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Well, blessings to all of you. It was nice these last four days. I came on Thursday, Friday, and yesterday, with one day dedicated to youth and ethics. The speakers were good. We received many impulses to work in this direction. Yoga in Daily Life in the Czech Republic is well organized and well established, and we shall work in this direction also for ethical education. But the question is that first you must change yourself, as Gandhijī said: "Be the change you want to see." So what you would like to see, first you have to become. Therefore, we shall become an example. Many people are going because your train is going. All the best. Good journey. We will finish quickly. So we have to become an example. We have to look within ourselves. First, look within thyself. How are you? What have you done which is not acceptable? How much spiritual work have you done on yourself? How much ego, conflict, anger, and doubt do you still have? And what did you do wrong in your thinking, let's say in the past? Nobody knows; only you know. Now, how are you going to repair or solve the problem? And that is prayer—prayers and mantras. Time is passing for all of us. Time will not be given to us anymore as credit. It will be a pity if we didn't realize or achieve that for which we came. Life has many situations, and at every age we have different feelings—small children, teenagers, the youth, and so on. But one should awake inwardly. There is one bhajan, and in that bhajan it is said: "Chetan, ho jāre, muśā phir gaḍī ānewālī he. Gaḍī ānewālī he, gaḍī jānewālī he, chetan ho jāre muśā phir." O traveller, wake up, become alert. The train will be coming soon, and it will go away very soon. Don't miss that train—the train of our opportunity to sit near the Gurudev, to listen to Amṛt Vachana. Amṛt means the nectar, the words of immortality. Accept it in your life. Whatever we did, whether good or bad, it's gone. But we are the same here in our feelings and in our thinking. We are the same; the body is changing. Therefore, this is our spiritual path under the center of our spiritual lineage: Śrī Devapurījī, Śrī Mahāprabhujī, Śrī Holī Gurujī. We are very rich. We have everything: all kinds of spiritualities, all kinds of blessings, every kind of protection and certainty in our life. So look within thyself: what you have not done yet which you should have done, and what you did which you should not have done. Make the balance: which was more, good things or negative things? If the good things are in the plus, try to make more plus. If bad things were in the plus, try to make it minus—through your sādhanā, through your practice. In this time, in Kali Yuga, so-called self-made masters are many. There are many different kinds of manipulation, psychologically and in the name of spirituality, and then they are changing. We have observed over the last 40 years our Yoga in Daily Life path. Many of us became old with that. Many went to Mahāprabhujī already. All those who had mantras and practiced and prayed became one with that cosmic light of Mahāprabhujī's nirguṇa form, in the Amar Loka, in the world of immortality. "Guru, I want to go with you in that world, in that country where there is no birth and no death, where there is immortality." So all who got the blessings in the name of Mahāprabhujī were liberated. Now we are on the list of it, and I am sure that we will also be there. Health—physical, mental, social situations, spiritual changes—that's always changing. But what is inside should not change. We can't be healthy forever. We may be healthy and have an accident and die. The dharma of the body is to be born, to grow, and to pass away. That is the dharma, or law, of nature. Who came will go; who went will come. What is created will be destroyed; what was made will be dissolved. So every kind of form will change, but that Ātmā will never change. Therefore, we shall change all negative ambitions. The most harmful thing for us is if we think badly about others. It doesn't matter in which way. Maybe you are jealous. Maybe you feel that someone damaged your business. Maybe you think that someone was not nice to you. It doesn't matter in which way. Still, if you think negatively about that person or those people, that means you are directly harming yourself. When we think negatively about others, they will not get these negative thoughts from us, but the thoughts will affect us. Therefore, everywhere it is said: think with love, have understanding, compassion, forgiveness. If someone sends you thorns, you send flowers. That's it. So, a holy person is not only through the color of the dress or uniform; holy is in whose heart and mind is pure. So when you think to damage someone, it means you are damaging yourself. You send a thought, a negative thought. It's like a bullet. When the bullet enters, it makes a small hole, but when it comes out, it makes a big hole. So when you mentally send negative thoughts, and they go out and turn back to you, they will make big damage. So on this day, I want to tell you this message. Today is the anniversary of our universally worshipped Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī—Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī. Around the world, all bhaktas are praying and remembering him and asking for his divine light and blessings. In this time, if one can think what God's Incarnation can do or what happens... that was happening in the presence of Mahāprabhujī. We are talking about knowing everything—past, present, and future. That knowledge or that consciousness Mahāprabhujī had. You know, through the Līlā Amṛt, the book written by Holy Gurujī—and you have everyone—every night before going to sleep, you should read one chapter. And daytime also, whenever you can, read something. Anyone who came to Mahāprabhujī, a person before coming, a few hundred meters far, begins to change in a positive manner. A feeling of happiness arises and all negative thoughts disappear. He had many questions in his mind to ask Mahāprabhujī, but when they came near, all questions were answered inwardly before they approached Mahāprabhujī. And Mahāprabhujī welcomed the person with the name, from where he or she is coming, what problem you had, why that problem you had, and now the problem is solved. Unfortunately, we don't have that ability still. Why? Because our consciousness is very much polluted. We have a lot of expectations. We have a lot of ego. And that's why we don't have this. We have no discipline. And as Holī Gurujī writes in Līlā Amṛt, that one year before, Mahāprabhujī wrote a letter to Holī Gurujī—because Gurujī was in Gujarat, the other part of India—and asked him to come. And when Gurujī came, Gurujī was always in sevā of Mahāprabhujī. So at four o'clock in the morning, Mahāprabhujī told Gurujī, "If you have any wish," and always Gurujī said, "My wish is to serve you every life. I have no wish to have any siddhi, no powers, no perfections, no desires of money, anything—no, nothing." Only one thing: "I should always be your servant to serve you," because it is said: "Sixteen years if you serve God, and only for five, four minutes you serve Gurū Dev, is much more." That was spoken or told by a great sage, Śukadeva. Śukadeva was the son of the great Vedavyāsa, Vedavyāsa, who dictated and wrote the Vedas. And the great Ved Vyāsa was also a Trikāl Darśin, the knower of everything. And so Sukhdev Muni said that serving of God for sixteen years and serving of the Gurudeva for only four minutes—even four minutes are much, much more than sixteen years. But really, seva, not with expectations. If you expect something and you become jealous of others, that was not a seva. That was occupying a position. So Mahāprabhujī said, in one year exactly, this time, I will leave my body—5th of December, this time, morning. And Gurujī said, "I can't believe you. I believe everything, but not this. I can't imagine," the Holy Gurujī said, "my life without you." Mahāprabhujī told the same thing. "This is the nature, the law, and no one can stop this, and one should not stop this. I will always be with you. Wherever you will remember me, I will appear. Even if you sit somewhere in the hills, high hills, or mountains, or a forest where there is no one, I will bring food for you to eat there. But the body has to go." Holy Gurujī said, "My one request, I ask you always to write your life stories." And Mahāprabhujī always said no. So today Gurujī said, "Please bless me, fulfill this wish of mine, and give me the memory so that I can write." And Mahāprabhujī said, "Bless you." And so, after being 40 years with Gurujī Mahāprabhujī, 40 years serving, whatever Gurujī remembered, he wrote in this book, Līlā Amṛt. And you have all this book in many, many languages, Līlā Amṛt. And this is our holy book. This is Guru Vākya. So here Gurujī is writing how many siddhis the incarnation has. And how many siddhis are existing? And that Gurujī compares that all, Mahāprabhujī had this. And Devapurījī too. Devapurījī had a siddhi that he could go through the rock. Just he will walk towards the rock and will disappear in the rock and appear on the other side. There is no hole. And if we walk towards the rock or run towards the rock, we will know what will happen. Often Devpurījī took the fire in his soul, his dhūnī, and made it like a pocket, and put it on his shoulder, and walked a few kilometers, and then again opened it and put the fire down. Nothing was burned. Cotton cloth—and we, if a little fire fungus makes the hole, you know, who is smoking a cigarette in the car, driving, has the holes in the trousers, and other such. So, this means they mastered all elements; they were above the elements. So, through