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The Oneness of Guru and Disciple

A satsang discourse on the spiritual significance of Guru Purnima and the oneness of the guru-disciple relationship.

"My prāṇa, my soul, and my prāṇa are with you, my Gurudeva. Only my, this like a dress, physical body, just like this, but my soul is there."

"Gu means dark, and Ru means light... Guru Pūrṇimā. So Guru means dark, Guru means light. Pūrṇimā, complete."

The lecturer begins by sharing a personal story of visiting a devotee, illustrating that connection transcends physical distance. He explains the essence of Guru Purnima through the teachings of Mirabai and the analogy of the guru as an ocean and devotees as fish within it. He discusses the cosmic importance of the day, its Vedic origins linked to Vyasa and the Saptarishis, and gives practical instructions for how devotees worldwide can perform worship at home, emphasizing heartfelt offerings and the reception of charanamrita.

Filming location: Vienna, Austria

Devadideva, Deveśvara Mahādeva, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavānkī, Satya Sanātana Dharmakī. All great thus, disciples, friends, and from different parts of the countries, welcome. Today is a great day, and that great day is when there is something relaxed, happy, the feelings good physically and mentally. That is a good day. Like yesterday, some of our sisters from Carrington wanted to come here, but she had to go to the hospital for an operation, something in the leg. She wanted to see me, and it has been a long time since we saw each other, a few months. I said, I will come to see you. To the Philadelphia. So Philadelphia means feel lachen. So I said, "I will come," and she was laughing. "Swāmījī, that you can do it." I said, "Yes, doesn't matter." That is, touchment means that in far distance, but there are the feelings in one day. And again she said, "Really, Swāmījī?" I said, "Yes." And so I told her that I will come to Philadelphia and to the ashram, and I will be there. Those people are near, tell them they can come. So, six o'clock morning we started to go. For five o'clock we were getting ready, and eleven o'clock we were there. And many bhaktas were there, and the ashram is beautiful. I saw many times because too many people were. But then I saw how big the Philadelphia, the ashram, and then we have a park, a very nice garden. And we were sitting in the garden, and people want to have the sun, very nice. I had an umbrella. So that is the happiness, and after that, because I have to come, I promised that I will be here. And so we came back, we arrived about 4:30 and 5 something, so for one hour I said I want to rest, so a few minutes before 6, a little relax, my body also needs a little bit. And quarter to four, ah, seven, let's get ready, and I'm with you. And that is a... they said, "Swāmījī, are you not tired?" I said, "Yes, I am very tired when... when nobody is there, yes." And I... you cannot believe that though Jordan was beautiful and very good. And, but it was somewhere all bhaktas and many, many around the world, they always brought this name Skype and this and speaking, and so that was great, but like that. So there is one story from Mīrā, and Mīrā made the tulasī daśa, and then once more again either to. Tulsīdāsa or his Gurujī, that other one is Guru, do you know? Ravidāsa. Because here are two, one and second. So she said that Mīrābāī said, "My prāṇa, my soul, and my prāṇa are with you, my Gurudeva." Only my, this like a dress, physical body, just like this, but my soul is there. And so, this is not only a bhakta longing for the Gurudeva, but Gurudeva is also longing for the bhaktas. This is this, that is that, and therefore it is said we have to become one, and it is. You can say that Gurudeva is that ocean, and all the fish and all the creatures in the ocean, they are in the Gurudeva. So this is very difficult to think that we are separate or not. And Mahāprabhujī has one bhajan, you know that, where when the fish, you pull the fish out, and how the fish is suffering, trying to fall down, lift, right and left, there is no water. And so, Bhakta and Guru, or the great sense, are the same thing. That is that. And when you go out, then both sides are suffering. It's okay. The physical body is there, and we should be in the physical body there because we are in a different part of space. But we are one. So it doesn't matter where one fish is in the ocean and the other is on the shore, and you are on the other shore. It's one in that water, what we call like an electric cable. Somewhere there is