Speech of HH Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji during Ganapati Festival – Brent Town Hall in London – September 23, 2012
Jaya Guru Datta
Please write down all your experiences of the concert and your feelings as to what could have given the most happiness to Swamiji at the concert; please email them to Swamiji at mail@dattapeetham.com.
It was a great boon for everyone who was at the concert. Some were listening only out of love. Some were sleeping. Some were analyzing. Some were thinking and were in their own world. Some were in their own confusion. Absent minded. We are not able give our own opinion. Go and see the Himalayan scenery. No words. Sanaka, Sanandana, the four brothers had an ego. They were very knowledgeable. They showed their arrogance when they went to visit Lord Vishnu. Vishnu said, “Describe and praise me.” So they began to chant the Vedas. They are very powerful saints. They chanted the Vedas for 10 years. Vishnu said, is that all? Describe me more. For 1 Yuga they chanted. For countless years they chanted. Is this only about my form? What about my nature and my powers? Please chant some more, Vishnu said. They kept praising, praising, and praising God. Vishnu says, “Only this much?” Then they sang more Veda mantras. Their mind got affected after many Yugas. They exhausted all words, all descriptions, all praises and still could not do justice in adequately describing or praising the Lord. Finally they were out of breath and imagination and expression. All that they could express was only “Aha Aha, Oooh, Oho, Aaah”, and such exclamations. Then they realized that the Maya of Vishnu cannot be praised or described. Only “ohhoo, hoi, ha ha.” We think they lost their minds. There was only a sense of excitement. Only exclamations. When you go to the mountains such as the Himalayas or the Alps, you are lost for words. No words can describe the wonder and the beauty. Ah wonder! They can be praised how? Like how to praise the Sun from beginning to end? It is the same with Nada, the divine sound. How to explain this sound or the heartbeat or the sound of inhalation and exhalation?
Lub Dub rhythm of the heart beat is the Father. Mother Goddess is the tone, the continuous flow of sound. How to explain?
Wonder and excitements is what I saw in all my family members, my friends and my disciples in different, different, different forms. I have seen their excitement. What comes next? Everyone was full of anticipation, every second, every minute. After 3 hours what happens next? What to expect next? We cannot explain. Swamiji’s personal experience is seeing in all the devotees’ faces the expression of joy, fervor, excitement, happiness, thrill at the music, the Nada, the tablas and the other artists playing, the musical instruments, the lights, the grandeur of the hall, and the birthday surprise, the organ playing, the confetti drenching Swamiji and the stage, the Kali Yuga flowers falling from above, the balloons descending from the roof over the audience! All that Swamiji saw was only the happy excitement in all the faces of all the devotees. The new and rare wonderful ragas and the Happy Birthday tune on the organ. First time in 70 years nobody leaked the surprise to me. Always, some one or the other lets the secret out. This time how did they keep it a complete surprise? How? Tears come. No words; one hundred per cent happiness. No words. It is a miracle that happened yesterday, a miracle between you and Swamiji.
“Tired; Yes. But, tired means, not body tired. Some silence. Minus zero. Some experience. Everything joined and came together yesterday. Such experience I got yesterday after 25 years. Everything is coming together surprisingly. Before, one week back, in my body, in my walking and talking, if you see some videos, it is like Swamiji is 600 years old. It was difficult to sit, stand, talk, or even to walk. For 15 days, no darshan to devotees. If you go to yogasangeeta you will see Swamiji’s figure, and Swamiji’s legs swollen, such heavy legs. Something has happened to Appaji, so many people were worried. How can we hold this concert? So many people concealed the information about Appaji’s health. Doctors were hiding the information. It is all Maya, bad evils, bad communications, bad influences; Swamiji healed himself with 400 ragas. Finished.
You can ask experiences from Prasadi, Phanishree and the boys who were surrounding me. One month back Ayyappan also knows. They talked about canceling the concert. I said, “Don’t, and don’t cancel the concert. Don’t talk about it.” Yesterday, it spoke something, something about you and the Nada tunes; you and your Swamiji; Nada, the ragas, how much power this Nada has! Nada gave miracles. I cannot explain. Yesterday’s Swamiji’s experience; I have no words, no laugh, no talk. Somebody told; so many experiences. Somebody told, the world all is one. Yes, all true. So many people told about their experiences yesterday. It is all true. It is the Truth. So many answers, different answers they got. Everything is truth. Whoever told of so many different, different explanations, it is all true. Now time is counting down.
Once again, special blessings to London, all trustees, so many dreamed of this concert for hours together, they had no sleep. So many devotees came, from America, Australia, Dubai, India, visa problem, health problem, ticket problem, but they came and attended this Swamiji’s 25th Silver Jubilee concert, the Silver Jubilee Conference.
Now countdown; next sir? One by one they are coming. Some are in a hurry to catch their flight, train to go back home. I don’t want them to be missing their flights. I just want to see their faces.
Sri Guru Datta