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If you have a particular person, then only that person will come. Similarly, to have a successful sādhanā, successful work, remember God Gaṇeśa. Gaṇeśa, Īśvara, the Lord of the Lords of all the Gaṇas, the Devas. Because first he should be remembered. Before doing something new, remember Śrī Gaṇeśa. Oṁ Śrī Gaṇeśāya Namaḥ. That’s enough. He doesn’t need long prayer, you know, because he doesn’t have time to listen to all the prayers here. There are billions of people who know in which second how many people are calling him. So, with heart, with great belief and devotion, we say, "Oṁ Śrī Gaṇeśāya Namaḥ," and we begin our program, sādhanā, building a house, or any kind of ceremonies and so on. Śrī Gaṇeśajī is known as the Lord of protection and the remover of all obstacles. Even Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva, they all remember Gaṇeśa first, and then they do something. It is said that Śiva is the father of Gaṇeśa, and Pārvatī is the mother of Gaṇeśa, but law is law, because Gaṇeśa has the highest position. And Śiva blessed him that he would be the first one, and therefore he should always be the first one. Any saint, any writer, who has a spiritual consciousness, who knows about these numerous elements in the universe, śaktis, when they write a letter, on the top of the letter, as an emblem you can say, they write, "Oṁ Śrī Gaṇeśāya Namaḥ," and then they begin to write. Idea, friend, so and so and... So, when you send a wedding postcard or invitation, there must be Gaṇeśa’s picture and prayer mantras to Gaṇeśa. Then your marriage is happy and successful. If you haven’t done this, then be prepared for divorce. So, all who have problems in marriage, now you know why. If you search for a partner or something, then you should say, "Every day, give a white flower to Gaṇeśa, Gaṇeśilā, white flower, milk, honey, Gaṇeśjī Mahārāj." Gurudev, holiness, Madhavananjī Mahārāj, our holy Gurujī, also has wrought many, many bhajans. But the first bhajan that he wrote in his book is dedicated to Gaṇeśa. And Gaṇeśa is also Gurudev. You’ve seen your Gurudev, Gaṇeśa. So, before writing all bhajans and books, Gurudev is saying, "Welcome, please come, O Gaṇapati Gurudev." Every second, I am requesting you, let me be your servant. Let me adore your holy lotus feet. O my Gurudev, Gajanandjī Mahārāj, Bless me, have mercy on me. Oh Gurudev, Gajānanda. Gajānanda. Gaja is the elephant. Ānanda is bliss. Bless me with this divine bliss. Kṛpā karo Gurudev Gajānanda. Hṛdaye karo nivāsa. For what should he bless you? Bless me, please. Come and take a seat in my heart. How beautiful. Now, where are your feelings in your heart? For what? Who is he, sitting now in your heart? Whom you love, from whom you have expectation, hope. That is divine, God. Kṛpā karo gurudeva Gajānanda. Hṛdaye karo nivāśa. Come and live in my heart. Make my heart your holy seat. Make my heart your temple. And when Gajānandjī, Gurudeva Gajānanda, will come and sit in your heart, all obstacles will go away. All this feeling will disappear. Anubhav Bānī Pragat Kījo. Anubhav Bānī. Please open, manifest it. Pragat means manifestation. Pragat means open. So, Anubhav experiences that your experience is Lord Gaṇeśa, what is in your wisdom, what is your knowledge. That you should reveal in my heart and in my buddhi, in my intellect. Not that I am talking about something which is not correct. Gaṇeśa is also known as the Lord of Intellect. And Gaṇeśa is accompanied by Riddhi and Siddhi, Riddhi-Siddhi. Siddhi is perfection, and Riddhi is the wealth. So he is accompanied by Ṛddhi and Siddhi. When his kṛpā is there, automatically everything is fulfilled. How beautiful! But you have to open your heart to have his seat there. Not only for one minute, Gaṇeśa and Nāma, hurry on, we go. It’s not like that. Śraddhā, viśvāsa, that we should have towards Gurudev, Gaṇeśa. What kind of experiences? You should give me knowledge. Give me means the sun, means the light, the sunlight. No light can be compared with the sunlight. So, no knowledge can be compared with Ātmā Jñāna, Brahma Jñāna, and that can be blessed by Gaṇeśa Mahārāj, can be blessed by Gurudev. Śaraṇe Āyako Sadā Sukh Dījo. O my Lord, who seek, who seek the blessing, who seek the shelter to thy holy lotus feet, give them everlasting happiness. Śaraṇe Āyako Sadā Sukh Dījo. Everlasting happiness. Śaraṇe Āyāko Sadā Sukh Dijo. Kījo Sarvadukha Nāśa. And please destroy all the problems of their bhakti. Destroy all my problems, Sarvadukha, all problems. Dīpa Nīrañjana Śabdakha Bhañjana. Sab dukh, sarva means all, sab means all, śaraṇe āye. Kāla, the death, jāla, someone who is trying to cheat you, a tricky one, kubuddhi, a bad thought. Kāla Jāla Kubuddhi Tāljo, this all please remove from my path. O Gurudev Bhagavān Dīpanayana Mahāprabhujī, forever and ever, remove the torturing of the Kāla. Many, many lives, this Yama, the Kāla. Kāla means Yama. Kāla means time, the past. Kāla means the snake. Kāla means the black. Yam has been torturing me for many, many lives. Please, now free me from this. Means that I pass through this world without suffering. Just I come to thy holy lotus feet, to this Brahmaloka. If you are stuck in the māyā, if you are stuck in this prapañca of the saṃsāras, then be ready to be tortured. Again and again, you will be tortured. There was an animal, a cow or a buffalo or an elephant, and it had a wound on its buttock. And always, a crow used to come and sit on the buttock and eat a piece of meat. And they cannot remove the crow from there, this part of the buttock. So Yama is that crow which is torturing you, and you can’t do anything. O Gajananjī Mahārāj, protect. You are living in every creature, in every atom, omniscient, omnipresent. Chara-achara me āpa vyāpako vyāpaka jaisā ākāśa. How? Like the sky, the space. It is everywhere in heaven, the ākāśa element. And so is Gaṇeśa everywhere. There is no distance. He is closer than you could think. With everyone, and therefore, first has to be adored, Śrī Gaṇeśa Mahārāj kī jaya. "Gaṇapati dhyāve sadā sukha pāve." Those who meditate and worship Gaṇeśa, they will be always happy. Sadā sukha pāve, because he removes all the problems. You are happy, but you must have that adoration. You must have that love, unconditional love. Otherwise, kapaṭa kī bhakti prabhu nahīṁ māne, sache rache madana gopāla. God does not want devotion or that kind of bhakti with tricks and selfishness. Gaṇapati dhāve sadā sukh pāve. Pure mana kī āśā. Pure means fulfill. It will fulfill your desire, what your mind is desiring, what you are desiring for. Yes. But if your desire is such a selfish one that in the future it will bring problems, Gaṇeśa will not fulfill it, because then Gaṇeśa is responsible. Gaṇeśa has a very clear highway without any obstacles. So he knows what your desire is, and after how many years, months, or days it will create a problem, that he will not fulfill. And still, if you are asking and asking, then he will remove those coming, future coming problems and obstacles, which Gaṇeśajī has the power to do. Yes, he is eternal, universal, divine, cosmic power, the Gaṇeśajī. Śrī Pūjā, Śrī Pūjā. Dīpa Dayālu Ghan Nāmī. Versatile, universal worshipped Dīpa Dayālu, the merciful Mahāprabhū Dīpa. Ghan Nāmī, Ghan Nāmī is the name of Gaṇeśa. Śrī Pūjā Dīpā Dayālu Ghan Nāmī, Oh Mahāprabhujī, you are that Ghan Nāmī. Gurū Deva Padāro Mere Gaṇapatī Devā Gurā, I am remembering you, meditating and repeating your name constantly with my inhalation and exhalation. My inhalation never goes without your name, Mahāprabhujī, and my exhalation never goes without your name. You see the devotion of the Holy Gurujī? Every second, every time when I inhale, Oṁ Gurudev, Gurudev,... Gurudev. Inhalation and exhalation, Mahāprabhujī is in the breath, in the energy of the Holy Gurujī. What do you think about such a great person? Holy Gurujī said, "Every day I am requesting you, every day I pray to you." I don’t need anything. I am only thirsty for your holy darśan, that’s all. I don’t want money, I don’t want power, I don’t want a kingdom, I don’t want anything. Only your presence, and his presence means automatically everything. Little story. There was one man who was doing this magic, trick magic, sewing something, you know, with the tricks. Very perfect, you know, very good. That’s called the hand’s trick. He came to one king and said, "I want to make one sew today." And the king said, "Okay." And he made a perfect, perfect show. Very good. So the king said, "Ask what you want. I will give you everything." What you wish: land, house, money, kingdom, this, that. That man was also very clever, like all of you. No, but to ask. Ask. Twenty tons of gold, thousands of hectares of land. These, that, whatever you wish, I give you everything. He said to the king, "Lord, what will I do with everything? Everything is yours. Everything is yours. But you are mine. Okay? So it means you have to become my slave. It is automatic: everything is mine. There is no one who will be against me. So everything is yours, but you are mine." Similarly, Gurudev, I don’t want anything, only your darśan. Because in his darśan is everything. And so, palaka palaka merī yahī āraj hai, rakho śaraṇ mein dasā padhāro mere, Gaṇapati Deva Guru Śāh. And then you see all the beautiful books and bhajans that Holy Gurujī wrote are perfect. And Patañjali is making us alert. He is making us aware of what kind of obstacles can come and how to protect ourselves from these obstacles. What is a practitioner expecting on the path? Finally, he is also coming to the surrendering, Īśvara Praṇidhāna, meditation, prayers, concentration, and surrendering. So yesterday we spoke about nine kinds of different kleśas. Nine kleśas, plus there are some other kleśas which he is warning us about: what can come and how you can come out of all these kleśas in order to achieve kaivalya samādhi avasthā. Kaivalya avasthā. Kevala means only, only, one. These karmas, all of these, are existing. Otherwise, there are the seeds, very deep in your subconscious. And they will sprout from time to time. You think you are pure, you have good consciousness, you are a good person, but suddenly such a desire comes in your mind, in your feelings, in your heart, in your thoughts. Even you are surprised. My God, why did I not know? These seeds are within you: nirbīja and sabīja. Sabīja is the seed. Sabīja is with seeds, and Nirbīja is without seeds. When there are no seeds, nothing will grow anymore. So here, seeds means all the bad karmas, all the saṃskāras, all the vṛttis are forever finished. And you are in that ātmā-jñāna, in brahma-jñāna, that you can achieve through the practice of your yoga in daily life: āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, mudrās, bandhas, kriyās, mantras, concentration, meditations, bhakti. All, all is compact yoga in daily life. That is an integral yoga. All is included in this. But you have to follow. You have to practice. Now, besides this, Patañjali is saying something. Yes, there are different five kleśas again to be expected. They are to be expected. It, but don’t give up. Practice, practice, practice. I told yesterday, a śarīra vyādhi, this body is a temple of the vyādhi, a temple of the disease. Kāma, krodha, mada, lobha, moha, lāra, all vikāras, what we call vikāra, are hidden in this body. Vikāra is something like a rotten thing, a rotten fish, a rotten apple, a rotten something. That is a vikāra. And this vikāra sits in the body. As soon as the soul departs, the prāṇa will leave this body, and very quickly, vikāra begins in this body. After some time, even you can’t stand near the body; you have to close your nose. From where did this vikāra come? So, the first is duḥkha. Yes, though you have mastered everything and all this before, nine different kinds of obstacles, now you have confidence in your practice, you have love for your practice, you have devotion to your practice, you are disciplined? You have no tāmas guṇas. You are always sāttvic persons and everything, but there is a duḥkha coming. Dukkha means troubles, pain, suffering. You know, but you can’t do anything against that. That is this. You know you have this dukkha, but you can’t do anything. We try and try, and it is not outside of the body; it is within the body. And therefore, Holy Gurujī is saying in this bhajan, Dīpa, the light, the Mahāprabhujī, nirañjana, pure, that can remove; purity can give us the purities. Impurities can create more impurities. That can remove all the problems. What a beautiful mantra. So first, Patañjali is saying, "Duḥkha." Duḥkhadorna? Yes, three kinds of dukkhas are often explained, and Holy Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī, and many other saints are saying in their bhajans and preaching. Ādhibhautika, Ādhidaivika, Ādhyātmika. And this is called a Tapa. Tapa means the heat. Tapa means the fire. This is a fire of suffering. There are different kinds of fires. So mental tension is also fire, constantly burning. And you don’t know how to cool down this fire. You have mental tension. You can dive deep in this ocean; tension will be there. So it is there, but you can’t do anything. But there is a protection. Holy Gurujī said in the same mantra, All the three tapas, these three duḥkhas, and pāpa, sin, pāpa means sin, all will be deleted from your phenomenon. Your road is forever free. Yes. Now you are on the runway. Take off. The sky is clear. But you must have this first realized. Otherwise, you take off, and what happens? You come into the thorny bush inside. Now, the thorns, they are like a hook, double hook, three hooks, you know. So, it doesn’t matter if you move this side, it’s pulling your skin. If you move that side, it’s pulling. Oh, my God, can you imagine you are that bird which is stuck in the thorn? Thorny bush, so we are that one we are stuck in. That is all the purpose of the saṃsāra’s. So, Ādhidaivika, Ādhidaivika, Duḥkha or Tapa, which is Durbalatā, Weakness of your senses, physical and mental disease, what a punishment. You know, but there is no remedy. We try to get a remedy, but that doesn’t work. And if we get a remedy, then there are many different conditions. Your situation is like this: you try to take your shirt, and the trouser falls down. You take the trouser, and the cravat falls down. When you take the cravat, the head falls down. You know everything. You try to do one, you lose three. So in this, there is called karma, your wish, your desires, which you cannot fulfill. Krodha, your anger, These are all vyādhis, plus your physical disease. This is the Ādhidaivika Tāpa or Duḥkha, and the third, Ādhyātmika Duḥkha. Ādhyātmika Duḥkha, Ādhyātmika Duḥkha means from the other creatures, Also from the humans, from mosquitoes, from the tigers, from all kinds of other creatures which attack you. This is also a dukkha. We try to protect, but they will catch you. You know, through mosquitoes, more people die than from tigers or from lions. And humans are not capable of fighting against mosquitoes. Day by day, more and more viruses are coming because of the pollution. This is a tapas, this is a karma, this is a destiny. And this destiny can be protected or saved by the blessing of the divine, the Gurudev or Gaṇeśajī Mahārāj. Ādhibhautika duḥkha. Ādhibhautika duḥkha is from the nature. Prakṛti: hot, cold. Ativṛṣṭi, too much rain and flood. Drought, no rain, no water. Earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, and so on. This from Prakṛti, from nature, the Kalmiti, which happens to us, that is also Duḥkha. But those who seek the surrendering, those who seek the sheltered divine, they can be or will be protected. And the third is pāpa. Pāpa means the sin, yes. There are two kinds of sins. One is doing, though we know, and one is happening without our knowing. When you walk, or when you sweep your floor or vacuum clean nowadays, You know how many creatures are killed in this, the fire, the water place, and so on. And now, that time when they taught these three tapas, there was no car. But now, you know, when we drive the car, how many insects die, though we don’t want them to. But this, all sins, God will forgive easily. But which we do purposely while knowing, that will be heavy and difficult. So tino tāpa pāpa sab mit jāve, and the fifth, duḥkha, śvāsa praśvāsa, ascending and descending breath, the breath problems. Now, the breath you cannot control. You have asthma. You would like to breathe slowly and deep, but you have to do... Without your control, you exhale, and without your control, you inhale. What is the condition of your life now? It means there is a thread on this table, and I am pulling the thread from here, and slowly, slowly, now the thread is coming to the end of the table. Before this happened to us, may Gurudev bless us. May your sādhanā become successful, perfect, so that you will not have these five different karmas. Tṛtapas, pāpa, and śvāsa-praśvāsa, the weakness, the disease, the pain, unmovable. No one can help, though we are all standing beside you, but you cannot be helped. This is also a kleśa, an obstacle on the path of your sādhanā, your practice. Therefore, practice Haṭha Yoga. Don’t take it easy. Hatha Yoga is not asanas and pranayāmas. Hatha Yoga is netī, dhautī, naulī, bastī, tratāka and kapālabhāti. This is a purification. And this purification of Haṭha Yoga has more effect on our health than the external exercises and external things we are doing. Hatha Yoga, therefore Hatha Yogī is known as one of the most powerful yogīs. All these tapas are from Hatha Yoga, which disappears. They can’t come near to you, but they have to have discipline. Hatha yogīs’ consciousness is more pure, and hatha yogīs have an easier time coming to the Nirbīja Samādhi. Then, practicing āsanas, having some good food, sattvic food, and so on, and walking, and this and that—all many things. But hatha yoga, śaṅkhaprakṣālana is a very, very powerful technique, a very powerful technique. When you do one time Saṅkha Prakṣālana, at least thirty-six different kinds of diseases are gone. I don’t know the 37th one, but 36: Sattis yoga or Sattis roga naṣṭa ho jāte. Roga means disease. Thirty-six diseases, Saṅkha Prakṣālana. Neti, Dhauti, Basti, Nauli, Trāṭaka, Kapālabhāti, this is called Haṭha Yoga. Āsanas, prāṇāyāma, pratyāhāra, dhāraṇā, dhyāna, and then the samādhi, which Patañjali will come to in the next chapter when the samādhi path is completed. So after this, we will come tomorrow. We still have time? Yes, we have ten minutes, thank you. So, in order to remove these obstacles, these tritāpas, these sins, and all these, Only there is one, there is only one way, and that way is called abhyāsaḥ. What? Abhyāsah, abhyāsah, kaunteya abhyāsah. When Arjuna and the five Pāṇḍavas were in the gurukul, learning there and archery, Arjuna was not sleeping in the night. Out of his school hours, he used to go and practice and practice and practice. What we call nowadays homework. Now, children come home, and they have to do extra homework. Those children, after school they come home and again they learn what the teacher taught, and again they learn. Till next morning, coming to school five, six, seven times, read everything. That student will be brilliant, perfect, and good. Nowadays, a student comes home, puts their school bag down, takes a drink, and turns the television on. And when the examination time comes, then they are nervous. They are not successful, you know. Abhyāsa. Abhyāsa, Abhyāsa, Kaunteya, Abhyāsa. Kuntī, who was Kuntī? Arjuna’s mother. O son of the Kuntī, practice, practice, practice. And therefore, Gurujī also said, O dear Bhaktas of God, O God’s dear ones, yes, God loves us. We are all His dear ones, you know. O God’s dear ones, do four sādhanās so that you can attain mokṣa, abhyāsa, abhyāsa. Without abhyāsa, without sādhanā, you cannot come. And therefore, because we know this durbalatā, weakness of the body, will attack us. This is the dharma of the physical body: to be born, to grow, and to die. So, to remove and to get peace of the mind or in your heart, this is one practice only: that’s abhyāsa, īśvara-praṇidhāna. Practice your mantra japa. Finally, after doing all these things, sata-yoga and fata-yoga and jata-yoga and khata-yogas, finally you come to Dālī, the name of Gurudev’s mantra. That is it. That is the final. There you will find yourself, that yes, what I was doing all along was a waste of time. Then your ātmā will call. This jīvātmā will tell you. This cetanā will tell you, "Gurudev, śaraṇ tumhārī, cintā merī mitāde." Gurudev, śaraṇ tumhārī, cintā merī mitāde. Kar ke dayā dayālu bedā tu par lagā de, Kar ke dayā bedā guru de śaraṇ tumārī. Cintā merī mīṭhā, guśaraṇ tumhārī, Cintā merī mīṭhā, Dīptārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī. There is one bhajan: Bhatakata bhatakata bahuta phirā, ab tū meṁ thak gayā. O Gurudev, while wandering here and there, I am so tired, I am so tired. Finally, I came to you. Bhatakata bhatakata ab to thak gaya, now I am so tired I can’t go. Searching here and there, one day this master, the other day that master, that is changing your sādhanā, the picture in your heart. You are tired. Now find the way. So, citta ekāgratā, to have the citta vṛtti nirodha, sumirana, bhajana, īśvara, dhyāna, your mantra, your japa. That’s dhyāna mūlaṁ guru mūrti, pūjā mūlaṁ guru pādam, mantra mūlaṁ guru vākyaṁ, mokṣa mūlaṁ guru kṛpā. Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Śrī Śrī Deveśvara Mahādeva, Oṁ Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinaḥ Sarve Santu Nirāmayāḥ Sarve Bhadrāṇi Paśyantu Mā Kaścid Duḥkhabhāg Bhavet.