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In the Kali Yuga, people steal many things. It is not only money or ornaments; now they create different things through imitation. For example, you all know the Indian government changed its currency. They announced it in the evening when offices were closed, giving a deadline from 6 PM to midnight to exchange the old notes. The Prime Minister was a little soft and extended this. But after three days, he introduced the new currency, and within 24 hours, that new currency was a fact. Billions of notes were already in the market, and some college students made copies using their telephones and computers, simply printing and distributing them. This is dishonesty. It is not truth; it is imitation. Imitation is stealing. The same thing is happening with software. You may work very hard for two, three, or four years to develop one technology. You bring it to market, and within one week, others will know what it is and produce it. So, in the material world, there is also stealing. Consider what you write—a nice book. Sometimes they just change the name. Inside, they change all the names and print it under their own name as their own book. This happens with poems and bhajans too. They even try to change Sanskrit ślokas, but Sanskrit you cannot change. However, they can claim it as their own. They will put Sanskrit verses into their other literatures, cutting them into pieces. Therefore, though there is copyright, our copyright system is also commercial. If you want worldwide protection, you have to pay a large sum, and after 10 or 20 years, the term finishes and you must pay again. But the Holy Scriptures, the words of Jesus, you cannot sell to anyone. You cannot change them. Even if you use your name instead of the name of Jesus, it does not matter; some kind of bad karma will come. In your house, you bring milk and say, "It’s milk from my house." Can I give you my milk? But he does not say it is his cow’s milk. It is the milk of our cow, or our goat, or our sheep. It is not my milk. We have to specify which kind of milk it is. Finally, we will say it is cow's milk. So the poetry, the bhajans, the ślokas—this is spiritual milk. One person came to Gurujī and said, "Gurudev, you have written so many bhajans, and many other saints have written bhajans. I have a great wish to write nice bhajans." Gurujī said, "Very good. Go ahead. It is a great thing." But the man said, "Gurudev, the butter has been eaten already. Only the buttermilk remains. You just took the butter away from the milk. The real butter is different." Do not gain the butter from the milk directly; that is still not the proper process. The real milk has butter inside, but it must go through a process called heating. You boil the milk, then cool it down. The butter is inside; it is not stolen or destroyed. Then you make yogurt by letting the milk rest. The Hungarians call yogurt 'sleeping milk.' Then from the yogurt, from the curd, we churn it. The butter that comes up is the real butter—the best, healthy butter. Then, if you melt the butter, it becomes ghee. What we often get is unripe butter, and therefore it creates more cholesterol, etc. The taste is also different. So, that man sitting with Gurujī said, "Gurudev, the butter has been eaten all." Kabīr Dās, Sūr Dās, Mīrābāī, Nānak Dās, and you and all these great saints, Mahāprabhujī—they wrote the bhajans. 'Butter' means they gave all the knowledge inside. What remains for me? There is no butter, only sour yogurt. Gurujī said, "Yes, you are a very wise person." The man said, "Thank you, Gurujī." But Gurudev said, "But, you know, if the butter has been eaten by all these other writers, I understand they left nothing. However, they ate only the butter; they did not eat the cow. So, milk the cow. Feed the cow with love—prem means love. Feed the cow with love, and milk it day and night; you will also have enough butter." The cow is our buddhi, our intellect. If we use prem, love, which means bhakti (devotion), then the butter of viveka (discrimination) will come. You will be able to write more bhajans, more ślokas, many good things. This is very important. Who is writing something? Not by looking in one book and then another—that is called being a bookworm. In the library, there are many bookworms. Looking at many, many books and writing one sentence from somewhere, half a page from somewhere else—if they mention a quote from that book, from that writer, that is okay. But what was your knowledge? What can you write? The same applies to the yogī. You will teach āsanas and prāṇāyāma. You will read the Yoga in Daylight book. You will read Hidden Powers in Humans, or