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From Śrī Dīp, actually from Lalanānjī. I had written a note here: sing this bhajan if you are not so happy—it is contrary to what Vivek Purījī teaches. But somehow we feel the absence of Gurū Dev. There is a strange ache in the heart, a longing. And once Swamījī said, “Because Swamījī is painful, it’s not good,” and I replied, “Yes, this is good. As painful as it is, as good it is.” Once the holy Mīrā, Mīrābāī—who was also from Rajasthan, a princess from Mīrthā, very near to Jadān Āśram—she said similarly, “If I had known how painful love is, I would go around beating a drum and proclaim the message that nobody should fall in love. But even if the halvā has sand mixed into it, the halvā has sand inside, I will eat it because it is so good and sweet. The sand no longer disturbs me.” And so this is the vacana from Śrī Lalanandjī; he is singing a prayer to Guru Dev: “O my Guru Dev, you are my God, you are the garden of happiness. And you are the basis of my santoṣa—contentment and happiness. You are everything for me. Everything. Nobody can compare with you. Even you take away these three tāpas, these three kinds of sufferings from my heart. You are the real God, and you are the Lord of the whole universe. You are the one who lets me grow. You are the one who takes care of me. And you are the one who is constantly giving me everything. I offer everything to your Holy Lotus Feet. Because nothing can remove you from this divine Brahma consciousness—you are always there. You are my Gurudev, you are my Mahādev, and you are taking the entire burden from this Mother Earth. Mahāprabhujī karatā he kevalam.” And that is why the holy Mīrā said, “I don’t need anything. I don’t need anything. My concentration is only where my Gurudeva is. I desire nothing. It is like a dream.” And she asks, “How should we come into reality? How should we cross this unreality?” But through the words of my Master, this world, this ocean, became dry. There is nothing to cross anymore. She says, “My only hope is my Gurudev.” I pray to Him; I pray. And here Swamījī said some words: to embrace this path, this bhakti, this devotion, one has to give up inwardly—we have to give up this kind of obstacles: the karma, the krodha, the mother, the lord, the mother, the mother… Prabhu Dīp karatā, Mahāprabhu dīp karatā he kevalam… Don’t lose your confidence. Don’t lose your confidence.