that electronic power, that powerhouse. But in every cable in the whole city, this is oneness. Like I was talking about yesterday, and the day before yesterday, I think our nervous systems, body, this, that, how the light within ourselves. And so it is that you can be there, and you can be here. And people were also happy, not one person, the Pārvatī. Now, I told the person who was there, Pārvatī. But Pārvatī, she was there, and my heart to her and her heart to me. She, her husband, her children, and grandchildren, and like this. But it is that. And so, what happiness was that? She came, and many, many came, and they were so happy. And this is called oneness. We are oneness. You are anywhere in other countries, in other cities, other places, but that Ātmā, that feeling of the bhakti, is the oneness. Then we are further. Otherwise, temporarily, this and all this. Someone cannot come because they are in the hospital or with the family to go somewhere. So there are many things. It doesn't matter. But it is there. Like even when we are diving in the water, or we are in deep sleep, or we are running very far, or we are doing some kind of bodybuilding, everything. Or we are dancing or there, but our heart is all the time the high height, the beat, the heartbeat. When you are diving, someone has trainings and goes deep, but the heartbeat is there. When the heart will finish, then we will. Die finished, so similarly, doesn't matter. We are burning, running water there, but our heart is there, and so is that. I go with you, I am with you, and so also, same thing, your heart is with your mother, too. It is this heart is your father, too. And like this, when we have our neighbors, then we will be happy, and there is called the highest qualities of the spirituality. In that way, I was there, but I was here, and I was here, I was there, and in other countries and everywhere. It's really in the sleep, many, many. Things are happening there, and so we are here now. We are here, but with my voice, many, many different parts of the world. And now, in this, every day is a good day, but there is something always, and that is what we have to call Guru Pūrṇimā. Every full moon, there are many. Many people were born, many people were born on the moon also, boys or girls or twins, etc. And many people said that a great saint was born under Pūrṇimā. So said everybody, but who doesn't know? But because he is very good, and our guru is our guru, and our guru paramparā is our guru. But what we, now the closest, what we are all saying, Guru Pūrṇimā, and that is who was writing the holy scriptures, the Vedas. So don't say Vedas. Yeah, so properly with us. So Vedas and Vedavyāsa. So Vedavyāsa was a great, and he was the family of all the Mahābhārata. They were fighting this. So, before that already, Vedavyāsa Jī said that now in this Kali Yuga, it is coming more and more, and they will forget everything. And so, Vedavyāsa Jī, he was writing the Vedas. And then from the Vedas, they brought the Upaniṣads. And from the Upanishads, so the Bhagavad Gītā, the Bhagavad is also what we call the Upanishad. So, like this all, we have one after another. But before there was a guru, they said that one is the guru, Vedavyāsa. But before the Vedavyāsa, there were other ṛṣis. And ṛṣis are the gurus. And then there were the greatest ṛṣis, seven Vedas—not Vedas, sorry—the ṛṣis. And those ṛṣis were long, long ago, in many, many times. And from there is coming the Guru. And it is said that Guru Pūrṇimā was on the day of the Guru Pūrṇimā that one ṛṣi who brings that full moon's power. That is a long way they gave me. I got some scriptures, very beautiful and very good. So, the Guru Pūrṇimā, and for me, if you remember, many times I used to say it, for me was the first day when the moon appeared as a light of the night. That time was that Guru Pūrṇimā, and where the sun reflection, so light, prāṇa, and all the life. So this all is in our body, and in that, we have the five annamaya kośa, prāṇamaya kośa, manomaya kośa, vijñānamaya kośa, and ānandamaya kośa. In this, the ṛṣis gave us many things, and there was a jyotiṣ. And jyotiṣ, jyoti means the light. Jyoti means the flame, the flame of the light. So Jyotiṣ, and so this Jyotiṣ gave someone the Jyotiṣ, and from that he said that is the fifth Veda, is that Jyotiṣ. Jyotiṣ is like that in their spiritualities, in their meditations there, they brought everything, the energy, how it is moving and coming with the day. So there are many, many stars, and which star, and that star, and that star, and so many things. So in that way, when we say Saptaṛṣis, the seven ṛṣis, they are still there. And these seven ṛṣis, we have, when we are in the dark night, we can see the seven ṛṣis, yeah? And there are many, many things there. So what does that mean, these ṛṣis? So that light of them, and this shift, Sapta Ṛṣis, and from Sapta Ṛṣis we are all, our people. Some call different, not the Sapta Ṛṣis, but they are telling some, they call the deers, or some call this and that, everything. But we call that, and therefore that constellation, according to what we call the Jyotiṣa. And therefore, the Jyotiṣa is the reality to know. And so, sometimes moving the stars in this different way. But that is the moon. The moon is very powerful and everything. So the moon is coming for us to get the constellation. Where and how should we go? It's a very, very great thing. I didn't learn about astrology. Astrology has two kinds of astrology. One is they are saying only how this and that and that. But second is that, who is a ṛṣi? And from ṛṣis, that's it. So the Gragāchārya, the great center, Gragāchārya, and Gragāchārya was connected with the Sapta Ṛṣis. And from Sapta Ṛṣis, Gragācārya got the constellations. And the constellation is on which constellation you were born, or when you will go to sleep, or when you will go to some other work. This and that is a great science in that. And in that form, a human can. The human can understand, and the human can come to there. So, it doesn't matter that the constellation is there and you are somewhere else from your birth until death. Now, we think about when you were born. You were born, and then said constellation: how was this and that and that? But you were not born that time. We were not born in that time. We are born from the constellations of the many stars, you could say, or something. From there, the constellation comes and brings down from that time, which is our birth. And that we went through the space. And it is said on the earth, first it comes with the water, and so there are all drives, fires, air, etc. But it comes through the water. So water is very important for our earth. We are more in the water, and I don't know how much it is, but always we say some said 60% is the water, and some said about 70%. So I did not squeeze myself. So, some doctors say like this, some say like this, yes. Some people drink too much, some drink thick, then it is more, but it is water there, that is very, very important, water. And so, that water, in the water, in the space, it is coming to this, and then it is moving to where and which constellation it will come, and how you will come to the birth. So there are three: the water, the earth, and the space, and within all this is our soul. Our soul is there. We can't see it, but we feel it. Now it's only vibration, nothing else. So one fish from this soul, from there the other part, and from other parts through the hard part. So in the fish is more power to understand and go than in the humans. Humans are more, more, more closer. Those who are meditating, practicing spiritualities, so we have two kinds of science. One is what we all know now, the science here made by humans, made by humans, and the other is what we are. It is made by God, that God we can understand, and that we must learn this, understand this. And other science, what is now, thanks to God that this science is so good now. And we can go anywhere. Now we have this, our car we were driving, and I said, "Agni Devī, Bāṃśā Devī, do you know the ashram where to go?" She said, "I am the navigator." And the navigator is going like this. Three days ago, before I was talking, yes, the science, the doctor put it here in our wrist, in our wrist here, and in the nerves, and it's going all. Why did she not go out that side? Or why did it not come out in the brain? No, it's exactly from where, so how it went to our heart. And in the heart, not there and there, otherwise we will die. So this is like a worm, or the roots of the trees, or the grass. And the roots are searching where the water is. And similarly, we have that God has given, and second is our science, what our humans are doing, and that is great. But God's science is not making problems. But human-made science can make a problem. Now, many atoms and many, many problems, and this and that. Now they are killing people sitting here, pressing the button, and somewhere else. Yes, but it will not go like that. So guru kṛpā hi kevalam. So everyone is our guru. Many things. When there is a very nice tree with beautiful cherries and sweet fruits, this is our guru giving to us like this. So we see that yes, what is good is my life, myself. And myself comes there. So this is what Guru Pūrṇimā, Guru Pūrṇimā is when the moon was, and there is a written in the very far, it was in the ocean brought out. So there are many, many,... Many things came, not only these few things, but the churning of the ocean. But in that water, in that fire, so, Guru Pūrṇimā. And we know, you know, everybody always we are talking, what means the Guru Pūrṇimā? So, "Gu" means dark, and "Ru" means light. That's all. We can say night and day. And so dark, we are in darkness, but in the darkness is also light. So this is one kind of light, that is night and day. But in our body, there is no night and day. All is constantly inside, working, working all in our life. So, Guru Pūrṇimā. So Guru means dark, Guru means light. Pūrṇimā, complete. And that is complete, then. Your Gurudeva gave you the mantra, the practice, and now it is completed in your body and in your mind, or in your consciousness and in the whole body, in all five prāṇas. In the body, the physical body is also Prāṇa. This prāṇa, that prāṇa. So that is very, very important to go. So now, in a few days, on the 5th, the full moon is coming, and also this day, the full moon will also be a dark moon a little bit. Maybe here also? Yes. Yeah, and it was last month, it was the sun. About, I think, 10 days ago, 10 or 15 days or something, a dark sun. It was here also? A little bit? No. So, there, and it was one, two hours. It was long, that it was. So, that's coming. Some people said, "Oh, God, this is not good," and this... it is. It is said by the moon and by the sun: when it is dark, then it has something. It's like, let's say, we have a nice light here, and suddenly the electricity goes out, and it's dark. We can't see, and then it comes back on again. So there is something negative inside, and therefore the Jyotiṣīs said—and these Jyotiṣīs are great people—please don't look at the dark moon or dark sun. It will go in your eyes and in your brain centers, which will not be good. After a long time, you will feel that it was a wrong euphoria. So, anyhow, Guru Pūrṇimā we will have, and when I was in Europe all the times there, Holy Gurujī told me, said to me, "You should come once for Guru Pūrṇimā here." I said, "Gurudeva, you are a guru, and you are there, and I am here for the people." So Gurujī said, "Okay." But many bhaktas of Gurujī told him, "Aishwarya Nand is not coming." He said, "Yes, he is with his bhaktas here." So I am here. Gurujī said, "Swāmījī, you are there, Gurujī, and I am here." And once Gurujī was there in Strelki on Guru Pūrṇimā. And next, I think two years after, I was sitting near where Gurujī was sitting, on this tree. And our people, they had a break, lunch. They were either having lunch or, I think, maybe breakfast. And I was sitting under the trees, and I was looking toward my room, where I am, Gurujī's room. And I see that Gurujī, I see the astral body of the Gurujī. And Gurujī said, "Māheśa." Always he said, "Māheśa." Maheshwaranandajī. Either Gurujī will say Maheshwaranandajī or Mahesha. And Gurujī said, "This time is the last physical body daytime for the Pūrṇimā." So, as you like, if you should be here or not. I was preparing for the Guru Pūrṇimā here. But Gurujī came, and I got up, and I said, "I am going." I said, "Where?" We had a program in Strelki. I said, "Yes, but Gurujī is calling me." And so I came to Gurujī, and this and that. And you know, this was the last Guru Pūrṇimā's. Together, me and Gurujī. And then, after the next year or so, nearby, Gurujī passed away. So now it was in nearly 18 days, years, in 2003. So now again I was there and not here. And maybe it was Gurujī's wish that I should be in Europe. And so this time I am in Europe for Guru Pūrṇimā. Now, there were some problems with certain kinds of diseases all over the world. So we will be there, and we hope there will be no rain. So we can be more in the park. In the whole room, the park is like this; we cannot sit together. So we hope that, and I will be there, and every day I will make blessings of our holy Gurujīs and that Guru Pūrṇimā's. But what should we do, how should we do it? We are in different parts of the world, around the whole world, maybe Australia, Africa, New Zealand, India, Europe, Brazil, or everywhere. Many bhaktas are asking me, Swāmījī, Guru Pūrṇimā is everywhere, and that is what is everywhere is like this. For example, that the husband doesn't celebrate, you should say, "It's my husband, you don't know what is your husband and what." Is your wife okay? So not by the name, said, "My, my dear, my husband, okay, okay." So, like, for example, that. So he got today a very nice perfume, yes, let's say from the sandalwood, and he had only a little bit here or something. Where do they make it here, or what? Here, where do you make perfumes? Okay, in my house there were no perfumes, and I... I was in a little village; there is no perfumes, maybe, but not. And when I was Gurujī's, once, if I have a perfume, Gurujī gave me so many slips here and there, and I have forgotten there. Yes, Gurujī said, "Perfume? Wash yourself with the water or take with the ash?" Yes, Gurujī was... Gurujī also did not put that perfume. Avtārpur is now full of perfumes. Yes, yes, this is... these are the people. So while he is still little, he is not complete, but I have many disciples who will be my successors. Dapuri is my, how to say, my son, but that is not in that way, that is very different. So, who knows who will be out? He is trying very hard, but when you take one perfume, then say, "Go out." Mahāprabhujī will say, "Holī Gurujī said, 'Go out.'" Yes. Many sādhus, they have only ash and go. So, anyhow, let's come further, okay? So that Hari, this Hari, have little perfumes somewhere in his ear, or maybe I don't know where they make everything. I need I have so many perfumes coming, and I give somewhere. Anyhow, that God now he have... The perfumes here, but they smell so good. All we have are the perfumes in our nose, yes? Good, no? Yes, that is, so is the prāṇa goes, so is everything, disciples and Gurudeva and even others. So be the perfume, yes? And someone says, "No, no, it's my guru only, I will be only," others are like this, then your perfume is not there. And Śiva's army, Śiva has many armies. And you know, in our Jadan Ashram, for example, we have nearly 25 or more beehives. So these bees are very much, and those women or the men, doesn't it? For them, it doesn't matter if it is not a good perfume, then the bees are coming. So, my god, just now one... Man, to the both brothers from Slovenia, and they have long hair and eyes. They are my very great disciples and working. They went somewhere near the ashram of where was in, and the beast was three, four, five hundred. It can die one. Can die so immediately we put them in the hospital, and the doctor gave the injections and took them all near, and after, the next day, he wanted to go, so he came to my room. He said, "Swāmījī, can I?" Because all was like this, yeah? And not in. So he wanted to see me. So I said, "Okay, you can come to my room." Well, Agni Devī was there. They didn't want that somebody comes in. I said, "It's okay." And he came and he sat with me, with a cup of tea and fruits and like this. And he said, "Okay, Swāmījī, I'm coming." And as soon as he came near my lift, the others only noticed him because he had a perfume, but that was not a good perfume, so which is not quality reality? Then, is this and who just doing one time? Here, wind them. Then the bees are really all here. The bees, they will come if you have such perfumes. So, I think the people, I think they have in Europe these bees for honey, and look, go there with... The perfumes will come because that is not a reality, so it doesn't matter where we are. He has a little perfume on his face or in his body, but all have it similarly, our Guru. Our Guru, it doesn't matter where in the world, on that day, Guru Pūrṇimā day, the perfume will be completely for everyone. And you will all be like bees coming to get the nectar of the blessings. Nectar of giving, more spiritualities, talk techniques, etc. Many, many things. So there are mantras, there are bhajans, there is also pūjā, and on that day is guru pūjā. That's why Guru Pūrṇimā. Pūrṇa means complete. Pūrṇam adaḥ, pūrṇam idam, pūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate, pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya, pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate. So, Śiṣya are two things. One word is Śiṣya, but second is that it is complete. That's called Śiṣya. Śiṣya means it is ever and ever is complete. So that is Pūrṇa. It is Pūrṇa Mādha, Pūrṇa Vedam, Pūrṇa Ātmā, Pūrṇa Śrīya, Pūrṇa Mādhāya, Pūrṇa Mevāva, Pūrṇa Śiṣya. So this is how these mantras are, meaning they have been given by the great ṛṣis. So on this day, every devotee, because we cannot go to the other street and this and that, where we can, you will be together in all our ashrams, but not too many. You can do it at your home and make a worship. Everything, mentally give everything to your Gurudeva. What you want to give also, physical things, okay, no problems. Bring the mangoes, bring the chumfruits, all this everything, bring the money, why not? Money is a honey, very good. So anything we give, we give. So give the cloth, give the money, give this. This is not a prosperity, but we are giving from our heart, and that should remain. So, all bhaktas around the world, today I am telling you, morning you will get up, wash yourself, and then make your mālās, and then sit in front of your altar. And that you have there inside. There is water, a little yogurt, a little milk, a little honey, or some good sweet something. And all of this is done mentally, with your thinking that your Gurujī is with you. You give this, wash the holy feet of the Gurudevas, and also then make the tilaka, and then you make prasāda, and mostly they, what is that, water, caraṇāmṛta. This is the Caraṇāmṛta. And so it is the right foot, right foot, the first thing, second also. And then you can take one in your mouth, or someone can drink everything. This is the śiṣya, guru, and like that. That's very important, and then make the āratī and mantras. And then you make your prasāda. You can eat it, give it to others, etc. So this is very good, how to make Guru Pūrṇimā ceremonies. Yes, there is holy water. It is very important. You know that about Christians in the church. When you go to the outside of the church, you go in. On the right side, there is holy water, no? And you put it on your hand or in your mouth or something. How they are doing that is the charanamṛt. That is the caraṇāmṛta, so everywhere. Is something like that, and purification, it has to be very, very pure. So there we will have Guru Pūrṇimā, and Guru Pūrṇimā is coming very soon, and yeah, tomorrow is, according to my date, this day of... Tomorrow is my mother's ceremony, according to the Jyotiṣ, when she passed away. Luckily, after that, I was again with the Māṭājī. You know, there was a beautiful satsaṅga, and very nice bhajans, and many things. So there is that. Now, you see, there is Mahāprabhujī's holy mother. And now, our brother is making that beautiful mother from the many pictures from the families, only the mothers. Mahāprabhujī's mother is the mother of all four others. And now she's coming, big, nice. Picture will be. So after that, we will give you also these pictures you want, and the Alak Nanda, Alak Purīchī, that picture is so, photo is so beautiful. It's coming out, and that will always be with you. So, Guru Pūrṇimā—every Guru Pūrṇimā is a Guru Pūrṇimā. But this one day, that is the day of Veda Vyāsa. And according to Veda Vyāsa, we are worshipping also, and before also. You can ask the questions: how we will do, how we cannot do. So, I will be in Hungary, not in Hungary, in Strelka, and in Strelka, two days before or something, we will make a pūjā, and everybody should see that, you know, like this, you had. I think, when I was in India, you know, so this, we will make it like this. So if you are coming, if you can, but the people, they are organizing, but they are always making the distance a little bit because of this. So if we cannot come at that time, we will be there, and it will go to the Australian side, which is different; the Brazilian other side is different; and Europe and Africa are the same, more or less. So, time. I wish you all the best. And today was this, and on that day, you give your mala. This is your mantra mālā, and you will also make it for pūjā. In your pūjā, this mālā you will put there. And in this, you will, with holy water and with the tilaka, with the honeys and these things, also with this, and then get in your, on your head, on our forehead, in our heart, and this, Gurudeva, please. Until the next Guru Pūrṇimā, please give me blessings that I will have a good life, good health, and everything in the best. And this will be your mala is in my heart. And this is a mala, and again, "Gurudeva, please give me this mala," and then we will take it again in our mala. This is so, this is the... it has meanings, it has great meanings. You in Austria, I said, you have once a year you have something as here on. The Tilaka, yes, from where it is coming? It is that, from that Tilaka. So it is there, here and there, everything is one. Is where? So we should be, we should be in Brahmaloka's consciousness. We should be that, like a Guru Pūrṇimā, not a physical body of this, but it is the... Light energy, everything, so we are all that one religion. Religion is different, but beyond that religion, we are that. That is the greatest thing. We are up because when we will go out of this body, then all prāṇas and our soul will come there.

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