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Anantpurījī, Satgurudev, Bhagavān Kī Jai. Good evening. Sadāśiva Samārambham Śaṅkarācārya Madhyamam, Asmadācārya Paryantam, Vande Guru Paramparām. Atulita baladhāma hem śaila vadeham dhanu javana kṛṣṇanum jñānī nāma gragaṇyam sakalaguṇa nidhānam vanāraṇa madhiśam rāghupati priya bhaktam vāta jātam namāmi. Śrī Rām, Jaya Rām, Jaya Jaya Rām. Śrī Rām Jaya Rām Jaya Jaya Rām Śrī Rām Jaya Rām Jaya Jaya Rām Raghupati Rāghava Rāja Rām, Patita Pāvana Sītā Rām. Rāmāya Rāma Bhadrāya, Rāma Candraya Vedase, Raghunāthāya Nāthāya, Sītāya Pataye Namaḥ. Good evening. Praṇām to Viśvagurujī. As you all know, today is Hanuman Jayanti. Hanuman Jayanti means the day when Hanumanjī, our Lord Hanumanjī, was born. Jayanti in Hindi and Sanskrit means the birthday. On today’s holy occasion of Hanumān Jayantī, celebrated all across the world and especially in India, we remember Lord Hanumānjī. As you know, he was the main disciple, the secretary, the pramukh sevak, and the most devoted person to Lord Rāma, more than anyone. You may have seen pictures where Lord Hanumanjī opens his chest to prove his devotion and bhakti for his Bhagavān, Śrī Rāma and Sītā. We will talk a little about Hanumanjī and his birth. Hanumanjī is also known as Pavanputra Hanuman. Pavanputra means the son of the lord of the wind. His biological parents are Añjanī and Marut. His form, as you know, is of a monkey’s face and a human-like body with a tail. He is very strong, full of powers and siddhis. When he was quite young, he was very hungry and told his mother. Looking around, he saw the sun in the sky and thought it was a mango. He jumped out of his window, put his first step down, and flew to eat the sun. Two or three months back, when I was living in Maharashtra, I visited the place where Hanumanjī was born. I had the darśan of that place, called Añjanī Parvat. I climbed approximately three to four hours up the hill, and there you can see his footstep where he put his left foot down on the floor before taking off to eat the sun. That footstep is huge, about 200-300 meters big. You can imagine how big the baby Hanumanjī was, and how big he became when older. He ate the sun, and then all the gods and goddesses requested him, "Please release the sun back. We need the sun, Lord, for the universe; this is not a mango." Just imagine how hot the sun is. It feels like 40 degrees here in Jordan. Imagine him flying towards the sun and eating it, thinking it was a mango. Thereafter, when he grew up a little more, he received a śāpa, a curse, that he would forget his powers. As you know from watching or reading the Rāmāyaṇa or from Viśvagurujī’s speeches, when Sītā was taken by Rāvaṇa to his kingdom, Śrī Laṅkā, Rāmjī sent the whole army of monkeys and eagles to find where Mātā Sītā had gone. Then, Jatāyu the eagle and Jāmbavān the bear reminded Hanumānjī about his powers—that he was a strong man who could fly, who as a young boy flew and ate the sun. Slowly, he remembered all his powers. He flew all the way across the ocean, meeting and killing two or three demons on the way, and crossed over to Laṅkā. He was always helping Rāmjī and was one of the biggest parts of the Rāmāyaṇa, always there for Lord Rāma to protect him and do any job. Wherever Lord Rāma was, Hanumānjī was beside him. Today is his Jayantī, celebrated here in Rajasthan. We make a roṭ, like a chapati but very big. It is a sweet chapati made with sesame oil and gur. Viśvagurujī today told them to make laḍḍus out of boondi, in sesame oil and gur, for everyone in the ashram. It is a beautiful celebration where you sing the Hanumān Chālīsā—a devotional day. That was a little introduction. Thank you very much. Well, would anyone like to share some glimpse of what we call Bhagavān Hanumānjī? Hanumānjī is the incarnation of Bhagavān Śiva. It always comes one after the other: when Viṣṇu comes, then Śiva takes care of him and helps him; and when Śiva has to come, then Viṣṇu is in the Śiva. Brahmā is different, but these two, Śiva and Viṣṇu. Some of you would like to say something about Hanumānjī? Reverendjī, you want to say about Hanumānjī? Yogājī Hanumānjī? Very good, thank you. Well, we are on the path of our great saint, Maṅgīlālji. We have this beautiful bhajan of his that we have to speak about. It is not for one day or for half an hour, just to read it word after word and finish. It goes on sometimes the whole year, two years, three years, because when one seed begins to sprout, first go the roots. The roots mean solid, sure, strong in every aspect. Sometimes I used to say that going down or going up. So the roots go down, and the sprout goes up. This is very interesting; some do not understand. Either one goes down or one goes up. There are many meanings; one word has many, many meanings. So, this root—and it is called the roots—is in our whole body, though the body is up and out. And that is the roots, what we call that, where our family is, is the roots in Austria. And the seeds are there, and it will grow again, and that other seed will not be there again; it will come back. So, Uṭhān and Patan. And Patañjali, another way it means... Uṭhān means development. Development means the trainings, the studies, the knowledge, the process, then coming further and going more and more. This Uṭhān has different kinds: one becomes a teacher, one becomes a driver, one becomes a farmer, one becomes a doctor, one becomes a professor, one becomes a scientist, one becomes a yogī, and one becomes a Mahāniśvarī Vibhūti. That comes then, uṭṭhān, and therefore we should go towards the pūrṇatā, the fullness. Patan, now patan has many meanings. Patan means distraction. Patan means you lost everything. Patan means you became a very, very poor person who has no money, nothing. Or pattan means that going down of the seed, and first the seed is going down for the roots, and the roots will hold us. After that, first the sprout goes in the earth, and then the head of that which is coming out has two kinds of leaves. Now these two leaves also again, one goes patan and the other goes uṭṭhān. It is said, "Now, which path do you want to go? Where will you go?" So it is said, "I am still searching myself." Like Brahmājī said... Brahmājī, he was getting his chariot or his āsana on the beautiful flower. Which flower do we call? Which flower? Lotus, lotus. There is a story that must be that cloud, that lotus which should be a thousand eight hundred petals of the lotus. There is sitting the Brahmā, and it is called the Haṃsa. Hans. That Hansa, there are others, the ducks. Looks like the other one, but only that one is Hans, Paramahaṁsa. That’s why in our sannyāsa, others cannot... And so, those who are Sannyāsīs from the side of the Śaṅkarācārya—and we have the Śaṅkarācārya’s different kind of path, as given by Śaṅkarācāryajī—but those who get that ceremony, and that, where is... It is called when this ceremony is given, then Bhr̥gācārya and that Śaṅkarācārya give us Paramahaṁsa. Now, Paramahaṁsa everywhere, when one gets the ceremonies, then it will be the Paramahaṁsa. But many still do not write Paramahaṁsa because they feel ashamed: "I did not achieve that, how can I say Paramahaṁsa?" Therefore, param is Parabrahman Paramātmā. Those who are in that Parabrahman Paramātmā, that is called param. And haṃsa, that is which are expanding his wings and comes to the brahmaloka, not in the satyugas or this yugas or that yugas. So in this way, the Uṭhān and Patan. Patan can be fighting, war, killing, destroying one country to other countries, one village to other village, one house to other house. That is called Patan. Patan hotā hai. Isiliye, that’s Paramahaṁsa. Param Guru Swāmījī. No? [Bhajan begins] Param Guru Swamiji, Maro Janam Sudharyo, Aaj Doobate Jag, Mare Parama Guru Swamiji Janam Sudharyo, Aaj Doobate Jagme Hari Guru, come close. Hey, bhajan people, come here. Hari Guru Rakila There, hey boy, take it, put it there. There, there, right there, to your sister there. Sit down there, a sister, and take your three microphones. Always these people may then know my thoughts are gone different. Nirmal Vākā Nena Nirmal Vākā Nena Aapana milata toh Prabhuji hoti moti haan. Aapana milata toh Prabhuji hoti haan. Hare Hare hoti moti haan. Lakcha chora si meh javata, lakcha chora si meh javata. Meh janam janam Mahārāj Param Guru Samījī. Māro janam sudhāryo āj, doobatī jag meṁ, Māri Hari Guru rākhī. O laj khubatī jag meṁ, Māri Hari Guru rākhī laj. Parasmaṇī Guru namāhe, śiṣya dato suvaranahoy. Parasmaṇī Guru namāhe, śiṣya dhātu suvaranahoi. Hare Hare dhatu suvaranahoi, Kauwa sehamsa kiya, Kauwa sehamsa kiya, Angadariya waj, Paramah Guru Swamiji Majanaryo waj. Āj Dhoobatī Jagame Marī Hari Guru Rākī Lā. Āj Dhoobatī Jagame Marī Hari Guru Rākī Lā. Dev Purīśa Mahādeva Kī Jai. Satip Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai. Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī Jai. [Bhajan ends] Uthān and Patan. Uṭhān, Uṭhān. Development, development till the Brahmalokas. And those who are not in Brahmaloka, they are going to the Narakalokas. So, Naraka and the Svarga. Svarga, Naraka is going down, and slowly, slowly, it will again come up. But those who are going to Svarga Lokas, beautiful, perfect, that you call the heavens. So, you go to the Satyugas, now only enjoy. Nothing else, they say. Enjoy, be happy. You are not old anymore, and neither little. You are young and beautiful, dancing, enjoying. Brahmaloka and Satyuga are different from Brahmaloka. This Loka is the Swargaloka, I mean Swargaloka. But when in the swarga you have enjoyed everything—good eating, good living, good dancing, always happy, beautiful, everything—but day by day, going down day by day, one day when this, our good karma, good karma pūrā ho jātā hai, tab vapās calā jātā hai is bhūj jagat mein. Ish pṛthvī par, ish earth par. Again you come, but of course as a human. Isliye, it is said, there is one bhajan also, and that is said: "Hey Prabhu, I don’t need the swarga." You know, in the bhajans, Lalanānjī bhajans, beautiful bhajan: "Naime māṅgu bhoga svarga kā, ichā nahī." You know the bhajan? A beautiful bhajan that our Mahāprabhujī gave to all his disciples. Mahāprabhujī gave so much to everyone, doesn’t matter sanyāsī or gṛhasthī or all, but they lost it. Many sanyāsīs were with Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī’s. But after a while, I thought, "I am the great," or they passed away, and so, therefore, Bhagavān Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī, he took in his heart to Gurujī: "Hey Madhavānand, hey Madhu, you are the part of my heart, and I give you all my..." And you know our holy Gurujī day and night, each and every breath, birth, breath, in and out breath, all bhajan bhī hai. So in that bhajan, Śrī Mahāprabhujī gave them, Mahāprabhujī gave them thoughts and everything. So Mahāprabhujī is the Viṣṇu, and Śiva is Bhagavān, our holy Gurujī, and of course Bhagavān Devpurījī. So in that bhajan, I remember. I liked these bhajans very, very much when I first time went with Gurujī to Mumbai. We stayed there two to three months in Mumbai, and there were the bhaktas of Gurujī, mostly from Rajasthan, working here and there. In the evening, about ten o’clock, all came—about 100, 200, 500, 100, 40, 50 in the evening. They were very good people. They had a big story: they had not studied anything, but Gurujī said, "You will be the richest of the richest," and they had nothing. Gurujī said, "Come on with me and take my bag." What was in the bag? Gurujī’s, Mahāprabhujī’s book and something. But Gurujī said, "All your treasure is here." And really, these bhajans... I was coming there, I was young. And Gurujī was making mālā, and they were coming and they were giving bhajans, and I was sitting there. I liked it very much, that I must say. They all brought me so good sweet, so good eating, and lassī, and this. And when Gurujī said, "What are you eating, always so sweet?" I said, "No, no, no." And these Bhaktas came and said, "We come here." That was a life, a life like a mother, like a father. And holy Gurujī, of course, he brought it. And this was Gurujī. All the time, from the sunset, Gurujī made prathana, prayer, and Gurujī took his mālā. And wherever he was staying, somewhere, they all knew everywhere where Gurujī would be today. And from that time, eating... They said Gurujī said, "Let me make my mālā," so one hour. Guruji was making a mala, and then he ate something, maybe, and Guruji said, "I am not angry or hungry. I am so hungry. There are many things, the same thing. Now I have no hunger. I am not hungry. Guruji, fold my stomach completely, but Avatthapurī is so hungry. Phulpuri is so hungry. Everybody, so the time comes." I am telling you how the joy of the Guru Devs and all Bhaktas was. They all came and they were sitting and singing bhajans. Some of them are still alive; they are old, but they are always asking me, "Please come, Swamiji, come." I will come again, I am going, and so on. And there was the first one, Swam, one Guruji’s Bhakta, and he was nearby, about 50 kilometers, and he was in New Delhi, not New Delhi, sorry, in Mumbai, and he came. So, what? How was he? Singing, how they are singing, and all, Mañjirājā and Gurujī are making mālā. I am sitting, and that was this bhajan today. I remember it awoke in my heart, you know. We call Holy Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī, said one bhajan that I’m longing for my bhaktas. You know what is that? This bhajan said so. When all bhaktas and Gurujī were singing, there was a heaven of the heaven, above the heaven, Brahmaloka, as you can see. There were three choices for me. Either I run away and come home, and very often I want to run away and not be there. Second, to be with the Gurujī and all bhaktas. Or third, go to school. So what did I choose? I always choose with the Gurujī. But also, I don’t want to go with Gurujī because it was strict, very strict. But it is said that gold, a very big stone of gold. Okay, it is gold. But we have to get the value of the gold. It has to go to the goldsmith. And the goldsmith will put this gold into the fire, burning and melting it daily. And then takes the hammer and beating, one, two, and this and how. Why is nice making the ring? This, that, who did that? That, the goldsmith. And so, agar, if you want to become gold as God, then you have to go under the hammer. The fire that will be Brahmālokas is already there, otherwise not, but it is not, not like a cruel’s. It’s a different thing. There is a making from the, from the, uh, a pot out of the clay, but who’s making this very nice pot from inside? He’s giving the very soft hand by side, outside he is making like this, like yogis. His inside he is so soft and so like, and that side he is making like this because that has to become like that. And similarly, I am sure, yogis, but it is. So it is that inside is completely melting in the heart, the gold. And so there, this bhajan, Devā, is Param Guru Swāmījī. Paro janam sudharyo. Aaj doobati Mari hari guru raki Laj doobati jag me Mari hari guru. Further, Guru Dev’s eyes are like, how much, thousands of... Of the, uh, not the sun but the moon, because the moon has a kind day, a humble day, a very good day. So all the eyes of the Gurudev are like the moon. So these persons are very nice. I will sing it out. We are finished. The program is finished, yeah. That’s okay, okay. So this they were sitting there, and then, what was it that... [Bhajan resumes] Raj doobatej, mare hari gururaki laa Malvara nainaheji, bhavan chandan saree Mir malvara nainaheji, bhavan chandan saree Har Har Bhavan Chandan Shari Jeevataran Karne Prabhuji, Jeevataran Karne Sat Sangh Laya Jaaj Param Guru Swamiji. Maro janam sudhāryo āj doobatī jagme, mari Hari Guru rakila āj doobatī jagme mari Hari. Marata rakila āpan milta toh Prabhujī hotī motī. If I didn’t get it, then Gurujī would have been fat, yes, yes,... would have been fat, yes. Lakṣā caurāsī meṁ jhāvaṭā Prabhu janam janam Mahārāj Param Gurū Svāmījī mārā janam sudhāryo. Āj ḍūbatī jag meṁ mariharī gururakī lāj, ḍhūvatī jag meṁ mariharī gururakī lāj. Parasamani guru nām hai, śiṣya dhātu suvaran hoi. Parasamani guru nām hai, śiṣya dhātu suvaran hoi. Hare Hare, dhātu suvaran hoi. Kovase haṁsa bhiyā jī, Kovase haṁsa bhiyā jī, So’haṁ gadarī avāja, Param Guru Swāmījī. Shri Nārāyaṇa Puruṣottama Shri Devapurīṣa Bhagavān Hare Hare Devapurīṣa Bhagavān Shri Dīpakāye Dānya Devane Prabhu Dīpakāye Dānya Devane Māra suphala mayā sabha kāja parama guru swamījī Māra janam sudhāryo haja dhubatī jag me Mari hari guru raki la Bhati jag me mari hari guru raki la Deep Narayan Bhagwan Ki Jai Devadidev Deviswar Mahadeva Ki Jai Om Shanti Shanti... [Bhajan ends] So it is said, Mahāprabhujī has given us Bhagavān. Deep Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī said, "Devpurījī is Bhagavān, given to us." And we are all, if we would not have this Gurudev, we all would have fallen into the other world. Dīpa naravā gvāna kī. Tomorrow again.