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Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpanārāyaṇam. Hamsabhādāsa Prabhu Śaraṇāparāyaṇam, Hamsabhādāsa Prabhu Śaraṇāparāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu, Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu. Dī Hama Saba Dāsa Prabhu Śaraṇa Parāyaṇam, Hama Saba Śaraṇa Parāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Siddhi Prabhu, Dīyā Siddhi Namaḥ Saba Dāsa Prabhu Śaraṇa Parāyaṇam. Namah Saba Dāsa Prabhu Śaraṇa Parāyaṇam. Namah Saba Dāsa Prabhu Śaraṇa Parāyaṇam. Namah Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇa. Namah Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Hamsa Sabdhasa Prabhu Śaraṇa Parā. Namah śabdasa para namah śrī prabhu dīpa namah śrī prabhu dīpa. Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī, Śrī Śrī Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva kī, Dharm Samrāṭ Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma kī. Blessings, spiritual seekers, bhaktas, dear ones. Blessings to all of you from Oṁ Śrī Alak Purījī Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā. What is not possible, the impossible becomes possible through the blessing of Gurudev. And all troubles can be removed by the blessing of Gurudev. Many times we people have doubts. We don't think that it is like this. We think, okay, everyone sings the glory of their masters. In the world, they say we don't need a guru. It means people don't know what the guru means. This is a word, a Hindi word from Sanskrit. Before, it was the guru degree—not a degree, but a position—that was declared to someone who became a successor of one master. Before, no. Before, one was always a disciple, and even when he or she becomes a successor, that person does not feel, "I am a guru," but always feels as a disciple. One day, when we will feel that I am a guru, then everything is finished. But you have to bless all the bhaktas and everyone in the name of your guru. So, not that I will do, but Gurudev will do. But we have the doubts. It is a cultural conflict in the people's mind, the language. You understand me? And unless you get this word out of your mind, you will always misuse it. When you go to learn sitar in India, and many people in New Zealand are also good sitar players, and when you ask them, "Where did you learn?" they will say, "Oh, my guru, the sitar guru, Ravi Shankar, the sitar player." Proudly, people are saying, "I learned with Ravi Shankar." Where did you learn to play the harmonium and this music? Yes, my music guru is that, and my dancing guru is that. Now, that time was when you got this position of the guru like that, when you became the knower or master of certain faculties. If you want to become an electrician, especially in the country, what we call complicated laws, every country has them. You cannot just go and make your electric work. You can do it because you know how people are doing it. But you are not authorized to do it, and some accident happens. Then the insurance company will first say, "Who was the electrician who fixed this all?" So there is no one as serious as I. The insurance will refuse because it is your fault. Have you the certificate? Diploma? And now in the university you get a diploma of the guru, what you call the master's degree. True? Yeah, master's degree. Yeah, master means guru, okay? That you study MBA, this, that. So that's what I want to tell you: the conflict in people's mind is against culture and religion, to misuse this world. But when you are writing about a guru, then you are discriminating all the teachers. Suppose in the schools in New Zealand or in Australia, you are humiliating all the teachers, all the music teachers, all the dancing teachers, all the driving teachers. But they don't know. But on the day when they understand, the university will fight against them. Hey, you have no right to discriminate the degrees, Master's degree. So, and sometimes we think, "Okay, good, I have learned this and that." But we don't believe. You have learned driving, and you got a driving license. You don't believe that the person can drive. And you telephone the police, the traffic police. Police will stop. Please, your license. Sir's license, police license. Thank you, sir. Yes? That is the stamp of the master, the school, the driving school. Similarly, from the mother, the first guru is the mother, and the child will speak mostly that language and dialect or pronunciation as the mother is pronouncing. Why do we say "mother tongue"? Because the father is working. Mostly, the father is responsible to work and earn for their living. And mothers are responsible to consume or expend the money. Yeah. And when the father goes shopping, mother said, "Oh," because we say, "Okay, we buy this, we buy this," and then she will say, "Oh, God, you bought the wrong thing and bought so many things." The next day, you bought so much food because you were hungry with your eyes. Oh, this is good, we buy it. Oh, this is good, we buy it. And after three days, you throw it all out. So, mothers, the ladies have a feeling for how to manage, how to do everything. And the mother is because she takes, the child is closer to the mother than to the father. So the first gurus are the mother and father. When is the guru your friend? As soon as your child goes to kindergarten, or what you call nursery school, comes home, and learns different words and different behaviors. Completely, the child is changed when he comes home from kindergarten. So now your third guru is your friends, school friends, kindergarten friends, all your friends. Gurujī said, "It's easy to become free from the enemy, but it's very hard to become free from bad habits which you learn." Maybe it's drug abuse or anything. Your mother didn't teach you this. Your father didn't teach you this. But the company, therefore it is said that you should choose such a friend who goes themselves on the good path, and you go to good. So in Hindi, we call this word friend, dostī. And dosti means there are two words inside. Do means two: you and me. Okay? You and me, we are two. Sati means the truthful. So one is going on the spiritual and positive path and also inspires and takes you to the positive path. That's your real friend, dosti. And if that does not take you on the good path and takes you in the wrong way, then you may consider that as your friend, but it's not your friend, it's a distractor. Planting in you doubts, hate, bitterness, jealousy, or many other habits. So when you learn the habit, then what happens? Gurujī used to say, habit is the second nature of a man. It becomes the nature. There are some people who learn from childhood, somewhere, stealing. Now they are grown, they don't want to steal. But still, it is in them, this quality, seeds inside. Whenever you find a chance, while walking, neighbors have very good chairs hanging, beautiful. And while walking, looking, you pluck two or three, put them in your mouth, and go quickly, because the neighbor will see. This tendency is very, very hard to get rid of. Then your guru is your school teacher, and then your religious pundit or priest who is performing the ceremonies. Then it is your Satguru Dev who leads you on the spiritual path, and then finally you are that guru. So in every one of us, that is sitting, our Gurudev, that light can only be when you have no more negative qualities: hate, jealousy, anger, greed, this, this, rāga, dveṣa, krodha, kāma, lobha, moha, and ahaṅkāra. Then you have the guru quality. Otherwise, you can say, "Hey, I am a guru," and, "Okay, what should I do with you?" To declare oneself is called a self-made master. And you can be a self-made electrician, but one day there will be an accident, and you will kill many. Therefore, the inner awakening, and this inner awakening, Swami Sivanandaji said, there are two candles you bought in the market. Now you light one candle, it is giving light. Otherwise, you place it on the table beside. Only one candle is giving light; the other is not. But it does not mean that the other candle, which you still have not lit, cannot give light. It can, but this candle needs to be brought to the flame of the other candle, which is burning, and then it will also give light. So you have to come to get the light of the wisdom from the master, then follow the disciplines, and then you can become a master. So Patañjali said, "Yoga begins with discipline." But "atha" means now, just now, begin now. You listen to the lecture, "Oh, Swāmījī said very nice, we should do something," then we will do tomorrow practice. No, atha means now, and now. Not only practicing, but put your entire life into discipline and try to think and purify your antaḥkaraṇa. So there, people may believe that Gurudev cannot do anything. That is their ignorance. So there was a story, and there was a story of one master who was living somewhere. Mostly, ashrams were always outside of the city, half a kilometer, one kilometer away, with no noise, nothing. But now cities have grown so much, so ashrams became the center. And now all pollutions are there, the cars and this and that. And that's why they again move away from there. They go somewhere else. So there was one master who had about two hectares of land and a small ashram. Bhaktas were coming, having satsaṅg. And many bhaktas were coming there. So there was one man, he thought, "I will go to Gurujī and live with him, and I think he will give me some money or do something." So he was serving Guruji, and Guruji asked, "Can I do something for you? Can I give?" He said, "No, no, Gurujī, I have everything. Only I need your blessing, nothing else." But Gurujī knew there is some feeling inside. It doesn't matter how much you show your devotion, but a master can feel there is some seed of doubt or seed of greediness or some negative qualities. And you never know when that seed will sprout and grow. But you say, "No, no, Guruji, no, I love you, you are my only," and this and that. Okay. Or any friend must not be the Gurujī. After one year, Gurujī again asked, "Have you any wish?" He said, "No, I have only one wish: bless me so that I can do seva for you." That's all. I do my seva. I don't expect anything. I have no expectation. He was surprised. Guruji, in the night, tried to meditate. Either I am wrong, Guruji, think of what kind of perceptions or receiving thoughts and energy. Maybe I am receiving the wrong energy. There is some other signal coming in. Third year, Gurujī asked him again, "My son, you are here all the time, nearly 24 hours." He said, "Yes, Gurudev, it's my great luck." But if you ask me so many times, then, Gurujī, I can tell you. That, you know, Gurujī, your family, it means his family. We always call, if my family, I don't say my family, I will say Gurujī, it's your family. My child, my children, I will not say my children, Gurujī, but we say your children, Gurujī. So that Gurujī, I'm all the times here, and I have two, three children, or you have two, three children at home. But through your blessing, everything is running, Gurujī said. It means you need some money. He said, "No, from you, no, no... your blessings only." But now, Gurujī, everything needs something. Gurujī said, "My son, bring that piece of paper and pencil." So he brought pencil and paper, and Gurujī took it. He wrote one and told him, "Keep this paper with you all the time. Don't lose it." It doesn't matter what will happen. Every day you will get automatically from where, don't think this, but every day you will get one rupee. At that time, if you worked a whole day, a whole day of hard work, you would get one or two paisa, and a hundred paisa is one rupee. So one rupee, he said, "I did not expect, Gurujī. Thank you, thank you." Now, from where and how does it come? Lakshmi comes. Gurudevjī, Vishnu and Lakshmi is his faithful one. Lakṣmī always follows. But when you become greedy and negative, the Lakṣmī will come, but then Lakṣmī will not come as Lakṣmī; she will come as Māyā. So Lakshmī brings happiness, harmony, joy, peace, and māyā brings destruction. Next Guru Pūrṇimā came, and Gurujī blessed all the bhaktas and asked him, "Have you any wish? Everything is okay? You are whole year here serving, doing the seva." He said, "I am doing only the seva, Gurujī. What can I wish you?" He said, "Gurujī, only bless me that in all lives and lives, I will serve you." But you know, Gurujī, slowly, slowly, you become very famous. Many people are coming to satsaṅg. But the way to the ashram is coming through this village, and on the way is my house. And all who come here, they become my friend. So they go to my house and come here. While going away, they again go to the house. It's your house, Gurujī. But as a respect to our friends, we have to give them eating or drinking, and so on. But everything will be okay, Gurujī. That's all I tell you. Gurujī understood what he... Gurujī said, "Do you remember? I gave you last year one piece of paper, have you?" "Yes, Gurudev." He was all the time carrying it. Yes, Gurudev, here it is. So, Gurujī wrote on it. Where it was one, he wrote one zero. How much did it become? Ten. Ten rupees! My God! If you work for three months, then you may get ten rupees. From where does it come? Maybe he has good crops in his field. There are many ways that you can do it. Lakshmī, you never know how she will bless your house and become happy. Now, what did he do? He built a little house. He made a big satsaṅg room, and he opened a small shop, Salimahar Market. The third guru put him up. Gurujī asked, "Is everything okay, my son?" He said, "Gurudev, by Guru's grace, there is everything. But you know, there is very hot and cold and raining and weather conditions." So, your daughter, meaning his wife, had suggested to make a little house, and people were coming, so we made one shop, and this. Guruji said, "You mean that ten rupees is not enough?" He said, "Everything is enough, Gurudev, but in material life, it's not enough." But I don't need anything. You just give me the seva, that's all. Guruji said, "Today is Guru Pūrṇimā, so bless you." Have you that piece of paper? Yes, Gurujī, that's always in my heart. Guruji said, "But didn't destroy with the water or not?" He said, "No, no, I will make a medallion." Always inside, and a locket. On your Guru Purnima, I bring it out. Well, he, Gurujī, wrote