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Part 1: The Harmonizing Wisdom of Gaṇeśa To harmonize not only our mother earth and its creatures, but all the planets in the universe and settle all negative energies, the peace dialogue always begins with Śrī Gaṇeśajī. Gaṇeśa is the remover of conflict—conflict between two, which creates duality and fighting. Conflict arises from ignorance. Ignorance is the opposite of the Buddha, the intellect, vivekā, or knowledge. Therefore, Gaṇeśjī is also known as the God of wisdom, knowledge, or buddhi—brilliant knowledge. Where the light is, ignorance disappears. Where the light of wisdom or knowledge is, the darkness of ignorance vanishes. When ignorance disappears, there is no more jealousy, no more ego, no more conflict, no more dualities, no more fighting. There is contentment, oneness, understanding, and peace. We are all searching for that kind of knowledge, that kind of buddhi. "O God, give good intellect to my children, good knowledge. May their buddhi, their knowledge, be positive and lead to good decisions. Lord, God, please give sad-buddhi." Sad means like satsaṅg—truthful, better, good. Buddhi is intellect, and that intellect means communication. So, "God, please give sad-buddhi to my neighbors." In Āyurveda, it is said, "The first happiness is good health." Health is not everything, but everything is nothing without health. Yet that health can do nothing if there is no body. Though the body is mortal, we still cannot just throw it somewhere. If you injure your finger and it bleeds, you immediately go to the first aid box, take a bandage, and put it on the finger. We take care of our body. So, pehlā śukha nirogī kāyā—the first happiness, first pleasantness, first joy, first good thing is a healthy life. This also means healthy nature, healthy water. We spoke about the lake. I spoke, I think it was in Edinburgh, in my lecture, and you have probably heard that in the webcast. Just two decades ago, or maybe one decade before, we could drink water from every lake and river. But now it is so polluted that every one of us, wherever we go, the first thing we take is the water bottle, the mineral water bottle. It is unbelievable how expensive the water is. In some places, water is more expensive than milk. "Then, let’s drink only milk. We wash ourselves with the milk." Anyhow, there is a therapy in Āyurveda, bathing with milk. Be the milk. It is very ancient: pañcāmṛta, the five nectars. First we wash the God’s statue or master’s feet, or anyone, a living statue. First we wash with yogurt, then we wash with honey, then we wash with milk, then we wash with ghee, and then we wash with the holy water, Gaṅgā. And then we wash with some kind of rose water. So: yogurt, honey, butter or ghee, milk, and Gaṅgā water. These are pañca amṛt. They are the five nectars. There are many different kinds of nectar: pañca amṛt, jñāna amṛt. Wisdom is called nectar; immortality we achieve through wisdom. Vachanamrit, the words of the saints or the wise persons. Each word is like a drop of nectar. Oh, beautiful drops of the nectar. That is what we have in our yoga book called Hidden Powers in Humans. This is our chakra and kuṇḍalinī book. There is about Bindu Chakra written, and the nice drop of the nectar is coming. Similarly, the words. So do not think that you will find somewhere some kind of nectar, dig it out from the earth, drink it, and now you are immortal. Not like that. Vācana Amṛta Guru Vākya. That Vākya is called Vācana Amṛta. So kṛpā, the mercy, the kindness, that is also nectar. Yāna Amṛta, Vācana Amṛta, Caraṇa Amṛta, Pūjā Amṛta, and so on—many different kinds of nectar. That makes you healthy. So once a week, if not every day—because if you do it every day, five liters you go to wash, and five liters milk, and two, three kilos honey, and this in your wash, wash bathtub or washroom, it will stick to everything. Every year you have to call the plumber, and there is so much Gaṅgā water. But all clean water we can imagine is Gaṅgā water. But at least you can do every week: take a little yogurt, do not take many kilos, and then rub it on your body nicely. This yogurt will purify all this, called āmas, from the body. There are a lot of therapies, āmās, āmās, but that is not a real therapy. I just looked at one book. It is called Amma’s Therapy. But I said, "Oh, the blind lead the blind." The blind lead the blind. So when a blind one tells you, "This is the way we go," you cannot say, "No, no, that’s not correct. We should go like that," because you are also blind. True? And Amma’s therapy is through prānāyāms. Run, work hard, sweating and sweating, and then wash yourself nicely with neem soap or neem powder. That is the perfect Ammā’s therapy. Mr. Muktanand Yohannes, okay? So hard working, sweating, like coming out of the sauna. Sauna is a good Ammā therapy. That I can agree. Other is, what is this? Like this, Āyurvedic massage they are doing because whole day they have to do. They are, anyhow, also living beings. They are not a machine, so their muscles also get tired. So, when you tell the Āyurveda massage, "Please, a little more power," no, no... Yogurt, then with the water, then with the honey, and then water, and then milk, and then water, and then a little butter on it, and then massage on the ghee nicely, and then with nice warm water with neem soap, once every week. Take forty-five minutes for this ceremony, a ceremony to yourself. May mera nija aapahoon, Mahāprabhujī said. May mera nija āpahūṁ tattva-masi nirmoye. "I am Myself, that Ātmā, tattvamasi, knower of all the tattvas, tattvamasi nirmoye. I have no attachment, no ignorance, nirmohī. Kartā hume vandanā merī, mujh ko hoī. And I greet, and my greeting, this goes to myself." I am that one, so body feeling is also something. Do not neglect it. So when you do this pañcāmṛta, that nectar, the five nectars go to your body, then all āmās, they get alive again. When they are dead in the body, then is the, what you call, it happens something like cancer or some disease. But when you give to make a life, a dead one to awake, that is something. But we must have first the power, like Devapurījī, who could give life to a dead person. For us, it is still believable because we know three people who live still, and we know that Devpurījī gave them life again after several hours of death. And they are healthy. Medicine says after one minute to date, then the brain is changing, or a person can be, may become in a life, but not healthy, lose the memory. They have many things. But Karta, the creator who has created, has all in his hands. He can do. We can damage. What can we do? Damage. Therefore, we should not do what they did, but we should do what they taught us to do. Always, Gurudev said, "Gurujī, do not do what Gurujī does. Do what Gurujī tells you to do." But as soon as Gurujī goes away, you jump on his holy seat and sit there. Then you play the Guru. Then you will be in trouble. Because still you do not know. You know, position is like a very poisoned cobra. First comes ego. Cobra comes up, then you are sitting. And it will bite you. Or Mahāprabhujī, who gave mokṣa to one cobra, who gave life to the farmer’s child. They brought the morning diet and brought the afternoon five o’clock. And a goat, and so on. They had this because they are kartā. They are the creator, so the creator can liberate us. So the creator is also the liberator. But who is created, who has been created, cannot be a liberator, but can be a destructor. Therefore, that which the creator has created, that created one should follow the rules of the creator. That is very important, so that when they say this is a pañcāmṛta, and that will again give life to our body, we shall try. So, one big bowl or a cup of honey, milk, yogurt, warm ghee, not cold butter. Well, when you put the butter on the body, it will melt anyhow. But better to have the ghee, and it is beautiful feelings. But one thing I must tell you, that you must not forget. Keep your bathroom warm. Otherwise, you will catch a cold. And when you catch a cold and you are ill in bed, then all the marmas will die more and more, creating more problems. So that was for temperature, when the temperature is 30 degrees, 40 degrees. So you have to maintain the warmth, and your body will be healthy. So Vajña Amṛta. So the words, the wisdom, and that wisdom, that knowledge is Gaṇeśa. So Gaṇeśa means Buddhisālī. Buddhisali means one who has wisdom, whom we call wise. So he does not have that, but he is that. Different, no? We say he has this buddhi, that we have that buddhi, but he is the buddhi. That is the difference between that divine energy and us. So that cosmic energy collects, it may become concentrated and harmonize the universe. And we, also human beings, are not separate from this entire universe. We are also a tiny part of that, but it does not matter how tiny. Compared with the big, big, endless universe, we are beings that are not even visible. Not visible. After how many kilometers are you no longer visible? Maybe somebody knows this. When you have good eyesight, very, very good eyesight, how far can you see the person still in the desert? Three kilometers. Five kilometers. Very, very clear weather, then ten kilometers. But after ten kilometers, you do not see. When you use it, then you will see for a while, and then it disappears. And still, if it does not disappear, you go down because the globe is round. So after every kilometer or 500 meters, you can see the globe is changing. So we are not that one. What do you think, oh human? You think that you are the lord of the universe? No, no, we are not. But they are. They are the divine who, one with the divine, are still unconscious. So Śrī Gaṇeśa is a god, or energy, or wisdom, or immortality, or love, whatever you call it, is existing, living in everyone and everywhere. If we realize this, immediately calmness appears in our thoughts. But those who have a lot of sins and feel guilty cannot think of God or Gaṇeśjī or Gurudev. They are allergic. They say, "Oh God, oh my goodness, these people again, terrible." So the guilty one always tries to run away. You know, sometimes they are writing on the border of the immigrations there in countries, "Most Wanted One." Okay? And most wanted ones, they hide themselves. They cannot come near. And similarly, the sinners cannot come to the light, near to the spirituality and to God. And therefore, we also should not play only. We should know that we have only a limited energy and stay within your limitations. Meanwhile, I discovered that in the whole world, people used to say—we have in India one poem—but I find out that in the whole world, people say this: "Stretch your legs as long as your blanket is." Yes? Mānasakti, okay? When I came first time to Europe, and also when I went to Switzerland and Germany and so on, people asked me, interviewed me, "What do you like here and what don’t you like here in Europe?" Excuse me, everybody, but I do not understand why. I said one thing I do not like, that they have the sleeping blanket very short. When I put under my foot, there is a blanket in my navel only. So either I have to turn completely like this to cover this side, and that side, and this side. And if it is, the room is really very warm, then it is okay, then we do not need a blanket. The room is not warm, so I had to ask for one more blanket, so half on my leg side and half on my upper part. But you know, nobody sleeps peacefully in the night. Sometimes you have to turn, and then again in between days, empty. So that interview came sometimes. So now, slowly, slowly, you see, at least the hotels now, they have bigger blankets. Thank you. Now I get all people, like my bhaktas, you provide me a... The blanket, which is really long, about two and more than two meters long, otherwise it is one meter and one and a half meters long, only a blanket in Switzerland. I was so freezing, and I complained, and I told them. And when I came next time again in Zurich to the hotel, at the reception she said, "Why did you come? Again, in this hotel last time we were complaining, we did not like it." I said, "I am sure it mistakenly I came to this hotel. I will not come again." So it means, know your capacity, know your limitation. So we should not go beyond the limitation, and... And we shall trust and believe that God will give us what we need. It is in our destiny. Who are we to give someone? Who are we to judge someone? We can judge only ourselves, and even we are not capable of judging ourselves. So, there is external, a divine, not external, the divine energy, divine consciousness which is supplying for all creatures. Kīlī ko kar, hatī ko mana. For an ant, a small grain of sugar or rice is small. Because the ant does not have such a big stomach. How much does he need? Hathiko man and nearly 50 kilos, or 100 kilos for elephant. Who gives? God