you will read the Bhagavad Gītā, the Qur’ān, the Bible, or the Vedas. But this is not yours. It is prepared food served on the table. Just eat; it is okay. You can take that knowledge. When you eat that knowledge, when you put the good seeds of wisdom into the womb of your intellect, then your baby will be born as wisdom. That is it. Consider these trees. What is your child? That will show how you are. What was the father? What was the mother? The quality of the father and mother will not get lost. The father is jñāna (knowledge), and the mother is bhakti (devotion). So, bhakti and jñāna together. Not ajñāna (ignorance). In the translation, that is why I cannot learn your Czech language. I am not concentrating on what you are saying. If I concentrate to learn one word of how you are talking, then my stream of thought will get a little lost. The translation should be a very good one. It seems the translator knows everything I am talking about. The knowledge we have is very important. Then we can progress. If you practice yoga, okay, you should practice. But you should not say, "This is my book." You write a book, Hidden Powers in Humans. You write everything, and then you write your name. Many people who use our chakras—at least they could write a letter to ask if they can use your chakras. But they do not dare to write or ask, because then they will think that we do not have knowledge. They want to show that, yes, we are great. Of course, you are very great. Yes, you are very high. Because it is going high only, like a tūyā (flute). But when the cherry trees thrive, their branches come towards us, saying, "Please take the fruits." That is what has happened to many scriptures written in holy literature by great saints—people have manipulated them. Now everything is put into the computer, and you cannot trust what they are writing there. If you check on Google about one rabbit, anyone writes anything they like to feed into Google. So many things in computers, which people write, are half-knowledge. Half-knowledge people who are reading get only a quarter, and when they act according to that quarter-knowledge, only some grains remain. And these grains will be lost in the snow where it is falling. We try, and we have to give this knowledge to people worldwide. What is the Bhagavad Gītā? Now the world knows, but they do not know Sanskrit, and therefore many do not read it. Then there is another obstacle: people think, "This is not my religious book. Why should I read it?" You see, the wisdom is lying in the dust. When Śaṅkarācārya came to his master, he asked, "Please, can you accept me as your disciple?" His master said, "Yes." Then Śaṅkarācārya said, "What is my duty?" The master said, "This holy book lying here—nobody is rewriting it; it is falling apart, the pages are in the dust." Śaṅkarācārya went and looked at this scripture. He was a great Sanskrit scholar, and it was written in Sanskrit. Śaṅkarācārya said, "Oh God, such a treasure, such wisdom, the truth, the reality is lying in the dust." He cleaned each and every paper, read it again, and rewrote it. Sometimes, disciples who are not capable put the teaching of the Master aside. Where does the dust come from? They themselves think, "I am the master now." They neglect their master. That is called a self-made master—a master of ego, a master of pride, and a master of ambition to become famous, to be "the greatest." You see how many priests there are in Christianity, how many bishops, and the Pope. Behind whom does the Pope have his position? The Pope has his position because of Jesus. The bishops and Pope act according to the rules and regulations of Jesus. Christianity is spread across all four continents. There are many different kinds of people, but they worked very hard so that no one can change the reality of Jesus’s words. Similarly, no one can change the Vedas and Upaniṣads, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Gītā, etc., which were put forth by wise persons in the perfect language called Sanskrit. You know that Sanskrit is the mother of all languages, and no one can change that. Yes, we can say anyone is my mother. So how does the Sanskrit "mother" become "many mothers"? We call it the mother tongue. Everyone says it is my mother tongue. So that Sanskrit mother changed into billions of mothers. Why not? They understand each other, but the roots are there, and so God is from there. After that came many incarnations. There is only the one we call the Holy Father. That Holy Father we call Brahman. That Brahman is. Not Brahmā. Brahmā is also a father; you can say Holy Father Brahmā, but Brahmā is not the Holy Father. The Holy Father is called Brahman, which has no form and no dualities. It is one, God. So why can we not believe? The word Allāh has no form. But Allāh means that Brahman—the Omniscient, Omnipresent. People write according to their feelings. That is what I wanted to tell you today regarding the translation of one bhajan of Mahāprabhujī. This is for the bhaktas, because how can a person get out of the path? The bhajan says: "Oh, my mind. You had so many things. You were rich, very rich—in wisdom, correct knowledge, qualities. But, oh my mind, you lost all your wealth in bad society." So, search for good society. Search for satsaṅg. It does not matter from which religion. Seek where one talks for all creatures, for every life. That is very important. Therefore, it is said: "Manasaṁ kṣobhyate ku-saṅgyokta-saṅgaḥ." Oh my mind, you were very rich, but you lost everything in gambling. Kusaṅga and gambling—you can lose everything without knowing. You play gambling and lose all your billions of dollars. "Satguru Śaraṇābhachanābhe Mukhoī"—why, how did it happen that you went to the Kuṣaṅga? You went out of the shelter of the Gurudev, you did not follow the Guruvākyā, and you turned your face in another direction. Now disturbances have come in your sādhanā, your prayers, your meditation, your mantras—everything. You are lost in bad society, bad habits, alcohol, and many drugs. Everything is lost. "Dhyāna-dhyāna-bhakti-savukhuy." O my mind, you lost the knowledge, you lost your meditation and sādhanā, and you lost the devotion. "Chut gayī satsaṅg"—you left the satsaṅg. You are going to kusaṅga, not satsaṅg. Immediately, you fall to such desires which are not good for your sādhanā, for your spiritual life. "Dhyāna, dhyāna, bhakti, savakhoi." Meditation and devotion—all you lost. "Sutā gayī satsaṅg"—because of leaving the satsaṅg, you lost the satsaṅg. "Sat paramārta sukhārita bhūlo calāyo kū dhaṅga." You have given up good deeds. Paramārta means you are supporting poor people, poor animals, giving water to drying plants, and feeding the birds, rabbits, and deer because their nourishment is under the snow. This is a great thing you can do, so feed them. Do not kill them, and do not eat them. That is it. They have love. It does not matter if it is a pig, a chicken, a deer, or a rabbit. Goats or sheep—they are not for killing and eating. They give us what they can. Therefore, "chut gayī satsaṅg, satt paramāratā sukharatā bhullo chal rehyo kutam." All this you have forgotten, and now you are going on a different path. That is, karma will come back. The Guruvākyā protects us, but do not challenge it. It takes time; you are losing that good karma, and then what should come will come. "Dīraja dharma dhyāna sab koyo." You lost your dhīraja. Dhīraja means patience. You lost your dharma. Dhyāna is meditation; now you do not meditate. Instead of meditation, you are looking at your laptops. All this you lost—dhāraṇā, dhyāna. "Tamas māyā umang"—now you have the tamas guṇa. In one hand is a bottle, in the other a glass, pouring this alcohol. It is going on beside, the tāmas guṇas. God protect us from tāmas guṇas. That is very important. "Tamas maya umang"—now you are very happy in the tamas guṇas. "Vise bhogme pire bhatakto"—running here and there for many desires. I want to become the richest. I want to make money, and if somebody asks for a donation, you do not want to give. A poor person will give even one crown to a poor person at the railway station. But rich people going to gambling or to a seven-star restaurant will give two thousand dollars for one dinner. Yet to poor people, they do not give even one cent. That is it. The rich do not want to lose money. But even if you give one cent to a needy person, you will get a hundred or a thousand times more from God. So help. Helping hands have more value than folded hands. Now you are beginning to cheat; now you have low thinking and you are not faithful. "Fakīr Malang"—my master Devpurījī is a must, happy, divine, fearless Fakīr. These are Urdu words for a Muslim saint, Malang—very happy, fearless. Śrī Svāmī Dīp Saran Satguru Mahāprabhujī said, in the shelter of the lotus feet of the Master, they always sang: "I am all the time with Him." Always, my concentration, my vṛtti is in the holy feet of my Master. That is it. So how beautifully this bhajan is written. Therefore, Holī Gurujī said: "My concentration, my attention, my consciousness, my eyes are all the time in the holy feet of my Gurudev, Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī." So, Śāntī will sing. I broke because of your melody. itabhs srithi Kagavai dhamsa ti shugat soha, moti shugat soha kiya, sata satag charalam chepam. Om Śānti Śānti...