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Part 1: The Battle Within and the Path of Purification Happiness, peace, love, harmony, Oṁ, Oṁ, Oṁ. Svaimeva Sarvam, Mama Deva Deva. Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī, Śrī Śrī Devī Īśvara Mahādeva Kī, Dharma Saṁvrat Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī. Oṃ Tryambakaṃ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṃ Puṣṭivardhanam, Urvārukamiva Bandhanān Mṛtyormukṣīya Māmṛtāt. Oṃ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ. Blessed self, all dear ones, sisters, and brothers around the globe, blessings are coming to you. Already, the president of the Yoga and Life of New Zealand announced a small island, small group; a big island, big group. I am very happy that this year, Christmas as well as the new year, will be spent here with all of you, and I will share my thoughts with all of you around the world, those who are with us through the webcast. You know the story of the Mahābhārata. It was a very big battle, a battle between dharma and adharma, right versus injustice. Dharma Kṣetra, Kuru Kṣetra—that Kuru Kṣetra where the battlefield took place, about two or three hundred kilometers from New Delhi—was for the dharma, to protect the dharma, to remove and destroy the āsurī śaktis, the devils or the śaitānic śaktis. But that battle has not been completed; unfortunately, it is still going on. Sometimes this country, that country, this country is moving. At the end of the Mahābhārata, one of the very well-known figures was Bhīṣma, Pitāmaha Bhīṣma, son of the Gaṅgā, Gaṅgā Putra Bhīṣma. I will not tell you the whole story of his life, but Gaṅgā, his mother, gave him blessings that you will live as long as you wish. It doesn’t matter what happens to your body; still, you will live. Well, there was a big struggle for him his whole life. At the end of the Mahābhārata, in that battle, he was attacked with arrows. Arjuna shot the arrows, and they went through his body numerous times. In one arm, there were about twenty. He fell down and was lying on the bed of arrows, about forty centimeters high from the ground. Blood was running. But his mother said, "The Gaṅgā, you will die only when you say, ’Now I want to die.’" Well, he was lying in the jungle, on the battlefield, alone. Thousands and thousands of soldiers were killed. Vultures, foxes, and many other animals were eating the bodies of the soldiers. All were killed. The five Pāṇḍavas came to make their praṇām to Bhīṣma. Bhīṣma was lying alone, looking to the sky and remembering his mother. He said, "My God, what have I done in my life? For what was I born, and what this Kusaṅga, the bad society, pushed me to the wrong way. God forgive me." Now he looks from his birth till this minute. At that time, he attained that knowledge, ātmā jñāna knowledge. "Oh my God! How much I played tricks, how much I humiliated others, and how could I join the negative people." That time, the five brothers, the Pāṇḍavas, came and one after the other were making praṇām. Yudhiṣṭhira, the eldest Pāṇḍava, came and bowed down. Arjuna also said, "Father," because in some way he was a grandfather, but he was on the other side, the wrong side. Arjuna said to Krishna, "I will not fight. I don’t want to kill them, those sinners, but I don’t want to kill them." Krishna said, "To remove the sin is not a sin, it is a duty." Similarly, we should consciously remove those doubts and negative energies, because otherwise, people will take you with them. If someone who can’t swim jumps in to save his life, he will catch you, and you will also go down. Krishna said, "Arjuna, they have killed themselves." Who are you to kill them? What do you mean, they have killed themselves? Their sin, their negative thoughts, their negative words, their negative activities. But in the end, they still come to him and make salutation, praṇām. And Bhīṣma said, "Grandfather, have you any blessings, any wish for us? What should we do now?" At that time, Bhīṣma said one word which is repeated many times in the world now. For the first time, Pitāmah Bhīṣma said, "Dharmarāja Yudhiṣṭhira, the king of dharma." Dharma means justice, justice in the heaven. Dharam Rāj, who has all the records of our destinies. You remember, day before yesterday, our Indian brother Parvin very nicely taught. What does it mean to get here, not on the forehead? It means our destiny is written here, not here on the stomach. Hamāre karma meṁ kyā likhā hai, hamāre kiśmat meṁ kyā likhā hai. Amara kismat, my destiny, my faith, where is it written here? So we say, do you have something in your brain or not? So when you put the tilak here, you change your destiny. Yes, that time is a blessing. If your mother, father, brother, sister, or master gives you the heart, that is a blessing; they are positive energies coming to your body. This is like electricity. Well, Bhīṣma said to Yudhiṣṭhira, "O Yudhiṣṭhira, ahiṃsā parabho dharma, non-violence is the highest principle. Non-violence is the highest dharma, O Yudhiṣṭhira. I did so many things in my life, but now I realize what it means to kill people with words, with blackmail, backbiting." And that word is repeated now everywhere in the world. And Mahatma Gandhi, he had this saṅkalpa in his life that he would not commit any violence. And therefore, the United Nations has declared the 2nd of October, the anniversary of the birthday of Mahātmā Gāndhī, as the International Day of Non-Violence. He holds onto his past time. At the same time, Arjuna also went to Kṛṣṇa. "I have no one. I have no armies. And my nephew, or the son of my great, not grandfather, but my uncle—you don’t have in English these words: kākā, kāke, bābā, bābī, bābājī. All this complication is deleted." Krishna was resting like this, and he told Duryodhana and Arjuna, "Whoever comes to me first tomorrow, I will be on their side." Duryodhana, when the time was given, he went half an hour earlier. Krishna was just like this, resting. Duryodhana had ego. "Why should I sit near Krishna’s feet? I will sit behind." After that, Arjuna came five minutes late, or two minutes late. Krishna opens his eyes and sees Arjuna first. But before Kṛṣṇa could open his eyes, Arjuna said, "O Lord, You are my mother, You are my father. You are my friends, and you are my relatives. You are my wealth, and you are my happiness. You are everything, O my Lord. I surrender to Thee, that I may remember." That’s why I’m telling you, I’m not telling about this whole Mahābhārata. Krishna opens his eyes and sees Arjuna, and Krishna said, "I will be by your side." Duryodhana was sitting and said, "Kṛṣṇa, this is injustice. That’s not correct. I’ve been here for half an hour already." So, Kṛṣṇa says, "Oh, you are here also now. But I saw first, Arjuna." So when we open our eyes, where do our eyes go? Deep down. There is a surrendering, and if you can’t open your eyes like this, that is ego. So, my dear, we have celebrated many years and many Sylvesters. Let’s say last year. Recall the memories of your being completely, physically, mentally, emotionally, intellectually, socially, politically, etc. Through your presence, your soul in this body, what have you done? Something which is justice or injustice? Each and every step will be counted. Secondly, if we think about the past year, from the beginning of the 1st of January 2014 until the 31st of December 2014, what happened in this world? How many airplanes crashed? How many airplanes just disappeared? How many wars, civil wars? How many people were killed? How many children were killed? Innocent children in these schools were killed. How many innocent animals are killed? Oh human, where do you want to take this world? Where do you want to take us, humans, in which direction? Whatever happened, it has happened. It’s too late. To cry for that is too late. But only one thing we can say, that now we pray to the Almighty. Finally, someone there, he said, "I am doing nothing." Even your prayer, it is your energy that will help you. And if you are doing bad things, it is your energy destroying you. "I am just there to see you and try to protect you. Human, I gave you everything. Nothing is missing. Nurse in Nārāyaṇa, human to God, you can become. I gave you the techniques, the energy in your body, the chakras, etc. But you don’t listen; you don’t follow that." So, we pray, first of all, for the whole world. Wherever our dear brothers and sisters, we pray for our brothers and our children and our parents, our partners who lost their dear ones through accidents, through the wars, through illnesses, etc. We pray for their souls, that God guide these souls towards light, eternal light and peace. Because we are here, still alive, we remain for what? To support them, to help them, that is the first thing. If you think negatively, it is darkening your consciousness, and it will come quickly back to you. If we don’t like the sun, we throw dust on the sun. The sun will get nothing, but it will fall on our head. What have you done? Why do these things appear and awaken in the thoughts of a human? Kuṣaṅga, bad society. Satsaṅga, good society. What can we do? Yes, it is a blanket over us, that blanket of negativity. There is a mantra, there is a prayer, asking for forgiveness. And you are the wise one. Now, realize, human, that this will not happen anymore from this minute onwards, and in this new year, which is coming very soon in a few hours. For whole years we have to pray to wash away all our karmas. Many, many lives we have to wash clean that layer of negative energy in our consciousness. One after another layer, one after another layer. And positive thoughts, on the other side, are getting brighter and brighter, cleaner and cleaner. So, measure what was the bore. For that, we can do only one thing. Morning, see the Shiva, or if you have a Shiva Liṅga or temple, make five times abhiṣeka on Śivajī with water, take water and drop it. Shiva Liṅga means the entire universe, entire creation, all, everything is within the space. And that space is within all, merging into the oneness, śakti, the light, the energy. Try, one month every day you will feel inner purification, one month only. Abhisheka, you take the water and on the śivaliṅga, "Oṃ Tryambakaṃ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṃ Puṣṭivardhanam, Urvārukamiva Bandhanān