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Eat pure meals and practice every day

The devotee seeks complete surrender to the Guru, praying for refuge and liberation from worldly attachment. The Guru's role is threefold: to destroy ignorance like Śiva, impart true knowledge like Brahmā, and nourish spiritual practice like Viṣṇu. The Guru's glory is sung by all scriptures and sages, and seeing the Guru grants liberation. Spiritual progress is cyclical, requiring daily practice of yoga to transform subconscious patterns. One must recognize the human birth as a rare opportunity to seek the divine, moving beyond animalistic tendencies through pure living and self-inquiry. Practice yoga daily for health and spiritual energy, embracing a compassionate, plant-based diet to purify body and mind, aligning with higher consciousness.

"Guru Deva dayā karke mujhako appā na lenā, Śaraṇa pādātari."

"Guru Brahma, Guru Viṣṇu, Guru Devo Maheśvara. The Guru is the Creator, the Protector, and the Destroyer."

Filming location: Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands

Guru Deva dayā karke mujhako appā na lenā, Śaraṇa pādātari, śaraṇa pādātari, śaraṇa pādātari. Uru Deva dayā karake mujhako apanā lenā. Śaraṇa appā dā terī, śaraṇo jagā denā. O devā dayā karake mujhako appā na lenā. O devā dayā dayā karake, mujhako appā na lenā. Sāgara ko nirdhana ke sāre ho, sukha ke sāgara ho, Nirdhana ke sāre ho, dāna mānna me samaye ho, Mujhe praṇon se pyāre ho. Satsaṅga me samaye ho, prāṇo se pyāre, Tumhārā japo terī, lā sebo lā denā. Tamāla japā terī, nā idilā sebo lā denā. Śaraṇapada terī caraṇome jaga dena... Guru deya kha rakhe, mujha ko na lena. Mujako apanale kapati hoon. Jaisa bhi hoon, tera hoon. Kapati hoon, jaisa bhi hoon tera hoon. Gara bara choda ke main sekelo hoon. Gharabar chudake mein sekela ho. Mujha ko appa na guru deyandayya. Mujha ko appa na le. Charan appa da teri, charano me jaga dena. Charanappa da teri, charano me jaga dena. Kudeva dayā kā rakhe, mujhako apnā dena, mujhako apnā le. Sab kā sevā kā hū. I have gone to your feet, I am a servant of everyone, I have gone to your feet, I. I am not alone in this world, I am not alone in this world, I am not alone in this world. I am a beggar, I am a beggar, I am a beggar. The next bhajan we will sing. Mana means the mind, and it says, O my mind, listen about the glory of Gurudev. Mahima is the glory. Ṛṣis, Munis, Yogīs, Avatāras, all, and even the Vedas and holy scriptures, all are singing about the glory of Gurudev. Nobody can be compared to Satya Gurudev. Therefore, always meditate on his holy lotus feet. Then, in your heart, it will awaken medhābhūti, the positive intellect and the wisdom. And then you will get the state of nirvāṇa, mokṣa. Amara Mantra Gurudeva Uchare Gurudev gives you the mantra. Listen to it very carefully, Suna Shravana Dekan. It means that he whispers in your ear, "You were suffering in many, many lives in this Cholasika Chakra, and then with the mantra, you will be liberated." With the help of mantra, the sins from all past lives are washed away. Śrīdev Purījī is the master of Bhagavān Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, who wrote this bhajan. He is devoted to him and singing about his glory. His glory is endless. Jñānī guru mahī maja muni avatāra avaliyah, avatāra avaliyah pura sattva gursam purna hiduja. Śrī sattva gurusaṁ pūrṇa hidujā caraṇaka mallādhārāḍhyāḥ caraṇaka mallādhārāḍhyāḥ. It says, "Let’s do the satsaṅg, and let people say what they say. Don’t care about what people are." Talking, gossiping, it was the bhajan written by Bhagavān Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, and it says that again, mother, father, brothers, the property, everything is for this world but not for me. I will meditate on Nirañjan on. The formless, and if everything goes away, let it go. I go to live with Guru Dev to break the bondages of death. And if the world is sinking into the pleasures, into the karmas, let it sink. In my heart is burning, burning the strong. I wish to sing about the glory of Guru Dev. And if this net of moha, of attachment, breaks, let it break. I repeat the mantra "So’ham," and I’m receiving the blessings of your mercy, Guru Dev. And if all the karmas wash away, let them fall. Oh, Guru Dev. You are blissful, and you are shining like the sun. Swāmī Dīp Mahāprabhujī is staying with you, and if there will be union, let it be union, yoga. It is speaking about getting the darśan, to see, to have the opportunity to see Gurudeva. And we now have this opportunity because Swāmījī came to the Netherlands, and it says, "Oh Gurudeva, thank you that I can see you physically." Life, to you, even Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva, all the gods, they are serving you. They are making seva to you, and also, myself, I find shelter in your lotus feet. I am giving you my body, my mind, and all my wealth. About you, all the wise people and the Vedas are singing about your glory. How can I describe this glory? It’s indescribable. Sometimes it is so hard to practice yoga, but with you, oh my merciful one, I will succeed. I am greeting you again and again from my heart full of love. If you see the Sadguru Deva, this is more than seeing all the holy pilgrimages, Tīrtha. Seeing to have a darśan of Gurudev, it gives heavenly peace and happiness, and it is saving you from the bondages of this mortal world. Oh Gurudev, this is my prayer to thee: please break this worldly, please break the worldly attachment and all my karmas, let me always be in this blissful state. Śrī Devpurījī, you are the real Satguru. On you, the people, the yogīs, and the wise people, wisdom, and even the gods, they are meditating on you. Swami Deep, who has written this bhajan, "Bhagavān Śrīdhar Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, has found the shelter in your lotus feet. Śrīdhar Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Kī Jai." So it says, "Suno, suno," which means "Listen, sakhī, my friends. Listen, my friends." Gurudev, Satguru Aya came to my home here in the Netherlands, or to my heart. Gurudev has come to my heart, and therefore each and every cell of my blood is vibrating out of joy, so I don’t speak too much. The refrain is important so that you know this is the refrain, and then it says how beautiful it is, describing how beautiful it is because of that. So listen, my friends, Gurudev has come. Śrī Dīpna Rāyan Bhagavān Kī Jai. Śrī Śrī Devpurījī Mahādeva Kī Jai. Hindu Dharma Samrāṭ Satguru Śrī Svāmī Madhavānanda Jī Bhagavān Kī Jai, Viśva Guru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramaṁ Śrī Svāmī Maheśvarānanda Jī Gurudeva Kī Jai. Suno Sākī Satguru Gharvāyā, Kālī Kālī Har Śavtāhe. Suno, Sakhī, Sattā Guru Harahā, Kalī Kalī Harashāvatāhe. Sakhī, Sattā Guru Kalī Kalī Harashāvatāhe. Śrī Svāmī Lālā Nānjī Guru Deva Kī Jaya. So, from here to there, from there to here, I want to welcome you all here on this special occasion. It’s 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, and all friends from Holland also. And, of course, to be honored to have such a guest, such a world, world leader, protector, guide, light, word, knight, Viśvagurujī. So, it is my father and my mother, everything to me. So we are all connected, the world is connected, and Swāmījī’s connection between the world, between the cosmos, between the universe, is everything for me. So I’m really glad you can be here. Oh, sorry. Now for the official part. We have a program planned today. Everything will be here at Hanlietz. Beautiful place. And we start with satsaṅg and with some bhajans. There are wonderful singers here. The bhajan band is here. We have a speaker, Swami Viśwa. Viśwa Gurujī will be here. And over there, you’re sitting, maybe you do not know. This is also Mahāmaṇḍaleśwar Gyānaśwapurījī from Jaipur. He is also a guest. And of course, you all know Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar Viśva Gurujī Parahaṃswāmī Maheśvarānandajī. He’s a guest on "Honour", so we are very, very, very welcome to meet him. Meera, Meera,... Mala, Malas. Viṣṇu Gurudevo Maheśvara Guru Sākṣāt Parabrahma Tasmai Śrī Gurave Namaḥ Om Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... You are one, two, three, four. So just make it, make it. Because always you are looking like this, everybody, you can. Yeah. Yes, now it’s better. Thank you. I would like to thank again Rukmini, Thyakpuri, and Yamuna, and many other people who were involved in organizing this beautiful program. Yamuna just now said that Swamiji is our mother and our father. So it is long back said in the Vedas, the Purāṇas, and all other scriptures. Guru Brahma, Guru Viṣṇu, Guru Devo Maheśvara. The Guru is the Creator, the Guru is the Protector, and the Guru is the Destroyer. The Guru is the Scheper, the Guru is absolutely everything. And Guru has really three jobs. And the first job is to remove our false knowledge. That’s why the Guru is always considered to be Śiva. Many times we come to Gurudev and we say, "This is like this and that," and Swāmījī says, "Yes, but." So then he corrects; he has to remove our ignorance. We have normal ignorance when we don’t know anything. That is very easy. But when we know everything, this is very difficult to remove. So Swamiji’s job is first, as a Śiva, to destroy all this that we think is good knowledge. Then he becomes Brahma. He becomes the creator. He says this is the true knowledge. Of course, we don’t believe, or we don’t try enough, so then again and again he is creating the same thoughts or similar thoughts. He is creating always, he is repeating again and again things. It’s not that we didn’t hear. We don’t want to accept. We heard many things. We heard this already. We know that it’s very good to practice yoga. We know it’s very good to practice āsanas, prāṇāyāmas. But tomorrow, and then finally, when we decide to practice and we start practicing, then Swāmījī becomes Viṣṇu. He nourishes us, he protects us, and says, "Yes, continue, yes, continue, just continue." He feeds us. He says, "Go on, go on." And this is, it’s not that simple a process. It’s not that simple a process. It’s being repeated over and over because our old habits, our old theories always come back behind us. We are always living in a family. We have friends. We have friends, and we are also influenced by them, and of course by television and so on. So it’s very hard for Swāmījī to navigate these things. So, on every single seminar when we see Swāmījī, it’s always—he’s always all three at once. He’s again removing the things which we think are very good, then he replants again the seeds, and again he nourishes the seeds. Luckily for us. They are not physical seeds, so it goes very quickly. So we can actually return to where we were very quickly. Even in the Bhagavad Gītā, when Kṛṣṇa is asked what happens when you die, He said that you will continue in your next life on the point where you stopped your spiritual progress. So we are always, after the seminar, we always go back. After the seminar, there is always coffee. Places we visit, all the pizza places or whatever, we are going. And then, when we come back to the seminar again, we are up, but we are higher than the last time. Why is that? Why do we go back? Because there is fear in us. We don’t want to know ourselves. What if I will find... and then you finish the sentence? So why don’t we turn this around? What if I will not find the diamonds in myself? What if I will find happiness in me? What if I find contentment? So instead of looking negatively, let’s just look positively. It’s very easy to look negative. It’s very easy to see negative things. If this was not true, then the newspapers would be full of positive things, but we are happy and we are lucky that our Gurudev didn’t give up on us. Swāmījī got the title Viśva Guru. When you say, when the title is Viśva Guru, but when we call Swamiji, we call Vishwa Guruji, because in India this is more common. Then it means it’s a person. It means with respect. Guru is the person who teaches us and leads us on the spiritual path. How would you call the person who is teaching in 150 countries simultaneously? Gurudev took 52 rounds around the world. He did not do this for the money; he did it for us and the knowledge. Which Swamijī shared all around the world is the same. It’s our inner beauty, our inner love, inner contentment, everything through the practice of yoga, and especially yoga in daily life. Why yoga in daily life? Daily life. Not yoga in weekly life, not once a month yoga. Daily. Why is Swāmījī always insisting on yoga in daily life? Yoga in daily life, because it goes into our subconscious. So when we wake up in the morning and we say we will do it tomorrow, and you say, "Aha, okay, daily life." It is a great pleasure to be here. And I’m so happy that Gurudev allowed me to come here in these flatlands. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Think of our gurus, Mahāprabhujī, Devaprabhujī, Dwananjī, and Mata, Mother and Father. What is that? What is the human? There are so many, many, many animals, many, many other different jīvas, all animals, all. Also in the ocean, in the earth, and swimming all the time. And the cows, buffaloes, etc. All is, all the times, they are coming, going back again. But then, what are we doing? Life, life is life. That life is always. We are coming and going. Going and going. Then it is said, Bhagavān Śiva. Shiva is in the whole world, and many, many you will see. In the earth, very big, big... some coming, big stones. But that is the Śiva. In the earth, all elements, that is the Śiva. Shiva, he’s giving each and every one... Shiva gives everyone, all living beings, balance. Balance. So that Shiva said, Bhagavan Śiva. Bhagavan Śiva. And that Shiva, he said, "I am now human." He says, "I am now human, human." So what is that? It came as the Śiva? So now, the human came. How came the human we are, we all? So one life, that is Śiva. Rest is all will come and go, come and go, come and go. So it was Śiva who gave us humans. It was Shiva, bringing again and again and again. And so they were going like animals. But then, slowly, slowly, we become humans with two feet. And in our brain. So many, many have it in the mouth, but we have all balance and everything in our brain. And we know now, we are very aware now, we know how we are humans and what it is 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. Okay, many, many things. Then it is like animals, and there 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 morning we get up, when we see... In our face, and we open our eyes. You can see today, tomorrow you do it, then you will all understand what it is. Just say, "Mother, I am here." And this is said: "Open your eyes and see, I am human." Understand, open your eyes and see, I am human. And what is a human? Who are we? I am human. Only one word. I am human. And when I go, I go home and anywhere, but I was human. Open my eyes. I am human. And what is in there, human? And we are sitting all here. And we are human. But we will go a different side. 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 all the people, all people, they are one of the best. As old as we are, 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, sitting. I see my... I see these few people here, but they are still not... But they have so much in their... 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 Yajñamās, they all go to their mother and father in heart. And what they have done in their life, they have heard many things. But it comes then, now. I am. I am human now. And how will I do it? So, Mother Earth. This is Earth. And we are stepping on the Earth, and that is Mother. Respect women very much, and even more so when they are older. More and more, take 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 the one drop, and in this drop, dripping like this, you know what it is? This drop of the water, like that? When the drop comes here in my hand, in the whole body, the whole body, this drop of water here. Pure, pure,... pure. Yes, water is there in hand. And it goes, 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 is a mother. Oh, my mother. Oh, my mother, let me inhold myself. Mother, mother. And then we give this drop. All is gone in body, but drop is there, and whole ocean is there. This drop comes one, and it becomes all, one in all, and all in one. Of course, the father is also, the father is very good. He is. You know that. And the father, it is the drop. Just like meaning comes in the navel. Here it is, our life here, here in the navel. And from the navel, here is coming from the father and mother. It is already before. Her daughter was coming and said, "Yes, I have something in me." So, mother and father, and our mother and father is that. And that’s why we all said, when you marry and you are father and mother, they are all life we should live together. And now in Kali Yuga, Kali Yuga, you know what is Kali Yuga? Do you know what Kali Yuga is? Yes. The times we live in now, and now what is happening? Elderly people and younger people, they go away. They go everywhere; mother is there. Very, very, very much. I came to India here, and how many, 50 years. More than 50. 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, they said, "Oh my God, we should not kill animals. Don’t kill anyone, don’t kill." Animals are animals. Give them, but don’t kill them. Then it is like that, very, very, times you were in 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’m going 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, you are all like beautiful water. We have much 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 drops come. That drop is coming there, what I told you. This drop comes from the ocean, which is very big. In the sky, aeroplanes are going. An aeroplane is going through the water, but it doesn’t, not, but it is pure, very pure it is. Then I am becomes to the God, heaven, and others is that like this. So, my dears, I want to tell you, I don’t want to give you anything. I want to keep you healthy. Practice for the whole body, and work, and live life. And when it will come, it comes one day, and our life is gone. The body remains here, so practice your yoga. Yoga in daily life. Yoga in daily life. So every day, practice for your body, exercise. I also practice every day. Young, we are doing running and like this, okay. But finally, we have to be, if we want to be healthy and very good, then 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, then sit like this, like this, so that the energy comes inside. Not like this. Even we can do it only five times, then not like this, not like this. Is go swimming, and then low like this, so like this when we practice. Maybe three times only, but live like this, so because we are going old, but it comes energy very much inside, slowly, very good. And this energy comes within if you do it slowly and calmly in this way. Then also going, you know, a little, leg, legs, a little like this. 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. So it is coming direct from here, through here, to here, till here, and stretching this other side. We are not to run, we are not to take what I do. You can sit like I am sitting, you are standing, and they are doing very good, and this is what we have done. So, like this, practicing, you will know 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, very strong, very good. Strong and everything is healthy, so yoga first is yoga in daily life. Yoga is for everybody, yoga in daily everyday yoga and practice everything. This is for our body, but now 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, life, long life, etc. But my soul, where has it gone, or 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 killing and this and that. Now, how are they doing? How are they animals, killing many, many? When one is holding somebody in a... What this animal is... Even the little animals do like this. And those who are doing this will also go one day, very bad. And you know, many people are eating the old, and they take the vegan, no, not vegan. And people also eat a lot of eggs. Yes. So everybody goes and brings the eggs. So there are eggs, and now people are taking this very much again. And they will have 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 in everything. Give to your animals and to your families or children; give something pure. Pure means in the fruits and like this. And you will see that our life and body will come very pure and good. So yoga in daily life, first is that, take good health in the body, but not from the meat and this and that. So when I came to India, and that time two, three people come and they said to me, "You don’t eat?" I said, "Yes, but only I eat, yeah." And now, thousands and thousands and thousands of people come to this. And now there’s one disciple, and it is about not long. And they said, "I want to go." Five, six people go and see the cows. And there, a few people were sitting, and they took the cows. And the cows, maybe, they got out. People wanted to look at the cows, and the cows... and so they pulled out. And it was the boy. Oh, there was a calf coming out; it was a bull. And these people, they took it out. It is a boy. They just eat it 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 have they done? We will not eat anything. We will not eat animals. We will only give them, only for the eating, yes, and they can go. Only from the cows, they should eat the cows’ things. They should eat, we will eat. But now we have made it like this, and it is not good. So now what has happened? They got this vegan, the vegan. And I have told many people from here, yesterday they told me that you had many, many people here who are vegan. Here in the Netherlands, I’ve been told, there are a lot of vegans. Many people who fly from the West to India take a vegan meal on board. And many people come from India. Many are eating meat, but of course, many people also do not eat meat. But they tell very much, yes, we want and we will be vegan. The airplane we go, then they see the thing, and they say, "Yes, vegan." And on board, they say, "I’m vegan." So the whole world, many, many countries, I have gone to, many, many days, he told us. I flew a lot, he told us. So many countries, many, vegan, vegan, vegan. Many countries, many vegans. 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. It will be that only humans will eat only fruit, and this and that. But for your practice, your body, your life. And live as a good human. You will be very great. So all these people gave you many things, very good. Maharājī, he was also telling very good. He did, he did, and so many, many of my disciples 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, and eat very well, and practice something. Think about God one time. It is going to be killing; the other side is eating. That should not be. People are making. That the two, boy and man, they are going to marry. And they come very good and very nicely. But backstage, they are killing some bugs. This is not good. That’s not good. So, I wish you, my dears, we should be human, human humans. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.

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