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Part 1: The Three Fires and the Path of Mantra Adhyātmik. It is called three tapas, three kinds of fire. But these three different kinds of fire meant here are the troubles, the problems. Problems with our body, problems as illness—physical, mental—and the worldly problems, what we call neighbors, colleagues, families, illness, and so on. Problems with nature: animals, mosquitoes, heat, cold, drought, flood, earthquake, and then more astral problems as destiny, psychic problems, negative energies, and so on. This is the three tapas. Whatever we begin, we try to purify, and it functions. There are certain things, whether you believe or you don’t believe, but it is. Believing does not change reality, and not believing also does not change reality. The truth cannot be changed by any religion, by any philosophy, or by any politics. The truth is truth. Evidence will never die. The evidence of the truth is there. So, great yogīs, ṛṣis, the hermits who used to live in the huts, their research work is how to protect from these three tapas. That is also from the different planets, from the environments, and from the societies. Yes, the influence of the planets can interfere in our deeds or in good things. Now, the interference of the planets is not only for humans, but it is for the entire Earth planet. It doesn’t matter if it’s animals, plants, or vegetation, birds, fish, fire, water, air, and so on. We humans are not excluded from this all; we are included. We are a tree, and this tree is a mobile tree. And the tree which we see, this tree has a permanent place. Just as the weather and changing seasons influence vegetation, they also influence our body. Yesterday I spoke about negative powers and positive, devī śakti and āsurī śaktis. So, there are mantras or practices to strengthen or to gain in your favor. Devī Śakti, positive power, or Āsurī Śaktis, the negative powers. Negative power is realized easily, quickly. When you have a white shirt, it is difficult to clean and keep it nicely, so that it is completely white. It takes time to clean, but to make a black spot on it doesn’t take long. Those who involve themselves in these negative energies, negative siddhis, powers, they become permanent members of the negative powers. They will be suffering until this planet exists. And positive, devī śakti, they will also become members of them, but finally they will unite in the oneness of the universe. So, mantra or prayers in the beginning of any of your deeds, we repeat, we chant a mantra. It was also here in western countries, you know very well now, the Celtic religion, the Celtics, who believed like Vedic Dharma, in the sun, the moon, the water, the trees, and ancestors. Today is the beginning, the first day. Yesterday started the days called Śrāddha. And śraddhā is a prayer for the ancestors. Those ancestors who died and didn’t get liberation, still from the ancestors’ world, Pitṛloka, are their children, or their parents, or family members; if not, then friends, but they have to go through certain ceremonies and prayers. In Christianity also, now in November, the beginning of November I think, is coming the day of the ancestors. The day is for remembering the holy souls, the saints, not for prayer, but to remember them. And for your ancestors, you go to the graveyard, you go to the church or temples, and pray. Yes, it is the ancient science. Different religions have changed a little bit in different ways. But reality is the same. If you will not act in that way, to pray for them and this, then it can happen that the souls of your ancestors begin to interfere with your success, your deeds. You will have no growth of the families. You start some business; it will not be successful. Many, many things, but that is in rare cases. But it is there. And if you do the ceremony prayers, then that soul is liberated. Means, liberation means now for the soul which is in the astral world or in Pitṛloka, means now he has access to the other life. Like a blind person is searching for a door to go out. And so access to other life, it doesn’t matter which kind of life it will be given, human or animals or the birds or the fish, but now it’s free from that blocked traffic, that red light, it becomes green. So when you make a house and you make an earth-breaking ceremony, meaning the foundation, it has its constellation, the time, which day you should not do it, doesn’t matter what it is. And if you do, then none of them will be happy in this apartment, or in this house, or this. In a family house, there will be quarreling between partners. So, these things are not only blind belief; they have their meaning, they have a sense. Similarly, for meditation and beginning for your Yog Sādhanā, there are also certain prayers, Purījī, Purījī... Firstly, through this Ānanda, the endless universe, it will break through and remove all the negative energies. If you make some mistakes, you take a different road, then it will say again, "Turn back," or this, but you say, "No, I will go in this direction," then it is your karma. And so, many who didn’t follow the Guru Vakya made the decision, "I will do this." Yes, for some time it is good, but finally the result will be painful. So, mantra is very important to reside in and to have. Now, prayer or mantra doesn’t matter which God you believe in, which religion you believe in. In every religion, there are beautiful words and prayers. Must not be in Hindi language or Sanskrit. It can be in any, but it should have that energy, that feeling. And so, there is one mantra, a peace mantra for meditation, for those who want to meditate, who would like to step into spirituality. Every day, begin with this, which we will chant now. Okay, many of you know, many of you don’t know, maybe. It’s coming from the Upaniṣad: "Asato mā sadgamaya." The Upanishads, Vedas, and all this authentic literature do not speak about religion or a particular God as an incarnation. They speak only about one; there is only one God, the Brahman, omniscient, omnipresent, the universal God. Because at that time there was no personal or personified God, like Kṛṣṇa, Rāma, and so on. It was 24 incarnations, and now the 24th should incarnate in Kali Yuga. About Yugas, we will perhaps discuss a little bit in the afternoon or evening satsaṅg. You can have a chart. Tomorrow we will make photocopies. Those who want to have it can have it. So, Asato Mā Sadgamaya, lead us from unreality to reality. O Merciful Lord, lead us from unreality to reality. That you put now this seed in your heart. You put this seed or these thoughts in your brain, in your consciousness. Now, this will constantly work in you. I would like to go to the path of truth, of reality. The reality, the truth is that which never changes, and that which is not reality is that which is changing. So, the nature on this planet is changeable. The body is changing. The body has three dharmas: to be born, to grow, and to die. The seed sprouts, grows into a tree, and dies. But it gives the seeds further, and so is the continuity of every creature. So, asato mā sadgamaya, anything you do in your life, and you think, "God, let me do correct things, guide my steps, guide my thoughts, guide my actions, guide me, my Lord, towards the reality, the truth." Because Tamaso Mā Jyotir Gamaya, lead me, please, from the darkness of ignorance to the light of wisdom. Our knowledge is very, very limited. From the past, in this life, we have forgotten many things; maybe we remember 10% or 5%. Even one month past, you don’t have memory. Which date is today? The 5th. Now, on the 5th of August, what did you eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner? Many we don’t know. We did, but we’ve forgotten. So what was on the 5th of September last year, 2008? And so on, slowly, slowly, our memory is becoming dormant. And the future we don’t know. What will happen in one second, we don’t know. In India we used to say, "Patā nahī, palka aur bāta kartā hai kalka." You don’t know what will happen in one second, and you are talking about tomorrow. With what certainty are you talking about tomorrow? So the meditation opens our third eye, which means the wisdom to become Tri-Kāla Darśī. Tri-Kāla Darśī. As long as you haven’t realized this stage of being a Trikāla Darśī, you haven’t completed your journey yet. Tri means three, Kāla means time, and Darśī means knower, one who knows. So, past, present, and future, that’s called a Trikāla Darśī. If you stand in front of your house, you see the front side. You stay in the corner, you see perhaps both sides, that or maximum, that’s all. But if you go with a helicopter a little higher, a few hundred meters higher, then you see the whole house. From which side is he coming? Similarly, the Trikāla Darśī knows everything. What is, what happened to me in the past, what is going on now, and what will happen in the future, and if I can avoid it, he or she, the Trikāla Darśī, one knows how to avoid, because now you know very clearly. You are running with great speed, but you are running toward a wall. But if you see there is a door, then you will run, but you will run through the door. So this is the difference between the Trikāla Darśī and us. We will run into the wall, and they will run through the door. So, Tamaso Mā Jyotir Gamaya. Before you begin to meditate, you should put this thought in your mind. Lord, lead me from darkness to the light. The darkness of ignorance, the light of knowledge, is that whatever I do, I should not do out of