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Does God have a destiny? Yes, sometimes He has to play that it is His destiny. This cosmic light descending on us must have something that we call great souls. There was a situation about the life of Jesus. Whether people believe it or not, we do, or I do. Jesus had to go through many different situations, as we all know. Was it his destiny, or was he given a task? Even he had to show that this could happen. But he was in a physical body, and definitely, it was not easy. Yet he, as such a great divine cosmic life, could endure it. The same body has come with a little injection. You know, we are not afraid, but still, at that time, your heart immediately races high. So when someone has a heart trace, also the heartbeat, that comes with a doctor with a big injection, you will see immediately the heart is a muscle. Is it exercising similarly? There was one great incarnation, an Islamic Sufi, his name was Manṣūr. He was self-realized, divine, cosmic, and he began to preach that, "I am Ātmā, I am divine," meaning... you, he, she, everyone. Brahmā is God, not a soul. That we call Ahaṁ Brahmāsmi—I am Brahma—or So’haṁ. I am Ātmā, I am that Ātmā. And in that Anul Ḥaq, according to Islam. So here they asked him not to do it, but he said that this is reality, that’s God, Anul Ḥaq, and that’s in me and in you too. They gave him a lot of troubles, they were torturing him, but he didn’t give up. Wherever he was, there was sound; resonance was on him. Then they crucified him. They hanged him with thorns and nails, still sound. Though his body died, it was constantly there. And they buried him, but from his grave, this resonance. They thought, that’s not... In Islam, they do not burn the dead body. They exceptionally burned his body. He was completely burned. As he came again, sound was coming analog. Then they surrendered. When they surrendered, so the very big, big stories about him, very greatness. But though he was such a great hand, was this destiny of him, or to show us? That even cost your life, this may be. There was a situation: Jesus said, "Why, Father, I?" And He said, "Because I trust you." And so this is a question between master and disciple dialogue. How far do you say, "I trust you"? Where is the limitation? Of your trust, if there is a limitation of the trust, it is no trust. It means one day, then you cannot separate. And some people thought that devotees may come or devotees may go, but my Lord, I will be thine, because I’m not the devotee who will come and who will go away and disappear and come. I trust I am yours, and that I am yours forever. I may go far, farther than the stars. Still, my Lord, it means not only this physical body, even after death, my Ātmā is melted in your Ātmā. Even if I die, you may not see me alive. Even if I die, look into my eyes, my Lord. When there is such a trust, such a love, such a devotion, such a unity, then you cannot separate it all from the ocean. The drop is gone. That happens when the master, disciple, god and bhakta, or couples... There is no question of divorce or this and that. It is like both sides, you must have devotion. Devotion means respect. The husband must have an endless devotion to his wife, and the wife must have endless devotion to her husband. Means respect, love, and when that is gone, then... If God Rāma, vision of, see his stepbrother Lakṣmaṇa when there was a battlefield in Śrī Laṅkā, they sought. He became him, and so they got the doctor. At that time, it was known that, as soon as the sun would rise, he would die. So Rāma and Hanumanjī were in a great deal. Is there any way, anything that we can do to save the life of Lakṣmaṇa in the entire universe? Is there anything? The Vedas said, "Yes, there is one, and that is called Sanjīvanī Bhūti." You know Āyurveda, many of you know. So Bhūti, that is called Jaḍī Bhūti. Jaḍī means the roots. Bhūti means the herbs. It is small, and that means it gives one seeds and dies. For example, the wheat, it grows, it gives, and then so this is called booty. Also, that booty which you take it, that kind of booty, another there too. One, you can take all the branches, but the roots will again grow. There are some; the roots will also not grow. Vedāyas should know which route he should take and which he should not take. And what do we do? We take everything out, reward and others. In reality, in Āyurveda, a Vaidya person came. Then he said he would go into the forest, find that herb, and pray to nature. For this person, may I take some of your leaves. Ask for it, the nature. And then he will bring and prepare. Prepare. Vedāyas will never ask for any money. On the day when the Vedāyas, it is said, when the Vedāyas will ask for the money, he will lose his power. He may have intellectual knowledge, but not anymore that effect on the person. Similarly, if a guru asks devoted disciples, "I give you blessings and this and that, and you give me money," that is not Allah. Yes, you can give your donation, that is your problem, or that is your decision, but a master should not charge anything from a disciple, because the master is a father and the disciple is a child. Father cannot charge from the child, "I gave you ice cream, now you have to give me the money." These are the ethical principles of the divine teachings, and that, unfortunately, we have lost. Is the big tree, the leaves fall, but the tree doesn’t die. It remains and gives fruit again. So we can use some part, bark of the tree, some leaves, plagues are allowed to chip off the trees or destroy it. So in Āyurveda, there is also a very strict principle, so that when they are said, there is a booty called Sanjīvanī Buddha. Now, Sanjīvanī, what does Sanjīvanī mean? Sanjīvanī means that if there is a dead body and you give the Sanjīvanī herb’s drop in the mouth, it will come alive again. If you put that one drop of that juice of that Sanjīvanī putty on the dry piece of wood, maybe it is a 20-year dry piece of wood, put it, it will begin to again become green. That is Sanjīvanī. Where is that? So there are two kinds of Sañjīvanī. One is the blessings from your mother, from your father, from your grandfather, from your great-grandfather. As an older person, that is how powerful the blessing is. So we call even the blessing of the enemy is also very good. If your enemy said, "Okay, I bless you." Blessing. Where is that Sanjīvanī Pūṭī? So he said, it’s in the Himalayas. Some particular hills there are. Where is Sri Lanka? And where is the Himalayas? How many thousand kilometers? Before sunrise, you must be here; otherwise, you can’t help. Hanumanjī said, "No, bring it." So Hanumanjī had a siddhi to fly, evening satsaṅg. Before taking off, again Hanumanjī stopped. The Veda asked, "How does Sanjīvanī Bhūti look?" So he said, "That’s a very good question." On that particular hill of the Himalaya, there are small plants; in the night, they are sparkling, shining, like what we call these flies. Okay, no problem. But that time, you know, even that time there was both positive and negative energies, Rākṣasas and Devas, and both of them had their secret service. And they all had a telepathic, high telepathic technology at that time. We don’t have any more; we have only telephones. And telephones are only functioning when there is a danger. So the Rākṣasas, Rāvaṇa’s secret service, they informed that there in the Himalayas some Rākṣasas turned the whole hill into the singing plants. Then Hanumanjī came, he was surprised. All different kinds of plants. So it is said Hanumānjī took the whole hill. He was coming back to the birthplace of God Rāma, and there were also some people sitting and said, "Rāma’s enemies are going with a big, mounted..." so they sought him with an arrow. Hanumānjī came... this is a long story, I will not, but I’m talking about destiny. Hanumānjī came down for a while on the earth, and coming down he said, "Śrī Rām." Jai Ram. He’s a devotee of our Lord Bharat, the brother of God Rāma. He came and he excused himself, "I made a great mistake. Please rest, and we will give you some remedy." Hanumanjī said, "O my dear brother Bhārata, before fulfilling duty to my Lord, I cannot rest." And so, I am also always feeling that before fulfilling my wish to bring Gurudev’s light into the world, I cannot rest. That’s why I’m traveling, I’m traveling. So that was a half an hour conversation; half an hour was lost. So Rāma, God Rāma, incarnation of Viṣṇu, he is looking to the moon, going to the moon. Rāma said, "Śaśī" means the moon. Now the moon is going down, which means morning is coming. And time is going away. Time is passing. Who said God Rāma? Now Lakṣmaṇa, the prāṇa is going out; he is going to die. Hanumān, when are you coming? Na jāne kis janam ke mere karma phalā rahe. This one, God is saying, "Who knows from my wish life, past lives, karma is now active?" Even any holy saint in the world or God incarnation. Look at the Holy Saint Assisi, France, from Assisi, you know that, yeah? How hard life he had? People were throwing stones at him today in the church. Look, the Holy Mother Maria, had she such an easy life? So destiny, my dear, even they are affected by destiny. Who are we? In India we say, from which field are you, the carrot, or from which field, you know? So we are humans, still with limited knowledge, limited experiences, limited faith. We have no strength to face our destiny. We can’t change, but it is said again, because there are yugas: Satyayuga, Dvāparayuga, Tretāyuga. At that time, people had a life, it is said, in Satyayuga they were living thousands of years. Now it’s Kali Yuga, and we have very little time, and we have a 99.8% possibility to go to Kūṣāṇgas, to destruction. Only this 2% is that we have a satsaṅg. A friend should be a friend. And so in the Rāmāyaṇa, Tulasīdāsa said, "Kali yuga keval nāma." In this Kali yuga, oh humans, for us is only one source, shelter, or one thing to hold, and that is just kīrtan, bhajan. Śumira, śumira, nara hoi bhāva. Śumira means repeat your mantra, repeat. They are not telling you, "Repeat this mantra, you are free," and all gods, even forms, are different. And if all will realize this, what we call interfaith, it is very hard to enter into the faith. That’s why there are different faiths. They say my faith, your faith, their faith, but God didn’t say the perfect faith, the super faith, the little faith. God didn’t say, we say. Faith means one without second, pure, crystal clear, with no spots inside. Your faith, then you are and God are one. And if still not, then we are a piece of metal. This piece of metal, if we throw it in the water, what will happen? It will sink into the water. But the same piece of metal, we will tie to a piece of wood and throw in the water. What will happen? It will float. So God is that wood. We are this metal. We are iron. But still, if we hold on to God’s name, surely, my dear, we will cross the ocean sooner or later. Soar of happiness and so destiny, and destiny is a production of deeds. And many deeds we do out of ignorance, out of fear, out of anxiety, out of greed, and so on. The human life is not an easy life; it is a big struggling, though it is called the human is a... very great and great creature, but as great we are, that many problems we have. Kīrtan. Kīrtan means repetition of God’s name again and again. Sriman. Okay? Sriman. The resonance. Which awakens in your body, the sound, the seat of the sound is in the Maṇipūra Cakra. Para, Paśyantī, and Bekarī. Para, the seat of the sound, is in Hṛdaya. Someone told me that the navel, they believe this rock is the source of the energy called the heart. We call it "proud" with this to receive money, but the men, but the men, so sound awakes from here and it comes to awake, manifesting here the vocal cords. This is. Viśuddhi cakra, viṣa śuddhi, which means the poison and śuddhi means purification. Yeah, so Hanumānjī came, I didn’t finish the story. Hanumānjī came at the right time, and Vaidya was waiting there. Vedya made the juice out of this herb, which is very energetic. Again, you have the Viśuddhi Chakra. Why do we call it vish? Psychologically, how much or how many things do we swallow down every day, not liquid and food, but the circumstances of life? How many times do we swallow down? All situations, everything, even the school situation, examinations, driving, driving license, walking on the road, traffic light, neighbors, these, that, all situations. So, Viśuddhi Chakra is that which, when you meditate and sing bhajans and kīrtans, then what you swallow down awakens with those vibrations and comes to the Viśuddhi Chakra, and it is neutralized. You put positive words. If you do the negative, then it will activate more negative energy. If you bring from the navel the positive word, positive sentence, then it will purify all the negative energy and create in the body a beautiful, harmonious energy. Then the tongue and lips here, they formulate the sound there. Paśyantī, Paśyantī, Vaikharī. And these are the three levels of the words. And that people who have a problem talking, sometimes they are talking, how do you call it? Stuttering? Stuttering? Yeah. It is like that. Okay? If you concentrate on the Maṇipūra Chakra and do āsanas and chalana āsanas from the Yoga and Deadline book, there are four exercises for that. Within three months, it will repair you, and it is very, very good for the children who have this problem, if someone has to give the yoga. So it is a reparation of the Maṇipūra Chakra here. Of course, that is also connected with some brain centers, but brain centers are also connected. If this does not send the energy to the brain, the brain will be starving, hungry, thirsty. The heart says to the brain, "Have a good connection to me. If you are only intellectual, blah, blah,... and you are not taking care of me, I will not supply the blood for nourishment and oxygen, you know? I will stop my pump." And when you stop the pump, then it’s Hari Om. So, you know how they are? So, at times, you feel the sound comes here. Oh, it’s colored in the heart chakra and filtered in the Maṇipūra chakra, and then it touches your Sahasrāra chakra here. From the Sahasrāra chakra, the tenth door, Brahmananda, the sound divides in two ways. One goes in... The space that means we have to pay the text to the space, so we have to send the sound. The rest goes through the nāḍī suṣumṇā, and this iḍā nāḍī goes directly to the anāhat. And from anahad means endless. Anahad ānand, the ānandaka. And that’s why when you sing the kīrtan, no one can sing kīrtan like this. The body moves, begins to move, no? It moves entirely. So now, please, with closed eyes or open eyes, it is your choice. Sing, okay? In the name of God, in many other languages, there are also many songs. The same effect must not be, but the music doesn’t need translation. Now, bhajan. Bhajan is longer than the kīrtan. Kīrtan is the name of the God repeated again and again. But this awakens in the body a beautiful vibration. Each and every cell in the body is recharging positive energy, divine energy, whether you believe it or not. This glass body is feeling regenerated. In this glass, it is so. Believe or not believe does not change. That reality: poison has poison’s effect, and nectar has nectar’s effect. So how is the God? Which God? Which holy saint? It doesn’t matter. Their holy name, their memory, thinking on that one, it automatically recharges a beautiful energy light in our body. Kirtan, bhakti, and therefore Guruji is singing one bhajan to Mahāprabhujī, a very good, beautiful bhajan. God bless me with that devotion which in many, many lives I may have to be born, but that I don’t lose that devotion, that love, that faith. So they are great souls; they are made souls. Bhajan is also like, same like a kirtan. In bhajan, there are two things more: the questions and answers. In bhajan is a teaching. In bhajan is a more explanation. And in the kīrtan, just be the name of God and let it go. So both have the same effect. Is it divine? Is it spiritual? The bhajan removes our doubts. Bhajan gives the clarity, and there is a teaching. So now, in this Kali Yuga, through bhajan, it means kīrtan, bhajans, devotion, prayers, they are all one. Repeating mantras, these are all one. And that’s why Guru Nānak Jī said, "Till now your life is gone without God’s name, oh my dear, oh my mind. At least now begin to meditate and sing to God." So going to satsaṅg is also like a kīrtan, singing bhajans, listening to bhajans. And nowadays we have one thing more through this modern technology: you can put Cassettes or CDs in your car when you are driving, nice bhajans, but please don’t sing bhajans while driving like this. Then your car will go like this. Then, red light will come and say, "Please, sir, your driving license." And blow blue. Do you have in Australia also? Blow blue? Yeah. You have to blow and sing, closing your eyes. So we have to use our vivekā. Better to have some spiritual bhajans, spiritual kīrtans, spiritual speech that gives motivation and gives happiness, and at that time we are away from worldly sorrow. So bhajan, kīrtan, satsaṅg, mantra, repeating or listening to some spiritual talks, it has a positive effect on our body, mind, and soul, and that will influence our destiny. How? Because destiny cannot change. Jasraj is sitting here. Okay? You see him? He supports. He is some government officer, a big officer. And you have some urgent plan at your house to pass. And you bring this, your application, to him. And every application, which was the first, he put it. Certain applications, they put it on the top. Application with some different paper also, signed with the fish. That is probably a small fish. So, what Gurudev is doing, he prays the destiny of the devotees, he will put it very deep in other papers of destinies. Before this number comes, you are already in enlightenment, okay? You are in enlightenment, then all your destiny is deleted, because you are not anymore here. That’s it, O Lord, try to postpone my destiny, and let a good one come, and if there is no good, then let me be with you, that’s all. Sing bhajan, have devotion. So this is how Gurudev can try, through his teaching, through his Guru Tattva, through his wisdom—not the body of the Guru, light—tries to postpone or put things a little differently. Gurudev will tell you, don’t go just now, wait five minutes, and then after five minutes you go. What you saw five minutes before, the deadly accident happened. Many times, I don’t know anything, but I just say, because Mahāprabhujī may speak. I tell people, "Sit down and have a cup of tea, go after. Say, ’I’m very busy, I’m busy.’" There was a big accident. It was very miraculous. He would have come, maybe he would. Of course, terrible things happen. It doesn’t matter who died. So this is, that’s why it is said, "mantra mūlam guru vākyam." The root of the mantra, the essence of the mantra, the power of the mantra is to follow the Guru Vākya, the words of the master. And the words of the master are not physical; they are wisdom. The Guru Vakya is not a physical thing, it is a wisdom which is given to you. If you miss the Guru Vākya, if you ignore the Guru Vākya, then you have to face the destiny. You think, maybe today you are happy, for one month you are happy, a few years you are happy, but finally it will come back. So Guru Vakya means follow all these holy scriptures, what is written: Bible, Quran, Ramayana, Gita, Bhagavad Gita, Upanishad, Vedas, Līlā Amṛtam Prabhujī, Guru Granth Sahib. All these holy books give a good guideline to our life. And that is how your spirituality, you can develop it. I am here only to tell you, but you have to follow and do. So that’s what a bhajan, and kīrtan, and mantra, and satsaṅg are. In Kali Yuga, only, and only, and only, satsaṅg can be with only two persons; it must not be a crowd. Or satsaṅg can be only with yourself. Sit down and meditate, and send your love and your blessings from the heart. You have blessings too. You can bless the whole world with good thoughts. As Jesus said on the cross, "Lord, forgive them. They don’t know." So, the person who wants to harm you and does this, it is his or her ignorance, emotion, anger. These are devilish energies that occupied that person. But in Ātmā, that person is lying. So, Kṣamā means to forgive and love. The great one can love you and forgive. The small one will make a big theater. Gurujī said, Mahāprabhujī said that small knowledge makes more noise. Look, if the big, nice car will pass this street, many we don’t hear. But the small machine, cutting wood, how noisy it is, no? Disturb the camera and everyone. So, a small, little-minded person who has only heard a little bit of knowledge can disturb all. So half-knowledge is more dangerous than no knowledge. So you can make satsaṅg yourself. At home, sit down, then think positively. There are many ways to do it. This is an instrument for many to relax, you know. It’s relaxing, so life should be joyful. So that’s what destiny and kīrtan and bhajan and satsaṅg are. Question, question, but yes, please. Yes, create something, because children’s minds, the brain, is developing. And it has more capacities; it has more space than the input. What we can give them is to... So that old family tradition, culture in the whole world, after the work and reason that parents come at home, all children are at home, they prepare a nice meal, they eat a nice meal, they sing some nice songs, and like this, a family meeting, family satsaṅg, sitting together, That can give them. Your children need your love, not your toys. And your children need your wisdom. So, don’t give the children, okay, take money and go to the cinema, you know. It’s not like that. And, of course, have a nice, good... they should also have a kind of game: swimming, running, football playing, certain games that are good for them. That’s the input for them that they are. You should not force them; sit down and read only this book. Sit down and meditate, then they will say no. Many other child psychologists or child experts. Have you any suggestions? Do you have any answers on this question? Stories, yes. Before going to sleep, they want to have a story. The case is also. Sister, Soni Bhai. Okay, I will tell you. But I said, "Don’t tell me little stories." She said, "Very long." And then I was... And she said, "Close your eyes and imagine you have bees." And now one bird is coming and taking one rice and feeding babies, and again coming and feeding, and then? And then? I said, "Then there is nothing there." First have... So count how many times coming, how many babies feeding, you imagine and come and take care. Every sister, every brother, grandmother, mother, these stories we remember forever. That’s why the best teaching is a story, a poem, and a game. If you have problems with your examination in school, college, or university, whichever subject you have, then you put out this subject in the form of a story. So you have something, I don’t know which subject, about a story or something, which was all in this chapter. So you put that mister’s name as potato, it was feta cheese, that was olive. Carrot was not soft enough for potatoes, but potatoes were good with, say, Fentanyl. You know, but who is this name? And then suddenly it becomes a story, and they ask you a question: who was where, with whom, good? You know, automatically like that. There are so many, many stories. Mr. Vitamin C and Mr. Vitamin A, and that’s life. So stories and singing and poetry, this is the best way. That’s why we have the mudrās in dancing. Mudras are indications. Question? Posture doesn’t give us liberation. Because we want to sleep. Yeah, and then in the subconscious, the mantra is going on. I say the posture doesn’t give liberation, you know? Let’s say someone cannot have a leg crossed like this. Maybe one has only one leg, or one has a problem. They have to stretch the leg. So it doesn’t matter in which posture you are; the main thing is that we remember our posture. If we say that all you have to practice is discrimination towards those... If you can, sit like this. If you cannot, it doesn’t matter. You can sit on the sofa, in the chair. This body one day will be finished. Don’t force yourself. You are tired, and you are practicing mantras. I must practice mantras, and it falls down. Then say to Mahāprabhujī, "Let it come in my dream." So, no, do not give trouble to your body. Yes, because otherwise we create stress. Stress, then you cannot concentrate. You cannot develop your devotion. Then you are doing only one thing: "That I must do." And there, there should be no "must." "I must not," but I do. Tell your husband, "You must go now for shopping," yeah. So there are... Many, many things, so we must not say, we should not say to God, "You must." So it doesn’t matter which situation. I remember, it is good. I’m very thirsty. I can drink water while lying, while sitting, I can drink standing, I can drink water while... okay? Of course, many yogīs are saying like this and sitting, and this is for camera only. The camera is finished. Any more questions? I wish you very good. God bless you. And if something I told you, you don’t like or you don’t agree, then please just, please just, yaja, diva, ukṣita, bhagavā, īśa, mahādeva, satguru, swāmī, mādhavān, bhagavān, satya, sanātana.