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Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī, Devīśvara Mahādeva Kī, Dharm Samrāṭ Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān, Sanātana Dharma Kī. Today, it was special that we left the webcast open during the prayer and afterwards as well. Why? That was a very natural āśram life. Everyone comes, sits, greets everyone, and so on. Always sitting all serious is a bit boring, so that’s why it was like that. Yes, today is also a special day. And in the mind, here in the head, someone tickles: "Speak English." Okay. So many blessings to all of you, all bhaktas, spiritual seekers, and practitioners of yoga around the world, also those practicing yoga in their life and from many different kinds of schools. All in all, as holy Gurujī said, "One in all and all in one" means yoga. Last time we spoke about festivals and Sanātana dharma, and definitely you remember. Do you remember? If you don’t remember, it means you were not here; it was the other group. When I spoke, I was sitting here, and you all were listening. It’s not long ago, just one week and two days, and you have forgotten again. So, I am proud of you that you forget. I am happy that I can talk again about something. I can speak the same thing. That’s it. So, I will speak the same thing. It is not easy to speak the same thing again, but it is about the Divine Mother, Navarātri. Okay? Now you remember? Mātṛ, Debu, Bhāva. First, God is mother. The first is the mother, the Śakti, the Brahman, the universe, the energy, etc. Mother’s love doesn’t matter who is who. Even if it is not your mother, the elderly person is also like your mother—Mother Nature. There are certain qualities which men have that women don’t have. But what women have, men don’t have those qualities. That is the best one. In Mother Nature, it doesn’t matter which kind of creature it is, there is love. And if we see the human, so the woman—when you go to visit someone’s house, it is the woman who will ask you, "Would you like to drink water or have some chai or something?" When a man is sitting, and only the man is there, and a man visitor goes, he will say, "Hello, how are you?" and so on. And after 10 minutes, the man, the visitor, will get up, take a glass of water, drink, and then come back. So there is the hospitality, the love, the protection, etc. The last nine nights and nine days were dedicated to worshipping the holy mothers. And if you have something against mothers, you tell me. So this is an energy, feminine and masculine. And that is energy, protection. So there are different forms, different times. Energy is energy. Mother is mother. Doesn’t matter which mother, and the father is the father. So each incarnation of the holy mothers has special qualities, special blessings, and a special environment and atmosphere to create. For example, Saraswatī. We worship Saraswatī. We have an altar, we have a temple. Saraswatī means knowledge. And so Saraswatī is the goddess of all students. Every student who is studying, and their study table, should have a picture of Saraswatī. And there is a beautiful prayer about Divine Mother Saraswatī. So Saraswatī means knowledge, and knowledge is endless. So Saraswatī has a book in her hand. She has an instrument playing the vīṇā, or what we call sitār. So she has a Vīṇā. She has a beautiful white swan. The swan is the highest symbol of knowledge. She’s sitting on the beautiful white lotus. Also beautiful. And there is also a beautiful white peacock. There’s also sometimes the colorful peacock. Because the painter forgot, so he made the color, so he made it color. Embedded color. And we said, in the egg of a peacock, we don’t need to inject the color. That baby will come out of that egg; it itself is colorful. Who gave that color inside? And in one hand, she had blessings for the students, and in the other, she had a book. Though she is a goddess of knowledge, she still has the book in her hand, because it is said knowledge is endless. In the same book, every day you can find more wisdom, more thinking, more thought. So we are not worshiping just like one woman. Everyone worships the woman, why not? But these women have a quality symbol. Yesterday, I was driving through the countryside, Burgenland and Styria, beautiful village side. There are so many little, little temples about Jesus or Holy Mother Mary. There must be something in her quality, her way. So we not only see that as Mother Mary as a woman, but her quality, her blessings, her mercy, etc. So Saraswatī or Gāyatrī or Gītā or Sītā or Lakṣmī, Durgā, so many, many,... many names. Each name has its meaning, and there is anuṣṭhāna. There is a Devī, we call Devī, Goddess. And in Hindi language, Indian language, we also say Devī, so we Sajjan or Devī, women in airport, aeroplane, Devyā, Sajjanā or Devyā in Air India. When they are announcing in Hindi, you will hear this word. It’s not that Swāmījī is making stories. Buy their India ticket, a real Air India ticket, and go to India. Okay, you will hear twice: when you come back and when you go there, and also from landing. Okay, and India is colorful. Indian airport is colorful. When you arrived at New Delhi, my God. People take the cameras, how many beautiful pictures and mudrās, short and sweet. India is colorful, doesn’t matter there are many full, but is it colorful everywhere so that you call it Devī Lalitā? Lalitā Ṣaṣṭanāma. She has a thousand names, and there is a beautiful Anuṣṭhāna. Every day you have to read the thousand names of Lalitā, and Śāstranāma, Viṣṇu Śāstranāma. Vishnu also has a thousand names. Shiva has a thousand names, and Lakshmī also. So all Devīs have them. A thousand names means thousands of qualities. Good qualities. Sometimes, to take the quality, we need something, you know. Sometimes they are advertising for washing powder, for washing machine, machine, no? And a wash, he has a washing machine. The best quality is, you know, a chemical, but it has a good quality to clean everything. So those are the divine qualities to clean our karma, our impurities. So, for nine days, many, many people had different Divine Mothers, Iṣṭadevatās, and worshipped all nine, plus a particular Mother. And this was nine days of worship, Divine Mothers, to bless the god Rāma. Now, even God Rāma is a god. The mother, the Devī’s blessing for the victories. And so, after nine days, it is said there is victory over the bad things. The good are the winners, and the bad are the losers. So, there is also that men have a good quality and also a bad quality. Women also have good qualities and bad qualities. But we should not talk about bad qualities, because they are good qualities, so good, so bad qualities go down. So there is a story in the holy book Rāmāyaṇa. It is a great book, great. There are two kinds of Rāmāyaṇa written. One is completely in Sanskrit language, and one is in local language. That is from Tulsīdājī, and the other is Sanskrit from the other Ṛṣi, who was Vālmīki. Ṛṣis in Sanskrit, beautiful. Each word has such a touching in our heart, in our brain, in our thoughts, and such thousands of pages. Not repeating the same word again, that is this. Bhagavad Gītā, no words are written again, repeated. So it is something great, great. Unfortunately, those books of the great scholars and great spiritual people, great writers, and poets in India, they are just in the locked libraries, dust on them. All this modern knowledge and modern things, this is all they have taken over where there is no... It is a plastic. Similarly, if you think here, in Europe, and in Germany, or here, or in Greece, how many great people there were, how many philosophers there were, writing. All is reserved in one corner of the libraries. There are the roots of the humans. In those ancient literatures, there are the roots of the humans, the strength of the humans, the knowledge of the humans. Best would be that we turn towards those literatures and look in and read. So in the Rāmāyaṇa, there’s a story of a king from Śrī Laṅkā, and he was a great learned person. He had many siddhis, a lot of knowledge. His palace was golden. That’s why it’s called Golden Lanka, Sri Lanka, Golden Lanka. He was very strong, very powerful. Man is a dictator. He was a dictator. He had everything, good things also, but only one bad thing he had. And that was the cause of distraction, and that was ego. Proudness, the ego. Ego is a destructive energy in everyone. If it is active or hidden, that is a sleeping cobra. Ego has many forms. Jealousy is an ego. Anger is an ego. Greed is an ego. Many, many things. So ego, if ego is gone, we are pure. There is a lot of dust upon this gold or the crystal, and when the dust is gone, it is shining. I, that is the problem. I did, I am, my, etc., etc. These words are harmful. From Rishikesh, Swami Sivalanji wrote one in English, one little poem or a song: "Within you is the ocean of immortality, nectar. Within you is the ocean of the nectar. And within you is the fountain of joy. And within you is the immortal soul. Kill this little 'I' and lead a divine life." So within you, the immortal Ātmā, within you is the nectar of the ocean, and within you, the fountain of joy. Kill this little I, ego, and lead a divine life. But this ego is so strong. All our indriyas, all our thoughts, all our existence, everything belongs to the ego. And so, regarding Rāvaṇa, there are many stories about him. Many, many. You hold Rama, and you can read. It is said that one little story is the destiny. Now you know the destiny. Destiny, we can say, Vidhātā. Vidhātā. One is called Dharmarāja, the Lord of Justice, the God of Justice. And Vidhātā is she. It is in her hands. Our destiny is in her hands. Vidhātā ne kyā likhā, vohī hogā. What Vidhātā has written, like that will be my life. We surrender to the Vidhātā. So one day, Rāvaṇa was sitting near the door of his palace, and people were there, all sitting. It was evening time, after the sunset, and Vidhātā, she, she’s invisible, she can’t see. We can’t see her. She comes when you are born. So you can ask your Karankan sister if some old lady came to visit the bachayat. Well, she’s neither old nor young. And I don’t dare to make any joke about her. Because she can change me, maybe I’m wrong. Please. So, Vidhātā, she comes at the time of the breath, at the time of birth, when you are born. Then she’s writing our destiny. What will happen to us? How will it be? Who will be? Where will it be? Who will marry? Who will be your wife? Who will be your husband? Where will you be? How will you die? Everything. Everything. The whole history is written according to our karma, our destiny. She will again give us this one letter with us. So open this letter and read the story of your life. Look in the mirror. Look in the mirror. How many good karmas do you have, and how many bad karmas do you have? Darpaṇa me. Oh man, look into the mirror. Kitne achche karam, kitne bure karam. How many good karma? This mirror is in our head, in our heart. That mirror meditation, you can see that. Well, she is coming. No one can see, no one. It is just like air. But Rāvaṇa could see. He had trikāla darśī, all three knowledge he had. He was sitting like this on his couch or sofa, and he said, "Who’s going in, in my palace?" She, with a half-folded hand, said, "Vidhātā." "Why are you going into my palace?" She said to the king, "The queen is giving birth to a child, and I am going to write the destiny." "You write destiny? You dare to write about my child?" She said, "Yes. This is the law." "Who is born?" "What kind of child? It is a daughter. Be careful. Vidhātā, be careful. My daughter, you write her future. It must be the best future in the whole universe for my daughter. Otherwise, I will squeeze you." That powerful were the people. What are we? In German language, this is "feigling." She said, "Rāvaṇa, think. It’s not in my hands. It is in my pencil, on my pen. How the destiny of your daughter will move my hand like that, I will write. I see. It goes through your hand, say yes. Can you change?" She said that’s unchangeable. "Okay, when you go, let me know what you wrote." "Okay, that I can write you, tell you, like a jyotiṣī can tell your future, no?" So a beautiful girl was born. She wrote the destiny, and she came back. And Rāvaṇa said, "Finished?" She said, "Yes." "What did you write for my dear daughter?" He said, "Everything is beautiful, great." That she will be born the great king, he said, that I know. "But how is, come on." She said, "Everything is good, but..." "What is the 'but'?" "Her husband. Her husband will be a disabled person behind her." "What do you mean?" "Well, sir, of course he’s a beautiful man. Man is a man, human is human. But his both eyes, one eye is looking this side and one is looking that side. And his jaw is so hanging, he can’t control; his saliva falls down. And his back is twice turned up and down. And his feet, one foot is going like this and one like that. To speak one word, he needs a few minutes. That’s your son-in-law, sir. You," she said, "It’s not in my hand. It was her karma, kismet came." He said, "I will show you that Rāvaṇa can change the destiny. Get out from here." She went. Now look how she is going to change the destiny. It’s too late. Should I finish? Yes, every. The boy is happy. The girl grows; she becomes about 21 to 25. Ravana sends his messengers to find some kingdom, the great king who is greater than me, prosperity, and this and that. So people were going, but little of my power and my siddhi you should know. In the world, nowhere will you find anyone like me. Great. They said, "Yes, we know very well." So they were going to many, many islands, these that from Sri Lanka, South America, South Africa, everywhere. They were always, they came and they talked about this. He said, "No, no, my daughter, to that kick, no, no, something which is comparable." Like with Rāvaṇa, they were tired. They had a siddhi. They gave the siddhi. She said, "Go and come." One day, they were fed up and they were angry. So, in Lanka itself, that child was born and it was taken somewhere to some other island. Yes, one thing I’ve forgotten, the story. "Where is that born, that child who is going to be the husband of my wife, my daughter?" He said, "It is from that and that family in Laṅkā. It is in Laṅkā." "Oh, where is it born? It is just born a few days before your daughter. Where is it?" And so he told, he said in that house, he said, "Now you can go." He told the messengers and said, "Go, take that boy, cut him in pieces, and throw him in the ocean to the fish." So they went, they took the child. They had mercy. So, they made a wooden box, and they put this child in the box, put the nails on it, and inside, a bottle of milk, and grass, and cottons, and they went in the middle of the ocean somewhere and they left it. Jisko raake saaya maar sake na koi, bāl na bāka kar sake, jo chāhe jag bairī hoī, whom God wants to protect. No one can even destroy one’s hair. That’s God’s protection. So the box was swimming, swimming, in 40 hours. They went to some island’s corner, somewhere on the beach, and there the King and Queen went to swim. And the box was coming. So the King said, "Oh, there is something coming. That’s my box." She said, "King, the box is yours, but what is inside is mine." How the women are clever. And so the guards went and opened it. Inside was one boy. And he had no children, so that was that boy. And they came, messengers at home. And Ravana said, "What happened?" He said, "Yes, sir, little, little pieces." The fishes were happy, the fish was happy, and Ravana was laughing. "Vidhātā, I will catch you one day, on the day of my daughter’s wedding, I will show you. Ravana can change your return," so they... He went to that king, and they brought this boy, who was also now nearly 21, and she was 21, and they were all so angry with the king. They said, "After marrying, we will disappear." So they came, King, beautiful. The prince is beautiful, with great qualities. There is no husband for your daughter in the whole world. Good, yes, yes. Should we bring him to show you? No, no, don’t worry, don’t waste the time. Daughter is gone. Is it time to marry her? So they made a wedding ceremony. You know how the Asians are doing. When you know how to marry, then come to India with me. Yes. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Some people, one Indian married his daughter here in France and invited about 2,000 guests from India, so big hotels. And everyone, he gave them a present: one car. Love to his daughter, yes, and gave the private aeroplane to her husband for his daughter. How much they love the daughter. So lucky are they who are born as ladies. Unfortunately, you don’t need a car. Fortunately, you don’t need a car. You know, you have the car. Well, it was brought and accommodated somewhere for him. So King Rāvaṇa was sitting and drinking, and they had the whole street everywhere dancing, and a wedding ceremony was prepared. They brought the prince in the golden chair and said he will not walk. And he had so many, and put in the chair, and he was spitting something, so one was constantly cleaning him. And so, and made the wedding mantra everything, and that girl was looking, and she was walking behind his chair. Finished. Married. It took a few hours. They went again to the residence where they were accommodated. Morning, the Rāvaṇa said, "I want to see my son-in-law." So they said, "Yes, it will take one hour, two hours to prepare him to come here." Prince, he’s a prince, maybe. Maybe he’s shaving and this and that. And they brought him. And Vidhātā said to Rāvaṇa by words from the astral world, "Ravana, look to your son-in-law. In which side does he look, to you or to her? Look at his jaw, how is that? And look at his leg, which side he’s going, so this side and this side. He can’t get up." Vidhātā’s leg, right, will never, anyone can in this universe, remove. Rāvaṇa was very angry, but what can he do? So also it is said that when all nine planets, Rāvaṇa always said to all, "Be on good consolation towards me, otherwise I will squeeze you and make powder." Yes. When the king of the heaven, Indra, saw Rāvaṇa, Indra was running away. Such a great person he was, but because of his ignorance and proud ego, he kidnapped Sītā and wanted to have her as his wife, but he couldn’t manage that. He kidnapped her from India to Lanka, instead of Aśoka Vāṭikā. It was Hanumānjī who found her there, and then Rāma came. Rāma didn’t want to fight. Rāma only asked him respectfully, "Bring Sītā." And he didn’t want to. So today was that Rāvaṇa was killed, and it was not easy to kill him. So it is Rāvaṇa’s brother Sugrīva, not Sugrīva, Vibhīṣaṇa. Vibhishan was the only one bhakta in all of Lanka, and Vibhishan told Rama, "You cannot kill Ravana. Please, if it does not happen today, you cannot. His immortality is in the navel." So then Rāma shot the arrow into his navel, and Rāvaṇa died. Always, Rāvaṇa was talking very badly about Rāma. But at last his words came, "Sri Ram, a God." So even the Rākṣasas had to surrender. So the Satya, Satya Meva Jayate, the victory of that truth. So that Brahma Satya, Jagat Mithyā. So many things have happened from the creation until today. But there were people who were fighting from eye to eye, friends of each other. And now, saying, "That was different." So today in India they are burning the statue of Rāvaṇa. Ravana. Indian news was showing a lot about the victory of Rama. So it was the blessing of the Divine Mother. Navratri, nine days, God Rama, he and Hanumanjī and others were praying to their Divine Mothers. So honesty and humbleness, kindness and forgiveness, that is the great. Ego, pride and only me, this is our distraction. Humble, humble and humble. So this was today, the nine days of the Divine Mother. Constellation was longer; it should have happened yesterday. But today, until noon, was Divine Mother’s day. We also had pūjā in our Devpurījī Ashram, the temple, for nine days. I’d forgotten that I had to go to London, so in between, I took Matajī with me. And in London, I had also then the prayers and these pūjās. And the room cleaners came in the hotel and were looking, "What is this all? So many flowers and this." But in London they know, because there are many Indians there. So it was very nice, and here the pūjā continued. Today was the last day, so I had a bandārā with Sugunpurī. Sugunpuri came early morning. Was the pūjā nice, Sugunpuri? And so, I pray to Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī, Alagpurījī, and Divine Mothers to bless all of us and remove our Rakshasas from inside, as our ego, our pride, our anger, our jealousy, our hate. All these Rakshasas should be... A form of Rāvaṇa’s should go. Rāvaṇa has ten heads. How many? Ten heads. Because Rāvaṇa went to Śiva, to Brahmā, Brahmā or Śiva, and he wanted to become immortal. They said no, and he said, "Give me immortality. I offer my head." So there were stories; I don’t know completely. It’s a shame that I don’t know. So he cut his head and put it at the lotus feet of Brahmā. And again, a new head came. Again, he cut it and put it. Ten heads he offered. Nine he offered. Then the tenth one was offered, and then it was said, "Okay, you will be immortal." This immortality power, energy will be, I’m giving in your navel. So any part of the body was destroyed, again it came. But that immortality that was here, so when the arrow touched that, Rāvaṇa died. That’s beautiful, many, many stories. Many, many. They are nice, what you call the stories, histories. Definitely something. If not ten hairs, then at least ten hairs. No, hair is also head. But it is something that must be. It is not only out of the air that we write a story. So it was nice, the prayer to Almighty. It is within all of us; it doesn’t matter, male or female, all humans. And I pray for us, all of us, to remove our ten negative qualities. This is ten heads. And this is the heart of Nekike, or the Viṣaman, the Tumeḳof. So this all breathes in us: calm, krodha, mada, lobha, moha, ahaṅkāra, jealousy, hate, greed, and pride. These are the ten heads in us. Day one, head has to be given. Yes. So the symbol was given today, and the puja we made. And I am happy that today we can have the satsaṅg here. Now, after 20 days, Rāvaṇa is gone. But still, Rāma didn’t want to just now bring Sītā. It was many, many... Many things still, because he didn’t want to just be like a coward, kill him, and take Sītā and go away. No, it was the whole Lanka that came together, and it was with respect. Everything was done, so all the best. I hope that tomorrow will be webcast in the evening. If not, then we will have a webcast next Thursday? Tuesday? Okay, next Tuesday. I don’t know, but it will be announced. Amma Shree Ram Jai Jai... Ram, Amma Shree Jai Jai Ram, Amma Shree Ram Jai Jai Ram, Amma Shree Ram Jai Ram Jai Jai Ram, Amma Shree Ram Jai Ram, Amma Shree Ram Jai Ram Jai Jai Ram, Shri Ram Jaya Ram Jaya Jaya Ram. Shrī Rām Jayā Rām Jayā Jayā Rām, Shrī Rām Jayā Rām Jayā Rām, Shrī Rām Jayā Rām Jayā Rām... Śrī Rām Jaya Śrī Rām Jaya Śrī Rām Rām Candra Bhagavān Kī Jaya.