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Part 1: Universal Love and the Formless God Good evening to everybody, and adoration to our divine masters, our holy lineage. Welcome, all of you, here in this beautiful place, Vip, where we have been coming for the last fifteen years, nearly, and to this beautiful country, Hungary. We are all very happy and thankful to our dear Hungarian brothers and sisters who prepare these seminars with great love. And the leading force is our dear Kṛṣṇānand and company, all his friends who are working with him. This satsaṅg, this meeting, for many of you is a first satsaṅg coming from India. I came from India a fortnight ago, and also, goodbye satsaṅg, because I will be going back to India in one week. I see here a beautiful Christmas tree, and the whole world knows this is an event, the month where we think of the message of Jesus, being as a messenger of peace and love on this planet. And to realize peace and love is not easy. It’s very easy to pronounce the word “peace,” and also very easy to pronounce the word “love.” It’s good to hear the word “peace,” and very dear to our heart to hear the word “love.” Did we ever make a picture in our imagination of how peace looks like? And did we ever feel in our love, in our heart, what or how does love look? Peace is universal, and love is universal. When we try to utilize universal principles only for the individual or a limited area, then there is no more peace and no more love. We wish peace for us. We wish peace only in our family. But did we ever think of the neighbor? If a neighbor is suffering, how do we create peace for our neighbors? Peace in our society, in our city or town. But what about the entire country? And if we go beyond the borders, then it’s the whole world. In the Upaniṣads, it is said, “Vāsudeva Kuṭumbakam.” The whole world is one family of God, and there is only one God. The different forms or manifestations of God are created individually, but ultimately, there is only one God. But when we focus our concentration and we try to possess a particular God’s form, then we limit God, though God is also universal. God is compared with love. Hence, when love is God, then God is love. That’s why love is universal. God is universal. When we begin to create dualities, then immediately conflict rises in the human brain. Animals have no conflict about God, and don’t think that animals don’t know God. They know. They love God as we love; they know God as we know. Unfortunately, the other creatures are limited in their abilities to express their feelings and God. One holy saint, Mahātma, said in his bhajan, “Japaṭ paśu aur pakṣī pyāre śubha aruṣyam.” O my dear one, even the animals and birds are remembering God by morning, sunrise, and evening at the sunset. They are limited, and we humans have intellect, and that intellect has become selfish and full of pride, greed, and a desire to have everything. And that’s why humans are mostly suffering in this world. And not only that we humans suffer, we also trouble other creatures. Therefore, we work only for limited people. And those who don’t follow us and who don’t understand us, we don’t love them, we don’t include them with us. And if then we would like that they should become and follow what I say, that is a conflict. In the whole world, humans try to get powers. And that was not the sense or the message of Jesus, to get power. But the message was love and peace. If you try to convert someone from their beliefs to other beliefs, it means you don’t love. And you don’t know what peace is because you create conflict in your mind and in your families. Don’t convert them, convince them. What? What is satya and what is asatya? What is the truth and what is the untruth? Reality and non-reality. Vedanta gives the answer to it: “Brahma Satya, Jagat Mithyā.” Ultimately, God is the truth, that Brahman, indescribable, Alakha. Alakha: “A” means “not,” and “lakha” means “to write” or “describe.” Alakh means indescribable, Nirañjan, Nirākāra. Nirākāra means formless, and “rañj” means the spot. Nir means not, without, pure, without spot, spotless. Which kind of spot? No jealousy. So, look behind your inner curtain and find out if you have these spots, which I will count now. Are you jealous? Look inside. No. Okay. When there is a no, then it should be like this paper. And when there is a yes, then it will be like this paper. I will put it on this side; nobody can read. So, it doesn’t matter to whom you are jealous. For what are you jealous? With your business partner? Your neighbor’s dog, because the neighbors have a beautiful dog, or the shoes, a pair of shoes, the other one is better than yours, or a car, friends, two friends, three friends, and you have only one, money, business, and so on. So, if you are jealous, then you are not Nirañjan. Okay, one point. Second, doubts. If you have doubts, then you are not Nirañjan, you are in conflict. Ignorance, ego. If you have no ego, then you are pure. And if you have ego, then it’s like dark, heavy, dark clouds, smoke clouds. Because rainy clouds are good. They are healthy, and they rain. Greed. Greed is when the big hails fall on the earth from the sky, so you are all the time making troubles, big ice hails, not only small ones. Anger is like lightning in the clouds. Thundering. So, I’m only counting, not that you have, maybe I have, I’m counting my doubts, okay? You are pure. But the ātmā is spotless. Ishwara is spotless. There is no greed, no jealousy, only oneness. And when you realize the oneness, then there is no three, no two, only one. When I was here, he was not here, and now he is here, I am not there, because two cannot walk together. Two have to become one. Why? Because the street of love is so narrow, only one can pass through. So you have to become one. As soon as you open your intellect and say, “Oh, they are three, and they are four, and they are five,” oh God, duality, therefore Nirañjan, spotless. Try, one day try to sit in meditation, and for only five minutes, take all these qualities out from you. I tell you, you will be in a supreme, higher consciousness. But as soon as you come before the higher consciousness, you will have ego. I am now. Hari Om. Down. That’s it. So try. Try. It is in your hands. No one’s hands. No one can help you. Only you can help. Alak Niranjan, undescribable, spotless, nitya, everlasting, not limited. Everything that is visible has a limit. What is created has a limitation. What is created will be destroyed. What appears will disappear. He is here, and He is not here. That is the truth. About four days ago, three days ago, I was sitting in the aeroplane and they gave me a magazine to read. And on this magazine was written, “Scientists are searching for God, but they haven’t found Him.” And I told them that I should write to them that, yes, they should come to me, and they will find. As soon as you think of God as a form, you will not see Him anywhere. You are there. You are a God. Ant is a God. Everything is a child of God, light of God, love of God, creation of God, representing God, consciousness of God. Everything is their God, and still. Look how the scientists, so big scientists, scholars can be so that they don’t see God. Because they were searching for duality. And duality you will not find. God is that principle. That’s all. Nitya, Nirākāra, Formless. Nitya Nirakara Niranjan Nitya Bodhai Chidānandai Guru Brahma Mamayam. Nitya Bodhai, everlasting wisdom knowledge. And so, from time to time, great sense comes. With that quality, and we don’t understand this is a problem, you know. If we would have understood, yes, Jesus, you would not have let them put him, let them put him on the cross, crucifying him, you know. You think he had a good life, enjoying? As far as I know, the life of Jesus was all the time struggling from the birth, from the birth till the death, struggling. We have to struggle for the truth and to be that one. How many will misunderstand you? How many will be jealous? How many will be angry? What can be more anger than this? They put him on the cross. This anger we have, humans, you know, we are ready to do. Thanks to great holy saints, they gave us injections, you know, like what you call anesthesia, narcosis. We are all here sitting, having narcosis, you know. And what kind of narcosis? The narcosis is the injection of the wisdom, the love, the fear. Telling a horrible picture of hell and a beautiful picture of heaven. So, you know, what is hell and heaven? They are both elbows. The right elbow and left elbow. Now, they put honey here, and they put honey here. Now, it depends on you. You can lick your honey from your elbow. Can you lick your elbow? Try, everybody. Yes, that is heaven, come on. And this is the spiritual injection. And so those who believe in spirituality, in love, and not to make a sin means not to trouble others. Due to them, there is peace in the world. Otherwise, human is the most dangerous animal, the most dangerous. So, thanks to the great ṛṣis, they gave so many injections, so we are 89.5% in volume. That’s it. The best quality remains. Others are tormented through those injections—the pain, the kind that can cause others. But we can, without demonstration, without telling others, you can have these qualities. And thanks to those people who took care of these spiritual festivals. Maybe it’s a Guru Pūrṇimā, or maybe a Dīvālī, or a Holī, or there are many, many festivals in Islam, Buddhism, Christianity. Buddha didn’t have an easy life, nor did Muḥammad, nor Kṛṣṇa, nor Rāma. All didn’t have an easy life, you know. And so, to bring peace in the world, first know the picture, how it is, and what we can do. And love is not a love between two persons, husband and wife, or father and children, mother and children. No. This is not love. This is karma. Karma. And that also can’t function without love. The universal love, the peace, the harmony. And so, we are here for this weekend to exchange our feelings, our negative feelings, for divine feelings. So, meditate on how many conflicts you have. Can you put all under the Christmas tree? All your jealousy is put under the Christmas tree. All your hate, all your doubts, all your egos in everything. This Christmas tree will inhale everything and exhale, like oxygen trees exhaling for us. It will give you good quality. Make saṅkalpa. Not only putting some chocolate or some presents, because now your friend will love you, or your wife will love you more because you brought her a nice, big present—a nice cake for her dog. Not that we have to surrender this. So the same trees we have for Diwali, which is a nearly 10,000-year-old festival. This tree is a life; it’s a tree of life. And you see, there are many shiny things hanging, decorations. This decoration for me is not some kind of signing thing, but this is a good quality of life. The tree is life. We are also a tree. God Kṛṣṇa said to his wife before 6,000 years in the 15th chapter of the Bhagavad Gītā, the first mantra. That you have to read. The whole Christmas tree is described in the 15th chapter. So, how is the tradition, the culture, and humanity being preserved and cared for by humans? Where there are humans, there is culture, and where there is culture, there are humans. But there are some who destroy the culture, who humiliate the culture. And therefore, the whole world’s governments, including the United Nations, are preserving and talking about intercultural, or what you call multicultural, exchange. According to their climate and their feelings, they have their festivals. How beautiful. Let them have their festivals. Don’t mix them. Don’t make a hybrid of it. But now people have made hybrids of different things. Pure cultural things are very beautiful. When I come to these countries, like Czechoslovakia and like ex-Yugoslavia, Mahāprabhujī Karatā, Mahāprabhujī Karatā... In the seeds, and which comes through the elements, rain, clouds, rains, in the vegetation, and is coming, it is creation. You see, take one corn, one corn, and then carefully put it in the soil, and let it grow nicely, and give it water, and look how this creation is. Then suddenly you have very nice corn. What is growing inside, what is multiplying inside, and all seeds or the corns have the same form, same color, and same seeds inside the seeds, Brahmā. Anna Brahma, Vāka Brahma, Śabda Brahma, and so food, bread, do not humiliate or throw away the food. I remember when I was small, sitting with the family, and if anyone, including my father also, if they saw somewhere just a kernel of wheat, or barley, or anything, they would take it in hand and say, “Oh, Andevtā, God, Aṇ, Brahman,” and would put it in the pocket or take it in the mouth, not to throw it somewhere. When I was in India, there was a very beautiful, nice Earth Charter conference in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. And one of the Swamis, he made one festival there called Anubrahma. And they prepared 5,555 dishes, vegetarian dishes. Can you understand? Imagine? All different. Challenging, who said that vegetarian food is boring and has no good qualities, and so on? He said only one thing: “Meat, away.” That’s only one thing. But how many others, and who made this? All his devotees brought different qualities and then they put them in one big, big park. And there was, everyone had a number: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1000, 2000, 3008, and so on. All this is, and we had a satsaṅg, and after, everyone was enjoying. An Brahma. What? An? So it’s very ancient. Then, second, salt. It is said in śāstras, in whose house you will eat salt, you should never be a traitor to that house. Never do anything bad physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, intellectually, or financially for this house; never do anything bad. Because you ate in this house, anna and salt, namak. And in the Bible it is said, “Thou art the salt of the earth.” You are the salt of the earth; you are the essence of this earth. Now, you see the ancient wisdom, which is many thousands of years old, spoken about bread and salt. After so many thousands of kilometers, I am traveling and coming here to the middle of Europe, coming as a guest to some Slovakian family or Ukrainian airport. At the Ukraine airport, they came to welcome me with decorations of flowers and beautiful bread with decoration and salt. At the airport, after the pass control when I came, they were already there and offered it to me. How beautiful. I was surprised that you are our guest. We welcome you. And the duty of the guest is to always be the best to them, never create any conflict or anything wrong with them. Be their friends, be their guests. And therefore we call it Atithi Devo Bhava. In the Upaniṣads, it is written very clearly. Preeti means guest. Guest is God. And you also said in your countries here, that time where there was little population, you know, and that time there were no cars, no aeroplanes, and no trains, so very rarely a guest came, you know. Now you can have a guest every 10 minutes. Hello, Swamiji, I was just driving. Dharva Ashram is near, so I parked and came to say hello to you. The next one says, “I come, hello.” Also, there are many, many guests, you know. Why not? Many Gods. You are between so many Goddesses. You must be a happy one; all protect you. But now, many who come do not come with this feeling of peace and love. Many come and say, you know, Swamijī, I’m sorry to see, but you know, I don’t know. And you know, these people, I said, “I don’t know, where are these people? I don’t see them.” I said, “You’re the only one.” So, he comes to complain. That’s not like this. There are two kinds of guests: one comes to make peace, and one comes to make trouble. When you read the Bhāgavatam, you see, read the Bhāgavatam, and where Kṛṣṇa goes as a peace ambassador to the Duryodhana Kauravas. Finally, even Kṛṣṇa went to say, “Don’t fight, don’t make a battlefield.” Kṛṣṇa was an ambassador of peace. But the other one came as a messenger of the war, brought the document, a declaration that tomorrow the battlefield will begin, so get ready. And nowadays, even they don’t declare; they just send only the machine. They are sitting somewhere else, cowards. So God is always the messenger. Krishna was a messenger of peace and love. And when Kṛṣṇa came, Duryodhana was thinking, “If Kṛṣṇa will be on my side, I will win the war.” And Duryodhana, what did he do? He prepared many, many dishes for eating. Part 2: Divine Love and the Simplicity of Devotion Not five thousand, but Sāpānbhog—fifty-six delicious dishes that God likes, that Kṛṣṇa likes. And when the dear guest comes to your home, then you prepare fifty-six varieties. Once, when I received such an offering from one Swamiji, Ardha Gadānanjī, we had gone from Allahabad in the year 2000. He was so happy and honoured to receive me that he prepared fifty-six varieties on such a large plate and brought it before me. I said, “Swamiji, if I eat all this, I will be finished.” He replied, “No, no, you eat. You must eat.” Of course, that did not mean I had to eat everything. So I took just one morsel from each. Can you imagine fifty-six? Sāpānbhog. That Sāpānbhog carries a spiritual meaning. Fifty-six. Bhoga means offering, an act of giving. Duryodhana once made a beautiful dinner and invited Kṛṣṇa. But Kṛṣṇa had asked Duryodhana to make peace—no fighting, no war. Duryodhana refused and tried to sway Kṛṣṇa to his side, saying, “You should be on my side,” and so on. He tried to change Kṛṣṇa through feasting. But Kṛṣṇa went to the evening meal and said to Duryodhana, “No, I am sorry. I am going to have dinner with Vidura, the wise one.” So Vidura’s wife and Kṛṣṇa went to Vidura’s house. Vidura was astonished. “I am a servant, and yet Kṛṣṇa has come to me.” Kṛṣṇa said, “Yes, I am hungry, and so I came.” Vidura protested, “There is plenty of food for you at the palace. They have been preparing for days.” Kṛṣṇa answered, “Yes, but I want to eat from your wife’s hand. She should make me corn chapātī and spinach.” Such a simple farmer’s food. Vidura asked, “Truly, Kṛṣṇa, you want this?” Kṛṣṇa said, “Yes, yes, and I am so hungry. Give me something to eat first.” You see how God plays with the bhaktas. So Vidurajī sat down, his wife came and settled beside him, and she quickly brought one banana. She peeled the banana, ate the fruit, and gave the skin to Kṛṣṇa. And Kṛṣṇa began eating the banana skin. Can you imagine? Vidura exclaimed, “Oh!” and said to his wife, “What have you done?” She cried out, “Oh, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, please, please, this is a banana—just give it back to me!” Kṛṣṇa replied, “No, my sister, no, no. In this banana, the fruit has no taste. In the skin is the taste. Why? Because of love. You gave it to me with love. Even poison, offered with love, becomes the best.” That is called innocent devotion, the devotion of the great ones. In such love, you do not see good or bad. Where there is love, there is no choice, no duality, only oneness. It does not matter whether it is he or she, Vidura or his wife, or the real fruit inside the skin—nothing matters; they see nothing else. They saw only the one truth: that in that banana skin lay the love of Adyarāya’s wife, that bhakti. And Duryodhana, when he heard that Kṛṣṇa had gone there to eat dry, half-burned chapātī with a little green paste, was furious. He screamed, “Kṛṣṇa can go where he wants, I will be the winner!” But he was the loser; he lost. Holy Gurujī expressed this in one beautiful bhajan: Sāg Biduṛgar Khāyon. Duryodhana’s feast was abandoned, and the wise Vidura’s simple greens were eaten. Without the Lord’s love, it does not come, even if you try a thousand times, even if you try a thousand times. Without the Lord’s love, it does not come. Without the Satguru’s love, it does not come. Sāk Bidur Ghar Khāyī Prabhu Prem Binā Nahī̃ Āī. God will never come without love. You need that love. Chahe jatan karlo hazār—you can try a thousand things; He will not come. He will not come. Like Duryodhana, who prepared delicious food, fit for nectar. Yet Kṛṣṇa went to Vidura’s home, and there he ate only green vegetable leaves and corn chapātī. So, my dear ones, peace and love. When real love is there, then He comes to you, and you come to Him. That is all. The time of Christmas is that time when we should forget everything: no jealousy, no anger, no envious thoughts. We should forget and celebrate a day of happiness, love, and peace. And this love and peace should remain with us. Only then does it make sense to celebrate the festival. But many people today fast the whole day of Christmas and then kill so many animals. Do you think God is happy that you killed so many animals and you eat them? The heart of God bleeds. He will not bless you. And do not make your children foolish, telling them that baby Jesus came and was quickly tucked under the tree just for them. “And where is he? Where is he? Oh, he has no time because he must visit billions of houses.” It is not like this. God comes when there is love. Will He come? Will He come, just this once? Will He come? Will He come? Open wide! I keep my eyes open wide. Tell him, tell him, sit down. Will He come? Will He come? You must keep your heart open, but your heart cannot open because it is filled with precious things. When you open it, you will lose them. What? Anger, jealousy, hate, conflict, greed. O God, when you open the heart, all that will fall away. How poor you will be then! Trust. Trust in God. I remember a story told to me by one of the holy gurus, a bhakta of Mahāprabhujī. Some of you knew him; unfortunately, he passed away nearly fifteen years ago. He lived near Khattu, in a village called Harshor. His name was Lakṣmī Nārāyaṇjī Joshi, a wonderful devotee of Mahāprabhujī who always wore a beautiful yellow turban. Some of you may remember—perhaps Chidānand remembers. He recounted that once Mahāprabhujī was in Harṣor, and there was a Guru Pūrṇimā Satsaṅg, or one of the Pūrṇimā Satsaṅgs. The devotees had prepared food for everyone, just as Krishṇānandajī is doing today. They made halvā for five hundred people. During the satsaṅg, however, nearly five thousand people appeared. Now, after the satsaṅg, everyone needed to receive something to eat. So Lakṣmī Nārāyaṇjī Joshi came to Mahāprabhujī and said, “Mahāprabhujī, what shall we do? We have made only a little prasāda, and there are so many people—they are like clouds.” Mahāprabhujī said, “Just serve it. Give it to them.” He answered, “Yes, but should we cook more while you continue the satsaṅg?” Mahāprabhujī replied, “No, no, it is time for eating. I will go to my room and rest a little, and you all eat.” While leaving, Mahāprabhujī gave one instruction: “Cover the pot and serve from one side, alright?” Guru Vākya! Joshijī said they were all in doubt: food for five hundred people, and thousands present—perhaps each would receive only two spoonfuls. Yet they began to serve, and everyone enjoyed more and more. When all had finished, Mahāprabhujī called them. “May I have some prasāda too?” They came. Mahāprabhujī asked, “Did everyone receive?” They said, “Yes.” “Was it enough?” They replied, “Mahāprabhujī, not even one quarter is finished.” Eighty percent of the halvā was still there. That is called Siddhi, or Guru Kṛpā. That is called Annapūrṇā’s blessing. Annapūrṇā is the devotee of the Gurudev. That is why we always sing before eating. If they had sung Annapūrṇe Sadā Pūrṇe today, such abundance would manifest. And Annapūrṇā is very pure. She loves purity, cleanliness—mentally and physically—and discipline in eating. Respect the Annabrahma. You must respect food. But how you sit and eat and talk and joke and this and that—that is not respect. That is why every religion has dining table prayers, and why people used to eat without much talking. In modern culture, in modern times, we invite people when we have very important dialogues to discuss—company matters, financial matters, such things. You eat and talk, drink and eat and talk, until you become half or eighty-five percent present—and then you are no longer really there. Then he says, “Okay, we agree.” I said, “Yes, we agree. One glass more, you like?” He says, “Yes, I like it. You accept?” “Yes, I accept. One more. Okay, sign it. No problem.” That is how it goes. People were astonished at the leftover halvā, and now they asked, “What to do with the halvā?” So Mahāprabhujī said, “Distribute prasāda throughout the whole village, to all the nearby schoolchildren, everywhere.” But still the halvā remained. Then Mahāprabhujī said, “Give every bhakta who is returning home one kilo.” That is Siddhi, Gurudev’s Kṛpā. That is what food becomes—a true prasāda. There is everything in it. Therefore Holy Gurujī composed another beautiful bhajan: Sab Kusa Deve Dātā, Deepad Sab Kusa Deve Dātā, Deepad. Mahāprabhujī would say, “Who are you to think you can provide for all expenditures and everything? Do not imagine that you are the one who accomplishes all.” No. Kidi ko kān, hatī ko man. A small ant gets a little grain to eat, and a huge elephant receives hundreds of kilos. Every day, who feeds them? Who gives them nourishment? Not you, O human being—God gives. God takes care of all. Be happy, be thankful that God gives you the opportunity to do sevā. Open the satsaṅgs, open the door for everyone to worship God. Trust. Trust in Him. You will receive everything. There was one bhakta, a very true story. He was a barber in Gujarat. He had to attend to the king every morning. The king suffered from a kind of disease, like a cancer or a form of leprosy. So the barber had to be there at a fixed time; he had to arrive by eight-thirty. If he was late, the king would become very angry. One day, as he was making his way to the palace, he met about forty sādhus on the road—a group of forty sannyāsī sādhus. He was overjoyed. What a blessing to behold forty sādhus at once! That place, that village, that house—those people were blessed. Forty holy saints! He greeted them and asked about their morning meal. They said, “We began our journey very early, so we will find something somewhere.” He said, “Please, be my guests.” They agreed. Forty people coming all at once! Now his wife—he tells her to prepare nice food for them; get some help. In a small family house, do you think everything is readily available? The good thing is that in India there is always halvā, you know—halvā, pūrī, sabjī, khīr, and milk. He said, “Do not wait; go to the kitchen.” A good wife always follows her husband, and when the husband does not follow his good wife, then he is in trouble. She went into the kitchen, and to her surprise, in that tiny kitchen, everything was ready. All the ingredients were there to prepare the meal. She wondered if she had lost her mind. Who had brought it? How had it come? Well, they served the food. The saints ate around eleven o’clock, blessed the family, and departed. Then the barber said, “Today is my bad day. The king will kill me. I should have been there by eight-thirty, and it is already eleven.” Yet he consoled himself: the blessings of the saints would help him. So he took his bag and went to the palace. At the door of the palace, the king himself came out wearing a flower garland and said, “Welcome!” to the barber. He continued, “I was just getting ready to come to your house once more.” The barber stammered, “I am sorry, sir, I was late.” The king replied, “No, no, not late. What power do you carry in your hands today?” The barber asked, “What do you mean?” The king explained, “At eight-thirty this morning, while you were shaving me, all my diseases went away.” The barber understood it was God’s doing. He did not dare to say, “I was not there,” because the king insisted, “You were there, you were shaving me, and look—I am completely healthy. That is why I wish to come to your house and personally thank you.” So God—Bhagavān Devpurījī said—God takes upon himself the destiny of the devotees. Then who are you that you will do, and you will spend the money, and you will pay? Who are you? It is your ego. Trust in God. That is all. That is why there is a way to trust in God, and so there is God. There is love, there is peace, there is everything. Today is enough. You are all tired. My turbo engine, when it starts, is difficult to stop, is it not? So this is a blessing of Gurudev, and I am happy to see you. Now, all the juniors and their parents—if they have not yet eaten—may go first and get food because the meal is ready. All juniors can come first and have some chocolate or a blessing of prasāda before going to sleep. Girls, chocolate, prasāda—look, the juniors are already dispersing. Thus Holy Gurujī said, Terī Satguru Rākhe Lājā Cintām. Jas to ned yel ya? What is that? Why Sunday? Guru Vākya. Because it is Guru Vākya. Our dear Vivek Purī and Ānandī and Jagreb, along with Yoga in Daily Life, have prepared a very nice booklet about the meaning of the Sunday sun. And why do we have Sunday celebrations? It is now beyond my lecture. It is in Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, and the ex-Yugoslavian languages. They dedicate this book as your Christmas present. Please take one first, and then you may take more if any remain. If you would like to give a donation, it will go to Jadan Hospital. Thank you. Then there is something beautiful. Now you can finish. A beautiful article appeared in the United Nations magazine. It is printed and published by the United Nations, at the UN headquarters in New York, and distributed throughout the whole world to all United Nations centres. In this magazine there is a lovely article prepared by our dear… what is her name? Sangeeta from Navisat. Let me see… moment, pochke, pochke, pomali, pomali. Swamiji, don’t be nervous. Prashin, pomali, yah, yah, yah. The article is called, “Can Education Be Made Mobile?” And it features pictures from our school. We have done a project, also with the United Nations, to bring our teachers to small, remote places where children have no possibility of going to school, or where they do not wish to go, and where elderly people cannot read or write. To bring them some form of education—this is called mobile education. The United Nations was very pleased that we contributed this and shared our ideas. Sangeeta presented this beautiful article. Sangeeta is sitting here, in the building of the United Nations. Our Sangeeta from Navisar… what is her name, or the name of the service? Aleksandra? Which one? We are not certain. Alexander V. Sangeeta. So I think this article is available on the website—on the United Nations website. You can read it tomorrow. They will put one example here, so you can note the website address. Good. Our webcast team would like the website; I will give it to the webcast team. Look, okay? Make a nice picture for me, for everyone. My face must appear. Thank you. A beautiful cassette has appeared from our dear Madhurām in Scotland, Edinburgh. You know how Madhuram is—a very pure-hearted, innocent, and friendly person. He had a yoga class, and he left everything accessible. The door was open, even the money box was there. He thought any yoga student would come, deposit their fee, and go to class. Ninety-nine do so, but one does not. And that one did something else: he took all the money and everything and disappeared. So Madhuram had a difficult time paying the rent for that ashram. To meet the need, he produced six beautiful bhajans. He brought five hundred cassettes as a contribution. He wrote on a website or via email, on the Yoga in Daily Life pages, asking if anyone could help. I think purchasing this cassette will help him to continue teaching yoga and spiritual life in Edinburgh. Do you agree? Thank you. So this is what we call love and peace. How to create love, peace, and understanding. This cassette will be available tomorrow, I believe. Thank you. And now, those who have not yet eaten dinner, they should prepare their stomachs. We will have prayer. You will receive prasāda, and then dinner will be served. Anyone? Yes, you wish to say something? Come. She is also doing something for our schoolchildren in Jadan. In Jadan we have handicapped children; we provide them with cycles and similar things. For blankets, we are already distributing them now—we have already distributed two thousand blankets. We continue, and we give cycles for handicapped people and jackets for the poor. It is called BPL: Below Poverty Level. And Swāmī Jasrāj Purī is now going from village to village with government members, giving people blankets and some financial help. Thank you. So, thank you. She went to Mansarovar, to Mount Kailash, and brought water from the Ganga and from the Kailash Mansarovar lake. She places a small amount in little bottles, and she will dedicate the donations to our helpless children in Jadan, especially the handicapped children. Thank you. Yes. She will set it up on a table—small bottles, and there will be a donation box. Okay? Thank you. And then, in the evening, I will announce how much we collected. Tomorrow evening.