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By performing such severe austerity he wants us to realize that there is nothing in life greater than tapas, not only external austerity, but also an inner one. Such great saints are served even by kings, but they value the inner feeling not the external status.
I am very happy to come here and to meet the deserving successor of Paramahamsa Satyanandaji. When I came here he told me a serious thing. He said, “I also want to follow the same path that gurudev has undertaken." I said, "Not now, not now, be patient." You see it is all so clean, so sacred. These great people have no attachment, nothing can touch them. Once a Gopi devotee said to Lord Krishna, “O Krishna, come to my house daily and have your butter, do not go to anybody else's house." Lord Krishna replied, "Look, I am not a bee who keeps sticking to jaggery until death. I am a honey bee who never sticks to one place." In this example, the Lord is preaching to His devotees and seekers, "O yogis! O renunciates! Do not keep attachment to any particular object. Your life is untainted, not sticky. One whose life is free from attachments becomes the master of the entire universe."
Aasha eshaam dasi
The people who are slaves of attachment become slaves of the world and the people who are masters of the attachments become masters of the whole world, and are, therefore, called universal masters or gurus. Their hearts are pure and filled with love and whensoever one meets them, one feels oneself to be the most beloved one.
Whenever Swami Niranjananandaji meets anybody, whether a saint or a devotee, that person feels that he loves him the most. But he is not involved, it is the divine love being showered through him. He is just giving it away to you so that you are filled and saturated with it, and can in turn begin to distribute it to others when you depart, carrying that divine love away with you, just like a cloud carrying away the water from an ocean, and pouring that rainfall of nectar wherever you go. This is my only request to you all, that you all be angels of the divine message and tell others of the nectar that you have brought from Munger.
Here my offering of flowers in the form of a speech thus concludes at the holy feet of Swami Satyanandaji Maharaj, a great man, a superman whose renunciation, yoga and austerity
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