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This is a bhajan from Maṅgīlālji, a disciple of Śrī Mahāprabhujī. The bhajan is called Cakalīnā Musāfir Gundagīrī. We are travelers in this world, bound to actions in the outer realm. What happens is not always what we want; sometimes it is good, sometimes not, and then we suffer. This cycle of coming and going—suffering and happiness, expectation—is perpetual. As Viśvagurujī says, expectation mostly leads to disappointment. We know all this, yet we still hope maybe it will be better. But we know the worldly life will always change. We have times of great happiness, but they will pass. This is the rule, the law of the outer world: coming, going, and changing. We are always looking for that which is constant. We want to have happiness, joy, peace, love, and contentment always. Yet, while we look outward, there is only change. If we turn to what our Gurū Dev tells us, there we find the nectar. It is not merely something to know as information from speech or a book. That gives us something; it may pull us out of depression. It gives us something, but it is not that we are that yet. I may know it, but I am not still. This is our practice. This is what we must do daily: to clear away all that is changing and to find this divine within us. The outer world will always cheat. It is not always bad, but it is the nature of the world to change; it will not be constant. We can be happy when we find partners and have good karma, a good destiny, so that we do not suffer so much. For this, we should be grateful. But the outer world must change. One day we will go, and we will go alone. Nobody can hold us back. So, do not let yourself be cheated. Māyā, the outer world, will always try, but you will not get what you are truly searching for. Awake, my brother and sister. Maṅgīlālji is telling us, "Māyā is a big cheater." We know we have this guru paramparā. This means we have generations of gurus coming to us on earth, giving us wisdom, helping us gain knowledge, and freeing ourselves from this circle of birth and death. Śrī Alakhpurījī, as we learned from our Gurū Dev Viśvagurujī, is still living in the Himalayas near Badrināth. This is about 3,500 meters high in the mountains. He has been there for hundreds of thousands of years in astral form, protecting the earth with his high energy. We also pray to him. This bhajan was composed by Holy Gurujī, Hindu Dhām Samrāṭ Paramahaṁswāmī Madhavānandajī, Viśvagurujī’s master. He says, "Please, Alakhpurījī, come to us and fulfill our hopes. I am still sleeping in deep ignorance, so please awaken me." We all pray to you. We adore you. Please give us your blessings and your protection. To see you, even to see a picture of you, is a divine darśan. This will help me cross this ocean of ignorance. You are the knower, you are the giver of all that we need to purify our mind and our consciousness, to be one with you. And Alakhpurījī says, Mahāprabhujī says, the divine light, your divine light is radiating in the whole universe. Please also come to my heart and give me your darśan. We cannot grasp these big, big, big words. How? It is so much; it is about the whole universe. I cannot see what is behind this wall. But somehow, if I let it go deep into my heart and deep into my consciousness, what I have now will work something within me. It will help me work so that my consciousness becomes so pure that I will be one with that. The next bhajan will be Gurudev Śaraṇa Tumārī. It is also a bhajan from Śrī Maṅgīlāljī. Again, we are praying to the Almighty to give us shelter. Please be so merciful and help me, that I feel your protection. I have so much fear in this world, and I always want to be protected—in my house, in my job, and with my family. So please help me to be protected, not only in this world, but so that I feel you are with me all the time. And in all the three worlds. This means what can trouble me is not only the physical world; it can also be from the astral world, it can be in my mind, or in the energies which are coming and changing my mood always. Also, there are suddenly some disturbances or accidents or whatever is coming, and I have fear. I don’t want that. So please, please, please come to me and protect me. Always there are these changes in the outer world. Help me so that I am not sinking in this world, not going under. Please always help me so that my mind and my heart are connected to you. There came to my mind also the Yoga Sūtras from Patañjali. Our Viśvagurujī gave such beautiful explanations for them. There, in one part of the sūtras, he explains that the world, the creation, was done by God with beauty, out of beauty, out of love, for joy. We are here to experience the beauty of the creation. That is the sense: to experience the beauty of the creation. For that we are here. I think it’s a great sentence. This is the sense that we are born as a living being, and now with our own senses and abilities as a human, to enjoy the beauty of the creation. Because we are one with God, it is our inner self that is the one; only the outer is not. When we purify with our practice, mantra, and sādhanā, then we will become one, and then we will enjoy the beauty of the creation. Great. Yes, and all, all that we have to do again and again is to be connected with the highest. So let me repeat the name of the Lord. Now comes the bhajan from Ādi Śaṅkarācārya, "Śivo’ham." The meaning is that I am Śiva, I am the liberated ātmā, I am the highest, I am the divine, I am Sacchidānanda, I am consciousness, I am wisdom, I am bliss, and I am immortal. Yes, we know this now, because we have been singing this bhajan often for years. We know this theoretically, still, no? But Gurū Dev says to us, "Please practice, and you will achieve." For this, it is good to have this information, to come out of your own jungle of feelings and thoughts and conditions—how we are daily, because we are in daily life, and there we have all we have to overcome and to liberate, so that we are this ātmā. It is the highest, the highest of the universe; it is the highest in all living beings, and that I am. This is immortal; this part is immortal. Only the body, my body, is dying, and the ātmā is in all living beings the same. And this ātmā I am, and this cannot be destroyed. My body can be destroyed. My feelings, my belief, or whatever can be disturbed, shocked, and shaken, but the ātmā you cannot. The ātmā is immortal, and also there is no change. This is what we are always searching for. We want this continuity. We want our inner world not to change. But of course, we want to be happy and full of joy and love and everything. So, how to reach? Yes, of course, when we know this: the ātmā is in every atom. Ātmā is in the present, it was in the past, and it will be in the future, and only this Ātmā I am. You cannot burn it, you cannot kill it; I am that. And yes, for this we have the practice; we have all these possibilities to reach. It is with our practice of mantra and all that Gurū Dev tells us about how we have to live: a sattvic life, then to observe our thoughts, what our feelings are, why they are, where they are coming from, whether they are good or not. This I do in meditation, and I can also use my daily life for that, to be always in contact with me inside. When I learn this in my meditation and in my sādhanā during, maybe, a summer seminar or weekend seminars, when I learn this, my normal awakened consciousness will become more and more clear. I will be more in contact with all that is going on in me, in myself, in my phenomenon, in my body, in my mind. With the mantra and this knowledge behind, I will reach that. So, I am this Ātmā, eternal, free, ever, forever, not changing. We can always say to ourselves, yes, it can also be a help in daily life. What is coming and going—thoughts, emotions, situations—when they are coming and going, this is not the reality. The reality is never changing. It’s always the same. So what is changing? It will come and it will go—also bad things, also good things. But inside, this highest consciousness, this will stay. And in that, I am; I am this Śiva. I am light, I am consciousness, I am bliss and truth. This I am, yes. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Kī Jai, Śiva. The next bhajan is a bhajan from Mahāprabhujī, "Karāḍū Ācāra Amara Tanakāya." Mahāprabhujī is giving his thankfulness, his wishes, his blessings to Śrī Devpurījī. In this bhajan it is written: when you are a true devotee of God, why is your mind suffering? Why are we always suffering? He can make us immortal. When you are a devotee of God, nothing can happen to you. The bhajan then explains through great bhaktas: Prahlāda, Hanumān, Rāma, and Rāja Harischandra. They all had to suffer in their lives, and they had big troubles to overcome. And Kabīradās, Mīrābāī—we know from Mīrābāī, she had to drink poison. But she was thinking on Kṛṣṇa, on God, and she was believing this is nectar, and I can drink it, and she could. And also, it is like this for us. When we are true devotees of God, nothing can happen to us. Sometimes, Swamijī—I was listening last week to Swamijī TV, and there was in a lecture, maybe from 2007 or so—Swamijī said we have to go through some experiences and problems. He will take a lot away from us. And also, because we are disciples and we have his blessing and we have the mantra, our radiance will be so good. We are repeating Oṃ Tryambakaṃ, this mantra from Śiva, and it will take away so many things. But through some things we have to go, because our soul needs this for learning. But we are protected because we are disciples of Gurū Dev. And Mahāprabhujī said, "Through my good karmas in my previous lives, I got this mercy to meet Śrī Devpurījī. I am the servant at his lotus feet, and from that, I became immortal." So we all, we all have this luck to practice yoga, to find our Gurū Dev. And also, when we are singing now this evening the bhajans, we are so thankful to our Gurū Dev, to Viśvagurujī Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Swāmī Māheśvarānandajī, who is now in India. We are so thankful to be his disciples, to find so much sense in our life. His strength is in aim, and we are all at his lotus feet. Kī Jai. Śrī Śrī Alakhpurījī, Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā, Kī Jaya. Śrī Śrī Alakhpurījī Mahādeva, Kī Jaya. Devādideva Śrī Deveśvara Mahādeva, Kī Jaya. Ārādhya Bhagavān, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa, Mahāprabhujī, Kī Jaya. Hindu Dhāma Samrāṭ, Satguru Paramān, Svāmī Madhavānandajī, Bhagavān Kī Jai. Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramāṁ, Svāmī Maheśvarānandajī Gurudeva Kī Jai. Satsaṅga Tāṇḍavama Ki Jai.