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Our appreciation to Bhagavān Śrī Dībnā and Mahāprabhujī, his cosmic light, may lead us to immortality, from darkness to light, and from unreality to reality. All dear Bhaktas of Gurudev, in the name of our spiritual lineages, the holy chair of our spiritual lineages, I bless you all. I am very happy to be again in Prague and looking forward to seeing you. And finally, we are here. In the last two or three months, we have been seeing each other on many occasions. This evening’s satsaṅg is dedicated to our dear sister Milena Hypsmanova. This evening we will have a prayer, and this prayer is dedicated to her immortal soul, immortal Ātmā. May Mahāprabhujī lead her immortal soul into His divine light, that she may find eternal peace and bliss. For many of you, it was a shock to hear about the event of what happened with Milena. Many of you know, she followed me to South Africa. Her wish was to see the life of native Africans, to see their villages and children, and to see in what condition and how they are living. She saw many cultures, and this was missing, which she couldn’t see in her life. When we arrived in Johannesburg, we had a welcoming program there. There was a dance of the Africans and singing of the African songs, very spiritual. Milena was sitting in the back somewhere in the room. So I called her to come and sit in the front beside me, on the chair, and she enjoyed it. The next day, she went on a safari. It’s called the Orphan Elephant Sanctuary. There you can go and touch the elephants, feed them, clean them, and walk with them. You can hold, the elephant will hold your hand with its trunk, and you walk together. Or you can hold his ear and walk with him. She did this all, fulfilled her wish. When she wanted to say goodbye to the elephant, he didn’t want to let her go, and he stepped on her foot, but not on her toes, but on the soles, gently. That was an indication for her not to go away from him. Then they had a beautiful dinner, lunch in some African huts with African people, and it was very nice. The next day we went to the retreat, and on the way, the accident happened. You see, destiny is very mysterious. In life with us, always two persons are walking: Jñāna or Karma. Jñāna is wisdom. The jñāna leads us to immortality. And the kāl is the death. Kāl is time. Time is divided into three parts: past, present, and future. Past is known as Bhūta Kāla. So, Bhūta is the past. Bhūta znamená to, co je minulé. Kāla is the time. Vartamāna, the present. Vartamāna. Bhaviṣya is future. A Bhaviṣya je budoucnost. Now, humans are very intelligent and intellectual beings, but God has not given them this one ability: to know the past and to know the future. Why? Why didn’t God give it to us? Or Mother Nature? Perhaps we could live in peace and more in harmony. No, we can’t. The problems of this life, attachment to this life, how our parents are or how our parents were, how our children are, how our work is, how our health condition is, all create tension in our mind. We are not able to master this life. How do you think that you will be able to master the many, many past lives? If something happened in childhood with you, with some of your dearest friend or dearest one, and you are still not able to overcome it, what do you think? How would you manage in the past lives? Therefore, thanks to God that we don’t know what happened in the past, so that we can work peacefully and relaxed now, in the future. If we know what will happen in the future, then we will die already now from a heart attack. We will not be able to work. We will not be able to eat. We will be so fearful that many will have depression. You cannot imagine what will happen. Therefore, thanks to God, that He doesn’t show us these future pictures, nor the past. But between these three time limitations, what is playing with us is our destiny. It’s all a game of fate. This all is a play of our destiny. And destiny is created individually by themselves. And now, there are many things we can avoid and many things we cannot. Not avoid. Though we know that we should avoid, but we can’t avoid. Long ago, in Greece, one king got a child. The son was very happy. But someone who knows something about the future and destiny, or astrology, told the king, "Yes, you have a son, beautiful and healthy. Everything is good with him, but one thing is not good, and that is that he will marry his mother." The king loved the queen very much, and when the king heard this, "What a terrible sin could happen, that this son will have a relation with the mother like a wife?" Out of emotion, out of ignorance, he let them throw away this child in the forest to kill him. So the people didn’t kill him. They went somewhere in the forest, and they left him somewhere under the olive tree, a small, fresh-born child. Hot weather and no water, no one who could take care. The child was screaming, crying. Any animals could have killed him; he could have died. But it is said in a beautiful poem: To whom God wants to protect, no one can kill him. Not even one hair of his can be damaged by anyone. Even the whole world is against him. So, destiny is a mysterious thing. One shepherd found him, and the shepherd took care of him, and he grew with the shepherd. And there was in Greece again some lady oracles, and I don’t know, but I think they call it, her name was Sophie, who tells the future, and she told that boy, "Don’t come near to me, you are a great sinner, because you will marry your mother." Young boy, about 18 years, very desperate. He went there to find a happy life and know his future, so he decided one thing: "I will run away." I will not take a particular destination. He stood there, closed his eyes, and he was turning, whirling, like, you know, the whirl dance. You know that? The weird dance from Turkey, there was a great saint in Konya, Mavlānā, and this Mavlānā, he was a great wise man, a Sufi saint. He said, "Come to me as you are. It doesn’t matter who and how you are, sinner, good man, ill man, happy man, come to me." And he was dancing in the name of God. He was just moving. They are moving and moving. One hour, if you move, you will fall down. So there are the dancers who are doing this dance. One hour they will turn because they are in such energy, in such devotion. So this, how to say, that young man, he was turning and turning till he forgot which direction his face was now. Then he stopped and ran in that direction, and then opened his eyes. He went a few kilometers, and again he turned and turned, praying to God, "Lord, please don’t lead me to my mother." But finally it happened, that queen, when she saw that young man, she fell in love. He helped her to fight with enemies, and he married her. And then he realized that it is his mother. You know this. Who was that? Oedipus. That’s a destiny. Sometimes you can avoid, and sometimes you cannot avoid. Yes, he could have avoided it if he would have followed the suggestion, the instruction of some holy man, and stayed there. But he thought, "I will do it myself." But he said to himself, "I will do it myself." And that brought him there. So we don’t know when, where, and how this body will fall on the earth, and we will not even be able to move a small finger. And that will come. We know that we are not immortal; this body is mortal. Sooner or later we will all go. Only, thanks to God, we don’t know the time, place, and situation. Therefore, one bhakta said, O Lord Kṛṣṇa Govinda, It’s my humble request, prayer. That I never forget your name. Let me sing day and night this name of thine. Krishna has many names, and Krishna has no names. All names of God, Jesus, Buddha, Rāma, Muhammad, Allāh, Mahāprabhujī, and so on, are names of Kṛṣṇa. Because Krishna said, "It doesn’t matter through which way you will go, through which door you will go, finally I will be there." Dehant kāle tum sāmne ho, bānsī bajāte man ko lubhāte. Gāte yahī nām tananāth tyāgu, Govind damo dharamadveti. My Lord. At the end of my life, when I renounce this body, I have only one wish, that you are standing in front of me. It means in my thoughts, in my feelings, it’s not about any māyā, no house, no property, no money, no wife, no husband, and no children, but only one thing, God’s name. You are standing in front of me, O Kṛṣṇa, and smiling, and playing your sweet flute. While listening to the sound of your flute and looking at Thee, my Lord, I give up this life. That is your mantra. That is Ajapā. You have heard about Mahātmā Gandhījī. He was the God Rāma’s bhakta. What is the proof of that? The proof of that is that last thing he said. He didn’t say, "Hey, Krishna." He said, "Hey, Rāma, oh, Rāma," and he gave up his life. And even now, today, every day in India, where Gandhījī died, there is an eternal flame, and every day with a fresh flower, it is written, "Hey Rām." That is mantra, that is ajapa. Some people say, "Oh, devil." Some said, "Oh, my good luck." Some said, "No." Some said, "Oh, God." It’s a very interesting thing how you hear from the people. That’s your inner call, what is within you. So, sooner or later, we have to go. But how and when and where are hidden to us. On the day when you will be above all this suffering, above your zeal, above your attachment, above your anger, above your doubts and above your fear, then you will become a Trikāla Darśī. Then it will open for you. Your consciousness will be widening, that it will widen in the past as well as into the future. There is a beautiful, peaceful lake, and you throw a stone inside. The waves, like a disc, are expanding. So it depends on you, how your heart and your intellect, the suffering. Then, when you achieve this goal, when your kuṇḍalinī śakti begins to awake, then all this jealousy, anger, fear, māyā, everything is like dust or like toys. You are a ball. I am myself. I am myself. I am myself. I am myself. I am that, tat tvam asi, the supreme cosmic self, nirmoha, without any moha. And moha has two meanings. Moha means ignorance. Moha means darkness. Moha means suffering. And the products of moha are all our inner negative qualities. Kāma, krodha, mada, lobha, and hatred is the moha. And the second moha means attachment. And that attachment, when you are attached to something, then you don’t want to give up. If someone tries to take this inside, you are suffering, jealous. Why is he looking at my things? Why is she looking at my things? Oh my God. The night, sleepless nights, like an owl has sleepless nights on a full moon day, you know. Eyes are open. And there is only one treatment: Yoga Nidrā. For sleepless nights, Yoga Nidrā. So you cannot sleep. You create a picture in your mind, but this is you, not the other. Your māyā is playing, your ignorance is playing. When this is purified, you know sooner or later it will finish. Then what will happen? Still, you will suffer. Don’t go from this world while suffering. So, "Tattvamasi nirmohi," I am nirmohi. There was a story about a nirmohi king. And that story I will tell you next time. Because it’s too beautiful a story, and when I tell you the story, you will cry, and you will laugh, and you will be thinking over. So, nirmohī kartāhuṁe vandanā. I am praying, I am greeting. Merī musko hoī, my prayer should be to me that you pray to thyself, meaning that God is thyself and thyself is that God. We are all essence of that cosmic Self. So when this consciousness is widening, your fear from the past life disappears. Becomes clear when there is a psychic problem. You go to the psychologist, and the psychologist tries to explain to you. And it takes away from you this fear. Similarly, without moha, without emotion, without anger, without hate, without jealousy, without revenge, with oneness, equal vision, and love, you accept, you forgive. And then, all of this is melted or dissolved from you. A jñāna pradhāna haṭha jātahe. The curtain of ignorance moves away. The very heavy or very thick fog disappears suddenly, and you go to the past. Bhagavān Buddha said, "When I got my enlightenment, first, I traveled to my past, to how my consciousness was developing. And I went all the way to the stone consciousness. And from the stone, I came again to the human. And then I expanded my consciousness into the future until I came only to the light, the enlightenment, Buddha." And Buddha means enlightened one. His name is Siddhārtha. But his buddhi, enlightened intellect, is enlightened. Siddhartha stole buddhī, the enlightened intellect. Self-realization. And there you are playing your divine līlā. Lílu amṛt. Kṛṣṇe līlā. Je to hra Kṛṣṇy. Rāma līlā. Nebo hra Rāmy. Ježíš līlā. But we don’t understand because we have fear, we have pain, and we are limited. Therefore, we have to face the destiny, and once even you are enlightened, one you have to face the destiny. Finally, the car will be the winner. It means death. It means that time will come when you have to give up the body. Now, how do we have to give up the body? Up, that’s it. So some become the victim of the Kālī, and some become the hero of the Kālī. Mahāprabhujī said, "Kālī nikaṭ nahī̃ āsake," the Kālī cannot come near. Vokare kāliko ahara, because even he digests the kale, even he, the self-realized person, digests the kale. He kills the kale, but this self-realization you cannot buy, and you cannot hurry up. It’s a slow process, a lifelong process. Abhyāsa, abhyāsa, Kuntī, abhyāsa. O son of the Kuntī, Arjuna, practice, practice, practice. So between this, there is a torrent coming sometimes, like lightning in the clouds. Suddenly, it was not planned, and that’s called an accident. And sometimes it is happening purposely, so that one doesn’t have to suffer. And so the accident happened with our dear Mīlenā Muktamānī, whom we miss today here. You know her humor, her talents of language, translations, a loving heart, a loving person. And today we do miss her very much. We know that one day, sooner or later, we have to go. But still we are mortal, being in this body. For her, it’s easier, but for us, not. We do miss, but we pray for that. We pray for her soul to dissolve in the cosmic light, and she will remain ever in our hearts and in our thoughts.