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My happiness is at Your holy feet

True devotion requires unwavering focus on the master's feet, regardless of external hardship. Many seek spiritual guidance but their practice remains superficial. Listening and singing are not enough; the essence must penetrate every cell of one's being. Devotion is tested by inner thorns—persistent doubts, ego, and conflicts that arise within. These internal obstacles are more challenging than external ones. They must be consciously removed through humility and persistent inner work. Comfort breeds spiritual complacency, while difficulty reveals the depth of one's attachment. The path demands constant vigilance to cleanse the heart.

"The real happiness we find only in your holy feet, my Gurudev."

"Even if I have to walk on the thorns, still I remain devoted to your holy feet."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Śrī Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī Mahādātāhe. Śrī Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī Mahādātāhe. Nij man se koī śaraṇa gāte to, vohī sab kuch pātā hai. Nij man se koī śaraṇa gāte to, vohī sab kuch pātā hai. Baḍe bhāgya śālita paśvī, vohī śaraṇa guṇa gāthā hai. Baḍe bhāgya śālita paśvī, vohī śaraṇa guṇa gāthā hai. Japār mahī māṅgā, sambatī bhagwā nadī. Never seen Him, and if death is like a mala around my neck, who is it? Only Gurudev can save me. You have come from different countries. You know why you came, especially to our yoga centers in India. Many people are coming for different things, from yoga and their lives around the world, and you have all come to me. Why did you come? How did you come? How do you feel? You are always on this path. Always, the master has to give us the path, to tell us again. Sometimes one is very happy, and sometimes it is not like this. The burden is long, very good. It has been given about this person and brother. He will give to you, yes. We listen and listen. We like this, we are thinking this, very good. But for how many years? You have been listening to this, and you are telling it very well, but what did you get? Something in your heart, in your words, in your life, in your being? How, and now in which way? So, this is such a bhajan, as if God-given. It is not easy. He or she, I don't know who made this bhajan. It is very easy to tell and sing. But tell me, how many people have been singing this bhajan itself, listening, singing for others, for themselves? And how many words have been given on it? It will be beautiful. Some people are beginning, tears are in the eyes, but it is only that from the eyes is coming. Did it go in or out? In this bhajan, which is that, how far are you very strong, or just like this for a few words, and then the next other bhajans, that's gone? Or you don't understand what it is, and so how today you will give a lecture about each word, what it is—not singing bhajan, not singing, but each and every word in this bhajan. When Gurudev instructed to translate a bhajan, first what came to my mind is Gurujī’s words years ago, that to translate bhajans is very difficult. Then I remember Svāmī Gajarāñjī who said that translating bhajans is very difficult because many of the words are not in the Hindi as we encounter them in the normal, common spoken language. Some of the words are in Mārvāṛī. Some words are from the language of the saints, which has a special term I can’t remember right now. That's something as per what Mīrābāī, Kabīrdāsjī, Soḍāsjī, and two more saints, they used to sing. And that language has a special name. So, my first approach is that it’s very difficult. And then I remembered Svāmī Ganeśvarjī, who told last week that translating bhajan is very easy. So I’m trying to remember my elder brother to get inspired by him, but still I cannot find certain words. What is the meaning? The real happiness we find only in your holy feet, my Gurudev. This is my prayer every moment, every moment, every moment. My devotion, my full attention towards your Holy Feet. Even if the whole world becomes an enemy against me. Even if I have to be hanged up. Even if life is very heavy on me, if I have a difficult life, still I will be concentrated on your feet. If I have to be burned in the fire, if I have to be burned in a fire, if they want to cut me. Even if I have to walk on the thorns, if I have to walk on the thorns. If I have to leave my own country, if I have to emigrate somewhere, still I remain devoted to your holy feet. My love towards your holy feet. Even if my doubts are very deep. If everywhere around me there is a darkness. Even if I am unstable, if I am not in harmony, still I am attached to your holy feet. On my tongue, your name remains. May I remember your name morning and evening. That means all day. Your face, your holy face. What would be the face of God in comparison to that whom we did not see? What would be His necessity? I wouldn’t understand that. We need Gurudev because we saw him; we did not see God. On my tongue, let it be your holy name. The whole day, morning and evening, please remain on my mind. My all attention goes to your holy feet. Only there I find the real happiness. That happiness is at your holy feet. That is my prayer. Every moment my attention goes to your holy feet. I see people are here. Disciples, you do all this, but it is not inside. We have a long life to see hope become yes. So, bhajan singing is very good; other things are also good. It has to be inside; it should be in your each and every cell of your body, in that, not okay. And then, after some days... I don’t like it when you said, "I’m like, it was everything is gone." Yes, then again you will come sometimes, and again you will come back, because when the drop is fault, it’s fault. It’s a very important step. Yes, it means every breath. By breath, and that in your means your breath, so you can take one person, any from you inhale and exhale only this. Even you could dive in the ocean, but you have your breath in, so this is not so easy, and it is so easy, so it comes very quickly, ego. And when ego is, that means again expanding, it is very good, and it’s gone. See, you see it when you are talking to someone, to some, it comes. Like volume again, expand it. It is not easy, not easy. To give is very difficult for everything. Like, for example, how you are, once he doesn’t like you, and that doesn’t like. How many people are in these little groups? Is it very beautiful, very soft, and very good? Maybe or maybe not. This I’m only telling. And that means that what you got before, you are, that is, that there is no more water, and the grass and trees are, yes. So, in the life of this bhajan, what she was singing, yes, is good: to see the good, listen to the good. But even the one who was writing this, he did not know, but he made it inside. It will be some days. We are very far now, of course, but it’s always but. And so that even I walk on the thorns. Which kind of thorns? We can have a suit, we can make everything. Which are the thorns? And the thorn is in someone that we are well friends with, and fools there, but someone comes and it doesn’t like that. It feels like a thorn, not the thorns of the trees or something like that. Yes, that is a thorn inside, and it is also not easy to take out. It is there inside. Or we bring it quick there to someone. This is to learn thyself. Everyone will say, "My dear, my love, my everything, you are good, okay." Okay. It’s from outside. That is very deep, not here in the heart, but in the middle of here somewhere. And we feel, we do, and we are not completely very good. I also, yes, in which way? Now, for my example, for my team, in how many countries, with how many people, how many are some, how? Many lectures, and how many, and very good, but I know that I have also, I’m not very humble and kind, maybe for all to clean again, bring again, take the thorns out, and like this it will be, otherwise we are gone. And so it’s like this, and so you are very good here. This is one of the best stars from here, as all thorns are there, very strong, yes. And our thorns will, very finally, go out. Everybody, but it comes that the thorns are coming up, nearly one month or one and a half month, on my palm. And always a thorn here, again a thorn coming. I don’t know what is that, not that, you know. Any not from the thorns from the trees? You see here again coming as took it like out, and then again coming outside. My, I have also this, so please, enough, come out. What is coming out? What is here? And similarly, we have something for ourselves. And so, always, always, always be humble. Okay, there is okay. So, people come to fight with someone. And one comes, and they say, like this, and he says, "Okay." What is that? And what will everybody do? They will say, "I know, okay." Then they will go, then we’ll go. And if you will visit, yes, and this and that, then fighting comes inside. Even the dogs, you know, there are a few dogs, and one other dog, so all dogs are attacking, then other ones don’t know how to do? Then he sits beside, like this. Then other dogs go out, yes. So we have, we have... I also said the baddest, baddest. This is inside, and this inside we will clean everything. And it is like this: without humble, it is not to be also. Humble? Not that humble. You have a thorn inside, and you cannot do with humble things. The thorn has to be taken out. The thorn? No? Yes? Yeah, but this thorn we are doing somehow, and then this is okay. So, this bhajan was in... it’s not my lecture. I never talk like this, but it has awakened, and it’s a very good bhajan. I heard once, long ago, I was still not a sannyāsī, in Jaipur we went to some people, and Holy Gurujī was with us, and some people were singing this bhajan. And really, Holy Gurujī was putting the thorn under the tins. How much this bhajan is, yes? So it’s not that we are all good, and then we will be very good, and then we will die. Are you like in me? So we have to do something, yes. But there is, there always is, so everything to see what it is. There, the stones are also there, not only thorns, so there is. One story which I told sometimes, and that was going with one person with the others, and he was going with him, and then it was something not good, and he lost, he went away, and then again when it was good, he came there. I will not tell how long nicely. So sit, and he doesn’t show. There’s only somebody walking beside him. So I showed that he’s with me, and then there were thorns and all this. Then he was not there, and when he was comfortable again, somebody was walking with me. So he said he was with me. When good and well, thorns, and this he was not there. Then he said, "Yes." What he said in my, in my palm was the you, and I was the thorns walking on side. When was good, then I was walking beside. There was heart, but nothing happened. So, so is that. So when it’s very good, comfortable, everything, we don’t need anything. But when it’s hard, then we say, "What is this and this and that?" So it’s humble things. But how is it humble to be like this? So just one is a thorn. And the whole many bhajans, we can have a few months to talk about this. And these are all in, and me also. Yes, otherwise that is all trees. Why have the thorns? Yes, because it is against some certain kind of other birds or animals or something. They need the thorns to hold the thorns. I didn’t want to talk so much because it is his subject. He told, "Yeah, but all the best. Thank you, and our programs will always be. We are very happy, and very nice, you are sending very nice bhajans. And also, we can have our bhajan about Yogī Janā Kī Yog Nidrā. I like so much, she needs." It’s so clear, but don’t jump in, okay? So you have to—okay, yes, she’s so good. So I have to use—you can put it in your telephone, her voice somewhere, but of course it can help something, something, but how? Some instruments, or this or that. Puni ratrime divasu ganiye, yogī jano yogane. Yogī jano yogane, hirala sant jana janiye. Hiralā sant jana janiye, tuname saja pichānī, ullata nena tame sahaja bhichānī. Mera Lambaka Pankajale Punishvata Shunnasalani janiye... ... ...... ...... ... the kitchen.

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