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Be patient and faithful

The cow of knowledge yields fresh butter only through steady, loving care.

Turn inward and withdraw the mind. Use the mālā and mantra with oneness. Sing bhajans, but always credit the composer. Never hide their name. A sādhu asked the distance from Earth to heaven, and the answer was: from your foot to your head. Another felt all bhajans were already composed. The Guru said, feed the cow of knowledge with love. Fresh butter will come again. That butter is fresh knowledge. Learning proceeds step by step, from kindergarten to college. Rushing creates confusion. A disciple cleaned the ashram for years before receiving one teaching. Do not teach others until ripe. The butterfly emerges only when the time is right. Remember Hari’s name. Birth and death then dissolve.

"This is the distance of heaven and earth: from your foot to your head."

"Feed the cow with good food, and it will again give milk, and you will have butter."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Good evening to all dear sisters and brothers around the world. This is Yoga in Daily Life, dedicated to Satguru Swāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān, Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, and the true Sanātana Dharma of Viśvamahādeva. We are all relaxing across the whole world. The government says, “Please don’t do any work or create dust, don’t run here and there, just relax and sleep.” Eat little, meditate more, and sleep well. Don’t go out; be within thyself. It is the case that the whole day we are outside, talking and thinking a lot. Only our body is with us. We are using only our body, and we are living, yet we do not even concentrate on our body. All the time—running, walking, working, swimming, talking, everything. So the coronavirus has come and said, “Relax.” For many, many years you were working very hard outside. But now, O man, think within thyself: who am I to you? Where are you? And where will you be after that? In this way, there are different paths. Meditation, different kinds of meditation—but the best meditation is to withdraw thyself. That’s all; no more. Some are doing outward thinking, this and that. If someone goes for outward thinking, then it means you are working. Now you sit down to meditate, and you look somewhere, this and that. At that time, you are still outside. And second, if we want to attain something, then we say a mantra. It is not easy to do today’s meditation. It is not easy. It is not easy to do a mālā. Yes, we are doing a mālā, everybody. We have one in hand, and every time we talk, “ha ha ha, yes, yes, good, good.” This is just... Each and every seed of the Rudrākṣa is in our hand, and now we know that we are concentrating on the mālā. And when we are with the mālā because of the mantra, then it means we are with the mālā, with our mantra, in our oneness. That is very important. Or, if not this, then sing bhajans. Bhajans are lectures, teachings, or learning. So satsaṅg, bhajans, and the bhajans—nowadays there are people who sing a few words and nothing more. They have not given. Who gave you this mantra, this bhajan? And many people do not give the name of the bhajan: who wrote it, who did write this, and who gave us this. So always give the name. Many, many ṛṣis and great saints, sādhus, or someone, they spend one month composing a single bhajan. And in the bhajan they give the steps within it. And what those steps mean is that from my heart, I wrote a bhajan, and my name is on it—not that I did it, and I’m very proud. No, not proud. But we tell someone who composed this. If you don’t, it means you are hiding it or you stole it from someone. So with mantra, bhajans, and mālā, you should know what you did and what you are doing. Then, is there truth? Nowadays they are not giving the name. Or, many people now write something, a bhajan, and then give the name of other saints or yogīs. And then they think, “My bhajan, which I wrote, I gave in the name of another”—Mīrābāī, for example, or Guru Gorakhnāth, etc. Mīrā knows that Mīrā Bāī brought it. And many people sing bhajans, but they don’t say “Mīrā” at the end. That means you are stealing; you are broken. And it is now that many people are doing things, or making something that has no sense in it. When there is no sense, it is nonsense. So many people… One day, Holy Gurujī—it was long ago, around 1966—and there Holy Gurujī, our Satguru Swāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān, was in the Jaipur Āśrama. It was small then, and there was no house, only sand. There were some people’s huts, simple agriculture. One day a man came and asked a question to Holy Gurujī. Sometimes people think, “I would like to see if this master or this swāmī can give a good answer or not.” They will say, “Aha, yes, thank you, and this, yes.” So there are three scenarios in my mind now. One swāmī came and was sitting there. Holy Gurujī was sitting on his paṛāṇḍā outside, and a sādhu approached. Gurujī said, “Sit down.” He said, “Swamiji, what is the distance from Earth to heaven?” And such people, such sādhus, go on about something they themselves don’t know, and they just make it confusing. Mahāprabhujī said, “Holy Gurujī said, ‘Sit down.’” “What do you want?” “No, Gurujī, I just want to know, Mahārāj, Pṛthvī to Svarga—how long is it? How many kilometers, or this and that?” Ādi Gurujī said, “This is the distance of heaven and earth: from your foot to your head.” There is no more sky above. Go, sky is everywhere. So your height is the measure until there. “Yes, Swamiji, this is the truth.” He said, “Then what? Sit down.” So sometimes people ask only some kind of questions, and they think maybe this Guru is good or this person is good. That’s it. Then the second person came and he said, “Gurujī, I am very happy to see you, and I know that you have many books and bhajans, Mahārājī. Perhaps I also want to write bhajans, but I cannot, because all the great saints have taken all the words; there is nothing left to write. So I am only writing again what they have already written, that’s all—like chewing my dry chapatis from yesterday. Gurujī, ghee, our dūdh, chhās, dūdh, dūdh… He ate the milk, the butter, the butter has been eaten, and now only the chhās remains. Everyone has taken the butter, yes? Now you can mix water and this. You have got this water of the milk, or something like this, or yogurt.” Gurujī said, “Yes, you are great. Sit down.” Gurujī was always saying, “Hāṁ, ṭhīk hai. Hāṁ, dūdh nikāl diyā, uskā sāch banā diyā.” And milk, curd, ghee, butter—butter was extracted. “Ab kyā hai Gurujī? Ki sabhī sādhuoṁ ne, baḍe baḍe santoṁ ne bhajan lagā diyā, ab hai hī nahīṁ. Ki bhāī, makkhan khāyā to kyā huā? Makkhan khāyā to kyā huā?” If they have eaten the butter, no problem. Butter khāyā to kyā huā? Gāy hamāre pās hai. Dehī mārī gayī to mere pās hai—my cow is with me. Feed the cow with good food, and it will again give milk, and you will have butter. Again, there is butter all the time. Gau is there, Gau Mātā is there. He said, “Swāmījī, you got the key.” So Gurujī said, “Don’t sit here and open the door.” Makkhan khāyā to kyā gayā, gāṁv hamāre pās, chārā deo prem kā, aur duo gāy ko daro dar. So makkhan aur ā jāyegā, makkhan will come again. Similarly, don’t think that I cannot do more. Only this bhajan is one more, and this Swāmī is more. No, makhan means knowledge. We are here within, and that is the makhan of our knowledge. And it will be fresh, it will be beautiful, he said, Swāmījī. “I asked many people, but today you opened my eyes.” Then Gurujī said, “Then go and make the milk of the cow. Go and milk the cow, and everyone will be alive.” Similarly, we are all here. So don’t think that I will not give. Similarly, you can go to school—kindergarten, yes. At home the children are good and learning, but they go to kindergarten, and in the kindergarten you will see when the child comes home. Parents send them to kindergarten, and they come out after two hours, four hours, or something. Then the children are telling new things. “Yes, father, I was doing this,” and mother said, “Yes,” and there were good people, and this is everything coming. That is why we go to kindergarten. So what has happened is that the knowledge opens from our brain, but it is in the heart, and not from the navel; everything is there. And so, when we practice, we are coming to kindergarten, and after kindergarten, we are coming to primary school. We have it in Britain: a five-year-old child must go to this school. But now people are rushing a child, giving teaching, teaching that. They learn quickly, so they will get quickly, because in India, our government said that after that age, even if you have learned bread, we cannot take you as an officer or someone to study. So they try to get quickly, quickly come in. In British schools, which are in the Commonwealth—and the Commonwealth consists of 52 countries—in all of them, in this school, the fifth class begins. And when the Europeans came there, they enrolled the child in the sixth year. But even if it is only two days or one week late, they will say no. Next year they will give admission. So when a child is born and becomes six years old completely, then they begin as Europeans, which is what they are doing. Between is the kindergarten and much learning, coming to middle school, first class or fifth class. We have different universities: primary school, then middle school, senior, senior, senior—that’s three times. Then comes college. So that is different, different, different. But this is that slowly, slowly, in the schools or in the colleges or universities, slowly, slowly, we have to put it in our brain. Let’s say that I know I have written everything. I know I have read it. I read the whole book for this class this year. I have my book, and I learn everything, and I know. Can you give me the second level? They will not say “holy,” so all the time, again and again… but their brain is not good, these boys or girls. Then, when the time for examination comes, then what is it? Yes, because you did not learn. What does it mean to learn? You did not put your brain inside. Makhan ne diya andar ke andar. Kaisā makhan? Jñāna. Learning, learning, learning. Then you will bring the numbers, 99. Yes, there are, but these children are all stupid children now. More concentration, something. This kajay, feke, ye kare. Or when, after they are learning, then they are giving them something. And that’s called playing games. Playing games is what makes you fresh in your body and your brain. That not only are you writing, “I’m learning, I’m learning, I’m learning.” No, get up, put your book here. And at that time, you concentrate only on playing your football or something, any ball or everything. It’s only for half an hour or one hour. Then come wash yourself, and then you will see, “Oh, I had a good understanding.” This is the reason why the teacher of the school gives games to the students. But now the children are confused. They have something now, even if they have their telephone in hand or are thinking of something else. And the teacher is teaching something, but the teacher does not teach properly. Why? Because this is a government. And the government gives money to the doctors, professors, or teachers. But after they go into their home, what they said, what they are teaching, their teaching… And that too cannot be completed. Your father’s money is gone, and you also have to pay something to school. That too, money is gone, and you are stuck in the game, and it is done. You cannot become a professor on that. Because the brain is confused, they should not do what they should not do. Yes. And you should do what? Eat well, relax well, sleep well, get up early first, learn everything, and see the good things. Yes, what is this tree? How many branches? On one tree, how many leaves? Are these leaves the same or not? Everything. And so, you can learn the whole book in one month, but after a few months you’ve lost it. And therefore, a whole year. So this is the same thing also for a yogī. You are practicing. Don’t tell Swamiji, “Teach me again this, and then again till this,” and then hurry up the thing. If you want to learn from yoga in life, I will tell you only one: Brahmrī. What will happen? Whole ear, you go. Yes. What happened? This is a lesson; it is a yoga lesson. Yes, then next year, with open mouth, “Oh, yes, oh my God, it comes to the Bindu Chakra, Bindu Chakra.” So this is… Don’t say that my Gurujī did not teach me properly. My dear, at least about the best, come until, how much, 40 years. 40 years you are on the high professor, something like that. Yes. After 25 or something you can learn, you can get something, but you have to go higher and higher and higher. When you are learning to fly an aeroplane, you become a pilot. After a long time, they said they will close their eyes, blind, in the front, and only there are machines. Take off, my God. So who is beside? The copilot, the copilot. So he goes for many hours, months, and then he says, “I can do everything.” He said, “Yes.” He goes out, big aeroplane, on the runway. And he said, “Take off.” And he’s going, automatically pressing buttons. Now, where are you going? But we have everything in the picture. The picture is whole, so clear. Maybe there are clouds and everything. You don’t need anything. Because on the same path, fly on the same path, and that will go like this. Only you should press this button and this button. You will go and go and go, and again, now is the problem. Land, yes? Land. Nobody’s inside, and I don’t know where the thing is. He is not blind, but inside he sees everything. That is everything you see exactly as it is on the screen. And then you are landing already. And then he will say, “My God,” he said, “I am boggled.” Yes, so it is similar to this; yoga people also. Don’t say, “Teach me one day already,” and then run off and do this and go away. I try to give you some teaching. After a few hours or for a few years, again you go into the other way. Also, eyes—how many times are they checking our eyes in the aeroplane? If you are a pilot, heart, everything. And also, before they go, you know, the pilot is in, and every person is drinking alcohol and many things. But the pilot cannot take a little bit. And before coming, they have to control that, everything. Similarly, all disciples—the Guru has to control them. So he said, “What did you eat when you ate butter? What did you eat when you ate butter?” We have cows. Put good prasāda on them. Gas ḍālo, āegā milk, us milk meṁ se butter nikal sakta hai. That is that yogī and that Guru. And other Gurus, they are saying everything, teaching something. And many—99% of my disciples—what I am teaching something, the next day they are teaching it to others, 99, I tell you. So you are sitting in 99, you are completely in 90, 100. You are teaching, then telling, “Yes, Swāmījī,” to all this, and we will put again what to allow. You should know that you are learning one page, and similarly, only Gurujī was always teaching in such a way. One day, a disciple came and said, “Okay, clean the ashram, clean the kitchen, clean this, clean the Gurujī’s laṅgoṭī or cloth.” Five years. Then, “Gurujī, can you teach me?” Then he said, “Yes, I will give one point.” And that, what? Many things, one point. Ek, Ivan, what is that? Gurujī? Ah, wo mere wooden my shoes, kharau, kyā nām hai, Gurujī? Kharau kharau hai kahā? Five years, or five, nine days, or many, many? At least one year, that becomes the śiṣya or brahmārī. That brahmārī, from the one Vroom, brings the coming, making, Vroom Vree. And going that, or what we know, butterfly. You know the butterfly, how is it? How does a butterfly come, and how does it become? Butterfly. Before, even see, a broom cannot walk here and there, hanging somewhere. But one day, the wind comes. And what becomes? The butterfly. So, you have neither butter nor flight. You have done it, you lost it, my dear. Lost it. Okay, then what will happen? Next life. Guru Kṛpā hi Kevalam, Śiṣye ke Ānand Maṅgalam, but not quickly, quickly, quickly. Okay? Quickly, quickly. Quickly, quickly. Yes, bhajan bolo, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Dev Puruṣa Mahādev Kī Jai, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai! Very good, very good bhajans. Go ahead, because we are waiting for someone. I have now 10 minutes, 12 minutes. Pyaare Hari kā nāma sumara pyaare, terā janma maraṇa miṭa jāya. Tu Hari kā nāma sumara pyaare, Hari kā nāma sumara pyaare. Bāla pānam mana ke lānam, sukha dukha nahīṁ dhare. Jobana rasīyā kāma na basīyā, tana mana dhana hare. Tu Hari kā nāma sumara pyāre, terā janma maraṇa miṭa jāya. Tu Hari kā nāma sumara pyāre, būṛhā hokara garama sokara, sunne bacana khaḍe, durbala kāyā roga saṭāyā, tṛiṣṇā tana jare, tu Hari kā nāma sumara pyāre, Hari kā nāma sumara pyāre. Terā janma maraṇa miṭa jāye, tu Hari kā nāma sumara pyāre, Hari kā nāma sumara pyāre. Prabhunaī sumarā bīṭī, umada kāla āyī mare, Brahmanandajī pīna Jagadīśvara goṇa vipata ṭhāḍe tuhārī kā nāma sumara pyāre. Terā janma maraṇa miṭa jāya, Tu Hari kā nāma sumara pyaare. Om Bali Siddhi Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Svāmī Paramadhānjī Bhagavān Kī Jai, Śrī Jītaveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai, Hindu Dhāma Samrāṭ Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jai. Jai, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Svāmī Maheśvarānandajī, Yogī Rāj Kī Jai. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Devādidev Devīśvar Mahādev Kī Jai, Āratpurī Jī Mahādev Kī Jai, Satguru Svāmī Madhavān Jī Bhagavān Kī Jai, Lālanānjī Mahārāj Kī Jai. Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ…

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