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Adoration to our Alakhpurījī, Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā. Our adoration to our Gurudev. Good morning to everybody. Thank you, Kṛṣṇānandajī, for a nice introduction. And we welcome our dear culturette, Rāvaṭasābh, from the holy part of India, the Himalayas. Himālaya hai śiṣa Bhārata kā, hemshwaran mukta hai dhārā. Himālaya is the head of Bhārata, India. And the golden snow is a crown on the head. So, culturatte means today the whole Indian culture is here. And can you imagine Indian culture? If we count, it will take up days. India has given culture to the whole world. As well, India is a cradle of culture. Culture is the beauty and life of the human being. Where humans go, culture goes with them. So, if Hungarians go anywhere, they bring Hungarian culture. Consciously or unconsciously, we act according to our culture. Culture is coming from the lap of the mother. That’s called saṃskāra. Saṃskāra says saṃskṛti banti. This saṃskāra, the education. Through this particular education, the culture is born. That culture, that education is not only religious or spiritual. Therefore, in the whole world, every country’s culture is respected. That culture, those saṃskāras, the education that gives the human the human quality, it gives the spirituality, it awakens the awareness: I am a human. Where there is non-violence, there is peace, there is harmony, there is understanding, there is mutual understanding, kindness, and mercy. The mighty power in the culture we have is tolerance, forgiveness, respect. Those are the beauty, the blessings of the cultures of the countries. And so, Bharat, Holy Bharat, has given culture to the whole world. Not only that, I am saying this because I was born in India. I got the culture through my parents, my master, the society, etc. But at the same time, I do respect and adore the cultures of every different country where I have been. Where there is a culture, there is a human, and where there is a human, there is a culture. So, where there is no culture, if one has not adopted or accepted a culture, that person is unhappy. That person is lost and feels they belong to no one and nowhere. It is that psychology. It is the reality. Let’s say that you’ve gone somewhere in another country. And you are unhappy. You remember sitting in your room, you remember your traditions, your cultures. That helps you to come out of your depression. It creates in you homesickness. What makes you homesick? Your culture is also our landscape: nature, all the trees, all the flowers, rocks and mountains, rivers or the desert. So it’s part of human life as well. Animals are also cultured; they like to be in their culture. A few years ago, we had a beautiful bull. We have hundreds of cows, gosālās. And in other villages, people ask to have that bull there. And we had many babies from him. So we have to send him to the other gosālā. And we brought him there, about 280 kilometers. And he was very strong and very nice. And after six months, when I came there again, I saw him; he was very thin. He was not eating, and when I came there, he was offended. He did not stand up, and tears were falling. So I gave him my feelings, gave him love, and I said, "You will go back in two days." And he got up. I said, "Not now." So, but in two days, he came back to Jadana Āśrama. He is the most loving creature there, and all love him. Dogs, cats, birds, all creatures, they have feelings and their own culture. So what is homesickness? Oṃ Śik means where you were grown, where you were born, where you had your friends, and that is in our subconsciousness, that’s a part of our life, so culture is life for every creature, and so Bhārat, India, has given culture. At that time, Europe was under glaciers. Yeah, that time, there were not so many humans. Now it’s nice and warm, so many humans have popped up like mushrooms, with many treatments and this and that. So, at that time, humans were not so many. And to see a guest coming, it was a joy. And to welcome a guest is also a culture. And that is, as we say in India, in whose home you eat salt, you should never do anything bad to that house. So salt means in the eating. In vegetables, in the bread, we put salt. And it is said that thou art the salt of the earth, so that our culture, that salt is our self, so it’s said in those houses you ate the salt, you should never do anything wrong. If you do, then it’s called namak harām, it means you killed, you destroyed, your act was not right, it was like a hiṁsā, not ahiṁsā. In this part of Europe, what you call the eastern part of Europe, Slovakia, the whole of Yugoslavia, this, Russia, everywhere, when a guest comes for the first time, they offer bread and salt. Why not sweet? Why salt? But salt is the meaning of the soul, of our inner self. And that we should never, never forget. So, you accept that, and when you eat this little, maybe little, just take the bread and salt, you got your invitation and respect it. Now you are a member of the family. Similarly, the Maori people in New Zealand and those islands there also like this tradition, so this culture is everywhere, so welcoming. Accepting, and if we follow this culture, there is no war, there is no fighting, there is no killing; there is harmony, understanding, peace, tolerance, etc. That’s why the culture makes the country great, the higher. So religion is also part of the culture. Different kinds of religion are a part of the culture of that nation. Dharma is also a part of culture. Dharma Rakṣita Rakṣita, if you protect the dharma, then dharma will protect you. So understand what is the dharma. You respect and you accept. You have to accept. That you accept means you are getting. And that’s Dharma, the Dharma of parents to the children, the children’s Dharma towards parents, the Dharma of the husband, and the Dharma of the wife. So Dharma is the highest education for us. So the religion, what we call, it is not that. Dharma is higher than religion. That’s called Sanātana Dharma. Sanātana Dharma is the father of all dharmas. And this dharma, sanātana dharma, is not a kind of dogma. Sanātana dharma is when you have one seed and you put it in the earth, it will sprout. It will grow. It will flower. It will get seeds again. This is the Sanātana. When the mother conceives and becomes pregnant, then her dharma is to protect that embryo. It is a mother Dharma. And that Sanātana Dharma is that it grows everything, all organs and everything that is done, this is a Sanātana. The water, like steam, goes up; like fog, it comes up. So it is water, steam, fog, clouds, rain, drops, and flows again, coming back to the ocean. The form name is different, but in reality, it is the ocean. So this is a Sanātana. So Sanātana Dharma is not that I believe this God and you believe this God. This kind of fighting is not in Sanātana. We don’t understand what God is, and that is a problem. Many different religions have different beliefs. But this one belief is not all, so the culture is a multi-culture. This multiculturalism is called interculturalism. So now all this multiculturalism is coming together, harmonizing, understanding. Sanatana is that which is the sky, the sun, the moon; everything is Sanatana. Mother, father, we are all Sanātana. "Māme vaso jīva loke jīva bhūta sanātanā," Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said in the Bhagavad Gītā. Mamevaśo Jīviloke, I dwell in each and every entity. Mameva so jīviloke, I live in every creature. If you remember, yesterday I spoke about Śiva Tattva. And what is the Śiva Tattva? Shiv Tattva is the Jīvātmā, which is living in every creature. So that is Śiva. So jīva becomes Śiva through the sādhanā, prayers, and following the culture. Therefore, all these creatures are my essence, my relatives, my part. So, it doesn’t matter in which form, the liquid is there. Maybe in the leaves, on the trees, in the fruits, in the coconuts, it doesn’t matter where the liquid is existing. That liquid originated from the ocean. Similarly, every creature is originated from that one who is called the Swayambhū. In the beginning of the Vām Mantra, "Eko’haṁ Bahusyāmi," I am one, and I will now multiply. And for that, this earth is holy earth. And we pray, peace be upon the earth. Peace on earth. How to create peace? Through following, respecting the culture, and in that culture is Sanātana. Eko’haṁ bahusyāmi, I am one and now I will multiply. And that’s what our Gurudev said: one in all and all in one. So all these different kinds of liquid around Earth are all from the one element that is called the water element. Similarly, in all creatures, all that is living inside is only one Śiva. Shiva Tattva. Whether you believe or not, belief does not change anything. If you believe, it’s okay. If you don’t believe, it’s okay. We cannot change reality. Evidence will never die. And so, it is that reality. After humans multiplied, they began to think differently, and humans began to think in terms of "my" and "your," so "my" and "I," "my" and "I," we are fighting. We try to divide the earth, and we try to divide the people. That was a slogan of the British when they came to India. How to break the strong spine or the back of India? And they said, "Only one changes the language." And as the language was changed, people changed. And so, we are changing the languages. I accept, you don’t accept; I don’t like it, you like it, you dislike it. All these changes come. But if we all come to reality, then we are brothers and sisters. We are only one human. Why do we fight? Because we are divided in ignorance into the culture. We pollute the culture. We don’t understand the culture. So therefore, follow the cultures. Every culture is a good culture. But you know, someone said, "Every culture is a good culture." But take care of another culture, and what is that? That’s called agriculture. So all culture is good, but the best culture is agriculture, and now we destroy agriculture with pesticides. How many diseases we have, how many cancers come? In the old days, people were thinking, "What is cancer?" But it is cancer; there was no cancer. But now, though we know that every one of us... Are you ill, but nobody thinks to get something organic only? If you want to be healthy, and you support this, then we don’t go to that culture, which is called chemical culture. We don’t want to pollute our food. Don’t go to that shop where it’s all non-organic. You will not die. Avoid, avoid, avoid. In Hungary, all people will say, "We don’t buy anything which is like this." Are you? Your government will not let you die. They will say, "Okay, finished, this artificial fertilizer." But you have to get up. You have to take organic food. If you love your children, if you love your husband, and if you love your wife, if you love your parents, then buy and eat only healthy food. Now, even you can’t get pure milk. When you drink milk here, and then you come to India, to Jadan, and you drink our milk there, I’m not telling this because of India, but you drink their milk, and here the milk is day and night different. Dr. Shanti is allergic to drinking milk. There are many Dr. Shantis, don’t worry. If you said one Mīrā, there are thousands of Mīrās, no? So, Dr. Shanti, she can’t drink milk here in Vienna, in Europe, not even with the tea. And when she came to India, now she should tell herself. Otherwise, you visit Swamiji, sometimes manipulating. So, culture, and so today we have the whole Indian culture. Now, to our dear friend, Rawat, in honor of him, I opened the chapter of the culture. So, how does the culture make emotional feelings? And that is what Mahāprabhujī said. Satguru Satsaṅgīyārī Olum. Is there a singer here? Olu Āveśa Nen Bharjāve Rādhātā. Olu Āveśa Nen Bharjāve Satguru Satsaṅgīyārī Olo... Olo Avesa Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān, Bhagavān Śrī Deep Nārāyaṇ. Mahāprabhujī sings in this bhajan from the Padvirhani. Viraha, there are many different kinds of fire. And this longing, homesickness, that longing is also fire; that’s called viraha. Vīrak kī mārī banban ḍolu ved milā na koy. Mīrābāī said, with full longing, "My heart is burning, I am wandering in the forest." I didn’t find any vedya to cure this disease. So, like a fish, when you take a fish out of the water, how it is suffering. And with suffering, she gives up her life. She is suffering for what? Longing for what? The water. So that water is her life, water is her culture. The pure, the swan, Paramahaṁsa, that only can eat pearls, not a fish. So Paramahaṁsa only finds the pearls. There is one bird at the time of the monsoon. She is longing for the water. She is thirsty. But she doesn’t want to drink water which is lying on the ground. She wants to catch that raindrop. There is no rain coming. But she is calling and calling and calling, and she dies. But she doesn’t drink other water. So culture, where the culture is, there is no violence, non-violence, ahiṃsā. Where the culture is, there is no fighting, no killing of any. Where there is a culture, there is friendship. So, culture is the beauty of humanity. Like a beautiful garden with many different kinds of flowers, that is the beauty of the garden. When we go to see a beautiful park or a garden, we say, "Oh, it’s a beautiful garden." The garden is not beautiful. Beautiful is what is in the garden. If it’s dry and there’s nothing, then you say, "Oh, it’s a good piece of land." So, what makes the glory of that piece of ground? Those flowers, trees. So, gardener, you know, gardener, so that gardener makes the beauty of it. And so, when you understand the cultures, you are the gardener, to respect all cultures. But in the culture, there is no violence, no dualities. So that’s it. Now we will have meditation.