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We are also participants, and we would first like to greet our Gurudev, who is again in Croatia with us. We were excited and surprised several months ago when two of our Mahāmaṇḍaleśvaras, two of our sannyāsīs, were introduced as Mahāmaṇḍaleśvaras. We who are educated to be rude and not to show emotion almost cried when we first saw Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Svāmī Vivekpūrī. I heard the same happened when Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Svāmī Gyāneśvara came to Croatia last week. So, Svāmījī, it is a great honor for us Croatians that our two Svāmīs are Mahāmaṇḍaleśvaras. It is, of course, a great responsibility. Thank you once again. On behalf of all of us, I would also like to greet the representative of the Indian Embassy and his wife, and all of our sannyāsīs. According to good custom, I would like to give a traditional gift, dakṣiṇā. So, firstly, Svāmījī. Thank you. Thank you. I think in the whole European continent, there are only these Mahāmaṇḍaleśvaras, and not only one, but two. Who knows? There will be a third and a fourth too. But it depends. It is not that you just become a Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara. It has to go through much, much research. Many are searching on their way. How? The Akhāḍās have their own people. They were sending someone all the way to Croatia. They examine the way of living, the behavior, the education—how long has the person been a disciple? They are disciples of a spiritual lineage, and if this spiritual lineage is connected to this Ākāra from a long paramparā, then they have to sit and decide. Of course, there were some opinions about nationalities and countries, because they are foreigners with different ways of living and eating. I had many days and months of talks with them. It began in 2011. Of course, they wanted to know about the paramparā, if they have an āśrama. You cannot become a Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara without having an ashram. The question came about foreign countries, so I told them one śloka of Śaṅkarācārya where there is no difference of caste, gender, or nation. If you make these differences, then you do something against the Ādiguru Śaṅkarācārya’s teachings. I said, "Well, of course, it’s your decision. I will go." And they all were pushing me back, pulling me back. One of my best friends, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, took me in his arms. I went again to my āsana and sat. He said, "No, Svāmījī, we will never, never disagree with you." So, it was great. Now, it is not only defending our own Ākāra. We have seven Ākāras of Śaṅkarācārya’s Daśanāmī, and all the Ākāras’ presidents and secretaries have to agree. So, it’s the work of our Akhāḍā to get their opinion, and then comes this ceremony, which takes hours. All Akhāḍās have to be there, so their president or secretary is present. After the ceremony and the tilaka of Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, like a crown, first the shawl is given to our Ācārya Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, then to other Akhāḍās, and then to our old Mahāmaṇḍaleśvaras. It is a very high title. When you respect them, you are not only respecting them, but you respect the Akhāḍā. If the Ākāra notices that they are not respected, or they are running here and there, they can make commentaries and will tell me. The Akhāḍās organize the holy bath, the royal bath, the chariot, and everything. So, it is a very high level. I congratulate you, Croatians, that you have offered two beautiful sannyāsīs to the Akhāḍā, and they came out as īmāna and śāha. I told them at the Haridwar Kumbh Melā, I want to make 25 Mahāmaṇḍaleśvaras. They were so happy. But then the president of the Akhāḍā said, "It means, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvarajī, Viśva Gurujī, you want to take over the Akhāḍā." It was in my mind that in Haridwar and Allahabad, there would be about five Mahāmaṇḍaleśvaras from European countries. But what Mahāprabhujī decides, that happens. Better to know before eating the fruit if the inside is rotten. So, thank you everybody, and congratulations. Now we also have our sannyāsinī, Sādhvī Śiva Jyoti. She made a journey of thousands of kilometers. She will fly on the 22nd and arrive on the 24th, or nearly the 25th. Śiva Jyoti je ovdje s nama bila tjedan dana. We can talk a bit longer, not just a few words. It’s nice to turn around and see everybody. It’s a very beautiful country, and I’m blessed to be here and to be able to swim in the Adriatic Sea. So all thanks and praṇāms and everything go to Svāmījī for this opportunity, for the blessing of the Sannyāsa Dīkṣā which we had just now on Guru Pūrṇimā, and to live this divine life dedicated to this Sanātana Dharma. This morning, Svāmījī was speaking about Sanātana Dharma. As he was speaking now, it reminded me of one memory from the Kumbh Melā, just after Vivekpūrījī and Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Gaṇeśa Pūrījī had their Pīṭha Abhiṣeka. After the ceremony and all the greetings and the shawls, they went to the Ācāryajī’s hut. Svāmījī and many saints were also there, sitting around the Ācārya and speaking. One of the other new Mahāmaṇḍaleśvaras, a very great soul, said, "I’m so happy, and it feels so special that some of my foreign brothers also receive this title today. Because if peace is to spread through the world, it will come from this sanātana dharma." So we can really thank them, and we can thank our master for this incredible spiritual light which he is giving to us all. That’s my feeling. It was very touching for me, that moment. Other than that, being here, just thank you to the organizers, Vivekpūrījī, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Vivekpūrījī, and Sādhvī Ānandī. By the way, what I am saying here, I would like to thank the organizers, Vivekpūrījī and Sādhvī Ānandī, and Gītā. I know that they worked tirelessly. Ānandī said that 250 people were announced, and then 250 more came in the last three days, so that blows my mind. It is certainly a huge organizational work. As far as I can see, everyone is satisfied and somehow peaceful. I was thinking it’s also nice for him to teach and to speak in his native language and to enjoy, and it seems everybody is very happy. So, thank you all. For many years, people said to me, "You should come to Croatia, you should come to Croatia." So, I feel like finally I was able. Many of you know Madhu was in the Brisbane ashram, and she said to me one day in the garden, "I think many Croatians should come, hundreds should come one day when Svāmījī is visiting Australia." Not only Croatians, but everybody. So I hope that comes true, and I wish very much to see you there, because your seva and your love and devotion to Svāmījī is really very touching. I’ve learned a lot from you all, and I hope that we can share many more moments like this. See you in Australia. Thank you, Śiva Jyoti. You see, in astrology, every alphabet has the same horoscope if it is a particular letter. Then it doesn’t matter which name it is belonging to; that horoscope is the same. Even if you are born in August, you can be a Scorpio. It doesn’t depend on the month, it depends on the constellation, and so that name is the correct name. Otherwise, you can give any name, but then it doesn’t influence you according to the astrological counting, the numerology, and the name. These few things are very important for us. According to that, then come five or three letters, and then you can choose the name, but the first should be, out of these three or five letters, should be the first alphabet. So, Australia and Austria have the same. When you go to India and you say, "I’m from Austria," they say, "Oh, Australia!" "No, no, not Australia, Austria." Or if you say, "I’m Australian," they say, "Oh, Austria, near Germany." Also, on this Guru Pūrṇimā, our dear Umā Pūrī became a sannyāsinī, and I think she also would say something. Yes, you can speak in German, no problem. Or in English. Dear friends, surprisingly, always two things we never know in life, Svāmījī always says. One thing, when a guest will come, something knocks on your door, and the second thing is when death is coming. And so I think the Master will tell you to speak something. Being here really is, as Mahāprabhujī says, like heaven is easier to get than to have real satsaṅga with our Gurudev. And the Himālaya to come is lighter than in the satsaṅga. We realize this when we are with Svāmījī together, how divine these moments are. We cannot compare them with anything, and this time here together passes so quickly. These few days after, when we come back, it seems like years and years have passed. I was asking Śiva Jyoti, "When was the Kumbh Melā? Was it this year or when was it?" It was so resonant moving; time has no more value. So it is the time with Svāmījī, we cannot count. There are also no words to explain. Only like this, what Svāmījī says: again, we heard we have four kinds of milk. First milk is mother’s milk; second milk is cow’s milk, sheep’s milk, and goat’s milk. The third one is the plant, the juices, the coconuts. And the fourth milk is the jñānamṛta, the knowledge, the nourishment for our soul, for our whole being. Gurujī says in his bhajan, "Abhahamā, Guru Svaraṇa Sukhabhaya." How the heavy cloud is hanging in the sky. There’s no empty space in the sky, just heavy, heavy clouds hanging. Birds and all living beings are looking to this cloud, wondering when the rain will come. And suddenly it’s raining. It’s raining like this, like Gurujī explained: when we are in satsaṅga, jñāna, the knowledge, the love from Svāmījī is coming, and it is just raining. And we drink and drink and drink this nectar until we are completely full. This Gurujī is explaining in his bhajans. One sentence also, he says in his bhajans, how Gurū Dev changes the destiny, the nekha. How suddenly he changes everything. Svāmījī always said, "What is impossible, he makes possible. What is possible, he can make impossible. Even death has no chance to come near." So we cannot explain how we feel here when we are with Svāmījī together in the satsaṅga. There are no words, so thank you. There are many things to tell. Many have to speak, but time is passing. When we came here last Saturday or Sunday, we began our anuṣṭhāna. You took holidays. You took time from your family. Of course, you spent some money. All the time you were thinking to come here and looking forward to learn something and practice. Now you know how much you practiced, how much discipline you were, and what have you got now? One hunter—mostly in our countries it’s not allowed to hunt, but if, then these poor people are doing, unfortunately. Now in some countries, it became like a sport that should be prohibited and taken out of the name of sport, hunting. It would be a shame for the sport. But in Kali Yuga, money is ruling. The fence eats the field. The fence destroys the field. Then for what is the fence there? The bodyguard kills the protector. Then, for what was the bodyguard? Similarly, we humans, and the sport, are really very disciplined. Many disciples whom I have from the sport are very disciplined. They are very sāttvika. You know, many people came from karate, and they are really very disciplined and very good disciples. But when the sport comes to killing animals, it is not an ethical principle. That shouldn’t be. So one hunter was in the forest, killing some animals and bringing home some rabbits, some little deer, and some birds. You know the story of our Grand Master, Devapūrījī. One afternoon, about five o’clock, Devapūrījī was coming back from one village to his ashram, walking through the desert. As you know, at that time there were no roads. It was like a Sahara. When Devapūrījī was coming, between two villages about 10 to 15 kilometers apart—because in the desert there are not so many trees, only little bushes—one man was coming with one basket. The distance was about, let’s say, 400 or 500 meters. He saw Devapūrījī coming. People have respected him very much, and people were afraid of him, like when little children do something mistaken, then children are afraid the parents will be angry. So what he did, that man, the hunter, he put his basket under some bush. With folded hands, he went towards Devapūrījī and made a praṇāma. Devapūrījī said, "What did you hide in the bush?" "Nothing, Gurudev, nothing. How are you, Gurudev?" He said, "You killed so many birds. You didn’t think of that, children. Many birds have their babies in the nest. And you were thinking only about your children. Bring the basket here." And Devapūrījī kicked the basket. All the dead birds flew away. He can give life. And that hunter gave up hunting. He said he will never hunt anymore. Similarly, there is another story. When that hunter was in the forest, he saw one sādhu coming, or a yogī, whatever you say. And he said, "Who are you?" "I am a poor man." "What have you in your hands?" "It’s just an arrow, archery, no? Arrow and bow." "Why?" "I am a hunter and I kill some animals. I am very poor, Gurudev. I have nothing for eating, so every day I kill some animals and bring them home for my children." That sādhu said, "Don’t do this sin. Why do you kill these innocent animals? Do you know what karma you will have?" But he said, "But what should I do? I have nothing." So that sādhu put his hand in his bag and gave him one very nice stone, yellow color, like a topaz. "Take this stone, and when you touch this stone to the iron, the iron will turn into gold." "Really?" He said, "Yes. But I give it to you for ten days. After I come, you have to give it back to me. But in ten days, you can make as much gold as you like." So he took this stone and went home. He told his wife, and she was very happy. He said, "Tomorrow morning, I will go to the market to buy the iron." He went to the iron shop and asked, "What is the price of iron per kilo?" "Per kilo, 20 rupees." "I am a poor man. I do not have 20 rupees. Do you think it will become cheaper?" "Yes, it could be. Because now other countries don’t buy anymore iron, so the market will fall." "Thank you. Then I will come after two days." After three days, he went. "What is the price of iron?" "Ten rupees." "Thank you, God. God always listens to the poor people. Do you think it will be cheaper?" "I think so. The market is falling." "Then I will buy." Again, after three days, he went there. Asked for the price: five rupees. He said, "Thank you, God. Do you think it will be cheaper still?" "Of course. I think it will be the biggest disaster now in the economy." "Okay, then I will come in three days." After three days, he came. "What is the price?" "One and a half rupees." "Oh, my brother, thank you. You think it will be still cheaper?" The businessman was thinking, "This man is not normal." He said, "Yes." "Then I will come after." Nine days were gone. On the tenth day, at 11 o’clock in the morning, that sādhu came. And he sees there is no gold. The poor man is sitting as poor. The sādhu said, "Please give my paras back. Ten days are gone." "Yes." "Have you done nothing?" "No, the iron was too expensive." "Even one nail, an iron nail, you would have touched to this stone, will become gold, and you could have bought not one kilo, but many kilos. Till today, you could have changed the whole railway lines into gold. But it was too expensive. I thought I shall wait." He said, "You will stay as it is. Give me my stone." Similarly, last Saturday when you came, and Sunday, you came to meditate, practice āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, meditations, kriyā. But you were frying yourself on the hot rocks. I was observing. I didn’t teach this technique in the seminar, but I thought, "Maybe new Mahāmaṇḍaleśvaras have new techniques." So everyone is lying on the very rocks, which are also not so comfortable. You know, so we ask ourselves, what have we learned now in these ten days? Day by day we are getting late; every minute is lost of life. Therefore, now you are going home tomorrow. How will you survive with the worldly life and the spiritual life? You should practice. It’s called Svarāṭ and Paramarāṭ, which go together. Svarāṭ means selfishness, and Paramarāṭ means selflessness. Do we have to work to earn our living? But we have to practice for our liberation. For that immortal life, there is God. And we humans understood: God created us, and we created God. Without humans, there will be no one to introduce God. God, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva, they may sit somewhere, and no one is coming to say, "My adoration." So this trinity, they were looking at each other. "We begin the creation, but what is now? We tried so hard; no one is coming towards us. We are something; we are the head." So Śiva says, "It’s our own mistake." "So what should we do?" "Brahmājī, create one human and tell him that we are here, three. And we are known as God." And then, the first disappointment we had of Brahmā: all these Saptaṛṣis, no one wanted to be interested in creating families. So Brahmā said to Viṣṇu, "What should I do?" He said, "I don’t know." "Then, should we go to Śivajī?" Śiva said, "Why do you always come to me? You always come and disturb me." He said, "No, Lord, you have to do something. You have to begin to create the families." Śiva said, "What is that? I am happy in the Himalayas. I am one with myself." So, Brahmā and Viṣṇu said, "Please, please, don’t close your eyes." Because once Śiva closes his eyes, then ages go by. And so, I think the human was created. And we humans understood what God is, and we introduced God. It means we recognized Him. We came to know there is a God, and that is very important for us. Without God, life is nothing. That God is in your heart, in your thoughts when you have spiritual thoughts. And it is said in Kali Yuga, the humans will not have enough discipline, like we. We are the example. Why should we go far? Goethe said, to see the blue sky, you need not go to Australia. He didn’t say Australia, what I say. You need not go anywhere to see the blue sky, so why should we go somewhere? We are the best example of what we did and what we didn’t do. So Kali Yuga has a lack of discipline, a lack of spirituality, and a lack of mercy. Therefore, Tulsīdāsa said in the Rāmāyaṇa, in Kali Yuga there is only one hope: the name of God, devotion, prayer. Repeat your mantra, kīrtana, pūjā. O human, while repeating the name of God, you can cross the ocean of Māyā. Finally, at the last, we will have to come to surrender to God and ask for His help. Divine Śakti—in spirituality there are no gender dualities. That’s why we adore equally; even Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva also adore the Divine Mother Śakti. And that’s why, according to Sanātana Dharma and Vedic Dharma, we have also many, what you call the females or women; they are also great holy ladies. Many, many were, and now too. Of course, you have to prove that now you have become an example. You must have a heart of the mother, and you must have mercy inside. I am observing why this sannyāsī is here, sitting. So there is one example. There is one called chameleon. And lizards, certain times in monsoon, and before coming rain, they change their color. Why? From the humidity of their own body. Yellow, green, red, pink, and so on. I’m always surprised that my sannyāsīs have beautiful colors, like a rainbow within one day. You can’t count rainbow colors. So as long as you will change the colors, you can’t come to that level. Neither you nor they; it must not be that you get a sannyāsa. Sannyāsa is a uniform which is respected and protected, and protecting you also. When you have your uniform of your police and are going through the street, walking, always two must be together. I don’t know what is in Croatia, but in many countries, when one policeman is walking in uniform, they are not allowed to go walking and smoking, not standing and drinking coffee; otherwise they will be suspended. So, without uniform, okay, then they can drink and dance, no problem. But uniform is a protection—not for you, but for the entire system of paramparās. So uniform is a kind of permanent and sure protection. When the policeman will say, "Please, this road is closed, you go this side," even if you don’t want to, but you know the policeman, so you go the other side. So they will listen because you are in sannyāsa uniform. There is no compromise. If tomorrow they take a tie and jacket and tie and everything, then nobody will say you praṇāma. They will say hi, shake hands. "Hi, guy, where are you going?" So, protection. We all have the protection of Mahāprabhujī’s mercy, but our duty is to protect the dignity of those spiritual rules and our paramparās. That’s why in every religion there is a particular rule, and it has to be followed. But in Sanātana Dharma, there is no word that women have no right to become a monk or to do prayer or pūjā or give blessings. You will see we have in India many, many female sādhus. They must not be in orange dress. And millions of people adore them because they made a tapas. They opened their heart. They became the mother. They became the father. And when you say sannyāsa, then you don’t write saying that you are female. You are addressing yourself like a male, because you are above the male and female. But it had to work. And that’s because many are thinking to become sannyāsī now. Next time I will bring a paṇḍita with me, and we can make many, many sannyāsīs. But it’s not easy. To make a ceremony is very easy. Our Paṇḍita will be happy to get more money. But what will your father, mother, wife, and husband tell you? You can’t go into your office in a sannyāsī dress; your boss will look. "Where did you make holidays?" So, only one who knows about a diamond can recognize a diamond. We may take it just like a crystal. Someone sells us a nice crystal or some nice glass, shining. "Oh, yes, it’s 20 carat. Oh, it costs a lot. The price in the market for this is about $500,000. $500,000. Now the market fell down, otherwise $1.3 million. But now it’s 500,000, but if you like it, I give you 300,000." And in reality, this piece of glass was not worth even one euro. But we pay so many thousands. Why? Because we don’t know. Therefore, to test and to tell, only the best jeweler can tell if it is a real diamond or not. And to know that, you have to study. In one bhajana it is said... This time, from this seminar, we learned something. Mostly you were not here; you came on the weekend. To prepare for the Brahma Vidyā Kriyā, we learned, tried to understand, and practiced the union of prāṇa and apāna in the maṇipūra. Whenever you practice relaxation, even after the āsanas, during the āsanas, when time to time you relax, concentrate and develop your Maṇipūra Cakra. Because for our further Kriyā, the Maṇipūra Cakra is very important. That is the center of our existence, the center of our phenomenon. So this sādhanā with your Guru Mantra, you should practice that: Prāṇa and Apāna, the Saṅgama in Maṇipūra, and the Taraṅga vibration, the resonance which spreads through the whole body from there. Until next time. Wish you all the best.