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Oṁ Bhagavān Kī, Śrī Śrī Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva Kī, Satguru Svāmī Madhvanānjī Bhagavān Kī, Sanātana Dharma Kī. Blessings to all of you, dear ones, here and around the world. Welcome. It is a very blessed and pleasant evening. Yesterday, I had the opportunity for half an hour to walk through our beautiful park—the meadows, the pond. Thanks to our gardeners, including Chandrī, there is so much corn and beautiful orange pumpkins. Every tree expresses its thankfulness. They offer us something: beautiful apples, pears, plums, peaches, and many different kinds of berries. Many were walking with me, but the trees were telling me something. I am so thankful that I can be in this divine garden. They are thankful that we did not put chemicals in their roots, and they express their thankfulness by giving us such beautiful fruits. Imagine if we were to chop down one tree. Next year at this time, when we walk through our park, we will miss that tree very much. Only in astral form will the tree be there, and the apples will be there. It is said in our Indian tradition—philosophy, religion, culture, whatever you call it—about Parāmārtha. You know, this morning I spoke about Svārtha and Parāmārtha. Svārtha means selfish. Sva means the self, artha means material. And Param is the supreme, God, and Artha is that wealth. When we do Seva, we get spiritual wealth which will be forever and ever. When we take selfish action, we will get something, but only for this life. So, for this Parāmārtha, how many have incarnated or manifested? Out of many, many, four are major. They are acknowledged as holy. Not only do we call humans holy; stones are holy. You go to Khatu, you go to Gaṅgā, you go to Mount Kailāśa, you go to some holy mountains, and you bring a stone and say, "This is a holy stone." So it is very clear: only humans are not holy; stones are also holy. An elephant went to a beautiful big lake. Can you imagine the joy of the elephant? The lake is deep, about ten meters. For the first time in his life, he feels so light. He is surprised: "My body is so light." We also feel very light in the water, but that is not so meaningful for us. But an animal like an elephant, when it breaks one leg, it is the end of its life; it cannot get up. These legs of elephants, how many hundreds of kilos? Fifteen hundred kilos? To come up is not easy. And you can pull this elephant up and down in the water. So the elephant feels so relaxed, doing all the Sarvahitā āsanas in Sarvodāna. He takes a full trunk of water and makes a fountain. So, the human said, "Oh, this is a good technique. We made fountain technology." Then an elephant takes again, full of drugged water, and puts it on his head and lies here and there. We made a shower in the bathroom. No one is an inventor. If someone says this was invented, it is wrong. The elephant is the inventor. Entire spirituality is gained from nature; all exercises are gained from nature; all medical science is developed from nature. Mother Nature is one of the best teachers in the university, and the best one that we can have. So, the elephant enjoys the bath for two hours. The whole lake was his bathtub. Then he came out and so happily walked slowly, a majestic walk into the forest. So from the elephant, they learned what we call the majestic walk. You should not stay like this. Relax and say, "My goodness." The elephant takes the trunk and, nicely relaxed, puts it over his body. After two hours of bathing, the elephant came out, walked in the forest, took the dust, and threw it on his body. They said, "He is a stupid elephant. For two hours, he washed himself so nicely, and now he is putting dust again." Others said, "No, no, because of the insects." Do you think a mosquito bite fells the snake? No. We call it the elephant skin, thick outer skin. Another one said, "No, he is angry." So the fourth one said, "Why don't we ask him why he is putting the dust on him?" We asked him, "Why do you put the dust after such a beautiful bath?" The elephant said, "I washed myself two hours ago. All impurities from my body, I prepared myself. Now I put the dust on me with one hope: maybe some ages ago, or centuries gone, or decades gone, maybe some holy man walked here, and through his holy feet, the dust here became holy. And if I put this on my body, I will be blessed." What is happening? The elephant is dancing. It is a good thing that even elephants dance. As Subrahmaṇya Swāmī said, "Maybe one grain of the sand will bring me to the Brahmaloka." The people who listen to this begin to put dust on it. The elephant said, "Bless you, bless you." And the elephant said, "I bless you, I bless you." After the blessing, after the blessing. So, rivers are holy. Mountains are holy. Trees are holy. Stones are holy. Dust is holy. Oh man, what makes you a proud one, that you are holy? One, two months, it does not rain. Everyone is your God. How to put water for our garden, trees, plants—nothing. Can you imagine? Nearly eleven months, no rain in Rajasthan, in Jadan, and in many other parts of the world. And there are also some countries where there is no rain for three years. So, that is a blessing. And the fourth one is a holy saint. These are four as holy: Sarvar, tarvar, santjan. Chatha, barse me, parmaratke, karnipur. Parāmārtha, for the sake of God. Charo and Darihan, these four manifested here, so the trees were so happy. And everyone goes and takes the fruit. The tree does not make a difference. You may throw a stone; they will throw the fruit back, not a stone. Look down. So many herbs. They say to me, "Swāmījī, it is not correct." I said, "What?" "You look only at the nice apples. And what about us? We have more power than the apple. We are the Sanjīvanī." Sanjīvanī means the herbs of immortality. Czechoslovakia, Europe, has such good herbs, and now is the right time to collect the herbs: Jāḍī, Būṭī, Banaspati. These are the three in Āyurveda very important. Jāḍī means roots, Būṭī means the herbs, vanaspati means the leaves of those plants and trees which give the fruits, but the tree does not die. Now it is only one month left, more. Then again they will go to the Brahmaloka. They will come again in April, May, June. How to utilize these herbs for the whole year? You dry them. Sixty percent strength is gone. You boil them; seventy-five percent is gone. How to preserve one hundred percent? It is a quantity, not a quality, understand? So it must not be one hundred kilos, twenty kilos, thirty kilos. It can be half a kilo, it can be a quarter kilo, it can be one kilo. It depends if you find good herbs. So, according to your own knowledge, or some knowledgeable person who has the knowledge about the herbs... In Vienna, there is one lady; her name is called Muktamānī. And when you call that lady, it is a funny telephone answering: "Sattva, more quality to life. Give more quality to life, to the sattva. Maybe a little difference. May a quality in sleep and the sattva qualities." So through her voice, she gives inspiration, knowledge. She is a nice lady, a kind one. And some people have an answering machine: "Hi, I am not home. If you want me to call you back, leave a message." That is also a message. So, some people ask me, "Swami, you should also give a message when you do not answer the telephone." So I also said, "Hari Om, hello, how are you? Nice to hear you. Is everything okay?" And the person begins to talk. So, essence, the quality. So we have so many herbs. Nettles are also very good herbs. Śaṅkh basāmī, śaṅkh puṣāmī, there are many, many things. There are few people who have a good knowledge about herbs. Na... Sarvahitāsā. As much as you will make it like a paste, you will see how good the aroma is, that helps it preserve me. So, with love, you take it nicely. Do not do this and put it in a nice bottle. Close it, or put it in some other bottle, or dig and put it in the refrigerator, and take every day one teaspoon, half teaspoon, or quarter teaspoon of these herbs in a little water and drink it. Room temperature, room temperature. You will feel, in one year until the next season, a change in your body. But you should have knowledge of the different herbs. So many people have problems with the health of their bodies. So many people have problems with their health, and we have blessings. So tomorrow, you can walk through the garden. If you have knowledge, take the herbs. Go somewhere, walking in your forest mountains. If you have knowledge, take the herbs, wash them nicely—that some cat or dog or the fox did not put some liquid on it, pesticide. Clean nicely. The herbs are very gentle, like your little baby. You hold the baby and clean it nicely. How is mother doing? Father is holding, washing his hands. So it is in the mother's hands. Nobody said the father's hands. So, we gently speak with those herbs. There was one artist in Prague. He was the father of one of the disciples, Muktānand Milena Lisa. And his father used to make these lithographies, pictures. And he brought some plant or this, and he was talking to the plant, "Please, little borer, do not. I want a little more, a little more. Remain as it is, fresh." And when he was finished, he said, "Thank you," and the plant went like this. An artist could speak to that. So, like you, yogīs can speak to God. And others said, "Oh, what is he talking about? His screws must be loose." They do not understand, so you should have a proper stone. Where without water, first clean the stone. And with mantra: Oṁ tryambakaṁ yajāmahe sugandhiṁ puṣṭivardhanam, urvārukamiva bandhanāt mṛtyormukṣīya māmṛtāt. Oṁ tryambakaṁ yajāmahe sugandhiṁ puṣṭivardhanam, urvārukamiva bandhanāt mṛtyormukṣīya māmṛtāt. This mantra is for the herbs. Oṁ tryambakaṁ yajāmahe sugandhiṁ puṣṭi vardhanam. Sugandhi is smell. Puṣṭi means healthy. Vardhan means increase. So, even when you come home after work, you will feel the smell of this. So why am I telling you this today? Because this is just the time to harvest from God's garden. That is what we call a śakti. And that consciousness energy, which gives Shiva when you take that herb, it is the Shiva-Śakti. Shiva means your consciousness. And Shakti is your glands, your organs, your blood cells, your joints. Śakti. Without Śakti you cannot walk. When you are very ill and tired, you cannot walk because there is no Śakti. Śakti means strength. Energy. Strength in your voice, in your muscles, in your joints. Glands, organs, digestion, etc., etc. And this is, therefore, the food is not designed how we are eating, but it was designed so that we live long and healthy. Quantity, not quality. And that in yoga we call alpāhāra. Alpa means small. You know, in Europe you have mountains called Alpine. These ṛṣis called these mountains at that time as small Himalaya, Alpa. So Alpa means small. Alpa means little time. Alpkal in short time. Alpahāra is a small diet. Pāhāra is eating. Pahar is eating. That gives you the strength. When there is too much, then the body cannot resist. So in yoga it is said, alpāhāra, ācāra—your behavior. Vichāra your thoughts, vichāra your movement, where to go, where not to go, and āhāra, the diet. So that diet was just to supply the Śakti, the energy, concentrated. When you have an operation, the doctor gives you anesthetics. How much liquid? Very little. Very little. And you are Śakti-hīna, without power. The doctor takes your hand like this, the other hand like that, and your legs like that. Open the stomach. Take the knife. It is like cutting the cake, a liquidy cheese. And you? Somewhere in Brahmaloka. No Shakti. That time you are in the unconscious conscious level. Svapna, jāgrata, these three levels of consciousness. So now, if the doctor will push one liter of liquid, what will happen? It is called ever-rest. Gagan Mandal in the space. Manva dhīrī dhīrī cāl gagan garchad nādeve. Therefore, slowly, slowly. So, these herbs, Śakti, Mother Nature, Śakti, the consciousness, Śiva, consciousness is in the body, and Śakti is in the body. When both are in purity, pure, then it is a divine life. If one of them is dismissed, then there is no unity. So, a person, when doing this, working with herbs, full of joy, happiness, and mantra, you know, like Hanumanjī... So Tulasīdāsa, a great saint who wrote the holy Rāmāyaṇa, went to Hanumanjī, "Hanumanjī, can you show me God Rāma? One day, at least, I would like to see him. I wrote the Rāmāyaṇa, I am completely devoted to Hanuman, I am to Rāma. I have his visions, darśans, but I want to see him physically. I can touch him. I can smell him. I can look in his eyes. I can see how he is sitting or walking. Hanuman, please be kind to me. I know that Rāma loves you, and you can call Rāma here. Please, Hanumānjī, do one favor for me. I will write nice things about you in the Rāmāyaṇa." You see? It is called pressure. Hanumanjī said, "My brother Tulsīdāsjī, I adore you, I respect you, you are great, but I do not dare to order the God Rāma. Who am I to tell Rāma, 'Please come because your bhakta wants to see you'? And if he refuses, I cannot show you my face. I am nowhere." Therefore, it is good enough that you have devotion, and that is all. Tulsīdhārājī said, "No, no, do not play like that. Hanumanjī, please show me Rāma. You show in your chest." People ask Hanumānjī, "Where is your God, Rāma and Sītā?" He said, "In my heart." It is very easy to say, "It is in my heart." So, Hanumanjī tore open his chest. He opened his chest. Blood. Ink. But inside, you see Sītā and Rāma blessing. And from this picture, they have also given it in the Bible as a holy heart. But that was the holy heart of Hanumanjī. Well, Hanumanjī said, "OK, Tulsīdājī, I can tell you a very secret. But do not tell Rama. I will hide somewhere, and I will tell you." He said, "How?" "In Banaras, in Chitrakoot, in Chitrakoot, every day, Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa come to bathe. Where many holy saints and sādhus are bathing, and exactly at morning 7:15, God Rāma comes to bathe, and he likes to have sandal paste on his pillow. You should make the sandal paste. Rāma will come and stand near you, and not only will you see him. You will take the sandal paste and put it on his forehead. You will look into his beautiful eyes, and he will look at you. His gentle smile when you will touch. It is like you have touched the entire universe. You will feel the breath of Rāma. You will smell the entire universe. That will be one of the most divine minutes of your life. Take care. Do not be emotional, do not do like this. 'Are you Rāma?' Be very gentle. Go in front. And say, 'Rāma, head down.' Yes, Rāma will bow to you." He said, "Oh Hanumānjī, that is great, you are my great friend." And Tulsīdās took his beautiful stone, a nice wood of sandalwood, a little water of the river, and sat there. Śrī Rām Jai, Rām Jai, Jai Rām, Śrī Rām Jai. And Rama was standing in front of him, and he said, "Śrī Rām Jai." He thought somebody was standing, moving this side. So Rama went this side. The shadow was coming on him. And now the shadow fell on him. Ah! Move away! And God Rāma bowed down, took the sandal, and put the tilak. Hanumanjī! Tulsīdās! Tulsīdās! Tulsī! Tulsī! Then Hanumān jī said, Hanumanjī is warning Tulsīdāsjī on the beach of the Chitrakoot River by Santanki. We gathered many saints. Tulsīdāsjī is making the sandalwood paste, and Tulsīdās there produces the sandalwood paste. And the king of the Raghu dynasty makes the tilak, and Tulsīdās does not even know about it. And that is why the Bhaktas are in divine joy. When a bhakta feels love, when a bhakta feels purity, when a bhakta feels oneness, the bhakta knows no dualities, no other search. That inner energy, Shakti and Shiva in oneness, to such a Bhakta, Mahāprabhujī said: "Devānā Satguru Nām Kā Mastānāhe Viparvā Ophakī. Devānā Satguru Nām Kā Mastānāhe Viparvā Ophakī. Satguru Nām Kā Gagan Opa Mā Gherā Jodhāranī Jodhī Rām Jī Gagan Oge Jodhāranī Jodhī Mṛitā Jaisā Mithā Kaiye Śītal Sāgar Nir Divānā Satā Beparvā Divānā Satā Guru Na hi kisi kī Śaṅkar māne, na Jaraṅkavājī. Na hi kisi kī Śaṅkar māne, na Jaraṅkavājī kā pyās parva nahī̃ rahegā. Gambhīr divānā satguru kī divānā. Sata guru nāma kastanahi pantaki śaṅkana mane saman pata rahir Rām jī jat pantaki saman pata rahir kishanahi mukha viśarī sata guru nāma. Sataguru nāma." This all, Mother Nature has given to us. This all, God has given us. We have everything. Never think that you are poor. Never think you are unhappy. You think someone can make you happy? The joy of the joy has little enjoyment compared to the sorrow of that joy which you would like to enjoy. Oh, listen carefully, listen, oh boy. Do not search for that joy. Go to the garden, search for the herbs, and you will be healthy again. So this is what... In a half hour, I was walking only half an hour through. Many people were with Swamiji. "Can I ask you a question? Please, this. Yes? Yes?" But at the same time, I was one with the nature, like Tulsidās was one with the sandal paste. But still, Rāma blessed him, and he said, "But still, God knows that Tulasīdāsa is his great, great partner." Wish you all the best, and tomorrow again we will have around 10 o'clock, 10 o'clock or 9:30? What time is tomorrow? 9:30, okay. Webcast. There are many casts in life in modern times, and they support the cast: webcast, broadcast, weathercast, and what not more. So tomorrow, our Czech time, 9:30, my dear ones, all here and there, in different parts of the world, wish you all the best and blessings of Mahāprabhujī.