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Our humble salutations to our spiritual lineage, dear brothers and sisters. As our dear brother Erwin said, you never feel this is merely the Vienna people's ashram. Everyone comes here with equal feelings and equal rights. It is our ashram. That is called work: work in your local area and think globally. So, work in your heart, but let us spread your love for the whole globe. I brought a book with me today. It contains many beautiful bhajans. I read them and looked at every page. They are all so good that I do not know which one to explain. So, I leave the choice to the book. As I mentioned yesterday, here in satsaṅg—just as before when I spoke in German—we all experience change, a change in nature. In some parts of the earth, it is autumn, while in other parts, it is spring. Now, what is the truth? I am talking about autumn, but in Australia, New Zealand, and that other part of the world, they are talking about spring. If I say it is autumn now, they will wonder, "What is he talking about?" to those watching the webcast. This shows one perspective: we say goodbye, while on the other side, they welcome. Thus, life is a journey; life is a circle. It is cycling, rebirth, and death. I always say: if you believe in the recycling system in nature, then where is the problem in believing in reincarnation? This is the energy which is cycling, and we are not separate from this energy. It is like these windows being closed while we sit here. After a long time, we feel the need to take in fresh air, to cycle it. The one who has worked long and is retiring, and the one freshly born, getting ready to go to school to learn and take over the work—this is the purpose of birth and death, the changes on this planet. But it is not only this planet, this Earth, that is changing. The ocean changes, the waves, trees, humans, and everything changes. Even the planets change their positions. The moon changes from full moon to dark moon to new moon and again to full moon. The countless stars are changing, moving. And beyond that, as Gurujī said in his bhajan, "Chaudhā Lokā Kīśo Brahmāṇḍa"—there are fourteen worlds in our sun system, which goes beyond our imagination. The light of the sun reaches far beyond our earth. We are very close to the moon and the sun and all this. So, there are fourteen worlds: seven worlds below and seven worlds above. In which position are we? It means the position of the Earth. If the Earth is turning, then for twelve hours we are hanging. So, we are walking like this. Long ago, there was a documentary film. They conducted an experiment with special eyeglasses. When you put them on, you see as if you are walking upside down. You are biking, but it feels like cycling on the ceiling. Two persons underwent training. In the beginning, when they put on the glasses, they could not go from their chair to the kitchen to get a glass of water. They could not walk, thinking they would fall down. When they took the glasses off, it was normal. But they wore them for an experiment lasting twenty-four hours. They were trained to go cycling. They could run, play football, cycle, and it became normal. Now, what happened when they took the glasses away? They could not walk properly. So, which is reality? We call it gravity, whatever we name it, but it is something. So, it is changing—the fourteen worlds, seven below and seven above, in our sun system and "Chauda and Ikiso Brahmāṇḍa," 2100 sun systems. A yogī can extend or expand consciousness, from our one sun to the 2099 other suns. A yogī can reach that through higher or cosmic consciousness, or samādhi. Now, wherever we go, we feel and see the changes. Therefore, as we feel here—it is very hot now—I would advise that we can open the windows. We experience the changes now, and the heating should be turned off. This change affects the entire universe. I would not say the change is only where the seniors are sitting, so don't open windows. Where is this change? From our own body to the different parts of the universe. Now, what is changing is matter, which is also a very fine energy. That energy is not that space or that universe consciousness. Our consciousness is not changing, but it has layers of different colors: unconscious, subconscious, conscious, higher conscious, cosmic consciousness. To experience all this, we have to start with the grassroots project, which means practices. Today at lunchtime, I turned on the television to watch CNN. Mostly, they give news very quickly. There was one advertisement, I think on CNN or Austrian news, stating that a person who drinks alcohol has twenty years less of life, dying twenty years earlier than the life God gave. And the day before yesterday, we read an article—I think Monica told me—that vegetarians live longer than non-vegetarians. Monica told me, and I said, "Well, nowadays people are fed up with everything." Many people say, "Oh God, better I should die." So, okay, alcohol will finish you quickly, don't worry. But then the problem is this: we will not achieve our aim of becoming a human, of having a human life. So, everything is changing except that Brahman, the Supreme, and that is your inner self—not your soul, but your very inner self. When you sleep and have a dream, who is looking at the dream? Who is enjoying the dream, or who is afraid in the dream? When you dream, you know that you are dreaming. And when we wake up, you say, "I was dreaming." So, who is that who is there all the time? That is the part of God, that is the Chaitanya awakened within ourselves. That we have to realize. So, the world is a dream, but today everything became a dream. And what is tomorrow? It is our ambition, and we will see how it will be tomorrow. So, in this unreality of this mortal world, to search for reality—that is our work. So, God—who is God? What is God? We humans made God. If humans would not be here, no one would think God is there. So, God should be thankful to us that we gave Him such a good position and we acknowledge Him as God. So, God said, "Well, human, I was so peaceful and at rest, but you have now made me unrestful, with problems." As I told a few days ago, there is a joke: two people died, one sinner and one good man. Both came to the door of Brahmaloka, and the messenger of God said that two had come—one a sinner and one your devotee, a bhakta. Who should go to Brahmaloka, and who should go to hell? God said, "Yes, good." Then that bhakta was sent to hell, and the sinner was brought to God. The man said to God, "Sir, your holiness, that's not correct." God said, "Don't give judgment. I tell you." The man said, "Please tell me." What answer should I give him? God said, "Bhakta, what do you mean he is a bhakta?" The messenger said, "Lord, twenty-four hours he's thinking of you and calling you." God said, "That's why he doesn't let me rest, so send him to hell. I never can rest—all the time, alarm, emergency." So, we create God. We imagine God, but what is God? That one which has very good qualities, divine qualities, positives—we realize that could be God's energy, and that God's energy is in you, in me, and in everyone. But we are not aware of that. So, to realize that pure consciousness, that we are part of that one, then we are there. But as long as you humans make differences about God, religions, cultures, nations—it doesn't matter how much you pray, you have an achievement of zero. I wouldn't give you zero, only one percent, because zero is the universe. It is very hard to achieve zero. So, if you validate this—"this is my God and that is their God," "this is my religion and that is their religion"—it means you are completely in confusion, or in German they say, alles ist Chaos, alles ist Durkananda, und es ist alles Muld, Kalimuri. That is why, on the day you finish those dualities—my religion, their religion, my God, that God, I don't believe this God, this is the right God, that country, this culture—you will have achieved nothing. You may pray day and night, because God doesn't make differences. God didn't make this religion. God didn't make that religion. God only gave us love and mercy, blessings, and God gave us that human intellect. And that intellect should have some darśī, equal vision. God gave us eyes to see, and of course we see the differences. We see that one is sitting here from, on the paper, from Slovakia or from Slovenia, and so on. But God said, "I created only one human." So, there is no racism. Out of 8.4 million different creatures, one is the human. And we humans should love each other like brothers and sisters. Of the father, there is only one God who has no name, who has no form, and that's all. He never played the flute, and he was never hanged up. That's it. Because he is the—it is said—that God, that Ātmā which is in you: no weapon can kill, fire cannot burn, death cannot take you away. You are that everlasting Ātmā. Such experiences, that level of consciousness, is not easy, my dear. It is difficult. Every negative thought is again a black layer of color on our consciousness. Every positive thought is a clear layer. But we have clean dirt, clean dirt. So, still, it is not transparent. So, in this bhajan it is said, "Many lives you clean your mind, many lives." But still, there are some dirty spots. There is no spot remover that you can put on it. It takes many, many lives. In this book, there is a bhajan which I have many times wanted to translate, and it's just in front of me now. It is a very good bhajan; I like it very much. I only read what I like very much, which is not difficult, you know. Yes, amar ho—yes, very good. So, this bhajan is beautiful. Many times I have explained to you: "Amar ho jisko khāne se mitāi ho to aisā ho." You know, we all like very much eating sweet ice cream, chocolate, halwā, cream, sweets, honey—all kinds of sweets. This we like, sweets. But he said, "Eat that kind of sweet which makes you immortal." What a sweetness, what a sweetness which makes you immortal! Nothing can be sweeter than love, and that love is God, devotion. Visyon se man ko phaṭā de, khatāī ho to aisī ho. And it makes your mind detest all the vāsanās, the worldly desires. That is the best lemon, the sour. When you put the sour in the milk, the milk is spoiled. Then you can't get any more butter out of that. You can make paneer, cheese, or tofu, but you can't gain the butter. So, when you get the vairāgya, when you get detachment from the world, then you have only one love. That is what Mīrābāī said: Janam janam haridās tumhāre, sāth tumhāre—lives and lives. Phataade man vishyo se khatai ho to aisi ho. And those things: chocolate, mangoes, apples, grapes, pudding, ice cream, my house, my beautiful dress, all—my children, my wife, my husband, my father, my mother—all these desires towards what we have, from that kind of joy, Trapti hoin hove—you will never be satisfied. It is only temporary. You like ice cream very much, but you will eat only how much? Fifty grams, one hundred grams. Someone eats maybe half a kilo. But put one bigger bucket full and say, "Now eat all the ice cream." You cannot. But after a few hours, again you would like to have ice cream. So, tṛpti means contentment. When you have eaten, then you say, "No, thank you, I am full. I am satisfied, I am content, I am full, I can't eat anymore." So, this is called tṛpti. But, okay, you say, "I can't eat anymore, I am full, thank you, I don't need any more." And for five days, we will not ask you anything: "Do you want to eat?" Then you will say, "Can I have something to eat?" So, this means this bhuk, this hunger, the desire of this hunger will never be completed. It will awake again, awake again... But he said day by day desire is growing. Day by day, this is like what you call—one takes drugs, alcohol. Though it is harmful, your mouth feels something, like a chili hot, you know. Instead of alcohol, eat chili. That is much better and healthy. The next day, you take one more. The third day, you will drink three times. And slowly, slowly, increasing this desire, then desire becomes your master. You are not a master of the desires. You would like to stop the alcohol, but the alcohol does not want to stop you. So, you cannot stop the alcohol. Alcohol—you can't kill the alcohol; alcohol will kill you. So, desire is growing, and it will never be content or satisfied. That is an illness, meaning spoiled, unhealthy. So, day by day, one becomes ill, weaker and weaker, because of your desires. You try to fulfill them, but it will not be. O human, you got a human body, and you want to test the poison? What kind of human are you? You reject the nectar and eat the poison. This poison of the vāsanā is the poison of the ego: jealousy, hate, greed, and so on. Having, I want to have, I want to have. So, Gandhijī said, "Mother Earth has enough for everyone's need, but not for everyone's greed." So, our greed is the biggest illness, and one day the greed will finish you; you will not finish the greed. So, only one thing: we practice renunciation. Enter the kingdom of the Lord through the gate of sacrifice. It means not that now you will not love your husband or your wife or your mother and children. No, no, you should love more—pure love. That's it. Manushya tan pākar ke viṣaya cāhata amṛta ko chhoḍ kar viṣaya khātā. Bhraṁta kitadig yoni phajiti ho to aisī ho. After death, this jīvātmā, this soul, has to travel through many, many different lives. You can even become a little mota kīṭādī in any kind of life. Don't think that next life, okay, if I will not be human, then I will become an elephant. No, no, nothing depends on you. It depends on your vāsanās, desires, and vāsanās' desires. Don't take it only as a lightning shaft, but ego is also a lightning shaft. Greed is a lightning shaft. So, when you have vairāgya, then all viṣayabhoga, all these desires, will disappear automatically. It means renunciation, little attachment—give, give, give. When milk is spoiled by the lemon, now you try again to make milk out of it. It will not be. Similarly, when in your heart that detachment is there, distance is there, then you can't bring it back again. Therefore, Rahim was one poet. He said, "The thread of love is very fragile, very gentle." Don't break it with a little misunderstanding. If that thread is broken, you can't join it anymore. If you try to join it, there will be a knot between. And so, our love for God is so fine, so fine. Because of these worldly vāsanās, desires, we forget God, and we concentrate on different things. So, which kind of sweetness is the biggest or the best? Gyān Amṛt. Gyān is knowledge, wisdom. That is nectar. Gyān Amṛt. Charana amṛta, jñāna amṛta, pañca amṛta—these are different kinds of amṛta. The best amṛta is jñāna amṛta. When you tell someone good things, when you speak wisely to someone, you are giving your nectar to someone. And when you criticize and speak negatively, you are giving poison to someone. So, don't poison anyone; give them nectar. Acharya Ram Jī said that very rich food, nourishment of the knowledge, is so strong. Takat means when you want to become stronger, that is takat. And when you have no energy, you are so weak. If someone pushes you like this, you fall down. So, that tākat is—knowledge is that strength. Gandhi told that I can fast physically, and you see me physically, how I look. And now, more or less, we always say to people, "If you are vegetarian, you will become like a Gandhi." But you know, to become a Gandhi is not easy. Look at Gandhijī's strength. That was Jñāna Amṛta. That was a strength of the knowledge. So, learn those words and keep them in your heart. Social communication with the wisdom: which words you should speak, and which words you should better digest within you. So, jñāna amṛta, that is the best amṛta. And that we get in satsaṅg. Now, before I spoke for four people, it was very interesting. I was also learning something nice. Our Bhaktānand spoke very nicely. Rādhā spoke more beautifully. And then, who was that? Sādhvī Hṛthikāmalī Sampo best, and then came the Śraddhā. It was super. And then came the Kṛpā, the Zdenka. That was it. Very top of the top. And then I came. Okay, so, so. So, the best—everyone has wisdom. Gurujī said, if humans will utilize their own knowledge for their own self, they will be already God-realized and the best one. We are very expert at giving advice to someone, but when we have some problem ourselves, then we do not use our knowledge. Then we say, oh, this is a problem. So, whatever happened, it happened there. My ātmā is as it is. Nothing has happened. And one day, what will happen will happen—that autumn will come and a leaf will fall down. A leaf falls down from the branch of a tree, and the wind takes it away. We don't know where we will fall down, and we don't know when we will come back again. Patta is the leaf—that's our body. Tuta dalse from this tree of this world. Autumn came, old age came. Legāyī pavan uḍāī—the wind has blown away. The wind of destiny took it far away. Door padenge jai—somewhere far distance will fall down. We are going to the graveyard, all holy souls. Every soul said, "Now it's the ancestors' days." We go, and we pray, and cry, and stand. But that father said, "I am reborn again in China. What are you doing here? If you want to see me, come to China." And if your father will come as a Chinese and tell, "I am your father." And the father said, "We pity, vasaṅsī." So it is. How do we know? The reality is different. This separation—when we will come again, therefore, so concentrate on the present situation. What was, it was. Don't waste your time too much on the past. And that's why in Hinduism, in Vedānta philosophy and in yoga, we don't make too much philosophy on the past life. Past is past, it's gone. That water is not there. It is flown already in the river far away, where you just touch the water—beautiful, clean, and nice and cool. But that water is gone. It does not mean that the river is dried. New water is coming. New circulation is life is coming. So, jñāna amṛta, wisdom. Less searching in the world, it is a chance. Dito chuga dega where a nishnabal Ein Vogel Wenn du mir—So God, who gave the pig, will give the food. So, He gave the stomach and mouth. He will give. Don't worry. Eine kleine—who is providing this all? Only one God. O human, if you think that you provide for everyone and you feed everyone, who are you? Don't think that you give the job to everyone. Who are you to give? It is their kismat. They have got the job, and they work for you. They will get everything, and you think when you die, they all will die. No, no, no. They will work continuously. So, be thankful that you are a medium, that God helps others through you. That's it. Always be the instrument of God. Therefore, the Holy Friends from Assisi said, "Lord, make me the instrument of your love. Where there is unhappiness, I bring happiness. Where there is pain, may I bring pleasure." And that is our duty—not to put more petrol on the fire of their anger, jealousy, and hate. That is the peace, love, happiness. So now is the time. So now is the time. So now is the time... And now, all the farmers and everyone can rest. Nature has made such a beautiful cycle of the seasons for working and for resting. And now is the time at home to be with the family, with the children, speaking, doing something with the hands, evening sitting together, singing nice songs. But who has the time now? Parents sitting alone. So, thanks to God, now the television is there, so they can pass the time. Who has the time to sit with the grandmother every day? Yeah, we are selfish. We go once a week or once a month, "Grandmother, I want a very nice cake, please. Can you do it for me?" We are the greed of the cake, not the grandmother. But I tell you all, to go to grandmother, grandfather, to elderly people—to go there is like a darśan, a holy place. Because they have a soul inside, that soul experienced many, many things in life. So, with these different things, I am very happy to see you and welcome you, and I think we will have a Christmas satsaṅg again here and there, definitely on this planet somewhere. If God will bless us more, that we have more, live a little longer, we would like to celebrate many Christmases. Did someone celebrate 100 Christmases? No. To celebrate 100 Christmases means you have to be 100 years. So, let's do a competition: who will celebrate more Christmases? Now, if you want to win, get a gold medal—how many Christmases could you have managed to do it? Then do yoga in your life. Then you will have a long, long, beautiful life and many, many Christmases. All the best.