TV Channel

Oṁ bolo Śrī Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī jaya. Pīramīti bhāvamārakī Tathā mājñānādhiyo lākchārakī Jākā māpāsāpānānākī. Caraṇa binaṁ jaka masabha sapananakī, Moye lagana dura caraṇa nakī. Mīrā ke jaka hasa taro, Hasa kahi Guru Caraṇannakī. Mīrāke jagahasaṅgahī Guru Caraṇannakī Lagi Lagan Nagura Caraṇannakī Moya Lagi Lagan Nagura Caraṇannakī. Good morning, everybody. It seems half of the people are already gone, huh? So empty, suddenly. The only one who told me that she had to go early is still here. And this is our dear Vasanti. When I came here to Střítež, I observed, of course, who is coming and going and who is living here. And I was quite sure that Vasanti lives here in Střítež because she was nearly all the time here. And later, when I came the first time to Ostrava, I found her there also. And I asked her, "Why are you here?" And she said, "I’m living here." But I think she is a really very good example of a karma yogī. Whenever she has time, she is here. So Vasanti stayed longer than she planned because she would like to say something. Please, Vasanti. Vasanti: I’d like to greet you all, but Gajananjī said it very nice about me, too nice. And the reason why I’m here, it is Śrīlī, and the beginning of Śrīlī when it became an ashram. When I started with yoga, I didn’t have… And after practicing, all left, and I didn’t feel like going, so I stayed, and it was a nice, silent atmosphere. It was like empty, but it was only like it because I sat directly against the picture of Mahāprabhujī, and he was in Kāṭhu. So I was not alone. I was gazing at the picture, and I heard the voice, "Where are you running all the time? You are not here." So I heard the voice… Listen, my answer, you are right. You cannot run, you cannot escape the truth. And it was my first seed to touch the truth. Why can the picture not speak? It is only a chance, or is it not a chance? Are there any chances at all? And that little word "truth" and the connection with Mahāprabhujī, it stayed in me and began to sprout, and I gradually realized that there are no coincidences. And this word "truth" stayed with me, and together with Mahāprabhujī, I realized that there are no accidents. Utíkat? And the most beautiful truth is the truth about love. And everything was here. So I didn’t miss anything. And if you are not missing anything, then you like to return there. However, the experiences that were shared here, and Parvatī, when she spoke about her dream visions, all of that exists if we allow it. All of that is. And when I listened yesterday to the very nice experiences and to the dreams that Parvatī explained, it is really true, we have it. And then it is necessary to communicate with the truth. But it is very important to communicate. On one side, it was the picture and the voice that I heard, and on the other side, I was able to communicate and get into contact. And the reason why I’m here, why I didn’t go to Ostrava, is that I wanted to share this with you. Because I believe that what is inside me is also inside you. Maybe in you there are more of these hairs. And you didn’t say to yourself, "No, I will not run away." And the reason why I’m here is that I said to myself, "No, I will not run." It’s very important to communicate and to share the opinions or experiences of each other. And I would be very happy if someone else would sit here and share also his or her experiences with me. I am very happy that you are all here, and I have one beautiful idea that I am still playing with, and that is the creation of puzzles. So, I have a very old imagination, and it is a puzzle game. And it is one big picture of the truth, which consists of many, many items. And each of us is one of these items. Someone is a bigger part, someone maybe less, but it is not important. The puzzle will be completed after each part is inside, and I would like it to be when we all realize this, and we all are here due to each other. Thank you for listening to me, and I would like to also listen to you. Thank you, Mahāprabhujī. Thank you, Mahāprabhujī. Gajananjī: So she asked, she would like to hear something more. Maybe many of us remembered something last night or this morning, so Maṅgalmaṇī and I, we were also talking and remembering many stories. Often these are only very little, it seems for us, because we are used to living with Swāmījī and with Mahāprabhujī. And so we don’t recognize that all the time we have some little experiences. But one of my famous experiences is from my son. My son was in, he wanted to travel to the Scandinavian countries, and it is maybe 10 years ago or more. He was about 17 years or 18, and he had not so much money, he had only a little money. So some boys were traveling to the Scandinavian countries. And it was very expensive there. So in the beginning, they were in some youth hostels, yes. But after some time, it was also too expensive. They had only a little, little money. So they had a tent with them, and it was cold, but they were in the tent. And then they had not enough money for eating, so they were only eating rice, but they came. But they came to Norway, and there was a fjord, and it was their aim to go to this fjord. But then they saw the price which they had to pay for the ship where they wanted to go, and