The spiritual benefit of walking around the holy Govardan you all will get it here,
we are walking around Gomata.
You should not consider it as dust or sand, it is holy dust.
Lord Krishna taught us to live with the cows, the calves,
to play with them, to love them, to serve them, to protect them
and to be benefitted through their presence.
And it was all hilly sandy area.
We have two identities.
One related to the world.
One related to our essential spiritual nature.
To know our own spiritual identity and to live with that day and night
is self knowledge, atmajnana.
What is self knowledge?
First to know who am I.
Next to feel the presence of divinity in all.
Next to feel presence of divinity not only in human beings but also in all living beings.
We all are in the premises of Dhanvantari Vibhag.
Dhanvantari, the name, he is the celestial physician.
Doctor in Heaven, in his name, this is the hospital area.
We are in Nandgaon, Shri Manorama Goloka Tirtha, here we have about ten thousand cattle.
Here is an ayurvedic garden.
So all the many medicinal plants are there.
The plants, they have that, the wind is passing through the herbal, medicinal plants,
going through the hospital area.
It is the ayurvedic practice that this wind has healing power.
Because of the medicinal plants, their presence and the wind.
And it is here for the healing of the sick, unwell cattle.
Atmotsarga.
Utsarga, the prefix is ut the verb is sruj,
utsarga is coming from the root word sruj.
It has many meanings.
Two meanings I will tell you.
One is to create, sarjana.
One is to renounce tyaga kara dena.
It has such beautiful meaning.
If you do not know how to give,
you do not know how to live.
If you want to reform your life, if you want to transform your life,
if you want to make your life beautiful and divine;
learn, learn to sacrifice, learn to give, learn to serve.
Atmotsarga to sacrifice oneself.
The rishis of this country they told it is of two types.
One is the aspect of detachment.
One is the aspect of attachment.
As you all know God provided this property Nandgaon,
Manorama Goloka Tirtha, 14 years ago.
And whatever you see, the development, it is within this period.
All the plantation, and all the plants you see here on both the sides
it is planted during this period so their age is much less than ten to twelve years.
Expansion is life.
Contraction is death.
This is the declaration of Swami Vivekananda.
He said, “Expansion is life, expand yourself.
Contraction is death.”
A baby is growing, growth means expansion.
And when Swami Vivekananda is speaking of expansion it is expansion of our attitude,
expansion of our understanding, expansion of our heart,
expansion of our hand from selfishness to selflessness.
This is what expansion is.
From ‘I’ to ‘we’.
Through renunciation and service one can achieve realization
and this is the declaration of the Vedic rishis and it is the experience.
We are in the sacred land of Lord Krishna.
I don't know if you know it or not,
Lord Krishna while coming from Matura to Dwaraka he passed through this way.
So this place, this area is sanctified with dust from the feed of Lord Krishna.
This morning’s trek, the destination is Lord Hanuman.
Trek is the means, the goal is Lord Hanuman.
Self knowledge, atmajnana; self sacrifice, atmotsarga;
and selfless service, atmaparaka niskama seva.
Self knowledge is vichara this is the principle,
first I should know, “What is the principle? What is the goal?”
Swami Vivekananda told, “Where are you going to search God?
God is standing in your front.”
In the form of mother cow, in the form of human being,
in the form of nature, in the form of tree, in the form of a suffering person...
God is in your front.
One who knows how to love, how to serve has found God.
We all are sitting here, let us think.
In us, what type of nature is.
Is it sanskruti, with dynamism, with love, with service or;
selfishness, self interest, ego, thinking of myself first,
thinking of myself first and the thinking of others, just think.
This is the place from where service to the mother cow started 26 years ago.
Pathmeda Godham started with 8 cows,
rescued while they were illegally trafficked,
getting trafficked to Pakistan.
In this place about 10,000 cows, bulls, are taken care of.
In these premises we have few temples.
This Shiva temple, the name is Godaneshwara Mahadeva.
Near the entrance the Hanuman temple.
And there is the temple of Girdharan govardan, Lord Krishna holding the mountain.
There is also a small temple of Dattatreya Bhagavan.
There is the temple of kamadhenu shakti pitha.
There is another temple of ashtagomata mandir.
This year during Go Navaratri, a very old pond,
it was renovated and holy water from 271 places
were brought in a very special ceremony.
All these water were immersed into this pond.
So the name of this pond is kamadhenu koti tirtha.
Example: When Lord Rama went on exile and Bharata wanted to bring him back
he carried with him holy water from all over the world to
do his abhisheka, the annoyment, coronation
and when Lord Rama refused
all this water were placed in a well.
So water has also come from that place. It’s a very very holy place.
During Maharaji´s tour all over India he had been to few places
where the holy water of millions of places where placed.
After that again, again go to Kamadhenu, the hospital area in this Godham premisses, dhanvantari,
then we will go to Samriti, the cow who is representing you can tell the leader of all cows.
There is also samadhi the mausoleum of mother of Samriti.
We all have reached our main place of halt.
We will have now meditation, we are in the lap of nature, lap of divine mother.
It is just mother nature.
This type of opportunity is very, very rare.
It is not the cool breeze, it is the touch of the divine mother.
This range of mountain it is Nandivardana.
Nandivardana and Arbudhachala, they’re are two brothers.
Sons of the Himalayas.
Life is a journey but we can make it a pilgrimage.
How?
This journey is not from the womb to the tomb.
This journey began from God, it should end in God.
We all have come from God and we should return.
If we can make our life as a pilgrimage this will be the perfection in human life.
The real pilgrimage it is not just like this program, we came and we have to go back.
Every breath, every moment, every hour, every day and continuously
the life should be dedicated to God.
In this pilgrimage the mind will be always in God but where is He?
Many times people ask me, “Have you seen God?”
God is always with us, but we are forgetting.
God is always around us, we are ignoring.
God is in our front, we are humiliating.
We all are grateful to God in the form of Divine Mother Gomata.
And we are grateful to the one whose heart is throbbing every moment,
with pain, with pity, with compassion and love.
And we are really grateful to Gomata to give us
this opportunity to stay here in their divine presence.
Gratitude is the art of living and that is true spirit of living the life of love and devotion.
Thank you all.
My love to all of you.
You all bow to Maharaji and Gomata together from there.