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Good evening, everyone. Welcome. Many devotees are stuck in the snow, so please send a message to your friends: do not try to come. Stay at home and look at the website. If the weather allows, then come to Strylki next weekend, whenever the next program there is. We remember that in Mahāprabhujī's time, there were so many things to know and understand. This is Sanātana Dharma. Sanātana Dharma is known as the living religion; it is the eternal principle. That is the knowledge which gives further, so it is called Brahmaniṣṭha Śrotriya, Satguru Dev. A Brahmaniṣṭha is the knower of Brahman. We all here know it theoretically, and many of us are in doubt about the theory too. Therefore, we are not Brahmaniṣṭhas. Through long-time practice and long-time Guru Kṛpā, it is that mercy which can bestow upon you the Brahma Jñāna. Therefore, it is said that a Brahmaniṣṭha can tell us about Brahman. So, who can speak, who can inspire, who can guide? That is called a Śrotriya. Śrotriya means one who speaks to us pure teachings. And teachings can only be done by the master. Sometimes you like something different, but the master says no. We had a talk while walking the 150 meters here with Gajānanda, about singing the bhajan yesterday: Prem Kapyā Laharī, Kāmerā Barasāī. I told him, "The rāga is not good." But he said he likes it very much. So there is a conflict between master and disciple. The master gives you a motor engine made out of iron, but the disciple would like to have a motor made out of plastic. He said, "Well, it will be modern times. We live in plastic times." Therefore, Gurudev is that which is teaching you something. The first gurus are mother and father. Many think you are doing what your mother was doing or your father was doing. There is a small girl, two and a half years old, and her mother always used to do her hair like this. And this two-and-a-half-year-old girl also does it like this. Yes, mother and father are one of the best examples. Some grandfather had a nice moustache, a Hungarian moustache, and the Hungarian sooner or later will also have the moustache. Something remains. My father had a long beard, and in the family no one has a long beard except me. Maybe that reflection remains on me, Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is working hard, and Arjuna asked, "Lord, why are you working? Why are you doing these karmas?" Kṛṣṇa said, "I am beyond the karmas. Nothing touches me, but you should know. There is nothing that exists in the universe which I cannot have. But still I do work, I do karma. Because what I do, the people will also do." So parents have to be very careful about what they are doing and what they are speaking in front of the children. Nowadays, the biggest problem is that parents are fighting, small children are listening, and the mother or father is very aggressive toward the other. Small children have fear; they are frightened. Maybe one of the parents is drunk. This fear, that child will never get rid of it in their life. So it's your problem, of you and your wife or husband. But take care that you do not give a negative reflection to the children. Because children will do what you do, so there is a difference. Children should do what parents tell them to do. So the disciple should not do what the master is doing, but what the master is teaching. That's it. So, parents and friends: first are parents, second are your friends, third are your school teachers, fourth is your religious pandit, priest, rabbi, mullah, etc., and the fifth is your Satguru Deva. The sixth is yourself, but you have to learn to get that Brahmajñāna. On the top of the temple, a crow is sitting. People are praying in the temple, and the crow is so proud. He's spreading his wings and looking very intelligently. Another crow said, "What happened to you today?" He said, "I'm self-realized." "What? How do you know?" "I need not to know. All are praying to me." Where? Inside. So one old crow said, "My child, they are praying to God inside, not you." So this Brahma Vidyā, the knowledge of the Brahman—the Brahmins are they who know the Brahma. And this Brahma Jñāna is only given, bestowed to you from Śrotriya, Brahmaniṣṭha, Satguru Dev. So Brahma Vidyā, you cannot have without that Kṛpā. It is said, many, many books you were reading, yugas and yugas, many philosophical books. But no one became the pandit. This is called apravidyā. This is called that which is only vācārtī, not the lakṣārtī. There are two kinds of learned persons. One is called vācārtī. Vācārtī means readings, so what you read in the library, in the books, in the newspapers, etc. This knowledge is borrowed. This knowledge, you have borrowed it. It's not your knowledge. Then it's called lakṣārtī. Lakṣa means your aim, that aim which you would like to realize. This life is a journey, not a destination. We are not at the destination. We are born as human. But you think now we are like God, we can do all that we want. We can declare ourselves, "I'm a guru." Yes, you are. You belong to that group of the kangaroo. So lakṣati, then it comes, the wisdom out. In one bhajan, it is said beautifully in Lālā Nānjī's bhajan. Śiva Nānjī Mahārāj. Anubhava means one who has the experiences, who is the lākṣārtī. Bāṇī means one who speaks about those divine experiences. If you speak your worldly experiences, "Oh God, this person is always drinking coffee and wasting time at the coffee place." This is mostly the Croatian habit. If you don't go to the coffee house to drink coffee, you are not Croatian. So I want to know how tasteful the coffee is. I always ask the Croatians, "Can you make me a coffee, a Croatian coffee, so I can taste what it is?" Why do they spend two and a half hours sitting there? Even the president of Croatia, in Zagreb, there's a coffee house he goes to at least once a week. Otherwise, he's not the president of Croatia. So I want to drink that coffee there, and they gave me. It was not different than coffee in New Delhi or in Jordan. But you go to Vienna and drink this cappuccino—oh my God, this is some coffee. But no, they don't go for coffee, and we spend two and a half hours. So I came to know that Croatia has its secret. They don't give this to tourists. In India, we have a beautiful technology. The ex-president of America, Bill Clinton, sent a team of people to India and said, "Find out which technology India has more, which we don't have." So they were working for one and a half years. All kinds of techniques, from making shoes to the arts to everything, yoga and everything. Then something remained still to know, so they were driving in the night. They came somewhere in the small villages, between the villages. We have in India such roads where you don't need to go to gymnastics in the car, you already have it nicely. Okay, this was one, but what happened? Their car stopped in the middle of nowhere. Three Americans, top qualified engineers, and one Indian, a top qualified Indian. It's called a universal man, you know. So the engineers opened the bonnet of the car. They didn't know what was wrong. They opened the boot. They went under the car. They didn't find anything. So the Indian said, "Well, we shall see some mechanical." They said, "There's nothing." There's not even electricity, light, visible. He said, "Yes, there must be some workshop. Workshop here?" Yes, I shall go and search. So the Indian went. Their dog was barking somewhere. And where the dog's barking, there are some humans. So, if you get lost anywhere and you are searching for something or some humans, then listen to where dogs are barking. It can be gypsies, it can be nomads, or anyone. He went there. There was a small house, a hut, and that man had a cycle repair shop. When the cycle got a puncture, he had only one screwdriver and some one plus. And he said, "Well, our car is broken down. We don't know what happened. Can you help?" He said, "Which car is that?" He said, "Mercedes." He said, "No problem." So he came with one screwdriver, one small hammer, and one key, and he came and he said, "Can you open your bonnet?" And the Americans were standing like, he said, "Good evening." The Indian said to the Americans, "The engineer came. His workshop is just here." Under the tree, a workshop under the tree. Where could that be? India. And we have a big showroom, bigger than this hall, all computerized workshops. So he came. He went to start the key, and he said, "Where is the key lock?" The American said, even he doesn't know where the keyhole is. He put it in like this. He opened the bonnet, and with a little oil lamp, a kerosene lamp, you know, and he did something, and with a hammer, the Americans said, "Oh, God." And he came back and sat in the room and started. Perfectly. Well, Americans said, "How much can we pay you, please?" He said, "Good night. It was my great pleasure to help you. At night, don't drive on this road. Because the next workshop is about 35 kilometers away." Americans hate. Which technologies were those? We have to write to our president. So that man said, the Indian, "Yes, this is a special Indian technology, very ancient, and it's called, named, 'Jugaad'." Okay? When Clinton visited India and he met our Prime Minister, Clinton asked, "We know, Americans, all about your technology. But we would like to buy one technology which we don't have." So the Prime Minister said, "Yes, which way? Jugaad." The Indian Prime Minister said, "No, not in any case. Jugaad remains in India." So it means, just with the hammer and this, and go, huh? It goes. Yes. Nothing is impossible. May it work a little bit. After 20 kilometers, they may stop again. So this is a Jugaad technology, not a permanent one. So Brahmaniṣṭha Śrotriya will not make a Jugaad. So they look perfect. But even you have a guru for the jugāḍ, you know, I can teach you jugāḍ. Do you want to live? No. There is an electric plug, and you want to charge your mobile phone, but the plug is too big and it is too loose. You put it in, and this goes down a little bit. Now we make a yuga. An Indian comes. He takes a mastic, puts it in, and puts the plug in. That's it. So this is one technique. And how long will that last until you pull it out again? Anyhow, well, Brahmaniṣṭhas wrote Ṛgveda. So that knowledge is called the Anubhava. Anubhava comes from Lakṣati, not from Vācārti. So Vācārtī is having borrowed the knowledge from the books, newspapers, magazines, televisions, and from the people. You heard and you said, "Yes, that is like that." And Lakṣatī has got the realization. You know everything about the car. But still you didn't go to training for driving. You know the car completely, every part of the car. But still, you didn't learn driving. You know how to start the car. You put the petrol inside, and you go off on the highway twice, first and last. So when one tries that, "I am a guru, and I don't need another guru," that is your distraction. A disciple will be forever a disciple, even if you are a Brahmajñānī guru. But for your master, you are always a disciple. No arguments. Because, masters, if even a little of his kripa goes to the other side, you have lost everything. Therefore, we pray for kṛpā. Brahman is just a Śrotriya, so who knows of the Brahman and who can inspire us? So the Lakṣati, Vācārtī, and Puruṣārāta. Puruṣārāta is hard work. Hard work, hard techniques, discipline. Don't think my chakras are open. There is one question someone wrote to me about chakras. Which chakra is open, and now God will take care of me or not? Why should God take care of your chakra? No? It's your chakra. If it's awakened, it's always awakened. Sleeping is your sleeping. God doesn't care. And don't think that chakras are open or chakras are closed. Let it be happiness, joy. All will be counted in the last second of your life. Declaration will be there, Brahmajñānī. I can tell you are a Brahmajñānī, but it has no validity. You are all Brahmajñānīs as long as you don't speak. So that is the validity of our Brahmajñāna. So Brahmavidyā is not easy. There's one story which is very painful, but it's a real story. It was. You people will not understand, and you people will not endure, but I will tell you some time after, because we are not capable to do. And especially, like our Swāmījī Gajanan, he will throw away everything and say, "I go." But within one year, the disciple got Brahmajñāna. And there was God incarnated as Aśvinī Kumāra, and he bestowed the Brahmajñāna. This story is long, I will not tell. So, Brahmaniṣṭha Śrotriya and Śrotriya is who is speaking. And we are the śrotas, we are listeners now, that's called the śruti and smṛti. Śruti means that we have heard knowledge, words from the master, and we realized. And what remains in our memory, that's called smṛti. And now, through your smṛti, you give further to your disciples or your children. If you don't have that smṛti, then you lost that smṛti, then you can't give further. So you have to have the real information, though you don't like it. But when you are perfect, you will like it. So the rāga, what Gajanan said, no, many people like this, what he's singing, and he likes it also very much. I said, "Well, all rāga is a good rāga. No, no question. It's okay." But, there is a but. There is a beautiful African dance. You know? Beautiful, you like that African dance? And, there is another dance. It's called Vīṇā Vālcā. Now, an African will come and say, "No, I want to dance like this," and they are doing Vinabhashadi. It doesn't suit together, yes. Therefore, everything has its place. Now, it is that Śruti and Smṛti: Śruti, Smṛti, and Śrutāḥ and Śrotriya. So Śrotriya, we are all listeners. Śrotriya is Gurudeva. And that smṛti, which is the experiences of Gurudeva, he is telling. And we have to give it as it is, as origin, as it is further. That is the work of the master. Don't mix inside spices. Give it as pure quality. You give me a nice piece of tofu. Very nice. Our Maganpurī from Budapest makes such good tofu. And I tasted. Good. But I asked him, "Can you put a little hot paprika inside?" He said, "Yes, Gurudev, no