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* Jaati leni Jyoti – Light that transcends caste differences is a wonderful concept. Just ponder over it; people of all different castes have to work together to bring this lamp into being, before we can light this flame. The potter makes the clay saucer; the oilman extracts the oil; the weaver makes the wick; the timber-man and the chemist make the match sticks. Once the components are in place, it is placed in front of a stone idol made by a sculptor, by a man whose heart is of stone (not yet softened by spiritual knowledge) and is lit, amidst the chanting of mantras (by priests) with prayers to have a vision of God. The fire of the flame is pure and cannot be untouched. You cannot keep it in your pocket. You cannot hold it in your hand. When the efforts of all, are combined who work in co-operation, this Paramjyoti (the Supreme Light) is realized by all.This we remember today.

* Guru is needed for Spiritual upliftment. Otherwise how can you achieve Bliss or Ananda? "Guru Parampara is sacred and sacred". It is difficult to explain about Guru. In Guru Geeta Parvati asks Lord Shiva to explain about Shiva. The teaching of Shiva to Parvati is GURU GEETA. It is also ATMA TATTVA GEETA". It is a very important teaching. It is a human discipline penance. It is "Saadhana Yoga". It is "Atma Vidya". Guru creates doubts in our mind. Guru is trinity form. He creates doubts. He keeps the doubts in you and he also kills the doubt. Teach your children the Guru Mantra of GURU BRAHMA GURU VISHNU. Of course normal education is needed but ensure your children learn the traditions. Guru, Puja, Temple, Gods, Language etc. * Ensure you teach your mother tongue to your children. Especially Telugu persons need to learn. It is our Karma and ego that the Telugu people do not teach Telugu language to their children. I insist that you all teach to your children. I agree that school and studies are important. But mother tongue must be learnt also. Please start. Don't give freedom like Americans give their children. Personal freedom is one thing. But learning what is needed is another thing. I know your struggle here. Far away land. Displacement. Job insecurity, etc., But your children should not be victims. Some do it too much. They enforce tradition so much that the children develop aversion to tradition. Because I say it today, you all will enforce it so hard that in 6 months they are plundered. If you ask who is Rama? They will say N.T.Rama Rao. Who is Krishna? Cinema actor Krishna. I have seen the Ramayana and Maha Bharata of Ramanand Sagar and G.V.Iyer. They are very good. Collect the video of those great epics and show them to your children. You too will enjoy. We are showing star wars or dirty wars. We let them listen to pop music. It is PAAPA music (sinful music). Rock music or soil music what ever it is. The physical appearance of Vibhooti clad men, Saree clad women are deceptive. The inner core is weak. Don't feel that I am little harsh. If you feel bad that I am talking like this, I will stop now. Should I stop? (Audience shouts NO SWAMIJI). I am coming to America since 1976. I did not want to build temples here. That was never in my plan. I was saying the same to him. You all have great plans to build temples of Datta. I said no. Once you build new temple, devotion disappears. I have built Datta Temple in Baton Rouge. Go there. Come there when Swamiji comes. I cannot be coming here every time I come to USA. Your quarrels will ensure that the daily Pujas are neglected. When ever Swamiji comes, hire such a hall and enjoy the programs. Meet once a month. Discuss Swamiji's discourses. Don't build a temple here. Your unity will disappear. Learn Kriya Yoga. Let Manasa Swami come occasionally. Language is not important. Swamiji can speak several languages. Children do not say 'JAYA GURU DATTA' also. Your parents come here to assist you to up bring your children. Let them help you to teach them tradition. Teach when they are young. Because when they grow up, they will not learn. Don't bother if they don't develop in the speed you want. Let them at least get introduced.

* Krishna means Christ. There is no barrier. We people make barriers. Christ, Krish (Krishna) are similar. They are one and the same. In India Jesus is called as YESU. In Hindu we have ISHA. So, YESU AND ISHA are one and the same. There are so many brilliant people in the world. I don't know why they don't teach all this. We cannot interpret properly because our minds refuse to accept all this intellectual drama. The easy method to reach Him is through Bhajans. Then there is Vedanta, which is the final path. It is discussive in nature and is quite interesting. The result is a big waste of time.* That is why Nama Sankeertana is the best method. Silence yourself and sing internally. Don't hurt any one else. Look after yourself and see God everywhere *. His plays are complicated and we cannot comprehend all that. GOD is also a puppet in always caring us. It is like a mother acting like a small child to teach a baby. God too plays ignorantly with us who are in the sea of ignorance. He comes to take us back to his world. God is everywhere. Which direction is god looking? He is like a lamp's light. The light goes all ways equally. It emanates and gives light and distributes in all sides.

* What is this life? I don't understand. Some times we feel very happy to be born. Many times we are mystified and we feel very sorrowful. Mood changes in a jiff. From happy to sorrow to doubt. What is this? I don't understand. Very difficult to explain this human drama. Attachment and sudden detachment. Sudden Vairaagya. Sudden relationship. Sudden marriage. Sudden divorce. What is this? Few minutes relation. No continuity. Few months. Few months. What happened to that original good feeling? Because you don't have Sadhana. Keep on practice. Practice of contentment with what you have. Some suddenly have urge to learn meditation. After two years, the interest wanes and suddenly Swamiji looks like a dispensable part in life. Your relation is solely result oriented. * Spiritual practices are not for immediate cognizable results. Don't look for results. Keep on practicing *. If you are unhappy, keep on the relation. Ensure your actions are the same and have not changed. Control feelings. Prayers are not life. It is a duty. Life is different. Jobs, marriage, eating, sleeping. This is life. But prayers are not life. Prayer is a important duty. We inhale and exhale. It came to us with our birth. It disappears when we are finished. Like that prayers also are a integral part of our life. Our customs and devotion are like inhalation and exhalation. Our bad moods should not affect them. Learn to live with bad feelings when necessary.* Give your bad moods to God. He is very kind. He will gladly accept it. He has a big basket. Swamiji also carries a big bag. I collect your sins, bad moods etc. God is a good friend*. Not like your husband or boy friends. If any thing happens they become very upset. Misunderstanding comes. Because they also are misunderstanding. * A marriage of forty years gets disturbed because of 40 minutes of misunderstanding. Because after all, you all are humans. 60 years marriage, 14 children. Just because the wife becomes old, the husband wants a new wife. What is this? Meaningless. There must be good understanding. Marriage is a gift from God*. Husband and wives are partners for life. Most of Indian married couples are always staying together. 99.9 percent. If you come and see they are very happy. They quarrelling everyday, still they are happy. They will have 25 children. They will have grand children. They quarrel and produce children. They quarrel and keep happiness in home. They don't divorce. But now American influence has come to India and the divorce has slowly started. I am very unhappy. Europeans and Americans are uninterested in married lives. I don't know why? Divorce is like a fashion. If you have not divorced once, you are not a human being. I don't know why. Some one should study these phenomena. This disease. I am wondering why so many Indian Americans here divorce. I agree when there are serious problems like abuse etc. But divorcing after a long married life is very wrong. Divorcing after three years of developed marriage is very wrong. The marriage is a sacred relation. It is His miracle that the marriage happens. You must learn to adjust. That is why now a days this divorce disease has come to Guru- Shishya relationship. * This sacred relation too is getting contaminated. I don't like it. I have very strong medicine for it. If you have problems, don't hurry in your decision. Close your eyes and think. One day you will definitely get answer. IF you ask opinions from people, they will confuse you even more. Better don't ask. Ask yourself*.

*Once a life is enough. Don't miss that time. That is why in Ashrama we have whole day Bhajan till night on full moon day.* Shivaratri day too is important. Something very important will happen on these days in the cosmos and in the universe. That moment is very very powerful. Sanyaasis, Sadhus and great Yogis know that secret and worship at that time. In Kriya Yoga we can discuss those secrets. After that the Brahma Muhurta comes. The time of Sun rise. Brahma means knowledge. It is not the four head Brahma flying on the swans or moving in the car. Here in the spiritual level, Brahma is knowledge. You must hear that beautiful voice in that special time. Swamiji sings Bhajans. You will hear special musical notes. Any knowledge you practice in that time, you will excel in that time*. If you sleep in that time, you will be come a great great great lazy fellow. You can do what you want. Your belly will grow, you will be always hungry. You will snore funny sounds (Swamiji makes funny snoring sounds). You must get up by 5 AM. Don't sleep then. Take any subject in life. You practice at that time; you will get help from the divine. Just 30 minutes of rigorous study or practice is enough. If you want to be a good musician, you want to be a good violinist, a good harmonist, a good Mridangist, good Tablist, then get up at 5 AM. I cannot sleep after 5 AM. Even when I sleep at 12 midnight, I get up at 4 AM. OKAY. Swamiji is different. I have to travel to people's dream. But my physical body gets up at 4 AM. So, I urge you to get up by 4 AM. Five to six hours of sleep is enough. Excessive sleep brings you tiredness. Sleeping when tired at 12 mid night is not good sleep. You should not sleep when tired. Practice to sleep by 10 PM. When you consciously sleep, it is good for you. Sleep consciously thinking of good thoughts and then slowly think yourself to sleep. It is a sort of self-hypnosis. You consciously make a decision to wake up at 4.30 AM. *You order yourself. At 4.30 AM you will exactly wake yourself. You must test yourself. You see dirty movies and then think nonsense and then you are so tired that you feel sleepy. This is very wrong. What I mean is that don't deliberately tire yourself so that you can sleep. Close your eyes even though you are awake. Don't worry. Sleep will come. Close your eyes and chant any name OM NAMO NARAYANA. HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE. Don't chant loudly. Chant inside yourself. Don't hurt anyone with your loud chanting*. . May be they are sleeping. They will think you are crazy. Loud snoring has its benefits perhaps. Loud and funny snoring deters cockroaches and mouse and other critters. Snoring can be stopped. Try to inhale luke warm water through nose and drink through nose. It clears your nasal passage. Also eating ice cream and sleeping directly causes phlegm to form in the throat and funny snoring noises come.

*Early morning is very very very very precious time. The second important time is ABHIJINNA LAGNA. 12 to 12.30 PM, Swamiji is not normal. Swamiji looks for sweets or sugar. Swamiji is irritant. That moment is the Bhiksha time for Lord Dattatreya. It starts at 12.25 PM till 1 PM. Those 35 minutes is very powerful time*.

Early morning is SUPRABHATA TIME. Two lights join. The darkness and sunlight merge. In the noon, the morning light fades and evening lights starts. Another important time is in evening. It is called GO DHULI LAGNA. It is the time when cows used to return to home. It was in ancient times. Not anymore. It is called SANDHYA time. That time is 6 PM to 6.30 PM. Even when you are driving, stop for a couple of minutes and pray God. Even in the afternoon, stop at the time I said and pray God. Morning is PRATAH VANDANA – morning prayers. Afternoon is MADHYAANHIKA. *These three times of morning, noon and evening is the time to pray. When Sun rays start, when sun is at the top and when the Sun sets. These times are very important for mother earth too. Prayers at these three times will greatly help you. Just stand up and think of some prayer. Close your eyes and think of Sun God. That is enough*.

Today was full moon day. On this day, the power in these times is even more powerful. In the evening, the period of power is even longer. It starts from Sun set time around 6 PM and continues till midnight.

From "Sri Ganapathy Sachidanada Swamjis Books and Messages"