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Praṇām Gurudev, Hari Om dear Guru brothers and sisters. We know that yesterday, according to the European and Western calendar, marked 50 years since the Mahāsamādhi of Mahāprabhujī. For our Western mind, such moments are often not happy; we feel sad when we say someone has left their body and departed from this world. But we know Swāmījī has said many times that everyone has a birthday—even animals have a birthday—but only a self-realized person has a Mahāsamādhi. Therefore, for yogīs, for those who understand what self-realization means and what it is to be free again, it is a great victory. For bhaktas, it is a very sad moment. We know from the bhajan of Kabīrdās, he said: "When I was born, people were very happy and I was crying. But when I will go, people will cry and I will be happy." That is the state of a self-realized person, the state of mind and conscience of those great heroes who win over death. Because of that, the day of Mahāsamādhi for bhaktas is not a happy moment; it feels like the big victory of death. We pray and hope that someday we will also have a Mahāsamādhi and be free again, one with this cosmic light, with Mahāprabhujī. To be on such a day with the Gurudev is something even more joyful and powerful, because in satsaṅg we clean ourselves and come one step nearer to that Mahāsamādhi. We pray to Swāmījī to give us the blessing to gain knowledge and self-realization. We know Swāmījī has said many times that the most tragic moment is to die without self-realization. We hope, and I hope, that every one of us will also have a Mahāsamādhi. Siddhipāda Bhagavān Kī Jayā. Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinaḥ, Sarve Santu Nīrāmāyāḥ, Sarve Bhadrāṇi Paśyantu. All dear ones and bhaktas of Śrī Devpurījī Mahādeva, Bhagavān Dīptāna Mahāprabhujī, our Holy Gurujī, and our Alakpurījī Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā. Also, the spiritual seekers, dear brothers and sisters around the world, those who are with us via webcast—welcome. We are blessed ones that we could be here in Mahāprabhujī’s ashram. This means our ashram. No one here is a guest; everyone is the host. Everyone is at home. So do not expect hospitality as a guest. No one is to be blamed except ourselves. Very happy to see you again. This is the time of divine events. It is the time of Christmas. This subject will be tomorrow; you should be prepared. Our Swāmī Vivek Purī Mahāmaṇḍeśwar told you about Mahāprabhujī’s Mahāsamādhi. We all know about the date. It is already 50 years past, but he is more vivid and present in our hearts and in the world. I remember Holī Gurujī said a few times that many bhaktas of Mahāprabhujī from Rajasthan were living in different states of India—like Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Orissa, Assam, Delhi, etc.—and they asked Mahāprabhujī, "Please come; there are thousands of bhaktas longing for your darśan." Mahāprabhujī smiled. It means: you think that I am in a limited space. Tell me where I am not. So those bhaktas had that emotion: I am there. The great Ṛṣi Nārada asked Bhagavān Viṣṇu, "Lord, whenever I see you, you are residing on the coiled Śeṣanāga in the ocean of immortality. Some people are searching for you somewhere. Why don’t you go there? Where are you mostly?" Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said, "I am not living in Vaikuṇṭha. I am in the hearts of yogīs who are meditating all the time. I am there where my bhaktas are singing the glory of my name. Who is calling me in their heart? I am there." So, where I am not, you go; I will see you there, welcome you at the railway station, personally. And often it happened: they arrived at Calcutta railway station, and Mahāprabhujī was sitting and smiling. "How was the journey?" "Very good, Gurudev." Made for Nām. Nobody was there. You know, there is one story about a primary school. One day, the teacher asked the students, these little kids, "I have ten dollars in my pocket, and I would like to give it to someone as an award, as a present. Tell me, where is God?" Young children, young kids: some said it’s in my mother; others said it’s in my father; others said, no, no, it’s in my cat, my dog. Some said in the temple, in the church. Some said, "No, God is living somewhere in the sky; we can’t see him." Some said, "No, no, he’s under the earth, hidden in the caves." Everyone