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Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī, Śrī Śrī Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva Kī, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānjī Bhagavān Kī Jai, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai. Good evening, and blessings of Śrī Mahāprabhujī to everybody. I should have spoken in German, but due to all our friends around the world, I will speak again in English. The blessing is coming to you from our holy place, Śrī Mahāprabhujī Ashram in Vienna. This ashram is the head ashram of Yoga and Daily Life around the world; this ashram was founded here. In 1974, after this, many branches around the world were established, and the thousands of practitioners of Yoga and Daily Life and spirituality went through the training of yoga philosophy, Indian culture, Indian spirituality, and Sanātana Dharma, the eternal religion. This place is a holy place because, since 1974, this holy flame, the eternal light, has been burning here on the altar. Welcome all of you once more. Especially today is the day of the Mahāsamādhi of the universally worshipped Bhagavān Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī, our Satguru Dev. Many are born, and few are incarnated. There are two kinds of incarnations: Nimit Avatāra and Nitya Avatāra. The Nimit Avatāra, which is recorded by the Vedic culture, Vedic tradition, or according to the first scriptures, the Vedas, includes the 24 incarnations, and the 24th one is what we call the Kali Avatāra in this Kali Yuga. And Nityāvatāra is the holy saint. Out of these 24 incarnations, there have been millions of the Nityāvatāra. The Nityāvatāras are maintaining the dharma on this earth, maintaining the spirituality, the spiritual teachings, and the spiritual guidance. It is said: the fire is burning in the sky, and the pieces of the fire, the sparks of the fire, are raining on this earth. If the holy saints were not here, the whole saṃsāra would burn. This symbolizes negative energies: the fire of greed, the fire of anger, the fire of jealousy, the fire of krodha, kāma, moha, lobha, and ahaṃkāra. The holy saints calm down this inner fire through their spiritual teachings, through their being on this earth. Many saints, we don't know where they live, where they are, or who they are, but they are here on this earth. Through their presence we all still survive, and it is their holy presence which radiates the spirituality that goes through the whole earth, managing or maintaining the environment, maintaining all the four seasons, maintaining the life in all creatures, and especially in the humans. But at present, we humans have immense temptations toward materialism, and we forget our own self. We forget the aim of our coming here. We have forgotten the meaning of human life, and that's why we suffer a lot. In this Kali Yuga, materialism is in first place. Holy Gurujī said once that in past times, humans had little comfort, few things in their life, but they were happy, they were healthy, and they lived in harmony. Now we have all kinds of comforts, all kinds of means in our life, but still we are more unhappy, more unhealthy, more living in disharmony and fighting. This is very clear: what we collect will not help us, but what we collect within us—the good qualities, spirituality—that will help us, that will go with us. Though we live in this material world, we should not forget the sense of our life. Life is given to us free. God and Mother Nature have given us everything. We are very rich. We have everything. We have two legs, we have healthy hands, healthy eyes, ears, brain, healthy body, intellect. What can be more than this? This body cannot be borrowed to anyone, and this body cannot be bought in any market. It is only and only ours. So though we live in this materialistic world, we experience everyday happiness, unhappiness, disappointments, breaking of friendships, and negative energies, but our inner self should not change, and we should not change our way. Once we dismiss our thoughts or our relation to the Satguru Dev, we are lost. We should not cut off the chain of spirituality. When the chain is broken, we will fall down again. Again, we have to begin from the grassroots, meaning from different kinds of lives, not human lives. Therefore, whatever happens, nothing should change our inner feelings and our spirituality. We cannot stop time, we cannot stop growing old, and we cannot stop our destinations, just as we cannot prolong that destiny on the day when we will die. Then we will see what good things we gained and what bad things we got. That will torture us for many, many lives, or that will lead us to enlightenment and freedom. So when the holy saint who served the Gurudev was loyal to the Gurudev and always praying for the mercy, the blessing, the dayā, the kṛpā, became one with the Brahman, therefore it will be said Brahmalīna. For others, it will be said one died or one went to heaven: mokṣa, svarga, or naraka. Śvarga and naraka, these are two chambers, these are two sectors. For a little time to enjoy your good karmas, you come to the sector of the śvarga, and to suffer the bad karmas, to go through constant pain, is naraka. But mokṣa is liberation from both svarga and naraka and coming to the brahmaloka. Therefore, when the holy saint passes away, we call it brahma-līna. Brahma-līna means immersed in the oneness of Brahman, the one without a second. Though they became one with the Brahman, they are still with us. Because that Brahman is everywhere, in each and every atom, in the endless universe, in every planet, in every star, moon, and sun. Their presence is in every tattva: space, air, fire, water, and earth. It's very easy to think, very beautiful to listen, and maybe easy to speak, but to realize that is not so easy. Life is struggling. Life is sometimes like a tsunami, a storm, hurricanes, and sometimes beautiful, joyful, divine, and happy. So, in both situations, we should remain with our one destination, with one thinking. It doesn't matter what happens. It is said: "Leave my country, but my Lord, I know that peace and ānanda is in thy presence." In this way, Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī, he was a Nitya incarnation. For 135 years, Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī physically blessed this earth and every creature. In 1963, on this 5th of December, early morning—it means in Europe or in India, it's getting time near now by the map—Rabbi became one with Brahman. But though he became one with the Brahman, he is one with us. Name curly Baba said, "No one can hold me. I'm like a wind, no one can hold me because I'm everywhere. I belong to no one, but still I will not leave you alone." And so the master, the Bhagavān, the Gurudev, the holy saint, does not belong to one person. It doesn't belong to one country, it doesn't belong to one family. It becomes universal: Vasudeva kuṭumbakam, the entire world is family, in the holy sense. The problem is in the people's mind, and people think, "This is my master, the best master, this is my way." And in such a way, in different beliefs and in religions, the fighting comes, the wars come. This is the ignorance. God doesn't belong to a particular religion. God didn't create the religion. God made that kind of religion, what we call love, peace, harmony, understanding, brotherhood, and oneness. So when the spirituality improves, you become universal. When you concentrate on one side, to your own family only, then you are still limited. You are not in the list of those holy saints. It's not easy. You cannot renounce; it is not easy. But it's not easy because ignorance is there. It is attachment, and that attachment is the attachment of suffering. But attachment to the all is not suffering; it's free. So where there is attachment, there is love, and that love is love of suffering, jealousy, and doubt. And that other detachment is the love, that love of happiness, freedom, and oneness. So, Bhagavān Śrī Dīpnārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī, who gave us a lot, we are very rich. All Yoga and Daily Life people who know Mahāprabhujī, and who will come to know, they will get equally the knowledge, the wisdom, the richness, his bhajans, his way of teaching, his being in this world. And each meter or each centimeter of the earth where his holy lotus feet were stepping on has become forever and ever, till this earth will exist, a holy place. And that only the bhaktas, the devotees, can realize. It is there, it's with us, and it depends on us how much we acknowledged and realized, how much uncertainties we have, how much jealousy or doubts we have. So it's both. It depends on us. Either we are lost or we gain. To gain is our devotion and oneness. To be lost is our doubt, our jealousy, and ignorance. Therefore, we wish and we say that every word of Gurudev is truth, and so comes the truth. Every movement and every wish of the Gurudev is the wish of the reality, and we should realize this, we should follow this, and we shall fulfill this. It is our ignorance that we think, "But my Gurudev has not completed. I will complete?" Who are we that we can complete? But it is he who works within us. He is working within us. We are not. Therefore, we used to say, "Na ham kartā, Prabhu dīp karta, Mahāprabhu deep karta he kevalam." Among many disciples, among many bhaktas, I can only say one, and that is our beloved Sadgurudev Swami Madhvānandajī. When Mahāprabhujī said it is like this, that we will follow and realize his divine words, his bhagyas, we are that instrument of Him. We know the world is a thorny bush jungle, and we are walking through these thorny bushes, but be sure that He is there. He will remove the thorns and will spread the flowers on our path. So difficulties are there, but inside, you know who you are. That's it. Sometimes we said, "I'm not that Hanumānjī bhakta, Hanumān, who can open his chest with his nails, and so that within him is sitting God Rāma and Sītā." So we can't be that Hanumanjī, but we feel that Gurudev is within us. When that will not be within us, we are lost and we are empty. How? Like the soybean eaten by moths, there's only skin over nothing left inside. Similarly, when the moths of the blackmailings, negative words and negative talk, will eat all your inner contents, you will remain only just this empty skin of the humans. So we'll have satsaṅg again in Vienna, in Gurujī's āśram, and it should begin at 7 p.m., Austria time, Vienna time.