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We give the name God to the Supreme Reality. We give the names Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, Buddha, Jesus, Allah, and so on. But God is one. It is said, Ananta Brahmāṇḍa—the endless universe, śūnyākāśa, a void space. Nothing exists there except three things: the space, the consciousness, and the energy, the Divine Mother. But He said, "Eko’haṁ bahu syāmī"—"I am one, and now I will multiply." This is what we call the Divine Will. That begins with the resonance, the sound. And that sound is still in the entire universe. In our body, every blood cell has its own resonance. Organs have their own resonance—the blood, the muscles, everything. Out of the sound, we as individuals came forth, like a sun ray from that source. And it is called this individual song. In reality, we are only one; there are no dualities. You and me exist only because of our body and our soul, but as Ātmā, as the Divine and light of that Supreme, we are all one. This individual is fluttering on the waves of time through this space, experiencing sometimes happiness or unhappiness, pain and pleasure, darkness and light. Where the self, the Jīvātmā, the individual soul, remains for a while, it begins to create relations: relation to that atmosphere or relation on this physical planet where all five elements come together. And these are the qualities, and they are coming and developing more and more, gaining more quality. Time comes and we go. Again and again, we are on the endless journey. This journey, in the very beginning, when the separation was there—from where the sound awakes and this resonance goes a far distance—but it has the aim to come back to the origin. You will know all this, what we call the boomerang. You throw the boomerang, and if you are the master of this boomerang, then it comes back to you; you can nicely hold it and throw it again. So we are traveling round the space with one aim: to come back to the origin. So life is a journey, not a destination. Every life is a milestone, and it is said on our earth there are 8.4 million different kinds of creatures. One is called Jalchar, the creatures in the water. Thalachar, the creatures on the earth. Nabhachar, creatures in the space. 8.4 million. Out of them, one is the human, and the human is the blessed one or fortunate one, for they got a human body. Through the human body, because humans have got a very powerful tool, and that’s our intellect. Not a destination, but this life in human form should lead us to our final destination. But there are many barriers, and these barriers are our own qualities, negative qualities. Within our consciousness: unconscious, subconscious, conscious, higher conscious, and cosmic consciousness. At the bottom level of the unconsciousness, two tendencies, qualities, lie dormant: Devī Śakti and Āsurī Śakti—the divine energy and the negative or the devil’s energy. Through our negative education and negative actions, that negative energy awakens: anger, hate, jealousy, conflict, greed, ego, etc. These are the barriers which will not let your soul proceed to its destination towards eternity. It will divert your soul again to the darkness. The quality which will make for us a one-way street, the highway, where there will be no barriers—that’s called love, understanding, kindness, mercy, forgiveness, helpfulness, support, giving, etc. So, these qualities we shall try to improve. Human consciousness, the human soul, and the human itself are like this light. It doesn’t matter how much darkness is there; this light will give us light and illuminate here. But if the light is off, darkness is here again. So the light of wisdom, and what is that wisdom? Kindness. The great one can forgive. The great one can bring again peace, harmony, and clarity. Because he or she has the light of knowledge. The darkness has no strength to come near this light. If someone doesn’t like the sun and you take two handfuls of dust and say to the sun, "I don’t like you," and throw the dust at the sun, look how far it’s going. The dust will fall on you again. Similarly, if we create a negative atmosphere, negativity, and such things, then it will come back to us like a boomerang. And when we give the light and purity, then it is in our own interest that we come closer to our divine goal or to our divine consciousness, which is a God consciousness. We will come again there, where we belong. If we throw this piece of material, this iron or whatever it is, up, it will come back to the earth. Why? We will explain gravity, and in spirituality we will not say gravity. This piece of iron originates from the earth and therefore would like to return to its origin. Similarly, we all are part of that cosmic Self, and our desire, our longing, our feeling is to again come home to eternity. For that, we need help, we need education, and that is, again, God Himself, that Divine Consciousness, begins