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The qualities of a Hatha Yogi

The Haṭha Yogī possesses ultimate power through supreme discipline and purification. A true Haṭha Yogī masters the ten senses and is indifferent to nourishment, heat, or cold. Such a yogī renounces worldly attachments and views ordinary human concerns as insignificant. Attaining this state grants powers surpassing even the gods, as illustrated by a story where a Haṭha Yogī dismisses Śiva himself, demonstrating absolute independence. This path purifies the five sheaths—Annamaya, Prāṇamaya, Manomaya, Vijñānamaya, Ānandamaya—through rigorous techniques like Neti and Dhauti. The perfected yogī achieves Siddhis, moving through solid matter, as embodied by past masters like Alakpurījī and Devapurījī. Their purified elements make them sometimes visible, sometimes not, representing the ultimate Śiva form.

"A real Haṭha Yogī will say, 'These other humans, they are just like worms in the world.'"

"If you want to give me something or if you want to give something, go away from here. Śiva, go."

Filming location: Vép, Hungary

Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān kī. Devadhī Dev, Deveśvar Mahādev. Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān kī. Satya Sanātana Dharma kī. Alakpurījī Mahādeva kī. Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān kī. yajayakandapadamuhratabhavabhandanah hariyom yajayajayagurutayahsagurumuratidari. Oṁ Svāyāṁ Guru Murati Dhārika Yaved Purāṇa Kaharayas Guru Mahābhar Oṁ Jaya Jaya... Guru Yagya Ardhan Havan pabahubhati ki aswami bahubhati ki ina guru-jnana ho prabhu-jnana ho Bhattak Bhattakare Hari Om Jaya Jaya... Guru Māyā Saṁsāra Bhava Sāgara Bhava Svāmī Bhava Sāgara Bhava Ṣaṭ Saṅgha Jaya Chalakame Tyāri Hari Om Jaya Jaya... Guru Kali Yuga Me Rūpa Visaraja O Swāmīru, pavisaraja, śabhāko guru samajāvatas, prabhujī samajāvatyāt, batalat. Āryo dhan man dhan yār pan Gurū sevāpah, At jod yār jī karu. Āryo jaya jaya... Gurū Śrī Deepa Prabhu Sat Nā Manas Deepa Dayālo, Nija Manase Deepa Dayāla Kṛpā. Satguru Swāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān kī Alag Purījī Mahādeva kī Sabṛṣi Muni Mahātmā kī Jai Hari Om. The webcast is beginning already. So, we continue our Haṭha Yoga. Haṭha Yoga is a very big chapter. If you become a Haṭha Yogī, you are the greatest one. If you become that real Haṭha Yogī, you need not long for the Brahma Jñāna. A Haṭha Yogī has great adoration and respect in the whole universe. But if you are really a Haṭha Yogī, a Haṭha Yogī has to control all ten indriyas—the jñānendriyas and the karmendriyas. The Haṭha Yogī has to have control over nourishment. If you get something, you have it. If you don’t get something, you don’t have it. Also, that Haṭha Yogī is above hot or cold. There are many qualities of the Haṭha Yogī. Do you want to become the Haṭha Yogī? Then you have to renounce many, many things. Yes, otherwise, that real Haṭha Yogī says—it’s not a good word to use, excuse me, please—but a real Haṭha Yogī will say, "These other humans, they are just like worms in the world." Sorry, maybe I am also included. Haṭha Yoga. A Haṭha Yogī has all the powers of the universe. That Haṭha Yogī, when he achieves that level, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva—the Haṭha Yogī doesn’t care about anyone. There is one beautiful story about a Haṭha Yogī. And there are many stories with Śiva, because Śiva is also a Haṭha Yogī. Śiva has many forms, many, many things. We can’t understand him, and he has no one, neither back, behind, nor in the front, nor our present. That Śiva has no father and no mother. He himself, we don’t know how he did it, he manifested a beautiful human form and began the creation. So one evening, at eleven o’clock or twelve o’clock already, a little cold, about 10 degrees, and a little bit raining, very fine drops. And Śiva and Pārvatī, they said, let’s go for a walk. Śiva said, "This time of the night, you want to go for a walk?" She said, "My Lord, I have a feeling to go with you for a walk." We don’t know what was the reason that Pārvatī wanted to go now for a walk. So, from one hill to the other hill, it was a small village, somewhere about 30–50 houses, and the graveyard was about one kilometer far from the village. So Śiva and Pārvatī were passing there. And suddenly, there was some fire burning in the distance. Pārvatī said, "Why, at midnight, here some fire, some coal burning?" Śiva said it is a graveyard, a cemetery. She said, "Let’s go in that direction." She said, "It’s not nice to go there, but I want to go." He said, "It’s your business." She said, "I’m very curious, I want to see why the fire is there." So Śiva said, "Okay, darling, let’s go." He said, "My goddess." So they went. And about 50 or 100 meters distance, there was sitting one man, like a bodybuilder, very nice, no dress, only a little cloth. And he’s very happy, and he’s baking his chapati, it’s called Hanumanjī rot, big chapati, not little, little, and ghee, and chapati, and this, and that—no, no, the Haṭha Yogī doesn’t like this, everything inside, one in all, all in one. And we are taking this, and then from this here. This is our indriyam, the svādha indriyam, the indriyam of the taste. Pārvatī stopped him and she said, "My Lord,"—"Yes, my Devī? Why do you stop?"—"My Lord, I can’t understand you," she said. "My God, what have I done?" she said. "Yes," she said, "what? It’s not that. There is something," he said. "He’s a yogī, and he’s picking his chapati. That I know, but why is he baking his plate or chapati on the fire of the dead body?" Their body was burned there. Such a great yogī. And Śiva, you have no mercy. You can’t give the facilities for this yogī to cook somewhere like this. And other people, they don’t even think of you, Śiva. And they have a lot of eating and this and that, and they are enjoying. Why don’t you give him a little comfort? Śiva said, "Better I should not have come this direction." She said, "Don’t make excuses. So what should I do?" Śiva said, "Go and give him something: money, gold, or something." She said, "I want to give him, but he will not accept." "You give, and he will not take? Go and offer it to him. I want to see if he will take it or not." Śiva said, "Should I do?" "Yes, my lord." Then Śiva said, "Stay a little distance behind that bush. I will go and give this Haṭha Yogī... what should I give him? Some cloth, an umbrella, some money—these, this, that, many things." Bhagavān Śiva is standing in front of the Haṭha Yogī, and his yogī is very happy and singing bhajan. So, he is baking his chapati. Śiva is standing there, one minute, two minutes, three minutes, four minutes, and Śiva said, "Haṭha yogīs have no fear. Even if the tiger comes, the lion comes, that is it. I am above death. I am above my body." Again he said, the yogī said, "Who is there? Śiva, why did you come here?" And Pārvatī puts her finger in a band under the teeth. How can he answer like this to Śiva? "Why did you come here?" "I want to give you something, Yogī Rāj?" Śiva said. "When did I beg from you? I didn’t ask you to give me anything. Why did you make the troubles?" But he’s not looking up. He’s happy to make his chapati this, that, and this, like a little child. Śiva said, "But I want to give you something." "But I told you, I don’t need anything from you, and I didn’t ask you for anything, and I didn’t invite you to come here." Pārvatī is powerless. What will I answer to my Lord? She is coming a little closer. Bhagavān Śiva said, "Yogīrāj, it’s my principle when I come that I must give something. I don’t go without giving something. But I told you, ‘I don’t need anything.’ But I can’t go. Ask something." He didn’t look up. This yogī, how looks the Śiva? He has no interest to see Śiva. Śiva will come to me. If he wants, who says? Haṭha yogī. Yes, you want to become a Haṭha yogī? Śiva said, "Yogīrāj, ask something. Without giving, I will not go." So that Yogīrāj, the Haṭha Yogī, said, "If you want to give me something or if you want to give something, go away from here. Śiva, go." Śiva just went by, and Pārvatī was behind. After one or two kilometers, Pārvatī said, "My Lord, I’m sorry." He said, "I told you, my Devī, don’t disturb the Yogīrāj. Don’t make troubles. The best is only to surrender and do whatever. He tells you to do otherwise, let him go, that’s it." But Pārvatī said, "But my Lord, you are the yogī of the yogīs." Śiva said, "Yes, but this is a Haṭha Yogī. Even I cannot argue with him. Let’s go." And so is the power, energy, the brave, brave, etc., of the Haṭha Yogī. So, out of certain millions or one billion or three billions, maybe one Haṭha Yogī comes. That is the avatāra, and that is the Śiva Avatāra. It was Śiva itself, but this was the Māyā, the game of Śiva. And so, Haṭha Yoga is very disciplined, very humble, very kind. And if he can look at you, you can’t imagine what you get. So Holy Gurujī said that Mahāprabhujī, saying to Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī said, "If I just look, my eyes toward that person, the millions surrender to that person. If from my kṛpā, if I just look with..." My kṛpā. So, the kṛpā is within Mahāprabhujī. Kṛpā is within Yogīrāj. Kṛpā is with that one who is completely purified and has no anger, hate, jealousy, offense, anything. And therefore, Haṭha Yoga is a purification of all five kośas: Annamaya, Prāṇamaya, Manomaya, Vijñānamaya, Ānandamaya. And these are the Ānandamaya kośas. These five bodies, these five elements, when they purify the yogī, he can go through the rock. He just goes to the rock, disappears, and the other side appears. And that was the siddhi of Śrī Alakpurījī. And that, Alakpurījī, God gave the blessings from this to Devapurījī. And Devapurījī’s guffā, there was just nothing, it was some stones. Only glaciers. Nothing to eat. No one will go and give them food. We cannot imagine how he stayed so many years, maybe because he was a Haṭha Yogī. He could walk, but above the earth, on the water, through the rock, with the wind, Devapurījī. That was a Mahāyogī, a Haṭha Yogī, Śiva. Therefore, we call Devādhi Dev, Deveśvar Mahādev. There are many stories. Many of you have heard, there is one Paṇḍit from the Kailash village. And this man is already about 100, above 100 years, and whenever I go to come to Jaipur, if he hears, then he comes to visit me, and he tells the story about Devapurījī. And so he said, "When I was small, that Paṇḍitjī was a little boy, and he was going with his father to Devapurījī’s ashram. So one day, what happened? Devapurījī had some kind of problem in the lower leg. So that was a big wound on his thigh. So Paṇḍitjī said, 'My father is sitting, I am sitting, and Devapurījī was sitting like this, and it was swollen.' And so my father said, 'Gurudev, why don’t you put some medicine?' Or something. He said, 'Does it disturb you?' 'No, not disturb, but I am sorry.' So he took the knife. It was not a knife, it was an axe. So he took the axe. Who? Devapurījī, and he took his dhoti up like this, and he began to peel everything away: all the bones and nerves, and this was there, other skin and flesh. Everything, everything away, and he took his turban and he wrapped it around the leg. And he put it like this. 'Now it’s okay?' Paṇḍitjī and his child, they were. So the Paṇḍitjī said, 'Guru, Devapurījī said, okay?' 'Yes, Guru Dev.' They left. Next day, Paṇḍitjī came, and the same boy came with him. And Devapurījī said, 'Oh, good, come out.' And he opened the bandage of the turban. And the whole leg was completely covered with good skin and hair and everything." This story that Paṇḍitjī always tells me when he comes to the Jayapurashram, and some of you know this, and Umapurī has recorded this story. So this is a Siddha, Siddha yogīs. Alakpurījī is a Siddha yogī. And in the Himalayas, there are many Siddhas, but they are not visible. They are with five elements, but their element is so much purified that it is sometimes visible and sometimes not visible. And that’s called the Haṭha Yogī. Haṭha Yogī Rāj. And that becomes as a Śiva-Śava-Rūpa. So, sorry, the Haṭha Yoga kriyās, five kriyās, is a purification: Neti, Dhauti, Basti, Nauli, Trāṭaka, Kapālabhāti. These are six purifications through which Prāṇa is purified. Then, coming prāṇayāmas, kuṇḍalinī, etc., etc. So we will continue again about a Haṭha Yogī. Haṭha yogī said, who said? Himanta Ahadhayogī. One side is the mother, the other side is the son, the other side is the mother, the son, the mother, the mother, the son, the mother, the mother,... the mother... the mother, the mother. Thank you for watching.

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