problem." But then it's not pure tofu, it's paprika tofu. He put the paprika. And then it was bought by Umāpurī. She said, "Can you put a little haldi inside?" So the quality is lost. Now it has become jugār. Okay, that is your test. So in the knowledge, there is no compromise. In the quality, no compromise. And in yoga and daily life, no compromise. Keep your techniques, keep your exercises. Don't try to mix, create more this and that, and put inside. Yoga and daily life exercises are finally designed. Hari Om. The Bible is written, finally. Hari Om. If you put something inside, it's not accepted. Guru Granthas, Guru Granthas given, this is that, and that's it. So your Guru Grantha is yoga and daily life. No compromise, no changes. So, Brāhmaṇiṣṭha, Śrotriya, Satguru, and that makes the disciple also Satguru. And these disciples should have that quality. Always. No arguments. There was one disciple, and he went to study in Kāśī, Banāras, Vārāṇasī. Varanasi is the center of knowledge. All philosophers, all decisions, and all challenges come from Varanasi. Where from there you have diploma, it was acknowledged very well. Who speaks very good, who has very good language and good knowledge, we call, oh, he was studying in the Vanaras. Like here, oh, he studied at Zagreb University. If you really nicely take time to study, then Zagreb University has very good students. But the problem is, those students spend a lot of time drinking coffee. So one master sent his disciple to study in Banāras, Kāśī. And he had 15 years of studying. He learned Sanskrit, he learned grammar, he learned all six philosophies, everything. And he came back to his Gurujī. One day, Gurujī and he were passing by one street. A small village, about maximum 60 houses, and in that street there was an oil mill, what we call the cold pressing oil. In Jadan Ashram, we have this beautiful oil mill in the kitchen area, the corner. So when the ox is pulling this, rolling this, and the ox has... To be very close, but for him it's not easy; he will fall down, he will become dizzy. So they have to put something like eyeglasses on the eyes, blinded, blacked, like in an aeroplane you get from against the sun. Okay, that ox should be trained. It's not easy, very hard for an ox. Often he falls down because he becomes dizzy. It takes five, six months. Well, that ox was moving around the oil mill. And hanging one clock, a bell under the knee in the throat of the neck of the ox. The master and disciple were passing by. Now the disciple is making an argument with Gurujī. He is asking a question to Gurujī. "Gurudeva, why does this ox have this bell in his neck?" Gurudeva said, "Because the owner should know if this ox is moving or standing." Because the ox can't see, he has his eyes closed like this, and then the other is going and having his meal. If the ox stops, then the bell's not ringing, so the master will know and he will tell him to go further. Now, the disciple is making an argument: "Gurudeva, suppose the ox will remain standing and he will only move the head. What will the master do?" That Gurujī said, "This ox did not study in Kāśī." If he stops, he will get on his buttocks the sticks. So these are the things we have to practice. So that is the knowledge; the qualities, everything is decided. We humans, now in this modern system, we've changed the names, we've changed many things. Someone asked me, "Swāmījī, can you tell something about what is called wine yoga?" So I said, nowhere in Patañjali is written wine yoga. Neither the Gheraṇḍa Saṃhitā, the Śiva Saṃhitā, nor any other scriptures. So yoga has become commercial, and everyone puts the name. So what Gurudev taught, he gave the pure knowledge to the disciple. And with this, give the blessings. And that Gurudev will bless and say, "This is the successor." That comes, the kripa there, before not. So Sanātana Dharma is a tradition of the teacher and student. It is a Sanskrit name. A Sanskrit teacher is a guru, and a disciple, or a śiṣya, is a student. That's all. It's only a language difference, but this language difference creates conflict in people's minds if you tell somebody, "My guru is coming." Oh, Guru Scott, guru. Oh guru, you are unhanger. So what a question. If I translate "unhanger" into very funny, something which is hanging on you, anyhow. But if I said, "My teacher is coming," no one cares. You have a skiing teacher, you have a driving teacher, a music teacher, many teachers. So your music guru, your skiing guru, your driving guru, where is the problem in using the word "guru"? But this is created as a conflict in the cultures, nationalities, and the beliefs, religion. Therefore, Sanātana is ādi-anādi, eternal religion, and it will be till the whole Prahlād exists. Till the moon and sun are existing, it will again merge to Brahmajñāna. Again, there are the four: Śiva, Viṣṇu, Brahmā, and Śakti. These four are eternal. Their duty is to prepare this game and play this game, play this theater. But the fifth principle above this is called Guru Tattva. And that Guru Tattva frees them. Who is involved in this game? Which kind of game? Janam-Maraṇ, birth and death. Janam Maran Kā Bandhan. We are tied in the cycle of birth and death. It is said that God has created this bandhan of the moha. There is a bhajan from, I think, from Holī Gurujī, and the Satguru comes, and he cuts off this bandhan. So these are five tattvas, or five forces, or five. The Śiva who comes as a Swayambhū with Śakti. Shakti means that energy, power. Pure consciousness can do nothing, and matter can't do anything. Between is the Shakti, and Shakti is called wish, desire. Thy wish will be fulfilled, O Lord. The Shakti which is making everything function is capable. And Viṣṇu, and Brahmā. So among these four, the Guru Tattva is the highest one, because it again liberates, even brings Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva out of this stress. The Guru Tattva, you know, Brahmā, if you see Brahmā sitting on... The lotus flower has four hands and four heads. So Avatthapurī was asking, how does Brahmā sleep? Because one of the faces must be down. So I said, for many yugas, he has to be like that. Then he will be released from his position. There is one book, "Bhajan" from Maṅgīlālji. He said, even an ant will have one day a chance to become Brahmā, Indra, king of the heavens. And again, the king of the heavens, Indra, will one day become an ant. One day. When? Ages and ages, yugas and yugas. Don't worry, it will come. That day, one of my disciples I asked to become a flower till Mahāprabhujī's anniversary, and before four days was the anniversary, and the person begins to eat everything again. So you could see on the cheeks, like you put the bean in the water, which again begins to—morning will be double. So I thought I didn't tell you which anniversary. That was a misunderstanding. So, when there was a question, that person turned to being completely vegan. I would not suggest you to be completely vegan. We need calcium, we need protein, we need milk and yogurt. So sometimes we should take this. Many become completely vegan, and their skin is completely pale, and it's not healthy. Many people will be against me because the vegans are a big group. They say, "No, what do you think about that?" But I would suggest you have some dairy products. Don't drink two liters of milk in the morning and two liters in the evening. Just one cup of milk or one glass of milk, that's all. Or one cup of yogurt. This question is also answered. Such a lecture answers all the questions. So, do the puṇya, do something good, and we can do good for others too. When I pray, I think for you. If you don't believe, you will not ask me. Please, Swāmījī, can... You blessed me so recently. Our yoga brother Pūrṇānand from Slovenia passed away just a few days ago, and today prasād was donated by his daughters here, and they gave some donation. We thank you, and we pray for Pūrṇānandī. At the same time, today, chocolate is given to children. I don't know who it was. Prasad for this evening: chocolate offered by Seva Devī and Kailash Purī from Split, from their newborn son. Chocolate, son—we wish him a very happy, very healthy, long, harmonious, and spiritual life. So, Sanātana Dharma, eternal Dharma. In Sanātana Dharma, there is no particular name, Dharma. Nor a name of a particular God. Even Krishna, Rama, all these twenty-four incarnations are not counted in Sanatana Dharma. Because then that becomes man-made religion. So it is spoken about Brahman. That's it. So, my dear one, Mahāprabhujī, that's Satguru Dev, Brahmaniṣṭha Śrotriya. And just to look at Mahāprabhujī's picture, you feel that light of Brahmajñāna. So I pray to Mahāprabhujī to bless you all. And tomorrow, the webcast will begin at 9:30, because of winter, yeah? And those brothers and sisters are listening. In the morning, if it is snowing and the roads are icy, please don't come here; stay home. And one of our sisters is looking today at the webcast. And you love her very much. And she has a birthday tomorrow, Sunday, and she has already Sunday there. There's our Madhu from Zagreb, who is in Australia now, so we wish Madhu all the best and a happy birthday. Much love. Thank you. Siddhi Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Devīśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai. Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai.