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On behalf of the Vedic community, our beloved Satguru Dev, Śrī Svāmī Madhavānand Purījī Mahārāj, was given the title of Hindu Dharmasamrāṭ by our Śaṅkarācāryajī. Some people may write such a title, but this conferral is a proof from the Kāśī Vidyut Samāj. I do not know what Śaṅkarācāryajī must have thought; I am not so capable. Along with that, he also gave me a small title. He will tell me that I have forgotten. That, too, is from the Kāśī Vidyut Samāj. From where else could it be? Anyone can write a name, anyone can write a degree. Nowadays, take a little medicine, and you become a doctor, sir. But a doctor is a doctor, an engineer is an engineer. Similarly, there are the titles of our saints. According to that title, their glory and majesty are sung. There was a time when the culture of Bhārat and Sanātana Dharma—the Vedas—faced a huge attack on India. Hindus were being killed. At that time, according to the tradition of our Ādi Guru Bhagavān Śaṅkarācārya—encompassing Dvaitavāda and Advaitavāda, the ten names of Sannyāsa—the saints of our Hindustān, in this same Sannyāsa tradition, came forward on the battlefield to protect the indivisible boundaries of Bhārat and Sanātana Dharma, and to protect Gau Mātā. They gave their lives for this protection since ancient times. The core teaching of these saints was that we will not care for our bodies, whether we have clothes on our limbs or not. We will smear ash, we may lie anywhere, we may lie on the banks of the Gaṅgā, but we will protect our culture. Since then, within our Jamaat, which is called the Naga Jamaat or Naga Sādhus, there were hundreds of elephants, hundreds of camels, horses, and all kinds of weapons. The head of that Jamaat, whom we call the commandant or general, is called our Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara. The title of Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara is very high, and it has also been present in the traditions of Śaṅkarācārya. Therefore, the title of Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara used to be applied only to our Daśnām Sannyāsīs, and now there are good scholars who are also called Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara. You see, the clothes of God are the clothes of sacrifice. The gods' colors are on our turbans because the brave soldiers of our Rajasthan, who were called Rajputs and other soldiers, sacrificed all their clothes, wearing yellow clothes, chanting "Har Har Mahādev," and sacrificed for the country. So, our saints, please come forward. Śrī Jasrāj Purījī, please come forward. Our saints: Śaṅkarācārya, Sumeru Pīṭhādhiśvara; from the Mahāmaṇḍala, Svāmī Ātmānandjī Mahārāj; from the Mahāmaṇḍala, Śrī Jasrāj Purī; and our main... Okay, Śrī Jasarāmjī is also here. Okay. Bring those chairs. No, no, what is it? Sit high. Sit down. Now our Tulsā Rām Jī Mahārāj is coming. Where is Mahārāj Jī? Oh! Bhaṭīsām, come, come. Blessings, blessings. Hmm? Where is Tulsā Rām Jī? Did he go to Rabana? Okay, he went there. No problem. So, till my... Oh! Ratan Jī, come. As long as I am in my Pūjya Pāṭ, as the elder Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara of the Mahānirvāṇī Akhāḍā, Param Śraddhāin, Pūjya Pāṭ, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Śrī Śrī 1008 Ātmānandjī Mahārāj, Punjab, Rajasthan, Gujarat, and the rest of the world... I don’t know what to say. Viśvānideva savitā duritāni parāsuva yad bhadraṃ tanmāsuva oṃ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ... Oṁ dheyyaṁ sadā paribhāvaganaṁ aviṣṭadoḥaṁ tīrthas padaṁ śiva-virañchinutaṁ vṛtyā ārtyāhaṁ pranata-pāla-bhavābdhipotaṁ vande mahāpuruṣute caraṇārivindaṁ. Vande Mahāpuruṣute Caraṇārivindam. Bholī Sacchidānand Ghan Bhagavān Kī. Bholī Param Pūjya Param Śraddhā Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Jī Mahārāj Kī. Bholī Param Śraddhā Pūjya Pād Pūjya Sadguru Tulya Svāmī Madhavān Jī Mahārāj Kī. Bholī Param Ādaraṇīya Ananta Śrī Bhūṣyaḍ Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍeśvara Svāmī Maheśvarānanda Purījī Mahārāj Kī Bolī. Hamāre Jagadguru Śaṅkarācārya Svāmī Nīrāñjana Sarasvatījī Mahārāj Kī. Sabhī Sant Samāj Kī, Dharma Kī, Adharma Kā, Prāṇīyoṁ Meṁ, Viśva Kā, Har Har Mahādeva. On this stage, I would like to thank the head of all the organizations of this ashram and the head of this program: Param Ādranīya Ānand Śrī Bhūṣit Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Svāmī Maheśvara Ānandapurījī Mahārāj; Paramādranīya, Paramāśradhey, Brahmaniṣṭha, Sumeru Pīṭhādheśwar, Jagadguru Śaṅkarācārya Svāmī Nirañjanā Sarasvatī Mahārāj; Anansri Bhushit, Mahamandleshtha Swami Jasraj Puri Ji Maharaj; Hamarē Yatī Mandal, Mahānta Sant Vrind; Kalyam, hamārē Paramādaraniya, Pūjya Pād, Svāmī Tulsā Rām Jī Mahārāj, who is about to arrive; our respected Nirmal Dās Jī Mahārāj is also coming with him; and Kalyan Kī Abhilāśī. Dear friends, we are all very fortunate that today, in this Nippal Ashram, in the form of the Param Śraddhā Pūjya Pād Mahārāj Śrī’s Prāṇa Pratiṣṭhā, in the form of a Param Mahotsav, this organization has been arranged. Understand one thing: if there is the most difficult thing in the world, it is the darśana of the saints. Nāradajī Mahārāja, in the Nārada Bhakti Darśana, says: "Mahat saṅgastu durlabho agamyah amogaśca." If there is any rare thing in society, it is the company of a great soul, the company of a saint. Our scriptures say that all the qualities and faults that come into an individual come only through association. Saṁsarga jāya doṣa guṇa bhavanti. Where do goodness and badness come from? There was a great saint, Śājjūjī Mahārāja Bhagata. He was sitting on his bed, with some devotees sitting before him. There was a person selling oranges, calling out, "Good oranges, good oranges." Mahārāj Śājjujī was speaking to the devotees and sages: "Look at what this person is saying." One person stood up, saw the orange seller, and said, "Mahārāj, this is some orange seller. He is selling oranges and making a sound." Mahārāj said, "No, you didn’t listen carefully." He listened again and said, "No, Mahārāj, I heard it. He is selling oranges." Mahārāj said, "No, he is saying something else." The devotee said, "Mahārāj, you tell me what he is saying." Mahārāj said, "He is saying: 'Good company saves, and bad company kills.'" Ache saṅg taray, aur bure saṅg maray. Therefore, if our company is good, our life will also be good. Such an opportunity is very rare. Let me tell you something. You have all our Jagadguru Śaṅkarācārya jī here, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara is here, Sant Ācārya, Mahāpuruṣa, Mahātmā are here. If you wanted to have the darśana of so many saints by going to Haridwar, you would have to incur expenses. You would have to bear the hardships of pilgrimage. It may not happen again, but here our Pūjya Pāṇ Mahāmaṇḍaleśwar Swāmījī Mahārāj has set up a Kumbh Melā. You see, he has made you see the saints. How lucky you are! How lucky you are! Our Ādiguru Śaṅkarācārya Mahārāj says in the Vivekacūḍāmaṇi that there are three things in the world that are very rare: Manuṣyattvam, Mumukṣutvam, Mahāpuruṣa Saṁśraya. The first rare thing is the birth of a human being. You are so fortunate that you have been born as a human being. Param Śraddhāya Śrī Tulsārām Jī Mahārāj and our Param Śraddhāya Mahāmaheśvara Svāmī Nirmaldās Jī Mahārāj—such are the saints, the great men. Their darśana is very fortunate. We say here: "Sādhūnāṁ Darśanaṁ Nulyaṁ." The darśana of the sages is very fortunate. Darśanam puṇyam tīrthabhūtāhi sādhavaḥ kāle na palite tīrtham sad sadhu samāgam. Now see, if you go on a pilgrimage, perform service at the holy places, do some religious act, earn merit, the fruit you get may be less; no one can say. You may get unseen merit, but the darśana of great souls and saints yields instant fruit. Instantly. No time is lost, not a moment's delay. There is a good episode in the Śrīmad Bhāgavata. Jñāna and Vairāgya, having become wise, take him. He is in a state of Murshid; he is crying in the form of a Bhakti Yuvatī. Nāradjī was passing by. Bhakti Devī joined her hands and said to Nāradjī, "Mahārāj, O Mahārāj, O Saint Mahārāj, O Gurudev Bhagavān, wait for some time. I know that you are a saint, a Mahātmā." As our Poojapād Mahāmeśwar Jī was saying, Tulsārām Jī Mahārāj has to go soon because the time of the saints is very precious. We say here that the moment of the saint and the ear of the prasāda are very precious. This is what the King of Langar has put on, right? All the people of the village are coming, all are getting the prasāda. You eat at home every day, but the prasāda of the saints is sometimes lucky to get. The langar is open, isn't it? The ear of the saint's prasāda and the moment of the saint are very precious because the worship of saints is for charity. The worship of saints is always worship. The saints never lived for themselves. There is an incident where Mahārāja Bhagīratha brought down Gaṅgājī. Gaṅgā Jī said, "Bhagīratha, look, you are revealing me, but in the future, people will be in such a state that they will make me evil." Gaṅgā said that people will make me dirty. Mahārāj Bhagīratha said, "Don’t worry, Mother. The beings of Kaliyuga may defile you as much as they want. But whenever a saint, a mahātmā, a great being like Bhagavān, a Mahāpuruṣa, places their feet upon you, you will become pure again." This is the glory of the saints. That is why, if there is anyone greater than Bhagavān, it is the saint. In Śrīmad Bhāgavata, Bīyāzī Mahārāj has written clearly. Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa tells Uddhava: "He Uddhava, these saints are the crown upon my head. I bear the dust of their feet upon my forehead. The saint is my heart, my very core. Why? Because the saints know me, and I know the saints. There is no one greater than the saint." So much glory of the saint is written in our scriptures. Therefore, this is your great fortune: due to the immense grace of our Param Śraddhe, Mahā Maṇḍeśvara, Svāmī Viśvaguru, Svāmī Meśvaran Purīśī Mahārāj, such a grand gathering, this Mahāsabhā, is taking place. Look, today there was talk that some good people are keeping a doubt. It should not be called doubt; by the way, for devotees it should not be called doubt but curiosity. Doubt is for where one has to ask oneself, test someone, take an exam. Curiosity is there. Devotees have their own curiosity. "Mahārāj Śrī, I have a curiosity. I want to know you. I am ignorant, I am a jīva, I am a gṛhasthī, I am a sannyāsī, I am a saint." Doubt is done to test someone. To take a test, no doubt, no doubt—jijñāsā. Because we are scholars of Sanskrit, we are studying in Varanasi; Jagadguru Śaṅkarācārya Jī Mahārāj knows, we are in Dakṣiṇāmūrti Maṭhs, we have done Ācāryas, Vedānta. So we know about Sanskrit, that our Sanskrit is such a language in the world, a language which has no equal. I will tell you a funny, big, strange thing. Just a few days ago, Mahārāj Jī met us in Europe. We met in Vienna. He said, "Mahārājī, this Sanskrit... I am translating the Siddha Siddhānta Leśa Saṅgraha into German." I was very surprised. I said, "You are doing it in Sanskrit? Our Indian people don’t even like to read Sanskrit. You tell me, have you ever read Siddha Siddhānta Leśa Saṅgraha? Have you ever read the Brahma Sūtra? Have you ever read the Pañcadaśī?" And all his texts are so... It is shameful. Our Sanskrit, our texts—we don’t even look at Sanskrit, and people outside are reading it. They are doing research on it. His translation—how shameful it is for our Indians, for our Hindu society. This is our culture, the greatest, okay? We say there is no culture like ours in the world, yet it is being trampled on by people today. Swami Vivekananda, 100 years ago in 1898, when he went to Chicago to the World Religion Assembly, they gave him two minutes. Swami Vivekananda, because he said he was coming from India—what is he saying? So Swami Vivekānanda jī said, first of all, his speech changed. He said to the ladies and gentlemen, "My dear sisters and brothers, and my souls." My dear sisters and brothers, and my souls. Everyone started thinking; the American people there started thinking, "Till now we have been listening to 'ladies and gentlemen.' We have never heard such a good speech." So he sat down and said, "I will say only one thing: All the religions in the world, where their end is, our Sanātana Dharma starts from there." That is why our religion, Sanātana Dharma, as Pūjya Bhajan Mahāmuṇḍeśwar Jī Mahārāj said, our religion, Sanātana Dharma, Vedic Dharma—there is no religion like this, there is no culture like this; this is the greatest culture. But today we do not have pride in our country, in our religion, in our culture; it is such a sad thing. We should be proud of our country, our culture, our language, that we have been born in India, in Indian culture. Okay, there are a lot of bad things here. Let me tell you one more thing. I met a very educated Englishman. He said, "Mahārāj Jī, I have been to India nine times. Nine times, India. I have traveled a lot. I have met Ammājī, I have met him, I have met him." He told me a lot of things. So I asked him one thing: "You have been to India so many times, so tell me one thing, what is the difference between India and here?" He answered clearly. He was a very educated person, a lecturer who taught in a college. He said, "Mahārāj, I understand that there is a lot of difference between India and here. It is very different. Here," he said, "there are a lot of good things. You see, here people don’t lie. They don’t cheat. Corruption is also a matter of name, so it is not a high-level thing. It is not like that in India. There are a lot of good things in our country. There is only one bad thing: you will not like the culture here. You will not like the culture here, but they have a culture. We can’t do anything in that; it is the culture here." So I said, "In India, there are many bad things." He said the politics there are bad, the politics are completely finished, and the population is very high. The public is growing so much that we are going to cross China in a few days. And he said that the population is too much, corruption is too much, pollution is too much, and dirt is too much. Wherever you look, there is dirt, there is no cleanliness, the system there is absolutely bad. But even after all these bad things, he said, "Why do we love India? Because there is no such religion, such deep philosophy anywhere in the world." That’s why if there is no religion, no culture in our country, then there is nothing. It is not there. We also believe, you also know, everything is bad here, the system is bad. Everything is ruined from the bottom to the top. Every person is saying something, doing something, saying something. Actions, words, everything has changed. But still, if there is any grace, then it is the grace of our saints, like our Lord, who is running our country, who has saved our culture, our religion. That is why it is a matter of great luck. So many great, great, great men have gathered today. I told you earlier, we say one thing: if you have the desire to see the saints in your heart, and secondly, you have the desire to hear the name of God on your tongue, and you have the desire to listen to satsaṅg, then there will be no delay in your welfare. No delay, no delay. No. This is the grace of God on you that today you got such a good opportunity, such great luck for all of us, which I told you earlier is the most rare, very rare. First of all, it is the birth of a human being. There is not much time to preach, as Pūjā Svāmījī Mahārāj had said that today Tulsārāmjī Mahārāj is about to come; his body is also not healthy, so still it is very good. This is a thing: so many great saints have come; this is very rare. A saint may or may not speak. Let me tell you one more thing: only his darśan will be beneficial. If you have darśan, it will be beneficial. Say, Saccidānand Bhagavān Kī Jai. This is an order. Just five minutes. Two seconds will take. Five minutes is a very big thing. Go up. Yes, keep talking. I am disturbed. Karmat Yogi, Saint, and Dr. Sarjan, our great revolutionary saint, Swami Śrī Vaśāntānandjī Mahārāj, whom I am not seeing on the stage, wherever you are, please come to the stage. Swami Śrī Vaśāntānandjī Mahārāj, indirectly. Parvati Pāṭel. Prayarar. Mahādev. What is the need for you to ask? You go there. There. Tell me for five minutes. Why? What is it? What is it? Oh ho. What is it? Just give me five minutes. What is it? I am nervous. I won’t be able to talk for a long time. Tulsa Ramjī is doing it. Nervous. Two words in Sanskrit. What? One, two, three. Sanno mitra samvaruṇa, sanno bhavatyor, sanno indra-vṛṣapatiya, sanno viṣṇu-rurukrama. Namo brahmaṇe, namaste vayoḥ. Tam eva pratyakṣaṁ brahma vadhīṣāmi. Tam eva pratyakṣaṁ brahmāsī. Tam eva pratyakṣaṁ brahma vadhīṣāmi. Param Pujya Dharm Samrāṭ Jagadguru Śaṅkarācārya Jī Mahārāj ke carno meṁ Sat Sat Naman Viraj Māṅ. Is Āśram Paramparā Ke Pūre Viśva Meṁ Śanātan Dharm Kī Patākā Phairaane Vāle Viśva Guru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar, Śrī Maiśvarānand Jī Mahārāj, Viraj Māna. Śrī Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Ātmānanda Jī Mahārāja, Viraj Māna. Śrī Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Jasrāja Purī Jī Mahārāja, Viraj Māna. Śrī Svāmī Śrī Vāsanṭānanda Jī Mahārāja, Anneśa Santa Vṛnda, Mañcaśina, all the saints and dharmacaryas, Sat Sat Nāmāna, Viraj Māna. Dharma Premī Sajjanō, Viraj Māna Mātṛ Śakti. I will say two words in Sanskrit. It was a very beautiful satsaṅg sabhā. Let’s talk about it. There is a program with Tulsarām Jī Mahārāj, so we will have to go there. We will have to go there after three hours, so we will have to go there. That is why we are coming together. Friends, now with the help of our Param Pūjya Mahāmaṇḍaleśwar Śrī Ātmānandjī Mahārāj, you were getting benefited and were responding. Mahārāj Śrī had put a very beautiful light on the subject: that if our earth had not had a saint, had not had a saint tradition, then this world would have been destroyed. And this world goes towards the complete end of this subject. By telling you about the great Vedic and Purāṇic views in great detail, you were getting a very beautiful response. Friends, on this earth, the holy tradition itself is created and manifested only for the sake of divinity. And by doing divinity, it becomes a part of God. Like our saints and great men, they say this again and again with their words and their discourses: that all the saints and great men, in the hundred years of their existence, have been surrounded by God. All of them don’t drink water for themselves. They have no selfishness for themselves. Where he is, he gives water to thirsty people. From there, he takes water and gives life to people. This is Tārvar (the tree). They give fruits to others. They give herbs to others. They give shade to others. They give wood to others to make bread, to satisfy themselves, for their food. Arre, we swing in the cradle made from that very wood, we grow up with all of it. All kinds of research and refinement are not possible without the tree. Everywhere, the use of those trees, the wood, those herbs, the fruits, their leaves... is present in our life, and our life is fulfilled by them. In the same way, all the saints, even the saints born on this earth—no saint does anything for himself. All the great men today, all the great men who followed the traditions of the great men, all the great men who promoted the Sanātana Dharma system, all the people who inspired people to walk the right path, all the people who taught them the principles of knowledge, meditation, and yoga, all the people who showed the way to the wandering people—all these things were done by the saints. So he did not do anything for himself; he did it for God. This life of the saints is God in itself. This is our Sanātana; the saints are the Sanātana. The Sanātana dharma system, in this way, in a disciplined manner, continues to progress. And according to the saints and dharmācāryas, if the whole system of this world is arranged, then definitely, I say, I say that on this earth, in any country, there is some kind of discipline. Reminiscence, discipline, and other types of discipline, some type of discipline. According to the saints, the arrangement of the country; according to the saints, the democracy; according to the saints, the rules; and according to the saints, the arrangement is made—then there will be no difficulty of any kind anywhere, because there is no selfishness of the saints, and there is no selfishness of the saints in them. That is why I would like to request you all. Mahārāj Śrī is encouraging us. We have to go towards the Ghaṭwā Istāna. You are the supreme disciple of Brahma Ṛṣi, Gadipati of Brahma Temple, Śrī Tulsārām Jī Mahārāj, Khetārām Jī Mahārāj. Aapke Dwarah Aayojit Chaar Divishye Ek Gayatri Mahāyagya, Is Ekādaśī Se Lagaakar Pūrṇimā Tak Brahmājī Ke Mandir Aśotra Mein, Vedic Mantron Uccharan Ke Sāth Vidhi Purvak Sampan Hoga. Aapke Yor Se Sabhi Dhānapremī Sajjanon Ko, Bandhūon Ko, Chattisik Kām Ke Logon Ko, Sabhi Santon, Dharmacharyon ko sadar amantran hain, aur aap sabhi padana yehi sab ke kar ke... Magar meri aur se, udhar se baar-baar ishare ho rahe hain, thoda-thoda... Sankship, sankship ish liye samāch aate way aur viṣayon ke upar bāt kartein aur māpurson kā sandesh, māpurson ke anubhavon ko sunte, sarvān kartein. Magar main samāch aate way merī vāṇī ko aur ek bār puna... Śrī Māman Leśar Mahiśaraṇ jī Mahārāj, āp tino Jagat Guru jī ke sāth, with Viśvaguru jī and Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar jī, all of you, from Mahārāj jī’s side, I am just representing what he has said. All of you are a regular guest, and you have to come. Today, according to the group tradition, the kind of arrangement that the world’s guru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Mahiśrānandajī is running from his side in a well-organized manner and is moving forward this path of Sanātana Dharma arrangement—I myself, in their work, in their work, in their tradition, in order to organize it and run it in a successful manner, I give a lot of thanks and gratitude and bow to the Sat Sat Ātmā, that in this way, they will continue to run it further. With this, with such great men, with such saints, with such virtuous saints, our Sanātana Dharma system will remain and spread all over the world. This is what I would like to say, and I would like to take my leave from here. I would like to take your leave. If there is any other question, please feel free to ask. Jai Śrī Rām.