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Sanskrit chants. Sattva Guru Nāma Kāmasthāna Heli Vepākhi Dīva. Kāmasthāna Heli. Sattva Guru Nāma Kāmasthāna Heli.... God bless you. Sabā chala chalinka khela, Dorinna kargme mela. Sabā chala chalinka khela. Koī chala gayā, koī jāve. Koī gaṭṭarī bhandā sināve. Koī chala gayā, koī jāve. Koī taribā nāsī nāve. Koī kharā tiyārā khela. Sabā chala kallī kā khela. Koī kharā tiyārā khela. Saba chala kalli ka khela, Dori na... God bless you. God bless you. Koī antah sahāya kā nahīṁ? Sutta nara mata pitta bhai, koī antah sahāya kā nahīṁ? Kyo bhare pāte? Aba chala chalika khela, kyo bhare pāte? God bless you. Dīpadāyāla, sab kucha deve, dātā dīpadāyāla janamajā nāmakā dharidharā mete. Janamajā nāmakā dharidharā mete dīpada, sab kucha deve, dātā jñāna dhyāna deve yogarū jugatī. Sab kuch Dev ke daṇḍ se upajatā hai, balātīte. Kuchu Deve Daṇḍaya Ti Brahmāṇḍaka Rāja Deve Palame. Saba Kuch Deveda Pādhaya Se Koī Bhakti Kā Rata Hai. Pādhaya saba kuch, deveda pāta kī bhakti prabhu nahīṁ mane. Aparthakī Bhakti Prabhu Nahīṁ Mane, Kuchh Devadatta Dayā Nahīṁ Jagame. Pitākārī eṣā koī nahīṁ jagame kuchh Devadatta dayā karatāye. Śrī Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya. Śrī Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya. Why do you keep the veil from me? And all spiritual seekers in different parts of the world. Blessings are coming to you from Holy Bhārat, Jardin, India. Indeed, it was a beautiful time of Deepāvalī, the festival of light. And then after, we had the anniversary of our beloved Satguru Dev, Holy Gurujī, Swāmī Madhavānandajī. All kinds of festivals have different meanings. First of all is that to maintain the social relation. Humans are also like the birds, flying or working, going in different directions. There are rare times when the whole society comes together. Secondly, each festival reminds us of the particular background of why or for what this festival is celebrated. Then, every festival should be connected with spirituality, and it is with spirituality. Culture. Culture is there where the humans are. Where there is a human, there is a culture, and where there is a culture, there is a human. And the culture travels with the humans. Every human, no matter which part of the world they go to, brings the aroma of the culture, brings the glimpse of the culture. And that culture is the acknowledgment of the person. The culture changes, sometimes called the traditions. And tradition means generation to generation, remembered or celebrated. So the tradition is that which is constantly kept, the culture. The culture is a different kind of spirituality which connects with the religious background, and in that religious background, culture says there should be no differences. No holy book will preach negative or negative instructions to humans. Every holy book, religion, or holy saint preaches, works, and acts in the world for the sake of protection, love, understanding, and spiritual development. Every culture has similarity because the roots of all culture are in one, and the rest is the branches. One seed of the apple sprouts and begins to grow as a tree. But branches will grow in every direction: east, west, north, south, above. But the fruits, the quality of the fruits of that one tree, is the same. So the branches of spirituality or the religions are rooted from one Sanātana. Sanātana Dharma is the eternal principle, the cosmic law which does not apply only to a particular religion, but to all. A law of the country does not apply only to a particular person or people, but to the whole country. Therefore, every cultural festival around the world is for social relations, forgiveness, understanding, to make people happy, and to unite people in oneness for the benefit of all humankind. The oldest spiritual, religious, and cultural tradition began there where the first humans were. Modern scientists, about six years ago, I heard, declared that the first human was somewhere in the territory of what we now call Tibet. And that is what we always say, Swayambhū the Śiva, who first manifested himself on Mount Kailāsa in the Himalayas. Yes, it is because most of the earth was under the water or under the ice. The branches of this tree of the world have slowly, slowly covered the whole globe, and its fruits, or whatever it is, all the sources or the resources of our earth, are enjoyed by every creature, including humans. Because all the creatures, if they are in the water, on the earth, or in the space, are nourished from those resources which are from our mother earth. All creatures know how to utilize. They know when it is enough, but only one, and that is a human, does not know how to utilize. We begin to collect. We are collecting because we do not trust ourselves. Now, 80% or more than 80% of humans on this planet have fear of existence. Other creatures do not. Humans think we are the ones who supply everything to others. This is our ignorance. The wise person says, "A small corn of rice or sugar, or something very tiny for the ant, and 100 kilos or 40-50 kilos to the elephant every day." Only that one Paramatmā, one God or one father, whatever you call it, it is that one who is feeding all. Human does not have trust in this. There is enough to eat, enough to drink, and Mother Earth has enough space for everyone to sleep. But the human culture became selfish, to collect. The festivals remind us to share with others, to give to them. But many festivals become commercial nowadays because humans become too greedy. In these cultures, it is the humans who discover that what we call the soul, doesn’t matter if it is the soul of animals or any creature’s soul or the humans, is traveling on this physical planet as well as on the astral world. It is humans who discover how to help the souls come to the light. And here in Vedic culture, in the ancient scriptures, it is said we come to human, every human owes something to five persons, very, very much. And that is two: father and mother, mātṛ-ṛṇa and pitṛ-ṛṇa. After that comes Devarīṇa, Ācāryarīṇa and Ṛṣirīṇa. These are five. You have to pay the credit back. Whatever you got, you got from these five people. Mother, she carried you in her body. Father, he cared about you. Devas are two kinds of elements: water, fire, air, earth, and space. The Devas also means that every house has its pattern protector. Some have Hanumānjī, some have Gaṇeśjī, some have Bherū, some have so on. And in Christianity also, you have certain holy persons as your family protector. Devas means good qualities. The fire, light, yes, the light in our eyes, this is the fire, God. Air in our ears, which brings, transfers the sound. So all elements connected with the prāṇa and more, means rivers, lakes, oceans, fields, vegetation. We got shelter on this planet, and our duty is to keep this planet as beautiful as it is. Ācārya Rīṇa, who educated us, who gave us the knowledge for our existence, to survive. Don’t say, "Well, it’s my right to learn, and it’s their duty to teach me." Of course, you have the right to learn, and they have the dharma to teach you, but still. This relation between student and teacher, or professor, or whatever you call it, is very important. Knowledge which you get, no matter which kind of knowledge, you should be thankful for that. When it is raining on the mountain, water flows down where the well is. Water doesn’t flow from down to up, but from up to down. So that well is the disciple, the student, and the mountain is the master. Master, what knowledge comes from the Master, what you call your Ācārya, it only comes when you accept. When you accept, then your pot is down. When someone is explaining teaching, then his or her cup is up. So you have a teacup, and someone will come with a teakettle, and from this teapot, he will say, "Do you want to have tea?" He said, "Yes, give me tea, please." How will you, the tea, come here? Clear? So you have to hold the pot down, and who gives? You have to hold up. That is an example. So whenever you learn something, you have to be humble, kind, and ready to receive. Upanakabandh kardo. Sadām bhai namān jahan jal bhariyā. There is one bhajan. Sadām bhai namān jahan jal bhariyā. O my brother sādhus, where is the deep place? There is water staying, the lake. And that lake, if it is connected very deep only with the sand and stones, will not stay there. It should be sealed. And that selling this means, with your concentration, your quality. That’s very important. And then comes the ṛṣis’ hermitage. The ṛṣis who were living in the forest. Rishis were doing tapasyās to have children. They did a lot of prayers. They were working hard in the forest, growing their vegetables and staying there. Ṛṣis were teaching. They were leading a gurukul for their children and the others to come to, their two names: Ṛṣikul or Gurukul. Now, what you call the hostel system, the school system, doesn’t matter in which part of the world it is, the system, the tradition, the culture is created by ṛṣis. If you believe them or not, the branch is from there, the original is from there. And even the ashram or monastery, or whatever you call it, it is the system, the traditions created by the ṛṣis. They lived around the world. Not only the Himalayas were occupied by ṛṣis, but very long mountains with thousands of kilometers, what you call the Hindu Kush mountains. When you fly, it begins from Turkey, until it comes to Afghanistan and this part, and until Dubai, and it passes through the Hindu Kush mountains, you know very well. What means the Hindu Kush? Kūśāsana. So that is where the ṛṣis were living, and long ago, about 35 years, one person who worked in this old tradition, Wain Watt, declared or found from where the name is coming. So you call the Alps mountains, the Alps. And research says it’s called the small Himalaya. Alp means small. And so when we have breakfast, always we say Alpāhāra. Who is eating? It’s called a very light diet, a controlled diet, a little diet. It’s called Alpāhāra, Alpa. And the name of the Rāsyā comes from Ṛṣis. Tashkent was part of that India, and that is where the ṛṣis were. There are many, many stories about Tashkent. So it means, not that I am talking about Indian territory or something. But the world was united in oneness. Now, it is also in earth, it is in oneness, but we humans have made lines in our brain, in our thought. This is my land, this is my country, and these borders exist here, not on the planet. So, the ṛṣis, those ṛṣis were capable of meditating and doing research work, even what we call astrology. How many years did they make experiments from which planet, on which planet, what kind of effect it has? The life of the sun, and how, from when and till where, everything is written very clearly in the Vedas. So the ṛṣis are the founders of spirituality and culture, and afterwards, when division begins, we are the founders of religion. The difference between spirituality and religion is that spirituality is unity, one is, and religions are divided, different. Now, other creatures, we don’t know if they have this kind of feeling and this knowledge to know the difference about this Mātṛ-ṛṇa, Pitṛ-ṛṇa, Deva-ṛṇa, Ācārya-ṛṇa, and Ṛṣi-ṛṇa. Finally, when the human life is coming, then you are standing at one door that you may call mokṣa, or you call brahmajñāna, meaning becoming one with Brahman, or you call it forever free from this cycle of birth and death. But humans were made aware about ṛṣis, their teaching; they follow the steps or the track, the line of the souls, where it is going and what is happening. So they gave the place names. Our planet is called Mṛti-loka, mortal world, Mṛti-loka. Who comes into this world will die, and who dies will come back. What is created will be destroyed, and what is destroyed will be created. Who came will go, what is made will be destroyed, what is existing will again disappear. Who appeared will disappear; who manifested will again go back. This means the planet or the world of changes, constantly changing in our body: the blood cells, constantly changing through our inner functions or organs, glands, muscles, nerves, bones, joints. The process of changing is bounded or limited by time, and we can’t go beyond time in this world. Therefore, time means our changes, even in our age. It doesn’t matter how much you practice yoga, or sports, or any kind of therapy to become young. You will never become young again. Yes, it means you become healthy for a while. But the clock, the clock of God, is constantly moving. In God’s house, it takes time maybe, but there is no darkness. So everything is measured with time. We call for everyone God has given the births, the breath, sorry. How many breaths will you have when you have used all your breath? Credit what God gave you. Finished. In modern science, you can say the comparison, what do you call them, compare. We have a chargeable battery, and it is written how many hours this battery will last. And so is this breath battery, how many it is and how much you will use. If you use it continuously, the battery will last for five hours. But if you only use it for half an hour today and tomorrow, and like this, it will last long. But the period of the using time is the same. Therefore, yoga sees a healthy body and to control or save your breath like a... A person who is very careful, living, saving money, not spending here and there, so a yogī is saving the breath through prāṇāyāma. The oxygen, the breath, is our life. And our breath has got five different kinds of prāṇas and five upa-prāṇas. And these five prāṇas, upa-prāṇas, the five prāṇas and five, the fine energy prāṇa, this is a quality in our breath which keeps the entire process, cells and so on in the body healthy. Then, someone says that our life is like this table, and on this table is one string, or lying this mala, okay, here, here. From this part, and now I am pulling slowly, slowly. So, it’s now coming slowly, slowly... slowly, and it came and is gone. So, imagine your life is a string lying on the table, and you are slowly pulling, and it’s coming closer. It means going away and away, the middle of the table, then a quarter of the table, and gone. The string of my life is in your hands. Please be so kind and someday pull the string a little bit nearer to you. It means that I come to thee, my shelter, to thee, closer to thee. It depends on how you use this string to pull and in which direction you are pulling. That’s very important. Similarly, they said the prāṇa, it’s very hard to say prāṇa and soul, what connection it is. Is a soul a prāṇa, or is prāṇa a soul? The soul is continuing, and the prāṇa which is given to us is temporary. But prāṇī means, also you call in this language, what you call the Slavic language, Pranī means all living creatures. It’s coming from Sanskrit. And prāṇī means those creatures who have life in it, prāṇa. And when he died, you will say, "Prāṇa chhod diyā, prāṇa chalā gayā, prāṇa nikal gayā," gave up the prāṇa, prāṇa is gone out, or prāṇa is gone, died. Similarly, in this way, the finder soul from this mṛti-loka comes to the pitṛ-loka. Pitṛ-loka means the world of the ancestors. All souls who passed away are now somewhere waiting. The souls of the animals will automatically lead it further, in which direction only God knows. And the souls of the humans will also be waiting, and lead it in which direction, God knows. The direction is the destiny, therefore more destiny applies to humans because God said, "I gave you the intellect, viveka." Therefore, God said, "I told you, in this hand is nectar and this hand is poison, now..." What you want to drink is your decision. That’s all. Therefore, for humans, it is very important that when a human dies, there are certain ceremonies, and then we call it the pitṛ pūjā. So, it is very, thousands and thousands of years of the ṛṣis who, that the follower, means your blood relative, if there is, should make a particular pūjā, that the soul from the astral world will get further access. So it is said, when you have children, the door is open to Pitṛloka. And when you get the grandchildren, then the door is open to the other Lokas. And when you have a grandchild, then you have the golden staircase to the Brahmaloka. Now, you don’t have children. What about them? So, it must not be only the children; you have friends. So your friends can do for you the pūjā. Now, this tradition, what I want to tell, it is, now it was in October, Pitṛ time. And now, you also have, in India, it is always different with the moon calendars. The same thing is repeated in Christianity also, what you call the day of holy souls, the day of all souls. And everyone is going to the graveyard, cemetery, and bringing flowers to their ancestors’ graves. Now, here we are touching, crossed, accident. We come together. If you do not believe that Saul is gone and is no longer here, then to whom are you giving the flowers there? There is nothing. If we said, "Holy Gurujī is gone in Brahmaloka," for whom are we celebrating the anniversary of him or some other great saints? So their light, their relation, their connection to us is very vivid. Now, people do not believe this, and that’s why people are suffering more and more. Never in human history were people so unhappy as now. Never have humans in history been so suffering, ill, fighting, this, that, all. Life for humans has become very critical and stressful, and many things. And that human, because if you are not doing this, then it turns back. That soul begins to disturb on this planet because it needs freedom to go somewhere. And it is believed that though it is your family member, when it becomes a Pitṛ, it means the spirit comes back again. And that spirit can damage your business, that spirit can damage your health, that can create a dispute between family members, husband, wife, children, and many other things. It happens. Now, not only here, but in the whole world. So the ancient culture, not the new age culture. Ancient culture goes to the American Indians. What do they do? They pray to the ancestors. When we were in Los Angeles, I think nearly two years ago, and there is called the World Peace Ball. And there are seven World Peace Bells, I think seven or four, seven, and one of them is in Los Angeles. These peace bells were made at a time when in Japan the atom bomb was, how do you call it, exploded or used. How much? Hiroshima? Then, from the whole world, people sent some coins there. And there were so many coins from the whole world. And these coins were melted together and made a big, big bale, a peace bale, and handed over to the United Nations. Only on a particular day will this peace bell be rung. It is very heavy with big force, that peace bell. So, old culture, that time when I was there, was invited, and only some politician or some world personalities, they come and ring the bell. I was invited there, touring, and there was an old man, an American Indian, with a hat, with the feather of an eagle, nice trousers, but the back side was open, yes, and everything. And when the time came to pray, we were, every religious or cultural person was asked to pray according to their language. And he prayed, "Ancestors, bless me," his ancestors. And you will not imagine what happened. A beautiful big leaf from the tree just fell on him, maybe coincidentally or maybe not. But why didn’t it fall before when I was doing it? And when there was another American doing it, and then there was one from Korea, he was doing it. But when he said, "My ancestors, bless me, Mother Nature," and the leaf fell. So they believe in ancestors, Pitṛ. Then I went to Africa, and in Africa they also introduced ancestors. Sun God, Vāyu, fire, that’s called a natural religion, Sanātana Dharma. Then I went to New Zealand, to the Māori, and they also called the ancestors. Then I went to Australia, to the Aboriginals, and they also prayed to the ancestors. When we have lost this culture, we are lost. It means humans have lost direction and don’t know where to go. The roots are rotten, the trunk is dry and rotten, the branches are dry and falling apart of the human originalities. It was used, the dynasty. And now, many don’t know what your dynasty is. What we call the spiritual lineage, where is your lineage? Who was your fifth grandfather, and where? Now, it came such a hurricane storm. So seeds from Australia fell into Africa, and African seeds fell into America, and American seeds fell into China. Don’t know. So it has to keep and follow that, then you will have peace in the family. Do the ceremony; it doesn’t matter where, but do it where you believe. I don’t tell that it must be that you do in the Hindu tradition or anywhere. But you have to do it very systematically for your ancestors. And that it belongs to the culture. That culture will lead us. When you don’t follow, then you don’t know, but you have mental disturbances. When you talk, you are angry, you are trembling, what we call a mentally ill person. And that becomes destructive. And when there is something, peace, harmony, and love uniting. So culture unites, doesn’t divide. But certain energies, prāṇas, where the spirits are then working against you because they are angry. My child, I did everything for you, and you have forgotten me now. That’s it. So, my dear, the human understands this. And humans should follow and do. If someone says these are fanatic people, what is the fanatic? Because you are honestly doing something, honestly you are practicing something, and they call you ill. That’s not acceptable. Highway, one way highway. So one person was driving the wrong direction, and the radio announced, "Careful, there is a ghost driving opposite direction on highway number so-and-so." And who was driving? The co-driver was his wife sitting beside him, and who was driving that on the wrong direction? He was so angry, and he told his wife, "What a stupid radio people, what is one ghost? There are so many coming wrong side," because he saw the others are wrong. That he himself was giving a wrong direction. Therefore, it’s easy to blame someone. So, develop human love, human respect, and the human science to follow human culture. And there is, including yoga, sport, meditations, prayers, helpings, many, many ways. Many good things are there. There are thousands of good things we can do in the world. But these thousand good things can be black colored on it with one negative thing. So negative is one, and a thousand good things. So don’t worry, keep on. You should just go on working. Work on your spirituality, work on your social works, helping, and meditate and pray for all who are still on the planet, our Earth, Mother Earth, and who are gone. We pray for them too, that they clear our highway, our road, so that we don’t drive in the wrong direction. Kushaṅga will lead you to the blind street or circle traffic, that’s it. So this is for today: practice, practice. So what you are doing and practicing, or myself, not only for my—the thoughts of the Hindus, Sanātana Dharma, "Sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ." When you say "Sarve bhavantu," then we don’t have an enemy. And if we have an enemy, then we call it "satru buddhi vināśāya." The negative thoughts of enemies, which create enmity, these thoughts should be purified, destroyed. Not that life. So great things are there. And we have the great things. Why? We are suffering. So, therefore, before we work on mātṛ-ṛṇa, pitṛ-ṛṇa, deva-ṛṇa, ācārya-ṛṇa, and ṛṣi-ṛṇa, then the humans will have liberation. Then the great saints and ṛṣis found a different way too, and that’s what we call the initiations. Either you become a swami in different traditions, or you become a priest in different traditions, and there are ceremonies; then you are freed from them all. You are freed from them all, but you are bound for all. Now you were only for one family, but now you are connected with what we call the Vāsudeva Kuṭumbakam. Now you have the burden or the heaviness of all creatures, not only the humans. And therefore, it is the lake, the tree, the rain, and saints that pour, incarnated or manifesting on this planet, for others. A tree stands for all others, a lake carries water for all, rain rains for all, and a saint preaches for all. And that’s called, then others become duty to look after and take care of the saints. Because they are more than anybody. Their blessing can free you from that spirit which comes into your body. The spirit which comes into your house. And sometimes, when disturbing, then you keep in your house some light. In every tradition, religions may, I don’t know, some may not be doing. But when someone dies, you put a candle. Whole night, there is a candle beside the dead body. You go to the church or the temple and you light a candle. Here we are. Where is the difference? If you light a candle in the church, or you light a candle in the ashram or the temple, what is the difference then? The difference is that we made duality, not God. So, in your house, make some nice protection from the glass, ball, or something, and keep the light in the house so that—and prayer in your own feelings—and give some seeds for the birds to eat. That will help you; suddenly, your health will be better. You will not be anxious; anxiety will disappear. So, my dear, the science, the jñāna, the culture, the spirituality, the religions, are all blessings of the ṛṣis for the well-being of this planet, all creatures, and especially to give the strength to the humans to guide all. Today is enough. Tomorrow you can write questions. If I am not here, then someone will speak. Wish you all the best and pray to Mahāprabhujī that Mahāprabhujī gives you blessing, light, and wisdom. And may these blessings go to your ancestors too. Oṁ Śānti Śānti... Devīśvara Mahādeva kī jai, Śrī Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī jai, Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān kī jai, Satya Sanātana Dharma kī jai, Oṁ Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Viśva Guru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramahaṁsa Svāmī Maheśvarānandajī Gurudeva kī jai.