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The Bamboo and the Divine Flute

The spiritual lineage flows from divine consciousness through chosen masters to disciples. Certain souls are selected by the higher self to carry the light, playing the game of master and disciple across lifetimes until their consciousness merges with the master's. The world is one house; where spirituality begins, the borders of religion end. Nothing here is truly ours, for we are tourists in this world, and we will leave everything behind. The story of the bamboo illustrates this divine selection and surrender. The bamboo, feeling empty and unworthy, only wished to remain in God's garden. God tested it, first cutting an arm to make a flute whose melody would melt hearts, then cutting its trunk to channel water to the thirsty. This pain was a sign of ultimate trust and a call to divine service. The priority is unconditional love and surrender to the divine will, which leads beyond heaven to oneness. Do not wait for old age to practice spirituality; worldly attachments are fleeting. Become like the bamboo: trustworthy, capable, and willing to be an instrument for the divine message.

"Nothing is thine, nothing is mine. Everything is ours, and we are His."

"Once you taste the nectar, then all other kinds of tastes are tasteless."

Filming location: Vancouver, Canada

Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī, Śrī Śrī Deva Puruṣa Mahādeva kī, Dharm Samrāṭ Sat Guru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma kī Jaya. Śrī Ṛṣi Munī Mahātmā kī Jaya. Pūtā Garbatī. Vābandha nāha hari om jaya jaya... Guru devī deva tayāhas guru mūrati dhari uswāmī. Bina Guru Gyanan Ho, Bina Prabhu Gyanan, Bhattak Bhattakrena, Hari Om Jaya Jaya Jaya, Mohya Sansar Bada, Bhava Sagar Bari, Śat Saṅg Jaj Chālākar Śat Saṅg Na Chālākar Gurū Pālame Tyā Hari Om Jaya Jaya... Sabako Guru Samajavat, Sabako Prabhujī Samavat, Ātmā Batalāve. Hari Om, Jaya Jaya... Tanna manna dhanna yara pannaka, Guru sevāpā, O Swami charan sevāpā, Hath jodh yār jī karun, binati karun, charanam siranmā Hari Om Jaya Jaya... Guru, Śrī Deva Puruṣa Paripūr Ānanda Darśave, O Swami, Ānanda Darśave, Śrī Dīpa Prabhu Satānā, Śrī Dīpa Dayāloṇī Jamānase, Guru Āratī Gāve, Hari Om Jaya Jaya, Śrī Dīpadayāl Kṛpāl Mahāprabhu Āprako Lajāhamārīye, Śrī Dīpadayāl Kṛpāl Mahāśivāya Āprako. Ādi Nānat Yanat Kenat Prabhujī Par Brahma Yāvatārī... Shri Deepadayal Kripal Mahāprabhuaprakola Vyāpak Vishvacharacharame Hari Chetan Jot Tumari Prabhu Vyāpak Vishvacharacharame Hari Chetan Jot Tumari Prabhu nirguṇ se sarguṇ bannaya Bhaktan ke hitakari Shirdi padayal kripal maap ki sharan me aayapade. Hama durbal das dukhyāri Prabhu, āp kī śaraṇ meṁ āye paḍe. Hama durbal das dukhyāri Prabhu, najar nihāro parāyu. Tāro pākavir dvichārī Śirḍī pādayāl kripāl. Mahāprabhu, āp binā kaun hamāre nāth hai, jina ko jaya pukārī. Prabhu, aap bina kaun hamare nāth hai? Jina ko chari hai Prabhu, jahan dekhūn, jahan aap hi aap ho, nitya chetan, nirākārī. Śirḍī pādayāl, kṛpāl, Mahāprabhū, aneko āgeyobaryā, abke merī bārī hai, Prabhu, pāpī. Prabhu mujh parame karo mere data Mangat bhi kabhi kyari Shri Deep Dayal Kripal Mahaprabhu Prabhu siri puja deepa dayal daya karo aap ka na shukha kari... Prabhu Kahe, Madhavānandajī, Āpke Caraṇ Kamal Balihārī. Śrī Dīp Dayāl Kṛpāl Mahāprabhujī, Namaste. Śrī Gurudeva Purīṣa Dayālam Nijananda Ānandam. Śrī Rāmāyakandam Harirūp, Jase Atītam Anādi Niram Agamma Yoni Aparaliptam Sarūpam Suśudam Sadāyogījatam. Namo sarvavyāpī guṇātīta deva prabhu-dīpa-dījo sadā vighna-haraṇa-maṅgala-kāraṇaṁ dhāraṇa-phara-svarūpaṁ pāravatī-nandana namo śrīdīpa-śaraṇa-dhāratī jaya jaya deva dayāla śiva karuṇā su maṅgala mūla jīva prabhu kyun ājñāmāta sadā ravo. Vandau śaraṇ guru deva ke, Śrī Deva Purīśa śukudai yoga yugati jai smṛti prabhu janibala. Namo Namo Gurudev Jī, Koṭi Koṭi Praṇām, Palak Palak Prabhu Vinati. Nām liyā sab yubare, ānand ho tayyāpar. Āp satguru mein śiṣya huā, mamprāṇa thā. Paramahansa Gurudev Jī, tīn loka ke dev, Śūrṇar muni sab sant jānān ne travut. Satguru samdhata