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Sataguru hurt me with the arrow of knowledge

The spiritual experience of receiving the Guru's knowledge is described through the arrow metaphor.

The Guru's arrow of knowledge strikes a seeker. It wounds deeply. Tears begin to fall from the eyes. Every hair on the body stands erect in ecstasy. The deep knowledge brings intense pain in the heart. This pain causes one to faint and fall to the ground. Ritual priests and religious leaders do not know this pain. Doctors and healers cannot diagnose it. Only another who has been similarly struck can understand. The complete God shatters the seeker into pieces. He does not use a physical bow and arrow. His words are the arrows that strike. These word-arrows destroy all mental pride and ego. Then all illusion and deception cease. In nothingness, the sun of inner light rises. Only the one struck knows this experience.

"My Gurudev hit me with an arrow."

"He completely smashed me, He put me into small, small pieces."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Prasāda, it is your prasāda, and I would like to tell you something, so that after the prasāda it is very good. We should know, and we already know, what I am telling you. This is always very good. When we would like to do our practice here in the ashram, we are doing many things. We all practice either sitting or standing. Both are okay, but if we can stand, we must consider in which direction and how we are doing it. Sometimes people think that others cannot see what we are doing, the practice, or this and that. Many people are very big and standing here, and in the back, some people are little, so they cannot see properly, like this. We are doing prārthanā, prayer, and in the prayer we are all standing. Now, strong people—they are strong, and they always like something, and they are always in a big group of friends, while others are on the back side. The people are very good, of course. They are very good people. That is okay, it does not matter. I let them in, my friend. We are here, okay. But it should not be that we are going like this and then like this, like this. For example, if he is very tall, he is very tall. This is very high. This is high, so for that it is working, so that is okay. We will make ourselves like this, in a good arrangement. Then it is better that everybody can see. Number two, when we are sitting all together like this, we are again in the front. Then they can sit like this, or they like to sit like this. In school, the children—we will tell them how to do it next time. If it is so, then they should go like this also. Who is young? In front, on this side, like this, we can tell there are students, and in that way, then it is. We are very nice, we are standing, and we can see. When we are sitting like this, one person and then another person, then it is like this. We cannot do like this and like that. So now he is sitting there, and then you are here, and then here. That is coming out very good. But if you are both coming, this line and then this line together, then we are sitting like this, or sometimes like this. Many times, I will also tell them in Vienna. In Vienna and everywhere, I will tell them, please, like this. Some people cannot sit down on the ground, so they should have some table or something, and you can sit on the back side. Like Mansa Devi, she is sitting outside, and sit down, I know that. But you are in the right place, therefore you should not move, okay? That is right. Many people say this: "The Hungarians are short, but there are some tall ones, Hungarians." They are Hungarians, no? They are very tall, and sometimes like this. This girl, this side, the children also have to be on the back side, nine of them. So, I am not telling you anything wrong, but it is better that we can do this. Can everybody now, can you do it? We have to see. How do you tell? But a boy has come from Hungary, America—this boy, Hungarian. No, no, America, yes, there. You can sit here, but you are not a Hungarian American. You are a Czech. Yeah, yeah. So, like this, can we do something? Everybody, please. You can sit. You are to do it on one side, okay? That is also who is young. Again, you are hiding too much. No, no, stay here. I am telling you. But she can go up front. Yes, front, good. Not right here near me, but there is good. Yes, good. Very good. And you can also come to the front. That is good. Of course, you are here, and this one, our brother, these two, they come a little back, and you come to the front, and others. You do it yourself, you should decide yourself how you are, and you can look at them. So if we can do like this, that is number one. And number two, every time you should go and look to see how things are in different places. Otherwise, again, you will come here like this and then