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Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śubhaṃ Karoti, Kalyāṇam, Ārogyaṃ, Dhanasampadā, Śatrubuddhi Vināśāya, Dīpa Jyotir Namastute, Dīpa Jyoti Parabrahma, Dīpaṃ Sarve Mohanaṃ, Dīpānāṃ Sajate Sarvaṃ, Sandhyā Dīpaṃ Sarasvatam. Oṃ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ. Deveśvara Mahādeva kīye, Śrīdīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kīye, Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān kīye, Satya Sanātana Dharma kīye, Ajikē Ānanda kīye. Salutation to the Cosmic Light, Lord of our heart, Omniscient and Omnipresent, Creator of all creatures, Source of our life, and Governor of the entire Universe. In His holy presence, all my dear brothers and sisters, I welcome you this evening. I am happy to see you, and it is the divine blessing of God. It is His mercy that we could be together. In this dangerous Kali Yuga, it is not easy for humans to attend positive and spiritual programs. In the Rāmāyaṇa, the great saint Tulsīdās said, "Those who have many sins from past lives do not like to hear the names of God or discussions about God. It is like a person with a high fever who loses their appetite. You are the most fortunate ones." God has been very gracious to you, dear brothers and sisters, that you could decide to come to this program. Everything in this world is possible easily, but it is rare to come to satsaṅg or spiritual activities. Spiritual activities are where one speaks of tolerance, love, and understanding. We are all incarnated in this world as humans. God has given us the prime duty to protect His creatures, to give understanding and love to every creature, and to our fellow humans. At the same time, we must master our life and attain salvation—liberation from rebirth and death. Our being here in this world is like a light in the darkness. I am sure that God expects something positive from us. If there is a God, and if He has sent us into this world, if He has given us human life, then what is His will? His will is that we shall live together with mutual understanding and love. There is God, and only one God. That one God exists in every creature. In you exists only one God. That is known as life. The light of your life is the light of God. Therefore, the great Śaṅkarācārya said, "Know thyself." If you know yourself, you will know everything. If you do not know yourself, you know nothing. A great philosopher said, summarizing all his writings, "I know that I do not know." That is intellect. Intellectual knowledge is not the knowledge that will solve our purpose. When you know yourself, then you can say that you know what God is. During this one-week tour through your beautiful country, Croatia, I had many beautiful experiences with all the beautiful and loving-hearted people who received wisdom with love and devotion. Reflect on the words of God. Ponder this law in your life: What did you bring with you, and what will you take with you? When you came into this world, what did you bring? When you go from this world, do you know what you will take? Even this body will not go with you. Everything will remain here. All relations will remain here. We are travelers; we are tourists. It is said that this tourist left everything here and again disappeared into the forest—the forest of the mystery of the universe, which is very hard to understand and very hard to overcome. Khānā, pīnā, bhogṇā—eating, drinking, sleeping, and creating children—animals are also very expert in this. If we are only doing this much and concentrating only on these things, then what is the difference between animals and humans? Very little difference. Therefore, it is said this life is the most valuable diamond given to you by God. This diamond is so precious you cannot pay money for it. You cannot buy a body anywhere, and you cannot borrow your body to someone. If it were otherwise, then at an old age or when one is very ill, one would go out of the body, buy another body, jump into it, and begin to enjoy again. There are some things in the world which are very rare. You have only one chance in this life, and that is your human birth. Do not waste your time in gossiping. Do not waste your time in doubt. Do not waste your time in laziness. Do not waste your time merely in desires. Mother, father, children, and partner you can have in every life, but spirituality and a spiritual master you can have only in a human life. Therefore, it is never too late to begin the spiritual life. What do we understand about spirituality? What is spirituality? Spirituality is purity, clarity, pure consciousness, pure mind, pure thoughts, pure behaviors. Purity is very important. Tolerance, understanding, forgiveness, love, kindness—these belong to spirituality. Develop those tendencies in you. Do not talk about others, about what they are doing badly. Talk about yourself, about what you are doing. Do not search for the mistakes of others; search for your own mistakes. I went to search in this world for bad things and bad people. I did not find anyone bad. When I searched my own heart, I found that no one is worse than myself. Whatever you say is bad or good, first you have to project it in your consciousness. First, you have to identify it in your heart and say, "This is bad." Psychologically, you are imposing a condition on your own consciousness by thinking it is bad. At the same time, bad is bad; we cannot say it is good. But those bad things should not influence your consciousness; you should be strong. Your foundation should be strong. Your fundamental principles should be strong. Do not act immediately; take time. Once, the scientist Einstein wrote a letter in answer to someone. He wrote about ten pages back and signed the letter. Then he wrote, "P.S., I am sorry to write you a long letter because I did not have time." So take time to understand, take time to accept, take time to decide. Do not act immediately. If you take some book in your hand, you should know why you are buying it and what you will do with it. That book should not be a storm that takes your boat in another direction. If you are not able to digest, if you are not able to master the words you will read in those books, then better not to buy and not to read them. We get every book to gain inspiration and understanding so that we can proceed on our spiritual path. Whatever happens in life has its reason. Accept it. Accept it with thankfulness to God. "Lord, I have surrendered my life to you, because only with you can I be happy, even if I have to walk through stones and a thorny path. Even if I have to go through fire, and even if death becomes a garland on my neck—a flower mala, but that is a mala of death—still, my Lord, I will not go away from you." Like in one song: "Door of my heart wide I open for thee. Will thou come? Will thou come? Just once come to me. Night and day, night and day, I look for thee." We do not know in which minute, which hour, which day we will meet some spiritual light. "Do not close your door, my Lord. I may go far, farther than the stars, but still I will die. When I die, look into my eyes, my Lord. Mutely, they will say, 'I loved you.'" That is the eternal relation with God. What have you done in your life? If you think of the past, of all that happened to you, was it necessary? And why did it happen? Definitely, there was some mistake of ours, our karma, but still God protected you and you are here. Anyone can disappoint us—sometimes parents, sometimes children, sometimes a partner—but God will never disappoint us, dear friends. Keep that relation with God continuously. He is the source of our life, and that divine power is within us. That is the message of the yogī's yoga. It is not only physical postures. Yoga is not a fanatical way. Yoga is an eternal, cosmic principle. There are two principles: the cosmic father and the cosmic mother. That energy which is governing, balancing, and protecting the entire universe is Yogamāyā, Yogaśakti. That is yoga. The aim of my coming is this: I want to awaken this consciousness in you. Believe what you want to believe—any God, any incarnation, or do not believe; any religion, or you belong to any culture—that is not important. What is important is that you awaken early. We are sleeping; we have to awaken, and that can only be done by yourself. You can be a great holy saint. Develop qualities, human qualities. Through quality, one is holy. Through quality, one is God. Through quality, one is human. Through quality, one is a thief, and through that quality, one is the devil. These are inner qualities. Those who have no pure consciousness and pure heart become angry so quickly, become jealous so quickly, have doubts so quickly, and always keep their eyes open to see the mistakes of others. When someone is criticizing somebody, we say, "Why did you say that?" or "What are they talking about?" If you are fighting in the street with someone, shouting, saying bad words, everyone opens the window and looks to see what is going on. But if you talk about God, love, and peace, they will close the windows and say, "These are crazy people." You see how qualities immediately decide perception. Therefore, it is said it does not matter what people talk or what people think. I have to do one thing: to liberate myself. I did not come into this world for gossiping, but for helping. So still you have this in your hand, dear friends. Do something; begin right now. Say to yourself, "From today onwards, I will develop divine qualities in me." You need help, and if you need help, I am here. You can count on my help. But if you do not want to help yourself, then I cannot help you either. There is a person who does not want to get up, and he still says, "Please help me to get up." You can lift him, but if he is sitting in lotus position, he cannot stand up. I can help you to lift up, but you must stretch your legs and stand on your own feet. Do not depend on others. To depend on someone is the most terrible thing. Those who are depending on others are not happy even in their dreams. It is a different kind of difference. The dependency is different. Some are emotionally dependent; you are in the prison of emotion. I once met a man. He is a very faithful disciple who always comes for consultation. He said, "Swāmījī, my wife beats me every day. She shouts every day, and sometimes I have to stand on my knees the whole time she is cooking." (To the women present) Do you also treat your husband like this? Please do not do so. I asked him, "Why are you doing this?" He said, "I love her. Sometimes she kicks me with her shoes, but I am so dependent on her." At the same time, another lady told me that her boyfriend, with whom she has been living for 30 years, beats her. He does so many bad things, but she cannot go away from him. I asked, "Why?" She said, "Because I need so much money for my cosmetics. I have no money. I depend completely financially on him. In summer, he goes on holidays alone because he says, 'I am a man, I can go alone.' But if I want to go on holidays, he says I must go with him." I do not want to tell this as a joke; it is reality. Persons are depending emotionally, financially, socially, politically, intellectually. Then what is human life? Where is human freedom? Of course, where there is love, we are ready to do everything. But when there is love, the other one does not behave in this way with you. Love does not demand anything. Love does not give with conditions; otherwise, that is not love. And what happens to us? Because we are depending. Likewise, we are depending on our karma too. We are depending on our desires. So love is different, and dependence is different. Love your wife so much that she will be completely drunk in love. Love your husband so much that he is completely lost in that love, but without conditions, with understanding, tolerance, and a feeling of oneness. That is what we call liberation. Liberate yourself first from these things, then talk about your karma, and then talk about God. So ask yourself: How much do you depend? Where are you suffering? Where there is love, there is no suffering. To analyze this situation in life, in yoga there is a very beautiful science called the science of kuṇḍalinī, the science of cakras. That is called the mystery of your phenomenon. Just gaze into your phenomenon; you will be surprised. What beauty exists in you, what divine divinity exists in you, and what kind of talents exist. Your chakras are the jewels in your body. If you discover them, you will no longer be poor from dependency and karmic suffering. During the last five days in Croatia, I had beautiful talks about chakras. But I see many friends, brothers, and sisters sitting here who came for the first time and were not in those lectures. So I would like to repeat a little bit about chakras. For those listening a second time, I think it will also be an inspiration again and a widening of their knowledge. Every atom in this universe is a sparkle of God's light, God's consciousness. That consciousness which departed or separated from God—why is this question asked many times? Why did we separate from God? Why did He send us away? Why are we born? Individually, these things bother us. But a self-realized person said, "You are not separated from God. He did not send you away; He is in you." He said, "Eko'ham"—I am one. "I am one, and now I will multiply myself." So He multiplies into billions and billions of creatures. It is said that it is He who exhales. When He is exhaling, He is manifesting all these different planets and the lives on the planets. You have heard it said: it is He, God, who exhales. With this exhalation, He created all the planets and stars and moons, and He created all the creatures. And He is the sustenance; He keeps everyone, He protects everyone. It is that God, or the cosmic mother, who nourishes us. It is that God who gives food to all. No one goes hungry. Even a small ant finds her food. All creatures find their food. Sometimes—sorry—sometimes humans are suffering. Some humans sometimes go hungry because of their own mistakes, the mistakes of humans. We humans put those conditions upon other humans. And God is not happy about this. God is not happy about this. Therefore, the yogī says, the ṛṣis say, all should be happy. How? If you wish them well, if you give them freedom, if you do not take away from them. So God has exhaled. He multiplied Himself. He multiplies Himself; do you understand? It is Himself. There is no two; there is no you, there is no me. It is only He. This is a realization. The highest realization is known as samādhi, nirvikalpa samādhi, the turīya state, where there is knowledge, knower, and object. All three become one. "I want to know what God is. I, the knower, want to know, through knowledge, God the object." So God, my knowledge, and myself become one. There is no more duality. Ekaḥ Brahma, dvitīyo nāsti. Where there is oneness, that is the supreme. And where there are two, there is duality. And where there is duality, there is a distraction from the cosmic consciousness. The sound, like Oṃ, which we were singing—the sound, the vibration, the resonance—spreads into the whole universe from dormant consciousness or from sleeping consciousness. That resonance is like a sun ray. Wherever it touches, it comes to the object and stays for a while. The quality develops. Like someone wandering from one culture to another, the culture changes, the quality changes. God is looking after everyone. He is everywhere. He has no hands and legs, but still He is quicker in helping and coming. So do not say, "Oh my Lord, I want to come to you," but say, "Oh my Lord, come to me." Not "I want to come to my God," but "God, come to me. Will thou come? Will thou come? Just for once, come to me. Will thou come? Will thou come just for once? Come to me. Will my days fly away without seeing thee, my Lord? Will my days fly away without seeing thee? Night and day, night and day, I look for thee night and day. Night and day, night and day, for just once, come to me. Lord, just once come. My door, the door of my heart, is so wide open. Just once, come in quickly. I will close the door." And that happened: God is in you, my dear. So, not "to thee, my Lord," but "to me, my Lord." God is quicker than anything. He has no eyes, but He sees everything. He has no ears, but He hears everything. He has no diseases, but He can perceive and receive everything. Nirākār nirañjanam. Nirākār means the formless; nirañjan means without any spot, spotless. Nirākār nirañjanam—that is God.