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Prosperity brings purificationi

A spiritual discourse on the meaning of a mantra and the inner light of consciousness.

"Oṁ is that where we are with all... 'Namaḥ' also means 'I bow down.' I offer naman towards you, my Lord, my God."

"Prakāś is the light. But light, what we call this, not this lamp, not this sūrya light. Light that is beyond that light."

A spiritual teacher leads a session, chanting the "Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam" mantra and explaining its components. He delves into the nature of the inner light (prakāś), using analogies of nerve systems and electrical currents to describe spiritual awakening. The talk weaves together interpretations of sacred names, personal anecdotes about his Guru, and warnings against ego and competition in spiritual practice.

Filming location: Vienna, Austria

I will chant verbally, and you can do it internally. It is the same. You can fold your hands; I will chant, and you can chant mentally. Be completely relaxed and turn towards our paramparā on this altar. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Haṁsab Dāsa Prabhu Śaraṇa Parāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Haṁsab Dāsa Prabhu Śaraṇa Parāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Haṁsab Dāsa Prabhu Śaraṇa Parāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Haṁsab Dāsa Prabhu Śaraṇa Parāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhudeepa Nārāyaṇam... Śrī Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai. Devādhī Deva, Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī. Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī. Alakapurījī Mahādeva Kī. Lalanāndajī Mahārāja Kī. Śivānandajī Mahārāja Kī. Oṁ Śānti. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu. Oṁ. We know that mantra. We know what a mantra is. "Oṁ Namo," "Oṁ Namaḥ." "Namaḥ" also means "I bow down." Naman Karūṁ. I offer naman towards you, my Lord, my God, my father, my mother, my brother, my older sister, my older brothers, my elderly people, my elderly friends. To all, I bow down. That is called Oṁ. Oṁ is that where we are with all. "Oṁ Prabhu." We know the name, what "Prabhu" means. There are many, many meanings of "Prabhu," but that God is that one, and we bow down to that one. Very much so. It made this mantra of Hanumānjī very famous: "Oṁ Namo Prabhu Dīpa Nirañjana." Oṁ Prabhu. Prabhu is God. Prabhu. Always Hanumānjī said, "Prabhu." When Rāma called or something, he said, "Prabhu. Prabhu." We say, "Yes, sir. Yes, sir." So this is the beautiful praṇām, the giving. And when we open our heart, we open our eyes, we open our feelings, and we give the devotion. "Oṁ Namo." Oṁ, and we bow down in these three letters: Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva. Or Śiva, Brahmā, and Viṣṇu. It doesn’t matter, left or right. So, there are different nerve systems in the body, and these nerve systems have organs coming from them. And when we go outside from our house, then we have feelings, and very surely we take our shoes. And you feel nicely which shoes you will have, which socks you have or not. So that whole feeling unfolds all, till the whole body. Or when you see... We see. I have one disciple, and she is working somewhere at universities; now she is retired. But when she comes out of the university, there is just about 100 meters, or not even 100 meters, distance. Beautiful, the ice cream, and that person every day: first ice cream, and then after a long time, she knew there were eggs inside, I mean, without knowing, and so on. So when the person from the university was—whatever he was doing, I don’t want to tell, maybe sweepers, or maybe this, or maybe that—but while the time is there, there were feelings in the body, tongue, and want to eat alcohol or this ice cream. So then you see somewhere near the barber, and you’re feeling your hair, you want to do this: "I want to do it like this." So we have many feelings in our body, and where, in which point, or in which part, or in which we are feeling. Similarly, that kind of spiritual thought brings such a feeling that we have to pray, we have to bow down, we have to say mantras. This is a... So that the nerve system, certain nerve systems, go through that feeling. So there are many, many feelings. And so, in that mantra, what we said: "Oṁ Namo." Oṁ and Namaḥ. "Namo" means "I bow down." I bow down to this Oṁ. "Oṁ Namo Śrī." Śrī is the prosperity. Śrī is the prosperity. Śrī is Lakṣmī, or what you can say, money. So Śrī is Lakṣmī, and we always write first Śrī: "Oṁ Śrī Bhagavān Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī." First Śrī, and so that Śrī, when it comes, is such a positive and good feeling and good awakening in our body, in our mind, in our thoughts: Śrī. So, on the South India side, some people are looking for Śrī Śrī. There, I think, also three times Śrī Śrī Śrī. There was one Śrī Bābā. Yes. And that Śrī Bābā is gone. He is not here. That Śrī has Śrī Śrī... three times. And this is for the body, for the mind, and for the soul. And this everywhere is coming to give purification. So prosperity means not only money. The purity is clean. Oṁ Namo Śrī Prabhu. And you know, Hanumānjī was always saying... God Rāma was calling that Hanumān. Then he said, what did he say? "Prabhu. Prabhu..." So Prabhu. So Prabhu is the name of God. That is very humble words to call Prabhu. It has an immense amount of love and blessings, giving immense feelings, Prabhu. And when you said, "Prabhu," you are already in the whole body of the Rāma; you are there. In front of that Rāma, you are, and all negative things are gone. Because in front of God, everything will be purified. There was, you know, that one story—you know very much, I told you many times. So, there was something about God, completely, I don’t know what it is. And one bhakta, he was not so good. But he came to the door of the guard, and they said, "No, you go out." He said, "No, but I want to say no." He said no, but this person said again and again, "Please go." And he said, "No, I want to tell God why." He said, "Okay, I don’t want anything. I will go away, but I want to see. Tell him why." And he said, God said, "No." So God said... So again and again, he’s the guard on the door. So he said, again and again, "I don’t want anything from God. I just want to say why, or something." So God said, "Okay, let him come." He comes there. "What do you want?" He said, "What I want, I have it. So then go." He said, "Where should I go? When I see you, God, then I need not go anywhere. You said when once you see God, then all is there. So where should I go? I am here." So then God said, "Okay, go to Brahmalokas." So this is how feelings come, that all can be peace and so on. "Oṁ Namo Siri Prabhu, Dīpa Nārāyaṇa." Dīpa is, we know, is light, great light. And Holī Gurujī has written so many bhajans, you know all. And Gurujī’s bhajans were beautiful, and it was everywhere in the whole world, and I was with only Gurujī, and I was not still the sanyāsī, and this, and this, and then after a while Gurujī said, and Gurujī said, I thought, "What is this?" Gurujī said, "Yes, it is that." So I said, "What is that?" He said, "You will do it. Tell me what it is. That it is that, but you will know then, and this is the truth. There’s nothing because he saw it, that and that." What Mahāprabhujī said, Gurujī said. And that he, Mahāprabhujī: Prakāś Puñj, Amṛt ke Sāgar, Siddhipaharī Mahādanī, sāre viśva meṁ goñj rahā, Prabhu kī amar kahānī. Yes, dekhiye, look this. So, Holī Gurujī was, I was listening, and of course I had not so much knowledge of what he was seeing. He said, "This is light. You will know. You have everything in you." So, what was this? Prakāś. Prakāś is the light. But light, what we call this, not this lamp, not this sūrya light. Light that is beyond that light. So when we think that, oh, I had meditation, light inside, that was not that light. But if we really look into the nerve systems of the body, then there is a different light. It’s like electronic, so when cables are there, but there is no light. But when we will bring it together, then the light will be. But it means that there is still a light, but there is no light. Electric seat, there is no light. But when we have to bring it into that, it will be the light, the fire. Otherwise, cables are very cool, very cool. And many birds are sitting there, because it is only one cable. If two are together, then it will fry it. Now, the bird will completely become an ass. But the human will be nice, fried. So, so how to come into? So, in our nervous system, we have—and you know that everybody—that from our eyeball, in our eyeball, on the particular part of our eye, we touch, and the light is inside. Did you? Learn this, yeah, very nicely and with both eyes. But there is not that light, what we think that light. And so prakāś, prakāś puñj, and puñj means a bunch of the light or something, a bunch of it. We think something one, but no, it is. Big bunch, full bunch of that prakāś puñj. Puñj is like that, and that is in billions, trillions. I don’t know, in the whole universe, in the whole universe, that light—even the Sun is under, and we are above. If there’s a dark, and this, but there is. Everywhere, God’s point that comes with the Mālā when you make the Mālā. So therefore, all the holy Gurus, she said, "Oh Prabhu, Dīp, nīr, enjī, service of Dīp, Dīp, and Dīp." And Dīp means great things. Also, deep means ocean, part of the ocean, deep. In which deep? There are many, many deeps, where Singapore and all this, they are also called, this is called the deep. That part is the deep. So there are many different ways in which we are learning this. So Kalsadeep in India, when we go to Chennai, and after Chennai we are going about one hour or half, forty hours flying with airplanes. And then we are coming to that deep also, yes. So, like this, it will be very big, deep, deep, deep. So our nectar is very good, sweet; our fruit is very good, sweet; our words are very good, sweet; our feeling is very sweet. Everything is sweet, but that sweet can turn into the negative. When there is a negativity, there is a selfishness, and when there is a selfishness, these are the roots of the puñja on that tāpū, we call the tāpū, I said. So it will be coming through into your positive, negative, both are good, but when there is one’s self, then sometimes two cables will crash and it will burn everything. If you are a real yogī, practicing yoga, āsana, prāṇāyāma, the inner feeling is very difficult to get. That when your dear one, your husband, your wife, your child, your neighbors are nice, but if somebody else is different, that means you have a poison inside. That poison inside is a surface. You think, "Oh, it’s so good." That means, Prakash, don’t be greedy. Don’t do this, that. Yes, many within ourselves are very good, and so on. But if something is coming, many, many. So there is no Prakāśa. There is Andhakāra. Prakāśa is light, andhakāra is the darkness, and the darkness is because of the greed, anger. Something is there, okay, I don’t want this. There is like electronic. When the person, she said, who is sitting beside me, Agni Devī, she is Agni, so no problem. So, but when she, it is whom you will hear this or looking that, there is firing, firing, firing. Therefore, it is not easy to become a master, to become a great saint, etc. And if that is yoga, how long will we torture our joints and this and that? But more, we have to get that we need it, yes, and the path you have to give, you know? When we are coming from Philak to Vienna, and there, one part, the trains going... Two, and both trains are going so that you can see the back side, the tail. Yes or no? The trains, yes? Where? Near, between the grass and this one, yes, I mean. And there is another one coming also. So they are going parallel, but not crossing. And so we are moving there, but we don’t fall down. We are on the path. So we go on the path. That is, even if we go with a curl, we are on our path. So first we have to understand that path. I don’t know, did you see someone fall down at the train there? It is a little, speed is not too high. Did you see that on television? It falls down in the children’s wear here. Okay? Maybe, because that person was not out. Out, that’s out of it, yeah? So this is what we have to do: our inner nerve systems in a proper way, and our glands very properly. Don’t touch anger, thirst, all negatives, positives, and then our whole body. So therefore, yoga, many, many things are yoga. And mostly now, we are asanas, pranayama, and some people are meditation, meditation, but it is dry, it is dry. It is darkness inside, that’s all. But inner, our inner self, that you have to come as prakāś, puñj, amṛt, kesāgar, then when you are so happy, you are in the ocean of the nectar. Prakāś puñj amṛt ke śagar Śrī Dīp Harī Mahā Dhānī, and therefore Mahāprabhujī is the giver. He gives so much. Prakāś puñj amṛt ke śagar Śrī Dīp Harī Mahā Dhānī. Mahā means great, Dhānī means giver. Prakāś puñj amṛt ke śagar Śrī Dīp Harī Mahā Dhānī hai. It means on this earth and in the ocean, where life is there, both movable and immovable. Movable is that which is our whole globe and life in this, also inside. But after that will come the Brahmalokas. Prakāśa puṇyamṛta keśāgara śrī dīpa hari mahādānīya sāre viśvame guñjraha. Saara vishva. Vishva means this world. There is saarey vishwame guñjrahi. Guñjraha means vibrating. What kind of vibrating? Beautiful, peace, harmony, joy, goodness, light, very good. This is that. Prakāś kuñj amṛt ke śagar, Śrī Deep Hari Mā Dhani hai, śārey viśv me gūñj rahā, prabhu kī amar kahānī hai. Therefore, H.G. said, prabhu kī amar kahānī, amar means immortal, and those words, what H.G. said that Mahāprabhujī is that light, amar. Amar means immortal, and we are mortal, and the mortal is to become the immortal, furthermore, which is the whole bhajan of Holī Gurujī. So you cannot imagine. We can sing many bhajans, we can make many stories, and many people are doing some kind of poet, or this and that. Yes, very good. But that comes from the very deep. So it is one nerve with chi, and that one nerve can be from the toes till it comes behind our ear, where it is there. Yes. And many times, I’m experiencing very much. You didn’t have, maybe some, but every third or fourth day, I’m always experiencing. What? When someone gives me an injection, and I’m getting three injections every day. And someone, at some point, a needle is somewhere, but behind my neck here, yes, really—it is not a joke, yes. So there is here sometimes, and there are so many places where it is going there. This we don’t know, but that God has given us in the body, and therefore, don’t go out. Come back, come back. All nerve systems in the body, and there is a light. That is inner light, and the light is the light of peace, harmony, and towards God. And so we have our Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī’s, and there is written one very little book, Maṅgīlāl Jī’s, but there is written Mahāprabhujī have, and Mahāprabhujī wrote that, words there, and that is a little book, it’s still there, we have, we will, again we will write it, or what we call, we will print it. And that was where and how Holī Guru Mahāprabhujī got dīkṣā, sannyāsa dīkṣā, dīkṣā sannyāsa. And it was Śaṅkarācārya who came there to Pushkar and wrote everything there. And Alakpurījī, there are many bhajans there. Now we have made open, clear, and nicely what Ālakpurījī is. And so, how Mahāprabhujī is. And Holy Gurujī, Devapurījī, there are certain places where they say he was born here, and others say, no, he was born here. So there are miracles. They are great yogīs; they are self. We are just nothing, but we think. I said sometime to Mahāprabhujī or Gurujī in my meditation or my thinking, I said, "Okay, I am not all, but at least one little nerve should be in your body." I said, Mahāprabhujī, in your one little nerve, I am that little nerve. So let me be with you, you will feel. When your nerve is not peaceful and painful, then you know, "I am that." Yes, that is. So that, he will think about me. You know, in many, many countries where Mahāhodigurujī’s words and Prakāś is there, it must not be billions, but even one little nerve is there. And that nerve is there, yes, Mahāprabhujī is there. And that nerve, we should take care, it will be with us, and without that, the one little finger will not go, so we have to take care of this little also. That is how we are to go back, go within. Don’t be "I". Was also giving you techniques many times, and this, but now, now Mahāprabhujī or Alagpurījī or Koḍīgurujī, anyhow, he was... So, we have to meditate. When you meditate, immediately go within that part, that universe which is you. Prakāśa Pañcāmṛta ke Sāgara. That is Amṛta kā Sāgara. What is the Amṛtka Sāgar? Our blood. The blood of our body, that is our ocean. Not that ocean somewhere on this. That ocean, that liquid in our body, and in that is the purity, purity. But many, they are, "I am the best, I am good," and this and that. They’re jealous. If one word is said from some of them, definitely they will be on fire, and yeah, Sam is he. Tell me this: why I told you, I said, "Bob, please." But I want to say, why you said that we said, "The nerve gave," that is shock, yeah? Nerve saw. Yeah, nerve saw, no? That is it. So nerve saw, we have enough. Yeah. And then what do I do? Ah, then sometimes I say, I have to feel a beautiful happiness, my own happiness. So langsam die Nerven werden schicken. Ja, die Nerven schicken. Die Nerven schicken wird langsam. Oh, ist ja langsam. So meine Nerven, meine Siegel, Siegel... No, nicht Siegel, Siegel. Siegel, ja. It’s so langsam. I said, "Swāmījī, please, not so langsam." I said, no, no,... langsam. So practice yoga, and of course, one has to say when we are. What is that? People said competition, and the yogī said no. You know, the Indian, the Indian, the yoga, Indian, what they said, the yoga, Indian yoga, how to call it, not Aish. So, anyhow, they are always trying to do it, but only a few people are, and they don’t understand. And now they don’t know. They are only making, okay, now, now they said, "We will go to the, what is it called, what is that, very big, big, first is the competition." First, they want to make it so that I will be first, and I will first, okay? And I said, "No, yes, if you want to go quickly, yes, please, you go first, then I will go." That is that. And many times I say, "No competition, yes." Did I say many, many times? So. No competition. You go first, and then I’d come, and then Olympia. I said, "Don’t dream it all. You should dream only." Olympia is not so easy to get, just yoga, and this is Indian yoga. Austrian yoga is okay, maybe. We are maybe, but not that kind. So our yoga people, they are very good, very nice, but many of our people have very much ego. And he said, "No, I will do it, and I will." So this is okay. You can’t do it, but you are—your nerves are already like this. Now, how can there be śānti? And these nerves don’t touch because there will be fire there. That’s it. It doesn’t matter who is who; maybe a... Shanti, okay? Or maybe some Agni Devī, or not? This is who is sitting on Mahāprabhujī’s name. Anybody’s okay? So, come back. So, when our nerves are in good condition, and we are in harmony, then we are the whole world. World, so we are bringing that peace, and that peace comes from itself, more inside, coming more inside. So, wish you all the best and learn on this one part what I taught. Gurujī said this one, one part of the version, the whole version, is how big it is. It is very much beautiful, and also there is a holy Gurujī’s one version, how it is. And that is it. There is one bhajan, very nice, about, "Please, prema kā pyālā, Harī kabha merā bharā sī." So that, prema kā pyālā. Gurudev, when will you fill my pot with that Prema? Prema can only not go when you are not only to ruin me, but all, all your Bhaktas, all you who are there. So they are completely there, many are completely there, like dry grass, and more chicken out. Hair, it is hair. So Mahāprabhujī said, "Prema kā pyālā hari kabh merā bhar se. Adnā bhikārī meṁ khaḍā khaḍā. Nūr je prema kā." So Mahāprabhujī, the holy Guru, we will sing in the Strelka, and our Sadguru’s grace, and our Pūrṇimā, which is... Guru Pūrṇimā, and we will make a beautiful program for all the world, beautifully, a beautiful world, and like this. It doesn’t matter if you are in Stilki, or you are in Hamburg, or you are in Croatia, anywhere, but we will be there. This year, there are things which are getting distant, and so in the distance, but we are close. That’s it. There is a distance there, but we are one, and that’s why it is said there are two things. Love. Love is the distance, and another attachment is closing, closing, and it will burn together. As far as you are, that much you are close to me, oh my Lord.

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