they did not have this money. So they were really depressed, and now what happened? There came an Indian film company with a ship, and they invited them all to come with them, and they became nice, Sabjī and Chapātī. And so it was really a surprise. And when my son came home, I said, "What were you thinking about this?" So this is the end of the story. Thank you. Okay, our seminar comes to an end. So let us for a moment remember why we actually came here. Mahāprabhujī’s Mahāsamādhi. Which, according to the calendar, would actually be this night now, the following night. So it would be nice if you are home, maybe again in Līlā Amṛt, a little bit about Mahāprabhujī, to do special prayer, pūjā, mantra this night. And the Mahāsamādhi day, the 5th of December, is actually tomorrow, so therefore we didn’t have here a fasting day, but it would be good if tomorrow you keep the day as a fasting day. Let us just remember the situation from Līlā Amṛt. On Wednesday, the 5th of December 1963, a morning satsaṅg was held as usual in the Kāṭhu Āśram. And Mahāprabhujī gave prasāda to everyone. Ten minutes before five o’clock, he spoke to those present. "My dear ones, in case you still have any wishes, tell me now, for soon I will say goodbye to you." For some moments, there was silence. Then came the only question from all present, "Master, are you leaving us alone here?" My brother’s words blessed them. "Don’t be afraid. You are with me always, and I am with you. Whenever my devotees think of me, I will be present, no matter what country, what place, what year it is." And then he says, "Difficult times are approaching." And the world will be influenced by destructive powers and disbelief. But you shall remain steadfast and never lose your faith. And then he repeated that, but he repeated it over and over. And then he repeated what he had repeated throughout his life. "Nothing belongs to you. Hold on to the truth and always remember God." After these words of farewell, at exactly five o’clock in the morning, Mahāprabhujī began to chant Oṁ. Prāṇa and Apāna united and rose towards Brahmārāṇḍra, Sahasrāra. Those present clearly heard the manifestation of Oṁ rise in Mahāprabhujī’s body and then pass through the Sahasrāra Chakra. His heart stopped beating, and his body began to grow cold, but his face still radiated the divine glow of his gentle smile. Such a samādhi is only possible with God-realized yogīs. When the Master goes into Mahāsamādhi, that question always comes: do you leave us now alone? And Mahāprabhujī’s answer is actually interesting. He does not just say, "I am always with you." But he says, "When my bhaktas think on me," when they pray to me, when they meditate on me… In one lecture, Swāmījī very clearly raised this question. How is it actually possible? How does it work that when the guru is dissolved, we can still access him? Because he is not there anymore in this form. So, how does this communication work? You must understand who Mahāprabhujī is. He is deep, the divine light. But not that physical light. That subtle, that divine light, the light of lights. The light of consciousness, the light which is in each and every atom. So when he incarnated, this light concentrated on a certain form. And this concentrated light now dissolved again when this form dissolves, but it’s not lost. It’s there, it’s everywhere. So now this body was like a center of his energy; it was like a magnet, and we could access. When we were living at that time, we could access this concentrated light. So now, to access this light which is everywhere, it needs another magnet. So what is this magnet? Exactly as Mahāprabhujī says. When you think on me, when you pray to me, when you meditate on me. It is our love, our concentration, our devotion. Everything depends on us. If we are open, then he is already there. Depends on our bhakti. Bhakti is that magnet which can bring Mahāprabhujī here anytime. And therefore, I find it so useful and inspiring to hear also from other devotees their experiences. Are you in a rush? Should we finish the satsaṅg soon, or can we still have a little bit more? Then I would like to sing one bhajan and speak a little bit, maybe one announcement. Regarding Mahāsamādhi, because Swāmījī is planning that tomorrow morning at 6:15, there will be a webcast from Nepal in the morning, our time, in the very morning. At 6:15, there is a planned webcast from Nepal. Zítra ráno v 6.15, 6.15 ráno, Swāmījī bude vysílat webkáz… Does the mic work again? So let’s sing the bhajan, one of the most beautiful bhajans about Mahāprabhujī, Sabhukutse Devadatta. It says, the merciful Mahāprabhujī is the one who gives each and everything. Mahādāna, detā-viṣāla, Mahādāna, detā-viṣāla, sab kucha-dīvā-dātā, dīpa-dayāla, sab kucha-dīvā-dātā. Dhyāna deva yuga haru juṅga dhiyā dhyāna deva yuga haru juṅga dhiyā dhyāna dhiyā dhyāna... dhiyā dhyāna... dhiyā dhyāna. Siddhi Nava Nidhāriḍha Siddhi Nava Nidhāriḍha Danna Deva Ghaṇḍa Maa Danna Deva Ghaṇḍa Sab Kucha Deva Datta Sab Kucha Deva Datta It’s a beautiful bhajan. It’s a beautiful bhajan from Holī Gurujī, which he made to praise the glory of Mahāprabhujī. But I would say it’s one of our most dangerous bhajans. Let’s look a little bit at what he is saying. Dhāritra means poverty, karmic poverty. It means poverty. So, Mahāprabhujī is the one who can remove poverty when it has karmic reasons, just like this. Mahādāna déte Viśāl. Viśāl means the great one. He can give you the Mahādāna, the great boon, the great treasure. Gyān, gyān, he can give you gyān, wisdom. Dhyāna, meditation, yoga, and the techniques. Devē, ātmā, jñāna, uddīhala. He can give you the light of ātmā, jñāna, self-realization. So now the question is, why does the bhajan continue? Huh? Teraz… We have two verses, but the whole thing has twelve. That is what I was going to say: dangerous. As the siddhi in Nava Nidhi Haridevi, so he can give you the eight siddhis. He can give you the eight siddhis. These are the supernatural powers, perfections. And eight, because it is said for a yogī, for a practicing yogī, eight is the maximum number which we can achieve. But divine incarnations, avatars, they usually have 16 siddhis. But incarnations of Paramātmā, the highest, like Mahāprabhujī, they have 24, they have all siddhis. So he can give you, if you want, the eight siddhis and the nine nidhis. This means, like treasures in life. Like harmony, joy, peace, health, good qualities. Anna is the food, so he can give you the food that you need. And he can give you so much wealth. He can remove all suffering and make you really happy. All karmic complications in life he can remove. Sundara rūpa, that means rūpa is a form, means now our physical body. So if you desire to have a beautiful body, maybe sexy or whatever, he can give you. Jas, which usually means glory, honor, fame, respect. He can give you that. Bal, that means power, energy. You know it from the word Ātambal, the power of the Ātmā. So he can give you so much. Viśva vijaya karate kripāl, the merciful one, can make you the conqueror of the whole world. Koṭī Brahmāṇḍaka rāja devapālame. In a moment, he can make you the lord of countless universes. But when the bhakti is not true, it’s like pretended, tricky. Then the Lord doesn’t accept that. That means bhakti in which there is some selfishness. Bhakti means surrender, really surrender. Sache Rache Madana Gopāla. The truthful Madana Gopāla is actually the god of love, like it’s one word usually used for Kṛṣṇa. So the Lord is always attracted to those who are truthful. Parahitakārī is a koī nahī jagame. There is no other benefactor as great as he. Svargatā bina karadini hal. Without any selfishness, he makes you happy and content. Please, here for the singers, be careful. Don’t sing nindā, but nindā. Ninda means sleep. But here it is nindā, and nindā means to blame, to criticize. So those men and women who criticize him. They, Vedukyāri, they will suffer. Khandar means the poorest of the poor. Sūdīpadāyala means the karma comes back simply. Sudipadayāla Dayakīsāga, the mercy for Mahāprabhujī is the ocean of mercy. He always is protecting his devotees. Śrī Madhavānandakī Ānandabhārī, Holī Gurujī says he has given me such divine bliss. Pala Pala Leto Sambhal, every moment, every second, he is taking care of me. So now look at that bhajan. What is all offered? It is like a big warehouse. You can say, "I go in this direction or that direction. I want to go shopping." Go to the guru for a kind of spiritual shopping, and that is a real danger. That is what we misunderstand for what the guru is here. That we misunderstand what he actually wants to give us. Did he come here to give you a beautiful body? Did he come here to make you rich? Did he come here to make you the lord of the world? Did he come here to give you power and all this, what we just mentioned here? Think about that. So it’s right what Holī Gurujī says. He can give you all that. But is this the point? You see, many come to Jadān Āśram and meet Swāmījī. And they have no idea who Swāmījī is, and what they can get from him. And many simply try to make some business with him. You know, to sell him some stones or some beds or whatever. But they can get much more. So we have to understand what really is the guru here, for what the guru is here. So our task is to understand deeper and deeper who is Mahāprabhujī, who is the guru. And my experience is the most precise, very short formula we have, mostly in our own books. Līlā Amṛt, let us look into Līlā Amṛt. I tell you, there is one chapter in Līlā Amṛt which is, for me, so fascinating that when I was in India, I really took my time to make my own translation from Hindi into English. It’s a chapter about Mahāprabhujī’s meeting with the Divine Mother. When I sometimes give workshops on the Divine Mother, I always use this material. This is a chapter where Mahāprabhujī speaks to the Divine Mother, praising the Divine Mother. But the Divine Mother speaks also about Mahāprabhujī. And here, when we see these statements in contrast, it becomes very, very clear who is Mahāprabhujī. So I will read you just some passages out of that. When now the Divine Mother starts speaking about Mahāprabhujī. She bowed her head, full of humbleness, and said, "O Lord, you are the Lord of the whole creation, animate and inanimate. The divine light of the Ātmā in all beings. This divine light is nothing but your light. You alone live in the heart of all beings. You are Viśvadīp, the divine light of the universe. Without your light, the darkness of ignorance cannot be removed." And then she quotes, actually, from Mahāprabhujī’s book, Anubhava Prakāśa, one of the Hindi books. When Mahāprabhujī says, "Without the sun, there is no light. Something is lying in front of your house. But how will you perceive it without light? Who did not meet the Satguru is like a blind one." She continues, the Divine Mother. "O Satguru, all the glorious great souls in the world. Like Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Maheśa, Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, and so on. All the avatars, gods, and goddesses. They all worshipped the feet of the Satguru. They served the guru. Sloužia guruvi. They meditated on him. Medituju na nho, and they repeated his name all the time. And because of this, their names are now remembered in the world. Because of this, they are worshipped now. Because of this, they are served and meditated upon now and will be in the future always." So her statement is very clear. Mahāprabhujī is the light. The light is the guru, and that is what we need. So Mahāprabhujī is not just a guru. He is the guru of the gurus. He is the essence of the guru. And then comes a very important statement now from the Divine Mother. "Wherever the Paramātmā appears in the world, there, I also come and bestow siddhis and boons. Upon the ṛṣis, munis, avatars, and yogīs, according to the intensity of their bhakti and tapasyā." You see, she says, when Paramātmā comes in the world, and Mahāprabhujī is Paramātmā, then she comes along and gives all the siddhis. She is the one who actually fulfills all these worldly desires. That means for a guru, and especially for a guru like Mahāprabhujī, all that is at hand. You just spoke about this Bhajan Sabhā Kucha Deva Datta. And said, "That is actually like a warehouse, and you can go shopping." But now you see, this is actually her warehouse. This is what she offers, all these, through the guru. So most of what is offered is actually māyā. So we have to be very careful where we go shopping. For what? So then, look carefully in the Bhagavad Gītā. Which verse is it where you want to pick? In this warehouse, there is also yoga, yoga teja, the light of Ātmajñāna. And that is not her warehouse. When we continue here, then it will become very clear. "All visible forms of māyā will be destroyed one day." Still she is speaking, "but you, the highest Self, cannot be destroyed." So the Divine Mother says, "My forms which I create, they are all temporary. They are not true, not real." Therefore, asat. But you, you are sat, the truth, the reality. She continues, "The eternal, indestructible, blissful abode of the highest self. That is the essence which does not change in past, present, or future." This is the abode of liberation for all beings. And she says very clearly, "This cannot be achieved without the mercy of a competent, self-realized Brāhmaṇisṭha Satguru." And she continues, "I can give riddhis and siddhis. I can give wealth and all desired objects. I can give power. I can give so much. I can destroy or create. I can ruin or save. I can throw down or lift up, but, O Lord, the nature of māyā is to bind. This is my principle, and I am not able to change this principle. Even to my most devoted bhaktas, I cannot grant eternal peace. That can be achieved only by repeating your name. Oh Lord, you are the ocean of mercy. The bliss-bestowing highest Self. You are the great conqueror of the world. You incarnated as an avatar in this violent and terrible Kali Yuga. To uplift the worldly and liberate the bhaktas. Through the repetition of your names, singing your glory. Through meditating on you and worshipping you. Your bhaktas will achieve the highest bliss and peace. The blissful, eternal state in this world and in the other world." Last remark from the Māyā. "However, without Māyā, Brahman alone also cannot do anything. So this human body, your physical form in which you appear now, this is nothing else than the pure sāttvic form of the Divine Mother. But the radiant light in each hair, in each cell of your body, that is the Divine Light of Brahman. For this reason, it is possible that through your divine darśan, through the touch of your holy lotus feet, or merely through your shadow or the breeze which touched your physical form. The karmas from many lives of even the worst sinners are burned to ashes. By the repetition of your name and meditation upon you, the dangerous net of māyā disappears by itself. Like the night disappears automatically as soon as the sun rises. O Mahāprabhujī, the people in Kali Yuga, with their heavy karmas and bad character, they don’t recognize who you are. Seeing you as a normal human, they cannot receive that privilege, that precious benefit from you for which you came into this world." And that is a question for us. Never to forget for what Mahāprabhujī came, for what Swāmījī came. To be clear in our aim, and to be firm in our bhakti. That is a magnet which can anytime bring Mahāprabhujī’s energy right here. Keep him in your heart. And I wish you that you will this evening at home have a nice celebration, still maybe meditation on Mahāprabhujī. It’s time to come to the end, and if you still have time, I would suggest that we finish with a prayer. Okay? So then, goodbye to our friends on the webcast. And let us have prayer then.