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The thread of the Mala

The thread of saṅkalpa binds all through the guru’s grace.

All beings are connected like beads on a single thread. That thread is the guru’s saṅkalpa, the vow from the heart. Breaking one’s word is to break that thread. A deep well holds pure water. A rope lowers a basket to bring it up. If the rope breaks, the basket falls and is lost. The guru is that rope. He pulls the disciple from the depths. The disciple holds on by the neck of the guru’s thread. The salt and bread tradition seals a bond. Accepting salt in a house means you will not harm that house. The mala’s thread is the prayer of “Yes, I will.” Fasting without true resolve is meaningless. If the fast cannot be kept, it is better not to fast. Surrender body, mind, wealth, and word at the guru’s feet. That surrender is the unbroken thread.

“Guru ho to aisā ho, ki śiṣya ko andar girā ho, usko wāpas liyā hai, unko pānī lāge, usko gale se pakaṛ dete hai.”

“Tan, man, dhan, bachchan, āpke caraṇ kamal meṁ.”

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Devādhideva Deveśvara Mahādeva, Kī Jaya, Ārādhi Bhagavān Śrī Mahāprabhujī, Kī Jaya, Mādhavānanda Jī Bhagavān, Kī Jaya, Alakhpurī Jī Mahādeva, Kī Jaya, Hanumān Jī, Kī Jaya, Sītā-Rāmacandra Bhagavān, Kī Jaya. Good evening to everybody, all dear sisters and brothers. Yoga and daily life around the whole world — we are all connected as one. Like we have a mālā, and this mālā is on one thread. This thread is Gurudeva. This thread is our saṅkalpa. You know what saṅkalpa means? It means, “I said, I wish,” or “I said, I wished that I will follow, I will be good, I will do this.” Very much in the whole world, in countries everywhere. When I said that I follow, or what you call wish. Wish. Resolution. Revolution is a wish. So wish, my wish. I wish. And my wish will be fulfilled. Yes, that’s many things. So, in that, we are bound by that thread of our wish, what we have from our heart. Your world was a thread. And others also said, “Then we are in oneness.” Many times you did something, and you lost something, and you made this and broke that. It means that, okay, you are still in human life, but you have given up your words. And so, it is said that, for example, in Sanātana dharma, in a long time, there was only one. There was only one God, and we are all in that. But after the Satyayuga, the Tretāyuga began, and this is good, very good. More and more people study this, and it is very clear in the thoughts to know what it is. But all doesn’t matter, which religion, which God, which, as we said, “This is my God.” But God is only one. When we go through life, then we know there is only one God. There are different names. Some said Bhagavān, some said God, etc. So we are connected, and there is our wish, and that wish will be fulfilled. It will be fulfilled, but you have broken the thread. You have broken the thread. It is said that there was one well, a very deep water well. We were digging and digging and digging about, let’s say, 50 meters deep, 100 meters deep, 20 meters, 15 meters. And we have the water with one thread, and we let this water empty. We are going down, down,... and we are holding on by a thread. This is a thread, or what you call some net or rope. We went empty, and now we are going deep. The hope, and we came, there was nice, beautiful, good water. About, let’s say, in 80 years, 70, but 80, 90 years’ time, there were the water wells, and people were going anytime from any water well there. They take water, and they could drink. It was very pure and very godly, very good. And the water was more shallow, not so deep. And then that is hanging there, this, and coming from the down, up, we hold it. We have in our hand nice, pure, good water. And sometimes they always used to have cloth with them. In many, many, many countries also, they put on this, like this, and with water it was coming. And because there is some dust and something like that, then we drink water inside. I do it. My thread did not break. My pure water went in. It’s empty. Again, I will pull down. That’s it. But if the rope is not good, or you lose it, then this basket will break from the rope. And this basket will go under in the well, and you cannot go down inside. Again, you are there. We don’t know when it will come back here, this basket. There is a beautiful poem, a very good poem, but I’ve forgotten. I know, I know this, but I’ve forgotten how to say it exactly. It’s a very, very good satsaṅg, yeah? Somebody said, yeah? And so said, “Gurudev ke bārav, Guru.” Guru ho to aisā ho. And Gurujī, that is, who is the rope, Gurujī’s connection with, and thread on the neck of the Gurujī’s. Yes, the Gurujī goes into the neck and goes down, and brings him back to give the disciple good water. It is very nice. Many times people have said, some who are listening to me, I think they will know this. I have forgotten because I am more in other countries. Guru, Guru ho to aisā ho, ki śiṣya ko andar girā ho, usko wāpas liyā hai, unko pānī lāge, usko gale se pakaṛ dete hai. There is a very nice poem. I will get it; somebody will tell. Definitely, tomorrow I will get it. So this means that is your promise. Is that the promise there? Otherwise, this, that, then everything is broken. So this is a mālā, and we all use this as this mālā, Rudrākṣa or Tulsī or other kinds of mālās. But the thread is that in one, and what is that thread? That prayer is that you said, “Yes, I will.” And now it means that you should not break it. That’s why, you know, in India we say, anyone who comes to someone’s house, they will give you a glass of water and food. It means you were in my house, you were eating, you ate salt in my house. Salt is very much. It is said in the Bible also, the salt of the earth. And that we said in our house, this one. And in those many other countries, Czechoslovakia, Croatia, Slovakia, in all of these, when you come as a guest, they will come and bring this prasāda like this. What is there? Bread and salt. If you will respect and take this, my bread and salt? Yes. It means now you are my friend, or like my father, or my husband, or my wife. I am connected with one. Now it doesn’t matter what happens. You will be a helper and be with that which is with me. Whoever came to my village, to my house, and had my salt and bread, should not do anything bad for our house. Still, the people have this, yes. It was a long time when I came to Europe, like this. It was in Austria also, they said, farmers in the mountains. And they have a nice house. And the whole family, they are working in the garden or something like this. And they don’t make a lock for the door. Empty, for free. And there is bread, butter, and many things. And in the basket, there is money and a paper. My dear friends who came, my guests in my house, please eat. There is everything. And if not, then here is the money. You can go and buy and carry. It was like this. Another also, many further apart, other country, which I have forgotten the name of that country and that. If anything is lost, even the gods, or money, or anything, your necklaces, or anything, they will hang it. Gold, gold is. Mahāprabhudīp Karatā Mahāprabhu Dīp Karatā Mahāprabhudīp Karatā. People want to catch from everybody. I wanted to make just a little one work, 100 rupees. Just work for not even half an hour, whole day working, okay, 400 rupees. Or maybe 500, okay. But they are, the humans have lost, they have lost human to human. And similarly, that is Yamala Saṅkalpaha, meaning my... what, what? No. No pānī to pilūṅgā saith, lekin kuś katā pitā nahī, Hanumānjī kī din bhar sādhanā karūṅgā, mantra jagāūṅgā, Bhagavān kā nām lūṅgā, aur phir Hanumānjī ke ek roṭī, yānī sab very nice bread, with inside gūḍ and oil, because Hanumānjī like the oil, and it’s very good. And then we bring them. When I was there in Rūpā Vās, myself, I was a little child, and my sister and my mother and this. After the evening, before evening, they give the prasāda, take it to that one tree. There are various trees still there, or they are broken now, and give the prasāda, and then come back and then have the prasāda, and then you can eat it. I don’t know, you have... okay, you said, “I will have fasting,” but you take the banana, apple, papaya, chocolate, this. What is that fasting? That is not a fasting. That is why. Otherwise, between it, then this should not break. This should not break. Māp, Gurujī, give me. Guruji gave me this, and still is with me. I hope that I will not forget it somewhere. Sometimes I have forgotten it under my pillow, and I went. I was in an aeroplane, and I saw my mālā. So quickly, I said, and the people from the hotels or some, they gave it and sent it back to my passport. It came to me. It came to me. And Gurujī’s mālā was broken sometimes, and I was there. Gurujī said to me, “Maheśvarānanda, mālā love,” and Gurujī was doing this mālā with this, a few times. So Gurujī has been doing this mālā for me, this mālā, which was for me, all. So if you learn to do this, then do it. Otherwise, do not fast. Then it’s also okay. It’s okay. But ask for something, for what you are asking and for what you are not asking. Also, you have taught me, yes, Swāmījī, I am yours, and everything is yours. And then, after you are gone, broken. And broken is the human body, and the glass, the real glass, goes down, falls down, everything. And we are not like this glass, but we can also be broken, just like a glass. Amen. This body. So many times we do something, and if that, I pray for them. I pray very much. I say, Mahāprabhujī, Kole Gurujī, please. I know. Therefore, tan, man, dhan, bachchan, Gurudev, in your, in your feet. All, everything to the Gurujī. Yes. Tan, Man, Dhan, Bachchan, āpke caraṇ kamal meṁ Mahāprabhujī, please. Many. What are you doing? Morning at the gate up? And how do you say to Mahāprabhujī or Holy Gurujī or Alakhpurījī or Devpurījī? How, what do we say to our Guru? Gurudev, Praṇām. Pranām is that, but tell me, what do I surrender? What can I give? I have nothing, only my bachan, my words, my body, my this, my that, my all, my names, and Gurudev. Āv ke caraṇ kambal me. That is so. I was smiling today. You came from so much nice prasad, and this prasad should be cooled down, please. So tomorrow morning we will not eat cooked breakfast. This will be a nice breakfast tomorrow. That’s right. Therefore, do not think that now we have today Pūrṇimā, then we have Halī Gurujī. Do not speak like this. Either do it or not, and if you are doing it, maybe only one person is doing it. It’s okay. One person will do. And not that it doesn’t matter if it’s sweet or not, this. He will also say to Gurudev, “I have my morning, and I wash my mouth.” And now I will eat something. Sādhanā. Sādhanā. Chara karo Hari pyā, jina se hove gokṣa tumhārā. Jina se gokṣa tumhārā sādhan charā kā. Very nice, very nice Hanumān Chālīsā. Today is the day of Hanumānjī. Hanumānjī is everywhere, with us everywhere, all the time. Morning, if you can chant this, it is very good. And then, of course, some prasāda, one day. Hanumānjī said only one day. When comes again the day? And which is the day? That is a Maṅgal. Yes, Maṅgal. Very good. Thank you. And now, who is somebody? Oh, both of you are coming. Very good. What will you chant here? Very long? Okay. Here, yeah? Hold both in your hands. You can put the mask down a little, okay? Thank you. 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