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Value of Satsang and practicing

Satsaṅg is rare and yoga is a profound science.

Satsaṅg, the gathering with saints to hear of God, is exceptionally rare. It leads to peace, bliss, and Brahmaloka, not the limited heaven. Yoga is an ancient science for the body, mind, and soul. The human body contains the 52 Sanskrit alphabets as resonance in the petals of the cakras along the spine. Awakening this is a beautiful enlightenment, not a physical shaking. Our origin is in the perfect, unchanging technology of the divine seed, like a fruit tree reproducing its qualities. The original seed of yoga is Śiva. In highest consciousness, there is no gender; duality manifests in material form. Physical postures must be balanced and practiced daily, alongside prāṇāyāma, to cultivate health and awareness. Mental impurities, or vikāras, and restless thoughts (vṛttis) cause suffering and bind us in karma. These can only be cleansed through detachment (vairāgya), which is attained through satsaṅg. Practice brings harmony; a true master cares for the disciple's genuine progress.

"Sant Samāgam Hari Kathā... these are rare."

"Yoga is that science whose original seed... is Śiva."

Filming location: Vienna, Austria

Salutations to Śrī Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, to Śrī Śrī Devapurūṣa Mahādeva, to Satguru Svāmī Madhvarānandjī Bhagavān, and to the Eternal Truth. Let us chant the name of the Supreme for a while. Namaḥ Śivāya, Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya... Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya, Namaḥ Śivāya. Namaḥ Śivāya, Har Har Namaḥ Śivāya. Namaḥ Śivāya, Namaḥ Śivāya. Today is one of the best days. Do you know this? Thank you. It is one of the best days. On this best day, we have the good fortune to be in satsaṅg. The great saint Tulsīdāsjī, who wrote the holy Rāmāyaṇa, said: "Sant Samāgam Hari Kathā." Satsaṅg with the saint, meeting with the saint, being with the saint. Sant Samāgam, to meet a saint. Sant Samāgam Hari Kathā, where there is the glory of God, the name of God, the miracles of God, the mercy of God, the kindness of God. Sant Samāgam Hari Kathā—to hear, to listen, to speak of the glory of God. Tulsī Durlabha Doī. Tulsīdāsjī said these are rare. Yes, it is rare. Imagine this big city, Vienna, with nearly more than two million people. With tourists, you can see more or less two and a half million. Now, do you know, or can you tell us, how many satsaṅgs are there every day in Vienna? How many satsaṅgs today in Vienna? How many satsaṅgs will be tomorrow for the full moon? So Tulsīdās has written that in the company of the saint, there is the glory of God. Durlabha means rare. Śuddha dhārā or Lakṣmī, children, wife or husband—meaning the partner—and money. Sant Samāgam Hari Kathā, Sant Samāgam Hari Kathā, Tulsī Durlabha Doī, these are too rare. Śuddha dhārā or Lakṣmī, children, wife or husband (one can say partner), and Lakṣmī, prosperity or money, even sinners can have these. But the path of the sinner is towards hell, and satsaṅg is the way to Brahmaloka, not heaven. Heaven is limited. Therefore, our beloved Satgurujī used to say, "Peace and bliss." How about it further? Peace and bliss are the result of the satsaṅg. And therefore, today is one of the best days. We are lucky, we are blessed that we are in the satsaṅg. Secondly, our subject is always yoga. Now, I know that many of you try to escape from practice. Some of you are definitely neglecting exercises. Some are playing at laziness, as in, "Tomorrow I will do it, next week I will begin," etc. But generally, all who are sitting here and practice Yoga in Daily Life—put the people of Yoga in Daily Life on one side and see other people on the other side. You will see the color of the face, the shape of the body, the movements, the alertness, being very conscious, very aware, very flexible, movable. That is yoga and their life. Of course, there are many other yoga schools. Thanks to God that there are many. And also, their practitioners, if you put them beside other people, are completely different. So, yoga, because this is a science from ancient times—we know, you know, I always speak, you always hear, you understand, but still I don't stop talking. Then you will say that where Svāmījī is talking all the time, the same thing. Yes, all the time: "I will lead you on the same path, same path. It is boring, but it is good." So what does the Veda say? It is written because the Veda is not a man-made book. It is Śruti, Smṛti, and it is Devavāṇī. The Sanskrit language is called the Devabhāṣā. Devabhāṣā means the holy language. Deva means the goddess, bhāṣā means the speech language, and Devabhāṣā. Now it is in the human body; it is in every creature, but we speak more about the human. It has 52 alphabets. In the Devanāgarī language, there are 52 alphabets. Now, these 52 alphabets are located along the spinal column as a resonance in each and every petal of the lotus of the cakras. Every petal has one alphabet. And this is all from one petal. You may count: Mūlādhāra, Svādhiṣṭhāna, Maṇipūra, Anāhata, Viśuddhi, Ājñā, Bindu, and Sahasrāra. Each petal represents one alphabet of the Sanskrit alphabet. Now, the unfoldment of the one petal of that lotus, which we call the cakra, has a beautiful resonance, a beautiful vibration, a beautiful light. Awakening of the Kuṇḍalinī is not that some vibration is in your spinal column, not that your whole body shakes like this. That is madness. It is some different nerve problem. Everyone cannot have this. "My Kuṇḍalinī is going up." If in an aeroplane there are 200 people sitting—out of 250, maybe 300 in a big plane—and when all Kuṇḍalinīs are fixed, if everyone goes with the whole aeroplane, it will be trouble instead. It is not there. But the unfoldment of the petals of that lotus, of that particular cakra in that position, is a beautiful knowledge, a beautiful resonance, a beautiful feeling, a beautiful light. It is like enlightenment. And so, these 52 alphabets are now in the human body. If we awaken that, then we have complete enlightenment. If we can't awaken all, then some little bit. Of course, we have to survive, we have to live, we have to work, we have to do some karmas. We have to make the sustainable human race also, not only the animals. So we have to produce, produce, produce all the children. You said produce all? Yeah. So we have to give children so that next they will... But a very important and interesting point is that our beginning was from where Śiva's vibration, energy, and the ṛṣis, certain ṛṣis, and then all begins. But one father has three children, and these three children each have two children, and they all each have five, and so it multiplies a lot. Now, here we don't understand—of course you can't understand because I did not explain yet, right? So someone brought one mango seed, with the size of the mango, the color of the mangoes, the taste of the mango, etc., and we put the seed in the soil and... it sprouts and grows. After, if it is not hybrid, a natural old one, then it will take three to five years, mostly five years. In three to five years you get that mango. So that tree will get, perhaps the first time, about two or three hundred mangoes. These 300 mangoes each have one seed, and they will grow all 300. Now there are 300 trees. We have time enough. God said, "Don't hurry. I'm ill, and pain doesn't matter. Just survive." Now these 300 trees will also get about 300 fruits. Multiplying, how much is it? If someone is sitting here as a good mathematician... otherwise after a few years we will not be able to count everything. Now it is getting to the millions, millions of mangoes, because the whole Vienna Woods is full of the mango trees or the cherry. But the qualities, the color, the shape, the taste are the same as they were before, about 50 years before or 70 years before, when we brought the first seed. This means that God has perfect technology, and it remains in the seed, the genes of that one seed, which are not changed. Similarly, for humans also, from years and generations and generations and generations... But if there is a cross-generation, then there is confusion. Then it is Chinese with the Africans, then it is mixed taste, tasteful, or what we call these Āryas, the Europeans, the Indians, the Middle East, and then we go to the Mexicos or other side. So there is a mixing. Therefore, in this Kali Yuga, now there are a lot of hybrids, cross trees, cross races. But still, it remains for many, many... Many of our ancestors, these germs in our body. And that keeps your cakras. First, we are talking about the humans; about animals, we can talk differently. Now, sooner or later, we, through our meditation, have to search, research, and find our origin: from which mango we were, or which cherry we were, or which apple that was. The original apples were only just like a little cherry. We have now made the nice, big apples. So, in our cakras, in our Kuṇḍalinī śaktis, there is this, our origin, and now no one can change it. This is that. But that's why we are telling, I am telling often, that there is no scientist who can produce one drop of blood. Because in one drop of the blood, how many generations of your life are in that one drop of the blood? That is God's science. Man-made science is different, and God-made science is different. Man-made science, now in this subject, can do only one thing: hybridize it. Then that tree will not grow. Then again, you will cut the branch and put it to death. So now we are like this. We are, how to call this, cut the branch and put on it. What do we call this? Fatal. This is not fatal. This is not. This is fatal. This is not right. Yes, we are suffering. Now, the human race is suffering a lot. And as much as they can catch the animals, they are also mixing everything. But still, it doesn't matter from which part of the earth humans come, every human has these cakras. And in cakras is your evidence of your generation. And so this Sanskrit language is that coming from these 52 alphabets that are divided in the human body, which are concentrated in the one part that is called the cakras or the Kuṇḍalinī. So, yoga is that science whose original seed, that is, the original seed, is Śiva. And the science of yoga is given by Śiva. "Eko'haṁ bahusyāmi"—I am one and will multiply now. But who? How will he multiply? It was he or she, that's also a question. We say, "God said this," "He said this." But maybe it was a god, the woman. But women are nice, nice girls, nice women. They have a good heart. They said, "Let the boys do what they say." The reality is different. So reality is that now the women are fighting for their rights. Emancipation? No, but how far? We cannot. There is a division, divided. But in spirituality, in the highest knowledge, in the Kuṇḍalinī awakening, in the consciousness, in the awareness, in the soul, there is no existing what you... All genders. When it comes into the material form, then it is a different thing. Otherwise, that is ātmā, and if you do not accept, then why do you fight that we should not kill humans and animals? Can you imagine, when if there is no one man, how will the earth be only with the... Women's and men's, if there is no women's and only men's, what will happen there? So this is a harmony, harmony that has created Śiva beside him as Śiva and Śakti, consciousness and energy. "I am one, and I will multiply," and that was... The first is what we call the resonance, the Oṁ, the sound. Out of that sound, the fire element came, the light. And from this light came the Svayambhū, the manifestation. So our origin is there. Many, many... many yugas, yugāntaras, manvantaras. But we came, we became one, we became like sky, and we don't know when something again came. But there are barriers. We enter the era of the earth. Now we can't go out. We can't find a way. And always we try to come, but we are landing on the same place again. So this is karma, but it is said that Śiva, because Śiva said he has no fear, because he has no karma. Why? Because he is a Vairāgī. Who has the Vairāgya, 100% Vairāgya, then all karma is gone. And therefore, Mahāprabhujī said in his bhajan, "Without vairāgya, and vairāgya we cannot achieve, we cannot get vairāgya without satsaṅg." Śānt Samāgam Harī Kathā Tulsī Durlabdho... So, satsaṅg, this is today, is one of the greatest days. Can you imagine if in Vienna, in every district at least, or in every street, if there can be a little satsaṅg? You can't imagine how Vienna will be upgraded. It will come to the highest level of the energy and everything. But humans have a human body, but not that awareness, that consciousness, that they can understand. And they don't want to understand because they are afraid. Though we are afraid, if we have that torturing of the different creatures, we will come there again, we will be tortured. So at that time, when Śiva appeared—resonance, light, vibrations, energy, etc.—he was only in one mudrā of meditation. He who has manifested has no mother, no father. And so that Guru Tattva is that: it is no father and no mother. He is the mother and he is the father. You remember a few years ago we had a World Peace Conference in Bratislava, and there was one Svāmī Niranjanānandajī Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, and what did he say? That Swamiji is your mother. So that in Vedānta, how it goes, there is no duality. So, therefore, we sing one beautiful mantra. Therefore, you are my mother, you are my father. First, he said, "Tameva," not "Pita." As long as mother is not here, Pita can do whatever he likes. You will not be born. We are waiting for her. The Upanishad said, "Mātṛ Deva Bhava"—the first god is the mother. And therefore, Śiva comes as Gaurī Śaṅkar, Ardaneśvar. Ardhanārīśvara, half is the male and half is the female. And so in the feeling, in the awareness, in the consciousness, in the feeling of a man, have 70% in that man all the time: the feeling of the woman, thinking of the woman, this, this... this. And the woman, it doesn't matter how strong she is, but she is 75% always dwelling in her consciousness, in feelings, a male. Yes, that's natural. I'm sure that you are like that, and if you don't accept, then you must be abnormal. Yes? So that is the Śiva Śakti. And therefore, from that time, it is said, "Ahaṁ Bhavasyāmi"—before Śiva, when Śiva was not there. Before Śiva, that Veda, the Vedic statement, was already there. And that to understand is very, very difficult or very, very easy. Then we are getting into the Brahmaloka. Otherwise, we are sitting like one monkey, yes? So, satsaṅg. So, to understand yoga is not only postures. Now, posture is very, very good. Very, very good. But, again, the posture should be balanced. Every posture should be practiced. You have to think over very much. Just don't put your body in some postures, then it can happen in all days you will have problems. So the balanced system of Yoga in Daily Life is a very balanced system. Sometimes people think it is boring. It's good, thanks to God. It is boring. In boring, boring, you will have a long life, and then you will go home. If you torture the body, then after 60 years you will search for a physiotherapist or orthopedics. Yes, or you will tell your wife or your husband, "Please, can you massage my back?" because we did not respect our body. We have the ambition to do and twist our body. We are forcing our body. And so we kill many, many very fine energies and abilities in the body. Yes, your body will do what you want, but slowly, slowly, systematically. When you were in the mother's body, you could not imagine, like today, we are sitting here like this. How long has it taken from the mother's womb until now, today? Yes, we are born old. We were born nine months old. So everything happened there, but now what is happening here? So, therefore, prāṇāyāmas and āsanas are very important for our body, for our breath, for our awareness, for our concentration, and for our intellect. We shall practice every day. If you can't do it physically, do it mentally. But if you have vṛttis here and there, what I told before, seven minutes ago, that men have how many vrittis of the women, and women have how many vrittis of that. These vṛttis make you crazy. And again, what happens? You are in the same place. It doesn't matter if you change a man or you change a woman; you are again there. Nothing is new. So you are cycling and cycling and making more complications, and that is now, in this Kali Yuga, in this world, in this time, in this age, completely confused. Everyone tries to run away from the inner self. Everyone tries to run away. Everyone tries to give the mistake to others. Everyone is guilty to others. We don't accept it because we have fear. And that fear is because you are so brittle, yes. So karma we can do through the physical body, the mental body, words, and thinking. Tan, man, bachan, and dhan are for your power, your position, your money, etc. This is also misusing, and that is also karma. And so you get energy, though you didn't see the person, and you didn't touch that person. But mentally you have taken that energy, and that will make you crazy, that will make you guilty, that will connect you into the karmas. You are there, finished. Now, another computer or something will come, and they will tell what you are thinking. But there are human rights, and they don't let it come. Otherwise, I would not let anyone come in here with that instrument, okay? Because everybody will think what Swamijī is thinking. My God, my brain will be hot. I will say, "What's happening?" Yes? So that's why there is greed, there is pride, there is jealousy, there is ego. There is offending, offend. Many, many of this. So, this is what we will call the word forgotten. It will come again: vikāra, vikāra. We will talk about vikāra in our seminar in Hungary, in turban, not in turban, depression in turban, turban, yeah, okay, in depression. So, we will have this subject about these vikāras. And there are vikāras in the body and vikāras of the mind. Mind is not so guilty. Mind is only a reflection. You are hiding yourself behind your mind. You are shooting the gun while standing behind some tree. So you take your mind; you are putting your gun on the shoulder of your mind to shoot. But ultimately, it goes to your soul, to your realities. So this vikāra, vikāra means, let's say, illness. Vikāra means when there is a nice apple lying there somewhere, and after some time it will get rotten. It will get worms inside. It will be stinky. That's vikāra, and this vikāra is there. If you can try to clean and control, it's okay. So we have the whole body with these five elements. Our bones are a vikāra, our flesh is a vikāra, our urine is a vikāra, our code is a vikāra. All this energy is different in the body; it's a vikāra. And how long will we lie in this mud, this slum? We are lying in this. Can you imagine? Thanks to God that He is still giving us that our vikāra is not exploding out. And that's why we have yoga. With the yoga, we are trying to control our vikāra, but the mental vikāra is much stronger than this and that will not let you go anywhere. Karma will come back, your vikāras, your thoughts. So many times, I don't want to meditate too long. That's why I see how many vikāras are going on. Really, it is so. Even in the night when I sleep, I sometimes sleep with open eyes. Can you imagine? Because I see so many vikāras. Yeah, you never slept beside me, so you will see my eyes are open. And if you happen to come sometimes when I'm deep sleeping and my eyes are open, you will say, "Oh, God, he's gone. He's gone." Yeah. So there are the vṛttis, and your vṛttis, everyone feels. Sometimes you feel the vṛttis, though you don't look directly at that person. And when you look directly, never look directly in the eye of the dog. He will attack you. Never look in the eyes of the monkey directly. And if you want to make an experiment, then go to the zoo, and the monkey should be in, behind the net. And you stand there and look there, you will see how nervous and dangerous he can be. That's it. And when you are talking, you're gazing on someone, you know, how others will be, my God. So this is a vikāra. So your vṛttis, your vṛttis are disbalancing your dead feelings. That old feeling is, "You are gone," and you seek the new place, or this again and that again and this again. And that is why we humans are suffering. And so that can only be cleaned through the vairāgya. So the origin of that is Śiva. Yoga has brought Śiva. The practice of yoga is healthy for our body, mind, soul, and consciousness. Through that yoga, we bring the harmony of body, mind, and soul. We are healthy in body, mind, physical, mental, social, and spiritual. Did you achieve that? How many of you have achieved? And if not, then still it is not too late. Try to master this, then you become a yogī. Otherwise, you are working like now the Prime Minister of India. He worked very hard and brought yoga for the whole world to acknowledge, and now many people take the other kind of benefit out of it? Only for them is the money, and that's what. So they are doing this kind of yoga, that kind of yoga; this all, for them, doesn't matter. But your master, or my master, or a real master, will not do like this. The master does care about the disciple. Even he or she is very strict, can be very unfriendly, but inside, he or she, your master, is taking very, very much care. That's it. So, yoga practicing, and I'm... I can realize, I see your face, and then go outside, and you will see other, the same age of the person, your... colleagues or your family members and yourself, for you practicing yoga, how is the different in your body and their body, plus diet? And if you are keeping the good diet, some they like always the junk food. After the seminar, I see the people have... You know, in Sri Lanka or Hungary or somewhere, we have a seminar retreat for one week or for a weekend, and then after that, after that, they go, and they go to the petrol pump. And what do they come? Out of sandwiches or something, ice cream, junk foods. Till Vienna they come, their half money is gone. But it doesn't matter. They have a soap of junk food. I can see on the face of the junk food who can cook at home. It is economical, and cook that kind of food which you like, vegetarians, and it will be when you go to a restaurant. So, two persons' worth of rice for dinner that you can use for the whole family's whole day or two days, and you are healthy. That is the main thing. Money doesn't matter. Think of your body. Take care of your vikāra. Therefore, there are three principles: mala, vikṣepa, and āvaraṇa. It is said in Patañjali also. What is that? Mala, vikṣepa, and āvaraṇa. These three, only if we can understand these three and clean it up, you have successfully your yoga hall. So that was nice to meet you, and it was a nice day, and we had a nice satsaṅg. Wish you all the best and blessings of Mahāprabhujī. So, Sant Samāgam Hari Kathā. Remember this poem. Sant Samāgam Hari Kathā. Beautiful, but a little louder. Perfect. You see, when you come to Vienna, you know that Vienna is a city of singers, music, and culture. The city of Vienna. What do you think of this? That's why I'm here. Otherwise, I will go and sit somewhere else. Śrī Rām, Jai Rām, Jai Jai Rām, Śrī Rām Jai Rām, Śrī Rām Jai Rām... Satguru Devakī, Devadideva, Devaīśvara, Mahādevakī, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī, Bhagavān Kī Jai, Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Light up our prayer.

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