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Our relationship with the Guru

A spiritual discourse on the guru lineage and the nature of truth in the current age.

"Paramparā means one after another. So when that will sit, given here to sit, it’s not that you come and sit down. It will be when our Gurujī said, 'I am going now,' and he gives this place now."

"So in your life, I wish you should be very great and practice, practice, practice. Always only heart, and in the heart is a very little, tiny, tiny something, like a light."

The lecturer addresses a gathering on the 30th anniversary of his mission. He traces the spiritual lineage (paramparā) from Bhagavān Śiva through the Satya Yuga to the present gurus, including Śrī Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, and his own guru, Swami Madhavānand. He explains his role in this succession and discusses the loss of universal truth in the Kali Yuga, urging disciples toward spiritual practice rooted in the heart. The talk blends history, analogy, and personal reflection.

Filming location: Debrecen, Hungary

Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... Dīwādī Dev Ālak Purījī Mahādev, Dīwādī Dev Devpurījī Mahādev Kī Ārādhanā, Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī Kī, Hindu Dharm Samrāṭ Gurū Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī. Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... Good evening. Your state, dear sisters and brothers, I am very happy to be here. This marks thirty years—a very great day. We have seen many children and mothers, and many have become old. I too have become old. As we know, today is the day of the United Nations. Across the whole world, people speak of it. In our yoga and daily lives, we first have our Śrī Svāmī Madhvānandjī Gurudev, our own Gurudev, Śrī Svāmī Madhvānand of the World Peace Council. At the United Nations, it was from Australia, and from there, Yoga in Daily Life is also for the United Nations in America. In Australia too, Yoga in Daily Life is for the United Nations. Our Sadgurudev Bhagavān Mādhāvanjī, Swami Mādhāvanjī, is their Śrī Svāmī Madhavānand World Peace Council today. We all around the world worship our Gurudev Swami Madhavānandajī. In that context, what can we realize? We are, and will remain, the disciples of our Gurudev, Swami Madhavānandajī. The guru paramparā means one guru after another. You know of Ālakpurījī now. Ālak Puruṣa is from many, many ages. He became, he is completely whole in body. Time to time, he comes to us, not with a physical body, but it appears as his form. I was searching a lot, and after so many years—now about five years—we found Ālakpurījī. We have not brought him today because we wish to bring him tomorrow. We will bring the big Ālakpurījī. This is a beginning from the ages, coming through all these yugas, the different yugas, four times, and then coming back again. That is from Bhagavān Śiva. From Śiva's time, then Satya Yuga—that is the Satya Yuga. What is Satya? Satya means the truth only. Everything is the truth, in the whole earth, the whole ocean, in all, everything that exists. That is called from their beginnings, and that is called Satya Yuga. After Satya Yuga, slowly, slowly, we people forget again. You are all here. You have some energy or something from the Ālakpurījīs, from Śiva's Satya Yuga. So you can understand that you have Satya Yoga. What is Satya? Truth. What is the truth? Everything is actually good. Animals, creatures in the ocean, all creatures live very happily. In the forest, the trees, birds, all are very happy. The birds will sit everywhere, and nobody will bite them. That is Satya Yuga. That Satya Yuga is from that Satya Yuga. But still, we have something with us. It is with you. And what is that? You will say, "Sat" means truth. So, do you have truth in you or not? Maybe not all, but something of truth is in us also. But now in Kali Yuga, even your husband is not truthful to your wife, or the wife is not truthful, or the children are not truthful. What of all our friends? That is why there is suffering now. Satya, therefore satya, and that satyam, satyam bhagavan, satyam, satyam bhagavan. So Śiva is satya, so satya paramparā. From that satyam paramparā comes that Ālakāpurī, which is in the Himālaya, and there is a river of Ālakpurujis. This is called the Alaknanda River. It comes out from the Himalaya, and on another side, one river is coming. Another, and this took two times coming, then comes the other river, and that is called the Gaṅgā River. So, from Satya Yuga, from that time, is Ālakpurījī. I don’t know how many times there were many, many gurus coming. But only that one branch is our Guru's. And so Devpurījī. Our Bhagavān Śrī Devpurījī and Devpurījī are there. You know that you should read the book of Holī Gurujī. Devpurījī could just go walking in the air. He had a horse. His horse would go through the air. Devapurījī could go through the rock. He could walk on the water. Yes, there are many who know that. Then Devapurījī’s disciple, Mahāprabhujī. You know, Mahāprabhujī is great and great. And then Mahāprabhujī’s disciples, many disciples, many, many. But finally, the last is Madhavānanjī, Amare Gurujī, who became the disciple of Mahāprabhujī. And now, from Mahāprabhujī to Madhavānanjī, and now including myself, we are the disciples of Madhavānanjī. Our Gurujī Madhavānandjī gave me this holy... so this is not mine, this is from the Ālakpurījīs, in his name, on his name. Like you have Christians and the Pope, and the Pope has a chair. Nobody can sit on it, only he, from Jesus' time. When they did, how did, what did, I don’t know. There are different chairs. Some are Christians, some others, but Jesus. They all have their chair. That’s called paramparā. Paramparā means one after another. So when that will sit, given here to sit, it’s not that you come and sit down. It will be when our Gurujī said, "I am going now," and he gives this place now. That means after that it is given to me. I’m sitting here now. It is my duty. My duty—what is the duty? That all our disciples, all yoga disciples, and so, I am here to take care of our gurus. You know that the Pope has this stick, and he said, "This is for the, what is it called, the sheep?" So that all the sheep, yeah. That is mystic. We have, we call... Our children, which children? When you become my disciple, then there are two. One child you are from your father and your mother. And the second "you" is my disciple. What does that mean? It is you, my Gurudev is there. But he gave me, how to say, not control but take care. Always when you get a mantra, then it’s given in ceremony, and now it is in you. So your duty is that you are always only with that guru, and always be faithful to the guru. And the guru should also be such like that to everybody. Yes, so don’t think one guru, one guru’s will, is only one. But all my brothers and sisters, they become like my children, and not only this one and only this, and not other, that all one in all and all in one, and then we will come to the highest cosmic God. When I become old or I die, who will take this chair? Anyone? Maybe, maybe in New York, who is sitting here, maybe. Or from other countries, or Indians, but who, how was like in that chair? Then it is that, yes, now I understand what is yoga, what is guru, what is disciples, what is spiritualities, what is God, and where it is further going. I am 30 years here, and you know many. Some were not born, but they have become disciples. So that is your energy. It came in your ātmā, in your soul. It came from that Guru Paramparā, and Ālakpurījī. You know when Ālakpurījī was? There were not so many humans. There were not buildings like this. They were living under the trees, in the rocks. Very different things. We are making a dress. But it was not different that time, so we are coming day by day. We are different. And in this, that’s why we are saying that paramparā, that we call it paramparā. So what do you say in paramparā? Paramparā was in Hungarian. Yeah. One after the other. Yeah. So, like, you have your father, mother. Then my grandparents, then great-grandparents, and for a long time, all the family was there. And then it means everything in their blood. But now in this Kali Yuga, blood is changing. And when this blood is changing now, then it will go differently. Then we don’t know where, how, in this. It’s okay. They are all good. Africans are good, and Europeans are good. The Chinese and other countries, we are like humans, but it changes you. Our Europe and this, and our Indians and this, we were on the, from one on the, on a river, a very big river. So one side people come towards Europe, what we call it, and we... come towards the other side in India, what we call it, South India. And when we said South Indian is a little different, and Rajasthan and this kind of Indians is the same thing, the same thing. My body, the color is coming different, coming, but it is the same culture, so to live there, and this is. We have changed in these ages, and that’s why now one blood to other blood, and that unblooded to other blood, and now it is coming in their blood and in their whole body and their thoughts. They become angry, then they can kill anyone. Then they took the sitting, and now they are in the air. And what are they doing? They are making now from here, and they kill them very far. Some may... oh man, what is that? It doesn’t matter who is who. Not to kill, don’t suffer, but blood is that. So then it is coming spiritual, and so in that spirituality, we are taking some religion, and in this religion, we said, "We don’t like other religions; we will kill them." Then kill them, my dears. What will happen now with us? Now you know this coronavirus came, and this is only in human’s blood. Not anywhere, and we can be killed too. Therefore, in that, it doesn’t matter in which religion, which country, where we are, but where God is. Then God has made everybody, and so we are all going to God’s side. And so you have in that paramparā, and so in your city, and when I came here with my air, with the air, and then I got water to drink, I was eating, I was walking here. And there you became energy. Came to you, and that energy went to you. Some come in, some went for down. There is one tree, a very big cherry tree, and it comes beautiful blooms and coming the fruit, little, little. And then again, little yellow. And many fall down. So one tree looks very green, very red. But in the beginning, there were flowers, and we said, "Oh, very good," but they fell down. Then some became fruit; it was very nice, but the cold came, or too much wind, and so some fell down. How many cherries became beautiful, ripe, and that we could eat? So how was it coming? But who falls down? Because it was given to the supreme God, it is only for this, not for others. So it came to me, and the other was gone somewhere, fallen down there. So similarly, your life, my dears, your feelings, and what you want, let’s come together. And then finally, it is the five elements and in the blood, air. Earth, many of these five elements, and from that will come purity. Then purity means the soul, our soul, our life, and that life is in our heart, and its roots are in our navel. It is there you have, and therefore it came, some energy in someone, so that we come together. Some flowers have gone, some could not arrive, but they will come back. It is coming again back. So in your life, I wish you should be very great and practice, practice, practice. Always only heart, and in the heart is a very little, tiny, tiny something, like a light. And so, from the navel, the roots go down, and the flowers and this going upstairs—the powers are here in the heart, and the beginning is from there. Try to think what I tell you, how you will feel now, and many things you know. Thirty years, and I’m coming time to time, and it is there, and there, many don’t know it will be. So this is one of the days what I told to Deliu, "How are you?" And I said to our guru paramparā, our gurus, and they have given only me in my hand. So as long as I will give this in your hands, and then when I am gone, you will be in your hands, so that you give to everybody power, practice properly. And in this way, my dears, I didn’t speak those words. Nowhere were we many times in a vape. And many, many—we were about a thousand people, sometimes about two thousand, five thousand, eight hundred, etc. But I didn’t tell these such things like that, but today it was in my thoughts, and some of our brothers told me, and he’s from long years, he’s with me, and he said, "Swamiji, to all my brothers and sisters." Give them this kind of lecture which I gave. And then maybe some, they have no mantra now. But there, when they saw me and I only look into the eyes, it’s already gone in. And maybe you will have a mantra come, energy will come. It means you will be healthy, peaceful, have good families, a good husband, a good wife, good children; everything will come on. And sometimes it is not that you don’t need a daughter; you have a husband and wife, but no children. Why not? God said no. And it is a big problem now, you know? What will happen to our children? Now you know what’s happening. And we will go, and what will happen there? My dears, but we should come further. We will have children, many, okay? Yes, you should have many, many children. Hungry? Many. Good. And be happy. And you are very good people, your country. In Europe, you are between, like, how to say, in the heart, one beautiful, like this, inside. Still, many people don’t tell me how and from where are the Hungarians? From where are the Hungarians? So now you say from Ālakpurījī. Yes, all came from Ālakpurījī. So it came from that God, my dear. Your father, your grandfathers, your grandfathers. And so, all very nice, thank you. And tomorrow we will see again. Holnap ismét látjuk egymást.

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The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

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