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Oṁ Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Kī Jaya. Śrī Devpurījī Mahādeva, Kī Jaya. Śrī Svāmī Madhavānanda Jī Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān, Kī Jaya. Śrī Svāmī Jī Maheśvarānanda Jī Gurudeva, Kī Jaya. Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Svāmī Jasraspurījī Mahārāja, Kī Jaya. Oṁ Gurur Brahmā, Gurur Viṣṇu, Gurur Devo Maheśvara, Gurur Sākṣāt Parabrahmā, Tasmai Śrī Guruve Namaḥ. Dhyāna Mūlaṁ Guru Mūrti, Pūjā Mūlaṁ Guru Pādaṁ, Mantra Mūlaṁ Guru Vākya, Mokṣa Mūlaṁ Guru Kṛpā. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Akī Jai Divāna. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai. Śrī Siddha Puruṣa Mahādeva Kī Jai. Śrī Svāmījī Maheśvarānandajī, Gurujī, Gurujī,... Gurujī. I hope you all enjoyed Nirañjan Purījī’s impersonation of Caitanya Mahāprabhu, bouncing there. I’m a bit confused today because, okay, it’s my birthday, but I don’t understand why I get congratulated for that, because all I did was get older. I think on anyone’s birthday, the people who deserve the congratulations are perhaps my mother and father and Gurujī, because whatever we are, it comes from there. The celebration, I would say, is for the mother who gives birth, and then for the parents who bring you up and the gifts they give you through your childhood. What gifts of knowledge, what gifts of love, what gifts of understanding, the forgiveness, and then the trust. As you grow older, and you have the luck to have parents who let you go out into the world, Mahāprabhujī Karatā, Mahāprabhujī Karatā, He Kevalam. I don’t know how special it is that you’re a sannyāsī, but to me personally, when I see a good parent, I actually see a sannyāsī. Because that parent, when their child is young, until they get old enough to leave home or until they get old enough to make their own decisions, gives up everything for that child, for their children. Time is not your own if you are a parent who is dedicated to your children. The first thing is always the children. Think about it. I mean, think of those people who you see who really embrace the parenting role. And holidays are based around the children. Their work decisions are based around the children. Their house is based around the children. Where they live, why they live there, how their children will get to school, what the children are doing after school. It’s such a sādhanā. Now, when somebody’s doing it well, it’s so beautiful to watch. It’s incredible. I mean, I compare myself with my brother. And my brother had quite a high-flying job. His children were born. He left it and took a job where he would work less, he’d get paid less, but he could spend time with those children while they were young. I don’t know. I mean, I will never have children in that way. I’m lucky enough to have contact with a lot of children. I chose a different path. But for those on that path, on the Gṛhastha Āśrama path, on the family path, that time when the children are very young, from the time when they’re born until they’re seven or eight years old, I can’t imagine missing it, or thinking of something better that you could do than to try and spend time with those children. Because the whole life is based on that. It’s so beautiful. Another sannyāsa comes for those people in family life. And that’s when those children grow older and get to 20 years old, or whatever the age is. They finish college or university, finish their studies, they start a job, and then the same parents have to let go, let the children make their own mistakes. They may still see their children as children, but as parents, it’s their responsibility to now see them as adults and to see that they have to let go and let them fall on their own. Always be there, always be there for support, but let things happen. And then the next stage of growth can occur. Okay, I was so lucky with my parents, and then I got even more lucky because I got to come here. So, you know, some people’s next stage is to have children themselves. My next stage was to be here in Gurujī’s service. There’s something that’s going to happen here in the next few weeks, which always fascinates me. And it’s the fact that all year, on this grass outside, we put so much water, and we just struggle to keep it alive. But it doesn’t grow. It just stays alive. Mahāprabhujīdīp Karatā, Mahāprabhujīdīp Karatā, Mahāprabhujīdīp Satsaṅg. Being in a spiritual group and being with a master who has the knowledge firsthand, because you can read from the books, you can hear from classes here and there or whatever, and you can sustain yourself also through those. Things to sustain your spiritual practice. Mahāprabhudīp Karatā, Mahāprabhudīp Karatā, He Kevalam Satyamātā, Pitā Jñānam Dharmo Bhūratā, Dayāsaka Śānti Jayā Kṣamā, Putra Ṣaḍaṅgvā Mama Bandhavā. Truth is my mother. The truth is the mother, and the father is knowledge. You know, and if you think about the biological mother and father, from the knowledge, then it is like the seed; it’s what it starts from. But it’s nourished and it grows up because of truth, because of truth towards yourself, because of honesty towards yourself. As you’re going through your sādhanā of being honest about where you’re at, of not saying that you’re further on the path than you really are, of also not saying that you’re so far behind, giving an honest assessment of where you’re at, and also of being truthful with everybody else. Satyam Māta, all of that nourishment comes from that. But knowledge must also be there. The two must be there together. And the brother is righteousness, the brother is the right way of living, of taking a path, and of being truthful towards that. And the friend is dayā, is compassion, because all of these things we need. And Śāntī Jayā, the wife, is peace. When I think about a husband and wife, a perfect husband and wife, somehow they just complement each other completely. You become at peace with yourself. You accept that you have this issue or this part of you which is, you could say, a fault, and you accept that you have these things which are your plus points, which are things that you do really well. But then you fit them together, you meld them together, so that you can absorb these faults and you can enhance your points, which you can give to others, which develops you. And when you can accept both the good and the negative, the positive parts of yourself, then you have peace regarding yourself. And then you can also offer that further. And the last one for me is, I think this is the most important, and that is the son, the offspring of all of that family together, and that is forgiveness. Because to be able to forgive, it has to come from your own basis of balance, of peace. Mahāprabhudīp Karatā, Mahāprabhudīp Karatā, Mahāprabhudīp, Mahāprabhudīp Karatā, Mahāprabhudīp Karatā, He Kevalam. We all have our issues. We all let them out on other people at times. But with understanding and with peace within our own hearts and with our own balance, then surely we can offer to everyone else that we can accept that. And we can actually even enjoy it because we know that that person is going through some process, and they’re developing. And that means that we are also developing. In the Upaniṣads, the whole essence of the first śloka is that we’re all one. So if it’s my spiritual progress or your spiritual progress, then it’s our spiritual progress. It’s nobody’s personally. We’re all one, so we’re all lifting up. And if somebody’s going through a hard time, it’s our hard time. If somebody’s happy, we all have an essence of that happiness with us because we’re all one. So, for everybody, thank you for being who you are, thank you for putting up with my mistakes, my faults, my issues, my weaknesses, and thank you for bearing with them for so long, and thank you for the forgiveness in advance, and for the next year for the... Forgiveness in advance, and looking forward to it. Oṁ Vole Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Śrī Śrī Devpurīṣī Mahādeva Kī Jaya, Dharma Samrāṭ Paramahaṁsī Svāmī Madhavānanda Purī Jī Mahārāja Kī Jaya, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramahaṁsī Svāmī Maheśvarānanda Purī Jī Satguru Deva Kī Jaya. One short announcement, a practical little bit, for those in the webcast world. In our school, we got the last of the results from the government exams yesterday for last year’s classes. And they all did really, really, really well. So it’s one thing that’s really nice to see, something that’s growing and becoming something really special. And I don’t know if anybody has ever seen the school blog web page, but there’s one small story on there about two girls who joined in the fourth class. And when they came, they had never seen a pencil before. And I can remember very well the day when they turned up. They’d never seen a pencil and never seen a classroom, and they were wild. They passed the 12th class this time, and in the first division. So that is something beautiful to see. Now they go to college. So to all who helped with that, and especially to those in Hamburg, Dīwālā Jī and her team of people who raised money for the Kyān Putra, and in Lakṣmaṇjī, in Croatia, and anybody who’s assisted over the years to make that a reality, I’d just like to say thank you very much. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jaya.