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We are all the light of Shiva

A spiritual discourse weaving philosophy, mythology, and practical teachings.

"There is no moon and sun, and no stars. That light is beyond the sun and moon. And that light is the light of self-realization."

"Gaṇeśa is the first remembered, and Gaṇeśa is that which removes all the obstacles... Therefore, in the foundation we put Ganesha."

Swami Ji delivers a satsang exploring non-dual awareness, symbolized as the ever-present light beyond celestial bodies. He explains the unity of Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva through analogies of human roles, and delves into the significance of Gaṇeśa as the foundational energy. The talk covers Vāstu Śāstra (architecture science), the symbolism of serpents (Nāga-Nāginī) representing Śiva and Śakti, and concludes with a lengthy, illustrative story about Shiva, Parvati, and the parrot in the Amarnath cave, which conveys lessons on mantra transmission, detachment, and the origin of the sage Sukadeva.

Filming location: Vép, Hungary

The happy and divine time is always joyful. The sun rises and the sun sets. The full moon becomes one day the dark moon, and the dark moon becomes one day the full moon. But this moon and sun do not mean a lot. It is said in Mahāprabhujī’s bhajan beautifully: There is no moon and sun, and no stars. That light is beyond the sun and moon. And that light is the light of self-realization. That is the light of the Ātmā. That’s the light of the Śivajyoti, the light of Śiva. And we are all the light of Śiva. When we say Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva, it is all in oneness. When you drive a car, you are a driver. When you cook, you are a cook. When you are working in your garden, you are a gardener. When you go shopping, you are a shopper. When you shave your morning beard, you are the barber. When you wash your laundry and do the ironing, you are the cleaner. But you are the one. Similarly, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva, they are all one, but different faculties, and in that different faculty we have to work. This is only understood by those who have ātmā jñāna. That’s why it’s called Ātmanubhūti. This is Ādiguru Śaṅkarācārya’s teaching about non-dualism. He said that until you have dualities, you cannot have ātmānubhūti, and when you will have ātmānubhūti, then you will not have dualities. We call Śaṅkarācārya Śaṅkara, and Śaṅkara is Śiva. Therefore, Ādiguru Bhagavān Śaṅkarācārya was an incarnation of Śiva, and also that Jagadguru Śaṅkarācārya is counted also like a Brahmā. Here, Brahmā is who is inspiring, motivating and making us creative on the spiritual path. The sky is one morning a beautiful sky. We said, "Oh, beautiful sky, the dawn." Daytime, very clear. In light, stars and moon, most beautiful. And now, beautiful. Beautiful color, gray. This color is liked mostly by politicians, yes. Because when you need the best portrait or picture, the background is this grey color. It’s a very gentle light, and therefore many photographers, they have a spot, grey, and you stand there and make the photo come out beautiful. This is a beautiful sky color, and it is very safe because the ozone layers are very thin. Now, this weather has made a good layer, thicker, thicker. So it doesn’t penetrate through. So whatever is happening in nature, nature knows what nature has to do. So this is Śiva. Śiva Jyoti, Śiva Consciousness. Śiva has got a thousand names. Viṣṇu has got a thousand names. Shakti, Durgā, or whatever you call it, has a thousand names. It is called Viṣṇu Śāstra Nāma, Śiva Śāstra Nāma, Śakti or Durgā Śāstra Nāma. Śāstra means scripture. Within all the chakras, the Sahasrāra Chakra is called Sahasrāra. Sahasrāra is the thousand-petaled lotus. There is the light or consciousness of Shiva and Shakti, which is in each and every atom of our body but concentrated more into the Mūlādhāra Chakra. The Mūlādhāra Chakra is the seat of Gaṇeśa. Ganesha is the Mūlādhāra. You see the elephant with the seven trunks? Also, it represents Gaṇeśa, and the Mūlādhāra represents the foundation. The foundation of the human consciousness. The foundation of human development. There, when we make a foundation, when we make an earth-breaking ceremony, then comes the stone foundation. That time we call Śrī Gaṇeśa. We will say, now is the right constellation, so let’s go and do Śrī Gaṇeśa. What does Śrī Gaṇeśa mean? Because Gaṇeśa: Gaṇa is all the principles or elements. Īśa means Īśvara, the Lord, the Master, and so this Īśvara. So Gaṇeśa is the first remembered, and Gaṇeśa is that which removes all the obstacles. Gaṇeśa is that which brings happiness. And Ganesha is solid, no one can move him. Therefore, in the foundation we put Ganesha, we put inside male and female serpent, yes. And this serpent is symbolic, that keeps the solidity, and protection and creation. It’s called Nāg Nāginī. Nāga and Nāginī. Nāga is a snake and Nāginī is a female snake. So both have to be there. This is beautiful, very beautiful. Then Gaṇeśa is there first. After that comes metal, and in the metals comes the copper. And then put there the grass, this grass which is not all this kind of grass, but there is one grass which never dies. That’s called Amṛtasarī. Immortal root, maybe that was what we call Sanjeevanī, yes. So, even ten, twelve years will not rain, everything is drought, and when the rain comes, that root of the grass again becomes green and grows. In Sanskrit, they call it durvā, and we call it drob. So drob comes from durvā. This is that kind of grass which you make in your garden lawn. It doesn’t grow that high up, but like a carpet. Every centimeter has a knot. That durvā is put in the north-east corner of the foundation. That is the science of the architecture and Vāstu Śāstra. The architect of this earth is Bhagavān Viśvakarmā. Vishvakarma, Vishva, Karma is another form or role of Vishnu. And Vishvakarma has designed the whole earth: where there should be mountains, where there should be more flat land, which kind of trees, rivers, everything to balance the climate. So there should be no distractions, but we humans disbalance nature. We build many highways, many tunnels, we cut many mountains, forests, and we are planting foreign trees. If we want to protect and save the environment from this disaster, then bring the trees and fruit trees and crops which grow easily on that land. Then again, Mother Earth will get balance. All these seeds... came from Shiva’s hair. Now, very soon, Shiva will get up from the Kailash mountain, pull up the snow on his body, he stands up, and he will make like this, and he will snow here, yes. So I always tell Shivjī, "Wait, please, on Christmas day." This north-east corner belongs to the Kubera, the treasurer of God. What do you think? A treasurer. A finance minister. All the treasure of God he has. God had to tell, "Please send there something, send there something." But it is said, saint, holy saint, a yogī. Like Devapurījī. So, in one bhajan it is said, there is this one nice book here, a bhajan book, and this Mahātma said, when a yoga practitioner gets the blessings and Śiva consciousness, then have no desires. Even Śiva will come. That yogī doesn’t want to beg for anything, so he said, Kubera is in service of that yogī. Kubera gives everything. But still, he doesn’t take anything from Kubera. He goes for almoze, for bikṣā. He doesn’t care about Kubera. And we all, not only we, care about Kubera. But we are running and searching, "Where is he?" This is this: Kuber bhī hajār, jiske lā par vāyī ho to aisī ho. Yoga practitioners have to come up, lifting. All these economic problems will be solved. So, Nāg-Nāginī, the serpent, male and female, that’s called a Jodha. This is an immortal Jodha, an immortal couple, an immortal unity, because that represents Śiva and Śakti. And the manifestation of Shiva and Shakti is that which is Ganesha. And Gaṇeśa as a guṇa means all elements or tattvas and Īśvara. So after that is Gaṇeśa. But even Gaṇeśa has got a higher position than his father, Śiva. Even Shiva will do anything. He has to remember, invite, pray, or ask Ganeshajī. You see? That’s the position. And that is the energy given, so look in the Vedic science. To build one house, all the time in Europe, the houses were built with certain measurements. Look at the beautiful cities of Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Rome, etc. They are all built according to the Vāstu Śāstra. How many earthquakes they survived! And now these skyscrapers, my God, standing one on another, one after the other. And when once it will fall like this, then everything will go like that. In the Mahābhārata comes the Lakṣāgṛha, which can easily be burned. So Duryodhana organized a retreat for the Pāṇḍavas and built a house. But that house, with a little fire, it will burn. So all these houses, what they are building now, quick buildings, is a Lakṣagṛha. A little fire burns the hotel, and the whole hotel is burned. Why? How can you burn this cement, concrete, and iron? Because Vāstu Śāstra is not there. Therefore, Nāga, Nāginī, Śiva and Śakti. Shiva and Shakti, first their manifestation when they are together is Gaṇeśa. And Gaṇeśa is that which then spreads the solidity. Therefore, it is said, "Gaṁ Gaṇeśāya Namaḥ." If you do not know all the mantras of Gaṇeśajī, then remember this mantra: Oṁ Gaṁ Gaṇeśāya Namaḥ. Oṁ Gaṁ Gaṇeśāya Namaḥ, remember. Again, when you drive your car, before putting the key inside, say, "Oṁ Gaṁ Gaṇeśāya Namaḥ." Then turn the key. Give the energy. Let the chariot of Kṛṣṇa move, and then again Śiva. Kurvā is a fruit, what we call the kurkumbā. We call it kakrī. It looks like a watermelon, a sugar melon. The sugar melon is also very near to this family of the kurva. It has a plant, and when the fruit is ripe, without pain and without damage to the plant, this fruit just separates. It separates from the plant. That is the best vairāgya. That is bad detachment. Our attachment, if we want to free, is painful. But that is detachment. So, O Bhagavān, O Lord Śiva, please bless us that we are liberated without suffering, both sides: parent side and my side, as this fruit detaches or separates from the plant. Moha is the most attachment, the most terrible pain. And attachment means that you have a great blanket over your consciousness, like these clouds. And that’s why many, especially Hungarians, have very much depression now. Why? Because there is a lot of fog from the river Danube. Here the sun is shining, but there is grey into grey. Therefore, light needs light. So, third eye, one, Triyambakeśvaram. So there is a svayambhū Śiva, Triyambakeśvaram, and he is... that time, Śiva have four hands. Śiva doesn’t like four hands because once he had four hands, and then he felt discomfort in sleeping, so he put one hand down. Other hand was making like that, the fourth hand make like that. Shiva said, "No, four hands," but in Triyambakeśvar, he is having both hands, abhiṣeka water, and making abhiṣeka. Svayaṁ tu svayaṁ. Mahāprabhujī said, "I am my own ātmā. I am praying." My prayer to myself. So this Ātmā, when you realize, then you know who you are. So whatever you did to others, you did to you. Tatva Masi Nirmohī, I am that Tatva and Nirmohī. Nirmohī means without attachment. That is a yogī. That time comes near to Śiva. So the Nāginī and Nāga, the serpent pair, when they are not satisfied, when they move, then an earthquake takes place. But they can balance our house because Gaṇeśjī is there. So Shiva rises up, and Kundalini has a responsibility to keep our emotions solid. Our consciousness, our activities, but still she has the desire, the wish to reach that higher point where Śiva is sitting. And that is through the practice. There are many, many kriyās, beautiful kriyās and practices. And this awakens the chakras. But awakening chakras does not mean that now you will feel something opening and opening here. There is no physical chakra. Ask the orthopedic doctor. He or she, when opening the spine to operate, tell him, please, can you check the both, three nāḍīs, iḍā, piṅgalā? Can you make it a little straight so that we can see some chakras? This is a reflection of the energy, so that comes to this side. So that corner, the east-west corner, the east and north corner, it is the corner of Kubera. And there should be your altar. In your house, that should be your altar. There is a God. And when you keep this corner clean, you will not have a problem with the money. How many will come at that, I don’t know. The Kubera is giving. But you see, money goes away because we don’t know how to use that money. And the center of the house, the