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Advice for Dark Sun

The dark moon is a period for inner purification and mindful practice.

Guru Pūrṇimā is a day of spiritual accounting, assessing one's practice and blessings. Celestial events like the dark moon affect the body and consciousness subtly, as do invisible diseases. This influence necessitates purification. Wash your body, hair, and clothes to remove dead cells. Practice prāṇāyāma but do not look at the sun during the darkness. Stay indoors. While some avoid chanting, it is beneficial to repeat mantras. The event impacts all life—animals, birds, and the ocean. Do not eat junk food. Fast if possible, though medicine is an exception. Donate or feed animals. After the event, resume normalcy.

"Spirituality is not a religion, but it is what is happening within ourselves."

"During that moon, we should not be outside; we should stay in our house."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Satguru Swāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī, Satya Sanātan Dharma Kī, Om Om Śrī Prabhudīpanam. Alakhpurījī Mahādeva, Kī Jai. Satguru Swāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān, Kī Jai. Lālānandajī Mahārāj, Kī Jai. Śivānandajī Mahārāj, Kī Jai. Śabguru Paramparā, Kī Jai. These days, continuously for three months, also in Australia and also in New Zealand, a feeling has come to us—a feeling of being with our holy Gurujī, our Gurudev, Satguru Swāmī Madhavānandajī. Lucky are we all that Gurudev has given us immense knowledge, techniques, peace, harmony, etc. According to all yogīs, all ṛṣis, all holy saints, we come to one point, and that is what we call Guru Pūrṇimā. We prepare ourselves throughout the whole year, looking within ourselves, examining other aspects within our self. Day by day, we see how much we gain—physically, mentally, spiritually, etc. Then we say it like this: just as there is a day of financial reckoning in a year, similarly we have Guru Pūrṇimā, which is a day of blessings or Brahmaloka. It depends on ourselves—how many times we did not practice, how many times we didn’t want to do it, etc. That is what we call our accounting; we count how much we did and how much we did not. Now, tomorrow is the day when Sūrya Nārāyaṇa will be turning back—not Sūrya, but our globe is moving. We should not be worried; we should not think that it is bad. It is a day where the sun is also turning, and there is darkness: dark sun, dark moon, and dark night. Every night we are in darkness when we sleep. Maybe we have a light in our room, but when we close our eyes and are in darkness, we are happy. In the morning we get up and say, "How nice I was." Very good. I should get up in the morning now, and the sun is rising. Similarly, tomorrow in some part of the world, the moon will be dark, and it will pass. Many people accept this from the paramparās or from the beginning, and there is some effect. Many people don’t understand, and they come and look. Śrī Śrī... He said that each and every second, more than five times or four times, we can form parts of one second, and that affects our body, our consciousness, our organs, our eyes, our ears, our Sūrya Nārāyaṇa, and our Sahaja Yoga. Dhāsrar Chakra: we will not feel it immediately, but it will be there, and slowly, slowly, we will have a negative effect on our whole being. When there is no black sun, that time it is said those are yogīs, or that yogic science. Spirituality is not a religion, but it is what is happening within ourselves—not only to the animals, but also to the humans, animals, ocean, the fish, everything. Many do not feel that, or maybe they feel, but the fact is that now, for example, we have this disease, and we can’t see it, we cannot feel it, but from a distance and close, it is attacking our body and our mind, physically and psychically. That’s why our whole world is so afraid. Similarly, the sāndrā, the dark, affects many cells in our body, and on our clothes also. Many people take the dress out, make it into a bag, and give it to someone, poor people or someone, and they will wash it first. Or we should wash ourselves, our dress, our hair, our whole body. That’s for purification; it means many dead cells are on us. These cells die on our skin and everywhere we can, and that has to be immediately cleaned. Take the new dress, take a good bath, and worship again. Sūrya Nārāyaṇa. People said the sun is a god, and many others say the sun is not a god. Many people say, "What a stupid thing." You see, we don’t know. Some said yes, and some said no, but we will see the effect of this in between. And so, the yogic early morning today also: sleep well today, wash yourself, practice Bhastrikā, Kapālabhāti, Anuloma Viloma, and all these Prāṇāyāmas. At that time, when it will be, we should not look to where the sun is in this darkness. We should be at peace with ourselves, wherever we are. Purījī and mantra in such a way, mantras. Many people do not even want to chant these mantras during the dark moon, but for us, it is better that we should repeat the mantras. Similarly, those are yogīs, and you know, in my 52 plus, plus seven years, I have had many, many experiences. Sometimes I said, "Nah, doesn’t matter," and this, but how many great people in the... In Western countries, in Africa, in Mexico, and in India, people feel that if they do not act, animals are suffering, dogs are suffering, the flying animals, the birds, different kinds of birds, and also the ocean is affected. So don’t think that it is only the dark moon or the sun, and it’s not. Many cells will die, many things, many diseases will come. And so, what time it will be, I don’t know; I didn’t look at it. 10:30 morning, and there will be a conference. So what did they say? We’ll do that on it, 9:30 to 10:30. And the dark moon from 10, what is the 10? Okay, from 10:32, we will not give yoga practice at 6 o’clock and bending. Why don’t we practice yoga here? We do it here in Hari Om, exactly at 5 or 6, from 6 o’clock. We are not going to practice six. We will practice after. Okay? Yeah. Because we will practice in our dining hall. Free, nature, and all, we are standing and practicing. Okay? So we will come at 6 or 7 to 8, 7 to 8. What time should I be there? 8? So I will go for that. So from then we will have 7, 7 to 8, and then you will have your breakfast. No moon is there, the sun is there, 10:30. Okay? So we will practice, let’s say, seven conferences. Yoga in Delhi, we will do all, half hour, finish, study at home. Okay? We did everywhere, we do and we will, and we do because we cannot go in many, many people. Therefore, we have limited people, and we will tell them to practice, and then we will finish, okay? And there is no lunch tomorrow, no drinking, no eating. Only, as everybody knows, it will be about you. You will eat breakfast, lunch, dinner, lunch, okay? After you will have only water, no breakfast, because for the moon, we should at least once make a breakfast, okay? If you die, it’s good. God will... The sun will say, "My, I died," okay? But of course, if you have to take medicine or you have diabetes or something, that is an excuse. So tomorrow will be that, and then you will eat very nice eating, what? Dal Bhaṭī. Okay? Dal Bhati is very good, nothing else, and also no tea, no coffee, nothing. Clean your mouth and drink water, maybe. Okay? That’s very good. Practice yoga, think this, wash yourself, and don’t go into your room to eat chocolate. I know it. I know that. Yeah, many have this. I will go and see in whose rooms how much biscuits and this and that are all. That’s called junk food. So, many ṛṣis, yogīs, or scientists, jyotiṣīs, also tell us what we should do and what we should not do. So, during that moon, we should not be outside; we should stay in our house. Mahāprabhujīp Karatā Mahāprabhujīp Karatā He Kevalam. Now, before going to bed, you can eat something or drink something, whatever you have. All your junk food is there. So, there is a, what? Therefore, all yogīs, we have to pray for that. We will pray, and we will make the sādhanās, put mantras, and you can donate something. You can donate something to poor persons, or you can feed our animals, our horses, horse babies, or the cows, cows’ babies, dogs, birds, everywhere, whatever we can. After that, after it goes, then that’s very, very important. And I don’t know in which part of the world that will be and where it is not. We will see about the moon, how it is happening. Thank you very much. I give you a very nice time for the meditation and everything you have done. And now, all the best. Dīp Nār Bhagavān Kī Jai.

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