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Samyuktaṁ tyaṁ dhyāyan tyogīnaḥ āmadaṁ mokṣa-daṁ chaiva. Saṅkarāya namo Rāmāya Rāmabhadrāya Rāmachandrāya vedhase. Raghu-nāthāya nāthāya pitāyāpatiḥ namaḥ. Guruḥ brahma guruḥ viṣṇau guruḥ devo maheśvaraḥ. Gurur sākṣāt para brahma tasmai śrī gurave namaḥ. Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagwān kī, Śrī Śrī Devpurūṣa Mahādev kī, Himālayan Avatār Śrī Alakpurūṣa Mahādev kī, Hindu Dharma Samrāṭ Paramahaṃsa Śrī Swāmī Mādhavānandapurījī Bhagwān kī, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Parampūjya Parmayogirāj Paramahaṃsa Śrī Swami Maheshwaranandapurījī Gurudev Bhagavān kī, divine salutation to the divine Om Śrī Śālak Puruṣa Siddhapīṭha Paramparā. I bow to our beloved Gurudev, His Holiness Viśvagurujī’s holy feet, dear Swāmī Avatārapurījī, and to all the devotees who have come from around the world to this divine place, which is the spiritual center of Yoga in Daily Life. What our beloved Gurudev has created is history—an amazing, spiritual place that gives each and everyone peace, harmony, love, and paramānanda. Its name is Aum Ashram, or you can say Aum Śrī Viśuddhi Guru Kula, Swami Maheśvarānanda Ashram, Śodh Saṅsthān, or Education and Research Centre. You can see in the name: Education and Research Centre. Viśvagurujī established this perhaps thirty years ago, or more. Why did he create this spiritual center? Because he knew: "I will not bring the bhaktas only from India, but all the world will come here, and they will get spiritual knowledge, peace, harmony, love, and the blessing of God." So we are all lucky, fortunate ones. We are at the divine place Viśvagurujī has created, not only for humans but for each and every creature. Prāṇī mātrā kī sevā he hamārā param dharma hai. You have heard this sentence from Viśvagurujī many times. It means: the service of each and every creature is our supreme duty, our param dharma. And Viśvagurujī has accomplished this through his own work, his sādhanā, his spiritual activities. Even his one step is work. His one step is karma yoga, bhakti yoga, jñāna yoga. That is a great master. We are gathered here for the divine festival of Diwali. Not only here, but to all around the world who are listening through media, I wish everyone a Happy Diwali and Diwalika. Rām Rām Sa Diwalika, Diwalika. Whenever Viśvagurujī began his lecture on Dīvālī, I remember he would always chant Dīvālī kā Rām Rām. So we should always remember the words of Gurudev. I wish everyone a Happy Dīvālī, a Divine Dīvālī, a Spiritual Dīvālī, and many, many blessings from our Divine Paramparā to each and everyone. May Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī, Alagpurījī, Holy Gurujī, and Viśvagurujī bless us. He shows us the Divine way. "O Gurudev, O Master, please always take care of me, because I am not so knowledgeable a person that I can go or make my own way. But when you take my hand, when you show me the way, I am sure I will reach the great destination, I will attain self-realization, or mokṣa." So we always pray to God, to Gurudev. Now we talk about Dīvālī. Deepavali, or Diwali, is one word: Deepavali. It means "deep," the lamps, and "avali," the row—the row of lamps. So what does it create when you make a row with lamps? Light. Thus, Diwali is a festival of light, a festival of love, a festival of blessings from the paramparā, a festival of inner light. In India, and now across the whole world, everyone celebrates Diwali. They decorate all the homes, all the streets, everything. Wherever you look, they are decorating all areas. This is a decoration of lights. I would say we should not make decoration only outside, not only at home, but the decoration of light should also be in our heart. The decoration of light should go into the heart. How can we make it? The decoration of the heart. In the Śrīmad Rāmcaritmānas, God Rāma said: nirmala mana jana somoyi pāva. "Who will get me? Who will get revelation? Where will I be happy? Where will I go? Which home? Which heart? Who has the nirmala heart?" It means who has the pure heart. Now, how should we make a pure heart? We don't know. Should we clean it with a broom, a wiper, or water? No, that will not work there. That can only work outside. You can clean everything outside, but the heart is cleaned with the blessing of Gurū Dev. It is also said: how to clean the heart? When we follow the guru-vākya, when we follow the paramparā, when Gurū Dev says, "O children, O dear disciple, follow this path," then we should simply follow Gurudev. Then slowly, slowly, you will not even understand that you are gaining purity. But when you do gain purity, you will say, "Oh my God, first I was suffering, I was struggling. I was thinking, 'What work has Gurudev given me? This is very hard. I can’t see anything there. It makes no sense. I can’t see anything that I’m getting now.'" But after some time, you will see that your heart will light up. It will give you beautiful light, purity. Love, spreading love, sharing, helping people—this will come into your heart. Then you will think it is slowly, slowly becoming pure. So this is a festival of making purity, making light in your heart: Dīpāvalī. How does it proceed? In the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad it is said—we all chant, Viśvagurujī has taught us; after Śiva Āratī we say—can you chant with me? Oṁ Tamaso Mā Jyotir Gamaya, Mā Amṛtam Gamaya. We chant these three lines. They are very important; we know everyone prays this, but I want to speak about it. So three things are there. How to say? The Upaniṣad says that when we make a light, it will bring us from the mortal to the immortal: Mṛtyormā amṛtaṁ gamaya. "O God, O Gurudev, please bring me from this mortal life to the immortal." This body is mortal; it will never be immortal. But what is immortal? The Ātmā. So, how can we become immortal? How can we attain immortality? When we gain ātmā jñāna, when we attain self-realization. How will this come? With the blessing of Gurudev. And from falsehood to truth: asato mā sadgamaya. How will we go? That is why we also follow Gurudev, because we do not know what is false, what is truth, which is the right way, which is the good way we should work. All that I am saying, you have experienced in your life, in this world. Just think how your life was before, and how your life has changed now with the divine light of knowledge, with the divine light of spiritual knowledge, with the divine light which Viśvagurujī has given us. So, asato mā sadgamaya, because all the world is asat, meaning false. Bhagavān Śaṅkara says to Mātā Pārvatī: Rām Siyā Rām Siyā Rām Jaya Jaya Rām... "O Umā! O Pārvatī! I am telling you the nice way." Umā kahu mein anubhavāpanā: "I am sharing my experience with you." What kind of experience? The truth is only God’s name. Truth is only the way that Gurujī taught us. That is the only truth. Because Viśvagurujī has given us the mantra. You know, you chant every day, doing mālā. He has given you the sādhanā. So what will happen from the sādhanā? Your heart will slowly, slowly go into purity. You will see many changes—I can see many changes in your life. You can feel how it was before and how it is now. So God says, "This whole world is a dream." Know this: all the world is like a dream. Now you will say, "Mahārājī, how is it a dream?" It is a dream, just like that. When you are in a dream, you think many things. You have many, many things in your mind: that you have a great, big home, you have luxury cars, you have your own jet, or many things, whatever you think. But when you wake up from the dream, you see there is nothing. You know, in dreams many times you come to India, you sit with Viśvagurujī, doing mantra japa, or you are doing kriyā, or you are attaining self-realization. But when you open your eyes, there is nothing. Many times you have horror dreams and you escape from them. So this entire world is like a dream. How, then, does it become the only truth? When you attain self-realization, when you gain knowledge. What Viśvagurujī has shown—the way, the mantra, the divine mantra japa—that is the only truth. Please sit down, and afterward we will make praṇām. Paramaṁ Śrī Svāmī Māheś Prāṇand Bhuj Gurudev Bhagvāne Kī Satya Sanātan Dharma Kī Dharma Kī Adharma Kāla Prāṇa Yomed Viśva Kāla Gau Māta Kī Gau Hatyā Oṁ Namaḥ Pārvatī Pataye Hara Hara Mahādev.