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The master and his disciple are one

The light of the Guru is the supreme reality. The divine lineage embodies this light. A disciple's journey involves initial confusion and resistance to the Guru's guidance. Through persistent devotion and surrender, grace is received, often in moments of deep meditation or on sacred occasions. The ultimate truth revealed is the non-dual oneness of Guru and disciple. This unity is not of form but of essence, like the ocean and its drops. Many teachers give instruction, but only the Satguru bestows the transformative blessing that awakens this knowledge within. This realization requires consistent practice and turning inward.

"Guru and disciple are one."

"I will make you one."

The worshipped deity of the eternal Satya Sanātan Dharma is Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī. Mahāprabhujī is the light of the sun. The Ṛṣis and Munis, they are only giving us that light. Alakh Purījī is that great light of God Śiva. Parabrahma Paramātmā Karūpa Devpurījī—we know that all that Mahāprabhujī said, Devpurījī is everywhere; he can even go through rock. That is written, and everybody knows. And our worshipped Bhagavān, Swāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān, was here when there was only sand, only this little ashram, some trees—one, four, one tree, little vines. You know that Gurujī Madhavānandajī was living here. All night, all the time, she was doing the mālā. I was there, coming with Gurujī, and I was also there, but I did not understand. Now what will I do? He gave me many things in Gujarat, and I had to work a little somewhere, but I didn’t want to. Then Gurujī gave me some other work, where I didn’t want to go again, and I was always coming to Gurujī. Such feelings: why and what? I do something, and how will I be? With this, I went then, you know, I am jamming. So I went to some different parts of India. For one year, I went somewhere. Gurujī gave me the opportunity to become a sanyāsī because I wanted that. He didn’t want to, but I said, "Please, I will do it." After that, Gurujī wrote in his book, and he gave me a kind of meditation. In the book, you can... Gurujī said, "I don’t know." So he was giving his milk, and that was also very little, some wicks, and that in the room of Gurujī, and he showed me. Now, it is you, what you want. Those are just words. And so I was also then, went to Europe, in many countries. And Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, he was giving me, what we call the... when I was in America, Australia, New Zealand, India... one day, Mahāprabhujī’s, in night, it was the Guru Pūrṇimā. So we were in the Guru Pūrṇimā there in Austria, and all my people came from the Austrians and such, and we were making whole night meditation, bhajans for a while. And then, of course, people don’t want to let somebody make noise. To all, we were making a mālā for Gurujī, and after midnight, I went to a little room to go to sleep a little. All the people were there, but I think I slept for only two hours. Again, I sit down in meditation, and there Mahāprabhujī gave me this: Mahāprabhujī’s, Devpurījī’s, and Mahāprabhujī’s. And so he gave me Mahāprabhujī three times, different things. Once he gave me, in my language, English, in one night. And other times, he gave me that meditation, and again I came into meditation and slept like this. And again, Mahāprabhujī comes, and I did not know why Mahāprabhujī or what he said or this. I said something: Mahāprabhujī is there. I’m telling you, all this is what is coming to me. And there Mahāprabhujī said, he told by the name Maheśvarānanda, "What do you need?" I said, "I don’t know." Yes. You want something? I said yes. And then I said, "Om. Om." And I opened my eyes, and Mahāprabhujī was not there. And now you see, this was. And once there are two, three are there. And also Mahāprabhujī, Mahāprabhujī, he was sleeping here upstairs, and that was a very late, late time. And Mahāprabhujī, Mahāprabhujī, Bhagavān, was always making a mālā, Mahāprabhujī. So, afternoon, from midnight, or midday, or I’ve forgotten maybe, from 11 to 12, mālā for Mahāprabhujī, Devpurījī. And Mahāprabhujī’s was a mālā, and Devpurījī came. It’s written in the book. You can read it. Everybody, you should know how to read; otherwise, you might think Swāmījī is just making jokes. So, early morning, midday, or night, Devpurījī came, and Bābājī, Mahāprabhujī, was making a mālā, and Alakh Devpurījī comes. Dev Purījī was Bhagavān. Dev Purījī Bhagavān bole, "Mādhavānandjī, Bābājī kā nām le kar keke Mādhavānand. Āp Prabhu, Āp padharā yān." He said, "I was going to Europe." So from here I went, and I saw that you were meditating. So, I want to tell you a blessing. Book in the book, please read it and see it. Maheśvarānanda is in some trouble, something. "Ho śakta ki abhī koī kām jacā nahī̃ huā hai, kyā ho, kuch bhī ho, koī baccā vā bacchir hotā hai, to bhai dar mat karo, ye mat karo, kaitā hai na." So he said, "I am going to Europe to help Maheśvarānanda." And that time, really, I was not helpful, not helpful, I mean, I was not happy. And so, Mahāprabhujī, Śrī Devpurījī is going there, it is said. And then after, I didn’t see. Ādi Gurujī didn’t tell further, but I did not see Devpurījī’s. I was alone in Europe, and at that time there were not so many bhaktas or disciples, and I was younger. So when, but it is said, it came to me simply that I am, I am here, don’t worry. These words that are coming, that is the... if one is, if we know that we know Bhagavān, we know Gurudev, then we can get everything we want. But sometimes we say, "I want to give, I want," then we go to another place; we will go somewhere else. He Kevalam He Kevalam... He Kevalam He Kevalam... Bābā Prabhujī ko bhī maine dekh pāyā. Gurujī ne kahā, "Baitā, mere ko kahā? Main yahā̃ baitā thā, pattā sā pattī baitā thā, thā pattā pattā kā Bābajī baitā. Main bār baitā thā." To kahā ki guru aur śiṣya ek hai. Main aur tum dūna hum ek hai, Bābajī. How do I know that me and you are one? Yes, of course, I can tell that we are friends or that we are together. We are one, but not reality. What is that? Then Bhagavān said, Bhagavān Mādhavānandajī said, "Ki tumhe pata nahi hai, abhi āṅkh khulegī." So, what does Gurujī mean? Are, dekh, ek bāṛ to hotā bantā hai Bhagavān Śiva. And once, Viṣṇu. When that time comes, when Śiva is there, then Viṣṇu serves him. And the second time he comes, then Viṣṇu is Bhagavān. And Śivjī, who is always there, who serves Viṣṇu, you know, right? So Śiva and Viṣṇu. Vaisa hi, Gurujī said that there is Guru and Śiṣya. Ek. How? Again, he said, "Gurujī kī māṁ aur bachchā ek ho gayā hai." Hai ke nahīṁ? Ek se do bana, tab maine socha ki Gurujī aise kyā se rahungā. I am telling you something. This is one of the best words. This is what I have to tell my Gurus. Then I said, "Gurujī, no, no... no." I cannot be one with you. You are a God and great, and I am this thing. He said, "That is my, I will make you one. I will make you one." In such a way, it is that Guru and Śiṣya, if they are becoming one, then they know that it is we are one. One. We are one. One in all, and all in one. If you understand that I am yours and you are mine, but neither I nor you, only one. Many times Gurujī used to say, but of course I was, like Swāmījī, making a joke. Mahāprabhujī, Gurujī said, "What, I am joking?" No, no, Gurujī, not that kind of joking. But this is that. So parents, mother or father, how they are talking with the children and how they are taking care of the children, but it is a oneness. It came from the One, and it will return to the One. And so is the way that one understands to have the Guru and disciples, that it then becomes one. Like this, the ocean and clouds, and then drops of water again come to the ocean. One in all, all in one. That kind of others, they will not come. Then there is Brahmṛī. It is said that Gurujī tells Brahmṛī. It is said Brahmṛi, or Brahmṛi, ke kaise unko liyā jātā hai. To teen prakār ke jīvan ho rahā. No, it’s not Brahmā. It is one like a little verb. Verb, yes. So Brahmari comes, and there is only this little thing. What happens? It goes in, comes second. He comes, looks, and then runs like this. And the third, when the Brahmari again comes, then it becomes calm, then looking up and up. Standing there, then the Brahmari is coming and goes away. What does she do? She is only standing and looking where it is. And again, coming. Again. Then, giving. There are many, many sounds. Brahmari then makes new sounds, which I am telling you people, how to make Brahmari. Our head, or our both hemispheres, what will be there? You know, there are very great, good persons who can understand, write, and speak everything like this. Others, half. Others may be three points. But greatness is on the brain there, then you will see, yes, this is a doctor. What he will learn more, this and this, and comes to the science. In which science? Like this, it is coming to this hemisphere in this. Brahmari comes inside then. It can make every student, every teacher, they can get in like this. Gurujī said, "Mādhavānandajī." And so, again, then she’s standing like this, this... What is that brace? Worm, the worm. Then, Brahmari takes this, and she prepares already the one place in the wood, not on the earth, everything. Purījī, Purījī... And then it goes away. Again, there is nothing there. Again, it comes from a far distance, and there is no sound there. But this Brahmari is giving such a voice, so that the worm is seen, I think it is giving. We know sometimes that we are speaking something all the time, many things. Then we are gone for a while, but oh my God, still the sound in our brain, in our ear. Similarly, like this, the Brahmari ends the world and then becomes, I would say, like a Brahmari and looks up. Then again, coming there, it becomes Brahmari inside, and it opens, and then Brahmari runs away, and the other one also becomes Brahmari and goes together with that. That is what Gurujī said, that when you come to a guru, make pūjā and praṇidhāna, that my disciples and my Gurujī or something, then how long they are working, that they become that Satguru. That becomes that guru. Otherwise, Guru is many, many,... many gurus. It can be. Our, who is giving us how to, biking, that’s also giving us the techniques. Car, wo bhi hamare ko bachata hai. Hota hai guru kei prakar ke hai. There are many, many different gurus, but then the guru is that. It has to come as a Satguru’s blessing. In our brain, everything is that. We have a car. We bought a car, everything, but we cannot drive. We don’t know, but when we learn all of this, everything is in the brain, and then we can see and drive the car. How much in the brain has to be that which we are becoming? So, when we drive a car, how much concentration does it require? What do we see in our eyes, and what should we not do? There is a driver driving the car in front, but looking back, to the back side. But also the left side, this side, up and down also. So, jo car chalātā hai, vo khālī, you can, hey, hey,... Mahāprabhujī kī Karatā Mahāprabhujī kī Karatā... So we are learning, and we taught this, so it is like this. Let’s say one, everybody only half right hand and pump, but not like this, not like this, like exactly this. You have to go from here, you will go here, this place here, further and further and... further. The other side, so sometimes if we can see a different side, we can do a different side, or we are not in the correct balance. So first we have to learn this part. First, always the left one, not the right one, the left one. Now, with one, with the one only, only with both hemispheres, with the thumbs in the ears and on the hemispheres up. Yeah. Okay, hands down. So this is what I give you, only just very little, very little. The problem is that I come here. Others are not coming down. So, always my Brahmā is always confused. Confused, isn’t it? So, always you should come and practice yoga. Home, you can, but you don’t know that your yoga teacher will say, "I don’t know what a person is doing." Hai ke nahi? Kengam garme jaake karunga, kar dunga. Wo nahī hogā. And we think that he has gone to play football, and he is doing the exercise properly, so we don’t know what is happening. So that is what we have to come to always on the path. You have done everything. Now, where will you go on the car? Will you go on the highway, or will you go in the jungle? So, those who can come and learn everything can then become the yogīs. Okay, you have got something, how to do, but still it will not be. Now, on the highway, you know that car again: back, front, left, right, below, head. This much is not enough, my dear. You are driving and driving, and the petrol is gone. There are many things in the car, everything. Similarly, all for us, that we should come to our Guru, our Master. The Master and Guru are the same thing. Guru is, we call it a Guru, and others call the students or whatever they are calling this, teacher. Teacher, oh hai teacher or oh hai guru? But there is a difference, oh, there is. But which teacher and which guru? Gurus are also many. But which Satgurus? Satguru means real gurus and the good student. So, now you should practice yourself, but I have said only now, you should, when I come next time again, until then, make your brain like this. Hands down, close your eyes, relax, relax the whole body and bring within thyself, come inside your body, on the brain, inside the mastix, that vibration which was there, that same vibration, that same sound, try to concentrate on that.

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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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