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Our yoga students are great and knowledgeable. They have learned much, so they require clear and spacious learning and listening. Today, I had a program with our junior children, and they were wonderful. Oh my God, I was so happy I could have cried. This generation needs this; we need this. Look at how many disciples and teachers are here, even little babies, yet they make no noise. This is because your children—their fathers—have given you all such spirituality, happiness, joy, and goodness. Our children are this way because their parents were. And those parents knew; they had their own parents who gave them yoga, practicing yoga in their lives, with all concentration, meditation, prayers, and so on. Now there is a fourth generation. You know, when I first came to this country, there were elderly people who learned and became yogīs. They all imparted what was essential, they were very healthy, and they had children. Those children are now studying; some are working. So, two generations were there with Maheshwarananda’s teachings. At that time, a little child was born, making it three generations. Afterwards, again they came; the children went to universities and so forth. Thus, our teaching of yoga in daily life is not a religion or anything else, but it is for our life: how we go and how we come. That is my five generations here. How happy I am, and how happy they are. In the same way, children now have spirituality in their blood to live healthy and many, many other things. Today I saw, I was with little children, observing how they sat so peacefully, looking only at me and thinking, "What will Swāmījī give us?" To 'give up' means to give some knowledge. Then I thought, okay, we shall make a Bārikhāṭu Praṇām. I asked if one could do it, if another could do it, but the children did not understand my language. So we gave each child a yoga mat—little ones, two, three, four years old—and they went on the mats and all performed the Bārikhāṭu Praṇām very correctly. I was so happy and surprised. Why? Because your parents gave you the knowledge, and their parents before them. So from generation to generation we will continue, and this is not only in this country, but in many, many countries around the whole world: Yoga in Daily Life. Many come through talks, lectures, exercises, satsaṅg, words, how to speak, songs, and bhajans. They all understood deeply and are very healthy. I haven’t spoken to you like this for a long time; I did not tell you anything. Sometimes I was thinking and talking about something, occasionally thinking and telling you something. But today it came to my mind, into my soul and heart... they were listening and looking, wondering what was happening. Suddenly it came to my mind: What about your spiritual generations here in this world? Then again, I came to Alagpurījī. But that is still not—I did not think about that, but Holy Gurujī told. Mahāprabhujī. Many bhajans are from Alagpurījī. Mahāprabhujī wrote about Alakpurījī and Devpurījī in the Himalayas, and you know how great our Devpurījī was. It is said that in three, four, or five places... Again, someone told me, it brought to me, that in three or four places at the same time, Devpurījī was born. Same color, same face. Yes. It is invisible to know what Alakpurījī, Devpurījī is. Even if we know, it is written in our book, Mahāprabhujī’s book, and that book is Mahāprabhujī’s, where Holy Gurujī was then writing. There was a time, before the British government came, there were many Christians, and then Muslims. Then came the British, and then again the Hindus returned. That story is written like this in the Līlāmṛta. And Holy Gurujī was telling me when he was very little, seven or eight months old, or a month or years old. You know my photos with my Holy Gurujī. There, Holy Gurujī was telling, but I said, "I don’t know what it is." And Holy Gurujī was telling me about Mahāprabhujī, Devpurījī, and I didn’t know who is who and what is that. But Holy Gurujī knows, and before I was born, Devpurījī was before. And Devpurījī said to that British governor, "And you know that in that lake, that lake, Naki Talab, there is a story, Amar, we will send you." After what happened, that British man said to Devpurījī, you know, in the book—and we will read today—and then it is said that I will send one. And that will be coming to you, and you will get all this. It will come to the British, and then it will go around the world. I was not born. How they said, "Holy Gurujī and Mahāprabhujī." That is it. So today it came into my heart, into my heart, into my mind. Why did I not tell all of us like this for a longer time? Today, these little children—from them came a light in me, to tell us something. Then I said, "Oh yes, this book, Līlāmṛt." You know that many miracles are happening. I don’t know, but it is. But Holy Gurujī said, "Always I go away." Because when Holy Gurujī speaks about me, then I am ashamed. I go out, but you know, in my books, there is... it is the Guru Kṛpā. And it is they, not me. It is Devpurījīs from that, Alakpurījīs. And so, how many are there, where is it coming from, and how is it? So this was it. Today our children were listening so peacefully. Otherwise, someone would stand up, go out, come back, and so on. That was very nice. Then I said, "I should read properly again in Līlāmṛt when I was not there, and it will come then." So Mahāprabhujī, still he was maybe... but I did not know who is my Mahāprabhujī. And what? This and that little village, no railroads, nothing. Where to go? Why should we go? Maybe to a little city or little village, to bring something. That’s all. We only went to the nearest town to bring something. But it is a seed. We don’t know where one seed will grow, and it will grow into a tree. Unbelievable. I think you are all. Many went around under my lectures. There are many in other countries. There are some old ones, there are children, and those who just come out. But they know they are still, and they will, but they have to go further again in life. So, you all have read the Līlāmṛt. Many have our Līlāmṛt book, like the other book, the Holy Bible. When we read such holy books, it’s only one book, and the same letters are there. Why did we say to only read this? Can we not change to another book? Holy Gurujī said, "No one in all, and all in one." Read the holy book. The next day, again new knowledge is coming. Everything is within them. Similarly, in Mahāprabhujī’s book. All that is written in Holy Gurujī’s bhajans and Līlā Rāmjī’s bhajans, and all these bhajans, will be forever. It is forever. It is not only something like a one-day paper, a newspaper. But many people are collecting all this because every day, knowledge is also given in the newspaper. News. So what is the news? The news is that we don’t know, and we got something new. That’s why it’s in the news. Yes. Tomorrow will be another message. Today there already is one, and this is the last. New is now. So many people, in the morning they get up, before coffee or chai, they learn something from the papers. Similarly, when we read any holy books, it comes into our heart, into our brain, into our thinking. It comes every day, new and new and new. It is the same, like the same. That seed of that tree, again its seed will grow exactly like that, but it will give more knowledge and many things. There was one Indian from a newspaper in Jaipur, and he came three to four times. At that time, there was a communist idea in those countries, but I was with them, and we were talking. A very great person, a very good writer. He said to me, I was in Hungary, in a city called Debrecen, and his family is here today. There is a nice hotel there. We were in a hotel, one room for me and another room. For five days, I think, we were in the city. We had breakfast together, and he said, "I didn’t get the newspaper in the hotel." I said I didn’t know because it’s expensive, or maybe they don’t have newspapers. But there was one place where all letters are hanging, all dresses are hanging. So from there down, like this wood, there was some place of wood under paper. He took the paper out from the pocket of a table, and it was maybe two or three thousand years old. He was opening it, but he could not do something. He learned the Hungarian language. On the other side was also a paper from some foreigner. There was something in English letters, and he was reading. Sleep. He was sleeping. So I said, "Why couldn’t you sleep without a paper?" He said, "I always live from knowledge." So in every paper, there is something new. Similarly, we also, every day, which paper you should open—of your hand, your thinking, many things, or some papers, etc., or prayer. So, knowledge gives humans great health, etc. But what kind of knowledge can you learn, and what should we not learn? But now it is completely everything: down, up, and up, down. So they said, "We don’t need the paper. We have everything in this paper." But that will not give you what we properly need. So, it doesn’t matter which kind of books we are learning here—paper, newspapers, magazines, and so on. But we should have reason for our families, the whole family. You see, the knowledge of our great-great-great-grandparents, till today, to our children, new children now, we have to give, my dear. This is our country, this is our village, it is our people, it is our knowledge. Everything we have to keep with us. Otherwise, you know, sometimes there is a war. Some people kill them, others go there. Where was, who