Hari om. Everybody's so worried that I'm fifty-eight. They want to hold me up and carry me around. Actually, this is only remembrance of my date of birth. So today, with my master in mind, I say to all of you thank you very much. But what is a birthday? It's a cake with a candle on it and everybody says 'happy birthday' and everybody curses you with 'I wish you many more years'. Really, it's my desire whether or not I want to live the many more years. You should be saying to me 'enjoy this day', and I'll say the same to you. To all those people who came with those good messages, thank you very much.We have thirteen full-moons in a year, not twelve. The blue moon is the thirteenth full-moon. Out of the thirteen full-moons, God has found one in the month of July and dedicated it to all gurus. The nakshaktra (constellation), the position of the yug, and the dasi, determine the character of this moon. So they've found that everything about the July pournami is in line, is in order. So they said, 'This is the one we dedicate to the guru'. Next month is Agasthiar pournami. August comes from Agasthiar. Then January pournami is dedicated to Ganesha. January comes from the Greek god Janes, with an 'e', but if you take the 'J' out and put a 'G' there you get Ganes. The Greek god Janes had two heads to see what comes in and what goes out. January is the first month of the year, the remover of all obstacles like Ganesha. Buddha's enlightenment was on the 8th of April, so April pournami is Buddha pournami. November pournami is called Akhanda Sasti. At this time Mahavishnu was testing Lord Shiva, and Lord Shiva said that nothing could move him. So Mahavishnu tested him by changing himself to a woman, Mohini, and danced in front of Lord Shiva. Lord Shiva thought he was a woman and just by energising through his third eye, Skanda was born. Skanda is Lord Muruga - Puranic story. That is the lunar month of November. But the most powerful pournami is today, all over the world.
God created this day and everything around us. Not a dewdrop or blade of grass can move without Him thinking it. Remember, whatever you do, think of God in it. That is the only way you will be able to experience this great uniqueness, unity, togetherness and love for God. There's no other way you can love God. Don't think that God is a part-time lover. God is not a part-time lover. God is a full-time lover. Just as when you have girlfriend or boyfriend, every five minutes you are messaging, 'I miss you, I love you,' you can only remember God in the same way if you love Him with the same intensity. I'm in love with my guru, madly in love with my guru. I only think 'guru, guru, guru,' - that's the only thing that resonates my being. As Dean always says, 'Whatever is possible in his life is through the grace of God and Guru'.
While I was driving today someone said on the radio, 'Get connected to DSTV, only R599'. You can connect to God - and it's free! Enjoy God. I can't tell you more than that on this day. You are not enjoying God. Your faces are miserable. God. You have all this tension and misery because you don't have God as part of your life. You have God once a month on pournami. After that you forget the Peedam unless you have a problem. Have God twenty-four-seven. God is ever-present, ever-willing. No man is like that, no human being is like that and, in that beatitude of loving God, knowing God, and having oneness with God, you'll not experience God in any other way. You're not going to sit in front of a murthi and say 'Come Kali, come. Come kali'. Kali won't come because you don't have the dedication, devotion and unity. It must really be intense. This superficial thing doesn't work. In the Gayathri Peedam we have no Christians, no Hindus, no Moslems, we have the divine children of Gayathri, of God. All of you all live in that divinity, that beatitude of Gayathri alone. Find a guru and hold onto him for dear life. I know you all came for my birthday. But find your guru and hold onto him for dear life.
One thing I must tell you about gurus: at the lowest ebb they'll kick you and pretend they don't care. Your weakness is what is determined then. So some of you might be thinking, 'I've got questions, I'm going through hell. Guru, you know everything, why don't you know that?' My job is to put on the bait and catch the fish. And when I put the bait on, if you are interested in sardines and I'm using different bait, that's your problem. Even in their worst situations people go to Suncoast Casino with their last ten rand, and say 'Om Mahalakshami,' and put their money. God is not a gambler. Some people even come and ask me for the lotto numbers. Do you think I'm stupid? If I knew the lotto numbers I'd take them myself!
Somebody said to me they're not coming back to the temple because Every time they come here Ashok takes the mic and asks for money and it's not right. I said, 'What do you think? God is paying my lights account?' Two weeks later he lost fifty thousand rand at Suncoast and He wouldn't even give us fifty rand! Don't play games with God. And if you have an appointment with God, don't come at eleven o'clock for a three o'clock appointment. Keep your appointment with God. Just now when I was doing the pushpum, my master said to me, 'We don't know how to bless you for the energy you've created in the ashram - it's so unique'. I said: 'You blessed me with the downpour tonight'.
