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Hari Om. Devadhī Deva, Deveśvara Mahādeva kī Jai. Devadhī Deva, Dīpeśvara Mahādeva kī Jai. Satguru Svāmī Mahādevanandajī Bhagavān kī Jai. Alakpurījī Mahādeva kī Jai. Satya Sanātana Dharma kī Jai. Bhagavān Gajānanajī Mahārāj kī Jai. Bhagavān Mahāva kī Jai. Today is the day of Bhagavān Gaṇeśa. First, we should offer a prayer to Śrī Gaṇeśajī, followed by our Guru prayer, as the sun is already setting. Dr. Shanti will lead the prayer to Gaṇeśajī. If you know it, please sing along; if not, simply join with folded hands and contemplate Bhagavān Śrī Gaṇeśajī. Today, across the entire world, is the pūjā of Śrī Gaṇeśajī. Gaṇeśajī is the highest God. There are many, many scriptures about Gaṇeśajī’s knowledge. We can learn many things from Gaṇeśajī. He is very humble and very kind. In every house, when we build it, we first lay the foundation, breaking the earth. Gaṇeśajī is present there too. When the building, house, or room is complete, we first offer it to Gaṇeśajī. The primary place is at the door where we enter our house; there is also a window for Gaṇeśajī. Some install a statue, some place a picture, and some write the Oṁ and the swastika, which are symbols of Bhagavān Gaṇeśajī. If you do not do this, be sure that house will often have problems, troubles, fighting, and so on. When we enter the house again, Gaṇeśajī is there. Even if not inside, what is at the top matters. Who is the first to greet our house? Our eyes automatically go to Gaṇeśajī. Even if we believe or not, even if we do not understand what it is, Gaṇeśajī is automatically giving blessings. He is always the first to be worshipped. When you go to Gaṇeśajī, there are many, many places of Gaṇeśajī. He is also in the Mūlādhāra Cakra. Below the Mūlādhāra, there is a Gaṇeśajī. What does this mean? Many people do not understand, but it means the whole foundation is Gaṇeśajī. Gaṇeśajī is very humble, very kind. Today is his day, and the story of Gaṇeśajī is very long. He was born from Pārvatī, but there is a long story which I am not going to tell you now. Even Śiva was confused. What happened? We will tell you this story. Why does Gaṇeśajī have an elephant head? We will tell you that later. So, let us first chant Śrī Gaṇeśajī’s prayer. Someone, or Umāpurī, please light agarbatti or a dīpak in both places. First, I will sing the Gaṇeśa Dohā from Holy Gurujī. Yes, also from Holy Gurujī, and the other one as well. Okay. Śrī Gaṇeśa, okay. Śrī Gaṇeśa, Śrī Gaṇeśa, it is very short. Śrī Dīpnārāma Bhagavān Akī Chāī. Śrī Ālāpurī Siddha Pīṭha Rāmpārā Akī Chāī. Śrī Gaṇeśa Jai! De Mātājī kī Pārvatī jāyegā, neśā jāyegā, neśā... De Mātājā kī Pārvatī. Ekadantā Dānyavantāchāra. Ekadantā Dānyavantāchāra. Matakasoye, mujhe kisabhā mateperatī, lakasoye, mujhe kisabhā. Jai Gaṇeśa, Jai Gaṇeśa,... Jai Gaṇeśa... Jai Gaṇeśa. God bless you. Jai Gaṇeśa! Jai Gaṇeśa! Jai Gaṇeśa Deva! God bless you. Śrī Ādi Śaṅkara Chant. If you are sitting up or down and blocking other people, please sit differently. The person sitting on the chair should move more to this side. The one sitting there, please go to one side because you are blocking others. Thank you. Sorry. Thank you. Jaya Gurudeva Nirañjana Dīna Nahita Nīyo Svāmī Dīna Nahita Kari. Jaya Chālapadamūrata Jaya Khaṇḍapadamūrata. Inna Usata Vighana Sata-Garu-Pūraṇa Chājana. Ittana viśvagiveva śiṣadhe sata-guru-mire. Guru mūrati mukha chandya mā sevakane. Guru charit tasme śrī. Dhyānaṁ samyate sarvam, samyate sarvam śakti. Śrī Alak Purījī Mahādeva. Devadhī Deva Deveśvara Mahādeva. Ārādhi Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī kī. Indra Dharm Samrāṭ Sadguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān kī. Nīlānandajī Mahārāj kī. Brahmanandapurījī Mahārāj kī. Śivānandapurījī Mahārāj kī. Vairāgyānandajī Mahārāj kī. Śabṛṣi Muniyā kī. Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... Svāmījī’s words are very kind. Svāmījī is the embodiment of love. Svāmījī is the embodiment of mercy. He is always making us better than we are. Of course, Svāmījī sees our essence, which is the ātmā. But he helps us, as people, as personalities, to become better. So when Svāmījī speaks about his disciples, he speaks about their better qualities. It is up to each disciple to be aware of the sides which need to be improved. I must say, I am aware of many things which I have to work on lifelong. Svāmījī’s greatness is that he helps each of us to become great, to become the real person, the person who has human and divine qualities. Svāmījī said that I am from the Czech Republic. Of course, I am grateful that I could be born here and grow up here, because this area of Central Europe is very good for the development of spirituality. But my personal wish is that I do not see myself as coming from here, but I see myself as being from the Siddhāpīṭha Paramparā. So, it is important for everyone: what you identify with, what you consider to be a part of yourself. In theory, we know that we are Ātmā; we have been taught this, we have learned this many times. But before we really realize this, yoga respects the duality. So, we naturally see ourselves as our body, as our social relationships, as our property, and so on. If I could choose freely, I would choose that in my life, I would realize the teaching of Alakpurījī’s Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā, that I have achieved this in this life. Svāmījī has mentioned that we are helping in Omāśram, but in fact, it is a great opportunity for us that we can be there, that we can help there. Because without Svāmījī, there is no Omāśram. In the world, there are hundreds of thousands, millions of people who could be part of this. And thousands of us have this great opportunity to be part of it. Of course, people often ask when the Omāśram will be finished or built. It will be completed, and I would say only God knows. In our case, we should say only Viśvagurujī knows, because it is in his hands. We can imagine that it is going to be a great event. So, probably it will be announced, or it will be known in advance. One day, Omāśram will be really great, far greater than only the building area. It is not sure that we will be able to see it, that we will be able to realize this greatness of Omāśram. Maybe it is not for us, maybe it is not for our generation. But the building itself will be there for ages. So, it is our great opportunity that in those few years when it is being built, we can take part in it. Of course, as an architectural concern, it is a pearl; it is a jewel. But far more important is what the mission is, what Omāśram means. The future will bring the answer. Now we can only wonder about it. But there is a certain indication in Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras. Thanks to Viśva Gurujī, we have studied the Yoga Sūtras many times. It is actually a sort of manual or guideline for yoga. It is the science of how to achieve self-realization, how to achieve the ātmā through yoga. There is a very important moment: Patañjali, concerning yoga—which before used to be atheistic—brought in God, the Divine. It is Patañjali who speaks about Īśvara Praṇidhāna, the surrender to God. In our words, we would call this Bhakti. Patañjali speaks about Īśvara Praṇidhāna in three different places, in three different parts of the Yoga Sūtra, indicating that it is a very important point. In short, it means that devotion to God, surrender to God, is a sort of shortcut on the way to God. When Patañjali speaks about God, about Īśvara, he means what we call Paramātmā or Parabrahman, the Supreme God. But how can a common man, who does not have the qualities of a great yogī, approach God, who is formless? Patañjali brought this novel idea so that yoga aspirants should use mantra japa on Oṁ. He explains that Aum has always meant God or the Divine. In this creation, or in all previous creations and in future creations, the Oṁ is always divine. It is not a matter of just culture that we would like to decide, "Okay, we will call God Oṁ." We can decide, we can agree that this is called a microphone, but we can use the word "car" or the word "truck" for the same thing. We can just choose any word because it is a matter of culture. But all the ṛṣis, all the saints, have realized in their meditation that God is really Aum. So, all the traditions which are connected with a certain way of approaching God always keep Aum at the beginning of their essential mantras. Those mantras which we have start with Oṁ. The Oṁ is all visible and audible form of God. Patañjali speaks about another image: when you take an iron ball and put it in the fire, the iron ball is penetrated with the qualities of fire, though it keeps the form of the ball. In the same way, Aum is what we can hear and what we can see, but the inner quality is divine; it is God itself. So, if you practice the mantra Aum with devotion—it must be mentioned, devotion—it leads to the realization of the Divine, of God, to the feelings of God. This brings us back to the question: what is Omāśram? What is Omāśram going to be? It is going to be a physical form of the Divine. So, we have a great opportunity, all of us. Thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of Svāmījī’s disciples can be part of this. Some come for karma yoga, some live there for a longer time, but we all contribute by giving donations, and we support it with our thoughts. As Svāmījī mercifully says, "I could not build it up without you, without all of you." It means really all of us equally; there is no difference. Equally, all of us. And for all of us, it is a tapobhūmi, because if we want to contribute, we have to renounce something. It is our sādhanā, our anuṣṭhāna. So, in a way, we can be happy that it has taken such a long time, because it gives us a meaningful aim for our lives. So, let us be grateful and let us be thankful to Viśva Gurujī for this unique opportunity of our life. Let us be happy that we can express our being disciples in this way. And let us wish Viśvagurujī that this great work will be completed successfully. Have you got any questions? Tomorrow we will talk again with Nirañjan Purī. He works very hard, sometimes day and night, he and Yogeś also, and Śrīyā Śakti as well, and many others. So, these are very, very important things. Now you know that we are making one beautiful temple here in the Czech Republic, and there will be Pārvatī and our Nirañjan Purī, and one is Mantra Purī, so there are many sādhus here. With very humble everything, thank you very much. Today’s lecture is finished.