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Mother was overcome with emotion. As she reached Pārvatī, she took her daughter into her arms, hugged her, and was filled with feeling. Seeing her mother in this state, Pārvatī said to her, "Mother, listen. I shall tell you something. I had a wonderful dream." "In the dream, I saw a beautiful Brahmin, and he was preaching. He told me something. He said something to me. If you are interested, I will tell you my dream and what he told me." Naturally, the mother wanted to hear it. What dream was her daughter going to tell? "That Brahmin said to me in the dream, 'O Pārvatī, the words of Nārada are the truth, the reality. The words of Nārada cannot be unreal. Understand and take his words as the reality, and go and perform sādhanā—tapasyā, austerity.'" "And this, your parents would also approve, because they know this, and they will also be happy if you go and undertake your sādhanā. Sādhanā, the tapasyā, is the giver of happiness and the remover of all troubles. That is why all holy saints and all yogīs practice their sādhanā." "Tapasya is to endure something. All kinds of difficulties, which you feel physically or mentally, you shall master them and overcome them. As soon as you give up, you have lost your willpower. On the spiritual path, on the good way, some obstacles always come. The beautiful rose has thorns also. Until the rose flowers, until the blossom comes, until the petal comes, you have to go through the thorns. Ask yourself how much you can endure—the physical and mental discomfort. Those who are not satisfied, those who have no santoṣa in their heart, they cannot endure things." "Accept the situation according to time and space. Do not let it disturb your inner self. Take it as natural things or as destiny. If you keep on fighting against those obstacles, you will reach your aim. If not, then you will fail. Therefore, tapasyā removes unhappiness and troubles and gives us happiness." "Therefore, the Brahmin told me in the dream, 'The words of Nārada are the truth. Go and perform your austerity. Even your parents will be happy in it. And that tapasyā sādhanā, the spiritual techniques and practices, will give you satisfaction and remove trouble.'" He said, "Through the power of tapasyā, Brahmā is able to create this world. Through the power of that tapasyā, that sādhanā, Viṣṇu is able to protect the world. And through that power of tapasyā, Śambhu, Śiva, he is able to destroy all the negative powers in this world. And it is that tapa, that sādhanā, through which power the Śeṣa-jī, the Śeṣa-nāga, is carrying the weight of the whole earth on his head." "Therefore, those who have sādhanā can come through; they can endure something. They can keep through; others cannot. We need that ātambal, the willpower, our inner willpower. If we do not have this, then little, little things can make us very, very sad. And little, little things can destroy our main aims. They come as a memory, a remembrance, from the past, what has happened, good or bad. As soon as you remember them, you are so weak, you cannot help yourself. Family situation, situation at work, political situation, environmental situation—many, many things. Those who have tapasyā, sādhanā, they are strong. And those who have no sādhanā, very quickly they get a nervous breakdown. Therefore, we need that power, the power of tapasyā." "The Śeṣanāga, the thousand-headed snake, though he is a snake, but which tapasyā, which karma he has, that Viṣṇu himself is residing on his body. It must be something. Whom does Viṣṇu lean on? What does it mean to lean on someone's support, where you find rest, where you find some kind of confidence and energy in the love? So even Viṣṇu himself is residing, is leaning on the Śeṣa Nāga, where he feels comfortable and secure, like a baby feels comfortable and secure in the lap of the mother. Therefore, do real sādhanā." "Really, you have your mantra, you have your practices, you have the guidance of your master. Every day he speaks so kindly to you, his own sweet words, nearly every 10 minutes. He tries to pull out from you the qualities in your mind, like jealousy, hate, complexes. You know you have this. Hardly will you meet someone in this world like your master, who always reminds you of your best qualities: jealousy, hate, complexes, greediness, attachment. I know what is going on in each and every heart, and I try to put some more oil inside, till it burns completely. Nothing will remain, except one: the one Self. So do the real sādhanā." "The real sādhanā is tapobala. The power of the sādhanā is indescribable. How did Brahmā create this world? Through which intellect? Through which power? Through tapasyā. The Viṣṇu who is governing the entire world—even a small leaf of a tree cannot move without His power. A blade of grass cannot move without His power. All the rain, water, mountains, flowers, everything is directed by Him. How did Viṣṇu get that power? Sādhanā, tapasya. Nothing is impossible through sādhanā. Impossible things become possible, but sādhanā should be with santoṣa. If you practice mantra, you should be one with the mantra. Otherwise, you will 'mantra'—you know mantra, it will come, one lady in the Rāmāyaṇa. So mantra means also where your mind stops, rests. Mantra, your mind is calm and peaceful. And that is also Śiva. Through the sādhanā, he is able to do. The saṃsāra is created by the power of tapasyā; Brahmā has done it. And through that tapasyā, the power of the tapasyā, Viṣṇu is the protector in this world. And it is Śiva that through his tapasyā sādhanā he destroys everything. And through that tapasyā, the Śeṣanāga is carrying on his head the weight of the whole earth." "On one side, he is coiled, his body, where Viṣṇu is residing. He should not move. If he moves, then Viṣṇu feels discomfort. Śeṣanāga breathes very peacefully, and Viṣṇu feels on it like on a water bed. On the other side, it is said, Nāgārjuna wants to have darśana of Viṣṇu. So he raises his head up and looks down all the time to the lotus feet of Viṣṇu. On the other side, the whole earth is balanced on his head. Sometimes, when his neck is stiff, he makes a very slight movement. And what happens? An earthquake takes place. So when the earthquake begins, you must say, 'Please, Śeṣanāga, move your body.' No movement." Still, Pārvatī is telling her mother. That Brahmin said, "O Bhavānī, the whole creation is existing on the power of tapasyā. And therefore, you should know this. Realize this, what I tell you. Go and make tapasya sādhanā." When the mother heard this—what the daughter is telling, you see, it is something extraordinary, something wonderful—now she turned her mother's consciousness completely in a different direction. Before, she was crying and so on, and suddenly now she begins to think. She was very surprised. Immediately she called the king and told him the dream of his daughter, what she is telling. Pārvatī explained to her parents in many ways that doing tapasyā would be good for all of them. "Therefore, you should not be unhappy. Do not be sad." She tried to explain to them because they did not want to let her go. She explained to them, and happily, Pārvatī left for the forest for tapasyā. All dear family members, including mother and father, all were sad. "We do not know where she will go, where she will sleep, what she will eat, how her day will be, how her night will be, how she will face the wildlife. Which difficulties will she face? What will come on her way? Who will look after her? Who will come and give her satisfaction if she is unhappy? Everything, you know, you are not thinking only for one thing, but you are thinking a thousand things. If she will be ill, who will give medicine? Who will give a warm cup of water, who will cook, where will she sleep, how will her dresses be, what about her cosmetics, everything?" And so the parents and all were sad, but she left. All were so sad that no one had any words; they could not speak anything to tell her to stop, or "Where will you be?" and so on. As soon as she left, the great sage, Vedaśira Muni, came there and he began to preach, to tell everyone the opposite of what they were thinking. They should not be unhappy. They should not make any sorrow. They should be sure that Pārvatī will have a good life, and it is the best she could do. And it is best that you shall do to allow her to go. And you people do not know the glory of Pārvatī. When he told something about her, then all were again happy. Hear about Lord Śiva. Pārvatī begins to concentrate on the lotus feet of Śiva. She placed him, his idol, in her heart, and she went into the forest and began her spiritual sādhanā. Though her gentle body was not created for such a wild forest, just to sleep under the trees, on the grass, definitely her body was suffering. But still, she had such a strong desire towards Śiva. She remembered him, and she faced all the problems, all difficulties. Day by day, her devotion was growing towards Śiva. As much as her sādhanā was getting more and more strong, solid, confident, faithful, her devotion was more and more awakening. She was so one with her sādhanā, her meditation, that she even forgot her physical body. Now, even the body does not disturb her at all. The body is expecting, "I hope she will not leave me somewhere." The body is behind you. If you are behind the body, then you have problems. Let the body be behind you. You should not be a test to the body. Let your body be a test to you. The thing is the same; it depends from which side you reach. You can place your ear like this, as I am doing, or you can do like this. So oneness is there, but better it comes from the other side. Now she is doing her sādhanā. What kind of sādhanā did she do? She did mantra, nustan, intensive kriyā, which you are doing; that was her daily regime. I have reduced about 50 percent of her program. If we will do that also, then your condition will be like Pārvatī's. But rare ones among you can do this. There is hardly an interval, and when you have two hours interval, it is nothing for you. You need two days interval and two hours practice. That is also too much. We are mortal beings; sooner or later, anyhow, we will be old and die. Let us hope, by Gurū Kṛpā, we will realize something. Therefore, day by day, her devotion was increasing towards Lord Śiva. She had forgotten her body. Her consciousness was focused for nearly one thousand years. Can you imagine? One thousand years we have satsaṅg. One thousand years she was just eating fruits and flowers, some kind of herbs and some kind of fruits, a little bit. There was counting in thousands of years, you know, not one year or two years. You know, one or two years is nothing. In that yuga, it was a long life and very strict disciplines. I forgot until when, how many thousand years they were a teenager. And then? Full years? So it is said, for one thousand years she used to eat fruits and flowers. And for 100 years, she spent just eating some bark of trees or a little vegetables. Some days, or sometimes, she spent then only drinking a little water, and also there was cold water, yes, not mineral. Normally, Buddha on a bubble car whisper—you see how the body accepts the nature. Then the body tried to take nourishment through the air. After some time, then she gave up also water. Only she used to live from the air. You know, there are sometimes Satīs; they do not eat and do not drink. Just from the air, the body is nourishing. There are. Now, we have one Satī. She is a disciple, and she is living near Khattu Ashram, 3-4 km far. She is a devotee of Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī, and for nearly 10 or 15 years, she does not eat and drink. Our body is nourished by the air. Some sādhanā must be there, some willpower must be there. When we do not get one day a little spicy food, then we make such a theater. "We have paid for the whole seminar. It said there would be a good breakfast and this. We will go back now; we do not want to stay here." Where is your love for your sādhanā? No. "Swāmījī said we will speak only German, and he does not speak, and we will go now. That is it." Even you do not understand one half word of Swāmījī. But still, you are the luckiest of the lucky, that you have the opportunity just to have his darśan. But this consciousness is not in you still. There is a difference between day and night. So now you know who can come through. You can pack your things and go. Or open your heart and develop willpower, sādhanā, that is tapasyā. We sing bhajan, "Guru deyu darśan dhan ho." Just darśan is more than anything. He speaks with you inwardly. But that knowledge we do not have; we did not learn that language, unfortunately. And for some time, she was fasting. Even she rejected the prāṇa which is coming from outside. A person who does not drink and does not eat, what kind of fast should that person have? Kumbhaka, no inhalation, no exhalation, citta vṛtti nirodha, completely citta vṛtti nirodha. After that, she used to eat some dry leaves of a tree. Three thousand years she spent like this. One is counting only thousands there. One, two, and hundred have no meaning. Like Italians, all are billionaires. No one is poor; all are millionaires. Or, like ex-Yugoslavian, suddenly dinars, all were millionaires. Even a little ice cream was costing about a hundred million. The most expensive ice cream in the world. Therefore, long, long sādhanā, kaṭhina sādhanā, difficult sādhanā. I am saying not a low word, but it is a difficult word. After a while, she also gave up eating these dry leaves. And only the name of God, sādhanā. That is called the Ajapa Mantra. Only one nāda: Oṃ, Oṃ, Oṃ. But you will not do this, still. "Give up eating today? Because we have already bought the food for the whole week, and that will be spoiled. Therefore, please do not do it, and even after, do not do it without my permission. I have to take everything if mechanically everything is okay. If I said yes, then off you go. Otherwise not." Through the tapasyā, the body of the ummā, of Pārvatī, was so weak. No wonder. The people who eat will say self-assault mistakes. When her body was very weak and her consciousness was completely one with the divine, at that time, all the supreme powers, the goddess or whatever you call them, they were all afraid. "God, maybe her body will die. We must do something. Immediately, we must do something when the child does not eat. Always crying for ice cream, one day he will say no, two days no, he will not eat, then he will say, finally, okay, here is ice cream." That is the haṭha, the willpower. Tapasya, endure, go through. So still you have many things to go through. Fight against your sadness, fight against your jealousy, fight against your doubts, fight against your complexes. First, get rid of this, and then come to me. I will tell you the second things still, what is left inside.