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O Parabrahma, Dīpaṁ Sarve Mohanaṁ, Satyam, Śubhaṁ Karoti Kalyāṇam, Ārogyaṁ Dhanasampadā, Śatrubuddhi Vināśāya, Dīpa Jyotir Namostute, Brahmanandaṁ Param Sukhadaṁ Kevalaṁ Jñānamūrtim. Dvandvātītaṁ Gaganasadṛśaṁ Tasmāsyādilakṣaṁ Ekaṁ Manīṣaṁ Vimalācalaṁ Sarvadhiṣākṣibhūtaṁ Bhāvātītaṁ Trigunarahitaṁ SAT GURUṀ TAM NAMĀMI. Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... Blessings of Śrī Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī, and Gurujī. Welcome to you all, dear ones. It is nice to see you again. There are two different events this weekend. One is the anniversary of Bhagavān Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī’s Mahāsamādhi. Tomorrow is the full moon, and we will also celebrate Christmas. Bhagavān Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī and His divine līlā are described by our Gurudeva, Swāmī Madhavānandajī, in Līlā Amṛt. Our Gurudev is writing all his memories, experiences, and guidance under the shelter of Mahāprabhujī. During that time, what did Gurujī hear from different people about the glory of Mahāprabhujī? From the parents of Mahāprabhujī, what the elders were telling about them, and the childhood of Mahāprabhujī and the holy place Harivāśinī. The very personal experiences—how and what happened, and how Mahāprabhujī’s divine blessing helped the people. What we read in Līlā Amṛt is only about 25% or 20%. If we were to write it all, it would fill many volumes. Evidence of this is that there are still people living who had darśana and blessings of Mahāprabhujī. Families still exist who worship Mahāprabhujī as God. There are two types of incarnations: Nimit and Nitya. Nimit is for a particular situation to operate, and then it goes back. Nitya is that which is incarnating anytime, and they take care of this world. Many great saints are in the world, and through their presence, this world is still surviving. Whether they come into society or not, the sun in the sky doesn’t come to the earth, but the light of the sun is needed here. And if the sun were to land on our earth, it would burn everything to dust. So those great Siddhas are incarnations. It doesn’t matter where they are; their spiritual radiance is in the whole world. Mahāprabhujī stayed in a few places; he didn’t travel much: Harivāsinī, Khattu, another place called Harṣor, and Balaguda. That’s all. Yes, sometimes nearby people requested very much, and he went. But in his divine light, in which he presents himself, he has been traveling through the whole world, and still he is traveling. That divine message, the light of Mahāprabhujī, as a living light, reaches us also. One of the editions of Mahāprabhujī’s Līlā Amṛta we printed in Europe is titled The Living Light. Neither I nor you made Mahāprabhujī physically. But He is dwelling in our heart. He has taken place in our heart. And Gurudeva can make even the impossible possible. The impossible can be made possible. What will happen? He can delete it, because Parabrahma Gurudeva is Gurudeva, is Parabrahma. Everything he can do, but we have to realize that master, that light of the Gurudeva. It is not easy to get it. Even light is here. But when you close your eyes, it’s darkness. So many bulbs, so many lights, but you can’t take this light in. There must be some barriers, obstacles. To have that light, we have to overcome and purify many, many things. The light of the Gurudeva goes to that disciple. It doesn’t matter if you have a higher education or not. That’s not necessary, because these studies we do in university, in college, in schools, in the garden are for our survival. It is also important, but it’s not what we ultimately need. Parāvidyā and aparāvidyā. Parāvidyā is the cosmic knowledge: Brahmadhyāna, Ātmadhyāna. Aparāvidyā is this worldly knowledge. In worldly knowledge, there are many obstacles to receiving that parāvidyā. And first of all is ego. Ego is one of the greatest enemies of the human. Ego is that Yama, like a god of death. And whoever has ego does not accept that he or she has ego. Ego is such a strong rock, you cannot move it. That rock can only be melted by love, by bhakti. You know, you read the holy book Rāmāyaṇa and the whole life of Bhagavān Śrī Rāma. Bhagavān Śrī Rāma was a nimit avatāra. Kṛṣṇa was a nimit avatāra. Twenty-four incarnations were nimit avatāra. Narasiṁha Avatāra was for Prahlāda a Nimit Avatāra. So we know the story about the king from Sri Lanka, Rāvaṇa. He was a great, learned person. All Vedas, Upaniṣads, languages, everything. And he had all kinds of siddhis. He was very wise and had very strong spiritual power, mental strength. He said even these twelve planets, he could move them in different directions. Always, he said to these twelve planets, "Stay always in my favor. Otherwise, I will just squeeze you like dust in my fist." And when God Indra comes, he calls, "Indra, come here." You know who Rāvaṇa was. Be disciplined, go. That was Rāvaṇa. But he had one weakness, and that was his ego. And this ego destroyed all his wealth, all his knowledge, all his powers, and everything. If you or I have an ego within us, there is no hope to rise above it. I’m not talking about any personal one, but I’m talking about ego. And those who have ego feel they are targeted by Swāmījī. Therefore, I always pray to Mahāprabhujī not to have ego for me. When you have no ego, then you are Śiva-svarūpa. Like Śiva, because one of the names of Śiva is called Bholenāth, Svayaṁ Bhū Bholenāth. Brahmā, Viṣṇu, they come to him, Bholenāth. Bholenāth means innocent one. No ego. It is said, better to be cheated than to cheat. To cheat someone is a sin, but if someone cheated you, it doesn’t matter. At least they will say how stupid he is for cheating. But we didn’t get the karmic spots on us. When ego is there, it’s useless to talk about other qualities. Behind us is the wall. It’s useless to talk about what’s happening there. We can’t see anything. So that Guru Kṛpā comes to that heart, that consciousness where there is no ego. There is one bhajan: "Don’t be proud of your life. Don’t be proud of your youth." It’s only for two days, your wealth, your youth, and the other one, what I said, so they are only for a few days. O policeman, don’t be proud of it. That one gets the light of the Gurudev, and in that, Gurudev is living; he is working inside the disciple. That disciple brings that light. So many disciples had Holī Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī, but Holī Gurujī realized completely in him, within Mahāprabhujī. And so we know our Gurudev, Swāmī Madhavānandajī, he is giving us this light every day. Now, we don’t know to whom he will give light. He is giving everyone. But who will take this light now? We can’t say Mr. XYZ. We don’t know. We throw the stone; we don’t know on whose head it will fall. But even if we will not get that, we will be liberated by that light. Ego brings all bad qualities. All sufferings which we have are from our ego. And if ego melts, then everything begins to flow, and flowing is the purity. That knowledge flows to all creatures. After that, when there is ego, there is no humbleness. No humbleness. Humbleness means kindness. Who are we to judge someone positively and negatively? You don’t know. Even if you think that you know, you don’t know. So when we judge someone negatively, that is the symbol of our ignorance. That ignorance is called stupidity. So you see how the ego is traveling. Ego is creating one after another thorny plant. You know how? When you are angry, you will hit someone, but your hand is, oh God! But still, your anger will hit the other hand. Then you will use one leg, the other leg, with head. So is the ego, working in us. That one is searching, "Where is the ego?" There is a great fear. Great fear, and so try to escape somewhere, everywhere. But that light which you have, you have blown off. So Gurujī always, when he got up, he said to Mahāprabhujī: O merciful, O great one, let me die, nirguṇa and saguṇa svarūpa in me, akhaṇḍa in me. Nirguṇa is the formless one. Saguṇa is with form. Akhaṇḍa means everlasting, never be one second absent. I don’t want anything. Akhaṇḍa nivāsa, your being in my body, mind and consciousness. Bless me with thy nirguṇa-saguṇa-svarūpa-akhaṇḍa in me. And with this, Gurujī traveled a lot. He was traveling a lot. He didn’t write all in his Līlā Amṛta. He was traveling per day more than 80 kilometers while carrying the load of the books, the bhajan books of Mahāprabhujī and Vidyān Dīp Gītā, the Gītā of Mahāprabhujī. Because at that time there were no cars, no trains, and no buses. No roads. Only where people were walking, that was the road. Cold or hot, only with this kind of thinking: "I would like to bring the prasāda, the divine knowledge and blessing of Mahāprabhujī, to this village." And he was always sleeping, either in some school or in some rest house for the general public. In no one’s house was he sleeping. I can tell you one story Gurujī didn’t write in his Līlā Amṛt. But Gurujī told me: "What in my life I experienced, but I didn’t give up. I was sure that I would bring Mahāprabhujī’s message." So there is one place called Ujjain, and Gurujī was traveling there. In Ujjain, where the Kumbh Melā is, but not because of the Kumbh Melā, he went from Rajasthan to Madhya Pradesh. This is it. And young Swāmījī, 18 years, 20 years, something like this, and he had only one shawl and books of Mahāprabhujī. He was traveling and traveling and traveling. But he came to one village, and no one said hello to him. And Gurujī said, "He ate yesterday." Twenty-four hours before, he had lunch or something to eat. There was nothing to eat, and in that village, no one welcomed him. No one wanted him to stay there, and he didn’t dare to ask them. Sannyāsīs don’t ask. To survive as a sannyāsī is not easy. My sannyāsins, they have a VIP life. Yes, seven stars and multi-stars. If I would give them the condition that Gurujī told me, and in which condition I was, I think I will not see their face anymore. Myself, I was traveling and had the same experiences, which I will tell you. I will write, maybe this time. So outside of the village, it was winter time, cold, 4:30, sun setting. Dark, where to go? And it was freezing. So, you know the people who were cooking with the fire, and when the ash is too much, they put it in one place somewhere. So there was a heap of ash lying there. And I tell you the truth, just to spend the night, it was so cold. Gurujī dug himself till here in the earth. But he kept his promise for Gurudeva to travel. Yes, there are many things Gurujī was telling me. And I was looking down because he told me, especially when I had nice cut hair and this and that, you know. So after he said, "You mean that I leave everything like that?" Gurujī said, "No, Mahesh, you are a Mahesh. I can’t talk about you. I can talk only about me, how I got the light of Mahāprabhujī. I can’t give up that." So, a disciple, a sannyāsī, or a disciple who wants to get that light to give further, you have to be... you know this lamp here? And there is a cotton wick inside, and oil. That cotton wick is burning itself to give this light. So the oil is that energy, the motivation. We are that cotton; we have to burn till the last. In order to keep this flame of Gurudeva higher. I will burn till my last thread of cotton. Then, I don’t know how to keep that light of Gurudeva. Even if I die, then look in my eyes mutely. I will see, I will be thine. That light, when all this is burned—ego, jealousy, hate, conflict, everything burned—then this flame will go. Where? Became one with the Gurudeva. Still, something is left. You cannot go because there is a chance that somebody else will burn it, but you don’t understand the teaching of Gurudeva. You don’t understand the path of Gurudeva. What, then, are you struggling, searching, and doing something for? We have many organizations all concentrated on the teaching of our Siddha Pīṭha, Devapurījī, Mahāprabhujī, Gurujī. So Mahāprabhujī lived very long. And always there were many people, like here, sitting. But to hold that light was hardly something. And some who passed away, they couldn’t give it to someone. They kept it for you. And some families are still enjoying and getting blessings and benefits. So Mahāprabhujī, definitely, without doubt, the incarnation of Viṣṇu, which Gurujī writes in the beginning of the Līlā Amṛta, one king, Ajaya King. So when the light is there, this remains everywhere. The body will go. So in sannyāsa, when you get sannyāsa, then you are known as a mahāpuruṣa. When you have a saṃskāra, a ceremony, a yajña, when you are making a saṃskāra ceremony, then Vedic mantras are chanted. And you renounce everything, you burn in the fire everything. And you promised to live like a sannyāsī. And then follow the sannyāsī rules; there is no compromise. No compromise. Sometimes they change, they go in the trousers. Sometimes this, sometimes that. We have to live. European culture is different. You died, and you’re living now again. But you have nothing to do with the culture. You are protecting the cultures. If you follow the rules, you will be more respected. You know, we have our Swāmī Hṛthikāmāl. How many years is she a sannyāsī? And I never saw her in any trousers or in anything. Because I am not always with her, but you see, she took it very seriously. Okay, for practicing yoga, demonstrating, you take orange trousers, no problem. And now sannyāsīs have tilaka. Always our sannyāsīs are like that, that’s why I came without tilaka today. Sannyāsīs must have tilaka. And we are living in here, people, what will people think? Doesn’t matter, you do not have to marry them. You are not going to marry someone, but he will think about you. These are the rules, not for showing, but for your protection. Doesn’t matter who is who. When you go in sannyāsī’s cloth, they will say, "Are you some monk? Are you Buddhist or Hindu?" Even they don’t want to know, but they will say, "You are some monk." As long as a nun and a priest have their cloth, their uniform, we think, "Aha, this is some priest." But next time he comes with jeans, a tie, and everything. Then we don’t know who he is, so this is your protection. But you didn’t get that light still. When you get that, then you don’t care. Yes? Who doesn’t know? Oh, very good. So efka-ka means completely naked. It’s called free body culture. And when you go to the Adriatic coast or certain beaches, it is reserved for them. If you don’t like it, but you want to go, they will not let you go. Take off. So from there, when they see the picture in the end, it’s natural. Then why are you talking negatively about Nāgabābā? In Kumbh Melā, so the Germans are very intelligent people. They took the best part. They represent Nāgabābā. In a different way, when you were born, you had no cloth. You wore Nagabhaba. So there are given rules by ṛṣis and Ādi Guru Bhagavad Śaṅkarācārya. And according to that, Gurujī was traveling with that principle. So we are burning day and night like this wick to keep this light, so that everyone can see. Are you ready to burn yourself? Not only for one day. Not only for two years, not for ten years. Never think then, "My God, I made a mistake, I became a sannyāsī." Then, to come back is a different situation. The wood burned and became coal, and the coal burned and became ash. But if you jump out again from your sannyāsa, and neither you remain the wood nor become a grass. You remain black coal, the black sheep. So because this is your destiny, your good karma, and God has chosen you to bring His light, but you have to get that light. If there is ego, if there is duality: I talk to these people because I like them more, but I don’t like that Josefina sitting here. I don’t talk to him. No duality. The people are coming in one queue or line. And you are giving, serving the food, and one comes who you don’t like. Will you not tell? Go further. You serve other people. So, samadṛṣṭi, equal vision. Unless you realize equal vision, you can’t get that realization. So it doesn’t matter if you are a sannyāsī or a householder. God doesn’t say that you should become a sannyāsī. But this was given after researching certain rules. So, Mahāprabhujī is living with us in your countries. How many houses have Mahāprabhujī’s altar, Devpurījī? And who brought this all here? Our Holy Gurujī. He is with all of us. I am a disciple, and you are a disciple. Gurudev is the holy Gurujī. I don’t tell that I am your Gurudev. Did I say to someone? Yes. When I say that I am your Gurudev, really inside my heart is jumping. Maheśvaraṁ, the light can be blown off. It’s there for humbleness, kindness, and sevā bhāva. So today it’s only one point: ego. Ego creates so many bacteria, and different kinds of them. If you destroy one bacterium, the second comes. If you destroy this, another one comes. So again and again, we have to find new antibiotics. But only one antibiotic is helpful: surrender. Abhi. Abhi. Guru Vakya. So today is Mahāprabhujī’s 51st anniversary that he became one with the Brahman. And he made his place in everyone’s heart. And that’s why we have a satsaṅg, celebrating that his nirguṇa form dissolves for us to sit in every heart in nirguṇa form. So today is Mahāprabhujī’s day, according to the Western calendar. And according to the Jyotiṣa calendar, it will be on the 10th, this 10th. So sometimes there can be a one-month difference, if in one month there are two full moons, beginning of the month in one or two days, and then before the month is ending, but then it’s... Full moon already, then it is called double month. So that’s why we have every third year, thirteen months. Observe the moon from the first of January till the first of January: how many moons were full moons? And that has it. That’s why I’m doing satsaṅg with you according to this Western calendar. It is just fixed. But the moon calendar is accurate. So tomorrow we will speak again. Our adoration to Mahāprabhujī. And we will have prayer. The webcast should remain for bhaktas. But before that, I have one surprise. There is one couple, young children, who could be my grandchildren. And now she’s, of course, grown; that’s why she’s married. And she’s a, what you call, in the film, artist, they call artist? Actor. She’s a film actor, and I know her from when she was a few years old. And she was always acting with me with tricks. And I told her, "You will be an actor." And she is working very much. She has a website for vegetarian life. And also, she is acting in some films as a vegetarian. And she wants to get married, and luckily she found a very nice husband. He is also an actor. He is always acting in front of her. So she said, "Swamijī, I want to change something in the world." I said, "What?" She said, "Always these old traditions. It’s very good, but I don’t want to play for one day only. I say, what do you mean? That you get married and you take a very nice wedding costume only that time when you are married. And the next day, you take it away, or you don’t put any more? I want to be married forever. I must have that costume which reminds me every day that today is my wedding day." So she decided to marry in this modern, normal dress. You know, our actors are sometimes like, you know, there is one very good actor, it’s called the Professor Columbus, Inspector Columbus. So, we would like to welcome them. This is our dear Bibi Yashmin, come. And what is the name of your husband, so we make first tilaka? Umāpurī will do pochkat. You know, wedding takes time, so today she is going to be a paṇḍit. Umāpurī, Umāpurī will be a paṇḍit. Yeah, give the dhikr. brother Svaha, Svastina, Svavidas. And now, give the mala. Come. To Mahāprabhujī. Dīp Nayan Bhagavān. Dīp Nayan Bhagavān. Pray to Mahāprabhujī for a happy life, a healthy life, a long life, a harmonious life, with mutual understanding. If you want to make a picture, then you must come to this side. The Swāmījī will get a mala. I’m not going to marry him. Thank you. Blessing. Now you stand in front of Mahāprabhujī. First, you give him a mala, and he gives you a mala. Please. Thank you. We wish you all the best: a happy life, a long life, a harmonious life, a loving life, understanding, no fighting, no biting. And please give her the mic. They would like to say something. Can we have a microphone? And then it’s there, yes? Yes. It’s all here, where in the Gītā, yes? Yes. So, yes, by the way, it’s here. Okay. Hari Om, dear brothers and sisters. Svāmījī surprised me by asking to talk to you today, so I have to improvise. He asked me before to talk about my life with Svāmījī, and he said I should say that I had a very hard time in my life with Swāmījī. So this is something I cannot say, because it is not true. What I can say is that when I met Swamijī, the light in my life began. Although in the beginning, when I met him, it was a very funny start. I was a little kid, and my mother started to do a yoga class that he, Swāmījī, taught himself back then. And she took me with her. I was seven, eight, something like that. And I was a little bit angry, actually, because Swamiji said I cannot come anymore with my mother if I do not practice yoga every day. You know, I was a kid, I did not really care for practicing yoga back then, I have to say, I have to admit. I did not want anybody to tell me where I cannot go or where I can go, and what to do and what not to do. So I started practicing yoga every day, just so I can come. That was my start with Swamiji, and I grew on him very, very quickly. We had beautiful yoga and daily life seminars in Reichenau and the Rax. In Austria, somewhere. And back then, he was... I didn’t see him, maybe like I see him now as my master. I saw him as a very fatherly person, I can say. I went everywhere with him. When I was 10 or 11, I went to India for the first time with him. And of course, that was a big adventure for me as a child. Then, after I became a teenager, I was a complicated teenager, I can say. So I can say my life wasn’t hard because of Swamiji, but I think I gave him a hard time. And he’s always been there for me, every second of my life. I did stupid things, like every teenager did. Sometimes I was even a little bit provocative, I can say. And Swamiji became more warm, more loving, more caring, the more stupid I got. So it’s exactly what Swamiji talked about before: my ego was huge, I suppose, maybe it is still, probably. And I did not recognize what blessing I got in my life. It took me years, years of stupidity, of doing weird things, of everything that I experienced that was hard without Swāmījī. Until I realized what light I got. So maybe it’s been a few years that I recognized a few little but very important things in my life. What means nāhaṁ kartā? Before, I used to make Mahāprabhujī responsible for everything. Saying Mahāprabhujī is God, he can change everything. Why is he not changing my problems? And a few years ago, I got the answer. Mahāprabhujī will not take away my problems. Mahāprabhujī doesn’t take away my problems. Because I am growing on my problems, Mahāprabhujī makes them maybe softer. But it’s my karma, my responsibility. I’m here, I have this body because I have karma. I am here, I have this body because I have karma. So it is my problem, not Mahāprabhujī’s problem. And I had very bad tinnitus, this is when you have a very high sound in your ear. And today I say it’s been a master to me, this disease. Because I realized that Nāhamukharatā means whatever comes is from my Bābājī. If this is a broken leg, it will be a broken leg. If this is trouble in life, it has to be trouble in life. Because those troubles, they are my steps away from my karma. And this is also a big blessing. So I started to realize what blessing I got in my life. Mahāprabhujī’s light. Swami Ji is my spiritual guide, my master, a master in whose palms I am allowed to grow up. And I pray every day to Mahāprabhujī that my ego will melt in his light. It’s such a big blessing that I’m here today on Mahāprabhujī’s Mahāsamādhi Day. Having my dear husband, who is just the sweetest man on earth with the biggest heart, and whatever will happen, I give it in Mahāprabhujī’s hands. Oṁ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ.