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 ones 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 bhagavantas 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 Ramdass 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 neighbors. 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 Aniruddhas 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, Suchitdadas and Sameerdadas father. Suchitdadas 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 Bapus 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 subtractionthe 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 Bapus 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 Putnamavshis 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 Maiyya did not give birth to Shreekrishna but she is the mother all the same. We fail to make out as we are ordinary human beings.

It is to explain to us the diffe e u erence amo these t ong three that o Bapu sp our poke for tw welve whole years, to te y each us to distinguish among t hese three - Putnam h e mavshi, Yashoda Maiyya, who brings up and ta s akes care an Devakim nd mata, who g gives birth. Similarly, why . did Bapu explain the Ramrak u ksha to us? What is the Ramraksh What is the Rama e ha? s ayan? It is all about fou brothers. There ar four bro ur re others on o one side, R Ram-Lakshm manBharat-S Shatrughna. There four brothers on the ot s ther side t too. You might say, Bapu there ar three, not four. But they ar indeed f re n B re four Ravan-Bibheeshan n-Kumbhak karna and Kub ber. Kuber was Ravan brother. The whole event unfo w s e olds with fo brothers on our either si ide. I wanted to expla it to you as the Ra ain u amayan doe not occu merely at the es ur t material worldly level. It occurs at a totally d o different le evel. We u understand the d Ramraks sha in orde to unde er erstand how the Ram ayan is clo w osely assoc ciated with our h life. It is for this very reason that I gave you the R e Ramnaam b book when the pravac chans R rogress. Remember th this boo is the gr hat ok reatest weapon on the Ramraksha were in pr in the world. How come? Firs of all it is weapon that prote w st ects. It is t Chakra, the the , Sudarsha Chakra that prot an tects each person, w who uses it. Jethe ramnaamaache aavartan n, phire tethe Vishnuche Sudarsha an, says s Hemadp pant in the Shrisaisa achcharit. The Ramna T aam book is indeed a w s weapon, it is a protec t ctive armour, a protective shell. It is at the same time a great a t e and very ef ffective as stra (a weapon that is propelled by a mantr that wi p b ra) ipes out ou enemy w ur without our knowledg or ge even to our knowle edge. We must unders m stand that. The Param meshvar kno all pos ows ssible

languages and that is beyond doubt. It is we, who fail to make distinctions. Who is 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-mothers 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 schools 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 everybodys 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 friends 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 mothers 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). Dont 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 doctors 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 ladys 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

singular faith Wh is the important one, the l hat last one? I says, An It niruddha is my s friend. We do hav faith in the Five Gu ve t urus but Ani iruddha is o friend. our

We all have this ha h abit of deif fying, of making idols out of stones and ins stalling the in em temples I am not the kind, who sit in temples. T s. w That is not what pleas Me. I began ses the prav vachan, I be egan the Upasana. Ha I so mu ch as worn the gandh (tilak) on the ave n ha n forehead Have I ever sat be d? e efore you dressed in s d saffron? I h have alway worn a w ys white shirt and black trousers, right from the beginning, that was w d t what I wore when I di My e id M.D. and that is what I wear even today. I condu Myself today the way I did then w r uct and Ispe even to eak oday the way I spoke then. Hav I ever sh w ve hown you t that I have four arms? No I have h not. . Did I ever w wear a turban? Did I ever wear a robe? Forge the rudra r et aksha, I do not even w wear the jaanva (the sacred th e hread worn af fter the thread cerem mony) Peop ask Me Bapu, w ple e, what is You caste? I ask ur them, W What is you urs? The answ would be lets sa so and so. Then t wer ay that is not My caste. I belong to the o caste th you look down upo Or I belo to the caste that you resent The one, who hat k on. ong t. is helple ess, oppres ssed, reject ted, distres ssed, hassle is Mine Besides, let Me tell you ed, e. l what is most impo ortant. You may call Me a demon you may call Me G M n, y God, a Frien a nd, human being, an animal, a hypocrite, call Me wh b a h c hatever may please yo it just does y ou, not mat tter. But if at all I am God, if at all I am Someone, I belong t the sinn f m a m , to ner, I belong to the ordin t nary person n.

I do not belong to the great virtuous beings raven to the authorities in the spiritual 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 Gods 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 husbands wife, be vratastha for a period of three days and then wear the mangalsutra etc., as the second husbands 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 husbands 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 wifes forehead on the husbands 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 wifes 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 (demigod), 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.