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Mothers, seeing all of you gathered in this satsang brings me immense joy. Our divine Bhārata is the very land where dharma originated. Countless ṛṣis and munis have incarnated here. Bhagavān Viṣṇu, Śiva, Brahmā, and others have manifested here. It is from this land alone that the entire world received the blessings of yantra, tantra, mantra, and so forth. What has India not given to the world? Today, millions base their daily lives and spiritual practices on India’s culture, knowledge, and spirituality. The only shortcoming lies with the people living in India who have not been able to comprehend our spiritual knowledge, science, and vidyā. They have mistaken a diamond for a piece of glass, discarding it as waste. Then someone else came, saw that diamond amidst the soil and waste, cleaned it, polished it, and it began to shine. When it was shown to Indians, they said, "It is just a piece of glass, brother, throw it away." The people of the Western world have greatly benefited from our culture, knowledge, science, and vidyā. And we are running after what they have discarded, what they have truly left behind. They threw away the piece of glass, and we picked up that piece... but we did not obtain the diamond. They are imitating, but there is no intelligence within that imitation. Oh, imitate if you must, but at least apply some intelligence. Mahāprabhujī says, what use is a pair of glasses? Glasses only open the eyes. That very enthusiasm is called unshakable... Again and again, the stomach is restless. Swāmījī Dīp says, listen, friends, the world is blind and deaf. Kabīrdā says, O mind, do not stop; your bird has eaten the crops. My mind, you have not protected the spiritual power within your body, the spiritual strength of your blood. Within you, within every atom, the divine light and knowledge of Bhārat Mātā reside. You have not protected it; it has been taken away by the thieves in your midst. Now, what will crying achieve? The birds have eaten the fields; now the farmer is weeping. Crying will no longer help. If you blame the bird, it will just peck and fly away. India is such a great country, and I do not say this merely because I was born in this sacred, great, and holy land, but everyone praises India. To attain that practical scientific knowledge of India, one must come here. But when they arrive in India, as soon as they step off the plane, they feel as if they have entered a different world. Some foreigners who come along with me sometimes find it amusing. They say, "Guru Jī, you were saying that you would take us to Hindustān. When will you take us to Bhārat? I don't want Hindustān anymore. Brother, Guru Jī, what you were telling us, we don't see any of that even a little bit here." Our fortune is unfortunate; at most, we get posters of the ascetics of Rajasthan. And when people see the dhotī, potī, and pagṛī—the traditional attire of our villagers—they feel happy and come here. But once they come and sit in the hall, not a single one is wearing a pagṛī. They will respond that the divine power, the divine knowledge, the divine culture that was given to us as Bhārat Mātā, we have lost it, and others do not understand it and are even misusing it. Bharat is a spiritual country, a nation devoted to dharma, the Sanātana Dharma, Vedic. Dharma is the root of all religions; whatever other religions exist, that is good too, they are also good, but we who try to understand them are not good. The conflict is among ourselves. In this spiritual world, even those who understand spiritual knowledge and spirituality have become few. We think that if you sit with a mālā, apply sandalwood paste and tilaka, get up early in the morning, ring the bell, and offer a lamp, then the worship of Bhagavān is done well. And the curtain was closed, the bell was rung, and when the curtain was opened, there was nothing inside. Paṇḍitjī said, "Tomorrow I will place half of the incomplete portion, and half inside." Some say that one must observe upavāsa for so many days, and during the days of upavāsa, they drink one or two kilos of black gram mixed with ghee and miśrī three times a day. This black gram is the upavāsa. One rarely meets them even once—parents and Gurudev. Parents are given even to animals, but Gurudev is found only in human life. Therefore, the status of the guru is even higher than that of the parents. Secondly, our mother, who is our Bhārat Mātā—today in the scriptures and texts... Everyone here accepts and acknowledges that India is called Bhārat Mātā, but tell me, is there any other country that refers to itself as a mother? I said, here Pakistan is Mātā, Afghanistan is Mātā, America is Mātā, Europe is... Great sages, scholars, and seers have deeply contemplated and have given this sacred land the form of a mother. Now, what about the children? What is the duty of the children towards their parents? Serving the parents is one of the five debts in a human life. They will come as ancestors, sit in the house near the hearth, and will not let any of your tasks succeed. Why? Because you have not fulfilled the satisfaction of the ancestors. It is because you have not repaid the five types of debts. The very first debt is Mātṛ ṛṇa, the debt we owe to the mother. The mother has grown old, and the child says, "O mother, where is the motherly grace, the motherly grace?" She is not from here, aunt is not from here, aunt is not from here, call her mother. What teaching have you given? You call yourselves the children of Hindustan, but now even India should be called Bharat Māmī. Yogesh, is that right? Can you be called mother and father? You have given birth to children, but can those children call you mother and father? Some of you sit and consume intoxicants, and... No one says thank you to our Muslim brothers; they never say, "Uncle, Aunt, this was yours." After all, no poison fell into the well; no poison fell into the well. Tell the children, my son, I am not a sinner. Sinners mean those who do not find a place in hell. There is a waiting list for hell; the queue extends all the way, from here to Katta, even to China and Japan. There are many candidates here for hell. Subscribe, subscribe, and subscribe, and subscribe... it goes on, but this subtle and causal body remains. Pain exists in the subtle body. Pain does not exist in the causal body. When you see an injection, it nullifies the pain; there is no pain. So after death, there will be pain, and for that pain, neither your mother nor your daughter is there. If you were to pluck stars from the sky, I would say, my child, I desire nothing from you. What could I possibly want from you? I have already given you everything—I have given you this body from my own body, your body is nourished by my blood, my child. I want nothing from you. When I gave birth, I was by your side, and when I finally leave this body, son, stay close to me because you are my beloved. See, mother’s love—see it. And that child will be the one who has received proper teaching; otherwise, today, mother and elder are both suppressed. Subscribe, subscribe... Subscribe for two or three days, because mother, you gave him too much land in the village, your son is inside somewhere in those three places. These people do not require this; what is this sattvāt? At night, they strangled mother, poured ghee on her, and set her on fire. It became known that it is the village... When one looks in this way, it is seen at the feet of the Mahā and the father that the debt to the mother is thus repaid. Our responsibility is that we have not been able to educate that child—why the illness, why the deformity, why the bread burns, and why the offspring go astray, why the cycle is not completed—the debt to the mother and father. Those who teach in schools, if the elderly sitting here today were to meet any of their school teachers, they would stand up and bow down to them. And in today's examination time, if it were like a military drill, the teachers would rise and take charge. The Vindhyāchal mountain said no, and when that king declared his kingdom, what was his name? I recall his name was Rājā Māna, the giver of honor. So Rājā Māna Dāta declared, and the Vindhyāchal mountain manifested, and there Lord Śiva appeared. Cutting mountains is violence. You can take something from the mountain, you can use it for support, you can make tunnels, you can create caves, but the way mountains are being cut down rapidly in Hindustan today, with machines and caterpillars, blasting them—oh humanity, have some mercy! After that, say "Jaya Hai Bhārat Mātā Kī Jaya," but look, Mātājī, when the Gaṅgā is being broken, no one raises their eyes, no child raises their voice, no one utters a word saying, "Do not break the banks." How many banks have been destroyed, how many banks have been destroyed! Come on, be very great then... Deva, ṛṇḍa, water, fire, vāyu, and pṛthvī are deities, and similarly, there is life within trees as well. It is written in the Vedas that there is life inside trees. Even in the Ariva, Bainmat, Kath, and Gas that grow, life comes into them. Regarding our Jain community, the true Jains are not those in green gardens. Wherever there are small blades of grass, stepping on them causes sin, my brothers. And the grass itself is meant to be cut; wherever you cut it, it dies. If we say to the yajña to stop, it will not listen. So where should it be cut? The wisdom given by our ṛṣis and munis is now reaching the entire world. Don’t you think about what our many ṛṣis and munis of India have done? As their descendants, what are we doing in their name? The people of India need to awaken; they must come forward. And from that time onwards, people come here to teach you dhyāna yoga, to teach yoga, but we have forgotten what exactly they teach. Our knowledge is such that it goes out and then comes back. When I had been teaching yoga for 30, 35, 40 years, and there were two or three other saints as well, then I realized that you are not here; if an engineer does yoga, then a doctor is there. So whether you are a fast-paced eighteen-year-old, an engineer, or a doctor, what do you have to do for yoga, Mahārāj? Just take a ball, come, wear comfortable clothes, lie down on the floor with a mat spread out, and we, the yoga teachers, will guide you from the front. And we are here; no one should hesitate or feel reluctant. Why do you feel ashamed when called the son of a dog, the son of a rabbit, or the son of a donkey? You are proud of your status, but until that pride is corrected, your welfare will not be achieved, dear ones. Therefore, those who serve and protect Bhārat Mātā, who are you truly? She protects us; we serve. Victory to Bhārat Mātā! Who are you to claim victory? Victory is what it is. Oh, you are trying to show the sun a battery and a lamp wick—what light will there be? The sun itself is... Millions and billions of melodies are the sweet countryside of the mountains, yet no one speaks of it. We look to the government with hope, for it is written in our constitution that the entirety of our nature must be protected. Have they forgotten this point? And if we cut down these trees, what difference does it make whether the green trees were cut or just trees were cut? I was not the mother of anything; do some hair because you are a leader, you have power nearby, but the public will not forget and the burden will not forgive. The public knows how to stop this. The public makes leaders, the public makes the government, the government does not make the public. We need nature. If nature does not need us, then the hatred that is happening in our country—until that is eradicated, the people here cannot be happy. There will be illness, madness, conflicts among themselves; what will happen cannot be foreseen within the country. In which, between the Karvar Pāṇḍas, this pot of poison had been filled, then Bhagavān Ved Vyāsa came to his mother and said, "O mother Śrī, now you will come with me to the forest." She asked, "Why, son? What will happen here? It cannot be seen by you." He replied, "Then what will happen in our land? It cannot be seen either." When the last tree is cut down and the water in the rivers dries up, then you will realize that the stars exist, but the paper on which the stars are written cannot be consumed. Therefore, the great souls have said: O Sai, grant me so much that no one in my household remains hungry, but let the seeker remain hungry. In just these few decades, the damage to nature has been greater than it was in the past centuries, even millennia. Because the mind has become somewhat educated, people consider themselves wise, but this so-called education is foolishness. They become foolish by being educated, building buildings. Do something better, no need to create any mischief. Why are you breaking the rules? The truth is, today, if one wants to increase their spiritual power, then one must protect nature, protect all living beings, love humanity, and live based on our culture. At least improve your own home; if not you, then who else? Like a chain, one link must be strong. In the well, the first frog, the second frog, the third frog—oh, you must awaken! Say, go and tell your child, "My son, be steadfast, be steadfast." You have subscribed, and tomorrow we will talk more about spirituality—how to truly understand it. Worship, chanting mantras, performing pūjā—these alone are not spirituality. It is about understanding the suffering of others, feeling the hunger of others. We always say cow’s grass, but sometimes eat dog’s grass too—that is not hunger. They are not interested; take care of the goat and the cow as well, they too must be hungry. The greatest yajña is the nāma yajña, greater than any other yajña, which by chanting the name of Bhagavān can lead us on the spiritual path. So, awaken yourselves and reflect. I say this because I have traveled to many countries, and there is no country like this. I will speak in Hindi, and today I have been up since 6 in the morning. As soon as I arrived, I did not go to the room upstairs; instead, I sat here in your service. Then the body said, "Go upstairs and relax a little." Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Deveśvara Mahādeva, the eternal dharma of Svāmī Mādhavān Jī Bhagavān.