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We remember and celebrate what has happened. This is beautiful and very good. Just as every house celebrates birthdays, Guru-pūrṇimā is that which unites the aspirant’s consciousness with the cosmic consciousness. Guru-tattva is the highest tattva, or element, and guru-jñāna is the highest knowledge because it is the knowledge of Brahman, Ātmā, and Paramātmā. A yogī is one who removes the duality between ātmā and paramātmā and realizes non-duality. That is called self-realization, and it is only possible through guru-jñāna and guru-tattva. That guru tattva is not comparable to the physical body. The physical body is composed of the same five elements, five karma indriyas, five jñāna indriyas, and experiences hunger, thirst, heat, and cold—all because this is prakṛti. But Jñāna Yoga, according to the Sat Sampatti, says that in each and every creature’s entity, there is God’s light. However, we offer adoration to that heart in which God Himself speaks. Mahāprabhujī said himself, "Aisā merā sadguru andar bole." So we adore that one. Imagine one box came to me filled with diamonds. A second box came containing only some mitāī sweets. The box full of diamonds we would immediately put under a light, carry carefully, and place in a locker. The box with sweets? We might open it and distribute it as prasāda. The boxes are both made of paper and are the same; the difference is what is inside. Similarly, the body, made of pañca tattva, is the same. But what is within—that light—is what is adorable and worshipable. The Ātmā is within, and that we have to realize. The one who has this real light is whom we preserve and take care of. We take great care of the box full of diamonds. The box with only a little sweet inside, we simply share. The boxes are the same; we save one carefully because of its contents. Similarly, it is the time to protect the holy saints and holy books. In this Kali Yuga, things are getting lost day by day. One does not become holy through cloth or uniform, but from within. Secondly, God Viṣṇu incarnates as a boar, Varāha Avatāra, and brings the earth out of the ocean. When the Varāha Avatāra occurred, sunlight touched the earth for the first time: Tamaso mā jyotir gamaya. That day is a Guru Pūrṇimā. Thirdly, we mostly remember Bhagavān Ved Vyāsa, who wrote the Vedas and is Trikāl Darśī, the seer of all three worlds. We adore him, and that too is Guru Pūrṇimā. The message is that every disciple, at least on this Guru Pūrṇimā, should be with Gurudeva, or remember, celebrate, and perform pūjā. One does not become a guru by merely being given a position. It comes through sādhanā, through what is inside. There are many so-called self-made gurus. There is a story. Should I tell you? You like stories? Then I must tell you. But I think I ordered some water. This water is now drinkable, cold, and without any sweet inside. So it has to be warm. This story was told by an old man from my birthplace who died when we were little children. In many countries where the summer is nice and warm, people sit together. In little villages, people would gather and talk, someone would tell stories or poems. Such a story remains in our memories; sometimes it comes out. They are records. That man, unfortunately, died. He was a genie who knew many, many stories. He told one story about a self-made guru. There was a king who had a lot of jewelry and sat on his throne. One day, the king came with his horse to a small lake to give it water. The king got off. "Chupchap raho," one needs to be quiet, but still he was not quiet; he needed a cap. He was a Mexican, so there was a wolf there. He killed the king and declared himself the king of the animals. He wanted to sit as a king, but he was in the jungle. He said that what the king had done was that he was a very big lion. What did he do with his hands and teeth? He told his sons, "The animals that fought in the jungle, the dogs that were killed—why did you take them?" Allah made a fort out of them. He said, "If the king was alive, there would have been an ashram up there, with golden bedsheets." He said, "Why did you do that? Because there was a stone in the house." He said, "I don’t know where it is, but the whole village took it." It was dirty. He said, "Why did you take that stone?" He said, "Sit down." I said, "Keep the pearl of the king in your ears." He said, "What is this pearl?" I said, "What is it in your ears?" He said, "A chandelier." I said, "Bring me a box." He hung one and a half. I said, "Now sit down." He hung one and a half in his throat. I said, whoever drinks water in the pond has to pay tax. Which tax should I pay? I asked him to give me a name, and he