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Part 1: The Source, the Journey, and the Oneness of the Soul Om Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Our adoration to Alakhpurījī, who is the root of our spirituality. Alakhpurījī is from the Satya Yuga. Many do not know when the Satya Yuga begins, when Kali Yuga comes, or when Satya Yuga returns. That we can look into nowadays; it is available through Google. It details how many Satyugas there were, how many Manvantaras. So there were trillions upon billions of Yugas, not only one but many Yugas. We came to know of Alakhpurījī through our dear Dr. Śāntījī. For thirteen years she was searching in the Himalayas, asking: where are our roots? Where is our beginning? As our dear Śāntījī was explaining, she kept searching, going higher into the hills. These hills where she was, one side is called the Alakh Purī Glaciers. It is the Indian side, and now it is the Chinese side. Before that, it was Tibet, and before that, it was from the Kailāśa Mountain. Kailāśa is the name of Śiva. It is said the first human was there where the Kailash mountain is—or they call it Tibet now, and after now it is China. So when we go to that route, the beginning is that Alakhpurījī is there, connecting to the Kailāśa mountain. That was, and is, a kingdom of Śiva. In every incarnation, they were known; the king of the Himalaya was Śiva. Every king was known as Śiva. So, how do we know where was the first, the Śakti, the very beginning, the incarnations? After many yugas come Pārvatī and Gaṅgā, etc. So where is the source? Where is the source of the creation? Recently, there was a very big discussion, a very heated discussion through the media. Luckily, they were not in the same room. One was sitting somewhere in another studio, and the other one was in another city in a studio. How they were talking is unbelievable. How can humans be so aggressive as to kill each other? They began by saying, "Your God, how old was he?" They began there. Then they said, "God cannot be born." So they would say, "Allah." So Allah has no mother, no father. Śiva, Svayambhū, was not born but manifested. The grammar spanned many millions of years. Kṛṣṇa was about 7,000 years, etc. Slowly, slowly developing that meaning: it’s mine, it is yours, it is yours. Then, coming into this Kali Yuga, many, many religions came, and many, many great saints were there. It’s good, it’s good because every child will say, "My mother is the best mother." So, which mother is not a good mother? "My father is the best father." Yes, but whose father is not a good father? So, we accept what our feelings are, where our roots are. And so, otherwise, God is different. But who is incarnated is like God. Now, who has seen God? And if you see God, maybe a few people will say, "Yes, it is my God." Other people will say no. Well, similarly, our very worshipped Jesus was born in a human body, and in his inspiration is the Holy Father, or God. Now, if you have seen God, you have become close to God, or you are a child of the Father, then you are the child of that Father. And after this, the father will become the child, and the child will become the father. So, the generation continues, but one said, "Mine is better," the other said, "Thine is better," and in this way, the fighting. Neither have you seen God, nor has anyone else seen God. And if you have seen that God, you will not want to see, or say that this is a God. And that was how Jesus was crucified. Because there were people who said, "This human form, or the form, cannot be God." And, otherwise, you don’t know what God is. So we will only sing something. We may go somewhere, bathing in the water. Some may, like in Judaism, hit their foreheads against the wall. There is water behind the rock. Siddha Paramparā, Siddha Paramparā... my house, my house, etc. When you see God, you will not realize that it is God. And in that time when you will see God, that time within you will be that energy and the Godhood within you. But if you said, "I am God," you will be the next to be crucified. So it is a very hard time. So Śiva, we know that he has no father, no mother. He manifested, and how many yugas and yugas and yugas, we don’t know. But he again incarnates, again comes: Brahmā, Śiva, Brahmā, and Viṣṇu. And in one yuga, another yuga, this yuga was now Kṛṣṇa. Before, was it Śiva? So this is mixing, coming from Śiva to Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa to Śiva, and Brahmā is there, becoming the father, the creator. So that holy water, the holy water comes from the Kailāśa Parvata, the mountain. And there is a divine lake, Mānasārovar. Mānasārovar is the name of the lake. On the Kyrgyz side, there are many, many lakes. There are many bigger and smaller ones, so it’s okay. But the name of this Mansarovar, the Kailash Mountain, and Śiva—how he is, who he was, that was, this, that, etc. Long ago, Śiva had a nice beard and moustache, and as the humans tried to shave these, now everybody has nicely shaved Śiva. There was nothing, no instrument to shave that. How was Pārvatī? And this nicely was lipstick, and I don’t know what it’s called, the hair stick, no? Eye stick. And so, and so. And beautiful dresses, sarees. There was nothing. They found some dead animals’ skins living in the rocks. My dear, so many things changed. How can we make it together? No. So, it is like this: when you were in your mother’s body, you were different. Then you were born, you were nice and different. But day by day, the shape of our body is changing. We will be old, and Hari Om, where will we go and come? This body is only changing, but 8.4 million different bodies, kinds of creatures, all have the five elements in everyone. And that element is just disappearing. The soul is there. The soul, or Jīvātmā, Ātmā, Paramātmā. As our consciousness, our spirituality is becoming more and more pure, then we get, ah, that is the highest one. In the mines of the coal, we find diamonds. And that diamond was developed from that coal. But now, this diamond, and others besides, the diamond is coal. We can’t compare this quality now. And when we take these diamonds and we are cleaning and polishing them, how sparkling they become. So we are like coal. And now, through our practice, sādhanā, prayer, according to different religions, why not? So, but what is the quality in us that the coal developed over how many billions, trillions of years, but became that diamond? So we are born, we die, again we come and go, and for how many years, for how many days, we do hard work, hard work. For what? Not for the money, not for this, but so that our ātmā becomes pure, Paramātmā. And there Mahāprabhujī said in bhajan, "Manvā dhere dhere cāl, gegengar caḍnare ve." O my mind, please walk carefully, slowly, slowly. This is a dark night, a very slippery road, ice, and a very deep hole. If you fall down, you will fall into Naraka’s quality. And so, people will always give you the good quality. When they see you are greater, then everybody is jealous of that. Your neighbors have a big house, a good house, this, this. Otherwise, we don’t want it, it’s okay, but his jealousy is there. So, you know, there is one story. I used to say something, a nice story, a joke. Many know, many did not know, so perhaps I can tell you. Should I tell you? So there was, let’s say, India. In India we have beautiful, nice crocodiles, very good crocodiles. And there were Australians. They are also beautiful, big crocodiles. So we know both sides of the crocodile. And our dear Americans, they always like to have a collection of all kinds of crocodiles, alligators, etc. There was a goodbye, and it said, "See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile." So this is coming from America. So the Americans brought a big boat, a big ship, and that’s like swimming pools. So inside is water and about twenty crocodiles, and after about twenty meters farther in, there was another swimming pool, and there were also about twenty, fifteen, or thirty crocodiles. So what happens? There were people, and it was also traveling. So the Americans had a very nice, beautiful iron net over the cape, a thick iron net. People were coming, looking at crocodiles. They were admiring, then they went to see the Indian side. The Indian crocodiles were also in that pool. Śrī Śrī... The crocodile’s swimming pool has iron rods like a net. He said, "Yes, because animals, they can come out." They said, "But why this Indian? They have no net?" They said, "This has its co-region. Why? What is this region?" He said, "Very simple. Can you tell us the simple? It is like this. The Australian crocodiles will come out and catch you." Yeah, but why doesn’t the Indian crocodile catch others also? I said, no. I said, why? Because when a crocodile tries to go up, the next one will pull him down. Yeah, so that we don’t have any troubles or problems, we know. This is Indians’ habit. If one becomes higher, they will pull them down. Similarly, nowadays in this world, when my country has some troubles, then your country has good things, they will be jealous of that one. Who? The other country. So we are fighting this country, that country, one house to another house. If we all first say that we are human, we are human. Second, yes, you have your God. Trust that, and you have your God. Trust that. But no, and now God is only a stem. God is a stem. Let’s say we are talking about Mahātmā Gandhījī, and everyone says, "Yes, good Gandhi, good Gandhi," etc., etc. Now, there was an election, and nobody was talking about Gandhi, not at all. But they only have a stamp of Gandhi to step on, to say that yes, this is the party of Gandhi. So similarly, as long as we will not come to the oneness and give up the dualities, we will not become holy, we will not become spiritual, it will not be. Because it doesn’t matter how, on that day, the holy day, you will say, "This is my best," but they are not. And when they have other festivals, many they know, they like, but we don’t, we can’t instruct. Therefore, it is said, we are human, and we don’t see God. And God has no form, but we are thinking. And God has no titles. Does one say the boss Śiva? Do they say Dr. Rāma? Śrī Śrī... He is a therapist, etc., etc., or the yoga or yoga teacher, etc. But there is only one, and that is very interesting. Only Śiva. What? Only Rāma. Only Krishna. Only Jesus. Do you write a professor Jija? No. So this is because the soul is one, not two, and so when we develop in our inside, then God is within you, but you will realize that on the last day. As I told the story once, that one master was going along from one place, and people who wanted to drink water, please, we will bring the water to someone to drink. Someone can come with the water. Does anyone want to drink water, please? So we can bring some water for all. Don’t get up, everybody. So, this feeling comes to me that the Master, who had many disciples, little more than my disciples, okay, so I was not that. So, through the street, the Master and disciples were moving. So, one person who was not a believer, a God-believer, an artist. So, the artist who was having one big business shop. He was standing outside and saw a master and disciples walking by. Part 2: The Answer and the Truth The artist said, “Master, may I ask a question?” The Master replied, “Yes. What is the difference between your beard and a donkey’s tail?” He intended to humiliate the Master. What is the difference between a beard and a donkey’s tail? The Master simply walked away. Many disciples were so angry they wanted to kill the man, but the Master said, “No, no… let’s go.” The Master was about forty years old then, and that businessman was twenty-five. Nearly a hundred years passed, and the Master was now in his final days, about to die. He called one of his disciples: “Please, can you call that man? Which man? That merchant. Why? I wish to answer him. If I do not answer, then I will have to come next life again to answer this question.” The disciples said, “Gurujī, you wish to bring him here?” He said, “Yes.” Meanwhile, that man was filled with sorrow and regret, thinking, “How could I do this to such a person?” He came. Before the Master could speak, he touched his feet and said, “My lord, I am so very sorry.” The Master said, “No, no, no. I have an answer for your question. Otherwise, I must come again in this life. So, my dear, you asked a very nice, clear question: what is the difference between my beard and a donkey’s? My dear, there is a difference between my beard and a donkey’s. That is all.” This is different, it is different—and then he died. So, even if you are great, sometimes you carry such a stone in your heart. Someone tells you a terrible word. Sooner or later, you must take it out and dissolve it. So many different qualities, different things come to us, and we speak of them, yet our God did not say this. Īśvara did not say it, Kṛṣṇa did not say it, Rāma did not say it, and Allāh did not say it. No one said it; it is we who are doing this. Therefore, when we worship—today we are thinking of Jesus—let us not be like this blim-blam we are doing here. We should remember how much difficulty he went through, yet he did not give up. This is called Satyam Eva Jayate. In India, on the national emblem, it is written “Satyameva Jayate.” The truth will win. It is also written in Slovak, in Czech: Pravda Vítězí. So, the truth will win. Perhaps the truth will not win in front of you, but in God’s time. God will say, “My son, you suffered that much. They did not understand.” But I know you are the truth, and we are all searching for that truth. It is not only about worshipping these mantras or that pūjā. It is good. It is very good. It sustains us. I used to call the great saints, the ṛṣis, the ones who give us injections so that we do not do bad things. What kind of injections? The good scriptures, holy books, holy words. This is like an injection for us. When we suddenly say something, we will then say, “No, no, we trust in Jesus, we trust in the Holy Mother, we trust in Allāh.” And when you come to the words of Allāh, and Brahman, and Hari, there is no difference. But in another way, through which you produce or make your religion—how old is your religion? So if you are saying this and that, that is fighting. You fight because you want everyone to be of my religion, and others to be of your religion. There was such a time, but now there are many people who are very intelligent and know what to do. Therefore, Gandhījī made one bhajan, or perhaps it was another, but I think it was Gandhījī who said: “Īśvara Allāh terā nām, sabko sadmatī de bhagavān.” Īśvara and Allāh are both one. O Lord, give good thoughts to every human, so that no one fights over this. Īśvara Allāha Terā Nāma Sadmatī De Bhagavāna—O Lord, give me good thoughts. It is a very nice song. So, my dear Alakhpurījī, from many, many yugas, and still on, his name is called the Alaknanda River. Now we have all gone to see the cave, Devpurījī’s cave. Now we realize what is written in Līlā Amṛt: that Devpurījī was walking on the water. His horse was running in the air. With the horse, he was going in the air, running. People think, ah, it’s a joke. Yes, it is a joke. For us, it is like a joke, but it was, it is, and it will be forever. Similarly, what is in Līlā Amṛt about Mahāprabhujī, and what our Gurudev has written—all bhajans are in Līlā Amṛt. That is how it has become, how it has become our paramparā’s divine light. It is all around the whole world, not only in Vienna where we are sitting. Mahāprabhujī and Holy Gurujī said one word, and I think many people said, “Well, Gurujī is talking, but how will it become reality?” The bhajan we will sing today came because of what Gurujī sang long, long ago: that Mahāprabhujī’s glory will be in the whole world. And where there is little Rajasthan, just one district, you said, “How will Mahāprabhujī’s glory be in the whole world?” And that came true, what Mahāprabhujī’s bhajan Gurujī wrote. Gurujī wrote, and that Mahāprabhujī, Holy Gurujī, said: “Prakāś puñj amṛt ke sāgar.” Prakāś puñj: Prakāś is the light, puñj is the source of the light, like a sun. “Prakāś puñj amṛt ke sāgar,” and it is the ocean of nectar. Prakāś puñj amṛt ke sāgar Śrī Dīp Harī Mahādānī hai, and Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī is the giver. In the whole world, in the whole world, Prabhu kī amar kahānī hai, the immortal voice of Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī in the whole world. People said, “When will he come to the whole world?” And we say this. Amṛtā Sāgar Se Badal Āye, from the nectar ocean, the clouds come. And Chare Viṣṛ Me Gunj Rahi, and rain, everywhere the Amṛta, the rain is coming everywhere as Amṛta to every Bhakta. So, my dear, we worship, we adore, and we should remember not only on this one day but every day. This is our source. When you cannot swim and there is a stone falling down, or a piece of wood—sorry, that wood will save our life, to help us come out. And so, this is the name of God. Hold this God. Hold. Many people will tell you bad things, many will speak ill of you, but you have the truth in you, and that is Paramātmā, God. So, that, the Master said, my dear, there is a difference between a beard and a donkey’s tail. Why did you tell me? Why did you not tell me before? Because I had anger in me. I would have done something wrong. I would have had some kind of argument, but I know now I have no argument and nothing to say. I am going. Therefore, I said I want to answer you. Because if I did not answer, I would have to come again into this world to answer you, my son. And so it is that our words, our promises, what we did—that is energy. It is not easy to purify your energy. Holy Mother, Mary, there is a big mantra, no? I have Holy Mother. Holy Mother, bless me. Bless me, Holy Mother, for my mistakes. There are many, many little temples, very little churches, but there is a picture. If you see her form, I do not know how it was, but how it is spoken, that is something. And so, that is another reason why we have Christmas now. Because now it is very cold, with snow, ice, etc. Now, of course, skiing and such things again. So, what will people do? Fight each other. Therefore, we have harvested all the crops, and now we are sitting. We come to spirituality, to God, so nobody will fight, and we will develop our spiritual energy within us. Take care. Do not go to some kind of temptation. Temptation is one of the biggest problems. You know the temptation they set. They say they throw the seeds and lure the chicken into a corner somewhere, and then catch them. So there are different kinds of temptation in human life. Humans must be very strong and keep their willpower, and hold to their spirituality. So, my dear, all the best. I pray for Alakhpurījī, Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, and our holy Gurujī. After that, we are all… I do not know whom we will worship. Umāpurī or Śāntī Devī or this Devī or that Devī. And there are many Devas. Who will they be? Who will be that which becomes? I do not know that I will be. These are the last minutes; it will be. But always we remain in our truth. Satyameva jayate, the truth will win. And which truth will win? The inner truth. To whom? In front of God. In front of God, we will plead, “God, you should say whether I am guilty or not.” God said, “My son, I know.” Jesus said, “I cannot, I do not want to do it.” God said, “I know, I trust you, I trust you.” The Father said to Jesus. And to trust Jesus, consider how much he had to suffer while carrying the cross. How much, we all know; I should not tell you. But he said, “My word.” “Yes, my lord, I will do it. Yes.” And so we have many problems. I am not coming again, coming from there down. Just little things—you are so, how to say, separating your marriage. What do they call it? My lord. Everybody says, “Yes, your lord.” Aha, what did they say? Divorced. Aha! So now, you were standing—you are in a European country—you were standing in front of the Jesus cross, and you gave your word. And after, you are now divorcing and fighting. What will be? I do not know. I know you are a mistake, your husband is perfect, or perhaps your husband is very bad and you are perfect, but what to do? Say the prayer to God, but do not break like this. If you are following Christianity, if you are following Kṛṣṇa, Rāma, etc., if you are following Jesus’s words or Allāh’s… So there are many, many things. You are not an animal; you are human. But I do not want to tell you more, because unfortunately, it is not so easy, for everybody has made a mistake. And therefore, it allows this woman to be peaceful and to practice further. Therefore, my opinion is that you were too hurried to marry. You had an emotional marriage. You did not have a real marriage. That is it. When you have good constellations and good fortune, then life is balanced. But otherwise, a little emotion, and then you go either this side or that side. Now is Kali Yuga, Hari Om. So dust has come. Now there is less snow and more dust, so let us see. I know you will put hundreds and thousands of questions to me, and I cannot answer you at all. I tell you, take care. Keep your energy, keep your qualities, keep your heart pure, and God’s yama mantras and yama mantras, and continue our path so that we complete our human life. There will be many difficulties, but God has given only humans this karma. Others are only going through karmas already created. But we are going through karma and creating karma. And so your feelings, your talk, blackmailing, behind this and that, playing two sides… This is it: Jesus had one disciple, he or she, he was loving Jesus, but at the same time, he told who was Judas, and so he let Jesus be crucified. So this is the duality, and that will be forever and ever; that will be in darkness and in suffering. It was he who was suffering, not that Jesus was suffering. So, you cannot go there, and you cannot go to the door. I pray to Mahāprabhujī, Gurujī, Devpurījī, for your protection, your family’s protection, your neighbors’ protection, and for protection in our countries. I wish you all the best. Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān. And now…