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Om Śubhaṃ Karoti Kalyāṇam Ārogyam Dhana Sampadā Śatru Buddhi Vināśāya Dīpa Jyoti Namostute. Dīpa Jyoti Parabrahma Dīpaṃ Sarve Mohanam, Dīpānāṃ Sajjate Sarvaṃ Sandhyā Dīpaṃ Sarva Satyam. Om Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ,... Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jai, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai. Good evening, all dear ones here in this hall and around the world. Good morning, good evening, good afternoon, wherever you are, whatever time it is. Welcome again to the satsaṅg. There are four which incarnate on this earth for Paramārtha. The word Paramārtha is very beautiful and has a very great meaning. Paramārtha. Param is the supreme, God. And artha is the wealth, the material. It means to dedicate, surrender, spend, donate, and work for the well-being of the entire earth. The first is said to be the Sarovara. Sarovara is a lake, a river, a pond, an ocean. The lake does not drink water itself, but keeps the water for all creatures. Anyone can come to drink, swim, wash, or take away water; plants can also. The lake will not say, "No, you are a sinner, don't come to me. You are dirty. Don't come to me. You are spiritual, you can come, but the non-believers should not come to me." A lake will never make such differences. There was a great saint, a Sufi saint in Turkey. The place is called Konya, and his name was Mavlānā. His famous sentence was this: "It doesn't matter how you are, come to me." You come as you are—good, bad, thief, criminal, anything. Come to me, because I love you all and I welcome you in love. He created a beautiful dance in the Sufi tradition, called the Whirling. Have you seen the Whirling dance? They wear a long white dress, a chola or kurta or jubba, they call it a kaptaan, with long arms. Those who are there practice it. They stand with their head hanging a little bit, and then they begin to turn. Thirty or forty people together in one circle, they are only turning, moving one step at a time, for one hour. They don't become dizzy, they don't fall down; they are in the divine. They are like a bird in the sky, and they have their mantra. Those who have seen this dance will know what it is. If we don't know how to turn, and those who have high blood pressure should not turn, because after one turn, a second turn, you will become dizzy and roll down. So, the Sarovara, the lake, will never reject anyone. We throw dirt inside it, or we throw stones inside it. The heart of the lake is for all. Sarovara, Taruvara. Taruvara is a tree. A tree stands in every circumstance, peacefully. It's hot, cold, rainy, dry, night, day, war; it doesn't run away. How many millions of tiny creatures are living in its body, meaning in the tree? Many birds, nests, fruits, humans, and animals find nice shade, and the tree gives oxygen. When the tree has fruits, many people—and we used to—throw stones to make the fruit fall down. The tree is not angry. The tree will not catch the stone and throw it back at you, because it gives. It exists for that. Therefore, the lake is holy and the tree is holy. Sarovara, Taruvara, Śāntajana. The second is the saint, the sādhus. They preach for all. In satsaṅg, anyone can come and listen. The fourth is the rain. Chauthā varṣe me is the rain. When it rains here, and somewhere there is dirt on one side or corner of this house, the rain will not say, "I will not fall on this earth." It falls equally. So, paramārtha ke kāraṇa cāro dhārī hindī. To do the paramārtha, these four manifested here on this earth. Our duty is, if we are clever enough, we will keep pure and gain something. And if we are stupid, we will throw the dirt or chip off the trees. Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa incarnates to serve, to bring the message, and from His divine message, we are still living and have an example for us. Bhagavān Rāma also incarnated, and He brought His divine message until today, for all humanity. They are nourishing and teaching the spiritual, ethical way of life. Bhagavān Buddha, who also did very hard tapasyā; every saint, every holy man, all holy incarnations, whatever you call them, had a hard life to repair the damage that the Rākṣasas or negative ones are doing. But they bring the truth. The life of Jesus, if you see, his entire life was not easy for him. Now we pray to him as a God, and we would like to have blessings from him. You know the life of the holy Assisi, Francis of Assisi. People were throwing stones at him. His family threw him out. His father had a big factory for cloth, weaving and dyeing it. He was working there, and he didn't want to work, and he didn't like how the workers were treated. His parents were very angry about this. At the end, he said, "All that I have from you, I give back to you." Even the last dress, he threw it away, and he went. He said, "I'm not taking anything. I dedicate myself to the world, to all animals." Suddenly, animals began to understand him. Three followed him, and one disciple failed, and two remained. One was, I think, Sister Clara, and one more. He had a lot of problems with Rome; they didn't accept him. But then he went to Rome directly to the Pope, he asked questions and spoke. It is said that the Pope acknowledged his divine visions, powers, words, and teachings, and it became one of the sects. Now, sect is not a negative thing. Sect comes from the word sector, a branch. When you go to the hospital, you say sector A, sector B, or sector T. He did not have an easy time. But now we pray to him. Now we are adoring him. We speak of how divine he is, yet we take his knowledge now. At that time, if we would have realized and sat with him and learned more—what is the teaching of Jesus and the teaching of the Holy Friends, Bābā Sīsī? Maybe we know 1%. And this 1% we also changed according to our feelings, cultures, and the duality of the religions. The same thing: the teaching of Kṛṣṇa is completely 99% different than what people are doing now. Therefore, it is said, "Kṛṣṇa jāne so Gītā." If you understand, you know who is Kṛṣṇa; if you have realized Kṛṣṇa, then you will know what is the Bhagavad Gītā. Otherwise, you don't know. And "Mātā jāne so pittā," only the mother knows who is the father of the child. So we lost this. Now, take the example of the people who follow the holy friends. They went as missionaries around the world. Why? Because they felt love and such divine preachings that they would like to give to the people. So, what? How did it become in Christianity what they call missionary? So missionary was not like this, that you change their religion, but you support them, uplift them. And therefore it is said there are two religions which don't make missionaries: the Jews and the Hindus. Sanātana Dharma, they will never say, "Tell them, change your religion, become this, and then you will get this." No. Free. Like what? Like a lake. A lake doesn't tell you, "You can only drink water here if you are Australian or you are from New Zealand, others cannot." No. That's it. In the kingdom of the Lord, there is no duality. If you believe in God Rāma and you deny Kṛṣṇa, then there is no difference. Rāma and Kṛṣṇa are the same. Both are the incarnations of Viṣṇu. That's it. If you deny Jesus and you follow the Buddha, they are in oneness. They will not be angry. They said, on one side you cut my right arm, and on the other side you say, "This arm is very good," but you have chipped off my one arm. So completeness, and that was also in the Vedas, and that is how it began. First it's called smṛti, memory. At that time when they meditated, they got the message and mantras from the astral world, direct from Brahmā. It is said, unfortunately, how many thousands of mantras are lost. Maybe more will tell that you complete the number from the Vedas, how many mantras were lost. And the holy scriptures, divine scriptures, and many—when the other, let's say other religion entered India long ago, before the British came also, before that—they said that the king of that time said, "I want to have a hot bath. But I want hot water, that one where water is boiled with the Hindu literatures, to burn that all." This was told. Now, where I was in South India, there is one gurukul, and there were these scholars there, and one from the ministry of the Department of Government for Philosophy and Cultures told this. So it means like this: you lost so many, but still the libraries have so many books. If you take one book, I think you can't finish it in a lifetime to read and learn. Sāgara, therefore, the library is also known as Jñāna Sāgara, the ocean of knowledge. Śakti Sāgara, ocean of devotion. Amṛta Sāgara, the ocean of nectar. Like in the Viṣa Sāgara, there is no ocean of poison. But there are drops of the poison, or the pot of the poison. Filled by one, one drop. Understand? So we have to be like an ocean. In every way, I tell you one little story. Bhagavān Buddha, Buddha was a Hindu warrior, a son of the king, a prince. When Bhagavān Buddha, his name was Siddhārtha, was meditating, meditating... Buddha. Buddhi. Buddhi means intellect. When the intellect is enlightened, it is then called bodha. Bodha means knowledge. So who is enlightened? One is called bodha, and that is buddha. You call it the Buddha religion. So that is the enlightened consciousness, enlightened intellect, jñāna. Siddhārtha, whom the disciples later called Buddha, had many disciples, like we have many disciples, and you don't know who is a disciple and who is not. But he had one disciple who was very loyal and very devoted, and that was the Emperor of India, Aśoka, Samrāṭ Aśoka. Now you see the Indian flag. In the middle of the Indian flag, there is a wheel. This wheel is the symbol of Samrāṭ Aśoka. Understand? The time came that Aśoka had to leave this world. One day, sooner or later, we all will say bye-bye. When we came, when we were born, our fists were closed. Then the nurse will open it. It was closed. And when we die, we will leave the hands open. It means maybe you brought something with you, but you leave with nothing. Kālī makes you go with empty hands, so nothing you can take with you. Aśoka, Samrāṭ Aśoka, was very ill. It was his last time, that he would die now. Many were sitting there. Mr. Son, Mr. Dhan, Mrs. This and that, and all. Many kings and princes were sitting to become Samrāṭ. They were waiting for when he would die, and who would be chosen. He had only one child, and that was his daughter. A young daughter, about 25 or so, 30, and she came, "Father, what can we do for you, or what can I do, or what is your last wish? I wish, father, that you, with happiness and joy, just attain your eternal peace and light." Samrāṭ Aśoka had tears in his eyes, and he looked at his daughter and said, "My dear, my soul is hanging on something, hooked. You see how many are sitting, they are waiting for my material property. But no one is waiting to get the spiritual property of my Gurudev, Buddha." She said, "Father, I promise you, I will spread the message of Gurudev." He said, "My dear, I know you can and you would like to do, but you are, after a certain age, a woman is a property of someone else. You will marry and you will go with your husband and you will do that what they want." She said, "Father, I promise in front of you, I will not marry. I will remain as it is, as a virgin, kumārikanyā, and I will bring the message of Bhagavān Buddha around the world. I promise you, my father, take a peaceful last breath and trust me." Look at her dedication. What was her struggle, how much she had to fight against all these kings who were waiting. So he blessed her and gave her blessings, and then he died. Now she began to move. First she went to Sri Lanka. Then she came to China, and then Buddhism went through many, many islands and so on, Japan. And Buddhism, to bring it out of India, was the work of his daughter. Now, what was her name? Saṅghamittā. Her name was Saṅghamittā. She went to China. At that time, there was not so much population. So when she began to preach, there were about 100 people, 50 people, sometimes 30 people, maximum maybe 1,000 people, because she came to some kings and they organized the audience. But she felt that many people come and again they come and listen to me, and they are looking all the time at what I am talking about. But no one is accepting the Buddhism. She didn't say Buddhism, the teaching of Bhagavān Buddha. She had her whole group with her because she was a princess, and her secretaries, and this and that, and she was treated as a queen or king. She asked her advisor and close secretary, "What happened? What is that? People are coming every day, many, but no one accepts." He said, "I will research, your highness, I will research." After one week, she said, "You didn't give me the answer." He said, "Please forgive me, but I didn't dare to give it to you." She said, "Why? I have done nothing wrong." "You have done nothing wrong." "Say what? What are the obstacles? Where are the barriers between my preachings and people's intellect? They come, they are sitting, all are looking, admiring." He said, "They are coming only to see your beauty, that you are such a beautiful person. They don't even listen to what you are talking, but they are admiring, like when some, what you call your film star comes, someone, I don't know if he or she is beautiful or not, but the film makers make them. There are many sitting here. They are much more beautiful than others, no?" But okay. She went to the bathroom and she looked at herself. She was standing in front of the mirror, and the next day she ordered acid, one cup of acid. And she stood in front of the mirror and she said, "This face is the obstacle to bringing the true message of my Gurudev. I dedicated my life," I said to my father, "I will bring, but I know this now." And she had a cup in her hand, and she threw it in her face. So her face was burned, skin and everything. The message went like nothing. And she began to preach again. All followed her, all followed her, and that is how the Buddha's teaching spread. But only you can do it if you understood the message of the Gurudev or Bhagavān. If you didn't understand, like this, you fly away like pigeons. You come and throw the seeds, and many, many birds and pigeons come and begin to eat. And one stupid one comes and makes like this, and all the pigeons fly away. Because these beings' only interest was to find something to eat at the peak. But when it went inside, then you are not anymore that yourself. You would like to bring this light to the others. And that's called Paramārtha. That's called Seva. Then you begin to bring your message, and your words will become words of the truth, the reality, the wisdom. Then all the dirt will be cleaned. Don't think that you have not studied this, you have not professed this, you don't know this language. You need not know any language. You should know only one language, and that's the language of love, immediately. Then, it is said that it is not you who is doing. One man was walking on the beach, near the beach, but there is no sand. So he was walking somewhere, it's a long beach, along the sand, but that's too small. So he was walking somewhere in Perth Beach, very nice. And then he was walking through the beautiful flat area, and nice sand, and comfortable way. And he always sees that someone is walking with him, feels, but doesn't see the form. And when he looks behind, there is a parallel to him; someone's footsteps are there. And he was thinking, "Definitely, God is walking with me." And if you don't believe in God, you will be frightened, oh God, some ghost, some magic, some ghost, quickly take to the other side and follow. "Gurudev, Swāmī, see, someone is walking with me. What should I do? What should I do, Gurudev? Praśam, praśam, Swāmījī." So he knew that it was God or some divine helper. After two hours of walking, he came. There were a lot of thorny bushes and stones, and there were rattlesnakes, tiger snakes, red-bellied snakes, and brown snakes. And the cobra doesn't bite you unless you step on it, and so on. Many, many, all snakes, they don't bite you. But many things, a very hard way, walking up the hill, and he was sweating, and suddenly he lost the person who was walking. With no one, no sound of the steps, no feeling that someone is there, disappointed. "When I have a happy life, a comfortable life, an interesting life, then he is with me. And now I'm in a difficult life, and he lost me. He didn't want me. He went away." He was very angry, very, very angry and disappointed. "In my hard time, he didn't support me." Well, after a while, he walked and he came again down the hill in a nice, comfortable way, very hot sun. And the sandy path, and then suddenly, a big, big banyan tree or something, a nice green tree and shadow, and a nice lake, pure water. So he sat under the tree, and there was sand, and he put his hand on the sand. And someone came and sat with him. So he said, "No, don't sit near me." The other said, "No. Who are you? I am disappointed in you. When I had a good time, you were enjoying sitting near me and walking near me. And I had such a hard journey, and you just left me alone." A voice came, "My son, when you have a comfortable life and everything is good, then I am just beside you. But when you had a hard way, it's not you walked; I walked, and I carried you on the whole of my palm." That is a trust in God, sukhme or dukhme, both times. Don't lose your confidence, your faith. Bhakti lost, everything is lost. When bhakti, devotion, is lost, then it's like a bird who lost two wings and now the cat is coming. The bird is moving the muscles, but there are no wings to take off. So the cat of the bad karma attack comes to you to bring it again down. Therefore, Lord, you can take anything away from me, but not one thing: my devotion, my trust. This is our path. So when I was very young and with Gurujī, I saw how Gurujī was traveling around India and carrying books with him. Sometimes there is no transportation, because now there are roads and cars. But before 50 years, 60 years, 40 years, there were not so many roads in the desert. And sometimes Gurujī gave me to carry something, something he was carrying, and then he had a satsaṅg in one village. And he gave them the books, and everybody read this, and sang this bhajan, and went through. He didn't ask for anything. He didn't ask people to give him money or anything. If someone gave a donation, okay; if not, okay. So I was thinking, why is Gurujī doing this? One day, Gurujī gave a satsaṅg. The satsaṅg and the wisdom, the truth, you should distribute. As much as you distribute, that much will multiply. Gurujī said, "You take, for example, a thousand rupees and keep it under your pillow. One year, two years, three years, five years, twenty years, it will still be a thousand. Put it in the bank, and you will get some interest. Similarly, your wisdom, your love, your divine experiences, and your energy—don't keep them only for you. Just give it, give it. Give further, further. That is how you are multiplying." I understand. Gurujī didn't talk to me. He was talking in the audience, then in satsaṅg. So I also decided to bring the divine, sātya message of Bhagavān Devapurījī, Mahāprabhujī, and Gurujī. So I traveled a few years in India alone. Then it happened, my kismet or my angel, someone invited me. I went to England, so hardly I could ask someone, "Can you give me a cup of tea?" I did not even know this much English, you know. And when I arrived in the airport in London in 1970, it was Christmas time or winter, so much snow in London. And I had only these rubber sandals, no socks, and I had only my one shawl here and one kurta, like this, thin, and one lungi. No cap, no coat. And what happened? Our luggage arrived in another aeroplane. So the luggage came to the Luton airport, and I arrived at the Heathrow airport. Now they announced, they said, "You have to wait. Luggage is coming with the truck or with the bus here or something."