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Good evening and blessings to all of you. Welcome to our āśram here. It is a beautiful time, a beautiful āśram. I see on every face how happy you look. This happiness reflects two things. First, it shows how much we love as one family; we are very happy to see all of us. Second, the beautiful smiles, reflection, and happiness on your faces show that the destruction of the world has not happened. This question was asked of me last time when I was here. It was asked in England, in Australia, New Zealand, even in Brazil and Mexico. Surprisingly, Indian journalists also asked. My answer does not come from me. The answer comes from Gurudeva, Devpurījī. Devpurījī is the creator. He manifests everything, and Brahmā, Viṣṇu, ṛṣis—all are His creation. When they ask me a question, I just close my eyes for one second and look to Devpurījī and ask him the question, and the answer comes. And always he opened his eyes and said, "What? Who is going to make some interruptions in my Māyā?" I look to Mahāprabhujī, and he says, "You believe this?" And I look to Holī Gurujī, he just smiles and says, "May you know." These were always inner answers. Ten to twelve years ago, similar things happened; people engaged in blackmailing, especially in Spain. They were asking me that question again and again. And our Sādhvī Yamunā believed it and said, "Swāmījī, but it will happen." I said, definitely it will happen, but good things. My dear ones, it is not so easy that the world will be gone away. Even if Shiva wants it, it will not be. We are such naughty children that we do not follow them. Shiva said yes, and we said no. What do you think? Creation is in your hands, but the destruction should relax. Yes, there are changes of the time. In reality, there is no time. Time is made by humans. That is why in Brahmaloka it means beyond time and space, one without second. Time exists where there is movement, and that space has no movement. What is moving are the atoms. They may be called the stars, moon, and sun systems. And according to that movement, time has been created by the human mind. So again, the real changing of the yugas and changing of some planets on Earth is only possible to tell according to the science of the Veda. Call them yugas, kalpas, vanmantras, etc. Billions and trillions of years, but not that it will be a destruction. Every kind of predicting by some doubts of the humans has failed in this world. That is why all systems failed. But eternal Sanātana never fails. Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa tells in the Bhagavad Gītā: "Mamey vāso jīva-lokye jīva-bhūta-sanātana." I live in every entity. Mamey vāso jīva-lokye. These jīvas, the living creatures on this earth. Jīva-bhūta-sanātana. All entire entities are my part, my relation, my relative, Sanātana. That is eternal truth beyond any dogmas of religion, cultures, racism, or differences of humans or animals, no gender dualities. It is only one, one in all, all in one, that. Ātmā. When we realize that Ātmā, then we will smile at our own foolishness. What? I was believing in God? And I was against this one and that one? In reality, I was against myself. It is a reflection, that kind of reflection. Ādi Guru Śaṅkarācārya said: "You see in the rope or in the string as a snake. You see in the shell silver, but there is no silver." So it is the māyā, illusion. Illusion is darkness. Ātmajñāna is the answer to all our illusions. Therefore, we are born as human, anantyatra, an endless journey, and still this life is a journey, not a destination. Do not miss it. Today I was driving the car; we entered Brno, wanted to come to the highway towards Olomouc, and this, and Mahāsadāśivī said, "No, no, the next one, exit the next one," but it was not that. So we had to go again a long direction to turn back and come again. Whatever happens in our life is a kind of lesson. And you should see some sense in it, so I said, "Ah, no." If we miss the human life, then we have to make the circle again. It is a kind of one-way street highway; you cannot turn, that is it. So we are all in a one-way street. Often my Austrian disciples ask me, "Swāmījī, why is there no short way?" I say that will be after. There is one day flying, and even only one hour flying. They are born and soon die. Žádné. But there is the possibility of losing our path. There are exits, but not for your destination. So, exit of the māyā; māyā means ignorance. Māyā means illusion. But you people always understand Māyā means a woman. I do not know who stupidly made you put this bug in your mind. And if they are Māyā, they are many, sitting, they are so beautiful, so good persons. Here is sitting one Māyā, she is a very intelligent person. Without her work, her boss is lost. So Māyā means the ignorance. Māyā means darkness. Māyā means that you miss it. You have no knowledge. Wrong exit. That is māyā. And if you see still like a female, male, then most māyā is the man. Though he is a boss, but I will not say anymore. So it is the illusion. So Bhagavān said, "Mām, i.e., Vasu, Jīva, look, I live in every creature." Against whom should I fight? Fighting against someone is fighting against yourself. Jīva-bhūta-sanātana, all are my Self. But at the same time, before that, Kṛṣṇa said, yuge yuge sambhavāmi, every yuga I incarnate, manifest, through my yogamāyā. So there are the yugas, changing but not destruction. Not like this earth will be becoming powder and, with the air, gone. There is a hocus-pocus, so how could you believe? Know the reality. So, I think you should study the Vedas more and look into the system, the time counting of the yugas. Then you are immortal. Yes, my God. I was thinking I am a goat, but I am a tiger. You know this story in Vedānta. Yes, now you know, but you do not want to know. Very soon, you will go into the bathroom and look at your place. Ātmā does not do this. I go in the bathroom and look like this. Who is doing this? Our ignorance, that we are not satisfied as we are. Therefore, it is said: Happiness, staying above all anxieties, is only possible through ātma-jñāna. We may talk a lot, but without this ātma-jñāna, everything is dogma. Ātma-jñāna is that liberation to the Brahmaloka, to become one with the Brahman. Many people who are searching for self-realization, again, some fall into the wrong direction. They missed the exit. They took the wrong exit. So there are some people teaching, "I am only Ātmā, I do not need a Master, I do not need this." Now I am human, that is liberation. We need Gurudeva, not only until the end of this life, but until the end of the endless journey into the endless universe, to merge into oneness. Until then, Guru Kripa, Guru Gyāna, Guru Light, and the Gurudev’s love will guide us. That highest principle, there are five principles. One is the energy, the Shakti, may be called. Mother, energy, universal mother, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva. Above these four, there is the Guru Tattva. So, Guru Tattva is declared as the highest Tattva. But Guru Dev will not say that I am Guru Dev. On the day when you begin to think that now you are a Guru Dev, your destruction is there. Very soon. Now his counting begins again, back. And falling down is quicker than climbing up. My feeling is, my experience is, you have to become guru-māyī. Guru-māyī means to become one in that guru principle. No arguments. You should have that saṅkalpa. That light of wisdom of my Gurudeva, as much as I say, is my benefit. There we gain the Guru Tattva. It is that water which will become Gaṅgā water when it enters into the holy Gaṅgā. And the same holy water of the holy Gaṅgā, if we exit on the wrong way to the canalization, it will not be anymore as a Gaṅgā water. So, therefore, do not miss it, and know where your exit is. The Gaṅgā was coming from Satyaloka again. Brahmā again brought the Gaṅgā. Gaṅgā is a daughter of Brahmā, and then he sent her back to Satyaloka. But due to the prayers of many, many ṛṣis and goddesses, even Viṣṇu and Brahmā had to go again and call her from Brahmaloka. Satyaloka, he is the same. Gaṅgā, you have to come to this mortal world. And he gave her time. After that, you can come back. So we hope that day is not so near. On the day when the Gaṅgā will disappear, then the yugas will change. Until then, enjoy Kali Yuga. Therefore, do not hurry. Mahāprabhujī said very clearly: Polako, polako, langsam, dhire, dhire. So advised: always go slowly. A tree grows slowly. The tree which grows more slowly has a long life. A tree takes time to grow. It takes time to achieve that ātmā jñāna. So our work is, first, it is called guru mukhi, not man mukhi. Guru mukhi means one who listens to the mantra through the words of gurudeva. Many things now I know. Many mantras, I do not need a guru, I can practice this mantra. There are certain mantras only, like prayers, but the guru mantra is different. And that guru mantra, you should get, you can get only from that guru who is in physical form with you and speaks the mantra to you. That is called a guru mantra, so that is called guru mukhi. And guru mukhi, if one will not follow and give up, then one goes in the wrong direction. So, guru mukhi, if this obeys the guru vākyas, then from the guru mukhi he becomes the dukhi. Dukhi means troublesome, facing the troubles. Because then one becomes man mukhi. Man Mukhī means mind. So now you are only doing what your mind tells you, which will not lead to our destination. So what do you mean to become a guru? Me? To work, to practice, we need to change the thinking. But we have to put everything in order and share the light, the wisdom of the message of the Guru Dev to give everywhere as a prasāda, and in them also, we can make a mistake. It is called pagpagpar khatrahe; on every step, there is danger. Do not think now you practice twenty years strictly sādhanā, now you have spirituality and brahmagyāna. You stand up, and now I will go and work as a Jīvan Mukta, and you step on this snake, and he will nicely embrace you. This is a pag-pag-par khatra. Khatra means dangerous, risk. He asks, "Do you want to go on a one-year path or a twelve-year path? We can come in one year there, or it will take twelve years." So people like us said, "Yes, one year." So it will cost you one life more. That is a path that is very, very hard. Galiyāṁ choṭī, the streets are narrow. Raat andherī, the dark nights. Raste ve chiknāī, the slippery way. Agar se raptay paav tumhara, if you sleep there. Padega undi khai, you will fall into the deep hole. Which one? Other lives. Born, die, born, die. Therefore, though the human can achieve everything, it is still not so easy. And the twelve-year way is very comfortable. Divāna Satguru Nāmaka. Mastāna Hālī. No more worry. And we do not hurry. But at the same time, on every step, there is a danger. What kind of danger? Which snake can bite us? The snake of the first attachment, and then jealousy, and then hate. The person who had attachment and jealousy and now is lost and creates hate, that is the most poisonous snake. That is called tiger snake, or there is one snake called red belly snake, and more dangerous, called a brown snake. The bite of the māyā, when māyā will bite you, then you are for a long time in anesthesia, anesthesia long time. My abidance, oh, be careful. Which one? Not outside. Our inner feelings. Do not blame anyone. That is the biggest mistake. Blame thyself. Even you are correct, but still you are the guilty one. Why? It happened. If I were not here, it would not have happened. Happened, so I am guilty that I am here, that is it. So, the twelve-year way is comfortable, but still we have to pray to God, to Gurudev. Now, but the Gurudev is singing beautifully, but just so, he said, "Gurudev, please do not notice my mistakes, forgive my mistakes. O Lord, please do not look at my mistakes. You are the equal vision one. If you wish, my Lord, you can let me cross the ocean of this ignorance, Māyā. God, God,... God. If you want, you can do it, Samadarśī, a house of Bhadrika Pariyo... There is no sin, there is no sin, there is no sin. Nāḍīya eg nalka havata melo hi nirabharo. Eg nāḍīya eg nalkā melo, Sushara na mapario, Jīva eg brahma kahāvata. Sūryaṁ jāgaro jīva eka brahma kahavata, sūṣyam jāgaro eka brahma ajāte. Gurudeva kī śuddha smaraṇarūpāya bhagavān. Prabhujī, merī avagucchitā na daro. Lord, please do not take in consideration my mistakes." This means that a sādhaka, a practitioner, is always aware not to make a mistake. A pilot who is taking off a big jumbo jet, hundreds of people are inside, and he tells himself constantly, "I should not make any mistake." And how safe, sometimes landing in such a way that you can hardly feel it landed. A pilot will not just say, "Okay, for one hour I can just have a little sleep, let it fly." So do not say, "One day I do not practice my mālā, it does not matter." It does matter a lot. So ways long, night is dark. Waves are high, and the boat is in the middle of the ocean, and lightning in the dark clouds. O Mother, O Divine Mother, how far is the shore? My door, Nāgārjuna, I have to go to a far distance, Mother. Let me know, son. The Kinara Kama, the very peaceful beach and the peaceful pieces when we meditate. So, the counting of the time, that one is accurate, that is the yugas, the Vedic counting, where it is described clearly when the sun was manifested, and when the sun will finish, this one. Out of that counting also comes the mathematical counting, comes the astrology, and that astrology and astronomy is all according to the Vedic science. Therefore, do not worry, every day is a new day. And every day, something is happening. Definitely, there was a little earthquake today. Definitely, some husband was fighting with his wife. And definitely, someone died. And you say, you see, on the 21st of December it happened. Every second, something is happening in the body. So, thanks to Mahāprabhujī, thanks to God that we did not experience that the world is going down. So do not divide yourself, do not divide your feelings, and do not pray only for something that I want to get, that. What you will get, it will go. What you have today, it was someone’s yesterday, and it was given to you. Now today is yours, but tomorrow will be someone’s. Oh Arjuna, why are you crying? Do not divide yourself into thousands of pieces. Do not you trust a little bit? My ignorance, and you are just dividing Śiva. You, you took the... Shankar, pop Shiva, and now what are you doing? But still, it is said that there are always some tests. God wants to know how much we have trust in Him in many different ways. We never know what the purpose of these things is, what we got. Maybe some troubles or happiness, too. It is hard to know. So we will continue tomorrow. So this was the one thing, and second, what I told you in the beginning, it is also good to know today. It is said that today is the longest night and shortest day. So, what means the longest night? Ignorance. And what to do in ignorance? Satsaṅg. Every evening there is a satsaṅg. And because with a long day, then we are going somewhere on the beach and swimming and walking and running and this and that, we have little time for satsaṅg. So even day is like waves. You see in an aeroplane the map from the far distance of this globe. That is exactly like a Shiva Liṅga. Going waves like this, it is dark. Going like this, it is light. So one time it is light, and then the dark, and the night. These are the waves, and we are between. So tonight is the longest night, and tomorrow is the shortest day. So we will have nice programs tomorrow too, very short. So everyone should attend the program, and I hope that you have received, got some kind of accommodation. I think we have to make here a big hotel. There are very few hotels where one thousand or two thousand people can be accommodated. But then we have to be permanent here. Otherwise, all the time, they have two thousand people, and then the whole year is empty; that person goes bankrupt. So, I wish you all the best. And now, still there are so many bhaktas who have to come, giving prasāda and greetings. But first, we will have prayer.