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Follow the advice of your Guru

Human life is valuable, yet filled with fear that drives all religious seeking. All creatures live in fear, and humans are no different. This fear leads people to temples, mosques, and churches. The physical Guru is a conduit to the divine, not claiming divinity themselves. Spiritual traditions exist worldwide, each with unique customs for honoring God and ancestors. All genuine paths ultimately lead to the same divine source. A true Guru's promise to a disciple is eternal, working across lifetimes for liberation.

"Life is not easy. They know, they don’t know. But they have one thing, and that is a fear, a very great fear."

"So it means that, don’t think that the guru is nothing. When you have it, then it will be, not in this life, but in the next life."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Om Namo Siri Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Om Namo Siri Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam.... Om Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpanārāya Haṃsabhādas Prabhusaraṇa Parāyaṇam. Hamsabhadas Prabhuśaraṇa Parāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpanārāya. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Hamsabhadas Prabhu Śaraṇapar. Hamsabhadas Prabhu Mayoṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu. Deepanārāyaṇ Om Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Deepanārāyam Om Namah Śrī Prabhu Dīpanārāyaṇam. Om Namah Śrī Prabhu Dīpanārāyaṇam. Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī, Devādhi Deva, Deveśvara Mahādeva, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma. Hanuman Chalisa. Hanuman Chalisa. Śyāvarāma Candra Bhagavān Kī Jayā, Saṅkaṭa Mocana Pāvana Sutta Hanumān Kī Jayā, Śrī Guru Caraṇa Saroja Rāja Nija Māna Mukura Sudhāri, Barana Uraga Vara Vimala Jā Suhuma Juḍāyaka, Phala Cāri Buddhi Hīna Tanu Jānike, Sumiro Pavanakumāra, Bala Budhi Bidya Dehu Mohi, Harahu Kaleśa Vikāra. Jaya Hanuman Gyanaguna Sagar, Jaya Kapi Shati Kuloka Ujagar. Thank you. Very nice. Guruji always said, Holy Guruji, our Guruji, Swami Madhavānandapurījī, and also Guruji used to say, Mahāprabhujī said, when some people come for a darśan to Mahāprabhujī, also many other saints, yogīs, how do they welcome someone? And when someone comes, then even the holy saint, a great one, but he or she, they will welcome you. And then when some sit there, mostly they do not say, "What can I do for you?" or "What did you come for?" But Gurujī said, "The human life is very valuable." And how do we understand, to know that we are valuable? The life of the human should be made complete. What does complete mean? From the 8.4 million creatures we may have gone through, we know how life is. It doesn’t matter, jalchar, thalchar, nabachar, the creatures in the water, on the earth, and in the air. Life is not easy. They know, they don’t know. But they have one thing, and that is a fear, a very great fear. Even the fish, if you try to go in the water and you try to catch the fish, it tries to swim away. Even a little mosquito, when your hand is going up, the mosquito is flying. The snakes, even the tiger and lion, are not afraid. Lion is not afraid. Tiger is not afraid. But they are afraid of the humans, so even the birds or other animals, they are afraid now. Why are they afraid? Where one is that? That they will kill me, will eat me, which is right, and the second: "How will I live? Where will I sleep?" etc. Animals, birds, the reptilians, so they do not have this life or that life, but they have fear. Similarly, the humans are very, very afraid in many, many ways. Very afraid is the human. But everyone is doing in their religion, what they have as their religion. And they go to prayer, they go down to the temple, the mosque, the church, and many, many. Because we have the fear. And why do you have fear? So Gurujī said, morning or whenever, think about God, feel God, chant the name of God. We don’t see God, who is that, except our Gurudev, but we see that the physical is the Guru, the great saints. We will not say the Guru is the Prime Minister. We will not say God is Prime Minister or President. We respect them very much. They are great, they are good, everything. And even they themselves will not say, "No, no, I am not God." They will not say, "I am a holy person." No, no, no. That is great of them. There are some, maybe, who think, "I am the best and highest and good." I am the God, so there are some things. But sooner or later, they have to step out. But the spirituals who have it in their body, they have that feeling. They will not say, "I am a God." Maybe someone said, "I am a God," and that means he is not a God. Many great sādhus in India, some are, some outside maybe, but South India, North India, West India, everywhere, they will say it: "Please worship God. Remember God. Give your mantra, name of the God, please." Who said the saint or that sādhu will? Say, my Gurudev, he is my God, not me. And when you go to the Gurudev, Gurudev says, "My son, my child, my boy, or my girl," God is there, my dear, but I tell you, there is a God. So, every morning, say praṇām to God or whatever. Many countries, like Yugoslavia. By Yugoslavia, I mean I take it all in one, now the seven countries. It is good. Seven is good. One husband, one wife, and they have children, seven, and they have seven houses, okay? Why not? But what do Yugoslavians or Croatians, how do they say it? They say, "Voh. Voh, no? God. Yes? Yeah, Voh." They get a telephone warning, say, "Hello, say, ’Voh.’" No? Yes. They are, say, God. And Austrian. My God. Don’t think that Austrians are not spiritual. They are very spiritual. And what did they say? "I greet God." Yes. Also the Germans, but the Germans have now a little different saying. There is something a little. It is like a joke, but it is real. I went to Germany, and in France, Frankfurt, not Frankfurt, Hamburg. And in Hamburg, I was there for many years, I’m there. And I was with one person, and that was, her name was, she was a very, very nice lady. She was old, she died, and so her house was second floor. So when I said them, I said, "Guru Scott." And they didn’t say "Guru Scott." They said something. I forgot what are you saying there? Guten Tag. I said, "Guru Scott," and they said, "Guten Tag." Guten Tag means good day. So they said, "Guten Tag." Then I said, "Guten Tag." Then I said something. He made a joke. What was it? He said, "Tak," and I said something more. What was this? "Tak," and I said "Grus," or something. This one word I’ve forgotten. So they said, "Tak," and he said, "Tak." I said, "Tik." Yes, that was it. They said, "Tak," I said, "Tik." Anyhow, that is a joke, but they said they were looking at me like this. I said, "I don’t know you." I thought, my dear, you say "tak." So I said, "tik." I don’t know what is a "tik." I don’t know. You know, sir. You say "tak" and I say "tik." Many, many countries, every religion, everywhere. Number one. Now, I also want to tell you that all people, Europeans, Americans, or other people, they are very devoted and very close to their God. Sometimes you will not believe how religious they are. When they are coming here, they see Indians, and then Indians are different. So some Indians, not some Indians, this, that. So, the very real, good understanding of God. But, of course, now they are also for God, for the three times, three times God. And what is that? Maraṇa, paraṇa, janaṇa, paraṇa and maraṇa. Very good. Birth, birth ceremony, wedding, wedding ceremony, and death. The death ceremony rests no more, that’s it. So everywhere like this, sir, so God. So that’s why when you will go to their religious priest or something, they will also say "Guru skat" or something. They will greet on the God or holy. Mother, so in the whole world, the humans are everywhere. You know, in America, we call America a very big place. North America, West America, there are many, many things. And that’s called the Indian-American, or they are... In the mountains, they are India, so they say Indiana, Indiana, Indian. And some they are called yellow India, so they are in the part, their skin is a little like, you had a haldi, yes, they are a little. So there are different everywhere, why not? But they also have their. And you know, from those people, the Indians, and I have many Indian disciples also, and they talked and asked me, "They are smoking the smoke, peace pipe, peace pipe." And I said, "What is a peace pipe?" "Peace pipe," and they said, "Yes, Americans are doing the... Americans are they... the real American is not this America, what you call... they are from the British, they are all British, but that Indiana." So I said, "I want..." A pipe, how they pipe? Well, they brought me a very nice one. I said, "Should I make a tobacco inside?" They said, "No, no..." It’s not like that. That is not for smoking. There’s only coming white smoke, and when everything is happy, been fighting or this, then they are friends all. Then they sit, and then one head of that, he will... Then make this pipe, and then he will smoke, and it comes. And there’s a second part also. It is in my ashram in Vienna, yes, very nice there. And people say, "Some is easy," and one pipe was different. I said, "I cannot be." Then, another lady came again, and she brought the right one. And then, one Indian woman should come. So, they believe God, they believe God. And some years ago, we had a ceremony there. I also got one kind of award from me. In from United Nations somewhere, and there was a call, the bell, yeah. So beat the bell, make the bell, and these are only four or three bells in the whole world. These are things I will tell you, many things, but this all, our people. You should know at least here, and these bales are made by, you know, someone from here. In Japan, there was a bomb, and it destroyed everything. So, people from the world came there, and everyone threw a coin there. And the coins were there, like trucks and trucks full. What to do? And so there are different kinds of coils, gold and iron and many, many things. So they melt all that. And then they made a very thick, so thick and so big bale there. And so one is there in America, very little, I know this city, Los Angeles, yes, thank you. You are a very good girl. So, and there is a library, a very old library, very, very good. And what happened? There was, in the rain, what you call the metro, and one was inside smoking, and the driver also was looking like that, smoking, and a fire came. So many people died, and this and that. So, people came and they had many, many ceremonies, and they invited me. We went to this library, and near the library is a park, very big, and there is a bale. And this bale, all the ceremonies someone can do, otherwise no one. And when you make it, it is so heavy, it’s not easy to bail. But one person comes, ceremonies, and then, then he makes like, then it goes bummmmm. You need very much power to move that. Well, everybody, you can bail once, and you are a respected guest. And for me, it was a ceremony, so they all were sitting in this. And so Indiana was there, and first, Indiana had to bail there. No one first. And this old couple, they were my disciples, his wife and his. They were old also, sitting, but he came with his dress. And what the cowboys, not cows, cows, no, what was it? Not cows, what did I say? Indians. Indians. And what? They have a horse, and they are driving with the horses, you know. They have feathers and like this, so I got a feather also. But when they ride the horse without a saddle, and they don’t have the trouser, half it’s cut off from up. The whole buttocks are empty, yes, that is it. And so, he was there and sitting beside me, and then he got up and wanted to make the ceremony. And it was, I think, Māṭājī was there from Prague, either she... she... Was his, I think, and for Matajī said, "Me, don’t be afraid." I said, "Why that? You know that he has not trousers down." He said, "Cut it." I said, "Matajī, you can make a joke." He said, "I know. Okay." And then he got up and went near the many trees. Like one tree, which is a banyan tree, like him, or different kinds of big leaves. And that Indian, he stood there and he spoke a prayer. The father and mother, they pray to the father, you know, their mother or father. And then, he gave something, something, and sent me the message. Yes, he said to his father, and really, the very nice big leaves from the tree fell down like this on his head. And he said, "Thank you, I will bail," and he went up. Total with that dundar he made from the people’s side, is that their tradition? And so, boom! And then other people, and then it was me. They said, "Me also," so I also will. So there are different traditions, but towards God. They are ancestors, they are feeling like they are God. Their mother, their father, they are ancestors. And still, they are praying very much to their ancestors. Now, we have been Christians that they go one year, that is called the ceremony for the, when we have on the same time, what we call the Pitṛ Pūjā. They bring there first the priest, then, I think, the holy man or this, and then all the other priests, and then other people they are making. They come, make them puja. So they put the flowers and this and that. If they don’t believe that my father died and finished, and they are gone, then why are you going there and making pūjā, giving candles, giving flowers, and all? We are in tears, we are dying, remembering our father died about 20 years ago. Our grandfather died about 60 years ago. And when we go to the graveyard, we have the emotional. And similarly, these people in Croatia, and there are so many, all of them, they have the peace. Now, you can say those are Muslims. The Muslims are so strict in their religion and their God; they know that Allah is there and he will do nothing else. Similarly, we all have very positive and very nice qualities. We are doing everything: others killing animals, and this and that. Of course, Hindus are also many. They are eating fish and chickens and pickles and tickles and that. We don’t want to come in, but that, when it comes to Gurudev and all, and we have a relation. The son is worshipping Hanumanjī, and his daughter is Pārvatī, and the husband is worshipping Kṛṣṇa and Rāma, and the wife is worshipping Kṛṣṇa. In one house, four, five, and others of this and that, but at home, they are all one. So, in Krishna’s ceremony, the whole family will also come. Rama’s family, all will come. Hanumanjī’s all will come. So it is one day, one in all and all in one. And so Mahāprabhujī and Gurujī said, "Remember ancestors." Remember all holy saints, and chant your Gurudev. Guru Brahma, Guru Viṣṇu, Gurudev Maheśvara, Guru Sākṣāt, Parabrahma, Tasmai Śrī, Gurave Namaḥ. So these are giving instruction. A human gives such instruction. Many animals follow their own laws. When a monkey, whether a baby or an adult, dies, then in the evening, or at any time, immediately, all the monkeys come around. You will see, if one has died, they sit peacefully like this. Yes, they have love. They have understanding. But now, are there some people who say, "I don’t know, and I don’t know"? Therefore, it is like this. And if one thinks that I am a spiritual seeker, and I want to come to God, and I am searching for that. Are you searching from the heart or not? And that was the story of Gauḍī Gurujī, which I wanted to tell yesterday. It will be long. And it is a long story, so tomorrow I will definitely do it. Yes. So, I will see my time, how it is, the time. Oh my God, so I will make it very joyful, this story, okay? So there was one farmer, and the farmer had one little son, and he had no wife; his wife died. One day, one sādhu mahārāj, great, whatever you can see, that time was... No, so many vehicles, no, not even a bike. And when the bike was there, there was only sand. So really, how will you roll this bike near Kedas, near Khattu? We cannot. Vice that time, now we have the roads. Anyhow, sādhus were coming, and there was one. Farmhouse, and there was land, and it was about 11 o’clock. So Mahārājī, the sādhu or Gurujī, he goes to that farmer’s house, and the farmer came quickly. He was running, "Mahārāj, Mahārāj, oh my god, today my life is great. I did not see a sādhu so long, please come." Please come, and he said, "Yes, I want to drink water." He said, "Please, you will get water, and now you will eat." He bought a nice bed. "Sit down, and nice water," and then he brought... he said, "Milk," and then he said, "Cooking," and gave him food. "Want to eat?" Swamiji said, "Yes," and he said that the sādhu was very happy. Under the nice tree, on the tree he is sitting, he has a little hut, a hut means a two-room house. Now, Mahārājjī, Swāmījī said, "Thank you, and now I am going on my path." That sādhu, paṇḍita, farmer said, "Gurudev, you cannot go." My heart is burning. Please don’t go. You have to stay here. Swamiji said, "Okay, don’t cry, please." He said, "But not one day." Two, three days, he said, okay. Mahārājī was okay. And after one day, two days, it was nearly one month. Then he said, "Now I have to go. There are some other sādhus waiting for me." Then he said, "Please, you gave me mantras, and please, you should leave here." He said, "I will come, come, please." He said, "I will come." And he gave him the mantras and said, "You will..." Come to the Brahma Loka, Guru Dev. That’s all I need, nothing else. After two years, Swāmījī came again, and he was so happy, so happy. He said, "Come with me, Mārajī." I said, "Yes, Guru Dev. That was my biggest, biggest desire." He said, "Then let’s go, but..." Gurudev, my young boy, he is so not a good worker, and this and that and that, so I will come when my son is married, then I’m free. Hari Om, Guruji went away. After three years, again Mahārāj came, and there was a very nice, beautiful wife, and Her son and Guruji, Guruji gave the blessings and so on, and then Guruji said, "Now we can go. You have your son, and this is a Gurudev, great, great desire. I want to go with you, my Guru, but you know, for the wedding ceremony of my son, it was so much money." All my properties, I sold them because I made beautiful ceremonies. So, please, I need for a while to pay back the money. Okay, he went. Then what happened? After two years, three years, Mahārājī came again to the farmhouse, and he was sitting. He said he’s asking there all the time. And then the sun came, and Gurujī said, "Where is your father?" He said, "Gurudev, when you went, one day my father died." My father died? Well, Mahārājī was under the tree, sitting and meditating. Where is my disciple, my bhakta, that farmer? He was so longing to go to Mokṣa Loka. So Mahārājī meditated under the tree. And there was a little cow, which gave birth to a baby calf. So all of the farmers went because of attachment. So he got as a calf. And the calf will be, in two years or three years, be strong enough and will work for my son. And I will work very quickly so that I will get the money for him to pay back again. So Gurujī said, "Oh farmer." He said, "Yes, Gurudev, you are the best, my Gurudev." I know that you will never give me up. But you know, my son needs a lot of money to pay back. So I will help him. I will die. I will, Gurudev. I will come with you. Don’t worry. Gurujī, go. Well, the car became about three years old, and he was working, carrying things from the farmers, anything. One day, this car, he was so looking forward to taking more money back. So one day he was running, and he died. He fell down from the bull cart. Swamiji came and said, "Ramu," because the boy’s name was Ramu. Gurujī said, "Rāmu, where is your beautiful car?" Gurudev, my father, my bull was so nice, and he was not eating; he was working and running and this. And one day he was walking too quickly, and he fell down and died. Gurujī said, "Sit in meditation about where the car has gone." Gone, and then open, he said, "Little dog and the tail, so nice, beautiful little tail, car doggy, like a doggy of the para santosh pushpa." Well, he said, they are talking, Gurujī talking with mentally, so said farmer Bhagatā, "Now you can go, you." Got enough money, everything, and dog. Dog said, "Gurudev, you are my Gurudev. Such a guru, no one can be in the whole universe. But I, I am in the dog’s life. But Gurudev, you can always bring me. I know I will get everything." Well, I will tell something, Gurujī. My Ramu and Ramu’s wife, they sleep like a buffalo, and people are coming and taking something. So, Gurudev, the whole night I am sitting awake and making sounds, "Wow, wow..." the whole night, and I carry it home. So he said, "Okay, Gurujī chale gayī." The Gurujī went. Guruji is also getting wood up, black and all, you know, year by year. One day, what happens is that Ramu and his wife went somewhere for a wedding ceremony in another village. And they know that this dog will take care of our house. Two thieves came, and these two thieves said, "This dog all the time barking and howling, we cannot sleep." Or, with thieves, if we go, he awakes everybody. So one of the thieves took the pistol, and the dog finished. Ramu and his wife came in the morning about sunrise, and they saw the dog’s life fall down and die. Oh my Ramu, what happened to this? After about ten months, Gurujī came. Hey Ramu, bring the water. And this Dampurī, name of his wife. Hey Dampurī, make a good meal. And Gurujī is praying. But Gurujī said to the Rāmudā, "Where is your dog?" And they said, "Oh, Gurudev, we never saw such a dog." We could sleep, we could go anywhere. But he was very nice, taking care of our house. He was a beautiful guard. So Gurujī, thinking in meditation, "Dog, where is gone the soul of the dog?" And what? In the house of Ramu, they had something nice, like a pot. They are storing the grains, and under there, a dog, by a very dangerous cobra snake, is sitting under their tongue like this. Gurujī said, "Don’t show me the tongue." And Araramu kaha hai ki Gurudev? Pata nahi. Gurujī said from his telecom, Now you can go. How many lives will you suffer here? He said, "Gurudev, I will still take care of my children to see my grandchild." And now I have got a grandchild, and the grandchild is only three months old. And Ramu and Ramu’s wife, they are working in the field, and this little child is under the tree, nobody taking care, so I am taking care of this. Gurujī said, "Now he went into the Narakaloka, now he went into the, like, a leper’s life." Gurujī was sitting, making a mālā, Ramu’s wife. When Gurujī came, she ran quickly and came and made praṇāms, and she wanted to make food, and Ramu is working in the field. And then what happens? Rama’s wife went to the water well. So she got nice water on her head, a water pot, and there was sun shining, and the child of this woman is in a little cradle and was crying a little because the moonlight or sunlight was so strong. A cobra comes slowly enough and puts his head like this, and comes the dhapulī, papulī. And she said, "Ah, my child." She threw the water pot, and she was crying. Ramu came, what happened? Snake, snake. He brought a big stick, like my, you know, walking stick today. And on the stick, one or two, Gurujī said, "Moment, moment, moment. I will give him mokṣa." So Ramu said, "Gurujī, two, three daṇḍa, yad aise mokṣa jāyegā." He said, "No, no, bet." Then what Gurujī said again mentally, "Farmer, now you want to go with me? What do you see? What is your situation? How are you?" Cobra said, "Mahārājjī, why are you running behind me?" Once I got there, and good food and this, and all the times you are coming, why are you behind me? Let me be here. Then Gurujī said, "You will go to the Naraka." So he goes to the Naraka. But still the Gurujī said, because it is my disciple. So see, in so many lives, some are disciples; they think from the thinking that my Guru and this and that. But in reality, you have no complete one day’s. But still, Gurujī said, "I gave the promise. If he did not give the promise, then he did not reveal, but I will bring him into the Brahmaloka." So that becomes one worm. What becomes? One worm in the Narakaloka. Then Gurujī came as one very nice wasp and took the worm and put it on the lotus flower. It was evening, and that worm was in the lotus, which became like a bee. He opened like a bee, and it was inside the lotus, and inside he was closed, but still, Gurujī said, "Don’t worry, I will wake you." Now, the Gurujī and they are doing. And early morning, that’s called, we call the heavens, heavens, girls, but we don’t say that, not the girls, apsarās. So one, not an apsarā, the other one. And so she took that flower; it was still close. And brought to Bhagavān Viṣṇu. Pūjā and opened. And when that bee looked to God, he became mokṣa. So it means that, don’t think that the guru is nothing. When you have it, then it will be, not in this life, but in the next life. Not in this life. You will become an elephant. You will become buffalos, you will become tigers, you will become gorillas, and anything, but sooner or later your guru will bring you into the mokṣa, into the brahma loka. That was a story which Gurujī said. So, my dear, Gurujī said, when once you promised... To one, bhaktas, and you accepted as a disciple with your whole heart and your whole soul and with your whole knowledge and all your powers, you take care of your bhaktas and take. But some are gurus, they are only coming for one satsaṅg, other, and there are some. Gurus, they only collect people for hundreds and thousands together and then go home. They come, never come anymore. They are not a guru. Guru paramparā, so there should be guru paramparā. Therefore, guru. Veda Purāṇa Mein Gāte Voh, Veda Purāṇa Mein Gāte Voh, Veda Purāṇa Mein Gāte Guru, Veda Purāṇa Mein Gāte Satya vivek vatāte hai, Guru caraṇom me yāna satā tī ratā hai. Voh Veda Purāṇa gāte hai, Guru caraṇom me yāna satā tī ratā hai. Voh Veda Purāṇa me gāte. Guru charaṇam me arashatati ratah voh veda purāṇam me gāte. Guru charaṇam me ārashatati ratah go veda purāṇam gāte. Go dūma mila jāte. Śrī Dīpa Hari kā guṇa gāte. Vedas, Purāṇas, and Gāthās. Mayans, Siddhas, Avatāras, Yālak, Puriṣas, Mahādevas, Kiśas. Devādis, Devas, Śridhas, Puruṣas, Mahādevas, Kiśas. Ārādhyas, Bhagavāns, Śridhis, Nārāyaṇas, Mahāprabhujī, Kiśas. Hindu, Dharmasā, Amritsar, Parahansa, Vaimadas, Vanadas, Bhagavans, Kishas, viśva guru paraham svayam Maheśvara Nāda Jī, Gurudeva kī jaya.

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