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Rama and Hanuman

A spiritual discourse on the significance of the full moon, the science of fasting, and a teaching story about Hanuman.

"The full moon is a symbol of completeness. Pūrṇamadaḥ, pūrṇamidaṃ... We are Pūrṇa, perfect."

"One poet said, 'The thread of love doesn't break with some misunderstanding. When it is broken, the thread you can't join anymore back.'"

The speaker begins by explaining the moon's influence on nature and human physiology, advocating for fasting on full moon days for spiritual and physical health, including specific dietary recommendations. The talk then transitions into a detailed narrative from the Ramayana, focusing on Hanuman's unwavering devotion and a lesson on ego. The story describes how Sita's moment of doubt and Hanuman's subsequent pride were gently corrected by Lord Rama, culminating in the revelation of Rama and Sita residing in Hanuman's heart.

Filming location: Vienna, Austria

Today is also a full moon. The moon has immense influence on our earth, on every creature, and on humans especially. We understand what the effect of the moon means for our body, for our awareness, and for our consciousness. The full moon also affects nature. It is said that when we are planting something, it is best to begin on the new moon because the growing, the ascending of the moon gives the plant, the vegetation, more energy and strength. It is also said that the plant will be so strong, have more immunity, so that many other harmful creatures cannot attack or destroy it. Try to plant after 14 days. So, wait to put your flowers and your vegetables, trees, etc. The Moon and the Sun influence our nerve systems, Iḍā and Piṅgalā, and that keeps our consciousness, our thoughts, balanced. The full moon is a symbol of completeness. Pūrṇamadaḥ, pūrṇamidaṃ, pūrṇāt, pūrṇamudacyate, pūrṇasya, pūrṇamādāya, pūrṇamevāvaśiṣyate. Pūrṇa. Pūrṇa means complete. So what is complete is the complete. What is Pūrṇa? What comes from the Pūrṇa is also Pūrṇa. And that Pūrṇa is also our self. We are Pūrṇa, perfect. Pūrṇa, when we take from the Pūrṇa, remains Pūrṇa, we get the Pūrṇa, and finally it is the Pūrṇa that is supreme, God, complete, perfection. So, every full moon, it would be good for people to have a fast. Many people on a full moon day are nervous. Many will have a headache. Some people get depression. Some become restless. The moon's energy is so strong, and the moon gives a lot of spiritual energy. So when we fast, it means we don't eat for one day. But the moon is a water principle. We shall take a lot of liquid, a lot of water. So drink water, but avoid all kinds of food. Especially no grains, a little yogurt, and of course, no eggs and meat. You may take one fruit if you are really hungry, but just avoid two meals. That does not mean we will die, but if you have diabetes and you have to eat from time to time, that is an exception. So, when we don't take our two or three meals, then our body gets inner strength to resist and to hold, to receive that light and energy of the moon for spirituality. So many people are fasting because of spirituality, but the reality is this: for good health. Recently one of our bhaktas had very high blood pressure, and the doctor wanted to give medicine. I asked if you have taken medicine. He said only one tablet. I said, "Okay, rest of it leave for your museum." It is a true story, and within three days the blood pressure came to a level, light, very good, and in one week it was balanced. It was even lower blood pressure. This is my personal experience with a few yoga practitioners. They had high blood pressure and they were fasting. The fasting was not only remaining without anything; they ate fruits. If you have no diabetes, then you can eat anything, all fruits. You can eat all vegetables, as much as you can. No banana, no potatoes—that's it. You can have one cup of tea and maximum about 100 grams of yogurt. That's all. Drink water. Fruits, vegetables—fruits, vegetables. No grains, nothing. The blood pressure will come down very nicely. But if you have been using the medicine for a long time, a few months or years, then it takes a long time. So don't reduce the medicine immediately, but slowly, slowly. Go to vegetarian, that means no spices. But don't give up salt. This is a contrary point: doctors say don't eat salt. Yoga says take more salt. If you have less salt, then you will have a lack of many things—potassium, magnesium, and minerals. I'm not a doctor, but of course, it means not that you take a tablespoon, just a little normal salt like we use it. So full moon and fasting is one of the best things for our good health. After a few days, ten days, you can slowly, slowly again take your normal diet. If you want to make your body more healthy and good, in good form, and with fewer kilos, then, of course, this kind of fasting, that's called phalāhāra diet. Phala āhāra, āhāra is a diet. Phala is fruits. So fruits, we can take it, okay, vegetables. That is also fruit. Pumpkin is a fruit. Different kinds of pumpkins are a fruit. So many vegetables, in that case, little strong spices. But you should eat chili, and you must eat chili. Because the chili will destroy all bad bacteria from your stomach and from your body, so learn to eat chili, okay? The best chilies we have in Austria, okay? Yes, best chilies in Austria, and especially that's called Burgenland, you know. That's why the Burgenlands have very many chilies, and they are very expert, smart. Austria gave the good chilies and paprikas to cultivate in Hungary. So now they say the Hungarian paprika is very good. But on the other side, Slovakia took it from them. So Slovakia said, "No, no, it's not from there, it's from Slovakian paprika. It's so good, you don't know." That chili from Slovakia, which is a little longer, and the fruit is a little thicker—we don't say fruit flesh, no. That is ahiṃsā, the fruit, the thick fruit, like a nut. The chili, which is only about three centimeters, or two centimeters, and which is so strong and hot, that you should never eat it. That can damage the intestine. Many of you will see that Mexico's people, they have a lot of people with stomach cancers, because that makes a hole in the intestines. And also, it can make a kind of illness in the stomach, what they call types of ulcer? Ulcer? The ulcer develops from that kind of chili. But paprika and this chili is what in Austria was developed very nicely. It is about 10 to 15 centimeters long and a little thick. That's very good. It's hot, hot... But not hot like a scorpion, but a good taste, very nice, so that will keep your body healthy. It is sāttvic. People think, yoga people think that chili is not sāttvic, is rājasic, but chili makes you sāttvic. So learn to eat chilies, and teach everybody to eat chilies, and bring the chilies from import from Austria, okay? So we make a good, yes. So we import chilies from Austria, because first you have to import from India and then export from Austria. Namah Śivāya Om, Namah Śivāya Om,... Har Har Namah Śivāya Om, Har Har. So, Mother Earth, it is a mother, and everywhere, what grows from the mother, left of the mother, of the Mother Earth. All is good, but certain things we cannot resist. Our body cannot resist. It's too strong. And therefore, we should know which kind of vegetable and which kind of chili and spices. Spices is a science. Spices is medicine. What we eat is also nourishment; it is a medicine. That's it. So someone said, "Are you living for eating or eating for living?" So is this, and so what we call the grandmother's kitchen, we are looking at the recipes from the grandmother's kitchen. What means that? This is a very clear, the gross. This is like a pharmacy. And so that means back then they also had all kinds of spices in the kitchen. And they knew which vegetables or which menu they made, and which spices we should use. Where should we use saffron? And where should we put the strawberries? But if they don't know, they cook the spinach and put it on the strawberries. That's not how it works. So cooking is a science. Cooking is a science. This is called pakśāstra. Śāstra is philosophy. Pak means to cook. All kinds of cooking, and this is a health. What we eat here, and I always say that 85% of people have forgotten how to cook. Just come and put it in hot water or microwave it or something like that. That doesn't mean cooking; cooking is the whole thing. It's knowing how to cook. For example, how do you say, there is a very good thing that is made at Christmas, like a cheese, what is it called? Vanilla. It's not easy, yes, but we try. At Christmas time, the young people try very hard. They try and say, "Grandmother, please, can you help me a little?" And the grandmother comes and says, "Fast, fast," and everything is okay. That's the knowledge. Hands, that's it. When you ride a horse for the first time, then the horse knows exactly, this is a deer. Yes. So when the horse is in love, he can bring you back the way it is. Otherwise, you get a lot of knots. But a good rider sits with a bad horse. The rider sits on it and holds the bar. The horse knows that he is the master of the rider. He starts to make knots. A horse, a real, mighty horse, only a good rider can ride. The other, our pets, they are harmless horses. Horses, that's why they used to say, "How much horsepower?" Now, it's a kilowatt car; otherwise, we always said, yes, horsepower. Everything was horsepower. The horse has power. But he is very kind. They are nice. So we are not here with a horse today, so full mouth and food. Eating, fasting, this is a science. This is a therapy, and you can become healthy. But not just that, you stay at home and eat a little less and sleep. Then nothing is good. Activate more, go for a walk, go for a hike, do yoga. Kaṭhuparṇam, every day 21 rounds in the morning, 21 rounds in the afternoon, and 21 rounds in the evening. In summer, your blood pressure goes up to the same level. Yoga is scientific. Chvaites, chvaites is the tag. Virs, gefayat, the gebor's tag, the god Hanumanjī, Hanuman. Hanuman had so little craft on the highest god's wind, the god of the wind, and Pavan Suta Hanuman. Pavan is the air or wind, and sūta is the sun. Hanumanjī's speed was more than 500 km per hour. Hanumanjī was said to be like an ape. He was Hanumānjī and is said to be like an ape god. But he wasn't an ape, but his body was so strong and speedy that he could fly and jump. With one jump, he crossed from India, from the ocean, to Śrī Laṅkā, without landing or resting anywhere. That was Hanumānjī. So Hanumanjī is the incarnation of Śiva. It is said when Śiva is incarnating, then Viṣṇu is in his seva of Hanumānjī or Śiva. In Shiva's seva, there is Vishnu. And when Viṣṇu is incarnating, then Śiva comes as the helper, serving Viṣṇu. So they both have harmony between them. Both are in one harmony and in one balance. So when God Rāma incarnated, before that, Hanumānjī was incarnated also. And when you know the stories about Bhagavān Rāma and how much Hanumānjī was helping him, and to find the Sītā, where Sītā was, and coming and so, Hanumānjī is known as one of the greatest devotees, a bhakta. But it is said that though you are a great devotee, you have great confidence and faith in God or in your belief, sometimes a time comes that ego comes, and when the ego comes, then doubt comes. When doubt is there, then you lose your confidence, which means devotion. And when the confidence is gone, then your vṛttis, your thoughts, are getting disturbed, then splitting. So when in our faith there is a doubt, then it's splitting in two parts. You can't give up, but also you can't take uncertainty. And when uncertainty is there, then accident happens. There was one man driving in one car, and he had one driver, so who was sitting in the car backside was a minister and they were going somewhere. There was a narrow street, and on the other side, left and right, there was a kind of a fence. So, the car is driving, the driver, and one rabbit came. So, the rabbit came, and now he's running in front of the car, sometimes right, sometimes on the left side, he goes quickly. They stopped on one side, then again he jumps. The driver tried to save the life of the rabbit, but the rabbit was so confused and lost its balance. So what happened? The rabbit came under the car and was killed. When they came at home, the minister said to the driver, "Why rabbit died?" So the driver said, "Sir, I tried my best to save his life, but somehow he came under the car." So the man said, "No, it was not he." He got... he was confused, and confused was that he couldn't decide, should I go left or right? He goes right, then he thinks, "This is not the right path. I go to the left side." He goes to the left side, then she knows, "Oh no, no, this is not good. I go right side." Left, right, left, and so then you want to give up, and you... He came under the car and died, so he was confused. Similarly, when we lose our confidence—though we had confidence—but sometimes a certain constellation comes, and we are suddenly separated. At that time, many negative thoughts come. And this is not negative thought; it is so much that one can even harm others also. Ego comes, that I am right, I am great, they are bad. So when they came back, Rama, and after bringing Sita, she was coming with them, and they came back to Ayodhya, all was happy. So what happened? Now, Hanumanjī is sitting always near the holy feet of the god Rāma. His brother Lakṣmaṇa of Rāma is always standing as a bodyguard. And Rama and his wife, Sita, they are sitting on one level of the chairs, as a king's chair. Now, Hanumanjī is sitting there, and Hanumanjī always has his mālā in his hand, and his mantra was only one: "Rām, Rām..." Yes, and sometimes he was doing like this, chanting, "Oh yeah, yeah..." When he was doing like this, that time his tongue could not move to say "Rām, Rām," so he was doing like this, oh, it means "Rām, Rām." Now, when the bhaktas come with me to India, and certain people who are doing the Akhaṇḍa Mantra, and he's doing like this, and this is Swāmījī, he asks you something, you say, "Please come," but this means not that "come," it means "Rām, Rām." Till that he do his work, so this is called akhaṇḍa mantra repetition. Akhaṇḍa means unbreakable, unbroken, interruption, no interruption. So Hanumanjī is sitting like this, but all the time his eye vision is on the holy feet of Bhagavān Rāma, ready, ready to do any sevā that Rāma will ask of him. And therefore, he was sitting always, mostly in the Vīra Āsana. In our school, in the yoga book, we have Vīra Āsana. So mostly Hanumanjī is sitting in Vīra Āsana. Very rare. This time, I put one statue made, and he was sitting like this, like this hand and āsana, lotus posture, and he was so much smiling today. But otherwise, his concentration is always on God's lotus feet. And where is the love? Love should be both sides. Otherwise, love is gone because you have that doubt, and then you do not have that aim. There are different kinds of love, but that love is for God. So, Hanumanjī loves God Rāma so much. So, when constantly he is calling God, God... Or he is concentrating, God's heart is also going that side. Now, what happens? Ram is sitting there, but mostly looking to Hanumanjī. And Sītā is sitting there beside, and he's not looking at Sītā. He's looking to like this. Well, we are human. Sita was not a human like this, but we can say also human. And God is also human, and Hanumanjī was not a human. He was half human and half divine, not a monkey. Well, the whole audience is there. God is talking to them. Hanumanjī is sitting like this, and Rāma is looking like that. Now, Sītā, one thought came into her mind. A little thought can destroy a lot of your work. That's why doubt should go out without any delay. Go out that doubt. One mistake, one doubt can destroy a whole life. Raiman dhāgā prem kā mat toro chitkāyā. Toota phir jure nahi, jure ghat pad jaya. One poet said, "Oh poet," he said, "his name is Raiman." He said, "The thread of love doesn't break with some misunderstanding. When it is broken, the thread you can't join anymore back. And if you join, it will be not between, and that will not be lifelong in your or in our heart. It will be..." All the times there is an irritation, that is not so. Gurujī said that it should be like a silk thread. Your mālā pearl should be strung like a pearl on a silk thread—softly, smoothly. So too should be love, understanding, and devotion. There should be no doubt, not even thinking. Anyone, even God Himself, comes to suffer if they make that mistake. Yes, Sītā was thinking, "I suffered for so long in Laṅkā because Rāvaṇa kidnapped me. I spent my time under a tree, day and night, in rain, cold, or heat. Finally, we came home to our palace, and all our people are here. But my Lord, my Rāma, He doesn't look to me. He is all the time looking to..." The monkey was so attracted to the monkey, thinking, "What? Is He thinking of him only for some time?" Because of that thinking, she had to pay again, facing more difficulties, and had to go to the forest, to Vālmīki's āśram. (This story will not be told completely today.) God Rāma is called Antaryāmī—He who knows everything about us. We do not know about Him; that is it. So He understood what Sītā was telling, and Bhagavān Rāma felt pain in His heart. But He did not want to tell her, nor did He want to tell Hanumānjī or anybody. Yet, to Hanumān, God Rāma gave an example, an answer both direct and indirect. What Rāma did was this: where Hanumānjī was sitting, Rāma went down and, from near the ear of Hanumān, the monkey, took one hair out. He took it in His left hand, and Sītā is looking. This one tiny, fine hair of Hanumān—today it is like Hanumānjī's tail, you know; Hanumānjī had hair exactly like this. This one tiny hair was brought near Sītā's ear, Rāma's wife. And what Sītā hears in the ear, the sound from this one resonance, from this one tiny, fine hair of Hanumān, is "Rām Rām." So it means each and every hair, each and every atom of His body, His whole being is filled with that name, with God's resonance: "Rām, Rām." Sītā put her head a little down; maybe she was saying sorry. But to say sorry afterward is too late. He or she will forgive you, but karma is karma, and therefore be careful. Do not even harm or cause another's heart pain. And if you feel the pain, you should pray: "No, it was not like this. That was done out of ignorance. I do not accept it. I do not do this." Otherwise, it comes to us again and again. Well, Hanumānjī knows. He only smiled a little, I think. But God Rāma did so gently, taking the hair out, that perhaps even Hanumānjī did not feel it. The next day, Hanumānjī was sitting in a beautiful garden with many fruits—mangoes, apples, and many others. He was sitting under a tree, repeating his mantra and looking toward the palace where God Rāma and Sītā were. Now Hanumānjī's ego came out. Yes. Hanumānjī was thinking: "If I had not met Rāma, who would lead Him to the forest? If I would not be there, Rāma would not find Sītā. If I wouldn't be there, no one... Rāma also cannot fly. I flew to Śrī Laṅkā, and it was not easy to enter Laṅkā. Laṅkā was a palace, a golden palace completely out of gold. No one could go there; it had very, very high security. So only Hanumānjī could enter." Hanumānjī came there. There was a big, strong door and a guard. The guard's name was also Laṅkā, and she said, "No one can go in." Hanumānjī came and said, "I want to go in. Is this Laṅkā? Is Rāma there?" She said yes, and "Sītā, I will not tell you. Can I go in?" She said no, it is not allowed. This Hanumānjī, a big, strong man, said, "I must go." So what happened? There are twenty-four siddhis in you; you should read. There is one siddhi called Aṇimā. Aṇu means a very tiny atom, very tiny, fine cells in our body. Hanumānjī had many siddhis; He could fly and do many things. So He went and made a small form of Himself, like a tiny, little mouse. Hanumānjī became very little, tiny, and went under the door. She was walking, looking here and there, but He came near the wall and went in. Inside, He became big again. The story goes further. He wanted to see if there was anyone who was a spiritual person, who believed in God, but there was no one. He was asking, "I want to see if there is anyone who remembers God." At four o'clock in the morning, Hanumānjī is going door to door, listening. He did not have the form of a monkey but appeared like a human, a paṇḍit. One man got up in the morning, in the Brahma Muhūrta, and when he got up he said, "Rām Rām, Śrī Rām, Śrī Rām." "Oh, there is someone, a bhakta of God." So Hanumānjī made a tilak and took a shawl, like in our Gaṅgāpurī, and He knocked on the door. The man opened the door, and Hanumānjī greeted him. Hanumānjī said, "What is my great luck that I see you, a bhakta of God Rāma." The man told Him where Sītā was, and then Hanumānjī goes to Sītā and breaks the message. So Hanumānjī, sitting in the garden of God Rāma, was thinking: "It was me who could enter into Laṅkā. It was me who burned Laṅkā. And this and that." Ego is coming out. "Now, I did. What? I did. When I was not there, who would have brought the medicine, Āyurveda, from the Himālaya when Lakṣmaṇa was dying? Otherwise, Lakṣmaṇa would have died. And it was me who brought Garuḍa from the Brahmaloka. Otherwise, God Rāma also would have died. And it was me who guided Rāma and the whole army." Slowly, slowly, His ego came out: "I did, I, I, I. I did this, I did this." This is sometimes like our children nowadays talking, saying to parents, you know... and this was, and this was... and you were doing... they bring the anger inside. Bhagavān Rām is great. So when someone has an ego and doubts, then you should be a little bit careful. Do not say, "Yes, go and do this." No, no, no. You have to join again nicely. No, not, not, not. It should become oneness. After, oneself will say, "I am sorry." So God Rāma called Hanumānjī. Hanumān jumped and said, "Rām Prabhu, Prabhu Rām, Rām... My Lord, what can I do? What can I do? Please give me some seva." So God Rāma said: "Hanumān, you know when I came to the forest and Sītā was kidnapped, no one could help me, and we could not find her anywhere. But you, it was you who searched when Sītā was missing. Then you came and gave the order to all the generations of the monkeys to find Sītā, no matter where—in the caves, in the mountains, in the forest, or wherever. And you were even ready to give your life because you were not able to find her; you wanted to go and die in the water. But the Jatāyū told you where Sītā is, in Śrī Laṅkā, and you got up, and you had the power to jump over the ocean, to fly from Bharat to Śrī Laṅkā. It was only you and you. Even to swallow the sun, because the sun was on the way. Rāvaṇa was very powerful; he sent the sun to burn Hanumānjī, but you know what Hanumān did? He opened His mouth and swallowed the sun. All was dark in the whole world, and then came the Tārakā, the devil, and she wanted to kill you, and you just swallowed her and threw it out, and you could go. No one can go; there is such security. You entered Laṅkā." Hanumānjī's ego is going. You see, oh my God, so even Hanumānjī can have ego and doubt. Who are we? We should learn from these stories. "And it was you who found Sītā, and you who brought my ring to Sītā and said like this, and you brought Sañjīvanī from the Himālayas when Lakṣmaṇa was dying. And also when I got the Nāgpas, the snake's poison, you brought Garuḍa, because Garuḍa is the enemy of the snake, so only He could free from the snake, and this and that." Everything He said. God Rāma said, "I am so thankful to you. I am thankful to you, my lord. Ah, not a lot, Hanumān. I am very thankful to you." It is okay. Out of okay, it is okay. But how to remove that ego? Sometimes you have to do it, not directly, but indirectly. So, Hanumān said, "There is only one duty, or one seva, or one work for me you have to do. No one can do this. Only you can. Then your duty is finished." He said, "Yes, Lord, I am ready." He took His ghoṭā, and He said, "There is one Lomaśa Ṛṣi in the Himālayas, very high, near the biggest, highest mountain between India and Nepal. There is a glacier, and in the cave of the glacier, one ṛṣi is living there. I would like to give this ring to him, but no human can go, no big animals can go; there is no oxygen. But you can." Hanumānjī said, "Your servant will do. The impossible will be possible. Tell me how and how." He looks. So it is said Lomaśa Ṛṣi is living thousands of years, sometimes in Nirakāra's astral body, sometimes in a physical body. He has only one thing with him, nothing else. What is that? A bundle of grass, a dry bundle of grass. He said, "What means this?" He said, "Yes. When it is hot sun or rain, he puts this grass on his head, a bundle. When cold comes from the right side, then he puts it on this side, or the left side, this. When he wants to rest, he has a pillow. That one, that is all he has, nothing. He leaves everything. He calls it, 'My bungalow, my house.' So do not get mistaken when he will say, 'This is my whole palace,' then. It means that he has only this to survive his life. No one can go, so please, you go and tell him that Rāma has sent you this." So Hanumān said, "Okay, Lord, I will do it. I will do. Your Hanumān will do everything." So He took that ring and put it in His mouth. Well, you will see the monkeys, when they eat, first they put it here. Yes? Go to the Śambhuran and give to some monkeys. First, it will be kept here, and then peacefully it will dry up. That monkey, Hanumānjī, jumped and went to the high mountains. There is one ṛṣi sitting like this, and a grass bundle is on the backside of him. Hanumānjī came, and the ṛṣi was meditating and meditating for a few hours, but Hanumānjī sitting like this. Hanumānjī said, "I do not want to wait inside, I do not want to wait till the sun sets, and I do not want to let my God wait, that I am coming too late." But Hanumānjī's guest, after Lomaśa Ṛṣi said, "Oh, oh... Hanumān," Hanumānjī was melted. How does he know my name? He said, "Okay." Rāma said, "If they give the ring, give it to them." So He took the ring. There was a little waterfall and a little tub—not a tub, a basin, a pond, a small pond. So the ṛṣi said to Hanumān, "Throw it in the water," and He threw it. "Tell Rāma that Lomaśa Ṛṣi sends his blessings and your work is done. Go." My God, Hanumānjī was so angry. "What a proud ego this yogī or ṛṣi has. He has nothing, only a grass bundle. From what ego does he have? He has nothing, thinking only." And Lomaśa Ṛṣi said, "Hanumān, take this ring back and bring that ring back." So he put Hanumān's hand in the water, and there are so many rings inside. He took a handful. He said, "Bring that one which you brought." He said, "All are the same." Then throw it in. Again, He threw it in. Then Ṛṣi Lomaśa said, "Hanumān, it is your ego. You think that you found Sītā? You think that you were the one who could fly to Laṅkā? You think you brought Hanumānjī's medicine? You, that you call this and that? Hanumān, this is your ego. Everything, your God, your Rāma, He played within you. He did the work, but He wanted to give you the thanks, the credit to you, but it was He. Without Him, you could not do anything. But you know, Hanumān, whenever Viṣṇu incarnates, comes on this earth, He has to pay tax to me, and that tax is that they have to give me their ring. And that ring, as many incarnations came, their rings are there. So take as many as you want, if you can." He said, "No, there, then forget it. Do not think that without Rāma, or without you, Rāma will not be successful." He said, "I am sorry." Then go and surrender. He came back, Hanumānjī, to Rāma. And Bhagavān Rāma said, "Hanumān, you are great. Did you give the ring there?" Hanumānjī looks down and has tears. My Lord, on the knee He was standing. "Hanumānjī, forgive me, it was my ego, and that was in me such a negative energy, a dispute, a doubt, a little of confidence. Please, Lord, forget it, then go." So Hanumānjī is going in the park. People said to Hanumānjī, "What happened? Where is Rām?" He said, "Rām is in my heart." They said, "No, He is the God. Rām is not anymore with Him." You said, "No, God is in my heart." And so, what happens then? Hanumān tears His chest, opens it, and in the heart, two beautiful couples—Sītā and Rāma—are sitting in the heart of Hanumān. That picture you have, that is called a holy heart, that Rāma's heart. So in the heart, you will see some picture of Hanumānjī where Rāma and... Because Hanumān's mantra is always "Sītā Rām, Sītā Rām,... Sītā Rām. Siddha Rām, Siddha Rām,... Siddha Rām. ... Tārī bhulābhuṁ se prabhu māri khabar, Tūṁ tārī māri benībā. Sītrī jo na jāni Tārī bhulābhuṁ se prabhu māri khabar, Tārī māri benībā. Sītrī jo na jāni Siddha Rām, Siddha Rām,... Siddha Rām." Therefore, because He felt that God has given me, sent me away, but He cannot send me away. He is in my heart. So people asked Him, so He said, "Yes, He is in my heart." Okay, it was on the surface my doubts or this, but inside He is mine. And then Hanumānjī, out of the pain, said, "Oh Lord, I came. You call me, I came to you. You call me, my luck. It is between you and me. A third one should not come to know. If a third one comes to know, then the game is lost. The game is lost. This is your and my thing, our promise between you and me. I came to Thee through your devotion. Only God knows, only Sītā and Rāma know. Sītā Rām, Sītā Rām,... Sītā Rām, Sītā Rām." Monkeys like it very much. So Hanumānjī ordered all the monkeys, "Do not eat this fruit. It is only Sītā's fruit." Sītā has it right. All monkeys eat all kinds of fruits, but not this one, till now. If it is true or not, but it is true; you can bring this fruit there. So today is Hanumānjī's birthday. On Hanumānjī's birthday, people are fasting and make the prasāda, laḍḍū, and such things, many things. In the whole world, everywhere, where the Hindus are living or other people who are living, they are worshipping Hanumānjī very much. In India, everywhere, everywhere, Hanumānjī, Hanumānjī, Hanumānjī. There is one very nice Facebook photo someone sent to me. There is a statue of Hanumānjī, but it is torn, and now people give the prasād and everything. Then two monkeys came, and people gave these two monkeys tilak and so on. Two monkeys were sitting like this, looking at each other, and between them is the statue. It is a very nice picture, very, very nice. Maybe it is a photoshop or not, but it does not look like a photoshop. These two monkeys are sitting there. Every day they are coming, and there in the temple, they have a bandarā eating and all. They have chairs and tables, and they first put the food. All monkeys are sitting there, and then the people are singing mantras. They are sitting, and then after, they are eating all, nicely, very nicely together. Hari Om. All the best, wish you all the best and blessings of Śrī Hanumānjī. So whenever you have some troubles, then you should remember Hanumānjī, Bājraṅg Balī. Bājraṅg is the great power. So when you have fear, then you say, "Hanumanjī Bajraṅg Balī," so no ghost will come. Whenever, if there is no ghost, but still if you have a feeling of negative energy somewhere, then sing Hanumān Chālīsā for a few days and put Hanumanjī's photo. No ghost or nobody will come in, no. No, do not have any fear. It is finished. No laziness, no... this strength, that is Hanumānjī's strength. Hari Om, Śrī Dīpna, and Bhagavān Kī Jai.

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