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Feel compassion in your heart

Prayer for departed souls and unity in practice.

Yoga and Divine Life practitioners practiced peacefully like one family. They performed āratī, pūjā, mantra, concentration, meditation, āsana, and prāṇāyāma. All came together harmoniously through telephone satsaṅg. The corona pandemic brought suffering and many deaths. Families could not gather for funerals. Today we remember those who passed. In the evening, sit and do mālā for departed friends. In the morning, offer water. One day we also go, but not in this way. We feel the pain of those remaining. We are all one through the same Guru Paramparā. We are guru brothers and sisters walking hand in hand. Prayer holds power across all religions. The feeling in the heart surpasses any mantra. If conflicts arise, let them be to ignite light within.

"The higher you go, the easier you can fall down. And we remain on the earth, we will at least not be falling down."

"Mantra is different, but better than the mantra is what is in the heart, what feeling is there."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Good evening, dear sisters and brothers around the world, in Yoga and Divine Life. This year and last year, Yoga and Divine Life have been practicing our sādhanā and our yoga very peacefully and with happiness. All the people were very good. They were one single family, yet they practiced their āratī, pūjā, mantra, concentration, meditation, and āsana and prāṇāyāma, etc. I have heard, and I know from many other countries, that all our yoga people in Delhi have been practicing and helping all others. They also created a beautiful satsaṅg, and the satsaṅg was such that everybody was practicing through their techniques on their telephone. It was very nice. All came together like a bouquet of the two, and all were brothers and sisters, very harmonious. And they were speaking to each other from a distance, asking, “Where is Swāmījī? Where will Swāmījī come?” Swamiji is always giving lectures, and all our yoga teachers and practitioners are practicing for each other and helping each other. That is a great thing. You know, things are very terrible now again with this corona. It is coming to one country, to other countries. Sometimes, when all governments are saying, “Please be peaceful, be at home,” etc., then again, the corona goes away. When people come out quickly, then again, the same thing comes back. So this time it is happening again very much. Now, in this more than one year, our friends, our families, our countries—different countries—were suffering. And not only suffering physically like that, but many of their family members died. And it is not easy to know that your father, mother, brother, sister, or your friends have died. It is not easy to feel that. And more than that, when someone died, no one could come there for the funeral. That was again very painful. For others also, they couldn’t come. So I was thinking today we should pray for those souls who went away, and for their parents. We give them blessings, peace, and help—all that we can do. So today, I was thinking that in the evening when you go to sleep, don’t make jokes and this and that. Sit down and do some mālā for the last of our friends. In every country, even in Australia, a very, very loving person to me passed away, but not because of the corona. She had cancer, and she is from Australia. She has been everywhere for many years: New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, everywhere. So we said a prayer for them today, and tomorrow morning when we get up, we will offer them water, something like that. We know that one day we also go, but not in that way. We know that we are getting old, we are very big, and there is life for us there, and we are going. But in this way, it has made a big, big peace—not in our heart, but the pain, that is pain. We shall help them. So, my dear ones, all around the world, those who are listening to me, those who see me, and those who are sleeping—in the morning, they will again open their television, and they will know that we are all with them. We are with your parents, and we know we have our Guru Paramparā from Satyuga, Alakhpurījī, Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, Satguru Swami Madhavānandjī, and we all, my dears. We are all one. We are all one. I am not something higher than you. I am like you. Because if I say now, “I am your guru,” or something like this, no, no. It is said, the higher you go, the easier you can fall down. And we remain on the earth, we will at least not be falling down. But of course, those who have in their mind thoughts, feelings, etc., that they think, “I am,” or, “I don’t know what I should do,” this is a different thing. But we are all Guru brothers and sisters, and we should, we shall go hand in hand together. I was thinking more, very much today, about many other countries, and every day I am getting some telephone calls. It just happens, and I am with them, and they are with me. Oneness, and we will not separate. We will be oneness, and we are with them, their parents, and we are praying to Mahāprabhujī, that please take care of us. This was there today, and there, how we can do, we do mālā. Mantra is different, but better than the mantra is what is in the heart, what feeling is there, and that is that. Therefore, it is said the Guru gives us mantras, the Guru gives everything, gives the practices and everything. But at the end, it said, “Do what I said,” and that Gurujī asked, “What you practice, what you did, what you are visiting, what you are talking, what was it?” That is, we are bringing it before the holy feet of our great gurus, saints, and holy ones; we offer it to them. Yes, so also the Prārthanā, the prayer, is powerful, and this one power of prayers we do, it doesn’t matter if you are Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, etc. They have their own prayers, and that is very powerful in our heart. So practice this, and another thing is like this: if there are problems and fighting with each other, it is not good. We said, “Okay, let it be for you. I’m okay. You go. You do. You take.” Then, immediately, both sides of the heart have light inside. Lightening in the heart, that is very important. So today, what I said is that we shall think for those who entered into the heart. Out, it is all gone. For them we are, and those who are still here, we feel their pain, and we do too. Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai. Now we have a few bhajans: Hari Om, Hari Purī. After Phool Purī is Vivek Yogeś Premarañjī. Then comes the Avatārpuri, and then comes the best one. Thank you. Very good. Avatārpuri Jī, with Harbhanyam or without Harbhanyam? Oṁ Śrī Alakh Purījī Mahādeva Kī Jaya, Devādideva Viśveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jaya, Śrī Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Hindu Dharma Samrāṭ Paramahaṁsa Svāmī Śrī Mādhavānanda Purījī, Satgurudeva Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramahaṁsa Svāmī Śrī Maheśvarānanda Purī Jī, Yogī Rājā Kī Jai. Oṁ na karmaṇā na prajayā dhanena tyāgenaike amṛtatvam ānaśuḥ, pareṇānyā kāma niyā hṛdayaṁ guhāyāṁ vibhrājate yad yataḥ, yo veda nihitaṁ guhāyāṁ parame vyoman so’śnute sarvān kāmān saha brahmaṇā vipaścitā. Vedāntavijñānasuniścitārthāḥ sannyāsayogād yatayaḥ śuddhasattvāḥ, te brahmaloke tu parāntakāle parāmṛtāḥ parimucyanti sarve. Yo vedādau svaraḥ prokto vedānte ca pratiṣṭhitaḥ, tasya prakṛti-līnasya yaḥ paraḥ sa Maheśvaraḥ. Ananta saṁsāra samudra tāra naukāyābhyām guru pādukābhyām, vairāgya sāmrājya dāna paṭu janābhyām namo namaḥ śrī guru pādukābhyām. Kavitva vāraṇe śaṅkarābhyāṁ daurbhāgya dāvāmbuda mālikābhyām, durīkṛta nānā paṅka doṣābhyāṁ namo namaḥ śrī guru pādukābhyām. Nāthāya yo śrīpatitaṁ samīyo kadācid āpya sudaridra vārya, mūkaś ca vācaspatitaṁ hitābhyāṁ namo namaḥ śrī guru pādukābhyām. Nālikānikā śapādaḥ hṛdābhyāṁ nānā vimoha dinivārikābhyām, namajjanābhīṣṭhat e pradābhyāṁ namo namaḥ śrī guru pādukābhyām. Moye lagī lagana guru charaṇana kī, charaṇa bina moye kachu nahi bhāve jagamāyā. Saba sapanā kī, charaṇa bina moye kachu nahi bhāve jagamāyā. Saba sapanā kī, moye lagī lagana charaṇana kī. Bhava sāgara saba sukha gayo, e cintana e bhavatāraṇana ke... Mahāprabhujī kī karatā Mahāprabhujī kī karatā... Oṁ Śrī Alakh Purījī Mahādeva Kī Jai, Devādideva Viśveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai, Śrī Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Hindu Dharm Samrāṭ Paramahaṁsa Śrī Madhavānanda Purījī Satguru Dev Bhagavān Kī Jai, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramahaṁsa Śrī Maheśvarānanda Purījī, Yogī Rājā, Kī Jai. Very good. Thank you. Now you come. In standing or sitting? Standing, I think. Standing is better. Yes. Śrī Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Śrī Śrī 1008 Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramāṁśvarī Māheśvarānanda Purī Jī Mahārāj Kī Jai. Oṁ Brahmānandam Paramasukhadam Kevalam Jñānamūrtim Dvandvātītam Gaganasadṛśam Tattvamasyādi Lakṣyam. Bhāvātītam Treguraītam Satgurum Tam Namāmi, who gives me joy just like Brahmā, who gives me super happiness, who is a statue of knowledge, who is beyond reality, who is just like the sky, who is beyond happiness and sadness, who is very clean. Dāt Guru, I am Megh. Praṇām Dāt Guru. Oṁ Guru Brahmā, Guru Viṣṇu, Guru Devo Maheśvara, Guru Sākṣāt Parabrahma, Tasmai Śrī Guru Vainama. Dhyāna Mūlam Guru Rūpam, Uttī Pūjā Mūlam Guru Padam, Mantra Mūlam Guru Vākyam, Mokṣa Mūlam Guru Kṛpā. Oṁ Akhaṇḍa Maṇḍalākāraṁ Vyāptaṁ Yena Cāracaram, Tat Padaṁ Darśitaṁ Yena, Tasmai Śrī Guru Vaiṇam. Thank you. Śrī Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Kī Jai.

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