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Satguru saccā milajā bahīse, bharama ko dūra bhagāyā diyā. Satguru saccā milajā bahīse, bharama ko dūra bhagāyā diyā. Vārama ko dūra bhāgāyā diyā, Satguru sacchamī lāja bahīse, varama ko dūra bhagāyā diyā. Some told me the truth. Someone used to tell me how to do it. He told me the way to do it. Sattva sacchā mila jā bahīse, parama ko dūra bhagāyā diyā, parama ko dūra bhagāyā diyā, parama ko dūra bhagāyā diyā. In sab kā sāra batāyā diyā, in sab kā sāra batāyā diyā. Satguru sacchā mila jā bahīse, parama ko dūra bhagāyā diyā. Sattva sacchā mila jā bahīse, parama ko dūra bhagāyā diyā. Kīvara batāyā mujhe, vo ghaṭa meṃ nanda dulāre ko. Khola kīvara batāyā mujhe, vo ghaṭa meṃ nanda dulāre ko. Rūpa milā ghaṭa meṃ tab jyota meṃ jyota milāyā diyā. Satguru sacchā milajā bahīse, bharama ko dūra bhagāyā diyā. Bārama ko dūra bhāgāyā diyā, jyota meṃ jyota milāyā diyā. Saṅkhyā sacchamī vajabāhī se, parama kuḍūra gayā diyā. Kulāṅgada śugandhana meṃ ghaṭa bīṭara vohī vyāpaka hai. Sab saṅsaṅga dūra huā merā tab, karma ko dūra haṭāyā diyā. Santaguru sacchā milāja bahīse, vārama ko dūra bhagāyā diyā, bārama ko dūra bhagāyā diyā, bārama ko dūra bhagāyā diyā. Kārama ko dūra bhagāyā diyā, kārama ko dūra haṭāyā diyā. Santaguru sacchamī lajabhī se, varama ko dūra gayā diyā. Chala gagana ghara caraṇare bāī, manavā dīre dīre. Chala gagana ghara caraṇare bāī. Galīyā choṭī ratha andherī, rāste meṃ cikhanāī. Agarace rapte pāva, tumhārā pāḍoge undī khāī. Galīyā choṭī ratha andherī, rāste meṃ cikhanāī. Agarace rabate pāva, tumhāre paḍhage undī kharī. Dīre dīre cāla gagana gāra, caraṇare bhāī manavā. Dīre dīre cāla gagana gāra, caraṇare bhāī manavā... Dīre dīre cāla gagana gāra, caraṇare bhāī. Pāñca pāñcī so velī ho kara, mohana rāga sunāī. Rāga sunāiyā tero mana mohe, rāsta deyā bulāī. Pāñca pāñcī so velī ho kara, mohana rāga sunāī. Rāga sunāiyā tero mana mohe, rāsta deyā bulāī. Dīre dīre cāla gagana gāra, caraṇare bāī manavā. Bhīrae bhīrae cāla gagana gāra, caraṇare bhāī. Bhīna janayā koī uñcho caḍasī pare dharana para āī, Satguru bhīna mālūma naī paḍatā mārga jīna bhāī. Bhīna janayā koī uñcho caḍasī pare dharana para āī, Satguru bhīna mālūma naī paḍatā, mārga jīna bhāī. Dīre dīre cāo gagana gāra caraṇare bhāī. Dīre dīre cāo gagana gāra caraṇare bhāī, Manavā dīre dīre cāla, dhagāna gāra cāraṇāre vāyī. Devapūkhe sāyaba gurū merā, dhīvī se nalakāyī. Svāmī dhīpa sannyāsī bole, gurū kī adha pāse pāyī. Kī devapurī ke sāheba gurū merā, divī se na vakāī. Svāmī dīpa sannyāsī bole, gurū kīrti se pāī, Dīre dīre cā gagana gāra caraṇare vāī, manāvai. Manavā, dīre dīre cā gā gā na gāra, Caraṇāre bāī. Śrī Deva Purīṣa Mahādeva kī jaya. Śrī Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān kī jaya. Svāmī Maheśvarānanda Jī Satguru Deva kī jaya. Sabadhī Śrī Munī Mahātmāoṃ kī jaya. Bhole Śrī Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī jaya, Śrī Śrī Deva Purīṣa Mahādeva kī jaya, Dharma Samrāṭ Paramahaṃsa Śrī Svāmī Maravānanda Purījī Mahārāja kī jaya, Viśva Guru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramahaṃsarī Sāī Maheśvara Nānpurī Jī Satguru Devakī jaya. Firstly, this is the first webcast we have had since the New Year. So I’d like to say, on behalf of everyone who’s in Jhadan, to everyone around the world, Happy New Year. We hope that it’s a wonderful one for everybody, and also the one where you visit Jhadan. Avatthapurī is telling me it’s 2011. No, 2012. Okay. During the last week, I was reading a magazine. As is common in all countries, the media releases special editions at the year's end about the year that has passed and the things that happened. This particular magazine had made a special edition about people who are doing special things in India—not big or famous people, but just people at a small level doing something truly special. Some of them are quite fantastic. What these people are doing is a service for the community around them. But there was one story that grabbed me because it was so simple yet so clever, and for me, it connected with a lot of things which are very close to my heart. As usual, it had something to do with schools. There was one engineer in South India who took a government contract to repair some government schools. As he was in one of those schools, breaking things down and repairing the floors and the walls and also building some new rooms, one of the teachers came to him. She said, "Seeing as you’re making this floor, can’t you make some puzzle on it?" Something that the children can play with. He thought about it for a while and initially thought, "Come on, this is too difficult." He thought about it a little more and realized, "It makes no difference if I make a normal floor or make a puzzle in it. I can just take the design, put different colors of cement here and there, and it will be done." Suddenly, that boring floor was transformed into something useful and enjoyable for the kids. Then he started—he was an engineer—so ideas started going round and round in his brain. He began to think about other things he could do as he was making the building. They started to make the windows with different numbers of panes inside. They made windows with different numbers of opening sections: some had two, some had four, some had eight, so that teachers could use them to teach fractions. Because two panes are there, the teacher could say, "Can you open half the windows?" and they would go and open one. Then they would go to the window with four panes and start to do quarters, three-quarters, and halves. Then go on to eighths, and so on. As he said, it cost no more money, but it became so functional. They started to put numbers on the stairs so that the children would be counting as they go up and down. Then they started to think about how to teach the children about distance. So they wrote little signs on the walls of the school saying, "30 steps until the library," or "25 steps to class 5." You can imagine students started walking around counting their steps and seeing, "Is it really 25 steps to 5th class?" One teacher asked him, "Can’t you do something so we can teach them about weight?" He thought about it a while and realized, "Every day, every child picks up their chair and moves it backwards and forwards several times at lunchtime, in the morning, in the afternoon." So they started to weigh the chairs and tables and write how many kilos each was. The children would get an idea of what is two kilos, what is three kilos, what is one kilo. It goes on and on. I spent my day today in the school doing the same thing, looking and thinking, "What can we do here?" We started writing letters on the pillars: A, B, C, D. Then the teacher would say, "Can you find D for dog?" And these little kindergarten kids would go, "Vroom!" and run towards the pillar with the D on it and put their hand on it. You have one to ten written on each one of the columns, and then you start to teach them subtraction, because they go to ten and now come back four, and they count back four. "Now, what number do you have? You have six?" And these children are all running around and learning and enjoying, and it’s all organic in the school. It’s all there anyhow. So that is what he did. I thought it was so great, so simple, but so clever. And the same we can do. We don’t have schools, but we have ourselves, we have our lives. Take every little thing around and transform it into something that points toward our spiritual path. Is it a reminder, a key, or a direction? Sometimes, maybe some sort of a stick that reminds us to get back that way, instead of this way. I was thinking about that a little bit later. Things like, what is the home page when you start up your web browser? Is it something that is part of your spirituality, or is it something that is gossip or something else? Does it lead you in the direction you want to go? The screen saver on your computer? The first thing you see when you wake up in the morning in your room? Some may say they don’t see anything because they just close their eyes again, but that’s different. But I think you get the idea; it can be anywhere and anything that we do. What is there that points us toward where we want to go? If we think about it, if we are anywhere, if we do anything, what are the things that take us in a certain direction? That remind us of what we are striving for? It doesn’t necessarily mean that we have to change everything, but we can recognize those keys in the things that we already have. Just like in the school, I would love to have seen that article about that fellow before we built it, but there are still so many things that can be used there now. Just before the webcast started, we were singing the bhajan, "Prabhu merī avaguṇa citta na dharo." In the last week or so, I think perhaps everyone here has noticed, but for some reason, the bhajans here in Jhadan have been much more beautiful than they normally are. At least for me, the feeling in this Bhakti Sāgara has been so serene, so beautiful, so peaceful. It hasn’t mattered who’s been singing; it’s always been just so beautiful. In that bhajan, in the "Prabhu Merī," it talks about the fact that steel can make up the statue on the altar, or it can also be the sword. It doesn’t actually matter once it gets touched by the pārasa stone; they both turn into gold. So Surdās Jī is praying in the bhajan, "God, please don’t see my negative qualities, my mistakes." Do not concentrate on them, but also transform me. I was sitting there listening and thinking, you can also turn that bhajan around like a mirror in the opposite direction. If you look out from yourself towards everything that’s around you, you can also concentrate on its avaguṇa, on its negative points, on that person’s or that thing’s or this situation's negative qualities. Or, you can see that aspect of the Divine which is within that situation or within that person. If you can see that aspect within that situation, or see that it can be useful for you, something for your spiritual path, then in the same way, every situation can be transformed, like by the pārasa stone, and become part of the gold. Again, just as we have in the school, it’s there. It’s a question of how you utilize it and see the things and see the possibilities that are there. Our life is as it is; it is that which is in front of us now. Perhaps over time we can change certain things or try to transform our situation. But at the same time, that which is in front of us and that which is there has so many possibilities within it. So many experiences and so many situations, which, if we recognize the possibility, can be incredibly special for our path and incredibly nourishing. If we choose to concentrate on the avaguṇa within those, on the things that are negative within those, then we will see those, and we will see them louder, brighter and brighter. And they drag us there and take us with them. If we choose to see the positive things within those—not to accept the negative things as having to be, not to encourage them, but to see the positive as well, to see what is there—then those things develop within us, those things blossom within us. And it may be that they also transform those other things which are around, and maybe they also transform the situation around. I guess for me, what it means is just that the new year has started. Whenever it starts, it’s full of possibility. It’s one of those times you look back and see what happened in the last year: what you would have liked to have done better, what was really beautiful. And at the same time, look forward and think of what you can improve on in this coming year. So again, from all of us to everybody around the world, happy new year. And enjoy. Here is a homily, straight, deep, not a big one. Rāma kā sandeśa mohye lāgere suhāvana. Satguru sandeśa mohye lāgere suhāvana. Lāgere suhāvana merā Satgurudeva pāvana. Sutta haṃsa tīratha jagāye, sutta haṃsa tīratha jagāye. Rāma kā sundeso moye lagere suhāvana. Satguru sundeso moye lagere suhāvana. Laghe re suhāvana, mērā sataguru deva pāvana. Rāma kā sandeśo moye, laghe re suhāvana. Sataguru sandeśo moye, laghe re suhāvana. Laghe re suhāvana merā sataguru deva. Pāvana laghe re suhāvana, sataguru deva pāvana. Tathāguru sandeśa, moye lāghire suhāvana. Lāḍūgeva barfī, operā śirpūrī, ormewā gherā. Gherī gudālī kī rabanau, Prabho jī jī mā āvana. Rāma kā sandeśo moīye lāge re suāvanā, Satguru sandeśo moīye lāge re suāvanā, Lāgire suāvanā, Mere Sataguru Devā pāvanā, Rāma kā sandeśo moīye lāgire suāvanā. Kāñcana tala bhojana parsāvu, Kāñcana tala bhojana parsāvu, Merā dila bhara meṃ harṣāvu, Āpa harī prasāda arogā, Āpa harī prasāda arogā, Paṅkha pavana dulāvanā, Paṅkha pavana dulāvanā, Rāmagā sundeso moye, Lagere suāvanā, Satguru, sandeśomoye, lāge re suāvanā, lāge re suāvanā, mere Satguru Deva pāvanā, lāge re suāvanā, Satguru Deva pāvanā Rāmakā, sandeśomoye, lāge re suāvanā, sataguru-sandeśo-moye-lāgere-suāvanā. Para-brahma-puruṣottama-svāmī śrī-deva-purī-santaryāmī śrī-svāmī-dīpakāhe-avasajano Ilmila Maṅgalagavana, Ilmila Maṅgalagavana, Rāmakā Sundeśo Moye, Lagere suhāvana, Satguru Sundeśo Moye, Lagere suhāvana. Rāma kā chāṁdesho moiye, laghe re suāvanā. Satguru chāṁdesho moiye, laghe re suāvanā. Om bole Śrī Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī jaya. Śrī Śrīdeva Puruṣa Mahādeva kī jaya. Dharma Samrāṭ Paramahaṃsa Śrī Svāmī Maravānanda Pūjya Mahārāja kī jaya. Viśva. Guru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramahaṃsarī Svāmī Maheśvarānanda Pūjya Satguru Deva Kī Jaya.