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Well, first of all, I would like to tell you and congratulate you. Today is the anniversary of our Yoga in Daily Life Mother Center in Vienna. For forty years the divine light, the eternal light, has been burning in Śikhaṇedra Gāse. Can you imagine the power of that light? It has spread throughout the whole world, and many bhaktas from around the world come there and have offered seva, service, for years, months, and days. Our Mother Center, which we call the Alakhpurījī Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā, is in Vienna, and it is a very historical place and organization. It is also home to the Śrī Svāmī Mādhavānandajī World Peace Council, an NGO registered in Austria. The Austrian government and especially the Austrian mission to the United Nations headquarters in New York were very helpful. They requested the government’s support, and the response was highly positive, with strong backing. So our Śrī Svāmī Mādhavānandajī World Peace Council is an NGO at the United Nations, promoting spirituality and supporting the UN. We also have two more NGOs at the UN: Yoga in Daily Life Australia and Yoga in Daily Life United America. With these three NGOs, we hold a special status, and our president serves as an official observer of public situations. All of this flows from Vienna, and the mother seat for Vienna is, of course, in India—the kingdom of Alakhpurījī. It balances together. Then there is Kailāsh Ashram, Devpurījī, Khattu, Barik Khattu, Bolaguda, Nipal, Jaipur, and now Jadan, as well as the Delhi Ashram in New Delhi. Austria, you know, is your neighboring country, and its supportive, good people. Vienna is a World Health Organization city and has many times been chosen as the best city for environment and quality of life—very often it comes up, competing with Vancouver, Vienna, and sometimes one other city in Europe. From our point of view, that is because there is little criminality and little pollution, good air, so nearly every second or third year Vienna is on the list. Next on the list is New Delhi, declared as polluted—but Jadan, our Jadan Ashram, is free of pollution. We try very hard there: water, trees, everything is very good. In the district of Pālī, there is a college with a very large area of land where functions gather thousands of people—ten, twenty, twenty-five, even forty thousand; for Indians, that is a small gathering. Just recently, our Śrī Svāmī Om Śrī Alakhpurījī Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā donated funds for a thousand trees in that area, a considerable amount of money. Over five years, these trees will grow; a tree guard will water them and look after them, with different varieties planted. If a tree dies, we replace it with a new one. When I was last there, we planted one peace tree, and the thousand trees followed. I gave the park the name Shanti Park, the peace park. The cost was about eight to ten thousand euros, donated by our organization. In this way, we are active everywhere. This year, please give the numbers of how many trees you have planted or what you have been doing that is good for the environment—that would be very good. This divine light in Vienna, Śikhaṇedra Dhārgāse, has been burning for forty years continuously. It is said that after twelve years of unbroken light, it is called a mini-yuga, and so this light holds power. When we have darśan, we pray for our wish fulfillment, for health, and for spirituality; that is the divine light. It is the light of Gurudeva: “Jyot se jyot jagā denā”—light is awakened from light. So that light shines in my heart from our ashram, Śikhaṇedra Dhārgāh. Many, many people come from far-distant countries to have darśan there. We have now transferred the light to Gurujī’s āśram, which you also know, and that light is there as well. But Śikhaṇedra Gāse is Śikhaṇedra Gāse. Holī Gurujī came to Vienna three times and stayed there. He stayed for one or two months, once one and a half months or two months, in Hemlata’s house. Because it has three floors of climbing, and Gurujī had a knee problem, this heritage house is not allowed to have a lift. It is historical, so there is enough space—it could hold a lift for twenty people—but until now they have said no, no, and no. Many of you know it; you have been there. If not, you should go there and have darśan. Thus that light encircles the whole world. Since I came to Europe, thousands and thousands of people have received mantra blessings. And our Vienna bhaktas, they are taking very good care—people from ex-Yugoslavia, Slovaks, Czechs, Austrians, Americans, so