Post Aarathi Talk 27 on 24th Feb 2018

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So, in Bhagavatam there is a story that Avadhuta had 24 Gurus. Have you heard about it? No, not Avadhuta. Yes. So, once a king who was in search of spiritual guidance, he met this wandering monk. Avadhuta means wandering person. And he recognized him and said, you seem to be an enlightened soul, who are your Gurus? So, he didn't want to say, the whole world is my Guru. He said, I have learned from 24 Gurus. One of them is very interesting, I will tell you two stories. When Avadhuta was wandering, he noticed suddenly so many crows. They were running after a kite. Not flying kite, but flying kite. A bird, Garuda. He noticed wherever this kite was flying, the crows were after that. If it goes this way, that way, if it goes like that, it was going on. Then he noticed that during that chasing, the kite had lost, it had a piece of meat in its beak. The moment that fell down, they all left the kite and ran after the kite. So, what is the lesson he learned? If I have any worldly possession, the crows mean worries. Actually, it is such a wonderful thing. So, this is the lesson. Don't have anything of your own. Do not possess anything. But the analysis comes later on. If you do not have anything, you do not need to fear anything. Fear comes only from two sources. You all know that. Fear comes only from two sources. First source is, what I have, I might lose. Second source is, I desire something, I may not get what I desire. That's all. If you remove these two, then there would be no fear at all. So, the second lesson he learned. Once he was passing, it was about noon time, he noticed there was a young maiden, and her parents and everybody was out accepting her. Suddenly, some relatives had come to her house, and it is her responsibility to feed them, and she didn't have ready-cooked food. So, she was husking the paddy to get some rice, then she will cook. While she was husking, she had a lot of bangles on her. So, when she was trying to husk, the bangles were making a sound. Now, that's bad because the relatives who were waiting, they think that this lady is a poor lady, so they do not have enough food materials. She didn't want to give that impression. So, what happened? To reduce this noise, she started removing one by one the bangles. Ultimately, two bangles on each hand, still they were making noise. So, she removed one by one the bangles. So, there remained only one bangle on each hand, and then there was no further noise. And Avadhuta was observing. That's important. The disciple, Avadhuta means what? A seeker seeking spirituality, he had to be alert to learn. Who is a student? He who is alert to learn. That's all. And this person was alert, so he noticed the whole thing. What is the lesson he learned? That it is best to be alone. Even if there are two people together, it will make a noise. Noise means what? Pollution. You know that noise is called pollution? We have noise pollution. We have also light pollution. You know what is light pollution? See, suppose stars are there, if the whole city is glowing, you can't really observe them. This is called light pollution. Not light pollution, it is heavy pollution. It is called light pollution, noise pollution. We are not aware of mental pollution. Great people like Shri Ramakrishna, they can know what is called mental pollution. And you can see, every single day you see this pollution among people. Suddenly a person becomes violent. Why does he become violent? Pollution. Pollution. So the other people's thoughts are influencing. Everybody's thought is influencing us heavily. And sometimes you know why people say, I am looking ugly. Why am I looking ugly? Because I am not dressed up like other people. You know what do you say? You don't say, I am following fashion. You simply say, I am not looking beautiful. Why do you say such a statement? In the background, what is there? I am not dressing up like those people. Similarly, when you are singing, oh, today I did not sing well. Either you are comparing yourself with your previous singing, because you can't compare yourself with the future singing, because you don't know, or most likely you are comparing yourself with other singers. This comparison has a good side. What is the comparison? If the comparison is there not to provoke jealousy or inferiority complex, but if it helps us to improve ourselves, it is called inspiration. That is extremely desirable. That is called holy company. So the answer to your question is, if you are earnest, your very earnestness will attract the teacher, and he will come at the right time. But until that time, you can take whatever teaching helps you go forward, move forward. That is the answer. Maharaj, you mentioned fear and desire. Two sources. Yes, possessions and desire drive fear. But I suspect there is also an interconnection. Sometimes fear drives desire. I would say, actually, often fear drives desire, because of fear of not being able to keep up, for instance. It is like the egg and the chicken question. Seed and plant, which is first. Exactly, yes. That was my question. How do you break that cycle? You can only break whatever is breakable, and whichever is easy for us to break, that is where we should start. So action is something with which we have to start. That is where the Karma Yoga comes into effect. So fear, everybody is having fear. You know ultimately what is the fear? Death is the greatest fear. Because everything that I fear, that I may lose what I have, and I may not get what I want, they are all centred only on one idea, me. Me. And who is me? Depends on the human. Normal people. Only body. Not even the mind. It is only the body. Because without the body, the mind has no place at all. So even when a person says, I have a desire for name and fame, how does a name and fame manifest? A ghost doesn't have name and fame. So there must be a tangible, oh, this person is a great person. That's why you keep all the photographs of so-called great people, and not so great people also. What is that, Bihar's former chief minister? Lallu Bhai. Lallu Bhai. You remember that story? Lallu Bhai's wife was one day going from her house to the parliament, you know? It was a veranda. Connecting her house, her residence, with the parliament office. She was going. And there was a huge photographer, Maatmaji. And as she was passing, suddenly she heard, Beti, beti, ruk jao. Daughter, wait. She looked here and there. Nobody was there. Again she was wanting to go. Again she heard this voice. Then she looked up. Who was speaking? Bapuji was speaking. So she waited. And they said, Beti, bakri ka doodh kha ke bahut din ho gaya, thoda bakri ko liya. It is a long time since I have tasted goat's milk. So he used to drink goat's milk. He thought that is the cheapest way, poorest way of living. That's why Vijayalakshmi Pandit made a right remark. It costs a lot to keep Bapuji in poverty. A goat, a goat keeper, and they may have fodder for the goat, and somebody to clean, somebody to milk. It is a horrible business. Anyway, Maatmaji, so this lady was so excited. Her husband was at home. He rushed back and then said, Bapuji, do you believe? Bapuji is talking to me through that photo. He said, Maram, golmaal ho gaya. You understand? She said, No, I heard it. Come on. She pulled him in front of Bapuji. Bapuji started speaking, Beti, bakri ko laane ka bola, gadha ko kyu? Did you understand? I asked you to bring a goat, why did you bring a donkey? It's a story about Lallu bhai. So, even name and fame, you need somebody to say this person is famous. It all depends upon the body. So, this is the truth about it. So, our greatest fear is that we lose this body. If we lose this body, all our happiness, everything disappears because this is the only instrument through which you can be a good musician, a good poet, even a saint. Have you ever heard any ghost becoming a saint? Never. So, that is the truth about it. So, what is your question now? So, I guess my question was how do you break that cycle of fear and desire? So, first of all, the gross expression of this fear is action. When you are fearful, you do something about it. If you don't do, it will increase because you have gone brooding about it. So, there are several ways. First is, if you have faith in God, pray and say, Oh Lord, please protect me. And devotees have that faith. Even if the source of their fear is not working properly, even then they have the faith, God keeps this, there must be a purpose behind it. If a person has got faith in God, faith and fear, they are opposed like light and darkness. That is the fact. So, that is where you start. If a person doesn't believe in God, what is the next alternative? The law of karma. Belief in the law of karma. If a person doesn't have faith in the law of karma, the third alternative is whatever is going to happen, it is going to happen. In fact, that is the truth. In spite of whatever we say, we don't know what is the future. Whatever is going to happen, is going to happen. Nobody can prevent it. It is to remove two things. If something I expected did not happen, say, well, God, if we have that faith, well, I do not deserve it, or God did not will because it is not good for me, etc. So, this is one way of allaying that fear. The second is always, you know, there is a hope. So, maybe something better comes along. I told you the story of one devotee. He had a marriageable daughter. He was a devotee of Thakur. So, he came to know that there was a village about eight hours away from Calcutta, and there is a suitable boy. So, he contacted them and said, on such and such a date, I will come to your place, and he has to travel by a bus. So, he took God's name, and he went to the bus stand and saw the bus meant for that village, and sat down there, and towards the evening, about eight o'clock at night, he reached that village. Then, to his great surprise, he found nobody was there to receive him. They knew that he was going to come. Nobody was there. He was standing, and it was a small shed. So, another person who travelled in the same bus, he saw this person's face and said, were you expecting somebody to come and receive you? Because that man was from that village, and he knew everybody, and this was a stranger. That person said, this is what had happened. I am supposed to meet such and such a person. That person said, there is no such person in this village by that name. Then he came to know there are two villages exactly with the same name, and he mistook, he did not know. He thought that this must be the same village, but the other one is eight hours away in another direction. Now, nothing can be done. So, the other gentleman said, you come to my home and spend the night. The same bus will start next morning and take you to Calcutta. And he went, willy-nilly, and then he found that that man had a son, and they liked each other, and overnight, every arrangement is made. He invited the gentleman, come and see my daughter also, and if we are agreeable, then marriage can take place. And now he also knew that the other people, when they did not see him, they take it for granted that he was not willing to arrange the marriage. Now, my question, he took, he had complete faith in God, he took God's name, he started, did he land in a wrong bus or right bus? Is this a true story? It is a story, an event that had happened many years back. And these kinds of events, in Thyagaraja's life, he had a daughter, and he was poor because he was not accepting money from anybody. He left everything for Rama. So, a very rich family, well-to-do family, influential family, they themselves came and offered their son, and with all their expenses, they knew that he doesn't have money. So, they did with great accolade, all this. And same thing happened in the life of Narsimhaitha. Same thing happens in the life of every devotee. Whatever happens, even if it is painful, it is for good. But only thing is, a devotee will have infinite patience. Whatever happens is for good. So, that is how the consolation comes. So, three philosophies. Have faith in God, whatever is good, that's good. And the second is, accept the law of Karma. And many Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, they do that. And third is, if it is not a mad gap, you know, whatever is to happen, it will happen. So, this is not an accident. There is no accident. Whatever is to happen, it will happen. That is the truth about it. Sir, faith in God is same as faith in scripture? Automatically. Automatically. Because if you have faith in a person, and whatever he says, then you believe that person also. Ramakrishna gives a beautiful example. A mother, a Brahmin family, a Brahmin mother tells to her son, pointing to a low caste person, this is your elder brother. And the child 100% believes that this is my elder brother. That is because he doesn't know anything about this person. But he had complete faith in his mother. No child says, my mother will lie to me. And when she says, I love you, she doesn't mean it. No child would ever think like that. That's why Ramakrishna was a super storyteller. He told that most beautiful story, Dada Madhusudana. Do you know that anybody? Of course, Kaumudi knows about it. Dino? Saravana? You know this story. You know Krishna? Where is such a beautiful story, Ramakrishna told. There was a widow, she had only one son. And the son had to go to his Guru's every day, and he has to cross a forest, through a forest. Not long distance, 2-3 miles, but he has to cross this. And the boy was scared. One day he came and said, Mom, I am not going to go to school, I am scared. Forest could be very scary, you know. Especially if you hear some ghost stories. And after that, if you go, our mind plays tricks. So, his child's name was Gopala. And his mother was a great Krishna Bhakta. She had nothing, she can't employ a God or anything. Very poor lady. So she told, why fear my child? Your eldest, elder brother, Madhusudana, always is grazing the cows in the forest. And the boy had 100% faith. So, next day, he joyfully went, and the moment he entered, he was frightened, scared. So he started, Dada, Madhusudana, where are you? Dada means elder brother. Where are you? So, no reply. He cried a few times, no reply. Then he started crying. My mother told me, you are here. I am scared, why are you not coming? So, when the boy started shedding tears, suddenly this elder brother appears with a flute in hand, and put his hand on this Gopala's. He said, where are you? I am here, just here only. It took a little time because I was grazing the cows. And joyfully he took them. Hey, do you want to eat mangoes? You know, there is just a mango tree hidden there. Come on, you are a magical tree. There was nothing there. He took him there, and the tree was full of mango, beautiful juice, luscious, juicy mango tree. There, like that, various fruits, whatever his brother... he did not know, of course, but the elder brother knows all the secrets. So, every day, new fruits, new eatables, new games, and the boy did not know when he crossed the forest. And then next, immediately, the village of the teacher. And so, in those days, there was a custom. Once in a year, the pupils have to... students have to bring some gift the parents have to give. So, that day came, and the Guru asked everybody. It was a custom, everybody knows. So, the boy came and told the mother, tomorrow is this, everybody is bringing. What gift shall I take to the teacher? She said, my boy, I don't have anything to give. You ask Dada, he has got some gift. So, next day, the boy, by this time, you know, he was experiencing the Dada every day. So, next day when the Dada came, Dada, today we have to give some gift, otherwise he will scold me. Then Krishna, at the Madhusodhana, he gave one small pot, mud pot. It is full of, what you call, yoghurt, curds. And the boy, joyfully, boy, you know, innocent. What does the Guru think? Everybody is bringing costly presents. But what does my Guru think about it? Like that, he was not thinking. So, he went. Every other student was bringing cloths and jewellery and money and plenty of things. But this boy went in the village who wants a yoghurt pot. But the Guru could not refuse because he is such a lovely boy. But he knew this is a poor boy. So, reluctantly he took it and there was a big pot where he emptied it. The moment he emptied it, it was full. Again he emptied it, it was like Draupadi's Akshaya Patra. So, the Guru was astounded. And he asked, who gave you this? He said, my Dada, my elder brother. His name is Madhusudana. He always is working in the forest. He doesn't even come home. Show me your brother. Because he could not believe. This is something magical. It is not an ordinary pot. Then the boy says, come, I will show you. You are not believing me. So, he took him into the forest and showed. Dada, Madhusudana, my Guru is not believing me. So, you come and see. But he was shouting, but no voice was coming. Then the teacher was looking at him strangely. There was something fishy about it. Then the boy started crying, Dada, why are you not coming? Because every day he was playing. Even that day he played. Then both the Guru and this boy heard, my brother, your Guru is an impure person. He will not be able to see me. But because of your entreaty, he will be able to hear me. But it is I who gave. Of course, the teacher could clearly hear the voice of God. He had no option. So, this was the story. Every person has faith and it is true that God will look after us. This is the faith which is the basis of all our spiritual endeavor. Even in life you cannot get on without faith. Do you know why? Faith is the root of our life in every field, whether you believe in God or not. You have faith in your car, you have faith in your dad being a good driver. You have faith in everything. Whenever you enter into an aeroplane, you put your faith in whom? Both in the aeroplane and also your pilot. There is no choice. Bus, train, driver, any driver. Any driver is Parthasarathy. Only don't trust Ramakrishna Mission sadhus who claim that they can drive you. Once, you know, one of our Swamis in America, in Providence, recently he learned to drive. So, I will drive and take you. So, I sat down, he took me there to the destination. After that, his devotees asked, always eager, what do you think about our Guru? I said, you know, your Guru is a very spiritual person. The moment he started driving, I was only remembering now. Last week, you said whenever there is an avatar, even they incur Prarabdha Karma. I was thinking Prarabdha Karma is from the previous births, not in the current birth. Please rephrase your question. You know, in the last class, you said whenever there is an avatar, like Krishna, Rama, they also had Prarabdha Karma. Is that because they have a body and involuntarily they incur Karma? How can a pure soul have Prarabdha Karma? Either I did not express it properly or you did not hear from me properly. So, I make fun also, you know. Why God incarnates? Supposing you make your kitchen a mess, who is supposed to clean it up? Krishna. Yeah, Krishna. So, who created this mess? God. God created the mess. And therefore, God has to... That is why he says, who created dharma, na dharma? It is God. So, and who gave that pravrutti through his maya, which is called Rajoguna combined with Tamoguna, for people to behave in an adharmic way? It is only God. We need to think that we have got independent will to behave as we like, either dharmic way or adharmic way. It is a great mistake. Because our body, mind function through three gunas. These three gunas function, combined these three gunas, what are they called? Another name for three gunas? Maya. Daivihesha gunamayi mama maya duratyaya maamevaye prapadyante mayam etam tarantite. Bhagavad Gita. Daivihesha gunamayi. Mama maya. Mama maya. My maya. Is daivi. It belongs to me. And it is consisting of what? Gunamayi. It is consisting of Sattva guna, Rajoguna and Tamoguna. And maamev, it is very difficult to cross, impossible. Because it is our mind. What is our mind and body? Three gunas manifesting in a subtle way is called our mind. These very three gunas manifesting through the gross body is also nothing but Maya. Duratyaya, atyaya means to cross over. Duratyaya means very difficult to cross over. But then there must be a way out. It is maamevaye prapadyante. That prapanna, Ramayana says prapanna mantra. Prapadyante means those who surrender themselves completely to me, etam mayam te taranti. They cross over, te taranti, mayam etam. Because it is not your maya, it is my maya. Who can cross God's maya? No one can cross. Tasmat vamey asharanam mama dina bandho. Therefore I take refuge in you. There is no other way. This is ego which says I can do. But that ego which says I can do is also effect of what? Rajoguna, only Rajoguna. But then the laws of karma, how does it then... You see, so long as we feel that I am the doer, then that effect of karma will come to me. The moment you say, oh Lord, it is you who make me do. I am just a puppet. That is also there in the Gita. Ishwarah sarvabhutana hridyeshe arjuna tishtati brahmayan sarvabhutani yantrarudhani maya. You see a puppet show? And behind the puppet there would be some strings. And those strings are called gunas. Our body-mind complex is the puppet. The gunas are the strings, and the puller of the string is God, Ishwarah. Sarvabhutana hridyeshe arjuna tishtati. Ishwarah sits in the hearts of every being. Being means what? Anything that is called being, not necessarily with life. A river flows, a mountain comes up and goes down. Everything is moving, you know. A city becomes a desert, a desert becomes a city. A thousand years a desert, a thousand years a city. If you go now to Dubai, what was it before? Now it is Maya city. You can see the Maya there. You see big, big palm trees. It is all made up of electrical grids, solar grids. And they are growing wonderful things there. In future, these driverless cars. Dubai is one of the modernest cities for implementing these modern ideas, where you can clearly see the science fiction stories coming true. So, this is what the scripture is telling. Ishwarah is controlling us. How we are behaving, why we are behaving is all because of his Maya in the form of three gunas. But we are not realizing that it is he who is pulling the strings. We think, who is pulling the string? I am pulling the string. That fellow, stupid fellow, he says, I am pulling the strings of everybody. That's why Ramakrishna's beautiful story is God laughs on two occasions. God laughs on two occasions. What are the two occasions? Two brothers, when they grow up, they divide their ancestral land. This side is mine and the other side is yours. God laughs and says, the whole universe belongs to me. And this stupid fellow says, this portion is mine and this portion is yours. This is how even countries come into existence, only because of political reasons. So, where was your Bangladesh before? What was Bangladesh? India. So, like that, you know, many states. This is Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu, Andhra, Karnataka was not existing before. It was all Madras. So, like that, somebody comes and then occupies it and then puts a mark and says, this is mine. And it becomes a mine. Yeah, anybody says, mine, that is a mine. M-I-N-E, mine. It explodes. In Vietnam, after the Vietnam War, one journalist went to investigate. And this time, he found something astonishing. Previously, men used to walk in the front, and 100 feet behind, the women would be walking. That is the sign of their culture, before the Vietnam War, in the Vietnam American War. After the Vietnam War, this journalist went and saw, the ladies were walking first, and then 100 feet behind, the men were walking, their husbands. He was astonished. He asked the husband, what is this? He said, shh, these damned Americans planted a lot of landmines. This is called cultural change. So, God, ultimately it is nothing but God. The body is God, the mind is God, the universe is God, everything is God. Whichever philosophy you take, you call it ultimately Narayana, the highest Brahman. And we are all parts of it. Part means what? Same nature. A part cannot be a different nature. That is what is important. What is the second issue he left? One was dividing, the second one? Oh, second story. A mother has got a child, and the child is very sick, come again. So, she calls for the doctor, and the doctor comes and says, don't worry mother, he is going to be alright. God laughs, and he says, I decided to take this fellow away, and the stupid fellow says, don't worry, I will save you. This is the truth, highest truth. Ultimately it is God who is running the whole show. That is why he is called Jagannataka Sutradhari. Sutra means what? String. Jagannataka. Ranganatha Swami. Ranganatha. What is Ranganatha? What is the meaning of Ranganatha? You know the famous Sri Ranganatha Swami? What is the meaning of Ranganatha? Natha means what? Sri Natha means what? Sri means it represents Mahalakshmi, so Sri Natha means... Natha means what? Husband. And Natha is husband. Ranga means what? Universe, everything. No, no, there is a specific meaning. Ranga means a stage. The whole universe is what? A stage. And he is the master of the stage. And who is running the show? Sri. This is the truth. And when we come to know the truth, then our part ends there. That is called touching the granny. Touching what? Granny. There is a game the grandmother wants to play with her grandchildren, small children. So, what is it? Their eyes are covered and the grandma is moving about. So, any player, any child touches the grandma, then the game is over for that child. He will be free. So, this is the game. Hide and seek, like that. So, the grandma is observing. If any child gets very tired, deliberately she goes near him, as though she did not allow him to know that I am near, as though he had succeeded in touching her. And the moment, oh, I touched granny. And then she hugs him and says, okay, now you are a winner. You can go. By whose will is he a winner? By his will only he is a winner. That is the ultimate truth. That is why Sharanagati is the only way, whether he is a jnani. So, this is also told of Shankaracharya, you know. Once he used to say, I am Brahman, I can do anything. I am Brahman, so I can do anything. Once he was travelling, the mother wanted to teach him a lesson, Divine Mother. So, on the way it was a very narrow path, only one person can walk. One old lady was lying, like Hanuman was lying in the path of Bhimasena. So, like that. In Hindu culture, you should not cross a person. So, he politely asked her, Mother, you please move away a little bit, and I want to pass this way. She said, I am too weak, you better move me. The moment he touched, he lost all power. He could not even move. And then that moment, enlightenment came. Because if you touch Divine Mother, or Divine Mother touches you. We have a beautiful saying in Telugu language, you know, whether an axe falls on a pumpkin, or pumpkin falls on the axe, the result is exactly the same. Whether you touch the Mother, or Mother touches you, the result is same. Like Nanasambandha, the Mother fed him, you know that? And the time, his parents went to take bath, and he was hungry. Then the Divine Mother came and fed him, and when the Father came and saw the milk, who gave him milk? Why Mother came and gave? The moment, he became a Nani. That's why it's called Nanasambandha. What is that? The temple where it happens. Anyway, it is Divine Mother's grace, God's grace, that alone, because he created, he became, so he alone is running the show. There is a wonderful word, Ranganatha, he is the lord of this whole stage, the whole world is a stage, and he brings some puppets, little bigger puppets, and then says, this is husband, and this is wife. Wife puppet is slightly smaller than the husband puppet, and then slowly, two, three smaller puppets, and the game is going on. You know, the second story you told for me, I can narrate an incident in my brother's life. He is an emergency doctor, back in Coimbatore. He, once there was a little baby, after 15 years it was born to the parents. So he was taken, some emergency came, they brought to him, somehow he revived that baby, and nobody couldn't do it, so he revived it somehow. He was praised like anything, like he was given, so we thought it was talent and stuff like that, but within two or three months, I think to hit his ego, there was a very easily revivable case of a 35 year old man came. He couldn't do it, he died on the spot. It is not in our hands. We can only do what best we can do, that is where our power lies, and the result is always in the hands of God only. That is a fact. So it is the ego, how it went at the time... That is the problem. The whole sadhana is meant not for God realization, to get rid of the ego, because God is here. We can't see, like Prahlada's father cannot see Narayana, even though he himself is Narayana. But whereas Prahlada could see. There was a bishop who taught a prince all about Catholic religion, and at the end, in front of the father, king, the child will be asked a question. So the bishop who taught him came and told, Child, I'll give you one dollar if you tell me where God is. The child said, Bishop, I'll give you two dollars if you can tell me where God is not. Because the bishop did not teach where God is. He thought that God is available only in church. That is the type of teaching where God is there only and he is not elsewhere. This is our problem. God is everywhere. Prahlada's story is God is everywhere. If we break our ego, it is like taking off our covering, and then you don't cover God, you remove your covering. The problem is the jaundice, it is here in our eyes. There was a woman who used to criticize her neighbors, that they are all dirty, their cloths are dirty. And so once a newcomer moved into the neighborhood, and they were even more dirty than the previous owners. So one day she was raising and shouting. Her friend entered, and that lady heard. And then she got hold of him and said, Come with me. He looked near the window and said, All the spots you are seeing outside are on your window. You clear your window, or their cloths will be okay. Is there a difference between faith and trust? We use these words, what you call, synonymously, interchangeably. Really speaking, these are different words. That's why we call it trustee. Even though my Gurudev, Videshan Maharshi said, Now you are a trusted person. But this is the difference, vital difference between what we call belief and Shraddha. We discussed it, if you still remember. Belief is which we control. So if something is, life is going on well, and you say, Yes, God exists. This is our belief. If something gets upset, our faith also gets upset. This is belief. Shraddha is something which controls us, like a madcap, you know. A madcap is not responsible for what he does. Because even if a madcap kills, you don't punish him like other murderers. He is mad, he doesn't know what he is doing. He doesn't know what he is doing. An animal doesn't know what it is doing. That's why they will keep him separately. I have to tell you a last joke, you know. There was this factory worker who had to work very hard, and once he had gone mad. So his colleagues, they loved him, put him in a lunatic asylum. Beautiful place, and first class buildings, regular food, and then beautiful nurses. And he was happy, and after 15-20 days, the colleagues went there and said, John, how are you? He said, I am very happy. So, when are you going to come out? He looked at them and said, What? This beautiful building, this regular food, these beautiful nurses serving me, you must be really mad to think that I am going to leave this place and come. Is there anything in our scriptures around humility? The whole scripture is about humility. You know what is humility? There are two definitions given about humility. Absence of egotism is one definition. Absence of egotism. The second humility means seeing God in everything. When you see God, how can you not be humble? Seeing God means, you know, not that he will come with four hands and all that, seeing something much greater in the other person, and comparing myself to that person and say, I am much much smaller than this person. And that is the attitude, first attitude. Vidya dadaati vinayam. It is only arrogant fellows, they don't have true culture. That is the problem. Okay. See you again. Tomorrow I will not be here. No, I am out. Hold. Okay Krishna, see you. Sri Hari. So Savita, everything is okay? Yes, thank you. I told you something which you have not been following. Eat nutritious food. Become a little strong. Yes. Make it, if you want to be a good musician or anything, a strong physical personality is necessary. Because otherwise your lungs will not be, is very sweet voice. But to sustain, you require strong lungs, strong voice, strength. Prana is necessary. Music, everything is about prana. So, do something about it. Mummy is okay? Yes. All right. Do both of you like sweets? Chocolates? Anything will do. www.mooji.org