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Our world is surviving thanks to Holy Saints

The sacred Himalayan realm of Alak Purījī is a living spiritual lineage. The great poet Kālidāsa described this vast kingdom. It is the source of the Alaknandā River, which merges with the Bhagirathi at Dev Prayāg to form the complete Gaṅgā. This is the abode of siddhas and ṛṣis who have purified their bodies beyond physical limitations. They protect the world from remote locations. The path to Svarga Rohiṇī in this realm is inaccessible to the impure. Devpurījī received blessings from Alak Purījī and transmitted this knowledge to Mahāprabhujī, establishing the lineage. This connection is the Siddha Pīṭh, the holy seat. Direct pilgrimage is fraught with physical and political dangers, but the spiritual connection is paramount. The divine essence of the place is beyond description.

"Alakpuri was a great siddha, and still he is living."

"The world is still surviving because of those holy saints."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

We have here Premlātā, who was at Ālagpurījī’s kingdom. She stayed two nights there, at the place of Ālagpurījī’s cave, accompanied by a few people—eight in total. Today is Guru Pūrṇimā for us. Let us receive more information and blessings of Alak Purījī. There was a great poet, Kālidāsa. ‘Kavi’ means poet. He lived around 200 B.C. and was a great Sanskrit scholar. His poetry is very famous, often studied in histories, literatures, and philosophies from around the world. He wrote extensively about Alagpurījī. Alāgpurījī’s territory in the Himalayas is vast; that is called the kingdom of Alakpurījī. In his kingdom was the treasure of God, Kubera. Kubera was a relative of Rāvaṇa. Rāvaṇa was very wise, learned, and had many abilities; he was not simply a devil. Now they are performing the Guru Pūjā for Pūrṇimā. This is the Pūjā of the seat of Ālag Purī Jī. We are conducting the ceremony for Ālag Purījī, Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, and Holī Gurujī. When you perform pūjā to my feet, it is a pūjā of our great masters. They are the Satguru, and we are the disciples. They try to make us gurus, but the full title of Satguru comes only after Mahāsamādhi. Before that, for the picture, you should not place flower garlands (Mālāgaland) on the image of a living Master. You can offer flowers or a garland physically to the master, but not on the picture. This knowledge you should know. Understand me? Thank you. Guru Padam, Mantra Mūlam, Guru Bhakyam, Bhokṣa Mūlam, Guru Kṛpā, Om Dīpyoti Parabrahma Dīpam Sarve Mohanam, Dīpa Satya Satya, Satya Satya, Dīpam Sarva Satya, Om Namo Brahma Dīpa Vināśī, Api Brahma, Api Viṣṇu, Api Lakṣmī, Apo Nārada, Apo Saradā, Apo Śeṣukrāśī, Apo Dhyānī, Apo Jñānī, Apo Yog. Prakāśī, Apo Dev Sarvelī, Apo Sūrat Prakāśī, Apo Brahma Yāvanī, Apo Chālun Krivāsī, Apo Veduṅkī Vyātā, Apo Bhaktruvāsī, Apo Sadyam Kīyatā, Apo Niśvarūpa Kīyatā, Om Namo Pravdhi Praṇamah Prāmānandam. Pramāṇandam paramasukhadam, kevalam jñānam. Āpo veduṅki vyāta, āpo niśvarūpa kīyata. Three times, not with the thumb, but with the three fingers, okay? All are nervous. You go down. All ten years, you go down. One side. Jayā Gurudev, Jayā Jayā Chalāpadāmu, Jayā Jayā Chalāpadāmu, Jayā Jayā Chalāpadāmu. Bolī Śrī Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Alag Purījī Mahādev Kī Jaya, Devādhī Dev Deveśvar Mahādev Kī Jaya, Satguru Svāmī Madhvānandjī Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Satyāsana Tandarm Kī Jaya, Bhārat Mātā Kī Jaya, Devakī Jaya. Bless you from Alag Purījī Siddhapīṭ Paramparā. Jai Nām Vam, Vimeno Alag Purījī Hośidhā. All of you, and all the bhaktas around the world, there are Guru Pūrṇimā’s blessings to all. Siddhīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai Devi Ishwar Mahadeva Kī Jai. Well, on the occasion of our Guru Pūrṇimā festival, the ceremony and worship began already from the last new moon. According to Jyotiṣa, this is the month of Āṣāḍha, Mars Āṣāḍha. This is the month when the monsoon comes. On the full moon day, Guru Pūrṇimā is beginning or completing. We spoke about this in great detail last week in Hungary. After Guru Pūrṇimā begins Śrāvaṇa Māsa. At that time, every saint or every ṛṣi, and mostly all sādhus, they stay four months in one place. The sannyāsīs, or some, stay two months. It means it is monsoon time, and they do not travel. At that time, they perform anuṣṭhāna, reading holy books, etc. They do not cross rivers, big lakes, and they also do not walk in the forest. Everyone has a different program. With Guru Pūrṇimā, we can celebrate these fourteen days, from new moon till full moon. In Śrāvaṇmāsa, the first week is the decreasing moon, from the full moon until the darkest moon. Then comes again the new moon. On that new moon day, the second day, is Devpurījī’s Mahāsamādhi. Then comes Rakṣā Bandhan, etc. In 365 days, every day some holy person was born around the world. That’s why every day is a golden day. Every day is a divine day. But those who are in ignorance and without spirituality, for them every day is different—one day happy, another day unhappy. This is because persons do not have strong willpower, strong discipline. When one does not have control of the senses… Well, the ṛṣis, who were from the beginning of the Satya-yuga, we know a lot about them. At that time, life was long—thousands of years. Few humans were there. It was jungle, jungle, jungle. If you go two or three kilometers, you are lost. Sometimes you can’t even find your way back to your family because there is no path, you don’t know from which direction you came, and also because of the wildlife. Every place had dangers: lions, tigers, leopards, many, many reptiles like snakes. The ṛṣis lived carefully, meditating. Not in that cave which goes very deep into the mountain, in the rocks. Fire was their protection. If you keep a little fire, harmful animals do not come. In the Mahāśiv Purāṇa, the holy book, there is a writing about Alak Purījī. As I told you before, there was a great poet about 200 B.C. He was a lived Sanskrit scholar, a great poet, so he had visions and knowledge, everything. He describes a lot about Ālagpurījī. At that time, it is said that part of the Himalayas was the kingdom of Alakapurījī. The king or the lord of the whole Himalaya and whole world was Śiva. All kings were getting the title Shiva—that’s a different chapter. Where Alak Purījī was, it was his kingdom. There was a divine mother, and her name was Nanda. She is Devī Śakti, the Divine Mother. She is there, so from where the river begins—the glaciers which are melting, and with rain—this river begins from the kingdom of Alakpurījī. A lot of water comes from that side also, where this divine mother, Nandā, is. The ṛṣis gave the name to that river: Alaknandā. That is how the name came, and that river flows. These are two rivers. One is Alaknandā, and one is Bhagirathi. The Bhagirathi comes from the side of Gomukh, near Kedarnath. The other side comes from Badrināth. Badrināth is the seat of Viṣṇu, and Kedārnāth is the seat of Śiva. There are many small river joints. These two rivers come together in one place, that’s called Dev Prayāg. It is a union of the supreme power, divine energy. So when Alaknanda and Bhagirathi—Bhagirathi was a great saint, ṛṣi—merge into oneness, the meeting of the Devas, then Gaṅgā becomes complete. Then it flows further to Haridwar and so on. Then comes another river called Yamunā. These are two rivers; Gaṅgā and Yamunā meet in Allahabad. Likewise, there are holy rivers from the Himalayas. Alakpuri was a great siddha, and still he is living. It’s called the current śarīra, the current body, causal body, and/or the astral form. They purify their physical body until it is transparent. They can appear and disappear, flow with the wind, fly with the clouds, or go through rocks. They can enter from this side of the mountain and come out the other side. Maybe the tunnel system came from the ṛṣis. They are living, many of them. Sometimes some appear. When they appear, those sādhus, those bhaktas, those tapasvī sādhus, they do not make advertising. They only seek the blessing for their meditation and realization. These ṛṣis are protecting the whole world. Though they are not here with us physically, the world is still surviving because of those holy saints—not only in the Himalayas, but also in other parts of the world. It must not be only in the mountains; it can be in the desert too, like Mahāprabhujī, or in the water’s lakes, or in the ocean on a little island. Our Earth is a holy Earth, a living planet, and here are many Jīvas, and Ṛṣis are looking after them. Those ṛṣis have all kinds of miracles, all siddhis. They can walk in the air. They can give everything—all siddhis, the sixteen perfections which are written… and that had Alag Purījī and Devpurījī. Many of the siddhis had Mahāprabhujī. Devpurījī lived last century, until 1942 or ’41. It seems Devpurījī went to the Himalayas: Kedārnāth, Badrināth, Gaṅgotrī, everywhere. He met Ālak Purījī. Alak Purījī gave all the blessings to Dev Purījī. Alakpurījī sent Devpurījī to the other part of that mountain, the mountain which was given to Kubera by Alakpurījī. Behind that mountain, there is what they call Svarga Rohiṇī—a path to heaven. No one can go there, maybe those ṛṣis, but others not. Anyone who goes there will die because they are not pure. We are not pure. We have desires. We are not honest. We have jealousy. We have hatred. We are tricky. We are hiding our eating. Is that not the correct way of life? Is it not so? You can’t enter. When we come closer, we are stinky. When a human walks there, for a few days animals can still smell that there was some human walking. So there it is. No shepherds can go, nobody can go. Also, aeroplanes cannot fly over. They told me now in Badrinath that once an aeroplane from the China side tried to fly over, and it fell down there. All died, and nobody could remove the plane because nobody can enter there. That story is other; the Mahābhārata ends with that. Devpurījī stayed there in some gufā. Gufā means some hole under the rocks or in mountains—something like a cave, just a hole under a stone. At that time, they could not build temples. It was not easy to bring workers to such a high altitude with materials. Only holy saints, the yogīs, the ṛṣis were living there under the rocks, in what we call caves. They sat in samādhi, and the whole rock and all was under the snow, everything covered. They were sitting in samādhi for months and months. They had knowledge of some herbs which they just ate—some kind of herbs—and no hunger, no thirst, and no cold. They were sweating, so they could sit on the glaciers, on the snow. It’s not that they’re willful, but those kinds of herbs which you can find there. We don’t know, and we can’t reach that height. Some are under the glaciers. I think the Devpurījī state lasted some decades, and there was his purification. According to the Līlāmṛta and the people who tell about Devpurījī, Devpurījī could fly like the wind. His horse also was in the air, and he could appear and disappear. Alag Purījī’s message, knowledge, and blessing Devpurījī brought to Rajasthan, and we have ashrams in Kailash. Then Devapurījī went to Kathu, where he met Mahāprabhujī, and Mahāprabhujī received all vidyā from the siddhis, the knowledge from Devapurījī. Mahāprabhujī was born as a Siddha. And so it comes to Gurujī, and then it comes to us. So when you see me, when you hear my voice, when you come to me, you touch me—you have touched Devāpurījī. It is generation to generation. Now we have what is called Alagpurījī Siddha Pīṭh. Pīṭh means the holy seat. From the Himalayas, it is still here. When you get mantra, when you get kriyās, when you get blessings, we are connected to that divine light. I had two visions from Alakpurījī. One vision, yes, I had it. I told it already in Hungary: when I came from Alakpurījī’s kingdom—those mountains, waterfalls, rivers, and different illuminations in the mountains at night. Crystal, very clear sky. So beautiful, stars look very near because there is no pollution. High in the mountains, there are also caves up, for example, at 6,000 meters, 6,500 meters. There are some holes. Those ṛṣis are living in their sūkṣmaloka. It seems their disciples are making prayers there. Each and every grain of the sand is divine. Each and every breath of the air is pure, very pure. It is indescribable. We used to say that when you eat ghee—not butter, but ghee—you eat it, but you cannot explain the taste of ghee. It’s very difficult to describe. Who did not eat ghee? Who never ate ghee? Raise your hand. Oh, God. Melted butter, such clarified butter. Because the butter test, you can explain, but when butter is… Very healthy. Lucky are they who can have pure ghee. Ghee is the amṛta, but in quantity—a little. You cannot describe the taste. Similarly, your knowledge, your experiences, you cannot explain. Those stones, the valleys, the creeks, water flowing, the sound of the water, the sound of the mountains—many, many things. After that, for ten days I had the dream every night. From there, I close my eyes, and when I came to Europe, after two days it stopped. Pañca māyā, different visions, beautiful. That was another loka. This is another loka. There, every day I had visions that I was walking with people. One day, everyone somehow disappeared into the rocks, going this side or that side. I came to one part, and there were rocks which I had to walk through. I stood up there and said, "Where and how will I go?" And I see exactly like this umbrella where the light is—the lower part, not the middle part—like this big, big mountain, like a plastic, going like a road, like this. Above the mountains, in the sky, until it became thin, thin… and big. Only I saw that, and I said to myself, "What does this mean? How will I walk on it?" And then it was gone. That was the Svarga Rohiṇī, that was the path to go. It was so clear in front of me, like a transparent plastic, like this umbrella, going like this serpentine. We had many, many experiences, and I tried to bring whatever I could bring for you: Vibhuti, some dust, some water. Krishnānand made a very nice little medallion, and Umāpurī put this Vibhuti inside. I also got it; Krishnānand gave it to me today. This is a different thing. I’m not making an advertisement, but you see, it is silver, copper, gold plated. It’s divine, it’s holy. It has to be respectfully kept. Otherwise, it will disappear by itself. Suddenly, one day it will get lost because it doesn’t want to be with you. So we have to be very careful. Well, so now, another point. You cannot just go there. It takes one, two weeks to get used to the climate and oxygen. It’s a risk for the heart; it doesn’t matter if you are young or old, everyone’s heart is different. Second, it is a border between China and India. This year, about 30 people went. Suddenly, an alarm came: why do so many foreigners come here now? For a politician, they are suspicious. Why? What’s happening? Some refugees? Or what? There are two armies on both sides, Chinese and Indian. When they come and take your documents—not only documents, they will take you too. How many days or months will they question you? Why did you come? For what did you come? What happened? This, this, that, connection, many, many things. It is Indian territory, and this is a forest department. In the forest, they do not like these trees, little bushes, some, but they do not want any kind of pollution. You cannot buy the land, you cannot occupy the land, and for about five months it is like this, then it is covered with snow. To go there, you have to have permission from the government. The main reason is that if something happens, you die. Then they have a document there: who went there, who didn’t come back. So don’t go from your own will, OK? We will organize. I’m trying to get from the government—which is not so easy—at least to get the rights of Alagpurījī Siddha Pīṭha. This is 10 to 20 square meters, and also as a forest to protect the environment. There are no toilets, no bathrooms, no kitchen, no room, no electricity, no telephone connections. Only if you have a satellite telephone, and if you have a satellite telephone, the army will immediately catch you. I don’t know how long you will be in that satellite. So we will organize something. Telling is good. You will see the photos. You got something. I wish that we all, at least once in life, will go and make praṇām and come back. These 20–30 people were there. Can you imagine? Two nights staying, thirty people, without a toilet. You go behind one little rock, then you smell. The whole gufā, the cave, round and round, is human smell. They collect the plastic and everything, but they couldn’t collect from their own, so we have to do something for some kind of septic tank or something, which they don’t allow. So there are many, many restrictions. But now we know where we belong spiritually, our soul. We wish you all the best and blessings for this Guru Pūrṇimā. You got such beautiful knowledge and information. So we pray, we adore our Alak Purījī, Dev Purījī, Mahā Prabhujī, and Holy Gurujī. Holy Gurujī made this known, and I had my saṅkalpa and aim to find Alakpurījī, where it is and how it is. Thanks to Dr. Shanti, who researched for 12 years. Going to Devpurījī’s gufā is a challenge. She went a few times and stayed one, two weeks there with one or two guides and a small plastic tent, alone. Definitely, she had many sounds and lights, and many… Sometimes it was raining for two, three, four days, so she was sitting near the rock while these people were cooking. Now I told her to write the book. She told me, "Please, Swami, tell people do not open different photos until she selects and writes a book. I would like to ask you to tell people not to take pictures of the place before I write it all down and publish it." That’s it? So that’s how it is? Okay, Jay.

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