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The greatness of Śrī Devpurījī Mahādeva is central to the lineage. He is the Gurudeva of Śrī Mahāprabhujī and the disciple of Śrī Alakhpurījī. A great promise was made that after his departure, a great yogī would come from Satyaloka. His physical body is gone, but he is not gone; he is here. He gives inner peace and complete ānanda. Śrī Devpurījī had many siddhis and controlled the five elements. He lived simply, often misunderstood, but possessed another consciousness. He performed tapasyā in the Himalayas. Visiting his places, like his simple kuṭī, evokes a feeling of coming home. The Guru is the source, like a tree bearing fruit. All disciples are fruits from that one tree. There is both science and God; one should not deny either. The internal sādhanā leads to God.

"He said that after he departs, a great, great yogī will come from Satyaloka."

"Guru Kṛpā Hi Kevalaṁ Śiṣya Ke Ānanda Karam."

Filming locations: Kailāśa Āśram, District Sīkhar, Rājasthān, India.

Oṁ Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī, Devadhī Dev Deva Purīṣa Mahādeva Kī. Oṁ Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī, Alakhpurījī Mahādeva Kī. Oṁ Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Mātā Pitā Gurudeva Kī. Oṁ Śāntiḥ, Oṁ Śāntiḥ, Oṁ Śāntiḥ. We will have some lectures today to share a message. Svāmī Om Purījī will tell something about Devpurījī, whom we all know. We all know Bhagavān Śrī Devpurījī and so many things about him very well. You can see what is here is Devpurījī. We know that tomorrow evening will be a big satsaṅg. Previously, every time I used to leave, I would stay in Kailāśa. But now, in these three years of Corona, many people—and I also was not there. We did not speak to many people and did not know. But it is very powerful, and everything is our Devpurījī’s. We can tell others, our nearby friends, about tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. The day after tomorrow, there will be prasāda and so on. So, Om Purījī will share a message. Oṁ Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Śrī Alakhpurījī Mahādeva Kī Jaya. Śrī Śrī Devīśvara Mahādeva Kī Jaya, Śrī Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jaya. Viśvaguru Śrī Svāmī Viśvānandajī Gurudeva Kī Jaya. Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... Regarding Śrī Devpurījī Mahādeva, as the name indicates, he is the greatest of the greatest of the greatest. We know of Śrī Devpurījī first from our dear Guru Dev, beloved and respected Viśvagurujī, and how he brought this wisdom, this knowledge of the Paramparā, to us. The first time I went to India, to the Kailāśa Āśram where Śrī Devpurījī was residing, where his place was—Kailāśa—I had the feeling for the first time that this is holy. For the first time, I had the feeling I was coming home. Śrī Devpurījī is the Gurudeva of Śrī Mahāprabhujī and the disciple of Śrī Alakhpurījī. Especially today, this night is his anniversary, when he left his physical body. But there was a great promise from Śrī Devpurījī. It was at the Nakī Lake on Mount Ābu. He said that after he departs, a great, great yogī will come from Satyaloka. Great Yogīs will come and be with their bhaktas and disciples. He sent our Guru Dev, Viśvagurujī. When we sing of Śrī Devpurījī, when we meditate on him, we believe in him. Actually, his physical body may be gone, but he is not gone; he is here. There are many, many experiences. Whoever Śrī Devpurījī protects and accepts is always in Ānanda. Śrī Devpurījī is the one who gives inner peace and complete ānanda, like we say Sat, Cit, and Ānanda. More we cannot expect. Śrī Devpurījī had many siddhis. He was like a child sometimes, and sometimes he was in Rudra Rūpa, very energetic, let us say. Once, we remember the story when Śrī Devpurījī went on his white horse, with his phalā, with his spear, to Kāṭhū where Mahāprabhujī was having satsaṅg with his disciples. They were sitting, singing bhajans, and suddenly Mahāprabhujī said, "Śrī Devpurījī is coming." All these disciples, who had great respect for him, went behind the āśram because a storm came; Śrī Devpurījī was in Rudra Rūpa. Then they saw the white horse already appearing in the sky—not running on the earth, but in the sky. They still did not see Śrī Devpurījī. Then Śrī Devpurījī, with his phalā (which we see now in Holī Gurujī’s room in Jadan Āśram next to the altar, standing there wrapped in gold) appeared. Then his phalā appeared, and then Śrī Devpurījī himself. He came there and said to Mahāprabhujī, "What are you doing here? What is this Māyā? What is this?" Mahāprabhujī was only standing there with folded hands to Śrī Devpurījī. Devpurījī said, "What is this? All these instruments and this whole game, what are you doing?" Devpurījī was drawing everything into the dhūnī, all into the fire. "Since when are you collecting money here?" He found the donation box. He saw it. "You are collecting money you do not need." And he drew the rupees in the air with his phalā. He cut them into four pieces, and all of them were flying in all four directions. Śrī Mahāprabhujī was standing there, saying nothing, with folded hands. And as Śrī Devpurījī came, he went; he disappeared. Then slowly, slowly, the disciples came from the front of the āśram, from the backside, again to Śrī Mahāprabhujī. They were afraid and asked, "What?" Mahāprabhujī did not say anything, and then he sang one bhajan. He said, "Only I understand what my Gurudeva is telling. Nobody else can understand. How do you see this rope on the way? You see it as a snake. And from this Māyā, many, many people are going to hell. Only I understand the words of my Gurū Dev." Then the disciples said, "But now we do not have anything. We do not have instruments. We do not have anything." Mahāprabhujī said, "Sing this bhajan." This was the night. The next day, there was a big surprise. Suddenly, a truck came to the Kāṭhū Āśram. Nobody knows from where. Nobody knows how and when. They brought things. They brought instruments, they brought blankets, they brought things. They said, "We should deliver this here." But nobody knows who was sending it. Mahāprabhujī said, and Devpurījī was promising, that all those bhaktas of Śrī Mahāprabhujī—Śrī Devpurījī said, "What I did, drawing these rupees in all directions, they will never suffer from anything. They will always have everything and more than this." That is why Śrī Devpurījī did this. Śrī Devpurījī was like the wind—quick, very quick. Sometimes, I cannot describe it. Always two dogs were with him: one a shepherd and I think one was a Collie. I do not know how the Collie came to India, but it was a Collie. Always, with Śrī Devpurījī, all the animals were his friends and brothers and sisters. He loved the animals more than the humans. Once it happened that he was so disappointed with disciples or humans that he went out of the āśram in Kailāśa. This whole thing was falling down. He told his brothers, the snakes and the scorpions, "So take care now, I am going." The old Kailāśa Āśram collapsed—the main building. Only Svāmījī rebuilt it again, made everything new so that we can stay there. Śrī Devpurījī, when he went for bhikṣā, for eating to the Bāī or Kailāśa village or nearby villages, he went only to one house. What he got there, he brought home. He had one bowl and asked all his animal friends, brothers, sisters, "Come, let us eat." To his dogs he said, "Go there, two kilometers far, you will find you are eating there." The dogs went, and they found they were eating there. They got the food. These are all stories we know from our Līlā Amṛta and from Guru Dev, what he told us about Śrī Devpurījī—how he lived a very simple life, very simple. Some people were thinking he is crazy, he is not normal in his head. Because sometimes, I think that at that time when they had medicine, they would give him medicine. They were thinking he had Alzheimer’s or dementia, but Śrī Devpurījī was not. He was a great, great... he had another consciousness than we all. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya, more than we all. Śrī Devpurījī, when he wanted to go somewhere to some other place, he took from his dhūnī his ash, his fire in his cloth, wrapped it in, and went. But his footsteps did not have any print on the sand. There was no shadow around him, and no rain was touching him. So Śrī Devpurījī had all five elements under his control, and they were serving him. We were there; I was there with five friends, brothers, sisters. Śrī Devpurījī made his tapasyā, his sādhanā, in Badrināth up in the Himalayas. I went there with the thought that maybe I would not come back. Still, I am here, and it was indescribable there. We saw... Fitcher was with Dr. Chitra, and Kirti and Gopal were with them. We were there. It was indescribable. Svāmījī was also there in Alakhpurījī’s place, but he was with us. What I am seeing, Guru Dev is seeing, and we see through Guru Dev’s eyes because the Ātmā is one. The Ātmā knows and sees everything. Śrī Devpurījī was not only in this cave, what we saw there up on the Sūrya Kuṇḍa and up on this place. He was everywhere there, everywhere. Mostly he was on this lake. There was a big lake—I forgot the name. What is the name of this lake? Satopanth Lake. There. And Alakhpurījī’s place there—all these places are holy. And there he did his tapasyā. We do not know the time, the year, or the date, but it was. Then when Śrī Devpurījī came back to Mount Ābu, to Kāṭhū, Gelāś... And all our beloved Satgurudev, Holy Gurujī, was writing down. We saw the places in Kāṭhū where Śrī Devpurījī was many times sleeping also on the stone there. We saw all these places. And in Kailāśa we met one woman. She was small when Śrī Devpurījī was there. She was talking about him, what she remembered. She said she never was in her life ill. She was never ill. There are people still living who have seen Śrī Devpurījī with these eyes, physical eyes. What more can we do? And then our beloved, respected Viśvagurujī incarnated the next day. Śrī Devpurījī was saying that we are not lost because somehow we came to the Western world, some came to India, some came here and there, that we have some guidance, that we have some fulfillment also, and can get our aim and goal. It is the hardest of the hardest duties that one can have. I do not know; a normal human being cannot manage this. I am blessed to be sometimes with our Gurū Dev. It