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Part 1: The Divine Descent: Avatāras and the Guru's Grace Dīpaṁ sarve mohanaṁ, dīpanaṁ sajate, sarvaṁ sandhyā, dīpaṁ sarvaṁ satyam, śubhaṁ karoti kalyāṇam, ārogyaṁ dhana sampadaḥ, satya buddhe vināśāya, dīpa jyotir namastute. Oṁ Brahmanandam Param Sukharam Kevalam Jñānam Oratim Dvandatitam Gagan Sadṛśam Tasmasyadilakṣam Ekam Nittam Vimalachalam Sarvaddhīṣakṣibhūtam Bhava tītam, tri guṇa rahitam, Oṁ śānti, śānti, śānti. Salutation to the cosmic light. Our divine adoration to Alak Porījī Siddhapit Paramparā. Our humble prayers, Gurudev, dear brothers and sisters around the world. Many blessings. Today is a day when the human begins to think more spiritually. For the last three or four days, many millions of humans were in great pain because of the situation we call Good Friday. The time when Jesus was crucified was not easy. It was not easy for the disciples, nor for his mother and father. It created lots of fear and a feeling of guilt in the people. But on the other hand, you should not feel guilt, as if Jesus had to suffer on the cross because of us. It was for some people. At that time, those sins have been removed. We should feel blessed. We should feel free. Of course, Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa also said, "Arjuna, time to time I manifest myself through my yoga māyā. In every yuga I come to protect the pure souls, the bhaktas, and to destroy the adharma. Dharma and adharma both are running parallel." Devī Śakti and Āsurī Śakti are both running parallel. Birth and death both are running parallel. It will not be removed forever. It will last forever, until Mahāpralaya. Until Mahāpralaya takes place, as a nimitta avatāra for a particular purpose, God Viṣṇu will come. It doesn’t matter if you call the saint or Viṣṇu. There is a misunderstanding in the translation. Unfortunately, this word was not there. It came up just about 67 years ago. The word is called "semi-god." There is no semi-god. Either there is a god or no god. Why semi? But someone, out of certain conflict and not understanding the divine light of God’s incarnation here, translated the Bhagavad Gītā and wrote there that only Kṛṣṇa is the perfect, the highest one, and others are the semi-Gods. It came in me. This is in the seminar. God is God. God is God. God is God. Everyone has their time. Time to time, so there is one who is called Swayambhu. Sarvopari. The highest. The highest governor of the entire universe, who represents each and every atom in the endless universe. Ānand, Ānand, Ānand. There, Viṣṇu has no approach till that. Brahmā has no approach until that. Only one consciousness, that’s called Śiva. Swayam Bhūḥ. That is a Swayam Bhūḥ. After that, through the Swayambhū’s ājñā, Viṣṇu, Brahmā, and ṛṣis begin to get it. But it is the responsibility, and everything takes Bhagavān Śiva on his head. And it’s not easy. Even the poor Śiva was not easy. Because from the creation of Brahmā, his son, they had the ṛṣis who, at that time, ṛṣis, had only 13 wives. And out of the conflict between these ladies, one was very greedy, and she gave birth to the Rākṣasa. The other one gave birth to the devas. So these two forces, āsurī śakti and devī śakti, from that side they want to have equal rights because both are the children of the same father. Heaven, everyone wants to have heaven, the joy of that. No one wants to go to Naraka. Swarga, Naraka, or Apavarga. So that has to be balanced by Śiva. But when the Āsurī Śakti becomes dominating more and more, then Viṣṇu’s duty is to come. At that time, even Śiva comes to Viṣṇu’s supporting seva. Bhagavān Hanumānjī is believed to be Śiva, and Rāma is believed to be Viṣṇu. Well, the same is true with Kṛṣṇa. So Kṛṣṇa comes to the battlefield, but not always. When it doesn’t go anymore, then you have to check all the poisonous, thorny bushes to have again a good orchard garden. There is then above the ahiṁsā and hiṁsā. Therefore, Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said, "Arjuna, I am not on your side because you are my best friend or you are the son of my aunt, Kuntī. But I am on your side because you are on the side of the dharma. And others are all adharmīs. They are rākṣasas. They are destroying everyone’s faith, belief, this, that, and lead them to naraka. So I come again to protect my devotee." So once a yuga, or in a yuga even twice or three times, Viṣṇu can come; otherwise, it’s not necessary. It’s like the cosmic government is exactly that. The government is designed here on our world, everything according to that. When the civil war begins and everything goes out of order, out of