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Hari Om to everybody. Every tree has its roots, and every root has the roots of its ancestors. Every creature has its story of life, its beginning. Every holy saint has his lineage, his paramparā. If you know about Bhagavān Śrī Rāma, his paramparā comes through many, many yugas. If you see that Kṛṣṇa’s paramparā is rooted from Viṣṇu, Bhagavān Rāma is also from Viṣṇu, Brahmā, and Śiva. Our seat, our holy chair, our lineage is rooted in Śiva. For the last 49 years—this year is already 51; yes, time goes very quickly—so, for the last 51 years, I have been thinking and researching our Dinesh, where the name comes from: Alak Purījī. You will hear, you may have heard about Alak Purījī. There is one story spoken by our beloved Satguru Dev Svāmī Mādhavānandjī. He told a story many times, and the same story I have told you several times. You will remember which story this is. There was a king and his wife, the queen. Both were very spiritual and kind. Their kingdom was in the Himalayas. When the king married, the queen was very spiritual. She had Brahma Jñāna. The mother is that which liberates the children, but the education to the child begins in the mother’s womb. The mother speaks constantly with the baby which is in her body. And we are all getting old. Our age begins already in the mother’s body. So we are born old. Do you know how old we are born? Nine months. So for nine months we were already becoming old in the mother’s body. And every day, every morning, every night, before going to sleep, while you are sleeping, while waking up, the mother talks. To the child, she said to her husband, the King, "I will marry you, but all children who will come to my womb will not come anymore into others. It means that will be the last birth in this world for..." That’s all which will come to me. And so when she gave birth to the child, afterwards she also gave a lot of education: "You are a brāhmaṇa, you are the Supreme, you are not this body, you are not this, not that." And a very young child, 10, 12 years, 15 years, got self-realization and went into the forest. No attachment towards parents, no attachment to anyone; they become like a god. Well, the last child, when he was born, the king said to the queen, "Dear, you should not send this child to the forest. Don’t give him that vairāgya and that brahmajñāna, but give him the science of politics, that he may become the king, and he will rule the kingdom." Yes, of course, give him the spiritual education, yoga. So it is a kingdom. Only that one can rule who has yoga and politics. That’s called rājā and yogī. It’s called yogī-rāj. That’s called yogī-rāj, yogī and king together. Well, of course, the mother, the wife, followed the instruction of her husband, but still, her wish was that this son would also get the supreme knowledge, the higher consciousness, liberation, riches like this. So, in another way, she taught him. And before the king and queen, they came to the fourth state of their life: Brahmacārī, Gṛhasthāśram, Vānaprasthāśram, and Sannyāsāśram. So before they left for the forest, they would not come back anymore. So the mother gave one ring to her child, the last one. And his name was Alarka, who later became Alakapuri. So in the ring, inside she wrote something and said to her son, "My dear, anytime you have anything to tell me, or you will search my address to tell something, so everything is in this ring. If it’s a good time, you are very happy, you want to tell me, you look in the ring. Or if you are very sad and in difficulties, and you want to ask Mother what to do, so there will also be a message for you." And they left. And what was written? "This day will not remain, so this will pass away. You are very happy. Don’t worry. This, don’t overjoy. Again, a different day will come. Or when you are sad and have difficulties, don’t worry. This time will also pass away, and good time will come." That was only one word: "This will not remain." So any time, any situation comes in life, you should also think, "This will not remain." Different days will come, different times will come, and you will be very happy. Sometimes you will say, "Thanks to God, it was a little bit sad or hard, but thanks to God that I got rid of it." That saint that went, he had a kingdom there. And this kingdom was in the Himalayas. This is one story. Now, there are many, many stories. Now in India, there was a great Sanskrit scholar. He was writing many, many poems in the Sanskrit language. Great. He’s very great now in every university and everywhere. His lesson is taught, and the equation comes about him often. Now, the story of that person is very interesting also, you see. This is a story of the ages, but it is written in the scriptures, so this story... Again, it is about the king. He had a son, and he had only one daughter. He loved his daughter very much, and he wanted to marry his daughter to some kingdom which was a bigger kingdom than his kingdom. And a wise man and great person, because his daughter was greatly learned in Sanskrit, very wise, and she said that her husband will be the one who will answer my questions, who can defeat, otherwise I will not marry. So the king asked his people to go and bring some great men who had Sanskrit knowledge, who were wise, beautiful, and rich, from some kings’ kingdoms and royal families. They brought many, many times, but she rejected. It was tradition that girls choose the husband, not the husband choose the girl. First choice is hers, and of course, if he doesn’t want, she will not. So they will have some agreement first beforehand, but not that she can go anywhere and give the girl. So they felt they brought many, many nice boys, good and this, but she rejected. She asked the questions, and they couldn’t answer, these Brahmins, these priests, the pundits. They had a duty to go and find a good one. They were fed up, they were fed up. They said, "This stupid girl, how many years are we going?" Walking and such, bringing, and now she said, "No." He said, "No, this time we will go and bring some husband, some boy. That will be good, perfect." So they went again, searching somewhere far away. In some other kingdom, they were tired. They were walking, horseback riding, or sometimes walking. In the forest, they saw one shepherd. He had some goats and sheep. So that shepherd climbed on the tree to cut some branches for the goats and sheep. But what happens? Here is the trunk, and this is a branch. So now he wants to cut this branch, but how clever he is. He’s sitting here and cutting from here. Trunk is here, and he has to cut from here, but he’s not sitting here; he’s sitting here. So you are sitting on that branch, which branch are you cutting? They said, "This is a perfect husband, that is a good one," you see. So they said, "Hey boy, you are cutting the wrong side." They said, "How do you know?" "I am, every day I’m doing. First I have to come quickly down, that I have to hold it." They said, "He’s..." A stupid, they said, "Okay, come down. We would like to speak to you." He said, "What? Let me cut my branch." They said, "Yes." "Are you married?" He said, "No." "Do you want to marry?" He said, "Yes, but no one marries me." They said, "This is not your problem. We will do it." Come down. Oh, he came down, and he was hanging on the branch to cut it, to chip the branches for his sheep and goats. Then he came, and he said, "Yes, now what do you want from me? You want to marry me to someone? No one is married. I don’t like anyone." They said, "Yes, we will make a nice wedding, and nice, and this and that." He said, "Really?" He said, "Yes, yes." They trained him nicely for ten days, gave him some blessings, and more temptation to marry the king and queens and princes, and so on. And you see, he said, "Wow, and is there enough gardens there, parks?" He said, "Yes, for what?" "For my sheep," said, "for my goats." You see, "I will marry." Without my goats are there, he said, "We will do, don’t worry, this is okay." They trained him. Now he wanted to marry. They said, "The girl will ask you a question. You will not speak one word. Do not speak one word." Why? He said, "Because if you..." Want to marry? Oh, when? When you marry, then you don’t talk. Said, "Yes, you don’t." So unless we tell you to speak, otherwise not. Said, "Okay." So they brought this boy, nicely washed and something, you know. If you will come like me, nobody... Will marry, and they came to the king, "Your Highness, we found a very beautiful, very nice, wise young boy for the girl." And said, "Then I want to see." They said, "No, because if you want to see first, he feels humiliated, he will go away." He said, "Yes." That’s right. If I put some questions, the person will feel humiliated, and he said he will not talk to you. So why? Because he has a one-year saṅkalpa mauna, so that’s why he can’t speak. And if you want to marry your daughter, she’s getting... Older and older, then this is a chance. Said, "Okay, no problem, bring him." So there will be a first. He has to play. He has to play this, uh, soccer. What you call? Soccer chances? Yeah. Says, "If he wins, then she can marry him." And they said, "What is that?" They will play in the evening, and she has one cat, a very loyal cat. The cat is observing very carefully that nobody makes mistakes, and if one makes a mistake, the cat will be angry. That is number one. Second, there is a bun, like this lamp, an oil lamp, beautiful. And that oil lamp, that girl, the princess, and she will... Put on the head of the cat, the cat will come and sit like this, and here will be the... as long as the lamp, the oil lamp, remains there, no one can win. She will be the winner. He said, "Oh, very good, very good. Our prince will win, definitely." So what did they do? They brought a bamboo stick, like a flute, but the bamboo was so thick and so long. And he was tying this on his back. He put inside one mouse, and they tied the mouse from the back side and put it in this pipe. No one can see now. She’s the place is winning, they said, "Don’t worry. When the time comes, he has to win, and she will be the loser." But what happened? The cat smells the mouse, and now the cat’s eyes are on the mouse all the time. When the time comes, she’s going to win. He loses a little bit of the mouse to come out, and the cat jumps, falls down again, pulls out. No one can see it. Is it just in the hand of these? People again, she’s coming to win and put the mouse little loose, so he’s coming out, cat. So what happened? She lost, and he was winner. Now the king said, "The boy has won." She said, "Yes, I accept it. He is a..." Winner, so first step is done. Second step, tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock, you have to come to the audience. There will be many people