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Part 1: The Grace of Satguru and the Power of the Chalisa Oṁ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī, Devādhi Deva, Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī, Oṁ. Satguru Swamījī, Madhavānandajī, Bhagavān, Kī Jaya, Devadhī, Deva, Deveśvara, Mahādeva, Kī Jaya. Satguru Cālīsā, please. Our Satguru Swamījī, Madhavānandajī, Bhagavān, have brought this Satguru Cālīsā. Ārādhe Bhagavān, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa, Mahāprabhujī, Kī Jai. Hindu Dharm Samrāṭ, Śrī Parama, Svāmī Mādhvānanda Jī, Bhagavān, Kī Jai. Śrī Viśvaguru Parama, Śrī Svāmī Maheśvarānanda Jī, Gurudeva, Kī Jai. Thank you. The Satguru Chalisa was written by our Ārādhya Satguru Swami Madhavānandjī Bhagavān in 1990. However, Gurujī had composed an earlier version of this Satguru Chalisa before, in 1965. At that time, I was there. It was a beautiful winter or summer season, with a lot of rain and a lot of water in the river. Our Ārādya Bhagavān, Dīp Nārāyaṇ, Mahāprabhujī’s statue was there in the temple, and Daivadī Dev, Deveśvara Bhagavān, Mahāprabhujī came. Satguru Devpurījī, Purījī, and our Ārādya Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān—one day, he wrote the Satguru Chalīsā. In my time, when I did not know what a Satguru Chalisa could be, there was the Hanuman Chalisa, but Gurujī wrote this Satchit for the Satguru Chalisa. Many, many devotees, thousands of devotees of our Gurujī, are learning and speaking this Satguru Chalīsā morning and evening. Now it is written in many languages, and our devotees should understand what it means. We should chant it in the morning. When we do our prayer, before or after it, it is also very good to chant our Satguru, Swami Mādhavānandajī Bhagavān. Swamiji and Guruji said that in each and every word, there is immense purification and a very beautiful vibration in the heart. It is purifying through the heart. It comes to Iḍā, Piṅgalā, Suṣumnā, and Vajranāḍī, which brings a good energy as a vibration. Vibration means good energy, good feelings in the whole body. What is a whole body? It means each and every cell in our body has a beautiful vibration, that is called the whole being, complete. Our physical, our mental, our spiritual, all thoughts and everything are vibrating. Only that will understand who understands the Guru. Everything else is other. So when it is awakening through the whole body, each and every cell, that is called a beautiful vibration, which means energy through the body. Gurujī was telling me sometimes, but still I would not understand completely what it could be. I was from a little village, but Gurujī was sitting in Nippal Āśram. There was a beautiful little water well and a very nice platform there, and no trees yet. And Guruji was sitting there and told me, “Sit down.” And Guruji was chanting. And, okay, later I will chant. So, every day Gurujī said, every morning, first Satguru Chalīsā chanting. Okay. But now I understood. For our Gurudev, Swami Mādhavānandajī Bhagavān, to write any bhajans, any melodies, any Sadguru Chalīsā, and many things, is just like writing a letter for someone. As you know, our Gurudev, at that time, was also in Gujarat, Ahmedabad, Sabarmati. There was a very nice ashram. Someone gave Gurujī the land; it was only a tin shed and one photo—a picture of our Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī. One of the devotees of Mahāprabhujī, here from Madhya Pradesh, made this beautiful painted color oil painting. Bhajans are the picture, the photo of Mahāprabhujī. And that was in his ashram, Sabarmati. Gurujī’s seat, like I am sitting now, was made from bricks. On it, something was under his leg: photos, cloths, and many things. Mahāprabhujī’s picture, which you now have in Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī’s samādhi in Baḍīkhāṭū Nāgore—when you see there, Gurujī was in Gujarat, and then after, Gurujī gave this āśram to someone and brought the picture to the Jaipur āśram. And then one day I said to Mahāprabhujī, and Gurujī said, “Take these photos of Mahāprabhujī to the samādhi place.” And you see there, it is the printed color. Mahāprabhujī is there, the same picture we have on the altar in our Austria, in the city of Vienna, in the first of our ashrams there, and everyone is praying there. That is beautiful. So, after that, whatever is coming, it is only Gurujī’s, that alone is the Guru’s grace. There are many things, Gurujī said, all are prapañca. And we call it the prapañca. Now, the word “prapañca” means only—I don’t know—what you are doing this and that and that. But nothing is real. When it comes to reality, then all is prapañca. That’s it. When you want to get one fruit from a certain tree, but you don’t know where it is, you are going here, there, here, and there. And suddenly you come to that tree, and there is only one fruit there, and that is there. So, our Ārāḍe Bhagavān, Dīp Nārāyaṇ, Mahāprabhujī and Gurujī. Gurujī always said to me—mostly he called me Mahesh, but he said Maheswarananda. And after slowly, slowly, always Maheśvarānandajī. And so, Gurujī was progressing day by day. But I said, of course, I was always standing with folded hands to Mahāprabhujī, thinking, and Gurujī. And I want to sit down in front of him, after being a sanyāsī and like this. And Gurujī said, “Come, sit here.” And I said, “No, I will sit there.” And Gurujī said, “Sit here.” Now, I try to sit on the corner of the bed because, as a respect to the Gurudev, you cannot sit there. So, Gurujī gave so much knowledge—you cannot imagine—and it is that, it does not matter how many diplomas you are making, but that is nothing compared to what Gurudev has given, and that is inside. Then it is like we have a water tank, and this water tank, we feel it. But there is no more source. Only we think rain will come, and it will come; rain will come. But there is a water well, and there is a little water, about half a meter deep. And it is a few meters deep, this deep. And we will say, “What is this? So little water here.” And we have a tank full. How many are tankers? But sometimes then comes the summer, and then comes the winter, and so the water is gone. From where do we get the water? But there is a source of the water, and we can take it and take it and… we can take it. We can take the water, and we drink the water. But all the time, the water is coming more and more pure and clean. So there is one beautiful bhajan from some of the other holy saints. I don’t forget, I make Sūradāsa, it is from Sūradāsī or something. And so, it is that source on the water well, which is coming. But you see, there is no water, but you see, there is still coming. We are taking water, we are taking more and more and more. Even we are putting the machine now. But the water is coming constantly, pure and clean. This means also that it is the knowledge of the Gurudev. If you read many books, you can learn many things about books, newspapers, and this and that. Or go there and sit there and make some kind of talking, this and that. It’s nothing. But when Gurudeva’s knowledge is there, then what you speak, it is like that water well, the source of the water, from where it is coming from, that Parabrahma Sarvam. Pramātmā Jal Bhagavān. We are saying, “Jal jahāṁ Jagadīś, jal jahāṁ Jagadīś.” Where there is water, there is God. And where there is water, there is life. And so, water is that God. And so, in Europe, in many countries, Sri Sri… Your days are gone back, yes? And when you are always completely eating, that is not real nourishment. We have to do that, and that is coming. Junk is that which is everywhere, but from where is it coming near? For example, the source of the milk, the source of the water, not from the tank, but from the earth, Mother Earth. Similarly, if you bring the milk bottle, yes, it is good, but this bottle is empty; there is no more milk. But where is the water? And that water is in the source, from the mother’s breast. Yes. And when the water and the milk from the mother, how is it coming? It is her science inside. If you somehow get hurt in your chest, blood comes out. There is no blood. But the same chest, the same breast, and the disciple is there, the child is there, the baby is there, then the source is there. Can drink and drink, day and night. That’s it. How is it coming, this milk, and all kinds of nutrition are in that. Similarly, when the Gurudev is sitting beside, even if you don’t speak, don’t talk, there is that source of spirituality, the source of that knowledge. And that’s why many, many sādhus are those who do not have much learning in Sanskrit. You can learn Sanskrit, but a person who is learned from the Vedas, and he wants to ask, “Can you come for our yajña or something?” Then that learned person says, “How much money will you give me?” I will give. First, wait for the money, and then I will come there. What are the Vedas? These are just letters. But these letters, you see, these letters, above them, those letters are also letters. Lekin uskā source pātā nahīṁ hai. And that force, or the source of that, is in the letters. Then the letter is that letter called Devanāgarī. That Devanāgarī is Sanskrit. Dev means Bhagavān. Dev, and so the Akṣar, Akṣar Brahma. If we want to learn the Akṣar, Ek Akṣar, Akṣar Brahma, if you understand just that one Akṣar, then it is complete. That is why Dev and Devākṣara, what does it say? That is of Īśvara Bhagavān, Īśvara who is present in the world. There he has come, there only that Akṣara, which is not written by the hand of man, no one can see it. If that Akṣara is written, then here… The brain remains, but his nāda is seen. Śikhā purī śarīra ke andara ātā hai, isile akṣara amara jo hai deva, amara deva akṣara, nāgarika deva nāgarika. Nāgarika means we are the nāgarika of Rājasthāna and Hindustāna, so we are all the brahmāṇḍa ke Rājasthāna. Manuṣya, uske andar mẽ jo hai, manuṣya, the humans, they are in the universe, the cosmos. What is that? Because the nāda of that sound, you have learned a lot, but now you cannot speak. Now, what will you do? This is insight. But that sound, knowledge, a sound from how it is coming. We wrote, we have 52 letters. English has 26 letters, Hungarian, German have 27, 26, 27, 28 letters, maybe. Chinese, I don’t know, and Muslims also write, I don’t know, but those, our Nāg, Nāg, which is Nāg Rūpa Parabrahma, that lecture, which is that letter, which is that turning into our tongue? Within our tongue, how much is writing? First, the tongue is writing within ourselves that letter. And that is coming from the brain. And by the brain, we don’t know how it is doing. Where is the resonance coming from, and how are we doing the resonance? Therefore, Guru Kṛpāhi Kevalaṁ Śiṣye Ke Ānanda Maṅgalaṁ. When the disciple does not understand what Guru is, and you are making a doubt, so it is a doubt, then go out. But out, finished. Don’t hide. But many things we are hiding. Many things we don’t take. We say, “No, we can,” okay, but it is my life, it is my house, it is my money, it is like this. Holy Gurujī said, when Gurujī came from anywhere in all of India and came back, Holy Gurujī had a little suitcase. At that time, the suitcase was made of metal; there was no plastic or anything made of leather, which Gurujī did not want to have. So, this one, or some from our cloth, but when Gurujī came, as it is, he put it beside him, that’s all. It means he had nothing, whatever it is, any letters, anything, it was Vāsarīyoṁ Tatsat, and Gurujī sits under the tree, and Vāsarīyoṁ, nothing. He means He gave all, and that I am telling you, and it is written in our holy book, Līlā Amṛt Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī’s Bhagavān Līlā. Usme likhā hai, and then after sometimes Gurujī, or we have to go somewhere, only Gurujī sending him, Mahāprabhujī sending him. Or he was going there as a bhakta, so he just went. But Gurujī said, but Mahāprabhujī said, “Ma’am, take your bag.” He said, “Why should I take a bag?” Bag, it was a weight, a very big weight, and I can’t. So I throw everything in your holy, my money, clothes, anything. But Mahāprabhujī said, “Okay, then I give you some money.” Mahāprabhujī, Holy Gurujī again said, written in the book. I am not saying that. Guru Bhakti is one of the best Bhaktis. Otherwise, you can worship this lamp, that lamp, that mat, etc. Even this time, great sages come to read the scriptures, but if they do it, they will worship Śakti, Bhakti, etc. Where is his guru? Somewhere in the photo. I am very surprised. Many, many great Mahāmaṇḍaleśvaras and many, many others, they do not even speak the name of their Guru. And they think, after them becoming Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar, that’s it: “I am Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar, Gurujī, nothing.” It means you are nothing; now you are gone. Guru Bhakta Jagatme Dhanohe, Guru Bhakta Jagatme. Guru bhakta jagat me nārāye, phir unko kis ko dāde? Guru bhakta jagat me nārāye, guru bhakta jagat me nārāye. Kuruṣat Gurudevakī Devadhī Dev, Deveśwar Mahādev, kī jai. Ārādhī Bhagavān, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, kī jai. Ārādhī Bhagavān, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān, Kī Jai, Alakhpurī Jī Mahādev, Kī Jai, Oṁ Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. So, this was at, I was thinking, I will come here and give you more different lectures, but it is that Guru Gadī, the place which is given, that is a Satguru’s Gāḍī. If someone sits there, he will lose everything. It will fall down. One day in Nāmandāvād, Gurujī was somewhere in another city, and he had one disciple there, some worker, a working officer. Part 2: The Path of Purity and Devotion: A Guru's Discourse on Current Times And Gurujī said, "You should stay here in this room, and there is one carpet; you can sleep down." Then Gurujī left. That man, who did not understand what a Guru is, thought, "Why should I sleep on the floor? I will sleep on Gurujī's bed." So he took the nice bed—the mattress, the small pillow—and lay down to sleep. After half an hour or an hour, someone came. The door was locked, everything was as it was, yet someone came, seized him, and threw him onto the floor. No one was there; he only felt a force, and he fell. Then he said, "What happened? Who was that?" Nothing. The next day Gurujī came and the man said, "Gurujī, this happened to me." Gurujī replied, "That is your ignorance. You do not understand what that is." Thus it is said: whatever belongs to the sādhus and gurus is there for a purpose. The gṛhasthī, the householders, may possess things but only for pūjā. If you take something and Gurudev has given it to you, you may use it. Otherwise, those in the gṛhasthāśrama should not make use of such things. If they do, everything will be lost. However, you may take Gurujī's clothes and shoes—we call pānayā—and keep them at home for darśan and pūjā. If you have ānanda, it is ānanda. Therefore, the disciple must understand. And if the disciple does not understand and thinks, "My Swāmījī is fine, my Gurujī is fine, but we will do as we know," Abibhi, there may be thousands of devotees, yet only half—ten percent—have true respect or love. Never does it reach ninety percent, and that is why you gather things around you. So Gurujī said, "Better to be the mouse that collects everything under the nirdar." Or the little ant—they collect, or a squirrel somewhere. Do not become a squirrel; otherwise next time you will be born a squirrel. And when asked, "What are you doing?" the answer comes, "Gurujī, nothing, Gurujī." Ah, Gurujī said that time will reveal. You take from here now, but later you will be caught in that very way. Therefore, understand, understand. Your father is your father. So do not do anything against your father. Do not hide from your father, and the same holds for your mother. If the parents are humble, good, and spiritual, the children will again be good. But nowadays children are torn into pieces. What can they do? They cannot die. Neither here nor there, again and again they will return. So, Gurū kī śaraṇ āge, to kyā katā? This is a spiritual discourse on Yoga in the Indian tradition. And so is written this bhajan. Beautiful. What is a bheda? The steps. Like the Pāṇḍavas: afterwards, the Pāṇḍava had to count seven steps, and that was the glaciers, and so high—one step at a time, so high; climbing there was very difficult, but he could come, and thus you see the Pāṇḍava, Yudhiṣṭhira. That he attained this. Who will help? If a child is falling, the mother lifts it up. Or if the child stumbles, the father holds out his finger. He offers his finger so that the child can hold securely. If you gave the whole hand, he could, or the child might become angry or something. You are preaching; therefore, the father gives his finger to the child. That is the father. There are many, many matters, and you—my dear, now we know that in the whole world there is unfortunately this kind of infection and this and that, but we can only do purification: purify our hands, our washing, clothing, everything, and we should keep a little distance. That is how it is. Do not feel that I am pushing you away. No, we should maintain at least one or two meters. Maintain at least two meters distance; if we are far apart, it is a small thing. And we must always have this awareness; you already have it. I need not tell you. I too had this, my God. You know, straight from Delhi to Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, everywhere I had this nice thing. And I even gave a lecture like that because there were many people at Buddha. But now you are sitting here, and you are all clean. You are pure. Otherwise, you would immediately say, "Chit, chit." Oh, then the Rākṣasa is already there. So we must clean everything, and also keep the house very clean. This is number one. Number two: if the government—every government—asks us, "Please stay at home for some time, or go for a walk once, one person to the shop, not a hundred people, just go quickly and return," this is the first thing we must do. This is what is called—Gurujī said there is a very nice bhajan, o bahuta acchā hai, he would say, in the bhajan I will look and sing, very nice, dūra hī rakhe, dūra hī rakhe—and that bhajan arrived today. Another thing: you know, in these last few years I have said many times, we humans dig beneath the water, we build under the water, and from there we take oil. We displace the water, we dig the earth, and we empty the earth below. Water has entered, but now nothing is there. For coal, for gold, for many, many things, they are digging and digging and digging through the earth, underground. You do not know. We are hungry even for kilometers of gold and diamonds, and we extract all this and then put water inside. I have said many, many times that we dig up other kinds of earth for our highways. Now we have emptied the earth, put water inside, and we are cutting, cutting, destroying all the mountains. They have destroyed the mountains and they go on digging deeper and deeper. Now consider this: the first incarnation, the first form of God we call Varāhī, brought this earth out of the ocean and balanced it, and everything was divine. Everything—every design, the mountains and all the sands—was made by Bhagavān Viśvakarmājī. Everything is balanced, but humans have again—my dear, I have been talking about this for five years or more. Now it is like this. Here is the earth, and here we are balanced upon it. When we take this away, what will happen? The whole earth will sink into the ocean. That is called Pralaya. Here, our Maṅgīlālajī, Mahāprabhujī's śiṣya, Maṅgīlālajī has written such a large and beautiful bhajan about pralaya, and pralaya ke andharam. We are sitting here; the earth will move so quickly that you cannot come from here to there, yes, either we will be chicks upon the water inside, and the fish will come. How many times did you fish for me? Now we are taking the fish. You are human. Humans have destroyed forests, mountains, earth—everything. And you think we will be fine? God said, "Animals are animals, but humans are humans." Humans should not torture or kill all the animals. Yes, now you know what that means. But it is already said, do not worry, this is just nothing. What has happened now is simply nothing. It will become much bigger, and how will it happen to humans on that first day? Therefore, today we had one day in India: our Prime Ministerjī gave a 24-hour anuṣṭhāna, though many do not understand anuṣṭhāna. So he said, "Stay at home, remain peaceful with your families, relax, relax." He did not say "Meditate," because many do not want to meditate. Okay, no problem. But peace, peace… peace. And all this is within one week: our government of India, our Rajasthan minister, this Sogyalot, and of course our prime minister. He is the head. Not only did he share this knowledge with India, but also with people everywhere. Many people are receiving knowledge from our Prime Minister Modījī. So it is happening, and that is why: Huā to abhī huā to gayā, rājas, Hindustān ke Hindustān meṅ, kus kus jo hai, vo baceṅgī jo aṇḍe nahī̃ khāte haiṅ, jo māṅsa nahī̃ khāte haiṅ, śrama nahī̃ khāte haiṅ, laṛte jhagaṛte nahī̃ haiṅ, ūpara le jāyeṅgī. Yeh samay ā gayā hai. Many times I have said it. We must wake up, wake up, wake up. Therefore, in my eyes there are millions of people who are vegetarian; they are very good people. They may not practice yoga, but they have their religion, and every religion is a good religion. But where you kill animals and such, that is not good; that will one day disappear. So I wish to say to all my devotees, all my bhaktas, all my yoga practitioners, and to the whole world, to my fellow humans, to all my friends—even if they do not know me and I do not know you—I pray for that. We pray to Him because humans possess that brain, that knowledge, everything. They can create something good for themselves; that is their purpose. Therefore, I say it: number one, and number two is our yoga practice. Do not say, "Do not be afraid." For the two weeks that we practice yoga, we must continue our practice. Every week or two months, you have our best yoga and daily life books, everything. And we have Swamiji's films, TV. You have them. And your teachers in your classes, in every country, every city, and every village, give you so much yoga. Can you not practice for one month? But some say, "Now we have no money. They have money." Money, money… money. O money, why re jāyegī? Huma to samudra ke nīra ḍūba jāyegī. So do not think like that. Tell everyone: please stay home and practice. I do not know who said, "For two weeks we will not give you yoga because we want your money." Okay, give the money then. And if you do not have money, tell him, "These next two weeks we will not take money from you." Perhaps one or two will say that people are not stupid. They know this is a situation. And in such a situation you cannot say something like that. Therefore, you should all be teachers, and all the great yoga teachers, the ashrams, the large ashrams with many people coming and going, they should definitely—they have a little more money, they must have it, and you can give that to your people, our people; why not? That is it. So, it is very humble, kind, and free. And if you do not have money, then please do not ask. After this, when you come again, you will pay. That is all. No, that is it. And still you do not know. Some great person said here, and someone, friends, someone said, "The time has come, and therefore we should pray more, pray more." Wherever you are, you have prayer. So, every yoga teacher, every member of our Yoga in Daily Life, all centers, they should say that Gurudev, "Cintā Hamārī Meṭo," is coming. So I tell all yoga teachers and all who take care of the centers, and there are definitely five, six people there, they know. They should offer the people, "cintā merī miṭādo," which means, "Make my worries disappear." Make their worries go away. "Do not worry, my dear. Practice at home: everything—āsanas, prāṇāyāma, meditation, and more prayer, more prayers and prayers." That is fine. But when your horse is very, very—how do you say—nervous, and this and that, then how will you ride your horse? You are school teachers, you see, and the government said, "All school teachers, go out, finish, ṭāṛīho bābā." So the students are gone. Will the teacher say something to the government? Will the government say that teachers need this and that? Why not? We are also teachers, and we are also students. So we shall offer humbleness, kindness, love, respect, and say, "Please, this time is very important for us in this world." So that is what I want to say: someone is giving this to us. Do you understand me? So, this is number one. All our students, our bhaktas, should cultivate happiness. Listen to your bhajans. See the Gurudev, read the Gurudev's Laila Amrit. We have our yoga book. Do not say that we will teach them now through something else. What are you doing that you will teach for two weeks through some…? They are not stupid people. They have learned. They have learned. They have knowledge. The same āsanas are practiced at home too. Is it not? You can practice for one month. So why make an issue? That is why… So I am saying we support the people, not because of money. But we support them. Happiness. Please, please, please be quiet, be still. It is night, a dark night, but it will not last forever. The sun will rise again. And I am very sorry that in Croatia something happened, an earthquake, especially in the big city. I know many people suffered damage to their properties and many other things. But you see, that comes from someone. No minister can control it; I have done nothing; no government can do anything. That is someone who is doing something. And so we pray again—I pray again—that you be quiet, be happy, be still, meditate. And do this, and whatever you have, you have. Any questions? Who is sitting there? There is no one sitting. So, therefore, please, we pray for you too. I am also praying. I am giving you all this knowledge, everything: how it happens, what happens. Everything happens. And how many people die in the whole world, apart from these infections? More have died than from this. So, humans, do not be nervous. Yes, we know that we have to be careful when a cobra is coming; we should make protection—that is all. That is it. So, all the best. And this, again, after some hours, will be replayed. And again, every six—months, weeks, days, sorry—six days, I say days or month, no, no, hours, sorry. So, every six hours, we will do it for all three continents: Europe, Australia, America, Afghanistan, Australia, and other sides, okay? Thank you very much. And if there is anything wrong, tomorrow send me a message: "Please, this was wrong," and I will correct it. Okay? Or if something is good, you give me something good, and I will be happy. Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Satguru Svāmī Mādhavān Jī Bhagavān, Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Oṃ Śānti, Śānti, Hari Oṃ.