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Oṁ namo śrī prabhudīpa. Haṁsabh dāsa prabhu śaraṇa parāyaṇaṁ. Haṁsabh dāsa prabhu śaraṇa parāyaṇaṁ. Oṁ namo śrī prabhudīpa Nārāyaṇa. Oṁ namo śrī prabhudīpa. Haṁsabdāsa prabhuśaraṇa parāyaṇaṁ. Sabdāsa prabhuśaraṇa parāyaṇaṁ. Oṁ namo śrī prabhu-dīpa. Oṁ namaḥ śrī prabhu-dīpa nārāyaṇam. Oṁ namaḥ śrī prabhu-dīpa nārāyaṇam. You know the Holy Gurujī? Who is the Holy Gurujī? Do you know who the Holy Gurujī is? Yes. So, the Holy Gurujī. He was one of our bhaktas. He was a professor and was very involved in different kinds of sports, like playing football. When Holy Gurujī came to Czechoslovakia for the first time, and I brought Gurujī here, there was this one bhakta who said, "Holi, Gurujī." So, Holy Gurujī, Holy Gurujī, Śrāv Gurujī, Holy Gurujī. And that name has remained like this. Anyhow, you have just now been listening; it’s called the Satguru Chalīsā. Like we call the Hanumān Chalīsā, this is a Chalīsā, which means forty verses. The name of Holy Gurujī is described very nicely and beautifully. This is the Satguru Chalīsā, yes? So this is beautiful for us. In that, where Gurujī wrote this, it is so beautiful. It’s written, Satguru Chalīsā. What Holy Gurujī wrote is beautiful. This is like Hanumānjī. Now people are making different kinds of chālīsās. This would be something you would like to listen to, or you would like to know. About one month before, I spoke for a whole hour on the Guru Chalīsā. So I heard it today, and of course, my whole body, each and every hair, was full of joy. It’s not easy to create something like that. Holy Gurujī had very nice knowledge in His vocal cords, in His heart, and so on. Holi Gurujī would give a lecture, and in the lecture He would compose a bhajan, a poetry. So Holi Gurujī was very much a poetry person, very, very much. Now I will give a little glimpse of how it began. You know that many of you are always writing what I’m talking about, so you are ready to write here. But our technicians here ask that you please put your telephone, not on silent, but off. Why? Still, somebody is listening, and therefore there is something not good. Then it is very clear and very nice. We don’t have that kind of machines yet, so please, even I say please, put your telephone off. It is very easy. It is said that when we are in an aeroplane, they write, "Please switch off your telephone." There is a reason for it on the aeroplane. I think, are you good to hear? I want to tell you one thing quickly. Who can say yes? Can you? Are you very good? You must say yes. Okay, a moment. You will leave your hand like that. I will say, still, your telephone is on. Who has the phone still on? Okay, so please, switch it off. Then we will have good quality. I am the, how do you call it, in the airport? In an aeroplane? Who is there on the top? The pilot. So the pilot must have control. Anyhow, thank you. Thank you. Dīpa Naira Bhagavāna Anekī. Holy Gurujī’s, and I heard my Gurujī, Holy Gurujī. You know that the Holy Gurujī is my mother’s brother. You know that Holy Gurujī is the brother of my mother. My mother was his older sister, so Holī Gurujī was younger. But Gurujī, at the age of 20-30, then went to Mahāprabhujī. You should read Līlā Amṛta. Then you will hear everything. This Gurujī Chalīsā is written inside, but not so much. Gurujī has written inside about His Chalīsā. When Mahāprabhujī went to Brahmaloka, Holī Gurujī was very sad. But what to do? We all, when our mother or our father dies, or a mother dies, or a child dies, we are all very much like that. But Gurujī said that for such holy ones like Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī, or other great saints, we are very much sad. Because such beings are not available to many people. You see here, Holy Gurujī was sitting here, and people were sitting here. And now, today, there is nothing here, only environment, energy, etc. He’s gone. Who knows, they know. And who feels, who can feel it? There was a tree here. I was almost always for Guru Pūrṇimā in Europe for the bhaktas. So one day Gurujī said that I should come here also. I said, "I will come, Gurujī, again." Then I said, "Gurujī, all bhaktas are in India, you take care of them, and I am for all of them here." And Gurujī said, "Well, I don’t want to tell you anything." I will tell you always, yes. Who? The Gurujī. But I say sometimes no. Gurujī, don’t say no. Because I say, "Yes." So it was, I don’t know, or maybe I know. It was that much love for a bhakta, a disciple. I was His disciple. And there are many, many, many to all whom Gurujī loves. But there is something. It is like this: in one sheep, you know the sheep? And inside there is one pearl. Like this, anyhow, I was also... because I heard from my mother and my father. My mother said that one of my brothers is a sādhu, and I said, "What is a sādhu?" etc. And I didn’t see any sādhu. Only once I saw somewhere, but I did not know who that was and so on. But my father, Gurujī, didn’t come to the village in my mother’s or my Rūpā’s time. Gurujī was always there in Rupavas, as long as he was not a sannyāsī. There is a lot of story when I will tell you how it happened. From Nepal to Rupa Vasu, it is about nearly 200 kilometers. Gurujī, when He was young, about 14, 16 years old, wanted to come to visit His sister. He said to His father, "I am going. I will see." And He said, "Okay, then take something with you." Gurujī got up about 3:30 in the morning and went to Rupavas. This time He came to Rupavas—200 kilometers. Gurujī said that when nobody was there, He was running. And when people were coming, Gurujī went slowly. Otherwise, somebody would say, "Who is this person who has stolen and run away?" Many times the farmers on the way said to Gurujī, "Is it the young boy, no? A boy. From where are you, and where are you going?" So He said this and that. And they said, "Come here. Yes, first eat." So, they gave Him eating and drinking, then He could go. You know, people are always all good. It was nice. He stayed there. Even once He went to school in Rupavas. That time we didn’t have schools, because in British times they did not make any education for the Indians. Only schools and colleges in big cities, but our Pandit and those we are learning from, and we are teaching them. Anyhow, this is a very nice story in the book; you should listen. Anyhow, so I’ve heard sometimes, and there were some airplanes from the military and from Jodhpur coming. My mother and my father and I said, "In this aeroplane is our Gurujī, in the aeroplane." There was an aeroplane of the Maharaja. So the Gurujī was flying with them. And I said, "What is an aeroplane? Will I one day see this aeroplane? Oh God!" And in Vṛndāvana He said, "You will not even touch it." And now, I said, when will I see an aeroplane? And then when I came to Gurujī, I said, "What is a Guru aeroplane, and how is the aeroplane? I want to see." He said, "You will see, don’t worry." And now, you know how many aeroplanes? One day, Gurujī said to me, "You told me once, ’Now it is so much aeroplane, go ahead, go, fly, fly.’ And now you have all these here and there, so run and fly away." So Gurujī joked like this. My dear, my father passed away. After a few months, Holī Gurujī came from the Mahārāja’s vehicle. That time it was this kind of what he called a jeep. The jeeps from England. I don’t know how this is. And moving like this, the whole village people came. Gurujī came, and first was Gurujī’s day. They were looking for, "What is this vehicle?" Now, people were all around Holī Gurujī. He came to His mother, so He sat outside, and, well, I wanted to see Him. But little children, all people are like around Mahāprabhujī. I, little I, could see, and that day I said, "I will become this man." After a few months, Holī Gurujī made a very nice ashram in Nepal. They made a statue of Mahāprabhujī, and some ministers came, along with all the ministers and the officials and the official guests. So my holy Gurujī sent a postcard to my mother: "Come for this temple ashram ceremony." So we began. We did not know what is this and what is that. So morning, about four o’clock morning, or five o’clock, my mother, and then my other brother said, "I will go." Another said, "I will go." I am the youngest. I said, "I will go." Well, mother said, "OK, I will take him." And I was so like that, I want to go to my mother’s house. And still, I don’t know what is Holy Gurujī. And what is a satsaṅg, and what is an āśram? Little village. Now it’s bigger, very good. So we came late this time. First, we walked about 15 kilometers. Then we took one bus, and we were there, and there was a river. So they remained there, so me and mother and this, we went through the water in the river, little water. Oh, that was a dream. It was a dream, but mother knows the path from there because this is her village. Can you imagine what it was? I was looking before that, my mother’s house and my mother’s elder brother. After that time, we went to the ashram. I saw the river. So nice sand, fine. I said, "Oh, this is a river. We have no river. Dry." And then I see Gurujī. I was hiding behind my mother because I held Matajī. I don’t want to go in front, I was ashamed, and Gurujī is coming, I go back side. In this age, in that age. Then my Gurujī said to my mother, "Who is this?" Then she said, "It is mine. Oh, this is that." Come here. I was coming. I said, "Yes. Oh, you are going to school?" Yes. That’s all. The next morning, I went to the ashram again. Then I said to my mother, "Mother, it doesn’t matter what it is, I wish very much that I will stay with Gurujī here. I will not go to Rūpāvas." She said, "Well, we will see." The second thing is, in my village, there is only salty water. Everything. It is very hard to get drinking water from somewhere. And in Nepal, the water was so good. So I was drinking and drinking only water. I don’t want to eat anything. Water, only water. So my mother said, "Don’t worry, eat, and water is enough here." I said, "No, maybe we go again to Rupavas, and there’s no water." Yes, this is a life. It is a story. Such stories will not be; again, you will listen. Then my mother’s sister, about 5-6 kilometers somewhere, and my father’s sister was somewhere about 20 kilometers away. I was again coming back. I said all the times to my mother, day and night, "Let’s go to Gurujī, and tell me I will stay with Him." She said, "I cannot tell Him. He is a sadhu. If I tell something, He will say, ’No, go home.’" He said He will not say. That day, you can’t imagine, for me was the greatest day. Gurujī is sitting in the chair in the ashram. Little ashram, simple. Now it’s a little bigger. My mother came. Lunchtime morning, or eleven o’clock or something. My mother is sitting there, and someone more, my mother’s elder brother was there, and talking. I was sitting somewhere on the other side, I don’t know, I’m so, I didn’t want to come near, but I want to say. Then Holī Gurujī said to my mother, "Sister, can you leave your child here in the ashram and with me in the school?" I was on the other side of a tree, jumping, and I said, and my mother said, "Come here," and she came, and Gurujī said, "Will you stay with me?" I said yes. "Will you go to school?" I said yes. "Are you in the school?" I said yes. "How many classes?" That and that, and I was only not going to school. I said, "This class and that class." I was going to school, but I was not going there. Good friends. Thank you very much. This is the day when Holī Gurujī died. The next day, Dr. Holī Gurujī called the headmaster, the teacher. Call him. He came. Gurujī said, "Admit him in my school there and give him good lessons," and so on. Okay, and so on, everything. Books and this and that, everything. From the government, Gurujī said, "Can the government bring it all?" Gurujī was a great personality. Then the doctor said, or the master said, "From your school, Rupavas, can you bring the certificate?" They sent a message, but they said, "We don’t have any certificate." And I said, "Hey, I have." Then he howled. So the headmaster said, "I don’t have a certificate from him." Holi Gurujī said, "I am the certificate." OK, let him. OK, sir. So, like this, I was living. It was with Gurujī that, thank you very much. There Gurujī stayed three, I think four months He stayed there in Nepal. Because during the monsoon time, sadhus stay there. There, Gurujī wrote many bhajans, and He wrote this Sadguru Chalīsā. There, Gurujī was writing where He was going to school, and then at lunchtime we came back. I was eating in my mother’s house, and then He came to Gurujī, and He stayed with me there. People were coming and going, but in the evening, nobody, me and Him. It was very hard. Morning, get up. Sleeping now, sit down here. Mālā or Bhajanī, and I’m sleeping, so that was a hard time. But Gurujī gave me such knowledge and gave me the training a little. Here, Gurujī made this on this river, and there is the name of the river and everything. I was going to school, and Gurujī was sitting there and writing this Satguru Chalīsā. I don’t know what this Satguru Chalisa is. I know only one Satguru Chalisa, so this is Holy Gurujī, and it is so beautiful what they have composed here. Gurujī is writing here Śrī Satguru Chalīsā, so Chalīsā, 40. After 40, there are some 40. First Gurujī is giving a glory, or poem. First, why and what I am doing? That was Doha. Doha means the poetry. Gurujī writes first poetry. There was in the poetry our one, two, three, four, and five beautiful poetry. In the poetry, that is saying what it is. He will talk about Sadhguru Chalīsā, but what is that? That, what is the glory, etc. They were singing here, you have heard. So Gurujī said, Gurujī said,... "Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Gurudev Jī, Oṁ Namaḥ." Oṁ and Namaḥ means devotion. Śrī Gurudev Jī, Śrī Gurudev Mahāprabhujī, Sabkā Srajan Har, that He is everyone’s. Bhaktas Vyāpak Antarbharmay, Vyāpak everywhere, out and within. That is within and everywhere in the space, vyāpak, known everywhere inside and above, antar vāhar, inside and outside, Par Brahma Kartār. Par Brahma. So par means everywhere. Brahma means Brahman. Brahman is above the gods. Kartar, he who makes everything, the one who does everything. Who? Guru Dev. Devān kha param devu. That is God’s God, and He is the God of God. Śrī Gurū paramparā. And that’s why I again and again worship and have the mantra of Mahāprabhujī. It means all about Mahāprabhujī, Gurujī is saying. Says Mahāprabhujī’s mantra. All of this, Holī Gurujī says about Mahāprabhujī. O Gurudev, about Mahāprabhujī, without your blessing, nothing will happen. Then nothing can be done. Otherwise, I will not cross the ocean of God. How to swim without anything? Can you cross the ocean just with the hands? It’s not easy. Will we come from here to there? But Gurudev, you will let me bring on the other shore, from this shore to that shore. Ṛṣi, Muni, Śab, Sant, Jan, the Ṛṣis. You know, ṛṣis, munis, also sādhus, all sādhus, japī, tumārā, japa, all are worshipping and praying for you, O Mahāprabhujī, ātmā jñāna gat pāyakār. Ātmā, in your ātmā jñāna, the knowledge is in you, pāyakār. When will I get this knowledge? Where you are, Gurudev, Nirbhe ho gayā ap. Therefore, you know, my Gurudev, Nirbhay, it means I have no fear, because you are, and within you are Mahāprabhujī. Satguru Chalisa, those who will read this Satguru Chalisa, you should concentrate on the Gurudeva. Birth, death, all this, all the troubles, all will be cleaned up. Kaal kabu nahi khay. Kaal, that negative, the kāla is what we call death also. Kāl kabū nahīṁ khāy. So that one will not come near to them, my Gurudev, Mahāprabhujī. Satguru Chalīsā kān sune, therefore those who will hear from their ears the Satguru Chalīsā, riddhi siddhi sukh pai, riddhi siddhi sukh pai. Prosperity, happiness, joy, all will be there. They will have bliss, prosperity, and joy. Whatever you wish for, good things will come to you. And your life will be successful. This is written by Holy Gurujī. Then He will begin the 40 verses. And what will be inside there? Oṁ namo guru deva dayā labhāg. This I will give you tomorrow.