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Om Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī, Śrī Śrī Deveśvara Mahādeva kī, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānjī Bhagavān kī Jai. Satya Sanātana, Kaliyuga kevala nāma ādhāra, sumira sumira nara hoi bhava pāra. Great Tulsīdāsjī writes in the holy book Rāmāyaṇa: "Kaliyuga kevala nāma ādhāra, sumira sumira nara hoi bhava pāra." The Yugas are divided into four. Satyuga was for tapasyā. Dwāpar Yuga was for jñāna, knowledge. Tretā Yuga was for karam kāṇḍa, yajñas and ceremonies. And Kaliyuga is for bhakti yoga. The ṛṣis knew that in Kaliyuga the time would become so hard and difficult. People would have little discipline, little knowledge about God, and their attention would be diverted towards materialism. So what is the easiest way, whenever we look in this Kaliyuga? There is such temptation, a great temptation, that great yogīs, great bhaktas, disciples... suddenly they are attacked by Kaliyuga, and it destroys their spiritual development. Therefore, Tulsīdāsjī said, "Kaliyuga kevala nāma ādhāra, sumira sumira nara hoi bhava pāra." Only the name is the support. The basic principle in Kaliyuga is bhakti. "Kaliyuga kevala nāma ādhāra." Ādhāra means support, help, everything which helps us, that on which we can hold. It is said, "O God, I depend only on you, I trust in your mercy." Nāma means the name, the name of God, that which we call a mantra—a very short mantra: "Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa..." or many other mantras. While practicing, repeating the name of God, oh man, oh human, you can cross this ocean of māyā, saṃsāra, the worldly ocean. Bhakti yoga has many principles too: śakām bhakti and niṣkām bhakti. Śakām bhakti is selfish; niṣkām bhakti is selfless. Śakām bhakti is more for the material world, but its duration lasts only till the end of life. Like we pray to our God: "Oh Bhagavān, hey Prabhu, my health should be good, I should pass my examination, my business should go well," etc. We have so many wishes when we don't see the way out; then we turn towards God, and God will definitely support us. But God will see if it is a negative or positive wish. Generally, negative wishes are not supported, but it happens. But when negative wishes come true and problems arise, then you blame God. Therefore, God has given freedom to humans. What you will do, that you will get. It has both good and bad. It is temporary. But selfless bhakti, that one supports our spiritual development. You are not praying for money. You are not praying that you can sell your business well, or for this and that. You are using that energy for temporary things. Therefore, once Bhagavān Śrī Dīpna and Mahāprabhujī asked Holy Gurujī: "What do you wish? I will give you everything you wish." Gurujī said, "Bless me, please fulfill my wish that if I am born again, give me bhakti to your holy lotus feet. Do not separate me throughout the whole universe. I would like to be in your seva. Again and again I ask for your blessings. Please, Lord, always be in front of my vision. Wherever I see, I see you. Will you see me one day?" We were driving; it was afternoon or evening in Czechoslovakia—now it is the Czech Republic—in a city called Ostrava. A very great bhakta, because his name is Bhaktānanda, was driving his beautiful car, a Škoda. Gurujī and I were both sitting in the back, and two other people were sitting in the front. He said, "Mahesh, many times Mahāprabhujī asked, 'What do you wish?'" Always only one answer: Seva. Seva to you, Mahāprabhujī. In the whole universe, nothing is more precious for me than Seva. No siddhi, no miracles, nothing. And he blessed me for all, but I never concentrated and took it in a serious way. Then Gurujī told me, "Mahesh, it is a pity. You came a few years late. Mahāprabhujī would have seen you physically. I think he would have blessed you in such a way that no one can give." But I said, "Gurujī, what is he giving me?" And he gave me... Gurujī said, "That's true, your entire being, Mahāprabhujī's grace, and all the protection which you are getting from Devpurījī. Compare your life in your birthplace. Now compare your life here in Europe. This is your bhakti." Gurujī said it is the words of Mahāprabhujī that every saṅkalpa and every word of Maheśvarānand will come true. He said, "I am so happy, proud of you, that Mahāprabhujī has blessed you in such a way." It is very important: every religion in the world, no matter which kind, is based on devotion. No one will say, "Do not pray to God." No faith, then there is no religion. Religion means relation, the relation of this ātmā to Paramātmā, this jīvātmā to śivātmā, that we are related. At about 11:30, he was doing his mālā and talking to me, and I was sleeping sometimes. Gurujī said, "You are sleeping? Okay, sleep." I said, "No, no... Gurujī, I am only listening and enjoying." Gurujī spoke about bhakti, māyā, and the only way. Now it is good that you do your yoga programs, your yoga meditation. Finally, this jīvātmā has to turn to one place to find shelter, and this shelter is protection for the whole life. An elderly brother was a little bit very restless and intellectual. He studied many faculties; he got many, many diplomas. But he was thinking all the time about his youngest brother: "My young brother has lost the sense of life. If he had studied, he would be a manager, director, engineer, doctor, scientist—what not? Sitting in the jungle, and in an old ruined temple, there is a stone. Putting water on the stone and making pūjā. What is the sense of it? Life, he should have some abilities." Between the city or village and the forest, there was a river, a very peaceful, flowing river. There was a boat to cross, so he wanted to go and see his brother. He came by boat, went to the brother. The brother was very happy; the other one was also very happy. They hugged each other. The elderly brother brought some prasāda, fruit, they ate and so on, and had four or five hours together. All the time he was saying, "You did not study, you should study. I suggest you again, still go and study." He said, "Yes, brother, but now I am about 45, 50 years old. What should I study? I study? You have studied for me, so you enjoy. Sorry." So the youngest brother said, "Brother, it is just now 12:30 noon, and I have to make a Śiva pūjā. Oh, is it okay? Would you like to come?" Just love, respect for his younger brother. He also came and was looking at the stone and standing like this. And he was making pūjā and some āratī and some mantra—the mantra which you chanted, half correct and half wrong. He said, "Whatever you did, it was the best." The elder brother said, "Now I am going, take care. I would say that you should learn the mantra properly or come and study." So he accompanied his brother to the bank of the river. The elder brother sat in the boat, which was going, and this brother was waving to him, and the other also. About 100 meters far from the other bank side of the river, the youngest brother was chanting a mantra, but he made a correction. He forgot, he forgot one sentence, and he said, "Brother, brother, stop my mind," and he walked on the water. He ran on the water. The elderly brother said, "He can walk on the water. I study so much, even I cannot swim so far." And he ran and came close till he reached the bank of the river on the other side. He said, "Brother, I have forgotten one mantra. Can you make a correction?" The elderly brother said, "My brother, my salutation to you. You do not need any correction of mantras. You become yourself like a mantra." So when we have devotion to God with a pure heart, without any trick, without any desires, without any doubts, then God is always in your words, in your heart, and with you. In every religion, there are beautiful stories. One Sufi saint—Muslims, they are between Hindus, Muslims—so the Sufi saint was great. In the past history of the Sufi saints, there was one Siddha. He had ātmā jñāna, and in this ātmā jñāna we call it the Soham mantra: Soham. "I am that which I am. I am that which I am." They do not believe in Muslims. They do not let you say that you are like Allāh. You cannot say, "I am this? I am this? I am this?" That mantra is called Anā al-Ḥaqq. Anā al-Ḥaqq. So they all were against him. They hunted him away from here to there. And they gathered together and said, "Stop saying 'Anā al-Ḥaqq'. You say 'Malik', 'Allah', but not 'Anā al-Ḥaqq'." He said, "'Anā al-Ḥaqq' is 'Anā al-Ḥaqq'. There is a Malik, there is Allah, that is the same Self." He had a hard life. But when you have that love for the eternal God, then all is restless. Now I taste the taste of God's name, of God's nectar. Now all these other juices or tastes of the worldly are tasteless. They asked him, "Do not say it. We respect you, we do all, but do not teach." He said, "Anā al-Ḥaqq is Anā al-Ḥaqq. Anā al-Ḥaqq. Anā al-Ḥaqq." So they crucified him, like Jesus was crucified. They crucified him. He was dying, but every drop of the blood which was dripping down, the sound came, "Anā al-Ḥaqq, Anā al-Ḥaqq." Someone said, "My God, he is going to be a Satan, a most... Rākṣasa, even in the blood, what to do?" Generally, they grave the body, but this time they said, "We will burn his body." So they burned the body; they did not bury it. Fire burning, body is burning, fire comes out, anala, anala. Soham, soham,... soham. They said, "Look, the Rākṣasa still does not give up." After they were waiting, all became ash, his bones, his body, everything. From that ash also comes the sound Anā al-Ḥaqq. Then all Sufi saints bow down to him. Forgive, forgive,... Annapūrṇā. So devotion brings us to immortality. There is no way, no way to come to the Brahman. Therefore, Mahāprabhujī said in prayer: "How many yajñas, havan, yajña, and dāna, all without Gurudev's kṛpā, is senseless." Therefore, that kṛpā, the blessing of the Gurudev, Mahāprabhujī, Deveśvara Mahādeva, Devādideva, Devapurījī, protects us. Gurujī's divine blessing, Gurujī's divine love, who understood they are crossing the ocean. Gurujī told this story to me in the car, between... we were near about, it is called Piešťany in Slovakia. Piešťany is a very well-known international spa, especially for dustmen, for the joints. And there our very dear Dr. Anna Kalichava, she was organizing many beautiful programs there and still she is organizing. She is a great social worker. So from there, Gurujī starts the story. Till we came to Bratislava, and when Gurujī was telling this story, Anā al-Ḥaqq, Gurujī had tears. Gurujī said many times Mahāprabhujī was telling about Anā al-Ḥaqq. We saw the video of the Gaṅgā Upaniṣad, and there they saw the Sufi saint who was saying "Anā al-Ḥaqq." So Anā al-Ḥaqq said, he said, it is his words, his song: "Where are you searching me, my friend?" Banda means friend, Bhakta, trustable, brother, everything. So, devotee. O devotee, where are you searching for me? Where are you searching me? I am with you. I am with you... My hut is outside of the city, in the forest. But my camping, this is a dera, this tent, and we are sitting. In some languages, this is a dera. So my residence, my hut is outside of the forest, outside of the city, in the forest. Dear ones, my swaśa, and I dwell, I live in breath, in your breath, ascending and descending breath. Ara urad, ara, inhale, exhale. In that prāṇa, that prāṇa develops into the divine energy, divine, makes you divine. But when the negative vṛttis come towards the worldly, again you become like this, S. Yesterday was beautiful. Wood there and fire, the obstacles and desires came between, turned into the S. Some remain black coal. So in one song it is said, the wood burned turned into the coal, and the coal burned turned into the ash. I am lucky. I am lucky through black bear or the negative energy desires. Neither remain wood nor become ash. I remain the black coal, the black sheep. It is a hard way. Bhakti is also not so easy. Bhakti is very comfortable, very easy, very divine, but complete surrender. Where are you searching for me? I am with you. My heart is in the forest, in the jungle. Dear, my swaśa me. But my residence is in your breath. Khojoge to abhi milunga. If you will search me in your breath, ascending, descending breath. Khojoge to abhī miluṅgā. Pal bhar ki talas me. If really you will search, within no time, you will see me. I will meet you. Anā al-Ḥaqq. Anā al-Ḥaqq. Bhakti, therefore, a great saint Kabīr Dās said in a bhajan, a beautiful bhajan: Oh my Gurudev, bless me with Bhakti, Bhakti Daan. Daan means like a donation, something you give. What do I ask you, God? Nothing. You are the Lord of the Lords. You are the God of all Goddesses. Even if I take new birth, I should not be separated from you. I do not ask for the gold and diamond mines. I do not ask for the kingdom of the whole world. I do not ask for this and that, but only one Bhakti. Bhakti lost even the Kākabhūṣaṇḍī. He lost his Bhakti. He went against his Gurudev. He wanted to become a guru and be like that; he is a successor. When the Gurudev came to know what he was doing, struggling for what? He gave him the curse, "Become the crow." He became a crow. But that crow then got his past life knowledge. Then he turned to spirituality, and it is the whole Rāmāyaṇa that Tulsīdās is writing from, like, a satsaṅg of the Kākabhūṣaṇḍī. So look what happened to Garuḍa, Bhagavān Viṣṇu's chariot, Garuḍa. Only he had a little doubt because Bhagavān Rāma, when he was in Laṅkā, got Nāg fans, the arrows. At that time, in that yuga, they would just think and imagine with mental power, and they shot the arrow in which form and where it should go and how it should