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Part 1: A Glimpse into Ashram Life and Indian Wisdom You would all be very interested to know what our bhaktas or students who are here have learned about Indian culture, what they study—Hindi, whatever—besides the volunteer seva, karmayoga. When the group is here, they are very busy doing something. So what do they learn? The Upaniṣads, the Vedas, or whatever. I think it will be very interesting for you to hear what they are doing here. How do they like it? Is it good? A good idea? I didn’t hear any feedback. Okay. It’s the mental cure, but I have a lot of pain in my physical body. So, in Āyurveda they say, if you cure your physical body, then you control your diet. If you want peace in your mind, then you must control your thoughts. Just without any reason, we are thinking about another person’s life. Mind problems create every human person. We are thinking without any reason, without any talking, without any excuse. "Oh, she is very beautiful. Why is my face not beautiful? She has a very great dress. I have such a dirty dress." Then automatically your mind is going wrong. Automatically, your mind is going to criticize and be jealous. How to control your mind? First, without any person, you see every person as a God heart, and every person has a deep Nārāyaṇa mind. Mahāprabhujī, if you see any girl, if you see any persons, if you see old persons, young persons, and bodybuilder persons, if you see just, there is here only Dīp Nārāyaṇ, only Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, only Maheśvarānanda Mahāprabhujī, then your mind does not create the problem, no jealousy. If you respect Gurujī, if you respect Dev Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, if you respect Dīp Purījī Mahārāj Jī, if you respect Mādhāvānanda Bhagavān, just you see everywhere is the Mādhāvānanda Bhagavān, then automatically your mind does not create the problem. Then, second, how to control your physical vāta, pitta, and kapha. Vāta, pitta, kapha, physical body. Some people have a cough, some people have pain, some people have pitta, some oily systems, pimples, and all these things. How to control the three elements? So, if you chant, if you eat food every day, please just pray to Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa. And Vedānta philosophy has one mantra: Oṃ Anyapate Anyasanno Dehi Anyami Vasya Suṣminām. Just you pray; your God is your master. At that time, when you are eating food, nobody can pray to the master. Then your mind is going to sometimes look like a heroine. And people are also reading some newspaper, people are also looking at TV and internet, and they are eating tea and all these things. Then we are busy with all instruments, but we are not praying. Then how to get good health? Then vāta, pitta, and kapha give to your physical body. Some of you are eating too much water, milk, then kapha comes. Food is free, water, milk, take two to three glasses. Control your tongue, then you can control your physical body’s pain. Control your mind, criticism, jealousy, then you can be happy. And the ātmā has no pain and no happiness. I am not given to too much lecture because I did not study in college. I am just in 7th class, studying Hindi and Sanskrit language. So I have no knowledge. My Gurujī and Holy Gurujī just bless me. I am doing some Holy Gurujī Seva, Chapati, and every day in the night time do some Seva, Charan Seva. Then he is also telling, "Oh, you don’t go to college." Holy Gurujī tells, just only a Mālā, only a Mālā, everything will come to you. So today I feel Holy Gurujī is blessing me and Pūjya Gurudev is blessing me. I am going all over India on so many tours, everything is coming for me. This is the Guru, Samarpan, and Holy Gurujī Śiva. I am in the Himalayas. I am just telling you. One day, I had nothing. No blanket, no cap, and I think I only have one sari. I have nothing. Then one person comes and he gives me 300 rupees. One sādhu has come, a Bengali sādhu. "Oh, you don’t stay here. This is not for you. You are already finished with your sādhanā. Go to your Gurujī Śiva." And just as I am coming here. So, I am telling you, sometimes our Gurujī is giving a little bit of physical talk. Please, take your Gurujī’s speech as a Vedic mantra. In Vedānta philosophy we say: Dhyāna Mūlaṁ Guru Rūpaṁ, Pūjā Mūlaṁ Guru Pādaṁ, Mantra Mūlaṁ Guru Vākyaṁ, Mokṣa Mūlaṁ Guru Kṛpā. 24 hours, since Vedānta philosophy says, if you chant, if you see, if you meditate, if you chant any mantra, just you do Guru pictures. All three devatās, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Maheśa, undertake Satguru. Nature is also undertaking, working, Satguru. All three devatās are working with the Satguru undertaking. And Vedānta philosophy says, if you see your master in your heart, then nobody can give you pain. If you have cancer, if you have diabetes, if you have so many headaches, heart blockage, if you pray to Satgurū Swāmījī, then pain, diabetes, cancer, you never cure. I am not a physical body. I am not an indriya. I am not a physical body. I am not a mind. I am not all karmas. Then you can stand up and you can surrender to Holy Gurujī and Pūjya Gurudevjī. My life, I left my house when I was 14 years old. I never get only 100 rupees. I take my mother, from my mother, and I never go back. 1984, that time I leave my house. And that time I come to this ashram. Holy Gurujī take my hand. "Oh, I am waiting for you. Here, I am just doing praṇām. I am waiting for you. Now, you don’t go from this place. Okay, take it." And he gave me all my clothes. He changed within five minutes. "Okay, go and wash and come back." And he has given me Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇjan, Savadukha Banjan. "You chant this mantra. Everything comes to you. Don’t worry." So this is the holy Gurujī’s blessings and Swāmījī’s blessings. Swamiji, tell me, you can go for four, twelve years, go to tapasyā and go to Gangotri, Yamunotri, and some resource herbal plants. So I respect Swamiji as God and Holy Gurujī as God. I have no need for another God. I just pray always at that time. So Holy Gurujī is very nice and Pūjā Gurujī is very nice. But we do not understand Gurujī. We do not understand Holy Gurujī. Sometimes our mind creates the problems. "Oh, he is a very angry person." But reason is there. They want power. They want to, if we have ego, then Swamijī wants to take the ego and finish the ego. But we are not understood. At that time, we feel, "Oh, Swāmījī is criticizing me out of jealousy and anger." But when we are thinking in meditation, then automatically we understand what is the Guru’s heart. The Guru never gives pain. The Guru always loves. Always love. So I am not giving too much speech because my time is over. Just you pray to like Gurujī. You can sing one prayer. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jaya. Gaṇeśa Vāśya, Dhi Mahi, Dhi Yo Yona, Prachodayāt, Oṁ Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Oṁ Tryambakaṁ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṁ Puṣṭivardhanam, Urvārukamiva Bandhanān Mṛtyormukṣīya Mā’mṛtāt. Oṁ Tryambakaṁ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṁ Puṣṭivardhanam, Urvārukamiva Bandhanān Mṛtyormukṣīya Mā’mṛtāt... Naḥaṁ Karatā Prabhudīp Karatā Mahāprabhudīp Karatā He Kevalaṁ Siddhip Naramāgwanā Kī Jaya Śrī Alakhpurījī Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā Kī Jaya Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramaḥaṁsvar Maheśvarānandajī Guru Deva Kī Jaya. Dear friends, dear brothers and sisters around the world, I greet you on this very auspicious day of the year from Jadān Ashram, Rajasthan, India, where Swāmījī is also present. And today he gave us a task, those who are students here in the ashram, in the Viśvadīp Gurukul, Swāmī Maheśvarānanda Education Research Center, to speak about our daily schedule, also about our interests, what we are learning, what we are studying, and in life, the life actually which we are leading here. So, some of us will give you some impressions and maybe motivate you to come as a student in this center. So, myself, I have been coming to India since 1980, and I have been practicing yoga for 34 years now. This you can see on my white hairs also. The mind is increasing with age, the body is not so much, but my health situation is quite good, thanks to the yoga practice which I am doing. And why I came to India is that when I know the background of the yoga system, which is not only focused on the body and not only focused on the mind, but this is a holistic system which influences all parts of the human being and also gives you from the philosophy. And the background of yoga teaches you what is the aim of your life, and also shows you the way to happiness. So that was the reason why I decided to come to India, to this center in Jadan, to enjoy and to know more about the background, and to be nearer, actually, to the yoga system which was created by Indians, by ṛṣis and munis, thousands of years ago, to hear more, to learn. And I’m here now for several years also, three years, a very, very long time. And our daily program is that we start in the morning to make our yoga sādhanā. This is, you can, we have a very beautiful green meadow where you can practice āsanas, prāṇāyāma, and meditation. Inside of the single yoga exercises. This is the morning schedule, the early morning schedule, and then we sometimes also have walks outside. This ashram is very big, and the nature is very beautiful, so we take the opportunity to do this. To go outside and to learn something about how, for instance, Indians are cultivating. We have here a bioprotecting area. There are no pesticides, there are no fertilizers used, and the whole system is very biological. And this is one thing that you can very much learn in other countries, especially when they are not high-tech, like here we are in a rural area where the people don’t have much money and means, they have to make something out of nothing. We have many things, we have something, but we don’t make anything with these things. That is the difference. So you can really learn, not only from the teaching of a master or a teacher here, or from the Vedas, you can learn a lot from the farmers who are here around, how they make their life. For instance, I don’t think that in our country somebody would collect the cow dung and use it for their houses. So, you can see here that they use each and everything. We are in the desert here, where there is little water, where there is drought, and where there is not much wood. They are using each and everything to make many things out of it. So to stay by the Kudang, they are collecting the Kudang. They are using it for the houses themselves, and they are drying it. They are using it as fire, like wood. We are using wood, and they are using Kudang. They are also making, how to say, paint for the walls out of it. And I can promise you that if you go into such a room, and we also have an example room in Om Āśram, where the rooms are painted with, I don’t know what’s the color name in Hindi. Okay. It is anyhow the basic, with kuṇḍa and water, I suppose. Gobar, gobar. Thank you. So it doesn’t have a smell because it’s very much diluted. And here, the people, not only in this area of India but also in the south, they are using what they have in the field. Also, in South India, they are using the palm trees for each and everything—for cooking, for eating, for vegetables—so they are using their resources. And in our country, we don’t even know what our resources are, our natural resources in our country, because everything is important, and important, etc. So this is not only, as I tell you, the yoga, the lectures, but you learn a million times very practical things out of the humbleness and the knowledge which the people have here. And so the culture, we are very much, we can learn from each and every culture very much. That’s why it is very good to visit other countries and to see, not to judge them, but to see how they are living, how they are dealing, how they are making their life, which philosophy is behind, etc. So, the culture here in India is first of all spiritual. And so you are very much connected to spirituality in every house in India, as I saw. There is, they are very spiritual, praying to different kinds of godages which they can choose. They are very tolerant, very tolerant, and very kind to each other. It can happen that in one family with four members, all four members have different religions, right? So that’s a sign that tolerance is really in this country. And I have to deal also personally very much with Indians, and what I can learn from them. The problem is that they have a way of, how to say, their temperament that whatever you ask them or you try, they have a kind of very deep peace inside, and they say. "There is no problem, no problem." It doesn’t matter what you ask them. I mean, you don’t know what comes out after, but the first is they are quiet and say there is no problem, because in their philosophies also you have to be kind to the others, and they mostly do this. So in our culture, this is not the fact, because it can... It happens that kindness is not the first thing, because mostly we give them lectures to the other: "You should do this, that, this, this..." Is it not happening, or for instance, when you are invited or some eating is, just to see the kindness that they—let’s say two persons are coming to a family, or four persons—they will prepare the meals, but they will not eat at the same time as you. Why? Because they want to offer you everything, each and every thing. Atithi Devo Bhava, the guest is a god. So, and if suddenly somebody comes without announcement, that is the greatest guest. With announcements, it is already nothing because you can prepare. So, if somebody comes just opening the door, and five persons are standing outside, and they are hungry, I believe that out of you, everybody gets a shock, no? Isn’t it? Except the Indians, yes? They said, "No problem, just sit down and I will make you something." And they make, you know, and it’s good even, you know. So one time I was with my family, and they are very, they are very hospitable, very, very, they like very much to have guests. And I said, "Listen, you should eat something, you should eat something, please, because it’s an honor if you eat in the house." So I said, "Really, I cannot. I give you just five minutes, because I have to go somewhere, and Swāmījī is waiting or something like this, very important." I said, no problem, no problem, sit down. And maybe it was not five minutes, but let’s say after eight minutes, really, she prepared something. And that was a dry lentil, bara, bara. She made just in five minutes some sabjī out of it, some yogurt, some chapātī, incredible. And I know exactly, if I’m at home and five people want to eat, oh my goodness, you know. So this is a very, very big difference in many things. So, for me personally, I learn a lot from the culture, and I try to accept everything. So we learn not only, as I told you, the books, the yoga, the Vedas, the Sanskrit, the Hindi, but we learn many things, how other cultures are living, thinking. Śrī Śrī... I find life very important, very important, and there’s another interesting thing. If in our countries, more and more religion and values are going away. And in this country, for centuries and thousands of years, the values are given in the family, in the culture, in the education, everywhere. And this remains till now. And when you are, and let’s say a very short philosophical thing is, the aim of your life is to get self-realization. So it’s a very, very short abbreviation I make, yes? And if you ask any Indian about something, any Indian, it doesn’t matter who is who, you ask him, "Can you tell me something spiritual or something?" He will give you a lecture, each and every one. I never heard anyone who will not give you a lecture about the Ātmā, the Jīvātmā, you know, and everywhere God is inside and Oṃ, and this. He is not a high one, you know, let’s say, professor of a university. So this is so much in them, and that’s why India can give us values, values, you know, like Prem, like Ahiṃsā, the non-violence, vegetarian food—I mean, the background is no violence. They teach us love, kindness, tolerance, understanding—so many things. They give us back the values which we lost in our countries because, of course, I come also from this country, because our priority is not anymore the human values. It is the material values actually for each and every one of us? And that’s why it’s most beautiful that you are here, you are listening, and you are also following this. And this changed our perspective on many, many things. And everyone who comes here will be changed when they go back, because they get values, human values, spiritual knowledge, etc. And so, to come back to our daily programs, it is a little bit different. Everyone has different priorities here. So, during the daytime, you can study, you can learn mantras. We have a big school here where we have teachers, and you can have yoga class—sorry—Hindi classes. You can have Sanskrit classes, you can also learn Indian music playing and singing, then there is always a common lunch. About this, another of my friends will speak about the food, how we are taking here vegetarian, biological. Food altogether is also a prayer, and in the afternoon we have some free time. In this free time, we try to help in the organization of the ashram. It’s a big area. One person may have some time in the office; another is on the field. So the other one is the library. The other one, thank you, is in the kitchen, etc. So, everyone, in these three times, he tried to make volunteering work. And then again, in the afternoon, you can choose what you want to do. You can go, you can also go. You can also learn about plants and nature, you can learn many things, and you can especially study the wisdom and the books. So, for instance, personally, I like the mantras very much, and you can learn them by heart. Somebody will help you to learn the mantras by heart. So, there are many possibilities to be taught and to learn. And last but not least, in the evening time, we have a common being together. And in this, somebody can speak about the subject, and the other can learn, can listen, can put questions. And also, we are singing spiritual songs. With spiritual songs, which create an atmosphere of peace and love between us, which is very important. So, this is in short and sweet what I wanted to tell you, and I request my friends to also give their impressions. I can only invite you to come into this beautiful āśram, and we all will try to make your being here in this educational session as beautiful as possible, so that you can benefit lifelong from it and also give your impressions. This is also very important when you are going back to your countries, to the others, to spread the message of love and kindness, to spread the message of Ahiṃsā, non-violence, and this is also a great thing. So we get here a big light of Indian spirituality, knowledge, and wisdom, and for this we are all very thankful. Thank you very much. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jehu. Oṁ Gurur Brahmā, Gurur Viṣṇu, Gurur Devo Maheśvara, Gurur Sākṣāt, Paraṁ Brahma, Tasmai Śrī Guruve Namaḥ. Sādhu Śāntījī very nicely told you what we are doing here. There is one beautiful, beautiful garden in this world. Beautiful. When one looks over the walls, he can see beautiful flowers, roses, bougainvillea, hibiscus. What? Not fruit trees, not smelling trees. What is not in this beautiful, beautiful garden? It was created tens of thousands of years ago. And this garden is India. It is. The trees and the flower bushes represent the knowledge which India has on all levels, on all subjects of life. We can talk about architecture; we get Vāstu Śāstra. We can talk about medicine; we get Āyurveda. We can talk about philosophy, we get Vedas, Rāmāyaṇa, Mahābhārata. We can talk about spirituality, we get Yoga. Great, great country. I was studying at university many, many years back. We are learning, so I was studying to be an architect, and I am, I was, or I am an architect. So we were studying about the different styles in Europe: Baroque, Rococo, Gothic, Romanesque, whatnot, and then about Roman architecture, Greek architecture, Egyptian architecture, Mesopotamian architecture, Syrian architecture, and then stop. After that, nothing existed. But it was. It was out of the reach of the knowledgeable people of the West. Simply, they did not come so far in their research. But we know that India is tens of thousands of years old. More than ten thousand years ago, they had flying machines. We can call them aeroplanes today. Or better to say, the levitation machines, which were able to expand as people were sitting in them. For one person, it was one person big; for ten persons, it was ten persons big. That machine they were flying. Seven or eight thousand years back, there was a very, very big symposium or meeting about the embryo in medicine. Part 2: The Deep Culture and Living Wisdom of India They had developed surgical and dental procedures. They were great in mathematics and philosophy. Chess came from India. Zero came from India. There are cities which today do not exist anymore—Mohenjo-daro, great cities; it was not one, there were many. We developed water systems, canalization, urbanism, what not. So, as an architect, I came here to study yoga. You see, we know very well that after Haṭha Yoga—what we are practicing usually, mainly in Europe—comes Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga, Jñāna Yoga, Rāja Yoga. If you want to practice these yogas in depth, then you have to come to the source, and this is India. If you want to practice yoga in depth, you cannot practice this in a skyscraper on the 12th, 14th, or 15th floor, surrounded by RCC or concrete. You need to come into the environment which supports your efforts to come a few steps more towards enlightenment. So, you have to come here. India has a very deep, deep, deep culture. Sadhu Śāntījī very nicely said, "In every home there is an altar." Peace is in the cell of every member of this great country. Tolerance is in every cell of the people of India. We can have a strong tree, but when the storm comes, the tree will break. Or we can have the tree which is bending. In storm, it will bend; in strong winds, it will bend. And when the wind stops, the tree will get back to how it was. And this is the reason why India has survived for tens of thousands of years. Roman culture does not exist anymore. The Greeks are not there anymore. Egyptians are no longer there. Syrians are no longer there. But India is there. Though it was completely devastated by the Ottomans when they invaded India, completely flattened, there is no old architecture in the northern part of India, not that original which was before, because it was not possible to make. The Indian people, when they saw that they would lose, simply adjusted to the new culture. They bow down. Why? Because they were taught, "Don’t be that strong tree which will break down when the storm comes." Be humble, be tolerant. Don’t fight for the right, which is what we are doing in the West. Aggressivity, aggression, here is not like that. That’s why in the world, no one knows about India. Oh