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Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya! Śrī Śrī Dev Purīṣa Mahādeva Kī Jaya! Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jaya! Satguru Swami Madhavananji Bhagavān Kī Jai! Satya Sanātan Dharma Kī Jai! Good evening, and blessings from our Om Śrī Alak Purījī Siddha Pīṭha. All dear Bhaktas, the practitioners of yoga and daily life, spiritual seekers, it's a blessing to be here on this Adriatic coast, beautiful sea or ocean, beautiful nature. Those aspirants are with us through the webcast. We send you divine blessings and many good wishes. Patañjali, the great saint, was known as the father of psychology, the father of the science of body, mind, consciousness, and soul, and a guide to the Brahmajñāna among thousands of great saints of India. One of them was Patañjali, Maharṣi Patañjali. We are fortunate that his words were put into the scriptures, or a book, or a śāstra. It's very important for humans to preserve the wisdom, and now it's only possible through the śāstras. Anything we do, we would and we wish that our purpose is solved, our aim is realized, our achievement is in fulfillment. But on the path, on the way, there are so many obstacles. Those obstacles, they are hidden from us; we don't know. There are many divine souls, or divine consciousnesses, divine personalities, their spirits, their energy. Their yugas and yugas are with us, guiding us. It is said that when you call the name of a particular person, then only that person will come. Similarly, to have a successful sādhanā, successful work, one must remember God Gaṇeśa. Ganesha, Īśvara, the Lord of the Lords of all the Gaṇas, the Devas, first he should be remembered before doing some new things. Remember Śrī Ganesha. Om Śrī Gaṇeśa Namaḥ. That's enough. He doesn't need long prayer, you know, because he doesn't have time to listen to all the prayers. There are billions of people who know in which second how many people are calling him. So, with heart, with great belief and devotion, we say, "Om Śrī Gaṇeśa Namaḥ," and we begin our program, sādhanā, building a house, or any kind of ceremonies and so on. Śrī Gaṇeśa jī is known as the Lord of protection and the remover of all obstacles. Even Brahma, Viṣṇu, Śiva, they all remember Gaṇeśa first, and then they do something. It is said Shiva is the father of Gaṇeśa, and Pārvatī is the mother of Gaṇeśa, but law is law. Because Gaṇeśa has the highest position, and Śiva blessed him, "You will be the first one," and therefore he should always be the first one. Saints, any writer who has a spiritual consciousness, who knows about the numerous elements in the universe, Śaktis, when they write a letter, on the top of the letter as an emblem, you can say, they write, "Oṁ Śrī Gaṇeśāya Namaḥ," and then they begin to write, "My dear friend, so and so, and... so." When you send a wedding postcard or invitation, there must be Gaṇeśa's picture and prayer mantras to Gaṇeśa. Then your marriage is happy and successful. If you haven't done this, then be prepared for divorce. So, all who have problems in marriage, now you know why. If you search for a partner or something, then you should say, "Om Śrī," and every day give a white flower to Gaṇeśa. Gaṇeśīlā, white flower, milk, honey, Gaṇeśjī Mahārāj. Gurudev, holiness, Madhavananjī Mahārāj, our holy Gurujī, also wrote many, many bhajans. But the first bhajan that he wrote in his book is dedicated to Gaṇeśa. And Gaṇeśa is also Gurudev. You see in your Gurudev, Gaṇeśa. So, before writing all bhajans and books, Gurudev is saying, "Welcome, please come, O Gaṇapati Gurudev." Every second, I am requesting you, let me be your servant. Let me adore your holy lotus feet. Oh my Gurudev, Gajānandjī Mahārāj, Bless me, have mercy on me. Oh Gurudev, Gajānand, Gajānand. Gaj is the elephant, Ānand is bliss. Bless me with this divine bliss. Kṛpā Karo Gurudev Gajānand, Hṛdaye Karo Nivāsa. For what should he bless you? Bless me. Please come and take a seat in my heart. How beautiful. Now, where are your feelings? In your heart. For what? Who is he sitting now in your heart, whom you love, from whom you have expectation, hope? That is divine, the God. Come and live in my heart. Make my heart your holy seat. Make my heart your temple. And when Gajanandjī, Gurudev, Gajanand, will come and sit in your heart, all obstacles will go away. All this feeling will disappear. Anubhav bani pragat kī jo. Anubhav bani. Please open. Manifest it. Pragat means manifestation. Pragat means open. So, anubhāv, experiences, that your experience is Lord Gaṇeśa. What is in your wisdom? What is your knowledge? That you should reveal in my heart and in my buddhi, in my intellect. Not that I am talking about something which is not correct. Ganesha is also known as the Lord of Intellect. And Gaṇeśa is accompanied by Riddhi and Siddhi. Riddhi-siddhi. Siddhi is perfection, and riddhi is the wealth. So he is accompanied by Ṛddhi and Siddhi. When his kṛpā is there, automatically everything is fulfilled. How beautiful! But you have to open your heart to have his seat there. Not only for one minute, Gaṇeśa and Nāma, Hari Om, we go. It's not like that. Śraddhā, viśvāsa, that we should have towards Gurudev, Gaṇeśa. What kind of experiences? You should give me knowledge. Give me means the sun, means the light, the sunlight. No light can be compared with the sunlight. So no knowledge can be compared with Ātmā Jñāna, Brahma Jñāna, and that can be blessed by Gaṇeśa Jī Mahārāj, can be blessed by Gurudev. O my Lord, who seek the blessing, who seek the shelter of thy holy lotus feet. Give them everlasting happiness. Śaraṇe āyāko sadā sukha dījo. Everlasting happiness. Śaraṇe āyāko sadā sukha dījo. Kījo sarva duḥkha nāśa. And please destroy all the problems of that bhakta. Destroy all my problems. Sarva duḥkhā, all problems. Deep Niranjan, sab dukha bhanjan, sab dukha sarva. Sarva means all, sarva means all. Sare aaye ko sada suk di, jo ki jo sarva dukha naasa, kaal jaal, kubuddha chaal. Jo kaal, the death, jaal, someone who is trying to cheat you, a tricky one. Kubudha, a bad thought. Kāla, jāla, kubuddhi, tālaja, this all, please remove from my path. Kāla, jāla, kubuddha taljo, meto yam ki trāsa. O Lord, O Gajānanjī Mahārāj, O Gurudev, Bhagavān, Dīpṇayan, Mahāprabhujī, forever and ever. Remove the torturing of the Kāla. Many, many lives, this Yama, the Kāla. Kāla means Yama. Kāla means time, the past. Kāla means the snake. Kāla means the black. So meto yam ki trāsa. Yam has been torturing me for many, many lives. Please, now free me from this. This means that I pass from this world without suffering, and I come to thy holy lotus feet, to this Brahmaloka. If you are stuck in the māyā, if you are stuck in this prapañca of the saṃsāra, then be ready to be tortured. Again and again, you will be tortured. There was an animal, a cow or a buffalo or an elephant, and it had a wound on its buttock. A crow always used to come and sit on the buttock and was eating a piece of meat, and they could not remove it. Crow from there, this part of the buttock. So Yama is that crow which is torturing you, and you can't do anything to protect. You are living in every creature, in every atom, omniscient, omnipresent. How? Like the sky, like the space. It is everywhere in heaven. Akasha element, and so is the Ganesha everywhere. There is no distance. It is closer than you could think, and with everyone. And therefore, first has to be adored, Śrī Gaṇeśa Mahārāj kī Jai. "Gaṇapati dhyāve sadā sukh pāve." Those who meditate and worship Gaṇeśa will always be happy, because he removes all the problems. You are happy, but you must have that adoration. You must have that love, unconditional love. Otherwise, kapaṭa kī bhakti prabhu nahī̃ māne, sache rache madana gopāla. God doesn't want devotion or that kind of bhakti with tricks and selfishness. Gaṇapati dhāve sadā sukha pāve. Pure man kī āśā. Pure means fulfill. It will fulfill your desire, what your mind is desiring, what you are desiring for. Yes. But if your desire is such a selfish one that in the future will bring problems, Ganesha will not fulfill it, because then Ganesha is responsible. Ganesha has a very clear highway without any obstacles, so he knows what is your... Desire, and after how many years, months, or days, will create the problem that he will not fulfill? And still, if you are asking and asking him, he will remove those coming future problems and obstacles, that Gaṇeśa has the power to do. Yes, he is. Eternal, universal, divine, cosmic power, the Gaṇeśjī. Śrī Pūjā Dīp Dayālu Ghan Nāmī. Universal worshipped Deep Dayālu, the merciful Mahāprabhū Deep. Ghan Nāmi. Ghan Nāmi is the name of Gaṇeśa. I am remembering you, meditating and repeating your name constantly with my inhalation and exhalation. My inhalation never goes without your name, Mahāprabhujī, and my exhalation never goes without your name. You see the devotion of Holī Gurujī. Every second, every time when I inhale, "Om Gurudeep, Gurudeep,..." Gurudeep, inhalation and exhalation, Mahāprabhujī is in the breath, in the energy of the Holy Gurujī. What do you think about such a great person? Śrīpūjā Dīpā Dayālu Ghan Nāmī Śvāsa Uṣāsa Mādhava Ānanda Nītā Ārāja Karata Hai. Holy Gurujī said, "Nītā Ārāja Karata Hai. Every day I am requesting you, every day I pray to you." Madhava, Ānanda, Nītā, Araja Karat Hai. I don't need anything. I am only thirsty for your holy darśan. That's all. I don't want money. I don't want power. I don't want a kingdom. I don't want anything. Only your presence, and his presence means automatically everything. Little story. There was one man who was doing this magic trick, magic sewing, something you know, with the tricks very perfect, you know, very good. That's called the hand's trick. He came to one king and said, "I want to make one show today." And the king said, "Okay." And he made a perfect, perfect show. Very good. So the king said, "Ask what you want. I will give you everything you wish: land, house, money, kingdom." That man was also very clever, like all of you. Now, about to ask... ask for 20 tons of gold, thousands of hectares of land, these things. What? You wish I give you everything? He said to the king, "Lord, what will I do with everything? Everything is yours, everything is yours, but you are mine." Okay, so it means you have to become my slave. It is automatically, everything is mine. There is no one. Who will be against me? So everything is yours, but you are mine. Similarly, Gurudev, I don't want anything, only your darśan, because in his darśan is everything. And so, Palak Palak, merī yehī āraj hai, rākho śaraṇ mein, dāsa padhāro mere Gaṇeśa. Deva guransha, and then you see all the beautiful books and bhajans what holy Gurujī wrote are perfect because this was dedicated to God Gaṇeśa, in form of Mahāprabhujī, the Gurudev. Likewise, we are on the chapter of the Samādhi Pāda. Pāda means the chapter of the great, says Patañjali. And Patañjali is making us alert. He is making us aware of what kind of obstacles can come, and how to protect ourselves from these obstacles. What is a practitioner expecting on the path? Finally, he is also coming to the surrendering, Īśvara Praṇidhāna, meditation, prayers, concentration, and surrendering. So yesterday we spoke about nine kinds of different kleśas. Nine kleśas, plus there are some other kleśas which he is warning us about: what can come and how you can come out of all these kleśas in order to achieve kaivalya samādhi avasthā, kaivalya avasthā. Kaival means only, only, one. Avasthā is the stage of the consciousness. When you have achieved kaivalya, then you can say one in all and all in one. Only the one, that's all, or Nirbīja Samādhi. That samādhi where there is no more these vāsanās, these karmas, or this all are existing, otherwise there are the seeds very deep in your subconscious, and they will sprout time to time. You think you are pure, you have good consciousness. You are a good person, but suddenly such a desire comes in your mind, in your feelings, in your heart, in your thoughts. Even you are surprised. My God, why did I not know? These seeds are within you: nirbīja and sabīja. Sabīja is with seeds, and nirbīja is without seeds. When there are no seeds, nothing will grow anymore. So here, seeds means all our bad karmas, all the saṃskāras, all the vṛttis are forever finished. And you are in that ātmā jñāna, in brahma jñāna, that you can achieve through practicing your yoga in daily life. Āsanas, prānāyāms, mudrās, bandhas, kriyās, mantras, concentration, meditations, bhakti, all, all is compact yoga in their life, that is an integral yoga, all is included in this. But you have to follow, you have to practice. Now, beside this, Patañjali is saying something, something. Yes, there are different five kleśas again to be expected. They are to be expected, but don't give up. Practice, practice, practice. I told you yesterday, This body is the temple of the disease, a temple of the disease. Kāma, krodha, mada, lobha, moha, lara, all vikāras, what we call vikāra, are hidden in this body. Vikāra is something like a rotten thing, a rotten fish, a rotten apple, a rotten something. That's a vikāra. And this vikāra sits in the body. As soon as the soul departs, prāṇa will leave this body, and very quickly vikāra begins in this body. After some time, even if you can't stand near the body, you have to close your nose. From where did this vikāra come? So, the first is duḥkha. Yes, though you have mastered everything and all this before, nine different kinds of obstacles, now you have confidence in your practice, you have love for your practice, you have devotion to your practice, you are disciplined, you have no tamas. Guṇas, you are always sāttvic persons and everything, think, but there is a duḥkha coming. Dukkha means troubles, pain, suffering. You know, but you can't do anything against it. That is this. You know you have this dukkha, but you can't do anything. We try and try, and it's not outside of the body, it's within the body. Therefore, Holy Gurujī is saying in this bhajan, Deep, the light, the Mahāprabhujī. Niranjan, pure, that can remove. Purity can give us purity. Impurities can create more impurities. Deep Niranjan Sab Dukh Bhanjan, that can remove all the problems. What a beautiful mantra. So first, Patañjali is saying, yes, three kinds of duḥkhas is often explained, and Holy Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī, and many... Other saints are saying in their bhajans and preaching: ādhibhautik, ādhidaivik, ādhyātmik. And this is called a tapa. Tapa means the heat, tapa means the fire. This is a fire of suffering. There are different kinds of fires, so Mental tension is also fire, constantly burning, and you don't know how to cool down this fire. You have mental tension. You can dive deep in this ocean; tension will be there. So it is there, but you... Can't do anything, but there is a protection. Holy, the Gurujī said in the same mantra, Manjana Sabadoka Bhadisi Mantrasi Hove Manamanja Manjan Prabhu Deepa Niranjana Sabadoka... All the three tapas, these three duḥkha, and pāpa, sin, pāpa means the sin, all will be deleted from your phenomenon. Your road is forever free. Yes, now you are on the runway. Take off. The sky is clear, but you must have this first realized. Otherwise, you take off, and what happens? You come in the thorny bush inside. Now, the thorns, they are like a hook, double hook, three hooks, you know. So, it doesn't matter if you move; this side is pulling. Your skin, if you move that side, is pulling. Oh my God, can you imagine you are that bird which is stuck in the thorn bush? So we are that one. We are stuck in this, all purpose of the saṃsāras. So ādi devik, ādi devik duḥkha or tapa. Which is durbalatā, weakness of your senses, physical and mental disease. What a punishment, you know, but there's no remedy. We try to get a remedy, but that doesn't work, and if we get a remedy, then there are many different conditions. Your situation is... Like this, that you try to take your shirt, your trousers fall down. You take the trousers, the cravat falls down. When you take the cravat, the head falls down. You, you know, everything you try to do one, you lose three. So, in this, there is called kāma, your wish, your desires, which you cannot fulfill. Krodha, your anger, this all vyādhis, plus your physical disease. This is the ādidevik, tāpa or duḥkha. And the third, adhyātmik duḥkha. Adhyātmik Dukha, Adhyātmik Dukha means from the other creatures, also from the humans, from mosquitoes, from the tigers, from other, all kinds of other creatures which attack you. This is also duḥkha. We try to protect, but they will catch you, you know. Through mosquitoes, more people die than from tigers or lions. And humans are not capable of fighting against mosquitoes. Day by day, more and more viruses are coming because of the pollution. This is a tapa, this is a karma, this is a destiny. And this destiny can be protected or saved by the blessing of the divine, the Gurudev or Gaṇeśajī Mahārāj. Adibhautik duḥkha. Adibhautik duḥkha is from the nature. Prakṛti, hot, cold. Ativṛṣṭi, too much rain and flood. Drought, no rain, no water. Earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, and so on. This is from the prakṛti, from the nature, the karma which happens to us, that is also duḥkha. But those who seek the surrendering, those who seek the sheltered divine, they can be or will be protected. And the third is Pāpa. Pāpa means the sin. Yes, there are two kinds of sins. One is doing, though we know, and one is happening without our knowing. When you walk, or when you sweep your floor, or vacuum cleaning nowadays, you know how many creatures are killed in this, the fire, the water place, and so on. And now, at that time, when they told these three tapas. There was no car, but now you know when we drive the car, how many insects are dying, though we don't want to. But this, all sins, God will forgive easily. But which we do purposely while knowing, that will be heavy and difficult. So tinyoṅ kī tāpa pāpa sab mita jāve. And the fifth, duḥkhā, svāśaḥ par svāśā, ascending and descending breath. The breath problems. Now the breath, you cannot control. You have asthma. You would like to breathe slowly and deeply. What do you have to do? Without your control, you exhale, and without your control, you inhale. What is the condition of your life now? It means there is a thread on this table. And I am pulling the thread from here. And slowly, slowly, now the thread is coming to the end of the table. Before this happens to us, may Gurudev bless us. May your sādhanā become successful, perfect, so that you will not have these five different karmas. Tri-tapas, pāpa, and śvāsa-praśvāsa, the weakness, the disease, the pain, unmovable, No one can help, though we are all standing beside you, but you cannot be helped. This is also a kleśa, an obstacle on the path of your sādhanā, your practice. Therefore, practice Haṭha Yoga. Don't take it easy. Hatha Yoga is not āsanas and prāṇāyāmas. Hatha Yoga is neti, dhauti, nauli, basti, tratāka, and kapālabhāti. This is a purification. But this purification of Haṭha yoga has more effect on our health than the external exercises and external things we are doing. Haṭha yoga, therefore, a Haṭha yogī is known as one of the most powerful yogīs. All these tapas are from Hatha yoga, which disappears. They can't come near to you, but they have to have discipline. Hatha yogīs' consciousness is more pure, and hatha yogīs have an easier time coming to nirbīja samādhi. Then, practicing āsanas, having some good food, sattvic food, and so on, and walking, and this and that—all many things. But hatha yoga, śaṅkhaprakṣālana is a very, very powerful technique, a very powerful technique. When you do one time Saṅghaprakshālan, at least 36 different kinds of diseases are gone. I don't know the 37th one, but the 36th. Sattisya yoga or sattisya roga nasta ho jate hai. Roga means disease, 36 diseases: saṅkhaprakṣālana, netī, dhautī, bastī, naulī, tratā, kapāla, bhatī. This is called haṭha yoga: āsanas, prāṇāyāma, dhāraṇā, dhyāna, and then the samādhi, which Patañjali will come in next chapter when the samādhi path is completed. So after this, we will come. Tomorrow we have time still, yes, ten minutes we have, thank you. So, practice a dhartam ekatva abhyāsa. In order to remove these obstacles, these three tapas, these sins and all these, only there is one, there is only one way, and that way is called abhyāsaḥ. What? Abhyāsah, abhyāsah, kaunteya, abhyāsah. When Arjuna and all five Pāṇḍavas were in the gurukula learning there, and archery, Arjuna was not sleeping in the night. Out of his school hours, he used to go and practice and practice and practice. We call nowadays homework. No, children come at home, and they have to do extra homework. Those children, after school, they come home and again they learn what the teacher taught, and again learns till next morning, coming to school five, six. Seven times, read everything. That student will be brilliant, perfect, and good. Nowadays, a student comes home, puts their school bag down, takes a drink, and turns the television on. And when the examination time comes, then they are nervous. They are not successful. Abhyāsa. Abhyāsa, Abhyāsa, Kaunteya, Abhyāsa. Kuntī, who was Kuntī? Arjuna's mother. O son of the Kuntī, practice, practice, practice. And therefore, Gurujī also said, O dear bhaktas of God, O God's dear ones, yes, God loves us. We are all His dear ones, you know. Oh, God's dear ones, do proper sādhanā so that you can attain mokṣa. Abhyāsa, abhyāsa. Without abhyāsa, without sādhanā, you cannot come. And therefore, because we know this durbalatā, weakness of the body, will attack us. This is the dharma of the physical body: to be born, to grow, and to die. So, to remove this and to get peace of the mind or in your heart, this is one practice only. That's abhyāsa, Īśvara praṇidhāna. Practice your mantra japa. Finally, after doing all these things. Satayoga and fatayoga and jatayoga and khatayoga, finally you come to the only, the name of Gurudev's mantra. That's it. That is the final. There you will find yourself that yes, what I was doing was all a waste of time. Then your ātmā will call. This jīvātmā will tell you. This cetanā will tell you. Gurudev, śaraṇ tumhārī, cintā merī mitā de, Kar ke dayā dayālu bedā tū pār lagāde, Kar ke dayā bedā, Guru śaraṇ tumhār, Cintā merī mitā, Guru śaraṇ tumhār, Cintā merī mitā, Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān. There is one bhajan: "Bhatakat Bhatakat Bahut Phira, Ab Tū Meṅ Thak Gayā O Gurudev." While wandering, wandering here and there, I am so tired, I am so tired. Finally, I came to you. Now I am so tired, I can't go searching here and there. One day this master, the other day another master, changing your sādhanā, the picture in your heart. You are tired. Now find the way. So, citta ekāgratā, to have the citta vṛtti nirodha. Śumiran, bhajan, Īśvara, dhyāna, your mantra, your japa, that's dhyāna. Mūlam guru mūrti, pūjā mūlam guru padam, mantra mūlam guru vākyam, mokṣa mūlam guru kṛpā. Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Śrī Śrī Deveśvara Mahādeva, Dharma Samrāṭ Sattva Guru Svāmī Mādhvan. Om Śānti Śānti...