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The Living Temple of Oṁ: Reflections on the Inauguration of the Oṁ Ashram

The Oṁ Ashram is a living temple, shaped as the sacred syllable Oṁ.

Two types of temples exist: stone and human body. The divine presence dwells in both. The Oṁ Ashram remains the only temple in the world formed as Oṁ. Oṁ is the symbol of yoga, life, and the yogi’s heart. Its construction followed ancient Vedic tradition. The foundation stone includes stones from local lands. A nine-day yajña purified the outer space and inner being. Simple people donated funds and built it with their hands. Activation came when gold-plated kalaśas were placed on its domes. A brief window of five minutes aligned cosmic forces. Cosmic energy now flows through the kalaśa directly to the Śiva Liṅgam. This energy radiates outward, transforming wrong into good. The Śiva Liṅgam bears twelve forms of Śiva and is surrounded by one thousand eight Śiva statues. The guru’s presence functions like light in a dark cave. Darkness within melts instantly before that light. Thus, the stone temple and the inner temple merge in practice.

"There are two types of temples—the stone one, and the human one. There is the presence of God in both of them."

"What is the value of the guru? You can see the dark cave. Then comes the light. And when the light comes—it doesn’t depend on how dark the dark in the cave was—it will disappear."

Filming location: Spisska Nova Ves, Slovakia

Gurujī, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ, Bhagavān, Kī Jaya, Āśram, Śrī Mahārāj, Kī Jaya, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvarānanda, Śrī Svāmī Maheśvarānanda Purījī, Bhagavān, Kī Jaya. Dear Vishwagurujī, I would like to welcome you to Spišská Nová Ves in the name of the Slovak Union, Yoga in Daily Life, and in the name of all bhaktas who came to this satsaṅg today. In the name of Slovak Union Yoga in Daily Life, I would like to welcome all of you. Vishwagurujī has been visiting this city for long years, for many years. These are not just years, but tens of years, decades. The oldest yogī among us — I am about 70, but this young lady is about 80, and she is a short recap of the history of yoga. It won’t be short because life is long, but the last decades are connected with yoga. I would like to thank all of the yoga teachers, especially Monika Hružová, who has been doing effortless work here. And I would like to thank Alan Dudinsky, whom I met when he was five years old. So I would like to thank you for everything. The history in Spišská Nová Ves, in Slovakia, and in the whole of Europe — I will be shorter. I prepared a list because it’s important at my age that I don’t forget anything, and I have my glasses, and I will speak slowly to have time to translate it. At the beginning, I would like to say that I was surprised. Not that I’m the oldest one, but that I was chosen. It was a big surprise for me. But at the moment, I really have stage fear. So. Love and peace, and thousands of peace trees, and meetings with all happy of all continents. The next page. He has welcomed Vishwagurujī many times on lectures, and also the first yoga teacher was Alan Dudinsky in Spišská Nová Ves. Thanks to him. Thanks to him, the group of yoga teachers started to grow. I would like to remind you of the beauty of the moment. Many of you experienced this, and it resides in you till now. Was it the first meeting with your master, with Swāmījī? How was it? It was amazing and eternal. In 1975, Alan met Viśvagurujī in Moravia. And then there were first satsaṅgs with Viśvagurujī and Holīgurujī in Strilky. The spiritual father is the spiritual father of the spiritual center in Strilky. What he says about it is that to be in an ashram is a blessing. It’s the entrance to the big temple. Breathe in the different earth. Whether you try to touch another world with your soul, and go to light and to highness. These moments will resonate in you forever. That this satsaṅg and this moment will be the miracle of this moment. Thank you. Děkujeme. Thank you, Anka. And as he said: There are two types of temples — Kāmeṇe chrámy, the stone one, and the human one. There is the presence of God in both of them. And Vishwagurujī effortlessly builds the temple of our human body, as well as the temples, those stone temples around the world. And if you are able to keep, to see this essence, and the energy of this work which Vishwagurujī gives us, that one is happy. Nā veky. Forever. And today we will see how the biggest temple in India was built. We will speak a bit about this. And again, we would like to try to feel this energy which started to flow in this temple. All of us know that we have lived through this year with the opening of this ashram. So we will try to harmonize with the technique, a little bit of light. This temple was built based on the Indian tradition. It wasn’t easy to create the plans of the temple, nor to decide which material they would choose. You can see pictures from 30 years ago, where they started to dig the hole for the foundation stone. Two days, whole days and whole nights. Veitske Himni, and they held a yajña for the whole nine days. They asked for the blessing of this place and of this building. Thousands of people were coming every day. This is the ready-made foundational stone. Please, continue. This is the foundation stone, and you can see there the… Inside, you can see the stone also from Levoča and Spišská Nová Ves, a Poprad, and Poprad. So it’s your foundation stone. These are different ceremonies. And the Shiva temple in the old part — you can see that those trees around are really small because it’s from 30 years ago. Now, at the moment, they are big. And our dear Swāmījī coordinated all the steps of the work. Now we will jump to the present moment. 2024 or 2023. This is the moment when this temple welcomed us three or four weeks ago. The greatness of these buildings you can feel just when you enter the building. I was there a few times, but what I experienced this time during the grand opening of this temple, I can’t really describe. This temple is unique, and they said that this is the eighth miracle of the world. Why? Why is it like this? Oṁ is the symbol of the yogī, because Oṁ is the symbol of yoga. We can speak a long time about Oṁ. And this temple is the only one ashram in the world which has the form of Oṁ, which is shaped in the Oṁ form. And the mantra Oṁ is an important mantra for every yogī. Not just for a yogī in daily life, but every yogī has the sound of Oṁ in the depth of his heart. Oṁ is life. You can see tons and tons of stones where there are carved reliefs and sculptures of mythology, of yoga. This is the place of the Nine Days Yajña, the nine-day ritual, which was held there. Which purified the space. Which purified our inner space, our inner world. Both the outside space and the inner space of all of us. And these are so-called kalaśas. They are gold-plated. Mosadzne. These are the tops of the domes of those different temples. And they placed those kalaśas just before the grand opening. They realized it was time for the grand opening, and the time was just five minutes. The moment when these kalaśas are placed on the top of those domes, the temple is activated, and it comes to life. The cosmic energy goes through that kalaśa to the Śiva Liṅgam. And through the spaces of this temple, it flows to the whole world, to the whole space. During those five minutes, when they placed the top of those kalaśas on the top, the temple started to be the Ashram temple. And the energy from this temple starts to flow now — energy which will change the bad, the wrong, to the good on this earth and in this space. And it will influence our inner life. We will speak about this synergy and how these two temples influence each other. This is the entrance to the temple. This is the flag, which is the sign of Oṁ. Great work was done by Mahāmaṇḍaleśwar Purījī. This is the inner space of the temple, where there is the Mahāsamādhi of our beloved Holy Gurujī. A beautiful, beautiful place of marble stone. In this temple, you can feel this resonance. You don’t need to do anything in the temple, but you start to shrivel a little bit in the temple. Big respect. Such a feeling. Humbleness. Holiness. And the feeling of the divine. This is the statue of Holī Gurujī. This is the statue of Holī Gurujī. And our dear Viśvagurujī is going to bless the kalaśas on the crane right at that moment, to meet those five minutes. You can see the safety: they were hanging on one hook. And I can tell you that the wind was really strong. It was something. This is the bell at the entrance to the temple. When you enter the temple, you can ring the bell. This is during the prayer. And this is the Śiva Liṅgam. Here you can see the Śiva Liṅgam. The cosmic energy flows through the kalaśa on the top of the roof, and through that copper cone, it drops onto the Śiva Liṅgam. You can see there are twelve forms of Śiva on the Śiva Liṅgam. At this place, the cosmic energy activates the earth energy, and through this temple it goes to the whole space, to the whole universe and earth. It’s a really divine place. It’s the center of life. The Śiva Liṅgam is surrounded by one thousand and eight Śiva statues, because Śiva has one thousand and eight names. And branches of Yoga in Daily Life, or a single person, can donate to this ashram, and their name is then written under that Śiva statue. According to the ancient Vedas, the life temple has to be built from the donations of simple people, not from the money of big corporations. Simple people contribute to the building of this temple. And the second level is that the temple has to be built by the hands of simple people, normal people. This temple and these statues were created by 300 to 400 workers, simple people. It was a lot of human work and human energy. Swamiji, our Vishwagurujī, and children — that’s a chapter about oneself. Vishwagurujī and children, it’s love. Swāmījī loves children. Swamiji loves children. Children are our future. Because children are our future. And this is a picture of our friends from Martin, who made these pictures. And I thank Milan Novak, who brought these pictures, and we can see them now. Takže děkujem. Thank you. What is the value of the master, of the guru? What is the value of the darśan that you can see the divine? What is the value of his presence? You can see the dark cave. It is very dark. Imagine the dark cave, very dark. Then comes the light. And when the light comes — and it doesn’t depend on how dark the dark in the cave was — it will disappear. In his angle of look, the negative energies melt. The darkness in ourselves, and it’s not important who we are. And this is the value, this is the richness of the presence of the Guru. We are already so many programs, and everybody — we told everybody, very nice, very, very nice. I am very, very happy. I am sitting here, and I see you very much, very much. You are my, you are my, my friends. Yeah. And when we get, giving everybody, and making you this ashram is this. It is very good, and I am sitting here, and I am very much in my heart. Yes?

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