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Nāhaṁ karatā prabhu-dīpa karatā mahāṁ prabhu-dīpa karatāhi kevalaṁ śānti śānti... Sadā Śiva samārambhaṁ Śaṅkarācārya madhyamām, asmadācārya paryantaṁ vande guru paramparām. Guroḥ Brahma, guroḥ Viṣṇu, guroḥ devo Maheśvaraḥ, guroḥ sākṣāt parabrahma tasmai śrī gurave namaḥ. Mananātha śrī Jagannātha, madguru śrī Jagadguru. Salutations to the Cosmic Self. Salutations to Śrī Lakhpurījī Siddha Pīṭa Paramparā. My Daṇḍavat Praṇām to our beloved Guru Dev, His Holiness Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Maheśvarānandapurījī. Oṁ Namaḥ Nārāyaṇa to Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Svāmī Vivekpūrījī. And good morning to all of you present here and watching through Somjit TV. We were discussing how a sannyāsī always renounces everything in life. One example of that is Śivajī and Pārvatījī. They were walking, and Śiva is the Mahāyogī, the yogī of all yogīs. Once, as they were walking, they passed a place where a body had just finished burning. The coal was still hot, and there was a sādhu, a saint there, who was warming his chapatis on the coal. Pārvatījī then told Lord Śiva, "Those who do your deep tapasyā, those who are always taking your name, to them you give nothing. And to these worldly people who don’t do anything, who are always lying and stealing, to them you give such a beautiful house, a beautiful life. Why?" Śivajī replied, "He is happy as he is; he needs nothing more. Even if I gave him anything, he would not necessarily be happier. But this sādhu is completely happy and content with everything within him. He is peacefully warming his food and is going to eat it. So, I don’t think we should disturb him; let him eat peacefully, and let’s go further." Every couple argues once in a while. So Śivjī and Pārvatī also argue a little bit here and there. She said, "No, I don’t believe you. If you offer something to someone, why would that person not accept it?" Śivjī said, "Okay, my dear, as you wish. I will try it for you." Śivjī disappeared from Pārvatī and went to that sādhu, appearing in his form. He said, "Āśīrvād, blessings. I came here to give you whatever you want." The sadhu asked, "Who are you?" "I am Śiva." "So, what do you want?" He said, "Nothing. You are such a good sādhaka. You are always meditating, you are always doing your sādhanā, and I am happy with you. That’s why I came here to give you a boon and to give you blessings for whatever you want." The sādhu said, "Did I call you? Did I ask for you? Do you think I need anything? Can’t you see I’m happy, enjoying, warming my food? I want to peacefully eat my food, and you come out of nowhere and are disturbing me." Śiva said, "No, but if I come, I come very rarely, and if I appear, then I can’t go without giving. So ask whatever you want." The sādhu said, "Okay, if you really want to give me something, then give me peace and go, please." Śivjī disappeared and left, going back to his wife Pārvatījī. He said, "I told you he doesn’t need anything. You didn’t want to listen to me." That is how we all should try to be: happy with what we have, content with whatever we have. When Gurujī asks, "Do you need something?" you say, "Yes, your blessings, that’s enough. We don’t need anything else in life." Because when you have his blessings, then you are successful in any way, and you will get everything you want. He doesn’t need to talk to you all the time. Even if he doesn’t talk to you, even if he doesn’t interact with you, he is within you and you are within him, and he is one in all, all in one. So he’s within all of us. We being around him and he just looking towards all of us, that’s more than enough for us. For many people, even that is not possible. So we should be happy and grateful that we have the opportunity to spend time with him here. For some people, even God comes or the Guru comes, but their greediness, their desires inside, that destroys them. As we were discussing earlier, what’s the biggest thing that destroys our spiritual growth? Ego, envy, jealousy. These old things, when you have them within you, will completely destroy you and bring you down. It doesn’t matter how much we managed to climb up the stairs of spirituality. When the I, me, myself, when this comes in, it’s done. And then we again start from level zero. And then we again climb up, and then we achieve something in our path, and then we think that we are at Maganīs. So we should always try to be as humble as possible. And we should always be as if we don’t know anything. Anyone gives any type of knowledge, take it. Who knows, maybe the person who is giving you the knowledge is younger than you, but still knows more. It can be your parents, it can be your brothers, it can be your sisters, it can be your friends. Any type of positive knowledge, any type of positive energies you’re getting from someone, accept it. And that’s why we have two ears. As soon as you get negative thoughts or negative things which people tell you, it goes in from this ear, and you process it. Bad things? Don’t like it? Get it out of here. See, God is smart, you know. Everything is there for a certain reason and a certain cause. And sometimes, being too knowledgeable or too literate, then also we start doubting God. For example, there was one Mahātmājī, one sādhu sitting. And a principal of the school from that area came to him and said, "What are you doing? Why are you always sitting here meditating, wasting your time? Go and work, earn some money, live your life. Don’t just sit here and waste your life. The god, anyhow, is a gyānī. A gyānī is a person who knows, the knower. A gyānī is illiterate. So the god anyhow doesn’t know, then what will he tell you? God will tell you nothing because he knows nothing." The sādhu asked him, "And how do you know that God knows nothing?" The principal said, "You see, you who are completely uneducated, you don't even notice, you don't even realize. Look up." "This neem tree, those of you who were in India might know what a neem tree is. Neem leaf oil we use a lot in medicines, or you can also boil the neem leaves and have a shower with that, and that removes your pimples. So the fruit of the neem is so small. So he said, 'Look, your God made such a big tree, but put such small fruits.' And look at this plant here, this tumbā, it’s called a tumbā, it’s like a pumpkin. It’s such a small plant, but it has such a big fruit." So then the sādhu had to show that God is not stupid. So he used his powers. He used his devyadraṣṭrī. And he looked straight at one fruit on the neem tree. The principal thought, 'Okay, maybe now finally he will understand what I’m telling him,' that’s why he’s looking at the tree. And then that fruit falls on the principal’s head, and then he went like this. And the sādhu asked, "What happened?" He said, "No, nothing, the fruit of the neem tree fell on my head." The sādhu said, "Exactly, if God would not be smart, and he would put the pumpkin up on the tree, and it would fall on your head, your pumpkin will explode. So you see, if this pumpkin would be up there, because the principal was saying, as big tree, that big fruit should be. So if the pumpkin would be up there, then your pumpkin would be smashed." So God always knows what He’s doing. He created this whole Brahmāṇḍa. He created all of us. So he knows what he’s doing always, so we should not doubt the guru, we should not doubt God, because they always know what is right and what is wrong. They know what they’re doing and why they’re doing it. In the same way, once Lord Viṣṇu and Lakṣmī were both discussing something. They wanted to test how greedy humankind can be. So one day they decided to go to one man’s house. In that household, they used to do pūjā to Lord Viṣṇu and Lord Śiva. Lord Viṣṇu said, "He’s the bigger bhakta of me than of you." And Lakṣmījī said, "No, no, no. He is a bigger bhakta of me." Then he said, "Okay, we will go and test." Lakṣmījī said, "First you go." So Lord Viṣṇu, you know the gods, the great enlightened Mahāpuruṣas, they can take the form of anyone and come to you in any form. So Lord Viṣṇu took the form of a sannyāsī and went to that house. As we were talking a few days back, he said that during Cāturmās, the four months, the sādhus used to give satsaṅg in one place and not go here or there in the monsoon period. So then he asked that person, "I would like to do Cāturmāsa, can I stay here?" The person said, "Yes, this house opposite to me, the green color house, that’s mine. And it would be our great honor if you could stay here and do your Cāturmās here. But I have one condition: I will not leave anywhere for the four months." He said, "Oh Gurudev, this house is yours, you can live here forever, as long as you want." The sādhu said, "Okay." He went and went inside the house. After some time, a yoginī, a lady sādhū, came and she said, "Oh disciple, I’m also here for doing anuṣṭhāna, not anuṣṭhāna, sorry, cāturmāsa. So, do you mind me staying here with you?" And she asked for water, and she put her hand in her bag and took out a golden pot. And she drank water from that golden pot, and then threw the pot away. She said, "I’m still thirsty, bring more water." And she took another pot out of her bag, drank water, and threw that away also. And the person, you know, then comes the greediness. So he said, "Sādhvījī, why are you throwing away these pots?" She said, "Oh, I have this siddhi that whenever I put my hand in that bag, I can pull out a golden pot, and I never reuse the same pot again. I throw it away, and if anyone wants to pick it up, they can pick it up. Most welcome." Then he felt a little bit greedy. He said, "Okay, this is good business. She will eat three times a day. She will drink water at least five or ten times. So a few kilos of gold every day, it’s good, no? And that also for free, so when I sell it, I’ll get rich in these four months." She said, "This greenhouse is yours." He said, "Yes, there’s one sādhu living there." He said, "Yes, okay, then kick him out. I want to stay in that house." Then he doesn’t care anymore if there is an enlightened guru sitting there or who is sitting there. So the baggage of money or wealth is more important than spirituality. But, for all of us, what is more heavy? Gurudev’s kṛpā, right? Yes. So then he said, "Okay, I will go now, and I will send him away." So he goes there, he said, "Mahārāj, your time is done, your chāturmās is done, please go." He said, "I told you that I would not go anywhere for four months, not even outside the house." He said, "Mahārāj, are you going, or should I bring the stick?" And then he kicked him out, and then he told Sādhvījī, "Please come, the house is empty for you." Then she said, "If you can kick out a sādhu because I have gold, then when there is someone more powerful than me, you will kick me out." So I will not stay at your house. That’s what happens when we have greediness, anger, envy, jealousy towards people; then Gurubhakti, and the devotion, and the spirituality, leave our house, which means us. So when we have Guru Bhakti, then we should control our mind; we should control ourselves so that we do not get affected by worldly materialism. Things will come, things will go. You might win a big lottery, and the next day you get sick and all your money goes there. So nothing is permanent in this universe. Not even the universe. After the four yugas, Pralaya will come and finish. So why get too attached to things which are not even ours? What is coming, accept it with open arms. What is going, also let it go. Holi Gurujī used to say, "Auto welcome, jao to be welcome." Which means if it’s coming, welcome; if it’s going, less things, less crowd. But what we need is always the kṛpā of Gurudev. That’s the most important thing in the universe. So we were practicing Sannyāsa Sūkta last week. And today we will start with the prayer to the Guru. This is for example, if the Guru comes to your house and you don’t have much time to chant the whole prayer, then this is Mantra Puṣpāñjali, Mantra Āratī. This is āratī. This is the way how you worship your guru through the mantras. And for those of you who don’t have the paper, it’s here. Okay, for now we will do without the melody. And then, when you know the words, we will do the melody. We will start without the melody, and when we learn how to say it, we will sing it with the melody. [The text then includes a lengthy, repetitive recitation practice of the mantra "Namostvā-nantāya sahasra-mūrtaye..." and other verses, which is an instructional segment for the audience. This is followed by concluding prayers and remarks.] Oṁ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ... Oṁ Śālakpūr Jī Mahādeva Kī Jai, Devād Deva Deva Viśvar Mahādeva Kī Jai, Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Hindu Dharma Samrāṭ Paramahaṁsa Svāmī Śrī Madhavānand Purījī Sadgurudeva Bhagavān Kī Jai, Viśva Guru Muḥammad Alīśva Paramahaṁsa Svāmī Śrī Maheśvarānand Purujī Gurudeva Kī Jai, Sat Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai, Haraṁ Āf Pārvati Pataye, Har Har Mahādeva Śambhu. Praṇām Gurudev. Om Namaḥ Naya. Dear Avatārapurījī, always I have a problem, because I never end, dear friends. Now we hear a nice mantra, and also it’s sometimes very hard for us to repeat a mantra. And that is the excellent brain gymnastic, I know, because every morning in morning sādhanā, we are learning and chanting mantra, and I know how it is for the heart. For us, for our Tārpovījī, for Swāmījī, it’s easy, but for us, it’s very hard because it’s a different language, plus that is the Sanskrit. And once, many years ago, Swami Anandi and I tried to learn Sanskrit. We tried for a few hours per day, and I asked a professor of Sanskrit, "Is it normal that I have a headache after that?" And he said, "Yes, it’s completely normal." And he said, "I had a headache for 12 years and some itching in my brain." And that is the truth, because we are activating the brain. And we are activating both parts of the brain. Plus, that is excellent for pronunciation. Especially if you have a little speech impediment like me, for example, when I pronounce my R’s. And you have, in one moment, the feeling like you have a dead fish in your mouth. And that is another thing. In one moment, when you start to be tired of this. You try to repeat, and in one minute, I don’t want this anymore. That moment is most important. Because it is always easy to practice something that is going smoothly, you know? When you have a dog or a cat and you pat down the hair, it is the same thing. It is very easy to practice āsanas which are easy for us, but I learned from the first. In the moment of practicing yoga, we should practice these things which we don’t like and which are hard for us. Because only in that way are we changing, and every change is hard. When is something easy? Usually, it’s very easy to say to yourself, "Okay, today I will sleep two hours more." And I will have one meal more. That is very easy for us. But it’s very hard to change and improve ourselves. And also, when we are chanting the mantras, I always say that I have a feeling, you know, when you have a dog with the hair, but under this, it is also nice, like wool. And your dog went in the forest and caught a lot of these seeds called chichak, and everything became... and what to do with this? If you want to brush it, it will be very painful to the dog. And also, for you, it will be painful. Sometimes it’s easy to cut, and the same thing is during the day. We are running in this world, in this jungle, and we catch a lot of these seeds. Seeds of bad thoughts, a lot of virus programs inside, like what we heard yesterday from Avatar Pūrageś. This story about it is not good to have guru, husband, and wife, because there are some stupid people in the satsaṅg who said this. And immediately you catch that virus, and you are finished. You are very young. And you know from that story what happens later. And a lot of such virus programs we catch through the day. And in ancient times, they said, I don’t know, when princes have long hair, they need to brush it fifty times, or how many times, before sleeping. I don’t know. That is the benefit of not having hair. And you know, you catch the smell also. If you go in some pub, immediately your hair has the smell of the cigarette, and you need to wash yourself after that. And we need mantras. We have guru mantra, we have meditation, but also we have such mantras in the Sanskrit. Which is excellent to chant because it’s also brushing our brain, like a hair, and after that you have peace of mind, not mind in the pieces, but peace of mind, and that is very important. Start morning, and if you read... And try to see the translation, because when I became Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar, Swāmījī told me, "You should learn ten Śānti mantras." And for me, it was, "Oh my God." But if you read and if you try to understand, you will see that in each mantra is, what we will say in modern language, that is the affirmation. And you start with Sarveṣām or anything else. Let everybody be happy in peace. Every mantra is for the benefit of the whole world, and you start with such thoughts in the morning. And also, it will be good to finish the day with such thoughts. And especially finishing the day is very important. Because if we finish the day with a lot of virus programs, those virus programs will work for three, four, five hours. And slowly we will go down, and we have a lot of virus programs around us. From Vishwagurujī many years ago, we hear that there are existing Nārada vṛttis because Ṛṣi Nārada was a troublemaker. Also, you know that once when Ṛṣi Nārada visited Pārvatī, he was very nice and asked, "Pārvatī, do you wash Śiva every day?" Yes, yes, yes. And he is blue. Yes, yes. But that is the poison inside. And you are not afraid. That is enough. You know how a virus program functions. Very short and not finished sentence. And every one of us needs to have a firewall and an antivirus program. What does it mean that all day you should be aware? My mother came to me, and I think 25 years ago I had cancer. And she came to me and asked, "Are you okay? Do you feel good?" That voice and that sentence, it’s a virus program. And if you are not sorry, and if you are not aware of this, if you don’t have a firewall, nothing will be immediate, but the virus will, like a worm, work in the apple inside and start fear. And in the moment when fear starts, we are kaput. We are finished, and in that moment starts illness. We are healthy, but we are not healthy because we are in the fear, and that is the Nārada Vṛtti. And he just asked, "And you are not afraid?" "No." "Why?" But try next time when you bought Śiva, just a little lick. Shoulder, and you will see, maybe he is a beater, and that poison comes to you, I don’t know. And that is not enough. Next day, Nārada visited Śivjī, and just pleasant talk. And he asked, "Shivjī, I hear that Pārvatī is washing you every day." Yes, yes, every day Abhiṣeka. And she is standing behind you. Yes. Of course. And you are not afraid. Common sense, we say, but warm inside. Why are you asking? People say that she wants to eat you. That’s nonsense. But if you want, just be careful and just look quickly behind you. And Śiva and Pārvatī were thinking that Nārada was a little out of his mind. But viruses and worms are working in Apple. And sometimes you have a nice apple, but what is inside? And next time, when Pārvatī was making abhiṣeka and washing Śiva, there was a tense situation, tension in the air. And Pārvatī wants to lick the shoulder, and Śiva was looking all the time, and in one second he looked and started the problem. Finally, of course, that is Śiva, that is Pārvatī, that is the conscience, cosmic conscience and energy. They solved that problem, but if in that story there is a problem with the nara-dāvṛti, in which situation we are, and all the day we should be aware. Aware of everything. Plus, we need our mantra. That is the best antivirus program. Plus, it is also very important to know and to chant mantras. Because that is the nice brushing of our brain waves. And we will get the peace of our mind, and when we have peace in the mind, we will also have peace in our heart. We will have this joy, expanding of our heart, and our life will be successful. Okay, and yes, when I talk about mantra, we know one mantra, and we are chanting it very, very often. Oṁ pūrṇamadaṁ pūrṇamidaṁ pūrṇamu dachyate, pūrṇasya pūrṇamadāya pūrṇameva vaśiṣyate. That mantra is very short. And many years ago, I was thinking that I am wise enough to read about physics. This topic is more for Mahāmaṇḍaleśwar Gyāneśwarjī. He is very good in that topic because he finished physics. But I read about the hologram universe. And that book is, and you read and read all this stuff inside, and after half the book, I realized it is so complicated. And we have it so easy in this short mantra. If you take one piece from the whole, that one piece will be perfect, like this whole. And this hole will not lose anything if you take something from it. They said about pictures in the book. And we know in the mantra about God, about Ātmā and Paramātmā. And we know that in these mantras we talk about God, Ātmā and Paramātmā. Here is the gravity, and something is pulling me on this side because of it. Sorry, we are all like these night bugs, and we are going to the light. But we know this mantra, and we will chant all together, yes?