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Śrī Gajanamjī Bhagavān Kī Jai! Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai! Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai! Dharam Samrat Satguru Swami Madhavānāmjī Bhagavān Kī Jai! Please, you can light your candles. We will chant the first peace mantra. First, we will sing the Mantra of Peace. Śvastir bhavatu sarveṣāṁ śāntir bhavatu sarveṣāṁ maṅgalaṁ bhavatu sarveṣāṁ pūrṇo. Oṃ tryambakaṃ yajāmahe sugandhiṃ puṣṭivardhanam urvārukamiva bandhanān mṛtyormukṣīya māmṛtāt. Oṁ tryambhakaṁ yajāmahe sugandhiṃ puṣṭi-vardhanam, urvārukam iva bandhanān mṛtyormukṣīya mā’mṛtāt. Oṁ tryambhakaṁ yajāmahe sugandhiṃ puṣṭi-vardhanam, urvārukam iva bandhanān mṛtyormukṣīya mā’mṛtāt. Oṁ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ tatsaviturvareṇyaṁ bhargo devasya dhīmahi dhiyo yo naḥ pracodayāt. Nāmkara prabhūdīpa kartā mahāprabhūdīpa kartā hīke. Oṁ śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ. Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī, Hindu Dharm Samrāṭ Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī, Deveśvar Mahādev Kī, Alak Purīṣa Mahādev Kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī. Dear brothers and sisters, your Excellency the Ambassador of India to the Republic of Croatia, local authorities, the manager of the hotels, dear media, brothers and sisters, good evening. We are here now on the Adriatic coast, all of us holding candles in our hands and offering our prayers to the Almighty. We pray to bless our planet with peace, harmony, good health, and love. May we all live in harmony. May we all live together with mutual understanding. May we live for each other. May we never cause any pain to any creature. We stand here for non-violence. We all will follow ahiṃsā. We want to protect all cultures, traditions, and religions. We want to protect all creatures and the environment. Lord, bless us with positive hearts, divine energy, and your blessings, that our wish may come true. Today we remember the great person of the last century, Mahātmā Gāndhī, Mahātmā Gāndhījī, who brought the message of peace, love, understanding, tolerance, and non-violence. Today is his birthday, and we pray to the Almighty for divine peace and light for his soul. Thank you, brothers and sisters, for traveling such a long distance to join us for this peace prayer. Delegates have come from Australia, from the United Nations in New York, from India, and of course from different parts of Europe. We are all here. I pray to the Almighty to bless you. Om Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. I give my word to always work for non-violence. I now request His Excellency, the Ambassador of India to Croatia, to say a few words. The floor is yours, sir. Ambassador's Address: Your Holiness Swami Maheshwaranandaji and all the devotees who have gathered here, it is quite surprising how an ordinary moment in life can suddenly become spiritual. All moments in life are spiritual. It is just that a particular moment assumes a spiritual proportion at a particular time. The difference, therefore, between this moment, which I feel is spiritual, and other moments, is when we collectively get together and have spiritual thoughts. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we had these spiritual thoughts every time, so that our whole life could be lived spiritually? We are blessed to be in the presence of Swāmījī right now. And we are gathered together to commemorate the life, the ideals, and the principles of non-violence of somebody we call the Mahātmā. Let us remember him with reverence. And as Swamijī said, let us pledge and commit that we would follow the principles that he has enunciated. I am privileged to be part of this moment. Let us live it. Thank you very much. I would also now request His Excellency, the former ambassador of Croatia to India, Mr. Dubljuk. Former Ambassador's Address: I have no words. Maybe only one. Glory to Ahiṃsā. Thank you. And now, the founder of this program, Swāmī Vivek Purī, the head of the Croatian Yoga and Daily Life Union. Swāmī Vivek Purī's Address: We gather here at sunset, having come from all different sides of the world to mark the anniversary of Gandhijī’s birthday. That in itself is a kind of miracle. This is the miracle of all great mahātmas, who were able to gather together so many different kinds of people for such a cause, as we have gathered here today. Gandhiji accomplished this at a very difficult moment in Indian history. With the message of non-violence, he united the whole of India, and India became free. Swamiji is doing the same here with us. He has brought us all together, however individually we live here in the western part of the world. He has united us around one idea of non-violence—not only towards humans but towards all other creatures and our planet. I can only wish that we have more and more such gatherings. Now we will place some lights in the ocean. They should float upon the water. It symbolizes rising above the thought of hiṁsā, to the state of ahiṁsā. We will say three times Oṁ Śānti. Om Om Śagajānanda Bhagavān Kī Jai Gaṅgā Mātā Kī Jai Sāgar Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Kapil Muni Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jaya, Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya.