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Brahmanandam paramasukhadam kevalam Jñānamūrtim dvandvātītam gaganasādṛśam Tattvamasyādilakṣyam ekam nityam Vimalamachalam sarvadhīsākṣibhūtam bhāvātītam triguṇarahitam Satgurum tam namāmi. Gurur Brahmā, Gurur Viṣṇu, Gurur Devo Maheśvara. Gurur Sākṣāt Parabrahma, Tasmai Śrī Guruve Namaḥ. Dhyāna Mūlam Gurur Mūrtiḥ, Pūjā Mūlam Guru Padam. Mantra Mūlam Gurur Vākyam, Mokṣa Mūlam Guru Kṛpā. Om Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī, Devādhi Deva, Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī. Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jaya. Good evening, all dear sisters and brothers here in this hall, and all dear bhaktas around the world who are with us through our webcast. Welcome. It’s a beautiful day. It was Mahāśivarātri, with its ceremonies and pūjās, and we have established here a beautiful new Śiva temple. There was Amāvasyā. Amāvasyā means the dark night, the dark moon. It is opposite to the full moon. The Moon is very powerful. The Moon is a balancing principle for the Earth. It is like an antenna. So the moon is growing and decreasing, increasing—from full moon to the dark moon to the full moon. Only one night, the moonlight is not direct because at the same time the sun and moon are rising, so we can’t see the moon. But the next day, the moon shows its strength. You will see every time when the dark moon is on that day or after one or two days, there is immense movement in the ocean. And what we experienced today, the kind of cyclone or hurricane, whatever you call it, and people were very worried about, it was very strong. Since the day before yesterday, they were talking about this. This morning, I got telephone calls from many people who said, "Swāmījī, take care, because Brisbane will also be influenced. Go perhaps to some good hotel." I said, don’t worry. Whatever happens will happen, even if you go to the hotel or under the rocks. But I said, I will pray to our spiritual lineage, Devpurījī, and he will definitely be very gentle, very kind. So it will become smooth. It will come, but not so destructive. And I think it happened. So, the full moon brings changes in the weather, and the new moon brings changes in the weather. The Moon is a principle of our mind. We call Manasā Devatā, Candra, the goddess of the mind, or the principle of the mind, is the moon. The moon governs the mind. As the moon is changing, similarly our thoughts, our feelings, and our opinions are changing. Because the dharma, again the dharma is also principle, of the mind is saṅkalpa, vikalpa. Saṅkalpa means to make a decision or a vow. Vikalpa, to dissolve the decision or give up. So saṅkalpa vikalpa, this is mind. Sometimes it is good, but mostly this saṅkalpa vikalpa, deciding and again breaking, gives immense pressure on our body, on our mind, on our consciousness, on our intellect, and on our family life. Secondly, this saṅkalpa and vikalpa, which we have inside, can also influence our normal life, business life, and many things. So the moon is mighty, and the moon is the principle of Śiva. Shiva always has the moon, the half moon, the crescent moon. We worship when you first time, day time, first day you see the new moon. You shall look to the moon, wish something good, and then look in your palms, and there should be some silver in your ring or a silver coin. That will. Silver is the principle of the moon, and the principle of the mind is the moon. The moon represents silver, and it brings luck. Similarly, in Islam also, they first look at the moon, and then they break their fasting, roja for one month, or something like this, what they call it. So today was the new moon. It will bring rain always to different parts of the world, depending on the position of the moon. So, Śivarātri. Now the question is this: we were talking about the modern world, the modern way of living, and families and spiritualities. Well, first of all, I would like to say, when you look at the Hindu religion, Sanātana Dharma, the Hindu religion is the mother or father of many other religions. Buddhism is a part of Hinduism. Thus, they gave the name Buddhas. Buddha was not a name. He was Siddhārtha. But Bodha, Bodha means knowledge or intellect. So when your intellect, your consciousness is illuminated, then it’s called enlightened. The enlightened intellect orders all. We are all lighted from this light. And we hope one day we will also be enlightened. So the buddhi, when buddhi got this knowledge, knowledge is a light. When we close our eyes and we don’t see the light, don’t worry, because you can’t see the light; your eyes are closed. The light of wisdom, the light of love, the light of truth, the light of happiness, the life of happiness, the life of joy, the life of kindness, the light of harmony—none can be compared with this light. This is physical light, and the other one is the eternal light. So eternal light, which we can’t see, we can’t touch, but we feel, and we are in that. That’s why they call the Buddhist, Bodha. So, Buddha, otherwise known as Siddhārtha. Anyhow, in the mythology from these ancient cultures, they had all from nature. Worshipping all five elements. Let’s say, for example, we don’t know God, and when God will come, we don’t know if we can trust Him or not. Is he really God or not? So, but we know one thing: our body has a fire element, and if our temperature goes down, there is an alarm in the body, or if our temperature goes high—40, 41—there is an alarm. So this fire element in our bodies, for us, is a life, a god. If there is no water, we are thirsty, and we die. A thirsty person knows what water is. Similarly, our muscles, our bones, etc. If the muscles are disappearing slowly, slowly from certain diseases, then it is an alarm, my God. We are only worried about this: how to get healthy. And these muscles and bones, this is the earth element. The space, and spaces in our lungs, in our intestines, in our bones, in our nerves, our respiratory system, everywhere is space. Can you imagine that you can’t breathe? All is blocked; the space is a death. So, in ancient times, humans worshipped these elements, called bhūtas, to keep them pure, because if these elements—water, earth, air, space—are pure and clean, then our life will be healthy and long. If we pollute our field, we pollute our life. So similarly, the sun—and when we said people are stupid, calling God as the sun. Can you imagine if the sun does not rise for two or three days? What will happen? So if God is there or not for us, it is that which supports our life and lets us grow and go. So, in ancient times, which are the ages—Satya Yuga, Dvāpara Yuga, Tretā Yuga, Kali Yuga—and before, the cycle of the Yugas is always there. So, if you see all the Indian goddesses, they are all couples, husband and wife: Brahmā and Sarasvatī, Viṣṇu and Lakṣmī, Śiva and Śakti, Apavatī and Devī, all. So, both are known as Gods. In spirituality, there is no duality of the genders, and no duality of calling he or she, but only one. Now, in this family life, why do they show this? All ṛṣis, great ṛṣis, ṛṣis means hermits, who were living in huts. They also had a family, they were also married, and they gave the education to the children on how to live in harmony with nature. If we cannot manage harmony with nature, we cannot manage family life in harmony. We can’t manage the friendship with our colleagues if we are not in harmony with nature. So, Mahāprabhujī, our Grand Master said, "Do not go against nature, otherwise nature will take revenge." The consequences will be hard. And now we see the consequences of what is happening in the world. In the field, are we putting poison or nectar? Are we putting life or death in the field? So many pesticides, so many, around the whole world. And often I think, what, our politicians, where do they want to lead this world? And we people are so afraid, or I don’t know why. Everyone accepts this. If there is no consumer, then there is no manufacturer. So, let’s, for example, the whole of Australia, the Australian people are body awareness, health awareness. If they all will say, "Get up, and we don’t want to buy any food which is not organic," one day, two days, three days, finally they have to provide the different things. Let... Their supermarket frozen, we want to have organic, because we don’t want to take a poison. It’s poisoning, and not poisoning our body, but poisoning our feelings, our relations, our thoughts. So those ṛṣis, they were teaching their children love, respect, and how to live in harmony with nature. Spirituality means, a spiritual path means not that you renounce and go somewhere away. No, spirituality means purity, crystal clear, transparent, with our thoughts and our feelings positive. It is said that when we think negatively, we are darkening our inner space and poisoning our inner self. In psychology, they say negative thinking is poisoning oneself, and positive thinking is enlightening oneself. Doesn’t matter what happens, don’t harm yourself, don’t let yourself suffer, okay. You don’t like it, or it is against your principle, okay. But it means that you do not kill yourself. So we kill with our sadness this and that. That is not the life which God has given to us. So practice yoga. Those who went to the Himalaya, or it doesn’t matter somewhere, meditating and living alone, okay, it’s their choice. But actually, yoga and its divine principles are designed for the family holders who are leading a family life, so that they can give this wisdom to the generation, to the generation, to the generation. There is no need to renounce and run away. No need to act like you are divine and they are not divine. Nowadays, there is tension in the families when you begin to be spiritual. Then you are afraid that my family will not accept, and the family is afraid. We don’t know what my child is doing, or my husband is doing, or my wife is doing. It should be clearly spoken what that is. Your husband will definitely not accept it if he has a beautiful cat and he loves his cat. He will not accept, in any case, that you kill and cook that cat. If your wife has a beautiful dog and loves it very much, and when the dog is ill, you are a doctor, and medicine, and this and that. You are very tired. Early morning, you get up and walk with your dog, you know. And if your husband says, "Let’s have dinner from the dog," will you accept? No way. You will tell your husband, "You go out and sleep in the garden." So, because that is love, you have a relation to your house pet. But we are in this world, and we should have a relation to all creatures like this. So, nourishment is a part of our life, a major part of our life. So, what we eat and drink influences our feelings, our thoughts, and our bodies. We see that in the last century, or from the time of the First World War, people began to eat more and more meat. It previously was not that much, and it was how it awoke in the human mind that those particular soldiers, maybe the American soldiers or Russian soldiers or other soldiers, were eating, getting a kind of restaurant and eating meat. And it is said when they went away, the people were hungry, many ran into the restaurant and took whatever remained. And from that place, at that time, in that situation, my dear. For one kilo of potatoes, you had to work the whole day in the field. God should not show us such days, what our ancestors or our parents experienced. So at that time they were looking, "Oh, they drink alcohol, they eat meat," they said. Of course they have money; they are rich people. So now this world’s richness enters our subconscious, and we would like to be rich. And now, what we call the new rich. The people are decorating their house very much, but is it not without any test? But to show that I have a big sofa, I have this furniture, I have this kind of light, this, this, this kind of car, this is called a new rich. New rich means in their blood there is still hunger, hunger for wealth. And those who were wealthy for ages and generations, they don’t act like that; they are just happy with old things and so on. You have very nice old furniture and some pictures and this, and now your son married another girl, and she’s coming from a completely modern culture, and she comes and when the parent dies, she says, "Oh, these are old, we don’t need them." This is very old. Throw it, burn it, let it go, and put some new, other pictures. So this is how inside, there is no feeling of renunciation. Take, take, take. Hungry, hungry. Not giving. So that’s why family life is suffering. So, to become a spiritual person, to become a yogī, practicing yoga or any other spiritual path, you do not need to renounce or go away from your parents. Do not change your relation, and do not change your behavior with your colleagues either. So we say in India, "Mukhme Rām, hāthme kām." You have work in your hands, and in your mouth you have the name of God. How perfectly both are balanced. You are typing everything, but inside you have the name of God. You are working different things, you are driving a taxi, a bus, or anything, but you have inside the name of God. So it means that our mouth is the door and our lips are the frame of the door. And when we put a lamp on the door, a light, then outside is light and inside is light. So, it is a great saint, Tulsīdās, who writes in the holy book, the Rāmāyaṇa, that when you have the name of God in your mouth, you have light inside and light outside in this world also. There is no anger, there is no jealousy, there is no hate. Everything is changing in the world. If you run behind the change, then you will suffer. So, spiritual life to maintain is very easy, and I have many, many disciples, thousands of disciples, their whole family, they are so happy. I am coming once a year, going to New Zealand, and there in Auckland, mostly because they are decades my disciples, and they are like my family, and they are so happy. They have children, and they are also so happy. But husband and wife, they are so balanced. And this is the beauty of spirituality. Birds have two wings and one body. Husband and wife are like two wings of a bird. And their souls are like one body. Just now, before I came here, I had a Skype call from Europe. It’s a beautiful city. Swāmījī is called Chakavach, or Chakavach, Chakavach, and they are my disciples, very nice, Lurganam and Bansi, and they call me and they say, "Oh, happy, it’s a happy couple, so happy," and I think they had already their golden. Wedding jubilee already, diamond, the golden, all this, so they say. Thank you, Swāmījī, that you brought us into this such a beautiful harmony, life. So here is distraction, and here is also constriction. So we should not behave or act in public or in the family, thinking, "I am now spiritual, and I want to do this, and you are not doing it, and you are not like that." No, who are we to judge? As spiritual you are, that humble you are to understand your family members, your colleagues, your friends, your God, and nature. So nothing has to change. Only change one thing. Don’t think negative. So when we turn to the positive, then you are spiritual. And as soon as you think negative, then it doesn’t matter how many years you were meditating, all is zero. Everything is deleted with one negative thought. And when negative thought comes, negative word comes. And when the negative word is, it is like an atom bomb, and that destroys everything. So words control and put it on the tongue. That name of God is called light, the diamond, which is lightning outside and inside. So it is a very, very easy life, a very happy life. And yoga without spirituality and without knowing the aim of life is just exercise. They are also good, very good, but think for what we are born. And we are not born to be alone, single, and to throw everybody away. No. You know how big a family I have? Around the whole world, thousands of the bhaktas are my family. I tell you, it’s not easy. It is not easy to make her happy; she’s angry. And to make her happy, she is jealous. And when he tries to make her happy and not jealous, then she gets angry. So it is, we used to say, there’s a scale for measuring something. This side is kilos, and to measure how many kilos, the other side. So one day, you got a duty to measure the weight of the frogs. So you brought many frogs and put them on that scale. On the other side, a kilo, before the needle shows exactly two, frogs jump out. Again, you put them in, and three of them jumped out. And so it is in a big family always, but the scale must remain there. Doesn’t matter sometimes more kilos here or other side, that the stick which is holding balancing must be exactly so. Big families, big families. Every country has different traditions, different cultures, different languages, different things. India has different, you are. A European, you have a different culture. You can’t merge or just become harmonizing with the Abhijāna culture. But you left from England some decades before, or what we call the sensory, and now it changed a little bit, but still not. If you come to London, you fit completely. Okay, yeah, because still that is in your blood. The language may be a little different, a different dialect. We call there, "Hold on, wait, please, for the telephone," and you said, "Hang on." So I said, I’m not going to hang on to myself. But this is a sometimes changing dialect, but the culture is the same. It’s very hard to unite. But where spirituality is, many, many people have nothing against it. That’s it. So yoga means union, uniting the family, harmonizing the family. Then it is easier for us to walk on that path of spirituality or truth. When there is a disharmony, like a frog, then it is always one jump out here and one jump out there. Then we cannot put them in a plastic bag, close it, and put it in; half will die. We can’t do this, so practice wherever you like, how you like. And remember what God gave us life for, what will be after, and where we will go. We are all one family of one God. So yoga is very nice for the body, for the mind, for our consciousness, and for our soul. With this, I wish you all the best, and God bless you. Live a harmonious life with your friends, colleagues, your family, and your country. And try to work and tell everybody we should work for organic food. It is an alarm in the whole world. It is an alarm. It is an alarm. Cancer, cancer, and many other diseases. If one apple has been bitten a little by some worm or some bird, why not? That part you cut off, that’s all. But not that apple which is completely poisoned. How many times have you been sprayed? So, there are two kinds of death. One death is when we die suddenly. Second death is torturing lifelong, slowly, slowly... slowly. Such a way of food is torturing and killing us slowly, slowly, slowly. So, all the best, and I wish you a very good evening. And European, I wish you a very good day. Sanātana Dharma kī Jaya. Jaya means glory, Jaya means victory, and Jaya means long life. So we always say the glory, victory of Gurudev, victory of the right house, the Dharma, Sanātana Dharma.