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Life experiences of a bhakta in India

A direct connection to the divine is our great fortune, yet it can be forgotten in states of anger or sadness. Many lack this connection and suffer, causing further suffering. We can use mantra and prayer to reconnect and to envision peace for all beings. Visualize those in conflict or pain as joyful and free. Chanting for universal peace, from individuals to all of nature, creates a tangible effect. This practice can transform personal relationships by focusing on shared happiness rather than difficulty.

"We’re lucky that we have a direct connection to the Divine through our Living Master."

"So rather than thinking... it’s difficult... We can think of them being happy, with a smile on their face."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Om Śālakpūrjī Mahādeva Kī Jai, Devād Deva Devaśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai, Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Hindu Dharma Samrāṭ Paramahaṃsvāmī Śrī Mādhavānanda Pūjīṣaṭ Gurudeva Bhagavān Kī Jai, Sadāśiva Samārambhaṃ Śaṅkarācārya Madhyamām. Asmadāchārya Paryantaṁ Vande Guru Paramparāṁ, Gurur Brahmā, Gurur Viṣṇu, Gurur Devo Maheśvarāḥ, Gurur Sākṣāt Parabrahmā, Tasmai Śrī Gurave Namaḥ. Mannātha Śrī Jagannātha, Madguru Śrī Jagadguru, Mamātmā Sarvabhūtātmā, Tasmai Śrī Gurave Namaḥ. Salutations to the Cosmic Self. Salutations to the cosmic Self. Salutations to Śrī Alagapurī Jīho Siddhapīṭ Guru Paramparā. Pozdrav, Śrī Alagapurījī Siddhāpīt Guru Paramparā. Mahatma Pranāms to our beloved Gurū Dev, His Holiness Viśvagurū Mahāmaṇḍaleśvarovi Viśvagurujīmu. Om Namah Nārāyaṇa to all the sannyāsīs present here. Hari Om, and good morning to all of you who are present here and who are watching through Swamijī TV. It feels the same like Jadan for me. One day before Swamiji comes, my head is everywhere. I woke up much earlier than I usually do. And yeah, so nothing changed when Swamiji is either coming from Europe to India or if I’m in Europe, he’s coming here, same feeling. So we are all very happy and eagerly waiting for him to come. But now we have something more beautiful here, not more beautiful than Swamiji coming, but more beautiful than my speech. So, our dear future generation, which I’m very proud of, they have some performances for all of us. So, welcome. Guru Kṛpāhi Kevalam Śiṣyake Ānandam Maṅgalam Jai Gurudev! Jai Gurudev! Guru Kṛpāhi Kevalaṁ Śiṣyake Ānandamaṅgalaṁ... Guru Kṛpāhi Kevalaṁ Śiṣyake Ānanda Maṅgalam... Jai Gurudev, Jai Gurudev... Dukrī Pāhikevalaṁ Śiṣyakeyānandamaṅgalaṁ... We all have a thread of friendship between us, connecting all of us. So we and the children, we wish you with the children, we wish you, and that we at least sometimes are able to manage to control our anger. And thank you to Avatār Purījī for this beautiful story for all of us. And at the end, we will show you a few exercises against anger. Jai, Jai,... J Hammering toy. Now I know why. My mother was very clever. I was a bit angry sometimes. It’s been lovely to be here. I’ve been here just, it seems like, many weeks, but just over ten days. Originally, I was to be here one week and leave last Tuesday. But it was a blessing that I got a little bit sick. So it meant it was better to stay here and recover, and not rush back and teach classes, because anyway I wouldn’t be able to speak in the class. And the extra blessing is, now I’m here, I will be going to Vienna later today and see finally our Vishvaguru Swāmījī. It’s been really lovely hearing all the different people speaking. And the different teachers teach the yoga āsanas and meditations. And many people said, including Swāmī Avatār, how fortunate, how lucky we are. We’re lucky that we have a direct connection to the Divine through our Living Master, through Viśva Gurujī. Through Mahāprabhujī, in our heart. And all the lineage, I feel Mahāprabhujī most. But there are many people in the world who aren’t so lucky to have a direct connection to the divine. And we even forget sometimes. If we feel sad or lonely or angry, or jealous, or mother, Lobha, Krodha, all. It means we’ve lost that connection. We’re still connected, but we forgot. So it can happen to all of us, but we have our mantra, we have our gurus to reconnect, and there are other people in the world who have gurus and a lineage of masters that they also connect to the divine, but many people don’t, and then they suffer. And when people suffer, they often make other people suffer. And animals. So I’d like to ask if we could all together pray the peace mantra. For all the people and all the animals who are right now suffering. That when we think of people, whether they’re living here or whether they’ve passed on, not to think of them suffering, but to think of them with joy, with a smile on their face, with love in their heart, with a sense of freedom, and all the things that they need to be happy. So as we chant the peace mantras, we can think of specific people if we have someone in mind that we know personally who is suffering, or people in different parts of the world who are very much suffering at the moment. Or particular animals in the different industries for meat, and for farming, and for sport and hunting, and science experimenting, that we think of all of these animals and people in their joy, that they are happy. And really, it helps. In your personal family or friends that you have regular contact with. Especially family, we might say. There might be some little areas of conflict that get pressed. So rather than thinking, "Oh, always when I see her or see him, it’s difficult, it’s difficult, she has a frown on her face." We can think of them being happy, with a smile on their face, and that the relations are smooth and good. I’ve been trying this with my sister. She’s in Australia. I’m usually over here in Europe. I don’t think she’s watching the webcast, but somehow she’s happier. And her relation to me, from her side, is happier. And it’s a great relief. So whenever I think of her, I try not to remember the difficult times, but just think of her in joy. So the peace mantra, from "Asatoma" all through, its translation of the peace mantra is wishing peace for the trees and the water and all of nature and the elements and the Brahmā and everything in the universe; one by one, it’s mentioned in the mantra. So, together. Asato mā sad gamaya, Tamaso mā jyotir gamaya, Mṛtyor mā amṛtaṁ gamaya. Oṁ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ. Amṛtam Yorma Amṛtam Gamaya, Sarveśām Svastir Bhavatu, Sarveśām Śāntir Bhavatu, Sarveśām Aṅgalam Bhavatu, Sarveśām Pūrṇam Bhavatu. Lokāḥ samastāḥ sukhino bhavantu. Oṁ dyoḥ śāntiḥ. Oṁ antarikṣaṁ śāntiḥ. Oṁ pṛthvī śāntiḥ. Oṁ apāḥ śāntiḥ. Oṁ oṣadhayaḥ śāntiḥ. Oṁ vanaspatayaḥ śāntiḥ. Oṁ viśvadevāḥ śāntiḥ. Oṁ Brahma Śāntiḥi Oṁ Sarvaṁ Śāntiḥi Oṁ Śāntireva Śāntiḥi Oṁ Sama Śāntir Ediḥi Oṁ Śānti, Śānti, Śānti Hi. Feel the peace. Om Bale Śrī Dībnāvam Bhagavān Kī Jai. Viśva Gurujī Śrī Svāmī Maheśvara Nān Satguru Devakī Jai. Vāśiṣyate nāhaṃ kārataḥ prabhūrīp kārataḥ māhaṃ prabhūrīp kārataḥ he kevalam Oṁ Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Praṇām to Alag Purī Siddhapītā. Praṇām Śrī Alag Purī Siddhapītā Paramparā. Dear Swami Avatar Puri Śrīmahārāj, my praṇām to all sannyāsīs present, dear brothers and sisters, and to those who are watching Swāmījī TV. So Swāmī Avatāra Purījī asked me if I could share some words about my experience in India. He asked me to share some of my experiences from India. I remember when I was a child, how I worked with wood in fashion rooms in Nepal, in Balāgūḍ, and in other places. So, yes, I came to India in 2002. After spending six months in New Delhi with Jay Prakash. It was a big inspiration for me, like how long I could stay here, so the most possible was to stay five years. I went home and made some money, and made a visa. I went home, I saw some money, I asked for a visa, and I stayed there for five years. So the next duty was in the kitchen in Jadan. After like three years, Samjī said, "No, it’s time that our Japonese goes to Nepal." So I went to Nepal, I packed my things. And mainly, duties there were to do pūjās, clean. Take the ashram clean. Do satsaṅg. Welcome people when they come. Sometimes some sādhu comes. And in the evenings, we had prayers and satsaṅg. So, Swāmījī also gave me some, which, after a lot of work in India in the kitchen, he told me also to read some books. So I prefer the Krishna-līlās and Rāmāyaṇa’s Mahābhārata in, like, a children’s version. As some of you know, I do sculptures and art. So, I got a lot of inspiration to do paintings. Most likely, I did my sādhanā. Sometimes it took even three to four hours in the morning. It was a big blessing for me to somehow analyze the Gurujī’s life there, Mahāprabhujī’s presence. So, I already spoke some Hindi, and I made friends in the neighborhood with the Indian people. I had some long walks to have some darśan of some temples which are from ancient time, from Mahābhārata time. Very special. To the ancient temples that have been there since the time of Mahābhārata. Some people knew him, and even I heard that they were witnessing of some grandparents that he could show in the Amāvasyā, in the black moon, he could manifest the whole moon, the full moon. When I meet people who tell the story of Amītājīmā from Lilī Amṛtān, there are really descendants of those people who will tell you about it, how he could really do it during the eclipse of the moon. At that time, Swāmī Devānanda from Australia was there. And I stayed in Nepal, and he went to Bola Guda. He gave me also a lot of inspiration to do dūnī, which until today I sometimes do as a hobby. So after some time also, I don’t know how to calculate the time, and then I spent some time with Samādhi, who is living now in New Delhi. And then I spent some time with Samādhi, I don’t know exactly, the time gaps are a bit confusing for me, but with her, who is now in Dili, and she also made me such an artistic work in Dili. So, yes, the most artwork that we did, Samādhi J&M, was to make pizza and sweets for our dear Avazapurījī. It was a competition. Yes. We also had a good time in... So Swamiji gave us the Bhagavad Gītā to learn, some chapters in Nepal. Because samādhi is a beautiful teacher’s soul. And Arjuna is learning. After some time, Devanant went from Bola Guda, and I went to live in Bola Guda. It’s a very powerful ashram with many fireplaces. And it was really, really beautiful. I made a place where I could sleep under the sky. I would put one kilo of weeds in the evening, and in the morning when the peacocks and squirrels came, they would wake me up. Application clock. As you know, there is also this gufā where Maṅgyālājī spent like three months in samādhi. So, I took, of course, advantage to meditate inside. There was one interesting story, I mean, experience. One evening, every evening, sometimes there came some Indians, there come two persons with coconut. And we had a prayer. Prayer. So, in a moment, I saw something like Mahāprabhujī is closing his eyes. The statue. So at the end of the prayer, I was thinking, "Well, what’s that? Did I imagine? Did I not imagine?" The mind. And then came the Indian, and he said, "Today, prayer was very successful." The Lord, the Mūrti, was blinking with his eyes. This prayer was very successful because Murthy closed his eyes. So I felt very blessed, so it was confirmed. Oṁ Śālakpūrjī Mahādeva kī Jai, Devādideva Deva Viśvam Mahādeva kī Jai, Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī Jai, Hindudharma Samanvaya Paramahaṁsavāmī Śrī Madhavānanda Prajñāsāta Gurudeva Bhagavān kī Jai, Viśvaguru Mahādeveśvara Paramahaṁsavāmī Śrī Maheśvaraṁ Prajīgurudeva kī Jai, Haraṇaṁav Pārvatī Pate Harahara Mahādeva Śaṁbhu.

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