Speech by Mahant Shri Swami Vishveshwarananda Saraswati,
President, Omkarananda Ashram Himalayas,
on the occasion of "Sant Goshthi" ("Assembly of Saints"),
organized by Prajapita Brahma Kumaris Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya,
at Brahma Kumaris Anubhutidham Ashram, Haridwar,
on 11th August 2022

OM Shantih !
My heartfelt Adorations to the omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient Divinity in all Your hearts!
We feel very much great to be in the presence of such wonderful Saints, and we have in front of us the saintly, divine Brahma Kumaris. Is not behind all these wonderful Souls a great story? Have You not left Your family? Have you not renounced it for the Divinity?
All the Saints and Sages, who are staying over here, are very well aware, that the Divinity has given us this body not for the sake of running around, but to experience the Divine !
All of You have done the basic needs for achieving the Experience of the Divine, because You have renounced everything !
We know, that for You the world is not so important, more important for You is Self-Realization.
In this life we may be very big personalities, but when our life is not concentrated on the Experience of the Divine, our life is waste.
Man is born not for physical experiences alone, man is born to conquer time and space, man is born to experience the Truth of the Supreme Reality !
Look at where the world is going nowadays. People are running after each and everything. They are running after cars, after mobile phones. They are running after all pleasures, but they are not running after the Divine.
Greed has poisoned our Soul !
When we are filled with attachment, when we are constantly thinking of our financial properties and all this, then how the Divinity can come to us?!
Life is here only for Divine Realization. We have to liberate ourselves from that constant coming to and going from this planet.
Attachment has possessed our hearts. And we forget, that one day, when we are leaving this body, nothing remains with us.
There is a saying, that man has three "friends". The first is his wealth, it goes with him as long fortune lasts. The second "friend" are the family members, they go with him up to the graveyard and there they leave him. The third "friend" only is one's real "friend", it is the good Karma, which one gets, if one has done the whole life always good, selfless works and always has been thinking of the Lord, remembering the Divine.
This third "friend" only remains, even after leaving the body.
The difficulty is, that we have completely forgotten for which purpose we have come to this earth, and therefore we have all that misery on this planet.
All the more I appreciate all Saints and Sages, who have chosen the path for God-experience.
Is the life of these great Brahma Kumaris not highly praiseworthy ?! Have they not surrendered completely to their Guru ?!
Because of their dedication to their Guru, they will come closer and closer to him, and he will be there to relieve them finally from these wordly troubles.
The Saints who are here, they are like storehouses of divine Knowledge !
It is a Blessing for anybody, if such a Saint is going to their house. That house is blessed.
And what makes these Brahma Kumaris so very special?
What gives the Brahma Kumaris their exceptionally powerful nature?
The Purity in their hearts. Where there is Purity, no evilness has any place. And therefore I appreciate these Brahma Kumaris most.
And I specially also appreciate all these great Saints and Sages who are here.
And I now wish to Sister Shivani all the best, that she quickly, quickly recovers, because the world needs such wonderful Brahma Kumaris, who are always appearing in the TV, who are always only speaking about the divine Truth. So, I wish her good health and all the best.
And I am also thankful to my Guru-Sister Kumari Somashekhari, who is also a Sannyasini and an Indian Classical Dancer.
And finally I am very thankful to my Sadgurudev Shri Paramahamsa Swami Omkarananda Saraswati !
Because of Him we are here, otherwise we would be nowhere, we would just run around in ignorance, lost, like in a deep forest, in darkness.
I am also grateful to my Master Swami Omkarananda, that He has given me the chance to sit among such wonderful and saintly Personalities.
Swami Omkarananda Maharaj ki Jay !!!
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

*OM*