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Oṁ, Oṁ, Oṁ... Oṁ, Oṁ,... Oṁ. Parabrahma Puruṣottama Svāmī Kārde Venate Bhajyode Manva, Bhajyode Manva Ujjadi Padhaya. Sura Guṇa Rūpa Dharyo Hari, Jag Mein Jīvo Ke Prati Pāl. Sura Guṇa Rūpa Dharyo Hari, Jag Mein Jīvo Ke Prati Pāl. Hara Hara, Jīvo Ke Prati Pāl. Antara Bāhira Pūraṇa Choṭī Hai Paravīśa Pāl. Jana māraṇa bhava vandana chute mokṣirī prabhu dayā eba jore man ujjati dayā iwau parṇa taraṇa parma pā iwau hara parma pāge se darśana pāve moha eba jore ujjati pada pararī. Javagva Nareepa Narayan Bhupan Ke Bhupan, Javagva Nareepa Narayan Bhupan Ke Bhupan. Kaeyam Naji Amare, Kaeyam Adva Nandjiya Hirpara He Kava Devajor, Devajor Jari Daya. Puroh Sotam Svāmī Parabrahma. Dev. Jai Dev. Jai Brahmambali Siddhita Rām Bhagavān Kī. Jai Siddhita Viśvaram Dev Kī. Jai Satguru Svāmī Mādhavarān Jī Bhagavān Kī. Jai Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Svāmī Maheśvarān Jī Yogī Rāj Kī. Yes, after that we have to go. On the 23rd is the holy day of the Mother. There is a temple there, right? That day is not there. Take it. God bless you. Aage bhī āp nibāna batāk nibāyā. Aage bhī āp bole hove prabhu merī. Agar bole hove prabhu merī, ho āp māhtā bhūlā na me āse sumarana kī nā mānī. From the time I was born, I have been in the color of the sea, in the color of the sea, in the color of the sea, in the color of the sea, in the color of the sea, in the color of the sea. Śālakpura Jī Mahādeva Kī Jai, Devādede Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai, Śrīdīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Hindu Dharma Samrāṭ Paramahaṁsvāmī Śrī Mādhavānanda Purī Jī, Sadgurudev Bhagavān Kī Jai, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramahaṁsvāmī Śrī Maheśvara Ānanda Purī Jī Ogirāj Kī Jai. First of all, I would like to bow my head in front of our beloved Gurudev and our Guru Paramparā. As you know, Viśva Gurujī has been talking for the past few days about the coming of Guru Pūrṇimā. And so today, I thought I would, by Gurudev’s Kṛpā and by his blessings, talk about Guru Bhakti and devotion—what devotion you should have towards your Guru. So, as you all know, Guru Pūrṇimā is coming up on the 5th of July 2020, but because of coronavirus, the Guru Pūrṇimā in Jhadan will not be happening here. Viśva Gurujī will be with all of you in Europe, and everyone will be celebrating Guru Pūrṇimā at their own homes, with Gurudev’s photo and by Gurudev’s photo, and with devotion. So first of all, I would like to talk about paying attention. This, whatever I’m speaking now, is all Gurudev’s words, not my words. Paying attention means when you have a guru, a spiritual guru. A guru could also mean a teacher who is teaching you in a school or a university, or your parents. Your parents also sometimes teach you things; they are also a guru for you. So if the guru tells you something, you have to be so attentive. You have to note every single little small detail. A true disciple is that person who really pays attention and absorbs, takes every single word of the Guru within him. That’s the true disciple. Like if Gurudev is giving a speech, and sometimes we close our eyes and start falling asleep. It happened a lot to me when I was young. But now I realize that every single word is like drops of nectar, which we are gaining within ourselves. Whatever he says is just divine, and it’s necessary for every little thing, even if he’s angry or if he’s telling you about anything. Every small detail is important in our lives. So paying attention to our Guru’s lecture is really important. Second, when a Guru initiates us with Kriyā or with Mālā, like when we, on Guru Pūrṇimā, many people take Guru Dīkṣā from Svāmījī, and he gives a Guru Mantra to us to repeat. Whenever you see Viśva Gurujī when he’s giving his speech or anytime, he will always have a mālā or a sumiran in his hand, and it’s 24/7. Even if he doesn’t have that sumiran in his hand, it’s ajapa; it’s going continuously within his brain. It is always continuously going on and on; it never stops. It is like an addiction. Like people have an addiction for drinking, people have an addiction for many things. In the same way, when you do your guru mantra properly, devotionally, then you have an addiction to it. Every day, it’s more and more addictive, and you keep on going 24/7. All the time you are going on with your Guru Bhakti, with the mālā. I would like to tell an example of Holy Gurujī. Holy Guruji once, one person asked Holy Guruji, "How do you feel if you don’t do your mala once? If you skip your mala one day, how do you feel about it?" Holy Gurujī said, if I skip doing my mala even a single day, it feels like I skipped or I missed brushing my teeth, or I forgot to have a shower. Holy Gurujī said, "These small things, like brushing teeth or having a shower, these daily routine things, are the same for him as not doing his mālā." So, he used to, if you saw Holy Gurujī’s mālā, he used to do his mālā so intensely and so much that the mālā was, like, the textures on the rudrākṣa were completely gone from his karhās, from his hands, just doing mālā continuously. There’s another story about a guru and a disciple. They went once to have a bath in a river, and the disciple was holding the clothes of his guru in his hands. He didn’t want to put them on the floor because he didn’t want them to get dirty, so he was standing with the clothes. The guru went to have a bath in the river. When he went in the river, he saw a scorpion which was floating on the surface. The disciple saw, and he freaked out. He said, "Guru Dev, there is a scorpion there, please take care." The guru saw that the scorpion was suffering and was drowning, so the guru took his hand under the scorpion, picked the scorpion up, and started walking. The disciple said, "Guru Dev, it will bite you, please take care." The guru said, "Don’t worry." And of course, the scorpion dharma of the scorpion is biting, so the scorpion bit the guru. And the disciple again was shouting, "Gurudev, I told you, just leave it now and have a bath." He didn’t. The guru knows, obviously. Always the guru knows what he’s doing. You should never underestimate what the guru thinks or what the guru is doing. He always knows what he’s doing. So he started walking and the scorpion again bit him. Again, the disciple freaked out and shouted, "Gurudev, I told you it’s going to bite you. Just leave it." By the time the guru came out of the river, the scorpion had already bitten him three times. It was painful, but still the guru came out, left the scorpion on the shore of the river. The disciple said, "Gurujī, I told you so many times it’s going to bite you. Why didn’t you just leave it?" The guru said, "The scorpion is the best. What the scorpion can do, or the dharma of the scorpion was to bite, so it bit me. My dharma, or the best thing I can do, is to protect him, to save him from drowning, so that’s what I did." So the guru always knows what he’s doing. You should never question a guru. In Sanskrit, there’s a saying which means you should never question your guru, or you should never ask him. If the guru tells you to do something, you never think about it; you follow it, you do what he says. And in our prayer, in our Gurudev’s prayer which we sing every evening, there’s also this line inside which means, "Who is greater than Rāma and Lord Kṛṣṇa? No one is greater than him," which means even Rāma and Kṛṣṇa had a guru. Rāma and Kṛṣṇa, who are the lords of all three lokas, they are the greatest lords in our Indian culture, but still they used to follow the ājñā. They went to gurukula, they had a Guru whom they used to listen to and whom they used to worship, which means you always need a Guru who can take you further, who can lead your life. Your life is incomplete without a Guru. You always need a Guru and Guru Kripa. What is Guru Kripa? As Gurudev always says, "Guru Kripa hi kevalam, śiṣya ke ānanda maṅgalam," which means without Gurudev’s Kripa, without Gurudev’s blessings, the disciple is nothing. To be a true disciple, you always need Gurudev’s blessings. You always need Gurudev’s kṛpā on you. For example, Viśva Gurujī told once upon a time that there’s a pot. When a guru fills something in a pot, it has to stay in that. There is a Hindi saying which means, if a guru fills something from on top in a pot, but the pot has a hole below, the guru is filling. The guru wants you to have the knowledge which he has. Always the guru is trying to push you, to help you, to bring you forward in your life. But if you don’t have that capacity, that capability in yourself to gain that knowledge, the guru is filling it in a pot, but the pot has a hole beneath, so all the knowledge which he’s pouring into you is all going down; it’s all flowing out from below. So if a guru even wants to give you something, or he really feels like you are ready for it, but if you yourself are not ready for it, you can’t gain that knowledge. If you have Gurudev’s kṛpā, if you are truly devoted towards your Guru, if you have that niṣṭhā, if you have that bhakti towards your Guru, then of course you will be capable enough to gain that knowledge from that Guru. But until and unless you are totally devoted to him, you cannot gain that true knowledge which he really wants to give you all. I know, as I am under Viśvagurujī’s kṛpā for the past 20 years, and I have been traveling a lot in India with Viśvakaraṇjī and everywhere, so I’ve seen a lot of politics going on. And then we see all the time these things where a disciple is not truly a disciple if he thinks in that way. Nowadays the disciples are not truly disciples. Like, if you see Holy Gurujī or you see Viśvakaraṇjī, when Holy Gurujī was alive, till he was here with us—he’s always alive, he’s always with us—but I mean in his physical form, he never said, he never complained, "Why is my picture not on the altar?" He always had Mahāprabhujī, he always had Devpurījī always above him. Even Viśva Gurujī always has his gurus above him. He never thinks that, "I am the greatest. I am the highest?" No, always the guru is higher than you. If Viśva Gurujī would have wanted, he would say, "Why is my picture not on the altar?" No, he doesn’t say that because he knows that Holy Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī and Devapurījī are always above him, and above me is always Viśva Gurujī. I am nothing. Viśva Gurujī is my Guru, and he is everything for me. There is nothing above him; there is nothing higher than him. I have seen many people, many disciples, who are waiting for their Guru to pass away so that they can get all that property, or they can become the successor. They are fighting. If there are three or four people, there are three or four sannyāsīs, they are fighting about who will become the successor after the guru is gone. Even if the guru is still alive, there, the guru has diabetes, they will tell Gurujī, "Give him sweets." He says, "I have diabetes, no problem. You are the Brahman, you can take everything, you can dissolve everything." But they just have the bad intention, waiting for the guru to go. Recently, I have noticed there was one Mahārājī who Viśvagurājī knew, and he passed away. I was talking to one of my friends who was a disciple, and I was talking to him, and I heard they had no sorrow. The guru passed away one day, one night before, like not even twelve hours before. Absolutely no sorrow within them. They were just planning for who will become, who will take which ashram, or, "Should we wait for 16 days till the śrāddha and then go for the ceremony or whatever?" That’s not guru bhakti. Guru bhakti, to find true guru bhakti, is really hard and really rare. To find that true guru bhakti in someone, you can’t find it. It’s very hard. And as Viśvagurujī always says, the guru should be always highest, and I just told that. I will talk a little bit about the procedure and the things, what we should do on Guru Pūrṇimā, as Guru Pūrṇimā is coming closer. On Guru Pūrṇimā, we usually, as Viśva Gurujī was mentioning yesterday, you should fast. People who have medical conditions or something, they can have some fruits or normal food because they need it for their body, but for other people, we should fast that day. If you are lucky and you are in the presence of your guru in the physical form, then you should, when he comes out, be ready with a thālī, with a plate. In the plate usually it consists of chandan. Chandan is this, what I’ve put on my forehead. Kumkum is the red tilak which we put on the center. Coconut, a molly, this red thread which we bind on the right hand. Dakṣiṇā, dakṣiṇā does not need to be a specific number. It is as much as you offer, whatever comes from within you. How much you can offer to your guru, it’s up to you. That dakṣiṇā, some fruits, and obviously the devotion and the bhakti towards him. And then you should have a pot where you wash his lotus feet. After washing his lotus feet, you dry his lotus feet and put the tilak on his right toe, big toe. And you also have rice. I forgot rice. You have rice on the plate. After you do his pādha-pūjan. Pādha-pūjan means you worship his lotus feet. After that, you put tilak on his forehead. Then again, you put the chandan, kumkum, and the rice. Then after that, you proceed by tying the molly around his right hand. And also, you put molly on his big toe. Mollies are usually auspiciously tied once, thrice, nine times, or eleven times around the wrist. So you can tie the molly as many times you want, but usually, because you have many disciples, what we usually do is we tie it once, or we just put the molly in his hands. Then you tie the molly, you give the dakṣiṇā and the nārial, the coconut, on his feet or to his hands, wherever. And then you have a flower mālā. When you are trying to give a mala, you always try that that mala is the most beautiful mala, or it is full of devotion or full of bhakti. Within you, put all your love and devotion in that mala. It doesn’t need to be a high-fire mala; it can be a normal flower mala, but that mala should be full of love towards your Guru. Then you give that to your guru. As you might have seen, we have so many Guru Pūrṇimās in the past, so many years. So you have thousands and thousands of devotees coming and putting mālās on his head, on his... If it’s too many malas, you give it in his hands or on his feet; it doesn’t need to necessarily be on his head. After that, you do daṇḍavat praṇām. Daṇḍavat praṇām means where you lie down, you fold your hands in front of you. And you pray to that Lord, to that Supreme Self, to your Guru, to that Divine Self, "O Gurudev, please bless me with all the śakti, bhakti, with all the devotion, and please bless me for everything. Please forgive me for all the mistakes I have committed in the past year." And you ask your Guru for that, whatever you wish. Like, "I wish to pass my exams," so I would pray to my guru to bless me with vidyā, with knowledge, or to bless me with guru bhakti, that I am more devoted towards him in the coming years. Pray for whatever you want, just pray. If you pray with your true self or heart, with your heart, that usually comes true. Then after you’re done with guru pūjā, you have a dīpak lamp, a lamp with ghee, a lamp with ghee or with oil, any type of lamp, and then you do the prayer. You show the prayer to your guru. You sing the guru āratī or whatever. That’s called āratī, and after āratī, basically, that’s the procedure. And if I have missed something, Viśvagurujī will tell you. Thank you very much, and I would like to thank Viśvagurujī for giving me the chance to speak in front of all of you again. I would like to sing the beautiful Viśvaguru stotra which Jayadev and I wrote for Viśvagurujī last month. Śrī Māheśvarānanda Guru Sarvabhāuma Jayā Deva Jayā Deva... Jayā... Viśva Gurujī Śrī Viśva Gurujī Śrī Maheśvarānanda Guru Sarvabhāuma Jayā Deva Jayā Deva Varjita Viṣaya Kalāpa Durjana Kṛta Dhāra Dūrī Kṛta Nāta Pāpa Saccit Sukha Rūpa Jayā Deva Jayā Deva Varjita Viṣaya Kalāpa jaya deva jaya deva jaya viśvagurujī śrī viśvagurujī śrī mahīśvarānandaguru Pūjita Pannagabhūṣaṇa Pragyajita Diśana Mukha Nirdhūta Taruṇāruṇa Bhakteṣu Sakāruṇa Jaya Deva Jaya Deva. Pūjita Pannagabhūṣaṇa Prāgyajita Diśana Mukha Nirdhūta Taruṇāruṇa Bhakteṣu Sakāruṇa Jaya Deva, Jaya Deva, Jaya Deva, Jaya Deva, Jaya Viśva Gurujī, Śrī Viśva Gurujī, Śrī Maheśvarānanda Guru, Sarva Bhau Maa, Jaya Deva, Jaya Deva. Vikṣā, Lavaḥ, Hita, Loka, Laghuḍus, Sahasoka, Śaṅkara, Guruvara, Pūjā, Karkṛta, Nāṭa, Jana, Bhauka, Jaya Deva, Jaya Deva. Jaya deva, jaya deva... Jaya Viśvagurujī Śrī Viśvagurujī Śrī Mahiśvarānanda Gurusarvabhauma. Jaya Deva, Jaya Deva Parāśivāvatāra Ghaṭasarvavikāra Munijana Hṛdaya Vihāra Kṛta Bhāvanaiśvara. Jaya Deva, Jaya Deva Parāśivāvatāra Ghaṭasarvavikāra Munijana Hṛdaya Vihāra Kṛta Bhuvanoddhāra. Jaya Deva, Jaya Deva. Jaya Deva, Jaya Deva, Jaya Viśwa Gurujī, Śrī Viśwa Gurujī, Śrī Maheśwarānanda Guru Jaya Viśwa Gurujī, Śrī Viśwa Gurujī, Śrī Maheśwarānanda Guru Sarva Bhauma, Jaya Deva, Jaya Deva. Iti Avatārpūrī Virachita Viśwa. Guru Stotra. Yāpateta Guru Sannidau, Guru Kṛpāsa Āpnoti, Śāśvatī, Satvatī, Tathā. Oṁ Śālakpurījī Mahādeva Kī Jaya. Thank you, everybody. Nice bhajans, nice lecture of our Āṭāpurījī. It was good, and the time has come. It will be very soon, what we call two days, two things. One is the Surya Bhagavān, and now Surya Bhagavān will stay for a while. And then again, it is not only Sūrya Nārāyaṇa, he will not move. The moving is the earth, and that earth which is moving, the whole globe, and it is very high speed. We know that we are so perfectly balanced. But if the globe will stop, everything will be breaking, everything. So it is there, the power of the sun and the power of all five elements. Similarly, like some, we may not understand how, at what height, and at what speed it is moving. It begins from our blood movements in our body. And when our blood movements will stop, it’s cold, and hurry home, finished. Also, the breath movements, also without that, are finished. The heat in the body, that body has different signs, what they are saying. But the yogīs will say, the blood, the air in the body, all movements are from the Sūrya, with the globe. When we walk, we stand up and we move. We have a balance, but we are going. We can also go jogging. We follow the movements, and balance for us is very hard. But the most balanced are the birds. The birds, any kind of birds, flying very quickly on the thin wire of the electric. And any bird will come and sit there, and they don’t move like this. They’re so balanced. We cannot. We will run quickly. We will try to stop, but at least how many meters will we stop to go? But birds, not that. They have more balance because they are flying. Similarly, an aeroplane, and we know that many have been in an aeroplane. Those who know, they will know. But one can say a bike also, and you are going with the bike. Can you stop like this? Everything will burn down. You will break your head, and this and that, and everything. So we have to move with our glove now. The airplane, aeroplanes, coming sometime high speed. 10,000 and fear some other, some otherwise, they are coming back again between the 7 and 10 kilometer speed. Now we are sitting in an airplane. We are sitting now like this. We stand up, we go to the bathroom, we walk, etc. We lie down we sleep, but sometimes when the wind is high speed, also the wind is very high, that time even the clouds are below, all the clouds down. So now we can understand that this speed is more than the globe, and that is how the technologies are balancing, and how nicely balancing, and when it is landing at the airport, there is a written line, and that is the first: we cannot land with this aeroplane. We cannot, like this, if we stop here first, we will roll it. But what do we do, you know? Everybody, so what are we doing? We go like whom? We are looking at wood as the best for the birds, so this is a balancing of the speed, and that speed is with our globe, and so Earth is balancing. We are balancing, and so that is similarly what we call our life, our knowledge, our being. And how is our speed? Our physical body is not very strong, but from all our elements, or whatever we call, the highest is the mental, the mental speed. It is one of the highest, even maybe more than the moving of the moon, and so we are sitting here, and immediately I will bring you somewhere. Still, you don’t know where you will be, but your brain will tell you how quickly and at what speed it is. I will tell you that, look, in behind of your door now, till you will go like you are already behind the door. Our thinking is already behind the door, then physically we will get up and see what was there and there. Similarly, we are going to the moon, to the sun, to the stars, and beyond, that is not only humans but animals too. And with that, if we practice and we can purify, then rapidly we can come to the cosmic self, to God, or we can fall down also. Climbing up, someone is very quickly on the mountain, running, running... But still, take the time, like this, even the dog and even the bird. But when you fall down from the peak, or you are dead, or you are falling down very quickly, so that is what we call this: from our water, from water, our earth. And in Earth, what we have is gravity. Gravity is like, you know, all. If we throw up, it will again come here. Why? We want to throw it in the sky, but it will come down again. Likewise, we in our ātmā, in our body, in everything, we are still with the ātmā to work on our self to come to the supreme, and therefore that will remain here. And so it is said, I don’t know why, but it is said, the scientist... When they come to the moon, and at the moon they are getting out of their instrument, they jump out and they are going like a little football, like going very hard. They can’t come here, they cannot go, and quickly, there, no, they are somewhere and further that more, of course, we will. There, but of course we should have attraction and aversion. Otherwise, within a minute we would be like one piece of paper, all. So, Bhagavān, God, has done such a technology, and also what we call the water, and the water from the globe, and from that, everything. And that is in yogic techniques. In meditation, we can go everywhere. And if you said, "I want to see the light with the closed eyes," you will not see the light with the closed eyes. Open your eyes and see that our light is, our light is that, not this, but our knowledge, our thoughts, and that our thoughts which goes through our mind, and then mind that is, that is the light. So this light will go away, but we will be with other light that will be. So that’s why guru kṛpāhi kevalam, disciple ke ānanda maṅgalam. So Guru Pūrṇimā is coming, and Avatāra Purujī was explaining very nicely what we should do, how we should do the worshiping. Guru Pūrṇimā is on the 23rd of this month. It is our holy mother Māṭājī’s day; she became a sannyāsinī, and we have her samādhi here in the temple, and so. So, in 2023, the coming day will be the pūjā, mantras, bhajans, and prasād. Of course, we are a family. So, we are all bhaktas, and all who are here, we are in our house. Maybe some people come from outward, but of course, the government said that many people should not come from outside. But we are nearly more than 150 here, so we are here in one family. We are in one, in one, what we call one yard. So we are there, and we are locked, so we are not going out. We didn’t get anything like that. We are very healthy, very happy. So we will have the satsaṅg and bhajans for Māṭājī’s temple, and we will have a program for a while. Then we will go to sleep, and in the morning, there will be prasāda. Dīp nān, Bhagavān kī. Om śāntiḥ śāntiḥ...