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Perfection of words

The power of speech originates from the navel center. The three levels of sound—Parā, Paśyantī, and Bhekārī—are connected to bodily centers. Parā resides in the navel lotus, where prāṇa and apāna merge to create energy. This Nābhi Maṇḍala is the center of your being and the universe. Yogīs who master this through sādhanā attain Vacchan Siddhi, where their spoken words manifest reality. Attachment is the primary obstacle, a binding cage for the soul. Mere belief or reading is insufficient; one must become a practitioner, a Lakṣārthī, focused on the aim beyond scholarly knowledge. True achievement comes from dissolving moha through disciplined practice, not just physical yoga. The Guru's guidance is essential to cut these invisible bonds.

"Do not humiliate yoga with āsana and prāṇāyāma. This is just for your body to keep on going."

"Where the sunlight cannot reach, beyond that can go a point. But that point must have the divine vision."

Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Kī Jai. Devīśvar Mahādev, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān, Kī Jai. Yes, good morning. Today, the thoughts of Bhajjan Siddha are coming. There are certain sādhus, yogīs—many are now, even now—who possess what is called Vacchan Siddhi. Mahāprabhujī said it in a beautiful bhajan. Jai Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī. Parā, Paśyantī, and Bhekhārī. Parā, Paśyantī, and Bhekhārī. These are the three levels or the seeds of the Vāk. That means the words, the sound. And these three levels are connected to a particular organ or center of the body. Para is the nābī. Nābī maṇḍala. Nābhi kamala. Kamala means the lotus. Nābhi kamala, the navel lotus. Nābhi maṇḍala. Maṇḍala is like an aura, or maṇḍala means the group. We call sannyāsī maṇḍala akhāṛās. So, maṇḍala means the mind, and in this mind, all are connected to oneness. So, Nābhi Maṇḍal is where the prāṇa and apāna merge together. And it collects and creates the energy. Sometimes we look at the moon, when there is a full moon, these two or three days of the moon, and a kind of circle. Very clearly, you know, it’s like a yard, and there’s a gate for sheep to go in and out, or like an aura, and both indicate when it’s like a round aura only, that will be wind and wind. Rain, but when we see the circle and way out, that means it will be heavy rain. It will fill the lakes and ponds. So that’s called Candra-maṇḍala. Candra is the moon. Then it’s called the Sūrya-maṇḍala. Surya is the sun, and maṇḍal is till where the sun’s rays will reach. That’s called Sūrya maṇḍala. So we live in this sun system. The rare are many, but there are yogīs. And that’s what Gurujī realized, and he wrote the bhajan. Where there is no pause for the sun, there is pause for the poet, it is said. In India, we used to say, where the sunlight cannot reach, beyond that can go a point. But that point must have the divine vision. And free approach, wandering in the whole universe. But that comes from sādhanā, from Nābhi Maṇḍala. So it is said in the bhajana of Gurujī, and it is written in many śāstras. Chaudha Loka, the fourteen worlds: seven below and seven above. And the definition of the seven worlds is very hard to find exactly. And you will not understand. That comes through sādhanā. So, my dear, if you just believe āsana and prāṇāyāma is yoga, if you don’t know yoga, then you don’t know what yoga is. So don’t humiliate yoga with āsana and prāṇāyāma. This is just for your body to keep on going. But achievement, Narsenārāyaṇa, you become from human to God. They all went through this sādhanā. But moha, attachment, that is most, most terrible. The biggest problem for humans, and other animals too, but especially for humans, is attachment. Attachment to mother, father, children, wife, home. I had one person looking for some days or a few months in an Indian āśram. But he was so homesick. He was eating so much. But still, he was weaker than Mahātma Gandhi. If you want to become or lose your kilos, then you should become sick of something. If your husband is too fat, to get him in good shape, for a while tell him, "I don’t want you," and go away. And from far, "Yes, I will come, I will come." From this, he is longing; this is a sickness. He will rapidly lose kilos, and he will say, "Oh, my darling, will you come? Will you come? Just for once, come to me." Will my days fly away without seeing Thee, my Lord? My days fly away without seeing the light. Night and day, night and day, I look for the night. Night and day, night and day, I look for the night and day. You will see that is the most beautiful treatment. A retreat, it is treated, but what is treated, we again retreat it to make sure. So that boy was so homesick. Kam takat gusab hari, when one is very weak, then one has more anger. So I don’t want to tell more, but this is his or her obstacle. Moha. Moha. That is the only problem. Moha. Moha is that net which has caught us in. If we are lucky, then we get rid of this moha, and that is only through Guru Vakya, Guru Kṛpā. Follow the words of the Guru. Dhan Dhan... Bhartṛhatlate koī nemadhāraṁ sīkhalatete koī tīratvartate koī nemadhāraṁ sīkhalatete ye baramakā bhaṇḍā olā diyā merī cañcal citta ko molā diyā merī baramakā bhaṇḍā olā diyā merī cañcal citta ko āyai śikārī gurudeva, merā mohakā bandhana toḍa diyā. Ayāī Śikārī Gurudeva Dayā, Mera Mohakā Bandhan Toḍh Diyā... You are closed in. You are tied by something. There are physical bandhan and invisible bandhan. Which physical bandhan is maybe easy to break. With a knife or anything, we can cut it off. But how to cut that which we can’t see, yet we suffer? This bandhan is the most dangerous. So this jīvātmā, the individual soul, is caught in this bandhan. Like someone put a bird in a cage, the bird sees the forest. Birds see the sky, but can’t fly. They are caught in that case. Though the bird has abilities, and God gave the wings, and God gave the abilities to fly, just in the air, enjoying a beautiful view. But in this case, the whole human has capacities and abilities, but the case of attachment can’t let us go out. So the bird is born in that cage, lives in that cage, and will die there in that cage. What a life! There is one song, "Pinjare kā Pansīrī, Terā Dard Na Jāne Koī" — O bird of the cage, nobody knows your pain. You are crying silently inside. What kind of karma do you have? So, therefore, that Vācak, that Vākā Siddhi from the navel can raise the consciousness up. Therefore, Chaudha Lok Ikiso Brahmāṇḍa, Brahmāṇḍ, one Brahmāṇḍ is one’s sun system. So a yogī can, if they do the proper sādhanā, have dissolved moha and overcome it. Then Holī Gurujī is writing that 2,100 solar systems, a yogī can go beyond that. After he can’t come anymore and doesn’t want to come back anymore. So for us, it’s a dream, a fairy tale. But, you know, I have this glass, you see, clean water inside, special taste, salt, Adriatic Coast salt. Because the girls who are serving me water today are from the Adriatic Coast. Instead of sugar, they put in the salt. So, if it is salt, lemon, or sugar, only I know. You can only see, but you don’t know the taste. So, reality, practically, is that you can test it. Belief is good. Control is better. Therefore, reading is okay. But that reading cannot make you that one, what you would like to be. Therefore, there are two kinds of study. According to the Vedas and the ṛṣis, it is called Vācārthī and Lakṣārthī. Vācārthī is like Mr. Vaśyak. He is a Vācārthī. He is a professor, researching. From every world, he takes many essences out, but not Lakṣmī. Lakṣartī is a yogī, so vācartī is for the world. And lakṣārthī is for the lakṣya, for that aim. So this comes through sādhanā, and it’s not easy. Many things you have to control, my dear. Sometimes a snake comes here, out. A scorpion comes here, out. Spider goes on the back. You are meditating. And Scorpio is going up. You do like this. You are not Lakṣatī. No moha, which gave life, will take life. And as long as he knows how long he gave me life, it cannot be short. Neither can it be longer. Then why? But moha is that which again puts you in the hole of darkness. My, my,... I, I,... why, why, why? Then bye, bye, bye. Sab jai, jai, jai. Ek Lakshati. So, Nābhi Maṇḍala, that Nābhi is navel. Our Nābhi is the center of the universe. You have an umbrella, and there is a stick on which the umbrella is hanging, and there is cloth around it and iron rods. But the center is that. So our navel is the center of the entire universe and the center of your being. Yathā brahmāṇḍe tathā piṇḍe. What is in the universe, that is in the human body. And what is not in the human body is not there at all. That’s why human life is something special. So all hidden powers, that nāda rūpa para brahma, that nāda, the sound, through which we are created, we are born, all elements came through that sound. It is that sound which keeps our five elements together with the cement of the prāṇa and the water. So this is where the nāda is together. Every cell of the body has an immense amount of sound. So, Nāḍī Yoga and Svara Yoga. So, Nāḍī Yoga is the yoga of sound, of music. That’s called Gandharva Veda. The Vedas have the sub-Vedas. And so, one of the sub-Vedas is called Gandharva Veda. And Gandharva Veda is, Gandharvas are the singers, the musicians of heaven. So, Gandharvas, when the king of the gods, Indra, comes to his place where the audience is, then Apsarās and Gandharvas—Apsarās are the dancers, and Gandharvas are the singers. And so, in that singing, there is a language. When you play the tabla, the tabla has its own language. And there is one called mīrdaṅg, which has its own language. So there was once a competition, and I was there, but I didn’t understand. But then they told me that Mirdaṅg was shouting on the tabla. You stupid, don’t know, stop. But not man singing, that sound. And the tablā was telling, "You are the lost one. Keep your mouth shut." So they are fighting. That’s resonance. So that we can realize, we can understand. So, there we need sādhanās based on two things. Bahir or antarmukhī, bahir mukhī means our thoughts, our feelings are going to the outer world. We are extroverted. Antarmukhī, we are inside. One with ourself, but then Antarmukhī have another expression. If you don’t use the one tool or one sādhanā, then, being antarmukhī, you become what we call depressed. And now is a very good time for depression. Light is missing. So when you become antarmukhī, you will go into the depression. Depression has another meaning also, in English, deep rest. Depression. Depression. And pressure means that all are unhappy because of you. So, antarmukhī must take the guidance and become gurumukhī. So, if you are gurumukhī, you become antarmukhī, then you will never be duḥkhī, which means troubled. Then you come to the sādhanā. Nābhi Maṇḍala, there is one real story: master and disciple. So that part where it happened, and that ashram is very near to our Kailash ashram. So one master and disciple, they were sitting in the ashram a few centuries ago. And the master said suddenly to the disciple, one bhakta is in a dangerous situation. I must go and save him. He said, "What do you mean, Master?" He said, "One of my bhaktas is in the ocean with a boat. And now the big hurricane is coming, and he is calling me, 'Gurudev, save me.' So, that boatman, Gurudev, my shelter is in thee. I have taken shelter in thee. Please remove my worry, karke dayā, be merciful. Beda tu pahar lagade, bring my boat to the shore." So Gurujī said to the disciple, "I’m going in my room. Close the door. Don’t let anyone inside, and don’t disturb. I’m going to rescue the bhakta." So Gurujī went into samādhi, and he saved the bhakta, and the boat came onto the beach. Now Gurujī came back with the astral body, not the physical body. The physical body was there. But now Gurujī is circling around above in the āśram with his astral body. He went so quickly out of the physical body. So now he doesn’t know through which door he should enter. So if you are in a hurry, hurry. Sometimes mistakes can also happen. Then the disciple thought, "Why is Gurujī still not here?" And he went to meditate. And Gurujī is traveling the astral world, and said to his disciple, "I’ve forgotten through which door I went." Disciple said, "Gurudev, you always go through the Viśuddhi Cakra, but you were in too much of a hurry; you went through the Nābhi, the navel." That’s why you can’t find a path back. Nābī Nābī is the center of immortality, yes. There is a nectar of immortality, but Nābhi is very important. Immediately, within no time, Gurujī was chanting, "Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo." By caste, he was a tailor, making dresses. Nābhi Maṇḍal. So, guñjā, guñjā means resonance. It is the Nābhi which attracts all the energy from the universe to collect these five elements to construct this physical body. This is a para, this is the beyond. Here is para. Pashyantī is the viśuddhi, what we call the vocal chord. And bekārī, that bekārī is from the tongue. The tongue needs training. And you cannot speak if you cannot hear the resonance. So that’s why people who cannot hear cannot speak. Tongue is okay, vocal cords are okay, everything is okay. But the sound, listening is not there. Therefore, there are centers for the sound. Then the vāka, then it comes to the vocal cords. Para, Paśyantī, Bekarī. And there is the sound. So when we do the sādhanā, unfortunately, many of you don’t understand. You remember last year I told in the summer many things I achieved in my life, but in one thing I failed. I couldn’t bring you to the mauna and fasting, and it’s a pity. A gardener tried very hard, and a farmer tried very hard to grow the crops. Even he put pesticide sometimes, gave water at the right time, but that crop had no seed. At the end of the season, the farmer couldn’t harvest anything. So he took his, we call his shawl, like this, on his shoulder, and disappointed, walked away along the field. So is the condition of the master when the disciple does not understand, does not take it seriously, and gives up sādhanā. Most Europeans think this master will bless me, and I will go to mokṣa, zzzz up. We can put some berud inside, and then we put besis. You may go up, but not like that, sādhak. Sādhanā, siddhi, siddha puruṣa. So sādhak, first we have to become an aspirant. Your doubt, without delay, you are out from this game of the universe, the unity, divinity. When one doubt comes, you are lost. Therefore, it is said, Mahāprabhujī, ask Gurujī what you want. I don’t want anything, only one thing. That my faith, my love, my belief in Thee, O my Lord, should never, never become less. No doubt should come between. Bar bar vardhan, himaṅgu bar bar vardhan, janam janam hari dās rakhi jo, janam janam hari dās rakhi. Śrī dīpadāyālaya rāja joprabhudīpadāyālaya o karakirpām. Satsaṅgādijo Kārakirpām Joprabhudipādayālaya Rāja Prabhudi Pādayāl. Again and again, I beg, I pray to Thee, O Mahāprabhujī. Janam Janam, every life, let me be Thy servant. Be merciful to me only for this. I don’t pray for any wealth, any position, nothing. Only for Thy mercy. That is how a bhakta will come through. The rest will go like dust out. So, when we do the sādhanā of the Nābhi, that is powerful. There is one bhakta who is doing this with me. We will see what happens. Then comes Vāk Siddhi, Vāk, the sound, Vāchan. Vachan becomes from Kaṇṭha Kamal. So, Nābhi Kamal, Kaṇṭha Kamal. And on Kanta Kamal then sits Saraswati. On the petal of the Kaṇṭha Kamal is our tongue. So, where one can speak very nicely, give a lecture, then we said, "Oh, on his tongue Sarasvatī is sitting." And who can sing very well, then we said, "Oh, it is a great energy there, the Siddhi is sitting, and Nābhi." When you want to learn singing, and when you are going to the teacher for learning how to sing, at that time the nābhi is one of the most important points. Sing deep from the abdomen, not from here. So between the abdomen, nābhi, and kaṇṭha, then your sound becomes beautiful. So when we do the sādhanā of mauna, with being guru-mukhī, mantra-mukhī, antara-mukhī, positive thinking, then vāk siddhi comes, then your words come true. That time becomes the blessings. Positive thinking first. And if you think negatively, doing Vakṣadhāraṇa or that energy, if you do negative thinking, then you get diarrhea. So now you know why you get diarrhea. And when you become greedy and angry, you know, that’s called having knots inside, then you have constipation. The greedy one has constipation. And when you have such bad thinking, then you begin to vomit. Your body doesn’t lie. Every illness in the body, where it is attacking, has its reason. But with one thing we can release all. Nābhi, nābhi. Sādhanā in Nābī Maṇḍala. That is the seat of Viṣṇu. You know, there is the seat of Viṣṇu. Vishnu is the, how it is, sustainer. Brahma is the creator, and Vishnu is the sustainer, and Shiva is the, again, destroyer. So that word became "God." In English, you write "God." You have book, this is different. So, about God, I didn’t speak. Next time. So, God, G-O-D: G means generator, creator. God is the creator, Brahmā. So, Brahmā is the generator, and O is the operator. Viṣṇu is operating everything, and Śiva is dissolving. That Swayambhū comes at the beginning of the creation and at the end of the creation. In between, he appears from time to time as a Bhaleśambhū. So, my dear, we tell you, don’t tell me anything, but please don’t be angry. And if you are angry, please don’t give me a curse, because that comes from your nābhi. So, blessings and curses are parallel. But if you are empty, have nothing, then your curse is like a water bubble; it doesn’t take time to explode. So, sādhanā, therefore those yogīs, those gurus, what we call, they do sādhanā and their words come true. That’s words when they speak, like the blood of flowers comes out, or it’s called the pearls come out, the light comes out. Even if you speak less, those who speak less have more knowledge. To speak less is not easy. There was a bird that sat on the old oak. There was an old oak tree, and sitting on the tree was one bird. And that bird heard more, and little it spoke. Because that bird was wise, the one who was sitting on the oak. So you speak. Do not listen to negativity. It creates such a rabid energy there, and it makes your faith go down. That is why many companies went bankrupt, and many organizations finished. Because people, if they work inside, have no harmony, then the directors are suffering, and if they want to dismiss the workers, they knock on the door of the court, you see. So this is something humans have to learn. So, bachan sādhanā: if you don’t speak one word for twelve years, after twelve years, the first word you speak will come true. Twelve years, nothing. But don’t speak, even in the dream, and don’t say "hmm, hmm." Then, better to speak. There are situations, you know, not to say one word. "Bring me water." How nice, mmm, mmm... How much energy is consumed? So, my dear, vācan. So it is said in the old tradition of every country: even if you have to give your life, do not break your promise. Therefore, it is said, "Raghu-kula rīti sadhā calī āyī, prāṇa jāya para vacana nā jāyī." It is said in the holy Rāmāyaṇa, Raghu is the dynasty. The principle of the Raghu dynasty was that even if you have to give your life, you do not give up your promise, your word. And many people who said, "Gurū Dev, I want mantra, I will get Kriyā," made many, many promises. And where are they today? They are lost in FKK. We now have time for a 20-minute interval and coffee. Don’t worry, talk positive. Hari Om. Because His Excellency, the Ambassador of India, will come. So, we will let you know when he’s here. Okay? So, be in the area somewhere. Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān.

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