Speeches of HH Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji – November 18, 2014 – Penal, Trinidad
Speech in the morning
Jaya Guru Datta
Gyan, there are 6-7 members in their group. (Equador group performed during puja.)Your responsibility to arrange for their program in Nada Mantapa. You also join them for a program consisting of their music and our music. Collect the travel charges and plan the trip. Appaji’s Birthday, Datta Jayanti, or Siva Ratri are the three best occasions for their program, in that order. Very soothing music. Sleepy.
75th Birthday will have a huge gathering. They will be very happy. 365 days of celebration during that year. The musicians are wanting to come and perform daily. You can plan as per your convenience and availability.
Music is our breath. Listen during daytime and night time. Human breath is Mother Goddess – Shruthi. People’s shruthi is different and varies from person to person. Those who do full breath will have a long life and good health. First lesson in Datta Kriya Yoga we give is on breathing.
Short breath is short life and health problems. Full breath/deep breathing means no heart, kidney, lungs or back problems. At sunrise time you can practice full breath. Blood circulation also becomes pure. Very important to practice good breathing. Go to some open place, some garden. All the time sitting in kitchen and small hall is not good. You suffer with so many problems. Taking so many medicines is not good. Nature itself cures.
So many people are working, working. working. It is not good. Take a small holiday. Not eating, drinking picnic kind of holiday. Eat less, keep a fresh open mind. Fresh air. Only 2-3 days with family and friends. Longer time will also lead to diseases. Limitation. All the time eating spices is not good.
In Trinidad you get good fruits. Daily eat one or two fruits. It is very good. Good fresh water is good. Good green vegetables are good. Avoid too much roti. Take only a little bit. In Trinidad such a big roti they make. In Carapichaima a very nice man who makes rotis, so many of them like a machine, in one hour. Rotis are my good friends. I am not against rotis. But too much is not good.
Before going to bed, don’t see horror movies. Some people like to see horror movies at night. They get bad dreams. Not full sleep. Only half sleep, disturbed sleep. Don’t drink too much water before going to bed. After 3 PM only a little water with food. If you drink after 3 PM, tea, coffee, or cola, you do not get good sleep. In the morning drink 2 litres of water. It cleans the kidneys. After 3 PM don’t drink tea or coffee also. This is Ayurveda and Kriya Yoga teaching. Then you pray, do puja, read Bhagavad Gita, to keep a fresh mind.
Too much sleep, too much drink, too much food, are not good. Early morning a little bit only of coconut water is good. Too much will cause a sugar complaint. Trinidad coconut water is very good. Only tender coconut water is good. All this you practice and listen to good, soothing music. Hard music only occasionally you may listen. I am speaking only of Mother Goddess music.
Heart beat lub dub is Father. So many people increase heart beats with horror movies, fighting, thrilling scenes, gun shots, it is not good. Occasionally like a taste it is okay. Not all the time. Don’t choose harsh, horror movies. Heart is very soft, like Father. Breath is Mother. Shruthi Mata. Laya Pita. Keep them very nice and very soft. Then our body is good and healthy. When the body is spoiled, mind spoils. Then you die.
First clear, clean the heart with good breath. Keep the heart beat and breath in good maintenance. Some people are always after money. You get sick. In limit and control, for mind, and heart to remain healthy. Then the nervous system is also good.
Observe musicians. Blowing musicians, like flute, when they are practicing you observe. Also percussion musicians. Compare their health. Then you will understand. Swamiji has done research on both. The health condition is different. Blowing instruments musicians have very rare heart problems. Percussion musicians do not pay attention to breathing. They must practice breath control also. The blowing musicians have very good strong breath. Other 50% is not good. Percussion musicians also have good health but not always. With Pranayama if they practice percussion, it is good for health.
Sit and listen to music, not lying down. After getting tired you may lie down and sleep. Not harsh music while sleeping. Only soothing music kept at a very soft volume. Saitan music gives you no sleep. Bad dreams. Soothing music gives massage in your body. Swamiji says healing music should be played at very low volume. That soft music will travel near your body and to other bodies. It gives massage. We did research on which part is damaged, and which CD is beneficial for it. This is not business. It is helping people. CD gives instructions. Same CD you can purchase and listen and feel the effect of Swamiji’s music.
That is why I tell my children, please practice bhajans. They have not only adhyatmic/spiritual lessons, also seed letters, lessons, and questions and answers. Ramam ramam, Isha pateesha, Amba Bhavani, each one likes a different bhajan. This is my bhajan. 24 hours lifelong one bhajan is enough. Krishnam vishnum or Amba Bhavani.
They experience. With Bhajans they come to Swamiji with attraction due to bhajans. No words to tell why they are making friendship with Swamiji. What is the experience? You cannot explain. I love Swamiji. My heart loves Swamiji. We don’t want secretaries. Only direct connection with Swamiji. I sing those bhajans. Seed letters Swamiji has given. They don’t know. Some people say we don’t know and we do not want to know. I like that bhajan. That is my mantra. I practice.
West Indies bhajan, Trinidad bhajan, Indian people are always asking. First I did not understand. Om aim hreem shreem Siva Rama anagha dattaya namaha is called West Indies bhajan. I don’t know why that name was given. They are always singing this. How beautiful. Very powerful mantra. So many seed letters. All deities are remembered in one breath. All deities are in one mantras. That breath is Anagha Mata. If you break the breath after Anagha, there is no fault. Or Dattaya namaha. That breath is like a beejakshara/seed letter. Unknowingly you can chant this mantra, while eating, sitting, cooking, walking, bicycling, working. Automatically it comes even if you say I don’t want this bhajan. But still this comes, the rhythm automatically comes. Even if you sing a thousand other bhajans, this one will come to your mind. The sound, the simple tune, is so beautiful. I have explained the seed letters of Mother Goddess, Om is for Ganapathi, Saraswati/aim, Durga/hreem, Lakshmi/shreem, Siva, Rama, and Anagha to destroy our sins, then Datta, and Namaha means Hanumanta. All the names are included in this. Even the priest can chant this for all the deities. It gives energy to our breath, our heart, and our entire body.
I am very happy with Equador group for performing along with Om aim hreem shreem mantra. Have you seen India?
Today is the last day. What to do?
Bala Swamiji today celebrated the Silver Jubilee at Rishikesh Ashrama. Close to Ganga. How many people have visited the Rishikesh ashrama? Ganga Mother is flowing nearby, and Bhadra Kali Mother is sitting there in Haridwar ashrama. It also is very beautiful. At Rishikesh we give annadana to Sadhus. Every month on Hasta star of Swamiji free food is given to Sadhus. My health is very good, that is why.
Bala Swamiji is watching the live program from West Indies. Hello Bala Swamiji. Nice. I am very happy. Come again to West Indies.
Bala Swamiji, my child is also very good. He is going round and round. He is learning from his Guru. My child also is going round and round. Please control.
Go to Delhi ashrama, Swarup Nagar and Dwarka. Both are beautiful ashramas. There are 77 ashramas in India. A big ashrama is in Dallas in America.
Last program today. Tomorrow I go to visit Princes Town and then to Carapichaima.
Don’t miss yogasangeeta.com shown by my children. If you have any time, observe the live programs. Thousands of people are witnessing this. I am very happy. Are you repeating the videos? Good. More people are watching the recorded videos on yogasangeeta.com
Sri Guru Datta
Speech in the evening
Jaya Guru Datta
So many people may be thinking why so many stories about some ordinary bird. After all one bird. After all one chicken. So many thousands of birds are there.
In Shuka Vana there is Kali, a talking bird, speaking 40-50 words. Amazon birds also are talking. In the beginning I did not want these talking birds, birds for fashion. I only wanted to protect injured birds. I separated some birds. This Kali is now a hero in Shuka Vana. It is an African Grey. It has become famous.
One devotee had a dream. A twenty day old baby bird he brought. There are many boys in the ashrama to take care of birds. It would not go to anyone else. It stayed with me. What is this big family for me now, I thought. After a month it came near my ear and said Datta. Then I was thinking what is this miracle? Then I knew who it was. It is a secret. I cannot tell you. Then I said Thank you. You stay with Swamiji. There were no cages at that time. People were afraid. What if something happens to it? What can I do? It is their own karma if some eagles attack it. Ordinary windows we have.
In a low voice the birds started saying Datta, Rama, Swamiji. They eat along with Swamiji. I didn’t want all this. They began surrounding Swamiji. So many birds came. Some were kept in the hospital. But this one stayed with Swamiji, the one bird I named Flight. I am always going on a flight. So he also flies. In the aircrafts there is no permission to take birds. But on a private aircraft he came with me hiding behind my beard. They did not find it. No checking.
Flight was always sleeping here behind Swamiji’s beard. When Swamiji was singing bhajans, it would rest its head on his vocal chords and when he reached high notes, it would lift its head to show appreciation and allow Swamiji to sing freely removing the weight of its head from Swamiji’s neck region. If other musicians went off key in their singing, it would become restless and would want to leave the hall.
One more miracle. Flight was not eating. Because if it eats, it would have to eliminate and it did not wish to soil Swamiji’s clothes. Only when Swamiji went on tours it would eat. If someone comes, it would kiss Swamiji’s ear and give their name softly. If some wrong person came, it would poke Swamiji with its beak and bite. So many indications were there that a great soul took a bird’s shape to come to Swamiji. It was a very small bird, like a humming bird.
Anyway, it was a good bird, a very small parrot. In the bhajans and in the concerts I miss Flight. These people are very lucky people, they used to see Flight every day. Without Flight now, Swamiji is not singing. My beard used to be this long. After Flight left, I have cut my beard so that no other bird can sit here again. I remember Flight always.
So, it is not ‘after all it is a bird.’ He was Suka Brahma, Sage Suka. He lost his leg. But for that, I was not going to build such a big aviary facility, with a big hospital, 3 doctors, and 25 volunteers. There was never a big plan like that. It is when Flight lost its leg that I thought birds need protection.
Also I had not put any medicine for Flight’s injury (one night a civet cat bit off one of its feet). I only put the turmeric powder from Sri Chakra Puja. That is all. It healed in just one week. Flight was flying throughout the ashrama. 4-5 times it flew away and then returned. No cage for Flight. The entire ashrama was its cage.
What is the ending moral? What is the purpose of telling the devotees so much about Flight, giving so many details? They need to have that type of devotion and dedication towards Swamiji. I need people to learn this moral. Otherwise there is no need for this story.
Same day, same time, three years ago, another bird took birth which is just like Flight. It was brought to Guru Nilayam recently from Shuka Vana for Swamiji to see. When Swamiji came there, believe it or not, this bird stood on just one foot as if to say, I am here on behalf of Flight. Don’t worry.
Sri Guru Datta