said, "No, I don’t have a name." He said, "The moon is going to rise." And there is a big garland, and he forgot one word. Mahārāja Bīrajīya Khāmā Ghānī. He said, "Drink water and go." Now, I came to Lombdi. Lombdi said, "Oh son, he is here." He didn’t say anything. He just said, "Yes, I am leaving." He was sitting there making a face. He said, "If you come here one day, I will take you away from here." I will make you run away, but what will you do if you run away? He was sitting there, strong. He said, "I have come to drink some water." He said, "First tell me my name." He said, "First drink some water, and then tell me your name." He said, "Drink it." He said, "What are you doing? Have you drunk water?" When he woke up to drink water, he said, "What should I say?" I said, "What should I say?" He said, "Move aside, you children." I said, get out of my way. There is a dead girl hanging from the corner here. I said, "What should I say?" He got up and started running. He was running and running. He was sitting in a chair. I said, "What should I say?" He said, "What should I say?" He said, "There is a king’s chair." It took me three months to get up, and six months to get up. I kept thinking that I would not eat anything for the next three months. So, the animal was very angry with everyone. So, I thought, sitting there for five to six hours, I will sit down and eat. Ambe, baḷāmdī man mein vichār kare ki re kī ke bhagavāno, hatāu. The one who has long hair says, "Oh, it’s amazing!" Where did you get it from? He says, "Where did you get it from?" He says, "Where did you get it from?" A yogī has come, with two or three clothes, and two or three dogs in his hands, and a stick. He says, "Where did you get it from?" He says, "Where did you get it from?" He says, "Where did you get it from?" He says, "Here it is." So in the same way, that Guru will play with you for a little while, but you will have to run away. That’s why whoever says that I am the Guru, he is not a Guru. A hero does not say, "I am a hero." He does not say, "I am a big hero." A big hero says, "When did Rahim and Hira go?" That’s why the meaning of a saint is a calm nature. As long as you have a body, sing the praises of Gurudev. Become a Guru yourself. If you give a blessing, then give it to Gurudev. He didn’t say, "Give me your blessings." Give me your blessings so that I can be a mother and a father. I will bless you in the form of a mother and a father. But a saint will say, "You have the blessings of Gurudev." I will bless you with the blessings of Gurudev. When Bābājī used to go to Bombay and other places, people used to say, "Bābājī, give me the mantra and Guru Dīkṣā." Gurujī used to say, "Gurudev, sit down, Mahāprabhujī." Why should I sit? I am your disciple. Till now, there are many disciples. Gurujī said, "No, let’s go to Mahāprabhujī." I have a disciple who has gone to the Ahmedabad āśram. He is a disciple. He said, "Bapujī, I want to go out today." Gurujī said, "Why?" He said, "There is a program here." I said, "Bapujī, go." But Guru is not in Pune. He said, "Yes, Bapuji." He said, "I will come to Ahmedabad," and he himself did satsaṅg. My brother-in-law came to the ashram and did satsaṅg. My father-in-law said, "Where are you going? There is a satsaṅg at night." Go to Guru Purnima. My father-in-law was very happy. I told my father-in-law that I am going to Guru Pūrṇimā. He said, "You are sitting in Ahmedabad ashram for one day." He said, "I will come in the afternoon." I told him, "Where are you going?" He said, "I am going to do satsaṅg." I told him, "That is a good deed." Today, Guru Pūrṇimā has come to you, and if you request him, he will take you and leave you. But he said, when Bābājī came, he didn’t ask me. I didn’t ask him anything. That’s right. That’s why, when a person feels this way about the Guru, then he leaves the Guru. That’s why, be humble, be simple, and don’t be proud. Today, we say, I do this, I do that. You can watch it on television. I am sitting here as your brother. That’s why everyone gets the blessings of the Satguru. Rajendra jī, please sit in the satsaṅg. Hello. Please close the door. I will come soon. Why should I close the door? No problem. So the story you want to hear, I want to tell you in English, and I begin to tell the story. People in Hindi, my God, that is something. So there was a fox, and there was one Śakal (jackal). One day, Śakal was thinking, "I want to become a king." But there was a king already. The king came riding on horseback to a small pond, a talāb, and he got off the horse. He wanted to give water to the horse, and the Śakal attacked the king and killed him. He said, "I am the king of this lake." He announced, "Everyone, everyone has to sing my glory before they drink water, otherwise I will punish them, I will kill them." So all animals—rabbits, deer, and other little animals—came to drink, and he troubled them. He collected many of his family members. They said that the king used to sit on a beautiful throne made from ivory with golden shawls and pillows and everything. The king had a beautiful head with a turban, oh my god. And they said, "Oh, he has the 12 hanging in his orange and a necklace from the pearls, so he wants to make the same thing, imitation knuckle, but not gonna turn it up a little. Take reckoning, Mahāprabhujī, kiyo ki just mom, a just my. Full name of Kai Kiyo Kigur Kiyo. Negate both, both. Oh boy, oh, oh. I said I need to knuckle, but I won’t need to do top on." Now what this did, the fox and that Sakal, he hanged the dead water frogs in his ears as jewelry and a mala of some dead animals from the water and forest. He collected all the dead animals’ bones and made a nice throne. He went towards the village and got the coat of all humans to make it nice, like a golden place. So, he said that everyone who comes should sing my glory: that ivory chair, golden colored, diamonds and pearls in the hair, and so on, sitting my Lord here, my Gurudev, self-made Guru. Everyone, when animals come, first they have to sing his glory, and then they have to drink water. Otherwise, he doesn’t allow. One day, normally, the fox came, and the fox was thinking, "Today, I will move him from here." You know, the fox is very clever. The fox was sitting on the other side of the water lake. A love, Chotita, small like this, the love, came and began to drink water. And as a Sakal Syar, he said, "Hey, Lamri, how do you dare to drink water first? Sing the glory of the king." Lamrī said, "Which king?" He said, "I." He said, "Oh, yes, yes,... yes." Sorry, Your Highness, I have forgotten. But I can’t sing, I am so thirsty, my throat is drying. Let me drink, and then I will peacefully, nicely sing in good melody your glory, and then I will go. So, that Sakal said, "Oh, good melody. I would like to hear your good melody, my darling." So, the fox drank water and sat under the shadow. Now he said, "Now sing." He said, "Let me rest a little." So, five minutes. I must drink a little more. He said, "No, no..." "I will kill you," he said. "When you kill, who will sing your glory, Lord?" Okay, drink. So he drank the water. Now the fox was sitting on the edge of the lake and said, "All that it is, the chair is out of the animal’s bone, and the golden color is a human’s excrement. Dead animals are hanging in the air as a necklace and sitting as a cow." He said, "What?" He said, "Yes." Now the Sakal ran behind whom? The fox. The fox was running quicker than the jackal. It came to a big tree, a thorny tree like we call Khejari in Rajasthan here. So the fox climbed up and sat there. Sakal came there and said, "I can’t go up, but I will bring him down, and I will kill this fox." So Sakal said, "Okay, it will take me three months to sit down and six months to get up comfortably." Now the fox is thinking, "My God, three months and six, nine months. I can’t come down, and he will kill me. I will have nothing to eat; I will die." So, the clever fox said, "Wait." He waited for a few hours. It was four o’clock in the afternoon. Fox said, "Oh, my God." And the Sarkar said, "What?" He said, "No, no. Sit peacefully." He said, "Oh." And again the Sarkar said, "What?" He said, "No, no, it’s okay. Oh my God. What? Tell me." He said, "Oh God. Some hunter is coming, white lugi and yellow shirt. Two or three hunting dogs, oh God, coming towards this tree." And Sakar said, "How far?" "Not very far." He said, "Don’t scream," and he ran away from the tree. So, self-made gurus are only just like this. We are all disciples; we are not a guru. Gurudev is here, you see—Vālī Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī. When you go out of your body, then your disciple will realize and say, yes, you are my Gurudeva. You can feel, you can see, but the Guru will not say that, yes, I am your Guru. A diamond never says that I am a diamond. And so, Guru Pūrṇimā began, one of the most spiritual festivals, especially for all spiritual experience. I welcome you from many different countries and our Indian brothers and sisters. So, welcome, and I wish you a very good celebration today and tomorrow. For Europeans, it will be about morning. We have a 7 o’clock prayer here at 6:37, and after that, I will give you separate time, all international bhaktas, so that you can have your welcoming and greetings and guru pūjā, whatever you want. And after, I will dedicate time for our Indian local bhaktas. Okay? Then, in the daytime, you need not sit. You can go, eat, walk, and then again come and sit. Evening today also will be bhajan satsaṅg. Tomorrow will be especially whole night, so this is a little bit of a program. There will be a webcast with many pravacans. Swāmī Jaswant Purī is on the way. He will be coming also. You are here. Give pravachan. Premanājī will give beautiful pravachan in Hindi. Yogis will give in Marwari. Dr. Shanti will also give in German and English. And many, many other sādhus are here sitting. They will also give pravachan. That is always very good. So feel free, happy, and welcome, and I give you the blessing of Gurudeva for your spiritual development. Guru Pūrṇimā. Saṅkalpa: we have this year that every disciple and practitioner of yoga in their life, millions of them, they should make a saṅkalpa that this coming year, from today Guru Pūrṇimā till next Guru Pūrṇimā, eleven trees they should plant anywhere in the world, wherever you are. In the forest, near the rivers, in the garden, anywhere where you can plant local trees, minimum eleven, maximum numberless. And let us know next Guru Pūrṇimā how many trees you planted, so that we can give a protection of the environment as a practical example of what we are doing. So, on this Guru Pūrṇimā, you have to take a resolution. That resolution is that I will plant at least eleven trees. At least eleven. Plant them together in the forest, in your house, in your garden. Plant 11 trees anywhere. If you plant more, it is a very good thing. This is the resolution of the Guru Pūrṇimā for the protection of the environment, for the rains. And next year, please tell us how much you have put in, so that on the day of Guru Pūrṇimā, we will tell the record that so many lakhs of trees have been planted in the whole world with this Guru Pūrṇimā Śaṅkar. Okay? Did I say it right or wrong? Yes. Number 2, at 7 a.m., there will be Sadguru Āratī. At 6:30 AM, there will be Śiva Āratī. After that āratī, I will give them half an hour or an hour of time in solitude so that they can do their darśan and give blessings to others. At that time, please do not hesitate to come. And after that, I will come here. As the devotees will come, they will keep doing darśana, there will be pravacana, but do not speak. You have received the blessings, and you will continue to do so, but do not stand in the crowd. I say, Armaan Singh ji, sit down and say, "Did you come yesterday?" He says, "Yes, sir." He says, "You have done a very good job. Go and clean the mess." Get up and sit down. Because those who will come first will have to be given an officer. Later on, if there is peace, they will be given a double or a double. It is not a big deal. But those who are coming first, there are a lot of people who will come and go. I don’t want to say, "Okay, go." Yes, go, go,... go. One is made of cashew nuts, and the other is made from the halwā of a singhala. In the evening, the same food will be served to the devotees. Even then, if the devotees don’t want to eat bread, then they are allowed to not eat it. If someone tells me that he wants to eat my bread, then I will eat it. All the arrangements are there. But generally, we have made it clear that on the day of Pūrṇimā, we should not break the fast of the devotees. Isn’t that right? So tomorrow, after the āratī, you will get tea and you will get some prasāda for breakfast. Tomorrow morning is Guru Pūrṇimā, and we know that every Pūrṇimā we are fasting. So tomorrow is also a fasting day. But we have made a fasting food, and that is called a special halwa from a special nut which grows like a water lily. And some from the sabudana, the sabu barley, will be so that, of course, if you want to eat, you can have a little bit, something. Tea will be there. Don’t eat one person, five melons. When fasting, I see you are all the time eating bananas. How do I know? Because I see the banana skin, how much is lying there. So tapasyā, titikṣā, that’s a sādhanā. So don’t go and take your suitcase and take all the chocolate and biscuits out. Poor mouse, you know, they will not find out anything tomorrow. So liquid you can have, solid after, but still there will be current, kind of halwa, solid. You can have a little, but not three times: not morning breakfast, and then after the breakfast, and then lunchtime, and then afternoon, and then we’ll be eating, and then again. So that is not fasting, okay? So you can sit, you can have a satsaṅg, bhajans, or you can go to sleep. All dear devotees around the world, through the webcast with us, we wish you a very beautiful, good Guru Pūrṇimā, and we will see you tomorrow again. Today we finished our program. Now, Deep Nayan Bhagavān Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai.