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The spiritual path requires a heart as pure and receptive as a young child's. Discipline is necessary, yet the essence is surrender to the guru's grace, which nurtures the disciple like a mother feeds her infant. The mind creates conflict, imagining the guru's anger or judgment, but the true heart holds only benevolent light. Early ashram life is a struggle with one's own undisciplined nature, a confrontation with the inner enemy. That foundational austerity yields a lasting spiritual resource. The guru's method balances sweetness with corrective strictness, yet the deepest transmission is beyond feeling. Meditation means turning inward to find that tiny, indestructible light within the heart, not seeking external validation. The lineage continues through those who merge their being entirely with the guru's consciousness.

"Be like a little child, and we do for the child, but not in the heart of the child, outside something, and so slowly, slowly, then."

"In my one hand is sweet... On the other hand, there is a stick. So what do we want?"

Filming locations: Vienna, Austria.

Oṁ Guru Brahma, Guru Viṣṇu, Guru Devo Maheśvarāha, Guru Sākṣāt, Paraṁ Brahma, Tasmai Śrī Gurave Namaḥ. Nāhaṁ Karatā Prabhudīp Karatā Mahāprabhujī Karatā He Kevalaṁ. Oṁ Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Hari Oṁ, dear brothers and sisters. My name is Sandhya Prem Puja, originally from the Czech Republic. I have been living in the United States for about thirty years, and in the Atlanta area for about twenty-two years. I came to Atlanta in 1999, and we have a very beautiful āśram there, growing wonderfully. People say that during the COVID time they had a hard time, but for us it was good in a way. Not that COVID was good, but the opportunity to start teaching online was helpful. People from many different places, even far from our center, were able to join the classes. Those who were not comfortable coming to the center were able to join comfortably from home. So we now have classes both in the center and online. This was helpful for us, and I believe we have gained some students in the last few years who are really enjoying the classes. We have new yoga teachers there also. Hopefully, those who finish the teacher training will soon begin to teach. I have been in the Czech Republic for the last two months, and it has been very wonderful to be with Guru Dev. Now visiting Vienna is so beautiful. After so many years—maybe nineteen or twenty—I was able to visit Mahāprabhujī’s āśram and have a wonderful meditation there, and now again seeing Guru Dev. It is wonderful. In these years, my biggest experience was in the Jadān Āśram when I was there for six months in 1996. I came as a completely new disciple. I wanted to go to India even before I became a disciple. I saw some leaflets about a program in India, some Vedic studies, and immediately I got the wish to go there. I received my mantras very soon before going to India for six months. With Gurujī’s blessing, I was able to join for six months, and it was a life-changing experience. I felt that I went there to become a better person. It was very hard because my whole life was kind of undisciplined. To get used to the disciplined life of the ashram was very hard, and I was struggling with myself every single day, not with anybody else. Yes, everybody was extremely wonderful to me at that time, but with myself—they say you are your own worst enemy—so from that point of view, it was very hard. But I cannot explain what it has given me. I am still drawing from that experience and hope that maybe one day I will again have a chance to spend more time there. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva, Satya Sanātana Dharma. We are many, many people everywhere around the world. Some people want to go very high, and then the reality of itself is gone. Some become a little fearful, and that is also not good; it has to be clear. Then also, after they are doing something, they are told something so that they may not understand, or they think it is not good. But we have to—I am telling everybody, including myself—it is better that I told on myself. You are good. One has to be like a little child, a child which is about one year, two years, three years, or four years. Then it’s going the other side. So, Gurujī said, when I was with Mahāprabhujī, Mahāprabhujī said, "You are a little child, and you are afraid, you are not afraid, and if something is just for some seconds, because this is not in the heart, because the heart is very good and happy and everything." I experienced very much now in Strilky, in this one and a half year, mostly there with our children. There is one Pāras or the Pūrṇam, and the Pūrṇam is so crying and so on, and just with something she is, and coming, forgets everything. That means, Holy Gurujī said, that I know, beginning I was, what will be and what Mahāprabhujī do, and that carrying and this. And Mahāprabhujī said, be like a little child, and we do for the child, but not in the heart of the child, outside something, and so slowly, slowly, then. One comes, can talk, this and that. But Mahāprabhujī is writing and saying the truth, the truth. And so Holī Gurujī said, "I have Maheśvarānanda before my other names." Mahāprabhujī said, "In my one hand is sweet, laḍḍu, what we call that, or ice cream. On the other hand, there is a stick. So what do we want?" So Holī Gurujī said, "Stick." Mahāprabhujī said, "But you are not a truth. You have ice cream. Why?" He said, "Yes, I want a stick, but not the ice cream," but I thought I would do it like this. Gurujī said, "No." Mahāprabhujī said, "This is our both heart. In our heart, we are the two parts. And in this part, we are feeling like we are very wrong. Will something happen, negative or something? Other is a little bit, maybe." Mahāprabhujī said, and then Holī Gurujī said to me, because he said no. Don’t, it should be straight and good. And don’t see that I am the first, no. I am the ground, no. Mahāprabhujī is giving me my knowledge, my teachings. Śrī Gurujī, and from a distance also. Happy and different. Long distance: where is India, and where is Austria, in Vienna? And when there was no telephones. So the letter came. When the letter came, yes, though both for me, in me, one is that maybe Gurujī will be very angry or something, and the other is that Gurujī will make it so very good, how very good. Because from that side, when I opened my letter, what Holy Gurujī was saying was good, sweet, very nice, and my name, my God, I said, "Oh, thank you, Mahāprabhujī, so nice to me," and so on. So, in the way, our self is in our self, and that we have to give up. And Holī Gurujī said, "Many sādhus lived, but there are always two or three differences." And Mahāprabhujī said to Holī Gurujī, "Holī Gurujī came in three months, came to Mahāprabhujī’s." And that was just about 20 letters, steps. And Mahāprabhujī said, "Mādhavānanda, very nice. I need something from you, but you came. Please go now to their New Delhi, okay? But drink chai pani." He said, "No, Gurujī, your duty, I will go." That was this Gurujī’s life, unbelievable. And the same Mahāprabhujī was, Holī Gurujī was giving me too. And then sit down and meditate on this. So, how to meditate? How to go? So today I was thinking a lot about this. And so I thought today I will tell you all of us. And this, try to make one word, okay, one mantra. And this whole mantra is for all of us. And in that, try to think, make your heart. Do not think in your heart there is something like the tuk-tuk-tuk or something else. See your heart. The brain is okay. Everything is okay. But in the heart, there is something. And that, we call in the heart, has two parts. And in the middle of this, there is—is anyone in the book written there about?—and there is it, how one tiny part of there, there is one light. This book, someone gave me first, he says, Austrians or someone of this German or Vienna, Austria or the Germans or this, and he was a yogī, a very nice yogī, and he wrote this book from this, and on that he said, and that he gives the lecture, and he said the heart. In the heart it is there, but you cannot see it, we cannot feel it. It is very tiny to know when our life is in our heart or in our body, or in our mother’s body, but no one can see where it is. But that is like that, and how within. So now, in your heart, from your heart, just think in your heart: how is it in you? Don’t go out, don’t go out in the windows, don’t look in there, don’t look here. Just say that, yes, I am. I am not fear. I am not fear. I am not lost. I didn’t lose anything, because it cannot be lost. It will be with you at all times. So, Gurujī said, he was making a mālā, and you know, Gurujī’s mālā was this big, like this, that big, you know? And now the mala of Gurujī’s became a little low. Yeah, when Mahāprabhujī gave the samādhi, we thought we would give this mālā to Mahāprabhujī. And Premanandajī said, "Swāmījī, please don’t let go of Mālā. This letter is with us." And that Mālā is there. You have seen many who came to India in Jadan. And my holy Gurujī’s many shoes and his many cloths. Many of these very great devotees of Mahāprabhujī very quickly came and said, "Please, can I give these invocations to everybody? There is a pūjā there." But it is said, what holy Gurujī was, how he was doing. And then I said, "How, Gurujī?" Where Gurujī said. First, I was saying where Mahāprabhujī is. And there is my feeling, my heart, my light, my life, where Mahāprabhujī is there. Barikhatu, or in the āśram, or somewhere. And Holy Gurujī knows that Mahāprabhujī is there. So I said, Gurujī, how did you take that? He said, "Not like that, with my feelings." And how is that? Gurujī told me. Gurujī said, "A little child is crying, crying, and it brings the little child in the hand, and automatically the child comes to drink the milk from the mother." So, in that way, Maheśvara Nanda, like a little child, is coming to drink the milk from the mother’s breast. So my breast is there as Mahāprabhujī, and I am thirsty all the time. I am going like that. I don’t know anything else. Holy Gurujī said, "There is nothing going to that book or that kitāb, or today Mahinā, electrics, or this, or money, or this." And that’s why Gurujī was in that, his mālā, he was sleeping and his finger was moving like this because the mālā just went to sleep, it’s the mālā’s fault. But this finger, this, all the times, in that way, today, I think, I told you, this I didn’t tell you, and now, we will do something for about half a minute. For half a minute or this, take your mālā, and you do yourself in the heart, where you, it is your heart is. Alakhpurījī, Devpurījīs, Mahāprabhujīs, or Holī Gurujīs, okay? So, in that, or in your mother, that one, this is the reality in that. How Mahāprabhujī lived, how he was eating, how this was, everything. So, this is, you can, please, make this your mala, your mantra, that mantra you have, and come to that heart like this. And if one, when we have little, some instrument, a little bit, it was, we can make it because half a month, then everybody will see in other countries, okay, they have no more programs, it’s gone. So, please get... Is there anywhere here? Do you have? Hey, mister, yeah, so is there an instrument, anything? Our book or not a book, I mean, yeah, only sound. And in that way, you should, you give it. You say that I am not anymore here. I am not. I am nothing. I am in that, my heart, we say Kaljā, and this is it. The rest is that. Of course, Holī Gurujī was very strict, Holī Gurujī and Mahāprabhujī. Mahāprabhujī was giving the stick very quickly. Oh my God! But at the same time, he said, "Did you feel?" Mahāprabhujī said, "No, it was nothing, no feeling." But many gurus, many gurus, not only Mahāprabhujī, or Gurujī, or Alakhpurījī, but many, many great sādhus, gurus, ṛṣis, they all will take the disciples in such a way, so like a little child giving milk, this. Don’t do, stop, don’t run away, like this. That is, this is life living. So today I was thinking the whole day, what will I give you today? Yesterday I told you many good things, and now, on this day, you should always do your mālā in that way. Yamala Guru Kripāhi Kevalam Śiṣyake Ānanda Maṅgalam. Mahāprabhujī always said this word, Mahāprabhujī always. So, Guru Kṛpā, Guru Kṛpāhi Kevalam Śiṣyake Ānanda Maṅgalam Ānanda, Maṅgala, the highest grade. That is, don’t feel anything in your body, don’t feel anything there, only that: "Guru Kripāhi Kevalam, Śiṣye Ke Ānand Maṅgalam." Write this down on your board, in your house somewhere. If your family doesn’t ask you, they can, in your room. When he is opening, sleeping, that is beautiful, this. Guru Kṛpā He Kevalam, Śiṣya Ke Ānanda Maṅgalam. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavānakī, Devpurīsa Mahādevakī, Mahājñānānjī Bhagavānakī, Alakhpurījī Mahādevakī, Jai. Oṁ. Through your mantra, which you are doing, melt into the water. Melting into everything in one day, that’s it. At nine, eight o’clock finished, when it, no? It is half past seven, yeah. It is seven thirty, and so it will be eight. Go ahead, thank you. Om Om... Aum. This sound is not for you. You should know. It is only for our time that all are listening, and therefore there is some sound. Your sound is different. Do not think any other sound that it is. Some look tired, so now all of you can lie down, head towards my side, and continue your mantra for peace. Those who want to be sitting or standing, that is okay. Oṁ Śoham Śaguṁ Brahma Siddip Paripūraṁ Nārāyaṇa Namaḥa Hari Oṁ Hari Oṁ. And now, prayer, please. Bring a little ghee for the dīpak, if there is little. Hari Om. Thank you. That was what Mahāprabhujī, Madhavānandajī, that was how he is meditation, mantra. All, everything was as the whole being, his body in Mahāprabhujī’s body. That is very, very important and very great. There are very few disciples, sādhus, or gurus who can be like that. You will see the many; they become some. Until then, they give the Guru something, then, in Hari Om, they go further. That is Paramparā, Bhagavān Śiva, Alakhpurījī, then we don’t know how far it was, but then we, Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, and Holy Gurujī. We are on this path, and let all others be on that path. This is forever continuous. You all go and make all very good. This path further continues continually. Śiva Paramparā Paramparā Śrī Dīpnan Bhagavānakī Śrī Śrīdev Puruṣa Mahādevakī Mādhavānanjī Bhagavānakī Alakhpurījī Mahādevakī Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī.

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