Swamiji TV

Other links



Video details

Trust your Gurudev

A spiritual discourse on the influence of the moon and the supreme protection of the Guru.

"The moon has one of the strongest influences on our planet. Not only for the humans, but the trees, the animals, even the ocean."

"The highest is the guru tattva... the greatest power, the protection, is that what we call the bulletproof jacket. And that bulletproof jacket is Guru Kṛpā, protection."

The speaker delivers an evening satsang, beginning with the astrological and physical influence of the moon, particularly around Guru Pūrṇimā. Using analogies from air travel and oceanography, he transitions to the core theme: that the grace and protection of a true Guru surpass all planetary influences and astrological fears. He shares stories and teachings emphasizing that genuine spiritual progress requires personal effort and devotion, not reliance on external rituals or superstitions, and concludes with a prayer.

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Jai Rām, Jai Jai Rām, Śrī Rām Jai Rām, Jai Jai Rām, Śrī Rām Jai Rām, Jai Jai Rām, Śrī Rām Jai Rām, Jai Jai Rām, Śrī Rām Jai Rām, Jai Jai Rām, Śrī Rām Jai Rām, Jai Jai Rām, Śrī Rām Jai. Until Guru Pūrṇimā, there is a great influence. The moon has a very significant influence on our earth. Guru Pūrṇimā is the first Pūrṇimā to this Pūrṇimā and the next Pūrṇimā to this Pūrṇimā. This influence lasts as long as Guru Pūrṇimā is in effect. That is why the month of Śrāvaṇa is the month of Bhagavān Śiva. In the month of Śrāvaṇa, when you go to the temple to see Lord Śiva, go and offer water, or go and say "Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya" five times; then you will be blessed. But the one who is attached to Śiva, Śiva says, "I do good for everyone. Whether you go there or not, the light of the sun will remain in place, the light of the moon will remain in place." So Śiva is bliss. Śiva says, "I am the beginning, I am the creation, I am the light, I am Viṣṇu, I am the salvation, and I am not the God, I am the God of the Gods." Bhagavān Śiva says, similarly, the influence of the moon on our earth is very important. The moon, which is decreasing and increasing, has a special effect on the earth. Recently, scientists declared the influence of the moon on the earth. It is that the moon is like a needle which is balancing the earth. Otherwise, the earth would turn upside down; the earth would be destroyed. Consider an aeroplane, a big aeroplane with big wings. But on the top of the aeroplane, it is small like a fish, and it has a little heel. An aeroplane can go at a speed of 1,000 kmph in an hour, otherwise it generally goes at 980 kmph. I have flown over the three big oceans: the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, and the biggest, the Indian Ocean. The Indian Ocean is the biggest one. I say this because I have crossed it many times, 45 times. It took 11 hours, 13 hours, 12 hours, and 35 minutes to fly. The flight of that aircraft was sometimes more than 1,000 km, 20 km, 1,020 km, or 980 km in an hour. That aircraft runs, flies, and we are sitting on it; we don't know. It doesn't affect us because our blood and our moving body catch that speed. If it stopped suddenly, then everything would be like a mosquito bite. You wouldn't even know for a second. But God doesn't do that. If another aircraft comes in front, it has a radar. So, if an aircraft is coming from a distance of 300 km, it automatically adjusts so that they do not come together. Even if the aircraft comes from the side, one goes up and the other goes down, and that too at a distance of 10 to 20 kilometers. Secondly, sometimes there is turbulence in the air. It is like a Rajasthan truck running on a broken road, like a truck on a very bad road where there is a lot of damage. The truck or bus jumps like a speed breaker. Sometimes, I would say to Mahāprabhujī, Abhidham Mahāprabhujī, Devpurījī Bābājī, "You be here." People would hold the chair and sit. I would say, "Hold the chair, don't let go. If you fall, everything will go away." There is a seatbelt, but the pilot would know 100 kilometers before that there are holes in the air. When the wind blows, it doesn't come back; it comes from the top or the bottom. So when the wind blows, it makes a sound. At that time, all the pilots sit with their belts tied and announce. The glass of water that we were drinking from the lake, that glass also goes down. No one can get up. No one should get up. The instruction is to sit down, but the aircraft keeps moving. The speed is the same, 1000 km. Sometimes it is said, "Don't give me so much water; the whole night I will run like an aeroplane." What I mean to say is, what kind of instruments did the human brain make? Even then, there is a lot of life here. I say, Babājī, one ocean is at least 20 km deep. It will be more than that. He says, "Babājī, it will take eight hours. No one will be able to get out of it." Some aliens go inside, and then they are not found. But more people die on the road than in an airplane. As many people die on the road, on the ground road, and with a little accident at home and in the bathroom. You apply marble. So Satish said to Yogesh, "You apply marble well." So first his leg was broken. He is applying it to break everyone's leg. I told Yogesh, "Please don't put this, but what can I do?" That is why Satish got his first education. So, how many accidents do we have on the ground? That many are not in the air. Yes or no? How many people die from their own mistakes on scooters, cycles, cars? That many, they don't die from the bite of the snake. Kitane vyakti marte hai? Thodi si galti se. Okay, chalo. It was a different subject today to tell about the moon. That's it. Let's go ahead. I was talking about the three oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean. The Indian Ocean is touching the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific, and it goes all the way to Australia, Western Australia, when you come to... where, where... Perth. When I come to Perth, I see the Indian Ocean. My hotel is there. From the shore of the sea, I go to Bhaktisāgar. I first go there and pay my respects to the Indian Ocean. Big, my God. And the beach is very big, a white sand beach. But you cannot go swimming 20 meters out. You never know how big a white shark comes. Go to sleep, son. Did you eat sweets? You didn't eat? Then go. We will send more in the morning. Didn't you say the mantra? Didn't you join your hands in prayer? Didn't you do Pradhān? Guru Devo Maheśvara, Guru Śākṣāt Parabrahma, Tasmai Śrī Gurave Namaḥ. Dhyānamūlaṁ Guru Mūrtiḥ, Pūjāmūlaṁ Guru Padam, Mantramūlaṁ Guru Vākyaṁ, Mokṣamūlaṁ Guru Kṛpā. Oṁ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ,... Śubha Rātri, Jyāvata. So, Guru Pūrṇimā, the moon. The moon has one of the strongest influences on our planet. Not only for the humans, but the trees, the animals, even the ocean. On the dark moon night, the whole ocean, till the bottom of the ocean, mostly the bottom of the ocean, is very peaceful. The waves on the ocean are only on the surface. The bottom is very peaceful, but it is the moon which can move the ocean. And so, mostly on the full moon day, there are high waves. It is changing, as the moon is changing. It is what we call the ocean inhaling. The ocean inhales once every 24 hours. So, on Guru Pūrṇimā, especially in this constellation where Śiva is—Śiva Śakti—Śiva Śakti means the energy, the strength, the manifestation, the light of the Śiva principle. It is not like a body. You can't see that. But it has, in the entire universe, an effect and influence on humans. Now, the planets. So, there are eight planets. According to astrology, India is not Earth. Earth is not a planet. We call it the living planet. We call it the blue planet. But we don't call it a planet, because Earth is much bigger than any other planet. So that has to be called the earth, the mother. That's it. On the earth, there is a manifestation of the creatures. It doesn't matter how many scientists will go and search to find on any planet like this living planet. That there is vegetation, there are some humans, some kind of creatures, maybe not exactly human, but maybe they are eating each other, and some kind of, but no, like that. Pañca Dhātu, Pañca Bhūta, Pañca Tattva: space, earth, water, fire, and air. All this together is manifesting here through that Śiva's power, Śakti, light on this earth. Well, from these five tattvas, there is a guru tattva. The highest is the guru tattva. Now, it means not that guru. Like we all, yeah, you may believe you think that you are a guru, but not. Yeah, well, there are gurus, but mostly kangaroos, but they are still living. They, even they, don't move; they don't go. But their radiance, their blessings, their light is everywhere there. But humans have blind belief and fear. Humans have more fear than any animal. Therefore, once, Bhairavaḍī Gurujī was a very good astrologer. My family, all of us, we are astrologers. We are psychologically infected from this. But when the Gurujī was speaking about astrology, then Guru Mahāprabhujī said it is okay to know if today is this day or that day, or the moon is half, or that counting. But that kind of belief in astrology, that you have this constellation and you have that constellation and these constellations, that is not proved. And therefore, Mahāprabhujī said, because Gurujī was sitting and asking often to Mahāprabhujī and saying, "Okay, now make Vṛk, Mithun, Kark, Siṁh, Kanyā, Tulā, Vṛścik, Dhanu, Makar, everything." So Gurujī said, "Yes, you can give the name to your every finger." Like you are giving the moon, and Jupiter, and etc. This and that, but why not? They are stones. Hanging, and in that gravity, hanging here and there, and they have to move, otherwise it will sink. So Gurujī said, "Bana bada gurudev kā," the highest, the greatest power, the protection, is that what we call the bulletproof jacket. And that bulletproof jacket is Guru Kṛpā, protection, Gurudev kī, Gurudev kī rakṣā. Rakṣā, jacket, kvaj. Rakṣā, kvaj. So, bana bada Gurudev kā, when you have surrendered and got a blessing from the Gurudev, that time, that blessing of the Gurudev means Gurudev has given round your whole five bodies, five tattvas: physical, mental, intellectual, emotional, these all five. Bodies are sealed with that, untouchable by any weapon. Neither fire can burn, nor any weapons can kill. You are that Amarā Ātmā. Chidānandave vahiyātmāsa Chidānandave śivo'ham śivo'ham, śivo'ham, śivo'ham. Jise śastra kāṭe na agni jalāve, jise śastra kāṭe na agni bujhāve, na pānī na mṛtyu mita. Bujhave na pānī na mṛtyu mita vahiyātmāsa cidānandam evamara-ātmāsa cidānandam evoham. So that time, when you get the initiation with that kind of devotion, confidence, certainty, real belief, no doubts. If there are doubts, then your bullet jacket is very fragile. Means from that kind of blind belief, black belief, then anyone can influence you. You have this constellation, and now this constellation. You are in that house, you are there. You have to do this. You are born like this. Your son is on that way, your mother is that. That is psychologically, psychologically creating the fear. So Gurujī was always saying now, we are also saying now, viśvagraha se jānā hai, śubha yogadhya, niṣaṅga yogadhya, sabha yogadhya, you know, 12 hours, days, 12 hours, nights. So, one day Gurujī said to Mahāprabhujī, "Now I have to go, because this is a…" Mahāprabhujī said, "Sit down." So, Holī Gurujī said, "But a train will come this time and go." Mahāprabhujī said, "I tell you, sit down. Okay." Mahāprabhujī said, "Does a train every day look into the Jyotiṣ?" By the time I should go, then the whole of India, not only that, but the whole world will be completely confused. Confused. That's why the Indian is going late. But the train is going. The train doesn't remain. Even the train does not stop on the rail crossing. At the railway crossing, that is. So Mahāprabhujī said, "You are Amarātmā." Everyone is Amarātmā. Where to? And then Gurujī was talking, and Amāprabhujī. And Gurujī was sitting. Inwardly, Gurujī said, "I can go tomorrow. Now I will not go." But after that, when it was Mahāprabhujī, he said, "Now you can go to your train." So Mahāprabhujī, what do you think? From the Dhuna, from Kacharaj to the Chhote Khattu was the railway station. Now it is rickshaws and everything. That day, the train was seven hours late. Gurujī told him, "Now you can go." So five minutes before he came, the train was there and gone. From that day, Gurujī said, "Yes, the Guru Vakya, that is a reality, but not these constellations, what you are looking for." Therefore, then Mahāprabhujī said, "The protection, the blessings of the Gurudev, that is the greatest, the highest. Listen, O Mādhavānandjī." Graha, the constellations, the graha, Jupiters, and what they call the Rāhu and Ketu, and this, whatnot. Vāṇā vada gurudev kā, śrīlo mādhvānanda, graha, gosara, graha, and all the other constellations are just nothing for you. Graha gosara vyāpe nai mīte kāl kā phand. Even the death, the Kāla, will not face you. It will run away from you. That is the way they can trust and believe in the Gurudev. These are the two poems which Mahāprabhujī spoke from his own tongue. That one, yantra, yantras, you know, we are making these yantras and this hocus pocus with one line like this and like that, yes, yantra, mantra, those kinds of mantras, now you have to have Śani, Śani... That you can say that cobra is going, "Śani, Śani." So this small, small planet, not on the surface, that will not attack you. If then you have bad karmas, if then you have fear in the inside, so much fear comes. So with fear, with this fear, some people gave this to those who are afraid. People put stone if you are. Pouring oil on a person, it is better to give it to a poor person so that he can cook well. Ramdev ji once said that there is a hole in the ground. If there is a hole in the ground, the oil should be poured. But there is a hold for humans to feel something. Someone said that this is a psychology. So, vāna vāda gurudev kā suno madhvānand, graha gosra vyāpāya nahīṃ mīṭe kāla kā phāṇṭa. Jantra mantra, jādu ṭonā, jādu, you know jādu? Hand, what you call the hand? Magic. Jāḍū ṭonā, and also gives you something to tie on your hand, tie on your fingers, something put on your hand, house there. This is psychologically, psychologically, usse jyādā se jyādā fear hogā, itnā din. Aur uske baad mein Gurujī ne kahā. Gurujī made one very nice poem, aur wo Gurujī ne kahā, "Kheti, prīti, prathānā. If you want to have good crops," Then you should personally look after your farm. Personally, look how your grains, corns, vegetables, fruit gardens, etc., etc., are. Like our Pushpa, you don't know how hard she is really working and how beautiful the garden is. You like Shanti, yes, I know you like Swamiji very much. I said, "How great the garden work is, yes, yes, that's it." Everybody looks at it, and it is good, and it is useful. Otherwise, we were giving thousands of liters of water only for the grass and then cutting it, and it looks a little bit better for the eyes as a nice meadow. But now it is something useful and different, different kinds of flowers, plants, vegetables, fruits, etc., etc., colorful. So, khetī, the doing your crops. Kheti Prithi. Prithī means love. Prithi means marriage. So, one man was in America, a young man. And he wanted to marry in India, and the aeroplane was not there. It comes every once a week by flight. But the marriage constellation was five days before. He can't come, so Panditji said, "Don't worry." Some other man can sit and hold hands and make the wedding after. He will come and take her home. So it's not like, go and eat your food and go home. But if I come and take it home, I won't go home. So, without yourself, what do you call someone else there? What do you call them, chawrī? Chawrī? Sāth pherā. Saat phera. Your husband will go with you, right? No one else will go. If someone dies, then everyone goes to the crematorium, but you don't have to go with him. So kheti prīti, if you want to love, then you have to do that personally. Don't borrow your wife. Here is khetī, prīti, prathānā. Don't say, "Gurujī, please pray for me," or "Panditjī, please pray for me." Panditjī says, "I will do your Gragh Ghosar. Give me this much money. I will do this much mantra. I will do this much for you. I will do this much for the other one. ... If we do this much, then sometimes the poor Paṇḍitjī gets so much Gragh Ghosar on him, but it is psychological. It has some psychological effect, but it doesn't go away. Khetī, Prītī, Prārthanā. So if you want to achieve your spiritual power, if you want to reach your spiritualities, everything, then you have to do your service. You should pray. Of course, we are asking Gurujī, "Please, Gurujī, bless me. Please pray for me." That means, give the blessings. So yes, definitely it will be, but there are millions. So, do you think that whole night I am thinking about this one, and then this one, and then this one? My God, I will be torn into the millions of cells of my body. But when the message comes, you are in that aura, in that light. It means, think on Gurudev, think on your mantra. That is a prayer. Kheti, priti, prathana, poot, trai, khujaal. When itching on your back, then you ask somebody, "Please, can you scratch a little bit here, a little up, a little to the left side, a little down." So you can tell left, right, up, down, but still you say, "No, okay, something there." But our own hand will immediately go there, or here, or where it is. That's it. O human, O people, O animals, if you want to have the happiness, the joy, the fulfillment, then do it yourself. Don't leave it for others. Don't depend on your servant or your workers. If you leave it on someone, one hundred thousand percent sure, it will not be like that. How you want it will not be how, time, where you... We can achieve, therefore, do it yourself. What? Do it yourself. Don't depend on anyone, similarly so. Therefore, don't depend on this totkā. We call it totkā. Totkā means just a hocus-pocus. Okay? Sometimes children in Austria have a very nice mantra for when they have big pain. They say, "Mother, mother, I feel this fear." Then they have very nice mantras. Can you tell us something? Mantra? No, no,... no,... no. But reality is different. Therefore, when you trust, when you believe in Guru, Kripa, Mahāprabhujī's, Devapurījī's, Alagpurījī's, Gurujī's, mine, it doesn't matter. You don't worry. Perhaps after, but then you don't need to search for any kind of astrological fear. If someone is doing it for the business, okay. But it is said, one itself is suffering. One self is suffering. So there is one story Gurujī used to say, that one man came to read the holy book, Kathā. So the king said, "What will happen when you will read the holy book for nine days?" He said, "Āpkā mokṣa ho jāyegā," you will be liberated. So the king said, "Very good. In nine days I will be liberated." So Paṇḍājī was reading the holy book. After nine days, Paṇḍājī came and said, "King, my kathā is finished, and I am going. If you want to give any..." Lakshmi, my kingdom, I don't want that someone do this hocus-pocus. What? Kyā? Kyā yeh bāt hai? So Mahārājī, the sādhu, the Gurujī said, "Do you want the answer practical or theoretical?" Practical. Then, King, please don't try to be angry. Bring two ropes, and I will tie you to this pillar, and I will tie the Paṇḍit to that pillar. The king said to Gurudev, "Whatever you want, if my doubts and my suffering, and this Paṇḍit is liberated." So Gurujī ordered the soldiers, the bodyguards of the king, to tie him to the pillar. And call the Paṇḍitjī, also tie it in the other pillar. King said, "Gurujī said, 'King, you are the king, you are the mighty, you are strong.'" Please, can you untie that king or the Paṇḍitjī? Can you free him? Please go. The king said, "I myself am bound." It. How can I liberate others? First, someone should liberate me. Okay. Paṇḍitjī, you have a Katha whole life. You had all your power and your holy books. Please, can you free the king? He said, Gurujī, my self is in bondage. Gurujī said to the guards, "Please liberate both of them." Similarly, Mahātma Gurujī said to the king, "King, without your sādhanā, without your practice, you cannot be liberated." You need Guru Kṛpāhi, Kevalavu, blessing. But this is his profession, this Paṇḍit is doing his kathā, right, it is better than some stealing or something. So give him something and let him go. Panditjī said, "Gurudev, my whole life I will be thankful to you." Gurujī said, "Not whole life, all the lives. I liberate you, and you will liberate." So there are certain things which we call blind belief. But at the same time, this has the spiritual injections, psychological injections, that people hold themselves, that now I have no problems, or something like that. But only thy prayer, thy mantra, and the bhakti, guru bhakti, that will lead us and liberate us. Otherwise, you can do many āsanas, you can do many prāṇāyāms, you can do many kuṇḍalinīs, nothing is there. All kuṇḍalinīs, kuṇḍ, puṇḍ, are finished. But if you have sādhanā, and Gurudev tells you how to do the sādhanās, then something develops in the brain. Everything is, all the centers are in the brain. But if you do wrong, and you feel some kind of vibration and shaking of your body, then you must go to the hospital as soon as possible. So that doctor can give you something to calm down and give you some therapy, what we call the psychic, psychologist should come to you. Therefore, Namah Śivāya, Om Namah Śivāya, Om... Namah Śivāya. Śaṅkar Bhagavān kī, therefore āyā so to jāyegā, rājā raṅkā fakīr. Who came will go, even maybe it is a king or a fakīr or a poor. Banā so to bikḥregā hī. What is made, constructed, one day will be destroyed, maybe 20,000 years, maybe 100,000 years. Or maybe a few centuries, ages. But finally, there is the limitation. That's it. So we shall be sure. We will be ill. We will have pain in the body. Like in the car, you have new tires, but after a few years or some months, the tires will also get old. Or any engines, any technology, the mechanicals will become old. Similarly, our body, our knees will be painful. This small child can jump from here to there, and we also were jumping from here to there up, but now you can jump also, but twice only. You can jump from here when we were small. Children, we used to jump and climb back up. Even now we can jump from here, not once, but twice. And that is the first time now and the last time. That is why our knees, our muscles, the knees in our body, the heart, they will go one day. It will go one day. How long will you keep your body? But if you can live and eat good, some years you will live peacefully. But one day you have to go. You have to give back to the Bhagavān. Vāpas denā padegā. That much. All the best. And next will be tomorrow. If we have webcast, Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva. Satguru Swāmī Madhavānandajī.

This text is transcribed and grammar corrected by AI. If in doubt what was actually said in the recording, use the transcript to double click the desired cue. This will position the recording in most cases just before the sentence is uttered.

The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

Email Notifications

You are welcome to subscribe to the Swamiji.tv Live Webcast announcements.

Contact Us

If you have any comments or technical problems with swamiji.tv website, please send us an email.

Download App

YouTube Channel