Speech of HH Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji – October 29, 2011 – Mysore
Jaya Guru Datta
“Sri Maha Ganapataye Namaha. Sri Saraswatyai Namaha. Sripada Vallabha Narasimha Saraswati Sri Guru Dattatreyaya Namaha
(Speaking from the Vishnu Darshana balcony after the Sri Chakra Puja by Sri Bala Swamiji)
Why is Swamiji not coming down to give darshan? Why is he only giving darshan from upstairs and not coming downstairs? I don’t find enough time to do the recordings for television if I come downstairs, because you people don’t leave me quickly. You demand too much of my attention. I do recordings in two or three different languages. These valuable messages reach thousands and hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. You must understand and allow me to this work.
If I don’t make my appearance downstairs, you people begin speculating that I have gone out of town. I lose two to three hours of precious time when I come down to sit at the window to give prasadam and to give darshan. Everyone demands an individual darshan and personal conversation. So I have taken a vow that I will not come downstairs. What if I were away overseas? Then you adjust to my absence. Like that you must satisfy yourselves and be contented. The recording studio is upstairs. You have to allow me to do this important work. Don’t keep making demands on me that I have to do the puja, that I have to talk to you individually, and that I have to personally hand out the prasadam. The same people join the line morning and evening and ask me the same questions. It will teach you all a lesson if I completely stop coming downstairs or even giving darshan from upstairs. I am telling you this so elaborately, because you have to realize this. You must know. Those who cannot be present here are all benefiting from my recordings, by watching these television programs. How can I be always expected to come down? When I come downstairs, you will not allow me to return upstairs till eleven O’clock. After that the V.I.P’s are waiting for their special darshan upstairs. By the time I finish with them, it is 12:30 PM and time for taking Bhiksha. After that my mood will be different. I would be tired and would want to rest. But I would still need to prepare for the recordings. Where is the time? By 3:30 PM some other big officers will come. Sometimes I have to pretend to be out of town just to get some time for recording, because I have committed myself with the television stations that I would complete the task.
Even when I give darshan only at the balcony, you still insist on talking to me from below. You start blaming Swamiji that he is getting angry and not coming down. Be happy that you got a good darshan. Feel full and contented. You are so possessive you would next want to just eat me up. You are not satisfied with just seeing, talking, and touching. Every time you come to the ashram, you expect that I give you all of that. You should not expect so much. The same people who spoke to Swamiji in the morning will again come in the line in the evening and will again stop and start talking. You are giving a lot of pain and trouble to the Guru by this behavior. You will pay for it by losing your good health. Be careful. Be disciplined. Only Datta is important. Not Datta devotees.OmNamo Hanumate Namaha. Thanks for listening patiently. Jaya Guru Datta.”
Sri Guru Datta
Courtesy: Smt. Hira duvvuri