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[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

With the SatGuru, one learns from within the heart that God is just as much here in the imperfect world as He is in the perfection of everything, Vaikuntha.
Often people distance God by thinking, saying, and behaving as though He is only in some perfect place and here in the imperfect world, He is less available or not really available at all. But this thinking is not true at the highest level. God is everywhere and in everything. In His fullness. Always. This world seems imperfect because one is looking through an imperfect lens of the mind. But the enlightened saints never thought that this world is not good. They could see the absolute perfection of the world. Even what others judged and hated, the saints loved and worshiped. Because they could only see Bhagavan. In the imperfection as well as in perfection. And truly He is. Not because He ever becomes imperfect, but rather He wears the cloaks of imperfections so that love can truly become unconditional. This world is God enjoying God’s love. It is always Him experiencing an aspect of His own self in everyone. He sees His own love wearing infinite cloaks of perfection and imperfection. And because He is always growing, that love through the play of imperfect and perfect, becomes purer and more beautiful through every moment. Never look down on this world. It is filled with extraordinary love, as a perfect stage where the jeevatmas can submerge fully in their egoistic role or be fully aware of their true identity as a tiny spark of Bhagavan. Submerged in one’s ego or submerged in God’s endless love and joy. You choose. And you do choose, in every moment. When you become aware of that choice, then your experience of perfection can grow.

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

Not everything has to be manifest on the outside to be real.
Sometimes love can remain and grow within the heart without being spoken. But it can be felt. It can be experienced by the one you give that love to. They will feel your love for them within their own heart. This is the nature of the atma. It knows love. Sometimes the greatest love cannot be expressed in words. Like Radha and Krishna. When they would meet, they didn’t talk about how much they loved each other. They often made the play of fighting with each other. Playing pranks on each other. Even ignoring each other and hiding. But their love was known fully to each other. Sometimes silence is greater than outward expression. There are times when one should let the love explode within and yet let the outside go on as it has to. Leaving the outside fully in Bhagavan’s hands. No matter how your life looks externally, within your heart you can be with God fully. But this type of love which is a part of how God Himself loves everyone, you have to dedicate yourself to it completely. Then He will give you constant companionship with Him. You will know and feel His loving presence in a very real and grounded way. Often the SatGuru keeps the outside and inside in tension with each other. What is felt within isn’t seen on the outside. What is experienced outside doesn’t feel the same as the inside. But this is the churning of the mind. Where love is purified. Where one learns to be fully grounded despite any storm. Don’t let the churning make you doubt or lose your way. He is always with you.

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

People like to go into fantasies because real life can get so difficult to live.
But with the SatGuru, real life becomes better than the wildest dream and greatest fantasy. With Him, one lifetime can reveal the ultimate path for the atma which is hidden behind nearly countless veils. Twenty years can show you that you never knew how life worked at all but that it is more beautiful than you ever imagined. Ten years can show you how extraordinary the strength He has placed inside you really is. One year can show you that your dreams can come true so quickly. One month can feel like eras have passed because the One you prayed for has arrived in front of your eyes. One week can show you how every day has such beautiful facets of Bhagavan and His worship. One day is enough to change the course of your life forever. One hour in His company can remove every sorrow from your mind. One minute can transform into a thousand because He has given you Darshan. And one single moment of blinking the eyes and a fraction of focus on His lotus feet being lost, feels like one was separated from the Antaryami for a millennium. Time changes completely with the SatGuru. Long years pass by so fast. Few moments stretch into eternity. That which people only hear about but do not believe. The prophesies of the scriptures. The greatness and closeness of Bhagavan. The sweetness and infinity of His love. All becomes manifest in a bhakta’s life through just trusting and loving the SatGuru. Waiting for His divine right time rather than impatience because of one’s own timeline. All is received in a moment and also a lifetime is not enough to spend in the divine relationship of love. When your waking moments become better than your most desired dreams, when they stay like that all the time. When you give thanks in every moment because He has made life so good, so filled with Bhagavan. When you don’t know how to stop serving because you see how much He has always served you. Then you will know. Then you will walk with love no matter how hard the path may look right now. Because you know, not just believe, but you know that all is the very best with Him. And you never have to worry because He is with you and loves you infinitely.

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

Without constant meditation on Bhagavan’s lotus feet, one can never hope to know what is His will, the will of the atma in entering this life.
To have any hope of making this life successful, where the atma does not repent but instead leaps with joy when death comes, one has to work very hard. Focused and constant work on the self to submit one’s ego and selfish will to the will of the atma which is aligned with the greater Will of Bhagavan. Every atma plays a small part in His eternal play of love. But whether one wants to play a good role or a foolish one. Whether one wants to act unconsciously or consciously. Whether one wants to hear Him when He speaks and follow word for word with love and dedication, or one wishes to put one’s own interpretation to what He says. These are some of the choices that make up one’s life. These are the eternal choices that your atma carries with itself. The choices made in one life are not forgotten nor do they become immaterial on the other side. They always matter. They stay forever. Just like Sri Ram showed so beautifully the eternal nature of a single word spoken years ago when He wasn’t even born. Every choice the jeevatma makes, stays with the atma. The atma bears it either as a burden or as a blessing. Depending upon whether one’s selfish will was held onto or it was repeatedly surrendered to Bhagavan. Only by knowing Bhagavan’s will for the atma, one’s life can become successful here. Meditate on His feet and keep working to transform the self. Don’t stop this work. Let it become your joy and freedom. Through your work, it will become the greatest path.

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

The freedom to be exactly and completely yourself. The joy of having your own experiences and your own deepening understanding. The peace of loving and respecting all. The absolute bliss of having the Supreme Lord always and forever with you. This and so much more beauty is the path of Love that the SatGuru walks on.
Freely, without any strings attached, without reducing anything or taking anything away, without hurting or causing suffering. Only receiving more and more joy, peace, and freedom. That is the path of Bhakti, of Love. How many people, places, or practices can say so openly that you can have everything because by loving God endlessly, He Himself comes to reside with you? Search and see for yourself. It is very easy to talk about atheism or becoming your own god and it may seem very trendy in today’s world. But why don’t you explore for yourself before following the crowd? Just look at the precision with which everything is made and running in this world. The body, the mind, of so many creatures. The feelings and instincts that make all beings gravitate to love and run away from hatred. This universal highest love is God and God is love. Explore every field of study. You will see that there are always more questions than answers. This is the deep truth of learning. That one becomes more open-minded and humble. If learning makes you arrogant or makes you think that you know more than others, then you are becoming dogmatic, not learned. The Bhagavad Gita speaks of the path of love as the highest of all learning and paths. Why? Find the answer within your own heart. On the path with the SatGuru, you will never be told to stop investigating, stop self-analysis. You must do that so that your learning can become more and more refined and pure. Your mind should become as sharp as a knife and as gentle as a flower petal, to discern what is a deeper form of love and what isn’t. The knife of your discernment should always be turned inwards like a scalpel cutting away the parts of the psyche that are operating in lower forms of love. Never turn the knife of your mind outwards onto others. The gentleness and beauty of your love should be given to all freely, to yourself and others. The blossoming of love within one’s mind and life, that’s what brings atma and Paramatma close to each other.

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

Guru Purnima is the day when the jeevatma is reborn in its pure state as the atma.
It is the day of celebrating all the teachers in one’s life. And when one is with the SatGuru, one should remember that every moment is a celebration of Guru Purnima in your life. The SatGuru’s presence in this world is against all odds. The possibility of His incarnation is almost impossible. Yet He comes here breaking all the cosmic laws and rules. Just for love. To give everyone who wishes to receive, the unending bliss of God’s presence and love. The best gift one can give in return is to not take Him for granted. We have been discussing learning about the path over the past few days. By deepening your studies, you need to ensure that your life becomes a testimony of love and care for all. Read about the lives of the saints. They became living proof of their Guru’s divinity, love, and mercy. And the bhakta who are with the SatGuru have with them everything they need. In so many ways the SatGuru has reached out to everyone. Have you allowed it to touch your heart? Have you experienced being unable to stop the tears of love from flowing till your eyes burned? Guru Purnima isn’t a festival only of worship and respect, it is a blossoming of the inside. Transformation into the depths of devotion where one’s being itself becomes longing for the SatGuru’s lotus feet. Longing is always exceedingly joyful, not an ounce of misery can remain. If one has not experienced Love that feels like the heart would just burst from one’s chest, then life has not shown its greatest colors to you yet. A single drop of Bhagavan’s love would burn everything you know until only bliss and surrender remained. Blessed are those who wish to be consumed by love because they have known God truly. On this radiant full moon day of the Guru, give the SatGuru the gift of your joy and remembrance. He has everything He needs but He wants you close to Him, so that your atma can fulfill its desired goal. Blessings and much love to everyone.

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

Often after a time of closeness with someone, one starts to divert one’s attention or there is a low feeling where one feels far from them.
Both feelings are two sides of the same coin. One starts to divert one’s attention because one takes the person for granted. Or, one feels distant or low after a big celebration or deep closeness with someone because one feels that now those sweet moments are over. With the world this push and pull, low and high, close and far, feelings will always happen. There is no changing that. Because that’s the nature of duality which the world exists with. But as a bhakta of the SatGuru, one should know that He is never far and the sweet moments are never over. He is always coming closer and closer to the atma. When one is low, the SatGuru picks one up and brings one close. And when one is flying high, He pricks the unreliable bubble of ego so that one doesn’t hurt oneself by falling hard. He catches one on the way down when the pride and arrogance have been cleared by Him. Never go into the feeling of distance from Him. Always search for how He is showing His closeness to you in the present moment. The outside is a temporary game, don’t give it so much importance that you ruin the relationship of the heart which is eternal. Always one is close to the SatGuru, just keep yourself close to His feet in your mind and all will forever remain well.

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

People most often interpret something written down as fixed in a particular language, understanding, and context. But Divine Words are always alive.
What the SatGuru is giving in the present moment is just as vibrantly and divinely alive as His ancient Word that formed all the universes. The full grace of Paramatma is just as available today as it was in eras gone by. There wasn’t a better or easier time to attain Bhagavan in the past as compared to today’s day and age. He is present, close, and just as much in love with His creation now as He was at the purest of beginnings. Because for Him there is no past, present, or future that is unknown. To honor His beautiful presence in this way, our spiritual path with the tadatmya vedanta, places equal importance on wisdom shared by the SatGuru personally right now as well as that which has been recorded in the past for the use of future generations. The ever-new and the most ancient, both, given by the SatGuru. All time is a different facet of Love. This is why the mind needs to be infinitely flexible. Because the ways of God are completely mysterious. This is why wisdom and love always go together. Because you have to learn to accept that which you find unacceptable out of love, and you have to purify your love in the fire of wisdom for it to capture His heart fully. If you cannot love and respect all, you will never grow close to God. If you cannot bow down to this greatest and humblest Truth, then you have forgotten that God is Love itself because love is the all-inclusive force uniting all with God. This is the great truth of the tadatmya vedanta that the SatGuru wishes to bring to everyone. When you start to love all, without judgement and without limits, God will reveal Himself to you fully. And you will see this closeness you have earned with God reflected exactly in your relationship with the SatGuru. Even before you have understood, accepted, or embodied that truth, the SatGuru will deepen your experience of closeness with Him. Before your mind can even process the realization of Love, Love has already walked close to you. He does not waste a single second. He yearns only for unconditional divine pure love. This is the great wisdom that you need to learn through your studies. If you remember the SatGuru with a single word, my prayer is that the word always be Love.

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

It is an enormous grace from the SatGuru if you can remember Him.
People think, “Oh, it is just a thought, what’s the big deal? He isn’t really there, I’m just making everything up in my mind.” But it is the Lord Himself who can allow you to think about Him. You cannot do so otherwise. Not a single thought of Him is random. Not a single longing to love Him is random. People waste their time feeling that remembering Bhagavan is just a thought like any other. But it is the single most incredible thing in the universe; being able to think of Bhagavan. Everything starts from there. All gyaan, all dhyaan, all karma yoga, all bhakti. Everything starts with a thought about the most beloved Lord. He is the Lord of Love. He is the Lord of All. Yet one spends so much time thinking about the ego, thinking about what keeps us separate from Him. But one needs to start thinking about what one wants, not about what one doesn’t want. Think of the Lord. Think about what will bring you to Him. Think about how to love Him more and more freely, happily, and sincerely. Just love; this is so difficult for people to focus on, for their mind to make it their only goal. But just love holds the essence of everything in it. The SatGuru’s word is simple. Yet He sometimes needs to complicate it for people to appreciate ‘the depth of knowledge’. But this is not wisdom. The wise are always simple. Always loving. Always happy. Always in action and surrender to Bhagavan at the same time. They are never complicated in their mind. Give love everything you have and it will return everything million times better than before, all that you can never even dream of. Your thoughts are extremely powerful, make them positive. Give them a good direction to flow, let them keep running to God. To think of Him with love a single time is such a special grace. If only the jeevatmas knew how much the cosmic realm desperately yearns to be given that grace. The grace to think of Him. Not everyone is able to keep their mind centered on God. Just observe and you shall see. Focus your mind on Him. And just love.

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

Absolute joy is your natural state of being.
What stops one from experiencing this endless bliss is the fear of the mind. The fear of letting go. The fear of holding on. The fear of failure. The fear of pain. The fear of rejection. The fear of humiliation. The fear of mockery. There can be endless fears. But there can also be endless happiness. Which one you focus on becomes your experience. Life is so simple, but it’s not easy to love its simplicity. We think happiness is very far away, so we complicate the path to ‘get there’. But it is closer than close. It is you yourself. Happiness is your true state. This radiant place where the light is forever shining. Where joy is so abundant that you feel like you are bursting with it. This is the truth of your atma with Paramatma. When the atma has enjoyed its play of acting as if far from Bhagavan, it will start removing the veils that it has put between itself and Him. Then you will know. You will experience the bliss of the atma meeting Paramatma again and again and again. That He was closer to you than your own self. He is that inner self you were disconnected from. He is the cosmic entity in control of all. He is the SatGuru who embodies this divine play. One is never separate from Him. Be curious about Him. Crave for Him. In wanting Him, you will have Him. He is the only one with whom that paradox works. With everything else, when you want it, it runs away from you. Wanting God above all else, is the pinnacle of success.

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

The true SatGuru comes to show that life is lived inside and outside.
He points inward towards the inner self and He also points outward towards the actions one must perform when in this body. Life isn’t lived only within, nor is it lived only outside. If the goal was only internal, there is no logic in taking birth to achieve an only internal goal. If the goal was only external, there is no logic in the fact that everyone has such a rich inner life. The goal is One. It manifests inwardly and outwardly in the most magnificent precision and mercy of God. Bhagavan is not greatest in His formless state. Nor is He limited to a form. He is with form and without form. He is in everything and also beyond everything. The true SatGuru is the one who breaks all paradoxes and simply places the surrendered jeevatma in the middle of Truth. In SatChitAnanda. In Bhakti. In Prem. He removes all barriers that stop one from experiencing the Ultimate reality, Bhagavan Himself. He can give the most elusive, most difficult to attain continuous experience of God-realization as easily as distributing candy. This is His gift, able to be bestowed so freely. But what stops one from receiving the gift is one’s own unwillingness. Where is that unwillingness hiding that is stopping you from surrendering completely, continuously, unconditionally and without end? The SatGuru is waiting to give all the greatest Ananda, the bliss of intoxication in God’s sweetest presence.

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

On the spiritual path, the mind is often washed like a cloth by the SatGuru.
The mind takes on the colors that you most feed it. So it becomes a certain way after you have fed it the same stories, the same emotions, the same opinions again and again. And often then one looks outward and blames the world, blames God and Guru. “God, why do you send me so much pain? Guruji, why do you test me all the time?” But that has simply become your mind’s way of thinking, hence you see things that way. If you change the pattern of your thoughts, if you change your perspective, if you change the way you look at things, everything changes. How you take things, how you handle things matters the most to Bhagavan. But the SatGuru is the kindest of kind. He doesn’t just wait for you to keep falling and learn in your own time over many lifetimes. He takes the dirty cloth of the bhakta’s mind and with all His energy washes it and makes it clean. The process may seem like a heavy beating. But is it really? Not at all. Is the mind, is the person losing anything really? No. The pain is a lower illusory reality. In actuality, one is being cleaned thoroughly. All the negativity is getting washed away. One is being made new. On the path, many times it may seem like the mind is spinning out of control. But as a bhakta one should never fear or worry. In such moments, offer the mind more strongly into the SatGuru’s capable hands. Offer the mind Bhagavan’s name to calm it down. Don’t let go of who is helping you. Only God and Guru have the permanent answer to the problem, only they have endless unconditional love which is the true solution to every problem. Feed the mind with Vitthal Giridhari’s name more and more lovingly when the mind feels like it is spiraling. Then you can experience the flow of Bhagavan’s sweet mercy within your heart once again.

