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Our duty to have a devotion

A spiritual discourse on lineage, devotion, and the nature of the soul.

"Our generation to generation to generation is of Alak Purījī. It is a tradition, and the tradition is not merely a tradition; it is, and it has to be, to receive the blessing of adoration."

"The reality is clear: spirituality needs to be in our heart. It does not matter what happens; I will not give up."

Swami Maheshwarananda (Swamiji) addresses a gathering, centering on the rediscovered lineage from Alak Purījī through Devpurījī and Mahāprabhujī to the present. He emphasizes unwavering devotion to the guru, illustrates the master-disciple relationship with anecdotes, and discusses the responsibilities and detachment required of a sannyāsī. The talk expands into teachings on the layers of existence (kośas), karma, and the soul's journey, using everyday metaphors for spiritual concepts.

Filming location: Slovenia

Come to Alak Purījī. Alak Purījī is from the Satya Yuga, and we are the devotees of Alak Purījī. Our generation to generation to generation is of Alak Purījī. It is a tradition, and the tradition is not merely a tradition; it is, and it has to be, to receive the blessing of adoration. In many, many lectures and bhajans, Mahāprabhujī mentions Alak Purī. We were searching—I was searching—for who and where is Alak Purī. We wanted to know where the roots are. It took thirteen years to find the original residence of Alak Purījī and to understand how Devpurījī’s tapasyā happened. So, Devapurījī’s master, God, whatever you call it, is Alakpurījī. Between the Satya Yuga and this Yuga, we really do not know, but again, like a tree that seemed dry but was not, it again came into beautiful blossom: Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, and Gurujī. And now we all—some of you are great. I am like somebody else. So you are greater than me, but the problem is that you do not know. That was it. We do not know what is within us. When a mother gives birth, we do not know. But in her womb, there is something that will come. We do not know if it will be a daughter or a son, but both are the same in the mother’s womb. We do not know what it will be. So you are great here, many of you. But you do not know. Wait. The time will come, and you will see. So Devapurījī, again like the sun rises, came Mahāprabhujī and Nolipurījī. About thirteen years ago, our dear Swami Dr. Shanti from Vienna, who lived long in India, was searching in all the glaciers of the Himalayas to find out where Alakpurījī and Devpurījī are. So the first thanks is to Shanti, not me. She found it and gave it to me, and I am now giving it all around the world. Those relations from many, many ages we found again. But it needs love and devotion. The reality is clear: spirituality needs to be in our heart. It does not matter what happens; I will not give up. This is a very, very important point: who is who? That is very important. So, one master came a little higher in spirituality, but many others, like me... Not spiritual, come up, and I begin to gush up and criticize. So they wanted to throw him down. But from where? They tried to chip off the trunk of that big tree that was forever lost. But that master knew: I know what my disciple is. But the message comes, criticized again and again and... again, many times over. So that disciple was at a far distance, thousands of kilometers away. He wrote a letter to his master, and you all know what was written in that letter: "Guru Dev, many will come and many will go. Many will come and they will just go, but Guru Dev, I will be yours." It does not matter what happens, I am yours. When the child comes from the mother's body, it does not matter how the child is, how the mother is, or how others are, but that mother and that child know they are from one body. And Master, it does not matter where I am or how far I am going, but you should know that I am yours. And it can happen, maybe, that I will die. But still you look in my eyes that I will be thine. That is the relation of the master and disciple. So the real disciple, not in one movement, a little bit, can come into negative thoughts towards your master or towards your disciple. This is a lesson. Someone asked me just now in the car, "Swāmījī, why don't you write your biography?" Yes, I have a biography. But there is no graphy. And graphy are you. And how is that? How is that? There are, in the front, in the middle of the city, a very big square. Everyone is putting out some seeds for the birds. Hundreds and hundreds of pigeons and birds are sitting there. They are hungry. They are eating. But what can happen, even if you have to give up your food? You know that? For that, the birds are all gone. I look there, and sitting there, one, let's say, Hanumān Purī, is sitting here. All are very light. They can run away, fly away, but this Hanumān takes time to stand up. He can stand up quickly. Yeah. So he stays there for the Master. That's it. And you know this bhajan song? My Lord, I will be the... Sing, my Lord. Very good, perfect. So what I want to say: First, when we come to the program and we want to speak something, then, silent or loud, we have to adore it, adore our Master Guru. And that is the root, Alak Purījī. Then we adore Devpurījī. Then we adore Mahāprabhujī. And then we adore our Guru Dev, Sadguru Swami Madhavānandajī. And then we shall begin to talk. All the times, they are within us. They are within us. Is there any one bhajan? How is it? Now, like this, my Gurudev is talking within me. Then it is full of devotion and knowledge, love, clarity, divine. Those words are coming from the body. We are only then a microphone. Speaking is somebody. Similarly, our Gurudev is within us and talking to us. On the day when I will say, "Let's," I will talk today. Devpurījī will look and say, "Maheśvarānand, sit down." So, all of us, whatever devotion you have, that will be for your success. The rest of all is just worldly things, and so we have to give this from our heart, and so we say it: Om Śrī Alak Devaiśwar Mahādevāya Namaha. Om Śrī Devaiśwar Mahādevāya Namaha. Om Śrī Ārādhi Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī Kī Jaya. And our—this is inside or outside, verbally or silently. Just in the feeling of your heart, so they all will awake, and they will surround you, everything. There is one book written about, or from, or from himself, Swami Vivekananda, when he went to America and had a conference. That time, it was not so many, about 100, 150. It was a big crowd, and now we have Viveka Purī here, and we have five times more crowd here, yes, it's true. And I am also vain, good, I am also one of it. Oh, Vivekānanda must be very happy. It is to be happy. So when Vivekananda was talking, one lady was sitting in the front, and she was painting the picture or photo of Vivekananda. At that time, there were not so many cameras. Now we have a camera, a two-year-old child here, and he can make such very nice photos, better than me. So that artist, she was making a photo, a picture of Vivekānanda. But her hands were moving above him, Vivekananda, and there was some little elderly person's face there. And she was doing that also, and him also, and him also. And then after the program, she gave him this picture to Vivekananda, and she said, "But I do not know who is in front, ahead of you." And Vivekananda was folding his hands and bowed down, said, "It is my guru." But how is he not here? Because he is not here only. He is everywhere, omniscient, omnipresent. That is the kṛpā of the guru and the devotion of the master. It is the truth. It is like this. And so, our duty is only to have devotion, and always, always let your heart open more and more to the bhakti, the devotion, what we call. And help now. Do you understand what I am talking? But the lecture, I did not begin yet. I only said: "Om Śrī Alak Devuchī Mahārāj Kī Jai, Alak Purī Jī Kī Jai. Om Śrī Alak Purī Jī Kī Jai, Devadhī Dev Deveśwar Mahādev Kī Ārādhi, Bhagwān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhu Jī Kī, and our Satguru Swāmī Madhavān Jī Bhagwān Kī." That's it. Second, we are in this country of Slovenia and Slovenians. They have immense devotion, and we have two sannyasis. So one is Swami Yogaran Yogesh, and you can imagine that Yogesh dedicated his life completely. Each and every cell of his body he dedicated for Om Ashram. He became the Om Ashram, and his mother also completely surrendered. And now his brother—they were twins—so completely, he is discerned. And he has his daughter, who also has very much devotion. So it is that stream of the Ālak Purījī, Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, and Gurujī flowing in Yogeś. It is not easy. It is not easy, but it is the truth. It is the truth, and a very honest person. And when he does something, he does it truthfully. So he is not here with us, but we would thank him. And then we have a Slovenian sannyāsī here sitting with us, Savitrī Swamī. Savitrī has that. The initiation of Sanyāsa, so it does not matter which position she is in, but she is a Sanyāsī, and when you get an orange dress according to Sanātana Dharma. And Sanātana Dharma is one of the beginning, and forever will be the Sanātana Dharma. Others all appear in Kali Yuga. So in this Sanātana Dharma, there is one that is called the Sannyāsa. And these sannyāsīs have a right to write holiness. According to the Sanātana Dharma, according to Hindu Dharma, it is when one is renounced. If one is not renounced, then for us it is a little bit itching too much, because they did not divorce everything. Attachment means it is still not there. And you know how attachment is? When the embryo comes, the baby comes from the mother's body. Still, mother has a very strong attachment. But then the doctor or nurse or anybody comes, and she cuts—what is that?—the cord. At that time, you will see every mother gets tears. Now it is separated: my child. But this will remain with me as my love, the love of a mother, and she will give freedom so that my child will be great. He will have a great position. So the mother respects, accepts, and adores, and she believes, "I am looking forward to the dignity of my child." And great support is the father. When father and mother are separated, they have lost that oneness of the parents. But so when you get sannyāsa and will cut your hair, that time you have cut this hair here on your Bindu Chakra. Now you are not belonging to anyone, no mother, no father. No one, but the whole world. One in all, and all in one. That is so. Mother has second time tears. One is the first time separated from her body, and second, separated from the home. That time, only one day, once you go to your mother's parents' house, then you do not step in that house anymore? When you will go again and again, you lost your dignities and highness. You should not go. You see, I am living in Jadan. My birthplace is very near, 30 kilometers. I go to their village, but I do not go in my house, not on the door of my house, because for me, if I go... Then again, my attachment is coming back, that's it. So, where you were traveling, where Jesus was traveling, that's it. So, to become a sannyāsī is not easy, and there are many who are becoming sannyāsī. Can I go home back to Europe? I have to go. My family, my daughter, gets a child, yeah, yes. Save only the orange cloth, and he is getting now the child, so the orange cloth becomes a red cloth. Yes, yes. I am talking, I am giving all of you an example. He is sitting here, therefore attachment and detachment, attach or detest, choice this, and then say, "I want to become a sannyāsī." No, attach. They are all my children, they are all my brothers, they are all my sisters, they are all my whole family. They are all mine, not one. I am sitting with Vivek Purī, and Dayāl Purī is jealous. I am sitting with Umā Purī, and then this Dayāl Purī, Dayāl is jealous. Then I am... Training her in the dayā. So I am more and more to Mañjuśrī, and more and more she is burning everything. So it should burn completely. Do not remain black coal and then become the ass, and that your ass I will put on my forehead, not the black coal. So everybody who wants to become a sannyāsī, it is not easy that, "Okay, I will be in the ashram, and now I will be." No, no... Now, take your dress, whatever you have, and go anywhere as far as you can, have a border of your passport. Yes, unfortunately, now the passport border, and they made many borders of the passports; otherwise, all Indian sannyāsīs will be... Here, that is another subject, so attachment is with love. Not what we call the world is lost. So we have when we do not have. One day you have to give up. If not, then finally, when you will be put in the grave. There, you will give back to the Mother Earth. That's it. So, what kind of attachment do you have? That's it. Do it, give it. So many yoga centers we have. How many yoga centers in Slovenia? Do you know someone? She is talking like a cat. You do not know. Count it again. No, no, no. There are many. Not only one center, but how many people are teaching yoga in their life in Slovenia? That's it. Many do not open. Why not? They work in their company, and so on. And they are not doing bad things. Why not? If they get some money, it is very good. I will tell you, you work twice a day in your company, teach yoga in their lives, and they should give you more money than anywhere. Why not? So, in this way, how many yoga teachers, and not even the yoga teachers teaching in Slovenia, are practicing yoga in their lives? So, it is better to announce this so that we can protect you. Otherwise, one day, did you understand? And then we will be a little bit not good. So, whatever you do, you should announce, and if you are working a second time, you are working very good. But honestly, go to the tax office, and you are paying the tax. That's very good. So, how many? Now we have more centers? Yes? And so now we will find out. It will come to me. So, how many places? How many villages? How many hotels? How many beaches? Now, on the beach, many are being made. A few days ago, I was flying along the Adriatic coast in a helicopter. And at least four places, they were practicing yoga. Very nicely. Mostly it was Sarvajitāsana. Very good. Oh, God. Then I went over to Zagreb. There I could not see. Because they are all hidden in the house, anyhow. So, my dear, whatever we do, we should do it very clearly. That's it. And so, if you become the sannyāsī, become the sannyāsī. I am ready to give you sannyāsī. If you cannot get a visa, then you will remain in your country. You make your āśram. You will be more happy, and more friends will be there. So everywhere, everywhere, how many attachments do you have? Yes, that's it. I have attachments only to all of you. That's it. Anyhow, so practicing yesterday we were talking, Annamaya Kośa, the body of the nourishment. Anna means any kind of solid or liquid food. Also, we are getting through the air, through the oxygen, we are all getting as the nourishment to our body. Now, it is said, written in that literature: what are you giving to the mother earth? What are you giving to the water? How are you keeping clean water? Everything—what are you giving to good air? We are... Not giving, but we are making more and more pollution through the machines, tractors, cars, and now also there is a boom boom. I do not know what is that boom boom. I cannot drive. We call them as the donor of the organs, yes. Okay, doctor, the doctor is running and said, "He died." Take very quickly out of the kidney, liver, heart. That was good. This person was so generous, giving everything. Give even the life, but pollution is pollution. So if we are creating the pollution, what can we do for our vegetation and oceans so that we can get more oxygen? That is also physical. So this space, what we call sky, space, water, air, heat, and earth, these are elements, but these elements are first in our body. And there is our soul, a project of safety. The soul. But you know that soul is one? Your soul and my soul are the same. Because my water and your water are the same. Even you are going to urinate. You are through the urine inside. So everything is one or air. It does not matter which kind of air. One is factory air, one is city air, one is forest air, or air conditioning. This air is coming to us, and so we are divided with this, the cold, very cold. So we are trying to search the water, warm sunrise, making fire, the Agni Dev, and we need a space. Many times we are sitting but say, "Oh God, there is no oxygen." So we need a space. For what? For our soul. And your soul and my soul are divided. Your soul is the same quality as my soul. But these karmic movements in this element have caught us. Yesterday it was raining after satsaṅg. Very nice. You did not collect the water. A nice glass, drink that. How nice that water is. And that same rain falls into the canalization. What is the condition of the water? So, that is one me. I fall in this, and you fall in that, and one fell into the ocean. Sooner or later, water will come to the water. When we die, earth into the earth, fire into the fire, the air into the air. So similarly, these five elements are holding our soul. And this soul is not only depending on the physical body; that is going further. And that comes from what we call karma. And karma means what we do. We do good karmas, but someone is criticizing you, so you get good karma, and others who criticize you, your bad karma is going to that person. And that person will quickly get ill, will die, will have an accident, many things, because that is a negative energy. So we have to work as a human to purify our ātmā. So this is like that, one is called Paramātmā. That is one of the whole universe. And the same is called Ātmā, Paramātmā, Ātmā and Jīvātmā, then Pāpātmā. Pāpātmā means the negative; pāp means what we call sin, and Puṇyātmā, that is called pure soul, pure qualities, and so from this. When our body will depart, either it will go automatically to the negative or go to the positive. You need not to say, "No, please, I am good." There is a machine, so I can tell you, it was a surprise. There is at the airport, and then it is called. Security checking, and then you put your luggage through the hand luggage, and so I came through and I was standing, and two bags of mine were coming, and one bag came and the second was coming, and automatically that machine pushed. My other luggage is on the other side, and he stopped. I said, "Why is my luggage going this side?" They said there will be something. I said there is nothing. No, Swamiji, do not worry. We will check. I said, I am not checking. I am Slovak. So again, they put in. I said it is insulin, so we take the insulin out. And they put my luggage again, and my handbag. Straight came to me. Only the insulin was that. And that was sent out, the machine. So God also has a machine. When we die, we will go either this side or that side. That is your karma, your destiny. Everything that you do, drinking, eating, everything that we are doing. So how many people are slaughtering how many animals? You think that all will come to that Brahmaloka? Brahmaloka has a certain space. But the sin is a lot. Because recycling, again and again, recycling, recycling, so karma is that. No one can stop the karma, and karma automatically knows what is a good karma. Can you see? When you bring a fish out of the water, and how she has a problem or not a problem, suffering, and she cannot breathe, or she says... Please, please let me go. You see that? The air condition of that fish, then she will give up life. That time, that machine will touch you there. Go into that water, and a hook will come into your throat. So whatever you talk, you talk, you should know: are you sure? Yes. So this is what we have to purify. Does not matter we are poor, but we are pure. Poor and pure, and dirty, and that is not right. So that one soul is still there. It is the same water, but this water is going somewhere else. Last about three months already, I do not know which airlines, I have got so much traveling, but one aeroplane was very honest, and that honest in the toilet in aeroplane, and there is written, "Please do not drink." It is recycling water. So urine, you put your hand, everything, all kinds of things, what you are cleaning inside, it goes and filters. And again, coming to that water where you wash the hands. So someone went to the urinal, and after a few minutes, another one came and he was washing that urinal. So what should I do? So, but many aeroplanes, they give you one water bottle. So you can go to the bathroom, you can wash your hands and mouth. I do not know, in other classes they are also giving water bottles. But in my class, they are putting one water bottle. So, how are you circulating? So you have to purify that water, then you come clean. So our karma goes through there, but then the machines, in God's hand again, will purify and become very clean, like a clean... if you do not know, you can drink even. Similarly, our karma is there. But it is, we cannot 100% avoid. When you drive now, the car, in this time, there are so many bugs flying, and after, you see how many bugs were killed through your windshield. So there is also karma. Either we should not drive anymore, or we have to take this karma. I do not know what to do. So what I do? God, I did not make this. It was that bug; it was his karma to come here. But I did good karma because, within a quarter second or not even a quarter second, I gave them liberation. There was not even time to say, "Ah," so God has brought them to your kingdom. Please liberate them. God said, "I know you are very clever." I said, "No, no, no, God, it is in your hands." But I pray to you, Lord, all this creates a liberation. Otherwise, you have to go to the Supreme Court. Who? God. I will take God to the Supreme Court. God said, Come, sit down. We will make something. That is a God, so kind, you know. Because if it is the Supreme, it goes down somewhere. But we should do good things. And therefore, when you touch some different kind of bugs or moths on your car, you should give some kind of feeder for animals, birds, or something like this. That's it. But do not think that you are the best and others are not. And what you are saying, that is not good and that is good, did you know what you are having, good or not? If the same negative thoughts you are giving towards others, first purify your negative thoughts. Do not put it on others. Then what will happen? Others will be liberated, and you will have double karma. So, this is how to know one. What is one? Duthya means the talking negative. Therefore, it goes to the negative. Eko Brahma, when you are one with everyone, then you are in Brahma Loka. So that is very important for your practice. So, Anamaya Kośa, please come out of Anamaya Kośa. Then come to your prāṇa. What are you doing in the prāṇa? When the body is gone, your prāṇa is still there. You did not put the prāṇa in others. So, the physical body is gone, but this prāṇa body is there, even if you put it in the grave. Or you go to the crematory, so when you are in the earth, buried, still there is life inside. The life will be so long; if you want to know, then you will see that as long as your hair is still growing. So, ask the doctors that after this late body, they bring there and they save again once more. That is the prāṇa. The hair is not; it is not as the body. It is not in that way, but it is ākāśa. Prāṇa-maya-kośa, not the annamaya-kośa. So you can cut your hair. Do you feel? No, but it is growing. But it is not dead. But this is like that. And our nails. Nails have two parts: the body, light, and separate. But the nail we can cut, and we know the nail is not alive anymore. This one, the edge of the nail, but this hair is growing, and this is called ākāśa. Ākāśa means this space. So, prāṇamaya kośa. This is still prāṇa in the body. There are different ways for people to make what you call the funeral. Someone is buried in the earth, yet still alive, and developing many worms. It is still life. So you are being physical body is a long, long time torturing. Some people, and also different people from the Parsis, from the Parsi religion, they put the whole body somewhere in the forest so that animals can eat. The Parsis who are living in Mumbai, for example, they have a big, big, big community, and they have, like, this big, big building up and a hall like this. The government provides them, and so they go, and it does not matter if it is a child, mother, father, or any old person or young person. They take all the dress and let you die. And then the birds come, and they are eating, and they are eating, and after some time, they collect. The bones, and they put them in the ocean or something, I do not know. Others put them in the water, in the flowing water, and there the fish eat them and so on, or deep in the ocean, far. And others, they burn the body, and that is one of the things that the soul, the life, quickly detests from this world. Now that jīva knows, "I do not have a place here," then I will go further towards my destiny. So this is how life is. Not only that your breath is finished, your heart is stopped, and so on, but there is still life inside. So, we have to come further more. So, when we come above everything, then we become one. And what is that one? It is like one space. The space is one, going more and more far. And that is the Brahmaloka. In that oneness we are, and so we are all one. But we have more body. And what is in us? All principles that we have are the same. So we will talk further. Next week in Prague will also be a very nice subject. On this page, you will come very clean. I will send you back good and healthy. Life, I will not let you go in Prague. This only we have to understand. Thank you very much. I wish you all well, and it was great and happy that we were all together after a long time, but we are here. I had many, many journeys, many, many journeys, and mostly to Strelka and Hungary. VEP, they are all our people coming. But I realized again, I should come to every country to have some kind of weekend or something. If not a weekend, then evening, twice, two days evening. Now, again.

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