Denver, Colorado, 25 February 1979
But when that faith becomes weak, when that faith becomes no good, when that Arti's meaning is nothing but a recital …
You know, last night when all the premies there were singing Arti in sign language, it was just so beautiful. I do not
understand sign language, but I could understand them. Because what they were trying to say, and even just the way
they designate "heart," was just so beautiful. And that language of Love is what we can all talk, we all can understand.
But, premies, we have to have that faith in Guru Maharaj Ji. We cannot just stand there and say, "Because everybody is
singing Arti in this hall, chat along, kiddo." But mean it. Even if Arti changed tomorrow. You know. It is not the matter
of just mere words, but it is meaning it in your heart. and not going. "You are my mother, and you are my father." But.
"Yes, Guru Maharaj Ji! I love you because you have mothered me. And I love you because you guide me. I love you
because you are my friend." And we have to stay conscious of what Brahmanand wrote. because it was Brahmanand's
feelings that he put down into Arti: "Oh Guru Maharaj Ji, take this heart, for in you it will mellow."
Divine Times Holi Issue, 1979 Volume 8, Number 2
Guru Puja 1979
"Because Guru Maharaj Ji can show that to us now in this lifetime while we are still alive. Guru Maharaj Ji can give us that love, Guru Maharaj Ji can give us that realisation now. We have to just let
go to Guru Maharaj Ji, give ourselves to Guru Maharaj Ji, not in a theory, not in a song, not in an Arti that we sing every night. I give you my heart, for in you it will mellow, Maharaji my Lord, my life is your play. I
mean those are pretty heavy duty statements, you know. You are my mother, you are my father. What, what, what are we saying? And yet do we even have an essence of meaning to it? What we sing is right, it's true, it is an
expression of a devotee. This is what a devotee would understand of his Guru Maharaj Ji. That you are my all, he doesn't have to go into specifics about your brother, sister, mother, father, cousin, uncle, aunt. And yet in
a very humble and beautiful way we are trying to express that you are my all, every relations, you are my all, you are above and beyond. You know, and really the whole essence of prayer is let me really give myself to you,
(the song "Always There" joins in the soundtrack) let me surrender to you, you have come singing the glories of Guru Maharaj Ji is what Arti is all about. Oh
Guru Maharaj Ji you are my father, you are my mother, you are friend. I see you in those respect, you need to teach me a lesson, you need to give me the fathering, you need to give me that mothering, you need to give me
that support and yet you are my all, my Lord to me."
Guru Puja 1979 DLM video
Milwaukee Wisconsin, October 10, 1979 - Evening
Guru Maharaj Ji is offering us that opportunity for which the saint says that you can take all the pens -- all the wood in the whole world and turn it into pens -- and take all the oceans and turn them into ink, and take all the earth and turn it into paper and try to write the glory of Guru Maharaj Ji: you cannot!
Even our arti, the way we sing, "You are my brother, you are my father, you are my … you are my everything." And we have to make that a reality. Guru Maharaj Ji really has to become everything to us: our friend, our life. We have to somehow disappear.
And that is the only way we can disappear: by our devotion, to be completely locked in Guru Maharaj Ji's love; by our devotion, to completely merge in Guru Maharaj Ji.
Affinity magazine, February 1980
Hans Jayanti, Friday, November 9, 1979 - Afternoon
Programs. This could go on forever. This looks like, seems like, feels like, it never has to stop. So what? So what if there's no cold water anymore. (I shouldn't say that, right?
Nobody will shave. So what? We'll all have beards. So what?) Finally it'll get warm enough that cold water will feel good: May, June -- gets really warm, hot. And this can be.
Wake up every day: meditation, arti, have satsang. And every month have one darshan. I mean, we could just be all here and three days out of the month we'd all have darshan.
Three days out of a week have darshan, and it just could be going on.
Affinity magazine, February 1980
Rome, Italy - June 25, 1980
"Your commitment, that's, you know, that's basically what I have to say nothing new probably to what I said at the last satsang or last to last satsang or last to last satsang. You know. In essence,
what I'm trying to say is that when you get up and say "Bhole Satguru Dev Maharaj Ki Jai" mean it! Not just say it because uh 9,000 other people are saying so, so
you say it too. You know. And when you sing Arti, mean it."
Rome Ashram Satsang 1980 DLM video
