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Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī, Śrī Śrīdeva Purīṣa Mahādeva Kī, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī. Good evening and blessings of our Ālag Purījī Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā. Our humble adoration to Śrī Devapurījī, Mahāprabhujī, and Holī Gurujī. All my dear ones, it is a great happiness, a great joy to see you again and be all together as one family. Life is great. Life is divine. Especially human life. If we understand what my life means for me, we understand what life truly is. To eat, drink, sleep, and create children—even animals are very perfect at this. If a human does only that much, then one has not understood what life is. As soon as one has lost motivation or spirituality, then one is lost in this world. We are all bound in one chain of spirituality. It is not easy to keep this relation or connection. It is not that you just get a mantra or blessings once, or go to one program, and now you do not need anything more. Every day we need to wash ourselves; we do not wash ourselves just once a year. Every day we have to clean our cups and plates. Every day we have to brush our teeth, and every day we need nourishment. Similarly, to maintain spirituality, we should practice it every day. That is why satsaṅg is designed. The time we spend in satsaṅg and with a holy saint will be counted as the life of the human. The rest of the time passes like that of other creatures. Satsaṅg is what makes the human human. It is one of the highest techniques. There is no higher technique in any system than satsaṅg. On the day you lose your feelings towards satsaṅg, from that day onward our dark days begin. Now the down-counting begins. So the saints said that day will be counted—the day I meet a sādhu, a saint. A sādhu represents the highest supreme; do not look at their body. Look to their essence. It does not matter who your president is, from which religion, country, or color; the position automatically offers protection. Where the queen bee flies, the bees fly behind. Where the queen leaves, the beehive leaves. All the bees leave their babies, their eggs, their honey, and everything. They all fly behind because of that quality, because of that chair—that holy chair. We have to be loyal to our holy chair. Yesterday I met one very great bhakta on the aeroplane. I came from India, stayed one and a half days in Vienna, and one and a half days in England. So I came yesterday, and today I am here. I met a person who belongs to the Sikh tradition. In the Sikh tradition, there are many different traditions. In Hinduism, there are many different traditions. In Islam also, there are many different traditions. The Buddhists also have many different branches of tradition. And in Christianity, many traditions exist. That is what we call sects, and this name was given at the time of the holy saint Francis of Assisi. He went to Rome and met the Pope. He asked for his practice in France, and the Pope recognized the spirituality, the divinity in Saint Francis of Assisi. The Pope said, "I declare that your sect will be acknowledged as it is our Church." So that sector means the sect. Now, in Kali Yuga, where there are many conflicts and misunderstandings, the word "sect" is understood very badly. It does not matter which religion or other sects; there is nothing negative, divine, or holy about the term itself. Your country has a president, but you may have a small NGO with only five members. By the law of your country, among five, one is president. So a president is a president, but who has more members has the majority, the union, the power. Similarly, all are the same. I met one from a great tradition, the Sikh religion. The Sikh religion is a suit of Hinduism, Sanātana Dharma. Buddhism also. And Islam too, though they think they are from a different side, like the Bible side. Because the founder of Islam, Mohammed, was a warrior, a Kṣatriya, a Rajput, a Hindu. So it is a suit of the Hindu, Sanātana Dharma. And on the other side, you call it the Celtic. So, Sanātana Dharma, Celtics, then Judaism—these are the most ancient. But all are one. How many people are we sitting here? We are all one, which means we are one human. Whom should we not respect here? Whom should we kill now? No one. Because we are one. If you say God, Śiva, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, or Allah, or Holy Father, all their name is called God. Like I gave the example of the president. Either the president of the state or your NGO, the president is still the president. Similarly, it does not matter in which land, which climate, or in which culture God incarnates, but there is only one word with three letters: God, Jyoti, God. Now, we say God Kṛṣṇa, or God Rāma, etc. But God has no name. God has no form. Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said in the Bhagavad-gītā, in the twelfth chapter, Arjuna asks, "Bhagavān, what is better, to worship the formless God or a personal God?" Nirguṇa or Saguṇa. Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said, "Arjuna, both are good." Because both represent the One. But for this material body, the material senses, and this worldly intellect, it is easier to perceive something that you can see, imagine, touch, smell, or decorate. It is easier. Nirguṇa is just like the sky. Finally, you have to come to that point. But until then, a personal God is best. Every mother is a mother, but a child runs to its own mother. So, the own mother is the personal mother, and 'mother' is just an impersonal concept. It is easier for us to hold onto something. If you cannot swim and you fall into deep water, you cannot hold the water. You just sink deeper. But if there is even one thread you can hold, that thread can save your life. So we are all hanging on that one thread. "O God of the meek, O merciful one, the thread of my life is in your hands. Please, can you pull this a little bit towards you?" So, what we call—we are like a puppet in the hands of God. But God is only one. Why should we fight? If we understand and accept this, there will be no problem. I come to my point again. In the Sikh tradition, there is one guru paramparā called Nāmdhārī. They have a white turban, tied in a different way, round and thick like a tricot. You know immediately that this person is from Nāmdhārī. 'Nam' means God's name, Gurudev's name, and 'dhārī' means adopted, accepted. One who took the mantra from the Gurudeva. Once you get the mantra forever, your ātmā is merged into oneness. Like one drop falls into the ocean, and now you want to separate it—you cannot. If you try to separate it immediately, you have to take a basketful. And in this, how many drops are in this basket? Now, you are the cause of one basketful of drops being separated, and you never know where it will end. So, maybe one person who had that karma, and the aeroplane was cursed, and they all died. This is how one person becomes negative inside, becomes separate from Guru Bhakti. That one takes all who are surrounded by that person into darkness. Therefore, that Nāmdhārī means "the initiated one": Guru Mukhi, not Man Mukhi. Guru Mukhi means one who heard the mantra from the mouth of the Gurudeva. And manmukhī means one who has a mantra of their own mind. "Ah, I know. Ah, it is okay." It is not okay. Yeah, it is okay, but not that okay. Nāmdhārī and their Satguru Dev, his name was Jagjīt Siṅgh Jī. In the year 2000, the millennium, there was a beautiful World Religious Conference. Many saints came. I was standing to one side, looking at all of them from every religion. I saw a beautiful lake, and different colors of ducks were swimming. One was like a swan, so the swan was swimming differently. That was that Satguru Jagjīt Siṅgh Jī. I told one of the bhaktas, "Do you see the swan here?" He said, "No, Gurudev." I said, look, that is a swan. That person did not study. He did not have high, what you call, high education, no academic background. That's it. Those who have too much academy have an epidemic of ego. That Swamiji, many of you have seen him. He was in Hamburg too. In our ashram in Hamburg, we have his photo. Very simple, very great, but it is hard to realize who is who. Like in a bhajan, it is said—I think from Brahma Nānjī or Lālā Nānjī—only who knows the diamond can say, "Yes, this is a diamond." Those who know the Dhyāna can say, "Yes, this is the Dhyāna." Devaran Bhagavān. Beautiful Vajrayāna. Who are Gurudev's kadās? When you see Gurudev for the first time, milan ho to aisā ho, what a union! 'Milan' in Czech language is different, Miluška. So when we say that, Czech people think, "Oh, it's a nice word: love, darling, lovely, dear one." So when you see the Gurudeva, what a union. I am walking towards him. He awakens me. What is awakening? The consciousness awakes, that's it. So, bhajan, you know, we will translate sometime. Well, unfortunately, this Satguru Jagjīt Siṅgh Jī passed away a few years ago. I asked his bhakta on the aeroplane, I said, "Who is now the successor?" He said, "Gurudev has chosen a great one." Definitely, definitely. And then he said to me, "Gurujī, only the lamp is changed, the flame is the same." So only the lamp, the pot, is changed, but the flame is the same. Now you see here the flame, which comes from ghee, or oil, or petroleum, or candle wax, in a different pot. The color of these lamps, the flame is the same. So, what will remain in this vessel, on that holy chair, is that light. So it does not matter what the form is, or what it is made from; we have to connect with that light of the Buddha. So even our uniform reminds us that we are the light of Ālapurījī Siddhapīṭha. We work for that. We surrender for that. We guide for that. We develop for that. And we belong to that, because we are that one. So we shall keep our uniform with high regard. The color I chose a few years ago was chosen here in Strilky, in the presence of organizers from so many countries, and many bhaktas, many different colors. The first color I saw, I gave to Luděk from Kopřivnice. I said, "Put it on your body and move and show everybody." Everybody said, "There's nobody, anybody, or somebody," but we are all one body. And so everyone chose this color. When you go anywhere, you say, "Oh, yoga is a dead life." When the Czech flag comes, oh, the Republic of Czech. The Austrian flag comes, oh, the Republic of Austria. When the German flag comes, they say, oh, Austria's neighbor country, Germany. So, my dear, that is our identity. We are known by this. Similarly, God gave one identity: the human body. It does not matter if it is Africans, Chinese, Japanese, Asia, Middle East, Near East, or Europe. It does not matter who is there. One human. That is God's decision, so we are proud of having this body which God gave us. Therefore, respect your body, love your body, take care of your body, and take nice nourishment. Similarly, take care of your uniform of yoga. In life, there are always those who do not like it, because humans will go where humans are sitting. Lions and tigers will go sit where the lions and tigers are. Critics are always there, fears are always there. So that the laity who understand unite. But that one negative will take many with it. So many watched a crazy person who shot the aeroplane. How many lost a life? That shooting means our thoughts, our feelings, our emotions, our ignorance—to create something is not easy, but to destroy is very easy. That is why God sent humans here as creators, protectors, not destructors. So, vahī in lekhe lagegā, just in santamīlī, that day will be counted in our life when we see the saint. In this Kali Yuga, we have to search where we can be. At least we should have a darśan of the picture. And that time will be counted as a human's life when we are in good company, in the satsaṅg. So, coming to the sādhanā, to the seminar, you are lucky ones. And coming to the seminar, you have to create now noble ideas, noble thoughts, not criticizing. Do not think anything negative. Try to purify antaḥkaraṇa, manabuddhi, citta, ahaṃkāra. This seminar has great significance for us. You are lucky, I am also lucky. You know, I get more benefit than you. For me, it is like a rehabilitation from all of saṃsāra's karmas. This year, twice I have moved around the world. A lot of pollution is there, but now all is relaxed. So, to sit together with our real brothers and sisters means our Gurudev's family. So enjoy. Enjoy the spirituality. Keep silent. Do not talk too much. And completely keeping silent can put you into depression. Like when sometimes a doctor gives someone a little sleeping medicine, or tries to put them in an artificial sleep, that person is so weak they cannot bring back the power again. So it is easy to develop some techniques which are not authentic, which are not śāstroktāḥ. Śāstroktāḥ means authentic scriptures, and the techniques which are given by Śiva to the yogīs. Śiva is also known as Yogeśvara. A thousand names save Śiva. So doing something too much, extremely, is not good. In that intensive inner observation, silence leads us to our past. The future, we do not know. We only hope. And hope is a walking stick, from cradle to grave. "I will be, I will be, I will get, I will get." It is as if you do not know what will happen after one minute, one second. The past is gone, and in the past, we all did something. Consciously or unconsciously, purposely or innocently. We liked it, but others did not like it. So many, many problems from the past. So everyone's hands are not so clean. There is hidden in the womb of the past that which should be born in the future. But it is already a miscarriage, too quickly born in your awareness. Maybe there is a problem with parents, friends, marriage, many, many things. A few hours ago, I told you, in this modern civilization, in this Kali Yuga, the marriage system is a misconception. How many are happy after marriage, please? Actually, one or two years is okay. So, how many are happy who did not marry? They are also not happy. "Gurudev, will I find a good partner?" My answer is yes. "I wish, Gurudev, is it horrible with my husband? Will I get rid of it?" Yes. Wait, it will be. If not, then by the date. Because inside we have fear and we do not want to meditate, because we will come to know who am I. Therefore, yoga in life, meditation is known as self-inquiry, not "Who am I?" but "How am I?" That is great. So dive deep as much as you can, according to your lungs. And your body will automatically pull you out again. Even if you want to go deep, your body is like a balloon; it will pull you out. So therefore, do not do it intensively. Slowly.