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I am happy to see you again in the ashram, most of you who worked very hard for yesterday’s program. I congratulate you; you did very good work, and it was very good. I pray to Almighty God that He bless us with His divine light and mercy. We all make mistakes. We are human and have our weaknesses that we sometimes fight against. We get angry with someone. We try to search for mistakes in others instead of searching for them in ourselves. God sees everything. He will see everything and bless us with two very important things. The first is practice, and the second is working. We must work. What are you doing? You bring water in half an hour and you cover it. Work is the beauty of life, but this work should be positive, selfless service. How do we become successful in our sādhanā? Because many obstacles come—āsurī śaktis and daivī śaktis. Both exist in the universe. Devī śakti protects us, but āsurī śakti also attacks us from time to time. We don’t know in which form she will come. Kabīr Dās writes a very nice bhajan on this subject: Māyā, Mahā, Tṛṣṇā, Hṛdaya. I realize that Māyā is the greatest cheater. She holds the rope of the three guṇas and speaks very sweet words, looking for the chance to hang us. In this bhajan, he says many things; even Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva are sometimes, from time to time, cheated by this. Then who are we? We are nothing compared to Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva. So it is normal that we have jealousy, we are angry, we fight. We should not, and we do not wish to, but we can’t protect ourselves or control all the time. So during this whole month, God sees the work you have been doing. This karma yoga you did is something very great. Why? Kabīrdās as well as Guru Nānak said, "What is the greatest thing you can give? What is the best thing?" If you give money, it will be spent. If you give food, in a few hours one will be hungry again. If you give cloth, very soon it will become old and finished. We can help someone. What is the best? We call it dāna. Dāna means something like donation. When you give a donation, you get a thousand times back from God. And donation must not be only money. You can donate cloth, money, food, or blood. We can donate many things. But still, those great saints said, "Nāma Nandana is the greatest." Nāma means the name, and that name is the name of God. That name is the name of the reality, the spirituality, the worlds of the great saints. So, what you did through your activities in Karma Yoga, you made the Nām done so that thousands of people got in their ears some name or the words of God. Where can you hear God? The name of God? Wherever we go, everywhere there is talking about business, weather, eating, relationships, families, and family problems. Wherever we go, we talk about these things. It is rare to hear something about God. So, it has been more than 4,000 years that we have been listening to the names of God. Each has two years, and it was more than 2,000 people. So, this is your work. And I pray to God, I pray to Mahāprabhujī and to all the divine souls, that He forgives our mistakes, whatever we did consciously or unconsciously, and may He accept this small donation as a flower, a token of our devotion to humanity. Because humans are responsible for this world. It is time to unite humans, not to convert them, but to convince them. So we are trying. Who can forgive? Who are we to forgive? God can forgive. We can only try to understand and accept tolerance, because, in the end, it is your personal life. Whatever you think, whatever you speak, whatever you do, everything affects your individual life. If you go to satsaṅg, it’s for you. You are not going for anyone. If you organize something, it is for you, it’s not for anybody. In the great Rāmāyaṇa, you know, and today is the beginning of the first Navarātri. This is the ninth day of Divine Mother, and it is when the Divine Mother will be celebrated. It is a very great day. All spiritual bhaktas begin fasting from this day and thanking Divine Mother, or Śakti—that Yoga Śakti which I spoke of yesterday. You know the story of God Rāma. In his life, there is someone who is very important, who played a very great role, and that was Hanumanjī. Hanumanjī who found Sītā, Hanuman who flew, jumped over the sea. Hanuman, who fought against Rāvaṇa. Hanuman, who served Rāma very much. At the end, someone told Rāmajī, God Rāma, "Hanumanjī has done so many things for you." Rāma said no. He has done nothing for me. All that he did is for himself, for his soul, for his liberation. I am doing something. I try to bring the light of my Master, the light of Mahāprabhujī, the light of others, and to help you, but I am doing this for nothing. Nothing. All this I am doing for myself. I am so selfish, and you are also very selfish. You should be selfish in this way—to do something for your ātmā, something for your inner self. So what you did was a selfless service, and that service will come back to you. It was for you. It is said in one bhajan: "Gurudev darśan dhan ho, cetana ānanda gaṇ ho," which you sang before. And in the prayer, it is said: "Tan-man-dhan-arpaṇ-kar-guru-sevā pau, hat-jod-araj-karu-caraṇo-me śiṣṭamā." In our prayer, "tan-man-dhan-bacchan," I surrender my body, mind, my words, everything. I surrender my wealth, and then, with folded hands, I bow down to him. Lord, accept me. So, what you do, the service, that will liberate you. It is you who can liberate you. Don’t think, "My guru will bless me, and I will be liberated." Show me, which guru? No guru will liberate you unless you do something. Guru kṛpā is always there when you are nice to the guru. If you are angry all the time and ask, "Master, give me your kṛpā," it is you who are doing, you are liberating yourself. You are the divine, you are the holy—yes, you are—but you don’t behave like that, you don’t accept this. If you accept that you are divine and holy, then you will not be angry, you will not be jealous, you will not do so many mistakes. And when you do make a mistake, you will say to yourself, "Oh my God, how can I do this? I am so holy and divine." So it is said: Abhyāsa, manan, and svādhyāya. These three. Manan, abhyāsa, svādhyāya. Svādhyāya means studying. Read, read inspirational books. Don’t read books that make you angry or sad. Read those books which support your faith, your confidence, and inspire you. Second, Svādhyāya means: Sva is the self. Svādhyāya is the chapter. Read your own chapter of your life, what is written in your chapter, not others’ chapters. Who am I to read the chapter of Maṅgalpurī? And who am I to tell Maṅgalpurī this is wrong? He did. He said thought is good for him. God can judge him. I, who am I to judge? Therefore, I should read my chapter, what is written in my life. I should have inspiration from my actions, or I should be ashamed of my actions. Thanks to God that chapter is so nice and so hidden. Nobody can look in. Only two persons have access. They can look any time. One is God, and the second is yourself. No third one. Svādhyāya: study your inner self. Then comes manana. Manan means constantly overthinking. What is the truth, and what is not the truth? Brahman, satya, jagat, mithyā. Brahman is the reality, and this world is unreality. Think over what you have done, and think over what you will do. What have I? What did I? What I did? What am I doing? And what should I do, and why should I do? What did I think? What am I thinking? What should I think? And why should I think? Manan, manan... manan. In your manan, in our manan, in our thinking, we shall think such things that we get more friends, even contact with humans and animals. Always think how to come close to this person. They are mine. All humans are our brothers and sisters; all animals and creatures are our brothers and sisters. They are God’s creatures. And then comes Abhyāsa. Abhyāsa is the best. Abhyāsa means practice. When you practice, you will be perfect. How? I give you one example: your hands have such good practice that even if you are sitting in a dark, dark room and you don’t see anything, if you get something to eat in your hand, it straight comes to the mouth. It doesn’t miss the way; it doesn’t go here. That is a practice, so we are expert in eating. So a yogī should have practice. It doesn’t matter whatever you are doing, your citta, your feelings are directed to God. Practice to help others. Practice to be kind. Practice forgiveness. Practice tolerance. Practice mercy. Practice your mantra. Practice āsanas, prāṇāyāmas. Prayer and practice, meditation—nothing will help us. Other things, it is your life. It is you who can help yourself. For what are you fighting, perhaps now? And in what do you have the doubts, and which makes you angry, or which makes you sad? All these relations will be finished. We have only two days of life in this world: yesterday and today. No one will see tomorrow. Tomorrow will never come in our life. Every day it will be the same day, the present day. You are the traveler, and you will leave everything in this hotel of the world and go alone. What will you take with you, my dear friend? Your deeds. What you are doing through your intellect, through your body, through your mind, through your emotion, and through your social power. Because many people misuse social power. If they get the power as a director of a company, then they’re threatening people, or as a president, and so on. You know better than me. So, prayer to God: "Please, God, in my thinking, in my action, should be only love and nothing else." So, work for good things. Come to the ashram. Organize things. Help people. Don’t search for mistakes in people. "I don’t like this one, and I don’t like that one, and nobody talks to me. I don’t like to go to such satsaṅgs, I don’t like to go to the group, I don’t like this group." The problem is their liking and disliking. On that day when you give up like and dislike, you will see the light inside. All chakras, energies, all will be concentrated in one point. All wars and all suffering are only this problem: because I don’t like this, and I like this. We are not able to unite these few people together, and talking about world peace? How will it be? It is a little bird dreaming to lift the whole Himālaya, a small bird which is flying and wants to catch the Himālaya. How is this possible? If you are not able to be in harmony with this little group, then how will you first love the humans? First, love and harmonize with them; then we can do something more. So, I don’t want to say that you have this problem, and if you have this problem, then please throw it away. I am talking generally. There are some people who have this problem. And this problem they have means they are destructive. Maulvi Guru Jī said in one bhajan, "The yogīs and yatīs." Yatīs are also human. Yatīs are not like some ice bear, you know. That was a Meissner’s joke, you know, to make a popularity. Not missionary, Meissner, the Austrian mountain climber. And after he said to us, "Yes, it was like kind of an iceberg, not as a thing." How he made the publicity that we should not do. So Yatīs are yogīs. Yatī means, Yatī comes from Yatna, and Yatna means trying and creating some techniques, trying to get realization. Your car has no petrol now; you are doing some techniques, pushing your car or letting go of your car. This is called Yatna. Now you create some instrument, some techniques, so Yeti are they who create some techniques to meditate and overcome certain things. Yogi, yatī, koi mehnat karke, bove, bhajan kī badī, with hard work, they create the garden of their spirituality. Ye man bandar badā harāmī. But this mind is a very terrible monkey. Harāmī ko kyā kate? This mind is a terrible bastard monkey, bastard. Palm trees become big, then within a second, destroy your garden. Sādhava, ye mana badā nādhī. O my brothers, this mind is very uneducated. Therefore, it is the mind problem which destroys the work. The master and honest disciples are good-hearted people. They try to make something, create something. And we, with our jealousy and with our liking and disliking, we spoil the atmosphere. That is sin. To destroy spiritual work or destroy spirituality is a great sin, my dear friends. The crucifying of Jesus was exactly like that core reason, the cause. Because some liked it, and some didn’t. That’s it. We will see you in Umag. I should not talk because Yaśodhā already said there is no talk, but I talked again. You know, there is a kitchen clock. And when you turn it, then tick, tick,... it was to go ten minutes. So I fail to thank you, and my hard words are also good for you. Maybe they are hard, but they come from the heart to help you. Thank you. I pray for your good health, long life, and peace and harmony in your country and in the whole world. Let us work together. We should not see our mistakes. Keep on going. Our duty is to work, to do. The duty of the river is to flow, just flow. It doesn’t matter what comes in, flow, let it flow, let it flow. Let’s flow the river of love, Gaṅgā. Thank you. So, prasād, please.