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Sing Bhajans Always

The power of bhajan surpasses intellectual discourse through vibrational harmony in the five elements.

Bhajan enters every being because its tune balances the five tattvas into oneness. Lectures convey information, but bhajan transmits clarity even when words are lost. Through months of humble singing, no disease touched the community. Ego stands as the greatest obstacle. A king once ruled with care, calling his subjects his children. He commanded that none go hungry or unhappy in his domain. In time, pride crept in as he admired his perfect kingdom. One morning, a starving beggar appeared, wearing rags. The king offered food, gold, and riches, yet nothing satisfied the beggar. Distraught, the king asked who he was, and the beggar revealed himself as God. God said the king’s ego would make him a beggar in the next life. Pride in one’s goodness steals away spiritual grace. Ego manifests in small ways, like claiming the front row while pushing others back. True devotion is to be a servant, without claim. Do not delay: do tomorrow’s task today, and today’s task now. Sing bhajan constantly; mantras and holy verses from saints sustain the path.

"A bhajan is that which enters into every human being, and also into many animals and birds."

"What we have to do tomorrow, do it today, and what we have to do today, just do it now."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Oṁ Bule Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavāna Kī Jai, Śrī Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai, Śrī Alakhpurīśi Mahādeva Kī Jai, Śrī Svāmī Madhavānanda Chisṭha Gurudeva Kī Jai, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Svāmī Maheśvarānanda Chisṭha Gurudeva Kī Jai, Summaro Ghaṇanāmī Gurudevaḥ... Oṁ Bule Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavāna Kī Jai, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Śrī Svāmī Maheśvarānanda Jī, Guru Deva Kī Jai. Oṁ Bule Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavāna Kī Jai, Śrī Deva Purīṣa Mahādeva Kī Jai, Indra Dhārama Samaraṭsata, Guru Svāmī. Madhavanapurījī Mahārāja Kī Jaya, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Param Śrī Svāmī Maheśvarānanda Purī Jī, Guru Deva Kī Jaya. Om Bhai, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Śrī Kabīr Dās Jī Mahārāja Kī Jai. Om Bhai, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Satguru Dev Kī Jai. Āj Sākhiye, Mere Ānandāya Para. Oṁ Bule Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavāna Kī Jaya, Śrī Sattva Guru Deva Kī Jaya, Mera Sattva Guru Diyo Iśāro, Mera Sattva Guru Diyo Iśāro, Mama Sathya Svarūpa Avicāro, Mama Sathya Svarūpa Avicāro, Mera Sattva Guru Diyo Iśāro, Mama Sathya Svarūpa Avicāro, Mama. Sathya Swaroop Avicharo... Mamma Sathya Swaroop. Oṁ Bule Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavāna Kī Jai, Śrī Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai, Śrī Alakhpurīśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai, Śrī Svāmī Madhavānanda Śrī Sakru Deva Kī Jai, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Svāmī Maheśvarānanda Jī, Guru Deva Kī Jai. Gurujī is here. Oṁ Devadidev Deveśwar Mahādev Kī Jai, Alakh Purī Jī Mahādev Kī Jai, Ārade Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhū Jī Kī Jai, Devadidev Deveśwar Mahādev Achad Gurū Swāmī Madhavān Jī Bhagavān Kī Jai. Beautiful bhajans, this bhajan is very beautiful. After many, many lectures and the giving of many questions, some lectures simply cannot be compared with bhajans. A bhajan is that which enters into every human being, and also into many animals and birds. This is because it is like a tune, and that tune is the bhajan. There, within everyone, all the five tattvas are in a state of oneness, balance, and harmony. And therefore, we should always sing bhajans. Of course, there is also what people call a kind of chanting only. Only chanting. Yes, we can do that: "Sītā Rām, Sītā Rām, Jaya Rām, Sītā Rām, Jaya Hanumān, Jaya Hanumān... Jaya Hanumān." So, we are just going in one part, but nothing is leading somewhere on this side. Chanting mantras is good, but in a bhajan there is a clarity, of course. One thing is not the same, and that is that lectures are okay if we are talking, but with bhajans, if we do not understand the language, then of course we are a little behind. But for those who do not understand the words, what is it that gives the vibration? Yet, if someone is singing, for example, myself, if someone is singing bhajans in the French language, I will think it is a bhajan, but it is not something we can understand. So it is said everywhere in different languages, and there are bhajans in every country. There are good bhajans in every language; they have their bhajans. We call it a bhajan; they may call it singing and spiritual things. So lectures are good, but everything is moving through all Pañca Tattvas, the five elements, through the bhajans. And we see now that in these nearly three months, with the singing of these bhajans and prayers, and thinking in a humble way, there was no disease, nothing came to us. We are all very clear and very clean. So, it is very nice, nice to see you. Yesterday I was in Kathu and Shivbagh, where Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī mostly was. There was a beautiful house, and there was one bed and a little place to sit, that’s all. So, in his room, Mahāprabhujī was resting or sleeping, and in the other room, Hari Gurujī was sleeping, mostly. And Hari Gurujī said that he does not know if Mahāprabhujī is really sleeping or not, or if Mahāprabhujī is dreaming or not. If Mahāprabhujī is in what we call samādhi—who am I, or who are we, to know if we can see Mahāprabhujī while he is sleeping, dreaming, in samādhi, or in another state? Could you understand our beloved Holy Gurujī? He knows when and what happens with Mahāprabhujī. So, that is that greatness. We do not know if God is sitting beside us or not. There are many questions and many things that happen. And there is one story I told you one time, because Holy Gurujī told the story. God is testing. God will also see. God will see whether this master is good or not, whether this king is good or not, whether that master is good or not, or that person who said, "Yes, I’m in the temple, I’m a holy person." So God comes to see how this person truly is. So, one king—this is a story I told a few times, I think, that was Pomoharī Gurujī. At that time, what they called the king is now the prime minister and ministers, and that is the same thing. The good news is that our ministers are only for a term of four or five years, and then, if they are not good, they will go out. Hurry up. But the kings, they were completely caught in their position. It does not matter if the king is good, or stupid, or whatever. His son, his son, in that family, they are all the time like kings. And one has no chance to tell them anything. So, we know now how happy we are, and that it is very good. Yes, everybody thought they wanted power. They feel, "Yes, I am minister, I am this, yes, I am that, I have power." How long? So, there was one humble king. And that kingdom, how large was it? From Rūpāvaśṭī Pālī, maximum, or Sojat, to here, a few five or ten lands, or villages, or something. Or somewhere else, there were big ones like Jodhpur, Jaipur, Nāgar, etc. "He Kevalam He Kevalam..." Who is a yogī and a king? One who is not a yogī is not a proper king, and where there is not a proper king, there is not a yogī. The kings were like holy saints. At that time, it was said that not only their family, but the whole kingdom, all people were like children for the king. And therefore, it was said many times that a king has so many children. Yes, because the king tells everyone, "They are my children." "My children" means everyone; all the women and ladies are my daughters, and their fathers or their children are my children. That’s it. One king said in his kingdom, "Send all messengers into our territory." "No one should be hungry, no one should be unhappy, no one should have problems," etc., etc. "Everything is as my own child who is crying, and we take it upon our lips." That was the king's command, and he said, "No one should be hungry in my kingdom." And every day he would come and ask, "Is there anyone who has any problems or needs anything?" One day, God, or the king, comes from his palace and goes near the house or palace, where there are nice trees. This morning, the sun is rising, and the king has his mālā. He only wants to know, "How is my kingdom? How are my people? How are my animals? How are my birds? How is my forest?" Just everything. And then one day, the king said, "In my kingdom, everything is so good. I am very happy." But he became proud. He became proud. And when one is proud, then there is ego. To be proud is to have ego. And then, that spirituality, that happiness, the love for the whole kingdom, slowly, slowly, that is what I am like. You know, sometimes we see Lord Rāma, Bhagavān Rāma, and there was the king of Śrī Laṅkā, that Rāvaṇa. Rāvaṇa always said, "Ha ha," and "Ha, my kingdom, alright, vo hogaya." Because Rāvaṇa was a great learned one, with many siddhis, but he was a great devotee of Śiva. Yet he said, "I am." That was the pull of the ego. And then, when it is this, then you lose, we lose everything. So, the king was there, coming out and looking, hoping everything is okay in his kingdom. And then one comes, a very poor beggar, having only one half-dress, a little hanging, a tiered shawl or something, no shoes, no shop, hair like something unkempt, and very thin. And the king thought, "I am dying, King." "Oh, in my kingdom, who are you?" "I am yours." "From where did you come?" "Egg, my dear King. But give me something, I am dying, do not ask me." He said, "Bring the food quickly." But the beggar said, "Where are you?" He said, "Just behind your room, where you are sleeping. Down, and nobody comes to give me food. Nobody gives me a dress, and now I do not know when I had something to eat. Please." And the king says, "I will give you food quickly." And they have one pot, and they give food. They empty many, many chapati. They put this inside. They empty many things and chāval, and fruits, everything. "King, I am hungry." The king said, "You are some miracle. I will give you, you will be very, very rich." And with the gold inside, diamonds inside, everything goes away. Nothing. And he said, "King, please, I am hungry. I am dying, King." The king became very, very unhappy. "What can I do?" He said, "Please, King, give me something so that my stomach is full." But everything... then the king said, "Who are you, my dear?" "I am nothing. All that I give you, I can give. I am nothing now. Who are you? I think you are something." Then he said, "Yes, King, you are lost and lost. Your ego and your pride, etc., and so next life you will be the beggar. I came here to turn from this beggar to the king." And he said, "I am the God." Immediately, he appeared in the form of God and said, "My dear, do not be proud," and that’s it. Many people, in many lectures, many satsaṅgs—yes. Many people are sitting there; one is sitting there, one is eating there, one is talking there. One said, "I am better." There is this, you know, like Pushpa, every day she is sitting in the front. Can she not sit outside, a little bit outside? Or it is always the Haripurī who always comes to the Pūrṇimā, for praṇām and agarbattī. Swamiji, why not someone else? Bring someone to the front. I have so many disciples. When I go to an ashram, any ashram, there are certain people always sitting in the front. And then I said, "My stomach is..." I said that I am not proud, but I am also not angry, but I do not like it. So, sometimes, while praying, I think about how that person is always sitting in the front. So, I am always thinking, "Next time I will give satsaṅg from there. You stay here, do not look to this side either. I will sit there and give you the lecture." Therefore, give, give, give. Yes, you know, many times we said, "No, no, please, you sit properly." And they say, "No, no." And sometimes they are pushing others back. That is ego, and that means that person has nothing, just as that king had nothing. Then the king said, "God, forgive me, but you know, I was testing you, and I know that you are great, my king." But it was only that ego, and that is why. And so, ego is the greatest. Do not say, "No, I will not do." Someone, this person is hungry, or he needs something. Another says, "I don’t want this. Today I will tell you, tomorrow I will die. I will cry, I will die. Who knows?" Kāla Kareso Āja Kara, Āja Kareso Aba. What we have to do tomorrow, do it today, and what we have to do today, just do it now. We do not know when we will die, so that... Bhajan, bhajan is so good. So enjoy, do not just dance? No, no... Mahāprabhujīp Karatā Mahāprabhujīp Karatā. Or he can go. That’s it. So, bhajans, and our bhajans are from one of the best bhajan books. By all Gurujīs, Mahāprabhujīs, and many others. Many Mirabais. What is Mirabai? Yes. What is Sūr Dās? Yes. Sūr Dās. So there are many others: Kabīr Dās, Sūr Dās. That Dās, all Dās, but which Dās are you? Dās means a servant, a devotee; that is the Darśan, very good. So bhajan, bhajan gāo, bhajan gāo bas, aur kuch nahī, bhajan, bhajan... And that bhajan is also there, then Om, Om... Prabhudīp, Nirañjan, Sabduk, Bañjan, jo bhī āpke mantra hai, that mantra is very good. And besides this, we go again, we read, we read the big texts. So I think the Kakabaṭīsī is very great. I taught you everything in these two and a half months. Yeah. But how much I taught you in a few lines, it will come. Take time, it will take time. Thank you. That’s it. So very, very good. And I was in the Kākāṭū Darśan, and I came, and I hope for the Guru Pūrṇimā, we will have beautiful programs. Now, whether Holī Gurujī will send me for the Guru Pūrṇimā, we will have in our Bhakti Sāgar, beautiful Bhakti Sāgar, Holī Gurujī’s, yes, satsaṅg. Or maybe I am going to the web again. They are asking me in Vancouver, yes, and the other one, they are talking to me in Australia, and some say we are going to Europe. So, you know, it is like this one. There is a pigeon, Kabooter, and this Kabooter, the pigeons sitting on the roof, and we all looking, and we will ask, "In which direction will he fly?" When the Pope has been chosen, there was one person—not a person, it was another being—sitting on the tip of the temple, and until there was... it had already gone deep, sin bent out, but he was there until what they call the white spoke will come. White scope means, and then that bird on that side flies. So that was very, very interesting. It was in Italy, and Italy has the part for Jesus, and what you call the Vatican. We have the Vatican, and we have Avara Gaguda Pand, and this one, Amarana Kya? Om Ashram. That is also big. So all the best, everywhere is good, but ego is a great obstacle. Yes. And when someone is becoming a sannyāsī and is dressed in orange, and then I know they are very great, humble, and good in many ways, but some also have great ego. Yes, my disciples. I can tell my disciples. Yes. And when I say something, then they say, "Yes." I do not want to say the names. And not only my sannyāsīs in Europe, I have here also my sannyāsīs. So that’s very good. Very, very good. And every day, a very nice program is coming, which I will tell you about later. Namah Śivāya. Shiva is in the nābhyā. From there, after that, there are many things. This we will come to next time, okay? So tomorrow again, all the best, good night, Hari Om. Amṛt Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jai. Om Śānti.

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