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This is a beautiful bhajan, a song, written by the great holy Mīrā. Meera was born in Rajasthan. Her story is very beautiful and very painful, but one who has that devotion, that bhakti, and whose heart and buddhi—our intellect, our viveka—is very clear, knows: "I belong to thee." How we belong has many examples. Now it is spring. I was walking around Queen’s Park, observing the beautiful evening. All the birds are resting. They return to their nest and prepare their house because the babies will arrive soon. Nature begins to blossom. Early morning at dawn, we see a beautiful bud, and as the dawn rises, that blossom opens. As it opens, that kind of devotion, bhakti, belongs only to one: God. That devotion devotes everything to us, and as one petal after another unfolds, the fragrance merges into the sky, into space. That devotion, in the form of the Ātmā, longs to become one with God, Brahman, and that merges immediately into oneness. It is there, spread in the whole space. Our jñāna-indriyas, our sense of smell, we enjoy. It is beautiful. It gives us pleasure, fulfillment, and no one forbids you. Everyone smells the park—the birds, the dogs, the cats, the squirrels, the humans—and it is multiplying. So where there is bhakti, there is purāṇa. And purāṇa means completeness. Nothing is missing, and there is no order that you don’t take too much. You can have more. God gave the capacities and abilities to take as much as they can, and it is never too much, so we last forever in that space. Make a space in your consciousness. Give space to that beauty of the beautiful bud which will open for you, and that one is going to merge into the space, into Brahman. That’s called merge, meaning marriage. The rest of the material things will die. From this, the word came: marriage. Merge into oneness in such a way that you can’t separate. There is no more divorce. You may think it is our stupidity that we think, "Now I am separating," or, "I am divorcing." You were once, and you are there forever. Afterwards, these flowers whose petals remain will get rotten and merge into the earth as a recycling process. But that will not recycle. That is your Ātmā, and that your Ātmā has merged into the Gurudev, and through the Gurudev, into Brahman. These instructions, these visions, these teachings, this understanding, this giving is a healing for humanity. If we are able to understand, then we are healing the whole world. But we didn’t understand, and that’s why we are suffering. Mirabai was great, she was holy. You know, at her last, she was having such a pain in her heart. That is called viraha. Love has many forms. This virah is that kind of spiritual longing, that spiritual love to become one with Brahman. Virah. Virah ke mārī vanu vanu ḍolu. I am injured. I am searching for a remedy in the forest, here and there, to heal my wound. But no one can heal this—no Vedas, no doctors, no lawyers, no one. But oh, my beloved Supreme, you may say Krishna, you may say Rama, you may say any other God whom you believe, Gurudev, that God whom I never saw, I never saw his face. And now, at the last minute, he comes. What should I do with that one? Therefore, his guide, lead, liberate, and give me that strength and teaching is Gurudev. So Meera said, "Hey Prabhu, Bhagavān, God, my wound in the heart, viraha, longing, that love cannot be fulfilled by anyone or anything. Only, oh my beloved God, if you come and become my doctor, my vedya, I can be healed. Otherwise, I am suffering. I am suffering. Divāsana-bhuka. In the daytime, I have no hunger, no appetite. And ratana-nana-nila. And in the night, I can’t sleep." There are two who are awakened: yogī or rogī. Rogī means an ill person. Yogī means that spiritual seeker. How can I sleep? Because maybe he will come and I am sleeping. I lost my chance; my whole life is gone. Or an ill person who has a lot of pain and is waiting, he can’t sleep. When will the doctor come tomorrow morning? The whole night is a horror. So, either awaken, yogī, or rogī, the ill one. But who is sleeping? That is a bhogī, which means one who is involved, stuck in that muddy dirt called worldly longings. Mirabai said, go towards Krishna’s temple, and when you come next time with me, I will show you this temple, and we will go there. Her last days came. She was young still, about 20, 30, 40 years, or maybe not till 40, 35 or so. Her story was not pleasant from the worldly side, and it was very nice and divine, joyful. So both suffering, from the worldly side, suffering. No one understands her. Many tried to attack her, and on the other side, she was always divine, spiritual, searching all the time for God. And what was she saying? Darśan do Gāṅsyām nā ātmārī, āṅkhiyāṁ pyāsire. O Gaṇśyām, O Kṛṣṇa, O Viṣṇu with the blue, your blue body, blue sky, Śiva blue. Darśan do, please appear to me. Let me see you. Meri āṅkhyā piyāsī re. My eyes are thirsty. Pānī pī kar pyās bujhāun. If I am thirsty, I will drink water to quench my thirst. Nainan ko kaise samjhaun? How can I explain to my eyeballs how to quench your thirst? Because they don’t ask for that water, but darśan, to see my Lord, see my beloved, see my Brahman. In each and every temple, there is your statue, there is your form. Mandir mandir mūrat terī, phir bhī na dikhe sūrat terī. In every temple, there is you; you are sitting, your statue is there. Phir bhi na dikhe sūrat terī, but still I can’t see your face. Ākhaṁ chaṇī chhoḍo abto. O my beloved God, Brahman or Gurudev, don’t play with me, hide and seek. Don’t close your eyes whenever I come to see you. You are closed eyes when I go. You can look to me, so you can say, "Seek and hide, hide and seek." Āṅkh meṁ chānī chhoḍo, ab to ghaṭ ghaṭ ke vāsī re. You are dwelling in each and every entity’s heart, in every life, in everyone. Oh Krishna, oh God, you are in everyone, ghat ghat ke vāsīre. That you can say love. Other, don’t spoil the name of love. That’s only emotion, the motion. If you marry someone, if you hold hands once, that is forever. If you understood that one, otherwise, it is, as He said, what we now call in this new age, "use and throw." Ask for a cup of milk, drink it, and throw it away. And now it is in our subconscious. Without thinking, when we go shopping, we say, "Do you have a plastic bag?" Can’t we have a paper bag? Do you have a cotton bag or something like this? Fabric? Plastic. It is so maligned. Please, have you some black plastic bags? Similarly, we are going towards the poison, many different kinds of poisons. Our ātmā is immortal, but now is too immortal. One is ātmā, which never dies. No weapons can kill, no elements can destroy, no fire can burn, death cannot take away ātmā. Śivo’ham, śivo’ham. And now, second, immortal is plastic. We can’t destroy the plastic. Even if you burn it, the plastic is smiling. Look, I’m nirguṇa. You can’t see. You breathe me in and out, everywhere. No weapon can. This is a plastic, but this means there are two. One is called devī śakti, and the second is āsurī śakti. Devī śakti is the divine energy. Āsurī śakti is the devil’s śakti. Bhoga nahīṃ māṅgu. Oh my Bhagavān, oh Gurudev, I’m not longing for the joy of heaven. That’s nothing. And I’m not asking you, oh Bhagavān, for the whole wealth of this earth. Even if you make me the king of the whole earth, I don’t want to have that. Rāj denā guru samaye caraṇon kī. O my Gurudev, give me the dust of Thy lotus feet. Who understands will take it. Who doesn’t understand will throw it away. We don’t know what we have thrown away, and we don’t know what we keep. And that is, if we get Brahmavidyā, that teaching which makes a human, a human, to wake up, and a human acts like God itself. Those are the qualities within us also. Aankh misānī chhodo, ab to ghaṭ ghaṭ ke vāsī re. O my Bhagavān, because "Lord" is too little. When you say Lord, He is the house Lord. This property, He is the Lord of this property. Therefore, Bhagavān is the best name: Prabhu, Bhagavān, Satguru Dev. There are many difficulties. Meera Dasi janam janam kī. I am your servant from many, many lives. You are my beloved. Please come. She had a lot of difficulties. She went to the temple of Kṛṣṇa, and she thought, "This is my last day; I will commit suicide." That is a viraha, that is bhakti yoga, that is the seva, that is called devotion, that’s called bhakti. She was sleeping outside of the temple, and she always had guards behind her because she was a princess from the royal family. Though she left everything, there were still guards guarding her. She was sitting outside and very tired. She leaned on the stone to sleep, and she got up. Again she tried to sleep, and she gets up. When she’s sitting, her eyeballs and eyelids go down. When she lies down, her eyelids go up. You know when you have a little toy for the children? A little doll. Little girls have a little doll. They put her to sleep, she closes her eyes. When you open your eyes, these are toys. But it was otherwise. When she wants to lie down, her eyes are open because he may come. That is vairāgya. That is a longing. That’s called love. God is love, and love is God. Then we come to that point. So don’t use too often for everything, "love, love, love." That’s love, love is blub, blub. So bhakti. "Bhagatiro Daan Daata Dijiyo." O my Bhagavān, O Dātā means giver, I don’t ask for anything, only one thing, please give me devotion. That’s all, no money, no property, nothing, only the devotion, bhakti kā jñāna. O Bhagavān, janam dhāra vicṛu nahī, whenever I will be born, bless me that I am not separated from you. Karun charanaki seva, let me serve you. In the morning, she gets up. She was sitting and then became dispirited. She was crying. And she walked towards the temple. This was her last song. What did she say? If I had known that while loving you, one would have to suffer so much. If loving you, O my Lord Bhagavān, that I have so much suffered, then I would have announced from every door to door and store to store with a drum: nobody should love God, nobody should love God. If I knew that I had to suffer so much, but still you didn’t accept me or didn’t come to me. She went to Krishna’s temple. There is a beautiful statue of Krishna, and there was a beautiful lamp, a flame. She goes down to Krishna’s statue, and suddenly, her whole body disappears, dematerialized. Only the flame came out from her body, and this flame came to that light on the altar, and these two flames became one, and the flame went up. Nothing remained from her; that means the union. That means accepting. That means oneness. That means understood. That means that love. That means that devotion. That means that bhakti. And that is the aim of every human life: to awake and show the way to all. That doesn’t do anything wrong. Don’t cause pain to any creatures. You are living in every heart, you are dwelling in each and every entity. When this awareness awakes in us, in our consciousness, then there is no other way. There is nothing anymore. There is only that fragrance and that space. That’s all. Neither space is visible, nor is the fragrance visible. But you can feel it. Through jñāna indriya, you can feel the space expanding, and you can feel that this is the way of our life, that God gave us that human body to act as God. Human, not act like what they call the devil or Satan. If in the whole world everyone becomes so humble and clear and loving to each other, respecting each other as my own... In India, in our Mantras and Vedas, we say, "Vasudeva Kuṭumbakam." The whole world is one family. All are my brothers and sisters. We are a big family on the whole earth. So with whom should I be angry? Whom should I kill? For what should I fight? Why should I take away from someone? Is my brother, my sister, my father, my mother, my nephews, my grandchild. I love them in that way, as my respect and devotion. This is the way we can heal humanity. Awake in them positive thoughts, good thoughts, and realize the oneness. If you are jealous and if you are angry and you are burning, then, of course, you can burn. No problem. If you are jealous, then jealous means burn, fire. Jalan, a heat. So jealous means the fire. In India we said, if you burn, then you should burn, but burn like a camphor. The camphor we put a fire to, it burns, nothing remains over. So it means you will burn in this, so neither you are existing here. And not you, completely disappeared. So it is the duty, called the Dharma, called the obligation. This is a sustainable process or a system which God created and made everything so perfect that God doesn’t have to work anymore. It continues growing and growing. So automatically he’s coming as embryos, he’s born, getting eating, drinking, working, and dying. Come and go, come and go. Between, God thinks, "This is a human, this will do something good. I hope it will do good." He also has a hope, but how we act? We, parents, have to give the spiritual education. Spiritual education is suffering in the schools and colleges. No spiritual education, and that’s why in the world there are wars and this and that. Money, money, money. We call that, you know, the dog buckling. But what is this dog saying, doing? The dog tells the thief, "Go in the house." And when the thief is in the house, then the dog makes wowowowow to wake up everybody. So this dog is so naughty. Tell the thieves to go in, and then he wakes up everybody to catch the thief and beat him and kill him. So this is some kind of people blackmailing, telling you this and that, and then to fight against them. You know now what’s happening. The countries who don’t want war, don’t want to fight, but they are producing the weapons and supplying them where they are fighting. This is this: they tell the dog, thieves go in, and then they bring the dog. The same dog comes and makes the noise. Parents, now it has to begin. This education is high time that in the schools, from kindergarten onwards, neutral, neutral, not my religion, other religion, not only this, and all, it is that is a one-sided, which is also not good. You have to give the knowledge of God. If you give the love feeling of your mother, then you should follow your mother. But every mother is a good mother; no mother is a bad mother, and so we shall give the... Education to the children is the best way to make a human. Don’t make your child a doctor, or a professor, or a politician, or this and that. That will come from itself. Make a human who is hugging the whole world. That’s called healing of humanity. Either don’t get a child, and if you do, then make a divine child. We adore that mother who gave birth to such a holy saint. It is that mother who had her child on her lap, and she was talking and smiling. And my baby is talking with these nice words, divine words. Yes, child, begin to listen, looking, opening the eyes and looking to mother, and mother is talking. A child smiling, very fine, you know how nice it is, how beautiful the smiling of a child. That is like that bud that opens gently, beautiful in the dawn morning, and that’s it. Is it that? That’s why Brahmamuhūrta, that is the time of the supreme, Brahman. That time, if you get up and meditate or learn something, it will go to your body, your mind, to everywhere. Become something. Don’t see the mistakes in someone. And if someone has a mistake, you should say, "It is my mistake. God gave me this, let me work." But free this person, please, or that creature. And work within to heal yourself and heal others. So there is no other medicine, only that one medicine. That’s called Seva. Seva means help. And when you help, that is devotion. Or, that you can say, that is the love. Therefore, one shall begin to know. Otherwise, you make the same thing again, and then again the same thing, and then again the same thing. So this is confusing. In 1985, I was in Australia for the first time, and then I went many times. There was one elderly lady, she came and she had a car, and she said, "Master, I will drive you," and so I said, "Okay." She had one house, a little outside of Sydney. Now it’s in the middle of Sydney because it’s expanded very much, and she had a good house, so a nice room. I said, "No, I better sleep in the hotel," because my master said, "Sleep in the hotel or in the ashram," so there are two things. Anyhow, she was driving me to the airport, and we started early so that there was enough time, and she was beginning to tell me their life story. She said, "My first husband was there, and then my second husband was there, and then, you know, my third husband came, and he wanted that I learned driving. And then, in between of this, again, this husband left, and I had... The other, my husband, that was very good, you know, that he explained to me how to drive and this. But he was talking too much when I was driving. Always he said, 'Be careful, darling, be careful.' So I didn’t like that husband, you know. And then, you know, my husband, I think it was the eighth one, this all, the whole field is there. And I don’t know how much." I said, "How many do you have, husband?" She said, "Enough." And I said, "Is anybody with you?" Then they are, I got rid of all. And then I said, and always talking to me and looking, I said, "Please drive." She said, "Don’t worry, I’m very good." Driver, and then we came near the airport, and we missed the exit to the airport, so we had to go 40 kilometers again to make a U-turn, and it was the last minutes. We came there, we managed that we could check in, so I was saying, okay, I said, "God, this is also your... flower, so let it give her good blessings." Time is passing, and we need a certain time for certain things. We put a seed in the ground; it takes time to sprout and then grow. And then comes the season, and then comes the fruit. But when they sprout, then you say, "Oh, it takes a long time," and you take it out and put another one. So, like this, we have destroyed. Let us think, "Vasudeva Kuṭumbakam," that we teach the respect, the help, the love to all creation as your own self. Tomorrow we will have again how to utilize now this, what I told: how to help. Without harming, damaging, or getting into trouble, because sometimes people don’t like to listen to what you want to say. So we have to work spiritually, and that’s called spiritual healing. Definitely, there’s energy. Slowly, slowly, it will spread. I wish you all the best, and very good evening. And Mā Prabhujī bless you. Om śāntiḥ śāntiḥ... Sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ, sarve santu nirāmayāḥ, sarve bhadrāṇi paśyantu, mā kaścid duḥkhabhāg bhavet. Oṁ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ... Ādi oṁ.