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Oṁ Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinaḥ, Sarve Santu Nirmāyāḥ, Sarve Bhadrāṇi Paśyantu, Mā Kaścid Duḥkha Bhāgbhavet, Oṁ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ. Deep Dharm Bhagavān Kī, Salutation to the Cosmic Light, Lord of our Hearts, Omniscient and Omnipresent. In His Divine Presence, good evening, dear brothers and sisters, and also all our dear brothers and sisters around the world. Some have morning, some have noon, and some have midnight. I wish you all the best, and to those having a birthday, I wish you a happy birthday. This blessing is coming to you from New Zealand, Australia, the Australian Association of Yoga in Daily Life, and the ashram in Brisbane, the Yoga in Daily Life Ashram. Welcome to all of you. I thank our brother, Mr. Clem, for his beautiful work and for dedicating his time for the benefit of this globe, especially working with the Green Cross and the Earth Charter. The Earth Charter is an NGO recognized by the United Nations and is appreciated around the whole world. I have also attended some events with him, including with the previous president of the Soviet Union, Mr. Gorbachev. Dear brothers and sisters, we are here in a Yoga in Daily Life center. What does Yoga in Daily Life mean, and what is it doing in the world? It is not just movements, gymnastics, or an exercise center. This organization is not only aimed at physical exercises and establishing clubs or centers around the world. Yoga in Daily Life has a very unique aim and a system which leads toward physical, mental, social, and spiritual health, as well as God consciousness or self-realization. As Brother Clem just told about the work which Greenpeace, the Green Cross, and the Earth Charter are doing—that is not only what we call helping, but that is spiritual work. I always say, helping hands have more value than folded hands. Those who are, for example, supporting this ashram, this center, are doing for themselves a great work, a great spiritual work. A big organization like the Earth Charter is not paying someone; all are doing volunteer work, and they are happy to do something for this world. Everyone is doing for their families, but they are rare who do for all other families. And so, do something, of course, according to your capacity, your time, possibilities, and facilities, something for all creatures, including our vegetation, the environment, the rivers, the lakes, and also the ocean. The Green Cross is working very much for the purification of the ocean and the protection of sea life. This evening, the subject is given: Finding Peace Within Thyself. Yes, it's beautiful, but the question is this: is peace somewhere outside? No, peace is within you. Peace begins from your own heart, and charity begins from your own home. Peace we did not lose; it is not lost. It is there. But now, in this turbulent time, in this modern busy time, in this technological age, we are too much oriented outside, concentrating on the outer world for our business, so-called business. What are you going to do with your business? What are you going to do with your money? Did a businessman have some clear vision, except this: how much money do I have in my bank? If I am a millionaire or billionaire or trillionaire, or however much, what we call... All so-called rich people who work very hard to earn money—if they would help the people on this globe, no one would suffer. And those poor people and animals would bless them. And that would be the greatest thing in their life they can have, and they will get it in another life again. It is said, one story told by one imām last month. We had a multi-religious dialogue at the National Catholic University in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. There was one imām too, and he said something. Many people were going to heaven or paradise. But there was one man; always when he came to heaven or paradise, the door was closed. So he came and asked his master, "Why does it happen that when I come, the door is closed? I'm a good person, I have everything, I'm not poor, and so on. I did good things in the world also, not only looking at how my business is growing." He asked, "Did you ever give a donation?" "No, why should I give a donation?" "No. Have you money?" "Of course I have money." "Where the money is an obstacle. Money is your obstacle, that you can't come to heaven." "What should I do then?" "Go and give the poor people money, give." You know, to get money out of the businessman's pocket, it's not so easy. But he agreed, and he went into the market and said, "Come, I give you money. Take, give me money," and so on. He began to just give his money for charity, for humanitarian work, and for poor families, and so on. After ten days, he came back to the master. He said, "Master, I can't get rid of my money." He said, "What do you mean?" "There's something happening. What? I give $100, and in my bank there are $500. I give $200,000, and in my bank is $1,200,000. Multiplying, what should I do?" He said, "That's it. If you give one, God will give you two, and if you give two, He will give you four." And then it will multiply and multiply, and that will also open the door to heaven. And therefore, rare are they who have that heart to open and give to someone who needs, or to such organizations. Everyone is working for the family, for their children, and building their own family house. But there are some people who build the humanitarian centers, and there are some people who give them some donations. The homeless people, they get so-called the soup, the monastery soup. The homeless people get three times food: breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And there are people working hard, and there are people who give and send donations. That is the best thing you can do, to give something to the hungry one. It doesn't matter, human or animal. This is the best you can do: try to help or cure the pain. It doesn't matter, through medicine or injections, or through your mantra or healing powers. It's beautiful to give water to a thirsty person. Or it doesn't matter if it's a plant. Do you know when you go for a one-week holiday somewhere and you come home, and your house plants are hanging like this? And you know what you are doing first? I hope that you are doing. I do mostly, always, and I see the people, they open the door, they put their suitcase, they go to the kitchen, take the water can, and first give to these plants water. And then, changing their dress or whatever they do, within five minutes, the plant stands up and smiles to you. Is that true? Did you experience something like that? Beautiful. Even the plants will bless you, thirsty. To quench the thirst, just one drop means a lot. One drop will fill the pot. So Yoga in Daily Life is working for world peace, working for humanitarian projects and helping the poor people, providing some medicines and education for the poor children without any conditions. We don't even ask their name and address. Because people are scared that some people come and give the money, take their address, and this and that, and change their beliefs. And so people are frightened by this way of working, what they call the missionaries; it doesn't matter which religion. And we are also having the animal shelters for poor animals. A man can tell you, "I'm unhappy, I'm hungry, I'm thirsty, I have pain here, I have fever." But to whom and how will the animals tell? And to help them is the greatest thing. Mother doesn't matter if it's an animal's mother, or a human mother, or a bird's mother. Mother is mother. When she sees her children are suffering, then the mother's womb is suffering with them. She carried that embryo in her body for so many months, and she fed it from her own body, and gave birth to a beautiful child. Doesn't matter if they're human children or animals' babies. So I used to say, feed them, love them, but don't eat them. Don't feed them with such a kind of thinking that the chicken will be thick and big, so that when the next guest comes, you have a big meal. That love is not a love. That is a disappointment, that you cause the biggest or the greatest pain to that creature. First you love, you feed, you take care, and then you come with the knife and catch it. Can you imagine, with a knife you just cut the neck of that innocent animal? Thou shalt not kill. So this pain, this suffering, this karma will come to them, those who keep them for this purpose. Those who sell them and those who want to eat them. Karma, pain, that will reflect, come back to us. Love without condition, health without expectations, that will again awake the divine peace and divine bliss in your heart. Peace is in your heart. It depends on you if you can awake it or not. That's why I always call peace. Peace is in your hands. Peace is in your hands. Yes, there is one story. There is a small, nice story that peace is in your hands. There was one master, and many disciples used to come to his lectures, darśans, and satsaṅgs, asking many questions. And the master always gives the answer. But there was one man, or one disciple, who inside was always jealous of the master. Why or how does the master know everything? Whatever we ask, he gives the answer. He never said, "No, I don't know." At home, he decided, "Today I will ask the question to the master, and I'm sure he will not know the answer, and when he will say, 'I don't...' Now then, I have a chance to say, my dear master, sometimes even you don't know." So the disciple, he wanted to show the master a little. Now he had a nice bird nest in his garden, and he threw one mate and caught a small bird. He took the bird in his hand and went to the master's ashram. Nobody knows what he has in his hands. He entered the door where the Master was sitting and giving some lectures, and he held his hands on the back and said, "Good morning, my beloved Gurudev. I love you, my Master." Master said, "Yes, I love you too." "My Master, you are the greatest one." He said, "God is great." "No, no,... Master, you are. How wise you are. You are the knower of everything, Master. Oh, I am proud to be your disciple, Master. But you know, Master, always I am stupid. Always I have some funny question for you. And you know how proud I am that you give all the answers. I know, Master, that you know, though I know that you know, but still. I would like to know, if you know, I have one question, sir." Today, master said, "Yes, my son, what question have you?" "It's very simple, master. Everyone knows, maybe, but you are a master. You can say, can you tell, master, what I have in my hands? It's hidden on my back, Master." Said, "Yes, my son, you have a small bird in your hand." Inside, he said, "How does he know?" And outside, he said, "Oh, my Master, I know that you know everything. How great, how great, Master." Inside, he was thinking, "This time, I... I will ask him again one question. Whatever he will say, I will have a chance to say, 'No, that's not correct. You are wrong, Master.' He can't escape." So he said, "Master, I have one last question, please." He said, "Yes, go ahead." "Yes, sir, you are right that in my hands I have one small bird." Then he was thinking, "I will ask the master if the bird is alive or dead." If the master will say, "Bird is life," Squint my fist, that the bird will die, and I will say, "Sorry, sir, it is a dead bird. It is not a life." And if he will say the bird is dead, I will just let it fly and say, "Sorry, sir, it's a lie." "Sir, you are correct. But my last question: is the bird alive or a dead bird, which is in my hands?" Master said, "My son, this question I cannot answer." "Why not, Master? You know everything. Why do you try just to escape? Answer, please. You know, I know that you know." He said, "Yes, I know, but I cannot answer." "Why not, sir?" "Because, my child, the life of the bird depends on your hands." If she is alive or dead, he let fly the bird and he surrendered. Similarly, peace is in your heart. Peace is within you. Within you is the ocean of bliss. Within you is the fountain of joy, and within you is the peace of the heavens, the sky. Kill this little I, your ego, and lead a divine life. Great Swami Sivanandaji said of Rishikesh. And so the peace is here in our Anāhata Chakra. But who lost the peace, or who doesn't dare to go and find the peace? Who is a guilty one? A guilty one is always, always in doubt and in fear. He or she knows when something can happen that I will be punished. A thief is always; the heart of the thief is always full of fear. And the peace is suffering. In a small village, the time was of the kingdoms, not a democracy. Thanks to God, in the world, many countries have a democracy. They have a free voice, human rights. But that time was the kings. They were also nice, taking care of their kingdoms. The king, in his village, someone stole something. And the king was very sad about that. Why? Where was the necessity that someone was stealing something? Just come to me. I will give cloth, food, land, whatever they want. Why have they stolen from some poor person? And the king tried and tried to find out who the thief was. No one agreed that I am the thief. So the thief doesn't say easily, "I am the thief," or, "I am a guilty one." The guilty one always tries to hide. It's called the aggressive and negative creatures, including the thieves. They always tried to hide in darkness. Two years passed, and they didn't find the thief. One day, one master came, and the king welcomed the master, gave him a place in his palace, and organized a satsaṅg like this. After two days, the king asked the master, "Master, I cannot sleep peacefully. Why? What happened? You see, I try to do my best to keep my people happy. No one should starve, no one should be poor, everyone should have everything, but still there is one thief, and we can't find him or catch him. Can you, Master, meditate and find who is the thief? I will not punish him. I will give him so much that there is no need for him to steal again. But you know, Mahatma Gandhi jī said, 'Mother Earth has enough for everyone's need, but not for the greed.' A greedy man is never happy and never has enough." Master said, "Well, I don't know if through my meditation I will search a thief, but I will help you to find out." "That's what I need, master, doesn't matter which way, but find it. Tomorrow, call all the men of your village and surrounding villages and have a nice meeting, a satsaṅg." So when the king invites, who doesn't go? All men went there, and it was a big open-air program. There were about 5,000 people sitting. The stage was very high. The Mahā Swāmījī gave a lecture, and then the king stood up and said to everyone, "My citizens of this kingdom, I welcome you, and we are so blessed that Swāmījī is here, our Gurudev. And we have the opportunity to hear the wise words from him, which will help us, in our life, to continue our spirituality. Swamiji has some very extraordinary power. Some divine visions and something that he can see what we don't see. I ask Swamiji, 'We have one thief in this village, and we can't find him.' If some of you are here, I will not call you a thief, but you needed it and you took it away. So please raise your hand or stand up. I promise you that I will not punish you." Everyone was just looking to the king, like you are looking to me. And you know, when Swāmījī will find, I don't know in which way he will find. Maybe pleasant, unpleasant, but the thief is sitting very peacefully, half-closed eyes, looking a little bit up, closing eyes, and again looking up. Guilty one is never peaceful. And the guilty one becomes, then, the troublemaker. There are some people who, if they don't create trouble, can't sleep. And the whole day passed, they had no opportunity to make trouble for someone. Then, before going to sleep, we'll make a telephone call and tell someone something bad. And say, "Wow, this is so... oh, God." And say, "Yes, it is like this." And put the telephone off and sleep. That's called a troublemaker. And that troublemaker will never, ever be happy. And in the next life, you will be a hungry crocodile. That's it, or a water frog? The thief didn't answer. No one said that I bought it. The king said, "My Gurudev, please, can you help us to help that person? There is one thief, and we don't know who he is. If among this one, please find out. We will give him more; we will not give punishment in your..." Presence Master stood up and made, we don't know what he's doing, but you know, it's a psychology. Then he put the king on the top of the king's head. Good. Then, "Okay, look, the turban of the thief is burning. The turban of the thief is burning." And who was the thief? There, made like this, and you will find in your heart the peace. First step, in yoga we have this: Yoga in Daily Life, self-inquiry meditation. And self-inquiry meditation means not "Who am I?" The aim of self-inquiry is "Who am I?" I am not body, I am not mind, I am not emotion, I am not the thoughts, but who am I? I am Ātmā. But here, the first step is not "Who am I?" but "How am I?" What is your inner chapter? Yesterday we spoke, Svādhyāya. How good you are and how negative you are. Sometimes we are not aware that we are negative. There is one person, I don't want to tell the name, and also countries, it can be Australia, it can be Austria, it can be India, or it can be anywhere, or Germany, or England, or anywhere. A lady, about 55 years old, used to come to the yoga, and she said to the people, "Oh, my child, how are you? Nice." She tried to get into the heart of the person and tried to get the information from this person. And then tell me, what's your problem? What disturbs you? Now tell me, and tell me, and tell me. I will tell nobody, you know. Trust me, I’m like your mother. And then you open your heart and say, “I did this and that,” or, “That one did this and that.” She did this and this to me. And she listens and listens, and after half an hour of talking, she puts the telephone down and calls somebody: “Oh my god, this crazy person called me, talking for half an hour about all his problems.” There are some people like this. So Mahāprabhujī said in his golden preaching in the Līlāmṛta: Do not tell the feelings of your heart to anyone unless you know that person well. Now, how should you know if this person is good or bad? Every day, the person is feeding a chicken, and one day, he traps the chicken in a small room, catches it, and kills it. So there are many people like this in the world, full of intrigue. So go into your heart and ask yourself: How many people did I disappoint? To how many innocent people did I try to create problems? What is wrong with me that my neighbors are not happy with me? What is the trouble? What is bad in me that my colleagues do not like me? There are some people constantly changing their job. They come and tell Swamijī, “I lost my job. I don’t know what to do.” I said, “Why?” They say, “They are such terrible people. They don’t like me. They are negative.” Okay, find another job. The same thing happens. It cannot be that everyone is terrible. So Gurū Nānak said: I went into this world to see bad things, bad persons, but I didn’t find anyone bad. Then I searched in my heart; there was no one worse than me. So all the troubles we have in society, with ourselves, with friends, with colleagues and partners—the conflict is within ourselves. Self-inquiry meditation will help you to know thyself, how you are. Then be honest with yourself, because sometimes when you come to know that you did something and you say, “No, God, it was not purposely,” you can’t sleep. But if you accept it and then pray to God for forgiveness, you are released from this pressure; you are released from these tensions. It is our words, our thoughts, and our physical actions which create difficulties for ourselves through others. So, how am I, good or bad? And then, after this, look in your heart into your inner mirror. How is your position now? Where are you? And you will see how much the black clouds have disappeared from in front of you, and you can breathe freely. Now you begin to do one practice: prayer for forgiveness. Develop in your heart forgiveness. You know, you should have the heart of a father or the heart of a mother. Small children, whatever they do, we forgive them. There was one king, and the king asked his minister, “Who is the greatest in our kingdom?” And the minister said, “Sir, a nine-year-old child.” A small child is the greatest. The ego of the king was blowing like popcorn on a hot fan. You know how the popcorn explodes? He said, “No, you always talk against me. I wanted to hear that I am the king and I am the greatest one. What you call the president of the country, the first. And the wife of the President is called the First Lady. Is he so old that he is the first one?” The minister said, “Sir, time will come and it will show, excuse me.” But children are the greatest, anyhow. The king had a daughter, and she had a child. After six, seven, or eight months, when she came to visit her father, he was so happy to see the grandchild. Everyone loves the grandchildren more than the children. Like a greedy man loves the interest of his money more, not the capital, because the capital is there. You are looking for how much interest you will get. So worldly people also look at children, and they are happier when they see the grandchildren: “My generation is continuing.” He took this little baby in hand and was playing, and this little baby was kicking the king’s chin like this with his leg. The king said, “No, no,” and again he was kicking. The minister of the king was sitting there and said, “Sir, who is greater now? Who dares to kick your face with his legs? Only the child.” The king said, “You are right. But how much love we have. We don’t kick back the child. We are even happy when…” The child is drinking milk from breastfeeding, and the mother is giving. The child is pushing here with his leg, and she takes the outfit and gives a little massage, and she’s happy. Every mother, every woman, is waiting: “Such a nice, divine soul will appear. I will give birth to the divine, and I will educate it in such a way.” Unfortunately, modern society and the modern way of education are so different. So you have it in your hands to give birth to the child, but it is not in your hands to educate it as you want. Lucky and fortunate are they who can educate children in such a way, and happy are the husband and wife—the father and mother of the child—who are in harmony, in mutual understanding with each other. Tolerance keeps the peace in the heart, and that peace radiates to the whole family, to the neighbors, and to everyone. So, one who sees the guilt in others is never happy. One who sees the mistakes in others is never happy. And one who feels guilty always tries to make others guilty. And through this, you lose your inner peace. You lose your inner jewel of the divine. The divine flame is blown out, so we have to come again to Gurudev and say, “Kindle thy flame in my heart. Satguru, kindle thy flame in my heart.” So that’s that. Again, we have to come to the Gurudev to light that flame which is blown out by our ignorance and carelessness. So we meditate. We sit down. We don’t imagine too many things. We have enough in our heart to get rid of. And so many thoughts. Thinking makes you unhappy. Forget it, forgive it. Maybe forgiveness is easier, but forgetting is very hard. So again, one story, and then I will stop, and then they will sing. There were two monks wearing white dresses. They were with the master, who had many, many disciples and monks. They are called wandering monks, traveling, walking. Always, there were two monks going together. So two brother monks went, and the master said, “After twelve years, you will come on Guru Pūrṇimā Day.” “Okay, Master, as you say.” They did as the Master said. Every day they were talking about the Master: how beautiful, how great, how kind, how nice, how happy we are that we are disciples of this Master. The Master, after four years, was somewhere in the far distance. It was also an order from the master: “Do not sleep in any village. Do not sleep in any house. The sky is your roof and the earth is your bed. Go into the village to get some food, and go outside the village and eat.” Renunciation. Do not collect anything, and do not carry anything with you. A hard life. No shoes, no luggage, no money. But Mahāprabhujī said, Devapurījī said: God takes upon Himself the destiny of the devotees. Why are you worrying? The One who gave the beak will give the food. A small corn to the ant, and nearly 100 kilos to the elephant—who is feeding them every day? No one is going hungry to sleep. The One, the Supreme—who are you to provide someone something? Have faith, have confidence. God will take care of you. The Lord takes upon Himself the destiny of devotees. One day they were sitting near the bank of a river and having some fruits, and one young girl came, a young lady, and said, “Dear brothers, how are you?” They said, “Very good, sister. How are you? Would you like to share some fruits with us?” She said, “Thank you, but if you offer me, I will take a little piece of fruit. I have one request, please. Can you help me to cross this river? I have to go to the other valleys. My father sent me for something, but unfortunately, I can’t swim.” They said, “No problem. We will help you, sister. Have a fruit, and then we will go.” So after eating fruits, one of the monks said, “Okay, you will hold my shoulders, sitting on my back. I will swim. But don’t hold me too tight, otherwise I will go down.” She said, “Okay.” So they went into the water, and she held him like this. Both brothers swam through; they came to the other side of the bank of the river, and they said, “Okay, take care. All the best.” She asked, “Is there anything I can do for you?” The brother who was carrying her said, “No, there’s nothing we need. Only one thing you can do: learn swimming. So next time, you don’t need someone’s help.” They went in other directions; he went to the village. That’s all. Now, for eight years they were traveling through different parts of the country: forests, deserts, rocks, mountains. Now, Guru Pūrṇimā is coming in ten days or one month, like this. And so they made their journey towards where the Master is. One day before Guru Pūrṇimā, they reached a place about 15 or 20 kilometers from where the Master was staying. It was sunset, and the Master had said, “Wherever the sun sets, you stop your journey and stay overnight there. If there is a village, go into the countryside and sleep.” So they stayed there. A nice hot summer, a beautiful big rock bigger than this hall, the moon shining because tomorrow is full moon, beautiful light. Both brothers were sitting there and they couldn’t sleep, they were so happy. One was saying to the other, “Do you believe after 12 years these eyes will see our Master?” The other said, “Yes, brother. Twelve years was a long time, but I hope the Master will be happy with us, and he will bless us. He will tell us some nice words.” The other one said, “Brother, if the Master asks us… ‘Did you follow all the instructions, all the principles?’ Of course, we will say, ‘Yes, we followed.’ We didn’t sleep in anyone’s house. We didn’t eat in the village or someone’s house. We didn’t sleep in someone’s house or in the village. We were always in the forest. We didn’t fight with anyone; we stayed together with great love.” He said, “Yes, but one thing, brother: when the Master asks us, ‘Did you touch any woman?’ Then what will you answer?” He said, “Yes, we will answer no.” He said, “But what about that? You were carrying that young lady to cross the river. She was not touching you, but she was sitting on your back.” He said, “Yes.” The other monk was surprised. He said, “What? I carried her only for some minutes to cross the river, and I dropped her there. But I am surprised that after eight years, you are still carrying her with you in your mind. What will you say to the Master about this?” He said, “Yes, brother, how to forget?” It is very easy, my brother, to forget. Do your duty, and that’s all. No expectation, no desires, no longing, no anything to get back, any rewards. And so, my dear, we can forgive, but we can’t forget. The divine, are they the great ones? Are they the ones who forget also? They have the heart of a mother and father. They have a heart to accept everyone. Like a small baby, even if it kicks your face and your nose, sometimes you hold the tiny, gentle feet of your child and you say, “No, what love.” There was a great saint, Durvāsa, and he went to Viṣṇu to ask something. God Viṣṇu was residing on the coiled thousand-headed snake, and Lakṣmī was sitting beside him, giving him a foot massage. Durvāsa was so angry that Viṣṇu didn’t get up to welcome him. “People are suffering on the earth, and he’s just enjoying this heavenly life.” He was angry, and he kicked with his foot on the chest of God Viṣṇu. Who dares to kick the chest of God? The entire universe was trembling. And what did Viṣṇu say? He stood up and took the foot of the ṛṣi and with his own cloth… It was painful. “I’m sorry. My body is so hard, and you have such gentle feet, ṛṣi. I’m sorry. Maybe it was painful for you.” He said, “This foot will be ever and ever adored and worshipped on the planet, in saṃsāra and mṛti loka.” And since that time, it has the great meaning of the lotus feet of the master. Viṣṇu washed the feet of the ṛṣi, and that you can say also. When at the end of the life of Jesus, the disciples did not understand, then he had to teach them. He washed the feet of the disciples to teach them, to make this tradition continue. So, my dear, it is not easy to forgive, but then maybe it is easy to forgive, but it is not easy to forget. Great are they who can forget. They have peace in the heart. The guilty one does not. With closed eyes, you meditate and repeat your mantra: “Merciful Lord, through my thoughts, through my words, through my tongue, or through my body, something which happened wrong, forgive me, Lord. I will not repeat this, and I will try to help them if I damaged someone.” Ahiṃsā—that is the greatest thing. That means the peace discovery, your peace within thyself. Peace is within you. It was never outside, and peace is within you. And please, now try to bring it outside, that you make peace. Okay? So let’s have a peace pipe. Thank you, and wish you all the best. God bless you, and I look forward to seeing you somewhere here or there. Definitely somewhere. The coming year, 2010, will be the Kumbh Melā in Haridwar, and this is the Mahākumbh Melā, which comes every 12 years. And I will be there for one month, a little more than one month. We will have a bath in the holy river, on the particular constellations where all akhāḍās bathe first. And it is the 12th year since I was, or I became, the Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara of Mahānirvāṇī Akhāḍā, and we will have our camp there, and it will be beautiful. If you can’t come for one month, at least come for one bath—that means 10 days, or one week. Don’t miss the opportunity. Who knows, after 12 years, if I will be there, or you will be there, or if we will have again the opportunity of having the holy bath. But in Haridwar, after Haridwar, we’ll be in Allahabad. And so every third year, there is Mahākumbha and Ardha Kumbha, and we are there. So, due to the Kumbha Mela, most probably I will not be able to come to Australia next year. I will try to convince my European bhaktas that I want to go to Australia. And this end of December, from the 10th of December to the 20th of December, we are going on a wild safari. Can you imagine Swamijī in a wild safari? Oh God, sitting on an open jeep and going through some bush, the lions are coming out. They said, “Oh.” And a big elephant, my God. A few years ago, I was there, and the African big elephants were near the jeep. He was driving nearer and nearer, and a big, mighty elephant walked towards him with his big ears. You know, I was thinking of nothing else than thinking of you. I want to see you again. Now you can understand everything. So it was beautiful, and so is the life of a sannyāsī, a swāmī. The whole world is my family, because when you become a sannyāsī, you renounce your family. Now you belong to all. You don’t go home. Parents, family members can come to meet you. There are many rules of the sannyāsī life. So, thank you. At the same time, our dear Bhakti, the president of the Australian Association of Yoga and Vedanta—this is the president, yes, and coordinator also. Thank you, our dear brothers who are doing the techniques of webcasting. Thank you very much, so that all our brothers and sisters around the world can have this message and lectures in about 85 or 105 countries. This message went, and they show you also. And in Jordan, they want to see how Sukhapurī is looking, so it was so. And also, thank you. So our dear Tulsī on the Gold Coast, she made a beautiful program. Her students are here, so I can tell you that Tulsi is really a great person, and she brings the message of Gurudev for you. I am happy that you help her to build and have a light of Mā Prabhujī there. Also, our dear Yamunā and Tyāgpuri at the Sunshine Coast, and tomorrow I am going, finally, to see the sun shining. Whenever I go, there is raining. So I call this the rain coast or the sunshine coast. And there are many, many bhaktas on the Sunshine Coast. I’m looking forward to seeing them. Some of them are here today also, but I’m looking forward to coming there. So all in Dungong—oh my God—our dear Śukadev Purī, for nine years he did karma yoga in an ashram in India, and now he’s doing karma yoga in the ashram in Australia, in Dungong. As I told you before, such an organization, such an association, it only runs when we work together. So we need more yoga teachers, and we need some people who can help in the Brisbane Ashram as well as in the Sydney Ashram and other ashrams. So please try to give some support, that you can come to the ashram and help or teach. You are many yoga teachers here. Give your wisdom. If you don’t teach, then slowly, slowly that flame will become dim and dim and dim. When I don’t give two months of lectures and then I have to give a lecture, then really it’s difficult. And now I’m giving one or two lectures every day. I just sit there and, like, you press the button on the tape recorder, and it’s talking. Because it’s flowing. So teaching is beautiful. You give your knowledge to others. And also, I came to know today that our webcasting was so expensive. It cost them more than 20,000 Australian dollars just to rent these instruments, which wouldn’t have been so necessary. We could have only one camera and connect it, but they want to do it perfectly. So if someone would or can help in this, please, for webcasting, you can help. This means it goes to all international devotees and seekers that have got some message of yoga and their life, divine messages. Thank you very much, and God bless you. So the bird’s life is in your hands. Peace is in your heart. It depends on you if you will keep the peace or you will kill the peace. Śānti, Śānti, Śānti.