it is done, yeah, okay? And you, will you sit on the back side or the front side? Front side, then sit in the front. Okay? Good, without history, okay? Your sister and you. Okay? Very good. So now, please, see yourself how you are looking. If you have a table, and this, of course, you can sit on the back side here, or back side here, or this side, then it is okay. But when somebody, when people come in and sit in the middle with a chair, then it is not good. Okay, it is very good. And this, who is there? So, anybody? Okay, so now see yourself how it will look. Now, who will tell exactly? Do it yourself now, so that you see that, yes, my position is this: in the front, back, this and that. Yeah, like this. So you see, everybody, see yourself. There is nothing to say, whether it is Swami or not, or this, okay? But if this is Swāmījī, then of course they have one special place like this because they are sons. In this way, we have the whole place here for the yogīs, all the yogīs. These are there, or in this one, but not looking all in one line outside, no. So, look nicely, and do not say that I am old, you know, that is okay. But the present is now, here for us to face and look into. When we go, yes, we are this higher, okay. Then, and then, it is different. Yeah, that is it. So, now I would like to tell you, or ask you, to stand all up and see how you see me. And the people who are working with the machine, sit down and work. Okay? Yeah, so that is very good. Who is that, you see? So, who, where? I do not know who that is. Do you see something that is too far behind? Prakāś Pūñj, yes, come more, more. Come in front, front, more, again, yes, come more. Yes, are you taller or is she taller? You are taller, then come front. Yes, oh, then you have to go back. Thank you. No, yes, of course, we have to learn tolerance (Sāmtāmiyā). Good, thank you. And now this is a very good video. And now we do that like in a line. And then we come back a little, like this and like that, so that all are very good there. Okay? Very good, thank you. Who is there behind? Who is right, and who can please come and do it yourself? Yes? You are back and well? Yes. Okay. Okay. Thank you very much. You are the line of the yogīs, so you can go this side. Yeah. You are the yogī. Yeah. And Agni Devī, you all come this side. Yes. Yes. That is very good. Who are the yogīs? There are yogīs. Yes, yogīs here also. Yeah, we are very good. So those who are tall, one, two, and three can sit there. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Okay, good. Thank you. And come this side one more, two. Two come this side. Okay, so that you are, we are, come. Who is taller? Come. Taller, you or she? You, yeah, there. Come there. So, stay all very nicely like this. Not in one line, okay? When there are too many people, then of course we must adjust, otherwise we are very nice. Thank you. Everybody, take your place. Number and number thinking, bhajan is like this, okay? Yes, go a little back, yeah, back, back. A little back, back, a little back. Back means that Guru, Mahāprabhujī, and this—we should not put our back to them like that, yeah? So go a little more back from our Mahāprabhujī and also all these three. So that all mahātmās, sādhus, and these are there. Okay? Good. So, thank you very much. Can you tell me something? Yes? I mean, I want to tell you, do you think something? What is good or not? You can tell us. You can come here. Yes. Yeah? There? Yes. Yes, a little, yeah, very good. Okay, thank you, that is very good. Very good, but you will come a little to this side, yeah. Yes, good, very good, thank you. We are very nice, yes? Yes, and now, how do we stand? No, no, no. Yes, okay. And we will come to him. He will come to him. Thank you very much. So in this, who will be the first one sending the mantras? So mantras, very good mantras. Which mantra? That is also. So let us do today from our Mahāprabhujī’s side. So ours will be bhajans, all from this Mahārāj. But not every time the same. There are so many nice things. And so, now, who will come? And there is a very nice, very nice sending, okay? So, Siddhārī Om, sit down, please. Thank you very much. Very good. So please come singing. Who can sing these bhajans? Okay? From the, ah, yes. So, every time now, tomorrow also, from the whole complete collection of this Mahārājī, all in one little area. Okay? I will not, please do not tell me, because you know my leg is a problem for a while, so I will, for a while, put it like this. Siddhip Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Devpurī Samādeva Kī Jai, Mahāprabhujī Kī Jai, Devpurī Samādeva Kī Jai. Om Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ Hari Om. It is very nice, you sing very well, everything, but I think we have to make something, a little place. So you are making it very nice, and then you are only making like this, and then again like this, something, okay? But not all the time, okay? So one more, next one, okay? One ho gayā, the next place. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavānak. Devpurījī Mahārāj kī jai, Mādhavānandjī Bhagavān kī jai, Mahārāj kī lālanānjī Mahārāj kī jai ho. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Kī Jaya, Devādhī Deva, Deveśvara Mahādeva, Kī Jaya, Śrī Śrī Alakhpurījī Mahādeva, Kī Jaya, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Śrī Śrī Lālanandajī Mahārāja Kī Jaya, Satya Gurudeva Kī Jaya, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya. Śrī Śrī Devāśvara Mahādeva, Kī Jaya, Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Kī Jaya, Indudharaṇa Samaratsmaravānandajī Bhagavān, Kī Jaya, Śrī Śrī Lālānandajī Mahārāja, Kī Jaya, Viśvaguru Mahāmāleśvarānandajī Gurudeva, Kī Jaya. Everybody, because many people, they do not know, they are only listening, but they can know. So, can you give it in the language? Now, Europe, subject, language. This is one of the very beautiful bhajans from Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar, Svāmī Lālanānjī. His photo is here, and he was also from the Goswami Samāj, from Puri. He was living near the Kāṭhu Āśram where Mahāprabhujī was living. And his samādhi is now also a few kilometers away from Mahāprabhujī’s Āśram. What can you tell me about my feelings? About how am I feeling? What am I doing? How can you tell about my consciousness? My Gurudev hit me with an arrow. Later, we will see that this arrow is the arrow of knowledge. So, what can you tell? How can you tell? What am I feeling? What can you tell about my experience? Because Gurudev is the one who hit me with his arrow. Lagi Aya Karchot Hamare Lagaya, so I was hit by it, and I was hit and I was wounded by this arrow, and from my eyes the tears start to fall. This is the beautiful word tapake, like the tears are falling down because I was hit by the arrow of knowledge from my Gurudev. So every hair on my body is standing upright. When Gurudev hit me with this arrow, all my hair on the body is—I am completely, not trembling, but happy, ecstatic. I am so happy. I like it very much. Sunākara Gyāna Gambhīra. When I heard this deep, deep knowledge, Bhaya Darada Abadīla Khaṇḍera, what happened in my heart? I felt a great pain. No paṇḍits—so no people who are doing pūjās. Pandits do pūjās for Hindus, Pīrs do pūjās for Muslims. So now, people who are doing pūjās, they do not know about this pain. This is beautiful, but there is a very strong pain in my heart. Because of this pain, mūrchā kākar, I fainted, girā dharāṇāpar, and fell down on the earth. Murchā Kākar Girā Dhananapālā. I fainted, my heart exploded, my heart broke, and I fainted on the earth. My whole body, this is called Kaleja, the chest was as if it was broken. We have this beautiful picture of Hanumanjī when they were trying to tell Hanumanjī, "How can you say Rāma is with you? Rāma is with you?" and he got upset. He just opened his chest, and Rāma and Sītā were sitting inside his heart. Vedya Hakim Koi Nahi Janen. So first, in the first verse, he was saying, "Janena Pandita Pir." So neither Pandits nor peers know this pain, nor Vaidyas or Hakims. Vaidyas are the Āyurvedic doctors, Hakīms are the Muslim doctors. So, no doctors know about this pain. Darda Yahedi Lagir, what kind of pain is in my heart? Jiske lagi vohī cāne, only that one who was hurt in the same way can know this pain. Duja Na Chane, or nobody else can know this pain. Śrī Dīpā Dayālā Mīlhā Prabhupūraṇa, I met the complete God, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī, Merciful Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhu Jī, Karḍiyā Chakānā Chūr, He completely smashed me, He put me into small, small pieces, like we are having bāṭī. And we are like making churma, so Chakana Chur. Shabda Tirki Esimari, He did not use a bow and arrow, Swamijī never used bow and arrow, his words are those arrows which actually hit us. He used the arrow of his words; he hit me in such a way, Mitgaya Mana Magarur, that all my pride of mind, all my ego, just disappeared. Lala Kahe Ab Dhoka Nahi. Sri Lala Nanjī Mahārāj said, "There is no more cheating, there is no more lies, there is no more this illusion." In me, in the nothingness, the sun rose, the light came out. What do you know about my feelings? Satguru hurt me with the arrow of knowledge. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Kī Jai. Śrī Alakhpurījī Mahādeva, Kī Jai. Devādideva, Deveśvara Mahādeva, Kī Jai. Haradya Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī, Kī Jai. Hindudhāraṇa Samrāja Mādhavānandajī Bhagavān, Kī Jai. Viśvagurujī, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvarānanda, Śrī Svāmī Maheśvarānanda Purījī, Gurudeva, Kī Jaya.

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