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Oṃ Bhūr Bhuvaḥ Svaḥ Tat Savitur Vareṇyaṃ Bhargo Devasya Dhīmahi Dhiyo Yo Naḥ Pracodayāt Oṃ Tryambakaṃ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṃ Puṣṭivardhanam Urvārukam Iva Bandhanān Mṛtyor Mukṣīya Mā’mṛtāt Oṃ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Śrī Śrī Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jai, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai. Victory of the truth, victory of the wisdom, that means the master, and achievement of the higher. Consciousness, the glory, the glory to our spiritual lineage, Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, Devpurījī, and Gurujī. Dear sisters and brothers, here in this ashram, as well as in other parts of the world, there is a beautiful bhajan: "There is no fear, but the biggest fear you have is death." And death, in some way they are not afraid, but how it will be, how much one has to suffer, that is the fear. Liberation from birth and death is the aim of human life, the means to achieve immortality. Our ātmā within our self is immortal, but still we live in the body. The body is mortal, and pain, pleasure, happiness—all are filling the body. After the soul goes out of the body, we’ll have the same feeling of happiness, unhappiness, pain, or pleasure that is in the astral body. And no one sees us, no one can talk to us, no one can hear what we say. We are completely detached from this material world. All our dear ones are sitting beside us when we pass away. They are sitting at home, but they can’t communicate with us. There is no telephone, there is no telegram, there is no communication. One thing is there: the attachment to this material world is somehow finished. Attachment towards house, properties, house pets, your friends, families—it takes some days to get separated from this attachment. Generally, we call it twelve days. And it takes time to do all the rituals or ceremonies, 15 to 16 days. According to the moon’s composition, we see our mistakes more clearly. More clear, and we are afraid of those mistakes. Fear means ignorance. Where there is ignorance, there is fear. Where there is ignorance, there are mistakes. Where there is ignorance, there is no success. So negative thinking is the cause of fear. And do not use any negative words. If we have some aim, a positive aim, then we should believe and we should not have doubts. As soon as doubts come, our own strength begins to become weaker. For achievement, we need certainty and sureness. If we think, "Will I reach or not?" that is uncertain. Then don’t make steps. When we go to the driving school, and our driving master, driving guru, he or she will say, when you overtake a car, and you see the opposite cars are coming also, but you have a very slight doubt; probably you will not manage to overtake. Don’t do it. Better to wait. And when you are uncertain, it will happen accidentally. But if you are sure of the distance and everything, you know, you will overtake. So first, we should know our ability and capacity, and in this, we should have a tolerance space. So that the tolerance space gives us certainties and the sure. So fear is when we are not sure, and when we are not sure, then we are in ignorance. So the Jīvātmā, this inner self, is praying to the Master. Master, take me to that place where there is immortality. It doesn’t matter what the world thinks about me; I don’t care about that. But I want to come to that immortal world where there is no death and no birth. There is no color and no light. But it is an indescribable beauty. It is beautiful. Nice bhajan written by Mahāprabhujī. Chokalaj Adarkī Vīragān Bes Darakī Vīragān Bes Gurūvar Mecha Alūsā Unā Desh Jintar Javī Mecha Usā Unā Desh Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagvā. So, bhajans are the songs, spiritual songs. Bhajan, bhaja, bhaja means prayer, meditate, repeat, sing. Spiritual songs, that is a sādhanā, that is a practice, that also belongs to yoga. And these bhajans, which are written in particular rāgas according to the culture, traditions, languages, or what we call the folk songs, those people who are from that area will understand them nicely. Bhajans give us guidance, bhajans give us knowledge to wake up, and bhajans liberate us. It has meaning, it has teachings, it has devotion, it has guidance, and it has practice. So in every bhajan, when we sing, in every line there is a question, an answer, or there is something described—some beauty of the divine—and an explanation of how to achieve it. This is the bhajans. So we have all these books full of bhajans written by our three masters. Great, great. When I translate one bhajan, there is a lot inside. So, it is those bhajans that remove our fear. It makes it certain that yes, I will achieve the ultimate goal. This is my last birth in this world. And I would like to practice that spiritual knowledge so that not only do I myself become liberated, but I would like to lead others on the path of liberation as well. A self-realized master can liberate animals also, not only humans. How? As a blessing. Blessings are for all, equally. Blessing doesn’t say, "No, I will give blessing only to humans, not to animals." No. Then your power of the blessing is finished. It’s only empty words and only moving hands up and down, that’s all, like this. Blessings are for the trees also. So, in the Upaniṣads it is written, and there are coming mantras from the Vedas: peace mantras. Peace on earth, peace in the water, peace in the soil, peace in the herbs, and peace in the universe, and peace in the supreme, and the same peace in me. O Lord, bless me. We bless the corn when we are harvesting. The farmers, they bless, they get the priest, a master, a paṇḍit to bless. And the devatā, these grains, whatever it is, rice or wheat or barley or corn, etc., is our nourishment. And in the corn seed there is Jīvātmā. In every grain, there is a living life. Like in our body, we have a soul. Similarly, in those seeds of any vegetation, any trees, or any, there is a life. And that life will continue, it will sprout, it will grow, and it will produce many seeds. Like we, too, are also multiplying our families from generation to generation. Therefore, God said, "Respect all nicely and feel others’ comfort or discomfort." And therefore, I would request someone now to bring one chair. One sister is sitting, she has knee problems. Thank you. So, it is the feelings towards all. So, who are we to destroy any life? And therefore, it is said, the grains, the food, is God. Divine Mother, Annapūrṇā. When you go to Nepal, between Nepal and India in the Himalayas, there is a beautiful, big mountain, and that is called Annapurna mountain. And beside that is Mount Everest, the highest peak. The other side is Mount Kailash. So, Kailāśa, Annapūrṇā, the Nīlakaṇṭha, all Himalayan, the hills, the peaks of the Himālaya have holy names, very holy. And that’s because the Himalayas are holy mountains. And all incarnations, the twenty-four incarnations, they all incarnated in the Himalayas. Mahāprabhujīp Karatā Mahāprabhujīp Karatā. Spring, well, waterfall, and so he climbed up, and a lot of snow, completely white, and glaciers, so he took the photos, then he went home, and then he, the negative, he developed it into the positive, now he’s immediately here, negative and positive all are. In one, to his surprise, he sees one human, a yogī sitting exactly in this posture, and you can see his each and every bone, all his skin, and veins, nerves, and his hair, and completely sitting in lotus in meditation. He’s surprised. He never saw this person. He was always taking photos with his camera. Then he asked some people, he went there back, because first he saw which photo, after which this photo came. So he followed everything, and then he went to the Himalayas and asked the people. People said, "We never saw this." So he went to the old monastery of the Śaṅkarācāryas and old, old āśrams where the yogīs are living in the caves. They have no fear. They have no fear. They are not even afraid or worried about eating. They said, "Who gave the peak will give the food." When God gave me life, he will give the food. And if not, then Divine Mother will give me the energy, the nourishment. Then they found that place is a holy place of one great saint, and they told the story of that saint. And that was in Satyuga, which was millions of years ago. And in Satyuga, there was one ṛṣi who was very good in astrology. And in his kishmat, destiny, there was no child, but he wanted to have a child. He was an old ṛṣi, several hundred years old, but he is praying to God Śiva. Please, Śiva, give me one son, give me one child, give me one child. So he got the child, and he was so happy. That old man was so happy. Now, he said, "Now I have a staircase to heaven." Or to the Swargaloka. Unless we have children, your way is blocked. You will be in the astral world only. As ancestors, they are hanging here and there. If we have not done proper funeral and proper ceremonies, they are not liberated. Then it will create a problem in the house, in the family life, within married life, with the children, or with work and money. Many, many troubles, and you can’t understand why. But these are the disturbances from those ancestors who did not get their rights of certain pūjā, and they are hanging here and there. So, one has to do for one’s parents. If you have no children, then you should ask someone to do the ceremony when you die. You can pay money beforehand, but it should be done. So he was very happy, and then he went home, and the great saint Nārada came and said, "Now you are happy, you got a son." But he said, "Yes, in astrology there was not written at all any child." But one ṛṣi came and blessed me, and I got a child. Like Devpurījī, our great master, there was one couple, one family. They had no children near Kailāsh Āśram, not even one kilometer away, in the villages nearby. And Devpurījī went there for food at seven o’clock in the morning, and the lady of the house was just preparing the food. And Devpurījī said, and they were asking these people to many astrologers and many doctors, Ayurveda doctors. They said, "No, in your kismet, neither through your destiny, nor from the viewpoint of the medicine, can you get children." Devpurījī went there and he said he was asking for the food. He said, "One chapati, one son; two chapati, two sons; three chapati, three sons." And that lady who was making chapatis, she took four, and she ran and gave them to Devpurījī. Devpurījī said, "Oh, now you will have four sons, and three of them are still living." When I go to Jaipur, they come to see me, they make praṇām, they are very devoted. And always they tell their stories about Devpurījī, how great he was and how he could do anything. All our wishes he could fulfill. That was the master. We are all disciples. Sometimes, we are not even a disciple. If you go to the Kailāsh Āśram in Rājasthān, Devpurījī’s Āśram, you should go there, and what people will tell you, you will think it is only a fairy tale. But it was true. He gave life to many dead people. So now, one is still living, while others have passed away. So Devpurījī, similarly, he got, that ṛṣi got one son, and Nārada was happy, because the ṛṣi Nārada, he always, he could go anywhere in the universe, only Nārada had this blessing of Brahmā, and that ṛṣi was asking Nārada, "Can you ask God Viṣṇu if I will get children or not?" And Viṣṇu said to Nārada, "No way, in his destiny there is no child at all." But someone, some ṛṣi came, some master guru came and said, "I bless you with one son." And the son was born, so the ṛṣi was very happy, very happy. And then, after one month or two months, he looked in his astrological calendar and he began to cry. He was so sad. The son had only seven years of life, then he would die. This is a big holy book written in the Purāṇas. And then Nārada came to congratulate him for his son. This, he said, "I am so sad." Better would be that God does not give me the child. And now he gave me only seven years of life. Can you ask Vishnu, please, God Vishnu, if he can prolong his life a little bit? So Vishnu said no. That’s given time, and that’s all. So he told Viṣṇu, "Nārada, Nārada, please, can you ask Viṣṇu? Then better now, he should die now." Viṣṇu said, "No way." It is fixed by Dharmarāja, and only seven years, neither minus nor plus. Then came again one saint and said, "What?" That saint said, "I will bless your son, and you should do what I tell you to do." Your son will not die. Now the ṛṣi was so happy. Please tell me, he said. Teach your son one technique. Anyone comes, young or old, he should go and touch their feet. So in our culture, when someone bows down to you humbly, they will say, "Bless you, bless you." And blessing is not, they don’t say just "bless you," something you have to tell. And that generally we say, "Long live," "Live long," "Long life." So this child was all touching feet, and everyone said, "Live long, live long, long life. Bless you for a long life." And for seven years, life is only so. For six years and eleven months, he should get blessings from all, and in the twelfth month, he should go to the Śiva temple and hold the Śivaliṅga like this and pray all the time, "Namaḥ Śivāya, Namaḥ Śivāya." Don’t leave the Śiva temple. Seven years are completed. Yama Rāja, the God of Death, said to his messengers or soldiers, "Go and bring that young child immediately, within one hour he must be here." And the father is sitting and crying in his hut, and he sees how many minutes, seconds his life is. But Yama, Yama means the guardian of death. When one dies, they come and take him. And good karma, spiritual karma, then what we call the spiritual divine creatures come, angels. Now the yama came, but no yamas can enter in Shiva temple. No ghost can enter a Śiva temple. No negative energy can enter into a Śiva temple. Now you have here the temple, so you should go and sit there. So the boys were holding, "Namaḥ Śivāya, Namaḥ Śivāya." And the messenger said, "Come, come here, come." He looks there, and he looks to the other side. They go to the other side and say, "Come, come quickly." He doesn’t come. And Yama, the king of the dead—there is Yama, Yamarāja and Dharmarāja. There are two Dharmarājas. One is a god of justice, and especially for the truth. For the spiritual, Yamarāja is for them, for the sinners. They will be tortured. They didn’t come, and King Yama Rāja was angry. Bring it quickly; time is passing. They said he doesn’t come out. So Yama Rāja, he himself went. Yama is riding on the water buffalo. And he came like a king of the day, decorated his buffaloes. And he said, "Hey, child, come out." And this child said, "No, I will not come." And he said, "I will kill you, catch you." And he throws the rope to catch him, and Shiva comes between. Śiva said, "Yamarāja, he is my bhakta. Don’t take him." So he said, "What should I do?" Yama said, "Say to him, ’Chiranjīvī, live, live life long, long.’" So he didn’t give the limitation—100 years, 200 years, 1000 years—he said, "Long live." Now he is long living; he became a great saint, and still he is sitting in the Himālaya, in that area where the glaciers send snow. So that was the... Picture, what came to one very good photographer, maybe from Germany or British or someone, and this photo is very, very famous. So, few years ago, the Vice President of India invited me for lunch, so I was there, and then I saw in his, uh, sitting room. And there was a picture. I said, "From whom is this picture?" Then he told me the story. So his name is Martand Ṛṣi. Martand Ṛṣi, the name of that boy was, who has victory over no more death and no more fear. Still he is in meditation in the same mudrā. The body grows, and his hair and everything is there. I will send you one picture. I have one picture, so I will get it for you via SMS tomorrow so you can develop it. Yes, it is a true story. It comes in the holy books and in the Purāṇas about Mārtaṇḍaṛṣi. So, blessing has a power, and our destiny is written on the forehead here. So when somebody gives this tilak, makes it like this, it is a blessing so that negative energy goes away and positive energy develops. So everywhere there is life. So in every corn, every grain, every seed, there is life, the soul. Annapūrṇī, Sadāpūrṇī. So the God of nourishment is the Divine Mother Annapūrṇā, where even God Śiva goes for food, for bhikṣā, to the Annapūrṇā Mother. So there have been great, great saints ages before; who are we to compare with them? But if we think of them and follow their teachings, our fear will disappear and inner certainty will come. Therefore, our Gurujī, our Holy Gurujī, you see the picture, right side, left side first, smiling, nicely giving blessing. Gurujī said, Nishankh kabhi mat dharna tum nirvaira, nishankh kabhi nahī̃ dharna terī Satguru rākha. Chintā mat nirvaira o nishaṅkha, kabhī mat dharana. Manirvaira nishaṅka, kabhī matā dharana. O my dear, Gurudev will protect you. Satguru Rākhe, āj cintā mat karna. You should not worry, but you should have that trust, that belief. Nirbhay raho, nishank. Never be afraid, never have fear, and be like a hero. Nishank, no doubts. If you have a doubt, then your energy will go down. A strong bodybuilder, a very strong man, and he’s not afraid of anything. Now he was walking in the night, and suddenly he came across a graveyard. And he said, "It doesn’t matter, a graveyard is a graveyard." So he was walking through, and suddenly one, what we call the ulū, what they call, not a guy. At first, an owl from the tree suddenly flies, and that man who was strong, still he was thinking in the graveyard, and when he was frightened, and all the hair was standing, and he didn’t see anything, he goes in the middle. Of the way, another one flying, and he can’t see. Again, his power went down till he came back to the door. His thighs were trembling. "There must be a ghost." So when a little fear appears in us, then we lose our game. So one should not get the fear and thinking of uncertainty. Always be sure and certain. That is a training for getting the champion of the football. They are skiing, and they are vegetarian. All the skiing and this, they have such a concentration. And one thing is taught: never think that you will not do. You can, and you will, and you have abilities, you have the strength. So, God is there, we are not afraid, we should not be afraid. Nishank, without doubt. If you have doubt, then you are out from the game. That’s it. So, that fear is the most terrible thing. Out of fear, one becomes angry. Out of fear, one begins to scream. And what not? And fear comes from doubt. So Ādiguru Śaṅkarācārya said, when you walk on the road, and far you see some wood is lying there, and you say, "Oh, there is a snake," or some rubber, you hold back, then you see properly, "Oh, there is only wood." So, you laugh, "Oh God, how stupid I am." So, from where did the snake come? From ignorance. And where did the snake disappear? Through the knowledge, and when the knowledge came, the fear disappears. So, ignorance is the cause of all our weakness, our fear, our uncertainty, etc. So in yoga we practice, and these bhajans we are learning, so always be sure that God is with us and we are with God. What we do, we will achieve, and what we want to achieve is positive and good. So, I wish you all the best and many blessings. Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Oṁ