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Bhagavān Kī Jai! Hindu Dharma Samrāṭ Paramahaṁsa Svāmī Śrī Madhavān Purī Jī Mahārāj Kī Jai! Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar Paramahaṁsa Svāmī Śrī Maheśvarānanda Purī Jī, Satguru Dev Bhagavān Kī Jai! Sadāśiva Samārambhaṁ Śaṅkarācārya Madhyamam. Asmadāchārya Paryantam Andhe Guru Paramparāṁ Namosanantāya Sadāstra Mūrtaye, Sahasra Pādākṣiśiro Ruhave, Sahasra Nāmne Puruṣāya Śāśvate, Sahasra Koṭi Yuga Dhārine, Namaha Namaha Kamala Nābhāya, Namaste Jalasaṁhārine, Namaste Keśavānanda, Vāsudevo Namasute Vāsanād Vāsudevasya Vāsatambhuvanātrayam Sarvalokāni Vāsoṣi Vāsudevo Namosute Śaṅkaram Śaṅkarācāryam Keśavam Vādharāyaṇam Sūtra Bhāṣyakṛtā Uvande Bhagavantau Puna Puna Īśvarāo Gururājmeti Mūrti Bheda Vibhāgine Vyoma Vyāpta Dehāya Dakṣiṇa Mūrtaye Namaḥ. Gurur Brahmā, Gurur Viṣṇu, Gurur Devo Maheśvara, Gurur Sākṣāt Parabrahma, Tasmai Śrī Guruve Namaḥ. Hari Om. Good evening, dear brothers and sisters around the world who are watching the webcast today. Swāmījī will be arriving shortly, so just before he comes, we can have a short story, because I know you all like short stories. So, why should you never doubt God or the Guru? It is a story from a time when Śivajī was doing his meditation. Actually, Śivajī and Pārvatījī, who at that time was Satī in her previous form, were going around the Araṇyak Van. That was the time when Śrī Rāma was in his vanvāsa period, his exile, and Sītājī had been taken by Rāvaṇa. Rāmajī was meditating in the Araṇyak, and he was very sad and upset. He was going around searching, "Hey Sītā, hey Sītā, where are you?" He was searching for her, and he was meditating. Then Satī saw that, and Śivajī also saw. As you know, Śivajī takes Rāma as his Lord, and Rāma, or Viṣṇu, takes Śivajī as his Lord. They both take each other as their Bhagavān, as their Lord. So Śivajī thought, 'Oh my Lord, my Bhagavān is meditating, so I will sit next to him and just be quiet and enjoy his presence.' Satī had a question in her mind. She was asking Śivajī, "If Rāma is a God, if he is Viṣṇu, he is a Trikāldarśī." Trikāldarśī means someone who sees the past, present, and future. So if he’s a Trikāldarśī, if he’s a true Bhagavān, if he’s a Lord, he should know where Sītā is, where his wife is. Why is he meditating? Why is he searching for her? He can just close his eyes and see where she’s gone. Then Śivajī said, "Just be quiet and sit here, and let’s enjoy the presence of Śrī Rāma meditating." But Satī was not convinced. She thought, 'No, I don’t trust it; he can’t be Bhagavān. Why is my husband Śivajī, who is the greatest, why is he worshipping someone who does not even know where his wife is?' So Satī played a trick. She took the form of Sītā because she also had powers. She thought, 'Okay, maybe if I take the form of Sītā and sit in front of Rāma, if he’s a true Lord, he will notice that this is not my real Sītā, this is someone else. And if it’s not, then he will be happy, and we’ll see.' So she took the form of Sītā. She sat down in front of Lord Rāma, waiting for him to open his eyes. As soon as he opened his eyes, she made praṇām, bowed in front of him. And Rāma knew everything. So he said, "Māte, where is my father? Mother, oh mother, where is my father?" Because Rāma takes her as his mother and Śivajī as his father, and vice versa. Śivajī takes Sītā as his mother and Rāma as his father. So he said, "Māte, oh mother, where is my father? How are you alone here?" And she felt that she had done something wrong. She didn’t feel very good. She looked behind, and Śivajī had already gotten up and left. Satī then went behind Śivajī, knowing that she had done something wrong. She was running behind him. When she reached Kailāśa, she bowed down in front of Śivajī. But Śivajī noticed her, yet he didn’t talk to her. He was kind of ignoring her. So she asked, "Why are you ignoring me?" And Śivajī said, you know... 'No, I didn’t do anything. As you were there, you made praṇām and you sat. I also went there, made praṇām and sat.' Śivajī was thinking in his mind, 'How can I accept her as my wife again if she is my mother?' He has powers. Even if you can see something, like who is a Trikāldarśī or who is a true master, he knows. He can see everything. Every time, he knows what you are doing, but he can’t take any action because that would be him crossing his limits, him misusing his powers. If someone has powers like I have, if you take me, I have powers. I can see anytime what you’re doing, but I cannot take actions till someone doesn’t tell me that this is going on. So any Trikāldarśī, so Lord Rāma knew where Sītā is. But he could not do anything because of his Līlā. He had to play along as this Rāmāvatāra. He was a Maryādā Puruṣottama. He had to kill Rāvaṇa. This was the whole plan. He couldn’t go and use his powers to find Sītā, otherwise this whole Rāmāyaṇa wouldn’t exist. So if Gurudev says something, you just listen to him because he knows actually what he is telling you to do. That’s the story for today. Let’s, until Viśvagurujī comes, we will sing one bhajan. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Juga Juga Jīvo Maheśvarānandajī, Juga Juga Jīvo Maheśvarānandajī. There was once upon a time a blind man, and that blind man was thinking, "Why did God do this injustice? Why wasn’t He merciful enough and give me eyes?" Everyone has eyes and everything, but he didn’t know. People have broken legs, broken limbs. Some can’t walk, some are deaf, some are dumb, some are blind. Many people have disabilities in their own bodies. So that blind man was wondering, "Why can’t I see? I want to see the world. I want to see what other people can see. Why did God create me blind?" He went to some guru, some ṛṣi, saint, and he asked that guru, "Why did God create me like this? Why didn’t he give me eyes? God is bad. He’s not merciful." Then that guru said, "Look, it’s all upon what you do in your previous lives." It’s all about good karmas. So this karma theory is actually, you know, some people don’t believe in karma, but it is actually true. If you do good karmas in your previous life, you will get their fruit in this life. If you do good in the previous life... if you kill animals in this life, in the next life, like Viśvagurujī many times says, if you kill one cow, in the next life you will become a cow. If you kill an animal and eat it, in the next life you are going to become that. In this life, if you feed poor people, if you do good deeds for others, you will get good results in your next life, or it can also happen in this life. Karmas always come back. You do good karmas, you get good karmas back. You do bad karmas, bad karmas come back. And the only one who can actually protect you from all these karmas and bad karmas is the guru. As when we sing in our prayer also, 'Rāmah Kṛṣṇau Gurū Rājau'—that means even Lord Rāma and Lord Kṛṣṇa had a Guru. Even they were the Lords, they were big Gods, but still they had a Guru whom they used to follow. It doesn’t matter who you are. You always need a Guru to show you, to guide you, to show you the correct way, the correct path in your life. A Guru is the only one who can actually cross you from this life. And so I’ll just tell you a few tips which I heard or read from people, how to stay a little bit happier in life. Like when you get up in the morning, you get up and you touch, as Swāmījī says, you touch the earth and say, "I’m sorry, I’m stepping on you," and everything. But then, after your whole day, in each hour you are approximately speaking, let’s say, ten to twenty thousand words. In an hour, why not? If I’m speaking right now, in 60 seconds, I already spoke at least 100 words. We should try to make that speaking half. Like if we are saying 1,000 words in 10 minutes, we should try to say the same thing. What is the message we are trying to convey? We should convey it, but you should try to minimize the words. Instead of a thousand words, say the same thing in five hundred words. Try to minimize your talk. Why do people practice mauna? Why does Swāmījī say, "Be quiet, practice mauna"? Because it makes... You become more joyful from inside, it makes you happier. So happy, you become a happier person. After your long, whole day, you come back to your room at night, you sit on your bed, you think. Do meditation. If walking makes you happy, walk around. Do something. Whatever you do, do with complete compassion. Do it with joy. Like I see people cooking. I hate cooking, but they love it because you cook; it makes them happy. I do something else; it makes me happy. So everyone has something that makes them happy. Now, maybe we can sing a few more bhajans and then we stop. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Puṣpā Jī, could you sing some bhajans? Yes, Śrī Alakhpurījī Mahādeva Kī Jai, Devādede Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Hindu Dharma Samrāṭ Paramahaṁsa Svāmī Śrī Madhavān Purījī Mahārāj Kī Jai, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramahaṁsa Svāmī Śrī Maheśvarānanda Purījī Sadgurude Bhagavān Kī Jai. Oṁ Pūrṇamadaḥ Pūrṇamidaṁ Pūrṇāt Pūrṇamudacyate Pūrṇasya Pūrṇamādāya Pūrṇamevāvaśiṣyate Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ...