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Shiva tried to give immortality to Parvati

The divine union of Śiva and Śakti is the fundamental cosmic principle. All beings originate from the Cosmic, with the soul or God within. The inner self, the Ātmā, is equal in all, male or female. Historically, women were denied spiritual respect, but now equality is recognized. The teaching "Mātṛ Devo Bhava" establishes the mother as the first object of reverence, followed by the father, teacher, and guru. Creation requires both masculine and feminine principles. Śiva, initially whole, contains Śakti within, manifesting as the androgynous Ardhanārīśvara. A story illustrates their inseparability: when the goddess Satī died, Śiva carried her body in grief. To restore cosmic balance, Viṣṇu used the Sudarśana Cakra to dismember the form, creating the sacred Śakti Pīṭhas. Later, Pārvatī sought immortality from Śiva through a night-long mantra, but she fell asleep, and a parrot overheard the secret. This unity exists within each person; husband and wife should be one as Śiva and Śakti are one. Practice purity and non-violence, recognizing the divine in all. Worship leads to the cosmic; otherwise, one remains unfulfilled.

"Shiva and Shakti are one in ourselves, in our body."

"Matri Devo Bhava, first God, is taken as the mother."

Filming location: Slovenska, Slovenia

We are not, but our Gurudev, Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, and Ālak Purījī, Dev Purījī, and Holy Gurujī, they are blessing us and taking us toward the cosmic side. Yesterday was just some words about God and that all of us are in our ātmā or God. We all came from the Cosmic as the human, and the human's inside is that Soul or God, whatever we think. And you all, including myself, we feel, we know, and we are all together our oneness as the gods. So please don't think that I am not a good person. And if you think that I'm not a good human, forget this. You are the God within us. And we are all, male or female, we are all that Ātmā within, which is equal to God. In many religions, and many countries, and many things, they were saying that women have no soul. You know that. Yes or no? Yes? Only two men were talking. I support you. Yes, so you know, about a hundred years before or more, we were really—our mother, our child, our sisters—was not respected in God's sight. But now, we all, even many times, the people do not go to the schools. Yes, they are set only for children, and workings, and etc. Etc., but you stood up, you learned, and you are a great, great person. This is the time that we are equal. It is said from the Satyugas, "Mātṛ Devo Bhava, Pitṛ Devo Bhava." First God, "Mātṛ Devo Bhava." "Mātṛ Devo Bhava, Pitṛ Devo Bhava," first mother, then the father, then the teacher, or the Ācārya, and then Guru or the Master. And they are also equal. Do you know how much we are worshipping? In our Indian ceremonies, there are pūjā prayers for the females. Nine days we are worshipping the Śakti, the female, and there are four times. Two are outside for the Śaktis, and two are more deep in the meditations. And at that time, all men worshipped that Śakti. So, there are four times about this pūjā. It is very powerful, very powerful. And it is because, as you said, when a man could not, then the mother, she comes and she makes everything good. But this is in our bodies, so when Shiva, Shiva was coming, first was Shiva. Shiva has no father, no mother, and he came through these five elements. After all, creation began. But that's it, when you are only male, you are man, Śiva. How will you do? Then Shiva said, "Yes, it is in me." So Shiva, the left part of the body is female and half is male. So, Shiva brought him in, and again, one. So, Mahā Śiva Purāṇa, if you learn there, then we know that's called Śakti. Namah Śivāya, Om Namah, Namah Śivāya, Om Namah Śivāya, Om... Namah Śivāya. Happy and very for everyone. Shiva is for everything, and he says that there was a man, and he comes and gives something, and there and there, and suddenly there was nothing. So others said, "You have nothing now. You have given all." Yes, okay, I gave it. I give. And if I have more, I will give more. That's called humble, a very kind, kind person. So Shiva is that in this. And so when it is said, Shiva, you are only one. Then Shiva was standing there with the trīśūla, and suddenly Śakti, the woman, came. Half female and half male. Because, as it is said, how will we make the creation? So without both, it cannot be. Only there was Śiva. And after he made these two, so it is called "Mātṛ Devo Bhava." First, God is a mother, Mātṛ, Mātṛ means mother. Pitṛ devo, and then say the father, and then our teacher, and then after, our guru. So without this, Śiva can do nothing, and without Śiva, there cannot be others. Many, many years it goes, many, many ages go. And you know, the Shakti is the first time, the first Shakti was married. But at that time, that was the king, and he was the creator then. So there was some kind of the head, his wife, his father, and Shiva was a little bit—he didn't like his mother, brother, or father. So it's a long, long story. So there was some yajña ceremony, and many, many ṛṣis and yogīs were coming. But Shakti's father did not call Shiva, and also not the Shakti. And she was so sad because, "Why did my father not invite me to do Śiva, my husband, Śiva?" And Shiva said, "No, it doesn't matter, it's okay, no problem." But Śakti said, "No, my father cannot do this." My husband, my Śiva must come there in ceremony, and without Śiva, nobody will be successful. But Shiva said, "Okay, no problem, go ahead." But she went there, and her father was very angry with his daughter and said, "Why did you come?" Also, she was very sad, and like this, and she said, "If not, then I will fall into the fire." And she said there in the fire, so that is a long, very big story. Revert, and she fell in the water or in the fire, and then a message came to Śiva. That Shakti died, then Shiva became a little angry, so from his hair he pulled out and threw under the earth, and it came as a very, very big bhakta of Shiva. Only sometimes, otherwise he would have never come that far. And he said, "Shiva, what happened like this?" And he said, "Like this, the Shakti has died." And he comes and he kills many or throws them away, and he brought the Shakti's dead body. And Shiva took the Shakti on his shoulder, and he took his triśūla, and Shiva went into the cosmic, into the space. The earth, it is said, all that time was not so many humans. Now we are many, and he disappeared. Very one is easy to easy. So Brahma was very sad. Brahma had to give our world, then he pleaded, "Please wish to bring Shiva." And Vishnu also could not. But at that time, there was a long story where Śiva had given the Sudarśana Cakra to Viṣṇu. And this Sudarśana Cakra is not used for anyone, only when there is something very, very negative happening. Then the Siddhāra chakra will go. And so they said, "Please give this Vishnu, use now your Siddha chakra." And so Viṣṇu made a finger like this, and the Triśūla, not the Triśūla, the Śrī Cakra went into this sky, into space. Where is Śiva and Śakti? But Śiva has held so strongly to Śakti, so you see, everyone, the husband, when his wife dies or something happens, her husband is very sad, very sad. Or the Śakti also to her husband. But where are they now? Do you have this here, Śakti and Śiva? You are born, you marry your husband, you marry somebody, then after ten years or two years or one year you say, "I don't want to be with you, I go out." That is not Śiva and Śakti. Because Shiva and Shakti are one in ourselves, in our body. And Shiva knows how much he's doing, how he's giving. So the Trīśūla went, not Trīśūla, the Sudarśana Cakra, and went and he cut the Śakti into many parts. Each and every part from that, it falls in the Himalayas, and some parts of the Himalayas like this. And where the Shakti's pieces, parts, different hands, sword, legs, everything, and there fall down as the Shakti's. Those who can go to see that in Śaktis, all your problems are gone. So many people, after they were not looking good, said they would offer animals to kill them. But now we understand more and more, and we have finished. But still, in two Śakti's place, they don't ask, and they are killing the goat, the buffaloes. But that is not right, and Shiva came back. And then, after a long time, came Pārvatī. And you know about Pārvatī very much, and so this is long. And where are Śiva and Pārvatī? And before Pārvatī, there was Alak Purījī. And so that Alakpurījī is there, Alaknanda River is it. And that is our Ālakpurījī. And so Shiva had done for Pārvatī, and many other times. So what happens? Pārvatī is sitting in the Himalayas, and Śiva went for a walk in the Himalayas. And he goes about one hour, two hours, walking. And Pārvatī is sitting there on the rock and brings some flowers or something for Śiva. And one coming there, another ṛṣi. But in there, Narendra. So, Narendra comes, Narendra Ṛṣi, to Pārvatī. Mother Parvati, Mother Parvati. She said, "Oh Nārada, from where do you come?" I was going to Brahmā, and I saw you, my Divine Holy Mother Pārvatī. "Can I do for you?" She said, "No, no, I don't need anything, Mother. I need your blessing." But he said, "Pārvatī, do you know," he said, "what?" Shiva has a big mala, and all the heads of man or human in the body are a mala. And she said, "Why, why Mālā?" Because Shiva said, "All I love them, and they are mine, but they died." And they are all, their head is my Yajamāla. So many have Śiva, yes? Only the Śaktis. But why do they die? Shiva does not die. Shiva is eternal. But they all die? So many śaktis you have. And what about me now? She said, "I don't die." Should I die, please don't hang me in a Mālā also. She said, "I don't know. Ask Shiva." Please, be careful. Ask him why this Mālā, and where is your place in the Mālā? And Pārvatī said, when Śiva came, she was a little sad. "Oh my darling, why are you unhappy?" He said, "Don't think about this, leave it." She said, "No, no, I want to know." That said, women are women. They will say, "Why, why... how, where, who, who?" And so he said, "Don't worry, it's on you." She said, "No, no, because they are not immortal. Then why don't you make me immortal?" Then I will give you, but I have to give you, but don't tell anyone. And it is, I don't know, but they said the woman sooner or later will tell something. So I don't know if you are there. You should know. I don't know. So she said, "Now I want to see that." Then Shiva said, "One night, I will make a mantra, and you should be awakened the whole night." So they were searching one cave in the Himalayas. There should be no one there, no creature should be there. So Shiva went and looked everywhere. It was very cold, with snow, and nobody was there. Shiva has his Nandi, so he put it to Nandi, "Stay here." And that is called Nandī Lake. Then the snake, in the neck of Shiva, So he took that cobra, beat it, and said, "Stay here." And so, everything he left, and he went only with Lakṣmī, not Pārvatī and Śiva. I tell you, I will give mantras, and you should not sleep. Then you will be eternal, so it can happen. You will sleep, so you should say always when I say one mantra. You should say yes, yes... And Śiva went into samādhi and gave this mantra, and then Pārvatī said, "Yes, yes, yes." And after eleven o'clock in the night, And Parvati fell asleep, and she put her head on Shiva's shoulder. And there it was, there was a parrot, and the parrot was in the cave because it was very cold, so he was there. And when that parrot was asleep, the parrot was listening all the time. And he said, "When Parvati will..." Sleep, and Shiva will be angry, or we lose everything. So Śiva said always, for example, "Oṁ," mantra, and Pārvatī said, "Pew, pew, pew." And Shiva was in his meditation, singing all the mantras. At sunrise, Shiva opened his eyes. What happens here? So she said, "Oh, my dear, who said?" Pārvatī. She was, "You have not done. My all sādhanā is gone for nothing." And the parrot said, "I am, I am, I... am,... I am." Parrot, and there was the great Ṛṣi who was writing that, who was writing after then the Vedas. So Veda, Veda Ṛṣi was somewhere walking, and his wife was waiting, that my husband will come, I will cook, vegetable is done, eating is ready. And she was waiting, and the ṛṣi Vedavyāsa still did not come. And then the ṛṣi is coming, and his wife said, "Oh," and the parrot went in her mouth, went in the stomach of the father. That parrot and she became pregnant, but now this parrot, he didn't want to come out from the womb. He turned into a human, but he didn't want to go out. I don't want to go to this world. And the mother is suffering very much. And then he called Brahma, Viṣṇu, Śiva, but he said, "No, I will not come out." And that ṛṣi said, "Please don't do anything like that," and said, "Okay, we will not do Viṣṇu, Śiva, all." Then that palate came out, and that became a great ṛṣi. So this story is going like that, and so is that about both male and female. You have to be very careful, otherwise this will always happen. So practice, practice, practice your whole life, then you will get what you want. We have to dive deep into the ocean. From there, you can get some beautiful things. Otherwise, not. That is the same thing as our condition now. And we are doing all you are. We are all very pure, clean. No animal killings, no eggs. Eggs are the mother's, in the mother's, what you call, the embryo. So, in that way, what we say is that we should learn that we are one, we are human. Men and women, men and women. Don't say that women are nothing. So then the lady said, "No, I will not do it." So now that woman said, "I don't want this condition." Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya, Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya,... Har Har Bole, Namaḥ Śivāya, Har Har Bole, Namaḥ Śivāya, Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya, Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya,... Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya. Matri Devo Bhava, therefore, Matri Devo Bhava, first God, is taken as the mother. And Pitṛ Devo Bhava, father. Ācārya Devo Bhava, our teachers. And the guru, so it is said then, the female have the male inside. And the male and the man have more of the woman's inside. So you know, every man, when they see some woman, they look at them. Why not? They are our father, our mother, our brother, etc. And all women or the girls are what? They are looking towards the boys. Because God has made it that way. Otherwise, it will not happen. But how and where? So we have to make many mantras, very, very many mantras, from our childhood: mantras that we have good qualities in our heart, in our mind, in our whole self, how and where, purities. So in this way, what I said, we are all human, male and female; we are the humans. And we shall worship all, and we shall come to the cosmic. Otherwise, we will go like that other angel. Hari Om.

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