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Chanting the AUM

A spiritual discourse on the sacred syllable Om and the path of Sanatana Dharma.

"Oṁ is Ādi and Anādi. In the Vedas, it is said, 'Nāda Rūpa Parabrahmā.' Nāda means the resonance; that resonance is the supreme."

"Without Om, a mantra is like a body without a soul. Therefore, every mantra you have must begin with Om."

Swami Prakashanand Saraswati explains the primordial nature of Om as the supreme resonance containing the entire universe and the divine trinity. He describes it as the essential seed of all mantras, which purifies karma and leads to liberation (Moksha). He further elucidates the mantra "Om Prabhu Dīpa Nirañjana," describing it as a light that dispels the darkness of ignorance and bad karma, leading to the spotless (Niranjan) and indescribable (Alak) supreme reality, Śiva. The talk uses metaphors of the ocean and a drop of water, a leaf separated from a tree, and the water cycle to illustrate the soul's journey from and back to the divine source. The importance of gratitude, ethical conduct, and the eternal nature of Sanatana Dharma as the spiritual highway are also discussed.

Filming location: Fiji Islands

Oṁ Śānti. Oṁ Kārvindu Sayuktaṁ Nityadāyanti Yogina Kāṁdaṁ Mokṣa Dāṁce Oṁ Kārayāṇaṁ O Namaha. Oṁ Kārvindu Sayuktaṁ Nityadāyanti Yogina. Oṁ is Ādi and Anādi. In the Vedas, it is said, "Nāda Rūpa Parabrahmā." Nāda Rūpa Parabrahmā. Nāda means the resonance; that resonance is the supreme. After that, the other different creation came. Oṁ Kār means Akār, Ukār, Makār. A, U, M: Ākāra, Ukāra, Makāra. These are the three sounds which make the resonance we call Aum. Aum, Kār, Bindu. In the Aum we have one dot. That Bindu is the center of the entire universe. That is also a light, like the sun. Sayuktaṁ—with this dot—and the Chandrakāra, that becomes one. Oṁ Kārviṇḍu Sāyuktaṁ with this. Nityādhyāyant Yogīna. Dhyānt, dhyāna, meditate. So Nityadhyāyant Yogīna. Yogis are every day residing in the mantra Oṁ. That is the Mahā Mantra. The entire universe is in the Aum. In this Aum is the Trinity, which is coming: Shiva, Brahma, Vishnu. These three creations come there: past, present, and future. Oṁ Kār Bindu Sayuktaṁ Nityaṁ Dāyanti Yoginaṁ Kāṁdaṁ Mokṣa Daṁ Oṁ Kārāya Namo Namaḥ. Kāṁdaṁ: all our vāsanā, our desires, our karma, all can be purified through chanting the Aum. Nityadhyayanti Yogina Kamadham Mokshadam, giving the liberation, Moksha. Before getting Mokṣa, our kāmanā vāsanā, our karmas, etc., are purified. Then comes the Mokṣa. Kāmadhāṁ Mokṣadhāṁ Cheva. Therefore, I salute, I bow down, I adore that Oṁ, the sound of the Oṁ. Without Om, a mantra is like a body without a soul. Therefore, every mantra you have must begin with Om. Om Prabhudeep Niranjan Sabdukha. Om Prabhudeep Niranjan Sabdukha Bhanjan So. Om is the seed. Om is that stamp on your passport from your government. You can print the passport, no problem. But the stamp of your government, your president, or whatever, whichever country you have, then that document is valid. Similarly, in your mantra, there should be Oṁ. OM PRABHUDI PANIRANJAN SABDUKHA BAN OM PRABHUDI PANIRANJAN SABDUKHA BAN OM PRABHU DEEPANIRANJANA SABADHUKAPA Eṣi Mantrase Hovemāna Mañjana, Eṣi Mantras, Eṣi Mantrase Hovemāna Mañjana, Eṣi Mantras. When we chant "Om Prabhu Dīpa Nirañjana, Sabadukha Bhañjana," the first of all is the problems, the troubles, the pain, the bad conditions, etc. Negative energy is taken away by this mantra, deep Nirañjan, and that Mahāprabhujī, deep—deep means the light. First in the universe was that, called sound. Out of the sound comes the light, that deep. When it is a dark night, like now, and suddenly morning, the dawn rises, the sun coming, the light, there is no dark, no darkness. Similarly, in our heart, the darkness of the ignorance, the darkness of the bad karmas, all kāma, krodha, moda, lobha, ahaṅkāra, all this can be cleaned up with that light. When we put on light, immediately darkness is gone. Deep niranjan, and that light is called niranj-ranj. Niranj-ranj means the impurity; the ranj means the spot on your dress, on your body, on your heart, your consciousness, your intellect, your mind—everywhere, dots. It's not easy to walk through the coal mine. You have a beautiful white dress, and now you have to walk. How many years do you want to live? Let's say 100 years. So, at least 100 meters you have to go through, and then you come out definitely with somewhere a black spot. So we come from the Supreme, and we come in the saṃsāra. This Kali Yuga, the saṃsāra is a coal mine, and every one of us somewhere has some black spots in our thinking, in our behavior, in our actions, etc. How to remove this? Ranjan, Ranjan is not good. Ranj... so, Niranjan, Niranjan... It means there's no spot on it, no bad karmas. So what we call Alak Purījī, "Alak" means indescribable. Alak, we can't describe, we can't write about that one. That is the supreme. As much as we try, we cannot give definitions. Only one we can say: without spot, niranjan or alak. We have no words for that beauty, for that purity, for that divine. Therefore, you can see light only for one second or two, three seconds perhaps, into the light of the sun directly; after, you cannot see. Similarly, Alek is that one which is completely pure light, and so there is one move, one movement, one path: spirituality. The Sanātana Dharma is ādi, anādi. Many dharma came and many dharma will go. All that some Dharma's call here in this world, some are 2,000 and some are 16,000, hundreds and this and that, these are the bubbles of the water. Yes, very soon these bubbles will give away; what remains forever is Shri Dheepaniranjana Sabadhuka Jan Prabhudeepaniranjana Sabadhuka Deep Narayana Bhagwanaki Sanatana Dharma. Sanatana Dharma is that highway. Nowadays we have highways, so no one can block the highway. There is no traffic light. Your road is going straight. Others may go over or under, but cannot block you. So, Sanātana Dharma is the highway; others are just the pedestrian's way. How long will you go in the forest with the... One path, slowly, slowly, it will disappear. Somewhere, somewhere is sitting a hungry python, not only one. Somewhere, a tiger is sitting, some other animals, some other people, like this, like this. The path is lost. It will not lead you to that, your Ātmā to that Paramātmā, because this is what we call "my, my..." The path and your path, and my dharma and your dharma, this will all go away ultimately. This jīvātmā has to come to the paramātmā through this way. Therefore, this karma, what we do by the purity, alak nirañjan alak, so that... Alak is Śiva. Alaka means we cannot describe. Śiva is that who has no mother and no father. He himself is the entire universe. He just manifested himself, and it is his māyā, his play, his power, his light, his energy. It is Śiva who has created everything. We are all one with Śiva. Our jīvā is Śiva. We have on the palm of our hand a drop of water, and we are here in the ocean. We see that on our palm, all over the palm, there is one beautiful drop. This drop is our ātmā, our jīvātmā, and down is the ocean. When this drop falls into the ocean, then this Jīva becomes Śiva. No one can take you out. You can't take any more. You are one within this big, big Pacific Ocean where we are sitting. No one can take us away. So that is Śiva, so Alak Nirañjan. Om Alak Niranjan. So there is one spiritual path that's called Nātha. Nath. What? Nath. Nath means Nath of the God, Nath of the boss, Nath of the head of everything. Okay, so not so. Nath is the Śiva, and they always will greet you: Alakha Niranjana. But Alakha, Alakha is indescribable. Niranjana is spotless. That is Nath and Dharma, that's God. That is supreme, that's highest. Others are all. What are the drops? So, this drop may fall into the ocean or somewhere on the dry rock, and what will happen? Or, this drop from the clouds falls in the desert somewhere, only sand. When will this drop of water come to the horizon? We are all we have to come to our origin. So when the rain, it from where comes the clouds? That is from the ocean. And from the ocean, this comes the wasp, the what we call fog, button up that the different way, but is okay. We know, okay. So one day I was in Hawaii. My aeroplane from San Francisco landed in Hawaii. Two hours we were sitting in the aeroplane, one and a half hour we were at the airport. Finally, they took us with a bus to the hotel because they had to bring some... there was a mistake in the mechanism. They had to bring from the, uh, San Francisco, this instrument or whatever is here, so they were already on the way. So we were in the hotel. I have been many times there. That time was the San Francisco, not some of the Hawaii was. Little bit good? How I became the famous after one film star? Good. We are all filming stars today, okay? We are the stars of the Fiji. It is not easy to come to the Fiji. All they can come who have this quality called Alak Niranjan. So we are here. Well, they gave me the hotel on about the 18th floor. It was much higher and near the beach, just four meters from the water. So I was standing there on the balcony and looking down. There were children and people, and they are swimming, but what I see? Like a smoke is coming, and I see what and what? And then it is like a water boiling, and wasps are coming up, yeah, yeah, the steam comes. So I was looking, it is so hot water and people are swimming. So this water is coming up from the ocean, coming out as this fog and going to... now it is the fog, or whatever you call the steam. Now, the ocean became steam, and the steam went higher, became a cloud. And then the clouds, again, the clouds come together, all the drops of the water, and became rain. Now it became rain, and now the rain falls down where and how it comes together, it becomes a creek, and then comes to the river, and the river again comes to the ocean. This is our life, how we are going. Once we are separated from that cosmic consciousness, from that supreme alakha, when will we come back again? I told you many times, one poem, so with the music, you are going to the highest heaven or anywhere. It means, from the tree, one leaf broke when the leaf was old. So the leaf falls down. Patta tutta dalase from the branch of the tree, legai pavana udai. This fresh, beautiful air, sometimes a cyclone, takes the leaf. This leaf is gone, and where will it fall down? And that fallen leaf said, "Who knows when will I come back again to my tree, my branch, where I belong?" Will that leaf again come and join there, no? Similarly, when we are separated from the ocean, when will we again come to the ocean? Where will it go? Lucky are they, raining and falling in the ocean again. So, like, we are here, very close. Go and dive in deep. Don't come anymore out, but you don't want this. This is this fear, "Oh God, that's it." Similarly, when we go from this path, from this world, from this life, will we come again as a human? And if we will come as a human, like a spiritual kind, humble, just be a human—means not that all. How we behave, what is some? There are people who have no mercy at all for any creatures. They get the animals and kill them. They give this, this... And animals eat the animals. It is said, "Jīva Jīva Bhakṣate." Life eats life. Jeeva Jeeva Bhakshate. Life eats life. But out of 8.4 million different creatures, only one, and that is the human. Humans do not eat other creatures, except vegetation, fruits, etc. The milk—mother's milk, cow's milk, goat's milk—from whom you drink the milk, you should never eat that, never kill that. You have the cow's milk, and if you kill that cow, it is you have eaten your mother. That's it. Anywhere, what you got from someone, then you should be thankful. So it is said, we are saying in India, kabhī bhī kisī ke ghar mein namak khāyā, tum namak harām nahīṁ honā chāhiye. You understand, anyhow, of course. So, jis ke ghar mein namak khāyā, uske ghar mein kuch bhī kharāb kām nahīṁ khanā chāhiye. Understand, Rājū? Jaya Jaya Prakāśa. Understand? You understand? Yes, it is said in the Bible. It is said, "Thou art salt of the earth. Thou art salt of the earth." You are the essence of this earth. So now you should not do anything bad on this earth. But what in India we said, if you go in someone's house and they give you eating, in eating there is salt, so if you have eaten salt in that house, you should never, and never, and never do any bad things in that house. If you do, it is a bigger sin. So many countries in Europe, in countries and so on, the whole Russia, all this Ukraine, all this Slovakia, Czechoslovakia, Croatia, every these countries. What's their tradition? They have a tradition. It's not a story. It is true. When you go there, then they welcome the guest. We say the guest is God. A guest is a God. Treat that guest with such respect as a God. Now, they bring in the plate: bread or chapati and salt, nicely decorated. Like Indians, they are doing the tilak and nice everything: rice and baīs and kaīs and taiz and peas. So they offer you, and there's a knife inside to cut the bread, or you take. Take the bread and break it like this, so you take the piece of bread and dip it in the salt and eat it. Then they are happy, and they welcome you as their best guest. There are many people sitting among them. Countries, hand up please. Yes, hand up, you see? So it is not, don't think the Fijian people that Swāmījī is only making us a little bit. So now, when you have eaten salt, with salt is holy because it's earth itself, the ocean itself. So when you got this salt, they gave you their part of their life now, you should never do anything bad. Even if you are a soldier, you put your gun out, you will eat and do, but you can go with respect. You should never come back to shoot them. You come there again to eat, that's it. So this is a human tradition. God has given different cultures different things. We have to come so. Through this mantra, all troubles go away. This mantra says, "Our mind becomes pure." To clean the mind, how to clean our mind? Not brainwash, okay, but the brain gets that divine light, that divine knowledge, the divine buddhi. The buddhi, buddhi means Buddha. The Buddha is a Hindu, is not a Buddhist, and he was a king, son named Siddhartha, and he became a sanyāsī, so he got enlightenment. So it's called Buddhi. His buddhi was lighted in his buddhi; he became self-sufficient, he gained knowledge. So the knowledge that is in Buddhi is called Bodh. He has Bodh, or he doesn't have Bodh. He has knowledge, or he doesn't have knowledge. So in Sanskrit it is called Bodha. So, when your intellect is enlightened, that is what we call intellect, buddhi, bodh, your intellect. So, when you have the knowledge, you call it bodha. So, bodha means that you have now, you are a very learned person, you have very great knowledge, etc., etc. And that's why they call both the Buddha, and then they all took in Buddha religion, both religion, both religion. It's not, there is no both religion, but you can, they can say, "Okay, no problem," but in reality, it is the enlightenment of that Buddha, and he was a warrior's Hindu, the Sanātana Dharma. So you see, mantra says, "Hoi man man jan." So, man, how to clean our mind? How to make our body better? So you see, mantra says, "Hoi man man jan." "Man jan" means purification, when your cloth is dirty, then you wash it, and it comes again, beautiful, new, wash clean everything. So this is how this mantra: "Oṃ Kārvindu Sāyuktaṃ Nityadāyantī Yogina Kāṃdaṃ Mokṣitaṃ Ceva Oṃ Kārayānamo Namaḥ Alak Nirañjan Śabdakha Bāñjan Īśī Mantra Se Hovemāna Mañjan." Very nice. Then what is the second? Hirdhe kamal kī āṅkhe khul jāve, jodale nithnem kā añjan, jodā nithnem kā añjan, śrīdīpa niranjan śabadokaband. Our heart is like a beautiful lotus flower. It opens; the eye of our heart opens. But how? Nityaṁ, nemaka, every day you should practice. Like when you have an eye problem, then you put some ointment in the eye. So your eye will be okay again and open. The name of this mantra is Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī's. So, therefore, this mantra, the Aum, we will continue tomorrow. Wish you all the best, and please, again, come with us to Fiji.

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