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Hari Om once more. We are in our village ashram and will proceed to the final round of today’s bhajan festival. The bhajan we will chant is "Do Din Kā Jagā Meṅ Melā." Its meaning is this: Melā is to come together, and Jagā is the world. Do we have two? You could say we are meeting each other for only two days. We have today, and we had yesterday. This we still know. What there will be to know tomorrow, we do not know. As our Gurudev always tells us, all of this creation is always the game of coming and going. Everything. And it is so funny that we know this from the outer world. We see everyday changes in the temperature, whether there are clouds or not, if it is spring or autumn, how the trees and flowers come with leaves and without leaves. This we know: there is everyday change. But for ourselves, we do not want that. We always want to be good and balanced, and always the same—which is good and where we feel safe. That we want to keep. Yet we also belong to this coming and going; it is this game of the creation: coming and going and changing. If we want to have something without changing, it is in us. We know that there is something, somewhere, which is permanent, what is not changing, what is everlasting. We know that something in our Ātmā, in our Self, knows that. And still, we know it in our normal outer world. It is so strong, and we are searching for that which is permanent. I do not know why, but how funny it is: we are searching outside. There we want to have enough money, a beautiful house and family. We are collecting; we are filling our pockets with everything. We know that in the end we cannot take anything with us, but somehow we put that knowledge aside just to play this game. But it is a game. The Guru says it is a play of the creation, coming and going. Now, nothing will stay the same. We have only yesterday—this we still know—and we have today. And the whole, in the whole world, this construction is mortal. That is why Gurudev tells us: go inside, meditate, repeat the name of God. Because the outer world is a game which is always changing. Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai. God bless you. The next bhajan will be "Gurudeva Sam Dathara Jagame." The Gurudeva is the only one who is only giving. He is always giving. Humans take shelter at his divine feet, and he will make you immortal. Here again, in this bhajan, is described how great a Guru is. And he never shows that. Perhaps through his radiance we feel it, but normally he behaves as we do. In this bhajan, from Mahāprabhujī, he explains: the Sadguru gives His blessing also to Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and the highest siddhas and yogīs. What did He mention? "When I gave in His form my... I don't know the English word at the moment... my promise. I gave my promise to Viṣṇu, and I became pure. I was meditating on yogīs, avatars, and siddhas, and I gained wisdom. I meditated on my Satguru, and I got mokṣa." Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai. Guru Deva Sam. God bless you. Yes, now we will have our last bhajan for this evening. When we sing this bhajan, always my mind goes to Mahāprabhujī’s ashram, that old Kāṭhū ashram—the place where he lived for a long time. In the first years when I came there, in front of the ashram there was still earth, not the foundation or terrace that is there now. It was not; it was earth, and there were brown stones in different sizes. They were round, and I was thinking of these stones. Mahāprabhujī was walking there, and I took one with me. When we traveled with Swamiji—at that time he was still in our bus, driving with us—one night we went back from, I think, Nīpāl Ashram to Jaipur Ashram. We were driving at night. Swamiji was in front, behind the driver, and I was sitting somewhere more in the back. I was not sleeping, and I held this brown stone in my hand, and it was so full of energy. My hand became completely warm from this stone. It is written about in Leela Amrit Bhajan as well. And Holī Gurujī tells his divine master, Mahāprabhujī, about his life and how he is doing. "Koṭi Koṭi Praṇām, Lākhoṁ Paraṇaṁ Praṇām"—so a thousand, a hundred thousand times he is bowing down to His lotus feet. He incarnated in Harivāsānī, a small village near Tukkāṭū Ashram, and he was... he is... What is this English honor? Something like an honor, yes. It was a gift for the whole of India. Maybe ten years ago, I was here in Philach with an Ayurvedic therapist who comes from Sri Lanka. He is now maybe between 70 and 80, and I was speaking to him about Mahāprabhujī. He said, "He was from Sri Lanka. We know of Mahāprabhujī in Sri Lanka. We know him so." Really, it was so, so great. He made that woman who could not get children, get children. He made poor people rich, and he healed disabled people, blind people. He gave light to eyes, and paralyzed people could walk again. Those who could not speak, he made them speak in his presence. I think all this happened. And all who were searching for his shelter, he made into jīvan muktas and helped them, or liberated them, from this circle of birth and death. And still we know: when we think of Mahāprabhujī and repeat his mantra, his divine energy and presence are with us. I was here in the ashram some time ago in the evening, after prayer. I was praying to Mahāprabhujī because I wanted an answer to a question. Perhaps because it was after prayer, an energy came in. It came from the sky to me, and then I knew, "Yes or no?" Yes, the answer came. And then I felt in that moment that still our air is very thick. We cannot see the air. We think it is nothing, just air, but it is very thick. And for all we know, there are these astral levels: Mahāloka, Śivaloka, Satyaloka, all these. And all this universe is made out of consciousness and energy—this Śakti. Consciousness and Śakti. When the lokas are lower, coming more to the earth, this energy is thicker, more concentrated. But it can come through. So it is very high, this... this is Satyaloka and Mahāprabhujī. Was that light? Is that light so? And here it is about his incarnation, that he was born there in Harivāsānī and lived in Kāṭhū. And Holī Gurujī is bowing down to his lotus feet. God bless you all!