function. Nowadays, they have made the navigator. They are sending aeroplanes which have no sound at all, and it dropped the bomb just there. This is like that technology. Viṣṇu Bhagavān Rāma became unconscious. No one could free him from that snake, so he said, "Only a Garuḍa can do." When Bhagavān Viṣṇu incarnates here, at that time, his chariot has holidays. Do not know on which island he is swimming, enjoying. It was Hanumānjī who went and found him where he was. He came and freed Rāma from the snake, Nāg fast. But Garuḍa got a doubt. If this is my God, this is my Lord Viṣṇu, and if he is lying here helpless, and he needs my help, I thought he helps all of us. But the helper needs help too. What a wonder. He lost the devotion. When he lost the devotion, he lost the love. He lost the peace. There was no peace. He could not repeat the mantra. He was always going in the wrong direction. Always, vṛtti was going somewhere, and he sees again Rāma lying there helpless. He said, "I will search for another God." He could not meditate. He went to Brahma. Brahma said, "I cannot help you. Go to Viṣṇu." Viṣṇu is lying there. Then go to Śiva. He goes to Bhagavān Śiva. Śivajī said, "Do not come near, because Garuḍa and snakes are enemies." Śiva has his Nāga around his body. And when Garuḍa comes, all Nāgas go back. Śiva said, "You bring restlessness here." Garuḍa said, "God, the Nāgas will not disturb anything. I will not disturb them. You can take away their fear. Okay. Help me, please. I am helpless. I cannot meditate. I lost my bhakti. I lost my trust." Śivajī said, "This is a very, very terrible disease, an incurable disease. I cannot help you." Pārvatī said, "Mahādev, when you cannot help, who can help in the whole universe?" Poor Garuḍa came. Help him. He said, "Mahādevī, I cannot help, but I can give him some suggestion. If he follows this, his illness will go, and devotion will come again." Garuḍa said, "Yes, Bhagavān Śiva, what can I do?" Go to the Himalayas from here, about that much distance from Kela's mountain. There is a Kākabhūṣaṇḍī incarnated ascetic in the form of a crow. Kākabhūṣaṇḍī is giving satsaṅg, and all are sitting there: all Viṣṇu, Brahma, Devas, Indras, all the divine souls and saints, sitting and listening to the satsaṅg of Kākabhūṣaṇḍī. Even I go, time to time, to listen to his satsaṅg. Well, Garuḍa was disappointed. He said, "Mahādevjī, Hey Bholenāth, I will do what you tell me, but I am so sad. I came with such a great hope and belief, trust that Mahādev will solve all my problems." Śiva smiles and says, "Garuda, this is a help. Take it as my help. Go." How do I know where Garuda is? How will I search him? Garuḍa said, Kākabhūṣaṇḍī. He said, when you will be about Soyozen, some kilometers far in the Himalayas, your disease will disappear. How? You people came from Europe now, minus degrees. And you flew to the island here. Before you get off the aeroplane, you throw away all warm dress. Everything is warm and nice. Similarly, when you come near the era of Kākabhūṣaṇḍī, all your disappointments, all your diseases, and all your doubts will disappear. Very sad, disappointed, Garuḍījī is going. He cannot say his mantra. When bhakti is lost, you lose the mantra. When you lose the mantra, everything is lost. Because your vṛtti is going somewhere else all the time. You meditate, you repeat the mantra, but your thoughts are somewhere else. It is a dead body. When the Garuḍa entered the area where the Kākabhūṣaṇḍī was, immediately he remembered his mantra, the beautiful mantra, "Śrīman Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa." As soon as he got his mantra in his heart again, the darkness went to that side where the negative energy was. He found himself in the light of belief and saw Gurujī sitting on a beautiful rock, and many, many devas sitting there from the whole world, and the gurus were talking about bhakti to Bhagavān Rām. Gurujī came and said, "There, listening, Gurujī, with folded hands, is praying for forgiveness to Bhagavān Viṣṇu. 'This is your līlā, your māyā. Forgive me, please.'" My other side, Pārvatī, was a little bit angry. Women have a very soft heart. They want to have immediately this or that. So she said to Bhagavān Śiva, "My lord, I do not agree with you now." Śivajī said, "Well, no problem. But why do not you agree? Tell me the reason. Hey Prabhu, hey Mahādev, poor Garuḍa was suffering. He searched the whole universe; nowhere had he a shelter. He came to you. You are capable. You can do everything. You did not help him. Simply, you said, 'No, I cannot help you.' Lord, when there is beautiful water and a thirsty one comes, and the water says, 'No, I am not water, do not drink,' what kind of fountain or lake are you? Water, you send him away." Bhagavān Śiva said, "Mahādevī, you still do not know the Līlā of Mahādev. This Garuḍa had ego. And I want not to treat his illness, but that illness which is the illness of the ego. And this ego has brought him into such a situation." What do you mean? You could also treat his ego. He said that I was doing. You do not know. So say, "Why? What?" Explain to me: Mahādev, Devādidev, Svayambhū, Bhagavān Śiva says, the eagle, the Garuḍa, is like a king among the birds, and this eagle, as a king, has its proud days, ego, "I am the king." And the crow is a simple little bird which is all the time eating the junk food, all the food which is thrown, dirty food, used food. If you drink, eat, eat in the clean pot. Do not put that dirt in your pot. So Garuḍa does not want to surrender to the crow. Hey, Mā Devī, did you see that Garuḍa comes and makes praṇām to the crow? Can you imagine anybody that Garuḍa will come and take the food out of the crow's food? Never. This is his ego. Therefore, I want that he surrender to the crow. And he cannot surrender until he has an ego. Now his ego is to be treated. This happened to him, and he will lose the ego. And he will sit with folded hands and listen to the wise words of the Kākabhūṣaṇa. Second, this disease has a remedy for permanent treatment, and this remedy is satsaṅg. No treatment is there. When you have lost everything, only satsaṅg remains, a real satsaṅg. Pārvatījī said, "Hey Śaṅkara, your Līlā only you know. Forgive me." Śivajī smiled and said, "Mahādevī, when you do not know, then do not act like that. You know, Umā, I said, Pārvatī. Śivajī said, 'Umā, I tell you my own experiences.' Only that satsaṅg and name of God is the truth, and the whole world is a dream. What is now, in half a minute, in five seconds, in one second, is like a dream. It is passed away. Do not cry, do not run behind those past lives and past dreams. Be aware of the presence, time, and take the nectar of the wisdom and the satsaṅg. Bhakti yoga. Bhakti yoga is the best in this time. You can do any kind of yoga; they are also very good. But for the mokṣa, for the liberation, it is only bhakti. You can do everything. You can put everything in your car, but you have to put the petrol in if you want to run the car. This technology said, only with the petrol, car will work, or, of course, you can pull with the horses or with the bulls. Suddenly, when there will be no petrol, you will see, there the horses will become very expensive. Everybody will sit in the car, and... a horse will pull a good car, okay? So this is my own experience, and I tell you also my own experience. All is the bhakti. When Draupadī, all the Kauravas wanted to pull away, and no one was ready to do anything because they were afraid. Finally, she turns to God. Hey Govinda, Hey Gopāla, Hey Dayāla, Hey Hari, Hey Kṛṣṇa, Govinda, Gopāla. Hey Kṛṣṇa, no one is in this world for me now. Only you can. And Kṛṣṇa sent her so much sari, like this island, that much. No one had the power or strength to make Draupadī's body naked, not even one centimeter. Because once something happened, that story I will not tell, and Kṛṣṇa sent the Sudarśana Cakra. It was so in a hurry, the finger was injured, blood came. The finger cut, always looking, "Oh, Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa, bring some bandage," people were talking. Pārvatī was there, Draupadī was standing there, she had a very beautiful, precious sari, very precious. She immediately tore her sari and put the bandage on Kṛṣṇa's finger. Kṛṣṇa looked to Droṇācārya and smiled. Droṇācārya said, "Did I make some mistake?" She said, "You did not do the mistake purposely. But you made me, how to say, in debt. Now I have to pay you back, and that was that saree." God, if you do one thing for God, he will give you a million things. But with the love, that if you have a doubt in Gurudev, then you cannot. Therefore, bhakti. Mahāprabhujī said, "Hatshod, oh my mind, give up all this, your negative thinking and fixed ideas. Come with me in satsaṅg. I will tell you the essence and knowledge of the ātmā. My dear bhaktas, pray always for bhakti, nothing else. Bhakti is lost, everything is lost. See you tomorrow." Devaīśvara Mahādevakī Dharm Samrāṭ Satguru Svāmī Mādhavānandjī Bhagavānakī, Madhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavānakī, Satya Sanātana Dharma Bhagavān aur Bhakt kī.