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Part 1: Welcome and Reflections on Satsaṅg Hari Om, praṇām Gurudev, dear Swamijī. I would like to cordially welcome you here in Hungary. We have joined together, converging to be part of your beautiful gathering. Also, I would like to extend my heartiest welcome to all of you. I would like to thank everyone who is following us through the webcast all over the world. I also would like to welcome all those who are present, our new yoga friends, on behalf of the International Sri Deep Madhavanand Ashram Fellowship, and also on behalf of Yoga Invaders. We come together from time to time to refresh the acceptance that we give to Gurudeva when we receive the invitation to practice yoga in everyday life with his guidance. On the occasion of our Mantra Dīkṣā, we make a walk towards our Gurudev, and we gather together from time to time to refresh this walk so that we can practice yoga in daily life under his guidance. It is a huge joy that, alongside Swamiji, we may welcome Mahāmaṇḍaleśwar Swami Vivek Purījī among us, as well as Swamiji’s followers and sannyāsīs from many different countries. When Swāmījī is present and we are waiting for him to share his wisdom with us, it is not easy to talk about anything. I reckon the best thing that I can do is repeat Swāmījī’s words. Swāmījī usually says that we should utilize every second, every minute of our weekend seminar, so that we can proceed on our yoga path. I would like to add one more thing. Many people have gathered together from Hungary, from many countries of Europe, from all over the world. It is really difficult to list the countries we are from, but I would like to underline that we are living together according to yogic principles in love, understanding, and harmony. There is one more thing I would like to tell the people who are following us through the webcast. Dear brothers and sisters, I wish that you can also enjoy Swāmījī’s warmth, Swāmījī’s love, and Swāmījī’s uplifted atmosphere in the way that we can already enjoy it here right now. These joyful moments of our lives will never go into oblivion. I would like to strongly urge you and invite you to all the possibilities in VEAP, in Strilky, and in India to visit Swamiji’s satsaṅg personally and not only follow it through the webcast. As Swamījī says, it is already a great luck to be present at the satsaṅg, at the boat of the satsaṅg, and this boat takes us from the shore of darkness to the other shore of light. You all know that satsaṅg is the technique that takes us from death to immortality, if we follow the Guru’s words and the yogic principles. Many of us who are present here have been practicing according to Yoga in Daily Life for years or even for decades. According to my faith and according to my experiences, I must say that satsaṅg is the greatest treasure, and it can give us the most in our lives. Of course, our body needs physical exercises; we also need prāṇāyāma and relaxation, but the crown jewel is satsaṅg and guruvākya. Being here is, on one hand, very easy, and on the other hand, very difficult because we have to pay attention, we have to be aware, we have to be alert, we have to remember. Remember all the words Gurudev says, and in the period when he is not with us, we have to put everything we have heard into practice. The theory that we can hear, we have to practice incessantly. I would like to remind you that our system is called Yoga in Daily Life, which means incessantly, day by day, month to month, to practice everything that we hear right now. As Swamījī keeps repeating, one ton of theory is nothing to a gram of practice. So, āsana, prāṇāyāma, relaxation—we need to focus on meditation as well, if we want to reach our ultimate goal, liberation, mokṣa. As we are coming close to Swamiji, the expression on people’s faces is changing constantly. I can see the peace, the love, the joy, and the contentment on people’s faces. And I would like to remind you that this is one more step towards liberation, mokṣa. I reckon that all of you who are following our webcast, and everyone who is present here, wishes to hear Swamījī’s words. But most of all, it is I who would like to hear Swamījī’s wisdom. This might be the first step towards liberation and towards mokṣa for myself. You might not believe me, but in the early parts of my life, when I had to grab a microphone, my hands were shaking and my knees were trembling, and I really forgot everything I wished to talk about. If you excuse me, I may share with you a story from my life. It was about 20 or 30 years ago with Swāmījī and Holy Gurujī, Swāmī Madhavānandjī, in Hungary, when we had a satsaṅg in Pát. It was an opening satsaṅg among tents, and we were waiting for Swāmījī’s satsaṅg. When we all gathered together and were waiting for Swamījī, we decided to form a commission, and we went to Swamījī with our commission, asking him when he was going to address us because we thought that we were already together and the only thing we were waiting for was his words. Swamiji said that this minute was going to come very soon, but Swamiji said he himself was in the service of Holy Gurujī, Swāmī Madhavānandajī, whom you all know. Swamiji instructed me to go to the people and talk about the relationship between Master and disciple. In that moment, I felt exactly as I do now. I was thinking, what shall I talk about? My heart was full of love, joy, and happiness. Swamiji had come, he had shown himself to me, he had revealed to me that he is my master. And additionally, he accepted me as a disciple. This duty to speak about the relationship of Master and disciple, any duty that is given by the Master, has to be carried out according to the best of our knowledge. You know, I cannot speak. When I asked Swamījī what I should say, Swamījī said, "Tell everything that I would say. Think about the fact that you have been a long-term disciple of mine, and only repeat what you have heard from me in this period." I reckon you know this feeling; there is a great emptiness in our heads. Your heart wishes to give everything, but you may still feel that nothing comes into your mind. At that time, I had already been the disciple of Swamiji for 33 years, but I only had to say two sentences in front of a crowd. But Swamījī instructed me to go and do my duty. Since then, my aim is not only Maunā. We take farewell, and we are waiting for the wisdom of Swamiji. Thank you. Praṇām.