In the meantime the sadhus also came back and they saw this boy, young boy. He has attachment. He doesn't understand. He doesn't know what we speak, but yet he comes. What we discuss he doesn't know, but he has got an attachment to us. Always. From morning till night he'd sit there. And they used to ask him to do some little service. And they used to give him some roti or something. That also he used to eat. When four months completed then the sadhus declared:

"Now, we have completed four months. Our vrata completed. Now we are going. We will go tomorrow."

The boy heard. Then he cried:

"You take me with you!".

Then, they said:

"No. Boy. You are the single boy of your mother and if you go away, who will look after you? And mother will die. Don't come with us. You be with your mother who gives you food, clothing, everything. Then now, who will look after you, if you come with us? We cannot look after you as your mother. Now you stay."

Then weeping, weeping he stayed. It so happened, after some time his mother got bit by a snake. Early in the morning when she was coming to milk a cow and snake bite her. When the mother was killed the boy taught:

"Yes, my mother, I lost my mother. Then who will feed me? Who will look after me? Who will give me food? Who will take care of me? In this village nobody will look after me. Why should I stay here? I lost my mother."

So, "Its OK", he thought. He walked, walked to the northern side towards Himalayas, and on the way saw a big Pippal tree and he came under that tree. Now, he was very hungry. He thought:

"All right. I will sit here and repeat there mantra. It was mantra they chose to repeat, do bhajan. I will do it."

And then he practiced that. Then he heard a voice from the sky. Somebody's informing voice:

"You don't try. In this life you cannot reach Vaikuntha, sublime stage. In this life you repeat namam. And gradually throughout the life death comes to you naturally, that you cannot commit suicide. Natural death must come to you. After 60, 70, 80 years or 100 years it must come. Death must come naturally. And then you will come to my abode."

Now, after

namany anantasya hata-trapah pathan
guhyani bhadrani krtani ca smaran
gam paryatams tusta-mana gata-sprhah
kalam pratiksan vimado vimatsarah

Now, he was traveling throughout the world. Always singing loudly the name of the Lord. Hare Krishna Hare Krishna. And thinking in his mind about the pastimes of the Lord Krishna, or Matsya avatara, Kurma avatara, Varaha avatara, Nrsimha avatara, Vamana avatara. All these incarnations. The pastimes of those incarnations. And those, the confidential, all lilas all pastimes he used to remember. He used to remember. And he used to eagerly utter namam. Hare Krishna namam. And then while traveling the death has come. When the death has come then he, after death he reached Vaikuntha. Now, he is the associate of Vaikuntha, Narayana. Yes. Always there singing the glories of the Lord. He is alive. He is alive. If you want to see Narada you can see him. And if you practice Harinam then you can see Narada. Now also he is alive. ... And Narada is preaching towards demons and demigods alike. The demigods respect him, and the demons also respect him because he tells the truth. They also respect him. Never ... Now, those who repeat namam, they have no enemy. If there anybody commits enmity with them, they will be suffering, but if devotee who is always repeating namam, day and night, incessantly, and, he has no enemy. All are his friends; the beasts and birds, the animals. The animals, cruel animals never do any harm to him. And this repetition of namam.

Now, Chaitanya Mahaprahu, when he was going to Vrindavan through Chotanagpur, Jharikhand. It is the forest track, thick forest. Now, we saw here it is not thick. Yet it is thick. We have traveled all the track from here, Croatia, and morning coming from, we saw the forest. And many, though no beast is there. But the trees are there. No man is there. Then Mahaprabhu has to walk from Puri to Vrindavan. More then 2000 miles he should walk. And while walking, in this long forest, Mahaprabhu was singing Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, loudly. Because no man, because there is no man he feels happy. If the man are there he will never repeat so loudly. When there is no man. No man's land. All the beasts and birds and the trees. And he is repeating loudly. And all the trees resound also, they resound Hare Krishna, the trees say Hare Krishna. When you go through the thick forest and repeat namam whatever sound you utter, they will resound, the trees will resound it. So, all the beasts, all the birds, all the animals. All cruel animals. They all gathered around Mahaprabhu hearing Hare Krishna. Elephants. They are coming to drink water. Mahaprabhu throws water Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna. They also utter Hare Krishna in their language. Even the tigers, cruel animals. They also. Taking their front legs, four legs, front, they ... and they also sing. Even the lions. The serpents. And even the cruel animals. And the bees. And the goat. They also come. They also follow hari namam. No enmity in them. No enmity. The tiger when he sees a goat immediately he will devour it. But now, the goat is kissing the tiger. Because that namam, through that namam, through the power of that namam the enemy will become your friend. There will be no enemy in this forest.

And Haridas Thakur who was non-Hindu, he was chanting daily three lakhs namam, three lakhs. Your such three lakhs would require 24 hours. Now, whether we have got 24 hours? We sleep, we eat. No time. No time. He used to repeat namam till his last day. At the age of 90 he became weak. One day, daily Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was there in Puri. And he used to send prasad, Jagannath prasad, through Govinda. And one day when Govinda brought prasad, he asked:

"Haridas. Prasad? Jagannath prasad?"

No, I offer my obeisances. Then he took one parcel of that prasad. He was lying on the ground repeating namam. Next day Chaitanya Mahaprabhu came and asked:

"Haridas."

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Haridas said:

"All well. I am well physically. But mentally I am suffering. What is that disease? The disease is: till now I completed three lakhs namam daily without stop. Now, due to old age I am unable to complete three lakhs namam. So when I am unable to complete three lakhs namam why should I survive? Why should I take prasad? I am determined to leave this world tomorrow. Tomorrow by ten o'clock I will leave this world."

And, Mahaprabhu is astonished. He said:

"With whom I will stay if you go away?"

"No. There are thousands of devotees. ..."

"No. No. No. You don't go."

"No. I will go away. I will go tomorrow. And early in the morning you please bring all the devotees. Two hundred, three hundred, four hundred devotees. All of them should come here. And feet dust on my head and they must stand all around me and do bhajan. By 10 they will sing for me, and I will look at your face and repeat namam. By correct ten I will leave."

So, on the next day Mahaprabhu carried the order of Haridas and he brought all the devotees. And their feet dust was given to Haridas and they started bhajan. They were standing doing bhajan. And Mahaprabhu was sitting. By 10 when its right, 10 right, his life has gone. He said: "Krishna Chaitanya!" and passed. Then Mahaprabhu was weeping. Mahaprabhu carried that body and took that body to the ocean. They washed it. After washing Mahaprabhu performed Samadhi. Now you see at Puri Haridas samadhi at the banks of the sea. So, he is lost. And he begged all the devotees to give him alms. I want to feed 500 devotees today. It is the disappearance day of Haridas. All of you come. He never asked anybody till now. When he asked all are giving. And with it he asked all vaisnavas to sit and he himself distributed it. But, unless Mahaprabhu eats, nobody will eat. So he sat. Mahaprabhu, he was feeling happy and feeling sorry. Because he cannot have the association of Haridas Thakur. And now happy because Haridas wanted to go and he has gone. What can be done? That he goes. Now, here, the Nama, Nama Acarya, he was the Nama Acarya. Nobody can be acarya unless he practices and realise. The meaning of acarya

acinoti yah shastrartham acare sthapayaty api svayam acarate yasmad acharyas tena kirttitah

So, those who discuss and practice and realize, they are called acaryas. By writing name Acarya on the paper one cannot become acarya. Acarya must practice day to day. Must practice. He will be an acarya. Now, this namam we could able to explain you. Because time is short. We are happy to see you all devotees. But some of the devotees, they could not reach in time because they did not recieve the news early in the morning and today we will be ... and tomorrow morning we will go to Pula. Those who are anxious they can come with us. The scenery that you view, the river decieves you. The sea decieves you. That deepness of the sea. The man's heart must be deep like the sea. Now you do harinamam. You do harinam, dancing sankirtan. Sankirtan. Because

mahambhodhes tire kanaka-rucire nila-shikhare
vasan prasadantah sahaja-balabhadrena balina
subhadra-madhya-sthah sakala-sura-sevavasara-do
jagannathah svami nayana-patha-gami bhavatu me

Jagannath Swami is by the side of this ocean at Puri

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