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Good evening and welcome to all of you. We are one hour late with the webcast today due to a technical and administrative oversight. It took time for everyone to arrive and offer Praṇām. I welcome all of you here in this hall, and also those who are with us through the webcast. Blessings to all of you from our Siddha Pīṭha. Yesterday, we had a beautiful journey to the Himalayas through a video. We were at Kedārnāth, Badrināth, Gaṅgotrī, and Yamunotrī. This video was especially about Satopanth and Svarga Rohiṇī, a place about four thousand and some hundred meters high. It is a very holy place. Indeed, the Himalayas are holy, and no doubt, India is a holy land. If you speak of a holy land, it is India. It is said that in every grain of sand, there is a spiritual, divine, holy radiance. Not everyone can feel and see it, but it doesn’t matter if you feel it or not. That light is entering you. In certain airports, there is what we call an X-ray machine. When you walk towards the gate with your luggage, you don't see yourself, but the X-ray sees everything. It sees that only the skull is walking, only the bones are walking. It is very interesting. Whatever you are carrying in your backpack or trolley, everything is X-rayed when they want to know what is there—fruit inside, or some small seed. Its blue light is there. It is for the sake of all tourists and passengers. But what I want to tell you is that, whether you know it or not, there is definitely some radiance affecting your body. Similarly, whether you are aware or not, when you go to India, that holy spiritual land, it is the land upon which great saints and great incarnations walked. I think a writer from Germany or Europe—I don't know the name—wrote about Gandhi: "The time will come that people will say such a person walked on this earth." But everything has its time. We saw yesterday how the Pāṇḍavas went to the Himalayas, and one after the other, they were frozen in the glaciers. Satopanth is a beautiful lake. It is believed that every eleventh moon day, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva go bathing there. Especially, there is one day which comes in August called Dev Julanī Igyāras, the goddess bathing eleventh day, for swimming and bathing in that Satopanth. 'Satopanth' also translates to 'on the path of truth'. There are beautiful rivers there. As far as you go, you still walk along the holy river Alaknandā. When you go further above, the place is called Alakāpurī—Alaknandā, Alakāpurī—a beautiful valley. Our dear Dr. Shanti walked there for about a week or ten days, and she felt the energy of Devapurījī and Alakapurījī. On some caves, she made a sign: 'Devapurījī Gophā' and 'Alakapurījī Gophā'. It is a tough way, not so easy. Here the road is a little better, but there are rocks. At the end and beginning of every season, all the rocks are changed by so much water, snow, and glaciers. Further you go, that is called Svarga Rohiṇī. 'Svarga' means heaven, and 'Rohiṇī' is a path from there. That is the door to heaven. The five Pāṇḍavas finished their dharma, what ought to be done in the Mahābhārata, and then they left everything and went back to the Himalayas. These five Pāṇḍavas were not born from a mother or father; they were given to Kuntī after Pāṇḍu went away and died. Kuntī was crying, so she got five sons. They went with Dharmarāja Yudhiṣṭhira. Until the last breath of the Pāṇḍavas, there was still a test, an examination. Your whole life you were good, but in the last minute, the last second, you could fall. That is why it is said: "Manva dhire dhire caal"—Oh my mind, walk slowly, slowly. No matter how carefully you walk, there will always be some dangers. No matter how much you try to be good, there will always be someone who will criticize you or try to harm you. The Pāṇḍavas were given by God. They were God’s sons, but consider how hard their life was. If you read the whole story, see how much they had to struggle, how many times they were poisoned. But they remained on their spiritual path because they knew for what they came. So you should know for what you came on this earth—not by listening to this one or that one. You listen to all, but you walk on your own path. That is it. As I told you, I am preparing all of you. It doesn’t matter if you understand, or if you will manage or not; that is your thing. I gave you hearts in your hands. Now, if you can ride or not, that is your thing. I am preparing you in such a way that in the next life you will come as a spiritual one, to turn Kali Yuga into Satya Yuga. So I gave you this duty. How hard it is for you, I do not know. I do my job; I have finished. And Mīrābāī said: "Oh Kṛṣṇa, I don’t know anything. Now only you