Speech of HH Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji – January 26, 2014 – UPH Mysore
Prasad asked me why am I not coming down to sit in the Prasadam window. Atleast for recording you are not coming down – he said. He asked what is the mistake we have done and what is our karma ? Yes, it is your karma only. You do not want Swamiji’s advices. You have no value towards His words. Why should I come down for recording ? Instead I can do it in the studio itself. No one is interested. One or two people who are interested can watch it on TV. I’m using social media to spread good words and shape up your lives. But you are not making use of it. Many do not even read Puttugam messages. My team helps me in it. Sometimes Swamiji Himself designs and posts when He doesn’t like the ones made by the team. You point out grammer mistakes in it which are negligible. What’s there if there is no ‘it’ or ‘but’ in it ? You know the grammer. You correct it for yourself and read it. Swamiji is not a professor to put everything gramatically. What did I study ? I’m SSLC fail and then passed out second time. I’m not a Phd doctorate holder. If a professor makes mistakes you can point out and say what kind of professor you are. He cannot make such mistakes as he is being paid. But I’m not so. I struggle so much and do it just to uplift you. My path is different. You do not catch the essence of it but are interested in pointing out gramatical errors. This is a big disease. Now what Swamiji will do is slowly stop advicing. I will just remain silent without posting anything. Europeans and Americans do not have any problem with my English. My language is a broken language. It is very childish language. Still Europeans say they can understand. They enjoy the sound of my voice. When I ask Manasa Datta to translate, they say they don’t need any translation. They are happy with whatever I speak and get the essence of it. For that matter, even my Tamil or Hindi also is not good. It is a basic language that I speak. But still scholars in those languages say that they cannot find any fault in my language. They just make minor changes that too only when I ask them. And they are all big scholars. When Prasad asked me the reason, I didn’t answer him but now I’m answering in front of you all.
You all have made it a habit of just coming for my interview, ask couple of questions, have food and leave. You are not participating in any programs. You don’t sit in bhajan or Tailabhishekam or Puja. All you are interested is pour all your problems at Swamiji, eat and go. This is not good. Initially, I found this trick of interview or Pada Puja just to attract you towards good karmas and put you on good path. But you are leaving the main intention behind it and are taking that opportunity only to talk to Swamiji. Do you know the meaning of Pada Puja ? Pada Puja is meant just for performing Puja to the Holy feet. You must not talk anything there. Just do Puja, pray and leave. If you want to talk, why name it as Pada Puja ? Just say Interview instead. This is not at all good. I’m not liking it. These days I’m very much scared even to smile at you. If I smile, you immediately come and ask some question. If I ask, How are you, you come and cry and ask another question. If I look at you you ask a question. This has become a habit for you. So, I’m not even smiling at you. Not asking you anything. Am just looking at you or at times I even close my eyes too. Going ahead, I will reduce all this. But don’t worry. I will not stop giving darshan. I will just give darshan and go away. That’s all. You are changing me. I’m becoming like this because of you and you only.
I’m not scolding you but I am pointing out what you are losing. When you go to Yama loka, there you will be questioned. You have gone to a Guru. What did you learn there. For sure, you will be questioned. What will you say ? Will you say I have gone for so many number of Pada Pujas and so many number of Interviews ? They will not accept that. They will punish you and at that moment, I will not come for your rescue. I will just keep watching. You all don’t believe in this birth re-birth process but I do. If Swamiji plays Music, it is not that it has come now just like that. I have been practicing from many previous births and I continue to do it even now for my next birth. My life style is very simple. I just wake up, do some Pranayama, have bath and practice music. Now that birds have come, I’m busy with them too. (Someone from audience says we will change Appaji). No. You don’t change and you don’t want to change. You can’t change too. It is impossible. It is a curse for mankind. That is why Swamiji is finding all possible methods to put you on right path.
The main intention of Sunday Satsang is to have Puja, Tailabhishekam and Bhajan. Earlier, people used to cry if there was no bhajan on Sunday and that they are not able to listen to Swamiji’s voice. Previously there used to be no interviews on Sundays. Only Monday was allocated for interviews. People who needed it used to apply leave and stayed back on Mondays and everything used to be so smooth. But now that is no longer happenning. You are finding out all kinds of tricks. If you are in hurry, you want to pay larger amounts of one lack or fifty thousand rupees or so and say I want Pada Puja, I want Pada Puja. Now I will also start thinking like you. Why should I stop if money is coming in this form. Let it come. Atleast the corpus fund will grow. Otherwise, who wants your money ? I do not take a single rupee from the trust. Do you know ? I take care of all my personal expenses. There are a couple of people who gives exclusively for my personal expenses as pocket money kind of thing. Even in that, I do not take entire amount. I just take what ever is required to meet my expenses and handover the balance amount to the trust because the corpus fund needs to grow. Only when I practice this and grow corpus fund, others will follow me right ? Corpus fund needs to grow because, when you all come here, you need facilities. You need rooms to stay. You need to be given food. You need electricity. You need water. I bear my travel charges and my electricity expenses also. Did you see my room anytime ? It just has one simple cot and that is all. There is a TV for me but I hardly use it. Some devotee brought and kept it for me to watch Swamiji’s programs that are being telecasted. But I don’t even use it. Where is the time for me to watch ? So, going forward, there will not be any interviews on Sundays. If you want, apply leave and stay back till you get to see Swamiji. All these days, I was hiding so much of agony in my stomach. Today since Prasad asked, I told it out.
Jaya Guru Datta !
Compiled by Bala Aati