The 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. I

have 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 time period 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 neighbor’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 mentioned 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. Deneekacha 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 numbers five 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. Infact 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 ofcourse 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

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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 kautuk sohalaa, 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 age old, 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

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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 does not 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, who has 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 thenquietly 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 lowers, 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 hite 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 tohelp 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 thepossible 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 from bhakti, 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 numberstoday, 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 follow 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.