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Śrī Devapurīṣa Mahādeva kī, Satguru Svāmī Mādhavānanda jī Bhagavān kī, Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhu jī, Alagapurī jī Mahādeva kī, Sanātana Dharma. Good evening and blessings of Devapurī jī. Here in this hall, and to those who are with us through the webcast, blessings for you also. It is said every day is a glorious day. There is no bad day. There are bad events—not in that way, but some accident or something. In different cultures, every day is something great. Every day is worshipped. Every day is a new day for us; every day is a birthday for us. Today is also the anniversary of Devapurī jī’s Mahāsamādhi, nearly 75 or 80 years ago. For us who adore him, we are sad. When our parents or friends pass away, we are sad. Not only humans, but also our house pets. You come home and you don’t see your house pet; your cat is missing. You know how happy and friendly a cat is when you come home? They run towards you. Be careful, but they think you brought something good. When you come home to nice plants, how beautiful—they are happy. When they are thirsty, they are happy you will give water. In the morning, they want to surprise you with beautiful blossoms. So even the plants are happy, and even your furniture is happy. Furniture also needs love and care. This creation has a beauty, and that beauty needs care. When it’s gone, we miss it. Of course, you are not attached to plastic chairs; when broken, you throw them away. But there are some chairs which have great value. It is said that whoever sat on that chair gives it more value. Paramahaṁsa Yogānanda said, "Anything that is your Gurudeva’s, keep it. Because one day will come when he or she is not here." But you are proud that it was her or his blessing that was there. Gandhiji’s shoes, Gandhiji’s eyeglasses were sold very expensively. You know Lady Diana? When she was alive, it was a different situation. As soon as she died, it was different. Then they saw how nice a person she was, how generous, and how many flowers came to her grave. Just a few days before, they put her in the magazines with many allegations. Immediately after a day, they all forgot, and even her dresses were in museums and sold very expensively. Similarly, for us also, what was used by Mahāprabhu jī, Devapurī jī, Holī Gurujī is precious. One should know the value of it, because it’s not the value of the money, but the value of that personality. So everything in this creation is a creation of beauty. Again, Paramahaṁsa Yogānanda said in a song: "O God Beautiful, O God Beautiful. In the forest, in the mountains, in the meadows and the deserts, O God, beautiful. In the trees and flowers, rivers and ponds, and the ocean, O God, beautiful, in the clouds and the sky." So everything is beautiful. O God, beautiful. In that, you see, or we see, the beauty of the Creator, of God. So nothing is ugly. Nothing is dirty. Nothing is bad. One thing is bad: our thinking before we judge negatively. Before that, negativity awakens in us, and it goes through our heart and our intellect. Through your mouth, that dirt comes out as negativity. If you wouldn’t judge, it’s beautiful. So first, bad energy, the bad thoughts are within us. God save us from this. God protect us from this. We are sad when something is broken or someone dies. But there are different perspectives. It is said that sense does not express the sadness. Why? Because the Ātmā is immortal. If you have ātmā-jñāna, knowledge of the Self, then you are not sad. If you are attached only to the form and you have no ātmā-jñāna of that ātmā, then we are sad. So when any saint passes away—not dies, passes away—we don’t write sad news, but also we don’t write happy news. Brahmalīna means they became one into Brahman. And you are sad for that one who became Brahman. This is one thing. Second, there are different rituals in every religion and culture, and they are correct according to them. In the Sanyāsī or Indian sādhu tradition, we celebrate what is called Ṣoḍhaśī Bandhanā. Ṣoḍhaśī means the 16th. On the 16th day, they give a bandhanā, an invitation for eating. Everyone gets a shawl and something, and that time we call it Pushpāṇḍalī. We don’t express our sorrow, but we express our devotion, our thankfulness. That’s called puṣpa. Puṣpa means flowers. Puṣpa means dedication. This is very significant because this is called the sixteen siddhis. Those who achieved these sixteen siddhis have really become Brahman. The sixteen days are the day change of the moon, from the full moon to the dark moon, and again to the new moon. That’s called the sixteen kalās. Kalā means happening, changing. The moon is growing day by day. This is called the 16th kalā of the moon. The moon is very significant. That’s what Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said: "I enter into the vegetation as a nectar." Through the moonlight, the sun gives life; the sun gives strength, but the sweetness in the herbs, in everything, is coming through this moonlight. It is a very gentle moonlight; there is a sweetness coming in, and these are sixteen different colors. So there are different kinds of energy and different kinds of development. Many experts plant something when the moon is new, a growing moon. It is said many made experiments—I don’t know—if you put your vegetables, flowers, or crops on the new moon, it will have little bugs because day by day the immunity is developing in that plant. Someone told me about an Austrian farmer who cuts a Christmas tree on that new moon, and that needle tree doesn’t lose the needles. He saw in a documentary film that many, many years, Christmas trees he was preserving still had needles on them, and those trees were cut after the full moon day. Otherwise, your whole room is full of the needles of the Christmas tree. So this is a science. Whether you believe it or not, everything in this nature is balanced by all elements and planets. Similarly, for our health and our spiritual development, we shall observe those days: when to fast, what kind of mantras or ceremonies we should do. It’s a great pity that modern religion has forgotten all these beautiful cultural and spiritual rituals. That’s why we are suffering. Humans are nothing more than like vegetation. Our trees, our forest, is influenced exactly like our life. The four seasons do not change only in vegetation, but in our body too; our blood is changing. That’s why it is advised that at the end of one season and the beginning of the new season, this one-week period is advised or recommended to do Śaṅkha Prakṣālana. You can do it between, but you will not get that benefit. In the same way, when someone passes away, yes, it doesn’t matter how it is, but we are sad. If Devapurī jī were here, I think I would somehow make him come to Europe. And if he didn’t like it from the aeroplane, he would just go out, because he could go through any material. We would say, "What are you doing?" "I’m going." We don’t have that siddhi, but he had. Devapurī jī had a great, great light, blessings, spiritualities, siddhis, powers, whatever you call it. When he passed away, the same day he appeared in several places, and he had his samādhi there in a few places around Mount Abu, which is the border of Rajasthan and Gujarat. Mount Abu is a bridge, very spiritual, exactly spiritual like the Himalayas. Many Siddhas are still living there, thousands of years old. Their material body is purified. They are only living in the Kāñcanī śarīra. We can’t see them. But if we are lucky, they can materialize for a while in front of us. They know what I am saying, and they know who is sitting and listening. Yes, we are in their shelter. You know, you used to say sometimes, "Big brother is watching." So the big master is watching. Devapurī jī is with us here. There is one letter I told you about. Holī Gurujī was sitting and doing his mālā, meditation, Jaya Purāśram. Suddenly, Devapurī jī came to Mahāprabhu Holī Gurujī. Holī Gurujī stood up and had no words to say. If he comes, we will be paralyzed; we don’t know what to say. Like when Kṛṣṇa was hungry and went to Vidura’s house. The Kurus, Duryodhana, they prepared very delicious food, many different dishes and varieties. But Kṛṣṇa didn’t accept, because Duryodhana made this selfishly, somehow to make Kṛṣṇa be on their side. Kṛṣṇa said, "I am neither on your side nor Arjuna’s side. I am on the side of the dharma, the justice." He left the house and went to Vidura’s small house. He was sitting there. Vidura came, Vidura’s wife came, and Kṛṣṇa said to Vidura’s wife. He called her sister-in-law. Kṛṣṇa said to her, "I’m hungry." So she ran and brought a banana. She said, "I will cook, but until then you can eat some banana." Vidura is sitting, and she sat near Kṛṣṇa. She peels the banana and wants to give the banana to Kṛṣṇa, but she was also completely paralyzed. She was eating the banana and giving the banana skin to Kṛṣṇa. That’s love. That’s pure, innocent love. Kṛṣṇa was