to manifest and come there where these individual souls are; there God comes. That we call incarnation. The word incarnation, or the birth, is the same. Now, there are three different kinds of incarnation. One is called Swayambhū, and that is in the very beginning of the Satyaloka, or many ages, and that’s called Śiva. Swayambhū—no one has created him. He doesn’t have a father, he doesn’t have a mother. It is he who, through his own will, "Eko’haṁ bahusyāmi"—"I am one and now I will multiply." So that consciousness is awakening through the resonance, the sound, what we chanted now, Oṃ. Then comes the light, and out of the light, he manifests, and all creation begins. So it is called the creator, the protector, and the liberator. Out of this one light, three qualities appear: Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva. Brahmā’s duty is to create. All creation began from Brahmā’s order. God Viṣṇu is the sustenance. He takes care of everything. All is balanced, and Śiva is the liberator. He will liberate. Now, in this trinity, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Maheśa, from time to time, Viṣṇu or Śiva incarnates. So in the Bhagavad Gītā, Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa tells Arjuna, "Arjuna, from time to time I manifest myself through my yoga māyā, through the power, the śakti of yoga. To help all pious souls and destroy all negativity. Yuge Yuge Śambhavai." Every yuga, every age: Satyuga, Tretāyuga, Dvāpara Yuga, Kali Yuga, then again repeats. So that incarnation comes time to time. First is Swayambhū, second is incarnation. That’s called Nimitta Avatāra. Nimitta means for a particular purpose. Krishna came for a particular purpose. Nityāvatāram. Nitya means every day, every time, and that Nityāvatāram is called holy saints. So holy saints are carrying the message of the divine to remove all the negative qualities and give the knowledge and protection to develop their spirituality. They remove all our doubts and negative darkness and show us the path, which you may call Satguru or holy saints. It is only language problems or differences. So that quality of Nitya Avatāra again is in two parts. One who is born is born with all these qualities. Like you see these three pictures here: Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī, and Devpurījī. And you should have or read this book of Līlāmṛta. Then you will know what the Avatāra, the incarnation, means. Satguru, Satguru... You come to your destination, so do not have doubts and conflicts and dualities on different spiritual paths. As long as you have no differences, you are pure, untouched, and you love all equally. You are like a sun from above. He is not attached to anyone. But as soon as you put yourself in a particular way, narrow thinking, narrow-minded, fanatic, then you have limited yourself again, and you are not that Nitya Avatāra. So, like Buddha, we call Bhagavān Buddha, God Buddha. Buddha was a warrior according to Indians, the Brahmins, the Kṣatriyas, the Vaiśyas, the Śūdras. Buddha was a Hindu; his father was a Hindu king, the Rajput. But Buddha began his spiritual practices, so his name was Siddhārtha. Buddha’s name was Siddhārtha. How did he become named Buddha? Buddha means Bodha. Bodha means intellect and knowledge. Bodha means the knowledge, Buddhi, your intellect. Now, in your intellect, you realize and you put the light of the wisdom. So, when the intellect, you have enlightened yourself through your practice, become... A Buddha, so his hard practice, he is simple living and meditating. He got enlightenment, knowledge. The light is here, no darkness. You can also achieve it, but you have to follow the principles. Morning, when you wake up, you open your eyes and you are looking in your room; you are awakened. At that time, you should tell yourself or ask yourself, "I am human." Only one word will make you aware that I am a human. And now, the whole day you will be protected from this one word, human. Because we said, "Oh God, such things a human cannot do." A human cannot speak in such a way. It was not a human. And the Christian people said, "This is not a Christian." So it means not according to Jesus’s feelings. So I am a human. That creates for you a beautiful protection against negativity. The second thought: what makes me human? Not this body, but something different. So you search, yes, the qualities. Quality makes a human, and negative quality makes the devil. So human qualities are positive: love, humbleness, kindness. Bring everything into the light of knowledge. Nothing is negative for you, nothing is dirty, nothing is that. You stay above this, and your life will be so comfortable. The quality makes me human. At that time you will ask, what does it mean for me to be a human? What makes me a human? And what is my duty as a human? On that day, you will come on the list of the Nityāvatāra. And then you have to work further. Because ultimately, our destination is to realize or reach our ultimate goal: to become one with God. So, 8.4 million different kinds of creatures enter this earth from the astral world. From that atmosphere comes in contact with the space, which was always the water, the air, the fire, and descending, this soul comes on the earth through the foot, through... The seeds, different kinds of seeds of the tree. So, for this soul to enter the physical world, there are four different ways. One is through the trees, because a tree has life; a tree is a life, a tree has a life, a tree has a kind of soul. So the bud of the tree, the blossom of the tree, where the seeds will come, or a branch comes out, the life is coming there. And the tree will have leaves, branches, or blossoms only where there is a joint. Where there is no joint, only the stick, there cannot come any branch out. About three years have already gone by; someone brought me some flowers, and this flower was decorated with one beautiful leaf. The leaf was big, and it was only this leaf stem, what you call leaf stem or stem, no? And I put it in the water, flowers, and this one leaf. Some of my disciples in Austria gave me one flower pot, a glass vase, and she put inside some kind of stones, not precious stones, but different kinds of stones, Purījī, Purījī... Say slowly, slowly, goodbye. But that leaf remains fresh, very fresh. And I didn’t want to throw it away. And that leaf remained in my flower vase for two and a half years. Now, what happens? The leaf became thicker and thicker and thicker, like leather. But no roots came, and no other roots came because there was no joint. So similarly, that life is entering through the vegetation, through the soil, through the vegetation. Second, through the bacteria. Bacteria are also life. Also, this is like mosquitoes and this and that, all. Third, like birds and fish through the eggs. And the fourth, like some animals and humans. So, all 8.4 million different kinds of creatures make one cycle. This is one cycle. From your side, it is clockwise, okay. In this way, from your side and from my side, it is this. And out of 8.4 million, one is a human, and this is the chance to come out of the circle. If you miss this human life, you will not develop the human qualities and spirituality, and awaken the divine consciousness through the chakras, kuṇḍalinī, practicing, meditations, prayers, mantras, doing good things, and helping. Others, forgiveness, kindness, understanding, love. Then you are straight going towards the light, and at the end of life, judgment will be there. Don’t expect before. It’s not that today you are enlightened, but tomorrow you are still creating some kind of pollution. Morning, you clean your glass table very nicely, and then you close your doors and windows and go to the office. Evening, you come, you see a layer of some dust on it. Similarly, as long as we have our body, our mind, our emotions, our intellect, and our actions, we collect good or bad qualities. Therefore, it will not be declared that you are now the enlightened one, God. The result will be the end of life. Some will say, "But I want to enjoy my incarnation, that I am divine." Then, you are not incarnate. There is no enjoyment. The word "enjoy" is selfish. The joy which you want to enjoy has little joy compared to the sorrows of that enjoyment. Keep up the word that I want to enjoy; there is no more problem. Everything is good, yes, very good, very pleasant, very good. But not in one-sided, no. My God, I miss this, I want to have this. You know, many people, what we call the mid-life crisis, and there one begins to make a mistake. Then the husband becomes angry with the wife, and the wife becomes angry with the husband, and says, "Yes, you were always not good to me, and this, and you destroyed my life, and I wanted to do like this." Why didn’t you say it before, on the first day when you met him or her? To maintain purity, love, is not an easy job. And to maintain the spiritual development is more difficult than this. Husband and wife should not be together only because of physical love, but because of love from the heart. Very soon, the husband feels his wife is sometimes like a mother. And the wife feels the husband is like her supporter, brother, or like a father. They have a protection understanding: this is physical, don’t hang on the physical. So, if one thinks that, "Oh, I did this and I was missing, and I will do this now," it means you fall down. Your spiritual will, which is turning, is now turning back again. Now you put it in reverse gear. So, to maintain this spirituality, to be as it is, content, tyāga, renouncing. Śrī Śrī... Jesus is also the incarnation of love. Kṛṣṇa is the incarnation of love. Mahāprabhujī is the incarnation of love, peace, light, and knowledge. Vairāgya, detachment, no attachment. Where there is love, there is freedom, and where there is no love, there is attachment. And where there is attachment, there is jealousy. Where there is jealousy, there is suffering. And where there is suffering, there is anger. And where there is anger, there is ego, and so on. One after another, you are falling further. So renounce with devotion, bhakti. It means not that you have, now you tell your wife, "Go at home and say, ’Hey, my dear one, now from today we are only finished, and I love you, but we are happy together.’" Not like this. Your time, duty, your dharma, you choose this once. So don’t search here and there, otherwise, finally, you will come to disappointment and pain. It’s not that what your inner soul is searching for. Your soul is constantly searching for the divine light, where eternal peace and eternal light are one with the cosmic Self. So, doing our duty, everyday duty, work normally, do everything normally, but your inner self should be pointed or directed to the cosmic Self. Whatever you do, do in the name of God or spirituality. If you can’t do good, then at least don’t do bad. If you can’t speak well, then at least don’t speak badly. So this is the way. So the incarnations are: one is Swayambhū, then Nimitta incarnation, then Nitya incarnation. And the fourth one is, we are on the way, so we do our best. And at the end of life, there is Dharmarāja, the king of justice. Dharma is justice. Dharma is a good thing. So there is sitting, one side is sitting Dharmarāja, and one side is sitting Yamarāja. Yamarāja is the king of death. And he is waiting, for all who are dying are his nourishment. So he is waiting: how many die today, how many creatures, how many humans. And Dharmarāja said, "No, we shall liberate, we shall liberate the liberation." So justice and calculation will come at the end of our life. It depends on you, how you will do. It depends on me, how I will do. So, this is the message about the subject, the incarnation, and the eternal journey. So we are on the journey. Keep on carrying your master, or your spiritual path is a boat or a big ferry in which you are sitting. And you all Australians know very well what a shark means. And in your ocean, there are more sharks than the Australian population. As long as you remain sitting in the boat, you are safe. And be sure that the captain will bring you to the other shore. But in between, if you jump out, then the shark has a different breakfast, and that’s not the captain’s mistake. So, in which way are you preserving your spirituality? Practice, have a mantra, prayers, meditations, prāṇāyāms, āsanas—that will give you inner peace and harmony for the body, mind, and soul. And we pray to God that He helps us to come to our divine goal or destination. So with this, my dear sisters and brothers, I pray to Almighty God for your good health, happy and long life, spiritual development, and the end of this journey. You are in that light. That’s my good wishes for you. Oṃ Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinaḥ, Sarve Santu Niraṃayaḥ, Sarve Bhadrāṇi Paśyantu, Mā Kaścid Duḥkha Bhāgbhavet. Oṃ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ. O Merciful Lord, may all be happy, may everywhere be peace, happiness, and fulfillment. Bless us. Peace, peace. Bholiye Sadguru Mahārāj Kī, Bholiye Viśvaguru Maheśvarānandjī Mahārāj Kī, Bholiye Devādhi Dev Mahādev Kī. Today’s beautiful story is the story of Lord Śiva’s marriage. Lord Shiva’s marriage, this marriage, in society, on earth, gave an ideal marriage. Satī kā jalkar ke bhasm honā, punah Himavān ke ihaan uskā janma honā, aur uskī kaṭhor aur luṣkar tapasyā ke bāda, Bhagavān ne uskī tapasyā ke phala svarūpa, vivāha kā vardāna diyā. The marriage of all the souls of the world has to be done by the Supreme Soul, i.e., the Supreme Soul. One marriage is the physical part, and the other marriage is spiritual. Sadguru Kabīr says, "Dulhan Gaavahim Mangalachar More Ghar Aay Ram Bhartar Chal Chal Shanti Desh Hamare Vaas Kare Jaha Pritam Pyare." So, the Mahāśiva Purāṇa that we listen to, the devotion that we do at the feet of our Guru, the purpose of which is that all our Vṛttis should be devoted to that Supreme Śiva. So, this is called marriage. You will say, how? The union of jīva and Śiva is samādhi. Samādhi means the union of jīva and Śiva. We are jīvas, and that is the Supreme Reality, Śiva. We have taken birth to meet Him. Therefore, the sacred stories of the Lord have many meanings. The story is one, but its meanings are many. A conversation is taking place between Nārada Jī and Brahmā Jī, and in this conversation, Nārada is asking Brahmā Jī. Although Nārada himself was the witness of this incident when Bholenātha was married. After that, with the permission of Bhagavān Śaṅkar, everyone takes out the idol of marriage from Gargācārijī. In our country, Gargācāryajī has also been mentioned in Kṛṣṇa Kāl. He has written Garga Saṁhitā. And here, he is also present at the occasion of Śivjī’s marriage. Gargācārya jī, with great joy, wrote the Lagna Patrikā, and he...