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Just before prayer today, Swāmījī was speaking about how Mahāprabhujī takes care when he travels through Europe. I wished to share two small stories from Gurujī about how Mahāprabhujī takes care of Gurujī in airports. The first one was told by Gurujī in Jhadan, long before my time, but you may know from reading the Līlāmṛta that Gurujī had very good relations with the police and railway officers when he traveled around India. I must say it is still the same. When you come to a police station or to the railway, they can be quite welcoming, especially to sannyāsīs. They sometimes take real care and show great respect. Gurujī, when traveling, would always stop and meet the station master or whoever was there, as you can see in the Līlāmṛta and read in the stories. He said that once he was traveling to Europe—I do not know when this was; it must have been very early. This afternoon, Yogeśjī mentioned that in Jodan there is some rain again, and that some water is coming into the talāb from both sides. Not a lot, but something. So, it happened that I picked a story about rain. In Śrī Rukī, Swāmījī said we should read some parts from the Līlāmṛta. I will read: “One monsoon season, Mahāprabhujī was staying at the Thākur’s residence in Barikāṭu, and I was there to serve him. There was a drought that year, and already the fields were drying up and the drinking water was running out. Bhaktas came from Katras to ask Mahāprabhujī’s help. They cried, ‘Merciful one, there are always clouds in the sky, but no rain ever comes. Please, can you do something?’ Mahāprabhujī’s reply was, ‘Go and have a fire ceremony at the watering place in your village, and then you will get rain.’ He meant by this the traditional Vedic sacrificial fire, yajña. It is believed that by chanting Vedic mantras and making certain ritual offerings, the atmosphere can be changed by a concentration of power through the fire. The mantras have power in themselves. It is believed, but the strong will of the participants is important as well. With Mahāprabhujī, the fire was once again only a symbol for the village’s benefit. It was his power which brought the rain. God rarely acts directly, but rather indirectly like this. Mahāprabhujī sent me along with one paṇḍit to the market to buy the necessary materials for the fire. And he ordered me to start right away. ‘Don’t worry,’ he said, ‘I’ll take care of everything.’ We walked from the market to Katras, about a mile away, and began the ceremony. No sooner had we begun than the clouds began to disappear. With his own hand, he put the first offering of ghee into the fire. And he said, ‘It will rain before long. Bring prashād and distribute it to everyone.’ As we did so, clouds began gathering in the east. Soon the whole sky was covered, and the rain began. Within an hour, the talāb was full, and the fields greedily drank up the blessed water that fell so generously from heaven. The farmers praised Mahāprabhujī. They said, ‘O Lord, Thou art the protector of all living entities.’ Dear readers, how unbelievable such miracles seem. Even today, when I think of that rain, my heart contracts. And whenever I’m in that area, I see merciful Mahāprabhujī as clearly as though he was standing beside me.” You know, it sometimes sounds like science fiction when those things happen. But I actually picked that story because twice we have seen a similar thing happen in Jodan. The first time, Yogeśjī will remember very well, it was when they were just putting the last stones on the bottom of the talāb. Swāmījī was saying, “Yes, when is it ready?” That day, the last stones were to be put. Swāmījī said, “Very good, tomorrow there should be an opening ceremony. You should arrange a function with all the children from school, and they should all go onto the floor of the talāb, and then have a pūjā.” Of course, there were some complications. As I remember, the last stone… I got up about five minutes before the pūjā in the morning, but the pūjā was starting and so on. All the children from school were there, and it was quite beautiful and a lot of fun. Everyone who was working on the talāb came as well, and it was a very nice function. But the weather at that time gave no chance of rain. There were not even any signs of the monsoon coming; the skies were clear, and it did not yet have that feeling. Then, in the middle of the pūjā, Swāmījī called and said, “Once the pūjā is finished, all of the children should sit for five minutes and call out, ‘Meow, meow.’” Meow means “rain, come. Come rain, come rain.” We finished the pūjā and told the children that Swāmījī wanted them to say “meow” for five minutes. They did not just say meow for five minutes; they screamed meow for five minutes. “Me-ow, me-ow!” I think it was a little more than five minutes; they were enjoying it so much. They were all doing it together, but then we somehow broke up the function. As they were walking back up to school, you just heard all these kids going, “Meow, meow, meow.” That was that. The pūjā was done, and the children had sung meow, but there was no chance that it was going to rain. Then, somehow, like in that story, it started. The clouds started to come. After finishing, the clouds came out of nowhere. By the morning, overnight, there had been such rain that there was one meter or two meters of water, Yogeś. One or two meters of water were already in the talāb. It is completely out of any logic compared to the weather. Of course, the children came to school the next day and immediately went to the talāb to see what had happened. They were all standing there and saying, “Ah, look what we did.” It was the talking point of the whole day at school: “Yesterday we sang that, and now we filled the talāb.” But as Gurujī said there, the master does the action, but he does it through some other medium. You often do not even suspect how it is being done. So the kids were very happy with themselves. A few years later, some of you may recall this time. There was also a time when the talāb was quite empty, and time was passing quite late into the season. There was not really much sign of it filling from the weather. After prayers, Mahāprabhujī suddenly said, “Everybody who’s here should stay in the Bhakti Sāgara and do eleven mālās for the rain.” From what happened the next day, about nine were required for the talāb. Nine mālās must have been required for the talāb, because eleven made it so that the whole ashram was covered in water. There was no longer any road between the Om Ashram and the rest of the ashram. There was no way to go to school, and no way to get to the hospital. Everything was underwater. Actually, all that remained was the Bhakti Sāgara and the area where everyone was living. The rest of it was a lake. Again, that was a very similar atmosphere to the story in the Līlāmṛta. It had been cloudy and always seeming like it would rain, and then that day it had seemed to be clearing and that the chance was going to be lost. But some other forces get involved. When Swāmījī and I were talking today in that webcast about how he went to London and how everything somehow happened—for all of us, that blessing and that miracle is always waiting to happen. But it is just the trust, that relation that Swāmījī has with Gurujī and with Mahāprabhujī, that allows it to happen, whereas for us it does not. Okay, we will never do things on that same level like Swāmījī does. But I am sure when you think within yourself, there have been times when Swāmījī has asked you to do something and you thought, “No, that’s impossible. I can’t do that.” Our ego immediately jumps in and says, “No, I can’t do that.” Chances are, Swāmījī is telling you to do something that you can do, but we just do not know that we can do it. I am from Australia, so I often think about things to do with surfing. There was one surfer about 15 years ago. He was not standing up; he was lying on the board. In his type of surfing, he was the best that had ever been. He would do things that everybody else thought were completely stupid. He would go in places where the waves were breaking in such a way that nobody else would go, and then he would go and ride there and succeed. I can remember once seeing an interview with him, and the interviewer was asking him questions. The interviewer said, “You do things which nobody else even dreams of doing, but they work. What are you thinking when you decide to do that?” And he said, “Well, I have just one philosophy: you’ll never know if you never go.” That was his philosophy. He said, “Most of the time when I let go and just decide to do it, I end up getting through because the wave is about to break on my head, but I make it through.” The same when Swāmījī asks us to do something that is obviously beyond our normal borders, or beyond our thinking of what is our potential or our capability. We may also have the same feeling about our sādhanā, that we cannot do that. We cannot go that far, we cannot go that far inside, we cannot let go of something. That is it. You will never know if you never go. You will never try. I do not know, really, that Swāmījī ever says anything without a reason or without meaning. And to get that blessing, like Swāmījī gets from Mahāprabhujī, it is a complete trust from his side. Gurujī says, “Go to Europe,” and he goes to Europe. You see also in the Līlāmṛta: Gurujī prays to Mahāprabhujī when he is in Gujarat that he will be able to speak Gujarati. And in the morning, Mahāprabhujī tells him in the dream, “Yes, in the morning you will be able to speak Gujarati.” And he does. That is trust. That is that faith. That is that bhakti. Okay, those things may not happen on the same level to us, but just when Swāmījī asks you to do something. Or, like now, he has given you this sādhanā to do. He has not given it to us because he thinks we cannot really do it, but he will give it to them anyway. Everyone here has come because of some very special link with Swāmījī and with Mahāprabhujī. And Swāmījī knows that and sees that, and Mahāprabhujī sees that, but perhaps we just do not see how special it is. It is not just by some random chance that you become a disciple of Swāmījī. And then, when he is asking us to go forward, try something different—if we have trust in Him, it will happen. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Kī Jai, Satguru Deva, Kī Jai. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Kī Jai, Maheśānandjī, Satguru Deva, Kī Jai. Just to support Swāmī Jasrachpurījī’s discourse about the rain: sometimes things are working the other way. From the construction point of view, the rain is not a very welcome thing, especially when we are near to making some casting of the slab, RCC slab, Stahlbetonplatte. You see, it is a lot of work. When you make the walls, then you start to prepare support for the slab, and then you make the reinforcement, the steel reinforcement. Our RCC designer is very strict, so it must be perfect; everything in the levels and everything must be packed. Sometimes it takes three months to prepare such a construction to be cast, so that we can start to pour concrete into it, and it sometimes takes two days or even more for the process of concreting when we are casting the concrete. So the last thing we want is rain, because if it starts to rain, everything can be destroyed. So we were offering prayer, “Mahāprabhujī, please do not send us rain now.” But it was about two years whenever we had concreting, it was always raining. Always. It was in the winter, in January or in February, or in October or in March or in April. It was always raining. You can imagine the engineer sitting on the slab, being so angry and furious at all gods and all gurus and everything, because always it was raining at the wrong time. When you have 200 workers and they are all wet, and you are wet, and it is raining like this horizontally with cold winds, it is freezing cold and you are wet, then the bhakti is a serious test. But sometimes we had a river. We made once a stairs, and it was a river of the rain going down. Once we were doing one casting in the White House, those many years back—White House casting, yes, White House. And before that, to me came… Govind Purī, our dear, dear guru brother Govind Purī, he was making concreting when I was in Europe, like now. He said, you know, it was very… everything was packed with the clouds. When you were in Europe and we had some concreting, I went to Gurujī and said, “Gurujī, please arrange that it will not rain. Speak with Mahāprabhujī.” And Gurujī said, “Okay, it was not raining.” It started to rain after we had done everything. It started to rain. I remember this very well. So again, concreting was there. And clouds were coming. I went to Gurujī. Why not follow good advice? I said, “Gurujī, please arrange with Mahāprabhujī. You have a good connection with him. Arrange with Mahāprabhujī that it will not rain so long as we are not concreting.” Gurujī said, “Mahāprabhujī will take care.” So I came back very, how to say, very relieved. And we start concrete, and heavy rain started to pour down. I was shouting there on the slab: “To Govinda, you made, and to me you are not making. What kind of guru are you? That’s not right.” It stopped. The rain stopped. So, rain is very welcome, not always, but usually. Regarding the second thing, how we trust, I have one very nice example. We were invited to one hotel for lunch in Jaipur. We are about 30 foreigners and Swāmījī, so they offer us a very nice meal: sabjī, which means vegetables, and the purīs. We were eating, and we were good eaters. We all liked purīs because they are so nice, soft, sweet, and tasty. There was from Slovenia a big Vasiṣṭha, two by two meters. And he ate ten purīs. Usually we eat four or five. And I was beside him, and I also ate ten purīs. So we had a small competition, and Kṛṣṇānandjī was there too. And he also ate ten purīs, and then we went on to fifteen purīs. And I was starting to give up slowly. It was quite full. And then Swāmījī was observing that competition, and he said, “Kṛṣṇānand, can you eat 108 purīs?” And Kṛṣṇānand said, “Why not, Swāmījī?” So he started. Purīs, but not only purīs, with complete vegetables, one hundred and eight. Together with vegetables, everything. We are all sitting there and looking and not believing that this is possible. When the disciple has trust in his master, he can do anything. Many years back, Swāmījī was baking the kukuruc in Kitechhazy, and there was fire. And Swāmījī said, “Yes, take fire, take kukurica from fire.” And there were some people that were just taking it out without burning their hands. And Swāmījī told them, “There is kukurica in the fire, take it out,” and a few people really came in and took it out with their empty hands. So when we have that trust in the Master, everything is possible. And when we do not have, then rain comes at the wrong time. So, thank you very much. I can remember one more time. How many did you eat, Kṛṣṇa Nānjī? Really, 108? I can remember one more concrete story. Maybe Yogeśjī will not remember. He will when I tell it. In Jaipur, when we were making the roof of the hall, a similar situation occurred. Mahāprabhujī supplied rain, and it was just when it was nearly finished. And I can remember, it was pouring rain; it became really heavy. And Yogeśjī said, he came to myself and Premanājī and said, “If it rains like this five minutes more, then this lab will be completely destroyed.” And it stopped after about two minutes more, and nothing was destroyed at all. But somehow it was coming to the border, to the border it was coming. Can I sing? Śrī Dīpā Nirañjan Śabdakabhañjan Prabhu Dīpā Nirañjan Śabdakabhañjan, Isī mātrāse hove mana mañjan, Isī mātrāse hove mana mañjan, Śrī Dīpānī sab kāma dayā padu, Dīva jyoti yura jyoti jāra. Pad pāve karte sab vanda, Charka sab pā, sab vanda, sab pāyā vanda. You know, so often when we are hanging on… When Swāmījī tells us to do something, it reminds me of a little child when they still have not taken their first steps. And they are kind of standing there and holding on and holding on, but not prepared to do it by themselves. And one moment to get that push—for us, we get it from Swāmījī. For one young boy that I know, it was that someone held a chocolate in front of him. And suddenly, the hands went from being like this to being like this. And the job was done. He started to walk. But you know that samādhi does that so often. There is something that you are just holding on, thinking, “No, I cannot do that, I cannot do that.” And then you find out, oh, I am doing it. I can remember also, as an example, when Avatārpuri was learning to ride a bike—parents may have had this same experience. We tried to get him to learn to balance, running along behind and holding the seat so that he did not fall sideways. And he was getting quite good at it, but he was so nervous. Eventually, I got quite sick of running behind him, and I just stopped and stood there. After about 20 meters, he said, “Oh, maybe you can let go now,” and I said, “I am nowhere near you.” At that point, when he realized that, he went, “Boop!” But you know that feeling? Swāmījī does it somehow all the time. He puts you in a situation, gets something to happen, and suddenly you realize, “Hey, I am doing something that I never realized I could do.” It is just that we have to be open to let him do his work. Śrī Dīpna Reṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai. Soohabana Satguru Sandeshomoye Lagere Soohabana Lagere Soohabana Mer Satguru Deva Pavanam Lagere Soohabana Mer Satguru Deva Pavanam Lagere Soohabana Satguru Sandeshomoye Satguru Deva Pavanam Lageresu Aavanam. Satguru Deva Pavanam Lageresu Aaliyah Sejh Suvarum Dhanamanor Pranarum Pushpanki Vara Mala Peinam. Pushpanki Vara Mala Peinam. Sendesho lageresuavana, lageresuavana, Merisatgarudevapavana, lageresuavana, Merisatgarudevapavana, lageresuavana, Barthiopera, gudali kera banao, gheri gudali kera banao, Prabhujījī māvana, Prabhujījī māvana, Rāmakasandeśo mo yuva, Lāgeresu avana, Merīsatkarudeva pavana, Lāgeresu avana, Merīsatkarudeva pavana, Rāge resu, talabhujan parsau, Merā dilbar mein harsau, Harī parshad aroge, Apārī parshad aroge, Pankh pavan dulavana, Pankapavana dhulavana dhagere suavana, Purushottamami. God bless you. Dharam Samrat Paramahaṁsri Swami Maravananpur Jī Mahārāj Kī Jai. Vishwaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśwar Paramahaṁsri Swami Maheshwaranapur Jī Satguru Dev Kī Jai.