I have a lot of plans. And all those plans will materialize. I am waiting for the right time. No one individually gains anything by this, neither you nor me. But everyone is a beneficiary. So many of you serve so selflessly. One person’s service is used for another’s benefit. Volunteers serve as doctors, teachers, gardeners and the benefit is for all of us. Everyone’s service is useful for everyone. In the near future, this will be recorded as a momentous achievement.

This is similar to Russian communism. But Russian communism did not attend to the soul, and so it withered away. I based my spirituality on the concept of communism. Do not worry about whether you offer your prayers to God or not. Render service. This is my working philosophy.

Kunkuliya Kalinga Nayanar became one of the 63 nayanmars (Saivite saints) by offering incense (Oothuvathi) to the Lord. Amarneethi Nayanar washed the clothes of devotees and has a place in the list of Nayanmars. Appar Swami tended to the temple gardens. If you study the lives of Nayanmars, you will realize that by rendering such service, they got into the Lord’s good books. So it is with Azhwars (Vaishnavite Saints). Thiruppanaazhwar sang the glory of the Lord. Andal helped her father Periyazhwar string garlands for the Lord. And they have secured a place among Azhwars. Whoever sings the Lord’s praises is Thiruppanaazhwar. Whoever strings garlands for the Lord is Andal. This is what life is all about.

I am chiselling Azhwars and Nayanmars here. I am doing it very casually and silently. You can be what you are, wear any dress you please.

  I have not swerved from whatever our sastras have established. We have Suprabhatham (morning invocation) being sung to the Lord, Yagams (fire offering), cow worship, Neivedyam (food offering to the Lord), Vishnu Sahasranamam (a garland of Lord’s thousand names), the Vedas, the Quran and the Bible, Bhajans and Sathsang. I have transformed your service into penance. Whatever you do, you are doing for your own temple, church, mosque. Simple, is it not?

Iam motivating and moulding you without your being aware of it. You are elevated spiritually every day.

Examine yourself and you will find that soon after you became a resident of our commune, you would have become healthier, overcome your depression, became more active. And this is happening in such a casual manner. Everyday, I ask the doctors who serve the colony’s hospital how many patients they attended upon that day. Their reply has always been, ‘We are waiting for patients. No one comes’. This proves that my philosophy has been right. There must be hospitals. But there should not be any patient, because residents live in a healthy, nature-blessed atmosphere.

I have chosen a radical system of working in everything I do.  I have novel ideas. We have emerged successful now. Why should we bother about anyone’s testimonial? And now, the time has come when those who defamed us are coming round and according us recognition! Time is proof that we have been and are on the right path. I am doing good to everyone, including those who scorned us and they are gradually realizing their erroneous deeds. We are different in every aspect. We are following the paths shown by Vedanta, the Quran and the Bible. But we do not turn the limelight on us. I am so casually dressed but I am much more knowledgeable than many spiritual leaders, though I have not practised austerities like they have done. My knowledge is cached within me; it is the Lord who expresses Himself through me. Why must I then gorge down knowledge gleaned from books? I have attained the destination; I have achieved the result, so why would I waste my time on the means (i.e. acquiring knowledge)?

You have taken the right decision in coming to me. Everyone has progressed well and rapidly in life after coming here. We live in comfort, we are to ourselves; we do not give in to any confusion. We are very healthy. There is no dearth of facilities here, and we are also blessed with potable water, something that is rare everywhere else.  To reiterate, if you contemplate, with maturity of thought, on everything that has happened to you, you will understand how much efforts Baba has put in to mould you and how well he has expressed His care for you in tangible ways, by the facilities he has given you. My contribution to your personality has been phenomenal.

We are in nature’s embrace, eating well, attending to our daily tasks, worshipping the Lord, excelling in arts and culture besides settling to well-deserved rest with minds not distracted by anything else. There is nothing else to seek of life.

We are on the right track, our march is always onward; our march is always forward.

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