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Guru gives us the good path

The spiritual path requires following a true guide through the transitional age.

We are in Kali Yuga, a dark age nearing its end. Śiva balances all forces, working to harmonize and avert disaster, guiding beings toward a coming Satya Yuga of holiness. The true guru, like a mother, provides the correct path and blessings. You must follow that given path without distraction or switching guides. Many techniques exist, from physical science to spiritual discipleship. Karma yoga involves understanding all actions and life circumstances. Jyotiṣ, the science of astrology, is presented as a critical knowledge revealing the timing of all events, including one's death. The key is to go deeply, beyond mere physical practice, and stay on the assigned path toward oneness.

"Śiva is giving blessings and controlling everything for all: the ṛṣis, the yogīs, the spiritual ones, and also others."

"So without jyotiṣ, no one can go further."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīp Nārāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Haṁsabhādās Prabhu Śaraṇ Parāyaṇam. Haṁsabhādās Prabhu Śaraṇ Parāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabodhī Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Devapuruṣa Mahādeva Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Alakapuruṣa Mahādeva. Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ. Good evening to all our dear sisters, brothers, yogīs, and yoga teachers around the whole world, to Yoga in Daily Life, and to all yogas, all the many different yoga teachers, yoga schools, ashrams, Ajasvāmīs, and Natsvāmīs. They are all in the yogas, and I respect them all. It is very important and very good that we are looking. Yogīs can sit anywhere. I am sitting now giving you lectures, and rain is falling. You see myself? Yes, water is falling over me. That’s good. It’s okay. Some things are very clear, and some can be doubled—the reflection of our consciousness, the reflection of our life: where we are, how we are, and what we are doing. This is Gurukṛpā; it can be understood. Otherwise, the main difference is whether it is okay or not. In our techniques, this is not merely a technique but a blessing, a blessing from the Gurudeva. Furthermore, Gurudeva is physically not here now. For example, Alakapurījī is from Satya Yuga. In the book about Śiva Purāṇa—which is very large—it is written. This means Satya Yugas, and there are Satya Yugas, Dvāpara Yugas, Tretā Yugas, and now Kali Yuga. The Kali Yuga, Kali meaning the black, dark, is coming to an end. Either there will be, as we call it, a burning of the whole earth, or we will come again, but it will be very little. Those who remain will be holy, spiritual, good. In Kali Yuga, the forces of Kali will be going back—when and how, they will also be. Therefore, Śiva is balancing. Śiva is giving blessings and controlling everything for all: the ṛṣis, the yogīs, the spiritual ones, and also others, what we call rākṣasas. The face is the same, the body is the same, but inside is that which nobody knows. They will see everything, listen to everything, but after that, it is different. Those who are of satya are also listening and looking. They know what they hear, they do, they understand differently, and that goes to Satyugas. So, at the end of Kali Yuga, very little will come to the Cosmic, and the others will have to be recycled. But they can destroy many things. Śiva does not want there to be a disaster. Therefore, Śiva can again turn things towards Satya, good, holy, etc. Śivajī is very great. He is in the earth, oceans, skies, and everywhere. Now, in this time, we are all—and we say all humans in the whole world are okay. I respect them, I look to them, I feel them all as great. But I do not know. How are your thoughts? We are sitting here. How many, and how many not? This is the... That is why Śiva has to work hard and come in the Satyugas. First, that Satyuga is Śiva, and that time was Alakapurījī. For example, we are sitting here and Holy Gurujī is here. Satgurujī, our Gurujī or Mahāprabhujī, is with us. And we are all with Him. How it will happen now depends on what we will do and what kind of qualities we will have. Śiva will also sit; He will control them. Some will say to Him, "Yes, okay." Others will not. They will fight, and Śiva does not want to fight; He harmonizes. So anyhow, there is Kali Yuga and Satya Yuga, and we hope that we all will be in Satya Yuga. It is in you. We can only tell you, like we said: "I want to go to that village. Where is the way, the road?" And we can tell you, yes, go there, and after one kilometer there’s a big tree. From that side, you turn there, and after three kilometers there will be one village ahead. My father told him to go on that side, and the other will go to the other side and go the other way. That is not a mistake of the... He will give us the path, and you tell on the path where it will be and how it will be. But still, if you are not following that, then it is your problem. So that person who is in this village, standing or sitting near a tree, gives you that path there, and if still you do not follow, then it is not the mistake of that person who is giving you instruction. We have to go on the path. You will go for three or four kilometers, and then somebody tells you, "Oh, there is another village, and there is something very good. Let’s go." This is your mistake. To understand the Guru means that he will not hold you by the hand. If you are going on the path in the good ways, that master, that guru, or that person will say, "Yes, he’s going the right way." So it means we give you the path, but you have to go. Sometimes one wants to work on something, and then you go to the other side. You are learning something halfway, and then you go to the other side. That is your problem. When they are gone here and there, then there are troubles. But Śiva, for those who are in troubles, He will say, slowly, slowly, He will bring them back again. So do not say only that my guru is good. Others say, "No, no, that is another guru, that is very good, we should go there." This is now in Kali Yuga. They are running behind every guru, but not going with that spirituality. You give up one guru and go to the other gurus; that is not good. But if you learn from other lectures or anything, why not? We say, "No, we are not." We say, "No." It is like your mother. Your mother is here, but you are now going somewhere to some others. Okay, but you are at the home of your mother. And mother knows where her child is gone. The mother is 100 years old, and she is always thinking, "Where is my son? Is he in, let’s say, Vienna, or in Ukraine, or some