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Now we will hear a bhajan, "Apsop Diyais Jivanaka." We are praying to God, laying the whole burden of my life in your hands. If I become successful, it is also in your hands. I want to reach you; I would like to reach you. For this, I give up the happiness in the world, or my attachment to the world. Of course, I am living in this world, but let me be as pure as the lotus flower on the water. While living in the world, let me be selfless. And when I die, let me be in your hands, because I am living in the world, but the world is also in your hands. The next bhajan we will sing is "Chadaryā Genī Ray Genī." It is from Śrī Kabīr Dās Jī, and he is also singing about our form, our living being. This shawl, my body, is very fine, and when I am born, it is filled with divine essence, with prāṇa. In my inner form, I have the chakras, these eight lotuses, and with the five elements, it is made in my physical form. It needs nine months to be ready, and only when we are ignorant do we make it dirty without any care. When my shawl was ready, I gave it to my master, and he teaches me how to keep it clean. We should not make it dirty from day to day because of our ignorance. With prayer and devotion, we will purify our soul, and I want to give it back as pure and spotless as I received it. The next bhajan will be "Gurudev Śaraṇāthumārī." I am in thy shelter. I am in thy shelter. Please remove my anxieties. Please remove my anxieties. Please be merciful to me and let me overcome the troubles. No, mother, father, or friends, nobody is mine. Please save me from this big net of māyā. Always, I am diving so deep into this māyā. Please save me. Maybe I am not so good at doing all my practices, but you are the merciful one. Please remove this dualism. You are giving everything. I am in thy shelter. Let me repeat your name. Now, the next bhajan will be "Satta Guru Satcha Mila Jabba Hisse." When I met my Satguru Dev, all my doubts were destroyed. Before I met my Gurudev, many ways were advised: pilgrimage, fasting, fasting, pilgrimage. But when I met my Guru Dev, he showed me the essence. He opened me inside and showed me God, who is in my heart. I saw the one, and the flame, my flame, united with the gods. Everything is in my heart. My doubts are gone. I crossed my karmas. My inner self and the eternal are one. This is what we want to reach: that my inner self and the divine are one. In reality, it is like that. But we are still so much bound to the outer world, so much bound to our thoughts, feelings, and intellect. Then we always think we are individuals, that we are separate, and then we are fighting in the world. But the Gurudev tells us the truth about the outer world, and with our practice, with all that Guru Dev is giving us to practice, we can realize that. The next bhajan will be "Baitumad Jagore." In this bhajan, "Holī Gurujī," Śrī Svāmī Madhavānandajī, was speaking to the human. "My brother, awake. Testvérem, ébredj. Your time is shortly over. You were falling in the sleep of ignorance, and therefore, you are suffering. Again and again, you will be born and go. Birth and death. Only your Guru can free you. He can lead you from that, he can lead you from this ignorance to the light, to the light of wisdom, to the light of knowledge, to the light of liberation. We are caught in this net of attachment and word, but your life, your human life, is a precious diamond. It is not so easy to get a human life. The meaning of life is not to earn money or to have a big house, or many jewels, not even to gain knowledge in the outer world. The meaning of human life is to realize the Ātmā, and you can find it in your heart." Holī Gurujī said, "Mahāprabhujī, my divine master, he was awakening this sleeping swan. Do not waste your precious human life. Bhai Tumma." Now we will chant a bhajan from Śrī Kabīr Dās Jī. It is always that same theme: some form of our false identification. It is normal for us to search for quenching our thirst for happiness, peace, and joy in the outer world. But on the other side, we know the outer world is always changing; it will not remain. So get rid of this ignorance, this attachment, and these longings. Sing the bhajans to praise the highest. We always think it is normal to find happiness in the outer world, to feel that we are loved and that we can love one another. Because we are so far from our inner self, we search for this, but we forgot that it is in us. Kabīr Dās says, the eyes are given to you to see the Lord, the ears we have to listen to wisdom, and with our mouths we shall chant the name of God. With our hands, we should give. When we follow this, there will be in our heart a source of pure gold. Now we will sing Rājā Denā Guru's song. Sometimes I think there is still a lot of fear in us, even when we are disciples of a guru, of our living master. I am thinking, what are we fearful of? Why are we fearful? The Guru is only giving us practices where we can liberate ourselves, where we can get rid of our fears. He is giving us these practices so that we are not caught in fear, sorrows, and troubles. Why do we have fear of losing something? Maybe it is the fear of what will happen when we change our circumstances now. But why do we have fear? Because he says, "You will be liberated, you will be free. No more troubles, no more sorrows, so let this go. Free yourself and be one with God. Everyone is God. I am showing you this way. Just do it, and one is to overcome this 'I,' this ego." That is also why we can bow down to our Gurū Dev. Please, this vibration, this purity of your lotus feet—maybe I do not even want to be in heaven, or I do not want to have some powers. I just want to be at your lotus feet. We all know this: when we are near to our Gurudev, we are so full of joy and everything is good. Then we do not need anything. We are absorbing this energy, this divine energy. Then we go home again, normal life returns, and then it fades, and we want to meet our Gurū Dev again. Now we have this step to go further. We have all the tools, we have all the practices. Of course, I am bowing down to my Guru Dev, also only in myself, inside. He is giving us all this so that we can free ourselves. That is now our duty: to use what we have, to use that. How we use it. Bhagavān, Kī Jai, Laṇḍā Jī Mahārāj, Kī Jai. Now, the next bhajan will be "Kyurakthe Ho Parada Hamsay." That means, why are you hiding in front of me? Why are you hiding? Why are you hiding? I am full of love for your name, but we know it is not so easy. We have to overcome so many things in our inner world. For that, it is so beautiful to chant bhajans. Bhajans are reaching our heart. I always want to be at your lotus feet. It seems that you are very near, but on the other side, I cannot reach you. Where are you hiding? I am meditating, but still I cannot see you. But finally, Mahāprabhujī says, "Then I became one with you through the mercy of my Gurudev, and there is nothing else existing." I think this is also something: maybe it is not the first time that we are so aware of this form of God. We are practicing, and we hope to reach something. But we will reach it when we overcome the identification with our thoughts, feelings, and physical body. We have to overcome this identification. Then there can be nothing else; then there will be this: one is with the Divine. But of course, we can always call upon God, because he should help us.