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Good evening, blessed self, dear bhaktas around the world, spiritual seekers. Welcome. The blessing of the Gurudev, Devadideva, Devaīśvara Mahādeva, Mahāprabhujī and Gurujī, comes to you today from our international Gurukul garden. The season is changing. From beautiful summer, we are entering autumn, and soon we will enter winter. Culture, tradition, festivals, and social events hold significant meanings for humans. In this part of the hemisphere, the day becomes shorter and the night becomes longer as the sun moves south. Night becomes longer, meaning darkness comes earlier and lasts longer, and the day is shortened. By nature’s decision, Mother Nature has given richness to all creatures—the birds, the animals, and especially the humans harvesting their crops, which they have tended for three long months. One disciple of Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, Maṅgīlāl jī, said: Purify your body; remove your desires, anger, hate, jealousy, greed. Purify the field of this body. We have to sow now the new seed of the Oṁ. The Aum is the bīja, the seed, of the entire universe, the seed of the endless reality. What did he say? We put the seed in the ground; it began to sprout, and beautiful greenery appeared. But now the rain is missing, and water is missing. That plant will die. Dayā dharma rūpī. Dayā means mercy, compassion. Dharma is the principles, the righteousness, the responsibilities, the obligations, the human dharma. Daya Dharam Hariyali Sai. Hariyali means green days, when everything is green, beautiful, a joy to our eyes. So when we put the seed of the Aum in our hearts, and suddenly mercy awakens, compassion awakens—love, joy, peace. But that needs nourishment. Gentle plants need care and water. That is the satsaṅg; that is the jñāna. As long as you have burning desires and passion, that inner Hariyalī will suffer. The Gurudev has shown us the fountain or the well of water, so we can draw that water to give to the greenery as our compassion and mercy. That Kupa is in our Maṇipūra Chakra—the seed of the nectar. In the heart is the seed; the nectar is in the Maṇipūra Chakra. The machinery through which we draw it out is our brain, our intellect. It is the subject of the Kuṇḍalinī and chakras, the energy centers in the body. Satguru Kumpu bataya bhai, ab to neer pilana hai. Now we should give the water. Now what did he say? Now the crops have arrived, big. Ab kheti mein nepe aai. Yes, now the crops are ready to be harvested. Sab sakhīyā mil toḍanā dhāī. All the sakhīs went to harvest. This means your knowledge, your jñāna, your abilities are ripe. You can give satsaṅg. You can preach. You can give blessings. Sakya means our vṛttis. Sakya means the female laborers, but not in that sense; it refers to the indriyas, the vṛttis, the qualities. Now, please collect all this. Do not let it be destroyed. One saint said, "O my dear mind, you did not guard your farm, and that is why all the birds have eaten your crops." So when you gain spiritual power, spiritual mantras, spiritual sādhanā, but you neglect it and do not take care, thinking you can do everything—do not play outside. Inside, take care. Otherwise, the birds of desire will again eat away all your qualities, and you will fall back into the world of darkness and desires. Now we have to make some transportation. We must prepare the satsaṅgs. We must create a means to transport this from one place to another, from the field to the storehouse. You have made this machinery. Again, you came to your own home—your heart, your Ājñā Chakra, your Maṇipūra Chakra. Now you have all this richness within you, as in Jñāna Yoga: Satsampatti, Śama, Dama, Uparati, Titikṣā, Śraddhā, Samādhāna, Vichāra, Sādhanācāra. Karohāri Pyārā, Jisse Hove Mokṣa Tumhārā. Raas banāī māl ghar layā. We brought the crops home. Bechan ko bhajār sidhāyā. Now we brought our goods to the market to sell. Yes. What is that? Now you came to the public. You came and began to preach and give satsaṅg, going to sell this in the market. Vaha par mola molak paya. There you got the price, unpayable. You ask, for example, for a thousand dollars, a thousand rupees, and they give you millions because your crops, your production, the quality is pure and the best. This means your knowledge is based on the scriptures—authentic literature, Śruti and Smṛti. Not only your stories, but what you create. So when it is reality and pure, everyone likes it. Something which is only imitation is not reality. Then my mind was happy. Yes, I achieved my spiritual goal. I achieved my wisdom, knowledge, and I achieved my final destination. Life is a journey, not a destination. But your karma, your sādhanā, leads you to that destination where we should arrive. Take care that you do not enter a blind street. Take care that you do not enter circular traffic. Therefore, we must have a highway: no obstacles, no traffic lights, no railway barriers. Either you go above or you go below. That is called a highway, a motorway. There are no obstacles. There are many saṃsāras, desires. Either you go above them or you go down, but are not touched by them—no accident. So, gentlemen, no accident. That is very important. Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī supported my harvesting and my crops to grow. He protected me with his blessing, the divine protection. Prabhu Dīpaka, Jai Maṅgala Lāla, a merriman by birth, Santa-jan merrim pie. Holy birth means rare—the rare saints or yogīs understood what their so Rūpa is. Their art, mice, therefore every festival, every season brings a message to us. The farmer harvested everything, and you know what they might do? They will sell it, and perhaps drink and fight. So the ṛṣis were very intelligent, not merely clever. How to occupy the people? Keep them busy. What is called therapy? Working therapy. Keep them busy. Because they were very busy harvesting and working on the farm, but now everything is there. Eat, drink, and fight. So begin the festival. Now you all celebrate. Sit all together. Everywhere in the world, this year, this season, this time of year, people bring in their crops and make beautiful festivals. Twice a year we celebrate Dīvālī and Holī here. In Europe, they also do something called Fasching. Every farmer decorates their cows’ horns, hanging fruits and vegetables, and everyone brings big baskets of apples and many things. Yes, happy. Mother Nature gave a lot. Similarly, today is the day of the embodiment, the appearance of the two Swayambhū, Śiva and Dhanvantari. In the Satyuga, during the churning of the milky ocean by Asuras and Devas in search of the nectar for immortality, the fourteen ratnas, the fourteen jewels, emerged. These jewels signify good things. Horses came, elephants came, Kāmadhenu came, etc. Finally, the nectar came. Bhagavān Dhanvantarī brought the Amṛta Kalaśa full of nectar. As soon as the Asuras and Devas learned that Bhagavān Dhanvantari appeared with the Amṛta Kalaśa, they stopped churning the ocean, attacked Dhanvantari, and took it from his hands. Devas wanted to drink it for themselves. Rākṣasas wanted to drink it for themselves. In space, a great fight ensued—a star war. The story continues. While fighting, the Rākṣasas were stealing, the Devas were taking back, and from the Amṛt Kalaśa, nectar spilled in four different places: Haridwar, Prayāgrāj (Ilāhābād), Nāśik, and Ujjain. These four became places of immortality. When a certain constellation arrives, that influence, that effect, the vibration of the nectar is present there. In which direction the wind blows, the flag also goes. So when that constellation comes, the nectar effect is there, though it was in Satyuga. But do you know what immortality means? Amṛtā. Tamaso mā jyotir gamaya, mṛtyor mā amṛtam gamaya. Though it was in Satyuga, it is still the same because it is Amṛta, Amara, Amṛtatva. So, during that constellation, those who breathe that air, step on that spot of earth, and bathe in those holy rivers definitely receive something from that Amṛta. When Dhanvantari came in the Satyuga with the Amṛta Kalaśa, that time began Āyurveda, the science of life. Therefore, Bhagavān Dhanvantarī is the Lord of Āyurveda. In every Āyurveda center, school, college, university, or individually, they today offer praṇāms, adoration, and celebration to Bhagavān Dhanvantari, an incarnation of Viṣṇu. So the nectar and Āyurveda are ancient, from Satyuga onward—millions of years. How can modern, learned people declare Āyurveda is 10 years old or 15 years old? Someone says 5,000 years. Do not limit Āyurveda only to Charaka. Before Charaka, since vegetation exists, Āyurveda exists. The science of Āyurveda is divine. Today is the day Dhanvantari with the Amṛt Kalaśa appears. We call it the day of Dhanvantari. In Indian dialect, dhana means prosperity, money. So everyone is running, rushing, and celebrating today as the day of dhana, dhana teras, the 13th day of the dark moon. Now comes Deepāvalī. So the light came. Where there is life, there is light. Where there is light, there is life. Where there is only darkness, there is death. Āyurveda, where nourishment is healthy, organic, vegetarian, sāttvik, is the light of life. Similarly, when the night becomes longer and the day shorter, we put the light. Tamaso mā jyotir gamaya—lead us from darkness to light. With the same idea, when God Rāma returned after 14 years from the forest, the whole Ayodhyā celebrated—in two days, that day will come. They illuminated the streets with oil lamps. They hung fruits and foods on trees so people coming to see God Rāma, if they had not eaten, would have something. They prepared wooden and cloth toys for children to play with. Under the tree, you could find everything. They hung lights on the tree. For over ten thousand years, this light tree, this lamp tree, has been here. This light tree gave birth to the Christmas tree. This is the mother tree. The idea of the Christmas tree comes from this tree, which we call the tree of life, the tree of lights, the tree of joy, the tree of the light of life—the life of the ātmā. You will find everything under the light, and where it is dark, you will find nothing. So, my dear ones, I wish you a happy Dhanvantari day—the day of Āyurveda, the day of nectar, the day of immortality, the day of unity, the day of love, the day of compassion, the day of understanding, the day of peace, and the day of unity. Where there are humans, there is culture, traditions, festivals, events, social events—all kinds of events. This means unity in diversity. Aneek mein ek or ek mein aneek, holy Gurujī used to say: one in all and all in one. See how many oil lamps are here, illuminated by lights. Everywhere there are many flames, but in reality, all are the same. Can you see different colors? All have the same color. Except electric color bulbs, because they are artificial. The yellow light from oil is very good for our eyesight. Nowadays, tube lights are not good for your eyesight or red blood cells. If possible, always use yellow lights. Old bulbs and lights were healthier. Now humans search for how to save energy and use bulbs with negative health effects. I wish you a happy Dhanvantari day and a happy Diwali. God bless you all. I pray to the Almighty. I pray to Gurudev to bless you with good health, happiness, and spiritual joy. Try to maintain your energy pure. Try to keep your heart and thoughts pure. Do not let your thoughts, body, heart, physical energy, mental energy—all your energies—be impure. Keep them pure. In that, you will achieve immortality. Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān kī, Deveśvara Mahādeva kī, Dharma Saṃbhārata Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavānakī. Therefore, our beloved Satguru Dev, Madhavanandjī Bhagavān, said—as it is also the birthday or incarnation day of Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, our Satguru Dev, on the Diwali night—so Gurujī said in one version, "Ājā Diwali Param Sukhda." So the floor, Dr. Shānti’s and company, the band, Dr. Shanti and band, please put the mic there, camera on her. Hari Om Tat Sat. Bless you.