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Feel the divine sounds of bhajans in your heart

Satya Sanātana Dharma reveals the truth uniting all within and without.

Satsaṅg is gathering in truth: Sat is truth, Saṅg is togetherness first within oneself. Every spoken word, thought, and feeling contains Sat. When one person embodies truth, it returns multiplied and fills all. In deep sleep, truth emerges and one travels far in dreams. Upon waking, dream experiences vanish, revealing their unreality. Desires fulfilled in dreams are not waking truth, as shown by the ice cream story. A blind sādhu recites all holy books by heart, having inner sight. Bhajans arise from within, permeating body, energy, and sound. During a singer's pause, the bhajan's vibration is fully absorbed. Listeners must cultivate deep, silent listening. A single negative word can shatter the state of Satguru and bhajan. Impurities must be continually cleansed. The voice in bhajan, in any language, comes from the inner self. Opera singers feel the voice resounding in the whole body, uniting instrument and self. Satguru is the truth and the teacher as one. Satya Sanātana is the eternal truth, bringing inner and outer balance.

"In every word we speak, even in our thoughts and feelings, there is Sat, truth."

"Even with eyes closed, when you are singing, you too will sing with closed eyes... we have to clean away the impurities."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Hari Om Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Devādhī Dev Dev Puruṣa Mahādev Kī Mādhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Alakhpurījī Mahādev Kī Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Om Śānti Śānti... We all pray to our Gurus, Mahāprabhujīs, Devpurījīs, Alakhpurījīs, and all the great masters. When we come together, the energy is very strong, beautiful, and peaceful, and we become full of ourselves. Even one person is good, but when we are all together in that state—as I just invoked, Om Guru Kṛpā, Mahāprabhujī, all other gurus, all yogīs, all āśrams of different kinds—when we unite under the one name Satsaṅg, Sat means the truth. All of us here are, and we know, and we should be, perhaps consciously or not, otherwise we all become one, Sat, which is the truth. In every word we speak, even in our thoughts and feelings, there is Sat, truth. And what kind of truth do we want? One may speak negatively, and that too can be truth; it exists. Sat—a person speaks the truth. I am telling the negative, yes, not directly, but inwardly. Yet mostly, all is that. As we sit here, we are Satya, Sat. When one person embodies this, it returns and grows stronger, like a powerful wind, and then we all are filled with it. Sat and Saṅg. You all know this word, but I like to explain Saṅg. Sat Saṅg—Saṅg means all, and that is the truth. Saṅg means together. Together in what? First, within ourselves—our physical, mental, and spiritual aspects. Spiritually, after the gods, the cosmic layer, and so on. That is Saṅgh, Śat and Saṅgh. That is why we call it Satsaṅg. We come together here as Satsaṅg. Satguru Satsaṅg. Bhajan, you know, we have beautiful, very lovely bhajans as well. Through them, we are here in our inner self and our outer self. The best approach is first from within, in the heart, in our body, and then it radiates outward. So, with Sat and Saṅg, we become completely one, inside and out. Then in the morning, when you sit for meditation, even for just one minute, we open our eyes from sleep while still in bed. And you know, I always say, “I am human.” And what is a human? There are many different kinds of humans. But here it is said, “I am human.” Then when we go out into the world, we say, “I am a human.” That all humans are human, and the gods, spiritual help, and many good things follow. And I also say, “Always, Mother, may I step on you.” On what? The earth. What is the earth? She is the mother. So when I step and look down at the earth where I must place my foot, I am on the mother. We should never cause trouble to the mother. Never give up the inner joy. But the mother said, “My child, you are not only on my earth, but you are within myself.” What lies beneath the earth? The ocean. The ocean is water. O Mother, I am in your ocean. I am talking about mothers. There are girls, young girls, and many now have husbands and wives. Men don’t know very much; men do not understand deeply. But of course, we are happy. We know we want to witness everything. Yet even the father will ask, “What does the mother have?” So, that mother is the ocean, and in the ocean, the water, there is immense, immense, and immense abundance. All kinds of beings, whoever wishes, they come to the water and receive what they need. Everything is there. Yes, Svarsat, there is the truth of that which comes into the ocean like this, into the mother’s womb and her whole body. But not only that—the father also has the ocean, also has energies, has everything. The father dives into the ocean, and from that, a drop of life emerges—jīvā, jīvā, life, jīvā. And then the father continues onward, swimming wherever he goes, but the life comes forth. And so, early morning, I am talking about swimming. We sleep, and how we sleep, what we dream, and the truth emerges when we are in deep sleep, very deep asleep. At that time, we may travel very far, anywhere. Perhaps you go to the moon, or somewhere else, I don’t know. You go to the ocean, or to other countries, or you leap and do many things in dreams. You sleep, and your family members dream. You go to Australia, while your mother, also asleep, goes to Africa. Your sister, brother, or children are at home. Otherwise, where do you go? To ice cream, ice cream. Do you know the ice cream stories? Do you know about ice cream? If you don’t, raise your hands. Okay, then ice cream—you will eat ice cream today. Others, they will receive something very nice. Perhaps something, very good. Ice cream. So, there was a husband and wife. They were very nice, always together. One day, he was a singer, very good. Yes, he was very good. And his wife was always happy, thinking, “My husband is a great person, a singer, or something like this.” They were walking, and there was a little shop with ice cream, many colors of ice cream. And the husband said to his wife, “Darling, come, let’s go eat ice cream today.” She said, “Yes, my dear.” Then he said, “Let’s go have ice cream.” She replied, “Yes, but not now.” He asked, “Why not? We are here.” His wife said, “You know, the women—you can say wife, sister, grandmother, anything—their hearts are very full. Men are all very good.” (I will tell you another story for men later, a very nice one.) So anyway, she said to her husband, “You are going to sing something, and your throat is not good. You had a cold, and your throat is not well because you were very cold, and then you caught cold by eating and so on. You cannot speak well like that. But I can.” She said, “No, no, you cannot.” He said, “Okay, let’s go.” So they went. After about five days, his throat was still not good. She said, “I will do it when it is good, and I will give it.” He agreed. So she said, “In time.” But this man wanted to drink and eat ice cream, yet he could not because his wife was so humble, good, and also very strict about ice cream. One day, it happened that they were sleeping in their rooms. The husband slept in his bed, and he began to dream a very beautiful dream. In the dream, he said to his wife, “Now let’s go for ice cream.” He thought, “That is it.” His wife said, “Oh, I’m healthy and very good, let’s go. We must have ice cream.” But who? The husband? Well, they went. Both were sitting in the ice cream place, or a coffee area, and they said, “Please.” He said to his wife, and she said to him, “Bring this nice ice cream.” He saw me sitting there, and the husband said, “Thank you, very nice. Now I am good.” His wife asked, “Is it okay now?” He said, “Yes, yes, maybe it is good.” And then he said, “Yes, very good ice cream.” He quickly took the ice cream near his lips, and what happened? He woke up. He woke up. Where was your wife? She was not there. There was no ice cream. And so it is asked, “Who can tell how all this happened, and what is real?” But then, after five more days—you don’t know—she returned from her job somewhere, and he had also come home earlier from his job. He arrived before her, and she came a little late. When she arrived, she said to her husband, “My dear, look what I have for you.” He asked, “What? Yes, what is that?” Ah, so many boys. Ah, ah, not giving, ah, take everything, friend. Yes. So, Siket, I brought you the ice cream. How happy she was, and everything. So, this was in the dreams. See, it is like this: what we are practicing, where we are, how we are, how it is, and how we will later say, “I was not,” “I was right,” or “I was wrong,” or something. So, Satguru, Satguru—Sat, the truth, and Guru, yes, Guru is very great, Satguru. And in our life, we should bring inside all that we can, from our inner body, without telling anybody, but immediately, suddenly, that truth is meant to remain and emerge so clearly. So that he might say, “No, no, it was not wrong, and this was this and that.” This husband said, “I told you, you are always good, and it is good. Inside, outside is also, but in our innermost, always Satya. What is? Sat. Sat.” ... So Sat, Sat, Guru. Sat and Guru. That’s it. And through that, what we are doing, bhajana, bhaja, bhajana. All this bhajana is within us, our self. And so, now my beautiful bhajana is coming, bhajana. You know, many, many people are there. In India, you can say it like this: they will receive it. Already they have bhajan, this word, everything, very good, many, many. But of course, many others cannot. There are many great yogīs, great yogīs. We bow to these yoga gurus, the saints of Ṛṣikeśa, and how they are—though they may be blind. This person is blind. He or she is a Hindu, or any human, but blind. Yet when you see so many, great singers, great bhajan singers and everything. We have many great ones; they are blind, but they know all the holy books. They know all the holy books by heart and can speak from them. We have not seen the book, but he can recite everything. Yes, that Swamiji is there. I will show you when you go; I will show you. I was there at the Kumbha Melā, and Hari Gurujī was there, and another sādhu, who was blind, was also there. Hari Gurujī was there because he liked him. When Hari Gurujī came, the blind sādhu said, “O Maheśvarānandajī, yes,” and he said, “He is my disciple.” That, who, what, O Maheśvarānandajī, and then, you know that, my disciple, Yaranant—I think from the German, our Gajānand was there, and Gajānand is a very good singer also. So he was singing the bhajan, and this Swamiji, who is blind, was there. His bhajan was so good, he dropped. Then this Swamiji said, “You are a very great yogī, come close to me.” He hugged Gajānand. That is the truth. Guruji was there, this was that, that was. You can ask him also. So, even with eyes closed, sometimes when you are singing, you too will sing with closed eyes. Yes. That we have to learn, we have to acquire, and we have to clean away the impurities. Clean them away. It is not easy. One year, you are doing very well in this, and then something comes. Suddenly, someone says, “You are stupid.” That destroys everything—Satguru, the day, the bhajan, everything. And so, now our beautiful bhajan is coming: Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavānakī Dev Puruṣa Mahādevakī Mādhavānandjī Bhagavānakī Alakh Purījī Mahādevakī Satya Sanātan Dharmakī. Satya means the truth, Satya Sanātan. All the Sanātan. Om bole Śrī Dīpanārāyaṇa Bhagavāna, Kī Jaya, Śrī Satā Gurudeva, Kī Jaya, Śrī Svāmījī Maheśvarānandajī, Guru Deva, Kī Jaya. Yes, thank you very much. Oh, this bhajan was a beautiful bhajan. Every bhajan, every bhajan, is all inside. But many cannot learn, cannot sing, cannot do. When those who are in the throat, and from the throat it comes from the vocal cords and into the whole body, at that moment, when this person says, “I will sing this bhajan,” that person has that bhajan automatically in their body, completely permeating them. In energy fields, in bhajans, in sounds, everything becomes what one has within. It is spiritual, it is that. Even when others sing, it is also, of course, what they are doing. How, where is this? What comes from within our self? And when someone sings very nicely, he or she, they will be in and out—very balanced. That is very good, and they sing very well, but sometimes people say things. I once asked Hari Gurujī and some others, “When you are singing very nicely with instruments, and there is a pause for half a minute—only half a minute or sometimes more—what is the singer doing, he or she? Because this voice of the bhajan, then again...” The person is absorbing that entire vibration within. Mahāprabhujī kī karatā, Mahāprabhujī kī karatā, Mahāprabhujī kī karatā. Something like this. So, the singer and the instrumentalist, these two, and who is the listener? Then, the listener becomes like, ah, ah, my ice cream is good with me. Yes? You know, one hundred percent, those who sing, you are singing, and suddenly a boy comes, and from the thread and everything, and bhajans also. Otherwise, everyone would say, “Who is listening?” They should not say it loudly. Then his throat is okay, he is doing and singing, but others should learn to listen very nicely. You are great. So, who is coming? One more? Very nice. You will see. Sing nicely and with a soft voice. The instrument also wants to speak. And so, such a person like this, they create beauty, and then as you go again, nice. So, who will sing now? Okay. He is outside. Who will be pleased? You, see, air, anybody? Welcome? Yes, you can do it. Yes? Very nice, very good. So give a little time. Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Devādidev Dev Puruṣa Mahādev Kī Jai, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jai, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai. Satya is the truth, the real truth. Satya Sanātan Dharma, so the voice, bhajans, spiritual—it doesn’t matter. Indian language, Croatian language, Austrian language, African, any. And all they are doing, very nice in their voice, it is. That is because it comes from inside, and it is very good, very nice. So, when you go to the opera—you know, the opera? Yes, in Austria there is much like this, and there they are, one like this, another like that, others there, many I don’t know. But then again, the voice comes, this and other instruments, voice is so powerful that the speaker or singer feels it in his whole body. So for him, it is the same thing: this instrument and he. That is very nice, very good. Thank you. Now, who will hear one more?

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