Mṛtyormukṣīya Māmṛtāt. Oṃ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ..." Oṃ Tryambakaṃ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṃ Puṣṭivardhanam, Urvārukamiva Bandhanān Mṛtyormukṣīya Māmṛtāt. Oṃ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ. Five times. It will hardly take five minutes. This is called purification. Karmic purification. Karmic purification. I gave it into your hands. Now you have to be in the bathroom alone. I can’t go with you in the bathroom, okay? How to wash karmas. These mantras come from the Vedas. Very beautiful. Very beautiful. Then you come out of your sādhanā and try to see the sun. Sometimes it’s not visible for a whole week, and sometimes more. But have at home a beautiful plant, tulasī. And Tulasī is a plant which has very, very good, many, many qualities in the herbal world. And it’s spiritual, gentle. And be sure, while giving water, if you think negative, Tulsi will die. You need pure thoughts; otherwise, don’t go near her. She is very gentle, very gentle, pure. So when you come near the pure water, and you jump into the pure, clean water, you will be cleaned. But if it is dirty, you will jump in, and you will come out again with the dirt. That is it. Satsaṅg is that pure, the Tulasī. And there is a very beautiful mantra, scientifically proven, that is called the Gāyatrī Mantra. So you have to do Gāyatrī Yajña, Gāyatrī Anuṣṭhāna. Gayatri means what? Five times. Take the water. Tulasī doesn’t like too much water. Don’t put the whole bucket on it. Drops, little. Oṃ Bhūr Bhuvaḥ Svaḥ Tat Savitur Vareṇyaṃ Bhargo Devasya Dhīmahi Dhiyo Yo Naḥ Pracodayāt. The whole atmosphere will change. Try for one month. Don’t miss one day. You will see how much purification you will feel in your heart. This point, this point, and this point, all will purify. Automatically, when the upper chakra is purified, automatically the lower chakra will let energy go back to the darkness, to that kuśaṅga. But you do wash yourself in very pure, clean water, and then you go to the dirty pond; that is the kusaṅga. He has no interest, no sense to do. So from the beginning of this year to the end of this year, we pray to God, the merciful Lord, forgive me, forgive my mistakes, whatever I did through my body, my emotion, my mind, my thoughts, my words, my actions, and my being. Bless me. Let me be thy instrument. I surrender to thee my body, mind, and soul. Let me be thy instrument of love and light. Wherever I come, may I bring this light to enlighten the hearts of all. This is a beautiful technique to get rid of past karmas. Part 2: The Path of Purification and the Call to Village Life But I tell you once, it will not go 100%. If it were so easy, everyone could do it, but the burden will become light. The thousand kilos will be reduced to only a few grams. Yet, a few grams is still something. If you go on the wrong way again, these grams will grow so quickly—not to a thousand, but to ten thousand kilos. This is the condition in this purification. This is called Kuśaṅga, an infectious disease. And when you are in Kuśaṅga and you come to a satsaṅg somewhere, you bring the infections. That becomes a double karmic punishment for us. So, Śiva can clean and purify. Śiva’s triśūla, Śiva’s ḍamaru, Śiva’s vibhūti, Śiva’s jaṭā, Śiva Gaṅgādhārī, Gaṅgājal, and the universe are all a language of Śiva. And there, this life, the Gāyatrī Mantra. Gāyatrī, Sāvitrī, Sarasvatī, Gītā, Gaṅgā, Chāgāyā, Trī, Sītā, Satyā, Sarasvatī, Brahma Vidyā, Brahma Vallī, Trī Sandhyā, Mukti, Gehinī, Ardha Mātrā, Chidānanda, Bhai Agni, Bhai Nāsānī, Vedatrayī, Parānanda, Tattvārtha, Jñāna, Mañjarī. All divine energies are dwelling in your heart by God. Then darkness cannot come to the light. But first we have to become the light. I pray with you and for you and for me that our Alakhpurījī, Siddha Pīṭh Paramparā, all holy saints, and all the holy saints of the world bless us, forgive us, and guide us. After this, my dear, I wish you a very pleasant, very healthy, happy, harmonious, and prosperous new year. And for the New Year, we had very nice prayers, very, very nice prayers that we learned in our school when we were small. Unfortunately, unfortunately, unluckily, these prayers were removed from the schools. Where there is no ethic and no spirituality, that is not education. Even in India, they removed it from the schools. Many don’t want their children to pray. You have no right to block the children’s education and spirituality until they become 20 years old. Then they can decide if they don’t want. But as a parent, you have no right to take them away from the light to the darkness. He Prabhu Ānand Dātā. O Lord, give me sadbuddhi, give me good thoughts. Yama, Niyama, Āsana, Prāṇāyāma, Pratyāhāra, Dhāraṇā, Dhyāna, Samādhi, Vairāgya, Sadācāri, Brahmacāri. This is for this beautiful prayer. So we enter into the divine time, New Year. Gurujī said, "Enter the kingdom of the Lord through the gate of sacrifice." If you want to enter into the kingdom of the Lord, then there is only one gate, one door: sacrifice. Sacrifice all your doubts, all your negative thoughts, all your negative qualities. Come, oneness, this new year