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Part 1: The Grace of the Satsaṅg Today is a beautiful day, and it is solely by the grace of the Guru—Guru kṛpā hi kevalam. Kṛpā means blessing, and a blessing encompasses all that is best. This is the kṛpā of Mahāprabhujī, of Devapurījī, of Alagpurījī, of Madhavananjī, and of all Gurus in that lineage. This grace does not originate from us; it comes from Śiva. Śiva is humble to everyone. He says, "Okay, take care, be like that," and slowly, slowly, He transfers His grace. Otherwise, there is no kṛpā. Kṛpā means it flows through our entire body, into each and every cell, and touches all our problems and difficulties. Even the birds desire kṛpā. All animals—dogs, cats, cows, buffaloes—everything within them seeks it. When we respect this, it becomes a blessing. But we humans carry much negativity within us. It is not creation, nor is it something like Corona, but another kind. We humans are great; we have everything, including the ātmā. The ātmā is within all creatures and humans. In the forest, among the trees, upon the earth, all beings coexist with humility. For example, a tiger sits, and a bird will sit upon him. But can we go to a tiger? Can we sit on him or even go close? We hide ourselves when we see one. So humans possess both aspects. Therefore, we have kṛpā, but it is only because of that grace. Otherwise, we know everything. All creatures are different—some are like this, some like that. When they are in our kitchen or room, these little animals are eating something. They won't take any sītā (offerings), and they do everything. We come to everything, yes. Even they know what humans will do. Your cat, your dog, your bird—they are there, but they will not like certain things. Long ago, something comes to our brain, you know, from a very long, long time ago. Maybe it comes to the brain again. There was a way in my room, and something happened then—many things. I am not a very good singer. The best singer is sitting here, Magande. They are two, three, four, five... five, one, two, three. Okay, that's it. But I don't want to talk about that. Sometimes someone tells us one word—any kind of word—and it always stays in our brain. Whether good or bad, peaceful or not peaceful, everything remains. Good things also remind us very much. But negative things come more quickly. Others are very good. So are the stories. One day, what can I tell you? To whom should I tell? Somebody has this, and there may be that. It is like this. For example, I can tell you about our good brothers and sisters. We are all brothers, sisters, friends, disciples, and so on. Friends can tell jokes, knee jokes, and such things, yes? So, whom can I tell? You know, there are many. I am always telling Radha. Don't worry, Radha will not be angry, but it is like that. Should I dare tell Radha? Yes. She said, "Everything is on here." Rādhā told me one day. She said, "In one kitchen, there is a hole, and inside are these little, little animals. What did you say before? Mountain, yeah. And they are sitting there." People are sitting and eating. The mother of those little ones said, "Don't fly out. There are so many people. I am just going to bring you something," and she goes again. One day, one little one said, "Mommy, she is always putting us in and going and coming. Why? What is it?" They will kill him. Then, one day, the mother went a little distance, and the little one, who could now fly a little, came out. People were eating, and he was flying there. When he came, everybody was... He said to the mother, "Mother, you are not good." I said, "Why are they so?" Good people were there for us. Why? Because all was there. And what happened? Because everybody was saying, "Hello, hello," but they did not say "Hello, hello." They thought, "Oh, we are good." Thanks to God that this little baby said, "Don't come, because all want to kill you." Yes. No, rather not. You didn't tell me this. Yes, I have many, many stories in my mind. So, from time to time, I bring them out. Okay, thank you. Like this, we can feel good, bad, or otherwise. But we humans, many times, do many things, and we often have more negativity. That is where the Satguru comes in. Satguru. Sat means, you know what Sat is? Sat. So, Sat means truth. Sat. Asat. Sat is truth. Asat is not that. So, sat, sat. Sat-saṅga. There, coming saṅga. Saṅga. Saṅg means with whom we should go, and with whom we should not go. Many will just sit but then run away or shake their head like this. So, satsaṅg. Now we are all sitting here, everybody, listening very carefully, silent. Satsaṅg, very nice bhajan. In Umbapurī, five bhajans were sung today, and Haridāya, Śāntī, too, were sitting. Once the bhakti they were doing, and everybody was listening, silent. Because sata, sata means truth. We know many times the same bhajan. We sing, and that's all, but again and again that bhajan comes to us, and what? So, everybody listening, listen. So, saṅgha. Saṅgha means all friends, all together. We are together. But not only humans—animals also. You know, so many people you have to... Now I see in Croatia, Slovenia, everywhere, and Ukraine. There are people who have a cat so much, all the time like this. And you are like this, and I said, "Oh, my God." I said, "Why not? You don't have a boy, you have a girl." Yes, my husband is okay, but he is not always with me, and she is coming, I said. Because the confidence that creatures, animals, have love. They feel, and they know if something is... They have something different in our brain. From that, they know it is gone, not good, so shut we are. All in set, we are set truth, the truth. We came from the ashram; we are always coming to the ashram. Why? Because we are washing. What means the washing? When we are very, very... we are very dirty water, and this, and very much, and this. Then, when we go to the water, swimming or anywhere, we clean ourselves, very nice. So what is that? We come again from everywhere; we have the dirt. Let's say I build a dirt, okay? So this is a dirt, whole day from dirt, this, that, this. Then after, they come in the āśram or the temple, or they turn into church. When people are really very sad, going into the church and sitting there. And how should Jesus or the Holy Mother or others be sitting there? And so we have... we have, we do many things. We have so many different, and people are going to sing, and again we come here. Now, there is one thing: because there is a tree, and on the tree there are all birds, and this—all they come and they eat there. This is what they call them, fruits or something, yes? And they all will go, and then come back again, and there. So, some of you come only from time to time. And when I am here, then, because I want you very much, I see you, and then I am relaxed. Otherwise, I am not relaxed. Good, from your side. Of course, you are all good, but I am not. So, I am saying this and that. I am relaxing with you. Sat. Satguru. Satguru. That's Satguru. And that guru, that guru, is the inner self in the heart. Guru. And that is like a light on it. Satguru. Satguru Swāmījī. Then what happens? All will listen. All will listen means now, my two-threes have to do something else. Maybe if you have to do something, some coming, giving, the rest. So, but one word, sat, I told, and now everyone, you got it, and why not? The ocean is the ocean, clouds are clouds, air is the air, everything is the best everywhere. And so we are sitting; one word is bringing into our heart, sat. Satsaṅg, satsaṅg means together. With us, good people. So it is like this: different people, some are going. Those who like all alcohols, they all will go to the alcohols. Who is taking some, any kind of, I don't know what it's called, a drunk, some that, they will go there. They will go there, and there is one more. There is nothing. It will happen. Let us try again, and everybody tries and then gives it up, and like that. Yes. Everything is very good, but go outside and we'll have tobacco. That was a bad one. Then now that is their pipe. Yeah. All the time hanging here, mostly in London. Many, many people, you know, also it's hanging here. So I said, "Oh my God, what is this?" So I brought it, so many things. They said, "Good, I have about 10, 20, or this, but I could not have tobacco." So I said, "No tobacco. Tomorrow I will buy." They said, "No tobacco." They said, "No tobacco." And every day I'm going there, and where's my tobacco? And they said nothing. They are so nice. It is a joke, okay? But I have many. My father was also having like this, but that's another thing. So, everything is coming. What we all, good friends, how friends, they will do this, they will do that. But satsaṅga, satsaṅga, what will this saṅga give us? Good or not. And so, many times it will be that one day in life you said, "I lost my life." I could have given not this diet. Where are you going? He will go to a very big place there. So, satsaṅga. Saṅga. That saṅga. The saṅga which will be in the saṅga, he will like it that way. Who wants to go to the mountains will like this. Who is going swimming? They will do like this. Anything. Okay, good. But we should not... our ātmā, our soul, this life, life, life for every animal. But now, oh man, God has given you so many things that anything is good things for you, giving, but don't destroy that. Satsaṅg karo. Satsaṅg in your house, with your children, with your parents, and if there are no bodies, then sit down in your house. And you have some animals, or the catties, or patties, or the gouties, or cows, my cow babies, you know? When I come near the garden, already about 50 or 20 little, little... Cow babies and how they are, and they're all coming and they're teaching me like this. How love, that is love. Everybody likes love. Oh, saṅgha. But they know what a saṅgha is. And we, what we will do, we owe him. They take a little cow, a cow, and they said, when it's coming, they cut it and kill it. Only because she has milk, that's why they come. In such a way, people were telling how vegan people came. So anyhow, satsaṅg, satsaṅg kī mahimā. Satsaṅg kī mahimā. Now, Mahimā, you know the Mahimā? We have one Mahimā bhakti. Who is that here, Mahimah? Mahimah Jyoti, where is he? In the reception, yes, he is also here. Yeah. So, Mahimā. Mahimā. Your Mahimā. What does Mahimā mean now? Let the word be one. Only one word. Mahima. Two words like this: Mahima, Mahi. Mahī means very pure, clean, peaceful, loving. Like this. Māhima. Yeh Maa. Maa means mother. All animals also. Tigers, and they also, they go to the mother. Yes. We also have that children, and always the father comes, and little children come. But again, this little child is coming to the mother. Always coming to the mother. Why? Because that is from the whole blood, as everything from the mother's body, and like this, like this, so that in that way, our people have in our āśram all that I give you, the, what you call, the names, all the names which I am giving always, then I, I am making everything. What is the best? Good. Everything. So, that was who was that? Here, see, who was that? Mahimā, Mahimā... Now, word "Mahima." "Mahima" with thousands of people there, and one of them comes, a nice person, or the singing, or something. It is in Mahima, Uski Mahima. So, thousands of people are sitting, and somewhere there's a football hoop. Everybody, people are sitting, and whose football kicked already? Then they said, "Oh, very good, very good." Mahima. Merī mahima. And so, we should take everyone, our Mahima, my dear, then we will all be happy. Satguru swāmī, swāmī,... Means with, with oneness. So that is in this. And so we will sing that, that is a sat. Sat, Sat means sa, together. All we are together. Now what does it mean? Now, we are all sitting here, and I will tell you one word, and you will hear everything, and you will say, "Oh, this was a good word Swāmījī said," or, "This was not good words while Swāmījī was telling." Swamiji said that people were not good there. But when we are here, so in our brain, in our body, how we… And that's why Śrī Śaṭguru Mahāprabhujī and all other gurus are all. Because every mother is a good mother. You cannot say only this mother is better and others are not good. No, no,... no. Every mother is a great mother, and babies are great. Father is also good, but mother is more caring. Now, there is a not good. I can tell you, or not tell you, that the mother and father, and then how the child will be like this. And that child, and then the mother, this will be lifelong for that child. And this, even the no child, how to become? But now we are separating. We go that, it is this. It means we have no saṅgha in that. So, this is that sat. Sat in sat. It is sat. Sat means truth. Sat means truth of that what? Not that he was not good to me, and he took it there like this. This is not. Sat is in your heart. That in the heart is satsaṅga. Many, many things, so I will be tomorrow, I think, again for the satsaṅg. I will come, and I will tell you something more. You see, that whole two years, morning and evening, twice satsaṅg, always two satsaṅgs, and then when I come, what will I talk? What will I do? Okay, I said, very good. I will talk about something like this that is good, and we will tell what it means and so on. But it is already here. There are so many people, sadhus, santas, and many things. And good is good. And when I come, Mahāprabhujī is giving in my whole body, or Mahāprabhujī or Madhvanājī, or like this, yeah? Similarly, I can tell you one thing. There are many people. Love, for example, Modījī. You know the Modījī? Yeah. And Modiji was in, now, the day before yesterday, he was in America, and all from many countries were there, and there it was. Part 2: The Essence of Satsaṅg and the Path of Unity Everyone came with papers in their hands—there are many such papers—and they placed them nicely on the ceiling there, saying, "Good morning, dear sir, and it is one of my beautiful days to see about you this. What you told you, that is the wish." It is, in a way, an Austria. That’s why my sir, Ānanda, and... he, like, his going like this. Modi has no book that. Nothing. He spoke, and that such a whole was how much they were all telling. They all clank other countries. Is there Modi’s, Modi’s... So that is you also one talking very nice. Everybody is taking very nice, looking like this, of course. When bhajan is there, we know then bhajan we are taking, so our all our yoga people, yoga and... Daily life, and our sādhanā, our practice, what we are doing, and you are really, really very clean, very peaceful. Clean means not that you are dusty today. It’s okay, yeah? So this, but our heart for each other, we are to all. Okay, maybe one is something like this, but okay, but it is, everyone is, we are in this way. So sat, sat means truth; saṅg, saṅg means together. Satsaṅg, and this satsaṅg means that we all are one into the gods, then to the heaven, Bhagavān, O Prabhu, O Gurudev. A. Dayāl, A. Gurudev, Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī, Alagpurījī, and other Gurujī. Of course, all Gurujīs, they are everyone’s Gurujīs, their Gurujīs. And those who are, how he’s doing, that is very important and very good. So, it happened to somebody, but we are all good. I am very happy to see you. I am really not here, or because I have to go everywhere, to how many countries, and there, and every day I am sitting here and giving the lectures, it is not me. That time is kṛpāhi kevalam. Kṛpāhi kevalam. Kevalam means only. That thank you very much, and now. I think we have something, our dear sister Rādhājī. I don’t know, she will tell me. I’m always like the Baba, but it’s singular. Rādhājī, Rādhājī, Rādhājī. Hari Om, all dear friends of Yoga and Daily Life, dear guests in the international webcast. Swamiji gave me the opportunity to tell you something about his recent activities, his new projects, and plans in India. Also, Swāmījī has given me the opportunity today to tell you a little bit about his latest activities and about his plans and projects in India. A little review. The last three months, in summer three months, Swāmījī was in Strelka Ashram. He had summer seminars with hundreds, thousands of people. And then, about two, two, three weeks ago, he came to Vienna and began a tour through Central Europe. So, as you know, there were the summer seminars in Strelka. And two or three weeks ago, Swāmījī came to Vienna and started a tour through Central Europe. He visited the ashrams in Salzburg and Linz, and then he made a tour through Hungary: Budapest, Szeged, and Debrecen. And then he continued in Slovakia, in Košice, in Lvov, Bratislava, and now he is again in Vienna. I think I don’t need to translate that; that was understandable. And we are very happy to have him on webcast every evening and now personally here. And for two days he will be in Vienna, and then going again on tour. And then hopefully he will come again to Vienna for some days. And then he will proceed to India again. In India, Swamiji is always going to India when the anniversary, the Mahāsamādhi of Holī Gurujī, is coming, and also Diwali. And he had, in his last visit, he visited the village of Kajras. This is very near, one kilometer from the Kathu, Barikathu, and he wanted to see the people because they often come also to his satsaṅgs. So, on his last trip, Swāmījī visited the village of Kachra, or the city of Kachra. Which is very close to Barikato, to the ashram of Mahāprabhujī and the new ashram of Alagpurījī, which Swāmījī built. And in this place he visited a small Śiva temple, which had already come down a bit, so it had not been urgently renovated. And Swamiji said to the villagers, "Yes, would you like to have a beautiful Śiva temple again?" And of course they said, "Yes, we would like to." So in Kachras, Swamijī stayed in the Śiva temple. There is a little Shiva temple, which was not in good condition or constitution. And he asked the people there if they wanted to have a new, nice Śiva temple. And, of course, they said, "Yes, we would like to have it." And so Swāmījī called his architect, Rupārām. And he reconstructed this Śiva temple so that from his āśram in Kāṭu, he can now see the tower of the Śiva temple in Kachras also. So Swamiji called his architect, the master builder Rūpārām, to renew this Śiva temple and build it even higher, so that he could now see the tower of the Kachras Śiva temple from the Ālagpurīchī āśram in Kāṭhū. Yes, and the inauguration of this reconstructed Śiva temple will be on Holī Gurujī’s anniversary, his Mahāsamādhi, on the 10th of November. This anniversary is always seven days after Dīvālī. So Swamījī, when he will be in India, will inaugurate this temple in Kachra. November sein, denn Huli Gurujī’s anniversary ist immer sieben Tage nach Diwali. And this will be a very, very huge satsaṅg. He is awaiting 3,000 or 4,000 people there. It will be spread in all surroundings. And he made an extra kitchen so that the people could get food. And Bandara there, and it will be in honor of Holī Gurujī. Also, it will be a very, very big event, a great festival, with a procession and with thousands of people. And Swāmījī has even had an extra building, a kitchen, constructed there. The holy paramparā, Siddhāpīṭh Paramparā from Alak Puruchī, Śrīdev Puruchī, Mahāprabhujī, and holy Gurujī, and the successor of this Paramparā, Viśvagurujī. Also, das Besondere noch ist, dass Swamiji that it was dedicated and reconstructed by Sri Swami Mādhavānanda World Peace Council and the Siddhārth Piṭṭa Paramparā of Śrī Alak Purī Jī, Śrī Dev Purī Jī. Mahāprabhujī and Holī Gurujī and the successor, our Viśva Gurujī. Should I tell more? I have some notes as a backup. So, I thought, or Swāmījī thought, that maybe many of our, who are now in the webcast, looking at Swāmījī TV, maybe don’t know about the World Peace Council and about the paramparā. And so I shall give a short summary about this topic. Swamiji meant that there are possibly several viewers now in the webcast who do not know anything about the World Peace Council and the master line of our master, and so I would like to give a short summary of it. The roots of the Sri Swami Mata Vananda World Peace Council are in Vienna. Swamiji founded this humanitarian and non-profit association in Vienna in honor of his master, Holy Guruji, His Holiness, Dharamsamrat Paramhansrī Swāmī Madhavānandajī, who lived in Rajasthan from 1923 until 2003. And this World Peace Council was established to bring to the public, to the whole world, the messages of Mahātmā Gandhi and Śrī Svāmī Madhavānandajī in order to achieve unity and peace. In 2012, the Sri Swami Madhavananda World Peace Council was acknowledged by the United Nations and granted special consultative status to bring these principles of a sustainable and peaceful global society to all the world. The World Peace Council actively supports the declarations of the United Nations, the Millennium Development Goals, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the Earth Charter as the fundamental principles to build a better world and a lasting peace on Earth. The Sri Swami Mādhavānanda World Peace Council is connected with Yoga Daily Life around the world, and they are organizing, together in cooperation, conferences and inter-religious meetings, as well as world peace prayers in every country and in every one of our centers. There are two core sentences. This is one quotation of Holy Gurujī: "One in all and all in one." And this means that one Ātmā, one God, lives in all living beings, and all are united with this one God. And the other sentence is from Mahātma Gāndhī, "Be the change you want to see." So without that, if we don’t change, we cannot see any betterment in the world. So this is a short view on the Śrī Svāmī Madhavānanda World Peace Council. And the society is based in Vienna, Austria. But it covers the whole world. Its activities cover the international community. And also in the United Nations in New York, they are very actively supporting the aims of the World Peace Council. And also in Vienna, we have a team who is a member of the peace committee at the UN in Vienna, and in New York, they are also members of a committee, a peace and spiritual committee in New York. So, shortly about our spiritual lineage, the paramparā, also noch ein paar Worte über unsere Meisterlinie. Our spiritual master lineage, the paramparā, starts with the mystic master of the Himalayas, Siddha Yogī Śrī Alakpurījī. His picture is here on the altar, but there will be a bigger copy, a bigger picture soon. Śrī Alakpurījī is living in the area of the famous pilgrim places, Badrināth and Kedārnāth in the Himalayas, and it is said that Śrī Alakpurījī is still living there, but his body is under his control, and he can materialize whenever and wherever he decides. And some who were there in the Himalayas with Swamījī or Satviśāntījī had visions and very lively experiences of Śrī Alakpurījī. A disciple of Śrī Alakpurījī is Param Yogeśvar Śrī Devpurījī. This picture is here, you see here. And he is acknowledged as an incarnation of Lord Śiva. His ashram is in Rajasthan, in the village of Kailash, which is named after the holy mountain Kailash in the Himalayas, the residence of Lord Śiva. And about Śrī Devapurījī and also his disciple and successor Śrī Mahāprabhujī is written in the biography that Holī Gurujī has written down in the Līlā Amṛta. So the successor of Śrī Devapurījī was Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Mahāprabhujī. You can see his statue here. He lived from 1828 to 1963, so 135 years, in Rajasthan, and he is worshipped as an incarnation of God Viṣṇu, an embodiment of God’s love, wisdom, and mercy. He lived mainly in the ashram in Barikatu on the edge of the Thar desert, and He devoted his whole life to serving mankind and protecting all living beings. "Love all creatures at least as much as yourself" is the essence of Mahāprabhujī’s message to mankind, and that all creatures, humans and animals, are God’s children and a part of Him. And our purpose of life is to realize this truth and to fulfill this duty by living together in harmony and by helping each other. The successor and main disciple of Śrī Mahāprabhujī was our beloved holy Gurujī, Dharmasamrāṭ Paramahaṁsvāmī Māthāvanandajī. And he was a truly great and spiritual master of our time. Through his example of living in pure devotion to God and by his selfless service to all creatures, he inspired the seekers who came to him. He lived in the ashrams of Nīpal, Kāṭhū, Jaipur, and Jādan in Rajasthan, from where his meditation, prayers, and spiritual help radiated for the whole world. He wrote many beautiful bhajans, which you also heard before this satsaṅg, in the beginning of the satsaṅg, and his spirit, he left his physical body, but his spirit and his love and his wisdom are still living with us and within us. And the successor and the living master of the Siddha Paramparā is our Vishwagurujī Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramahaṃswāmī Maheśvarānandajī. He is also coming from Rajasthan, and he was initiated and inaugurated as a successor and as a Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara of Mahanirvani Akhāḍā and as Viśvagurujī. And in 2018, for his life’s work and in recognition of his merits to the science of yoga, he was awarded the honorable title of Doctor Literarum by the Svyasa University in Bangalore. And about his mission and his aim, Vishwagurujī said, "I have only one aim in my life, to teach people to understand and love themselves and all others, and to help them realize why they have been born and what the purpose of life is." sagt Viśva Gurujī, ist, And in accordance with these principles, Viśva Gurujī gives his help selflessly and tirelessly in the form of yoga and spiritual guidance to all people who come to him. Vishwa Gurujī has founded or authored the Master System, Yoga in Daily Life. He established the Śrī Madhavānanda Āśram Fellowship and the Śrī Svāmī Madhavānanda World Peace Council. His deep wish is to fulfill the mission that Mahāprabhujī and his paramparā have put upon him as a successor, and also to make known to the world the Divine Masters and their message, that we should live together in peace and harmony and to develop our consciousness to the highest Self, to God. Who can make it possible to come to India to this special great festival and satsaṅg in Kachras in November is welcome, and maybe all shall see to make it possible. For Holī, Gurujī, and the inauguration of the temple, a really extensive, big, big satsaṅg to celebrate, so maybe there are possibilities. I think anyone who is vaccinated can go to India, even without vaccination. Tourist visa is difficult, but maybe with this background of this great festivity, it is possible. You need a special Grund, Yes, and I remember now, I can announce something more. Just came an email from Vancouver that on 2nd October, the day of non-violence and birthday of Mahātmā Gāndhī, an event will take place, organized again like it was on the peace day last week, and Miśwa Gurujī will be the main speaker, and also Satvidāyā Māṭā from Vancouver will have a speech, and our Madhuram will have the cultural music performance. It will be on the 2nd of October, which is Saturday. Again, a Zoom satsaṅg will take place for the day, Non-Violence Day, and the birthday of Mahātmā Gandhi. Es wird um 16:30 Swamiji will speak naturally, he is the main speaker, and our aim is what we are doing. We have to come together. And together, that is, we have yoga in life from 1952 years already. And so, always, we have to be together. We, together, many people, are disturbing. And then the thing, where it is going, so we have to come all in one way. So, then the rain is coming, dripping, coming little cloud, coming down, and this is coming to the river. And that river, so we are, our river, the Gaṅgā river. So, the Gaṅgā River is that which we are doing, so that it comes to the cosmic self, Bhagavān, God, whatever it is.