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Oṁkāra samyuktaṁ tyam ayaṁ uginahamadam ukshadam chaivaṁ ākārāyanaṁ yasyāṁ ke ca vibhātibhūdharasutā Devapagamastake bhale bhagale chagralam yasyo rasivyalara Soyaṃ bhūti vibhūśaṇaḥ suravaraḥ sarvādhipaḥ sarvadāḥ Sarvaḥ sarvagataḥ śivaḥ śaśinibhaḥ viśaṅkaraḥ pātumāḥ. Mannātha Śrī Jagannātha, mad-guru Śrī Jagad-guru, mamātmā sarva-bhūtātmā, tasmai Śrī-gurave namaḥ. Śrī Alak Purīṣā Mahā Devakī, Śrī Deva Purīṣā Mahā Devakī, Śrī Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī, Hindu Dharma Samrāṭ Param Śrī Svāmī Madhavāndhapurījī Bhagavān Kī, Viśva Guru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Param Pūjya Param Yogīrāja Param Śrī Svāmī Maheśvarānandapūjya Gurudeva Bhagavān Kī, Śrī Kāśī Viśvanātha Bhagavān Kī, Sāvarī Rāmacandra Bhagavān Kī, Kṛṣṇa Kanhaiyā Lāla Kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Namaḥ Pārvatī Pādaye Hara. Hara Mahādeva. Divine salutation to the Divine. Oṁ Śrī Lakṣapurajī Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā. I would like to bow to His Holiness, our beloved Gurudev Viṣṇu Gurujī's holy feet. All the divine seekers, spiritual seekers, all devotees of Śrī Mahāprabhujī and Viṣṇu Gurujī around the world, sisters and brothers, all the divine sannyāsīs, we all are blessed ones that we are under the divine umbrella of Śrī Mahāprabhujī and the divine blessing of Śrī Viśvagurujī. We are fortunate ones that we are now sitting here, the divine spiritual center of Yoga in Daily Life, Om Sri Vishuddhi Gurukul Swami Maestro Ananda Ashram, or we call it Om Ashram, which is in India, Rajasthan. Vishwa Gurujī has created a divine society, a divine family, because it is said in the Vedas, and Vishwa Gurujī is always mentioning this sentence: "Vasudeva Kuṭumbakam." It means, "All the world is my family." Who says these things? It is said very nicely that one who has a big heart, who loves each and everyone, or who feels that all are mine. Or we can say Holy Gurujī was always saying, "All in one, one in all." So that's why Gurujī was always saying, "Vasudeva Kuṭumbakam." Similarly, he was not only saying it, but it was in his activity, in his life. All his life he was telling, and all his life was working on this sentence, "Vasudeva Kuṭumbakam." This whole world is my family. And you see, we are all here from different parts of the country, different parts of the world, and we are all together under the divine umbrella of Mahāprabhujī, a divine blessing of Viṣṇu Gurujī at Om Āśram. Or wherever you are, you are always near Gurudev, or always Gurudev is with you. We all are always connected. How are we connected? Vishwagurujī has made many centers, and he has created a divine society, what's called Yoga in Daily Life. This is not only for the yoga. This is for all the world to connect to the Gurudev. And when you connect to the Gurudev, the Gurudev connects you to God. That's why the divine family is here. I welcome all divine family to this lecture, which Vishwagurujī has given blessing to us, that we discuss with each other, we come together, we go together. What we say, the Upanishad also says, that we all come together, we all work together, we all grow together, we love each other, and we help each other. So today is my turn, that I speak something or discuss. So today we will see what is the human life. It is said in Rāmacharita Mānas. We are so fortunate that we have got the divine human life. Why is it divine? Why is it precious? It is very hard. Vishwagurujī is always mentioning that 8.4 million creatures are in this world. And this is one human life. That life, if we get, then we can get liberated. We can get knowledge. We can know ourselves, who am I. That's why it is a very precious one. Very hard to get this human life. Those who are saying, the devas, they are also mentioning, and they are also always trying that we also get the human life, because if you get human life, then you have many, many things, because from the human life you can do so many things, but you cannot count how many things you can do. So, devas, sura durlabha sad granthani gava, the devas, they are also saying, "It is very hard. We are also trying to get human life," because they don't get satsaṅg there. There is no satsaṅg, no bhajans. Only they are having the... you say life with the five-star hotels? No, they are getting only the material things, whatever they want. So everything they get, but they are not getting satsaṅg, bhajans; nothing is there. So they are also saying it is very hard. And all the great scriptures, Vedas, Śāstras, and all the great masters, great saints, they are always saying that it is very hard to get human life. If you get it, then you are lucky; you are a fortunate one. You are a great opportunity you have got in your life. Then, what do you do if you get life? If you get the human life, what should you do? You have to think. What should we think if we get human life? Who am I? Ko'ham? Katham idaṁ jātam? Ko vā ayam kartā asya vidyate? Ādi Jagadguru Bhagavān Śaṅkarācāryajī is saying in "Aprokṣa Anubhūti": "Ko'ham?" Who am I? "Katham idaṁ jātam?" How did it happen that I became, or I came to this world? Ko aham katham idam jātam ko vāyī kartā asya vidyate? Who is the creator of this whole world? You have to always think these thoughts. Who am I? How did it happen? Who is the creator of this world? If you think, this we call Vedānta. In Vedānta, you are always thinking of self-realization. You have to always think. If you don't think, then you go in this world and you are always doing these things. So this is, you can say, the sādhanā. It means you have the opportunity to get mokṣa from this human body. So this human body is the sādhanā. Sādhana, it means when you want to go to Delhi or Jaipur. So, bus is the, or train or car. This is the way that you can go to Jaipur or Delhi. So, same like that, if you want to get liberated, if you want to get mokṣa, so human body is that way that you can get from this. But when you get a human body, there is a very big thing, what we call māyā. In this world, everyone is attached to māyā. No one is free of illusion. Everybody is attached, so when you are attached to the māyā, or māyā is there, then māyā is stopping us from doing bhajan, from sādhanā, from bhakti, from spirituality. Māyā is always stopping. How is it stopping? Māyā is always making us towards māyā, towards materialistic, or to some pleasures. If we get some pleasures, some sukha, some ānanda, then we will not go to these things. So māyā is always stopping. If you do bhajan, sādhanā, upāsanā, it is always stopping, so. What to do? How to now get out of this māyā? So, there is one story, very nicely it is said, how we are stuck, or how we are attached to the māyā. We don't want to be attached with the māyā, we don't want to be attached with the materialistic or these things which are in the world, which are taking us down, not towards up, spirituality but down. So there is one man in the evening time, he was walking, and he was walking through a jungle. So slowly he was going, but it was a little bit darkness, and he didn't see there was a well, he just fell down the well. While he was falling down the well, he held onto one branch of the tree. So he was now between, not even outside, not even inside. He was holding a branch, and down when he saw, there are big, big pythons. They are waiting, thinking, "If he comes down, we have got such nice, delicious food." And the branch he is holding, there are two mice cutting this branch slowly, slowly. And downstairs is the python. He is holding the branch, the branch is cut by two mice. They are slowly eating, and at the same time, there is an elephant that comes. He is just moving, shaking the tree. Now he's very, very scared, what to do? If this branch is cut by the mice, even I will fall down into the well. If the elephant moves very strongly, then this tree can go out, the tree can break. Then I will go down, so it means death is in front of him now, he's very scared. What to do? How to save my life? And same on the branch which he was holding, there was a beehive. And when it was checked by the elephant, a very sweet drop of the honey went on his lips, and he was tasting, "Oh." My God, so nice. He was thirsty, he was tired, and he got a very sweet honey on his mouth, and he was a little bit, "I got something," but again he was thinking. At the same time, God Śiva and Mātā Pārvatī were passing from that way. And Mata Pārvatī, she is very kind. She said, "Oh, it's very pitiful. Oh, God Śiva, please save this guy. If he will fall down, he will die. Please save him." God Śiva said, "Yes, okay, I go and I save him." And God Śiva said, "Oh, human. Come, give your hand to me. I will just save you from your death, from this struggling life." And he told, "Yes, God Śiva, I want to also be saved, but please stop one minute. Why? This you see, one drop is coming slowly. It is already full, and it will come to me, one drop. Please wait for one drop, okay?" God Shiva said, "Okay, I will wait for you." And then he got one drop. Again, he was looking. One drop is started to come down. "Please, God Śiva, one drop more, one drop more..." So he forgot that I am going to die. Somebody has come to me, come to save me. He forgot everything because he got something that drop. And God Śiva said, "Okay, now I will not wait. I am going. You enjoy these honey drops." Then he went, and what it means, the story? What we get? Same like that: the jungle is the world. We are in this world. So this jungle is the world. So we were walking in this darkness. Darkness is the ignorance. We are walking in ignorance, and when we go, the branch—what is the branch? The branch is the lifeline of our life. This is the age, age matter. How much life do we have? And there are two mice; they are cutting. So, two mice are day and night. So day and night, our life is going and going, going. Once we were five years old, now twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, and we don't know how much we will live, how much life we have. So, this day and night, mice are cutting our life or taking our ages, and if we look down, the pythons are there. It means we don't know in which moment we go to death. Or Yama comes to us, so this is the python. They are like a death. The mice are day and night, and this branch is the age of our life. And Gurudev or great masters, they come. There is the elephant. The elephant is the ego or problems which always come in our life, always. Shaking us, and sometimes we are very sad. We are very unhappy, and we think that now life is over. But there is also some, these honey drops, what is that? That is some pleasure of this world, some materialistic. If we get a little sukha, a little ānanda, a little pleasure, then we forget everything, what we have had in our life, that we were struggling, we were trying very hard, now we have to go to the spirituality, we have to follow the Gurudev's path, we have to do the bhakti, the sādhanā, upāsanā, karma yoga, sevā, when we get a little pleasure. At the same time, Gurudev comes, a great master comes, and says, "O child, O human, come, I will save you from this world. I want to bring you to spirituality, I will bring you to liberation, I will tell you the divine way how to get mokṣa, I will tell you the divine, the divine happiness which will never be stopped. Anyone, it will be in you. It will be inner happiness. You will not get it from outside." But when we get a little, please, please, here we also say, "Gurudev, you go. We will see our life. We know how to do." So Gurudev comes again and again. He is always waking up. "Please, child, come, and I will give you the divine life." So this jungle is this world. The darkness is the ignorance. The elephant is the ego or troubles in our life. These two mice are day and night. So that's why, slowly, slowly, we are going to death. The python has a death. So how to get the divine things? How to just live attachment with the illusion? Gurudev comes, and Holy Gurujī has written a very divine, beautiful bhajan. He says, "Chet Chet Abh Jīv Gyān Abh Sarjā Vere Gurū Samjā Vere Chet Chet Abh Jīv Gyān." Hey, ajñānī jīvas, we all are ajñānī because we don't have the jñāna. Who has the jñāna? God or Gurudev? They have the jñāna. They have such knowledge that they give knowledge to us, then slowly, slowly we come out from ignorance. We are on that path which Gurudev is showing us, so cheta cheta abha jīva agyānī, now just wake up, wake up. You don't know how many lives you were doing all these things, which all things you were doing. 8.4 creatures are there, so we don't know, sometimes we were elephant, sometimes we were horse or monkey. Many lives we had, but now finally we got the human life. So there is a difference between human life and other creatures' life. So if we follow the thing, then it can get different, so there are four things which are similar in animals and humans. If we are also doing the same four things, then we are also, you can say, animals. There is no difference; it is very nicely said. Four things are there. Āhāra, nidrā, bhaya, maithuna. Eating, sleeping, fear, and, what you can say, we have the children also. So, procreations, these four things are there. So, sleeping, eating, fear, and procreation, these four things are there. If an animal is there, the animal is also tired. It is also sleeping, or she is also sleeping, working all day, so sleeping. And the animal also has some hunger, so it is also eating some food, everything. And if you have one stick, daṇḍa, if you go to the animal, it will run away. But if you have chapati or biscuit, something, it will come to you. So it is also scared; it also has fear. And if some Nāgadevatā comes here in our Bhakti Sāgara, we will also be running away. We will listen after your lecture, but just save our life, then we can listen to the lecture again. So we also have fear. So eating, sleeping, fear, and procreation. It means the animals also have children. And humans also have children. If we are doing only these four things, then somebody can also call us animals, because we don't have any difference from the animals. So if you are human, what should be the difference? If you want to be human, we have got the human life, but we have two legs; an animal has four legs. Only this difference. Otherwise, everything is the same: the body is the same, eating, sleeping, and fear. So, these four things, we and these animals, all have similarly. So, what changes that we are human? Dharmeṇa hīna paśubhiḥ samānaḥ. If we have some dharma, if we are doing bhakti, if we are doing spiritual practices, if we are following guru ājñā, if we are doing sevā, if we are doing karma yoga, then we are the human in human body, otherwise there is no difference. That's why Holy Gurujī is saying, "This time, you will not get again and again. This time is going, this is passing away. You don't know if you will get this human life again or not. We don't know if we will get it again." Beloved Gurudev, Vishnu Gurujī, in next life or not, who knows? So, if we have got the great opportunity that we are under the umbrella of Mahāprabhujī, the divine blessing of Vishnu Gurujī, then we should use this life as Gurudev is showing the way. Gurudev is always telling us, "Please, oh child, now it's enough. It's enough. Just now, think about yourself, about your life. What I'm telling you, how to follow, how to practice, how to go ahead, how to do divine sādhanā, how to do sevā, how to do bhakti." Who's telling us? Gurudev. Then? So what we have now? We have some things. We have the money, we have our home, we have some business, we have our family. Many things are there. So, dhana, daulat, sab khazānā yahī rahī jāve re, yahī rahī jāyegā. It will stay here. When will it stay here? When your body will leave you, or your prāṇa will leave you. When you get death, when you die, then nothing goes with you. What will go with you? Only the sādhanā you have done in your life. What seva have you done in your life? If you were helping some people, if you were doing good karma or bad karma, all these things will go with you. Otherwise, all these materialistic things will stay here; nothing will come with you. Yam kī mar paḍe siru par, kon chuḍāve re? Guru samjhāve re chet chet. Yab jīv gyānī avasar jāve re, guru samjhāve re. Māt pitā aur kuṭumb kabīlo, our all the family—mother, father, brother, sisters, nephew, uncle, aunty—all these family members, all relatives, what do they do? They are always pulling us towards materialism, towards the world. That doesn't do bhajan, sādhanā, nothing you will get. They are saying, "If you will get married, you will have a good life. You will have a good wife. You will have very nice things. She will make very nice food for you when you come from work. She will arrange everything. She will help you. Your mother and father, they are here for helping you." So don't do sādhanā, don't do bhajan, don't do seva. There is nothing, you will get nothing. So they are always giving you the greed. Why? To come to the saṃsāra. If you come, then you will get many things. If you go, then you will get nothing. So, it means they are double greed, or double things they are giving you, to come to the world. But, when Yamarāja comes there, you know, Yamarāja comes there, then what does he do? He will pull, he will take you from here to the Yamaloka. So when Yama Rāja comes, or the messenger of Yama Rāja comes, then nobody will come to save you. The family members will not come, the mother will not come, the father will not come, the wife will not come, your children will not come. They are not able to save you from Yamarāja. When Yama Rāja takes you from this world, so "Yama kī mārā paḍe sīr upar." It means when you go to Yama Rāja, then you will get your karma back. Karma returns. Whatever you have done, it will return. The cycle is going there always. So when you will get the fruit of your karma, then family members, they will not come to save you. "That, please, Yama Raja, don't give him punishment, give me punishment." That time, who will save you from the Yama Raja? That time, only Gurudev will come. And Gurudev, if Gurudev has shown you the divine way, if you will follow Gurudev, then that word, that sādhanā, that mantra, that will save you from Yamarāja. If he is giving you the karma, so that's why Gurudev is always telling you, "Guru samajāve re, kyā samajāve re?" What is he telling us? Cheta, cheta, yabha jeeva gyanee, avasar jave re, Guru samajave re, that, "O child, O human, now wake up. It's enough, it's enough. You are suffering in this world. Now come to me, I will save you. You did not go to the divine holy feet of Gurudev, or you did not have..." Gurudev, in your life now, who will save you? Śāntaguru śaraṇa gaya vinā mūḍhaka kauna bhāva para lagāverī? Now who will save you, or who will put you from this ocean to that, from this side to the other side? Only Gurudev is that divine master who will give that mantra, that sādhanā: "Nāma jahāja, nāma jahāja." It means if you chant the mantra, name chanting, then that becomes the ship. If you sit in the nāma mantra, that will carry you across from this one side, from the ocean to the other side. Satguru saran gaya bina mudhaka, kaun bhau pāra laga vire. So that's why only Gurudev is there. He will give you the divine thing, and he will give you the divine knowledge that you can cross these oceans. Gurū samjhāve re, Kālī Gurujī is saying, "This human life is very precious, but the mūrkha, the stupid ones, who are the stupid ones?" Who doesn't have a guru, who doesn't follow the guru's word, who are not believing the guru's word, so this stupid human who are not coming to spirituality, who are not believing there is God, there is Gurudev, there is Gurudev who gives you that knowledge that you can liberate, you can get the mokṣa. That is stupid. So many human lives are invaluable. This human life is very precious. But fools waste it. Because this is like a diamond. When you get a diamond, it's very hard or very rare to get the real diamond. So this is like a diamond, but the stupid human is just throwing it like that. When he gets the diamond, he doesn't know the value. He doesn't know the value of a diamond; he is throwing it like a stone. So, gaya vakt āve nahī pyāre, this time what you have now, it will not come again and again. After that, you will just regret, thinking, "I had such a great opportunity. I could have done so many things in my life. I could have done that thing, this thing." So after that, you will only regret yourself and your life. That is why, Holy Guruji is saying that the great master is always telling you, he is giving you that knowledge that, "Oh child, now just come to the divine life, the spiritual life." Śrī Pūjya Bhagavān Dīpanārāyaṇa Suta Haṁsa Jagāve Re, Śrī Pūjya Bhagavān Dīpanārāyaṇa Suta Haṁsa Jagāve Re. Kahe Mādhavānand Jī, bhajan se sab sukha pāve re, Guru samjāve re. Kahi Mādhavānandajī, bhajan se sab sukha pāvere, Guru samjāve re. Cheta cheta yabha jīva gyānī avasar jāvere, Guru samjāve re. So, beautiful lines are there. Holy Gurujī is mentioning so nicely that the Śrīdīpānāya and Mahāprabhujī, it means we are sleeping on. The sleeping swans. So, Mahāprabhujī is awakening them, "Just get up, get up. This is the time you have now, it will not come again." Shri Deep Narāda Mahāprabhujī Suta Haṁsa Jagāve Re, he is just wake-upping, wake-upping the human, Suta Haṁsa Jagāve Re. So he is giving the divine thing that now, "Get up, get up, don't sleep and sleep. How many lives you were sleeping, do you know?" How many lives we have, children? How many lives we have, mother? How many lives we have, father? How many lives we have, wife? Many things, all the lives we have. But in human life, if you don't do this, you will not die, but you will liberate, so holy Gurujī is saying what he is saying. It means when I do the bhajan, when I do the sādhanā, when I chant my guru mantra, when I follow what Gurudev has shown, the divine path, then ānanda is ānanda. There is the divine ānanda, inner happiness is there, then I have no fear from the Yamarāja. I have no fear from this māyā, illusion. Nothing is there. Everything he is getting from the bhajan, from the sādhanā. So that's why the human life is very precious. Holy Gurujī was also mentioning. And all the Vedas, all the scriptures, they are also mentioning that it is very precious. One we have to know what should we do, what we have to do. Now we all are so lucky, so fortunate. One, we don't need to go and find the Guru, but Gurudev comes, Viśvagurujī comes to each person. You know, when I went to Europe, I always see the divine, the kingdom of Mahāprabhujī, what Viśvagurujī has created there. And I am always telling them that in India, the disciple is searching for the Guru. He is going to the ashram, and he is searching for a guru, thinking, "I should have a guru, I should have a mantra." But you are so lucky that Vishwagurujī, Gurudev himself, has come to you. He was searching for you, oh disciple, now come to me, I come to you to bring together, to give you the divine knowledge, to give you the divine happiness. That's why we all are fortunate ones. The great opportunity we have got in this divine society, Yoga in Daily Life, we all are a family. What Vishwagurujī has created, and we are always going together, we are always helping each other, and we should grow together. So, in human life, we should know about our life: what we are doing, what should we do, what Gurujī has given the task, the karma yoga, seva, bhakti, whatever he has given to us. We should always follow. If we follow, then we are making our life precious. We are making our life powerful. Or we are getting that thing, that our life is successful if we are following. So, the scriptures, they all are always speaking about human life. So today we were discussing about human life. So thank you for listening here, and around all the world, who will listen through webcast, they are also having their sādhanās, the different ways, different life they are living there, so, but all we have one task: that we should always follow the guru-vākya, the guru-sevā sādhanā, which can help us to grow our spiritual life. Thank you for listening. Namah Pārvati Patehara Hara Mahādev. So now we will have some bhajans. We will have some bhajans.