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Stories about master and disciple

The path of sādhana requires proper practice, bestowed by the grace of the Guru lineage. Without correct application, efforts bear no fruit. Life must be transformed through this discipline. True sādhana is learned from everyone—family, teachers, and saints. Stories illustrate this. A student, guided to his own tradition, became a great yogī. Another tale warns that small dishonesties, like evading a train fare, lead to greater loss. The Guru's role is to purify the disciple through rigorous testing, as iron is forged in fire. True devotees are rare among millions. The Guru's grace is everything.

"Guru, a disciple, how does the Guru make the disciple a guide? Like, he puts the iron in the fire."

"All the saints are useless. Look at our Akhāḍā, they don’t want to do anything to each other. Where are the saints?"

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

We sing bhajans and strive our best to understand, to become spiritual, and to comprehend sādhanā. If this is not done properly, it is not good. It will not bear fruit. Your life must be good. That sādhanā has been given to us by Dalai Purījī, Devapurījī, Mahāprabhujī, and Ārādhyā Bhagavān Śrī Mahāprabhujī. He has given us this, and many of you know it, though many do not. Take, for example, Premanand. Premanand did not merely work; he performed seva. That seva, by our dear brother Premanandjī, was not easy. His life was also for Gurujī. Now we are living. But how is that living time? That time was the best life, very great. It was the reality of the gurus—all gurus, this whole world, mother, father, everything. We think we are very good, that we have everything, and so on, but now it is not easy. I had one student here in Jordan. He was living here in the ashram at our school. Our college was not yet there. I go and come, and I know what I achieved with my Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī, and many others. So, one student came for about a year, or perhaps one and a half or two years. Then many people came here to the school. There was one from Udaipur, a very nice teacher who taught us all. But one day, a man—because he was from another tradition, we have Sanātana Dharma, and there are others—he wanted to be with his Gurudev. His parents were there. They gave him to this path. And he said, "I want to learn, but here the language... I will not be taught what I want." Kali Gurujī said, "Yes, I can see. You should go there." It is very near here. His parents came and said, "It is okay here, and now we will teach him our lectures or our way of sādhanā." Now, after 20 years, I see he became a great soul. He came to me once, making praṇām with his hands folded. His Gurujī also came to praṇām to me like that. But he learned so greatly, and now he is one of the best yogīs there. Our yogīs, we are Sanātana Dharma, we are these Śaṅkarācāryas and others. But he is so great. He learned, and now when people come to him, all old and young, they come like this. There is another, there in Jodhpur, and they have the same religion there. There were two little boys. He was coming and going. One day he was in the school—our school, Swastik, not the college. There was a very good Swāmī, and he always had two or three children with him. So there were two, and he was asking for some lectures. He was about 17 or 18 years old. Avtar Purī was there, sitting and observing. Yes, very good. But this boy gave one lecture, and he was talking very much. One thing he said: take proper care of your dress and what we call these buttons. Buttons. If you put it from the other side to the downside, it is wrong again. You have to open this and then go like this. So, go from down to up. If you go like this or that, you put it differently, then it is not right. Why not go step by step? If there is a way, go step by step. Then, if you don’t lose it or don’t want it, there is no problem. They will say yes because of cold or heat, like an open button is. But if you go from here to there, it is hanging like that. Of course, maybe his Gurujī was giving him a lecture on this. Then, second, he came again one day. He comes to me often. He was also giving a lecture. That boy said, "Swāmījī, you should give me a lecture." But I said, "I want to listen to you." And he said, "Okay, Gurujī, I will do it." Now, there was a father and son sitting on a train. The son was not giving his father money or something like that. He wanted only a little, but he was going to get more, and so on. The child was not little in age, but he was little in height. According to height, he was little. His father said, "We are on a train. At this age, we don’t need a full ticket." And he said, "Okay, now sitting there..." at the railway station. Actually, I’m not telling you a joke about somebody. So he said, "Tell them I am only 10 years old, going on 6." He was nearly above 20. So he said, "Okay." The father said, "When they come and ask how old you are, tell them that." He said between 6 and 7. Now he said, "Ice cream costs a little money, no?" The father said, "No money." The child said, "If you will not buy me ice cream, then I will tell them I’m 20." Okay, he gave him the ice cream. Then, where the train was coming to the next station, the ticket checker got out and another one was there. Again, because they were going from here to British Bombay, again he said the same thing. He said, "Biscuit and something more. If you give me money, please, otherwise I will tell." Again, he gave the money. Likewise, every time, otherwise he said, "Father, I will tell them." And then it would mean having to pay more money or something. When they came to the end of the train journey, the father said, "I am so sad, or I am not good. If I had bought the train ticket, it would have cost only a little, maybe five hundred rupees. But I did not pay, and so I lost everything, and the child was not good then." It was wrong, and so it is with the person. This story is from Jodhpur, told by that person. And this is very subtle. Now it’s big, like our students here. And he is already in college. I learned, I think, very much from this. But he is a very great yogī, very good, and his Gurujī is very nice, always in white dress, very much and very good. He produced many yogīs; his teachers made them very, very nice. Some went out and went with somebody, and then here and there. And what he... he was really, I think, spiritual, like a God-boy. He is from Jodhpur, and here in Jodhpur, from time to time, he is speaking very great languages and speaking. So, coming lectures, coming, and he is very great. Names I don’t know; I have forgotten, but definitely you know. He is coming to Gujarat, Jaipur also, Jaipur, Pali, Rupawas, Pali, Nepal. Somehow he went also to some other countries. But because of his language, he is good, but he speaks English, so he cannot control the words of the foreigners. So they are all going; there are Indians in other countries, and there they are going and giving like this. So that is what we have to learn—from the mother, from the father, from the brother, from the sisters, from the uncles, as we say, or from your guru in schools, or from that one sādhu. There was a boy here; now he is a great sādhu; he has become one now. So it is, you have to, we have to come to that. Yes, my Guru, Gurudev hī kṛpā kartī hai. Guru Mahāprabhujī was once sitting behind his ashram, Badīkhāṭu, a little ashram. And Holī Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī was sitting there about 11 o’clock or around that time, and it was very hot. Sand was coming, hot sand. Mahāprabhujī said that now you should go and learn and see the bhaktas, or this is how to go. At that time, only Mahāprabhujī was going. There are two cities, work, house. One chota gāv, chota gāv... jāte bhikṣā. This is not a long... I’m not telling it wrong. I’m not saying anything. The book is there. So, Mahāprabhujī goes for bhikṣā. Abhī vaha par vo holī mātā hai, na? Vaha badī khāṭu meṁ. Vahī. To voh amare vaha par jo mātājī hai. He was a little lower than me in terms of language. So Mahāprabhujī, at that time, Holī Gurujī, no. His families, all no. So Madhavānandjī goes for Bikṣā, and all the people, they are coming immediately. They have something, and this and that. And they said, "Please eat something, rabrī." They like mostly people very much, bhajarī kī rabrī also. But Gurujī said, no. My Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī, he gave me, "Go for bhikṣā." He didn’t say that you should eat. Bhikṣā, Gurujī brought, whatever it is, rotī, bajrā, bajrikā, anything. Gurujī used to come. Gurujī’s, like this, big, long hair. And Gurujī’s dress, one room, that. Like I have written, a photo of Mahāprabhujī. And he comes, Mahāprabhujī is near. Mahāprabhujī said, I am in other countries now for a long time, so I forget that otherwise. So that Bapujī said, "Go and bring the ūtra miṅgna." So where? Sangarī is a tree, isn’t it? Sangarī? Sangarī. Sangarī is there, Khejrī is there. So Gurujī goes; there was nothing. He said, "Go and take your clothes; they are big." From there, Bapujī used to bring so much. He brought me there and told me that my father’s Bhakti Bāgh is somewhere there. After that, he told me to go and wash my clothes. I washed my clothes. After that, my father told me to call Khatun and bring him there. There was a big crowd. There were no pagarkas. There was no road. There was sand everywhere, so my father used to run and go. Sometimes Gurujī says, Aurobhacha, Aurobhacha, Aurobhacha. When he comes near, it doesn’t matter, go back and bring it. Yes, it’s in the book. Not me, I am telling you. Guru, a disciple, how does the Guru make the disciple a guide? Like, he puts the iron in the fire, and when it comes, it is hit by a bull. When it comes back, then he was told by Mahāprabhujī, "I don’t say it." So when Mahāprabhujī used to say it, I was very sad. Then Gurujī used to say, Mahāprabhujī used to say, "You are not eating food." At that time, there was a shadow of Akhaḍā. He was not there. He was on the top of the hill. He was not even there. He was somewhere outside. Then he said, "Babājī, Mā Prabhujī, from his room, from his house, from here, Babājī sat down, come sit." Like this, Gurujī’s so much sādhanā, he is called Sādhanā Guru. You have to become a Guru, you have to become Siddhu, then it is there, otherwise it is enough. One day, Gurujī was sitting in the back of the room. Gurujī said, "Now you go to Bhikṣam. Go to any country, go to any village." Now, where should I go, Gurujī said. Gurujī, there is some shade, there was no tree. Gradually, in the morning, in the afternoon, there was no shade, there was no shade. There are some graves where Bābājī has been buried. Gurujī was sitting and crying. "My Gurujī, have you left me? Where will I go?" Mā Prabhujī came. "What happened?" He said nothing, nothing about Bābājī. "Manthai, what are you saying? What are you saying in your mind? Oh, you will stay somewhere. You will die. I have to take food. All of you, this is a spiritual practice." He was not caught; he would be hanged. So that’s why humans are God. So there is a hymn of Bābājī in that, right? No, I am not lying. Bābājī said, "Wherever you are, I will bring you food." He is called a disciple, and he is called a Guru. Who? God. So leave all of them. There are many sādhus in our India now. All the saints are useless. Look at our Akhāḍā, they don’t want to do anything to each other. Where are the saints? Baba Jī said, "I forgot one point: how much is this, how much is that, how much is that? I forgot one point, very good." Out of thousands, how many? No one. Mahāprabhujī na ka na? Āp jī na ka, Mahāprabhujī ne? Sahī bāteṅ kī nahīṅ? Lakhon meṁ to laate nahīṅ. Karoḍon meṁ koī ek, Ek yaad, ek aur doyaan me koi ek yaad do. You know what it means? So, millions, karodoṁ, that is very much more above that. And in that, no one is, maybe, one or two. This is Mahāprabhujī’s. Don’t say that, "What have I done? You take it." Don’t say that Mahēśvarānandjī is saying this. You don’t say that I am saying this because of Avatāra Purī Jī’s father. I am not saying this. Or am I saying this to Premanand Jī? In the same way, I am saying this to Premanand Jī, that Premanand Jī’s penance was done by Madhavānand Jī. Others are there; all of them are there. There are many, but only one is there. Where are the others? That is in Alman-e-Thakoni. I will sing a bhajan and then send it to you. Nāma nāta dhākār māguna gāyā, kalapā na me dhrujīdāni yonē. Nāyā na kār dhyāyā, kalapā na me dhrujīdāni yonē. Nāyā na kār dhyāyā karadu ajara ya mara tanakaya. Bhakta hari kā saccha hove tohu, kyu kyu mega baraya. Kārādhu ājārā mārātānā kāyā, Rājahariśchandra orachandanasī satavādhī kehlāyā. Dharmahetu rāja-sabhati-yoti na loka jasa jaya karadu, ajara amara tanakaya. Bhakta hari kā saccha hove, toh kyu mana mega baraya? Kārādhu ājārāya mārātānā kāyā nārsi bhakta nāma ke lāre sarva-dharmāyāyā. Inakī hundī chale abhīta kājyāṅka paranahīṁ payā. Karādu ajarāya maratana kāyā, bhakta hari kā sacchā hove to kyū mana meṁ ghabarāyā? Karadu ajaraya maratana kaya Kashi me das kabira jin ke bala dalaaya, Mīrā Bāi ko jera pilāyo, karāyā mṛta darśāyā, karā duvājarāyā mārātānākāyā. Bhakta Hari kā sachā hove, to kyūn mana mein gabarāyā? Kārādhu ājā rāya mārātānā kāyā, ājā paṇḍukhe pañcha putrā satyakā sutta kekhelāyā, ānanta-koti-khāri-bhakta-huve-sāma-bhādāyā Bhakta Hari kā sacchā hove to kyū manā? Mega barāyā Bhakta Hari kā sacchā hove to kyū manā? Karādu vajarāya maratanā kāya satā guru sāyā? Śrī Devapurījī puṇya pūrva se pāyā, Svāmījī ācārya pada cākara, ajara amara pada pāyā. Karāḍhu ajāraya mārātānā kāyā, bhakta kharī kā sachā khove to kyū manā megha barāyā? Kāraḍhu ajāraya mārātānā kāyā. Bhagavān Siddhip Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī kī jaya! Devadatta Dev Śrī Śrī Devpurījī Mahādeva kī jaya! Hindu Dharma Samrāṭ Śrī Svāmī Madhavānanda Jī Bhagavān Kī Jai, Viśva Guru Paramaṁha Śrī Svāmī Maheśvarānanda Jī Gurudeva Kī Jai. Chora mana chala sanga mere, toh ye ātmā veda batāvatā hai. Hatha chora manachala sanga mere toya aatama veda vata vata he jaya raho guru ke charano me brahma sabdur karavata he bachat paanch tatvakha bana pinjara usame hi khansa samavata hai. Hatha chora mā nācāla saṅga me re to ye ātmā vedā vattā vattā he. Mātā, pītā, ora bhāi, madhūniyā bīcā duvā vattā he. Mata, Pita, Ora, Bhai, Bandhu, Duniya, Bicha, Dubaavata hai Kato. Ora, Bhaiyo, Jara, Laja, Sharama, Nahi, Aavata hai Kyo? Abahiyo Kato, Ora, Bhaiyo, Jara, Laja, Sharama, Nahi, Aavata hai. Hatha coram manachala sanga mere toye ātmā bheravata. Thank you for watching. God bless you. Niranjana dhyāna ākarte to niranjana dhyānket ne hede. Rāhu gurūśaraṇame jāke mīṭe saba pāṇḍacho rāśi. Rāhu gurūśaraṇame jāke mīṭe saba pāṇḍacho rāśi. ye moha jalkhi agara chutte to chutane de. Abba japa soham kakaruhu kalyana meh apna. Bandi śirpāp agarakuletokulanehde Bandi śirpāp agarakuletokulanehde Hamehekade Śrī Deva Purīsapura Nityānanda Jilenura Śrī Deva Nityānanda Medhibra Āgāmi Leto Milanehede Śaraṇa Medhībra Śrī Leto Mī Polī Śrī Dīpnāya Bagwanā Kī Jai Śiro maṇi manuṣa tanadārī huva nahī kyā rājā or kyā daśā, sapaśanto kī śaraṇā gaī kyā rājā or kyā āpadaśā, sapaśanto kī śaraṇā gaī. Mahāpuruṣa Mahādhānika, iye darī diyo paradāya rāī. Mahāpuruṣa Mahādhānika, iye darī diyo paradāya rāī. Santo Seko Ishiro Maṇi Manuṣa Koī śiro maṇi manuṣa tanadārī uva nahī, Brahma loka se satā gurūā ye. Āgama nī gama dara sayā dahī, Brahma loka se satā gurūā ye. Āgama nī gama dara sayā dahī. Svāmī dīpa bāyā pāda pāyā, ājāla nādhī mehā bāyī. Santo seko iṣi romaṇī manuṣa tanadārī uvanai. Pata jaheda purāṇa kurāṇa nai Santo sake, pata jaheda kumakai Santo seko iṣi romani manuṣa Tana da uva nahi Santo seko iṣi romani manuṣa Tana da uva nahi. Om śrīdip nare bhagavāna kī je. Oṁ Siddheva Purīṣa Mahādeva Kīche Siddhit Narambaghvana Kīche Siddheśvara Mahādeva Kīche

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