is unbelievable. It is unbelievable. So, this night, in the morning early morning, when Śrī Devpurījī left his physical body in Kailāśa Āśram, it is there. I did not see it, but people told it is there. I did not see his physical body. But when we are in Kailāśa Āśram, District Sīkhar, Rājasthān, when we go there and we bow down in front of the altar, they have big satsaṅgs there now. Big, great people are coming, making their praṇāma. And Śrī Devpurījī’s kuṭī, his small room, what he had there—nothing. Just a big stone, his dhūnī on the roof. Then we can feel, even if you are a non-believer, like I always was. I did not believe in any holy place. I said, "I do not know, I did not feel, I did not experience, I do not believe in this." The first time I went to India, I really had the feeling I had come home, and there is something, there is something. This is the Kailāśa, the place Kailāśa and the Kāṭhū. And wherever our Guru Dev is, we are at home. Oṁ Śrī Devīśvara Mahādeva Kī Jaya, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Śrī Alakhpurījī Mahādeva Kī Jaya, Śrī Svāmī Madhavānanda Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Śrī Svāmī Maheśvarānanda Guru Deva Kī Jaya, Sat Sanātana Dharma Kī Jaya. Thank you, Hari. There are many things, but it is a great thing, great. It is great. And we are all thinking about Alakhpurījī, Devpurījī, and so on, but Devpurījī is the greatest. Mahāprabhujī is also very great, but it is... one should have—sanyāsī ho ya anya ho—a Guru. And that Guru has to have a Guru. What is a Guru? My Guru. That Guru is my Guru. My Guru. Like my mother, father... my mother, second child, there is a second one, there is another one. Like you also, yes, one apple. And there was snow, no leaves on the trees, nothing. But come the flowers, come the leaves, and then come some flowers, and come the fruits. This is giving this one tree, like this, our... you see it up, our light. The whole turn, the whole, this country, this wild, all in this tree, and come so many fruits, and gives us, and we take all, everybody takes it, this and that, we eat. But next year, again, there are the fruits. But the same qualities are in everything. Next year, again, come the fruits. And then again, next year, come the fruits. Without that, it cannot be. If someone said now, "I have my fruits, I will make it on myself." But without any tree or fruit, they cannot come. You see that some people are looking to say, "I am great," and everything like that. Okay, my Guru, but I am a great one. And they are just doing that; it is not anything. Guru Kṛpā Hi Kevalaṁ Śiṣya Ke Ānanda Karam. Mahāprabhujī, Madhavānandajī said, "Guru Kṛpā Hi Kevalam." Guru, Guru is one who will give further fruits again. And so, and that, what? I have, my Guru has been, and it is coming already in the time when there are no leaves and nothing, like this. But it is coming again, the leaves and everything. And what? The same color, same quality, everything. It is this, and it is that. There is that other one, with little other qualities. And that other one has other qualities. Now you can see, tomorrow we have to, we will do today. Tomorrow, you will wear it like the Guru, the Guru. Guru Kṛpā Hi Kevalam. That Gurujī is the one who will do this. So, we will see tomorrow beautiful fruits, very good things. Still, we are not eating them, but little, one year more, something or something like this. And if we go there, I did not think about this. I did not think about this, the words that I said. There is, my Gurudev, Mādhavānandajī Bhagavān, Mahāprabhujī’s, maybe he has talked to Hari Gurujī also. That tree will bear fruit. How will it come? It comes from that tree. Who is that tree? The Guru. And where is the Guru? If you go studying or not, the Guru is not already there. How? How did this fruit come out? And if you cannot, sometimes even the flowers come, and that goes out. That fruit has a beginning, and then it goes down. And there is something more. It comes inside some, any kind of animals or something. Why? Because that Guru does not receive the Gurudeva, and that it will come, and he will give our further all to like this. One Guru can make how many Gurus? In this one tree, how many fruits are coming? That is it or not. And we have so much fruit, so many fruits, very sweet, and what is that? Same sweet, same colors, same everything. It is one. So, Holy Gurujī says, one in all and all in one. One. It is the one. That is what we said, the father and the mother. They will do it. It will come again from them. It will come again. Also, it will come some, but that quality is not anymore. Yes. That was, you took different from your wife or your mother, or your wife, mother, yeah, and the fathers. But she has taken most of this; it is female. So in that tree, he will put some other fruit, and it is different now. And that will be completely different now. Okay, it is a good fruit and it is good, but it is gone. That quality is not. And that quality, what is a quality? That love, respect. And for the child, how much can we take care? And it will be your father, it is your father, it’s your father, your father. Like you will come, but all qualities are one, and so is that. Do not think that I will study very much and I will learn everything. No studies. There is only one. Learn it. Of course, there are two things. There is one side from which we are coming, where the science and the science further, and this, and we are all very good. There is no, no, I do not say. It is that. And the other is that satsaṅg, dharma, bhajan, the Guru, this sādhanā, it is all internal. And that is coming to God. Others will go and live in the future, which is what they are making, science and this. But those who are making these signs, they do not have this on that way. So there are two, both. I do not respect that, not. They are also very respected, very good, very great. They have done very great, and we see how we have, we have everything. How many? We have this, you know. My God. Yes, yes. Everything. So he said, the father said to the child, "My dear, do not worry about this, my dear, something." Do not do anything. Science is that. And there is science in this hand. Everything is inside, the whole universe. Everything, and it will be more. It will be more. The day will come that we will fly. Come, light it nicely. Now we can see each other, and now we are trying way more. This is that, and the other is that, like Sant, Guru, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva, etc. That is another difference. And that is the reality inside, that they will come in there. So, my dear, bhajan, bhajana, bhajan, jan, jan Bhagavān, o jan hai, sarvatra hai, parvatra hai, bhajan kā jo āyā. Gurudev, you will see many, many people who have studied very much. They have learned a great deal. They are going further, but at the same time, they come home and they make prayer to their Guru. That’s it. Many, many... many people, many people. One, we said many times, we have a satsaṅg and bhajan, or what say, Pūrṇimā, this, then all great saints also they come to Dīvālī for this pūjā, Dīvālī pūjā. And so is that Devpurījī, Bhagavān, Śrī Deveśvara, Mahādeva, Sarvatra. He can do anything. I am in my heart, and I feel, and I do, and I think I do, and I did it, or I do. I will come one day and I will fall down in front of His feet. I know, I know. I hope that He will let me come there, that I will come. So, there is both; do not say that there is science and not God. No, no, it is very good. One thing is not good: all this karmic, this is not good. Oh my Lord, oh my God, please. Otherwise, how much of our disease in the body is from more there. Cancer, cancer, cancer. Cancer kī cancerī re, cancer kaṭe chal jāī re thārī. Then that lakh will come, that bhajan will come, excellent. Yes. So, that is why. And on the other side, we go. Āyī re Gurū samāre, Satgurū āyā māre re, Sādhu kar ra merī re. Many things are there. So Guru Kṛipā Hi Kevalaṁ Śhiṣhya Ke Ānanda Garam, Ānanda Garam, ānanda, peaceful, everything. We do not read. Only one is enough, your disciple, only one. But do you know the only one? One can be everything. What? This moon is this, and the sun, completely the sun. And it is said, Mahāprabhujī said in this, that when Bhagavān Śiva, Sūrya, there Mahāprabhujī said, in this, through the Sūrya, it will come to Devpurījī around that. This is both are have. If you feel okay, if you understand, yes or not, everything is that one gets. Ah, that, yeah, this is not it. Nothing to tell, not okay. Okay, do not do this. One comes and goes, one comes and buys this. Hmm, there is a, you know, what is it? Fruits, green, not green, rāga. Grapes. Grapes, grapes. Grapes. So, there is a very nice fruit on the tree, red, cherry, cherry,... Where are you coming from, dear? I would say, I will catch all that is. But many are going out, but mostly they will be so rife. And what a life! We are beautiful, yeah? Yes, everybody, how are we? And who have been married? We have been married, yeah? There is nothing falling down, but you are strong. That’s it. Ek Dham, when you look and stand up, yes, my Lord God, my Mother, yes. Then, falling down, so all the fruits, and these all fruits, so much is only tree. And all these trees are coming from the same thing. And that, so you and me, all of us, we are on this tree of Mahādevjī, of the Alakhpurījīs, Devpurījīs, Mahāprabhujīs, and Holī Gurujīs. And in me and you all, we are so nice, beautiful we are. Okay? Satguru Svāmījī, ālak karo ānanda. So, this is tomorrow. Tomorrow is a day. We will make something very nice. Each of us will stand on the one tree. Oh, on the one tree, somebody will come. The second will come. I will too. He said, "I will also come. But have only one tree?" "Yes." So, tomorrow we will do the sādhanā. What is it? Sādhanā. Sādhānā, sādhānā,... come good and be good. Tomorrow we will do this: first, of course, early morning we will come, do exercises, meditations, sādhanās, and have breakfast, a good breakfast. And then I will wake up. I will give slowly, slowly. What are you doing, right? Svāmījī, you have also come and made a tree. Oh, I will come. So tomorrow I am with you, everybody. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Sanātana Dharma Kī Jaya, Mātā Pitā Gurudeva Kī Jaya, Ṛṣi Munī Mahātmā Kī Jaya, Oṁ Śāntiḥ, Oṁ Śāntiḥ, Oṁ Śāntiḥ.

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