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Navratri

A spiritual discourse on the supreme importance of guru devotion during Navaratri.

"The highest worship and most sattvic and safe practice is guru bhakti."

"Guru Brahma, Guru Viṣṇu, Gurudevo Maheśvara, Guru Sākṣāt Parabrahma... Therefore, my adoration to the Holy Lotus Feet of the Gurudeva."

Swami Madhvarānjī delivers an evening satsang, explaining why devotion to the guru is the foundational and safest spiritual path. He describes the guru tattva (principle) as encompassing and surpassing all other divine energies, warns against seeking powers or material gains, and emphasizes that pure devotion and grace are the roots of liberation. The talk includes teachings on mantra repetition, meditation, and concludes with a blessing.

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Śrī Śrī Dev Purīṣa Mahādevakī, Dharma Samrāṭ Satguru Svāmī Madhvarānjī Bhagavānakī, Satya Sanātana Dharmakī, Śrīddhi Pānīrañjana Śabadukā Bhañjana Prabhudī, Prabhudī Pānīrañjana Śabadukā... Isi Mantra se hove mana manjana, Isi Śrī Dīpa Nirañjana Sabhā Dukha Jan Prabhu Dīpa Nirañjana Sabhā Dukha. Isi Mantra se hove mana manjana, Isi Mantra hove mana manjana Śrī Dīpa Nirañjana Sabhā. Good evening and blessings to all. Blessings of Śrī Alak Purījī’s Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā. It’s a beautiful day, a beautiful time of Navarātri, and two days more. Navarātri Kapūr Roga, so two days more. During Navarātri, it is given for the purification of our vṛttis. Navaratri means the celebration, adoring the Divine Mother, to worship, to adore the Divine Mother. Whatever saṅkalpa, regulation you make, should come true. But there is one thing. If we have negative thoughts, impure thoughts, impure nourishment, and kuṣaṅga, then our saṅkalpa will not be successful, but it will be opposite. All different kinds of upāsanā are easier, but the Śakti Pūjā, Śakti Upāsanā, is very divine but can be very dangerous. In this principle, the feminine energy requires purity, pure thoughts, pure bhakti, pure nourishment, and disciplined pūjā. If you make a mistake, the consequences are there. The highest worship and most sattvic and safe practice is guru bhakti. Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said, "It doesn’t matter through which path you will come or go, finally I will be there." So, it doesn’t matter through which religion or which system, the traditions, which kind of upāsanā—upāsanā means practice, sādhanā—you will go, finally you will arrive at that gate where I will be there. But I cannot open that gate. You will see me, but my rights, my power, are not in my hands. It is on another tattva. Different tattvas: Brahma tattva, Śiva tattva, Guru tattva, and Viṣṇu tattva. Therefore, it is said, "Guru Brahma," Guru is the creator. He is creating those vṛttis, those thoughts. He is motivating, inspiring, and guiding. That is the creator who puts the thoughts in your mind, that is creating that vṛtti in you. Guru-Brahmā, Guru-Viṣṇu. Now comes the Viṣṇu-Tattva. Is protecting. Protector, balancing, that is Vishnu. So the Guru Tattva, Gurudev with all his spiritual energy and siddhis, protecting the disciples, supporting the disciples, guiding the disciples. Guru Brahmā, Guru Viṣṇu, Gurudevo Maheśvara, and he is the Maheśvara. Jīvātmā is the governor of our body. Ishvara is the governor of this solar system. And Mahīśvara is the governor of the entire universe. All in all, that’s called Mahādev, Mahāśiv, Maheśvara. Gurur sākṣā. And therefore, it is that Parabrahma. Parabrahma. Brahma. Our Ātmā. Paramātmā. That’s it. So, Shiva. Shiva is the liberator. Shiva has two main duties. One, Shiva is known as a Sarjan Hara. Sarjan, not a doctor, okay, who is operating, making. Sarjan, the creator. So in reality, Śiva is a creator. Śiva is a protector. Śiva is that. So he is the Svayambhū. He comes once for the creation of the Sṛṣṭi. And he is a Visarjan Hara, Sarjan Hara, Visarjan Hara. And he is the one who is dissolving everything again, Mahāpralaya. Mahāpralaya, everything is dark, nothing will exist, finished. These are two times. But, from time to time, from the request, the prayer of the devotees, Shiva appears just for some seconds, maybe a minute. That’s what we call Jyotirliṅga. Jyoti means the light. The light of Śiva himself, where he appears, and then again he manifests, and again he disappears. Many times he appeared, but mostly in past history, there are the twelve places where Śiva appeared himself and blessed that Śiva Liṅga. But it is 13 times that Shiva appeared, so there are 13 Śiva-liṅgas, not Dvādaśa. The 13th one is Pāśupatināth in Nepal, which is also a Jyotirliṅga. Yes or not? Yes? So Śiva appeared in many places, many. And without this also, who is doing Śiva-sādhanā? Whenever Śiva gave the knowledge, yoga, yantra, mantra, tantra, āsana, prāṇāyāma, dhāraṇā, siddhi, samādhi, mudrās, and everything, it was given by Bhagavān, Sadāśiva, Śiva. But still, there are the mighty energies. It’s called Brahma, Viṣṇu, and Maheśvara. Then the fourth one, which is balancing these energies, balancing, controlling, not in the negative way. Between these three, one is Śakti, that divine Śakti. So without Shiva or without Shakti, it is half. Without Brahmā and Sarasvatī, or without Viṣṇu and Lakṣmījī. So this is the fourth principle, the fourth power. Above that is another tattva, that’s called guru-tattva. So the rites of giving the mokṣa, liberation, ātma-jñāna, this, mokṣa-mūlaṁ-guru-kṛpā. The root of mokṣa is when the guru-kṛpā will be there. And kṛpā, you cannot give. Even the master cannot give. There is a way to transfer the transaction from the disciple’s consciousness to the master’s consciousness. It doesn’t go through a little bit of smiling, no. Giving a flower garland, giving the seva, this, this. No, that is beyond. That kṛpā is beyond. And that kṛpā comes through upāsanā. Upāsanā, the sādhanā, guru bhakti. Guru ko chhoda anko dhyaave. It is said, you put Gurudev on one side and you make other things. Then your negative destiny awakes in you. It is not that the Guru doesn’t want. It is not that Viṣṇu doesn’t want or that Brahmā doesn’t want. It is a system, principle, and sādhanā. That is your inner bhakti. Karo nahi, karo charaṇau kī, sevā bhaktiro dāna datā dījiyo. Sorry. So, Bhakta is saying, Kabīr Dās’s bhajan: "Bhaktiro dāna data dijiyo." What do I ask? You. No money, no siddhi, nothing, nothing. When you run behind the siddhi, then Gurudev will say, "Okay, go to the siddhi, don’t come to me." For what are you asking me? You will have a siddhi. Now you are levitating, and then all people will run to you, and I will sit here, and you will declare that you are the greatest master. For what do you want to have a siddhi? Siddhi is not in your interest. No interest in the siddhi. When he telephones. So, Bhagatīrodana datā dījiyo. Data, not data in the computer, yes? Computer data feed karte hain na? O nahi, yeh data, wo data. This is different, data and data. But you can’t say data, you always say data. And data is a computer data. And data is different. Data means the giver. Who is giving is a dātā. So the giver is God. Who are we that we can give something? Our giving is limited. If you can give, then it is a blessing. So, Gurudev, don’t ask for the money. Don’t ask for the siddhi. Don’t ask for the samādhi. All the physical material means which you ask the Gurudev or the saints, it will come back negative. Careful. Therefore, nothing but bhakti. Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said, "No one has strength against me. Everything in the entire universe, everything is available to me. But there is only one power which I can’t neglect, that is called bhakti. Bhakti kā dāna datā dījiyo." Give, please bless me, devotion. And what is devotion? Devotion is that kind of Guru Bhakti where there are no doubts at all. You have to see everything transparent, clear, and divine. One thought negative, even you hide. But for the higher principle, there is nothing that can be hidden. So Kabīr Dās said, "Bhagatiro Dandata Dijiyo Mare Guru Devara Deva Janam Dhar Bishru Nahi." O Lord of the Lord, my Gurudev, give me such a devotion. Janam Dhar Bishru Nahi, if I get another birth, I should not be separated from you. Karunā caraṇorī sevā, only let me serve thy holy lotus feet. That is divine. And the same thing Gurujī said, I ask of thee, O Mahāprabhujī, bhakti. The most mighty power is devotion, the love. Material love, emotional love, it ends with the problems, troubles, sufferings. But divine devotion is increasing day by day. Therefore, Guru Brahma, Guru Viṣṇu, Guru Devo Maheśvara, Guru Sākṣāt Parabrahma, He is the Parabrahma, Tasmai Śrī Gurave Namaḥ. Therefore, my adoration to the Holy Lotus Feet of the Gurudeva. If you do half here and half there and half there, you are lost. Even the divine Śakti on this Navaratrī, she will come and stand in front of you and will ask, "My child, what do you want from me?" She will give you everything that a mother gives you, everything that you want. And you say, "Give me mokṣa." She will tell you, "Go to Swāmījī." And when you come to Swamiji, she will say, "What?" Go to my holy Gurujī, my Prabhujī. Go there. To me, you come. I will send you to the garden. And clean the grass there. Karma yoga. That’s it. That is a parīkṣā. Agar aapko shī ek shānt ya aapke gurujī kā kām palaṭe hai, to talam toḷī nahīṁ karnā. Voh parīkṣā hai. Kaniṣad, madhyam, aur uttam. These are the three different kinds of disciples. So try to be the uttam. Therefore, after that, then say it. Because yesterday we spoke about meditation. Meditation? As long as our vṛttis are not purified, there is no meditation. And how to overcome these vṛttis? First, mantra, mantra japa with your mālā. All the vṛttis go away when Gurudeva’s name is there, when Mahāprabhujī’s name or Gurujī’s. Name or Devapurījī’s name means he himself. When he is in our thoughts, how can negative energy come in? This is a very, most secret thing which I am telling you after 43 years. Every day I am thinking, should I tell you or not? Should I tell you or not? Today, I open my secret. Okay? So when we say Mahāprabhujī, what comes in your thoughts? The entire divinity of Mahāprabhujī, how is his cloth? How is his turban, or no turban? How he is? When you think of your mother, what do you see? When you think about your mother, you don’t see Maa Prabhujī, the entire picture and feelings. Mother’s love is there. If you think of your dog, then the dog comes to you. So, what do you think? Mano matra jagataha. Mano matra jagataha. What you think in your mind, like that your world will be. And then you will open your eyes. Jaisī draṣṭi vaisī sṛṣṭi, tumhāre sammāne kāḍī ho jāyegī. So, what you see? How you think, like this the world will appear to you. So, which kind of feeling you have, that love? So, during the meditation, when we use our mantra and with mālā, if mālā is not in our hands, either we will sleep or it will go to the other vṛttis. Mala is our guide. Mala is our driver. We are the driver, and Mala is the car. And now you are driving on the highway. Micro-sleep can cause an accident. Therefore, repeat Mālā and Mahāprabhujī’s, Devapurījī’s, Gurujī’s name. Nothing wrong can happen. But repeating "Om Prabhudeep Niranjan Sabduk Bhajan," my God, what is this? But he said what he was telling. The mantra is going automatic. I am all Ajapa. It is not Ajapa like that. Be aware. This is the first point. Which mantra you repeat, what about, that should dwell in your vṛttis. Second, develop happiness. Develop happiness. In which condition, in which situation you are, just say the name of God, Rāma, Rāma, or Oṁ Prabhudeep. Prabhudeep Niranjan Sabduk Bhanjan. Now you are sending the vibration. Like, you know, when we have the telephone connections, cordless, and what we call the internet connection. So now the vibration, the radiance is going like this. Similarly, when we said our mantra, Om Prabhudeep, Mahāprabhujī is there. We are praying already. He is listening. Om Prabhudeep Niranjan, you are the highest, the purest, the greatest. Sabduk Bhanjan, that time your vṛtti is functioning to remove the negative thoughts, as the troubles and problems are going away. Always smile. Someone said if you smile, only three muscles are a little intense, and if you are like this, sixty-four muscles are intense. The whole body is suffering; the whole system is suffering, the digestive system. Is suffering your kidney is suffering, your blood pressure is suffering, your heart is suffering, all the spinal column is suffering. Why not? Therefore, smile. Don’t be worried about anything. Therefore, it is said, There is Satguru Rākhelās. The Gurudev will protect us. Nirbhera, don’t be scared. Nishank, without any doubts. Kabhimat dharaṇā, do not have any fear. So, when we meditate and think about what we think, then our big points—our fear, anger, jealousy, hate, etc.—become stronger, and positive energy goes down. So, therefore, dhyāna mūlaṁ guru-mūrti. Therefore, it is said, O sādhaka, O practitioner, in your meditation, keep the picture of your Gurudev, Mahāprabhujī, Gurujī. You know that if we have one bhajan here, it is nice. Dekh tasbīr satguru kī, maganman ho gayā merā.... As soon as I saw the picture of the Gurudev, my mind became so happy and joyful, a smile came, and positive vibrations came from the body. Therefore, dhyāna mūlaṁ guru-mūrti, not all you are looking and looking and looking, you know. Awareness that Gurudev is with me. Yes, look at Mahāprabhujī’s lotus feet, Gurujī’s, Holy Gurujī’s, Devpurījī’s, Alakpurījī’s. Divine, divine. Jāna Mūlaṁ Guru Mūrti, Pūjā Mūlaṁ Guru Padam. Where should we go to worship something? The Holy Lotus Feet of Gurudev. Otherwise, Mahāprabhujī said, "Bhutto ne to śiṣya nām ke bhaktōṁ ke bhet dare," Pāpī nīve ne sadguru āge, kaṣṭ anek bāre, Gurūsā binā kāj nahīṁ sare, Koṭī upāya kare koī cāhe, na bhavasindhu tere gurudev binā, kāj nahīṁ sare. Gurudev bina, karaj nahi sāre, antarjāmī bhi. Koti upāya kare, koī chahe, koti upāya nabhava sindha karjanāya sāre. Mahāprabhu binā karjanāya sāre. Why? Gurudev bina karjanaya sare, without Gurudev we will not be successful. You may do a thousand things. You can’t cross the ocean of this worldly māyā. Only you can cross the ocean if you have the boat, the captain, and yourself. Gurudev is a captain. Koti upāī kare koī chai na bhavasindhu tere Gurudev binā karjā nahīṁ sare bhūtane to śiṣ namāve. Oh my god, bhūtane, oh Khetalā jī, oh māmā jī, oh māmā jī, what is it? So worshipping this goddess, this goddess, this goddess and the spirits, the ghost, bhūtane to śiṣ namāve, bhāta bhet dare. Giving all the prasad and money, everything, on that stone. Papi niveni satguru age, but who have a lot of sin inside, and if some saint comes, they will not go down, but they will put their head on the stone and hit, hit. That is the sign of ignorance. Therefore, the highest principle, the highest energy, is called Guru. Dhan mūlam guru mūrti, pūjā mūlam guru padam. Mantra mūlam guru-vākyam. If you did not follow guru-vākya, you are practicing, and all your mantra and sādhanā is zero. Of course, zero is the highest number. But you know the zero. Zero is the cycle of rebirth and death. Okay? I have nothing against zero. We don’t say "zero" in Hindi language and in Sanskrit. "Zero" in Hindi is a spice, it’s cumin seed. We say śūnya. That is somehow meaningful. That has some meaning. Śūnya kāś. Śūnya. That’s it. The Sanskrit language, that’s why it is a spiritual, divine language. Mantra mūlaṁ guru-vākyaṁ mokṣa mūlaṁ gurur kṛpā. Therefore, Divine Mother, She protects us, She helps us, She gives us everything, and we adore Her. And if you do to Her, do it, but in a good way, a better way, but don’t give up. Then, for the Śakti pūjā, crystal mālā; Śiva pūjā, rudrākṣa mālā; Kṛṣṇa pūjā, vaijayantī mālā; Rāma pūjā, kalsi mālā; tulasī mālā. So, for every... Sādhānā, every different stone is there, and for guru pūjā also rudrākṣa, because finally Mahā, bār bār vardānīye hi māk. Bār bār vardānīye hi māk. Janam janam hari dāsa rākhi jo. Janam janam hari dāsa rākhi o dīpa dayā layaraj. Prabhu dī padāyalaya kar kṛpā moye satsaṅg dī jo... Śrī Dī Padāyalaya Sunālī Jo Prabhu Dī Padāyalaya. So, wish you all the best, and the next webcast will come from Strelki Ashram. See you there. If you are here, then see me on Skype. Wish you all the best and a good time in Jardin Ashram, and to those who are flying back to their countries, I wish you a good journey and all the blessings of Gurudev. Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān. Oṁ Namaḥ Sīrī Prabhu Deep Nārāyaṇa. Oṁ Namaḥ Sīrī Prabhu. Dīpanā Namaḥ Sabdhāsa Prabhu Śaraṇaparāya... Om Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpana Śānti, śānti, śānti.

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