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Clean yourself to become a saint

True renunciation is the yoga of cleaning and selfless service.

Holy Gurujī visited Vienna and Czechoslovakia during simpler times. He taught that all is a religion, release from everything is a religion. In those lands, people shared freely—taking fruit from open fields without stealing, leaving cars unlocked without fear. True freedom is not political; it is inner. Yet many who take sannyas cling to status. They wear orange and sit in front, but renunciation means giving up everything. A true yogi cleans toilets, sweeps leaves, serves all. Leaves falling from trees are not dirty; they fall and later get cleaned. One disciple here cleans everything—that is a great sadhu. In Sivanandajī’s ashram, a learned pandit boasted of knowing all scriptures. Sivanandajī led him to a dirty toilet and said clean this. The pandit resisted, and Sivanandajī declared, “You have learned nothing. Cleaning is sādhanā, that is dharma.” Jesus washed feet; true humility is service. Tyāga means dropping every desire, even for chocolate or ice cream. The guru sent this one away with nothing—no shoes, just one cloth, like a cow or horse. Why need shoes when animals go barefoot? Achal Ramji built a great pond and then renounced all. Stop claiming “I am this” and simply clean.

“Holy Gurujī said, ‘One in all, all in one.’”

“Sivanandajī said, ‘Clean this. That is the sādhanā, that is the dharma, that is everything.’”

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Prabhudīp Nārāyaṇam, Oṁ namaste. Prabhudīp Nārāyaṇam, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān kī, Devādhi Deva, Deveśvara Mahādeva kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma kī. Good morning, good evening, and good afternoon—because in many different countries there are different times of day, and we are all one in all and all in one. This is one of the best things that Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī and our Holy Gurujī taught us. When I was in Europe after three years, I asked Holy Gurujī, “Please, can you come to Europe?” And Gurujī said, “Okay, I will.” When Holy Gurujī came to Vienna, Austria, the airport at that time was very small. All the people would go up on the building and look at everyone landing and departing. Vienna airport had three or four airports nearby, but now it is very big. Then we went to Czechoslovakia. At that time, Czechoslovakia was one country. Now it is the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It doesn’t matter. Many countries were separated, and there were difficulties. But when the communists were gone, the old politics ended and other politics came. Then the Czechs and Slovaks said they wanted to be separate. The president of Czechoslovakia said, “Okay, no problem, you become Slovakia and the Czech Republic.” A little bit—some people were always politicians, left and right—but they all came together peacefully. Now they have a border, but there is no border. Czechs come to Slovakia, Slovaks go to the Czech Republic. Very nice, no problem. There are some other countries maybe, but Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and another one—Yugoslavia—you know, Yugoslavia was a very big country too. When I went there, they said three months, I don’t need a visa. Austria also said three months, no visa. That was in different countries. So that was the time when Holy Gurujī came to Austria. Then we also came to Czechoslovakia, a communist country. And when Holy Gurujī arrived, many people came, they were happy. Many ministers and Czechoslovakian people—communists they were—were so happy. They said, “What a great saint,” and so on. But others said, “Please, we should not talk about religions.” Holy Gurujī said, “All is a religion. Really, everything is a religion. Release from everything is a religion. World religion is very good. You are very good.” That’s very good, because you—politics, people, religion—that other one, they are very free inside. Holy Gurujī, that’s very good. At that time, one of the disciples, Ancha Kuslavakya, he always called Holy Gurujī, “Holy Gurujī.” So he gave the name to Holy Gurujī. That was a very good name that was given. Still now we all say, “Holy Gurujī.” That’s very good. And of course, our Gurujīs have many, many names from many different sources. They are all many saints, and yogīs were telling this and that. So there it was very nice. They were asking me in Czechoslovakia—and many times I was there at least five times a year. Then I had no time for them because I was in other countries. And, of course, they knew they were communist, and they were always asking for my passport and this. And they were asking me, the Christians or Czechoslovakians—it was a different country at that time—they call the body that iron color. But who’s that? That is that. Holī Gurujī said, “From this side is the iron, and from the other side is iron. So who is who?” Holī Gurujī said. And therefore, after a long time, when I went to America, there was more iron somewhere in America. Also now it is like other countries from there. And men are also like this. But Holy Gurujī said, “One in all, all in one.” That was Gurujī’s word at that time. And if we think, then the communists—how they were, there are, of course, different things that I don’t want to tell you. Because there were wars, and these are one country and another country. Otherwise, you can go, and when there is a big field with so many fruits or this and that, you can go and take them. Gurujī, you know that you can go and take, nobody will tell you no, because they said if you are taking, nobody can say, because they also said it’s ours, so it is also yours, you can take it, that’s it. But of course, not destroying. Something like this, it was similarly in Hungary. In Hungary it was like this and so on. Austria was also very nice. Now everything is different. So Holy Gurujī said that everyone should be free, not only in your country, in your politics, but in your forest and everywhere. I was there at that time. Then after I got a car—somebody gave me the car—I was driving throughout Czechoslovakia and Hungary. In Czechoslovakia, I went to the forest. I left my car there. I was alone, with one or two friends. We walked for a long time, and after that we came back at midnight. Our car was there, and it was not locked. As with any car, nobody will take the car away from this. That was my life at that time; it was so nice. And so, Holy Gurujī said, like freedom, which kind of freedom? Yes, this is my land, and this is your land. Of course, if you have that beautiful big house and you are only one couple, husband and wife, and they have a big house, then the government will come and say, “You have two rooms, okay, but others also have this.” That was it, but now, of course, again they can try to get everything back. Similarly, all yogīs, if you are really yogīs, then you should be one nice friend. Don’t go there, dear, and this and that. That which you are going to do, what is in your heart, what is in your words, what is in your things, it means you are not a yogī. That’s not yogīs. But when you leave everything, then what happens? Begin to clean everything. Nīrthar Dhāram, I am a yogī. And? And? Hey, why? And? A yogī is a yogī, but why? Clean, please. And then I said, “I am Brahmacharya.” Very good. Then you have nothing to do. Work on something. Yes, that’s what a great life is. That is the best life. But no, one day it is this, the second day you are nothing, the third day you say, “I am this.” And when you become a sannyāsī, oh, I am a sannyāsī. Holy Gurujī said, “Now will be the coming of the gurus and everything. You don’t know, I can tell you. Avatārpūrī doesn’t know anything.” Avatārpūrī have done nothing. Spoiled, spoiled. Yes, from many of them, among my disciples, I don’t want to tell you, but I will tell you, is that here, sitting behind this girl, he is that. He can clean everything, he can clean toilets, he can do everything. He is a great sādhu, sent very much. Others, they have won. I am now a sannyāsī with my orange dress. Yes, I want to sit in the front. I know that some are in this country somewhere, sitting up. Clean it of the whole life, everything and nothing. I went to the ashram, and there were about ten or twenty sādhus. All are different. Here, only one cloth, or one, is like this or that. But everybody was cleaning and this and that. That is why I am talking about something. There is no one who is cleaning the ashram. No one. But those who are sannyāsīs, anybody coming, and that’s the master or guru there in the āśram. He said, “Okay, clean this, make roti, rice, this, everything.” Very nice, clean. And here we are not cleaning. This is a distance myself, and this is a difference. Abhī tak sab andar mẽ vah hai. Nice iron between somebody. What? The hooks inside, and this hook is inside. If that, you will not now take it out. Guru kṛpā, guru kī sevā. Guru kī sevā means sevā of all bhaktas, all people. Guru sevā means not that I am sitting there in my… In the room, I also do my programs, I also do some of my works, yes, but Guru Sevā means you make a Sevā of all my disciples. So, if you are a sannyāsī or a bhakta or this, then go to clean everything, all of it. Don’t ask me. There are some people who talk about the toilet, or they work on this and that the whole day. We could do. We know that in our ashram here, it is very nice and clean. They are all cleaning nicely here. But we are paying money. Who is cleaning the whole day? One boy and one girl, and they, all the time, all the time, they become like good builders, you know, this girl and this lady and this. And we are stepping on it and going like this. Of course, this ashram is very big; it is about two kilometers long. We cannot clean the whole day with one person, no? Yes, but a little like an āśram, like in Nepal, or in Jaipur, or in Kailāsa, or in Khaṭṭū, leaves are falling. Let them fall for two days, three days, let them fall down. After, we will clean it. Leaves are not bad. Leaves are not bad. They fall down from beautiful trees, beautiful banyans or others. Red bodies fall down, but that is not that kind of human or animal; they are the branches of the trees, the leaves of the trees. Purījī, Purījī… Now we will do something, and Indians or others, they are all people. They said, “Oh yeah, nobody wants to clean, eat it and throw it, and this pitching, then pitching, and then somebody should work and this everything.” Otherwise, sannyāsīs only, Gurujī have this pot. Viśvagurānandajī have not. All sannyāsī. Have this eating rabri, sabji, everything in that. Now you have to come to that: “Now I will give up.” What will you give up? What will you give up? Everything. Next, that is called tyāga. Tyāga. When there is no tyāga, then you are inside like this. Tyāga. And so what is a tyāga? Become a sannyāsī. And when you are a sannyāsī already, and then you are saying, “I will have this chocolate today, ice cream I will have,” yes. So you will be my best disciple, okay? Very good. I know, I was thinking very much, and you are always looking at me, yes? It will be very great, yes. So, what did I say? Tyāga. Tyāga or Vyāga. That’s what I will tell you: when my Gurujī left me, he said, “Now you go along anywhere.” Nothing, only one cloth and nothing else. Also, not shoes, and at that time, there was this kind of chappal, plastic, no? Oh, that was very… oh, that plastic this. That time was very, not so many. So Gurujī said, “No, go.” Gurujī said, “The cow is going without shoes, the horse is going without shoes, the cat is going without shoes, bag, yeah.” Yes, everybody is going, why not you? I died two and a half years ago, yes. Sometimes I was standing in a little restaurant, now there are many restaurants. That time I came, I was a sannyāsī, and I was sitting there, and there was water, I was drinking water from there, and from the restaurant or coffee, coffee shop, he said, “Are Bābājī, chāy piyo, bhūjan khāiye, any time.” I don’t drink tea. Then have some milk, very nice milk, go with a cup of milk. There were people like this, and now one tea like this, here, and five rupees. And at that time, five rupees was a lot. Mahāprabhujī’s books were lost. Somebody took them away, and then Mahāprabhujī said, “I will give you one rupee if you can get it.” That time was… now it’s that similarly, but I mean, he said. Therefore, sometimes angry, sometimes gone, sometimes not—where is that you? Clean everything. So, have a nice bhajan, bhaṇḍu. Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī, Devādideva, Deveśvara Mahādeva. It is not so easy to become a yogī or holy saint or mokṣa liṅgas, okay? You promised to Gurujī, and then you left it out. Then what will happen? What will happen? So you know that we have our Chandrapurījī, Brahmacharya, only for one night. And then tomorrow morning he will get Sānyāsa Dīkṣā, and he will get an orange dress. Now, very happy that we don’t need sweepers for anything. We can clean anything, you know. It’s a very different story, Śivānandajī Mahārāj. There are many Sivanandajīs, but that kind of Sivanandajī is very famous. All world, the yoga centers are called Sivananda. And Sivananda, he said one day that he wrote his book. In Sivanandajī’s book, it is written, not me, I’m telling. And it comes, one learned, very great, was. Sanskrit and everything, and Vedas and Vedāntas, and Dāna without Dante, and he came to Sivanandajī’s, and he said, “Mahārājī.” Oh, Sivanandjī, he bore down on that Paṇḍit, because Sivanandjī knows that he came with power, this someone very powerful, and he said, “No, no…” Swamijī, Swamijī… he said, sit, sit… Then he said, “Sivanandjī, I ask you everything. Can you give me the question? I will answer.” He said, “I don’t know. I will tell you, Swāmījī.” Now he is saying, “This is it, that is it, that is it. Very good. Oh, you are great. Do you know everything?” “I know everything.” Everything, Swamijī, Sivanandjī, Mahārāj, very good. Tomorrow morning we will go together and we will work. He said, “Yes, Swamijī.” Himalaya and Gaṅgā, from go to Sivanandjī’s Āśram and from here to our Hanumānjī Temple. Why Gaṅgā, Sivanandjī Mahārāj? Why Gaṅgā? Why Gaṅgā? Because sometimes one hour was spent standing in the Gaṅgā, in cold water, but anyhow. Is it written in his book? I am not saying that. And Gurujī told me that also. So, he said, “Let us go.” He said, “Do you know this and that?” “Yes, all I know.” Then he said, “Do you know? Did you learn? Do you know that?” You know what it is? What do you say when you go to the toilet in the hospital? Poti, poti… I think. So just you lie down, or pīṭī yoga, pīpī yoga. No, no, this is a… you have to go to the toilet, yeah. He said, “What is that? You don’t know.” Sivanandaji said, you know, Paraji, you know, I don’t know this. Then tomorrow we will go. And there was one yogī, a little old man, he was lying down, and he had to go to the toilet, and the toilet was dirty. And Śivanandajī said, “I will clean this, and you clean this, please.” He said, “What? I do it?” Sivanandajī said, “You have learned nothing, my dear.” Clean this, then you will be the professors, and this and that, still. And then further he was coming, so he said, “Oh, what is… oh, there are five or six sādhus who have read this. Clean them, clean their clothes, do this, do that. That is the sādhanā, that is the dharma, that is everything.” Śivānandajī has many books written, and it was a very great thing, so one day Holy Gurujī went to Mahāprabhujī, and he was talking about Śivānandajī. Bhagavān Mahāprabhujī said, “Śivānanda is very good.” Yes, very good, very good. But best is Maṅgalānand Jī. Here is Maṅgalapurī. Go and see the Maṅgal book. There is a book of Bhagavān’s bhajans, Nānām Maṅgīlāl Jī, Maṅgalapurī Jī. When I went to the satsaṅg, I went there, I ate, and I took a bath. Holy Gurujī said this, that is a yogī. He was above that. And then there was one other, there is a bhajan, a very nice bhajan. He is from Jodhpur. In Jodhpur, what? Achal Ramjī. Achal Ramjī. That is that. Achal Ramjī was married, and this. He made a big, big pond here, very, very big. And that is why we are still getting all water here and never broke it there. And then he gave up and became a sannyāsī. Great. He was great. And very strict he was. He was strict like Swāmījī. If the Gurujī knows who that is, okay. And another person, and even that Gurujī, his Gurujī’s, told him out. To whom? Achalamjī. And Achalamjī was behind the train and looking at Gurujī going from his hut to the bathroom somewhere. I can have a darśan of my Gurujī. Yes, that was. That is that. What to come? Come on. Yes. And many things, look, look, that Jesus was washing the feet of his disciples there. And here, even we don’t clean our hands. Chalo, Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Namo Nārāyaṇ. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Gopāl Jī, come on, huh? Yeh kyā hai? Yes. Satya Sanātana, Alakhpurījī Mahādeva, Devadhī Deva, Devapurīṣa Mahādeva, Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān, Satya Sanātana, Oṁ Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Viśvaguru Paramahaṃsa Mahāprabhujī Devpurījī Gurudeva Kī Jai.

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