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Om śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ... Śrī Mannārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa, Śrī Mannārāyaṇa, Śrī Mannārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa, Śrīman Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa, Śrīman Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa... Śrīman Nārāyaṇa Dīp Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa Dīp Nārāyaṇa... Dīp Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa Dīp Nārāyaṇa Dīp Nārāyaṇa... Dīp... Nārāyaṇa... Dīp Nar... Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa,... Lakṣmī Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī, Śaṅkara Bhagavān kī, Sītā Rāmacandra Bhagavān kī, Kṛṣṇa Kanaiyā Lāl kī, Jaya, Gajānanda Bhagavān kī, Jaya, Gajānanda. Good evening to all dear ones, spiritual seekers, and practitioners of yoga. The Bhagavad Gītā states: "Yoga kāraṇam sukoshalam." Good actions. When you perform good karma, karma yoga, then your yoga sādhanā will be successful. But to be successful in yoga sādhanā does not merely mean entering the brahmaloka. There is a key to the Brahmaloka. Therefore, it is said: Mokṣa Mūlam Guru Kṛpā. Ultimately, the door is there, and the one who opens it is the Satguru Dev. It does not matter what you do—all kinds of sādhanās, yantra, mantra, tantra, pūjā, anuṣṭhāna, everything—finally, what arrives is solely the Guru Kṛpāhi Kevalam. Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa also said it does not matter from which path or direction you come; ultimately, He is there at that gate. And He will lead you to Guru Bhakti through the Gurudev. Who is greater than Bhagavān Rāma and Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa? They are the God of all the three worlds. Yet, to attain Brahman, even Bhagavān Rāma and Kṛṣṇa and all other incarnations have done śiva to the Gurudev. Just the day before yesterday, I was at the Ṛṣi Sandīp. Who was the Ṛṣi Sandīp? It is where Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa, when He was small like you, used to go to school. Where did He go? To school. This is not written, but it exists. It was not written; nobody writes it, right? They had sticks too. Whose? Naināī Kṛṣṇa had a stick too. He had an ear. So, if He pulls His ear, what about Gurujī? It is okay. As soon as He pulls His ear, the most knowledge will go inside. Very good. Did you understand? When your master pulls your ears, it means the hole opens, the vacuum opens, and it sucks in the knowledge. It is said that Bhagavān Paramahaṁsa Rāmakṛṣṇa was a great worshipper, a great bhakta, a great saint. He was devoted, performing pūjā to Divine Mother Kālī. Mother Kālī, Kālī Mother, always has Her long tongue out. That is why, you know, when you go to Calcutta, or Bengal, when sādhus go there and are welcomed into homes, all the ladies—and I think gents also—but the ladies, they welcome the sādhus. How? How do they welcome people? In Bangladesh, you said? No. They take out their tongue. I said, "What happened?" I was there. That is a divine mother’s blessing. So, when you go to Bengal and they welcome you at home during Charaṇ Pūjā and Āratī, they put their tongue out at the door and say, "I don’t know how to do. Thank you." That was something. Do you understand me? Yes, but do not tell me like that, okay? We are in Marudhar. We are in Marudhar Deśa, and Mīrā Bāī said to Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa: "Kesarīyā Valmā padhāro māre deśa. Kesarīyā Valmā padhāro māre deśa." So who is Kesarīyā? He is Kesarīyā, the one wearing the kesarīyā bāna, Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa. He is called Kesarīyā, and Valmā means my dear one, my Gurudev. Padhāro, welcome, please come. Mahāre deśa, in my country. Mīrā Bāī says, "Kesarīyā balama, padhāro mahāre deśa." But till now people say, "Oh ho, they don’t sing bhajan, they sing bhajan, they are saffare, they are saffare people." Kesarīyā Valmā, padhāro mahāre deśa. So people say, oh ho, it’s a song. But it is from Bhagavān. They are worshipping, and she is calling Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa as Pitāmbara Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa. That was the color of His dress, exactly like you have. Therefore, He said, "That’s it." You understand me? Did you understand? Now, start the Choṭī. The choṭī has a lot of power. I will tell you next time. It is the Bindu Cakra, the region of the Kuṇḍalinī. Śrīmān Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa,... Śrīmān, Śrīmān Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa,... Śrīmān Nārāyaṇa. So, Paramahaṁsa. Paramahaṁsa. Who is a Paramahaṁsa? It is known as a Paramahaṁsa Dīkṣā. The Paramahaṁsa is that one when you get a ceremony, the Yajña, and you get that kind of Yajña, Varjha Havan. At that time you have a Sannyāsa Dīkṣā, and then you have a right to get the title of the Paramahaṁsa. That is one of the Paramatmā Brahman. That’s it. So, Rāmakṛṣṇa Bhagavān, Paramahaṁsa Rāmakṛṣṇa was a great devotee of Mātā Kālī. In the temple, sometimes he used to cry. You have to become like a little baby. Gurudev ke samane, in the front of the Gurudev, in the front of God, do not think that you are a great man, that you are a director, an engineer, a prime minister, a president, or this friend of Bhagavān. You are bāla bāla. Gopāla. And when that Bāla Gopāla is hungry and wants to drink milk, and his mother does not come, what does he do? He cries, so his mother makes him drink milk. If he does not cry, then his mother does not make him drink milk, yes. So even God will not fulfill and feed you with that knowledge, those blessings, that energy, if you do not pray to God with the heart. There are many different kinds of fire: Jathāgni, davāgni, havanāgni, chittāgni, krodhāgni. Isn’t it, Mahārājī? Vaisāhī virahāgni. Virah means love. Virah means longing. Virah means devotion, burning desires. That is called burning desires, but you can burn into the coal. Yet nothing will happen. You have to surrender to the Gurudev. So, Paramahaṁsa Rāmakṛṣṇa, the Gurudeva of the great saint Swāmī Vivekānanda Mahārāj—Swāmī Vivekānanda was known because he went to many countries and was a good speaker. But before Vivekānanda, there were great saints in the Western countries, yes, many, many. And now there are many Vivekānandas, greater than Vivekānanda, who are moving in the world. But Vivekānanda was accepted as an international or a national dignitary, a saint, as Swami Vivekānanda, who is a great speaker of great things. There is nothing to say. We worship him. So, Paramahaṁsa Rāmakṛṣṇa, while doing pūjā for hours and hours in the Kālī temple in Calcutta—Calcutta wālī Kālī, Kālī Calcutta—he was crying, "Mother, mother, mother." From that, it is said—I am telling you, I was not there; I am only telling what we hear—so Bhagavān, Bhagavān is the one who has become self-realized. He is Bhagavān; he is Brahmāśramaṇ. Adore, adore, adore. Obey, obey, obey thy master. Then you will be successful. Otherwise, your knowledge, tons of theory, tons of theory, is nothing compared with the grace of the practice. Chahe kitane hi granth paḍho, chahe kitane hi śāstra paḍho. So Paramahaṁsa Bhagavān Rāmakṛṣṇa was praying to Mātā Kālī. He was tearing, crying, "Mother, Mother, Mother." And then Kālī came. Mata came. She came out of the stage where she became alive. And she took him like a little baby in her lap. That’s it. The imprint of God: we are little babies. If Gurujī were to come out now and take you in his lap, he would say, "No, no, Gurujī, I am comfortable here." Do not say, "No, no, it is, you should." That is it. There should be no doubt, no differences, and no distances. It is said, if the stone presses, rare, very, very rare. But there is one stone called the Paras. But we do not know how it looks. Maybe there are a lot of Paras stones. Yogīs are throwing them outside every day after working, you know? Yes, who knows? To know that is something. O paras asalī nahī. To, jabtak when till you do not become one with Gurudev, tan, man, bachan, dhana, all your knowledge is that you have to merge into the oneness. Jab main thā vo nahī, aur vo to main yā nahī. Why? When I was here, he was not here. And now he is here, I am not here. Why? Because the street of love is so narrow, two cannot go together; two have to become one. One day, therefore, only one is the Brahman, not the two. So that Gurudev finally, Kālī Māta said to Bhagavān Paramahaṁsa Rāmakṛṣṇa, "Beta, my son, what do you want?" After finally, he said, "Mokṣa, Mokṣa." Māta kyā kī? No, no. "Hey beta, tere mokṣa main nahī deśaktī hūn. Sab kush deśaktī hūn. Mokṣa nahīṁ." Hey, my child, I cannot bless you to liberate you. No, I can give you everything. But only go to your master, Totāpurījī. His master Gurudev kā nām sa? Totāpurī. Go to Totāpurī. He will give you the liberation, the blessings. Then he got the knowledge and liberation from Totāpurījī Mahārāj. His disciple Swami Vivekānanda afterward gave the name Sarasvatī. But Vivekānanda is also Purī, Daśnāmke Purī. So, it does not matter how much you think that you know, how far you can go. The sky is endless. Go ahead. Take off. Take off yourself. If you want to see my flight, then lift up the sky a little. If you want to see my flight, then lift up the sky. That’s it. You can go as far as you are. But in nothingness, nothingness, we do not want to be lost in the nothingness. All our karmas, everything goes behind. Never and never you will be free. Therefore, guru kā drohī sabse pūrā, uskā kām hove nī pūrā. Jo guru kā drohī hotā hai, uskā kām kabhī bhī pūrā nī ho saktā hai, kabhī bhī mokṣa nī ho saktā hai. Ek bār āpne guru kyā chāhe, guru gūṅgā, guru bhaulā, guru kaisā bhī ho, uske andar me tumko guṇ dekhne hain. So the mokṣa is only there. And once only Master, guru, you cannot change always. You have only mother, one who gives you birth. You have only one father who gave you birth, but you can call every lady a mother. You can call every man a father. But in reality, who is your mother? Who is your father? Only one. And therefore, if you want to get mokṣa, if you want to get to liberation, if you want to get ātmajñāna, if you want to achieve that which you want to achieve, then surrender to only the one. Gurudevī dhyāna mūlaṁ guru. Mūrti pūjā mūlaṁ guru pādaṁ, mantra mūlaṁ guru vākyaṁ, mokṣa mūlaṁ guru kṛpā. After that, you go ahead with your yoga sādhanā. That will help you. That will uplift your consciousness. It will bring you somewhere, but then, all they are is the highway. That will lead you to your destination. Others are little, little footpaths. They will lead you far and far, even far into the jungle. At the end, this path will slowly, slowly disappear. And you go a little far. Who is sitting there? Your uncle. Kaunsā uncle? Lion. Lion batā hai. Yā, Śer batā hai. Kaunsā? Sudhār Singh. Śer. Achchā, ājāū betā. Śer ko dekhā kabhī? Television mein? So that is why our tradition, the tradition of Ālakapurī, which is from the Himalayas, and its name is that holy river Alaknandā. Nanda is a Devī, like in Bengal the Kālī Devī, or in Gujarat the Ambā Devī. So there are many different Devīs. So, in the kingdom of Ālagpurījī, after Badrī Viśāl, Badrī Nārāyaṇ, you go far, about eight to nine kilometers. That is called the kingdom of Ālagpurījī. And in the kingdom of Alagapurījī is Kubera. So, Bhagavān kā, kyā kyā de, kyā kyā de, treasure go, kośa adhyakṣa. Bhagavān kā koṣādyak jo vah hai, kahan? Kubera. Kubera is living in the kingdom of the Alagpurījī. And there is Alaknanda nikalta hai, woh Alagpurījī ke nām se, aur kyōṅ ki wahāṅ there in the kingdom of Alagpurījī, there was a divine mother that is called the Nandā. So Nandak Devī kī pūjā hotī hai, jaise in Rajasthan, we have the veneration of Gaṅgohar, Pārvatī. Now, people will go for the veneration, and there will be a fair. So, that Devī, Nanda Devī and Alakapurījī, she got the name Alaknandā Nadī, who went and came here, Bhāgīrathī and Alaknandā, and together, in the Devaprayāg, it becomes the River Gaṅgā. But also, Ṛṣi Bhagīrathi, Ṛṣi Bhagīrathi’s disciple, her name was Gaṅgā. And that is why Bhagīrathī Ṛṣi gave his blessing and said, "This river should be on the name of my disciple Gaṅgā." So guru hi eko brahmādityan asti. Otherwise, if you misuse the guru’s words, you will become Nugra. You will leave your master, and then definitely the punishment will be there by your karmas. You left this, a human body, and now you do not know how and where you will come. Therefore, Gurudev. So if you want to achieve that ultimate achievement for human life, for what you are born, tons of theory, your intellect will not help you at all. That’s all. Intellect is like a drum. But when the drum is made whole, it does not become a drum. It becomes a bomb. Ho jātā hai. So that intellect, what you are putting out, that you think you know everything, that is just a drum. But you have to go, wo drum kā hī to brahma hai. Wo brahma kī andar hī, wo brahma nahīṁ hai. Wo drum hī hai. So, my dear ones, we will tomorrow have again the webcast, and then we will try to have a webcast from Khattu Ashram. And for a while, you know, for all our bhaktas from Jandana Ashram, we have our paramādarnī, our dear Mahāmaṇḍaleśwar Śrī Candraśekharjī Mahārāj, and he will give you the lessons of the Upaniṣad. Wow! You are all lucky. Lucky? How lucky? Mahārāj said, "Mahārāj, I am lucky." So you are lucky, Bhakṣālī. Mahārāj will teach you mantras. He will teach you very good mantras. Alright, so today I would like to give my blessings of the Alagpurījī Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā. I wish you all the best, and I will see you tomorrow. All the dear ones around the world, tomorrow again at 7:30 will be the webcast. Oṁ Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinaḥ Sarve Santu Nirmāyāḥ Sarve Bhadrāṇi Paśyantu Mā Kaścid Duḥkhabhāg Bhavet Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ...