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Part 1: The Descent from Paradise: A Guru Pūrṇimā Parable Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavāne kī je, Śrī Śrī Dev Purīśa Mahādeva kī je, Śrī Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavāne kī je, Viśva Guru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Parahaṃsa Sāī Maishañjī Satguru Deva kī je. Greetings to all brothers, sisters, and yoga friends from all over the world, in Slovenia, Serbia, and Croatia. Today I will tell you something about Guru Pūrṇimā. There will be much more later, but for the beginning, I will tell just one small story. It is not necessarily true, but will serve as an example. Behind me, many other Sanyāsīs and Gurudev will tell you much more about Guru Pūrṇimā. How does the story begin? There were two friends who decided to travel the land. They went on a journey and reached a beautiful wall of roses and orchids. Inside, it was written: "Satya Village." It was a beautiful entrance with a glorious arch of flowers. When they went inside, they saw beautiful green bushes overgrown with grass. Flowers were growing everywhere. Beautiful trees with orchids hanging from them. Birds were singing. Animals walked freely, one next to the other—lions next to wolves, wolves next to goats. Going further, they found people. They lived in beautiful stone houses and clay houses. There was wonderful love and harmony between them. Joy, peace, and happiness were everywhere. Interestingly, people talked to animals and understood each other. They met a man and asked him how old he was. He said, "15,000 years." "15,000 years? Where are you from?" They said, "From nowhere. We have everything. When we need food, we have food. They bring us berries and nuts; there are fruits on all sides. We lack nothing. We have everything." "Who is the boss here? The king?" They said, "There is no king. We are all the same." There was no hospital because there was no disease. They talked and were delighted, but they had to go further. They came to the next village, also beautiful with flowers and shrubs. In that village, there were beautiful houses, and people were satisfied. They lived in harmony; there was no disease. But one of the travelers was a doctor, and among all those happy people who lived from agriculture and worked in the fields as much as they wanted, he saw there were not as many animals as in the previous village. They asked, "Do you talk to animals?" They said, "No, they used to do that in the other village, but we don't do it here. But we live in harmony; we are happy." Then a boy ran by saying, "Brrm, brrm... I am a horse." They asked, "What’s wrong with him?" The villagers said, "Don’t pay attention to him. That’s what happened. He thinks he’s a horse. So he runs here and plays. What can we do? Karma has come to him. Considering that, it happens. It’s a shame, but what can we do?" They spent some time in that village and went further. They reached the next village with a built wall, big walls, and beautiful houses. But people there already showed hierarchy—someone sitting on a higher chair, another on a lower chair. They had their king, the leader of the village. They fought sometimes, rarely, but not so hard. When they thought about the first and second villages, this village was not so beautiful anymore, but it was clean. People bathed in the rivers; there was a lot of forest everywhere, many flowers. It was nice. But again, there were hospitals, and people died. There were graves. And again, a few boys and girls ran through. Some pretended to be cars, some thought they were playing at being animals or planes. They asked, "What is this? What are you doing?" The villagers said, "They have lost their karma, and they are not normal anymore. What can we do? We have a special ward for them. There are a lot of them, and sometimes we put them in a hospital or a ward to keep them separated. Okay, what can you do? That’s how it is." They went further, and the path led them to a village with high walls. When they went inside, they couldn’t believe it. It was a desert of rocks and stones—no forest, no animals. People walked on clouds, on black water. It stank everywhere. All around, everyone was screaming and whining. Some were playing with planes, playing with houses, playing with I don’t know what. It was a crazy village. They couldn’t believe it. They asked one man in flight, "What is this?" He said, "People, run away from here. This is all a village of people. We who are normal hide and don’t show who we are." "What is the name of that village?" He said, "It’s called the Black Village." My dear, that’s a story made up, but that’s how the world looks. Today, what have we done with that beautiful paradise that God created for us, which served us, in which people lived for thousands of years happy in meditation on the Lord? The human mind, which has become too strong, controls the man—anger, envy, fear, complexes. This has led to us living on the edge of a cliff today. Thousands, millions of fish are killed every day. Millions of trees are cut down every day. Billions, millions of cubic meters of water are destroyed every day. Tons of poison, millions of tons of poison, are thrown into the ground, into the water, into the air. And we—I don’t have to say that we are madmen, because they would take me somewhere else—but we think that we are the body, that we are engineers, that we are scientists, that we are drivers, workers, or whatever. We forgot who we are. Divine beings of light came here to this planet to teach us how to get back to what we have lost, which is the divine blessing. Now, why did this happen? Because of education. When we teach our children that animals are worthless, that everything is in money, and so on, what will those children do besides what they have learned to do? And here comes Guru Pūrṇimā. The only chance for this world is to come, if we are lucky, to that light being, that divine being who still knows where we came from, why we came, what is the meaning of life, and where we will go after we throw away this body. And if we are lucky enough to be able to hear or to be ready to listen and to learn, then we have a chance to try again to build that wonderful world that once existed in Satya Yuga, later in the third yuga and the second yuga. And in the end, we return to our divine source. Guru Pūrṇimā is the day when we glorify or make people aware that on this planet that is going to collapse, there are people who can save us and who can show us how to get out of the way we are going or the failure we are going through. I think my 15 minutes have passed, or maybe even a little more. Thank you for your patience. I hope I didn’t say anything wrong. Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jeho Dhanuṣa Yanamaha, Śrīdhik Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Kīja, Satta Gurudeva, Kīja. E lauda tosio, mi signore. Il Signore è nella forma di Gurudeva. Il signore che vediamo camminare per le strade. Il Signore che ci sorride nel sorriso degli altri. I will not speak to you about Guru Pūrṇimā, about the colors of India, the joy of the people, the beauty of the persons, and I will not speak to you about all this and this beautiful experience that is called India. Of the Guru, you must stay in the presence of the... Guru Pūrṇimā is a moment when the joy of the heart merges with the feeling of spirituality. It is given to us by Gurū Dev. I am grateful to God for this wonderful experience. Dear Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Mexican friends, all of you, God is in all of us, and we are part of this sweetest spark of His love. Gurū Pūrṇimā, for me, even being a very small, great disciple of Swāmījī—an ant, in English, "ant"—here it is, is a great and immense joy that I also wish for all of you. Guru Pūrṇimā is a very important moment, more than important, very joyful. And as I said at the beginning, where there is God, there is always joy, there is always light, there is always peace. Just look at our Gurudev, and in him there is everything. And it is so that the Lord comes to us in the strength, in the hope of the saints. And it is so that God comes to us. I also wish for all of you a similar experience, peace and the light, the spark of God every day, every moment, Guru Pūrṇimā every instant of your life. All of life, and it is life in a moment. So, as a great saint said: "Everything begins today." May it be so also for us, for all of us. Peace, peace... and laudato si sempre, o mio Signore, in tutte le tue forme. Kajpurī Mahārāja Kī Jai. Hari Om, dear friends around the world. First of all, I want to welcome you to our Satsaṅg Hall in Jhadan. This message is coming to you from India, and we are happy that Swāmījī, for a few days, gives us the blessing of his presence, and we want to share with you our experiences in these Guru Pūrṇimā days, and it’s in different languages. So I will speak now for you in French language. Sadīk Narambagwan. Dear friends around the world, I wish you a good evening, and the blessing comes from you, from Jadan. It’s the big ashram in the middle of Rajasthan, in the north of India. And we are here. Swamiji is here. He came from far away, from Brazil. He was at a conference, a very big conference, which was on the environment. And when he came here, he immediately spoke to the Indians about what we can practically do for the protection of the environment. And he spoke in Hindi, but I understood something. And he told us very practically three things. The first thing was that we must be careful about the water. So wherever you are, dear friends, Yoga means to take care of men, of oneself, to have love for all, and especially for the sea, the earth. And that’s why Swamijī, in his first speech yesterday at Guru Pūrṇimā, he talked about protection, about how to protect the earth, how to protect the environment. And he gave to the Indian people three... To make three very strong wishes, it’s called a saṅkalpa. The first is to pay attention to the water, to use as little water as possible, because for the children and the grandchildren and the generations that will come after, they must also have water, so we must take care of that. We must pay attention to that. And also, in our world, in other parts of Africa, people have nothing to eat and they have nothing to drink. So it is we who are responsible for that. And this is the first wish, the first śakaḷpa that Swāmījī told everyone: to pay attention to water. And the second wish, he said, was not to use plastic. Because everywhere, the plastic is more and more. Everything is wrapped in plastic. If it’s a gift or if it’s food, everywhere we have plastic. So, to reduce the plastic as much as possible. For example, when we buy something, we can take paper and put the paper in it. So this is the second Śaṅkalpa, the second wish that Swāmījī gave to all of us: to be careful and to use as little plastic as possible. And the third and the greatest Śaṅkalpa he gave to all of us was to plant 11 trees from this Guru Pūrṇimā in 2012 to Guru Pūrṇimā in 2013. De planter onze tris, onze arbres. Alors le chat Kaipa, que Swamiji a demandé à tous, tous les disciples et tout le monde partout, de planter au moins onze arbres. Il a très fortement dit ça à tous. Et puis, après, il a aussi fait une prière. After this, he also made a prayer. I don’t know if you realize this, but I’m sure you realized this yesterday. So it was for me, the first time I heard Swāmījī speaking in this way. It was the first time I heard Swāmījī speak so much, with so much fire in his heart, and to call on us to do really everything possible to protect the world. And then he made a great prayer for India. All there have been, there have been maybe, how many people? A thousand people yesterday? More than a thousand people were there, where everybody was following the prayer, and they promised that all these three Saṅkalpas they will fulfill by the next Pūrṇimā. So I request in this way now, all listeners and everyone here to follow also these three Saṅkalpas which Swāmījī gave to us. So, I also request you, all of you who hear me here now, speaking in French, that you also follow these three wishes, these three saṅkalpas that Swamījī has given to us. Because it’s not enough to say, "Swāmījī, thank you, thank you, you are wonderful." We must be wonderful, and we must do what Swamījī says to us. So that’s what was for me, in this Guru Pūrṇimā, the most powerful. Et moi, je promesse, j’ai fait tout de suite la promesse. On va faire peut-être 20 arbres, on va planter ça, et ça va être dans le temps qui va venir maintenant. Et bien sûr, les deux jours qu’on était là, c’était très joli. Il y avait des milliers d’Indiens qui venaient. And after their departure, they received the blessing; they came, and everyone received the blessing of Swamiji. Personally, he was here for days and hours, only there for the people, and the food, everything was perfect, and we had two wonderful days, full of love, full of peace. Like she said, "Pace, Pace," so peace, peace, śānti, śānti. And a lot of music at night. We sang the bhajans all night. So it was really very nice. I recommend you to come. Next time you are here with us. They will also be here, hopefully, in the next Guru Pūrṇimā, and I thank Swāmījī specially. Thank you very much for your being here, and Jaswājī also, and I wish you all the best, and Swāmījī’s blessing and benediction is coming to you. I would like to ask you to say a few words in Hungarian. I would like to thank all of you very much from Jodan, from the Guru Pūrṇimā event. I am sure that I have gathered a lot of people from all over Hungary, because this whole Guru Pūrṇimā event is about the search for all of us. It is about the search for those who have woken up, hopefully to the level of consciousness, that we no longer want to eat, drink, sleep, or give birth to children, but to search for spiritual heights. In this process of searching, we reach the point that we cannot reach these heights by ourselves, that we need help. This is when the seeker starts searching and finds his master, Guru Deva, who leads us into the light. Guru Pūrṇimā is the expression of this search. Every year, when we renew our search, renew our pursuit, we try to find Guru Deva, and then everything becomes possible. And I say this as my own experience: at this time Indian visas are prepared in one day, at this time the only flight ticket appears on the internet for the whole week, and from one day to the next you can reach Guru Devalabha, you can meet Swamiji, and it can be. In his presence, which can only be experienced in the presence of the Guru. This amṛt, this nectar, this cit-śakti, this power that awakens us, the śakti that takes us to a higher experience, we can only experience it in the presence of Guru Deva. This is what brings us back to Master Lābā every year. We renew our saṅkalpa, we determine what we want to achieve in the coming year. This is the search that fortunately brought some of us to Gurudeva Lābā. Now, from here in Jadam, thank you, we had a beautiful Guru Pūrṇimā satsaṅg yesterday with Swāmījī. Unfortunately, we could not broadcast it on the internet. Hopefully, you have already been able to watch the recorded version of the webcast in time. Svāmī Cīgyī held a beautiful sermon, which was a very powerful message for me from this sermon. When you wake up from this true search, this true dream of spirituality, then all things that draw you away from it, all desires, all attachments, are a waste of time from our spiritual pursuit. For me, this was a very powerful message for the satsaṅg yesterday. Those of us who can be here can experience this Śakti, this power from Swamījī, and those of us who can’t be here, those who can’t be in the presence of Swamījī, they also have a very important role to play. Apart from renewing their saṅkalpa for the coming year. And this is the clearest, the most secretive, the most delicate meditation. Meditation in the form of a Guru, Jñāna Mūlaṁ Guru Mūrtin. Meditation in the form of a Master leads to an experience at one point in which there is no difference between the Master and the teaching. When the consciousness is dissolved in this experience, and experiences this consciousness in all directions, it is as if we are repeating it in the grave countless times. Jaha dekhu, jaha āp hī, āp ho, nitya cetanānī rakha rihe. Wherever we look, up, down, right, left, we experience His eternal presence everywhere, Gurū Dev’s presence everywhere. Swamiji will surely repeat this message from Guru Pūrṇimā. I hope that this song will be repeated in the next Guru Pūrṇimā. Shānti, Shānti,... Shānti. The atmosphere of the presence of our Guru Deva. Swamiji gave us all a saṅkalpa and emphasized the ecology, that we should all plant at least eleven trees as a saṅkalpa. If it is possible, save water as much as possible, especially here in India, in the middle of a desolate desert. Every drop of water is priceless. The time of Guru Pūrṇimā is for all of us. It is time to evaluate our spiritual development for the last year, to go back, to re-evaluate what we have achieved, what we have not achieved, and to give Saṅkalpa to our next spiritual... Once again, I thank you for this beautiful moment which we can enjoy here with you. And I hope that all of you who are watching on the Internet have the opportunity to capture at least a little bit of this beautiful atmosphere that is here. Thank you, Harjom. Harjom, dear brothers and sisters, thank you for giving me the opportunity to tell my impressions about the Gurupūrṇī. Swamiji told us before Guru Pūrṇimā that Guru Pūrṇimā is a holiday that has been going on since the time of Satya Yuga. And during Satya Yuga, it was the only holiday that people celebrated. And then, in other times, in other yugas, other holidays came to us. And from the very beginning, it was the only holiday. This is a holiday when the spiritual seeker concludes his spiritual work for a whole year. Part 2: A Personal Reflection on Guru Pūrṇimā Previously, students met their teacher only once a year during Guru Pūrṇimā. This holiday was very important and significant for them because it was then that they chose a saṅkalpa for the entire year. They would contemplate and conclude their spiritual work—what they had achieved, what they had not achieved, and what more they needed to do on the difficult path of their sādhanā. I will probably best convey my impressions, as many intelligent words have already been said about what Guru Pūrṇimā is. The greatest impression came from the people who attended. They sang bhajans with such love and such amazing energy that it was simply impossible to sit still. I also wanted to dance and sing with them. Once again, I was amazed by the love and respect people have for each other here, by how they can express their love for their teacher, their guru, and by how beautifully they can express this love. These are very simple people; it seems to me many may not even know how to read or write. But in their love, they are so intelligent, pure, and great that you simply become infected by it. They have such spiritual faces. The energy during this holiday was such that I slept only two hours that night. I did not want to sleep at all, as I was so filled with this energy. It seemed to me I could just run out onto the stage with them and dance, sing, and play those instruments. It is a pity this holiday is not celebrated in other places. It is a pity such a wonderful festival was lost, for I am sure in Vedic times it was celebrated in all countries. How wonderful that I had the opportunity to celebrate it here. Thank you very much, Swāmījī, for this opportunity. Thank you all, dear brothers and sisters, for being with us and for sharing this great joy with me. Hari Om. Thank you very much for all the beautiful words so far. I did not understand much, but the melodies were very beautiful. I also did not understand much at Guru Pūrṇimā yesterday, because on this day there isn't much to understand. The frequency on this day is very high. That is, the master, the teacher, the guru, drives all his antennas and transmissions on this day and sends the signals with full force. It depends on the student how he adjusts—in English you say 'tuned'—whether he gets the right transmitter. Guru Pūrṇimā is a very old traditional festival, going back to Buddha and to Maharṣi Vyāsa. It is also called Vyāsa Pūrṇimā. Maharṣi Vyāsa introduced this day to honor his students. Yesterday, as I looked at the moon at night, I thought to myself, "Well, it can't really be a symbol for the master, the moon itself, because there are always such small spots there, here and there." Then it somehow became clear to me: actually, it is a symbol for the student, the moon. As we all know, the moon waxes and wanes, just as we take on and let go of various things in life. Of course, it is not a real taking on and letting go that the moon passes through; it is only an apparent waxing and waning. When we see the moon as a symbol for the students, what then is the symbol for the teacher? Of course, the sun. The moon is very far away, and yet people have already managed to walk on it, to put our feet on it, while the sun is a bit difficult. A long time ago, people thought the Earth was at the center of the universe and the moon went all the way around it, until they came up with the idea that it is actually not like that. There is also the sun, around which the Earth circles, and the moon circles around the Earth. The moon, the student, circles around the Earth. The Earth is the symbol of nature, of illusion, what we call in our yoga philosophy 'māyā'. The moon is actually held by the Earth, and depending on its position and constellation, it is illuminated differently by the sun. There is the full moon, there is the dark moon, and in between, various variations. But it is always the sun that illuminates the moon. That means the light of the sun is reflected by the moon, and the moon itself actually has no light at all. I think that is a very important point, because we are inclined to bathe in our own knowledge and try to carry it outward, although it is actually not our own knowledge but knowledge that has been given to us. On this day, it is said that the characteristics of the Master, the Guru Tattva, are a thousand times stronger than on normal days. On this day, every student has the opportunity—this thousand times, or a hundred thousand times, or whatever—to use, to realize. It is the blessing of the master. On this day and night, the grace is a thousand times stronger than on normal days. Every year this day comes again, and every year the students have the opportunity to prepare for it and to try to realize what they are meeting the master for: to increase, strengthen, and purify the bond, the language, the melody, the frequency between the master and the student. I reckon, seeing as everyone has already been speaking in their language, that I will speak in our local lingo, which is Australian. How do you all know I will speak in English? I will try to. Sorry that it is not very good. I do not know what anybody said until now, so forgive me if I repeat. We have all been lucky enough here in Jhadan to be here for Guru Pūrṇimā with Swāmījī. It was an unexpectedly large crowd of people this year, much more than normally come. Normally, a lot of people come, but I do not know how many. It was at least double or triple. In the kitchen, they knew very well that a lot of people came. Yesterday evening, I went to visit, and they were already cooking Sabjī for the seventh time since the afternoon because every time they would finish, it would be gone again. The ladies who were making the purīs seemed like they had been going forever. I do not know how they managed. By that time, they were pulling people from anywhere to keep helping cut potatoes and cut tomatoes and whatever was needed for the sabjī. There were just so many people. As I think Shantaji was saying—from my very extensive knowledge of French; my French teacher kicked me out of class a lot—Swamijī was telling in the satsaṅg to the locals about three saṅkalpas which he hoped they would make this year. One was for the planting of trees, that everybody should take the vow, the saṅkalpa, to plant at least eleven trees during this year. He was talking about his time in Brazil, in Rio, about the planting of peace trees there, and about the discussions there concerning the environment and the need to find practical solutions. He was asking people to take up here and put into practice one thing: that of planting trees, planting at least 11 trees. The second was to try not to use plastic, and as much as possible, when going to the market, to ask not to be given plastic bags, to use newspaper or other things, to take their goods in their own containers. The third was to try and save water in every respect. Swamiji was also telling the locals it would be better if they would again install hand pumps in their villages, rather than having water coming from taps everywhere, because people are so unconscious of the amount of water being wasted. Previously in the villages, when they went to fetch water and had to pump by hand, they were conscious of how many pumps were necessary, so the water was not wasted so much. For me, the experience of Guru Pūrṇimā was getting the joy of sitting near Swāmījī and watching all day this stream of people coming. I guess it is a little bit like tonight when we are having this satsaṅg, and everybody is expressing what they felt during Guru Pūrṇimā in so many different languages. Yesterday, it was just the experience of seeing thousands of people come, all bhaktas of Swāmījī, of Gurujī, of Mahāprabhujī, and of seeing how many different ways they have to express that guru-disciple relationship, how many different ways it is being expressed in their lives, and how important the āśram, my Prabhupāda, Gurujī and Swāmijī are to their lives and to their spiritual practice, and how important it is for them to have the opportunity to come and have Swāmījī's darśan. There was one stage where Swamiji had gone to his room in the morning, about 12 o'clock, to have some rest. I came back here early because there were a lot of people sitting and waiting for Swamiji to come. The energy here in the Bhakti Sāgara was the most amazing, with everyone just waiting: "When will Swāmījī come? When will we have darśana?" It is so beautiful to see and so good to refresh in our minds the importance of what we have. At the same time, to sit there and also watch how Swāmījī has his relationship with so many people, and how he can be there for so many people at the same time. You all saw it yesterday. You all saw that it was going on all day, and it seemed like he had endless energy, from early morning until late in the evening. It is just an amazing thing to watch, an amazing thing to experience, an amazing thing to be part of, and an amazing thing that we have the chance to have that relationship of our own with Swāmījī. So for me, Guru Pūrṇimā is about reminding ourselves of just how special it is to have a living master, to have that mantra from him, and to have that blessing. He is constantly reminding us that we should continue and keep going, make again a saṅkalpa for the next year, and again try and fulfill it. It is about trying again to refresh our practice and to keep going on the path. I got stuck speaking after Premananji and before Swamiji, so I think it should be short. To everybody around the world who could not be here, we are sorry that it was not able to be on webcast due to some technical issues. But we hope that you were with us here in spirit, and we know that you were all with Swāmījī in satsaṅg everywhere around the world, enjoying this special day. Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Bābājī kī Samādhi Pejaayao, Phūlpurī Jī, he is going to go to the battery and get the Bābājī Samādhi Darśan done. Dear ones, blessed self, spiritual seekers, blessings of Devadhī Dev, Devapurījī, Mahāprabhu Prabhujī and Holy Gurujī. The Guru Pūrṇimā festival, which has been going on the last few days around the world wherever there is Guru Paramparā and Sanātana Dharma, the eternal religion, is refreshing our spiritual practice. We know that from last Guru Purnima till this Guru Purnima, we may have had some saṅkalpa, but slowly, slowly we forgot. We know what mistakes we have done. We know what we could have done well, and so on. Again, it reminds us to put things in the right way and continue our endless journeys. You remember the story of two brother monks. They were travelling for a few years, walking barefoot. One day, they were sitting near the bank of a river under a nice mango tree and enjoying mango fruits—because Guru Pūrṇimā time came, mango is definitely the season, okay? So you cannot say there was no mango; it was some other fruits which are summer fruits, winter fruits. Meanwhile, a young lady came and asked them, "Brothers, can you help me cross the river?" They said, "Yes, sister, we also would like to go to the other side of the river, but we just have our fruits. You can also have some." The fruits, please take after this one. The monk or the brother said, "You hold on to my back and my shoulders, but do not press me down. Just let your body flutter on the water, and I will swim. You just hold on a little bit." In this way, they crossed the river. He dropped her there. She asked, "What can I do for you?" They said, "Well, learn swimming. So next time you do not need anyone." Good idea. Next time we do not need you. Well, then they travelled further. It was a rocky path. They were sitting on a big rock. The rock was nearly 2,000 or 3,000 square meters, beautiful, nice, and cool. The air the whole day was warm. Both brothers were sitting, and they said, "Now only five or ten kilometers far is the cave where the Gurudev is sitting. How happy we are. Tomorrow is Guru Pūrṇimā, and we will all be there, and we will have darśan of the Gurudev after a few years." It is said, Mahāprabhujī, in the bhajan: "Gurudev darśan dhan ho, cetana ānanda ghan ho." It is a blessing to have darśan of Gurudev. 'Cetana' is consciousness. 'Ghan guṇa' is endless, like a heavy, big cloud. We call it 'ghana bādal', 'ghana ākāśa', like a sky. Endless happiness, joy will be. So one of the brothers who was swimming beside him said, "What will you answer to Gurujī?" He said, "What? Gurujī told us, 'Do not touch any woman.' You did not touch her; you were carrying her on your back." He said, "What do you mean?" He said, "Yes, before three years, you remember?" He said, "Oh, yes, the swimming." He said, "Yeah." He said, "Yes, I will tell Gurudev what the situation was. But I am surprised. What will you answer?" He said, "What? I did not carry her, not even her dress or her bag." He said, "No, I dropped her at the bank of the river there, but you are still carrying her with you in your memory." That is it. Physically, you made a mistake; it is gone behind, but still your psychic process is troubling you. Anything good or bad in the material world is temporary, but the psychic process may be good or may be bad. So if we do the process with niṣkāma karma, sevā, and bhāva, then our saṅkalpa becomes easier for us to realize, and our spirituality goes smoothly. Seva is Karmayoga. Everywhere, Seva is accepted. And Seva means it must not be for a particular person. Seva means not towards your wife or towards your husband; that is helping, not Seva. Seva is there where you have no relations, and you do good things for them, and to every creature, not only humans. Planting trees, giving water to trees or any plant, is a seva. You walk now from Bhakti Sāgara, this hall, to your room in the white house. On the way, you will see left and right there are some plants, and they are so thirsty because there is no water and no rain now. We in Jada have no water. The plant is hanging like this, very sad. The entire vegetation is struggling now. Tomorrow, make one experiment. Bring from your bathroom one cup of water, one glass of water, and put it on this one plant. Sit there and observe. After five minutes, you will see this whole plant opening, smiling at you, and saying, "Thank you, you saved my life." That is a Śiva. Some crazy people sit there and say, "Oh, this plant is really dying," and pull it out and throw it away. You see, that is not good. So Shiva can be shown even to a small, gentle plant, to other creatures, and, of course, to humans too. Our spirituality develops at high speed when you neglect, when you look away, and when you just give some kind of judgment not in that favor. At that time, our spirituality is turning to the other side, anti-screwing. You do not feel it at the same time, but it will happen. So, how to develop spirituality is through sevābhāva. Sevābhāva is our spiritual development. The mind is never equal. The mind is never happy. The mind always searches for change. As soon as you begin to search for a change, your spirituality is blocked and locked, and you have forgotten your combination numbers. Therefore, it is very important when changes take place in your bhāva towards a plant, an animal, a bird, a human, a partner, a friend, a family—what we call a crisis. That time means you are going down very rapidly. At that time, because we like our change, we are not capable of using our own wisdom. All of us have immense wisdom. You are very wise. If someone has a problem and is crying and sitting, you are so wise. You will say, "No, do not worry, it can be... it will be okay, and we are all here." You know how much we try to help that person through our wisdom. But when it happens to us, we are paralyzed. Our wisdom is locked. Our indriyas, our senses, our mind does not let us come near our intelligence, our viveka. They are very strong. I was observing in Nepal, in Pokhara, where there was a very huge bee tree, about, let us say, 50 feet high. Always these white birds used to sit there. Now the crows do not like these white birds, something we call the kingfisher, boogla. One day, the crows decided not to let them sit there overnight, because the crows wanted to stay under the tree. You cannot imagine how the crows were fighting in the air. Finally, all these white birds had to change their direction and go somewhere to find another tree. The next day, the native people did not like even the crows, so they hung one piece of iron making noise. The crows ran away. The following day, the birds thought, "Now it is free for us," and again they came to sit. The crows were so angry they attacked. This selfishness changes in our body, mind, and thoughts. At that time, we have no more energy to say anything. We are wise enough to suggest to someone, but we are not wise enough to suggest to ourselves. Therefore, it is said: "Kṣamā baṛand ko hotā he, chotand ko utpāt." The great one can forgive, and the small one begins to explode like a pop. I will tell you tomorrow. Now it is getting to be 10 o'clock. Yesterday we were up the whole night. We were too late. So good night, and do not let the bugs bite. If they do, do not fight. Sleep peacefully the whole night. Dev Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān kī Jai. Devaiśvara Mahādeva Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān. To all the dear brothers and sisters in the world, I bless you in the name of Alagparījī Siddha Pīṭha, and I pray that Mahāprabhujī bless all the disciples, us all together in oneness. Adios.