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This morning we have a beautiful session about the doubts or uncertainty which bhaktas have in their heart—sab kus deva dātā deva dhyāna—and the uncertainty which devotees have on their spiritual path. This is quite logical and very clear, because we humans are always thinking. God gave us the mind or intellect to think, and we should utilize our thoughts, our thinking tendencies, and our knowledge. Whenever you think something, you are touching your knowledge. You are asking within your knowledge what to do, if this is correct or not. Many times our thoughts do not accept something, or our intellect does not accept, or our intellect accepts but our heart does not accept. It is difficult to balance the heart and the brain. If you can master this, then it is perfect. But you cannot do this unless you have confidence, the faith. Now, faith has two sides: a kind of faith which is only temporary, and a kind of faith which is lifelong, which will guide you and help you to develop your spiritual powers. It does not matter how advanced you have developed yourself on your spiritual path; suddenly, some kind of doubt comes. Doubt must not be towards your path, towards God, or towards your master, but rather doubts about your own abilities. Will I be able to do this, or will I not be able to do this? What will happen? Furthermore, nowadays people have a great fear about existence. This fear awoke in human consciousness during the last two world wars. The First World War and Second World War brought people into certain situations which were not good, and so people began to collect and collect. The system which develops now in this modern civilization is also quite different. In one way, we do have care from many NGOs as well as the governments of all countries—what they call social help, social care, at least a minimum pension that you can get—but still it is not enough. Some people have too much, but still they want to have more. And some people have very little, and they cannot get more. So, in the subconscious, we have doubts—not towards our government, not towards our parents or master or God—but we are uncertain: How will my life be now? How will it go further? What will happen to me now? If I do not have this, what will happen to me? That means self-confidence is missing. It is true that just sitting under the tree, I will do nothing, and God will give me everything. In some way, God will give you what you need. People will come and give you bread. Someone will come and give you some fruit. Someone will put one coin. But that is not a life. Therefore, humans have to be active, working, and we must have self-confidence. Now, consider Holy Gurujī. When he met Mahāprabhujī, he got all the realization that one should get. Even before Holy Gurujī came to Mahāprabhujī, he already had that kind of realization as soon as he heard the name of Mahāprabhu. That brought him his confidence, his faith, and from the first look he saw the divine in Mahāprabhujī. Mahāprabhujī said to Holy Gurujī, "I told you that after that time, I will meet you or you will meet me." Holy Gurujī had forgotten. What does he mean? Then Mahāprabhujī said, "Do you remember your early morning dream?" Immediately, Gurujī remembered, and he saw in Mahāprabhujī the Kṛṣṇa. Because Holy Gurujī was very dedicated to Kṛṣṇa and praying to see Kṛṣṇa, like we all. And Kṛṣṇa is in everyone. So suddenly he could see the divine form of Kṛṣṇa. Mahāprabhujī was giving blessings, and Holy Gurujī said his tears were falling, and he surrendered. He prostrated in front of Mahāprabhu. Gurujī said in his words, "Forever and ever, Mahāprabhujī made his residence, or temple, in my heart." All his searching finished. In Holy Gurujī’s time, he met many, many sādhus. Gurujī traveled throughout all of India, giving satsaṅgs and spreading the name of Mahāprabhujī, the satsaṅg, and the saints. Holy Gurujī had great respect for those sādhus who were truly holy. One of them, I must tell you, was that Gurujī had a great respect or adoration for Swāmī Śivānandajī of Ṛṣikeśa. Many times in satsaṅg, Holy Gurujī gave the example or the words of Swāmī Śivānandajī. Yes, indeed, the consciousness of Śivānandajī was very highly developed. Also, many other saints which Holy Gurujī adored. But Gurujī said, "This head and this heart, which surrendered once to the Gurudeva, will remain ever to my Gurudeva." So it does not matter wherever Gurujī went, always Mahāprabhujī was with him, and Mahāprabhujī’s name was with him. When Gurujī came to Mahāprabhujī, one day Mahāprabhujī told Gurujī—he called the name of Gurujī’s mother, and Gurujī said these words, which I do not want to call Gurujī’s half name. You should always say your master’s name with great dignity, with great titles, so we can say Śrī Gurujī, Svāmī Madhavānandajī, but the master will not say you. So sometimes when the Master wants to give you the respect, also Gurujī or Mahāprabhujī will say, "Now you go and preach the name of God and bring the light to me." Why? Because Holy Gurujī was so attached to Mahāprabhujī. If he had to go just for two kilometers somewhere to some village to bring the message, it was very hard for him to go because now he is a few hours, or half an hour, or a few minutes away from Mahāprabhujī. And now, Mahāprabhujī said, "I must give him, show him my universal form." Like Arjuna asked the god Kṛṣṇa, "Kṛṣṇa, please show me your reality. I know you are a very beautiful man, you are a very