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The sage Nārada suddenly appeared in the Himalayas at the holy residence of Svayaṃbhū Śiva, Mount Kailāśa. Śiva had gone for a short walk around the hills. Nārada came and offered his praṇām, his adoration and respect, to the divine mother Pārvatī, the Śakti. He asked, "Where is the Lord?" Pārvatī said, "My Lord is somewhere here; he just went for a walk and will return. So sit down, take a seat, please wait." Nārada replied, "No, no... I can’t stay. I have a curse that I can’t stay longer than a few minutes. I have to go, I have to go. Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa, Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya, Śivāya, Śivahari, Śivahari..." he repeated as he departed. Now, Nārada went, but Pārvatī said, "But..." When someone says "but," you should listen carefully. A sprout has come out, but as soon as you say it, some things begin to get distorted. Let that distortion grow slowly. Drink water carefully. Give medicine. Why? Because of your faith, because of your innocence, and because you say, "Okay, I didn’t wake up," that is it. That "but" (kintu) that exists—what is between you and me? It becomes known. Two leaves will sprout: one of upliftment and one of downfall. The path of upliftment is satsaṅg, and the path of downfall is kusaṅg. But, oh yes, Swamiji always said, "That’s very good, very nice, everything is this." And he stops for a few seconds, then they ask, "But yes." So Nārada asked Pārvatī, "But, oh Divine Mother, my adoration—sorry, I have to tell you something, ask you something. Do you know?" She said, "What? Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa Śivārī, Śivārī, still you don’t know? Say what? Why does Śiva have a garland of human skulls around his neck? Is He a bhūta, a ghost? Be careful, Mother." She said, "No, no, that’s not true." He said, "Ask Him and tell me one day." And what did he say as he left? "Maito jataun Shiv Hari, Shiv Hari chale gay." He went. Bhagavān Śiva returned. Pārvatī was happy. They were sitting, having satsaṅg. Pārvatī asked, "My Lord, may I ask you a favor?" He said, "What?" "Can you answer me why you are wearing all the time such a heavy load, the skulls of humans?" Śiva said, "Pārvatī, there is a very big story behind this, Devī. A very interesting story. But if you listen, you will not be happy. You will not digest it. Therefore, better leave it as it is." Kintu aur bhī, uskī khaṭapaṭ mīṭānī ho, to vahī sant ho jāo. Bāl haṭ, triyā haṭ, rāj haṭ, aur yog haṭ, aur kai prakār ke haṭ. But I want to know, jāṭapaṭ batā do. Nai to khatpat hone wali hai. To khatpat mitana hai. "As many skulls as are around my neck, they are yours." "What? I am alive." "Yes, Devī. Yes, my goddess. It is you. It is yours." "What do you mean, my lord?" "Pārvatī, you have incarnated many times as a Śakti. And again, you died, you departed. But in memory of you, I carry your skulls around my neck. You are always with me, Pārvatī." She looked down, and tears came to her eyes. How much the Lord loves me, how faithful He is to me. She said, "Lord, if it is like this, you are ever the same, then why do you let me die? Mujhe bhī amar kar do. If it is like that, then why don’t you make me also immortal?" Śiva said to Pārvatī, "To achieve immortality, you have to learn and practice and know this wisdom." In satsaṅg, Pārvatī said, "Lord, I would like to learn, and you have to teach me. Give me a blessing that I will be immortal, that I will never die." Śiva said to Pārvatī, "It is not easy. You will not be able to learn this." She said, "No, Lord, please." Śiva said, "Then let us search somewhere for a place where we can only be ourselves. No creature should be there. Not a single creature. Not even a fly or mosquitoes or anything. I will give you the knowledge of all the elements." God Śiva was searching in the mountains of the Himalayas. He found a place which is called Kashmir nowadays. There is a beautiful cave of Lord Amarnāth. Why? Because He is Amar. Śiva is Amar. He never dies. That’s why it is called Amarnāth. "Come on Pārvatī, let’s go." Now