control, then the president has to take over, or the governor. Then call the president’s government. Then the military comes. The police cannot handle this. And so, when everything is so far, then Viṣṇu has to come. And when Viṣṇu comes, then the cleanings begin. Otherwise comes Nitya Avatāra, the Śiva, Swayambhu, once after the Mahāpralaya, again to begin this creation. Viṣṇu, when the dharma, righteousness, is suffering, and adharma, the negative, is dominating, then somehow I am yogī, yogī. Every yuga I come. But what will you do? How long will we wait? We don’t know when again Viṣṇujī will come. The next preparation for Viṣṇu is called Kali Avatāra, the incarnation in this Kali Yuga. For the Kali, that time, this Kali will finish and again Satya Yuga will begin. But how to protect men? Why? They are Nityāvatāra. And Nityāvatāras are the saints, holy. So many have been and many are. And these holy saints are respected, adored, worshipped, exactly as a God or Viṣṇu or the highest one. So it is asked, "Jesus, are you an incarnation of God?" He said, "No, I am the son of the Lord." So we are all sons of God. All are the sons of God, but few of us have the vision of that. Come not. When holy Gurujī, our master, he joined Swāmī Madhavānandjī when he was about 14 years old. And in the night, he had a dream that he saw Kṛṣṇa, because Gurujī was a bhakta and worshipped Kṛṣṇa very much. So Kṛṣṇa came and said, "I will meet you, or you will meet me. I will meet you on that and that day, at that time." That’s all, finished. He wakes up in the morning, he has remembered his dream, which you can read now exactly, but where? When? And how so, Gurujī? Did not know now where I am running, here and there. But where a lost deer from the group is running in the forest, here and there, here and there, "Nowhere is my group, my friends." So, similarly. Who is searching is walking around looking every day, but that dream is again and again awakening in his consciousness, awakening that longing, the pain. And so Mīrābāī said, "Mere bhai said, nobody knows my pain. No doctor can cure me, no Āyurvedic doctor can cure, no one." Day by day I am getting paler and paler, like the leaf of the tree in autumn. Oh Lord, oh Kṛṣṇa, when only there is one treatment, when you come as my doctor. Otherwise, there are different kinds of fire, agnīs, the most dangerous and most beautiful and most unpleasant and most pleasant. It’s a viraha agni. Viraha means longing in the heart. And when that is, vairāgya is there, then you have the viraha. When you lose the vairāgya, then bhakti is gone. Then that viraha agni is finished. You lost again. Fog came, and you don’t see any more way. You are stuck there. So, vairāgya and bhakti. Then jñāna will automatically guide us. So, śakti, bhakti, and vairāgya. Shakti means strength. Bless me with śakti, bhakti, and vairāgya. That’s all. If we have knowledge or not, that does not matter. Then he will take care. He will lead us on the right way, and when this is lost, everything is lost. No, not at night, she said. Divāsana bhūkā, reyanandahi nidrā. Daytimes, I can’t eat. My appetite is gone. It’s burning only here. Eating me, my viraha, eating me. Divāsana bhūkā, rātanahī nidrā, nayanānahī nidrā. In the night, I can’t sleep. My bed is like the needle bed, like a fakir. That is called longing, and she will get, Kṛṣṇa will come to help. But we will wait one day, two days, one month, one year. If it doesn’t come, okay. That’s okay. That’s not okay. That means cheating. Your inner self saying, "Okay," is cheating you, and God wants to know. You know the story of that bird and that man who was lying and waiting and waiting and saying, "Oh, crow, eat my whole body, each and every piece of flesh from my body. But please don’t eat my two eyes. Because still I hope to see my beloved one." Where do you project? And so one Swāmījī came, Bodhānandjī Mahārāj, who was a disciple of Mahāprabhujī, and he introduced him. So at that time, Mahāprabhujī was in Jodhpur, and the Jodhpur Mahārāj had invited him to make a Cātur Māsa for a month of the season, to stay and give satsaṅg. And Gurujī was running, going there. Young man, young boy, 17, 16, 17, 18. And it was evening, around 7 o’clock or 8 o’clock. There was satsaṅg in the ashram. Holy Gurujī was coming, walking, walking. He was very tired. He walked about 130 kilometers from his birthplace to Jodhpur, from Nepal to Jodhpur. That’s called longing. That’s love. And then it is said, even if I have to walk on the thorns, walk through the fire, or leave my country, I can’t, I can’t leave you, because that happiness is only there, eternal happiness. Gurujī said he was so happy that he reached the place and asked, "Where is that Maharaja?" Who is the Mahārājā? Young man, where is the palace? So people told him where he came from. And Mahāprabhujī was sitting in the satsaṅg and talking about something. Ten minutes before, he told someone, "You sing bhajans." And Mahāprabhujī got up and walked somewhere. So generally, people think, "I want to go to the bathroom." And holy Gurujī was coming, and Mahāprabhujī, so divine view. His holy Gurujī sees like a Kṛṣṇa in Mahāprabhujī, nothing else. And he bowed down, he fell at the lotus feet of Mahāprabhujī, and Mahāprabhujī said, "Get up, my son. Remember, I gave you a message in the dream." Is that not the same time and date? You will see in him Kṛṣṇa and then Mahāprabhu. That vision, that same vision which was the same kind of pictures, face, attitude, everything that was in the dream, then after. And then, Gurujī realized that now this is my Gurujī. That was Mahāprabhujī. So, vision first, what you have. That you have to hold it. Life was not easy. Life was not easy. But everything was a joy: pleasure, unpleasure; peaceful, unpeaceful. But it was that most joyful, if the pain was full of joy, and that’s the pain of Jesus, what? He had a joy in it, because he said, "The Father sent me, and he sent me to take all the fear and pain of others." I suffer for it. I feel the guilt because you are also children of God. You are mine. I am the son. Therefore, Gurujī wrote a beautiful bhajan. Then he showed the divine lotus feet of Mahāprabhujī. Jag mayā sab sapanan kī caraṇ kamal fin kā sunāī bār. Jag mayā sapanan kī dī pā dayā caraṇ kamal me śrī dī merī ismat jāgī. So, bhajan is a beautiful, long song. You know, all many times we sing this bhajan. That goes to your, or the bhakta’s, consciousness; it merges into oneness. Then you know that truth. It doesn’t matter what will come then between. So, time to time, yuge yuge sambhavāmi. From time to time, the nimitta avatāra is God, Viṣṇu. Nitya avatāra is holy saints, the great saints. And the saints have been, saints are, and saints will guide us, protect us, enlighten us, liberate us. Though Kāliyuga is there, we are sitting in the boat of the satsaṅg. Nānak Sāhib said, "Satguru nāma jahājahē, chaḍēshō trē pār, jō śraddhākāra sēvadē, guru pāra utārana hara." Guru Nānak says, "Satguru nām jahājahe." The name of the Gurudev is the boat. Those who will sit in with devotion and confidence, be sure that Gurudev will bring you to the mainland or there. Therefore, it is said, "Guru Brahma." Nityavatāraṇ has got this right in the cosmic protocol: that Guru Brahma, he will act as a Brahmā creator, creating the buddhi, inspiring us, giving us motivation, giving us that knowledge. That is a Brahmā. Guru Viṣṇu is protecting us through the blessing. Don’t do this, that; do this, that. Though you don’t like to go this way, he will say, "No, no, go this way, do this." You say, "No, I cannot." No, you, it will protect you. A child wants to touch the fire, and the mother says, "No, don’t touch the fire." Now, this is a fight between the child and what I want. But sometimes the child is also, children are also very clever. When the mother looks this way, he puts his hand in the fire. Then, Grandma, I told you. You see, that knowledge, Viṣṇu is the protector. So, "Guru Brahmā, Guru Viṣṇu, Guru Devo Maheśvaraḥ." And He is the Maheśa, Śiva Guru. So, in these three, He is that Parabrahma, not a Viṣṇu, not a Brahmā, not a Śiva, but above, Parabrahma. Tasmai Śrī Guruve Namaḥ, bow down to the Satguru Dev. Dhyāna Mūlam Guru Mūrti, therefore, follow and meditate on the Gurudevs. Dhyāna Mūlam Guru Mūrti, Pūjā Mūlam Guru Padam, Worship the lotus feet of the Gurudev, which lotus feet story I have told you, when Viṣṇu, Bhagavān Viṣṇu, and one Ṛṣi, that Viṣṇu taught, gave him his lotus eyes. Dhyāṇa mūlaṁ guru-mūrti, pūjā mūlaṁ guru-padaṁ, mantra mūlaṁ guru-vākyaṁ. Which mantra should we practice for siddhis, perfection, protection, this, that? Guru-vākyaṁ. If you miss the guru-vākyam, then you are out of the boat. Fall down. Mokṣa mūlaṁ guru-kṛpā. Therefore, Nityāvatāra have the rights to get the mokṣa. When you get a passport, the president gives the stamp and signature; it doesn’t value it. There are other authorities who will issue and give the stamp that will be valid, so there are kāruṇya devī devatā. Millions of gods and goddesses are what we call the female and God the male: God and goddess. There is no semi-god, my dear. So goddess, she is great, she is divine. Viṣṇu bows down to her, Śiva bows down to her, that is a Śakti, Mātṛ Śakti. First, "Matri Devo Bhava," in the Upaniṣad, is said. Mātṛ Devo Bhava, Pitṛ Devo Bhava, Ācārya Devo Bhava. If mother is not there, from where will you come? Bye-bye. Okay? Remain wandering in the astral world; there is no door to come in, into saṃsāra. Part 2: The Mother and the Path Beyond Heaven Mother is the door through which one enters saṃsāra, and Mother is the liberation that sends you to the light of the cosmic, the Self, the divine. Therefore, there is no "semi-god." Now, there is the word deva, which has different meanings. It refers to everyone who has done good work, male or female—there is no distinction of gender there. So do not think that women do not go to heaven. People always speak of men going to heaven. What do women do outside? They work in the field. They work in the field, take vegetables, and send them to heaven. Have you ever heard any story in heaven about women? People finally think, "Thanks to God, now no more problems." No, that is not so. In hell, also not. Then where are they? But if you see Svarga, in Svarga Loka, there are both deva and apsarā—both male and female, ever young, ever beautiful, ever enjoying. This is called devakanyā. Do you remember the devakanyās here? We made them. Yes, devakanyās. So those who have done good things come to Svargaloka and are known as Devas. But even the Devas pray to Bhagavān: Devbhī, Bhagavān se prasanna karte haiṁ, Devbhī prasanna karte haiṁ ki, O Supreme Father, Holy Father—but you call Holy Father; we call Param Pitā Parātmā. Param Pitā, the holy Supreme Father. When the credit of our good karmas is exhausted in Svarga Loka, in heaven, we must go back again to this chārasi, the cycle of birth and death in this mortal world. Then, Prabhu again gives us human life and blesses us with Guru Bhakti so that we may attain mokṣa. Therefore, to come to heaven or to Svarga is not mokṣa, because Svarga is limited. If heaven were unlimited, then where would hell be? So if there is hell, then heaven must have borders. Thus, those who are in heaven, in Svarga, pray further: "When we come again to this mṛti-loka, this saṃsāra, chaurāsī, please give us human life so that through bhakti, guru-bhakti, we may attain mokṣa." Mūlaṁ gurur kṛpāl. Furthermore, in Vedānta, in Jñāna Yoga, a devatā is not some kind of human or such. Devatā is karma. Karma, that puruṣārtha, is a devatā. You will be happy, you will have everything, you are as if blessed if you work—puruṣārtha. You can only have this if you work, if you do good work. Those who work hard and well have everything. Nothing is impossible for them. For a person of puruṣārtha, the rare thing is easy. For a servant, everything is available. Ichcha Kare Soi—whatever you wish, you will have it, because you worked, you meditated, you did good karma, you studied, you worked hard in the field, wherever it is. Puruṣārtha hīna prāṇī—but those who are lazy, who do not want to work, who put the work on others, who do not want to study or work... when such a person says, "My neighbor has a new car; oh, he bought a car for his son," and his wife adds, "Not only did he buy... his daughter also got a car." From where do they get it all? Did they work? They are jealous. So a man came and asked, "How are you?" He replied, "I’m okay, but I have one big problem: I’m unhappy." "Why?" "Because my neighbor is so happy and has everything." He is unhappy because his neighbor is happy. There are people like that. It is called naidik—jealousy. Puruṣāratha hīna prāṇī sab kuśa dekh kar roī. Usse kuch bhi nahī miltā. They do not get anything. Melega bhi to dega koi. Even if they get something, they will lose it. Puruṣārtha-hīna prāṇī sab kush dekh kar roi. Purusharat, naam purush, naam purusharat ka. There is a word called puruṣa. It does not matter if you are male or female, human. Purusha nām puruṣarat kā puruṣarat karne se siddh hoī. No, sorry. Jo hai, Dev ke barose vrata janam gamai. There are some people who think, "God will give me everything. You go and perform a pūjā here, you go and perform a pūjā there. God will give everything." Why will God give everything? Jo hai dev ke barose vrata janam gamai. They will lose their chance. So, devatā means puruṣārtha—work, good work, positive work. If you work, then you will get it. This is a beautiful bhajan of Achyutāmjī. Therefore, devatās are those who worked well. They did good to everyone, hurt no one, inspired everyone, led everyone on their spiritual path, did not misguide them from the path, and did not create jealousy or doubts. Then you go to the rākṣasas in the lower lokas, the devas, and this devatā. Finally, the prayer is: "Let me complete this human life so that I may again practice and attain mokṣa." Ultimately, there will be Mahāpralaya. But this is not necessarily the end of the Kali Yuga; we do not know when. There have been many, many Satyugas. And many times, Shiva himself has come. Which Shiva are you speaking of? The king of the Himalayas, Hemarāja, or Śiva? The king of the entire Himalayan range and more than half of India on the north side, and China—all of this was the great ruler of the kingdom. His seat was in the Himalayas, Kailāśa, and Pārvatī. Parvatī was also Hemarāja’s daughter. Gaṅgā and Pārvatī. But Svayaṃbhu was different. Svayaṃbhu was ruling from Mount Kailāśa, and Hemarāja was the one ruling there. This is another story. When Mahāpralaya comes, it means the entire earth will be destroyed. Before this destruction comes, all bhaktas will automatically be rescued and brought into Brahmaloka, into Śiva consciousness, into the divine light called Śiva Jyoti. That light will flow into that divine river called Yamunā, Gaṅgā, Narmadā, Sarasvatī, Gaṅgā, Gītā, Chāgayā, Trī, Sītā, Satyā, Sarasvatī, Brahma Vidyā, Brahma Vālī, Triśandhyā, Mukti Gelī. Ardha mātrā chidānanda, bhai agni bhai nāśinī, vedatrayī parānanda, tvartagyānam. After that dundundukara—we call it dundundukara—there will be completely void, empty space. Everything is moved, boiled, finished. Then the new sṛṣṭi, the new creation, comes. Only at that time does Swayambhū manifest once. At other times, in every yuga, he appears. That is on that day. That is what we call the Dvādaśa Jyotirliṅga. So, Śivjī can also appear in this temple. He appears and disappears, but that Swayambhū manifestation is only after one Mahāpralaya. Then, Viṣṇu takes over. Brahmā is balanced. Brahmā creates and gives the responsibility to Bhagavān Viṣṇu. Therefore, Viṣṇu is also endless, and his glory is endless. This is the time when every human’s heart is moved, on Good Friday and such occasions. Do you know what happened and how hard it was? It was a thousand times more cruel when Devakī gave birth to her children, and her own brother killed all six. He put his sister and her husband in a small prison room. If you see that, it happened six or seven times. He did not have an easy life; no incarnation had an easy life. Any holy saint who came had no easy life. When they are gone, then we cry, then we pray and perform āratī and pūjā. But at that time, you never performed āratī, never performed a pūjā. What you did was jealousy, doubt. And what did we all do? We hanged them up, crucified them. What happened to God Rāma? Must that Viṣṇu have to suffer like this, that he has to renounce everything and go into the forest? But they were not suffering. Jesus was not suffering. Kṛṣṇa was not suffering. That was their play. They had to go through these situations without feeling they were above it, to show what can happen in saṃsāra, my dear. Therefore, holy gurus used to say: "Chand tale, sūraj tale, mahā puruṣ ke bachan kabhī naī tale." May the moon and sun change their directions, but the words of the guru, the Mahāpuruṣa, will never change. Therefore, even the mighty Himalaya begins to say, "Maheś." To me, he said, "Your Guru Bhakti, your faith, should never shake, not even for one second. If you change this, then you cannot become." You cannot become the Mira, the Maria. From "Maria" comes "Mira." You say "ladies," and we say "ladi" in our language. Ladi means wife, woman. So from "ladi" to a "lady," that’s all. But "ladi" is a little more respectful. "Hi, lady. Hey, lady. What?" So now we say, "Ma’am, I am hi." There are many, many things—Sanskrit words, and these words are different. So, my dear, regarding the situation, Bhagavān Śaṅkarācārya, Ādiguru Bhagavān Śaṅkarācārya, said, "Do not feel guilty." Fortunate are they who got a human life. If you are guilty, if you are a sinner, you will not come as a human being, clear? Then you will be left reptilian, or you will be some other lower creature. So, fortunate are they who got a human life. Second, blessed are they who have spiritual parents who give them a spiritual education and lead them to the divine life. And lucky are they that they have a spiritual awakening. And liberated are they who meet Brahma, Niṣṭhā, Śrotriya, Satguru Deva. These are the four things you meet when you get a human life. Therefore, Śaṅkarācārya said, "You are not a sinner; you are the pure soul." Now, do not pollute your consciousness. Do not pollute that. Your feelings and this soul, which is with you, are a light and guide everyone as a light. So, human, you are like a torchlight, guiding all pure souls through the jungle of thorns and stones. Become that. In every heart, in each and every entity, the light of God is there. But my adoration is to that in whose heart God speaks. So do not feel that you are a sinner. Do not feel you are guilty. No, you are lucky that God gave us the opportunity to serve, the way to do good, and so the way to God. So, my dear, tomorrow we will continue further on the webcast. I wish you all the best. Where there is ignorance, there is suffering. Of course, we do feel unhappy. We do feel sad when something happens to our father or our mother, or our sister or brothers die, or our children die, or a dog dies, or a house pet, a cat. Some woman traveled from India back to Australia because of only a cat. The cat was very ill, you see. So, definitely, when such a great soul like Jesus, and people behaved in such a way—not in a good manner—we are all very sad, and it opens our eyes that it can happen. It can happen even to a Jesus. It can happen even to a Kṛṣṇa. It can happen like Rāma and Buddha. He had to escape into the Himalayas and towards China, you know, after his enlightenment. It was not like that. So you do not know the whole story. That’s it. Mahābuddha did not have an easy life. Like the Dalai Lama escaped to India. And you know, Buddhism is very nice, and there are many, many different branches. The real Buddhists are called big shook Buddhists, and they are pure vegetarian; they do not even eat the air. Buddha was walking with udāśī mauna, such that he would not step on some tent, or when he walked, he would not harm some branch of a tree. That was when he brought the bhikṣā; he divided it into four or five parts—for birds, ants, fish, dogs, and for himself. He left a part for himself. When some guest or someone came, then he divided it between them. They were the saints, and we are a small ant. But if we find somewhere some corn of that mahā prasād of the saints, then one day we will also be liberated. The elephant went for a swimming. Do you know the story about how the elephant swims? Oh, beautiful lake—a crystal clear lake, deep water. The elephant went for a swim. Can you imagine, for an elephant, such a heavy body? And suddenly he is so light in the water. He was so happy. He takes the water with his trunk full and washes his head. So the shower in the bathroom, what we invented, is coming from the elephant. Techniques, yes? I said, "Oh, yes, elephant." Everything we take from nature. So the elephant was diving deep in and out, stretching his legs, and feeling so happy, like he was flying. The flying elephant feeling comes from there. For one hour, two hours, he was washing himself nicely. Then he came out and was walking towards the forest. And what did he do? He took with his trunk some dust and put it on his head and on his body. People said it was stupid. "Just now he was washing. He had a good bath. Now he’s putting dirt on his body." Another said, "You do not know; it is because of the mosquitoes and ants." Others said, "You must be crazy. The elephant’s skin is so thick, the mosquito has no effect on the elephant’s body. It does not matter how many will bite him; he does not feel it." Everyone was telling something different. They said, "No, because he is nicely washed and shining, so perhaps he will fall in love with someone. So he is putting on a gag, looking ugly." You see how people think. So there was some wise person sitting, like our Nārāyaṇ Purī. He said, "Why are you fighting, arguing? Go and ask the elephant why he is doing that. Very simple, very simple." They said, yeah, that’s great. So they asked the elephant, "Elephant, dear elephant, brother." He was going, and to everybody, you know, the elephant looks the same. He blesses everyone, Gaṇeśjī. They said, "We do not understand why you put so much dust and dirt on your body. Just now you bathed and washed yourself so nicely." He said, "My dear human brother, you know, you have an approach, but we animals do not have an approach." They said, "What do you mean?" He said, "I have one hope. May some centuries or sometime some holy saint have walked here, and in the dust, his holy feet were touching. So maybe this holy dust will fall on my body, and I will get mokṣa in the next life. I will become a human bhakta to find that saint." They all looked at each other. They looked at Narayan Puri. What is Narayan Puri doing? Narayan Puri is also taking dust on his head. The others also began to put dust on themselves. Thirty to forty people all began to put ash on their bodies, and they ran to the lake. From there came the Nāgā bābā... Sathya Nārāyaṇa, Sathya Nārāyaṇa,... 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