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Shiva and Shakti

Śiva and Śakti are one, and their union teaches the power of saṅkalpa, especially in Kali Yuga.

Śiva had no mother, no father. From his left side Śakti emerged. Śakti means power. Both are equal, not inferior. In Kali Yuga, marriage vows are broken, children left suffering. Śakti was rejected at a gathering and entered fire. Śiva carried her lifeless body into space, grieving. Viṣṇu performed sādhanā with a saṅkalpa of a thousand lotus flowers. One flower was taken by Śiva, so Viṣṇu offered his eye to complete the vow. Śiva granted the Sudarśana Cakra and lotus eyes. To bring Śiva back, Viṣṇu sent the Sudarśana Cakra. It cut Śakti’s body, and those pieces became Śakti Pīṭhas. Worship of Śakti requires strict purity, a nine-day fast, and unbroken promises. If the promise is broken, destruction comes. Saṅkalpa is a sacred vow, like the commitment from the mother’s womb. Cherish that bond.

“Śiva and Śakti—he has power, but she also has power. And you know that both have seen in oneness.”

“If you will not do nine days, and you break your promise, then the triśūla will come to you.”

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Hari Om, Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān kī, Dev Purīṣā Mahādev kī, Mādhāvan Jī Gurudev kī, Alakhpurījī Mahādev kī, Jai Om. In this Kali Yuga, there are black clouds above all of our world. When we understand, today I was thinking very much about what is happening now with humans and with too many animals. Many animals are no longer there. Humans have destroyed and killed everything. Kali Yuga is very strong. When we see Bhagavān Śiva, Śiva was first only as a person, a human. He has no mother, no father. After that, they all came. And he produced that—Śiva himself, it is only like a man, or all he. But Viṣṇu, Brahmā, etc., they told, but otherwise Śiva was very, very far; we do not know. But it is said, “How will we make creation?” In the water, there are many creatures, many things. But when they said, “How will we do it, and how are you, Śiva?” then we have seen in some pictures and in some lectures, and like this. So, there were many who were thinking, and so Śiva, from his half—his body’s left side was female—and then again he came out. So it means he made it. And we all, all creatures and humans, we are all two. And these are both equal. Do not see them as not good or as down. And that was the Śakti. Śakti means power. There are many, many things, but it is equal. So, Śakti and Śakti means the power. For example, I have to pull up, so someone who will become here—no, no, who can lift it, that means power; others cannot. Even this instrument, we need power. When we stand up, we need the power. After, when we are old, in the bed, and we ask the people, children, please, can you move me a little to the left? There is no power. So Śakti, this power, Śakti, is very powerful. So Śiva and Śakti—he has power, but she also has power. And you know that both have seen in oneness. They have so many powers and spiritualities, and many things. So they are Śaktis. And you know that Śakti was from Śiva. And his father, and there was a big story. She went to a marriage of some of his family members there, but they did not think about why she didn’t come. And Śiva didn’t come because there were some different things. This we have in the—we saw in the Mahāśivapurāṇa. Yes? Did you all? Yes. And the Śakti went to his parents, and they didn’t take him home inside that. No, we will not take you. And she was born because the father did not do this and that, everything, and she did not want to go back to Śiva, and she sat in the fire, Śakti. She died. Then Śiva heard what happened, and Śiva called her. So the Śakti died, and they were carrying her to Śiva. At that time, Śiva became very angry, and he took his triśūla. He took his Śakti on his shoulder, and Śiva went into this space. We do not know where he went. All the times he was in the universe. Brahmā and Viṣṇu, and all other ṛṣis, they were all very sad, and they said, “This world will be destroyed. Without Śiva, it will not be.” But he does not want to come. So, so much love. Male and female, they are one. And they have so much respect for each other, so they are one. And they will be whole life like that. But now in Kali Yuga, they marry, they go, they marry, have children, again they go away, and the children are suffering, sometimes with the mother and sometimes with the father. This is the Kali Yuga. Either you should marry and eat, or you should not. And when you have a child from the unmarried, if you take your children, separate, and go away, then it is sin. Because when you were married, when you went to church, they performed a ceremony, a mantra, a pūjā, yes, and they said, you know, they said, “I will be forever for you, and you will be for me.” Sometimes I see how they are making it in Christian ceremonies. If the wife is very ill, the husband will do everything for her. Also, clean dress, body, etc. And if the husband is ill, or very old, or has an accident, the wife will help him in every way. Yes, until the end of his life. Or, her life ends. So it is when the husband dies, then the male, they will not marry again. Because she said, “I promise, and I will be forever for you.” And when he died, she will feel that my husband is in me, or also for the men. That is the oneness, and their children, they are also so great. That was in Satyayuga. Dvāparayuga was also, Tretāyuga began a different thing, but still very much, very much family, family. But now Kaliyuga begins. And you know that everything is happening, and that will cease. So what you call the sin, it is like that. But also, they have to remain in families, and what to eat, what not to eat, all together. And now it’s Kali Yuga. So Śiva took Śakti on his shoulder. In one hand was his trident, and he was in this space. We don’t know where. You know that when Viṣṇu, God Viṣṇu, was very respectful to Śiva. So Viṣṇu wanted to have sādhanā, like you are doing sādhanā. With the saṅkalpa that I will get more power or this and that, and I will respectfully ask him, so he was sitting like you did anuṣṭhānas. Anuṣṭhāna means first purification, physically, mentally, and emotionally. At that time, it doesn’t matter if it is husband or wife, separate. And when, because this is how many years or how many months or the different. So Viṣṇu gave Saṅkalpa. Do you know what is Saṅkalpa? Those who don’t know, raise your hand. And who knows Saṅkalpa? Can you hand up? Oh, very good. Then why should I speak? Let Bhajan sing. Yeah, so we know what is Saṅkalpa. To saṅkalpa is on that day when your prāṇa and your life are this, first when it came in the mother’s womb. Father gave the permission, and the wife also promised. It doesn’t matter if he is comfortable or not, the child is in the womb. But the mother has to control and take everything. And you know, mother is very happy, but she is also suffering. Husband doesn’t know how it is. Yes, so she has promised to God, and also the man, he has also taken a Saṅkalpa. She should, when pregnant, then, the husband takes care of his wife. As long as month by month comes, then also go and bring food and water, and this and work and money, etc. Śāstra all, as husband do. Because that is a new life. All is like a God inside. We are all God, but we have destroyed ourselves as a Guru or Bhagavān. This self, we slowly, slowly went in the other direction. So Bhagavān Viṣṇu gave saṅkalpa, and then he said, “From Hṛdaya, a thousand lotus flowers, I will give you.” So he was making a mantra, like you were having a mantra that you were doing. Very nice, very nice pūjā. You know, you have seen our pūjā. And this, our pūjā, we should again bring it here. It’s very great. It was very great. Yeah, such a person is very great. So, when the, when the, what falls down, down, under. So it came, the final day, and then he wanted to make pūjā. He brought the fruit and flowers, beautiful flowers, the lotus, the lotus, and then he put here the Śiva Liṅgam. And he will offer one thousand flowers, one by one. So Viṣṇu Bhagavān, he is sitting like this, and there is one basket, there are many, many flowers there, and he is for Śiva’s name. So, those thousand names belong to Śiva, Śiva’s names, and you know that we have in Jadān Ashram, in our Śiva Mandir, there are one thousand eight Śiva statues, but not all the same. So there we have one thousand five, we have Śiva’s different postures. One Śiva, always different. And then he was giving one flower and saying a mantra. Then Śiva comes, because he has to give the promise to Viṣṇu. So the ninety-ninth flower, that flower was there. And what happened? Śiva took it from the backside, one flower. And Viṣṇu again wanted to have the last flower, which is not there. Viṣṇu was nervous. So, how long? And I promise, and I know that it was a thousand flowers, and I know, I counted. Nobody is there. Why is this one flower not? Now he is thinking, “Viṣṇu, Śiva,” from the back side coming, “Viṣṇu...” Your promise, your anuṣṭhāna, it’s on the end time, but you have no one flower, so Viṣṇu said, “What can I do?” Śiva said, “Instead of the flower, give me one eye, so it will be completed, your anuṣṭhāna.” What do you think? In your anuṣṭhāna, if I will, I will tell a little of your nail to let out. So, Viṣṇu said, “Take this, your eye, and take this one, this bhala, arrow.” And Viṣṇu said, like this, Viṣṇu has power also. He takes it like this, it comes in his hand. And Viṣṇu said, like this, Viṣṇu has power also. He takes it like this, it comes in his hand. And Viṣṇu said, like this, Viṣṇu has power also. He takes like this, it comes in his hand, and Viṣṇu said, like this, Viṣṇu has power also. He takes like this, it comes in his hand. But it was, some say that it was gone into his, Viṣṇu’s, eye. And, but what Viṣṇu’s, Śiva, I give this. Now, my sādhanās promise what my power I want. Śiva said, “First, I want to give you the Sudarśana Cakra.” Anytime, anywhere, from any side, the Sudarśan Cakra will come. And Viṣṇu, you will tell anywhere which side what happens to do. This will go and do what you want. And second, both your eyes. Both of your eyes are already, but it will be beautiful, very beautiful eyes of yours, that is Kamal Nayan, like that flower. So that flower which I took, it is made in your eyes, and that’s why Kamala Nārāyaṇa Viṣṇu is Kamala Nārāyaṇa. And so how is the Viṣṇu’s beautiful eyes, and Sudarśan like this. So he was very happy, everything very good. And at that time, when the Śakti died, and Śiva took the Śakti and Triśūla and went into space. Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Ṛṣi, many, all, they said, “We will do now. Kali Yuga ho jāyegā, dark ho jāyegā, but where is the Śiva? We don’t know. So please, Bhagavān Viṣṇu, take your Sudarśana and bring the light, please, to Śiva again.” But Śiva was so much attached to his Śakti, and he didn’t want to throw her out. Then Viṣṇu sent this Sudarśana Cakra, and he sent it. So these were the śaktis, each part he cut, the Sudarśana Cakra. All these śaktis, different kinds of pieces of his or her body, wherever we remain in the Himalayas and some different places, one is nearby our nipple, Jadan, it is about three hours, three kilometers, three hundred kilometers. Sakthī and people will go and get permission and blessings, so there are many parts and parts of the Sakthī, and we have all the Sakthīs. There is what is that? Śakthī Pīṭha. Śakthī Pīṭha means the place of the Śakthī, but there are four times for the pūjā. Two is pūjā, that we all know. And two is not a different kind of pūjā, but the other pūjā, they are sitting, meditating. So it is sādhanā. Anuṣṭhāna is not so easy, and that’s why I’m always trying to bring again where in Thais you are, because we have to come to the Kuṇḍalinī Śaktis and all this. So, what am I doing for you? I am doing it, but it is very strong and slow, like this. Many people are doing different things, but this is different. And so, where the Śakti is, she is sitting on the lion. Yes. So, her driver, or whatever you call it, is a lion. And she is sitting on the lion, and she has, like, a triśūla and a bhallā. That time is pūjā, and that pūjā has to be done. You can do it, but many people cannot control this. And if you will not do nine days, and you break your promise, then the triśūla will come to you. Therefore, I don’t want to do you, and at that time, no eating. You can have milk or some fruits, nothing else, and three times pūjā. Śiva is okay, Viṣṇu is okay, that we can control, but the Śakti we cannot control. Yes, she is so pure, very pure. When you sit for pūjā, then you have to wash yourself. So, if you want, sometimes we can put it here. It is a very big power, a very big power. So, I did it only once. It was good. Many promises have come, but I said now, “Mātājī, I give you praṇām, āratī, hariyo.” But that is very powerful, very, very powerful. It’s not a joke then. And our promises will be, and our promise will be. That if there is something negative, and you want to have it, it will not give you. That Śakti will throw it out, that person or anything. So, we will go like we are going to the Himalayas to Alakhpurījī. So, we will go to one part with me. I will go to show you the Māṭājī there, the Jyot. So one Māṭājī’s, name of that Māṭājī’s temple, which is in our Barikhatu, Śivbhag. So when I made this ashram, then I made everything: Śiva, Rāma, Viṣṇu, Vishnu and Hanumānjī, and this one, Mātā Śakti, and we, every day twice, we are making pūjā there. So it is about, I think, this I put it many things this time, about 18, I think that the mother’s statue is there for 18 years. When you go there, you should go and make pūjā and get permission. Something, hey mother, hey holy mother, please, I promise and I bless, please me for my health or this or that. But then you should not say, “No, I will not do it after some time.” Or you have the husband, and a good husband is coming, and then you say to your husband, “I don’t like it, I will go.” Then you will be troubled. Or the man will not be good. So these are our promises, but you see the holy mothers, how they are. So mother is power, yes, yes, and they always, they have always humbleness, and for children, mother will do everything. Yes, in her womb, in the womb, wound? Not wound, yeah, she is in nine. For months, she is worshipping and giving her child and giving to her husband. This is that. So, practice Anuṣṭhāna and everything, and when you promise to Swāmījī this and that, and after you say, “No, two months,” and three, five months, and no, then it will go, so that will go any time. And you know that wherever it is, Jesus, what we call the, he’s on the cross, in the what? Cross. On the cross. And we are there. And we should say what we should do. So, in everywhere, so now this is how it is. So, it was all these sādhanās and many things. It is in India mostly. What is pūjā? What is it all? What is fasting? No eating meat, no alcohol. And you know bhajans? Unbelievable how many bhajans they are doing in India. I am sorry. I am beautiful also. I am good here. You are also very good. But India is India in that way, but now, from Western peoples, the British people, on that, they said they are now making alcohols and meat, and like a kravata to hang it up. But now they don’t give the kravats here, kravat, but they have something hanging there. So many things, that’s, yesterday I was thinking, so many bhajans you have in different songs or good, it’s not so much like when Indian bhajan something, the tears coming. So we will do again this bhajan from Bhakti, and first we have to pray. Om Boli, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ, Bhagavān, Kī Jai. Look, beautiful color. You can’t see, but she is so nice, you all. Yeah.

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