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sonality of God, and when you reach the final extreme of bhakti you are rendered unto him, you merge with him.
I have been asked from where I received the inspiration to make the series Ramayana and Sri Krishna. I was pondering that I had never really had any inspiration as such, I only got instructions to work. I am saying this today, but had I been asked the same question a few years ago, I would have narrated long tales – that I was inspired in such and such a manner, I read so many books, I conducted so much research, I met such and such a person - but I cannot say the same today. Now, I am in a situation similar to a mute eating sugar candy. If he eats a candy, he cannot explain the taste, neither can he deny that he has eaten it.
In my half century of producing commercial films - many were very successful, some flopped - I won, I lost, fans exalted me, bestowed stardom upon me. I was made famous, I had a large following of fans. Now, when I look back upon those days, I have the impression that there is some kind of Planning Commission up there, like a boss who sees an office boy and is overwhelmed with compassion. Tulsiji says, and so do many saints, that God also turns merciful without cause. He does not bestow his grace after going through your resumes or qualifications, but it just happens that he becomes ceaselessly merciful. So if he becomes merciful, do not consider yourself an exceptional person because the boss is kind and overcome with compassion! It is as though the boss says to the office boy, "You go and learn to type," and gives him some money for the tuition fees. When the office boy has learned to type he is promoted to a typist and after some time, having worked as a typist, the boss again feels like promoting him to the position of manager, and later still, the same office boy is nominated for the position of the director of the company. This is as a result of the boss's causeless mercy. I have a feeling that my fifty years in film making were the result of a planning body in the heavens who decided to narrate the thoughts of great saints and wise predecessors of modern man in the language of the present day.
This is what has always happened. The truth is one, the eternal truth, as it was on the day of creation. But different workers are sent as messengers in different periods of time who explain the same thing in the prevalent language, and it seems as if a young lotus has blossomed. Just as Tulsidasji
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