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Prana is the source of our life

Prāṇa is the sacred life force, sustained by water and air. Water is holy and must not be wasted or dirtied. Air as prāṇa is the very essence of life; without it, existence ceases quickly. This vital force connects all beings. One must practice awareness of this sustaining energy. Practice prāṇāyāma to cleanse and strengthen this inner breath. Do not succumb to fear, as anxious thoughts can manifest disharmony. The true Self, the Ātmā, exists beyond these elemental needs. Cultivate this understanding through daily practice and generosity.

"Water is holy, and when there is no more water, then it is finished."

"Prāṇa is jīvan (life). If the prāṇa is not there, then we are gone."

Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Devādhī Dev Dev Purīṣa Mahādev Kī Jai. Satguru Svāmī Madhavān Jī Bhagavān Kī Jai, Alakhpurījī Mahādev Kī Jai. Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai, Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhudīpanārāyaṇam. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Devādidev Deveśvar Mahādev Kī Jai. Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai. Good evening, our very dear ones all. To yoga and life, to all our sisters and brothers around the world, I wish you the best time and a good time. The life, the time which was in the last is past, but now we are coming to the good things. Yes, there may be other views or some waves coming, but we should not be sad or depressed. It was enough that we were, due to the corona, very sad. How long will we remain in sadness? In those days, our atmosphere was good. We should say in our meditation, in the morning when we get up, first: "I am human." Mother Earth, I wish to stay pleased when I stand up from my sleep. Then I come to touch the holy water. The water is holy water. Water is holy, and that holy water we are using. When that water touches our body, then it is like holy water—that is holy. Who is holy? Water. Water is holy, and when there is no more water, then it is finished. Therefore, we should respect that water is holy. Do not throw the water. Do not waste the water. Do not dirty the water. It is holy. So, when we come out of our bed, we say, "Mother, may I touch your earth, Mother Earth." The air is that which moves us and brings us towards the water, and that is the holy water. When we see the water first, we put it on our face, eyes, our whole palms; we drink the water, holy water. You know that after we make bhajan, satsaṅg, or praṭhanā (prayers), or we perform some pūjā, then we all say, "This is holy water." What is that? Everyone is saying this. But this is the holy water. Water is not so... how to say? Water is very heavy. You know how heavy? But air is also very heavy. So the heavy water and the air, these both together are holding us. That is holy water, and the holy prāṇa. Prāṇa is jīvan (life). If the prāṇa is not there, then we are gone. We can, even without water, we can remain for some time, but without air, without inhalation, how long? Some minutes? Someone said one minute, two minutes, three minutes, one, two, three, four, five. How long? Fifty, counting, or a hundred, then our heart and our lungs come out. Prāṇ, Prāṇ Nāth, He Māryā, Prāṇ Nāth. Yes, and you know when husband and wife get married, he said to his wife, "My Prāṇ Nāth," and his wife said to her husband, "My Prāṇ Nāth." Why? Because now he is my life, like that air. But when you will do something and you will get out of this, throw your wife away or throw your husband away, then it means you were not that prāṇa. He Prāṇ Nāth, He Prāṇ Nāth. We all go to the temple, we come to the Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Jī, Mahāprabhujī, Madhavānandjī Bhagavān, Śiva, Kṛṣṇa, Hanumānjī, Mā, Pitā, we come, mere Prāṇa. Prāṇa is the life. Early morning, when we get up, and we know we are sleeping deep, we don’t know where we are, but prāṇa will be within this body. All the time, the prāṇa is going, and we have a dream. You are going in the dream. Yesterday in the night, I heard someone bringing a noise, a very nice sound. Yes, but I did not know myself that I am snoring. All very nicely harmonious, and the neighbor said, "Stand up, get up." Then the husband said, then his wife got out and slept in the kitchen. That prāṇa is going in such a way that life is going and will come quickly. Understand what is the prāṇa. He Prāṇa, He Prāṇa, Mera Prāṇa, Mera Bhagavān, Mere Ānanda, Mere Param Ānanda Ho, Ānanda Ho Ānandaho, Ānandaho Ānandaho. Everybody, when somebody comes and tells something, then we say it. Ānandaho, padārye āp ānand, ānand, padārye ānand Ānand, āp ānand se padārye. But that prāṇa, we think is not very heavy. It is very heavy. Water is very heavy. Here in the sky, it’s gone up in the sky, hanging. And if we take water here like this, it will fall down. It will not go up. But it’s only in the hand, but still in me. And when I... will drink it up in life, it will come in the ocean, then it will become the ocean, and then the ocean will say, "Now again, let’s go up." In that way, yoga. Similarly, all other parts of the body, and this we have to come to understand. Animals are very, very good, or how to say, very aware. Birds and many animals, they are sleeping half. The horse stands the whole night, but sleeps only on one leg. Three legs are standing, and one leg is a little like this. And the horse is inhaling and sleeping. We should be aware, aware of awareness. And that awareness, what does it mean to go to the aware? Sometimes we are not aware, and we speak something nonsensical. Then we are so sorry. Therefore, Gurujī has said many nice things; Mahāprabhujī’s bhajan is so beautiful. "He Prāṇī, He Prāṇī..." What does "He Prāṇī" mean? All beings, all animals, birds, cows, buffaloes, donkeys, dogs, buffaloes, goats, all, all are living beings. He, prāṇī. Once a yogī was sitting there, and there were tigers coming. Three, four tigers went and went beside, and the yogī said, he was said, "He, mere prāṇ." Inside he said, "He, mere prāṇ, mere prāṇ ke sāth." I think the tigers understood and said, and they were going like this. Where does it go? Then everything is gone. To, hamāre sāth sambandh nahīṁ hai. Unkā sambandh hamāre sāth ab nahīṁ hai. Hamārā hadiyā, whole parts of the body, our flesh and everything, prāṇa chala gayā. So yes, air, very fine. So, in this Corona time, many people were suffering very much and died. They cannot breathe, and we were, I was experiencing. I was holding there. How is my oxygen? My oxygen was 7, 8, 9. And when I said it became a hundred, and when it was a hundred, how nice it is. Or, many people are making meditation like this. Then oxygen is not enough, then you cannot meditate. You lost your meditation. There is one person here in our ashram. Whenever he is thinking, when singing, or meditating, or looking at Swamiji, how is this person? Half a life. Bhagavan, so he is not an animal, then? He is not an animal. He does not bite, does not kill, and does not eat any animal. He is just like Bhagavān. As soon as he opens his eyes, Bhagavān comes inside us, and he flies away. Oh, Mother, I climb on your feet. Earth, our earth. And Jal Jagadīś. Jahan Jal Jagdīś, where there is water, there is God, Jal Jagdīś. This all which we are coming, learning whole day, thinking about whole day—where and how and this. Don’t only do, "I will do this, and I go now there, and I will do this." Therefore, prāṇa, prāṇa. So, all they were, many people even did not know what oxygen is, yeah. But now everyone knows. Everyone is running, bringing. And people were nice people. They were giving the oxygen to others, and they bring everything like this. But there are some people who took the oxygen boxes, which were, let us say, for one five hundredth. But now, because there are many people, they are taking thousands and thousands. Doesn’t matter, please, for my breath, Lana. Arre, pehle to itnā mein mil jātā thā, ab kehtā kitnā. And so that’s why the government came and saw that people who did like this, they took everything away like this and gave it to the poor people. That’s what. Manuṣya, arre manuṣya, tum kya kar rahe ho? He, Manav. He, Manuṣya. Better to give someone, yes. If it’s only one glass of water and you are thirsty, or all are thirsty also, then what will happen? We will give half a glass each. But before he said it quickly, he said, "No more water." There were two friends. Their two friends went into the Himalayan mountains, and they had something to eat, and they both had one. Give us, who will eat all? Well, they made a khichḍī, like Hariharanand, made a khichḍī, khichḍī tea, and put it there. In the night, one man was sleeping, and he was tired and hungry, but he was sleeping. The other one was very hungry; he could not sleep. Hungry, I cannot sleep. Khichdi is very nice, and the food is there. Midnight, this other man, he got up and he ate everything, and then he put it away and he slept. Then he was living like this. After they woke up, another person said, "Should we share our food?" He said, he said, he’s looking like this. He said, "What happened?" He said, "You know, something happened." He said, "What happened, my friend? At midnight, Hanumānjī came." And Hanumanjī came and he said, "Why are you sleeping without eating? Eat!" He said, but we eat. He said, Hanumanjī is with his eat. So I was eating. Then I could not eat all. Hanumanjī said, "Eat all, clean it, and put it." All of them, Hanumanjī was so angry with me. "I ate, and I eat," he said. You see, there is such a person. There is a word, how to say, I don’t know, but that one, he ate everything, and he did not give to others. That’s this. So prāṇa, so human should, that is the human, to give each other health. So prāṇa, more our prāṇa, prāṇāyāma. Now there is something that remains from corona, and oxygen is going up and down. So now, in the evening time, before sunrise, for five minutes or half a minute, do the Prāṇāyāms. But not too loud, otherwise the person will say, "Don’t make so much," yes. And then, both anulom and vilom, the legs take more, it means we are cleaning, cleaning... prāṇa, he prāṇāt, prāṇa he prāṇa, and so we are fluttering or going in the air. All is five of our elements inside. And after that side is then that Ātmā, that doesn’t need your water and air and nothing. It is completely other things, and that will come some days. So practice, practice. And now, don’t be afraid, but think. Good thinking. If something happens, "Oh, I have a headache," "Oh, God, maybe it’s corona," it’s not corona, but now you are bringing the corona in that way, so peace, harmony. A few days ago, our Prem Malanji was a little, little bit, he was working very hard. So he was very hard, and then worked, and then a little water, a little camp. And then he was driving for a few hours, and we were all inside with air conditioning, and he doesn’t like that bit. And he said, "Okay, oh my God." Everybody said, "Oh my God." Pramāṇānjī said, "No, no, I am nothing, but my little bit, my throat." And he was sleeping, and he was not. He was like, "What will..." He said, "Okay, I am." He came. So, fighting, sometimes fighting, and then I remember someone told me something, and that I should tell you also. And so, it is one very big... not a tiger, not a tiger, no, no... not a lion, oh my God. He is in the forest, with black hair. A bear is coming. And now, you are a human, but you don’t have anything like this or this, and he is coming. What to do? What to do? If you run away, then he will catch you. If you bend down, he will cut you dead. So the people told me, it was in Kannada, when I was in Vancouver, and we were in the forest. And we had a seminar there for two days. And in the morning, I sent them meditation, and me and Mānsā Devī. So sunrise it was, and one big tree was broken. So we slowly got out, walking the street, and there was a bear looking there. I said, "Mānasadevī, oh, we should go back." I was crossing that tree so slowly, and so, and Mānasādevī said, "We have to go." I was within half, not half a minute; I was bent through. What to do? Oh God, what to do? So then, the other boy, Bhakta, he is a very strong and good man. So I said, "What to do when he comes?" Then he said, "Make him, you become big." So, how should we become weak? We are not so weak, not powerless. Say no, no, become weak, not weak, big, big, make you up big. But how should I go? Not like that. Make, like this, make you up. The bear will run away. He will run away. And so it is that when a mad dog comes, you should also not run. He said, "Yes, you will see." Yes, so now that I was taught in the night, I was thinking about this bear, and there was something else also. So I said, "Yes, this time I will tell you that we become bigger." Corona is a bear, and we are the best ones, winners. Become winners. This is Guruvārame Chalun Sauna De. Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā, Śrī Alakhpurījī, Mahādeva, Kī Jaya, Devādideva, Śrī Devpurījī, Mahādeva, Kī Jaya, Ārādhe Bhagavān, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī, Kī Jaya, Śrī Khiḍūdārāma Samrāṭ Parama, Śrī Madhavānandajī, Bhagavān, Kī Jaya, Śrī Viśvaguru Parama, Śrī Maheśvarānandajī, Guru, Deva, Kī Jaya.

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