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The Guru is the principle that dispels darkness with light, guiding the soul's eternal journey. The first Guru is one's mother and father, providing initial knowledge and direction. Friends become the second Guru, reinforcing spiritual lessons. The soul enters life pure and happy but becomes entangled in worldly attachments, from childhood toys to adult relationships. These attachments are temporary; when they break, the soul feels damaged, as if its wings are clipped. Modern life distracts from the ancient, simpler path of community and devotion. Ultimately, hope becomes the final guide toward God and spirituality. The true Satguru refines the disciple like a blacksmith shapes iron or a sculptor reveals a deity from stone, a difficult but necessary process for transformation. Various masters—parents, teachers, friends—lead the soul toward contentment on the right path.

"Gu means darkness, ignorance. Ru means the light, the wisdom."

"Fly, fly, oh my dear, fly to the heaven."

Filming location: London, UK

It is said, O Gurudeva, master, that there are many masters. "Master" is an English word, but in Sanskrit and Hindi, it is called Guru. What does the word "Guru" mean? "Gu" means darkness, ignorance. "Ru" means the light, the wisdom. The entire world is based on the principle of the Guru. Your Guru begins from your life in the womb of the mother. There are different processes. One is the creation, the manifesting of our form. Second is who is protecting and still giving knowledge when the embryo is in process in the body. The first Guru is mother and father—the knowledge, the direction given by our mother and father. That is the first Guru. The second Guru is your friends. From the kind of friends we have, we will learn that lesson. We may forget or not accept the lessons our parents gave us, but if other friends are on the right way, if they are spiritual, then they join with the education of the parents. Parents’ education is not only about schools and universities, not only about how to survive, but it is the knowledge of being human. The soul is happy. The mother gives joy and happiness, and the father. At that time, that soul knows everything, but still the brain is not developed to talk or speak. That time, that is the ātmā, the jīvātmā. Jīva means the soul. This soul is happy and so pure; it has no worldly spots on it. Slowly, slowly, this māyā will begin. The first toy: you are born in mother’s lap, father’s lap, and then the test comes. The toys for the child are everything. Everything is a toy. If the mother takes away the toy, the child will begin to cry. "It’s my father, anybody, my everything, my joy, my beauty, everything, mine." Is that my toy? After that, if you want to take away this toy, they will cry, they will be angry. But one day, suddenly, that attachment to the toy is somehow gone, and they are searching for another toy. What we call a teenager now—this toy, the girl is searching for the boy, and the boy searching for the girl. You know how many problems there are nowadays. In old times, it was not that way. It was only praying to God. There were many worships and many things. The girl said, "Lord, I should have such a husband who will make me happy, and when we have happy families, they’re happy, they’re healthy." The boy would say the same thing: "That one who will be my lifelong partner." A partner should not become an apartment. If it is apart, it is not apart. But now, in this modern civilization, it is different. So that toy which they are imagining—until you get that one, you will not touch. But now, if the toys are plastic, broken, thrown away, second-hand, third, fourth, fifth... Well, the toys come. How long? How long? Slowly, slowly, separation comes. If it is emotional, but if it is with knowledge and love, then that soul is so happy. It finally comes in the human body and becomes one. Like a bird has two wings to fly higher and higher and higher, similarly, these are the two wings of a man and woman, the husband and wife. Or, if you are not married, but still you say lifelong, that is your wings. When one is separated, you get a divorce, you turn to get another choice, then the wings are cut. It doesn’t matter which second wing you are hanging here, but it’s not that anymore. That soul is damaged. The soul said, "What should I do again? My journey, my journey to achieve that, my wings are broken." Well, we are working, we are doing this, that. Now, in the money. In ancient times, there was only good harvesting, agriculture, fruits, vegetables, grains, milk. That was our everything. We were changing. We gave the cow, we gave the neighbor milk also. The neighbor had a vegetable, and they gave it to you. How beautiful it was, the whole family. Beautiful. There was no supermarket, and not that kind of vegetables, and this, which is many, many months, or who knows, somewhere the meat they are keeping, how many years? Long ago, there was a communist regime in the Soviet Union and a country called Czechoslovakia—good people, good country, the Czech Republic. It was known as a country of the flowing of honey and milk. Honey and milk. And Prague is now a mystery, the city of mystery. That’s not magic, but spirituality. Still, you can feel in that city of Prague how it is. My dear, round the whole world there was. Anyhow, then when you have had enough and you are tired, walking with a stick—what we call that our hope. Our hope that I will fulfill my desire, desire for what I am born. So the hope, what is the hope? The hope is a stick, a walking stick from the cradle to the grave. Husband and wife, good, they are together, everything. But now, both are saying, "Darling, let us pray to God now. Maybe God will save us." So now this toy is old, getting the second toy, the last toy. And this last toy is hope, the God, the spirituality. And when that, if you have a yard master and you remain on the one channel teaching of the master, then you are going up. Or you again fall down, then you go to the other side. The wing is cut. You try to jump and go down. Getting old, the confidence is gone. Also saying to God, "God, even you cannot help me, my dear Lord." And God said, "Because your one wing is not here anymore, what to do?" Said, yes. Now the cat is coming. The final solution. The cat means death. Coming close, and this bird wants to fly. But one wing is missing. Try to move one wing a little bit with the two legs moving away. But the cat has very sharp teeth. That’s Mṛtyu. That’s Yama. So there is one way to the distraction. That’s called Patañjali. And second, Uthān. Uthān means the development, achievement, everything, coming, leading you to your highest divine path everywhere. And Patañjali is changing, and wings are cut. This is the second, and also now you are completely naked without wings. Can you see how the chicken is running when there are no wings and this and that? Well, there is one joke. It was someone who gave me one nice picture. One cock, a chicken cock, was very egotistical, very nice and big, with nice feathers. Here and everywhere, moving like something like a god. Now he’s very young, and there’s another, the chicken, and she also comes, and he said, "Can you marry me?" He said, "Yes." "Will you surrender?" He said, "Yes." Okay, so he married. He was so happy, but after two or three years, he had no feathers on his body. What happened? She took all that. It is somehow the situation of some partners here. And when she came, she had nothing, but now he has nothing, and he’s walking like an ill chicken, and she has so many jewels here. They are here. Everything. That’s it. That’s not a partner. That’s not a lover. However, the love is different than what we think. That’s all. Inside that, the soul is searching again. But it is said, the soul says from himself, "It’s my mistake. I changed. I was on the path, but I left." So it is said, "Fly, fly, oh my dear, fly to the heaven." There was one—I don’t see the cinema, I don’t see this, but sometimes there are some good things in the film. There’s one film made from the seagulls, and many of you know. And it is said, "Go, my dear, go. Fly, my dear, fly. Go." And so our soul has that desire. You are here today. I am here. I can guide you as far as I know the path. But I am sure that if you will continue this, we together, we will be in that eternal joy, peace, and light. Happiness, peace, and light. So finally, our Guru: mother. First mother. "Mātṛ Devo Bhava"—the first God for us is our mother. If she wouldn’t be there, then what would happen? Better not to come. Or there are certain situations and certain people who don’t want the child. When embryos are there, they again, how to say, it’s better not to get. So that’s all. We’ll get some, again, other. So, "Mātṛ Devo Bhava"—first, God is mother. Second, "Pitṛ Devo Bhava"—the father. Then, your Ācārya, your teacher, school teacher, from your kindergarten, primary school, middle school, high school, college, university, etc. This education is for our stomach. It is for our earning, for our living, and then your good friends. And then is Satguru, Dev. That is your Gurudeva, who should and will do it. That is the way that leads to you in that direction, though sometimes it is very hard. It’s very hard. Sometimes it is said, there’s a piece of iron, and now I want to make a nice instrument. This iron I will put in the fire. And then I put iron on the iron and take the hammer. Iron is very red. As red, it can be molded, twisted. And therefore, though you are very soft now, the hammer comes over. Iron said, "Master, you are cruel. I don’t want to." Slowly, slowly, his ego comes back. It is getting hard. The master puts it again in the fire and gives it air. It again becomes hot. He takes the hammer and works it. But the master knows, "I will not destroy this. I will make that kind of tool or some instrument or something everybody will admire and would like to buy." To have it for me. So like this, that is inside the teachings of the Master. Sometimes you think it is very hard, but it is something. Making models is beautiful. They make the beautiful stone, the big stone, the rock. And now the Master brings that rock. And sitting on the rock, he begins to what? Model here, with the iron, and the master is sitting on that rock like this, with the shoes, and working, and then making a cigarette and putting it on the rock like this, yes. But on that one day, that rock becomes a so beautiful statue of Kṛṣṇa, or Rāma, or Buddha, or Jesus, etc. And that master who made this statue and put it on the altar, the same master who was working, hammering that master, falls down in front of that statue and says, "Kṛṣṇa, forgive me. I am your creator, Kṛṣṇa, but now you are my creator." Like this work, how many masters should we have? Our friends, our mother, our father, our teacher, our professor, etc., etc. Through that, we went. The soul is happy, content. I am on the right path. I am on the right path. The knowledge: two kinds of knowledge. One is the knowledge of the śāstras, books, whatever we learn in university, etc. Thanks to God that in this age we have so many possibilities, and our intellect has expanded very much. But spirituality is going down. It is better that the brain and heart are together, as this is the path to spirituality. So, searching for the Master, I am searching for the Master. And when you saw the master, just a glimpse, and then, no, he disappeared. Then you are searching for that one, what I need. So, these girls will sing, "So where your soul is, I can tell you." Maybe you still don’t understand, but in your heart, your inner self is like swimming in very pure water. Free, free, fluttering on that joy or happiness of thy inner self, of thy soul. Let’s come. "Bhagavān Kī Jai Darśan Jaldī Denā." O my Lord, be merciful and give me your visions, your darśan, as soon as possible. Our soul is in our body, thanks to God. Yes? Every part of you is love, and that love is your soul. And that your soul, which is coated round and round by ātmā, ātmā and ātmā is the mixer of that eternal self. But now, in our body, that Ātmā is there. Our soul is in our body. Our soul is the president. Doesn’t matter from which country the president is, everyone will give some commentary to that president, good or bad. But he knows, or she knows, how hard it is to make happy each and every citizen, as well as the protection surrounding the outer world. There are two things. So, within us, all the organs, all the joints, all these five kośas of our body and our mind, our joy, our happiness, our desires, everything is within us, and everyone would like to be happy. Sometimes we have problems with our foot soles. That Jīvā cares about that too. Sometimes he follows, gives more attention towards our foot soles, the problem there. Similarly, we have these two worlds. One is within ourselves, and we each and every one have different desires. Second is outer worlds, which also we have that desire, the difference. Sometimes we swallow in our body someone who speaks badly about us, or someone who is angry with us, or backbites, etc. We swallow this, and when we are swallowing this hard situation from the outer world, the inner world is maybe we can somehow make our citizens happy. But from the outside, sometimes our atom bombs are already there to destroy us. Yes. So we take in our body. We can’t digest. We can’t solve their problem. And we can’t fight against it. Maybe anger of your husband, anger of your wife, anger of your children, anger of your dog, anger of your neighbors, etc., or your boss, your workers, etc. This we take in this body, and one of the organs which is weaker in our body, there it is attacking, that external force, negative. Which is why we are getting in our, our third eye is suffering because we are taking down into the trunk of the body. It goes as a tension first into the brain. The brain is seeking, coming closer and closer, becoming like a very hard, very hard, the, what we call, the dough, the dough of the brain. We made the dough very nicely, and the remaining one, two days, three days, remaining outside on the table, it dries back again and becomes harder and harder, so we have that problem. Many who have that psychic problem, that is, have constant headaches, or loss of memory, many, many things, or our thyroid gland. Many people have problems with the thyroid gland. Because of those certain problems, it must not only be that; there are many different diseases also, but mostly it is the thyroid, and mostly women have this, because not only the different hormonal problems of women’s, but women, they are so there, they take over them. They don’t tell, "I can’t get any more." They will not fight. They said, "Okay," but everything is there. Someone’s liver, someone’s kidneys, someone’s heart, someone’s pancreas, gallbladders, intestines, joints, muscles, eyes, ears, etc. This body God has given us is very pure. Mother gave it very clean and nice, but how did it come externally? And there is this soul, which is suffering. The soul doesn’t dare to go out. And the cell doesn’t desire to stay longer in the body. Where to go? Where to go, my dear? Where to go? So there was one other story I will tell you tomorrow, maybe it’s a little bit long, this story. And so, we have to solve the problems from our brain, again to awaken our brain, to awaken our strength. All strength is here. We can say, okay, doesn’t matter what happened, happened it, okay. I don’t suffer for that. Okay, you can kill me. No problem. That’s it. How heroic you become. Become the hero. Make yourself free. Expand yourself. So begin to make one technique. The theory is that, but there are other techniques. And this technique is to relax and expand that volume of our brains, thinking apart, far away. And this we will do now, okay? Yes, sit nicely in yoga postures. Just not very long. I will not torture you today anymore. Yeah, you think that Swamiji will take so long a time? But you have to sit very straight and very nicely. In yoga postures, the first, we were learning how to chant Oṁ. Navel, from there begins this, the light of the sun. Solar plexus, that is the solar plexus. Now, because we know in our body, according to the chakras and kuṇḍalinī, when we come to the navel, because there is a solar plexus here, now our scientists, they begin to take the light of the Sun, and we made the solar panels to get the light, gets the heat, water, and etc., etc. How we are using the light of the Sun? And so, similarly, that Sun and this Sun have a constant connection. On the day when our soul will say, "Okay, I proceed." Furthermore, that time the body will dissolve. Then the Sun has no connection to this solar plexus. You are, as a soul, our soul is like a light, a beautiful flame. Tomorrow we will go on this path. We will go in. That try to experience or imagine how the light is, then going okay. So there are three letters generally: A, U, M, or OṂ. That’s all. In English, we said "OṂ," but in reality, there are three words but thirty alphabets, and so OṂ comes to the heart, oh, our here, they’re here. Oh, we learned yesterday, no, then double, then making the volume in the, in our, listen, listen, the vocal cords. And in this part of our hearing and our mouth, then we close the lips, so this humming sound touches Bindu cakra and Sahasrāra cakra that time, you will feel that a very wide volume appears in front of you. That is how your tension, your headaches, your many problems are going to be dissolved. Also, there will be other training in this. Of other techniques, there are a few which will help our thyroid as well as solar plexus and the different things. Yoga is the union of the body, mind, and soul. Yoga in daily life is for harmony of body, mind, and soul. Good health for body, mind, and soul. Physical, mental, social, and spiritual health, physical, mental, social, and spiritual health through the science of yoga in daily life. I’m not telling because it’s our system we developed, but sometimes I’m sorry for how many people in the world are teaching different wrong teachings of yoga. They think yoga is only torturing the body like this and like this. Yeah, like I spoke before, the master with the hammer. But people are coming this side. So one man had a problem with the back, and he was going like this and went to the orthopedic doctor. He was going like this, and the orthopedic doctor said, "Lie down and step on it." So it was like this. At home, he came home like that. So that is the position and condition of the people who teach wrong techniques. My dear, a-a, it means double a. But don’t make a cut. It should go smoothly, sound, like how Susie was singing. Or our opera singer, you know how their voice is, they don’t make like this, no. It was constantly, constantly. It’s a training, and that was music and singer. They have to work with the solar plexus and abdomen. So similarly, oh, sorry, oh, oh... But not like this, wait, I’m cutting. So, got it? Yes. Second, your palms make the hollow of the palm like this, and just bring them close to your ears, so you don’t hear from outside. Now you will hand down. Now you will hear like you are under the water, yes. When you dive deep and you listen to the sound of the ocean, similarly, we are creating that kind of. The vacuum will transfer the energy, the resonance, into the brain. It means it will awaken; it will vibrate each and every cell of the brain, the circulation of every nerve. It is the one of the best treatment for the depression. Those who have depression, give this technique. Second, the memory: how to awaken again our memory through this technique. And there are many others; we will continue. It is already time; it is gone. People are waiting to go to sleep, so like this, close your eyes. Ten, eleven times you will change. Oh, eleven times, keep your hands like this. If you cannot, pre-hold like that, you can do. Like this, okay? But don’t make a vacuum; somewhere sound goes out. So, it’s your hands on your knees. Eleven times already? Still, we have the journey to our soul, the eternal journey, but still that ātmā, jīvātmā, is still within. It is not easy to leave your body and go out, and I don’t want that you go out from your body, so don’t be worried, don’t be afraid. We will do something which is, we are coming first to that Kriyā, the solar plexus Kriyā. This is the light of the Sun, our chakras and Kuṇḍalinī, according to yoga and their life. We will continue, and so what we, this technique which I taught you, is. It is about three percent. How much? Three percent. We have a long way to go. Therefore, I wish you good night. All the best. Hari Om. "Dīp Nāyār Bhagavān Kī Jai."

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