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Oṁ kādhu-samyoktaṁ tyaṁ dhyāyanti yoginaḥ. Amadaṁ mokṣa-dhāṁ caiva yena mo. Vibrahmā gurur viṣṇuḥ, Vṛdeśo mahēśvaraḥ. Gurur sākṣāt para-brahma, Śrī Gurave Namaḥ. Salutations to the Divine of Satya Sanātan Dharma. Oṁ Śrī Alagpuryā Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā. I bow to the holy feet of His Holiness, our beloved Gurudev Viśwa Gurujī. To all divine spiritual seekers, all spiritual masters, all the sannyāsīs of this Oṁ Śrī Alagpurya Siddha Pīṭha paramparā, all devotees of Śrī Mahāprabhujī and Viśva Gurujī, and the divine family of Yoga and Daily Life around the world, brothers and sisters, I say Hari Om to everyone. I welcome you all once more to the divine spiritual center, the Om Āśram. We are in the center of this divine world, which Vishwa Gurujī has created for the entire world—not only for humans but for all creatures. With Gurudev's blessings, we are here following the divine path he has shown us. Slowly, everyone is trying their best to follow Gurudev's Vākya and the divine way. In our last discussion, we spoke about human life. What must a human do? Why are we here? We should know the value of human life. Beloved Gurudev, Vishwa Gurujī, has taught us the divine meaning of human life. Before that, we were wandering aimlessly in this world. We did not know our aim, what to do in this human life, how to live, or how to help ourselves and others. All this divine teaching has been given by Viśwa Gurujī. I will not tell you new things; all this knowledge Vishwa Gurujī has given us, and we are sharing it with each other so we can help and come together. Consider the value of human life through a story. There was a farmer selling vegetables. He had a stone he had used as a weight for many years. Once, a merchant came and asked to buy that stone. The farmer asked why, as he used it for weighing. The merchant replied, "For you, this is only a stone, but I will pay you 10,000 or even 20,000 rupees." The salesman was very happy, thinking it was just a stone, and agreed. He took the money, gave the stone, and made a signed agreement. Then he asked, "Can you please tell me why you gave so much money for this stone?" The merchant said, "I can tell you. This is not a normal stone; it is a diamond. I know the value of a diamond. I have given you twenty thousand rupees, but I will earn crore rupees from it." Similarly, we do not know the value of a human life. When a merchant comes—like a divine master, a spiritual seeker, or the master himself, like Viśwa Gurujī—into your life, you have an experience. Just imagine how your life was before you met Vishwa Gurujī. You will think it was like a stone. But when the spiritual master, Vishwa Gurujī, came to us, he gave the knowledge that this is not a stone; this is a beautiful, divine, diamond-like human life. He taught us how to use it. We were human, but we did not know how to be human, how to behave, what qualities to cultivate, or what the aim of a human is. There is a beautiful story and a śloka that tells how human life passes, or how we waste it: Vṛddha sthavat cintām agnā, Vṛddha sthavat cintām agnā. Parame brahmaṇi kopi na lagnā, Parame brahmaṇi kopi na lagnā. mūḍhamate. Bhaja mudamate. It describes how human life goes, slowly finishing. When we are born, we are always attracted to and interested in games and toys. Our entire childhood is spent vested in the playground. Now we have this Kalidhvaja, meaning the influence of Kalyug, which also attracts us to the world and distracts us from our spiritual life. A child is happy when given interesting toys. If you try to give knowledge to a child, he will not take it, as he lacks the capacity to understand, and it is not interesting. Thus, our childhood is destroyed, gone, or wasted in playing games. Then we become a little older. We have friends, different wishes and thoughts. We go for studies and make friends there. We become attracted to each other; friends foster both good and bad habits. We destroy some part of our life there. Slowly, you get married, have children, and then old age comes. This life is slowly going. You work for your family, brothers, sisters, and everything. But when you become old, you lack the power to work. You have experience in your mind, but you do not have the power. You can think, but you cannot act. When you are young, you have the physical power to work, but your mind or intellect lacks experience. So what to do? When you are young, you must listen to elders, experienced people, spiritual masters, or knowledgeable persons. Then you can use your physical power wisely. In youth, you have power but do not know how to use it. In old age, you have knowledge but lack power. If you want to lift a weight or work hard in old age, you cannot. When you become old, your mind is restless, always thinking: "It would be better if I had done sādhanā at that time, done karma yoga, chanted mantra a lot." Now you are old and lack power. When you sit alone, you have pains in your back, knees, and body everywhere. In old age, you can only think; you cannot work much. You always think, "It would be better if I had done this or that." So, childhood, then elder age, then old age—this is the life cycle. What to do? Our life is just being destroyed; we are merely passing time. Parameśvara... Brahmani kopina lagna—but our main aim, if we are human, should be to work for self-realization, for mokṣa, for jñāna, for brahma jñāna. Yet we were not working; parame brahmaṇi kopina lagna. Nobody is trying to attain self-realization. Nobody is trying to attain mokṣa. Life goes on like that. What must we do to attain mokṣa? When we come into this world, we forget everything. How do we forget? There is a beautiful story. A king had no children and had grown old. He wanted an intelligent person to become king and work for the people and kingdom. He consulted his secretaries. They suggested arranging an exhibition to identify who was intelligent and of good character. The king arranged a beautiful exhibition in his kingdom and passed an order: if somebody comes to me tomorrow by five p.m., I will give him whatever he wants. This order was announced throughout the kingdom. The next day, everyone was ready to be the first to go to the king. At 8 a.m., they started from their homes for the exhibition. There was a beautifully arranged market with many clothes for children, men, and women. People saw the clothes and a message: "These are all free of cost by the king's order; take whatever you want." People thought, "Oh my God, it's free! Let's go!" They spent one or two hours there. Then they proceeded further and found a beautiful restaurant with many delicious foods, sweets, pizza, chow mein, rasgulla, rabadi—everything imaginable. A note said this was also free by the king's order. They ate and enjoyed, and two or three hours passed. After eating, they went to another area where beautiful jewelries were displayed—gold, diamonds, silver, rings, necklaces, and many things. Seeing "free of cost," everyone wanted them. They spent hours selecting items, unaware that it was already five o'clock. Then they remembered the king's message and thought, "Now we should go to the king to get whatever we want." They saw it was already five and rushed, but the location was three or four kilometers away; they could not reach by five. The king waited, wondering who would come. One person had arrived at 3 p.m. He was thirsty, tired, and walking wearily. The king asked him, "Did you eat something? Was there food or clothes?" The man replied, "Yes, king, there was." The king asked why he hadn't eaten first, then come comfortably. The man said, "No. Your message did not say I should eat first or take new clothes first. It said I should come to you. That was the main message, and my purpose was to reach you because this is your order. That is why I came here." The king gave him food and drink and waited to see if others would come, but no one did. The king then said, "You are here before 5 p.m. I promised to give whatever you want." The person replied, "Oh king, I do not want anything." The king asked why he had come then. The man said, "I came because it was your order, and I should follow it. I live in this kingdom, and you are like a god to us. The king is like a god; we respect him because he takes care of everyone. That is why I came." The king said, "I wanted an intelligent person to rule the kingdom," and he gave the entire kingdom to that person. When the other people heard that the person who had arrived had received the kingdom, they were full of regret. They thought, "Oh my God, we were just taking a few things—diamonds, food, clothes. If we had reached there, we would have gotten the entire kingdom. We would be happy and have everything in life." Similarly, human life proceeds in the same way. Humans have forgotten everything. God has given us a divine life, and this whole world is like many shops: somewhere there are diamonds, necklaces, jewellery; somewhere we get food; somewhere we get clothes. This is our story. God has given us everything. He wants to give us a kingdom. But what do we do? We go after little things and feel very happy, saying, "Oh, I have got this, I am very happy." Likewise, we should know what we have received in this human life and what we must achieve. If we want to achieve the divine kingdom, what is that kingdom? The kingdom is self-realization, or God Himself meeting us, coming to be with us, to be one with us. That is the value of human life. Now, when we go to a showroom, we see a car. In olden times, there was only one car; you could not choose. In clothes, there were only three varieties: silk, cotton, and woolen, used in winter, summer, and normal weather. Now, if you go to any shop, you will see thousands of varieties. We should not get lost in this world's material, thick, metallic things. Instead, we should work and progress toward the main thing we have in our life: our aim. The human aim is to attain self-realization. How do we attain self-realization? For that, we must follow the Guru Vākya. We must follow the Master. We are all lucky that Gurudev, Viśva Gurujī, is always teaching us, helping us, and blessing us so we can achieve our aim of self-realization. That is why Viśwa Gurujī has created the divine society and given us the divine light. We are working on that path so we can come to Gurudev, who is always with us, slowly showing the divine way. Therefore, humans should know their aim is to attain self-realization. How is this progressing? We have the great masters, the holy Gurujī himself, still showing us the way. How is he showing us? Through bhajans. There are two kinds of satsaṅg: Chetan Satsaṅg and Jada Satsaṅg. Chetan Satsaṅg is what we are listening to now—live satsaṅg. We get Chetan Satsaṅg every few days from Mahāmaḍalī Swarjī, Swāmījī, or others. But Jada Satsaṅg we get each and every day through the divine bhajans of holy Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī, and Devapurījī. When you sing or repeat a bhajan, you feel energy, divine energy. You are moving toward spiritual energy, progressing on your spiritual path, slowly nearing your aim. Therefore, we all should always follow and constantly tell ourselves, "I am slowly attaining my aim." We should always work and never think negatively about how many bad things we have done. Now we are aware. Now we have the great master. Now Viṣṇu Gurujī is guiding us. Slowly, we are progressing as Gurudev guides us. Slowly, we are receiving everything. Thus, human value and the human aim are to attain self-realization in this body, for we do not know when our last minute will be. Whenever you have time, think about your mantra, do your seva. In everything we do, we finally say, "Śivārpaṇam astu." When we perform abhiṣeka or any pūjā, we take water in our hand and offer everything—mantra, mālā, abhiseka, pūjā, sādhanā, seva—to our Gurudev, to God Śiva, to God Rāma. When you do this, the karma bandhana, the karmic bonds from all actions, will not bind you. I pray to God Śiva, I pray to God that He blesses all of us. I pray that He always blesses us and guides us on the divine way so we can always connect with each other, go together, and attain our aim, our target, our path. Thank you for listening. We will meet again in the next lecture. We will share more stories and discussions in satsaṅg. If we have satsaṅg every day, we generate new power. When I sit in this position, when I chant Oṁ, I feel divine energy. This morning, I was sitting near Gurudev, closing my eyes, thinking about the mantra and Gurudev. I felt divine energy coming from within. The energy does not come from outside; it comes from our inside. We have that energy, and Gurudev has given us the key to switch it on. Now you can raise your energy to a higher level and enjoy that inner state. That is why we say, "Enjoy, enjoy." It means inner joy. Outer joy will not give you eternal happiness, but the inner joy that Vishwa Gurujī taught us will always give us the happiness and divine fulfillment we seek. Thank you.