know. Everything is in your hands, Lord." So you have to make a turn, like you are sleeping on your left side and now you have to turn to the right side. I am turning you to the right side, but on the next turn, you will get up to change Kali Yuga into Satya Yuga. It is a tough job. All bhaktas around the whole world, all spiritual masters, and all the disciples of all spiritual masters, they will be born, and again this earth will be spiritual, divine. So we have to be part of that. There is one song: "When the saints go marching in, oh, I want to be in that number." So you are all in the divine turning. Saints are fighting now in this Kali Yuga to change it into Satya Yuga. Write this today in golden letters in your chidākāś (consciousness space), not on a piece of paper. A piece of paper you can lose, or the rain can wash it away. But what is written inside, no one will delete. The Pāṇḍavas had a struggle. They did their duty hard. People were jealous, wanting to take everything away, and they were angry. "Why are they successful?" With a trick, they put them in a house made of a different kind of material, like a fuel. A little fire, and the whole house would burn—like a chemical tanker bursting into flames—with all the Pāṇḍavas and Draupadī inside. That was called the Lakṣagṛha. But the very wise, intelligent, and clever Vidura was always giving hints. Whoever understands, understands with one sentence. Whoever cannot understand, you can read the holy book the whole night and in the morning say, "I need my coffee." When the Pāṇḍavas had to go, Vidura gave them a little case with a mouse inside. The Pāṇḍavas asked, "For what? Why did he give this?" The message was this: when the forest is burning, all creatures will die, but not the mouse, because it will go deep into a hole. The Pāṇḍavas got the message. Vidura sent workers, so nobody would know, and within one night they made a deep tunnel to walk out. When the tunnel was finished, they were making a fire outside because it was very cold—purposely. They lit the fire in the house, and the whole house was, within no time, in flames. The Pāṇḍavas went out through the tunnel. Nobody knew that they had walked away. They had to spend many years in the forest, hiding because Duryodhana wanted to kill them. You understand all Hindi very well. For whom God wants to protect, even if the whole world is your enemy, if God wants to save you, no one can harm even one hair. As many stars are in the sky, that many enemies you may have. But if the Guru's grace (Guru Kṛpā) is there, they all will fail. Śrī Mādhavānandajī Ānanda Satya Pāta Chalana, Śrī Mādhavānandajī Ānanda Kabhimatā Dhāraṇa, Maṇi Saṅga Kabhimatā Dhāraṇa, Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Satguru Svāmī Mādhavānandajī Bhagavān. Though they were given by God into the hands of Kuntī, especially such incarnations or such souls come here to go through all this tragedy and suffering. But inside, they are happy. They are not suffering, but they show us the path. Even when such troubles come upon your head, don't give up. You came for which dharma? If you fail, you are gone. Look at the life of Jesus, poor boy. How hard was it for him, but he didn't give up. Look at what Francis of Assisi renounced—even the last thread and last undergarment—saying to his parents: "This is what belongs to you, take it." Only he said, "I can't give this body. This will remain with me till the last minutes." So all holy saints... The Pāṇḍavas, no doubt, were holy. After all these battles, they renounced and went to the Himalayas. The body is old, not the soul. The body is old, not the mind. The body is old, but not the feelings. Sukha and duḥkha—pleasure and sorrow—are felt from birth till the end. But still, they had not completed their dharma, their test for what God sent them. They completed it; they just lost their lives one by one. Besides these five Pāṇḍavas and Draupadī, there was one beautiful dog accompanying them. Such high altitude is not easy for a dog, and so cold. One after the other, the four Pāṇḍavas lost their lives, and only Yudhiṣṭhira was going alone with the dog. He reached Svarga Rohiṇī. Those who have strong lungs, heart, and legs should go there one day. I just went over with a helicopter during the Kumbh Melā time and finished. For Yudhiṣṭhira, it was the last minutes of his life. Two messengers of God came and told him, "You have fulfilled your duty, and now we have come to take you with your whole body into heaven, Svarga." That is why I call it Svarga Rohiṇī. He said, "Okay, but my dog is coming with me." They said, "What dog? No, no... Dogs are not allowed to go there, and we have no permission to take him without a passport." That was the last test of Yudhiṣṭhira. Yudhiṣṭhira said, "Then