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Many, many blessings of Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, and Gurujī. This meeting is also, as I said, our Guru Pūrṇimā meeting. Last week, I was at Guru Pūrṇimā in Jadan, and there was a beautiful celebration there. You know, when Gurujī was here physically, I didn’t need to go to India for every Guru Pūrṇimā and Mahāsamādhi of Mahāprabhujī and Devpurījī. But since our beloved Gurudev, Holy Gurujī, left this world physically, the responsibility somehow fell on our shoulders. Because this is an Indian tradition, for Guru Pūrṇimā they very much like to come to the āśram. If there is no one to welcome them, where can they go to place the heaviness of their heart at the lotus feet of the Master, or to receive a blessing there? For Indians, it’s not so easy to travel, but you people have it a little easier to travel to India. Otherwise, one week earlier or one week later, we will always be together for Guru Pūrṇimā. So, I can tell you only one thing, which I was thinking about all day: what I will tell you this evening. We learn, "Brahma satyaṁ, jagan mithyā." Brahman is the truth, and the world is unreality. But still, we live in this physical world, we live with this physical body, and this body has its nature. It has five tattvas. It has hunger, thirst, feelings of cold and hot, anger, jealousy, desires, liking, and disliking. It is there. So we are a test to this world as long as we live in a physical body. Titikṣā means to endure all situations, all circumstances in life. And practicing Ātmā Cintan, thoughts about the self, means asking: who am I? Not this body, not this mind, not this desire, not these senses, but I am the ātmā. But still, thinking like this, you still can’t run away from your body. In Jñāna Yoga, among the last four principles, the fourth practice is: "Lord, when will I be free from this suffering in this world?" So, whether you are at home or in the forest, whether living a household life or a holy monk’s life, you are not free from these duḥkhas. You are not liberated from the dukkha. Troubles are there. But Ātmā Cintan means that here, now, we try to put all our concentration, all our energy, towards liberation. There are certain points in life when we feel happy, and certain times when we feel unhappy. Many people are longing to get married, and many, after marriage, are very unhappy. It will happen, even what you don’t want to happen. And it will not happen, even if you would like that it happens. Everything has its time. Everything is coming and going. But the human, after these 8.4 million crossings, the milestones are most probably given to step out of this circle. But it’s not so easy. So to learn to endure is not easy. And human nature is this: when we have, we don’t know the value of it. And when we don’t have, then we cry for it. And that’s how the human complication is. Now, what I want to tell you with all this is, you can’t imagine how much I miss Holy Gurujī. Though I was not always in India—I was here, Gurujī was in India—we could talk on the telephone, and I used to go every 3 or 4 months, sometimes only once a year. But I knew that Gurujī is there, he will take care, like a child who is playing in the garden and the mother is sitting there. The child will not sit near the mother. It will just run and play, and this and that. But the child knows that the mother is there. If the mother goes away, the child will immediately run behind her or begin to cry. So it is with our parents, master, a dear friend, a dear person; suddenly, when they pass away, you miss a lot. Then you feel now they have left you alone in this field, in this jungle. But that is the law of nature. No one can change this. Many try to change, but they couldn’t. Āyā so jāyegā—who came will go—rājā, raṅg, fakīr, king, beggar, and sādhu. Ek Siṅghāsan charh chalā—one will go back while sitting on a throne. We must go. We will go. And we will go. But how? Or how tricky, jealous, angry, or greedy you are—that decides. So we have to develop our consciousness as a small baby. We say, when you are sixty, then you are like an eight-year-old boy. So I feel today, eight years. Someone asked me, "How old are you?" I said, "Six and zero." The person said, "No, forty." Well, I wish I could be like that. So I am 40. So 40. Because from 50, you must count back now. So, people who wanted to enjoy life, do it maximum till 50. So if you want to enjoy life, enjoy yourself to the fullest. And then prepare yourself to feel sorry for it. You would like to run, but you can’t. You would like to climb the tree to take the cherries, but you can’t. So prepare yourself and say to yourself, "Well, you can’t." So we cannot do anything against nature. The cosmic law and natural law, and between this is destiny. Our life is a karmic life. So, even the holy persons like Kṛṣṇa, Rāma, Jesus, Buddha, Mahāprabhujī, Gurujī, they all passed away. But when they were with us, we did not realize. And now we miss them. And so it is that, as you all, I miss Gurujī very, very much. You can’t imagine how important and beautiful it is to be together. I miss nothing in my life. I have everything. Perhaps I am the happiest person in the world. But you know, it’s my ignorance, because we miss Gurujī. You have everything, but you don’t have one thing. And that is missing. And so I have everything, but I don’t have Gurujī physically with us anymore. So, in the last few years, I have often told you that you don’t know what we have. And we don’t know who will be next here. And that you don’t know who will be with us and who will not be. So it’s very nice to be together. I wish you a happy, healthy, and long life. Mahāprabhujī protects you. May all your wishes come true. And especially that your self-realization will be realized. These are the blessings of Mahāprabhujī, Devpurījī, and Gurujī for this Guru Pūrṇimā and also for this meeting of our birthday.