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Full of emotion, Mēnā embraces her daughter Pārvatī. Seeing her mother's state, Pārvatī says, "Mother, listen. I had a wonderful dream. In it, I saw a beautiful Brāhmaṇa preaching. He told me something. If you are interested, I will tell you my dream and what he said." Naturally, her mother wanted to hear it. Pārvatī began, "The Brāhmaṇa said to me in the dream, 'O Pārvatī, go and perform austerity. The words of Nārada are the truth, the reality. They cannot be unreal. Take his words as reality and go perform sādhanā, tapasyā. Your parents will also like this, for they know it, and they will be happy if you go and perform your sādhanā.' Tapasya is the giver of happiness and the remover of all troubles. That is why all holy saints and all yogīs practice their sādhanā tapasyā—to endure. All kinds of difficulties you feel physically or mentally, you shall master and overcome them. As soon as you give up, you lose your willpower. On the spiritual path, on the good way, some obstacles always come. The beautiful rose has thorns also. Until the rose flowers, until the blossom and petals come, you have to go through the thorns. Ask yourself how much you can endure physical and mental discomfort. Those who are not satisfied, those who have no śāntoṣa in their heart, cannot endure things. Accept the situation according to the days and the call of time and space, and don't let it disturb your inner self. Take it as natural things or as destiny. If you keep on fighting against those obstacles, you will reach your aim. If not, you will fail. Therefore, tapasyā removes unhappiness and troubles and gives us happiness. Thus, the Brāhmaṇa told me in the dream, 'The words of Nārada are the truth. Go and perform your austerity.' Even your parents will be happy. And those tapasyā sādhanā, the spiritual techniques and practices, will give you satisfaction and remove trouble." He said, "Through the power of tapasyā, Brahmā is able to create this world. Through the power of that tapasyā, that sādhanā, Viṣṇu is able to protect the world. And through that power of tapasyā, Śambhu, Śiva, is able to destroy all the negative powers in this world. And it is that Tapa, that Sādhanā, through whose power the Śeṣa-jī, the Śeṣa-Nāgā, carries the weight of the whole earth on his head." Therefore, those who have Sādhanā can come through. They can endure. They can keep through; others cannot. We need that ātambal, the willpower of our inner willpower. If we don't have this, then little, little things can make us very, very sad, and little, little things can destroy our main aims. They come as a memory, as a remembrance of the past—what has happened, good or bad. As soon as you remember them, you become so weak you can’t help yourself. Family situation, situation at work, political situation, environmental situations—many, many things. But those who have tapasyā, sādhanā, are strong. Those who have no sādhanā get a nervous breakdown very quickly. Therefore, we need that power, the power of tapasyā. The Śeṣanāga, the thousand-headed snake. Though he is a snake, with tapasyā, with karma, he has Viṣṇu himself residing on his body. It must be someone on whom Vishnu leans, which means to lean on someone’s order where you find rest, where you find some kind of confidence and energy in the love. So even Vishnu himself is residing, he is leaning on the Śeṣa Nāga where he feels comfortable and secure, like a baby feels comfortable and secure in the lap of its mother. Therefore, do real sādhanā, really. You have your mantra, you have your practices, you have the guidance of your master. Every day he speaks so kindly to you, his own sweet words. Nearly every 10 minutes, he tries to pull out from you the qualities in your mind, like jealousy, hate, complexes. You know you have this. Hardly will you meet someone in this world like your Master, who always reminds you of your best qualities: jealousy, hate, complex, greediness, attachment. I know what’s going on in each and every heart. And I try to put some more oil inside, until it burns completely. Nothing will remain except one, the one Self. So do the real sādhanā. The real sādhanā is tapobala. The power of the sādhanā is indescribable. How did Brahmā create this world? Through which intellect? Through which power? Through the Viṣṇu who is governing the entire world. Even a small leaf of a tree cannot move without His power. A blade of grass cannot move without His power. All the rain, water, mountains, flowers, everything is directed by him. How did Viṣṇu get that power? Sādhānā tapasyā. Nothing is impossible through sādhanā. Impossible things become possible, but sādhanā should be with santosha. If you practice mantra, you should be one with the mantra. Otherwise, you will mantra. You know mantra, it will come, one lady in the Rāmāyaṇa. So mantra means