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Mahaprabhuji is that one

A spiritual discourse on the purpose of human life and the path to liberation.

"Meditation is the way to him, to Gurudev. Meditation is the way to thyself, the Ātmā. And meditation is the way to Brahman, the Supreme."

"Human life is given to get Brahma jñāna, Ātmā jñāna, while projecting love. Love is a form of God."

The speaker delivers a teaching on awakening from the ignorance of worldly life. He explains that the cycle of birth and death is driven by karma, and that the precious human birth is a singular opportunity to attain self-knowledge and immortality through grace, meditation, and selfless love for all creation. He urges listeners to wake up and practice diligently before the chance is lost.

Filming location: Vienna, A.

DVD Number: 513.

Śrī Deep Hari Mahādānī hai. Prakāś puñj. Prakāś means the light. The light of ātmā, the light of self. That is the Brahman, the supreme. It is that light which is the source of all lights within us and in every planet, every star. The light in every atom is that light. Amṛta is the nectar, and Sāgara is the ocean. The ocean of the nectar, the ocean of immortality, and within that immortal ocean is that immortal consciousness, Brahman Hari. Deep Hari Mahādānī hai Bhagavān Śrī Deep Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī. He is that one Mahādānī, the greatest one, the greatest giver who gives the blessing with the light of that Brahman to those who will meditate upon his divine form. Śāre viśvame gūñj rahī haiṁ Prabhu kī amarā kahānī. In the whole world, in the whole universe, is resonating the glory of that supreme one, Bhagavān Deep Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī. The aim of our life is to get out of the cycle of birth and death. The cause of birth and death is karma, good karma or bad karma. Bad karma you may call sin, and good karma is pure or puṇya. Those who have good karma will meet the Gurudev and will get the Guru Kṛpā. But you have to understand the Kṛpā. Only those who know, who have studied and practiced, know what a diamond is. Those who did not study, for them diamond and glass are the same. If you don't understand, then you cannot take that Prakāś, you cannot take that light. Meditation is the way to him, to Gurudev. Meditation is the way to thyself, the Ātmā. And meditation is the way to Brahman, the Supreme. For a yogī, heaven or svarga is just nothing. Heaven and svarga, heaven or svarga, both are limited. After enjoying the karmas of heaven, you have to come back to caurāsī, meaning 8.4 million cycle of birth, or the birth cycle. Therefore, it is said to become one with Brahman, then there is no more recycling, there is no more rebirth. Why is it so? Some think life is good and happy. Yes, it is your past good karma that life is happy and good. But birth and death, and everyone's life is not so, as you have it only temporarily. Therefore, the indication is to awaken. You are sleeping; we are sleeping in the sleep of ignorance. We deny; we think that's all, but this is a momentary knowledge. It will come now. That is different. And so in the bhajan it is said: Cet cet ab jīva jñānī avasar jāve re guru samjāve re Therefore, wake up, wake up, oh ignorant one, wake up! Your chance is going away. Guru samjāve, Gurudev is saying, 'Don't lose your chance.' This opportunity will not come again and again. Means the opportunity of human life, through this human life we can get this Brahma Jñāna or Ātmā Jñāna. This jīvātmā, this individual soul, is born again and again in different bodies, experiencing many difficulties. At times, pain and pleasure are experienced also. But life is a challenge, life is tough, and life is full of dangers. Every creature has its enemy. Every human has an enemy at every step. There are dangers, and not only once, but again and again. Your wealth, your treasure, your houses, all will remain here. Last minute. Again, all this has to go alone in this endless universe. No one will go with you. Even if someone dies at the same time, but destiny takes them in other directions. All relations remain here. All friendships remain here. It is your good karma that will lead you to the good direction. And bad karma will lead you to the bad direction. Our selfishness, our ego, our pride, our greed, our jealousy, our attachments, our anger—all these force our indriyas, mind, and intellect to create negative thoughts, negative actions, and that will be the cause of another birth again. And again, you have to face the enemy. Every creature, even the plant, has an enemy. The only way out is one: Ātma-jñāna, Brahman, which finishes all karmas. Mother, father, family, they all attract you more and more towards attachment. But when Yama will come and take you with force, who knows how? Who will help you to be free there? Wake up, wake up, and do something good, positive for all. Manush janam amolak heera, moorak ratan gamāvare. This human life is a very precious diamond, and the foolish one just loses it. You throw it in the dust. Dust of negative karma, dust of negative thinking, dust of your jealousy, dust of your attachment, dust of your doubts, many, many things. This precious diamond you cannot buy anywhere. You cannot borrow. And only one chance. Only this chance. But out of our ignorance, we throw it in the dust. The time which is gone will not return, and then you will be sorry. But what to do? Even if you are sorry, what to do? Your sorrow will not help at all. Gayā vakt phir nahīṃ āve, phir pistāve re. So gayā vakt āve nahīṃ pyāre. O my dear one, time which is past will not come again. The bullet which is gone out of the gun will not return. The words which are spoken will not come back. The arrow which went out of the body will not return. And time will not come back. After we are sorry, we will realize our mistakes. But to realize the mistake does not mean everything. Therefore, Yoga-karma-sukaushalam, Krishna says, do selfless service. That will help you very, very much. Prayer, practice of mantra, meditation. Satguru śaraṇ gae binā mūrak, kaun bhava pār lagā vīre, without the shelter of Gurudev. O foolish one, who will let you cross the ocean of ignorance? Satguru śaraṇ gae binā mūrak, kaun bhava pār lagā vīre, Guru kṛpā binā jāyā caurāsī. Without Gurudev's Kṛpā, you will go back to the caurāsī. 8.4 million different lives, different creatures. You are going and coming, going and coming like traffic in a circle only. There is no way out, like a thirsty person going to a water fountain, and there is no water. You made a long trip, a long journey. There was no water. You went to see your friend somewhere far distance, and you went there. There was a lock on the door. Nobody was there. You came back. Similarly, then you go again in a new life and come back. Go to a new life and come back, traveling and travelling. Śrī Pūjya Bhagavān, Deep, Nārāyaṇa, Sūta, Hunch, Chetavere. Mahāprabhujī awakes or has awakened the sleeping swan. That sleeping swan means our Jīvātmā. Awake again. When the Jīvātmā awakes, which means it gets the Ātmā Jñāna, Ātmā knowledge. Kāya Mādhavānanda Bhajana says, and our dear holy gurujī said through the bhajana. Bhajana means here meditation, practicing mantra, singing Lord's name, spiritual songs, doing the sevā. All this is, everyone will enjoy the happiness, everlasting ānanda. But this you have to feel, you have to realize. Otherwise, you are doing it only for some time and then again you go away. You fall into the same trick. Everyone remembers God and repeats God's name when they are in trouble. But when they are happy, they don't repeat and don't remember God. When you are very happy and have the best time, at that time you even meditate and practice mantras, and remember God. Then the troubles will not come. Any troubles which you have, physical or mental, social, emotional, economical, any kind of troubles you have, this is the reason that you forgot God sometimes, and the result, the fruits came now. You put the seed in the ground when you were small, and now the fruits came when you are ninety years old. Finally, at least fruit came. Maybe you put the tree in this life, and fruit will come in the next life. Every step will be counted, every thought will be counted, every action will be counted. So every step, whether you make it forward or backward, both will be counted. Like a saw cuts the wood moving in both directions. Therefore, human life is given to get Brahma jñāna, Ātmā jñāna, while projecting love. Love is a form of God. God is love and love is God. If you give this love to all, the love which you give to an individual person only, that is not love; that is a desire. That is a desire, and that is temporary; that is not forever. That love out of desire brings very soon sorrow. Therefore, the joy from that joy is less enjoyable than the sorrows from that joy. But mahā-ānanda, parama-ānanda, when you demonstrate your love to all creatures, to everyone. God Kṛṣṇa said in Bhagavad Gītā to Arjuna that a yogī is very dear to me, who loves all, who is never angry with anyone. Enemies and friends are all equal to him, and he never loses confidence or faith in good times or bad times. When bad times are there, something happens; we say, 'Oh God, even God.' It didn't help me. Why do we blame God? And why should he help us? Did you help him? To help God means to protect his creatures. What God has created, don't destroy that. That means you love God and you help him. Humans should never think that God loves only humans and God is only for humans. That's the biggest mistake what we are doing. Nothing is useless on this planet what God has created. The world which is created by God is most beautiful and perfect, and the world created by humans is ugly and not perfect. All these buildings and this and that, everything. That's it. So, demonstrate your love in meditation, what you are doing is developing that love in your heart for all. Then you can come forward. If you meditate only selfishly for yourself, without forgiving your enemy, you cannot come further. More. In the eyes of God, there is no duality. God does not create religion what we call religion. This is what humans have created. This is my religion. That's my religion. In my religion, we don't believe this. In my religion we don't believe this because these are the words of humans, not God. God's words are equal to all, and therefore in active or passive meditation, know thyself first, which means: How are you? What is hidden in you? How selfish are you? How quickly are you angry and offended? How quickly? How much are you jealous? We all know very, very well. Very well. Immediately, I can see on the face of the person, you know, immediately. How are you? Why? Oh God, I only pray all the divine protectors to protect from this attack. The happy person who has love in the heart, his face is radiating. But one who has no love in the heart is like a... and jealous. That's it. Therefore, it is said, always be happy. Be in happiness. In good or bad times, Krishna said in the 12th chapter of Bhagavad Gītā, be balanced. That is a yogī, O Arjuna, that is dear to my heart. And that Krishna means your inner self, your ātmā. When your husband is balanced, then you are very happy. And on one side, your husband is angry, then you are suffering, or your wife is angry, jealous, or sad, then the man is suffering. He comes from the office after hard work, having had many troubles in the company, and comes home to be happy for the evening with her, and she is sitting. 'Did you cook?' 'I didn't think of it.' 'Thank you.' You know how much energy from this man is destroyed inside? or how much in that woman is destroyed when the man is coming home, you're angry and absent, and like this, and she's waiting full of expectation. So this is a union from both sides. Energy, we should adopt each other to be happy, but if there's a laugh, you jump in the intellect and you forget the heart, then you have family problems. Doesn't matter husband, wife, children, parents, friends, colleagues, or anyone. And for this, to open this love, there are three obstacles in us: mala, vikṣepa, and āvaraṇa. Mala means impurity, mental impurities, mental thinking, you know. Many people, they are thinking so much negative, they cannot enjoy life. Poor person: jealous, angry, hate, sad. What can be a more terrible punishment in your karma than this? No? Throw away all things about which you are jealous, angry, and sad. Wake up. Chetan. Chet, chet, ab jīva jñānī. Come out. You are a human. Human means to be happy. Human means to be divine. Human means to be gracious. Human means to be positive. Human means to be kind. Human means to be full of mercy. From the human, you can become God. God incarnates in the human form to protect all equally, love all, and demonstrate your love.

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The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

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