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Part 1: A Discourse on Faith, Experience, and the Nature of Blessings We went to Devpur. A sonography was done. Everything was checked, and they found the prostate badly enlarged. He could not pass urine. The doctor said, "Get the PSA checked." We got the PSA checked. It was 43. The doctors said they did not have to operate, and that this was now going to be cancer, without a doubt. Again, the sister will do everything for the brother. Both these sisters are here. They took a taxi; I was not free, so they took a taxi and came to Nepal. Please protect him; he is our brother. Whatever you can do, you are the only one who can do something. You will be surprised: the second time, after about ten days when he was checked, the PSA came down to 7.8. All documentary proofs are there; doctors are there. And the prostate automatically shrank and came to normal. He is now a doctor in Jalore. This was just about two and a half to three months ago. This is what they can do. They have got spiritual power, and that is what Gurudev and, what I feel, Mahāprabhujī, Holy Gurujī—if you are to see them, you can see them. See them in Swāmījī. They are here. Brigadier sir, come, you also come. Now this is a brigadier of the Indian Army. Army people are not easy to be influenced or to deal with, you know. So we will see what he is going to say. He had many, many good experiences and bad experiences. Mahāprabhujīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Devpurījī, Śrī Mahādeva Kī Jaya, Parama Svāmī Maheśvarānanda Mahārāja Kī Jaya, Parama Svāmī Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Śrī Maheśvarānanda Mahārāja Kī Jaya. I have been ordered to share my experiences of life. Ordered, because I have been brought up in the environment of orders. All those who shared their experience before me narrated one, two, three, four, and some experiences. I don’t have a number of experiences. For me, every breath is an experience. The whole life is a wonderful experience, so I cannot narrate any number. A life full of events, full of ups and downs, full of beautiful memories, and some events which you don’t feel like remembering—that is the whole picture of my life. So, Swāmījī, I cannot count any one experience which is wonderful. All experiences are so wonderful, right from my birth till date. Any bad experience of my life, I don’t call it bad, because those bad experiences were the turning points of my life. Something which turned me to the good side, something which made me stronger, something which made my further journey more beautiful. And those turning points came with the blessings, not my own hard work or some other things, my good luck. Those turning events were the blessings. And I don’t want the words to express; I cannot say, Swāmījī, I thank you for that. Mahāprabhujīp Karatā Mahāprabhujīp Karatā He Kevalam. The achievements are not exactly the achievements. Those are just what you do. But the real blessings of Swāmījī are when you enjoy those experiences. So in my professional life, I had gone through many bad phases. Similarly, in personal life, counting those in front of you will make those events very small. Coming out of it was more wonderful than going through those events. And that is all, with the blessings. But here, like people say, you ask for something, you get it. I don’t ask for anything because things come to me naturally. And for that, now I say, Swāmījī, I am really grateful. If you get anything without asking, there cannot be a better thing in life. It’s like the parents know what the child wants, what the child should get. The child is sick, asks for the chocolate. Mother knows the chocolate is not good for the health of the child. She doesn’t give. She gives a dose of bitter medicine. The child doesn’t like it. But after a day, the child is alright, and she gives the chocolate then. And the child enjoys the chocolate and also enjoys good health. So Swāmījī’s, God’s blessings are like that. We ask for something. Why should we ask for something? He will give us something which is good for us. Not something which I want, but something which I need. So those are the blessings of Swāmījī. Like we say, God didn’t give me anything I wanted, but He gave me everything I needed. Those are the blessings of the Almighty and His incarnations. We are blessed that they are with us today, our dearest Swāmījī. He gives what we can’t even think of. He can fathom things which we cannot even imagine. So, asking for material things—"God, give me this; God, give me that"—is asking for too little. I think if we leave everything to him, we offer our whole life to the feet of Swāmījī, we’ll get everything. We don’t need to ask for anything. Then, like in our shared experiences of accidents, so accidents will come. Something bad comes, but if it happens without even leaving a scratch on you, it means you are so well protected. You become fearless, then there is nothing else to achieve in life, except to express gratitude, except to express a feeling, Swāmījī, the God Incarnation, we are grateful to you for whatever you are doing for us. So that’s why I never wanted to recount any particular experience, because the whole of life is a wonderful experience. I am taking a breath. It is going so rhythmically. The biggest experience of life. The most wonderful thing, so many other things. So I say, Swāmījī, I cannot say anything in particular. Whatever I wanted to express, this is all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Brigadier. Next step will be, he is known as a general, not a brigadier, okay? Wonderfully said, and very carefully said, because he is being an officer of the army. He has to be very careful. Of course, everyone has to be careful. The army is something which is well disciplined and very correct. Very correct, well-disciplined, and very straightforward. It doesn’t matter which countries. They keep to their discipline, their principles. So it’s nicely said: God didn’t give what I wanted, but He gave everything I needed. That’s very nice. It means, do not begin to think now, "Tonight I will wish for something, and when Swāmījī doesn’t fulfill this, no, I don’t believe him anymore." There is no force, there is no demand, but there are blessings, there is kindness. One has to develop the inner confidence. It means that you have to like bodybuilding. Similarly, you must build faith and strength, inner strength. Do not change the inner altar of your heart. And it is said that, often I said, you think it is your friends, but maybe it is not your friends. Tulsīdāsjī said in the Rāmāyaṇa: Dharam Dhīraj Mitra Arunārī, Apat Kāl Parākhya Yung Chārī. On the critical time, on difficult time, dangerous situations of your life, now you have opportunity to know who is yours. First is Dhīraj. Dhīraj means the ability to endure the situations and wait, be impassioned, don’t act, don’t act, wait. One of the philosophers received a letter and asked for the answer. So he wrote about ten pages as the answer. And at the end he wrote, "Friend, sorry to write a ten-page letter because I did not have enough time to write less." It means I had no time to overthink whether I should write or not, or how. He could have written only a quarter page. If you are full of anger, jealousy, hate, emotion, anything, and you write, don’t post it. The next day, read it again, and you will say, "No, it’s not, it’s stupid. I don’t want to write, but I will write something." But postpone it. After a few days, you will tear the letter and throw it away. Ah, that’s it. So, first is how much capacity and energy you have to endure to find the jewel. You know how many tons of stones they have to break in the mines to find a small diamond. Sometimes, tons and tons of stones and mud have to be dug out to find a small diamond. So that diamond is the one which is your wisdom. That is your quality. Everything else is rubbish. Dharma, Dharma, your Dharma means your principle. Being human and having human qualities, that’s it. Wait, your dharma will help you. Dharma means not religion, this religion or that religion, no. Human Dharma, and that human Dharma is to understand, to love, to forgive, and to give blessings. God Kṛṣṇa said in the 12th chapter of the Bhagavad Gītā: Who loves equally the enemy and friends, O Arjuna, they are very dear to me. Whether it be enemy or friend, whether it be foe or ally, one who shows equal love to both, that devotee is most dear to me. In honor and dishonor, in both situations, that you remain calm, O Arjuna, that is dear to me. The 12th Chapter. Of the Bhagavad Gītā, you must read very carefully, very carefully. Then comes the friend. Everyone said, "I am your friend, I am your friend." Some friends are only selfish. When you become the president of some country, then suddenly you have so many friends. Everybody, oh yes, the president is my friend. And when next time the president loses everything and nothing is there, even he phones you and says, "Sorry, but I don’t have time today." That’s it, friend. Where is a friend? When you see the Mahābhārata, the hero Karṇa, one of the heroes in the Mahābhārata, he gave his word to be a friend of Duryodhana. Though he knew that Duryodhana had that kind of devilish energy, he gave his word to be his friend. And he came to know the Kāraṇa that he is also the real brother of the Pāṇḍavas. But still, he gave the word. Raghu Kula Reet Sadāchārī Ai Pran Jaye Par Bachan Na Chārī. The principle, the nature of the dynasty of Raghu, to which God Rāma belongs. Is there always the tradition, Raghu Kula, the dynasty of the Raghu? Raghu Kula Reet Sadāchalī Ai, why this? Principles they had always. Prāṇa Jai Parvāchanana Jai, even have to give life, but will not miss my promise. You made a promise. In many situations of your life, you made a promise. Where is that? So where is the mitra, where are the friends? When something happens to you, your friends fly away like the pigeons from the roof. Just like a pigeon that flies away from the truth, all its friends are gone. Dharma, Dheeraj, Mitra, Arunari, and your partner, your wife or your husband. Yes, he tells you that he loves you, or your wife tells you that she loves you. But when the difficult time comes, that time, if your partner has a mutual loving understanding or not, that makes you great and spiritual. That is very important. That’s very important. Because sooner or later we will die. Very soon we will go. Hari Om Tat Sat. It doesn’t matter what happened in the world; you are gone. The soul is gone. The body is here, and the body is also not here anymore. Within no time, your body will turn to ash. Ād jale jīo lakṛī, kes jale jīo ghāz. Your bones will burn like wood, and your hair will burn just like dry grass. Kanchan jaisī kāyā, this body is very precious like gold. Jalkar ge bashma ho jai geer, it will become ash, and wind will come and it’s gone. Why is there nothing? It’s there. So Abhyāsa, practice, for that is what human life is given for. Otherwise, we go again and again, and there is nothing there. So, God gave you, God gives us what we need, according to our destiny and karmas. In India, you learn everywhere, many times. On Indian vehicles, buses, and trucks, there are many times written good slogans. Ke truck ke pīche likhā rahtā hai, samay se pahle aur bhāgye se, jyādā kabhī nahīṁ miltā. More than your destiny or your luck, and before time, you will get nothing. On the tracks written, more than your luck, what you deserve, not that, but in your destiny. And before time, you will not get. So wait and see; the time will give you the answer. So, it is said there was an old oak tree. There was sitting a bird, an old bird, on the oak. And that bird is more heard than it is spoken. Isn’t that wise, wise bird which is sitting on the oak? The wise one speaks less and hears more, and digests everything in that wisdom of what you have learned and what you have. Therefore, don’t be like popcorn. You put the corn on the hot pan, and before you could realize it is pat, it became blood off. Just as a corn kernel, when you place a corn kernel on a griddle, what happens to it? It puffs up. Mero ko aisa kahi jaya, tu kaisa kya karta hai, tu. Are sun to sahi, dek bhai, bichar kar, sun. Dheriye rakho, dheriye. Do not explode so quickly. Wait, wait, wait. And some people like that popcorn, and they put masala on it to eat more and enjoy. That’s it. Therefore, time, the wise ones are they who use wisdom. And foolish are they because they have nothing. So they become just like water bubbles or soap bubbles, the little playing things that children have. A very nice bubble comes, but as soon as you touch it, there is nothing; it explodes. So there are the friends, they are like nice bubbles, but when you come and when you need them, they are just exploded, gone. What do you expect? So better that you respect thyself and thy wisdom, and take time. Wait, wait, wait. It is said, without season, the fruits will not come. Mālī śīse so gāḍe, ritu ae phal hoi, dhire dhire mana, dhire se, dhire se sab kus hoi. Mālī śīse so gāḍe, ritu ae phal hoi, dhire dhire mana, o my mind, slowly slowly, dhire dhire mana, dhire se sab kus. Hoi, slowly, slowly, everything you will achieve. Mali sise so gada, the gardener gives a lot of water to the trees. Ritu aye phal hoi, but that tree will only give the fruits when the season will come. So your fruits of your spirituality, fruits of your practices, fruits of your goodness, yes, that one day you will harvest, wonderful, beautiful, but now still you can’t harvest anything. You see only the tree. Can you imagine now, this tree which has beautiful, nice mangoes, and then you come in January and you want to see on this tree mangoes? There are no mangoes. You give more water, you give more water. Mangoes are coming? No, mangoes are not coming. No mangoes are coming. Then he said, "Ah, I give so much water to this tree, but it doesn’t give mangoes. Chip it off. Adios." The tree said, "Wait, wait, till the month of my June, then I will give you wonderful, juicy, sweet mangoes." Then he said, "Wow, that’s it, yeh bāt hai bhāī." So, Guru Pūrṇimā, yesterday you experienced how many people were there—thousands of people were here. All were very simple, enjoyed, singing the bhajans. Many good things were there. And again, wherever Gurudev is, there is always satsaṅg. That’s why Mahāprabhujī himself said, Satguru Satsaṅgī Olāve. And therefore, those bhaktas, they always are longing for their guru brothers and sisters, satsaṅgīs. Who is coming to satsaṅg? Prabhujī said, "I am longing for those, my satsaṅgīs, how?" When I think of that, and remember this beautiful satsaṅg, my eyes are full of tears. Or, one, all said like this, you know, now in this month, there is one bird called Papaya, and that Papaya speaks pure, pure. Padyo Neer Nahi Bhave. There is a lot of water on the floor, but he doesn’t want to drink that water. Adar Boond Kun Barsave. He is waiting, waiting, directly, to reach the water drop from the rain. That will quench the thirst of that bird. That is our logo, our harvesting, water harvesting, you know. The bird is looking, and the water drops come. So this is a beautiful bhajan. So satsaṅg jīvam ke liye jahāj hai. So the path to self-realization, the path to spiritual development, is satsaṅg, not kuṣaṅga. Satsang, therefore, all the times for the humans is said satsaṅg. So, my dear ones, we will have satsaṅg tomorrow, today, and the day after tomorrow. So, wherever I am, there is always satsaṅg, never kusaṅg, always satsaṅg. So, I think some of you would like to say something about your own experiences yesterday, the day before yesterday, and today—these three days of the Guru Pūrṇimā festival—how we celebrated. If you want to say something, you are most welcome. So all the best, and our school children need a little sleep. Gurujī, Parabrahma, Tasmai, Śrī Gurudev, Tasmai, Śrī Gurudev. Go, go there. The ones in the back will stand. First, there is their number, not the number of the younger ones. Sit quietly. So I will go and have my dinner, okay? I will listen to you, okay? Which language do you speak? Okay. I would like, oh sorry. I would like to share with you my experience from a few days ago. I always believed in God from my childhood. I always say, I didn’t know, but I just say that we see things which are not main for our life. The main things are not visible, and now I experienced this. It was a conversation between me and my yoga sister a few days ago. And she said to me, "Don’t be attached so much." Well, I was thinking about what I am attached to. Part 2: The Clarity of Grace and the Protection of Service I did not understand her; I truly did not understand. And then I like to pray for Gurudeva. I wanted to understand what I am attached to. I thought I was not attached. Nothing. No moha, no, nothing. Yes. And then, in one moment, such clarity became so clear in my mind. I stand and think, such clarity has arisen. I know now what Guru Kṛpā really is. And then I began to think, and I know that there was a conversation between my ego and my soul. My ego said, "It’s not like this, I have a right," and so on. But my soul said—and because I think of this—my soul said, "Why then are you ashamed of this?" Because I am ashamed, truly. And Gurudeva showed me, showed me clearly, so clearly, showed me what is my moha, my attachment. And then it was like becoming free, truly. I recognized it is Gurudeva who saves us, who gives us so much love. My heart is full of love for Gurudeva, truly so much love. But Gurudeva gives us much more. And we should just be patient and be open to his words. Because every letter of his, every word or anything, it is like a sun. Like a sun. It is not just a jewel, but a sun. Truly. And now, when I go from there, when I sit here, I sought to tell you that I often, last few weeks maybe, sing this bhajan at home, "Guru Vara Mehchal." And it is, it works. It’s like this. Now I know. I believed previously, but now I know, truly. I hope it will help you somehow, and others as well. I hope so, truly. This is my experience. And always, I always, always, I have no doubt in Gurudeva, nothing. When I asked him something, when I asked him something, and what he told me, it’s for me, yes, it’s God told me, yes, it’s like this. I’m so happy, truly, and so thankful to Gurudeva. Our former mayor of Jādaṇ wants to say something, bolo. Bolo Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Śrī Śrī Ekdān, Śrī Mahiśvarānandajī Mahārāj Kī Jai. Main aapko mere anubhav ke bāre, Swāmījī ke āśīrvād se jo anubhav ho, jo āśīrvād milā ho, aapko main sunānā jā rahā hūṁ. In this village, after Swāmījī came here, there was a lot of happiness. Swāmījī is a new saint, the incarnation of Lord Viṣṇu. With his blessings, he flourished, and he flourished a lot. And that experience is now upon me, that I am going to tell you the miracle, with his blessings, that I am going to tell you. In this village, there are 7,000 votes in this Gram Panchayat. In that, there are only 10 votes of my caste. If I want to become a Vajraśarīra, then I can’t, but by the grace of Gurujī, in this Ghanam Prāṇācārya Jardhan, on 19th March, I became a Vajraśarīra by the grace of Gurujī, by the grace of Guru Mahārāj, and by the... By the grace of Gurū Mahārāj, yesterday I didn’t have anything, and by the grace of Gurū Mahārāj, today I have everything. By the grace of Gurū Mahārāj, with the blessings of Gurū Mahārāj, I got a son here, Ratmila, who is the Devī of Nārāyaṇa. And with the blessings of Gurū Mahārāj, happiness has come to every house in this village, which has brought so much happiness upon the arrival of Gurū Mahārāj, that there was nothing in this village before. This village was a small town, and it was poor. With the blessings of Gurū Mahārāj, this village, in every house, all kinds of facilities have been provided. By the grace of Gurū Mahārāj, it is a miracle, it is a blessing, and with his blessings, today, in any kind of village, if there is a sabhā, then without my presence, that sabhā remains incomplete, that is the grace of Gurū Mahārāj, and with the blessings of Gurū Mahārāj, today, in my home family, with all peace and happiness, I would like to welcome everybody here, and I would like to share a very nice story I remember from two days ago. I had a beautiful dream about Horī Gurujī two and a half years back. And in the dream, at the end of the dream, Horī Gurujī asked me, "When will you come?" And I said, "As soon as possible." And last year, everybody knows it was Kumbha Melā, so it was not possible to come to Jādan. And two days back, I took the way to the samādhi of Holy Gurujī, and a few meters before I could enter the samādhi of Holy Gurujī, Meera from Strilky came on my way, and nearly I forgot that I had this beautiful dream about Holy Gurujī, but Gurujī didn’t forget it. So Meera came to me and smiled, and I said to her, "Hari Om," and she said, "Quickly, quickly, Gurujī is waiting, Gurujī is waiting." And I looked and I said, "What?" Yeah, Gurujī is waiting. Why are you so long? And this was very, very beautiful because I forgot it, but he didn’t forget it. And even Mahāprabhujī, Devpurījī, or Gurujī are not with us physically, but they are living in every body of us. And this was for me a sign that we, Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī, and Devpurījī, are in every body of us. And I can just tell that 20 years back, when I met Swāmījī for the first time, I was a naughty child. I’m a little bit better, but not so much better. But I also had a beautiful experience with Swāmījī at that time. I was riding a motorcycle, and like a race, I tried to be quicker than a friend of mine. And it was in Greece, and we were driving on the mountains. I had just one year back, I got mantra from Swāmījī, and suddenly I knew, I got the feeling that something would happen, and I started to drive very, very slowly, and a few seconds later, I really had an accident with a motorcycle in the mountains, but due... to that feeling that I got from Gurudeva, that something will happen, drive slowly. I just had the accident, but nearly nothing happened to me. And in that moment, when I got the feeling that something will happen, I started to drive very, very slowly, and a few seconds... later, I really had an accident with a motorcycle in the mountains, but due to that feeling I got from Gurū Deva that something would happen—drive slowly—I just had the accident, but nearly nothing happened to me. And in that moment when I got the feeling... That something will happen, drive slowly. I just had the accident, and I was lying on the street with a motorcycle. I had little scratches on my hands, and blood was flowing. I saw, not really physically saw, but like a light, that Swāmījī was there. And due to that, I came to him, and I got a mantra; I was saved. And I didn’t tell Swāmījī the story that I had an accident. And the summer seminar, just a few weeks later, we were sitting that time in Raichur now. And I was sitting in front of Swāmījī, many people around, and he was talking. And I did with my hair something like this, and I still had scratches here from that accident. Swāmījī suddenly looked at my hand, and he talked to the people, as if to make them busy. And then suddenly he looked again at my hand, and he said, "What do you have there?" And I could not answer anything, because in that second he turned away again and was speaking to other people. After a few seconds, he turned again to me and said, "I know." He turned away again so that nobody could recognize that short talk between us. And this was just my answer: he protected me, and he protects us. And I’m very, very happy to be here with you, especially for Guru Pūrṇimā, where so many people came and gave their adoration and their love to Swāmījī. And it’s always so beautiful to see, especially for us Europeans, to see how much love the Indians have and not so many complexes. They go to Swāmījī, they greet Swāmījī, and this is always very, very beautiful to see. And I invite all the world, if they have the possibility to come next year, to have the opportunity to be here at the Holy Feet of Our Master, Tulasī Pūrṇimā. Thank you very much. Hari Om. Hari Om. Hari Om, dear friends, dear yoga family around the world. Thank you, that I can share one experience, maybe one or two, especially with Holī Gurujī. You know that I am 34 years now with Swāmījī, and actually, two years after I met Swāmījī, Purījī, also Holy Gurujī, came to Vienna, and I met him in 1980, and probably I was near Holy Gurujī and Swāmījī in my past lives, I am 100% sure, and I think also that I have been an Indian citizen because I feel very, very near to Hinduism, and also my bhajan singing, you know, I started to, you know, I started to... You know, I started to study chanting, opera singing, you know, and when Swāmījī heard my first singing, you know, he is... for Indians, he is a terrible, you know, they just move out of the door if you start to sing like this. So, I said, but I wanted to sing in front of him, so I transposed all my singing, you know, one octave, you can say deeper. And then it happens that I felt in myself like I’m an Indian, you know, and an Indian man actually. So maybe that’s why, that’s why maybe my singing sometimes is like this, but I feel such a Śakti inside, it’s incredible. It’s just incredible, and that’s why I can carry everybody behind me with my singing. Because this is probably some Śakti from the past life. I can also sing completely different. But it’s very, very close to my heart. Actually, I didn’t want to tell you this, but this Holy Gurujī inspired me. Because for me, Holy Gurujī is very, very much present in this time, especially under Guru Pūrṇimā. We have had so many Guru Pūrṇimās with Holy Gurujī and many friends who are here now. We have been together for many years, yet we are not close like normal social friends. We are very much connected, like the mālās on a thread—many, many mālās—a long mālā around the whole world, and it’s something very beautiful. So, also in these times, times which are difficult for all of us, I feel that our friendship is a very, very important thing. And really, as Swāmījī often mentioned, this also has this reason: let’s make a satsaṅg together and not a kusaṅg. It doesn’t matter what is going on in the world; when we are together, it’s good to make a satsaṅg. Satsaṅg, just beautiful things which lift us up and do not push us down. This is very, very, very extremely important. And I want to tell you an uplifting story about Holī Gurujī. So it happened that in some difficult times of Holī Gurujī, I was on his side. And one time, he was also living in my house in Vienna. It is up in the hills, and he had some health problems. He got some health problems, and we had to go to the hospital. Swāmījī was also there. He had some heart problems. Śrī Śrī... We brought the disciples to Holy Gurujī, and we brought him food. It was interesting that in the hospital—it is the biggest hospital of Vienna—and you can imagine, they are not just "Praṇām Gurudev" and "Praṇām Gurudev"; they are not used to this, but everywhere there was with Holy Gurujī and also with Swāmījī, in all the hospitals, they were so respected, and Holy Gurujī, wherever he came, he put the picture of Mahāprabhujī on the north side. So he made in the north a little altar. And every day he was making a prayer there. If he could not, because of his health, we had to make the prayer. But this was such a ritual, and everybody respected this. The sisters didn’t come inside, the doctor didn’t come inside, so he was the most respected. And you can imagine, I’m from this hospital. I’m like 40 minutes outside, and we were, I was preparing some food also for Holy Gurujī. So we were preparing food, going to the hospital, seeing Holy Gurujī, eating, and then going back, preparing something else, and coming back. So the whole day was actually dedicated to taking care of Holy Gurujī. My name is Śānti, but actually Swāmījī gave me in the beginning the name Tufānānand. You know what Tufānānand means? That is a tornado, you know, like this. So I have both inside of me, yes? And more and more I come, hopefully, I mean, to Śānti. But sometimes there is always this tornado, Mahāprabhujī Karatā, Mahāprabhujī Karatā, He Kevalam... Heating room, I mean heating room, not eating room, heating, yes. So it comes from the north, yes. You know what it is? It is a hut, closed, and inside is an oven, and this was an electrical oven, yes. And you go inside, you sweat for a while, then you go outside, you take a shower, you rest, and so on. So I was thinking, this is a very good opportunity. I will make a sauna first place, and then I will make a sauna, and then I will make a sauna, and then I will make a sauna, and... Then I will make a sauna, and then I will make a sauna, and then I will make a sauna, and then I will make a sauna, and then I will make a sauna, and then I will make a sauna, and then I will make a sauna, and then I will make a sauna. Prabhupāda, Prabhupāda... So, I was concentrating on the cooking and on the old lady, and I forgot completely about the sauna in the basement. Yes, that it was open on high temperature, the highest temperature, so I forgot this completely. Okay, so I was there, and then suddenly from the basement came some smoke, and I felt, "Oh my goodness, what is this? What is this?" And I opened the door to go down, and the smoke came to me. I went there, and the whole basement was already full of smoke. I opened the sauna door, and inside it was burning. I forgot, you know, there is, when you are after the, when you are very, body is very, you put some water on the oven, yes, and this bucket, I had it on the oven itself, yes, you understand, on the oven itself, so when the fire, the electricity was going on, the oven, and the oven was of wood, yes, so it was on the oven, and so it was, so it burned completely when I come there. It was, this bucket was ashes, and the whole round was black. Yes, so black because it was burned. But the most interesting thing was that the house didn’t burn. So I had this sauna inside, not completely burned, but it was just inside some black things, and this was just ashes, you know, this thing. And it is just a miracle, because I don’t know how this happened, that nothing else, because outside the sauna was also wood, and in the whole basement is wood. Yes? So I had really very, very, very divine protection, and I know that this protection is only and only because it was stupid from my side, no? Completely stupid, no? You should do one thing at a time, not three things at the same time. So this is not a good thing, but it was a protection because I was doing the seva for Hari Gurujī. This is a reason, and he protected me. He did not protect me even one time. This has happened several times. Through his protection, I came out of this, and the whole house would have been destroyed. So, after this, I had just actually opened all the windows, and of course, after this, I had to replace the wooden panels inside sometime later. I understood this is only because he was there and he protected me, and it was just great. And I came then in the afternoon, I went again to the hospital and tried to tell him this, you know, with Gurujī I had always, he’s not really speaking English, I’m not really speaking Hindi, so Swāmījī was not there and I told him, "Gurujī, Agni, Agni," and this and that, and he said, "Yeah, yeah, I know, I know," something like this. So it was really wonderful, and it was a big blessing. It is also said in the Bhagavad Gītā, if you read the Bhagavad Gītā, you will be astonished how often Śrī Kṛṣṇa is saying inside, if you make selfless service, this is the best way to get rid yourself of your karmas and come in the easiest and best ways to reach the Lord. So, this is my experience, and I can just tell you that if you perform selfless service, God will protect you anyhow, but in this, he will protect you more. So, I thank you that I could share this with all of you, and all my love is with you all, with our wonderful yoga family, so many friends, and I hope that you are all happy and we can share a lot of time together. And you know when I came here after being two and a half months in Europe. There are so many waves going on there, so many waves, and here, being with Swāmījī, you forget everything. In the presence of Gurudeva, there is nothing else than harmony and peace, and that’s what we can experience. Here, in his presence, you forget everything. All waves, all vṛttis come, and you feel inside of yourself the inner peace. Om Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. So that’s why it’s wonderful that you all, friends, came here, and as my friend Līlā said, "Try to come to India, try to experience here the presence of Swāmījī, but not only of Swāmījī, of all our Guru Paramparā, who are present here in this area, and to feel the inner peace, happiness, and this will protect you and give you happiness for a long, long time. Thank you very much. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān.