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Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai. Paramparāśiśya Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai. So it is. Everything is very good. Let it be as it is. Therefore, we try to help each other, to be nice to each other, and to be helpful to each other. Nothing will go with you in this life. Kyā tum leke āye the, aur kyā leke jāoge? When you came into this world, what did you bring with you? And when you will go one day, what will you take with you? Nothing. Not even a five-centimeter piece of cloth was on your body. And the same thing, everything will stay here. It is said, "Enjoy, enjoy... to give, to give, to give." So, learn the alphabet G. Don’t learn T. T. From your side, write so T and G. G means give, and T means take. So do not only take, give also. Okay? It is said, one very nice poem: Chidiyā chāñch bhar le gayī, aur nadīyāṁ ghaṭī na nīr, Dharam kī dhan na ghaṭāye, kahe Dās Kabīr Kabīr Dās. He was sitting near the bank of the river, meditating and thinking about Brahman. One bird came, a thirsty bird came, sat near the water, took water in her beak, drank, and flew away. But the river didn’t lose anything; the river was still full. Chidiyā chāñch bhar le gayī, the bird took one peck of water, one drop maybe or two. The river didn’t become less; it didn’t lose the water. Similarly, he said, Kabīr Dās, "Dharam kī dhan na ghaṭāye." When you help something, when you give a donation somewhere, supporting somewhere, you will not lose your wealth. Your wealth will increase. And so, helping hands have more value than folded hands. I wish you a very good night. Today is 15 minutes earlier because you have to eat the cake, my God. And therefore, tomorrow morning, webcasting will be with the very nice āsanas, a special kind of āsanas. And those special āsanas will be in this hall, led by Hemlata from Vienna, Austria. Śrī Śrī... So, from 9:30 to 10:30 in the morning, our dear Harriet Hemalata from Vienna will present. You will be here, Harriet, or not? Okay, she is here. That’s very good. I have to go to Vienna now. Tonight I am going to Vienna, and tomorrow afternoon, latest by evening satsaṅg, I will be here. If Mahāprabhujī allows me to come, okay? But I am with you for eating cakes. Don’t worry. Let’s go. So, thank you. All the best. Deep Nayan Bhagavān Kī. Deveśvara Mahādeva. Dharma Saṁbhārata Satguru Svāmī. Mādhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī. Good evening to everybody. Many blessings to our brothers and sisters around the world who are with us through webcast. Today was a day of happiness; today was full moon, Pūrṇimā. Oṁ Pūrṇamadaḥ, Pūrṇamidaṁ, Pūrṇāt, Pūrṇasya, Pūrṇamādāya, Pūrṇamevāvaśiṣyate. What is existing, all is coming. That Brahman which is complete. And if we take something from that complete, it is also complete. There is nothing, and nothing is limited. Today is a very special vibration on this planet. This is the day of the sister and brother relation. This is the day of the protection of women, the protection of our mothers, wives, and sisters. Millions and millions and... millions of sisters were happy today. It’s like a cut trunk of a tree that grows again. So today, the sister’s love again awoke, that yes, I have one brother, and I do count on my brother. If the sister is older than the brother, she is very happy that she has a younger brother to whom she can give a brother’s love. Protect, give advice, and if the brother is bigger, elder than the sister, then she is more happy that I have strong arms, that arms means my brother. I can count on my brother in any situation, that he will not let me stand alone, that my brother will always be on my side. Anyone in the world can disappoint me, but not my brother. So, sisters are happy in both ways, whether the brother is younger than her or older than her. The brothers are also very happy that I can love someone more than myself, and that is my sister. Any relation can break. Friends may disappoint us. The partner, husband or wife, may get divorced and go away. Colleagues may turn against me, but my sister will never. And sister also thinks, "My brother will never." It is said, blood is thicker than water. Blood is thicker than water. It means that there is a blood relation between brothers and sisters. A mother is very proud and happy to see the brothers and sisters, how they love each other and how they are living together with mutual understanding. According to the Vedic tradition, according to the Vedas and other holy literatures, according to the creation on this planet, and for human dharma, to fulfill human dharma, there are given four āśramas. Brahmacarya Āśrama, your student life; Gṛhastha Āśrama, your married life; Vānaprastha Āśrama, when you have children and your children are married, you fulfill your duties towards your family; and Sannyāsa Āśrama, the retirement. Now, the Gṛhastha Āśrama, the family life, can also be very successful, can be very spiritual, and can lead to God realization, self-realization, if they follow the Gṛhastha Āśrama Dharma. That Gṛhastha Dharma is to create a happy family. It’s not that you just marry and you have a girl or a boy, a husband or a wife; animals can also have that. But for the human, it is something very deep, very great. They speak to each other that our children, whom we will give birth to on this planet, will be great spiritual and social servants. Śrī Śrī... Do not suffer without parents or without complete parents. And millions and millions of women will not have tears in their eyes today because of losing their children or having to go away from their husbands, or because their husbands went away. This tradition, this culture, getting divorced is not a path of non-violence. It is said that in every household, among the children, there must be at least one daughter, so that in the yard of your house—everyone had their own house with an inside yard where the whole family could sit together and eat, speak, sing, and dance. They need not go to any restaurants, clubs, pubs, tubs, cups, or things. Happy! And every parent, mother, wife, or husband and wife were dreaming that one day in our house, in our house yard, will be the holy fire. Means that we will marry our daughter. They are dreaming of this ceremony. It is called Kanyādāna: marry your daughter and give her safety and a happy life. Parents are more concerned about their daughters than their sons. And also, if the father died, the brothers have the first duties. And still, there is a tradition that in many families, until they have not married their sisters, the boys do not want to get married. They said, "No, first our dharma, our duty, is that our sister gets a happy family, a good husband; then we will marry." So this relation between families, brothers and sisters and parents, it is for humans something to fulfill their dharma. Every woman is dreaming, expecting a happy marriage and one day that she will have in her lap a beautiful child, a baby. And she dreams that our child will have a good father, a loving father, and that our child will grow with us. We will take care of the child. Until our vanaprastha āśrama, then we will see that the child is capable enough, and we will go and meditate. That was designed family life by great saints, how a family should look. Every neighbor was looking forward to hearing the voice of a small child born in the neighbor’s house. Every neighbor was dreaming of bringing some sweets or something for that small neighbor’s baby, loving them like their own baby. What a beauty of human life. Not only were the parents feeling responsible for the children, for their education and for the safety of the children, but everyone, no matter from your village or from another village, every elderly person felt they had children and other children like their own children. You know, what happens in the world, what happens in the holidays, people go and abuse small children. Why it happened is because today the education, saṃskāra, is not there. Therefore, it is better not to marry. Make sure that you will not get divorced. And if you married mistakenly, it can happen, a mistake, then don’t get children, because then you are three suffering. So it is better to suffer alone than to let two others suffer with you. So all social and cultural events are for the protection of human society, the protection of human dignity, the protection of human dharma, and to develop spirituality and the spiritual in the world. So today, this Rakṣā Bandhan Day has made millions of sisters and brothers happy. And unfortunately, many sisters had tears in their eyes today because they had no brother, or their brother had died. Similarly, many brothers were also unhappy that their wrists remained without the rakhi that their sister would tie on their hand. But of course, the neighbors do. Other sisters, they come, and neighbors do. It is a human feeling. It is a beauty. Can you imagine on Christmas day, you are sitting alone near the Christmas tree? You buy yourself a present, put it under the tree, and then you take it and open it. Even many are not Christian, but they do have the Christmas tree because we are living together. So it is not that if you believe in religion or not; the festivals make us happy. And when you are sitting alone on Christmas evening—last Christmas you were together with your husband, you went, and today you are alone. Your wife is gone. You look at the Christmas tree, or you look to that evening, that last Christmas you went, the last minutes for shopping, and brought so many things for your dear wife. And today you came home with empty hands and made yourself more unhappy. So there are days, there are times, there are situations, there is something where a human makes another human happy, and we shall try to be the best friends of humans and animals too. You know, the animals also feel the happiness, the care, the love, and the animals are waiting for you a lot. When you feed every day your birds on your balcony or in the garden, and a few days you are not there, when you come back, the birds are angry with you. Where have you been without asking us and without giving the feeder here, you know? Especially in winter time in Europe, when a lot of snow is there, and you know, birds come and sit on your balcony, they knock on your window, beauty, animals also, or dogs, cats, all kinds of animals. So this planet is a planet of love, but that kind of love where there is understanding. If there is no understanding, if there is no acceptance, then it is unpleasant. Therefore, today is Rakṣabandhan, a day of women, a day for the protection of women. And so we shall make this ceremony more and more every year, and let’s call it Women’s Protection Day. Okay? What? The boys didn’t speak. Yes, thank you. So we should all get signatures and send them to the United Nations to declare a Day of Women’s Protection. What do you say? Yes! That’s very, very good. Let’s take the initiative. Declare this by Śrī Svāmī Mādhavānanda World Peace Council. Okay, so we get a signature, and we will send a signature, and we write a date that we declare today. All right? Very nice. Bless you all. Good evening. So, there is some bhajan. Which bhajan should we sing for that? Okay, girls. That’s right. Don’t be sad, because many are sad from my talk. I can understand. Teri Satguru Rā Ke Lāj Chint Mat Kar Nishank Kabīr.