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The Oneness of Guru and Disciple

The guru and disciple are one in essence, not two separate entities. This truth is observed on the holy day of a divine figure, whose presence is universal. Great saints appear in different forms across all countries, yet they are fundamentally one, just as all beings are one upon leaving the body. A holy guru expressed this as being "one in all." The guru's presence is not confined to any single location but extends everywhere. Historical accounts describe divine figures merging and acting through each other, demonstrating their non-separateness. A disciple at the feet of God understands that parents, guru, and disciple are the same. Like Lord Śiva and Viṣṇu being the same, the distinction between guru and disciple is only in words, not in reality. They are as inseparable as a child and mother, or a drop of water and the vast ocean. The eternal guru is not the body but is that which protects. One should care not for worldly things but for being with God. Humans are entrusted with everything and must choose their actions, yet should not harm animals. The goal is to merge like a drop into the ocean, becoming one with the true guru.

"One in all and all in one."

"A disciple and a Guru are the same. Both are the same."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān kī jai, devā dī devā, devā purīṣya, Mahādev kī jai, Mahādevānandjī Bhagavān kī jai, alak purījī Mahādev kī jai, oṁ, śānti, śānti, śānti. On the auspicious occasion of the holy day of Ārādhi Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, we have all gathered here. The presence of our Bābājī Mahāprabhujī, Devpurījī, and Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī is felt throughout the entire universe. You have just listened to the bhajan by our Gyāneśwar Mahī Mahārāj jī and Bhajanānand jī. As I was sitting there singing bhajan, I saw that so many people have sent their love from various countries abroad. I know you are all aware that today is the day of our Bhagavān Śrī Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī. He is this university. All around the world, everyone is offering their salutations to Mahāprabhujī’s Devpurījī, to Mahāprabhujī, and to all of you here—my dear ones from America, China, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, and elsewhere. On this occasion, I wish you all well. People are here from other countries, and it is Mahāprabhujī’s day. Tomorrow is also a significant day for Christians, the day of Jesus, so there will be ceremonies as well. This convergence is very great for all of us together. We must understand and know this: there are great saints in all countries. But we see different names and forms, different kinds of realism, identifying who is who among humans. Yet we know that when we all leave our bodies, we are all one. In the same way, our holy Gurujī, Swāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān, became one with Parabrahma Paramātmā on the day he left his body. Mahāprabhujī said of him, "Swāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān," and he expressed the truth: "One in all and all in one." Holy Gurujī, Swāmī Madhavānandjī Gurudev, said, "I am one in all." In the same way, Bābājī, Gurujī, has come to us from our Śrī Priyant Paramātmā, Madhavānandjī Bhagavān. You know that Gurujī’s presence is not confined only to where we are sitting now in Jordan, nor only to Jordan or Rajasthan, but extends throughout India, and beyond India to all other countries: China, the Americas, Australia, the Netherlands, Fiji, Canada, etc. This is the blessing. Who brought this holy Gurujī, Swāmī Madhavānandjī? Madhavānandjī Bhagavān gave this to me; he sent me. When I went to another country once, Bābājī, Madhavānandjī Bābājī, was going to my abode. He did not know someone had taken me there, but Gurujī knew. Bābājī said he would send me there with his thoughts. And when I went, Gurujī, Mahādvanāndjī, his father, thought about it. Gurujī said, "Mārā chelo, Mārō bēṭō, where did he go? But he is with me." Similarly, when my father’s God, Devpurījī, went there, he asked Mahādvanāndjī and Mahāprabhujī, "Where are they?" One day, I was abroad. In the afternoon, at one o’clock, in the Jaipur Ashram, Mahāprabhujī, Madhavānandjī, and Bhagavān were sitting and praying. At that same time, a voice came. To tell you the truth, Mahāprabhujī has written this himself. Mahāprabhujī wrote on paper that from the Kailash village, Bhagavān Devapurījī came to him. When Devapurījī was leaving, he said to Madhavānandjī, "How shall I call you, Madhavānand? I will call you Bhagavān." But Bābājī said, "Bābājī, you have come; this is enough." I am telling you the truth; it is written in the book. I will not say anything incorrectly. So what did he say? Devapurījī Bhagavān said, "I am going abroad for my mother’s sake, in my name. I am perhaps in trouble," Gurujī said. Devapurījī Bhagavān says, "I am going to him to protect him." The one who came, Mahāprabhujī, was just like this, he was roaming around. I am telling you the truth; I will not lie to you. It is written there in Bābājī’s account. See, when a devotee is a disciple, he is at the feet. And he says, "God is my God. My parents are the same." Such a sādhu, guru and disciple, are both one. As it is said that Lord Śiva and Viṣṇu are the same. Viṣṇu and Śiva are the same. They come and go in the same way. A disciple and a Guru are the same. Both are the same. But they know how I am walking and from where I am walking. So, like this, it is already established that guru and disciples are two only in words, not in the body we talk about. But in reality, we are both as guru and disciples, and they are taking on such a guru role. There are many who are playing roles; that’s of course. But Satguru, Satkā means Satya, Ānanda—that is one. Like a child being born in the mother’s lap belongs to the mother, and the mother belongs to the child. The father is born, but how much of the mother is born? And when a mother gives her child, even then, how much she adores him. Even the father is very happy. But if we talk about the mother, she is the same. A drop of water is small, and the cloud is vast. And what you say is that our entire sea and a small drop of water are equal. Where fire has come, and this spark is small, both are equal. This spark can also burn completely. And they throw him out of the fire, just like your mother and father. In both of them, when we walk and go, that is why it is said that the Guru and the disciple should be one. No matter where the child goes, I see that I have taken birth here, I am sitting here, but I have gone ahead now. But the parents, the mother and the father of the Guru, are far away, yet they are the same. As you can see, if you look at your telephone, if I look here, then my Gurujī is there, where you can find a Guru in another country. But I am talking to you. I am seeing it. See this too. If you see a doctor, science is great. But there are two kinds of science. One science is physical, and this is what all doctors and scientists are doing. But God is beyond that. Everybody, no one can understand like this. That’s why today, this part of Bhagavān Śrī Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān, that song of Bābājī, "One in all and all in one," is significant. In the same way, when you, like Bābājī, think of Mahāprabhujī, then Mahāprabhujī is sitting. Don’t say they are not here. Bābājī is sitting here. This is not a photo. He himself is sitting here. You and I, all of us are here. So our Gurudev came here. Our parents told us to do this work. We are doing it, and you can see his family, his father, they all left, and his disciples, Gurujī, they all left, and the disciples are there. So don’t misunderstand this. Please sit down. I will tell you one thing. God has given me this. But I don’t know why I am telling you this. I am telling you the truth. God has given me this. Please sit down. I am happy with everything. I am telling you the truth. But you may know that in some time, something may happen that God will take it away from me. Because an animal knows that a human being is the same, whether he is a woman or a man. So when the body is going to know that now I don’t have any desire or anything, that I am going today or I am going now, now nothing can happen, that is it. In that, our union with Him will take place. Otherwise, they will say that our Gurujī has gone to old age. Okay, we have a lot of money. Why are you doing this and that? It is not like that. This is not Gāḍī. Gāḍī is different. And in it, as much as it is said that now it is given to me, now I am... very... sometimes I get scared. Sometimes I say, what will I do? How am I doing it? Listen to this. Have you all listened? And I am also sitting. If this happens to any other person, they will say, "Oh, Bābā, what have you done?" Then I will not be proud. That is why the Guru is called the Sanātan Guru. He is not in the body. But he is saying that he is my disciple, my son, and I am protecting him. I am protecting him, but while protecting, we say, "Where are they?" I don’t know, see, some sages are like this, that we have to go to Gurudwara, where are they? You say, one Rāvaṇa said, "We will do that." Okay. Oh brother, this does not happen. One saint is there, and the disciple of the saint is there. So they are both one. So I said that Viṣṇu is there, Śiva is there. Both are not separate. Sometimes Lord Śiva and Viṣṇu are called, and when Viṣṇu wakes up, he goes there. All such places are like that. So, where have you come from? Because all of you, in your heart, you don’t care about money, you don’t care about the shop. You don’t care that you are good-looking or that you wear a lot of clothes; you don’t care about that. You care about the fact that you are with God. And you see, we should not kill animals, we should not eat them, because all the creatures that are known in 84 lakhs, they all eat. The dog eats the buffalo, the buffalo eats the goat, the goat eats the animal. These are there. But God said, they said, "The animals, they said, ’Something has happened inside them, so where will we go? How will we go?’" So then God said, "Bring humans." And God said to the humans, "I will not live with you anymore; I have given you everything." I have given everything to my father. My father has given everything to me. God has given to me everything that you are as a human, and you know that. So, okay, I go. God said that I go. I give you, my dear. Now I will not do anything. You do because you are a human, and I give you everything in the body. Everything. And with this, if you can, you will be like a God coming with me to what? So there will be two Satyug or Noor Kirgam? In this, you will have to go back, or you will have to go to God. Either we go back again, or we go into the heaven above the heaven. Heaven is not very big, but... That is why God has said, "I have given everything to you, my son, but this is the thing: now you give to the society. Whether you will do good or bad, that is for you. I have given." So how can we eat humans and animals and then say, "Now your sin is done. Now you will go back to the dead"? And one thing is that I don’t know if I stepped on an animal or not. That is my mistake. That is why we pray for an animal that we have killed or broken. In the evening we say Śubha Āratī. When we wake up in the morning, we open our eyes. We should say that I am a human being. When we wake up in the evening, we open our eyes and say, "I am a human being." So if I am a human being, then I don’t have to do this to animals. And then he says, "Mother, may I put my feet down?" Which mother? Mother, mother earth, mother earth. One is the mother, and the other is Mother Earth. I put my feet on it, Mother. So if someone kills an animal, forgive me, mother. And then he goes and looks at the water. One drop of water is given to the body. There is a whole ocean below. One drop is here. So what happens in this drop? As soon as you wake up in the morning, what happens in the universe? That it is so much, what happens? That water comes into the whole body. So what is this? When you wake up in the morning and look at the water, as soon as a drop falls into the ocean, it goes into the entire body. So we have to take it, and it is only one drop. As soon as the drop falls into the ocean, the ocean remains. There is no drop. That is why he is the Satguru. He is the mother. He is the father. And he is the brother, and he is the child. The one who is going to be with you is a true Guru. Otherwise, many people come and say, "He will come, he will say, he will say. After that, he will say, he will say." That is why all of you are coming. My Gurudev, I am just like you. I always say this. I am not saying that I am above you, I am your Guru, I am your this and that. I always say that I am my Gurudev. I say no, I have never said that I am your Guru. Till now, I have not said that. It is the same: your Guru is the Guru. And then, when they will go inside the Guru, when they will become one, then the second one will come, and they will also be the same. Satsaṅg is the same. Sat and Saṅg. This is Sat, Satya. Satya Sanātan Dharma. Shat dharma, this dharma, shat dharma, so they have come, you are all coming. I consider you all very blessed that you have come. Your father God is listening; don’t listen to this. You tell that everyone sees in the temple, worships in the temple, everything is done. It is not like a baṭā. Until the time he is sitting on the path and growing, but when he looks at it and worships it, then he falls at his feet. Otherwise, sit, sit, one hand is like a bottle of tobacco, one hand is like a bottle. He says, "Don’t sit, give me your legs." But when he will make it, then he will say, "Oh God, my God." And how many people go inside the temples? How many people come? So we have to become such that we make the stone human, make God. We will go ahead. So it is very good that you sang bhajan. I took more time from you. Mahārāj was about to do bhajan, so now we will do more bhajan. We will enjoy. Keep on drinking tea. Give tea to everyone. And I was hungry, so I had rabri and lentils. The lentils were so big. I said, "Where are they? Oh, the lentils are there." I said, "Cut them there." But when I put it in my mouth, oh, I ate a lot. I didn’t have rabrī, I had made some other vegetable. They say, "No, I am from Marwari, Gujarati," I forget. That’s a little bit, but the other one is good. But when there is a good place, when it comes to bhajan, when it comes to bhāvan, when it comes to mandir, when it comes to āśram, so there it becomes very tasty. In our India, we go a little ahead of Jodhpur. There is a very great God of Mahātma Jī, very, very good. So, what they say there is that He said, "What are you doing?" What is the matter? They are just pulling. I have not gone to Vata till now. Where is the Ashram? Shikarpura. Is it Shikarpura? No, I have not gone to Vata from Raja Ram. This is my Vāta. In front of Jodhpur, there is Kharadā Pā. Yes, Kharadā Pā. See how God is there. Gurujī was there. Everyone says, "I will go there." And I don’t know how it tastes, what taste comes. Because it is of God. He gives blessings. If there is blessing, then everything goes on. Bol śānatān dharma kī dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavānā kī, Mahādvanāndjī Bhagavānā kī. Look, people are sitting from far away. So what do they say? Look at me. What do they say to me? Praṇām Swāmījī, dearest Swāmījī, praṇām. Such a beautiful start and after end, Swāmījī. Aul prāṇāyām bhol Sanātan Dharmakī deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavānkī satya Sanātan Dharmakī Bhajanānandjī Mahārāj kī aur dūsrī bhayam bhai sabhī ko jai jai ho.

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