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My adoration to the Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, to the Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva, to the Dīpeśvara Mahādeva. To the Hindudharma Samrāṭ Śrī Mādhavānandajī Bhagavān. To the Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvarī Yogīrāja Parampitā Parameśvara Parampūjeśvarī Sadgurudeva. To the Satya Sanātana Dharma: Brahmanandam Paramasukhadam. Kevalaṁ Jñānamūrti Dvandhātītaṁ Gaganīśadṛśaṁ Tatvam Asyādilakṣaṁ Ekaṁ Nityaṁ Vimalaṁ Achalaṁ Sarvādhiṣakṣibhūtaṁ Bhāvātītaṁ Trigunarahitaṁ Sadguruṁ Taṁ Namāmi. I bow to the Alakpuri Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā. My great respect to the Alakpurī Siddha Pīṭ Paramparā. I bow down to Gurudev’s holy lotus feet. I bow to the lotus feet of Gurudevī, Viśva Gurujī. Respected dear Swāmī Avatāra Purījī Mahārāja, and all the Ālaka Purījī Siddhapīṭa Paramparā, the divine sannyāsīs. Yoga and daily life followers are present here in this place and around the world through the webcast. Many blessings to all of you from Viśvagurujī. We are here in a divine place—the Living Light Mahāprabhū Deep Satsaṅg Foundation. We are the luckiest, blessed ones to be with Viśvagurujī here. Under his guidance, we are practicing spiritual techniques. Today, I am very happy to see all of you. This place evokes a feeling like a divine Loka. Our sannyāsī yesterday was mentioning Brahma Loka. It is true that such feelings come here; it is like Brahma Loka. None of us have seen or gone to Brahmaloka, but on this earth, we feel the Brahmaloka sensations here. Our Guru Paramparā Ṛṣis wrote many, many bhajans. When you sing Mahāprabhujī’s bhajans, Devaprabhujī’s bhajans, Holī Gurujī’s bhajans, and also Viśva Gurujī’s bhajans, they contain explanations of how to perceive Brahmaloka. Brahmaloka, where the moon, sun, and stars sparkle, and God’s followers are there every day, singing the divine name of God. Similarly, we have divine light here. It is the name of the pastor, also Living Light. So my Holy Gurujī mentioned that he did not see God, but he sees Mahāprabhujī as God for him. So for us, God is here. And here you can see this light, moon, and sun, and many stars around. You see here the moon, the sun, and you are all devotees of God, followers of God, spiritual path-walking bhaktas. There, one divine ṛṣi, or divine poet, said in a bhajan: "Candan hai ish desh kī māṭī, tapo bhūmi, har grām hai har bālā devī kī pratimā, bachcha bachcha Rām hai." (The earth of this country is sandalwood, every village is an image of the goddess, every child is Rām). With that country, the sandalwood earth, each and every person is useful for God and for this planet. The temple is sacred; as God’s temple, each and every person is the heart. We are believers of God. Every day, repeating God’s mantras, meditation, anuṣṭhāna, and prayer, so our body is like a temple because every day we reveal God, every day we perceive God in our hearts and in everything we do. Thus, it is as if the Divine Loka has appeared here in the Czech Republic. And Mahāprabhujī and our Paramparā Ṛṣis incarnated here and came to guide us on the Divine Path. Now I come to the second point in my yoga daily life: Viśva Gurujī’s life journey. The book I received, "Yoga and Daily Life," shows that Swāmijī’s life was the yoga and daily life way. According to this yoga and daily life, I am also a student. For fifteen years, I have been constantly practicing yoga, not in big seminars, but individually and in some small groups. I am very thankful to Viśva Gurujī from the bottom of my heart for giving me the opportunity to practice yoga āsanas through the Yoga and Daily Life teachers. I don’t know, maybe some of you here are my dear brother or guide, like Swāmī Gajarāṇ Purījī Mahārāj. He is one of the guru brothers and practitioners with whom I practiced. We also go to the government defense place, the Indian government defense place, where we demonstrate yoga āsanas, yoga, and that life. One was RTG; I think she is from the Czech Republic. She was also teaching me and recording ten years back. So, thanks to Viśva Gurujī. That is exactly what I understand about the Yoga and Daily Life system. Similarly, Yoga in Daily Life is the science of body, mind, consciousness, and soul. It is designed by Viśvagurujī for the welfare of the whole world, for the benefit of the earth, for all humans. For them, it is necessary to develop divine consciousness and live in harmony, peace, and life. It is a beautiful and great system, an endless ocean like the nectar of the ocean. Millions of people are practicing around the world—some individually, some in small groups, some sending seminars. And it is according to the Yoga in Daily Life sentence, according to the grammar, and what we call this is the alphabet, starting the beginning of yoga. It means to keep our body young, energetic, and achieve the goal of life. Actually, achieve the goal of life. Secondly, starting—OM means the original life. And then the next preposition of yoga in daily life is that actually the origin of life in English. Beginning the OM means that we should achieve our goal through the practice of yoga. And G means that we should not forget God and good guidance from Viśvagurujī. And G means God realization, life. And IN means the immortal life, that we should live the memory in the world through the practice of yoga and daily life. Then comes PHA. PHA means freedom of life. And PHA means fulfilling, we say life. And FOUR means forgiveness, life. Then it’s starting life. LAW means leading the cosmic light. LAW means the liberation of life. And LOVE means a long life. So, Viśvagurujī shows that each and every letter has a divine meaning in yoga and daily life, individually, alphabetically, in words. And Swāmijī, according to this yoga and daily life, you may know that five main points are spreading around the world: environment protection purpose, world peace purpose, spreading the culture of India and the Vedas and Upaniṣads, and similarly non-violence, which is most required and necessary in human life. Without this, human life cannot find peace and harmony. In that way, I give thanks to Viśva Gurujī for spreading the Indian ancient knowledge and scriptures to all of us, giving to devotees who are day and night waiting for that purpose. Now I want to tell about the Holy Gurujī, how he was divine. Many of you know how Holy Gurujī was. He was a divine soul. I got the opportunity through Viśva Gurujī’s blessing to serve him, to get the opportunity to serve Holy Gurujī in his seva. There are so many, many experiences in my life. Holy Gurujī was divine light, like the sun. In India and around the world, many people came to Holī Gurujī at that time and received his blessings. If people came to Holī Gurujī even once, they never forgot it for life. His aura completely gives peace and a divine atmosphere. He had five divine qualities in his life. He was a good poet; he wrote many poems and many books. If we read his books to understand, his whole life will be over. But how great he wrote—in one part of his life, this book, Soul. He was a divine speaker, preaching around the whole world, sharing Mahāprabhujī’s nectar, bhajans, and his experiences of Mahāprabhujī. He was a divine disciple of Mahāprabhujī. So if we want to learn how to discipline life, we should read Holy Gurujī’s books and have divine faith toward Mahāprabhujī. I was with Holy Gurujī, myself and Govind Purījī were there, and other people too. There is one Mahāprabhujī’s book called Padbṛheṇī. He felt that Mahāprabhujī’s book is himself. Because they have written many, many books: "Guru Granth ko jāniye, parkat Gurū kī de," jinke hirde sāch hoi, khe khoj, śabad me lehi. (Know the Guru Granth to understand the Guru’s books, or what he has written, the letter, or each thing written by him. Prakat guru, he himself is like a guru. This book is like a guru, Mahāpurī Gurujī. Those who have a pure heart will understand that it is the Guru himself.) So what happened? By mistake, the book fell down from the bed. Holy Gurujī felt such pain that it became real. I made a mistake unintentionally, and after he told me that, he said, "I will not eat today because Holy Guru Mahāprabhujī’s book fell down by mistake; I feel pain in my heart." So that is the divine faith he had toward Mahāprabhujī. Many, many disciples around the world are still praying to Holī Gurujī and Mahāprabhujī in their houses where Holī Gurujī visited only once, remembering Gurudeva day and night. Now I would like to sing our company with a bhajan. This is Mahādvanānjī Ānand Dejo. Please, if you are near, Śrī Mahādvanānjī Prabhu Ānand Dejo. Satguru Swami Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī Jai. Viśva Guru Mamandaleśvar Paramahaṁsa Svāmeśvarānandjī Gurudeva Kī Jai. Śrī Madhavānandjī Prabhu Ānandadija. Śrī Madhavānandjī Prabhu Ānandadija. Āśrama Sevaka Seva Seva. So, thank you for listening and giving me the opportunity to share my feelings. Now I think my time is over, and now Successor Jī and Viśva Gurujī’s blessing is waiting. Thank you. Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān. Dev Puruṣā Mātā Devakī, Dīpeśvara Mātā Devakī, Hindu Dharma Samrāḍ Madhavān Jī Bhagavānakī, Viśvaguru Mamūrleśvarī Yogī Rāja, Parampitā Parameśvara, Parampūjya Śrī Satguru Devakī, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī, Hari Om. Oṁ Śālakpūr Jī Mā Devakī, Jai Devadhe Devadevaśvar Mā Devakī, Jai Śādīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavānakī, Jai Hindudharam Samarād Paramahaṁswāmī Śrī Madhavānand Prajīsat Gurudev Gāvan Kī Jai. Viśwa Guru Mahāmaṇḍaleśwar Paramahaṁswāmī Śrī Maheśwarānand Prajīgurudeva Kī Jai. Vande Devamātāṁ Patim Suragurum, Vande Jagatkāraṇam. Vande pannagabhūṣaṇaṁ ṛgadharaṁ vande paśunāmpatim, vande sūryaśaśaṅkavahninayanaṁ vande mukundapriyam, vande bhaktajanāśrayaṁ cāvaradaṁ vande śivaṁ śaṅkaraṁ. Salutations to the Cosmic Self. Salutations to Śilākpurjī Siddhāpīṭ Paramparā. My dad knows praṇām to our beloved Guru Dev, His Holiness, Viśva Guru Mahāmudrā Śrī Maheśvarānand Purījī. Om Namaḥ Nārāyaṇa to Mahāmudrā Śrī Svāmī Purījī Mahārāj and all the sannyāsīs present here. Hari Om and good morning to all of you who are present here and who are watching through Swamiji TV. We are all blessed to be in the Lotus Feet and in the company of our beloved Gurū Dev. The main topic of this whole seminar, which we are talking about, is always Guru Bhakti. Because with Guru Bhakti, all problems can be resolved. With Guru Bhakti, all obstacles in our lives go away, because that’s the highest Bhakti. Śaṅkarācārya, who was very knowledgeable, also had a guru. He was born in southern India, a place called Kalandhi. From his young age onwards, sometimes, you know, with our past karmas, with our past lives, we build up those good karmas, and we are already spiritual from the beginning. First of all, we are very blessed to have gotten human life. That’s a big blessing because God knows how many cycles we completed to get this human life. Even when the baby is in the womb, if we tell good things and read the Bhagavad Gītā, the Rāmāyaṇa, nice, beautiful scriptures, that also affects and brings positivity to the baby inside the womb. That’s already one part of becoming spiritual. So, from previous past life karmas, Ādi Guru Śaṅkarācārya was already very spiritual from birth, and he gained the knowledge of all the Vedas, all the Śāstras, all the Purāṇas at a very young age. There also needs to be some monks in this world, no? But it’s somehow hard for parents to let go of their children, understandably. Sometimes it’s good because you never know how great a guru that person can become if you let him go. It was obviously hard also for Matajī to let Swāmijī go to Gurujī. But if she wouldn’t, then we all wouldn’t exist. So they incarnate for a higher purpose. So, at a young age, Śaṅkarācārya said, "I want to become a sannyāsī. I want to be the person who will spread the knowledge of Satya Sanātana Dharma all across the world." But the mother was very reluctant. She said, "No, I will not let you go." One day, Śaṅkarācārya was having a swim in a nearby lake, and a crocodile got hold of his leg. He found the opportunity and cried out to his mother, saying, "Mother, if you let me go and you let me become a sannyāsī, then this crocodile will let go of me." As he was a very spiritual person, he had that Guru Bhakti within him, he had the Devī Sādhanā within him. When the mother said, "Okay, I let you go, be a Sannyāsī," higher powers worked and the crocodile let go of his leg. If we did not have Śaṅkarācāryajī, we would not have the preaching of Advaita Vedānta. He also wrote many commentaries on the Śrīmad Bhagavad Gītā, the Purāṇas, the Upaniṣads, and many other texts. At the age of eight, he left his home and started traveling all across India. He established four ashrams. In the south, we have Śṛṅgerī. Śṛṅgeri is also very special for all of us because when Gurudev went with Holy Gurujī to Śṛṅgerīmaṭ, at that time, I think it was Bhāratī Tīrtha Swāmījī, and he gave Holy Gurujī a mālā. That mālā Holy Gurujī gave to Swāmījī, and that is Swāmījī’s Guru Mālā, which he uses. The Sannyāsa Paramparā exists mainly because of Śaṅkarācārya. In the south we have Śṛṅgerīmaṭ. In the north we have Badrī. In the east we have Dvārikā, and in the west we have Purī. Even now, the paramparā continues. That’s why paramparās are very important—that endless knowledge which comes through the guru to the next disciple, continuing without any breaks. The flow has to go on, like the Gaṅgā, the river of Jñāna. Even now, all four Pīṭhas have four Śaṅkarācāryas seated. The current Śaṅkarācārya in Badrī is Avimukteśvarānanda Sarasvatījī. In Dvārikā we have Sadānanda Giri Jī. In Puri, we have Niścāraṇand Saraswatī Jī. And in South Śṛṅgeri we still have Bhāratī Tīrtha Jī, but he also has his successor, who is mainly leading everything, Viduśikarānand Bhāratī Jī. In the Bhagavad Gītā, Śaṅkarācārya jī, when he was traveling, he also felt the need to find a guru who would guide him on his path. Even after reading all the Śāstras and Purāṇas, he still decided that he needed the guidance of a guru to succeed in life. So he found his guru, whose name was Govindappa. He was the guiding light for Śaṅkarācārya. The famous śloka which Gurudev always talks about asks: "Who am I? From where did I come? What is the cause of me being here? Who is the creator of this universe?" When we know all these answers, then very good. The guru is the boat which helps us cross from this side of the ocean to the other side. Without the boat, you can swim as long as you want; you will still not reach the destination, and you will drown from tiredness. That’s why having a Śrī Satguru Dev in our lives is very important. Finding a true guru is also very hard. We look around, and there are hundreds of them. But to know the one who is right is very hard. To know the one who is truly the true guru, who has real powers, real enlightenment, is rare to find. That’s why I say we are all very blessed to be born in this era and to be part of this beautiful journey of Viśvagurujī. We are very thankful to Gurudev that he found us. If he hadn’t come to Europe, we wouldn’t all be here now. All the work he has done in the past 50, 60 years is amazing. Then, Śaṅkarācārya was traveling around India. At that time, unfortunately, even now a little bit in India, the caste system still exists. There was a chāṇḍāla, a person from the lowest caste, standing with his five or six dogs. The street was very narrow. Because of the past, what Śaṅkarācārya was hearing... and the highest Guru is the Śrī Satguru Dev. So the question which the Caṇḍāla asked Śaṅkarācārya changed his perspective completely and changed his thinking forever. In one way, even the chāṇḍāla was Śaṅkarācārya’s guru for a moment. He asked, "Who are you telling to move aside? Are you telling this body to move aside? Or are you telling this ātmā to move aside? If you’re telling this body, then you have the same flesh, I have the same flesh and bones, so what’s wrong in that? If you’re talking to the Ātmā to move aside, then all ātmās are one with the Supreme Self. It’s the consciousness. So what are you trying to move aside? If it’s the Ātmā, then there are no discriminations, because it’s God who is residing in all the ātmās. So if it’s the Ātmā, then there is no religion, no caste, no type of discrimination." After hearing that, Śaṅkarācārya created the sūtra called Manīṣā Pañcakam, explaining his understanding from this specific incident. If we read or listen to Śaṅkarācārya’s teachings, they have so much depth. But the best part to see is that even though Śaṅkarācārya knew everything, he still was under the guidance of his guru. In the Bhagavad Gītā, Kṛṣṇa had Sāndīpani. Rāmjī also had his guru. Everyone had their gurus because that’s the only path. That’s the path which the guru shows us to become one with the Supreme Self. Without the Guru, it’s not possible to go on. That’s why we are all blessed to be here under the guidance of Gurudev. It doesn’t matter if Gurudev speaks or not. His presence and the atmosphere around him are more than enough for us. That’s what we need to try to feel. Just being in the presence of Gurudeva should be enough. We are sitting in this space, and we feel him, and he feels us. Just when he gazes with his eyes towards all of us, that is already his blessing. That’s the greatness and the loving, caring Gurudev’s gaze upon you. Just observe him, and you will notice many things. The way he looks at you, the way he sends that energy to you just by looking. And he’s always working with us inside. That’s the best part. So I wish you all a wonderful afternoon, and see you in the evening. Om Śālapurjī Mahādeva kī Jai, Devādideva Devaśvara Mahādeva kī Jai, Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī Jai, Hindu Dharma Samrāṭa Paramahaṃsvāmī Śrī Madhavānanda Purījī Satgurudeva Bhagavān kī Jai, Viśvaguru Muḥammad Alīśvara Paramahaṃtsvāmī Śrīmaheśvarānām. Aranam Afparvati Pati Hara Hara Bahadeva Shambho.