Swami

And gopi, saki, you know, they are kind of conjugal relations.

And manjari also, they have conjugal rela- conjugal feeling, but ser- service is more important, especially for Swami.

So this all include is ra- raganuga bhakti But if we concentrate center is Radharani, I want to serve mainly Radharani.

I may serve Krishna, but this is not my desire.

He was visiting from, um, from Sargachi, which is the ashram, the orphanage which he established.

So he was given the room next to Swami Shivananda.

And this young monk who was supposed to attend to the old Swamis.

So a little late in the night, he had a little bed which he made on the floor, and he went to sleep, naturally.

And suddenly woke to a sound of pounding.

And it was a very warm embrace.

And he said Swamiji affectionately.

I wondered about this embrace.

We don't get any details, but it would have been good, wouldn't it? Would it have been like a firm handshake? Probably not.

And so that next Saturday, I woke up in the morning for that early morning yoga class.

I went there and after the class, someone had told the head Swami there that a football player was at the retreat.

And so she came up to me and she looked at me and she said, she's from Vietnam.

She said, you're a football player.

Everything is just an elaboration of the Bhagavad Gita.

In the same manner, when Bhagawan came down once again as the Sathya Sai Avatar, Swami gave His message in the form of Vahinis and here He Himself wrote down the message.

There is no loss of the message through an intermediary.

directly Bhagawan penned down what He wanted us to understand.

scriptures and read again.

Go back to the discourses and contemplate again.

Pray to Swami.

I think that is the most important thing.

And so how does all this... relate to maya because the illusion is something we fall into because we inherently become let's just let's just say for this term let's say we become unconscious right if we're conscious then we're aware we're not in the game that's trying to defeat us all the time if we're unconscious then everything's happening to us and we're the victim and can be a very low vibrational state just a terrible way to live right So what were they saying in the Hindu philosophy that science is now starting to really grok and understand? I'm not a Hindu

philosopher, but as I understood it, talking to the Swami, and again, I don't have much more depth than what I talked to the Swami about, was that how we don't see reality clearly, how the Hindu faith is known for quite some time.

This is something I didn't understand as well.

When you walk into a Hindu temple, you see all these gods and goddesses, and you think it's a polytheistic religion, and that's not the case at all.

These are metaphors.

Some people, I'm not speaking for all Hindus, of course, I'm not even Hindu myself, but That's not, from what I understood talking to the Swami, is that these are metaphors for traits and attributes that we are struggling with.

That it's just another way to understand reality.

And I think that concept of Maya is another example of one of these faiths that's now being scientifically validated.