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Use it, or you will lose it

The horizon of being is the ultimate spiritual goal of becoming one with infinite space. Humans possess intellect but require a teacher to guide them beyond worldly knowledge. All beings follow divine instinct, yet humans become distracted by transient forms like changing hair color or accumulating wealth. Life cycles like a tree's leaves, emerging and falling, with essence continually reborn in new forms. The horizon appears as a mirage, always receding as one approaches, symbolizing the elusive nature of enlightenment. True realization is merging into boundless space where all dualities cease. Spiritual practice is essential; inner wisdom must be used or it is lost. The guru is the essential guide to this liberation.

"Use it or lose it."

"As far as I come close to that element, it goes that further."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Om Namah Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Śrī Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Devādhideva Deveśvara Śrī Devapuruṣa Bhagavān Kī Haradī Bhagavān Śrī Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī Kī Jaya Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jaya. Good evening. It is a beautiful day, very nice and warm. That is very good. Each and every muscle is relaxed. The nervous system is very good, and the blood is flowing very well. The stomach is also very good and warm, with good eating. There is very much heat in the body, and therefore God has given very nice, cool, clean water. What do we want? What do we need more? What we need more is that we have to come to that step which is the highest, meaning to the cosmic. And therefore, in human life, humans have a very good brain; they have lots of knowledge. But this body—let’s speak of humans only—others, all creatures, know what they have. God has given them the knowledge of how to do and what to do, and they are doing that very exactly. Even the vegetation, every tree, for example, the grass—everything in its time will bring beautiful leaves, flowers, fruits, and give up the leaves again. Why? Because it has to give new ones, just like us. And you know, we humans also give a tub to a child, then give the fur, and then new babies will also come. All other animals and birds, according to their time, know when they should go to sleep and when they should wake up. But humans have more, yet need a master. Master means teacher. Teacher means guru. Guru means one who gives us knowledge. So it means that we got everything, all elements where humans are knowing and thinking. And in the science of yoga, we have to learn a lot in yoga and daily life, books and hidden powers in humans, and many more others, and many best holy books. Holy means pure, good, like, for example, the Bhagavad-gītā. Each and every word in the Bhagavad-gītā, no one can change. The Ramayana, all words are beautiful and good and very clear, the signs. Or, we call it the Bible, and there all words in everything are given. If we see each and every one of those words, and not only in this book, but we have to see beyond Jesus, beyond Jesus, his mother, and what and which kind of way they were living, I don’t know. I can only say what people have said. We are changing many things now. Many words they change, you see that. When they have gotten blessings with Jesus’ prayers, they all go down. And now, people, they have maximum only go to the head here and there. Yes, that is, of course, good. These three points, but you did not go down. Many other holy books, many different religions, but these are all here. One person has a black dress, one has a red dress, one has a white dress, one has blue, one has orange, etc. But this color will remain here. This cloth will remain here. The skin, different kinds of skin, the hair, beautiful, nice, some have black, brown, some have white, etc. And now someone has black, beautiful black hair, but he or she doesn’t like black. So they put white hair, but that will not be. You can put color, and after one week, there will be white coming inside. And you are again making the color. We said, when we get a white house or the hair, we said, "Now we have learned, we passed, now we are completed. We have the white, white..." Meaning clear, very clear. But when the color comes white, then you put again black, it means that black you still are in the black. What is black? Black is very good. Black is beautiful, and everywhere there is a color. Color, but God’s gifts, that time you should have a color, and then you have other color. Like a tree, there’s no leaves, then comes very fine, nest little leaves, good color. Then comes more green, very nice. Then slowly comes yellow, and then going, falling down. It is said. Leaves which were on the tree, but now became yellow, and they will fall down. The wind will take away the leaves; they will fall a far distance. We will not know then. I don’t know if I will come again to my mother, my father, meaning my tree. When will I come? But only that was... We had nice leaves and everything. We are happy people and everything, but it becomes the yellows. What happens? The air will take everything away. Similarly, let our life go as it is. Yes, we should get water. We should have good things: fruits, or anything, or what we call wood, or earth, water, good soil. But how long? We want to have this all. It will be very nice and good, and leaves, but one day it will go. We can give a lot of water, we can give a lot of some kind of medicine inside, or this something, but it will go yellow and fall down. Live the life in this year. In that season, and be sure, next life will be different. Our brothers, and this, but do you? We are going, and who will come? The other is also like, can be the other. Everything what we is doing, it is said, someone dies and all our. Bodies, everything becomes earth, and from the earth it comes again out, makes nice tomatoes, and we eat the tomatoes. And when we are eating something, these tomatoes, that inner seed of that said, "Oh, Mother, I am with you, and I will come again." And when we eat the tomatoes, it will go again far, and one day it will be pumpkin. Pumpkin is very good. So when one dies, we don’t know if we will come, but yes, we will come. But we can come also in fruits, tomatoes, very nice watermelon, or animals, or a bird. It... We will go live. We are going that, but that time only, that we wish the God this soul, that soul cannot go out. It will not become just air. But now we are all humans in our countries, our destinations, everything. But each and all, we should... Prayer in that way, which is your countries, your knowledge, your religions, etc., or no religions, if no religion, but still you are, and you will have. But we have to come to the oneness. Then what will we become? We will become space. Space is very interesting. We know we have stones, we have trees, we have air, many things. But we want to become space. And do you know the space? How will we see the space? Where is the horizon? We say the horizon, and the horizon is we see when the sand or... Something, or on the now on the highway road, very beautiful sun, hot, and we are driving, and about in 50 meters distance or 100 meters, that’s too far, but still, and there’s water on there on the road. Maybe said, "Oh, water is there." Careful, but there is no water. But there is, in the horizon, there is water. On the highway, there is water. Reflexing also because of that water. But that far water is not that which we can touch. Water is there. So, where is the horizon? As far as we come, that far is the horizon. We can run with our very car quickly or anything. Anything, but that reflection will be there. And so it’s like the space, the whole space, many, many stars, many, many, unbelievable. And our sun, the moon, but they are also in, but where is the space? And so, for those who have got, there is no sun and no moon, not the stars and not clouds, no water and not heat, no fire. I am, I am that space. Then it is said that now you melt in it. Something that we are calling melting. Who is melting in that? That he will not be in that form, but we will see the sky also. The horizon, we can go far and far, many, many, but space is a space, and we are expanding there. In that, there we have to go in that, in that, so. As much as when we are practicing and becoming of yoga, practicing meditation, or there are many things, but this is because in our brain, in our mind, we have immense, immense power, but we don’t know what to do with this power. And that we want to explore, so we have to control, and that control is that. That is the space. And space is very fine, very clear, and there are no problems and nothing. Let’s come to, but still we have a long time. We are learning, we are doing, we are cooking, we are eating, we are making money, we are taking money, we give the money, we take the money, we throw the money, and everything. And one said, "I will keep it, my money." Holy Gurujī was giving one nice story. There were three brothers, and there was no sister. They all were farmers. And learning farming, and this, and their father, but the father wanted to keep everything because he had a lot of money or gold, like this. So when his all three brothers were going somewhere, on a picnic or anywhere, for two, three days or somewhere, that their father, the old man, had a bed in one room outside, so that all people could sit. And he was having like a bed, like I’m sitting, and there’s a wall. And he was quickly bringing someone and making a hole in the wall. In the war, and his war, that is it. Make a hole and put a lot of money, and again clean it and new dye color and everything. The wall is beautiful. And always he said, "I want to make color." And like this, when he comes, children, he said, "Oh, I..." Like this color, and this, and that money, money... Father wants to have money, mother wants to have money, others want to have the money. One old man, his wife died, the children were his. Day I am, one day. He was very old and sitting there, and he was lying on the bed. So the friends came, they were sitting there and saying, "Friend, this, that name, so and so, you had a good life, your children are good, and everything." Now, you should know why you have not given it further to all of you, or to his children, your money. Now he is sitting on the bed, people looking, and these people and three brothers are sitting there, standing. "Where is the money or all treasure?" So she thought, he thought, "Now give it to everybody, you will die, everything lost." Then he said, I will give it to my children, but where is that? I have no money. Everything he’s professing to my five or three of my brothers or my sons. Then he said, "Where is your money, treasure? Where is it?" And he’s lying on the bed, so he said, "Here." And one son understood. He held the hand and put his hand down, his father’s hand. Again, he said, "Oh, no, no, here." He said, "Yes, we know. Please, father, relax. Don’t worry, Gurū Bābā, Bābā, father. We will do all. Everything is okay." And they said, "But you have some properties." Again, he said like this. And the third brother came, his son, and he said, "Yes, father, we..." Know that, and they all joined. People said, "What is your father saying?" He said, "My father always tells the truth." "We know your father tells the truth." Then he said, both hands like this, "My treasure is here." Again they got hands. "Yes, father, we know." They said what he said. He said, "My father had so much property and money, but made a beautiful house, so everything is in the made house." Again, he said... Yes, father, we know you made everything good, and he died. And all three brothers, they said, "Cheating, my father had no money and this and so." He said, "That is nothing, only wall." And when all those go, they open the wall, and what was... There, everything is that treasure. So, it is said, "Use it or lose it." It is also the same. A yogī in America—there was one who came, an Indian yogī there long ago, about 150 years now. He’s gone, and he had disciples there. And therefore, one of the ladies, they were... Practicing yogis, he went to India and he died. But he always said to his disciples, "You have practiced yoga and prayers and mantras." So either take it or lose it. What is there to lose? Practice, practice yoga, practice prathānā, practice this, or lose everything. So that’s practice: do it or lose it. Whatever you do, do something for good and all, but also you should do it and practice. Keep it with you: good things and everything. So, use it or lose it. Now, lose it or use it. So all student children go to school and college and learn and learn... and learn. Yes, take it or lose it. Therefore, treasure it or not. Money—anybody can take away money; anything can happen. But it is inside us, in our heart and in our brain. It will come again. Is how to talk about yoga? What is this? And what is a space, space... Horizon. So when someone tells you, "What is the horizon? Where is it? How is its origin?" Only we can tell the answer. The horizon is that far. As far as I come close to that element, it goes that further. That’s it. So don’t think that. I will be now by my great my friend. Hello, my dear. Oh, my brother. Hey, my sister. Hey, my father. Hey, my ma, or a my husband. And your wife, she said, "Baby Lord." And they said, "No, you are killing." But one day, yes, that’s why life, because... We are human; we should know that. That’s it. Others, they know, they have learned, God has given exactly. So this one seed goes in the earth, sprouts, it comes up, flowers, and then, very nice leaves, it will fall down, new will come again. The same thing like humans, and this everything, but more is to them. We are all here, and we will be to a hope, we hope. But it can be that one person in the night we will be not anymore there. Jeeva pakṣī jātā hai. Wo pakṣī. Pakṣī re. Okay? Hari Om. Practice. Practice and try to catch the horizon and how to get the horizon. Tomorrow I will tell you. Hari Om. Deep Nayan Bhagavān. Now the boys come. They are coming, the students. Come a little back. Come behind me or near me. Both of you stay together. Take off your masks. Sit down. Be slow. Thank you. Shri Deep Nayan Bhagwan Ki Jai. Devi Shri Mahadev Ki Jai. It’s a little far. Hindi Ram Samrat Satguru Swami Madhavan Ji Bhagwan Ki Jai. Shri Shri 1008 Vishwaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar. Without Guru, we cannot know Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Maheś. Actually, Guru is not only Brahma, Viṣṇu, Maheśa. Guru is also Parabrahma, Parameśvara. Om Guru Brahma Guru Viṣṇu Guru Devo Maheśvara. Without Guru, we cannot do dhyāna. Without Guru, we cannot do pūjā. Without Guru’s kṛpā, we have no... Om. Dhyāna Mūlam Guru Rūpam, Pūjā Mūlam Guru Padam, Mantra Mūlam Guru Vākyaṁ, Mokṣa Mūlam Guru Kṛpā. Who gives me joy, just like Brahmā, who is the statue of knowledge, who is beyond all duality, who is just like the sky, who is very clean, who is beyond all happiness and sadness, to that guru I make praṇām. One day, Mātā Pārvatī said to Śivjī, "You are God of God, but every time you are meditating, who is your God?" Śivjī said, "My God is my Guru." Dhagandharva sevite tatra kalpala tapushpa shukadi munivandhitam bodhiyantam param tatvam madhemunigare kuchita prarambhavarana sasvanna. So, my dear brothers and sisters, let’s go on bhajan with me. Tad Guruvam sab kī vidhātā, tumko namaskār rahe. Āp ke charaṇon mein jhūktā, śiṣh baram bāl hai. Āp ke charaṇon mein jhūktā, yah sārā sansār hai. Dīpa Dayāluke Amṛt āśiṣṭa, hama śiṣho ke īśvara ho. Mādhavānanda jī premā se kahate, tumto jag ke mahēśvara ho. Alakhpurījī ko bhaktōṁ se karavāte didār gaen. Āpke caraṇōṁ mein jhuktā śiṣ baram bār hain. Āpke caraṇōṁ mein jhuktā yah sārā sansār. Mohinī māyā kī chhāyā, Mohinī māyā jyoti se harte ho. Hum sab cale sato panth par aisī yukti karte ho. Jīvan mukta banādo Prabhujī, Jīvan mukta banādo Prabhujī, Vinatī yahī āmā Āpke caraṇom meṁ jhuktā Śiśa barambāra hai Āpke caraṇom meṁ jhuktā Yah sārā sansāra hai He Satguru gama sabke vidātā He Satguru gama sabke vidātā Tumko namaskāra hai. Aapke charanume jhukta Shish barambar hai, Aapke charanume jhukta Yahsa sansar hai. Param ghan saghe sat, Param ghan saghe sat. Guru me daya kripa ke Sagar ho, devya dreshti se he paripuran bharti. Sagar me saagar ko devishwara maha deva ki varse. Devīśvara Mahādeva kī varṣe Pragati pālan kāra hai. Āp ke carṇo meṁ jukta śiṣa barambāra hai. Āp ke carṇo meṁ jukta yah sansāra hai. Hai cāra acāra jagata ke svāmī, hai cāra acāra jagata ke svāmī. Navanidhi ke ratna kāraga. Ashtam se di sattah aajati, jab karuṇā tum karte ho... Guru bhakti kā āśīṣ de do, bhagavān. Guru bhakti kā āśīṣ de do, bhagavān. Īśa manas kī yahī pukār hai. Āp ke carṇoṁ meṁ jhuktā śiśa bārambār hai. Āp ke carṇoṁ meṁ jhuktā yah sā sansār hai. Hai satguru gama sab ke vidhātā. Hai satguru gama sab ke vidhātā. Tumko namaskār hai. Āpke carṇoṁ meṁ jhuktā śiśa barambhar hai. Āpke carṇo meṁ jhūktā yahā sārā sansār hai, Pūjīpad, Anantaśrī Vibhūṣit, Parivājikācār, Brāhmaṇiśvaśrotri, Śrī Śrī Ek Hazārat, Viśvaguru, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar, Paramānsvāmī Śrī Maheśvar, Ānandjī Purī Jī, Purodeva kī jai. Devpurījī Mahādeva, Vakījā, Mādhavānandjī Bhagavān, Nakījā, Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Nakījā, Alakpurījī Mahādeva, Vakījā, Bhārat Mātā Kī Jai.

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