nahi, sab jag maangana har, kya raja kya badhsa sabhi khadare. Rāmakṛṣṇa se kaun bade, usne bhī guru kī, tīn loka ke nāṭu hai Satguru ke. Satguru Purāṇa Brahma He Jove Śūr Naravāt Nugra Nicha Jāne Nai Yuga Yuga Gelita Ye Tanvīs Kī Velādī Guru Amṛta Kī Khān Śiṣ Diye Satguru Mere Tobī Sās Guru Mūrati Mukacandra Mā Sevakane Na Cakor Aṣṭapahar Nirkataram Guru-Caraṇakamalakīyo Om Guru-Brahma, Guru-Viṣṇu, Guru-Devo-Maheśvara, Guru-Sākṣāt, Parabrahma, Tasmai Śrī-Guruve Dhyāna Mūlam Guru Mūrti Pūjā Mūlam Guru Padam Mantra Mūlam Guru Vākyam Mokṣa Mūlam Guru Kṛpā Om Dīpa Jyoti Parabrahma Dīpam Sarve Mohanam Deepānaṁ Sajate Sarvaṁ Sandhyā Dīpaṁ Sarav Satyam. Oṁ Namo Prabhu Dīpavināśī, Api Brahmā, Api Viṣṇu, Apo Kailāśa. Apo Nāradī, Apo Saradī, Apo Sainsakurāsī, Apo Dhyānī, Apo Gyānī, Apo Yog Prakāśī. Āpo Deva Savādevī, Āpo Śūra Prakāśī, Āpo Brahma Nirvāṇī, Āpo Cauhāna Kīvasī. Āpho Vedonke Gyātā, āpho Bhaktur Vāsī, āpho Satnāmke Dātā, āpho Niśā Rūpke. Om Namo Prabhudī Pranāma Brahmananda Nūrur Vāsī. Boli Śrī Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī, Śrī Śrī Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva Kī, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānanjī Bhagavān Kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jaya. Sab Ṛṣi Muni Mahātmā Kī Jai Āratī Sāth. I heard it, wait a minute more. So, are you very lucky today that you did Āratī Sāth Sāth? Are you fine? Very good. If you do Āratī, your phone will ring. I kept it on, I said, you all do Āratī Sāth Sāth. So, I will either call you later, or it is a satsaṅg. They had a prayer with us. They are some bhaktas from Mā Prabhujī, so they were happy to have prayer with prasāda. Gajarān, you can give prasāda, or Kamlā, you can give. That’s very good. Here, come. I have prasāda for children. Children come? This later on, okay? Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavānakī. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to our Vancouver Ashram, Yogananda Life Center. Also, many blessings to all bhaktas around the world who are with us now through the webcast. And happy birthday. There are many who have a birthday today. So, happy birthday. These five days here in Vancouver were very beautiful. This time, Mahāprabhujī was more gracious to the Vancouver people, as he ordered me to stay for five days. Five days, or at least six days and seven days. My, the most beautiful thing. In the beginning, when I came first time to Vancouver, I stayed seven days, and then five days here, and nearly two weeks I was here. We began this program here with satsaṅgs. I spoke yesterday about satsaṅg and ended the program with the satsaṅg and prayers. It was prayers to Satguru Dev. This prayer, which we sang just now, was written by our beloved Lord Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī in adoration to his great master, Devādideva, Śiva Śaurūpa, Svayambhū, Avadhūta, Śrī Devapurījī, and to Śrī Alakapurījī. About Śrī Alagpurījī, I will tell you more details in one year, because we are now on the steps towards the Himālaya to find out more about Śrī Alagpurījī, and you will know this surprisingly, even in Śiva Purāṇa, Alagpurījī is mentioned. So, time of Śiva. So, our spiritual lineage comes from Śiva to Alak Purījī, to Śaṅkarācārya, to Devapurījī, to Mahāprabhujī, to Holy Gurujī, and to us. Now it depends on us how we will bring this first-hand message, this first-hand spirituality, to the world. So it depends now on us. We are just here together. Now, there is something which I would like to tell the satsaṅg. People are, or certain souls are chosen by the divine or by the higher consciousness. Master and disciple, they come here on this planet as oneness, but they play this game of master and disciple. The relation of the disciple to the master is with the divine consciousness. The consciousness of the master and disciple is connected directly to the cosmic consciousness. Disciples, they follow this spiritual stream for many, many lives until they come to that consciousness, which they call, they will become the same, like a master consciousness. So this is chosen by the higher spirit or the higher self: whom they will send to where, and take care of that light, spirituality. It doesn’t matter which country; the whole world is one village. The whole world is one house. We are residing on this planet. How does God choose someone? There is a small story I would like to tell. And lucky are they, blessed are they, who can give this valuable treasure. Treasure means Guru Vakya, the blessing of Gurudev to give further, which is also not easy. If you read the testament, there was a time that Jesus was in despair. Jesus was crying, Jesus was saying, "Father, why just me?" And the voice comes, "Yes, my son, I have chosen you to bring my divine message to those who are suffering, those who are in darkness." But why me? Because I trust you. You see, God knows everything, but even God has to make some timely decisions and find out who will be trustworthy or capable to bring my divine message. So, who knows how many of you are here will continue or carry this divine light from Mahāprabhujī, Śiva, Alakpurījī, Śaṅkarācārya, Devapurījī, Mahāprabhujī, Gurujī? And now, it depends on us. We don’t know who is that next one. We are all ready to do Śiva, and so the stories, like this, stories, certain stories are painful. The life of Jesus was a painful life. Of some saints, it was very hard, very painful. The life of... The holy Assisi was not easy. Even the people were throwing stones on him. People were blaming, "He’s a schizophrenic." But now people adore him, people worship him, so around the whole world, must not be only in India, but in many different. From time to time, great, great divine light has descended on this planet. In Sanātana Dharma, in Hinduism, it is like this: we do recognize, we do adore every spiritual luminary. It doesn’t matter if one belongs to some religion or not, where the spirituality begins, the borders of religion are finished. There’s no borders; there’s only one. And that’s why Holy Gurujī used to say, "One in all and all in one." As long as we humans are in ignorance, we will create the borders of the different religions, different faiths, different spiritualities, different countries, different cultures, but it is said, "Sabhi chhod kar chalā mūshā phir bās kiyā ban kā jagat mein jīvan hai do din kā." Koī chalā gayā, koī chalā jāhegā, koī gathrī bandh khaḍā. Akela, jag mein jeevan hai do din ka, clear? That’s it. There is only two days’ life in this world, only two days. One day was yesterday, and the second day is today. Tomorrow, no one has seen till today. Tomorrow will remain ever tomorrow. Koī calā gayā, someone is gone. Koi chala jayega, someone will go. Koi gathrī bandh khada akela, and someone has packed their luggage and is standing alone at the platform. Sabhi chhod kar chalā musāfir. This traveler, we are all tourists. Sabhī chhoḍ kar calā. This traveler has left everything here and gone to the forest of infinity. Whatever we think, this is my religion, my culture, my country, my language, my people, my land, my house, my family, my money, my this, my body. Even this body will not go with you. Finally, you will go alone, and when we will go out of this body, there will be two different streams: one is back to the Naraka Chārasi, and one is to the Supreme. And it is that one which lifelong had this consciousness hooked in the consciousness of the Divine, the Gurudev. That consciousness will lead us, so life is our ignorance. The biggest ignorance is mine and yours. Nothing is thine, nothing is mine. Everything is ours, and we are His. That’s all. God had a beautiful residence, a beautiful, beautiful park, like Stanley Park, with many flowers, many plants, and trees. Every day, God used to walk in the early morning, during Brahma Muhūrta, before sunrise, and he was walking through his beautiful garden. Many bludgeons, flowers, and when God walked by, all plants and flowers, and even the birds, and they said, "God, I love you. God, I love you." And God also said to every flower, every plant, and he was touching them, "Yes, my dear, I love you." Everything, doesn’t matter, thorny bush, or fruit trees, or berries, or anything. In the corner of the Lord’s garden, or the park, there was standing a bamboo. And bamboo had always conflict, doubts. He was thinking that God doesn’t love me, and so when God was coming near, Bambu said, "I love you, my Lord." And God said, "My dear Bambu, I love you so much." And God was touching the Bambu and said, "I love you." Bambu said, "Lord, I don’t know why I have emptiness in me. I have nothing in me. I am empty." And I have a knot of the doubts, and I’m so hard that your love cannot penetrate; it remains only on the surface. But Lord, though I’m so hard, I can’t take your beautiful smell, I can’t feel your divine touch, and though I have the knots of the doubts, and not only... This Lord, I’m empty, but you know, Lord, one thing you should know: I love you. And please, merciful one, let me be in your garden. Lord said, "Yes, my bamboo, I love you, and you will always be in my garden forever." But every time morning, when Lord comes, bamboo is yelling all the time, same. From time to time, I said, "Master, please don’t cause me any pain. Don’t throw me out of your garden. That’s my wish. I will go through all sufferings, but let me be in yoga. I know, Lord, you like beautiful, gentle flowers. I know my... Lord, you like those plants and trees that give nice, juicy fruits, and I know, Lord, you love those plants and everything that has a beautiful smell. I, bamboo, standing naked, nothing. I have nothing to offer you. But Lord, my one wish, let me be in your corner of the garden." God said, "My dear, I love you. You will be my God." One day in the morning, God had his hands on his back and was walking, and all the plants and birds said, "We love you, Lord." We love you, Lord. And he also said, "I love you, Lord." The person who has a doubt in the heart is always, always a little bit in fear. He saw why God has his hands hidden on the back today. Definitely, he has something in his hands. It will cause me pain. The Lord is walking and came closer, closer, looking at the bamboos, at every branch. Bamboo said, "I love you, Lord, my merciful one." And God said, "Yes, I love you." And bamboo said, "Lord, why, why do you hide your hands on the back? What have you in your hands, Lord?" God said, "Yes, my dear, yes, you are right. In my hand I have an axe." Yes. For what? Today I will cause you a little pain. You, when the Lord causes pain, then what about the other world, other things, people? You are not the God that one who causes the pain. He said, "Yes, I will do it today. Why me?" There are so many other plants and trees. God said, "I need your help, my bamboo." Lord, you need my help? Yes. What can I do? My life is for you. Everything is yours. Only belongs to you, and you, only you, my Lord. God said, "Bambu, I will chip off one of your arms." Lord, what have my arms done to you? They were always kind to everyone. The Lord said, "But I will chip off." It’s yours, your decisions, your will. But if you explain to me why, it will make it a little easier for me to go through this pain. God said, "Bambu, people in the world, especially the humans, their heart has become hard like a stone." So, God, you mean that you will chip off my arm and their heart will melt? Said, "Yes. How?" If you explain to me, I will be more happy and bear this pain, God said. My dear, I trust you, and I know only you are the one who can help me. Wow! I will chip off one of your arms and make a beautiful flute out of it. And I will, with my own mouth, blow my energy, my prāṇa, into you. And it is you who will transfer my prāṇa into such a beautiful melody that everyone who listens to my flute, their heart will melt. Lord, you will, your breath, you will kiss me? Said, "Yes, I will kiss you. I will put my prāṇa inside." Then, "Lord, please be gentle. Here is my arm." He stretches the arm, and God made the flute, and that became the flute of Kṛṣṇa. Since that time, this flute is in the world. So when I hear flute music, I remember the story. God, here you are. But please, let me be in your garden. Yes, my bamboo, I will do. Days passed, months passed, years passed, and a god is coming, all, every day, walking and talking to all plants and animals, and touching the rocks and stones, always, bamboo. He tells him, "My wish is to be in your garden." The other plants were jealous. "Why, God, every day does He especially go to that bamboo?" And they were happy that he chipped one arm away. But God trusts that. After twelve years, one day again, God has his hands on the back. Yes, my plants, I love you. Yes, birds, I love you. Yes, apple trees, cherry trees, berries. This bamboo’s heart was trembling. Why does God have his hands hidden behind his back again? So someone is walking like this. You must be careful. You know what’s happening. God was coming towards the bamboo, and the bamboo said, "Master, Master, I love you." He said, "Yes, bamboo, I love you." Please let me be in your garden. He said, "Yes, you will be ever in my garden." You are in the garden of my heart, my dear. But Master, why are your hands hidden again on your back? I see something you have in the hand, but I doesn’t dare to tell what. God said, "Yes, yes, my dear, in my hand is again the axe." "Why, Lord, and why you walk towards me with axe? Bamboo, I will cause you today big pain." I didn’t think that I would cause you such pain. Then why are you doing it? Because I trust you, Master. That is the way that someone trusts you, and you cause the pain. He said, "Yes, my dear." Sometimes, trust is so important that I have to cause you even the pain. And that which I trust will stand through. Yes, Lord, why? Because I need you. There are so many other plants and trees, and big, big trees. Don’t you need them? He said, "Yes, my dear." I can give my love and trust only to those who are truly trustworthy and capable, and you are my dear one. I know that you will never refuse, you will never run away, and you will never, never have even for one second thoughts or feelings to... Anywhere, but you said, "Master, one word, I will cause you big pain." That pain of my arm was enough, more than big for me. Now what will you do? Will you cut the other arm? So, no, no... The arm is too little, but do I hear Master properly? What you see, yes, my bamboo, I will chip off your trunk. Bamboo became blue and begins to see the sky and stars, the universal form of the Kṛṣṇa and fire of the pain. Master, why will you do this? I need my dear you. But you can have me as it is, but why do you chip my trunk off? Yes, my dear, in the high Himalayas there are glaciers, and one part of the side of the Himalayas there is a drought and no water at all—humans, animals, birds. Vegetations, they are thirsty, and these glaciers, which are melting, just fall under some rocks and disappear. Water, you cut my trunk, and they will get water. Said, "Yes, Lord, I never argue with you, never. I love you, I’m yours, but can you explain to me? You..." Tip of my trunk, and they will get water. Even I don’t have that with blood. God said, "I will place you, my bamboo, there." So, melting of the glaciers will flow through you in another direction over the rock, and the creatures will have enough water there. If it is like this, Lord, do it, but please always keep my trunk in your hands. The Lord said, "Yes, my hands will hold you there. I will support you so that you can stand through." And God did it. The story means that we should be worthy enough for the love of God, and we should know where the priority is. You remember, I spoke about the dharma. I spoke about dharma, the responsibilities, obligations. But where is the priority? And so, Bāmbhā said, "I am for you. I am for you." That was the messenger of God. So, let’s try to be Bāmbhā. And so the chip, the trunk placed there on the rocks, and water was flowing, and that may, you can say, became a river like the Ganges. God came the next day to the bamboo. It’s very sad. The big trunk is gone, and some other branches are there. God stood there. Nowhere he remains standing, but he stood there, and he sat down, and he embraced the cut-it trunk of the bamboo. And so a wise holy man from China, Confucius, said, "The cut-it trunk of the tree." Will again grow means it will never die. Bamboo said, "Don’t worry, Lord, it will grow again and again, will be in your seva." And therefore, one holy saint said, but Bambu was talking to master, "My Lord, I will be thy always, my Gurudev, I will be thy." Always, devotees may come, devotees may come, and devotees may go, but still, my Lord, I will be thine. Don’t worry if someone is coming and not coming anymore and disappearing, that’s okay. You should know that your trust, your love, your feelings, that doesn’t disappear. You should take care of yourself. My Lord, I may go far, farther. Than the star, but still, my Lord, I will be thine, because physical distance doesn’t mean anything. Where physical distance you feel is attachment. And attachment is the cause of suffering. But where there is love, there is no attachment. And love grows from far distance also, very much. So if I go far, farther than the stars, still I will be Thine, my Lord. And finally, he said, "Even if I die, even if I die, look into my eyes." Mutely, they will say, "I will be dying." That is one who has understood the divine message of the Master, the divine message of the Lord, to bring the divine. Such a love is the way directly to the Brahmaloka, not heaven. Heaven is only one hotel room. You know, there are two rooms in the hotel. One room is uncomfortable, with bugs and this and that, rotten and those. That’s called hell, and one room is a seven-star hotel. But the yogī said, "This hotel I don’t like. I would like to be a Brahman." That is the way. Do asanas, do prānāyāms, do torturing, this and that and sitting and this. All is the zero. All is that love, unconditional love. And once you taste the nectar, then all other kinds of tastes are tasteless. And therefore, one holy saint said one beautiful bhajan. And how this bhajan is very beautiful. That bhajan, it means, now I taste the nectar of God’s name. All other tests in this world are testless for me. Now I became so divine, I’m intoxicated while drinking that nectar juice of the name of Hari, God. And now all kinds of bhogas, all other enjoyments, and all juice is tasteless. There is nothing inside, and then it is said, Mahāprabhujī, Oh, I am made after Gurudev. Divānā, you know, I like nothing. I am one with the gods, one with that. Dhyāna Satguru Nāmaka. I am made after my Gurudev’s name. Be parva o fakir. The fakīra, in the Muslim religion, they say mullā and fakīr and so on. Fakir is that one who renounced everything and is living in the mosque. Doesn’t matter what it is. He has no sorrows, no worries. Always, his consciousness is divine in Allah. That’s it. So that was the story about bamboo, about confidence, and about practice. Don’t change your feelings. Don’t change the altar, the picture on the altar of your heart. You have, and that will be forever. Doesn’t matter what people will say and what they are saying. This all, nothing will go with us. In Urdu language they say this, "This saṃsāra, this world, the people, they are only selfish." Oh my friend, they are only selfish. They are so selfish, your wife and your husband. And your children, and your mother, and your father, your brother, and your friends, and everyone like you, buy a very nice, juicy lemon, and then you squeeze the lemon out. And what will you do after taking the juice out? In the garbage, that’s it. As long as you have the juice of money, beauty, and youth, they all are coming to you. On the day the last will come, then they will say, "When will he or she die, so that we can inherit the house? That way we can have this and that." Don’t think that you will do your tapasyā, your bhakti, your spiritual sādhanā when you are old and this and pension. After pension, you will have more tension. The tension of health, you will be pendling between home and hospital and doctor. You know, your children will say, "Grandmother, grandfather, please can you look after the children?" So you will be that babysitter, and they will say, "Please can you go and do the shopping? I have no time." After pension, very, very rare people can go and renounce. Pension means one... Presthāśram and sanyāsāśram, there are four āśrams: brahmacārī āśram, the life of the studying. Gṛhastha āśrama, to establish, create family. Vanaprastha āśrama, renounce everything and go to some āśrama or to a hut or anywhere. Sannyāsa āśrama, take sannyāsa last. So, we are tourists in this world; nothing belongs to us. And to be a tourist means to have a big risk. Tourist, to risk. You came into this world with a great risk. Perhaps in the astral world we are happy, but we took a risk, became a tourist here in this world, and now we are confused. All the sightseeing—nobody is looking straight, seeing all the sightseeing. So with this, I wish you all the best. And pray to Mahāprabhujī Gurudev to bless you with spiritual light, and may his divine grace fall on you, that you become that bamboo, you become that one who brings this divine glory message. That’s it. So, thank you. It was very... Nice to be with you, seven days. Tomorrow is seven days, and you are very fortunate ones that you have Gajananjī. In India, he was many, many years, and all in India, many, many people, they are sad and they are angry with me that why I sent Gajanan away. Why? I said I didn’t send away. I trust him, so I put him here in Vancouver. He had to go through the Rocky Mountains, you know, and also we have him in Europe, in Austria and everywhere. So I can tell you that he is a person with the discipline and the quality, and you... You are a lucky one that you have him here. Wish you all the best, and him also. Wish good health and long life. So with this, today was the saying goodbye, but goodbye means who is going will come, and who comes will go. So I may go far. Farther than stars, but still I will be dying. Next year, in the month of March and April, will begin Kumbh Melā. Kumbh Melā this year will be in Haridwāra, and this Kumbh Melā next year is called Mahā Kumbh Melā, and it is 12 years, a mini yuga, that I became Mahā Maṇreśwar in the Kumbh Melā. It is very special. So we hope Mahāprabhujī will bless us and You are all welcome to come to the Kumbh Melā. There is a particular constellation when there is a holy bath. So, there will be a few baths. So if you cannot attend all four, or three, or five baths, at least one bath you should have with me and have a blessing of this divine bath in the holy Gaṅgā at Haridwar, Harikīpeḍī. That’s beautiful, and I wish that you will come and we will have, either we will have a tent. Or we will hire two hotels, because Kumbh Mela in Haridwar, there is not so much space. People have built so many buildings, and we have to be under the bank of the Ganges, or we will have some hotels. But it’s very important that you book ahead. If you book ahead, a room. Where you come only for three days or one week, but when we book for Kumāra, then we have to pay for the whole one and a half months. So after you go, maybe someone can come and have that room, that’s it. So hope to see you, and if you come in the summer. I will be in Europe. I will have in Strelki Ashram summer seminar every day. I hope there will be a lecture like the satsaṅg or on the cakras, so in webcast you can see once more cakras and kuṇḍalinī. Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Devīśvar Mahādev Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān. Satya Sanātana Om Tryambakaṁ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṁ Puṣṭivardhanam Urvārukam Iva Bandhanān Mṛtyor Mukṣīya Mā’mṛtāt Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinaḥ Sarve Santu Nirāmayāḥ Sarva Bhadrāṇi Paśyantu Mā Kaścid Duḥkha Bhāg Bhavet Nāhaṁ Kartā Prabhu Dīpa Kartā Mahāprabhujī dīpakartā hi kevalam. Om Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... Adio.

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