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Successor of the Guru Gadi

The discourse examines the nature of spiritual adherence through the lens of mantra, lineage, and the distinction between self-will and guidance. Prāṇa is the vital force that unites the elements, and mantra is its sacred instrument. True adherence is defined not by labels but by faithful practice within a living tradition. Many religions establish fixed borders and absolute authorities, which can lead to fragmentation and conflict when interpretations diverge. In contrast, the Sanātana Dharma represents a continuous, unbroken lineage where the guru's presence is eternal, and the paramparā is a living vessel. A disciple must remain faithful to this vessel; to abandon it for self-will is to become spiritually lost, destined to exhaust oneself and seek return. The body itself is a testament to this divine order, with each organ performing a unique, irreplaceable function governed by prāṇa.

"Are you Manmukhī or Gurumukhī? Manmukhī means you have no mantra, no initiation."

"In Sanātana, the guru has not died. He is still living. Changing the body, but successors are coming, so there is prāṇa between."

Śrī Alakhpurījī Mahādeva, Brahma Svarūpa, our Devādideva, Deveśvara Mahādeva, Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī, Viṣṇu Svarūpa, and our Gurudeva, Satgurudeva, Holy Gurujī, Brahma Svarūpa. Blessings to all of you from Alakhpurījī, Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā. We have been speaking about prāṇa for the last twenty days. That prāṇa. It is the prāṇa which balances all five elements, and it is the prāṇa which unites the five elements, like cement unites bricks together. Yesterday, regarding prāṇa, we jumped to an advanced level about mantra. Mantra is very, very important. It is also said in the Sikh tradition and others as well: "Have you adopted a name?" And name means mantra. So, are you Manmukhī or Gurumukhī? They will ask you immediately. In the Sikh tradition, they are very particular and very devoted to Guru Bhakti. For them, it is the final border. Their holy book is called the Gurū Granthā, and there is nothing above that. Often, I have told you, it is said in the Gurū Granthā that in the Gurū Granthā it is said that in the Gurū Granthā it is said that in the Gurū Granthā it is said that in the Gurū Granthā it is. It is said that in the Gurū Granthā it is said that in the Gurū Granthā it is said that in the Gurū Granthā it is said that in the Gurū Granthā it is said that in the Gurū Granthā it is said that in the Gurū Granthā, that is not a book. It is Gurudeva himself. So, know the Gurū Granthā, understand the Gurū Granthā. Gurū granth ko jāniye prakaṭ gurū akī de—it is the embodiment of the Gurudeva. Jiske hirade satya hai—in whose heart there is truth, Guru Bhakti—khoj ushī mele—research and find you will in the Gurū Granthā. So the Gurū Granthā is a very great book. It is a very great book, and within it is written all the rules, regulations, bhakti, knowledge, and everything. Gurū Nānak wrote the Gurū Granthā, and he put the protocol inside. He also wrote there a protocol that in Kali Yuga, there may be no guru who will be worthy enough for the Guru Gaddī. Therefore, this now declares that this holy book is the Guru Deva. And when you go to the temple, that is called Gurudvārā. Gurudvārā means the door to the Gurudeva’s house. All are welcome, but you should not enter with a bare head. You should have even a little towel over your head. And where the Gurū Granthā is, no one can sit on a chair there. It doesn’t matter if it’s the president, prime minister, or anyone. They are all Gurudeva’s bhaktas. If they don’t want to, don’t come in, that’s all. You know, in the Second World War, there was a big, big fight. Many, many people were killed in Punjab because of the British, for freedom, and between Muslims and... so there was a big war, you saw in Gandhi’s video, and you will see that they just fired at all, thousands of people, thousands. So when the British Queen came to Punjab and she wanted to go to the Golden Temple to bow down to the Gurū Granthā, they didn’t let her go in. They said, "First she should reconcile what the British have done to our people, then you can come in." So that is how loyal they are to their guru, their guru’s book, and their orders—everything. And everything is positive inside. No killing, no killing animals, nothing. And anyone who goes there, everyone will get to eat. So everywhere in the world, wherever Sikhs are, they have established Gurudvārās. We call it an āśrama, they call it a dvāra. So they will ask you, are you Manmukhī or Gurumukhī? Manmukhī means you have no mantra, no initiation. No guru, so you do what you want. You can’t enter in. If you are Gurumukhī, it means that you heard a mantra from the mouth of the Gurudeva and you are following that, so you will get mantra. It is according to the Gurū Granthā. So there is a person we call a priest, and there is one person who reads the holy book. They will tell the Gurū Granthī, who is reading the holy book. Now, the difference between some other holy books, like the Qur’ān... There is probably not some kind of killing of animals or something. It is said, though, that Mohammed was a vegetarian. He was a Rajput, a