ignorance. And the third, Mṛtyormā Amṛtaṃ Gamaya. Mṛtyu is death. Amṛtatva is immortality. This body is mortal, and the ātmā is immortal. The soul is in between; the soul is a mixture of ātmā and ātmā. The soul is a bundle of karmas, good or bad. So the aim of meditation is to lead me from mortality to immortality. That I realize this immortal Self. And to go on this path, there will be many, many obstacles, external and internal or inner obstacles. External obstacles are talking, listening to bad things. It’s called kusaṅga. There are some people who can make you angry and turn you against your parents. There are some people who can make you angry and very sad toward your children. So, for husband and wife, it is very easy to create conflict between them. Even they can influence the parents or children. So, what strength do you have that you will not have a conflict in your partnership? This is called negative gossiping. It puts you in darkness, and that means distraction. It is dividing; it does not unite. And satsaṅg that unites gives clarity, awakens within you certainty, and you become brave. You are not scared, no fear, Nirbhaya. Then the inner obstacles, the outer obstacles are easy to avoid. But how are you going to avoid the inner? And this is your own thinking, this is your own ignorance, anger, jealousy, hate, feeling of being offended, ego; many, many obstacles we have. It is a jungle, and so you will meditate, and suddenly the inner obstacle will come in front of you like a barrier, and you can’t cross. So, the mantra, your personal mantras, as well as these prayers, peace mantras, and so on, it opens these barriers. It lets you go through safely, and it guides you. Asato mā sadgamaya, lead us from unreality to reality. Tamaso mā jyotirgamaya, lead us from the darkness to the light. Lead us from mortality to immortality. That we realize with this consciousness that we are the ātmā and one with the Brahman. Then you have no more birth and death. Only once in this life, somehow, you have to give up this body. And we are so much attached to this body, we don’t want to die. And that’s why, thanks to God, that He didn’t give us the knowledge about the future. Suppose we know that tomorrow evening we will all die. Oh my God! We will go to the doctor, we will go somewhere here and there, and protection, and this. What will happen? Perhaps we will die before tomorrow evening out of fear. So, thanks to God that He blocked everything so that we can live peacefully. We are surprised, "Oh, suddenly I died." And that is just a gentle process, a transaction, like you go to sleep and close your eyes, and you are in the dream world, you are in a different situation, different. Similarly, yeh sansār, yeh jīvan, svapnavat hai. Our Gurujī, Holy Gurujī, used to say, "Yeh jīvan, or yeh sansār, svapnavat hai." This life, this world is a dream. You will wake up, and this will disappear. A different reality will appear to you. So, some have a good dream, some are enjoying, happy, healthy, and some have a very horrible life. Heaven and hell, both are here. Nowhere in this space is any different kind of quarter divided by borders, like we have divided borders—this country and that country, and so on. In God’s consciousness, in God’s creation, there are no borders. And here, borders are divided by humans, and of course, limited by nature. So Mṛtyor Mām Ṛtaṁ Gamaya. Lead me from mortality to immortality. We are tired from all these changes. We experience what we don’t want to experience. If I were now 15 or 10 years old, I would just jump from here down. But if I jump now, yes, I can, twice: the first time and the last time. So I have the feeling of a ten-year-old boy to jump, though I have the feeling and I know, but I can’t. Look, my limitation, so my body becomes my own obstacle. And we are observing day by day. And like this, we had been observing many, many situations in the lives: torturing, killing, going to the astral world, coming back to the mother’s body, again born, chorāsī, so much troubling. And the last mantra which you should have is "Nāhaṁ Kartā," Lord, because I don’t know, my knowledge is limited, I don’t do anything, I give my life in your hands, in your divine will. Whatever is happening, I accept it is you who is doing. I am not the doer. Na’ham Karatā Prabhudīp Karatā. The God is doing. Mahāprabhujī karatā hai kevalam. The Almighty, He is only the doer. We are only the toy, moving. It will be like what He or the Divine wills, according to our destiny. And now, the destiny cannot be changed. But a holy saint, a self-realized yogī, has the power to change. Others cannot. Even Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva cannot change the destiny. There was one man, a merchant in India in the village Jalund in Dhingpur, where Devpurījī stayed; the ashram is Kailāśa. And this businessman had no children, and he was consulting many astrologers, many who tell the future, and Āyurvedic doctors and other doctors to get the medicine and this and that to have a child. Part 2: The Power of Grace and the Path of Meditation Everyone said, "In this life, you do not have the happiness or health of children." Santān Sukh Nahīṁ Hai. You have no happiness of having children. Do not force yourself. Astrologers said it, doctors said it, Ayurveda said it, and they were already over 50 years old. One day, Devpurījī was passing through this village asking for alms, for bhikṣā. And Devpurījī said, "One chapati, one son; two chapatis, two sons; three chapatis, three sons." That lady was just making breakfast for her husband and herself. She was making chapatis, and three were finished. She took these three and went quickly and gave them to Devpurījī before somebody else could. How selfish we are. He checked the chapatis. "Oh, three you will have, that’s all." And he went away. These three sons are very successful, healthy, and are living as businessmen. Whenever I go to Jaipur, they come for darśan. They always tell me the stories their parents told them about their mother. So, anhonī guru karsake, honī deth mitāye, par brahma gurudevhe sab kus deth banāye. Anhoni guru karsake—that which is not possible, the Gurudev can make possible. And what is going to happen? He can change it, because he is a Parabrahma. Sab kuch sādhanā banāye—everything is possible. So these are the instructions and guru-vākyas for when you want to meditate: Mahāprabhujīp Karatā, Mahāprabhujīp Karatā. For concentration, just for your concentration, you can repeat some numbers. Sit down and repeat 11, 12, 15... 11, 12, 15. Now, all the attention will stick to these three numbers: 11, 12, 15. This is not a lottery number, okay? Many will say, "Aha, Swamiji said this is maybe a lottery number, no?" Who knows? Eleven, twelve, fifteen, eleven, twelve, fifteen. So, Oṁ, Oṁ,... Oṁ. No other power, it is blind, straight. But if you have a mantra which you got from your master, then that will function for you. So, Asato Mā Sadgamaya, Tamaso Mā Jyotirgamaya, Mṛtyor Mā Amṛtam Gamaya, Nāham Kartā Prabhudip Kartā, Mahāprabhudip Kartā He Kevalam Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... Ultimately, the first resonance in the universe before the creation of all the different stars, planets, and many, many suns was first that—that was that praṇava, that oṁ. So finally, it is that Oṁ. So you are an Oṁ. Your Ātmā is Oṁ. That is resonating in you. There are thousands of functions in the body. We do not understand how many there are. Some you can feel through instruments from the doctors when they are hearing the sound through sonography. Beautiful sound. The sound of the heart, the blood flowing through the veins, the sound of the gallbladder, sound of this, sound of that—many, many things. So, Nāda Yoga, meditation through Nāda Yoga. There are ten different kinds of sounds which you will hear. These ten different sounds belong to the ten senses of the body, the jñānendriyas and karmendriyas. The first sound you will hear is like a waterfall or ocean sound waves, and that is our blood circulation. Second, you will hear something beating, and that is your heartbeat, the sound of your pulse. The third sound you will hear is the sūkṣma breath, the subtle breath sound. Like this, slowly, slowly, the eleventh sound will appear. That eleventh sound is the sound of the Self. So, in the meditation of Ānanda Yoga, you plug your ears, you close your ears like this. Then, listen to the inner sound. So, let us try now. First, I must tell you something, because when you close your ears, you will not understand me. So, with your index fingers, slightly press from inside. Close your eyes and listen to what kind of sound you are hearing. Okay. Did you hear any sound? Were you under the water or in a burning fire? Śrī Śrī... There are eight different kinds of sounds that belong to the Aṣṭaprakṛti, Navanidhi, and Aṣṭasiddhi. So, the nine different kinds of wealth, Navanidhi, Aṣṭaprakṛti or Aṣṭasiddhi. Sola Kala. So the 16 kinds of Kalās means the change, or the quality, or a play. This Kālā is difficult to translate. Sharmajī, can you tell what is Kālā? No. Kalakārī means there is also art, artist, art, but this Kalā is a different Kalā. Abilities are changing. So, the sixteen kalās of the moon change. The one who has the sixteen kalās, which are sixteen different kinds of siddhis, is called Puruṣottam. Purāṇa Puruṣa, who has completed this human life. In that comes Kṛṣṇa, for example. And choice kalā, 24 siddhis are there—perfection, supernatural powers, 24 siddhis. There are rare yogīs, like Alakhpurījī and Devpurījī, who could go through rock. It means no elements can create obstacles or hindrances. He can walk on the water and under the water. When Devpurījī used to meditate, if it was raining, about 15 meters around him, it was not raining. A natural umbrella, a cosmic umbrella, we do not know how. I also tried. It was raining very much, and I also tried that the rain would not fall over me, like Devpurījī. You cannot imagine how much I weighed. So easy to imagine and think, but it needs immense discipline and following of that Guru Vākya and principle. Do not fall into the same complications of this life. These desires you cannot fulfill. It is impossible. You can do it for life. You have been eating all your life, and now you are very, very old, in the last minutes of your days, but you are still hungry. This hole is so empty; we are putting in and in and in, and all disappears. So it does not matter which kind of desires; doing, doing disappears. Again and again, there is a wish, there is a mind, there is a feeling, there is a memory. But fulfillment is not there. To come to this fulfillment, you have to learn to say no. To whom? To thyself. We have to come to the point to say, "Enough, finished." We do say, "Enough, finished," but only for a little time. When we eat and mother wants to give more, and you say, "No, mother, thank you, now it is enough." But after two hours, again the baby is hungry, crying for it. So, what do you want? To come to the everlasting, eternal peace, bliss, and unity, or to be in the chain of the changings? So, mantra in this Nāda Yoga, meditation—anything that you do—a mantra without meditation is a body without a soul; it is a dead body. Now, two different kinds of meditations: one is active meditation, and one is passive meditation. Active meditation belongs to the art, the artist. The best artist is the one who creates something which does not exist on this planet. That will bring from some different lokas. It is said when a great artist paints a picture, you can hear beautiful music. And music can also be painted. An artist can paint the music. Nāda Rūpa Parabrahma—his or her consciousness becomes one with that sound in one tune. But our tunes or strings are broken. Again, the Master tries to tune it, and again it is loose. The sound is bhuṃ, not a fine sound. Nada, and that nada is active nada in us. So the artist—it can be a musician, it can be a painter, it can be a singer, it can be a writer, it can be an actor, or it can be a gardener, or it can be a sculptor who makes a beautiful sculpture. Many, many different kinds of talents come from within. That is active meditation. You are one with thyself and your inner creation; you put out how it is. Helping people, animals, and plants is also an art, which means you need love. Without love, our work is dead work. The man-made world is without love, and the God-made world is with love. So, active meditation. You work in your garden, make the beds, and clean these and flowers and that. It is like a meditation, like a prayer. You see life. You see in this beautiful, gentle plant the life. You are happy. Yes, that is life. Your life and their life are the same. They cannot exist without these elements: air, fire, earth, water, and space. They need the light, they need the water, they need the oxygen, and we need it too. So, in oneness with all, this makes you happy. Go at home and make yourself in oneness with your work, what you are doing, kitchen or anywhere. It is a beautiful thing. Your homework for your husband, for your wife, for your children: just cleaning your flats, cleaning your furniture, keeping things in order—that is beautiful. Do not create a mess in the house. There are some people who come home, throw their hooded hat there, throw their shawl there, leave one sock there, other socks in the bathroom, and one sock in the toilet. The poor husband comes home, and he collects everything, or the wife comes and creates. I see many times when I suddenly come to disciples' houses—oh God, they get nearly a heart attack. "Please, Swamiji, wait, wait a minute, please. Prashim, Swamiji, Pochkatha, Pochkatha, for only two minutes, please." And then I suddenly see where things are lying. Even I see in the yoga seminar in Strilky and in our camps, when I look in the room where people are living, how is their bed? Then I ask, "Where do you sleep? Everything is lying on the bed." Jackets and this and that. And at night they said, "I take my blanket and go under the blanket, that is all." And everything is lying on you. So, to keep everything in order is a one-way street. So you see the person’s nature, how a person is living, how his inside reflects outside. People traveling with so many suitcases—as soon as they come to the hotel, what do they do? They open the luggage, they put a coat here, they put this thing there, they put that thing there—so many things. Suddenly, only for one night, and early morning you have to go to the airport, again putting all together. What is that? I do like this: I take from my suitcase what I need. The rest I leave in. So, it is important to keep the tidiness inside. So, our mantra, our meditation, active meditation—first we have to go through the active meditation. Purification. Inner purification reflects on outer purification, and outer purification reflects on inner purification. When you meditate, if everything is lying like this and that, your meditation cannot be so pure, sāttvic energy. There are many people who clean their dishes once a week with the washing machine. Lying five days, six days, all these used plates somewhere in the washing machine. Mahāprabhujī kī karatā, Mahāprabhujī kī karatā. We start the washing machine. So eat, wash your hands. At the same time, we will be hand washing and washing the dishes. Hari Om, relax and enjoy. Somebody will come and say, "Oh, your beautiful, lovely kitchen, very nice, oh, how it is." And when everything is lying there for a week, drying on the plates, and half a spaghetti is stuck on it, you need to scrub it in. So you see how the person’s inner self is. So your meditation will be stuck on certain things. So, meditation. Meditation requires that you finish all your duties and then you close your eyes. You are in meditation. Your mantra comes automatically. One saint, Kabīr Dās, said, "When you have not done something, or you are hungry and you want to meditate still, then your hunger is like a hungry dog, all the time barking, asking you to give something to eat." So, Kabīr Dās said, "Feed this dog first, and then you will be peaceful. You meditate." The dog will also meditate, sleep, and you will also be relaxed. So, the dog means here, indirectly, things which you have not done, which should be done. Unfinished things are disturbing in your meditation. That is called vṛttis. You meditate, but you say, "I have to bring my shoes for repairing. Today, I must go find where I can get my shoes repaired. Or should I throw it away and buy new? Good idea. But which shop is cheaper?" Like this. So we have not done the things; these are called vṛttis, restless thoughts. Parpañj, Kāleśas. Solve this, and then you meditate. Therefore, active meditation supports passive meditation. If the active meditation is not completed, if you did not go through it, then inside you cannot be peaceful. So, after a 15-minute interval, something will be very hard inside: renouncing. So, let us see what will come out, okay? Is there some instrumental music? But no tabla; it makes blood pressure high. No? The sitar, that is for driving 180 km speed. Thank you. Okay, so, a creative meditation. Meditation. Adjust yourself in a comfortable way. Sit comfortably and relaxed. That is not instrumental. There is somebody crying behind. No, this is like funeral music, and we still have time for that. Relax. Take a comfortable seat. Those who have mantra and mālā, repeat your mantra with the mālā. Those who have no mantra, just sit. Just concentrate or follow the breath rhythm, which means you know that you are inhaling, and you know that you are exhaling. Close your eyes, take a deep inhale and exhale, and we will repeat our chant OṂ three times. Inhale. Śāntiḥ. Śāntiḥ.... Move your hands and fingers, fold your palms, and rub your palms together. Place the palms on the face, slightly, gently. Massage your eyelids, eyes, eyebrows, centers, and open your eyes. Hari Om. So, this was a creative meditation. Did you find a flat, or you did not find it still? Or a house? No answer is also an answer. So it means you did not find. Yes? Yes, you did not find it. Did you find it? Okay, who found the flat? Please raise your hand. I must come for a visit. Do you also put one chair for me to have a nice lasagna, caravansian lasagna with Sarita? You know how to make lasagna? I will come for your lasagna, okay? So, you know, we are always coming to the eating point. So I wish you a very good appetite. You will have your dinner, your lunch. After lunch, you will have a little rest. Then there will be relaxation, yoga nidrā, and a little practice, and then I will be with you again at 7, 7:30, or maybe before, because if there is nothing to do, why should I just sit in the hotel room? I would love to be with you, or if you ever even have transportation, we can go to the park about 6 o’clock. What do you think? For a walk, of course, not in a park sitting at a picnic, you know. I mean, how long is the walk from here? Walking? All right. So I will let you know here in the program, okay? Where will they get their lunch here?