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Praṇām Gurudeva, Hari Om, dear Guru brothers and sisters. We know that yesterday, according to the European and Western calendar, marked the 50th year of Mahāprabhujī’s Mahāsamādhi. For our Western mind, moments like this are somehow never entirely joyful. We are always sad when we say somebody has left the body, passed from this life, gone from this world. But we know, as Swāmījī said many times, that everyone has a birthday—even animals have a birthday—but only self-realized persons have a Mahāsamādhi. And because of that, for yogīs, for those who understand what self-realization means and how to become free again, it is in a way a great victory. For bhaktas, it is a very sad moment. Yet we know from the bhajan of Kabīrdās: he said, “When I was born, people were very happy and I was crying. But when I go, people will cry and I will be happy.” That is the state of a self-realized person. That is the state of mind, of conscience, of those great heroes who conquer death. Therefore, the day of Mahāsamādhi for bhaktas is not a happy moment; it is the great victory over death. And we are praying, and we hope that some day we too will have Mahāsamādhi and be free again, one with this cosmic light, with Mahāprabhujī. On such a day, being with the Gurudeva is even more joyful and more powerful, because in satsaṅga we cleanse ourselves and draw one step nearer to that Mahāsamādhi. We pray to Swāmījī to grant us the blessing of knowledge, of self-realization. And we know that Swāmījī often said that the most tragic moment is if we die without self-realization. So I hope, and I believe, that every one of us will also attain Mahāsamādhi. All dear ones and bhaktas of Śrī Devpurījī Mahādev, Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, our holy Gurujī, and our Alakhpurījī Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā—and the spiritual seekers, dear brothers and sisters around the world, those with us via webcast, welcome. We are blessed to be here in Mahāprabhujī’s Āśram. No one is a guest here; everyone is the host, everyone is at home, so do not expect guest hospitalities. No one is to be blamed except ourselves. I am very happy to see you again. This is the time of divine events. It is the time of Christmas—this subject will come tomorrow, so be prepared. Our Swāmī Vivek Purī, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, told you about Mahāprabhujī’s Mahāsamādhi. We all know the date of that Mahāsamādhi; fifty years have already passed. Yet he is more vivid and present in our hearts and in the world than ever. I remember what Holy Gurujī told a few times. Many bhaktas of Mahāprabhujī from Rajasthan, living in different parts of India—Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Orissa, Assam, Delhi—asked Mahāprabhujī, “Please come, there are thousands of bhaktas longing for your darśana.” Mahāprabhujī smiled. It meant, “You think I am in a limited space? Tell me where I am not.” So those bhaktas had that feeling: I am already 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. Yet some people search for you elsewhere. Why don’t you go there? Where are you mostly?” Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said, “I am not living in Vaikuṇṭha, nor in the heart of a yogī who meditates all the time. Arjuna, Nārada—I am there where my bhaktas sing the glory of my name, where they call me in their heart. So where am I not? You go, I will see you there, welcome you at the railway station personally.” And often it happened: they would arrive at Kolkata railway station, and Mahāprabhujī would be sitting and smiling. “How was the journey?” “Very good, Gurudeva. I made praṇām, but nobody was there.” You know, there is a story about a primary school. One day the teacher asked the little children, “I have ten dollars in my pocket, and I would like to give it to someone as an award. Tell me, where is God?” The young children answered, “In my mother,” “In my father,” “In my cat,” “In my dog.” Some said in the temple, in the church, in the sky where we cannot see, under the earth in caves. Everyone gave an answer. One child was silent. The teacher asked him, “Dear one, what about you? You didn’t say anything.” He stood up and said, “Sir, unfortunately I do not have ten dollars in my pocket. But I can do some little work for you, help you paint something, so that it might become the price for you. Dear teacher, tell us where there is no God.” The good teacher asked the boy, “What do your parents do?” He stood up: yoga and the dead life. So, where is Mahāprabhujī not? It is we who realize him here. Omapuri, come here, my friend. Why am I traveling around the world? To make you aware that Mahāprabhujī is with you here. So in the last five decades, the universally worshipped Light of our hearts, our divine shelter, the incarnation of love, mercy, compassion—loving and protecting all creatures—our Lord, Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī. If you still don’t believe, I am asking one of the bhaktas from Slovakia. She was cooking in her kitchen, standing and looking out of the window. They have a beautiful house, big land, meadows, and forest. And mighty, divine Mahāprabhujī came from that forest, through the meadow, walking towards the house. Her eyes remained open. Her hands trembled, and her eyeballs swam in divine tears. This is a real story, not made up. That dear sister is sitting here. Similarly, we had a great bhakta in Ostrava, Czech Republic, living in Ostrava Porubě. He was one of the persons who invited me to Czechoslovakia, and he too had the same visit from Mahāprabhujī. Several people sitting here, and many who have passed away, can attest that Mahāprabhujī came. Many 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 to give us chocolate, only a few people?” Holy Gurujī smiled and said, “Maheś, I will give you the answer tomorrow,” and he gave me a piece of paper on which he had written a bhajan as the answer for me. Deva Dātā, Dīpa Kapāṭa kī Bhakti Prabhu Nahīṃ, Kapāṭa kī Bhakti Prabhu Nahīṃ. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān—you know this bhajan. I told you only a few lines. Maheś, Holy Gurujī said, “Everything gives Mahāprabhujī, janama janama kā dharī dharmitī.” He can remove all the pains, the pūrṇatā and sufferings of many, many lives. Mahā dhana detā viśāla, and he gives great prosperity—viśāla, endless, nekonečný. What is that? Knowledge. Knowledge, bhakti—the most precious and the richest is knowledge, not this. All beggars in this Kali Yuga are struggling for money. And our dear Jesus said, “Don’t believe in this wrong God; I am your guru, master, the way to God.” So gold, they made it God. We say, “Do not believe in the wrong God”—make the correction: wrong, gold. In Kali Yuga, money is God, which leads to suffering one day. If you have no money, you have a problem. If you have money, you have a problem. If your money is stolen, you have a problem. Nothing makes you happy. O my Lord, give me just enough to feed my family, that I may not remain hungry, and that anyone who comes to my door does not go hungry, that I may give them a warm welcome. But real riches is knowledge. You cannot buy it; you have to learn it, gain it. It must be bestowed upon you—Guru Kṛpā. Those men and women who criticize Gurudeva: Mahāprabhujī kī Karatā, Mahāprabhujī kī Karatā… Poorest of the poorest of the poorest—mentally, physically, emotionally—that soul will suffer. For a temporary time you can criticize, thinking, “Yes, I know everything, and now I don’t want this, I don’t want that.” Destiny is smiling, waiting. Therefore, such thoughts must be removed from our consciousness. It doesn’t matter which saint it is; do not humiliate any sect or any holy religion, otherwise you will suffer. That consequence, what you think, will come to you. Nijamān se koī bhakti karatā hai—those who have devotion from their own mind and heart, complete devotion. We have one very beautiful divine couple in Koprivnice. In that house, Mahāprabhujī, Devpurījī, and Gurujī all walked. And I went to adore that house, feeling blessed that I could go there, that they allowed our divine masters—and me—to come. Therefore, after Mahāprabhujī entered into Brahmaloka, he also covered the whole earth. But again, this should not be temporary bhakti. It is not easy. That will come tomorrow, in tomorrow’s satsaṅga. The battles have never been easy for any incarnation, for any saint. Look at San Francisco: he had a very hard battle in his life, and now we build the church, we pray, we dedicate our lives to his name. But at that time, we didn’t realize it or acknowledge it. You don’t know who is standing in front of you, who is talking to you. Just come to the door and look who is standing at your door. Like one of the twenty-four incarnations from the realm of Satya Yuga to Kali Yuga—Bhāvanāvatāra—he came to the door of a king, singing a beautiful song: “On your door stands God, O my devotee, come and fill my bag, my pot. Tera yuga-yuga hoga āsana—in 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 we are when we judge someone. Our judgment will be 99.9% 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, any religion—is for us adorable. We shall follow that path, not humiliate. This trouble in the world can only be solved when so-called religious leaders and political leaders declare mutual understanding and oneness: intercultural, multicultural, interfaith, multi-religious. Every saint is a message for us, and they did not have an easy life. They had to walk through a field of cobras and swim through a lake of crocodiles, walk through fires and thorns. But they are the heroes. They did not care about the pain, about the humiliation. Their duty is to bring the satya, sanātana dharma—the eternal values of love, happiness, kindness, truth, and light. And thus we universally received our very dear Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī. He is in Brahmaloka, which is called endless; there is no border. It means he is here also, and he will help you if you really call. But some of us are foolish. Some of us say, “Inside me, Mahāprabhujī is now. I am the incarnation of Mahāprabhujī.” Don’t you think that I will not recognize that? I am also looking for that one. Mīrābāī said, “That Lord whom you are searching for, that beloved one—I am also searching.” She sang: O parrot of my beautiful garden, O parrot of my green, beautiful park, please fly away to far distances, to beautiful parks, and if you see the beloved one, please come quickly and tell me where he is. I am searching for him. My dear parrot, I will make a beautiful golden crown for your head, and I will also crown your beak with gold—that beak which tells me, ‘Mīrā, here is the Lord, your beloved one.’ Otherwise, don’t say to me ‘beloved, beloved’; when you say ‘pew, pew,’ you are opening my wound and awakening that pain in me towards my Lord. Please go and tell me where he is.” But the Lord answers: “Moku kaha tu dunde bandhe? Where are you searching for me? I am with you, sitting. Seher se bāhar kuṭiyā hamārī—outside the city is my hut, my residence. Where you see, my heart is there. There is my Svāmī, but the real residence is in your breath. Remember me with ascending and descending breath. That is Brahmaloka.” So only the great hero comes to Brahmaloka. And we congratulate them, we celebrate them, we remember them, because they become one with us also. In spite of all this, still we are in mortal bodies, attached so much to this material world. Our devotion, our love is so great but limited, and therefore there is also sadness for us. Can you imagine? Instead of remembering the anniversary of Mahāprabhujī’s Mahāsamādhi, if he would just come and sit beside us, that would be the biggest celebration. But it is not possible. That is in Brahman. The whole way is to realize that Brahmajñāna. Clean inside. Janama janama kā daridra—the dirt of many, many lives—Prabhu can purify it. “Janama janama kā daridra meṭe, / Mahādhana detā viśāla” 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 self-realization comes—that I am the Ātmā, Ahaṁ Brahmāsmi—the first milestone is covered, and now the journey begins. There, Mahāprabhujī said to those who got this Ātmajñāna, “Then, when you have Ātmajñāna, your mind becomes very arrogant. The ego says, ‘How could he tell me this? I am the great one. Why didn’t they make 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 a step towards Brahmajñāna. Mahāprabhujī is a great teacher. And Holy Gurujī gave us the great, great presence through our holy Līlā Amṛta. Līlā means the miracles, Amṛta means nectar. Whatever happens to the Gurudeva, to Mahāprabhujī, is nectar, immortal acts. Mahāprabhujī said to those self-realized saints who came and sat, Mahāprabhujī simply sitting there. His shirt was torn a little, so he walked into his room, searched for a needle and thread, came back and sat in the sun, and began stitching his shirt. And that shirt I have. Mahāprabhujī kī Karatā, Mahāprabhujī kī Karatā—when somebody brought him a new shirt, he would nicely fold it and if anyone came, he gave it away. So when Ātmajñānīs come, like us, many of us are challenging. I am an Ātmajñānī. But when a little mosquito bites, or there are bugs in the bed, or the bathroom is not functioning, we Ātmajñānīs say, “Oh God, I don’t like this. Can you give me a better room?” Ātmā Jñānījī, be happy that you got such a room at least. After Ātmajñāna, you can sit somewhere under the trees and sweep the leaves. Many think, “Mahāprabhujī told me in my thoughts, in my meditation.” I go to Mahāprabhujī—what did you tell? Yes, we are children; we can say anything. It is said that greedy people love their interest, not the capital. The capital money is there, but how much interest will I get? Like Mangalpuri sitting here, how to multiply money? So capital is your children, and the interest of capital is your grandchildren. And how much do you love grandchildren? Oh, we have one disciple. She claims she is Ātmajñānī, but she told me, “Don’t tell Swamiji.” She said she has no attachment, she is above everything. In talking, she is perfect, like Śukadeva Muni—no attachment, no love, nothing. And now she has a little grandson. Oh God, holding the little foot, “Oh my baby,” the whole world 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, washing the hands and yoke, and canalization of other lokas. I was singing this bhajan purposely because many times I’ve made a correction, and you don’t make the correction. Bin jane, not bin jane, bin jane— koj uncho chati. What bhajana, our dear bhajana, has made correction, and this has many, many people totally confused. Binjane, binjane—also, you can have the key. Binjana Ye, Binjana Ye, not Binjaniya, and that one girl is always singing Binjaniye. This is a Slovakian language, this is a Hungarian language, this is a Slovenian language. Binjane—also a music note—Binjane, without knowing if one will climb, pari dharan parai, they will fall down on the ground. Like a mountain climber. We cannot just go to a mountain and say, “Let’s climb.” We might climb two times, first and second, but we need an expert who can teach us. Like our dear Vijaya from Vienna. Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, deep. Jaya Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān, Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān. Satya Sanātana, Satya Sanātana Dharma, Satya Sanātana Dharma. Jaya, jaya, jaya…