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Oh, so much "Jaya, Jaya"... What does it mean? Many are thinking, "What is this 'J-J'?" That is something very interesting. It means victory, but not victory in the ordinary sense. It is not like a football game or the Olympics, for a gold medal or an iron medal. It is something quite different. Mostly, it is used for God, for dharma, for one's country, and so on. So here, "Jaya" means not only victory, but that God protects those good qualities, the goodness. In India, we call it "Bharat Mātā," Mother India. You also often read "Mother India." There was a very old film made on Mother India, and we all call it Bharat Mātā. I think there is only one country which is called "Mātā," mother: India. Do you say "Mother Croatia"? You say "Hrvatska," but you don't write "Motherland, Mother Croatia." For Bharat, it is written "Bharat Mātā." There is one river which we call "Gaṅgā Mātā." Do you call it "Danube Mātā"? So there is a river called Gaṅgā Mātā. Similarly, we call "Gau Mātā," Mother Cow. No one says "Mother Cow" in our spiritual path, and when we think of karma and think of adoration and thankfulness, then it does not matter from which animal you drink milk—may it be cow, buffalo, goat, sheep, camel, etc. When you drink milk, only the mother has milk, and the one who drinks is a child. Automatically, we should have respect for that animal or mother or human because we drink her milk, and we cannot do anything bad to the mother. There are different kinds of milk which we drink. There are four kinds of milk: Ek dūdh gaikā, dujā dūdh māikā, trijā dūdh vanraikā, chotā dūdh kaikā. Clear? We have here sitting one Paṇḍitjī, he may know. So, ek dūdh gaikā: one milk is from the cow, meaning all animals. Who gives the milk? The second is your own mother's milk. And the third is vānaraika, from nature, like coconut milk, soya milk. So this vānaraika means from nature, vanaspati. So these three milks we know: ek dūdh gaykā, the second from māykā, and the third one from vanraykā. Now, which is the fourth one? That fourth milk is very important. Unless you don't taste and drink that fourth milk, you will not develop. But I will not tell you today. Do you think that I am sitting here to tell you everything? Think it over, find out, search everything again. Once, one milk is from any animal. Pigs also give milk, donkeys have milk, horses have milk, camels have milk, tigers have milk. So all, which are a... A mother is a mother, maybe animal or human or bird or fish, my dear. A mother you can get only once in your life. You don't like your mother, and you say, "I want to go to another womb and come out again." That you cannot do. Father, too. The second is one's mother's milk. The strength, the love, the wisdom, everything. The best of the best that you have is from your mother's milk. Lucky are they, blessed are they, that they have drunk their mother's milk for at least one and a half years. Two years. I was the youngest one, and I think till I was three or four, I said to mother, "I want to drink." And it is said when you speak wise, positive, spiritual, then we say, "On the lips of this person is still the reflection of mother's milk." Nothing can be compared to the mother. But now mothers neglect the children. Now they have become what we call a person. Before you get a child, you arrange a babysitter. Now, baby doesn't know. If you are a mother, that is a mother, and a bottle of milk. You know more than me. Parents, nearly three or four times a week, go to the party, and the babysitter is there. You go walking with your dog, but with your baby, you send a babysitter. Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa... Hari Om, Hari Om. You have time to go walk with your dog, but for going to the park, for walking, you send your babysitter. How will your children respect you, and how will you love? That has made a picture of our world. And what we see nowadays is that picture because the parents were not capable of giving love and education to the children. They don't need your love. They don't need your money. They need your wisdom, and they don't need anything but toys. They need your love. Therefore, we should know what kind of love we should give to our children, and how we give it. Many of you are sitting, I am sure that you had a mother, or are you Svayambhū? Could be. And you know, you all have a father. But it is said, "Kṛṣṇa jāne su Gītā." Who knows who was or what was the Kṛṣṇa? That one, they will know what is Bhagavad Gītā. Bhagavad Gītā is not what you are reading. Kṛṣṇa is different. So Kṛṣṇa jāne su Gītā, only Kṛṣṇa knows what Bhagavad Gītā says. Or if you realize Kṛṣṇa, then you will also say what the Bhagavad Gītā is. Kṛṣṇa knows the Gītā, and mother knows who is the father. So your mother introduces you to your father, and your mother introduces him as your child. What a glory of the mother. Great glory. But there are exceptions. Mental illness could be in some circumstances. Circumstances, these are the exceptions. Similarly, the same way, mother is for the animals. When you take away a baby from an animal, or the mother from babies, and kill that, they have the same sadness and pain, like somebody will steal your child, or somebody will take your mother and kill her. My dear, mother is a mother. Therefore, it is said in the Upaniṣad, the first god is the mother: Mātṛ Devo Bhava. Mātṛ devo bhava, pitṛ devo bhava, ācārya devo bhava. These are what it is said. Who is father? Comes after; first is mother. But my dear ones, all who are father here, you are very important. We adore the father too, so don't say that Swāmījī is always telling the mother is best. Mother is the best, but without father, she cannot be a mother. It's clear. So it is Svayambhū. So there is no difference. We equally adore. So mother and father you can get only once in life. Therefore, as a mother and father, your prime duty is to take care of your children. Give them the education, what we call a human education. All these computers and this and that are just prapañca. Okay, it's a good game. Technology, so we are not anymore lazy. We look into the technology whole night, looking into the computers. This is called the vācārtī knowledge. This is only intellectual knowledge: vācārtī and lakṣārtī. Lakṣārtī is towards the spirituality. Ātmajñāna: ethical and spiritual education that only humans can have. So, mother and father only once in a life, in any life. Not only human, it can be any of us too. But Gurudev can only be in the human life. Without that, human life is not completed. Now the word "guru" is in Hindi or Sanskrit. In your language, you can say "teacher." Many people around the world who play the sitar say, "My sitar guru was Pandit Ravi Shankar." They feel as a disciple. My driving teacher was Mr. So-and-so, your driving guru. So, the word "guru" means teacher. And word by word definition of this is: "Gu" means darkness, and "Ru" means light. The person who leads us from the darkness of ignorance to the light of knowledge is our master. When you can't drive a car, you can have money, you buy the car, you get the key, everything. But you don't know how to drive. So it means still we don't know; that's ignorance. Now you go to the driving school, and you get one teacher, guru. He or she, in a few weeks, will train you in such a way that you can drive. You are the same person. Nothing changed. You have two ears, two legs, two hands, two eyes, the same name, the same color. What changed? Same kilos? Maybe out of nervousness you lost some kilos. But what changed that now you can drive? You got the knowledge, and such a knowledge that you need not change anymore. That is a guru. There is one man standing on camera, and he is sending the webcast. Our brothers and sisters around the world are listening. But he also learned camera from some of his master teachers. So guru means any kind of teacher. Now, you have to follow the Guru Vākya, the words, the instruction of the Guru. I hope almost all who are above 18 years have a license, or maybe some may not. Lucky are they. Don't need car, don't need petrol. Your driving teacher, your Gurudev said, you know where it is absolutely prohibited to overtake. You know all, some curves, invisible, or the crossing railway line. And you know how many meters after crossing the railway line you can take to overtake, do you know? You've forgotten Guru Vākya, no? Follow the speed. Don't overtake in uncertainty, etc., etc. I have a new car. I am young. I will overtake what? This life you overtake to the next life because we did not remember, we did not follow the Guru Vākya. So, my dear, Guru Vākya means not only your spiritual Guru, Mother's Vākya too. Sometimes we say, "Oh, it's not right." There's one joke. You know, in organic, where you have food in your kitchen, if it's organic, then there's a life. It means there are molds. So one mother gave some babies, and mother said, "Babies, I'm going for shopping. Don't go out of the house from that hole." So the children say, "Why, Mommy? Why should we not go out?" "Because outside, they are not good people. They are not good people, very dangerous." Okay. After two days, there was one baby who was very restless, and the children are very curious. So this baby girl, she was, "I will go and see how nasty people are. Mother always tries to make us fearful. I have wings, I can fly." So, maybe she flew out. And people like us were sitting at breakfast. And the baby was flying there, and went back. And they said, "How was it?" "No, it was good." And mother came. "You were outside?" Said, "Yes, mother. You said people are not good. But they are all very good." "Did you go out?" Said, "Yes. People were very good." "How do you know?" "Because when I came flying there, everyone was making so." So we should follow and obey the mother's instructions, the father's instructions. They were making so to kill it. So whatever you have learned, good things, it is a lifelong instruction. We follow, we will not be in a critical situation. If we ignore, then we will be in trouble. Similarly, it is said that only a Satguru can be in human life. And when you have this, then the human life is completed. If you go to the Punjab, often people speak, and we also, but in Punjab more actively. In Punjab, there is a great Guru Bhakti, and he tells you, asks you, "Are you Manmukhī or Gurumukhī?" Manmukhī means you do what you want. Your master taught something Swāmījī always tells. We know what to do. This is a Manmukhī, that you don't follow instruction. Gurumukhī means we follow all the rules and regulations of the holy books and holy saints. So when you become Gurumukhī, when you get from Satguru Dev the mantra, then that is your passport, your password, towards your Brahmajñāna. Therefore, the life of the human is beautiful but also very critical. Very mysterious life. Being a human and still we are running in ignorance, that's not good. We have a light in hand, but when you hold the light in front of you, then you see only light. You can't see further. And when your light is more above, then you don't see down, because always under the lamp is dark. Therefore, you see both are hanging like this. More light is here. Similarly, that light means wisdom, awareness, alertness, clarity, and knowing what to do and what not to do. Then everything is okay. Therefore, Holī Gurujī said in one bhajan, "Who will..." Sing, please, because I have forgotten which one. You see how suddenly it goes: Abhaṁ Guru Śaraṇa Sukhāpāya Sāgara Neśama Viśvāra Mahātmā. Guru Swāmīmādhavānām Abhaṁ Guru Śaraṇa Sukhapāya. Finally, this Jīvātmā, which was wandering throughout the whole universe, sometimes on this earth, sometimes on other planets, through darkness and light, through pain and pleasure, happiness and misery, finally we arrived as a human consciousness. If this life is gone without Gurudev, it's again gone into nothingness. So it is said, "Abhaṁ Guru Śaraṇa Sukhāpāya." Finally, I got now that happiness, because "sukha" has no English word, only "happiness." Śuka and duka, so these are the two words. Duka, okay? Pain, troubles, but also not proper. Śuka means everything perfect, everything pleasure, calm, peace, happy life. But the word is not there. "Sukha," "sukha" means now, I don't know, but you can say happiness. And what he's translating, what he's speaking, "sukha," now he said also wrong. He said "sukha." "Sukha" means dry. Dried, everything is dried. But I know the translation, the tongue. Now I found this happiness, or all these pleasures, or whatever you call it. Again, the word is missing. But do you know the Sukha word in English? No. That's it. That's not enough. So now I found happiness in the shelter of my Gurudeva. Jñāna gata le sadguru āyā. Jñāna gata, gata means when the monsoon or big heavy cloud comes. My God, from this horizon to that horizon, heavy dark cloud hanging down. And nearly two or three years, there was no rain. Can you imagine the happiness of the birds, other creatures, the trees, the farmers, the humans? Now hope, the light of the hope has come. And when here comes your Bura, he said, "Oh God." So, because you don't know what is water. Such water we also have enough, more than Croatia. Indian Ocean from India to Australia. In Perth, when you come, you come to the Indian Ocean. But that nectar, that rain of jñāna, that's a gāthā, and jñāna means the knowledge. Satguru Dev brought such an endless knowledge. And what happens when such a cloud comes? Raining. Oh, each drop is a nectar. That's life. Again, life comes. Dry desert, there's nothing to see other than the earth. And through this rain, in a few days, you see a green carpet. Mother Earth will never lose the seed, even if it will not rain for two or three years for you. So, that rain means amṛta jala barasāya. Amṛta is nectar. Nectar begins to rain. So, these words of wisdom are like a rain of nectar. Abhaṁ guru saraṁsukh paya. Now I drank this nectar, my mind was, then thirst was quenched. Which kind of thirst? Longing for knowledge. Now, that nectar gave me immortality. Now, I became without any fear, fearless. Acal, there is no more movement, means no vṛttis, no vikṣepas, no kleśas. Kleśa vṛttis, ānanda, he ānanda, bliss, he bliss, that finds the real seeker at the Satguru Deva. There are many gurus, all are the best, nobody is bad, but then Brahma-jñānī guru, Brahma-niṣṭha, śrotriya. That is very important. Without this, I remember now, it is ananta janam, many, many lives. Māra, Yama, kīkhayā, I was enduring the boxing of the Yamas, the death god's messengers. They don't have mercy. For death, it doesn't matter how you die. And they just kick you with the foot, like you kick a football. Twenty-two players are on the football field. And can you imagine that? Poor football. What karma I have? Very soon, one kicking, second kicking, third kicking. What have I done to them? All are running behind me. Can anybody ask that football, "How are you, my dear? How many kicks you got?" Like that, Yama plays with us. Someone may kick us to the goal. Then they will catch this and will say, "Hmm, yes." So this is the only way Gurudev can bring us into the goal. And the game was finished. Good ball, sir. Thank you. So we don't know how many times we got such torturing in many, many lives. So bhajan is very long. Paras hai, Gurudev hamara. My Gurudev is like a Paras stone. That Paras stone is so powerful that if we touch it to iron or some metal, that turns into gold. Loha kanchan karaya. But Paras can only make this iron gold, but Paras cannot make the iron as a Paras. Only Gurudev can make a disciple as a Gurudev, but you have to follow Guru Vākya carefully. Tomorrow, I will translate again. Deep Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī iske avatār hai, jag jīva jin ke nām se hot sadā bhavapar hai. Let's hope tomorrow we will translate all these three or four bhajans, which I promise every day, new bhajans. So, why did I begin this evening lecture? Do you remember? Mauna. What? Milk. Mauna. Mother. Father. No. Jājakī, jāj, chāy. No chai, coffee. Yes. Voda. We began with this. So, water is good. Water is life. But it seems you are too much in the water and sitting there. Of course, it reminds me, today I went also. I went in the middle of the sea to see you from the other side. On every rock was sitting one like a monkey, but it reminds me of something. It's not long ago. Kumbh Mela was there. So many Nāgābābās. Yes, it was good, but you should be careful. Do not expose yourself too much to the sun. The ozone is getting thinner and thinner. It's not like before 50 years or 100 years. And you don't know the water. You don't know the strength of the water. Therefore, Pārśurāmajī said, "Rājā, Yogī Agni Jal Jiskī Uḷṭī Rīt Dartā Rahio." Pārśurāmajī dheke thoṛī prīt. Rājā, okay, be friendly, be good, but don't go too much near. You never know when they will kick you out, so, Rājā. Yogīs don't go too close, don't make jokes, respect distance. You never know when a yogī will tell one word and everything is destroyed. So good to be a yes man. So that's why when one minister comes, other people say, "Yes sir, yes sir. Sir..." Sir, yes, sir. Someone came to me and said to me, "Gurudev, I brought sir with." So I say, "Where is Rāhu? You brought Rāhu. Where is Ketu?" "I brought sir with me." "Sir" means the head, and "Ketu" means the trunk. So there, in the astrology—because he is sitting, Paṇḍitjī, about astrology—so when the Rāhu and Ketu comes, and Saturn comes with, 99.5% death. At that time, only one thing can protect us. That is called Abhāma, very good. You remember that. And until you don't come out of it, what your śruti says, your cetnā says, surat, very nicely said. Rāhu, Ketu, and they are all behind you. And now you came. You come there. What will you do, Guru Dev Tumāchīn?