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Dvārī kā dīśā kī jaya, Nanda ke ānanda bhayō, jaya Kanhaiyā lāla kī. Ānanda bhayō, jaya Kanhaiyā lāla kī. E Gokula mēṁ ānanda bhayō, jaya Kanhaiyā lāla kī. E Gokula mēṁ ānanda bhayō, jaya Kanhaiyā lāla kī. Jaya hō Gopāla kī, jaya Yaśodā lāla kī. Jaya hō Gopāla kī, jaya Yaśodā lāla kī. He Nanda ke ānanda bhayo. Jaya Kanhaiyā Lāla Kī, He Gokula Meṁ Ānanda Bhayō, Jaya Kanhaiyā Lāla Kī. Koī lāve hāthī ghoḍā, koī lāve pāla kī. He Nanda Ghera Nanda Bhayū, Jaya Kanhaiyā Lāla Kī. Jaya Ho Nanda Lāla Kī, Jaya Aśodā Lāla Kī. He Nanda Ghera Nanda Bhayī, Jaya Kanhaiyā Lāla Kī. He Nanda Kunvara Nāno Re, Valo Rāmeche Māṇi Keḍuṃ Valo Rāmeche Mā Nīkeḍ Mã He Nanda Kunvara Nā No Re He Kvāla, He Kvāla,... Madhura muralī maṅgāyīdhu, muralī vāgadnāre, valo rāmeche māṇikeḍ māhe muralī vāgadnāre, valo rāmeche māṇi keḍmā he Nanda kuvara nā nūra, valo rāmeche māṇi keḍmā he Kṛṣṇa kuvara nā nūra, valo rāmeche māṇi keḍmā he Kṛṣṇa kuvara nā. Nūra Valo Rāmeche Māṇi Keḍmā Kṛṣṇa Kanhaiyā Lāla Kī Jaya Vsem Sthestne Kṛṣṇa Janmāṣṭamī Kṛṣṇa Govinda Hare Murāre Congratulations to all of you on the occasion of Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa Janmāṣṭamī. Many of you know about this, some of you do not, and many know very little. But you should read the Bhagavad Gītā. The best commentary on the Bhagavad Gītā is called the Jñāneśvarī Gītā, which is very, very beautifully written. It was composed by the great saint Jñāneśvara from Maharashtra. So, Jñāneśvar Mahārāj was truly great, and he wrote a commentary on the Bhagavad Gītā. We shall try to obtain that book. In the meantime, you can also look at the version by the former President of India, Dr. Radhakrishna; his Bhagavad Gītā is very, very good. Or, there is the one by our very dear friend of Gurujī and myself, known as Argananchi Mahārāj. His Bhagavad Gītā is written beautifully and is called the Yathārtha Gītā. When we translate holy scriptures, one should not write in a selfish way. By that I mean it is not right to say, “Follow me and read this book, and it will give you the knowledge.” Some people have translated the Gītā and said, “If you follow this book and this group, then Kṛṣṇa will come to you.” The translation of holy texts is not so easy. It is not so easy to translate a holy book. We say that one who has the knowledge of three things is able to translate properly. First, it is called Śabda Artha. Śabda Artha means the words – the language that you learn so that you can translate properly. Then there is Bhāvārtha. Bhāvārtha means knowledge of the deeper sentiment; you have to give the right word because sometimes one word from a language does not fit with the words of another language. The wise person who translates possesses these three: Śabda Artha, Jñāna Artha, and Bhāva Artha. Praṇām Gurudev and greetings to all Guru brothers and sisters. You know, it is like a husband who always puts his wife before him. When people speak of Rāma Avatāra, there was Rāvaṇa. And when we speak of Kṛṣṇa Avatāra – we believe that God comes in human form as an avatāra – for Kṛṣṇa Avatāra there was Kaṃsa, His maternal uncle. This story is about Kaṃsa. He knew beforehand that his sister’s son was going to kill him, so he did not want his sister to have a child. To make a long story short, Swāmījī says you can read the Gītā and you can read this story in the Mahābhārata, describing how Kṛṣṇa was born despite so many problems and how His parents hid the child from His uncle. I will try to shorten it further. In brief, it came about that at the time of Devakī’s delivery, Lord Kṛṣṇa was born, and they tried to hide Him from His uncle. At the same time, a friend and his wife had a daughter who was born. They brought this daughter back before everyone woke up. All the guards – just as we have guards outside Swāmījī’s āśram – were sleeping, and they brought the daughter back. And then it was discovered that Devakī had given birth to a child. Kaṃsa came, saw that the child was a girl and not a boy, but he said, “Maybe her husband will kill me or something,” and he killed that girl. However, the girl disappeared into the Ākāśa. Then an Ākāśavāṇī occurred, which said, “Who is going to kill you? He is still in the world.” The divine voice told him, “The one who will kill you, Kaṃsa, is still in the world.” He is the Avatāra, and we also believe in our religion that whenever there is so much Kali Yuga – this present age is Kali Yuga – God comes into human form. This is called reincarnation or avatāra. Mahāprabhujī, He was born as the Avatāra. We all believe He was born after Kṛṣṇa. He is the Avatāra, and He liberates all of us. Mahāprabhujī was born in a small village. You have all been to Khatu, where there is a small dhūnī. At that time travel was very hard, yet He traveled to small villages and liberated all the people and protected them. We also have this bhajana: “Dharmahita Avatārlī.” And we have Mahāprabhujī with us all the time in the form of the Avatāra; we call Him Bhagavān. I also believe – if my belief is like that of Gurudev – that Swāmījī also took avatāra for us. For all of you, He came all the way from India to liberate people here, to show them how to live their life. This was a great miracle when I met Swāmījī. I told my grandmother, who is a disciple of Mahāprabhujī, about this, and she told me, “Gaṅgā has come to your place.” In Hinduism, you know, you go to the Gaṅgā to liberate yourself – just as you all go to the Kumbha Melā and the Gaṅgā to liberate yourselves. But Guru is greater than Gaṅgā, and she said, “Gaṅgā came to your home to liberate you.” We are here, and all of you are so lucky. I have just come here for the first time, but you are truly fortunate. Swāmījī comes here, having traveled countless miles from India. One more thing I want to share: when Swāmījī asked me today – you know, I always worship Mahāprabhujī, but my husband knows that whenever I close my eyes, I always see Kṛṣṇa, and I never understood why I see Kṛṣṇa. I ask friends and everybody, “I worship Mahāprabhujī, yet I always see Kṛṣṇa on my Chidākāśa whenever I do meditation.” Now I understand: Mahāprabhujī is an avatāra of Kṛṣṇa. It is as if Kṛṣṇa and Mahāprabhujī are the same. That is all I wanted to say. Praṇām Gurudev.