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What is spirituality?

The heart's thirst is for divine truth, not worldly satisfaction. We seek like a bird that will only drink from a falling drop of sky, rejecting ground water. This longing is our spiritual search. Worldly relationships and possessions cannot quench this thirst. True fulfillment comes from turning inward through sādhanā—spiritual practice encompassing meditation, devotion, and purification. This practice is essential; without it, difficulties remain. The company of truth, satsaṅg, is great luck for believers. Spiritual masters give mantras and guidance that fill the heart. The divine name received is a gift of love, Prem. When the heart is full of divine love, there are no problems. Great saints impart this through their words and songs, which resonate deeply within.

"Then the nectar falls from the sky, because only from it can a pearl form."

"Great luck have the believers who are together at the satsaṅg."

Filming location: Vienna, Austria

Shāntiḥ, shāntiḥ. So, did you understand? Very good. Then you should say, "Yes, my..." We know here. First, I will say it. What is that? Satya Sanātana Dharma. What is that? Did you all know? Who knows? Hands up. And who doesn’t know? Thank you. Now, who doesn’t know? Hands up. So you all know that? Then please, all hands up. Thank you. So you know everything. I am very great. Oṁ Prabhudeep Niranjan Śabduk Banjan. If we know the words, then why should we not say them? I will not tell. We should learn them or tell somebody what they are. Then it is so beautiful—these bhajans of our Gurudev, Mādhavānandjī, Bhakjī. It is very great, this bhajan, all bhajans, but this was also a very great bhajan. What is this? So we should not think, "No, I will not tell." If I want to learn, okay. I know, okay. I don’t know, okay. So that we can bring this knowledge, and if it is, then it is okay. Otherwise, it’s different things. Because the language, the German language, everybody knows what good it is. But others cannot see. They don’t know what it is. So, we all, for whole years, we try very much. And I know you are very much, many of you are learning. Everything, so then I become what, Swami? What yogī? What? I know I am spiritual, so this everything then is very good, then it is. But I am always thinking about this, and he knows very much, he’s looking here. How is that? You have learned many things. That one time is coming, and now is the time for this. Now is the—how shall I say—this is the time. This is the time now. So that one bird, and she does not want, is very thirsty, but does not want to drink water from down, only suffering. But looking up, I want to drink water, that water, that is. So these are certain peoples, they are birds and beautiful, phew, phew. You know, that is saying phew, phew. And here, "pew, pew" means "I want to drink, I am thirsty, but I am suffering for this." What does that mean? We are all. All we are here, and we know. But still, we have not got that trust. Trust is there, but I cannot get it. So if you are all like that, then you have everything, if you know. But if you have nothing, someone does not, then it is not. Even this, the snake or animals or this, they will catch and take you, but they will not get away. Pew, pew. What is that pew? This pew has such great words. And what is that? There is a young child, a husband or wife, a girl. So that young man, he’s suffering to have my best wife, my girls. But that one, they are so coming, but I don’t want that. And she also said, "I’m suffering for my husband." There are many, why not? So many in the schools there, in the schools, and furthermore in the university. Yes, in university, but now it is that the person is everything he has. He is not doing everything, but he cannot get that person. What is that one? That one means that my thoughts, my thoughts to whom, where? Yes, and you are not that one. You are all sitting here, you have your husbands, you know your friends, girls, your mother, your father, or your very good friend, or this, everything. So now this person, she doesn’t want anything. She wants to be married to her, with her husband, and he is also suffering. Now I want to marry, to have this one. Like this, in this way, our spirituality, our spirituality, then it will come, and you cannot throw away this and that. How is that? In our heart, it doesn’t matter if it is good or bad. Bad will also be coming; bad again will come; good will come. One day will come, we should not say, "Don’t go out." That will not be. Then it is like this: what means that? That is not a good person, and this and that. But you know, still I see him living, the living person, and sometimes in his heart is... Something good doesn’t matter any word, but it is there inside, and there we have to do, otherwise we are gone. And there, people that come, and he’s suffering. That is that. So that when we, then we know that we are a yogī, that we know we are spiritual, we know that we are great, and we know we want to get that, what good things, good. If someone has negatives, then what do we do? No words, don’t speak. But inwardly tell them it will be okay one day. One day we will be okay. Yes? And those who cannot, they say, "No, I will not finish anymore." Then, both sides are not good. They are still like this. So this bhajan, so one word what Gurujī said is one. It’s so much, but he... We will go further, please. Go ahead. Then the nectar falls from the sky, because only from it can a pearl form. With pihu, pihu, the bird Papaya calls the rain, because he does not like the water from the ground. Mahāprabhujī says, "Great luck have the believers who are together at the satsaṅg." So you know that what I told, for what we are searching, and we go. You are sitting here, so many people here, and you are many. You have some friends, good friends, to get some great friends. But this is not all. And so in the sādhanā, it comes, the sādhanā. Sādhanā cāra. That is also one bhajanīya. What is that? What is this number? Yes, moment. Very good. So, what? One word, two words? Tell. There are four words, there are four things. This is that all for that one, and that is in this. Come on, you know the piyara. What? Very yesterday, I was giving a lecture where in Croatia. In a very nice and big hall, it was full, and I just talked about this, how I want to do this. Everyone was... Just Gina says. Oh, my dear, give me that, that my all will be everything. Everything comes to everything will be that. Otherwise, this and that and no and that, all this bhajan of Holy Gurujī’s, you cannot imagine. And what Holy Gurujī was making this bhajan. Mahāprabhujī was sitting there and was saying bhajan, and so, just so. And Holy Gurujī, not taking for one month or two days or one day, how to make one bhajan. Holy Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī said to Holy Gurujī, to Mādhavānandjī, "Madhvanāt, bhajan, and yes, and ekdam, that no one can do like this, I can do it all." So, thank you, bolo. Vairāgya. What is vairāgya? You all know vairāgya. Who don’t know, hand up. Can you hand up? Vairāgya, okay. Only one person, very good. So yes, because he has not seen, so that is difficult, which is good, very good. And the others, they all know. Okay, go on, so. So what Holy Gurujī’s beautiful, and there he was sitting, and he was giving this beautiful bhajan to Mahāprabhujī’s. And he told everything, each and every word like that, which is not good, brought into the fight. Good, always, everything, this. And so what he has given, write it thus. Shadan. Shadan. Shadan have many. For example, you go in your house and you have nothing inside. Then what do we make? This we have, this we have, this we have. So, sādhanā. This is sādhanā for a car, this is for this, this is for this. Sādhana, everything that we go out of our house for. I have something golden, but I will take it out. Gold is not so easy. So, in my house, if I don’t have to open, nothing is there. Or I give, don’t. So everything, this is sādhanā, sādhanā. So everything that we need, without that we are nothing. So this is one word also. Other one also, sādhanā cāra. So it is said, now Gurujī said, they are all for that money. And that means also meditation, concentration, acceptation, sādhanā, Gurudev, Māta, father, pitha, your room, cleaning your things, everything. This all is that. What is that? Sādhanā. Sādhanā. So, without sādhanā, there are difficulties. When this is gone, you have a very good house and everything, but this is there and nobody is there. Now you have to go through Veda again from Vienna, the Vienna garage, and you have to go again down and take your key, and then you come back. And sādhanā, pyāra pyāra is to everybody, pyāra. Yesterday, yesterday I came from Croatia. Many people, they came to the airport. Also, many people, they know officers and all were very for me. And, and there are two people, they are also working. On this day, so, day before yesterday, she had a satsaṅg, and she asked me, "Can you give me a mantra?" I said, "Now I will, can I give you tomorrow? Give me money." So tomorrow, before I go into the ashram, from our Lakshmī, she said, "Please give." So I gave her mantra. So mantra, this, that, and then this, and that, and that. She was very spiritual and very much, and she’s very hot, very, and I said, "Okay." I gave her mantras and this, and we were going. Then she said, "Please, can you give me your name?" "My name?" I said, "This is my name." "Yeah, but my name also?" "Yes, okay." So I said, "I give the mālā or the mantra name. Don’t tell anybody. Only I tell this name, your name." "Okay, okay, I will give you." And what she told me then, she is working in the airport, in the airport, very good, there are two also. And she said, so I said, "Oh, so I will open your name." She said, "Please tell me the name." I said, "Okay." And I got a name there. And what is the name? Please, what is the name? I said, "This is name." So, but what is the name? Okay, Piyarī. Prem, Piyarī, Prem Piyarī. Now, you know that what is Piyarī? Do you know someone? Yeah. Piyārī, Premī. Premā, Piyārī. You know what is Piyarī? Very love, love one. Yeah? Yeah. And then, second, that same word she likes this. And that was your Prem, love, etc. Mother, little child, your everything. This is a good name for this. And I did not know that I gave this number, and I never gave nobody this name in my life. But she got it, this she got that number. Prem Pyāre. Yes? So, look at this, yeah? So, said, who says? That says who? Him, like, taking this, yeah? And prema kā pyālā hari. Pyālā means my whole full, yeah? Yes, whole water or anything whole, that much I want whole, full my hand, this one. So we can, who is a Hari, Bhagavān, Bhagavān Guru Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī, etc., all that God. She is talking about a God, and when you, your prema is like this. You have no problems, doesn’t matter. And that, my dear, you know that, how many you are coming, you are sitting here, and you do this. This is the... you are... this is inside this bhajan. So sādhu, mahātmā, sant, they are giving such mantras. And words and song, it is like the whole in the body. Everything, everyone has feeling, but my brain will be filled, yeah, I am with. Ever with my weapon is your field. No, field it is. Please help me. Open the door. So, go. God bless you. Prema kā pyārā, Hari kā bhā meṅ rava rase. Hikari hama bhola kare para se, Prema kā pyālā hari kā bhara me ra bhara se. Bhikari hama me bahose. Kari hari vare vare kara se, Prema ka pyala hari ka bha me ra bhara se, Prabhujī said, God bless you. And so it is that Mahāprabhujī has all these two or three bhajans, I was thinking. Different meditations, sit down. But this brought me Mahāprabhujī’s and Devapurījī’s coming. Our Devapurījī’s coming after Saradeva is Dev, Mahāprabhujī’s, and in the city, Kailash, and there’s Devapurījī’s ashram, there was. And all the people there who were coming that day for his praṇām, for his day of Purujīs, something happened suddenly. Next day, Devpurījī gave me, so I was birthed. So my birthday is that day, so it will be there. I come there mostly, but always, always something comes up. And so people are always thinking, "This time my Śraddhānjī, my Śraddhānjī will come, my Śraddhānjī." I said, "Yes, yes, but it is, everything is there." Everybody all pushed me into Vienna. Yes, so it always is. We had a very nice ashram, and our Radha, she was looking one day and saw this building. And there were so many little rooms, you know, this and that. But now we are very, very great. Mahāprabhujī has given Devpurījī and everything. So this is a beautiful ashram here. And we are here, mostly all of our disciples, they are very peaceful, and there are very good persons who are taking care, evening, and living here. We have to live and give, so at that time it came to me. She was then, she said, "Can I tell the other’s name, others?" That’s what people were saying, yes. And then the name was Prem Piyarī. Prem Piyari, and then suddenly came one Indian lady, not eligible, she is a young lady, and she was running, running, and said, "Swamiji, Swamiji, please," and she made praṇām, and this Indian girl, she went to this swimming. Somewhere or this, and that camp, and her name was also Prem Latha. Yesterday we saw. So it is like this one bhajan which Mahāprabhujī has given, the one about that in the Himalayas. And in the Himalayas, there is only one very nicely, what do you call that? The nautical Haṁsa. And so the Haṁsa is there, and there is Śrī Gurujī. She gave the bhajan then at the end about this, very beautiful. So that is Hathole Gurujī’s words. Where are, yes? And there is also the third one, other. There’s one little bird, and she wants to drink water, but not from anything. Only a drip comes directly to me, yes? And there are also many, many animals. They are... you can... now it came to the Jadan, and there you could see them. Such a world like this was washing very much. So many animals, many things, not whole years, all the day, but certain days. And this settle for them is that, this means they get a mother, a child; this is the child. And so also there is in the ocean, in the ocean, and where there is one like a fish, but this is a very good fish. This is there inside. There is the one beautiful, these pearls. And these are the pearls that are. And that, if you can get that, that is the real. Others may, they are doing like this. Yes, so they are very much doing this. You know that you have seen that. But they said this: they cannot get anything. Only there comes out something, how it is going there. Furthermore, all we can learn in this. So this is also how it is coming, that. And so in our heart, in our heart is our. From this, from that, not a bird, the pearls, yeah, the pearls. And that is in that time, it comes. It is like this, and so there is also pew, pew. That was a pew. So these are, these are the sādhu, sant, ṛṣi. Muni, who is a great... they are maybe in other language, other they know also the same thing they are telling. That is the, otherwise there are many symptoms, lecture and this and talking and, okay, that is not that much. But that was given to Gurudev, many, many sādhus, great sādhus, not only Horī Gurujīs or other Mahāprabhujī’s, Devapurījī’s, Maṅgīlālji’s. Mangilālji’s, and another bhajan I will come when I come next time, or we go there from that Mangilālji, after the Mahāprabhujī’s disciple, He’s Mahāprabhujī’s sister’s son, Lalanānjī. Great. We should tell, really, Bhājī learned this from his bhajans. One of the best, great, and of course, Maṅgalāl jī, Mahāprabhujī said that he was the very greatest, the greatest like this. So, there are that it comes from the heart then. But if one is sweeping only for me, and then it is me, another knot, and this is not a knot, and this is a knot. Then, you, we are not still, we are not still. But it is, then it is like, how, when the bird will stay up like this. And each and every word, other than riddles, what is that? The pulse. And it’s going how, and this. Then the riddles, everything, and it is going that way. So we should be like this. And if one helps, then he cannot not go. No? That’s it. Om Śrīdīp Nayan Bhagavān Kī.

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