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Glory to the land of India

A spiritual discourse reflecting on India's divine heritage and personal guru-disciple relationships.

"Mahāprabhujī, Madhavānandjī, he has a wonderfully beautiful bhajan. He learned this bhajan himself. And he has sung it for the entire world, for all of India."

"Holi Gurujī said, 'This time, now everything will be India again.' And India, what is it? How is it? It is, again, my words, you will hear something."

The speaker shares a stream of consciousness filled with devotional references, recounting the spiritual significance of India through its rivers, saints, and gurus like Mahāprabhujī and Holī Gurujī. Personal anecdotes are woven in, including childhood memories of seeking the guru and attempts to avoid work, illustrating the challenging yet compelling nature of the spiritual path. The talk emphasizes the power of bhajans and the pervasive divine presence within the Indian landscape.

Filming location: Vienna, Austria

Yes, so I believe. Mahāprabhujī, Madhavānandjī, he has a wonderfully beautiful bhajan. He learned this bhajan himself. And he has sung it for the entire world, for all of India. How long? How much? From all of us? And when someone hears it, you ask, "What does that mean for India?" When Modījī once heard it with Mahāprabhujī, it was very beautiful. I will show it to Modījī again. I need this book or word or something, okay? Dhanya. What does Dhanya mean? Dhanya means godly, everything with God and everywhere, and especially in India, the whole of India. So what is that? "Koṭi koṭi vandana hamāre siddhi bhaṭṭāyalu kāṭeśa hamako prāṇose adipyara." Holī Gurujī has said, "This is in my whole siddhi bhaṭṭāyalu kāṭeśa hamako prāṇose adipyara." So that in the whole of India, there is nothing else. It is more like India, where everything is the most beautiful. "Viśva, Hithakārī, Paramahāsukasāgara, Prabhu, Neliyā, Yehi, Avatāra." This God has given here, and that is a wonderful thing. He said that is for all of us, everywhere. "Ānanda-ṛṣi muni or yogī, paratakhi te uca sitāra." And all is in India. What is this all? Bhavajans, melas, all is in him from this. "Rāmakṛṣṇa, Buddha, Guru Nānak, kaṇṭī nīru he yahī te tārā." He has one or two other words. He has said, "From all, that is one by one name, I have not been able to read in this. I have not been able to read." What is it? One by one word: Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, Buddha, Guru Nānak. Guru Nānak, Nānak, Guru Nānak, yes. Gandhi, Nehru, Gandhi, Gandhi, Nehru, Nehru, yes, yes, Yehi, Dehatala. These are all, how do you say, they were very strong personalities, and they were leaders. "Lala Bahadur Ora Patel Palapa Lopuruṣa Sapakee Sarathara..." The greatest personalities from the Himalayas, in the whole Himalaya. "Him svarnakamukuṭa itala." What? Him, svarnakamukuṭa itala. I didn't understand you. Gaṅgā, Yamunā, and Kāverī. That is the greatest in this Nagavata, and in this is one building in the whole of India. All is like all gurus and God. God is, the God is, of the God is. What does he do? Unbelievable. Is it okay? Okay. Rajasthan. Yes. Rajasthan, Bali, Chile. All is light, and everything above there. And Mahāprabhujī said, "I say and I know that the whole of India is as my glad." This is warm for Mahāprabhujī, our Mahāprabhujī. Holī Gurujī had once sat there. At that time, all the countries of America, they were all in India. And Holī Gurujī said, "This time, now everything will be India again." And India, what is it? How is it? It is, again, my words, you will hear something. And the whole of India, not only Rajasthan and the Himalayas, you know how many Himalayas, and that so much Mahāprabhujī has shown, and Holī Gurujī has said, he will show once this for this India. Again, this will come. That's how it is. Very nice. You wanted to say something, Bāryo. We have in Mahāprabhujī, we have everywhere in his thoughts, always and always. I have already told you a lot of pictures of Mahāprabhujī, Madhavānandjī, and how far from the other side. He was in India and in other countries, and he said more often, and in Hindi he sang a little bit, but nothing else, German or English or so. But Holī Gurujī has always sat with all of us, but always said Mālā. One day Mahāprabhujī said, so I said, "Mahāprabhujī, please say something." And he said, "Okay, I will say." And Holī Gurujī said, "What do you want? Which one?" So I said, "I saw everything, but something else," said Mahāprabhujī, "and which language or something?" And he said, "That's not a problem." And so, Holī Gurujī has sat so quickly, and he gives bhajans. Others also have good ones. Others, when he has seen, he has given Prabhujī's bhajans, and others, our disciples, that is very beautiful. So, Holī Gurujī has done so much and worked so hard, and it is impossible. And then I came here, and I don't think I heard anything at all. That was very beautiful from my guru, Madhavadānsīs. And he was always, and always, and he is always with everyone, always. Many people say many, many things, and the Indians, many people, or the Bajans, or the Mahāprabhujīs from other countries here. And there he thought a lot and maybe did some bhajans. Mahāprabhujī, he didn't say, "I'll get a book or a paper." And one day, and tomorrow, and one month, and this and that, in one month, a bhajan. And not so, really, really. The holy Gurujī, he never said, "Okay, a bhajan, okay." So it is. He has it in his head, in his heart, and in his thoughts, and these thoughts go there. And from where? How hard it comes. I haven't seen so many people as fast and as good as Madhavānandjī, really. And Mahāprabhujī too, of course. But I haven't seen Mahāprabhujī that much, but I have seen his bhajans. And these are all bhajans from Mahāprabhujī, Holī Gurujī, and all the other Mahāprabhujī's disciples, and not only Madhavānandjī's, but even more. So, I believe that we listen to our bhajans, we all listen to them and do them. So, we have all Mahāprabhujī's bhajans, and we listen to them a lot. I went to the ashram and showed them everything. So many. And how so many Mahāprabhujīs, Devpurījīs. But there were two Madhavananjīs: Madhavananjī and one Maṅgīlāljī. Yes, and another one is very good, Brahmānandajī. Brahmanandaji is very, very great. The unbelievable words and everything. So, have you today this one bhajan from there, here? This is very, very great. And so this means, so a Mahāprabhujī guru, and these are his students and everything, how many of them, they are all so Bhajans, so Bhajans, very beautiful Bhajans. My many bhajans have not said anything. I have two or three, somehow, okay. But now, unfortunately, in this Kali Yuga, not Kali Yuga, this Kṛta Yuga, in Dvāpara and in Tretā, my language is very good. Our Bhagavān Madhavānandjī, Madhavānandjī, the name is very great. And Madhavānandjī, it was another name when he was little. And Madhavānandjī Bābājī, it was, I tell you something, many did not tell families, and they are not telling, and they were angry. But Madhavananjī, apne Madhavananjī Bhagavān yā virāj hai. So, he was in his house. It was about, let's say, 8 or 9, 10. In the night, where his father was sleeping, his mother was sleeping, and friends. And about 9:30 at night, all were sleeping very soundly. And Gurujī went away. He went near our ashram, you know that, our ashram in Nepal, and from there he went far, through the other, and somewhere in the stone, very big stone, stones, yes, big stones like this. And he went there, and he was sitting there meditating from that side for two hours. And then again he came back slowly. Of course, his father was angry. Mother also had shown this and that. So Mahāprabhujī, he went very much differently everywhere. He was the last, and after my mother, and then Mahāprabhujī, this. And after one, I think, somebody. So Mahāprabhujī said, "I know I will not stay anywhere." But they said, "What?" He said, "Go, work, this, and get home," or something like this. And he was in that time, we had no, no so many languages, because it was from the German, yes. And so there was like a hole in India, it is like in between. But he said, "I will not work in the garden or any bed like." This, I will have meditation. I will work. These are Mahāprabhujī's. So our Indian people, they were sitting under the trees, on the tree. They did not give any more. It was for the people, a little far distance and some big village or something. Not all, not all people can be. They give it like this, but after, you know, that when there was, after they came back and fighting, you know, that is that time he was holy Mahāprabhujī. He was a little about 20, 20 years or... Something like this before that, he became already spiritual, the holy Gurujī. And he was going every time here and there, so you can imagine how he is. Him, I see only him. I have not seen Mahāprabhujī, so then he was... he ran away. And he wanted to learn something, and he named to my mother, so he went with her, that, "I will stay with you." But he was, "I want to study." And so, in Rupawas, there was one man, and this man, the two legs were not good properly, but he was teaching people. And so he was the holy Gurujī. The holy Gurujī was always sitting. It was 10 years, 10 or 11 maybe, and they were all sitting and writing. But from what they are writing. So, where something breaks, something like this, that's for all people. And they are sitting, all people, like this, something like this. Because nobody can go there and do nothing. Police, they don't give anything. Nobody can go for study. So these people were like this; they were living. But Holy Gurujī wrote many things, and he was giving others too, like this, many things. And then, of course, after this, they became, and we became back again. So then, other Indians became again. So after that, I was always thinking about Holy Gurujī. So my father wanted to send me to school. There was a little school at the beginning, but I didn't want to go there. So I went to the school. At the school, I went up a very big tree, and I was sitting in the tree. Many things. Yes, there are things. I don't want to tell such things. Yes, but it was because of the holy Gurujī. I only wanted to see the holy Gurujī, but nobody else, and I didn't find that. So that is very good, but the holy Gurujī is very great, great. He went in the whole of India. In the whole of India, he had many, many, many disciples, and I went to the distance. So our Gurujī, Madhavananjī Bābājī, he has made everything more or less. Mahāprabhujī, Mādhāvanandjī Bābājī, Mahāprabhujī, it is only in this one litre where it was Mahāprabhujī's disciples and that, only there. But Holī Gurujī, Holī Gurujī went from the whole India, whole India. And like this, when I was little, Bāprabhujī, Devapurījī Bābājī was gone, and little this. And there I was, running away from Holī Gurujī. I ran away some way, because he, my Gurujī said, "I give you some work," and I don't want to have a work, or something, and I want, no schools, there is nothing, so I ran away, and sometimes, holy Gurujī, yes, that I don't. I want to tell, yes, and then he gave me the work, job, two times. I'm a young person, but I went away and I said to Gurujī, "Either you give me with you, or I will run away anywhere." So then he said, "I was somewhere next to Holy Gurujī." Then Holy Gurujī said to me, by my name, he said, "Oh my son, please come, come to me." And then he was sitting with him like this, same as Mahāprabhujī, and the same thing happened to me like this. And in this way, to give me, and he also for all of us, so this is a... that guru satsaṅg, there are many people. Nearly how many? One comes out. We go to see everywhere, seeking where it is. And what kind of something very greatly can come out in the ocean? In the whole ocean, where it is something, but where they can get only like this, so my Mahāprabhujī said, "If you will, you will get that, then it's everything for you. Otherwise, you can work." And I said, "Okay." And really, it is reality. So I said, "I don't know what is good and bad. I can get any stone or anything." So Mahāprabhujī said, "Yes, that will come which you will not see, but when you will see, then you will go away again." So then, with that little work, and then go. On the other side, but Mahāprabhujī is always, of course, he was my mother's, my... okay. So that is, Mahāprabhujī told me, "Do this, that, what you like, and it will be there. Otherwise, all will be not." Then that was very much with my Gurujī, and then he told me, "Mā, Prabhujī." He told me, "Maa Prabhujī was gone, Maa Prabhujī," but Madhavānandjī, and he took me, then many, many things, bhajans, bhajan, and he wanted to say to me, "Bhajan." And I said, "No, no, I don't talk." I was really, I don't want to do anything. When Mahāprabhujī tells me anything, then only I can work for him, that's all. But I, he said, tell bhajan. I said, no, no. Or you are not there, Mahāprabhujī, then I will speak. But still now, I cannot speak with Holy Gurujī because I was always angry, you see, or something. I had all the time, but still, at the end, I was so humble and very good, and this Tuṅgta Mahāprabhujī is like this. And so is that bhajan today. I tell Mahāprabhujī, maybe he will tell me at midnight, "What are you talking about? I don't know." But Mahāprabhujī is very good, my Gurudev. This is that: when, how it's coming, which kind of stone, which stone is there. We are so many, many... Many thousands, but where is that? This one, this? And so, that is, this one person can get, or all can get, it will be. But that is yes, but not yes. In the world, in the house, in the heart, in the words, how is it to say where it is? This is this one little stone, and there are many, many, but they are not like this. And so we also can get it. We should do, we should do. I am always telling my disciples, and I have many disciples, yes, of course, many. But of course, it will be the time coming exactly when the very late time will come. Yes, now either you will die or reign on this little. This is that. So I'm always telling, always to Gurujī, and I'm always telling myself, "I am here, but I don't know." Maybe my one stone can be broken. You see? Some very nice stone was there, but maybe it can be broken like this, and that's why I'm all the times thinking very much with my disciples that, yes, okay, so this is... I will tell you many things. Still, I am not angry, but I am very painful if anything new. Holy Guruji, Holi Guruji told me, I told you a few times, Holi Guruji said, he was coming to me, I was about 11 or 10, 11, and he said, "What do you want?" Yes, he said, "This is a stone, and this is a good choice. What do you want?" Mahāprabhujī said to me, "What do you want?" So I said, "Yes, of course, like this I will be." He said, "No, no, I will not give you this." I said, "But I will not beat." He said, "No, not beat, okay." Then do good. Tomorrow, he said, yes. So Holī Gurujī was very strong with this. It's very nice. After that, he came. After, he said, always to me, "My Maesh." Yes.

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