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

The beautiful Rath Yatra of Bhagavan Sri Hari Jagannath has started and will continue for nine days.
Despite heavy rain, lakhs of bhaktas have gathered at Jaganannth Puri Dham. To celebrate their beloved Lord coming out of the Mandir and giving Darshan to all on the street itself. Not a small utsav murti like with most other processions, but the main murtis themselves are brought out. The bhaktas are not shortchanged in anyway. This is Bhagavan’s grace. This is His love for all. This is the way He yearns to be close to everyone. Every year during Rath Yatra, Bhagavan Jagannath's Rath halts for sometime at the samadhi of His dear devotee Bhakta Kavi (poet) Sant Salabega. Salabega was born to a muslim father but his devotion to Bhagavan Sri Hari Jagannath came from his brahmin mother. He was immersed in love for Bhagavan. Once Salabega was injured in battle but he accepted it all as grace and love from Bhagavan. And unable to stay away from such pure prem, Bhagavan miraculously healed Salabega within a single night. After that, Salabega gave up everything to devote his life to Bhagavan completely. One year, he was stuck in heavy rains and couldn’t reach Puri in time. He begged and prayed to the Lord to wait for him. And the most merciful beloved Lord, stopped His Rath from moving. No matter how much effort was exerted by those pulling it, the Rath wouldn’t move at all. Salabega arrived and in great ecstasy saw the Rath of the Lord that had stopped in the middle of the street for no apparent reason. Salabega ran forward with great joy and took Darshan in tears. In that moment, the Rath started moving again. The Lord keeps His promise to everyone. To love. To always be there. Mata Gundicha, Raja Indradumna, the residents of Vraj, Sant Salabega, everyone. But the saints believed in His promises with all their heart. They devoted themselves to Him when there was all kinds of opposition from society as well as from their own mind. Even when there was no external reason to love, they loved endlessly, unconditionally. And that great God of Love, Bhagavan Sri Hari Jagannath can never keep Himself away from such strong faith and laser-focused love. May this day inspire the devotees to grow their love for Bhagavan, to embrace His lotus feet in their heart and devote themselves to Him fully. Shubh Rath Yatra to all.

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

What is truly worth treasuring?
Money? But no amount of it can bring true peace and happiness if there isn’t any love in your heart. Position, fame, power? But they are so fleeting, here one day and snatched away the next day. Life? But one day this body will pass away, go back to the earth from where it was born. What is truly worth treasuring and giving one’s everything to is the spiritual path. The path itself. Life and death are but adventures on the path. The path is eternal. Whether it is life or death, it is the path that is winning. The kriya of bringing the atma to Paramatma fully. Whether in this life or in another life, the spiritual path is picked up again and again. The jeevatma works on it for some time and lets go, either because of personal unwillingness to continue in that moment or because it is time to move on from that body. The second is very beautiful, because if the jeevatma has remained true to the path till departure from the body, the path amplifies its power thousand times and pushes the atma very high into the eternal realm. Either the atma resides at Bhagavan’s lotus feet never to come back again, or it comes back to work on very specific things to brighten the steps leading to the spiritual path for the world. To widen that very narrow path which becomes subtle and hides the moment one’s willingness to walk on it reduces. The spiritual path itself is energy. Pure, divine, energy. It is within itself the experience of satchitananda. The SatGuru holds this complete experience within Himself, able to freely share that energy to others. This energy knows who can walk on the path and who is not ready for the next step. It does not show up just like that in one’s life. If it has, then it is because the atma has done tremendous work in humility to attract the pure divinity of the spiritual path to itself. Letting go of the spiritual path because of unwillingness due to difficulties is the most foolish thing to do. The spiritual path is in itself one’s eternity. The eternal existence of the atma is the spiritual path. The endlessly loving relationship with Bhagavan. It is impossible to let the spiritual path go. It will be picked up when the time is right again to take the next step. But is one truly willing to wait for thousands upon thousands of years in abject misery, waiting for the spiritual path to open for oneself again?

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

Everyone is fighting a fight that no one knows about.
Never cast your opinion on a person or situation, because the pain behind their actions will also be attracted to you. When you judge or are jealous of someone, the suffering that brought them to the place they are at comes to you amplified. Everyone is fighting a fight that no one sees. What may seem so small to someone may be the result of backbreaking effort for someone else. Yet they are doing it. Pushing themselves internally. Forcing themselves to stand up when it would be so easy to just crumble. This is what amazes the SatGuru about the bhaktas. The true lovers of Bhagavan stand up when there is no outside motivation or reason to stand up. But they do it anyway. Bringing forth the enormous strength from Bhagavan’s presence in their hearts. The SatGuru’s greatest work and joy is to see someone blossoming in that way. Some pain is seen on the outside. But some hide their pain completely. They never show it to anyone. Don’t assume because someone is very positive or always looks successful that they have no fights that they are fighting. You don’t know how much their ankles might be weighed down, but they are giving it their every breath to fight to the surface of that muddy swamp and radiate joy, love, and peace to the world. Learn from the stories of the devotees. Learn from their amazing lives. Be inspired and walk with full force on your own unique path to Bhagavan. Know that the SatGuru’s entire love is with you. He loves each one as though they are His only child. The saints were also regular people. They also faced hard choices, karma, pain, and sorrow. The difference between a saint and a regular person is simply in how they take life. How they handle everything. How they react to things. How they keep themselves inside. How they treat everyone even when in deep pain themselves. It is the attitude that makes a saint or a sinner or a worldly person. When you transform your attitude, all can transform. All can become holy. All can be divinized while here in this world itself.

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

When the surrendered atma is moving towards Paramatma after leaving the body, so many divine stages are passed through.
At death, the atma comes out of the body as naturally as a flower embedded in ice comes out of the ice block when the water around it melts. The Will and Power holding the flower inside the ice block melts and becomes subtle; in a similar way, the atma is released from the body. Death is not painful. Especially not for a surrendered soul. Because Bhagavan makes it very simple. A natural letting go of the heavier body into the lighter atmic body. The first stage the atma progresses through is letting go of the physical body completely. This is why in the Sanatan Dharma, offering the body to fire is the final Yagna. The human body is composed of the five sacred elements of nature: Prithvi (Earth), Jal (Water), Agni (Fire), Vayu (Air), and Akasha (Ether). Cremation uses Agni as the ultimate divine purifier to instantly return these components back to the cosmos. Hence, the five elements are completely freed from holding that form and the atma also quickly moves forward from that attachment. It realizes that it had, has, and always will have a greater identity than the physical body. This is of great help to the atma itself to continue its journey towards Sri Hari’s lotus feet. And, it also awakens everyone else to the unpredictable and temporary nature of life here. Love everyone you meet with all your heart. Love your life, it is absolutely perfect the way God has given it to you. Just keep loving endlessly. There never is any time to waste.

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

The depart of a good person is truly so heart-wrenching and divine at the same time.
That bundle of love which came to this world only to care for others, the world feels the absence of them. It doesn’t matter if it has been a short time or a long time. Their presence in this world is not forgotten by Bhagavan. Everyone else, even the atma itself may forget that lifetime. But Bhagavan doesn’t forget. He always remembers. Every act of kindness. Every act of love. Every act of positivity and joy that one has spread in the world. Bhagavan remembers it all and keeps each memory in His heart. This is why every moment is important here and time so short. To move Bhagavan’s heart. To make Sri Hari your own. To make Him constantly remember your life here. How few days one has to accomplish so much. The opportunities are constantly given. Don’t forget to enjoy your time here. Life is a great joy. As two very dear atmas have moved entirely to the eternal realm, to Bhagavan’s sacred lotus feet. Madhavadas former swami on Sri Gayatri Jayanti, who was his own ishtadev. And Swamini Harisundari on Devi Dhumavati Jayanti, conquering the most difficult disease by keeping an open heart and surrendered mind. The sweet energy of love is amplified when good people spread their light to all. Don’t be afraid to shine the light within yourself. Open your heart. Let yourself feel the deep emotions you have. Gently work on the parts of your mind or life that scare you. And offer it all to God. Let Him pour His help on you. Don’t hold anything back. Don’t push things to a corner to look at later. Do it now. Work on your life now. Open yourself to Bhagavan’s great love now. Keep remembering Bhagavan all the time.

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

When a soul that has allowed itself to be polished so finely by the SatGuru leaves the body, Grace spreads around the world.
When a truly polished atma comes out of its mortal body to depart for Bhagavan’s lotus feet, it explodes His love everywhere. Like a huge divine shift in the energy of the world at the moment of its departure. Such an atma is surrounded with so much of the SatGuru’s love and mercy that it bestows the same blessing to all. It allows everyone to have a glimpse into the SatGuru’s eternal nature of love. The atma shows this secret to all for a split second. Because before leaving, such a bhakta wishes to reveal to all the greatest person, path, and destination that it has found. It wants all to turn to Him fully. Swamini Harisundari was such a beautiful person in this world. Her deep positivity and trust in her SatGuru. Battling with cancer and so many difficult moments, but just thinking of God and His abundant mercy. Her soul knew that her time in this world was very short. But she did everything and more to attain the ultimate aim of life, the lotus feet of Sri Hari. She spent her life serving and loving God in all she met. She wanted so much to stay to serve her SatGuru that God gave her 2 extra years to live, to fulfill that extraordinary desire of her atma. Today is also the day that we celebrate Devi Dhumavati Jayanti, when Divine Mother releases all from tremendous diseases, bringing them to Bhagavan. It is miraculous how the Divine takes care and how God’s plan unfolds. May all keep praying for her soul and for Madhavadas as they go to Bhagavan’s home. These two dearest souls truly made their place in my heart. Focus on God in everything you do, in every moment of your life. Sadgati Prapti Rastu, Om Shanti.

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

What the atma truly asks of the SatGuru, He always provides.
There is a reason why one’s life looks the way it does. There is a reason why specifics ups and downs manifest. There is a reason why one’s relationship with the SatGuru blossoms in a certain way. Because the atma has asked for all of it in that particular way. The SatGuru is the infinite treasure trove of divinity. But the atma is very specific. It asks for only that which will bring it closer to His lotus feet. In life and beyond this life, the atma seeks only to grow closer to Bhagavan Sri Hari. Don’t look at your life and complain, doubt, or suffer in any way. Your atma itself has asked for those circumstances to come so that it can become closer and closer to unconditional love. Learn to grow deeper into your heart and find that inner reason for why your life looks the way it does. When you allow yourself to see that everything is beautiful because it is an opportunity to grow closer to Bhagavan, then you will never be short of happiness or love. In fact, you won’t know how to express the endless happiness you feel inside. Joy will beam out from you like a little sun that everyone feels good to be around. Life is a precious opportunity to create joy and death is a beautifully happy adventure for the atma. Don’t create suffering. It is just the mind which creates suffering. Often people ask why God is found l through suffering. But the question itself is not correct. God is pure love, pure joy. You cannot find Him if you are suffering. Release yourself from unnecessary misery. There is no place for misery in this world. No matter what the circumstances, just determine to be happy. Don’t let your mind fool you into going in suffering. Your life is perfect. You just have to learn to see it that way.

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

Jai Gurudev with deep sadness I just heard the depart of Swamini Harisundari of portugal to the Lotus Feet of Sriman Narayana , such blessed soul who came and inspire all as an example in whatever she was suffering she never quit her Dharma as Swamini till the end may her inspiration become an example to all no matter how hard life it’s remember to focus on your goal always , Om shanti shanti shanti

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