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Part 1: Satsang Reflections on the Glory of Guru and Yoga in Daily Life Guru Deva, dayā karake mujhako āpanā lenā... Guru Deva, dayā karake mujhako āpanā lenā... Sāgara ke nidhāna ke sāre sukha ke sāgara ho, nidhāna ke sāre sukha ho. Tanaman meṁ samaye ho, mujhe prāṇoṁ se pyāre ho, pūrano se pyāre ho. Tamāla jāpī dila se bolā denā. Guru Deva, dayā karake mujhako āpanā lenā... Kapaṭī hūṁ, jaisā bhī hūṁ, terā hūṁ. Kapaṭī hūṁ, jaisā bhī hūṁ, terā hūṁ. Gharabāra choḍake maiṁ, nā saṅgelo hūṁ. Saṅgelā ho, mujhako āpanā lenā caraṇa, āpanā dā terī caraṇoṁ meṁ jagā denā... Sabakī sevā kā ho, caraṇoṁ meṁ jyāya ho. Tere caraṇoṁ meṁ jyāya ho, na inatā bulānā uje sajagā meṁ akelā ho, jaisā melā dā kā. Mere doṣa miṭā denā Caraṇoṁ meṁ jagā denā... Mahāprabhujī kī karatā Mahāprabhujī kī karatā... The next bhajan we will sing is "He Manare, Satguru Mahimājana". Mana means the mind, and it says: O my mind, listen about the glory of Gurudev. Mahimā is the glory. Ṛṣis, munis, avatāras, avadhūtas, yogīs, and even the Vedas and Purāṇas — all the holy scriptures — are singing about the glory of Gurudeva. Nobody can be compared to Satgurudeva. Therefore, always meditate on His Holy Lotus Feet. Then, in your heart, Medhābudhi — positive intellect and wisdom — will awaken. And then you will attain the state of nirvāṇa, mokṣa. Amarasantāna mantra Gurudeva uccare — Gurudev gives you the mantra. Listen to it very carefully. It means that he whispers it in your ear. You were suffering in many, many lives in this caurāsī kā cakra (the cycle of eighty-four lakh births). And then, with the mantra, you will be liberated. With the help of the mantra, the sins from all past lives are washed away. Śrī Devpurījī is the master of Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, who wrote this bhajan. He is devoted to him and singing about his glory. His glory is endless. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya. He manare, Sataguru Mahimājana, He manare, Jñānī Guru Mahimājana. It says: "Let’s do the satsaṅg, and let people say what they say." Don’t care about what people are talking or gossiping about. This bhajan was written by Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, and it says: mother, father, brothers, property — everything belongs to this world, but not to me. I will meditate on Nirañjana, the formless one. And if everything goes away, let it go. I go to live with Gurudev to break the bondages of death. And if the world is sinking into pleasures and into karmas, let it sink. In my heart, a strong wish is burning to sing the glory of Gurudev. And if this net of moha, of attachment, breaks, let it break. I repeat the mantra Sohaṁ, and I am receiving the blessings of your mercy, Guru Dev. And if all the karmas are washed away, let them fall. O Guru Dev Śrī Devpurījī, you are blissful and you shine like the sun. Swami Dīp Mahāprabhujī is staying with you, and if there is to be a union, let there be yoga — union. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavāne Kī Jaya, Śrī Śrī Devpurījī Mahādeva Kī Jaya Oṁ. The bhajan speaks about receiving darśana — the opportunity to see Gurudeva. And we now have this opportunity because Swāmījī came to the Netherlands. It says: Oh Gurudeva, thank you that I can see you physically. Even Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva — all the gods — are serving you, offering sevā to you. And I myself find shelter at your lotus feet. I offer you my body, my mind, and all my wealth. All the wise people and the Vedas are singing about your glory. How can I describe this glory? It is indescribable. Sometimes it is so hard to practice yoga, but with you, O merciful one, I will succeed. I greet you again and again from my heart, full of love. If you behold Sadgurudeva, it is greater than seeing all the holy tīrthas (pilgrimage places). Having darśana of Guru Dev brings heavenly peace and happiness, and it saves you from the bondages of this mortal world. Oh Guru Dev, this is my prayer to you: Please break my worldly attachments and all my karmas. Let me always remain in this blissful state. Śrī Devpurījī, you are the real Satya Guru. Upon you, people, yogīs, the wise, wisdom itself, and even the gods — they all meditate on you. Swami Dīp Mahāprabhujī, who wrote this bhajan, has found shelter at your lotus feet. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Kī Jai. Then it says: "Suno, suno" — listen, "sakhī" — my friends, listen, my friends, "gurudev" — "sataguru" — came, "āyā," "ghara" — to my home, here to the Netherlands, or to my heart. Gurudev has come into my heart. "Kali kali harasavata he" — and therefore, each and every cell of my blood is vibrating with joy. I won’t speak too much; the refrain is important. How beautiful it is — it describes how beautiful all this is. So listen, my friends, Gurudev has come. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Śrī Śrī Devpurījī Mahādeva Kī Jaya, Hindu Dharma Samrāṭ Satguru Śrī Svāmī Mādhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Parama Śrī Svāmī Maheśvarānandajī Gurudeva Kī Jaya. Suno sakhī, sataguru ghara āyā, kali kali harṣavatā hai. Holi, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Śrī Svāmī Lālānandajī Guru Deva Kī Jai, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvarānanda Śrī Svāmī Maheśvarānanda Guru Deva Kī Jai. So, from here to there, from there to here... I want to welcome you all here on this special occasion. It is very emotional for me. To see all of you here — we have known each other for so many years — and to welcome you in Holland, all the brothers, sisters, all friends from Holland as well, and of course to be honoured to have such a guest, such a world... a world leader, protector, guide, light, knight — Viśvagurujī. He is my father and my mother, everything to me. So we are all connected — the world is connected — and Swāmījī’s connection spans between the worlds, between the cosmos, between the universe. He is everything for me. So I am really glad you can be here. Now for the official part: We have a program planned today. Everything will be here at this beautiful place. We start with satsaṅg and with some bhajans. There are wonderful singers here, the bhajan band is here. We have a speaker, Swami Vishwagurujī, and over there you may be sitting near Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Gyānaśvara Purījī from Jaipur — he is also a guest. And of course, you all know Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Viśvagurujī Parahaṁsasvāmī Maheśvarānandajī. He is our guest of honor, and we are very, very, very blessed to meet him. Mīrā, Mīrā,... Mālā, Mālā, yes? Śrī Śrī Alakh Purījī Mahādeva Kī Jai, Devādhideva Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai, Ārādhya Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī Kī Jai, Hindu Dharma Samrāṭ Mārvaṇandajī Bhagavān Kī Jai, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvarānanda Purījī Gurudeva Kī Jai. Oṁ Brahma Guru Viṣṇu Guru Devo Maheśvaraḥ, Guruḥ Sākṣāt Parabrahma, Tasmai Śrī Gurave Namaḥ. Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ. You are one, two, three, four. Just make it... because you are always looking like this, so you are in the middle. Yes, now it’s better. Thank you. I would like to thank you again. I would like to thank Rukmaṇī, Thyāga Purī, and Yamunā, and many other people who were involved in organizing this beautiful program. Yamunā just said that Swamiji is our mother and our father. This was declared long ago in the Vedas, Purāṇas, and all other scriptures: Guru Brahmā, Guru Viṣṇu, Guru Devo Maheśvaraḥ. The Guru is the creator, the Guru is the protector, and the Guru is the destroyer. The Guru is absolutely everything. The Guru truly has three jobs. The first job is to remove our false knowledge. That is why the Guru is always considered to be Śiva. Many times we come to Guru Dev and say, "This is like this and that," and Swāmījī says, "Yes, but..." Then he corrects; he has to remove our ignorance. We have normal ignorance when we don’t know anything — that is very easy to remove. But when we think we know everything, that is very difficult to remove. So Swāmījī’s first task, as Śiva, is to destroy all that we mistake for good knowledge. Then he becomes Brahmā, the creator, and says, "This is the true knowledge." Of course, we don’t believe, or we don’t try enough, so then again and again he creates the same thoughts or similar thoughts. He is always creating, repeating things over and over. It’s not that we haven’t heard; we don’t want to accept. We have heard many things; we have heard this already. We say, "Yes, yes, we know. Yes, yes, I know that." We know it’s very good to practice yoga, to practice āsanas and prāṇāyāmas. We know it is good to do yoga, to practice āsanas and prāṇāyāmas — but tomorrow. And then finally, when we decide to practice and we start practicing, Swāmījī becomes Viṣṇu. He nourishes us, he protects us, and says, "Yes, continue. Yes, continue. Just continue." This is not a simple process. It is repeated over and over because our old habits, our old beliefs, and our old theories always come back. Our old patterns return again and again. We live in families. We have friends. And we are also influenced by them, and of course by television and so on. So it is very hard for Swāmījī to navigate all of this. Therefore, at every single seminar when we see Swāmījī, he is always all three at once. He is again removing the things we think are very good, then replanting the seeds, and again nourishing them. Luckily for us, these are not physical seeds, so the process goes very quickly — we can actually return to where we were very quickly. Even in the Bhagavad Gītā, when Arjuna asks Kṛṣṇa what happens when you die, he replies that you will continue in your next life from the very point where you stopped your spiritual progress. So after the seminar, we always go back. We visit coffee places, pizza places, whatever we are doing. And then when we come back to the seminar again, we are elevated, but we are higher than the last time. Why do we ever go back? Because there is fear in us. We don’t want to know ourselves. What if I find...? You can finish the sentence. So why don’t we turn this around? What if I do not find the diamonds in myself? What if I find happiness in me? What if I find contentment? Instead of looking negatively, let’s just look positively. It is very easy to look negative, to see negative things. If that were not true, newspapers would be full of positive things. But we are happy and lucky that our Gurudev did not give up on us. Swamiji received the title Viśvaguru. When we call him by the title, we say Viśvagurujī, because in India this is more common — it means a person, with respect. The Guru is the one who teaches us and leads us on the spiritual path. How would you call the person who is teaching in 150 countries simultaneously? Gurudev completed 52 rounds around the world. He did not do this for money; he did it for us. And the knowledge that Swamijī shared all around the world is the same: our inner beauty, our inner love, our inner contentment — everything. Through the practice of yoga, and especially Yoga in Daily Life. Why Yoga in Daily Life? Daily life. Not yoga once a week, not once a month yoga. Daily. Why is Swāmījī always insisting on Yoga in Daily Life? Because it sinks into our subconscious. When we wake up in the morning and say, "We’ll do it tomorrow," then the habit says, "Aha, okay." Daily life — it is a great pleasure to be here, and I am so happy that Gurudev allowed me to come here to these flat lands, these lowlands. Thank you very much. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Devādhideva Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jaya, Śrī Śrī Alakhpurījī Mahādeva Kī Jaya, Hindu Dharma Samrāṭ Mārvaṇandajī Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvarānandajī Guru Deva Kī Jaya, blessings of our Gurus. Mahāprabhujī, Devpurījī, Mādhavānandajī, and Mātā — Mother and Father. Mahāprabhujī, Devpurījī, Śrī Alakhpurījī, Mother and Father. What is the human being? There are so many, many animals, so many different jīvas: all the creatures on land and in the ocean, cows, buffaloes, and so on. They all come and go back again and again. But what are we doing? Life is life. That life is always... we are coming and going, going and coming. Part 2: Becoming Truly Human: A Message on Inner Balance and Divine Life Then it is said, Bhagavān Śiva. Śiva is in the whole world, and many see this. You will see on Earth very big stones—some coming as large stones—but that is Śiva. In the Earth and all elements, that is Śiva, Śiva. He is giving to each and everyone. In a way, this is balance, balance. So that Śiva said, Bhagavān Śiva. Bhagavān Śiva. And that Śiva, he said, "I am now human." He said, "I am now human. Human." So, what is that? It came as Śiva. What is that? It came as Śiva. So now the human came. Then came the man. How came the human we are, we all? So one life, that is Śiva. The rest is all will come and go, come and go, come and go. So it was Śiva who gave us humanity. It was Śiva bringing again and again. So they were going like animals, but then slowly, slowly we became humans with two feet, and in our brain, so much we have. In the mouth, but we have all balance and everything in our brain. We all have balance in our brains. And we know now, we are very aware now, we know how we are humans and what it is we can do. We know that we are humans, and we know what we can do. But there is always a negative that comes. And those who are really bringing it in themselves, it is not easy, it is very difficult. That I am human. I am human. But it comes there, they are coming back again. And so they are eating everything: meat, many, many things. Then it is like animals. And then we kill animals, so that is too many. But those who come and see how it is going, who am I? So when we sleep, and then in the morning we get up, when we sleep in our place and we open our eyes, you can see it today. Tomorrow you will do it. Then you will, you will, all will understand what it is. Just say it, Mother, I am here. "Zeg, Moeder, ik ben hier." And this is said, "Open your eyes." Open your eyes and say, "I am human." And say, "I am human." Understand, open your eyes and see, "I am human." Open your eyes in the morning and say, "I am human," and see. And what is it to be human? And what does it mean to be human? Who am I? I am human. I am human. Only one word: I am human. Only one sentence: I am human. And when I go, I go home and anywhere, but I was human. If I go, I can go anywhere, but I was a human. Open my eyes. I am human. I am a human. And what is in there, human? And we are all sitting here. We are all sitting here, and we are human, but we will go in different directions. Then I step on the earth. I was sleeping, I opened my eyes, and I saw I am human. And then, with both my legs, Mother, can I step down? Or, if Mother is not here, Mother is old, and old people, all people, they are one of the best. As we grow old, we are going up and up to God. We should see all old persons. There are many, there are more, and they are still not old. I'm still not old, but I see these few people here, and they have so much in their brain. And they are already God. Young now, they are very good. No, okay. But it is not like this. So whenever you see some old persons, you should tell, please, or anything good, go to the grandparents. When you come to your grandparents in the evening, and others become younger ones, they all go to their mother and father in heart. So if you go to your older people or your great-grandparents, you go there from your heart. And what they have done in their life, they have heard many things. But it comes then. Now, I am human, and how will I do it? It is very human, the nature of a human being to do this. So, Mother Earth, this is Earth, and we are stepping on the Earth, and that is the Mother. Respect women very much, and the older they are, the more you should treat them like a god. After, I want to go to the water. Morning, little drops in your hand. We see the water in the ocean very much, but I am only with one drop. And in this drop, dripping like this, you know what it is? This drop of water is like that. When the drop comes here in my hand, in the whole body, the whole body, this drop of water here is pure, pure, pure. Yes, water is there in the hand, and it goes with the whole energy in our body. It is like this fire, if it is a fire on your hand. Oh God, burning, burning, burning. Yes, or if it is a little water. And in water is that which is a mother. Oh my mother, let me hold myself. Mother, mother... And then we give this drop. All is gone in the body, but the drop is there, and the whole ocean is there. This drop comes as one, and it becomes all: one in all, and all in one. Of course, the father is also very good. He is. You know that. And, father, it is the drop, just like meaning comes in the novel. Here it is, our life here, here in the navel. And from the navel, here is coming from the father, and the mother is already before her daughter was coming and said, "Yes, I have something in me." So, mother and father. Our mother and father are that. And that's why we all said, when you marry and you are a father and mother, they are all life we should live together. And now in Kali Yuga, you know what is Kali Yuga? Do you know what Kali Yuga is? These times, the times in which we live now. And now, what is happening? Elderly people and younger people, they go away. They go everywhere; mother is there. Very, very... I came to India here, and how many? Fifty years, more than fifty. When I saw many people, many people, they did not think of eating meat. But I went there. And then I went, so many people in this country. I was here for many, many years. And I went to many worlds. And now, how many of these people said, "Oh my God, we should not kill animals." Don't kill anyone, don't kill. Don't kill animals, don't kill animals. Animals are animals. Give them, but don't kill them. "Voed ze maar, dood ze niet." Then it is like that very, very many times you were in the fire in your mom. Now you are going to die. When you die, he dies. But still, he does not die. The body goes down. And there was, we also in the novel. It comes from that moment. But where can I go? I go to other animals, or I go to God. God is not only like this. That is like a whole ocean, a whole heaven. In the whole heaven, there is, you are all like beautiful, beautiful water. We have a lot of water. But all this water is not clean, and this and everything. But this water comes up. It goes very high up. And when water comes from above, very nice, it comes drop by drop. That drop is coming there, as I told you. This drop comes from the ocean, which is very big. In Hamel, aeroplanes are going. Aeroplanes are going through the water. But it does not. But it is pure, very pure it is. Then I become one with God, in Heaven. And the others are dead, like this. So, my dears, I want to tell you, I don't want to give you anything. I want to give healthy practice for the whole body, and work and live life, and when it will come, it will come one day, and our life is gone, but the body remains here. So practice your yoga, yoga in daily life, yoga in daily life, every day. Practice for your body, exercise. I also practice every day. Young, we are doing running and like this, okay. But finally, if we want to be healthy and very good, then we have to practice. Like this, not like this. When we hold very straight, the whole energy comes like this. And when I do like this, it's not. You can sit on the chair. If you cannot stand up like this, sit like this, like this. It comes, so energy inside. This is how the energy comes in. So, you, you, everybody, you know that you are doing practice. You did very well, but maybe you did very good, as I told you. But so it is coming direct from here, through here, to here, till here, and stretching to the other side. We are not to run. We are not to take note of what I do. You can sit like I am sitting. You are standing, and they are doing very well. And this is what we have done. So, like this, practicing, you will know you can do many things. As you practice, you can do many things. And in one month, every day for one month. You will become very heavy, which is very, not like this, you will become very strong, very good, strong, and everything is healthy. So, yoga, first is yoga in daily life. Yoga, yoga, yoga is for everybody. Yoga is in daily life, every day, and practice everything. This is for our body, but now, the body is a body. Sooner or later, we will go. But from the body, practice, and what I told you, like this, or like this, or this, or this, and that, slowly. This is giving good health, long life, etc. But my soul, my soul, where has it gone? Has it gone to this side? And so many, many people, when they eat meat and this and that, they become old. Slowly, slowly, they are going down. And many people have, now, it was when I was dead here, it was not so much with killing and this and that. Now, how are they doing? How are they animals? Animals killing many, many. When one is holding somebody in a... One holds him fast and the other cuts his throat. What is this animal? What does the animal feel? Even the little animals do like this. And those who are doing this, they will also go one day, very bad. Those who do that will not end well one day. And you know, many people are eating the old, and this is, they take the vegan, no, not vegan, blend, yeah, animals. The egg, yeah, so everybody goes and brings the egg, yes, the egg. So this egg, and now people are taking very much of this again, and they will have many, many problems in life. And he said that those who are eating this, then you will see suddenly they are dying like this. It goes from the body, very problematic, very powerful, like this. So I would tell you, my dears, all my brothers and sisters, you have very good fruits and everything. You have very good fruits and vegetables and everything. And give to your animals, and this year, families or children, give something pure. Give your family, your children something pure. And pure means in the fruits, and like this. And with this, I mean fruits, vegetables, pure products. And we will see, you will see that our life and body will become very pure and good. And you will see that your body will react positively to that, pure and good. So, yoga in daily life, first is that, take good health in the body. The first principle of yoga in daily life is to take good health in your body. But not from the meat and this and that. So when I came to India, at that time, two or three people came. And they said to me, "You don't eat?" I said yes, but only I eat, yeah. And now, thousands and thousands of people come to this. And now, there is one disciple, and it is about not long. And they said, "I want to go." Five, six people went to see the cows. And there, a few people were sitting, and they took the cows. People wanted to look at the cows, so they pulled out, and it was the boy. And these people, they took it out. It is a boy, just a little bit like this, and they eat them, and they eat it. And if it was a baby, then go to the other side. But how is it we kill the little animals? So these people, a few people, they came to me, Swamiji, we wanted to see the animals, but how they have done, we will not eat anything, we will not, animals, we will only give them only their meat. Only for the eating, yes, and they can go. Only from the cows, they should eat the things that cows eat, we will eat. But now we have made it like this, and it is not good. So, not what has happened, they got this vegan. The vegan, and I have told many people from here, yesterday told me that you had many, many people here, vegan. Here in the Netherlands, I have been told, there are many vegans. So many, many vegans, you see, when they go to India, people from here in airplanes, many people who fly from the West to India take a vegan meal on board. And many people come from India. Many, many are eating meat. But, of course, many people also don’t eat meat. But of course, many Indians don’t eat meat. But they tell very much, yes, we want and we will be vegan. In an aeroplane we go, then they say, "Eating?" and they say, "Yes, vegan." So, the whole world, many, many countries, I have gone to many, many, he told us. So many countries, many countries, vegan, vegan, vegan. And these people, they tell really that they become very relaxed, good, and the body is very good. And so now it will come, in three lives, in three lives, it will be that only humans will eat only fruit and this and that. But for your practice, your body, your life, and to live as a good human, you will be very great. So, all these people, they were giving you many things, very good. All these speakers gave you a lot of beautiful words. Mahārājī, he was also telling very good. Mahārājī also said beautiful things. He did, he did. And so many, many of my disciples are like this. In many countries, they are very happy and they are giving good things. So, my dears, I can only tell you: be healthy, have a long life, eat very well, practice some things, and think about God. One time it is going to be killing, the other side is eating. That should not be. On the one hand, death, and on the other hand, eating; that is not good. People are making that two, boy and man, they are going to marriage. And they come very good and very nicely. But backside, they are killing some bugs. This is not good. That's not good. So I wish you, my dears, that we should be human, truly human. Human. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.