eating, and Vidura said, "What are you doing?" She said, "Oh," then she changes the banana. Kṛṣṇa said, "No, no, sister. That taste which is in the banana’s skin is not in the fruit. It is so sweet." So tasteful, because that is the real love, a real offer. So it is many times. Devapurī jī appeared, and Holī Gurujī said, "Lord, how great it is that you are here. I am blessed." And Devapurī jī said to Holī Gurujī, "I am going to Māheśa, to Europe. But on the way, I saw you sitting here, so just to bless you." And he left. In that letter, Holī Gurujī is writing—I have the letter, black and white, blue and green, green letter and blue ink: "Já jdu za Māheśem, abych mu pomohl." (I am going to Māheśa to help him.) And so I am sure Devapurī jī is here with us. It is he, Devapurī jī, Mahāprabhu jī. That is what is called Guru Kṛpā. But you have to be that one who can attract him. You have to be that flame that many moths will come. You are not going to invite them: "Come, I am light here." But in reality, that flame, that light, goes to invite them, but they don’t know that it’s inviting. They see and they come. So God loves us more than we could imagine. But if you distance yourself, then there is darkness. If it is a nectar, nectar means amṛta. Amṛta means immortality. Those great saints are immortal, so they never die. They never went away. They are here and there. They are everywhere. Where you remember, they are with us. That is called the blessings, that’s called divine energy. So in this way, we don’t speak out of sadness, but still we are in the physical body. It doesn’t matter how much you will do, how much you think, "I am a brahmajñānī, I am detached, I am not sad." But if something happens, still this physical heart has love, attachment. So, definitely, we are sad in some way, but not in that way that always makes people think. When Mahāprabhu jī passed away, and Devapurī jī had passed away, Mahāprabhu jī was sitting in the ashram. Mahāprabhu jī called Holī Gurujī and said, "Now Devapurī jī is going to Śivaloka." And Mahāprabhu jī said, "Mādhav, write down one bhajan." That bhajan is in the Marwari language. I will translate this bhajan for you one day; it is full of feeling. Though Mahāprabhu jī is Mahāprabhu jī, suddenly he also had tears. "Oh, my Gurudeva, why are you separated? Why did you go away, why did you disappear? In this time, Jagadāriyā, this worldly ocean is endless and deep, a deep ocean. Gurudev, my boat is in the middle of the ocean. Tato saṁsāra je oceán. And we are still on life." A prayer after that. Mahāprabhu jī said, "Take me with you, let me come with you." Beautiful bhajan. "Guru, where is my child?" Sound says, "And there, that me, my child." Sound low, "O kalājas taj ki kalp nālo. Dhāra ke vairāgana, sadhāra ke vairāgī, śhūnya mēṁ chālu, sāyantar jāt mēṁ chālu, sāmē karam kalan kalan. Saguṣā Kalapana... Chandra Suraj Chandra Sūrya Pāyana Kalpanā Siddhip Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Puruṣa Mahādeva Satguru Swāmī Mādhavānanda Bhagavān." Gaṅgā Māyā kī, Yamunā Māyā kī, Narabda Māyā kī, Satya Sanāt Gaṅgā, Yamunā, Sarasvatī, Narmadā, Kāverī—these are the holy rivers, and they all flow in the holy land India. So our adoration to our Satguru Dev, our Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā. We are all under the shelter of this Gāḍī, the seat of the Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā, and we are sitting in this boat of the satsaṅg. Definitely, we will go to that loka. So read the Līlā Amṛt, and you will know what is Mahāprabhu jī, what is Devapurī jī, and what is Gurujī. All his thoughts were the wisdom from Brahmaloka. All his bhajans, beautiful. But still, there was a longing. As long as we have a body, we will have longing, because that love is without borders. We can’t fulfill it, but still we have hope. Gurujī said, "Prem Kapīlā Rikābhā, Mera Prem Kapīlā." So rest for tomorrow. Bless you all. Tomorrow, our webcast will be again at 11 o’clock. You have vihāra. Ācāra, vicāra, vihāra, āhāra. Tomorrow you have vihār. A zítra máte vihār. Beautiful. Krásný. It’s something beautiful. Něco krásného. I will give it to you tomorrow. Today I can’t give it to you. Yes, you will say, "Oh, so beautiful." A budete říkat, "Aha, tak krásné." Vihār. Vihār. I will tell you tomorrow. I will give you tomorrow. What? Vihāra. Ācāra, vicāra, ākhāra, and vihāra. These are four, and all these four I give you tomorrow as presents. Today, prasāda halvā was enough. Oṁ Śrī Devī Svar, Mahādeva, Namaḥ.