gives. God does not let anyone go hungry or sleeping. Everyone finds something to eat. God is a giver; he is a provider. If a human thinks that we are doing, then our ignorance... we cannot... our limitation we should know. Our knowledge, our science, our instruments, everything is limited. And if the other energy comes, he can destroy everything within no time, research centers and everything. A little earthquake comes and everything, Hari Om Tat Sat, destroyed. That is a mighty energy. So there is someone who is looking, and everyone is giving to him, and he is giving to everyone. Our duty is only one thing: we shall try our best to do good things. That is all. If you do like this, then why do you worry about that? Therefore, Gurujī said, today is Gurujī’s birthday also. Our holy Gurujī, Swāmī Madhavānandjī, 11th of September, 1923, Indian time, 8 o’clock morning, good constellation. After eight days of Krishna’s birthday, Guruji said, "Tere Satguru Rākhe Lāj, Cintā Mat Karnā, Nirbhaira O Niśaṅk, Kabhī Mat Ḍarnā Tum, Nirbhaira O Niśaṅk, Kabhī Mat Ḍarnā." Therefore, Satguru Dev will protect us. Do not worry. Do not worry. Nirbhay. Leave without fear. Never be scared about anything. And after all this, one day someone said to Gurujī, "What do you need, Gurujī? What can I give you?" and this and that. So Gurujī said, "Thank you. If I need something, I will tell you." That person was gone because that person came with some kind of arrogance. "Can I give you something? Can I help you with something?" And like this, so Gurujī said, "No, I have everything. When I need, I will ask you." But he said, "But I can give you this money or this." Gurujī said, "Where will I put all this? Then I have to meditate. But when I have to be on my money, if someone will not take it away or something is spoiling." So Gurujī wrote a beautiful bhajan, and he said in the satsaṅg, in the last Guru Pūrṇimā satsaṅg before Gurujī went to Brahmaloka, the whole world is suffering, is starving from hunger, and especially the human. Which kind of hunger? Longing for money, longing for position, longing for beauty, longing for partners, longing for becoming famous, longing, longing... longing. This jīvā is hanging in this longing and will die. This is a hunger. That is what we call a burning desire. And burning desire means you cannot quench your thirst. Only jñāna amṛta. That can, and if you ask someone, do not ask. Guruji told me when I took, he gave me sannyāsa, and I wanted to become a sannyāsī, and Guruji said no. So, there were many requests, and finally then Gurujī said to me, "If you live as a sanyāsī, then live like a lion in the forest or a tiger in the forest." Do not wander here and there like a hungry creature. In India, we say, "Like a hungry dog." So many things Gurujī used to say and teach, many, many things. Guruji said once, I told, I asked that person, but he said, "Not now, next time perhaps." Guruji told me, indirectly he pointed towards me. He said, "A beggar begging from the beggar." Do you know what, how much buddhi he has? I said, "Yes, I know." It means Gurujī tells me, "Why are you a beggar? And who cannot give is also a beggar." So do not beg from the beggar. Dene wala dusra hai, whatever is giving is someone other, who is giving us. Who are we to give? Nothing, nothing. And if we have something to give, it is that which he gave us; we can give further. That is all. Sab kusā deveṭ dātā, dīpa dayā, sab kusā deveṭ dātā, janam janam kā dhārī dharmī, jhanam jhanam karidhara mahā deta visāl, mahā deta visāl. Sab kus devedātā deepadāyā, sab kus Devadatta Deepadāyā de Gati Gyānatam Gyān Ujiyā. Devadatta Gyān Ujīyā Sabhā Kush Devadatta Dī Sabhā Kush God bless you. Deva means giving. Sab means all. Kush means everything. Sab Kush Deve. Data means the giver. Deep Mahāprabhujī. Dayāl, merciful one. Who has this confession? So he is the giver who can give us. So God is the giver. We are only beggars, but we should be worthy beggars. We should feel ourselves as worthy of God’s mercy, God’s love, God’s kṛpā. And that it is there, it is with us. So these are the experiences of those holy saints who receive constantly from this universe the light, the wisdom of those great. And that is why today we have Śrī Gaṇeśa Jī, Caturdarśya. Ganesh Chauth, it is Chatur Darsya, the fourth day after the Amavasya, so the fourth moonlight, moon day. This is also the day of Mahāprabhujī, because Mahāprabhujī also went to Brahmaloka in Mahāsamādhi, Brahmalīna. When the holy saint passes away, we do not say he died, and we do not say the holy saint went to heaven, because heaven is a limited prison. That kind of prison which has all kinds of best treatment, beauty, everything, but like from one pot, water is dripping, one by one, drops. So, sooner or later, that pot will be empty. So similarly, our life, good karma, which brings us to that heaven, one day is finished. In some yugas, it will be finished. Then again, you have to come to Chaurāsī. Therefore, you can say swarga and naraka, heaven and hell, are two prisons. So one prison has good treatment, and the other has a little bit unpleasant treatment. But everlasting happiness and freedom is called brahma-loka, to become one with Brahman. And therefore, when a holy saint passes away, we say mahā-samādhi or brahma-līna ho gaye. Brahmaleen. Leen means united, melted, became one in the Brahman. And so every sense and aim of every yogī is to come to Brahman, not heaven. And therefore, slowly, dheere dheere. Dhar ke vera, dhar ke vera, ganbe sa, sa yantar yami me cha, sa kisham janma namakar kala. Sam janam kar parapataham ko jīvan. Mukti parapataham sa Śrīyantar jami mecha Upayati pause rang kanare, nai pause rang dhar ke, viragan besh dhar ke. Viragan besh chalu sa yantar jami me ca kundesho me. Shantabhira bhagavira kundesho me ajarat. Kundeśo me ajarāt guru indra sore indra sore And so, our aim is to come to there. And so, Śrī Gaṇeśajī will remove all the obstacles. So keep Gaṇeśa on your typing, working, or office table, you know. And when you have to negotiate with someone and there are difficulties, then you telephone and look to Gaṇeśa. And when you do not know the answer, then give the telephone to Gaṇeśa. Yes, he will answer. And that person will say, "Okay, then everything is clear." So, sab vighna dur karne vāle, all kleśas, all disturbances, Śrī Gaṇeś jī can remove. So today is Gaṇeśa jī’s day of incarnation, or his appearance, birthday, and also the birthday of our beloved Satguru Dev, Swami Madhavānanda jī. So we pray for harmony, peace, and blessings for the whole world. And also, today is a Remembrance Day for the 9/11 accident in New York, which happened about 10 years ago. So we pray to God for peace in the whole world. Well, now your breakfast is digested, and we have some exercises for 10-15 minutes. So, stand up. Right then, exercise with mercy or without mercy? With mercy. Okay. So stretch your hands up and interlock the fingers and stretch 21 times. Tāḍāsana up and hand down on the head. One, two, stretch, three, four, eight and a half meters long, intense time. You have to stretch up. It all goes down again. So you can have a very good lunch appetite. Go ahead. Very good. Go ahead. Now remain with hands stretched up, palms facing upward towards the ceiling, and both legs, feet on the ground, heels on the ground. And now, one leg straight in the front. This is a new exercise again. Yes, that is it. Yes, that is a, how to call it, upgrading, upgrading yoga and life. Now, only with one leg, stretch up. On the toes, yes, and down. Interlock the fingers. Up and down. Oh, very good. Yes. Like when someone has a problem with one leg, you jump with one. So, but on the toes. Very good. Hands on the head and change the leg. Other leg up, and stretch the front. Yes. Balance and stretch your body up. One foot Tāḍāsana. Ekpad Tadasana. Its name is called Ekpad Tadasana. Yes, very good. Okay. Good. Hands up still. Put your foot down. Now, two-foot Tāḍāsana. Yes. It means again with both legs up and down. They are two feet. Yes. Very good. Very good. Perfect. Good. Legs apart. Legs apart. When you bend your elbows, come up with the touch of the tip of your middle fingers near the chest. Now look at the distance of your elbows. That far should be your legs. Very good. Interlock the fingers. Hands up, and while exhaling, bend to the left side. Inhale and come to the middle. Exhale, right side. Inhale, in the middle. Exhale, left side. Inhale, in the middle. Exhale, left side. Inhale, in the middle. Very good. Hands down, legs together, and Hastapādāsana. Inhale, hands up, palms facing forward, and slowly exhale, bend down, forward. Touch your toes on the floor without bending the knees, as far as you can, and fold your hands down. Perfect. You are very good. Legs about 40 centimeters apart. And interlock the arms and sit on a comfortable chair. Yes. You are sitting at the dining table. Okay? Eastish, you know. That is why you are leaning a little bit so. But not so much leaning. Try to wait till the waiter comes, like this. That is not, still not so hard. I was talking about mercy. Not a chocolate, but a different mercy. Do not look to others; remain there. Do not look to others, do not think of others, think of yourself, how you are. That is it, in which condition you are. Endure, endure the situation. Endure. What can happen? Thigh muscles will burn. It is a burning, of course. You go more down. It is burning. That is called fat burning. Come up. Perfect. You are very good. Now I will count the seconds, okay? So again, interlock the fingers, because I will have to count exactly. Do not blame me. Blame the clock that it goes too slow or too quick. I am waiting until it becomes one minute. Yes. Go down. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 30, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 41, 42, 3, 4. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Remain straight. Yeah, no, do not come up. I mean, sit comfortably. I have to count. 41, 42, 43. One minute. Very good. Oh, not still. Okay. Thank you. That is all. So this Nāgā incarnated or appeared in the temple. He came to the temple, he lived in the temple in South India, and so it was a big surprise for everyone. So someone sent me this because it was in Indian news and television, and it was some picture of Śeṣa Nāgā. So you can give judgment if it is correct or not. So the idea of two or three pictures, and that is why we put them here, and my Turyānand can show us the pictures before I begin. Of course, you can put it in your webcast also. So this was a, so it was, it was like that. And so when we see Gaṇeśa’s forehead, or Viṣṇu had a forehead, Brahmā had a forehead, Brahmā had, now this, so this was not a, this is not what you call the photo studio, but act. Act. This is the real. Yes. For the fifth, the second. From the clothes, you see his eyes, and in the video, movements and everything. And third photo, we are three. You think I am the father, according to this door, and he is a young baby. So, come to the first picture. Today, on Ganesha Gurujī’s birthday, you must all greet him. It is greetable, you know. Do not think that it is nothing. Sheshnake darśan, you are today the most luckiest one, at least in the photo, you have darśan of Śeṣanāga. So this we will put on our website, and you can see it and look at it. Thank you, Chidānand Chitrapūt, thank you. So, whoever wants it on the Kena website, we will put it on our website, and you can download it in your own way. So, Deepan Bhagwān kī Jai Śeṣanāgjī Bharadvākī, this is Gaṇeś jī. So now, what? When we see that Kṛṣṇa was incarnated and brought from Mathurā to Gokul by his father in a basket, suddenly came this five-headed Pañca Parameśvara Nāga, Śeṣa Nāga, from the Yamunā River, and put his head to protect from the rain. We think, "Well, it is very nicely done, plastic and so on," but it did not come out well. So when we see such things, this is what it was. And it is, he is now the incarnation of the Śeṣa. So this is a sign that the Kali Avatāra is on the way. What? The Kali incarnation, the Kali Yuga incarnation, is on the way. Very sure. Time is coming, and therefore we should all live in harmony and oneness, without jealousy, without conflict. Open your heart, and you are the lucky one. So, that also you see, in Satyuga time, they had a big snake, and they put the snake around the rock and churned the ocean. Do not think it is a joke. It was not a joke. It is not a fairy tale in that way, but reality. But we cannot accept the reality because we do not know. So, Mahāprabhujī said that if you do not know and you do not believe in the Guru-vākyā, what should God do with you? That is it. And therefore, the mystery in this universe and the mystery on this planet is something indescribable. Part 2: A Blessed Day and the Wisdom of Acceptance We are on the safe side to say yes. But when we saw this, it is not that he has only one head, that he is smaller, and this other one is like this, or that some have one extra finger. It was exactly complete. He had the strength of expanding his head and again going down. Five—he has five mouths, five tongues, ten eyes. And so when Viṣṇu is residing in the ocean, it is like that. We saw only a picture, but they saw in reality on television that he is moving, coming, sitting, and he is not aggressive. He is beautiful and friendly, in South India, in the temple. No, no, somewhere else, a Shiva temple. So he came to Shiva. So we can have exact... Now he is under very high security. That’s it. Sabdīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī. To everyone, today was a very blessed day, and this one was a very big, big, big surprise. ‘Surprise’ is too little, but to see these things, that we came through yugas and yugas in the past with our own eyes. Who knows that our self, this Jīvātmā, was that time and again awoke in us this memory, this vision, or the luck in this way. So it is said: don’t expect, just wait. It comes, and it will come. You remember, I think nearly 10 years ago, on this day Gaṇeśjī drank milk. Who knows? Hand up. Okay. So there was a Gaṇeśa statue, and on this day, Gaṇeśa drank—not in liters, but tons or thousands of liters—of milk. He drank with one small statue. In many, many countries it happened: in England, in America, in India, in many temples. They gave the milk, and just the milk was brought near and was sucked. Many scientists came; they thought it is a stone which is sucking. But the stone is small, the stone was. And they tested; the stone was not getting softer or something like this. So in Jādnā Āśram, our Premānājī asked, "Holy Gurujī, should we also give the milk to our Gaṇeśjī?" So Holy Gurujī says, "Our Gaṇeśjī is already satisfied, he has no more hunger." So that was something unbelievable. Many people saw, maybe there is some pump inside; Indians put it in and are sucking, and it is going somewhere else. So they saw, even this lifted statue, there was nothing down. So, there is what is not possible; Gurudev can make it possible. What will happen? He can remove it because Gurudev is that Parabrahma. He is the Gurudev. He can create; He can make everything. What should we do? We shall accept. We should become humble devotees of that Supreme. Humble devotees of Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī, Alagpurījī, Gurujī. We are students now, and we try our best, we try. There are many people who got training, were with me for many years, practicing yoga, and then lived life. Now they begin, when they don’t come to me, they become themselves like a guru, sitting here in Europe and teaching the same thing. But I said, okay, it is your choice, but be careful, because you are not that as you think you are. That is the main thing. So Gurujī always told that we are servants. Gurujī said, "I am only the servant of Mahāprabhujī, nothing else." And also, I used to say, "I am only a student, a disciple of Gurujī, that’s all." And servant of all creatures. In that is our benefit. So we open our heart, we clear our thoughts, and accept the Guruvākya, what comes. And then it is he who will liberate us; it is he who will save us. And if some problem comes, also be happy. Thanks to him that this problem, which was very big, could be in this little, he removed from us. Whatever happens is good. There is one story about one king and his minister. His minister was very buddhisālī, had a very good viveka, a wise person. And often he gave the judgment, or he spoke against or opposite to the king’s opinion. And the king was very angry. He was so angry, and he said, "Now I dismiss you from service. Go away." But then, after a few years, he called him back again. Because without him, that king could not make his work and survive. So there are many stories about him. I will tell you two stories. So one story is that somehow an accident happened, and the king had a big cut on his thigh from a knife. It was 10 to 15 centimeters long and 3 centimeters deep, a big cut. So they made a remedy. There was no, how do you call, operations and like this; it was an early Ayurveda remedy. And there is one herb, I think also existing in Europe, when you cut your finger and you take this herb and put it on it, it stops the blood and helps you recover very, very quickly. Very, very quick. I think in the Strelka ashram someone showed me that also. Yes? So when the minister came, the king was walking with a limp, and the minister came and asked, "What happened, Your Highness?" He said, "Oh, this terrible thing happens, and I have a big cut on my thigh." Minister said, "Very good." King was so angry. Very good? He said, "Yes." He said, "Very good." He said, "You always hate me. You don’t like me. You go away. I send you away. Finished." So he sent him away, dismissed. No more here. Very angry, the king sent him out of the kingdom. Well, that time the kingdom was small, you know, the biggest, longest kingdom was from here to Vienna Wood. And this side, maybe till Eisenstadt. That was a big kingdom. From the end of the Vienna Woods to come to this corner of the Hungarian border, it was a long way. Maybe two days’ journey, walking. And little population. So as the king, they used to go for picnic, and there was a lot of jungle. Now, where is the jungle? We don’t have any more jungles here. Jungles were there when you were 50 meters far away from your friends, you were lost. That was jungle, no roads, and there were also many tribes living in the forest. So one day, the king went for a picnic with his friends and people, and he had the best horse, a Quaker horse. So he was riding through the forest, and somehow he lost the way, and these people who live in the forest, the tribes, they caught him. That time, people make all the primitive people, but they were not primitive, but we used to say them like that. And they had today that on that day kind of festival and some rituals, and on that rituals, they should offer some living being. It was some kind of ritual where they had to offer one human, and they caught the king and brought him. They also had their ritual master sitting there, and they said, "We brought today the king. Very good. Person have big muscles and good." And so master said, "Okay, very good. Wash him, wash him nicely, and check the body if it is a complete body." So they took him to wash, and they saw his thigh. There was a long, what you call, scar. And they say, "Master, look." Master said, "Oh, aṅg bhaṅg." Aṅg bhaṅg. Damaged limbs. Damaged limbs. Cannot, is not useful for the ceremony. Let him go. King said, "Thank you." And the king was thinking about his secretary or minister. I am sorry. You said what happened? This was good, best. He came home and sent a message to his minister to come, and said, "You were right. I am sorry that I was angry with you." So whatever happens, accept, though it is painful, though it is against your principles. But God, why did it happen this way? It was in my destiny, or it was in your destiny. So, who are you to blame someone? Before blaming someone, blame yourself, that yes, it was in my destiny. So let’s say it could have cost him his whole life; it would have cost him, if not for this little cut. So this little cut on the thigh saved his life. So the minister came again, got his position, and the king was very happy. About one and a half years, two years passed. This is the second story. And one day, the king and the minister were sitting, and they were very happy. The king said, "Tell me, what is the most enjoyable thing? Where do you enjoy the most enjoyable things? Nothing is better than this thing." The minister said to go to the toilet. He said, "You know, I like you, I respect you, and I love you, but you know, always and always, you hurt me. You always talk stupid things against me. What a joke. You do this? Finished. Finished." So he said, "I’m sorry, sir, but it is like this, sorry. What do you think, sir? What is most enjoyable? Oh, let’s have an audience, and eating and drinking and dancing, the ladies and men and dancing and this, you know, that, you know, see this all. What you call today the nightclub. The nightclubs are coming from that time, you know." So after two years, the king said to the minister, "Organize a special evening today and call all the best artists and people, and we will enjoy this evening." So he said, "Yes, sir, as you wish." So he told him exactly, "Good." And there was a nice hall like this. So the king had his nice place to sit, and he also invited some other kings, neighbor kings. And every king had his minister sitting beside. So this king also had his minister sitting beside. So before coming to the party, that was a kutsaṅga. But that kushāṅga is just satsaṅg for the people, those who are like that. So the minister thought, "Today is my chance to prove to the king what is the most joyful." So before going to the party, the minister says, "Sir, you know there will come more other kings and like this, and we cannot eat between something. So it would be good that before you have a little bite." He said, "Good idea. Yes." So he gave him something like pakora, you know, something fried. Nice, with good spices and like this. ...insides of spinach and chilies, and this we call pakoda with good chutney, and the minister told the cook... ...put inside, 70% ingredient must be only Sonamukhi. And so they feed the Sonamukhī to the king, and when Sonamukhī is this herb which, when you eat, you get diarrhea. And when it’s more warm, boiled, then it has an effect very quickly. So the king ate, and the king said to the minister, "Eat also." He said, "Yes, sir, first yourself. I have time, don’t worry." They went to the party. The king was sitting like this. And music was going on, and the first dancer came, and everybody was very nice. All were looking at that girl, and the king said to his minister. And the minister said, "Sir, now joy is coming. Look, the beautiful girl is dancing." He said, "I cannot, I must go." And the minister said, "This is joyful to see, not a toilet." The king said, "I know." And he went there, and he came back. Minister said, "How are you, sir? Oh, Ānanda." And so, whatever is happening, take it that’s it. So, it is in the destiny. So, what is the best thing? The best thing is only God’s name. Meditate. Our destinies are in His hand, that’s it. Therefore, it is a Dīn Bandhu, Dīn Anāth, Merī Dorī, Tere Hāth. Deen Bandhu, Deen means the meek one, the lost one, the miserable one. This is called Deen, the poor. Deen Bandhu means the friend of God. You are everything, God, for me. You are my mother, father, my relatives, my friends. My wealth, my knowledge, you are everything, Lord. So Deen Bandhu, you are the best friend of the meek ones. Deenā Nāth, Lord of all. Mary Dori Tere Haath, the rope of my life is in your hands, like a puppet playing. Do something, please. Move that sometime I come closer to you, to you, O my Lord. So always we shall trust in God. There is supreme power. There is super consciousness, super power, and that only can be God. And when we are His bhakta, then His love flows through us. And when with that love we make a service, we come to others. Share with us, so our love they share with we share with them, but it is not our love, it is His love, and that we are not giving to me or to others, but we are giving back to Him. There are two to go up and cut they. When it is your, you have. Given to me, but it is yours, and I give you back to you. What do I lose, Lord? Nothing. It was yours. So it is your body, Lord. It is your intellect, Lord. God, everything is my feelings, my thoughts, my being. Each breath and each heartbeat is yours, Lord, is for you. So, whenever you feel desperate, it is said, whenever you feel scared, pray. When you don’t see any way out, when you don’t see any solution, what to do? Then prayer. So finally, the last judgment is this. Paṅkābhinnaḥ astidantābhinnaḥ anarikantābhinnaḥ viṣaya ke putra pitā bhī nahīṁ, nā taise prāṇī Hari nāma bhī nā āśumārana karane me te mana tiomā dharabhī nā. Jaise tar phal bhi nahi naa, jaise tar var phal bhi nahi naa, taise prani hari naam bhi naa. Main bhi viti omara, naam bhi naa sumiran ka, main bhi viti sumiran ka. Chandra bina mandir, deepa bina jai se, pandita veda bihina. Jai se prāṇī, Hari nāma binā samaraṇa kāle’o na terī vīṭī mārā. Hari nāma binā o banī haro, īrṣā chodo, bhakta janā. Mā śambharaṅ kā, dvitī omāra, dvitī omāra harit. Mā binā śambharaṅ kā, Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī. Therefore, Guru Nānak Jī Mahārāj said, after all this, the paraphernalia of saṁsāra, the world, he was at home in the family, and he saw in the family that one is complaining, that one is angry, that one is unhappy, and this and that, so suddenly he felt burdened. So, he just wanted to have peace and went on the roof of his house to be a little bit peaceful. And what he sees, the neighbor on the right side, his wife, the neighbor’s wife, shouting at her husband, "You are a stupid one, and you are a lazy one," and so on. And on the other side, he’s that side, the man comes at home and tells his wife, "Are you crazy? You are sitting, you didn’t cook? I’m coming from hard work." And so, and she said, "Yes, I will do, but what?" So he’s shouting and fighting. He was sitting straight. The other side of the street, the children were fighting. He turned to the back side of the house. Behind the house, there were also quarreling people. So Guru Nānak Sāhib said, "Nānaka dukhyā sab sansār." The whole world is troublesome. I climbed on the roof of the house, and I see that in every house, there are the same troubles. So, therefore, sometimes—and that’s why the yogīs, sādhus, and swāmīs—they renounce and go somewhere to lead a life. Finally, you have to come to that peace. This will always be. Always. And therefore, finally, whom to blame? Who is correct and who is wrong? What is right and what is wrong? Who am I to judge, as far as I don’t know myself? And until I don’t know myself, why should I judge negatively or positively? Just observe, be the witness of that. So, śumiraṇā karale, therefore best for you is to repeat your mantra prayer, śumiraṇā, śumiraṇā,... śumiraṇā. At the end of this bhajana, he said, "Kām krodh mad lobh nihāro, īrṣā chhodo bhakt janā," that someone wrote wrong, not "sant janā," because a sant cannot be one who has īrṣā. Īrṣā means the duality, īrṣā means the jealousy, no. Krodha, if you have krodha, then you are not a saint. So kām krodh madh lobha nihāro, īrṣā chhodo bhakt janā. Keh Nanak Sahib, Guru Nanak Sahibjī said, "Nobody is ours in this world, no one. This saṁsāra is not a reality. As long as you are healthy, beautiful, and working hard, and this and that, all will love you. On the day when you can’t anymore and are only lying at home, lazy and lazy." Then all will be angry with you, so you see how they love you: your parents, your neighbors, your own. So, always Mahāprabhujī said, Get the truth, catch the truth, and repeat the name of Sai. Sai means God. No one is yours. And that, because the world is changeable and changing, your very loving dear friend, one day goes away from you, you say, "No, I don’t want." And you know, in the beginning, Nānak Sāhib said, you know, a child, only the mother remains with the mother, the child, and doesn’t know where the father is, or the father divorced. What is the condition of that child? A small child, and therefore, all were against divorce. And especially when you have children, you should not, do not make the mistake of getting a divorce. When you have one child, you are now a father, finished, no more marriage, no more other one. Hari Om. All has been given to your children, buzz. When your child gets engaged, then your child is gone. He’s not anymore yours; from your hands, gone. He’s in the hands of the girl or the boy, and when your child got married, then all your properties are in both hands. And when you got grandchildren, then your eating is finished. All chocolate you have to give to your grandchild, yes. So when you got... One child finished, for what you married? You married, photo having challenge. Now you have it at home, but still you are not content. You are searching, and you don’t think of your child, and you get divorced, and you want to find another husband or other wife. That made the world confusing and like this, so we follow that principle. And of course, why is one divorcing? Because the situations are like that. Conditions are like that. Unbearable atmosphere at home for him or for her. It’s not easy that one would like to get divorced. First you laughed so much, and now getting divorced is not easy. But the situation became unbearable. But the question is, why did the situation become unbearable? Because education was missing. From childhood, education is missing. Ethical education is missing, and family education is missing. We are not capable of educating. Don’t think this university and all the higher education is the only education for us. For us, that’s only how to earn money for your bread, for your stomach, that’s all. But better bread makes for you earning that farmer, even he was not in primary school. If he will not work, your stomach will not get bread. Can you get bread out of your computer? Maximum, a picture. So, practical knowledge we lost. The human lost the practical knowledge, the talent: how to live, how to survive, and keep these educations as a human. So our destiny is the fruits of our deeds from this life and past life. When you met me today, whether you are happy or not, it was your destiny that you had to meet me. Perhaps you want to see somebody else, you open the door and say, "God." Again, he’s sitting there. You were expecting perhaps somebody else here sitting, but this is in your destiny. And also, when I came, oh, how nice you are all here. You are all in my destiny. You are on my view. We, we are all servants of Gurudev. We are all bhaktas of Mahāprabhujī, Gurujī, Devapurījī. And through that, as long as we will feel that we are protected, we protect ourselves. So in India, on the roads, many good things are written. Here also, on the highway now, after the people, they went to. In India, they came back, and now they also began to write something on the highway: "Alcohol kills. Alcohol on steering kills." Good sentence, no? And there was, last few years, a picture of this animal sitting on the dry tree, the vultures, no? And they said, "We are waiting for you." So it means that high-speed kills. Similarly, in India, there are many, many good words written also. So, the protection is in protecting. So if you protect from an accident, then you are also protected. And if you cause the accident, then you are also involved in the accident. That’s it. So, best is to accept the destiny and say, "God will judge, I am not." And Gurujī said, "Bana Bada Gurudev Ka Shunu Mādhavānanda, Graha Goṣa Vyāpe Nahi Mite Kāla Ka Bhaṇḍa." This rope which Gurudev has given to you, the protection of Gurudev, is the best. That is the greatest thing. Believe. No bad constellation will attack you. And also, this Kāla means the death. The Yama will go away from you. So, yantra-mantra-yadu-tona or guru-bhakta-ke-kuśnāy-honā. So, some are doing yantras, some are doing tantras, some are doing some kind of mantras, some miracles, and this and that. If you are a guru-bhakta, nothing will happen. No black magic can touch you. No black magic can come to you. And if someone is doing black magic to you, ask that person, why? Do you do to me what you want? Do it to some president of a big country, that he can give you something, no? He can invite you, and he can... I am a poor one, I have nothing. Why do you do magic with me? So, no magic, the thing, that’s only psychological black magic, what we call frightening. So someone said, "Well, I have a second spirit in me." No. No. Look, put water in the katorī or in the cup, and the moon is shining in the sky. Look inside, you will see only one moon, not two, not two. If you want to see two moons in one katorī, then you have to put some barrier between. So this side also you see moon, and this side also, but not the two at the same time. Similarly, you are that one, that there is only one soul within you. One consciousness, one spirit, you are that. So don’t be like that. Something is happening, and I am ill, and I can’t work. All obstacles Gurudev can remove. All obstacles He can remove. Therefore, it is said, "There is Satguru Rakhe Laj, Chenta Mat Karna." Nirvaya raho, nishaṅk, kabhī mat ḍarnā. Satguru Dev will protect us. Don’t worry, be brave, don’t be scared, don’t be scared, all will be. Therefore, positive thinking and positive love mean devotion. And if there is no devotion, that love becomes disturbing love. And that love will create conflict, that love will create doubts, doubts that love will create darkness, the obstacles on your spiritual path, and whatever you have done till today, spiritual sādhanās, will get lost. Therefore, bhakti, and therefore there is one bhajan said, "Lord, when you want to give me something," I don’t want diamonds. I don’t want a house. I don’t want a wife or children or a position or anything. No, no,... no. I want only one thing from you. If you want to give me, donate to me, bhakti. I beg for that. O Gurudev, you are the Lord of the Lords, Janamadhar Bisharonahi. In every life, bless me that I’m not separated from you. That’s what I’m asking. I’m not asking for a big bunch of elephants, no diamond mines, no kingdom of the entire planet, Earth. No, only one: your mercy, your devotion, love to you. And when that enters your heart, you are the richest one, and you understand everything then. So, I’m ready to do anything, Lord, but be with me, that’s all. Don’t let me be alone. Don’t let me—don’t let me be that bird which is closed in the cage of saṁsāra. There’s one song—maybe tomorrow I will translate it for you—Pinjare kī paṅkhī. Oh, bird of the cage, no one knows your pain. No one knows your pain. Can you imagine a bird in a small cage you have? The bird means to fly and be free in the forest, in nature, and you caught this bird in a cage. Yes, you think it is good and it is your bird. What is the inner pain? It is a lifelong prison. What? Poor this Kriyāyājī can’t even expand the wings and use the wings to take off and fly from one branch to another branch and eat some fruits and enjoy the other family members, and like this. Therefore, according to the animal’s rights, it is a crime to have animals in the cage. It’s not good. Because they are the creatures of this planet, free in the forest. Let them be there in which country, in which climate they belong. That’s it. Okay, you have a house pet as a dog, as a cow, as a buffalo, as a horse. Okay, they are. But they are family members. They are not for your eating. Who are you to kill them? That’s it. Everyone feels pain. Recently, there was one documentary film, and I put on the television, wanting to see the program on CNN News about the Pakistan flood. And I put on the programs, number one, two, three. I have my old televisions. And there was some film about a documentary, and they saw, they wrote, "This picture, you may not be able to see." So you may put off for a while or closure, and that was, there was a cow. They pulled her down and cut her neck half, and let it, blood was flowing. A cow has a lot of blood, no? And the cow was breathing, in pain, trying to raise her head up three times, then... Fall down? Can we do this with these hands? Kabīrajī, great saint, he said, "These hands God gave you to give something, helping hands, not the killing hands." ... Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī. Great Saint Kabīr Dās Jī said, "Mat Kar Moh Tum Harī Bhajan Ko Māṅ Re." Hey, don’t fall into attachment. Moha, moha. Moha kā bandhana. Bandhana means tie. The tie of attachment is very strong. Many died in this tide of Moha. It’s very hard to cut off the chain. It’s a very thick metal chain. Only through a special technique can we cut this, otherwise. It is janam janam kā bandhan. Bandhan. Bandhan se mukta karānā. Bandhan se nirbandhan kīna. The Gurudev makes us nirbandhan. When nirbandhan means without this tie of saṁsāras. That means the door of the cage is open, and you fly in your world, happy. You don’t know the happiness of that bird, into which climate she belongs. Free, free, free. So there is a movement, ahiṃsā, also towards animals, not only humans. So there are human rights, human protection, and things like this. So therefore, accept destiny and work for that, which means to pray, and only He can free us from that. And therefore, the great saint Sūrdās, a blind saint—Sūrdās means by birth he was blind. And he was thinking, "Why am I blind? What happened? I must have been the cause of someone’s eye, that I destroyed someone’s eyes." And you know, there are some people who like to eat, especially the eyes of the animals. Yes, there are. But Surdhājī said, "Doesn’t matter, Lord, what I have done." Now, please, I came to thee; only you can forgive me. Please don’t notice or don’t look at my karma, my deeds. You are that one who has equal vision, so you will love me also. Even I am a sinner. And so the Surdhash’s bhajan, a beautiful bhajan. Chit na dharo, Prabhujī, mere avaguna chit na dharo. Sam dṛṣṭi hai nāma tihāro. Sāya to pāra karo. Auṃ guṇa chitana dharo. Ik loha pūjā me rehtā, ik vādikā ghar paḍhyo. Ār sa guṇa yava guṇa nai det vāta. Sa guṇa nai guṇa nai citta vāta. Nidrā, nidrā... God bless you. Bhagavān Kī Dev Purīṣā Mahādev Dharm Samrāṭ Satguru Svāmī Madhavān Jī Bhagavān Gajanan Jī Mahārāj Kī Sanātan Dharma Kī Śeṣ Nāg Jī Mahārāj Kī