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Good evening. Please distribute the prasāda now. Welcome again to you all at this beautiful, holy place—the Mahāprabhū Deep Satsaṅg Foundation in the Czech Republic. This is a very beautiful time, a special occasion of Mahāśivarātri. There is only one God, whose name is Mahāśiva. Mahādeva. There is no other. Any God has a name. This title... please go and distribute; don't come here. "Mahā" means great. Mahā means supreme. Go, please don't come here. Mahā means supreme. Mahā means universe. And Mahā means the biggest. In every aspect, Bhagavān Śiva, Śraddhā Śiva, Svayaṃbhu, is the greatest one. Mahādev. "Deva" means God. Among all the deities, Śiva is the greatest one—the immensity of his glories and the greatness of Bhagavān Sadā Śiva. If Śiva had not manifested himself here as Sadā Svayaṃbhu, this creation would not exist anymore. This earth would not exist anymore. From the very beginning until now, it is his blessing. Whether we believe or don't believe, our belief doesn't make any difference. And if we don't believe, it also doesn't make any difference, because his is the entire universe. And who are we in the entire universe? Invisible bacteria. Even with the best telescope or microscope, we can't see that. So, what does our argument help for that? So he is he, Mahādev. Every breath is Śiva. Our jīva—what we call jīvātmā, that's called jīva, the soul, the individual one—all creatures, not only humans. In the last century, the 20th century, humans began to say that the greatest service is to humans. And what we began to create is called humanitarian. There is hardly any organization which is called veterinarian or for other creatures. Since we began to say service to humans is great, we put the human on a very high point, but at the same time we make a discrimination towards other creatures. Many people think animals are only for our using and eating, which is not the case. These animals—it doesn't matter birds, fish, animals, any, reptilians, all—we call them mukh prāṇī. Mukh prāṇī means those living beings who can't speak to us in our language. Our beloved Satguru Dev, Swami Madhavānandjī, used to say: Sabī prāṇī sukha chāhte haiṁ. Take it yourself. Don't come to me anymore, okay? Help yourself and sit down. Sukha kī prāpti—the approach of happiness—and duḥkha kī nivṛtti—to become free from troubles. Sukh or Dukh, these are two parts. Satsaṅg is the way to Sukha. And kusanga is the way to Dukha. Any negative thought towards anyone which awakens in you, if that is an awakening of the satanic or asuric energy in us, and any positive thoughts towards anyone in this world is an awakening of the divinity, divine consciousness. We have stored, from many, many lives within our unconscious and subconscious level, both qualities: Sukha and Duḥkha. Sukha is hidden in us, not outside. And Duḥkha is hidden within us, not outside. When we put one seed in the earth, it doesn't grow immediately. It takes some time to sprout. So maybe when you criticize or speak something negative and think negative and behave negative towards someone, temporarily you are happy. But these negative thoughts, acts, and words are thorn bushes which you are cultivating in your consciousness. These thorny bushes are like... the thorns are like a hook. There is a bush, a berry bush, and very nice ripe berries inside. You put your hand in to catch the berry. You may catch one berry, but you are caught by many thorns. So you think that you do good when you think negative about someone, but you are caught by those thorn bushes. They are like this, you know, there are wires, biting wires. Mostly, they have these wires for security. So if you touch it, hold it, it bites you, you can't open the hand. Therefore, Sukha and Dukha are within us. So try to sweep out all the vṛttis which are negative. Then you will become free from Duḥkha. And Dukkha is the fruit of Dukkha. Or the quality of the Dukkha, or the embodiment of the Dukkha, is fear. Fear. So bhaya and abhaya, these are two words. Bhaya is the fear, scared. And abhaya is not afraid. So those who are in the bhaya, in the sacred fear, and have negative vṛttis, qualities, acts—such a prāṇī, such a creature, including humans, is called a hiṃsak prāṇī. Hiṃsak prāṇī means... hiṃsā means violence. And Ahiṃsā Prāṇī is one who doesn't hide, who always has pure thoughts. The Ahimsa creature chooses the light always. But these are the hiṃsak. Their life will be more troublesome. So there are people who do and speak wrong, bad things, but they don't tell their name. They hide their ID because they are full of fear, scared. And that is the result of negative thinking. And sukha or nirbhaya. Nirbhaya means no fear. Therefore, Holy Gurujī said in one bhajan: "Tehrī sadguru rāke lāj, chintā mat karnā." Gurudev protects you, don't worry. Tehri Sadguru rāke lāj, chintā mat karnā. Nirbhay raho nishank, kabhi mat dharna. Nirbhay raho, be always fearless. Nishank, without any doubts. Kabhi mat ḍharṇā, don't be scared. And at the end, Gurujī said, "Satya pachalnā," walk on the path of the truth. And that truth is "Brahma satya, jagat mithyā." That supreme is the ultimate one. Your deeds are either satya or asatya. Not that you have to walk through the forest, the inner path. Therefore, it is said: "śvaśu śvaś apkā sumaraṇ." Holy Gurujī said, "Śvāśu śvāś āpka sumaran." O my Lord Bhagavān Dīpṇḍaya and Mahāprabhujī, svāso svāsa means with each and every inhalation and exhalation, with each breath, apkā śumaraṇa, the memory of and your name. When you said, while inhaling, "God," you don't say together "God, devil," you don't say, you say... God. You are inhaling the light of God. Exhaling also God. So what is in you will come out. It’s very important that we have the God quality. We are constantly having a connection with God. So, sukhi prāpti—everyone is searching for happiness, happiness. Now, the human would like to have happiness, but they fall into the wrong direction. With this, the greed awoke. And due to the greed, they lost Satyapatha, Satyaniṣ. Where there is greed, there is ego. Where there is ego, there is anger. Where there is anger, there is jealousy. And where there is jealousy, there is fear. And where the fear is, revenge. So these are one after the other; these negative qualities are rolling, getting more and more, like a snowball. And if you have dayā, mercy, with the dayā you become selfless. When you become selfless, you get love. When you get love, then you get forgiveness, and when you get forgiveness, you get friendship. And when you become a friendship, you become very generous, giving, giving. So again, this is another quality which is growing, one after the other. Principles, that is also a snowball. Śukha kī prāpti, duḥkha kī nivṛtti, aur nirbhaya, na bhaya. Bhaya or nirbhaya, these two. Why are you practicing yoga? Doesn't matter which kind of yoga: āsanas and prāṇāyāmas, or Haṭha Yoga, or meditation, or mantra, or kriyā. Why are you doing it? Because you are afraid. Afraid to become ill? That’s why we are practicing āsanas and prāṇāyāmas. We are afraid to get cancer and certain diseases. That’s why we practice Hatha Yoga: Neti, Dhauti, Basti, Nauli, Trāṭaka, Kapālabhāti, these six Kriyās. We are afraid to suffer mentally, physically. That’s why we pray, and we would like to come out of these troubles. That’s why we meditate. We need a strong hold. That’s why we do our mantra. Everything we are doing is out of fear. Therefore Tulsīdāsjī said: "bhaya bina prītā na hovat." Without fear, you will not love. You have fear from your husband, so you try to love him. Or you have a fear of your wife, and you try to be nice to her. Yes, these are two: fear. In the beginning, there is emotion. New things are nine days. And if you pull more, then it’s 13 days. Then there is quarreling between both of you. And when the first quarreling, that is the evidence, that is a sign that this is not for you. When a seed grows, you see the quality of the plant. That’s it. So in the beginning, you have this harmony. How will you survive until you celebrate the golden diamond jubilee? One hundred years of wedding? My God. Now, in this Kali Yuga, in 100 years, how many jubilees will we celebrate? How many marriages? That’s it. Why? Why? Because of disharmony. You begin to love out of fear. Your relation was based on fear, and because you don’t want to lose it. When such a thing is, then man and woman will not be happy. Both wings of the bird should be healthy. Both hip joints should be healthy. When one hip is painful, then you go to the best orthopedic doctor, Martin, and he will take the saw in his hands, and he will cut it out and put some other hip joints in. You see, so when you are not nice to your partner, then this partner would like to have some other thing which is here down, which lets you go, but that is not origin. The origin, you know, when we are young... We don't know the value of our teeth until they begin to move. Then we say, "I want to have implantations." Good husband? We are looking for a rich husband. Can make good implantations. Costs a lot. Yes. So, men, don’t be so rich. No bamboo, no flute, no noise. So when you get all the implantations, the artificial teeth, the taste of the food is not the same. This is the difference, so God made it something beautiful. Man-made is just a replacement, temporarily. It’s not so joyful, and not always lasting. So, man-made world and God-made world. So, someone said God made this world, and the rest of all things are made in China. So, sukha and duḥkha. Is that original within us, my dear? And so every jīva, every individual soul, is ultimately searching for the origin. Every drop of water, even as a fog drop, is searching back to the ocean. When we throw something up, it comes back down to the earth again. The explanation is gravity. But in spirituality, they don't say this gravity. Because whatever we throw up, it is originated from the earth and would like to come back to the origin. So every creature automatically would like to come to that Mahādeva. So one soul is like one drop of water in the hollow of your palm. This is a jīvā. And you hold this above the ocean, and this ocean is Śiva. So when this jīva, the drop, will fall into the ocean, this jīva will become śiva. That’s all we need. That we fell into that divine consciousness, we joined that divine consciousness, and this is the glory of the Śivarātri, glory of that Mahādeva, Mahādev, Devokadev, Lord of the Lords, Svayambhū. No one has created him; he manifested himself. So rest tomorrow. The day after tomorrow is Śivarātri. And tomorrow we will celebrate the Śivarātri. In the morning, I will tell you something, some nice techniques. Tonight, after your mantras, you can repeat the Thu Jai Mantra. And you know, everyone, tomorrow we will begin with Śivjī’s pūjā. So you can begin morning after breakfast. Actually, one is fasting. But you are lucky ones. It is a real Śivarātri on a Sunday. You can eat tomorrow. Śiva, prasāda is always raw food. It seems that he was having a raw diet, so this raw diet—only fruits and roots. Roots means carrots, different kinds of root vegetables, different kinds of fruits, and milk. So that was healthy. But I don’t want to fall into the eating subject this evening. So tomorrow morning, the program is as usual: all together, make one mālā. OM TRIYAMBHAKAM YAJĀMAHE. Like this. 108 times. It’s very beautiful. After the prayer morning. Good? Sounds good, no? Alright then. For me, it’s already after midnight, 1:30 in the night. Jet lag, a little bad, a little wrong. It rises, so it makes us better yogīs. So sukha-dukha, sukha-prāpti, dukha-nivṛtti. And the four Vedas and all six philosophies of India, this is one of the most ancient ones. So, the six Vedas are the four Vedas and the six philosophies. The essence of all that has only two words. How nice. That’s called Sabīja, the seed. And now in this Kali Yuga, we would like to make everybody seedless. And that’s not good. Many, many of our crops, like wheat and others, we have to buy the seeds. So, seedless will be all one day, seedless. But this essence is two. Sukh diyā sukh hotā hai, duḥkh diyā duḥkh hotā. If you give someone happiness and good things, you will get good. And if you give troubles, you will get troubles. If you give sukha, happiness, you get happiness. If you give troubles, you will get troubles. Four Vedas, six scriptures, two things written: good and bad things happen, bad and bad things happen. God of Light, God of God, God of Lord Kṛṣṇa, God of Sanātana Dharma, Oṁ Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Hari Oṁ. Thank you.