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Praṇām Gurudev. Hari Om to everybody. This is a wonderful morning, that we can see Swāmījī and receive his darśan. We are very happy that Swāmījī visited Budapest again. Thank you very much for this opportunity. It is beautiful to see that our ashram is already too small for our group, and we hope that through the blessings of Mahāprabhujī, we will get a much bigger ashram very soon, even bigger than this hall here. What more could I say? I thank Swāmījī again for giving us his darśan today, and everyone who can see him through the webcast from all over the world. Praṇām Gurudev Keśav Nāmasepan Kṛṣṇānam Jī. O Salutation and Adoration to our Satguru Dev. Tistalatesh Imados Alagpurījī Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā Satguru Devam Knok Śrī Alagpurījī Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā. Good morning, all my dear ones, and all our dear friends, the spiritual seekers around the world. A very warm good morning. You have the blessings now from a beautiful country and the most beautiful city, a very famous city called Budapest. It is a very historical and cultural city, and of course, Hungarians are beautiful people. At the same time, I would like to acknowledge my thankfulness to our dear Kṛṣṇānand. At very short notice, he organized this hall and satsaṅg. Also, I would like to express my thankfulness to the hotel management for providing this hall for hire on short notice. Can you imagine if we were all in our ashram, the Városi Sport Club? We would fight for oxygen! So thank you, Kṛṣṇānand, and of course, all his brothers and sisters who worked to prepare the podium. At the same time, I feel so touched in my heart that many of you came from far distances. I should have come after ten days; that was officially organized. But due to some government officers who very much wanted to see me, I arrived earlier, suddenly changing my program. That is why many of you did not know if Swāmījī was coming today or tomorrow, or if he came yesterday, or maybe he is here. Nevertheless, we are here. You have warm regards from Swāmī Jasrāj Purījī and Divyā Purī, the son of Kṛṣṇānand in Jhadan, and all other friends. So, welcome to you all, and I wish you a lot of blessings and divine protection in the divine consciousness of Alak Purījī, Dev Purījī, Mahāprabhujī, and Holī Gurujī. From my side, all the best, much love, and all happiness. We have seen each other almost every week or every month through the webcast. I was in many different parts of the world. The first time I had a flight which was nearly four days continuous, in the aeroplane and at the airport, to many new parts of the world where disciples had been waiting many, many years. Due to the United Nations Conference Rio Plus in Brazil, I had the opportunity to travel through Pan America. But we were always in touch; it has become just a small room through technology. When I was in Rio at the United Nations conference—because our Śrī Svāmī Madhavānandajī World Peace Council and Yoga in Daily Life both are there as NGOs, where we have a special status—on all my programs, wherever I go, I am like an observer on behalf of the NGOs of the United Nations. The program there was very successful, and they appreciated our water harvesting program and environmental protection very much. I had a special invitation from the Hungarian government there; they have a respected president and two or three other ministers. They knew about Yoga in Daily Life, and the president was very happy. We went to see other ministers. I was there to see the Christ Church in Rio, the Christ statue, and then I wanted to go back. Your ministers came and said, "Please, please, please... question me, one photo, one photo with me." So did a few leaders of different countries. There were many, many thousands of people, nearly 100,000. But our program was to accept it, to appreciate it, because I went there as a solution to the problem, not to present the problem, and very practically so. Finally, on the last day, in the grounds of the United Nations where the conference was, we planted a peace tree, supported by the Brazilian government and the United Nations. In the big park dedicated to the United Nations, which also has the United Nations office there, they dedicated a beautiful corner. The name of the tree is Pau-Brazilian, a Brazilian tree that represents Brazil. That was accepted by so many people. So whenever you go, you will see the tree there. There is also one beautiful botanical garden in Rio with many old trees. They invited me to plant a peace tree there. Hundreds or thousands, 1,500 people visit every day from around the world. I wanted to plant one tree, and they brought two. They said, "Please, plant two and give the names." So one tree’s name was Śānti, peace, and the other tree was Wish. When you go under this tree and have a wish, it will be fulfilled. If you go under that tree, it gives you peace. So, peace and wish—Riddhi and Siddhi. Like this, also in Mexico City, in a place called Peace Square near the Pan-America University, a beautiful peace tree was planted. So, about five trees were planted in different parts of Brazil, one in Mexico, then six in New Zealand, and two in Jordan. Everywhere the peace trees are growing so beautifully. You may know I sent a message that all our brothers and sisters around the world, practitioners of Yoga in Daily Life, and even those who do not practice, should plant a minimum of twelve trees this year. If you can plant more, it is very good. Anywhere in the forest, a small tree, a big tree... put in your yogurt a cup of earth, put some seeds, go for a walk, and put it in the forest. So, fifteen days before Guru Pūrṇimā, we should know how many millions or thousands of trees we have. Those who have planted the most will get the award of the Śrī Svāmī Madhavānand World Peace Council—what we call the gold medal, the arany érmet. And I congratulate you all, dear Hungarians. I congratulate you that one of our sisters, a Yoga in Daily Life practitioner, won the golden medal in the Olympic Games in the UK. This is the third person, a practitioner of Yoga in Daily Life, who has won a gold medal. In this way, we have always been together, though the distance is measured in kilometers. Where there is love, there is no distance. And where there is no love, even the neighbor’s door is very far. This is called telepathy. When you think about someone or something, the thought waves go there. Whether you feel it or not, we are too much in the material world. Our consciousness is too much occupied in this material world. Therefore, we cannot feel those fine feelings. We need higher consciousness. As long as we do not have that higher consciousness, we need a physical, visible object which we can see, smell, touch, and speak to. That is because this is the physical consciousness. But when you see through the television or webcast, you do have vision and sound, but there is no touch, no smell. It is impersonal. So, Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna had many dialogues. In the 12th chapter of the Bhagavad Gītā, which we call Bhakti Yoga, Arjuna asks Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa—for the sake of his own development and understanding, and for the sake of all devotees and entire mankind—Mi a job? What is better? To worship Saguṇa or Nirguṇa, personal or impersonal. The answer was very correct and very good. God will always give a good answer. So God said, "Yes, both are good." And he remained silent a little. Arjuna was looking like this. And Kṛṣṇa said, "But..." He said, "That’s what I want to hear." Everything is good, but this one word, this "but," cuts into two. "Yes, Arjuna, both are good. But as a physical human, for our better understanding and for our better development, a personal God is very important—where you can speak, where you can get an answer, and so on. Impersonal is for when you are in a very high consciousness. Then you can feel, as our Satguru Dev Svāmī Madhavānandajī said, 'one in all and all in one.'" But how to realize this 'one in all and all in one'? We cannot imagine it. We understand the world, but we do not understand. Therefore, Gurujī said to understand this, you have to renounce your ignorance, your doubts. You have to renounce, stay above these worldly, dirty things. As long as you will not renounce, you cannot. So, in the words of Gurujī, enter the kingdom of the Lord through the gate of sacrifice. Enter the kingdom of God in the universal. There is only one door: sacrifice. Sacrifice your doubt, your ego, your greed, your conflicts, etc., and develop love, kindness, humbleness, mercy. That is love. So if you cannot sacrifice, you cannot understand that Nirguṇa surrender. Do not divide your feelings here and there. One day is complete grace, and that is very important. Like Paramahaṁsa Yogānanda said in a nice song he wrote—he had a critical situation in his life, abroad somewhere in the Mexican area, between the American and Mexican borders. Jealousy is always there. Brothers and sisters are jealous. Husband and wife, they are jealous. Sometimes parents are jealous toward certain children also. When the mother pays more attention to one child, then the father has jealousy toward that child. This is a worldly thing. Rare are they who have maintained pure consciousness without jealousy. Jealousy is a fire. We call it jalana. Jalan means burning. So a jealous person is constantly torching him or herself in the fire of this doubt, which can change in different ways and affect your body’s health, mental health, and also social and spiritual health. Imagine a person full of jealousy, hate, and doubt is like a bundle of fire. It goes through the bush, and the whole bush is burning. That’s it. Bushfire comes from that jealousy. Therefore, purification: practice, practice, practice. So surrendering, renouncing, does not mean your money, not your beautiful Trabant car—it’s a dream to get the Trabant again; it has become a very precious car, the old-timer. Not this. Renounce the inner attachments, wrong thinking, jealousy. A person will never be happy. You are not forced to be jealous; you can be jealous the whole day and night, but you are not forced to be happy. Are they in every situation? Understand. Understand the situation. Understand the conditions. Understand the place, the place and situation, the time. It is very easy to blame and shout, but not easy to digest when someone shouts at you. There was a company man, a director and owner of the company. He had his secretary all the time. There were no typing machines; everything had to be written with a pen and ink. Every day again, dip the pen. The director or boss was always very angry and putting the mistakes on others. He tried to guilt others. And when the boss said, "Come, you have to run," it was he, the boss. One man, a worker, came to him with a wheelbarrow. There was some problem with the wheel of that barrow, and he wanted some oil or grease so it would not make a sound. So he came to the director and said, "Sir, I need some grease for my barrel." He said, "Why?" "Because that wheel is making a funny noise." "How?" So he said, "It’s making tak, tak, tak." And he said, "You are working with that?" "Yes, sir." "Tell me how it sounds, I can’t hear." He said, "It’s going tak, tak." "I dismiss you from your service. You will not get any more jobs." "Why? I have not made any mistake." He said, "No, the sound is not correct." Then, "Sir, how should the sound be?" He said, "Tell me, how was the sound?" He said, "Sir, it’s exactly tuck." He said, "That’s why you have to go home." So tell me, how should the sound be? The sound should be TAK TAK... TAK. You are working too slow. So that man is always trying to... "Are you sure that the air conditioning is on? It’s a higher level. It’s a higher level. Thank you. Can you put more? Put it on the last, highest. Or one point less than the highest, before he gets his point." So, his secretary was writing with the ink pot. And the boss called him. So he got up quickly. What happened? The ink pot fell down. And now the boss was so angry. "Are you stupid? Have you no awareness? Are you blind? Don’t you see? How could you do this? You know, always a pot is there, an ink pot. And my God, for ten minutes he was sucking his thumb." He said, "Sorry, sir, sorry." "What should I do with your sorry? Yes, excuse me, please." After two days, the boss was in a hurry to go, and he kicked the ink pot. And he said, "Are you stupid? Why do you always put it here?" He did not say it was his mistake. So he was angry again at the secretary. So there are some people—maybe husband or wife, when the love is gone, doubt is there. Maybe good friends, company, anything—it disrupts because we are too much on the physical level of consciousness. Therefore, we cannot make a telepathy; that’s why we need a telephone. And thanks to the Hungarian, the inventor of the telephone. The whole world speaks Hungarian, one word: hello. Yes, that’s it. So this is evidence, if one doesn’t believe, that the Hungarians are the inventors of the telephone. Anyhow. So when Gurujī said, "A renunciation of inner negative qualities," enter the kingdom of the Lord through the gate of sacrifice. Our sacrifice is the gate to God. That is very important. So Kṛṣṇa said, "Arjuna, both are good: Saguṇa God and Nirguṇa God." Saguṇa, with guṇas. Guṇa means the qualities, and we have this material quality. We have water, fire, air, earth, all elements, and to maintain this we have two qualities. We have the ego, and we have love. Ego must be for a certain level, to protect and to exist. You have to fight through. Therefore, it is said each and every branch of the tree finds the way to grow. So every creature finds the way to its destination. This life is a journey, not a destination, so you are on the way. Do not take a wrong train. Do not take a wrong airplane. Do not take the wrong way. Have the right way. And therefore, Sanātana Dharma is the living Dharma. That is what Hinduism is, a sort of suit of the Sanātana Dharma. That’s called the paramparā, the tradition of the teacher and student: Guru and disciple. The first guru is thy mother. The Upaniṣad said, "Mātṛ Devo Bhava." The first god for us is the mother. She is our manifestor. She is our creator. If we all will adore our mother and follow the wisdom of the mother—because it is said the mother can never be a bad mother, except if mentally ill or if that mother does not have the education of being a mother. "Pitṛ deva bhava," then the father. "Ācārya deva bhava," he is a teacher, a school teacher, kindergarten teacher. And "Ṛṣi deva bhāva," the Satguru deva. So it is said that a poor you can get in every life. A mother and father you will get in every life. The teachers you will get in every life. Even the animals learn from other animals how to behave. In your dog school, the other dogs are looking, and one dog is playing, and then they take another one, and that also begins to play. No? But Satgurudev is only in human life, and therefore, understand the Guru Tattva. The highest Tattva is Guru Tattva. And therefore it is said that Guru Tattva is also as Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva. Can you imagine your school without a teacher? Yes, the children will be very happy. Can you imagine your university without professors? Can you imagine hospitals without surgeons? Can you imagine your Hungarian court without lawyers? So, can you imagine spirituality without Gurudev? So even your car driver, who is teaching you to drive, is called my driving guru. My tabla guru, my sitar guru, my guitar guru, my violin guru, my painting guru, master. Master is English, guru is Hindi. You also have a house master. You have a chimney cleaning master. So, the master is a master. Without a master, without a guru, the entire world would collapse. But one thing is missing: acknowledgement of the teaching of the master. One man was teaching archery, and the disciples were learning perfectly. Now they say to the master, who taught them archery, "Now I will shoot you with my arrow." He said, "You can’t." The master said, "You can’t." He said, "I know." So, "I know better than you, Master." So the master said, "Do it." He could not be successful. Always, he missed the point. Therefore, it is very important to learn the wisdom, to learn the knowledge. So, the Nirguṇa is without boundary. Tehát a nirguṇa az határtalan. The entire universe. The whole world, the cosmos. Sometimes Nirguṇa comes in the dream. Néha a nirguṇa álmodban is ott van. And now it comes on the television screen. And you are watching. Nézed. And very sad. But the other one is smiling, saying, "Hey, how are you? I’m very happy today, nice to see you." And you are crying there. Because the one who is sitting and looking at the screen, the one who is in the screen, does not see you. And that one which you see on the screen cannot hear you. And maybe through telephone can hear you, but cannot do anything. But still, the vision, sound, light, and sound have a great effect. But if it is a physical life, it has a more profound effect. Therefore, Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said in the 12th chapter of the Bhagavad Gītā that Nirguṇa God is also very good, but O Arjuna, as far as you are in physical consciousness, it is better for you to worship a personal God. Who is greater than Rāma and Kṛṣṇa? Rāma, the son of the king and the husband of Sītā, King Daśaratha. Not this Balarāma. Hare Rāma, Hare Kṛṣṇa, they are singing. They are not singing to God Rāma, they are singing Balarāma. But Rāma was the first incarnation, and after other yugas came Kṛṣṇa. So Rām, Kṛṣṇa, Kṣaṇ, Kṣaṇ,... Kṣaṇ. They all represent Viṣṇu, and Śiva is the creator of them. So Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, Khaṇḍa, Balāī—even they had a guru. Was it necessary that Kṛṣṇa had a guru? Was it necessary that Jesus had a guru? Was it necessary that Rāma had a guru? When Viṣṇu is known as the universal lord, Kṛṣṇa said clearly to Arjuna, "Arjuna, nothing is impossible for me in the universe, which I cannot have." But still I am working, still I am doing karma. Karma pradhāna, the main thing in our life is karma. Good or bad. Good has good results, bad has bad results. If you study the whole year nicely, concentrated, you have good results. Or you spend time in dizziness, then you have bad results. Do not be angry with your professor or with your parents. The result depends on our action; some comes immediately, some comes later. Therefore, the renunciation and Guru Bhakti, as with Kṛṣṇa and Rāma and others—so to us, Kṛṣṇa had a duty to clean the dishes in the guru-kula. His guru’s name was Ṛṣi Sāndīpanī. In Sandīp guru-kul, Kṛṣṇa was studying, and one day they had a bandārā. Bandhara means inviting many sādhus and ṛṣis for eating. So the ṛṣi called the brahmachārīs, the old students. Who will do volunteer work, and what kind of work? Someone said, "I will welcome." Someone said, "I will bring warm water." Someone said, "I will accompany them for eating." Many, many things. And Kṛṣṇa was sitting silent. So the ṛṣi said, "Kṛṣṇa, why are you silent?" Kṛṣṇa stood up with folded hands... I said, "Gurudev, I’m waiting." "For what?" "I’m waiting for the things which others did not want to do; I will do them." He said, "Everything is there." Kṛṣṇa said, "No. I will clean the used plates when they eat." So he became the sweeper. And similarly, the same thing for Rāma. So, Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, Khaṇḍ—who is greater than Kṛṣṇa and Rāma? Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, Khaṇḍ, who is maybe the guru king, they also had a guru. Tin loke na, they are lord of all three worlds, not in their universe. Only three worlds are under the Satguru’s command; they are obedient to their Satguru. Because without a Guru, forget your spiritual development and liberation. The guru of Svāmī Vivekānanda, Paramahaṁsa Rāmakṛṣṇa, was a very great, great saint. Fully, through and through, realized. Very great. You can see the picture of Rāmakṛṣṇa and his wife. They were both great. We should have such a photo in our rooms. Only by looking at them do we get a vibration. Rāmakṛṣṇa was the devotee of the Mother Kālī. Day and night he was worshiping and crying, "Mother, come, and please come to me, come to me." And she came. She used to come to his vision, and physically, it was like he could see and talk. And if you meditate in your room, and you say, "Swāmījī, please come," and suddenly he is there. "I didn’t mean to. Why didn’t you knock on the door? Why didn’t you knock on the door?" So, but she always came. She asked him, "What do you want, my son?" He said, "Mokṣa, liberation, Ātamjñāna." Kālī said, "I can give you everything, but not the mokṣa." Because that is not in the cosmic protocol. Only your Gurudev can do it. "Go to the Saint Totāpurī." So Totāpurī was the guru of Paramahaṁsa Rāmakṛṣṇa, and he gave him this ātmajñāna liberation. Similarly, many, many others. Therefore, Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said, "Arjuna, go through the personal God, the physical God. When you realize that one as your own self, then you will see one in all and all in one." So, always we need something. So Paramahaṁsa Yogānanda, somewhere on the border of Mexico and America, sitting under some trees in very hot weather—I think the place, I have forgotten the name, is the hottest one in the world in summer—and he got a letter from his Gurudeva. Some people were complaining again, saying he left you. Paramahaṃsa Yogānanda’s Gurujī said, "The people are saying that you left me," and that is why he went to America and other countries. When he read this letter, he had tears in his eyes. Unfortunately, all of this is removed from his biography. Only 15% of his own writing remains in the biography. About the Gītā, about the Vedas, about the Upaniṣads, about Vedānta, all is taken out. Our original first book, which he wrote, had only 300 pages. And now it is more than a thousand. That is how people try to manipulate. Do not do this. So he felt when he read the letter of his Gurujī. He had tears, and he was thinking, "My life has no meaning if my Gurudev feels like this." So he wrote a song and sent it to his master, Gurudev: "I will be Thy devotee; may come and devotee may go, but my Lord, I will be Thine. I may go far, far than the stars, not only to America, but still, my Lord, I will be Thine." That is called a relation. That is called surrender. That is called renounce. When you have a drop of water in the palm of your hand, this drop is you. This is jīvātmā. And when this drop will fall into the ocean, the ocean is Śiva. So the jīva becomes Śiva through that merging into oneness. As soon as you fall into the water, within a half second you can try to take it out, but it does not go anymore. That is a unity. That is union. What he writes, the third one, third letter, lying Gurudev, "Even I will die here, even I die, look into my eyes, they will mutely say, ‘I will be dying.’" The answer came from Yukteśvar, and Yukteśvar writes that letter, "Mere hirdeke dulāre." Beautifully said, "Dulār," a little child which a mother has in her lap and takes care of. So he said, "You are the dularā, you are the dear of my heart. Always you are in my heart." Yukteśvar said to Yogānandjī. So Gurudev takes care of us more than anyone in this universe. But try to renounce, not half-half. If it is a doubt, you are out without any delay. From where? From this human life. Therefore, Gurujī said, life and life, you will see, you will feel, and you will know, but you are tortured. There was a very famous singer. He died, and I think he composed two, three, four songs—he or somebody else, that I do not know—but he had a very beautiful voice. He is singing. Ő énekli. Many Indians know this. "Tūṭ gaihé Málá, Motī bikhar chalé." The pearls disappear. For two days they were together. Now they do not know where they disappeared. As long as the thread is there, they are all in oneness. One poet said, "The thread of love, do not break it with some little misunderstandings." When it is broken, you cannot join it. And if you join it, there will be nothing. What we said, we will forget you or forgive you, but we will not forget you. What happens to that one? He has another song for that. "Oh, bird, in the case no one knows thy pain. Outside, you are smiling, and you said, ‘I am fine.’ Bitter, bitter worry, but inside you are crying." That happens to those who miss the way. Therefore, we were often together through the Skype webcast, but to be physical here, I am very happy to see you. And you know, the best part of Yoga in Daily Life is our satsaṅg. You are not here all as a yoga student; you are here like guru brothers and sisters. And when we see each other, how happy we are. This is a big, healthy, happy family. I pray to Guru Dev for your divine protection, and may he bless us that the shadow of any black things never enters our consciousness. Very happy to see you. And I pray to Mahāprabhujī to bless us that we will see each other often. So with this, I bless you in the name of Gurudeva. And pray for your good health and divine protection. That your renunciation becomes successful. I am with you on this side of the gate. And I will welcome you on the other side of the gate. Tell him that he should show others also, people.