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Deep Nayan Bhagavān kī, Śrī Śrī Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva kī, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma kī. Good evening. Blessings to all of you from the Dalakpurījī Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā. After a long time, we are together again in a webcast. First, I wish to tell you that our Ālagpurījī Siddhapīṭha Paramparā has become very beautiful and spiritual. The energy is there. Whoever comes feels the presence of Śrī Alagpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī, Gurujī. It is a very spiritual spot. We know it is a beautiful Śiva temple dedicated to the name of our beloved Satguru Dev, Holy Gurujī. That spot is exactly where, for many years, Gurujī stayed and served Holy Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī. It is the spiritual place where Gurujī performed spiritual sādhanā, tapasyā, and sevā. Renunciation is not easy. There are two kinds of vairāgya, which is called renunciation. Vairāgya means to renounce from our inner self. Attachment, desires, sorrows, happiness—good or bad—all are within ourselves. If we think life is not good, that we have problems, no work, or sorrows about existence, this is all projected from our inner self. Good thoughts are within you; bad thoughts are within you. Good visions are within you; bad visions are also within you. This all pendles between consciousness and awareness. What we think is coming from outside is just our imagination. Emotion, unhappiness, restlessness—all come from our inner self. So there is nothing to blame from outside. If someone says certain people are disturbing them, it is not them; it is our inner problems. Accepting or not accepting, blaming someone or glorifying someone, is also within thyself. God has given this human life with many good things, as well as past negatives, unpleasantness, sorrows, and attachments. Now, every one of us would like very much to become holy. But how many minutes, hours, or days do we give to tapasyā before we give up? It is said in the Bible, and I don't know it exactly, but "die to leave, die and then leave." This saying is everywhere: in the Vedas, the Upaniṣads, and other books like the Bible. In life, we try to hide our weaknesses, we try to hide our negative qualities, and we try to put these negative qualities on others. It is very easy, but it means they will multiply within your awareness. You will be aware of it, but you feel shame. You don't project it with your words, but it is in you and will become more and more. For example, jealousy is a fire, and this fire is a bush fire. From a little fire, the wind comes and it becomes a very big fire. It is out of control; it burns everything. There is one very nice poem: Sabhe saheṅ sabal ke kohun nirbal sahay. Pavan jagāvat āg ko dīpai detā bujhāi. It is a beautiful poem. Sabhe saheṅ sabal ke: everyone is supporting who is the strong one—who is rich, strong, wealthy, who has positions, etc. Everyone supports and glorifies the strong one. Sabhe saheṅ sabal ke kohun nirbal sahay. Nirbal means very weak, poor. No one helps that person. If you walk on the street and see someone sitting there, a poor person asking for a few coins, most people think, "Oh God, these beggars will just drink; they will buy alcohol and drink it." Did you see that? They will get up and go buy alcohol and drink. Still, you did not give anything, but you give your negative thoughts. These negative thoughts will multiply in you; they will reflect those negative qualities you think. Oh God, what a terrible... What is this person? They can’t work, they don’t do this. So who are we to judge them? If you don’t want to give, don’t give, but at least don’t give negative words, which will only harm you, not that person. That person is only an object. From this object, you are producing negative qualities within your own consciousness, and your awareness becomes overloaded, so there is no concentration. This balance comes within us. Sabhe saheṅ sabal ke: everyone glorifies and supports who is the strong one. When someone is skiing and winning, everybody says, "Bravo, bravo, yes, yes," or in boxing, etc. But no one is glorifying or saying "bravo" to who is a poor one, a very weak one. They don’t even notice that person; he is gone. So this means when there is a little fire, a little flame, the wind will make it bigger. But if there is a little candle flame with a very fine, little wind, it will blow off. The same wind, if there is a piece of fire, will make it great and big because that is stronger than a tiny flame. Similarly, within us is that light of our life, Jīvanjyoti, the flame of life. This flame would like to be brighter, would like to be growing, coming up. But day by day, we throw garbage on this flame of our life. Again, we don’t accept this, but you know, and you think, and I also think. We are such experts; we don’t express it with our face or actions, but with thoughts and inner certain organs, they are twisting in a different form: hate, jealousy, conflict, haste, etc. This is within us. And forgiveness, happiness, joy, kindness, mercy, divinity, love—everything is also within us, blossoming in us. Where is the balance? What is the majority? Unfortunately, in many, the majority is the negative. So when a certain person is in trouble, only a few people will pay attention. Similarly, tapasyā—our sādhanā, what we would like to achieve—requires inner strength. If you can manage that inner strength, then you have to swallow many bitter things. You have to walk, as if on thorns and stones. You should be above your proudness, your joy. That’s called tapasyā. We can do tapasyā at home also; we need not go to the Himalayas. There would be a big problem with oxygen, a big problem. There is no shopping center to buy a cup of milk. You don’t know where you can go to buy. Also, the tapasyā that is written in the Bhagavad-gītā, in the 12th chapter—hunger, thirst, name, fame, etc.—is very nice when we read it. It is beautiful, what greatness was written. Oh yes, it is really a reality. But how much do we accept? That’s it. When such a soul, such great persons like all of you here sitting, then that place where you live becomes holy. It is not easy to create a holy spot on this holy mother earth. The holy mother earth is itself spiritual, divine, everything. But the dormant spiritualities, consciousness, light, devotion—where certain yogīs will make... You live alone in your flat, yes? You should know how you are living. You all know the situation: many come home, within the four walls, and feel lonely these days. There are many things. And there are many who just come within these four walls and are finally so happy: "Thanks to God, I am at home, and there is no one who disturbs me. Yes, now I can wash myself as I like, I can relax and meditate, and do āsanas, and read some nice book, and send beautiful thoughts to the world." The whole building receives a beautiful radiance of spirituality from you. Everyone is benefiting, though they don’t know. It doesn’t matter, but it is going. And so, still, it is within you, the memory. And this you will not forget. From very childhood, you remember mother: how she was breastfeeding you, how she was taking care of you, how she was playing with you, how she cooked for you. You were eating, playing, schools, etc. When you were happy or unhappy, the mother was paying attention—of course, father too—but now they are not there. It is the memory that is there: pleasant and unpleasant situations, liking and not liking, good food and not good food. Many things in our life we experienced from childhood till now. And suddenly you come somewhere—is it not what you experienced and lived? Now you have to play as a mother or father or best worker or the helper or the slave. There is no one who will support you. There is only one who supports us, and that is our inner self. Our inner self will bring that supporting energy and attention into others, and you will again be getting the feedback, that happiness and joy. Tyāga, renounce. Tyāga, renounce. Tyāga. Tyāga of attachment. Tyāga of krodha, anger. Tyāga of hate. Tyāga of desires. And receive the knowledge, tapasyā, as it is. That makes us holy or divine. While between the tyāga and attachment, this tapasyā—what we do day by day—tapasyā is a fire which burns all negative qualities; everything burns. Fire is one of the best elements which purifies everything. It is a fire which will purify, and it burns everything which is temporary, which is not permanent, which is not good for all five elements. From that, among the five elements, fire is the best. So it is the fire which will purify everything, all the negative qualities. For many years, our beloved Sadguru Dev, Holy Gurujī, was performing his tapasyā. The place in Kāṭhū, what we call the Ḍūnā, is where Holy Gurujī lived. Many times, along with Kālī Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī was in the village, Khaṭṭū. There was only a small village, a little far, about one kilometer. No one there, no one. No electricity, no water. It was rainwater collected. That is only what was available. No shops, no animals, cows, buffaloes, nothing, no goats. Yes, a young man, he also came when he was 18 or something like this, 18, 19. Yes, that was the tapasyā of Holy Gurujī. He told me many times, what I am telling you. He said to me, "Mahesh, it was not easy sometimes. Sometimes I was telling myself, ‘Why am I here? What am I doing here? Why do I live such a life?’ I had much happiness, everything at home, and there suddenly big snakes appear, scorpions appear, nobody appears except this. But it was because of Mahāprabhujī’s divine light, and he knew this is the aim of my human life, and this is the God for me, and He is protecting everything. It is the test: will I stay or not?" This is that. Now, when there was no one and nothing, but on His spot where He was sitting and walking and having all good and unpleasant and pleasant situations, vṛttis, purified all with His mantras and writing bhajans, now there has become a Śiva temple in the name of Holy Gurujī: Om Śrī Mādhveśvara Śiva Mandir. Now people come from far distances and worship at that Śiva temple, adoring our beloved Holy Gurujī. You could make a temple also for you, but that will not be valid. Someone else has to create such a holy place. Is there something that makes everyone, how to say, believing that? Yes, it is like that. Besides this, that is the glory and tapasyā of our beloved Sadgurudev Svāmī Madhavānandajī, Holy Gurujī, that he brought the Ālagpurījī there. Not that Alagpurījī brought the Holy Gurujī to the Himalayas, but he brought from the Himalayas to the desert in Khaṭṭū the Holy Gurujī. It is his tapasyā, his attraction—meaning the attraction of his tapasyā, his bhakti devotion, his faithfulness, his ātmā, jīvātmā, all the times through his mantra. And now we have there the seat of Alakpurījī. It is something great. So tapasyā means to remain faithful to your decision, your sādhanā, your spiritualities—not only when you feel troubles and unhappiness, then you run to God, and when everything is okay, then you just forget. Equally, when we have problems, then God is within us. And when we are happy and everything, then He is just beside us. So don’t neglect; He is there. We should learn to say no to all negative qualities within us. Negative and positive are in us. Happiness and unhappiness are in us. Concentration or no concentration is with us. Light or darkness is within us. Sorrow or happiness is within us. Love or hate is within us. God has given us all, and both options: uttāna and patana. So uttāna is development, achievement. Patana is falling down, destroying, going back to the other life. So only we can do ourselves to achieve. Others can, yes, inspire us, give some support verbally, or if you have blessings and energy, you give the blessings. But finally, it is you who have to walk to that fountain where you can quench your thirst, where you can get the water. You have to walk there. That water fountain will not come to you. That’s it. So everything is within us. Be happy with this. And if there is weakness, then pray for that energy. There is no one who will come and hold your hand as you get up one time, two times, three times, okay? But you cannot always be, in 24 hours, in every situation, when what is happening? So we have one strong will. And a strong energy and great thing within us is our mantra. This mantra will definitely support us to continue our tapasyā, meaning our sādhanā. So the mind: it is in our mind: man lobhī, man lālacī, man cañcal, man chor. Man lobhī means greedy. So when we come to the hotel and they say, "Where is Lobhī?" Yeah? So the Lobhī is there where they get money and everything. That’s a good name; it’s Lobhī. So man lobhī, man lālacī. Lālacī means desirous of siddhis, something different: greed, and more than greed. The words I don’t know: lālacī. Lālacī is like this: for example, you eat ice cream with a spoon, yeah, and then again you lick the spoon again more. That’s a lālacī. Or something is ice cream on your finger, and you lick it. That’s called lālacī. Man lālacī, man lobhī, man lālacī, man cañcal. Cañcal means restless, very restless, like a fish in the water. And mind is the thief. Mind is the thief. He is stealing everything. Don’t follow your mind. Why? Because every hour or every second, the mind has different decisions. And then you are completely confused, and you are completely out of your concentration or attention. Mind is difficult to control because we can’t touch the mind. We had a talk in Jādan Ashram. One day, suddenly, Mr. Gulābjī Kothārī came—you know him. So he came to Jādan and said, "Mind is like a reflection, your own picture in the mirror." So you cannot correct your picture in the mirror. You can’t catch it, or in the water reflection, you can’t catch that reflection. In the mirror, if you have some spot, don’t try to clean the mirror, but you have to clean the reality. And so, this is the man lobhī, man lālacī, man cañcal, man chor. Man ke mātenā chālye, gāḍī pālak, manor. Therefore, we have to go above this mind. Then we come to that jīvātmā and ātmā, and further. So tapasyā—there are many, many places in the world where great holy saints were there, full of dayā, or mercy, full of austerities, many, many things. So that became such a beautiful place. When you just enter this spot, it is something of divine energies. Of course, Jādan is the place where the Holy Gurujī’s mortal body is. There is a difference, and we are preparing now for the opening ceremonies. You have worked very hard. You have worked for decades; it has already been three decades. This tree is growing, and now fruits are coming. We must—it is also selfish, but it is a good one—we should enjoy our fruits. This opening is not just for one day or one hour. You know, when your Svāmījī is going to do something, then it’s on until the end. So we are opening the Śiva temple, and I would like to invite the Śaṅkarācāryas. That inauguration will be from them. Also, there will be yajñas, and some politicians also. But many sādhus and many people; there will be a ten-day festival. Ten days. And unlimited people will come, and everyone will eat. There will be drinking water. There will be resting. There will be a playground for children. There will also be what you call the need when there is about one day coming for thousands of people: we need bathrooms, toilets for them. Some will sleep, some will rest, some will eat. There will be at least 100 volunteers, including yourself. Yeah, that will be something. It’s a life. Live life, okay? When you die, we don’t know where it will go. The dust, if it burns, is gone somewhere, or under the earth, what happens? Kabīr Dās said in one poem: the earth is the clay from which we make the pots. So the potter is squishing this earth and preparing. So this clay tells this potter, "What are you torturing me?" He is torturing very much. "What are you torturing me? One day will come that I will torture you in me." Yes, it means we will be in the earth, and earth will squish us again. So this is that. One day, who knows where it is gone, but that will remain. Your presence will remain forever, there, everywhere. So anyhow, that was like so. Don’t change your flats always. If you change flats, then it’s not so good because you have responsibility with the many flats. You leave your spirituality in every flat, and now who will take care there? That’s it. So when you change your flat, then you have to have some disciple there to take care of that flat even when you are not there anymore, and that’s your responsibility. So your soul will all the time wonder that nobody is looking after my energy. Yes, that situation of life is very human, because the human is different than other animals. But even animals follow their path. We have the highway, beautiful highway, going over the bridge or under the bridge, but these animals, the wildlife, always have the same way to cross there or follow their path, their ancestors. How is it possible that they are following? Because they know; they feel. Or the river, the water, how it’s flowing—that is so. Water also has that consciousness, and that’s why we call it bodha jīva, yeah? Water is life. Now they declared, rather, they sent one article: they sent that holy Gaṅgā is a living being. It is not water; it is like a human is living. And they explained and declared by the Supreme Court. So it’s not only the river Gaṅgā, but you know, Gaṅgā came from Brahma Loka as a human. But not only are we saying that; what is that? We call water is life, and life is... water? That’s it. If we are aware about this, everything in... and when you will develop spiritually, then you will see everything. That’s life. Morning, when you get up and come to the bathroom, the first time, just you open your water and touching your hands, how beautiful it is, how good the feeling is. And you just put it on your face. It’s like a little baby crying, and the mother takes the baby in her hands. Similarly, or when you are very tired and sweating, and you come in, go in the bathroom, and say, "Ah, I’m newborn." Who was that? That was the water mother, water life, water. Similarly, air, that oxygen—all five elements God gave us free. Take it. God gave us free happiness, joy, love, harmony, peace. Everything God gave us free; it doesn’t cost any money. Why don’t you be happy? Be happy. Happiness and unhappiness are in you. Don’t blame others. That’s it. So today is finished. It was about a spot of the tapasyā where a saint—it doesn’t matter, male or female—who stayed and made the spiritual sādhanā; that becomes a holy place. But don’t always change your desires and this and that. It’s not easy to become holy. We are on the way, you know. We are still not like this. We are so flexible, breakable, like they call in Austria "solity," you know? It just means to make life broken, that’s it. So we are not solid; that’s why "solity," that’s it. Therefore, it takes time. Someone said, "So many years I am here in Jādan, or in ashram, make so much sevā, still have no experiences." What experiences do you want? Thanks to God that you know some experiences, and there are many enough. The many experiences—don’t expect these miracles. Miracles happen every second, but you don’t know. The biggest miracle is that you are life. And the second miracle is that you can repeat your mantras and you keep the light on in your lotus of the heart. Śrīdīp Nayan Bhagavān kī, Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma kī. Om.