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Obstacles on the spiritual path

A spiritual discourse on self-discovery and yogic practice.

"We are not searching outside anywhere. We are searching within ourselves."

"God gave you the door open, but you are blind, and you put your hand always on the wall."

A spiritual teacher addresses a gathering, using parables like a mother forgetting her child and a blind man missing a door to illustrate that the divine and the solutions to spiritual blindness are found within. He discusses the journey of sādhanā, emphasizing self-purification, gradual reduction of nourishment, and moving beyond the ego and physical postures to access inner knowledge and chakras. The talk includes practical advice and references to holy texts.

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Om namo śrī prabhu śrī buddhi pāṇaraṅg Haṁsabhādas Prabhusar Parāyaṇam Haṁsabhādas May Om Namah Śrī Prabhu Dīpanāra Om Namah Śrī Prabhu Dīpanāra Haṁsabdhasprabhśaraṇparāyaṇa. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhudī Namaḥ Śrī Prabhudī Haṁsabhādas Prabhu Śaraṇaprayāṇam Haṁsabhādas Śaraṇaprayāṇam Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpanārāyaṇam Namaḥ Śrī Prabodhipa Nārāyaṇa. Shri Deep Narayana Bhagwan Devadhi Dev Deveshwar Mahadeva Halakpuri Ji Mahadeva Haradi Bhagwan Shri Deep Narayana Mahāprabhujī Ki Satguru Swami Madhvananji Bhagwan Lilananji Maharaj Ki Om Shanti, Om Shanti, Om Shanti. We all welcome you. This is a beautiful day. We were all waiting for you, and today is a very nice day. We are all one, and so we are here in the holy place of Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, Holy Gurujī and Swāmijī. Bhagavān Mahāprabhujī, with folded hands, we make praṇām. Oṁ Śrī Alak Purī Jī Mahādev Kī Jai. Devādhī Dev, Deveśwar Mahādev Kī Jai. Our Guru Paramparā, I pray that all our bhaktas, our devotees, our friends who are here, please give us your blessings. We are now at your holy lotus feet of Gurudev, Mahāprabhujī, and other Mahāprabhujī's disciples. Mahāprabhujī and all our paramparās, we pray that you please give us peace, harmony, love, understanding, and spiritual development. Abychom všichni obdrželi pokoj, harmonii a duchovní rozvoj. We say to all our paramparās, please, give us that time in a beautiful atmosphere for our sādhanā, our practice. Practicing yoga means not only physical exercises, but exercises, these prānāyāmas, are also very useful. Someone said, "The body is not all, but without the body, nothing is there." We are our own self, and have everything within us. We are not searching outside anywhere. We are searching within ourselves. We go everywhere to see this world and atmosphere in different places. That's always good. But what we are searching for is within us. Everything is with us. There was a little story. About 25 or 30 years ago, one girl had a baby. As every mother, she had a lot of love for the child. She was also working for the home and taking care of the child. She took her child in her arms and worked. With one hand, holding the child, the child sleeping on her shoulder, she worked on something. She went outside the house, into the garden, and suddenly she said, "My God, where is my child?" She searched in the house, in the garden, and ran to the neighbors. At the neighbors, there was one grand lady, a grandmother. The young lady said, "Grandmother, grandmother, where is my child? Where is my child?" The grandmother said, "My child, the little baby is with you, in your arms." She said, "Oh, I'm sorry." So we all, including myself, we have all within and with us. But we are searching outside. Outside, we are looking for something, for God's different things. So in this part, according to our guru, they are awakening us. They awaken us, not give to us. They said, your child is in your arms. Their knowledge is inside. Your God is inside. Everything is within, but it is like this: sometimes, actually, sometimes in the winter, there is a lot of fog, and we don't know where to see. Then the sunrise, again very foggy. Similarly, we are also like blind, and we don't know where we are. So we are all in the fog. That's because we are blind, and when the fog will go away, the clouds will go away, the sun rises, and the beautiful blue sky, we know everything very clearly. Oh, I am here. Or there is a call: we are blind, and we are blind, but we don't want to admit that we are blind. There was a big hall like this here, and there was a blind person inside. He had one stick in one hand. He wanted to go out of the big hall. Where is the gate to go out? There was a conference or something. People went, but the blind one said, "I will go, don't worry, okay?" The blind one, one hand stick and one hand on the wall, and he's going wall to wall. When the door comes, he takes his hand from the wall and scratches his hair. But walking, then again he puts his hand on the wall, again going, going slowly, slowly, and when the door comes, he's scratching his armpit and again puts his hand on the wall. Three, four times. Then he said, "My God, how big is this hole? That is very long." There was a man who was working there, cleaning. He said, "It's not very big, but you don't know, you always forget or you leave it behind." And he said, "Don't think that blind person is not so stupid." "Who are you there?" He said, "I am the person who is taking care of here." "Then don't talk to me," and again he's going. Then he said, "My dear friend, you lost many times the door. You missed the door." "I'm not stupid." He said, "You are." "I am not," he said. "My friend, you have all the time your hand on the wall, but when you put your hand in your hair, on your shoulders, and there's only two steps, the door is behind." He said, "Oh my God, I think I'm not blind," and I said, "I am blind, really now, because I lost one door." What do you mean? From time to time, God gave you the door. It means that you are going to mokṣa. God gave me the door open, but you are blind, and you put your hand always on the wall. And that's why these are the walls; this is for the blind. You don't know. Similarly, we are in this world; we have so many things to do, and we lost it. So we come to our sādhanā, our yoga in daily life, where there are many, many practices of different yogic sādhanās. Not only asanas, but the pranayamas. Not only the pranayamas, but the concentration. And not only the concentration, but also meditation. And in meditation, we have to see within our chakras. And similarly, we are coming further through Guru Kṛpā. So Gurudev can guide us, but Gurudev cannot do more. We show you the path. Walking, you have to. You should walk. Similarly, Gurudev can give us mantra, some techniques, etc. But you have to do it yourself. It doesn't matter what you think. First, you have to understand. First, we have to understand. First, I have to understand my guru, and yes, my Gurudeva, it is like that. So the guru has given that knowledge; the guru has given that spirituality. Guru will look in you for what is a mistake. But you should not look at the mistakes or something in the guru. That's it. And the mistake we are making is that we think, "I'm searching for my guru." That he is the best, and he should not make any mistakes. But what have you done? We need milk, so we are getting milk from the cow. But we are not taking everything from the cow. What cows are eating, what kind of fodder they are eating, not a filter, the grass. So we should need only milk, not extra things. So, here you are here for how many days? I don't know. But I can tell you that you are in the ocean of milk. That is milk, and you are very pure, clean. Now, milk means not only this white milk. These are only milk, and water is the same. These are the five principles. Or these are Manomaya Kośa, Prāṇamaya, Manomaya, Vijñānamaya. These are all what I am talking about every day. But after these five, the sixth one we are searching, yes. There are four which we can see and search, we will get. So these are the ten principles. We will talk about this tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and so on. But these are ten, and each of ten is multiplying. So there are twenty-five principles, and from that, then we get out. That is going, your sādhanās to go to the supreme. In the hidden powers in humans, kundalini and chakras, in that book you should read, you didn't read properly. You were like a newspaper, and then through the newspaper. Bhagavad Gītā is not a newspaper. Rāmāyaṇa is not a paper. Vedas are not papers. The holy books are not a newspaper, so all of this, we are, we cannot throw them out. But you have your holy book, and it is on your table, or somewhere else. Sometimes you look in; otherwise, it's dusty and dusty. So that will not give us that knowledge. So similarly, we have to read our body as the holy scriptures. And therefore, what we are learning, and in your book, The Hidden Powers in Humans, so it is there, but we don't know. And that's why we completely have a lot of physical problems. But still we cannot see. Only the doctor will see. Doctor will say, "Oh, there is something." He said, "Please, doctor, please, can you clean this or make an operation?" So it happens to everyone, but if we are really very pure, clean, then we don't have that kind of problem, that a doctor needs to make an operation. So we have to purify ourselves. No one has given you to do something that is not good. The five tattvas, these