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Part 1: Holy Days in the Divine Presence Hari Om and good evening, dear brothers and sisters. Here in Europe, it is the summer season and holiday time. Most of us are very busy choosing our holiday destination. For many, this is the most important time of the year, filled with great expectations for joy, recharging, and relaxation. But we who are present here have respected the word itself. We follow the word itself: holidays, svátky. Therefore, we decided to enjoy those holy days. This is a truly holy place: Śrī Mahāprabhujī Dīpa, Śrī Mūla Veṣṭrikā, in the presence of Gurudeva—for whom it is too little to say "holy." It is said so many times that love governs the world and the universe. All our hunger we try to satisfy through different objects and subjects. When we find something that looks promising, we fall in love with it. This means we want to unite with it; we want to become a part of that, and that becomes a part of us. In the world, the universe, in saṃsāra, there are so many opportunities. We have passed through all those possibilities and understood they were good, but not good enough. Now, we should be good enough for that from which we expect completeness. In the presence of Gurudeva, we can realize the whole process of reuniting: from balance through harmony, from harmony through unity, and through unity till completeness. It is all given. In the holy divine science of yoga, this is truly possible in the inner and outer presence of Gurudeva. Therefore, we should understand that it does not matter what we think about ourselves or why we are here. Why are we here? It is the love that brought us here. All our experiences from all previous lives brought our intelligence to vivekā. We understood that we need completeness, and that completeness is manifested in the presence and personality of Gurudeva. We have so many divine books and great teachings, but what we really need is the example, the embodiment. We need to dare to trust that it is possible to cross the border between mortal and immortal, between limited and unlimited, between temporal and eternal. Consciously or unconsciously, we are aware of the presence of that love which will unite us with our goal. That love is Gurudeva. There are certain levels of existence, some so deep and great that without proper preparation, we are not capable of standing the beauty and greatness of it. But beyond the greatness of greatness, the beauty of beauty, beyond the divinity of divinity, there is Guru Tattva: the self-awareness of God and divine mercy itself. That mercy incarnates, full of empathy. It knows perfectly our pain, much deeper than we can imagine, and it knows the beauty beyond our imagination—the beauty hidden in our spiritual level, in our ātmā. That love knows our hunger, and that love serves us. For nearly 40 years, we have been more or less aware of 40 years of pure seva, pure service from Swāmījī to all of us, to the whole world. There is not one day in his life for himself, because he is the life, and we are part of him. He is part of everything. But that love can manifest and be realized by those who accept it, and we have accepted that love. For each of us, the realization will come sooner than we think. Then we will realize how rare, how great, how merciful, and how full of love each meeting is. Each satsaṅg with Gurudeva, each sādhanā, each mantra. Scientists recently claimed that in the universe, matter is so sparse there is roughly one atom per cubic meter. Can you imagine? It is nearly emptiness. To find one atom, and for that atom to find another, is so rare. Within that matter, biological life is like one atom in a cubic meter of matter. Within that biological life, conscious life is rare. And within that conscious biological life, human life is like one atom per cubic meter. We cannot fully realize how rare it is in the universe to meet another human with ahiṃsā, with the same goal, with love. How rare it is to have that longing which brought us here. Each step of our development is so precious. Under the guidance of Gurudeva, this development proceeds quickly when observed from the distance of universal measurement. Swāmījī gave an example two months ago: he is like a GPS navigator. You just put the navigator in the car, type the address, and it will bring you there. That is Gurudeva. It is so simple. Only one command: the address. The navigator will guide you there, despite temporary karma. We often do not follow the instructions, but the navigator is not angry. It just says, "Recalculating." When we miss the guidance, in the next moment it recalculates without any nervousness. If a friend were guiding us, after the second or third mistake we might hear anger or punishment. But the navigator simply says, "Recalculating." If you need something—the closest petrol station, hospital, theater, cinema, museum—it provides information. Until our flag is on the final destination, the navigator always knows where we are, even when we don't, and it will always find a way to bring us to the goal. That is absolute mercy. Part 2: A Homeopathic Doctor’s Path with Yoga I am a homeopathic doctor, but I use yoga in my everyday life as a tool for fighting various diseases, and my patients understand and accept it. Wherever I go, I inform people. When people ask me, "How do you know how to make the back good again?" I tell them, "Just buy a book, Yoga in Daily Life." When they ask, "How do you know what to do when something is not right with your legs?" I tell them, "Buy a book, Yoga in Daily Life." I won’t repeat stories similar to those of previous speakers. Of course, my husband and I have also had experiences where the mantra protected us and helped us in situations which we feel sure would have turned out a lot worse than they actually did. Today, my stay in Střílky in the Czech Republic has inspired me to write a poem, which I’d like to share with you. It expresses my thankfulness to our Gurudev. O milovaný Gurudeve! O voljený Gurudev! We are sitting at your feet very silently, like birds in the branches of the trees. Your words of wisdom are falling down on us like, I don’t know, like petals or like snow. Snowfall. All the brooks and all the rivers always meet up, and they create a very strong flow of a great river. Let us kindle the flames in our hearts. Let us bring light into the time of Kali Yuga. When the light is shining, darkness disappears. You are teaching us to look around and to listen to our inner voice, to our own self. O, blessed Gurudev, greetings to you who sings this beautiful song of wisdom. My mother used to say, you have to wash your words in milk. And also she said that the guest is a diamond inside the house. Old wisdom and truth, even if it has been covered by the dust of time, still remains true and beautiful. Jež dojímá. Many, many, many thanks for your endless patience and care, which touches our hearts. Jímž oplýváš. For your beautiful humor. For the great love with which you guide us on the path from unreality to reality. Silently, we listen to your beautiful humor, ancient wisdom. And even the crowns of the trees bend down in greeting to you. The birds circle around, flying in couples in the distance. Like seagulls in a drizzle over a port or a bay. Thank you.