 Even the beggar becomes a king, the lame
persons are able to walk or even fly, the blind is able to see this
universe, and many of the
difficult writings of the destiny which are at the forehead of a person
can be wiped out. Even the fundamental essence of a person or
a personality or a being can be made to change.
A poet has said while comparing the river and a saint that the river
actually flows from higher to the bottom because that is the very
nature of a river and she is tied by that, not for her personal
pleasure, but because that is her personal nature to be pure, to be
graceful, and to become compassionate for the well-being of
others. And, that is precisely what the saints do.
The river is able to quench the thirst of numberless persons residing
by its bank and, is able to eradicate the fears and not for only those
people but it becomes a medium for the quenching of the thirst and of
the hunger of many more millions and everybody. It suffers
very gladly the ice, the heat, the rain, even overcomes all the thorns
all the pebbles, all the impediments on its path. She
suffers, she moves them and is able to make her own road or a course
just for the purpose of helping others, serving others. That
is for the very purpose of others welfare and she does so without any
distinction who is a good person and who is a bad person. and finally
goes and merges into the big ocean.
And, in the same way, the saints and fakirs come on this mortal earth
in this physical world and not for their personal pleasure not for
satisfaction of their personal greed or personal desires but for
bringing peace, happiness, prosperity, enlightenment to
everybody. They become a small or a partial essence of the
great father, the God himself, and they actually carry the total godly
powers and the capacities.
 These saints, these perfect saints appear or incarnate in the
form of
gurus or teachers. They are actually liberated themselves,
but they come for the purpose of revamping the faith of a faithful one
and protecting him from a disbelief, for granting the fearlessness to
the one who is riddled with fear, to grant liberation from all the
misery which have come on a person by his own actions when he is very
much troubled, shaken, helpless, absolutely weakened and very
unhappy. It is at that time they come.
They themselves suffer all the misery just in order to give happiness
to man and to protect man from all the terrible storms created by maya
the attachment. They reestablish the limitations of human
conduct or the moral conduct and they are constantly busy in making a
person understand what is the true goal or ideal of human life so that
such a mortal person is able to live in a manner so that a society
which is united, which is peaceful, and which is happy can be recreated
or can reborn itself or brought about. They don't come to get
anything out of it. They actually come only to give.
They are complete in whatever way that we can think of. They
actually play the physical man's way when they come into this world and
they actually make their devotees alert towards the temporality of this
world by playing the role of a man. And they actually come to
give some kind of a pillar or a post or a support of devotion, of
liberation, of peace, of some kind of comfort by way of his own
spiritual umbrella to the very miserable human life.
They actually build a spiritual empire or a spiritual universe through
which a man is able to recognize his humanness and is able to broaden
or make the road easy for one's own liberation. They actually
come and bring the message of love by identifying with the personality
of the Lord himself for the man. They not only tell us what
is heaven or paradise but actually they construct or build a kind of a
paradise on this very physical world, Earth, for the community of his
devotees.
 They do not hold, they actually come to distribute and throw
away to
everybody and just cast to everybody or open to everybody the fame, the
prosperity, the happiness, the peace. Absolutely unreservedly
he does that or they do that from his own cornucopia or storehouse
which is never empty.
They themselves remain distant or away from fame and
prosperity. They actually condemn that, and they actually
abandon that, and they make the people dependent upon them, taste that
fame, that prosperity so that those people are satisfied and know the
true character of the fame and prosperity and then rise above such
desires and that the freedom to those people who are dependent on
them. They actually cast for these devotees the pearls of the
mystery of Ram.
They make this mortal human being achieve and reinvent or recognize or
receive his godliness. But they incarnate on this Earth for
such divine actions and Shri Baba Neem Karoli Maharaj came to us or
arrived amidst us with his divine virtues, actions, and nature for the
purpose of freeing, with the help of his divine lilas, many of his
devotees who were suffering from miseries of the physical world and who
were dependent upon him, on his feet or surrender to his feet, life
after life and for freeing many other poor accursed people even
devotees of God of the misery which takes place on account of the
bodily birth, on account of this physical nature of the reality, on
account of some divine activity like a storm, etc.
So, he had come to free people with the help of his amazing lilas and
divine lilas. For this purpose, he not only created in the
ashrams, but also in their homes, a kind of a heaven by freely giving
prosperity from his unending storehouse or inexhaustible supply and he
did so without any distinction of who deserved who did not deserve, who
was saint who was not a saint, who was devotee, who was not a
devotee. And, he gave such a support to his community of
devotees and those people who had completely surrendered and depended
upon him, a kind of support from his enlightening lilas that not only
they became successful by virtue of that in this world, but even their
final or the chief aim, liberation was also constructed or built.
He never distinguished. Without any distinctions he became
the very virtues of the person who had no virtues, the eyes of the
blind, the support of the weak and frail, the friend of the poor or
helpless. He became the very mother and father and fed
numberless hungry people and he gave support to the person who had no
support. He became actually the bridge for crossing over this
ocean of physical reality or personal birth for many of the devotees
and the knowledge of the people and in the course of that he granted
them or he gave them the very essence of the happiness of love for
God. A person who was untouchable, he owned him in such a
manner that his name became his only wealth. Babaji, who was
the rescuer of the poor, he remained busy in such action every minute,
every morning and evening, day and night, throughout his life.
 When it came for his own personal self, he gave up his house,
he left
all the prosperity, he left all his relatives. He actually
abandoned and renounced all the luxury and attachment to the paternal
property. He gave up all the worldly pleasures. And
this too he never revealed to others he actually kept it to himself not
letting anybody know. Nobody in this world found out of this
sense of renunciation, this action of renunciation, on his part, his
powers and authority, and the very divine self despite his mortal body
or the divine self encapsulated by the mortal body.
He actually wandered mostly in the jungles, in the deserts, or deserted
places, sometimes with his servants or helpers or even alone whether it
was cold or in the rains or in summers. He would spend his
nights on the road on the rocks without any kind of a roof
above. He would move about in the houses, in the villages, in
the cities, with a simple cloth, called dhoti and later on a blanket
and a chadar or outer cover, cotton outer cover, and, lived off
whatever unsavory dried-up food wherever he could find it and he would
move about like that and in the process of that, splurging his grace,
splurging his compassion and removing the pains of everybody.
He did not keep anything with his own self or as his personal
possession. He gave up his sleep, his rest, even gave up his
hunger and his thirst in order to provide happiness to human beings and
for uplifting them or rescuing them. Not only that, he
actually completely sacrificed his own fundamental persona, or being,
or self and his own life just in order to keep the likings of his own
devotees and those who depended upon him.
He even took over the fruits of the actions of his own devotees, the
karmas of his devotees. And, he even forgave their most
heinous crimes. It has been well said that the Lord does not
entertain such thoughts of your errors or mistakes. And, he
did so just out of his own compassionate self or compassionate nature
and also to uplift and to rescue the person by any ploy that he could
come up with.
 Neither did he see or look at peoples shortcomings, nor did
he care for
or look for peoples rights, nor looked at their actions, nor looked at
their class of society a person belonged to. Whosoever came
to his door, he fulfilled that persons desires and in this process he
gave up his total mortal life or human life not only among his devotees
but for the purpose of making every human being understand the
purposefulness of life, its very essence, and for revealing that there
is something like godly power.
Maharaji also, in the course of his lilas with his devotees,
demonstrated on one hand the character of Mariada Purshutum Ram, Ram
the upholder of moral principles, his morality, his ideals, his
forgiveness, his compassion, his kindness, his grace, and the very form
of his own love.
Then on the other hand, in his personality, he demonstrated and brought
it to reality the sweetness of the love between Radha and Krishna of
the Dvapara Age. The feeling of the eternal dance that is
going on, and on the other hand, giving the knowledge of karma yoga,
jnana yoga and actually soaked the devotees in that essence of the love
of Krishna for Radha and for the gopis. And along with that,
he also brought out in the form the jnana and dhyana, the knowledge and
meditation, yoga of the age of sat, the truth.
When we come to consider this very fact that somebody could be in a
moment like Ram, in another moment like Krishna, another moment
complete playful form of God with body and act like an ordinary mortal
and despite this mortal body show the complete detachment and bring out
the lilas of the non-qualified God-Self, and demonstrating and showing
these lilas with these many facets and many qualities and soaking them
with an emotive understanding of such things and making them aware and
making them feel the ultimate joy.
This kind of capacity, this kind of capability, can only be in one
person and that is the perfect being, that is God himself and nobody
else because God alone is the perfect being, parampurnapush(?).
 That in this dark age of Kali somebody could combine in one
body the
aspect of union and aspect of taking care by God of the age of Satya
and Treta and Dvapara and in such an all-encompassing impact on the
lives of the devotees of the Kali age with all kinds of amazing
influence that alone is a burning evidence of the fact that Babaji
Maharaj was Parambrahma, that is God, and in his each and every speck
of his body and personage there was the eternal powers displayed or
eternal power was present.
When I say that Shri Maharaji, who has the capacity to demonstrate in
his lila a complete format of the knowledge of meditation, of karma
yoga, and devotional love, such a Maharaji was actually the embodiment
of that eternal power that moves this solar universe and there is no
doubt in it and I am not speaking something out of extra
ordinary. And, all this was done by Babaji Maharaj and all
these lilas were brought about or performed in an ordinary human body,
with human dress and with human behavior, almost like Ram and Krishna,
mere human lila or human action or playful pattern.
He did not do all this with any special incarnate embodiment or as a
yogi or as a very highly accomplished mahapurush or
extraordinary mahatma. No. He waded through
life as an ordinary person, and it is on account of that, he became
very very dear everywhere, became respected everywhere, and became the
beloved and the charmer of his loving community of loving
devotees. And, he used actually this weapon in order to keep
his secret in tact, the secret of his inner form and his inner essence.
It is not easy to really do justice with words of his depiction of his
form or depiction of Baba Neem Karoli's lilas. He was such a
remarkable personality. Whatever I saw the tongue did not see
and the human mind could not capture it fully. All this was
beyond mind, intellect, and voice. Everybody knew the
greatness of his Lord, of Lord Ram, but still nobody could resist the
temptation of saying something about it, and it is in that light that I
am also trying to join the company of such singers of the glories of
Lord's godliness. Still, nobody remained without saying
something or the other and it is in that sense I am also trying to join
the company of each and everybody saying something about him.
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