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There was a great yogī, now very famous in India, from whom a spiritual lineage descends, like those of Śaṅkarācārya or Buddha. He was a Siddha Yogī named Guru Gauraknāth. He lived some centuries ago, and the spiritual lineage movement that follows his teachings is called the Nāth Sampradāya. Sampradāya means the dynasty or lineage which follows the spiritual teaching of that particular master. The Master never dies. The body goes, for they become one with Brahman. As long as the master is living in the body, he is with us. When he passes away or leaves this body, then he is not with us in that way, but he is within us. This is the difference. The successor is that master himself. While living in this body, he already prepares a successor. It means the cloth is different, but the person is the same. Today you have yoga dress, and tomorrow you will have swimming dress, but the person is the same. Similarly, the Master’s blessings, which come into the disciple, do not depend on academic education. It is not important if you have such education or if you do not know even one alphabet. It is above this aparāvidyā. What we learn in the world is aparāvidyā. But when it comes to the Master’s consciousness, then it is parāvidyā. So everything is functioning with the parāvidyā. And that parāvidyā comes through purity, humbleness, and devotion. While living, these are two dresses, but the person is the same. It means that one has to become one with the Master. We cannot become one with the physical body, but we become one with the consciousness, with that fine body, which can multiply into many, many forms. It is not only that the Master will have only one disciple; it can be many. But that quality has to be achieved first: no anger. If anytime you are angry, without any waiting, you are out. No doubt, we are out. Anger, greed, jealousy, hate, etc.—these negative qualities create a barrier. For it is said, "Brahma satyaṁ, jagan mithyā"—Brahman is the truth, the ultimate truth; "jagat mithyā"—this world is unreality. We call it the mortal world, but our inner world is immortal. That immortal essence will always have a barrier of certain negative qualities, and union is with the positive qualities. So anger—not only towards the Master, but towards anyone. Anger is there where there is fear. Anger is there where there is greed. Anger is there where there is selfishness. All this comes from fear. We know we have fear towards this physical body, but one day it will go. Otherwise, we are above the fear, above the ignorance. So Holī Gurujī said very clearly in his bhajan, "Satguru rakhelā, cintāmaṇi karaṇa." This bhajan, all of you know. So if you trust, then do not worry. There is another beautiful bhajan, which you all sing. You like it very much, but 99.9% of everybody is only singing. They do not follow. The song which you sing, you are not singing for others, but you should sing for thyself. And thus, the sound which you send in the air is for the inspiration of others. That bhajan says—you know, this whole bhajan you must overthink—"Lāgī, lāgī, sab koī kahe, lāgī, nahīṁ lāge." Everybody said, "I was hurt by an arrow." "Lāgī, lāgī, sab koī kahe," everyone said, "Oh, I was hurt by an arrow." "Lāgī nahīṁ lagī," but the arrow did not shoot them. "Lāgī jiske aisī lāgī," but who got that arrow? "Ho gayī āraṁ-paraṁ." It went through. The arrow went here and went out, like a bullet. That one knows how it was, that was the hit by an arrow. So when such oneness is there, then there is no fear of separation. This bhajan is a great one, and we cannot follow this bhajan even half a percent. Maybe none of us are capable. Yes, singing is very nice, and everybody says he has a good voice. But still, it did not touch your heart. It cannot touch because it is different. So many can become one. And you do not know who gets this. If I throw one apple at someone with closed eyes, whose destiny is it to get that apple? So that is something that depends on our destiny from the past. Our late president of India, who passed away, I think there was never such a president, such a great personality. He said, "It is not that dream which you see in sleep." You have a dream as your target, your imagination, what you want to realize. He was great. You know, when one becomes president and when he is over his position or function, they need a few trucks to take the things with them. Everyone gives something to the president. Whatever you get as president, it belongs to the state. But if you want to take, nobody dares to say, "Do not take." So when his time was over, the journalist asked him, "Your Excellency, Abdul Kalām, what will you take with you when you go home?" He said, "My one suitcase, which has my personal books about science"—because he was a scientist—"that’s all." He was getting, at the president’s house, a bill per month of thousands and thousands for food. President Kalām read the bill and said, "So much? I do not eat. How is it possible?" He wrote in the newspaper what he was eating, and all in all, it may have been 50 Indian rupees. And he got a per day bill of more than 100,000. People were taking. When he came, he stopped it; in the president’s house, no one would eat meat, and everyone would bring their own food from home. "Why do you eat from the government’s money?" And a big, big garden—you know, the president’s house in New Delhi, if you see, is something like a big lawn with grass. He said, "Why do we waste the water for this grass? No one is utilizing it." So he turned it all into an Ayurvedic herb garden and grew the most beautiful and very rare remedies from the plants. People used to steal it, so he put up a fence and a lock. There were so many herbs, and they were sold, and a lot of money was coming in for the government of India. Every day, one or two trucks of fruit would come for the guests and so on. And he said, "So many fruits I never eat, and my visitors give only a few fruits. Where do the fruits go?" So there were hundreds of people employed who used to enjoy and take them home. Can you imagine such a president? He was a great scientist, and while giving a lecture, he just fell down and died. Such a great person did not suffer at all. And he wrote in his testament, "Whenever I die, there should be no holiday, because the people whose work has to be done will miss one day. Schools should not be closed because students will miss one day of teaching." So there are still such people in the world. Such a great imagination. So you can say such people understand, and they can bring the nation up. So one has to understand inside, and if all will work like that, it will be heaven on earth. And so it is for a spiritual aspirant: you can become one with God immediately, but you... We have to terminate all the negative qualities. And that becomes the successor. That is the one who carries the light further. So, those who got that bullet, they know what the pain is. And so, everyone has to understand: the body is mortal. It has feeling, but only till the soul is there. The soul is liberated, but it is involved in the karmic waves of the body. But inside, the ātmā is free. So as long as we are physically living, we will have certain feelings: the physical feelings of burning, pain, many, many physical sufferings. But why do you suffer emotionally? Emotion means many things. Hate is an emotion, jealousy is an emotion, screaming is an emotion, happiness is an emotion, sadness is an emotion. There are different kinds of emotions. So, as I used to say, every dream is your own reality. But His Excellency Abdul Kalām, the ex-president, he said, "Dreams are not that which you dream in sleep, that you cannot realize, but by living you have the dreams and work for that, you will achieve." But do not give up, and this is very hard in modern life. Every man has a dream: to have a very nice, very truthful, good wife. But you have no courage to wait. Every woman, every girl has a dream to get such a good husband, but she cannot wait. She thinks, "Until such a good husband comes, let me live with some others." That dream will not come true. Sometimes you have to wait for life. Why not? If you have that realization, strength. You know that Hinduism is a very happy religion. There are tragedies—how Kṛṣṇa was born, how was the situation of his mother—but we do not show that. We show Kṛṣṇa happy, joyful, most loving. Many are jealous. Many other religions are jealous of Kṛṣṇa or Rāma. We celebrate happy festivals, birthdays. So there are 365 days, we think, in the year. But we have more than 800 festivals in the year. You see? And plus this, your birthday. How many billions are there in India? More than two billion. Everything is celebration, so life is a celebration. So you know, the day of Gurujī’s Mahāsamādhi is on the new moon, and the next day is the day which is celebrated in India, and the most beautiful ceremony is in Jaipur. Rajasthan is a colorful state. Rajasthan is a festival. And in other parts of India too, so this day, that is the day, it is called for Śiva and Pārvatī. There was a long separation between Śiva and Pārvatī. Finally, Pārvatī decides to fast, thinking that only through this pūjā ceremony can she meet Śiva again. And many sisters, they want to have a brother. Brother means protector. Brother is your bodyguard. When a brother is born, the sister has a different walk because now I have my brother who is there to protect me. Every sister is praying for her brother. Only brothers are hopeless sometimes, it does not matter. And every girl wishes for a beautiful, healthy, and good husband. I do not think any girl does not wish for such things. That makes a happy family. You see, the husband or wife, boy or the girl, they are not searching for this physical love. They are the love of the heart, loyal. That is a partner. That is a good word. Partner means a part of you, and this part should not go apart. When it is apart, the house is collapsed. So when one wants to separate, the other’s heart is cut into pieces. That cannot create a good society, and so the restlessness begins. There is no peace. So that day, this month, is called the month of Śiva. In this monsoon season, in this season, all devatās go on holidays. They are sleeping. They are somewhere near the waterfalls, but Śiva is guarding. He is also going, but he is still taking care. So this is a holy month. So on this third day of this bright fortnight, it was on the... I think which day? Date 15th? On the 26th? No, the 16th was the new moon, the second moon, and the 17th was the third moon, one day after Gurujī’s Mahāsamādhi. So what do they do? Again, with the festivals—in Europe also there are many beautiful festivals, mostly Slovakians, this part of culture, Hungarians, well—Pārvatī is waiting for Śiva to come. A sister is waiting, thinking, "I will get a husband." My brother and girl is waiting, "I will get a good husband." So, in the evening, afternoon, one hour before sunset, in every village they gather together, mostly the girls and boys too, and it is organized with village music. India is very big and has different ways of tradition. Celebrating in Rajasthan, they boil the wheat and then they mix the wheat flour with sugar and a little ghee. They mix all together, and with a nice pot, the girl takes a handful inside and covers it nicely. Yes, Hungarians have a beautiful tradition. And while drumming and singing spiritual songs, they go outside of the village. And then every girl finds a bush which has thorns on it. So around one bush, ten girls, twenty girls, and they take one wheat corn and put it on the tip of the thorn inside. Why? For the birds the next day. So then, after Pārvatī will eat, then she will break her fasting. If Śiva comes, she wishes, and you do not know what she is wishing. You never know what girls are wishing, and boys say, "I do not care." That is why they get a duty drumming, and then they come home. And when they came home, my sisters—because we had three sisters first and three brothers—so they already had two brothers. So every sister wanted to have one brother, but our sister had no brother. And when they came home, they found the most unhelpful brother. I do not know what is unmöglich. It was me. So, of course, I feel very proud. I was a proud brother. Anyhow, that was the day when again Pārvatī found Śiva. Then, after, will be the marriage of Śiva and Pārvatī. So every festival has some meaning. So every divine god is aware of us. Every master is aware of us. Mahāprabhujī is aware of what I am talking about. Gurujī knows. Ālakpurījī knows, and other holy saints know. So when that light goes to such a humble one, who is really a seeker, then the guru’s light goes into them, and where it goes mostly, that comes as a success. So every disciple will get. They become like planets, but one has to be the sun. And that is the successor, but you are also successors. You got the same, and our duty is to be loyal to our Master’s teachings. We are not doing this for ourselves. The time when you say that, "I will do it, it is mine. I will not do that to others," you are far away. There is a beautiful tree; on every branch they are the same apples, the same fruits. All disciples of one Master are the same. But when in physical form, we still do not understand. So Guru Gauraknāth, whose story I began—his life story is very interesting. So Guru Gauraknāth and his disciple was Mahāśendranāth. It is a beautiful story. Next time I will tell it. So Guru Gorakhnāth, he got a cancer, and cancer was somehow—that time was not such a treatment like now—inside was a kind of patch, they call mucosa, and developing worms inside. And every day he used to put warm ash from his dhūnī there. For 25 years, he was suffering. Such a great master. Just he blesses, and the disease goes away. But he himself could not heal. There comes conflict. The disciple does not trust the Master. How is it possible? What kind of karma does he still have? Is he a perfect Siddha or not? And there you are, separated. Then you go to the hybrid, become seedless, lost. So one day he was sitting near his dhūnī. Who? Gauraknāth. And Guru Gauraknāth was sitting near his dhūnī. Maybe he has his chillum. Well, he was thinking about this cancer. He tried so many herbs, so many treatments, but nothing helps. Then he said, "Now this should be finished." And in front of him, in the area where the dhūnī is, about four meters away, always growing some kind of herbs, grass, or weed, so one of those herbs spoke to Gaurākhnāth, "Why do not you utilize me? Take my leaves and crush them and put it on it. In seven days, it will be gone." Guru Gaurakanātha smiles. The time has come to finish this cancer. "And now you are telling me, for 24 years you were all the time here, why did you keep the mauna?" So when the time comes, everything turns positive. Even such a great master has to go through, but inside he was happy and sure. So that spirituality does not depend on your aparāvidyā; it means this worldly education. This worldly education is only to fill our belly. That is it. To earn money, eat more, make a house. That is all. But parāvidyā is building a house in the entire universe, which has no walls and no roof. All is in oneness. So, if you are a yoga teacher, yoga in your life, do not just take it for exercises. That is very important also. But become a liberated one. That is it. So, how much anger do you have toward your neighbor? How much jealousy do you have toward people who are sitting in front? How angry are you because one has a bad smell, etc., etc.? So after so many years, I realize that you should sit at a distance, and he will say, "So many years Swamiji later suffered, and now he realized that we should sit at a distance." So whatever you wish, it should come true. It does not depend on your body. The body is only a tool, and take care of this tool. A best surgeon, if he does not have proper tools, he or she cannot operate. So, a good, best mechanic cannot do anything without tools. So you know, they love their tool, they take care of the tool very much. Also, the best musicians love their instruments, they adore their instruments, because the resonance is in that instrument. Talent is in you. So, master and instrument. So, the master is a master. And we are instruments, so let us have one tune, meaning one voice. Therefore, take care and make your very clear visions that through yoga and in life we will bring this non-violence and peace. Tomorrow we will speak about this more. I wish you a very pleasant good evening and good night. So, prasāda please. Prasādaṁ prasāda.