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Oṃ vaitāni śāntir amṛtaṃ sarve bhadrāṇi paśyanto akācī duḥkha bhāga bhave śāntiḥ śāntiḥ... Śrī Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai! Śrī Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva Kī Jai! Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jai! Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai! In meditation, by practicing different techniques, you slow down on the ritualistic path. In every field, one is naturally greedy. Businessmen, farmers, or ritual practitioners—when tested, you try to search through different literatures and techniques. All these paths are very good; there is no doubt they are authentic according to ancient scriptures. They were developed by the siddhas, mahātmas, and masters—whatever you call them—who received them from their ritual ancestors, namely the lineage, the spiritual paramparā. Sometimes these traditions are easy to maintain. One master has ten disciples. That master gave me so many practices. Each of those ten disciples begins to present the wisdom according to their own understanding. It is not always the same; they all understand the same thing differently. Ten heads have ten streams. Those ten disciples now say they are masters, and they have twenty or thirty disciples. So, in dividing, these two hundred will have more generations. If you cannot keep the quality pure, then it disappears. Therefore, there is a system called the successor. The master loves all disciples equally. The problem is that a disciple may not be the successor. The successor should be the one who is capable of preserving the original wisdom from ancient times—Smṛti, Nīti—all of which has a long-lasting essence. If you want to go and study the Vedas, learning one Veda involves just chanting without any explanation or meanings for three to five years, every day for eight to fifteen hours. If you ask, "What did you chant?" they do not know. Only this: Veda. That is all. Brahmavakya—the Veda is a Brahmavakya, like Guruvakya. It goes on, developing in their practice. Then they have to learn for two or three years further the grammar of the Vedas. When you learn Sanskrit grammar, then immediately you know what you were chanting and what the meaning is. So, for one Veda, a minimum of five to ten years is required. And who has time in this modern age to wait five to ten years? Now we want to study for two or three years, get a job, and earn money. Forget everything else; they are thinking of bread and butter. But for a spiritual aspirant, we are all incarnations. Those who have this interest and thirst, this hunger for divine wisdom—to know what and how God made this and that—for them, the four Vedas, as wisdom and knowledge, become part of your very being. You receive the Veda itself. Though you learn that much, still some things you cannot understand; you cannot express them in different languages. Now, very few people remain who can exactly translate the Vedas from Hindi into English. It is a pity. Similarly, from one disciple who becomes a master, it is not about intellectual knowledge or the capacity for organizing, as in companies. That person whom you have always thought of as a disciple, though everybody calls you Guru—when someone tells you, "You are my Gurujī," and you say, "No, I am Gurujī now," your inner self says, "I am a disciple of our Gurujī here." Many do not understand this, but reality is this. We should be linked from generation to generation. That one can come through. What were the Gurujī's or your master's visions and wisdom that you have to keep? It is not that you sit and read that book, and now you need to practice that technique and this. One day, a man came to Gurujī in the Jaipur Ashram. He was sitting there. I was also there with a man from Austria. Premanand Jī was having a very nice time with Gurujī. We had made a room for Gurujī on the floor above. I asked Premanand, "How many times do you go from room to kitchen, kitchen to room, room to downstairs, and to upstairs? Minimum three hundred times." Did you tell him, "Go there, target, come back"? Call him again, he comes. So he comes up, yes, so many times. Sometimes we wanted to call him, so he made a bell. One may try to manipulate the clock, but that was exactly trading what Mahāprabhujī was giving. And Premanand is never like that. He said, "Ah, too much, and this and that." Everything is hard, but everything is well. I was sitting with Gurujī. A few people came, and one man asked questions: "Gurujī, I am doing so many things. I get up early, do my meditation for one or two hours, then I do my prāṇāyāma, then I read the Bhagavad Gītā, then I read the Rāmāyaṇa, then I read the Upaniṣads, then I practice that mantra, then I practice Hanumānjī sādhanā, and so on and so on." Gurujī said, "Good." He said, "I do that." Gurujī said, "Good." But he asked, "Why have I no success?" Gurujī said, "Good." He said, "What does Gurujī mean, 'good'? Is it good that I do not have success?" He said, "Yes. Because you do not go on the good way. Gurudev does so much. Children grow up. I have nothing to do. I am a pensioner, my grandchildren, my wife, my joint family..." Gurujī said, "You will be successful, or Jodo." What do you mean, Gurujī? Toḍo means "break," and joṛo means "join." Say yes, this is the way. Can you explain it to me? Your meditation and your sādhanā can only be successful when you break all worldly relations, finished. Jodo and connect—only Guru Bhakti is successful. That disciple becomes the successor. It is not that you are making a successor because you are very beautiful, or you are great, or you have knowledge about this and that. That does not help anything. When you have to go to an Ayurvedic doctor, he will hold your pulse, your nāḍī. Immediately he can diagnose everything; you need not go for an MRI, you need not make an X-ray. Only this one pulse and these three fingers—yes, they can tell you what you ate yesterday. We still have such doctors. We have Nāḍī Veda. Nāḍī Veda knows the vibration and can read your pulse. He is the best. Similarly, Gurudev is the Nāḍī Veda. Gurudev can see and feel all your karmas—past, present, and future—and can understand what is going on in your heart and in your mind. Simple. We do not need any higher education, what you call university and this and that. That education of love, that love, what we call jñāna, that jñāna is coming. So when you meditate for so many hours, Gurujī said, just sit and do this one, your mantra, the guru mantra. Do you have a guru? Yes, I met many gurus in all, I like my gurus. He says, "like" and "have" are different ideas. It was interesting listening. Premanand was listening there, sitting. Gurujī said, "Premanand, go and make chai." Okay, he went down to the kitchen. Gurujī rang the bell. "No, no, it is too hot. Come up. Come up. Yes, Gurujī. Do not make chai. It is too hot. Make lassi." He went out with the pail again. He asked Gurudev, "Unless he is not from Yogī or Leman?" So, it was Gurujī. That man was sitting there. Then he said, "Can you give me a mantra, please?" You should wait. He said, "How long? How long should I wait?" I think you should get a mantra from Māheśvarānanda. In a few months, he will come back from Europe. Then you should have a mantra. I gave him. He said he got a mantra. He had experiences. He said, "Gurujī, after getting the mantra, I see Kṛṣṇa. But they are so restless. I see him in meditation, and he goes there. I look there, and he goes there. He is sitting, then I look there and he is standing. What to do? My meditation has vikṣepa." Vikṣepa. You have to see the beautiful corals in the ocean, but there are waves; you cannot see. So you get these glasses, or put a big, nice, easier, beautiful, wooden window frame, about forty centimeters high, and put it on that. All the waves are broken, and you have a completely peaceful view. Gurujī said, "You have to take the waves of your vṛttis." He said, "Gurujī, my vṛttis are good, but that only can do Mā Prabhujī." Now you see the difference between a living master and the master who is not in a physical body anymore. Doing everything, Gurujī. Through Gurujī, Mā Prabhujī is working. And through Mā Prabhujī, Devapurījī is working. Through Devapurījī, Alagpurījī is working. And through Gurujī, we are trying to work. We will see how we succeed. Gurujī said, "Tell to Mā Prabhujī in your prayer, please control the Kṛṣṇa." He was laughing. I tell to Maa, "Mahāprabhujī took control of Kṛṣṇa?" Yes. So really, he went and he was sitting in meditation. And again, he said he had the vision, and he asked Mahāprabhujī. Mahāprabhujī appears in meditation. Mahāprabhujī tells Kṛṣṇa, "As long as he does not finish his meditation, do not move." Holding the ear of Kṛṣṇa, Mahāprabhujī said, "Do not move." All vṛtti disconnected. As soon as his vṛtti is disconnected, then the aim of the divine, Kṛṣṇa, became also one with you and did not try to escape here and there. But he needs the Gurudev. Now he is writing so many everyday experiences. He sent me a letter. He said, "Go to Gurujī." Gurujī said, "I cannot answer you. Send to Maheśvara Nanājī." I said, "Gurujī, please do not put me so up and down. Falling down from up to down is painful. My decision, not yours. Okay." So what happens? All letters I collected. His name is Mr. Gathani, Shrotam Das Gathani in Jaipur. This is not a story, but a reality. All these letters that I got, I then let him translate into English his own handwritten letters. I printed it with the translation in English. Many of you have it, no? Divine perception. So this is the evidence of what Gurudev can do. But Gurudev either will do through his master or that source of his energy, or then he knows that he will give his divine wisdom. This is a capable person. Then he will utilize this chance to do through him, doing his holy Gurujī. Prabhuji's side and my other side is between is a holy Gurujī, and still Gurujī is doing that. Such a divine light of my holy Gurujī had such great love he had, and he was also very, what we call, Bholenāth, Śiva, you know. Well, without this, therefore, our sādhanā, meditation, is the way. Meditation is a path. Mantra is a light. Like when you drive a car at night, you have the light. The light is guiding you, though you do not see the light directly, focusing on your eyes. So this mantra is leading through the darkness of ignorance in this jungle. So, the way of the Guru's work, the spiritual master's work, is very difficult. We do not understand. There is one story which is used in Vedānta about the caterpillar and the wasp. There are certain wasps that do not give eggs themselves. They make a mud house, a little nest, and put many, many holes as air conditioning. The air conditioning technology is developed from the wasps, the ants, and the termites. The English name, what we call the colony, is coming from the bees. The bees, the whole colony, is there. So the wasps come and fly on the field, searching for that kind of worm or caterpillar which will become the wasp. Vedānta is saying. So there are three kinds of Paṅkathīḍae, let us say a worm or a caterpillar. One, when you hear the sound of that wasp hidden under the grass or somewhere, it is stuck in your heart. Second, hear the sound. For a while, it runs away here and there. And the third one, there is a quality which listens and listens and stands on the tail. And a wasp is flying round and round, and see that power? I know that this will become the best. It takes that and puts it in that mud house, which they made small, and gives an inject, a bite, a hormone, and closes the door. It is a very small, tiny space. For oxygen, there and coming, and again come, caterpillar irritated and cannot sleep because no, the sound will come, and it comes. He or she is concentrating when the sound is coming; that is called Nāda Yoga. Nāda Yoga developed from this nature. That is developed from this humming or humming. One is inside concentrating, and then she goes away again. It comes. It is hard work to have a child, hard work to have a successor. Then comes silently what is listening, that caterpillar imitating that sound. Things there must be something. Why is all the time making this down? So concentrating, concentrating becomes a memory, and because of this, hormones in the body, then memory knows that primary nose opens the hole, and poverty will say she makes the sound. Flies away, and that one flies behind, following that nāda. It becomes memory: so hum, so hum, so hum, so hum, so hum. So, the first mantra we repeat is called so hum. So means that Bhagavān, Brahman, supreme. Ātman is He is Paramātmā. So these two words, when you repeat so, hum, so, hum, so, hum,... hum, so, ho jātā hai. So he is, I am, he and he, I am, one day. So that Hummary flies behind, and that goes far and suddenly disappears. Look at nature. If you observe really, it disappears and becomes nervous. Where has it gone? Listening, and then it comes from behind, or somehow it becomes one. So the guru and disciple have this kind of relation of the caterpillar and the best. So the Paris stone, there is one precious stone called Paris, rare and rare and rare to... Fine, but it must be. Otherwise, why do we put it in the scriptures? When you touch the iron to the firestone, that pure iron becomes pure gold. But you touch to the Gurudev, that Gurudev does not make you a disciple or from the human. To the perhaps some different creature, but he makes, Gurudev makes you good. At that time, Gurudev, his prāṇa, his breath flows in direction to that success. That will continue. If he or she will break the discipline, it is that the ātmā knows; reject it. Like a machine's technology is very good when they are making medicine tablets or anything. If there is one milliliter, half a milliliter, or a liter, or if there is a milligram less, the machine will reject the tablet. In the medical factory, you see how many tablets are rejected. In the box with medicine capsules in the bottle, let us say it should be about fifty capsules, and if there is only forty-nine, automatically the machine will reject it. Rejected goes again to the whole recycling. If one mistake you do, it, you have to recycle again, recycling of new birth and new beginning. So meditation is that technique. There are no techniques for meditation, no techniques. Meditation comes automatically, like when you sleep, lie down on the pillow and sleep. There is no... Technique, and if you said, "Okay, I will practice yoga nidrā," that is a good technique. But when yoga nidrā is finished, you are fresh; you cannot sleep anymore. Therefore, yoga nidrā should never be practiced in the evening. Yoga nidrā is a known time. Or, at some different time, when you need to come to yourself more consciously and not remain lying in tamas guṇa the whole time, there is only one technique: ek se jāye sab se jāye, sab se... Jai. If you practice this one thing, all you will get. If you practice too many things, this and that, and this book and that and that, you are learning, but you are on the surface, nowhere else you are. Those waves on the ocean, therefore, meditation is the way. But meditation, there is no technique. We are writing many techniques; these are okay. We try, we try. The technique is that it becomes a successor of that group, not your beauty, not your body, not your diplomas, and not your different kinds of learning and experiences, that does not help to maintain the way to help to maintain the... Meditation with your mantra, and meditation means for me every minute more and more developed. Gurujī said, "By each inhalation and exhalation, O Mahāprabhujī, thy name here." So one word changes that person. Break and join. Dodo and Jodo, many cannot understand this. Is a wood broken and joined? No. A thread, broken and joined? No. That thread of attachment, which is again and again irritating your heart like that wasp. Many other wasps try to open that and steal that, or eat that. That is why the mother wasp is all the time just watching that wasp. Unless you cannot break, you can do many things, but this is very important. And that was my decision in my very childhood. It was hard. Dodo, in the water, you cannot swim with some thread. But if you can break it and come out, otherwise die inside. All they are winning for Europe Saturday. Here, in this part of the world, there is no time, no days. This is humans created time. In reality, there is no time, therefore it is... A one without second, beyond time and space. Worldly work we need. Wish you all the best, much love. Tomorrow we will have webcast later, because today all European bhaktas want to go to feed the sharks. You count how many went, and you count. How many came? Thank you. All the blessings, blessings from Gurudev. Love you again. Jai!