will be very, very divine and beautiful. Otherwise, I can’t tell you more. You know, sometimes disciples are very naughty. To keep them together is not easy. You know what I mean? For example, take the scale to measure something. Scale. And there are two plates. Yes? So we have one side kilograms, and now I bring you one basket full of frogs. All together, measure them, please. You can’t measure them. Because as soon as it comes, one jumps out. You catch and bring him in, then he jumps out three times. So, to educate the disciples is like to weigh the frogs. That’s it. But still, try, try. Suddenly, one frog will say, "Quack, quack," and the other will say, "Oh, quack, quack." Every frog on that plate will look at it and quack, quack, singing. That’s it. Means, Oṃ Mantra. So, Oṃ Tryambakaṃ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṃ Puṣṭivardhanam, Urvārukamiva Bandhanān Mṛtyormukṣīya Māmṛtāt. Oṃ Śāntiḥ. Very quick. It doesn’t take even five minutes. It doesn’t take a long time, but don’t do it in a hurry. When we chant mantra, the nāda, ḍamaru of Śiva, it goes through the whole body. Oṃ Tryambakaṃ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṃ... Oh my God! Each and every cell of the body is vibrating with positive resonance, positive light, and it purifies all negatives. Take a few minutes for your life to be healthy, wealthy, spiritual, and good. Be careful, don’t go to the satsaṅg of the Nekushaṅgas. You have negative thoughts, and you are giving satsaṅg? That does not accept the Supreme. So be humble, be kind. Who are we to judge someone? Mantra. For the beginning of this new year, my dear ones, I have a new project which I give to you. Well, I have my thoughts, visions, and disciples have to fulfill. That is very, very simple, very easy. It is not difficult for me to create and establish a project. All bhaktas around the world, this project is not only for the Kiwis, for New Zealand people. But for all of us, I was thinking a lot that every country has a beautiful culture, beautiful traditions, and beautiful festivals, but it is disappearing. Where there is culture, there is humanity. And where there is a human, culture is either preserved or it disappears. Is there some place where the culture will not disappear, and where humans go, they bring the culture with them? The Hungarian came from Hungary, and they brought nice Hungarian paprika. This Hungarian paprika is so good; it’s a Hungarian culture. And they begin to cook something very good, oh, it’s a very good specialty of Hungarian called lecho. And when he cooks the lecho, we say, "What is that?" It is Hungarian. You see, the culture has come here. Slovakians will come, and they will also bring something. And very nice Slovakian food, they call it halušky. And when the Indians come, oh my God, they bring something. I don’t know what. Culture is preserved with ancestors, grandparents, and the family. That’s called a family culture. In the cities, culture disappears. In the city, people are not aware of that. And if then they try to speak about their culture and do something, therefore, the culture is preserved, and culture has a place in the villages. And therefore, we make a new project, and that project is to move to the village, be happy, and protect or preserve the culture. Move to the village, protect the culture, and be happy. You know, my dear, many villages die; now only old people remain. When you go to the villages, I see, before 44 years, when I was—now this is 45 years—I am in Europe. In the villages, the church was full of people. And now, hardly anyone goes there except people who are 80, 90, or 95. So you can see how tired the culture is now. The culture is walking with the stick slowly towards the church. And other negative energies said, "How long will you survive?" Very soon, you will fall down. So I would like to help and make a beautiful project, move to a village, preserve the culture, and be happy. Number one, number two: beautiful shops, beautiful art, beautiful things from the villages are disappearing because of such big supermarkets. Third, all the highways have made humans away from the culture and from the villages. Now, very soon, you don’t know which village is there when you are driving from here to Roymati. After ten kilometers, which village is there? Nobody knows, except those who are living there. If we drive by the land road, we come from one village to another village. In one village, we buy nice apples. In other villages, they have nice cherries. In other villages, we have nice milk. Every village has its specialties. There are some villages that make very good shoes, and some make very nice hats. They are all living together in a beautiful life. You move to town, you don’t know what you should eat. Junk food. And small shops are dying. Challenges. So try to support small shops. This is our project. Go and buy there where there are small shops. Buy milk, buy fruit, buy juice, buy this veggie—small shop that this family has to survive. This family has a right to be there and in their culture. Try, even if it costs you five cents more or one dollar more. But this is your support to that cultural, traditional way of that village, that country, and these people’s families. Inspire the people to open their company’s office in a small village. The land is cheaper, there is more space, and all these village people will be happy to work for you. They are very intelligent people. You think village people are not intelligent? Who is living in this big city? This big city did not give birth to this. They all came from the countryside. What do they learn in the big city? Drugs. What do they learn in the big city? Negative societies. All crazy things are happening, and no one cares about others. In a village, the whole village cares about you, my dear. The whole village knows you. They will support you. So, back to the village, preserve the culture, and be happy. This is our new project. Don’t forget. So everyone, go shopping where the small shop is. Protect, please. Otherwise, very soon you will not know what, where, or what to get. And learn cooking. The future of humanity is learning to cook. For the last ten years, I have been constantly saying in my lectures, you will be surprised, 85% of people cannot cook. So very soon, after half a century or one century, people can’t cook, and they will not know how to eat. So they will walk on the floor to go and eat something, learn cooking, village life, and go shopping at the small shops. They are good friends. They will all say, "How are you?" If you have forgotten to bring money, there is no problem. Next time, when you can come here. And in the supermarket, they will not say, "Okay, you can pay tomorrow." No. Santoshpurī, Santoshanand, do you agree with my thoughts? Yes. That’s good. So you agree. You accept my project? Do you accept my project? If yes, then raise your hands up. Thank you. All raise your hands up. No one there to... Because everyone is for the beautiful projects. So it means we help our brothers and sisters of the villages or big cities, but small shops. Let them be happy, and let us be good friends with them. So this is our one project for this new year. On the 15th of August, my birthday, I made one project, Save the Birds, and now this is another one. So, back to the village, save the culture, and be happy. Happy life. Thank you. I wish you a very happy, prosperous, and healthy New Year. And whatever happened with someone or something last year, we forgive it. Still, you have a few hours more to do stupid things and put them in that garbage, and pray, "Lord, forget it; I did this mistake." So do good things. In the last minutes, do good things. Yes, that will be counted very much. A real businessman who has a small family and a small shop doesn’t count the time with a watch. Always, always stay 10 minutes longer in the shop because of two things you don’t know when they come: customers and dates. You don’t know when the date will come suddenly, and you don’t know when the customer will come. Five minutes before you close the shop, and two minutes after someone came who wanted to make a big business with you, you lost it. And that’s why the business owner of that business always comes late. Now you can understand. In Kali Yuga, money is God. So, for these last few hours that remain, we pray for forgiveness. If I did something wrong to someone, if I spoke harsh words to someone, please, Lord, free me from this. And if you were offended, if you were hurt, if something, pray to God, "My Lord, forgive the person who makes these mistakes, and remove my fear and my confusion, and make me capable so that I can stand through." With this, my dears, I wish you once more a very happy and good new year. Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavānakī, Deveśvara Mahādeva, Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavānakī, Sanātana Dharma Kī, Oṃ Tryambakaṃ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṃ Puṣṭi Vardhanaṃ, Urvārukamiva Bandhanān Mṛtyormukṣīya Māmṛtāt, Oṃ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ, Oṃ Bhūr Bhuvaḥ Svaḥ Tat Savitur Vareṇyaṃ Bhargo Devasya. Dheemai Dhe Oyo Nah Prachodayat Om Śānti Śānti... If you are scared of anything, listen to the Hanuman Chalīsā every day. Hanuman means strength, the protector, the guide. Hanuman is like a solid rock. No negative energy can attack him. And for that Hanuman Chalisa, you can have a CD, I hope somewhere, otherwise you can find it on the internet. And it takes seven minutes. You play in the morning, and the fear will disappear. And if someone has thoughts, negative thoughts and anxieties, phobias, this Hanuman Chalisa will remove them. There are some people who have thoughts, sometimes, because there are certain problems they can’t master, suicidal thoughts. That will be removed through the Hanumān Chālīsā. Try, my dear, you will see what power the Vedic mantras have. Try. It is there. Use it or lose it. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Nāhaṃ Karatā Prabhudīp Karatā Mahāprabhudīp Karatā He Kevalam Om Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... Deep Nar Bhagwānakī, Deveśwar Mahādevakī, Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagwānakī. Let us go to the village, preserve the culture, and be happy. Thank you.