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Understand and follow your Guruji

The inner dialogue between the jīvātmā and the ātmā is the path to self-realization, requiring unwavering trust in the master.

Sādhanā is for sincere seekers, prepared through focused commitment well in advance. Trust in the master removes doubt; doubt arises from within and only the self can dispel it. The master leads to Brahmaloka, so concentration stays there, not on outer judgements. A bhajan reveals the ātmā instructing the jīvā: the jīva fears leaving the body due to past lives’ experiences, clinging to safety. The ātmā urges it inward, where merging occurs—like milk becoming butter, then ghee. This inner light is found by turning to the heart. Meditation means entering the ātmā, the jīvātmā, not running after external beauties. Trees and colors delight the eyes but remain outside; bring that happiness within. The jīva must walk alone; no outside help carries it forever. Ultimately, merge like a flower whose fragrance never dies. Live giving good thoughts, love, and cause no harm. Doubt leaves one empty, like a pot spilled dry. Steady trust keeps the path clear through all obstacles.

"Always when you meditate, try to come to your ātmā, your jīvātmā, and be with you inside."

"The ātmā said, 'My dear, this body was only for this life, supporting you to grow further.'"

Filming location: Vép, Hungary

So that anuṣṭhāna was, which long ago, it is for people who really want to do. Then you have the place; on the same place you will sleep, you will practice, and everything is on your, on one mattress. So all people should have a distance. And so the distance is at least one meter from each other, or one and a half meters. Because the energy is different, so your energy and others’ energy is different. So no touching. Also, there is very limited nourishment. But you should know if you have diabetes and you have to eat more times, if someone has constipation, if someone has diarrhea, if someone has epilepsy, so in certain situations one should say that these are my conditions, no, I am not healthy in my body. Then we can give different techniques. And also, when you go to the bathroom, wash this and that, not together. So it is called like the kāya kalapa. And this is the kāya kalpa. But the first day is good only till half the day. Next day, the whole day is not so balanced. And on the third day, he thinks, “I think I will not manage.” And on the fourth day, I think I will go home. You know that I told the story about this once, no? So when you come for your understanding, then six months before, you should prepare yourself. It doesn’t matter if you are working; everything you are doing. But concentrate on this, that this sādhanā will be. So there is one person who is doing this technique, and they are on a waiting list for three years. So that is very, very systematic. But, of course, many go quickly away. But this is only for the rich people. It is 5,000 euros, or what do you call it? Also in India, some people who are from America, Indians, and they are doing it, one week is about 10,000 to 15,000 euros. But, of course, they have a swimming pool, they have massage, they have many times eating, what kind of eating? Some soup, where there are only two, three tulsī leaves in hot water, and then something different. So always you are getting like something, but still your stomach is empty. But there are people who are taking care, but they ask, and they get the money. There are people who are taking care of them, so it became commercial. And I don’t know if they have already attained mokṣa on the bank of the Gaṅgā. So what we have designed, our techniques, our Gurujī’s, and that is the best path, the best technique. Gurujī’s, our Gurujī’s, that he was practicing his sādhanā, mālā, and the mantra. And that was always the concentration on his master, Mahāprabhujī, and Mahāprabhujī on the Devpurījī, and Devpurījī on the Alakhpurījī. Now, again, this Dr. Shanti, you know, she is a very, a person of, what, how do you call it, disbalanced. She can’t trust me, and she can’t get rid of me. She thinks if Swamījī is telling, it’s only okay. But now again, she was telling somebody else. Is there? Alakhpurījī was in those old scriptures. And someone asked him, “Please search for that book.” Let’s call it the Bhāgavatam, and this book, the Bhāgavatam, which we have, is the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam. So Bhagavata, the ṛṣi who wrote this, I think no one in the world has done this work. Eighteen thousand, eighteen thousand ślokas, not repeating again, and written in Sanskrit, and that ṛṣi was talking about other ṛṣis, many, many ṛṣis, and where the Alakhpurījī is also there. And Alakhpurījī is there. The Gṛgācārya is there. Gragācārya is there, but there are some people like Dr. Shanti. But there are some people like Dr. Shanti. And she is listening now in the webcast. And she is listening now in the webcast. That’s very good. Now she knows that Swamiji is talking somewhere. That here Swamījī is talking somewhere... That is, when the Guru said, “This is only this, that’s all.” But you should also know and understand. Otherwise, you go empty. So, this is a pot, you know. You know this, yeah? And there is a second one, and this we make for our pūjā. Now, is this yes? Do you see that? Nobody sees; you are blind. Yeah, they say yes and no. Now, the Gurujī gave to the disciple one rupee, so Gurujī said, “Go and buy the oil.” So one cent only. That time, one cent was very much. So, he took one cent and went to the shop, and the merchant was there. He said, “Please, give the Gurujī for cooking for us, oil.” And here is one cent. So, the merchant is a very honest person. So, he put the oil here, but half the money still remained. Because there was no more in this pot. There was no place to have more oil inside. So, the merchant, the merchant like Vivek Purījī, he said to this disciple of the Gurujī, “Gurujī said, ‘Please, half cent remand,’ and it is a full oil.” What do you want more? Your pot is too little. He said, “No problem. Okay, this side you can give it.” All the oil went away, and he was completely filled. The merchant knew this a little bit. He said, “I think he does not understand Gurujī’s Vākya.” So he came and he brought the oil. Gurujī said, “You brought the oil?” He said, “Yes, sir.” Gurujī said, “Only this much oil for one cent?” No, no, Gurujī, this side also. So, but it’s empty. No, no, Gurujī, here there is nothing empty. And so, take care always. So if the disciple does not, then we’ll try to do left and right, then definitely you will always be in doubt. Like Dr. Shanti. She is very devoted, and she is very humble, and she trusts me, but sometimes she is completely not a believer. So neither oil is on this side, nor is it on the other side. And then there is no oil on one side, yes. So then Gurujī said, “Make the chapātī, it doesn’t matter, make the chapātī.” Make nice, good fried. So he was making good and said, “Make good and good,” and brought it, but the chapātī was half burned down. And the other side is, how to call it, is not through. He said, “Okay, Gurujī, I will do this.” He put it under and also burned it. So both sides, the body was burned. So Gurujī said, “What have you done?” He said, “His head nicely fried on both sides.” And you said it should be fried very nicely. Then it must burn, Gurujī, whether you eat or not. So, by both sides, the chapātī was burned. So, these are the disciples. We, and especially now in this modern time, there is a lot and lot of knowledge. Long ago, nobody knew what Croatia is. Only a few people who were perhaps going and looking said, “There is one Croatia.” And sometimes they said, “Hungry,” and some people said, “Hungry,” and then they are still hungry. Why don’t they have anything to eat? Hungry means you are hungry. What is the name of this country, Hungary? They have nothing to eat? At that time, my religion, that’s all. Other religions are not. But now everyone knows, so that’s good. Every religion knows. And everyone knows how different religions are. So there should be no fanaticism. So, nobody wrote some documents. I told you what the fanaticism is. So you should give both, opposite to the fanatic and this. Proper thought. So it means that for one who does not trust, it is not good. It doesn’t matter if it is wrong, but it is not your problem. The Gurujī will lead you to the Brahmaloka. So it does not matter if it is good or not good. Concentrate on Brahmaloka. Brahma, don’t concentrate somewhere else. So, in such a book like the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, which is a great, great, great scripture, many people cannot read eighteen thousand ślokas. Śloka means one, like a poem. Yes. And how? Who was writing? Eighteen thousand, how many days will we be reading through? So, knowledge is that great, but we cannot digest it. And the people who are reading this Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, they finish in seven days, but how much? Only a few pages they are reading in Haryom. Then they are just singing and dancing, and there you are. There are very few who can read that Śrīmad Bhāgavatam. Great and great. Trust. If you don’t trust your master, if you don’t trust your master, then it is within, in our self, that the mistake is in us. Doubt is in us. And doubt, no one can take out. Only our Self can get rid of this doubt. Otherwise, your whole life you will be in doubt, and you will be out. Our path is gone, so if you want to go to the path, there are thorns, stones, a very difficult path, and many different creatures. There is no one like your little baby; you need to be taking care all the time, and what you call “needy” always. You are going alone through the forest. You make in the neppy; there is no second neppy there. So if you have confidence, it doesn’t matter. There is one nice bhajan that Dr. Shanti always sings very much; it is her favorite bhajan. But according to that, she has no trust. When she sings, then she sings. When she is completely full of devotion and everything, when she sings, she is completely full of devotion and everything, but it is known that always. But it is known that always. So she will listen, and she is a very nice person. Person is nice, everything. Person is nice, everything. But the situation is that if there is good milk, then everything changes from a drop of lemon. So, this bhajan which Dr. Shanti was singing so much, how is that bhajan? Yes. Okay, so we should sing all for our dear Śāntī. And she will sing now, I hope, through this webcast. And someone who should properly sing, not like crying. These girls were singing; they are like someone who died, someone. Yes. It should be like Dr. Shanti’s voice. Otherwise, she will tell me that you are telling them they are singing wrong. You told them, Swāmījī, that they will sing badly. Yes, so who is going to sing there? Some boy, yes, okay. And you will not sing, only play the harmony, okay? And after, you can sing slowly. But do you know this, what it means? Do you know the meaning? You see, how many times has this lady from, what is it called, Salzburg, said, “No, I don’t know”? Thousand times in Salzburg. That’s salt. But you know, the bitter, bitter olives. Only salt can make a sweet, yes, so there the salt must be, and now they don’t, the lynch people, do you know this bhajan? Madhu? Okay, nobody. So now today you must know that this song, this bhajan, which is a favorite of Gurujī, and from Gurujī she gave it to Dr. Śāntī, and Dr. Śāntī gave it to many others, and others listen more and they give it back to Śāntī also, nice. So, now you should know what it means. So, Vivek Purījī, now translate this bhajan, yes, but not for one hour, just what this meaning means, okay? Okay, now he was hearing it 2,000 times. That’s my disciples. Oh God, is there anybody? Yeah, that’s why the ṛṣis always go to the mountains, to the Himalayas. So, Terhat Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Dev Purīṣa Mahādeva Kī Jaya, Svāmī Madhavānandajī Gurudeva Kī Jaya, Svāmī Maheśvarānandajī Viśvagurudeva Kī Jaya, Mīlā He He Satcāsām. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān. So this bhajan, I don’t know who wrote this bhajan. But the one he did, in his meditation, it is his inner ātmā giving instruction to your jīvātmā. So, Jīvā, Jīvātmā, Ātmā, and Paramātmā. So this Jīvātmā is involved in us. And this jīvātmā is attacked constantly. And the jīvā doesn’t want to go out of the body. And the jīvā does not want to get out of the body, because many times this jīvā, in many lives, had maybe good or bad circumstances, happiness, joy, or different conquering, slaughtering, many things, but the jīvā is now in a human body. And also the jīvā said, “I don’t want to go out.” Because I give up this, and the second again. But the ātmā said to this jīvātmā, which is a jīvātmā. And that is talking, not the master. Like, let’s say, I’m not a master, but you can say, “Master,” or I tell you, “Tell me, ‘Master,’” and I am. So, our vṛttis, we have in that jīva, and around the jīva is ātmā. So the jīva is trying to bring us into safety. The soul wants to take us to safety. And the soul cannot, it doesn’t want to. It is a fear. Sometimes it is fear from that situation which punches elements of this body. He doesn’t want to go out. We are afraid of our operation. We are afraid of this disease, or some accident, or someone killing us. This is what Jīva said. And so Jīvātmā said, “Take your path, the inner path.” Then this ātmā will merge into the jīvātmā. And then it will become pure ātmā, like from a cow we get the milk. And from milk, it will become butter. And from water, we will get pure ghee. So this is that ghee. No, sorry, milk. So we are in this body as that milk. And in this body there is a pure jīvātmā together. So, it is that often we are offended, often we are fearful, many, many things. But those who have viveka, when something happens, of course, often someone will help us. It is our jīva that should go into our heart. Then you will get again the light. This light is in our self. We can only do something. It is said when we take a dead body to the funeral. And now this dead body wants that they all should come in the grave with us. So all people said, “We came only till there, but we are not going with you in the grave.” So, who is that going with the funeral? This is the outer world. They love you, respect you, but they are unhappy. But you cannot be grieved with you. And so, this body and jīva—the jīva thinks that the body will go with me everywhere. Therefore, the ātmā said, “My dear, this body was only for this life, supporting you to grow further.” So in that way, this bhajan is very nice. So it is not that you will do, feel this and that. Of course, words are like that, but you will go. You will do, and your ātmā, which is with you, that again and again gives you instructions: a jīva and ātmā, a jīvātmā. The ātmā and ātmā is jīvātmā. So it will take time to listen and learn again. So it is not that, why I want to tell you this bhajan like this. But it is awakening in our heart. When I’m listening, it is not somewhere else. My heart is jumping. So, when you meditate, what are you doing? Don’t look at me and say, “Oh, this tree is beautiful. Oh, nice lake.” Nice mountains, oh the ocean, it means that we are running out, we run away from ourselves. Always when you meditate, try to come to your ātmā, your jīvātmā, and be with you inside. Bring that happiness, those beauties in you. So, yes, the trees are here. They have good air, good oxygen. God has made such nice colors of the trees. Different colors of the trees, but it is pleasant to our eyes, no? And if we go and paint something in our house, still our eyes are not so like this. And this tree said, “As happy as I am,” you should also be happy in the end, my friend. And these leaves will fly. The cold will come. The snow will come. It will come, strong wind. I will fall down, break. The body will go. But I am, my Jīvātmā, my Jīvātmā, so meditate, and you have your mantra, then you will feel your heart will relax. You are crying like a little child, and the mother or father is howling and giving, petting like this, no? And the child is again happy. So, that jīvātmā said, the whole day you are there and there and... there. And God gave you time to meditate. And in meditation, you are again running, running somewhere, the sun is rising. I have nothing to do with the sunrise. I will rise in me. You are the sun. You are that. Everything is within our self. Someone is helping us, supporting us, that’s all. Finally, you have to walk. God will not come and say, “OK, I take you with me.” Then your ātmā will say this, “OK, God, great.” Great God, thank you. But how long will you take me with you? How many yugas? Then you will drop me again? So, God, what will you do with me? Then God said, “My son, you will merge like this flower from this tree.” All beautiful. Meghal a virág, but that smell will not die. It will go and go and go. So become that flower. As long as you are, give good thoughts, good thinking. And if you cannot, leave it. Don’t open out, otherwise there are some flowers; this is not good. In Vancouver, in a beautiful park, what is the name of the park? Stanley Park. And now, at this time, there is some flower, very nice, yellow, big, and we Europeans, we are mad for the flowers. So we said, “Okay, we took three or four flowers,” and there are guards, so no one should take a single flower away. But that flower, they smile, they don’t take it. And I put it in the hotel in my room. I have no smell, so for me it doesn’t matter. And after one hour only, two or three bhaktas came to take me to the program. And they said, “Oh God, Swamiji, is this a stinky flower?” I said, flowers are not stinky. He said, “Please, please, they took it in the water.” So that is that flower which has insight. Not good vichāra, not good thoughts. Outside looks good, but inside is not. We have life, enjoy life in a good way. And give everyone love. Don’t harm anything, stupid. And so this bhajan, or you say song, it is our ātmā talking to our jīva, a jīva talking to our ātmā. Okay, so I know you are going now. Many are going, many will stay. Those who are not going should go and do their practice, sādhanā. And in the evening we will have a program. Our evening program will be in the hall. Because our Gurudeva’s altar and everything, and then we will be here. Those who are going home, I wish you a good journey. Take care, drive peacefully, and many, many blessings to all your friends and families, everybody. From my jīvātmā, I pray to Mahāprabhujī to give you blessings. Hari Om.

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