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Who and how can become a saint

A spiritual discourse on the nature of the guru's grace and discipleship, using metaphorical teachings.

"When a single draft comes, if we can catch that one draft, we are already in the ocean." "Once you have that guru, a real guru, then you, we all will be there."

The teacher, returning after some time, delivers a satsang weaving together parables and metaphors—including the lifecycle of a wasp (Brahmari), the process of childbirth, and a story about a dog losing its chapati—to illustrate the elusive nature of true spiritual attainment and the singular, irrevocable bond with an authentic guru. He emphasizes purity, complete surrender, and warns against the distracted mind that seeks many things.

Filming location: Vienna, Austria

Om Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... Om Śrī Prabhu Deva Nārāyaṇam. Śabdas Prabhuśaraṇa Parāyaṇam. Om Mausirī Prabhudīpana Amma Sabhā Dāsa Prabhu Śara Parāyaṇam. ... Om Śrī Prabhu Nārāyaṇam. Om Śrī Prabhu Deva Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Devādhi Deva, Deva Purīśama Deva. First of all, I have returned after some time. When a single draft comes, if we can catch that one draft, we are already in the ocean. But if it is not that water drop, then it may be something different. There is Alak Purī, and we know of everyone. We were searching for long life everywhere—from other countries, or anywhere in India, this side, or the Himalayas. The Himalayas are where all the great saints and great persons reside. It is not easy to know and understand. Then we know that when we have this, everything is forever and ever. It is not easy to attain longevity. In the literatures of Bhagavān Śiva, and in the Śiva Purāṇa, Alakpurī is written. There are three different kinds. It is like the Brahmari (a wasp). You know the Brahmari? Yes? So when the female wasp comes, she makes a nice case and then searches. It is just like... not animals, but little... worms. So, Brahmā is going like this. There are two kinds, a second, a third, and then after. There is one that comes and quickly runs away. The second one again says, "Hmmm," and Brahmā is saying something; it runs away, the third one. The first is just for a while, and then it cannot do anything; it has no qualities. The second, for some time, and then it runs away, or sees that it is not suitable. And then the third one, that one gets established completely, and has this other one coming, and she stands up. Then the Brahmari goes out and looks. You can find out here; they are not all in India. They are all in... and so again, the other Brahmari comes. A completely... there is a very good quality. One car is like this, another one is like that. And the very nice one is which is going like this, that is, and she comes and then she makes him a little... what? From this one, a little something like a chick from out of the mouth. Then she goes, and that tries to come out. Then he gets this and puts it in the wood part or in the house somewhere, with a little earth, and then makes so many rings—not the whole, but three, four, five—so that good air comes and everything, with differences like this. And then one day, you know, he or she inside has already become like a bramble. And he said, "And it opens and then goes with it." It comes to have wings, everything. Similarly, it is so that what we would like and what we want, we got it. The rest will go. So it is said in the whole world, but which kind of humans are they, and where are they? They are not with alcohol, no meat; some of this all you may be... you can, but it is not where purity, very great purity, exists. Then they go to that side. So we are all... That our guru is not easy to know. There are many gurus, but some are not, and many are very good. It is said when in the mother's womb, on the first day, that energy is like a little drop. And immediately, that side begins everything like this. Some will not become a child; some will fall down, they will give away and all. But it is the mother; she takes very much care. And for us as humans, nine months, and then it comes out. How it was, how it will be, it doesn't matter if it's a boy or a girl. Everything is in them. Then we don't know how we can have it. You have three, four, five, our sisters and brothers, and like this. But everyone has different qualities. It is the same from the father, and this and that. But what is inside has come, that becomes the great saint. But that great saint is not still. We get it when the guru, and the guru has now gone, and he gave it to his disciple or someone. But it is you who will be completely when you would like to become like that Parabrahman, Paramātmā. Then, from that father or guru's Parabrahman's side, when the last minutes are coming—doesn't matter if it's a boy or a girl or the five—in that time, now in a few days, or only for one day left, then, at that time, it is said, you may say God or light or anything. So when that quality is Guru Kṛpā everywhere, then it will come like this. But I am always thinking like this: when the aeroplane takes off, and how it's going, yes, and the aeroplane coming down. But there are two; one is the best exactly. Then, it will come like this, landing. And the other one wants to be quick, "Can this and that?" And he said, "Okay, I go." How will it happen when the aeroplane comes and we tuck in like this? Is that true? Yes, and so that is how they do it. Come down, it has to come. Bring one, but a light, it already likes to go, but like this and this. And this is when a mother, with the mother's womb, comes, baby out, and we know how we take it out. We are taking it. And also, there is another one, you know that. When the first child comes out from the legs, he comes quickly. Okay, that child, doesn't matter if it's a girl or a boy, when who comes that first, this, whatever you want, this will be the best. It will tell everything better, yes. Did you see that? First, somehow the child came out through the legs, or what you call it? Yes, many, it comes. And we will see how it is in that time. If you know, and you don't know, and if you don't know, then you should come to know. When such one was came out from others' legs, came by quickly, then you will see how we can do many, many things with this. But many don't know. Those who are learning like this, and so when those who are coming, that time how fine and good it comes landing, and others not. So, Brahmari, how many? One is quickly thrown down. Second, a little and go out. And the third, we lick. And after a few days, or maybe one month, but I think not even a month, and there, then the memory comes, boom, here, completely slimed. And inside there is a hmmm, like it is exactly, then it opens. And so it is that we then become the great saint, saint guru, saint Bhagavān. And it is so: Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva. After that is the guru. That's why: Guru-Brahma, Guru-Viṣṇu, Guru-Devo Maheśvara, Guru-Sākṣāt Parabrahma, Tasmai Śrī Gurave Namaḥ. But many go like this and like this, then it is the thing. So we will go further. In these lectures now, so there will be, will come again. I have not very much. I thought everyone did good and like this. Now I will sit there with all my exercises in these times. Yes. And so there will be three or four children, and then, who is this? And then, one, one, good practice in this. And then the last four, we will go here, there. Where are we going there? How long? Everybody will sit very well. And then our practices, how we are making, and that it will not be controlled ever. No, I will not take it. You can do the other exercises, and those who do here and there, it is broken, Allah. We should not think, "I want to have this, and I want to have this and this." Then it will not be right. It will not be complete. Holi Guruji said very simply; Holi Guruji was telling many times. So, in the little village, there are other things like this. So that one dog, a big dog, and that dog, he went to one's house. When they did not see them, the dog went and he got one big chapati. This, or you can say your other one, this so-and-so dog ran away. Well, people didn't say it, and then he went about half one, something like this, and there was nice water, little water there. And the dog was said, "Hmm, what? There was this, she brought this chapati." Or something, and now she wants to go through the water and jump out. And then he comes there and says, "Oh, there is one dog, and he has a big, big chapati like this." And he was looking like this and like this, looking with nice chapati and that. And he said, "We want to get also the chapati." So what happens? He opened his mouth, and the chapati fell down. And the thing is, his head is lost, and this is lost, and also himself. So, like these people who want, they are going, "I go there, I will do this, I will do this." It is not. When there is a doctor, there is a doctor like Dr. Shanti, and Dr. Shanti, she is going in her office, in, in,... where is, that is, where you, eh, in, yeah. She's whole day, or her time exactly, needle and everything. Here she is making very nice, and there is something. If it's other one like this, then both problems will be yes, something. That's why, and so that one guru, guru he kṛpā. Once you should have word guru, then it is one guru. So one lady, she got a child, and getting a little slowly, slowly became more big. But we all get a little bit childlike, the child, yes? We sell the child, but really, it is exactly the mother's child. And mother knows that, and she's making this, and the child is also known, the mother is also known, the father is also known, is my daughter or my son. And so if you say, "No, this I don't like, and I will go as my mother, other mother," it's not possible. You may go there, but still, it is the mother. Will you go quickly to the mother and say, "Put me back inside again. I don't want to be outside." Can you do it like that? Yes, when the mother, the child said, "I want to go in, back, all this," no. So, is that once you have that guru, a real guru, then you, we all will be there. And till where? We should know if the child was complete. Do you think it's funny only if we have one leg, and then another leg, and other bones, and this? And after the next day, this, and when they are going out, then we will know. It is constantly going like that. Then, but still like that, till you are not completed, you will not remain, and there will be no gurus. So it is not to do some, and so we will have it in our practice there. And there are many things because of this. About two years, we had not difficulties, very much not good things, and again we have to come to the lectures. There are some people, they have now thinking that all the gurus, the yoga is many months, and yoga is good, and everyone is coming. But it is only that we are eating like this. And you know that for how many years, at least three years, I did not give anybody like that, no? Or more. So this time, it will go very well. Many lectures, very good. And Guru Kṛpāhi Kevalaṁ Śiṣya Ke Ānanda Maṅgalam. So it is very great. We will begin and have a nice time. We will speak, and not only for one week or ten days and three days. It will not be anymore like this, okay? That is only trust. When you come, then come and have this, okay? Otherwise, go. It will be then the very nice fruit. Exactly, then it will come down, and a few... Even if it doesn't get the fruit, it comes only to the flowers, and these flowers will also come, not completely; it goes down. So we will come, and others there will be like this, coming and going. And yes, okay, but take, go, take something like this. So in my, what my Gurujī... He said, "You are here sitting on my place, on my own seat. But either you will not be able to go, or you will not do it properly. Then you will not go until it is complete." So it means your body is like that. You are, but that is not that it is. This body, that this holy place, you know that Christian people, when one dies and another one, they bring, and you know how it is? They bring one, will be there, but where? On that chair, and till there on the chair, people are controlling, yes. So you will be, and me myself, on that day I said, "Okay, now one, two days it may be, then I will be that per Brahma." Otherwise, one time is good, and one time it's this and that is good. It's okay. Many see these. That's it.

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