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Good evening to everybody, and a happy Diwali and a happy New Year for tomorrow. The blessings are coming to you from Jadon Ashram. Alag Purījī's Pit Paramparā. Today is one of the most beautiful festivals of the light, very ancient—thousands of years old—from the time of Bhagavān Śrī Rāma. The origin of this festival is the return to Ayodhyā of God Rāma. Upon his arrival, people were decorating the whole city with many flowers and colors. And in the night, because many people used to come to see, to have darśan of Bhagavān Rām, they put oil lamps on the road. They were hanging the bigger oil lamps, which burn the whole night, hanging on the trees. Since that time, we have here—you see, left side for me—it is called the dīp vṛkṣa, or the tree of the light. So this tree is the witness of the devotion of the people to light the flame of wisdom, the flame of happiness, the flame of love, the flame of joy, and the flame of spirituality. That is what the Upaniṣad said: "Tamaso mā jyotir gamaya"—lead us from the darkness to the light. "Asato mā sadgamaya"—lead us from the unreality to the reality. "Tamaso mā jyotir gamaya"—lead us from mortality to immortality. "Sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ"—all should be happy. These are the words of the great saints, great ṛṣis, and the great thoughts of thousands of years. One should not think that in modern civilization and in this modern time, technology and science are developed very far. But still, though the technology and science are very advanced now, you cannot compare it with the ancient science and ancient wisdom, as well as the ancient technology. See, people have forgotten; people do not have the trust; people have lost trust in the past. Now they are trying to research new things, but whatever they have researched, it is explained in the Vedas. It is explained and given—not only the theory, but in practice in the past—by those great seers who could travel through fourteen different worlds and 2,100 universes. This means that through samādhi, nirvikalpa samādhi, a yogī could travel till there. They had the techniques of communication mentally from a far distance. They could see, they could speak, they could hear. Those techniques were developed. Of course, one needs a lot of discipline and practice. We humans lost all those abilities; we lost all those teachings; we lost that wisdom. Only a little bit remains as history, but it was, and we will never be able to know how they did it and how they achieved it. So these festivals around the whole world today are called Deepāvalī. I wish you a happy Diwali and the divine blessings of Bhagavān Śrī Rām and all the incarnations. To all my dear ones here and in any part of the world, I bless you and wish you a happy Diwali. Another opportunity, or another happiness or event, is that today, on Deepāvalī's day, our beloved Bhagavān Śrī Dīpanārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī was incarnated in the holy village, Harivāsānī. That was also the miraculous birth of Bhagavān Śrī Dīpanārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī, which you can read in the Līlā Amṛta. That is: all lamps which had no oil went off at midnight, but in Brahmamūrta, when Mahāprabhujī incarnated, when Mahāprabhujī was born, at that time again all the lamps automatically were lit. It was sparkling, shining, lightning, beautiful Brahmamūrta atmosphere. So today is also the holy incarnation of Bhagavān Śrī Dīpanārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī. I send you, on the name of Mahāprabhujī, the blessings. In the name of Śrī Devapurījī, blessings. In the name of Holy Gurūjī, blessings. The life of the human is very mysterious. The life of a human is very complicated. In some way, it is said the most dangerous animal in the world is the human. The most destructive is the human. So, by great sense, they tie them, they give the injections of spirituality, and they tie them in the culture so that they do not go out of the boundary of the rules and regulations of the societies or the cultures. So the culture is something which reminds the humans, again, of the history from the past; the lost memories, again, awake in the consciousness of the people. Therefore, wherever humans are, there is a culture, and where culture is, there are humans. Where the culture is brought, it is brought by humans. Every nation, every continent—it does not matter from where the people are coming—they bring their culture. And therefore, the culture is a beauty of human life; culture is to keep the society healthy and provide protection for the society. Therefore, these festivals can also be seen as cultural festivals. So, the main aim of the human is spirituality. If the great saints had not created such a tradition—what we call culture—humanity would be lost. But unfortunately, in this modern education, there is no kind of education which can make the human spiritual, which can make the human think, "What is God, and what am I?" In Kali Yuga, money is God. Everyone is trying to earn money, what they call