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When we receive blessings from great persons—or indeed, from the spiritual God, whether mentally or verbally—we should respect them and bow down. This means those great powers are bestowing their energy, knowledge, and grace upon us, which we should use fully. If we then begin to think of ourselves as the master, believing we know it all and can speak as others do, claiming mastery, then the knowledge becomes blocked. It may reach people, but it will not progress further for them. The knowledge is obstructed and will not allow spiritual growth. While it is given to us, we must still adore our ancestors. After parents pass away, do you take everything—all properties, movable and immovable? They become yours, yet we should not say, "This is mine." It is our ancestors'. For example, here where we are sitting, our ashram is a beautiful, ancient castle. It was not made only for that time and then finished; it was built for the ages with great love and profound thought: "How do I want to make it?" We will go away, we will pass away, but this remains. The next one who comes will enjoy it and take care of it. We must preserve a certain heritage. Similarly, countries possess various buildings, forests, and water tanks. People travel to see what our ancestors accomplished. Many come to these lands to observe these monuments. Today, many stands of buildings are constructed, but they lack the value of such castles. In the same way, great spiritual saints exist generation by generation, and so does a spiritual master. They are adored by many past saints. For ages and ages, they are still with us, giving us so much energy and knowledge. Consider the Himalayas, where a beautiful river flows. For how many ages has it been flowing? It has a name. Even if people fight and take a country away, the earth remains, and such rivers retain their names. It means those great persons or saints are like the flowing of a river—like the flowing of a great spiritual goddess—still with us, flowing with this energy. Therefore, do not neglect your ancestors. Do not neglect the place where your ancestors were. They are gone, but their power, energy, and love are here with us. Some think that when one dies, it is finished; we are gone and nothing is left. It is not like that. Hence, everyone who becomes a master should know: "I am the disciple. My master is other; I am only a disciple. My master gave me only some duty." We should always adore everything and say, "Please forgive me—my thoughts, my words, my negative activities. Please forgive that and give me, please, what I can. Let me go on that path of harmony, understanding, peace, and love." That path is not made by you; it is from the ancestors. Therefore, when you give a lecture or think something, remember your guru. If you have no guru, remember your parents. It does not matter how your parents were; they gave you birth. We should not neglect our father. You may take many men with you, with your children, but the root is your father who gave you this seed. If you neglect this, you will be lost not only in this life but in the next, not knowing how or where you will come. We take care. Look at this tree where we are sitting. We do not know how old it is. The trunk is so big that one, two, or three of us can hug it together. In other parts, there are very thick trees. In Australia, our urban ashram has about 700 hectares of land connected to a government forest with many bushes. On paper, it is our territory for about 18 or 20 years, yet we still have not seen our border because there is so much forest. There are many very old trees. One tree, like a banyan tree, is about five or six thousand years old. Once we went for a walk, and there was a valley inside. Suddenly we saw a big, thick tree. About seven of us held hands to hug it. What can we see over these trees here? Can you look and try to receive this energy and blessing in your heart? You will feel it. Everything is giving us blessings. But if you plant a tree, that tree is like you—that is all. A five-thousand-year-old tree, or older—what can you say? Simply, we are in the same way. We cannot compare a newly grown tree and a five-hundred-year-old tree. If someone thinks, "I am the guru; it doesn't matter, I have no guru, but I am the guru," it is just like this grass. Even this grass is long-lived. We should always acknowledge: "Your parents are not anymore; they passed away." But they were your parents. They were in the house. The next one also said, "It is my parents' house." That is heritage, and with this heritage, we are spiritual also. When we are many people here with one Master, Guru, we are all sitting under the Master. This big tree has so many branches, leaves, and fruits. It is our property—a property greater than rupees or gold. Adore, adore, adore this nature. Adore these trees. Whenever you get up and pass by a tree, just touch it with your hand. It is like your father, your grandfather, your great-grandfather. It is listening, it is looking. The prāṇa that is there is our heritage, which is very great in our heart. If some person, parents or any, become old or are not mentally well, their soul is other, and that is the reality. Whenever we adore—in our yoga practice, meditation practice, kriyā practice, all we are doing—or when we see the Gurudevas, we should fold our hands and say blessings. It does not matter if they are new, near, or far; the energy is equal. Even thousands of kilometers away, when we remember our master, our friends, or our parents, we are in oneness. It is said: if there is love between your father and mother, sister and mother, friends and us, no matter how far we are, we are greater with love. It does not matter how far or in which country we are. It is yours, clear, and full of understanding, love, and respect. Who is coming? The love closer? That will disappear very soon. The real goal, the love, is always close like a horizon. The closer you come, the horizon will make your path more and more for you. That is called the real soul to soul. Therefore, we all adore. You know how many people in different countries have some God? We worship God. That God is not in a physical body anymore; that was long, long ago. But we adore, we see, we worship, we do everything. Is that our path of yoga? We shall go on such a path that we will always be together. Do not be jealous. Do not be neglectful. Try to be near or far, but one. That river is flowing—let us say the Alaknandā River. For how many ages? We do not know, but it is still flowing. The Gaṅgā, for how many ages? We still worship it, and it is flowing, merging into the ocean, which we call the Indian Ocean, or Mahābhārat, or Mahāsāgara. The Mahāsāgara is great and great and great. As much water as flows to the ocean, the ocean remains the same. That river, the Gaṅgā, is constantly flowing and given by whom? By God. Therefore, in our body and in our self, we should not be proud to say, "I am." We are all there. Who is there? Who is giving us that? We should know in that way. That is why we say, "Glory, glory, glory. Sláva, sláva, sláva." No one will say, "Glory to me, glory to me." Does anyone say, "Please, everybody, say glory to me"? There is a little story Gurujī once told very nicely. One who is very proud always wants to be the best and great in everything. There was a king. At that time, kings were kings all the time; only the king's children would be king. Thanks to God, now after the Second World War—between the First and Second World Wars—we finished all the kings. Now all are kings. You are also kings. There were some names only the king's children could have, but now anyone can do it, so everyone can be king. Of course, they have to be educated. That is what we now call the five-year or four-year ministry. Then again, we try to choose another private or minister. So, going and coming, everybody has a chance. But at that time, it was not so. We all worked on farms, cutting and giving everything to them. You know how hard it was. Thanks to God that now democracy is here. One of the biggest countries with democracy is India. Many European ministers said only India can hold this. It is not easy. It is like here we take it, that falls down, they keep this, that falls down. But all of India is still a very great country. Let us come to the king's story; otherwise, I will forget. I will talk and talk and say, "Hari Om, all the best." So, the one who is proud will enjoy, but for how long? That is the question. The king and queen had a dog, and the king loved his dog very much. Everyone who came to the king, he would first say, "Look at this, my dog, my dog, my dog." First, everybody should come and adore my dog, and then come to me. All people from my kingdom, from time to time, should come adore my dog. When the king orders, they have to do it, though inside they were saying—there is another word in German—they were bleeding. One day the dog died. The king held a very big funeral. All from my kingdom should come for the funeral. They made a samādhi, and everybody should go and bow down there. The king's dog had good karma, but some karma was not still good enough, so he became a king of the dogs. The king was a little teary, and all people were saying, "Oh, what a great funeral." The king wanted to do this for all his dogs. How will it be when the king dies? It is said that when the king died, no one went to the funeral except his family. They said, "That stupid king, he was only wondering about a dog and nothing else. We are not going to the funeral of this king." So, do not be that king who only adores the dog, for then nobody will be for you. Therefore, even if you are the second or the first, the second king, that king should adore his father who died. Do not be proud. Now you have the chance that you all will adore you. Do not adore thyself. You should adore your father. This is then a lineage. In the whole world, there was a lineage. Every different kind of people were in the part they were, their generation, their families. So, my dear all, please adore your parents, your father and your mother. You will come to that supreme part; otherwise, you will be lost. That is it. Even if you have a good friend or someone in whose company you work, and that person is good, we should also adore that person. Adore does not mean you should go and bow down and so on. But there are many people in big companies, and when the boss dies, all the hundreds or thousands who worked there are so sad because the boss was really great, like a father. So when the best president or prime minister adores all people, they should adore him. But the president should first adore his people. Likewise, parents and children should adore. Similarly, that great boss in his company. You see that in some countries, when such a person passes, they make a statue for him. So we should have Satguru Deva. Otherwise, just happening like this is not good. So, Ālak Purījī, Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, Holī Gurujīs, etc. Our paramparās are from there, and from that paramparā we are here today. So, I and you, we are the same. I am only happy and like this only because of my old ancestors. When the time comes, they will say, "Yes, it was, that's it." Similarly, we all should do like this and practice, practice, practice. As much as you are neglected, angry, jealous—all these such things—then we will be lost. Do you understand what I mean? That is why it does not matter even if your parents are angry. Why are they angry if we are not nice? There must be something. But still, even like that, you are the blood of that. You are the blood of the parents, and therefore you should be a very, very loving child. Tak, dobri, that's it. So, I wanted to say the blessing and our praṇām to our Alagpurījī, Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, Holī Gurujī, and then I want to give the lecture. I was thinking to give another lecture, but my paramparā is so great. It is endless glory to them. Maybe there is a mistake; it is my mistake, not their mistake. So many parents are very, very great, and they adore their children. Maybe some children are not nice, or different. Like our Mangalpurī here sitting, from Croatia, and his wife. They have one son, two sons. One was also a little handicapped; he died. Now we have his son also, Arjuna. It is not easy to take care of him, and they try all and all. They went to India, and there was one person who was really making an operation so Arjuna could walk. He is a very intelligent person. He can chant Bhagavad Gītā. Even I cannot completely. Today Arjun Puri will chant the Bhagavad Gītā. Oh, yes. Arjuna, you will come with your father? We need a microphone, and he will probably speak something. After a long time, he will have to give a lecture—not too long, but short. Bring his chair, please. So, do you understand what I mean? Yāvasi tovahīsaha śīpraṁ bhāvatī dharmātmāśaśvacchānti nīgācchati, kaunteya pratijāni nāme bhaktaḥ praṇāśati mammi, pārthāvyāpaśitya epi śrūpaḥ payo. nāyā śrīvāsya sthāta-sūdhate pīyāṁ simpa-raṅgāsim śrī-o-vāsya-sthātā-suddha te pyañcim paraṅgacim mamma-nabhavo mamma-bhakto mārtyajīmad-namaskuru mame-vāsya-si yukta-mēvam ātma-nāma-tparayānaha mame-vāsya-si yukta-mēvam ātma-nāma-tparayānaha. I will bring with me 30 books of questions Indian society will ask me to answer. Society will, Bhagavadgītā, strip on English, on Croatian version, I will donate for the Jadana Shramp. And I decided to donate for the Jadana Shramp 30 books of Bhagavadgītā in English and in Croatian. Coach, whoever wants to buy will call me. And who would like to buy this book, please call me. All the money I will give you for the school in Jadana. Thank you, Arjun Purī. Thank you. So where is the power? It is in the inner self. Then nothing is impossible. That's it. Now you see how long he was practicing and practicing. Now, without a book or anything here, by heart, he chanted the Bhagavad Gītā. We have, and I wanted to talk about this, our Sanskrit and Hindi languages and alphabets. I would like to tell you something about Sanskrit and Chinese abacus. That is what the Holy Gurujī has written. It is called Kākabātīsī. It is about all these alphabets. That is what Gurujī has written. It is called Kakabatīsī, like also in the Bhagavad Gītā, also in the Rāmāyaṇa. First, Gurujī is saying: "Oṁ Śrī Pūjā Dīp Dayāl Harī Param Puruṣottam Khas Mādhavānandkar Jodh Kahi Śimru Svaśo Svas." Our Āradhip, our great Sadguru Nasdrahi Sadguru, our Holī Gurujī Nasdrahi Holī Gurujī, and he is asking the Mahāprabhujī, Prosi Mahāprabhujī, "Please bless me. I respect, with respect, I would like to give this kakabatisi." So Gurujī said: "Śrī Pūjī Deepā Dayā Lahari." We always say śrī. Śrī means peace, harmony, prosperity, knowledge. Pooja means worship, adore, deep dayal. Deep dayal means merciful. Hari means God. Param is the highest, purushottam the best in the humans. Khas means the real one, the best. He said, "I said." Mādhavānanda Karjod said, "Our Holī Gurujī said with his name." Madhavānanda, name of our Holī Gurujī Madhavānanda, Śrī Madhavānanda. So Holī Gurujī Madhavānandajī said, Madhvānandajī kar jod kahe, "I, with folded hands," I speak or say to you, Ja sám, z zopnutými rukami, k vám takto hovorím, that I will now give this in the glory of this Kākabhaṭī Sī. Simru, day and night, I am repeating you with my each breath in and out, my breath. Svarūṃ svās, svarūṃ svās. Holī Gurujī said to Mahāprabhujī, O my Lord, I am all the day with my breath, while inhaling and exhaling. I have your name on it. And still, still in the breath, you are present, your name. OM NAMO GURUDEV GOSAI. And therefore he said, "OM NAMO, OM and NAMO," you know. Gurudev, you know what it is? You know what is Nāmo, you know what is Gurudev. And Gosāī, also it is said, Bhagavān Rām. SUDBUDDHA GYĀNDĪJŪ PRABHUMOHI. And therefore, Holy Gurujī said, "Śuddha and Buddha, that give me knowledge, good respect, and the best light in me." Gurujī, prośī, daj mi prośīm respekt, daj mi poznanie, daj mi svetlo, buddhi, śuddhi, and jñāna. Buddhi is knowledge, śuddha is very clean, and jñāna is knowledge. Dījo Prabhu mohe, please give me this, Mahāprabhujī. Give me this, that I need, what I will write. Sudha. Sudha means very clean. Talk very clean. To anyone you speak, some words are very pure. Buddha is very clean, yes, and just don’t talk like this, or speak or think something like this, that’s not. Very clean, very pure, and very powerful. Crystal clear, like that it is called. Buddha, my intellect, my intellect should be very clean. In which way is there knowledge? The jñāna. Śuddha, Buddha, Jñāna, these three things, Dijo, please give me all these three: Śuddha, Buddha, Jñāna, Dijo, Prabhu, give me. Mahāprabhujī, Prabhu Mohi, give me this, please, Dijo, Prabhu, give me Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Maheśvara, Deva Sabhī, Kari, Tumārī, Sevā. And so Gurujī said that Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Maheśvara, and all devas, Sabhi, all, kare tumārī sevā, all they are worshipping you, O Mahāprabhujī. Who can tell this? Who has the power to say this? That my Gurujī is worshipped by Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Maheśvara. They understood. So Holy Guruji understood who Mahāprabhujī was. Others did not. So you will not understand, we will not understand what our Guru is, or what our Guru is. It should be filtered all into the crystal clear. Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Maheśvara, Deva, sabhī kare tumārī śivā, all are worshipping the Omayī Mahāprabhujī. Vsetasi tito, Brahmā, Śiva, Viṣṇu, pustivāyu bhavati. Oṁ Namoḥ Guru Deva Ghusāyī, Śuddha Buddha Jñānādī Joprabhu Mohi. Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Maheśvara, Deva, Sabhī kare tumhārī sevā. Tera nāma sarva sukha kārī, tera means, "O my Gurudev." Your name is everywhere, the best. Tera naam sarva sukha dhari, thy name everywhere is great. Sumare sukhi hoi nar nari, and those who will, those who will meditate. hoi nar nari, and so all will be happy. The boy, the husband, the man, or the woman. Nar or nari, all will name, they will bless others, give their name in their mantra all the time. Všetci ti, ktorí tvoje meno, because you are, oh my Lord, you are Lord of the Lord, God of the God. Therefore, oh my Gurudev, always please worship and seva, give the duty for me to. Your holy feet. I pray, please always allow me to do Seva and serve at your lotus feet. Jo Satguru kā dhyāna lagāve, those who will meditate on Gurudeva, Janem maraṇovo nahī ave, and that he or she—they will, those who always will constantly meditating and meditating on the Gurudeva—then the birth and death will all be finished. That we will get it. Kakka batīsī kā pāṭ jo kare, so who will these letters will repeat? So bhavasāgar sehj tare, that will cross the ocean of this māyā. Bhavasāgar sehj tare that will very comfortably, he will cross the ocean. Very easily and easily he will cross the ocean. Viṣṇu Maheśvara Deva Sabhī Kare Tumhārī Sevā, Terā Nāma Sarava Sukha Karī Sumire Sabhī Hoī Naranārī. Terā Nāma Sarava Sukha Karī Sumire Sukhī Hoī Naranārī. Tumhī Sabadevan Ke Deva Sadā Dī Jo Caraṇa Kī Sevā. So this was just before that, the glory of Gurudev. And then come about these letters. Like we first, we are coming to the navel, the first letter. So from the navel, then to the heart. Then going to the vocal cord, then coming towards the point between both eyes and the two hairs between the forehead, and then it goes to the center of the forehead, between the eyebrows. So, Kākā Kāmau Sācī. Therefore, the first letter is said, "Please, always speak clear truth and divine." Nebuď ubolený. Don’t be afraid. Tell peaceful, clear, right. Ka-ka, so ka-ka, which we are saying, chanting, learning this Oṁ, no? That’s it, good. Khakha kharab aadat ko chhodo, man apna prabhu se jhodo. Kh, kakha, khakha, so khakha, kharab ādat ko chhoḍo. Khakha, this letter said, "The bad habit, give up. Give up all alcohol and all whatever, and all that side kind of habit there is, you know, what is called ’droga, droga’... yes. What is in your country? ’Droga’ is different, no?" These two alphabets, kha and kha. These two alphabets, kha and kha. These are kha, kha. So, kha, kha,... kha. Very good to learn. It’s good to learn. Give up the bad habits. Man, apna Prabhu se jhodo. So give up the bad habit and keep in your mind all the time the name of God. Gagá garab. Garab means that proud. Don’t always sit proud. I am best. I am good. I am the prime minister. I am the prime minister. Or this. No. One day we will be in the earth. Are you? Humble. And therefore it is good. No garba. No. Don’t be proud. Dhaga garab kabhu nahi karna. Therefore, never you should be said, "I am the best." Many people happen something and then fall down and complete down. So, dhaga garab kabhu nahi karna. Ek din you should know, one day you have also to be die. All your proudness is gone. Gagá, gagá,... gagá. That is a God, Sai, Bhagavān Rām. Guru without a difference does not get any Sai. But without Gurudeva, no one will get this knowledge. Chacha, Chandanjīv, Sītal, Rehna. Chacha. Chacha, be so nice like a full moon. How nice is that? The sky is very clear. And very hot time or cold. Je teplo. And we see the moon. Not only humans, but even all animals, they are all adoring the moon. And that is so nice, cool, not very hot, not fire. When it’s very hot, you have the air conditioner. And then he said, "Yes, so that is like this." So be thyself like the beautiful moon. Don’t tell anyone the hard words. Never, never, even if someone has told you something bad, you should not give the bad words back. What did Jesus say? That if someone gives a chop on this side of your face, you can give again, because there are two. If someone gives you the other cheek, then you will take to the other cheek. No, you can have this also. So you have to be so humble from within, and from that side you become completely humble. Don’t make anyone, even if we make a mistake. We should not go further, but clean it all up. So don’t talk hard words. Chāchā chhod aspaṛāyī. Chacha chod aspara yī. Give up. Don’t depend on others. Don’t depend on others. Only that which you have within thy heart, in God, that’s it. Don’t depend on anybody. So Śrī Pūjya Dīpā Hari Paraṁ Puruṣottama Khas Śrī Mādhāvānandajī Kar Jodh Kahe Siṁru Svaso Svas. Oṁ Namo Gurudeva Ghusai Sudh Budh Gyān Dijo Prabhumohi Brahmā Viṣṇu Maheśvara Deva Sabhī Kare Tumhārī Sevā Terā Nām Sarav Sukh Karī, Sumare Sukhī Hoī Narnārī Tum Hī Sab Devan Ke Deva, Sadā Dī Jo Caraṇa Kī Sevā Jo Satguru Kā Dhyān Lagāve, Janma Maraṇa Mein Vo Nahī Āve Kakka batīsī kā pāṭ jo kare, svabhāva sāgar seh jātare. Kakka karo kamāī sācī, Man mein matlā vore kācī. Kakka kharab vādat ko chhodo, man apna prabhu se jhodo. Gaga garg kabhu nahī karanā, ek din tumko nīc hī marnā, gatā gatā... meṅ khāī sāī, guru binā bhedan kave nahī paī. So this is only a little, but full two pages are for you. I have just translated a part of it for you. It is full of two pages of text. We will continue. Hari Om. To the Holy Gurujī, Dev Purī Samādev, Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān, Alak Purī Jī Mahādev. So they all, each letter, each letter, like the Mother Prabhujī, Holy Gurujī has each and every letter gave the beautiful, what we call, the knowledge on it.