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One writer writes with the intellect and the present situation. The spiritual writer writes about all three times: past, present, and future. Because those spiritual saints meditate, they attain realization and see their own life situation—past, present, and how it will be in the future. First, they write about their experiences, their life, and their instructions to themselves: "Oh my mind, do this and this. Oh my mind, what can happen?" They address both situations, within and outside. Thus, the spiritual songs, what we call bhajan. Jan means the human, and bhaja means to meditate, to pray, to go on the spiritual path. So, bhajan and the poem, which we call Dohā. The spiritual poems have a question and answer. One line is a question, and the second part is the answer. For example, the situation: what kind of situation will bring you the answer? In which situation will it bring you? So dohā means two. First, the spiritual seeker is asking, warning oneself. When one is meditating or sitting alone—maybe in an airplane, driving, walking, at home—it is manan, thinking over and over. There are two kinds of thoughts. One is a certain kind of problem or difficulty. When you think about it more and more, sometimes you put fuel on the fire. The second is that you solve it; you put water on it. Both are in our hands. One has a water hose and the other has a petrol hose from a petrol station. At that time, the saints choose a peaceful place with fewer disturbances, less noise; this sound pollution also disturbs our thoughts. But then you come into a certain state of your spirituality, and the sound doesn't disturb you. You understand the sound. You are tired, you want to sleep or rest, but at the same time, a handyman is working in your bathroom or somewhere, hammering and drilling. Now you want to rest, you want a little sleep. Many can't sleep; they feel disturbed. But a person who is aware will say, "No, the sound of the work is healthy. This has to be done. So let them work; I will rest." You see how you negotiate with yourself. But you want rest and sleep, and two people are sitting and talking, always talking, and going outside and inside and shutting the doors and windows. That sound disturbs because it is not necessary. Similarly, inner sound, our thoughts, disturbs. Now, analyze what relation you have with these thoughts. Here, you know that my bathroom is not in order. The hose or the water pipe is not working. This has to be changed. That has to be changed, and I've been waiting the last one and a half months for a plumber to come. The plumber has time to come now, so it's good that he or she is working. The sound of the work is healthy. But nonsense—nonsense means there is no sense in it—so we are sometimes thinking nonsense. It has no sense. Like this, when you write a book, you have inner feelings. If you have some strong inner feeling... For example, a person likes the car, makes insurance, gets a driving license, and enjoys driving the car. But one day, an accident happened, and now I said, "I must be really careful." Experience gives us knowledge. A mother tells the child, "Don't touch the fire, don't touch the fire." And sometimes, some child, when the mother is looking to the left side or something, tries to touch it and gets burned. Now, this burning experience is lifelong. Books are very interesting. Any subject of the book you get and read, you can tell the situation the writer was in. About 80% of the time, the writer will write his own psychic thoughts or problems—maybe physical, maybe relational, maybe situational. It can also be war, as I have experienced. The person writes from their own thoughts and experiences and puts it in a good way, the best way. Many books you read cover many different subjects. Who is disappointed with a friend, girlfriend, or boyfriend? Again and again, then one begins to think and gets crazy, so they go to a psychologist. One came to me; I don't want to tell who it was. Maybe it's a Nirañjan or maybe a Gaṅgā. The person had problems, so I said, "Why don't you write a book about love?" And the person wrote such a beautiful book with all the facts about how one becomes stupid and how one is confused or disappointed. But he or she who is writing doesn't write about him or herself, but about the fact of what can happen. Similarly, the person who loves God, who loves spiritual freedom, also writes these poems, bhajans, and books. You cannot write a book without having a concrete subject. That subject should be very clear to you. Otherwise, it is dry. Give inside some masala, give life insight. We must have practical experiences. Practical experiences must not be only with you; it can be with your neighbor, it can be with a second person. It takes a long time to understand. Yes, it is like that, and it is not like that. Our bhajan group was singing a nice bhajan about Mahāprabhujī's, Holī Gurujī's bhajan. I was hearing it from about 150 meters away, but of course not through my siddhi, through my mobile phone. This is Swamiji TV. A very nice bhajan: Chet, chet, ab jīva agyānī, afsar jāve re guru samjhāve. I don't know why only Gurujī wrote this bhajan. To whom is he telling? I don't dare to say. Otherwise, Gurujī will come to me in the night, in the dream, and will pull my ears, because I know he pulled so many often times. You don't know, to go through the Guru training is not easy. Ask the screw how he holds everything together. The screw had a training of the screwdriver, so thanks to the screwdriver, everything is not rattling. So, Holī Gurujī is saying, "Chet" means awake, be alert, be conscious. Don't run here and there in the world. What who is doing, what who is not doing, who is fighting, who is that? This is not your business. This will not help you. All this that we have in the world, what we can help, we should help. But other situations will not help you. You have to wake up and go inside. Where? He will tell further. Maybe, Holī Gurujī, when living with the Master... Sometimes you are so close, a friend, and you say, "No, yeah, it's okay." When you jump in the water, in the beginning you feel the water, but after one or two minutes, it's pleasant. That's it. New things are only for nine days. And if you pull it more here and there, then 14 days. After forgetting, after one day. So maybe Mahāprabhujī was telling something, and Holī Gurujī just didn't pay attention, maybe. I don't want to say anything to my Gurujī, because, you know, tonight will be a visit. It will be definitely, and I will be so happy if Gurujī will come in the dream. But I tell you that often, even in the dream, Gurujī came, and I was scared. What will he again tell me what to do and what I did not do, or this and that? But now I am so happy. Gurujī comes and blesses me. I spoke about Gurujī in one video lecture in the webcast, the love of Gurujī, how much he loved. I think it was on Gurujī's birthday. So, wake up, wake up, oh my Jīva. You are in ignorance. Ajñānī means ignorance. You have no knowledge. Wake up. Wake up. Don't sleep. Gurujī used to say, "You slept so much in past life." Still, your sleeping is not finished. Now you are in human life, conscious, aware. Wake up. Inwardly, wake up and do something spiritual. What you do, what we do, because all worldly things are temporary. One day they will go. And if you work or do something, do something that it reminds ages and ages. You are a good artist, and you make nice, beautiful pictures. About 200 or 300 years ago, some artist in Russia made a very nice painting, and he was going house to house to sell it and get a little bread. Those pictures now in museums in different countries have a value of millions. And still, everyone is longing to have that picture. So a photographer, she's sitting here, a photographer, or he, everyone is making a photo. But the best photographer has the other eye, the third eye, not these two eyes. That he or she catches that second, that is very important. And that one wins the prize, no? Often gets an award. Otherwise, a photo, we know every day. Now everyone has a photo camera and two cameras in both pockets. Or you create some art, a building. What is this building? This is a mesh box. It can burn any time. But there are certain buildings in London itself that are a history. Our beautiful thoughts, positive thoughts with love, today, tomorrow will be history. And if not with love and slumping... In German they say, then it's not a history, a historic person. So that is knowledge. And work, a person who is doing this, is in love with that. It means it loves. A real photographer or painter, don't sell for money, okay? For living they can do, but for them, this picture is like their own child. You are not selling because... Of the money you give someone, who will get inspiration and positive energy? Similarly, when you write a beautiful word or a poem or a song or a little slogan, think over which inspires us. So it is said, two things will remain in the memories: the walls or songs? Not these walls, the walls like Jadan Ashram, one pillar. You can't imagine what a love of the human's hands went in, and that stands there. But there are some stupid people. We made such a beautiful statue on one pillar, about 10 or 20 statues, and now already stupid people are coming, and nobody sees they break it. Krishna's flute, beautiful on the pillar, they broke one hand, they broke it. So what they call vandalism. Are there? But these two will be your like immortal. As long as it remains, we don't know who that was. But your divine work, your heart, anything you will make. So chet, chet, ab jīva ajñānī. Oh my jīva, you are in ignorance, sleeping. Wake up, wake up. Be alert. Be careful. Only one who is awakened can save us. Twenty people are sleeping in this hall, and one is meditating with open eyes. And suddenly a cobra came in. All are sleeping. And every side, when one makes a cobra go, nobody knows. But the person who is awakened will tell everybody, "Careful, a snake has come in." One who is awakened can wake up everyone. But if that one is also sleeping, it cannot awaken. So, Gurudev, the master is that one who is awakened, who will awaken all who are sleeping in ignorance. Chet, chet, ab jīva ajñānī. Avsar jāve re, your time is going away. The chance is going. This chance of human life will not come again and again. All that we are doing will go away; nothing will remain. Most precious is that human life to get to work towards spiritual development and liberation. Chet chet ab jīva ajñānī, afsar jāve re, your chance is going away. Guru samjhāve re, Gurudev is explaining; he tried to explain to you. How many years since you came to me? I