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Oṁ Bodhiye Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavāna Kī Jai, Śrī Svāmī Maheśvarānanda Jī Gurudeva Kī Jai. One more. One more. And in the jungle, my peacock—in the jungle, my little peacock. Oṁ Bodhiye Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavāna Kī Jaya. He, Nishaṁ Bhagavā Hindakā Pūjhanī Kahadī Anādī... Very good. The best. Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Devā Kī Dev, Deveśvara Mahādeva, Kī Jai, Haradī Bhagavān, Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān, Kī Jai, Alakh Purī Jī Mahādeva. So, the best for a human being is to attain cosmic consciousness and to reach that cosmic abode which we call Brahmaloka. Of course, there are many techniques. Many are practicing different kinds of yoga exercises. Whatever we do, it is yoga. Whatever we do in our physical body, in our mental body, in our mind, with our energies—and further, what is the best way to achieve that? Our consciousness rises to the highest, the finest form we have been given. Chaurāsī—the 8.4 million different creatures— they are all trying their utmost. Doesn’t matter whether they are Jalchar, Thalchar, Nabchar— water, land, or sky beings— they do their best, even a little ant. Mahāprabhujī kī Karatā Mahāprabhujī kī Karatā... Kinds of mantras: first we write them, then we chant them. That is called bhajan, and one receives the benefit. But then we stop speaking aloud; after that, I also do not speak. That is the highest meditation according to the diśā-dāna of the mantra. Mantra—Gurujī said many times—mantra, man jo hai, the mind, the mind is very cañcal, very restless, mann, and trapt: trapt means when we are thirsty, we take water, we quench our thirst. Likewise, when we are hungry, we eat something, fill our bellies, and are happy. But there is something more in that sādhanā. How? We are many, many humans in many different ways, and they all think that what they are doing is good. They are doing good. We don’t know who is the best, who is good, who is not. Parents—father and mother, brothers and sisters—are trying very hard to bring them to the cosmic self, God, or the divine path, so that there will be no more coming back. But if we come back, why do we come back? There are two kinds of karma. One is good karma—achchā, bahut achchā, dharma, ānanda, everything. And the second is called negative. That is also karma, but black karma leads to Naraka, and those who have the best good karma go to Svarga. But Svarga is not forever, for it is said: when we have exhausted all our best karmas, we come to Svargaloka. But in Svargaloka, what do we do? Enjoy—what enjoyment? Happiness, peace, bhajans, and so on. But once all the good karmas we have accumulated are spent, what then? We have no more. So what is to be done? We return to the earth. Those who are in the lower realms also come back to earth. So again, it is said: O Bhakta, let’s say a devotee, a Gurudev or Bhagavān, says: “I have done all the best of the best, and even I gave up everything, wearing just a simple cloth, and at all times I remember God and serve others. Why did I come here?” And others will say, “I did such wrong, and again I am on earth.” So this is the teaching: from negative karma, we must turn to positive karma. And when we have only complete positivity, then we should distribute it to all. If you keep it for yourself, then you will come back; you will run here again. You will do good things, but you will not reach Parabrahma. Therefore, whatever good you have—all your good deeds— if you wish to go further, then distribute even those good things as well. After that, coming to Guru Kṛpā: there is Nitya and Nimit. Gurudev is Nitya, and that Gurudev also assumes a form from time to time. There are many different kinds of Gurujī. So, when the good karmas have been given away, now Gurujī said: “Two disciples”—do śiṣya, many disciples, of course—but God said, “Now, my disciple, your age is about twenty years. Both of you go, without shoes and without fine dress, and do not sleep anywhere in a house or in any village. Go forth. From this Guru Pūrṇimā until the fifth Guru Pūrṇimā, then you return to me. Do not come before me. I do not want to see you before then. If a disciple has thoughts of leaving, my Gurujī will go there; I will take another Gurujī, but that is not good. So, whatever Gurujī told you to do—sādhanā, mantra, bhojan kya karnā hai, what you should eat, and so on— follow that.” And after the fifth Guru Pūrṇimā, you shall come in the morning. As they were about to set out, Gurujī said: “Idhrao, kaum, aao beta, āśrīvād detā hoon, aap ānand se rahoge, sukhī rahoge, sab kuch rahega.” So it is that for the past five years you should not touch any woman. You may come and sit with them, you may eat with them, you may tear, bend, buy everything— but do not touch. Okay, Gurujī? Jāo, betā. “Alright, go, my children.” After one year, they were journeying somewhere. And there was a beautiful day. What kind of day? It was a very hot day, and there stood a large, beautiful mango tree laden with big, big mangoes. So they said, “Oh brothers, let’s enjoy.” Thus, day and night, they ate mangoes. A river was flowing nearby. Rain had come; the water rose to waist level, perhaps a little higher. Both brothers were delighting in the mangoes. Then Gurujī saw that a year had passed, and he decided to test them. So they were sitting, and Gurujī sent other disciples who could change their form. He said: “Go to these boys as a woman, a young girl, and tell them, ‘Please, brothers, I cannot cross the river. My father told me, “Go and buy something from the village.” So, please, can you help me cross the river?’” Both brothers said, “Sister, no problem. Please sit down and enjoy the mangoes first— they are very nice, sweet mangoes.” She replied, “Oh God, so long! This year, I haven’t eaten a single mango.” So one brother ran, cleaned the mangoes, and offered them to the sister. “Here you are, let’s go. We are also going to the other side.” Then one brother, the disciple, said, “Okay, hold my shoulders, hold my back, and I will swim through the river and bring you across.” The other brother swam alongside, moving here and there across the river. When they reached the border—the riverbank— he said, “Sister, here is the bank of the river. You can go shopping, and we will go our way.” She asked, “What can I do for you?” He said, “No, we don’t need anything, nothing.” “But I want to give you something. What can I give you?” He replied, “Okay, what do you want? I want to give it to you.” “Alright, what? Go and learn swimming. Learn swimming, and then you will have no problem anytime to cross rivers or a bay, a pond, anywhere.” They went. They disappeared on that side. He returned to Gurujī. “Yes, Gurujī, they were very kind, very humble, everything, no problem.” After the fourth Guru Pūrṇimā, the full five years had almost elapsed. Now they were approaching the Guru Pūrṇimā to come before Gurudeva. There was a rock—a beautiful, nice rock—and both brothers were sitting there. Tomorrow would be the full moon, but already the moon looked so lovely. The two brothers were talking pleasantly. One said, “What will Gurujī say? What will he say?” “What will you tell Gurujī? What will you tell Gurujī?” They could not sleep the whole night, so eager were they to see Gurudev. So one asked, “What will you say, Gurudev?” He answered, “Gurudev, we were practicing prayers, meditations, remembering you day and night—everything, Gurudev.” The other said, “I also know that, but you didn’t tell me one thing. What will you tell Gurujī about when he said, ‘Do not do that’?” He said, “What? I didn’t do anything.” The first replied, “Gurujī said, ‘Don’t touch any woman.’ Yet you did not touch her—you carried her on your shoulders, through the water, swimming. And Gurujī said we should not do such a thing.” Then the first brother said, “My dear, four years have passed, and I never thought about this. But you know that I dropped her on the bank of the river, and I don’t know anything more about it. But what will you say, my brother?” The other replied, “I? I don’t say anything. My dear, I only crossed that riverbank and helped her to go on her way. And then I said, ‘Go learn swimming.’ That’s all. I carried her only across the river. But you, for four years, you have been carrying her until now. You are carrying her in your mind. Forty, forty, four years. What will you say to Gurujī?” So, it is like that. Negative thoughts—no matter what you do, if we keep negative thoughts, we will not be successful. And what we actually did, which was not something bad, and the good help we gave—then we are free. In this way, we now have about twenty days. And in these twenty days, we have to prepare ourselves from the last Guru Pūrṇimā until now. And how God, through Gurudev, will ask: “What further sādhanās should we give?” So, now is the time—the fourth night, and on this fourth night, when the new moon will begin, that time is very, very important. Thus, sādhanā, yoga, is not so easy. Only āsana, prāṇāyāma—that is fine, or eating well, these are good, but beyond that, this is what matters. And so, in our mind, in our heart, in our feelings, in the whole body, we must clean up, clean up. And then, once again, our Guru Pūrṇimā will be the best. Tomorrow we will see how to prepare something further for Gurudev and what Gurudev is preparing for us. Now, I wish you all the best. Have a good evening. Mahanandjī Mahārāj, Kī Jai. And all the others—I forgot Mahārāj’s name. Kī Jai. Hari Om, Kī Jai.