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Deep Dayā Lodhatā, Śrī Pūjā Deep Dayā Lodhatā, Lākhoṁ Praṇām. Śrī Pūjya Dīpā Dayāluḍ, lākhoṁ praṇām charaṇam. Śrī Pūjya Dīpadāyaludh, Lākon Parnām Charaṇame. Śrī Pūjā Dīpa Dayā Lodata, Lākon Parnām Charaṇame. Śrī Pūjya Dīpa Dayālu Dātā. Śrī Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, Devadhidev Deveśvara Bhagavān Śrī Deep Nārāyaṇa kī jaya. Good evening to all dear brothers, sisters, and devotees around the whole world, to the Yoga and Delhi Life Foundations. You are now in a lecture from Bharat, India, from Śrī Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, our Holy Gurujī’s Om Ashram in Jhadam. It is a beautiful time with a very good atmosphere, about 45 degrees, which is good. The best climate is in Rajasthan and other parts like Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. Today, I would like to bring our knowledge towards us. We want to practice yoga. We know that yoga is from Svayaṁbhū Śiva. Shiva himself is a yogī. This science is not for material things; it is a science to return to the cosmic and divine parts of the world. All living beings on this earth, in the ocean, in the water—water is life. If the earth disappears, the ocean will not. When the earth is gone down, still the ocean is life. In this life, there are different kinds of creatures. Life is not easy for all, but it comes through the science of yoga, what we call sādhanā. Sādhanā is that science for all. It means we have to go to the highest cosmic self, to become one with the divine God. Then there is no more any problem. But that is not easy; therefore, sādhanā. Our Holy Gurujī gave a beautiful version: Sādhānā cara karo pyā pyārā, sādhānā cara karo Hari pārā. Jena sehove paramānanda. Guru, sādhānā cara karo Hari pyārā, sādhānā cara karo Hari pārā. Jina Se Hove Anandaya Para Sadhana Chara Karo Hari Pyara. These are the four sādhanās: karma, bhakti, jñāna, and the last one is Brahma. Therefore, Gurujī always said, "Sādhanā karo, bhai. Sādhanā. Sit down." When devotees would come to Gurujī and talk for 10, 20 minutes, or half an hour, Gurujī would take his mālā, close his eyes, and go into his sādhanā. People would be talking, but Gurujī was in his practice. Slowly, they would understand and leave. Out of ten people, perhaps three would remain, sitting with hands on their knees, repeating the mantra Gurujī had given them. Sometimes I would laugh because those seven people went away, and the three were sitting in meditation. Gurujī would open one eye and say, "These are the bhaktas," and go back into sādhanā. Those who came only for some attachment, for money or other things, Gurujī would say, "This is not for you. It’s for you, and it’s also not for you, but if you want, you can go." Sādhana. Sādhana dhan means treasure—property, gold, silver, iron, money, everything. People want to see dhan; they want to have more and more. Gurujī said, "That is nothing. This will be here, finished. You will have everything, but you will suddenly be gone. Where is all your dhan? All your properties will remain here." Sad and sādhana are two different things. If you have only dhana, it is wrong. But if we are getting sādhana, it is different. This is why bhakti, jñāna, karma, and all these four are called aṣṭāṅga yoga. Therefore, Gurujī says, "Sādhanā charā karo Hari pyārā, jinse pāo hogā tere ānanda apārā." If you come to these four sādhanās, you will be the happiest. Gurujī said, "Sit down. You are running, going, rowing in the forest. Birds and rabbits are in the forest. You, a human, sit down peacefully and close your eyes." Even in a small house, a big house, under trees, or near the beach—just sit down. What does it mean to sit down? In my thinking, I am myself. Then Gurujī said, "I am in the Brahma Loka. This body, everything is inside." Try to understand. Sādhanā. Holy Gurujī was always doing his mālā. It was so big and thick, but now it became so little. You could see exactly where his fingers were moving. There was a kind of grace in it. Therefore, we are all working with yoga. Yoga is not only āsanas; they are very good. Without yoga, we cannot survive, but this is just for example. We have our car—a very good, expensive, beautiful car—but this car is a luxury, a vehicle. We can use it, but you are not the car. Do not say, "I am only my car." No, you are sitting inside. One day, you may die with the car or not. We are sitting in our body. Holy Gurujī made a very beautiful bhajan. In that bhajan, Gurujī said, "Sādhanā, aja’ba rāta hamārā." What is ajaba? The word ajab means indescribable. This body is like a chariot. In it, there are four horses pulling your coach. These horses are very naughty; one runs this side, one that side. It is not easy to guide or hold them. That which takes care is the mind. The mind brings our mind back. Gurujī’s books are full of wisdom and instructions: do this and don’t do that. But if you tell a disciple something different, they may say, "No, it’s not good. I am not this," and then they are gone. It is not easy, my dear. You have to see if you have felt your heart, felt in your brain, completely pure, without any kind of conflict or making someone different. Mahāprabhujī said, "Your brain, your head, your thoughts, your thinking, all should be pure and clear." When you see clarity in your brain, then you say, "Oh my God, that is my treasure, that is my path, there I am, and therefore I will go there." You know Ādiguru Śaṅkarācārya? He was very beautiful. Think about Shankaracharya; he was only 32 years of age. Bhagavān Ādiguru Śaṅkarācārya, 32 years old. Someone killed him, but nobody tells that. Even where people were talking about Śaṅkarācārya, he said, "I was 32 years old when I left life." He died. But who said how he went? No one is saying it. All the people were telling their own stories. For three days, all were talking. No one said about who killed Śaṅkarācārya. But there was someone who gave him poison. Everything is there. Yet, within 32 years, he became the greatest of the greatest. One German professor wrote that there was no person like Śaṅkarācārya, who was the best writer, the best in science, everything. In that way, it is said. In these bhajans, what Gurujī is telling... Mahāprabhujī, you don’t know how much Mahāprabhujī was giving training to Holy Gurujī. You cannot imagine. Many people run away, but Holy Gurujī knew that He is the supreme, highest Gurudev. It is like a man making a pot from clay. He puts the pot out to dry, about 30% or 50%. Then he takes a very nice wooden pot, completely wood, with very soft cotton inside. He holds it nicely, and outside, he carves very beautiful grey gold on the top. After that, he puts it in the sun. Afterwards, he comes again and puts on a powder. He asks, "Did I hurt you? Did you get hurt somewhere?" He comes with care and says to the pot, "There is no breaking because inside is great soft support. And outside, are you okay?" The pot said, "Again, that is beautiful." That is one of the best masters who can make a little pot, a big pot, a water pot. With his hands inside, he makes the throat, the neck of the pot. People were saying, "Oh my God, Mahāprabhujī is so hard." To Madhavānanda Gurujī, I said, "No, as much as Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī is a little bit strict, I am so happy. My heart is happy and joyful. That’s my Bhagavān. That is called, ‘I am my Guru and my disciple.’" You have got mantra, you got all sādhanā, and now you are saying, "No, this and that." Then you are not. What will happen then? Again, that man from the earth clay comes and sees a little crack. Why? Because there was nobody, and with the wind, it fell down. Or a cat was there, and it fell down. The master comes; it is broken. He breaks it and puts it in the water—Hari Om. Beautiful work is done, but that pot was moving. It was not remaining without any support. The master went there and broke it. Then what did the master say? Put it again in the ocean. That clay pot, still not in the fire, fell down. It goes into the ocean. We don’t know when this clay will come out again, and again this master will be there. But when it is dry, nicely dry, he comes with his finger, very slowly, not strong. Then what does he do? He puts some dry grass there and places about 200 pots inside, with grass and other things. He builds one this side, one that side, beautifully. There is a story. One king said, "I am the king, and nobody should say God." One day, he goes and sees an old lady sitting and burning something at about 11 o’clock at night. The king came on a horse. This lady, about 60 or 70 years old, was saying, "Rām, Rām,..." The name was Hiraṇyakaśipu. His son was Prahlāda. Prahlāda said, "Hari Om Tat Sat, Hari Om Tat Sat." She’s sitting and repeating it. The king comes and asks, "Who is Hari Om? Who is Hari? There is no Hari. I am the Hari. I will pull you into the fire." She said, "Please, no." Then why are you taking the name Hari Om? Why not Hiraṇyakaśipu? She said, "I had one cat, and the cat had five little babies. She gave the kittens in one pot, and I did not know that the babies were inside. I put it there on the grass, put more grass, and put it in the fire. The cat was very sad, running, meow, meow. The mother was going. I was praying to Hari. Will He save the babies of the cat?" She said, "Okay, I will stay here. How long will it be?" She said, "It will take two days till it cools down. Two days I am here now." He said, "Go call your God." She said, "No, not bring the other. After, I will burn you." So she said, "Hari Om Tat Sat, Hari Om Tat Sat,... japa kar, japa kar yahi, japa kar, japa kar yahi Hari naam hai." Hiraṇyakaśipu waited two and a half days. He said, "How long?" She said, "My God, my king, please." This lady was taking one after another pots from the fire. They were burned beautifully. You could see: this one is broken, this pot is broken, but the other one is like glass. Then it is like that—broken, but this one, similarly, the same clay pot after being burned, is very beautiful. It was so beautiful that everybody said, "I want to buy this." He said, "No, no, I want to buy." Before, it was all clay. Hiraṇyakaśipu was there. Then there were two pots: one big and one small. The neck of the pot, the mouth, on both sides. There was a cat baby inside. All was burned, but the cat’s pot was unburned; it was only clay, and inside was beautiful, soft, green grass. The cat babies were jumping from one pot to another. He said, "I will go, but don’t do anymore." He went away. So God, that Satguru and Gurudev, is not at one. But bhaktiro jñāna dātā dejīyo. Holy Gurujī had no other anything—only one mālā and Mahāprabhujī’s photo. That’s all. You go there, and I go there, and I worship this. Some people are doing so. But always, Gurujī was sitting, even at night. So if you want to become a master, to become the supreme of the supreme, if you want to become the Gurudev’s Gurudev, it doesn’t matter. Your Gurudev can be female, or your Guru can be male. It doesn’t matter. Let them come. All like that woman: she had the clay and made clay pots. She made about 200 clay pots, a little bigger than this. All were very good. But this disciple is still not like that; that disciple is still not like this. So it’s going, that is not good. There is one who is broken. Time to time, sometimes the master says, "Hey, come, come. This is a ‘come, come’ because you have no knowledge still. You did not understand your master. You did not let the Gurudev." Therefore, all the times, "Oh, my god." What are you doing? Broken? What will do that? In the water, and again make the clay and mix with the clay. But when you come to the Gurudev, at that time, yes, Guru Caraṇam. Yad sat tīrtha gāte he, Guru Caraṇam. Yad sat tīrtha he, Veda Purāṇa me gāte. Now from the Himalaya: Bhagavān Śaṅkara. And from Śaṅkara, upon the temple, the big Kailāśa. From Kailasha, all the glaciers are glazing and coming back as the Gaṅgā. In the Ganga, how many beautiful stones are there? If you want to block all the stones, saying, "I want only myself, the stone. The rest, I will fold it," there will not remain for a while. You will become sand. What will happen? It will interfere. Because you are alone, and you say, "I am only my guru’s disciple, you are not," then all will become sand. But all together in the Gaṅgā, rolling, all are happy and nice—big, small, this Gaṅgā Jal. How many times I was bathing in the Gaṅgā, from the peak of the Himalaya till Gaṅgā coming to Badrināth, Kedārnāth, down everywhere till the Mahāśiva Sāgara, Mahāhimālaya. Therefore, we are all from the earth, and we will—mittī means earth. Sooner or later, our bones, our everything, beautiful skin, this, that, everything—my body is like this, and I am beautiful, and I am sitting all day like this. I go to the barber, and he cut my hair yesterday very nicely. God, I am always holding. Okay, this all will become earth and goes in the bhoḍā. In Indian language, it is not a good word. Bhoḍā means... I don’t want to tell anything. But bhoḍā water, we call it water, anyhow. Therefore, if you want, we want to achieve, "I am myself." You don’t know. And still, I am on the path of my Gurudev. How far I will go is still unknown. Mahāprabhujī is there. Holy Gurujī is there. Alagpurījī is there. I am in between. Like in Gaṅgā, water is... or Alagpurījī, you see, how was it when we were there? Ālagpurījī’s water is so strong, looking only like this. There was a tiger, truthfully. In the morning, it attacked a goat. She ran, and the tiger attacked, and she jumped in the water, up to there. That tiger did not dare to cross the river. She goes again, slowly, slowly, and walked on the rock. I think she’s living on the rock. What a goat. We were looking all the time. Premānājī said, "It is there, it is." I said, "Where?" and he said, "There." It was Premanājī who said, "Yes." On the beach, there was a footprint of the tiger. So, when Gurudev will keep him, then nobody can—the tiger cannot eat him. Hey, my dear, forget it, forget everything. Bhakti, bhakti... that’s it. Very good, all right, thank you. Today is finished. So, ego is one of the most terrible things. Ego means it looks like a very hard stone, but ego is not like a stone. Ego is like an egg of a bird, and when it goes like... this finished, your ego is like this. So, no ego, please. Therefore, it’s not easy; it is not easy. Tomorrow we will talk again more about the clay. There’s a beautiful lesson from the clay. When the clay is made by that person, she or he makes a beautiful pot, nice. Then he takes with his hand the god’s statues, brings this as a god or some gods for the Deepak. There is oil inside, and the light is burning here. Where was it? In our legs and foot and everywhere in the dirt, this earth? But she made, or he made, a beautiful pot, and then it came to the God’s Gurudev’s Deepak. So become a Deepak of Gurudev. Become the Deepak of the Gurudev. Deepak means you should always be a happy light. Don’t be angry. "I don’t need, I don’t like"—this is ego. How are you? There will come one. There is a beautiful cobra, and that egg half will fall inside, or it will come. One, you know, goes, lizard. That lizard comes slowly, slowly, and the egg is gone. That is only because we didn’t know ego is that, like an ego, and that is an egg. Yes? Egg and ego have the same letters. Yes? Hum satsaṅg ko karke, gubne ko hum jāyeṅge. Hari Om. Hari Om. Hari Hari Om.