the blessings of Mahāprabhujī and Devapurījī, dead people got life. A few are still alive. They have a long life; they are nearly 85 or 90 years old. So our spiritual lineage is coming from Satya Yuga time, from Ālakpurījī. And that's why it's authentic. So if we follow this, then we are that ring in that chain, so automatically you will get liberation, even if you are good or not. But it means not that now you will not be good. You have to be a part of the chain, and so our spiritual lineage, Ālakpurījī Siddha Pīṭha, is authentic and ancient, from Satyuga time. It is mentioned also in Śrī Śiva Mahāpurāṇa about Ālak Purījī. On his name, there is one village called Ālakapurī. That is the highest village in the world above sea level—highest on the sea level in the Himalayas. That village is called Mana, and near Mana is Alagpurījī village. That's between the Indian and Chinese border. That is the highest village in the world according to altitude, highest altitude. And from there is also where there is a cave of Alagpurījī, who lived there, and Devpurījī's cave. And from there is the river flowing, Alaknandā, and that is the name of Alagpurījī. And I think in a few years, in two years, we shall go there in small groups. I will stay there for one month, and you come in a group of twenty. So we will do something. Would you like to do it? Yes. Okay. So, therefore, we have to be careful now. In this time, there are a lot of temptations and a lot of dogmas. There are many ways to get lost, but ours is a highway, the highway directly. But you have to remain on this highway. If you try to go once out of the highway, then you are lost, because you don't know where you can join again. That's it. So today is the day when Mahāprabhujī gave up his physical form and became one with the Brahman. So one of Mahāprabhujī's bhaktas, Gurujī's devotee—and he writes in his book, he has all letters; you know that little book, you know?—and he has so many good experiences with Mahāprabhujī. You should read that again and again. And it said on the door of the Satya Loka, to go is through the sun. You have to pass through the sun, and there is sitting Mahāprabhujī. So, all his experiences that he wrote—and I preserved his handwritings—out of many, many experiences, he wrote some to me as letters. And I kept all these letters, and I printed those letters in original handwriting and translation in English. I think you should translate into Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Serbian, and different languages. How can a master who is not physically here, who is in another world, guide a disciple? So that is a very good book for you to read. So today, on the 5th of December 1963 morning, Brahmapurtha Tīrthī Mahāprabhujī left this world. And many things are written in this book, the very first book Gurujī wrote, that many things are not mentioned in this book. Now, I am going to take that old one, the first edition, and check here what is not in this; I will put it in. So now, next year, if you give me a little more time, I shall write some things. And also, our experiences we shall write. And when I will write about my experiences, a big chapter will be Czechoslovakia. Yes, it was many beautiful, beautiful times. So, one comes into this world, has one's mission, duty, dharma, and one goes back. What did you bring with you, what did you do here, and what will you take with you? Nothing you brought here, and nothing you will take with you. Good or bad, what you created will remain here as your presence. If it was a good thing, you will always be remembered as good. And if it was a bad negative, you will always be remembered for bad things. This is the problem. So good things will prepare a good path further in the future. And bad things will create many obstacles in the future. Therefore, whatever you do and whatever you think, from today onwards, surrender everything to the Holy Lotus Feet of Mahāprabhujī and pray for forgiveness: "If I was angry or jealous or bad to someone, please take away these heavy karmic burdens." So this is our inner attitude. Practice your mantras, practice your sādhanās, āsanas, prānāyāmas, and give this divine message of Mahāprabhujī through the Yoga in Daily Life, which is his prasād, his blessing, and with this is all the best. I wish you a nice day, and wherever you are going today, this evening you should have a little satsaṅg in the ashram at 7:30. Between 7:30 and 8, you should have prayer in your yoga centers, ashrams, or at home. I will also be doing this between 7:30 and 8. Pray, drive carefully, and don't overtake too much. If you drive 150 and others drive only 120, it's only a 10-minute difference. But who drives slowly comes safely home. So have a good journey, and bless you. Dīp Nain Bhagavān Kīch, Devī Svarmā Kīch, Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Kīch, Sratan Dharm.