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Good evening, all dear Bhaktas, brothers and sisters. It was a beautiful day yesterday, and the day before. It was so warm that our God made it a little cool for us. This shows how God does everything for our good. Satsaṅga is one of the best things. That is why our Holy Gurujī said, "Satsaṅg is the way to the cosmic self." 'Sat' means truth. 'Dursaṅga' is where there are no good qualities—where people are angry, involved with drugs, and fighting. This is called 'Kuśaṅga'. 'Ku' means negative, not good. It is an atmosphere that makes people afraid. 'Kuśaṅga' is the opposite of 'Satsaṅga'. 'Sat' means the Truth. 'Sat' means God. 'Sat' means pure. 'Sat' means the place of God—a temple, an ashram, a church. That is where 'Sat' resides. 'Sa' means with all. 'Ta' means all Bhaktas in oneness. 'Saṅga' means to be with them. Thus, Satsaṅga is: one in all and all in one. It brings everyone peace and harmony. It is like birds from different directions. During the day they are at a distance, but in the evening they all come to one tree. The days are growing longer, and the sun shines more. Similarly, when we meet our friends, it does not matter which country, language, or religion they are from. They are all in harmony and oneness, with kindness. That is called Satsaṅga. For example, we are here in the ashram. Many of you were meditating, performing āsanas and prāṇāyāma. Some did karma yoga, and some worked in the park, taking care of it and cleaning. We went to the vegetable garden to check on the grass and vegetables. People are active at home or in the kitchen. The kitchen is not just one thing; you bring a vegetable, but the cook knows what is needed and prepares everything. This is our life and our health. We need this. The cooks in our kitchen are happy. The best cook is one who never thinks, "This person is not good, they are not working hard, they are not coming to work." It is not like that. Consider the evening. Many sheep come—200, 300, 400 of them—into their yard. There are about 100 babies. As the mothers arrive, all the babies run, and each knows its own mother. Sometimes one drinks milk from another, and the mother will say, "No, no, you go there." Or a little baby will drink a little milk and then go to another mother. Sometimes two drink together. How beautiful it is. After drinking the milk, they sit with their mother, some sitting closer together. There is peace. All the sheep are sitting there. That is called harmony. That is peace. That is oneness. The cook is like that. He knows how many will come and ensures everyone gets what they need. This is called Saṅgha. After all this, someone was cleaning our kitchens, someone was bringing wood, someone was in the fruit garden. Everyone was so happy. Perhaps someone said, "I must work," but when they got a nice apple, they said, "Oh, the apple is very nice and sweet," and they ate it. We have two or three hundred apple trees with many different kinds of apples. One tree has many branches, fruits, birds, and bees—everything. A branch hangs down like a mother offering her fruits. We can all take them. Because the fruit is too high, the mother (the branch) lowers her hands, and we take the apples. After giving the apples, the branch rises a little higher. That is oneness. We are all in a big hall. Gurudev said: Guru Kripāhi Kevalam Śiṣyake Ānandamaṅgalam. Gurudev is the greatest. Gurudev Kā Saṅga is the greatest. In this way, throughout the whole day, we know what was in our mind. We have been seeing birds, other animals, bees, flies, butterflies of many colors, all working very hard. That was life. It means we got something; we worked very hard, and then we have a nice feeling in our stomach as we come to the table. Our food is diverse—not just vegetables or fruits, but different things combined. The cook knows how to cook. The beautiful cooking pot must be cleaned nicely. Otherwise, someone might think there is a dead little animal inside, and you would put your food in it. That person is not a cook. A cook is like a mother. The children—all the people eating—come, and the mother gives everything clean and peaceful. That is a Saṅgha. When we come home, we are with our family: grandmothers, father, grandfathers, then father and mother, young people, and their babies. Oh my God, how many? Great-grandmother, grandmother, mother, mother-in-law—the fourth and the fifth. This is five generations. It is called all five: Annamaya Kośa, Prāṇamaya Kośa, Manomaya Kośa, Vijñānamaya Kośa, and Ānandamaya Kośa. Who is in Ānanda? The grandmother. Then the parents, then the children, and the other children. That is called Saṅgha. We are all Saṅgha. This is human social life. Otherwise, if the great-grandmother is angry, another says, "No, that is not good, Lord," the son is angry, the wife is not good, and the children do not come—what is that? Oh, man! As Gurujī said: Jab tak paśu aur pakṣī pyāre, jab tak paśu aur pakṣī pyāre, śubha aru śyām—all are there. In that way, my point is made. And these ladies are not sitting there; do not sit on the wall. Look, we are all one family. Please go back half a meter away from the wall, please. Yes, more, more. Keep one and a half meters from each other, oh God. That is what I said. This is Saṅgha—the difference is one and a half meters distance, please. If you do not know what one and a half meters is, yes, thank you very much. If we were in the park, there was one and a half meters. In that way, a whole family is so happy. When the children are not in the house, there is no birdseed. Then the old person sits on one side, another moves here and there. The young couples are in different ways, just sitting. One eats there, one does not eat, and so on. If there is only one child, it fills everyone with light. With two children, there are more colorful parts. With three, you cannot imagine. With four, you think, oh God, life is a life. This life is Saṅgha, Satsaṅga. That is why good Satsaṅga is essential. When there is no Satsaṅga, it is Kuśaṅgha; then time does not come at home, and people engage in different, negative things. So, my dear, Satsaṅg. Satsaṅg.... Satsaṅg is the biggest of everything. Therefore, we pray. When we come together, we suddenly become one. How? Because we sing the prayer or we sing bhajans, so we do not speak of others. When we pray, we do not sing something different. We are singing Satsaṅg, bhajans, or prayer. You say the bhagdi, da, da... da. It is not like that. We become one: one in all and all in one. Our Guru, Swami Mādhavān Jī Bhagavān, always said: One in all and all in one. Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī is the light—the light of the light, the sunlight. Mahāprabhujī is sitting at the door of the sun, and we go through the sun. Only those who are of Brahmaloka, only those who have reached Brahman, those good people. And this sun itself is Devpurījī. What is Devpurījī? Without the sun, it does not matter what you think or what you are feeling. That power, that light is there: Alak Purī Jīv. 'Alak' means unmanifest will. You see, we cannot speak of it, we cannot understand beyond that. Therefore, prayer. Prayer is the prayer.