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Blessings from the Kumbha Mela

A pilgrimage reveals the divine within and around us.

A journey to the Kumbh Melā offers a profound experience of high vibration and collective spirituality. Witnessing the procession of saints and connecting with thousands of devotees creates a beautiful exchange of energy and blessings. Bathing in the Gaṅgā River allows one to feel its divine, feminine energy. The event symbolizes the eternal churning within, the struggle between divine and base qualities, from which the nectar of immortality emerged. True pilgrimage, however, is found at the Guru's feet, where the real Gaṅgā of blessing flows. The ashram itself becomes the real Kumbh Melā, a concentrated field of grace from the Guru lineage.

"It was very, very beautiful, very high vibration, very colorful—so many people."

"The real Kumbh Melā happens actually here in this very āśrama... All that energy... is channeled within this only place here."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Part 1: A Pilgrimage of the Heart: Reflections on Kumbh Melā and Divine Art Gurur Brahmā, Gurur Viṣṇu, Gurur Devo Maheśvara, Gurur Sākṣāt Parabrahma, Tasmai Śrī Gurave Namaḥ. Dhyānamūlaṁ Gurumūrti, Pūjāmūlaṁ Gurupadaṁ, Mantramūlaṁ Guruvākyaṁ, Mokṣamūlaṁ Guror Kṛpā. Oṁ Dīpa Jyoti Parabrahma Dīpam Sarve Mohanam Dīpan Sajjate Sarvam Sandhyā Dīpam Sarva Satyam Oṁ Śānti Śānti... Good evening, my dear sisters, brothers, yoga teachers, yogīs, and yoga students around the world—to Yoga in Daily Life and all other yoga centers, different schools and ashrams, etc., around the world. There are different kinds of teaching of yoga around the world; yoga is the science of the human body. I am very happy to be today, now again in India, in our ashrams, where our beautiful ashram, Jadān, which is the Aum Ashram, is located. Today I want to tell you about our very dear Lakṣmī. She came from America, and I was in Europe. I came here, and many of our friends came here. We went to the Kumbh Melā, to go to the Gaṅgā, and we touched the water from the Gaṅgā. I think it would be better that Lakṣmī will tell what she learned, what she saw, what she liked, what she did not like, etc. I think this is good; Lakṣmī is the Lakṣmī. So, Lakṣmī, please, it is your turn. Thank you, Swāmījī. Okay, everybody. Hari Om. Hari Om, dear brothers and sisters around the world. My name is Lakṣmī, and I am from America. I have been living in Virginia near the Yoga in Daily Life Ashram ever since I was a baby. Swāmījī held me very shortly after I was born and gave me the name Lakṣmī. So I am very blessed to be able to travel now with him to India, 24 years later, and experience Kumbh Melā for the very first time. I did not really expect to have this experience, but it was very profound and beautiful nonetheless, so I will take a few moments to share my experience with you. I had no expectations or vision of what Kumbh Melā really is, what it looks like, or what would happen. So I had a blank slate in front of me of what I was going into. Overall, it was very, very beautiful, very high vibration, very colorful—so many people. It was just really, really profound, something I will not forget. For the first real event, there was a procession with all the Mahāmaṇḍaleśvaras. It was very unexpected to be able to make praṇām to each Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara before the actual procession began. This was very beautiful for me, to be able to go one by one and make praṇām and just send a beautiful energy from heart to each Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, to take a moment to connect with each one. Then I saw how each one would go to their respective wagon, which was beautifully decorated with silvers and golds and reds and pinks—beautiful colors. I have never seen so many colors before at any event in my life. I did not expect to also be able to sit in the wagon with Jñāneśvara and to walk alongside Swāmījī’s wagon, interchanging. This procession was about eight hours, but nonetheless, there was always something happening—so many people to connect with. So many people were throwing flowers on the wagons. You could see those that were really there to get the blessing from the Mahāmaṇḍaleśvaras and to just connect with the vibration of spirituality and ascension there. So that was really beautiful, to be able to sit in the wagon and to get flowers and throw them to the crowds of people that would try to catch them in their hands, to hold the petals. They would give so many different fruits and foods for blessing, for the Mahāmaṇḍaleśvaras to eat, to give, and then we would give. So it was a very beautiful exchange. Overall, I was just soaking in every minute. Something was happening with music, with dancing, with just so much energy of people wanting to connect and feel a high vibration together. So it was very beautiful to be a part of the procession and to just connect with the people there. Then we went to the river, the Gaṅgā River, the next day. We went to a really nice spot where there were still some people around, but we walked down the Gaṅgā River, and we went into the water about to our knees. It was so nice to see not only us, but other Indians kicking the water and having fun and splashing around with each other, just really enjoying the cool water. I had a moment to just walk out and grab the water in my hands and hold it to my heart and really feel such beautiful, divine, feminine energy standing there and being able to experience this energy as well. So overall, it was a really, really beautiful experience to witness the procession, the vibration of that, and to go to the river as well and dip my feet in there. And of course, being a part of this with Swāmījī as well. I mentioned growing up in America; there were only maybe 30 to 50 of us there, and the satsaṅgs there are very kind of more relaxed and intimate. But then to come to India and see, you know, thousands, hundreds of thousands of people respecting Swāmījī and getting blessings from Swāmījī, and just being able to see this transition from one environment to the other is just so profound for me to be able to experience. To be here with him and to go to such an event like this was very, very beautiful. I hope to go to another one and maybe many more. So, thank you, Swāmījī, for giving me a few moments to share my experience with you all. Words can only convey so much, but the energy there is just really, really something to feel, really beautiful. So I hope in time you all will be able to experience an event like this. Thank you so much for giving me the moment to speak. Thank you, Kamalā. Yes, very good. Thank you, Lakṣmī. She spoke very nicely, and I think all of you around the world have heard these beautiful words of Lakṣmī. We were so many people who went from Jadān to Haridwar, and from Haridwar there to our programs, which were at the Kumbh Melā. Our Kamalā, she is also very, very devoted. Her mother, her father, her brother, and now she also has one child. And she is my very, very devoted one. You know our Bhagavān Śiva and the Satyugas. So from the Satyuga, Ālakpurījī was that time from Satyugas—from Satya Yuga, Dvāpara Yuga, Tretā Yuga, and now is Kali Yuga. Kali Yuga is coming very strong now. So Ālakpurījī is in the Himalayas, and Ālakpurījī’s place is there; it is called the glaciers—Ālakpurījī’s glaciers and the Rājdhānī. In that Rājdhānī, from where Ālakpurījī came, also his river, the Alaknandā River, and Nandādevī, who was Ālakpurījī’s disciple, and now it is called the Alaknandā River. I was searching for where our root is. Of course, our Gurudev, our Sadguru, Swami Madhavānandajī Bhagavān from Palijila and Nepal and other ashrams were Badikattu. And then Mahāprabhujī, Bhagavān’s Mahāprabhujī. And after that, the Śiva swam like Devapurījīs. And then, what is this for? So our Mahāprabhujī had written in some bhajans and some little book about Ālakpurījīs. So we were searching around, and we came there. Then I had a vision of Ālakpurījīs, and that is good. So, twice through the clouds, mountains, clouds, and there, Ālakpurījī twice saw the glimpse of it. And three times in the big, big rocks, and there, three times. And all three times it was that. So I told, that time was the last time, our Kamalā, her mother, her brother, and we were all there. She is an artist; she is a very good artist, Kamalā. So I told her, please give the face of the Ālakpurījīs. She was doing work, painting, beautiful, very good. But still, I did not show you all. Maybe tomorrow, because of Śivarātri, so maybe I will show you, but we are not supposed to bring any camera inside. Still, because something, I have to do. So, she did, and I think she will tell me something. I like, whatever, from me to Ālakpurījī. Thank you for first... broken down a little moment. First, I would like to thank Viśva Gurujī, my divine Gurujī, for this opportunity to speak. It is always a very big joy and happiness for me to speak about this experience of painting Ālakpurījī with Swāmījī. I am also from my childhood, from my 10th year. My brother was from his third year, and very soon we went to India with all our family together. Since then, Jadān is for me like my grandfather’s home. I always keep coming here with joy and happiness, and it is a big blessing to have such a place where I feel completely myself, where I feel the love and blessings of my Gurujī. Later, when I became an artist, I was never expecting to have such a divine blessing, to have such an honor, to get such an amazing, beautiful task. But it was very, very hard and demanding. When Swāmījī first gave me the photo of the rock, in the rock there was an image of Ālakpurījī. It was very clearly visible, but still, for a complete painting of a complete person, with the skin and with the eyes, with all features of the face, it was still unclear to me how I would do it. For the next two weeks, I was just observing this photo and contemplating where to start, how to start such a demanding project. With Viśva Gurujī’s blessing, it was suddenly like from the air. Suddenly, I saw a face in this image, a completely complete face with all the features I needed to paint this painting: the eyes, the eyelashes, the eyebrows, the nose, the lips—beautiful, full lips and a beautiful nose—and he was smiling. He was looking up and smiling. I just started to copy only the shadows, which I found on the photo, and slowly, step by step, it transformed into the complete face. The biggest joy I had in my life is when I showed it to Viśva Gurujī, and he said that I am very, very close to it. It was for me such an amazing experience of joy and happiness that before, in my not so long career—still, it was ten years since I finished my Academy painting school—for me it was maybe, definitely, definitely not maybe, the brightest moment. And then the journey just started. He wished for Gurujī told me to come to the Himalaya with him in 2019, and that experience I will never forget. There, I also felt like home—all these stones and grass and river, everything. But what was there? Every stone, every... there are big round stones on which you step, like on huge staircases. It was so familiar to me; I even had, in one moment, déjà vu from I do not know, maybe from some another life. It was a very, very nice experience. Every day I was walking through these landscapes and making photos of the rocks and images which were there in the rocks, and it all made me cry so many times. I was so emotional when I came back. Then I had a new task: to make this painting—this not painting, this drawing—which I made a sketch from the rock. I had to make a painting out of it, and that was another beautiful experience, a beautiful journey which started with Viśva Gurujī and his instructions by Skype on how to make this painting complete. This was for me also the most beautiful time of my life. It was such a... it was during Corona time, actually, when we were all isolated and we were over in worries and how it will be in the world. But this moment took me out of it, out of all the happenings of the world, completely into a different world, completely in a different place, where I was just concentrating on the painting. I had so many darśans by Skype with Viśva Gurujī. We discussed every detail, every line, every shadow, and until it got complete, we did not stop. It was a very nice, very beautiful experience, and also hard because this painting was made without any model. It was shaped; the body was shaped by Viśva Gurujī himself. He was telling every detail which should be in this painting, and this is for me the greatest thing, that this is completely his work. Then I am completely sure that if he says that this painting is finished and complete, then I know this is 100% sure, and there is no detail that is missed. This guidance, this type of experience in my life, I think I will never forget. This marked me so deeply, and I will use Lakṣmī’s word, profoundly. I think this is just the beginning of the new life for me, and the new life with my divine master, Viśvagurujī. Thank you so much for this opportunity. Thank you for this blessing. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Next, third. Who is that? Kumbh Melā journey. Is there anyone? About your train, how is it in the train? What is, yes, you? Okay, come. Ākāram yāptam yena carācaram Tat padam darśadam yena tasmai Śrī Gurave namaham. Oṁ Śalāk Purjī Mahādeva Kī Jai. Dīwadī Dev Dīveśwar Mahādeva Kī Jai. Śudīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai. Hinduzāram Samrāḍ Paramahaṃsvāmī Śrī Mādhvānand Purjī Satgurudev Bhagavān Kī Jai. Viśvagurumahām Aṇṇāliśvara Paramahaṃsvāmī Śrī Maheśvara Ānanda Purjī Yogirāja Kī Jai. First of all, I would like to bow at the lotus feet of our beloved Gurudev, His Holiness Vishwaguru Muhammad Lishwar Maheśvarānand Gurujī Mahārāj. And I would like to thank him for the opportunity that he gave me by sending me to the Kumbh Melā. This is, I think, my sixth or seventh Kumbh Melā with Viśvagurujī. This time, he put some trust in me and believed in me, and sent me three or four days before everyone else, before his arrival, to go there a little bit and prepare. This was, for me, like every time I used to, like last time in Prayāgr Kumbh Melā 2019, I went earlier, but I was with Prem Nānjī and with a few more people, a little bit helping Prem Nānjī. But this time it was a short experience, but a lifelong experience for me, that I organized something by my own with Viśvagurujī’s blessings. I went on the 13th, I think, 13th or 14th, no, sorry, 3rd or 4th, and we went to Ṛṣikeśa with Bhāvanjī. Organizing the hotels, meeting the Mahants, Śrī Mahants, and the higher Akhāḍā authorities and Mahāmaṇḍaleśvaras in Haridwar. Then the best experience for me was when Viśvagurujī arrived a few days later with the group, and it was such a lovely experience with him, to be with him, to be in his presence. Because I was in his service approximately one year back, and then, when Corona started, he went to Europe, and we saw him after a year, so it was a great time to be with him. We went to meet a few Mahāmaṇḍaleśvaras who are Swāmījī’s very dear friends, and we had Peshwāī. Peshwāī is actually the procession which happens in the beginning of the Kumbha Melā for all akhāḍās, and they have different dates given to them. Our date was on the 8th for Śrī Pañcāyatī Mahānirvāṇī Akhāḍā, which is one of the oldest and one of the most profound akhāḍās, which Vishwagurujī... He is also a Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, and Viśvagurujī was the seventh Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara in order of seniority. The procession was around Haridwar, and it went from Dakṣamaṇḍir. Dakṣamaṇḍir is, if you know, Dakṣa the king, who was Satī’s father. Satī was Lord Śiva’s wife. So the Satīkuṇḍ is in that mandir where Satī Mātā went into the fire and gave up her life. So from there, the procession started to the Akhāṛā. It lasted six to seven hours. Viśvagurujī’s beautiful hoda with the sumera, with the red sombrero, which looked very beautiful. After the procession ended, then all Mahāmaṇḍaleśvaras came and sat together and had a slight discussion. After that, we had a beautiful journey back with Viśvagurujī. We had a bath in the holy Gaṅgā Māta, in the river, with all the group. And after that, one day later, we all came back with Viśvagurujī in the train, and it was very good. It was an experience for me and a very blessed time to be with him and to be at his lotus feet. I would like to thank Viśvagurujī, and on behalf of all the karma yogīs and all the people, to give us the opportunity to be with you in the Kumbha Melā and that we could be in your presence. Thank you very much. Good, very good. Thank you. And now we will come to our next Swami, Rājendra Purījī Mahārāj. He is studying in Sanskrit, English, Hindi, and one other language, I think. And he is also our Dāpurījī’s brother, Sanyāsī brothers, and our Phulpurījī’s brother. He was also with us at the Kumbh Melā. And now, for one month or something, he will be with us here. So he will give the lecture in Hindi, English, and Sanskrit, all from time to time. Otherwise, many people around the world will not understand what he is saying. So, Hari Om Rājendra Purījī Mahārāj. Oṁ Kārāya Namoḥ Namaḥ. Vande Devam Umāpatim Sura Gurum. Vande Jagat Kāraṇam. Vande Pannagabhūṣaṇam Mṛgadharaṁ. Vande Paśūnāṁ Patim. Vande Sūrya Śaśāṅkavahninayanaṁ. Vande Mukunda Priyaṁ. Vande Bhakta Janaśrayaṁ Caturvadanaṁ. Vande Śivaṁ Śaṅkaraṁ. Videśe Suhṛdanyaṁ, Svadeśe Sudhanyaṁ. Sadācāra vṛttesumato nācānyā. Manas chena lagnaṁ guronaṁ gṛpād me. Tatakim, tatakim,... Tatakim Hari Om. Oṁ Śrī Alagpurja Siddhāpit Paramparā Namaḥ karte hue is satsaṅg sabhā me upasthita Prātā smaraṇīya vandanīya Param Pūjya, Viśva Gurujī, Param Yogirāj, Param Haṁsa, Śrī Guru Caraṇome, Koṭi Koṭi Daṇḍavat. As per the permission of Gurudev Mahārāj, everyone has come here and shared their experience with you all. I too have the privilege of sharing my experience with the permission of Gurudev Paramatma. By the grace and blessings of God, I am located in Pune, in Maharashtra, near the city of Sri Alandī village, which is located on the banks of the Indrāyaṇī River, which is holy by the penance, practice, and meditation of the highest saint, Jñāneśvar Mahārāj. Because Maharashtra is the land of saints. Many saints, ascetics, and yogīs took incarnation there. And by taking the incarnation, the humanity, the human life, what is the significance of this? Part 2: A Gathering of Grace: Reflections on the Kumbh Melā and the Guru's Abode He taught it in his life. In that city, with the blessings of the Guru, the disciple’s study is going on, which has given me the opportunity to learn some Sanskrit and Marathi language. However, due to this pandemic, I did not get the opportunity to see the Guru of the world, because this disease was going on, which is causing the whole world to suffer. This disease is due to the human race and its negative consequences. That is why I was waiting for the time when the Guru would come to this land of India, and I would also be blessed with the opportunity to see him. When Viśvagurujī came to India, he called me and ordered me to go to the Kumbh Melā, which is our tradition. I went there with Ādyajagadguru Saṅgrācāryajī, and later I attended the maṇḍalas and so on. The tradition of Kumbh Melā, you all must be aware of it, is that when the Deva-Asura Saṅgrām took place, Samudra Manthan happened at that time. Samudra Manthan happened to decide between these two, and this conflict is going on because Deva and Asura, this property is also in our life. Kāma, krodha, mada, lobha, etc., are āsuras, and when we go to Gurudev and get this divine property—yajña, tapa, mantra, japa, sādhanā, etc.—these are all divine properties. So this also happens in our life. In the same way, the gods and the demons were fighting, and for their decision, a sea churning was organized. In that sea churning, jewels were found. By the way, there were fourteen jewels. One of them was the last jewel, which was the nectar. To obtain that nectar, the gods and the demons fought each other again. The gods said they would get it, not the demons. Their right was to it. In this way, the conflict started between the two. While fighting, they reached different places. At those places, the pot of nectar fell; some drops of nectar fell from that pot, which fell in Nāsik, Haridwar, Ujjain, and Prayāgarāj. The Kumbh Melā has been organized in all these four places since then. By going to that river, we also make our lives pure. By staying in the company of such great men, we bless our satsaṅg and our lives. This Kumbh Melā has been organized since then. Now I would like to say something in English by the grace of Gurudev Mahārāj. Hari Om, everyone, brothers and sisters all around the world. With the blessings of Viśvagurujī, I have the opportunity to share some of my experience. With the blessings of Viśvagurujī, I am now living in Maharashtra near Pune. We have a village which is called Ālandī. In that village, Sant Śreṣṭha Jñāneśvar Mahārāj took his samādhi. It is near the Indrayani River, and it is a really great village because great saints were there, and they were giving upadeśa to all humans. They came on the earth to give the upadeśa: how to live life, how we can get mokṣa, how we can follow the path of Gurudev. In that place, I got a blessing from Viśvagurujī that I could stay there, and I am studying Sanskrit, English, and a little bit of Marathi language. I was studying there Vedānta and some grammar of the Sanskrit language and some Vedas. It is like an ocean, but whatever you can get with the blessing of Viśvagurujī, or our Guru, that I can do, I am doing with the blessing of Viśvagurujī. With this coronavirus, I could not have darśan of Viśvagurujī for eight months or nearly one year. I was thinking, "I want to have a darśan of beloved Viśvagurujī," and when Viśvagurujī came to India, he called that I could come to the Kumbh Melā and have darśan. Kumbh Melā is a great paramparā of our sādhu samāj, of our akhāṛās. At this Guru Saṅgrācāryajī, he made 13 akhāṛās, but now we have seven akhāṛās. In all these Akhāṛās, the big Akhāṛā is the Mahanirvani Akhāṛā. All Akhāṛās are brothers of each other, like we have guru brothers here. On the 8th of March, we had a big program of our Akhāṛā, Mahanirvani Akhāṛā, which was eight hours long. All Maṇḍalas went to the Akhāṛās. They were meeting each other, greeting each other, and talking about Dharma and their spiritualities. We went there and had darśan of all Mahāmaṇḍaleśvaras. Why do we celebrate this Kumbh Melā? There was a big saṅgrām, a big fight between devas and asuras. This same we have also in our body. We also have some Devī Sampadā and also some Āsurī Sampadā, like Kāma, Krodha, Mada, Lobha, and Vairasya. These are the āsurī sampadās in our human body. And what we get, what we do—sādhanā, japa, our seva, Guru Seva, and Go Seva—these are all the devī sampadā in our bodies. So there was a big fighting between Devas and Asuras. To get to the end, they had a Samudra Manthan. In Samudra Manthan, they got fourteen things, and they got Amṛta. So who will get the Amṛta? They again started the fight. The Devas said they would take the Amṛta, and the Asuras said they would take the Amṛta, and they were fighting. There was a pot. From the pot, some drops fell down on four places: Nāsik, Ujjain, Haridwar, and Prayāgarāj. In those places, we celebrate the Kumbh Melā because the Amṛta drops came into the river, and it becomes a great river as well. That’s why we celebrate the Kumbh Melā there, and it is our very big paramparā. We went there with Viśvagurujī, and we had a big celebration in our Kumbh Melā. We got blessings from all other Mahāmaṇḍaleśvaras, all great saints. It was very beautiful, and we came very soon. It was a very short time because of this coronavirus. We were staying only two days there. It was a very big program, and it will be a one-month celebration. So I got the opportunity to speak with all of you with the blessing of Viśvagurujī. I go to his holy feet. Hari Om, thank you. Next one, perhaps our master of all the world, doing everything for Kumbh Melā and everything, Premānandjī Mahārāj. Welcome, welcome. Thank you, bless you, in Sanskrit, in English, and in German, and in Hindi. I am Gurudev, Viśvagurujī. Dear friends of Yoga in Daily Life all around the world, from time to time—and this happens mostly every three years—I am blessed in a certain way to attend the Kumbh Melā. In India, Kumbh Melā is a very, very big event. In the last, I think, 20 years, it was much propagated all around the world to attract people, to attract mainly tourists, but on the other way, to make people aware of what’s happening actually there. It doesn’t matter why you’re coming or for what reason you’re coming; those people who are coming will not be disappointed, because there’s something for everybody in the Kumbh Melā. In India, we have four main places where the Kumbh Melā is celebrated: Haridwar in the north, Prayāgarāj in the northwest, Nāsik and Ujjain in the middle and south of India. Every three years, alternately, there is a Kumbh Melā in these places. It’s not just like a celebration or an event or a happening that you say, "Oh, it’s like a birthday or something." No. Because Kumbh Melā is very scientific, followed by the paṇḍitas in India, and it’s happening during certain planetary constellations. These constellations bring or unfold certain energies in this universe, and it’s very important to follow these rules and scientific evaluations. I’ve experienced up to now 10 Kumbh Melās. Every Kumbh Melā is a different one. Every one is a different experience. But according to my own feeling, the most interesting for me is in Haridwar. Because Gaṅgājī is coming there from the Himalayas in its own purity, and this place has been, since thousands of years, a spot for many ṛṣis, for many sādhus, for many saints to stay there, to meditate, to have their sādhanā there. This whole place is charged with divine and holy energy. Another reason why everybody should go to a Kumbh Melā: there is nothing on this whole planet, no place where you can have darśan of so many saints and holy men at one time. Wherever you go to the Kumbh Melā, you will roam around everywhere. It’s an orange revolution, but not an outside revolution. It’s a peaceful revolution because it makes changes in everybody, in us, in those who attend the Melā, inside, even if we are not aware of it. Everybody takes something with them, and according to our own capacity, of course. That energy is there. Our tuning, our body, our mind, our spiritual environment—this is up to us, how we tune it. As you go down to the gaṅgā, you take most. Of the pilgrimage, most of the visitors, most of the people who come to the Kumbh Melā, they take some water of the Gaṅgā with them in small bottles, big bottles, and so on. Everybody has different sizes. Some take big canisters of 20 liters. Some have only a small bowl. So everybody takes according to his own capacity. And so it is when we go to the Kumbh Melā, we take according to our own capacity and take it with us. Whatever we can take, whatever we can fill ourselves with, this Holy Spirit. One thing I think it’s very important: that you share it afterwards. Share it with your families, with your friends. Wherever you go in the countries, tell them about it, tell them about your own experience, because this will maybe also promote them and encourage them next time to come by themselves to see this great event, Kumbh Melā, happening since many thousands of years. But according to my own experience, what I can say now after Kumbh Melā, the real Kumbh Melā happens actually here in this very āśrama, in Śrī Viśvadīp Gurukul, in Jharā. It happens in the Om Āśrama, in this magnificent Mandir. All that energy of so many ṛṣis, of so many saints, what we call our Guru Paramparā, is channeled within this only place here. This place is not made only for us or for the last 10-15 years, but it is a testimony of our Guru Paramparā that is represented at present by Viśvagurujī and by his immense effort. By his charisma, by his devotion, he created something that will be beneficial—spiritually beneficial, socially beneficial, culturally beneficial—for many generations to come. That is the real Kumbh Melā. That is the real churning of the ocean. That is the real purification towards our own self, towards our own divine knowledge. We have to understand that wherever you go, you will always be with God. But some places are more charged with that energy, because there is nothing that exists that is not God. So we don’t know what will happen in 5, 10, 15, 20 years, if you can attend another Kumbh Melā. Actually, it is not important. Important is that we are here now, and that from the feet of Gurudev, there flows the real Gaṅgā. There flows the blessing, and whoever can take, please take, and be happy and joyful, and take it as the real Kumbh Melā. Thank you, Premānandjī. You gave a beautiful lesson to everyone: what to do, where to go, and where we are. And all, one in all, in all, in one. As our Gurudev, Sadguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān, Devapurījī, Mahāprabhujī, etc. It is very beautiful, and it is like this. Many of our farmers and others work in āśramas also for the vegetables, for the grass, for the cows and crops, and everything. Our people from the Western world, they come here for sādhanā, and they make such a sādhanā which is beautiful and very joyful. They feel like they were born in this world, in this country, and in this place of our Rajasthan, Pali, Jadan, and Holy Gurujī’s āśramas. We are all coming from different countries, and I am moving, and there are all very divine souls. It is said, not the quantities but the qualities, and our quality became the biggest and biggest and biggest. We know that about Corona. What happened, and how human lives, nourishment, movements, thoughts, words, behaviors, etc., and control distance, and so in Yoga in Daily Life around the world? I’ve been asking, and we have many doctors and scientists; they are working on the yoga and their life, why these people were not so much affected by the corona? Doesn’t matter if it’s India or other countries. Myself, I am nearly 52 years. I am in other countries outside, travel a lot, and with many people, and like we are choosing the proper pearls, and so is yoga in their life. Yes, many doctors and nurses and other workers in the hospitals, they are also yoga in their life, but in such a way where the people were working in the hospitals or in different places, then, of course, they also got something. Few may have died, but they were in a little bit of trouble or pain about the coronavirus. However, they came out very quickly. Also, we had our beautiful one, kind of we call kaḍhā, like a tea, and one of our bhaktas is from Slovenia, Nārasiṅhapurī, and his wife. They are very pure, very devoted, and they are working every day: pūjā, āratī, prārthanā, etc. And now he, and he is a company, big companies, he made it. Because when I come to such countries and then I’m giving a lecture in a big hall, and sometimes there is too much noise, people who are sitting, everyone down, noise, and so, so, Nṛsiṁha Purī, he made, he forgot, very big, big buildings, and it is about one meter thick. The concretes and the walls, you can’t imagine nothing. You can pull like this, but nothing will. Downstairs will be hearing because that was in the armies, armies of which country? That was that time, Yugoslavia. When I came to Yugoslavia in 1970, they also said, "Svāmījī, now it will be a yoga country." So it is like this, but they are divided into seven countries. They are all beautiful people, very good people, and they have respect for each other very much, and all they are without no problems, and nothing is very nice, and the people are very good. So I was in one country, and now they said, "Svāmījī, make more countries." So now, the seven countries, so I had to move to the… so the nursing, he made a beautiful hall, many, not only one, and many, many again. And he is going to make a beautiful Śiva Mandir there now. Likewise, we are working, and all my dear disciples, brothers, sisters, and all are working very beautifully and very hard for good things. Therefore, we are very, but we are very careful, very careful. So Yoga in Daily Life is the science of the humans, and it is not only āsanas and prāṇāyāmas, but there are many, many techniques. And, of course, yoga is one. And there are many, many techniques. Many, many ṛṣis and yogīs have given so many techniques: prāṇāyāmas, āsanas, prāṇas, meditations, concentrations, and many, many things. So yoga is the path to God. And yoga is that you become only as a God if you will do exactly, properly, and you follow the principles and not killing the animals. Also, do not kill other creatures. So it is many things. So Yoga in Daily Life is because of the Ālak Purījī from Satyugas, Devapurījī of the upper yugas, Mahāprabhujī was in the Satyug, Tretā Yuga, and Mahāprabhujī. And now something is coming. And all those who are working and doing their praṇāms and meditations, mālā, and all these, they are cleaning and cleaning. All doesn’t matter which religion it is. There is no religion. There is only one religion, and that’s God’s life. And so everyone, if it is Hindus, or Buddhists, or Christians, or Muslims, or others, okay, where are they? Very good, they are very, very good. But when the ātmā, the soul, will go, there is only one gate, and in that gate is filtering. So those who were really in such creatures, but animals, and so touching them, they will be filtered again back to the other side. And those who are pure, in complete purity, will go to the Brahmalokas. So there are many people in the world—many, it doesn’t matter which religions—but they are coming and thinking that they must do themselves again in the good. Either their path is okay, I don’t want to tell, but it is the one, and that one has to be into the one. It’s like an ocean, and it stems, goes up, and clouds, and each and every drop of that falling is from that ocean. It means that the supreme, the highest, the God, every sea, any animals, or any living, they are one in that God. So one into one into one. They are all together. So Holy Gurujī said one and only one in, on, and all in? One. So that’s very nice. Our students or our Svāmīs, they spoke very nicely. Our Lakṣmī, she gave a very nice lecture, first time in front of me, and the person was very good. Because she’s very trained, she’s giving lectures to the people in the yoga center, you know. So that way she’s not afraid, and then our Svāmī Umā Ātmānandajī Mahārāj Avatārpūrījī, and Avatārpūrījī is a, how do you call it? It is like a beautiful butterfly. This butterfly goes to all the flowers everywhere, and they all like it very much. Yes. And then our Rājapurījī, he is also very nice, learning Sanskrit and everything, very good. And then, of course, everything perfect was brought together from the waves. All dust went to the other side and brought all together our Svāmī Premānandajī. It was very good, very good. Thank you. And then I made a joke afterward for you. From myself, I joke. I hope that one day my joke will become something different, okay? I wish you all the best, my brothers and sisters around the world. Have a nice time, and see you tomorrow again. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān kī Devadhī Dev, Deveśvara Mahādeva kī Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān kī Ālak Purījī Mahādeva kī Om Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Om Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīp Nārāyaṇa. Om Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīp Nārāyaṇa. Om Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīp Nārāyaṇa. Om Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīp Nārāyaṇa. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Śānti, Śānti.

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