Passage 9

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In plain words

What happiness did the Kauravas gain by forgetting God and trusting the world? As long as you are in the world, you have to enjoy the world; I do not tell you not to. But there must be a limit to it.

Students! With your games and songs you have given joy to many thousands. But you must recognise one thing. Even if this whole universe rejoices to see you, if God alone does not rejoice, it is of no use. If God is on your side, you need not fear even if the whole universe is against you. When God is yours, the whole world rejoices. So please God.

The single-minded Bhakti of Dūpāṭi Tirumalācārya

Long ago there lived here a devotee named Dūpāṭi Tirumalācārya. He was the one who wrote the Suprabhātam. He was a great Sanskrit scholar and had served in the Venkatagiri estate. At the age of 90 he set out with Me for Badrī. “Tirumalācārī! Your body has grown very frail. Can you travel so far?” I asked. “Swami! If You are with me, I will travel for however long and however far. If I am Yours, I become the whole world's own. If I am not Yours, my very life is in vain.”

“If I am not Yours, Mother of the world, I shall be of no account in the world, Mother of the world!”

He said. That Tirumalācārī lived with such great Bhakti and surrender. He spent all his time with Swami alone. When I went to Brindavan, he stayed with Me there too. He was a very great devotee. There is no measuring that Bhakti. At the very last, even death came to him very easily. One day he said, “Swami! My work is now finished.” “How do you know?” I said. “You Yourself, within me, are telling me,” he said. He went and bathed, brought some water and poured it over My feet, and took a few drops of it as tīrtha. “Swami! Now I have become whole.