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Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai! Devādideva Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai! Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jai! Alakhpurījī Mahādeva Kī Jai! Satyasanātana Dharma Kī Jai! Madhpita Gurudeva Kī Jai! Good evening, beautiful evening. Hari Om to everybody. The day is beautiful, a very nice sunrise, you know. Many people say, “My God, there is still no sun, it is cold, there is no water, no rain, and so on.” But we have a very nice sunrise—always sunrise. And also the moon; the moon comes time to time to create a very nice environment. To see something come again, slowly, slowly back, and it goes everywhere. Guru Kṛpā hi Kevalam, Śiṣya Ke Ānanda Maṅgalam. Our Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān used to say: all is one in all, all in one. Learn from the Gurudeva. I remember today, during some talk, the question arose of how a disciple can understand the Guru. The disciple—how will he understand the Guru? He is performing very great sevā all the time. There is nothing he does not do: cleaning, this, that. Then one day, Gurujī decided to test the disciple. Will he understand me or not? The disciple said, “I can do anything my Gurujī says, and I know that whatever my Gurujī says is the best.” So Gurujī sent his disciple around ten o’clock in the morning to bring some vegetables or something from the village. An āśrama should always be a little outside the village or city, perhaps half a kilometer or one kilometer away, so that there is peace and people can meditate, they can do bhajans. Sometimes the villagers may not like it because we are singing bhajans and so on. Yet the people also come to Gurujī; they work the whole day and are tired, but they still walk to the āśrama, make prayers, some come and sing bhajans, and then they all go. The disciple serves. When people come, he prepares nice water and a nice place. Whatever the bhaktas bring, the disciple brings it to Gurujī, and Gurujī distributes all the mīṭhāī, sweets, everything. The atmosphere between the āśrama and the village is very nice—bhaktas, Guru, and disciple. People come, and they are very kind; they try to help the disciple. They say, “Please, let us do it, let us do it.” And he replies, “No, no, you sit down. I will do it for you.” Very nice. And always they say, “Please, you sit down, we will work for you. You have been working with Gurujī the whole day. Now you can sit and do bhajans.” He answers, “No, no, I will do it,” and so on. Very nice. The disciple had declared, “My Gurujī, whatever you tell me, I will do.” And the people said, “Whatever our Gurujī says, and what we say, we should follow.” Gurujī had told all the 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 other things. The disciple was listening to everything Gurujī said. What a good story, no? You like the story, my God. So Gurujī is going to make a test, for the disciple as well as the bhaktas from the village. Gurujī said, “Please go and bring some prasāda and vegetables. In the evening we will have bhajan satsaṅga.” The disciple said, “Okay, Gurujī, I will go.” He had some money, and he was walking from about one kilometer away. He came near the village, and there was a very big elephant. A beautiful elephant was coming like this. All the people were running away here and there, and the dogs were going, “Bong, bong... bong.” The bhakta went close to the elephant. People shouted, “Oh God, run away, run away, run away! The elephant is mad today—don’t go, please go away!” But he said, “My Gurujī said that when you have confidence in everything you are doing, nothing happens to you. My Gurujī said nothing will happen.” They cried, “No, please, please get out!” The elephant was coming with big ears like that, going like that, and with his snorts, you know. They said, “Please, please don’t go.” He repeated, “Okay, my Gurujī said nothing will happen.” They insisted it would happen. And the elephant came. The elephant took him in his trunk, big trunk. But thanks to God, the elephant threw him away to the other side of a house. Everybody said, “Oh my Bhagat, my brother, oh my brother, we told you, please, please!” You did not listen to us. He broke some bones. The elephant went, “Dum, dum,” here and there. The people ran and brought him, a doctor came and everything, and then they brought him to the āśrama, to Gurujī. They said, “Gurujī, something like this has happened, and Gurujī, you said nothing would happen.” “I told you, my dear, have confidence in me.” The disciple said, “Gurujī, today my confidence is broken.” “Why?” “You said, Gurujī, nothing would happen.” Gurujī answered, “Yes, right, but all my bhaktas told you, ‘Don’t come close to the elephant, go away,’ and you did not listen, and that’s why it happened that you could have died. When I, Gurujī, said to everybody, ‘If the elephant is mad, go away,’ they also told you, but you did not listen to this.” Similarly, don’t just think, “Gurujī said everything,” and now I will die just to die. No. Knowledge, confidence, clarity, following what others say—we must live in that way. Then he added, “Gurujī, you did not tell me this.” “I told you many times, when bhaktas come, when they are working, this and that. So it’s not only that now 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, all other people—no one, everyone, they will tell us something. Even sometimes the birds are telling us 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 we have to learn from everything. Even if someone tells some negative things, that is very good. When somebody is angry and stupid like this, you should say, “Thank you, I go to the other side.” Yes or not? Yes. When someone comes in front of you and says, “You are stupid,” and he goes on, “You are stupid, and you are this and that,” what happens? The balloon blows more and more and more. And what happens? The balloon bursts. So when things happen 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. 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 were truly followed, it would be very great. When I lived among Christians for a long time, they said the Christians lived very humbly, very kindly, and very simply. They would think, they would watch the clock, they would do everything—and now I am like this. Where is that? Similarly, people think, “We are Hindus, and we can do this.” But where? Just at home, we have a little temple. We make Cosmic God, Dharma. Do always good, give good, everything. Even we will tell, “Don’t do this, like this. You did and did and that,” because you have been 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 say Dharma. Where is that Dharma? And that is why all will go back into the animal’s life. Suffering. Suffering. So what the Guru said, the Guru said through others, to you, my disciple, listen. Why? You did not listen when the people told you, “The wild elephant is here, please go outside.” But he came nicely. My Gurujī said, “Thank you, at least,” otherwise he could have twisted him like this, and 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, neighbours, everything, and you know where we are. Then he came there and said, “Gurujī, I thought, Gurujī, we were only two together, different, far from the village, and we are making mālā and bhajans and good things. That is all.” He 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 go, then you know what will happen. There’s a beautiful story, my God. Yesterday, in my car, I was sitting, and I had so many nice stories of all the Gurujīs, but I will tell them tomorrow because it’s too late; it’s getting late. So satsaṅga is not only bhajans and giggling and good eating and prasāda and let’s go and sleep. Now, you have given yourself 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 other things are coming in, but both side needles are there like this. That’s it. So today we will have a nice bhajan. In bhajan, bhajan cleans everything out. Yes, at least until we listen, it is clean. And when you will go again, let’s go quickly, we go. Then again, dust, dust is there. Śrī Dīp 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, all. Don’t come, never. Okay? Hari Om. My dears, let’s sing the bhajan. Thank you. Very nice bhajans were 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 on the bed and making a mālā. Sit on the floor. If your back is not good, you can lean against your bed. But sit down, have mālā or meditation, whatever you prefer. Good night, see you tomorrow. Om Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Deva Puruṣa Mahādeva Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Satya Sanātana Dharma Kṛṣṇaguru Paramahaṃsa Varī Maheśvarānandajī Gurudeva kī Jaya.