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Swamijis opening Satsang in Vep, Hungary

Peace and love are universal principles, not for limited possession. Pronouncing these words is easy, yet realizing them is difficult. Peace and love become conflict when applied only to oneself or a small group. The world is one family. God is universal, like love; focusing on a limited form creates duality. Animals know God but lack expression; human intellect, filled with selfishness and greed, causes suffering. Work not only for those who follow you. Do not seek to convert others, as that creates conflict; instead, aim to convince. Truth is that God, Brahman, is indescribable and spotless. Examine inner spots like jealousy, doubt, ego, greed, and anger. The soul is spotless. Realize oneness; the path of love is so narrow only one can pass. Higher consciousness is accessible when these qualities are removed, but ego returns. Everything visible is limited and will be destroyed. Scientists searching for God in duality will not find Him; everything is God. Great messengers like Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, Krishna, and Rama struggled. Human festivals preserve culture; do not mix or hybridize them. Ancient wisdom honors food as Brahman; never waste it or betray a house where you eat salt. The guest is God. Divine love sees no duality, as shown when Krishna valued a banana skin offered with love over a feast offered without it. Trust in God, not in your own power. Perform service with faith, and divine grace provides, as shown in stories where food multiplied or a devotee's duty was mysteriously fulfilled.

"Vāsudevaḥ Kutumbakam—the whole world is one family of God."

"Brahma Satya, Jagat Mithyā. Ultimately, God is the truth."

Filming location: Vép, Hungary

Part 1: The Universal Path of Peace and Love Good evening to everyone, and adoration to our divine masters, our holy lineage. Welcome to you all in this beautiful place, Vyp, where we have been coming for nearly fifteen years. This is a beautiful country, Hungary. We are all very happy and thankful to our dear Hungarian brothers and sisters who prepare these seminars with great love. The leading force is our dear Kṛṣṇānanda and company—all his friends who work with him. For many of you, this satsaṅg is a first meeting. I came from India a fortnight ago, and this is also a goodbye satsaṅg, as I will return to India in one week. I see here a beautiful Christmas tree. This is the month when we think of the message of Jesus, a messenger of peace and love on this planet. Yet to realize peace and love is not easy. It is very easy to pronounce the words "peace" and "love." It is good to hear the word "peace," and very dear to our heart to hear the word "love." But have we ever made a picture in our imagination of how peace looks? Have we ever felt love in our heart? What or how does love look? Peace is universal, and love is universal. When we try to utilize these universal principles only for an individual or a limited area, then there is no more peace and no more love. We wish peace for ourselves. We wish peace only in our family. But have we ever thought of our neighbor? If the neighbor is suffering, how do we create peace for them? We may desire peace in our society, in our city or town, but what about the entire country? And if we go beyond borders, then it is the whole world. The Upaniṣads say, "Vāsudevaḥ Kutumbakam"—the whole world is one family of God. There is only one God, and the different forms or manifestations of God are created individually. But ultimately, there is only one God. When we focus our concentration and try to possess a particular form of God, we limit God, though God is universal. God is compared with love. Hence, when love is God, then God is love. That is why love is universal and God is universal. When we begin to create dualities, conflicts immediately rise in the human mind. Animals have no conflict about God, and do not think that animals do not know God. They know. They love God as we love. They know God as we know. Unfortunately, other creatures are limited in their abilities to express their feelings about God. One holy saint, a Mahatma, said in his bhajan: "O my dear one, even the animals and birds are remembering God in the morning at sunrise and in the evening at sunset." They are limited, and we humans have intellect. That intellect has become selfish and full of pride and greed; it would like to have everything. That is why humans are mostly suffering in this world. Not only do we humans suffer, we also trouble other creatures. Therefore, we work only for limited people. Those who do not follow us and who do not understand us, we do not love them; we do not include them with us. And then we would like them to follow what I say. That is a conflict. In the whole world, humans try to get power. That was not the sense or the message of Jesus—to get power. The message was love and peace. If you try to convert someone from their beliefs to other beliefs, it means you do not love, and you do not know what peace is, because you create a conflict in their mind and in families. Do not convert them; convince them. What is Satya and what is Asatya? What is truth and what is untruth? Reality and non-reality? Vedānta gives the answer: "Brahma Satya, Jagat Mithyā." Ultimately, God is the truth, that Brahman. It is indescribable, alakha. "Alakha": "a" means not, and "lakha" means to write or describe. Alakha means indescribable. Niranjan, nirākāra. Nirākāra means formless. "Rañj" means spot, and "nir" means not, without—pure, without spot, spotless. Which kind of spot? No jealousy. So look at your inner curtain and find out if you have the spots I will count now. Are you jealous? Look inside. If the answer is no, then it should be like this clean paper. If the answer is yes, then it will be like this marked paper. I will put it on this side; nobody can read it. So it does not matter whom you are jealous of, or for what: your business partner, your neighbor’s dog because they have a beautiful dog, or shoes, a car, friends, money, business, and so on. If you are jealous, then you are not Nirañjan. That is one point. Second, doubts. If you have doubts, then you are not Niranjan; you are in conflict. Ignorance, ego. If you have no ego, then you are pure. If you have ego, then it is like dark, heavy clouds—smoke clouds. Rainy clouds are good; they are healthy, they rain. Greed is when big hailstones fall on the earth from the sky; you are all the time making trouble, big ice hails, not only small ones. Anger is like lightning in the clouds, thundering. I am only counting; perhaps I have these. I am counting my own doubts. You are a pure soul, but the ātmā is spotless, Īśvara is spotless. There is no greed, no jealousy—only oneness. When you realize the oneness, then there is no three, no two, only one. When I was... here he was not here, and now he is here. I am not there because two cannot walk together. Two have to become one. Why? Because the street of love is so narrow, only one can pass through. So you have to become one. As soon as you open your intellect and say, "Oh, there are three, and there are four, and there are five. I am alone, and this, oh God," duality arises. Therefore, Nirañjan—spotless. Try. One day, try to sit in meditation and fall. Only for five minutes, take all these qualities out from you. I tell you, you will be in a supreme higher consciousness. But as soon as you come before that higher consciousness, you will have ego: "I am now higher." That is it. So try, try. It is in your hands, no one else's. Can anyone help you? Only you can help. Alak Niranjan: indescribable, spotless. Nitya: everlasting, not limited. Everything that is visible has a limit. What is created has a limitation. What is created will be destroyed. What appears will disappear. He is here, and he is not here. That is the truth. About four days ago, three days ago, I was sitting in an airplane. They gave me a magazine to read, and on this magazine was written: "Scientists are searching for God, but they didn’t find Him." I told them that I should write to them that, yes, they should come to me; they will find. As soon as you think of God as a form to see, you will not see it anywhere. You are there. You are a God. An ant is a God. Everything is a child of God, light of God, love of God, creation of God, representing God, consciousness of God. Everything is their God. And still, look how scientists, such big scientists and scholars, can be such that they do not see God because they are searching in duality. In duality you will not find God. God is that principle. That is all. Nitya, nirākāra, formless. Nitya, nirākāra, nirañjan. Nitya bodhāya, cidānandāya, Guru brahmaṇā māmayaṁ. Nitya bodhaya: everlasting wisdom, knowledge. And so, from time to time, great sense comes with that quality. And we do not understand; this is a problem. You know, if we had understood Jesus, we would not have let them put him on the cross, crucifying him. You think he had a good life, enjoying? As far as I know, the life of Jesus was all the time struggling from birth. From birth until death, struggling. We have to struggle for the truth and to be that one. How many will misunderstand you? How many will be jealous? How many will be angry? What can be more anger than this? They put him on the cross—this anger. We humans, you know, we are ready to do thanks to great holy saints. They gave us injections, you know, like what you call anesthesia, narcosis. We are all here sitting, having a narcosis. And which kind of narcosis? The narcosis is the injection of wisdom, love, fear—telling a horrible picture of hell and a beautiful picture of heaven. So, you know, what is hell and heaven? They are both elbows: the right elbow and left elbow. Now they put honey here, and they put honey here. Now it depends on you if you can lick your honey from your elbow. Can you lick your elbow? Try, everybody. Yes, that is heaven. Come on, and this is the spiritual injection. And so, those who... are those who believe in spirituality in love. And not to make a sin means not to trouble others. Due to them, there is peace in the world. Otherwise, human is the most dangerous animal, most dangerous. So thanks to the great ṛṣis, they gave so many injections. So we are 89.5% in volume. That’s it. The best quality remains. Others are tormented through those injections—the pain that can cause others. But we can, without demonstration, without telling others, have these qualities. And thanks to those people who took care of these spiritual festivals. Maybe it is a Guru Pūrṇimā, or maybe a Dīvālī, or a Holī, and there are many, many festivals in Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity. Buddha did not have an easy life. Muhammad did not have an easy life either. Nor did Kṛṣṇa, nor did Rāma; they all did not have an easy life, you know. And so, to bring peace in the world, first know the picture, how it is, and what we can do. And love is not a love between two persons, husband and wife, or father and children, mother and children. No, this is not love. This is karma, kāma. And that also cannot function without love—the universal love, the peace, the harmony. And so we are here for this weekend to exchange our feelings, negative feelings, with divine feelings. So, meditate on how many conflicts you have. Can you put them all under the Christmas tree? Put all your jealousy under the Christmas tree. All your hate, all your doubts, all your egos in everything. This Christmas tree will inhale everything and exhale, like oxygen trees exhaling for us. It will give you the good quality. Make a saṅkalpa, not only putting some chocolate or some presents because now your friend will love you or your wife will love you more because you brought her a nice, big present, a nice cake for her dog? Not that we have to surrender this. The same trees we have for Dīvālī, which is nearly a 10,000-year-old festival. This tree is a life. It is a tree of life, and you see there are many shining things hanging as decoration. This decoration for me is not some kind of shining thing, but this is a good quality of life. The tree is a life. We are also a tree. God Kṛṣṇa said this verse before 6,000 years in the 15th chapter of the Bhagavad Gītā, the first mantra: "Oṁ dāmūlam adasākām asvatām prahuravyām sandanāsi yasya prānāni yastām vedas." That you have to read. The whole Christmas tree is described in the 15th chapter. So how the tradition, the culture—human is preserving and caring with the... Humans, where there is a human, there is a culture. And where there is a culture, there are humans. But there are some who destroy the culture, who humiliate the culture, and therefore the whole world’s governments, including the United Nations, are preserving and talking about interculture, or what you call multi-culture. According to their climate, their feelings, they have their festivals. How beautiful. Let them have their festivals. Do not mix them. Do not make a hybrid of it. But now people have made hybrids of different things. Pure cultural things are very beautiful. When I come to these countries, like Czechoslovakia, and like ex-Yugoslavia, and Poland, and also Ukraine, and some parts of Russia and this part of the world, when the guest comes, they give you bread and salt. And bread and salt, this is mentioned in the Upaniṣads: "Aṇ-Brahman, Aṇ-Brahma." "Aṇ" means the food, and mostly "Aṇa" means the grains, crops, what you are harvesting, grains. In that is Brahman, the supreme. The Brahma is in the Aṇu, in the seeds. And which comes through the elements: rain, clouds, rains, in the vegetation, and it is coming. It is a creation. You see, one takes one corn, one corn, and then carefully puts it in the soil. Let it nicely grow and give it water, and look how this creation is. Then suddenly you have very nice corn. What is growing inside? What is multiplying inside? And all seeds, or the corns, have the same form, same color, and same seeds inside the seeds—Brahmā. Aṇ Brahmā, Vāk Brahmā, Śabd Brahmā. And so, food, bread—do not humiliate or throw away the food. I remember when I was small, sitting with the families, and if anyone, including my father also, if they saw somewhere just a kernel of wheat, or barley, or anything, they would take it in hand and say, "Oh, Aṇdevtā, God, Aṇ, Brahman," and put it in the pocket or take it in the mouth, not to throw it somewhere. When I was now in India, there was a very beautiful, nice Earth Charter conference in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. And one of the swamis, he made one festival there called Aṇubrahma. And they prepared 5,555 dishes, vegetarian dishes. Can you understand? Imagine, all different. Challenging, who said that vegetarian food is boring and there are no good qualities, and like this. He said only one thing: "Meat away." That is only one thing. But how many others, and who made this? All his devotees brought the different qualities and then they put them in one big, big park. And there was, everyone had number one, two, three, four, five thousand, two thousand, three thousand, eight, and like this. All this, this is, and had a satsaṅg, and after, everyone was enjoying Aṇubrahma. So it is very ancient. Secondly, it is said in śāstras: in whose house you will eat salt, you should never be a traitor to that house. Never do anything bad physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, intellectually, financially for this house. Never do anything bad because you ate in this house, Aṇ and salt, namak. And in the Bible, it is said: "Thou art the salt of the earth." You are the salt of the earth; we are the essence of this earth. Now you see the ancient, which is a many, many thousands of years old wisdom, spoken about bread and salt. And after so many thousand kilometers, I am traveling and coming to here in the middle of Europe. And coming as a guest to some Slovakian family, at the Ukraine airport, they come to welcome me with decoration of the flowers and beautiful bread with decoration and salt. At the airport, after the passport control, when I came, they were ready there and offered me. How beautiful. I was surprised that you are our guest. We welcome you. And the duty of the guest is to always be the best to them, never create any conflict or anything wrong with them. Be their friends, be their guest. And therefore, we call "Atithi Devo bhavaha." In the Upaniṣad it is written very clearly: "matri devo bhavaha, pitri devo bhavaha, acharya devo bhavaha, atithi devo bhavaha." Atithi means guest. Guest is God. And you also said in your countries here, at that time there was less population, you know, and at that time there were no cars, no airplanes, and no trains. Such a very rare guest came, you know. Now, you can have a guest every 10 minutes. "Hello Swamiji, I was just driving, Dharva Ashram is near, I parked and came to say hello." The next one says, "I come, hello." Also, there are many, many guests, you know. Why not? Many gods. You know, you are between so many goddesses. You must be happy. One who is happy, all protects. But now, many who come do not come with this feeling of peace and love. Many come and say, "You know, Swamiji, I’m sorry to say, but you know, I don’t know." And you know that these people, so I... said, "I don’t know where are these people? I don’t see. I see you only." So, one comes to complain. That is not like this. There are two kinds of guest: one comes to make peace, and one comes to make trouble. When you read the Bhāgavatam, and you see, read the Bhāgavatam, and where Kṛṣṇa goes as a peace ambassador to the... to the Duryodhana Kauravas. Finally, even Kṛṣṇa went to say, "Don’t fight, don’t make a battlefield." Kṛṣṇa was an ambassador of peace, but the other one came as a messenger of war, brought the document, a declaration that tomorrow the battlefield will begin, get ready. And nowadays, they do not even declare; they just send only the machine. They are sitting somewhere else, cowards. Part 2: The Messenger of Love God is always a messenger. Krishna was a messenger of peace and love. When Krishna came, Duryodhana thought, "If Krishna is on my side, I will win the war." What did Duryodhana do? He prepared not 5,000, but 56 delicious dishes—Ṣaṣṭhībhoga—the kind of offering God likes. When a dear guest comes to your home, you make 56 varieties. Once, I received this from one Swāmījī, Ādhāgadānanjī. We went from Elabad in 2000, and he was so happy and honored me. He prepared 56 varieties on a very big plate and brought it before me. I said, "Swāmījī, if I eat this, I will be finished." He said, "No, no, you eat, you have to eat." It did not mean I had to eat all of it. When I took one piece from everything—can you imagine, 56? Ṣaṣṭhībhoga. That Ṣaṣṭhībhoga has a spiritual meaning. 56. Bhoga means offering, giving. So Duryodhana made a beautiful dinner and invited Krishna. But Kṛṣṇa asked Duryodhana to make peace—no fighting, no war. Duryodhana said, "No, you should be on my side," and so on. He tried to influence Kṛṣṇa with food. But for the evening dinner, Krishna said to Duryodhana, "No, no... I’m sorry, I’m going to have dinner with Vidura, the wise one, and his wife." Kṛṣṇa went to Vidura’s house, and Vidura was surprised. "I’m a servant, and Kṛṣṇa came to me." Krishna said, "Yes, I’m hungry, and I came." Vidura said, "There is a lot of food for you; they are preparing it. They have been for the last few days already." Krishna said, "Yes, but I want to eat from your wife’s hand. She should make for me corn chapati and spinach"—very simple farmer food. Vidura said, "Really, Krishna, you want this?" He said, "Yes, yes, and I’m so hungry. So give me something to eat first." You see how God plays with the bhaktas. So Vidurajī was sitting. His wife came and sat, and she quickly brought one banana. She ate the banana and gave the skin to Krishna. And Krishna began to eat the banana’s skin. Can you imagine? Vidura said, "Oh," and Vidura said to his wife, "What have you done?" She said, "Sorry, Krishna, please, please. This is a banana, just give it to me." He said, "No, my sister. No, no... no. In this banana, the fruit is no test. In the skin is the test." Why? Because there is love. You gave me with love. "Even if it is poison, but with love, it is the best," he said. That is called the innocent devotion of the Great Thus. There you do not see good or bad. Where there is love, there is no choice, there is no duality, there is oneness. It does not matter if it is he or she, Vidura and his wife both, and the real banana in the skin, the fruit and the skin—it does not matter. He did not see anything. He saw only the one, that in this banana skin is the love. That bhakti and Duryodhana—when he heard that Kṛṣṇa went there to eat just dry, half-burned chapati with a little green paste, he was angry. He was screaming, he said, "Kṛṣṇa can’t go where he wants." He said, "I will be the winner," but he was the loser; he lost. And so Holy Gurujī said in one beautiful bhajan: "Sāg vidurgar khāyol." How is that bhajan? "Duryodhana kameva tyājya sāg vidurgar khāyol. Prabhu Prem binanai..." He will never come without love. You need that love. You can try a thousand things. He will not come. He will not come. Like Duryodhana, he prepared delicious food like nectar. But Kṛṣṇa went to Vidura’s home, and there he ate just green leaves of the vegetables and coarse chapati. So, my dear, peace is when the real love is there; then he comes to you and you come to him. That’s it. So the time of Christmas is that time where we should forget everything: no jealousy, no anger, all enemies. We should forget these things and celebrate the day of happiness, and love, and peace. And this love and peace should be with us. Then it has a sense to celebrate the festival. But many people today, on Christmas Day, will fast all day and then kill so many animals. Do you think God is happy that you killed so many animals and you eat them? The heart of God is bleeding. He will not bless you. Do not make your children stupid, thinking that the baby Jesus came and was quickly put under the tree for you. And where is he? Oh, he has no time because he has to go to millions of houses? It is not in this way that God will come. If there is love, will thou come? Will thou come just for one? Will thou come? Will thou come? Open wide eyes. Will thou come? Will thou come without seeing? Night and day, night and day, hello for the tender night and day. Night and open wide, I came for thee. Open wide, I came for thee. Wilt thou come, wilt thou come, just for one, to me? Will thou come, will thou come, just for one to me? So, you have to keep your heart open. But your heart cannot be open because you have many precious things. When you open it, you will lose them. What? Anger, jealousy, hate, conflict, greed. Oh God, when you open it, it will fall down. How poor you will be then. Trust, trust in God. There is one story I remember, told to me once by one of the holy gurus, Mahāprabhujī’s bhakta. Some of you know him. Unfortunately, he died nearly 15 years ago, and he was from near Khattu. The village is called Harshor, and Lakṣmīnārāyaṇjī Joṣī was his name—a very nice bhakta. Mahāprabhujī had a very nice, always yellow turban. Some of you will remember, or not; Chidānand may remember. He said that once Mahāprabhujī was in Harshor, and there was a Guru Pūrṇimā Satsaṅg, or one of the Pūrṇimā Satsaṅgs, and they prepared eating for all, like today. Kṛṣṇānanda is saying they made a halwā for 500 people, and during the satsaṅg it appeared nearly 5,000 people had come. Now after the satsaṅg, everyone should get food. So Lakṣmī Nārāyaṇ Joṣī came to Mahāprabhujī and said, "Mahāprabhujī, what to do?" Mahāprabhujī said, "What?" "We made only a little prasād, and there are so many people; they are like clouds." Mahāprabhujī said, "Just, sir, give them." He said, "Yes, but should we cook more, and till that, you keep on giving satsaṅg?" Mahāprabhujī said, "No, no... Time for eating. I go to my room and have a little rest, and you keep eating." While going, Mahāprabhujī gave one instruction: "Cover the food, and take it from one side, okay?" Okay, Guru Vakya. Joṣījī said we all were in doubt. Food for 500 people served 5,000 or more than that. Maybe everybody will get two spoons. And so they began to serve. All enjoyed more and more and... more. When all was finished, Mahāprabhujī called them. "Can I have also some prasād?" And they came. Mahāprabhujī said, "Everyone got?" They said, "Yes, it was okay, enough." They said, "Mahāprabhujī, not even one quarter finished." 80% of the halwa was still there. That’s called siddhi, or that’s called guru-kṛpā. That’s called Annapūrṇā’s blessing. Annapūrṇā is the devotee of the Gurudev. And that’s why we always sing before eating. If today they would have sung, "Annapūrṇe sadā pūrṇe," then it will be. And Annapūrṇā, she is very pure. She likes purity, cleanness, mentally, physically, and discipline in eating also. Respect the Annabrahma. Annabrahma. Annabrahma, co-respect you have to. But how you sit and eat and talk and joke—that’s why in every religion it’s called the dining table’s prayers. And then they were eating, not so much talking. And now, in modern culture, in modern times, we invite people when we have very important dialogues to be spoken about a company matter, or financial matter, or something like this. And you eat and talk and drink and eat and talk, till you become half or 85%—you are not anymore there. Then he said, "Okay, we agree." They said, "Yes, we agree." "One glass more, you like?" He said, "Yes, I like." "You accept?" "Yes, I accept." "One more, okay? Sign it, no problem." That’s it. So people were surprised, and now they said, "What to do with the halwā?" So Mahāprabhujī said, "Distribute prasād in the whole village." And all neighboring school children and everywhere, but still the halwā was left. And so Mahāprabhujī said, "Everyone, bhakti, who is going home, give them one-one kilos." That’s called siddhi, or Gurudev’s kṛpā. So that’s called food. That’s called a prasāda. There is everything in it. And therefore, Holy Gurujī made also another beautiful bhajan. Prabhujī said, who are you that you can provide all kinds of expenditures or anything? Do not think that you are the one who will do all. No. A small ant gets a little corn to eat. A big elephant gets 100 kilos to eat every day. Who is giving it? Who is providing the nourishment to them? Not you, O human, but God. God is giving. He takes care of all. Be happy. Be thankful. That God gives you the opportunity to do the sevā. Do it, sevā. Do it. Open the satsaṅgs. Open the door for everyone to worship God. Trust. Trust in him. You will get everything. There was one bhakta, a very true story. He was a barber in Gujarat. And he had to go to shave the king every morning. And the king had a kind of disease, like a cancer or a kind of leprosy, so the barber had to go every day at a fixed time, 8:30. He had to be there. If he was late, the king was very angry. One day, when he was going to the palace, on the way he met about forty sādhus, a group of forty sannyāsī sādhus, and he was so happy. What a blessing to see 40 sādhus at once. That place, that village, that house, those people are blessed—40 holy saints. He greeted them and asked, "What about your eating breakfast?" They said, "We started very early, so somewhere we will eat." He said, "Please be my guest." Now, they said, "Okay, 40 people come at once," and now his wife... He says, "Prepare nice food for them. Get some help." Forty people in a small family house? You think they are available? The good thing is, always in India, halwa, you know, halwa and puri and sabji and kheer and milk. He said, "Don’t wait. Go." In the kitchen, a good wife always follows the husband, and when the husband does not follow the good wife, then he’s in trouble. And she comes in the kitchen and is surprised. In a small kitchen, everything is ready; all material is there to prepare. She thought she was... crazy. Who brought it? How did it come? Well, they served the food. They ate at 11 o’clock, and they blessed the family, and they went. And the barber said, "Today is my bad day. The king will kill me. I should be there at 8:30, and it’s already driven." Well, he... said, "Blessings of the sants will help me." So he took his bag, went to the palace. On the door of the palace, the king came with a flower mālā and said, "Welcome." The barber said, "I was just ready to come." The king said to him, "I’m sorry, sir, I was late." He said, "No, no, not late. What have you in your hands today, power?" He said, "You know, morning 8:30 when you were shaving me, all my disease went away." He understood it was God. He did not dare to say he was not there. Because the king said, "You were there, you were making shaving, and look, I’m completely healthy, and that’s why I want to come to your house and personally thank you." So God, Bhagavān Devpurījī said, "God takes upon himself the destiny of the devotees." So, who are you that you will do, and you will spend the money, and you will pay the money, and this? Who are you? It’s your ego. Trust in God. That’s all. And that’s why there is a way: trust in God, so there is God. There is love. There is peace. There is everything, so today is enough. You are all tired. My turbo engine, when it starts, it’s difficult to stop, so this is a blessing of Gurudev. I am happy to see you. Now, all the juniors, if they have not eaten, and their parents, they can go first and get eating because they prepared eating, so all juniors can come first and have a chocolate before going to sleep, or a prasad, girls. Chocolate prasads... there are no more juniors; all disappear. So therefore, Holy Gurujī said, "Open." Nishanka kabhi matadarna, jiski rakshakarta Rāmu, kisi se nahi marna, sadā rahe ānanda liya Guru śaraṇa. Ānandani arṇa Sattra Mātā, Śaṅkābhī Śaṅkare Sattra Guru, nāma bhava. Jabha Pīrā Muktā Paryāhī Sambhimatā Dhāraṇā Śaṅkākabhi Matadādahī Sadāhī. Mānavapata Devakī Dharma Samrāṭ Sattra Guru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavānakī Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramaṁ Śrī Svayaṁ Vayaśvaraṇāya, yas to ned yel ya... What is that? Sunday Guruvākya, because Guruvākya... well, our dear Vivekpuri and Anandri and Jagreb Yoga and Daily Life have prepared a very nice booklet about the meaning of the Sunday, the sun, and why we have the Sunday celebrations. It’s out of my lecture. It is in Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, and the ex-Yugoslavian language. They dedicate this book for your Christmas presents. First, take one, and then you can take more if there are more remaining. And if you like to give any donation, that will go to Jaden Hospital. Thank you. Yasamne Rozumis. Then there is one beautiful... now you can finish. Now a beautiful, beautiful article appeared in the United Nations magazine. It’s printed, published by the United Nations, UN headquarters in New York, throughout the whole world, all the United Nations centers, this magazine. And in this magazine, there is one nice article prepared by our dear, what is her name, Sangeeta from Novi Sad, a beautiful article. Pomali, Swāmījī, don’t be nervous, Prashin, pomali, yeah, yeah, yeah. The article is called, "Can Education Be Made Mobile?" And that is done with school pictures. So there is a project we have done, and also from the United Nations, to bring our teachers to small, small places where children have no possibility to go to school, or they do not want to go to school, and elderly people, they do not know how to read and write, to bring them some kind of education. It’s called mobile education. And the United Nations was very happy about this, that we contributed this and our ideas. And Sangeeta presented this beautiful article. Sangeeta is sitting here in the building of the United Nations. Our Sangeeta from Novi Sad. What is her name, the name of the service? Aleksandra, which we do not know, so I think this article is available on the website, on the United Nations website. You can read it tomorrow; they will put it here, one example, so you can write the website address. Good. Our webcast would like to have the website, so I will give you the webcast beforehand. Look, okay, make a nice picture for me. For all, my face must be there. Thank you. There, a nice cassette appeared from our dear Madhurām in Scotland, Edinburgh. And you know how Madhurām is a very pure-hearted, innocent and friendly person. He had a yoga class, and he left all his things down. The door is open, and the money case is also there. He thinks any yoga people will come, who will put money in, and they will go to class, but 99 percent do. One does not do, but one does different things, and that one took all the money and all things and disappeared. So Madhura had a hard time paying his rent for that āśram, and so he produced any six beautiful bhajans. So, cassettes—500 cassettes he brought. So that would be a contribution. He wrote on a website or email somewhere, in "Yoga and Divine Life" pages, that if someone could help him. So, I think buying this cassette will help him to go on with teaching Yoga and the Divine Life in Edinburgh. Do you agree? Thank you. So this is what we call love and peace, how to make love and peace and understanding. So this cassette will be, I do not know, but tomorrow it will be available. Thank you. And now, those who did not have dinner, they should get ready in the stomach. We will have prayer. You will get prasad, and then dinner will be there. Anyone? Yes, you want to say something? She also is doing for our school children in Jordan, yes? Yeah, in Jordan, we have handicapped children. We provide them cycles and things like this. For the blankets, we are already distributing. Now we have already 2,000 blankets distributed. We are doing still, and we give them cycles for the handicapped people and jackets for poor people. It’s called BPL, below poverty level. And Swāmī Jasrājpur is now going village to village with the Government members, giving the people blankets and some money like this. Thank you. So, thank you. She was in Mansarovar, in Kailash Mountain, and she brought Ganga and Kailash Mansarovar sea water. She puts a small amount in a little bottle, and she will dedicate this money to our Jordan helpless children, and especially handicapped children. So, thank you. Yes. She will put it on one table, small bottles, and there will be a donation box. Okay? Thank you. And then, in the evening, I will announce how much we collected. Tomorrow evening. Okay? Thank you.

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