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Ganesha

Today is the incarnation of Bhagavān Śrī Gaṇeśa. Gaṇeśa is the first God to be worshipped. He is like Bholenāth, fulfilling wishes. Gaṇeśa should not be taken merely as a physical form; it has many meanings. He is the foundation, balancing everything, called Mūlādhāra. The elephant symbolizes the seven trunks representing the seven essential bodily minerals, the saptadhātu. This is a balancing principle, not just a story for children. Ancient miracles, like cloning in Śiva's time, are beyond modern science. Gaṇeśa is the god of all Gaṇas. He is half animal and half deva. He wrote the Vedas telepathically for Vyāsa. Physical forms and statues are crucial so we do not forget; culture survives through saṃskāras. Therefore, Gaṇeśa should be remembered first in prayer.

"Obey, obey, obey your Guru, then you will be successful."

"One in all, all in one."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Gajānand Bhagavān kī jai, Satguru Dev kī jai, Bholenāth Bhagavān kī jai, Tripure Māt kī jai, Devādhi Dev, Deveśwar Mahādev kī jai, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī jai, Śrī Madhavānanjī Bhagavān kī jai, Viśvapūjya Paramansa Mahāmaṇḍaleśwar Svāmī Śrī Maheśvarānjī Purī Gurudev kī jai. Mangalamūrati Gaṇapati Deva, Mangalamūrati Gaṇapati Deva. Ṛddhi Siddhi Nānātha Gaṇapati Vela Pādarjo, Ṛddhi Siddhi Nānātha Gaṇapati Vela Pādarjo. Mangalamūrati Gaṇapati Deva, Āśīrvāda Toraṇa Bandhavyā. Motida Kera Chokha Pura Phulda Vehravyasaari Vaat Ganpati Vaila Padharjo Pujan ni thali ma sagdu tayyar che Patlebe Sone Mara Nath Ganpati Vailaapadha. Patlebe Sado Māra Nāth Gaṇapati Vailāpādha Maṅgalamūrati Gaṇapati Deva... Arre Hrithi, Hrithi, Siddhi, Nanath, Ganapati, Vela, Padharjo, Abhir Gulal Ne Sindur Chadhavu, Pooja Svikaru, Mara Nath Ganpati Vailapadarjo... Mangalamūrati Gaṇapati Deva, Mangalamūrati Gaṇapati Deva. Arre, Ṛddhi Siddhi Nānātha Gaṇapati Vailapadarjo... Bhakt mandal nī vinti svīkār jo, Bhakt mandal nī svīkār jo. Āv jo, āj ne āj Gaṇapati vela padhar jo. Āv jo, āj ne āj Gaṇapati vela padhar jo. Maṅgalamūrati Gaṇapati, Devapati Dev Rithi Siddhi Nāth Gaṇapati Vailapadarjo... Mangalamūrati Gaṇapati Devapati Devapati Dev Gaṇapati Gajānand Bhagavān kī jai, Satguru Dev kī jai. Ek vār āvo Gurudev, Gurudev mārī jo padīye... Māri jo paḍīye wālā māre mandarīye, māri jo paḍīye wālā māre mandarīye. Rakhwā wālā nī lāj, guru āvu. Māri jo paḍīye rakhwā wālā nī lāj, guru āvu. Gurudev, māri jo paḍīye, ek vār āvo Gurudev. Sonā chāndī nā thī prabhu, vasanā. Mātī na sadā che sāj, Guru āv mārī jo paḍhye. Āsopalav na toran bandhavyā, Motīdā kerā chokh pūrayā. Guladā vehravu sārī vāt, Guru āvo mārī jo paḍhye. Ek vār āvo Gurudev, Gurudev mārī jo paḍhye. Chappan bhoga nāthī, svād na bharēlā, Rām vā nērā badīn chānch. Gurū āvo mārī jho pāḍhye, ēk vār āvo Gurudev, Gurudev mārī jho pāḍhye. Tulsī nā kāj nāthī hē man hīndōnā, Bhāīs vach sādhāḍī nē tath Gurū āvo mārī jho pāḍhye. Ek vaar aavo, Guru aavo, maari jo padhye. Ācamana karavu, Gurudev, Gurudev, maari jho padiye. Ācamana karavu, Gurudev. Gurudev, māri jo padīye, ek vār āvo Gurudev... Gurudev, lavang supari paan na beedla, lavang supari paan na bidh la mukhwas karavu, Gurudev. mukhwas kar aavu, Gurudev. Gurudev, maari jo padhye, ek var aavo, Gurudev. Gurudev, maari jo padhye. Kaal kero vayadho kaam nahi aave, kaayadho kaam nahi aave. Aav jo aaj ne aaj, Gurudev maari jo padhi. Gurudev ne jo gam tu jo hoy to, Gurudev ne jo gam tu jo hoy to. Aav jo garib ne gher, Gurudev maari jo padiye, aav jo garib ne gher. Gurudev, māri jo paḍiye, ek vār āvo. Gurudev, māri jo paḍiye, māri jo paḍiye, māri jo paḍiye. Ek vār āvo, Gurudev. Gurudev, māri jo paḍhiye... Sat Gurudev Kī Jai. Listen to what Mīrā has to say. Meera bhai, put the snake on it. It’s Meera bhai, not Meera bhai. It’s Meera bhai’s song. Tulsi means that I don’t have in my ashram the plant of the tulsi. I don’t have the golden āsana, I give you only this one kakuśa grass. How are you, everybody? Today is the incarnation of Bhagavān Śrī Gaṇeśa Jī. And you know that I told you a few days ago that Gaṇeśa is the first God to be worshipped. And He is like a Bholenāth. We call Śiva Bholenāth. With a little request, Śivjī will fulfill our wish. Similarly, there is also Gaṇeśjī. So today I was visiting Gaṇeśjī. And Gaṇeśjī welcomed me. I went to congratulate him. I gave him flowers, fruits, everything. And he made me Tilak and gave me the Prasad. And we had a nice talk. How was Gaṇeśa’s journey on this Earth? And he said it was very good. I am here. Gaṇeśa said to me, "I will need you," so I said, "I am ready to be in your service." So then we had a nice dhūni and offered something inside, mantras. Then Gaṇeśa said, "Now is my time for breakfast." So it was 108 laddus. So he got two plates full of the laddus. It took time, about 15 minutes. He could manage to swallow everything. Then he gave prasad, not laddus, laddus he ate, but some prasad. So, you see, Gaṇeśa we should not take as a form or a physical. It has many, many meanings. Ganesh has many, many names. One of the swamis, a good, very great swami, His name was Swami Subrahmanyam Jaya. He had a beautiful, big ashram, I think three times bigger than this one in Sri Lanka. And a beautiful creek is flowing between the rivers. And rocks in Fiji. Hawaii, sorry. Kaua’i. And it is a monastery, a Hindu monastery. I don’t want to tell you details. There is also a beautiful, like these big Rudrākṣa trees. Well, he wrote one book, very thick, about a few hundred pages. And that is called Loving Gaṇeśa. We love Gaṇeśa and Gaṇeśa loves us. And there are many names of Gaṇeśa, many aspects of Gaṇeśjī. One should read this book. Then there is also Dancing with the Śiva. That’s also some hundreds of pages, and many, many books are printed there. There, in his monastery, there are a few sannyāsīs, there are students, then the brahmacārī sannyāsīs who will get sannyās, and then they get the sannyās dīkṣā. It’s a very big, about around nearly one meter high, crystal śivaliṅga. He was very kind to everybody, but he was a little bit kind to me. Now he loves me very much. He came to our Vienna ashram, and he gave the lecture in the ashram also. Then he spoke about the Guru Principle, and he said three words at the end of the lecture: "Obey, obey, obey your Guru, then you will be successful." Since that time, my Viennese disciples try to obey me. So, and his successor is also a very kind, very humble person. So, Gaṇeśjī has many, many meanings. And Gaṇeśjī is the foundation of the earth. He is balancing everything, and Ganeshji is called Mūlādhāra. So not this kind of Mūlādhāra, like Mūlādhāra chakra, but he is there too. But there is also an elephant with seven trunks. In Mūlādhāra, there is an elephant with seven trunks. Gaṇeśjī is the symbol of the elephant. And elephant means one of the mighty creatures, animals. To see Ganesha’s elephant is great luck. Śabda dhātu. There are seven minerals which are very important for our body. There are seven minerals which are very important for our body. And so the seven trunks of the elephant means the seven dhātu, saptadhātu. And so, this we call the roots, the seven trunks. And that is a balancing principle of Gaṇeśa. So it’s not only like you think, oh, it’s a story only, that Śiva took a head up, and this is a fairy tale. This is only a story for children and for people who don’t know, and they have more interest in how it was, and how it was. About 25 years ago, I think, already in England they were making experiments where they put the head again from the animals, cloning, and in the whole world in the science magazines. And one sadhu, he wrote in the magazine, "Don’t be proud, British people, scientists." This cloning science was already in Śiva’s time when Gaṇeśa was not there. So there are certain stories. Again, there is cloning, giving life, or giving something different. So also the heart, give the heart in, like Hanumanjī, he just opened. Or what a time of Jesus, that his holy heart. So these miracles were happening every time. Our science doesn’t believe that is their problem. And this science will fail, but not that ancient holy saints. So, gaṇ is a different word, different things. So, you know what is a gaṇ? Gaṇ kisko kehte hai? Gaṇ kisko kehte hai?... Bhagvān Śiv ke ghan hai, Śiv ke bhaktas, so they call nowadays semi-god, devtā, to kiska ghan konā hai? According to the, oh, he should sing the bhajan, I didn’t want, should I? Okay, he should sing bhajan, no? Which horoscope do you have? Are you a lion or a scorpion? Etc. Now, to this race, that’s called your horoscope. Now, what is your guṇa? To the lion, a scorpion, etc. So, this, everyone, you have your gun. And if you don’t know your goal, you are lost. You don’t know anything about you. Of course, astrologers will say, when you don’t know information about yourself, so these are the horoscopes. So we should know, it is within us. For example, it is said in the Khaṇḍa, this is ten millions. One crore is ten millions. And that ten million divine guṇas are in the body of the cow. And that’s a great sin if you are slaughtering a cow or eating cow meat. Everything is positive in the cow, but if you consume the meat, cow meat, definitely you will have cancer. In certain parts of the body, you will have, in little form, the cancer. You don’t believe, but one day cancer will be there. That day you will remember all friends who are listening through the webcast, when in your body will develop or have a sign of the cancer. You will know that Maheśvara Nanda was telling on the TV. Well, some may be lucky it doesn’t go, but 99% sure. From the top of the head to the toes. Anyhow, this is not my subject. But this is not the topic I wanted to talk about. Gaṇeśa is God. God? So, God is this goddess. When Panditjī is saying, your house, God, the deity of your house, the deity of your field, the deity of your protection, etc., etc. When Panditjī is saying your house, your field, your family, etc. And Śiva has eleven Gaṇas. So Gaṇeśa is the god of all these Gaṇas. So Gurujī said, "One in all, all in one." Gurujī said, "One in all, all in one." So everything is reflecting in the Gaṇeśa gym because he is the son of Śiva, and that Śiva is Paśupati Mahādev. So half animal and half human. So Gaṇeśa is half animal, like an elephant, and half deva. And Gaṇeśa, who was writing the Vedas, yes, pardon, I’ve forgotten to tell you. When we are going to Ālagpurījī Siddhapīṭha, on the way, there is a cave of Bhagavān Vedavyāsa, and about 50 meters away is a cave of Gaṇeśa Jī, who was writing there. And you should have a darśan. It’s on the way. Then we are going further. So we are coming to the last village, Mana. And at the end of this, there is the last tea store in India. And of course, there is Rajasthan tea. And after that is the Gaṇeśa’s cave and Vedavyāsa. In the whole Himalayas, there is only one rock, a big rock and cave, which is like one book after another on it. You will see, like a stone slips one after the other. Besides, no rock is like this. And there was a little down you go, in a small cave where Vyāsi was sleeping. And on one side is Gaṇeśa’s cave. So, Ved Vyājī was thinking in the cave about dictating the Vedas, and it was telepathic. Gaṇeśī was in another cave, and he was writing. You know, I told you, Ved Vyājī said, "Don’t ask me again, what did you say? I will not stop talking." And don’t make even one little mistake. Ganesha said, "Yes." I agree. But Ganesha said, "I also have my conditions." He said, "What? I have my pencil." Will not stop one second. It will go continuous like this. If you stop for one or five seconds, I will not write anymore. That’s why, for years and years, the Vedas were written. What we have now in written form, the Vedas, is only a quarter. Nearly 47% was lost because the memory of the people was lost. Otherwise, it was the master to disciple, śruti and smṛti. Śruti and smṛti. Śruti, smṛti, śrotah. So these are all, there you will see and you will feel, oh yes. So, but don’t go in and look too long. We are 160 people. And they will not let you go in, nor make the photos. So you have to walk, otherwise you come to Aleppo at midnight, Regis in Vita. If you walk, you are strong enough, you can come two days back, see, and make shopping. Many good asanas you can buy there. So, it is Māra, Māra? Marathon. So, otherwise you are lost; nobody will wait for you. So, Gaṇeśjī, Īśvara, Īśvara is the Parampitā Paramātmā. Then he is one of the merciful ones. That’s why Jai Gaṇeśa, Jai Gaṇeśa,... Deva. Mata Jiski Pārvatī and Father Mahādeva. That’s a prayer. Śrī Gaṇeśa, Śrī Gaṇeśa, Śrī Kṛṣṇa Paimā. Jai Gaṇeśa, Jai Gaṇeśa,... Rakṣā Maa. Shree Ganesha, Shree Ganesha, Shree Ganesha pāyī mā. Shree Ganesha, Shree Ganesha, Shree Ganesha rakṣhmā. Shree Ganesha, Shree Ganesha, Shree Ganesha pāyī mā. Shree Ganesha, Shree Ganesha, Shree Ganesha rakṣhmā. Gajānanda bhagavāne kī. So the form, the statues, are created so that we should not forget. And therefore, Arjuna is asking about Nirguṇa and Saguṇa. And Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said both are good. But for you, easier will be Sāguṇa, with the form. I have a question. Your tenth grandfather. Do you know the name of your tenth grandfather and grandmother? Maybe someone knows. Fifth grandfather, fifth grandfather’s name, please. The fourth one, fourth grandfather, you don’t know. Don’t ask me. I am Śiva, Alakapurījī, Devapurījī, Mahāprabhujī, Holī Gurujī. And we are. So that’s why it’s a very, very important thing about two things. Akṣar Brahman. Akṣar Brahman. The alphabet is Brahman, and this form, embodiment, is very important. Otherwise, we all would have lost everything. We will walk wild like deer in the field. So that is Saṁskṛti, the culture. So where there is a human, there is a culture. And where there is culture, there is a human. And that person who goes to other countries, somehow he or she takes the culture with them. So, how is the culture influencing the people? And the culture survives through the saṃskāras. And therefore, saṃskāra is very important. And through that we remain all: my religion this, your religion this, all. My language, my folk songs, we have to keep them alive. It’s not bad. Every night, when someone sings your folk song and your dress and dance, how happy you are. Similarly, in spirituality, it is also very important. That’s it. So today is Gaṇeśjī’s divine incarnation, and he is the first God who should be remembered. Prayer when you get up, etc. Now Harī Purījī will sing bhajan. Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramahaṁsa Aishwarānandjī Gurudeva Kīj, Śrī Gaṇeśa Jī Mahārāja Kīj, Śrīdhiva Puruṣa Mahādeva Dayāla, Śrīdhiva Puruṣa Mahādeva Dayāla, Kailāśapurī meṁ rahane vālā. Shri Deva Puruṣa Bholā Bhaṇḍārī, sab kucha detā pālamē sambhu karade nihāla bhava. Deva Puruṣa Mahādeva Dayāla, Śrī Deva Puruṣa Mahādeva Dayāla, Kailāśapurī mē rahinevālā, Bābā Deva Puruṣa Mahādeva Dayāla. Dāsa-kī-fāsa-katha-de-pallamē jīvana-mukta-kāde-tatta-kālā bhava-deva-purīṣya-mahādeva-dayā Kela Sapuri me rehene wala Baba deva purīṣya mahā deva dayā. Āpā, ajunī ādi Maheśvara koṭi brahmāṇḍaṁ me akhaṇḍa ujalā bhava deva puriṣya mahā deva dayā Kailāśapurī me rahene vālā Bābā Deva Puruṣa Mahādeva Dayāla śaraṇa leve to duḥkha nahīṁ pāve. Parama Sukhī Kadā De Kripālā Bābādeva Puruṣa Mahādeva Dayālā Kailāśa Purī Me Rehne Vālā Bābā Deva Puruṣa Mahā Deva Dayālā Śrī Deva Puruṣa Namo Allā Bellā Yogī Brahmananda Bodhi Namo Allā Bellā Yogī Brahmananda Bodhi Śivakka Aṅga Raṅga Dhaṅga Nirālā. Shivakka Anga Ranga Dhanga Nirala Baba Deva Purusha Mahā Deva Dayāla, Śrī Deva Purusha Mahādeva Dayāla, Kailāśapuri meṁ rehene vālā Baba Deva Purusha Mahādeva Dayāla, Śrī Dīpa Dayāla Sarveśvara Dādā. Paya Namaka Amrita Pyala Baba Deva Purusha Mahadeva Dayala Kailasha Puri me rehene wala Siddhi Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva Dayāl, Kailāśapurī meṁ rehne vālā, Kailāśapurī meṁ rehne vālā Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva Dayāl, Siddhi Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva Dayāl, Siddhi Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva Dayāl... Śrī Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān, Śrī Alakha Puruṣa Bhagavān, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramahaṁsa Om Aiśvarya Nanājī Gurudeva, Śrī Gaṇeśa Jī Mahārāja, Jai!

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