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Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Kī Jāya! Śrī Śrīdeva Puruṣa Mahādeva, Kī Jāya! Dharamsamrat Paramahaṁsri Swami Madhavānandapurījī Mahārāj, Kī Jai! Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramahaṃsī Svāmī Maheśvarānandapurījī Sadgurudeva, Kī Jai! Krishna Nanjī has got me thinking about the spirituality of cement. Have a think about it for a moment. First, they dig the lime out of the ground. Then they burn it at high temperature many, many times. That's how you get the cement. Then you need crushed stone, so they bring the stone and crush it in a machine. You collect all of that, and then Gurujī puts it in the mixer. The mixer turns you around one way and then the other way, and then that way and then that way, until finally it's all mixed. Then it goes up on the slab, and it's somehow loose, so Gurujī again puts this vibrating machine to make everything safe, and then you have cement. It's quite good—all that burning and crushing and then settling. Next time we have one on concrete at the Omāśram, it will be a different experience. I'd like to start by saying some thank yous and announcements. Firstly, as per tradition, the yoga buffet was running, and for the Jādon Ashram project, they raised 1,260 euros. There is also a collection for the Gyān Putra. Where it says on the program, in May in VEP, 335 euros were raised, and from this morning, 140 euros, so thank you very much. I don't quite know who to say thank you to first. I guess the kitchen—I don't know if they're here—but thank yous to everybody. Thank you to the people who are doing this webcasting, and to all those people who organized the setting up of the program. It must be a huge work to organize these halls and the rooms. To those who were, to Sadhvī Dayā, who is doing the Anusthān. All the teachers are here. To those people who were in Swamiji's room doing the painting. I would also say thank you to those people who managed to get us here and drive us here, and just to everyone for being here. To Gajananjī and to Yogeśjī, it's just such a pleasure to be together. And also, especially, everyone wanted to thank Krishnanandī for organizing the running of the program. So he has to come here. Krishna Nanjī said we shouldn't give anybody chocolates, so I break the rule. When Yogeshjī has a birthday, one can't forget that then Sudarshanjī also has a birthday. Who's older, Yogeśjī? You're Yogeśjī's first. And I'd also just like to say thank you to everybody. I don't know how to say this—don't misunderstand me on this—but I hope I'm not here next year. Not because I didn't enjoy every moment, but only because I hope Swāmījī is here. But it is so beautiful to be here. I just want to thank everybody for being who they are. It's such an inspiration to see people, to see the way they practice, to see that way that you are with your children, to see the way you manage in your daily life to practice and to put Swamiji's teachings into practice. I can't describe how inspiring it is to come and see that, everywhere here, in Strylki, in all of the ashrams. I would just like to say praṇāms to everybody for what you're doing. And, of course, how to say thank you to Swāmījī? Swamiji and Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī. That's why we're here. And that's what we're here for: to be with him, and to try and be with him the whole time that we're practicing, the whole time that we're living. To keep that flame alive, to keep that light alive within us. Sometimes it's not easy, but it's the most beautiful thing you could ever do. And just remember how lucky we are. On the way here this morning, I saw one of these birds that's going tuk-tuk-tuk. The only time I've ever seen those birds is here and in Strylki. But, for me, it brings back a very long childhood memory. When I was a small child, I had one clock in my room. The clock was actually a clock of this cartoon character, Woody Woodpecker. The clock was round and small, and there's a picture of the tree, and the seconds hand was Woody Woodpecker going and constantly tapping on that tree. When I'd go to sleep, he was going tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk. And I wake up in the morning, and he's going tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk. All day and all night, he never got very far on the tree. But he kept at it, and when I see this bird and think of that, perhaps it's a perfect example of what we do: keep practicing and practicing and practicing. The results come. They may come when we least expect it. But just to keep going. Duck. It's a beautiful example from the Chinese tradition, the tradition of the bamboo. There's one type of bamboo that doesn't grow at all for the first five or seven years. It's just a shoot, just a small green above the ground. And then the next year after that, I think it's in the eighth year, it grows 80 feet. In one year, 80 feet. Sorry, someone told me I can't talk in feet in Europe—25 meters. 25 meters in one year. And it's interesting. In Australia, we always talk in meters. We go to India and we talk in feet. And then we're stuck in our feet. But you know, can you imagine seven years? It's just there, it's just above the ground. And then suddenly, such a growth. We practice. Who knows when that time is going to come, when that type of growth will come? It's not actually our worry at that point. That's up to Swamījī when he will choose. The time will come that he will give us that blessing. Ours is just to keep going, keep going with the practice, keep purifying, keep doing seva. And know that everything we do, everything we practice, although we may not see it at the time, it is something very, very special that is transforming us, something very, very special for our future. And just keep going. So once again, to Swāmījī's praṇāmas. Lakong pranām, hundreds and thousands of pranāms. This flower is for Swāmījī. We asked Rājiv to bring this bunch of flowers to the guru āśram in Vienna and put it on the altar, so thank you. I guess that this seminar is finished, and these three weeks of seminars are finished, and then the 49-week-long seminar starts, the Yoga Intensive, the Yoga in Daily Life Intensive. The hope is that you all got refreshed and re-energized and have something to take away from your time here practicing with Swamijī. And as Swamijī said yesterday, now you can go and share it with everybody. Śrī Dīpnārēma Gwan Kī Jai Satguru Deva Kī Jai Juga Juga Jīva Juga Juga Jīva Mahēśvarānanda Juga, juga, jīva, Maheśvarānanda. Śrī Dīpadāyalūka Amṛta Nīthabārasohana Prabhu Nīpatabārasohana. Yuga, yuga, jīvo'haṁ Maheśvaraḥ. Maheśvarānanda Bhaṭṭapumika Prāgate Bāla Mukhanda. ... Nīṭhāpaka Pāpahara Jeṣe Ponāṁ Caṁda Śrī Tāpjeṣepu Juga Juga Jīvo Maheśvarānanda Juga Juga Jīvo Maheśvarānandajī Śrī Dīpadāyā Nīṭhābarasohananda Prabhu Dīpa Nīṭhābarasoha Juga Juga Jīvo Maheśvarānanda Juga Juga Jīvo Maheśvarānanda. Brahma jñāna sukha kandāham dī jñāna ora yoga sādhanā. Brahma jñāna sukha kandāham sva vichāyī asamratā vichal jñāna atangāham sva vichāyī om asamratā vichal jñāna avaham. Śrī Dīpa Dayāluka Amṛta Nīta Parasoḥanda. Prabhu Dīpā Dayālukā Amṛtā Āśiṣ Nītā Parāsohaṇḍā Juga Juga Jīvoma Īśvarānanda Upanarūpa samajhkar sabhko karte ho nirbanda Namoḥ kare bhaktoko vinā svarata niṣakaṇḍa Juga Juga Jīvo Maheśvarānand Juga Juga Jīvo Maheśvarānand Juga, juga, jīvo Maheśvarānand. Juga, juga, jīvo Maheśvarānand. Prabhu Dīpādayā. Juga, juga, jīvo Maheśvarānand. Pūjya Bhagavān Dīpa Nārāyaṇa rakhte āpne saṅg. Śrīpūjya Bhagavān Dīpa Nārāyaṇa rakhte āpne saṅg. Śrī Mādhavānandajī Ānandaseketā meto jagaddukha paṇḍhā. Śrī Mādhavānandajī Ānandaseketā Meto Jagadukkha Pāṇḍha Jugga Jugga Jīvoma Īśvarānandajī Jugga Jugga Jīvoma Īśvarānandajī Śrī Dīpadāyaluka Amṛtaśiṣ Niṭhābarasohana Prabhu Dīpadāyaluka Amṛtaśiṣ Niṭhābarasohana Juka Juka Jīvoha Maheśvarāṇa. Yesterday, Yogesh Jī was mentioning the story with Āśaram Jī, one saint from Gujarat. I don't think you can say that story too many times, because the message in it is so strong. It happened in the Kumbh Melā. I went to Āśaramjī's camp to invite him to our camp. He's a great saint, so famous in India. There were 60,000 people sitting in the tent waiting for his satsaṅg that evening, and there really were oceans of people; the tent just went on forever. And as happens in Mahāprabhujī's world, for some reason, I found myself standing behind the curtain, alone, with 60,000 people outside. I was quite, not quite sure how on earth I got there, waiting for Āśaramjī to come in his car, because from that point he goes up to the stage. He really came in the car all the way there. As happens in India, whenever there's a car coming, in a cloud of dust, the car stopped. He waited for a while for the dust to settle, which is also a bit of Indian wisdom. Then he opened the door and came out. Now you have to realize that there was nobody there to introduce or say who I was. He had nobody else in the car with him except the driver. He just jumped out of the car and started walking really fast, walking towards me. I don't even remember if I had time to say Hari Om; he was coming so quickly. You know how fast Swamiji can walk, and when he's really walking with Shakti—this was the same. Just walking towards me, grabs me by the shoulders, and really grabs me by the shoulders, and says, "You're from Maheshwarānandajī." I said, "Yes." Maheśvara Nandājī from Rajasthan. He has known Swāmījī for a very long time, and he has known Guruji for maybe 40 or 50 years, I guess. Because at one stage Gurujī had an āśram in Ahmedabad, in the capital city of Gujarat. And Āśaramjī's āśram, his main āśram, is actually on the same road, about two kilometers further, so from that time they know each other. When Gurujī was sick and in the hospital in Jodhpur, just before he took samādhi, Āśaramjī actually came there, especially to Jodhpur, and spent an hour with Gurujī in his room and asked that everybody else go out. Some special, special connection was there. But he came towards me, grabbing me by the shoulders: "You're from Maheshwarānandajī, you're from Maheshwarānandajī." I didn't have to move my head because it was going, yes. And then he said what Yogeshjī was telling last night. He said, "Maheśvara Nandājī, he is great, he is such a great saint. You don't know what you have. Whatever you do, don't let go." I'm still going all the time. He's saying this, he's shaking, "Don't let go, don't let go." As Yogeśjī said, he will try and kick you off. Just hold on to his foot. Don't let go. And I'm going, "Yes, yes, yes." But that message... Just hear it and remember it. He knows what Swāmījī is. Āśaramjī can see that, and I think his message for all of us is so strong. And we all go through our times in our practice where it will be difficult, and we'll all go through times when it will be so beautiful. But we just don't let go. We just don't let it go. Mṛti Ormā Amṛtam Gamaya Sarveṣām Svasti Bhavatu Sarveṣām Śānti Bhavatu Sarveṣām Maṅgalam Bhavatu Sarveṣām Pūrṇam Bhavatu. Lokāsaṁsthā Sukhinobhava. Oṁ Tryambakaṁ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṁ Puṣṭivardhanam. Udvārukamiva Bandhanān Mṛtyormukṣīya Mā'mṛtāt. Oṁ Tryambakaṁ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṁ Puṣṭivardhanam. Udvārukamiva Bandhanāt Mṛtyormukṣīya Mā'mṛtāt. Oṁ tryambhakaṁ yajāmahe sugandhiṁ puṣṭi-vardhanam, urvārukam iva bandhanān mṛtyormukṣīya māmṛtāt. Oṁ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ. Śrī Narendra Bhagavān Kī Jai, Satguru Deva Kī Jai.