many, many bhaktas. Today is the anniversary, and we thank our Austrian bhaktas. A seed takes time to grow into a large tree. This spiritual seed has grown so large it now covers the whole globe. Thanks to all of you, and I admire you, and I am very happy that you realized this and helped so much to bring people to this divine light. Many systems and changes, many people change their path, many things happen, but you all kept together because you understood what Mahāprabhujī, Gurujī, Devpurījī, and now Alakhpurījī are. So in your mind, in your thoughts, in your acts, in your words, and in your feelings, it is always satsaṅg. And so you inspire others. Of course, everyone has household duties; you have your work, but you are on your path. And it was a long time. Can you imagine forty years? Three or four years before that, it was not our ashram. Someone else had an ashram, but they could not take care of it and left. They invited me and gave it to me. Then, after one and a half or two years, I left India. Everything was closed, but there were so many people, friends, disciples, and I said I would not come back any more—and if I did come, I would make our own ashram, but I did not want to come back. And then it took me one or two years; we established an ashram in Śikhaṇedra Gāzī. It was a great support for those territories of the Soviet Union and also for ex-Yugoslavia, so they are all here now. It was not as easy as we may think today. In India, we used to ask Gurudev, “Are you doing bhakti? Or sādhanā?” And Gurujī said, “My body knows. This tapasyā is not easy.” It is hard for the body; there are many disappointments, many different conflicts about culture and religion. But this is life. It is like this: when you make one saṅkalpa—physically, mentally, socially, spiritually, financially—you keep on with your saṅkalpa. And so that light will always be with you, and that is very nice to know. Hezké vědět. Let us sing one bhajan. Which bhajan shall we sing? One bhajan we shall sing, okay? “Bhajo re man, Vāsarī Prabhudīp.” This bhajan says—the meaning of this bhajan is—whatever obstacles come or anything, forget it. Just repeat the name of Mahāprabhujī. Concentrate on Mahāprabhujī, and all will be okay, because Mahāprabhujī is the divine incarnation, and he is outside and inside, divinely equal. So this bhajan is very good. Holī Gurujī wrote this bhajan. So today our Gajānandajī decided to sing again. So: Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Alakhpurījī Mahādev Kī Jai, Devpurījī Bhagavān Kī Jai, Sanātana Rāmaṇa. Doing positive work means having an interest in all creatures and for the vegetation, as well as keeping the rivers clean. Many don’t know because they are educated in that way. But if love awakens in the heart towards every creature, then the light of God shines in the heart. It doesn’t matter if you wear a particular uniform—a uniform of some monk, or a priest, or a paṇḍit, or a swāmī, etc., or are a normal person, or bhaktas. One very clear thing is this: if we take blood out of our finger for measuring blood sugar, even if you test every day, you still feel pain. Maybe some of you don’t feel it because you don’t do it, and I hope you will not do it. So any kind of pain is not pleasant, and imprisoning someone or killing someone is not easy. Now, someone came to me who was in the Far East somewhere, and there was some kind of exhibition or something in Far Asia, and I asked her how it was. She said, “Yes, it was, but...” I said, “What is the ‘but’?” Mostly only meat. And fish. Fish is also meat. Now, you have definitely seen sometimes that when fish is caught out of the water, first they throw some kind of hook. Can you imagine something? Someone throws a hook in your throat and then pulls you out of the water. So how much is this creature, the fish, suffering? Suffering, suffering... and then he dies. That fish doesn’t die once; it dies every second from that minute when the hook comes in the throat. So the throat can be human, elephant, dog, cat, cow, buffalo, anyone. Now, there is one word which I don’t like, and this has been developing over the last few centuries. And we are living for some decades. When we call it “humanitarian,” and it is said that service to humanity is the greatest service—okay, for lectures it is good for people listening. But what is behind this? Now, people think, the children think, it is said that when there is nothing to eat, then to survive, you may do anything. Otherwise, you have no right to eat or kill any life. God gave you life. And no one listens. We call them mukha prāṇī—except the humans. Mukha prāṇī means they can’t speak to you. They can’t tell you, “Please don’t do this to me,” because you don’t understand, and they scream. It’s not easy to let them cut the neck. And so it’s not easy to take a fish out and just kill it. So it doesn’t matter how much you keep talking and telling the arguments that you can do. “My religion doesn’t prohibit. We can do.” What a religion! Don’t bring religion between. It’s a question between life and death, and the pain. That’s it. That’s called torturing. That’s called hiṃsā. And that should not be. We are human. And we should understand the pain of others, but many don’t know. They are not taught, and they don’t think. They bring a life—one piece—into the kitchen. And they hold it and with a knife cut it. Can you imagine? How can you bring yourself to see this act? Therefore, I can see you are a saint. You understood, and you are vegetarian. You don’t kill. And so I can tell you, you are standing at the door of the Brahmaloka, on the waiting list. So take care and wait. Your number will come to Brahmaloka, and you will get to Brahman, but run slowly. Slowly, because sometimes we can’t tell somebody directly; they do not have that compassion. It is just better, it is said, to save means to save. Protection is in protection. If you want to protect yourself, then you protect others. So if you want to drive and make an accident, then you will die and the other one will die also. So if you want to protect yourself, then first protect others too. So it is. It is not a question of eating what you eat. Sooner or later you will die, and me too. But that kind of food, where one has to offer their life—Parampitā Parameśvara will not forget or forgive. There is only one God. There are not many gods; we call them human. There is only one human, so it is okay how many males and females there are, but the one, that is because the humans. So similarly, it is God himself too. Can you imagine? In boiling water, they catch a cat and dip it in the boiling water, and after two to three minutes, they take it out and put it in ice-cold water. Then they take it out, like this, and the whole skin comes off. And they left this cat in the cold water. And she’s inside, still she’s alive, still, like this, breathing and dying. If we are in hot water, and one drop comes on our hand, we say, “Ah!” So, the bhajan is... I know, I know. Pew, pew, papaya bole. Yeah? Yeah? There is one bhajan. Do I add in bhajan? Yeah, yeah, but it’s not, okay? Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān. Sat Guru Sat Saṅghīyārī. First, let the singer sing; we don’t know which melody he or she will sing. And if we immediately begin to sing with, then we spoil or make angry the singer. Then the singer will say, “Okay, you sing.” I know. So first, let the singer sing a little, and then after, we will join. Okay? So you must have good nerves to hold back. This is a beautiful bhajan from Mahāprabhujī, and you know it all, mostly. Mahāprabhujī said, “I’m longing for all my friends, bhaktas of the satsaṅg.” So Mahāprabhujī said, “I’m looking forward to, or longing for, my satsaṅgī.” There are many swans, but the Paramahaṁsa swan is very rare. We cannot realize who is a Paramahaṁsa, but that Paramahaṁsa does not eat fish or different things—only the pearl which is lying on the bottom, and also there is one bird. At a particular time, this month now, and she is suffering, thirsting to drink the water, but only that which falls directly into her mouth. So, like this, such satsaṅgs are rare. In satsaṅg is pure prāṇa. And we all are longing for those drops—means those words of the nectar, words of the wisdom. We all yearn for those pure drops of rain, that is, for those pure words of wisdom, for that nectar. Mahāprabhujī said, “Fortunate are they who can come to satsaṅg.” Don’t miss the satsaṅg, but there is karma. What is the strength of your jīva, soul? Has it not that power? When the satsaṅg comes, then the khal, the life, the death, the karma gives a slip on the cheek—that’s a karmic slip. It turns your face in another direction, from the good side to the bad side. Satguru Satsaṅgī Olu Avere. Today is finished. I wish you all the best, and especially our bhaktas. Blessing. Požehnání. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān. Dev Purīṣa Bhagavān. Alakh Purījī Mahādevak, Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān, Satya Sanātana Dharma, Bhārat Mātākī, Oṁ Śānti, Śānti, Śāntiḥ. Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Śrī Svāmī Maheśvarānandajī, Gurujī, Devakī, Jai.