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Welcome, all of you, to our beautiful, divine, holy place, the Mahāprabhū Deep Satsaṅg Foundation. Here we feel comfortable, and the whole area is purified with many, many mantras and sādhanās. Many, many bhaktas also live in the village, so it has become a center of energy. Many solve their problems here. And how does one solve a problem? It is your problem; you give it to someone, and you take someone else's problem with you. So, minus plus equals zero. We are always in this dokola dokola, round and round. But spiritual energy is stronger than other energies. Sometimes, however, when there are too many other energies in your body or mind, it can happen that one increases day by day while another decreases. This means free will is gone. There are things I can do and things I need not do. Between both lies that Guru Kṛpā. Kripa can turn iron into gold. But on the day when your vṛttis go elsewhere, then your or our mind can also be... motivation is lost. Then, day by day, distance is created. We are sitting on the beach of the ocean, and a boat or ferry is going. In five minutes, it is very far; in ten minutes, farther still. You read something and look up—it is gone. So the distance continues. First, what you forget is that there is some inner resistance you neglect every day while practicing your mantra. That is the first distance. Then your interest in practicing your Kriyā is lost. Again, distance is created. Then you practice your āsanas and prāṇāyāmas, but you also neglect. Now you have created more distance. Finally, you lose your motivation, interest, or love for the satsaṅg. Then you have a choice. Today is satsaṅg, and there are other things to do. Now your inner energy, your inner force, pulls you to the other side, and you say, "I don’t need to go to satsaṅg." That is a clear signal you have lost everything. Oh, my mind, you have lost everything. That is a temporary joy. The joy of that joy is little compared to the true joy. It will grow into unhappiness. Then we open our eyes. We cannot swim behind the boat to catch it. There is only Guru Kṛpā, and sometimes we reject even that. When people are young, they think they can change the whole world. They think, "I will do better than my parents," and so on. That is another energy problem. Finally, because that has no happy ending, be sure and prepared that it will be an unhappy ending. That decision is within us; it is up to us. If you think I will solve your problem, I cannot. But I can give you advice. I can support you. Yet you have to walk. If you are disabled, we can hold your hand, but still you must move your legs. How long can we move your legs for you, holding one and putting it forward, left and right? That does not work. With your own eyes, with your own awareness, we sink into that kind of sand which goes in and in and in. You try like this, and it goes down more quickly. That is called māyā. In the beginning, it is very soft and nice. You lie down, and it goes slowly, slowly down. You try to get up like this, and you go deeper. If you try to raise yourself from down to up, it goes further down inside. That is called Jīvita Samādhi—taking samādhi while living. You are still alive, but nothing remains. This is how one can lose everything. But luckily, you find a root there somewhere. That root is from some tree. You catch that root, and with the strength of that root, you can pull your body out. You hold on to the root and go back again, perhaps. That root is Guru Kṛpā. Then we can be saved. So sādhanā, which is our own decision, allows you to experience many things. You were searching for many things, but finally, you become wise enough to choose the right way. On that way, we should not turn back and go in the other direction. Obstacles will be there until the end of the journey. When we are on the wrong path and have climbed too high on the mountains, climbing is easier because you only look up. But when you have to go down, you must hold one rock after another; it is more dangerous. So the way back is also terrible then. There is only one solution: either Guru Kṛpā or God’s blessing. Or perhaps some of your good karmas or destiny. But if you have no Guru Kṛpā or no blessing of God, then it is lost—lost forever. You know, we go to the temple, or the church, or the ashram when we need something. When you come to Mahāprabhujī and make praṇām, what do you ask? We always ask for something. I also go to Mahāprabhujī and say, "Please give me śakti, bhakti, vairāgya, jñāna." So Mahāprabhujī asks, "You are a beggar, always coming and disturbing me: 'Give me, give me, give me.' Can you come one day without any ambitions or any wish, just come and surrender?" God knows why we came to Him. God knows what we wish, and God knows what we need. And God knows that this wish is wrong, so He does not want to grant it to His children. It does not matter if you have a ball hut towards God; we are all children of God. We are so selfish. We go to the temple or the church or to Gurujī: "Please help, please help, please help." From our side, it is correct because we know what God can give us; others cannot. And if others could give us, there would be no one to clean the temple or the church. So, Bhakti Yoga, which we will have in this subject, will come to a point. But God sees. God sees. Even we do not see. Because God is Sarvabhāpī, omnipresent, and He knows what wrong you are doing, what you are thinking. It is like an ill person always following this person. So many have this; it is a kind of mental illness, very difficult to cure. But suddenly, in their heart, that illness layer is finished. Then they become positive again. Such is a karmic illness. Karmic illness always tries to find in you a negative point because there is so much negativity, and that negativity will kill them. So, the wise one is like a light, and the light removes the darkness. The principle, the dharma of the light, is to remove the darkness. Similarly, mantras, bhajans, prayers, and practicing are that light which will not let any kind of dark energies come near. In the beginning, you think, "That’s it, what I need." Wait, my dear. Wait. But then it will be too late. Then again you have to begin from a new path. That is why all our great saints, wise people, all incarnations, the wise people, wherever in the whole world, everywhere—we may call them saints, wise people, holy people, or God—they were everywhere in the world, and now too. In every country, there are numerous great people. No dualities, male or female. It is their being here that we are all surviving. Though they do not come personally to us, the sun rises, but the sun does not come and knock on your door saying, "Get up, I am here." But its light is everywhere. This level of consciousness, purification of that heart, because the heart is a seed of mercy, confession. In the heart is a beautiful blue light, but you cannot see it with these physical eyes or with any sonography. In the Vradyarāṇya Upaniṣad, it is written: In the heart, there is a small cave, and there is a beautiful blue light, and that is the Jīvātmā. This Jīvātmā, the nourishment of the jīvātmā is love. This jīva is only surviving through love, and that love is spiritual. Happiness, satsaṅg, bhajans, doing karma yoga, doing good for others, thinking good for others—then our heart feels joy and happiness. Otherwise, we see how many go deep down again. We are standing there, but we cannot help. From the high mountain, one jumps down. We are standing there, but we cannot help to pull them out. Or someone jumps in the water and cannot swim, and you also cannot swim, so we see with our own eyes, but we cannot help. So, at a certain time, this is an obstacle, a very big obstacle, a hindrance. This kind of hindrance is ongoing. And in some cases, you can hold their hand. But they have so much oil on their hands, it slips down. This oil of lālach—the desire, the expectations—is so slippery, it will not hold anyone; it cannot hold your hand. Like on the snow and ice on the road, there is a warning: drive very slowly. Otherwise, the ice is so slippery, it will slide and not only harm you, but perhaps others coming toward you. So the wise one, the awakened one, cetana, immediately they will decide because in them their past good karma is awakened. When you know it is poison, you will not eat it. But if you do not know it is poison, you take it and die. Poison means not only the cobra's poison. Mushrooms are also very poisonous. Some plants are also poisonous. Similarly, there are many poisonous things in our life. Some poison is a different poison; it makes us addicted. Like a vampire, once it bites you, you are addicted. All the time, you also want to bite and have this. So this bite, or this taste of māyā, is many, many endless, uncountable. So many fall into that. There is one story—many stories. Sādhus have stories about sādhus. So there was one sādhu, a Swamiji, who was living a little outside of the village in the forest. He had a nice hut and a few hectares of land, one or two cows, vegetable gardens, grains, everything. One disciple was living with him. One day, the disciple told the master, "Master, there is one melā." Melā means where people gather, a kind of festival. "This weekend we have a circus here, and many, many people will come. That’s melā. Now we are all here, today is Melā." So the disciple wanted to go see the Melā. The master said, "Don’t go there. What will you have there? It’s not for you." The disciple said, "Master, how do you know it’s not for me? You never let me free. All the time, I am tied here. I want to go and see the Melā; it is very good." The master said, "Then go there and sit or speak with those people whom you see as human." The disciple said, "Master, I am not going to the animal mirror; I am going to the human mirror." The master said, "I know, but still I tell you, go to them. Sit with them who are humans." "How should I know them?" So the master said, "Okay, I give you this one feather of the peacock. When you come near the melā, look through this feather. Where you see some humans, go there and sit." The disciple said, "Master, there are only human beings." The master replied, "I know, my dear. And tell me, how was it?" So he went to the melā. Nobody said to him, "Hello, hello... hello." He said to them, "Good morning." They looked at him. He went to one side and looked through the feather. There were many—some were foxes, wild pigs, and all different kinds of animals, snakes, scorpions. They all looked human. Again, he looked, and they were all looking, but he kept on looking. There were four or five people sitting in one corner talking about God. He saw four humans. He walked toward them, and they said, "Oh, Swamiji, how are you? Come, come, we saw you once in the ashram. Sit down. Do you want to eat something? That? This?" Again, he looked carefully through the feather. They really were good humans. Then he looked everywhere else; mostly, he saw animals. So, to have a human body does not mean everything. The inner qualities can be like animals. According to Kuṇḍalinī Yoga and the chakras, there are different levels of consciousness in the human body. From the foot soles till the ankle joint, it is the earth chakras. From there till the heels is vegetation. From the knee till the hip joints are animal qualities. Then from above, from Mūlādhāra above, till the Ājñā Cakra or Viśuddhi Cakra, is the human quality. And above that is divine quality. So we are in this human body, but we do not know which chakra is active. They govern our feelings. They are the decision-makers, and they lead us, pulling us in that direction. A strong wind will pull the boat in that direction. So strong desires and blindness will lead us finally to destruction. It is equal. Where you believe, what you believe—there should be harmony, oneness, no dualities, no conflicts. That is spirituality. We love every woman as our mother, but we know who is our real mother. Therefore, we should know where our roots are. Like we all know now, our roots are at Alagpurījī Siddhapīṭha, but that does not mean we do not adore others. Any god you adore is our benefit. May it be sheep or a goat or a buffalo or a cow or a camel or a horse, all have one thing: they can give us milk. So we look to the milk. A cow can be black, but the milk is not black. So why do you judge this as a black cow? Similarly, wherever we come near to some holy place, our heart should surrender there. This is taught in Vedic culture. If you do not make your humble praṇām, you are a blind one. When you make praṇām, even mentally, you will definitely get a blessing, and that blessing will be, sooner or later, a great help for us. But if you say, "No, this is not my God," you can see, no one prohibits you. But you did not get anything. Instead of getting something good, you got negative things. Who are we to judge someone? Therefore, we do our best, and we are humble. The humble one will always be the winner. Who is the humble? It is said that water collects where it is really deep. It rains on the mountains, but water flows into deep places, very deep, or a lake. So, our heart is that very deep and great place. Automatically, from all divines, their blessing comes to our heart as mercy. This is our purpose, our aim: that we come here for one week and fill our heart with that blessing of all divines and holies, like mercy. Without the power of the heart, we cannot give anything inside. So, it does not matter if it is nirguṇa or saguṇa. Maybe God is nirguṇa. But we are Sāguṇa, so this body is that vessel in which we can collect and drink that immortality of wisdom and knowledge. But there are so many impurities, one after another, layers. How many foreign energies are stuck in your body? More than your own energy. So, for many, many lives we have to clean our mind. But still, there will be some spot on it. It is hard to clean certain spots of the karmic body, caused by karma. So there is a beautiful bhajan and mantra. We shall practice. I wish you a beautiful seminar, a sādhanā camp. We have two, three, four different classes. Someone likes potatoes; others are allergic to potatoes. So they will get a nice apple, but someone cannot eat the apple because they get diarrhea. Another will get a nice orange, and that is a sour, citric fruit. "Oh, that my blood cannot resist." So, we have ice cream for someone, and everyone is ready to come. So we have different classes: Anuṣṭhān Sādhanā Camp, Āsana Prāṇāyāma Sādhanā Camp, Karma Yoga Sādhanā Course, and for our small juniors, an ice cream course. A person like me enjoys observing everyone. Tasteful. Tasteful. Holi Gurujī said, "The tank is full." No more desires. When there are no more desires, then Gurujī said, "Mahā Ānanda." So what to do, Gurujī, now? "Gurujī, what to do now? Rest is the best." This word is Gurudev’s Brahma Vākya. So welcome all, and I wish you a very pleasant and good stay. And for those who will go back this evening, I wish you a very good journey. Try to keep more silent, a little mauna. Anything you see or talk about, anyone, talk positive. So let it turn from darkness to the light. Tamaso mā jyotir gamaya, tamaso mā jyotir gamaya. Lead us from darkness to the light. Deep nam. Bhagavān kriyā, Devīś Paramahadeva kriyā, Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān kriyā, Satya Sanātana Dharma kriyā. Oṁ śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ. In the name of the Lord, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, and The Most Merciful. May God bless you.