also where your mind stops, rests. Mantra, your mind is calm and peaceful. And that’s also Shiva, through this sādhanā, he is able to do. This saṃsāra is created by the power of tapasyā, which Brahmā has done. And through that tapasyā, the power of the tapasyā, Vishnu is the protector in this world. And it is Śiva that, through his tapasyā sādhanā, destroys everything. And through that tapasyā, the Śeṣanāga is carrying on his head the weight of the whole earth. On one side, he is coiled, his body where Viṣṇu is residing. He should not move. If he moves, then Viṣṇu feels discomfort. Śeṣanāga breathes very peacefully. And Vishnu feels on it like on a waterbed. On the other side, Sheshanāga wants to have darśana of Viṣṇu. So he raises his head up and looks down all the time to the lotus feet of Viṣṇu. And on the other side, the whole earth is balanced on his head. Sometimes, when his neck is stiff, he makes a very slight movement. And what happens? An earthquake takes place. So when the earthquake begins, you must say, "Please, S.G." Move your body. No movement. Still, Pārvatī is telling her mother. That Brāhmaṇa said, "O Bhavānī, the whole creature is existing on the power of tapasyā." And therefore, you should know this. Realize this, what I tell you. Go and make tapasyā, sādhanā. When Mother heard this, she thought, what is the daughter telling? You see, it is something extraordinary, something wonderful. Now she turned her mother’s consciousness completely in a different direction. Before she was crying, and this and that. And suddenly, now she begins to think. She was very surprised. Immediately she called the king and told him the dream of his daughter, what she is telling. She explained to her parents in many ways that doing tapasyā will be good for all of us. Therefore, you should not be unhappy. Don’t be sad. She tried to explain to them, because they didn’t want to let her go. She explained to them, and happily, Pārvatī left into the forest for tapasyā. All dear family members, including mother and father, always said, "We don’t know where she will go, where she will sleep, what she will eat, how will be her day, how will be her night, how will she face the wildlife, which difficulties she will face, what will come on." Or, come on, our way? Who will look after her? Who will come and give her satisfaction if she’s unhappy? Everything you know, you are not thinking only for one thing. But you are thinking thousands of things. If she will be ill, who will give medicine? Who will give a warm cup of water? Who will cook? Where will she sleep? How will her dresses be? What about her cosmetics? Everything, and so the parents and all were sad. But she left. All were so sad that no one had any words; they couldn’t speak anything to tell her to stop, or where she would be, and so on. As soon as she left, the great sage Vedasīra Muni came there, and he began to preach. He told everyone the opposite of what they were thinking. They should not be unhappy. They should not make any sorrow. They should be sure that Parvati will have a good life, and it is the best that she could do. And it is best that you allow her to go. And you people do not know the glory of Pārvatī. When he told something about her, then all were again happy. The beloved of her heart, the Lord Śiva—Pārvatī begins to concentrate on the lotus feet of Śiva. She puts him, his idol, in her heart. Then she went into the forest and began her spiritual sādhanā. Though her so gentle body, that her gentle body was not created for such a wild forest, just to sleep under the trees on the grass. Definitely, her body was suffering. But still, she had such a strong desire towards Śiva. She remembered him, and she faced all the problems, all difficulties. Nityānāvacharan upajayanurāgā, viśāridehatāpi manulāgā, sambhata sahasāmūla phalakāye, sāgukāye satvarasābhītaye. Day by day, her devotion was growing towards Śiva. As much as her sādhanā was getting stronger, more solid, confident, and faithful, her devotion was awakening more and more. She was so one with her sādhanā, her meditation, that she even forgot her physical body. Now, even the body doesn’t disturb her at all. The body is expecting, "I hope she will not leave me somewhere now." The body is behind you. If you are behind the body, then you have problems. Let the body be behind you. You should not be attached to the body. Let your body be attached to you. The thing is the same. It depends from which side you reach. You can place your ear like this, as I am doing, or you can do like this. So oneness is there, but better it comes from the other side. Now she is doing her sādhanā. What kind of sādhanā did she do? She did mantra nuṣṭhāna, intensive kriyā, which you are doing. That was her daily regime. I have reduced about 50% of her program. If we do that also, then your condition will be like poverty. But rarely can you do this. There is hardly an interval. And when you have two hours’ interval, it is nothing for you. We need two days’ interval and two hours’ practice, and that is also too much. We are mortal beings; sooner or later, anyhow, we will be old and die. Let’s hope, by Guru Kṛpā, we will realize something. Therefore, day by day, her devotion was increasing towards Lord Śiva. She had forgotten her body consciousness for nearly one thousand years. Can you imagine one thousand years? We have satsaṅg. For 1,000 years, she was just eating fruits and flowers—some kind of herbs and some kind of fruits, a little bit. There was counting thousand years, you know, not one year or two years. You know, one or two years is nothing in that Yuga. It was a long life and very strict disciplines. I forgot until when, how many thousand years they were teenagers, and then full years. So it is said, for 1,000 years he used to eat fruits and flowers. And for 100 years, he spent just eating some bark of trees or a little vegetables. Some days, or sometimes, he spent it then only drinking little water, and also there was cold water, yes, not mineral. Normally, Buddha on a bubble cup whisper, you see how the body accepts the nature. Then the body tried to take the nourishment through the air. After some time, then she gave up also water. Only she used to live from the air. You know, there are sometimes satīs, they don’t eat and don’t drink, just from the air the body is nourishing. There are now, now we have one satī, she is a disciple. And she is living near Khattu Ashram, 3-4 km far, and she is a devotee of Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī, and now for nearly 10 or 15 years she doesn’t eat and drink. Our body is nourished from there. Some sādhanā must be there, some willpower must be there. When we don’t get one day a little spicy food, then we make such a theater. "We have paid for the whole seminar. It said there would be a good breakfast and this. We will go back now. We do not want to stay here." Where is your love for your sādhanā? No. "Swamijī said we will speak only German, and he doesn’t speak, and we will go now." That’s it. Even if you don’t understand one half word of Swamijī, still you are the luckiest of the luckiest that you have the opportunity just to have his darśan. But this consciousness is not in you still. There is a difference between day and night. So now you know who can come through. So you can pack your things and go, or open your heart and develop willpower, sādhanā, that is tapasya. We sing bhajan, Gurudev darśan dhan ho. Just darśan is more than anything. He speaks with you innerly, but that knowledge we don’t have. We didn’t learn that language, unfortunately. Then, for some time, he was fasting. Even he rejected the prāṇa which is coming from outside. A person who doesn’t drink and doesn’t eat, what kind of fast should that person have? Kumbhaka: no inhalation, no exhalation. Chitta vṛtti nirodha. It’s completely chitta vṛtti nirodha. That she used to eat some dry leaves of a tree. Three thousand years she spent like this. One is counting all the thousands there, okay? One, two, and hundred have no meaning. Like Italians, all are billionaires. No one is poor. All are millionaires, or like ex-Yugoslavian. Suddenly the dinars, all were millionaires. Even a little ice cream was costing about a hundred million. The most expensive ice cream in the world. Therefore, long, long sādhanā, kaṭhin sādhanā, difficult sādhanā. After a while, she also gave up these dry leaves to eat. And only in the name of God, sādhanā. That’s called Ajapa Mantra. Only one nada. Oh, but you will not do this. Still, don’t give up eating today because we have already bought the food for the whole week, and that will be quite, therefore, please don’t do it. And even after, don’t do it without my permission. I have to take everything. If mechanically everything is okay, if I said yes, then off you go. Otherwise not. Through the tapasyā, the body of Umā, Pārvatī, was so weak. No wonder. The people who eat, they will say Selvasud, you know, on mistakes. When her body was very weak and her consciousness was completely one with the divine, at that time, all the supreme powers, the goddess or whatever you call them, they were all afraid, "God, maybe her body will die. We must do something immediately. We must do something when the child doesn’t eat, always crying for ice cream. One day you will say, 'No, today now he will not eat, not it.' Then he will say, finally, 'Okay, here is ice cream.'" That is haṭha, the willpower. Tapasyā, endure, go through. So still you have many things to go through. Fight against your sadness. Fight against your jealousy, fight against your doubts, fight against your complexes. First, get rid of these, and then come to me. I will tell you the second things, still what is left inside.