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Part 1: The Power of Om Prabhu and the Guru's Grace Loving bhaktas, many are calling me with messages through television and other means. We are all together, praying for them. I am sure that Mahāprabhujī, Devpurījī, Alakhpurījī, and Bhagavān will serve and bless everyone. They will be well. We should have confidence and faith. Faith is one of the most powerful energies, a profound confidence in ourselves and with others. This mantra was given by our Gurudev, Swami Mādhavānandajī Bhagavān, in conjunction with Mahāprabhujī. Mahāprabhujī sang this bhajan, and Holy Gurujī composed this mantra. Mahāprabhujī confirmed, "Yes, this is the best mantra for you and for all." Om Prabhu, Om. We know Om. Om is eternal; there is nothing higher than Om. Whenever we write or sing any mantras, we first say, "Oṁ Śānti, Oṁ Dhyāna, Oṁ Mantram, Oṁ Trayaṁ Vāk, Yajña." So in these mantras, we begin with "Oṁ." It is like a powerful bomb that brings light, peace, and harmony—Oṁ. That is why Mahāprabhujī blessed me long ago in Australia during a satsaṅg. Afterwards, Mahāprabhujī said, "Om." Since that time, around 1973 or 1972, Mahāprabhujī said, "Oṁ." And Om is eternal. In every mantra, we say Hariṁ, Hariṁ, Om, Hariṁ, Hariṁ, Karate—always Om, Om, Om. So first, Mahāprabhujī and Gurujī said, "Om Prabhu, Hey Prabhu, Hey Bhagavān, Hey Lord, Hey Merciful," and so on. Om Mahāprabhujī—Mahā means the greatest, the highest, the most powerful. Om. After Om, the highest power is Om Prabhu. Prabhu is God; you know, Prabhu is God. It is the highest mantra of Hanumanjī. Hanumanjī was always saying, "Om Prabhu, Om Prabhu." The Hanumanjī mantra: Om Prabhu, Hari Om, Om Prabhu, Om Prabhu. Everyone: "He Prabhu, Om Prabhu, Om..." Prabhu, that is the Om Prabhu Dīpa. Please bring the light. It means my suffering, my pain, my negative thoughts—all these can be removed from darkness to light. Om Prabhu Dīpa, the light. Prakāśa puṇyaṁ bṛhat ke sāgara śrī dīpa harī mādhānī hai, sāre viśvameṁ gujarā prabhu kā amarā kahānī hai. O prakāśa, when we learn this and repeat this mantra in our heart, in our thoughts, in our feelings, and in many things, the light comes. What does the light mean? It means happiness and peace; pain and discomfort will go away. Prakāś does not mean physical light. When we invoke it, all difficulties are removed. Everything flows through the whole body—Oṁ Prabhu Dīp Nirañjan. Today, we are also praying for our dear Nirañjan. "Ni" means nothing, no. Niranjan means pure, without any negative influence. Sabha means all—from our one hair to every cell of our body, our entire body, our parents, our brothers, all our loved ones, all near us, even our animals. It brings this light and vibration, so it is called Oṁ Prabhudīp Nirañjan. What is Nirañjan? It means no rañjan, no spot of any kind. That is Nirañjan, Alak Nirañjan. This is one of the best. It is the best mantra, and we also call it "Om Alak Niranjanam, Om Alak Niranjanam," or simply Śivajī's mantra: Alak Niranjanam, Alak Niranjanam... Om Alak Niranjanam, Om Alak Niranjanam. "O Malak Niranjan, O Malak Niranjan"—in a rocky cave, a yogī sits chanting this mantra. If a tiger comes into the cave, it will run away. Who? The tiger. Yes, all animals will flee because it is so powerful. Alak Niranjan: Alak, there is no spot on it; it is pure to pure. And that is the Triśūla. The Triśūla represents that—it is Śiva’s. That is why Śiva always holds the Triśūla. This mantra, which Mahāprabhujī gave to Holy Gurujī, and Holy Gurujī gives to everyone, they tell me, "Maestro, this mantra gives more: Oṁ Prabhudīp Nirañjan Śabdak Banjan." But many people say, "You always give the same mantra." "Gurujī, can you give me a second mantra?" Yes, I can give you many, but it all comes back to Mahāprabhujī. Om Shoham Śaguṇ Brahma Śrī Dīp Paripūraṁ Nārāyaṇ Namaḥ. Again, we arrive at that same point. So this mantra is extremely powerful. But for those who have no faith and run after many things, it is like going into one cave, then another cave, then climbing another rock, and you talk and balk and funk—then you are nowhere. Have confidence. The Guru can be strict, and the Guru can be very humble. He is very humble, but sometimes his words are like an arrow. Why the arrow? To remove a needle from the brain. A big needle has pierced the brain—who can extract it now? A doctor might operate, but this kind of needle—it is that kind of arrow that comes and brings you back. That's all. For those who cannot take happiness and joy, you are the disciple of the Guru, and the Guru says, "My disciple, little one, if you run away, then run, go, hurry home." That's it. Many times, you know, with Holy Gurujī. Some people were there for one day, five days, ten days, or one month, and Gurujī knows them. One day in Badīkhatu, in the new building, Gurujī was on the fifth floor alone because he wanted to see the Khatu or Dhūnā. A young man went up. Gurujī said, "Bring fruits from here." He fetched them. Then Gurujī said, "Bring that loṭhā." He went and came back. Then, "Go and fetch my kitāb, my book." So Gurujī said, "Go quickly." But the young man spoke a word that should never be said—not to your father, not to your mother. He said to Gurujī, "Are yār, leke ātā hū." And Gurujī took off his chuk and said, "Go down, and do not come up again." So he went down. He tried again later, but he had lost much. He pleaded, "Please, kī bāṭā, Gurujī?" But Gurujī said, "Do not come." Never say that word to anyone. "Arre" is not a good word—it sounds harsh. And "yaar" means your lover. So, saying "arre yaar" to Gurujī, like "arre yaar lātā hoon"—I'm bringing my yaar—Gurujī responded, "Terā bāp kā yār nahīṁ hūṁ." Remember, the same was true everywhere with Mahāprabhujī. So, Gurujī knows many such things. Prakāś Puñjam Rittake Sāgar Śrī Dīp Harimādanī Hai, Sāre Viśvame Gūñj Rahā Prabhu Kā Amar Kani He. Amar Jadī Hai Bhajan Hain, Na Bahut Amnā Amar Jadī Amārī. Āj Puṣpā Kāyegī Amar Jadī So There Sab. Sab means all. What does all mean? First, all difficulties of our body—pain, problems, everything—will be removed. But kṛpā, guru kṛpā he kevalam—only by Guru’s grace, then you will have confidence. One hundred thousand percent, and then it will go. Otherwise, you are here, you are going there, you are going to that religion. I go to the billi, I go to the benda, Khaṇḍe dhāgā, khaṇḍe koṭā, jaṭā beṇḍā. What is that? We go to everybody, we respect everyone, but one is mine, and that is Mahāprabhujī. Holy Gurujī said, "I bow down to every temple, I bow down to all sādhus, I accept all great people." But then he told me, "Mahesh, this head will bow only to Mahāprabhujī, that's all." Then you are sure. "Om Prabhudeep Niranjan Sabdukha." All problems—"duḥkha" means all kinds of suffering—"Om Prabhudeep Niranjan Sabdukha Bhanjan." "Bhanjan" means all will go away. All will go away. But once problems disappear, there are people who say, "Swāmījī, come, please, Gurudev." I come to them and bless them. Then they go to Hanumanjī’s temple and say, "Hanumanjī, Hanumanjī..." Neither you nor they look to them; they bow to Hanumānjī’s statue first. Then they go to another one. That is why Gurujī said, our Gurudev said, "One in all and all in one." Where is that—all in one and one in all? Mahāprabhujī, Mahāprabhujī. And the power is Devpurījī. If Devpurījī acts in a certain way, it is done. And if it is done otherwise, it will not happen. That's it. Word Śabda Śabdasanahī Varejā Tāra Marhe Lī Śabdasan Eko Brahma Dutya Nasti, Avatarpurījī. Say it: Eko Brahma Dutya Nasti. Eko Brahma: only Brahman exists, only one. That Gurudev is one. There are hundreds, thousands, millions of Gurus, but all are only one. When you receive the blessings of a real Guru, you gain a Guru—a Satsaṅg Guru, an Āśīrvād Guru who gives this mantra. When the Guru is present, there are no two Gurus. Śabda, only one Śabda is called Guru or Master. Master is Master, no matter what kind of Master, but there is only one Master. Similarly, your school teacher—the teacher teaches. Do you know what "teacher" means? The students sit, and the teacher teaches: "Hey, learn, learn." Our teacher is here. The teacher is here—that is the power. Therefore, Eko Brahma Dvitīyanāsti. Where is this said? Eko Brahma Dutyanasti—by Ādi Guru Śaṅkarācārya. Eko Brahma: only one is Brahman. The rest are not in that order. So, all Gurus—do not claim, "I am the only Guru." If someone says, "I am the only Guru," it means he is not a Guru. Who is true? Do you know what a Tata is? Oh my God! You don’t know what Tata Tata is? Of course, you are not Indian. You are not a Rajasthani. Tata. Tata refers to goats and sheep in the forest, and their master, the shepherd, takes care of them. So the shepherd said: The Guru is only one, but bodies are thousands, millions. Do you understand me today? The Guru is only one, but bodies are thousands. Similarly, the mother is one, but bodies are millions. Why? Because every woman who gives birth is a mother. So your mother is a mother, and others are also mothers. "Maa Mī" is different. In English and Sanskrit, "Maa, Maa, Maa"—the mouth opens—"Maa" means the whole. "Pap Maa Mī," "Maa Mī"... If you speak in English and pursue that, then of course, "Maa Mī" is the best. Part 2: The Living Presence of Śaṅkarācārya and the Guru’s Path But as an Indian, and in Indian traditions and culture, you should say "Mahā." The best is the one who says "good"—the Muslims. Muslims will not say "mami"; they will say, "We are Muslims." What do they call them? Amī. That’s it. Everybody should come to our power. Therefore, if you have one guru, yes, you have only one guru. And that doesn’t matter. One horse is good in the race, but the second is also in the race. Another is not for the race. The third is just in the stable. But they are all a horse. That’s it. So if one is giving many lectures, like me, and now someone says, "Okay," and then it’s finished, while some are talking every day—all the Śaṅkarācāryas, every one of them is speaking only that. I want to say: we all know that. Now, what can you give us like this? And so, Śaṅkarācārya Jī is alive now. He is life. Śaṅkarācārya Jī has not gone anywhere. Where there is this color, automatically there is Śaṅkarācārya. Bhagavān Śaṅkarācārya kā ye bhagvā hai. Ye color jo hai, Śaṅkarācārya Jī ne diyā hai. And this means this color has many, many meanings, which I have always said: what does the color signify? First, the color is the sunrise. Second, it is the fire. Another is the very calm peace. Yet another is that I am in the fire. We are sitting in the fire, and we are purifying. We are sanyāsīs, we are sitting in the fire. That’s it, and many, many other things. And also, when we walk in the street somewhere in an orange dress, everyone says, "Oh, somebody is coming," otherwise someone could face an accident. Yes, it is a color. And this is a fire. This is the fire. And that is why all the sādhus say, "I have only one skin, and that is orange. And my second skin means I am forever." Why? What do we call the Nāgā Bābā? What does that mean? They said, "We will take care of all." It doesn’t matter. We will jump into the field. It doesn’t matter, no kapada, nothing. But I will save everyone. That’s it. Nagabhava is like an army, a big army. And it was a long time ago, there were all the kings, and the kings were feeding the Saṅkarājā, or the sādhus, all of them. Yes, and they worshipped them. Now, still there is the Kumbha Melā. What is that? How do you see it? But, of course, you have to be first like that. Not for a temporary time—put on an orange dress, take the machine, get prasad, bandaras, and money, and afterwards go home in a lungi, tungi, pungi. So that is, yeh raṅkiyā kyā kām ke liye hai? Yeh kya hai, surrendering, that’s it. I surrender, and I renounce. This is the color of the renounced. Therefore, it is called Śaṅkarācārya. Jī is not gone; he is here. And so many Śaṅkarācāryas are sitting here. So, Śaṅkarācārya, what did Śaṅkarācāryajī say? Ki Eko Brahmaditya Nasti. All my bhaktas and all on the path: truth, the truth, the truth. And so, Guru, we have millions, we have billions of Gurus. But of course, you have disciples, and don’t be the slave of your student. Then you are not a Guru, okay? You are just yārāī. Isi liye Gurujī ne kahā hai, abhī Gurujī ne kahā hai, but what is my bhajan? Śabda Sanehī Śabda Sanehī... Shabda means my word, your word. This Shabda, Shabda means if you tell somebody, "Hey, stupid man," this is also Shabda, but a negative Shabda. Negative Shabda is like this: "This Corona is the needles, the needles, the needles." You know, they have given some very nice symbols, and wherever you have touched, everywhere it is like needles. And that is a needle, if we are talking negative to everybody and you are not right with your Gurudev, then you are stuck in that poroling. So therefore, in this we are free. Everything that should happen within, inside—explode it into the fire, and that will be gone. Hari Om Tat Sat. Therefore, we are praying today. I want to really, really, from my heart, for all, all, all my bhaktas, my disciples, my Gurujī. And Gurujī, then after some years, he said, "Because you are in Europe, I give you the blessings that you can make the mantras, but everywhere." From when I got sannyāsa, I was there in 1967, and there Gurujī gave me the blessings and sannyāsa and gave me a chap. Oh God! He said, "Now you cannot go anywhere. It is this dress." Yes! Oh God! Because when you see, we have a very big, lasting nearly 30 years, construction of the highest mantra, Oṁ. First is the Om, but you know how much that a person who is sitting on the stone, on that stone, and sitting on that, and one leg on it, in second mood is a cigarette, and with other like this, and then again on it. But when the statue became vanayas, he said, "How beautiful!" That’s it. So the master is making this beautiful pillar with the statue. My dear, look at our holy Gurujī. You cannot see that it is a statue. It is life, Gurudev, and how nicely Gurujī is giving blessings. But before, it was only a stone. And they were rolling the stone, but now, who made the statue? He himself, he makes the praṇām. Gurudev kisses me. Vohī guru hai, vohī hogā, otherwise you don’t try to go that I am better than my guru. Okay, you have college, you have many, many diplomas, all diplomas, everything. But still, you cannot be in front of that, because Guru is Guru. Ye Bhagavākapāda jo hai, Śaṅkarācārya yahan hai. Abhi bhi Śaṅkarācārya jī hai. And Śaṅkarācārya jī says, "Truth, the truth." And that truth is only one. And that’s Eko Brahmaditya Nasti. And Gurujī said, "One in all and all in one." Therefore, all my bhaktas who are listening and who are not listening, next time you will listen and you will do this. We will read this mantra: Om Prabhudīpanirañjana Śravaṇaduḥkhabhañjana Om Prabhudīpanirañjana... Śravaṇaduḥkhābhāñjana. While chanting this mantra, please send this power to all our brothers, sisters, and all people who are very disturbed by the medicine or something like this. So please, we pray for them. Om Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Oṁ Brahma Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Devādhī Dev Deveśvara Mahādeva Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī Jai, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai, Ādi Guru Bhagavān Śaṅkarācārya Kī Jai. Ho Bhūti, we shall overcome. Amarjanī Gurujī Mehtā, Amarjanī, I was. Thinking we could sing "We Shall Overcome." Okay, tomorrow, okay? Hari Om. Now, today, a little better, our Swami, Avatārapurījī, will say something. Am I clear? Vishvaguru Mahādeva Kī Jai, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Hindu Dharma Samrāṭ Paramahaṁsa, Śrī Mādhavānanda Purījī Mahārāj Kī Jai, Vishvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramahaṁsa, Śrī Maheśvarānanda Purījī Mahārāj Kī Jai, Sadāśiva Samārambhaṁ Śaṅkarācārya Madhyamam. Asmadāchārya Paryantaṁ Vande Guru Paramparāṁ. Hari Om. As today Vishwagurujī was speaking a little bit about Ādiguru Śaṅkarāchārya Jī, and as you know, a few days back, it was also Ādiguru Śaṅkarācārya Jī’s Jayantī, his birthday. So I will tell you a short story about Ādiguru Śaṅkarācārya Jī. As you know, Ādiguru Śaṅkarācārya Jī was one of the most learned persons at that time, and even till now. There was no one more learned than he. He knew all the Vedas, all the Purāṇas, all the Upaniṣads. He knew absolutely everything by the age of twelve. He was, at that time, known as the most knowledgeable person in the whole world. At the age of 12, to test his own knowledge, he used to call the greatest scholars and the greatest teachers from all around India to compete with him in a session we call a Śāstrārth—a question-and-answer session. He asks a question, they answer; they ask a question, he answers. So, to test his own knowledge, he used to organize as many śāstras as possible, and he was always the winner of every single śāstra possible. And as you know, he liked to walk a lot. He crisscrossed the whole nation, up and down and left to right, four times by the age of 32. He didn’t drive, he didn’t use any other means; he just walked all over India. There is one story I heard somewhere, where Śaṅkara was once walking, and you know, in Indian culture, all gurus have disciples. So when the Gurujī is walking, the disciple walks behind him. When he sits, he sits. When he eats, he eats. When he drinks, he drinks. The disciple drinks. They don’t go ahead; they are always walking behind. Śaṅkara was walking quite fast, so his disciples were trying to catch up, but they were running and he was walking, which was fine. So Ādiguru Śaṅkarācārya Jī stopped at one village, and he had his lunch and everything, and there was a kind of restaurant—you can call it a type of bar—and at that time in India, there was a drink. It was some type of coconut water, but it was also mixed with some alcohol. It could be light or strong, but that place where Śaṅkarācārya jī went, it was quite strong because you could see people rolling on the ground; it was so strong. So Ādiguru Śaṅkarācārya took the whole can and drank it. The disciples were thinking, "What did he do?" Okay, he drinks, we eat. He stops, we stop. So he drank. Why don’t we drink? They said, "Okay, at the next village when we stop, we will also try what he drank." But Śaṅkarācārya was Antaryāmī, so he knew what they were thinking. So, Ādiguru Śaṅkarācārya, in the next village, stopped by a goldsmith. The goldsmith was working with iron, so he had a whole pot of melted iron. Ādiguru Śaṅkarācārya took that whole jar of boiling hot melted iron and drank it. And the disciples were saying, "Okay, we are not going to do that." So the moral of the story is: you should never copy what your Guru is doing. You should follow his footsteps. You should do what he says. Do not copy what he does. If your Guru does something, do not try to copy and imitate him and do the same thing. Always follow him and do what he says. As Vishwagurujī always says, "Guru Kṛpā He Kevalam, Śiṣya Ānanda Maṅgalam." Which means when you have Gurudev’s blessings, when you have Gurudev’s kṛpā on you, then the disciple, the śiṣya, is always full of happiness and joy. Thank you very much. Hari Om. Hari Om. Thank you. So, finished. Thank you. Hari Om. Until tomorrow, and please pray for everyone. Śāntiḥ. Śāntiḥ.