was the one? A country becomes another country; they give it another name and everything. I don’t know. But someone bought it somewhere in a library. Many times they burn others’ books, but sometimes it happens from your parents. Because someone, my son, came and said, "Yes, this was my grandfather, my family. It was my country, my village. This house was, my parents were living there." But sooner or later, it will come back. Do you know how many books were burned? The first was the... how do you call it, I will come back to it. So there were so many scriptures. And the first university, believe it or not, not Varanasi, in another... that’s the first university. The first university was in India. Yes. Yes. And then the Muslims came, and they burned so many books. How many days or months, you know? Which university is there? So, like, these people, we have changing something, but some letters, literature somewhere else, and somewhere again came back, but many is lost, gone. Like this hall, full of letters, books. Knowledge. And in that way, they try to get the knowledge they want to take out of the brain. But Vedānta and many others, and our Jesus, you know how much it is, the holy book. And there are some things that have changed. But we keep the Bible. The Bible is for us like a God. And so are the Rāmāyaṇa and the Bhagavad Gītā. Similarly, our Gurujī, Padmanābhan Jī Bhagavān, he made many, many books from Alagpurījī till today. And that again, grass is again growing. So it is said: If you take away everything from my hands—money, dolls, nothing, everything—take away from me, but God said, "In your mind and in your heart is more than that what you lost. Don’t cry, don’t be angry, just go ahead." What for you in our kishmat? It will be in the kishmat. Nothing is to eat there. But sooner or later, before sleeping, God will give us. Who can give eating? Anyone who is there? There is nobody who can give eating to all of us. No, they cannot. Only that God who is giving. It is said, from elephant to little ant, feeding is the God. That’s it. So, believe in your God, your thoughts, and it doesn’t matter which religion, which God you believe in, which country you are from. All is great, good, everything. Let us be that God is there, and it will come, so His voice will come. And that voice will not go anywhere; it is still in the space. What we are talking about is without these now instruments. So now, can somebody read nicely the Līlāmṛta about, yes, from our Devpurījī? Yes, that book is here. So this is like... The Gurudev, but nice you have here. You bring it, okay? So we can say you can stand up, or it’s good. I would like to say a little bit more about this university, what Swāmījī was speaking about. I would like to say a little bit more about this university, what Swāmījī was speaking about. The name of the university is Nālandā University. This was an ancient center of higher learning located in Bihar, in the ancient kingdom of Magadha. It existed since the period beyond 1200 B.C. This center had eight separate compounds, ten temples, meditation halls, classrooms, lakes, and parks. It had a nine-story library where monks meticulously copied books and documents so that individual scholars could have their own collections. It had dormitories for students, perhaps a first for an educational institution, housing 10,000 students and providing accommodation for 2,000 professors. Nālandā University attracted pupils and scholars from Korea, Japan, China, Tibet, Indonesia, Persia, and Turkey. So this university had eight separate centers, ten temples, meditation halls, rows of lakes and parks. There was also a library with nine floors, in which the monks copied books so that each student could have his own collection. According to accounts by pilgrim monks from East Asia and other historians, the curriculum at Nālandā University included study of Mahāyāna Buddhism, Vedas, logic, Sanskrit grammar, medicine, Sāṅkhya, and more subjects in every field of learning. Nālandā was ransacked and destroyed by Turkish Muslim invaders; it was in the year 1193 of Christ’s time. The great library of Nālandā University was so vast that it is reported that it housed more than nine million manuscripts. And according to traditional Tibetan sources, the library of Nālandā University was spread over three large multi-storied buildings. It was burning for three whole months. Nālandā University was destroyed and attacked by Turkish Muslims in the year 1193 of our calendar. The library was so large that it contained up to 9 million prints or scripts. And according to the Tibetan culture, they say that the library was in three separate buildings, and when the Turks set it on fire, the Turkish Muslims set it on fire, it burned for three whole months. Hari Om.