In plain words
This one is no ordinary man. He is God Himself, in person. Then he went on rooting out his own Ahaṅkāra and turning himself to the natural path. ‘Gurujī! He may well be God Himself. God Himself has come and is asking. The hand that asks is below. The hand of the one who gives is above. So God's hand is below. My hand is above. That alone is enough for me,’ he said. Even then, there was Ahaṅkāra. I spoke of this the day before yesterday too. Soham. So....ham. What is it that goes inside us? What is it that comes out? So… goes in. Ham… comes out. So means we must send God within. Ham means we must send Ahaṅkāra out. Ham: that itself is Ahaṅkāra. This itself, they said, is the true Haṃsa Gāyatrī mantra. What we must send within is God: so… we must take in. We must let go of ham. We must let go of Ahaṅkāra. So: we must receive God. How many times is this done? 21,600. Only when we keep doing this, Welcome and sendoff, do we come to understand that divinity well. So as long as that Ahaṅkāra is there, no one gains happiness of any kind. This Emperor Bali was indeed a devotee; yet even though he was a devotee, he should not have had Ahaṅkāra. For a devotee, Ahaṅkāra is a great evil. It is very hostile to him. He must win through by Prema, by humility, by Śānti, by courage. For this, six qualities must be there. Ānanda, constancy, Satya, Prema, Ahiṃsā, Dharma. These six must be in us. These are the very marks a guru must have. Only when he has these six qualities is he a guru. But Śukrācārya did not have these six qualities. He too, in the grip of this Ahaṅkāra, recognised that God had come in this way. God rooted out Emperor Bali's Ahaṅkāra and went on sharing the principle of Prema with the whole world. Because Bali longed to come every year, see the people and go back, He granted him that boon. Because he comes every year only to see the people, this is what they called ‘Onam’. With such a sacred quality, he comes to see the people and to cherish them.