There are many seated here that have problems in life, especially in business. Lots of things don't work out in business. Just meditation on the Shri Chakra Maha Meru is enough for a turnaround in one hour. And one such person who is here, who we've tried it with is Dean Petzer. He'll tell you. He'll talk about something in the morning and he'll phone me or send me a message by three o'clock, "Thank you Guru, everything is good". And it's all to do with the Maha Meru.
The maha meru was kept by the brahmin class for themselves. They wanted to prosper. They didn't want to give the maha meru to ordinary people like us. My guru, in his wisdom, has discussed and trained us in the maha meru, and has told us the importance of the maha meru. My guru is the only one in the world who has a three ton maha meru sri chakra in his sri chakra temple. And he has prospered in every aspect of his spiritual life.
But what happens to us, especially we Hindus? We think the ashram is one of the stalls in the Gateway. That's what we think. We think an ashram is like Gateway. We can go from shop to shop until you get the best. You go to Edgars, Truworths, Identity, and everywhere else. And eventually you buy it from Price. That's what you happens on the spiritual journey. Eventually you get it from Price, and it won't last.
There are some devotees used to be here that were doing extremely well until they wanted to get better. You know Gayathri Mata always decides that half a loaf is better than no loaf, and She'll give you half a loaf. That means you can feed everybody, put some money in the bank and buy yourself a nice car. And they would stand at 3am in the morning, at other venues in queues waiting to see some impersonation. And he asks them to do something else. You know what happens? Like what happens when you buy from Price: the name tag is taken off. Price doesn't have a name tag on the clothes. They take it off. That's what happens. You're getting something without a name tag, and the name tag here is God.
So when you take this (meru) home, believe this, it will work for you if you're sincere and devoted. If you're not sincere you think, "I'll keep it in the prayer-room, Guru won't know". He knows. We keep forgetting that he's watching us. We forget God is watching us and we do the wrong thing, and we fall. That's when there's a spiritual attack - the beating God gives you for not following him totally.
Sometimes we make mistakes. Even mothers - they love their children. Some people say, "Why does God hurt us?" Why should your mother hurt you? Mothers love their children, but when the child is naughty, do you think the mother shows the same love? Yes, but in a different way, with one or two slaps. But it comes out with love because you're the mother. God does the same thing for us. When we're not listening, He gives us one or two slaps. And what's those slaps? What we lose in this material plane - and we think God's playing a game with us. He plays no games. He is direct, straight and to the point. You go this way, or you go that way. If you go this way, that is what will happen. If you go that way this is what will happen. And he gives it to you like that.
So every Friday, you will do this mantra - nine recitals only.
Om Nithya klinna thirupurusundarie vidmahee nithya mantraye dhimahee thanno nithya prachodayath yoni mudraya pranameth namaha.
You put the kungum on the coconut. The chakra must stay inside the kalsa pot with the water. Don't take it out for polishing. Use the same kungum over and over. The more you recite the mantras the more energetic and powerful they are.
It is a fact that I did not do any of the pooja that you have seen today. I will give you back the book and you'll find most of the mantras I recited were not in the book. Agasthiar was here. I had nothing to do with the prayer. I was only used to do the prayer. There's always some time in our lives that we find this new energy, this new force behind us, and we are always too blind to recognise that force or energy because we are so caught up in the material aspect and the reason we don't enjoy it is because we're too busy to recognise, or accept this energy.
Paramahansa Yogananda, a great saint of the west, said that the good Lord lives within and he said it like this: "In the deepest sense, in the innermost altar of your being lies Ishwara. And that Ishwara is no other than God himself. So you have all the possibilities to enjoy this God within you, every bit of possibility you have just to enjoy that God within you and yet, in this mundane daily routine, we do not understand and enjoy this God within us. God is the only factor that can give you peace. Nothing else. Not the money in your bank or that you earn daily, but God, ever so willing to take you by your hand and to lead you to that supreme bliss that is so very needed in this life, on this journey.
And we have failed in everything that we did. We have failed miserably in God. And it is for those very reasons that we have right now all these disasters and calamities. It is all due to your failure, to our failure, to failure to this Mother Earth and nature. We have failed, and there's the only chance, the chance to remember Him, to sing His name, to praise His name, to live His name. And once you can do that, people around you will definitely think you're insane. But you'll have that extra sense of peace, bliss and beatitude which they don't have.
In spirituality the ultimate goal is simplicity - and you'll be able to receive that which we call God, and you'll enjoy the energy of God. Many beings have encountered this oneness and uniqueness of God alone and they have written books making it easy for you to go through this journey. But you prefer to go through the material journey and enjoy this material pain, this material sorrow and this material gain. All this is no use to you, but God and God alone, can take you where you want to go - and just by saying His name. Think how simple it is that you can say his name: Krishna, Namashivaya, Vishnu, Ram - and you can say His name over and over and you will not get tired. Yet we prefer to do all those things that strain the physical body and eventually bring pain to it. Yet the name of God will never at any time bring to you any kind of pain. The name of God only brings you peace, harmony beatitude and love. And above all of this, this unique oneness and merger with that Supreme Light and Lord, God. It is for you. It is for you to experience this moment with the Lord, this time with the Lord. It is for you to experience this now where God is here, present, in front of you, right here now.
You need to enjoy that God. And once you enjoy that God nothing in this universe can bring you down, or bring pain upon you. You need to know this. You need to understand this. And once you understand and know this, you can live this. And once you live this, you will be the most blissful person on this whole earth. Think about it - how easy it is to be blissful, and how difficult it is to be painful, yet we will choose to be painful, we will choose sorrow. We will choose the temporary pleasure that eventually leads to pain and sorrow. We chose it, not God. We choose it in every act, in every moment, in every act of our daily living we choose the pain. Unknowingly, we think it is bringing to us pleasure. Every pain you have is from some kind of pleasure that you had. Remember that. You buy a new car - it's a pleasure. You drive it at high speed - it is a great pleasure. And then you bang that car into a wall - there's no more pleasure, its pain. You have all the jewels in your house - great pleasure. You talk about your jewels to everybody - great pleasure. Then somebody steals them from you - no more pleasure. These are temporary pleasures. But yet the name of the Lord is a permanent pleasure, a pleasure that is everlasting and eternal. The only pleasure that you will enjoy. So in God's name, I say to all of you: Namashivaya, Sri Krishna, Shri Ram Jay Ram. And may the universe listen to you. May the universe be be energised by you reciting these names. And once the universe is energised by you reciting these names, you'll find yourself dancing in the rain continuously. Every moment will be a rainy moment of joy, pleasure and of togetherness with God and I'm sure that every one of you here wants to experience that. I'm sure that you know how to experience that, and I'm very sure that you are afraid to let go of what you have now to experience that. To experience that means you should not have any accumulation around you, be it good, be it bad. you should have a total evenness of mind. You should be able to be mindless. You should be able to do things without being judgmental. You should be able to be with God, and God alone.
This is a unique time for you to experience this God. If you have not experienced the energy of God, or the feeling of God today, you'll never experience it again for you'll not be in a situation where you'll be informed that the presence of this energy is here. You might experience it but you might not know. If God knocks on your door, you would not know who He is, yet when you go to ashrams, when you go to temples, you have this feeling, this oneness, uniqueness, that something is different here. And what is different? The energy of God. This is in all temples, in all ashrams - the energy of God. So I ask you all to live in His name - only his name. There's no other name - call Him whatever you want to call Him. Even if you want to call him Gayathri, there's nothing wrong with that. Live in his name. Live in the Lord's name. Live in God's name and see how wonderful your life can be. Hari Om. Jai Krishna.
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