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Oṁ is the origin of the universe. It is the first movement, the first vibration through which the whole creation is created; that is the first Oṁ. And that Oṁ is within us. We only need to be aware of that. We should have the awareness, and we should use the prāṇa, which is within us, with the support of the breath. That sound of the Oṁ is dormant at the Maṇipūra Cakra. The sound begins from the navel: Akāra, Ukāra, and Makāra. These are the three letters, the three sounds and the levels of the sounds. Parā is in the navel, Paśyantī is in the throat at the Viśuddhi, and Vaikharī is at the vocal cords. These three sounds, this one which created the three, are called Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva. And also the three guṇas: Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas, through these three qualities. This sound, which is Oṁ, is with us all the time in all the three worlds: past, present, and future. Our future, our destiny, our fate, is in the womb of the past, the mother’s body. The foundation of our future is in the past. The present is where we should work, so that we go in the right direction. To go in the right direction is not easy. Lucky are they who can remain on the right path. When you find a seed, still you don’t know what kind of seed that is. We should have that viveka to acknowledge, to understand, and to realize: what kind of seed is that we are planting? The seed is from the past, and in the present it will be sprouting. But the result of the fruits will be in the future. When the roots are in our hands, then we are connected to the entire tree. So, our tree is called our spiritual lineage. Our spiritual end, our family lineage—yes, we have our roots in the very distant past. And we have to achieve that fruit. Through that fruit, we will create many, many seeds: the good seeds. When we plant the thorn bushes, we can’t expect the apple there. Always, the thorn will be a thorn. And this thorn bush is like a kuśaṅga and blackmailing. It is hard to continue the path, but the Oṁ, that sound will guide us. That is in our consciousness. That is dormant in our past. Yes, the past is the mother, and that mother will never lose the seeds. Mother Earth will never lose the seeds. Similarly, our destiny, the seeds of our destiny are in the past. We shall continue our sādhanā. In our sādhanā, don’t think only, "I want to have self-realization. I want to get this and that." Your progress will be slow, very slow. But if you go into the past and think of that past, your progress will be clear and faster. You see, it’s like an arrow, an arch, and an arrow. When you pull the arrow back more, with full energy, and then you release it, that is how quickly it will go. As much as you will research your past, the clear consciousness, the clear direction will be very fast. Unfortunately, in this modern civilization, we lost the past, we are confused in the present, and the future is in darkness. But still, there is a truth that will not get lost, that Satya will remain, that Brahman is the reality; all else is only temporary. So that Oṁ chanting will vibrate in each and every cell of the body. Each and every hair of the body will begin to radiate that sound, the light, the purity, the peace. Oṁ is a very beautiful and powerful mantra. And without Oṁ, mantra is nothing. Without Oṁ, the tree which has no seeds—without the seed, you cannot grow. So that Oṁ is the seed in all this: past, present, and future; Parā, Paśyantī, and Vaikharī in our consciousness. So that Oṁ is the reality. It is not connected to dogmas. It is that sound. What you speak is Oṁ. What you feel is Oṁ. Where you look is Oṁ. It is everywhere. As far as you go, you will have more and more. It is filtered in this mortal world. How? Much noise we created, how much pollution we created, but as far as we go beyond this solar system, that Oṁ will be more and more intensive, more clear. So the universe is not only without sound, and it is that sound which keeps it together; that is yoga. So let’s feel the chanting of the Oṁ from the navel ascending to the Viśuddhi and vocal cords: Parā, Paśyantī, and Vaikharī. So, when we chant Oṁ, we have to hold that the roof doesn’t go up. Yes, so it will, your prāṇa will open, open your lungs. So, now, deep inhale. Deep inhale and exhale. Inhale and exhale. Close your eyes. Be relaxed. Keep the body straight. Keep your body straight and relax. Transcendent contraction of the stomach, the prāṇa and apāna in the navel. When we chant Oṁ, the sound is ascending towards the brain, towards the Sahasrāra Cakra. And in three parts, it divides into three parts. One, the major part of the Oṁ goes into the space. Second, it goes and vibrates in the whole body. And the third turns from the Sahasrāra Cakra and through the Suṣumnā Nāḍī into our Anāhata Cakra, or in our heart. So, prepare with all your prāṇāyāma. Five times chanting for the five jñāna-indriyas, to strengthen the jñāna-indriyas through which we gain the viveka, and through the viveka, the vairāgya. Then we will discover the inner treasure, the sat-sampati. And then we will have that burning desire to become free: Mokṣa, the desire, the wish. "Oh Lord, when will I be free from this worldly life, worldly troubles?" Jñāna Yoga. And achieve that which we should achieve in or through human life. So now you can change your Vajrāsana, if you want to change, and make yourself comfortable. I know you were comfortable, but you can make it more comfortable. Nice to see you all, and the year is passing very quickly. The year 2015 is already finishing. And 2016 is standing in front of the door. What does this mean for us all? What have you learned in this one year? What did you achieve in this one year? How was your practice in this one year? What realization did you get? Day by day, time passes. Where was your sādhanā? One year, 365 days, is not a little. So that is the evidence. That’s a clear answer. Why did I not get realization? Why did I not achieve this? Do not ask me. Ask thyself. Don’t say, "Master, what I do, why I didn’t realize?" Master will say, "It will be, don’t worry. Practice." Next year, try more. So everything depends on us. We should not stop the sādhanā. The sādhanā is the best thing that we can do in our life. And like an Oṁ, without Oṁ there is no mantra; the mantra is fruitless. And so also, without practice there is no achievement, and because there is no power of the master. And master’s power means not that present master. It is from the many, many ages. Like we are fortunate ones. We got our Alakhpurījī Siddha Pīṭha. The name itself has some quality. The weight, the clarity, the evidence is the Alaknandā River. And you know that our dear Svāmī Śāntī, Dr. Śāntī, has been researching in the Himalayas for the last 10 years, researching the Alakhpurījīs. She went a few times to the cave of Alakhpurījī, the cave of Devpurījī, and she is writing about this. It’s not that I tell her to write this and that, but she is writing what she experienced. One day, two years ago, the doctor Śāntī said that she had a darśan of Alakhpurījī towards that Nīlakaṇṭha Mahādeva or the valley of Alakhpurījī. Śrī Alakh Purījī, Alakh Purījī is the tall, the welly. But still, she can’t collect or resemble his exact form. But she is working on this. I would say blessed and lucky is the Śāntī. And through her words, her explanation, we can do many things. So this, where we are, it is not only extraordinary. It is not something only of the dogma. So, you and I and all others are so lucky that we have found the path, the route, and the origin. And now, surely we will achieve and arrive where we want. But practice. Practice, practice. Another thing, because we do not practice, we are not certain in our heart. People have fear, and fear comes from ignorance, anger, hate, jealousy, conflict, greed, passion. All this comes from ignorance, and to remove the ignorance, there is only one key: the knowledge, the light of knowledge, the light of wisdom. If you have a feeling of being offended, that if somebody tells something then you are offended, you have achieved nothing. Read the Bhagavad Gītā, 12th chapter, every day, every day, and you will get it every day. New inspiration, and you will get clarity where the few ślokas of the Bhagavad Gītā at the last, what God says: "O Arjuna, he who is not longing for the lost and for success, that one is dear to me. Who has equal vision toward the enemy and the friend, that is dear to me." Why is the enemy there? Ignorance on both sides. That’s it. So read the 12th chapter of the Bhagavad Gītā, it will become very, very clear. Uncertain thoughts create fear. Many people have problems with phobias. So that those who have a phobia cannot go out of the house. And many people have many troubles. Because of ignorance and fear, how do we come out of this fear? Sādhanā, mantra. Holy Gurujī gave us so much. I have told many times that we are very rich, very, very rich, because our masters were so rich, and they gave us all the richness through the bhajans. Each bhajan has so much richness, answers to everything. "Nirvairāḥ Niśaṅkakavimatād Ātum Nirv Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān." So Devpurījī, Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī, and our Satguru Dev, Svāmī Madhavānandajī, what we call Holy Gurujī. Devpurījī, Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī, Śrī Devpurījī, Holy Gurujī, they have not forgotten us. Holy Gurujī said that when Mahāprabhujī left this body, Gurujī was very sad. So Mahāprabhujī appears and tells him, "As long as I was in a physical body, I was with you, but since I left it... the physical body, I am within you." And so our Satguru Devāṅg, Satguru is only after when one died, after Mahāsamādhi. Yes, Bhaktas call their master Satguru. But it’s not like that. You should say Gurudev. You should say, "Gurudev, my Gurudev, supreme, highest, everything." But the Satguru is coming when He takes samādhi. So, when Holy Gurujī said bhajan, Gurujī said, "Teri Satguru Rakela Cintāmaṇi Karna." Who? Mahāprabhujī is protecting us. So, that means, don’t think that Gurujī died and now there is nobody who will guide us. Now he is more in you. When you all were on the way today, I was with you in you. What have you been thinking? "We are going to Vip. We will have a satsaṅg. We will see Svāmījī." So as long as you think I am within you, and the same thing, I was thinking to see you, so you were within me. When we go to a holy place, if we go to Kathu, or Kedārnāth, Badrināth, we are aware of that. And when we come there, we become ourselves, Badrināth. Badrināth, the vibration purifying our antaḥkaraṇa: mana, buddhi, citta, ahaṅkāra. So, at the end of the writing of the holy book, the Rāmāyaṇa, Śrī Tulsīdhārajī—you know Tulsīdhārajī because you know the Rāmāyaṇa—Śrī Tulsīdhārajī, he was a great, great bhakta, so he wrote about one day, Rāma had a little problem, a sketch, or someone came to him and asked, "I have this and this problem. How to solve it?" Now listen carefully. He writes the Tulsīdāsī, and he wrote in the poem. The whole Rāmāyaṇa is a poem, not a written text like a letter. The whole Holy Rāmāyaṇa is a poem. Also, the Bhagavad Gītā is in Sanskrit language, śloka, like a poem. And the biggest, the greatest Holy Book ever to have been written is Śrīmad Bhāgavatam. You know how many thousand ślokas are in Sanskrit? No one has written until today. Read that. What you find here in the market, Śrī Mādhav Bhāgavatam, is a very little part. I think they call it, if I’m not wrong, 18,000 ślokas or 16,000 ślokas. I have to remember myself alone. If you can read this in Sanskrit, you become yourself Bhagavān. Those are books. Perhaps there are some of you who have not even read the entire Bible, or who have not read the Old Testament, and also the entire Quran. Reading completely is nothing; understanding is everything. So, Śrī Mādhav Bhāgavatam, that is a beautiful thing. And similarly, before God Rāma, the one Rāmāyaṇa is written in Sanskrit. Vālmīki, the great saint Vālmīki. The Sanskrit, people had a problem to learn. And remember, Tulsīdhārajī wrote in the local language, and that is now read more by people. So, you know, in the whole world, where the Indians are or many other people, they know the Tulsīdhārajī Rāmāyaṇa. So, Tulsīdharjī had a realization of God Rāma. So, he writes something to remove the fear and fulfill the wish. And I was thinking that this weekend I will translate that little booklet for you. It is 40 ślokas or poems. And that’s called Hanumān Chālīsā. You know what Hanumān is? Who knows? Raise your hand. Oh my God. And whoever doesn’t know, raise your hand. Okay, one. You will come to know. People think Hanumānjī was a monkey. We do call the monkey God. But Hanumānjī was born in the mountains, in the forest. So he was like a tribe, and they told like he looked like a monkey. So also we always make a picture of Hanumānjī like a monkey. And that book is called Hanumān Chālīsā, the forty ślokas. You will enjoy singing. Beautiful. Tomorrow we will do it, and then your fear will go away. And for the students, it’s very useful. Once a day in the morning, you should repeat. It takes about five to ten minutes, not even ten minutes. And especially when you have an examination, then you will see how great it is. All fears, nervousness, and anxiety will disappear. So, the great saints have left so many things for us. We can be so happy. We can be so rich. We can live in harmony. We can live in peace. All these wars going on are not necessary. Go back to our ancestors, to our spiritual lineages. They gave for the well-being of humanity’s future. So this is a Christmas present for you, and you will work on that, and you will learn that. While driving a car, you can just chant. It is very good. Hanumānjī will protect. There are many mantras, so it is true, and Hanumanjī is the incarnation, he was Śiva. Hanumanjī was the incarnation of Lord Śiva. Once, Śiva comes, and Viṣṇu comes as a bhakti. And when Viṣṇu comes, then Śiva comes as bhakti. Śiva is meditating on Viṣṇu, and Viṣṇu meditates on Śiva. Both are great. We will not understand them. We can’t understand their divine play. So, antaḥkaraṇa we have to clean, purify it. And then Holy Gurujī wrote one Satguru Chalīsā, which you should also know. These are very useful mantras. They give you success. So, I’m so happy to see you today. Welcome, you all. Köszöntelek mindnyájatokat. And tomorrow’s program is as usual. Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Devīśvara Mahādeva, Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān.