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Amma sabhā dāsa prabhu nā parāyaṇaṁ śrī prabhu dīva. Śrī-dīpa-nārāyaṇa bhagavān kī jaya. Devādi-deva, deveshwara-mahādeva kī jaya. Sata-guru-svāmī-mādhvāna-jī bhagavān kī jaya. Alak-purī-jī-mahādeva kī jaya. Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai, Mātā Pitā Gurudeva Kī Jai. Good evening, beautiful evening. Hari Om to everybody. The day is beautiful, very nice, sunrise, you know. Many people said, "My God, there is still no sun, and cold, and water, rain, and so on." But we have very nice sunrise, always sunrise, and also the moon. The moon comes from time to time to make a very nice environment, to see something again coming slowly, slowly back, and it’s going: "Guru Kṛpāhi Ke Vilam Śiṣya Ke Ānanda Maṅgalam." Our Satguru Swami Madhavānandajī Bhagavān was always saying that all is one in all, and all in one. Gurudev, learn from the Gurudev. Once, I remember today, during some talk, there was a question of how a disciple can understand the Guru. How will the disciple understand the Guru? He is doing very great seva all the time. But one day, Gurujī made a test of the disciple: will he understand me or not? The disciple said, "Gurujī, I can do anything my Gurujī said, and I know. My Gurujī said everything that is the best, good, yes." So Gurujī sent his disciple, at about 10 o’clock in the morning, to bring some vegetables or something from the village. An ashram should always be outside a village or city, maybe half a kilometer or one kilometer away, so it can be peaceful for meditation and bhajans. Sometimes people may not like it because we are singing bhajans, and people who work all day are tired, yet they walk to the āśram for prayers. Some come singing bhajans. All the disciples are making sevā. When people come, the disciple prepares nice water and a nice place, and whatever the bhaktas bring, the disciple brings to Gurujī. Gurujī then gives all the mīṭhāī, sweets, everything very nice. It is a very nice atmosphere between the ashram and the village bhaktas, and between the guru and disciple. People come and are very nice, helping the disciple. They say, "Please, we will do it." And he says, "No, no, you sit down. I will do it for you." Very nice. They always say, "Please, you sit down. We will work for you. You work with Gurujī all day. Now you can sit for bhajans." And he says, "No, I will do it." Very nice disciples say, "My Gurujī, whatever you tell me, I will do." And people say, "Whatever our Gurujī said, we should follow." Gurujī said to all bhaktas from the village, "Be careful and don’t walk where the thorns are. Don’t run in the street. If someone falls down, help." And many things. The disciple is listening to what Gurujī says. "What a good story, no? You like this story, my God." So Gurujī is going to make the test, for the disciples and the bhaktas from the village. Gurujī said, "Please go and bring some prasād and vegetables; in the evening we will have bhajan satsaṅg." The disciple said, "Okay, Gurujī, I will go." He had some money, and he walked about one kilometer. He came near the village, and there was a very big elephant coming, a beautiful elephant. All the people were running away here and there, and the dogs were barking. The bhakta went close to the elephant. People said, "Oh God, run away, run away! The elephant today is, how to say, mad. He is mad. Don’t go. Please go away." The disciple thought, 'My Gurujī said when you have confidence, nothing will happen to me.' They said, "No, please, please get out." The elephant was coming with big ears, going like that with his trunk. They said, "Please, please don’t go." He said, "Okay, my Gurujī said nothing will happen." They said it will happen, please. And the elephant came. The elephant took him with its big trunk, my God! But thanks to God, the elephant took him and threw him out the other side. Everyone said, "Oh my Bhagat, my brother, we told you, please, you did not listen to us." He broke something, his bones, and if he had gone down—down is here, there—the people ran and brought him, and some doctor came. They brought him to the ashram to Gurujī and said, "Gurujī, something like this happened. Gurujī, you said nothing will happen. I told you, my dear, confidence in me. Gurujī, today my confidence is... broken. Why? You said, 'Gurujī, nothing will happen.'" Gurujī said, "Gurujī said yes, right? But all my bhaktas told you, 'Don’t come close to the elephant. They called you, 'Go away.'' But you did not listen to that, and that’s why it happened. You could have died. When Gurujī said, 'Everybody, if the elephant is mad, go away,' they also told you. You did not listen." Similarly, don’t just think Gurujī said everything, and now I will die. To die? No. Knowledge, confidence, must be clear. It involves following others too. We live in that way. Then the disciple said, "Gurujī, you did not tell me this." Gurujī said, "I told you many times. Bhaktas come, they are working this and that. So it’s not only that my guru is here and my guru will give everything. You don’t know what your guru gave you. Be careful. Work. Don’t sleep too much. Don’t run away somewhere, etc., etc." And this is that guru, or mother, father, brother, sister. All other people, everyone, they will tell us something. Even sometimes the birds are telling you something, but we don’t understand. Birds are saying, "Don’t go, don’t go, don’t go." You did not listen to that. So everything we have to learn; even if someone tells some negative things, that’s very good. When somebody is angry and stupid and like this, you should say, "Thank you, I will go to the other side," yes or not? Yes. When someone comes in front of you and says, "You are stupid, and you are this," what happens? Blows more and more and more, and what happens? The balloon splits. So, in such a way, if you want to become happy, healthy, and good, then say, "Okay, thank you. You are the best one, and I’m sorry. I’m sorry." And just go with it. That’s it. You know that Jesus said, if someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. But now no Christians are doing this. No talking, no. And now you see, if they really loved and followed Jesus, nobody would have guns. Yes, they say, "No, no..." We are only making the guns and giving them to others. That is also not right. If Christianity would follow, then it would be very great about it. Sometimes, I’m... because I lived long among Christians, they were there, they said... Christians, how they lived, very humble, very kind, and very like anything. They would wash the clock, they would do everything, and now I am like this. Where is that? Similarly, people think, we are Hindus, and we are this, we can do, but where? Just at home, we have a little temple, we make da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Cosmic God Dharma always does good, gives good everything. Even we will tell, "Don’t do this, like this you did and did and that," because you taught the good things. Dharma, adharma means... Killing the animals, how many animals are killed in this area only? There is a village here, not even half a kilometer away. They are killing the animals, eating that, and they are Hindu. They said, "Dharma." Where is that dharma? That’s why all will go into the, like, animal’s life back, suffering, suffering. So what did the Guru say? The Guru said through others to you, "My disciple, listen. Why did you not listen when the people told, 'The wild elephant is here, please go outside'?" But he came nicely, my Guru. They who? Thank you. At least others could have twisted like this, with one leg on it, Baba, no more. Therefore, listen. Listen to your brother. Listen to your father. Listen to your mother. Listen to your friends, neighbors, everything. And you know where we are. And then he came there and said, "Gurujī, I thought, Gurujī, we were only two together." Different, a little far from the village. And we are making mālā and bhajans and good things. That is all. Gurujī said, "No, no, no. My knowledge, my everything is in the city or in the village. That’s it. Don’t say, 'Ah, Gurujī, I will not do this.' Okay, don’t do it. Go ahead. But when you say go, then you know what will happen." There are beautiful stories, my God. As today, in my car, I was sitting and I had such a nice storage of holy Gurujī’s, but I will tell tomorrow because it’s too late. So, satsaṅg—satsaṅg is not only bhajans and good eating and prasād and go and sleep. No. You have given to your father, your mother, your husband, your wife, your guru, your brothers. You followed, and you said, "Please, I am yours." And that you closed it, okay? But you have to go again next life, suffering and suffering. Yes, you have inside for. One thing and another thing is coming in, but both sides’ needles are there like this, that’s it. So today, we will have a nice bhajan. Bhajan may, bhajan clean everything out. Yes, at least while we listen, it is clean. And when you will go again, let’s go quickly, we go, then again, dust, dust is there. Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān kī sanātana dharma kī. Let the elephant, what kind of elephant? A very nice one. You can go with him to work, and he will be nice. We bring nice grass, you know, he will be very happy. Big, big. But don’t bring it to our banyan tree. He will have all. Don’t ever come. Okay? Hari Om, my dears, let’s sing the bhajan. God bless you. Thank you. Very nice bhajans today. Thank you. And now it’s time for a little meditation and go to sleep. Very, very important. So go in your room, near your bed, on the floor, not sitting in the bed and making mālā; sit on the floor. If your back is not good, you can lean against your bed. But sit down, have a mala or meditation, whatever you like. Good night, see you tomorrow. Om Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān, Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān, Satya Sanātana Dharmak, Viśva Guru Parāntasvarī Maheśvara, Ānandajī Gurudeva kī Jai.