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This bhajan is about God—when God will come to you, or when you will see God. What can we do so that we see God? There is one song: "Door of my heart, open wide, I keep for thee. Wilt thou come? Just once, come to me." Night and day, night and day, I look for thee. Yes, the door is open, but inside it is empty. There is no love. So it is said: Prabhu prem bīnā nahī̃ āve. God will not come to you without love. Love is God, and God is love. Otherwise, you can do a thousand things. You can do a thousand things, God will not come. God doesn't need all your material things. God doesn't need your decorations. Prabhu is God. Who is Parabrahma, Paramātmā, who incarnates on this Bhūmaṇḍal, on this earth, for the sake of Bhaktas? Prabhu prem binā nā āve—God will not come without love. You can do a thousand tricks; He will not come. And the mistake is always ours. We are the guilty. We are the guilty ones. We became unfaithful. Can I go to Tibet, Swamiji? I am, you know, this is this. Can I be your disciple, and can I go to South Africa, and can I go to Tibet and do these techniques? There, it means you will be nowhere, neither here nor there. Why does this thinking come? To go somewhere. Because there is no love. And when there is no love, then you are looking for another husband, or you are looking for another wife. And when you go there, that one will have no love for you. So again, you are nowhere. Śāntoṣa—contentment, satisfaction—is the biggest richness. The richest of the richest of... the richest person is. They have no wish at all. Wunschlos zu Frieden, that is what is said in German: completely satisfied, without any wish. Very often, Gurujī speaks this poem in his lectures. In old times, the richest people had many elephants. And the elephants were carrying their jewels and precious stones—gajdhan, bhajdhan—and they had golden birds, or ratan dhan khan, and they had mines of diamonds. But when you discover the dhan, meaning the prosperity or money of santosha, satisfaction in your heart, all wealth for you is just like dust. That is the biggest richness. Many desires mean you are the beggar. The rich are they who do not wish anything, and beggars are they who, day and night, sit in front of the computers, thinking, "How to multiply money? How to do business?" and this. These are the beggars, Māyā ke gulām. You know what is a gulām? It's an Urdu word, a Parsi word. Māyā ke gulām—gulām means the slave, the slave of the Māyā. That Jesus said, "Don't be the slave of this God, Māyā." When the santosha dhan—dhan means prosperity, wealth, dhan means wealth or money—so when the santosha dhan enters your heart, then there is one beautiful bhajan. It is said: Now I became divine, like you are intoxicated. Now I am intoxicated by drinking the juice of the name of God. The best drink is God's name. That's it. There are three kinds of juice: Rāmras, Chāmras, and Āmras. Amṛas means the juices of the fruits. Chamras means the physical love, enjoyment, and Ramras, the name of God. These first two juices, the two kinds of rush, are not mortal. And the juice of God's name is immortal. So those who are stuck in the mortal are also becoming mortal. But those who are stuck into the immortal, they become immortal. I don't like to stay in this hotel. I will go to Cascada Hotel. This is a hunger inside, you know. Poor, a beggar person. People who have Ram Rash, they don't want to touch this person. Think Śāntoṣa Dharma. Whatever you got, be happy. You will never get more than your destiny. And you will never get earlier than the time will come. Therefore, the Mahātma said, "When he has this knowledge, then it is said," Oh, I am drunken in the name of God. Now, all the tests of this world. Tasteless, like food without salt, there is no taste inside. The most tasteful is God's name. Meditate, no desires. It's not easy, but happy are they, lucky are they. Liberated will they be, enlightened will they be, realization will they have, and God will visit them, those who are standing above. Like a lotus flower above the water. Give up physical, mental egos, all this blim-blam. Otherwise, God will not come. Prabhu Prem Bina Nahi Aave God. Love bina, try thousand things, but God will not come. There is a... this bhajan has many stories in it, and first stories of problem Mahābhārata. Well, God Kṛṣṇa was also one of the figures in Mahābhārata. God Kṛṣṇa said, "I support the truth." There is a... True dharma and adharma: dharma is righteousness, right-houseness. Dharma means there is a truth. Dharma is where reality is. Dharma is there where is the moral and ethic. Dharma is there where the human acts according to the human dharma. So, dharma and... Adharma. So the Pāṇḍavas were fighting for their rights. But the Kauravas were fighting just to take it away from them. To take someone's property, to steal from someone, not to give them their rights—that's called adharma. And Kṛṣṇa said, "I am on the side of the dharma." And Kṛṣṇa tried very hard to explain to Duryodhana not to create the war. Just give the Pāṇḍavas one small village to live, that's all. And Duryodhana said, "In my kingdom, the Pāṇḍavas will not get even a small place like the tip of a needle, an injection needle, and I don't want to see them alive in front of me." Is hate, and they were real cousin brothers. Krishna tried very much. Then Krishna went finally as a peace messenger. Again, to avoid the last day before war was declared, Duryodhana was thinking, "Now is my chance to have Krishna on my side." So, evening dinner, Duryodhana prepared a beautiful dinner, a delicious dinner, hundreds of varieties with beautiful decorations in honor of Kṛṣṇa, for Kṛṣṇa is invited for the dinner, and at the dinner we will talk about how Krishna should be on our side. But God, He doesn't need your decoration. He doesn't need your outer preparation. God sees your heart. What kind of selfish desires do you have? What's going on in your mind? You cannot hide from him. When Krishna came and dinner was prepared, Krishna said, "Oh no, better I will go to Vidura, because Vidura's wife prepared for me some nice dry chapatis and spinach." The chapati from the corn, the corn chapati, and some kind of spinach, you know, and he went there. Of course, nobody could stop him. Duryodhana, with two hands, the whole table he destroyed and said, "Krishna, we don't need you." Krishna said, "That I knew." And Krishna went to the poor house. Vidura's wife was happy, and they were sitting. And Vidura's wife was so happy; she was a bhakta. And she is giving Krishna an appetizer, eating some appetizer, and this appetizer, yeah, and she opened the banana and she ate the fruit herself and gave the banana skin to Krishna. And Kṛṣṇa was eating banana skins. And Vidur said to his wife, "Did you lose your consciousness? What are you doing? You know what you are giving to Mahātma Kṛṣṇa? Sorry." So she was in such a divine state, she did not know what she was doing. Banana was eating, and she was giving the skin to Krishna. And Krishna said to Vidura, "In this skin of the banana, the love of the entire universe is hidden. This is so tasteful." I can't think that the inner part will be so tasteful. That was with love, with bhakti. And then he got dry chapatis, hard chapatis like dry bread, and this spinach, spinach from the, what you call, the leaves of the mustard plant, which is very good. You will have now mustard plant, that's very healthy, but not healthy when it is sprayed and where. There is a chemical fertilizer, but in your own garden, you can grow a very tasteful fruit, and Kṛṣṇa was enjoying that. So in the next line, Gurujī said, Duryodhana was making so many sweet things, so many good things, but without love, God didn't accept that. God didn't eat. Sāk Vidur ghar jākar khāyā, sāk Vidur ghar jākar khāyā, rūch rūch bhog lagāve, Prabhu prema binā nahī̃ āve. And he went to eat the vegetable in Vidura's house. God was eating with great appetite, with great taste. And you can see in the Mahābhārata, you can read in the Mahābhārata. So God doesn't need anything, only pure bhakti. In your bhakti, there should be no selfishness. In your bhakti, there should be no jealousy. In your bhakti, there should be no greediness, no anger. It is a pure, untouched love of God. That transcendence in your body, and that is said: God is love of his God. You can do the thousand things without love; he will not come. I've lived with holy Gurujī from my childhood, and you know, the Gurujī was a personality, and his wisdom, his appearance... when I was small, maybe I was still having the breast milk, I was having my mother's breast milk till I was five years or six. Years ago, I came home and said, "No, I want to have breast milk finished." And until I was 18 or 20, when I came home before becoming a Swami, I wanted to sleep with my mother, that's all. And always I was sleeping with my legs together like this, hitting with my knees to her. And when I fell into a deep sleep, she went to another bed. The love of the parents is indescribable. It is the protection of a mother. So I would suggest to you not to send your children to kindergarten. And don't leave your children alone at home. Either don't get children, or one of the parents should be with them. That's it. That's called new cetanā, a new awakening, new consciousness, a new world change. So parents need education, not the children. That's very important. So there's another beautiful story, and that is about one lady. You see, the ladies have the same spiritual power as a man. Ladies can achieve the same thing that men can, you see, and in spirituality there is no duality of man and woman. The soul is the same. Ātmā is the same. Feeling is the same. Physically, anatomically, it is a little different. That's not a problem. So, the good thing in Hinduism is that ladies have equal rights. First comes Rādhā, and then Kṛṣṇa. And have both sit on the same holy chair. First comes Lakṣmī, then Viṣṇu, so it's great. And that's why in Hindu religion we believe in all divine powers. There are gurus which are female gurus, so must not be. Only always a man as a guru, that's it. Above this planet, there's not existing male and female. When you come to the astral world and still you are thinking that you are a woman, that is your stupidness. So after death, don't think that you are woman, okay, slowly, slowly get rid of these thoughts. There are many holy ladies. They always call themselves like a man, but they don't have anything against the woman, but they call the ātmā. Ātmā is neither male nor female. So, this story is from the time of God Rama, whom you can see in the video from the Ramayana. There were beautiful places, forest, water fountains, flowers, fruits, many, many different kinds of birds, many, many butterflies and bees, honeybees flying from one blossom to another blossom, making nice nāda yoga. Oh, beautiful sound now. Is coming in the spring, you know. Sit under the apple tree and you will hear. But do not put artificial color on your hair, and don't put some kind of artificial perfumes in your hair, otherwise the bees will check or they... will not come under this tree, that's it. It is said where the holy saints are living, where the divine atmosphere is, all seasons are functioning according to their dharma. Satya Yuga, Ṛṣi Yuga, that's it. Now it's Kali Yuga. As I told you yesterday, the material comforts go higher and higher, and spirituality is going down and down. Therefore, think what you want. This desire is your enemy. There, one bee fell down. Hundreds of ants attacked that bee, that bee. Very small, but within no time, they killed the bee. So you are that bee, and your desires are these ants. Very soon, they will suck you out and leave them to hurry over. Squeeze the lemon out. You see the ladies in the kitchen, they squeeze the lemon out, and the rest, where there's no juice more, they throw in the Vespa box. And her husband was sitting and drinking coffee. He said, "God!" She said, "What happened?" One day you will throw me also in this Vespa box. She said, "Yes, when you are old and not capable of things, then I will send you to an old home. And when you die, they will put you under." So, energy is given to us to achieve something, not to lose it: mental energy, inner willpower, clear thoughts, clear visions, to do for all something, to give it all. So bees, honeybees, they take only nectar. Maybe the blossoms are poisonous, but they are capable of taking the nectar. Nectar means immortality. So, all yoga practitioners should be like a honey bee. Take the essence, wisdom, wisdom, wisdom. So there were ṛṣis meditating, but at the same time, there had always been a conflict between male and female. Of course, the mistakes were from the female side, and now also, now also, the females, they just project themselves for a little money now. Now, the ladies in this world are only an object for commercial model, commercial model. Selva sult, the same, the own mistake. If the ladies of the whole world all will decide that we don't want to come on the posters and magazines in this way, then again the ladies will come up. This moral niveau falls down, so ladies, think over. Don't be that commercial model. Dress properly. And protect your dignity. So, time to time, it had been like this. At that time, there was a woman who was, what we call, physically not so beautiful. We think it's not beautiful. This conflict is in the human mind only. In nature, there is no such conflict. Which bee is beautiful and which bee is not beautiful, or which bird is beautiful and which bird is not beautiful? Which cow is more beautiful, and which cow is not more beautiful? They don't think of this. They follow the natural law, and they understand the natural law, but we are very active to destroy everything. So her name was Bilani. Bilani is a caste. Bila is a caste, but we call the tribes tribes. They were living in the mountains. They are living still in the mountains. Hard worker, hard life, and so due to her certain physical disabilities, no one married her. And her heart fell into God's heart. She chose God's way. She developed her love for God, and she decided to go to the forest. And to live in some ashram, no one accepted her. We don't want in our monastery a woman; we don't want a woman; we don't want to see a woman's face. And ask them if they have a dog, a female dog. Will they see the face of a female dog or not? If the cow comes, a female cow, will they close their eyes? If the mother comes with closed eyes, so many things are on the surface. And there was one ṛṣi who accepted her. He said, "My daughter, of course, it's your ashram. Stay, meditate, sing bhajan. I tell you, one day God Rāma will come to you. You need not go anywhere." It was a remedy for her heart. Guruvākya. My master said, "God will come to me." And day and night, day and night, I look for thee. Night and day, night and day, Bhilani was looking for when God will come. When little sleep came, she was so angry, because maybe God will come, but I'm sleeping and I will miss it. And in that, there was nothing to eat except some fruits, so she said, "When the... God Rāma will come. What will I offer him?" And she went to collect some fruits and first test them. If they were sweet, she put them in her basket. If they were sour, she ate them herself. And on the path, every day, new flowers she was putting, because the Master left this world. And she was alone. No one was coming to her. No one respected her. And every day she was waiting, and that is the song which is made from Bilini. Door of my heart, open wide I keep for thee. Wilt thou come, wilt thou come, once come to me? Will my day pass away without seeing thee, my Lord? Night and day, night and day, I look for thee. Door of my heart, open wide.