main point where your sitting room is, or the center of the house, that belongs to Brahma. There you should not cross. You may put one beautiful table. Dining table, but in this one square meter area, don’t step on it. Don’t cross. Because there is a sitting of Brahmā. That’s called Brahmā’s Ṭhala, the āsana of Brahmā. You may put a flower vase, you may put a table lamp or some lamp like this. Then you will see immediately many, many big sheaths will disappear. And on the entrance of the door, again, somebody is sitting. Not like that, but he is sitting relaxed. No energy there to enter in your house. Metta Ganesh jī. Shrī Gaṇeśa, Shrī Gaṇeśa, Shrī Gaṇeśa. So, Gaṇeśjī, protecting. Jai Saraswatī, Jai Saraswatī. So, this one has more functions. Pārvatī, Śakti, Śiva—all they have, they are all one. But they sometimes also have family problems. Yes, and you know, to solve the problems of other children is easier. But solving and educating one’s own children is more difficult. That, you know, all. So, and always, even if you don’t have children and you love each other very much, sometimes misunderstanding comes. And so, though Śiva is mighty and Śakti is mighty, Gaṇeśa is great, and Śiva gave two forces. Śiva gave the two forces: the wealth and happiness, and protection, a warrior. So this Gaṇeśa, they were two brothers. What was the brother of Gaṇeśjī? Kartikeya, Kartikeya is like a warrior, and so Kartikeya settled in South India. One day, in beautiful Himālaya, the seat of Śiva, the holy seat of Śiva is the mountain Kailāśa, and entire... What we call Tibet and the Himalayan range was the kingdom of Śiva. Every king of this range was known as the Śiva, like the king of Bangkok and Thailand, and so on, because Rāma’s kingdom, so every king is Rāma. Buddhism is a new branch of Hinduism. Same fruit, same taste, same form. Only call it Buddhism. So it is a mistake to separate. All teachings in Buddhism are from the Upaniṣads and Vedas. It is changed. This book is beautiful. But when this side is different, and this side is different. And inside is different. But it is this book, so it is that Sanātana Dharma. So Buddhism, or Sikhism, and Jainism, this all is branches of the Hinduism, and Hinduism is a name given by the British. Before, there was no Hindu, only Sanātana. His Excellency yesterday explained Sanātana Dharma. Also, well, Parvati and Shiva, living in the Himalayas. I don’t know how they didn’t have a warm cloth, they didn’t have socks and gloves, and I don’t know how they had that time in those yugas, ages and ages, beautiful lipstick. Pārvatī Jī is with the B.H.J. And when Śiva comes, he is feeling nicely saved. Before he was coming, so. So when he is doing like this, that means he is just saved. And when a lady comes out of the house and does like this, you know very well what I mean. So they had such beautiful things. So I think that was that time, again, recycled now here, again, this cosmetic. So if God is Pārvatī’s doing, why should we not do? Nothing is wrong. Shiva went for a walk. Called Vihar, Himalayan hills up, down. Parvati is sitting there near the cave, with beautiful sunshine, sitting on the rock and waiting for Shiva. And there came someone, Śrīmān Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa, Śrīmān Nārāyaṇa, Śrīmān Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa, Śrīmān Nārāyaṇa,... Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa,... Nārāyaṇa. Har Har Mahādev. Who was it? Nārada. Nārada. Har Har Mahādev. Nārāyaṇa. Nārada. Har Har Mahādev. Oh, mother, mother, mother. Pārvatī Jī. Oh, Anyam. Anyam. Pārvatī Jī. My adoration. Parvati said, "Oh, Narada, how nice you came. What brought you here?" So, he said, "Well, I was just going towards Brahmaloka, but I wanted to come to Śivaloka. I saw you, Divine Mother, so I thought I should come to have a darśan and your blessings." She said, "You have a blessing. What message did you bring? Because it never comes without any reason. You know, there is one actor, a very good actor, and he is called Inspector Colombo. And Inspector Colombo goes to buy flowers in a flower shop. But they know he didn’t come only for shopping for flowers. Then he will go, you know, my wife likes this one very much. And he was not married; he had no wife. So Parvati said, "What message did you bring?" He said, "Divine Mother, where is the Lord, where is Bhagavān, where is Śivjī? You are sitting alone." She said he went for a walk. Oh, unlucky I am. You think I will have darśan? She said, "Wait, he will come, we have darśan." Mother, that’s my problem. I have got instruction, not like a curse, but vākyas. I can’t stay more than so many minutes. Like many people, they can’t wait to tell something. They will gush up and tell you, you know, Swāmījī told this and that. So Parvati said, "Well then, next time, Mother, I think it’s a good chance to ask you something." She said, "Yes, Nārada. Do you understand Śiva?" She said, "What do you mean?" Of course I understand him. No, no, not this. I don’t understand him, Shiva. Do you know why he has the mala of the skulls? The human’s head? This I didn’t think. And I never asked him. You see, you must tell him. Be careful. Otherwise, after some time, maybe your head will be hanging there. That’s called blackmail. So when some person comes like this, we call, "Nārada is coming." She says, "What do you mean, Nārada? Do you know why?" I am not in such a business, mother. You ask, he will answer. Okay, praṇām, mother, praṇām, I’m going. She’s thinking. Shakti’s thinking, Shiva is always very kind. His name is called Bhalenāth. Bhala means innocent. Not inside, clever and like this. Always merciful, with little request he will say yes. Shivjī came, Pārvatī was happy, and Shivjī said, "Pārvatī, you all have a little different thoughts in the mind. Was Nārada here?" It was Narada. She said, "Yes, my lord, he was here." "Okay, what did he say?" "No, he didn’t say anything, but he asked me, and I don’t know why, Lord, you have this big mālā with..." So many skulls in your mala, like beads. He said, "I know Nārada was here, but it’s not so important for you." No, no,... I want to know. He said, "Well, you will not be happy if you know. Why?" I’m always happy. I am always happy. You are not happy, Lord Shiva, and you tell me, "I am unhappy"? Never. Shiva said, "It’s not the right constellation. One day I will tell you." Every day, she said, "Is that the day that you tell me? Please tell." Shiva said, "You will not digest. Come on, either say you don’t want to tell, that’s all. Don’t let me hang between." Shiva said, "Okay." Monday, beautiful day, sitting on the rock. Shivjī sitting on the rock, Pārvatī sitting in front of him beside. Shiva said, "It’s very hard for me to tell you. It is a symbol of eternal love." What do you mean? This is eternal love? Yes, my dear, yes. Yes, divine God is, yes. What do you mean? It is a symbol of that attachment. What do you mean, Pārvatī? These are your skulls. She was moving, going a little far. Nārada was right. I hope this will not hang now. Finished. Her hair was standing. He said, "I told you, you will not be able to digest." So what do you mean? Devi Mahādevī Devadidev Mahādevī Tripurasundarī Gaurī Śakti, this is your skull. What do you mean? Devi, so many times we met each other, and it caused me pain because you died. And I am always here, so memory to you, love to you. As a memory, I take your skull as my mālā. So many times you died, but my dear Śakti, you are all in this one. Parvati got depressed and angry. "Today, I will not give you anything to eat. You may eat cold boiled potatoes somewhere." Shiva said, "I told you." She said, "I’m not unhappy because..." Of my skulls, but I don’t like one thing. Why do I have to die? You are immortal, and I am immortal. Why don’t you make me mortal? So you don’t need to have such a heavy weight around. "Please give me immortality, give me sādhanā, otherwise I will do nothing." She was eight. "This sādhanā, this mantra, I cannot give you." "Why not?" he said. "We need a right time, right place." She’s... All time is right when you are here, and all places are the holy place where we are. She said, "No creature should hear this mantra." And Śiva was searching for a place, and he found a beautiful cave. Covered with the glaciers, beautiful, very nice temperature inside, neither hot nor cold. Middle of the winter, no birds are there, no fish. Śiva said, "Pārvatī, let’s go. I will dwell and bless you with this immortality." So Shiva and Parvati are going. There was a beautiful lake and a nice field. Shiva took all his snakes and said, "Enjoy here till I call you. This is your pond, this lake is called Nāg Thal, the valley of the snake." Then came a beautiful meadow, so he told his Nandi, "You stay here and grace here." That’s called Nandī Tāl. Then he walks, and he takes his most dear and beautiful ornament, that’s called the moon. He took the moon and said, "Now you go." And stay in the sky. I will, when needed, I will call you. So, moon, when you have such a sign, it’s a moon. Maybe in your body, anywhere, this is the symbol of Śiva and Śiva’s moon. Well, he renounced everything. Parvati said, "What are you doing?" He said, "My love, I love you so much, and I want to give you immortality, and for the sake of that, I renounce everything." That’s called detachment. That’s called vairāgya. That’s called renunciation. That’s called love, and that’s called something to give. Never disappointment. Again, me, Śiva said. Now they go to both in the cave. All, even he put Shivaji’s Damaru and Triśūla to one side, because the Damaru may hear the mantra and it will record everything. Yes, the Damaru can record your voice. So that is what our cassettes and records are. This is Śiva’s Ḍamaru. Ḍamaru, Ḍamaru, Bajeśa, Śivajī, everywhere. Resonance, nāda. Śivājī said, is there anyone here in this room? In the cave, no one. Shiva said, "Now I will go into my samādhi, and I will tell you the sādhanā mantra." The condition is, don’t sleep. It will last the whole night. And don’t miss one word, and don’t forget what I said. I will only say this mantra and change this, so Shiva became like a cassette player or CD player. Parvati is sitting. Shiva said, when every śloka finishes, or mantra, then you must say yes, so I know that you are not sleeping. Yes, yes. Answer. Now, when your husband is explaining and you don’t say anything, then he said, "Speak at least something. Say yes or no." She said, "Hmm." Now, not now. "No" is a negative word. And in almost every language of the world, almost, when they say no, it’s first in, nem, ne, na, na, ne, okay. Śiva is sitting and giving, he is bestowing the glory of the immortal. Parvati said, "Yes. Anu. Anu again. Again." Again. After one o’clock. Again. Again, sleeping. In that cave was sitting one parrot. Parrot was listening to all the dialogue, and he saw Parvati sleeping. It will be a disaster. If this science, this knowledge, Shivjī will not complete, not only Pārvatī or me. But entire mankind will miss something, lose something. Parents are very expert at learning the language. So he came near; Parvati was sleeping. And Śivjī was listening. She said, "Yes." And Papagai said, "Again? Again, again,... I know." And Śivjī taught the whole Guru Gītā. That Guru Gītā is taught by Lord Bhagavān Swayambho Śiva to Pārvatī in that cave, and that cave is called Amarnāth Cave. In Kashmir, near Srinagar, you go there and it’s all tall, and the lake and everything is there. Why is the name Amarnath? Because Nath is God. That God, that Nāth gave them knowledge of immortality. That’s why Amarnath. As morning is coming, she’s more enjoying morning sleep. And the parrot is saying constantly, "Yes, yes," when it’s finished. And Shiva said, "My dear, did you understand?" I was sleeping, and the parrot said, "Tin, tin," and he flew away. Śiva became angry and took his triśūla. Because he didn’t want that any wrong hands go to these signs. And that’s why the master gives you kriyā and mantras, that you will preserve, and you will achieve, and you will not misuse. Many, many of our practitioners, my disciples, they went away, and they became themselves like a master. I give you mantra. Yes, you can give, but that is not an official passport. It is a fake passport. The name on the passport is right. But the stamp is not there, so on the border to the Brahmāloka you will be caught and thrown down. Not brought back, thrown down. Repeat. Don’t make mistakes. Therefore, from one paramparā, guru paramparā, one will have the right to give the mantra. Not everyone. Now Śivjī is running, jogging, and the parrot goes here and there and there. And Śiva is with his triśūl. God, exhausted. He was a little bit old, sweating. To begin, rain and holding his tiger skin and mala, he is going. This he said, "Parvati, that’s woman." Shiva said, "Don’t, so be knife, so don’t, don’t give quickly." And the parrot is sitting up and said, "It was good." Again, he runs from that area where the Amarnath is coming towards Kedarnath, Badrinath. So high hills. Can you imagine, only Śiva can jog there. That is where Vedavyāsa was sitting. Ved Vyāsa, who wrote and dictated the Vedas. The great Guru Pūrṇimā is celebrated on the occasion of Vedavyāsa’s birthday. That is the Vedavyāsa Pūrṇimā, Guru Pūrṇimā. So Ṛṣi Vyāsa went for a walk. And his wife, she was in that cave. Now she is waiting, "When will he come, and I will cook and eat?" So she was standing and waiting, and she was tired. She was tired, and she was gaining. Parents thought, "This is the best, safe person." Or safe place to go in. Otherwise, Shiva will not let me live. And sometimes, you know, a fly goes in your mouth. Yes, many have experienced it, and the parrot went into her stomach. And she said, "What happened?" Shiva came to kill it with his triśūla. Vedavyāsa came. He said, "My lord, he is Svayaṃbhu." He is Bholenāth. Calm down. You know who is in front of you? A pregnant woman. You can’t do this, Lord. Śiva said, "Yes, I can’t do this." Since that time, Vyādvīyas said, "Then, when you were gaining," Why didn’t you do it like this? And we are all doing it like this. When the child is making so, the mother said, "No, keep your hand here." This is the lesson, social education, by Ved Vyāsa. We are all doing now. Śivjī went. Pārvatī said, "I’m sorry." Śiva didn’t say anything. He said, "Go and catch my snakes back. Bring the Nandi now." She is going and getting the snake one here. And the snake was angry, "Where is your lord?" Of course, the snake respects and adores Pārvatī very much, so you see he had a hard job. Now, this parrot didn’t want to come out from the mother’s womb. She had a pain. And the baby was growing inside. And she said, "I don’t want to come out into this world, into this māyā." I am happy, comfortable, like immortal. Poor mother, suffering doesn’t matter, but he said, "I am comfortable." Vedavyāsa and all tried. He said, "I will not come out." So Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva came to pray. "Please come to release the pain of this lady, the wife of Ved Vyāsa." He said, "As long as there is moha, attachment in this world." This māyā, I don’t want to come. Śiva said, Brahmā, do please something. Only you can do. Vishnu said, "Yes, please save us." Then Brahma said, I bless. In the whole world, there will be no jealousy, no attachment, no greed, and no māyā. He said, "It’s true." He said, "Yes." So he was born. When he was born, after five years, again Brahmā released his māyā. And this five-year-old child left and went into the forest. He is one of the best speakers and one of the greatest wise ones. And that one’s name was Sukhdev Muni. Yeah, because Sua, that parrot is called Sua. That Sua became Sukhdeva. And Sukhadeva, who first read the story explained in Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, went into the forest. His father, the great Vedavyāsa, everyone adores him, but Sukadeva left him because a father can’t give that Vidyā to the son. So Sukadeva Muni went to search for the Ātmajñānī, the self-realized. He couldn’t find. He found, called the Janaka Videhī, the father of the Lord Rāma’s Sītā. And he became the disciple of the Janaka. What happens there? Very interesting. Janaka didn’t accept. In the Liyas, let him wait at the door. Don’t give water, don’t give eating. This I will tell you next satsaṅg. Śrīman Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa,... Śrīman Nārāyaṇa, Śrīman Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa, Dīp Nārāyaṇa, Bhagavānakī. So, because I had this morning, so many... Wish you all the best. And you know, today is a birthday. Amrit Mā from Sudarshan and Yogesh’s mother, we wish her all the best, good health, and a long, long life. So, she is not here, but she always sends me a beautiful, nice apple pie, and I enjoyed it. Thank you. All the best.

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