Hari OmThe Vishnusahasranaam, the Radhasahasranaam, the
Lalitasahasranaam and the Ramraksha, that is how we have travelled
so far. For the last twelve years, I have been talking. Every Thursday, I
kept talking, I rose to speak, I sat speaking to you, I stood up to speak.
On the 3rd October 2002, I gave the thirteen point programme,
then came the Ramnaam book and so many other things happened.
But why did I begin to speak at all? I began to speak, not because I
had something to tell, not even because I wanted to counsel and not in
the least out of the sentiment that I am the wise one and those, who
hear me, the fools. I did it out of just the one sentiment - to steer unto
My friends, the stream of love that flows from My Five Gurus, Dattaguru, Gayatrimata, Prabhu
Ramachandra, Hanumanji and Sainath. The Parameshvar always bound Me very firmly with two
principles, viz. Truth and Love, and of course the Joy that results from them. That is also the reason
why in the three Works (Grantha) that I wrote, I clearly stated along with my signature, who I am and
also who My five Gurus are. One can well deny one’s words and claim that ‘you misconstrued what I
said. This was not what I meant’. However, neither am I a politician nor have I ever indulged in any
politics. Not that politics is dreadful; it is in fact essential. Politics has its own set of rules. No doubt
about that. So, all that I had to state clearly has appeared clearly in the three Works (Grantha) and
cannot be denied. Once things appear in black and white, there is no question of denying them. What
is contained in the Works is exactly how things are and denying what I say, is just not in My nature.
Right from My childhood, I happened to meet hundreds of thousands of people. I have always said that
I am a very lucky person. I met very few people, who were bad, really very few. I always met more
good people than bad and more importantly I met many, who loved Me, people, who loved Me without
giving a thought to how much I loved them. They were people, who loved Me without giving a thought
to how I was. All of them are My friends and by friends I mean both men and women of every age
group, right from a two day old infant to the ninety year old Chaubal Aajoba. So there is a stream of
love that flows from the heart of these friends. I always kept playing in this stream and while I was
immersed in this stream, this very stream of love was transformed on a beautiful and pure level, into
the pure flow of the Ganga and that too of its own accord, merely out of love. Then, as I was immersed
in this flow, as I was savouring the experience, hardly did one realize when the sport of love took over.
Sometimes on the banks of this river, at other times in the course of that. It was only Love that
reigned, pure Love. When the discourses on the Vishnusahasranaam began, many old people were
worried; Bapu speaks about one ‘Name’ from the Vishnusahasranaam for as long as seven or even
eight Thursdays When we stopped these discourses on the Vishnusahasranaam as we began with the
Ramraksha, we had barely covered two hundred and fifty or two hundred and seventy-five ‘Names’. At
this rate, it ought to take us forty or fifty years to complete the entire Sahasranaam. My dear ones, the
‘Name’ (of the Bhagavanta) is boundless, infinite.
The bhagavanta’s Name is infinite, so are His
attributes. We can thus talk about Him endlessly. There is just no limit. the human life does however,
have limits, it has restraints. And it is as per the Wish of My Dattaguru, that I stand here to establish
the maryada purushartha. Dharma, Artha, Kaama, Moksha and Bhakti are five purusharthas and the
sixth, the one that is essential in order to attain the other five and so the greatest of them all is the
maryada purushartha. It is when we violate the maryada that we commit the adharma (violation of the
dharma). It is when the violation of the dharma occurs, that Artha and Kaama stray. Leave alone the
Moksha, even bhakti deserts us and all our lives we keep wallowing in misery.
It is through His own conduct that Prabhu Ramachandra
demonstrates the significance of the observance of the maryada. We
read the lifestory, the values of Prabhu Ramachandra, we read
stories about Him, we watch serials. We love all of these. We enjoy
them.
We are however, not able to implement these values in life. Ihave always stressed the one thing and I have always told you My
dear ones, ‘talk less, act more’. Do not while away time merely in
pondering. For if you think on the lines of ‘I will do this when such
and such a thing happens or in so and so situation’ and keep
allowing yourself to be hampered by every little thing, you will once
wake up to the day when your whole lifetime would have gone by
and you will be left with no time on your hands and yet all possible
things that remain to be done. So, first just get going, start acting. To put it in Samartha Ramdas’s
words, ‘Kelyaane hota aahe re, aadhi kelechi paahije’ (Things definitely happen but in order that they
do, you must do them in the first place.) ‘Yatna to deva jaanaavaa, antari dharitaa bare’. (Know that
effort is God, effort is strength. Holding this value in your heart will fetch you well-being.) Yatna is
effort. ‘Hota na aagyaa binu payasaare’. No fruit is achieved without effort.
We have heard several pravachans. There are some, who have not missed a single pravachan. They
were all ears, they wrote down every word. But even if a little of it seeps into your life, not only this
lifetime but even the following births will benefit from it. So then, what are we going to do after we
stop the pravachan? I told you, we are going to do the upasana. The upasana will spread over 108
Thursdays. I will personally get them done from you here in this place. These upasanas will also begin
on the centres but at an appropriate time. The fact remains however, that there is undoubtedly
something special about doing them here. You might ask, ‘Bapu, can we not do them at home at other
times?’ Yes of course you can. That is not a sin. But some things just require a certain setting, a
backdrop, they require a special background. Every crop requires a different soil. What the upasana
will fetch us when we do it here, will be a hundred times as much as the fruit that it will fetch us when
we do it a hundred or a thousand times in a corner of our home. But then Bapu, just why are we
setting about this new and special upasana? We will be releasing a booklet for the upasana which will
be made available as usual for a minimal cost, a price that all can afford and on the first or latest by
the second Thursday of the upasana. The upasana will be simple yet beautiful. These upasana have the
capacity to transform time.
The book that I wrote on the third world war, is a result of My study. This book does not foretell. As I
said last time, Dattaguru showed me a dream. Dreams can be happy and they can even be fearful.
This dream however, is merely a dream. I prayed to Dattaguru after what I saw in this dream. This
Father of Mine, then indicated to Me, the path of the upasana, to enable My friends to protect
themselves in the horrific times to come. Human capacity does have its limits. However, the capacity
of even one single human being, when associated with Truth and Love, does indeed prove stronger
than that of even a hundred thousand human beings. Several instances in history stand testimony to
this fact. I do not support fatalism. I stand for the purushartha. And so even My Work bears the name,
‘The Shreemadpurushartha’. ‘Eka janardani bhoga prarabdhacha, Pari Harikripe tyaachaa naasha
aahe.’ (Sant Eknath, the disciple of Swami Janardan says, although the writings of fate are ineffable,
the Grace of hari can definitely wipe them clean.) I have full trust in these words. It is we, who shape
our fates and so we can surely bring about a change in it.
The dream that I had, was a long one. Just what did I see? A timeperiod of about twenty years where there is fire, fire everywhere.
There are flames of war, of hate, of violence, of destruction of
damage. This fire will engulf all, it will spare neither a single nation
nor a single human being. I prayed to Dattaguru for the sake of
those, who wish to save themselves. who wish to protect themselves.
Two particular groups will confront each other with the objective of
destroying each other. Since the innocent end up being at the
receiving end of such acts, many will bear the brunt of this situation.
I also saw that some evil persons wish to slice India into three parts.
Apart from wishing that India not remain one united nation, each of
these also wishes to establish his leadership, to strengthen his financial resources, his political
interests. Hence the desire to slice India into three. That is what I saw in the dream. Whether this is
true or not, is what the people know better, not I. The division of India into three parts in order to
weaken it. Even if the parts are big, India is going to shrink in size and actually speaking which one of
these will be the original India? All of these will be India and truly speaking, none of these will be
India. So that is what it is, India in three parts. However at the same time, I also saw one more thing.
Who could play the role of bringing these parts back together and what exactly could be done? What
could prevent this? My Sadguru, Dattaguru also indicated to Me, how to crush these large scale
attempts, before they are implemented. India just has to beware and be alert about these three parts
that those persons would like to divide India into. We need to rise above squabbles, hatred and
resentment for India has a very important role to play in the war that is to come.
This land of India is special. That is why some people entered the country from the north and some
others took the southern path of the sea. Both these originally belonged to one and the same
civilization; the Aryans and the Dravidians are one, they merely entered the country through different
paths and resided separately for many years, that is all. India is a land of saints. The words of saints
have resonated here. India has a great spiritual tradition, which is why India can extend support to the
entire world. Moreover, only those, who can give love, can extend support. Only those, who wish to
offer help without any underlying motive whatsoever; only those, who offer help because they love the
bhagavanta can accomplish this task, not those, who harbour a feeling of obliging others. And so, we
are going to do it.
The world stands divided into two huge groups and a massive war stands to take place between these
two groups. That is she, the witch of the third world war, who is opening her jaws to swallow the whole
world. India will have to take on the mission of stopping this or rather that of rehabilitating and
restoring, for the war is indeed inevitable. That is what I want to prepare My friends for. But we can
help others only if we are safe, is it not? Look, two houses are on fire, yours and your neighbour’s. You
would first put out the fire in your house. The one, whose house is not on fire or the one, whose house
cannot at all catch fire, can help. I want to carry My people to a stage, where they are totally free of
the fear of fire. It is only then that they can extend help to others. And hence these upasanas, to attain
this situation.
You might ask, ‘Bapu, what date, which day and exactly at what time will all of this begin?’ Well, all
of this has already begun. In fact the quiet that seems to prevail in the world is deceptive. This quiet
holds great unrest in its womb, there is tremendous violence that lies beneath this calm and very soon,
we are going to see this violence express itself. The flames of war will burn down and penetrate one
shell after another, one veil after another and 80% of the world population is going to bear the brunt of
the war, of the circumstances. The world will end up loosing atleast a third of its human population.
That was what I saw. I do not wish to bare all the details though.Who is going to do what and how is it going to be done? We
should not be interested in that. What we should be interested in
is, how we could with our good conduct, our sincere bhakti,
protect ourselves, our homes, our family and our nation. What
could we do to help our fellow beings all over the world as a
nation? The first step in this direction would be to enhance our
capacities by way of the upasana. Also, we ought to train
ourselves at the ‘Aniruddha’s Academy of Disaster Management’
and prepare to help others and be self-dependent. Remember
always that self-dependence proves the most important.
‘Somebody will come and save me’ is a thought that never helps. The one, who is himself capable of
swimming, is the one, who is saved. He is the one, who is not in need of help from others. Besides, like
I mentionned a little while ago, I swim in the flow of life and splendidly and expertly at that. I am
willing to teach every one of My friends to swim and from today, it is this training to swim that I wish
to begin. I am not merely going to get the upasana done. The upasana is going to provide our mind
and our buddhi with a capacity that will strengthen our hands along with the mind and the buddhi. We
are ordinary human beings, not sanyasis, who have renounced the world; it is not easy for us to
overcome difficulties in our personal lives. We have a wife and children, parents, brothers and sisters
to think of and to take care of. In this period, these horrifying times of the Kaliyuga, it is these
upasanas and also of course the ‘Shreemadpurushartha Grantharaaj’ that is going to prove of great
help.
As stated in the prologue to the Shreemadpurushartha, none of it is Mine as such. I have not stated
anything new, thousands of saints and thousands of acharyas have already said it. All I have done, is
to present before you all that I collected just like a bee collects honey from various flowers. That is all.
Who are the protector bees of this Grantha, this honeycomb? I have said that they are ‘Pipadada and
Sameerdada’, i.e. Kaka, the father of Sameerdada and Suchitdada, then every person that holds this
post and Sameerdada. The Pipadada that the Grantha mentions is ‘Kaka’, Suchitdada’s and
Sameerdada’s father. Suchitdada’s father has left behind tremendous written work, we have heard it.
Sameerdada has already begun writing the fourth Grantha. That again will reveal to us many things.
Besides, ‘Pratyaksha’ will soon be wearing a new form. It will remain a daily, but it will assume a new
form. Why? To prepare each person. Do make it a point to read it. I am not the one to campaign in
order to sell My paper. I do not need to. Even if I accept Gurudakshina on the day of the
Gurupournima, i.e. one day in the year, I can easily collect four hundred to five hundred crores from
the forty or fifty lakh people, who attend. Everybody is aware that I just do not need to. I do not
accept so much as a flower, I do not need it. As I said last time, when I ask for a crore of rupees, I
mean one Ramnaam book. When I ask for five hundred crores, I am actually asking for five hundred
Ramnaam books. My records are in terms of the Ramnaam book, in terms of your seva, in terms of
your honest and sincere hard work.
Very soon ‘Pratyaksha’ will begin to present many things in a new form. Reading these will give so
much to man and automatically. The cuttings of the writings that we would be preserving will offer
guidance from time to time, because it is ‘Pratyaksha’, where Bapu puts forth His opinion and speaks
His mind in a manner that is ‘Pratyaksha’, open and explicit. I have never done anything secretly. I
have always been telling you My dear ones, no agent stands between the bhagavanta and you. I am
not the Parameshvar. It is My Dattaguru, who is the Parameshvar. Shri Saibaba said very clearly,
‘’Allah Maalik’. In several chapters (of the Shrisaisachcharit) He says, ‘Majalaa jo jo mhane de de. Dene
ekacha maajhyaa sarkaarche’ (Every person keeps asking of Me. .... What is given is only what My
Master gives.) He further says, ‘I am not the ‘Anala Hakk’ of My Bhagavanta, I am the ‘Yaade Hakk’. I
am not the Parameshvar. I keep chanting His name and recalling Him to the mind.’ The Sainath, who
said this, is My Guru, who guides and directs. What do I then have to say to anybody? But let Me make
one thing clear. I am Aniruddha, I was always Aniruddha and Aniruddha I shall always be. I have no
need at all to take on any form or any such thing. I have said to you very candidly that I do not need
anybody. I am very blunt indeed.
Many wonder how, in a place where the gathering barely numbersfive thousand, the resources amount to two hundred crores, a
hundred crores, five hundred or even a thousand crores. people
working in Bapu’s organization are all aware of the limited
resources that exist. People then also wonder how at all Bapu has
this huge number of volunteers. Several even planted their men to
find out if Bapu pays distributes money among the volunteers.
They fell flat on their faces. Leave alone distributing money to
them, the volunteers in fact spend out of their own pockets and
stand through twenty-four hours on the occasion of the Ganpati
immersion. They eat a vada-pav or whatever is available but out of
their own money and do their work. Bapu distributes neither any money, nor clothes nor sweets. In
fact if need be, Bapu gives a good pasting. So how come Bapu has so many people? Those (the above
mentionned kind, who plant men to find out etc.) will never follow the subtraction-the addition, the
multiplication and the division of the matter because they will never follow the equations of love.
Never. The mathematics of love is far different. They will never understand that in the mathematics of
love one plus one even makes one lakh. However, when I say that I do not need you, it means that I
am fond of you, I love you. But I am not here to say what pleases you. I am not going say what
soothes your mind. I shall say only what I am convinced about, whether you like it or you do not.
The one, who follows Me because he likes it, is Mine. The one, who stands in opposition because he
does not, is Mine as well. But the one, who comes along because he likes to, is My friend, yes he is
indeed My friend. The one, who stands in opposition because he does not, is also My friend, but when?
‘maranaantaani vairaani’. Enemity ends after death. After his death, I will surely befriend such a
person, who stood in opposition, just like Rama befriended Ravan. He even praised Ravan liberally. I
too will do that. I am no saint. I do not say that ‘this one is a good person, that one there is good and
the other one too is good’. What is in fact good, is what I call good and what is bad, is bad. I do not
have an equilateral view. However much a person may go wrong, he remains My friend as long as he
has the desire to improve. May the whole world be up against him, I will surely stand by him. However
much people might want to stone him accusing him of sin, I will say, ‘may he be a sinner; yet he is
Mine and I am ready to accept him, to hold him.’ And mind you I will do it in broad daylight, openly
and publicly. I have no need to do anything secretly. I am what I am, the way I am and you all know it
very well.
When we bought ‘Happy Home’ for the organization (sanstha) and I bought a floor for Myself, you
might recall that I came an hour late that day. I came here and shared with you that this is the plot
number, these are the income tax numbers, this is what we are buying. The transaction happened
after I informed you. The transaction was open, that was the way it happened, exactly the way it
happened. So I wish to tell you that do not accept what I have to say, if you do not agree. I do not
believe in blindly accepting the word. I believe in accepting what your experience points to. Even if you
disagree with My opinion, do not accept it as that will not be genuine on your part and I too will not
approve of that. Those, who have the faith that our Bapu will never ever say anything wrong, are of
course a case apart. But I am of the firm opinion that as long as this kind of faith does not take root in
your heart, you need to examine each and every thing in this world. I have always been telling you not
to accept the word blindly, not to accept things because so and so says it. However, once you do
develop the faith, do not keep uprooting it. For instance, if you plant a sapling you do have to be
patient and wait till it grows do you not? You cannot be uprooting it every now and then and measuring
its length to find out if it has grown! Will the sapling even grow if you do that? Once you choose a
person as your husband or your wife, what is the point in testing your spouse every day? You must put
your trust in your spouse. All the same, you must not be gullible fools just because you are on the
spiritual path or on the path of bhakti. If we are on the path of bhakti and are Bapu’s friends, we must
know that Bapu never tells us to offer the other cheek if we are slapped on one. I say that if you get
one slap on your cheek, slap four times in return if you are capable of it. But if the person, who slaps
you happens to be your mother, offer her the namaskar four times. If your mother is eighty and she
slaps you at your age of sixty, even then My dear ones, it is a blessing, truly it is. She might have done
it in a fit of fury, even apparently out of resentment but the fact remains that her maternal sentiment,
her motherhood is forever in tact and alive. It is always pure. Apparently your mother might be against
you, she might be fighting with you because of your wife, she might be abusing you but her beatings,
her abuses will never bring you any harm for the motherhood of Mother Jagadamba is what dwells
inside her. This sacred element of motherhood will always fetch you welfare. However, do not try to
feed on Putnamavshi’s milk taking her to be your mother. Know well that in the first place you do not
have the capacity to digest the milk of Putnamavshi, it is only Shreekrishna, who can do so. We must
therefore know, who Putnamavshi is, who Yashoda Maiyya is and who Devaki Maataa is. Yashoda
Maiyya did not give birth to Shreekrishna but she is the mother all the same. We fail to make out as
we are ordinary human beings.
It is to explain to us the difference among these three that our Bapuspoke for twelve whole years, to teach us to distinguish among these
three - Putnamavshi, Yashoda Maiyya, who brings up and takes care
and Devakimata, who gives birth. Similarly, why did Bapu explain
the Ramraksha to us? What is the Ramraksha? What is the
Ramayan? It is all about four brothers. There are four brothers on
one side, Ram-Lakshman-Bharat-Shatrughna. There four brothers on
the other side too. You might say, ‘Bapu there are three, not four.’
But they are indeed four Ravan-Bibheeshan-Kumbhakarna and
Kuber. Kuber was Ravan’s brother. The whole event unfolds with
four brothers on either side. I wanted to explain it to you as the
Ramayan does not occur merely at the material worldly level. It occurs at a totally different level. We
understand the Ramraksha in order to understand how the Ramayan is closely associated with our life.
It is for this very reason that I gave you the Ramnaam book when the pravachans on the Ramraksha
were in progress. Remember that this book is the greatest weapon in the world. How come? First of all
it is weapon that protects. It is the Chakra, the Sudarshan Chakra that protects each person, who uses
it. ‘Jethe ramnaamaache aavartan, phire tethe Vishnuche Sudarshan’, says Hemadpant in the
Shrisaisachcharit. The Ramnaam book is indeed a weapon, it is a protective armour, a protective shell.
It is at the same time a great and very effective ‘astra’ (a weapon that is propelled by a mantra) that
wipes out our enemy without our knowledge or even to our knowledge. We must understand that.
The Parameshvar knows all possible languages and that is beyond doubt. It is we, who fail to make
distinctions. Who is Bibheeshan? Who is Kumbhakarna? Who is Kuber? Who is Ravan? We take
Putnamavshi to be our mother, we drink the poison that she feeds us and we almost lose our lives.
What if we do not accept mother Yashoda, who takes care when our mother, who gave birth to us,
disowns us? Shreekrishna accepted her, He knew the facts and He was after all Krishna. We are mere
ordinary human beings. We must know to distinguish among Putnamavshi, Yashoda Maiyya and Devaki
Mata. I spoke twelve whole years so that you understand what is right and what is wrong, what is apt
and what is not. Now it is time for Me to act, to act with My friends or if need be, to act alone; so that
peace prevails in the world; that peace prevails and there is no damage and resentment does not
spread. Even if the whole world is up against Me, I will stand alone and fight everyone. I will not be
frightened at all to fight all by Myself. Even if the whole world says that the Parmeshvar does not exist
in this world, I will keep saying all alone, that the Parmeshvar exists in this world. Besides, I know, I
will never be alone.
Even when I was nobody, when hardly anybody knew Me, the people, who did know Me loved Me
tremendously. I practised in the Parel area from 1983 to 1998, I began practising simultaneously in
Dadar since 1993 and then since 1998 only in Dadar both in the morning and in the evening. Earlier I
used to practise in Dadar in the mornings and in Parel from 1.30 in the afternoon to 1.30 late in the
night. There were these people, who happened to think that I practised in Karjat and became a
Godman because I was not doing well. This has to do with a newspaper that is really reputed but after
they wrote this, they fell on their faces as atleast two and a half to three lakh patients of Mine apart
from everybody in Parel village know that a person practising from 1.30 in the afternoon till 1.30 at
night in Parel and 9.00 in the morning to 12.30 at night in Dadar, could not possibly have practised in
Karjat, could he?So many of My patients are sitting here. So I did not really have to do anything.
Those people were automatically brought to shame. So we know that all else has to bow before the
Truth. I also wish to tell you that at the time, I never bought any rice, mangoes, jackfruits, coconuts,
tamarind or even ‘kadve vaal’. In May, My patients used to get
mangoes in boxes or bags for Me from their village. They also got
rice and cashew nuts. One day I received 38 jackfruits! How was I
going to eat all of them? I distributed them and would thus finish
them but their love for me was boundless. I would receive huge
quantities of udi, Bukka, prasad for Ashadhi Ekadashi and Kartiki
Ekadashi. Each one got it with so much love! They loved Me even
then. I grew up in Parel as I grew up at My grand-mother’s house.
My grand-mother deliberately put me in a school that had a majority
of the ordinary labour class. My honourable principal is here today, a
truly respectable person. G.D.Patil Sir! A noble person, who loves the
students and who follows the school’s pledge of loving service.
I do definitely respect him. I was
admitted to this school despite My wealthy background, despite the fact that I was born with a golden
spoon in My mouth as My grand-mother believed that I must be able to reach out to the poorest of the
poor. I must have a first hand experience of everything in this world. My friends in school hardly had
anything. I had a big house, two-three cars, two-three telephones, a T.V. right from the day it was
available, two refrigerators.
Seven or eight months back one of My friends from that area, now highly educated and very well
placed, lost his father. His mother still lives in one of the chawls there. A building has replaced the
chawl now. So I went to him, a few people from the Parel centre came along, Pramod too, was among
them. Some of them might even be here today. I used to visit this place, these two buildings when I
was in school with this friend. The residents of these buildings gave Me tremendous love, boundless
love right from the heart. I was not merely a friend of Mr. XYZ, I became everybody’s friend. I then did
My M.D. and had a unit working under Me in the Nair Hospital. People used to tell them, ‘now
Aniruddha is a big man, Joshi is a renowned doctor. He will not care for you now’. But they were sure,
their Bapu, their Aniruddha would never forget them. Even then I was called ‘Bapu’ as that is what I
was called even at home, even as a child. They would not feel apprehensive about coming and
standing at the door of My OPD of the Nair Hospital and would be convinced, yes Bapu recognizes us,
He has not forgotten us. He is so affectionate to us. They have the same feeling even now, even after I
have become Aniruddha Bapu.
So when I visited this friend on the fourth day after he lost his father, I had instructed that only 15-20
volunteers come as I wanted to avoid publicity and also the crowd for I did not want that the family
feel uneasy because of too many people. They were in grief. But 20-25 thousand people had gathered.
I was climbing down the stairs after meeting My friend’s mother. There were about 40-50 women, who
had gathered in a room near the staircase. One of them called out to Me. ‘How are you?’ I asked. They
are all My mother’s age. Some had a plate in their hands, some had a box. Each had some food item
that I am fond of. Each had tears in the eyes. Some kissed Me, some embraced Me, some even did the
namaskar, some even wished to ward off the evil eye! But they were all so sure that ‘He is ours’ and
that exactly is My strength. This love is My strength. Actually speaking what have I done for them? Not
much really. Yet they loved Me with all their heart. My school teachers loved Me with all their heart. If I
were to speak or write about My school, I would end up writing 20-25 granthas. That was how the
teachers, the peons and even the gurkha (the security person at the gate) loved Me. The gurkha did
not love Me because I got down from a car every day. I never gave Him a single rupee. But he loved
me a lot.
One day I fell down while running. It so happened that the car was not going to pick Me up that day,
My parents were out of town with both the cars. The gurkha said to Me, ‘Your leg must be hurting
Aniruddha. I will accompany You home Bapu.’ From school, he walked right up to My home with Me.
That was how much these people loved Me. There are people, who love Me like that and there are
going to be people, who love Me. I therefore am never worried about being alone. Why? Because of
this kind of love, because there are friends, who love Me. I have always scolded My friends. I even
scold My friends, who work with Me. They are all here. Volunteers have given it a lovely name, ‘Kautuk
sohalaa’ (a ceremony meant for appreciation).
The day that follows a function, is meant for this kautuksohalaa, they say which means, Bapu is going to summon us and fire
us saying, this is where you went wrong, that was not right. Yet I
know, every one of them receives this with love. Our Meena Vahini
for instance. I scolded her several times. In spite of my scolding, this
mother, yes indeed she is My mother, never once was annoyed. In
fact ‘Scold me. Give me a good beating’ was what she felt. Her
grand-father-in-law had said in the Shrisaisachcharit, ‘Thrash me to
death’ and that was exactly her feeling. ‘I do not at all mind if you
thrash me to death but let me not go wrong. Shout at me.’ was what
she felt. Nowadays I even come across people, who commit
mistakes and have no regrets. This lady on the other hand did make
mistakes but accepted them understood them and improved. Her life was fulfilled. I keep shouting at
Appa, our Pipyaa. I even shout at his son, Chetan. I keep shouting at Sunil Mantri, Mahesh Zantye.
Earlier I scolded Ajit Karnik, Bala Javle. On the day of the first Holi at Sai Nivas, the first Holi that I
went there, Ashatai, her husband Sandeep is sitting here, so Ashatai said to Me, ‘Bapu I want dnyaan
(knowledge)’. ‘Don’t be foolish and ask for dnyaan’, I said, ‘Ask for bhakti. Dnyaan (knowledge) will get
you nowhere. In fact in case of dnyaan there is always the fear of falling, of disgrace.’ These are all
from the old group. The Chaubal family too. There are so many of them, it will not be possible to take
all names. Besides, I do not make any distinction between the old and the new group. Moreover, who
do we say is from the old group? Those, who came in 1995 or My patients, who are sitting here today
and who worshipped My photograph even when they knew Me as a doctor, who felt I was ‘theirs’?
Irrespective of whether the lady was educated or uneducated, after her delivery she would get her
daughter or her daughter-in-law along with the baby to My consulting room and that too even before
taking the baby home, i.e. directly after getting discharged from the hospital. This she did to touch the
‘doctor’s’ Feet.
Once a funny incident happened. An old lady got her grand daughter-in-law and her grand-son. The old
lady was literate, she had studied upto the seventh or the eighth standard in those days. She could
read and write. Her son was a professor and her grand-son, an engineer. She had come with her grand
daughter-in-law to do the namaskar. She knew that the doctor cannot attend each and every wedding.
The daughter-in-law bent down to do the namaskar. ‘Bow before Doctor to do the namaskar.’, the old
lady told her. I was barely thirty-five. There used to be a huge crowd of patients waiting outside, there
used to be patients waiting on the road outside. The old lady said to her daughter-in-law, ‘Do you
know my dear, He has been treating me since my childhood.’ The daughter-in-law began to feel dizzy!
The old lady was 78 and if she was coming to this doctor since her childhood, just how old must He
be?! But that was the old lady’s love as she used to come to My father. She then began to come to Me
for a certain illness. All she wanted to say was that she had all along come here for treatment. So,
since how long do I know everyone? To tell you the truth, I know you since ages, our acquaintance is
ageold, it dates back to a time older than this birth of yours and that is what matters. I do not
distinguish between old and new. Old and new depends upon how deep the love seeps in you, how it
has been absorbed. You might be with Me for years together but what good is it if the does not seep in
and mature like the pickle?
My Meenavahini would be upset with Me, out of love, she even quarrelled, very freely. Yet the quarrel
would have the one sentiment underlying it, ‘He’ is mine, He is my son, He is my father, he is just
about everything for me. She would really fight with Me, not actually before Me, she would fight before
the photograph. If I said I would come at twelve and I did not reach until five past twelve, she would
get restless. I could manage to go more frequently in the beginning. But then work began to increase
and it was not possible to visit that often. She never asked Me why I did not go. She knew how hard I
was working. Every time I went, she would say this same thing, ‘Bapu, how hard you work? Please can
you come here to rest?’ She was, no doubt serving her purpose, but all was done out of affection. That
is how I want to prepare people to be. That is how. Each one of you can become like her. Meenavahini
was one of you. Sadhanatai was one of you. They were no different. More importantly, I too am one
among you. I mean it. Do not place Me somewhere on a high pedestal. I have stated clearly in the
third Grantha, in the ‘Nine principles of singular faith’ What is the important one, the last one? It says,
‘Aniruddha is my friend’. We do have faith in the Five Gurus but Aniruddha is our friend.
We all have this habit of deifying, of making idols out of stones andinstalling them in temples. I am not the kind, who sit in temples.
That is not what pleases Me. I began the pravachan, I began the
Upasana. Have I so much as worn the gandha (tilak) on the
forehead? Have I ever sat before you dressed in saffron? I have
always worn a white shirt and black trousers, right from the
beginning, that was what I wore when I did My M.D. and that is what
I wear even today. I conduct Myself today the way I did then and I
speak even today the way I spoke then. Have I ever shown you that
I have four arms? No I have not. Did I ever wear a turban? Did I ever
wear a robe? Forget the rudraksha, I do not even wear the ‘jaanva’
(the sacred thread worn after the thread ceremony) People ask Me, ‘Bapu, what is Your caste?’ I ask
them, ‘What is yours?’ The answer would be let’s say ‘so and so’. Then that is not My caste. I belong to
the caste that you look down upon. Or I belong to the caste that you resent. The one, who is helpless,
oppressed, rejected, distressed, hassled, is Mine. Besides, let Me tell you what is most important. You
may call Me a demon, you may call Me God, a Friend, a humanbeing, an animal, a hypocrite, call Me
whatever may please you, it just does not matter. But if at all I am God, if at all I am Someone, I
belong to the sinner, I belong to the ordinary person. I do not belong to the great virtuous beings or
even to the authorities in the spiritual field. I have nothing to do with them. Their ego is not acceptable
to Me. I want to be with the simple, innocent folk, the simpleton folk. There is this volunteer called
Patil. He used to be My patient. when he first came to Me, he said, ‘Doctor, I have seen You
somewhere.’ ‘Yes, sure. Can you recollect where?’ He wondered how to say this to this doctor, who
was an M.D., consulting Rheumatologist with a huge crowd of patients waiting in this posh consulting
room. He wanted to ask Me whether I played Kabaddi. He hesitated, ‘Doctor did You...’ I said, ‘I was in
Shirodkar School’. ‘Yes. I was in Navayug. We have played Cricket and Kabaddi matches against each
other.’ He admitted candidly. There are people here, who have cricket with Me, there are people, who
have played Kabaddi with Me.
We were all of a hundred people, who went to the first rasayatra, to Shirdi. There are so many, who
recall memories of this rasayatra everyday. That is why I tell you, I am one among You and will always
be one among you. Right from the beginning, I never wished that there be temples in My name, that I
sit there one place, with My hand raised to bless. That is why I have never worn any special kind of
outfit. Is there anything spiritual about Me, tell Me? I have neither the gandha nor the string of the
rudraksha beads, nor the string of the tulsi beads, nor saffron robes nor even white robes. Some have
seen Me driving a car. I smoke the cigarette, I do it openly. I do not drink, I have never touched
alcohol in My life. I was born in a Brahmin family but I eat chicken, I eat eggs and I am fond of fish
and I say this openly and publicly. I never felt the need to hide this fact. This is how a spiritual person
is supposed to be! But I am what I am and I tell you, consider Me to be one of you. Consider Me one of
your family. I reside in the home of the bhakta. These words of Sushilabai are indeed true. Where does
Bapu live? In the home of those, who love Him. Consider Me one of your family members, consider Me
yours, your friend, who is sad when you are. But certainly not the one, who is shaken by your misery
but the one, who provides you with strength when you are shaken.... the One, who is happy when you
are. But also the One, who hits you on the head so that the happiness does not inflate your ego, so
that your ego doesnot lead you to commit a mistake.
And now we have to set about implementing all of this actively. You have come to Me out of love, you
call out to Me out of love. You read with love, what I write. So I consider it My duty to equip every
person, who loves Me, to courageously face whatever is inevitable; Also, what can be done to change
whatever possible out of the inevitable? What can be done to make easy, whatever seems difficult to
change? What can be done to turn the bad into good? How can the wrong be corrected? On the
individual, the social and the international level, that is why I stand here. In the year 2002, the first
sentence I uttered was, ‘Why am I standing here today? So that the world does turn into the
Kurukshetra.’ That is exactly My sentiment. Even today I stand on the Kurukshetra but to avoid the
war and to minimize violence if at all it happens. That precisely is My aim. I do not propogate nonviolence.
My definiton of non-violence is something totally different. If a person tries to molest your
sister, killing him with anything that you can lay your hands on, is not to be considered violence. Not
standing up against injustice despite possessing the capacity to do so, putting up with it dumbly and
offering the other cheek to get slapped, is violence. It is violence because it violates the soul. It is
violence that you commit against your soul. Only you can commit violence against your soul. Nobody
other than you can. ‘Nainam dahati paavakaha’. All that is done in order to safeguard purity, is nonviolence
and all that goes into destroying purity, is violence. My definition is simple and straight
forward. All that results in purity is the Truth. All that results in impurity, is the Untruth.
I am repeating the story I always tell you. There is this person, whohas pledged to speak the truth and is sitting outside his house on a
stool. A young girl comes running to him saying, ‘Uncle, please save
me. There are hooligans chasing me, to molest me.’ This man tells
her to hide inside his house. The men chasing her come there and
ask him, ‘Uncle, did you see a girl running past?’ This person has
pledged at God’s Feet that he will speak the truth. Should the person
say, ‘Yes, she is inside?’ That would not be the Truth, it would be the
Untruth. It would be a fact. The Truth differs from a fact. That she is
hiding inside would be a fact. He has pledged to speak the truth but
that would not be speaking the truth, that would be a fact. It would
not be the Truth because it would not result in purity.
That would result in the violation of her honour.
What should he say? He should say, ‘Yes, she fled in a riksha towards the east.’ He ought to then
quietly tell the girl, ‘Run the other way. I am taking them in the opposite direction.’ That is what the
Truth is. What results in purity is the Truth. Do not allow yourself to be deceived. Remember one
important thing, there are many, who try to brainwash you. I said this in Kolhapur and I said it in
Dhule as well. ‘Bhakti is what the cowards, the timid persons do’ If you hear these words, you must be
able to turn around and give the persona tight slap and say to them Lokmanya Tilak, Mahatma Gandhi,
Savarkar, Vasudev Balvant Phadke, the Rani of Jhansi, Nanasaheb Peshve, Tatyasaheb Tope, Shivaji
Maharaj, Rana Pratap, Guru Gobindsinghji Maharaj were all ardent bhaktas of the forms that they
worshipped. Would you call them cowards? Show us one single atheist, who is as courageous as any of
these. We would stake anything if you do. We must be able to do away with wrong notions. Bhakti is
done with the buddhi, it is not done with the mind. Animals too have a mind but they lack the concept
of the Parameshvar. The human being however, does have the buddhi and so he does possess the
concept of the parmeshvar. However, it is making use of this very buddhi, that man keeps resorting to
the wrong things and in the name of the parameshvar. We just have to oppose these.
If you try to feed Ganpati milk because you heard he drinks it, he will be annoyed with you. Tell Me
which work states that Ganpati is fond of milk? All the works state that Ganapati is fond of the modak.
If at all Ganpati wishes to do a miracle what His idol must eat, is the modak. But the idol of ganpati
cannot eat the modak. The capillary action that the porous stone of the idol sucks in milk. The cunning
only try to impress the people saying Ganpati drank the milk because of our powers. Why do they not
make the idol eat the modak? When the idol of Ganpati eats modak all over India and all over the
world, I will accept this blind faith. But if shrewd people try to take advantage of our innocent faith,
we have to put them down. What can win over the Parameshvar is bhakti and bhakti alone and for the
purpose, one does not require the agency of any women or men, who are possessed. You have a thick
relation with Him.
We trust people and often end up deceived, which is why the Grantha came. It does not matter if we
do not understand each and every word in the Grantha. What we understand, proves sufficient for us.
In fact each one will follow as much as is essential for him and that is the instruction of Dattaguru.
Keep the Grantha in your home, read it, remember that it is the Grantha that is going to be the Guru.
The Grantha is going to be the only Guru in the times to come. We will not go around to this Buva and
that Mataji. I have said this very clearly and several times, if a Guru says to you, as women are very
often told, ‘You are my Radha and I, your Krishna.’ The women must promptly remove her footware
and showing it to him, say, ‘This is Radha and this Radha is going to give you, Krishna, a kiss.’ You
must be able to give him a tight slap. My dear ones, do not ever accept such things as part of
spirituality. The simple, guileless sentiment of bhakti is totally different from such shameless acts.
A few days back, I saw on T.V. that milk was oozing from the neem tree! Thousands of people went to
drink this milk. Half of them are going to die because it is not milk in the first place. A tree like the
neem does not have a lot of insects. The tree itself has insecticides causing bacteria to grow and in
great numbers. They infect the trunk of the tree and the trunk rots from inside giving out this milk-like
substance. This means that this substance is the faecal matter of the bacteria. Little children are being
fed with it. Will that not cause disease? Yes it will. Do not accept such beliefs.
I have said it so many times that on the death of the husband, the
wife is made to take off her ‘mangalsutra’, wipe off her ‘kunku’, -
none of this has been mentionned in the Vedas or even in the
Upanishads. What Parashara said, was that if a woman wished to
remarry after the death of her husband, she ought to take off the
mangalsutra and the kunku that she wore as the previous husband’s
wife, be ‘vratastha’ for a period of three days and then wear the
mangalsutra etc., as the second husband’s wife. And why do you
think he said it? Because, My dear ones, the man is not all that
involved in his home, the woman is much more attached to the
home. When she leaves the home of her first husband to reside with
the second husband’s family, she does feel the turmoil. If she is able to overcome the memories of the
first husband during this period of three days, she is better prepared to accept the new surroundings
and relations. She is supposed to do the ‘sadhana’ and the ‘jap’ during this period. Nowadays,
however, we torture her. On the death of the husband, we dress her up with flowers, make her wear a
garland, some even forcibly wipe off the ‘kunku’ by rubbing the wife’s forehead on the husband’s feet,
her hair is cut off, her mangalsutra is snapped, her bangles are broken. All those, who do this are
committing sin as none of this is stated in the Vedas. In fact, the one, who adds to the grief of the
woman when she loses the husband, is committing a very grave sin. And that mind you, has been very
clearly stated in the Vedas. So we know that it is indeed wrong to indulge in these practices. Some
people have forced them on society for their own selfish interests. But we oppose them. I am happy
that My people are bold enough to say, ‘No, we will not wipe off the kunku and we will not take off the
mangalsutra.’ I tell you in earnest, My dear ones, you can, by all means, do the poojan, the abhishek,
the yadnya; worship God the way you like. Do not however, allow yourself to be deceived.
If you are told that you have to offer flowers of gold or a whole garland of such flowers to please God
and you do not have the capacity; you go and sell your wife’s jewellery to get these flowers of gold
made, God will never ever be pleased. God will just not accept it. On the other hand, if you have the
capacity to spend ten lakhs and you do not offer even a rupee to God, you do not help anybody - i.e.
not only God, you do not give for a worthy cause, God will in all certainty be annoyed. ‘It is your love,
sheer love that God is eager to receive’ and that is what I stand here to tell you. Just do away with all
ridiculous practices, be they related to worship or be they related to tradition.
You get home the Ganpati idol. You offer the red flower, fine, He is fond of it. In case you offer a white
one, do not ever think that that would annoy him. If the breeze happens to put off the lamp while
doing the aarti, the woman begins to worry. Besides, in Hindi movies we see that there is this old
person on deathbed and the flame of a lamp kept nearby, is quivering. The moment the flame goes off,
all the women begin to howl. Moreover, people nowadays are crazy after movies and so might even go
to the extent of burning a sick person although he is alive, taking him to be dead, only because the
lamp went off! That is how closely we associate the going off of the lamp and the death of a person.
No, My dear ones, I know you do feel anxious. But what you should do, is light the lamp again, do the
namaskar to God, pray to him saying, ‘O God, the breeze might have put off the lamp. Do take care.’
This loving Mother, this loving Father will surely take care.
Then for bad omens. Do not believe in them in the first place. But if you just cannot overcome the fear
that is inside you for so many years, what do you do? If you feel something inauspicious has indeed
happened, tell yourself just the one thing, and it does truly mean only one thing and that is, in order to
help me overcome some bad or unpleasant element in my fate, God wants me to do as much
‘naamasmaran’ as possible in the day. That is all that ‘inauspicious’ means. I guarantee you, if you
love Me, do not at all be frightened of bad omens or inauspicious things. Do not believe in these things.
But if you cannot bring about this change in the mind, tell yourself that our Bapu wishes that on that
day, we do the naamasmaran as much as is possible. That is all. You will not have any problem, that is
My guarantee.
Another thing I wish to mention today is about ghosts and black magic. Whether these things really
exist, whether they are true or not is a different matter. But the fact remains that it is immoral to want
to resort to black magic because you wish someone ill. It is a distorted thought. But do not be scared
of these things too. If you love Me, it is My promise to you that if at all you come across a ghost, say
to it, ‘Come, sit with me. Have a cup of tea. My Father will surely take care of me. So just go away, or
else I will eat you up. My Father certainly can eat you up but I can do that too.’ Not the slightest of ills
will ever occur in your case. Moreover, you do not have to offer Bapu any goat, hen in return. 100%.
I tell people to do what I Myself do. I tell you to read the
Sunderkand because I read it everyday, I tell you to read the
Saisachcharit because I read a chapter of it everyday, I tell you to
say the Ramraksha because I say it everyday, I say the
Ghorakashtodharan stotra everyday, I read two chapters of the
Gurucharitra everyday, I read the Dattabaavani everyday, I read
atleast one page of the Vishnusahasranaam everyday, I read a page
from the Dattapuraan everyday and I also manage to do all My work.
That is why I tell you, you can get the time. I spin the charkha for
atleast half an hour everyday. I write the Ramnaam book everyday.
Besides, I do it by making use of effort very much at the human
level. have you ever seen Me flying in the air? Have you ever seen Me indulging in such ridiculous acts?
Have I ever waved My hand in the air and produced the udi? Have I turned the bottle into a hen or the
hen into a dog? I have stated very clearly and along with My signature, that I cannot perform miracles.
I possess no magic tricks. But I do have one great magical power., and that is the magical power of
love! That I do possess. That I definitely do possess and I am proud of it. What can the magic of love
not do? I tell you, it can do anything. It is this very love which is in fact bhakti, that I wish to enhance
in you. We read a lot about ‘confidence, positive thinking’. But we do not end up raising our
confidence. On the contrary, we get demoralized. When does confidence (trust in the self) mount?
When your confidence or trust in the parmatma mounts. My confidence in myself rises in proportion to
my confidence in the paramatma. I want to raise your confidence, I want to make you self-dependent.
I do not wish to disable you. That is why I am stopping the pravachan and I am going to hold your
hand and see to it that you start work. Your trust in the parmatma must mount, your bhakti must
intensify, your seva must increase, your capacities must be enhanced, and I refer to absolutely each
one. Only then will I say that your confidence has mounted. I will not like My friends to lack
confidence.
Every single page of the ‘Shreemadpurushartha’ is capable of creating this confidence in us. It does not
matter if we we cannot read the entire Grantha though it would be nice if you do. Those, who made
changes in their diet following the Grantha found amazing changes in their lives. There is this boy, who
has written a beautiful letter that says, ‘Bapu, I was always timid. I felt scared all the time. Everybody
made fun of me. My voice and my mannerisms were effeminate. That was also why people teased me.
Following the grantha, I made changes in my diet. My voice changed, my behaviour changed. My fear
had vanished. I reached adiametrically opposite point in a period of merely seven months.’ That is why
Samartha Ramdas said, ‘Anna (food) is the poorna (complete or total) brahma’. I am telling you in all
earnest, My dear ones, even if you read one or two of the points in the Madhuphalavatika and one or
two of the achaman of the purusharthaganga, your life will change completely. Also, do not ever let go
off the base of the naamasmaran in life. Participate in the various seva that I chalk out. When you
participate in the seva, when you offer help to others without any gain or motive, even before you
reach it, the bhagavanta stands at the turning where trouble or a difficulty awaits you, helps you
overcome it and the naamasmaran that you do along with the seva, creates infinite strength inside
you.
I have no desire to scare you by relating My dream. Not at all. In fact I wish to provide you with
confidence. He, who recites any name of the paramatma with love and with trust, is surely going to
make it. But the one, who has faith in the ‘Shreemadpurushartha’ that manifested on the instruction of
Dattaguru, will not only make it but even help others to come through. That is where the difference
lies. This is the largest Arc of Noah which will save us even in the worst of deluges.
In the times to come, there is going to be conflict among men, all the
possible vice is going to surface. As the inevitable consequence of
war and conflict even neighbours will turn hostile, I do not only mean
nations, I also mean humans. Whom does one trust and whom does
one not trust? That is what the situation is going to be. We can
atleast make the effort and avert it in our homes, in our fate. These
efforts will surely meet with success. I stand here to guarantee that
they will. I do not want money, My aarti or even praises in return for
that. We only need to do with love, whatever our Bapu tells us to, as
per our capacities and as per our circumstances. I write series of
articles as per the times and at every stage. The series that will
follow is going to be completely different. This series will not only provide guidance but also strength
and that too directly. I am with you so that you receive the strength you are given, behind you and in
front of you. I do not say that you fight and I will stand behind you, that is not My attitude. If it is time
to fight, My dear ones, I will stand in front of every child of Mine. Know that very well. 100%. It is not
possible that My friend fights and I stand behind him. No, for I have before Me, the ideal of
Shreekrishna, who stood before His friend as his charioteer when they fought the battle. He did not
stand behind Arjun, remember that.
During the coming times, we could suffer attacks by way of wealth, honour, land and health. Like I
said, there is the onset of three new diseases, which could seize the entire mankind owing to the war.
Moreover, only those, whose bodies, physical bodies, - I am not implying anything at the spiritual level
- have a very strong capacity for resisting the terrible destructive powers of these diseases, will
emerge safe and sound. Remember that the resistence capacity does not only have to do with the
blood, it has also to do with the Hypothalamus, the pituitary gland in the brain, where hormones are
made. The six hypothalamic centres go into the formation of the mind. These centres draw strength
frombhakti, from the recitation of certain mantras.
The scientists today have accepted that the world resulted from the Big Bang. Our Vedas and our
Puranas tell us that there occurred the explosion of the ‘Om’, the ‘Om’ manifested itself. The world
manifested iteself from the Omkar, the sound of the Omkar. This means that the world is made of
vibrations and so repairing anything is possible only by means of vibrations.
The onset of each of these three diseases will happen every seven years. We know that it is only now
that we have been able to come up with medications and that too a few, for AIDS. There is no
complete cure. These diseases are really horrible and will be caused by destructive weapons used by
man. Only if our capacity to resist the disease is sufficient and strong, will we be able to remain
healthy. Another thing is that AIDS is caused by indulging in the wrong things or due to unfortunate
circumstances where infected blood or injection needles are used. But what protects us against both
these factors? Only the bhakti of the Paramatma and the seva that we offer.
Hence these 108 upasanas. In case you happen to miss a Thursday, that does not imply an
interruption as such. The Upasana will continue the following Thursday. If you can make it every
Thursday, nothing like it but just in case you cannot, you can surely do the upasana at home. Let Me
tell you, doing it here will fetch you results that are 108 times better than those that you would get at
home. However, those, who live out of town, will get the equally good results when they do it at their
respective centres. That again I mean sincerely.
Remember, I have come to say something important. You have all gathered here in huge numbers
today, out of love for Me; some, because they wonder what I might say today; some to listen to
something sensational, some, because Bapu might make a roaring proclamation. Bapu is not in the
habit of making roaring proclamations. I do not make any baseless claims either. All I have to say, is
the times that foolow are going to be very horrible. And I, Aniruddha, your Friend, - could be a yaksha
(demi-god), a demon, a kinnar (a celestial musician), a human being, a useless person, whatever - I
am here to be all around the one, who loves Me and at all times. I know nothing apart from that. I
cannot do anything but that. I can love. Even if I am angry, My anger stems from My lips not from My
heart. My love however, is definitely in My heart, it might not necessarily be on My lips though.
All the same, I tell you, always bear in mind this one thing - however grave your sins, however big the
number of your mistakes, do not ever look down upon your own self. Be sure irrespective of our sin
and our wrong, we will be salvaged, we will be good. We will change our fate. These hands that join to
applaud, must reach out for the Ramnaam book to write it, must offer seva to people, must be raised
to resist injustice. That is what I consider true applause and that is the applause I want.
Hari Om
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