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Clean yourself to become a saint

True spiritual life is found in selfless service and genuine renunciation, not in titles or appearances. Many claim to be yogis or sannyasis but avoid humble work, seeking only respect and comfort. Real seva means cleaning and serving all without distinction, not just performing rituals. Renunciation is not about wearing orange robes but about inwardly letting go of all possessions and desires. A true seeker serves quietly, like cleaning toilets, without expectation. Theoretical knowledge is useless without this practical humility. Freedom is internal, beyond politics and borders, found in simplicity and unity.

"Guru Sevā means not that you already, 'I am sitting there in my room,'... guru seva means you make a seva of all my disciples."

"Tyāga, tyāga... When there is no tyāga, then you are inside like this."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Prabhudeep Nārāyaṇam, Om Namaste. Prabhudeep Nārāyaṇam, Śrīdeep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān kī, Devādhi Dev, Deveśwar Mahādeva kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma kī. Good morning, good evening, and good afternoon, as in many different countries there are different times of day. We are all in one, and one in all. In our Yoga in Daily Life, we are all around the whole world. This is one of the best things Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī and our holy Gurujī said. When I was in Europe after three years, I asked holy Gurujī, "Please, can you come to Europe?" The Gurujī said, "Okay, I will." When holy Gurujī came to Vienna, Austria, the airport was very small. All people were going up on the building and looking at all who were landing. That was in Vienna airport. There are three or four airports, and they are also very near, but now it is very big. Well then, we went to Czechoslovakia at that time. Both were together. Czechoslovakia now is Czech and Slovakia. It doesn’t matter. I can tell you, many countries were separated, and there was difficulty. But when the communists were gone, politics was gone; other politics came. Then the Czech and Slovak said that we want to be separate. So the president of Czechoslovakia said, "Okay, no problem. You become Slovakia and Czechoslovakia, Czech and Slovak." Well, there was a little bit; some people, they are always politicians, left and right, but they all came peacefully. Now they have a border, but there’s no border. Czechs come to Slovakia, and Slovaks come to the Czech Republic. Very nice, no problem. There are some other countries, maybe, but Slovakia, Czech, the other one, Yugoslavia. You know, Yugoslavia was a very big country also. When I went there, they said, "Three months, I don’t need a visa." Also, Austria said three months, no visa. That was in different countries at that time. Holy Gurujī was in Austria, then also we came to Czechoslovakia, a communist country. When Holy Gurujī came, many people were happy—many ministers and many Czechoslovakian people. They were communists, but they were so happy. They said, "What a great saint." But others said, "Please, we should not talk in any religions. Holy Guru, all is a religion." Really, everything is a release. Release from everything is a release. World, religion, very good. I am very good because you, politics, people, religion, that other one, they are very free inside. Holy Guru said that’s very good. At that time, one of the disciples, Ancha Kuslavakia, he was a holy Gurujī. Always he says, "Holy Gurujī." So now he gave the name to Holy Gurujī. That’s what they said, Holy Gurujī, you know. Holy Gurujī, Holy Gurujī, that was a very good name given. Still now we all say Holy Gurujī, that’s very good. And of course, our Gurujīs have many, many names from many different saints, and they were telling yogīs, and 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. Of course, they know that they are communist, and they were always asking for my passport and this and that. They were asking me, "Christian or Czechoslovakian?" At that time, it was a different country. They call the body that iron color, but who, who’s that? That is that holy Gurujī said, "From this side is the iron, and from the other side is iron, so who is who?" Holy Gurujī said, and therefore, after a long time, when I went to America, in America was a more iron somewhere. Also, now it is like other countries from there, and men also other like this. But Holy Gurujī said, "One in all, all in one." That was Gurujī’s word at that time. And Gurujī gave... If we think, then that communist... how they were... there are, of course, different things that I don’t want to tell you. Because there were wars, or no wars, and these are one country, another country. Otherwise, you could go, and when there was some big field, and in the field there were so many fruits, you could go and take them. You know that. You can go and take. Nobody will tell you. Because they said, "If you are taking, nobody can say, because they said, ‘It’s like ours, so it is also yours. You can take it.’" That’s it, but of course, not destroying something. It was similarly Hungarian. In Hungarian, was it like this? And so this, and Austria. It was also very nice, very nice. Now everything is more difficult. So Holy Gurujī said that everyone should be free, not only because of your country or your politics, but in your forest, everywhere. I was that time, then, after, I got in one car. Somebody gave me the car, and I was driving with my car. It threw out the Czechoslovakia and Hungary. So in Czechoslovakia, I went to the forest. I left my car there. I was alone, or with one or two friends, walking for a long time. And we arrived after midnight, but our car was there and it was not locked. Yes. Any other car, nobody will take the car away from this. And that was my life at that time, so nice, so nice. And so, holy Gurujī said, "Like freedom. Which kind of freedom? That, ‘Yes, this is my land, and this is your land.’ Of course, if you have that beautiful, big house, and you are only a one couple, husband and wife, and they have a big house." Then the government will come and say, "You have two rooms, 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, this and that. What are you 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. I’m a yogī, and, hey, why? And yogī, yogī. But why clean? Please, and then I said, "I’m brahmacharya, very good." Then you have nothing to do, work something, yes? That’s what a great... that is the best life. But no, one day is this, second day you are nothing, third now you said, "I made this." And when you become a sanyāsī, "Oh, I am a sanyāsī," holy Guru said, "Now will be the coming for the Gurus and everything. You don’t know, I can tell you. Even Avatārpuri don’t know anything. Avadhā Purī have done nothing, spoiled, spoiled." Yes, from many of them, in my disciples, I don’t want to tell you, but I will tell you, is that he is sitting behind this girl. He, 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 want, "I’m now a sannyāsī with my orange dress, I want to sit in the front." I know that some are in this country somewhere, sitting up. She’s cleaned it of the whole life, everything and nothing. I went now to the ashram, and there were about 10 or 20 sādhus. All are different. He has only one cloth, or one is like this or that, and that, but everybody was cleaning, and this and that I gave. Because that’s why I am talking about something. There is no one who is cleaning the āśram, no one. But those who are sannyāsīs, anybody coming, the master or guru, there is in the āśram. He said, "Okay, clean this, make rotī, lice, this, everything." Very nice, clean. And here we are not cleaning. This is a distance, myself, and this is a difference. That will not be equal. Till now, everything is inside. Premanānjī made a 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 the bhaktas, all people. Guru Sevā means not that you already, "I am sitting there in my room," I also... Do my programs? I do also some of my work, yes. But guru seva means you make a seva of all my disciples. So, if you are a sanyāsī or a bhakta, or this, then go to clean all your everything. Don’t ask me. Somebody there are, this, who talk the toilet out, or they work. This and that, whole day we could do. We know that in our ashram here, very nice, clean, they are all cleaning nicely here. But we are paying money. Who is cleaning whole day? One boy and one girl, and they all the time they become like. A good builder, 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, one person, no? Yes, but a little like an ashram, like in Nepal or in Jaipur or in Kailās or in Khattu. Leaves are falling. Let it fall for two days, three days. Let them down. After, we will clean it. Leaves are not bad. Leaves are not bad. They fall down from beautiful flat trees, beautiful banyans or others. Dead bodies fall down, but that is not that kind of humans or animals, but the branches of the tree, leaves of the trees, fruits falling down, and you are skipping on it. That’s not good. Pick it with the fruits. Let it. Come on. Come on. Don’t spit there. Don’t put the plastic in this and that. What they call use, and what is that use? And what and where to throw use and throw? But where? And that’s why this word came from China, and they said, "Now we will do something." And Indians or others, they are all people. Are they said, "Oh, yeah, nobody wants to clean, eat it, and throw it, and this pitching, and then somebody should work and this everything"? Otherwise, sannyāsīs, only gurus, you have this pot. Viśvakānandjī, you have not. All sannyāsīs have this eating rabrī, sabjī, everything. In that, now you have to come to that. Now I will give up what? You will give up what? You will give up everything. Next, that is, 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 sanyāsī. And when you are a sanyāsī 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 to 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... Guruji left me, and he said, "Now you go, Lord," and yeah, nothing, only one cloth and nothing else, also not shoes. And that time was this kind of cheap plastic, you know? Oh, that was very... oh, that plastic... this... that time was... Very, not so many. So Gurujī said, "No, no." Gurujī said, "Cow is going without shoes, horse is going without shoes, cat is going without shoes, bag, yeah, yes, everybody going. That why not you?" Die two and half years, yes. Sometimes I was standing in. Little restaurant, now the many restaurant, that time I came, I was sitting there, and there was water, I was drinking water from there, and from the restaurant or coffee, coffee chair, or see, he said, "Arre Bābājī, chāyī pīyo, bhojan khāiye." Any time I don’t drink tea, then I have milk, very nice milk. Go, milk, cup of milk. There were, like, these people. And now, one tea like this, here, and five rupees. And that time, five rupees was very long. Mā Prabhujī’s books were lost; somebody took them away, and this and that. Mā Prabhujī said, "I will give you one rupee if you can get it." That time was, now it is similarly, but I mean, said tyāga, tyāga, tyāga... Therefore, sometimes angry, sometimes gone, sometimes not. Where is that? You clean everything, so have a nice bhajan. It is not so easy to become a yogī or holy saint or mokṣa-liṅga. Okay, yeah, 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 sanyās, 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. Very different story, Śivānandjī Mahārāj. There are many Sivanandas, but that kind of Sivananda is very famous. All over the yoga centers, it’s called Śivananda. And Sivananda said one day that he had written his book. Sivananda’s book is written. Not me, I’m telling. And it comes, one learned very great Sanskrit and everything, and Vedas and Vedāntas and Dhanas, Vedāntas. There, and he came to Śivānandjī, and he said, "Mahārāj jī, oh Śivānandjī," he bore down to that pandit, because Śivānandjī knows that he came power, the someone very, and he said, "No, no..." Swamiji, Swamiji... He said, then he said, "Shivānandjī." He said, "Shivānandjī, I ask you, everything can you give me?" The question I answered. He said, "Very good. Oh, you are great. Do you know everything?" "I know everything, everything, Swāmijī." "Shivānandjī Mahārāj, tomorrow morning we will go together and we will work." He said, "Yes, Swāmijī." Himalaya and Ganga, from go to Sivanandaji’s ashram and from here to our Hanumanji temple. Why Ganga? Sivanandaji was sometimes one hour standing in the Ganga cold water, but anyhow, it is written in Sivanandaji’s book. I am not, I am saying, and Holi Guruji told me that also. So, say, let’s go. He said, "Do you know this and that?" "Yes, all I know." Then he said, "Do you know? They did you have learned? Do you know that? You know what it is? What do you say? That you go to the toilet in the hospital?" Yeah, so just you lie down. Or pītī yoga, pīpī yoga? No, no... This is a, "You have to come, toilet." Yeah, he said, "What is that? You don’t know?" Shivananji said, "You know, Parājī, you know, I don’t know this." Then tomorrow we will go, and there was one, a yogī, a little old, he was lying, and he had to go toilet, and toilet was... And Śivanānjī said, "I will clean this, and you clean this, please." He said, "What do I do?" Śivanānjī said, "You have learned nothing, my dear. Clean this, then you will be the professors and this and that." Still, and then Father was coming, so he said, "Oh." What is? Oh, they all, Panchayat, sadhu, Vishwa, yeh karo, wohi toh sādhanā hai, wohi toh dharma hai, wohi sabko Śiva. Nanjī have book, many book written, it was very great. Things he was so, one day Holy Gurujī went to Mahāprabhujī, and he was talking about Śivānandjī. Bhagavān Mahāprabhujī said, "Śivānandjī is very good, yes, very good, very good, but best is Maṅgalānandjī here in a Maṅgalpurī. Go and see the Holy Gurujī said this: that is a yogī, and he was above that. And then there was one other. There is a very nice bhajan. He is from Jodhpur. In Jodhpur, Achala Rāmjī—Achala Rāmjī—that is, that Achala Rāmjī was married. He made a big pond. Here, it is very, very big, and that is still. We are getting all water here and never brokered it there, and then he gave up and became a sannyāsī. Great, he was great, and very strict he was. He was strict like Swamiji. If the Gurujī knows who that is, okay. And other someone, and even that Gurujī, his Gurujī told him out. To whom? Achalamjī. And Achalamjī was behind the train and looking at Gurujī’s going from his hut to the bathroom somewhere. I can have a darśan, my Gurujī. Yes, that was. That is that. What to come? Come on. Yes. And many things. Look, that Jesus was washing the feet of his disciples there. And here, even we don’t clean our hands. Chalo. Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai. Namo Nārāyaṇa. Come on. Yes? What is this? Ṛṣi, muni, saba, santha, jana, jappe tumhārā, japa, ātmā, jñānagata, payakara, nirbhaya hogayā, sata guru chali, sahaja pare, ura guru dhyāna laga, janam maraṇa bhavadukamite, kalakabunahinkai, satguru chalisakansune, ridisidisukapai. Manāvañchitakārajā sare janama safala hojai, o guru deva dayāla bhakta janam ke ho pratipāla. Para upakāra daro avatāra dhuvata jaga mehaṁ saubhāraṁ tera darśana kare bada bhāgī jina kihi laganā kharīse laghī nāma jahāja tera sukha gāhī dahare jīva para ho jahī. Para Brahma Guruhe avināśī, Īśvarasvarūpa, sadā sukharāśī. Gurusa manadātā koī nahī̃, rājā-bādśāh karahī̃ gurusa nāmukha jāva jīva ho jāve. Koti kalapake pāpa na shave. Jis para kṛpā Guru Deva kī hoī, unake kāmī hove nahī̃ hoī. Jinake ghar Guru Deva padāre jāva, bhaktā kā janama sudhāre. Rāma Lakṣma Guru Seva Jani, Viśva Vijayahu Hai Makha Gyānī. Kṛṣṇa Guru Kī Āgyā Darī, Svayamapara Brahma Satā Guru Kṛpā Hai Aibarī. Nārada Kī Chorā Sītārī Kathim Tapasyā Kare Sukha Deva, Guru Binā Nahi Pahāyā Veda. Guru java jana kavi devya jaya sakala śāstra ke vaye atta ṛṣadha. Satta Guru Nāma Johidāya Alappa Ke Pāfati Vare, Satguru Sevā Ura Me Lāve Pīḍī Choḍam Sarabhā Koja Janam Kī Tapasyā Jaghe, Guru Sevā Me Tab Mana Lage. Satguru Sevā Me Sarva Sukha Khove, Janam Janam Ke Daridra Koveṭ. Satta Guru Sevā Koī Biralā Jāve, Murā Kā Yahā Nahīṁ Vāta Pīchade. Satta Guru Nāma Japo Dhin Rati, Janam Janam Kahe Yaha Sati. Anādhāna Lakṣmī Jo Sukha Cāhe, Guru Sevame Dhyāna Lagāve. Guru Kṛpā Sabhā Vighanavi Nāśī, Nite Brahma Ātmā Prakāśī. Pūrva Puṇyam Hṛdaya Jaba Hove, Mana Apnā Guru Sevā Me Vighana Paḍāve, Unkā Kulanā Rakame Jāve. Guru vimukha bhoge dukha bari, Ishwara se nahi lage kari. Guru vimukha konaraka nahi tora, bate karo chate lak karora. Guru kā drohī saba se burā, unkā kāma hove na hī pūrā. Jo sata guru kā leve nāma, gokhī pāve achalā rāma. Sabhī samtā nāma setarīyā, nugrā nāma bhinahī marīyam. Yamakā dūtā dhūrahī bāge, jiskā manā sata guru me lāge. Bhūta piśācha nikaṭa nahī āve, jahāṁ sata gurujī kā japa karāve. Jo Sata Guru kī sevā karte, daka na veru pitar, sabadarte, jantara mantara, jādu tonā, Guru Bhakta ke kuch nahīṁ honā. Guru Bhakta kī mahimā bharī, kyā samaje nugara nar anārī? Guru Bhakta ko Sata Dharmarāja kāle, Satguru chali sakopare sunechitālai. Śrī Mādhavānanda Ānandakare Dukhādaridra Mitājaṁ Saṁvata Do Hajāra Te Isakāṁ Āśarama Ahinājaṁ Satguru Chālī Salikā Nipāla Nāgara Prāmaṁ śrī-pūjā-sāyā-bhādī-pahārī satā-guru-paramādayā śrī-mādhavā-bhāyā. Palame kīyā-nihā nā-garani-palme-nārāya-nā gaṅga-nādhī-keti arśā-nasē-duḥ-kā-dūra-bhāgē nirmala ho yashari, nirmala ho yashari. Himālayan siddhavatar Śrī Alak Purījī Mahā Devā kī jai, Devā dī Dev Śrī Dev Purījī Mahā Devā kī. Jai ārādhye bhagavān śrī dīpanārena mahāprabhujī kī, jai śrī hindu dharm samrāṭ param svayaṃ mādhava nāḍājī bhagavān kī jai. Beautiful, very nice. To karnā dayālu darśana jāl dī denā, bhar jāl mein phanse Prabhu Vegasur dānā. To karnā Gurujī darśana jāl dī denā, Karana Dayālu Darśanajah Darśan ke pavan. Sabā pāpako nāśavān ilāko hamāre bhavan darśanajah birenā ilāko hamāre bhavan darśana jadire na tokharana gurujī darśana jadire na itadāya darśana jadire na. Umare vachana suhane, brahmachana suhane. Amaru ye tāpako bhujāne dārśanā jādi dēnā, ye tāpako bhujāne dārśanā jādi dēnā. Itnā to karanā, Gurujī, dārśanā jādi dārśanā. Dāna darśana jāvide na. Mā rase tam hamārā darśana, darśana jāvida na. Tam hamārā darśana, darśana jāvida na. Itanā to karānā gurujī, darśana jālī dina. Itanā to kāyalu darśana jāna, suniranā rahanā dhyāna. Sab jagat lage fīkā darśana jānā, sab jagat lage fīkā darśana jānā. Toh karnā darśana jānā, darśana jānā. Usī he bhāve ghasū dī lenā, itnā to karnā jānā dī denā. Sat ke guṇa jo gāve asin ho, Deep Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhūjī Kī Jai, Devādhī Dev Śrī Devpurījī Mahādeva Kī Jai, Satya Sanātana Alakpurījī Mahādeva, Devādhī Dev Devpurī Śrī Mahādeva, Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Satguru Svāmī Madhavānjī Bhagavān, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai. Om Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... Viśva Guru Paramaṁ Sai Maheśvarānandajī Guru Deva Kī Jai.

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