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Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī, Śrī Śrī Devpurī Śramadeva kī, Dharma Samrāṭ Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma kī. Blessings of Śrī Mahāprabhujī, Śrī Devpurījī, and Gurujī. Welcome, all of you, to our beautiful Gurukul Ashram, Jadon. Fortunate are they who could manage to come to India, especially to our holy center’s ashrams. It is a long tradition since humans realized there is something extraordinary, some divine power, some mysterious thing. What some people, the modern psychologists, used to call parapsychology. Whatever it is, human beings began to trace it out. Meanwhile, they also began to think about the sense of life. Yes, many are just born and living, eating, sleeping, taking whatever comes, eating without overthinking. Even now, I think nearly 70% of the people in the world do not think about what they are eating. Out of the remaining 30%, 15% are thinking about health, and 15% are thinking about spirituality. At the same time, it was humans who discovered spiritual energy. Somewhere, in a particular spot on the earth—maybe mountains, caves, rocks, fountains, rivers, lakes, even the trees—when they went to that particular place, coincidentally, something happened. A second person came, and also something happened. A third came, and also something happened. Then people told others, "Oh, I went there and my disease was healed." Another tells the same thing, a fourth tells the same thing. Now, it does not matter who is who, or if one believes in God or not. But when one has a pain, one tries to get treatments, healings. There was no medical system in such a way like now, with so many surgeries and chemicals and antibiotics. People used to lead that natural life. Even in nature, animals also eat certain things sometimes to clean their stomach. The birds, the pigeons which you see here also in the ashram—these pigeons, about 25% of their diet, they eat sand, corns, stones. They know in those stones there are certain calcium and minerals. Even big animals like elephants move to certain parts and eat earth. We think they are so hungry they have nothing to eat, and they are eating earth. They always search for that particular place because there is more salt, more calcium, and more minerals. Also, monkeys used to eat different kinds of leaves which they do not generally eat. They know when they eat this, they will get diarrhea. Similarly, the little ants are also doing these things. So it is in their nature that they are searching for and utilizing certain therapies. Yoga, as well as medicine, what we call naturopathy or Āyurveda, these are developed from that ancient way of treatment or life. Allopathic medicine, homeopathic medicine are entirely based on these ancient medicines. They are producing artificially. Similarly, the people had a belief, and they do believe still, that when they come to a particular place, they will get blessings. One of the disciples of Mahāprabhujī, Lalanandajī Mahārāj, and Śivanandajī—especially Mahāprabhujī’s disciple who was born in Chotikhatu, you read in the Līlāmṛta—he writes: where Gurudev is residing, there is concentrated all the pilgrims, all the holy places. Now, it does not matter which religion you believe in or which culture you are from. Makkah, Madīnah are considered holy places by Islams. Jerusalem, Israel is considered a holy place by Christians. Amritsar, the Sikhs consider as a holy place. Bodh Gaya, where the Buddha got enlightenment, is considered a holy place. Mathura, Ayodhya, Haridwar, Banaras, Kedarnath, Badrinath, etc., etc.—the Hindus consider those places as holy places. And no doubt it is. If you believe or you do not believe, that is your matter. The reality cannot be changed, whether you believe or you do not believe. The holy saints used to renounce and avoid civilization. Those people who live together as a society, it is always problems and disturbances. Therefore, they used to go far away to places that were difficult to reach. And there they made their sādhanā, their tapasyā, their yoga sādhanā, their meditations, guru-bhakti. But do not think that it was very comfortable and pleasant. Ādhibhautik, Ādhidaivik, and Ādhyātmik—these three tapas were disturbing them also. Mosquitoes, all kinds of bugs, ants, and reptiles, and different kinds of cats, families, and also in the night, different kinds of sounds. You never know which bird, animal, invisible ghost, or crazy person. Many times, those people who were meditating and sitting alone were killed. And nobody knows, and nobody knows why. Even the people, they do not know why they are doing this or why they did. So, Ādhibhautik, Ādhidaivik, Ādhyātmik—these three tapas are everywhere. But when one has decided and one knows what it is for me, then one will achieve. So, when my entire self is dedicated—my concentration, my longing, my feelings, all are concentrated at the holy lotus feet of Gurudev—then this whole saṃsāra is a māyā, illusion, ignorance, and it is only vikṣepa. Kleśa and vikṣepa. Saṃsāra is full of the kleśa and vikṣepa. Kaleś hī kaleś, jidhar dekhe udhar kaleś. Aur jidhar dekhe udhar vikṣepa hī vikṣepa, kuśa kaitā hai, kuśa kaitā hai, kuśa kaitā hai. But when you realize after all this what is the truth, then your inner self says: Abham mast huye Rām raspee ke, Rām raspee ke, Moye lage duniya ke sabhi raspee ke, Abham mast bhaye Rām raspee ke, Hari raspee ke. Now I am divine because I drank the juice of the God’s name, nectar. Nectar is the name of God. When you drink that juice, then all the taste of the world is tasteless, without taste, phika, phika. You know, when someone, Indians ask, "Do you want tea with sugar or without sugar?" You said, "Phikī chai, phika, no taste." So, you are all tasteless. And if you ask for more and more sugar, you are still connected to the taste. So, without this and understanding the Guru Vākya, it is not easy. The king, emperor of Maharashtra, Chhatrapati Śivājī. Chhatrapatī is like an empire. But he was a great, great devotee of Gurudev, and he was following all the Guruvākyas. One day, Guru Rāmdās would like to know if he is really following the Guru Vākya. So one day, Gurudev told him, "There is a certain disease, I got it. And I must drink today the milk of the tiger. And tiger milk, you can only keep it—that is, it will not spoil—in a golden pot. So go and bring me fresh tiger milk." If I ask you to go and bring me fresh tiger milk, you say, "Swamijī, do not make jokes. Before I get milk, I will be milked by a tiger." But he went and was told, "Do not take anybody, and milk from the living tiger." So he went to the Maharashtra mountains where the tigers’ caves were there. Without fear, he saw the tiger, the female cow, the tiger cow. She was so angry because they were little calves. She came angrily, and he, with folded hands, said, "Divine Śakti, Divine Mother, I do not want to do anything wrong with you. Only I have one request: my Gurudev sent me, and I beg you, Mother, for a little of your milk." You will not imagine, she came near and stood like that, and he milked her. He made praṇām, and he went away and brought the milk. Maybe you know, sunāyā kvanī ganī, that is it. That means there is no fear, no vikṣepa, no kleśa, no doubt. And that is not easy. It is not easy. But there were some who did. So those saints who stayed there and did the tapasyās in far distant places, those places became holy places. Kedarnath, Badrinath—now there are roads to go, there is a helicopter to go, there is a four-seater aeroplane to go. But in ancient times, people had to walk up and down hills and glaciers and through snow, and they did not know where to eat or what to eat. Carrying with, and very carefully eating little, little. But all the time, they had a feeling: I will come to the holy place. I will come to the holy place. Kedarnath, Kedarnath, or Badrinath, Badrinath. So they were thinking so much, from when they left their home until they came to the Kedarnāth temple or the Badrināth temple, that they themselves became as Badrināth, Bhagavān Viṣṇu. Because in name and in their feelings, the ābhā, the radiance of that God and that holy place, was so much in that person’s body, mind, and consciousness. You cannot imagine, after a few months, they reached the place. And then they moved around and made the parikramā. And parikramā is this: that you are like bathing in that ābhā, in that energy, in the radiance. That becomes one. You are filtering your negative karmas. You are filtering your negative energies. And then you made your journey back, come again in a few months, from high up Kedarnath, Badrinath, or Gangotri, or Holy Mount Kailash, walking till Gujarat or South India, thousands of kilometers, no roads, no road maps. When those people came home, the whole village received them with great joy, with great music, as if God himself had come from there. There was a celebration in the village that some person who went to that holy place came back. Everywhere, we were willing to touch the persons, to touch the feet. And those people were bringing them something, prasād, little but something. And everyone was sharing a little corn of it, the whole village. That was a feeling that gave them joy, that gave them happiness, and it gave them that divine energy, so they do believe, they believed, and they did realize the blessings and liberation. So it is not only that you come once to India, holy India, holy place, Bhārat, Bhārat, holy Bhārat. Do not compare India with this modern Indian civilization and the modern way of living. This is also okay. Okay, we will digest. But that—but you know, the fruits can get spoiled, but not the tree. And the tree may dry out, but not that soil. And it is like that. So, as many times as you come, it is your benefit. It is not that you came one time or two times, and this time I will go there, and I will go for skiing, and I will go out to lie down on some beach. Lie down. You can lie down on your bed, no problem, every day. Close your eyes and think of the beach. That is all. But that lagan, that feeling should be. So this is how things are. And so you are lucky ones. Like after the whole day traveling here and there, the evening the bird comes back to the nest, or the cow comes home after grazing here and there, or a hungry, tired person comes home. Similarly, after 12 months, tiring of these 12 months, you finally came here, Viśva Dīpa Guru Kula Āśrama Jadān, where you have so much energy. Everything is enough, everything: mosquitoes enough, bugs enough, everything. Everyone is happy here. And they are so happy when you come, you know. Our mosquitoes have many different blood groups: European blood, Australian blood, American blood, Indian blood, you know. So, our mosquitoes are spoiled. So, you are most welcome. And in a few days, you will be more again, and then you will travel back. Enjoy. Do not worry. Do not think, "This eating or that eating, or not eating, or that will happen and this will happen." This is only a mental problem, mental thinking. If you think like that, then you will be unhappy. And all rules which are made, good thought, good over thought, and then the rules were made. Therefore, enjoy.