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The Ṛṣi Nārada suddenly appeared in the Himalayas at the holy residence of Svayaṃbhū Śiva, Mount Kailāśa. Śiva had gone for a little walk around the hills, and Nārada came and made 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 be back. 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 said, repeating the names as he prepared to leave. Now, Nārada went, but he said—and Pārvatī said, "What is the history?" But when someone says "but," then you should carefully listen. Now, the sprout has come out, but as soon as you say it, some things are getting 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. Toh phir wo but kintu jo hai, wo kintu, wo tu and me ke beech mein kya hai, wo patta chal jaa gaya, do patte nikalenge, do patte. Ek uthān kā aur ek patan kā, uthān kā rāstā satsaṅg, aur patan kā rāstā 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 asks 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 the skulls of humans around his neck? Bhūt? No, He is like a bhūt, like a ghost. Be careful, Mother." She said, "No, no, that's not true." He said, "Ask her and tell me one day." What he answered? "Maito jataun Shiv Hari, Shiv Hari chale gay." He went. Bhagavān Śiva came. 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 are you wearing all the time so heavy a load, the skull of a human?" Śiva said, "Pārvatī, there is a very big story behind this, Devī. If you listen to this, you will be in trouble. Pārvatī, there is a very big story behind this, a very interesting story. But if you will 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 as skulls 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 Shakti. And again, you died, you went. But in memory of you, I carry your skull 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 much He is faithful 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 some 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, and this for the sake of Pārvatī. He renounced everything to bless her with immortality. But Pārvatī will 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, and so Śiva, first he let his Chandra, he let go the Chandra in 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, new moon, that was from Śiva's. And 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, he went further and he laid down all his decoration, but Śiva's decoration was snakes. Chand, snakes. So he, that Nāg talap hai ke nahī? Near the Amarnath. Nag talap hai? 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. Toh fir Nandī ko bhī kahā, "Bail tālā, Bail tāl hai na, Bail tāl." Bail ko kaha ki tu yahāṁ charo, Śiva jī ke Nandī kā charane kī jagā, Śiva jī ne, Śiva left his Nandī there. And that is still that place, it is called the Nandi, the Nandi Tāl, the Nandi Valley. Nag talap, the snake's leg that Śiva left there. What is Śiva doing? He is slowly, slowly renouncing everything, and Pārvatī comes. He goes to the beautiful cave. 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 has given up all his possessions. And he went to a beautiful cave. It was 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 not close my eyes. 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, 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, he went in his abode and begins 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, Pārvatī jī 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 disciples. 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 that Bhagavān Śiva is giving knowledge to Pārvatī. As soon as Pārvatī begins to snore, the parrot, which was sitting somewhere in the cave, protecting himself against the cold winter, somehow try to survive. And when he saw Śiva came, and when he 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, Tota, yes, Suva. Pārvatī is left, and Tota began to answer. Tota was saying, "Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh." And Śiva continued his lecture, and Tota listened completely. The parrot listened from the beginning till the end. Then, after Śiva, he closes his third eye and opens his physical eyes and says, "My dear, did you understand what he sees? Pārvatī is sleeping. Pārvatījī has put her head on the ice and is 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 buried the ocean. I lost everything. What should I do now?" And Śiva went behind the parrots. Vikra rūpa, Śiva rūpa, Vikra rūpa. Parrot is flying, parrot is flying. He went into one cave. Śiva went behind. He again flew out, and like this, that time, what happens? There was Bhagavān Vedavyāsa. And Vedavyāsa went also for a walk, and his wife was sitting in the cave in the 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 Ved Vyās Bhagavān. So Vedavyājī's wife was standing there. Ved Vyājī 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. Ved Vyāsa came and he saw the Śiva. Ved Vyāsa 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 Ved Vyāsa 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 Ved Vyāsa, merā namaskār, tumne mujhe bachhā diyā." Bhagavān kehte, "He ṛṣi, tū ne mereko is pāp se bachā diyā." Bhagavān Śiva, he 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. Mother was suffering. He refused to come out. Said why? That immortal soul parrot, he 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 for this disease. He said, 'I am very comfortable and safe. There is no safer place than this.'" Bhagavān, Ved Vyāsa, 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 kehte hai ki, "Hey, Dota, 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. Tab Dota ne kahā, "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 Sukhdev. Suva said, "Sukhdev bana." And that became Sukhdev Ṛṣi. If someone speaks beautiful lectures and knowledge, we say, "Oh, he is like an avatāra, an incarnation of the Sukhdev Ṛṣi." After a few years, five years, Bhagavān Brahmā ne usko thak diya. Bhagavān ne wapas māyā ko sansāra mein chhod diya. 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. Muni realized, Sukadeva 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, he left the world and he said, "I will maintain my knowledge, and I have to search for my master." Though Sukadeva 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. Jeevan 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.