Śiva, Bhagavān Śiva, renounced all his decorations, all his jewellery, for the sake of Pārvatī. He renounced everything to bless her with immortality. But Pārvatī would fail. She did not understand. It is very hard to say, "I will be thine, O my Lord, I will be thine." But when you will cry, "I will stop to be," see, quite God honest. Vare friends of soul ne wanken. No? When the toad names my name, hurry off the throat sign. That is kind of Vare Liebe. So it happened. First, Śiva let his Chandra go into the sky. And that’s why, वो वही दिन है, जिस दिन ये आपके चाँद की दूज, जो कहते हैं, भगवान Śiva का प्रकाश। चंद्र क्या है? भगवान Śiva का प्रकाश है। Śiva है। Śiva की पूजा करता है, जो चंद्र का दर्शन करता है, वो Śiva की पूजा करता है, वो Śiva ही है। आज भी उस Śiva की चाँद की इतनी महिमा। आज वो ईद है, जिसको देख करके वो सभी भोजन करते हैं, मिठा भोजन करते हैं, और जब वो फैल हो जाती है, वो से बकरा ईद हो जाती है कि मैंने इतना सब कुछ किया, क़त्ल कर दूँगा सब। So today is the Eid, the new moon, that was from Śiva. And a second Eid will come, where they will say they killed the goats. Because at that time, Śiva becomes Rudra, because she did not. So all will be Hari Om Tat Sat. Then Bhagavān Śiva went further and laid down all his decoration, but Śiva’s decoration was snakes. Chandra, snakes. So He... O Nāg tālap, Bhagavān Śiva ne apne kaṇṭh me jitane sarp theke, tum jāo bis tālap me raho, ānand karo idhar. Then again, Śiva goes further. More, Nandī is walking along with him. So then He said to Nandī, "Bail tālā, Bail tāl hai na, Bail tāl." He told the bull, "You graze here," at Śiva’s Nandī’s grazing place. Śiva left his Nandī there. And that is still that place; it is called the Nandī, the Nandī Tāl, the Nandi Valley. Nāg tālap, the snake’s lake that Śiva left there. What is Śiva doing? He is slowly, slowly renouncing everything, and Pārvatī comes. He goes to the beautiful cave. In that cave, everything is beautiful. Beautiful view, peace. Everything is covered by glaciers. Now, Bhagavān Śiva is saying to Pārvatī, "My dear one, I will now bestow upon thee the message of immortality." But with one promise, one condition. She said, "Yes, Lord." He said, "I will speak. You will listen very consciously." Bhagavān Śiva had given up all his possessions and went to a beautiful cave covered with ice. It was a very beautiful cave. Even today, we travel in the number of lakhs for the journey of Amarnāth. Bhagavān Śiva says, "There is one thing." "What is it, Prabhu?" "When I speak, I will close my eyes and give light through my three eyes. I will give you immortality, but if you sleep, then my speaking will be lost. So what should I do? Just one thing. As I keep speaking, you keep saying, 'Yes, yes,... listen, listen, listen.' Now, Bhagavān Śiva said, 'Pārvatī, you will not sleep.' Therefore, constantly, whatever I am telling you, you should say, 'Yes, aha, yes, yes.' Be alert, be conscious. Otherwise, Gurujī is talking and the disciple is sleeping. Not like this; be alert. Therefore, what your master said in school: attention. How? I say, oh, wow. I thought it would be like this. Yes, and you are listening carefully." Now, Bhagavān Śiva went into his abode and began to give the immortal knowledge. Śivo’ham, Śivo’ham,... Śivo’ham. Śivo’haṁ Śivo’haṁ Vahiyātmāsa Cidānandave Vahiyātmāsa Cidānanda Amaryātmāsa Cidānandave. And Pārvatī says, "Yes, yes." After a while, after a certain time, Pārvatījī fell asleep. And Bhagavān Śiva is speaking of wisdom, the immortality, and Pārvatī... That is a missing. That is a gap between the master and the disciple. And that breaks, and one goes up and one goes down. At that time, there was one parrot sitting there. It was a very cold winter, and somehow he came and hid himself in the cave. And the parrot listened, oh Bhagavān Śiva. There was a parrot sitting inside the cave of ice. It was very cold. He was sitting to escape. Everyone was listening as Bhagavān Śiva gave knowledge to Pārvatī. As soon as Pārvatī began to snore, the parrot, which was sitting somewhere in the cave protecting himself against the cold winter, somehow trying to survive—when he saw Śiva come and heard what Śiva was instructing Pārvatī... The Bani, the voice of God, all creatures understand. All, but when the parrot found that Pārvatī fell asleep, he was thinking, "Oh my God. Who said?" Parrot. Who said? Parents, Totā, yes, Śuka. Pārvatī was left, and the Totā began to answer. The Totā was saying, "Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh." And Śiva continued his lecture, and the Totā listened completely. The parrot listened from the beginning till the end. Then, after Śiva closed his third eye and opened his physical eyes, He said, "My dear, did you understand?" What He sees? Pārvatī is sleeping. Pārvatījī had put her head on the ice and was sleeping. Bhagavān Śiva said, "Devī, you have lost everything. Oh my God!" The parrot flew away and said, "No, no, Lord, your knowledge didn’t win for nothing. Your knowledge was not in vain. I became immortal. I listened to each and every word. Oh God! Śiva!" Immediately, Śiva got up, took his triśūla, and ran behind the parrot. Bhagavān Śiva picked up his triśūla and said, "Why doesn’t this parrot give such knowledge to any fool who will misuse it?" Oh, that’s why all the rākṣasas wanted to be immortal. They churned the ocean. I lost everything. What should I do now? And Śiva went behind the parrot. Vikra rūpa, Śiva rūpa, Vikra rūpa. The parrot is flying, the parrot is flying. He went into one cave. Śiva went behind. He again flew out, and like this, what happens then? There was Bhagavān Vedavyāsa. And Vedavyāsa had also gone for a walk, and his wife was sitting in the cave in an ice hut, a little grass open. And she was waiting for her husband to come back. It was afternoon or something, and she was tired. So she was getting... and the parrot thought, "There is no safer place than the mother’s body." And the parrot flew into her mouth and went into her body. Om Tat Sat. When the parrot saw that she would not be able to take Banchita... That same place is the cave of Vedavyāsa Bhagavān. So Vedavyāsī’s wife was standing there. Vedavyāsī had gone somewhere for vihār. She was about to come. She was waiting. She got tired, so she started to do Ubaachi. The parrot thought, "Yes, yes... yes." He said, "No, no, it is a great sin to kill the womb of a pregnant woman. It is a great sin to kill a pregnant woman. Today, the government does advertising and gives money. It is a great sin to kill a pregnant woman. Thank the Muslims that they don’t do it. But Hindus are very restless for five paisa. This is our weakness." Bhagavān Śiva said, "Okay." He went back to Pārvatī. Vedavyāsa came and he saw Śiva. Vedavyāsa said, "My Praṇām, Bhagavān Śiva Praṇām, Svayambhū, what a great day, thy darśan today. But Lord, you look today a little bit, krodha, krodha agni. Kei prakār kī agni hotī hai: jñāna agni, krodha agni, kāma agni, yajña agni, havan agni, citta agni, lava agni. Kisī kyā kitnī agni hotī hai? O sabhī agni alag alag jalā detī hai. Oh Rām, Rām, Rām." Śiva tells about this. Then Bhagavān Vedavyāsa said, "Prabhu, that parrot went into this lady’s womb. But you know, my Lord, you said to attack a woman is a sin, but it is a greater sin when she is pregnant. And more than that, it is a curse if you destroy the embryo of a pregnant woman. Lord, don’t do this, otherwise all the Yugas which will come, they will do what you will do. Therefore, Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said, 'Arjuna, śampūṇ brahmāṇḍ mere liye koī bhī vastu aprāptya nahīṁ hai.' Jo chahun so mujhe mil sakta hai, phir bhī meṁ karma kartā hūṁ, Arjuna. Kyōṅki meṁ karūṅgā, vaise dūsre bhī kareṅge.'" Bhagavān Śiva said, "Hey Ṛṣi, hey Vedavyāsa, merā namaskār, tumne mujhe bachhā diyā." Bhagavān said, "He ṛṣi, tū ne mereko is pāp se bachā diyā." Bhagavān Śiva went back. Leo Lalījī, is your, bolo, devinām. So Bhagavān Śiva went back and told Pārvatī Devī, "Let’s go back. We were not successful." But that parrot didn’t want to come out anymore. She couldn’t give birth. It is said years and years passed away, but that embryo didn’t want to come out. He said, "I don’t want to go to this. In this saṃsāra of māyā, in this saṃsāra of māyā, I don’t want to come, dying, born. This all sin, this, that." Now the parrot doesn’t want to have birth. He doesn’t want to come out. The mother was suffering. He refused to come out. Said why? That immortal soul parrot said, "Where am I to go? Back to this māyā, into this mud? I don’t want to go. I am sitting here in peace." And the mother is also yearning from this disease. He said, "I am very comfortable and safe. There is no safer place than this." Bhagavān Vedavyāsa, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva—he goes to everyone and requests, "Please, can you do something so that this Totā is born?" Brahmā comes, Viṣṇu comes, Śiva comes. "Come out." He says, "No, I will not come, I am so comfortable here. I don’t want to go again to this māyā, this saṃsāra, jisme moh kā bandhan hai, jisme dukh hai, jisme jāl hī jāl hai, mehab nahī āṅgā." Bhagavān, to Brahmā said, "Hey, Dotā, swa tu ājā, hum yeh moh kā bandhan khatam kar denge, yeh māyā kā janjāl is sansār se khatam kar denge, sab aise hī jīenge." Cheche Brahmā gyānī ho, ājā. Then Dotā said, "If I don’t come," then Brahmā came and Brahmā said, "I am the giver of the law. I am the creator. This all, the bondage of the karmas and attachment and suffering and all, I, from today on, I delete. They are with nothing. All will exist and live here like an immortal soul." Then the child was born. He was born, his name was born, and he became Śukadeva. Śuka said, "Śukadeva banā." And that became Śukadeva Ṛṣi. If someone speaks beautiful lectures and knowledge, we say, "Oh, he is like an avatāra, an incarnation of the Śukadeva Ṛṣi." After a few years, five years, Bhagavān Brahmā gave him a break. Bhagavān again left him in the saṃsāra of māyā. Brahmā didn’t keep his words. After a few years, after five years of life, he released again his moha, attachment, suffering, karmas, and Śukadeva. The Muni realized. Śukadeva Muni said, "Brahmājī, you disappointed me, but I will go now and do the tapasyā, and I will maintain my immortality. But guru bina tumhe jñāna nahīṁ hogā, even you know. You have the paper passport, but you need a stamp from the government. So you need the stamp of your Gurudev. Though you know everything, though you can fly, you have siddhis, this, but still mokṣa, ātmā jñāna nahī hai." So, Śukadeva Muni, after five years, left the world and said, "I will maintain my knowledge, and I have to search for my master." Though Śukadeva had knowledge of the immortality of everything, when he again came to the body, he couldn’t proceed more. He needed the guru’s kṛpā. Though Vedavyāsa Bhagavān is such a great one, who brought and wrought the Vedas, even his son still... He needs a guru. Many they said, "I am your child, I bless you, you are my disciple." No, that is your son got connected. So Śukadeva Muni is going to search for the guru, and he finds the guru. Śukadeva Muni ke guru kaun the? Janaka Videhī. Rāja Janaka Videhī. Sītā ke pitā, Śrī Janaka Purī ke rājā, Videha śarīra sahita mukti prāpta karne vāle. To Śukadeva Muni 5-7 sāl kī umra meṁ dhire dhire... Now, Śukadeva Muni made his journey towards the search of his guru, and he found the King Janaka. Jīvan Mukta, the liberated one. Now he went to the door of King Janaka, and now his test begins. Tapasya begins. Not easy. What happens now there? That I will tell you next time. Śrīmān Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa... Śrīmān Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa. Śrīmān Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa. Śrīman Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa Śrīman Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa, Śrīman Nārāyaṇa. Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya ... Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya. Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya. Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya. ... Amṛtadhātā Bhagavān kī, Deveśvara Mahādeva kī, Dharma Samrāṭ Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma kī Dīpa, Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān. Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ.