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Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Śrī Śrī Alakhpurījī Mahādeva Kī Jai. Śrī Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai. Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Paramahaṃsvāmī Maheśvarānandajī, Guru Deva Kī Jai. Satsaṅgatana Dharma Kī Jai, Ajkī Ānanda Kī Jai. Sabariṣi Muni Mahātamā Kī Jai, Mātā-Pitā. Guru Deva Kī Jai, Hari Om. Dear brothers and sisters, Hari Om, kedves testvéreim, here in the whole of VEIP and around the world. Swāmījī gave me the occasion to speak some words to you on this wonderful morning. I will speak first about Guru Pūrṇimā and afterwards about a book which I was writing. Pramā Nandam Paramasukadam Kevalam Jñānam Uratim Ekam Nityam Vimalāchalam Sarvādī Sākṣibhūtam Bhavāditam Triguṇaraitam Satgurutam Namāmyam. Oṃ Tryambakaṃ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṃ Puṣṭivardhanam Urvārukamiva Bandhanān Mṛtyormukṣīya Mā’mṛtāt... Oṃ Tryambakaṃ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṃ Puṣṭivardhanam Urvārukamiva Bandhanān Mṛtyormukṣīya Mā’mṛtāt... Om Śānti, Śānti, Śāntihi. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai. Viśvaguru, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Paramahaṃsvāmī, Maheśvarānandajī, Guru Deva Kī Jai. Dear brothers and sisters, yesterday and also on Thursday, we had the big blessing to witness the Guru Pūrṇimā Satsaṅg and the Darśana of Svāmījī. The celebration was also enhanced by the presence of our Pandit, which was very traditional and very beautiful, and it touched our hearts. Yesterday, the whole day, I was thinking about the word Guru Pūrṇimā. Everybody knows what Guru means and what Ru means: darkness and light. But the question is, what is the light? We have to have a clear vision of what the light is. If we don’t have an aim, we are not able to reach it. We have to imagine this aim, we have to focus on the aim, and this is how we can reach our aims. If you want to go on a high mountain, you have to prepare yourself. And you have to focus on the top of the mountain which you want to reach. You cannot jump from the base, from zero, to 3,600 meters in one step. This Hanumān can do, but we are not Hanumān. Maybe you will become Hanumān, but at the present we have some people who have the name Hanumān. So how do we reach the top of the mountain? How? What do you think? How? Step by step. Very good, very important. So, by and by, when you are going step by step, what are you thinking? Yes, very good. Next step. That’s very right. Because if you focus only on the end, on the aim, you will miss the path. And the path is an important thing. And the aim in this life is to give up everything to come to the light, to self-realization. So, the most important thing is to focus on this aim, then you are able to go step by step with courage and energy. And if you have the divine blessing, you will succeed in some steps, without expectation. So, I think, don’t expect that in this life you will realize God. It can be, but don’t expect it. We have to go only step by step and put all our energy inside. So, what means this Pūrṇam? You all know this wonderful mantra: Oṁ Pūrṇamadaṁ, Pūrṇamidaṁ, Pūrṇamudachyate, Pūrṇasya, Pūrṇamadāya, Pūrṇamevāvaśiṣyate. Om Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. So the completeness is complete. Whatever is taken out of the completeness is also complete. But what does it mean? It means that the divinity of God is also inside. This means that God, the quality of God, is within us as well. And this means the Pūrṇam. But again, this is a big word. And what are the steps to reach this? Well, Swāmījī gives us a lot of tools to go through the steps, very clearly. But what is most important is that you know what your present situation is and what the next step is that you have to achieve. You know, exactly, if you want to go quickly up the steps, you will fall down. Because you are still not able to reach the third step above the first step. So first of all, we have to find our present situation with clarity. Clarity means that, like we do in self-inquiry meditation, you know exactly what the status of yourself is. It’s good if you take a piece of paper and write on the left side what your weaknesses are. But don’t show this paper to your friend. It’s your personal, very intimate documentation. And so, let’s say you are jealous, angry. So you write this down. Not too many at once, only one step. And on the other side, you write the opposite. Let’s say angry, what is the opposite? Angry, what is the opposite of angry, actually? Peaceful. And the opposite of jealousy? Love, no? I would say no. Anyhow, this is your personal diary, and this is not easy. Even the first step is not easy, believe me. This I took six months ago, one saṅkalpa. So you have to take this step as a saṅkalpa. This is very important. So, I took six months ago, or even longer, I took the saṅkalpa: I want only to speak full of love, liebevoll, if I say. Yes, full of love. So no anger, no... Nothing, just like the ocean, peaceful. Śānti, no, my name is Śānti. Well, I must tell you that till now, I am not satisfied. Still, I have not realized śānti. But the thing is, when you make a saṅkalpa, then you, at the same time, when you make it seriously, you know, every day you have to think on this saṅkalpa. It should be inside of you to reach it. And every time I miss this Saṅkalpa, I say to myself, "Śānti, again." Again, not Śānti. What is this? But, you know, with time you change. With time. Maybe before you were shouting every day, and after a while you shout only once a week, and once a month, and like this, you know? In sport, it is the same. When you are a light athlete, yes, and you make the jump over this one, yes? Yes, you jump over. It’s part of the light athletics, the high spring—no, high jump. You know what I mean? Okay, you will not start by 1.7, 70 meters, no? Will you? So you will start maybe by one meter, or fifty centimeters; it doesn’t matter. And if often the stick is falling down on one meter again and again, you have to try again and again till the stick remains untouched. And if this is the case several times, let’s say in an aspect of you, for let’s say three weeks, I am not jealous, I am speaking only wonderful, then you can go to the next step. And in the book I was writing, I have inside an interesting thing: I have a kind of transformation test. How to transform ourselves. Because I am writing in the book about the laws of nature and what we can learn spiritually from nature. And then I was thinking, yes, but this is not only a yoga book, yes, it’s for everyone, actually, who is interested to know more about the healing qualities of nature. And I told myself, but when I’m speaking about this, I have to motivate the people; they have to have a name, an aim, what they should do. So, a kind of help for transformation. And I was thinking, I have to mention all positive qualities which are existing. And in the beginning, I was thinking that maybe there are 20 or 30 positive qualities which exist. But after some time, I came already over one hundred. And then I was so surprised, I said to Swamiji, "Swamiji, what is this?" Yes, I was thinking 20 to 30, now I am over 100 positive qualities. And Swamiji said, "That’s much more. We have much more positive qualities." So I was surprised, and I searched more. And then I was already on 280 qualities. And then one person said to me, "Yes, but when you already have 280, you should make 365, one for every day." And you will not believe, I found really 365 positive qualities which we can develop. What do you say? Good? But after a while, I was shocked. And you know why? Because, of course, we have the same on the opposite side. Oh my goodness, I was really shocked, but I didn’t write the negative side. And how to deal with this test? You have this list: 365 qualities. It was actually very difficult not to make double, double, you know. And then you have this list, and then what you have already realized, you make a hook. And which you didn’t realize, well, there is nothing, there is no hook. And then you can choose which quality, where there is no hook, you take a Saṅkalpa. That is the way. So in this life or in another life, we will realize all 365 qualities. Yeah, so practice is important. So this Pūrṇam, actually I want to tell you a little story to this, maybe you know this story already. This positive and negative quality—there was one old Cherokee man, Cherokee, I say Indian, Native American, and he had a grandson and he had a small son. Mahāprabhujī kī Karatā Mahāprabhujī kī Karatā... My child, I will tell you now a very important story. We have inside of us two wolves which are living in us. And the one is, he is a negative one. He is full of anger and aggression and is attacking all other animals. This is a negative part in us. And on the other side, the other wolf is very kind, and he is very gentle, and he is full of love, and he is a very, very nice wolf. And then the grandfather asked the child, "What do you think, which wolf will win?" And the little child was thinking a lot. And then he said, "The one which you feed the most." Rozume? Do you understand? This is a very, really good story. And this is compared to what I told you before about the purity. And this transformation test, you know, is very important. If we want to reach purity, we have to transform ourselves. And for this, we need the first two words of Guru Pūrṇimā. And it is the Guru. He can help us, he can lead us, he can give us advice and techniques, but the work we have to do ourselves. You know, yoga is the work on yourself, nothing else. It is not from listening to lectures, seeing videos, and reading books. You can hear something, you can inform yourself, but growing step by step only happens by doing. And like this, one step, you learn something, you transform yourself, then you go on to the other step. Like this you grow. Step by step, step by step, step by step. And this, your transformation, if we don’t get everything in this life, it will be counted in the next life, for sure. Actually, I wanted to tell you something very nice, which happened to me yesterday. I get a blessing, a special blessing. I mean, it was our old blessing that we could be with Swāmījī in this wonderful time of Guru Pūrṇimā. But you know from whom I get the special blessing? From you. And you know why? Because I had the great blessing that I could stand there and give some flowers to the bhaktas who came to make praṇām to Swāmījī. And I looked into the eyes of everyone. And I saw in everyone the divine soul. So that was a wonderful experience for me, really. That was, for me, the most beautiful yesterday. And I know we are all connected so much. Incredible. On the same way to heaven. That’s why I want to express all my love, my devotion to you. For love and for the opportunity that we can be together in a big family. And I had the impression, you know, everything in the body you can change. You can change the hair and the color, you can change the face and the eyes and the breasts, big or small. You can change your buttock, you can change everything nowadays. But what you cannot change are the eyes. Did you think on this? Yesterday I realized this: you cannot change the eyes. And you know, I was never looking at your clothes or at your hair. I was all time, all life. I look in the eyes, only in the eyes. Because you see everything in the eyes, everything. If it’s an old soul, a new soul, if it’s sad or full of love or a closed one, you see everything in the eyes. And I think there must be a relation from the eyes to the heart and to the soul. And I think also, you know, sometimes you have not to speak so much together. We have just to look each other in the eyes. Then you will understand a lot. And also, our greetings, Hari Om. It is the same. It says, "I greet God in you." So we have to be aware, and in the eyes also you can see the purity. Some eyes are like a deep ocean, wonderful. And if the eyes are spreading with love, that is more wonderful. So, I think this is also one good exercise for us to spread love with our eyes. I go sometimes in the metro and bus and train and so on. And you know, many people, 90%, 95%, don’t look at all at anything, and have no awareness of anything, because they look at their mobile. But there are others who are still alive. You know, you can just, with a little eye, you can look at them. And, you know, this is second. And you get joy from this person, and you give the joy to others. I think it’s very important that outside of the yoga, we go with love through the world. Because this is what everyone needs. There is one African quote which says, "The human is the medicine of the human." And this is very right, very right. So give love to yourself, give love to your family, and to all others, not foreigners. Foreigners? No, foreigners are friends whom you still don’t know. But they are all the same. All the same. Or give a little present to someone whom you don’t know. Last week, well, I tried to do what I’m writing and thinking. And last week I was in a supermarket. And I passed by the Casa. Casa in English, yes. By the cashier. Who’s my cash? And this lady there was completely down, completely. She was like, how to say, black and grey and sad and everything. But still she makes her job, of course. And I said, "Oh my goodness, I mean, even if I smile to her..." So I said, "I have to give her a present." I will buy some flowers and give them to her. So I went back and I bought some flowers. And then, from outside, very quickly, I came to her and said, "This is for you. Because you look so sad, you should have joy." You cannot imagine how this person, how this woman was laughing. I was surprised that she could laugh. Smile, smile, smile. She was really happy. And so, in this way, we have to be; our awareness is not only on ourself. We have to be aware of each and everything that is going on around us. At the end of our life, God will not ask you how many big books you read, how many āsanas you practiced, or how many houses you have. He will not ask for all this. But you know what He will ask? What will He ask? What have you done for others? This is a question which he will put to you. And that’s why we are happy that we are in such a family, with Swamiji as the father who guides us and makes us all better humans. And that’s why we are happy that we are in such a family where the family leader, Swāmījī, leads us to become better people. All of us are divine light, and we should give the light everywhere, but with love, not forcing others, not forcing them. "You have to do this, and you have to do that. You have to go into yoga, and you have to become absolutely vegetarian," you know? It’s not the way. You have to develop your own light. Only through example, not through words, can we achieve something. So, all of us, we have the big task to change this world. We should believe in ourselves. Let’s believe in ourselves. Trust ourselves. Trust in ourselves. Know that we are divine souls, and with this divinity, we can achieve many, many... I want to sing with you now this bhajan about the glory of our Guru Paramparā, which was written by Holy Gurujī in Jaipur in March 2002. Siddha Purījī, Siddha Purījī... Oṁ Brahmāśiva Alakā Anādi Unnakhe Śiṣya Śiva Deva Purījī, Unnakhe Śiṣya Śiva Deva Purījī. Now, all of you, make a joyful face. Joyful, very joyful. Because we are so lucky to have one, two, three, four, five generations of Siddhas and teachers and Gurus. So we have to sing this joyfully. It’s a glory which Mahāprabhujī, Holy Gurujī, gave us to sing the glory of our masters. Even if you don’t understand, you sing from your heart. Joyful. Joyful means smiling. Madhurī Mudrā. Kedves barátaim, ne énekeljétek úgy, hogy Brahma, Brahma is a creator, the god of the creation. But Brahmā is a divine consciousness. Yes, so it is a big difference. It is above the god edges, you know? The divine consciousness. Okay, so not Brahmā. It is written small because in India you have little "a," it said, "Brahma," you know, but not Brahmā. Brahmā is, I mean, he’s happy maybe if you sing for him, but it’s not the intention of Holī Gurujī. Well, I want a little bit just to introduce this book, which was mostly written in the Himalayas. And it’s easy to read, but it may be a little difficult to realize. There’s also a little step on the way. And it was very interesting, you know, I don’t use the name God in this book. I use "a creator" or "the highest doer" and such words because I don’t want that some people, when they read "God," close the book. You understand? So that’s why it’s written in a general way. And I had this in my mind for a long time already. Because you can see many things in nature which you can learn and use for your spiritual development. For instance, a little example: a tree. For instance, that was my first "aha," my first flashlight. What is its highest quality? Actually, from other plants also. They are not moving. They are not moving. So, this means acceptance. He is not moving if it is storm, if it is snow, if you cut his branches, if you give him water or no water. He is always there and accepts everything. So that means mental. I divide all these things into mental meanings. If we accept each and everything that happens in our life, we don’t have stress. There are no emotions going up and down. Siddhip Narambaghvana, Kī Jai. Anyhow, it’s a good book.