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Part 1: The Peril of Pride and the Power of Satsaṅga Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai! Śrī Śrī Dev Purīṣa Mahādeva Kī Jai! Satguru Swāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jai! Ālak Purījī Mahādeva Kī Jai! Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai! Gurur Brahma, Gurur Viṣṇu, Gurur Devo Maheśvara, Gurur Sākṣāt Paraṁ Brahma, Tasmai Śrī Guruve Namaḥ. Dhyāna mūlaṁ guru mūrti, pūjā mūlaṁ guru padam. Dīpa brahma sarve śubhaṁ karoti, kalyāṇam, arogyaṁ, dhanasampada. Udvegavināśaya, prakāśaya, dīpajyoti parabrahma. Dīpaṁ sarve mohaśāntiṁ karotu. Śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ. With adoration to our Ālakpurījī Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā, to our dear sisters and brothers from different nations here in our beautiful ashram in the Czech Republic. It is a beautiful country with beautiful people and nature. It is peaceful, as is Slovakia. This is a very special country. But we should learn and know what we are doing. Many of you are advanced bhaktas, practitioners of Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī, yoga, and daily life. This afternoon, I received some inspiration about what to speak. Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī, and Gurujī have given us too much. When children get too much, they become spoiled. They become spoiled in that way: we bring ice cream, one says no, they want a different color; another wants cake; another wants biscuits; another wants nothing because there is too much choice. Between the First World War and the Second World War, people did not choose; they just took what was available, and they were happy and learned a lot. I was not here then, but for many people, even white sugar was unavailable. Now we do not want to eat sugar, saying it is not healthy. When I was here in this country in 1973, it was a different government, but the country, the vegetation, and the people did not change. There were principles then. One doctor, my disciple and translator, would say when we went shopping, "Take it, take as much as you can. You don't know if it will be here tomorrow. Today there are beautiful apples, but tomorrow there may not be. There will be bananas..." Now we have everything, and we do not want to eat it. Humans are never content. If you give them this, they are not happy. If you give them too much, they are not happy. Some people just want to say, "No, I don't like this." It is the same with all the different paths we follow. Some think, "I know everything. I am strong." But it is said, "Oh human, oh man, do not be proud of thy body, and do not be proud of your little, tiny knowledge." You are running with a little needle, thinking it is your powerful weapon, but when the big arrow comes? That is different, but this arrow is nothing. We have the gun. That is also now nothing. The bomb. Atom bombs. But still, they are not happy. Like this, people are not happy, and their unhappiness makes others confused. Stay, remain, and continue on your path. There are people with ego. They think, "I am powerful, I will destroy everything." There is one story about a very ancient forest with ten-thousand-year-old trees. What are you humans making yourselves? You are 50 years, 100 years, now 120 years. There are trees... when we go to the Himalayas and Ādiguru Śaṅkarācārya's monastery, his ashram, there is a banyan tree. How old is it? Five hundred? No, more than thousands. Three thousand, and it is still there. One day in the forest, a very nice yogī was living, peaceful, full of vivekā, like Arjun Purī. Arjun Purī had a mālā in his hand and was walking through the forest. There was one tree, very, very old. About thirty-five people had to hold hands to cover the branch or the trunk. We do not know if the tree grows again and again, or if the navel grows, but it was like that. No storm could break it. The tree was very proud of this. The yogī was sitting under the tree, looking very sad. The tree asked, "Mahārāj jī, Swāmījī, yogī Mahārāj, why are you so sad? You are a yogī; you have no sorrows. Whether you die or are alive, you are beyond." He said, "I am sad about you." "You are worried about me?" He said, "Yes, not only you, but all this forest, thousands and thousands of kilometers of forest. I see its destruction." "It will not happen, Mahārāj Swāmījī." He said, "Yes, I know you are very strong. But there is one enemy, your enemy, my enemy." "I am so strong; hails, storms, earthquakes can come. I stand through." He said, "But there is your enemy that is stronger than you. Who is that?" "That is still not born." "Still not born? You are making sorrows. Mahārāj Jī, how do you know he is not born?" "I know your destiny, and your destiny has come clear. I know." "So, how strong is it? How big?" He said, "It is about 15 centimeters wide and 20 centimeters long." The old tree laughed. "Swami, sometimes you speak like a little child. Where is that?" "He is going to be born. Where? At the blacksmith." "At the blacksmith? Yes. What will that be?" "That blacksmith is creating, making the instrument out of iron. That is called the axe." "All right, thank you. Don't waste your time; go and meditate." He went away. After 20 years, Bābājī came again. Hundreds of hectares of the forest were chopped up, and this big tree was lying there as dry wood. Gurujī came and looked and said, "Pity, I told him." He said to the trunk, "Tell me, please, how did this small axe cut your whole forest?" The tree said, "Yes, Swamiji. That axe did not have that much power. But my family members, my friends in this forest, they joined with the axe. What? That long handle. Our forest became that handle. They joined with the axe, and it gave the power." He said, "Yes." Similarly, you come to achievement in your sādhanā after many, many years. But be careful. Some negative elements come. They have a mental disease called schizophrenia, hallucination. There are different kinds of schizophrenia and depressions, and that can give us death or destroy us. That is called blackmailing. Therefore, Mahāprabhujī said, "Satguru satsaṅg yārī olu avere, olu avere nen bharja avere." I am longing for those people who have satsaṅg. It does not matter your guru or my guru or her guru or their guru, but when there is Satguru, then it is one. And Mahāprabhujī said, "Sometimes I cannot see any bhakta who is for the satsaṅg, and I shed a tear for my bhaktas' love." Love is strong. You cannot hide love, and you cannot destroy that love. That love is within you. This body has no strength. The mind has some strength, but the mind also becomes very weak when love is there. And what is that love? The spiritual God's knowledge. There is only one word: love. Do you write? I do not know any Czech language. Do you write 'loves'? But when many are... okay, but still it is love, not loves. That is it. Even if you multiply it, like God is only one God. Only one God. You may say God Kṛṣṇa, God Rāma, Śiva, or God Jesus, or any gods. So we say God Jesus, God Rāma, God Kṛṣṇa. These are only the names. But only one is that which is God, G-O-D. God is Brahma. 'G' is generation, generating; 'O' is that strength, the power; and 'D' is that which is destroyed again. So Brahma, Viṣṇu and Śiva: G-O-D. But we can give them other names. Therefore, as much as you are developing spiritually, you are in danger. As much as you spiritually develop, you are in danger. So you have to take care, like a newborn child. You have to take care; there can be many different kinds of infections. You are now born a spiritual soul, but there are many negative infections. Many times, even the... one word I have forgotten... but the Rākṣasas came as a Śiva, exactly like a Śiva, and everybody thought he was Śiva. But he was a Rākṣasa. At night he became a Rākṣasa, and nobody could kill him. Others tried to take his head away. The Rākṣasa's power returned. Ultimately, only the Śakti, the Devī, could do it. She knows, and she can destroy that Rākṣasa. So we have to come to the satsaṅgas. And you should take care that in satsaṅgas there is not somebody like that Rākṣasa. You remember, in the Satyuga, during the churning of the ocean, they finally got the nectar, which grants immortality. Who would drink it? They would become immortal. Then God had to make a trick. Sometimes God has to become a different form. He can become like a woman, or a woman can become like a man. Or one can become half-animal and half-human. In your European methodologies, these are half-Greek, half-animal and half-human: half-fish and half-human. That word is called Matsya, an incarnation. Out of the twenty-four incarnations, if Viṣṇu were to come, the Rākṣasas would not accept. If Śiva came, neither the devas nor the Rākṣasas would be happy, because He balances and takes care of them. Otherwise, the Rākṣasas would destroy the whole Earth. And Brahmā? They would not like Him either. So Viṣṇu came as a woman. What was her name? Mohinī. What is a Mohinī? A beautiful, attractive woman. She was so beautiful that even some ṛṣis who did not want to see a woman, when she walked like this, they would look, and once again they would look. Yes, you would see twice. Or a man, a beautiful woman... and this lady does not like any woman... and this man is walking like our own Prakash, and this woman said, "Attraction!" That is called the iron and magnesium. No, these both. Mohinī came, did a beautiful dance, and she had the nectar in her armpit. She said, "I will give you the nectar. Stand here, do not fight. Everybody, just hold your cup. I have this pot, and I will pour into your glass." But it was one pot that had two parts. You know, about thirty years ago or more, they made a tea thermos with two parts. One side was milk tea, the other side was herbal tea. Only one thermos. You only press this finger or that finger. Do you know? So, when the devas came, Mohinī was giving from this side to the devas. They were drinking and were happy. On the other side was soma, alcohol. It went to the Rākṣasas, and the Rākṣasas like alcohol. So the devas were happy, and the Rākṣasas were drunk. One Rākṣasa thought, "This must be Viṣṇu. There must be something wrong. There is something black in my rice." He ran to the other side and changed to look like a deva, and he put his hand only like that. Mohinī put it in his drink; he drank, and Viṣṇu said, "Oh, this is a Rākṣasa." He sent the Sudarśana Cakra. The Rākṣasa ran just ten, fifteen meters, and his neck was chopped. The Rākṣasa said, "One head here and half body here, and this mouth is talking. Tricky Vishnu, you cannot kill me. The nectar went into my navel. Where is the nectar? In the navel. From here, but here is raw material. The reality is here." That became called Rāhu and Ketu. In these nine planets, two are Rāhu and Ketu. Rāhu is the head, and Ketu is the trunk. And Rāhu said, "Vishnu, be careful. I will not let any of your work be successful. I will destroy." And so Rāhu and Ketu and Saturn, then according to constellation, be sure that you are in a very dangerous situation. May you die. Let us say we are not talking about astrology, but one drop of this nectar or one drop of the poison. So, in Mahāprabhujī's Vijñānī Gītā, He said that in the satsaṅg, if some kuṣaṅga comes, then it is like a bite of a poisonous snake. That poisonous snake only bites one, but such a negative person who comes can bite more. Therefore, in Vijñāna Dīpa Gītā, Mahāprabhujī said, "Listen to Satguru's vākyas, a real saint, not one who is schizophrenic, depressive, angry." If someone says, "I will destroy," that one is not good. It means that is mentally ill. And that poison is more dangerous than the cobra's poison. Therefore, Mahāprabhujī said, "Chanting, chant." Oh, my mind! Mahāprabhujī is not telling you, but he is telling himself. It means all bhaktas, we should be telling whom? Our mind. The mind can kill you. The mind can destroy you. The mind can liberate you. Always, you must every morning say, "Oh, my dear mind, I worship you, my mind." Yes, otherwise your mind becomes angry, splitting, yes, separating people. One ashram separating to the second ashram is like when one family has three children or four children. Either they will separate everything before, or when the parents die, then three persons. Part 2: The Narrow Path in the Dark Night Sisters and brothers, I want to have one big piece of my cake. Others said, "No, you get only a corner." A third said, "No, completely half-half." Then the mind is so happy. Yes. You will get only 20%. And from that 20%, you will get only 15%. The rest I will give to someone. Who is that? Who will get more? You get 15%, she gets 15%, he gets 15%. Lawyers. Yes, then the lawyer, then you sell your property, and you will fight the lawyer. The lawyer said, "Oh, and we need a very good judge, like our Santosh." His name is Santosh, but he is a lawyer, the judge, and she will make Santosh for all. How? Fifteen percent? Fifteen and fifteen. Take it, or we will go further. Ten, twenty years the case will run. And you have to pay my fees, so from your 15%, it’s gone. Now you have to take a loan. You are destroyed. Similarly, when you have that vṛtti in your mind, then you are destroyed. Therefore, slowly, slowly, we have to achieve the peak of the mountain. You are walking too quickly. I know that you know, but I knew, did not know. When I came to Europe for the first time, then I realized what Mahāprabhujī said. And that was this: > "Galiyāṁ choṭī, rāt andherī, rāste meṁ chikanāī, agar sirpte pāv tū mā padho gayun thikhāyī, mannā dheere dheerā sā gagam chajna yom dheerā hai sā." Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān, "Galiyāṁ choṭī"—the path is very narrow. This side is the kuśaṅga (bad company). This side is the enemy. It’s very narrow. This side is the rākṣasa. This side is the wild animals. Galia choti. We have a very thin path in this Kali Yuga. They will, many will try to throw you down on the other side. And what is more dangerous? Because the night is very dark, with high clouds, otherwise there could be a little bit of light from the stars, but it is dark and dark and dark. What kind of darkness? Ignorance, ignorance, ignorance. We don’t know what was in our past life. And we don’t know what will happen in one second. That is called darkness. We may make so many plans: "It is mine, I will enjoy this, that, that." But when you were born, you came with a closed fist. And the nurse or the mother, they will make the hands clean, no? But when you die, your hands will remain. So we don’t know what you brought with, but death will say, "Open your palms." So, leave everything here. Yes? Yes or no? So, that is a darkness. We don’t know what will happen in the next minutes. In India, we say, good, you are talking about tomorrow. But you don’t know about one second. Therefore, between this one second, take the name of God, Mahāprabhujī. That is our liberation. So, ignorance is the darkness. Galia choti, rath andheri, or rasteme chiknai, and the road is very slippery. Yes, now when I came first time to Europe, and then it was, I came on 3rd March 1973 to Czechoslovakia. And there was so much snow. In the morning, I just went out, and I was falling down. I said, "It’s so slippery." Okay, in 1977 or ’76, I was living with Mātājī in Kalyanpuri. Unfortunately, she died, and so I had my room. Then Matajī had her room, living room. And she wanted to teach me the German language. One day I said, "Yes." Another day I said, when I didn’t like Matajī, "I am still your guru." You teach me. It was this. But she put me with television, black and white. And there were children’s films and things like that. And you all know exactly twelve was finished, the national anthem. But now there is no National 24. So we were, Mataji and me, we were watching television on Christmas. And we wanted to be up until midnight. It was about 17 degrees minus. A lot of snow, and suddenly it became frozen. And Matajī said, "Now at 12, the bell will ring in the church." I’m not making a joke. You will say that Swāmījī is telling now something and something. I give you practical experiences. So, there was a balcony. The balcony was only one meter and thirty centimeters. And three and a half meters long. And there was down, we were on the second floor, and the people, they chafed some tree branches. So, Matajī said, I said, "When is the bell?" She said, "Now it will be, you can listen." I opened the door, and I had some shoes, house shoes, slippery. And there was snow and it was sniffly. I put my one leg in, and within a second, I was... My two legs in the, this is what you call the... Railing. Huh? Railing. Yeah, railing. Till my knees. And I’m like this. And Matajī came, and she pulled me out. I told you. And she closed again. So slippery. That’s why Mahāprabhujī said, so, this example. So we know we have knowledge. We have a lot of knowledge. We have more knowledge than before 100 years, but still, one thing we cannot cross over. We cannot go. We cannot say what will happen in one second. And so, Mahāprabhujī’s bhajans, and we know Devpurījī’s people saw that he walked on the water. He could go through the rock, and he could walk in the air. Now we have this evidence again at Alakpurījī’s Siddha Pīṭha in the Himalayas, at Devpurījī’s Gufā, 5,000—I think 600 meters height. It’s not easy. Today, Vivek Purī and Ānandī were in Ālakpurījī’s Gufā, and they were cleaning everything because Swāmījī is coming. And now they are in Badrināth again, and in two or three days they will go to Devapurījī’s Gufā. And there is someone here who was in Devapurījī’s Gufā. Who was? You have to stand up. Yes. And how is the hard way? Can you tell us a little bit? How hard? "I was so blessed, so I practiced two months before. I live in Hungary, and I did the mountain side. So I walked every day in the mountains. So it was difficult, but it was so much prāṇa. The Hungarian mountain is so high. That’s a good idea. It was just like 800 meters. Okay, sorry, sorry, go ahead. But it was so much prāṇa, very pure prāṇa, and I felt the blessing of Swāmījī, Gurujī. Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī, Alāpurījī, all on the way, and it was a really beautiful path. To feel the Satopan, to go the way of the Pāṇḍavas, it’s really a blessing. The Depo-Rigi Gufā was beautiful. I took a few pictures, and in one picture, I saw what looked like a cliff smiling. That was the Depo-Rīgī Gufā, a big smile. I said, this is Devpurījī’s smile." And you go to Sātopat? Yes. Yes, Suryakuṇḍ? Suryakuṇḍ and Satopaṭ, the lake. And Śāstradhara falling, but thousands of the waterfalls. And then they put it here. Yes. That was the highest point. There is the Vishṇukuṇḍ. Vishṇukuṇḍ is so beautiful. So many thousand herbs everywhere. So we arrived, and all the sādhvīs and all the Sherpas took Yoga Nidrā because everybody was very tired. And then everybody slept like half an hour in really deep Yoga Nidrā. That was an amazing experience. Where there were thousands of plants and everyone was tired, so he had to rest, but it was all very beautiful. Thank you. Keśanām Sipan. So, what I want to tell you is, that we are Bhaktas. I am like you, and you are like me, I hope. But we know, we have evidence of how it was Mahāprabhujī and Devapurījī and Alakpurījī’s visions, which I had, the very mighty man, height, and so, but it was like in the fog, in the clouds, two times or three times. Shanti had once or twice, but her vision was more wide between two mountains. So, I can tell you, be sure that we will. But if you are in your ignorance, and if someone is talking stupid, then you will go on inside, so that’s very nice. So there are different kinds of paths we have: yoga. The word is only yoga, like only God. God or yoga, now we give the name just to who brought this more message. Now, yoga in daily life is about... I came to Holī Gurujī in Nepal in 1965. And there I began to learn from Gurujī. I was going to school. Anyhow, and now this, how many around the world, and how many million people have learned yoga in their life? How many books have been published? How many thousands of books are sold? In Czechoslovakia time, in communist time, the first book was published thousands in and Slovakia, what do you call it, Zvolen, and then in Prague, which a big company called Moravka and another one more. At this time, under Yugoslavia, in Hungary, books were how many thousands? And on Christmas day, one week or ten days before Christmas, about two or three thousand books were sold. And many people at that time were emigrating. And they had all the time, they had their book, Yoga and Dead Life, in Gurujī’s, Mahāprabhujī’s photos, and they went to Australia, America, many countries. How many books in German language, Croatian, Slovenian, etc.? And how many teachers have taught yoga to how many people? It must not be that one who came to me and got a blessing. And one book, how many people have learned from that one book? So, around the whole world, millions of people have practiced and are practicing yoga in daily life. And still, it is you who brought this. I am only the medium. But you learned, you understood, you got benefit, and you are giving. And many people are teaching yoga in daily life, earning money. Why not? I’m happy that at least they have something. So, therefore, Yoga in Daily Life has become that system. And that’s just named yoga in daily life, but in reality, it is only yoga. But this yoga in daily life has certain techniques and messages of the masters. Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh, also millions of bhaktas or practitioners have practiced from Swami Sivanandaji. In the whole world, there are Sivananda Yoga schools. And that is very sāttvic, very good. Sivananda practice, everything is very, very good. They are not always changing. They are not changing that. I will have your kundalini going up and your kundalini going down. Our Swami Sivananda yoga schools around the world have a very good name. There was an Iyengar who was an acrobatic yogī, and many people liked that. He also had millions of people. So there are many good yogīs who gave the message of yoga to the whole world. And out of them we are also, but sometimes, like some fruit is got rotten. And they are like a water bubble. So you should not fall into the water bubbles, so practice slowly. Take care of yourself, and if anyone begins to talk something negative, that time you have to show your, like, a... like a what? Like a Shiva, what they call the Śilabdāns, you see, that’s why the spiritual or all God is, they have two things in their hands. Weapon and blessing. What do you want? Holy Gurujī said to me when I was coming back from school, "Did you learn something or not? Did you clean the room?" So Gurujī said, I said, "Yes." Do you need laddū? Kolachka? Or a stick? I said laddū. So there is both: we have to be strict, and we have to be very soft. So when some people are trying to make you stupid, so therefore Mahāprabhujī said in his Vidyā Vibhāgītā, from there, you go away. If you cannot, then close your ears or walk away. So this is now this Kali Yuga, that many spiritual bhaktas, people, they will remain very little. And there, many, many years, disciples... Suddenly this Rākṣasa gives, you know, what was it? What they call the Dracula, yes? Did you see the Dracula dance? And when they were dancing, they were not visible in the mirror. And like this, such people are not visible; they are looking like this. And then they will dance with them, and they hug them. Here. That’s finished. So that poison has gone in, and very soon after biting, in a few hours, your teeth don’t go like this. What to do? That’s why sometimes even you are against your guru. Your Guru Vakya, you lost it. You know what will happen? Your ego, your attachment, your pride. You think, "I am bigger now." But we are not. We are always humble. We should be humble to all. Even in the Rakṣasa, we should say, "Thank you, Hari Om," and I go. No argument, take your yoga mat, open the boot of your car, inside key, hurry home. Dracula can run behind you, yes. They can come as a horse, many, many things. Therefore, Gurudev. Protect us, and that’s why I was telling you these stories. The mighty tree was destroyed by a little axe, and if not that, then they will get into your stomach. Yes, your enemy will enter your stomach. I don’t know, but there was one story about something. One very alcoholic person, so he was so alcoholic he couldn’t give up. He tried to give up, but alcohol didn’t want to give him up. So one day he gave up, and he said, "I will not be at this." And then the story is something different, but I have forgotten. So that Rākṣasa who wants to destroy you... Went a little like this with alcohol in the bottle. And that’s your enemy laughing. Now, with this alcohol, I will go into your stomach, and then I will destroy you. I give you an example. Our mighty, beautiful tree, no one could think that this tree can break. Why did this tree break? Because there were some worms inside, like termites, and they made it empty. They hollowed out the whole area, the trunk of the tree, and with the storm, it fell down. Inside, these birds have eaten so much. The trunk is lying there; you can walk in and out. So also, like diabetes, diabetes is the same thing. So likewise, a negative people in the satsaṅg comes; they are not coming to the satsaṅg. Therefore, it is said, so, this I will... Aśvara Rāmjī’s bhajans, very beautiful. Gurujī often was singing this bhajan early morning, 3:30, and said to me, he called me, "Glass of water." "Yes, Gurujī." "Sit down, mālā pharo, meditate." Then Gurujī will say, "O Śrī, yeah." And if I do like this, you will say, "This is a cruel master." So now, Master, they are afraid of the disciples. O my friend, be alert. Don’t be cheated. This city is the city of the cheaters. With alcohol and this, they will pull you down. It means ignorance. So there are so many, so many great saints. Look, Paramahaṁsa Rāmakṛṣṇa, look, Rāmakṛṣṇa, if you want something to, and his wife, Śāradā Devī, both great, holy, and their disciples, Vivekānanda, so there are many. Read their history and look to them. So, when somebody is coming, they are mentally ill. If somebody will say he is drinking alcohol. Did you not see? Drink alcohol? Of course I can drink. But why should he drink? So many, many things we have to be careful about. I give you a warning.