Satrīak. By Rajput. Well, you all know the Qur’ān. Aha, pardon, Koran, Koran. And then the Bible, a pak Bible. The Bible also said good things: "Thou shalt not kill." But in the Bible, it did not say whom you should kill and whom you should not kill. "Thou shalt not kill." So it means all living beings, but we don’t follow strictly. So the difference between Christians and Islam: Islam follows 100%, I think, the Quran. The Bible, people follow what they like, and where they don’t like, they don’t follow. "Thou shalt not kill"; it also means you should not have weapons in your hands. Jesus did not fight, neither with a stick nor with boxing. Some pope? Or bishop? Or priest? Or nun? So either it was written after, but it does not seem so. How do we see Jesus’s life? Very humble, very simple, very kind. "God forgive them." That’s called reconciliation. But then why are you not doing it? So you are not a Christian. So what are you? Neither are you a Muslim, nor a Christian, nor a Buddhist, nor a Jew, and of course, not a Hindu either. Where are you? But one thing is good: that you are neutral. You accept everything good, wherever it is good. Otherwise, you should not take the weapon in your hand. Don’t produce the weapons. We don’t kill. We just give. Give to kill. That’s the same thing. So, this is to take the weapon in the hand, to produce the weapons. The prāṇa is in the weapon. It’s strong prāṇa. Prāṇa takes the prāṇa. It is that prāṇa which takes your prāṇa out. So, Jesus said, "Even do not fight against." In the name of God, just surrender. Well, I am not criticizing. I’m just telling my opinion, because I am like a Christian. I follow more Christianity than you people, because there is nothing different than Hindus. But in Hinduism, they are also changing. How do you prove that you are Hindu? I can prove that I am a sannyāsī: I have an orange dress, I am a Māra, I have a tilaka, etc. So Hindus should also have here the hair, the holy thread, etc., and not eating meat. Is there a problem in an aeroplane when we ask for Hindu vegetarian, so they bring meat? I said, "But I am vegetarian." He said, "Yes, sir, you are a Hindu vegetarian." But I said, "But you have mutton inside." Yes, Hindus eat mutton, only no beef. But others can eat fish, meat, chicken. I said no, a real Hindu will not do that. The roots of the dharma, the foundation of the dharma, are dayā, mercy, non-violence. So, when you meet a Hindu, and you ask which religion you believe in, "I am Hindu." So what evidence do you have with you that you are Hindu? Maybe you are a Jew. Jews have more signs with them that they are Jews. So now everything has become salad. That’s it. So, like this, when we make a religion and we make a border, that is an absolute, final, finished. Then this means that it’s blocked here; that’s finished. But in Sanātana, there is a continuity. There will always be a Guru and a disciple. Maybe, for the time being, there is no proper Guru. So that gāḍī will be empty for a while. But sooner or later, that supreme will send a successor. And if it is that ancient gāḍī, Siddha gāḍī... There are many gurus who make themselves a guru now. There are many gurus who declare themselves as gurus. They separate from their guru-gaddī, and then they declare that they are gurus, and that they will be their successor, and this modern new gaddī begins. Then there is a problem and fighting. In Islam, it’s not only one Gāḍī. Muhammad was a messenger, and he gave the message in the Quran, and everyone should follow exactly. But now there are different kinds of Islam, and there is fighting between them. They follow the Islamic dharma, but it is a different kind of religion, so there begins the fight. How many Christian missionaries are there? There are only two or three men, the head: the Orthodox, Evangelical, and Catholic, but there are not only three. There are hundreds, and mostly you find them in America. That church, this church, that church, many, many. There is this church, and there is that church. There are many of them. So it’s a fight. One father has five children, and all five have their rights, and they want things as they like. Previously, the first child was the king. But the youngest children, in many cases, they were fighting. Look what happened in the Mahābhārata. So, when you are in one paramparā, one lineage, you can be more holy than anybody else. They can lecture, but that person cannot sit on the chair of the Pope. That person will go down to that chair, and so a successor must be. And then that is paramparā going. So in Sanātana, it is this. In Sanātana, the guru has not died. He is still living. Changing the body, but successors are coming, so there is prāṇa between. Are you Gurumukhī or Manmukhī? Are you Gurumukhī or Manmukhī? So Manmukhī means you do what you want. They get many, and after that, they don’t want to respect the guru; they do what they want. And they think Gurujī doesn’t know. Gurujī knows everything, everything that you are doing. Because when you are on that gāḍī, you become trikāla-darśī. But he has some dṛṣṭi. Forgive. Like a little child made in the nappy something. Father or mother, no one will be angry. Or they just break something; they will forgive. So, is that Gaddīpatī, the one who is on that holy throne, like a mother or a father? But the joy, happiness, peace, harmony, and understanding when all Guru brothers and sisters are in oneness. The bird has one soul, but when the bird is flying, all wings, all feathers, expanding to fly. So the successor is that soul, and we are all different kinds of feathers. And we fly. We fly together. We enjoy together. That soul will not leave you alone. So all will say, "No, I sit here today, you go fly." They will not fly. So we bhaktas are that, sitting on one boat or big ferry, and it is going from here to Mexico. So this big boat, this big ferry, now starts to go to Mexico. And some birds are sitting on the ferry. In the middle of the ocean, thousands of kilometers away, this bird doesn’t want to be on the ferry, so it flies away. So that bird is flying. "I don’t want to be on this boat." Other birds say, "Don’t go." I say, "No, no, I will find my way." After 100 or 200 kilometers, that bird is so tired. He does not see shelter anywhere. There is no island, no tree, where this bird can sit. So again, it takes all the energy and flies back to that boat. So Surdhājī said in one bhajan, "I am that bird of the boat. O Lord, I have no shelter anywhere. Again and again, I come to Thy boat, because I know this will bring me to the shore. You will bring me to the shore." So that disciple, Gurumukhī, after becoming Nugra... So, Nugra means... How do you call this one word? Trace? Not cheating, but there is one word that disappoints you? Talks bad about you? Traitor? Well, so that one, neither disciple nor non-disciple, there is one English word which I have forgotten, so that is a nowhere, and so is that one who leaves the Guru Paramparā and thinks, "I am wise enough, I am also a guru," but how long? Suddenly you will search for the boat again. So, how to come there? That’s why. Therefore, it is it. But there is written: the wild crossing, deer, camels, and in different countries, in China, this little bear, what do you call it? Panda, panda bear. And in your house, the ends, we have in Kailāsh Āśrama, in front of the temple, one side is the tin shed, and one side is the temple, and where we are coming and having a good place, so we want to make a satsaṅga there. The first time I came to Kailash was in 1965, around the month of November, October-November. That time I saw these ants, these ants, they have their nest, and you know how much we have changed the ashram, and with the big JCB, very deep, we took their nest and put it in a very nice forest somewhere. And we put the sand and everything. In one month, they were here. They were somewhere about one and a half kilometers away. So they are still there. So, you know, whoever is in Kailash, about his ants... So, they are not harmful. There, there are ants, there is a Lakṣmī. Money. So, don’t kill the Lakṣmī with, like, "shhh." So then, after some time, I realized, Maheśvarānanda, here is a Lakṣmī. From Devpurījī and Alakhpurījī, so they are here. So many birds, you know, these big birds which make a nest on the chimney. What do you call them? Storks fly to other countries, but then again they come back. Many European birds fly to India, and you can see in the month of September, September, beginning of November, October, you see thousands of these big birds, pelicans and like this, they are flying. And when they come down and stay overnight there, their shelter, the same place, generation after generation, we see they are coming to the same place. They fly very high, and they fly like an alphabet V, like this, so hundreds on this side, hundreds on this side, and one is in the front, and after one hour, the first one changes and goes back. So the wind breaks, so that they can fly easily and quicker. So they always fly the same train. Like every day, your aeroplane from here to Prague will always fly the same route. Even animals keep to their path, all humans. You can’t follow your spiritual path. If you change, then you will be the victim of the hunters. So, this is very important. And that’s why Sanātana is Ādi and Anādi. Sanatana is not that religion as we think of a religion. When you put a seed in the garden, and that seed grows into a plant, leaves, flowers, fruits, or grains, and these seeds again will fall and again will grow. The season is changing, so that is the Sanātana. How your heart beats, how your liver is functioning. It is your liver. It is your liver. And you should know about your liver. So, you are the liver, or you are the livers? Who is the best, you or the liver? No scientist can complete the work of the liver. All kinds of hormones, and it has its factory. It has its department, and they are delivering. They are very nicely packed so no infection can go in. The hormones which should be supplied to the tonsils, or to the pancreas, or to the kidneys, or to the heart, are changing their posting. So, how many things in our body have perfect work? You cannot give the work of the liver to the kidney. And we cannot give the work of the kidney to the pancreas. And we cannot give the function of the pancreas to our tonsils. What the liver can do, our brain cannot do. Even the liver supplies the many hormones, energy, and prāṇas to the brain. So, do you know about your liver? You must say every day, "I love you, my liver. I’m so happy. Are you comfortable enough?" He said, "No." Why liver? Because of the tongue. She makes me ill. We are sick. How does... Tongue is so far here, and you are very far. Tongue likes fat, and it kills me. I don’t need fat. So, every organ in the body has its function. That is the miracle of the body, in the whole universe. What do you think about the body? Don’t say, "Oh, the body is nothing." It’s very easy to say the body is nothing. So even if it’s a physical body, it’s not everything. But everything is nothing without this body. So we make the Saṅkalpa, for Guru Pūrṇimā, that we will take care of our body. We will not take different kinds of cream or different kinds of nice oil for massage, because these creams and these oils have some percentage of alcohol. And then you become dependent on that. There is some kind of lipstick for the lips because you feel your lips are dry. So when you use this for two or three days, you are addicted. So, always you will take something and... I had once. And, you know, my tongue likes to taste my lips, or everyone’s. So, good. And when this lipstick, kind of ointment, I begin to vomit. From the liver, I told the liver, "Why are you sad?" He said, "I don’t like what you put on your lips." So, you see, have you ever seen me put any kind of cream or oil on my lips? In Australia and in New Zealand, the ozone is very weak. And there was a game called cricket. A hraje se tam cricket. So someone told me, "Please, let’s go to see the cricket." I don’t like that cricket. I don’t understand, and it is boring. So people get up, go drink water or Coca-Cola, and come back, and this. I like something: the movements, football, door. Or swimming, or tennis, but anyhow, some love cricket also. So there was the media, because Indians are the best cricket players. And this is a Commonwealth game. It’s still not accepted in the Olympics. But millions of people are looking at cricket, like you look here at football. It’s not a joke, but I tell you. One person was reading a holy book, and he is very famous. It’s called Śrī Mādhav Bhāgavatam. And the minimum that was, there was about 40,000 people listening to him, and he invites me to say some words. And he says, "Swāmījī, for the last 10 years I’ve been trying. One day you come." I also told him that I really want to see you. You are a very famous preacher, and the more they are singing, the less he is speaking. I am singing a little, like Gurudev, Śrī Laṅkān, so that people are three hours talking, but singing nice kīrtana, dancing, and so on, and so on... And so on. Make the people happy. I was sitting beside, and near his holy book, down there was something like this. And what was it? A cricket game. So when it was exactly, then he was singing. Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa... everybody is singing. And then we went into his room, and there was a big screen and cricket. So, it’s also, here you have a game; everybody has something. Why not? Why not? So there was a media, and they told me a message came straight to that side. "Please tell Swamījī to sit on that side," because I was sitting on this side, and the media were over me. Three times the message came, so I thought they don’t respect me. All the VIP seats were taken, so I sat there. The message came. It’s a little like this. And they said, "It’s the media. They want to have you in the camera." Of course, I moved, and I made the issue myself. And within two minutes, an SMS comes from India. "Wow, Swamiji is in cricket. Swamiji is playing cricket." Okay, but where I was sitting opposite, there was just sunshine about four o’clock in the afternoon. And I felt suddenly like a needle inside. The next day was a plaster. Then someone said, "Put the aloe vera." It was going down, then I was in Australia. We have a big land, the gong. So in the morning, as the sun was rising, we were looking. And when the sun came out in the morning, we looked at it. So I said, Umapurī, look, the sun sign. And I said, Umapurī, look, the sun sign... So, someone sent me, "Put ghee on your finger and put it on the navel." So, I said, okay. The blast is here. And the navel is here. Which science is that? Maybe you can say priest there or something; I will understand. How does my navel eat ghee? But I tell you the truth: I put ghee and slept. Morning disappeared. Till today, that didn’t come back. Only once, put the ghee. So if your lips are dry and so are split, don’t put here, put here. So, how can we manipulate the prāṇa, or find where the roots of that are? So we were nine months, we were nourishing from the navel. And then we came immediately to the lips, but nourishment is from here. This is science, and the nectar is there, and the sound is there. So prāṇa, in prāṇāyāma, prāṇa in the mantra, manmukhī or gurumukhī, or nugra, that is not faithful. So, we will come to the prāṇa again. Wish you all the best. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Kī Jaya, Alakṣapurīṣa Mahādeva, Kī Jaya, Dharma Samrāṭ, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān, Kī Jaya, Devādhi Deva, Devīśvara Mahādeva, Kī Jaya, Dharma Samrāṭ, Śrī Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān, Kī Jaya, Oṁ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ.

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