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Oṁ Akṣat Par Brahma Tasmai Śrī Gurve Namaḥ. Salutations to Allākpurījī Siddhī Pīṭa Paramparā. Salutations to Allākpurījī Siddhī Pīṭa Paramparā. Salutations to Allākpurījī Siddhī Pīṭa Paramparā. Salutations to Allākpurījī Siddhī Pīṭa Paramparā. Salutations to Allākpurījī Siddhī Pīṭa Paramparā. To Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍalī Śrī Yogīrāj Parampūjī Śrī Satguru Devakī, to the Satya Sanātan Dharma, my adoration to Viśvagurujī’s Holy Lotus Feet, dear brother Swāmī Avatār Purī Jī, all the divine sannyāsīs here, all spiritual seekers and aspirants, the Alakpurī Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā disciples, yoga teachers, and instructors—many blessings to all of you from the Living Light Mahāprabhujī Deep Satsaṅg Foundation in Strelka, from Vishwagurujī. His presence is not in this seminar, but his energy, his blessing, his aura, and his divine light are with us. Holy Gurujī often mentioned that he was in his satsaṅg. Where the holy saints, the satsaṅgvaralākurī, the siddhārthī, the paramparā, the yogīs walk, this place or this earth or this sand becomes like sandal powder. When the devotees put this sand on their head, their destiny begins changing. There was one story: an elephant went to bathe in the river. After his bath, he came out and was walking the path where he wanted to go further. But he smelled the divine place where a saint had walked before. He took earth, or this sand, with his trunk and was bathing with it. People thought, "Oh, this elephant has become a little bit unbalanced or not in consciousness." But his driver, or his mahout, who guides the elephant, understood that perhaps some divine saint had walked there, or this earth had become holy. In that way, the elephant was putting it on his head so that his next life would not be like an animal's. This is a story from Holī Gurujī. Similarly, Holī Gurujī mentioned many, many lectures from previous years in his satsaṅg. What is satsaṅg? He taught that there are four or five points. Satsaṅg is a spiritual college. A saint or guru is the divine principle—like a teacher in a college giving a lecture. It is spiritual knowledge. There are two types of knowledge: worldly knowledge and spiritual knowledge. Satsaṅg is also a kind of hospital. Saints or gurus are doctors. They remove mental illness and mental pollution. When a human gets physically ill, we go to doctors and scientists for treatment, medicine, injections, glucose, etc. But these doctors and scientists cannot remove mental illness. The purpose of satsaṅg is to remove all mental tension and refresh our mind. A saint is the divine engineer. They build a bungalow that sparkles without any light—no moon, no sun there. That bungalow is our consciousness. Satsaṅg is the divine high court, the supreme court. The sun, saint, or guru is the judge, the decision-giver. One day we must leave this material world; those who are born will die. When our journey continues, this Guru will guide us further. He will give the judgment of what was happening in our life, and he will give blessings and self-realization. So, these are the five points: satsaṅg is a supreme court, a divine college, and a divine bungalow. Holy Gurujī often mentioned that Bangalore is like this building. Similarly, our body is a bungalow, and without the divine guru, the supreme light guru, without their blessing, our heart cannot open. In that way, our holy Gurujī and Viśwa Gurujī often sang the divine prayer: Oṁ namo śrī prabhu dīpa nārāyaṇām. Oṁ namo śrī prabhu dīpa nārāyaṇām. Haṁ sabhā dāsa prabhu caraṇa parāyaṇām. Oṁ namo śrī prabhu dīpa nārāyaṇām. Oṁ namo śrī prabhu dīpa nārāyaṇām. Haṁ sabhā dāsa prabhu caraṇa parāyaṇām. Caraṇa parāyaṇam śrī prabhu dīpa nārāyaṇam. This is a message of Holī Gurujī to all devotees, all bhaktas, and all practitioners. Similarly, in the Rāmāyaṇa, Tulsīdāsajī mentions: Sata sudharahi sata sangati pahi, parasa parasa kudhata suhai. "Sata sudharahi sata sangati pahi" means: "Sata" means those who don’t have spiritual knowledge. If they come to satsaṅg, they will slowly, slowly, step by step, get the color of spirituality, because spirituality is the inner light. So, in satsaṅg, when we sit, listen, or sing bhajans, this inner light slowly grows inside. There is our Mahāprabhujī bhajan: Sobhavo satsaṅgī—how beautiful is satsaṅg, how divine is satsaṅg, how great is the glory of satsaṅg. But only the lucky ones, the fortunate, the luckiest, the blessed ones, get that opportunity to come to satsaṅg. I think we need to learn more in this. I think we will have to learn a little more of the Hindi language. Kyā tākat means, what is the ability of our Jīvā, soul? Rām nām lehī, he is not easy to repeat nām. It is not easy to come to satsaṅg. Destiny gives the slave that is moving their mouth or head to the other side, who doesn’t like satsaṅg. Only God’s blessings and our long practice can help to lead toward the divine path. Only God’s blessing and our long practice can direct us to the spiritual path. This is Mahāprabhujī’s bhajan, "How Divine Some Mahāprabhujī Was." The vision he wrote into that bhajan is so beautiful. "A lot of bhraṅgī," all the guñjar. "Lot" means the caterpillar, a kind of worm. When he is walking on the earth, at that time, Brahmā is testing him, testing the quality of the disciple: uttam, madhyam, kaniṣṭha. Uttam means good conscience, high conscience. Madhyam means low conscience. And kaniṣṭha means lower consciousness—the quality of the consciousness. Similarly, when we are sleeping, our consciousness is somewhere else. When we are dreaming, our consciousness is somewhere else. Now we are sitting here in satsaṅg, our consciousness is on a different level. So, this is the consciousness level of the creature. The wasp, catching first, checks the quality of this worm. After he realizes, "OK, this can be a wasp," he catches him and brings him to where he makes the mud house. He puts him in the mud house, and he remains there for maybe 10 days, 20 days, or one month. After he realizes, "OK, now he may be ready to fly," he slowly opens it, and this worm becomes the wasp. Guñj bīj ke bhed se bṛṅgito ho jā udjāj. "Guñj" means the sound. "Bhed" means that kind of energy. He became a wasp, changing his life from worm to wasp, and now he can fly. The worm gets the ability to fly. So, Mahāprabhujī wrote this story for humans: in satsaṅg we can change our life from normal life to high consciousness. Mahāprabhujī actually put into that bhajan the story and the message that in satsaṅg we are able to raise our consciousness to a much higher level. Sobhāvo sata-saṅgharī, jaise lat bhraṅgī mile vo śabda guñjār sunāī. Gūñjā bīja ke bhed se jī, ḍhaṅgī to hoye buddhā jā. Sata sandharī jes pā, saṅga tuhā karī vo aṅga se aṅga nilā. Saṅga tuhā karī vo aṅga sī aṅga milā. Sambha saṅgatī kā pālanī lechī, śuddha kāncanā koyā jā. Satya saṅga jāndhī Pārvatī. Vīra janapā Sathya saṅga rāja pānī. You know, that bhajan is a very great bhajan; it is Mahāprabhujī’s divine nectar words. Milé bhagirati ke mai. "Or nir" means where there is normal water, the mud in the river, like in the Bhāgīratī, means Gaṅgā. Vlévá voda do Gaṅgā. Gaṅgā jal ke Hawai. They are also respected as Gaṅgā jal. Gaṅge voda, water. Or vṛkṣa candane mile: if other trees grow near the candana tree, they also get the same energy, the same good smell and aroma. So, Mahāprabhujī said further that satsaṅg is param and ānanda. "Param" is cosmic happiness. There are two kinds of sukha: one is when we eat, it's okay, good; when we see something, "oh, how good it is." Param Ānanda is endless. Satsaṅg, that way... Thank you God, Mahāprabhujī, our paramparā and all our gurus, that they gave us the great, great, great opportunity to come to satsaṅg, sing in satsaṅg, and think about God and God’s glories. So we have divine blessing. This is our Gurudev. So now we will sing three times Oṁ for Viśvagurujī, for good health, all well-being, happiness, prosperity, and their divine light. Śrī Dev Puruṣa Mahādev, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān, Hindu Dharma Samrāḍ Madhavānanjī Bhagavān, Viśva Guru Mahāmrila Śrī Yogī Rāj, Param Peta Parameśvar, Param Pūjā Śrī Satguru Dev, Śruti Śrātaṅ Dharma, Svāmī Uttar Puruṣī Mahārāj, Hari Om.