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Adoring the God

A satsang discourse on spiritual practice, the nature of God, and sacred sound.

"If you think good, you get good. If you think bad, you get bad." "Oṁ Kī Rachanā Śarīre... Everything is created by that Oṁ."

A spiritual teacher addresses a retreat, weaving observations of Fiji's natural beauty into teachings on meditation, the unity of God across religions, and righteous living. He discusses the holy land of Bharat, the importance of truthful authorship, and concludes with an extended explanation of the sacred syllable Oṁ as the formless, all-creating Parabrahma.

Filming location: Fiji Islands

Welcome again to our beautiful satsaṅg. I bring you today to a beautiful island. Oh my God, how beautiful it is. The morning dawn is so beautiful. The sun is rising, sunny, very good. Daytime is very nice, pleasant, and cool. There is warm wind, rain, clouds—you have many, many choices. If you don't like the heat, wait a minute, yes, it comes. It is nice to have the hot air. The clouds are coming, everything. And this evening, there was such a beautiful sunset. There were gentle clouds between the sun, which was like a fire, and a beautiful hill, and then the ocean. You can imagine the reflection from the sky with the clouds, a very strong fire, and the ocean—it is indescribable. This is like in meditation. Many people get imagination when they cannot meditate. Then they see the chidākāśa. Chidākāśa is the space behind our forehead wall. When we close our eyes, we see the dark. But if you imagine this beautiful sunset, then your whole chidākāśa is full of the light of the sun rising at dawn from the darkest night, slowly, slowly coming the light. So it is beautiful, never boring, so don't worry. The fire is fizzy, it's beautiful. Yesterday, in this our seminar—we call it a seminar, and here these people call it a retreat, so there is a difference—so in this retreat, you are all treated, but I am retreating you again, okay? I am giving you again more of that knowledge which you have within you and in your awareness, in your consciousness, but you have forgotten. So yesterday, prāṇāyāma: we are getting very scientific prāṇāyāma techniques, not theory, only practical. And you will see, especially in your health, you will feel much better. You will sleep well, and many, many diseases which are going to attack you will go back; they will not attack. So, the sādhanā, at the same time, satsaṅg. Satsaṅg: "sat" means the truth, and "saṅg" means to be together. Be there with that society which speaks about God, about truth. Not this truth that I am right and you are wrong, and you are wrong and that is right, and so on, no. The Vedas say it: only one God is only one. We say it, and the Muslims say it, Allāh, etc. So there is only one God. But from time to time, He appears. It is called Naimittika incarnation and Nitya incarnation. Naimittika, only for certain cases. For that reason, the incarnation comes, like Rāma, like Kṛṣṇa, etc. There are twenty-four incarnations according to the Vedic Dharma, and you should know that all these incarnations came on the holy land Bhārat. You know, the glory of India is not that I am, because I was born in India, but many of... you are born also in India. Śiva, Rāma, also they say Kṛṣṇa also came here. Vihār, āchār, vichār, āhār. In yoga: āchār, behavior; vichār, good thoughts; āhār, sāttvic food; and vihār, go somewhere where your eyes open and it gives you so much joy. A beautiful sunset we saw, all was. Standing there, and everyone's face turned that side. Not only we, the birds, yes, the other animals, that not only this, the pleasant feelings, good air, beautiful, so we not only we enjoy, or we like to have such a pleasant feeling, but all other creatures do so: vihār, āchār, vichār, āhār, and vihār. So it is said that in the Fiji Islands, there are many, many islands, and there are many. Every island has some miracles. In meditation, you should think. In the night, you should think. You will feel, you will find some good experiences, and those who have negative feelings don't have enough negative experiences. Yes, how you think, that's it. If you think good, you get good. If you think bad, you get bad. So, therefore, the incarnation you... see those holy saints, or you can say incarnations. There was no duality of the religions. Now we are creating like political parties, yes. There were no political parties, and there were good people who were looking after the people. And people were folding their hands and saying, "Please, can you become a member, or a minister, or mayor of the city, or mayor of your village?" You say, "No, no, please, you can give somebody else." So all went to the old people and said, "Please, you should be our head." People were asking, begging, "Please, you should become that person." Now, in Kali Yuga, what is conditional, no? You give the alcohol, you give the money, you give this, "Please choose me as a minister, choose me as a so-and-so." It's Kali Yuga. And similarly, now people are fighting: my religion, your religion, my tradition, your tradition, this, that, my master, your master. Fight and fight, but where is the reality? There is a difference. So, in that, like the holy land, which is not India, is not only until the... now, what you call it, India, all Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, all there were the territory till Singapore, Indonesia, etc., etc., Laṅkā, okay? It's good, but all that was included. So, if one believes or not, Gaṅgā is a holy river. Every river is holy. But Gaṅgā is special, Yamunā is special. In the whole world, no countries are without some rivers, but only one river we call Gaṅgā Māta. Yes, Mother, Holy Mother Gaṅgā. We are from that land where the Gaṅgā is flowing. Who said Mother Gaṅgā? Mother Yamunā, Mother Sarasvatī, holy rivers. Then we said, "Does anyone say cow as a mother?" Because the cow came from the churning of the ocean in Satyuga, and her milk is a remedy. I told Devī for yesterday that if you drink milk from any, any animals, that is already your mother. She gave you in your mouth nourishment; you should not treat that animal negatively. So, mother, now that glory of India also comes to know. We said seven oceans, but no ocean is under the name of one nation, but that is called the Indian Ocean. Do you know the Indian Ocean? Where can you tell? Said someone, "Where's the Indian Ocean?" You don't know where the Indian Ocean is? Yeah, the Indian Ocean is touching Australia, Perth. You are not from Perth? Oh, you did not read, you only went to the walk on the beach of the Indian Ocean, yes. Now you know, yes. So where is India? How far is it? How many thousands of kilometers? This is not only because of that, but we adore everything: our forest, our mountains, holy Himālaya. No, it is not, but... all this is also holy hills, here the Fijian Tapus Islands. Similarly, it is said it is the human who can give the qualities or the value of anything. What kind of value do we have from the forest, from the ocean, from the mountains, the rocks, the stones, the fruits, the animals, the peoples? Everything, we give the value of someone, so that was the wise people. Always, even they, we greet mother Earth. When you get up, then tell the Earth first. You should say, when you wake up, tell, "I am human, not woman or man, okay? Human. I am human." When you wake up and say, "I am a human," now what means for you the human? If anyone does wrong things: kill someone, shout to someone, etc., etc. Said, "Oh God, look, he's like an animal. Yes, he's not a human." Because the human cannot cause the pain. A human will not neglect someone. A human will not bear to anybody. Will not shout to anybody, so first when we get up in the morning, "Oh, God, protect me, I am the human," you open your eyes, you see the divine vision, divine pictures of your mother, your father, your brother, your sisters, or holy pictures of your Gurudev or God, anything first, don't look. It is also very good, but don't look first at the animal. And therefore, in the little children's room, don't give the pictures or towels of the animals. Now, animals are very good; they are beautiful. Good. You should have the animals in your children's room. Question: does your child love your animal toy or not? Yes. Now the same thing happens. Then you give the meat to eat to the child, and the child is not explained. It is a child. Meat of the cow, or from the rabbit or anything, because when they will say "rabbit," the children will never eat the meat. So you are hiding from these innocent children. In one way, you are giving love to the animals, and in another way, you are killing and eating. That it is completely opposite, so give the proper information to the children. So, I am human. Second, what makes me human? What makes me? What is that quality which makes me, the human, as human? What should I not do, and what, as a human, I should do? Then it is said, we do many. Still, still in India and out of India, many Indians, they are doing what they said: "Oh, holy Mother, may I step my foot on you?" Our earth is our mother, and we are stepping on the stomach, or the body of the mother, so we should not give dirty things on the river, on the earth. It's our mother. And say, "Mother, bless me, bless me, and lead my steps to the good direction, with the good society, with the good people. Mother, I always have my steps towards the good things." So, this is when we get up, then you said mantra, then you go to the bathroom or to the water, yes or no? Now look, when you touch the water, you open your water tap, and how beautiful feeling. If you wash your hands and you wash your face, water is also divine. Do not waste the water. And you know, there were many different fights, and now it's a fight for the water, and then there will be a fight for the oxygen. How much you are taking oxygen from this island, they don't ask you for the money, but one day they will say, "Okay, you have to pay the tax for what? For oxygen we are taking from Fiji?" Yes. So God gave everything, and God is everywhere, so, so God came with that to protect everyone. So there is only one God: Brahma Satya, Jagat Mithyā. But in the heart, where the ātmā is, the soul, the life, he has given that God. He gave life to all creatures, and we should respect all of this. So Nityāvatāra is a saint, the holy saint, the sādhus, the holy priest, or whatever you call that. They are all the times here for giving the blessings to us and giving the knowledge of that. Now, there was an old time, an ancient time, honest people, honest, and the people were writing some books, some poems, some stories, good things, and the sign, the name, so when we give a lecture, then we say something, we quoted some words of someone's, and the name of that person. For example, we said, "Be the change you want to see," and down we said "Gandhi." It means Mahātmā Gandhījī said it; it's his. Now, you just say, "Be the change you want to see," and you continually talk. They said, "Hey, where's your Gandhijī?" So now, many people write articles, many people give lectures, but they take out from someone's philosophies, some holy persons, etc., and it writes like a yearling. It means you are stealing the intellectual property; you should not steal. And who knows? We don't know what is writing very nice things. And said Swāmī Vivekānanda, "Are you sure that?" Swami Vivekānanda wrote this. There are many autobiographies. Originally, the person who wrote it was about 150 pages. But now, those books are like 1,500 pages. Who wrote? Someone, but gave the name of someone. So that is not right. Therefore, for example, the Bhagavad Gītā. Bhagavad Gītā is written in Sanskrit. In the whole world and in every language, there is a translation of the Bhagavad Gītā. But no one can change half an alphabet of the śloka of the Bhagavad Gītā. According to the Bhagavad Gītā, there are eighteen different kinds of yoga, eighteen chapters of the Bhagavad Gītā. So that you cannot change. If you will write, anyone will read. You said it is yours, but anybody will read. Even two letters will say it is from Bhagavad Gītā. Similarly, like a bhajan, yesterday I think I told you, Mīrābāī. So the Mīrāj bhajan, Kabīr Dās bhajan, Sūr Dās bhajan, many saints, they put their bhajans, and that is called. After their name, holy Gurujī's bhajans, saying at the last, Mahāprabhujī's and name of holy Gurujī, all bhajans, all bhajans, so that is the reality. Now we shall speak from the Mahā holy Gurujī's bhajans. Anything you can explain, translate, but you must say, "Gurujī, holy Gurujī's bhajans, understand." So yesterday we spoke about Oṁ, and I said I will speak, translate about Oṁ. Oṁkāra Mantra. The bhajana of Bhagavān Swāmī Mādhāvanāndajī: "Oṁ Kī Rachanā Śarīre. Oṁ Kī Rachanā Śarīre. Oṁ Kī Rachanā Śarī Santo. Oṁ Kī Rachanā Śarī Re. Gyānī Jāne Bhed Sohī Jāne Rehe Sukhī Ārī Re. Gyānī Jāne Bhed Sohī Rehe Sukhī Ārī Re, Oṁ Kī Rachanā Śarī, Santoṁ Oṁ Kī Rachanā Śarīre." So this, everyone, we know Oṁ. Everyone knows the rachanā of the Oṁ. But how the Gurujī put this, that is only his bhajan, what is he written? And therefore, it is... you can write an article only on this one bhajan from what Holy Gurujī has written, "So Oṁ Kī Rachanā Śarīre," everything, all creation, all whatever is happening, the stars, the sun, the moon, the clouds, the rains, everything. This is Rachanā. Rachanā means creation. Creation. So, Oṁ Kī Rachanā Sarī Śānto. Everything is created by that Oṁ. What does that mean, that "Oṁ"? We were singing day before yesterday, "Oṁ Kārbindu Sayuktam Nityadayanti Yoginām." This is a mantra, not from me, not from Holy Gurujī. It is somewhere in the Holy Scriptures. The first is called Nādarūpa Parabrahma. Nādarūpa Parabrahma. What is Parabrahma? What is the Supreme? And that Supreme is the Resonance. In that Resonance, everything is there. And so that Resonance is Oṁkāra. Oṁkāra bindu sayuktam nityadhyāyanti yogīnaḥ kāmaṁ mokṣaṁ caivom kārayanāmo namaḥ. Yesterday I explained in which mantra, in which śloka. I am sorry, I don't know from which book or from which script it is. So Gurujī said, "Oṁ Kī Rachanā Śarīre, Oṁ Kī Rachanā Śarīre, Gyānī Gyāne Bhed Sohī Rahe Sukhyārī, Gyānī Gyāne Bhed." The wise person, you are all Gyānīs. Who is not a Gyānī? You are all wise ones, okay? So, gyānī jāne bhed. "Bhed" means the wise person knows about what is the om. Ākār, next ukār, and makār. Where is ākār? In the navel. Ukār in the throat. Makār in the sahasrāra chakra. Your whole body is vibrating. Each and every cell of the body is recharging positive energy from the sound "Oṁ." Oṁkāra Parabrahma rūpa hai. So, what is the Oṁkāra's form? Oṁkāra Parabrahma Rūpa Hai. Oṁkāra is Parabrahma Rūpa. It means the form. If you want to know the form, what is the form of the Om? It is a Parabrahma, and Parabrahma is in entire space. It has no shadow. It has no smell. There is no touch, nothing. Nirākāra. Nirakar. Nirakar means it has no ākār. Ākār means the form. Nirakar means, like yesterday we spoke about niranjan, alak niranjan, niranjan, so nirakar, ākār, nirakar. So when we chant the Om, we touch our ātmā as nirakar, so there is no... that some people say we don't believe this, and we don't believe this. The God, if you believe or not, who are you? You are only a temporary creature. You will go again away. How long will we live? So we will make dualities, or this or that. We are that. Nirākāra. Nirākāra rūpa. Now. Śivo'haṁ. Śivo'haṁ. Nirākāra. Oṁ kī racanā hī. Oṁ kī chāyā nahīṁ, dhūp hai. Oṁ has no shadow. Oṁ has no objects. Oṁkār nābrūp sadāhī. Oṁkāra is nābhārūpa, like the sky. Sky, rūpa, form. If you want to see the Oṁ, see the sky. That is Oṁ, nirādhāra. Ādhāra is, we have somewhere a base. This building is based on the foundation. But nirādhāra has no base. It is in the space. Oṁ Kī Rachanā Śarī Santoṁ, Oṁ Kī Rachanā Śarī Re. Oṁ Kī Rachanā Śarī Re, Oṁ Kī Rachanā Śarī Re. Gyānī Jāne Bhed Sohī, Rahe Sukhī Ārī Re. Jñānī Jāne Bhed Sohī, Jan Rahe Sukhī Ārī Re. Oṁ kī rachanā sārī santam, oṁ kī rachanā sārī re. ... When you close your eyes in the morning, a few times chant Oṁ Kī Rachanā Śarī Santoṁ. Oṁ Kī Rachanā Śarī. All fear, all pain, all doubt, everything disappears. How the Oṁ brings such a beautiful atmosphere within ourselves, where all five kośas are relaxed and purified. Siddhi Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī tomorrow again. Oṁ Śānti, Śānti, Śānti.

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