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In Kali Yuga, people steal many things. Not only money or ornaments, but they now create many different imitations. For instance, currency that was once valid becomes invalid. The Prime Minister, who was initially gentle, changed it. After three days, he introduced new currency, but within 24 hours, billions of counterfeit notes were already in the market. A college student simply made copies using his phone, printed them from a computer, and gave them to his father. This is not honesty; it is a fact. It is not truth but imitation, and imitation is stealing. The same happens with software. Whatever you develop through years of hard work—two, three, four years of developing a technology—once you bring it to market, within a week everyone knows what it is and they reproduce it. Similarly, in the material world, there is stealing of what you write. You write a nice book, and sometimes they just change the title and the names inside, and then print it under their own name as if it were their own book. The same happens with poems and bhajans. They even try to change Sanskrit ślokas, but Sanskrit cannot be changed. However, they can put their own name on it, claiming it is theirs. So they insert Sanskrit verses into their other writings, cutting them into pieces. That is why there is a call for copyrights. But our copyright system is also commercial. For worldwide protection, you must pay accordingly, and after ten or twenty years, the meat is finished—so you have to pay again. However, the holy scriptures, the words of Jesus, cannot be sold to anyone. You cannot change them. Even if you use your own name instead of Jesus, that does not matter; it will bring some kind of bad karma. But consider: in your house you bring milk and say, “It’s milk from my house.” Can I give you my milk? But you do not say it is my cow’s milk; it is the milk of our cow, or the milk of our goat. The sheep is not my milk—we must identify which kind of milk it is, and finally we will say cow’s milk. So poetry, bhajans, 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 added, “Gurudev, the butter has already been eaten; only the buttermilk remains. You have taken the butter away from the milk?” The real butter is different. Do not gain butter from the milk. That is still not the proper process. The real milk has butter inside, but it must go through a process called heating. So you boil the milk, then cool it down. The butter is inside; it is not destroyed. Then you make yogurt. You let the milk rest. The Hungarians call it sleeping milk—yogurt, sleeping milk. Then from yogurt, from the curd, we churn, and then that butter comes up. That butter is the real butter, the best butter, the healthy butter, and then ghee. If you melt it, then it is... So what are we getting? The unripe butter creates more cholesterol, etc., etc. The taste is also different. That man sitting with Gurujī said, “Guru Dev, the butter has been eaten by all. Kabīr Dās, Sūr Dās, Mīrābāī, Nānak Dās, and you and all these great saints, Mahāprabhujī’s, they took all the knowledge. And what remains for me? There is no butter, only sour yogurt.” So Gurujī said, “Yes, you are a very wise person.” He said, “Thank you, Gurujī.” But Gurudev said, “You know, the butter has been eaten by all these other writers; I understand. They left nothing, but they only ate the butter. They did not yet eat the cow. So milk the cow, the cow, the cow... Feed the cow with love. Prem, prem means love. Feed the cow with love, and milk day and night. You will also have enough butter.” So the cow is our buddhi, our intellect. And there, if we use prem—meaning love, meaning bhakti, devotion—then the butter of viveka will come. And you will be able to write more bhajans, more ślokas, many good things. This is very important. Therefore, someone who writes by only looking into one book and then another book is called a bookworm. In the library there are many bookworms; they look at many books and write one sentence from somewhere, someone from somewhere, half a page from somewhere. If they mention a quote from that book, from that writer, that is okay. But what was your own knowledge? What can you write? The same applies for the yogī. You will teach āsanas, prāṇāyāms; you will read the Yoga in Daily Life book, you will read the Hidden Powers in Humans, or the Bhagavad Gītā, the Qur’ān, the Bible, or the Vedas. But this is not yours; it is a prepared book. 