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The glory and play of Lord Rāma are profoundly vivid. It is very difficult for many to understand. Even the wise are sometimes mistaken in comprehending the play of God. Especially those who are narrow-minded, due to their moha and ignorance, perceive God's play in a completely different way. We do not understand it fully. There are many questions: How can God allow this? How can God let people suffer through an earthquake? What does God want from a drought? How should we understand God when a great fire burns, consuming humans, creatures, and vegetation? How is it that we understand God? Many poor children suffer from diseases. We think these children are innocent; they have not committed any sin. How is this possible? All this, we who see do not understand. Mistakes of God? Definitely, one does not understand what is God and what is not God. One doesn't understand what karma is, one doesn't understand what destiny is—and destiny is created by the individual. In the life of that child, in the body of that child, there may be other karma hidden from the past, because they follow many, many lives. But we see only our selfish things, we see our selfish benefit, and so we don't understand God. If you understand God, then all problems will be solved. You will truly understand. But the problem is this: you see only the result; you don't see the cause. That is, we only see the present situation; we don't see the past situation. The past situation means past lives, and we don't see what will be in the future. Similarly, it is very hard to understand the Gods' Līlās or the Master's education, the Master's guidance. Often we think the Master doesn't love us, he has forgotten us. And we think this. It is your thinking, it is not his thinking and not his reality. Therefore, to understand the glories of Bhagavān Rāma, the king of the Raghu dynasty, the lord of the Raghu dynasty, is not easy. Lord Śiva took his time to gaze and look towards Brahmā. When he saw there, his heart was full of love, ānanda. When Śiva saw the ocean of glory of Lord Rāma, his eyes were full of tears, full of joy. And he looked at Rāma with his eyes full. But the time was not ready. Time was not there. So Śiva did not introduce himself in the external world. Śiva appeared. He saw the glory of the Lord, the vichitra, indescribable. It is beautiful, miraculous, how Lord Viṣṇu, in the form of a small child, was running, laughing, crying, playing. What God is doing, He is līlā now. No one understands, but Śiva realized... and He knew that it was not the right time to disturb Him now. Sometimes you want to help, but that help can also be the opposite. Sometimes knowledge can bring unhappiness. Sometimes truth can bring very great problems. Therefore, to digest knowledge is not easy. As long as you did not know, you were relaxed. And as soon as you came to know, you became sad. You became very sad. Let us say, for example, you are very happy and playing and eating. And yesterday your grandmother died, but still you did not know. As soon as the message came to you, all your play and laughing ended. And you were sad. You couldn't digest this. So this is only one example. Therefore, knowledge is not easy to digest. The truth is not easy to be realized. It is very hard. You need the strength. You need the willpower. You have to be strong. You see this pillar of this hall? It is strong. This pillar can bear the weight here. Instead of this concrete pillar, you make it from carton paper and put it there. It will not help. So our condition is still so flexible and so weak, like a piece of paper. So we have to become solid, gain that strength to resist all difficulties, and be ready to receive the knowledge. Lord Śiva said, "Glory, victory to thee, O Sacchidānanda, O Lord Rāma. You are the great. You are the glorious." Saying these words to himself, the destroyer of passion, Lord Śiva, went from there. Again and again, he was repeating this joy of his heart. And his heart and his eyes were full of joy. And he went with Satī from there. When Satī saw this condition of Śiva, the condition in which he is, Satī had a doubt in her heart. She was asking herself in her mind: The whole world adores Lord Śiva. He is the Lord of this world, Lord Śiva. All goddesses, all the holy saints, all adore him, they bow down to Lord Śiva. What happened to him now? Somehow he is a little bit imbalanced. Not imbalanced in some other way, what we call in a material way. But he is more full of joy. Did he take something, or what happened to him? Why is he so happy and so divine? Why did he pay his praṇām to that prince, the child of that king? And while saying, "Jai ho Sac-cid-ānanda-gaṇa," why did he say to that child, "Sac-cid-ānanda"? The Supreme One. And Śiva, he made his praṇām to that child. And when Śiva saw the glory of that child, he was drunken in love. He was intoxicated by love. Still, his heart is full of that feeling, of that happiness and joy. The wave of joy is so strong that you try to stop it, but it can't stop. It's like a big flood. It flows and flows. Śaktī Jī is thinking. So kī dehe dharī ho inar jain janat ved siyāvar rām chandra pavan suta hanumān kī jai. Who is the one, who is the omniscient? Brahman is omnipresent, without māyā, untouched by illusion, unborn, immortal, without any will, without any desire, without any differences, and is even very hard for the Vedas to describe. Is it possible that such a one adopts a body, manifests in a body, just like a normal human? The God, omniscient, omnipresent, in each and every atom, One without second, unborn, immortal, everlasting, indescribable, just one like the sky. How is it possible that he comes here in embodiment? Viṣṇu-josu-rahita-narata-nudhārī saṁsarbhagya-jatātri-pūrārī khoja-iṣokī-agya-ivaṇārī jñāna-dhāma-śrī-patī-asurārī. For the sake of the all-goddess, who takes this human body, who is Viṣṇu, he is also like Śiva, everywhere. He is the treasure of wisdom. He is the Lakṣmīpati, the treasure of prosperity. He is the enemy of the Rākṣasas and Asuras. That is Bhagavān Viṣṇu. Can he become like this, like an ignorant person, full of ignorance, full of innocence? Just he is wandering here and there in the forest and searching for his wife, that he is behaving just like a normal person. If she is gone, gone. Would you say this? Yes. Or no, but if he is everywhere, if he is in everything, and if he is the knower of everything, then why can't he be immediately there where she is? Why is he then wondering? Why did he say, "How to realize this? How to accept this?" Many questions came to me, especially in this Western world, because you know about Jesus more. Doubt is there. Is this the Jesus of my whole incarnation? How could he then let himself suffer on the cross? How could he cry? How could it happen that he is screaming? Is he God? People don't understand this, and this is what he is playing purposely, that how far people will understand me. And whom he wants to understand, they will understand him in this condition too. Is this Viṣṇu? Who is wandering in the forest? God Śiva is antaryāmī. Antaryāmī means one who knows your inner self. It means Lord of your inner heart. He knows what's going on in you. He knows what's going on in your mind. Sometimes He lets you go through the fire a little bit. One life, two lives, three lives. For them, it's a little bit. Did they find the car number? Okay, but still, the merciful Lord Śiva. Satī is thinking, "I can't imagine that it could be Viṣṇu, and I don't dare to say that it could be Viṣṇu." But when the Lord of the world, Śiva, makes such feelings and devotions, there must be something. Because Śiva's words never go empty. His words are truth. People who have problems with the nose should go to clean and sit near the door. Afternoon. But the words of Śiva are always truth, the reality. Everyone knows that Śiva is the knower of everything, and he is everywhere. This was also in Satyajī's heart, in her mind. Some kind of questions arise. And questions rise only when there is some doubt. Otherwise, there is no question. Where you say, "Only why?" you say, "Then why?" When there is something you don't accept, if something is not clear or you don't want, then the question rises. She tried in many ways, but still, in her heart, that knowledge doesn't appear. The clarity doesn't appear. Therefore, Bhagavān Śiva. Dharmārī-subhāvun saṁsaya-asana-dharīye dharka-urkāvun. Though Śiva did not tell all secrets to her, no, the Satyajī didn't ask Śiva her sacred feelings. But Lord Śiva is antaryāmī... he understood what was going on in his mind now. What's going on in his heart? Sometimes our stupid mind... thinks that others don't know. But as you think that others don't know... that much more others will know. A stupid person wants to make others stupid. Then he blindly leads the blind one, but it is like that. So even a normal person can see on your face... that in which condition you are now. So for Śiva, there is no problem. He knew what was disturbing Satyajī. Merciful Lord Śiva, He spoke and said, "Satī jī, listen, your nature is a woman's nature, a female nature, very curious." Ladies, you are to say this, because the majority is sitting here. But they are always so curious; they want to know everything. And the problem is this: when they come to know, then they can't digest. This is this, so this is like a chain, continuing the problems. Then, inwardly, you are burning. It could be a condition of the mind, too. But I have to read only what is here. We are living in the world of emancipation. But I think the emancipation is going too far. The man forgets the woman. Therefore, Lord Śiva said, "I know your nature. You are very curious. You want to know something. Dear one, you should never have doubts in your mind. Don't keep doubts. Doubt is a cancerous disease. There is a physical cancer, and there is a mental cancer. And the mental cancer is doubt. And when the mental cancer appears, then appears the unbearable pain of jealousy, of hate, of complexes. You can't imagine. Thanks to God, and be happy that none of you knows what jealousy is, and be happy that you don't know. And if you know that, tell me, please, how is it? Do you know? Little bit perhaps, yes? Therefore, God Śiva says to Pārvatī, 'Do not keep doubts in your mind.'" Oh Satījī, dear one, the ṛṣi Agastya told me that beautiful glory, the tale of the God, which I told him, the devotion about God, that kathā, that tale in which I told Agastya Muni. That is my Iṣṭadevatā, Lord of my heart, Raghuveer, the hero of the dynasty, Raghuveer, whom all the sages and wise ones and ṛṣis are serving, doing his sevā. Muni-dhīra-yogī-siddha-saṅtata-bimala-mana jaiba dhyāvahī, kai neti nighama-purāṇa-āgama jāsu kīrtī gāvahī. Soi Rāma vyāpaka Brahma bhuvana-nikāya-pati māyā-dhani avatāreu, apane bhagata-hita nija-tantra dīta Raghu-kula-mani. The wise ones, the munis, the yogīs, the siddhas, constantly meditate upon him. The Vedas and Purāṇas are singing the glory of him. All the holy scriptures are singing His glory, that omnipresent in the entire universe, the Lord of the whole universe, the Lord of māyā, everlasting, the Supreme, ever free, mokṣa, svarūpa. As Brahma Self, Bhagavān Śrī Rām, he incarnates here for the sake of his bhaktas. At the present, he is like the jewel in the crown of the dynasty of Raghu and Kuru. He incarnated here. Lord Śiva explained to her many times. He told her, "It is Viṣṇu, it is He, He is that One," but she still couldn't understand. Simply, she can't understand. Can you understand?... at least this much, that simply she can't understand, she can't accept this. And this is the problem. Many times you explain to your partner... but he doesn't understand simply, or you don't understand what he tells. And there begins the conflict in the family. So, explain again and again. But still, if you have a problem, don't be unhappy. That can only happen in the best family. Even the Goddess has this problem. That's why it is said, "Māyā mā thāgnī ham jānī." The greatest cheater is the māyā. Man is māyā for woman, and woman is māyā for man. So man should never feel that they are not in māyā. They are the biggest problem of māyā. They are also māyā. Yadapi, although the Lord Śiva tried to explain to her again and again, still, the words of Śiva this time did not take place in her heart. That's it. What to do? You don't know? And you don't accept the words of the Master? Now, what should God do with you? Then God Śiva said in his heart, "Well, Lord, if you decide it, if it is your will that it should be like that, then I accept it." Then I accept it, and I shall explain something to her. God Śiva, he was smiling, inwardly. Lord, that's your will, that's your māyā. Endless, you have not one; enough from one. One after another, so many, playing. Not only one tennis ball, you know, one tennis ball, football, handball, you know, many things at the same time. That's it, the Lord said it, Śiva said it. Śivājī said to Satyājī, "Well, if you don't trust my words, if you don't believe in my words, if there is no confidence, and you don't find what I tell you, do it yourself. Go, go and make one test, examination, exam. Lord, why don't you do it? Go and find out yourself. Till you come back to me, I will sit here under the beautiful banyan tree, nice cool shadow. At least I have my time to relax or meditate. So you go yourself and find out if he's really Viṣṇu or not, or if it is a normal human child." In this same time, Śiva was. Śiva knew, and he gazed at it. He gazed. She may go and make some kind of test, daughter of Dakṣa, the Satī, but it wouldn't be good for her. It is not in her favor. I will be sorry for her, but she wants to do it; she wants to go. She wants to know, and what I am telling her, she doesn't believe. She says, "You tell me the same thing so many times." She is going, and she has to pay the price, the consequences. Though I am explaining to her and she doesn't understand, and her doubts don't go away, it seems that destiny won't allow this. The Lord of destiny. Even speaking about destiny. Śiva is the Lord of destiny. Nothing is impossible for him, but he said maybe it's her destiny. I shall not interfere in her destiny. Of course, I will keep my eyes. After some lives, again, I will take care of her. After some, not some days, I didn't say this, yes. And here it is also, didn't say after some lives, but it will come, it. Will take some lives, therefore understand the Guru Vakya. Clean your mind, clean your heart, give up your stupid thinking, just surrender. Therefore, she was just thinking. It seems that destiny has something different in mind. Now Satyajī wouldn't be well. Unfortunately, it's not good for her. Is it not her luck? In it, though he explained to her, but there was āvaraṇa, mala, vikṣepa, and āvaraṇa in her heart. Mala is impurity, impure thinking. Vikṣepa is disturbances, doubts. And āvaraṇa is ignorance. So when there is ignorance and doubts, then the impure thoughts, that is where your distraction begins. Bhagavān Śiva says, He repeats the mantra, "Śiva, Śiva,... Śiva," "Rām, Rām,... Rām," but she wants to go. Of course, if I want to stop, I will do it. But then she will suffer. She will have doubt towards my Lord. And when she will have doubt towards my Lord, I do not like this. I know he is Viṣṇu, he is Rāma. And she does not accept this. Let her go. Lord Śiva says it will be like that, as God Rāma wishes. What God has created here, this māyā, what he has created. Now it has to be like that. He did it. I have to accept it. What he has created here should be. Why should we unnecessarily expand more with our arguments? So, argument does not solve the problems, but arguments expand, make bigger. You have to make one step towards accepting both sides. Otherwise, when there's an argument, then—and there are so many arguments. And sometimes then finally the argument comes: what was first, the seed or the tree, the egg or the bird? What a stupid argument begins then. So there is no end. So wise ones said, "No discussions." Bhagavān Śiva, Lord Śiva says, no arguments. Like this, Lord Śiva was thinking for himself in his mind. He sat down, and Śiva begins to repeat his mantra. Like this, he says to his mind and begins to make japa, mantra, harināma, name of God, Hari, Viṣṇu, harināma. Those who are repeating Hari's name, they are the liberated ones. Your mantra. And Satyajī left proudly. I will go and see what it is. So Satyajī went there where the Lord was residing, where Rāma was incarnated, where he was. So Satyajī is going now to Rāmacandrajī. Śrī Rām Jaya Rām Jaya Jaya Rām, Śrī Rām Jaya Jaya Śrī Rām.