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It is said: "Bhakti to sabhī koī karte hai, lekin tīrtha vaha bhakt hai, jo jis kī bhakti kartā hai, usko Bhagavān samajh karke, apnā pūrā śraddhā vishvāsa samarpit kartā hai." Everyone practices devotion, or bhakti. But the true devotee, the one who will cross the ocean of ignorance, is the one who understands the object of their devotion as God and surrenders their entire confidence, love, heart, and being to them. It is said that if you practice or believe in one thing, you will master all. If you try to have all, you will lose all. This bhajan—it does not matter who wrote it, the author is unknown—but the words the author has put in it are a guideline for devotees. For example, you will read in Līlāmṛta that once Mahāprabhujī asked Holy Gurujī, "What do you want or wish? Siddhis, mokṣa, liberation, wealth—whatever you wish. Wish it in these minutes, anything you wish, that will I give you." Holy Gurujī said, "In every life, devotion to Thy holy lotus feet—not wealth, not a siddhi, not mokṣa, but only one thing, my Lord: whenever I come on this planet, only that I can serve you. Remove all my dreams, and come every day in my dream. Remove all my desires, only towards you, and let my love grow day by day to you. Never should any thought or feeling appear in my heart which may separate me from you. It doesn't matter where I am, I should never feel in my heart or in my intellect absence from you. Before doing any action, before speaking any word, before expressing any thought, you should be in front of me. Your Nirguṇa and Saguṇa form should always embrace me, hug me, so that I don't make a mistake." This bhajan has such a beautiful meaning. We are all seekers. We are searching for some happiness. We are searching for love. We are searching for divine bliss. Where should we go? In which part of the universe should we travel? Where are you hidden? Where can I find you? These are the feelings or the expression of the person who wrote this. If you have a doubt and you are constantly changing your opinion, then you will not understand that oneness when you find the Gurudeva or when you find what you search for. After some time, do not change your opinion. If you do, you are lost. The confidence you have to keep means we have to keep confidence in Gurudeva. He will never ask you, "You should have confidence in me, for what?" But it is we who need something. You will see in the world how many people are longing for siddhi. If we were to announce here that in a one-week seminar you will learn flying without an aeroplane, with the suitcase, passport in mouth, we would have a waiting list of thousands or millions of people. This is the ambition of people. I am sure if the holy guru would have asked for the siddhi of flying, for Mahāprabhujī it was not impossible. But he knew that to be in the shelter of Mahāprabhujī is the greatest siddhi, the greatest joy. Like Gajanan said in his bhajan, "Sometimes I want to leave you, but I don't know how to leave you because you live in me." So never think that you will leave, and when you make mistakes, you should know that you have to pay this karma not only in this life, but in many, many lives. This is bhajan. When Gurudev is standing near me, beside me, now whom should I wish for more? What should I wish for more? The giver of the giver, the king of the king, the lord of the lord, the supreme of the supreme, the truth of the truth is with me. What do I wish for? I got everything in one. There was an artist who was playing in a very nice theatre. He could walk on a rope. He put one rope from this tree to that tree, to the other tree, and he could walk like a squirrel. He could walk with two big bamboos. Afterwards, he could walk with only one bamboo, about twenty meters high. Did you see someone walking on the bamboo? Twenty-meter-high bamboos. You are standing with both legs. One step is nearly 15 meters long, so you can walk so quickly. When a dog comes to bite you, he's running around and around because you are always changing your legs. When an elephant attacks you, then you have both legs sideways. He turns this way; you have legs this way. When he turns to the other side, you hit his buttock, and he stays on the other side. But to walk on one is also difficult. And then he could play the flute and the rope would go up like a snake. The king was very happy when he saw this show. And the king said, "Ask for anything, one thing, and I will fulfill your wish. You wish for a kingdom, money, a wife, children, a camel, an elephant," because at that time there were no cars. Well, that man was very clever. He wanted to have everything. The king asked only for one thing: how to get all in one? So the man said to the king, "Lord, what can I wish? If I wish for a kingdom, I don't have everything. If I wish for money, I don't have everything." The king said, "Well, it's your wish. I promise you, I will give." He said to the king, "I don't wish for anything but only one thing: that you become my slave." That's it. Now, the king became his slave. It means he got everything. King, everything belongs to you, but you should belong to me. That's it. So, everything belongs to Gurudev, but Gurudev should belong to you. Then you have all. Hari Om Tat Sat. So, when Mahāprabhujī is standing beside us and blessing, what do we wish for more? He will give us everything. Our duty is to be loyal, faithful, and surrender our ego, our feelings. Never think that he is one second separated from you. And in that second when you feel that he is separated, you will have troubles. Or you will create troubles, and that trouble will give you troubles for a long, long time. Gurudev, mere paas, what should I hope from someone more and more? When Gurudev has taken me in his hands, whose hands should I go to more? There are no other divine hands. There are no other hands in the world that can hug you in that divine mercy. That hug means his divine mercy, his kṛpā. When the guru kṛpā is lost, you are that bird which lost its wings. A cat is sitting near you. She will very soon chew you in her mouth. You would like to fly away. All your muscles are moving, but you have no wings to fly. The wings of kṛpā, the wings of devotion and confidence, are broken. Only the devotee understands this. Everyone is doing Bhakti, but that kind of Bhakti is not successful, as this bhajan said. When that Lord, I found the Lord, beloved of my heart, now for whom should I search more? Because whatever you will search for is not that. What you should have, when you have the sun in your hand, you need not search for candle lights or torch lights. When his physical and astral beauty, the nirguṇa and saguṇa beauty, that beautiful picture of the form of him as a nirguṇa-saguṇa—what kind of other picture should I have? It means in your thoughts, in your imagination, in your feelings, in your thoughts, in your desires. Because nothing can be more divine than that. If you put different feelings, different pictures, different shots, then you lose the other one. Like you had a beautiful dream, and you wake up, and the memory is gone. Only you know that you had a beautiful dream, but you don't know what it was exactly. There is one bale or a pot made out of brass, which you have mostly nowadays, what they are calling the gong or these balls, which make a nice sound. That is a special metal, and it has a beautiful resonance. But when that gets a crack, there is no resonance at all. Now, when the crack took place, where the resonance is gone, nobody knows. Kashi puti janakaar kaha gayi, where the resonance is gone. Doodh phaṭā kahā gayā ghṛt, when milk is spoiled, where disappears the butter? When you put the lemon in the milk, the milk spoils. Now, from that, you can't gain butter at all. Where is the butter gone? Gone. Deepak buj gaya, lo kaha chali gayi. The light has gone off. Where did the flame disappear? You have a candle burning, and you blow it off, or the wind blows it off. Where has the flame disappeared? You cannot find it anywhere. Maybe the flame was in a bulletproof glass box; you cannot search anywhere, you cannot find it. Gone. In the same way, when the heart is broken, where has the love gone? You cannot find that again. So it is said, there is a great poet, Rahim Dās. He said, "Don't break it." When it's broken, you can't join it again. If you try to connect, there will still be a knot between, and that knot will always disturb you. Whenever you want to put the pearls in this thread, always the knot will be there to disturb. Therefore, the love, the devotion, it is like a gentle flame, a very fragile thread. It is that milk, or it is that resonance of one bale. If it is cracked, it is gone. Jab naat mere dildār mile, main khoj karūn kis kī kis kī. When I found my Lord, the Lord of my heart, what should I search for more? Jab rūp anūp chhātā unkī, when his beauty is in form and in formless, then what kind of picture should I bring more in my heart or in my thought? When unconditional love I found in him, what kind of love should I need from others? The divine love, which Mahāprabhujī can give us and have for us. Nowhere will we find it, when his words are eternal and the truth. Now then, for whom should I look more? Whose advice should I seek more? Because his words are eternal truth. Vachan kabhī naī ṭale, the moon may escape, the sun may change, but Guru Vakya will never change. It will be like that, and therefore, we always work for his mercy, not for his anger. When I became a servant of his, now whose shelter should I look for? When I found shelter in his divine, holy lotus feet. This bhajan is a challenge in our life. This bhajan is a test for us in our life. This bhajan is a guideline for us. This bhajan, which wakes us innerly, and this bhajan is that thread which we can hold to cross the ocean, but only a bhakta can understand these two kinds of bhakti. Of bhakti, there are svārth bhakti and niṣkām bhakti. Svārth bhakti is with certain desires, ambitions, expectations, material desires. And niṣkām bhakti is without any ambition, only one: that Lord, on this planet, whenever I incarnate, I want to have your shelter. Let me become, let me become one with your nirguṇa and saguṇa form. Let thy nirguṇa and saguṇa forms dwell in my heart. The rest, you think, is your decision.