again one zero. Per day he will get one hundred, very much. One hundred at that time was like nearly one hundred thousand. He bought one factory. He employed some people and everything. So, fourth year again, Gurujī asked him, and he said, "Gurujī, you know, your children, they are grown, and everyone needs some work. Otherwise, they go to kuśaṅga." So I made one factory there, and there is one factory there. And the daughter is getting old; very soon she will be 18 or 19. We have to make a wedding, but all will be your blessing. Why should I worry? You have to worry, Gurudev. I don't worry. You take care of all your bhaktas. Have you the piece of paper? He said, "Yes, Gurujī, always with me." You can ask me anytime, midnight I have. Gurujī wrote again, zero. How much did it become now? Per day. On the fifth day, in the fifth year, ask again, then Gurujī gave the paper. Gurujī wrote one zero more. Ten thousand a day. You wouldn't get 10,000 in a whole year or five years. Now he became very rich, with so many factories and this and that. What happened? Slowly, slowly, he reduced his visits to the ashram. And nearly hardly one year, he came two, three times. That's all. And the bhaktas, like you all, may take him. She is Gurudev. Always you were saying, "This is your best disciple." And now you see, he has money, and he became rich, and he doesn't care about you at all. Gurujī said it's not like that, and I didn't expect anything. I blessed him. If he comes, it is his benefit. If he doesn't come, it is his loss. His decision, he did seva, I was happy, I blessed him, and so on. But they said, "At least he should come to the Guru Pūrṇimā." Gurujī said, "Don't worry." People asked him, "Why don't you go to Gurujī?" Ah, Gurujī is always sitting and talking. I have to look after my family, I have to look after my business, and so on. Okay, Gurujī is good, we can have one's darśan, and that's all. Keep in the heart, Gurujī is in my heart, even if I don't go to darśan on Guru Pūrṇimā day. With a big flower mala, sweets, and a basket full of different fruits, and one very nice shawl. And to Gurujī for Guru Pūrṇimā, Medhā Paññā. Guruji said, "My dear, the whole year you came only once or twice." He said, "Gurudev, I am so busy, I have no time." Always, I try to come to you when somebody telephones, and some meeting, and this and that. Gurudev, I have no time. Believe me, whenever I find time, I will always come. Guru said, "You have no time." He said, "Gurudev, this is a problem." Okay. Have you the piece of paper? Of course, Gurudev, that's always with me. Gurudev took the paper and he crossed out the one. He crossed the one. He said, "What is this, Gurudev? What did you write, Gurudev?" Gurudev said, "I wrote here a lot of time for you. Now you will have enough time." And day by day, he decreased everything. He came back to that point. All his workers were gone. Factories were sold. Properties were sold. Children went here and there. A man came to Gurudev within a year of his daughter's wedding. He sat and cried. Gurudev asked, "What happened?" He replied, "Guruji, I have too much time for seva." See how the mind functions? It is our inner greed that harms us. It is our inner anger that destroys us. It is our inner negativity that pollutes our consciousness. And it is that kuśaṅga—bad company—that directs our intellect toward negative things. For a while, temporarily, you are happy. "Now I have this, I have my money, my own business. I don't need this and that." But for how long? Destiny, karma, is waiting behind the door like a cat waiting for a mouse. Therefore, Devapurījī came to Kailāsa Āśram. There were beautiful satsaṅgs. Devapurījī used to go often to a village. There was a house of a very nice paṇḍit and Āyurvedic specialist. He was a very good Ayurveda doctor, and he had a brother who was very ill. Maybe, at that time, cancer was not known by that name. Perhaps there were cancers then too, but with little treatment, people died. The population was less because medical help was insufficient. Now people have longer lives because they get medical support. People used to die from appendix problems; now it is just an operation on the table. So, thanks to God, thanks to Mahāprabhujī, we have medical help around the whole world. Some people say, "No, this chemical medicine is not good." The allopathic medical system spends a lot of money, millions or billions of dollars, on research work. It is not just to destroy someone; they research how to save lives. In an emergency, all your homeopathy, Ayurveda, naturopathy cannot help you. Let an accident happen. Even the helicopter comes as an ambulance, takes you to the hospital, gives you medicine, and operates quickly to save your life. Which operation will naturopathy do in that case? So, it has an advantage, and it has a disadvantage. I am not one who criticizes allopathic medicine. Do not take medicine unnecessarily. You can be healed only when you coordinate with your doctor. Number one. Number two, do not think that the doctor alone will help you. The doctor says, "I cannot help you. I try to give you something, but you have to help yourself." And the doctor says, "You have to help me by doing what I tell you, by taking this medicine." Do not take it lightly; do not do this, do not do that. When we are a little healthier, we forget the doctor and jump into cold water here and there. And again, we go back: "Doctor, I have a heart problem." The doctor says, "I told you, don't do this." So we have to be a good friend and have great trust in our doctor. A doctor loves you. In the medical field, even if a doctor does not like you or you are an enemy, when the question of treatment comes, a real doctor will not see a conflict. Love is to help you, to give treatment to save your life. True? I do not know if there is any doctor here. We are all patients. Therefore, similarly, you have to give your confidence and faith to your Gurudev. And you have to follow the advice that Gurudev gives. Then you can be spiritually healthy. Therefore, yoga in life is for physical, mental, social, and spiritual health. Are we not saying this? So health is not everything, but everything is nothing without health. In Āyurveda, the first instruction, like Patañjali said "atha yoga nuśāsanam," the first is pehlā śukha nirogī kāyā. Āyurveda speaks of which kinds of happiness we have in life. The word śukha has no direct translation in English. There is not any word existing. But we can explain: "How are you?" "Oh, I am very happy, I am comfortable. I feel very pleasant. No problems. I am happy." But for happiness, we have another word. Sukha means all is in order. Everything is perfect. You are very comfortable, very good. That is Sukha. Sukha and Dukha. Dukha are troubles, and Sukha is without troubles. So, in Āyurveda it is said that the first happiness is a healthy body. The second happiness is that you have material things in your house, that you have what you need. If some guest comes, you can provide them a bed, a blanket, or a cup of tea. You make a cup of tea, but if you do not have a cup, you cannot give hot tea in hands like this. When you want to have a cup, you have to buy it, and the shop will not give you presents; you have to buy. So money is not bad; what is bad is how we utilize it. Money becomes a problem when we utilize it wrongly; then it is māyā. When we do good things with it, then it is Lakṣmī. Therefore, life rests on four pillars: dharma, artha, kāma, and mokṣa. Dharma means the right conduct. Artha is the material wealth. Wealth means comfort; you have everything for others also. Kāma is your desires and actions. And mokṣa is liberation. So, pehlā sukha nirogī kāyā, dūjā sukha ghare māyā. And tṛtīya sukha, there is a third one. Which one? Istrī ājñā kari. It means that your husband or your wife is obedient. What does obedience mean? Mutual understanding. How should your husband be, or how should your wife be? Someone asked a question to the great saint Kabīr Dās. We all know him. Kabīr Dās was sitting in the garden under a tree because the sun was shining so strong; it was hot. A man came and asked, "Gurujī, what means harmony, obedience, or mutual understanding between husband and wife? How should it be?" I think he had a problem with his wife. So Kabīr Dāsjī said, "OK, I will tell you. Sit down." After a few minutes, Kabīr Dāsjī called his wife and said, "Can you light an oil lamp, a kerosene oil lamp? Bring me light here and put it here." She went into the kitchen. She lit a lamp and put a glass over it so the wind would not blow it out. He said, "I need a light, please bring me a light." She brought it and put it there, and she went away. Kabīr Dās was sitting there. The man said, "But I am asking, Hari Maharaj, Bābājī, can you give me an answer?" He said, "I gave you the answer already." "You did not give me the answer." "I gave you. Look, I asked my wife to bring the light, and she did not ask a question. Now it is bright sun, and I said, 'For what do you need the light?' She did not ask anything. She just went and made light and brought it. That is mutual understanding. That is love, not questioning how, why, and so on. How, why, and but. So there is no 'but,' there is no 'why,' and there is no 'how'." Harmony exists between them. So the third happiness in the family is when the wife or husband has a very nice mutual understanding and harmony. Then the whole house is happy. In 1976 or 1977, I went with Māṭājī. In Austria, there was a lady; she has since died. She was a retired language professor, and we all still adore her as Ashram Matajī. She used to translate my English into German, and she said, "You must learn German." I said, "I do not want to learn." She said, "Okay, but you have to learn." I said, "No." Then she said, "Do not you want to make a driver's license?" I said, "Oh yeah, that is a good idea." She said, "Okay, then." I went to driving school, and they were talking German. I said, "I do not understand, Matajī." She said, "I told you, learn." She said, "Do not worry, we will do." Then she put the television on the children's programs. I was looking, and that is how I learned German. I do not know grammar, but I still can give a lecture in German, and they understand. They learn German in school or university. Anyhow, we were somewhere in a family house in Karenten, a very beautiful part of Austria. Austria is a beautiful country. Your country is also very beautiful, but compared with Austria, I must tell you, Austria is more beautiful. The truth is true, and beauty is in your heart. You know, when you love a person, that person is the most beautiful for you. I love your country also, and I love that country also, and I love the whole planet, the whole earth. It is beautiful. So Yoganandajī said, "Oh God, beautiful, everywhere beautiful." I was sitting there, and they put on the television for children at five o'clock in the afternoon. They had three daughters. One daughter, about three and a half years old, was sitting on my lap. We were looking at the television, and the others were sitting beside. In this children's program, there was something where the wife was fighting with the husband. This little three-and-a-half-year-old looked at me, pulled my beard, and said, "Swāmījī, Swāmījī." I said, "Yes." She said, "Exactly like this, my mother is fighting with my father. Always, mother is shouting at the father like this." I said, "Okay, it is not like that. I will tell." So, harmony between husband and wife. Chautā Sukh, the fourth one: Santan Agyakari. Your children also obediently follow the parents' instructions, with love, because no parents want to harm you. Every parent wants good things for you. When we were very small, at sunset, when it became dark, father said, "No going out, children finished." And now, if father or mother says, "No, not going out," they say, "Why? Who are you?" And they come home, you know, in this condition. You can see it Friday evening, Saturday evening. So this is the fourth sukha. The fifth: that you should have one cow at home, so that you have your own healthy milk for your health. So this is the fifth. The sixth: a good neighbor. Your neighbor is like your brother, mother, or father, like your own family. A good neighbor is part of your family. Sometimes there are neighbors who make so much disturbance that you sell your house and go somewhere else to buy. So lucky are they who have a good neighbor, a good society. So, Āyurveda gives these points: when you have these, then you have a perfect health condition. When you are constantly troubled by one of these, then a certain organ of the body suffers from that. Therefore, yoga in life is for social health, and that is very important for us. So Devapurījī went to that Āyurvedic doctor. He always used to go there and sit because that Āyurvedic doctor was a Sanskrit scholar. Whenever you went, he was always reading some nice holy book and talking. Devapurījī just went and sat outside. They came and gave him food. He said okay. You know, a bird sits on that branch where she feels comfortable and better. We go to sit where we feel a little happy, safe, and comfortable. We do not sit where there is not a good atmosphere, or there is a lot of chemical smell. Then we just move away. Everyone goes there according to their quality. One day, this Paṇḍitjī—his name was Jīvan Rāmjī; I saw him, he was a very great man—told Devapurījī, "Gurudev, my brother is very ill." Devapurījī said, "But you are Āyurveda, Vedyā, do something." He said, "Gurudev, I did all, I did all, and I am doing, of course." Devapurījī said, "Okay, I understand. Bring me one paisa, one paisa, like one cent." Then he said, "No, no, bring me two." So he gave him two paisas. Devapurījī took them and said, "Move these two paisa over his body." So he went—because the brother was in bed, he could not get up; he was very, very ill. So Paṇḍitjī, Jīvan Rāmjī, went and moved the coins over him and gave them back to Devapurījī. Devapurījī said, "Yes, now it is finished." And he put them in the earth—there is much sand near Kailash Ashram—so he put them in the earth. They are gone. "Tell him to bring me nice water to drink." Paṇḍitjī said, "Gurudev, he cannot get up." Devapurījī said, "I told him to go and tell him to come. I did not ask if he can get up or not. No, go tell him." So he said, "Gurujī, you want water to drink?" He said, "Of course." The brother stood up and walked, came like a completely healthy person, completely healthy. The whole village—the name of the village is called Bāī. Many times we have been there, bhaktas who came to India. Every time we used to visit his house. And Paṇḍitjī said, "Swāmijī, whenever you go here, you have to come." Of course, he was such a great person, and it did not matter how many bhaktas were with me. He said, "No, everyone has to eat, and then they will go." So sometimes I had to escape because they would consume my time. We would come, and then they would begin to cook, and then they would ask me to give satsaṅg, and then they would sing bhajans. They said, "No, no, it will be finished in half an hour of eating," but it would take four, five hours. But love, you know, as I told yesterday, Kṛṣṇa said in the entire universe no one can bind me, but there is only one thing that can, and that is love. I travel around the world. I come only for one soul. For Gyanananda used to come, and for Pantimata used to come, only these two. Why so long traveling? Because of that love. And always I am coming now, for so many years, 21 years is my love. Maybe some do not understand, or they break. They can break. I cannot break the love. That is a divine, eternal principle. So Paṇḍājī was very nice. Many of my bhaktas know him. He had no children, so he had one adopted child. He also studied Āyurveda Veda, very nice. If I sent him one postcard—because at that time there were no telephones—that I am coming, he would run twenty kilometers around to all the villages, saying, "Swāmījī is coming, Swāmījī is coming." You know, that was... even sometimes he forgot... So at home, that was a love, happiness to give prasād to everyone, that Gurudev is coming or Swamījī is coming. There is one bhajan: Devu badai Gurudev kī. I give whatever you ask, the presence. If someone brings me the message that Gurudev is coming... How is that bhajan? The bhajan is by Gajanandī. Very nice, that bhajan. Maybe I will look. The first strophe, I forgot how it goes. So, beautiful bhajan. This is how Devapurījī was, and Devapurījī did not ask anything for any eating or money. So that man brought water. Devapurījī said, "Okay, put it in my pot. You were lazy, lying in bed all the time. Go and work, hurry home." And Devapurījī went away. So Paṇḍitjī said, "Please wait, wait, eating." He said, "No, I am not eating today here because you will think that I gave him treatment and now you give me eating. No, hurry home, I am going, bye-bye." So the whole village of Bāī came to know who is the Bābā, Devapurī, the Gurudeva. Everyone, even now, the small children, when they come to know it is Devapurī, it is Bābā, oh, everyone had to be very careful. Because Bābā kī phaṭkā, he could do like this, and everyone is... so much respect, so much love. There are children who are there somewhere in other cities, and parents ask, "How are they?" "Yeah, very good." "You want them to come back?" "No, no, they are working, that is okay. They are happy." So, he who could see everything and ask for nothing, very simple. He had a small bag hanging, and he had his one eating pot, and he had his friends all with birds. Wherever he went, there was like a bunch of animals coming, moving. So Devapurījī is great. He is great. He is here, and therefore, when we take and meditate on him, or imagine his divine self under the neem tree and his dhūni, that is my meditation picture always. When I give a lecture, first I go to that dhūni and make a praṇām, and Devapurījī gives like this, both hands up, blessing, and I feel that light is falling on me and flower petals falling on me. That is always whenever I close my eyes and chant the Oṁ. You... I think Swamījī is concentrating now on the spine. No, I am into Devapurījī's seva there to get his blessing. Until I do not get this, I chant once more, "Oṁ." The third time is definitely there. Devapurījī, Mahāprabhujī, and Gurujī are all sitting here and blessing. They give me permission to talk, so it is great, great. Only they can understand who understand the Guru Tattva. Only that one knows who has a pain, and that one knows that Dr. J. Painkiller and now feels better. Right? So thank you, everybody. Bless you. In the name of Śrī Alagpurījī Siddhārtha Preethā, it was nice to be with you. For the next webcasting, I think it will take a few weeks until I come to the webcast, or it will be announced in a few days. My dear ones all around the whole world, much love and blessings. Deva Puruṣa Bhagavān Kī Chant, Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Chant, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Chant, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Chant, Oṁ Śānti.