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The key to a stress-free life is mantra and meditation. Meditation alone is like a key to a room; you remain confined. A mantra is the guide that escorts you to infinity. Without it, meditation can awaken fear. The true mantra is received through initiation, a blessing transmitted by touch from a master, which opens infinite space and dispels all stress. The mantra must be spoken from the heart, purifying it first. Beautiful mantras exist in all languages, carrying positive energy. When balanced through mantra, one's thoughts harmonize, and stress vanishes. The light of wisdom dispels the darkness of negative thoughts and attachments.

"Meditation without a mantra is not a path to the Endless."

"Once the mantra's energy vibration touches you, it remains forever in your body and in your thoughts and in your heart."

Filming location: Salzburg, Austria

Peace, Peace,… Purījī Mahādevakī, Devadideva, Deveśvara Mahādevakī, Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavānakī, Satguru Svāmījī Mādhavānandī Bhagavānakī, Satya Sanātana Dharma. Our topic is stress: how to live the whole day without stress, without fear, without nervousness. There are many techniques and therapies, but none of them work. There is only one solution, and we need a key for it. The key to entering into this bliss is meditation. Meditation is the key. However, meditation without a mantra is not a path to the Endless. You enter a room with a key, but it is still a room. It means you are imprisoned. The key and the gate have a small space, but then we enter a large space where everything is still closed. Meditation is, how shall I say, an escort. Someone guides us further, escorting or leading us to infinity. Those who meditate without a mantra will, sooner or later, awaken fear in their hearts and minds. It is very important that someone guides us into the space where those who have been given a key can open it. So, your teacher, your yoga teacher, or your friend shows you a path through meditation. That is the key. But the door will close again, and you have no key to open it to go back out into this Māyā. Thus, you are nothing in worldly Māyā and also nothing in the Brahmaloka. Meditation has a life and lives something, just as our body lives. There is the Ātman, the Jīvātmā. And so it is also the light of the mantra, the divine name, repeated. It will guide us to our goal. There are several types of mantras, and all are good. But a mantra is our personal one, as a Gurumantra. The Gurumantra is the mantra of our ancestors, the holy, divine Ṛṣis and Yogīs, who have given it into our hands. We should pass it on just as it is. Whoever gives you a mantra, giving a mantra alone is not enough. With the mantra, there is a second mantra—a gift, a blessing. When a master gives the blessing, he touches your head. In that moment, the master utters a word, a mantra. This mantra is the true mantra. This touch to the Ājñā Cakra or Sahasrāra Cakra, through the touch of the Master’s hand or fingers, opens infinite space for us. Do you understand? In this moment, the stress, the fear, everything is gone. But if you understand nothing and then step back, you return to your tunnel. You go back through the tunnel, and in this tunnel there is darkness. The initiation of the mantra, the calming, is from the beyond, from the time of Śiva. It is given into the hand of a master. All of you will become masters one day if you continue. But there are two things: that I am the master, and that I give the blessings. Then that means it is a, what do you call it, a peanut. This is Pinat, a peanut. No matter, this is the Master; there is a peanut. Inside a peanut, there is a nut, just as inside this hall there is a nut. But not yet; the Master plays as the Master. He holds the shell of the peanut in his hand, but the nut is not there. The moths have eaten it, devoured it. As long as the peanut inside is not yet ripe, not even the seed has begun, then it is not there. For example, one says chickpeas. The moths have eaten everything inside and have nibbled a handful, but they make a noise, yet there is nothing inside at all. Is it clear now? This glass, when full of water, has a different sound. It is full. And where it is empty, then it is so. So, the Master is still here, not yet complete. Regarding the mantra: the best mantra is the best mantra for us to begin with. This mantra is your own mantra. Speak with beautiful, sweet words, but not just on the lips. It must come from the heart. Our speech should be filled with devotion, love, understanding, clarity, and God’s blessings. Always speak with beautiful words. Not even a harsh word to your pet, your dog, or your rabbit. No matter what, never say a harsh word to your animals or birds, because a bad word means there is still impurity in our heart. The first mantra is this: purify your heart and your mind. Secondly, there are very beautiful mantras. In every language, in every culture, there are always wonderful words as mantras. We say, "Oṃ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ…" Peace, peace, peace. Or further, these beautiful mantras from the Vedas: "Oṃ Bhūr Bhuvaḥ Svaḥ Tat Savitur Vareṇyam…" My voice is not as beautiful as it was yesterday. The singer was there, but how powerful a positive, pure, good sound is in this mantra. The stress has flowed away into the salsa, salsa river, hasn’t it? Ah, everything is already purified, bye, bye, no, jai, jai. We cannot hold anything back; this water is already flowing. Where does it go next? Does it enter the Danube? No, in the Danube… that’s why in Vienna, the water is a bit vibrated. Now I already know what it is, how beautiful it is in the Viennese Danube. Balance and such beautiful sound. You know, your water here flows very restlessly, but in Vienna it is so beautiful. And when it comes to Hungary, it is even more beautiful, and so on until it reaches the Black Sea. I observe every time. The entire Black Lake, which I think is from the Black Forest, and it extends further to Vienna or Salzburg—I had not thought of that. It is beautiful. There is a beautiful poem, but I will not say it because you do not understand it yet. But they say, when I bring the glass, you see the water and it is completely still. Do not move. Just like that. And as soon as I touch and take my hand, it becomes restless. But when it is full, then one does not make any movements. When it is completely full, only your hand moves like this. Please, would you like that? But all the water flows out. And when one has balance, then it is so. And so it is that all the energy comes from within. Everything is very calm, beautiful. Every time I fly from India, I see the Black Sea, Georgia, and all of that. So now, our body is a vessel, and this fluid is only symbolic; it is in our brain, from bottom to top. And when you have balance through your mantra, then your thoughts are in such harmony. Whoever does not have this mantra always has uncertainty: once this God, once that God, once this, once that, is not there. So, mantra. Or another mantra: "Śubham." Śubham means all that is positive. All the energy in our body is positive. When a doctor makes a diagnosis in our body, he must not say it is positive. He says it is all negative. When a doctor says it is positive, he says, "Oh God." Nothing positive should come to the diagnosis: negative. But in the mantra, it is the opposite. Śubham means your entire day will be beautiful. Your work, everything you will do, will be good. This is your heart; in your heart, in your breath, there is a victory for you through your words, your sound. "Śvām" is a word in Sanskrit, but its meaning is positive. That is all good. So, whether you want to speak Hungarian, German, Polish, Mexican, or Sanskrit, it is the same. Peace is peace. We have an Alfred. Is there peace, is there a name, or not? Elfriede and Alfred. Alfred is peace, but I do not want to say anything about that. This is how we progress further. We live painfully. Lord, lead us to be in divine oneness with infinity. There is no mantra that is not beautiful. "Śubham karoti kalyāṇam." Then take your car keys and drive off. Everything will be okay. This mantra is power. All stress is gone. Fear is gone. In former Yugoslavia, they say "Rogla." There is a Rogla hotel and so on. But in our language, it has a somewhat negative connotation. Rogla means a sick person who is very ill. Illness; this person is Rogla. He has so many illnesses, perhaps cancer or something like that. But that is in another language. What does Rogla mean in your language, please? Greek, Slovenian, Brazilian… yes, we wash bidote rogla. So, rogla, roga means illness. "Śubham karoti kalyāṇam ārogyam." Ārogya and rogya: roga means illness, and ārogya means health. And so in Sanskrit it is… sorry, here we say Pretna, Pretna, yes, or Mahlzeit, or good appetite, enjoy, yes. So, Arogia, it means… we will say, when you serve the food, then the guest or your husband or your wife will say, "Arogie." Arogie means, please eat for your good health. I believe they say that here in Austria as well. Somehow I heard that: for your well-being, health. Look, this mantra: the stress is gone, the pain is gone. That is a… yes. "Śubham karoti kalyāṇam. Ārogyam." Health. Wealth. "Sampadā." Wealth. Oh my God, this is it. No matter what it is, how do you say… Lord God, should I tell a joke? A businessman, a true businessman, wants everything no matter what happens; he wants to have his money or whatever. One day he died. Each of us will die one day. We will not die; we will go to Mokṣa, okay? And our body does not die either. Our body: water in water, air in air, earth in earth, and space in space. Okay? That will remain the same, no worries. That is, we have gathered the children together. What does that mean? What do you say to that? No, no. You said the first thing. What was that? Alignment. Yes. So God has aligned all of this together. And then, like children, he becomes God again. Okay. So it is otherwise nothing different, okay? No fear. So, the greedy businessman… Okay, it is said when one dies, he comes to the gate of Dharmarāja. Dharmarāja is the God, the Justice of the God, the Judge. Yes, the Father will judge. Well, someone has always been singing, no? Alexander, exactly. And there stands Yama. What does he mean? Death. Death says, "Stop, you cannot go further. You stand here on the threshold between cave and sky." So, Dharmarāja said he has good karma, 3%, and he has 97% bad karma. "Where would you like to go first? To heaven or to the cave?" So he said, "Tell it to God, for me it doesn’t matter, cave or heaven. Lead me to where I can get a few more euros." That is called greed. As God has said, "You will not receive any more money now. You stay longer in the cave." He said, "Tell it to God, that is wrong. I am ready to go to hell for my money." And say, "I can’t do that." The misery said, "No discussion. In a few seconds, we will kick you into the fire hall." He said, "No, that is wrong. I would like to speak a word with God." The Yama says, "Lord, the one who causes such unrest…" The dead people or the souls and animals stand in the great line, flowing like a river. He said, "Just one second, I want to speak with the Lord, with God." God said, "Alright then, bring him." He brings him. God has said, "What do you want?" He said, "What I desire, I already have now. What does it mean now to go into the cave? That is wrong, Lord, wrong. You always say, once God is realized, then you are always one with God." He said, "See Him in the Mokṣa-dhāma." "Śubham karoti kalyāṇam ārogyam dhana sampadā." Sampadā, so Sampadā with prosperity and money and harmony, everything is there. Sing this mantra, not loudly, not loud either, and also not like when you sit in the car eating a roll on one side and saying "Śubham Karo…" not like that. Many people have no time and eat inside the car, in the car, because one should not eat while driving. Yes, that is a principle, because when you are driving, you are Kṛṣṇa. Yes, and whoever sits in the passenger seat is Arjuna. Yes? Yes. So Arjuna says to Kṛṣṇa, "Lord God, please concentrate. Not eating." Then what comes next? Something is coming: "Śatru." Śatru is our enemy, our opponents. In Greek, we were at a campsite. Then, on the other side, who is that? That is your enemy, exactly, Śatru. "Śatru-Buddhi." What is the Buddhi? Buddhi is our intellect. Buddhi is our thoughts. Our buddhi should be completely pure. In buddhi, one can introduce either negative words or positive ones. Śatru means enemy. "Śatru buddhi vināśāya." Dear friends, this Buddhi is the enemy. Now, what does it mean? To kill nothing else but my negative thoughts in my Buddhi. Please, Lord, purify my Buddhi so that I may have good thoughts. Do not even think, nor even scold anyone; then your Buddhi will become so negative. Humbleness, what is it called? Humbleness. Nothing is easier. Yes, yes… we are like the grain, the kukurutzskorn. And we place it on a hot pan, and immediately it blows out. That was popcorn. And that’s how Helga Sachsam was to Heidi. You are like this; Heidi is like a popcorn. So this is our Buddhi. "Śatru Buddhi Vināśāya." One thinks that all my enemies, the Chesters, must be killed. No, no… no. Our own thoughts, our own intellect, our Buddhi, we must purify them. Those who have good Buddhi speak well, sing well, write well, and speak good things to others. "The intellect of the enemy is destroyed. Oh Lord, take away all thoughts, all negative thoughts." When the śatru-buddhi is purified from our thoughts, then the light of wisdom arises. Light is wisdom. Does anyone say light is foolishness? No. So, then our clear, good thoughts are the Dīpa Jyoti. So, this is Dīpa Jyoti; here we have a candle, and this is Dīpa, and this flame is Jyoti. There is a unity. This is who we are, and this is our clear, positive thought. Stress is gone. When it is dark, darkness in a room, we turn on the light. What is happening? The light is there, and within, it doesn’t even take a second; the light is there. And so, when our thoughts are positive, everything is beautiful. "Dīpa Jyoti Namastu De," may it bring auspiciousness and well-being, health and wealth, dispel all enemies. Dīpa Jyoti is the Supreme Brahman. And the light, the wisdom, is Parabrahman, the Supreme, the Supreme. Yes, Moha. Moha is the darkness. Darkness, the Moha—attachment, clinging, negative thoughts. But the Jyoti Parabrahman, the "Dīpam Sarve Mohanam," the light, this flame, here reaching up to the Brahmaloka, removes all negativity, darkness, fear, sorrow, sins, all suffering. "Dīpa Jyoti Parabrahman Dīpam Sarve Mohanam Dīpana Sajate Sarvam Sandhyā Dīpam Sarvam Satyam." And so every day, when the sun sets, we light a candle, a light, because the light is then everywhere. So, we will go through this mantra. This mantra, secondly your Guru-mantra, and thirdly forever: once it has touched you, this energy vibration remains forever in your body and in your thoughts and in your heart, whether you practice or not, or this or that. You say, "I do not want to." It is precise; now everything is contained within. That is Śakti. And then, that is why it is said, very beautiful. So, Mantra. "Oṃ Dyo Śāntiḥ Antarikṣam…" This is the other mantra. "Oṃ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ…" So let us live in light, live with light, and walk with light. Viśvāsa. Trust and believe, it helps, it heals—the divine power! Trust and believe, it helps, it heals—the divine power! Trust and believe, it helps, it heals—the divine power! So I wish you all the best and see you then.

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