nowadays in international language, the green economy. Recently, there was a conference which was organized by the government of Hungary and the United Nations, and they were talking about green culture. So I thought, oh, very good, they will talk about green culture—what they call it—more trees, vegetarian life, etc. But there was not any word about vegetation and nature and the vegetarian life and anything. They meant this green culture: more business, more communications, partnerships, and how to make the big companies and how to earn money. That is how they call the green culture. So, how are the humans manipulating? ...out eating, eh? Mr. Permanent of Austria, Salzburg, did you see anywhere? Yes or no? Loud? No. Now there is sitting one Mr. Nirenjan Purī of Czech Republic. Did you see anywhere one person who died without, because he had nothing to eat? Now, the Indian, you are Indian, sitting from Orissa, Bhaktas. Have you ever seen a person dying of hunger in Orissa and not getting food? So now you are sitting in so many international groups. Did you show yourself anywhere in Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore, Jaipur, Rajasthan, or anywhere? One person is sitting because he had nothing to eat, and he died. Yes? No? Then why are people making propaganda in Europe and in other countries? That in India, people are dying because they have nothing to eat. So in this way, they are manipulating the people and creating fear in the people. Instead of doing this, we shall help them, and if they are... Starving and dying because of the food economy and the manipulation in the world is that people are dying. The hungry people died there where the people create the wars, and then for certain days people did not have access to the food. They died because of the creating of the wars and exploding the bombs, and this and that, but not because in their country they have nothing to eat. In Africa also, many people, they think they are dying. No, Africa is a rich soil. Africa was very rich. But all the other countries, they stole, they took away the resources and the riches of the African continent. And now we are saying they are poor. There are some children who have some problems with the water, connecting with the water, concerning the water. Yes, there are some, but not in that way to frighten the world. And then what they do? We must organize, we must make the companies, we must supply them water, we should supply them mineral waters. So, this all is talking about the green economy. And so many, many NGOs, many, many companies, they are supporting, but as a business. Therefore, we shall not manipulate the world, the nations, or the people. We should not manipulate the seeds; we should not manipulate the fruits. And the biggest problem, pollution, was not only the pollution created by humans, but the pollution of the cattle farms, the chicken farms, the pig farms, etc. That is the biggest problem which creates the pollution in the world. Pesticides are the biggest problem which they are creating. And the wildlife is dying, the bees are dying, etc., etc. Therefore, in the Rāmāyaṇa, Bhagavān Rāma's story, Bhagavān Rāma is telling us to love each and every entity, love every creature, love the trees, love the rivers. Rivers are holy, lakes are holy, the ocean is holy. As long as the human will have in their consciousness feeling towards our mother earth as a holy earth, we will be protected and we will be safe. But on the day when we will abuse this our entire planet, then we will be in danger. Mahātmā Gandhījī said: Mother Nature has enough for our needs, but not for our greed. So one should read the Rāmāyaṇa. In the Rāmāyaṇa, there are such beautiful stories about the protection of the water, the protection of the trees, and the protection of the food for all creatures. It is said, "Who gave the pig will give the food." And "kīrī ko kān, hatī ko man"—a little corn of rice for a small ant, and a hundred kilos for an elephant. Every day it is God who is supplying, O man, who are you, that you think you will supply. So, it may be Diwali, or Holi, or Guru Pūrṇimā, or Christmas, or many other holy festivals reminding us to be healthy, be happy, and love all creatures on this planet. So, this is the blessing and message of Diwali. My dear brothers and sisters all around the world, God bless you, and please try to protect and love all creatures. Kṛṣṇa, Bhagavān, Śyāma, Vara, Rāma, Candra, Bhagavān, Kī, Jaya, Oṁ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ. Anybody would like to say something, Premānājī, Yogājī? Anybody have a question here? Good. Then Dīvālī Kā Rām Rām Sā, what you will say? Tomorrow morning, when the sun rises and when you see anybody, you say, "Dīvālī Kā Rām Rām Sā." What will you say? Like you said, "Happy Christmas," you know? So tomorrow we say Diwali. Diwali kā is Rām, Rām sā. Diwali kā? Yes. Āp ko Dīvālī kā Rām Rām sa. To you, happy Dīvālī. Okay? Wish you a happy Diwali. Diwalikā. Ah, Diwalikā. Okay. So tomorrow you greet everybody, "Not good morning." When you say good morning, then you must say Diwalikā Rām Rām Sā.