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Welcome, all of you. Today we have a subject that you have not heard from me before. At the same time, of course, we are thinking, praying, remembering, and adoring our universally worshipped Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī. His Mahāsamādhi Day, the anniversary of Mahāprabhujī, we call Brahmalīna. Brahma is the endless universe, God. That incarnation or that yogī has realized self-realization. So we remember, we worship, Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī. There are some who come back as incarnations, Nitya Avatāra, who possess the quality of Viṣṇu, Śiva, or Brahman. And there are those who have received human life—we call them the fortunate ones, the lucky ones—in whom this Jīvātmā has come into a human body. For those born as humans, it is not so easy to attain self-realization or reach Brahman, because the lives of animals and humans are different. So first of all, we adore, we worship, we salute, we bow down to the Holy Lotus Feet of Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī. There is a reason why we remember and worship. We worship the entire being of that supreme Ātmā. We learn about life and how they lived it. They too had to go through certain situations: through nature, like rain, cold, heat, and so on; and through life in human society. It is not easy to go through, yet they remain untouchable. Their consciousness, their Jīvātmā, their inner being is untouchable. They have five tattva elements—this body—and that must live with nature. Illness is there, pain is there, pleasure is also there, along with hunger, thirst, cold, and such. But that Ātmā is untouchable. They know, and we do not know. They come to help us. They come to guide us from a close or far distance. Whether they are near or far, there is their touch, their energy, or their light. Lucky are those who can be near. But do not think that you will attain liberation in one month, or in one year, or in twenty years, or in one hundred years. Your, or our, salvation to Brahman will come in the very last second of life. Because karma is constantly following us, like the prāṇa flowing through our body—the breath in and out. Each heartbeat, each pulse beat, is also karma, action. And like inhalation and exhalation, it is action and reaction. Action and reaction. So liberation can happen when Satguru Dev touches us. And in that second, you are liberated. But as you breathe, some karmas return again from the five indriyas and vṛttis. Many principles are given in Yoga-Vedānta philosophy and Yoga philosophy, which are very easy, clear, and simple to understand. Read the Patañjali Yoga Sūtras; they are very nicely and simply explained. So when a divine, holy soul—Ātmā is holy, yet we can say this—comes, they feel and act like us, but they are untouchable. And that is the incarnation of Nitya Avatāra or Nimitta Avatāra. So Mahāprabhujī, Gurujī, Devpurījī, Alakhpurījī, and others, they lived life. They went through nature, but they were untouchable. Swami Vivekananda traveled around India. Also, I think there was a time when he was in America. Well, he became famous—not so famous as I am, yes. He didn’t travel so much, you know. So Swami Vivekananda, of course everyone is proud. Pride arises so quickly, and if someone humiliates our pride, then we have anger, negative thoughts, ego, and so on. It is like when you are young, you study, you acquire a profession, you have some money, you are physically strong, full of desires or ambition to change the whole world. No—teenagers, children, they think their parents do not know; “I will change, I will do something.” Everyone goes through this path. So Vivekānandajī went, after his world tour or India tour, to see his Gurujī for darśan—to see Paramahaṁsa Rāmakṛṣṇa. When Paramahaṁsa Rāmakṛṣṇa came, then many began to write about the Paramahaṁsa. Otherwise, in older times, the title Paramahaṁsa was not so widely used. Paramahansa is a state of consciousness. But this is a different subject. Everyone has an ego. Everyone wants to be a doctor or have some title. But Jesus did not fight to have a title. Only Jesus. Krishna also did not ask to be a professor. No, just Krishna. Rāma also did not say he wanted to be a doctor. And Patañjali also did not say he was an engineer. Only Patañjali, Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, Jesus, etc. The titles came later, so we are a little bit proud of our title. Anyhow. Paramahamsa Ramakrishna had cancer here on the throat. At that time, it was not so well known that it was cancer, and there were also not many treatments. So it was coming out of his neck, flowing liquid—an open cancer. It was wintertime, a little cold. So Ramakrishna was lying in the garden of the Ashram. He turned to one side and covered himself, lying like that. Vivekananda was very young, full of energy, pride; he had become famous and strong. Vivek Purī came—yes, they were Purīs. You know how? When Paramahaṁsa Rāmakṛṣṇa worshipped, he worshipped Kālī Devī very intensely. There is a big temple in Calcutta, a very famous temple, and he was a devotee of Kālī. He cried day and night, worshipping, saying, “I want to see the Mother, see the Mother.” And yes, Divine Mother Kālī appeared. You can read the biography of Paramahaṁsa Rāmakṛṣṇa. She came and said, “My child, what do you wish? I give you everything, even mokṣa.” Mokṣa and liberation are different. But he said, “Yes, I want that mokṣa, that Brahma Jñāna, to reach Brahman.” She said, “My son, I can give, but it is not in my law, you can say. Only the Satguru can give. I can give many siddhis, many powers—everything you want. But this mokṣa, the liberation, only the Gurudev can grant. Go to your guru.” The name of Paramahaṁsa Rāmakṛṣṇa’s guru was Totāpurī. “Go to Totāpurī. He will give you that Ātmā Jñāna.” That is why it is said: Guru Brahmā, Guru Viṣṇu, Guru Devo Maheśvara, Guru Sākṣāt Parabrahma, Tasmai Śrī Guruve Namaḥ. Dhyānamūlaṁ Guru Mūrti—therefore meditate on Gurudev, in your Gurudev. Meditate, become one, melt inside. Jyotā se jyot jagat, Satguru, jyot se jyot jagāo mere antarātamā, mera mithāvo. Satguru, jyot se jyot mithāvo. Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī. So, jyot se jyot: with one flame we can light another flame. Suppose there are two candles. One candle is lit, and the other is not lit. Both candles have the capacity to give light, but one is not enlightened. So the lighted candle comes, or they must come together, and then the light will pass to the other flame. Jyot se jyot jagāvu. There is a long, very beautiful old song: “Jyot Se Jyot Jagate Chalo, Prem Kī Gaṅgā Bahate Chalo.” Light, light, flame to flame, light candles. On every step of your life, light the light. “Jyot Se Jyot Jagate Chalo, Prem Kī Gaṅgā Bahate Chalo.” And let the Gaṅgā of love flow with you. Wherever you go, bring love, bring happiness, bring joy. Do not bring negative thoughts. Do not, even in your mind, let a negative thought or anything towards anyone arise for a single second. Otherwise, that will pollute your consciousness, your awareness. It is not easy, but if one wishes, it can be easy. So it is called Totāpurī. Tottapurījī was the guru of Paramahaṁsa Rāmakṛṣṇa. Thus Rāmakṛṣṇa was a disciple of the Purī order, and Vivekānanda was Vivekānanda Purī. But later someone gave him the name Saraswati, and there was no “Vivekananda” name before; it was another name. One of the kings of Rajasthan gave the name to Swami Vivekananda. I am not going to give their whole biography. That is why we have sitting here one Vivekānand Purī, no? That is it. So Vivekananda came, and many friends, his bhaktas—he had many bhaktas then accompanying him, and he had a nice walking stick. He saw his Gurujī lying in the garden, sun-bathing, and the cancer was open. Was Guruji old? Suddenly Vivekananda changed; something shifted in him. For a few seconds, his mind went around the whole world: “I have been preaching, ‘My Gurudeva is Bhagavān.’ But he is suffering here. How can I now believe that my Gurudeva is like my God?” Just thinking, only a few seconds. Then he changed again. He closed his eyes and opened them, and he bowed down to Guru Dev. Paramahaṃsa Rāmakṛṣṇa said, “Vivek, if I want, I can put my hand on this cancer and it will immediately disappear. But if I do this, I will have to take another life to go through this cancer karma. So let it be; I do not feel anything. No pain, I have no pain. I am not the body, okay, Vivek. But how did you change your thoughts towards your Guru?” Vivekananda said, “Please forgive me. Forgive me these thoughts. I do not know how long it will take to purify this negative thinking of mine towards my Gurudev.” Paramahaṃsa Rāmakṛṣṇa said, “My son, Vivek, think always carefully. Before you send your thoughts and your feelings, you should know how heavy they are.” And so it is not easy for a human to lead life in that way, to become holy, to become a saint. We are far, far from that. That is why it is said they are rare; they are rare indeed. Many people we know practice for a few years and then say, “I did not get anything. I practiced this yoga, I practiced this kriyā, I practiced…” Nothing happened. Thanks to God, nothing happened. Very bad things would have happened, but that was protected. So nothing happened. But many people are so greedy; they want to become a master first. Not. There is no mother: when the Jīva said, “I want to be born now, but there is no mother,” so you still need to become a mother—you become a female, then you will get a child. So, child, of that Viveka. Viveka means you are intelligent. As Gurujī said in one bhajan on Jñāna Yoga: “Sādhanā cāro karo, Hari jin se hove mokṣa tumhārā. Sādhanā cāro karo, Hari rā.” The first sādhanā is Sādhanā Viveka Vichāra. The first sādhanā is Sādhanā Viveka Vichāra. Satya yā satya karo nyāra nyāra, satya yā satya karo nyāra nyāra. Sādhanā chhoṛo karo Hari, sādhanā chhoṛo. Jinase mokṣa tumhārā, jinase mokṣa tumhārā, sādhanā chhoṛo karo Hari. Om Mokṣa Tumhārā Om Vihāra Sādhana Cāra Karo Hari Vihāra Sādhana Cāra Karo Hari Vihāra Jinse Hove Ānandāya Pa Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān, Satguru Svāmī Mādhavānandajī Bhagavān, Devādhi Deva, Deveśvara Mahādeva, Alakhpurījī Mahādeva. So, tomorrow we will continue. But it is like this: do not search for anything too early. When a mother becomes pregnant, the husband should not say, “I want the child already tomorrow.” It cannot be. It will take nine months. Similarly, you can go to any guru, any saint. Even Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva—they will also not do this. So we have to work on ourselves. Do not be in a hurry; lead a very normal life. But take care of your antarākaraṇa, your inner instrument. And watch how your karma is, what you are doing. There is a call of the Devas; it is called Dev Vidyā, divine culture. Then comes human culture. And then comes animal culture, and then comes prakṛti, nature. So do not behave like an animal. You are above animal culture. We should know how to lead life. By constantly changing paths you will get nothing; you will become lost—meaning you have lost the human life. We lost the human life. You have already received your mantra, you have your master, you have your sādhanā. That is all. Go ahead. Go ahead. You will reach there. There is a road to Budapest. Some are walking, some are riding horses, some are going by bike, some may go by car, helicopter, aeroplane, etc., but you must travel on that path. If you want to go to Budapest and you are driving towards Čakovec—or the capital city of Croatia, Zagreb—then you must continue your journey toward Zagreb, not Budapest. Then neither Pest nor Buda will be there; you will be lost in between, divided by a river. So we have to go on our path, our own path. Others have their own paths. Souls are different. Ātmā is one, and yet everything is different. But what you have received, you should hold onto it. Then you will be happy. When you marry and remain whole in life, your family will be happy, and your children will also be happy. Otherwise, the children see that my parents do not behave like that, so I will also behave like that. Why is family life so complicated nowadays? Because parents did not give social education—because parents themselves did not have social education. Paśu saṃskāra, the animal’s saṃskāras, and human saṃskāra are different. You are not born to perform the kind of actions that animals do. We will talk about other things tomorrow. Now, you will say, “Swāmījī is talking and talking. It is already one hour.” And you may not remember what I say, so we change the subject, okay? Namaḥ Śivāya Om Namaḥ Om Namaḥ Śivāya Om Namaḥ... Om Namah Śivāya. Om Namah. Om Namah Śivāya. Om. Om Har Har Bho. Namah Śivāya. Om Bho. Namah. Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī. Devādidev Deveśvar Mahādev. Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān. Satya Sanātan Dharma Kī Jai.