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Part 1: The Approach of Grace and the Tale of Abhimanyu Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Devādideva Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jaya. Alakhpurījī Mahādeva Kī Jaya. Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jaya. The days are drawing closer and closer. And these days will be present throughout the whole world, throughout the whole year, and throughout all of our lives. We will come closer and closer and closer all the time. So, what should we do? As long as we think that we will achieve that, it means we will not achieve it as we want to. We will achieve it at that time when there is nothing—neither animals, nor the forest, birds, fish, vegetation, nor humans. There is a sense that they have not achieved. So if we want to achieve, we should give up the thing, or the idea that "I am the best." Hari Gurujī told a story. It is about a sādhu somewhere in the mountains, like in the Himalayas, far away among the rocks. People came and told Swāmījī, "We have one question." "Say what?" "What are you doing? Always only meditating, or something else a little too?" He said, "I do meditate, day and night meditation." "What then are you doing? Rest?" He said, "The rest I am also doing." "What?" He said, "I am so occupied that I have no more time for wastefulness." "What is that?" "I am constructing my little hut, a beautiful hut, with great concentration, happiness, and joy. And when I finished my cottage, then one night I sat in it and I said, 'It is very nice, but that’s all.' That’s all. And when I will," he said to himself, "when I will tomorrow again sleep in that little cottage, that is old. And old means day by day it will be older." So what I do, he said, is one night I sleep in this one cottage, and then again I reconstruct. I take everything out, then I bring all the materials to another rock somewhere. I am walking through the rocks and bringing all these materials, Śrī Śrī... Always, I am working, I am working. Karma. Karma is one of the best. Karma. Hari Gurujī has many, many stories, and very simply he gave the people the knowledge. Those who are still living know that Gurujī gave this story. The second is about a Ṛṣi. There was one Ṛṣi, and he was very strict. He had many disciples, but slowly, slowly they became lazy, and they thought, "He cannot send us away, the Gurujī, from our āśrama." In that village, there were about ten, eight, or twelve young boys. From the fourth, maybe, one wanted to say, "I want to go to Gurujī, I want to become a sannyāsī, I want to do this." The parents said no. He said, "I will," and they said no. His name was Abhimanyu, and you know much about the story of Abhimanyu. He said, "Father, I want to go to the ashram. I want to go to the ashram. I will be with the Gurujī." He said, "But you are too young for this." He said, "I am not young. And when I am young, I do not know what I will do. Please, please." Day and night he said this, so the masters—the father—led Abhimanyu to the ashram and said, "My son, day and night he only has one wish: that he wants to be with you in the ashram. 'I want to become a sannyāsī,' and he doesn’t eat, he doesn’t want to drink. First, only that: 'Please, my father, my mother, I want to go to the āśrama.'" At that time in the ashram, of course, they had to work, and they had to have their food. They had to make everything with no money. That was Satyuga, maybe. So, and now, any disciple who comes to this ashram will immediately say, "I want to work, but please give me money. We’ll work, help, this, this, this." No. Any disciple who comes here is not asking the ashram for money. Yes, eating, sleeping, drinking, everything is from the ashram. Well, that is the time for the great saints to become saints. Well, his father went to Gurujī and got a blessing, and told his son, "My son, whenever you want to come, please come home." And he made a praṇāma to his father and said, "Father, my life has gone to the other path, and I must go." Now, that Ṛṣi knew that this is something, and he wanted to test if he was really a devotee, etc. So what happens? The whole night, the whole evening, no one asked him for water, not for food, no bed, and he’s sitting outside. One morning, the Gurujī came to him, and Gurujī said, "Now your duty is to go to our āśrama cows and go with the cows, grazing the cows. Go." So he had one little stick, and he went with the cows. No eating, no drinking, nothing. Evening, he comes with the cows. They bring the cows into their yard, and he is somewhere. Gurujī said, "Neither is anyone." Next day again, and next day again, and next day again. All other disciples there were so angry and so sad that Gurujī did not give him a glass of water since that time. No eating, nothing, no water, no milk, etc. And one day in the night came the rain, a very big rain. And Gurujī said to all disciples, "We have to block the water so that in our farm the water will remain. But our land is not level, so please go and take the soil and block it." One said, "Gurujī, water will not come till morning, then we will do it." Another one said, "Gurujī, nature has done it that way. Water comes, and it will go. Don’t worry, Gurujī, sit down." The other one said, "It will rain again tomorrow, and we will do something." So many, somehow they didn’t want to go. And then Gurujī said—going more into the story then—so Abhimanyu said, "Gurudev, I am listening that somebody is asking you, and nobody is going there." Little child, he said, my child, Abhimanyu, that will be too hard for you. He said, "Gurudev, whatever you will do, I will hold your water there." So he took the water, said okay, and he took some soil. There was really water going out. So he was putting soil, earth, and again, until bringing the earth, the water was taking the whole earth also. About one hour, two hours, and he was so sad, Abhimanyu. And he said, "What will Gurujī say to me? That there is no water at all?" So what he did, where that was, the water was going out, he fell down himself on it. And from left and right hands, taking the earth on him, taking earth on him only till his throat and face were there. The rest, these two hands were moving like this, and he stopped the water. The sunrise was coming, and Gurujī was asking people, "Where is Abhimanyu?" They said, "Gurujī, you are so cruel. This little boy, and you didn’t give him anything to eat, drink, or anything. And you sent him there. I think either he will run away, or he will fall down and die." Gurujī said, "No, my Abhimanyu, he will not run away, he will not die, but let’s go where he is." They came to the disciples with Abhimanyu lying on the earth, cold, and Gurujī came. And Gurujī said, "Abhimanyu, what are you doing here so long? The cows are waiting." He said, "Gurujī, I didn’t want your water to go away. And Guru Kṛpā, I cannot break it." So, Gurujī said to the other disciples, "Come and take him out, and please close this water line." And he said, "Abhimanyu, now is the time to go with the cows, for grazing the cows." He asked Gurudev, and he had one stick, and he went. "No cup of coffee," the disciple said. "Not warm milk. And this little boy, what are you doing, Gurujī, with us?" He said, "You don’t know." Going further, one day Gurujī said, "Abhimanyu, I am not giving you food or anything, no milk, no seeds, nothing, no fruits. What are you eating?" He said, "Gurudev, I am going for bhikṣā, and I bring a little bhikṣā and eat it." "That is a sin, to go for bhikṣā without asking Gurudev. And what is giving bhikṣā? Without giving to Gurujī, you cannot eat." "So, Gurudev, I will do it next day." So, he brought the bhikṣā and gave it to Gurujī. Gurujī put the bhikṣā beside his bed and said, "Now go to the cows." He didn’t give it to him. Again, after one week, he said, "Abhimanyu, what are you eating? You bring the bhikṣā, and I’m not giving you. And then you are going to the cows." He said, "Gurudev, on the second day, I get bhikṣā from the other side." "That is not good. That is a sin. Only once, and you go twice." "No. Okay, Gurudev, I will not do." Now he’s bringing the bhikṣā, giving it to Gurujī. Then he’s going, and he’s not eating anything. After two weeks, Gurujī said, "Abhimanyu, my child, for two weeks I didn’t give you any food. What did you eat again?" He said, "Gurudev, I don’t go for second bhikṣā because you said, Gurujī. But you know, there is one very nice cow, and she is always coming close to me, and I drink the milk." "Abhimanyu, you drink the milk from this cow and little calf. He is hungry. No, you have no right to drink from any cows. Go." "Gurudev, I will not drink the milk." Again, after a few days, he said, "What are you drinking, eating?" He said, "Yes, Gurudev, I don’t drink from the cow. I am not going for a second time for bhikṣā. I don’t eat anywhere else. But there is one calf from the cow, and he is drinking, and he is giving the foam from the milk. So that I take a little bit in my mouth, and I give my hunger to be, that’s enough." And Gurujī said, that is not good. "This little calf, and for you he put this milk out, don’t drink from this." "Okay, Gurujī." Many disciples went away, this and that. Now, what happens is that Abhimanyu was eating the leaves of the trees. And one day, what happens? He took some kind of leaves, and he became blind. He became blind, so he couldn’t see where his cows were going. And he was walking, and in the field there was a well, a dry well. It was not a monster, still, and so he fell in. Cows came home, but he was not there. Other disciples said, "Where is Abhimanyu?" Gurujī said. They said, "Gurujī, you are very good with him. And you know, he was hungry, and he had only some fruits or something, so he ran away." He said, "No, Abhimanyu will not go, run away. We shall ask the people." But no one asked; nobody said no. The next morning, Gurujī said, "Disciples, let’s go into the forest and search for Abhimanyu." And there was one well. And some people said, "We heard something from here." Gurujī came there and said, "Abhimanyu?" "Yes, Gurudev." "Yes, I couldn’t see anymore, and I fell here. But Gurudev, where are our cows? Are they home? Are they okay?" All disciples said, "Gurujī, it’s not." He said, "No, no." So what happens? That Gurujī brings him something to eat. So they brought good food to Abhimanyu. And Abhimanyu said, "No, I will not eat. When my Gurujī will give me and tell, 'Eat with my child, eat,'" he said. And he said, "Come to God, so give the food." And he said, "No, no. I cannot eat before I will offer to my Gurudeva, and then what he gives, that I will eat as prasāda." And at that time, one sound came, "Abhimanyu, you have achieved everything." And that was God. God came, and Abhimanyu’s eyes were cleared. He became very strict and strong, and he came out of this, and he went with him to the Brahmalokas. So this is a story in the story in many, many books, and I think in some of the Upaniṣads or somewhere, and the Pañcatantra. So, that is that. And what we can do, and what we are doing, is we are hungry, we go to the market to bring something, but we put aside half the money and we buy ice cream, and then we go. So, this is a, this is a, it is, the Ṛṣi’s name I had forgotten, but Abhimanyu is there, and there are other disciples. So, it is not the easiest that we will come to the point of that, that I am that light. And that light will never ever be dark. And there I will be one day; there will be two. That I will be what the God, or whatever, further. That, so they asked, "But how did you, Abhimanyu, how did you do all this?" He said, "You don’t know. My Gurudev was feeding me three times a day. You don’t know. I got everything, and I was strong. I follow the words." And so, these are the stories. This is not my story. And I have not yet read that book. And there is, every yogī and everybody will talk about that Abhimanyu’s tale. Part 2: The Path of Oneness and Devotion I know that, and I know it very well. You are my great disciples. You are here, and here you are not taking anything. You are not taking from Indians, nor are you taking from other people. You are taking from me, even, and you are so hardworking here. Still, you are giving money for feeding yourselves and others and everything. So for me, you are all my Abhimanyu. You are doing your sādhanā, your heart, your karma yogas. You are all doing all yogas: bhakti yoga, karma yoga, jñāna yoga, and rāja yoga. We are all here, and more and more are out. Therefore, I can tell you, my dears, here and also in other parts of the world, my disciples are not Gurujī’s disciples, and they left their home and went to other countries very far. But they are doing the words of Gurudevs, to do the sādhanās, and they know because we will get that one, oneness into the one. Not that I am separate, and I don’t say, of course, at the same time they have disciples; they are only angry, and jealous, and this and that. Jalas means, in my language, in Indian, Jalna. Jalna means fire. Fire means burning. So, inside, in the body, we are burning in our body. We are burning through our thoughts. We are doing. So, we have to be the Sittal. We have to be the Sittal. Siddha means very relaxed, calm, peaceful, etc. And that I am, I will not say that I am the supreme master or anything; I am also the master. But I would say, all who came to me—there are many in other countries, from one country to another. And sometimes, some people have the luck that when they find their couple, husband and wife, before one person was doing yoga, and now he or she got the partner. Now, the marriage. That man is a very long-practicing and very spiritual person. As long as they were not married, she was always very nice to the boy, and so on. Then they married. The next day, it is said, "You marry me, and I too, but I have something." Me or yoga? She said to her husband, "Now you said that you will do everything I have said, and this and that." Now it is said, "Yoga is my family name, my family." And so this boy is very, very loyal, and he said, "I promised, and that’s why I will be with you in the house." He said, "If you go to another country, no problem." Like this, and then it is how it is. So, it is very hard. But he is day and night; he is with the Gurudev. Mantra within our heart. So we need not to, there are different kinds of mantras, the likhit mantra and mokik mantras, then just through the only tongue and then no signs. So there, so he said, "I will do, my dear, I will do." Let us see that we will be happy. Come on, darling, back. Yeah, thank you. And one day, that girl said, "Do you practice mantras and this?" He said, "I don’t practice; it is practicing, practiced." She said, "Then you are not complete." Since our marriage, I was so deep in Gurujī’s spiritualities, thoughts, and everything. I was all in; my whole each and every cell in my body was Gurujī. And you, he said, "I too." What should we do? Nothing we do. What it is. And one day they come with a beautiful flower, full of a bunch of the flowers, and say, "Gurujī, we were a long time not here because with this flower we were. There are many, many here." You cannot imagine, wherever I go—in any aeroplanes or trains, or the streets—many times, I meet my Gurujī’s thought and my bhaktas everywhere, many, many. And they said, sometimes they are working in some company, and they are not there to say that I am a yogī. Or others also, she doesn’t know or he doesn’t know. And then one day, something came and said, "Which day? How did you come?" And all others, and they said, "Is that for my Gurujī, Swāmījī?" And they said, "Yes, they are hugging both." Really, this is a very hard situation for people to come to spirituality. But if there is, we will, like we are polishing and polishing and polishing, then the very clarities and sparklings will come, everything. Because within ourselves we have, and so wherever the Guru is, that is. Mīrābāī said, when once Mīrābāī went to Kāśī, and in Kāśī there was the Rāmāyaṇa of Tulsīdās. And someone said that Tulsīdās is a great saint, very great. And Mīrābāī, she walked from Udaipur, or there, to Kāśī. And then she asked, "Where is the Tulsīdās?" So one person said, "He is there, but he doesn’t want to see any woman." So he will not see you, and he will not let you come into his āśram because you are a woman. She said she wrote a letter. She wrote a letter to a man, giving it to a man that she respected, please, Tulsīdājī. I thought there is only one God, and all others are the females. She said, "Who is that?" So he said, "I want to see that one." There is only Kṛṣṇa. And who is the second one here? Tulsīdās. I want to see him. Tulsīdās got up immediately. He pulled everything away. Without shoes, he ran. And he said, "I am Tulsīdās." He said, "I am Mīrā." And who is this? And Tulsīdās bowed down. To whom? To Mīrā. And please, I am so blind, Tulsīdhārājī said. And so, they were there, having a satsaṅg. Then Mīrābāī left. Tulsīdhārājī comes in the morning before sunrise, at sunrise time, to the river Gaṅgā. And Tulsīdhārājī is going to wash, washing. But he asked the people that nobody should be on his path. And neither woman, nobody, anybody. Man should, and I will go and wash myself. And he’s going to the river, dipping in the water. And then he comes back. Who? Tulsī Dājī from the Gaṅgā. And there one comes, one sweeper, Harijan lady, she was cleaning. And when Tulsī Dājī was coming, this lady stood there in front of him. He said, "No, no, who are you? What are you doing?" She said, "I am, I am Mīrā." Tulsīdājī said, "Go far away." Mīrā, you are not. Bhadrinī said, "Mīrā, so, there is a very nice poem." So, Mīrā is not what you are thinking or something. So, Mīrā, there is one poem written very nicely. Mīrā Tovo Tulsī Dājī wrote in the Rāmāyaṇ book, and after Mīrā went back to Udaipur or there, Tulsī Dājī wrote some letter or something. It was, and Tulsī Dājī said, "Mīrā, there is a satsaṅg, and you should come." And he said, "Tulsī Dājī is only my skin." But my soul, my heart is in the satsaṅg with you, Tulsīdās. So, if you are and you want to learn and do, then don’t only see your body, don’t make the dualities, and don’t think of the distance. And therefore, you see, there are other stories. They are all—these stories—they are not stories; it is learning, it is best. So, there is again what we call the jealous. So, there was a great saint, and they have an ashram, a big ashram, and their disciples are good and this. So, there was one Gurujī, master, and this master went to America, and there—what was the name—from Yogānanda. And so, when Yogānanda, and people like this, for example, when the Holy Gurujī is coming and giving me lots and lots of love, many, many sannyāsīs of Nira Gurujī’s, but they are so jealous of me, so they run away from Gurujī or something like this, and they were talking nonsense about me. So, one day a letter was written to his Gurujī, and the people sent the letter; they wrote and sent the letter to his Gurujī, Yukteśvarjī. But the letter was not from the Gurujī, but he went there. So, the Guru’s disciple, Swāmī, gave the letter. He read the letter. They are giving many bad things, and he has made money there, and he is living there, and he is not coming here, and we are here, and so on. So he sent a letter to his Gurujī from America, Yogānandjī. And he writes, he is also a very nice poet, and his Gurujī is also a poet, and his Guru, you see it in the Gurujī’s book, in this book. He was writing when he was a very young boy, and he was so close to Gurujī that he even slept in his Gurujī’s bed. There, he often saw something like a fire emanating from Gurujī, and there were other things as well. So he said, "Gurujī, devotees may come and devotees may go, but my Lord, I will be Thine." Āśram mein bahut se log āyenge, bahut se log jāyenge. Many will come to you, and many will go to you, but my Gurujī, I will be Thine, always. And even I go far, farther than the stars. I may not only be in America, but long and where, where I go far, far beyond the stars. But still, my Lord, I will be Thine. It is so far, that far I am, but I am with You one day. At Gurujī, he writes, even I will die. Look into my eyes, mutely. My eyes will say to you, "I will be dying." That’s called bhakti, that’s called the knowledge, that’s called the oneness. That becomes, and he will always become one with all. But there are some who say, "No, only you and not others." Then you are gone. You lost it. You lost it. We are one, one in all and all in one. So that’s how the disciples, spiritualities, it doesn’t matter which religion you are, from which country you are, from where, at home or not, but we should know this. So we have to wash our skin. Outside we can make it, but inside we don’t know. How much immunity is in the bowel? God, when they open the stomach and they open and clean out toilets and everything, doctors and nurses, they are also having like this. What do they have to do? Yes. So we have to purify ourselves with dhyāna. And these are the five elements we have to purify. After that, we will see which one it is. And so it is very important for our self to become one, is one, and good. These ashrams we are, and without you, it will be very great, great problems and difficulties. I know, and of course they have no money, and they also need money. But you see, many people will ask, "I want to have more money and more money." But we have our Lakṣmaṇjī. Lakṣmaṇjī will not ask too much money. Yes, and if we ask, he will give many things. Bhagavad Gītā, Bhagavad Gītā... And you have given your life, you gave your country, you gave your parents, and you gave your joys and all, and you are here. You are each and every grain of the sand, each and every grain of the sand, here where you are, my dears. For you, all you see is like a treasure. Therefore, times will come, we will go, we will go, and we will come again, but we are one. And you know, what is this? We are together one, but we are not together one. We are this and that and that. You know, when we drink the water, where is the water disappearing? What we eat mango, what we eat banana, what we eat, where we eat chapati, we eat chilla, pakodas, and this. But, so we are, you are a pakoda, you are a kachori, you are mangoes, you are milk, you are like this, like this. But in the body, look into it, how it is. So we are there, how we are, it is. But we enjoy, and we keep it in our body, and all the best part of our self will remain in our body, in our thought, our vichāra, everything. So, this is, but whatever we do in our stomach, we let go. We are not giving it to another body, but you have it; it is within your body. So we are all, so we are some, we are buffalo’s milk, and some have cow milk, and some have goat milk, and one likes to see the little baby of this horse, one likes that. We are, but we are all in our āśram so nicely, and we are all, please take care of yourself, and we will see again. I will be there in a few days, I think. I will go to other bhaktas, but I will be here. And it was nearly three months, very great. It went so quickly. So I was so bored sometimes. You know what is boring? Ah, God. So I got out, I said, "I go home. I go away." And then I went to sleep where? In my old room. So, I, yes I, or I went to the Darśan Kūṭīr, or I have come to Bhakti Sāgar, or sometimes in the... so this is, and it seems you are also going sometimes, good, and this and here, so, so other bhaktas are also waiting. I wish you all the best, and therefore we sing one nice bhajan. Very nice. Guru Charaṇam Me Ād Sat Tirat Hai Vedam Me Gāte Hai Guru Charaṇam Me Ād Sat.