fed up. I can’t anymore." It means you failed. So answer, thank you. I’m happy that I’m stupid, and I’m so happy that you are the wise one, the good one. That’s it. Never cheat anyone. If someone cheats you, that is in your favour. It’s good to be cheated, but very bad to cheat. Thagne se to, thāgijñā meṁ bhalā hai. Usme kharab karm to nahī̃ āyegā apne par. Somebody will say, "How stupid is that person? I cheated him." It’s good. Again he cheated you, made a bad karma, and was thinking, "This person is stupid, I cheated him." So now you have double bad karmas. So those who will do, they will suffer. So, inner yoga, inner alert, cetana. Chetan hoja re mushafir, mushafir means traveller, so we are the traveller, travelling through the entire universe. It’s not sure that you will come to this planet again. Maybe somewhere on the planet, in a different form, there is life too, an astral form. Or somewhere else, or you will come here. Chaitanya means awake, awake. Oh traveler, wake up. You are sleeping. Wake up, wake up. Why? Your vehicle is coming. Your train is coming, your bus is coming, your aeroplane is coming. Chetan ho jaare, musāfir. Wake up, be conscious, be alert. And that’s why, you know, children in the school, when you are sitting like this, your master will come and pull the ear up to wake you up. Without interest, without concentration, you can learn nothing. You will lose all. Gadi aane wali hai. Vehicle is coming, and gadi jaane wali hai. It will go away. It will fly away, and you will miss everything. What will you miss? You will miss that beautiful human life which was given for God realization, but you fell into the material life and sensual enjoyment, greed, anger, hate, jealousy, and what not more. Therefore, observe yourself constantly. When you meditate, look into your inner mirror; you will see a clear picture. The inner mirror of your heart, in the heart is the mirror of your consciousness, and the projector of your intellect will project the picture in your chittas, and you will see what kind of karma you have, how angry you are. You lost. You lost. Holy Gurujī said, "Yogī, yatī, koi mehnat karke bove bhajan kī bāḍī, yogī yatī mehnat karke great practice trying, bove bhajan kī bāḍī, create a beautiful garden of the bhajan, the spirituality. Yaman bandar badā harāmī, but this mind is very stupid, bad monkey. Within no time, it will destroy the whole beautiful garden. That is your mind, yogī yatī. ye man bandar bada harami, palme baadi bigadi. Sada bhai, ye man bada anadi. Samjayo samje nahi, murak neech lawadi. Sada bhai, ye man bada anadi. Bin muk charo chare raat din. Mind has no mouth, mind has no mouth. Still day and night, eat and drink desire. Still day and night, eat and drink. Still day and night, eat and drink.... Day and night, eat and drink. Still, day and night, eat and drink. Still, day and night, eat and drink.... Still, day and night, eat and... Drink still, day and night, eat and drink." "Yemen Mota Bail Hoikar, Yemen Mota Bail Hoikar, Khiche Jagat Ki Gadi, Andha Dund Mein Jai Doorto, Aur Pade Vishyon Ki Khadi." This mind becomes a big ox, a very strong ox. And pulling the coach of the whole saṃsāra and running. Like the blind, they are running toward the precipice of worldly subjects and will fall into the trap of desires. Sādhubhaiye, mana badā nadī. O my brother sādhus, this mind is so stupid, so foolish. Samjhayon samjhat nahin, baar baar samjhātā hoon. Always, I try to explain and explain. Aisa murak ni chalawadi, such an ignorant, stupid one that always goes down, down and down. Therefore, Aan Chet Chet Yab Vaya Gyani Avsar Jav Vey Guru Samjav Aan Chet Chet Maharaj Ji Gyani Avsar Jav. I have forgotten the... So, chet, chet, abhijīv, ajñānī, oh, ignorant soul, wake up. Now Gurudev is explaining, this time, this time will go away. Therefore, Chetan ho jāre musha fir, gadi āne vālī hai. Awake inside. Be alert. Love thyself first. Excuse thyself first. Forgive thyself first. Create śānti, peace within thyself. Contentment within thyself. Don’t expect from anyone from outside. They will come and say, "I love you." How long? As long as I can. Then, I will leave you. How? Bye-bye. Kahi chala jaye. Therefore, observe, observe your inner self. What kind of sādhanā am I doing? You are doing mantra and you are angry because someone was not good to you. You are meditating, and you are going shopping mentally to buy samosas. No? Your chitta is in the samosa, not with God, not in the heart. So that’s called eternal yoga kṣadana, yoga in daily life. So tomorrow I will not be with you in the webcast. And I will be with you in the webcast day after tomorrow, same time, in Jaipur Ashram. So tomorrow I will rest, and I wish you all the best, dear brothers and sisters. God bless you, God protect you, and God create the divine energy and divine consciousness within you. Boli Shri Deep Narayan Bhagwan, Alak Puruṣa Mahādev, Deveśvar Mahādev, Dharma Samrāṭ Satguru Swami Madhavananjī Gurudev, Om Śānti, Śānti,... Hari Om.

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