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Prāṇāyāma, Bhagavāne kī, Devīśvaramadeva kī, Madhakṛṣṇa Bhagavāne kī, Sanātana Dharma kī. Good morning to everybody, and good morning or good evening according to your time in different parts of the world. Welcome, all of you, dear brothers and sisters, practitioners of yoga and of life, practitioners of spirituality. It is beautiful to see you today, and of course, all of you dear listeners through the webcast. As usual, first of all, to those who have a birthday today, I wish you a happy birthday. We had a very successful one-week retreat here in Vape, and today is a change; a new group is coming. One group, half of them, I think, is leaving today. I wish you all the best, a good journey, take care, and see you soon again here or there, definitely somewhere. We were talking about Navadhā Bhakti, devotion. Yes, without love, this world is just a dry rock. Without love, a butterfly cannot even fly. Without love, vegetation will not survive, and without love, rivers will not flow. Human love is very limited, and it is not only human love that can survive or protect the planet. There is a different love, too, from other creatures: from the vegetation, the flowers, the trees, the meadows, the flow of the waters, the rocks, the singing of the birds, the beautiful happy creatures in free nature. And more than that is the blessing of the holy saints on this planet, many who are praying, meditating, doing their mantras, not only for themselves but for the sake of the world. In this sense, they are definitely in different parts of the world. Just their being here is movement. Even the great saints put the peace mantra, not only for human society to live in happiness and in peace, but asking God: "Lord, peace be in the atmosphere, in the heaven; peace be in the water; peace be on the earth; peace be in the nature, the vegetation." And then, especially, "Let peace be in the herbs, in the manaspati, and peace in what is not." And when you see the truth, then you know all else is nothing, and therefore you would like to have that truth. So, when God consciousness enters into your consciousness—when you would like to realize that consciousness, what we call the supreme consciousness, the highest consciousness—then you are on the path of tyāgraha, Vairāgya, which we spoke of yesterday: rāga and vairāgya. Rāga is attachment; rāga is the desires. So rāga, dveṣa, kāma, krodha, mada, lobha, and moha and ahaṅkāra—these are the destructive forces in the individual. In every one of us, we have these destructive forces within us. They are dormant also. First comes Rāga. Now, Rāga is of two different kinds. One Rāga is what we use for music: morning rāga, fourth rāga after more, late morning rāga, noon rāga, now evening rāga. These are the rāgas, the melodies, the resonance of the different hours of the day, and that is very, very scientific. There is a therapy which they are doing through sound—sound and light means color—sound and color therapy. Yes, it definitely influences. But now, in this modern technology, you have everything recorded. So, if you hear an evening rāga in the morning meditation time, in Brahma Muhūrta, you will hear the evening rāga. Of course, you will sleep in meditation. And if you listen to a morning rāga in the evening... At that time, the musician, the artist, is only playing these rāgas at this particular time. And still, there are some people who sing nice bhajans at a particular daytime; they will not sing at a different time. When we have in satsaṅg, we call it the whole night satsaṅg, and there is Brahmārta, nice bhajans which can only be sung after 2:30 in the morning. As a beautiful person, I want to listen. There is one lady, she is a very good singer, she is also a sādhvī, and I ask her always, "Can you sing me this version today?" That is okay. Swāmījī, but you have to come at 3:30. It is the fifth time I asked her, and she said, "Now, only at 2:30 when she comes in the satsaṅg." At 2:30, that bhajan has such an influence on your body, on your consciousness, unbelievable. Now they record that bhajan, and you can see now, listen now too, but it has no effect. So, constellation, the time—that is very important: which time we should do, and which time we should not do. So, rāga: one is the rāga which we call in our music life. An artist is also a spiritual person, either a painter, singer, poet, or playing instruments—all kinds of art. And there are also two kinds of art. One is a professional art. It means making a profession, earning money. But someone there is without anything; that art is his or her life. He or she puts the whole entire being into that. Then the beauty comes out. So this is rāga. And second, rāga is attachment. This attachment will trouble you very much. So, rāga, dveṣa. Dveṣa means jealousy. And a jealous person will never be successful in life. Jealousy is a symbol of an undeveloped personality. It means you are dependent; you are depending on something. If someone will have this, you think you will not have this? If someone is more successful, then you are less successful. So you do not want someone to be more successful than you. And that is a dveṣa. Therefore, dveṣa is something like a lemon in the milk for your spirituality. The dveṣa is like milk in the lemon. Rāga, dveṣa, kāma and krodha—the passion, the desire of the passion, kāma, and krodha, anger—they are together very good friends. As long as you are involved in your passion and nobody disturbs you, you are happy. But if someone disrupts, then you are angry in whole nature, not only the humans. So kāma, krodha, then mada and lobha: the ego, proudness. And lobha means the greediness because you achieved. You are proud that you got it. You are proud that you can do it. So pride is there. Pride is like you are blowing a balloon, and sometimes you have so much pride, it will explode. So, mada and lobha. Mada means also drug, so mada means also the alcohol. And there are eight kinds of mada in which man is completely out of control: the mada of your age—how young I am; your beauty—how beautiful I am; your education—how learned I am, how many diplomas or degrees I have; then the position—what high position I have in my profession, or this; then the caste—it means from which country you are. Each one of us has ego about our culture and our country. My more life is here spent, still I have ego about India, no? To be honest, you can always see where Swāmījī is talking. Does Swāmījī ever speak badly about India? Yes, very often. But if someone speaks badly about India, then Swāmījī says, "No, that is not true." So this means a testament is there, something is there. But it is good. Everyone should be proud of their country. Why not? It is good. Everyone should be happy and proud of their culture, and we should respect and support other cultures, too. Many different cultures are the beauty of our garden. A garden has different flowers; that is very beautiful. And then the mada... of your money—how rich I am? You know how a rich man walking and driving car? New rich, mostly because in their blood is still poorness. The new rich will open the car—how do you call the roof?—and very cold air is coming and flies. It can go in your eyes, and this, what you know, this is the ego of the new race. You know that everybody will say, "Oh, my God." If you ask why, because it is too hot. It is not hot, it is very cold. So that does not matter because I have a front window. It is too hot. You have air conditioning. This is not a question of this, then why do not you buy a truck? So, I do not want to go so far. There is one lady, or one girl—not a girl, but she is already a woman, a lady—and I permitted her to buy such a car, but she did not. And I only pray to Mahāprabhujī to protect, that is it. So, because I see what will happen, and I now pray that I do not see, because I close my eyes now. So, about your money, your age, your beauty, your physical strength, your education, your degrees, your positions, your money, your country or caste, and the last, finally, mada, is called alcohol. And you know, when one is drunk, then it takes time to think properly. The thoughts are a little bit swimming, floating on the water. So mada, lobha, because it is a lobha, attachment, greediness. So kāma, krodha, mada, lobha, and moha and ahaṅkāra. Moha means, "It is mine, it is mine, it is... mine," and there the ego is very strong in this. Great Ṛṣi Nārada is writing in his Bhakti Sūtra, Nārada Bhakti Sūtra, and what is Navadhā Bhakti, the nine points of the Bhakti. Therefore he is telling that without devotion, without Bhakti, you cannot achieve your goal, or you cannot come closer or near to God. And which is a protocol of how to come near, there is a spiritual protocol, and the first protocol is satsaṅg. In the satsaṅg, you will purify your consciousness; you will purify your antaḥkaraṇa: manas, buddhi, citta, and ahaṅkāra. Then your vivekā will awake. And when vivekā will awake, then you will see very clearly what is my aim, what I should do, and what I should not. And that is—that means now you would like to see God. You would like to get self-realization. You would like to have your consciousness merge or become one with the God consciousness, oneness. We are all longing for oneness. We are tired enough that we are wandering through the endless universe as an individual one, fluttering on the waves of time, through the darkness and light, and suffering and happiness. In life, there is more suffering than happiness. But now we would like to become one, and unity, that is very important. The water changes into the form of vapor, then comes up; we call it fog. Then it goes up; we call it a cloud. Then it begins to rain; we call it rain. It turns into drops, and when one drop unites, it begins to flow, becomes a creek, and joins the mighty river, and comes again to the horizon. This is the cycle that our individual is trying to get union, and if you are united, you get more strength, more power. And so this individual self awakens the consciousness. When you hear the name of God, God is already in your consciousness. When you hear the name of the banana, it is already in your consciousness. When you hear the name of light, it is already in your consciousness. But you did not try to know what the light is. So, the first time we heard the name of God, God had already entered that form in our consciousness. Then, through the satsaṅg, it was explained what is God, what is the ātmā. So now this became clear in your consciousness. It means now the God consciousness awoke in your consciousness, that you would like to know that God consciousness now very clearly, but only you can know when you resign. You resign means you give your individual consciousness to the God consciousness. As long as you remain as a separate one, an individual one, you cannot become one with God. To become one, one of us has to give up. The street of love is so narrow, two cannot walk together. And therefore, this individual consciousness has to merge to become one with the God consciousness. It means you have to give up your individual thoughts. You have to give up your individual qualities and develop the God qualities. Qualities, and that God qualities develop through the Navadhā Bhakti. Satsaṅg. Satsaṅg is the greatest thing. You will hear the lectures of Holy Gurujī; it does not matter where he spoke, in the college, in the school, in universities, in public, anywhere. Every fifth word of Gurujī was satsaṅg and Gurudev. Satsaṅg is the truth. Satsaṅg is a school of humanity. For humankind to develop to the divine, human to divine, Narasay Narayan is the satsaṅg. You do not need anything else, only satsaṅg. You do not need any diploma from any college or university, or any certificate from any profession or any school. Just do your seva and satsaṅg. That is it. But really, from the heart, Karmayoga. Who cannot do the Karmayoga will have it very hard at the end. Very hard. Then, I do not want to say so hard, you know. Excuse me if someone does not like Karmayoga here. Otherwise, I am targeted by someone. But it is said, those who will not do the Karmayoga in this human life, in the next life, they will be in some kind of mountains, Muli. Mule, you know, neither dog nor donkey, but that will be only used for carrying heavy weight through the up mountain, up and down, up and down. My God, please, have you some kind of yoga for me to do? Yes, it is. It is like that. Since it is, but you are all doing very good karma. Even if you get money, you are doing, you are working in your office, you are working at home, you are eating. At least doing these things, you wash yourself, is also karma. Can you imagine? You do not wash yourself at all and sit beside us, that is not good karma. Only one thing, you have the benefit or privilege: when you did not wash yourself for one or two months and come and sit, then we will give you more space. We will make for you the space. Therefore, karma yoga: "Karmaṇy evādhikāras te." Through the practicing of karma yoga, your yoga sādhanā will be successful. Then it is in yoga: "Agnau karmāṇi dakṣiṇi." Through the fire of the yoga, your arrest of all bad karmas will be burned. Therefore, it is said, "Without doing, you get nothing." And so, coming to the satsaṅg, listening, and doing satsaṅg, Śiva... There are many people who come before you here, clean the altar, put nice flowers. Why do they put such nice flowers, and why? They put here such nice flowers. Not only that I will see the flowers, but also you will see the flowers. You have a beautiful vision, and I also have a beautiful vision. When you do not like me, you look at the flowers, so the people put the choice. For you, it is very nice of them, so beautiful. Some come, clean the room; some come, they make everything, open the windows. That is a karma yoga, and we are all doing together. None of them is here who, you sitting, that do not do so satsaṅg. Help in the satsaṅg, prepare the satsaṅg, organize the satsaṅg, call people for the satsaṅg, invite people for the satsaṅg, go and listen to the satsaṅg. What a glory of the satsaṅg! And therefore Mahāprabhujī said, "Sobhao sātsaṅgī." Jane, but Bhagavān, pay some attention to satsaṅg. What a glory of the satsaṅg! The fortunate ones are they who can have the opportunity to come to the satsaṅg and hear the Harikathā, listening to the glory of God’s name. There is God. There is God, definitely, and God incarnated many times, definitely. There is only one God at a time in some form. That divine energy incarnated more. You see, the fire in every house: you have the fire, we have fire here with this flame. On the altar, you have fire. In your cooking or oven, you have fire. In your garden somewhere, everywhere is a fire. The same fire which is in China, in Europe, and the same fire which is in Europe, in America, and the same fire which is in America, in Africa. And the same fire which is in Africa, in India, there is no difference. Now, why do you feel that my fire is better than your fire? Try to take my fire in your hand, you will feel which is better. So, God is like the fire, equal. But yes, somewhere is a big fire burning, and somewhere is a small fire, so sometimes... When a big fire is burning, the whole forest is burning. It does not mean that now nowhere in the world is fire. You understand me or not? When suddenly there is a big fire, it does not mean that in other parts of the world fire is finished, no. So when one God incarnation, holy incarnation, takes place, it does not mean that. That nowhere in the universe is now God? The universe is now vacant without God? Oh no, that would be terrible, because then the devils will come and take place. They said, "Now is our seat." And therefore, it is said, when you build a new house, immediately, first, what you should do before you move into the new house? Put some holy picture inside, according to your belief, whichever religion you believe. You have 48 hours, and then there will be divine power in your house all the time. If you do not do it, then it is said, Asuras will come and they will get a residence inside. So, what we are doing in Europe also, when you finish the house roof, you reach the roof level, you put a flag. Or you put some nice symbol, some green branch of the tree or something. Are you doing it or not? This is that you invite the nature; you are celebrating now. At the same time, you must put some holy symbol in your house. If you are Christian, you can put the picture of Jesus. You can put a picture of the Holy Mother, Jesus’s mother. You can put any holy saints; in Christianity, there are many. If you are Muslim, you can put any holy picture or Mecca and Medina’s picture. There is anything, or you are belonging to different religions, it does not matter. Fire is fire. So, put some divine symbol in your house, so it will be the beautiful energy in the house. If you do not do that, after 48 hours, you can find out. Make a research work: husband and wife will begin to quarrel. She will say, "This is not good," and he says, "It is okay." And she will say, "I want to have this kind of curtain," and he said, "No, I do not like that color." Already she says, "I want to have..." A kitchen, wash, washing place here, and he said, "No, that is not possible." Quarrelings will come, and that quarreling will last long and long till you will not make a satsaṅg inside. When you make a satsaṅg and invite many people, then negative energy will go out. We call it the ceremony for the inauguration of the house, and you call it the housewarming party. Yes, a housewarming party is very good also, but there should be something like a satsaṅg, divine, so humans have a satsaṅg. In the house where humans live, there should be light. So light is equal everywhere in the world; there is no difference. Fire is equal, and if there is a big fire, it means not the other where no fire element is there. So when one God incarnates, a holy saint incarnates, it means not that other part of the world is now vacant, there is no God. That is not like this, and this only we can realize and develop through the satsaṅg, in harikathā, the glory of that divine light of God’s glory, that particular incarnation of God, the glory of that great saint. We sing the glory. We admire and we pray to them to bless us because they have the capacity to bless us. And therefore, Harīkathā, where the holy books are read and explained, we must go there. That is very important. Very, very important. After that comes mantra japa, and this is called a constant satsaṅg. That is called a constant harikathā. The heart may come, the mouth may come. In the hands you have work, and in the mouth you have the name of God, the mantra. You see, double benefit. What you write, all business people: buy one and get, buy one and get two. You do one but get two benefits. Karma yoga through the hands and repeating mantra through the mouth. What a beautiful thing. Those are great things. Great things. And that is why all karma yogīs who are doing karma yoga are doing it with selflessness, thinking of God and the well-being of all. And it is also coming, the Īśvara Praṇidhāna, Īśvara bhajan, singing the glory of God, repeating the name of God, and then singing the glory of God through the bhajans. So, satsaṅg, navadhā bhakti, the devotion is very important. You must have a devotion to your car. Yes, you love your car. Yes, you love your car, no? And if you do not love your car, do not tell loudly. Okay? Do not tell loudly. And if you do not love your car, then you will not buy that car with an open roof. Everyone is proud of their car. And if you do not love, at least you trust your car. Do you trust your car? If you do not trust your car, do not sit inside. So everything needs love. So our planet is a planet of love. That love, which is care, respect, protection, understanding, kindness, oneness, and harmony—this is the love. So our planet needs now that universal love, not a selfish love. So we will continue in the next lecture. Unfortunately, many of you are going, so I wish you a very good journey. And many are waiting that you make your rooms vacant. Many are waiting that you make a parking place vacant, so they are all waiting in the long queue, traffic jam, till the last city, what is called Sambadhe. So therefore, I wish you a very, very good journey, and a very happy journey. Safe journey. Much love and many greetings to your family members, your friends, and wherever you go to the satsaṅg. And till Sunday noon, maybe Sunday evening, I will be with you. You in the webcast, you can see. If then, Sunday evening I will be earlier in webcast, about six o’clock or five o’clock, so that after, I can go to Vienna. And you know, I am flying Monday to India. Are you going, somebody, Monday with me to India? Okay, I am thinking you are. With me, okay? So therefore, I wish you a very good journey, and we will sing one bhajan again, a nice bhajan, okay? Which bhajan should we sing? You like all bhajans; they are nice, but which do you like more? Of course, that is one of the best bhajans because... It is a blessing given by Gurujī to Maheśvara Nanda, to me. Alright, then come on, open your heart and mouth. Sit comfortably with the energy. Who will begin? Again, Kailash.