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Good morning to all dear sisters, brothers, and spiritual seekers here and around the world. For the last three days, we have been speaking on the subject of spirituality and dharma. In truth, there is no difference between dharma and spirituality. You may call it dharma, or you may call it spirituality. The principles you accept and adopt—that is dharma. Therefore, it is said there is only one dharma, and that is called Sanātana Dharma. Sanātana Dharma means the universal principle, not a man-made religion. The word "religion" cannot be translated as dharma. Religions could be a branch or a part of dharma. Sanātana means relation. It signifies that our ātmā, our soul, is related to the Cosmic One; it is a part of the Supreme. So we are related to that. Sanātana Dharma is thus the universal Dharma for us to accept and follow. The name "religion" was also created from Sanātana Dharma. In your language, or in Latin, it is called religion. You relate it to realize the relation to God. To realize, to work, to practice—that is the Dharma. And Sanātana means you are a part of the Supreme. To realize your relation is to practice Sanātana Dharma. This is the dharma of the entire universe, and the entire universe is also functioning. It is expanding, contracting, and changing. The entire universe is like the body of a mother, and the cosmic consciousness—what we call Satya, the truth, or God, or the divine, whatever we call it—is within the space like an embryo in the mother's body. Now, between this space and consciousness is the dharma: to balance, to harmonize, and to keep in oneness the unity. This is working at all times. All the thousands of sun systems and different planets are constantly moving, working. That is their dharma. If everything remained sustained and stopped, then everything would collapse; all would be out of life. The Moon is also changing, moving, balancing. The Moon is the biggest principle of our solar system to balance our Earth. When you drive from here to the airport, on the crossing road near the beach, you see a very beautiful orange-like needle showing the wind. This needle is balancing. So the moon is that which is balancing the earth's rotation. This has been proved by scientists nowadays. They gave the example and asked, "Is it a tiny needle?" Yes, this tiny needle. With little moves, you know how many tons can be lifted. So universal dharma is called Sanātana Dharma. That same principle applies as our earth is working, too. Earth is working day and night and changing: the winter, the spring, the summer, the autumn temperatures. There is a season, the time when you should put particular seeds in the earth, then they will grow properly. There are some islands which have more or less the same kind of season. They think it is the same kind of season, but still there are changes in the earth. Earth is working. Similarly, the ocean. The ocean is also working. Each wave coming and going is like the circulation of the ocean in our body. We have circulation. What you call the tide and flood is the inhalation and exhalation of the ocean. When we exhale, our stomach contracts. When we inhale, it expands. Similarly, our nature, the trees, as well as all creatures and their bodies. And within the body, all systems: the nerves, the glands, the muscles, the tissues, the digestion, etc. They are all in function. If they are not in function, we are dead material. Also, till now, no one can tell how it is, and no one can imitate or make it. This body—doesn't matter whether humans or fish or cows or buffaloes or dogs—no one can make the body and give us all insight. No scientists, no engineers. Then you would have no problem killing the fish; you could produce your own fish at home. At home, to give the light to the eyes, the ears, sound, taste, touch, feelings. How many functions we have in this body, we don't even know. Where are hidden our jealousy, our hate, our desires, our greed, our fear, and so on? And where are hidden our love, joy, happiness, peace, freedom, kindness, mercy, and many, many things? To which gland, which system, is this energy connected? And how is memory stored? How far does memory go back? How do we call it back? Now we have memory in the computer, but God made this long ago. Our memory is decreasing. Human memory is now decreasing, mostly for those who are living in the city. The memory of the farmers and those who are still untouched by modern technology is far better than our memory. If I ask you, for example, do you know by heart 50 telephone numbers? Someone who is sitting here, young people, maybe they say, "Oh, I'm too old," 15 numbers, or 30 numbers, or 20 numbers. Sometimes, we don't even know our own mobile number because we don't use it. Farmers have memory because they still use their own machine. We always write down. Someone is giving a number, please. Can you repeat it once more? Aha, 3, 4, 8, and then, can you tell me again? 3, 4, 8, okay, good. Six, seven, okay. So we are repeating again and again. Why? Because we lost our memory. We gave up our dharma, and now we are depending on artificial dharma. So we always write down and record, and now we make videos, and everything is typed. We utilize only 10% of what we write and record. Everything else is lying at home. Many, many cassette tape recorders we had previously, and you know how many tapes there are—lectures and many things. We don't listen again. The best is to remember, listen, and have a good memory. That is a dharma. So body dharma, within the body, again that is dharma. Dharma in dharma. Now, in the whole body, what is the dharma of our heart? The heart is very loyal to us, very loyal, our best servant, our best helper. It doesn't matter where you are and what you are doing, but the heart is loyal, doing its duty. Maybe you are diving deep in the water, flying in the aeroplane, running, biking, riding, swimming, sleeping, dancing, eating different things, drinking different things, but your heart is loyal. I think you should, every morning, say to your heart, "Thank you." Did you ever think of your heart and say, "Thank you, my dear heart"? You are my life. Have you enough mercy towards your heart? Did you tell your heart, "Have a holiday for a few days, just relax"? The heart will say, "Yes, sir," or "Yes, ma'am, but I cannot give up my dharma. I stick to my dharma." Because the heart said, when I will not keep my dharma, then the whole game is lost, the game of your life. Then you go to the kidneys; they also have their dharma. You can also say to the kidneys, "Now for one week you can have a rest," but you will be poisoned. So, it doesn't matter what we do; our kidneys are constantly working, keeping their dharma. And the same dharma have the trees. You cannot say to the roots, "Okay, rest." You cannot chip off the roots. So, enduring different situations, but keeping its dharma. So, dharma rakṣita rakṣhita, dharmo rakṣhita rakṣhita. If you protect your dharma, dharma will protect you. So now, our dharma—what, who is calling our "I"? When someone knocks on the door and you say, "Who is there?" He says, "I am here." You open the door and say, "But in this, who is this?" He said, "Yes, it's my shoulder, my head." Whatever you touch is mine. So my blood, my bones, my flesh, my kidneys, my heart, this, this, my. But who are you, always saying, "My, my, my"? And that one is constantly aware; that one should be aware of dharma, because that is dharma itself. And in this way, if we protect our dharma to protect the entire functions of the body, we can live a little healthy, longer, happy, and so on. So, this is one part of the dharma. To take care of your body is spirituality. Don't think that this person is very egoistic only, so disciplined, every day he's practicing āsanas and prāṇāyāmas, eating only organic and so on, and the wife is angry, he has no time for me or this and that, the whole morning he disturbs me, he gets up and says, "Oh, I can't sleep." But he's doing dharma to his body, and his body is for everybody. If you can't take care of your body, then nobody will support your body, except the doctor. True? Now in this, all is a—I wouldn't say the play, but divine creation of God, and we belong to God, and we are playing with that. But we would like to again come to God. Sama Prabhujī Hamed wrote one beautiful bhajan. You should read till Amrit. And Gurujī wrote a bhajan. Now I got happiness in the presence of my Gurudev. I got peace and harmony. How? Give an example. In which way? Sagar Lera Samaya, a very high wave of the ocean, where it merges again into the ocean. Understand? The high wave is the ocean's wave, and again it comes into the ocean. So we are these waves of the cosmic self, and one day we will again merge into our cosmic self. So there is no difference between wave and ocean. The difference is only that we see a little difference in the height. But in reality, it's the same. These are the waves, ātmā-jñāna. So, to maintain this spirituality means first to take care of your human life and know the value of the human life. And then you should know that this life is not for you only. God has sent you for others because you are perfect, and that's why God sent you as a perfect being, human, to serve all creatures. And as soon as negative thoughts and negativities, negative activities, appear in our consciousness or in our intellect, then we fail. We failed to be perfect human beings. So you are the best football player standing on the football field, with 22 players. They all try their best, but they may fail. And who is very best is going to the doorkeeper. And the doorkeeper, he is the protection for all. And it doesn't matter how aggressively they kick the ball, but he will resist the heat of the ball and try to catch it to protect it. Karma is sometimes so strong, but a human is that doorkeeper, that no creature, no one should suffer, and no one should be humiliated. So human dharma is to protect. We are the protectors. Human is, in this creation, like a sunrise. The sunrise in the dark night, and as soon as the sun is coming closer, the dawn begins. So when you are ill, a doctor gives you some treatment and says, "Now you are getting better." That is the dawn for you and hope. Dawn is rising. Darkness goes. So wherever you come, try to bring the light, not the darkness. Light of love, light of happiness, light of joy, light of kindness, light of forgiveness, light of understanding, light. You are a light. Do you think that light will join the darkness? Maybe light would like to join the darkness, but the light itself is such a spiritual thing. So darkness runs away, far away. So this way we are the spiritual. Only we should maintain in our heart the beautiful thoughts. In order to maintain dharma and spirituality, you need not renounce anything. You need not go anywhere. A German philosopher once said that to see the blue sky, you need not travel anywhere. Everywhere is a blue sky. Everywhere we have the opportunity to do. Besides this, we do our duty with love, with dharma. There is one story. There was a barber, and it's a real story. Today, there is no Indian sitting, or is it Indians? Otherwise, they can tell you also. And that was the king's time. One king, after some time, he got leprosy. And he had all this blood on his hands. The king told the barber that every day at 9:30, you have to come to shave me. So, the barber was coming every day. But he was very spiritual. Satsaṅg, going to the ashram, going to feed the birds, going to feed some wild animals, taking care of his family at home, and everything. Like you go to the pub, you go there, you go for coffee drinking, then you go hiking, this, that, and his hiking was social work. Help someone, do this, do this, and every day go to satsaṅg. The best, highest technique of yoga is satsaṅg. And that's what we have in yoga and daily life. This one part we call the satsaṅg. Unfortunately, we have only once a week. And in once a week satsaṅg, also very few come; one doesn't come because they don't know the value of the satsaṅg. If you know the value, there was one king, and every morning he was giving gold to people. His name was King Karan. King Karan, you can read about him in the Mahābhārata. So people knew that he was giving away gold for free every day. So there was a long queue in Brahmamūrta from this particular hour. So if we will know that we are coming here and waiting in the ashram, and after satsaṅg, everyone gets the gold. My God, there will be a queue till the hour. But there is gold, not only gold, diamonds given. So that barber, one day he was on the way to the king, and he saw three, four sādhus, Swāmīs coming. And he greeted them and he said, "Swamiji, have you had your breakfast or food today?" They said, "No, still not." Can I invite you? He said, "Okay, thank you, bless you." So he turned back and went home with them. And his wife was very happy, the children were very happy that some sādhus came to our door, and he was there, and they tried to make a very nice food and serving, and then it was one o'clock already. Suddenly he realized, "Oh God." The king was very aggressive. It is said someone who is very ill or very weak has more krodha, anger. Very easily becomes angry. So after this holy man left, he took his bag and went to the king, and he was very afraid. That today the king will be very, very angry. I don't know what punishment the king will give me. And so he was coming at one o'clock. And when about 100 meters away, or 200 meters from the door of the king, the king came to welcome him, and he thought the king was angry coming. But the king welcomed him and said, "Come, sit down." And he looked at the king. The king had no leprosy disease; he was nicely shaved. She said, "Please sit and have lunch with me." He said, "Yes, your highness, thank you, thank you." Now, the king is asking and telling him, "My dear friend, today in your hands was such a divine energy miracle." He said, "What do you mean, Your Highness?" As you were touching me and shaving, all my diseases are gone. And I want to come to your home again to say thank you, but thank you for coming. Now the barber knew it must be God, and he went home after. And yes, it is said that God came to support the dharma of the barber. Every day, we have to come. And therefore, our Satguru Dev, Devpurījī said, God takes upon himself the destiny of the devotee. But we have to give our destiny to His hands. If you think, "God, I will do it," then God said, "Okay, do it." There was recently one story told by one man who was reading the Mahāśiv Purāṇa at the Jaipur Ashram. That one farmer was angry with God. A farmer was angry with God. God said, "What? Why?" He said, "God, you don't know what we farmers want." Sometimes you make cold snow, snowing minus degrees; sometimes it's hot; sometimes it's more rain; sometimes it's less rain, and we farmers are suffering. Sometimes crops are drying because there's no water, and sometimes it's a flood. So God says, "What do you want?" He said, "We would like to have perfect rain when we need it, and temperature how we need it." God gave it to me, this responsibility. We farmers know better than you, because we work on the farm for a whole year. And I will show you, God, how good it is. So God said, "Okay, I give into your hands. You do whenever you want the rain and this and that and so." So, like, you manage everything in the computer nowadays, you know. Even there's a computer for the house pet, for dogs and for cats. There's something turning, and in that many hours, the feeder comes and they eat, and it again turns back. How many grams should it be? Not any more. So he made when it should rain, how much temperature there should be, how cool it should be, and the crops were growing. For example, the corn, which was about two meters high growing, it was nearly three meters. The wheat, which is about one meter high, grew to two and a half meters. Beautiful. The farmer was so happy. Look, God, you see how it is. God said, "Yes, my son, wait. The season is not over." He said, "God, all seasons are in my hand." God said, "Yes, I know." Then harvesting came, and he was harvesting. So the corn was there, but no seeds inside, all the grass. Then he said, "God, there are no seeds inside." He said, "What should I do?" You took it in your head. You made all seedless. God said, "My work is with the seeds of life, and you made it seedless." And what we humans are doing now, everything is we are making seedless. You have to buy the seed to grow. Before 30, 40, 50 years, the farmer will tell you, "Are you crazy? I have to buy the seeds?" I have my wheat, I have my barley, I have my corn from last year and the years before, but now you can't grow it a second time. Seedless fruits, everything is manipulated. The result we know: we become dependent, and the fruits are not so tasty. There is no power, no energy inside, no seeds inside. So God is perfect. He is dharma, what He is doing. So give your, give your devotion to God, and He will take care of you. So, satsaṅg. In one family house, one holy man came and was sitting there, and had lunch. He spoke some satsaṅg, I mean, some lecture he gave a little bit, and he left. When he went away, the man and his wife and children, they all were saying, "Oh, as long as Swāmījī was here, the diamonds were raining." What? They had one neighbor, and he didn't believe anything in God and all this, and when he saw some sādhu or priest, he was allergic. But he heard diamonds raining, and I have hardly a diamond. I should also invite Swamiji, some Swamiji, any sadhu, you can say Swamiji, any sadhu, and I will also have a diamond. So he invited him. He went to search for someone, and what did he find? He found someone, a criminal, who ran away, changed his uniform, and took on some orange dress and ash on his body, like this. You see, like, he's a sadhu. Nobody knows who is who. He was sitting somewhere in the park and meditating, doing "Aum, haa, haa, aum," because he didn't know how to do the Aum. When some people came, he said, "Haa, haa, aum, aum, haa, aum, aum, aum." A sinner cannot pronounce spiritual words. The man went to search for a sādhu. He saw, oh, hardly have proper cloth on the body, and everywhere, yes, and oh, my God, this is something. So he said, "Swamijī, please be so kind and come to my home. I would like to invite you for lunch today." He said, "No, I'm going to no one's house. I'm not a beggar sādhu." Go. He said, "No, no, please come." He said, "No, I came from the Himalayas. For twelve years, I had my sādhanā in a cave. Now I am going to Gujarat, to Dvārakā, to Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa's temple. I don't want to go in anyhow, don't disturb me, go away." He thought, this must be the greatest of the greatest. Man was thinking that diamonds would constantly rain there. Even he would go if he came to my house. He said, "Please come and eat." He had not eaten for three days, so he was very hungry also, but he played. He went there, they gave him food, but that greedy man and his wife were both looking at the sky. They were giving him food, and he was looking up, looking like this, and he said, "What are you looking up at all the time?" I said, "Nothing, nothing, please enjoy your food." After a few times, he said, "Tell me, what is that?" I said, "Swamiji, there came some beggar sādhu yesterday to my neighbor's house. And they gave him food, and he was talking, and he went away. And then they said diamonds were raining when he was here. But you are such a great sādhu who made tapasyā in the Himalayas, and so, and we are still surprised that not a small dust of the diamonds here." He understood, "Aha, they are greedy for the diamond, not serving the sādhu." He said, "Yes, it will come, don't worry. Let me finish eating." So, he ate this and that, and then they said, "Gurujī, when will the diamond rain?" He said, "My dear, there's one poem which cannot be translated in that way." But he said that sādhus and bhaktas are different, that sādhus, saints, and bhaktas are different. I know you are an atheist and don't believe in any sādhu, and I know that I am a criminal person. In our kismet, we will not fail the diamond, but the stones. Don't disturb me quickly, or the police will come and catch me. I have to run away. And you don't tell anybody, otherwise you will be in trouble. So, people are greedy to go there if someone will make some miracle, you know? Make a miracle, put your hand on your head, and you feel, "Ooh, crazy," no? And suddenly, say, "Oh, my kuṇḍalinī is going up." These are the tricks, the siddhis. Every saint can have a siddhi, but they should not demonstrate it. Siddhi is the māyā on the spiritual path. Therefore, if you have siddhi, take it, have it, accept it. Naturally, if something happens through your words or through your blessing, it's okay. But don't say, "Come to me, I will do it, I will make this for you." No one can do. This is ego, and that is an empty pot. When this glass is empty, it has a different sound. And this is a full, yeah? And here is a different, empty. So the empty person who has no knowledge is making more noise. When the glass is half, then the water is moving like this, but when the glass is full, it doesn't move. So we have a poem, you know, the ladies are carrying the water pot on the head. The water pot should be full, then they can walk and there is no movement inside. If it is half, you can't walk. You can walk, but very soon it will move, movements like this, and water will split out. So, bharaso to jabke nahi, which is a full, it doesn't split. Jabgeso yahada, where the water falls out, this way and that way, it is an empty one. So those who have desires, greed, they are empty. And when they can't get, they are angry. But those who are contented, with contentment, satisfied, no more icchā. Then spirituality is developing. So spiritual means helping and being kind to all, feeling all as yours. When I think negatively about you, it means if I am a realized person, then I will think that I am not thinking about you negatively, but I am thinking about myself. If I cause you pain, I have caused pain to me. If I try to harm you, I harm myself. So Ādiguru Bhagavān Śaṅkarācārya said, the first self-realization, first step is that you see yourself in every creature, that they are all myself. And in the Bible it is also said, "Do not do to others what you do not like to be done to you." True? So humans are here as spiritual creatures to bring spirituality, to remove the duality of the darkness of ignorance, to free all to liberation through light, peace, love, and understanding. So, dharma is that which we are acting. Do we act according to our dharma, or are we acting according to our adharma? So there it is, we are saying, and you know this also. You know why the farmer is putting a fence around the field, that's it. So the fence is there to protect the crops, so that other animals don't come, this, that, as you all said. Very good. But if the fence begins to destroy the crop, then for what is the fence there? Understand? So God created humans as a fence to protect the entire creation of God. When we begin to hunt all the animals, and the last one which is on the earth, a few animals are left from them and we kill them also, we are not a protector. And it is a great pity that in the sport, they acknowledge the killing of animals and birds. That should not be a sport. It doesn't matter if it is bull fighting, or horse torturing, or bird shooting, or the tigers, and this. This should not be a sport. That cannot be a sport. So dharma, that is dharma, and when you don't do, which is out of the dharma, that is spiritual. So that is spirituality. Spirituality and dharma, they are parallel. We cannot separate them. You cannot, we cannot separate our body and the shadow of the body. Suppose you have a bright sun today, and you see your shadow near you. You say, "I don't like, I will get in the airplane and go to Singapore. I don't like shadow." And you get off the airplane in Singapore again, you see the same shadow. So you can't separate. So dharma and spirituality, we cannot separate. It goes together in oneness. So, spirituality, you have to live in dharma accordingly. So this is a softer way of this. There are very hard ways people who went through this also. And who follows the dharma and spirituality, who is awakened inside. Awakened means, "Why was I born as a human?" I am human. What does human mean for me? What makes me human? And what is the aim of my human life? Not only to protect this and that, but why? And that means to come back to God. And to come to the God way, there is a clean way, that is the spiritual path. So don't forget that God gave you human life for some different things. And not that, because you are human, you can do anything with the creatures. God will say, "My son, I didn't send you for these things. I sent you to protect my children, meaning my creatures, and you begin to destroy my creatures." Karma comes back then. So, what you are doing, you are doing your best. I try also to do my best, to do my dharma, and by following my dharma, I am maintaining my spirituality. That's it. Wish you all the best, and if you have any questions, please come and ask. Very good. So it is said, where there are no questions, there are also no answers. Wish you a very good time. Today we are half an hour earlier. How nice. We will have a good sitting together, and perhaps you are not there to ask questions immediately. So afterwards also can be. So this evening is satsaṅg here again? So, my dear ones around the world, this evening, according to the New Zealand time, there will be no webcast tomorrow. The next webcast will be announced. Keep in touch. Thank you. God bless you. And for those who have a late night, I wish you good night. Those who have early morning, wish you good morning. And those who have lunch time, good appetite. God bless you. Om. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī jai. Devīśvara Mahādeva kī. Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavata kī. Sanātana Dharma kī jai.