I quit my journey to heaven. I will not go. I can't leave him alone." They insisted, "No, no, you have to come. Leave him here." He turned back and said no. At that time, Dharmarāja appeared. That was not a dog; that was Dharmarāja. The dog was watching, observing how far he was fulfilling his dharma. And Dharmarāja said, "You have passed. Come. I am proud of you. You have fulfilled your duty." At the last minute, he could have said, "Okay, let the dog be here. Hurry up, I want to go to heaven." Similarly, it doesn't matter how many tests come, how many problems appear. We are walking on our path. We are on the way to the sattva path, the satya path or sattva path. You are born as a human. Do something, take something. Rāma nāma kī lūṭa hai, aura lūṭa sake to lūṭa, anta kāla meṁ pista-yegā, prāṇa jāyegā sūta. Good? Yes, you understand. Someone is spreading or throwing around the name of God. Whoever can get it will be liberated. So, someone is spreading the name of God. If you can get it, get it. Otherwise, at the last minutes of your life, you will be sorry. The prāṇas will go away. Who is your best friend? Whom are you listening to? Kuṣaṅga—blackmailers, tricksters—they try to put you out of your path. We are not in temptations. So, Dharmarāja Yudhiṣṭhira then got the name Dharmarāja Yudhiṣṭhira, the king of dharma. So what is your dharma? Now your dharma is to practice and practice and... To become spiritual in the next life, you have to come as a holy saint to turn Kali Yuga into Satya Yuga. So many holy saints are in the world, so many spiritual masters and gurus. Why are they travelling around the world? It is to turn the world toward spirituality. So dust will go away, coal will fall away, and diamond will be collecting. This is your duty. After that, when you turn Kali Yuga into Satya Yuga, then I will come to check what will happen. Oh, then you will all say, "Svāmījī, oh Svāmījī!" O Swamiji, lagi aay kar chot hama. Naina tapke. Dekho naina tapke. O Swamiji, ano ho hal Ra mere sath. Garu thir kya tum jaano chilaaveh. Mera sun kar gyān gambhī, Haro maro mat. Sun kar gyān, gyān Har Har. Sun kar gyān, gyān bhaiyā, dard ab dil ke janān. Pandit pī bholo janān, pandit pīr kya tum jāno? Darśan par diyā kalejā. Indayalu diyā kalejā avedā hakīm koī nai vedakīm koī nai dardayāī dilgī bolo dardayāī dilagīr kyā tum jān āl hamārā mere sāth garū marīā kyā tum jān āl hamārā ganī garū marīā tī śikāgī vohī jāne tujh jāne. Aur Hari har dūjāṁ Dayālaṁ liyā prabhu pūraṁ De diyā chak na chūr. De diyā chak na chūr. Then what do you know about my condition? Your true guru has killed me. Then what do you know about my wound? My wound has come, my wound has come. My eyes are closed. Dekho neer kya tum jaano? Amara mere sath garu maaya. Neer kya tum jaano? Teer ki aisi laagi. Mith gaya man maghru. Mith gaya man maghar Hari hara mith gaya. Lal kahe ab dhoka Nahi, lal kahe dhoka Nahi. Sun me unga su. Oh, listen to my yoga, what do you know, my true guru, what do you know, my guru, what do you... know, my guru, what do you know, my guru, what do you know, my guru, what do you know, my guru, what do you know, my guru, what do you know, my guru, what do you know, my guru, what do you know, my guru, what do you know, my guru, what. Do you know, my guru? What do you know, my guru? What do you know, my guru?... What do you know, my guru? What do you know, my guru?... So, dharmo rakṣitaḥ, rakṣitaḥ. If we protect our dharma, dharma will protect us. It is a battle of dharma between dharma and adharma. Dharma kṣetra, kuru kṣetra, dharma kṣetra, kuru kṣetra. When the battlefield was there, it was dharma kṣetra—the field of dharma, right? House days. That is now in Kurukṣetra, where Kauravas and Pāṇḍavas were fighting for dharma and adharma. So this human body is dharma kṣetra. It is the field of dharma. And there is a fighting inside: Duryodhana, as hate, anger, jealousy, and ego—kāma, krodha, mada, lobha, moha. These are the five crocodiles. The Pāṇḍavas are five: dharma, artha, kāma, and mokṣa. Lobha is the problem. So, dharma... Tomorrow we will continue; at 10:30 there will be a webcast again. Let us come to the dharmakṣetra of our human body, where it begins from the Maṇipūra Cakra. What is happening in the dharmakṣetra? And which army is standing there? It is very, very interesting. Sūtra, Patañjali Yoga Sūtra. Finally, the Pāṇḍavas had their prayer. With which prayer did they enter into the dharmakṣetra? Tvameva mātā ca pitā tvameva, tvameva bandhuś ca sakhā tvameva. Tvameva vidyā draviṇaṁ tvameva, tvameva sarvaṁ mama deva deva. You are my mother and my father. You are my brothers and my relatives. You are my teacher, my wealth, and my knowledge. You are everything, oh my Lord. With this strength, they stood through adios.