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Part 1: The Process of Transformation Gurur Viṣṇu, Gurur Devo Maheśvara, Gurur Sākṣāt Parabrahma, Tasmai Śrī Gurave Namaḥ. Dhyāna Mūlaṁ Guru Mūrti, Pūjā Mūlaṁ Guru Pādaṁ, Mantra Mūlaṁ Guru Vākyaṁ, Mokṣa Mūlaṁ Guru Kṛpā. Oṁ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ. Oṁ Śrī Alakh Purījī, Mādhav kī Alak, Nanda River ko bahut bahut praṇām. Gaṅgā Māyā ko bahut bahut praṇām, aur hamāre Himālaya Rāj ko praṇām. Sati Amare Bhagavān Śrī Alakhpurījī, Mahādev Ke Śiṣya Bhagavān Amare Devpurījī. Dev means all goddesses, all divines, all gods, everything. That’s called Devpurījī. And Ārādhya Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, Ārādhya. What does Ārādhya mean? Ārādhya means day and night we are repeating his name as the mantra, "Ārādhya Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī." Deep Prakash, which we always say, Prakash Puñj, not only the Prakash, but even that Prakash is given by that Mahāprabhujī, Nārāyaṇa. Prakash means knowledge. Prakash means spiritual awakening. So, knowledge is the light. There was a great saint, Sūradāsa Jī, and Sūradāsa Jī also wrote very many things: mantras and many, many bhajans. And so, there is also one story, I don’t know if it is from Sūradāsa or some other Sūradāsa. What does Sūradāsa mean? Surdas means he has no light from his eyes; he is blind. And there are two kinds of Sūradāsa. One is by birth, and the other became blind after some time. With them also says Sūradāsa, but the real Sūradāsa, who did not see any light when he was born, but he had a light from the womb of the mother that was playing everything, having light all. So, inner light and outer light. Well, anyhow, one day Śūdāś, he used to go for vikṣā. Now, vīkṣā and vīkṣā means to go and ask for the food. But not as a beggar, no. It was, and for many people it is still the truth, and many people, all working about Buddha, and all students, and many things, that in many countries they must have first training from the childhood with orange dress and going for bhikṣā. Nobody will say, "Hey beggars, don’t come to the door every day." No. There are many people, couples, husbands and wives, waiting at the door. That some bhikṣu, in Buddha they should call the bhikṣu. And until that bhikṣu doesn’t come, they don’t eat themselves. Everywhere in India, in South India, everywhere was. But now it’s slowly, slowly this. In India, the tradition is 95% gone, or 99%. But in other countries, which are under the Buddhas, not in China—I don’t know—and not also Japan, I don’t know about this, but many other countries. Bhikṣam de. Even Bhagavān Śiva goes for bhikṣā, and who is there? Annapūrṇā. So Bhagavān Śiva is standing at the door, "Bhikṣam de." And Annapūrṇā, "Hey Mother Annapūrṇā, please give me food." There are great divine things. So Holī Gurujī said once that one comes, a sannyāsī, and "Bhikṣam de." So, one woman in the house, her husband, and all this, early morning, she was churning the yogurt to make butter. How are they making butter? The real butter and real ghee, which is healthiest, is that which people make from the milk fat itself. That is not real ghee. That is not. We have to make exactly the procession. Like, for example, grapes. Grapes, the fruit, are very nice, sweet, and very good. And it’s very nice and good. But then some people, from the grapes, get the whole juice, and they are also taking and drinking more. Then they leave it for some time, and so it’s turning into alcohol. What are grapes? And where is alcohol? What is the turning inside? That is. A human is in the mother’s womb. It is a human. God has made this. But as it comes out of the mother’s body, then slowly, slowly, the people or the parents, and so, they are giving certain kinds of habits. And so it becomes one monk, or a sādhu, or one former, etc., one student, so, so. But this is a process from the birthday, from the, let’s say, our nine months in the mother’s body, and then coming out, getting milk, slowly, slowly coming. So, it needs the education. And education will be that time, the parents have no knowledge that they don’t want their children to make a spiritual. We don’t want to make something like all that. That is, many, many people, they don’t want to give the spiritual. They don’t know what spirituality is. This is that. They think spiritual is not this and this. They will go and become a monk or something, and they will work and only make worship. That is not. Spirituality is different. When you go to school, learn everything and make the whole education through the universities. And then you learn, you have learned, you make something good, spiritual person. But no, they give them alcohol, they give them meat, they give them this. So, now that is what the person is. It was good in the mother’s womb, but the śikṣā, the education, that makes what we call the traditions and our luck or bad luck. So the bhikṣuk who comes, give them anything. Second boy comes again, yes. They will not say, "There were five here already. How much should I give you?" They will never say it. That’s it. And sometimes they have only one kilo of chapati flour, and twenty people are coming. And sometimes they are giving and giving, and still there. Even now, even now, that is sādhanā, practice, very important. So, if you want to have real ghee, butter is different and ghee is different. You know, I ask you sometimes more questions, and now, everyone, you know what Swāmījī said, what it means. I ask you one question, and you have to give the answer. So, that is a very good question. And sometimes such a question is very, I told you many times, I think many of you know. It is said, the first, the first born was my mother. No, first I was born, then I was born, but I completely, words put it out. Sabse pahle hum jāne, sabse uske pahle baṛā bhāī. So first I was born, and then my elder brother. And after my elder brother was born, my father, and the last was born, my mother. What a joke, and what a stupidity. What should we give you, an order? How? But it is very simple, the qualities and everything. First of all, I was born first, then my brother, then my father, and then my mother. And this is a question. So first, I was born. Who? The milk, then I was born. The yogurt, elderly brother. And then, churning off this yogurt, we got the ghee, the butter ghee. And that butter was the father. That is the ghee. And after, what was born? My mother, the buttermilk. Buttermilk means when the butter is already taken, but what remains is only the water of the yogurt. Sabse pehla hum jale uske vera bhai, dam dum se bhai janma, passe pehla mera father and then the mother. Well, this is a different thing. So, how I’m talking about the procession, how is it beginning? Many, many things. You see, we have yogīs in our ashram. They are making constructions. How will he do that, when everything is sticking so strongly? But how to do that? The concrete, the sand, and then the cement, how much it should be, and then the water, and then mix it, and then put it between, and then, with great love, give them a little water all the time, so that it becomes nice. Then it’s so strong, you cannot break it. Otherwise, the cement, like this, goes all in your eyes, yes? So this is how the process is going, and so it is also with children, how we are educating them. That’s also step by step. There are many children; often we see them on Facebook. The children are about three or four years old. But parents have taught them so many things, and there is one little boy who can tell you any country and its president. Any country, the name of the country, and where is it near that country? My God, I did not learn this. Everything is in my brain, but it is sleeping. But that is active; it has been done. Bhikṣāṃ dehi, bhikṣāṃ, bhikṣuk, and the Jainas are still, they are making bhikṣāṃ. All sādhus here are what we call the Jainas. And they go there, and people will bring the food there, or they go into their house, and they will get the food and come back and then eat. Still, after maybe they are sitting and maybe eating some little fruits or something. In London, a few years ago, there was one sādhvī, we call a sādhvī from the Jainas. And this is from a different kind of lioness. And they, Jainas, don’t want to cross the rivers, I mean the oceans. But now, the first one came, and it was a scandal. But it was that everything happened, okay, and so. And I told this one Swamiji here, he’s very good, this. And I said, "Why don’t you bring some sādhvīs?" And he said, "No, no,... no." Swamiji, you also come here and work in India. Very well, sooner or later, the two sisters always go together, never alone. So they went to London, and they knew me. I came to London, and I was in our ashram there. I had programs there, and these two sisters came. And the next day also, there was a program, and these sisters came, and they know me, and they said, "Swāmījī, please, we have one request." I said, "What? That our Gurujī, the Jainist, please tell him there is so much snow and cold, and we have no shoes." Can we at least take the plastic shoes? They are really going with this. They are not allowed to have shoes. I said, take it. I will tell Gurujī. And the second day they said, "Gurujī, in this rainy season and winter, it is the winter season, very cold, and the Jain houses are in different places, and they will not bring food for them." They must go to their house and bring the food. It is also tradition. And said, "Please, Swāmījī, we are very cold. We can go, and people are working. They go, we can come." Please, at least in winter or something, can we make some vegetable and some vikṣā for at home? We can make something. I came here, and this Mahārājī is from near our Jadān, and he is from Chhoṭe Khāṭū and very known to Mahāprabhujī, but he was not known to Gurujī. So, I told him, he said, "Swāmījī, you are holding from one hand to here." I said, "Yes, still I will take you like this." So give them, these little girls, they are very poor and suffering. So he said, "I will think it over." I said, you will think over, it means I have already thought over. Part 2: The Essence of Tradition and Spiritual Practice There is still tradition out there. In that tradition of spirituality, people do not go for alcohol and such things. These women, these girls, are divine. Even though they are old, they are great. So in the world, there are people like this. Bhikṣāṃ de. One day, Gurujī told a story. A sādhu also went for bhikṣā, and a woman said, "Please wait." He waited for a while. Then she said, "Just wait, I am finishing my buttermilk." So Gurujī said, "Don’t worry, without taking out the butter, you can give it as it is." You know what I mean? Don't take this and that out. Give it as it is. Then others said, "Many people come. If you don’t want to wait, go." So that’s how the Bhikṣu said, "I am not like a beggar." Just look at me. What am I? This is very nice. What Gurujī said, you cannot translate into English better. It’s different. So it is said that there are qualities, and one must keep the qualities. That is for meditation, yoga practice, or your knowledge. Whatever profession you have, do it perfectly. If you do the perfect, you are perfect. This is knowledge. But if you get that profession, then people start making ego. Then they say, "I am the surgeon, I am the great professor, I am Śekhara, what you call the scientist." Why? Your love should be as high as your position. Otherwise, as high as you go, one day you will fall down. This is the practice, and all the yogīs come to this practice in that way. Gurujī was giving teachings in such a manner. Now, I did not forget. Sometimes my memory is still with me. Long ago, Gurujī gave one story. It was a story from around 1965, or perhaps 1955, after the Nepāl Āśram. Gurujī went to Jodhpur. There is a beautiful mandir, temple, and āśram. It was outside the city of Jodhpur then, but now that āśram is in the middle of Jodhpur. This place is very nice. Gurujī was there for four months. He was there, and every day he was giving lectures. I was sitting there. I was still, and then Gurujī was talking. There was one disciple like this, awake. Gurujī said, "Awake." There were many jokes and many things. At that time, Gurujī told this one story. There was a blind person, Surdās. He had in his hand one pot and one stick for food, and he came back. Of course, people give to him anytime. They gave him cloth and everything, but he said, "No, I will go, I will bring." He knows how to walk. They know how to find a way. Then he came back and sat at home. Brahmatī brought the food. He goes, puts his food there—the bhikṣā—and he is washing himself. Then he comes. He kept the food and said, "Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa, bhog lagāo, Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa, bhog lagāo." It means, "O Kṛṣṇa, please come and first take the prasāda, eat, and then give me the prasāda." Then he was sitting, and then he was eating. "O Kṛṣṇa, O Kṛṣṇa... O Kṛṣṇa. Please first eat, and then give me the bhikṣā." And then he was eating. One day, what happens? A cat came. This cat had been coming for a few days. For a month, the cat dared to come and steal the food and run away. So he was crying, "Śrī Kṛṣṇa Govinda Hare Murāri He Nāth Nārāyaṇa Pibhāśudīp," and the cat took it and ran away. And Sūradāsa said, "Mehrā Kṛṣṇa, ah Mehrā Kṛṣṇa, Arash Sūradāsa kā Bhagavān āgayā, Bhagavān āgayā, prasāda khāe." Every day he comes and puts food there. "And please come, first you make the prasāda, hum ko dena." O billī ātī, aur kher ke jātī. One day somebody said, "Arre, Sūrdās." He said, "What? What are you doing?" "I am giving food to my Kṛṣṇa." He said, "This is not a Krishna, this is a cat." He said, "What? Yes." She was eating inside. Oh, now what to do? So, please give me a little stick, because the big stick is the... So, to give the little stick. And he said, "This daṇḍa, this stick, Krishna, please eat, Krishna. Eat this. The cat should not come." And the cat couldn’t come because he was doing this... And then he was taking prasāda. Now, what happened? This Sūradāsa had disciples, and now he said, "Disciples, after—before eating bhikṣā, we must all have a daṇḍa, and we should do daṇḍa: one, two, one, two, three. Hey, go with Gopāla." And so that tradition of the sannyāsīs became Daṇḍī, Daṇḍīsvāmī. When you go to Allahabad and you see how many Daṇḍī sādhus are there, they are Daṇḍī. They are making their Gaṅgās near, making the ceremony. So, from where? Bhikṣā to the cat, and the cat gave him all this, but then he found the way, and then he could, the path, the path. So now, everybody, still now, is a very big Dhyānasanyāsī, and also Gṛhastha, Gṛhastha, it means living in the family. But on the, for the, for the Ilāvāṛa, on the time of the Kumbha Melās, and this, what are they calling there? What do they do? Sādhanā. And they are all Daṇḍī. And so, Śaṅkarācārya from the Kāśyapa, the Mamareva Svāmījī, so when he, Nivandana Dhanjī, when he goes, then so many Daṇḍī Sādhus come. That means, take care that you will not fall down. You will not do this; you have to do that. And then the sādhu, they have one stick with a little flag or a cloth inside. So, how are things going in the best way or in a negative way? Training, either by your parents, and parents will do it, it will go to the other side. But, for some, some souls came from different places, but they have to come to one mother’s womb. And then, from the mother, moves... Even they are giving this and this, but that one said, "No, I am this." There are many stories of the mothers, that the child is born and the child says, "Mother, thank you very much. That was the connection between you and me. Let me go further." There were those times. Therefore, yoga is not only āsana and prāṇāyāma. Many people are talking about different things, but there are great... So, Sūrdās, great was Sūrdās. And we have now one great saint, Sūradāsa Swāmījī, and he knows by heart all the Vedas. He knows by heart all the Upaniṣads, the Bhagavad Gītā, the Rāmāyaṇa, everything. And people respect him very greatly, very greatly. The first time I became Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar, Gajānanda and they all were there. He was there in Haridwar, and this Swamiji, Surdhaji, and Guruji were there. Guruji and Surdhaji were very happy when Swamiji came. And one day, our Gajananda was singing a bhajan about Indian glory. And he sang so nicely, Gajananda, so that the blind Mahārājī called him and hugged him. Yes, what a great... yes. And that one, if he comes, then all will stand up. So, it’s not only that eyes are not there, but he has double eyes, big eyes, and knowledge is there. So we have to develop that quality, that’s it. Otherwise, if you make alcohol, it is good, but if you cannot make it properly, it will die. Yes, everything, quality, how to make, slowly, slowly, and some people are drinking petrol. Petrol. So look, what is petrol and what is good alcohol? Of course, we don’t drink alcohol; we should not drink alcohol. But we have alcohol sometimes on a wound or something like this. Alcohol, you know, is coming from the samudra manthan, from the ocean; it came also. So you know that all Rakṣasas were drinking on this side, and the Nectar was being drunk on this side. There is a, how many? These are the things: how to understand and know when what happens. Now, this Kali Yuga has come. This Kali Yuga is like how we call the animals. What you call the Gid, we call the Gid. This, like a crow and many others, when the animal dies, they are all eagles, but an eagle is different. An eagle is another one. This eagle is not this, eh, Warsaw. The Warsaw says, and they are all the time looking, "When will this die, and we can eat? Where can we die?" And one is sitting in meditation, and they are all going. So this is now the Kali Yuga. So this is what we call this disease, Kaurola. So this Kaurola is now around the whole globe, something like this. But many billions are there, great, and have good thoughts and do good things. So still we will be happy, and this. Who will die? They will die. And who is trying to do this? For how long? How long will you act as a thief? Sooner or later, we will catch the thief. Where is it that it is like this? Therefore, we have to know and do the best thing in our life, and one should sit straight in meditation. And when Gurudev is talking, then don’t sit like this. Sit straight, and your eyes should be open. Yes, because sometimes Gurujī said something, and he said, "What did he say?" I don’t know, I had my eyes closed. Can you tell how it’s supposed to be? Why? This is different. But you see, when in Europe and in other foreign countries, my bhaktas there, their eyes are open and they are learning and concentrating on everything. Even the little children, the children who are only two or three years old, when their mother takes them out now to go to sleep, they will cry. Śrī Śrī... And they came again to these satsaṅgs. Many are doing yoga and this and that, but nobody is coming. There is nothing like that. Big people may make many men say, "Ha ha... ha, you can do the donkey." Yes. So, in all our bhaktas, in my thoughts, I think, in my whole yoga and daily life, and with Mahāprabhujī’s and Gurujī’s blessings, all they have are the pearls, and their mothers, they are the pearls’ mother. That’s it. That is it. So, we all will still be well here, and God will protect all, all... but even if one dies, we don’t like that. We are sad that one dies. We want them to be protected, and all should be good and healthy: healthy children, a healthy house, a healthy street, a healthy village, our healthy country, and our whole globe. We want to have peace, harmony, love, and divine consciousness for everybody. Śrī Gurū Ātmā Param Ātmā Ātmā... Sing, sing, sing. Antra Jāmī Carācar Kī Ātmā Prabhu Carācar Kī Ātmā Nabharūpa Vyāpaka Siṁha, everybody.