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O Mahāprabhū Dīpakartā, Mahāprabhū Dīpakartā hī ke śānti, śānti, śānti hī. Blessings to all dear spiritual seekers. Many blessings from the Om Śrī Alak Purījī Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā. The question today is: In human life, through dharma, what kind of karma should be done, and which kind of karmas should we avoid? What must we prepare ourselves for to be blessed with this human body on earth? What must we take care of, and how can we purify all our karmas? Inner purification can be very easy or very difficult. It depends on our inner feelings. If they are positive, if there is faith—faith in thyself—then it is easy. If you have no faith in thyself, you have no faith in anyone. If you have no faith in anyone, then you have no faith in God. Human life is beautiful. The human body is very precious. We cannot buy this body anywhere. We cannot lend this body to someone. It is only and only one chance. If we do not understand life, we lose faith. And if you have faith, everything will go positively. Last weekend, at the Melbourne āśram, there was a beautiful satsaṅg where I spoke about faith. It is very easy, or it is difficult. Sometimes a sad story has to happen, something very sad in life, to open your eyes, to awaken. Where are those who have faith from birth onwards? Ādi Guru Bhagavān Śaṅkarācārya said, "The blessed souls are they." Lucky are they who have got a human body, lucky are they who have got good spiritual parents who can educate their children with spiritual and ethical principles, to give them knowledge of human qualities. And liberated are they who have themselves cultivated spiritual quality and spiritual feelings. Then the final crown of human life is that you meet a spiritual Brahma-niṣṭha-śrotriya Satguru. Through that Gurudev's blessings, this life will be successful, said Ādiguru Bhagavān Śaṅkarācārya. Many of you may not know Śaṅkarācārya, but you can see here on the altar, on the right side, Śaṅkarācārya with his four successors. It is Śaṅkarācārya's teaching about Advaitavāda and Dvaitavāda. Dvaitavāda means duality. When duality is there, you do not know which side to decide. Non-duality is the path to self-realization or to God. Yes, in this mortal world there is duality. But within this duality is unity. He gives the example: we fill water into a few cups. One cup is green, one is yellow, one is orange, one is white, one is purple, and so on—different forms. You put the cups in your garden. On a full moon night, we look in the sky; no matter where we are, we see only one moon. Thousands of people are looking, and there is only one moon. Then we look in each and every cup; we see one moon. Twenty cups, twenty moons. We look in the sky; it is only one moon. Similarly, Śaṅkarācārya said, there is only one Ātmā, this Jīvātmā, which is dwelling in each and every entity. Love each and every entity, if not more, then at least as much as you love thyself, Mahāprabhujī said. Śaṅkarācārya said the first step towards self-realization is that you see all as thyself. If you see all as thyself, then there is no jealousy, no anger, no offending, no ego, and so on. But there we fail. We love whom we like. Tyāgpūrī brings every day nice chai, nice fruits, nice cakes. Everyone likes Tyāgpuri. Others only come and consume and sit outside and do not even work to help wash the cups. So, liking and disliking is a big, thorny bush, and in this thorny bush, a bird is stuck. In the thorny bush, there were some nice ripe fruits, and the bird goes deep, and now she cannot come out. The thorns are like a hook, three hooks. These three hooks are the tritāpa. Tritāpa is three kinds of fire. Those three kinds of fire are a curse, a karmic curse. So we are stuck in the thorn bush of liking and not liking. It is not easy. When a good friend meets, you are talking with a smile, and whom you do not like, you say, "No, yes, okay, okay, thank you." Yes? So it is said, if you smile, you use only three muscles of your face, and if you do not smile, then you strain seventy-two muscles in the body. So why should we not smile? Only three muscles are active, while others are relaxed. But it is very deep: always when you see differences, liking and disliking come, and then suddenly what we have against someone, that printout comes black. You call it a blackout. That is the biggest obstacle for humans to achieve their goal. That is it. And it is not like that. To be like that, it is said you have to die to live. In the Upaniṣad Vedas, it is said you have to die to live. Then it is also written in the Bible, you have to die to live. Then it is said, the one seed, when we put it in the ground, the seed has to die so that the sprout comes out. In Australia, you have a very big cicada. My God, when the cicada is there, there is such a beautiful noise. You cannot give a lecture, you cannot meditate, you cannot write anything. Cicada. Or you have in Australia very beautiful birds called bale birds, not bale birds. Once I had a retreat near Melbourne, nice hills, and there were the bale birds early morning till sunset. So these are the noises of this world—disturbances. To find peace is not so easy. So this big cicada, they buried themselves in the earth. They say it takes three years or five years. They come out for six years, seven years, my God. Seven years. The poor mother had to be under the earth for seven years, and then the baby comes out second. This karma we do not want. This karma, I do not want that anyone will get such a body. But must their jobs also be karma? Those who have a lot of inner pressure of anger, liking, no liking, disliking, they have to go seven years under the earth, and when the baby comes, the mother dies. But they have only this upper part of the body; inside, nothing. So to die and leave me, I tell you honestly. There is a story. A queen said, "I can only trust if your master will perform some miracles, so that the king will love me again." Her attendant said, "No problem. Gurujī is most powerful. He can do anything. You should believe." She went to Gurujī. "Gurujī, please. She is so nice, so kind, so humble. But the king has put her away. Can you bless and help her?" He said, "Give her 250 grams of Sonāmukhī, and the king will love her." Of course, no doubt, not even half a percent. She went to the market, got the exact measurement, 250 grams, and brought it. Guruji said, "You should eat this." She said, "I think you are stupid. I eat so much Sonāmukhī, you know what will happen to me?" It means I will die. He said, "No, no, you will not die. If you want the love of the king, then do it." Marta kya karta? She was thinking for five minutes. Okay. Now again she made something, drinking some nice juice, lemons, and mixing the Sonāmukhī inside. And she ate. She had such a big problem, and she had spasms in the body. She said, "My dear, better you could have killed me than to give me this, or give poison." That queen wrote a letter to the king: "My dear one, whatever, accept my last respects or greetings. In any minutes or hours, I am going to die. But I have only one wish before I die: I want to see your face. If you are not merciful that much, then I am sending the keys with this lady." So she took the letter and keys and went. The king was sitting on a swing with the other queen, and she came and gave him the letter. He read it, and he said, "I think I have to go." The other queen took the letter. "Show me, what is that?" She read it. She said, "What?" She tore the letter. "You go there? Never. Let her die." He said, "You are like a Rākṣasa. In such a condition, in such situations, you have not a little bit of mercy for her? Get out from my palace. Put her somewhere in an animal's place to clean the horses, the cows, and the pigs, and that is your duty. Get out." And he ran to the queen, the other one. And he went and did everything so that she got healthy and clean. And she became again the first queen. Now, the donkey lady, her faith was stronger, her belief. "My Gurujī can do what?" The queen said, "I want to see the Gurujī." So she went to her Gurujī and said, "The king and queen would like to see you." Okay. He does not know what a king is and what this is. They took him to the palace, like a penthouse on the top, beautiful, a whole big apartment or house. They gave it to him to stay there and make meditation, and said it is your house. Now he becomes the guru of the king. Look at the faith, what can it do? He was suffering. Now his karma was finished. When he made his first master, what was his name? Sonāmukhī. Always he called himself Sonāmukhī. The queen was happy, the king was happy, and that donkey lady was also happy. After two years, one day around four o'clock, the king and queen were very sad. So that lady asked what happened, because she was also now in the king's house. "What happened? Why are you sad?" He said, "Well, our enemy has come from another kingdom, and they will attack our kingdom tomorrow and kill us. They are most powerful. There are so many soldiers." She said, "Do not worry, let us go to Gurujī. Now the Gurujī has to win the war, the battle. Let us go and have blessings." They said, "Of course, we will get blessings." So they went there. The king came and said, "Gurudev, accept our last praṇām, our greetings." He said, "Why? What have I done? Did I do something wrong that I have to go away, or what?" They said, "No, no..." The lady said, "Tell, tell what happened. Do not discuss, say what the problem is." So they said, "The problem is, another force has come." And he said, "Oh, how many are they?" They said, "They are about 25,000 soldiers. Within half an hour, they will make everything finished." And he asked, "How many soldiers do you have?" "You have about 10,000." "Okay. Immediately this evening, before sunset, call all your soldiers and give them the Sonāmukhī Mahā Mantra." Now, where to bring so much Sonāmukhī? She said, "No problem, I have already begun to cultivate it in my field." So she brought three, four tons of Sonāmukhī. And the king invited all the soldiers and told them what happened. "And we have this evening dinner together." So they cooked a nice dinner. But everywhere was like green spinach—Sonāmukhī, Sonāmukhī everywhere. Pakoras, kachoris, this, that, chutneys, vegetables, everything from Sonāmukhī. They were enjoying. It was nice. The king went into his palace, and that lady went also. Leave their business with them. So the soldiers were enjoying and eating. And now, while eating, after they drank some water, they began to have some problem with their stomach. So they went and ran into the field. One hundred went. They did not come back yet. Five hundred ran. Five hundred came back, but two thousand ran. All the 10,000 are running in the field, coming and running. One o'clock in the night, the enemy's commandant went to the general, and the general was sleeping in the tent. He said, "Sir, what? There is something wrong." He said, "What? Please, sir, come with me." So the general got up, and they had some kind of podium where they could observe everyone, and they looked through the binoculars. "Sir, they are not going to the toilet. They have been running since 8 o'clock, and thousands—one goes to the toilet, three go. And all are running and going back, and others are coming." The general said, "Yes, Commandant, what do you think?" He said, "Sir, I can only think one thing." He said, "What?" "They have so many soldiers, and all are coming to see the position. Tomorrow morning we are not here anymore, alive. So many soldiers, we have only 25,000," the general said. "What should we do?" "My suggestion is, pack our things, and before sunrise we should disappear from here." So in the night, all soldiers got up, and they packed their things, and they left. At morning sunrise, many soldiers are lying in the field, and the enemy is not there. That lady of the donkeys, she became the greatest person in the palace. And she went to the king and said, "Look, what Guru Vakya and Gurudev's blessing can do." The king said, "Yes, yes." She said, "Be aware and be sure, no enemy will attack you as long as you follow the Guru Vajrayāna—my faith and the faith of my master." They said, "Our faith also." So what can faith do? Everything is possible, but faith should be very pure and from the heart. Then God is with us, the faithful one. So, who has faith and who has doubt? Then it is gone. Then even the Sonāmukhī will not affect if there is no faith. So faith can move the rocks, and faith can melt the rocks, and doubts can make the butter like a rock. That is human. Faith is great. Where there is faith, there is God. Where there is faith, there is success. And where there is faith, there is liberation. Where there is faith, everything will be okay, but suffering will come. We have to suffer. It is not so easy. It is very hard. In life, when such a situation comes, then someone has to come to give the blessings. Believe in God. When the day is dark and hard to find the way, it is better to light a candle than to stand in the darkness. So, it is better to light the candle, meaning in the darkness of ignorance and the darkness of the inner battle, all kinds of qualities attack us. But the candle, the tiny candle, that is our faith. When the whole room is dark, a very tiny flame can show us the way. So faith is great. And when faith is lost, then the birds have lost their wings. Then the destiny of the cat will come. The bird wants to fly away, moving its muscles, but there are no wings to fly away. So then there is a feeling to escape or go, but the wings of faith are lost. So karma has some time to end if we have good karma. But these bad karmas, all that we have, we have to suffer in this life. Swami Vivekānanda's name you have heard. His master was Paramahaṁsa Rāmakṛṣṇa. And the story about Vivekananda, you know it all. Ramakrishna put his hand on the head of Vivekananda, and he said he got samādhi. Anyhow, he was believing, but was it biting me here? He was believing that my Gurudev is my God. He went traveling America, around all of India, everywhere—Vivekananda, the great Vivekananda. And Vivekananda had his master all the time. When in Chicago, Vivekānanda spoke, and there was one lady sitting in the front. She was an artist, and she was drawing his picture. And then behind him, she drew the picture of his master. She did not know anything about him. And then she asked for an audience, and she went there with her painting. And she said, "Sir, I liked your talk and everything, and I made your picture. I am an artist. But behind you, there was someone standing or signing. And I also drew it. Can you tell me about who this could be?" Vivekānanda saw it. His tears came. "He takes care of me everywhere." Now Vivekananda comes back and goes to Calcutta, where Paramahaṁsa Rāmakṛṣṇa was living. It was winter, a little cool, and Calcutta is not so cold like North India. And Paramahaṁsa Rāmakṛṣṇa was truly a Jīvanmukta, self-realized, great. And his wife, they were both great. He got cancer here in his neck, in his throat. So he was lying in the sun all this time, and the cancer opened, and some patch or mucus was coming out, a patch was coming out. Vivekananda, a young man, yes, very proud, in America, everywhere, successful, proud of India. And he came to greet his master, and he sees his master. After five meters, Vivekananda got a doubt, losing his faith. "I believe my master as a God, and how poor he is, lying, suffering from the cancer." Paramahaṃsa Rāmakṛṣṇa had one second thoughts. Paramahaṃsa Rāmakṛṣṇa looked to Vivekānanda and said, "Vivek, do not worry, this is a karma of this body. If I want, I will put my hand like this, and it will be healed. But Vivek, you know, for this karma, I have to be born again to go through this karma." Vivekananda said, "Yes, Gurudev, yes, Gurudev." Again, he woke up because he was completely blacked out. So, my dear, some karmas we have to go through. After that, beautiful things will come. After the big tsunami, again something good will come. So the Chinese used to say, "The trunk of the tree will grow again." So if we cut off the trunk, we will see that again it will grow branches. So lost faith will again come. Do not give up. Trust thyself. When trust is lost, everything is lost. Therefore, no negative thinking, no negative thinking, and not toward anyone. If you do not like someone and you do not think good, it is your mistake, not others' mistake. You should be like a sun. Wherever it comes, you bring the light. If someone is negative, dark, you bring the light, enlightenment. So, I think today is enough. You have been listening for the last four days continuously, and you are tired. So I wish you all the best till next time. So faith, karma, trust, and birth. What to prepare? So we have, according to the Vedic rules or principles or dharma, sixteen different kinds of ceremonies or rituals to free the soul from the karmic bondage, to be successful in human life. The fifteenth one is sanyāsa, and the sixteenth one is the final ceremony, what we call the funeral. So they are beautiful, beautiful 16 ceremonies. Sixteen ceremonies because one period of the moon is 15 days, 16 days. Wish you everybody all the best, and we will see if tomorrow we will have a webcast. Otherwise, day after tomorrow is Mahāśivarātri. Everywhere in our ashrams around the world, in every temple, in every ashram, and wherever bhaktas are, they are celebrating the divine night of Śiva, and it is beautiful. We will have this time Mahāśivarātri celebration in Brisbane Ashram, and we are establishing and inaugurating a beautiful Śiva temple. Ceremonies and pūjās will be done by an Ācārya from Nepal. He will come, and the ceremonies will go on for hours and hours. There will be puja of Gaṇeśjī for one hour, Hanumānjī's puja, and then the thousand eight names of Śiva. Then there will be Abhiṣek, and we will try to give everyone a chance to perform the Abhiṣek puja for Śiva. So all should come, welcome, that you can also offer the pūjā. Everyone will get a pūjā thālī. It is great. And another great thing is that it is a new temple beginning. And another thing is not so great, but I will be there. Yeah, so this is also. Therefore, do not miss. Who knows if next Mahāśivarātri I will be there. So if you cannot come, at least enjoy divine darśans and mantras, chanting Abhiṣeka. It will be great. It is great. The Acharya is a very learned person from Nepal, a Sanskrit Acharya, and he is teaching at a university in Sydney. So he will come tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Welcome all. And the webcast will be continuous for all the pūjā. So you can observe this. It will be great. Thank you. Bless you. In the name of Śrī Devpurījī. Our Devpurījī is Śiva. And Mahāprabhujī is Viṣṇu. And Gurujī is Brahmā. And we are all bhaktas. Guru Brahma, Guru Viṣṇu, Guru Devo Maheśvara, Guru Sākṣāt Parabrahma, Tasmai Śrī Guruve Namaḥ. So they are beautiful stories about faith. And the next story will come in the next webcast about faith—faith, the love. Oṁ Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinaḥ, Sarve Santu Nirmāyāḥ, Sarve Bhadrāṇi Paśyanto, Mā Kacchit Dukha Bhāga Bhave, Oṁ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ. Devaishwar Mahādev kī, Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān kī, Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma kī, Om.