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Part 1: A Gathering of Gratitude You see, I think this is the most beautiful moment of our lives: a beautiful sky, neither hot nor cold, sitting in this meadow, and you are doing nothing, just sitting. And it will be invited, please come for eating. Breakfast is prepared for you, lunch is prepared, dinner is prepared. And tomorrow? Nobody will say, "You get up, breakfast is ready." Dinner is ready. We have to prepare ourselves. So this is already the sign of freedom, happiness, but we cannot do this forever. So we have to work, and we have social duty, we have family duties, and so on. So first, the organizers have something in their mind, so let’s empty their mind. Vasant and they are a new team since last summer; they took over looking after the organizing, or organization, of our Mahāprabhū Deep Satsaṅg Foundation, Strylky. And we are on the way to organize and clean these two lakes, so hopefully next summer you can swim inside. But I can’t imagine, when we all go in, how it will be. We will not swim, we will stand and make the abhiṣeka. So, the floor is yours. Welcome. Let me, in the name of all of you, tell or express my deepest gratitude to our dear Master for the beautiful moments we could spend at his lotus feet. Only He knows how we were able to utilize the time together. And how we were able to gain or to get what we were able to get from His mercy, which was showering here. And if we were able to catch this or to hold this mercy inside us, in our inner pot made out of our sādhanā. So let’s be careful, and let’s not damage this, our pot. Let’s not damage it with kusang, so that we can keep these precious gifts which we were given here. So I feel it as a harvesting time for our spiritual harvesting time, so I would like to readjust the communistic saying, and they were used to telling, "Not a grain should go waste," so I would say, "Not a drop of mercy should go." Těšíme se. We wish you good health, and we are already looking forward to welcoming you back here. For their beautiful programs, filled with their deep devotion to God. They helped us to enlighten the spiritual and cosmological principles, and we also thank Swāmī Avatāra Purī for his nice visit to the āśram. There was a story. I hope you remember everyone is on the list, and of course I don’t like to exclude someone. So, next one on our list is our dear Krishnanand from Budapest. He represents the yogic life of Hungary. And he is a tireless worker, and to spread this divine light of Mahāprabhujī, and yoga and divine life, the last three decades. And especially it was nice that he was here, and he is here all three weeks. So we would like to invite him and say something. Every speaker has five minutes. My dear brothers and sisters, I simply cannot find my words, because as soon as you tell someone’s name, it is the bliss of the Divine. And for us, Gurudev, dear brothers and sisters, I simply can’t find the right words, because when Gurudev says a name, it fills him with joy and bliss. Dear Swamiji, you have already formulated my thoughts. You would say that these days and these three weeks have been the most beautiful days and weeks of all my life. And I might share with you one of my very interesting and beautiful experiences that was bestowed on me by you, and also by the brothers and sisters who have been here previously. And I would like to share with you one of the beautiful experiences that came to me thanks to you, brothers and sisters. We arrive at the seminaries with stress and different emotions. At least I think so, almost all of us. And slowly, slowly we get to the point where we understand, not only with our thoughts but also with our hearts, that only one way leads to Mokṣa, and that is the Guru Deva. We often, I think most of us, come with different feelings and with some kind of tension to all the seminars. And when we are here, slowly, slowly, gradually, we come to realize, not only by brains and intellect, but by our hearts, that the only way to Mokṣa is our Gurudev. And in the few days when Swāmījī was not here physically, but only by his physical body, and in the few days when Swāmījī was not here physically, but only by his soul, I have learned a lot from you through your discipline. And we look forward to Swamiji’s returning from India to Vip, and all of you here present are most welcome in Vip, and also our dear friends who are watching us through the webcast. Let me express all my gratitude for your darśan and all the bliss conveyed from you to us, in the name of all of us. And so, I would like to express my gratitude to Gurudeva and to all of us. We also have guests from other parts of the world. And that is our dear brother from Brazil, Camilo. Turiyānand is his yoga name, very good. So, at present he is helping Gajananjī in Vancouver. Praṇām Swāmījī, Praṇām dear brothers and sisters. When you were telling the story about the bear, I thought, "If I would come here and ask you to take me out of this list..." But what I would like to say is, I feel blessed to be here, to come from far away, and to be able to spend just three weeks with you. It’s really a blessing. And when I told my parents that I was coming here during the World Cup, suddenly, the phone was like they couldn’t say a word. It was just, no words coming back. But I had no doubt when I had to choose between being here and watching the World Cup; my choice was being here, with no doubt. I’ve learned many things during just three weeks. The main thing I’m taking, I remember during the first week you said, "You got it, now you have it, now use it." So I will make the best of myself to use all this knowledge in my daily life. Thank you very much. So you can say you were in the cosmic cup, not the World Cup, but the cosmic cup. That’s it. So, becoming cosmic champion, yes. Now we go to the other part of the world, who is representing us here, among many others, our dear Bhakti. From Australia, who is the coordinator of yoga in their life in entire Australia. And many of you know her. And if you remember, last January and December I spent in Australia, in the forest, Dungong. That is who is organizing his bhakti. Praṇām, beloved Swāmījī, dear brothers and sisters. Thank you for this opportunity to say something about our impressions here in Stuky Ashram. Because it is also an opportunity to express our heartfelt thanks. Because Strukei Ashram is truly a spiritual refuge, and we are incredibly blessed to have such a place on this earth. As you know, Australia is a continent, or the largest island, the smallest continent in the world, but we’re often referred to as the land down under. Because we’re simply so far away from Europe and America. So for me, it’s a great blessing whenever there’s the opportunity to be here in Europe with Swāmījī and all of you. There is tremendous support and inspiration from being in a like-minded community such as this. Not only do we get the inspiration from Swamijī daily about how to live a conscious life, how to revive and restore our practices for our lifelong spiritual journey. But there is much inspiration from being with all of our guru brothers and sisters. For me, there’s nothing else like it. And it’s wonderful to be in the company of guru brothers and sisters whom I met many, many years ago. It’s like coming back to the family home with our father. We are all pilgrims on our spiritual journey, and we are doing it together. There is much strength and support in that. And I would like to end with a traditional blessing, a journey blessing from the Aboriginals of Australia. A traditional blessing from the Aboriginals of Australia. As you journey on our ancient land, travel gently on our Mother Earth with respect and care. Hold the spirit of the sacred campfire always in your heart, and may the spirits of our ancestors always watch over you and keep you safe. And that is what we mean to each other under the umbrella of our Gurudeva. Praṇām. And there is someone who also represents yoga and death life in Mexico. So let’s go from Australia to Mexico. So you are at home with yoga and daily life around the globe. Praṇām Swāmījī. Hari Om, dear brothers and sisters. I’m very, very happy to be here in Strelka, and I feel that it is my home. And after one year, not to have a darśana of Swāmījī, one realizes that to have his darśana, physical darśana, really is something very, very important in life, and that we just cannot live without it. I give... You have a lot of greetings from the people from Mexico. And from all of them who would like to come here and are planning just for two years, they are asking me, "When will we see Swāmījī?" And we all hope that it will be soon and that we will be ready soon to accept him. Many of you are asking me, "How are the people in Mexico?" I think they are very open. They are more spiritual than people here or in many other parts of the world. So I really hope that we will have this darśan also in Mexico soon. Thank you very much. Praṇām, Swāmījī. Yes, that’s it. Now we have, who is representing yoga in the Middle East and especially in Dubai, a long-year disciple from Hungary, the whole family who is living there. So, I would like to invite Niranjan. Is he there somewhere? He’s coming. So after that, we go again a long distance to Vancouver. To Canada? So who is here from Vancouver? Sofia’s mother, Yamuna, will come. Hari Om, dear friends. So I’m Niranjan from Dubai. Well, I’m not really from Dubai. Originally, yes, I’ve been, and I was born in Hungary. But I’ve been living abroad for 12, almost 12 years now. But never for a single time did it occur to me that I would not participate in the summer seminars, either in Strylky or Hungary. So these summer seminars are really the core of our yoga practices. Experiencing a completely different culture from our original background, and all the stress that comes with that, it really requires one to go back to the core and find ourselves again and again. And this is really the point where we recharge ourselves. In the Krianostan, I’m going back directly to Dubai, and then after that, three weeks later, coming back to Vape, and that’s my holiday. But without this, it would be really difficult to live that kind of stressful life that comes with the work that I’m doing. Just for information, I’m heading the mobile internet division of Nokia Siemens Networks for the Middle East and Africa region. So it comes with a lot of stress, obviously. Without this recharge, without this reconnect, it would be really hard. But without recharging my energy and connecting to my family, I would not be able to live my life without stress. I work for Nokia in the Internet Division for the whole of the Middle East and Africa, so you can imagine that it is quite a stressful job. And, of course, this time was no different than other times. There was no disappointment again, because we got what we really came for. And I’m really happy that I can do this, time and time again, spend time with you, and I’m with Swāmījī and get his knowledge and blessing. Děkuji. Thank you. Sophie? I would like just to say one thing, that this is the best place on earth to be right now. Kde být. And thank you so much that we can be here. So, come. So, Vancouver to Vienna. We have the head office. You know, there are many Viennas in the world. In Virginia, there is also Vienna, near the sea, in America. But Vienna is the one where I began my grassroots project. So the vice-president of Yoga and Vedānta Life in Austria-Vienna, our dear Sāgar Purī. So please come here, Sāgar Purī. Is he not here? Praṇām Swāmījī, praṇām dear president, sisters. It’s always a special thing here to come to Strylky. To get the possibility here to make this Kriyā Anuṣṭhāna, to be here in the satsaṅgs, but special to make the Kriyā Anuṣṭhāna, to make these techniques which Swāmījī created, and these are special techniques we can do here, and nobody else in the place. But these techniques are nothing without the presence of Swamijī. If we are here, we have the feeling that we are, or I have the feeling I am, in the center of the complete universe. To the lotus feet of Swamījī. First, I experienced this in Kathu, you know, in India. The Kathu Ashram, if you are there, I had this feeling, but now it’s completely the same if you are here with Swamijī and can feel his love, as Swamijī Chittānanda said, or Swamijī Kachananda said, Om is sitting here in front, or the eternal light is sitting here in front, Swamijī is all, everything. And especially, I want to thank all these karma yogīs here, who made it possible for us to do this here. From different countries, Yoga in Daily Life. It’s really a special, a special thing to be here in Strylky and to share this presence with you all. And yes, that’s what I can say. Thank you, Swamiji. Thank you. It’s very nice to hear from our different guru-brothers and sisters from different parts of the world. Also, we have a representative of North America’s Yoga and Dead Life. USA. Our dear Saraswatī. Who is taking care of Atlanta, Georgia, and also looking over other organizations in the United Nations, USA, and that is in America. Praṇām Swāmījī. Praṇām, brothers and sisters. I can’t believe it’s been three weeks already. It’s gone so quickly. And I guess I would just like to share that this is the most important thing that I do all year. This year, like everybody, we are having a little financial trouble in my family. And I didn’t know if it would be possible for me to come. But I just went ahead and made plans because I knew it had to work out. Because during these summer seminars, I get the nourishment, the spiritual nourishment, that I need to continue throughout the year. Swāmījī says, "Akan to us," and I get the opportunity in these summer seminars to take off all my titles. Wife, sister, my profession, all of my titles that confuse me about who I really am, and Swāmījī provides us with a real encounter with ourselves under his guidance. And I feel like I take home, somebody else referred to a pot, but I feel like I come here and I fill my pot, and throughout the year I have to take from it to stay nourished and to stay centered and to keep going throughout the year, and then the next summer comes around and I’ve got to come back and fill my pot again. That here, I fill my container, and then I share it with him all year round, so I have to come back next year. Songs a day is just an unimaginable blessing. So thank you all. Thank you, Swamijī. Thank you. Thank you, satsaṅg, for everybody. Thank you, satsaṅg. You know, our dear Bhakti also represents yoga and the life of death in the United Nations. And Kṛpā Devī from New York and Saṅgītā from Novi Sad, they are representing yoga and death life in the United Nations. Australian Yoga in their life is recognized as an NGO. They have a status in the United Nations. And now, the Sri Swami Madhavan World Peace Council is also going to be there. And they are also going to recognize the World Peace Council of Śrī Svāmī Madhavānanda. So let’s go from America to India. Is someone also representing India? Except me, and that is our dear Swami, Avatār Purījī. Hari Om, everybody. I’m going to sing some Vedic mantras. Jag māyā aghanī jīvva mānava sura chakṣa so viśveno deva avasāgamani abhadram bhī śhanāyam deva abhadram paśhe makṣa birya jathara istare raṅgaye sthuṣhṭva gumsastano birya deva hitam yadayu śhatamīnu śharado antideva jātrāṇa śhakra. Jarāsaṁ tanu nāma putraso yatra pitaro bhakti-māno madhyārīra-kathayur ganto adhitira-dyor adhitira-nantarikṣaṁ adhitira-mātā ca pitā ca putra adhitira-pañca-janām adhitira-jātam adhitira-jaritam. Oṁ dhyoḥ śāntiḥ, nantarikṣaṁ śāntiḥ, pṛthivī śāntiḥ, rāpaḥ śāntiḥ. rokade śānti vanaspate śānti viśvadeva śānti brahmā śānti sarvagum śānti śānti, śānti... Shanti, Shanti,... Shanti, Shanti,... Shanti, Shanti,... Shanti, Shanti,... And Śrī Mahāprabhujī’s āśram is very nice because of the environment, the pure divine environment and atmosphere. This month was very nice because I was in Vienna, Austria, and especially in Croatia on the boat. On the seaside. In the seaside, I like to sleep in the boat, first time in my life. Thank you to everybody here in Střílká, and I invite you all to India. See you in Jādān. Mahāprabhujī’s blessing to everybody. Yes, very good, thank you. So, from India to Slovakia. Our dear Alan Dudinsky from Levodzha. Praṇām Swāmījī, Praṇām dear brothers and sisters. Divine love and wisdom are two sides of the same divine coin. It is the two sides of one and the same divine coin. This is the riches, this is the welfare which fills all this space. And it’s very beautiful to observe how the people are changed in the presence near Swamījī. I have just met some people who came 430 kilometers from far, 430 kilometers just for this satsaṅg, and they go back after satsaṅg again. So, Swamiji, thank you also for such people, and thank you for everything you have been doing for us. Thank you, Alan. Well, so many countries are here, but who have a very certain opportunity to come. Some of our guru brothers and sisters from the ex-Soviet Union, Tsarkasy, from Ukraine. So, where are they? Come, please. Who will translate? You will understand? Do you understand Russian? Who understands Russian? Translate. You can translate in English. Praṇām Swāmījī. Praṇām, brothers and sisters. I still have vivid memories of how we were all in India, and those feelings that I experienced there. I am in Strelka only for the third time, and every visit is filled with such love, such warmth, such light that I feel from my dear teacher, from you. I have never experienced anything like this in my life. Therefore, if there is a heaven on earth, then it is here, in Strelka. Thank you, my dear teacher. My whole life has changed so much after meeting you. Excuse me, please. Thank you very much for what you have done in my life. Part 2: A Gathering of Gratitude My heart, my soul is always with you. I wish you abundant health. May all plans, all beginnings that exist, may they all certainly come true. Long years of life to you. Please forgive me that I cannot speak English, but I will learn it, and I will talk to you not only with my heart, not only with my soul. Thank you for everything you have done for me. Praṇām. Thank you for all you have done for me. You have changed my life. You have brought light and wisdom into my life. I remember the beautiful experiences I had during my visit to India, and the same beautiful atmosphere I can feel here in Strelka. Swāmījī has truly changed my life, and I am very grateful for it. I cannot express with my words what I feel inside. Thank you. We will be very happy when you come to us, Circassians. Ukraine is a very beautiful country. It is very similar to India, very similar to the area that is here. And so we are always, always happy for you. Please come to us. We love you very, very much. I would like to invite you to Ukraine, which is a very beautiful country. I would be very happy to welcome all of you there in Ukraine too. Thank you very much. I would like to invite all of you to Ukraine, which is a very beautiful and pleasant country. I would like to meet you there in Ukraine. Thank you. Thank you. Well, we congratulate the second-place World Cup champion in football, the representative of Holland Yoga in Daily Life. All the yogīs were sitting there and saying, "Swāmījī, please, Swāmījī, thank you." And the Barcelona and Spain people also said, "Swāmījī, please." So I said, "I will look neutral." Svāhāland. Dear Swāmījī, dear brothers and sisters, thank you for speaking. I have to think what to say. It’s been a beautiful week, and of course this football match was in the back of my mind, that I really wanted to go to Strelky. But it was also very interesting because the Netherlands, it’s rare that they are in the finals of a football tournament. I said to my friends, "No, definitely, I go to Swāmījī, it’s much better," but in the back of my mind, I was following it. I was lying in my bed, texting with my friend, and finally they lost, so I was happy I was here. It will happen sooner or later that the Netherlands will fight until the final, but I decided to go after Swāmījī, and I still had the match in the back of my mind. When the evening came and I got the news that they lost, I said to myself, "Well, I’m still here." And to Swāmījī, of course, and they will maybe come to Vēp. For me, this week was like a dream. I feel like I was here, I just came yesterday, and now it’s already the last evening. It’s amazing how quickly time goes. That week was really beautiful, but for me it was a bit like a dream; the time flies. I remember that I came here yesterday, and suddenly we have the last evening here. From other people and the experiences. And of course, I’m very, very happy. Swāmījī came back very healthy, and that made the week completely beautiful. It made it perfect that you came back healthy, Swāmījī, and we are all happy, of course, because of that. I also really liked the program with the yoga postures that we had to do, level 6, 7, 8, or not 8, but 6, 7. That’s because I never, sorry Swāmījī, but I didn’t practice at home at these levels because it’s too difficult and with some injury. But now I’m very inspired to practice these levels more, because in our country we don’t have a big center that we can go to and learn so much. For us, summer seminars are where we can take so much knowledge and so much experience, so I really like that. A great help, a great teaching, a great source of information in this direction as well. The most important thing for me, and I know for my brothers and sisters from Holland as well, is that we are so happy always to come to our family here, and we are very grateful to be part of this big family, and we always feel very happy and welcome. Thank you all for that, and thank you, Swāmījī. Thank you. Very good. Let’s go from Holland to New Zealand. So we invite our dear brother Gyanānanda, President of Yoga in Daily Life of New Zealand, a great karma yogī. He is an engineer, an architect, and wherever he goes, he has a surprise. Wherever he goes, Swāmījī is building something. Our Gaṅgā house also, he helped very much so that we have that Gaṅgā house. Also in Jardin he helped a lot, and of course in Wellington, and in other cities, the capital, and so on. So, praṇām, beloved sir. Namaste, dear friends. It’s wonderful to be here once again. We have four and a half people from New Zealand here this year. The half is a little person this size. He’s one year old. His name is Gopāl. But over half of us, that’s two and a half, have not been here before, so I thought that we would begin with their comments. They and we, all of us, we love your weather. Thank you, Mahāprabhujī. Your weather is better than ours. In New Zealand, each day is like having four seasons at one time. We love your greenery. Your gardens are beautiful. Thank you to the gardeners, but our scenery is better than yours. Perhaps I’m biased, I’m biased, I’m one-sided. We love the clock; it reminds us how long we have to go in Anuṣṭhāna. We have one of us who spent three weeks in Anuṣṭhāna; he is completely blissed out. We realized that Swāmījī loves his European disciples more than his New Zealand and Australian disciples. Because he allows you to have a cafe in your ashram. And we don’t have a cafe in ours. But you also have a coffee machine. And if that’s not enough, you have another cafe across the road. So he really loves you. I’m going to tell Harihāraṇandjī about this, and I’m sure he’ll ask Swāmījī for a cafe. For my part, I noticed very strongly how the energy changed when Swāmījī left. We come empty, and we leave full, and when Swāmījī left, the atmosphere changed. For me, I find it very difficult anyway when Swāmījī leaves. That’s very, very hard for me. So I was lost. For me, it was like the pizza we heard about last night. Like the American pizza, you take a piece of pizza away, and all this cheese comes with it. The cheese is Swāmījī’s love for us, still staying there, and our love for Swāmījī still stuck to that piece of pizza. But the pizza is still missing one piece, and so it’s no longer complete. It took me a couple of days, two or three days, to get used to this, and then I realized that he hadn’t gone at all, that not only had he not gone, that Holy Gurujī was here, that Mahāprabhujī was here, that Śrī Devapurījī was here, and, of course, all of us were here, and then everything changed for me again, and I fell in love with the place again. As well as that, my sādhanā intensified because I didn’t have the distraction of going to Swāmījī’s satsaṅg. The other thing I think was truly amazing and wonderful was Pārvatī Jī, Gajanan Jī, and Chidānan Jī, and the way they filled the hole, filled the emptiness that was left by Swāmījī. So we owe them a big thanks. The leaving is difficult for me because I know tomorrow that Swāmījī will be going. That’s a bit like the story Swāmījī told last night as well. I feel like the pigeon that’s in the prison. And the window is open, and the light’s coming in. But there’s a ball and chain on my foot, and I can’t fly. In this case, the window is the gate to Śūrikhā. And the prison is Swāmījī’s love. And the ball and chain, of course. I’m invited to go out the gate, but I don’t want to. I’m sure most of us feel that way. When we do go out the gate, we move into incompleteness. When we’re inside this prison of love, we are in completeness. So it just reminds me of how valuable Swāmījī is in my life. How valuable Swāmījī is in my life. That his wisdom is full of pearls, and his love is unfathomable. It’s completely endless, and each time I come and I leave, I’m reminded of the words. It goes through my mind regularly from Kabīr Dās. He says, "The guru is great beyond words." And great is the good fortune of the disciple. Time is getting shorter and shorter. So I would like to invite the one who is taking care of you while they’re live in France. Our dear Keśarpurī. After that will come Rāmpurī from England. London, London, England. Praṇām Sanjīv. Praṇām everybody. For me, it’s a surprise to have to speak now. You are on the list, I am on the list, I see. Okay, what to say? I was very happy to come this week, but I had a problem with my plane, so somehow I gave up. I decided to cancel this trip and not to come to the seminar. Because I had to buy a new ticket, and it was very complicated. But just on that point, through Swāmījī’s blessing, finally I decided to come, and I’m very happy to be here. Even if I spend a few times, I’ve got a lot of inspiration. I always enjoy very much coming to Strelky because there is such a peaceful atmosphere. I find that when I arrive in Strelky, after a few hours or a few days, my mind calms down, and I just feel here. We had a beautiful satsaṅg about prāṇa. I guess what is most beautiful is the prāṇa that is here, and to dive into the prāṇa of Swāmījī, and to be able to leave that place with some of the prāṇa and the love of Swāmījī. So I thank you very much. And I thank Swāmījī. Praṇām Swāmījī. Good evening, dear brothers and sisters, and all the friends who are watching us on the webcast. As you probably can guess from my accent, I’m not a member of the blue-bodied British aristocracy. I’m another Hungarian who has been living outside of the country for a long time. I represent here the Yoga in Daily Life Association of the United Kingdom, which already has three ashrams: one in London, one in Birmingham, and the last one is in Edinburgh. We have been witness to a very special football game here. If you look around, there are 500 people sitting here, all spectacles. Everyone is happy, and no one is drunk. Maybe drunk with the name of the Lord. And the name of Gurudeva, for that we are very thankful to you, Swāmījī. I think we’ve been very blessed to be here for the last couple of days and weeks. Very fortunate ones. I would like just to highlight two aspects of why we are so fortunate, why we have been so fortunate to be here. First of all, there is the divine presence of our Gurudeva. We are doing our sādhanā in his divine radiation and benefiting from his wisdom directly. His wisdom, which is always very deep, very pure, and very practical. The other aspect is your presence here, the feeling, and the community of satsaṅg. We don’t know each other very well, all of us. We don’t have maybe the opportunity to talk to everyone that we know. But having you around here, like-minded people pursuing the same goal in a world which is not always supportive to us, gives me tremendous courage and motivation to continue. And thank you all for that. And thank you, Swāmījī, for everything that you do for us. All the juniors who are under five years, parents should take them to sleeping. So now I see the piece of paper in many hands. They think that maybe next is their number, but they can calm down. Today will not be. So now there are many Croatians, Slovenians, Serbians, Germans, Poles, and all. So I will invite now, as the last speaker from Strelky, our dear Lakṣmī. Come. Yes. You never know who is on the list. Lakṣmī is a great helper for our ashram and does a lot of work. And she just built a house near our gate here. And many friends are going for coffee. So, there are many coffees around. Praṇām Swāmījī, dear brothers and sisters, I’d better speak Czech, it will be easier. I’m really surprised that I have to speak here on such a special occasion, when many people are watching us also via the webcast. First, I would like to tell you that it’s very important to stay through and to practice with Swāmījī. Because Swāmījī succeeded in changing my life and succeeded in guiding me, I am very grateful for it. Sometimes it’s very difficult. Because in the beginning it doesn’t feel so difficult, but when you stay and go on, you face certain difficulties, you have to overcome the obstacles, as Swāmījī always says, our bad qualities. But to reach the goal, to reach the aim, it’s not so easy, it’s difficult, so some sort of sacrifice is needed, self-sacrifice is needed. So I would like to use this chance to thank Swāmījī for all his care, though it is sometimes difficult, but after all, I realize it is for my good. Thank you, Swāmījī. Very good. Thank you. There was a small story, a real one. It was a satsaṅg in Kathu and Mahāprabhujī was there. You know, mostly Mahāprabhujī was living in the ashram in the village where we have ashram in Kathu, and people were speaking and singing bhajans till two o’clock in the night, and then someone asked Mahāprabhujī, "Now you will sing, Mahāprabhujī, please." So Mahāprabhujī said, "I am singing since 8 o’clock in you, so all who was singing is me, who was singing." That was the story. So now, all who was talking, somehow I was talking, so now I don’t need, I don’t feel a need to talk. But there is something which I must do. Happy birthday. So today’s birthday is for Ema Blahurskova from Prague, Anna Porna from Vienna, Durgā from Tabor, and Mohan Purī from Tabor. Please come. Aṇṇā Pūrṇā. But it’s so much. This is vegetable. Selva, very good. Doggo. All the best. Hari Om. Ema. Ema from Praha. Little one or bigger one? Little one. Okay. This is from Malichika. Hari Om. Tomorrow is my birthday, because tomorrow we will not have much time. Supreme Purī from Martin, Aisha Saraki Sara from Czech Republic. Welcome, please come. Madam, hello, all the best. Thank you. Welcome. Thank you. One more was coming. So who has, you or she? Okay. You take it for him. And there are some people who would be unhappy if I did not congratulate them, because just day after tomorrow is their birthday. Šusterová. Pani Šusterová, I had announced I had on 7th of July. You have the 7th of July? But I didn’t announce it, sorry. So there, anyhow, you get chocolate. Thank you. You have a birthday, eh? On Monday. Okay, on Monday. All the best. Give her one little chocolate. Dobrý, dobrý. Hari om, hari om. All the best. And Vasanti z Ostravy. Oh, very good. Okay, thank you. You have a birthday? It was a surprise for me to be called. You don’t have a birthday? Nemáš narozeniny? Mám. Yes, she has. Some donation is given. Who has this? You or he? On Sunday, his birthday, someone who didn’t want to tell the name has given a donation of 3,500 Czech crowns for Swāmījī’s health and a happy, long life. Very good. I don’t look happy? Yes, I do. Donation: 50 euros for prayer for the recovery of a friend, Lucia Maravich, Zagreb. So we include our prayer for her. Donation for 100 euros from Yaśodā for protection and help during pregnancy and childbirth for Mary. Bless you. She should practice yoga and eat healthy food, give up negative thinking, no more jealousy, then we’ll be okay. Donation for 1000. Cheque crown prashad from Yarmila Erbanova for health for her nephew Michail, so I pray to Mahāprabhujī to bless for his health. Then quickly came one donation, 401 euros, for Swāmījī’s activities. Thank you. Bless you all. And dear brothers and sisters, devotees of Alak Purījī Siddhāpīṭha, Gurujī, Gurujī,... Guru. To Almighty Mahāprabhujī, for your good health, harmony, and happy life with spiritual development and God consciousness. Indeed, it was divine days, as Gyanānanda said, the nature is beautiful here, and it is just the right place to be an ashram. And also in Hungary, Vēpu, in August, begins from the 14th of August. It’s also beautiful nature and a very nice place. Then finally, we will be in beautiful country Croatia on the coast. To swim a little bit, so let’s see that all. All dear brothers, sisters, and spiritual seekers around the world who were and are with us through the webcast, I wish you also all the best. Whatever you have learned through the webcast, please practice or follow those principles of yogīs. And for your good health and the health of your family, I would suggest you follow these last three lectures about nourishment. The way of cooking so that you will gain good health. It would be good to have a whole life like this. But it’s called the dharma, duty. Responsibility towards the partner. Children, children, society, country, environment, and so on. So humans are born here to keep everything in order. There will always be quarrels and conflicts, but we are different. You make a difference that we work for peace, we work for harmony, we work for mutual understanding. We try to do our best to protect the environment. The next conference, which our organization, the World Peace Council, is going to organize, which will most probably be in Prague, is very significant. So now you can already begin to think or find some good messenger for that. And that subject is Politics without Borders for a Peaceful World. So, you are welcome to find some good persons who can give the message about this. Retired politicians, artists, luminaries, doctors, scientists, and philosophers, spiritual, religious, and political leaders. So that will be a very significant conference. Where will it be? We have to prepare for one year, so we need your help. Till then, all the best, and bless you in the name of Alak Purījī Siddhāpīṭha, which means all the divine incarnations on this globe. May all the divinities be happy with us and bless us, and be the Mother Earth merciful to us that we have always very safe, very sure steps, as Bhakti said about the origins of Australia, and so may Mother Earth guide our steps and protect us. Akhrani Naas Deep Nārad Bhagavān Devīśvar Mahādeva Dharm Samrāṭ Satgur Svāmī Madhavān Bhagavān. Satya Sanātan Dharma.