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 place it in the womb of your intellect as good seeds of wisdom, then your baby will be born as wisdom. That is how it is. So, how are these trees? What is your child? That will show how you are. What was the father, and what was the mother? The quality of the father and mother will not be lost. So the father is jñāna and the mother is bhakti. Thus, bhakti and jñāna together. Jñāna, not jñāna. Jñāna—I don’t know. Because 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 about how you are talking, then my stream will become diminished, and the translation should be a very good one. So it seems that he knows everything I am talking about. So the knowledge which we have is very important. Then we can proceed. If you practice yoga, okay, you should practice. But you should not say, “This is my book.” You are writing a book, Hidden Powers in Humans. You write everything and then put your name. Many people use our chakras. At least they could write a letter asking, “Can we use your chakras?” But they do not dare to write or ask, because then they think we lack knowledge. They want to show that, yes, we are great. Of course, you are very great. Yes, you are very high, like a tūyā. But when the cherry trees thrive, their branches bend toward us, saying, “Please take the fruits.” That is what many scriptures, written in holy literature by great saints, have been manipulated. And now everything is put into the computer, and you cannot trust what they are writing. If you search Google about a rabbit, anyone can write anything they like and upload it. So many things in computers, as he said, people write half-knowledge, and half-knowledge people who are reading get only quarter knowledge. And when they act according to that quarter knowledge, it will remain some grams, and these grams will be lost in the snow, where the snow is falling. That is right. So we try, and we must 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. Then there is one obstacle: people think, “This is not my religious book, so why should I read it?” And you see, so the wisdom is lying in the dust. When Śaṅkarācārya came to his master, he asked his master, “Please, can you accept me as your disciple?” And his master said, “Yes.” Then Śaṅkarācārya said, “What is my duty?” The master replied, “This holy book lying here, nobody is rewriting it. It is falling apart, the pages in the dust.” So Śaṅkarācārya went and looked at the script, and he was a great Sanskrit scholar. That was written in Sanskrit. Śaṅkarācārya said, “O God, such a treasure, such wisdom, the truth, the reality. The reality is lying in the dust.” So he cleaned each and every paper, read it again, and wrote it anew. Similarly, sometimes disciples are not capable, and they put the teaching of the master aside. Dust gathers, and they themselves think, “I am the master now.” They neglect their master. That is called a self-made master—a master of ego, of pride, and of ambition to become better. And the famous cry, “I am the greatest.” You see how many priests you have in Christianity, and how many bishops? And the Pope—behind whom does the Pope have his position? Because of Jesus. So the bishops and popes act according to the rules and regulations of Jesus. Throughout all four continents, Christianity is spread. And there are many different kinds of people, but they worked very hard so that no one could 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. And 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 Sanskrit mother become many mothers? That we call the mother tongue. So 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, only the one we call the Holy Father, and that Holy Father we call Brahman. That is Brahman, not Brahma. Brahma is also the father; you can say Holy Father Brahma. But Brahma is not the Holy Father. The Holy Father is called Brahman—which has no form, which has no dualities. It is One, God. So why can we not believe? The word Allah, Allah has no form, but Allah means that Brahman, that Omniscient, Omnipresent, but people write according to their feelings. That is what I wanted to tell you today: this translation of one bhajan of Mahāprabhujī. And this is for the bhaktas, because it is about how a person can stray from the path. “Manasam Kho Yore Kusang Yoke Sang.” O my mind, you were a great wise person. You had so many things. You were rich, very rich with wisdom—correctors, knowledge, qualities, many things. But, O my mind! You lost all your wealth. If you have lost all your wealth because of bad society, then search for good society. Search for satsaṅg. It does not matter from which religion; where there is one who speaks for all creatures, for every life, that is very important. Therefore, it is said: “Manasam Kho Yore Kusang Yoke Sang.” O my mind, you were very rich. But you lost everything in gambling, kusanga, gambling. And you can lose everything without knowing. You play gambling, and you lost all your billions of dollars. “Satguru Śaraṇābhachanābhe Mukhoī.” Why, how did it happen that you went to the kusaṅga? You went out of the shelter of the Gurudeva. And you did not follow the Guruvākya. And you turned your face in the other direction. Now, a disturbance came in your sādhanā. Your prayers, your meditation, your mantras, everything—you lost in bad society. “Dhyāna, dhyāna, bhakti sabhūkhuy.” O my mind, you lost the knowledge, you lost your meditation sādhanā, and you lost the devotion. “Chut gayī satsaṅg,” and now you left the satsaṅg. You are going to a kusaṅga, not a satsaṅg. Immediately you fall to such desires, which are not good for your sādhanā, for your spiritual life, etc. “Dhyāna, dhyāna, bhakti, sab khoī.” Dhyāna, dhyāna, and bhakti, all you lost. “Sūt gayī satsaṅg,” and because of the satsaṅg, you lost the satsaṅg. “Sat paramārata sukhārita bhūlo calāyo ku dhaṅga.” You have given up the good deeds, Paramārata. Paramārata means you are supporting poor people, poor animals, drying poor plants, giving water, feeding the birds, the rabbits, the deer, because they are nourishment. And it is under the snow. This is a great thing that you can do. So feed them. Don’t kill them, and don’t eat them. That’s it. They have love. So it doesn’t matter if it’s a pig or a chicken, a deer or a rabbit, a goat or a sheep. If they are not for killing and eating, they give us what they can. Therefore, “Chut Gai Satsaṅg, Parmarat Sukrat Bulo, Chal Rayo Kutam,” this all you have forgotten. And now you are going on a different path. That is, karma will come back. It is the Guru Vākya, it is protecting us, but don’t challenge, don’t challenge Guru Vākya. It takes time, it takes time. You are losing the good karmas, and then it will come, what it should come. “Dheeraj, dharam, dhyana, sabh koyo.” You lost your dheeraj. Dheeraj means that, gedult. What is gedult? Patience. Dheeraj, dharma. You lost your dharma. Dhyāna is meditation. Now you don’t meditate. Instead of meditation, you are looking at your laptops. All this you lost—dhyāna, dhyāna, dhāraṇā, dhyāna, or dhyāna, you lost this. “Tamas maya umang,” now you have the tamas guṇa. In one hand is a bottle, in the other hand is a glass. And pouring this alcohol into the glass, but it’s going on to the side. Tamas guṇas. God protect us from tamas guṇas. That’s very important. “Tamas maya umang.” Now you are very happy in the tāmas guṇas. And running here and there for many desires: “I want to become the richest, I want to make money.” And if somebody asks for some donation, you don’t want to give. A poor person will give even one crown to the poor person at the railway station, but rich people who are going to gamble or to a five-star restaurant will charge two thousand dollars for one dinner, yet for poor people you don’t give even one cent. That’s it. Reach one? Don’t want to lose the money. But even if you give one cent to a needy person, you will get a hundred back, or a thousand times, from God. So help. Helping hands have more value than folded hands. Now you are tricky. Now you have lower thinking and are not faithful. Śrī Pūjya Bhagavān Devpurīṣa, Mahāprabhujī said, “The universally worshipped Lord Śrī Devpurījī, the Must Fakīr Malang, is my master, Devpurījī. Mui Mr. Devpurījī Fakir”—this is the Urdu word for the Urdu saint, the Muslim saint Malang, “very happy, fearless.” Śrī Svāmī Dīp Sāraṇ Satguruke, Mahāprabhujī said, “In the shelter of the lotus feet of the Master.” “Rai Hamesha Sangh,” that I am all the time with Him. Always, my concentration, my vṛtti, is in the holy feet of my Master. That’s it. So how this bhajan is so beautifully written. Therefore, Holī Gurujī said, “Ākhiyā Satguru charaṇome lāgī, ākhiyā Satguru, ākhiyā Satguru... Śrī Deva Dayā Dukhe Caraṇa.” My concentration, my attention, my consciousness, my eyes are all the time in the holy feet of my Gurudeva, Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī. Holigurujī said, “My concentration, my vision, I constantly cling to the lotus feet of my master Mahāprabhujī.” Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Śrī Śrī Dev Purīṣa Mahādeva, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jai, Alakhpurījī Siddha Pīṭha Kī Jai, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai, Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ...