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Love is unity

A spiritual discourse on the guru-disciple relationship, divine unity, and an allegorical story.

"Many, many bhaktas, they don’t know me, but they have become great, and they’re telling, 'We would like to see Mahāmaṇḍeśvar, Vaiśvarānanda.'"

"It is not a color, not this, not that. But take your heart inside, and each and every part of our body that we can give it further... This is a sādhanā."

Mahāmaṇḍeśvar Vaiśvarānanda addresses a gathering, speaking on the ever-present connection between guru and disciple beyond physical proximity. He discusses the symbolism of a sannyāsin's robes, the nature of Bhagavān Śiva, and tells an extended, allegorical story involving Vishnu and Shakti to illustrate spiritual tests and the importance of inner commitment over external offerings.

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Once again, I am very happy to see you, and I am so happy that you have come here healthy. For nearly three years, we were not in different villages or cities, yet I was with you and you were with me in all countries. Many, many... It is like someone is on the night side and daytime on the other, but I am always available for everybody. My telephone is there, midnight or any night, so messages are always coming. Another thing is that, according to our little machine and this other machine we have—that is about yoga in daily life—from this, that is all. From how many years? That was when, in the world, this machine began to come. Some machines were a little bigger, like this, holding like this. And of course, they were black and white. Now it’s everything, even a very little child of only five months is looking in, and all looking like this. So that time and this time, it was this, our, what we call, the science. It has been so far, everything. So I am sitting somewhere, and I’m taking my machine or this; I’m talking about this. Then they are all in whole countries, our bhaktas. And many, many bhaktas, they don’t know me, but they have become great, and they’re telling, "We would like to see Mahāmaṇḍeśvar, Vaiśvarānanda. I would like this Gurujī." Guru, kripāhi kevalam. So many people have two different kinds of gurus. And that very soul who’s coming, go and talk about science or something like this, but not that very deep in the heart. And this is the real guru. We had so many gurus from India, many gurus, and they are also coming to different countries. They also have very nice gurus, disciples like this, where we are here, and they have very nice gurus, and they practice everything. So they are different. Someone is like Sanatana, this like me with my driver, or not driver, my dress. There is a break. One is very nice, like other colors like this. It doesn’t matter, the color. Color is our skin. It is said, our skin, we take a cloth and like this, okay? Because we want to feel very cold, or we want to have friendliness or something that... We are our dressing, so our Sanātana Dharma, then the Śiva and Brahmā, Viṣṇu, on this all. But there was a Śiva, and there is this color like this, our from that. And so this color is not a color, but my skin, those who are like. This, like his sannyāsīs, then that one is that he has the skin, and this skin is that is my sādhanā, my way, my path, my everything. It is not easy to get in this dress, then we have given to all, and we are so peaceful, for if you are. In this color, like other sannyāsīs, also other different, so they, when begins to tell something wrong, tell that’s God, this is God, you need, I don’t want, so like this means that you are nothing, you are nothing. You know, there is one great ṛṣi, name I’ve forgotten, but I will tell you. And there was, that is, that long... I know this name, I’ve forgotten, but maybe say, and it is said, that one Rākṣasa did something, that if you can give my, the whole my bond, you know, bonds, yeah, yeah, so that, they said. How, and he said, "Yes, I will do." And he took this and gave it to this, that is a Nyāsī, that is a Yogī’s, that is a human’s. He is the great, and this, and what we are talking day to day, one time comes, and man, I don’t want that one. This, okay. Okay, my dear, you are biggest. When this one came and told me today, somebody, I said, "My dear, you are the God, and I am there like this, please." Yes, this is that. So it is not a color, not this, not that. But take your heart inside, and each and every part of our body that we can give it further, or like this. This is a sādhanā. So in that, it is that, of course, neither can I do. Something happened to me, I will say, "Oh, no, no, please, please, how are you?" Yes. We had one disciple, a very, very nice disciple, and he was from Hungary. He died. He died two years ago. He passed away, and he was very strong. When doctors were going somewhere, doing something, he said, "Oh, no, no, don’t do injection like this." You can really see where they were going in this light, but he was a very strong man. You know who that was? Krishnānand. Our Krishnānand is like that. That is the strongest one. Yes, one has to become that. He goes there, helps there. Like this, don’t sit down and don’t say something. So there are the days. So on that side, I am like, "I won’t beg," and I beg. Why? Because I want to give. I am like that, but still, they are not many, many, and I am still not poor. So in that way, this is not easy to come to God. There, where it is, yes. Many, of course, will say different. Somebody will say this, of course this is different, that so that is that. Our sādhanā now, you came from very distance, from other countries, and from Africa also. Canada, it is coming also. From Australia, and like this. Why? Because of the love. And what is that love? That love means the oneness. What is the oneness? That we are happy, healthy, good, and we don’t put people like this and like this. All should come, it should come to that, so. In this way, our satsaṅgs, our bhajans, and we are here in such a beautiful place. Here and there are many beautiful trees, and this forest—this is the forest—and at that time, humans were in the forest. Yes, or they were somewhere under the rock. Yes. That they did not make the house, they don’t know. So how do people gain? That side, of course, many, they mostly try also getting animals and this and that. But then came Sanatana Dharma, Dharma, Bhagavān Śiva, and Śiva have gone. Shiva is for both, and what Shiva? He is very helpful and everything, and very good for them, everything. And that other, these other Rākṣasas or some other different people, they are also Śiva’s. They take some of the care, they said yes. Be good, be nice, go, don’t do any bad, this, that. They are fighting too, this, but Shiva, when Shiva comes, then all they become like one, this side and this side. This one is angry, they decide, and other thing, but Śiva said, "Ah," and immediately Śiva comes, everything becomes very peaceful, and they go in further. That’s why Shiva, Bhagavān Śiva, and Śiva, this was not his father, not a mother, there’s nothing. He was not birthed from the mother or this. He came, he came from this. And then he came and said, "There is only one, Śiva." Then he said, "But Shiva, but what, how will it happen?" How will you create more people? And then he said, "What code?" The male and female, and said, "Śiva, but how?" Then Shiva said, "My left hand is my half body." And this side, the man, this. I inside, and I’m inside, out. In that way, it is like this, and they said, "Happiness." So the female was happy, very nice. And male and men, except the others. So Bhagavān Śiva, he put his body inside. So this side is sea, and this side, we know very much about everything. What does that mean? So, how? We have gifts separate, but they are not equal. Then is that, but when we are fighting, we are talking this, this, and that, then where are you? That is coming, and then other things are coming. And the other is that one, one is like this, like water. Water is for all. Maybe there is water, a little not good or a little clean or something, but still like that. This, yesterday I told one story about one tree, no? And in this, the tree, how was the tree? Biraki, and it was very, this. So there was a, and how people are going. So there was also Śiva and Śakti, Viṣṇu and Viṣṇu. So, Bhagavān, they said, it is said, Bhagavān, Viṣṇu, Viṣṇu. And so, Vishnu is sitting, and Shakti is there. So there was something; they had something to speak, something. And his wife said to him, "Viṣṇu and Śakti, or Devī, whatever you say." And there are many coming, even Śiva comes. Others come, every, that was Vishnu and Śiva, Śakti. So one day they said, because Viṣṇu was like this, sleeping, no? And while we’re on this snake, a big snake like this, and Bhagavān, Viṣṇu, is resting like this. And Śakti, Śiva, she was sitting there and never, never was she talking anything to the God or the man. And she was sitting like this, always making messes, massages. So it is said, Bhagavān Viṣṇu, and this, he said, "Good, this good, say good, everything." So she said, "I am big, I am great, but I will not tell." I am Bhagavan, so they became both, became Bhagavan. So that I go and I will show you that whole world, the whole, they, they are my God, my love, may, may, may very powerful. Then Shakti said, "Okay, go, yeah, go and tell me after." So, Bhagavān Viṣṇu, Bhagavān, he became a sanyāsī like this, a sādhu, no? Very nice sadhu, very nice dress, and all these things, and then he went. He went away for about two or three hours, or something like this. That time was not so. People feel too much. So he was going, Śivjī-like, and there came a village like this, very nice like this here. So, where can we go? You know that this is one over here, outside the carpet area. Where is that? What is the name there? Tilak, so he goes to the Tilak and Shiva, and this also is very good. Bhagavān, Bhagavān, please, please. He said, "Yes, I want to see and stay here for three years, months, because of all the rain." And these three, three months, the sādhu had to sit there. Oh, he was so happy, so happy. Gurujī is very happy. So he said, "Well, I have a beautiful house. My house is so beautiful. Then do, please, re Gurujī." So, "Okay, very nice, beautiful, good house, beautiful." House, but he said, "I will stay three nights here, and then I will go. Nobody should tell anything," meaning that I don’t go. I will only be in this room, only in this room, and here is like this, my seat, my place, and all here I will be. Because it is my, that in three months I will be there. Thank you. He said, "Gurudev, you can’t have the whole house." He said, "No, no, only this one." Okay. "I will do everything," please, he said. "I tell you again that I will sit now here, and then you should not give me that, ’Go out,’ or this and that." He said, "Yes, yes, Gurudev, always I will be in seva." Okay, so it was about five minutes, three, four minutes, and then. Then comes one lady, Śakti, and she comes very beautiful, like, and very nice, also has like this great, so many gold and this and that and this. Namaḥ Śivāya. Om Har Har Mayāray. And she went to that man again. What is that? Who was? Who? No, no. Tilak. And Tilak came there, and that’s his mother. Mahārāj said, "Oh, Gurudev, Mother, Mother, Guru Mahadev, very good. Great, great place." Also, you two, Raga, three days or four, make you hope people are nice. It is a time. This for now will begin in India, will begin when rain comes. That she said, "Yes, good." He said, "I just sit with you here. I have no time." He said, "What do you want?" I will tell you, she said, "Yes, so I’m very thirsty. Just give me a bottle." Drinking so quickly, so he went, farmer, yes, or the farmer, the other one. So what happens? He said, "Water, hey, this water, throw it away. I cannot take it like that." Anything gold? Oh, so he has another one, something with the gold. He said, "No, no, big glass with the gold." He said, "Bring the water. I have my gold." She said, "And full water." And what? She drinks and throws it away. One more. All right. One with this. With that. Five times nice built gold coming and faking here. Gurujī, Gurudev, you can throw it away. She said, "Don’t think to tell me the truth. I touch once and then peck." I have such a great scent. Should we bring you milk or something? Milk, milk, everybody has milk. There will be something more, not gold, but some other fish. She said, "But I tell you that I want to stay three nights in one house." And very nice, if you have some here, otherwise let me go, he said. Guru Dev, I will, I have one praloo, one more, and I bring here, he said. What? There is a Guru there also? I don’t sit there, I don’t sit there. And where is that? He said, "Very nice and beautiful." Hey, don’t say "very." And then he said, "I will not sit in your place. Gold, only gold." Very nice, like gold. This man said, "My God, this is one of the best gurus. So much money, but eating something, something." So, where do you ask me? So she goes with, and there Gurujī is sitting there. Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya. And this man said, "What is this?" He said, "Is it okay? This is not some other sadhu, other one? Be nice one." She said, "No, no... I don’t like anything. If then only this, but please, I cannot because I gave him." Then, "Okay, give. I go." "No, no..." Please, again, what happens? So again he said, "Gurujī, I give you a beautiful other room, like this, because this is like it." He said, "I told you, I will sleep only here at this time." Nobody will get out. Then he said, "Gurudeva, still you are not sitting, so I will give you this very nice one with gold." I don’t want gold. I have gold up and down. I want this, otherwise I am going. Please wait. Again, he said, "Yes." He said, "I told you that I will not go." Then she said, "No, I will go." Then what came? The farmer, and this not a farmer, some foreigners. He said, "Mahārāj jī, I told you, how much I told you, can you go other side, sleep and burn?" For this, he said, "I told you, I will three years a month." She said, "I’m going away." He said, "No, no..." Please, and what? He came. Where’s my daṇḍa? And he said, "Babaji, now it says Babaji, you know, before the Gurujī." And this is the Bābājī. So if you go, otherwise I will bring my children and, like this, go. So Vishnu said, "I told you," he said, "don’t tell, go, let him send." And he went away. Then she brought this girl, that lady, or Bhagavān, or Śiva, Śakti, Lakṣmī, or something. She said, "I want this. Yes, Gurudev, I have got it, everything." Sadhu was not very good. You are the big, great. All two are the great big, and he went. Yes, Bhakti said, "I don’t need to sit in your room here." Get out everything, and if some other will bring something great, and you will throw me out, I will not see here, and she went away. That man was Vishnubhagan. He was at a far distance, and then she also, and Vishnu came back again, and she was coming slowly, slowly. Gurudev, I told you the Shakti, the ladies, this is the greatest one. So, why? Because this, you said, only I told you, my God, that I tell you how we can do. Therefore, we should not give like this and that. You will be in troubles, and the troubles, and in the troubles that I will not, Gurudeva, and so went away. Like this, it is like, and what is that? Peneśa, peneśa. This peneśa, golden peneśa. Like this, so that is how we, where do we, so what do we do? So that’s why many sādhus—I’m not that kind of sādhu, like this—we all need our gold because we have to have an āśram to make or something. But many ṛṣis in the Himalayas and there in many good places, they are sitting. Always, they see any sādhus or this other one in beauty. Never, and never give out negative thinking. Positives. You know this study? It was very great. Holy Gurujī has made this very nice. That is one book, very nice, Mahāprabhujī’s. So in that same thing, you and me, and me and you, and you and me, no me then, neither do, neither me. I am only the God in that gods of the gods, like this. So in these days, in these days, don’t become angry. Don’t tell this, then say that’s not good. There is at least remain so nice, like this. We all, with we are. Dripping in the water, in the water in the ocean or anywhere, now we are all in this water. We are together, but the same water. So what is all this like? It is like that: all water. In the water means that our peace, our harmony, our love, our great things are all in one. Our body, our body just some days up, somehow it will go, but we are like that in this way. So we are coming, and we are very happy. Thank you very much. And we will see tomorrow morning, and every day, your programs. According to this, now they will tell you which one is going to which, which in that progress, that who is practicing and who is doing. Doing. So this I ask you, everybody, and please, when it’s raining, then we have to go to the hall on the side. Then we have to go like this. Beautiful. The friends came, and our very good, gracious friends, I have very good friends. Feto, abaceto, bunda, māyā. What is happening? Corona, corona. Corona, corona. So that is everything we have to please. We know many said we don’t want, but there, people all get it. The Vienna, Austria, no, what is that? Jordan, no, Jordan we don’t have. This one city over there, German, and what is the name of it? Austria, yeah, Austria, yeah, so Austria, Austria. And most must be in three days, like, if, what is there? We are coming from the earth, nice mushroom. Many mushrooms, so mushroom is very good, but this side, other side, nothing, sitting evening, oh my God. So please, there is something, and nothing will come to us, but it is better that we can control, okay? Hari Om.

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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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