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Samārambhaṁ Śaṅkarāchārya madhyamām asmadāchārya pariyantaṁ vande guru paramparāṁ. Gurur Brahmā, Gurur Viṣṇu, Gurur Devo Maheśvara, Gurur Sākṣāt Para Brahma, Tasmai Śrī Guruve Namaḥ. Salutations to the Cosmic Self. Salutations to Śrī Lakṣmī Siddhapīṭa Paramparā. My dhanyavāda praṇām to our beloved Guru Dev, His Holiness Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramahaṃsvāmī Maheśvarān Purjīt Gurudev. My praṇām to His Holiness Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramahaṁsvāmī Maheśvarān Purjīt Gurudev. And good evening and Hari Om to all of you who are present here and watching through Swamiji TV. As we were discussing previously, everything depends on our karmas. We do good karmas, we get good karmas back, and what is supposed to happen in our lives will happen. It doesn’t matter how much we think about what we wanted to happen. What is written for you, what is written in your destiny, that is what is going to happen. There is one beautiful story from Holī Gurujī, showing that the guru is the one who can actually change your destiny if he wants. There was one Rājguru, a guru of the king in a beautiful kingdom. One fine night, when he was about to go to sleep—his ashram was just outside the gates of the kingdom—he saw a very beautiful lady who was glowing and who was in white clothes going towards the kingdom in the night. He asked the Devi, "Who are you?" She said, "I am the Vedāntā." The Vedāntā is someone who writes your destiny. When a child is born, I go to that place and write his or her destiny. The king is going to have twins tonight, and I’m going now to the palace to write their destinies. Gurujī said, "Please write something good for them. The king is my good disciple." The Vedāntā says, "Who are you to tell me what I should write or what not? I am the one who wrote your destiny. I am the Vedāntā; it’s my choice. It’s my decision what I will write, and for whom." Then the Gurujī said, "Just be careful that you do not regret your decision later." She said, "Yes, yes, no problem, now let me go." And she proceeded towards the palace. In the palace, she wrote what she needed to write, the destiny for the two twins. On the way back, the Gurujī asked, "So what’s the destiny? What did you write?" She said one of the sons is going to live a very poor life. They both won’t have enough food even to eat. One of them will be having a horse and will take wood on the back of the horse and sell it, and that’s how he’s going to earn money for living. The second son will be hunting to bring food for the household. But it doesn’t matter how much he tries; every evening, he will be just able to bring back one kill. The Gurujī said, just be careful that you don’t regret what you wrote. Are you sure about that? And she left. In the morning, the king came happily with mālās and fruits for Gurujī to his ashram. He made praṇām and said, "Gurujī, at two o’clock in the morning I had twins." Gurujī said, "Good. But now I have to go to the Himalayas. I am going to travel in the Himalayas for some time, and then I will come back." Instead of Gurujī feeling excited, the king understood that maybe it wasn’t the most auspicious time for the kids to be born, and there must be something wrong, and that’s why Gurujī is now leaving. Gurujī left, and he decided that he would change what the Vedāntā wrote for their destiny. A few days later, that kingdom and the king were attacked by a neighboring state. The king was killed, and the two boys were then found near the garbage of the palace by a kumhār, in Hindi, the one who makes the clay pots. So suddenly, you can become from a prince or from a king to almost like a beggar. But with Gurudeva’s Kṛpā, you can become from no one to something great. As it was written in the destiny, they were very poor. As the kids grew up, one of the children went hunting. The second one was selling wood on the back of the horse, and they both didn’t earn much or eat much. One fine day, Gurudev came back from his yātrā, and the people from the kingdom told Gurudev, "Your disciple, the king... he was killed in a battle, and the princes, both of the princes, the twins, are now living a very, very, very saddening life. They live outside of the kingdom, surrounded by bones, dead bodies, and smell—fish, everything." Then Gurudev went to those children. They were surprised to see Gurujī coming towards their house, and they were thinking, "What an honor! How come Gurudev is coming to bless us poor people here in the nowhere?" That’s also one quality which we see in Guru Dev Swamiji. He never saw who is who, how rich is a person, how poor is a person. So many sādhus don’t even let the sweepers come next to them. But Swamijī is dayālu, and he keeps everyone equal. In Jadan, when the sweepers come to have his darśan, he also blesses them. It doesn’t matter if a rich businessman comes from Jodhpur, he also blesses them the same. He never divided people by their religion or by their beliefs. Holī Gurujī used to say, "All in one and one in all." And that’s what Viśva Gurujī gave us and showed us in his life, by preaching the Sathya Sanātana Dharma all across the world, by creating this beautiful system, Yoga in Daily Life, and by uniting all of us. We now all know each other. The twins were surprised that Gurudev was coming to them, and they made praṇām and said, "Gurudev, how come you are now here with us?" Gurudev said, "My disciple was your father, the king of this kingdom, and I can’t see you living like this, so I came back to help you and to guide you." That’s the beauty of a guru. Then, when we are stuck in our lives, when we feel that there is no one with us, he appears in one form or another to guide us, to help us. So Gurudev came and said, "Now I will show you the path, and you will again become good." The twins said to Gurudev, "If you were our father’s guru, that means you are also our guru. So please guide us." Gurujī said that now I will tell you something, and you have to follow that. They said, "Jī, yes, we will do as you say." Gurujī said to the son who used to take the horse: "Every morning when you take your horse for taking the wood, you sell your horse." The Vedāntā wrote that he will have a horse to take the wood every day. So if you sell the horse, the Vedāntā will have to give him a new horse, and when you get a new one, you sell that one also, and you keep on earning money like that. To the other one, who went for hunting, he told him: "It doesn’t matter how much Māyā tries to come in between and to give you the, not challenges, but craving for something. Like, you see so many different animals. You want it, but don’t hunt it." Because every day he couldn’t even hunt one big animal, he used to get something small. "So it doesn’t matter even if you get one big animal; don’t hunt it. Have that dṛḍhaniṣṭhā in your mind, have that icchā śakti that you will only hunt the golden deer when you see it. Anything else that comes on your way, don’t touch it." Temptations were what I wanted to say before. They said, "Okay, Gurudev, that’s what we are going to do." The Vedāntā wrote that the boy will come with one animal home, and the other boy will have one horse who will work with. The whole day, many animals came by, which he never saw, but in his mind he wanted only the golden deer. So right before sunset, the Vedāntā had to give the golden deer because in the day he is supposed to kill one animal. According to Gurudeva’s ājñā, according to Gurudeva’s instructions, he sold the golden deer every day. Slowly, slowly, they had enough money; they bought a beautiful house again. And Gurudev says, "Guru Kṛpāhi Kevalam, Śāśik Ānandamaṅgalam." So then, slowly, they started getting richer and richer and richer. Then, the Vedāntā one day came in the night to Gurudev. She said, "Gurudev, please forgive me. It was my mistake that I didn’t listen to you. Please now get me out of this. I have so many kids born around the world. I have to go everywhere, but now I’m here stuck, busy giving him a golden deer and giving him a new horse every day. So please forgive me." Then Gurudev said, "OK, but you have to do what I say." She said, "No, after this, I will do anything you say. Again, make these twins the kings, and they should be living happily ever after." She said, "It will be as you say." The next day, the king who was ruling that place found out that there were these two boys who were actually the princes, so he got them married to his two girls and gave him lawfully the whole kingdom back. So this is Guru Kṛpā. Thanks for watching!