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Oṁ namaḥ śabdāś prabhu śaraṇam. Oṁ namaḥ śrī prabhudīpa nayanam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Deva Haṁsabhādas Prabhu Śaraṇ Parāyaṇam. Haṁsabhādas Prabhu Śaraṇ Parāyaṇam. Oṁ Śrī Prabhu Deva. Oṁ Śrī Amasabhādas Prabhu Śaraṇ Parāyaṇam. Oṁ Śrī Amasabhādas Prabhu Śaraṇ Parāyaṇam. Oṁ Śrī Amasabhādas Prabhu Śaraṇ Parāyaṇam. It is a spiritual devotee, and it is very hard to know who is truly a devotee. How far are you willing to give your devotion, work on your body, your mind, your whole strength, your sādhanā, and be sure you wish to achieve your goal of reaching Brahman? There are different ways of going and coming. Some go to what is called Satyuga. We would like to go to the eternal. In some religions, they call it heaven or hell. The difference in thinking is this: heaven cannot be forever, and hell cannot be forever. There is a time, but again you will come back and go further on your path. What is written is called Svarga and Naraka. In this Kali Yuga, when it began, different religions also began. It started somehow in the Tretā Yuga, where attachment and greed arose. In heaven, what you call svarga, it is said that as long as you have your good deeds, you will enjoy it. Enjoyment here does not mean in a negative way, but it is comfortable. Yet again, one will come back to Earth because we are the creation, and we are all within this aura, within this sun. As far as the light of the sun reaches, we are all in this globe of the sun. When one dies, we do not know if we will go to heaven or be in naraka. They, too, have to come to this Charasi Lākh, the 8.4 million life forms. One is for humans, who have understanding and intelligence. But too much intelligence goes the wrong way: "I am good. I am best. I am that." That means we are falling into a negative way. We think we are human, and we like this and that. "I don’t like this. I will not do it. I will go a different way." These are animal feelings. But humans are attached to human qualities and are about to come to that supreme state or not. It does not matter if you are married or not. You should marry, no problem. If you do not marry, no problem; it is good. It is said that one husband and one wife is very... the word I have forgotten, I will get it... that they are in oneness. Like a husband and wife are two bodies, but they become like one soul. They will go to heaven, to Svargaloka. Those who are confusing and creating many difficulties, then it is separation, and that is just like another. Therefore, for a little attachment or a little something you are doing, you enjoy. Then you do not like it, and you go. Now it means you have lost human consciousness. I do not mean that you can see good and this and that, but now you are awakened. You are like one thing: God. So it is said that husband and wife have each other. Other than equality and happiness, then they come to heaven or something like this. It is very difficult. Now, in this modern time, it is very difficult, but there are many, many people, many, many couples. Many have not lost it; it is not lost. But many are going to be lost. There were fewer humans and many animals; it was fewer humans and many animals. Now there are many humans and fewer animals. How do you know? That is it. It means that in this Kali Yuga, they try to bring in human consciousness so that before this Mahāpralaya comes, as humans, they should come. But not only that: I am now a human, a human body. It is not just five elements; it is in every animal, everything. But now, with awareness, alertness, and humbleness, we will come further and further. The first thing is: do not change this and that. Sometimes there are persons who think, "I am the highest, yes, I am a great person, I am a great master, I have miracles, I give you this, I am..." And he says, "Oh yes," and sits there. There is one which is the more intellectual outside, and the other is the spiritual within. That is it. So we do not know how he will go. In this, and where that soul will come to its final destination, we do not know. You did not know in whose mother’s womb you would come, who would be your father. What will you do now, father and mother, and where will that be? Father is in Africa, mother is in Australia, and daughter is in the ashram, and the son is... "Where are we? When will it end? Where will we end it?" So this is... I was thinking, and people were asking me many things, and this is... I am telling about our Māṭājī who passed away from this body, and that was very peculiar, the things that happened. She was born in Switzerland and was in Britain for a long time. Then she was there, and she landed here. It was her power; her will was very strong. "I will." And she comes here, where she meets me in various places: Switzerland, various places in Britain, like London. How, where, that is very... You were in the lap of your mother and in the hand of your father, and they did not know where it would land. The same thing: we all are here, and we know what that is. Nobody knows. That we call destiny. Destiny is always like... I am always telling you, it is in some country of Europe, that one king got a child, and someone said that he would marry his mother. You know who that was? In which country? In Greece. He tried very hard. So his father said to the shepherd, "Take this child and throw it somewhere, or kill it." The shepherds were very sorry, so they went to the hills and the thorn bushes. They left him there and said, "Now your destiny is further. We cannot kill you." Then, when he was grown, someone told him, "This is that: you will marry your mother." He was very, very sad because there was some lady who was saying, "Your fate." He was running and running, turning, and then he was going with closed eyes to that distant destination. Again, other side. Again, other. But finally, still, he came, became a warrior. The king had died, and he was a very good and strong warrior, and that queen over there, of course, he did not know that this was his mother, and she did not know this was her child. Married her? So we do not know where we are landing. So first of this is: God always gives us the right things. What kind of right? Attachment. This attachment is of two kinds of love. One love is parents’ love: mother and father, brother and sisters, etc. The second is the love to marry somebody. In that, let’s say, we all know here in our Indian Jyotiṣa. But in Christianity, when they go to the mosque—not mosque, church—and what they say, what promise they are making there. After, if you are going away, okay, you do not like it, you did it, you do, but you spoke on the altar of God. That is very important. So the love is to parents, brothers, sisters, and the husband and wife, or the girls and boys. But changing, turning—"this, I will not; this, I will not"—this makes us very much on that path. I am talking about this Māṭājī. She had heard sādhanā, but she knew, and she was very, very humble and very strong, attached to her master, and she did whatever he would tell. But some people were talking to Mother: "Why are you here, and you are suffering alone?" and this and... Now, many people tell us who told her something. And then telling, Naya, and this and what and why, and Swāmījī is very strong and this and... There are some people who said it is okay, but she was saying yes, but in her heart there was what we call the Guru Vakya. For me, it was something very miraculous or great. On the same day of the Mahāsamādhi of Mahāprabhujī, on that same day, she gave life. She made a prayer, and at the same time, it was a prayer of Mahāprabhujī’s samādhi there, in another ashram. Then she had so many people and children; they loved her very much, and then after that. Making praṇām, she sat there, and she fell, and some blood came or something. I was not there, but people took her. They called me, so I said, "Take her immediately to the hospital in Nagore." This is a beautiful, very good hospital, very, very good. And they are my bhaktas, so they told me, "Immediately, please take her to Jodhpur." They put a dress wrapped on her because it was very cold, and it took two and a half hours. Around about 10 o’clock, 11 o’clock, she came to the good hospital. In the hospital, which also has my bhaktas, I told the doctor, the owner of the hospital, and he said, "Yes, Swāmījī, please, no problem." He was not here; he was in Delhi, doctor. But he said, "I have many doctors, you know, and an ambulance. Let it come quickly, and I will be calling all the best doctors." So they called the best doctors from the night, and immediately they took her into the operation theater. They made some kind of... what was it they did? They operated on her brain, and that was very thick blood. Many times when you have a headache, you must know, and we should know these veins. Whoever hears this, we should always know that if blood circulation is good... Now some doctor said, or somebody—it was not a doctor, but some person said, "Half doctor"—and that half doctor said, "We must have our head not cold. It should always have something when you... okay, when it is very cold, of course, we have it all. Otherwise, what did we say?" We said, all in India and in other countries, we said, "Head cool and feet warm," yes. When you are angry, then you have your head very, very hot, yes, all. And that one is that when you are... So, like that, then you are creating tension in your brain’s centers. Therefore, let it cool. "Cool" means that the brain has enough heat, so let it be nicely. But when it is cold, about 50%, 100... how did that say? Let’s say 20, minus 20, and snow and wind, then we should have... in Europe, snow, cold. But I have enough hair, and my hair is really protecting me. As much as snow is falling, my hair is still protecting me, only when a strong wind is, then it is different. Yes, you see, many times Swāmījī says, "You know what is happening?" So, cold, and I am walking in Strelka, for example. When I exhale, warm air comes, and there are like water drips. When I inhale, within that time, all is snow. So snow becomes ice, really. And when again I exhale, water is coming. So it is good; it is okay. So our body is giving up what to do and what not to do, but of course, it is okay. When once or twice you will go with the cap, then it is gone because then you must always have the cap. But if you are not using it, then it is good. When it is raining and there is too much snow, of course we take something. Anyhow, the doctor said, "We will do our best," and they operated on her. I do not know what they said; the blood was too thick. After a while, she began... her little eyes were opening and breathing. The doctor said, "Okay, very good." One day, the next day, they said they would operate again because they were feeling something. Again, they cleaned everything, and it was good again, and she was—so it was little—was she moving? And this ātmā is there. Again, the third night or the fourth night it was, there was a night doctor, you know, they are new doctors, and they said, "Now she’s gone." They called the other doctor and Dr. Shikaban moment, and lungs were full of water. So again, they tried, and they took the water out of the lungs, and then again she was breathing so nicely, so relaxed. She was not, how to say, she was not suffering. Then I came. They called me, and I was, of course. I gave up my conferences. I came at 4 o’clock, and about 9:30 or 10 o’clock from the long journey. I came to Udaipur at 2:30 at night and got up early in the morning. That time was a problem, and then again it changed. It is okay. So then again I went to Māṭājī. I saw her. I said, "We do not want her to die." But my inner self said, "If she is brought back again, she will suffer very much." But then the same day, I drove to Khatu. And when I come to Khatu, you see the love. She was a very strict lady. There is one family who was bringing nearly every day something—milk or some eating or something, everything for Māṭājī. One day, that man, for his daughter, something was a problem, and they needed a few banyan tree leaves. He thought, "He is Swāmījī, and Māṭājī is always with him." She was coming to his house also, and when he took a few leaves, she was angry: "Why? Why are you doing this? Why did you?" He said, "What do you mean? It is only a few leaves." She said, "It is not only a few leaves. Why did you not ask me? Now what will... Swāmījī will tell me, 'Who took the leaves?'" You see, she was very, very, how do you call them, very correct, not this, not that. Similarly, after a few years, two years, three years, she always gets up at 4:30, washes herself, and by five already she is coming with so many dīpak, the oil lamps, to all temples—there are how many—and she is coming and making pūjā and this and that. At 4:20 or 4:15 in the morning, all the Indian ladies were coming for pūjā there on a different day. It was a long, long queue there. And all people... So on this day, what I want to tell is, because they were all... she was very strict. If someone wants to make some programs there, first she said, "Give money there for cleaning, yeah, and everything, otherwise I do not want to get any programs." But when Māṭājī went to the hospital, the whole of this part... of the Balikhatu, the people were very sad, and about 30, 40, 50 ladies every day, every day I was there now till this, and they will continue for her. They were praying, bhajan singing, really, you know that... they said, you know that, sorry, and they were so... And they were very sad, all these people. When I came, then I heard again. I came because I had a program here somewhere, and I knew that something could happen. So I went to the nipple, and I... because there was a program and morning six o’clock, Premanājī said to me that, "Swāmījī, I think Māṭājī is not anymore now." I promised here from conference, some... so I went there from Kāṭu to this on nipple program, only one hour. There were thousands of people, but I said, "I..." I cannot because... and then I rest up. I think I was not here. No, I went only through nipple. No, I do not know which, and I came there. Māṭājī was... they prepared... Premanājī made so beautiful, what called that? A beautiful chariot, and sitting inside like... like a god temple, beautiful temple, and very, very nicely. I went up there, and when I went, before that I knew that, and they said, some people said, "Where will you give the samādhi?" Someone said here, somewhere there, and so I saw everywhere, and then I said near the holy Gurujī’s room, and who is that lucky person just in Gurujī’s veranda outside? That is this much place, I told them. So they said, "Can we dig it?" I said, "No, no... She is still alive. When someone is alive and you dig the grave, this is not good." So after the second day, two days, then they made this. We came there; people were there. Meanwhile, it is such a story. We can write something. Of course, we sent a message to her mother’s sons. They are two sons. One son and his wife came. Now, again, the day, that day was a Christmas day. The first was when Mahāprabhujī went to samādhi. And second, the Christmas. Maybe Jesus is coming. So, it is such a connection there. Now, in India, we always try, if it is possible, on the same day, to put them in samādhi, or they also cremate, burn, but not at night. Now, his son is coming, we know, two o’clock he will be in Jodhpur. It takes three to four hours again, and so one taxi was very good, not one person’s, and he was running quickly, quickly, and we were waiting, and we were praying, and we were praying, and it was so nice. Māṭājī’s samādhi flowers were beautiful, and we thought, "We cannot do it tomorrow; we will do it now. We cannot leave her like this." And then our son came. Now, 10 minutes, son will sit now. And his wife said, "Thank you." And what is coming? Another thing happens: the police came. They came because some foreign ladies died, and we do not let her bury there without all the, what you call, the passports and this and that and parents and so on. So we told what this is. We had from the doctor; we got the certificate and everything. But he said, "We need to have from their parents," or you should telephone and talk on the telephone, but the son came. And the police were so... they were very happy then; otherwise they would have problems. They will not let it vary, and we do not know how it will come, and maybe they will open again. So the police were very helpful, very helpful, everything. And her son came, and first he saw, he was so nervous, and this. But he could see Māṭājī, and then how it was great. I think, then, one should have such a grave—what we call not a grave, but bearing—bearing so, like we had Mahālī Gurujī’s. I hope that I will not die somewhere behind Africa. Well, then, our yogīs... Was there? He was a yogī, is really very strong. Yeah, you think the yogī is not so thin like this, and but it came very good earth, and there is coming. They are putting inside, and they are giving salt and sugar, and we put so many flowers for Māṭājī, and this and yogīs were putting this and boating there, and she was sitting like this. Māṭājī, there was no, neither she was like this, nor this, or like this. Something happened like this. She was only like this, smiling. Really. We have the photos. We will show you the photos. And so, it was very nice. Immediately, yogis made really very, very nice all earth and everything, and then made a little hill and flowers and light. And people were sad. And there were hundreds of children. They were coming to the mother, Māṭājī, also teaching English and this and that. The children were very sad. Well, then it is like this. Every country and everywhere, they have a certain kind of ceremony for when someone has died. In Indian Hindu, it is about 12 days, and then we make the final ceremony. But for the sannyāsī, and for the sannyāsī, 16 days after the 16 days is what we call the, then we have this bandha. And what means the sixteen? Why? That is very important. This all, every day, and 16 days, always, twice, Māṭājī must get a very good meal: chapati, good chapati, and gourd and ghee on it, and she brings it into her cave. And then they take it, and they give it to the dog. Very nice. Everything was perfect; people were, yes, and then this day. So there are the 11 or 16 sannyāsīs, 16 sannyāsīs of the, what we call the, for the bandhara. So, sixteen different kinds of objects we should have: one bag, then shoes, then an umbrella, then a comb, then soap, and a cloth, and everything. And these are 16 sannyāsīs. They should be Śaṅkarācāryas. There were rather many sadhus, different, from different paths. And so it was very nice. We did not get the sannyāsīs of the Śaṅkarācāryas, so three are left. And then, of course, I gave also to the Goswāmīs, sannyāsīs from Śaṅkarācārya. Many I gave them also salt and mala and money, and then came the Brahmins, and then there were many ladies who were singing for Māṭājī, so I bought for them very nice salt and I gave them, and others also kept. "Who was there? This can I have? Can I have?" And then the other one, so it was. And eating began at 9 o’clock, prasāda, till evening 8 o’clock. All day, people were coming and going. Where I was sitting, I had many things to do. But it was always very nicely said, "Swāmījī, all day came to me and to others." Very, very much work was done by our Premanājī, and also these other, our Karmayogīs were with us, and this one, this, what is your name? Seva Devi, she was three nights, day and night, helping our mother because she is a nurse. She put her so comfortable, like this, and then she was more comfortable, Māṭājī, and so relaxed. And we thought, "Oh, God." Now, thanks to God, we know someone has, yes. So all people were for that, for our, and we made it, and the people of the village, they gave all this for eating, bandarās. They all gave the donation, donation, donation. Yes, Premanājī? They said, "No, no, this is for our mother." They said, "Always our Māṭājī, our Māṭājī." So this is how you can. We do not need that somebody should do for me. But it is ours. They said she was disciplined, strict, and she kept the ashram the best, clean and everything. There is one joke. Now, between jokes, we want a joke? Really? There was a king, and what the king did, everyone had to do. Otherwise, finished. So one day, the king had a little dog, and he loved his doggie. He was very much, and everybody, all they think, he said, the dog is like a god. He said, of course. The king was very much, and he was... the king was very nasty. The king was not good, but everyone had to do what the king said. So when the dog died, everyone had to go to the funeral. And everyone comes to there for the dog died. And they come at home for ceremony, and so forth, dog. But when the king died, nobody went to Israel. For the dog went the whole city, or all people, but he was a nasty person. When he was there, no one went, etc. Because he is one of two people that put him in the earth. Yes. So it is said that how you are, not now, just in the last minutes of the day. And how will be the funerals and respect and so on? That means that God said, "Yes, now this person has this path towards the highest." If you are always saying, "Not this, then not this, and this and that," then it is not good. So we have to learn to give yes and be strict. That is it. If you are not strict, then you are lost. Yes, discipline and so on the day. Of Māṭājī, many people were there, and then in the afternoon, I said that I will go in the morning here, early morning. They said, "We will come to say goodbye." I said, "No, because I have come at 6 o’clock." I have to go; I was called. And then our Bhaktas, who were with us, a few, they also came, others from Khattu and Jaipur. And then our Premanājī and two, three people were there to help him. Everything is brought. And now, Chandra Purī, our Chandra Purī darling. He is really very, very nice. And he was running here and there, here and there. It was not easy to do these things. And also, this Narāyaṇ Siṅghjī’s son, he is very, very good. He knows everything. These, well, that light, that water, this, this, everything. He is a very, very great, great boy. So they were all, now they are taking care of this. We will see how it is. And so when Premanājī went, it was already morning, 6:30, when I went. And Chandrapurī called me and said, "Swāmījī," I said, "Yes, what?" He said, "There is no one. I miss Māṭājī. I miss you. It has been so many days you were not here in Badīkaṭṭu or there." So, of course, suddenly empty. But of course, people are coming, having bhajans, satsaṅg, children are very... and I was teaching them something nice; children were very happy. But the best is you for my children, you know what? Yeah. All children come after the prayer, nice, sweet. And the whole hall was full at the end. All was coming there. So it is like this: how will we see the last minutes of our life? And that we shall earn this. What? The love. The love means respect this and that. And not sometimes, "I do not want," and "I do not go," and "I throw it." This is like different things. Yes, that we have to learn and go. So, one can, from this story, we can make nice things from Māṭājī. And when his son came, and his wife, of his, Māṭājī’s son, they, from the aeroplane, landed in Delhi, and they landed in, and they were in the car. They see how... India is, and so they were told what will happen. "My mother, why she is here, what she was doing, how," and so on. And when they came there, there was music, many people. They, they were, and so the Māṭājī, a god really, and many people brought her and said to her. She was sitting in this, and all was, all was... Then he said, "I did not know that my mother is so great and how people love her. I thought my mother is not comfortable in India, with mosquitoes and this and that." And she said, "How beautiful this ashram, big, big villa." So I said, "Wait a minute, I will show you another villa." And then we went to the Ālagpurījī Siddhipīṭha. He liked it very much, then he came here also. This is soda, I went, but the yogīs showed him. They were very, very happy, so it is like that. How, how the end should come between, is there? We are, but it is that, so this is our mālā constantly going. So this is which we call: Likhit mantra, then bekārī, then Upāṁśa, then Mānasik, and then Ajapā. Ajapā jisko kyā japay binā japay, jab jāve Mahāprabhujī’s bhajan is there, so then otherwise you run away, and then you say, and you will come again, and sometime you... "No, I will give up. I want different." But in that place where I was studying, Gurujī’s room, and when Gurujī was there, one day Gurujī said to me—he really, Holy Gurujī had tears—and I got to ask him there, and Gurujī said to me, "My, my witness." Witness, who is my witness? There is this banyan tree. Who was the God here? Many were coming and going, but they do not know. So that is what is the real God, or real something. Some cannot, some will throw it, but Mahāprabhujī was that place, that place, the āśram. So people are... this evening at the prayer time, people came for prayer, children came for the prayer, but it was like empty. It will come again, and we will see some... we need some Māṭājī there, but not with one day like this and one day like that. Strict, you know, or one boy, but we will see. Do not worry. Do not think that I will go. It is the destiny that will send you there, not me. So this is our Māṭājī’s, what do they call her? So, Dayāmātā, no? No. Yogamāyā. Yogamāyā is a very holy, holy, holy śakti, yes. So we pray for her, and I did my best that she will come to Ālag Purījī, Devpurījī, Holy Mahāprabhujī, Holy Gurujī, and she will come into eternal peace and light. And we pray for her, and we will also pray for ourselves, and we pray for others for good things.