don't know, someone 10 years, someone 2 years, someone 1 day, and someone 30 years, someone 40 years with me, and more. Did I ever tell you something nonsensical? Always in lecture, I wake you up. Doesn't matter which way. Sometimes a joke, sometimes this. But in your favor, to lead you. So the master's work is to teach something. The children are in the school class, and the teacher may make a joke, this, that. But the teacher's duty is this: to teach the student something every day. So, the master is that awakened one who will serve you fresh food and fresh things every day. Not always only look into the book and say, "Yes, then Kṛṣṇa was saying this and that was so." It should flow. It is flowing. There is a water hose or water pipe going along the wall, and you touch it with the drill, and water comes springing out. So when we come to that level, we don't need anything. Just you sit and talk, and it is always fresh water that is served to you and to me and to everybody, but not always cold water, but this is warm. So your chance is going away. Mā, many, many things. You collected so many things. Khajānā, the treasure where you have hidden your money, your gold, and everything. All this, everyone has somewhere something. And who doesn't have it is the happiest one. Only knows how to get food, that's all. No fear of stealing this and that. Dhan, daulat, aur māl, khajānā, sab yahī rah jāveṅgī. All will remain here. All, whatever you have collected—how much money, property, house, car, this, that, my—that is our ignorance. What we are saying is, "My." Even my body is not mine. But we are saying it's mine. Who said this? Ignorance. Suddenly, when life is gone, even this body is falling. Maybe some wild animals will tear your body, or put it under the earth, or burn it. The body doesn't say anything. It's nothing. Nothing is yours. Nothing. If it is yours, take it with you. "I like my body. Beautiful. How beautiful it is. I don't want to leave my body here. I will go with..." No, no... You are in a renting house, yeah? It's not your house; you rent it, so everything will remain here. There was a king, a real story. Long, long ago, kings were chosen by the ṛṣis. We call it rājanīti, politics. So the ṛṣis, great people, wise ones, organized how to protect the community, family systems, all people living in one place. So, nīti, in Sanskrit or the Hindi word, nīti means ethics. Those who know spirituality and ethical principles, that one is called a politician. Now, but that time, the person who was strong, who had this viveka, and who knew this system, rules, where, what not to do... So the ṛṣis told them nīti, the politic. So don't think and say, "You are a sādhu, you are a monk, you have nothing to do with politics." That's why politics is now suffering. If it goes into the hands of great spiritual people, again it will be very different. So the ṛṣis gave a title: "In the forest is a lion." The king of the forest is the lion. He gave the title to the humans who were strong and could control everyone, and if someone made too much nonsense noise, like a lion, get up, and everyone, or the foxes, and they go back. So the wise person gets up and says, "Silent place, what is the problem?" So that one he chose as a king. A king must have two knowledges, two kinds. A king should be a king and a yogī. He has yogic knowledge and knows how to rule the kingdom. These two signs one must have: that is a perfect king, the other not. So one king, he had siddhis; he practiced yoga, and he could have both samādhis, nirguṇa and saguṇa samādhis. Sabīja and nirbīja. One kind of samādhi is that you go into samādhi, and your body's heartbeat is very, very slow. It looks like a body died, but he or she can hear and can see. The other one goes so far that there is no hearing, no looking; it's in the brahma-loka somewhere. But the body is protected automatically by other powers, other energies. So the king went to the samādhi called sabīja samādhi, which means that he's aware, he hears, and he sees. Number two, all the workers around him, his secretary and these and that, are the slaves. Always, when he comes, they say, "Your Highness, Your Highness, Your Highness." When the king came, they bowed their heads and said, "Your Highness," and whatever he would tell them, they would do. So the king was thinking, they are all every day telling me, "Your Highness, Your Greatness, we will do everything. What do you wish? What can we do? Our life is for you." He begins to think, is this a reality or something different? Many disciples, thousands of disciples, don't think that everybody, how they greet me and how they smile to me, but inside it is different. Inside, there are half doubts and half coming in and going out again. It is ignorance. So, the king wants to know: all my very close workers who are with me every day, they are saying, "Your Highness, Your Highness, what can we do?" So the king said, one day he called a meeting of about ten people who knew about his money, this, that, everything. The king said, "My dear, every day you are saying this and that, and when the master is talking, don't sleep, but close your eyes." So the king was saying, "Don't sleep in ignorance. I have one wish." Well, this is something he never said to them: "I have one wish." They are standing there all the time to help fulfill his wish. Today they were so happy. The king said, "I have one wish." "Say yours, your highness." He said, "Look, when I die...""Oh God, no, no..." Never die? Please leave many, many Christmases, thousands of Christmases. He said, "If a thousand Christmases, if I have to be a thousand years old..." He said, "Thank you, it's nice of you, but sooner you or I will die. My wish is this: when I die, give the donation to all the poor people and ashrams, and for the animals, and like this. But if you can't give more, then at least what kind of jewelry I have on my body at the time when I die. All this jewelry should be sold and donated so that, at that time, there were not hotels, but a guest house for free. Waters and many, many things: humanitarian, veterinarian, and environment." So his very personal, trustful secretary said, "Your Highness, your words are on our head and on our eyelids." Always, our eyelids are moving for you. Well, finished? Should we do it next time we tell, or should I continue? So he said, "That's finished, meeting?" Thank you. You promised? They said, "Yes, sir." Five years passed. Now the king said, "No, today I will make a test." If they said yes, really or not, yes, yes. If he or she said, "Yes, I give my life for you," then today I will test. So, at noon, he begins to say, "Oh, I have pain in the stomach, oh, in the body." They were running, bringing an Ayurveda doctor. There was only Āyurveda at that time. Allopathic medicine was not there, so they brought Veda, and Veda said, "This and that, and pulse is too high," and says, "Give him this medicine and that kind." Around one o'clock in the night, he told his secretary, "This is the last minute. Inform the important persons in the palace." And he went into the Sabīja Samādhi, and the pulse is very, very slow, hardly you could feel. Who was very close, the secretary and two others, two, three, said, "Well, his highness has left the body." So they took him, and in India, we put a person on the earth, not on the bed, because that soul can easily depart and be in the lap of the mother's heart, not in the bed. And we, in India, before we put the person who is dying or has died, first we take cow dung and make a plaster, like a ball of plaster, and then we put this dead body on that, and then cloth. It was already four o'clock. Many very important people were standing there, maximum seven or eight. And now that his personal treasurer, secretary, he said, "Now we have to wash his body and give other cloth to carry to the funeral. So please take all jewelry to a safe place." So one person, like Niranjan Purī, he said to the very powerful person, who was treasurer and secretary, "But his highness," he said, "what bit? Yes, sir. His Highness had expressed his very deep wish. What?" He said, "If not more than, at least all jewelry which I have on my body, we should donate it." The very close friend and secretary and treasurer, he said, "Stop, stupid. Kings are like a donkey. We are ruling, and the king is listening. It's good just to say, 'Yes, yes, your highness. Yes, sir. Yes.' Be a yes-man. There is no doubt he died, and millions or billions of this jewelry, just throw it away. Donate, donate. He wants to make our kingdom poor." Then he said, "I'm sorry, sir. But we gave our word to His Highness that we will do it, and there were other people also listening." I said, "Don't give me any lesson, I know what to do." He said, "Yes, sir, call the goldsmith, and he should see all this and make it. An artificial jewelry, and that when it's finished, on that day we will open and tell, 'This was on the king's body.' We will give it. Use the brain. We are ruling the kingdom. This king, they are like a donkey." He got his hearing. Then the jeweler came. He began to open things. And the king said, "Oh, oh, oh." That man, the secretary said, "Oh, the golden sunrise. Oh, our life has come back. We shall donate this, and we shall donate this." King said, "Slave, slave. You are the wise one, and kings are the donkeys. That's your promise that you promised me, and now you treat me like this? Get out. I was all listening." Then he wrote a beautiful poem. That poem is there. Often we are using it: Khaya soto khogalia, dina soi sat, Jasvant dhar padhavia, mal parai hat. Whatever you utilize or eat is gone. Whatever you gave someone, that is the truth. Give birds feed, give animals, give hungry people, give them. Give, give, give. That will be counted in your karma as wealth you have. Jasvant dhar padhavia. That king, his name was Jasvant. He said, "When your body was put on the earth, all your belongings are in others' hands, even the body is not. Very soon they will take it and burn it." So this was only the first line of the bhajan. If I translate everything by next weekend, then next time, or in the next webcast, I will translate the bhajans. So there is an endless treasure of wisdom and knowledge. That's called the guru-vakya, the gurudeva's knowledge that will always be there. A wise person's work will always be there; it will always remain. And through their blessing and through their being in this world, we all are getting blessing and peace. What peace remains a little bit now in the world is because there are some saints. They must not be among people; they are somewhere, but their being here is like a sun shining, no night, no darkness. So this is something great.