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What means sanyas diksha

The path to sannyāsa is a profound spiritual commitment requiring total surrender and purification. It is a rare attainment, the culmination of many lifetimes of seeking. One must give up all attachments—to family, home, and worldly identity—as this separation is difficult, like a nation leaving a union. The orange cloth is not mere fabric; it symbolizes the skin and blood of one's dedication to reach the highest realms. True realization comes from the heart, where the divine resides, as shown by Hanuman. Seva, selfless service, is essential. The initiation involves rigorous rituals: cleansing the body with sacred substances like cow dung and ash, culminating in the guru cutting the śikhā, severing attachment to the physical world. It is not an easy path, but one of continuous inner cleaning to realize the Self.

"Where is your Rāma and Sītā? He said, 'It is in my heart.'"

"The most important and the jewel of all mantras is the guru mantra."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Kacharanjī Mahārāj kheechhe, Satgurudeva kheechhe, Summaro Gannanami Gurudevā, Summaro Gaṇanānāmī Gurudeva, Sabse Se, Se,... Gaṇeśa, Gaṇeśa, Ādikha, Sabse Se, Se, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Maheśvara, Deva, Sabhā, Īka, Māra, Tera, Nāma, Sarva, Sukha, Dhyāna, Lakha, Veda, Janam, Maran, Meho, Nahiya, Kakavati, Saka, Path, Jokare, Kamso, Bhava, Sagar, Seja, Kashi, Man me matla ore kaj Khakha khadvo adat Mana apagad Dina tu magha ghatbe. Chacha chandana yushit Kaj pai, Jaja jagat swapna Sa sa... Doṣā na ghaṭ kī yānā amṛta satsaṅg ne pī āhā kī. Hanumānā, Gosāīṅ kṛpā kā rāho Gurujī. Jo sā taba rahā pāṭha karā, koī tāhīṅ bandī mahā sukha pāre. Hanumālī satī gorī dāsa sadācī. Mahēśvāmījī Gurudev kī jai. He Satguru, hama sabke vidhātā. He Satguru, hama sabke vidhātā, tumko namaskār. Gai āpke caraṇoṁ meṁ jhukta śiś, vārāṁ bhar gai āpke caraṇoṁ meṁ jhukta. Yahāṁ sārā sansār gayā. Ipa dayālu ke ham śiś, ham sab sevā ke īśvar ho. Madhavānandajī, premā se karte tum to jag ke mahīśvara ho. Alakapurījī ko bhaktose, Alakapurījī ko bhaktoṁ se karavāte didār hain. Āpke caraṇoṁ meṁ jhuktā śiśvaram bār hain. Āpke caraṇoṁ meṁ jhuktā yahā sārā sansār hain. He Satguru, gama-sabke vidhātā, tumko namaskār hai. Āpke caraṇoṃ meṃ jukta śiṣ barambar hai, āpke caraṇoṃ meṃ jukta yah sārā sansār hai. Kī chāyā ko mohinī māyā kī chāyā jyoti se harte ho? Hum sab cale sato panth par aisī yukti karte ho. Jīvan mukti banā, tujh binatī yahī hamārī hai. Āp ke caraṇoṁ meṁ jukta śiṣ barambar hai, āp ke caraṇoṁ meṁ jukta yaha sārā sansār hai. O Satguru! We bow down to you as the master of all religions. We bow down to you as your disciple. We bow down to you as your disciple. Param Sahāg Devyā Dṛṣṭi Se Paripūraṇa Ho Navanidhi Ke Ratnākara Ho Deveśvara Mahādeva Ke Varṣe Pragate Paranahar Hai. Āpke Carṇo Me Jukta Śiśvarambar Hai. Āpke Carṇo Me Jukta Yahā Sārā Sansār Hai. He Satguru Gama Sabke Vidhātā, Tumko Namaskār Hai. Āpke caraṇoṃ jhūktā śiśvarambar, āpke caraṇoṃ jhūktā yah sālā sansār hai. So, thank you very much, children. It was very, very nice, your program. Yes, thank you. Very nice bhajans, and Sanskrit and English. Perhaps tomorrow you will speak something in English, okay? Something. And now, you know, all of you also, around the world, our bhaktas, our yogīs, our sisters, brothers, they know. One of our new swamis, his name is Chandra Puri Swami, now his name is Swami Chandra Puri, and I think he will tell something about his life and how, till now, he achieved to become a sanyāsī. It is very rare, very rare, who can. Achieved as a sannyāsī. Doesn’t matter if it’s male or female. This is from many, many ages, lives. We were traveling through different situations. It becomes something. And of course, now this is one of the very hard, but this is in this life, for everything, you will come to the Brahmalokas, on the highest of the highest, not this what we call Satyugas or Dvāparayugas, Kaliyugas, this and that, but when you become a sanyāsī. And seva is very, very important to achieve that in our life. That is so. Our sannyās dīkṣā tomorrow, perhaps I will tell something more. And sannyās means, first, what you get? The cloth, and this orange cloth is this weight for. Example, this is not a cloth, but this is my skin and my blood that I will achieve all to come to the Brahmalokas, like Satyugas and Satyogis, Sataṛṣis, and how the ṛṣis and many others. They are like stars in this space. So those are great things. Others, some just, okay, you can learn and give lectures and this and everything. It’s okay, but it has to come from the heart. Like Bhagavān Rāma, when Bhagavān Rāma and all, Sītā and they, went into Brahmā. But Hanumanjī was there, and someone asked, "Where is your Rāma and Sītā?" He said, "It is in my heart." "Where is that? Show it." And so Hanumanjī opened his heart, and there were God Rāma and Sītā. That’s it. And so after that, in the Satyug, Dwāpar, and Tretā Yugas... After the Tārtaryugas, they are like Jesus, and Jesus was also then opening his heart, something because this was from Hanumanjī. He is followed from Hanumanjī, so all then to become a sanyāsī now is just, and now you have to work very hard. It is very hard sometimes, very hard, sometimes beautiful, very good, but always it is cleaning, purifying words to realize the Self. But that Self, there are many different kinds of Self. Somebody says, "Who is that?" Yes, I am. It’s yours. Yes, it’s mine. That is very easy, but that kernel in the heart, that is something. That is the star. You will be in the star, or it will come different inside. It’s not easy to get a sannyāsī. But you have to give up many things. Yes. No attachment. No attachment. No attachment at home. Parents, now involved in these Kali Yugas, they don’t worry about mother and father. That is for them, but when mother and father and brother and sisters, it is one tree. And where is the trunk of the tree? Branches, leaves, plums, and the fruits in one—that is like the father, the mother, the sisters, the brothers. And there, how will it go? And so it is that when one comes as a sannyāsī, then in another life already—that other past life—it is not for you a past life now. But sometimes one will turn back. Then it’s very difficult, it will be. Again, it’s not the word which I don’t want to tell, but somehow it is in you, in our countries, what is Austria, Vienna? These all come, and that we are in, where we are, we call this what? No, no... We are in which is all? We are calling this country, huh? No, now in Asia, but the other one I’m talking about, you see? So you don’t understand your country in all Europe. Now in Europe, all this, they want to bring all countries together. Austria, New Zealand, Czechoslovakia, Croatia, all these countries in Europe. And they want to bring Europe together. It’s not easy, and then try to come. Now, in the middle, it was not in the middle. And what happens? The British, they say, "No, we don’t. We’ve been together with the union." So they worked so many years, how many old papers, and this and that, to come together, become one. Then again, no, I will not separate. Okay, maybe they are good, they will be okay, but it is coming out. And so it is, then when you become a sannyāsī, and after sometimes you said, "No, no, I will not, I will do all my sādhanās and this," but I don’t. Want to become a sannyāsī? Then it’s not easy to separate. Now, how many? Two years? I think two years. I think two years or three years. The British, they want to come out, and they try to come out, and how much money they have to give so that they can separate. So this is a little thing, so that is to become a sannyāsī. And then you have angries, this, that, then it’s... You see that in the Kumbh Melā, many sādhus, they are fighting and this. That is not that. It will come more to talk, but it has gone. It’s like, what means that we become? This is that one star is falling like that way, like this. You are becoming this star going in that way. What is the time now? It’s not so dark. Night is still not there. When will be the dark? Then you will see the star, but the darkness is not. Easy to stand in the darkness. Sometimes you are alone, sometimes there is in the thing. Sometimes they will say you are a stupid person, this and that. So, our dear Chandra Purī, Swāmī Chandra Purī, now is the third day he’s here, and now, I think he will give his life, how it was. There were many stupid things, don’t tell us, yeah, because there are so many things. But heart, what was the heart? So, Chandrapurījī, Hari Om, come please, Deep Nārāyaṇa. Bhagavān Dev Puruṣāmā Dev Mādhāvanāñjī, Bhagavān Alak Puruṣ Mahādev, Jai. Twenty minutes, where to start or how to start, but Gurujī will help with this. Do you want to? Maybe it’s best to start with how I first met Gurujī. It was 2006 when I went to Vāpe first with some friends. They were not Viśva Gurujī’s disciples. I was also not Viśva Gurujī’s disciple at that time. My mother, my mātājī, just passed eight days before she passed away. So I went to see Swamījī. I heard about Yoga in Daily Life. I was practicing a little bit of yoga, mostly haṭha yoga, kriyās, the Śaṅkara Prakṣālana with Tyāg Purījī from Hungary. So, for the first time in my life, I went to a real satsaṅg, to see a real mahātma, to have a darśan. Of course, I didn’t know much about this. In Western culture, we don’t have an opportunity to meet such saints. So I was very much ignorant and was observing what was going on there. But one thing was very significant and important. When we had āratī, we had prayer, then Viśwa Gurujī said we should now pray for those souls who recently passed away. So somehow this made me think, how does he know about that? My mother passed away a few days before. So that was my first meeting with Viśwa Gurujī in Vape, Hungary. And then, a few months later, we came to India to see different places with some Hungarian Guru brothers. They were already Viśvagurujī’s disciples. And in 2006, October or November, we came to Jadana Shrine with the intention that we would stay here a couple of months, go back for Christmas, but we would be here and practice karma yoga. So I met Viśwa Gurujī a second time here near Gurujī’s Mahāsamādhi place. It was, I think, Holy Gurujī’s Vārṣī, Holy Gurujī’s Mahāsamādhi anniversary. There was a night satsaṅg. We arrived in the morning by bus, with Thyāgpurījī, who is now Karmasanyās. And they told us that Swamiji is near Holy Gurujī’s samādhi, so we walked there, and that’s where, actually, I had first time physical contact with Viśwa Gurujī, that I went there and made praṇām. Those people who are sitting here, they were helping me. What to do? How to remove your shoes? How you go and how you make praṇām? How you put the mālās? Because in the West we don’t know all these things. So that’s how I met, actually. Viśva Gurujī asked my name, and then we started to live here, and after two or three days. There was a big group, and the group went all around the ashrams. So I asked, because I was not in the group, we were somehow a little bit outsiders in this situation. So they told me, "If you want to go with the group, or if you..." If you want to travel with Swamiji, then you have to ask if it’s all right. You can go, or you should stay, or what you should do. So I asked if I could go. That’s how, that’s how we started our trip to different ashrams. First was Kāṭu āśram, where we went, then we went to Kailash and Jaipur, and this was very short, actually, for me, that we were seeing someone. Some guru sister was sitting next to me on the bus, and she talked about Guru Gītā. We were singing the Guru Gītā. I didn’t know about Guru Gītā; I didn’t understand anything, basically, about who the guru was. So many things started to open up very quickly in me on the way to Kathu. That time, Māṭājī was there in Kathu. We spent one night there, or two nights, I think. We went to the Devdungarī Sanyās Āśram, to Mahāprabhujī’s Mahāsamādhi, to make praṇāms and spend some time there. Then one or two days later, we went to Kailash Ashram, to Devapurījī’s ashram. And Vishwagurujī had a lecture that evening in the hall in Kailash about mantra, about the importance of the mantra, which are the different kinds of mantras, bīja mantras and gāyatrī mantra and so many mantras, but the most important and the jewel of all mantras is the guru mantra. And I was sitting there, and these words were somehow the last drops that I needed, that I had such a burning desire for that guru mantra. So I was very shy, I didn’t know how to, if I can go to Gurujī, I can ask for mantra. So I asked Sādhvī Śāntījī if she can go and ask for me, and I was really excited. What the answer will be, but the answer was positive, and Shantījī came back that I can have my guru mantra, and she said it is going to be in Jaipur next day, or two days after, on a full moon day. So one, one, two days later. We went to Jaipur, and basically, I got my mantra initiation in... Jaipur, Russia, whenever I go there, I still always go into Satguru Darbar, where I was actually born when I got my second birth in this body. Jaswajī was there, Viśva Gurujī was there, and I got my mantra initiation. You all remember, it’s a lifetime experience. When you got your mantra, whoever is listening to this or whoever is sitting here, I don’t need to say anything about this. I think the group, Swamījī was going back to Europe, the group also went with them with Swamījī, so we didn’t know what we should do, and it was. It is very clear that Gurujī said that you should go to Jhadan and do Karma Yoga. It was very strict: actually go to Jhadan and work and work... So it was very clear what I needed to do, and we arrived to Jhadan. Then, slowly, slowly, I got to know all these places, starting sādhanā, understanding, starting to practice regularly in the morning, sitting here with many of you. Who are sitting here? We were sitting here together and doing our morning sādhanā, āsanas, meditation, and so on. So day by day, the days started, life in ashram, life in karma yoga in ashram, and I, it was very strange for me that one morning we were at the Shiv Mandir having āratī, and suddenly I was... I was... Looking to myself, I was never so happy in my life as in those days. That something that was missing from my life all the way, what I was searching for, what I should do with my life, what I should work. Where should I go? I got the answers in those days. I got the experience that this is what I’m meant for, to live in an āśram. So later I asked Viśva Gurujī, when he went to Europe, if I could come back, because we... We didn’t go back for Christmas as we planned; we went only in February. We were supposed to go back in February with Yāgapurījī, but I have the desire to come back to Jadam to live here for a longer time, because of these four or five months that we were here together. I felt that this is what I should do, this is where I should stay. So Vishwagurujī said, "Yes, no problem. You can come back. Talk to the Maṅgalmaṇījī in the office, organize the things. You are most welcome, you should come, no problem." So I was very happy to... Hear that? That I can come back and basically I should speak now a little bit about sannyās, because that’s the occasion that happened three days ago, the sannyās dīkṣā. So it was 2006, in 2007 there was a Where many sannyāsīs got initiated, I think six or seven if I remember well. So it was in January, Makar Saṅkrānti time. So, one or two months before, there were preparations for how it should be. Premanājī Mahārāj got the duty, as always, to build a camp there and Jastājī. So there were meetings on the eating veranda about how the karma yogīs should go. There should be two groups. One group should go this time, and one group should go that time. And once there was a meeting for the Karmayogīs who wanted to go to which group, and the information came that one group will attend the sannyās dīkṣā. They will see the sannyās dīkṣā for all those who are having sannyās initiation. The other group will not see, so we were all sitting there in one circle, and somebody asked the question, "Who wants to go to that group who will see the sannyās dīkṣā?" And I put my hand up like this, and I looked around, and I saw that nobody is actually putting the hand up, so I quickly moved the hand down. I felt that it was somehow awkward. I was so excited to see the Sannyāsa Dīkṣā. I heard that there is going to be one Hungarian person also initiated, so I was very excited to see how the Sannyāsa Dīkṣā is, and how it is, and who this Hungarian is, and how the Kumbh Melā is. So we saw the Sanyās Dīkṣā and the Kumbh Melā. Many of you were there. Those ones who are listening on the webcast, it was beautiful, it was very inspiring, many great sannyāsīs got initiated, Vivek Purūjī Mahārāj, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvarjī Ānandījī, Gopālji, Gyāneśvar Purūjī Mahārāj, I’m sorry if maybe I don’t call, Māṭājī, Svāmī Mayokṣakti Purūjī Mahārāj from Kāṭhu. So it was a strong, very strong experience in a very powerful group, actually. So that was for me a lifetime experience, and when I saw the Sannyāsa Dīkṣā, I felt that this is meant for me, this is what I should do. It’s not easy. It took 14 years, and as Gurujī also mentioned, there are many things one has to go through or one has to experience to come to that decision to make this step. So there were many different occasions, and there were more Kumbh Melas. I can’t remember exactly, I think it was Allahabad 2013, when Vishwa Gurujī first addressed me or first told me that he said there is going to be a sannyās dīkṣā, so you should decide. And the first time, he gave me only once an orange lungi. And of course, I had many excuses why I’m not ready, and obviously I was not ready. I don’t know if anybody is ever ready for this kind of initiation, but it has to happen somehow, especially when we are on the spiritual path and we are serious on the spiritual path. So actually, it somehow happened three days ago. I was a bit surprised because I thought it might be a little bit later. But somehow Vishwagurujī decided to speed it up a little bit now. So he called one morning. There was a yajña, a fire ceremony. Near Matajī’s Mahāsamādhi place here in Jadana Shram, at nine in the morning. So they called me to go there. I didn’t know what the occasion was or why a yajña was being organized. So I just went there, and Vishwa Gurujī told me to sit down. And he told me, "Now I am going to give you a brahmacharya dīkṣā." So, I’m going to have a white cloth, and I should follow the rule of the brahmacharya. So I felt that’s good. Brahmacharya is okay. I can be a brahmachārī for some months or years. That’s quite okay, I’m good with that. But then Vishwagurujī said that there is going to be a sannyās dīkṣā next morning, so I was wondering, whose sannyās dīkṣā is going to be? It was still... I was trying to... it was not sure. But then he made it very sure that, "Tomorrow, you are." Going to have a sannyās dīkṣā, so Jihukamvaljī, there is only one answer, Jihukamvaljī. Yes, Famījī, that’s your wish. It is going to happen. It is time that it should happen, because he knows when we are ready. He knows when we are ripe, and I’m only... A three-year-old, three-day-old baby here. Gurujī said, "This is just a... he just gave a cloth, but the qualities are not there yet. It’s just starting now, so we will see how it will unfold through guru kṛpā." But I am very, very thankful that it happened. And I would like to say a few details about Sannyāsa Dīkṣā, because it was a great experience. That early morning, around five o’clock, we came together with some Sannyāsīs who were helping me with the preparations. Vishwa Gurujī described the ceremonies one day before, how we should do, what we should do. So basically, the first thing we did, only a few sannyāsīs and I were there, and Śiv Purījī was also there, was we bathed the body, or we cleaned the body. We smeared the body with gobar, the cow dung, so that was the first thing we did, the whole... Body, everything was shaved, so all the... it was very easy to do this, this gobar, basically. And I must say that this is a very powerful experience and very hard to explain. Actually, you should experience it. It is beautiful. It is beyond words to experience how it is that all the body... It is smeared with the gobar, and the next step was we had this body washed down with a mixture of gobar, gomūtra, dūdh, and ghī. So, cow dung, the urine of the cow, the yogurt, milk, and ghee. You all know that the cow is very sacred in India. We call it gomata. So whatever comes from the cow, not only the milk, we consider it very sacred and of very high vibration. So, for me, it wasn’t strange to have a bath with this mixture. So after the body was smeared with, or applied with, this gobar, then we had a second slant with this mixture. So it was completely washed down. Then it was washed down with water, with clean water. And then the fourth step was the bhasma, the ash. So again, the whole body, the ash was applied on the whole body. Then I got the laṅgotī, which is the one cloth that only sannyāsīs wear. And then they gave me a white cloth, a white kapṛā, as a brahmachārī. And then, slowly, slowly, we proceeded towards the Yajña Śālā, towards the Yajña place. It was already six in the morning, and the right time according to the Jyotiṣa was six o’clock, when we were supposed to start the ceremony. So Gulabjī was there, he was leading the ceremony as a paṇḍit, and some sannyāsīs, Premānandjī, Avatāra Pūjī Mahārāj, Harī Pūjī were sitting, we were sitting at the yajñaśālā place, and the actual yajña, Swāmī Phūl Pūjī, I’m sorry Mahārāj, I’m sorry Mahārāj, yes, but he came later because he had something with the jīhukam, jīhukam,... So, we were all sitting there at the Yajña Śālā place, and we had the Yajña ceremony with mantras, with certain rituals. You all have seen it, how the sacred fire, the offerings are done in the sacred fire, svāhā, svāhā, svāhā. And then Vishwagurujī came, I can’t remember exactly what time it was, 8 o’clock approximately. And there is a special place in Jadanaśram near Mātājī’s samādhi. There is a banyan, yes, thank you, a banyan tree in the middle. And there are nine pīpal trees all around. Both are very sacred in India, symbols of Viṣṇu Bhagavān and Śiva. So, actually, the real initiation, the real sannyās dīkṣā for me, happened under that tree. When Vishwa Gurujī came and we made praṇām, and Gurujī sat under that banyan tree, and he gave the orange cloth first, and then he cut the choṭī, the śikhā. So that’s the moment, actually, when the guru cuts the attachment to that physical body, to that physical world. I don’t actually know what really happened, because it’s only three days, but I can feel that many things happened in that moment, or in those moments, that I’m not completely aware of. I might, it might unfold, and it will be more clear for me, but I can say that That is something unique, or something very important, that happens there. So that was three days ago, through the blessings of Gurujī. Exactly, surrender everything to Gurudev. Because, basically, for me, as much as I understand about sannyās, this is like serving Gurujī, serving all yogīs in their life and family, and serving, serving all creation. Now, bring from the kitchen. Beautiful fruit, it is not a fruit, it is a head of the disciple, yes. And he will offer everything to the Gurujī, his Guru, all money, paisā, everything that is coming, to come to the Gurudev. And so now bring it, this, okay? Yes, yes, and that. We are giving it to you. You bring it, you will bring it and give it to me. Very good bhajan. God bless you. God bless you. Aja Sakhiye Mere Ānandayā Pāra Dhannam Satguru Mere Ānandayā Pāra Aja Sakhiye Mere Ānandayā Pāra Sakhiye mere ānandayā pāra, sakhiye mere ānandayā pāra. Prabhu bhaṇḍā jahāṁ mare jaya jaya kāl, mere ānandayā pāl jai. Sakhiye mere ānandayā pāl, bhagavān kī jai. Śrīdīp dharayan, bhagavān kī jai. Śyālak Puruṣa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Dharma Samrāṭ Śrī Mādhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jai, Viśvaguru, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Paramahaṁsavāmī, Maheśvarānandapurījī, Gurudeva, Vakīra, Jai. Bhol Shri Deep Narayan Bhagwan, Chandrapurījī is giving all to our Satguru Swāmī, Alakpurījī, Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, Holy Gurujī, and all give his all for the Omayagurudev, Vakar. Put it there. That put it down, and make fall down blessings. Praṇām, praṇām, praṇām. Dhanvār praṇām to, yes, Haryo. Bhol Shri Deep Narayan Bhagwan. Dev Puruṣa Mahādevakī. Mādhāvanānjī Bhagavānakī. Alak Puruṣī Mahādevakī. Satya Sanātan Dharmakī. Śaṅkarācārya Bhagavānakī. Jai Om.

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