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Worldly joy is just an illusion

The essence of spiritual longing is the heart's suffering for the Divine. This viraha is not negative but a profound belonging to God and the Guru. Worldly pleasures are a poisonous mirage of ego and pride, ultimately unreal and unattainable. The joy they promise is less than the sorrow they bring. Therefore, turn your back on this illusory world and face the reality of the Master. Satsang is the tree of immortality. The human body and its faculties will one day refuse service, lamenting their misuse for selfish pursuits instead of sacred purpose. This worldly garden will dry up. The only true pilgrimage is to be where the saint is, for the sole aim is to realize God. Through the Guru's grace, the soul realizes immortal peace.

"The joy of the joy is less than the sorrow of the joy."

"This beautiful human life—who knows if we will get it again."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

This bhajan is from the poetry of viraha that Mahāprabhujī was writing. 'Kavitā' means poetry, and 'viraha' means the suffering of the heart, the longing. He is describing it not in a bad way, but as the belonging for God, the belonging for the Divine, the belonging for Gurudeva. This is the essence of vīra. Swāmījī always says, only the one who is in love knows, only the one who is suffering and longing knows. There were two parrots sitting on a tree, one male and one female. One was the man, and one was the sow. They were quarreling. He said to the man, "O moje drahá, prosím poslouchej mě." These are poisonous fruits; do not eat them. We do not know what is coming in the next second, what will happen. Perhaps death will take you away. Listen to my advice. Concentrate on the name of God. You are eating the fruits of enjoyment, full of ego. Full of pride, you are moving here and there. When one is proud and full of ego, one can see how he or she is walking. But these enjoyments are like a Fata Morgana. You cannot reach them. You cannot enjoy this joy. Swāmījī always says, "The joy of the joy is less than the sorrow of the joy." So we cannot reach this joy. It is like a mirage. This, my darling, this joy you wish to enjoy is unreal. Keep the world behind you. Leave this whole Brahman, this drama of life. Do not turn towards māyā. Keep your back towards māyā and turn your face towards the reality, Mahāprabhujī. Therefore, Gurudeva is giving you satsaṅg. Satsaṅg is the tree of immortality which gives us the fruits of immortality. That is the difference between heaven and hell, and we can decide where we want to go. As Swāmījī described yesterday, even hell is closed for those who are backbiting. We cannot even enter hell. But then the Mena says, "Wait, wait... My dear Sua, I will tell you also something. You talk to me; you should repeat the name of Soham. You have your own tongue to repeat it; it does not cost you anything. You have your own tongue to repeat this mantra of Soham; it costs you no money. You should repeat it. And I tell you, you know the cat, the dad is like a cat, Billy. And this cat of Dad will eat you, he or she. Billy is 'he'. He will finish all the phases of your life. Within one minute, you will see, and he is chewing your skin in his mouth, your skin." 'Pusest' is the means to the 'sūra'. Here, Swāmījī was explaining: the mind is the sūra, the body is the 'kev', and the ātmā is So’ham; the ātmā is the soul. In this Ātmā, you have to realize the immortal peace. You can realize it when there is the Kṛpā, the grace, of Gurudeva. The Mena said to the Sua, "You should get up every day early and do your sādhanā, your mantra and your practice. Do not be so lazy; get up. This garden of the world will one day dry up; everything will dry." Swāmījī explained: "The knees do not go with you anymore. They say, 'My friend, you were walking to places where you should not have walked. I was helping you enough in this life; now we do not want to anymore. You misused us. You must have been talking with us without any feeling of ahiṃsā. You were talking with us without a feeling of ahiṃsā and going to useless places. You did not go to the sacred places where you should have gone. You went sightseeing and sightseeing and sightseeing. You did not look towards yourself. Now we do not want any more.'" And then the ear said, "It is unbelievable. We were waiting so long for the day you would listen only to good things. But you were always searching to listen to negative gossip and criticism. Now we do not want that. We do not want to listen to this stuff. Do what you want, but without us." And another friend said, "We do not want to." So the ears and the eyes said, "We thought you would see the beauty of this world, but you were selfish. You saw only the beauty you wanted to see. Now we do not want anymore." And the tongue said also, "Wait, wait... you made us impure," and so on. So it is said, this worldly garden will dry up one day; this oil is useless. Here, Mahāprabhujī said, "This beautiful human life—who knows if we will get it again." And here Swāmījī explains, we never know what will be after our death. We do not know. Mahāprabhujī says this is the truth. Where there is a holy man, a saint, a yogī, and Gurudeva, there is your pilgrimage place, and there is happiness. All holy scriptures and all the saints speak about this one aim: to understand and realize God. This was translated by Swāmījī in one of his divine satsaṅgs. So, the next bhajan. We have our Karma Sannyāsinī, Yamunā, coming from Australia. Sunshine Coast came from Sun-Sand Coast and was born in the snow in Germany. After this bhajan, she will translate. Which bhajan? Good bhajans. But a karma sannyāsinī is very special. Very rarely can you have this. It is for one who is truly going the path of karma: no anger, no negative thoughts, no many, many things, and always doing service for everything. So, our dear Yamunājī, please come for the translation; come here to the front. The next bhajan is from Mahāprabhujī to Devpurījī, where he is thanking Mahāprabhujī for saving him. Through the meeting of the Master, my life has become real, spiritual. It has become a spiritual life. You are the great pārasa (philosopher's stone) that transforms the crow to a swan, to a haṁsa. I know this word, haṁsa. And I know the pārasa. I need to put my glasses on, but I just want to say this is what happens in our life through the meeting of Gurudeva. Otherwise, our life might go on and on for many, many lives, forever and ever. And Gurudeva, through his grace and mercy, has taken me on and given me a spiritual life instead of just a worldly life. And then he just says that Gurudeva is the greatest, the everything, and I thank you for this mercy and this grace. Thank you so much. That is the whole bhajan. Ah, more, okay. Of course. But I do not know the words. No, all the words are there; you have to be singing. When we have the connection with the Satguru through our mantra, then we are connected with Him. Good. Tomorrow, generally, yes. All right, get ready for tomorrow. Śrī Pūjābhagavānadīpanārāyaṇabhūpanakebhūpah, Śrī Pūjābhagavānadīpanārāyaṇabhūpanakebhūpanakebhūpanakebhūpanakebhūpanake. Ka he Mādhava Nanda, jīha māre, Sīrpāra he rakamā. Ka he Mādhava Nanda, jīha māre, Parabrahma Puruṣottama Swāmī. Kardive Naja Rannikaha Ajore Madhava Bodhipada Ajore Ujjadipadaya. Yes, every bhajan, almost all, we have heard maybe a thousand times since 1973. Od roku možná 1973, the whole Soviet country. Also Yugoslavia, Germany, all, etc. How many times have you heard this bhajan? And it has been translated many times. So today, one of our very dear ones will translate. Her name is Mantrā Purī. Please come and translate. Yeah, she is very, very nice. This bhajan, by the two... But you are taking the part with this translation. Yeah, she has it wrong. Okay then, okay. Yes. No, no. Your Masters want to tell the meanings of the bhajans, yes, what they give us, and not only stories, salt and sweet. O my mind, Śrī Prabhudeep is the giver. He is the supreme, the Parabrahman, he is Puruṣottama, Svarūpāvane Biti, the Supreme Being. You are sitting on the podium with hundreds of people, yes, yes. You are a sannyāsī, come on, BAM BAM... yes, go ahead. Wasting time, no, no... that is not a lecture here, is it? Actually, no. Okay, get ready for tomorrow, okay? I do not know any bhajans, but tomorrow you have to understand, okay? And this one, come here, you also. The Germans are very good, always. Yes? Can I do it in German? Yes, in German, of course. You have to know everything. Yes? Your master knows everything. "Gott Śrīdīp, er ist das höchste heilige Bewusstsein." She said, "Meditate, my mind, on the divine Self. He is the holy divine Self. He is the highest God in human form. He is the highest God in human form. In human form, our Savior came into this world to protect the living beings. Mahāprabhujī came in human form, in the Saguṇa form, into this world to protect all living beings. Inside and outside is the highest form of light. Whoever meditates on Him with a pure heart, then all these doubts and illusions of this world will disappear. Then all the doubts and illusions of this world will disappear. Mahāprabhujī gives everything, and Śrī Gurujī said this in this bhajana." And she also did not translate it correctly. And so Mahāprabhujī is learning slowly, slowly, in case in the ocean. Word for word, always. I sit there and always translate word for word for many, many years. Many, many years, each and every word, I have translated these bhajans. Yeah, okay, next bhajan. It must not be a sannyāsī. I will say, hokus pokus tikus sakit sikus hokus pokus tikus. Yeah, that will come to my hands, okay? So, next bhajan. Okay, friend, yes, he is going. I have translated this many, many times. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān kī Jai, Śrī Śrī Devīśvara Mahādeva kī Jai, Śrī Viśva Gurudeva kī Jai. Oh, my Lord, I became one with your heart. Whatever is for me, you are my Lord. Whatever is for me, you are my Lord. Prem Purī from Croatia will translate this. Come on, yes, of course. I did not say it was bad; we... Will do. I did not say bad. He said from himself, "I will do my best," so I did not say that. Then go back to Nepal. You can say Croatian, you can Hindi, you can English. Then all translators are here. "In every house in which the heart is without you, you are in each house. There is no heart without you. There is no heart without you." Oṁ Śrī Alakā Purī Jī Siddhāpīṭ Paramparā Kī Jai.

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