told. One child was silent. The teacher asked him, "No, dear one, what about you? You didn’t say anything." He stood up and said to the teacher, "Sir, unfortunately, I do not have ten dollars in my pocket. But I will do some little work for you, or paint something for you as an award. Dear teacher, tell us where there is no God." Dobry. The teacher asked the boy, "What are your parents doing?" He stood up. Yoga and death life. So, where is Mahāprabhujī? It is we who realized him here. Omapuri, come here, my friend. Why am I traveling around the world? To make you aware that Mahāprabhujī is with you here. That Mahāprabhujī is here with you. So, in the last five decades: Universal Worship, Light of our Hearts, our Divine Shelter, Incarnation of Love, Mercy, Compassion, Loving and Protecting of all creatures—our Lord Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī. If you don’t believe, still I’m asking: one of the bhaktas from Slovakia, she’s cooking in her kitchen, standing and looking out of the window. She has a beautiful house, big land, meadows and forest, and mighty divine Mahāprabhujī. From this forest, through the meadow, walking towards this house, her eyes remained open. Her hands were troubled like this, and her eyeballs were swimming in divine tears. This is a real story, not a made story, that our dear sister is sitting here. Similarly, we had one great bhakta in Ostrava, Czech Republic. He was living in Ostrava Porubě. He was one of the persons who invited me to Czechoslovakia, and he also had the same visit of Mahāprabhujī. Several people are sitting here, and many have passed away. That Mahāprabhujī came. Several times he visited me in Austria. And in other parts of the world, he comes to his bhaktas. I asked Holy Gurujī, "Why not to all, and why just give us chocolate to only a few people?" Holī Gurujī smiled and he said, "I will give you the answer tomorrow." And he gave me a piece of paper. And Holī Gurujī wrote a bhajan as an answer for me: Kappata kī bhakti prabhu nahīṁ, kappata kī bhakti prabhu nahīṁ. I told you only the few lines of this bhajan. Mahesh, Holi Gurujī said, "Everything gives Mahāprabhujī." He can remove all the pains, poverty, and sufferings of many, many lives. Mahā Dhan Dita Viśāl, and he gives great prosperity. Viśāl, endless. What is that? Knowledge. Knowledge, bhakti. The most precious and richest is the knowledge. Not this. All beggars in this Kali Yuga are struggling for money. And our dear Jesus said, "Do not believe in this wrong gold. I am your guru, master, is the way to God." So gold, they made it God. We say, don’t believe in the wrong God. So make the correction wrong, gold. Kali Yuga me rupya rām. In Kali Yuga, money is God, which leads one to suffering. If you have no money, you have a problem. If you have money, you have a problem, and if your money is stolen, you have a problem. Nowhere makes you happy. Sāyī, itanā dījē jisme kutumb samāy mē bhūkā na ho, sādhū na bhūkā jāy. O my Lord, give me that much that I can feed my families. I also don’t remain hungry. Anyone who comes to my door, no one goes hungry. That I can give them a warm welcome. But riches is the knowledge you can’t buy. You have to learn, you have to gain. This has to be bestowed upon you. Guru Kṛpā. Those men and women who are criticizing Gurū Deva, Mahāprabhujī, those who are sad will become the most troubled ones. Dukha. Sukha and dukha. Dukha means all kinds of suffering: disease, cancer, pain, and what not. Hot kaṅgal, kaṅgal means poorest of the poorest of the poorest, mentally, physically, emotionally, etc. Kaṅgal, that soul will suffer for temporary. You can criticize, you think, "Yes, I know everything, and now I don’t want this, and I don’t want this." Destiny said, "Destiny is smiling, wait, wait." Therefore, such thoughts should be removed from our consciousness. Doesn’t matter which saint it is, don’t humiliate any saint or any holy religion, otherwise you will suffer the consequences. What you think will come to you. Those who have the bhakti, Nijman means your own mind and heart, you have complete devotion. Those who have bhakti, those who have complete devotion in mind and heart, Mahāprabhujī protects them, especially in this country where we... are sitting? The previous call, Czechoslovakia? Even Devpurījī walked here. We have one very beautiful, divine couple in Koprivnice. In that house, both Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī, and Gurujī walked. And I went to adore that house. That I was the blessed one, that I could go there. That they allowed our divine masters, me, that I could go there. Therefore, Mahāprabhujī, after his entering into the Brahmaloka, was like also covered the whole earth. But, again, this should not be temporary bhakti. Not easy. That will come tomorrow. Tomorrow, in my satsaṅg, we are going to celebrate Christmas. In which form will we celebrate tomorrow? That will be a real Christmas celebration. Great saints come as heroes. They have to enter into the battle of the saṃsāra. And the battles have never been easy for any incarnation. And any saints look to the San Francisco. And a very hard battle in his life. And now we build the church. We pray. We dedicate our life to his name. But at that time, we didn’t realize it and acknowledge him. You don’t know who is standing in front of you. Who you don’t know is talking to you. Just come to the door and look who is standing at your door. Like one of the incarnations out of the twenty-four incarnations from the realm of this Satyuga, there were twenty-four incarnations. One of them was Bhavānavatāra, and he is coming to the door of one king, singing a beautiful song: "On your door is standing God, O my devotee. Come and fill it, my bag, my pot. Tera yug yug hoga asan, every life and every century, your glory will be sung. Believe me. Give all. And you will be the king of heaven." So you don’t know. Who are we to judge someone? Our judgment will be 99.9. Our judgment will be wrong. You are blaming what you have done, what you are doing, what you are thinking, and what you are. Therefore, any religion—Hindu, Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, or Islam—is for us adorable. We shall follow that path, not humiliate. This trouble in the world can only be solved by so-called all religious leaders and political leaders declaring mutual understanding and oneness: intercultural, multicultural, and multi-religious. Therefore, every saint is a message for us, and they didn’t have an easy life. They had to walk through the field of the cobras, swim through the lake of the crocodiles, and walk through the fires and thorns, but they are the heroes. They didn’t care about the pain. They didn’t care about the humiliation. Their duty is to bring Satya Sanātana Satya Dharma, the values of the Sanātana eternal principle of love, happiness, kindness, truth, and light, and that is how we are universally perceived, our very dear Bhagavān Dīpna and Mahāprabhujī. He is in Brahmaloka, which is called endless; there is no border. It means here also, and he will help you if you really call. But some of the stupid of us, some of you, will be here inside me. Mahāprabhujī is now I am incarnation of Mahāprabhujī. Don’t you think that I will not recognize? I am looking for that what you are searching for. I am also searching. That Mirabai said: "Lord, which you are searching, that dear one which you are searching, the beloved one you are searching, I am also searching that one. Oh parrot of my beautiful garden, oh parrot of my green, beautiful park, please fly away to far distance, to beautiful parks, and if you see the beloved one, please come quickly and tell me where he is. I’m searching for him. My dear parrot, I will have a beautiful crown made, a golden crown for your head, and your beak I will also crown with gold. That peak which will tell me, 'Mira, here is the Lord, your beloved one.' Otherwise, don’t tell me, 'Beloved, beloved,' where is he? When you are saying, 'Pew, pew,' you are opening my wound, and you are awakening that pain in me towards my Lord. Please go and tell me, where is he?" But where are you searching for me? I am with you, sitting out of the city, my heart. My residence is where you see my heart. There are merasvashmi, but the real residence is in your breath. Remember me with ascending and descending breath. That is a Brahmaloka. So, those who come to Brahmaloka are only the great heroes, and we congratulate them, and we celebrate them, and we remember them because they become one with us also. And they are all, in spite of all this, still we are in mortal bodies, we are attached so much to this material world. Our devotion, our love is so great but limited, and therefore it’s also sadness for us. Can you imagine? Instead of remembering the anniversary of Mahāprabhujī’s Mahāsamādhi, if he will just come and sit beside us, that will be the biggest celebration. But it is not possible. That is in Brahman. Only the way to realize that Brahmajñāna can clean inside the many lives and life’s dirt; Prabhu can purify it. Janam janam kā dhārī dharmete mahā dhana detā viśāl gives the great prosperity that is ātmā jñāna, self-realization. When you have self-realization, my dear, now your spiritual journey begins. Before, you are the dust. So when the self-realization comes that I am the ātmā, now the first milestone is covered, and now the journey begins there, Mahāprabhujī said. To those who got this Ātmajñāna, then when you have Ātmajñāna, then your mind becomes very arrogant. Ego: "How could he tell me this? I am the great one. Why didn’t they make the way when I came? They were not welcoming me." What? Should we welcome in Ātmajñāna? There is nothing to welcome, there is nothing. So this is the first step of your achievement and step towards the Brahma. So Mahāprabhujī said, Mahāprabhujī is teaching great, and Holy Gurujī gave us the great, great presence, our holy Līlā Amṛt. Līlā means the miracles, amṛt means nectar. Whatever happens to the Gurudeva, Mahāprabhujī, is a nectar, immortal acts. Mahāprabhujī said to those self-realized saints who came and were sitting. Mahāprabhujī was simply sitting there, and his shirt was torn a little bit. So Mahāprabhujī walked into his room and searched somewhere for a needle and thread, and came and sat in the sun, and he was mending his shirt. That shirt I have, Mahāprabhujī’s shirt, and you can see in many places. He, with his own holy hands, repairing. And what do we do? That little black spot, Mansa Devi, change it. Shanti, this is already dirty, bring me new. Mahāprabhujī didn’t say it. When somebody brought him a new shirt, he nicely folded it, and when anybody came, he gave it to him. So when an ātmā jñānī came, some of us, like many of us, we are challenging, "I am an ātmā jñānī." But when a little mosquito bites, and you have some bugs in your bed, and the bathroom is not functioning, we Ātmagyānī say, "Oh God, I don’t like this. Can you give me a better room?" Ātamgyānī, be happy that you’ve got such a room, at least. After ātmā jñāna, you sit somewhere under the tree and clean the leaves. And many are thinking, Mahāprabhujī told me in my thoughts, in my meditation, I go to Mahāprabhujī. What did you tell? Yes, we are children. We can tell anything. It is said, the greedy people love their interest, not the capital. Because capital money is there, but how much interest will I get? Like Mangalpurī sitting here, how to multiply money? So capital is your children, and interest of capital is your grandchildren. And how much do you love grandchildren? Oh, we have one disciple, she claims that she’s Ātmajñānī, but she told me, "Don’t tell Swāmījī." She said she has no attachment and she is above everything. In talking, she is perfect, like Śukadeva Muni: no attachment, no love, nothing. And now she got a little grandchild. Oh God! Oh my baby, oh my baby. Holding the little foot, and oh, my baby, the horse goes. Ātmā jñānī. What are you doing? I said to her. I am teaching Ātmā Jñāna. So Mahāprabhujī said very clearly, after your self-realization, others are just dust, pasta, wash your hands, and canalization. And to waste to the sewage of other places, so Mahāprabhujī said. God bless you. God bless you. I was singing this bhajan because many times I have made corrections, and you don’t make them. Corrections. Bin jāne, not bin jāne, bin jāne,... ko jī unco chāṭī. What Bajananda, our dear Bajananda, has made a correction, and this has, many, many people are totally confused. Bin jāne, bas. You know, bin jāne. Bin jāne. Also, you can have the keel. Not binjaniyā. And that one girl is always singing binjaniyā. This is the Slovak language. This is the Hungarian language. This is a Slovenian language, Binjani. Also, music note, without knowing if one will climb, it will fall down on the ground. Like a mountain climber, we cannot just go to one and say, "Let’s climb." We can climb two times: first and second. But we need some expert who can teach us. Like our dear Vijaya from Vienna. Deep Nayan Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa Eupurī Samādhi Mādhavakṛṣṇa Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa Satya Sanātana Kṛṣṇa.