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The Oneness of the Jīva and the Power of Om

The one infinite consciousness is the source and essence of all. Within the human body are countless individual life-forces, yet one supreme consciousness pervades them all. This awareness is unborn and without desire. The entire manifest universe arises from primordial sound, or nāda. From this sound emerges light, fire, air, water, and earth. The sacred syllable Om is this foundational vibration, present within all beings and even discovered within the sun. True yoga is the union with this infinite reality. The individual soul and the supreme soul are one. Forgetting this knowledge leads to suffering. The power of remembrance and spiritual awakening resides within, activated through practices like the conscious repetition of Om.

"Inside the human body, there are countless jīvas... But among all these jīvas, there is one great jīva."

"Everything arises from sound. So nāda is the very first... Om is what it is."

You have already met Gurujī for Gurujī; you have already met Gurujī for Gurujī. There is no saint or divine manifestation like Gurujī anywhere in the entire world. Internationally, even the President of America, whom they honor, is present before us in consciousness at this moment. And their blessings were the fortune of this village; at their feet, this book was read, entrusted to all of us, entrusted to the villagers. They attained their darśana, and what more can I say about Svāmījī? Gurudev was very compassionate. When I asked, my grandfather was no longer alive, and even in this village, the first guru had passed away. Yes, and currently Svāmījī’s Om Āśrama is operating in the world, located on the Jāḍan Pālī Ajmer highway. A very large structure is under construction there, and soon it will be completed. With Svāmījī’s blessings, you will also receive darśan there, of their Gurujī. The place of Somā and others is also there, of Svāmījī, Śrī Mādhvānana Purī. Hail to the supreme Satguru Shri Swami Mādhvādhan Jī Bhagavān, the sovereign of the Hindu Dharma. To all the dear friends, sisters, mothers, and my beloved spiritual brothers gathered in this sacred world and village, whenever there is dawn, there is a meeting. Many times, I have come to this very place with my Gurudev, Svāmījī, Mahādvāriṅjī, and Bhagavān. Three, three, four, four, five, five days—this village is very beautiful, good, and has now grown quite a lot, it should continue to grow. Even in this, Gurujī used to say that this is a sacred village where the community includes Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and all the noble ones. I have paid my respects in this village many times. Sometimes we used to come on foot, Samesharī, right? There was also Sumerpur, that once you come, you must call me again. My brother, many were telling me this. You had stayed in Mumbai as well, stayed there a lot. There were two friends, and there was so much love between them that until they sat together and ate a meal, they could not sleep. What is called friendship is true friendship, and that truth is that two become one. One brother is uneducated, the other brother is educated; the educated one moves to another city, his circumstances change. Yet, the brother who stayed in the village repeatedly writes letters—at that time, there was no telephone—repeatedly writing, "Brother, when will we meet?" I almost said it, otherwise if I remember it, I will say it in between. It was said that a fish cannot live without water; a lot was said about the fish. Then he said that the day Anjal comes, we must meet at that time, brother. As long as Anjal is here, we will remain. And inside the human body, there is not just one jīva; we say jīva, but inside your body, there are countless jīvas. It cannot be counted. In a single drop of blood, there are innumerable jīvas. But among all these jīvas, there is one great jīva, and that jīva is Śveta Bhū Śiva, infinite, infinite... At that time, there was nothing—neither lightning nor earth—only ākāśa, ākāśa and nothing else. Along with that ākāśa, there is another which we call jīva or consciousness; in English, we say consciousness, which is our awareness, our chetana. But within the body’s universe, there is no desire, and nothing arises from the inert. The infinite is infinite within the infinite, which we call Svayaṁ Bhū. It says, "Eko ham, eko ham"—I am one. Now, if the one becomes many, who is that? Whose is it? Sometimes people say to themselves, "O Maharaj, be a knower of the multitude." I mean, please tell me one thing—whether the bird came first or the egg came first, people say different things. Maharaj and Bābō have said, look, Bābō has not said anything about what will happen to the two brothers. Please explain. Infinite, infinite... within the infinite, there is nothing, and if there is consciousness, then that consciousness is either within the infinite or the infinite is within the consciousness—this too is unknown. So where is it? The nāda-rūpa Parabrahma, the nāda-rūpa Parabrahma, that Parabrahma, that Paramātmā—what is He like? There is nothing at all. Form is what it is, nāda is what it is; we all have been born from nāda, and even now we are nāda, and with our nāda, it is all one. So it is said, I am the one, I am the one, and from the one I will become many. Now, who remains? Who is saying what? Why is it being said? This has been explained by Gurudev and Mahāprabhujī. In meditation, in dhyāna, what do we find? Tell me. Agā said, "No, Nīdu, I am the mother, I am the essence; in this ignorance, in this illusion, my mother is present." So Bhagavān Śiva is infinite. I am one, and I will become many. So who is that? When did the one who says this come into being? Where is the one who says this? If it exists, then first of all with it is nāda, sound; everything arises from sound. So nāda is the very first—nāda, then light, fire manifests, and with fire moves the vāyu; with that vāyu comes water, and after water comes pṛthvī. Now, in that, Shiva Himself says, Om is what it is. Om Om is present within all Brahmins, it is also within the Sūrya. Recently, scientists have discovered that if you listen closely inside the Sūrya, you hear the sound of Om. At that moment, Shiva manifests, and that Shiva is what everyone refers to as Yoga. So, what is Yoga? First and foremost, it is infinite. The sky and our consciousness are one, but nothing happens to it; it is unaffected by the inert. It has no desires. Between these, there are three to balance it, to establish a nāda within that balance, and... Yoga is of three types; only then does the yoga that unites the brāhmaṇa and the itya come into being. That is the yoga that first appeared with Bhagavān Śiva. Śiva Bhagavān brought forth yoga, and who is the yogī? It is Śiva, the Śaivite, Bhagavān Śiva. So that is yoga. Now, our yoga—by practicing yoga a little—our organs inside the body will remain healthy, prāṇāyāma... Even if we do, there is still this breath, but these five elements—these five elements constitute us, and we say that these five elements are our food. And this is the power behind everything. Through practicing this yoga, our yogīs achieve great things, as spoken of by Bābajī and Gurudev. Gurujī said here the same thing many times, I remember Bābajī used to tell very good and beautiful stories. So, dear ones, our body, our jīva, all are one and the same, and that oneness is ours. Our Gurudev’s guru brother, Dīp Tāraṇ Mā, the disciple of Prabhuji, Thākor Chhoṭī Khāṭū, who is his nāb... Mā Gurujī had kept Shivānana Ji; he said in the ārtī, "That ātman is Paramātmā, Mātma, Purusotmā, the inner knower of the entire world, the ātman of the moving and non-moving, the Lord, the ātman of the moving and non-moving, the embodiment of nine forms, the truth itself, the conscious ātman that awakens through yajña and niyama, the true ātman." Now what happened was that we forgot ourselves because we forgot our knowledge. How did we forget our knowledge? When the British came, they said to change their language. So, in Maharashtrian, "ehang" and "dapod" were given, and they gave them such a language that we have 52 letters. They are all 20, right? Half of it hasn’t been done yet. Now, where did you say this was? At Tower Gate, in one language, English media, going here and there. They don’t want it, I don’t like the Hindi language, I am going to the English media. Do it, brother, do the media. Now what follows is that those who are reading this English language, whatever is forming in their minds, and because of that formation, we have forgotten our dharma, we have forgotten our parents, we have forgotten everything. All of that is within that very mind, and because of this, our country, which is today India Mahān, is not a great nation of humanity. At this time, there is no change, and the hang is cut off, oh Ram Ram. The head, eyes, stomach, and legs are there, but those were left behind; it was these people who applied them. The swāsūt was not here; the swāsūt was placed there by these people so that those who were on the stretcher would not be recognized by others. Go ahead with admiration; everything had happened there. Now, along with that, what all have you done? It pains me that you are so knowledgeable—why is it so? Today, Baba Jī is saying this, and now I am saying this like a child, Baba Jī is saying this. Bābā jī, I am saying this, Bābā jī, I am saying this, Bābā jī, I am saying this, Bābā jī, I am saying this—what you will say is only sunlight, only sunlight. What do you call mother? Māmī. Māmī means marīodilās in our language, and it is in your mind, so you have placed it inside. And mā means mā, the mother. Is he the greatest or not, now that is something only Mā can decide. That is called a dead body. You cannot force it, saying "Auntie, auntie... come, auntie, auntie." If she is dead, then she has become a corpse. Now, another thing happened, sir. When I asked where my father was, my father said, "Sinner, sinner..." The sinful one is truly lost, but being sinful is not what it means. How so? First, there is the Parabrahma Paramātmā, the Śveta Bhū; then there is the Paramātmā. And when that Paramātmā comes into the jīva, what do we call Him? Our father, the pitṛ, who is our father. And my father is the one who is dharmātmā. Our father is dharmātmā—no one else. No one else will say that our father is dharmātmā. There is no one who is purely virtuous or purely sinful; there is only one who is dharmātmā and the other is pāpātmā. It is not that there is no pāpātmā, but within the body of a human being, when the dharmātmā comes in, we become dharmātmā. The dharmātmā is like the father, and the pāpātmā is the one who will go to hell. This is the force that is upon us. Just as that jīva emerged, that jīva settled in. We are made to undergo apāha daily; there is no need to create any saṃskāra, no need to do anything, no need to build any bridge. Do only what is necessary. They say harsh words, but here there is no such thing. That is the jīvātman, and that is the paramātman. We are human beings, part of the culture of our Bhārat. Inside our sufferings, that is why father, mother, oh Ravana, do not leave. Someone said that father, mother, is burning like Ravana. He said, "I will fight with Rāma." Father, mother, please leave it. Father, mother, why not Ravana in the heart? Ravana’s child said, "Oh dear son, put this on your head now." That very date has passed, so if my coming here is a journey, you see, why is your father like Godhar Bābā? Auntie is eighty, oh hang on, auntie, auntie, in baby, in baby, in lady, hang on, auntie, Bhogi, hang on, auntie, hang on. That is precisely why in our Indian culture... Now what is happening is that we have to move forward. A Muslim does not say "papa," a Muslim does not say "mami." Look, Christians sit quietly and read the Bible to their children. Can your Tower Ram Dev here perform vāṇḍavān cārīṣa? Can they chant any mantra of Bhagavān Rāma? What can they do, what can Bhagavān Krishna do, what do your children do? They fold their hands, sit down, no, they will only say, "Papa, can you give me the cup of tea?" Allah, Ogham, now what will they do for us? That is why it is said, Bharat is great, but how many times have I circumambulated the earth and how many percent... Yes, in thousands of places, Babajī’s discourses are going on abroad, and so many have become my followers. Abroad, you cannot go anywhere without encountering this. If you do not consume meat, then you have saved three hundred animals, haven’t you? Now... Among millions, they neither ate eggs, nor fish, nor meat, absolutely not. So how many, how many cows, if India is to be purified again, if India is to be purified again... So, the mother will improve through the feet, but if those feet do not come into the house, there will be no improvement. If they do not come, then the matter is complicated. First, it became clear that if they come into the house and their spouse also becomes pure, then they come purely, very purely. If there is someone else, their spouse comes and interferes, either bringing something or breaking something, or an egg. Look, what kind of country is ours becoming? This is a village, and within this village, there was so much devotion and still is. I am not saying that there is nothing good in this village—everything is there—but if you explain just this much, about the māta and piṭha, then everything else will follow. That is why I spoke something about Om and about it, and about one Avīśa, and secondly, about our ātman and... Our place of awakening is within our navel, inside the navel. When Ram was being shot with arrows inside the Ramayana, but Ravana kept reviving again and again, Ravana had a brother, whose name was Vibhīṣaṇa. Vibhīṣaṇa said to Bhagavān, "O Lord, this demon will not die by You," and from within... Rāvaṇa has said at that time, what he said was, "O Rāma," but initially, he did not say "O Rāma." This is within the nābhī, and if you are doing mantra on the nābhī and illuminating it, then I will tell you how to do it. Jāgara jāda jamī jāyate le lī kyo bhe bāre jāyoṅ ke vidaṅg ṭāim ṭū ṭā... 62 bas lekin patā hī nahīṅ hai hamāre to 52 hai aur... Within 52 letters lies our kuṇḍalinī śakti; within the kuṇḍalinī is the rose, and the rose has many petals. What are these called? They are called pital pital dame jaṇū paṅkuṛī. Each of these petals corresponds to the ājñā cakra, and here it culminates in fifty-two letters, and of those fifty-two letters... Inside, we have those fifty-two powers, then the bindu, and the sahasrāra, which is always active. Now see, where does our jīva move? On which letters does your jīva move? Only then can we enter that yoga, otherwise we cannot. So if I... You need to take care of your jīva. If I say something, you must respond. There is immense power in the jīva. With a wave of the hand, I can make it happen instantly. And in a moment, there is strength in the beard, strength in the beard. If someone is ill, if there is rashṭa inside, pain and suffering, then even a small action can bring about great healing. It has gone somewhere inside the ear canal, and the pain is intense, spreading to the cheek. It hurts a lot, and if you try to do anything, do it gently and slowly. Those who try too hard might end up causing more harm. I am telling you, brother, don’t do it forcefully, or else it will only worsen the situation. Has it ever happened that someone repeatedly goes to the floor to sweep it? He says "daunt," then again "daunt," why don’t you have it these days? Everyone belongs to the village, but there is no organization or unity. Or he says something else—there is another name in English, "union." There are thirty teeth, and there is a union of thirty-two. Oh dear soul, if you lose your temper even for a minute, some might say, "Oh, you stay quiet for now." Some souls have fled because of this. Why? Because it is said that I have lost my temper. My soul has been affected by your wrong words. So, a few words can cause loss. Therefore, the soul’s... When the initial flow became thick, it was done; until then, it is not the final stage. In the end, one can completely expel the impurities. It is very difficult for the jīva to control this. Everyone who is inside the body, the jīva has a significant influence. Well, no matter, now what does the jīva say? It says... If I do not speak, then you will not hear any sound. Now, you may have our yoga within you. So, I would say that you must take care of the tongue—whether the tongue speaks or does not speak. Alright, good, continue. Is anyone here today? Speak up. Is anyone here today? Is anyone here today?... Today, no one can have an experience. They cannot have an experience. I am not speaking about myself in language. Even after fifty years, I speak a little bit—say, drink water, take the lotī, what will you drink, four? Very good, thank you, very good. As for Bābajī, whether someone is a disciple or someone is a devotee, or someone chants mantras on your navel, yes, now what kind of subtlety is this? And those are our akṣaras; there is nothing beyond that. I have seen that, yes, that’s right—how a yogī does it, how you also do it. But you forget, and that is why you can chant Om. Otherwise, you are fine, you chant the three letters Om Bah, but if you do halwa, then see how much sādhanā you will achieve. It is very simple. That terāg, which cuts the stomach, and you say, "Why should I not take the nābhi, nor the jīb?" The head is fine. Read the navel quietly, silently, without any disturbance. You have read two letters, haven’t you, Yājñavalkya? And then read two more letters of time. In school, automatically it becomes good. Neither is there any movement, nor is the tongue moving. And even after the sound "kū," the tongue will remain silent, but it will move. And that is the fourth step, just observe, this entire universe is within you, everything is within you, and some people have tension, some suffer from heart attacks, nothing happens, with this Om you will reach, you will reach, then your s... Deep Niranjan, the remover of all sorrow, Om, Lord Deep Niranjan, the remover of all sorrow—meaning all sorrows are dispelled by Gurudev; this power is given to everyone. Come, let us return once again to Om. It is beneficial especially for students who lack the power of remembrance. From this nābhi to there, your power of remembrance will increase. Once the student reads it repeatedly, even if they play football for five months, they will remember it. This is the power of remembrance contained within this Om. Recite it in this manner: pronounce Om three times, then say Om Vāyo. I won’t take you as far as the navel, but a mother is a mother, son. Just say it once—do they call you to school or not? You see, I have forgotten. Whatever anyone says, what can one do? No, no... I am not, I do not remain, and I do not act; O Mother, why should the child turn away? If you do not understand this, then there must be some Muslim women here in this village, or else don’t say this to anyone else. I have never said anywhere about Muslim women, because I have forgotten; my father committed sins and my mother died. India is great, but it is not for ordinary men. Now I will say to Modi Ji, Modi Ji, you say that our India is great, but right now not everyone is that great. Now all of them will become great. Modi Ji, you emphasize strongly, every single eye means strong effort, you emphasize well. I am not a politician, and where I live, even the newspaper does not arrive. Nothing else comes to mind, so I pray to Bhagavān for you. You should first read Hindi and also sometimes read the Vedas, read all these thoroughly. Nowadays, illness has increased a lot. Your children will not show it until it becomes visible; otherwise, the children keep crying and crying. This is a matter of great importance. If it is not in your mind, then take mine; take any mobile telephone from my hand, just take it from here to there. If you ask me questions, I will not speak unnecessarily. I tell you, if there is any such dear one among you who has a Gujarati mother in London, she has just left now. They even say to me that my mother doesn’t know English, so she says, "Mother, come to Gujarat, how ignorant is this ’come’." You listen to it once more, and again, look at the Ramā Bhagavat Gītā—you know it, whether you have studied a lot or even a little, but you have studied it. Yes, today, within the Rāma Bhāgavata Gīrṭā, the letters written there—until now, nothing like that has happened in the world. It can be done in what has happened, but what is written about Bhagavān Rāma in this Bhāgavata, see how beautiful that language is. Now, the language of today, you just tap and... Those two who sprinkled and lifted the darkness, gave the time of darkness. Who knows who, who knows who, only the Lord is there, but Bhagavān has given us such a Sanskrit that what is within Sanskrit cannot be erased. Saying this much, I pause my speech. I bless you all, Om śānti, śānti, śānti.

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