other cities?" Okay, why not? But a mother’s heart is always with her child, wherever it is. Others, someone would take one, and then you go another. That heart will not say, "You, my dears." That is why we have to have our path. So Alakapurījī, from that time until now—how many ages? That Alakapurījī again came and gave us all blessings. It was not only the vision from myself, only from my eyes. First, Dr. Shanti had a vision, and then we all went to the Himalayas, and there in the clouds appeared something very strong, very good. Then it came a second time, a third time, a fourth time. Many, many people, when I told them, "Look, have a darśan," many got the darśan, some could not. I told many, "Look, have a darśan." Some said, "Not." Now we have darśan, and you will all have darśan. The one who made this picture—how to say—making this picture, it was exactly that. Many people said that yes, something like this was exactly this. So it means that Alakapurījī has been brought to us. But if you said yes, very good, I have seen, but still you are not rājī, not happy... Of course. You know, there are 100 sheep and 90 little babies. They came home, and all the little babies are running to the mommy, the mother. Sometimes they are drinking from another mother, and then again this one, and within two or three minutes, every little baby will come to the mother, a hundred sips. Similarly, those real gurus, and real they are, they will remain that mother or that father. Now, in this age, all people are thinking this is Kali Yuga or something. Many are still on the right way; many may not be on the right way. Who am I that I can tell them? There are many gurus. Who are the first? They are the real mother. From that mother, the child will make five children more from her. Yes, and then this one son, five, and the five, they will give you already fifty. Like this, yesterday I told you about the seed. The seeds will come more, but it should be the right one. Therefore, now for you, many of you, we have to go more deeply, not only into āsanas and prāṇāyāmas and little lectures only. Again, there are different means and different paths. This path is very interesting. We go to the path, or we are coming from there to one point. We went to Mother, round everywhere, but we came from a distance again, where it was, from the north or the south, Mother. We went to that point there. That is then, yes. Now I am in Brahmaloka. There you are like a sky, or like an ocean. Yes, do not worry. You are oneness. In this, what we are teaching—different kinds of yoga—it is all very good. But some are only talking, and others are really taking it in. Now, there are two things: our science in these times, and all humans, male or female. They have learned it very much, and they have also made a lot of knowledge, science, etc. But when these scientists or any persons die, where do they go, how do they go? After that, they do not know. They left behind their knowledge. If you can learn from them, and if you do not know how to do, the person is dead. We have a picture of that person, yes, but I cannot ask a question. This is that. But still, their knowledge remains if you have written it somewhere. It is only written and goes further. This is very, very important knowledge for all of us. Now we have the key. This key we have, and we are opening the doors. I am respectful; I respect them very much. This is the one path. The second path is that of spirituality, like a guru and disciples. They may not have gone to school, or maybe they have, but they gave up everything and suddenly went into the heart, that "I am, I want to be that," on that path. And that brings us to the cosmic. Those kinds of techniques are in the body too. Like now, the scientists, doctors, and so on, they see the whole research, the whole body: which nerve is up there, where bones are, how bones are connected, how many muscles. Many, many things are researched in our body, but not further. But that Satguru, our Gurudeva, he knows; he can search others. So this is that, and both are good. They are doing good, and we are also good. But that one is this; this is what we said, the gods in the god ones. We should learn now. They put it a little bit that it is called karma yoga, bhakti yoga, jñāna yoga, rāja yoga, and many, many other yogas. After this, each path, this is the path. We should go to karma yoga, and karma is many, many things. So we have to learn karma. Do not think that karma is only, "I will work in the garden," or I will pluck the apples, or I will go to bring something. There are many, many karmas. Karma yoga is actually the best karma yoga. And our karma, what we call our karma—what happened to you, what is your mother, what was your father, what was your child, what happened, where it is—this is karma. How karma will come, how we will do it, we cannot understand sometimes. Yes, that is why, like yesterday I was talking about the śāstra. In śāstra, that is what we call the brāhmaṇa, paṇḍita, jyotiṣī. And jyotiṣ, if you can understand the jyotiṣ... Jyotiṣ is also like this technique or this knowledge. It is a science, and many things come from the jyotiṣ. If we can learn and see each and every letter, and every day movement of the sun, in which direction, and why it has to turn back, and how time slowly, slowly will come—and in the same way, the moon—all these are in this jyotiṣ. So we say, one day we will learn and show what it is. If you can understand the yoga of jyotiṣ, you do not need anything. Because jyotiṣ will tell you on that year, month, day, minute, and second. On that day is your death. Oh, you are just born, and you are not ten years only, or five years. When a child is born, jyotiṣ will tell on that day already. So this is a different science, and this is another science. In that jyotiṣ science, we can go to the spiritualities and to the good way. Others also, and so it is called saṃskāra. Saṃskāras and their life, the jyotiṣ is telling them. So they all learn what will be this, this, this. So without jyotiṣ, no one can go further. But if someone wants to or not, that is different. For that which is in our Yoga in Daily Life, our Gurudevas have given me so very much. And from time to time, we will come further. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīp Nārāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Haṁsabhādās Prabhu Śaraṇ Parāyaṇam. Haṁsabhādās Prabhu Śaraṇ Parāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabodhī Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Devapuruṣa Mahādeva Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Alakapuruṣa Mahādeva. Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ.

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