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Good? Relaxed? No pain after the first day of Hanumānāsana? Yes? That is normal. I think we would only be free from pain if we were not alive. However, the pain also indicates that we are not practicing sitting regularly enough. We do sit, practice, and meditate, but it is not sufficient. Yet, this is our way of life; we must work, care for family, and fulfill many other obligations. It is okay if we do not have abundant time for sitting. Today is Devavījī’s Mahāsamādhi. From Līlā Amṛt, you know many stories. When a prepared soul, a great soul, comes to Mahāprabhujī, a single look can change everything completely. Mahāprabhujī changed everything. There is a story about a great saint living in a cave. People usually came for darśan. One man came and asked for a blessing. The saint said, "Look, every morning and evening, when I enter and leave the cave, I place my hand on this stone and bless it." Yet, the stone remains a stone. This shows us that to receive a blessing, to receive this energy, we also need to be prepared. We must be ready. I recall an anecdote from the Kela Āśram. Swāmījī was not holding a satsaṅg but was conversing with a lady. I was massaging his feet. At that moment, I did not realize what was happening behind me. I do not know Hindi at all—ab ke se he is my level of understanding. Yet, in that moment, I understood the conversation between Swāmījī and that lady from Jaipur. I sensed something strange happening behind me. All the people on the terrace were in a particular state. That is the moment when there is a strong energy, and when we are unprepared for it. This has happened to me many times, at the Kumbh Melā or elsewhere, especially when Gurujī was physically present. In moments when you are with Gurujī and Swāmījī simultaneously, during their normal conversation with each other, I was completely "asleep." To receive the blessing and to be in that great energy, we need to be prepared. Consider the electricity in your home. You have a fuse. When the electricity is too strong, it switches off, saving your house from fire. The same happens with us. When we are in a place with strong spiritual energy, we too "switch off." Swamiji often said we are like a small light bulb for 4.5 volts—that is our condition. Yet, we want to connect to 220 volts. You know what will happen. Once, as a child, I was playing with an Electro-Pioneer toy that ran on batteries. It was rolling too slowly for me, so I plugged it into the 220-volt outlet. You know what happened? My toy melted completely, and I received blessings from my mother. Later, I learned from yoga that if we are an instrument for 4.5 volts, we should not try to connect directly to the supreme, high energy. It is a great blessing and protection from Swamiji that we simply fall "asleep." How can we improve this? At home, you would change the wires. We cannot change ours, but we have a great practice. First, we have āsanas. After that, the great practice is our prāṇāyāma. If we practice regularly, our system will slowly grow stronger and stronger. In our book Yoga and Daily Life, the chapter on prāṇa inside the body offers a nice explanation of the five prāṇas and five upa-prāṇas. It is very concise, concentrating on vyāna prāṇa. Vyāna prāṇa governs our nerves and provides a strong installation within our body. If someone says, "Oh, my nerve is weak," and the nerve breaks—"I will have a nervous breakdown"—it means our Vyāna Prāṇa is weak. The book nicely explains what to do: Kumbhaka, Nāḍīśodhana, Ādāna—four techniques—but it is explained for beginners. What is to be done? It is nicely explained: inhale, kumbhaka, exhale, kumbhaka. This is even for those on the first level of Nāḍīśodhana. Just sit and do this exercise five to ten times, two or three times per day. Very soon, we will see our nerves grow stronger. We need this: strong nerves and strong, pure nāḍīs. Then our practice will be successful. We have the darśan and blessings of our Gurudev. Now we need only to practice. What is there to tell about Devapurījī’s Mahāsamādhi? You know everything. You have read in Līlā Amṛt, and many times we hear lectures and talks about Devapurījī and Viśvagurujī. Mahāsamādhi is what we could call the aim of our life. For Mahāsamādhi is not someone dying. It means merging with the cosmic light by one's own will. Swamiji explained it beautifully: when you take a drop of water and place it in your palm, that is the jīva. The lake or sea is Śiva. When you turn your hand over, that drop merges with the ocean. The Jīva becomes Śiva. For self-realized masters, during their life, they are already merged with the cosmic. For them, there is no difference between Ātmā and Paramātmā. For us, it is different. But for a self-realized person, there is no difference. At the moment of Mahāsamādhi, even the border of the physical body dissolves. When Gurujī passed away in Mahāsamādhi, Swāmījī beautifully said, "Now Gurujī is even more with us." Because now even the small obstacles—I would say—of the physical body, like being physically in one place, are dissolved. I hope every one of us will attain Mahāsamādhi. What does it mean nicely, like Devapurījī? We will organize a satsaṅg, yes? A nice satsaṅg, singing bhajans, and afterward, chant Oṁ three times, five times, as many times as you wish. From Kavir Dās’s bhajan: "When I was born, I was crying and people were laughing. But when I will go, let me smile and people be crying." That will be success in our life. Swamiji often said the greatest sadness, the saddest moment, is when we pass away without having attained self-realization. What does this mean? In this life, we should complete our aim. In this life, we should be self-realized. Yes, we want this. We are practicing yoga for this reason. Not in the next life. Who knows what the next life will be? Perhaps it will be very easy to practice catuṣpādāsana. Who knows? Therefore, we want everything in this life: self-realization, yes, and for every one of us to have Mahāsamādhi. We will find a place for this Mahāsamādhi, a place for all of us. I am joking, but that should be our attitude. I have spoken with some people who say, "No, that is not for me, maybe in the next life." If you say this, you have already closed the door. Nothing is possible if you say, "No, it is not for me; I am not for this. Yes, I am practicing yoga, but in the next life I will..." No, finish. Therefore, we need to change our attitude. In business and other endeavors, they say never have a Plan B. If you have a Plan B, you have already said, "Okay, I will not do this." You cannot do it, and your business will collapse. For us, there is no existing Plan B, only Plan A. But the only problem is that we do not know what we want. That is why we have this nice seminar retreat: to get an idea of what we want. I always joke with little stories about the golden fish that grants three wishes. Usually, the joke is that the person never knows exactly what they want, leading to misunderstandings and problems. Therefore, we need to have, at all times, a list of our priorities. Always think that you will have a meeting with the golden fish. If someone woke you in the middle of the night and asked, "Tell me your wish," you should immediately know your answer. Swami Vivekānanda once said: if you have one idea, and you live for that idea, breathe for that idea, dream that idea, work for that idea, you will achieve it. I hope that one idea will be to aim for Mahāsamādhi in this life. We will die; that is completely certain. But we want to be free and enter into that immortality. Not to be here forever, but to attain immortality. What does it mean? To not have rebirth and death again. That is one idea. I think with that, everything is contained. Therefore, when we talk about Mahāsamādhi, we are not talking about something sad, but about a great victory. It is a lighthouse for us, showing our aim and what we need to do with our life. On the other hand, it is a sad moment for us because that great soul, that great guru, is no longer with us in physical form. But he is always with us in the present, and that energy is always with us. Like in this seminar: Swamiji is not physically with us; he is in Kailash, a great distance away. Yet sometimes from a far distance, you may feel that energy, that presence of the great master, even more strongly than in physical form. Why does the Guru Gītā and every scripture say that you should think upon your Gurudev, upon your Iṣṭa Devatā? És miért mondja azt a Guru Gītā meg minden más szentírás, hogy gondolnod kell Iṣṭa Devatāra, Guru Devatāra? Because in that moment, when you are thinking upon your Iṣṭadevatā, upon your Gurudev, the waves of your brain begin to be in coherence with that divine energy. That creates a change within us. I often remind myself of what I heard from Viśwa Gurujī about a technique Gurujī practiced every day: Mānasik Pūjā. This means that distance or Mahāsamādhi have no influence on us. Because in your thoughts and feelings, you are with your Gurudev, with your Iṣṭadevatā. Modern science says that for the brain, it is the same whether you are doing something or just thinking about it; the chemistry in the brain is equal. If you perform a good Mānasik Pūjā, you can be, today and now, in the Kela Āśram, at the place of the fireplace—not only with Swāmījī, but with Devapurījī, Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī, Alakpurījī, with everybody. And what is reality? It does not matter. If in your meditation you are there, you see and feel all this, you will feel an expansion in your heart, you will be with the Dev Puruṣa. To be in your thoughts and feelings with such great divine souls, masters, and gurus means that energy will change us. Now we will continue with bhajans. Perhaps we will have a short meditation—not a meditation—but we will go to Kailash and be in the Kailash Ashram. Where do you want to be in the Kailāśa Āśrama? For me, it is the upper part, the place for the fire. For others, it may be down where the Mahāsamādhi is. It depends on your feelings, intuition, whatever. Everything is good. Never think, "Oh, maybe I did something wrong; I didn't see this." No, it is what you feel. The most important thing is that you feel inner joy. That will be the best thing for Mahāsamādhi, for celebrating Mahāsamādhi. We say "celebration of Mahāsamādhi" because it is the celebration of a great victory and an inspiration for our life. Do not be sad; be joyful. Siddhi number one, Kījen. Kījen. He came to Kailash Ashram and did not find Śrīdev Purījī anymore. He says, "Oh, my Gurū Dev, without you, my devotion is very hard. It is very hard. My heart is suffering if I do not see you. I have a great hope that I will see you again. And the fire of desire, the vīra, is burning in me. Burning in me. My body, my mind, and my prāṇa, everything is trembling because of fear. And if I try to lie down, I cannot sleep." This was the feeling of Śrī Dīpna Amaraprabhu when Śrī Devapurījī went into samādhi. It is like taking a fish out of water; it cannot breathe and suffers. The same feeling. The thirsty papaya cries and cries for water because it does not want to drink water from the ground. It always waits for water from the sky, but it does not rain, and it cries, so thirsty. This is the feeling of Śrī Dībnā Mahāprabhujī. Ez Mahāprabhujī érzése. And she said, Śrī Devapurījī, all goddesses and all the holy saints are meditating on you. Az összes szent Devapurījī meditál. Tvameva mātā ca pitā tvameva, tvameva bandhuś ca sakhā tvameva. Tvameva vidyā draviṇaṁ... My real inner self, I want to see this. It is your darśan. Oṁ Guru Brahma, Guru Viṣṇu, Guru Devo Maheśvara, Guru Sākṣāt Parabrahma... Very nicely. And in Kailāśa, he is meditating and keeping his indescribable thought. So his chattra and the Gaṅgā are flowing. You must play. Chata, mugata, me, gaṅgā, viraje. Dada, harakī, me, vīraje. Jogavā, na, nirguṇa form to saguṇa. And we are praying, please give us your darśan. His body is covered with holy ash, meaning he has burned all karmas and now decorates his body with white ash. He is sitting on a tiger's skin. We have the tiger within us, and he is sitting on its skin. The tiger is sitting on the tiger's skin, and we have the tiger inside us. He is sitting on it and spraying his body with his hair. When I was sad once, when Dev Parīchīs Mādī was, Swāmījī said, "Don't be sad. I came the next day." So Devapurījī was sending Swāmījī from the Śiva loka to the earth, and he said, "Don't be sad. I don't have this passion." Śrī Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Śrī Śrī Devī Śvarma Deva Kī Jaya, Śrī Sattva Guru Deva Kī Jaya. Akhaṇḍa Maṇḍala Kāraṁ Vyāptaṁ Yena Carācaram Tat Padaṁ Darśitaṁ Yena Tasme Śrī Gurudeva Namaha. This was my first bhajan, which I learned because I was singing. This is a bhajan to Swamijī. I am singing about Swāmījī’s glory, but it is the same; there is no difference between Swāmījī and Śrī Devapurījī. She says, "If I did not meet you, my Guru Dev, I would have fallen again into this circle of births and deaths. This would be a great karmic burden. Guru Dev gave me the mantra of Sohaṁ and changed the crow into a beautiful swan, transforming it into the beautiful army of Varuṇa. Prabhujī, with the help of Devapurījī, through him, my life became successful." Vivid during the bhajans, yes, yes, I saw. I made a video because we have some people in the Zagreb āśram who sit in chairs during satsaṅg. But at the opening of the āśram, there was singing and dancing, and I said, "Now you can't ask for a chair anymore." And you know, now Umā Purī won't get angry if I talk about the fact that there were people in the Zágráb āśram who always sat in chairs, but when they were in India, at the opening of the Omā āśram, then Vivek Purī saw and videoed that they stood up, sang, and danced. We will not be dancing, but we will be more active in the singing, and also not sitting... no, with the Śakti, more about this madhuryam. I think we will have more time for this tomorrow, but we will try to be more active. Because sometimes during bhajan singing, I see that some are okay, but others just slip into tamas. Satsaṅg is a festival. Satsaṅg is joy. Satsaṅg is when you are high with energy. After satsaṅg, it is hard to go to sleep because you are energized. If you are sleeping during satsaṅg... and now we will have something strong, yes? Then we will be active during the singing of bhajans, yes? Once in the Kailash ashram during Guru Pūrṇimā, Swāmījī sent Swāmī Ānandī and me to the Kailash ashram. At first, we thought it was a punishment, but later we realized it was a blessing. At midnight, the prayer started. The energy was like a New Year's fire in the sky—that kind of energy was there during the prayer, during the bhajans, during everything. You know how it is in Kailāś during the singing of bhajans. We need to bring the energy of Kailāśa here. Yes? Yes. Please. Madhāvanāṇjī Bhagavān Kī Jai, Viśva Guru Mamandaleśvara Paramaśrī Svāmīśvarānāṇjī Gurudeva Kī Jai, Śrī Alak Purījā Bhagavān Kī Jai. Tumma Sabke Dīna Dayāl, Ārja Sunna Merī. Tumma Sabke Dīna Dayāl, Śrī Dev Purīṣa Mahādevakī Jai Śrī Deveśvara Mahādevata Yala Śrī Deveśvara Masapura Reval Śrī Deveśvara Mahādevata Yala Śrī Deveśvara Mahādevata Yala... Śrī Deveśvara Mahādevata Yāla...