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Part 1: The Essence of the Guru Guru is Brahmā, Guru is Viṣṇu, Guru is Lord Maheśvara; Guru is verily the Supreme Brahman. Therefore, I bow to that revered Guru. The root of meditation is the Guru, the root of worship is the Guru’s form, the innermost essence is the Guru’s word, the root of liberation is the Guru’s grace. The Guru is Brahmananda, the supreme bliss, the embodiment of pure knowledge, beyond duality, like the vast sky, the primordial symbol of all. I bow to the One, the only reality, the pure abode, the witness of all states, beyond time, free from the three guṇas, the true Guru. Om Śānti Śānti... The Supreme Lord of Lords, Alakhpuriji Mahādeva, the Supreme Lord Deveshwar Devpurishi Bhagavān, the revered Satguru Svāmījī Madhavānandji Bhagavān, the venerable Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Kapila Bhagavān, Dattā Triya Bhagavān, the primal Guru Bhagavān Sankarācārya, the revered Guru Devs, and Mother India. He told them to get up, brothers, and go to our hostel; also take the children separately. This is a sacred festival called Pūrṇimā, which is known as Gurupūrṇimā. According to yoga, in our India, there are many great scholars. Based on experiential knowledge and the power each one possesses, the Guru is celebrated anew. According to our yoga, our experience—our yoga experience—is fundamental. Bhagavān Krishna says that by performing yoga with skillful action, if we engage in good deeds, then our yoga will be successful. Our revered Gurudev, the emperor of Hindu Dharma, Śrī Svāmī Mādhavan, Purī Jī Mahārāj used to say that yoga is the fire that burns away karma. Yoga agni means the practice of yoga, the tapasya of yoga; only that yogī is such whose tapasya burns all karma. There are two types of karma. There are both good and bad; if the karma is good, one still has to take birth, and if the karma is bad, one also has to take birth. But the bondage has certainly occurred; if only good karma remains with us, then what? Those karmas will have to return. So, the great souls say that whoever does wrong to dharma, to the granthas, to Bhagavān, to the mahāpurushas, to the saints, and to Gurudev, it is actually very good, because of Gurujī’s... The sins of the saints will be transferred onto them, and that is why someone desires it—someone desires to do wrong to us—but they will then suffer the consequences, while those who behave well... If one performs ārtī pūjā for them and takes the good name of that virtuous person, then what happens is that their good deeds come to them. Then, through yoga, the soul, by the tapasya of yoga sādhana, burns away all their karma. The meaning of guru is to lead from darkness to light. "Tamaso mā jyotir gamaya"—O Paramāpita Paramātmā, lead us away from the darkness of sin towards the light of knowledge; that is called guru. Now, some people say they do not accept a guru. Without a guru, a person cannot truly live or progress further. If your child does not receive jñāna in your lap, then they will become like an animal. The very first education a human being receives is the human birth itself, and then it comes in the lap of the parents. Here, there is a television playing—please turn off the telephone, son. Please put your telephone on silent for a while; I will do the same. A human being is shaped by the education received in the lap of the mother and father. The Upaniṣad says, "Mātṛ devo bhavā"— the first deity is the mother; the first Bhagavān is the mother. Mātṛ devo bhavā, and then pitṛ devo bhavā. When the father is in the mother’s womb, the mother realizes that my... From the moment the soul enters the womb, it is the mother who imparts knowledge to the child, communicating in every possible way. After birth, the mother continues to speak, and the father also speaks. So, the knowledge that is imparted in the lap of the child’s mother or father—if you are unable to give this education to your child at this time, then your child will go astray, and if you have given the education, then that wrong... He will not just walk the path but will also teach others. Nowadays, when you send your children to school, like nursery, oh nursery, they are making them stop—holding back the children of the world, saying, "Stop here, one kilogram or two kilograms, one kilogram or two kilograms." This is what is happening within our India. This KG, PG, nursery situation that happened led our children astray. When I had gone abroad from India, and you all were sitting here, many of those who are now around 40 years old did not have any nursery school. There was one little girl crying, and someone was asked to give her water, and the mother was told something. If you take a bath in cold air, your children used to stay with you, and especially the mother stays at home, and the farmer or the caretaker, what do they call it, cradle or lap, what do they call it, used to keep the child there, and the mother would keep watching to see that my child is not crying. It is true that there is a bond, that is the point, right? And until the child is about 6-7 years old, whether it is school, nursery, or any other mother who takes care of the children, it is good. But the one who is the supreme teacher, the one who has the ultimate responsibility, has a duty. In their care, there may be 10-15 children, even 20 or more. So, when they keep children in KG phase or nursery, then... They themselves do not go to drop off, yet they tell someone else to take them there. And there, whether it is a woman or a girl, or what they call kindergarten—these are all just early school levels like KG, KG, nursery—there they say, "Child, drink your milk, now just sit and go to sleep." "Go to sleep." And why do they do this? They give a bottle of milk to the little ones like you. There are small children, right? Those who are 10-20 years old, 5 years old, 15 years old—all of them know what that is called there. That theft, there in the school, there is a mother, right? What do they call her? They call her the caretaker, right? So, what I am saying is true: when a child is four years old, whether you call her didī or phidī... They tell the children that they will lock them in a room, to stay quiet, and if anyone speaks, they will be beaten. It is just a small room. The being will come; this is what we are going to do. That is not proper; those children urinate on the shore, their behavior is not proper. Your child will come there—whether in KG, PG, or nursery. That child’s parents have great expectations. After growing up, the father says, "My right is the land and the house." What is happening right now is because you did not give affection to your child, who is not a mother. It is said that a mother, or the one who nurtures the child—whether a girl or a boy, man or woman—takes their children into their heart, and then that mother searches... There is no other caretaker; there is no other caretaker for me. He alone is my father and my mother, and in every way, we will love Him. What kind of father is He? Brahmā ji exists, Viṣṇu ji exists, Ganeś ji exists, and there are mother and father, but Śiva ji exists as well; that Śiva is the embodiment of Śiva, and he has no concern of any kind. He has love, love resides in his heart. So, what do we study? What kind of vidyā is that? The vidyā of filling the stomach. Filling is good, studying is good, doing good work is good, science and knowledge are all available, but that is for filling the stomach. Why are you studying? For a job. The nursery school where you send your children becomes their first guru; the first guru is the parents. After that, there is the guru in the school; if there were no guru, there would be no education at all. Now you say the thumb is a snake, but you do not realize that the value of your thumb’s snake is worth billions and trillions, because the snake of your thumb is what we call our signature. Signatures are said to be true; that which is true is the signature. Someone goes to the police station, someone gives their thumb impression; someone goes to the lawyer, someone gives their thumb impression; someone goes to the court, someone gives their thumb impression; someone goes to get a passport made, someone gives their thumb impression; and someone goes from one country to another country... If someone says that a finger does not move on its own, first they ask, who is it? I have seen the finger moving on its own. Oh, never cut the finger, because the finger is not for any work; this finger is your future. And if the finger is lost, then no penance will work. It has been said that no one can truly imitate another, so without our Guru, no one can navigate this world today. There is a Guru in your school, a Guru in your college, a Guru in your university, and a Guru in your training. Your parents are Gurus, and ultimately, there is a necessity for a Guru. But yes, there is a Guru—the one who teaches you to ride a bicycle is your Guru. He is your guru who teaches you driving; those who shear the wool of sheep and goats are all your gurus. If there is no knowledge, then who will shear? Who will shear the wool or the fleece? There was a devotee, a man who used to go to bathe in a pond. We all used to go, but now the banks have broken and the water has receded. Otherwise, we used to have two ponds, and even now we do—one for drinking water and another for bathing and such. And this cow doesn’t move at all; it doesn’t look around either. Its gaze is fixed in one direction, and it keeps one leg raised. It doesn’t move because of that leg; it keeps it raised as if someone... When the fish or frog came, I thought I would quickly get past, otherwise... And what happened was that the fish came, and quickly, with those beaks, it caught the fish, threw it up, and then caught it again in its beak and swallowed it. It said, "What kind of skill is this? Once you catch it, you should just eat it, but it threw it up and then caught and swallowed it." I thought this knowledge was excellent, so I went and started practicing. When I was bored, I picked up a gourd and threw it, then caught it. I threw a piece of wood and caught it. By practicing like this, dear one, the dull mind becomes sharp. Then I started throwing iron, and after that, I began throwing knives. The one who becomes absorbed in practice remains focused on that very passion. What I would do was keep throwing the sword, going from hand to hand, practicing repeatedly. I would throw the sword, hold it firmly. Then once, a well-wisher like you asked me, "Brother, who taught you this vidyā? Who is your guru?" I said, "No, there is no guru. What is a guru? There is no guru." I myself... That is just the body, the physical form; inside, the prāṇa moves slowly through the channels. The one who listens is the true self. So, if you say that your guru is just a physical figure, then strike your guru. But if your brother says that his guru is his guide, then that is not your concern. Whether it is your friend who teaches you, that one is your guru. It is about teaching how to drive a car, how to operate a motor, how to ride a bicycle, how to handle a moped, how to mount a horse—what do all these mean to us? Guru, oh, even a duckling knows that. Those other swans and so on, they also teach their children. So, Guru, if you say that we do not accept you as a Guru, then there is no one as worthless and ignorant as you. Now there is a difference in language: one says teacher, which is English; another says master, which is also English; another says headmaster, which is also English; someone says principal, who constantly looks after you, but that too is English. So, who is the one who truly teaches us? It is our guru. Therefore, you should never criticize by saying that we do not consider anyone a guru or teacher. If we did not consider anyone a guru or teacher, then there would be no progress at all. The knowledge and wisdom taught to a person is our own intellect; it is indeed our intellect. These are our true gurus. That is why Guru Pūrṇimā is celebrated, because it is a symbol of that knowledge. That knowledge which is that light—now according to yoga, at the time when the earth was beneath the water, beneath the water—then who brought that earth up? Who took the earth out from the ocean? Yes, Vārā is an avatāra, so Vārā was an avatāra; he brought the Dātavar from the ocean to his place, didn’t he? Regarding the earth, the moment when the first rays of the sun fall upon it is considered according to yoga as so complete, this is the pūrṇimā, the guru pūrṇimā. While the light of the moon and the sun shines upon our earth and all living beings, since then we have been observing this guru pūrṇimā. Secondly, we say that... Bhagavān Vedavyāsa Jinōṁ compiled and wrote down the Vedas because Vedavyāsa Bhagavān was trikāl darśī; otherwise, initially, only oral tradition and memory prevailed. Therefore, the disciple’s knowledge had to be such that whatever was taught remained with them until the end. That is how our knowledge is preserved through the guru. Those who have seen this being made, now inside it you have written your number, your telephone number, your uncle’s number, your grandmother’s number, your father’s number, your wife’s number. Now, is there anyone among you who has fifty telephone numbers on your, what do you call it, tongue? Tell me, do you have it or not? Raise the self higher, fresh rewards will come with great force. Part 2: The Guru's Guidance: Preserving Dharma, Discipline, and Nourishment Without looking, number fifty is good. Alright, number twenty-five for you. Since this is what you say, then tomorrow in the pūjā, first call the sānē, the cage, number twenty, twenty-five. This means that inside our mind, which is in my mind... The infinite and the infinite are there, but again we have constricted ourselves, our intellect. What is this for? Our principal sir, what is it? In school, when the teachers see, our principal does not get stuck, nor does he say no. When they say no, our principal sir does not say no; he says, "Son, there is no problem in your mind, do not worry." These are the souls, these are the minds; if they do not rise, then what has happened to your children’s minds? Inside this, the principal sir has taught good knowledge, valuable knowledge that will remain forever. What do you do? You give children big, fancy telephones. Today, your children will neither listen to you nor to your Gurujī, and when you go to your father, you will tell your parents, "My mind is restless, please come quickly." This is what is happening. I feel like dying. Oh, the vehicles say, "From January, where and why should we keep them?" I say, "It is dark." What does it mean to be strict? It means to discipline and correct. If someone misbehaves, they should be disciplined. For example, if it is hot, then... So, our school principal made a rule that no student will bring a telephone to school, and if anyone does bring it, then there is a certain punishment for that. Keep them with you, and after school, they can go as well. But as long as your child is in your lap, it is in your hands. If they go to nursery, then who knows what will happen. Children will be frightened, they will be shown how to feed like dogs, like deer... Gaṇeśa Jī is the protector, the mother of the cow—no one truly understands this. Your education is deep, and beyond that, it is that although perhaps 99 percent of you here are Hindus, belonging to the Hindu dharma, you do not truly possess dharma. However, dharma does exist, but as far as I understand, it may be written there... It has happened, but it is not written as ours. You also write Hindu, just Hindu, but they write Muslim dharma, Yavana dharma—these are all dharmas, but they are not Hindu dharma. Now, those who create conflict within Hindustan, but the government takes good care of those who have their dharma and helps them. Therefore, now you... We have to walk on that path which is truly ours—our Hindu Dharma. Now, when you say, "Is this your Hindu Dharma?" you say, "No, no." They say, "No, no, it is our Sanātana Dharma, our saṃskāras, our pūjās, our arts of living life." Even a dog knows the art of living, a pig knows it, a jackal knows it, a serpent... Who knows, what your dharma says, that it is not dharma; the education of children has become such that instead of Gaṇeśa, they have put a donkey. Otherwise, what did we do with the syllable "ko" in our letters before? So now we need a guru, those parents should first become gurus. In our English, they say that your children should be on your lap. So bring back education among yourselves. Why do you fight among yourselves? One sādhu fights with another, or one sādhu becomes a thief and the other condemns him. You are dying fighting among yourselves because... You do not belong to any one religion. You say you are a Kabīr panth, but do not call yourself a panthī; if you write a common religion, you will come under one umbrella. But you say, "I am a Rām sainyā, and I am a Kabīr panthī," and so on. Babājī said that Gurudev used to say, "Panthā panth kī khīchtā, panthā panthare māy; there is one abode where no panthī can reach, there you will be adorned." In the end, it is our Satgurū who guides us, but our mother and father are also our Gurus, our uncles and aunts, our elders—they are all our Gurus. My elder brother is also my Guru, whoever teaches me is my Guru. And even if someone is younger in age, they may still be able to preserve Dharma, the Hindu Dharma; otherwise, what will you do now? So they say, "Look, our dharma is our dharma, eternal and beginningless." Now that we have established an institution, they ask, "Where does your dharma come from? Since when?" Our dharma is eternal and beginningless, self-existent from the very beginning. Our Sanātana Dharma is beginningless, our Hindu Dharma is beginningless, self-manifested. We accept that we are indeed descendants of the ṛṣis and munis, so which is your oldest scripture in this world? It is not the Vedas. The oldest scripture in our world was written by the ṛṣi Vālmīki before the incarnation of Bhagavān Śrī Rāma; it is the Rāmāyaṇa. Let me tell you fully—Bhagavān Rāma’s avatāra took place in that. Our dharma was Hindu dharma, Hindu only. Later on, when they started saying otherwise, still, no dharma is older than ours. So, to take an oath, our scripture, which is the small Rāmāyaṇa, but the oldest scripture, the very first written, is that composed by the sage Bhāgavān Vālmīki. Now what happened was that the Mughals and the British created divisions among us and had the Rāmāyaṇa rewritten in such a way. So, our Tulsīdāsjī Mahārāj wrote the same Rāmāyaṇa again in our language, and in another language, the entire Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa was written out. Some Tulsīdāsjīs also had it written, but... He did not say that if the Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki is lost, then everything is lost. What happened? Is your body completely free of disease? It is completely free of disease, but now cancer has developed inside you. Has it developed? Now that cancer has developed, it will break your body into pieces. So this is the nature of... But that does not disappear now, this is a kind of politics, it is like cancer that has set in. If that cancer is removed, then our disease will be cured. Now see how much brother does not understand brother, see how much damage is happening to our dharma and our country. So we must return to receiving the teachings of the Guru. Today is Guru Pūrṇimā for you. And many, many greetings to you on the occasion of Gurupūrṇimā... The Earth was submerged under the ocean, and the Varāha Incarnation brought this globe out of the ocean. That time, for the first time, the radiance, the light of the sun and moon from that side was the Guru. From darkness to darkness, to the light. Now, we cannot begin based on this belief. We cannot do without a guru. But the guru is not just any sādhu. Not just any sādhu. But everything that is giving you knowledge, for example, how to drive a car, how to ride a cycle, how to write, how to do something, how to cook—oh my word, 85% of the people in the world cannot cook. Oh, nowadays no one knows how to celebrate properly. Everything is blackened. Whether it’s the lentils, the vegetables, or the spices—everything is blackened. Put chili, put turmeric, put all the spices in the vegetables. Hey, today our brother here is asking what spices to put in the vegetable, what spices to put in the eggplant. You have to add, and in tomatoes and other things, you should not put the same spices repeatedly in potatoes and different vegetables; each should have its own distinct spice. Our formula is just one, but many people, about 85%, are unable to prepare food properly. Now what happened is that the impurities, which are very subtle, are quite good today, whether the impurity is... Today, in this age, if you want to bring peace into this world, only mālās will bring it; nothing else will. Yes. That was the first challenge, but the woman developed ego. The woman developed ego, thinking, "I am a wife, I will come, but why should I cook? Your mother made the lamp; I am a doctor, I am a high officer." Because of a woman’s ego, the stove got spoiled. Instead of the stove, gas was installed. That gas went into the stomach, meaning what happened was that it became like a restaurant. And if it doesn’t become a restaurant, then nowadays, if you avoid such food and go to your supermarket, you will see that there is no freshness there either, nor any attachment. They say, just put that tomato one, you know, the one made from tomatoes, ketchup. Two people say, "I won’t have ketchup," and then they say, "Come on, put it on." Oh brother, whatever is for food, whether you sit to eat or have tea, whether you boil it or sit with others for tea, food is the same food. What difference does it make if there is tea or poison in it? So, the mother who nourishes the child from within the womb provides nutrition and feeding through her body via the navel; that is why the mother’s food is divine food, it is prasāda. However, they have forgotten this. In our Rajasthan, everyone sings beautiful bhajans, but what about their eating and drinking? Will their body remain healthy, or will there be cancer? So, for it... It is very important that one learns to cook at home by oneself first; otherwise, it is not possible. Therefore, even cooking is mastery, and you have to become a master, and you have to teach your children also to be masters. So, all my devotees who came here from various other countries, and this is in the whole world, in the whole world, this is... Do not put the children in the nursery, and do not get food from the restaurants. Cook yourself, whether the husband cooks or the wife, but mother or father should prepare their own food and eat; it will be cheaper and better. Number one, number two—I have just made a resolution, and that resolution is that you save your money. How to save money? Do not buy vegetables from the market, because poison is added to market vegetables. So what am I doing? Oh, today that 40... In the first year, everything in the house is frozen, there is electricity in the house, vegetables come and are cut, they keep coming and being cut. So now, the point is that you don’t need to bring vegetables. What happens to our khejrī? What happens to the sweet bābūl? Silāḍī is okay, kāṭā is okay, ker is there, and there are fewer kumṭiyā. That is, we dry all these vegetables and keep them in sweet containers. Every day, different good meals are prepared—gaṭṭā, dāl, mūk bokāī, mūrī būrī, and so on. There is so much food. You only get to eat our food for the third time in a month, just to eat that barren land again. It just happens that you don’t need too much money for pāpaḍ. They will say, eat pāpaḍ. Oh, there are plenty of vegetables; you will remain healthy. And I assure you that you will not suffer from cancer. But as for the food, those vegetables—I would say, in our Rajasthan, we have gōī. Wash it dry thoroughly and keep it well; every day there will be different vegetables. Now you bring vegetables that are poisonous, keep them in the fridge, then cut them, add some spices here and there. If you eat them like our ancestors did, then spices are not even necessary. We have many vegetables; if I get a chance to write a book, I will write a good book. gurur śāka śāka para brahma tasme śrī gurave namahā That is to say, within this there is so much teaching, so much knowledge, everything that cannot be found anywhere else, it is found at the feet of Gurudev. True happiness is found at the feet of Gurudev; only there is true bliss, the lamp of bliss is Bhagavān Nārāyaṇa. So this time, our dear children Phūl Purī jī and Avatār Purī jī both came from abroad. The son got his passport made, but Banū didn’t come by plane. He went to Bāvājī in Pāraṇa. So, look, when I came, I said that we will stay in two places. So, brother, is he somewhere else? Now see, Avatār Purī jī... Pūrījī’s three-week journey took place—where all did he go, and what all happened... Now this will tell you about the chin and the flowers there, then it will be truly enjoyable, won’t it? And then there is our Sīsiyā, Śr̥ṣṭī, who will come from the beginning, from the beginning of the goddess Pālī, and will recite the Satguru Chālī. So, Śr̥ṣṭī, where have you gone, daughter? Come here, or Aryom Tasar. Oh sister, please serve some water, bring a bucket and give water to drink, serve water. Victory to Bhagavān, Devādhi Deva, Devīśvara Mahādeva, Victory to Satguru Svāmījī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān, Om Śānti Śānti... Now, regarding the second one, this morning those devotees who performed the pūjā and caraṇa pūjā will not come to Bīḍ. The second one, whoever has to do it, will start the pūjā together with the sāṛī and the sound. The second one is tomorrow. What do they say about the lunar eclipse? They say that if the thread is to be tied, it will be tied. At ten o’clock, before ten o’clock, we will have our meal. Everyone, it is Pūrṇimā. So they remain idle; if someone accounts for it, then tomorrow will be better. Only the idle ones, after midnight, will not give food to anyone, not even to Śyām. And who knows, after midnight, they might serve milk and tea, and the day after tomorrow morning, again everything will be perfect, because once the stomach is full, then everything is fine. Everyone will continue to eat. Both of our principals have prepared the children because almost all the children in our schools have undergone the graṇa, what is it called, jñāna saṃskāra; some are left, and theirs will be tomorrow. Now, our first hour, daughter Suratip will speak. Go ahead, child.