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Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Haṁsabhādas Prabhu Śaraṇaparāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Haṁsabhādas Prabhu Śaraṇaparāyaṇam... Om Namah Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam... Oṁ Guru Brahma, Guru Viṣṇu, Guru Devo Maheśvara, Guru Sākṣāt Parabrahma, Tasmai Śrī Guruve Namaḥ. Dhyānamūlaṁ Gurur Mūrtiḥ, Pūjāmūlaṁ Guruḥ Padam, Mantramūlaṁ Guror Vākyaṁ, Mokṣamūlaṁ Guruḥ Kripa. Om Asato Mā Satgamaya, Tamaso Mā Jyotirgamaya, Mṛtyor Mā Mṛtam Gamaya. Om Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Ruhavatu. We adore our ancient paramparās, our roots from the Satyuga, from Ālāpurījī and many, many bhaktas. Many great saints are on this path, and we are too. This path guides us profoundly. It is like the Alaknanda River. The water flowing from the Ālakpurījī glaciers may seem like a small river, but it is very strong, falling and flowing with a powerful current. People may wish to go in other directions, perhaps in the very beginning, but we were the lucky ones who came. From the lotus feet of Ālag Purījī, this river flows. These rivers are mentioned in many ancient scriptures from many, many years ago. It is written there, so they call it the Alakhā Purī glaciers, Alakhā Purī. We call him Ālakh Purījī, and there they wrote Ālakhā Purījī. Puri is a very ancient name. Śiva and Bhagavān Ālak Purījī lived there. In our cave of Ālak Purījī’s—I think he had many, many caves—he appears and disappears. His physical body is somewhere under the glaciers, but his other body appears many times, going about. So Ālāgpurījī showed his blessings. Many of our bhaktas who were with us in the Himalayas had visions of Ālagpurījī in different forms, each one unique. Sometimes I had such a vision three times. It is connected to the Pāṇḍavas. It is said, "Who will go to the Swargaloka?" Swargaloka means the cosmic self. After all their work was done, the Pāṇḍavas went towards the Himalayas. This was more than 5,000 years ago, Mahāprabhujī. The Pāṇḍavas were not born from a mother or father, like Bhagavān Śiva. These four Pāṇḍavas appeared, as everyone knows, but they were adopted by Kuntī as her sons. You know all about the Mahābhārata and Bhagavad Gītā. After everything was done, the Pāṇḍavas went towards the Himalayas. They came to Badrināth, passing many holy places. There were not many good paths then; they walked along the rivers. It was a long way, the whole journey to Badrināth. The river Alakṇandā holds great spiritual significance. There is a final symbol in their story: they could not cross a very deep part of that river. The water was there, and they had to come up again. The Pāṇḍava Bhīma brought a big rock from here to that point and placed it between. There was the Alaknanda River on one side and the Saraswati River on the other, and the Saraswati went down. We know all these stories. They were very old and very tired. The first to die was Draupadī. Draupadī’s temple is there, about 100 meters away. She fell down, and then slowly, one by one, the others died: Sahadeva, Nakula, and then Arjuna. But it is said the Pāṇḍavas had to go through Ālagpurījī’s blessings. That is where the cave of Ālagpurījī is, where we have been. In that time, when people died, they were burned, and the ashes were taken to Ālagpurījī and flowed into that river at the very place we visited. You know that story of the Pāṇḍavas. Yudhiṣṭhira had one dog with him. It seems he received blessings from Ālakpurījī, and then he had to cross the Alaknanda River. Further on, there is a Lakshmi River. Lakshmi and Saraswati merge into the Alaknanda. It is said the Pāṇḍavas could only reach the Satyayuga by crossing seven steps, like going upstairs in our house, step by step. There were seven steps, all glaciers. I think it is said they were like a wall of this height. They had to go step by step. Yudhiṣṭhira crossed the seven stairs with his dog, and then he arrived there. You know the story further. From there, about one or one and a half kilometers away, was our Devapurījī. In his gūpā, many of our bhaktas went. We found Ālagpurījī’s cave at an altitude of 3,560 meters. Devpurījī is approximately 4,000 or nearly 5,000 meters, depending on how you go. Ālagpurījī and Devpurījī possessed what may be called Siddhi. They could go through rock. They would disappear into the rock and appear on the other side. That is called Siddha. Many are called Siddhas, but true Siddhas are there. They can leave the physical body, and the astral body goes through. Our Ālakpurījī is there. Near the seven steps, there is one big rock or glacier, one here, another there, and it is visible. We can see there are seven steps. Ālagpurījī came in different forms through the fog or clouds, sometimes at a far distance, all three times. There is a very big waterfall, and there he appears through the rock. Many saw it, and then he disappears. So it is called the Ālakpurījī glaciers. At that time, it is said these are all glaciers, and this is called the capital of the Ālakpurījīs. When we went there, one has to feel. Do not run, thinking, "I am going, I am there, I will go there." Look, see slowly. Each stone is a rock. Do not run; go slowly. Do not worry; go as a group, sit down, a few people coming together, and so on. What do we do? We touch the earth, the stones. We sit on these rocks. We touch the rocks with our hands, and with our breath, our prāṇas... Of course, the oxygen is very thin. We should not run. Wait five minutes, ten minutes, and then walk. If we walk very slowly and relaxed, we will not feel very exhausted. There is one very big rock and waterfall, and further we come to where we were blessed. We saw the stones, the rocks, the rivers merging near Ālagpurījī, the stars, the beautiful sky, sometimes clouds. Ālokpurījī was very kind. We did not have so much rain. Otherwise, it could have rained the whole day and night, and we would have sat only in our tent. Like this, you are blessed. We have, we are, we know the roots of our soul, our ātmā. Many understand, many do not. Ālagpurījī does not ask, but we are there. When we inhale and exhale, that is the greatest thing. In many bhajans of Mahāprabhujī and in Maṅgīlālji’s book, Mahāprabhujī wrote something about Ālakpurījī, and also those two words with Devpurījī. So, my dear, we are blessed. Even if you were not there, you have heard. And that one in the rock, how he was sitting... I tried, and I tried. He had everything. Sometimes he had a crown, sometimes all his hair. I spoke with someone, and very soon—it took one, one and a half, two years—to make that Ālagpurījī. And then we all will have Ālagpurījī’s picture or photo or his form. It will disappear sometimes; you will see when you are making it, like looking in Trāṭaka. It will disappear, it will come. And now he is there; he is coming soon. So, we ourselves are blessed in that way. It does not matter what you will do or not; it has taken you to the highest path. We are practicing yoga. This is our body, and that is what we should become: healthy. But whether we are healthy or not, one day we have to go. Some die or go quickly, suddenly, and someone is waiting for the end of life when they have a disease. Someone says cancer, someone says something about kidneys, etc. This means that the last minutes, what we all have... Good karmas we are, God is giving that now. All these karmas will be finished here. Then we have no more. So do not say that you have no bad karma. Yes, we enjoyed a lot. We enjoyed very much. But something we still did not purify. And there will be, in that way, like a flower coming, blossoming one by one, blood. And so it is not only for humans, but also for many animals. Some are dying quickly, some are suffering, etc. That is the last karma we are working to go. So we enjoyed, we were happy, we did many things. Now, something is left that we also have to endure, and we will give this our karmic residue, and we are cleaning this, and then the jīva will go. This all will go. So, yoga is not only physical and prāṇāyāma, but beyond that. And that is... Only the one who has one guru—and there are millions of gurus. For example, we are in this city, what we call Vienna, but in each house there is one mother and one father. It is from within that, similarly, every bhakta gets a guru, and we should respect that. Do not say, "My guru is best," and "My guru is good," and "My guru does miracles." Do not look for this kind of thing, what you call miracles. Those who look for miracles will have them in their life, and it is not good, not easy. So this is what we are doing. Relax. Do not say, "I will do it, and I will be quick." No, quickly or slowly, it is the same. If you run, you have the breathing; if you walk slowly, you have the breathing. So that path is very good, and Gurudev is with us. Like that river, each and every drop of water from the glaciers comes to that river, and it will go further. Everyone is one. This whole river is in oneness. So we all are the devotees, or we are teachers, or we are the bhaktas of our Gurudev. And how many Gurudevs do we have? All of them, and they are all one. They are all oneness. We are all, you and me, all we are oneness, from the Ālagpurījīs till the Holī Gurujīs. And one day we will see in us what it will be and what it is. And so this is very, very, very important.