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Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī, Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī, Dharma Samrāṭ Satguru Svāmī Mādhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī, aur ādarśa to Oṁ Śrī Alakhpurījī, Siddha Pīṭha. Blessings to all of you from Gurudev. Good evening and welcome, all brothers and sisters. Finally, we are again here in this beautiful countryside, the country republic, Croatia, and the most beautiful coast, the Adriatic coast. When I told people that we would come to Umag, everyone was very happy. This place has some attraction or spiritual radiance. Though for some people, it’s very far—it costs them more money for traveling than just to pay for the seminar. Holy Gurujī used to say: where there is love, there is no distance. And when there is no love, even a neighbor’s door is too far. Where there is love, there is unity, Purījī. Where there is love, there is understanding. And where there is love, there is peace. Love has no boundaries or borders. The borders are created out of ignorance. Borders exist only in the human brain. It is the humans who create borders on this planet, from country to country, district to district, village to village, and individual properties. In some places, even every centimeter is very expensive. But those who have a Divine Consciousness, there is no border. Though the aim of human life is to cross the borders of karmic law, the borders of death and birth, to come to mokṣa, to self-realization. There was a question in Hṛṣīk, Govinda, Bosnia: How does this Satyaloka look? And Mahāprabhujī, Gurujī, spontaneously—all answers that I give are coming from Gurudev—so, it is said, this is Satya Yuga. The satsaṅg is Satya Yuga. Now we are sitting in Satya Yuga. When we go out of this area, we will enter into the Kali Yuga. Satya Yuga or Kali Yuga, all is here. Heaven or hell is here. It is said: devoṁ ko bhī durlabha hai manuṣe kā jīvana. Even for the goddess, it is also very rare to realize a human body. It’s called human, then called the saints, then called the devas, and then called the self-realized or God. We are humans. We have our human qualities. We are going through certain mistakes. But some of you are here like a saint. A saint means not a special dress. The uniform of the senses is wisdom, knowledge. Knowledge is that where there is no ignorance. Where there is no knowledge, there are doubts, jealousy, hate, complexes, selfishness, greediness, and desire. Desires, longing, unhappiness—and where there is knowledge, all this doesn’t exist. That is known as a holy saint, and that one is not far from self-realization. Devas, we call goddess; some people translate in English "semi-god," but there is no semi-god. God is God. God is God. You cannot say little love, half love, big love. Love is love. Fire is fire. Maybe a big mountain is burning or a small matchstick. Fire is fire. God is God. There is no semi-God. So we call them Devas, Goddesses. So, if you read some books and there is written "semi-god," then make a correction and write a letter to the author for the next publication. Please correct it. Many people translate the soul as ātmā. That’s also wrong. The soul is an individual, and the ātmā is universal. The soul is a victim of destinies, and the ātmā is free from the destinies. But to know this, you have to study inside. Who does not have experiences about this and writing? That’s called a bookworm who goes to the library and collects the things. Therefore, in Yama and Niyama, in Rāja Yoga, it is said Svādhyāya. Svādhyāya means study. But this Svādhyāya, in reality, if you translate word by word, the definition is different. Sva means the self. Adhyāya means the chapter. So, study your inner chapter. Chapters of your life. How many chapters did you close uncompleted? How many chapters did you begin and leave halfway? How many chapters began with pain and ended with happiness? How many chapters began with joy and happiness, and ended with suffering and disappointment? And what was your role in that chapter? That is called svādhyāya. Study your own inner life chapters. So the soul is not the self. The soul is Ātmā. Ātmā is the supreme, the highest one. Now, the Devas. Devas are they who did very good work, who was spiritual and praying but had no master’s or Gurudev’s guidance, and still they did not get self-realization? They didn’t realize mokṣa. Such is Saul, who is still not having the mokṣa or ātma-jñāna, that comes to the svarga-loka, heaven. Where in heaven there is everything beautiful, there is no illness, there is no age limit, all look very young, there is no dualities, beautiful. But when the karmas will finish—your spiritual karma, your spiritual work, it has also limitation, and as a credit of your spirituality, you got the heaven. But when that will be finished, then you have to come back to Mṛti Loka. So the Devas in heaven pray to God: "After this period of heavenly life, if I have to be born again on this Mṛti Loka, Lord, bless me with human life." That through my spiritual work and guru bhakti, I may realize mokṣa, self-realization, and know thyself. And where do we learn this? In satsaṅg. There are thousands of occasions or opportunities where we can go on the wrong path. Many possibilities of the distractions, but rare they are there where you can have ātmā jñāna, satsaṅg. Satsaṅg with Ātmā Jñānī, Brahmaniṣṭha, Śrotriya, Satguru Devī. Brahmaniṣṭha, the knower of Brahman, and Śrotriya, who can inspire us and guide us. Therefore, one great saint said: "Lord, if I am born again in this world, it doesn’t matter to which form of life you will send me. Even if I have to become a dog, please, let me be the dog at the door of my master." Santonke Dwara, Santonke Ashram, let me live in that ashram, where I will have Mahāprasād, where I will have darśan and so on. Shat Sudhare, Shat Sangh Pahi, even an ignorant person can become a great wise person through satsaṅg. Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai. This bhajan is composed by Mahāprabhujī himself. Mahāprabhujī is saying: "Śobhavo Satsaṅgharī," what a glory of the satsaṅg. Satsaṅg means where truth is spoken, where spirituality is spoken about, where brotherhood is spoken about, where understanding, service, and compassion towards every creature are spoken about, and where it is believed there is God. These are the Guru Vākyas, and we do believe. We believe in this because that is the truth. So, Mahāprabhujī himself, he said: "What a glory of the satsaṅg." Badbhāgī janmāyā, only fortunate ones can come to the satsaṅg. Kya takat hai jīv kī, Rām nām le, karam de thāp kī, muh phir de. This jīvātmā has no strength to repeat the name of God. Spirituality is a very rich food, rich nourishment. It’s not a job for everyone to digest. Therefore, this jīvātmā has no strength, because the karma is different. When you would like to go for spirituality, your bad karmas give a slap on your cheek and turn your face to the other direction of Pusanga. How? Which kind of slap gives? Negative thinking, desires, many, many things. So fortunate are they who can come to satsaṅg. There is one worm, a special one, that a wasp catches and closes in the mud house. She makes a little house, or like a nest. And she always gives injections, she sticks it to the worm. It transports the hormones in it and flies away. Then again, it comes and moves around that house, making sound several times. Then, one day or one time, a wasp comes back silently. And what happens? That worm in this mud house is so scared. Now the wasp will become stuck. The wasp will come and stick again. So, that is concentrating on the voice, the sound of the wasp. Then, that sound of the wasp is already in the subconsciousness of that worm. And, it begins to imitate the sound of the wasp. And one day, it itself begins to hum. Everything is created by sound. The world is a sound. Everything. You are nothing but a bunch of sounds. You are completely transparent, and it’s only a bunch of sounds brought together through different elements. So, that’s like a mantra when you practice "Oṁ Śoham," "I am that," or "Ahaṁ Brahmāsmi," concentrating "Ahaṁ Brahmāsmi, Ahaṁ Brahmāsmi." Then one day you become the knower of that; you become Brahmāsmi. But Mahāprabhujī said: "Gurudev." Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān kī Gurudev binā kāraj na sāre. Without Gurudev, you can’t be successful in this. Koti upāyā kare koī cahe, you can do thousand things. Na bhavasindhu tere, but you cannot cross this ocean of ignorance. So, when the wasp comes near the mud house and listens, the inside is already; Nāda is awakened. Her heart hormone is transferred into the wasp. After a few days, she breaks that or makes the hole bigger, and then sits there and makes the sound again. The other one begins to come outside, looking, then this vest flies away, and the other one follows that one. So from this, Mahāprabhujī made one nice sentence of bhajan. Jai Se Braṅga, Jai Se Kīṭa Braṅga Saṅga Hokara, Śabda Guñjara Sunā. Like that worm comes to the wasps and listens to the sound, nāda. And so, that one, that baby which is developing inside, when he listens to the sound, then he has vairāgya, feeling inside to follow. Like Bhakta said: "Gurudev, I will go with you to Brahmaloka." You know this bhajan too. I don’t care what people think or who will think what. Next, Nicha Pani Ai Mile Bhagirati Ke Mai. The canalizations, water from the canalization comes and enters into the Ganges. Milat Pavitra Hotahe, as soon as it merges into the Ganges, becomes pure. Mela Pavitra Hota Hai, Ganga Jal Kehala Hai. Then no one will say it is canalization water. Everyone will say it is Gaṅgā water. Only that water will become Gaṅgā, which will enter into the Gaṅgā. So only that will become holy or guru who will enter into the consciousness of the guru. You have to merge it into it. And you will lose your ego, your jīvātmā will be lost, your ID will be lost. When the river merges into the ocean, that is the end of the name of that river. Hari Om. There is only ocean. So similarly, when this Jīvātmā will enter into the higher consciousness, then you will be known as Brahman. Ahaṁ Brahmāsmi, Ahaṁ Brahmāsmi. So, nīcā pānī āy mile bo bhagīratī ke mai, milat pavitra hotā hai wo Gaṅgā jal kehlāī, immediately becomes pure and it becomes known as Gaṅgā jal. Jaisī nīcā pānī āyā mile, vo bhāgīrathī ke mā nīcā pānī. Parash is a stone, a very high quality stone and very rare, even rarer than diamonds or anything. The quality or the nature of the Pāras stone is that if it touches iron or any other metal, that becomes gold. So Mahāprabhujī said: "Pāras saṅga loha kare." When the iron comes to the satsaṅg of the Pāras. Near to the Paras, Aṅg se Aṅg Milai, touching both together, body to body. Aṅg means the body. Aṅg se Aṅg, Aṅg se Aṅg Milai, merges. Sudh Kanchan Ho Jai, that iron becomes pure gold. But it is said that Paras can make you only gold, not Paras, but Guru can make you the Guru. Ganga can make you Ganga, but you have to merge into it and give up your ego, your desires, all this. There is a best quality of sandalwood called Malyagar, the best one; it has a very beautiful smell. Any wood that comes near to that Mālyagāṛ, it adopts that quality and becomes, looks like a Mālyagāṛ. Similarly, satsaṅg makes you wholly happy. Mahāprabhujī said, through the satsaṅg, one will realize this divine quality, this divine concept. Fortunate one who can come to the satsaṅg. So, Devas who live in the Svarga, or what you call heaven, that is not a forever-lasting life. According to the time of the universe and the numbers of solar systems and planets, they all have their age. Our planet also has its age, its day, its month, and its years. Our one year is one day of the Devas in Svarga. So they have a long age and a long time to enjoy. But again, at the end, you have to come again to the Mṛti Loka, birth and death. So, one doesn’t pray to come to Svargaloka, one doesn’t pray to come to heaven, but to Brahmaloka, to Brahman. And that is Ātmā Jñāna. And that Ātmā Jñāna comes through satsaṅg, sevā, following the Guruvākya, means all the holy scriptures, Vedas, Brahmavākya. Upanishads, Brahmavākya, Gītā, Brahmavākya, all these holy books, Bible, Brahmavākya. When the holy book is spoken by great incarnations, then it is a Guruvākya. And if you fail the Guruvākya, then Chukhe Ko Chaurāsī. See, if you fail, then you go again into this 84 million creature circle again. So we are fortunate ones. We have a chance, and God was very gracious that we got human life. This is the most expensive diamond. This is a paras. You can make much gold. And this is a Gaṅgā which can make everyone the Gaṅgā. And this is the Gurudev inside. You can make everyone Gurudev, but first you have to awaken the realized. Work, work, always upliftment of your consciousness. When you fall again and again to the lower chakras and desires, then you need not have a consultation. Be sure that you will go again in the other life of the reptilian, or who knows where. So the decision is yours. Now it is in our hands that we shall practice, we shall trust, and search for the truth—what is the ultimate truth. In God’s kingdom, there is no duality. God didn’t create any particular religion, and God has created one thing: all these creatures on this planet. All are God’s children. Love them. Take care of them. Feed them. Love them. Don’t eat them. Then you will be in Ānanda. That’s it. So when we come to the Ānanda Loka, then you know that. When there was Svaragvāsī, Svaragvāsī means the citizen of heaven, they enjoyed all the credits of their karmas, deeds, and again come to this cycle of birth and death. Therefore, it is said, if you owe anyone anything, hurry up to pay it back. Let’s say you borrow money from someone: 100,000 euros, or 2,000 euros, 5 euros, 1 euro, half a euro, or 1 cent. Don’t forget to return it back immediately, as soon as you can. Otherwise, this becomes a big obstacle for you. You are spiritual. You have good karmas. There is nothing wrong. Now you have the right to take off. To where? Svargaloka. Or Brahmaloka. Okay? You go. You come on the border, pass control. Looking in the computer. No. No entry. You have a debt. Return back to the mṛtyuloka. Pay back. Pay back your karmas. Then come. So, again you have to return back. There is one story Chidandan told once, a nice story. There was one Swāmījī in one village. People liked him very much. And wherever he used to go, the disciples would go with him, many, many. And Swamiji had a long beard. I have only a little beard, you know. He had a board three times longer. One day, they were passing through the supermarket, and there was one businessman, a salesman, and he was a Muslim. He wanted to make a joke with this Swāmī and with his disciples, and he said: "Swāmījī, I have one question. Can you answer me?" He said: "Yes, but what is the difference between your beard and the tail of the donkey?" Swamijī didn’t say anything. He just went. Disciples like Vivek Purī, Hanumān Purī, Vasiṣṭha Purī, bodybuilders, they breathe. My God, we will show him the difference. But Master said: "No, no, I’m joking. Let’s go." Well, that man who asked this question felt, after half an hour, very sorry. That is how stupid I am, that I offended some holy person. So you see, even if you make a mistake, afterward you feel sorry in your heart. You feel guilt. About 60 years passed, and the last day of Swamijī came. Now he is going to pass away, to go into Mahāsamādhi. You know, yogīs and vegetarians have a very good memory until the last second of their life. The brain of the vegetarian doesn’t become like a calcium block. Nikta Kalkit. And the joints, and many things. Where we are not talking about eating, Swāmījī called the disciple. Please go and call that man. Which man? You remember once we were going through the supermarket, and one man made a joke and asked me a question? And that time, I didn’t answer him, but I owe him an answer. And now I’m going to Mahāsamādhi. But that answer which I owe him, I have to come back to the earth to answer him. Again, I have to come back in this charasi. So call him. Man, while that man was so sorry, he didn’t dare to come near to that holy man. He said: "With which face should I go, and with which eyes can I look into his eyes?" For sixty years, he suffered from having offended someone, both sides. Swamiji said: "My son, how are you? You know, today is my last day. And I owe you an answer." He said: "No, no, please, please." That was my stupidity. He said: "Doesn’t matter." Even with the stupidity, you throw the knife. That will make a wound. My son, I want to tell you, there is a difference between my beard and a donkey’s tail. And then he chanted Oṁ and went to Mahāsamādhi. Therefore, no matter how many promises you made, don’t always change. From whom you took, do not have this black coat on you. This is the black layer. So, to become free from all karmas means you don’t have any death, materially, emotionally, physically, intellectually, and so on. So easy it is not to come to Brahmaloka; otherwise, every clever businessman, Brahmaloka would be full of clever businessmen. But for them, there is no excess. Therefore, devas have to come. And those who come to the Self-Realization, to the Brahmaloka, some part of energy, vibration—part means that energy, vibration—joins together and comes on this Mṛtyu Loka as incarnation. There are two kinds of incarnation: Nitya and Nimitta. Nitya means always, everyday incarnation. That is called holy sense. And Nimita, time to time. Krishna said in the Bhagavad Gītā: "Arjuna, time to time I incarnate or manifest on this earth through my yoga māyā." So that is another manifestation. So normal mortal being, the human, good human or bad human, holy saint. Or who went to the svarga, devas, devasvarūpa? We call someone a good man: doesn’t shout at anyone, doesn’t steal anything, doesn’t take away from someone, and like this, we call him helpful. We call this man like a devatā, a devapuruṣa. Don’t blame that person; that is a devasvarūpa. So first, at least achieve this level. Therefore, it’s very bad to cheat. It’s better to be cheated, but don’t cheat. Get rid of all karmas. Then it is said: "Abham mast bhai Rām ras pī ke, Rām ras pī ke moyā lāge duniyā ke sabhī ras pī ke. Abham mast bhaiyā Rām ras pī ke." "Mast" means happy, without any worries, divine. Now I became so mast, happy. Through what? Rāma Rasphike, the juice of God’s name. Moya Lage Duniya Ke Sabi Rasphike. Now all the juice of the world, all the enjoyment for me is tasteless. But it is a hard nut. Yes, my Swamiji, it’s good to listen, hard to realize. Please, just be happy with us. We do our best.