sitting, and who’s great, landed people. And now there will be a dialogue between a girl and a boy, okay? So all are sitting. On the podium, one side, the king is sitting there, and his daughter and this boy are sitting there, and five clever pundits are sitting there. And what happens now? She said, "First question, answer." When she raised one finger like this, this... The boy was so angry, very angry. He put it like that. Now, what is the answer and what is the question? Her question was this, and his answer was like that. Now, her question was different. She wanted to say only, only Brahman is the truth. The supreme is the truth. All the rest is not the untruth. And he heard this man. He was a little bit, like, still he thought that this girl wants to pinch my eye. So he said, "If you pinch my one eye, I will do both." What do you think? So she said, "But he is showing me." Two fingers, they said, "Yes, yes, princess, yes." What he said: one is Brahma and one is Māyā. Without Brahma and Māyā, nothing can happen. What will you do without Māyā? Brahma is nothing. What will she do without that one and this one, or this one? She said, "Yes, I accept, okay." So. Then she said, she said this, and he thought, "This boy, she wants to give him a slip." And she said like this, "If you want to give a slap on my cheek, I have my fist. Stop. Question, answer." So she said, "My question is this: what is this?" Five elements: ether, air, fire, water, and earth. These are the five elements. What is your answer? They said, "Yes." He said, "These five elements can’t do anything unless they come together to become the body." So what he said, they said, "Yes." She said, "You are correct. These are the five elements, but the five elements have to come together to join to become one body, one life." She said, "Great, very wise," because without speaking. You only make some sign, and I understand you. So she had a garland beside her. She got up and put the garland on his neck. And he said, the boy said, "This is a feeder for my goats." So they said, "Okay, tomorrow will be the wedding." They took the boy away. He said, "Boy, you did a good job, but you were nearly destroyed." But yeah, she said, "Me too, I will pinch your eye." So I said, "I will do both." And how can he give his? So he said, "Okay, okay, okay." Now they married, yes, and he got a nice palace. Now they moved in the palace, and in the night they were in one room sleeping, and he said, "Where are my goats and sheep?" Now she said, "What?" She didn’t say what. They are waiting for me. Who are you? I’m Shepherd. Oh God, she kicked him, so he fell out of the window. Yes, she kicked him. And when he fell down, some nerves came into the right position. He became wise, and he went away. He went away. Then he learned Sanskrit, became a great scholar, and he made a tapasyā. And in his vision, he saw the Divine Mother Kālī. And Kālī Mother gave him all this knowledge, and she disappeared. Now he didn’t know what his name was, and what was his duty, what was his dharma. So he said, "Okay, this divine mother is named Kālī, black. I will serve her, and so I am her servant." So he brought his name Kālī Dās. Dās means the servant. Now, this Kālidāsa became such a great person, and he wrote many, many books, scriptures in the Sanskrit language. He came back to his house where his wife was. On the other side, his wife was waiting for him and waiting for him. So he came and he bowed down to her to touch her feet. She said, "No, no, no question. How can you do? It is a sin. You are my husband. I will touch your feet." He said, "No, not a question. You are my master teacher. You gave me the knowledge. You kicked me and you sent me." She said, "No." So they had a fight, and he went away. He went away, and she was very sad from the separation. He was also sad, but he said, "No, I can’t do anything like this. I accepted you as a Kālī mother, and I’m Kālī Dās. I’m your servant, not a husband." He went away. He reached Sri Lanka, and in Sri Lanka, he lived somewhere in some normal family. And in Sri Lanka, there was a king. This was Kālidāsa, was about 200 years before Christ, 200 years before that. So the king wrote a poem at that time, half a poem, and now the king announced that whoever will complete this poem, what I want. What are my words in my visions that will get that, and that much wealth, or kingdom, half of kingdom? And so many, many people came and they tried to write, to complete the poem, but they couldn’t. So there was some lady who heard that. And Kalidāsa heard, so Kalidāsa got this poem half-written. He completed it and told that lady, whose house he was living in, he was living in her family. And she went to the king and she said, "This is the answer to your completed poem." And he said, "Wow, great. Did you write this?" Now she was frozen. She wanted to say, "Yes, I wrote it," and if you will ask me a question, then what will I answer? And she said, "Yes." He said, "No, you did not write." He said, "Wait, tomorrow we will have..." A decision, she went home, and there’s only one person who knows the Kālidāsa. Kālidāsa has written, "There is no other person in the world that can say it is mine. I wrote it in the night." She killed him. She went with the knife and put the knife in his heart. The next day was the funeral. So the king got the news, and everything came true. The king was so touched by him, who wrote this poem, completed the Kālidāsa. He himself jumped in the fire and burned with him. So that was the stories going further. So Kālidāsa wrote one book, and that book is about love, the true love of husband and wife, and so on. So here is this story. I will stop for a while. Now, you know, we all hear about the treasurer of God. A treasurer of God, what is the name? Kubera. Kubera has the treasure of God, and where he lived, in the kingdom of Alakpurījī, Alakpurījī. And that was many, many ages, Kubera, so everybody will say, "Oh, Kubera." The direction of Kubera is the east-north corner. If you want to have a yantra in your house, a Kubera yantra, put it in that corner, then you will see how Lakṣmī is coming. It’s a secret, but there is some kind of pūjā and these many things; otherwise, Kubera will not—it’s not easy to get from Kubera’s money, you know. So Kubera was coming from Laṅkā. It is said that he was a brother of Rāvaṇa, and with him came his soldiers, his people, or slaves, or whatever you call them. They are also like goddesses, very spiritual, with many siddhis and so on. They are called the Dakṣa. So one Dakṣa who was in service to Kubera, they had many, many who should do what, what... all was fixed. So one Dakṣa, he was just married one, two years or so. And the duty of Dakṣa was to go every day to the Kailāśa mountain, where there is a lake called Mānasarovara. And from Mansarovar, you should bring the golden lotus for ceremonies. Because I do puja, a ceremony, every day, I need the flowers. So you bring the flowers for my doing pūjās, the golden lotus. It is a distance from where the kingdom of Alakpurījī is. So he used to bring every day the golden lotus. It’s a distance of 100 kilometers or more, 100, 200 kilometers or this. I don’t know exactly. From Badrinath, near Badrinath, is the kingdom of Alakapurījī, from where this river begins, the Alaknandā. One day, he forgot. He was too much occupied with his wife and forgotten. And then he realized, "Oh God, I must bring the flowers for the pūjā. Kubera will punish me." So he went quickly, and Kubera gave him a curse, a curse. You will be separated from your wife for one year. You will not see your wife. That was a curse, and so he went far, far, far into the Himalayas. And from there, he writes messages. There was no telephone, no wireless, nothing. So, messages, how to send a message to his wife? So he was sending messages through the clouds. He was monitoring the clouds. The clouds have the ability to cross all of the Himalayas at a very high peak. Which direction you should go, what you should do, and so on. And so on. It’s beautiful, this book. It’s available now on the internet or somewhere, from some printing house. So in 1847, or between these years, Max Müller translated the poems of Kālidāsa because Max Müller learned Sanskrit. The British asked him to learn Sanskrit and translate the Vedas in such a way that people, when they read them, would laugh. So he couldn’t understand the Vedas, the Max Müller, so he read the Upaniṣads. And when he read the Upaniṣad, Max Müller said to the British, I don’t want your money, and no, I cannot lie. The Upanishads changed his total opinions and his way of thinking. So Max Müller translated this little book called Meghadūta. The name of the book is called "Meghadūta." Megha means rain or cloud, and dūta means the messenger. So he was talking and sending the message through the clouds. And your Apple telephone, they took this name iCloud, no? Yes, and this they took from this. The copyright is regular, yes, yeah. So they, so this is it, so big. And he has written many, many... Books now, how is going on? Further, tomorrow we will see. I will continue. So, our roots of Alak Purījī is there, where from the mother, Mādhav Sīr, her name was a queen, Mādhav Sīr, and her children all God self-realization and his. Alaka, Alarka, he got knowledge, but still the mother wanted that he would get brahma jñāna and liberation, and so it goes further. And tomorrow, I, because if I make it too quickly, then you will not, some... Stories must have a good masala, you know, spices, good spices, it makes good things. So tomorrow again, I will tell you about the stories. I hope you will remember. And there is a great, great Devī Śakti, she is also there, and her... Name was Nanda, and so this story will come tomorrow, so short and sweet this year. I, because I was searching so many years, and Dr. Shanti’s 12 years researching in the Himalaya about our, our paramparā, Alakpurījīs, after Devpurījīs, before Devpurījīs. So our paramparā, Alakpurījī from the Himalayas, then our Devpurījī, then our Mahāprabhujī, Holy Gurujī, me, and you all with me. We are there. So from there is our spiritual, and there is a river by the name of Alakpurījī. And that Shakti Nanda, so Alak Nanda, this river is called Alak Nanda. Before there was a river called Saraswati, but the Nanda, she said, She said that I have this wish, three wishes she had. And this story will be completed tomorrow. And one is that this river should be in my name, from Alak Purījī. So, the Alaknanda River. And her second wish was another, I will tell you. And third, also I will tell you tomorrow. So this is our paramparā. So we are all united to that divinity. There are our roots. Śrī Alakpurījī, Mahādev, Satguru Svāmī, Mādhavānandjī Bhagavān, Devpurījī Bhagavān, Om Śānti, Śānti,... Hari Om.