five tattvas, if we can purify them and give them energy and movement and this, then let us say 95% we can be healthy. And when we are not doing and eating differently, without thinking, then we have 95% of our mistakes. The first mistake, the first big mistake, the first terrible mistake, that first very negative power, what is that? Our nourishment, even you think that I eat very good sāttvic and vegetarian. Still, you make very many mistakes. I also make mistakes. But a yogī, they are not mistaken. But they don't know where they are. So, even if it is sāttvic food, you know what is sāttvic? Pure. No eggs, no meat, no fish, and etc. We are eating good vegetables, we are drinking milk, etc. But still, our mistake is that we are getting too much of our food in this garbage. More and more and more and more and more. Now we know what to do. Then we think, "Now we will give up everything," and very little of this. Also, not good. That again makes you ill. Then what to do? Step by step, at least 15 to 20 years, we are slowly, slowly making our nourishment less and less and less. Then, what we call the energy, prāṇa's purification, is clean; then our body will be strong. But you go for one week or two weeks somewhere, eating little, this, that, swimming, massaging, everything, and coming home again, you're putting all the garb on it. And all these desires, and what we call our problems, like cancer, etc. The snake is inside, and whatever you will do, he will bite you one day. So, how to get this out? You need a master for a snake. So, slowly, slowly, think today. You eat well. I know you are vegetarian and everything. Now, if you are eating one kilo, then cut it only two percent. Otherwise, we will be very weak. And we will be lost, slowly, slowly, slowly. Other things, if we are going towards spirituality, God, etc., then there is a second problem, illness. And that is that I am; the rest is not. I am the best. It is I who am in the front. I am, others are not mine. This is not good. That's why many people who are coming to spirituality, coming to the Master or to the Guru or something, and then what we are thinking, we neglect others. I am the best one, I am the good one. Then it is going to cause disease in the body. And so, what is negative? And that thing that I am, what is inside, is creating disease. Not only physical disease, it's also mental. And you know, it doesn't come first in the body. No. The disease comes from our thoughts. This is only our laziness, anger, hate, jealousy, etc. And there is a pollution, slowly, slowly, which then comes to the body. As Gurujī was telling, this illness is not illnesses in your thoughts. It doesn't matter to whom you have jealousy or anger, etc. So it is said, early morning when we get up, we should wash ourselves. Then impurities go out. Now, you know, the corona, they say, "Wash your hands, again, wash hands, wash hands," you know. And alcohol, washing hands. Alcohol is not for drinking, but for cleaning. And you know, the alcohol comes from the ocean. When Shiva said, "Churning of the ocean," and there comes all this, these kinds of qualities or something, and it was alcohol also. But those Rākṣasas, they said, "This is good for us," and they were drinking alcohol. And the others, for them it was like a medicine or something, on your skin, many things, but not for drinking. So this is the difference in this good or bad: that alcohol is not bad. But the second one is bad. And who is that? Who is drinking? So, first you have to accept others, because I know who I am, but now I will see everybody and not neglect one or the other. So it is said, there are people doing yoga, and they are making it a competition. But a yogī will never say competition. We will first give you, and then I will take. When your guest comes, do you first eat and then give them? We give first to others, and then we give to ourselves. And that is when you are a yogī, then you are a master, then you are a god. Everything you can understand is in this. So, this is our book, Hidden Powers in Humans. With what? What is that? The chakras, and these are four points. And what is in this? You read completely again and again and again, sometimes the last. My father said, when someone serves you food, vegetable one, vegetable two, vegetable different, chutney, etc., etc., yes, sometimes chutney. You see, something is big, big things we are getting, eating, and then a little chutney. That is very nicely said. Now, a good vegetable or a nice chapati, but then chutney, because chutney has more taste than others. And more power in it. So it is said, when we are servicing the invertible, or in the thālī, or a plate, so when we all have eaten, and then you should take a little piece of chapati, and that from the plate, all that is inside that is tasteful, so we are eating this, we are doing this prāṇāyāms, āsanas. There, there, but after all this, what the guru said, that is the test. We have a beautiful chart here, our kuṇḍalinī and these cakras. Big chart. Who does not have a hand up from this chart, our kuṇḍalinī and cakras? Those who don't have, they should like this, okay? So tomorrow you will see how beautiful it is. Because the chakras and kuṇḍalinī, this is a yogic science, that is a yogic science. And each letter on it, the resonance in that, it will feel only like a spinal column, but there is energy going up and down, not the bones, nothing like this. We will see tomorrow, day after tomorrow, everywhere. But as I said, from today, from one kilo, we shall make little, just like how many, not 20%, one corn. From one, what you eat, the bread and this, one corn. So, in one month, how many corns? And they're not all in three menus. Morning, then noon and evening. There we should eat one corn a day. So, how many corn is one kilo? That is one day, one day... only one corn, only one corn. Then we will see that our nutrition, what we have, will become slowly, slowly that come, and prāṇas will come more and more strong. I saw today Badrinath and the people are there, not so much, but many people are there still. And there are sādhus, those who are more practicing at sādhanās. And it's not that they are starving. And they are just jumping, going straight up and down on the stairs. And one very rich person, and how they are eating, and how they are eating. And now they are coming to the temple for darśan in Badrināth. There are little stairs, but they cannot step. Because they are only eating. How many years? How much were you making in your body? So, one year, how many days? And from that we take just a little, let's say, like, what can we say? One corn. And always eat one, two, or three times, but not in between. Then, in three years, you will step on very quickly. It does not matter if you are a woman or a man. How big, big. So that I said that yogī, sorry, that it is said that yogīs will say first, "Please, I serve you," and then I will. And those who are not, they said, "Competition, I will run first, and I will do the best postures. I will do āsanas beautifully." This is not good. That's not a yogī. Because posture will not give us what we call liberation. And may it give, but they will not run first to God. God will say, "Go back." And don't go left or right here, that is a problem. So let's come in our sādhanā. Tomorrow is Saturday or Sunday? Saturday we have some conference. Saturday or Sunday also, I see. I have every day, Saturday, OK? Or every Sunday. If not, then you will see the day after tomorrow; Sunday is there. And wait, again Sunday will come. So, always we are there. The days we are humans have done, humans said one, two, three, and the sun, Saturday, Monday, etc. Can you tell any animals how to do that? Yes, they don't. They say it is, we are, that's all. But of course, we are humans, and we are doing all nicely, clearly, etc. So we are not like a crocodile, just like a devil. So we do everything. We have the day, we have... And we are because every day, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc., it has the signs, and it is because of the moon and the sun. This is everything. In the Jyotiṣa, it is first coming from the Jyotiṣa. So, my dear, again, I welcome you, and I'm very happy to see you. I do believe that you have all accommodations now, and they have told you that, please, you know, the day before yesterday was Kṛṣṇa's birthday. And so we had Krishna's, this, like, there we were all I had here. And look, I did not think why he stood. Sorry, I'm not doing anything, but he's so active there. Krishna, Krishna, yes, please sleep, you know? Everybody... And then people were so... Happy, all so happy. So El said, "Kṛṣṇa, they were giving him a kiss. Kṛṣṇa, I'm not moving." So all kissing, kissing, everybody took the Kṛṣṇa, like this. So we have to, at least today, the question was, when you are walking, then you should have a minimum two to three meters distance. There was a very nice lecture by one doctor, and really, he wrote and explained very, very nicely. God bless us. Mahāprabhujī bless us that we will not have this Corona, Brona, Trona, but everybody is doing so, we should also. So welcome very much, and we will have next programs, and they... I have told you where, what will be the programs. Thank you. Dīpan, Bhagavān, Nekhī. Nobody. Yeah, Krishna was crying that nobody said like this. Yes, we have, please. Okay? That no one even blinked. Yes, it's okay, we blinked.

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