Part 2:

Sunshine again is why I am even here and that's what we want and most of all that's what we want. The true happiness I mean that's the reason I am here to be with the premies. To come to a festival to be able to give satsang to be able to see you, to be able to just, you know, be here. And because that satsang not only brings you experience, brings me an experience. Brings me the experience of that truth, brings me the experience of that love, brings me the experience of that satisfaction. Satsang is like a diamond, satsang is like the sun, wherever it comes out, wherever it falls, it'll shine. Nothing to stop it, wherever it falls, it'll shine, even these clouds are shining on the top, you know. Because that's the power of that grace, that's the power to take the darkness completely away and that's what has to become in our lives, also this is what we have to understand that this coming and going affair, you know, of coming into this Knowledge coming into this, into this experience, coming to a festival and enjoying it and then it all goes poof like balloon, it's no good.

We come to this festival, okay, after this festival there's going to be the festival, the Guru Puja festival in America. After the American festival I think there's a couple of programs and after that the World Tour begins and if everything is okay I think I come back through Europe and go towards East. I will not say which part of the East but towards East, you know, however that one works out. Who knows? And then maybe to Australia and maybe to Fiji and to all these places and then, then to Hawaii and then I'll come back and then there is Hans Jayanti. And yet is that how many programs I will have to give for somebody's heart to really open up? No. I can give a million programs, I can give a zillion programs, I can give a trillion programs and maybe your heart will not open up and yet maybe one is all you need. Cause it's you, Guru Maharaj Ji comes in this world and offers what he has to offer, you know. Guru Maharaj Ji, the kind of cards he plays, is he just takes all his Aces and lays them down and there's four aces and all of the four he lays them down. Beat that. He doesn't have to play a game and he doesn't. Surrender, surrender to me. It could be a huge game so Guru Maharaj Ji could play and at the end of this very game he could say "Well all along, the thing was that you had to spell surrender and then surrender is what you'd have to do to really get to it." But no, that's not the game. It's right and it's flat and it's straight and it's clean. Surrender. Let go what are you hanging onto? Do you even like what you're hanging onto? You know, it's like these people, you know, who are just hanging on and hanging on and hanging on and hanging on, never even looking to what they're hanging on. A filthy piece of rod they're hanging on. Dirty, mucky, something you would never in all your true senses even want to come close to perhaps. Just to let go to, really just come in that focus, in that realization and that's all. That's all you know when that baby cannot walk sufficiently all by itself. Maybe it tries, maybe it does everything, but when that baby cannot anymore, the mother takes that baby and holds that baby, gives it what it really needs.

When we really let go, when that's it for us, then perhaps Guru Maharaj Ji comes and picks us up. Then how many is it going to take? How many falls? Nobody wants you to fall you know except the mind cause then it can be on top of you. Then it can guide you, then it can control you. Towards the, the darkness, towards that destiny that has no, has no purpose. I mean look at all the people in this world. You know you look at graveyards and there are some graveyards where there are thousands of people buried and what have they done in their lives? What have they accomplished and what have they gained? They came in this world, they lived their lives, their little, their little portraits just went with them. What is there left of it to show but just a headstone. You know, and that's what this world gives us. There are people who don't have names cause, you know, they were fighting, they were soldiers or something like that, they don't have names, they're just buried. They find a body, they don't know who it is, they just bury them. That's it. Is that our life? Is there, is our destiny really to be six feet buried under the ground with a headstone sticking up. Is that it? Is that the final thing and that's it? Cause if that's all that this is all about then there's, then the meaning of life doesn't exist. There's nothing to life. What is the purpose of life? Life is no good.

But that's not the way it is, it doesn't end at that headstone and it doesn't bring, you know, it just doesn't begin from you first "Whang", the official day of when you were born in this world. There's a lot more to it, there's a lot more there and what's there Guru Maharaj Ji can show you, reveal to you, bring to you in your own heart, in your own realization. And that's what we want and what does Guru Maharaj Ji say. Guru Maharaj Ji doesn't say anything and yet Guru Maharaj Ji says everything. Guru Maharaj Ji doesn't say anything to us because what does Guru Maharaj Ji say to us? Maybe, to us Guru Maharaj Ji is saying "Surrender" to us Guru Maharaj Ji is saying, you know, this and that and do satsang and do service and do meditation. What is the meaning of all that? By simply saying, it won't happen. By Guru Maharaj Ji simply saying so satsang, service and meditation do you think your satsang, service and meditation will become satsang, service and meditation? Or do you think by simply saying satsang, service and meditation it'll materialise in satsang, service and meditation? You're wrong, Guru Maharaj Ji doesn't say anything because whatever he says we can hear and yet somehow we can't even adhere to it. And yet Guru Maharaj Ji says something which he doesn't say and does a lot more for us and that's Guru Maharaj Ji's grace and when we can really open up to Guru Maharaj Ji from our hearts then we will be able to hear and see what Guru Maharaj Ji is really saying to us and then we will be able to adhere to what Guru Maharaj Ji is really saying to us physically, "Do satsang, service and meditation."

Then when Guru Maharaj Ji and when we come to a festival and we sit down and Guru Maharaj Ji tells us "Satsang, service and meditation" then it'll make sense to us. I can understand perfectly if premies say "Satsang, service and meditation, my God, everybody's chanting that mantra: satsang, service and meditation." Satsang, service and meditation, that's it, that's what anybody knows, every premie's ??? "I can't do satsang, service and meditation. In my life it just doesn't fit in the rut of doing satsang, service and meditation". Maybe people just take off in their own direction, "I can't do it! Look I can do satsang and I can do service but meditation is out of my realm. Sorry! Ciao. That's it." You know and maybe it goes back and forth like that. You see because it is not a mantra and I, I can agree with you to a certain extent that yes that, that is repeated a little bit too many times, satsang, service and meditation and yet by repeating it way too many times if you can't understand what it means, do you think by repeating it any less will you understand what it means?

It certainly isn't a mantra. It is something to understand. It is something to do it is something to let go to. It is something to let just completely fill your life. Let that experience of satsang really come into you. Of satsang. Let that experience of service really let that satsang of service engulf you. Let it, let it really become service, let it really become an experience. And let that meditation really dictate every second of your life, to let every second of your life be meditation, every action that you do be service, every word that you speak be it satsang. Their ideas that people have what satsang is. If you have an idea about what satsang is, it isn't satsang. It's flat as that. People come together who will be talking about a very particular thing (sucks snot and swallows). "Well I'm out today, could you make my bed?" You know and in, in the process of trying to convince … I was going to say "the sucker" but I won't. In the process of trying to convince your brother that he should do it try to make a sucker out of him, the long lecture that you end up with, you may define it as satsang: well it isn't. It just simply isn't. It's not your concepts of service, it's an experience, experience when you do something for Guru Maharaj Ji, not for yourself. An experience really manifesting for Guru Maharaj Ji of something that you do and let Guru Maharaj Ji take that experience and plough it back it into you. That is service because then genuinely an experience manifests. When you talk and that what you speak really comes from your heart, what you say really comes from your heart, from your experience of that love that you have for Guru Maharaj Ji, that experience of Guru Maharaj Ji that experience of Knowledge. Then and then only can it be satsang. Every Joe Blow talking isn't satsang. I may go as far as to say that sometimes the initiators get up to give satsang. It takes them a couple of minutes to fire up. It's like a cold start machine. You go in there, have you ever started a diesel engine up? Diesel engine. You pull a plug, the glow plug warms it up, then it gets hot, then when the diesel strikes the firewall finally ignites it, then it just keeps rolling. Sometimes initiators will get up and they will be giving satsang and for the first two minutes they don't even make sense. So far I am concerned cause it takes them a little while to get ignited and once they get ignited then that experience starts to flow and then it is satsang. Because then I don't have to believe in his words, there is an experience coming from him. I don't have to listen to his words, I don't have to listen to his stories, I don't have to laugh at his jokes, I don't have to be even impressed by what he's saying or how he's saying it. But I can close my eyes and still experience something because it is coming from his heart, it is coming that experience that he is talking about is coming from his experience. He's not making it up and I tell you man, you can't make it up, you can't get up there and give satsang and think about it. That isn't satsang. That's the way thousands of people get up and talk, chit chat, get up and make no sense, fumble up their papers, you know. But satsang is an inner experience and when that inner experience manifests then that becomes satsang. Every word and I said that may your every word be satsang and it can happen. Your every word can be satsang if your every action can be service and if your every moment can be meditation. And it can happen, your life can become that.

Guru Maharaj Ji's grace. When Guru Maharaj Ji's grace is powerful enough to do anything in this world, don't you think it is definitely powerful enough to make your every word a satsang and every action a service and every moment of your life indulged with the beauty of meditation. Oh yes, it certainly is but we have to open our eyes, we have to open out hearts, we have to good, let's put it this way, we have to give Guru Maharaj Ji a chance. You know it's like if you can imagine Guru Maharaj Ji holding his hands out and his hands are full of ants and these ants are constantly trying to crawl out and Guru Maharaj Ji you know takes his other hand and is just constantly trying to keep them in and constantly these ants are trying to get out. Sometimes that is what happens with devotees. Guru Maharaj Ji is constantly showering that experience, Guru Maharaj Ji is trying to give that experience, Guru Maharaj Ji is trying to make every word into, into satsang, every work, everything, every action into service and every moment of our lives into meditation and it's just who takes off the other direction? Does Guru Maharaj Ji take off the other direction? No we take off for all directions. Because we like that. You know it is so wonderful to just split, mind loves it, every moment, every second of it. It is so wonderful that here is satsang going on and somebody is spacing out in that town. It's so wonderful that here satsang is going on and somebody is just roaming about in their car. It's wonderful, it's incredible. It's wonderful that here is somebody trying to give satsang and to talk to get up and talk at the end of the community hall. It is wonderful. And it is wonderful while everybody is doing service you've got your legs crossed and you're dozing off in your chair. It's wonderful.

Why is it wonderful? Because that's what your mind likes. That's what your mind wants you to do. And for one time mind's got you and you're doing everything that your mind wants you to do and you're not even questioning it. I mean you mind's got you in its hand and it's crushing it and you're not even squeaking. But isn't that the way it is, maybe that's gross and really that is not wonderful. We think it's wonderful, it's not wonderful. You know a golf ball, we are, this is what mind is mind gonna golf ball. We are like a golf ball. You know what a golf ball is done to? You take a golf ball, you clean a golf ball (makes rubbing motions on shirt) and so as it doesn't even get dirty uh they put it away from the ground on a peg. They take actually, for a little ittsy bittsy ball that they're gonna hit, they take a peg and they put it on top of a peg. And to hit this ball with, they even clean their clubs and the finest, very expensive and even a poor guy has to carry them around. A whole human is devoted to these golf clubs so they can carry them around. And all this is done and yet you will remember you are not the club and you are not the peg, you are the golf ball. But though for that golf ball how pamperous can it be? I mean, after all, how many people get their own servant? Beautiful, you know, places specially made for that ball, nothing else called golf courses. Nobody is gonna race there, nobody is gonna land there, just for the golf ball. It's cut every day, it's kept clean, I mean, incredible. Golf balls, golf clubs that cost hundreds of dollars, golf, even cars, this ball has its own world. Immaculate world and this is the way mind does to it, to us too. But you know it isn't the golf club that suffers and it isn't the peg, it's the poor ball that has to go flying across it all. And sometimes that's what happen to us. And maybe the mind says "What about this and what about that?" and pampers and all the things that mind tries to bring to us make us seem like an emperor and at the end we are the ones that get hit and have to fly. We are the ones that lose, all those things that we think are wonderful end up as our own enemies ourselves.

And yet it's so beautiful to just have Guru Maharaj Ji in our lives so Guru Maharaj Ji can and will show us that it's not what it appears to be. That is why it's called an illusion. This world that we get hooked on, that's that's why it's called an illusion cause it is not what it appears to be. So far your definitions of real of reality are concerned, whether they are, whether this world is real or not according to your definition of course it's real but it definitely isn't what it appears to be. All that love that we dedicate our lives to, it def, it definitely isn't what it appears to be. When Guru Maharaj Ji shows us that Knowledge, when Guru Maharaj Ji shows us that real life then there are no questions left, then there are not, there can never be a question after that and that's what Guru Maharaj Ji wants to brings us and so premies (sucks phlegm out of nose) you know it's really beautiful to have you all here on this horse race track, quarter mile hurdle, half mile hurdle, there are hurdles all over this track and it's just like here we are you know and this is just the first day of this satsang and only the first wet evening. There potentially could be three more wet evenings, if they aren't wet anyway there will be three more days of satsang. Whether they are wet or whether they are dry. Tomorrow, whether it's wet, whether it's dry, there'll be darshan (cheers, ragged shouts of Bolie Shri Satguru Dev Maharaj Ki Jai) and so premies all I can say is that really you know to take this opportunity you know and it's just like Guru Maharaj Ji is always giving us opportunities. Guru Maharaj Ji is given us one opportunity in one, in our life. There are no other opportunities in one sense and yet here we are at this festival And you know something you can really make it happen for yourself. There's nothing special about it but let it happen for you. Your effort and Guru Maharaj Ji's grace. Guru Maharaj Ji's grace is there, your effort, take that step in your life. Really focus on that satsang, on that service, on that meditation. So premies thank you very much and I hope I'll see you tomorrow.

(Bolie Shri Satguru Dev Maharaj Ki Jai)