Prem Pal Rawat, the future Guru Maharaj Ji, First Satsang 21st September, 1962
As published in "Hansadesh magazine
- ON SEPTEMBER 21st 1962 WHEN HE WAS 4 YEARS AND 9 MONTHS OLD MAHARAJI ADDRESSED HIS AUDIENCE IN HINDI AT PREM NAGAR, HARDWAR, INDIA, - HIS "SATSANG" WAS PUBLISHED IN THE 1963 ISSUE OF THE INDIAN MAGAZINE "HANSADESH"
- A TRANSLATED VERSION IS PRESENTED BELOW
Dear brothers and sisters,
We should listen to Satsang: Satsang is a very good thing. Look! How good is God? Isn't he good, my friends?
God created us, he created day and he created night. He created so many good things for us to eat and he sent us to this planet. Isn't this human form beautiful? Look! We have this nose to breathe with - tell me, could you live without this? Without these nostrils we would be dead.
See what a good job these eyes do - they enable us to see. Otherwise, tell me, how could you see (have darshan of) Guru Maharaj ji? Close your eyes: can you see me now? See how we have been given such good hands, which let us act and work. If you don't do service ("sad') then see for yourselves - these hands are really useless. They are of no worth. We have been given two ears.
If you do not hear Satsang with them, are they not useless? These feet are also of no use, if you do not use them to go to Satsang. Their benefit is only there when you use them to walk to Satsang and see (have darshan of) Guru Maharaj ji.
You all are human beings. See, God has created so well the body's all organs. If you don't use them properly then it is your faults arid not God's.
The Ganges is a river, see It's flowing down there. But it does not flow for itself. It is we who quench our thirst with its water and it is we who wash our clothes, irrigate our farms, bathe in it to cleanse our bodies and it is we who cross over it in boats. A dip in it only cleans the dirt from our body but when we bathe in the Ganges of Satsang, all our sins are washed away.
All our sins are washed away only when we understand Satsang.
Whatever we are telling you is also written about in the Gita, but the Gita cannot explain to you the most vital things. Only Guru Maharaj ji can reveal to you the REAL Name of Maharaj ji. The Gita will never be able to reveal that. Therefore, you must practice meditation. Look! You should sit in the Lotus position like Shiva in that statue (Maharaji points to the nearby fountain where there is a statue of Shiva, sitting in meditation with his eyes closed.) Lord Shiva remains absorbed in meditation on Guru Maharaj ji all the time. Whenever I look at him, he is never doing anything else. I don't know if he doesn't like to do anything else or if there is another reason.
So, all of you, you should meditate like that.
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