Hari Om.A very good crowd tonight, lots of people, but sadly I'm giving you nothing.
Think about the devotion, the love, the pure, divine, supreme love that we can attain just by remembering the name of the Lord, by having that one thing in your mind: the name of the Lord; being totally attached to the Lord in every aspect of your life. And once you're attached to the Lord you experience supreme, divine love, extreme happiness, and states of supreme bliss. And that can only be attained by this yoga called bhakti yoga. This is bhakti yoga (Friday service). This is bhakti.
In the Narada Bhakti Sutra it is emphasised in 84 verses: surrender, give up. Only listen to, and say, the name of the Lord. Speak in the name of the Lord only. And whenever you join company it must be divine company. It says, 'Let your company be good company; those divine people that can inspire you. Walk in their fragrance, and let their fragrance linger around you for a long time'. Because once you join evil company you tend to have evil habits and become like the company you join.
Many sages have applauded the Narada Bhakti Sutra, and if you live by this book you'll experience a state of divine bliss. We are continuously doing things we shouldn't, and looking for things that will upset us. We go to the computer and look for the meaning of our names, then we live up to that meaning and we become more miserable. During this week I was called an idiot. At least there's one divine person here who can recognise an idiot. It should not worry you what your name means, but you will go and Google it and it says negative things, so you start living negatively. All names have two sides, like a coin: good and bad. If you're looking for the meaning of your name, you'll get caught in living by the meaning of your name. Names can change your frequency, your personality, but looking for the meaning is not important. What is important is the numerical value of your name. This is called numerology. Take that numerical value and do some numerology. Some of our yoga students are numerologists. Ask them.
So who is Narada Muni? The great storyteller who creates problems between all the devatas. He put the Narada Bhakti Sutra together, and even great sages have applauded it. Go and read it and see how beautifully its written. Try and cultivate divine love, a merger with Siva. Every thought, every breath, every nadi, every muscle in your body must vibrate in love. Then you're experiencing God. Don't just come to service on Fridays and think that's your quota for the week. Think of God all the time. All the scriptures tell us to surrender. We have to do that to attain oneness with God, to experience that divine union with God. When you pray you must always have that feeling of the cosmic nectar, soma, encapsulating your body, holding you together, coming from the pineal gland, the isha lingam, or third eye. Feel that cosmic nectar, then you will be having an experience with Shiva, and it's one of the most beautiful experiences to have. The Narada Bhakti Sutra says that after you've had that experience, you'll become like a dumb person who has just tasted sugar for the first time and can't describe it. In the same way, when you experience this union you won't be able to explain how it feels. That's the state you must aspire to attain. No other state.
Who are you? A single unit of pure consciousness. Nothing more than that. What you are in this body is nothing. We call that the soul. The soul is only one unit in our entire body. It is so small, it is unbelievable, yet without it this body cannot function. The soul cannot be tainted, wet, cut, destroyed or burnt. Who you think you are can be destroyed. That single unit of pure consciousness will always carry on in other bodies, other lives. Divine Love is the most important love. When you serve anybody you must serve them as though you're serving Him. When you're singing, you must sing to Him. When you're talking, you must be talking about Him. When you are listening, you must be hearing about Him.
Hari Om
