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Christmas Satsang with H.H. Vishwaguruji

A spiritual discourse on divine origins, human conflict, and the search for truth.

"Neither have you seen God, nor has anyone else seen God. And if that God were seen, you would not want to say that this is God."

"Therefore, when we worship today, we are thinking of Jesus, that do not be like this blim-blam what we are doing here. But we should remember how much difficulty he went through, but he did not give up."

The lecturer addresses the congregation, tracing spiritual roots to Ālagpurījī and the Kailāśa mountain. He critiques sectarian conflicts over divine ages and forms, using parables like the master's beard and the captive crocodiles to illustrate human jealousy and duality. The talk emphasizes inner purification, the oneness of all souls, and the ultimate victory of truth (Satyameva Jayate), concluding with personal counsel on maintaining spiritual practice through life's difficulties.

Filming location: Vienna, Austria

Om śānti, śānti, śānti. Our adoration to Ālagpurījī, who is the root of our spirituality. Ālagpurījī is from the Satya Yuga. Many do not know when the Satya Yuga begins, when Kali Yuga comes, or when Satya Yuga returns. This we can look up nowadays; it is available. It tells of how many Satyugas there have been, how many Manvantaras. There have been trillions upon billions of Yugas, not just one but many. We came to know of Ālagpurījī through our dear Dr. Śāntījī. For thirteen years she searched in the Himalayas, asking, "Where are our roots? Where is our beginning?" As Śāntījī explained, she searched in the high hills. The glaciers where she was are called the Alakapuri glaciers. They are on the Indian side, and now also on the China side. Before that, it was Tibet, and before that, it was from the Kailāśa mountain. Kailāśa is the name of Śiva. It is said the first human was there, where the Kailāśa mountain is—or what they call Tibet now, and after that, China. When we go to that root, the beginning is Ālagpurījī, which is connected to the Kailāśa mountain. That was, and is, the kingdom of Śiva. In every incarnation, the king of the Himalayas was known as Śiva. Every king was known as Śiva. So, how do we know where the first Śakti was? In the very beginning were the incarnations. After many Yugas come Pārvatī and Gaṅgā, and so on. So where is the source? Where is the source of creation? Recently, there was a very big discussion, very heated, carried through the media. Luckily, the participants were not in the same room; one was sitting in a studio somewhere, the other in a studio in another city. How they were talking is unbelievable. How can humans be so aggressive toward other humans, even to kill? They began by saying, "Your God, how old was He?" They began there. Then they said, "God cannot be born." They have Allāh, so Allāh has no mother, no father. Śiva was not born but manifested. Brahmā was many millions of years old. Kṛṣṇa was about seven thousand years old, and so on. Slowly, slowly, they developed that meaning: "It’s mine, it is yours." Then, coming into this Kali Yuga, many, many religions came, and many, many great saints were there. It is good, it is good, because every child will say, "My mother is the best mother." So, which mother is not a good mother? "My father is the best father." Yes, but whose father is not good? We accept what our feelings are, where our roots are. Otherwise, God is different. But who is incarnated is like God now. Who has seen God? And if you see God, maybe a few people will say, "Yes, it is my God." Others will say, "No." Similarly, our much-worshipped Jesus was born in a human body, and his inspiration is the Holy Father, or God. Now, if you have seen God, you became close to God, or you are a child of this Father. Then you are the child of that father, and after this, the father will become a child, and the child will become a father. So generations go on. But one said, "Mine is better," the other said, "Thine is better," and in this way, fighting. Neither have you seen God, nor has anyone else seen God. And if that God were seen, you would not want to say that this is God. And that was how Jesus was crucified, because there were people who said, "This human form, this form cannot be God." Otherwise, you do not know what God is. So we will only sing something. We may go somewhere, bathing in the water. Some may, like in Judaism, hit their foreheads against the wall. There is water behind the rock, but you are not going to the right side to drink the water; instead, you are hitting your head against the rock. That water will come out here, you will be sweating, or blood will come. So this is a very complicated thing that has happened to the human race. With this, we divide this earth into countries: my country, your country; my district, your district; my house, your house, and so on. When you will see God, you will not realize that is God. And in that time, when you will see God, that time within you will be that energy and the godhood within you. But if you said, "I am God," you will be the next to be crucified. So it is a very hard time. Śiva, we know that He has no father, no mother. He manifested. How many Yugas and Yugas and Yugas we do not know, but He again incarnates, again comes. Brahmā, Śiva, Brahmā and Viṣṇu—and in one Yuga, another Yuga, this Yuga was now Kṛṣṇa. Before, was it Śiva? So this mixing is coming: Śiva to Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa to Śiva, and Brahmā is there, becomes as the father, as a creator. That holy water, the holy water comes from the Kailāśa Parvata mountain, and there is a divine lake, Mānasarovara. Mānasarovara is the name of the lake in the canton countryside. There are many, many lakes, many bigger and small, so it is okay, but the name of this is Mānasarovara. The Kailāśa mountain and Śiva, how He is, who was that, was this that, and so on. Long ago, Śiva had a nice beard and moustache, and as humans tried to shave them, now everybody is nicely shaved. Śiva is shaved. There was nothing, no instrument to shave. That is how Pārvatī was, and this nicely was lipsticks, and I do not know what it is called, the hair stick, no? Eye stick, and so on, and beautiful dresses, saris. There was nothing. They found some dead animal skins living in the rocks. My dear, so many things changed. How can we make it together? No. So it is like this: when you were in your mother’s body, you were different. Then you were born. You were nice and different. But day by day, the shape of our body is changing. We will be old, and Hari Om, where will we go and come? This body is only changing through 8.4 million different kinds of creatures’ bodies. But the five elements are in everyone, and that element is just disappearing. The soul is there, that is all—jīvātmā, ātmā, paramātmā. As our consciousness, our spirituality, is coming more and more pure, then we get, ah, that is the highest one. In the mines of coal, we find diamonds, and that diamond was developed from that coal. But now, this diamond and the coal beside the diamond—we cannot compare their quality now. And when we take these diamonds and we are cleaning and polishing them, how sparkling they become! So we are like coal, and now through our practice, sādhanā, prayer according to different religions—why not? But what is the quality in us that the coal developed over how many billions, trillions of years? We became that diamond. So we are born. Will we die again? Come, go, and how many years, how many days? We do hard work, hard work for what? Not for the money, not for this, but for that: our ātmā becomes pure Paramātmā, and there. Mahāprabhujī said in a bhajan, "Oh my mind, please walk carefully, slowly, slowly." This is a dark night, a very slippery road, ice, and a very deep hole. If you fall down, you will fall into Naraka’s quality. And so, people will ever give you the good quality when they see you are greater than everybody. Jealous that your neighbors have a big house, a good house—this, this other, we do not want, is okay, but she is jealous. Is it so? You know, there is one story I used to tell sometimes, a nice story joke. Many know it, many did not, so perhaps I can tell you. Should I tell you? So there was, let us say, India. In India, we have beautiful, nice crocodiles, very good crocodiles. There were also Australian crocodiles, which are also beautiful, big crocodiles, so we know both sides, crocodiles. And our dear Americans, they always like to have a collection of what kind of crocodiles, alligators, et cetera, no? There was a goodbye, and it is said, there is something: "See you later, alligator; for a while, crocodile." So this is coming from America. The Americans brought a big boat, you see, big, and there is like swimming pools. Inside is water and about twenty crocodiles. And after about twenty meters farther, in another area, there was another swimming pool, and there were also about twenty, fifteen, or thirty crocodiles. So what happens? And there were the people also. It was traveling. So the Americans had a very nice, beautiful iron net over the cage, thick irons. People were coming, looking at the crocodiles. They were admiring them. Then they went to see the Indian side. The Indian crocodiles were also in that pool, with water inside, a little, and people are coming and looking. And someone said, "Oh, do not come here," and so on. So someone said, "Why? They do not have a net over?" And why do the Americans have a net over? So they ask the question to each other, but nobody knows what it means exactly. So they asked the persons who were taking care of the animals. They said, "Why do the American crocodiles’ swimming pools have iron rods like that, a net?" They said yes, because the animals can come out. But why do these Indian crocodiles have no net? They said this has its core reason. Why? What is this reason? It is very simple. Then can you tell us the simple reason? It is like this: the Australian crocodiles, they will come out and catch you, yeah. But why does the Indian crocodile not catch others? Also said, "No." I said, "Why?" Because when a crocodile tries to go up, the next one will pull him down, yeah. So that we do not have any troubles or problems; we know this is Indians’ habit. If one becomes higher, they will pull him down. Similarly, nowadays in this world, when my country has some troubles, then your countries have good things. They will be jealous of that one, the other country. So we are fighting this country, that country, one house to other house. If we all first say that we are human, we are human. Second, yes, you have your god, trust that, and you have your god, trust that, but no. And now god is only a stamp. Let us say we are talking about Mahātmā Gandhījī, and everyone said, "Yes, good Gandhi, how good he goes," etc., etc. Now there was an election. Nobody is talking about Gandhi, not at all, but they have only a stamp of Gandhi to step on, that yes, this is the party of Gandhi. So similarly, as long as we will not come to the oneness and give up the dualities, we will not become holy, we will not become spiritual. It will not be, because it does not matter how. On that day of the holy day, you will say, "This is the mind." It is best they are not, and when they have other festivals, many they know they like what we do not. We cannot kick instruct. Therefore, it is said, we are human and we do not see God, and God has no form, but we are thinking. And God has no titles. Does one say, "The boss, Śiva"? Do they say, "Doctor"? Rāma, do they? Somebody, the best player, Kṛṣṇa, Jesus, a professor, Mr. Professor, is Allāh, is that doctor, Dr. Allāh? So we all have that title. We are hard working to get a title, so you are a doctor, you are a professor, you are a scientist, you are some other doctor or this physiotherapist, etc., etc., or the yoga or yoga teacher, etc. But there is only one, and that is very interesting: only Śiva, only Rāma, only Kṛṣṇa, only Jesus. Do you write a professor? Jījā, no. So this is because the soul is one, not two. And so, when we develop in our inside, then God is within you, but you will realize that on the last day. As I told the story once, that one master was going along from one place, and people who want to drink water, please, we will bring the water to someone to drink. Someone can come with the water. Does someone want to drink water, please? We can bring some water for all. Do not get up, everybody. So this feeling comes to me that the master, who had many disciples—a little more than my disciples, okay? So I was not that. Through the street, the master and disciples were moving. One person who was not a believer in God, an artiste, who was having one big business shop, was standing outside and sees a master and disciples walking. So the artiste said, "Master, yes, can I ask a question?" He said, "Yes, what is the difference between your beard and a donkey’s tail?" No, he wanted to humiliate the master. What is the difference, your beard and a donkey’s tail? The master just walked, and many disciples, they were so angry, they wanted to kill him, but the master said, "No, no… let us go." The master was about age forty years then, and that businessman was twenty-five. Now, nearly one hundred years later, the master is now in his last days. He will die. He calls one of his disciples, "Please, can you call that man who… that merchant? Why? I want to, I have something to answer, because if I will not answer, then I have to come next life again to answer this question." They said, "Gurujī, you want to bring him here?" I said, "Yes." Meanwhile, that man was so sad and so sorry, thinking, "How could I do this to such a person?" Well, he came before the master could tell. He touched his feet and said, "My lord, I am so, so sorry." He said, "No, no… I have an answer for your question, otherwise I have to come again in this life. So, my dear, you asked a very nice, clear question: ‘What is the difference between my beard and the donkey’s?’ He said, "My dear, there is a difference between my beard and a donkey’s. That is all. This is a different, it is a different." And he died. So there is an… even you are great, but sometimes you had such a stone in your heart. Someone told you such a bad word sooner or later. You have to take out and dissolve so many different qualities, different things coming to us, and we are talking, and our God did not say this. These are, did not say it, Kṛṣṇa did not say it, Rāma did not say it, and Allāh did not say it. All, nobody said, but it is we who are doing this. And therefore, when we worship today, we are thinking of Jesus, that do not be like this blim-blam what we are doing here. But we should remember how much difficulty he went through, but he did not give up. So it is called Satyameva Jayate. In India, on the emblem of the Indian flag, it is written, "Satyameva Jayate." The truth will win. And there is also written in Slovakian and Czech, and it is also written, "Satyameva Jayate." How is it in Czech? Pravda Vítězí. So the truth will win. Maybe truth will not win in front of you, but on God’s time, God will say, "My son, you had suffered that much. They did not understand, but I know you are the truth." And we are all searching that truth, not only worship these mantras or that mantra, that pūjā. This is good. It is very good. It keeps us… I used to call the great ṛṣis. They give us injections so that we are not doing bad things. Which kind of injections? The good scriptures, holy books, holy words—this is like an injection for us. When suddenly something we said, then we will say, "No, no, Jesus, we trust in Jesus. We trust in the Holy Mother. We trust in Allāh." And when you come to the words of Allāh and Brahman and the Heavenly Father, there is no difference. But in another way, through which you produce or make your religion—how old is your religion? So if you are saying this and that, that is a fighting, and then you fight this because I want that all should be my religion, and others should be your religion. There was a time, there was a time, but now there are many people. They are very intelligent, and very… they know what to do. Therefore, Gandhījī made one bhajan or song, or maybe some other one, but I think it is Gandhījī said, and it is said, Īśvara and Allāh, both are one. O Lord, give good thoughts to every human, that no one fights in this. Īśvara Allāh terā nām, sab ko sanmati de bhagavān. Oh Lord, give me good thoughts. So it is a very nice song, very nice. So, my dear Alakapurījī, so from many, many Yugas and still on, his name is called the Alakānandā River. And now we all went to our see at the cave, Devapurījī’s and Devapurījī. Now we realized that what is written in the Līlāmṛt: Devapurījī was walking on the water, and his horse was running in the air. With the horse, he was going in the air, running. People think, "Ah, it is a joke." Yes, it is a joke. For us, it is like a joke, but it was, it is, and it will be ever. And so, similarly, Mahāprabhujī is one in Līlāmṛt. And whatever Gurudev has written, all bhajans and in Līlāmṛt, so that has become our paramparā’s divine light. It is not only in Vienna, here we are sitting, but around the whole world. Mahāprabhujī and Holy Gurujī said one word, and I think many people said, "Well, Gurujī is talking, but how will it be reality?" This bhajan we will sing today, it came because Holy Gurujī sang long ago, long, long ago, that Mahāprabhujī’s glory will be in the whole world. And where there is a little Rajasthan, a little what, one district, and you said, "How will Mahāprabhujī’s glory be in the whole?" And that came true. What Mahāprabhujī’s bhajan Gurujī wrote, Gurujī wrote, and that Mahāprabhujī, the holy Gurujī said, "Prakāśa puñja amṛita ke sāgara." Prakāśa is the light, puñja is the source of the light, like a sun. "Prakāśa puñja amṛita ke sāgara," and it is the ocean of the nectar. "Prakāśa puñja amṛita ke sāgara, Śrī Dīpa Harī Mahādānī hai." And Bhagavān Śrī Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī is the giver. In the whole world, the immortal voice of Bhagavān Śrī Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī. In the whole world, people said, "When will he come to the whole world?" And we save this from the nectar of the ocean. The clouds come and rain, everywhere the amṛita, the rain is coming everywhere as amṛita to every bhakta. So, my dear, we worship, we adore, we should remember not only this one day, but the whole day. This is our source, and this is when you cannot swim and there is one stone falling down, or the wood—sorry, that wood will save our life to come out. And so this is the name of God. Hold this God, hold. Many people will tell you bad things, many will tell about you bad things, but you have the truth in you, and that will Paramatmā, God. So that Ātmā said, "My dear, there is a difference between beard and why you told me? Why you did not tell me before? Because I had anger in it, I would have done something wrong. I will have some kind of agreement, but I know now I have no agreement and nothing to say. I am going, therefore I said I want to answer you, because if I would not answer, I will have to come again in this world to answer you, my son." And so is that our words, our promise? What we did, that is energy. It is not easy to purify your energy. Holy Mother Māriā, there is a big mantra. No, I am holy Mother, holy mother, bless me, bless me, holy mother, from my mistakes. There are many, many little temples, very little churches, but there is a, in picture, if you see her form, I do not know how was it, but how it is spoken, that is something. And so that is another thing why we have Christmas now, because now is a very cold, snow, ice, etc. Now, of course, the king and this and that thing again, so what people will do? Fight each other. Therefore, we have all the crops harvested, everything. And now we are sitting, we come to the spirituality, to God, so nobody will fight, and we will have done our spiritual energy within us. Take care. Do not go to the, some kind of, this word, what I—temptation. Temptation is one of the biggest problems. You know the temptation they put? They say they throw the seeds and bring the chicken in the corner somewhere, and then catch the kids. So the temptation, different kinds of temptation in human life. Humans have to be very strong and keep their willpower, hold their spirituality. So, my dear, all the best. And I pray, Alakapurījī, Devapurījī, Mahāprabhujī, and our holy Gurus. After that, we are all. I do not know whom we will worship. The Umāpurī or the Śāntī Devī or this Devī or that Devī or that Devī. And there are many Devas. Who will be? Who will be that which becomes? I do not know that I will be. It is the last minutes, it will be, but always we remain on our truth. Satyameva jayate. The truth will win. And which truth will win? The inner. To whom? Within the friend of God. Friend of the God, we will bid that God, you should say, "I am guilty or not." God said, "My son, I know." Jesus said, "I cannot, I do not do what God said. I know, I trust you, I trust you." Father said to Jesus, "And to trust Jesus, how much he had to suffer till the pulling of the cross, and how much we all know, I should not tell you." But he said, "My word, yes, my Lord, I will do, yes." And so we have many problems. I am not coming again, coming from there, the door down, just little things. You are so, uh, how to say, separating your marriage? What they call, what, my lord? Everybody says, "Your lord," uh-huh. What they said? Divorced, uh-huh. So this… Now you were standing, you are in a European country, you were standing in front of the Jesus cross, and you gave your word. And after, you are now divorcing and fighting. And this, what will be? I do not know. I know you are a mistake. Your husband is perfect, or maybe your husband is very bad and you are perfect. But what to do? Say the prayer to God, but do not break like this. If you are following Christianity, if you are following Kṛṣṇa, Rāma, etc., if you are following Jesus’s words or Allāh. So there are many, many things. You are not an animal. You are human, but this I do not want to tell you more, because unfortunately that is not so easy, because everybody made a mistake. And therefore, it lets this woman be peaceful and further practice. This is, therefore, my opinion, that you were too hasty to marry. You had an emotional marriage. You did not have a real marriage. That is it. When you have good constellations and good, then life is between this. But otherwise, little emotion, and then either is that side and this side. Now is Kali Yuga, Hari Om. So dust came. Now is coming less snow and more dust, so let us see. I know you will put a hundred and a thousand questions to me, and that I cannot answer you at all. I tell you, take care. Keep your energy, keep your qualities, keep your heart pure. And God’s your mantras and your mantras, and continue our path that we complete our human life. There will be many difficulties, but God has given only humans this karma. Others are only existing, going through the karmas already, but we are going through karma and creating karmas. And so your feelings, you talk, blackmailing behind this and that, playing two things. So that is this: Jesus had one disciple, he or she, he was loving Jesus, but at the same time, he told who was the Judas, and so he let cross Jesus. So this is the truth, and that will be forever and ever. That will be in the darkness and in suffering. He was suffering—not that Jesus was suffering. So you cannot go there, and you cannot go to the door. I pray to Mahāprabhujī, Gurujī, Devapurījī for your protection, your family’s protection, your neighbors, in our countries, wish you all the best. Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, and now, thank you.

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