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Good morning to everyone. Did you sleep well? Did you have good dreams? Snow? Do you know how many degrees it was last night? Ask Krishnananda. Okay, welcome. There are some questions. I just got an email that on the 21st of December this year, there will be two months of darkness. Prepare for that. It happens every year – the 21st of December is the shortest day and the longest night. But what people are spreading is a rumor. So we will talk on the 21st of January, okay? There are some people who like to spread blackmail, and it goes everywhere. Something really very rare, and then everyone begins to talk. Next year, in 2013, on the 21st of December, all who attend the seminar “Yoga and Dead Life” will levitate one hundred meters above us. You will look like angels in the snow. But space is limited, so hurry up to register. It’s very cheap – $25,000 or $21,000 – and only for a particular constellation, not the whole weekend. You have to be there. If you miss half a minute, you can’t. So yogīs will levitate in the snow. Yes, and where to send the money? Not to me, not to the organizers. Send the money to the bank called Brahmaloka. For the sake of the protection of our planet, this is a commission to dear God, that He should take more care of our planet. So, that was it. If we have one more bhajan, I will translate a bhajan that is related to this point. Thank you. Meanwhile, I have one question. The Kumbha Melā is just in front of the door, and this year is more interesting. In case of case, on the 21st of January, everything goes down. Then we are in the safe place at Kumbha Melā. There is a direct door to the Supreme. So, who is going to Kumbha Melā this year? Please raise your hand. That’s all. Thank you, almost all of you, thank you. I look forward to seeing you there. This year, the Kumbha Melā will have beautiful programs in our camp. There will be a seven-day reading of the Mahāśivapurāṇa, and also for seven days we’ll be reading about Maharṣi Gargācārya, who was the main priest at the wedding of Pārvatī and Śiva. He was a guru of Kṛṣṇa – he gave the name to Kṛṣṇa – and performed many ceremonies. Gargācārya was a great ṛṣi from Satya Yuga onwards, a true Satya Yuga nagy bölcs ṛṣi. His children were very great as well. There is an award about Gargī given by the Government of India to a very, very talented student – a very high award. So they were the ṛṣis, and we all are part of the ṛṣi kula. We are all children of those ṛṣis. We maintain this Ṛṣikul. Ṛṣikul means the dynasty. So these particular ṛṣis’ children, that’s what we call it, became like a caste. But that is lost now in the modern world. It’s like you call someone Miller – family names, you know, Mr. Miller, Mr. So-and-so. That was the particular reason for the ṛṣi’s coming. But it has changed. Now many things have changed. You can change your name, you can change everything. You can change from Muller to Wagen. From within, you can grow the inner. But in earlier times it was not so. To maintain the quality and the dynasty – what we call the lineage – that was the responsibility of the children. And among children, the son, because the daughters were married and they went with their husband to the husband’s family. So she had to change her name, but the boys did not. The boy had to keep the family name, and so the name remained. It was not good to change your surname then. So that’s how the dynasty began with some holy saint, holy ṛṣi. You may call him Swāmī, you may call him ṛṣi, you may call him holy, you may call him yogī. There was a ṛṣi called Agastya. You know that the ocean didn’t want to give way, and there is a long story in the Rāmāyaṇa. Agastya Ṛṣi drank the whole ocean in one sip, just as we take a sip of water. And the ocean had to come and apologize. Then again, the ṛṣi gave the water back. Such was their greatness – we can’t drink even one glass at once. So the children of those ṛṣis were great. And so we are all children of those ṛṣis. We are all ṛṣis; it doesn’t matter in which part of the world we are. The human race was created by Brahma, and Brahma first created the seven ṛṣis out of his jñānendriyas. This is very nicely explained in the Mahāśivapurāṇa, because Śiva is the manifestor. He is the first one, the Svayambhū. No one has created him. The entire universe that we see, the blue sky, is Śiva’s body. And all the stars and moons and suns exist in Śiva’s body. Viṣṇu and Brahma were created by Śiva. That Śiva is Svayambhū, and it is his light that is called Jīvan Jyoti, the light of life, the flame of life. That Jyoti is manifesting Śiva, and through his Prāṇa and Śakti comes creation. It is ages and ages, but according to Vedic science and philosophy – the mathematics – we have exactly counted years: how many billions, trillions of billions of existences are in the universe. This is that science which we forgot. We believe only what nowadays people declare as science. The present science is only twelve percent of Vedic science. The time has come to research how they found out everything. Present science is still not able to go to all the nine planets. But those ṛṣis were talking about the entire universe, where there are thousands of millions of solar systems. It is that Vedic mathematics, that Vedic science, by which they said that even the entire endless universe is like a ball, but it has no end. All the moons and stars and everything are like a zero. And zero we call śūnya. In English we say zero, in German I think they say null, and in Hindi jīrā means masala, cumin seeds. If you say “Bring me jīrā,” they will bring cumin seeds. Every language has its own meaning. Every language is a good language; no language is a bad language. But the best language is love, with kindness, with humbleness. And the worst language is speaking badly about others. Even animals don’t talk badly about others. Only sometimes dogs talk: the whole night they have dialogues, but they are not fighting. They are saying, “What my master fed me today,” and “What did you eat?” Animals don’t backbite, animals don’t criticize, animals don’t tell the bad qualities of others. They have only two languages: love and eating. That’s it. But humans, humans have free hands, humans have great chants – but we miss it. So śūnyakāśa, śūnya – śūnya means there is nothing, though there is nothing, yet everything exists in that nothingness. And what science is saying – where there is something is not a science. What exists is not interesting. What is nothing is the science – to search out of nothingness. So the śūnya, the zero, represents the highest consciousness. You know, Swami Vivekānandajī – now nearly more than a hundred years ago – had a conference, I think 125 or 120 years ago, where they gave him only zero time. They gave him only two minutes. And they thought, “What subject should we give this Indian yogī?” They didn’t know exactly the philosophy, the science of India. The language of India, the real Indian language, is love. So Vivekānanda stood up and said, “My dear brothers and sisters.” He called them brothers and sisters. For the first time, they heard that you can call someone brothers and sisters. It was a very, very big surprise and a very positive impression. They were always saying, “Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen.” With ladies and gentlemen you have no relation. You can marry them, you can cheat them, you can do business with them, you can fight with them – because it’s just ladies and gentlemen. But when you say “My dear brothers and sisters,” all relations are finished. Only one remains: you are my sister, you are my brother. Not only brother and sister, but the dear one. And then he began to talk about zero, about śūnya, girls. You know how important girls are in the world? The whole world is praying to the girls. The richest person in the world is praying to the girls day and night: “Please come more to me.” And who is that girl? Lakṣmī – the money. In Kali Yuga, we are all devoted to money. So women can raise their hands up. Kali Yuga is the Yuga of women. In the Soviet Union they say “Soviet Jensky.” Powerful, I know. That’s why Śakti and Śiva are not acknowledged through the gender system. No. If you take Śakti and Śiva as gender, you don’t know anything about Śiva and Śakti. It is consciousness and energy. So a man can be like a female, and a female can be like a man. A man’s consciousness is more involved in female consciousness, and female consciousness is more involved in male consciousness. A beautiful girl comes in, and you observe psychologically: do the man’s eyes go there first, or the woman’s? Because the man says, “Oh, my part has come, my energy.” And if some beautiful man comes, more women’s eyes go there. So this is a very nice unity. We have two hemispheres, and we have two parts of our heart. Everything is two. Our jñāna indriyas are two eyes, divided in two – why not only one eye? Two ears – why not only one ear? Many things we have to think about. God gave us equal rights, equal feelings, equal energies. Always the woman is the beautiful mother, and without mother, finished. And the father, of course – without the father, everything is empty. But without children, their life is finished. There was a king who had one daughter. You must know that we love daughters more than the son. The father loves the daughter more than the son, and the mother loves the son more than the daughter – except in certain cases, and the normal family loves them equally. When the girl finds a boyfriend, the father is more jealous; when a boy finds a girlfriend, the mother is more jealous. That’s the feeling. The king loved his daughter more than anything. For him she was like a son, like a god. He had sons also, but he loved his daughter so much that he wanted to find the best husband for her: very intelligent, learned, capable, beautiful. And the daughter was also very much educated in Vedānta, yoga, and all philosophies. Now, there was a condition: who could marry her? She had a question, and the person had to answer – a philosophical question, not a question like how to make lecho. Even every Hungarian small girl knows how to make lecho. If you ask Slovakian girls how to make halušky, that’s just normal. But if you ask Africans how to make halušky, they don’t know what it is. Once somebody asked me how to make halušky, and I said, “Hallucination.” So she had a particular game. The prince who came would have to play with her, and if she was the winner, the boy was rejected. Many, many princes came, and they all lost. She had some special sādhanā, and she had a very beautiful cat. She had some kind of magic with the cat, and she would keep the cat beside her. And on the cat’s head she placed an oil lamp. As long as the oil lamp burned without disruption, no one could defeat her – not even Brahma would come and win. Jenški. So the king’s messengers were very tired of it. Hundreds of men came; no one was the winner. Once these old men went to Govind Purī and said, “Dear brother, we are tired, we are fed up. From what? From that girl – no one can win.” He said, “What is that? How is that?” The cat is in the middle of the game. Govind Purī laughed, “No problem. The cat is another generation of females, of women – no problem.” They said, “You are great, but how?” Then they told him there is one shepherd who stays with the goats and sheep in the forest. He doesn’t know how to write A, B, C. He only knows how many sheep and goats are there and how to milk them – nothing else. Govind Purī said that man is the perfect husband for that girl. Destiny. What a destiny. They went to that shepherd and asked, “Hello, brother, how are you? Do you want to buy some goats?” “No, no, we don’t want.” “Do you want to buy the manual for the goats?” “No, no.” They asked, “Are you married?” He said, “What is that? It’s a new word in my dictionary.” So they explained to him about having a wife and so on. He said, “That’s interesting.” They told him, “We would like you to marry the princess.” He said, “Who is that?” They explained. He had heard something about it, but no one could go there and see her. They said, “Yes, that is what we want. But you must do exactly what we say – don’t do anything wrong, don’t move unless we say yes or no. Otherwise you are out.” Good. So he went to the barber, got make-up, went to the tailor and got a nice dress. They brought him to Govind Purī. Govind Purī put on his vest a beautiful bamboo flute – and he put something inside that nobody knew. He said, “When the game begins, and when you think she is about to win, you release this little thread which is tied at your waist.” He didn’t know what it was. Govind Purī said, “You will see what happens. She will lose.” The companions understood. Govind Purī said, “Come tomorrow as a winner.” Now the game begins. “He Kevalam, He Kevalam…” When the girl was about to win, they released the little thread. That thread was tied to a mouse. When the thread was released, the mouse tried to come out, and what did the cat do? The light went off. Hari Om. They pulled the thread back again. Seven times. And that’s why now you have to walk around the fire seven times – winner. So there are two meanings in this. The hidden nature is difficult to overcome. You can meditate many, many years, but if inside you have this devil energy, at the time of your liberation suddenly all negative energy explodes. Therefore Mahāprabhujī said: Manvā Dīre Dīre Cal, Gaganagar Candraevai… Slowly, slowly. Well, she was happy, but she said this is not the last game. Tomorrow will be the philosophical dialogue. They went again to Govind Purī. “What to do?” He said, “No problem. He should sit peacefully, like a Swāmījī, and let her talk.” So she did not speak; she communicated with mudrās, only mudrās. And he had to tell her what each mudrā meant. If he gave the right answer, she would marry him. The shepherd is sitting there, his friends with him. The princess came, and the shepherd sat in front of her, looking at her. They told him, “Sit straight.” She asked, “What does he do? What does he say?” They replied, “Knowledge is still so-so. Her knowledge – she is going to make a philosophy, but I doubt her knowledge.” She took the tissues and said, “My God, this must be a very wise husband.” One of the companions ran to call Govind Purī back: “Please, now is the last judgment, the last trial. You have to be there. The girl is asking a question with mudrās.” She showed one mudrā: Ekobram – only one Brahman. The shepherd thought, “She’s telling me like this,” so he said, “I will give you.” She asked, “What did he mean?” They looked to Govind Purī, and he said, “Yes, he agrees: there is only one Brahman, but without the five tattvas, Brahman is nothing.” She said, “Yes, I accept – five elements. A very, very wise person.” Then she showed another mudrā as if angry. She asked, “What does it mean?” Govind Purī said, “Five separate can’t do anything. Help to become one with the five elements.” She said, “Great person.” Any more questions? Govind Purī continued, “She said, ‘He tells the constellation is wrong, no more talk.’” She said, “He knows about constellations? Yes.” So she came with a flower garland and put it on him. She married him. He got the palace. He went into a room with her and began to talk: “Where are my goats, and what are they doing?” She asked, “Which goats?” Then he said, “I can’t talk to you – I have to go to my goats.” She said, “Who are you?” He said, “I’m a shepherd.” Oh God, she kicked him out of the window, and he fell down. How sad! He said, “Oh, thank you, but my goats…” and he went away. But when he fell down, what happened to him? Some cakras awakened, and he became a great poet. Now he is Kālidāsa. There is a very large book written in Sanskrit poetry. When you study philosophy, if you want to do it, you have to go through Kālidāsa’s works. So you never know when, or what, can awaken in us. But that is not what it means entirely. Listen carefully: do not push your husband away. Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān. So in the śūnya, in the jīva – emptiness – but within that is that ray of light, the energy. It was received by those great ṛṣis, the Brahma Putra, and that energy, that creation as a human, we are all. So do not lose your roots. Trace out your roots. That is the eternal Sanātana. Sanātana means relation, connection. That’s why Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said in the Bhagavad Gītā: Mame vaso jīv loke – I am in everyone, all creatures. Jīva bhūta sanātana – all are my sanātana, my relative. My essence. So search thy dynasty. Finally, you will come to some ṛṣis. And if you have lost it, then let’s hope for the best – it’s also good. It’s much easier to approach the Supreme. It’s very important to know your ancestors. Only your ancestors are the link to your roots. How many generations do you know? Five, six, ten, fifty, a hundred? By the five hundredth generation, you will come to know which ṛṣi is where. Or by the hundredth generation – it’s not very far. Research work has shown that in the ex-Yugoslavian part called Serbia, there is a lot of the generation we call the farmer Jāṭ in India. They have very similar names. This was researched by a lady from Serbia, married in India. So we do have a relation around the world somehow. Then it’s easy to overcome the karmic causes in our life – the way of living, way of thinking, way of ceremonies. Every culture has ceremonies, every domination has its ceremonies. But the ceremony should be one that links to your ancestors. If we don’t know, then we shall concentrate for the future; then we have to link to some other. And that, finally, is the Satguru Dev. So it all comes to one light. What I wanted to tell you is that at the Kumbha Melā, there will be readings and talks about Gargācārya. And Ṛṣi Gargācārya is the lineage where my own lineage also goes back. He is the one who brought what we call astrology. He was a great scientist who brought astrology and astronomy. Automatically, in this generation, they have the knowledge of astrology – even with very little education, they have astrological knowledge. This ability is there; the blessing is there. And then there will be the Mahāśivapurāṇa. So this Kumbha Melā will be very, very interesting. I think we will try to be there more often. Thank you. Gurujī, come quickly to the Kumbha Melā, okay? Don’t come only for one day. One day is no day. One week is very weak. Two weeks is thick. All of us should bathe together. Thank you. Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai, Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān, Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai. Now the Sādhvī Śāntījī will sing one bhajan. Think over which one you will sing, okay? Oh God, again I forgot to speak about Mahāprabhujī. Better not to speak, because Mahāprabhujī is still not here.