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This is light. Oṁ Dīp Jyoti. The dīp is, for example, this lamp. And this flame is the jyoti. This form, this bowl, is our body. The ghee or the oil within it is our prāṇa. And this wick, which is inside, is the individual self. This means your physical being, your mental being, your soul—your entire being—is this wick. And this flame is your wisdom, your knowledge. So you keep your knowledge and wisdom for the world, to give light to others: the light of good suggestion, the light of knowledge, the light of kindness, humbleness, love, forgiveness, understanding, and gentleness. It is said, O Lord, "Můj život je obřadem k Tobě." Whatever I do is service to Thee. Whatever I do through my body is a worship to Thee. Though I am burning, and I will burn till the end as long as prāṇa is there, it is only for Thee, O my Lord. Let me be this dīpak, this flame. Now, this flame, this dīpak, is very gentle. This is you as an individual. You are not so strong. We have a strong will, but our strength, our ability, is limited and very weak. But if there is a piece of fire, a spark of fire, that is stronger than this lamp. That is a big fire. There is one beautiful poem. All poems are Guruvākyā, showing us the path. The master or the poet says: Sabi sahayak sabalki. Sabal means the strong one. Bal means strength. Sabal means with immense energy and strength. Sabe means all. Sahayak means helpful supporter. Sabe sahayak sabalki: all are the supporters of the strong one. Všichni pomáhají, všichni napomáhají těm silným. Whether it is a strong nation, or physical strength, or some team in a game, a sports team. Even among animals in the animal kingdom, it is always as if everyone bows down, everyone helps the strong. For kohun nirbal sahai: and no one is a supporter and helper for those who have no strength, what we call the meek one. Ale nikdo nepomůže, nikdo nepodpoří tomu, kdo nemá žádnou sílu, tomu chudákovi, tomu ubohému. Though they are also living with the will of God. Z vůle Boží. Now the answer, or explanation, comes. First of all, everyone is a supporter of the stronger one. No one is supporting the weak one. Nejdříve všichni pomáhají, všichni podporují ty silné, a nikdo nepomůže těm ubohým. Like this: Pavan jagāvat agako. Pavan is wind. Jagāvat means to awaken. Ag means fire. Just as the wind fans the fire to make it stronger. When someone is boxing and when he is stronger, people say, "Bravo, bravo!" Be strong, be strong, yes, quickly, sing. Austria, Czech, Slovakia, Croatia, strong. Everyone is supporting because fire has that strength. The wind blows and makes the fire stronger. And when there is no wind, we try to blow to make the fire stronger. Pavan jagāvat agako. Pavan is wind. Jagāve means awakening. The wind is awakening the fire to be stronger. Or dīpai deta bujhāi. But the same wind will blow off this dīpak. Yes or no? Therefore, as long as it is, we have to support it like this, in the hollow of our palm. Therefore, only we have the God who can support us and save our life, or Gurudev with his light and wisdom. Because this flame is also that light, but it is still too weak. Dīp Jyoti Parabrahma: this flame is light in the form of the Supreme Brahman. Without this light, darkness cannot disappear. Dīpana sajate sarvaṃ sandhyā: and without this, darkness cannot disappear, and it cannot be saṃdhyā, our light to that Light. Dīpana sarvaṃ mohanaṃ: sarvaṃ means sarvatra, which is everywhere. Moha means darkness. Moha means ignorance. Moha means attachment. Moha means greed. So this light can remove the darkness. Hold on to the light. Confucius said it is better to light a candle than to stand in the darkness. Though it is a little flame, it must be better than to be completely in the darkness. So this tiny flame is our tiny experience, our spirituality. But the wind of kusanga can blow it off, and then you cannot be that presence of God in this form of the flame. Then you will not be able to be in the presence of their God in the form of His flame. Dīpam sarve sarasvatam or satyam. That dīp is everywhere. Sarasvatam means the wisdom, the knowledge. This depth is everywhere, the wisdom, the knowledge, or the light, or the truth, satyam. So the light. Our best friends are the light of our life. Your children are the light of your life. It depends on how you educate them, what kind of education you are giving them. Love can spoil, and love can create. It depends on how we deal with that. Today is Pūrṇimā, the full moon day. The moon is the nearest planet to our earth. And Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa says, "I enter into the vegetation as a nectar through the moonlight." So God is not only a particular form. God is not only these hands and legs and this physical form, what we see as a human form. But in this vegetation, the rasāyan, the juice, the oxygen, the fruits, the fragrance—this is God. Without that, we can't exist: water. In every language of the world, we call water life. V každém jazyce se říká, voda je život. And we say, where there is water, there is the Lord of this planet. What does it mean? In water there are many creatures, and all these creatures are the light of God. Therefore, we call Jal Devatā, the God of water. The water god was also very well known in old Greek mythology. In the Celtic, Agnideva: also the fire is a god. Fire God. Vāyu Dev: the air is a God. And Mother Earth. All the elements are known as gods. So in the Vedas and in Vedic religion or culture, there is not a personal God in form or incarnation. But the presence of God is in everything. Without that, no one can exist. Even God Himself will incarnate here. And if there are no trees, no water, and nothing, then He will also not last long. So, Kṛṣṇa means not that who was incarnated and then we call Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa. You don't know Kṛṣṇa. And you don't know the Bhagavad-gītā. It is said, those who realize what is Kṛṣṇa, they will understand what is Bhagavad-gītā. Ti, kdo realizují, kdo pochopí, co je to, Kṛṣṇa ti pochopí Bhagavad-gītú. Not this Kṛṣṇa, the pictures you are showing, always beautiful pictures. Kṛṣṇa was not like this picture. He was a normal, very good person. Hard working, like our Radek, working all the time in the garden. And Kṛṣṇa was whole day with the cows in the field. Hard working, my dear, and he was paid nothing for that. Only, "Be a good boy, go with the cows." Cows grazing, bringing them home. But the divine one, the great one in him, was something different than what we see him as a body. So, the price is a body, inside the soul. You know, this is a small telephone. We paid for it, but we didn't pay for this plastic cover. We paid for what is inside. There is a little box, and inside is one precious stone which is maybe worth two hundred thousand dollars. It depends how many carats, and we bought it. The box is beautiful, but still we didn't buy the box. And we are good at taking care, bringing it home, and putting it in the treasure, not because of the box, but because of what is inside. Not the body, but how Kṛṣṇa looks. But what is inside? The river has the curves. Řeka má proud, ale ne vodu. Ne, ta voda, ta řeka je proudem. So, Kṛṣṇa Janesu Gītā: who knows what was Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa, they will understand what is the Bhagavad Gītā. Takže ti, kdo vědí, kdo byl Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa, ti pochopí, ti vědí, co je Bhagavad Gītā. Mata Janesu Gītā, and only mother knows who is the father. Jenom matka ví, kdo je otcem. That's it. So reality is beyond our imagination. So He said clearly, "Kṛṣṇa, through the moonlight, I enter into the vegetation as a nectar." So it means the moonlight is Kṛṣṇa. Sunlight is Kṛṣṇa, sunlight is Rāma, or whatever you call the incarnation. And that cannot be only for particular people. So you cannot say, "My religion and your religion." This is the ignorance, the biggest ignorance, and this is the fight in the world. That's why many people don't want to go to religious programs; they would like to go where there is equalness. Otherwise, everyone would say, "My guru." And the other one says, "No, my guru is the best." Now, in one family, the husband has a different guru and the wife has a different guru. So, husband says, "I want to put my guru's photo." And she says, "No, I want to put my guru's photo." So he says, "Okay, when I pray, you remove your guru's photo." She said, "Okay, then when I pray, I will remove your guru's photo." And really, the principle is the same. One master had two disciples, and each of them was very jealous. Evening, they were massaging the master's feet. So one disciple said, "Right one is mine." And the other one said, "The left one is mine." And then the master made a curve, returned, and the right foot came on the left foot. Hate, anger, and jealousy were there, so the person who said, "The left leg is mine," and the right one came on the left. And he had a stick in his hand, and he hit the right foot of the master. The master said, "Oh God, what have you done?" He said, "I told the master that the left one is mine, the right one is his. Why is he bringing his right foot on me?" So the master just turned to the other side, oh my God, and he bent his foot, leg, and that touched the right foot. And the owner of the right foot, he folded the left foot and twisted it. And the master said, "It's neither yours nor his." It's my feet. So, neither is Kṛṣṇa yours, nor is Jesus mine. They are both ours. That kind of consciousness should awaken the people. Otherwise, this is forever fighting. My God, my religion, this religion is not good, that religion is not good, this master is not good, that master is not good. This speaks ignorance. Where there is knowledge, there is equality. And therefore, the Vedic culture, Vedic tradition, Sanātana Dharma, it is said in every atom is that one God's light. And everyone, even the stone, has its meaning for us in our honor. Our earth. Mountains, they are very important. And in many countries, the people are destroying the mountains, digging away, taking the stones, sand, and so on. So it's not only the imbalance of the environment from our chemical things, but the biggest imbalance is because the mountains are destroyed and the rivers are also destroyed, creating the very many dams and the polluting of the ocean. And so many coal mines, metal mines, oil mines—we take all the energy of Mother Earth. In our body we also have iron, and earth also has iron, but we will suck all the iron out. This mother has no more iron; she has a lack of iron. It will collapse. So the entire system is respected as God's body, that's called the universal body of Kṛṣṇa. All kinds of creatures are very important for our ecology. Všechny druhy tvorů jsou velice důležití pro naší ekologii. Ekosystém je v nerovnováze, protože mnoho zvířat vymírá a mizí. Mnoho hadů zmizelo. Ačkoliv hadům, o hadech mluvíme, but the snakes are very, very important for the fields. Frogs are very good. Mice are very good. But they balance themselves. You had many bears in your forest. They were also very good for balancing the ecosystem. The foxes, the wolves, and so on, and many, many birds. Now, this is the time, if the United Nations is declaring and would like to achieve the goals of sustainable development, then the first thing is to protect the wildlife. A United Nations organization has declared and wants to achieve the goal of a sustainable future, so the first step is the protection of wildlife. And wildlife means not only the gorillas, a divoká příroda to neznamená jen gorily, or tigers and lions and bears, but all other animals are important for us. The Creator knows why He created them. But we humans think this is not necessary. And those animals also say that humans are not necessary. But unfortunately, humans have intellect, and through this, they protect themselves and destroy others. So it's very important to protect the wildlife. People are eating monkeys; many monkeys have disappeared. People are eating the turtles. You know how important turtles are. You hardly see them. Turtle is a very important animal. If you have one turtle at home, automatically, all Vāstu Śāstras' energy is protected. It is said one turtle replaces all the Feng Shui signs and Vāstu Śāstra signs, and all negative radiance is under the earth. Therefore, it is very, very good to put the turtles in front of the house, even the statue. That form is very important, but if it's a living one, of course, it's beautiful. But people buy them, kill them, and eat the soup. We traveled last year a few thousand kilometers through the Australian desert with the caravan, with this hope that we will see the kangaroos. And we didn't see one kangaroo, only two small ones on the road, killed. They said many, many kangaroos are killed because people want to eat the kangaroo meat. So that's why it's not only because of ahiṃsā, but for the sake of our future, of our children, and this planet, we should be vegetarians. If men will continue all this, eating meats and killing and destroying the animals, then, of course, darkness will be on this planet. So, save the planet means save the wildlife. And try to save those old fruit trees. Beautiful fruit trees you have in Czechoslovakia and Austria, and in all these countries along the fields. The cherry trees, the plum trees, the apple trees. And now we are developing trees which are a maximum of two and a half meters high, so we can take the fruits like this. And these are all manipulated. There was a saying in Europe, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." But when we eat those chemicals, no, when we eat those chemical apples, and then we say one apple a day keeps the doctor away, and the doctor still comes. Všechna ta stará semena, snažte se je pěstovat. Nebo ty původní třešně, jak byly dobré. Jablka mají hodně železa. Když krájíte jablko, within half a minute it becomes brown. That means a lot of iron inside. And these beautiful, shining, big apples, you cut it, the whole day lying there, is nothing brownish. And after two days comes silver on it. Silver color. Fungus. Rotten. So we have to come back to our origin. And there should not come between the duality of religion and culture, and countries and languages. You don't like some country's culture and the traditions, even you don't want to hear the name. And what will happen? Next life, you will be born there. So here you are. Because God says, what you don't like, that you should go and accept it as if you like it. So, equalness can save our situation on this planet. Otherwise, you said, "I am the best one, I am the good one, they are the bad ones, he is bad, that is bad." This is the ignorance. As long as we are selfish, we say, "It's mine, mine." There is one family with three children, four children, small children. Every child says, "Mine." Mother, and the other one says, "No, no, it's my mother." They are both fighting. My mother, my mother, my mother. And one day, when Mother will be 98 years old, who will take care of her? One will say, "You said always your mother, now go and take care of your mother." There, you don't accept. Now, see her as your mother. How selfish we are. So people are saying, "I am good, they are not good," and this is only as long as they have selfishness in them, a kind of feelings, ambitions. And so people say, "I am good and your friends are bad," but that is only until they have a personality and until they have their own ambitions. And that is not spirituality, that is not knowledge, and that is not in God's mind. For what we are fighting, it is not a reality. And what is reality that we neglect? Therefore, God is that universal one, and God is within us. It is in Mokṣa. Where are you searching me? Oh, my dear, I am with you. Moje chýše je mimo město. Ale můj příbytek je ve tvém dechu. Ne, že vy byste dýchali, to já se ve vás pohybuju. So our breath is God, our heart is God, our circulation is God. If you don't believe this, tell your heart today. One day, holiday. No, the heart is so loyal to us. It doesn't matter what stupid things we are doing, but the heart doesn't do stupid things. Constantly in your service. So that God gave us this heart. God gave the kidneys, the liver, the glands. Everything. So take it as a great presence of God. That God which is a universal one. Otherwise, you can say, "Swāmījī, okay, Gurujī, give me your heart." I can give only one, but I will say why. It's not easy. That's not easy. So be thankful to God, and in this way, if you pray to God, then God is very, very happy. In this way, when you lead your life, God is so happy. God will say, "Now I can relax. My son took over my job, because she or he, my daughter, took over all my duties." And we are all daughters and sons of God. And even a small ant also. There is no duality in God consciousness, either human or animal. And there is no gender duality, and neither culture, and so on. God is one, that is with us and surrounding us. Everyone, everything. When this consciousness awakes, then the first glimpse of self-realization is achieved. Otherwise, far, far away. Far away. Mother, oh mother. How far is the soul? I have to travel far. Heavy storms. High waves, black clouds, lightning, and my boat is sinking. O Mother, tell me, where is the shore of peace? Where is the mainland? I have to travel a far distance. Our boat is in the middle. Heavy clouds are our ignorance. Lightning is our anger, high waves are our emotions, and strong wind is our different thoughts. This body is the boat, saṃsāra is the ocean, and inside, sitting, is your jīvātmā. Listen to thyself. And therefore it says, listen, listen, listen to my heart song, listen, listen,... I will never forget you, I will never forsake you. I will never forget you, I will never forsake you. That's it. So listen in your heart to the call of your soul. Always think of God. If you can listen to the call of your soul in your heart, then the soul will merge into the cosmic one. So it is thy soul that tells you. Please do this, listen to me. Then I will never forget you. And I will never blame you. This is the joy, this is the happiness. Otherwise, temporarily, you love someone, and that one is the best person in the whole world for you. And when this person will go away, then this is the worst person in the world. How selfish we are. These are temporary water bubbles. And now our children have this beautiful bubble. But as soon as it comes to touch, as soon as it touches something, it explodes. That's Māyā, only Augen-Freude. Eye-friendly, that's all. You can't do anything; you can't hold anything. This life is water in the hand. It drops away very soon. Therefore, if you have the aim of God-realization or self-realization, then develop kindness, have mercy in the heart, and see God everywhere. That's it. So today is full moon. And the day the Buddha was born, and you know the Buddha's whole life story. Buddha means the buddhi, the intellect, and Buddha is that enlightened intellect, so what we call enlightenment. So when your inner ignorance disappears and light appears, at that time you are one with God, and therefore Prince Siddhartha became the Buddha through his sādhanā, meditations, and practicing tapasyā. Buddha had a lot of respect for every creature. When he walked, he looked behind again to see if he had stepped on an ant. If through my movements no creature is killed, then there is no question that Buddha was eating meat. No, no, no. Don't blame the Buddha. Buddha was a pure vegetarian, and Buddha was born as a prince. We call Rajputs the warriors, Hindu princes and warriors. Muhammad was also a Rajput, a Hindu warrior. But they found a path. All right, no problem. The Holy Koran, the Bible, or other books. And in Buddhism, actually, Tantra developed. So Buddha's teaching is called Tantra. But not this Tantra, what you get here in the books. This is from some crazy man's ideas. But Tantra is a very pure, spiritual, divine teaching. Tan means expanding, and tra means liberation. Expand your consciousness in oneness to all. That will liberate you. This way is the tantra. So many people misunderstand and translate incorrectly. And it translates wrong. In our language, I always tell you, the hut of Gurujī, the hut, we call Kutiyā. And someone asked, "What is this?" So they said, "Gurujī's Kutya." And they say, "This is." Ale evropský jazyk tohle slovo nedokáže vyslovit. Evropané to vyslovují takto. No, a když to teda řeknete hinsky, tak to znamená ta chýše, ten domek. Kutya means female dog. Gurujī had a beautiful dog. Now Gurujī's dog. So it means everyone must have a female dog. Therefore, the translation of the language makes a lot of mistakes. Jazyka vzniká mnoho chyb. We call roti. My říkáme. But you eat chapati, you say. To čemu říkáte vy chapati, my říkáme, but the real name is called roti. Skutečné jméno je rotī. A Evropan to neumí vyslovit, rotī. No, ale Evropané to zas nedokážou vyslovit. You are pronouncing roti. My říkáme toto. Roti. Not a roti. My říkáme roti. A little different. Ale říkáme roti. Now, the rotī means chapātī, and rotī means crying woman. Yes. And now you said, "Can I have one roti?" And they said, "No, sorry, we don't have. We don't have roti, woman." So, therefore, in translation we need three things. Śabdārtha, the translation of the word. Bhāvārtha, what it means. And for that you need jñānārtha, the wisdom. Sometimes you may translate very correctly, but it's not good in that culture. Culture. So there you have to translate differently. But you have to put bhāvārtha, what it means. But you have to use the knowledge. With which kind of word or sentence will you replace? Śabdhārtha, bhāvārtha, and jñānārtha, these three are very important to translate. So today is Pūrṇimā, and I wish you all a divine evening. In many ashrams, in many places, we have satsaṅgs, singing bhajans and meditating. And I wish you a happy Buddha Pūrṇimā. The Pūrṇimā which is acknowledged as Buddha's incarnation. I wish you all the best, and the next webcast will be announced in one week. Tomorrow is no webcast. Thank you. God bless you. Siddhiṁ Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Devīśvara Mahādeva Satguru Svāmī Mādhvānandajī Bhagavān Satya Sanātana.