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Bhagavān Kī Jai! Devādhi Deva, Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai! Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jai! Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai! Śyāvara Rāmacandra Bhagavān Kī Jai! Śiva Śaṅkara Bhagavān Kī Jai! Shiva is our Lord. Good evening, my dear sisters, brothers, all yogīs in their life, and all others—yoga practitioners, yoga teachers, and everyone everywhere around the world wherever yoga is practiced. This is a very great thing for this time of the coming Kali Yuga. It is very important that we all humans should work together as a brotherhood. We know that everyone wants to do good things, but sometimes there is a fight, and a fight is not good. If there is water and milk, they can be together, but milk and lemon will not come together. It exploits everything. When there is sweetness, it is good; sourness is not good for the milk. And when the lemon comes into the milk, the lemon is also no longer useful. It is completely destroyed. Similarly, in these times, we all should come together. We respect every religion, every country, every language, and all far distances, but we seek oneness. In that spirit, it is said—Mahāprabhujī said, and Gurujī said. I know only from Mahāprabhujī’s bhajans, and I also know about people, about Mahāprabhujī. I know from those who are sannyāsīs of Mahāprabhujī, like our Holy Gurujī. I know and I heard what our Holy Gurujī Śrī Svāmī Madhavānandajī—and the whole of India—knows about who our Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī was. He had many, many thousands or millions of disciples all around India. He spread everywhere, bringing the knowledge and blessings of Mahāprabhujī. Wherever our Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī was, all people received great knowledge and blessings. They became very powerful and very happy, and many things came together for them. They said that through Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī, Mahāprabhujī’s blessings to all people were to become very happy, healthy, prosperous, and so on. They gained happiness, strength, great blessing, prosperity, and other fruits. There were hundreds of Mahāprabhujī’s disciples. Many of them became sannyāsīs and went around India. Some were dedicated only to meditation, concentration, their sādhanā, and nothing else. Others were writing beautiful bhajans. All this we have from the bhajans of Mahāprabhujī’s disciples. Our Bhagavān Devpurījī was divine, very different. People wanted to have a picture of Devpurījī, but no pictures would come. Many, many people tried. Sometimes they said, "Please, please, Gurujī, can we make a photo?" Gurujī said, "It’s your choice, not my choice." They made the photos, but no picture came. They asked, "Please, Gurujī, why can you not let us take your photo?" He said, "Why, what would you do with my photo? I have many photos." Devpurījī said, "When you want to see my photo, then my photo is the sun. Whenever you want to see my photo, look at the sun." But once I tried it and made it a photo, it came. Now, did Holy Gurujī not know about that? Did Mahāprabhujī not know? How and what? This Devpurījī’s photo we have—only this one photo. Devpurījī is Śiva, and he was great, great. He didn’t want to go into anyone’s house. If he went to someone’s house, he would sit outside. If someone gave food, he would not eat anywhere. If you wanted to give food, he had one pot. You would put it inside, and he would sit under some bushes where there are not so many leaves on the tree or bush—not very much sun, neither only the shadow. He had only some cloth, and he was sleeping anywhere. He loved many things, all animals too. One day, people taught me, and in the book I think it is also written somewhere, that Mahāprabhujī Devpurījī was going and he went to a farm. The farmers were working in the fields. Devpurījī came and said, "I want to drink water." They brought him and gave him water. Then he had one… he saw one of the farmers’ animals. There was one animal. He said, "I want to have this." A sheep, yes. And he dug a hole, Devpurījī, and buried that sheep in the earth and put the earth on it. The farmers couldn’t do anything. When Devpurījī was coming anywhere, people kept a little distance. All of the parināmas, everybody would only say, "Yes, please, yes, please." The farmers were one family: the father, the mother, and children. Devpurījī went. They didn’t say anything. They were very sad that their goat—it was a goat or sheep—was gone. In the afternoon, they went home, and there in the front, in the village outside their house, they were sitting there, and they again said praṇām. Devpurījī said, "Bring that milk from the sheep." They said, always with folded hands, "Can we bring the milk, water from the cow? Or this? We had only one, and that is… you have that somewhere in the farm?" Because they thought that this animal had died. Therefore, he said, "Don’t make noise, don’t make stupid. Look, she is in your room. Go and milk it." His wife said, "I am there, and there is no sheep." He said, "Look in the corners; she is standing there and ready for milking." So many, many times, many things like this happened. One year ago, Umapurī was with me, and we went to a village near Barikhatu. There, I was there for the first time, and they told me about Devpurījī. There was a land, and one person had a house, and something Devpurījī said to him about something. So Devpurījī said, "In this year, your house will be gone. You will go to the other village, and here we are with all the deer. They will be here." And it happened. So they told me, and there, Devpurījī is resting there under one bush. And still there are things there. Uma Purī was looking and cleaning and everything. But people say, "Don’t touch, please," and leave it as it is. No one dared to go. We said, "Okay, we will sit here." So Mahāprabhujī and Devpurījī were the greatest of the greatest, from what we can hear. Every morning when you open your eyes, see Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, Holy Gurujīs. It means that we don’t know when God will be. Many times it is like a God. There was a time before the British, and before that there were other Muslims, many also. They liked a king also. So that one king, a Hindu king, said, "In my land"—which is how many villages he has inside—"and in my village or in my country, no one should be hungry, no one should be ill, no one should suffer, and they should have everything: cloth, food, and money in my kingdom. In my kingdom, no one will be suffering." And he sent his soldiers to check anywhere if someone is a poor person sitting. One day, God comes. The king was just mourning about sunrise. After one hour, he comes out of his palace and into the garden, and one of the poor men came. He had one stick in his hand, his dress was tattered, and he was a very thin person. He had one pot in his hand. So in one hand was the pot, and in the other hand was the stick. He said to the king, "Your Highness, I am dying. I am so hungry. How many days I did not eat? I have no water." The king said, "I can’t imagine how it happened in my country, in my kingdom." He said, "Yes, sir, but I am living only about twenty meters behind your house. And everyone is so… they go on. Nobody keeps me eating or anything. It happens like this," the king said. He said, "Yes. Nobody gives you." He said, "Your Highness, I die. Don’t ask me anything. Give me something." So he makes like this, and his workers come and bring some chapati, put it in the pot. There is nothing inside. Again, chapati, nothing. The fruits, nothing. Anything he put in the pot, nothing. He said, "Please, King, give me quickly, just fill it." He put many, many things. He thought he would put the money, the gold, but always empty. Then the king said, "I don’t know who you are. I am to everything, but I remain a very poor person." He said, "You had ego that you said, ’In my kingdom, all are happy and good.’ You are a great person. You are a king. You are holy. But one thing is that you cannot go to heaven. I, because you are, you are very, how to say, proud." And he saw, suddenly he is very healthy and good, and like a blessing of God, and he said, "I am what you said, the God." So one should never be proud and not think, "I have everything." Maybe very close to us is something that we negate. Therefore, be humble and God will come there. So in that way, it was great. Gurudev, Devpurījī, he was that one. He could have done it, but he did not. In Barikhatu, nearby some farm, it was a very hot day. They were clearing the bushes for their farm, and Devpurījī came. Devpurījī said to the farmer, "Bring me water for drinking." He said, "We will go to the village and we will bring the water." Devpurījī said, "Till you go and come, I don’t know if I will live or not. Come to me, give me your tool." And Devpurījī dug just, how to say, half a foot or one foot deep. It was very hot, dry sand only. But Devpurījī dug a little, and pure, clean water was there. Devpurījī drinks water, and people come and drink water. Fill your water with your pot, and therefore he went. That is still; people are living in Barikhatu. They are talking, saying that is God, that is guru, that is master, that is holy, the good. We don’t know some of you inside. Therefore, one should never think, "I’m good." Don’t say, "I’m proud." Don’t talk negatively to someone. When you do something, talking from the ego, or something like, "I’m good and you’re not good," and go out—therefore Holy Gurujī said, "Don’t say to anyone, ’Go away, you are a bad person.’" I never say that to anyone, that’s it, but still, I am thinking. That may I do something not good, so I always pray in the morning: I want to see the holy, divine face of our Guru Paramparā. Similarly, also, there is what we should do, something. That is one of the best things we can do. So yesterday, our Svāmī Umā Purī was giving very nice exercises for those people who are disabled. Also tomorrow. We will sit, and only because elderly people and this person have not good health, so only this, what we call from sārva-hita-āsana, this slowly. Vidyā. Sitting there, Vidyā. And Umapurī will give only this posture. That is which she knows, I know, that only you know. What we first do like this, then we are doing like this, and this side, and that side, that’s all. Hari Om, thank you, Om Māpurī Jī. This is because people have problems with their shoulders and this. You will remove all their problems from their shoulders, okay? Hari Om, dear friends. Praṇām Viśva Gurujī, Guru Dev. First, we sit straight with relaxed shoulders and elbows. If possible, with a straight neck. Comfortably lean on your chair, but straight. Legs a little bit apart from each other. Comfortable, with the right ankle on the ground. Take a deep breath in, and exhale. Feel your whole body. Feel your being here in your body. And know that I am inhaling and I am exhaling. We will start again with our movements for the upper extremities: our shoulders, neck, and arms. First, we lift up our right shoulder with the shoulder blade and release it. Bring it down again, and with the left shoulder, just rise up and relax. And once more, and once more, the other side. And relax. Now, bring your arms in front, stretched straight at the height of the shoulders. Palms together, and inhale. Bring your arms beside your shoulders, palms facing back, as much as you can. Stretch your chest. And inhale again. Bring your arms in front. Palms together, and inhale back. So the arms make a rotation while moving, and exhale back. This strengthens our arm and shoulder muscles. And it improves the breathing in our chest and stretches our chest. It’s very good against our round back. And relax your arms on the thighs. It helps with rounded shoulders. Only up and down, but a circle moving forward. Also, forward, up, back side, bring your shoulder blades near together, down, and front. Big movement, big circle, and also in the other direction. It makes and keeps our shoulders flexible and relaxes our shoulder muscles, especially when we sit a lot. And again, relax your shoulders. And gently bend your head forward until your chin comes as close as possible. And say, "No, no." So move your head gently left, right, side. Just slightly say, "No, no." This kind of movement is very good. And in the middle, lift up your head. Make your neck long. Relax your shoulders and elbows. So today, only those movements once more: lifting up the shoulder and relaxing. This movement, alternately with the other side. The movement of the arms, palms together, stretched arms and backside. We make the movement, the rotation, while moving. Yes, thank you. And the rotation of the shoulders with relaxed arms. This is the repetition from today’s movements. It’s only those movements. And last but not least, with hanging head, moving left and right sides. Shoulders are relaxed. Thank you. Close your eyes for half a minute. Relax your shoulders, elbows, and your stomach. Once deep in, exhale mentally within your cittā-akāśa space behind your forehead. Remember, think on your Guru Dev. In the devotion in your hearts. Deep inhale. Oṁ. Oṁ karatā prabhūtīp karatā mahā prabhūtīp karatā hi kevalam. Oṁ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ… Rub your palms together, place your palms on your eyes and forehead, and open your eyes. Look in your palms and bring your hands down. Hari Om, Hari Om. Thank you, Hari Om, Uma Purījī, thank you, Vidyā, thank you, and say to me also, thank you, so that all the world, the people who are, I say to you, thank you. Thank you, my dears, all. Be happy. Be healthy. And be divine. Om Śānti. Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai.