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They went to the palace and stole some things. One of them saw the prince, so they attacked him. There was no other way to go, so they put their shoes into a bag because if they ran, the shoes would make noise. They plucked ears of grain, and it was very dark, and slowly they were on their way. The youngest brother, near the satsaṅg, got a thorn in his ear. How will you take the thorn out without taking your finger away from your ear? So he took his finger away, took the thorn out, and in that moment, he was saying: if you see some god, the shadow of him—because he is only momentary—he is taking. He said all this, and when he was walking, there was no footprint on the earth. Devpurījī could walk, and he could take the whole fire of his dhūnī in his cloth and hang it here, like you take cherries or tomatoes, because Devpurījī is master of all the elements. In the most critical time, if you will remember Devpurījī, he will try to rescue you. Many people were talking to the king, saying, "It is only a dream, in your imagination. Because you are a king, you have constant sorrows, or in your subconscious you have fear. The other king will take your things in the morning; war will come. Oh, you don’t have so many soldiers. This is your fear, sir." And that created such a dream. Therefore, don’t worry. He’s gone. That is gone, but the master came. Aṣṭāvakra means he had eight kinds of defects in his body. He was paralyzed. His legs were good, his legs were bad. People started laughing. What knowledge will he give to the king? Who dared to say this word to the king? And when he said, "I am laughing at your shoulders," that was the first injection. Yes, so many foolish people are here on earth. They are only like skin. They have knowledge of the skin only. Oh, they are wise ones? No, they are not that one. They see nothing on my head, but they don’t know what is in it. Therefore, these are all slaves, and they are beggars. They want to become a guru. He said to the beggar, "How do you know? How did you know? In the dream, how do you know that you were a king? How do you know that you were a king? How do you know that you were a king?" "Because I saw," he said. "Because I saw it. You were there, you were sleeping. I saw." I saw it, and that is the answer. Who has seen, that is the truth. This life is the truth. Not the dream is the truth. The truth is the seer. When this body dies, a new life will begin, and again it will come to the physical planet, and then that life will cease. Your inner self knows how many painful dreams you had, against how many dogs you have had to fight, and how many beautiful dreams you have. Now is the time to take a gate to truth through renouncing your selfishness, your greediness, your anger, your greediness... your jealousy, your jealousy... You are in a hospital, and you are in a coma. Write to the doctor before going into a coma: "Don’t give or do this to me." That means, "Do care for one of the disciples; I have to go for an operation." They put it in one plastic bag because of infections or something, and they left it there. The doctor came and asked; it was a European person operated on in India, and the doctor didn’t believe it, but he saw it. He said during the operation there was some man who was constantly objecting. Or how bad could it be? It’s a different subject. When you marry, in the presence of the lawyer or in front of the priest, you keep the ring. And you will keep your very, very linked ring with great respect, as long as... and when that respect is lost, the ring will also get lost. Humans understand the principles, and if you don’t follow the discipline, you can’t be successful. So decide something in your life which is not very difficult, or maybe it’s very difficult—that is the best. In this Strīlīkyā Āśram, once we asked who is going to fast for Thursday. 96% of people said they would, and 4%—even children and mothers—prepared for it, 4% of people. 86% were eating because they made very nice food for children, some pizza and something to eat, halvā. The other 10% were sitting under the tree with their friends, gossiping. "I don’t want to." They were eating biscuits and nuts, and drinking cold coffee, mineral water, and coffee. Eating biscuits and nuts, and drinking cold coffee, mineral water, and coffee. I am sorry. I am sorry. People think, Swamiji, there are people who like to eat, so make some principles in your life, or say, "After sunset, I will not eat anything, not even a nut." It is not very hard, and that is very, very healthy for your body. Then you don’t have to make too many fasts. Don’t eat anything after sunset and before sunrise. So you will eat only during the time of the sun. Many people begin to do this, so they eat at 5 o’clock, but at 11:30 at night, the fridge door opens. The husband noticed that; the husband thought the cat is hungry. The cat opens the door, surprising me. It was a big cat, emptying the whole thing. The refrigerator—that makes you successful. So there are many, many... things, many things you can do. I will not do this, but mostly people are taking Saṅkalpa, which is not easy. There is a sattva, that is a sattva, that will give you discipline. It is good that I am performing for him and therefore for all of you, so that I can entertain you a bit, cheer you up a bit, so that I can play something for you from the traditional Slavic folklore. Since I have more musical instruments here, I will gradually arrange them. I hope it will not be very long, but it will be more pleasant. So I will show you some small parts from the Slavic national folklore. I hope it will not be too long for you. And it is a great honor for me to present this culture in front of a guest such as Swamiji. I would like to start with this instrument. You wouldn’t say it is a musical instrument; I will play it in a moment. This is a typical and traditional Slavic musical instrument that is not found anywhere else in the world, and it is called a fujara. This typical Slavic musical instrument, which is called fujara, you will not find anywhere in the world. Last year, in 2006, it was registered as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site. And in the last year, it was inscribed as a World Heritage site by UNESCO. This is a trombita, and this is a signal instrument. No weapons will come out from these locks, only instruments. This is... no hat, no cover. This is a pipe, a so-called end, which has no holes. It has only one here at the bottom, one here at the top, and one here. There are no holes in this instrument, just three at the top and at the bottom. So this is some special kind of musical instrument. A special fujara, which you should put together into parts. This is the royal one. I wouldn’t like to waste your time, but if I can, please. This is a special kind of flute. It’s made from two flutes. One is like he played before with three holes, and one is the cluster.