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I remember so many times Viśva Gurujī said, "I gave you everything, and I wait every morning that somebody will come and say, ‘I am self-realized.’" But really, I am not joking with this, and also I am not trying to make an advertisement. Why make advertising to you? It is stupid. You buy the product, and I sell that same product. Why? We need to be aware, really aware, that what we have here, what we got from Viśva Gurujī, is really, really pure knowledge. And how Swāmījī was joking a few times: it is not the fast food. It is slow food. You need to digest and to understand. For me, it’s so interesting when I look at all the VHS, DVDs, or in which form it is now. And I saw myself at that seminar in VEP. A little different position, but everything is the same. And I heard the lecture. I saw myself in the lecture, but it was the first time I heard that lecture. You have the same feelings and experience? Yes. What does that mean? We need to again slowly go and listen to lectures. Because inside, we will hear completely new things. Why? Because we are practicing, because we are changing ourselves, and we are able to hear and to understand, because in the beginning we hear and understand something completely different. Because of that, it’s not good to make the line in the book with the marker. First, because now when I took some old books from the previous century, and I read again what I marked. Oh my God, how stupid I was. Of course, I know that I’m still stupid, but I was more stupid, completely stuffed with what is not interesting. But at that time, it was very interesting for me. And to mark in the book something is, because of that, not necessary. Better is to take a notebook and write a little more. You will memorize much more. If you know how it is writing, how it is written, you know how to write. Not capital letter, and writing is so important. Really, it is so important. I realized a few years ago that I almost never had nice handwriting. But I realized that my handwriting was loose. And slowly, I try again to write a little and come back. And when you go to mantra, you remember what the instruction is also. That you have five stages also. I will not set the stage because when you said it is one and another class and another, no, all this we try to do at the same time, but one is you take a notebook and try to write your mantra, not quick. But strive with a nice hand, write slowly, write your mantra. It will go much deeper inside, and also, when you feel that you are very disturbed, start to write. Very soon, you will see that your mind is coming down. You will see even Swami Śivananda from Rishikesh, in his old age, he also was writing the mantra. On one picture, you will see that he writes "Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya" in the shape of a Śiva Liṅgam. You don’t need this, but just write the mantra and you will see, really. I made an experiment, and after how many years after I got mantra initiation, I again started to write the mantra, and I realized it is really good stuff. It is really something. Don’t think that it is only for beginners. And also, in that moment, you will realize how much humanity loses with stopping writing. Everything isn’t just, "Well, now we talk, and it’s right," and they said also. You will learn much quicker and deeper if you take notes in your notebook. And also, there is one story about one paṇḍit. That paṇḍit was reading the holy books and Upaniṣads and all this every day. And also he read every day the Goyogītā. And he sometimes put a line under some sentences with the pen. Because for him, that sentence was very important. And one day, evening, somebody was knocking on the door, and it was some person who was traveling, and that person asked for food and for shelter. And he immediately gave. And during supper, he realized that the man had scars on his face. And he asked because he realized that that person was not an ordinary person. He realized that there is a divine presence in his room. And he asked, "What is this scar on your face?" And that person, what was God in the physical form, says to him, "Oh yes, every day when you read, you put some mark." And also, on the other hand, they said that the holy books are like the body of God, because a truly holy book is the way to God, and the way and the aim are the same. And he realized that this book is really something to keep and to have respect for. In Strelka, I talk about this. How is it also important to keep this real book for Svādhyāya? I will tell also, on the other hand, holy books in some particular place. Why? Many times we hear from Swāmījī that you will get from something that much, how you give respect and value something. If you value some book, value some knowledge, value something, from that you will get. If you don’t value it, if for you it is something that is not important, you cannot get anything from that. Swāmījī often said that you get as much out of certain things as you value them. If you value a book very much, then you really get something out of it. But if you say, "Well, this is a book, and you just throw it away," then you don’t get anything out of it. Not because that book, those teachings are without value. But because we don’t understand the value of that, and because of that, I am telling at the beginning that we need to be aware that in yoga and daily life, in the teaching of Swāmījī Mahāprabhujī, but we know, we hear. Swāmījī’s teaching and Gurujī’s teaching is so much knowledge, and really amazing stuff is inside. Only this problem: the problem is in us, because we are not ready for such knowledge. We need to work a lot to understand a little of what we got from Swāmījī. Now, when I listen to all the lectures, when I think a little about this, a glimpse of an idea comes to me. And you know, yesterday there was also a question about young people, et cetera. I started very young, and you know, when you start very young, of course, you know everything. Yes. Like a young person, you know everything. And you think that you understand, oh my God. My first book on yoga was Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra. Without commentary, translate one good Sanskrit novel and translate it into old Croatian language. And I understood everything inside. My first yoga book was Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra, without any commentary, and a Sanskrit scholar translated it into ancient Croatian. I read it and said, "Oh, I understand everything from it." Today, I will tell—maybe I understand the first three to four verses, śloka, maybe. And I will not be so sure about this. But 40 years ago, completely, everything, I understand. And that is the good in the young age, but be also careful about this. And all of you here who are young, you are too old to be young anymore. Yes. I know, I started leading yoga at 16 or 17 years old. You yesterday asked about Kriyā, yes, but I have eighteen. Oh my God, with 18, you are old already. Don’t think about youth; you don’t have time. You are already old. You must practice normally, like everybody. It is one story in the Mahābhārata about one yogī. He was meditating near a tree, usually, and he was in the moon. He was a muni, in the mauna. Not like us, really, in Mauna. And one night, he finished his meditation and slept, and a thief came to the castle to steal something. And he stole some gold, something, pressure, pressure, yes. And the young prince saw that and started to fight with that thief. And the thief makes some movements and accidentally kills the prince. And now, in the panic, what to do? He ran away, but on the way he saw a man who was sleeping near the tree. And he changed the shoes and ran away. In the morning, the king realized that his son, his only child, was killed. You don’t need to explain. He took out the whole kingdom to find the person who killed the prince. And they are looking for footprints and very easily found the man under the tree. And ask, "Did you kill the prince?" And that man was in Mauna. Trial and everything, but that man was in Mauna. And if you are not talking, they said, "If you are not talking, that is that you agree with this," and they put him on the, this stick, no, no... No hanging, but from buttock till up on the stick, and he was standing in this position one week. Usually people die very soon, two weeks, but only yogīs were coming near him and meditating near his body, and the king realized. That something is wrong, and he asked the other sādhus, "Who is that?" And he realized that it’s one really big yogī who was in Mauna. And he took him down. But take out this stick from the body will mean that you will kill it, and more suffering. And they cut what is going out of the body, and that yogī gets the name. I don’t know who is a spinal column like a stick, something like this. And he lived many, many years after this. And when he passed away, he came to the Dharma Rāj. And he said to Dharmarāja, "Look, tell me why I was on the stick and why I passed all this suffering." And in all my life, I was meditating and tried to develop to come to God. How is this situation possible? And Dharmarāja took his computer to see what, when. Oh yes, yes... I found here something. You put one end of this straw and put him to run, to live with this straw through his body. And because of that, you get this. And that yogī was thinking, "I can’t remember, when was this?" Yes, you have two and a half, three years old. And he was a really great yogī, and he said, "From now till 14, you are a child. Above 14, you are an adult, and you are really responsible for your deeds, responsible for your deeds." What does all this mean? What is it telling about young age? You are more than 14; you are an adult. Until age 14, it is also said that some āsanas in which you influence the glands are not good to practice. But after 14, you are normal. Look what was with Ādi Śaṅkarācārya. He was, I don’t know how much, six, seven years old. And he wanted to become a sannyāsī. But his mother was not pleased with that. And he played, or God played, one drama. He went to the lake, or the river, I don’t know. And the crocodile caught his leg, and people saw this. And make a big panic, and mother came to the river and cried and cried. And Ādi Śaṅkarācārya said, "Mother, don’t cry. Allow me to become a sannyāsī." As Anya is oda ért, and she only cried and cried. Ādi Śaṅkarācārya pedig azt mondta, hogy anyám, ne sírj, csak engedd, hogy sannyāsī legyek. And the crocodile will release me. És akkor a crocodile enged. And she said, "Yes, yes, you may become a sannyāsī." And in that moment, the crocodile just released him, and they said that he was walking on the lake, and everywhere he put his step, a new lotus came. And really, like a child, we will say. He traveled through India to find a guru, and so on and so forth. But that means you don’t need to wait, like before Ādi Śaṅkarācārya. It was also losing the real knowledge of Sanātana Dharma. And in that time, they said, you may become a sannyāsī after 75 years, and if you know all four Vedas. Mostly in these times, now with the 75 years, hardly you know a telephone number. With the 60s, it’s already a problem. And it was losing complete knowledge of Sanātana Dharma. And in the moment when the knowledge comes down, when losing everything, in the last moment, you are coming. What means this light on the earth? And Ādi Śaṅkarācārya came, and he again, in his very short life, only thirty-something years, he made so much. What does it mean? Don’t think, "Oh, I’m still young." No, no. Completely responsible for your actions, also for your practice. And it is one so nice bhajan of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya. I like this bhajan very much. It is not romantic, because nothing in real life is romantic. Nature is not romantic when you live in the city, when you with the car go somewhere in the park, "Oh, so romantic snow, oh, so romantic." But in the previous time, or now, if you will need to live in the nature without all this stuff what we have. You will see that nothing is romantic. I hope that Madhu Rāmjī knows this bhajan. Maybe we will hear this bhajan later. This is so nice, because they said, you know, when he was traveling through India, you know, we watch many times this. Sanskrit movie about his life in Sanskrit. You know this? How many times you watch this, like Rāmāyaṇa, like Mahāśivapurāṇa, etc. And that movie is really nice to see, because you will hear the spoken Sanskrit. And also, just looking at that movie, that Sanskrit, and also inside bhajans and spiritual talk, will have influence on us. And you know, in that time when Ādi Śaṅkarācārya was starting, if you want to... Make something to establish something to be recognized. You were needed to come to Varanasi and to beat in the discussion some of the great philosophers. And he went with his disciple, and on the bank of the river, this ghat where you are also bathing, he saw one old man who was learning the Sanskrit grammar. And he turned to him, but mostly he talked to his disciples. Or mūrak, what does this mean? Not wise, this stupid one. Why are you losing your time in learning grammar? Better will be that you put the name of the God, the name of your Master, on your lips: Rājagovindam. Don’t be blind with the material stuff. Don’t try to collect the material stuff. Fame, and that you are mighty. One should not try to accumulate material goods or become famous, to be the mighty. All this game of pleasure and will pass very, very soon. Everything will pass very soon, and you will lose all this. Still, when you are alive, when you are alive, your family takes care of you. But as they say in our language here, people are not loving your skin, they are loving your wallet, which means they love your money. And if you ask, "How are you, my dear grandma, grandpa?" you think, "Okay, you will leave me flat," you know how it is today, very popular. You need to find some old grandma, because grandpa is already dead. And you will take care about the babichka, grandma. And after that, you will get a flat. Very easy. But in reality, you don’t care about them, Grandma. They also said in the bhajan, even your wife, when you die, wants the corpse to leave the house very soon. Because she will be in fear of the body. If you are looking in the woman’s body, you must know that it is only the different shape of the meat. I told you that there is nothing romantic in this bhajan. You must know that all of this is illusion. This meat will change. And every one of us knows that if you try to make anything with your body, muscles, plastic surgery, anything, so many supplements, supplements, but we will lose this game. And if you try to base your life on a physical body, what is in the end always was meant for the people. But especially now, because when you have a lot of children, little food, and a lot of work, you don’t think so much about the physical body. But we must be aware that now Western people live in the richest society. We have so much food, and because of that, we are sick and ill. We have everything, like what was in the Roman Empire, only this high society, and we are doing the same stuff, which is perverse. They also said you completely lose your understanding of the beauty of not only women, but also men. Everybody has his own alcohol. Be free of this illusion and start to sing, repeat the name of God. And he said, "Live under the tree in the temple, sleep on the earth, be dressed simply, and renounce all material stuff." That will give happiness, real happiness. But we need to understand this, what is not meaning that tomorrow you dress only in kurta-pyjama and go under the tree. Very soon, you will finish in the prison or in the hospital. But it means not to be obsessed with the material stuff. We need to have everything. Be aware of puruṣārtha. What does that mean? You need to have it. For your needs, for your family, for your friends, and come to visit you. Also, you need to have this because only when the individual is rich will society be rich. But when you have, it is very important to understand you have, but the happiness is not to have more and more and more. Because this demon is so hungry. He’s never full, never enough. For this demon, I need to have more. It is not material stuff only. You need more emotion. Anything, you need more. Even in spirituality, you need more holy pictures. Sometimes in spirituality, it’s the same as children who are collecting the pictures of the footballers. Your status will go up if you have more. But we learned from Viśva Gurujī that you have pictures, you have all this, and to give somebody pictures is the same like you give a mantra. And also, many years ago, Swāmījī said not to print so many pictures. When you die, what will be with you? Your pictures go to... The garbage, yes. Once I saw one so nice thing in, I think, Kato. One old lady came to Swāmījī, and you know how it is with this sari and a shawl and everything. And usually when they keep something, they put it in the shawl and make it tight. And that is like some socket. Once I saw a very nice thing in Kāṭu. A lady went to Viśva Gurujī, and you know what these ladies are like in a sari, with a shawl, and if they want to take something, they tie a bunch to the tip of the shawl, and that older lady little opened this. And I was sitting near, and I saw something like two or three diamonds. And I don’t know Hindi, and she talked something to Swāmījī. Swāmījī was serious, with little tears, and okay, okay, go. And I was a little surprised. He got these three diamonds, and he said, "Okay, okay, go." After that, Swāmījī explained that the old lady came to him with the three nails of Mahāprabhujī. And she told me, "I’m old. I don’t know when I will die." And in my family, it’s not so much spirituality, and I give to you, and you know when Swāmījī is a little emotional, he’s okay, okay, no emotion, no emotion, you know this. And in that moment, I realized, ah yes, because of that he was, and... For me, it was so nice that I was not knowing that these are the nails in the beginning, because I saw reality, that is the real diamond. Because if I will know and I saw something like this, I am not trusting my mind. Oh yes, I imagine this. And we need to understand that this material stuff, what we have, we need for our family, because, also, you know, this bhajan, which Swāmījī usually also said, śloka. O Kṛṣṇa, I give you back my mālā. Hunger, when I am hungry, I am not able to meditate. családunknak, mert van egy szloka, amit Swāmījī szokott mondani, hogy, "O Kṛṣṇa, visszaadom a mālā-mat, Because when you sit in meditation, you think all the time about how you will pay the bills. And when your children are hungry, that is a different story. When a man is thinking on the real, that this life is very short and passing, in that moment he will not so much run for the adjournments that enjoy in this life, and he will understand that every one of us will die. And what will be after all this stuff? What we have, we will leave here, and what will we take with us? Because of that. They said, "I don’t know how," Swāmījī said. "I was not there, but they said when Alexander Makedonski was dying, on his funeral, the doctor was first, and he said, ‘And make that my hands are hanging beside my body,’ and everybody..." Saw my hands. When Alexander the Great died, at his funeral, first the doctor went and said, "Place my hands like this so they can see that they are empty." And they asked him why. They asked why. Because for people to know that no doctor will save you. When the time of death comes, no doctor will help you. People know that when the hour of your death arrives, no doctor can help you, no doctor will help. And also show that my palms are open because everything we will leave here. And that is important to know, that we will not be happier if we have more. You know how it is during Christmas time. You are enjoying finding the present for your friends, beloved ones, master, everybody. You are enjoying finding the present. And also, you are enjoying giving the present more than getting something. And when you are enjoying the giving of this present, or just giving love and understanding, you will feel the expansion of your heart. And you know this story, and with this we will finish, when wise people were quarreling about what is the difference between hell and heaven. And they said, "Okay, we will go to visit heaven and hell." And first we will go to the hell, and they went into the hell. The climate was good. They came in the time of the lunch, so nice long table, so much good food, but people were suffering from the hunger. How is it possible? And they looked, observed a little deeper, and they realized that people didn’t have the elbows, and they couldn’t put just their head in the food. And imagine that is the hell: you have everything. But you are not able to take that. It is really hell, and tomorrow they went to heaven. Everything same, same climate, same decoration of the room, completely same, same table. But people were enjoying, and they looked a little deeper and observed, and they also realize that people don’t have elbows. But they are feeding each other, and as much as you feed others, you will also get. And there is a difference between hell and heaven. It’s only in the state of our mind. Lord of the Rings. My precious. Yes. If you are in that stage of the mind, what happens? It’s such a nice story. You don’t need to read any other books. You have this movie. In the beginning, Gollum. Gollum, yes. He was here. This is our friend from New Zealand. And when I was visiting New Zealand, at that time, everything was about Lord of the Rings, and in the beginning, he was such a nice, pretty young guy. But because of my precious, it is only mine. He changed even physical form. And that is what I talked about yesterday. Till 30 years, you are beautiful by nature. And after, you are beauty or ugly, because your inner has come to out. And now, yoga teachers, listen carefully. I will tell only once. You know this. Ismeritek. Instead of plastic surgery, tell your students they need to practice yoga in daily life and practice prānāyāma. They will become more and more beautiful, and changing our inner self in the good way will change us, and we will become shiny like a diamond. I know that people have said the diamond is not shining, it is only reflecting. Yes, because of that, I said this: you will reflect this divine light today, Mother Amjé. And I was a little talkative, and we think maybe we will have some kīrtan. Kīrtan... theater we already have. Because we also need this kind of energy. Only, it’s not good when these kīrtans start to have too much emotion. That you lose everything, and you are like in a trance. We don’t like this. You need to have pure bhakti. And your awareness, your consciousness is rising with this. And how they said, in the Kali Yuga, the best way is bhakti. But also, you need to have knowledge. And when a little quarreling between knowledge and bhakti, which is higher? Why is bhakti yoga higher than anything else? Because bhakti yoga is not only emotion. You are not like this Latin American soap opera. In one moment you are crying, in another moment you are killing, in another moment you are suffering. No, that emotion up and down. First, you must have knowledge. When you have knowledge and you try to utilize that knowledge, because when you have only knowledge, sometimes you are very dangerous for everybody, including yourself. Knowledge without heart is so dangerous. Because of that, you will see in our book, "Hidden Power in Human," one nice picture that Kundalinī is going up to the Ājñā Chakra and again goes down to the heart. And you know, in the Guru Gītā, about this cave in your heart. And inside is the hidden blue pearl. You know this? Next time, we will listen, not here, but you will listen, and that pure, this blue light pearl is slowly again going up, and now it’s going up to the Sahasrāra. When you have knowledge and you utilize that knowledge, then you become wise. When you are wise with the love, that is the bhakti. And because of that, we said that bhakti is the highest part, because it is not just emotion. But you go to the Ājñā Chakra, you have knowledge, you become a wise one, and you have that love. You know that light is in every, in everybody, in everything, and you see that your light is in everybody. Everybody is in you, and you have this love and compassion. And that becomes real bhakti. And when you chant the kīrtans, you try to feel bhakti, but not this emotion. Sometimes when I observe people in some other groups singing the kīrtans, I’m not sure, maybe I am in some pub. And there’s so much red here. And energy is something below Maṇipūra, which means Svādhiṣṭhāna or a little down. You know what I think? That way is not good. You go up, and the perfect one for that is our dear Madhudāmjī. Now he has stage fear, yes. I just remembered a short story about the kīrtans. It was during the time when we were in the Himalayas with Viśva Gurujī, and I think the first few days we were not allowed to go in the cave of Śrī Alakpurījī, only to greet from outside and then move away. And then one day we were sitting outside the cave, and Swāmījī said to me, "You go in and meditate; you will get good inspiration." And I felt very special in that moment, that nobody can go, but I can go. And it was quite warm, so I had just a t-shirt, I think, and I went into the cave, and five minutes passed. I sat in meditation, feeling special. Ten minutes, fifteen minutes, and then after twenty minutes, I was so cold because it was cold inside the cave that my specialness froze very much, and I started to pray how to get out of that cave. And after about 45 minutes, when I thought I’m leaving this place, someone came in with something, some rearrangement, and basically delivered the message that I’m allowed to go out. But anyhow, so some kīrtans after that did arrive. As a cool blessing of Śrī Alakpurījī. And this one is one of them. You may know this sentence that the Holy Gurujī apparently very much liked to say. Guru Kripāhi Kevalam Shishyake Ānandamaṅgalam. And when Viśva Gurujī was in New Zealand, he told us, "Print out this sentence." With big letters, and stick it on the place where you go the most, and read it every day. And you know what it means? Guru Kṛpā Hi Kevalam is, as far as I know, is that all you need is the Guru’s grace. And that is what makes the disciple in bliss and joy. So one day I just sat down and thought, "Make an experiment to put this into some melody, and then something more with it." So you can hear and see what you think. Jai jai... Jai jai... Kṛpāhi kevalaṁ śiṣyake ānandamaṅgalaṁ. Kṛpāhi kevalaṁ śiṣyake ānandamaṅgalaṁ.... Jai Guru. Jai Jai. Kṛpāhi Kevalaṁ Śiṣyake Ānandamaṅgalaṁ Kṛpāhi Kevalaṁ Śiṣyake Ānandamaṅgalaṁ... Kṛpā Aiśya Ke Ānand Mañjai