TV Channel

Good evening, all my dear sisters, brothers, beautiful children, and many students. I am very happy to know all of you. Many of you have told me about the questions you asked. Suddenly, there were so many that I could not answer them all. But I am answering through my lectures. Yesterday and the day before, our bhaktas in Mexico were so happy because I telephoned them. They said, “Swāmījī, we are listening to your lectures and many answers every day.” The same is happening in other countries, and of course in Europe, among many thousands and thousands of our bhaktas. They all say, “We are very happy that at home we can sit together—families, children—and listen to these lectures.” That is perfect. So, this is the time. This is the time that we all again come to our inner self. We humans nowadays are working very hard externally for all humans, for animals, for forests, and so on. My work is also for the outside world—for people, animals, forests, etc. And yesterday, during meditation, I was thinking. Humans are very active and do things according to their knowledge and capacities, and they try to keep our world nice and happy. Sometimes some people are quick to fight, but we are all fighting. We are fighting for food—not that we lack food, but we want to eat more. We want to eat well. We feed all our children. We feed our cows, buffaloes, and many animals. We also feed the birds. So, we humans are doing great. One should not think that humans are crazy. They are not crazy. They are always striving to become better. So we are in this together. You know, being human in this century, we have done so much. We have tried to do good things for the elderly, and we are also taking very good care of other creatures. We are building many very good roads for ourselves. In one respect, this is good. But on the other hand, it is not good for our environment. On the one hand, we are happy because we can reach our destination quickly on a very good, straight road. But to make it, we have chopped down many, many trees, and we have made so many things to construct that good road. And, of course, as we constantly travel on these roads, there is a lot of pollution and impurity. People know that to build these roads, they are taking rocks, concrete, and many things from the mountains. And all who work on the roads sometimes work day and night, trying very hard to make them nice and very good. That is all. And also, there is a path for the animals to go under the road. Yes? Yesterday at midnight, because of my program and lectures, I was speaking with someone from another country very far away. So I said, we should not say that humans are negative. In this time of Corona, despite negativity, we are good, and we wish that we all remain healthy. And you know that we humans are healthy. We are working very hard on building houses. We are making tunnels. Why? So that we have straight, very good roads and do not destroy so many trees. These workers are very great, and I am very, very happy about that. So I say this because we humans are working too hard on the external side. If we were to work every day, just a little, one or two hours, on the inner body, that would be very, very good. So now we will have a bhajan singing. Who will sing the bhajan? Yes, please come forward. Whatever bhajan you sing, I will listen, absorb it in my inner self, and then send that energy to you. So, one person please come and sing. That’s why we, as yogīs, are also trying very hard. We make many mistakes, but we do it as yoga. In yoga, we do it for the whole world. We try to work within our body. Our inner engineer—yoga is an engineer, not a human, but the techniques of yoga. Everything God has made is already complete. How does He make our body better again? We give back more, but it is from that power that we exist, and that is very important. So, what is yoga? Why do people practice yoga? Why do teachers design yoga practices? This is for the inner aspect of the human body, inside and out. My dear, sing the bhajan, please: Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Dev Purīśrama Dev Kī Jaya. Tum jaya raho guru ke caraṇ mein baram sab durgā rāvata hai... Pañca Tattva Kā Bhanabhijāra Usme Hī Haṁsamāvatā Hai... Hatha choḍha, mana chala, saṅgha mere, to ye ātmā beda batāvatā he... Mātā Pitā Ārubhai Bandhu Duniya Bichāḍu Bhavata He... Kyo, Abhiyoka, torbayo? Jara laja, śharma nahī̃ āvatāhe... Tori Mayāme Bulo Prabhuko Uta Chetan Rubdhikāvata He... Jo yogī andhyā dhārat hai, var par nahīṁ bhavat hai... Oṃ Bālya Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jaya Everybody, very nice. This bhajan, which comes from our Mahāprabhujī, is our recording of these two beautiful bhajans. So, as I was saying, we all as humans try our best. But what is the best thing to do? Some want to do one thing, others another. But we have to realize that we humans are on this globe, on this earth, and we try to do our best. Yet sometimes things don’t work out that way. Sometimes someone feels a little unwell. In this regard, yoga is that inner peace, harmony, and understanding within ourselves. Nowadays, there are many different kinds of physical exercises and sports, like football, etc. That is good, but yoga is ancient, from the ṛṣis (sages). They thought deeply and made it easier, very easy and comfortable, as exercises for the inner body—the yoga practice. The difference is that we do too much externally. Some may say, “I want to create a great yoga,” with this and that. But the other aspect is the inner self. So it doesn’t matter if someone practices yoga very strongly only on the hands and toes. They may be acrobatic, but in yoga postures, what is very important is the breath. And in Haṭha Yoga, there is Trāṭaka. The way I last practiced Trāṭaka, I have described in my book, showing that Trāṭaka involves the eyes, a path that can go without any light. Again, I come to our modern technology. When an air pilot is flying, they may use instruments. They might use a blind, a curtain that covers the windshield. They cannot see outside, yet they have to take off and fly. They are effectively blindfolded every minute, every second. That is the mark of the best pilot. Sometimes I say, the pilot and the guru are the same. So just as the guru leads disciples, the pilot flies the airplane. It is very nice to sit in an airplane; we want a comfortable chair. We always ask for a drink: water, mineral water, some juice. Some even drink alcohol. We get food, a blanket. We are comfortable. But how? Our pilot is providing us this comfort, and so does Gurudev. We ask everything from Gurudev. That is not good. “Please, can you give me this?” Gurudev might say, “I will give.” But if you want something that is not beneficial, He may not give it. Just as we give juice to little children, but not alcohol to the elderly. Others may ask for fruit juice. So the guru is like a pilot. The Guru takes us through our inner Trāṭaka, straight ahead. Just as when the sun goes down, there is no sun now, and the moon is not yet up, it becomes very dark. Similarly, with our outer eyes we can be in darkness, unable to see, but our inner guide leads us in that quiet way. This is the difference between yoga and other technologies. And all of this relates to the five sheaths, which we call Annamaya Kośa, Prāṇamaya Kośa, Manomaya Kośa, Vijñānamaya Kośa, and Ānandamaya Kośa. These are the five paths we must traverse. After that comes the blessing of the Master, the Guru, who gives techniques on how to meditate, how to go within oneself. It does not mean that you go within and never come out. You can sit for just five minutes, or one hour. Feel happy. When you open your eyes again, you feel a very nice light. So yoga and other techniques—some are parallel, and some are not. Therefore, we will come further to Haṭha Yoga and Kuṇḍalinī Yoga later. You know we have begun with that one prayer of Gurudev. A devotee of Mahāprabhujī composed this prayer, which we have already recited: Dabharūpa Vyāpaka Satyarūpa Vimala Cetanayātmā Dhana Dhyānayāge Yāgam Jāge Nigama Se Nityayātmā Parase Parivāra Yāge Pratīta Ho Adhyātmā Prabhu Pratīta Ho Yadhyātmā Niradhāra Ho Ādhāra Ho Esā Ho Avicala Ātmā Prabhu Esā Ho Avicala Ātmā Alakadeva Yajña Sevā Brahma Bheda Ātmā Prabhu Brahma Bheda Ātmā Sun Seho Par Prabhujī Mavśākṣī Sudayātmā Dhar Dhyāna Soham Munī Moan Sukh Svarūp Sahaj Dhyātmā Gurū Dīp Ho Parnām Sayār Āp Hī Paramātmā Surat Kar Guru Dhyāna Dharasī Bhavasuna Sukha Setarī Ātmā Bhavasukha Setarī Ātmā Śivānanda Bole Āratī, Gurudeva Nirguṇa Mātma, Prabhugurudeva Nirvāṇa Pātma. Sakal Jag Ke Antra Jāmī Chara Charkī Ātmā Prabhu Chara Charkī Ātmā Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Devādī Deva Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jaya, Alakhpurījī Mahādeva Kī Jaya, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jaya, Mātā Pitā Guru Deva Kī Jaya. Oṁ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ. Sakal jag ke antra jāmī, charāchar kī ātmā prabhu, charāchar kī ātmā śrī guru ātmā parama. Sakal jag ke antra jāmī, carācar kī ātmā, Prabhu, carācar kī ātmā.