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Hari Om, dear friends, dear brothers and sisters. Today is a very special day for us because today is Swāmījī's birthday. We are happy and we are fortunate because we have Swāmījī's birthday twice a year, due to the moon calendar and the sun calendar. According to the moon calendar, Swāmījī's birthday was in India. But I said we are fortunate, and we have one more chance according to the solar calendar, and today is Swāmījī's birthday. We are here in the web, in Hungary. The hall is completely full, and Swāmījī said that I must speak like a football commentator. I know that the people in the hall know everything about this. For nearly two hours, one and a half hours, we had darśana with Swāmījī. Thousands of people came, gave their love and flowers to Swāmījī, and also had darśana. Darśana—viewing, seeing Gurudev—is the most important thing in the life of a disciple. When we start practicing yoga, we think the satsaṅga is the most important, but not just the satsaṅga; the lecture of Gurudev is the most, most important thing. I remember, more than 20 years ago, I was always complaining about such big crowds and so many people coming to give flowers and mālā to Swāmījī, because we wanted to hear the lecture. But with Swāmījī, only these few seconds and bowing down to the Gurudev is the most important thing. In that moment, everything is intense. I remember once, it was Guru Pūrṇimā somewhere in Austria, and the hall was full of people. All the time there was a queue, and we had only a few minutes of lecture from Swāmījī. In that moment, I was thinking, "Oh, only a few minutes' lecture." But when we sat in the bus going back to Zagreb, we were so full of energy and full of this atmosphere, from being and having darśana. When we are in India with Swāmījī, we have a satsaṅga. Also, many, many Indians come to greet Swāmījī. In a satsaṅga like this, so many people come to Swāmījī, greet him, get darśana, and get a blessing. That moment is so full and so inspiring for many, many weeks and months after. For the webcast, it may not be so interesting to see so many people in the queue, but at the same time, we have bhajans. All the time we are singing bhajans. That bhajan is the essence of the teaching. As Swāmījī said, if you sing a bhajan alone, you have a satsaṅga. When you have problems and you don't have inspiration and you don't have strength to practice meditation, just sit and sing bhajans. Or if you don't know how to sing bhajans, just listen to bhajans. That bhajan completely, almost, changes the atmosphere in your home and also completely purifies and changes your mind. I think in such situations and such big festivals, like Guru Pūrṇimā, Swāmījī's birthday, or Mahāsamādhi, where we sing bhajans all night, we have few opportunities. First, to sing bhajans, but it's also more important than only listening to the bhajans. Because if we only listen to the bhajans, we are only users. But if we sing the bhajans, we also give energy into that. We all make good karma. Through our mouth go these holy words of the Master, and we have more benefit. Every time when we are in satsaṅga, try not to be only a user, only a listener, only one who is behind and looking for some entertainment. The most important thing is to be in that situation. Be in the honey, and we will have this nice, sweet taste inside of us. In one bhajan it is said—I don't know how to say it nicely in English—but I think it is: it will be a very big misfortune and great misery in my life if I don't see and be with you, my Gurudev. I think for all of us, today is a very, very important day because Swāmījī was incarnate on earth, he is incarnate on earth, and he is with us. Our life now has sense because in saṃsāra, in this world without sense, now we have sense, and we have darśana with our Gurudev. Many, many greetings and good wishes for the birthday. I think for all your disciples who are not here with you and who are now watching the webcast, we wish that Swāmījī will be with us for many, many, many years, and we wish you good health. Also, we wish that we will be much, much better disciples, and that we will practice, and not just practice, but be better humans. Many, many good wishes for your birthday. Well, you know, always for everything, those who are listening to my website should try to find out some good people who can make the techniques always and who can work on the time. One thing is that you don't show only what you like to show, but what people like—that is important. You think that many people are standing in the queue and coming and greeting Swāmījī; it's a private thing. But you know, there are thousands of people around the world, or more than that, at least that they can see our Guru, brothers and sisters, and mentally they are also with that queue, like mānasik pūjā. Also, it's not only that if Swāmījī speaks we will show, but there are many others who speak, also very, very good. And therefore, the cameraman should be very neutral. This whole morning, people were waiting. So they said that it was a little bit on the web side, and then it was finished. They don't know when it will happen, what will happen. So it was in the web now for half an hour, then they switched on the Strylki. Now they don't know if we are in the Vape or in Strylki. A few telephone calls came between our Saganji from Rani Rajpali district, and he said, "Swāmījī, are you in the Vape or in the Strylki?" So this is the job work of the cameraman, that they should always make clarity. So Vivek Purī said that we will be better disciples. I am sure you will be, because I am working on that. That's it. So the work still has to be done, a lot. So, always we have to respect the interest, the opinion of the people, and not always like a fixed one speaker, like he's speaking in the photo frame. So, television is like a photo frame, a nice portrait, and suddenly, the portrait begins to speak. So today, many, many Indians around the world and many people who are interested in Indian culture are watching. And this weekend, people had time to prepare themselves for the weeks to come or not. So you have to give the information to the people, the subjects, what will be spoken, how the programs are, and so on. Anyhow, thank you for your good wishes. And thank you for giving so many chocolates, so that our children will be happy during the whole week, and then the dentists will be more happy to take some money out of the pockets of the parents, and the children will get rid of their beautiful teeth. But what to do? Now, from the viewpoint of health, we are often nourishing ourselves not well, and that is a problem with our health. I think the best is that you learn how to make the sweets at home without mixing chemical things. The homemade sweets are most tasty, and they have the love of the mother or father who is making them, brother or sister or grandmother. It is a family love inside, and they will not put rubbish things inside. So again, try to come and give the children those sweets which you can make at home. Now, around the world, slowly, slowly, people are giving up the plastic bags. If you know that recently, about two weeks ago in India, all kinds of plastic bags and cups, these are banned. The first step was in Rajasthan. Our Rajasthan government made this step, and it was welcomed by people more than anything. Then it was also getting more different states of India, because many problems with canalizations were the plastic bags. About two years ago in Mumbai, there was a flood. That flood was caused because of the plastic bags. The canalizations and bags were filled with water. One bag, two bags, thousands of bags blocked the water. You remember, I think it's already four years ago, that in Prague, in the history of Prague, there was never such a high water in Prague. It was overflooded, and also in Olomouc, the city of the Czech Republic, and that was also a problem. They didn't tell, but it was a problem of the plastic bags. Because the canalizations, which are done perfectly by engineers, there was no problem; water could have flown easily out. Similarly, the plastic bags cause many days of the sea life, and so on, you know, all of this. So, thanks to God, humans are realizing this again. Now, if you see these chocolate pockets, and it has a nice paper cover box, but over that is nice plastic. Now, don't think it's not a little; it's a lot, because they do not produce only one box of chocolate, but thousands or millions. So, how many square meters or how many meters of plastic is used to have some chocolate pocket like this when they produce about, let's say, 500,000 pieces? It is a plastic from Budapest till Frankfurt. And how much waste is out there? So this is a problem that we don't see. So what is the best solution? The best solution is: don't use it. If there are no consumers, there will be no more, what you call, the manufacturers. And so, simply avoid. You can say, "Oh, thank you, but this plastic over, we don't like." The seller will say, "Okay, I will take it away." You can say, well, now, to take away doesn't help. For us, it's like the operation was successful, but the patient died. So if you begin to avoid such things, then they will overthink also and produce different. So now in India, again they came to the old system. They all give you fruit in a paper bag. Now what happens? The newspapers were thrown away, and the school books and school copies, where the children used to write, were thrown away. Now, people collect and they are sitting at home, making small bags and selling them. So when you buy the fruits or something, they put them again in this bag and give it to you. So it is recycling people. People got some job, and it is healthy. So we have to learn to say no, and not only no because of this. Simply, very simple things, how people don't understand. I just flew yesterday night from Delhi to Vienna via Zurich. And you know, Swiss Air and Singapore Air, these two had a good name in the world, and this time I chose Singapore Airlines—ah, sorry, the Zurich, Swiss Air. 90% of things changed. That's why it's no wonder that Swiss Air went bankrupt twice. The Swiss Air, yeah. Now, I had a ticket, what you call business class. And they offered me also the first class with 50,000 kilometers of my frequent flying, buy this. But I said, no, I don't want to. So every aeroplane in different classes offers different kinds of food. They took off at 1:15 at night, or early morning, a.m. Austrian Airlines takes off at a quarter to two a.m., and so on, and they're in business class and different classes. They offer good food. But you ordered, so they came simply and said, "Dinner is here, please." And I was sleeping. But you know, sometimes one is greedy, so I was greedy to know what kind of good food Swiss Air would give, and they brought me what you call the chickpeas, soaked in water, taken out, and a little lemon on it maybe, and a little piece of paneer, and two salad leaves on it. The Austrian Airlines would give you this as an appetizer, but better spices on the side. And then they brought one plate; there was a kind of pieces made from potatoes and from meat, and the fish. All was lying on one tray, and a lady came and said, "This is not vegetarian, this is vegetarian." And Monica said, "But I'm vegetarian." And she said, "Yes, so this is vegetarian." She looked into her eyes and she said, "But it is not vegetarian now anymore." When it's together, it's not eatable. She said, "Aha, aha," and went away. So this, what I want to tell you, is that still people cannot understand why. But in German they say, einfach die begreifen gar nichts, worum es geht. They are not able to think anymore. Anyhow, I was eating one bean after the other, slowly, slowly. And all in all, the old beans were that much, you know. You see my hand? That's all. And it turned time: quarter past, twenty past two. And then she came and said, "I just want to take the plate away." And I said, "And where is the food?" And she said, "You ate just now." I said, "That's all?" She said, "Yes. Who will eat three o'clock in the night?" That was the answer of the Swiss Air. Didn't explain anything. Just take away the plate and hurry home. So you see how the humans are changing, how humans cannot understand. And the breakfast was also just nearly nothing, and I was so hungry. And I was angry at myself, why I didn't take Austrian Airlines. So, really, the first time I was sure is that I didn't take Austrian Airlines. So these are the things going on the internet, you know? And who knows how many millions of people are listening? Is not good advertising for these airlines. They should understand, and I hope some journalist is listening and will give good commentary on it. So let's come back to the other world. So it means that people do not understand why we should not put plastic over the chocolate box. And you know, they don't put maybe some animal fat in the chocolates, gelatin, but they are already putting in the, what you call, in dairy where they are doing the milk work with the milk, so there is a mix also, animal fat. Means it kills animal's fat, so there are a lot of things which are not appreciatable for a vegetarian to eat this. And for many people, it's not good for their health. Day and night, you are trying hard to eat healthy food and be healthy, and you think you are buying something which is healthy, but it's unfortunately not. One lady, after eating salad, had to go to the hospital. And they said, "But you ate fish." She said, "No." Are you allergic to something? She said, "Yes, to fish." Then what did you eat today? She said, "I eat a nice salad with the tomatoes." The doctor said in England, "It was everything is clear, because now the tomatoes are manipulated with the fish genes, and so if you eat that, you have an allergy like if you would have eaten a fish, and now we don't know which tomatoes are those." So I always tell the people, "Please don't put salad on my tomatoes, only at home-made tomatoes, grown tomatoes, if you know the old, old seeds." And those who know that, they have at home real old seeds. Please don't lose those seeds; cultivate them. So, in this way, what you like, the ketchup, that's also not good. Or on the pizza, vegetarian pizza, but they made something down, ground something on the floor of the pizza, it's also not acceptable. So many, many things around the world, these greedy people manipulated human foods in such a terrible way. Not only the animal's feeder, but also the human feeder. So you are a good boy, a good husband, or a good father, and you cook at home for your children. And you are a good mother, and you have knowledge about cooking, so help your poor husband to learn cooking, so when you divorce, that he doesn't starve. So everyone should learn. Make sweets at home, and definitely you know, and if you don't know how to make a sweet, then just buy the sugar and put it in the water, and then put something in the rice inside, and boil it and eat it—sweet rice. But other than all sweets, what we buy in the market, because at home your mother will cook quantity of half a kilo, or one kilo, or two kilos maximum. But in big, big companies, there are two tons, or three tons at once. And you know what happens, what falls in. That's it. Once someone told a joke about the empire of Austria, Franz Josef. And he liked very much to eat one special kind of food that's called kaiserschmarrn, and that is made out of wheat, it's like a halwā, Indian halwā, it's like halwā. And in his kitchen it was big, one lady was cooking and stirring, and the emperor, while walking, just looked in the kitchen, and he was happy that today he will get this. Then he looked a little further, and the lady who was cooking said, "Now, sir, your highness, it will be tasteful." Then he said, "Yes, but it depends." Again she asked, and again he said, "It depends." And he was standing there. And she was happy that he was standing there, and she saw how she was cooking. Again she asked, "It soon will be finished, and I'm sure you will like it." He said, "It depends." And she said, "What does it mean, Lord? It depends." He said, "It depends where it will fall." She said, "What?" Because she had a long hanging from the nose. And he was only waiting for where it would fall. So your mother will take more care. That's it. Anyhow, we spoke now about eating, and I wish you a good lunch time. Our cooks in this, our kitchen, are much better at taking care of how we eat. The afternoon program is as usual, Yoga Nidrā, and around 4:30 or 5 will be Darśana program. If not raining, then in the tent. And evening 7:30 will be prayer, Satsaṅga, and some lectures. So, wish you all the best, and good appetite. You are sitting here already, three and a half hour, and not only you, but me too. So Hari Om, and bless you. If someone is going home, wish you a good journey. Dīp Nārada Bhagavān Devīśvara Mahādeva kī Dharmasamrāṭ Satguru Svāmī Mādhavānanda jī Bhagavān kī Satyasanātana Dharma kī. Oṃ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ. Gurudev, I would like to say on behalf of all of us that we are very happy that on your birthday, today, we can be together with you and partake in darśana. I avail myself of the opportunity, on behalf of all of us, that today, on your birthday, we can all be together and, apart from your darśana today... Szeretetünket, odaadásunkat és hűségünket. Szeretném kifejezni egy virácsokorral. We would like to express our love, our devotion, and our respect with a bunch of flowers and faithfulness. Nagyon köszönjük, hogy velünk vagy. We are deeply grateful that you are with us. Thank you. Kérem szépen. Szívesen. It's a pleasure. És nagyon boldogok vagyunk, hogy a következő két hétben együtt lehetünk veled, és hallgathatjuk bölcsességedet, és reméljük, hogy mi is mindent meg tudunk tenni azért, hogy amit te nagyon szeretnél, hogy mindannyian fejlődjünk. And we are very happy that we can be together with you in the next two weeks. And we also try to contribute as much as we can to develop, and we are going to strive for the divine light that you would like to see in us. We wish you all happiness and a very, very, very long life. Praṇām Gurudev. Evelyn, you keep this flower for me, okay? Tell Grandmother Swāmījī's flowers. Again. Again. Keep it with you. Keep it with you. Take it for your room, okay? Okay, so I think now Dr. Radha is coming. The car is parked in the wrong place, RI2-0204. It is a Volkswagen Caddy. Please remove your car. Rijeka, are you there? Please remove your car from Rijeka, RI2-0204. If there was no microphone, I'm sorry, I didn't hear any words which were spoken before. So I'm a little uncertain about what I should speak. But what I know is, first we have lots of jubilees and celebrations in front of us. First, of course, I want to express our congratulations and best wishes from the Vienna people, from the Austrian people, and for your birthday, Swāmījī, from all who are here and who are not here, who could not be here. And the next events or celebrations will be in 2011. It is 35 years that we celebrate the eternal light in Mahāprabhujī's ashram, Śikanidagase. It was the enlightenment and inauguration of the ashram in 1976 in Angoroponima. This will be the next jubilee, and then next year... Harry, since I sat at the back and there was no microphone, I didn't hear what Swāmījī said, so I'm a little confused, but first I would like to give the opportunity to Swāmījī, the Bécs, the Austrians, and the non-Bécs to wish you a very happy birthday, and I would also like to share with you that big celebrations are coming, big anniversaries. And then in 2012, this special year, everybody is waiting for this year, and we hope it will be a good and great year. It will be exactly 40 years that Swāmījī came to Europe, according to his passport at least. We found this date, that he came in 1972, first time he set his holy foot on the European land. And we all look forward to 2012, it will be a very special day, because according to Svāmījī's letter, he put his holy foot down on the European soil in 1972. I think it was in Great Britain, the first visit. And so we will celebrate, of course, these 40 years. So every year now we have something. And, yes, something is waiting also this year still. And so we would like to, don't to mention this actually, but Swāmījī always is telling we shall... Okay, not to mention. Thank you. So now we'll come to our... Thank you. So today is also a day for India. It's very great, significant. It's the Independence Day of India, that became a republic. And after a long struggle to get freedom, which was occupied by the British and before that by the Mughals, so for India it means a great deal. So today is the day of the national independence of India. So everywhere, like for every country, they are doing their national day, and also in Christianity, it is also something about the Maria and having holidays. Also, I think it's the Christians who believe or call themselves like Catholics, so that's also good, and it happens to be every year also. It's funny, it happens every year that you congratulate me on my birthday. Thank you for that. I should have been today in Jordan School, and the children were very unhappy that I couldn't be with them. But we have, twice a year, this kind of national day. The second is then the 26th of January, where the constitution was signed. And that's on the 26th of January, so also that time I'm in Jadon. Well, the main thing is that we are here together today, and the aim of our coming always together is to come further, to cross the more miles of this spirituality. And I know that we all try very hard. We do our best. And I'm sure that we will come to our destination. From time to time, some people make mistakes. They can't follow the disciplines, but generally, you are all trying your best. Now is the time for us to be alert, be aware, or be conscious and be in clarity, because the local situations in the society are changing, and we should not change with that change. And so there are a lot of things happening nowadays in human societies, which is not acceptable according to the ancient way of thinking, culture, traditions, spiritualities, and so on. There, where our ancestors, our great sages, our philosophers, they made a solid foundation for human society. And that foundation stone was based on human nature: the ethics and morals, the spirituality and protection—the protection of the humans. The one person is entirely responsible for the whole village, for example. So people were proud to be citizens of that village, the citizen of that city, and the citizen of that country, or so-called kingdom. When people went away or emigrated from one kingdom, it was for a king a shame, a very big shame. That king was not able to keep his people. So that means, altogether, for them it meant a lot to protect humans in the best way. And now, what is happening, including the drugs and many other things, is not acceptable. You see, some people are fighting because it's human rights. But human rights cannot be to destroy the human constitution, human life, or human dignity. We do make distinctions between other creatures and humans. A human stands above all, meaning as a protector, as a leader. And so we should value the human constitution. And that constitution was created by great personalities of every country: philosophically, the spiritual way, you may call it religion, and the cultural things. And it was that the ill elements do not enter into our society, which harms the human, which abuses humans, which misguides the humans. They lose their faith, and they are misguided through the powers of money or politics. And so now is the time where we humans become great slaves of money. And we are always struggling to have power. So, what do we call now the three powers? Media, money, and ministry. So these are three M's, and in old times they used to warn us from three W's. Now you are writing www, and then so. That is our website, is it not? That is the internet. But in old times, these three W's had a completely different meaning. In every English-speaking country, they used to say, "Be careful or be gentle to these three W's." And these three W's were the wealth, the wine or whiskey, and woman. So, with these three, you have to deal with gentle things. And now these three are abused, and you see the wise men, what they were predicting is coming true. So we have to be now more aware, more alert, and especially you have to understand your children and tell them that if your old friends are doing like that, it does not mean that you also should do like this. The biggest mistake of the parents is this: they try to compromise, and they say, "Now all are doing," and then those who are doing like this and thinking like that, they have problem with their children when children are grown. They try drugs, then they have mental problems. They have depressions, anxieties, and even they are against their own parents. So, but the mistake is the parents and society, that they were not able to protect the children. So we know the children are the future of tomorrow. Children are the culture of tomorrow. And the countries, all the world will go in the direction where the children will go. So whatever you do, and whatever you create, it should have a good foundation. And you cannot all the time keep it in your hands. One day you have to hand it over, but only we pray that the next one, the follower, will also be with the same feelings and with the same aims. When the things are not taken care, things are destroyed, spoiled, and you see with your own eyes, but you can't do anything. Then you say, "It's a great pity." It's more painful, more hard, and you know, with great concentration and with hard work, you create something. You dedicate your time for your children, and then you see how your children are suffering, and they don't follow you at all. They don't follow you, they blame you. And you sit down and you think, "Yes, can be I was wrong." Yes, you were completely wrong, that you couldn't give to your child what you should have given. And this is now the time that children and young kids who are sitting here should not say, "Well, all my friends are going there." Let them go. Some many young kids, they said, "Yeah, now it is a tradition after 10 years or 12 years you can go outside with your friends, stay with them overnight, and this and all are doing. Why should I stay home, you know?" This is a new illness that has come into the human brain. And one way we are angry, and we can't imagine, and we don't accept the young children's marriage. But you don't know what the marriage means. That's it. You think that on the piece of paper is marriage. That is not a marriage. So in this way, tell your children not to do that, and don't say, "Everyone is going, so why should I not go?" But you must tell why you should not go, and I'm sure that your children love you more than anyone and anything, and they listen very carefully with love. But when the parents are doing the opposite, then children don't know where to begin. So, it is hard work to have children and educate them. That's very important, but it is very hard. So, if you have children, then you should give this world some quality as a guide, a leader, but not a leader in those destructive ways. So we have to preserve, we have to protect, we have to keep, and we have to utilize the ancient principles for humanity's protection, to protect the entire world. That is what I wanted to tell today. So try, please, your best and explain to your kids. That's it. All okay? Any questions? Anyone want to speak about something today? Any child, any woman, any man, any husband, bhajan band, any band, then just smile. Photo, not photo, water. So everybody, take your mala, close your eyes, and repeat your mantra. Meditation.