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Part 1: The Universal Light: A Message on Mahāprabhujī's Mahāsamādhi Anniversary Good morning to everybody, good morning internationally to all dear bhaktas, practitioners of Yoga in their life, spiritual seekers, and all the spiritual souls. This special blessing is coming to you from Vác, Hungary, where we have this weekend retreat, specially dedicated to the anniversary of Mahāprabhujī’s Mahāsamādhi. You all know a lot about Mahāprabhujī through the book Līlāmṛt, through the bhajans, and through many other media. Today, it is 45 years since Mahāprabhujī left this world physically, but he is still very vividly present here in our world with all devotees, all who are thinking of Mahāprabhujī, practicing the mantra, and who know Mahāprabhujī. And many who have not seen him nor me have already had some visions from our Prabhujī, were instructed to come and follow the path of non-violence, follow the path of truth, follow the path of happiness, tolerance, forgiveness, and lead the spiritual life. Yoga means a positive way of life. Yoga is designed for a better human, it is designed for the human, meaning to develop the consciousness in order to protect the holy creation of the Lord, all living beings as well as trees and the environment. We all humans are one. It doesn’t matter from which part of the world we are coming. A human is human. And we are all born as human. No one had a stamp on their hand or on their body that one is born as that particular religion. The thoughts of religions, the preaching of the religions, is given to us after we are born, and we develop slowly, slowly. Of course, every religion is very good and has only one aim: to realize God, to come to God, to be with God, and to have a future life after this planet, a happy and free life. Also, to lead a happy life, a happy, harmonious life with family, with society, and with the environment. So religion is a religion, and every religion has a truth in it, and that truth can be only one, and that God can be only one. And so, according to their experiences, according to their education, according to their teachings, they believe in God, in spirituality in that way. That’s good. Yoga will support them more to understand their religion, to understand spirituality. Yoga is like a sun. We cannot say the sun is not good for this religion or this person. The sun is very good for the entire planet. Doesn’t matter if it is human or animals or vegetation or the water, any element. The sun is equally good for all. Similarly, yoga is equally good for all. Of course, there are certain thoughts which lead toward spiritual thinking about God and prayers. And in yoga, it is not mentioned that you must pray only to a particular God. In Hinduism, in Hindu scriptures, there is only spoken about Brahman or the universal God. After it developed, what we call the teachings and incarnations. Of course, every incarnation, or every prophet, every messenger, brought the message of God according to their power, capacities, and according to that culture and situation in that part of the world. But before all this, Hinduism is very old, and the Vedas and Upanishads are very old, and they speak only about one, Brahman. They speak about Jīva and Ātmā, Māyā and Brahman. Māyā is this world, the illusion. Doesn’t matter whatever we call it, that is mine, is mine, it is yours, but temporarily. It is your illusion that you think it is yours. It’s not yours. We all fight for our country. We create the wars, we create the armies, we create the territories, saying, "It is my land, my territory, my house, my property." But one day you will go away. You can’t take this piece of land with you. Nothing will go with you. Then why should we fight for that? So māyā is this world, everything. What we touch, what we see, what we believe, what we experience, what we smell, and what we say is mine, it is yours, but temporarily. After it’s gone. Brahman is the highest truth that you may call God, or the truth, or highest love, the highest consciousness, and so on. So yoga is giving the message of the supreme truth, that truth which every religion declares. And besides this, yoga gives good health: physical health, mental health, social health, and spiritual health. Who doesn’t want to have health? We are worried about the health of our planet. We are worried about the health of our nature, environment, and ecology. We are worried about the health of other animals. We are worried about the health of our oceans and lakes. And we are worried very, very much about our soil, the health of our soil. And at the same time, we are afraid and worried very much about health, our health, our families, and our fellow human beings. Now, who doesn’t want health? If you believe in any religion, you would like to be healthy. That’s why, in every hospital, no one said, "For this religion, a hospital is not needed." Hospitals are needed for all equally. Therefore, try to understand what yoga is. Of course, one should not be fanatic. And these are the teachings which I am telling, the teachings of Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī. Mahāprabhujī incarnated to unite all, to give such a neutral understanding that all lead life in harmony, peacefully, without fighting, and let them believe how they are believing. That’s very important. Not that you give a temptation of some money and some promises, and you tell, "If you change your religion, you get this and that." That is not good. That makes problems in the world. To change the religion with the power, or with the money, and with the temptation of the education and hospitals, and this. That, if you change their religion, that creates the problem. Every religion accepts the seva, service, helping. Help. Helping humans, helping animals, helping our nature and environment. So do help. The highest principle is help. Nothing else, but don’t help with any kind of expectation or any kind of conditions. Then it makes disharmony in society, then it makes fighting and conflicts in society. Therefore, today is Mahāprabhujī’s anniversary of Mahāsamādhi, and these are the messages of Mahāprabhujī. Like every holy incarnation, every holy saint has their spiritual power, spiritual energy which radiates to everyone. It doesn’t matter if it is human, or animals, or trees. It is radiating for everyone. And therefore, it is very important that we realize, we understand, call me after one hour, and we understand that this kind of holy incarnation is not for a particular people or particular group of people, or not only for humans, but is for the entire planet. The sun is rising not only for a particular person. And no one can stop the sun from rising. The sun will rise on time. You cannot tell, "Rise five minutes late, please. I am still not ready." No. Whether you are ready or not, the sun will rise. How many sunrises did you see? How many sunrises did you see? You can count how many years you have in your life. And how many sunrises will you still see? And one day the sun will rise without you too, you know. The sun will rise. We are not here. Then we will say, "Oh, it’s already one day gone, two days gone." So God will incarnate, and divine sense will come into this world. Whether you want it or not, whether you are here or not, they will come, just as the sun is coming. We can’t stop, and we cannot threaten someone that I will stop the sun rising. Long ago, one man came to me in Austria, Vienna, in 1973 or ’72, ’72. He said, "Swamijī, can you give me one mantra?" I gave him one mantra. After half a year, he said, "But nothing happened." I said, "What should happen?" He said, "I want to have a siddhi." You know, this is the 34th mantra I have. Anyone comes, I ask for their mantra. I say, "What siddhi do you want?" He said, "I want to have siddhi that I stop the sun." I said, "The sun will stop you." Not that you can stop the sun, there is no such siddhi. Or you have to be Hanumānjī. That, you have to be Hanumānjī. Hanumanjī, who swallowed the sun in his mouth. You know that? In the Rāmāyaṇa, you can see Hanumānjī was one of that. So, in one village, there’s a story. In one village, there was one old lady living, and she had one hen. And this hen, early morning, was screaming. You know, when your neighbor has a hen, then you are very angry, especially in summer, because very early in the morning, the hen is shouting, screaming, no? And she told the village people, "If my hand will not speak early morning or not scream, the sun will not rise, and you will have nothing to eat. Everything will be cold and frozen." And therefore, they should pay her some tax. So all these innocent farmers, they begin to pay her tax. Then she wants to have more. And they said, "No, we cannot." She said, "Then I will take my hand and go away." She took her hand and went away, and people ran behind and said, "Please, please stay. We will give you more." So every one month, two months, there was a fight. She won more and more, and she was threatening people, and she was dominating. She said, "Only the sun rises because of my hand." One day she was so angry, and she said, "I will take my hand and go away." They said, "Please don’t go, please don’t go." She said, "No, you are those terrible people, and I don’t like you, and you don’t respect me, and so on. Only me and my hand bring the sun out from the dark night." And again, they tried to bring her back. After a few months, again she was angry, and she said, "No, I will go." In the evening, she took her hand with her, and she went away. People went behind her, saying, "Come back, please." She said, "No, I will not come back." People came back in the village, and they couldn’t sleep. They were very sad. "Now the sun will not rise. There is no hand who will scream." And suddenly, dawn came. And they were like, this is... And then after some time, the sun came out. They said, oh, the sun is coming out without... They said, "Now we will not let her come into our village." So you cannot make people stupid like this, you know. The reality is reality, and therefore all holy saints who incarnate on this planet are for all, for the whole world. For the trees, for the rivers, for the animals, for the humans, they are the right housemates; they are for dharma. And they fight, or they preach against the adharma. Dharma, or dharma, means when we are doing wrong, what we call the sin. And every religion said, if you do the sin, you will go to hell. And if you do good, you will come to heaven or paradise or svarga. Whatever they call, the name is different, the thing is the same. Therefore, Mahāprabhujī’s divine message was to limit your needs, limit your greed, and clear from your mind all the conflicts, all the doubts and jealousy. Take it as it is. Accept your destiny. Accept the situation of your life. If you don’t like the situation of your life, then try something and pray that it will develop. Definitely, we are a part of our life situation. But we are not angry with ourselves. We are angry with others. If you are not here, the situation is not here. So you are also a part of that situation. We are one organ of the body. We are one part of that motor which is running as life. And so, don’t blame someone; don’t throw the dirt on someone. Try to clean the dirt from you. You are in the dirt, stuck. Therefore, the only way is to pray, to meditate, and to ask God for forgiveness. If you believe in God, if you don’t believe in God, still it will be good if you change your life in a positive way. Change your life in a positive way. And you cannot have everything forever, you see. And everything forever will be boring. Changing is good. When we were small, baby, we liked only milk, nothing else. When we grow, then we get some baby food. And if someone gives you baby food now, will you like that? He will say, "I am not a baby anymore." That’s it. But time will come again when we will be 90 years old, then we will give baby food again. Because the clock is going back. Now in Kali Yuga, in this fast food, junk food, what people are eating is 35 to 40 years. It is maximum going up and then counting back again. That’s it. So those who are 40 years, they are in the list of the top level. Yes, now it is counting back. But before 100 years, or 80, 50 years, 30 years, it was 70 years at the top. Then came 60, then came 40, 50. So, thanks to God, many of us are in our 40s or 50s. And others, they are overtaking us. They are already in the 40, they are on the top because of the way of living. So yoga and the teaching of the great sense, it is meant good for the humans and also protection and love for entire creation. So practice makes the master. If we do not practice, we will not get. So without making any differences, every master, every holy saint, according to the culture, climate, country, and situation, gave instructions to the people on what to do. But the essence of the instruction is the same. So, Bhagavān Śrī Dīpnā and Mahāprabhujī’s teachings were very simple, very understandable, and were for every man, everyone to understand. And therefore, Hari Gurujī said in a beautiful bhajan, "One mantra, many listeners who have no mantra, and if they would like to have a mantra, if they want to practice the mantra, you can make an experiment with this mantra. You will get benefit." And in this bhajan, Holy Guruji is talking about this mantra, which I will translate for you. Mantra is like this, deep niranjan sab dukha bhanjan. This is a mantra. Deep is the light. Sukha is all, dukha is darkness, pain, troubles. Bhanjan means to remove, to free. Very simple mantra and very powerful mantra: "Deep niranjan sab dukha." Beautiful melody, beautiful melody, you know. It’s very easy to sing, very easy to sing. Once more. Dīpa Nirañjana Sabaduka Bhañjana Kabu Dīpa Nirañjana Sabaduka Bhañjana. Perfect, perfect, very perfect. You need not play your instruments, okay? Harmonium, give it to the rest. So, Dīpa Nirañjana Śabaduka Bhañjana. Deepa, deepa is the light, the universal light. Name of Mā Prabhujī also. Niranjan means spotless, pure, crystal clear. Sabā is all. What? Dukha. What is dukha? Troubles, pain, these, that, all. Bhañjan, remove, free. That’s very powerful, very simple. We add also there Oṁ Prabhu, Dīpa, Nirañjana, Saba, Dukha, Bhañjana. But you can also have thought, Deepaniranjana Sabadukabhanjana. Part 2: The Purifying Power of the Mantra Pronounce once more: Dīpanīrañjana Śabadukabhañjana. Very nice. Deepaniranjana Sabadukabhanjana. Very good, very good. Now, Gurujī is saying, "What happens when you repeat this mantra?" That’s important. What happens? You have to follow me, not that I follow you. I know you know the mantra and bhajan, but this is not only for you who are sitting here, but also for our dear brothers and sisters who are in the far distance from here. Through this mantra, isi mantrase. Through this mantra, Hove Man Manjan. Hove means it will be. Man is the mind, and manjan is purifying. When you brush your teeth, then you have very nice, clean teeth, no? And who didn’t brush their teeth, always sitting like this. And who brushed their nice teeth? Come sit there and make it so. When the mirror is dusty and you clean it, then it’s beautiful, very clean. Manjan means purification, cleaning, polishing, shining, transparency. It’s not nice? What? What will be transparent? Your mind cannot be transparent. Not a glass can be transparent. But your mind will be very positive, very pure, very clean, shining. Did you see how the mind is shining? You have to look inside to your inner mirror, then you will see how your mind is pure. Even now, many of you are thinking, which I don’t accept what you are thinking. Yes? Though I am telling, but at the same time you are thinking, "Not good, not good." It is a pity. There is one grass called jute. You know what is jute? Jute bag. The bag made out of jute. And also from this jute, they make very big rope. You know, thick rope which you tie the sheep and the boats? You know the rope? Yes? That rope, even if you put it in the water for a long time, it will become stronger, tighter. It will not become soft, understand? The nice rope, even if you suck it into the Ganges water, it will become tight. Ego. So there is one point: "Kaptī jan sudhāre nahī." "Kaptī jan sudhāre nahī." So, santaṅ kī saṅga. A tricky, kaptī person who is tricky and this and that will not be better. Even he or she will be with hundreds of the saints. Like some of you sitting here and having such an insight, yes. And the problem is that I can see on the face, and in the next minute I will tell the name, so better you make your face now relaxed, that’s it. Someone said when you smile, only three muscles get in tension, and when you don’t smile... Then 72 muscles are in tension, so when you think something different, "Kaptī jan sudre nai sa santan ke saṅg mooj dhinove Gaṅgāme." The "mooj" is the jute; even if you dip it in the water, Gaṅgā remains Gaṅgā. Still, it will be very tidy like this. So, mind, purification of the mind. Mind is a problem. And we always said, "I changed my mind." Oh yes, I accept it. It is beautiful, very nice. Yes, I like it. And next they say, "No, I changed my mind." How did you change your mind? It’s not like a spare part of a car that you change. But this is that our mental problem; the mind is our problem. Suddenly, you turn the key in the other direction and say, "No, this, that, that." And that is, what is a conflict? Conflict is a mind. What is a pollution? All this physical pollution is a pollution of the human mind. So, isī mantra se hove mana mañjan. Through this mantra, your mind will be free from tensions. Your mind will be free from negative thinking. Your mind will be free from making self-negative thoughts against yourself. There are many people who are not happy with themselves. Many, many, when you go to buy shoes, how many times do you try your shoes and go near the mirror, only the shoes? You put the shoes on, you go near the mirror, and you walk, tap, tap,... And again, you turn left side, and again you turn right side. Only this. This is only shoes. It means you are not happy. Or every morning you close one eye and then make it something like this, and then you look how you look with one closed eye. God gave you two eyes, why do you close one? And then another one, and then looking with the mirror this side, and mirror that side, and mirror that side. This means we are not happy with ourselves. This is this. Some don’t like the way of their own hair. They always go to the hairdresser and say, "Please colour this now, please colour that now." Very, very hard. When you are worthy enough, when you have enough experiences in your life, when many, many times you were against the stones, how do you call it, kicking the stones, and many, many disappointments. How many times, how many years sitting in the school and learning, finally now you’ve got the white, grey hair, you know. If these boys and girls who are here twenty years, they want to have a white beard, they cannot. They can color it, that’s all, but it’s all boys, you know. Still, you have to have many, many kicks from your friends, then you will get gray hair, white hair, that you are worthy enough that God gave you now the white, gray hair, and what. You are doing your white karma, you put again black, yes. The white karma, you put again black karma, so it means we are not satisfied. So repeat this mantra. Om Prabhudeep Niranjan, Sabdukha Bhanjan, hirde kamal ki aankh khul jaave. Hirde kamal, hirde means the heart, kamal is lotus, that lotus heart, the lotus of our heart. We have also eyes in the heart also. We have six eyes, you know. Two eyes for looking at this world, okay? Two eyes with our viveka intellect to make a decision. Then there is a very serious point for a businessman: you have to decide something. You said, "Moment, let me think over it. What are you doing?" You close your eyes and say, "Yes, $20 million is okay." How did you see with your inner eyes? Inner eyes. So, two eyes are for looking at and taking care of our worldly life outside, and two eyes are for our decisions. But these four eyes, two physical eyes and two intellectual eyes, can put us in trouble. Because physical eyes will put us in the temptation of beauty: "I like this, I don’t like this." When you see a big ball of ice cream, two or three balls on it, colorful, then you have temptation. That’s it. Color. These eyes are for color, and then you ask your intellect, and your intellect will support your selfishness; it will look to your greed. It will look to your benefit, not the benefit of others. So these four eyes are there, but they can lead us in the wrong direction. Therefore, God gave us another six, two eyes more, and these are from the heart. Here they say, in the negotiation in the business life, you tell in business language, "Where is your point of your pain? Border of your pain that you cannot go more down than this?" Then you go to your heart and you say, "Really, okay." Your heart will tell you the truth. And then, when you see with the heart, then these eyes, the inner eyes, will have beautiful glasses to see clearly, the intellect. And then your physical eyes will radiate and say, "Okay." So we need to open the eyes of our heart. Hirde kamal ki aankhe khul jave. "Hirde" is the heart, "kamal" is the lotus, and "aankhe" means the eyes. "Khule" means opens. "Hirde kamal ki aankhe khul." Prabhu dīpa nirañjanasya. The eyes of the heart will open. When and how? If you put in, if you will put ointment of mantra, it is now your ointment. Now the mantra becomes an ointment, a medicine. If systematically, every day on time, you will put this ointment in your heart, then it will open. Otherwise, it will not open. So you have to make every day systematic, very correct. Then it will happen. Jodale nīta-nemaka-añjana, jodale nīta-nāmaka-añjana, śrī-dīpa prabhu-dīpa nirañjana, jodale nīta-nāmaka-añjana. Those who put every day this name in your heart, this mantra on your heart, then it is said that your inner eyes will be opened. When the eyes of your heart open, then you will see the world completely differently. How? Positive, everything is beautiful, nothing is disturbing, no conflict. It’s something indescribable. When you get up in the morning, when you open your eyes, five times you should say your mantra. Then get up. Then, while cooking your hot water, boiling hot water, putting tea inside or coffee inside, the best is the neem tea. Boil the water and put a little neem inside, and then you drink it, and it’s bitter. Oh God, early morning, your day begins with bitterness. It’s bitter, but the effect is sweet. So when it’s bitter, you should say, "Dīpā Nirañjanā Sabhā Dukha Dīpā Nirañjanā Śrī Mantras say, hove mañjan, Śrī Mantras say, hove mañjan, Śrī Dīpā, Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Devīśvara Mahādeva." Many of you remember, last Sunday, and also Monday evening last, we spoke about one yogic kriyā, and where we have to continue this. I told you that in Vape we will continue Nāḍī Yoga. Nadi Yoga is a very powerful sādhanā, and when the Nadi Yoga sādhanā begins, then you will realize that your mantra became successful. Why do we practice mantra? There are two things. First, either it is the name of God or something positive, energy. The name of God is positive. The name of God is beautiful, and therefore your mantra is beautiful. Second, it is the resonance of that mantra which leads your inner consciousness in the right direction. It is said, Rām Se Badā Hai Rām Kā Nām. It’s greater than Rāma, his name, Rāma. Greater than that embodiment, that name is big. Like the position of a president is not that physical person only, but that chair, that chair of the president, that has the power. And so, "Rām Se Baḍā Hai Rām Kā Nām" is a more powerful name of God than God Himself. It is the name which gives you information. It is the name which makes the difference. The name gives you the identity. When you are waiting somewhere in the hospital or doctor’s waiting room, or at the airport or anywhere, and someone calls your name, immediately you come. So it means your name means everything. When we say Ram, then we immediately remember God Rāma. When we say Jesus, then the picture of Jesus comes in front of us. When we say Hanumanjī, then Jesus’ picture doesn’t come. It’s Hanumānjī’s coming. When we say Krishna, then Krishna’s picture comes. So similarly, when you call your father, your father’s picture is coming. So also, every name gets the quality, energy, and entire identity of that person. And that’s why we always give a name which has some spiritual, divine, powerful, and positive meaning. And when you get this spiritual name, then there is a meaning, and it means you have to realize that, that you have to be like that name. We gave the name Shānti, but she is very restless. Where the name is Śānti, there should be ever Śānti, no? Or we gave the name Santosh, and she is very greedy, not happy at all. We gave the name Ganga, but it is like a hot fountain, water, no? Not Ganga water. We gave the name Pushpa, and it is like a thorn, no? We gave the name Viveka, but it is stupid. It cannot be like that. Yes, and we gave the Lakshmī, and have not even the money to buy bread. Her name is Lakshmī, but no money. So you have to realize your name, my dear. Every culture, every religion, every tradition has a beautiful name. You should know the meaning of your name and then develop the quality according to that. It must not be that you get an Indian spiritual name; spirituality is in the whole world, that’s it. But when you have that name, then you should be aware about your name. There is somewhere a list written, names. These people are not wanted, and you go and you see your name inside. How unhappy you are, how unhappy you are. And then you go and see that your name is not there. You say, "Oh, thanks to God." My name is not there. How are you attached to your name? Your name has become a rope in your nose to pull you here and there, like a camel. You know, a camel having a nose nostril, a rope, and it pulls you. That rope is your name. Oh Lord of the meek, oh Savior. Of all, my Lord, the rope of my life is in your hand. Please, Lord, sometime move it closer to you. That’s it. Therefore, nāda yoga is connected to mantra yoga. And when the mantra becomes successful, then purification takes place in your mind. It means also physically, spiritually, and socially. At that time, these three things become very strong. The resonance, the sound, the light, and the energy. The light means the wisdom, the knowledge. The resonance of divine cosmic sound. Energy means that governing power within you, protecting power within you, which will protect you and always lead you to the beautiful, good, harmonious, happy place. And therefore, mantra is given. That mantra purifies the physical level, the energy level, the mental level, the intellectual level, and then the spiritual level. And therefore, according to your belief, your faith, God, you should repeat the name of God. That is a mantra, or something positive. Or if you want to do this, you can do it. Nima-sigya-dyaveto darshan-pave, nima-sigya-dyaveto darshan-pave. Devi devata vandana. Sri Deepani, Deepani. Rāñjanā sabhā dukkha, Deepanārāyaṇa Bhagavānagī. Those who will meditate and repeat, disciplined, regularly, then they will have a divine darśan of God or their ātmā. And you will see all the divine souls in the universe, or what they call the goddess, or whatever you call. They will greet you, they will say hello, how great you are, if every day you will chant. Śrī Dīpanī Rañjanā Sabā Bandhana Śrī Dīpanī Jñāna Sabā Dukha Bhadra Śrī Dīpanī Rañjanā Sabā Bandhana Śrī Dīpanī Rañjanā Sabā isī mantra se hove mana jāna isī mantra se hove mana śrīdīpa nirañjanā sabhā prabhu-dīpa nirañjanā sabhā dukha. Now, we will continue. Evening. This was a one-hour morning lecture for you all. And this evening, we will continue about Nāḍī Yoga Kriyā. And also, we will complete, I hope, this bhajan this evening and tomorrow morning, if not then. Wish you a very good day. And evening, according to European time, the 6:30 program will begin. 6.30, because for Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, it is too late. Morning, 3 o’clock, and they ask if we can change the time a little earlier, okay? Why can we not make 6 o’clock, no? Do you like 6? Okay, so please announce, because of the international brothers and sisters, they would like to see also, 6 p.m. this evening. So your program should be designed accordingly. You should have your dinner before. Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Deveśvara Mahādeva Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Śrātaṇ Dharma.