aradhananam sarvesam visnor aradhanam param
tasmat parataram devi tadiyanam samarcanam

Mahadeva, Iswara, Siva, informing this to Parvati.

"Parvati, from all the respectable offerings, or worshipable authorities Vishnu is the Supreme. Narayana, Krishna is Supreme. And out of them, tadiya, his beloved devotees are Supreme.

tasmad gurum prapadyeta jijnasuh sreya uttamam
sabde pare ca nisnatam brahmany upasamasrayam

We have to submit to the spiritual master who is very kind and who has got compassion towards the upliftment of the people who are under the influence of ignorance and Maya. If we take shelter at the feet of the Lord Krishna and his beloved devotees, and Gurudeva, then easily we can come out from the influence of this deluding potency, Maya. We are in this ocean of Maya. We cannot understand what is truth, what is untruth, what is to be worshipped and what not, what we have to do and who we are, wherefrom we have come, where we have to go, what we have to do and what is favorable to us and what is not favorable to us? These sorts of subjects must be properly understood by those who submit to the Lord.

"Oh Lord, I am ignorant. I have no knowledge. I have no good qualities. I have no previous devotion or previous transcendental knowledge regarding you. I have surrendered to you. Now please excuse me and please accept me as your servant and deliver me from the ocean of ignorance, this mighty ocean of ignorance. Please bless me. You are my Lord. I have surrendered to you. You are my father, you are my mother, you are my brother, you are my wealth, you are my knowledge, you are my mind, you are my intellect and ego. Everything I have surrendered to you. You must bless me."

That prayer if we offer to the Supreme Lord, the Lord Sri Krishna will definitely bless us. He is always there. He is omniscient, he is omnipresent and he is the most powerful. None is so powerful as the Lord Krishna. He can bless with anything, whatever we want. He is so powerful. None is equal to him in distributing the boons. The Lord Krishna only can distribute the powerful boons. Those boons no other demigods, no other human beings, no other sages, no other yogis can offer.

We are directly related to the Lord. We are his servants. We forgot him. Now we have entered into this world. The world..., not only one world, so many worlds. And there the miseries we had to undergo. It is our misfortune. Though the Lord is very near to me in my heart. The Lord is in my heart. Heart is not far away from me. But I am ignorant. I do not know that my Lord is here. I have forgotten him since many, many lives. Not only now. Since..., and due to that offence I am now wandering through births and deaths. How many times? You cannot calculate. So many lives we have already spent. We cannot properly calculate how many times we have taken birth and how many times we have died. Various types of deaths, various types of births - that also we never remember.

That can be realized by us:

yasmin vijnate sarvam evam vijnatam bhavati
yasmin prapte sarvam idam praptam bhavati

If we can know that, everything will be known to us. Our doubts will be cleared. And if we understand it, realize it or know it then our ignorance will be completely ruined. Completely. We will be free from the ignorance. Free from births and deaths, the circle of births and deaths. And we will attain freedom. We will be delivered. We will attain the place:

yad gatva na nivartante tad dhama paramam mama

where if we reach, we will never come down again.

And who will inform this? A qualified, a bonafide, a realized soul: the Guru or the spiritual master can give us the proper knowledge and the proper method to approach and attain it. He can give.

We have to surrender to a Guru. Guru will inform us. Vaisnava will inform us why you are suffering. For you, your father has kept a gem. That gem can produce millions of rupees or what you call, in different cities and different countries, so, we can say that American dollars, millions of dollars you can get. You will be happy. Why are you now suffering? "Sir, I am suffering." No suffering. You have got the wealth. That wealth is under the ground. It is kept only 6 inches under the ground. To your house it is on the east side. If you dig 6 inches there you will find the gemmary. That wealth you can find. You will get that wealth and you use it. You will construct a building. You will purchase all the required articles. You can purchase airplane, you can purchase motorcars. And you will be happy.

That wealth then, who will inform me? A sarvajna. Sarvajna means one who knows the future and the past. Who knows the future and the past? Sarvajna knows. Sarvajna is the spiritual master - he knows you, that you have got that.

Why are you suffering? You have forgotten that, sir. You do not know that your father died but never informed you. I inform you that I have preserved it. You dig six inches to the east side of your house, there you search that, big (inaudible) will you get and you can enjoy.

What is that wealth? That wealth is the Divine Name. That Divine Name is that wealth, that gem. And that nectar, that nectar, if you touch that nectar through the ears, you can touch that nectar through eyes, you can touch that nectar through your tongue, and you can touch the nectar through your skin. Any of the senses. Through the five senses you can have contact with this nectar. Why are you(inaudible) Why are you weeping? Why are you suffering? Who will inform this? Those who know the future and the past. They are called, they foretell you, foretellers. There is a class of people, foretellers, who can read your future, who can read your past. It is only the Lord's grace that we can come in contact with such foretellers. So we must know that. The Lord has come. Sadhus come to our village, come to our cities, come to our houses not to earn or amass material objects. They come only to distribute the medicine to stop suffering.

Vasudeva who was the father of Lord Krishna, when he was in Dwaraka, Narada Maharishi came there, and seeing Narada he said:

mahad-vicalanam nrinam grihinam dina-cetasam
nihsreyasaya bhagavan kalpate nanyatha kvacit

"Sir. Why do all these saints come to our house? They are not in need of any material wealth. They are fully equipped with the spiritual wealth."

What is that spiritual wealth? Prema dhana. Prema - Divine Love. They have got divine love towards the Lord. That is the only wealth. That wealth they have amassed. So they are not in need of any other wealth.
And,

"Why do you come to our house? Only to destroy our sufferings. If we are grihasthas we are with our children, with our house, with our friends and we are suffering. To destroy our suffering mahatmas come to our house. Today you have come to our house and we are fortunate."

Then Narada said:

"Vasudeva, you are most fortunate. You are the greatest fortunate person because the Lord who can give anything you want, that Lord is your son. He is with you and you are eating with him, sleeping with him, talking with him, giving food and always seeing Krishna. But I cannot see. I want to see Krishna always, but Daksa Prajapati has cursed me that: "You cannot stay in one place. You must always be roaming throughout the world". So I do not stay. I am anxious to stay in Dwaraka always and see my Lord Krishna, but I cannot because I am cursed by Daksa Prajapati. So I have come only to see my Lord Krishna. Not to purify you. I want to be purified. You are always purified because always you are seeing Krishna. Always. Daily 24 hours you see Krishna. You treat him as your boy and you are fortunate. And it is your boon."

Given to Vasudeva in his past penance. When Vasudeva performed penance then Lord appeared before him. Then Lord asked him:

"What do you want?"

Then he said:

"A boy like you. As you are very beautiful, such a beautiful boy I want."

Now he said to Narada:

"I have committed a great blunder. One who can give moksa, deliver me from the influence of Maya, I, without requesting him to give me moksa, I said: "Boy. Yes. I want you as a boy." Is it not ignorance?"

Narada said:

"It is not ignorance. It is the greatest intelligence and you are the most intelligent of all. Asking Krishna as your son, means you will be with your son"

Now he was with his son. For 125 years Krishna was in this world. And in his last time, Krishna when he will go, that day he has left his life, body. So for 125 years. "Only for 12 years you could not see him because he was with Nanda Maharaja there in Gokula. But the rest of the life you had the advantage to see him. Now you must bless me. I have come not to see Krishna but to see a devotee. You are the devotee."

Though Narada is a great devotee, it is the humility of all the devotees, they always, with humility they say:

"Yes. I am humble. I am your servant. I am your servant."

But actually he is not a servant. He is master. Even the master Krishna says:

"I am your servant."

This is the proper conception of the Lord. And he is (inaudible)

We will discuss tomorrow how it is. Today is late and we are little tired and all of you please excuse me. Tomorrow we shall discuss.