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My dear devotees, sisters and brothers, you have come from a beautiful country, very far away. You know me, you see. From so far, how many kilometers have you traveled? You have come here to Slovenia. My God, you can see how far you have journeyed, how many kilometers you have covered to reach here. We warmly welcome you all. I know that our dear Vivek Purījī, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar, had some work, so he could not come. It is something like that: his body is there, but his heart is here. And of course, the right hand—not the left hand—the right hand of Vivek Purījī is Anand Purī, and she is here, but her heart is there. All others, my dears, are very great, very great. I wanted to come to Croatia. I had planned it, but then it was coming—Corona, coming, going, coming, going, so… And these five, six days, I was coming to Croatia every day. First there, and then here. Do you know that? That was a miracle. I was in your country, just about half a meter’s distance. I gave them blessings and prasāda, they gave me prasāda, and then I came here. So, where there is love, there are the feelings of the Divine: happiness, friendliness, everything. And so, where there is that kind of feeling of love, there is no distance; it is always close. Many of you came from a little distance, and I am very happy to see you. I hope we will have one good hour of time for us. Unfortunately, we cannot be so many together because of the corona. This ashram, this center here—the center of the ashram—we have four halls like this one here, and downstairs more also. All this is now for Yoga in Daily Life, and we thank our dear [person] for that. He will tell a few words about that, and then she will speak. You speak Hungarian, Yugoslavian, you speak Slovenian, and they will speak Croatian. So, you speak your language; I can speak Croatian a little, or English. Okay, then you talk English, and she will translate so that I can hear what it is. Deep Nārada Bhagavān Kī Jaya. Devaprasāda Mahādeva Kī Jaya. Param Samrāṭ Swāmī Madhavān Jī Gurudeva Kī Jai. Param Dhanuṣwara, Param Haṁsrī Svāmī Maiśvaraṇ Jī Mahārāja Kī Jai. Praṇām Swāmījī. Praṇām Swāmījī. Welcome, dear brothers and sisters from Croatia. Finally, we have you here, because it was a very hard week for us, as we knew you couldn’t come. But finally, you are able to come to Slovenia. Swamiji said, "The whole week I was working to open the doors so that our brothers from Croatia can finally come because of so many people." We have been working for Swamiji for a whole week to arrange a welcome for him to come here. I am sorry if I am not able to hear you well. Swamiji said that he has been working for a whole week to arrange a welcome for him to come here. That’s why, with his aṣṭāvadhāna, we put Croatia off the red list. We are also very happy that we can welcome our brothers and sisters from Serbia; they also come here today. Just in short, I would like to describe this place. Swamiji, this was planned so that the adaptation would be going on in approximately one year from now? No, no. The plan was that the adaptation of these halls would be done in one year from now because it was in very bad shape. But then Swamiji said that he would like to have a seminar here in one week. So that’s why our dear brothers and sisters from Novo Mesto and surrounding areas came together, and we worked day and night to prepare the hall so that we could have a satsaṅg here. This hall is 800 square meters, and we have another hall like this, also 800 square meters, in between. In between, there is a space where we can have a vegetarian canteen. If we have a seminar, we can have our own kitchen here. And on the top of this building—because it’s very, very solid, very strong—we are planning to have a glass house for growing organic vegetables. Just a few more words. This building was connected and was in the ownership of the Yugoslavian army, and they were building the tanks here. Thanks, army tanks, and that’s why this building is very solid, very strong, and I think very good to have a Hindu temple and satsaṅg area and all the facilities which Swāmījī needs for organizing good seminars. So, I will not steal any more time from Swamījī. I thank again, with a thousand thankings, to Swāmījī, that he gave us this opportunity and blessings, that we can organize and have this satsaṅg in this area. So, wish you all the best. Take care and Hari Om. Thank you, thank you, my dear ones. It is good news for all of you, but you are Croatians; you are a little bigger than Slovenia. So the Croatians are always over. It is good. So, I give you one other message: for you all Croatians, we have the ashrams, we have our land, our house, but bigger than this, we have in Croatia big land and a big ashram there already. I tell you now; I already did not tell anybody. We need to have a bigger space for this, a bigger land for our ashram, and I am telling this to you directly. Good idea? Our dear Vivek Purījī, Anandī, they know, and I told them a few days ago that I want this and this. For my lips, it is only movement, that’s all. I tell you, but you do this, as it is very hard. Holy Gurujī said that one disciple goes… When I came, one person, a disciple, said, "Gurudev, I want to become your disciple." Gurujī looked at him, "You want to become a disciple?" "Yes, Gurujī." "Then bring prasāda." "What kind of prasāda do I bring? Fruits, this, money?" "No. Bring the lion and put it in front of me, living. Then I will give you mantra dīkṣā, and your line will be those who know that yes, Swāmījī gave the mantra dīkṣā." The disciple was looking left and right. The bhakta said, "Gurudev, that’s all?" "Yes, there is more, it will be after. I will go, Gurudev, early morning, because now it is late, or I will bring him in the night." That morning, he went there and he got the lion, and he held him in his arms, and in front of the Gurujī, the lion is standing there. And the disciple said, "This is your prasāda." "Yes, your prasāda is accepted, but lifelong, you will be with lions always." The lion disappeared. He said, "Guruji, what is that? It just went out, the lion." He said, "You are the lion. Yes, and your whole life will be like a lion." Love in the holy little spirit of the guru, that’s it. And so, all of you, I know very much whenever I come, wherever I come, wherever you come, you are my all from whole countries, all Yugoslavia. It’s like a beat of my heart. Bless you. Other ones, you know, this one other story: a fox wanted to eat the grapes. And you know this all. Because he couldn’t jump, and the kids said that they’re too high, so he said, "They are very sour. I will not take them and go away." But I’m supposed to be lucky. Silly nature here, still, don’t be the lion. Then you are all of the whole. And there’s another story, a very big one. I can tell you the story. Holī Gurujī told this a few times, and it is a reality. And that is that one king, he has his guru, and he was so devoted to that king. And he gave him the palace, a beautiful place. And his Gurujī, somewhere in the forest, one day, the disciple said… He said, and said, he said to his Gurujī, his disciple, "What are you doing here in the palace of the kings? We are sannyāsīs, and we should be only in the village or in the little cottage." So he said, "Guruji, let’s go where I am standing. Let’s go." Nothing, shoes or this or that. Guruji is going, and the disciple is going with him, early morning. After a while, Gurujī went to his cottage somewhere and said, "Go." Now he is going there without shoes, no other clothes, and he was in the palace, and every morning the king comes and washes his feet and does pūjā. So one day, Gurujī thought he was not still there, so the king thought Gurujī was in the pūjā. The king went with a few people for a picnic in the forest. There were many beautiful rocks in that beautiful place. The disciple went, and there was a cave, a little one. And near this cave, there was nice sand, and Gurujī was very tired because he lived for so many years with the kings, all soaked. Maybe I can tell you, like me, I cannot go without socks or shoes or this; it happens. So he was lying there on the sand and sleeping. The king went to the picnic with horses, and they were all running left and right, looking somewhere, I don’t know, hunting or something. But that king was not eating meat or anything. So their picnic was, they have all things with them. The king said, "Go and search somewhere if there is water, because there are rocks and there are many waterfalls everywhere." In India, there are a lot of places where there are a lot of waterfalls also. And one person was searching somewhere else, and he said, "Gurujī is sleeping." Slowly, he ran away and said to the king, "Gurujī is here, sleeping on the sand, nothing there." The king came and he said, "Yes, Gurujī is sleeping." Other Gurujī would be like, "Holy Gurujī, immediately wake up," but like me, I am tired, I sleep. So the king said, "Silent, bring the tent and this and that, water, hot water for Gurujī’s bath, and milk." Milk, everything, opened. The king said, "Gurudev, from where do you come to kings? For your seva." But Gurudev, we don’t know why you tell us not. He said, "What order of my God?" So he went and made everything, and his Gurujī came, Gurujī’s Gurujī, he said, "My son, my devotee, this is in your kishmat, even you were in the palace and I took you out, and you were again in beautiful, all facilities." Very good blessings. Next time, that king of Gurudev said, "I need milk of the tiger. I want to have his milk, because I need something for my health. But I have to come quickly with the milk, not from the tiger." Now he is going, and there are in the car many, many animals, tigers and wolves and so on. And there came one animal. What is it there? Not the tiger? Buffalo. Not buffalo? Hmm? Bird? Bag? No, no, lion. There was a female lion, and Guru Dev, the disciple said, "Mother, I will come now. I will go and I will do what my Gurujī said, and after, I will come and you can eat me. I need your milk, mother. My Gurujī needs it." And the lion, she was standing like this, and he milked the milk of the lion, and he brings it to the Gurudeva. Gurudeva said, "I know that you are the highest." So, my dear, that is how to come and how to… Say, so it is said, only two lips move, but others have to work and do what to do. So that is a guru and disciples, and so they made it. All Bhaktas, Croatians, Slovenians, all other parts of Yugoslavia, they all made this, and that is a great thing. You are great. And this story, what I am telling, is not a story. It is a reality, and it was long ago. So it was, what you call, when the Christian people went to the Muslims. Then came the British. But before that, so the stories there, you can hear, you will. So this means, let’s say your daughter or your son, they should be your son and your daughter. And your mother and your father, whatever they ask, we have to give them, what we call, the fulfilled. There is your son, that is seva, service to your parents. And the parents, until the children are not grown, then they have to give them that much knowledge, everything for this, that. When you marry girls and boys, that is forever. So when the wife and the girl both come together, okay, they are very happy, living happily. But then they get a child. When the child comes, then the father tells, or the mother tells, the wife or the husband tells. Now, joy over both, we are in the joy, but now our joy is this, our child. And so it is that our child is our love, that is our joy, that is our happiness. With this, we are enjoying our joy. And when the children grow, they will give you joy. Your children and your parents will be so happy, but they will be happy because, "My children, they are grown, they are good, and they are with us." So that you, when you are married or you are together now, before, the marriage was first; they said yes and this, completely, and then they came together. Otherwise, different. And now, after there are some things, sometimes they run away, and this and that. So it is the lion; you have to see the lion and not the dogs. Similarly, you are all so great. You have all the knowledge, everything, mantras, etc. And now, don’t say the grapes are too sour. They are very sweet. And even they are falling down, and they dry, still sweet. So we have to do. So, my dear, the great saints are telling, it’s not my story, please. I didn’t make a story. But I try. I am not like that one. But I try. It means my Gurujī. It doesn’t matter how it is. Guruji was very strict. You can’t imagine. You can’t imagine. But Gurujī said strictly, "If I will be only half an hour, you will go home. Hurry up." It is said, Gurujī, there is one pot we are making from the clay, and we are making a beautiful pot. And with the cloth from inside, we take it, and from outside we are pitting, yes, pitting, but inside holding that it will not break, because that will be one of the best pots. And a nice thing, not so heavy. So outside is hard, inside is soft. Father and mother, they can be angry, and even they will pull their ears, but inside, in their heart, parents inside for a child is in their heart. So that is the child, that is the parents, that is the guru, and that is the disciple; that will be the successful one. So don’t think, "Run away here and there and this." We have done, and we know. We have one seed, and that will grow. It will become a big, big tree, and it will give many fruits, but for that it needs time. And from that, you will give more seeds and more seeds. So it is a very nice day to see you again. And I think I will come if all this corona is cleared. Then we will see. We will have the nursing priest come there. That he will see how nice and beautiful it is, so we will do something. So thank you. You have come all the way, and many blessings.