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Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī. Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī. Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Gurudeva Kī. Guru Mahāmantra Śatpāramdevā Kī. First of all, many blessings to all dear bhaktas of Śrī Gurudeva, Mahāprabhujī, Gurujī. I am very happy to see you again after two months. I do hope that you had a very nice summer. Many things happened in your life. For some things, you are happy. For others, you regret very much—those actions or events you undertook without vivekā, without feeling the presence of Gurudev. Conversely, those actions or events which took place with heart and intellect, in the divine presence of Gurudev, were the most beautiful times. The central question is this: how do you perceive the presence of Gurudev? There is one word called bhāva. Bhāva has many meanings. Bhava also means price. Let us say today gold is 100,000 euros per kilo, and tomorrow it becomes 500,000 per kilo. The gold did not increase even half a gram, but you gained 400,000 euros. Why? Its power, its value, went high. Conversely, you buy gold for 100,000 euros per kilo, and tomorrow the price falls to only 20,000 euros per kilo. The gold, the physical substance, remains exactly one kilo, but you lost 80,000. Why? The bhāva, the price, fell down. Similarly, there is another aspect of bhāva called devotion. If your devotion increases, your benefit is there. If your devotion decreases, your loss is there. It is said in folk language: Bhagavān bhāv ke bhūkhe hai. God is only hungry for your bhāva. That bhāva, you can also call love. In any walk of life, if you have love, you will gain everything. If you lose the love, you will lose everything. As long as you have love for your partner, you need not worry about whether your partner will stay or get divorced. But if the bhāva is missing, the love is missing, then no one can stop the separation or the growing distance. This principle applies not only to partnership but to anyone or anything. Bhāva also becomes trust. If you trust, then you have no doubts. Where there's trust, there's freedom. Where there's trust, everything is beautiful. Where there's no trust, there's doubt. And where there is doubt, there is distance. Doubt is like a crack in a wall, a crack on a pot, which you cannot make whole again. There is a beautiful poem from the poet Rahim Das. Rahim Das said: Rahiman, dhaga prem ka mat toro chitkaya. The thread of love is very fragile. Do not break it out of your ignorance or doubt. If you break that thread of love, you cannot join it again. If you try to join it, a knot will remain. Therefore, we shall try to cultivate our bhāva towards our parents, children, friends, colleagues, other creatures, house pets, partners, and towards our master. So, when you have a beautiful bhāva, what happens? In your body, in every cell, a very positive vibration takes place, which has a healing process. It is like lightning. You can imagine every cell of the body vibrating like lightning, akin to the many stars or light spots you see on a television screen with no program. Similarly, each and every cell of the body converts to a positive frequency. The negative energy, or the diseased cells and tissues in the body, are either healed—recycled—or, through the help of the Apāna Prāṇa, rejected from the body. The body finds a way to expel them. This is also a Kriyā technique in yoga and daily life. You can say this Kriyā is like a Bhāva meditation or light meditation. If you lose your bhāva, darkness will appear again. This is the mistake most practitioners experience. When they get a little spiritual light within themselves, they think, "Now I am God. I don't need a guru. I don't need anything. I discovered the light within me. I am the highest one." These thoughts are thoughts of ignorance, the foolishness of a spiritually undeveloped person. As soon as these thoughts of ego appear, darkness will come. The dark will swallow that light which is dimmed through your doubts and ego. Therefore, in one bhajan, our dear Holy Gurujī said: Nita nita prem mera adek badi jo. O Lord, day by day my love should increase, for in that lies your benefit. So, when you sit in meditation and have certain physical problems—no matter the illness—first try to develop the bhāva. Check your confidence, your devotion. Where is your weak point? You should truly check what can be moved. You will remain distant unless you remove that weakness; nothing will help you, because on one side you are working positively, and on the other side, dark energy is influencing you again. For example, we all would like to keep the ancient wisdom, culture, and traditions. But the dominating power at this present time is the modern way of thinking, modern education, modern culture, and modern traditions, which have no roots. They are a mixture of many things, and that is not good for humanity's future. Can you imagine humans without culture, without tradition, and without ancient wisdom? Therefore, it is our prime duty to preserve and apply in daily life our ancient heritage and culture. For every citizen of every country, their first duty is to preserve, protect, and practice the ancient culture, heritage, and wisdom. Culture does not seek to destroy other cultures. Therefore, it is also said in the testament, "Be nice to your neighbor." In Ayurveda, it is said the happiness of life is also to have a good neighbor. We shall respect our neighbors, but at the same time, we should also keep our ancient heritage. So, during meditation, check yourself. Where is your weak point? Where can you lose your confidence in God, in your master, in your husband, in your wife, or in your friends? Unless you become one, it will not survive. Where there are two, there is the question of separation. When there is only one, there is no question of separation. It is called Atut Prem—unseekable, unbroken, unbreakable love. Ananya Bhāv—unconditional love. Then, in meditation, you will feel the presence. You will feel the presence of that one about whom you are thinking. When you think of your dear one, every cell of your body is awakened, alarmed, lightning. That is wonderful. It is so wonderful that sometimes tears come from the eyes. That is what Mahāprabhujī said very beautifully in one bhajan: Satguru satsaṅgyorī olu āveyare. How I long for my dear brothers and sisters of satsaṅg. When I remember, my eyes are full of tears. That must be the remembrance or longing I have. At that time, your ābhā maṇḍal, your aura, begins to radiate. There is no distance where there is consciousness. Where there is matter, there is distance, but where there is consciousness, no distance exists. The frequency you awaken and send from your heart cannot be stopped by other frequencies. Similarly, the other one also has that radiance. If you are a good receiver, you will immediately receive it. But if you have doubts, uncertainty, or half-feelings—one leg on this horse and the other leg on the other horse—it is not easy. Do not say, "To be sure, have two or three." When you are in a problem, you call, "Kṛṣṇa, please come, Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa," and the next half-second, "Rāma, Rāma, please, Rāma." There is one story. A river was flowing, and two people went to cross but couldn't swim. One was trying to call, "Rāma, Rāma, please God, Rāma, save me." Rāma was getting ready to come save him, but next he said, "Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa, please Kṛṣṇa." So Rāma relaxed, thinking, "Kṛṣṇa, you go." As soon as Kṛṣṇa got ready, the person called again, and Kṛṣṇa said, "You go." Meanwhile, the person drowned. The second one also couldn't swim and said only, "Mahāprabhujī," and Mahāprabhujī came and saved him. If you hold on to one sādhanā, you can achieve perfection in every sādhanā. But if you try to have everything, you cannot be successful. It doesn't matter what. The body is mortal. Body viyadī kā ghar hai. Viyadī means diseases, troubles. The body is a house of illnesses. Sooner or later, we will be ill because that light is missing—the light of faithfulness in one only. Naturally, we would like to be healthy. So you try allopathy, at the same time homeopathy, at the same time Ayurveda, at the same time naturopathy, and what not. There may be a counter-reaction. A very clear picture is there: you take allopathic medicine but have no confidence in it. That's why you go to homeopathy. You are in doubt, in disharmony, that allopathy will cure your disease, so you also search for help from homeopathy, and after homeopathy, you are already searching for some naturopathy. You see, you have no confidence in homeopathy either. Like this, you become a rabbit in an experiment, and the illness enjoys residing in your body. The illness is without any worry because no one will be able to throw it out. Therefore, do one thing wholeheartedly. Otherwise, you tear your heart into many, many parts. You don't know what that means. Only one who can feel this love knows, and when it's gone—when you take a wrong step—it's lost. There are some symptoms working negatively, created by yourself, and some symptoms working positively, also created by yourself. So there is physical attachment, jealousy, doubt, suffering, and there will be separation. But where there is a beautiful relation with the astral energy, then even your body is moved in that direction. Your body doesn't require anything else. At that time, when you are in oneness, you can imagine you are surrounded by beautiful light. The whole room is full of energy. It even goes to the neighbors, and also where our dear one is, our adorable Gurudev. You direct that light in that direction. Where there's light, darkness will not come; darkness will remain very far away. But as soon as you take a wrong step, it is like a chain is broken, and the negative energies have a chance to attack. Therefore, it is said, "Lord, you can take everything away from me, but not one thing: my belief, my trust, my love." Because love unites, and doubt divides. So when we come near Mahāprabhujī's altar, it is not a stone; it is he himself. The radiance of Mahāprabhujī is there. As soon as you open the door, you get that impression. The light comes when your dear one telephones you. They say, "Hello," and an awakening takes place in your body. If your enemy, or a person you hate, telephones and says, "Hello," you will see darkness around you. Even through a voice, it can influence your heart and your brain. And while thinking, it influences your body, mind, intellect, and consciousness. There is a small story. God incarnates for many reasons. Day before yesterday was Janmāṣṭamī, when the universal God Kṛṣṇa was incarnated. Kṛṣṇa said in the Bhagavad-gītā, I think in the 14th chapter, verses 12 and 13: "Oh Arjuna, whenever my devotees are troubled and whenever the satanic forces arise, then, time to time, oh Arjuna, through the help of yoga-māyā, I manifest or incarnate on this planet so many, many times." The Lord incarnates to protect the dharma and to destroy the adharma, for not only one thing but many. When Kṛṣṇa was grown, perhaps five, six, or eight years old, he said to his father Nandabābā and Yaśodā, "I am going to Gokula, to Mathurā, to liberate Kaṁsa." Kaṁsa was the uncle of Kṛṣṇa, but he was a most negative dictator, a rākṣasa, and he was only waiting to see Kṛṣṇa to kill him. They said, "Why are you going there? Please don't go. Kaṁsa is a very terrible rākṣasa." Kṛṣṇa said, "I must go because there is no one in this time who thinks of me as Kṛṣṇa as Kaṁsa is thinking. Kaṁsa couldn't sleep. When he fell asleep, he saw Kṛṣṇa, and because he knew Kṛṣṇa would be the cause of his death, he is constantly thinking of Kṛṣṇa." Kṛṣṇa said, "He has realized me within him." That's it. If you are jealous and angry toward someone constantly, you are thinking of that person. Now, that person exists in you more than yourself, and that's why I must go there, Kṛṣṇa said. So, about whom you think, and with which kind of feelings you think, that comes to you. Therefore, when you meditate, think of Gurudev. Meditate on the embodiment of Gurudev, the idol of Gurudev. What is Gurudev? Brahmanandam, paramasukhadam, kevalam jñānamūrti. He is the supreme joy, the highest happiness, bliss, and he is only the form of wisdom, knowledge. Brahmanandam paramasukhadam kevalam jnanamurti. He is beyond and above all dualities. He is equal, like the sky. This is the aim of everyone: to realize. He is only one. Everlasting Ekam, Nityam, Vimalam, Achalam—without any spot, pure, unmovable. It is compact in the whole universe. Nothing moves from him. Sarvaddhi Sakshibhutam—the knower of everything. He is the knower of each and every atom of your body. Bhavatitam Triguna Rahitam: He is above the bhava of dualities and above the three guṇas. That is the Satguru Dev. I bow down to that Guru Dev. What to adore? What to celebrate? The holy lotus feet of Gurudev. The best mantra for you is to follow the Guru Vākya. There should be no question of why or how. I don't understand? I can understand that you can't understand, because you can't understand. The bhāva is missing. Guru-vākya is the highest mantra for us. Adore, celebrate, worship the holy lotus feet. Nothing in the universe is higher than that. If you have this in your bhāva, within you, you are free from all troubles. Mahāprabhujī said beautifully in a bhajan: Chanting, chanting. Abhakt hari kā sacchā hoe, kyo man mein ghabrāyā? Abhakt sacchā hoe to kyo man mein ghabrāyā? Kar du ajarāyā, kar du ajarāyā. Therefore, if you are a real devotee of God, your Iṣṭa Devatā, then why are you worried and scared within? So, with such pure love, pure bhāva, and devotion, at the time of inhalation, imagine thousands of radiances, light rays penetrating your body. When you exhale, all negative cells are neutralized. But as long as you meditate, you must have the same power. Therefore, I used to say: do not change the altar of your heart. Do not mix in the altar of your heart. Then you will see what joy is there. Whenever you meditate, you will receive the light. Do this during the kriyās, during mantra practice, prāṇāyāma practice, āsanas, and so on. The rest is tomorrow. Satsaṅg with Moojī.