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The importance of bhajans

The practice of devotion and spiritual discipline requires depth beyond mere repetition. Chanting names without understanding is insufficient. True bhajans impart profound meaning that resonates through the entire being, as seen in the works of great teachers. Practice must be undertaken with correct technique and gradual understanding, not haste. The example of learning to drive or fly illustrates that mastery requires patient guidance and alignment, not quick, superficial attempts. A specific breathing practice is given, but it must be performed with care—only a few repetitions—to avoid imbalance and to access the mind's deep energy. Spiritual progress is a structured journey with many steps to be learned over time.

"All is something that one person named. This is not good."

"So many people are only making bhajans... But they don't understand."

Filming location: Vép, Hungary

Sattā Guru, kindle my heart’s flame with thine flame. Sattā Guru, kindle my heart’s flame with thine. May Thy light banish darkness forever. Sattā Guru, kindle my heart’s flame with thine. O Lord of yoga, Lord of all wisdom, O Lord within all, O Lord above all. Shower Thy grace on Thy children. Sattva Guru, kindle my heart’s flame with Thine. May thy light banish darkness forever, Satya Guru. Kindle my heart’s flame with thine. Lord, thy children seek thee at thy gateway. Appear in thy glory before us. Sataguru, kindle my heart’s flame with thine. May thy light banish darkness forever. Sataguru, kindle my heart’s flame with thine. It is thee whom we worship, praying for thy mercy. Love’s nectar shower upon us. Sattā Guru, kindle my heart’s flame with thine. May thy light banish darkness forever. Sattā Guru, kindle my heart’s flame with thine. Thou art my mother, thou art my father. Thou art my brother, my friend, thou art. My wisdom, Thou art. All my wealth, Thou art. Thou art my all, O God, Divine. Let all our anxious sorrows depart. Mercy we beg, Bhagavān. Enlighten me with thy wisdom, O clock, and fill this temple of mine with light. Everywhere in homes where thou art served with love, everywhere thy lotus feet are adored. In that place, Hari in his glory dwells, shedding light everywhere. Where thy bhaktas sing their songs to thee, where love flows like a stream of rain. Their hurry comes from the highest world to listen to those strings of love. Every good thing thou hast given free to me. What, O Lord, may I give unto thee? Please accept this heart which I offer thee in these folded hands of mine. You are ever one and ever whole. From thee this perfect world was born. If all this world should disappear from view, still, though, would the ways be the same? Aum, peace, peace, peace. Aum, peace, peace, peace. And so, is that what we listen to something, do something, and we can’t understand, etc.? Mostly, we are speaking something only of “Śrī Rām, Jayā Rām, Jayā, Jayā, Rām, Rām,” or something different. So only something they are seeking; this is not enough. Yeah, so many people are only making bhajans, and this bhajan is “Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa,” and “Hare, Hare.” But what is good, very good? But they don’t understand. All is something that one person named. This is not good. So therefore, bhajan. Bhajan is one of the best in everything. So that there is not one bhajan, but many, many bhajans, and how these great bhajans, they are telling us. Not only some yogī or swāmī or something, but also in your house, your father, your brother, your mother, your friend. When they sing beautiful bhajans like this, it goes in the whole body. Each and every whole thing is going in our body, then everyone understands what it is. So many like this we see in all the books of Holy Gurujī’s, Mahāprabhujī’s, and Maṅgīlālji’s, and this all. And everyone cannot understand when they see and listen to the bhajans. It is okay, but still something goes very deep in our self. People listen like this very much. They like it very much. But still, what is the meaning of that? Then it will say, “Yes, this is what we see. Everything, God, this, that.” That is very great in this. So, this bhajan, and then many other bhajans, very good, beautiful. So, let’s come again to another bhajan. And I will tell you again, okay? And all, listen very much. This is not only bhajan, and listen and hurry up, not like this. We are like when we are very thirsty and very hot, so we have no water, and then someone comes and he will take a little glass of water. “Oh, please,” so he drinks the water from his water. To him, and just a little bit goes in the whole body. It was so hot. Thank you. Oh my God. It goes all in me. Thank you very much. Vodha. Vodha. Yes. This is Vodha Jivotin, yes. So this is when all you have, including myself, when we saw such a bhajan, then it is going in our whole body. And that’s why, you know, there is one question. There is one question about one that where. An ant goes there, big, and she wants to kid someone to make, make we have to... that this bird, not a bird, what is that? And so that it comes, one fly, and then other ants coming, and that one looks like this. And then, gone. It means that some sadhus, some sādhus are this, some people, and they hear the bhajans a little bit, views only. Words is only, “We go and we drink there. We will not sit on them. We will go away.” Then comes the second one, and there is also one. There is one bead which is coming, and it stands up and looks this way and that, and very quickly runs away or goes under. So this is also not that. Then, coming to the third one, and then one is also coming, and still she is standing there. And this remains, no sound. And that is looking like this, and again coming. And yes, like this. And then she takes her, like this. And she has made one beautiful there with the wood, on the wood, some glass or something meaty, and there is a little house, few, one, two, three like this, and inside, very nice, warm and cold, and very nice, and so he takes in now. He’s become like. Don’t know who I am, and going and becomes like you have drunk something, and all the times always looking, always nice, beautiful. And then this Brahmari goes away, and that other one is looking. And again, and coming, and he’s going like this, yes. Inside you can see, and like this, he sees that. Okay, it will be so. This Brahmari brings him something, giving, eating, very nice, some like water. And he is coming and coming, and he becomes his wings, and then. He opens like this, and he brings him out. And what did he say? This Brahmari said, and other one comes behind him, and that is that become this. That’s very important. Many, many sādhus and bhajans, they are telling many things, and so there are three. So someone is okay, other one said. And another one said, “No, I am so.” It will give all beautiful and all negative. Even this thing, all goes out. So we were giving you practice, you know that Brahmari. So let’s do like this: five times, three times, and then again come out. Not too, not quickly, you know. There is one, they are giving me evening some nuts, and they give only two nuts only. Morning, every morning, I’m eating that only two. These nuts are very nice, and the other is nuts also, which is like... it looks like my brain now. So only three, three, four, maximum five ate this morning. And that is very good for our health, meditations, and many things. And so you said, “Stand straight,” very good. And not like this, like this. Only you have to come to, in your, the aeroplane when it goes, how it is going, so we should remain like this, and in the middle finger. This is in the near, in our nose, and then inhale. Bring your hands down only three times, okay? So only three times it goes all through the whole body, but if you just do this or that, and there is nothing when someone... Want to have a car and will bring a car, but he cannot drive your car, no? So we are thinking of another one who is driving. He is a master, and then he will tell him, but he is beside completely, so slowly, slowly. And it is not only that in two or three days I will go, no, it is very important. And then the doctor of this car, he will sit, he gets a stand. And please, can you go for studying? Yes, like this. Again, every, then said, let’s go on the road. It’s okay, I’m going, and then said, okay, I’ll get out. Then, still inside, we are not happy. But slowly, slowly, we are coming. Same way, in our ear, the sign, power, energies, everything—don’t do too much. Otherwise, in the brain, so many things will be good. So, three times, and then relax. Then you will see our brain is an unfathomable source of energy and understanding being inside for all of us. That’s important. This is a Brahmari. So now what I have given you, this Brahmari, and this, don’t do too long. And if it is, then inside will go away something. So this is only the first step. So there are many steps, and you will see that not only in the brain, but there are certain other points that I will tell you next time. It’s very peaceful, very great. But many people are looking like that will remain, that will remain normal, not normal. So, and not one day, when you learn your car, still that is also you have learned very much. And then, when we want to learn helicopter, and now you go with that. How many? How we have to learn exactly? And after you are aligned, only you are one inside, and then not so easy, not easy. His master is not there with, and okay, and then okay, and then you know what is that. Sit in an airplane, bang, there and now you can go. Our eyes are okay, but the window is blocked. You know that, everybody, no? Do you know that? Who doesn’t know? So you can begin going. And so, you know that? How they do everything, teaching black night or anything. But he, this is work, he says this, he sees that this is everything clear and everything, because on that road, the road is clear. And they say, like, all for the good light, because the light of the light, that is, they know, it’s a machine that’s going exactly very good. And how they are landing exactly there. Now, when the aeroplane is going, coming out, how are we bringing it? We will not land like this. Yes? An aeroplane comes. And will you think that it will be low, go low, down? What will happen? Everything is gone. Yes? So again, you bring that and like this, and it goes from the down, then landing this. You all have seen many, many, but I am, you know, how many years I am going with that? Many, many years, many, many years. And so, is that this? What I tell you, and there are three techniques. And then, elsewhere, what it is, it is going through many. So we are here for two weeks, and we will learn many things. And so, thank you.

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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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