young one, a very wise one, and everything. But how should I know that you are the universal God?" And then Kṛṣṇa shows him his universal form, where he sees everything in the entire universe that is existing. He shows Kṛṣṇa’s body: the volcanoes, the rivers, the fires, the storms, the hurricanes, beauty, ugly things, everything that exists. Now Arjuna is saying, "O Vāsudeva, O Kṛṣṇa, I cannot understand, and I am scared about it. Please be merciful and just be in front of my eyes as that beautiful Kṛṣṇa which I was always looking for." And Kṛṣṇa appeared again, the beautiful human form. So similarly, Mahāprabhujī now shows Gurujī the universal form and told him, "Go and preach." Now, Holy Gurujī, a very young man, at lunchtime, about eleven o’clock, very hot, forty-six, forty-seven degrees, very hot sun, and what to do? "Why did Mahāprabhujī send me away? What mistake have I done? What does he not like, what I did? And where will I go?" Now, these thoughts come: "Where will I go? To whom will I go and ask, ’Can I stay with you? Can I stay one night here?’ Whom will I ask, ’I am hungry, can you give me food?’" And many such thoughts. This kind of thinking is called the fear of existence. Though there is so much trust, confidence, love, and complete realization in the higher consciousness, suddenly, when you come to this physical planet, into the physical world, you enter the saṃsāra of this world, and you make thoughts about your existence. Holy Gurujī went outside of the ashram room; the sun was very hot. He was searching for some shade because there were no trees, and he wanted to stay somewhere where Mahāprabhujī did not see him. And he was nearly weeping, you know, "Why must I go now?" And Mahāprabhujī was sitting in his small room, and Mahāprabhujī was a knower of everything. You could not hide anything. Sometimes it is good, and sometimes it is not good. You must have that ability to digest the truth. Thanks to God that we do not know that, we have not opened those abilities. Because then you will see everything that someone is doing in the other room. Where is your father now? Where is your mother now? Where are your children? What are they doing now? Where is your wife now? Where is your husband? What is happening everywhere? And to see and resist this all is not easy for us. And therefore, also, God took away, or He limited, our memory: memory about the past and knowledge about the future. Everyone said, "Please, I would like to know the future." I said, if you want to know the future, then get ready and organize everything for the funeral because you will get a heart attack immediately. The truth we cannot digest. The situation we cannot master, and therefore it is good we do not know. When it comes, it will come. But if you are above this and you have opened forever and you came for this, then you know everything. But though you know, you will not tell, because it is against the principle, against the cosmic law. Mahāprabhujī came, and Gurujī was sitting there, like in Vīrāsana, and Mahāprabhujī came, and Gurujī immediately got up and made praṇām. And Mahāprabhujī sang a beautiful bhajan: "Abhakt Hari Kā Sat Chāhave To Kyō Man Meṁ Ghabrāyā? Abhakt Hari Kā Sat Chāhave To Kyō Man Meṁ Ghabrāyā?" If the devotee of the Lord is true, then why is there a fear in the mind? If the devotee of the Lord is true, then why is there fear in the mind? Can you make immortal, unborn, your body and your soul? Why are you worried about this? If you are a true devotee of God, why are you scared? That is all. You have doubts now. Where is your faith? Where is your confidence? Your duty is to stand through. Whatever is happening, be that rock. It does not matter how strong the hurricanes are, the rock is solid and will not move. The whole Himalaya can begin to sink, but your confidence should not move. Even the moon and sun can change their way, but you will not change your decisions. That kind of love you must have in your heart, and faith, and belief. Arjuna saw everything in Kṛṣṇa. Arjuna could not believe that all this is existing in Kṛṣṇa. Even the Rakṣasas, all, Indra, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva, Kāmadeva, Nāmadeva, all Devas. And Arjuna said, "Lord, I want to see that beautiful Kṛṣṇa." So if you have faith in God, then why are you afraid? Who gave the peak will give the food. God gave the peak, he will give the food too. A little corn of rice to the ant and a hundred kilos to the elephant; every day God, the creator, provides for them. And you, a human, you have such a beautiful intellect, so you have knowledge, you have such a buddhi, the heart, the clarity, and still you are in doubt, you are uncertain. Where is your faith? This is Bhakti Yoga, which we are going to speak about continuously, and this means to master thyself and not be worried about your existence. Go ahead, your duty is to do Seva, do the Seva, then everything, God will take responsibility. Therefore, anyone who came to Śrī Devapurījī, Devapurījī said, "God takes upon Himself the destiny of the devotee. God takes upon Himself the destiny of the devotee." Sometimes God has to suffer because of you, and you will not suffer. There is a beautiful story about a barber, a very famous barber story from Gujarat. The barber’s duty was to go every day at 10 o’clock to the king and shave him. The king had a kind of disease, what you call leprosy. And when someone is more ill and very weak, they have more anger. The barber had to be very punctual, otherwise the king would punish him. The barber was a very great bhakta—a bhakta of all holy saints and gods, and like this. Any sādhu he saw, he immediately asked, "Please, can you visit my house? Your holy feet, when we walk in my house, it will bring happiness, prosperity, light, wisdom, everything." Because a sādhu is the second form of the God Viṣṇu. God Viṣṇu says to Nārada, and Ṛṣi Nārada asks God, "Who are these sādhus, these saints?" And Nārada asked Viṣṇu, and Viṣṇu answered, "Saints are my ātmā." The saints are my soul, my ātmā, the ātmā of the Lord Viṣṇu, and that is the universal ātmā. And what you see, the Viṣṇu, this is the body of the saints. And in my each hair, the saints are dwelling, like rain in the clouds. Bhakta, Sena Bhakta—Sen Bhakta means the barber. He saw five or six sādhus, and the group was coming, and the barber was on the way to the king. He greeted sādhus and he asked, "What about your lunch today? Would you bless my house?" They said, "Okay, Bhakta, if you want, we will come." Now he went with the sādhus back home, and he began to prepare everything, to buy this and that, and he told his wife to make a nice lunch. And what happened? Through this, he delayed. It was a few hours, and a sādhu, one of the saints, was giving satsaṅg about devotion, about God, about faith, everything. After a few hours, he realized he woke up. He was awake and not dreaming, but again he remembered, "Oh God, I have to go to the king. He will punish me." So he said to the sādhus, "If you permit me, please, I go to my duty to do half an hour, and I will come back." One of the sādhus smiled and said, "Do not worry, your duty is done already." The Sainabhagat did not understand. They said, "Okay, please go." And now his heartbeat was very high, like you are jogging, you know, or on the hill uphill. He was very afraid what the king will do now. And when the sanabhakt came on the door of the king, the king was running towards the sanabhakt and said, "Thank you, thank you." You and the king had no leprosy, a healthy body. And Sena Bhakta said, "My lord, what happened? I have done nothing." He said, "No, no, do not hide yourself. Today, you had some miracles in your hands. Ten o’clock when you came, and you began to shave my face. And as soon as you touched my body, I felt such an energy that all my illness is healed. I want to thank you. I want to thank you that you came again." Now, Sena Bhakta inside was saying to God, "Thank you, Lord, you saved." So who was there? The God himself came as a barber to save the king for the sake of Bhakta and for the sake of this devotion to the sādhus. And when the God touches your body... You are a fortunate one. What a divine energy goes in your body. It is a healing power that will heal all life’s diseases, of all rebirth and death, diseases of all. So that is a devotion. God comes to us. Therefore, if you are a bhakta of God, a hari bhakta, kyā manameṁ ghabarāyā, why are you scared in your mind? Do not be scared. And then, beautiful bhajan, Gurujī said, each bhajan has a very long story, and when I tell this long story in Europe, all are sitting in front of the computer screen, they will sleep there, so this bhajan: "Bajrayā Kāḍ Hari Kaun Gāḍ. Dhuri dhyan mein nār jā, bād dhyan mein chār kar dhyan, kar dhyan. Baadī ke lā turaāgyo tīn lok jas gayā dhar, mahed tīn lok jas gayā dhar man mein gav jinn kā pār. Kabīr." God bless you. I can make your body even immortal from death and birth. If you are a devotee of God, why are you scared? Why are you unhappy? Have you no faith? No confidence? Look how many bhaktas are in this bhajan. Mahāprabhujī is saying, they all got, and even we are remembering them now. So, have the name of Gurudev in your heart and go. And you know, till where he went, Holy Gurujī? Now, till the bridge went. Queensland, and the Sunshine Coast, the Gold Coast, and Japan, and everywhere, all around the world where this message is going, now Mahāprabhujī’s immortal preaching, divine preaching, Holy Gurujī’s bringing to the whole world in every corner of the universe, and this is the resonance going into the universe. That is the devotion of Mahāprabhujī. That is bhakti, what Bhagavān says, what Holy Gurujī said, that Mahāprabhujī told him. "You are still a slave of the stomach. You were thinking, ’Where will I go, and who will give me eating?’" Mahāprabhujī said to Gurujī, "I will personally bring food for you at the time of lunch, breakfast, or dinner. Even if you are sitting somewhere far in the mountains where humans cannot come or reach that point. I personally will bring it for you, but you want more." And then Gurujī said, "Lord, excuse me, this was my ignorance." For a time being, the doubt came for my Gurudev. There was a dark cloud. But you again removed. This Gurujī was telling many, many times, and the same thing, some bhakta had a doubt and said, "So, Holy Gurujī, who will give me this? Who will give this?" So, Holy Gurujī is saying now, answer to this bhajan of Mā Prabhujī. What? Answer to the blessing of Mā Prabhujī. And that was, Holy Gurujī wrote a beautiful bhajan. Everything is given by the merciful Lord Mahāprabhujī. Everything, not only what you need now in this life, but janam janam kā dharidarmete, from many, many lives, death, which you have, karmic death, he will pay you back. All he will destroy, all your past karmas and everything, finished. He will enlighten you. There is no more darkness existing behind or in front of you. You are completely free if you surrender to Gurudev.