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Feel The Presence of Your Teacher

The journey through the Pañcakośa reveals the self. This mortal world is where we come and go. Humans, unlike other creatures, try to change life and are not content. We are a part of the earth, composed of five elements, and aim to return to our origin, Brahman. Obstacles constantly arise on the spiritual path, often from our own citta-vṛttis and ego. Knowledge must be authentic, not merely imagined. Constant practice, abhyāsa, is essential, as laziness is the great enemy. True bhakti is an unbroken connection. The story illustrates that ego, like Hanuman's, separates one from the divine, while humility reveals the true self. Satsaṅg and obedience to the Guru's guidance are the way through the layers of being.

"God doesn’t kill anyone. They will die themselves while doing wrong things, wrong eating, wrong way of living, wrong thinking."

"Throw it in this water tank... Hanumanjī threw the ring in the water... So many rings came, not one only, so many."

Part 1: The Journey Through the Pañcakośa and the Mirror of the Self Oṁ Dīp Jyotī Parabrahma Dīpam Sarve Mohanam Dīpanam Sajātī Sarvam Sandhyā Dīpam Sarvasatyam. Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī, Śrī Śrī Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva Kī, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī, Sanātana Dharma Kī. Salutation to Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī, Dev Puruṣa, and our Satguru Dev, Śrī Svāmī Madhavānandjī. Blessings to all, dear spiritual seekers. Good evening. Yesterday, we had very nice weather, which means a lot of rain. We were all under the tent, and the tent was enjoying the rain, bringing it in and out everywhere. So, our webcasting was delayed, but Svāmī Jasrāj Purī spoke with you and made a webcast on how to utilize the things in life and not waste them, and the protection of the environment and also the protection of the economy, which was a very interesting subject. After all this, we still have a beautiful subject: our Pañcakośa, according to the Vedānta, according to Yoga, and according to our incarnation on this earth, the mortal world, the Mithuloka, where we come and go. Of course, we love this place very much. We like our Mother Earth very much, and that is very important. Though the circumstances are not as we imagine, they will never be how we imagine. God knows everything, and how God will manage it all is His Līlā. The problem is that we don’t understand God’s Līlā. Whatever is happening, it’s God’s operation. He is doing the operation. It is said that God, whatever He is doing, whether we accept it or not, in God’s way is perfect. God is perfect. We are imperfect. God incarnates mostly in human forms. So, once a person asks the question: why God or a holy saint are mostly incarnating only as a human? The answer was this: because God comes to give knowledge, to give them the right direction, because humans do not go in the right direction. Other creatures live according to God’s will; they live according to nature and maintain their life as God has given it to them. But we humans always try to change our life. We are always changing, and we are not content. God explains to us, and God gives us better intellect, buddhi, and bhakti in our heart, but we don’t accept this. Man would like to be better than God, and that will never be. Though it will not be, man thinks, "I can do everything; I don’t need God." That is our ignorance. Well, this mortal world where we are, our beautiful Earth or our planet—though, according to astrology and astronomy, the Earth is not counted as a planet. In astrology, there are nine planets, but the Earth is not included. Because this Mother Earth, our Earth, is a living planet. That is something very special. And this earth also has Pañcakarma or Pañcakośa, like our body has. It means as long as we are on this planet, most of our being is from this earth. So we are included; we are a part of the earth. We grow, and we will again merge into the earth. These five elements which we have, out of them, four belong to this earth, and they will merge again into the earth. Coming and going and surviving on this, there is a special science, a special technique, a special way to live here and then come to Brahmaloka or to Mokṣa or whatever, through our yoga practices, spiritual practices, through our practice, prayers, through ceremonies and through religious rituals, whatever we call them. Our aim is to come back to our origin, to Brahman. That is it. Why is it not so automatic that after this life we go to Brahman? Yes, it could be, and that would be very nice. After that, we said, "Okay, my life is finished, I am going to Brahman." Do you know where the address is, where Brahman is living? Where is that? We don’t know. Then how do you know, and how can you say that you will go to Brahman? First, know the Brahman. First, know that place and that address, and that makes clear to us the incarnation, the God, or those holy saints who realize this, called Brahma Jñānī. That Brahma Jñānī, it’s called Brahma Janati Brāhmaṇa. The brāhmaṇa is not a caste, it is a dharma. Kṣatriya is not a caste, it is kṣatriya dharma. Likewise, mother has dharma, father has dharma, children have their dharma. Everything has their dharma. Dharma, dharma. When we will protect our dharma, then that dharma will protect us. In this way, we have our connection, our way directly to the Brahman, but there are obstacles. There are obstacles, and you never know when these obstacles will come suddenly. A little example: you are driving, you are in a hurry, but suddenly there is a red light at the crossing. So you have to stop. If you stop, you are delayed. If you don’t stop, you will be punished, and you will be stopped by the traffic authorities, and you have to pay the fine. You will be more dizzy. Or you are crossing the railway crossing, and before you come to the crossing, it is closed; the barrier is closing. Red light is there, you can’t go. These are the obstacles in life, what we call. Suddenly, on our spiritual development, we think, "Now I can do everything myself." And you go, but then the karmic barrier will come. The destiny will stop you; it will punish us in many different ways we don’t understand. Illness is also punishment, and illness is in some ways natural. It should be, because God doesn’t take it upon himself. It is you who have caused it, by way of living, nourishment, doing so and so. It is said, "Rāma kisī ko māre nahīṁ"—God doesn’t kill anyone. Rām kisī ko māre nahīṁ, nahīṁ harāmī Rām. Rām, the God, is not a criminal. They will die themselves while doing wrong things, wrong eating, wrong way of living, wrong thinking. And that is also a kind of barrier to our spiritual development. You stop at the traffic light, and this is maybe half a minute, or 15 seconds, or one and a half minutes. During this time, our citta-vṛtti has inside a kind of hurricane. Such a hurricane, very few people are peacefully standing and waiting until the light turns green. But we begin to think, either we are in a hurry, or we say, "Why always green light?" or you have time to think different things. And you change your way, you change your thoughts within some seconds. The most dangerous thing for spiritual seekers, practitioners, aspirants, bhaktas, or disciples is when they begin to think themselves to go out of their subject. Then the confusion comes, then the ego comes, then the delay will be. That’s the obstacle. So, from our chetan, our chetan self, our inner awakened self, we always have to purify chitta-vṛttis. Our intellect, our consciousness should constantly observe our development and constantly warn us not to do this. If you have done it, then you have lost that. You think now, what I lost is okay, but this is very good. But that will be one day, again, a big, big rock for you. For you, you can’t go further, and you should not blame anyone. And this is happening within our Pañcakośa, within this Annamaya Kośa, Prāṇamaya Kośa, Manomaya Kośa, Vijñānamaya Kośa, Ānandamaya Kośa. Within this Pañcakośa are the guṇas: tamas guṇa, rajas guṇa, sattva. As soon as you stop and think about yourself and say, "Oh, I can do all," you know little knowledge. Now you think, "I am a Brahmajñānī, I know what is Brahman, what is this." Speaking is very clear and very good. Thinking is very good, but the reality is different. You can think. Now you are sitting here and you are thinking, now you are walking in the Tokyo market, beautiful. You can think, but you are not there. But you fly and you go there, Tokyo, in Japan, and you go in the market, and then you send an SMS, "Hey, I am here in the Tokyo market, it is very nice and beautiful," and so on. Now you are there. Now your message is coming as an SMS to you, or a telephone call, or anything to your friends, that you are there and how it is. So your message will be an authentic message. But you have never been there, and you are talking about that, then it is not authentic. It is still your imagination, still your thinking. What to do then? Now, then, keep to your path. Keep it to the bhakti, the Gurudev, that which Maṅgīlāl jī said in bhajan, "Gurudev śaraṇ tumhārī." Now, how do we think to be at Gurudev’s śaraṇ? Not that whole day and night you are sitting, poor Gurudev, I can’t move here and there. Śaraṇ means always you are aware, and you have bhakti, and you always think and follow those guruvākya, those instructions. You keep knowledge in your mind. Like a surgeon who makes the operation, he is not in the operation theatre now, and he knows that one person will come and he has to operate. But a doctor, though he is at home or on the way, he has that knowledge. He knows what he will do and how he can do it. Similarly, it doesn’t matter where you are. You should remain in your heart, true to your inner decision. Otherwise, it is dangerous. Dangerous, we mortal beings in this mortal body, when we separate, we go somewhere. You have no strength, you have no faith to remain half a year or one year without. That means that your approach, your feelings, your interest is only to the physical, annamaya kośa. Your interest is not in the brahmamaya kośa. So we have to come to the Brahman, and that is always to feel the presence of God. Feel the presence of Gurudev, feel the presence of your teacher. And keep the knowledge in your mind. For this, always remember to say it again and again. And what is that? Practice. Everyday practicing. Abhyāsa, abhyāsa. Oṅkte abhyāsa. The great archery master Arjuna, his master told him, "Practice, practice,... practice." Some practiced, practiced, they were successful, and then thought, "I need not to practice. I will always be like this." No, it cannot be. The world champion who is going to Olympia, I think it’s every five years, no? Olympia? Every four years, thank you. So, the champions, they think I was a champion, I know. And before Olympia, a few days, I will practice? No. There are people who practice more than eight hours every day to win the gold medal at the Olympics. So Olympia is a marathon for you, spiritual. You have to practice until you come to that Olympia, where you are knocking on the door of Brahman. If you neglect your practice, it means laziness. And the biggest enemy of the aspirant is laziness. When you are lazy, then you lose it. But your ego said, "No, no, you have not lost it, you have everything. Let’s go further, just go and sleep." That is the danger. I told you one story, but I will tell you again once more, that God Rāma and Hanumānjī. You know Hanumānjī, all in the world, the great devotee of God Rāma. For him, everything, whatever is existing, was God Rāma. And through the blessing of God Rāma, Hanumānjī was always successful. Great Bhakta, very intelligent person, very. Hanumanjī is also an incarnation of Śiva. In different yugas, once Vishṇu incarnates to serve Śiva, and once Śiva incarnates to serve Vishṇu. They are together one, but come separate like two. Well, when Rāma and Sītā and Lakṣmaṇa, they all came back from 14 years remaining in the forest and visiting āśrams and many ṛṣis and so, unfortunately, fortunately it ended. There was a battlefield with Rāvaṇa because Rāvaṇa kidnapped Sītā. Now Sītā is our faith. You can take the whole Rāmāyaṇa within you. You are that whole Rāmāyaṇa. One man went to a mela, a festival, like Kumbh Mela or many others. Every country has many melas. It was a small village, and one man was sitting in front of his house, aged 40 years or 50 years. And another man, about 60 years of age, was going somewhere. The man who was sitting in front of the house asked, "Brother, where are you going today, so early?" He said, "I’m going to the Mela." What is that? So he told them, "There are many people in the market and many things. You can buy many things which you don’t find in the market normally." He said, "Oh, that’s very good. I heard that there are some mirrors that, after washing your face, you can see in the mirror." Because that man never saw the mirror. It was such a time. Now we have mirrors everywhere. Even in your car, you have many, many mirrors, no? The left side mirror, the right side mirror, the front side mirror, and the back side mirror. Without a mirror, without glass, you can’t do anything. And then the time comes that you think this is not enough. You put a glass on your eyes again, in front of the nose. This is your mirror also. You see through. Can you buy for me, please, one mirror? I want to see how it is, so he gave him ten paisa, like ten cents. At that time, with ten cents, you could buy many things. So he took the ten cents and went. And the man was waiting the whole day. Today, I will see my face, how I look. I’m happy. Oh, my God. Now I can look at my beard very nicely, or how clean, or my tilak I can make properly. Otherwise, I always try to see only in the water. Other men went to the market, and in the evening he came back. He had a very nice little bag. That man, who was sitting there between 40 and 50, waited the whole day. He didn’t want to miss that. If another one will come and just pass away, I don’t get my mirror. I want to see my mirror as soon as possible. He came. He said, "Yes, my friend, how are you?" He said, "Good. How was the mirror? Beautiful. Did you get my mirror?" He said, "Yes, of course." Oh, thank you, thank you. He put his hand in the bag and gave him one small Rāmāyaṇa book. Rāmāyaṇa. This is your mirror, my dear. But I don’t see. Is it the Rāmāyaṇa book? He said, "Yes. This book will show you your real face." How are you? So he began to read the book. So our real self, our ātmā, we want to see. Our real self, our inner mirror, is in our heart. And that is the wisdom which is given by great saints. So Sītā, Sītā is our bhakti. Sītā is our very humbleness, devotion, and bhakti is true bhakti. Kapatakī bhakti prabhu nahīṁ māne, sache rache Madana Gopāla. Sabkuśa devatā Dīpa Dayāla. Gurujī kā bhajana, na? Sabkuśa devatā Dīpa Dayāla. Part 2: The Divine Lamp of All Gods Sabkuśa devatā Dīpa Dayāla. Kapata kī bhakti prabhu nahīṁ māne. Sāche rāche madana-gopāla, sāche madana-gopāla. Sab kusya deve dātā dīpadayā, jo nar nari nindakaratahe. As Gurudev, he gives you everything. Dharidhara is more than poor. God protects us from dāridrya—very poor thinking, very negative thinking, suffering. Oneself is suffering and giving troubles to others. Dharidhar is opposite to Lakṣmī. They were both sisters. Both sisters were Lakṣmī and the other, Dharidhar. Because this Dharidhar did something, and it’s a long story we will tell you one day. There are so many beautiful, great stories that are Guru-vākyas, that are written in our memories, that are written in our intellect, in our kośas. Sab kush deve dātā, dīpa dayā. Kapata kī bhakti prabhu nahīṁ māne. Yes, my dear, the tricky bhakti, God doesn’t accept. Only for some days, for some months or years, and then you change your love to something else. That real love doesn’t accept kapaṭakī bhakti. Pūrṇa rūpeṇa bhakti is devotion to your sādhanā. Maharishi Patañjali said in the Patañjali Sūtra that practitioners should have devotion to the practice as devotion to God. Because it is your practice which is a wireless connection between you and God, or between you and Gurudev. That’s what we call telepathy. Telepathy, telephone, telegrams, and our cordless telephones are all developed according to that idea of the ṛṣis. So telepathy becomes telephone, and it is very correct. The Gurujī can do telepathy, but you cannot understand. It means your instrument is out of order. That’s it, and it is the same thing now too. You are dialing the number and you say, "Hello, hello..." But there is no hello and no chelo, bato akelo, or ras toh bhul gayo, bhulo raso. Sitting alone, that aspirant devotee, sitting alone, lost the way and begins many of the different vṛttis, and that’s how destruction begins. True love, true relation, true bhakti—through that, Krishna will be happy. Through that, Krishna will dance in front of you. What you want, he will do. Anyone, he or she, who criticizes the guru, they will be very unhappy, suffering. Is that kind of, that immense of pain? And it is more terrible than that. Therefore, always our adoration, our respect to the Gurudeva, on every sense. Every negative word you speak or think turns back to you like a snake going round and biting you day and night. Your enemy is day and night unhappy; day and night, the scorpions and snakes are biting. Which kind of thought? Anger, jealousy, hate, revenge. They are sad, they are sad. And who is happy? God, give everyone good wisdom. O Lord, you are the giver of the bliss of bliss. Please, God, give me that knowledge so that I understand you. Give me this knowledge so that my love will be unbroken for you, so that no barrier comes between. So Hanumanjī’s bhakti, Hanumanjī’s faith was unbreakable, unshakable. Now, God Rāma and all come back to Ayodhyā, and Bhagavān Rāma is sitting on his chair, the king’s chair, and his faithful one, Sītā, is also sitting beside him, and his brother Lakṣmaṇa is also standing beside him like a bodyguard, and the other two brothers are also there. So all the five brothers were there. Hanumanjī. Hanumanjī, like a great bhakta, always sits at the lotus feet of the Lord. Hanumanjī is sitting like this with folded hands. And one ear is to God Rāma’s side. If God Rāma will ask him anything, he is ready to go. Which asanas was Hanumānjī always sitting in? Look at this picture. Vīrāsana. Yes? And that’s why we have Vīrāsana in our Yoga and Daily Life book. Beautiful. That makes you alert. That develops the love and bravery. Vīrāsana. Veer means the hero. And Bhagavān Rāma looked to Hanumānjī graciously, with full of love. There is no deeper love or mercy than that. To kiyāk jholo mehar ko lākho bhare śālam, Gurujī used to say. Just a little kind look of Bhagavān, God, or Gurudev is towards you. You never know how much He has given you. Merī nazar ḍālat hai. Mahāprabhujī said, "My look is wealth." Why are you wondering here and there? You are searching for wealth. Just look. My kind look is wealth to you. God Rāma, all people are sitting, and his half or quarter look is on Hanumanjī, and Sītā became jealous. Yeah, when your beloved one is looking at someone all the time, then you are jealous, no? Why is she looking at the other one? Or why is he looking to the other one? Jealousy is, we are human, no? Of course, you didn’t say yes or no. It means you have no jealousy. You are the divine. You are great, divine. I am so proud of me to have such a great one. Nirmohī, like a story of Nirmohī Rājā, yes? You are all Nirmohī. So it takes a long time for you to understand what jealousy is, because you don’t have it. A poor man doesn’t know what richness is. And a rich man doesn’t know what poorness is. Sītā was thinking, Why, my Lord, all the time you are looking to Hanumānjī? For so many days I was suffering in Laṅkā, and even you did not give me a kind look. Bhagavān is known as the knower of everything, Trikāḷ Darśī. God knows what we think, but we don’t know what God is thinking. Bhagavān Rāma understood what Sītā was thinking. Hanumanjī is sitting in Vajrāsana, Vīrāsana, and Bhagavān Rām, because Hanumanjī’s ear was closer to Bhagavān, took one hair from the ear of Hanumanjī like this. One hair! One hair! You know, monkeys have a lot of hair, more than us. Now we are more saved, and like this. I’m not saved. And Bhagavān Rāma takes this one hair and brings it near to Sītā’s ear, smiling. And what Sītā hears from this hair’s resonance, the sound, Rām, Rām,... God Rāma’s name, Anāhada Nāda, endless resonance of the God’s energy. Bhagavān Rāma smiles to Sītā and says, "Sītā, I can’t do anything. Hanuman is so much thinking of me, and even in his one hair, I am pūrṇa rūpeṇa, completely in his one hair even. The resonance of my presence is there." Those who are that much aware about bhakti and Gurudev or God or your Master or anyone, then you are pūl rūpen in pūraṇatā, you are not separate. Hanumanjī and Rāma are two bodies, but they became one. And when the doubt comes, then separate. Well, after the meeting, Rāma went into his room. Sita was there also. Hanumanjī was sitting under the beautiful cherry tree. No, in Ayodhya there is no cherry tree. It was a very nice amṛta tree. Now Hanumanjī’s ego came out. My dear, you never know where the cobra is sleeping under your unconsciousness. We don’t know in which Mūlādhāra Cakra or Svādhiṣṭhāna Cakra or Maṇipūra Cakra or in Anāhata the kuṇḍalinī is dormant, and when that can awake in which form, good or bad. Our thoughts, our deeds, our bhakti devotion can awake the divine energy within us or can awake the negative energy within us. You never know when. That’s why Bīrādī, Bīrādī. I am getting a deal over the time of the webcast. Oh traveler, get ready. Chetan means aware, conscious. Get ready. The train is coming, or your bus is coming, or the aeroplane is coming. Get ready. Gāḍī means the vehicle. Taxi is also gaḍī. Chetan hoja, arey mushafir. Chetan means awake. Get ready. Be alert. Gāḍī means the vehicle. Aane wali means "is coming." Aane wali hai gadi, jaane wali hai. It will come and go. If you are sleeping, the aeroplane will not wait for you. Sleeping is ignorance. Sleeping is doubt. Sleeping is greediness. Chetan ho jaare musha, fir gadi yaane wali hain. Gadi jaane wali hain. Hanumanjī is thinking, "If I would not meet God Rāma, what would Rāma have done? If I wouldn’t be there, who would find Sītā? If I were not there, who would burn this Ravana’s palace, Lanka? If I were not there, who would construct the Setu, Rāma Setu, between India and Sri Lanka? If I wouldn’t be there, who would bring the Sanjīvanī Bhūti from the Himalayas to Laṅkā for Lakṣmaṇa? And if I wouldn’t be here, who would bring Garuḍa from somewhere in Brahmāṇḍa to save the God Rāma’s life when Nāgapāśa was there?" Hanumānjī’s ego went like that. I am. Now I know everything. Without me, Rama was nothing. I did all the programs and everything for Rama. I saved him. I withdraw; Rama will have nothing anymore. Bhagavān Rām, the Lord Rāma, was sitting in his parish, the room, and smiled. You know, when your children are doing something wrong, parents are not angry, they are smiling. On what are they smiling? On your stupidity. So when you said, "I know everything, I know all the śāstras, I am now the master. I will teach. I don’t need any more guru." That is your ignorance. Bhagavān Rām thought, "I should give the last lesson now to Hanuman." Bhagavān Rām said, "Hanumān, Prabhu, Prabhu,... Rām, Rām,... Śrī Rām, Jai Rām." Yes, Bhagavān, Lord, what can I do? What can I do? Bhagavān Rām said, "Hanumānjī, my bhakta Hanumān, without you I will be lost in the forest." Hanumanjī said, "Without you, there will be no one who will find Sītā." And Hanuman, you have the ability to jump the big ocean between Bharat and Lanka, Hanumanjī said. Like this, ego is growing. And Hanuman, without you, no one would be able to enter into Lanka, the palace of Ravana, and burn it, and Hanumanjī’s tail was going like this. And not only this, Hanuman, Lakshmana would have died if you hadn’t brought the Sañjīvanī. Hanuman said, "And you know, Hanuman, even I wouldn’t be here anymore if you hadn’t called Garuḍa." There was no one who could find the Garuḍa. No, Lord, all is your mercy. Are God, everything is yours, but inside Hanumanjī. Now Bhagavān said, "Hanumān, that is the last duty you have. I ask you, if you can fulfill this, my work will be fine." He said, "Yes Prabhu, what can I do?" Hanumanjī, in the Himalayas here in the Annapurna mountains, somewhere there is living a great saint. His name is Lomāch Ṛṣi. And for normal humans to climb so far is nearly impossible. Many monkeys also can’t go. But I am sure, Hanuman, you will be capable of coming to the Lomas Ṛṣi. Yes, Prabhu. Order. Give me order. Agnya. Agnya. Agnya dijiye. Bhakta tyāhar hai kām karne ke liye. Yes, Lord. Give me permission. Give me permission. I am your devotee, ready to do anything. If you want, I can make the whole in the hole. Brahman, Hanumanjī said. Ego. Bhagavān Rāma said, Anumān, I give you this one ring. Just go and give it to Lomā Ṛṣi, like this in the hands. Give it in his hands? Yes, God. Anumanjī took the ring in his mouth, kept it in his gums here, and he jumped and came. He found the Lomas Ṛṣi. How to find? Where is he? He has only one grass bundle as a pillow, as an umbrella, as a backside resting. That’s all. And he has a little cave and waterfall, a beautiful water tank-like kuṇḍ, a water kuṇḍ for dhāraṇā. Loma Ṛṣi was sitting there in meditation. It is those great saints who are still protecting the world. We feel such a beautiful atmosphere, environment, and radiance from the Himalayas because there are great saints who are still sitting. Hanumānjī came. Lord Manasidhi says, "Okay, Hanuman, you have come. Come, Hanuman, how is the village? Hanuman, you came. Come, come, welcome, welcome. How is Rām? Prabhu, very good. My God is very good. Acha! What brought you here? Kis kaam ke liye aaye ho? Prabhu, mere Bhagavān Rām ne aap ke liye ek mudrikā bhejī hai. My Lord Rāma sent a ring for you, Lord. Acha! And the Lomaṣ Ṛṣi looked at the ring and said, "Throw it in this water tank or this little pond." Who dares to say no to the Ṛṣi? Who dares to say no to the Ṛṣi? Even Bhagavān, God himself, will not say. If God made some mistake or punished you, the saints can bless and make it better. But if saints curse you, even God will not take it away. Hanumanjī threw the ring in the water. Hanumanjī was angry, angry inside. My God Rāma sent me with the ring to give it into his hand. I had such a hard time coming so far, and even he didn’t look properly at the ring and said, "Throw it here." Lomaśa Ṛṣi said, "Hanuman, beta, my son, show me the ring again. Take it out." "Yes, Prabhu." Hanumanjī puts his hand in the water and... So many rings came, not one only, so many. Now Hanumanjī didn’t know which was the real one. "Say, Prabhu, Lord, all are equal," said, "Yes, Hanuman, whenever Viṣṇu incarnates on this earth, he has to pay the tax to me." And this is the tax ring as Vishnu’s tax to be here. What do you think about this? So many Vishnus incarnated don’t have ego that you think, Hanuman, that you help the Rāma. No, no,... no. It is the saints, ṛṣis, me, who protect Rāma and ensure that he is successful. Hanumānjī’s entire ego went down. Though it was very cold there up in the Himalayas, Hanumanjī is now sweating. He does not know what to do. Hanumanjī said, "Yes, Lord, what is your order for me?" Without ego, go and say to Bhagavān Rām, "I am sorry." Tājde terā ego, tumhārā ahaṅkār ko chhoḍ de, to tum brahma svarūp ho jāyegā, Hanumān, jāo. Give up your ego and pride; you will be like a Brahman. So Sītā is our devotion, our bhakti, our faith. But our ego is the Rāvaṇa. And that Rāvaṇa will take your bhakti away. And then you will be again like a lost one. O my mind, you lost everything in the kusāṅga. O my mind, you lost everything in the kusāṅga. You lost jñāna, dhyāna, bhakti, and everything. You lost when you lost everything. Jñāna, dhyāna, and bhakti, you lost everything. Now you are daridrī, you are kaṅgal, and again you will go suffering in this soracī lakha. Therefore, my dear, pañcakośa, annamaya, prāṇamaya, manomaya, vijñānamaya, ānandamaya kośa, within that is that play of the divine consciousness. Through satsaṅg and through the practice of your yoga and your life and guru bhakti, you will come through. Don’t disobey Gurudev. Obey, obey, obey the Gurudev. That is in your favor. Om Namah Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Om Namah Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam.... Oṁ namaḥ śrī prabhu-dīpa nārāyaṇāya. My dear ones, again, see you tomorrow through the webcast. As God’s divine energy will lead us. Until then, I wish you all the best. And I pray to the Almighty to give, in your heart again, Guru Bhakti, Jñāna, Vairāgya, and Sādhanā. Bless you until tomorrow. Om Śānti Śānti...

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