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During the last four months, there have been many changes—good changes. It depends on how you think when the change takes place. We cannot stop change; it is in nature. Even what they call 'climate change'—so climate change is not the proper word for that. We had a nice World Peace Conference in New Zealand about global warming or the problem of the environment. Many experts spoke on the subject. The subject was what to do. We know now what's happening, but we would like to know, as an individual, what we can do. The so-called experts who were there spoke only about the fact, not about the treatment. All they were talking about, the whole world already knows, so unfortunately, that was not as expected. But one of our friends from Europe, Dr. Timi Acimovic from Slovenia, said very nicely: "Around the world we are talking about climate change; that's not important. It was just raining." He said, "You see the climate change? Now it's raining, so changes are there in the whole." In the whole universe, there is constantly a change. Similarly, in our body, there is a change—a constant change in our body, a constant change in our mind and thoughts, a constant change in our everyday life. Therefore, changes are there. Now, it depends on how you see the change. If changes are temporary and in your favor, then you are happy. If the changes are temporary and not in your favor, you are unhappy. So it is said, "Mano mātra jagata"—how your mind is projecting, like that the world appears in front of you. Wise are they who accept their ignorance. They are the wise ones who know that they don't know. Wise are they who search the solution within themselves. Ego is a form of ignorance also, and ego is so big, the ignorance is so big, that it does not accept. But there is no question of accepting or not accepting; it will change. You didn't think that it would change; that was your ignorance. Anything you begin will not remain in that form, and it can't be like that. It can be very boring; it can be very hard. Therefore, accept the changes in any form—physical, emotional, mental, intellectual, social, family relations—many, many things. The wise are they who just observe the changes. The change is like the flowing of water in a river. You are sitting at the bank of the river, and different articles are flowing in that river, and you are just observing. Some flowers are flowing, the tree leaves are flowing, a piece of paper is flowing, and so on. You are not crying, "Oh God, why are you changing this? Why are you changing this?" So life is a river which is constantly flowing. It is said, water is good when it is flowing. If water remains, it will become dirty or smelly. That water will be spoiled. Therefore, it is good that water is flowing. "Pada gandela hoi, sadho to ramta bhala, dagan lage koi." And also, the sands are good that they are traveling. They should not stay in one place. So, our life is also that river, and this river has two banks. And the banks have the curves. Water doesn't have the curves. So these curves are the curves of our destinations. The time comes, and suddenly you change. So it is said, the river has a curve, not the water. One bank of the river is called happiness, and the other bank of the river is called unhappiness. Our life is passing through these two banks: happiness and unhappiness. That water cannot change. The water's nature is just to flow through. If there are rocks, or mud, or thorny bushes, it doesn't matter, clean or dirty, water just flows through. And therefore, many changes we observed in the last four months. And many changes are waiting, and you will change also. You have changed a lot, but in a better way. And someone had not a good change, but that is only temporary. You will be happy for that, that it is changed. Therefore, it is said, samaya, the time. Time is most precious. And time is also flowing like a river. What we call the clock doesn't stop. Constantly, the clock is moving. So the clock of our life is constantly moving. Time is precious. Time is very, very valuable. And time will not wait for you. Therefore, Gurujī said in one of his bhajans that this life is like a diamond. Don't waste time realizing that it is a diamond. Otherwise, this time will not be given to you again and again. Lucky are they who can be in satsaṅg. Lucky are they who can practice every day. That time will be counted for you as a human in which you meditate and repeat the name of Gurudev, your mantra. Otherwise, gossiping, blackmailing, backbiting, criticizing—everyone is doing it. And also, the animals are also passing the time. If humans are only doing this, then humans are making a big sin. You are not respecting the time. You are emulating the time, and that is a sin. Therefore, the wise man, the wise one, constantly remembers the Lord and constantly feels the presence in the heart. Once a devotee asked the question to Gurujī: "Gurujī, so much I'm meditating, so many times I'm repeating my mantra, and I read holy books. How is it possible that problems come to me? How?" Does the problem come to me? Gurujī said, "You know, the problem is waiting, looking for a chance, and that minute when your attention, your feeling, your love goes to some other things, then your heart is empty, and when your heart is..." Empty means in this minute you don't remember God, you don't repeat your mantra, you don't want to have devotion to your Gurudev. Then, in that empty heart, asuras run in, devils run in. There is a temple, and when you build a temple, then within a certain time you must put the statue of God, the altar of the God. If you don't do it, then Asuras will enter in. Therefore, your heart was empty, and these troubles were waiting and waiting for the opportunity, the chance to enter in. Then it's very hard to get rid of them, you know. There happens here and there sometimes what you call the terrorist, the occupied building. They enter in the building, and we don't know now what to do because that is a school. Many kids are inside. Once it was in one church, I think, or in one hall somewhere, in a conference hall. Now, if you explode that building, others also will die, so it's very hard now, how to... trace them out. That is the situation when you don't remember God; then your heart is empty, your mind is empty. Then some negative desires come and begin to enter your mind. Therefore, it is said, constantly... In your mouth, you should have the name of God, Rāma, and in your hands, you should have work. Work. So work, but constantly repeat your mantra. Well, for spirituality, there is no kind of protection. I mean, through money or political protection, you cannot develop spirituality. Spirituality, which you have to gain, is something only you can do. Therefore, do not neglect your time. That time which you neglect is the sin. That time which you neglect is the time gone to the devils. That time which you neglect is time which is involved in the problems. Suddenly, a negative thought comes. Suddenly, anger comes. Suddenly, doubts come. Why? Because it was empty, and when the house is empty and the door is open, then dogs and cats will run in and out. Mice and bats will run in and out. Everything. Therefore, this heart of a human is designed to be the residence of the Supreme. It is the temple of the Supreme. And Supreme is there when you look after Him. When you serve him, so sādhanā, practice. Many, many, many people deny their practice, but still they want to be spiritual. I don't know how they maintain that they are spiritual. Therefore, practice, practice. Without practicing, you cannot do anything. So change takes place. Everything will change. Everyone will change. Every relation will change. Suddenly you will die. It is change. It's the change of your being. Now we are sitting in this body, but we don't know who will be the first one changing. We can't stop this change. Therefore, prem hī jīvan hai, love is the life. That love which makes all happy. Every creature is searching for that prem. That Prem which unites, that Prem which gives us understanding, that Prem which gives us a feeling of happiness, a protection. Another kind of Prem is only disappointment. So with such a Prem which gives disappointment, don't make any appointment with such a Prem, with such a love. If you make any appointment, then there will be disappointment. And for that disappointment, which will cause a wound in you, there will be no ointment. Now, for the appointment, which gives you disappointment, for there is no ointment to heal your inner wound. That's it. Therefore, lead life in ānanda. Feel the presence of Gurudeva. That is the most beautiful thing, and suddenly, when you are absent, anything can happen. Anything can happen. There was a man, and he had a short life, and so what happened? Death came. Death came to take him, and he ran to one hut. In that hut was sitting one saint. Now it is said that Yama, the king of death, cannot come there where the saint is. Saint doesn't die. Saint just passes away. When someone dies, we say someone is dead. A good person who has good karma, then we say he went to Svarga, Vaikuṇṭha, or heaven. And when a saint passes away, we don't say that he went to the heaven, and we don't say that he or she went to the mokṣa. Mokṣa is a lower level. Therefore, Lalanājī Marā said, "Nai me māṅgu mukti ke sādhana, mukti dāsī guru-charanā. Prabhu, mukti dāsī guru-charanā. Kī rājā de na guru-charanokī, rājā de na prayāra charanokī. Charnakī, padakamalakī, prabhu charnakī, padakamalakī, rājā de na puruṣamaya, charnakī, o rājā de na dayā." O Gurudev, I am not asking you to bless me with mokṣa or mukti, because mukti or mokṣa is the servant of Gurudev's holy feet. So I ask the dust of those feet, and that is beyond mokṣa. So when the holy saint passes away, then we call it brahmalīna, became one with the Brahman. He or she became itself Brahman. It is Brahman. You are Brahman. The mahāvākya "ahaṁ brahmāsmi" said, "I am the Brahman." So that becomes the Brahman. And that chance is only when we have the human life, and this life is given to change the direction from death and birth to Brahman, through the help of Gurudev. There is no other way. You can do a thousand things, okay? Do it, it's good, but... finally, the key is in the hand of Gurudev. Finally, the door will be opened through his mercy, and for that, we are ready to give anything. Even we can give life. Therefore, Gurujī said, "My life is surrendered to thy holy lotus feet," one great... Saint Kabīr Dājī said, "This house is a house of love, not a theater. You have to offer your head on the door to enter into the house." A person who is very afraid, who is not a hero, what you would call the coward, has a doubt. A coward cannot give. The path of love is different. Only the heroes can give the head. What a surrender of them. Those heroes, what their surrender without any hesitation. This is from Kabīr Dājī Mahārāj, a beautiful song. So changes are there, many changes every day, you... witness the change every day when you go and look in the mirror, you have one gray hair more. But you don't want to see the gray hair. So you put the color, and the next day you look like this. Here is change. So, those who are coloring their hair, the third day is very visible. And after one week, it looks so ugly. It's not a reality. It is said to get the white hair, the gray hair, is not easy. It's not everyone's job. The kids, you have to wait very long. You are on a waiting list. How many experiences have you had, pleasant and unpleasant? How long did you walk till you came to this highest level, the best part of life, the gray hair, beautiful? And when you make some terrible mistake, then we say, "Take dust." And put in your gray hair, it means, "What a shame, where is your wisdom?" Though you got the gray hair, but still you have no wisdom. Therefore, it's not easy. And don't hide yourself, that's it. This is also one of the causes of the environment problems. So many chemicals ladies are using for the hair to be black or white, and yet at home, they are putting three, four baskets: this is for recycling, and this is for plastic, and this is for bottles, and this is for my shampoo bottles. So your head is the cause of it. A lot of pollution, it is not a joke, it's reality. Many, many things we use on our body are not appreciable. So it is said, when you are completely white-haired, there is a light radius from you, light is coming, and God gives. Everyone equally gets white hair, you know. Automatically, everyone will get white hair, so don't hide yourself. It's called nākāra. Nākāra means not real. So observe your change. Every second is past, is lost of our life. Past time will not come, or you can't catch the past time even if you fly with the fastest aeroplane or the quickest aeroplane. So, utilize your time. Practice, practice... And every time I'm telling this, after the satsaṅg you go in the other room and make jokes and laugh, and hardly anyone keeps the mauna, hardly, hardly. And you will see now, after this satsaṅg, what will happen: in the front rooms, talking, joking, laughing, and the heart is empty. And while, though joking, something enters in the empty heart and causes you the disappointment. Then you search for the ointment. That ointment is only one. It is it. Again, the eyes of your heart will open again. The lotus of the heart will open the eyes. Anjan means ointment. That every day, if one will put again the ointment of the name of God, meaning your mantra. Otherwise, many things can happen. Therefore, change is there. Change is in life constantly. So, I'm very happy to see you today. I wish you all the best, and we will be together this weekend. We'll have more programs and satsaṅg. So now, change yourself again. Change to the better way. Change. Change to the devotion. Change to practice again, more develop the confidence and feel be protected. There is a protection upon you, there is divine protection. We should always be under the umbrella of Mahāprabhujī, then everything will happen in the best way, Śrī Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Devīśvara Mahādeva. So there is one bhajan. Gurujī's beautiful bhajan wrote, "Dasaandhisa Seri Dīpa Dayālu." Every ten direction of the heaven is Mā Prabhujī, every direction. Daśāndhiśa. There are ten directions, and in every ten directions is Maa Prabhujī. "Jā dekho, jā āp hī āp ho, nitya cetan nirākārī." Wherever I look, you are everywhere, O Maa Prabhujī. Nitya means everlasting. Nirākārī means without form. Cetanā means the conscious, the light. "Dasam disā śrī dīp dayālu jahan dekhun vahin ajab ujalā. Daśam diśā śrī dīp dayālā jahān." In every ten directions, Merciful Mahāprabhujī, it doesn't matter in which direction I look, there is bright light. Indescribable light. This should be the consciousness of the disciple towards the master. Otherwise, you cannot see this. You cannot see this. Give up your intellect and all your doubts. Put in different garbage: this is recyclable, and this is not recyclable, and this. Everything comes up out of this all. Then you will see. So Gurujī said, "In every direction is Mahāprabhujī." And it doesn't matter in which direction I see, there's indescribable light. Ajab ujalā. "Desandisha Prabhudeep Dayala. Jahan dekhun vahan ajab ujala. Jahan dekhun vahan ajab ujala. Desandisha Prabhudeep Dayala. Desandisha Prabhudeep antar, bahar, pragat, jahir," inside, outside, everywhere he presents that light. "Sab ghaṭ vyāpak jyoti ujalā," in every heart dwelling that light which is undiscoverable. I don't see my Gurudev only in me, but in everyone. That is the divine consciousness. Don't you see your Gurudev in everyone? No, I don't like him. I don't like her. This person is not good. Oh God! I again seek him. This is our everlasting problem. This is our sustainable problem. Then you cannot see Mahāprabhujī in everyone. And if you see Mahāprabhujī in everyone, you can't be angry. You will adore it. If we get a shirt of Mahāprabhujī, how we will adore that shirt? In the last years of Gurujī, when he saw some elderly people who had seen Mahāprabhujī, Holy Gurujī said, "I adore these eyes, which looked to my Lord." These eyes are witnesses of my Lord, and He is living in these eyes. That's a devotion to the Gurudev. Can you imagine those who have seen Kṛṣṇa? Or those who saw Rāma? Or Jesus? Or any such great soul? Where are they? Gone. But at present, we can see. Still, there are some who saw Mahāprabhujī. And who saw Devapurījī? And who saw Gurujī? Those eyes which saw the Gurudev. It is forever. His temple is in those eyes. Therefore, it is Mahāprabhujī himself who said it. I long for my Guru, brothers and sisters of Mother, satsaṅg. Not only do I long for that, my eyes are full of tears. In Khattu ashram, mostly Maa Prabhujī was living in this ashram, which is in the village, which we developed, and exactly where Mahāprabhujī's bed was, there I made a small temple before entering the Śiva temple, you know. And where Devpurījī used to sit, another temple, there are two. And it changed the ashram rapidly, constructed in one and a half years or one year. And when Gurujī came there, you can't imagine how happy he was; his tears were falling. And he said to me, "Maes, I have no words through which I can thank you or bless you." The happiest day of my life was when you made this ashram again. And he said several times, only this banyan tree is the witness of who Mahāprabhujī was. Ask this banyan tree. That was Gurujī's entire being. And Gurujī said, "This is the banyan tree which was my building, my roof, my multi-star hotel." And Guruji said, "This was the area where Mahāprabhujī used to walk, his very gentle lotus feet." That is this. This is devotion. It is that devotion which brought him there. And how is our devotion? With a question mark. So wherever I see, I see only you, my Lord. Meena Bai said, "Where I look, there is Krishna." And her husband said, "But I don't see even one." Of course, you cannot see. You do not have those eyes. You have not opened your heart. So many gopīs, so many Kṛṣṇas were dancing. Not only one thousand, what was that? That was that devotion, that was that love, not that body. And that you can see with the bhaktas. If bhaktas have these feelings, otherwise you are angry. You invite the anger because the heart is empty. You didn't practice, you don't practice, you don't pray. Don't do your kriya, you don't do your mantra. The blind one can see nothing. "Gyānī janā ko hame sādhar se, jo hove Satguru kā bala, dasandhisa serī dī padayala..." Those who are the wise ones, jñānī, those who are the wise ones, they see every day, Mahāprabhujī, always, every day. If they are the disciple or the child of the Satguru Deva, all disciples are like children. If you are blessed, initiated by Satguru Deva, it doesn't matter which Satguru, but it should be a Satguru. Not only just a self-made guru. Many people say, "Now I know āsanas, I know yoga, I don't need Swāmījī, I am myself." Of course you are yourself, blind one. That's all. Surrender. Though Gurujī had such a high level of consciousness, until the last breath, he was completely surrendered to Mahāprabhujī. Completely. As high you go, that much you surrender. When the tree gets the fruits, then the branches are surrendered. That fruit is available to everyone easily. If the branches go like this, we cannot pluck the fruits. As wise you are, surrender. But it is ego that doesn't let you surrender. There's a knife here, so you can't do like this. The knife of the ego. "Andha dil jāra ganda, uska jīvana hai jagat janjala. Uska jīvana hai jagat janjala. Daśa diśā serī dīpadāyala. Daśa diśā serī dīpadāyala." Those who are the ignorant ones, those who have ignorance, the foolish ones, they are blind, and in their heart is impurity, stinky, impure. Because of ignorance, darkness, blindness, that's all. Not blind of these physical eyes, the blindness of the heart, without devotion. His or her life is only janjala, parpanj, complications in this saṃsāra. If your heart is not open, then your life is a problem in this world, and the world is your problem, and you are a problem. That's it. Janjal. Jal means net. That fish is caught in the net, janjal. That jan is the human. The human is caught in this net of complication: gossiping, talking nonsense, stupid anger, jealousy, hate, greed. But not that. It becomes the victim of the troubles, victim of the pain, victim of accident, victim of many, many things: disappointment, disappointment. No ointment. Who is the fortunate one who got the darśana of the Satguru Dev or became a disciple of the Satguru? Satguru, pūraṇa Satguru payā. That Satguru who has achieved the pūraṇa. "Satya svarūp me rahe matwala." That one is ever happy in his divine form. Nothing can touch you. Near the sun, nothing can come. Either it will melt, it will burn, or it will dissolve. So, when you are in your ātmā jñāna, in your satya svarūpa, nothing can touch you. So remember, how many people did you make unhappy? This tongue, how many bad things have you spoken? How many nonsense things you spoke with this tongue? How many words, like a poison, you spoke with this tongue? Like a knife, this tongue. God said, "I made a mistake to give you this tongue." I was recently in one satsaṅg, exactly now one week. It was a big, beautiful ashram of Kabīr Dājī Mahārāj. And many, many people were there, about 10,000 to 20,000 people. And for the last three years, they have been asking, "Please come, please come to this occasion." So, I flew from Wellington to Sydney to Singapore to Delhi to Jodhpur, constantly flying. Then Khattu, and then by car, and then I went there up. And there were also heads of certain movements, spiritual paths. So, one of the Swāmīs who was giving a lecture before me, and people were talking, they didn't stop. So he said, during satsaṅg, those who sleep, in the next life they will be that big cobra, weapon, big snake. You know that big, long, different colors? What do we call them? Not a viper, very long and so thick. In the circus, they are showing. Viper, only eating and sleeping. And I was looking at him, you know. And those who are talking in the satsaṅg and not listening, they will become a bottom-up frog. Next slide. And can you imagine? All was silent. So these are the research works of the saints. So, those who are talking nonsense, negatively, will become such a creature. Therefore, be careful. This tongue needs, like a horse has this, what you call the chugal. This tongue is very problematic. And this tongue is so spoiled. All our eating problems are because of, see, "I like this, I don't like this, I want to eat this, I won't like this." After the eating comes, the vocal cord is gone. Hurry home. No taste. That's a problem of the stomach. Tongue. One sense said, in this body there are ten senses, but there are two senses which you can't trust. The tongue, the taste, and the gender can cheat you at any time, so always observe that, like a mother observing a small child, what it is doing. Therefore, this tongue, how many problems did you cause to someone, and that will come back to you. You may not have been aware, or maybe you were full of emotion, anger, hate, jealousy. If you drink poison consciously or unconsciously, you will die. Though you drink unconsciously without knowing, the poison will show its effect. Therefore, it's... very important, therefore, those who got this, a true master, they are always happy in their Divine Self. Maa Prabhuji said very nicely, "Devānā Satguru Nāmakā Mastānā, He Bepar Vākī Satguru Bepar, Rām Dharani Jundī Jaisā." "Shrī Deep Dayālā, Nūr Nirālā, Sab Mein Chetan Rehne Vālā." Merciful Maa Prabhu Deep, whose Noor is divine light, the rays, the aura, which is very Nirala, indescribable. Sab mein chetan rehne wala, and in everyone, and especially in the bhaktas, ever his chaitanya, he is observing you, taking care of you, and holy Gurujī said, "I became so happy in myself and drank." Full of the bowl of the nectar of His divine name.