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Premakā pyālā hari gamba mera varase, Anarasi Kabīra aura Tulasi, Ananta bhakta santa pyālā pī pī yarase, Premakā pyālā hari kamba mera barse, Ādana pikārī hama kare kare tarse, Premakā pyālā hari kamba mera barse. Śrī Dīp Dayālu Dātā Kyo Nai Sunate Ākhil kā jana terā kyā pute karse, Premak pyālā hari kabba mera barse, Premak pyālā hari kabba mera barse, Adhānā bhī kariyam kare kare tarse, Premak Pyālā Hari Kabhā Merā Bharase, Śrī Mādhāvanāndjī Ke Prem Ānanda Bharase. Jabhī merī ātmā se Premak Pyālā kabh merā bhar se, adānā bhikhārī ham kare-kare tarase. Premak Pyālā kabhā merā barase. Oṁ, Satguru Deva Kī Jaya, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Hindu Dharma Samrāṭ Satguru Śrī Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī Jai, Deva Purīṣa Mahādeva Kī Jai, Viśva Guru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Śrī Svāmī Maheśvarānand Purī Jī, Satguru Deva Kī Jai. Just a short point before I go. A VIP has arrived—the head, the president of a society of Hindu organizations across India—and he is meeting with Svāmījī, so I must go shortly. I was amusing myself earlier, wondering when the television crews might ask Madhuram to sing and give an interview simultaneously. I imagined being convinced he is a good bhajan singer, and then envisaging him answering their questions in śloka form while still singing and playing the harmonium. They never seem to pause to ask questions. Briefly, this bhajan: Gurujī is asking, "When will my cup be filled?" My Prabhupāda says, "When will you fill it with love? When you fill it with that insight that in standing here, hungry and waiting and waiting and waiting, why should you go away empty from your door? Because you have everything, and your treasury is endless." It cannot be empty, so give some to me. That is what Gurujī is expressing in the bhajan. As we were singing it, I was envisaging and contemplating this. I recall, and perhaps you have seen or done this yourself: you come to Svāmījī, and he offers you prasāda. You have a backpack on your shoulder, something else in your hands, and a shawl. You gesture with your hands, the backpack falls, your things are scattered, and there is no place to put the prasāda. That is our mental state. What we must do is empty that glass to make a place where Svāmījī can put something inside. Our mind and consciousness, full of ripples and constant motion, is not a place where Svāmījī can feel he can deposit those things. This is somehow the principle of the bath when you go for snāna at the Kumbh Melā. You purify yourself so you can see what is already there, what is already on offer: your inner self, your inner happiness, your inner peace, which is covered by all our worldly grit. In the water, I would not say you get something new. Nothing is put inside you; rather, what you already have, what you already are, is revealed. Here in India, in Rajasthan, I like to explain that when people come to the mandir, the temple, or the Guru to ask a question, there is actually no need to hold that question in your mind because it is already known. As long as our mind is racing with that question, with the things we want to have, or the outcomes we desire from this meeting or this time here, then there is no place to hear the answer, which is also already coming, which is perhaps already there, which perhaps Svāmījī is already expressing to us or is already being given within. Our job is simply to quieten and purify ourselves. That is what Gurujī is demanding in the bhajan. Then that cup can be filled; then those things can flow. Consider when you go down to the beach and dig a hole in the sand near the water. Immediately, water starts to run inside. But as long as the sand is there, the water just flows under the normal current of the Gaṅgā. That is our sādhanā: to make that place from which it can flow from Svāmījī, and to make that place to be there at his feet so it can flow towards us. We must try to silence ourselves, to be here, to let go of our troubles. In our daily life, we must leave them back at home. Take this time for yourself. Take this time for your sādhanā. Take this time to be in kumbh, not just physically present but mentally here, not thinking of where you might be or what difficulties would not exist if something else had happened. We are here, we are now, in this place, with a golden opportunity. In the Vajrayī Māṇava, there is the line Jīva Uttāraṇa Kāraṇa Uttāraṇa: the Guru has come here to release us from this cycle. It is as if we have the equipment here to do that job. We must not waste the chance, nor fail to put our energy into that sādhanā, nor fail to make ourselves open to hear the message. It is like coming here where all the tents are set up for everyone to stay, the blankets, the bustees, and the mattresses are here, and then choosing to sleep outside. All the facilities are present. Now it is up to us to be open to receive them from Svāmījī, from the paramparā, from Mahāprabhujī, from Devapurījī, from Gurujī—all that is flowing through Svāmījī, his words, and his satsaṅg. Thus, Kumbh is that chance, that golden opportunity, because we are completely out of our comfort zone in a completely different world. It is not just a different world for those coming from a foreign country; it is a different world for everyone who comes. Every person, whether from Bali, Uttar Pradesh, or Delhi, finds a different world when they come here for the Kumbh. It is for a short time, an incredible energy. It is there for us to take, if we are open to receive it, if we hold our hands ready, and if we quieten ourselves to absorb it. The actual Kumbh, for those other than the sannyāsīs of the Akhāṛās, starts on Saturday, the Pūrṇimā of the 27th. This is the first of the baths for the Mahā Melā this month. The Melā is held here every year. It is not as large as during a Mahākumbh, but every year hundreds of thousands of people come and stay for that one month here in the Kumbh area, in these camps. They will not leave during that time until the next kumāra. All those people will arrive in the next day or two. There will be quite a big bath again on the 27th. We will also go bathing; Svāmījī said so today. We will walk down in the morning, going for a bath around 11 o'clock. For those people, they will stay here and there. Their kuṇḍalinī will start. I started with the first bath, the first bathing with the ākara. For the Jain community, this marks the start of their official one month. Enjoy. I have to go to Svāmījī.