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Satsang Is Within You

The greatest path is service and holy company. Divine incarnations manifest not to dominate but to serve, reminding all of the way to liberation. Service is measured as greater than liberation itself. Utilize time for good works so no time remains for bad. The mind's nature is to think; the intellect's to judge. Work with your hands and keep the divine name in your mouth. Seva is the highest duty, whether in an office, a field, or a business. To think "I am tired" is to miss the golden chance for service and awaken negative tendencies. The true home is not this body but the divine realm. Satsang is the boat that carries one to that shore. Create satsang within yourself; then happiness dawns and all negativity dissolves. Without the Guru's devotion, one is like an animal. The Guru's grace removes all doubts and suffering.

"Utilize your time for good things so that no time remains for bad things."

"Without Guru Bhakti, we are like animals."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Part 1: The Path of Seva and Satsaṅg Sab doṅ ban Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavāne kī jai, Śrī Śrī Deveśvara Mahādeva kī, Satguru Svāmī Madhvānandjī Bhagavāne kī jai. Blessings to all of you. Today is a very significant day. Yesterday was the full moon, and it was the day on which Hanumanjī incarnated—Hanuman Jayantī, Hanumanjī’s birthday. Hanuman, the great bhakta who made his great servant Śiva into God Rāma, is said to be the incarnation of Bhagavān Śiva. When Viṣṇu has to incarnate here, then Śiva comes for his seva, service; and when Śiva has to come, then Viṣṇu comes for Śiva’s service. That is the cosmic protocol: nityāvatāra and nimitāvatāra. These days were very significant. First, there was Navarātrī, the nine days of the Divine Mother. Then came Rāma Navamī, Bhagavān Rāma’s incarnation. The next day was Dharmarāja, the Lord of Justice, after Rāma’s incarnation. And after Dharmarāja comes Hanumānjī. Also, three days ago, it was the day of Bhagavān Mahāvīra, the Lord of Ahiṃsā, non-violence. There are many occasions during these two months when great saints incarnate. It means they come to remind us of the way to liberation. They do not come as dominating powers, but as a service. God Himself incarnates to do seva here on this planet. Our beloved Satguru Dev, Swami Śrī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān, used to give a beautiful example. God would like to show us what is greater: sevā or mokṣa. He measured both and found that seva, dharma, was more than mokṣa. Therefore, Bhagavān Himself quits His Vaikuṇṭha and incarnates to serve, to do sevā for all creatures on earth. God reminds us that we should do seva too. So, seva is the greatest thing we can do in our life. Dedicate your time. Use your time for good things so that no time remains for bad things. When one tries to retire for a day or two, saying, "I am tired, I want to relax, I don’t want to work," two things happen. You miss your golden chance of doing seva, and new vṛttis, mostly negative, awake in your mind. We must use our viveka to do seva. Seva Dharma is the greatest Dharma. When you work in your office, it is a seva you are doing for whoever has employed you—the company, the office, the government, or the private sector. They pay you for what? Your work is a seva. When you work as a farmer, it is the greatest seva. When you work as a businessman, it is also a seva. It is said paramārāt and svarāt go parallel. Paramārāt means selfless service, and svarāt means selfish service, but not in a negative way. It is your obligation, your dharma to serve society, your dharma to serve your family, and our dharma to look after all humanity as well as other creatures. So when one thinks, "I’m tired, I can’t anymore, I don’t want to do anything, I want to have a rest," sometimes people say, "Oh, I want to go somewhere for ten days." I am sorry for them. Holy Gurujī, our Sadguru Dev, when he first came to Europe, was in the beautiful city of Prague in the Czech Republic. Prague is known as a golden city, beautiful. Everything is beautiful, but Prague is something too beautiful. People asked Holy Gurujī if he would like to go sightseeing. Gurujī said, "I don’t want to see the sights. I want to see the street." They said, "No, there are beautiful buildings and this." Gurujī said, "I have seen so many things in my life. I want to see only one now: Gurudev, Girdhar and Śiva. Whether one stone is put this way, or one stone is put that way, that’s all." Similarly, our body is also created by that cosmic creator or cosmic engineer, beautifully. He put everything precisely where it should be in this body. He gave us two eyes in the front. If He had given them behind... He gave us a nose in the front; He didn’t give it on the side. So, everything has its beauty, but we have to see that ātmā. And for that ātmā, it is said: utilize your time for good things so that you don’t have any time for bad things. When you don’t meditate, you begin to think negatively: "Why this? Why not that? Why like this?" and so on. The human mind needs work, and that is the dharma of the mind. Saṅkalpa and vikalpa are the dharma of the mind, the principle of the mind. The dharma of the intellect is to give judgment. And the dharma of viveka is to show the truth. Therefore, for that, the great incarnations, great saints, and great souls come into this world. Around the whole world, God thinks there is only one place. But on this planet, there is a constellation—what we call the planets. Which planet is more focused on a particular part of this Earth? We will come to this point next time. Therefore, the Satguru who comes from Satya Loka brings the satsaṅg, the boat of satsaṅg, to take all aspirants and bhaktas to Brahma Loka. Satya Loka and Brahma Loka are the same. Therefore, we used to say, "Heart may roam or mind may ram, work in the hands and God’s name in your mouth." That is how we utilize our time. Fortunate are they that in this time come very great, very big blessings. Nityāvatāra are the saints. Nimitāvatāras are Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva, and so on. Our beloved Satguru Dev, Swami Madhavānandjī Bhagavān said, "Sukhsāgar Gurudev, hamāre ghar āp padārosa." Sukhsāgar means the ocean. There are many names: Sherk Sagar, the churning of the milky ocean. Sukha is happiness, pleasure—spiritual, divine. Sukhsāgar. It is a symbolic thing. In the ocean, many creatures are swimming, existing jalachara prāṇī. So where the senses are moving is Sukhasāgara, the ocean of happiness. From this Sukhasāgara, if you have heard, I spoke the last two months about Sudhārā Kriyā. Blessed are they who received this year’s Sudhārā Kriya. Beautiful Devpurījī bestowed this Kriya not long ago and told me, "Give this particular Bhakta this Sudhāras Kriya." What is Sudhāras? That is the divine ambrosia. Sukhsāgar Gurudev. Gurudev is the ocean of bliss. Please, Gurudev, come to my home. Where is your home? This body. Wherever you are, it is your home. Even if you are sitting under a tree, that is your home. Yes, we have the nest, and we are many, always going back to our nest. Many reside in this happy nest, but that is always wherever we go. We say, "Oh, now it’s comfortable." What you feel comfortable within thyself, you have to... Feel happiness under your skin. You have to quit a lot of negative feelings, energies, jealousy, hate, conflicts, and ego. And don’t be offended; always listen. Try to listen to what one is telling us. If you say, "No, this is not good. I don’t like this," it means inside is something disturbing. This kind of disturbance has to be rooted out, and that can only be in sūkṣmagara. In sūkṣāgāra is what we call Viṣṇu, Bhagavān Viṣṇu. He resides in sūkṣāgāra. So where Gurudev comes, Gurudev is Vishnu, Gurudev is Shiva, Gurudev is Brahma. Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu, Guru Devo Maheśvara, Guru Sākṣāt Para Brahma, Tasmai Śrī Guruve Namaha. Who understands, will understand; who can understand, who have no rubbish things inside. Those who have clarity, love, devotion, bhakti, knowledge, kindness, mercy, and compassion in the heart—that is what we need. I tell you little, and you are offended. I tell you when you are unhappy, you are sad. This, that, someone tells you. Still, you didn’t purify thyself. There are many spots on our mind, many spots, oily spots. There are spots that remain but still cannot be removed. That is so deep, impressed in our mind. Many, many lives we clean our mind, but still this fat, this pot is so hard to wash. Sukh Sāgar, when we go in the Sukh Sāgar, then everything is purified, pure, and that Sukh Sāgar is within you. Gurudev, or holy saints, or good people, when they appear, happiness comes. Sukhsagar Gurudev, hamare ghar aap padarosa, janam sudharosa, so that my life will be successful. Life is a journey, not a destination. This all is troubling throughout the entire universe. Where are you home? Nowhere. We are homeless. Homeless. Our home is there, Brahmaloka. Therefore, it is said that we have to go to that home. Sūkṣagar Gurudeva bhare jñānam sudhārośa pūrva-pūrṇase darśana pūrva-pūrṇase darśana pāyata sobhāra bhāgah marośa pūrṇāya. Pūrṇāya means pure, pūrṇāya means good, pūrṇāya means divine. Our best deeds, our best karmas from past life, that we are enjoying now; and what we will do now will come in the future. So fortunate are they who have such happiness, satsaṅg every day, satsaṅg everywhere, satsaṅg. If you have satsaṅg within you, you will never be unhappy. It doesn’t matter what happens. Ānandoham ānandoham ānandam brahmānandam. Where the ānand is, whatever comes, it dissolves. Wherever we are, let’s have satsaṅg within thyself. When you come out of satsaṅg and waste your time thinking negative things, then you are stuck in thorny bushes, and more and more hate, anger, and jealousy come. All rubbish things come out because satsaṅg is not within you. Love is not within you, Sukhsagar. Therefore, we are fortunate from our past deeds, O Gurudev, we have thy darśana. Darśana means the blessing. Darśana means the blessing—to see, and for many, many days, that beautiful energy surrounds. But occupy, waste your time not in the negative, but utilize your time in good things. That is my greatest luck. Śabd sunāyo bharam mitāyo karo ujarosa. Śabd sunāyo. Mantra. Śabda means word, one word. That is why Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī’s one of the disciples, Svāmī Śrī Śivānandjī Mahārāj, said, "They are my relatives." Who? Those who understand my language. Which language? The language of Śiva. The language of satsaṅg. Be like a sun. When the sun rises, darkness disappears. Wherever you come, the sun of happiness should come. If within you is satsaṅg, you are the dawn. Within you, the dawn comes. No stress, no nervousness, no depression, no pain, nothing. Happy, divine. That is why Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī Himself said, "When you have this śabda, which Gurudev gave, the mantra mastānā, then you are happy. No one can make you unhappy." Even when someone says you are stupid, you are like this, just smile, that’s all. If someone said, "You are stupid," then you said, "You are the bloody," then he will say, "You are the crazy," and so on. This is the actual reaction, getting more and more, and then the result: you are depressed. The result is you can’t meditate. The result is you can’t sleep. Therefore, you cannot prohibit someone from thinking like that, and we cannot prohibit someone from speaking like that. But at least we can, ourselves, speak those beautiful words. Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī said, "When you speak, it’s like beautiful flowers are falling from your mouth." Or, amṛta-vācana, your words are like nectar. But it comes only if it is inside; otherwise, it will not come like that. Our own thinking is our own problem. And our own thinking, our own problems, create the darkness and bad smell, the stink which is within someone that vomits outside. So be like the dawn sun. The dawn has gone. Night has gone, and dawn has come. Wake, my children, wake. Sitting in the āsana, meditating, gazing at my guru’s lotus feet. That is how to utilize the time. If someone is unhappy, you appear, and that is happiness for someone. But there are some whom even you can do anything for, and it is always like that. Some dogs have a tail like this; you hold it for a while, the tail should be straight. As long as you hold it straight, you leave it, and it will go back again. But such a person will never be happy. So, happiness is within you. Change thyself. What? Utilize your time for good things. That’s it. Satsaṅg. Śabd sunāyo bharam mitāyo. O Gurudev, your words, your satsaṅgs, your guruvākyas removed my doubts. Bharama means doubts. That comes to that Gurudev in that loka, because our real home is there. Here we are only travelers; we are tourists. So take the time to create satsaṅg within thyself, and you made the light within me. What kind of light? Knowledge, light of happiness, light of joy. Don’t allow your mind to have any negative feelings. When it comes, immediately delete it. You know the way, the buttons to delete. That is your mala, your mantra. Otherwise, it is said, "Duḥkha." You can be angry the whole day, but you are not forced to do this. That’s it. What a language. Rajasthani language is very good. Means in many, many lives. 8.4 million different lives, so he had many, many lives. Dukh payo, ghano means immense suffering, immense. I went through immense suffering, lakcha chaurasi ghano dukh payo, ye dukh aap nivāroṣa. O Gurudev, these troubles only you can remove now, you can free me. When we go, then our jīva knows, our inner self knows what we have experienced in the very, very past. Thanks to God, thanks to Mā Prabhujī, that we don’t know how it was. Otherwise, you will not have only depression, but you will need some operation. That’s it, and it is that from past life coming in you, more kind of feelings: negative, nervousness, this, that. Humbleness, kindness, be good. And it’s not easy to be good. Therefore, say simply, "Be good." That’s it. Lākh Chaurāsī Ghaṇo Dukh Pāyo. Lākh Chaurāsī Ghaṇo Dukh Pāyā. Ye dukh āp nivārosa. O Gurudev, please, only you can remove these troubles of mine. Part 2: The Path of Satsaṅg and Grace How? Through Satsaṅg. Through Guru Vākya. Follow the words of the wise person. Have the satsaṅg of the wise person. Spend time with the wise one. Otherwise, negativity will pollute and poison our thoughts. Jñānī se jñānī mile, kare jñān kī bāt. Ajñānī se ajñānī mile, yā gumāke lāṭ. When the wise one meets the wise one, they talk about wisdom and knowledge. And when the foolish one meets the foolish one, it is like donkeys boxing, hitting with their legs. That’s it. "Yagyā sab kar līnā. O Gurudev, all kinds of techniques I have done. Gayo nahi andhyārosa. But, O Gurudev, the darkness doesn’t disappear." You try to go here, you try to go there. Once a person phoned me, saying, "I would like to go to South India." I asked, "What will you do there?" The German philosopher Goethe said, to see the blue sky, you need not go anywhere. Everywhere is the blue sky. Gagana sadṛśyam brahmānandam parama śukadam kevalam jñānam urtim dvandātītam gagana sadṛśyam. Tasmād yadi lakṣyam... That’s my aim, that’s my destination: Gaganasadṛśyam, to become one like the sky. The sky has no duality, samdrashti. That’s why the great saint Surdhasi said: "Prabhujī mere augun chitna dharo, samdrashti hai nām tyāro, chāhe to par karo Prabhujī moe, mere augun chitna dharo." O Gurudeva, O God, O Prabhu, please do not notice or take into you my bad qualities, my avaguṇas. Guṇa means best quality, avaguṇa means negative quality. We all still have those negative qualities, but the wise Gurudeva, silently and peacefully observing, just ignores our negative qualities, always supporting. Children make a lot of noise and mistakes, but parents always support and love them. Prabhujī, mere avaguṇa chitnā dharo, samadṛṣṭi hai nāma tyāro, chāhe to pāra karo. The same Surda said, "I am like a bird on a big ship or a ferry, a big ferry, which is in the middle of the ocean—a thousand kilometers this side, a thousand kilometers that side." Birds don’t like that boat and would like to fly away. After a hundred kilometers, there is nowhere for shelter. Again, he comes and sits on that boat. So, if you try to go away, okay, go, go into Chaurāsī again. Then again, you will search, "Where is my Gurudev’s satsaṅg?" Again, you will come and sit on this boat. That’s it. Where is my satsaṅg? They all are longing for this. Therefore, even our Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī of Baḍikāṭṭu said, "What a great thing." Don’t waste your time flying away into Kusanga. Remain there. Of course, you are free. No one prohibits, no one stops those birds from flying away. You fly away, but where? That’s it. Lakha Chaurasi. Gayo nahi andhya rusa. Jana prakāśa karo ghaṭa vitara. Ghaṭ means the heart. Jana means the knowledge, and prakāś means the light. Enlighten my heart not with torch light, but with the light of wisdom, Jñāna Prakāśa—that is the light of Brahman. Very often we think of enlightenment as a divine light you see, and everybody says, "Gurudeva, I don’t see anything, even though I have been meditating for so long." Once someone asked Gurujī, "Gurujī, I don’t see anything." So Gurujī said, "Then open your eyes, you will see everything." So it is not what we are expecting. You sit and say, "Oh, the sun is rising and this." This is only dhāraṇā, not even concentration. The dharana, the concentration we are trying and struggling with, and dhyāna—there is a great difference. Many people think, "Oh, I am an expert of Aṣṭāṅga Yoga, Rāja Yoga." I will give a lecture on Rāja Yoga. Did you realize that? Intellectual knowledge is a plastic apple, and the real bhakti knowledge is the real apple. Therefore, it is said: "Bhaktiro dāna data dījiyo māra Gurudeva kā deva janma dhāra visarunahi." Gurudev, give me thy blessing of bhakti so that even if I have next lives, I do not separate from you. I don’t separate from my boat. Be sure that the captain is the Satguru Dev, who will bring you to the mainland, Brahmaloka. Jñāna Prakāśa Karo Ghar Bittar, Soham Śabda Īśaroṣa. So, the light in my heart and Soham Śabda: "I am that, that I am," given the realization. That will come if you follow. Create satsaṅg within thyself, within you. Otherwise, we are all struggling and trying to serve something and survive. We are struggling to survive, but we have no service. We don’t even have a service to ourself. A service to thyself is to serve others. That is a service. And many people are so crazy and angry and have conflict and are jealous if someone is helping, serving someone. They ask, "Why is this person serving?" The person is not your servant. Oh God! Why are you saying this? Because one is jealous. One thinks, "Why don’t they serve me?" The human mind, human intellect—the human mind is a very complicated point. "Aap bina ab kaun hamaro?" O Gurudev, without you, no one is mine. Who will listen to my call? Yes, who will listen to the call of my soul? Who is my savior? Wherever I come, there is negative talking. Wherever I come, there is criticizing. When they meet me, they say, "Oh, Swamiji, you are beautiful and very nice. You are wise and great." You know, no one likes that person. I say, don’t say this. When you come to me, you try to make me happy. And when you go to others, make that person happy and say, "Oh, my Swāmījī, you are nothing like..." This is hypocrisy. That is not good. Create oneness and happiness. The waves, high waves and hurricanes, are on the surface of the ocean. On the bottom is a very peaceful, very peaceful ocean. Therefore, your heart, your thoughts, everything should be very peaceful and balanced. If someone tells you to act negatively, say, "For what?" How many days do we have to live in this life? We will pack our things and continue our journey endlessly until we reach our destination. So, as long as we live here, create a good atmosphere, happiness, and wisdom. So without you, who is mine, who can listen to me, O Lord? "Lakhon bhakt aap aage gubariya, abke mero barosa." Countless bhaktas you liberated in the past, merciful one. This time is my term. I come to thee, O Lord. My life can only be successful if you give me shelter, O Lord. Listen to my prayers. Listen to my heart. "Bar bar mein karoon binati, daya karo sa." Bar bar, again and again. Again and again. And again and again. Bar bar, again and again. I request, I pray to thee, as Gurujī said, "Svāso svāsa apakā sumaraṇa." My each and every breath, inhalation and exhalation, thy name, O Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī. Svāsa Osāsa, ascending and descending breath. No breath should go empty without thy name. Svāsa Osāsa, Āpka Śubhanām. So, bar bar karu me binati, again and again I am requesting you, O Lord. Daya, vichārośa, please have mercy on me. Now, that is a bhakta’s pukār. Others cannot. Others cannot. Others think, "I don’t need your daya. I have my own daya." Okay, yes. It’s hard, and it is not hard at all. It’s we who make that hardness. Within us, we throw the rock on our own path. We are the rock. We are the obstacles to our own destination. "Śaraṇa āyako nahīṁ tyāgolā, lajelā virād tumhāro sa." O Lord, who comes to thee, who takes shelter in thee, you will not reject the person. Otherwise, thy glory, thy blessings will not be acceptable. Because you are not the one who will push me away. However, whatever I am, I know that thy heart is viśāl, endless. And I am sure that there is a place for me too. Yes. Therefore, Gurudev will never say, "Go away, I don’t want to see you." Anger to hai nahi, krodh to hai nahi. Krodha is that kind of fire in which many, many burn. And when your krodha comes, then all the rākṣasas of vṛttis are awakened. And why did the krodha come? Because now you have time for krodha. You don’t have time for love. Instead of krodha, why don’t you think of mercy, peace? So, Lord, you cannot be like that. Otherwise, everyone will be disappointed that God has no mercy. "Saran aapko nahīṃ chhoḍegā, chāhe aap maro chāhe taro sa." Now I will not renounce thy shelter. It doesn’t matter if I have to die or I have to leave. That’s it. I am sure you will let me cross this ocean. And tarasa means to cross the ocean. "Bhavasāgar me ḍubho jātāhoon." O Lord, in this bhavasāgar, the ocean of this saṃsāra, this world, in the worldly ocean, I am sinking deep and deep in the water. "Bhavasāgara meṁ ḍubho jātā hūṁ, nahīṁ sujhe kinārā." I try alone to swim. Now I have no strength alone to go. I am sinking in the water. I can’t see the shore. Only you can bring me to the shore. "Par utāro sa." Oh my lord, oh giver of everything. Please bring me to the mainland. "Mājī, oh mājī, kitnā dūr kinārā, moī dūr nagriyān jānā hai. Kāle-kāle badal sāy rahrā, vijalī chamkatī hai. Badi tarangid..." Where is the peaceful shore? I have to go to the far distant black clouds of ignorance. The lightning of my anger, hate, and doubts. Lomba Dariya, endless ocean. Śānta kinārā kahā hai? Where is a peaceful soul? Where we want to come, and all this is happening within us, not outside. That’s it. You know, it is said, "Yathā brahmāṇḍe, tathā piṇḍe." The entire universe, whatever is existing, is existing in this body. People say stupid things, "Does such a thing exist? The universe is so big." You know, in search of it, hang on—modern science has proved something, yogīs have proved something. That is proof that yathā brahmāṇḍe, tathā piṇḍe. There is one little stick for the computer. How many thousands of books are recorded in this little stick? There are many, many whole libraries in this little stick. Forty years ago, twenty years ago, if one would say, "Think, 100,000 books in this little stick?"—crazy person. No? But now everything is there inside. Again we come to this point. What wonderful knowledge and wisdom of the ṛṣis. Pravda, that’s it. But you have to look within thyself, don’t look outside. These are the thieves in my body, myself. Take the axe of jñāna, the wisdom. Kill them with the wisdom, the knowledge. Yes, jñāna is the only way. Knowledge is the only way to remove all these negative qualities. They are thieves. They will steal from us everything. "Jñāna, bhakti, vairāgya, dhāraṇā, mujh meṁ padharosa." O Gurudev, jñāna, bhakti, vairāgya, dhāraṇā, mujh meṁ padharosa. Let this all develop in me: jñāna, bhakti, vairāgya, dhāraṇā. Concentration, and all the time. Dharana also means to accept. Dharana karna, accept it. "Guru bhakti bina paśu samāna." Therefore, Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī says, we pray to Bhagavān, our Satguru Dev Swāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān. "Guru bhakti binā paśu samāna." Without Guru Dev’s bhakti, we are like animals. Because animals do not have guru bhakti. Mother, father, brother, sister, husband, wife—you will see, find them in all other lives. Gurudev—only in the human life. "Guru bhakti bina paśu samāna vṛtha jayaham. Jamarosah." Without guru bhakti, my life is going away. Vṛthā, senseless. Senseless. I, nāhī ke barābar. We came here, but like nothing. To live life, all creatures are doing. But humans, you have something special. Enjoy that. Feel that. Be proud of that. Be happy with that. That is only through peace. And that’s why our Gurudev always used to say, "Holy Gurujī, peace and bliss are the result of satsaṅg." Peace and bliss, śānti and ānanda. It is a result that we get from the satsaṅg. From kuṣaṅga you will not have peace, and you will create more restlessness in others too. Thousands of things you can do, but there is no result. Which result are you looking for? Which result are you waiting for? Which result would you like to have, because there is no Guru Bhakti? "Shri Pūjya Deep Nārāyan, āp binā nahīṁ marosāṅ." Therefore, Sadgurūjī said, Bhagavān Mādhavānandajī said, "Shrī Pūjya universally worshipped Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī, no one is mine without you, O Merciful Mahāprabhujī. Be merciful to me." Who said? Gurūjī. I pray to thee, please remove all the trouble and bless me with all these qualities. "Sukh Sāgar Gurudev, āp hamāre ghar pada rosha." And therefore, O Gurudev, come to me. "Bharam mitavoṣa," remove all my doubts. Therefore, all we sing... I am the one who makes things bad... (Repeated line). Amma Shri Pūjā Dīpā Dayālu Dāt, Shri Pūjā Dīpā Dayālu Dāt, Laka Parnām, Charame Laka Dīp, Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī, Satguru Swāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī, Devādidev Śiv Śavarūp Dev Purīṣa Mahādev Kī... Saṅgh is the source of peace, bliss, and enlightenment. This all comes through good nourishment, good eating. Some people go from here to Pali and Jodhpur, and immediately, where do they go? To get ice cream. Where do they go? To eat something. What you ate here in the ashram, such beautiful organic vegetables—hard work done by our sister Pushpa. We thank her for the good things she is doing for all of us. You don’t realize. She is one with all this to create health. Physical health reflects on mental health. And mental health reflects on our spiritual health. And spiritual health reflects on our divine cosmic health. So, you see, when the vegetable comes from Pushpa’s garden, my God, the taste—baingan. Around the world I travel so much, and everywhere they are making baingan sabjī, but like Pushpa’s baingan sabjī, you can’t replace it with any other baingan. Yes, in Fiji, I had that organic baingan, and when they made the sabzī, I remembered, oh, it’s the dear Pushpa’s taste of the Pushpa sabzī. So that’s why you have all satsaṅg and good feelings, thanks to Pushpa and, of course, thanks to all others who are working for that, and thanks to those who are consuming this. So, all the best and bless you. And if Mahāprabhujī blesses us, maybe tomorrow I will translate another bhajan. Today is the time to retire. Om Śānti, Śānti, Śānti.

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