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Good evening, all dear ones. Blessings of Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, and Holī Gurujī. Welcome, all of you, and I am very happy to see you. This program is organized for the universally worshiped Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī’s Mahāsamādhi event. And so, we will have the opportunity to speak more about Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, Devpurījī, and Holī Gurujī. So, there is one beautiful bhajan which our dear Prem Purījī will sing. It’s not so cold, you don’t need the cap on your head. Shall we cover your face? No. This bhajan indicates: “O my beloved Gurudev, Merciful one, be merciful to me and give me your darśan quickly.” There is one very beautiful story. It happened with Holy Gurujī. Many of you know that we had an āśram in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Ahmedabad is a beautiful city, located on the bank of the river Sabarmati. There is also an ashram of Mahātmā Gandhījī, with a beautiful podium where Gandhījī used to sit and pray. The old houses, the old style, mud houses, are maintained still as they were. It is beautiful. Well, one day, Gurujī was coming from the city to Sabarmati—Sabarmati being the other part of Ahmedabad, on the other side of the river. Gurujī was passing by a government house, the house of the governor of Gujarat. Gurujī, like a president, went into that house. It was a big villa with a beautiful green garden and green grass. The guards who were there welcomed Gurujī, and they ran to bring a chair for Him to sit in the garden, and they brought Him some nice water to drink. I asked Gurujī, “What can we do for you?” Gurujī said, “I was just passing by, and I was thirsty, so I came in to drink some water.” “Is the governor here?” The guards or servants said, “Yes, but he’s just having his lunch.” Gurujī said, “No problem, let him have his lunch.” And the guard went to the governor and told him, “The Gurujī is there.” Immediately, the governor washed his hands and mouth. It is said that even if you eat with a knife and fork, you must wash your hands and mouth. This is the Indian tradition. If you eat and don’t wash your hands and mouth, it’s a big offense. A big offense, you know. Well, he came to greet Holy Gurujī. Gurujī said, “I heard you were having your dinner, lunch.” He said, “Yes, Gurudev. But I can finish my lunch after.” Gurujī told him, “Why didn’t you finish your lunch? I’m sitting here; I would not have gone away.” The governor said, “Yes, Gurudev. I know that you would not have gone away—that I know. But I don’t know about my breath, my life. If I had died while having lunch, I would not have had the privilege or opportunity to have your darśan. This jīva has been eating many, many lives. But only in this human life can one have the real darśana of a Sant or Gurudev. So, please be merciful and give me these darśans, again quickly—don’t let me wait long. Those days when you don’t have a darśan are your dark days.” So, Mānasik Pūjā, when you meditate, you should have a darśana of Gurudev. That’s why it is said: Dhyānamūlaṁ Gurumūrti — meditate on the form of the Gurudeva. Pūjā Mūlaṁ Guru Pādam — celebrate the Gurudeva’s holy lotus feet. Mantra Mūlaṁ Guruvākyaṁ — the best mantra for us is to follow the Guru’s words. Finally, mokṣa mūlaṁ guru kṛpā — only the guru’s grace will give liberation. I have this one book in my hand: the bhajans of Mahāprabhujī’s disciples. Swāmī Śivānandjī, Brahmanandjī, Lalanandjī, and Maṅgīlālji. So these are bhajans of four saints collected together. Maṅgīlālji, who was known as a Jīvanmukta, was liberated while living in a physical body. And he was leading a family life—a householder. It doesn’t matter if you are in household life, married, and living with the family, or if you become a monk or sannyāsī—it doesn’t matter. The main thing is your faith and love for your Gurujī. In Līlā Amṛt, you know about Maṅgīlālji, and you should read more. Here Maṅgīlālji is writing a beautiful bhajan—a long bhajan, about two or three pages—about Mahāpralaya. Mahāpralaya is when the entire earth will be finished. What happens? And there he is. I will translate here in the next days. So he even said: Brahma, Viṣṇu, and Śiva—it is their play to put us in the tie of the karmas. This play of māyā, beginning the game and finishing the game—creator, protector, and liberator—but it is Guru Tattva which brings us to Brahma Loka or Satya Loka. If the disciple understands this, they can achieve Jīvanmukta. So darśan—every day we have a darśan. When you practice your mantra, your prayer, your mānasik pūjā ceremonies, we are fortunate that we can have darśan physically too. So it is a call of the soul of the bhakta—that viraha. Out of the viraha, viraha is a longing. What we call love, when you fall in love with someone, only you know, your heart knows how much you are longing. That longing is like you are constantly in fire. You remember, I have many times explained to you different kinds of fires. There is the fire of Brahmajñāna, the fire of yoga—yoga agni, karma dagdha, through the yoga fire you can burn your karmas. Dhyāna Agni, the fire of meditation; Havan Agni, Yajña Agni; Jatha Agni, the digestive fire; this physical fire we have here for cooking, electricity; Krodhāgni, anger, the fire of anger—which can burn all good qualities. Lobhāgni, greed, the fire of revenge. So there are many kinds of fire: Kāma Agni, the fire of passion. Similarly, the fire of viraha. Viraha means longing. Also, Lava Agni, the fire of the volcano. So, which kind of fire are we speaking about? Many different fires. Mīrābāī said in her bhajan: “Virakīmārī Banbandolūṅg, I am a victim of the viraha. And I am wondering, through the forests and mountains, O Lord, when will You come, when will I see You? This fire can only be calmed down when I see You. This illness can only be removed, O Lord, when You come as a doctor.” So only that one knows who is hurt by it; others don’t know. So in our life, if we wake up, then we will remember our past sufferings. Then, nothing matters more to us in this world than our own achievement. There is a whole book of Mahāprabhujī, called Padviranī. The bhajans of Mahāprabhujī are full of viraha, full of love, full of longing, full of vairāgya. There is also the bhajan, “Guruvār me chalūsā un desh,” you know that. So similarly: O Gurudev, please be merciful and give me darśan again. So today we have one of our artists here, a good singer. He was just working in the garden, so he forgot to take his other clothes. And his name is Prem Purī. Prem Purī is the name. You should feel. Don’t sing like an express train, yes? You are not singing for others. You are singing within for yourself, so that your viraha becomes more intense and clear. Then it will come. So, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Achala Rāmjī Mahārāj Kī Jai. Itanā to karnā Gurujī, darśana jaldī denā, bhrama jāla meṁ phaṁse he, Prabhu vega śuddhi lenā... Itanā to karnā dayālu, darśana jaldī denā, darśana jaldī denā. Tumhāre darśana hai pāvana, saba pāpa ko nāśavana, dila ko hamāre bhāvana, darśana jaldī denā. Darśana itanā to karnā, Gurujī, darśana jaldī denā. Itanā to karnā, dayālu, darśana jaldī denā. Bharama jāla meṁ phaṁsen he, Prabhu, vega śuddhi lenā. Bharama jāla meṁ phaṁsen he, Prabhu, vega śuddhi lenā. Prabhu, vega śuddhi lenā. Tumhāre Vacana Suhāne, Brahma Rūpa Ko Lakhane, Triyatāpa Ko Bhujāne, Darśana Jaldī Denā. Triyatāpa Ko Bhujāne, Darśana Jaldī Denā. Darśana Jaldī Denā. Itanā to karnā dayālu, darśana jaldī denā, bhrama jāla meṁ phaṁsen he, Prabhu vega śuddhi lenā. Prabhu, vega śuddhi lenā. Tumhāre caraṇoṁ para se, duḥkha mūla jaya jāda se. Darśana jaldī denā. Prabhu vega śuddhi lenā. Saba jagata lāge pīkā, darśana jaldī denā. Saba jagata lāge pīkā, darśana jaldī denā. Darśana jaldī denā. Satguru ke guṇa jogāve, bhava sindhuvo na āve, Achalarāmjī mokṣa pāve, darśana jaldī denā. Achalarāmjī Mokṣa Pāve, Darśana Jaldī Denā, Darśana Jaldī Denā. Itanā to karnā dayālu, darśana jaldī denā, bhrama jāla meṁ phaṁse he, Prabhu vega śuddhi lenā. Prabhu vega śuddhi lenā. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai. You can sit here. You were not singing? Then come here. Those who can sing should be friends; others should not. Well, many of us know Līlā Amṛt. What is written in Līlā Amṛt is only 35 or 30 percent—all Līlās. Līlā means the divine glory, divine play. Hari Ānanda Hari Kathā. God is endless, and the glory of God is also endless. It is said: “All the seven oceans—I take all the liquid of the seven oceans as ink. And from the whole earth, I make pieces of paper. And all the vegetation, the trees, from their wood, I make a pen. But still, I am not capable of finishing the glory of the Gurudeva.” Sāta samundara syāhī karūṅ, kāgaja karūṅ bana rāī, sārī pṛthvī kā kāgaja karūṅ, kalama karūṅ bana rāī, to bhī Guru Mahimā likhī na jāī. Sārī pṛthvī kā kāgaja karūṅ, kalama karūṅ bana rāī, sāta samundara syāhī karūṅ, Guru Mahimā likhī na jāī. Mahāprabhujī didn’t want us to always write about His glories, because He said, “I win everyone. And whom I will bless, I will bless.” But those who have this love, the viraha— In the Holy Rāmāyaṇa it is written, A santa Rāmāyaṇa bana azala jisku prabhu lukdāroṁ dehi, uskī buddhi pelehi herleī. “To whom now his or her destiny will torture or give troubles, God will take away their positive intellect.” We can escape from everything, but we can’t escape from our own thinking. Our own thinking is our good friend, and our own thinking is our worst enemy in this world. It is their thoughts and their actions that will destroy them. In Kurukshetra, on the Mahābhārata battlefield, one side was the Kauravas and the other side was the Pāṇḍavas. Krishna told Arjuna to fight. But it was not easy for Kṛṣṇa to come to this judgment. Krishna had been struggling for many, many years to bring peace. But Duryodhana—Duryodhana is our pride and our anger, our ego. Arjuna said, “I cannot kill them.” Krishna said, “Arjuna, you need not kill them. They have killed themselves already. You will become only a medium. They have killed themselves.” So those who have such negative brittleness, negative thoughts, they fall into the darkness, into nothingness. Therefore, it is said, “Lord, give us positive, good thoughts.” Mahatma Gandhi’s favorite bhajan—you know, Gandhījī was a devotee of God Rāma, and the last word which came out of his mouth was “He Rām.” This is very clear evidence that Gandhījī was a bhakta of God Rāma, or his iṣṭa devatā was God Rāma. And Gandhījī exactly acted and led his life like Rāma did. Gandhījī said: Raghupati Rāghava Rājā Rām, Patita Pāvana Sītā Rām. This was his favorite bhajan. Raghu is the dynasty. Pati means the lord, the king. Raghupati Rājā Rām—Rājā is the king. The Lord of the Raghu dynasty, Rāma: Raghupati Rāghava Rājā Rāma, Patita Pāvana Sītā Rāma. O Merciful God Rāma, Lord of Sītā, You are the liberator of all the meek ones. Those who have lost are patit. Patit means a very, very low consciousness. Patit, not patī—patī is a husband or lord. Patit means one who has lost all good qualities. Not pateet—patit. Yes. Otherwise, the other translator will translate and all poor husbands will be in trouble! Raghupati Rāghava Rājā Rāma, Patita Pāvana Sītā Rāma—that was Gandhījī’s favorite verse. Īśvara, Allāh, Tero Nāma, Sabako Sanmati De Bhagavān. “Oh Lord, Īśvara and Allāh, both are Your names. O Lord, give good thoughts and good intellect to everyone.” So therefore, you can run away from anyone, from anywhere, but you cannot run away from your thoughts. And when the thought is petty, if this thought is like what we call patit, then you have killed yourself. Such persons, on the day they die, go to the lower cakras—into darkness. So, it is our inner longing, that we can understand the glory of Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī. This Gurujī spent some decades living with Mahāprabhujī, and whatever he saw and heard, he collected something. But we know that Mahāprabhujī blessed this earth and all creatures for 135 years. It doesn’t matter—humans, animals, birds, any creatures that have eyes—Mahāprabhujī definitely granted that when you see Him. Whatever He touched and wherever He stepped, that place became divine. Though He is not here physically anymore, you know the story: in Satya Yuga, there was a churning of the ocean, a search for the nectar of immortality, and fourteen ratnas came out. So the signs that were in Satya Yuga are millions of years old. But still, there is a radiance. That radiance will exist as long as this earth exists. And that’s why, in a particular constellation, a particular vibration, there is the Kumbha Melā—where people go to bathe only to be in that particular place. Even if you don’t take a bath in the river, the vibration is there, the atmosphere is there. Similarly, though Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī is not here physically anymore, wherever He stepped, whatever He touched—stones or anything—became holy. But this only the bhaktas know, only the awakened souls know, about Mahāprabhujī. Everything that is divine belongs to Holy Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī. So whatever He could collect—the miracles of Mahāprabhujī—we are very rich because we got so much from Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, and Holī Gurujī—so many bhajans. Therefore, our mahā dhana—mahā means great, dhana means wealth—is those bhajans, that wisdom. When we say tan, mana, dhana—I surrender my body, my mind, and my wealth—so my wealth means my intellect, my devotion, my wisdom, my knowledge. You can’t buy that. You can’t measure your knowledge with kilograms or centimeters. But only the bhakta knows. Otherwise, as it is said: only that person knows what a diamond is, who knows the quality of the diamond. For others, it is just like a piece of glass, and they just throw it away. So, though Mahāprabhujī is not here—in 1963 He went to Mahāsamādhi—His Nirguṇa and Saguṇa, both forms, are with us. If you don’t see, it’s our mistake; we have to open our inner eyes. So, let’s have some bhajans. The bhakta will sing a bhajan. Is there a heater? Can we bring a heater there? People are freezing. Who is sitting here? I’m not, I’m very hot. Some cold water. Bhagavān Kī Jai. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ, Bhagavān, Kī Jai, Viśvaguru, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Paramahaṁśrī, Svāmī Maheśvarānandajī, Satgurudeva, Kī Jai. Sit there where you are. Good. Looks beautiful there. Thank you. So, one more version. Ask the organizer if there is a heater. We can put it here, the heater. Keśavam sevāpan. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa, Bhagavān, kī jaya. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa, Bhagavān, Kī Jai, Viśvaguru, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Paramahaṁśrī, Svāmī Maheśvarānandajī, Satguru, Deva, Kī Jai. Bhajanandaji, will you sing one bhajan, Gajanand? So we have another artist, Swāmī Gajanand, present here today—not on webcast or YouTube. The program—put it here near the singers behind Swamiji. “Do you allow me to sing ‘Prem Kapāla’ on an alternative raga?” “Yeah.” Dr. Shanti, personally, I am warm. You can put it here. That’s Anāhada Nāda. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai. Hari Kappamīrabharṣin. Thank you. What did you sing? With that?