yes, there is one country with one billion plus people, and that country is poor. That’s it, so much. But it is not like that. If you measure with the euro or dollar, yes, maybe, but the euro was created a few years back and will disappear in a few years. But India has been here for thousands of years. The richness is not measured by material things: what kind of cloth you are wearing, how big a car you are driving, what is the house, how big is the house in which you are living, and how many rooms it has? No, that should not be the measurement. There is just one small aspect of life, material life. But beside that, we have such a diapason, such a big palette of colors, which show the richness, the richness of life, the way of thinking. Sadhu Śāntījī nicely said, "Every Indian can give you the spiritual discourse." Yes, it can give because they have knowledge. The brain of Indian people, no matter how educated they are, does not matter. They are double-core processors. They are super fast because they live as per what they were taught by their ṛṣis and munis. They live a natural life. Sadhu Śāntījī came to India 30 years back. I came to India 20 years back, and then I went back to Europe and came back, and so on and so on. But what I saw that time, when the Indian workers in the morning, when we were freezing in our winter jackets in January, they came for work, they sat on the tractors, and they were singing, and they had on themselves just a tiny shawl, nothing else, and they were not cold. And that in humbleness, in modesty, the Indian cities were clean like anything. But when the plastic came, when the garbage from the West came, then, of course, the way of life... Indians, they were recycling everything. So whatever remained from the lunch, because everything was organic, biological, they put it on the side, and the cow was eating, and the dogs were eating, and other animals were eating. So, because they had no high diplomas, they had no high degree educations, and they had no time to adjust to the modern way of life, which we invented in the West—modernization, civilization, industrialization. Sorry, I’m talking too much. So, they had no time to adjust, but they are adjusting, and I got just signaled that I’m talking too long. So there are many, many, many more guru brothers and sisters who are eager to tell you something, how it is here. I would like to thank you for the patience. To listen to me, it is a subject which can go on for days and days. Maybe once more, next time we can talk a little bit more about that. Thank you very much. Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai Ho. Dear sisters and brothers, dear friends, this is for me a very rare situation, a very rare position to be behind the microphone, and so first excuse me if I say something wrong or something which you may not like, but I’m talking, we... I am here in Jadān Āśram, and when somebody asks me where I’m from, I feel the best when I say I’m from Jadān. This is really my first visit to Jadān, when it was in December 1993, when I first stepped on the ground of Jadān, it was a really unique experience because from the earth came to my head information, this is it, finally. So it was a really beautiful experience, and it never left my heart and never left my mind also. Also, so slowly my karma, my good destiny, the blessing of Guru Dev brought me here to be a student of Śrīvī Śāḍīp Gurukul Research and Center Jadan. And Śāntījī spoke a little bit about our daily rhythm, but what is for me, what I was thinking, what is for me the most amazing and most beautiful part of this holy Jadān land, is the presence of the saints. I had this great blessing to be present, also for a short time, and Holy Gurujī used to be here. And then to see Swāmījī and Holy Gurujī together here, and then every time Swāmījī would spend his time here. And observing this, being blessed, the observer, the blessing, the witness of that divinity on the earth. After a certain time, you just see that every dust of this Jāḍan land is radiating its light, its wisdom, its love. And you cannot be indifferent to that. You just fall in love. That’s it. And then you are bounded, and from there, for me, starts studying. It means, actually, to study yourself, to learn, to understand what’s going on with you, and to learn to go through your life with the wisdom that comes from this holy environment. And every day we do our sādhanā, which is quite strong. At least three times a day, we have longer times for ourselves to dip in, to ponder, to see, to observe, to feel what’s going on. And then, a few hours a day, we always have the opportunity to come out and experience this in the duty that we have. And all this together, and then in the evening we have again satsaṅg together, sitting, singing bhajans, listening to the satsaṅg, which means words of wisdom and truth, doing meditation together. And all this program slowly builds you up, because each and every part of it builds up your everyday, and each and every day builds up you, your personality, your life, your love for this life, for this earth, your understanding of yourself and of others. So, there are so many aspects of life in the ashram that we could talk about, but the first one that I remembered, which I would like to mention, is this divine presence of saints and their influence. And the second thing, which is very, very, very powerful and inspiring for me, is this holy land of India. And many people say it is really holy Mother India. I can say it with my full heart like that. Because the warmth and openness of this land and the people who are living here are really incredible. I was traveling a lot around the world, mainly in Western countries, it’s true. But when I reached India, it was really another planet. And the beauty of these people and this culture is really hard to explain to anybody who has lived in Western culture. You have to come and experience it yourself. And I can tell you some, for me, some very beautiful things. Like Indians, Vāsālī Śāntījī said something similar, but Indians are really extremely positive people. If you ask them something, they will never say no. Even if it should be no, they will say yes. Like I had a very funny situation when once I had to go to our foreign department office in Pali to unregister, to go out of the country, to go back to Croatia where I’m from. And there were elections in Pali, and I called the office to check. With my Hindi, however it is, it was clear enough for them. Is it? The office is open. I said, "Yeah, yeah, open, open, come, come." And we came there. It was me and a few more people. Of course, in time, everything is perfect. And I come, everything empty. No one person. And walking around through the offices that are normally full, something is wrong. Some misunderstanding is there, definitely. And there comes one of the officers who already knows us. He said, "Yes, can I help you?" I said, "Yes, we need to unregister." Where are the office people? They are at the elections. I said, "But I called you. I asked you." Why did you say you are working? I asked you, are you open? She said, "Yes, we are open." Everything was open. And really, all the doors, all the windows are open. But it was empty, you know, and you can just start to laugh. Because this man, he did, he alone, he did the work that before would require three people, and he did it in five minutes for each of us. So this is their positivity, which is sometimes really funny. But at the end, they are really helpful and open. To do, really to support you, to help you. And it’s not just on the words that they are positive, so just be careful. If you sometimes ask somebody where something is, they will tell you even if they don’t know. So take care of that. Which is for our Western mind strange, but for their love and their openness and their well-wishing, it is just for them natural. They are so happy that they can support you and help you, tell you something, even if they don’t know. That’s not important. So, one, we also, of course, as we are living here, we are learning not just about Indian culture, but also this beautiful Hindi language, which comes from the Sanskrit language, and just for me, like, just Devanāgarī, the script of the Hindi language, is really divine. When you start to learn to write it and to read it, it’s really something, another spiritual experience. Something that I would tell you all: try and experience it. And like this democracy and openness, I call this the democracy of India. That everything is possible, and, how to say, opposite things are even having the same word. Just a very simple thing that maybe most of you already know. When they say Kal, it can mean yesterday, and it can mean tomorrow. So, your choice. How do you like it? But if you look from the other point of view, yesterday and tomorrow, they both don’t exist. It doesn’t matter if it’s tomorrow or yesterday. Only now exists. And this is, when you go deeper into the language, you really see that this culture, this language is coming from very, very, very ancient and very, very, very profound, deep, and spiritual roots. And this is something which is really inspiring, I think, not only for me, but for all of us who are living here and having this blessing to live in this Śrī Viśva Dīp Gurukul Research and Education Center. So, I didn’t count my time, but there are some others who would like to speak. So, if I said something wrong, please excuse me. And if you wish to know something more, I’ll be happy to share it with you. Hari Om. Śānti, Śānti,... Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Śrī Svāmījī Maheśvarānanda Jī, Gurujī, Śrī Mādhavānanda Purī Jī, Śrī Mādhavānanda Purī Jī,... Śrī Śrī Devakī Jai. It’s been possible to see agriculture, farming from a different perspective, a little bit different from how I learned in Australia. Here, the people are so close to nature that it doesn’t matter which profession a person comes from; they’ll all have an opinion about how to grow vegetables because they all know. Even if they’re educated in the city, every single Indian person has their roots in a village, and every Indian has many family members from their older family members, where they’ve learned what is the value of cow dung, what’s the value of the wood. Ash, how to deter certain insects from ruining your crops? When is the time to plant? The grains—wheat, barley, sesame, or millet—they all know this. So it’s a wonderful way to connect with everybody when you’re lucky enough to live, or to have that opportunity, to do some duty in the field. And it really is necessary if you don’t grow up in this climate and working with these kinds of soils and these kinds of waters. And the unpredictable nature of the weather here, it’s really necessary to have that information so we can make something of the fields. Everywhere you see, in every part of Jadan Ashram, which is very large, there are different fields, different areas of land with different things going on according to Swamiji’s wishes and instructions. We’re very much aiming for biodiversity, which maybe is something you’ve heard about. Bio, I guess it means biological, of nature, plants, and so forth. And diversity means different things. The more different species and the more different sizes and types of plants, trees, herbs, vegetables, and fruits that you can cultivate in an area, the more it creates a kind of ecosystem that may subtly, over time, help to change the extremity of an area like here, which is what we call semi-arid. Not quite the desert, and definitely not the rainforest. It’s kind of very flat. We have a very tough kind of clay soil for the most part. Now, for us, we say clay soil. If you come from some nice place where you have red volcanic soil or black soil, or you’re able to make nice amounts of compost, or you’re even able to go to the store and buy a few kilos of nice ready-made topsoil, that’s great. So we come here and we say, it’s clay. It cracks in the summer, and in the wet time, in the monsoon, it’s like mud. And the rest of the time, it’s just pretty much like concrete. But the local people, they say Kalamiti with pride. They don’t have a problem with that. They say that’s Kalamiti, like you really have something valuable here. And what do they do with this Kalamiti, which is full of thorn bushes, mostly not so useful, thorny trees, some of which are very useful, some of which are vegetables. They cultivate it. They grow wheat, they grow millet, they grow sesame, they grow fodder for the cows. It can be alfalfa, lucerne grass, or sorghum wheat. What can’t they do with this soil? They cultivate it. They cultivate it in a very cultural way. Many times we’ve heard Swamijī refer to agriculture as being the greatest culture. If you come to India, you’ll soon understand this is a very great concept, more than a concept. Indian people live in thousands and thousands of villages, and they understand this culture. This culture, the agriculture, is the root of the Indian being, and most Indian people know, to a small or large extent, how to survive by this land, how to nourish themselves. They know what a seed is, the value of the seeds. If they see an old, dry piece of subjī, they’ll be very happy. They’ll remove the outer fiber of this old, dried piece of subjī that’s going out of season, and they’ll find those seeds inside, and they’ll put aside these seeds for the following season. So Kalamitī is there, and in Jadān Ashram we’ve been fortunate enough to bring in some sandy kind of soil. But you don’t know, you know, I didn’t know until the other day that you can remove a virus from the chili plants by burning, making a kind of dupe from elephant dung, you know. And when they told me this, I said, "Well, that’s great, but, you know, where will we get elephant dung from?" Of course, we all know there are elephants in India all around the place. And then one of my helpers, they just happened to be going to Bali for some reason, for some shopping the following day. And then I just called them up that day, and in the morning I said, "Well, if you just happen to come across some elephant dung, you know, wouldn’t you mind just bringing it back?" And he said, "No problem." And, you know, I thought, he’ll be far too busy because they don’t take so much time off. And sure enough, the following day, he brought back in a sack, you know, a nice big piece. And even that’s interesting, because I spoke to a lady here who’s recently been to Africa. She said, "Oh yes, elephant dung. Yes, they make paper from that in Africa." And then when you see the elephant dung, you see it has so much fiber in it, because the elephants, they hardly break down their food. Purījī, Purījī... Puri Subtitles by the Amara.org community. These people, you know, to the very source of their being, they will respect that from the cradle to the grave, because that’s simply the way things are. And you just feel so in line with the universe and so in line with nature, learning to respect these things. Just back to the vegetable, to the elephant dung, we did indeed, you know, make a kind of incense in our garden with our chillies, and at the same time, we were burning a little bit of dog manure. Because this is also very beneficial, as something about that manure helps to get rid of some of the pests in our gardens. But you have to do this work on Sundays or Tuesdays, that’s when it’s most effective. And in this way, impurities, not just physical impurities, but energetic impurities will be removed from the area. And, you know, we really have seen an improvement in our Chile plantation since this work went on. So, there are many things that might sound quirky and strange, but, you know, the people that I’m working with, the local people, they are so sincere. And it’s just in their blood, this kind of knowledge, and I just follow them, you know, and learn so much. It’s great. So, slowly, slowly, the biodiversity of our fields, gardens, and tree nurseries is growing with the blessing of Swamijī. We are learning how to propagate and germinate different kinds of seeds and shrubs and so forth. Each plant, tree, and herb has its value. We know about Ayurvedic herbs, how important they are if we incorporate them into our daily life. And also different kinds of trees, each has its own beauty. They can be for vegetables, they can be for gum, they can be for just flowering, they can be decorative, sweet smelling, and so forth. And also, of course, vegetables. Vegetables in particular are important in India at this time because, in these so-called modern times in India, agriculture has very much changed. Since about the 1960s, with the introduction of chemical pesticides and fertilizers, it seemed at that time that things would really go for the better. They called it the Green Revolution, and some strong, wealthy companies came in from overseas, and they encouraged the farmers to purchase many different kinds of seeds, different kinds of seeds, the seeds that were treated in such a way that in the following year... Purījī Prakāś, Purījī Prakāś... Śrī Śrī... Agriculture has been so much damaged by this modern process, and so Jadan is a very great model and an example of how to work with nature, the birds, the insects, how to work with the seasons, the climate, and the local people. To bring all these things together and to create some beautiful oasis without any damage, we give every nourishment, every consideration, every love to all our fields. And as Shantājī, I’m so glad she spoke about the gobar, because this is a subject. That you can talk about for a lifetime, it’s incredible. What can’t cow dung give to agriculture, and what can’t cow dung give to the human? It provides everything, and this is a wonderful thing that we have so many cows here, so that every day we have a huge supply, not just for the fields, but we create natural gas from this gobar. We create gobar plaster for our rooms, and for our walls and floors, which is so healthy. Mahāprabhujīp Karatā Mahāprabhujīp Karatā. Thank you very much for giving me the chance to grow as one of his small seeds in this beautiful environment and to allow myself to be nourished by all these great opportunities that he has given us. Part 3: The Ashram: A Place of Intensive Learning and Self-Discovery We, the few people who are staying here, studying here, and learning to serve and to be somehow useful in this big, beautiful creation of Jadān Āśram, Vole Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Kī Jai, dear brothers and sisters. It was really nice to listen to all the stories, because I realized how many aspects of the learning process there are during living in Gurukul. There are so many aspects, and I’m sure each of us has so many different experiences and different interests. Swāmījī said yesterday in the satsaṅg, "Everything you do, everything is arranged in a perfect way as a learning process." Very intensive. Sometimes you learn the lessons that you are not ready to learn or that you don’t want to learn, but you have to, and everything is arranged in such a way that you learn quickly. Only there is one question: are you ready to learn so much, and are you ready to endure such a learning process? So if I would have to describe life in an ashram, I would always say it is very beautiful and very hard. So intensively beautiful that it keeps you going through the very hard times also. So, it’s not—the ashram is not a place to do things halfway. You have to have the decision to face everything within you all the way. And it’s not always easy, but it’s always useful. When I was thinking how to explain this learning process in the ashram, I just remembered one small story. Ten or maybe eleven years ago, my husband went to India for the first time, to the Kumbha Melā, and he brought back some books when he returned. He bought some nice spiritual books, and among them was Śrīmad Bhāgavatam. Maybe a few years before, we were at one yoga teacher’s course, which Swāmījī was guiding. He said every yoga teacher or every yoga assistant should read this book. At that time, I didn’t even know what that was; it was the first time I had heard it. And then the book came, and it was standing on the shelf for many years. Few times I took it, opened it, and started to read enthusiastically because it was Guruvākya. Started to read and then closed it because it was not going. And then, after some time, again open, maybe start from some other part, going for some time, but it doesn’t really go in, close shelf, back to shelf. And when I came here, I also tried, but something happened. Suddenly, I started to read, and I couldn’t understand. And it’s like a new world was opening, and the stories that somehow were distant before now became very alive, and I could read them. And there were periods when I was reading with great interest and eagerness, wondering what would come next, and it was going really deep. And then came periods when you could not, you had to make a little break, you studied something else. But it has been going on continuously for the past four and a half years. I can tell you that I maybe read 50% or 60%. It’s not a very big book, but it’s the other side book which includes everything. So it’s a great book, and it’s not a book, it’s life, it’s experience. And maybe just one small story from that, because I was remembering it often in the last period. And that is how it, what was the reason that this great wisdom and knowledge which is written in Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, how it was written inside. There are several reasons, because as in all great books, it is a story within a story, told by a ṛṣi to his disciples, telling about the ṛṣi who was telling it to his disciples, so it is not easy to follow, but it has to open, and then you can follow it. And one of the reasons was, once Ṛṣi Nārada was passing by, as he can pass through all the lokas, and saw one very beautiful young lady, but very, very sad, lying on the floor next to two very, very old men who were dying, last breath. And she was crying, really, with a heart full of pain, and nobody could give her comfort. So he stopped and asked this beautiful young lady, who was so sad and crying, "What is your problem? Why are you so sad?" And who are these two old men with you? And she said, "My name is Bhakti, and these are my two sons, Jñāna and Vairāgya." He looked and said, "How is this possible?" You are a beautiful young woman, and these are two old men. It is not possible that they are your sons. And she said, "Yes, they are my sons." It is only because of Kali Yuga that we all got very sick and almost died, and we were searching for where we could cure our disease because we became so weak—all, bhakti, jñāna, and vairāgya—completely weak, dying. And somebody told me to go to Vṛndāvan, to the place where Kṛṣṇa used to live in his childhood. And we came here, and just by the touch of the dust of this land where God was playing as a child, each and every dust here is holy. By the touch of this holy dust, I became healthy and young again. But my two sons are still sick and very old. And that’s why I am crying, because what can I do now with my youth and health and beauty when my two sons are dying? And in reply to her request to cure her sons, Jñāna and Vairāgya, she got the answer to listen to the stories from Śrīmad Bhāgavatam. And she went with her two sons to one ṛṣi who was telling the stories, and through that they gained their health again; they became strong. So both bhakti, jñāna, and vairāgya became strong again through listening to the stories from Śrīmad Bhāgavatam. I think many of us have periods in life when bhakti, jñāna, and vairāgya are happy and playful, and periods when they get sick and very weak. So if you have never read this, maybe it’s time to try. But what is beautiful when you live in an ashram, in a gurukul, everything is adjusted in such a way that you can do it, Purījī, Siddha Purījī, Siddha... Purījī, and the learning process goes on spontaneously at each and every level. And all other people who live in the ashram are supporting this learning process. Not always in a pleasant way, but always in a useful way. So life in the ashram is very hard and very beautiful. And one thing you can be sure of: you can learn many, many things. So, most welcome. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān, kī jaya. Śrī Dev Purīṣa Mahādeva, Kī Jai, Hindu Dharma Samrāṭ, Śrī Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān, Kī Jai, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Śrī Svāmī Maheśvarānandajī Gurudeva, Kī Jai. Om Baleśvarī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya. Hari Om. My name is Divyā Purī, and I am from Jādaṇ Āśrama. As Maṅgala Mālājī told, we are from here, and Svāmījī also told my name, that I have to speak. But you know, it’s not so easy to stand here and also to speak. I have this advantage that I’m always very nervous. If so many people are listening to me, so actually, once I went to Jasrajjī, because he was speaking so nicely, and I asked him, "Jasrajjī, as I see Swāmījī slowly, slowly picking the karma yogīs that they have to speak, and I’m worried that sooner or later..." Later, I have to stand here, like now, so what should I speak? I have no idea. And just like he was smiling, and he said, "You know, always speak something real." At that moment, somehow I felt it doesn’t help much, so, but we will see. You know, we are here in the āśram to find the real, our real self. And, you know, the name of the ashram, Śrī Viśvadīp Gurukul, Swāmī Maheśvarānanda Ashram Gurukul, and research center, and when I heard—when I was a child, I heard this name—and I was thinking, "Research center? And people come here?" And it must be... Some yogis, because we are practicing yoga, they put us on some machine, and they will research us, and we have to do some exercises, and then the machines will, you know, be blinking and all this noise coming. And I came here, and I didn’t find this. Because a research center is not something that we research outside. It is something which we have to learn, what is inside. And this ashram is helping very much. For example, you know, here life is very simple, or I would say boring, because every day is the same, and I will be honest, many times I forgot which day it is. Because it’s the same, and it has no sense to track anymore. It’s Monday or Friday; it’s the same. So it makes no sense to put any energy into tracking it. But we have a chance to look inside, and because of this, life here is not so interesting. I would say it’s interesting, it’s interesting in many ways, what is going on inside, not what is going on outside. This is to face, and I have to also face a lot of things, and I discovered myself, many weaknesses, and I realized that it’s not a surprise that I have to hear for a very long period because I think I am the person who has the most weaknesses. You know, Swamījī is many times speaking that our mind is like a monkey, which is jumping everywhere. So I’m thinking that my mind is like a gorilla, you know. It’s the worst. For me, it’s very difficult to concentrate. For example, because I’m sitting in front of the computer, I open some programs and then I’m just staring. And I hope that Yogesh Jī, who is listening here, doesn’t recognize that for the last 20 minutes I didn’t do anything, but my mind is jumping here and there, and as you can discover, I have a very good fantasy. You know, from the group, sometimes people see something new and interesting, and they come to me, "Oh, Devpurījī, can you imagine this happened and that happened?" And I have to say to everybody, of course, I can imagine. You know, I can imagine everything. And I like that very much, that’s why the stories. When Swamiji is speaking here in a lecture and there is something more scientific, my head is always, as you experience, going a little bit down. But when Swamiji starts to tell some nice stories, you know, my eyes are always open like this. That’s something crispy, you know, something that is for me. Because I like the stories very much, and I also like reading books. Mahāprabhujī Karatā, Mahāprabhujī Karatā, and he saw a girl who came with a pot on her head, put it in the water, and then walked back. The potter for drinking, for washing the clothes, etc. And I was thinking when I came to India that it would be so nice to meet with this nice, young, beautiful girl. And when I came to India, I looked around and I saw the rivers. And it was such a disaster. And I looked at it; it was stinky, and the garbage was flowing inside. I was disappointed because I was thinking that this girl and the whole family must have already died because of several infections they got from this river, so somehow, I had to accept that I would not meet this nice girl. But at least I can be here in Jādan. And this is the topic I would like to speak about, what before me many people were speaking about the environment. And you can see how important it is. And as I saw the rivers, how the people neglect them, and how they throw every garbage and chemical inside. And I was sad, and I was very angry at the Indians, that how they can destroy their own country. But I have to realize that, and I’m speaking for the simple people, the majority, that actually nobody told them that it’s not good to throw away the garbage. And I was thinking, how is it possible that we from the Western culture, for us it’s so natural that we have some candy, like this, some candy with us, that when we take it, and then we have the plastic paper, and maybe you saw it, that the Indians, when they take... The paper, the candy, they throw the paper. But nobody told them that it’s not good to throw the paper. And for us, I was thinking that, because for me, it’s so natural to not throw the garbage. And I have this inner feeling, especially here in India, there is not so much garbage bin, that when I am traveling in Jodhpur, in Pali, and I have some garbage in my hand, and to be honest, sometimes I buy some Chocolate? When I can go out from the ashram, Mahāprabhujī? Karatā Mahāprabhujī? Karatā He Kevalam. They take this technology of plastic, but they didn’t take the idea of collecting the garbage in a bin and that it has to be handled, because they don’t know. Like once we went to Bangalore, the college students, we had a yoga camp in Bangalore, and we were going on a train, and they are always serving some samosas, idlis, vada. I can tell the whole list. I was trying everything. And it’s very tasty, and I heard it’s tasty. So people told me that if you go by train, try everything. So I tried. But in the end, I had a big package of garbage, and I looked around for where to throw it. And I saw the Indians, everybody just throwing it out from the train. And I was wondering, and I didn’t understand that they could wait until the station arrives. They can find some garbage bin, and they don’t need to throw it out from the train. I saw there was such a beautiful environment here in the forest we went through, and everybody is throwing out the garbage very easily, and they don’t collect it. I found one person on the train; he was a Teacher, and he speaks very nice English, and I asked him why it is like this, and he told me, you know, it was always like this because, before, I think you saw a few times, Purījī, Purījī... Rayway Road, there was a big pile, one to two meters of garbage, and more far nothing, just next to the railroad. And somehow, I was quite sad on the way. So the point is, I see that the education, how it’s important. And if you see something, or I’m telling myself. If I see something which I don’t feel right, I shouldn’t be angry. I shouldn’t react emotionally because this is also my weakness. Thank you very much for listening to me, and there is one more thing I would like to speak about. I think we have now the Holy Gurujī Mahāsamādhi, and I am still under the influence of it. I was thinking, I saw here in the Āśram many times the photos of Mahāprabhujī, and when I was reading the Līlā Amṛt, "My Monkey Mind," Imagine everything, like I was with Gurujī listening to the satsaṅgs with Mahāprabhujī as I was reading the Līlā Amṛta, and I was thinking, "I am so unfortunate." I was born 30 years after Mahāprabhujī passed, and I can never meet Mahāprabhujī in a physical form. I feel such pity. And Swāmījī said at the function that Gurujī passed 8 years ago, and many of us here have been disciples for less than 8 years, so it means that they never saw Gurujī. And I can believe how hard it can be. And how much we could give, that at least once we could meet again with Gurujī. How much we would give for this, and this is the value of a living Guru. And we have to appreciate that we have a living Guru with us, Swāmījī. And we don’t know how long he will be with us, so we have to use every opportunity to be with him and to study from him. Thank you very much. Om Bholī Śrī Bhagavān Kī Jai. I want to speak some final words, like a kind of moderator for this colorful Indian evening, this āśram evening, and especially I want to thank all those who have never been on the mic. As you see, in everyone is the divine light of jñāna and love, and from each and everyone, we heard very beautiful things. Very beautiful things, very beautiful things. Divya Purī gave us a deep inside look into his brain, as well as real stories, nearly a little too much, because it is not boring in the ashram. And Yogesh Jī, I request you to give him a big calendar so that he can see Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and also Sunday, because one of the definitions of yoga is the consciousness which is never sleeping. So, whether you imagine or have a good imagination or not, we should always live in the present. That’s an important thing, and I thank you also very much. On your last point, I didn’t know Mahāprabhujī, but I had a big blessing to be many times with Gurujī. On this Mahāsamādhi, I’m missing him very much. Don’t be sad when you didn’t meet him physically, because he’s always with us. Not only he, but also Mahāprabhujī, as well as Devpurījī, as well as Alakhpurījī. And Swamījī is representing all of them, and the knowledge is in him. And he is 100% right when he says, please take each and every opportunity to listen to his satsaṅg. It is the nectar of life, it is the prāṇa of spirituality to listen to him, because all knowledge is coming through him to us. It’s like the water nourishing us so that we can grow. And we get a perfect recipe for everlasting life and health from Agni Devī. She gave us the fire of everlasting life because she, for sure, is already reading half of the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam. I’m sorry to say I didn’t read even five pages. I just opened it close. So it was for me a good suggestion. So you know now, if you are nearly dying or going down, you read Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, and then your bhakti is so strong that you get young and healthy and everything. So for you, for sure, Agni Devī, you will reach this. And it’s a really good suggestion because, for instance, in the Himalayas, yes, where I go often, the chief priest, when he’s making pūjās, there are some hours there inside, six hours continuously, yeah? And he said that this is the most beautiful time for him because in this time he’s reading the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam. Śrīmad Bhāgavatam is quite a very thick book, and it really contains historical stories from India. And take also this suggestion. Everyone should choose what is really important for them. And another present for Divya Purī, please, also a book with stories. This also he needs. Yes, he has a birthday soon, so you know, now a present for him. And to Pushpājī, I really want to thank her, and I’m a little bit jealous of her. Because she has a knowledge which nobody has from us, and this knowledge you get out of nature. And Swāmījī always said, "The biggest culture is agriculture," and this is so true. And so she is learning by doing and learning from Mother Earth and all tattvas from everything, and also from the knowledge. From the Indians which I was here, and that’s why I would request her, if she has time, to make a report or to write it down, you know. It will be valuable for all of us to write it down in the form of a scripture or something, to give what you... Again, which we cannot, because we are not like you. With them, we are not on the field and in the... You can learn so many things, not how to cultivate the tree and to get the mangoes, but you know the agriculture. It’s a spiritual experience, you know. In the moment when you plug out the bad herbs, it means your bad qualities, then the good herbs, the good seeds, can grow. So you have a lot, a lot, a hundred things which you can learn from it. So I would be really thankful if you please take this input to write your experience and your knowledge down. And Swami Yogesh Purī, who is already a professional speaker, told us from his very great knowledge about Indian culture. He was looking over the border and saw flowers and trees, etc. He has a very, very great knowledge about the true story of India, so everyone... Has a different part of the crystal, it’s very beautiful. And also, he said one thing, and that is for all of us in different forms. We say this self-inquiry education is not only the book education here, in, in when. You are here. If you want to stay here and to enjoy, we have to make self-inquiry. And you know this meditation of Swāmījī, "Yoga and Daily Life," self-inquiry meditation. Here you can really study how you are, how you are reacting, because there is much time to observe yourself and the others, and to take reflection out of this. Like Divya Purī said, if the noise is going down outside, then inside our own noise is coming up. And the aim is to become peaceful. And last but not least, I want very much to thank also Maṅgalmaṇī for her saying and her story. And I want to invite all of them, all of you, to come to this āśram, to this educational search center, which is always open to you, but not in the way an office is empty. It’s always somebody inside who will welcome you. So I thank you very much, and especially all those, and please, I want in this moment to encourage you to come, to speak, to share your wisdom wherever you are with others. Because in each and every one of us is the divine spirit, and every one of us is able to give his wisdom, his light, to others. Thank you very much, and thank you, Swāmījī and Karl. Swāmījī was speaking, and Karl, Swāmījī will also speak. Did you understand? This was Maṅgalmaṇī, this is already the Indian way of speaking. Yesterday he spoke, and tomorrow hopefully he will also speak. I send you the blessings of Swāmījī, and he wishes you a wonderful evening, a wonderful morning, a wonderful day, a wonderful day. And we’ll see him and listen to him tomorrow.