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Guru is only one

The Guru, mantra, and spiritual practice are essential in Kali Yuga. This age is marked by anger and disease globally. Those following a sattvic diet and yoga practice remained healthy, as research shows. The science of yoga provides protection. Mantra practice is paramount, and the mantra given by one's Guru is fundamental. The Guru's word is the true essence, not the physical form. One must not seek a second initiating guru, though one may listen to all saints. All life originates from the same source, like drops from one ocean. Spiritual progress requires meditation, mantra, and adherence to the Guru's word.

"Only one guru you have, your guru."

"Do not think of the body of the guru... that mantra which is given by the guru is like a seed planted in your body."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Guru Brahmā, Guru Viṣṇu, Guru Ravīndra, Maheśvara, Guru Sākṣāt, Parabrahmā, Tasmai Śrī, Guru Vandanam, Dhyāna Mūlam, Guru Mūrtiḥ, Pūjā Mūlam, Guru Padam, Mantra Mūlam, Guru Vākyam, Mokṣa Mūlam, Guru Kṛpā, Om. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Devādhī Dev Deveśvar Mahādev Kī Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī Alak Purī Jī Mahādev Kī Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabodhi Pādāya. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Hama Sabdash Prabhu Saran Parayanam. Om Namah Shri Prabhu Deepanaraya. Hamsabdhasprabhusaran. Hamsabdhasprabhusaran Parayanam. Om Nam Sri Prabhu Deep Narayanam. Om Namah Shri Prabhu Deepa Narayanam. Śabdāś Prabhu Śaraṇāpara Namaḥ. Śabdāś Prabhu Śaraṇāpara. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Good evening to all dear sisters, brothers, yogīs, and yoga teachers around the world, in all ashrams and yoga centers, and to all the different teachings from various masters across the globe. I wish them all the best. "Om Namo Nārāyaṇa" is the best. Today we have engaged in many spiritual thoughts, bhajans, and activities. We have had a beautiful day since the last Mandir celebration of Mahāśivarātri. During Mahāśivarātri, the whole world—all the people worshipping Gaṇeśa, Śiva, Pārvatī, and others—were engaged in worship for 24 hours. They were fasting and practicing mantras. Every disciple, according to their guru and yogī, was practicing mantras. Midnight marked the awakening once more, from darkness into night for all people. In Yoga in Daily Life centers across the world, all our bhaktas were also observing the fast until midnight, which is the best time, though one may continue afterwards. In our ashrams in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, Europe, Africa, China—all were worshipping in their daily yoga practice, especially our Alak Purījī, Bhagavān Alak Purījī, who is from the Satyuga, Dvāparayuga, Tretāyuga, and now this Kali Yuga which is ongoing. All were worshipping. This Kali Yuga has arrived and is very strong, characterized by krodha (anger), disease, and not just in one country but everywhere. We researched that those who always consume sattvic food—meaning no meat, no alcohol, no fish, no eggs, etc., but only vegetables, chapatis, milk, yogurt, mother’s milk—and those practicing yoga in daily life, remained healthy. I inquired three weeks prior in the Czech Republic and asked doctors in various countries to research this. Truly, most of the yoga and Dalai people were healthy. Some of our doctors, nurses, and hospital workers were somehow affected, but again, they did not die. The research shows that yes, yogīs and yoga practice have provided protection. This research is called the science of yoga for humans. If humans continue like this, it is one of the best practices everywhere. Now, in India, I think about 85% or 90% of the corona is gone. But who knows if it will come again? It is Kali Yuga. In Kali Yuga, some things will come, lie hidden, and then rise again. Who knows what it is? Therefore, we should practice more of that kind of yoga: prāṇāyāma, āsana, meditation, concentration, and mantra. Mantra is the best for our human life and is very important now. What kind of mantra? Mantra is that which the Guru gives us. When the guru gives mantras, many gurus are very good. A little guru is not good, and only one guru is not enough, because it is not only for humans but also for animals, trees, grass, water, fish, etc. Therefore, it is said that all who call upon their religion's God, call upon only one and no other. But in Sanātana Dharma, these sannyāsīs, these gurus—meaning we are living, the living gurus—don't worry, even if you think you are strong and have much money or possessions. There is one guru who has only two disciples; he doesn’t want more. We should know if that is the guru or not. But it is the mantra, the word, that is the very right one. Do not think of the body of the guru. Of course, we will take care of the guru’s body and everything, but that mantra which is given by the guru is like a seed planted in your body. Yes. And like this, do not take a second guru. Now, the second guru means all gurus. It means we can go to every sādhu, everyone, and we can listen to their words, to satsaṅg. But, but, only one guru you have, your guru. Now, what does it mean? How to make it clear? It is clear. Your mother gave you birth. Your mother gave birth to you, one or two children. So now, your mother is only your mother, but we tell all women they are mothers, sisters, and children. We call everybody mother because they are all females, but the mother is that mother who gave us birth, and that means she is my mother. Similarly, the first time that guru, truly the guru, I mean, that guru gave you a mantra. And after two years, five years, ten years, somebody comes and says, "I give you big mantras," and this and that, and then they say, "Oh, that’s very nice." Wrong, wrong... Yes, because that word is the guru. That mantra was given is that. And after that mantra of the guru, the disciple said, "Gurudeva, you have given me the mantra, but what can I do? How, mantra?" He said, "Yes, I gave you that mantra to practice, but my dear, from my words, what I am telling, that is your mantra now." The guru will say this, then this, so the main mantra of the Guru, the mantra that goes from the mouth, that is the mantra of the Guru. Gurujī said, "Do this, just sit." He didn’t say, "Bābājī, I am doing bhajan, give me water. Bābājī, complete the garland, I will give you bhajan." In that way, this Kali Yuga is here now. And in Kali Yuga, you know, now the Guru is very important. Because when God comes again, he will also come to Kali Yuga. But he will know all Gurus are there, and they know that’s it. So we practice. Now, religion is religion, okay? And my country, your country, my language, your language, it’s okay. But when we will leave the body, at that time there is only one word and one channel to go. All, even the little ant, will also depart. Yes. Look at it. It doesn’t matter. Only from the mother is the child coming, and that is a mother. That is the father. Those seeds are there. So, but when is it going? So those who did not kill animals, did not drink, etc., they will go automatically. And others, it doesn’t matter: you have more money, or you are great, or you are a minister, or president, or nothing, just a farmer. All, and those who have done this, automatically a machine goes here. Yes? Ocean. A big ocean. And from the big ocean, the water comes up. What is it? And from there come the clouds. And now the cloud is so fine, you can... and water is up. And after, from big, big, everywhere, this, then what will begin? From these clouds, little, little, little drops of water start to come out of it. The water that comes out of the mountains when it rains, that is also the water of the same sea. And then, once it is not so deep, when it is deep, it is of the same water. And then there is a lot of water, very much rain; that’s also them. So a little tiny drip of water from the clouds or oil, it is also from the one ocean. Similarly, all animals or any other living life are the same, the same, the same. He said, "Don’t think that I am a human. I do everything good." Oh, my dear. They also have life, so let them live. And that is to go through yoga: dhyāna, mantra, guru—do not say, do not look at the body of the guru, do not look at your bodies, but that word of the Gurudeva, śabda. Śabda, Sanei, Māri, Jatra, Māri, Heli. That, like this, we have to come. So, my dear, somebody else has to speak, and I am talking and talking around the whole world. Everywhere, somebody is sleeping in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and in Europe they are still working in their office. So, I don’t know if they are listening or not, but once more they will again repeat before that. But today, our Swāmī... Pholpurījī Mahārāj, and now he has finished his college. Yes, so we congratulate him, and in our ashram, it was. He worked very hard. Sometimes he was, we worked in prayer to Mahāprabhujī’s samādhis, Matajī’s, either Śivajī’s, and many things, and these and work for someone, and then he did eat or not, and then he comes and again he’s learning, and he’s sleeping in the book. But he won’t. He won’t do it, and he did it. That’s it. In our college, he came with very best numbers, and now he’s working further. He will do, and I think now he will speak something. I don’t know what he will speak. So, Devpurījī, make double, make double Hindi and English, okay? Best, but not too long. Very good, thank you. Namah Śiva, Oṁ Namah Śiva. Namah Śiva, Oṁ Namah Śiva. Om Har Har Bho. Namaḥ, Om, Śānti, Śānti,... you go there. Thank you. Hari Om, Potpurījī, it’s your floor. Mangalānam chakratāro vande, vāṇī vinayeko bhavānī śaṅkaro vande, sardhā viśvāsa rūpino. Yābhyāṁ vinā na paśyanti siddhāḥ svāntas tamīśvaram. Vande bodmayam nityam guru śaṅkara rūpiṇam, yaṁ śrī tohi vā bhaktrapi chandra. Sarvatra Vandhite Siddhānāṁ Varṇanaṁ Namo Namaḥ, Alak Purīśamā Devakī, Deveśvaramā Devakī, Dīpeśvara Mahādevakī, Hindudharam Samrāṭ Madhavānandjī Bhagavānakī, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Yogī Rāj Parampetā Parameśvara Parampūjya Śatgurudevakī. Śāstyeṣanātan Dharmakī Sarvapartam Viśvavandanīye Prahataśmaranīye Ārādya Gurudevke Caraṇ Kamlome Śat Sat Namān. I bow down at the Lord, my Gurudev’s holy lotus feet. Today is a great day that myself and a devotee of the Gurudev, we are here at Vishwadev Gurukul, Swami Maheshwarananda Ashram, Education and Research Centre, in Jadan, Pali District, Rajasthan, India. Our Gurudev always gave us some tasks and took tests. It is God’s duty, too, that He always gives us blessings and takes tests to see if we can swim in the ocean or not. So you know very well that I am the disciple of Viśva Gurujī, and he gave me the duty to speak about my experience and the miracle of the Gurudev. You know, my life is a very changeable life. From childhood, I was dreaming that I would get the divine guru, a spiritual guru, and I will swim in the without-water ocean. My dream and my hope became successful with Gurudev’s blessing. I came to this ashram in 2000. In 1990, I was seen for the first time by the Holy Gurujī and Viśvagurujī in Bolā Guḍā āśram. I was there, you know, in Bola Guda, there’s Samādhi of Deep Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī and Maṅgīlālji and Mahāprabhujī’s statue is there. So I was doing pūjā there, and one day, it was a great day, that I saw for the first time in my life, the moon and sun. They’re coming, light spark, sparkling and coming. They also had a cool feeling, so both were there. And I saw first time, I was thinking that I will be one day with them. After some days, Holy Gurujī called me that you should come to Jāran Ashram. So, blessing of... The Holy Gurujī, I became here, and I was with Holy Gurujī. I was doing seva, what I was managing. After some days, Vishwa Gurujī guided me on what I should do, and I was doing Gaushala seva and other work. Holy Gurujī always... He was guiding me that I should study, because I didn’t study from childhood. And Holy Gurujī was saying, "You should study. You should learn. You should go to school. You should go after school. I will go to college and university. You should study." So I was praying to Guru Dev. I don’t know how to learn Hindi or English. Both of the languages for me are a task to learn. My childhood language is completely different than Hindi and Sanskrit or English. I grew up there where they are very backward area in the mountain side or in forest, my childhood was I passed in forest, but I became here. And I was with holy Gurujī, Viśvagurujī, and many of the Gurudev’s disciples abroad, in many countries they were. Here, I was listening to their words and different languages and the blessings of the Viśwagurujī. I was always listening to his lectures by webcast or when he came, as well as with the holy Gurujī. So after some days, I was following. The guru vakya that I should study, I request the guru dev. You know, without the guru dev’s blessing, no one can succeed. It doesn’t matter how knowledgeable they are. So I will request the guru dev, "Can I study? Guru dev, give me your blessing." He gave me direction that you should start, you can study. So I studied in our school, Vishwadeep Guru School. First school, first exam I did in eight, first time. Eight class I was studying, studying... And I requested to Gurū Dev, "How will I pass? I don’t know the beginning, to be one, two, first class or second class or third or fourth or K.G." But I was praying to Gurū Dev, "I will be first class." I bought books, and I was studying. I studied up to the eighth class level in school. There were many, many subjects: English, Hindi, Science, Arts, and Environmental Studies. I was studying, and I had an interest in the guru’s blessing, so I was studying and studying and... Mathematics was a task for me, and thank you to my guru sister, Pushpājī, who was guiding me. I was all English, ABCD, ABCD, the alphabet in English. So, with the blessing of Gurudev, I passed the eighth class. In 2008, then I was beginning further ninth, 10, and 11. In 2012, I passed 12th class. After 12th class, I was praying to Gurudev that, "Can I go to college?" So Gurudev gave me a blessing that, "You can go to college." But for two years, I was between doing some. About spiritual work, I read the Rāmāyaṇa and Śiva Purāṇa. In the Rāmāyaṇa, it’s describing the immense blessing of the guru. All Rāmāyaṇa you will read, the Tulsīdās jī, and we receive all mīmāṁsā, the describing about the guru. Glory of the Guru, blessing of the Guru, and direction of the Guru Dev. How this disciple can be successful in their life? As Holy Gurujī was describing always in his lectures, he was saying that enter the kingdom of the Lord through the Gate of sacrifice, so you see, Ṛṣi Vālmīki, when he was doing tapasyā completely, he forgot where he is. In his body, the bamboo was growing and came. His body was completely with the cover, termite. He was in sight, inhaling and exhaling only, "Rām, Rām..." So, by the divine blessing of our guru and paramparā, I went to our college. This college name is Paramahaṁsa Svāmī Madhavānandajī College, Jadan Marwad in Pali, in the Ashram. There were many students studying. Now we have more than 500 students in our college. I was requesting to Gurudev and praying to Gurudev. I was praying to Gurudev, "I jumped in the ocean, let me swim, don’t let me die in the water." So, blessing Gurudev, three years—my diploma was three years, college diploma. Constantly, I was studying three years of the history of India and Sanskrit language and Hindi language. Three subjects in Sanskrit language I have. Interesting, so I was studying more in Sanskrit, or also in Hindi, but for me, it was a little bit of a change that I should change myself. So, in Sanskrit, there I was studying in India, you know, there was a big king. He’s very popular in India. India is the... It is a miracle in India, who was the most king? They become the saints. They give up all worldly things and become the saints, surrender their life towards God. The detachment, there was completely attachment, and after which they changed their life, detachment. So, you know that one king name? Hari Bhāratrī. He wrote three books. And about the king, how to rule a kingdom. He wrote this in Nīti Ṣaṭkam, this śloka, Na vidyā hai, na tap hai, na dān hai, na jñāna hai, na charitra hai, ye śa manuṣye na. Go, manuṣye, paśu ke samāna, hiran ke samāna, like the deer running here and there, the life. Similarly, in the Upanishads, I have the Kaṭha Upanishad in Sanskrit. There also, in the Kaṭha Upanishad, what are the worldly things? The visible, you human, you should use what you require. Don’t collect them. None of us, we are here just travelers. Like a traveler in the train, when the station comes, we will go down, and the train will go on. So this world is similarly constantly circling. We are here like guests. Sajan ke pās vidyā hotī hai, uskā vo vidyā kā sab kuch dān detā. Vidyā dān detā hai, dhan devatā hai. Dhan kā dān kartā hai, śakti hotī hai, rakṣaṇ hai, bhavatī hī rakṣaṇ kartā hai. Kintu Durjan ke paas ye tino baate hoti hai, tino shaktiya hoti hai, tino tatva hoti hai, tino guṇa hoti hai. Toh uska durupyog karta hai, jis prakar ki Rāvaṇa ke pās ye hi the. Śakti thi, durupyog kiyā, Vidyā thi, Bhagavān Śaṅkara kā Himālaya uṭhāne lagā. Aur jiske paas mein dhan tha, Lanka thi, Rāvaṇa kī, Rāvaṇa kī sonā kī svarna Lanka thi, wo bhī chalegī. Isliye Mahāpuruṣo ne kahā hai ki ahaṅkār mein tino gaye, vibhava, Lakṣmī, aur vaṁśa. So today is a great day that I am with Viśva Gurujī. We were missing very much our Gurudev. You know that holy Gurujī wrote one bhajan, and Mātā Pūrabjī also all wrote: "Without the water, the fish will die." The Guru Dev is the prāṇa for us, without Guru Dev. We cannot leave this world, he is saying. There was a very small story. I don’t want to say story, but I want to say two words about this story. There was one saint, and he was almost dying. His body was not anymore helping him, and his eyes were open, and a crow... And eagles, they came there and they were eating the bodies. But the saint is saying, "Kovva, saare śarīr kā māns chun chun ke khāye, Hari darśan ko ek naina rehne dejiye. Ye Hari ke darśan ke liye mere netra jo hai, ye mat liye jāiye. Bākī śarīr kā māns chun chun ke khāye." To Gurudev kā āśīrvād āp sabhī ko. Āj hum bhāgyaśālī haiṁ Gurudev ke śannidhe meṁ, yahāṁ unke chāyā śāyā meṁ unkā āśīrvād prāpt kar rahe haiṁ, aur apne jīvan sārath karne kā ek mādhyam hai Hari bhakti. Gurudev ke bina mānav jīvan śapal nahīṁ hotā hai. Gurudev ke āśīrvād ke bina hum sansār se bhav sindhu se pār nahīṁ ho śaktī hai. And thank you to Gurudev that he gave me the time and opportunity to speak my experience, my feelings. Itnā kahe kar ke vāṇī ko virām detā hūṁ. In this śloka, it says, Hey Prabhu, hey Gurudev, guide us on the spiritual path. Give us the blessing that we will succeed in our life with Guru and disciple. Care for us, take care of us, and remove all our darkness, ignorance, and obstacles in life. Adhidevik, Adhibhautik, Adhyātmik, Tṛtāp kī nivṛtti karke Prabhu hamārā mārg darśan kare, hamārī rakṣā kare, hamārī rakṣā... kare. Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān kī, Dev Purīṣā Mātā Dev kī, Deepēśvar Mātā Dev kī, Hindu Dharm Samrāṭ Madhavān Jī Bhagavān kī, Thank you. So you have heard him. Rajasthani language, Hindi language, Sanskrit language, everything. And he spoke a lot, good, very good. Further, we will come. Thank you all, the best, and have a good evening. Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva Devajī Dev Bhagavān Śrī Madhavānanjī Bhagavān Satya Sanātana Dharma. Oṃ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ...

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