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Part 1: The Completeness of Pūrṇimā Good morning to everybody. Many blessings to all bhaktas around the world. Today is Pūrṇimā, the full moon day. That means completeness. The Raja Mantra, which you all know, "Pūrṇamadaḥ, Pūrṇamidaṃ," means that Brahman, the Supreme, God, is complete. Whatever comes from Him, meaning God’s creation, is also complete. And when you take something out from the complete, it still remains complete. It means you cannot make it little. So, Pūrṇa, completeness, is the aim of our life: to realize completeness, to become one with the Pūrṇa. That Pūrṇa is Ānanda Svarūpa, is bliss. That Pūrṇa is Satya Svarūpa. Rūpa means the form or the divine, formless, nirguṇa and saguṇa. Satya Svarūpa is that Brahman, Ānanda Svarūpa is that Brahman, and that Pūrṇa is also expressed from the form of the sound, resonance, which is beyond everything. That’s called Śabda Svarūpa or Nāda Svarūpa. In every aspect, within us and outside of us, everything is a pūrṇa. When our consciousness, when our intellect, when our ignorance turns towards our individual existence, then it separates you from the pūrṇa. It creates a barrier of ignorance between you and Pūrṇa. As soon as we lose our consciousness of oneness, immediately sadness, disappointment, pain, and loss of confidence enter into your limited consciousness. If your consciousness is merging into the pūrṇa, into oneness, then there is no duality. There is no two, three, four, five, but there is only one zero. That zero is the śūnya, and that śūnya means nothing. Pūrṇa is a form of the zero, and that is nothingness, which means there is, in reality, no problems. In reality, there is no pain; in reality, there is no suffering; in reality, there is no anger, no hate, no jealousy. All are bubbles on the water, and these bubbles are our limited, narrow way of thinking, the narrow perceptions that we are selfish to be alone or divided. So Pūrṇa, on the Pūrṇimā day today, for example, the divine energy in the form of the immortality Amṛta is flowing towards our planet, which God Kṛṣṇa said in the Bhagavad Gītā: in the form of the moonlight, I enter into the vegetation as a nectar. So the moonlight is very important for our existence, for our planet. The moonlight is more intensive or stronger than the sunlight, and therefore it is growing, increasing, and it is decreasing. According to the moonlight, our biorhythm, not only in our body but in the entire creation and in every element, is increasing or decreasing. The fasting on the full moon day is not only that you have to avoid or quit your meal. There is nothing against your meal, but it is said that on this day, when you fast, there is a wonderful energy, a nectar which is flowing from the moon. Your body cells will be more capable of recharging this energy. Of course, if you are pregnant or you have some health problems, so that you cannot fast or you have to eat something after a certain time, that is an exception. That is individual, not general. Fasting means purifying of the body, what they call in Āyurveda, āmas. Through fasting, you can purify the āmās in the body. Through fasting, you can purify more toxins from the body. Through fasting, the immunity becomes more active in the body, and immunity will become stronger. So the fasting is not only spiritual, but fasting is also very healthy for our body, for our mind, for our consciousness, and for our soul. It means also the karma. Ahiṃsā is not only spoken towards the creatures, but also towards the plants. In the Vedas, it is very clearly said, every plant, vegetation has also life. Destroying the plants, killing the plants, is also hiṃsā, which means violence. Unnecessarily, do not destroy them. Many people, many spiritual people, they do not accept flowers when you bring them from the garden. They don’t want to break the flower. There is one story from Swāmī Vivekānandajī. When they brought him one flower, he became a little bit sad. And they said, "What happened?" He said, "This flower which you brought will survive only a few hours. But can you imagine if this flower is in its original place on the plant, how many days this flower will be shining, radiating, and will give more and more fragrance and beauty. Can you imagine one plant? One seed begins to sprout, develops into one plant. How many days was this plant struggling to survive, to get water? Even we see sometimes, between the rocks, suddenly... There is a beautiful small plant that comes and gives a flower. We know here, even in the civilized cities, where there are a lot of cars and people are walking, but even between the car parking place, where we are parking the cars, sometimes there is some plant which survives and gives one nice, beautiful flower." So, from the viewpoint of Ahiṃsā, it is not advised to cut the flowers away from their origin, from the plants. Cultivate there, give the water, and let it be the beauty of your garden, the beauty of your balcony, the beauty of your meadow, of your forest. That’s it. Well, there are many things about this to speak. What should we then eat at all? So vegetable means the fruit; vegetables always meant that. And if we then take only the leaves with prayers for our surviving, or it is in the grains. So on this matter, we can discuss a lot. There is no end. So, Pūrṇimā, fasting on the full moon day or fasting on the Monday, which also belongs to the moon day, Śiva day. Also, the consciousness, purification of the consciousness, pure consciousness is the symbol of the Guru, the light. That’s the Thursday, Jupiter, and Jupiter is the guru among the planets in the sky, in the heaven, in the space, and that Jupiter has a balance and meaning for other stars and planets. So every day, which is decided by great saints and astrologers, they made a research work. It’s not that they were sitting down and said, "Okay, this we put here, this we put here. Okay, that’s good." No. Yugas and yugas, they were making experiments. Which planets have an effect, positive or negative, on our planet and its different creatures? Also, the people or animals or a tree, the day the tree sprouted, on which constellation, which day this creature was born, from which day the baby came out of the egg, or the fish, or the humans. Everything has its constellations, and on that constellation, which planet had a positive or negative effect. There are some which have negative influence, but at the same time, other planets, like Jupiter, which will have a strong effect, so it will neutralize the negative energy. So fasting is not only that you avoid your meal, but fasting means you do something good to your body, good to your mind, consciousness, intellect, and your soul. It means that you purify a lot of karmas. A lot of karmas, because as a human, through the human spirit, through the human mind, through the human perceptions, we understand these principles, the law, the cosmic law, the law of the creation, the law of the nature. And if we do something consciously, we become free from certain influences, karmic, and that karmic influence can be from different things. From the trees can be too, from animals also, from humans, anyhow is there. Therefore, to exist in this creation and come out very safe is not an easy job. For example, you have a snow-white dress, and now you have to walk through five kilometers of underground coal mines. Now you may have a torchlight in your hand, or maybe there is a light inside, and there is a lot of work going on. You enter one side, and after many, many tunnels of the mines, you come out the other side and look at your dress to see if you have any wear or spots. Though we are very careful, when we come out, there will be some spots. It is a master work; it needs alertness, very careful, then you may manage to come out without a spot. So this saṃsāra, this creation is that it has both things, good and bad, positive, negative. The other poor creatures, they cannot, they are just surviving. They don’t care; they are not even aware of this. Who is working in the coal mines doesn’t care if the dress will be black or the hand will be black—it doesn’t matter. One is working for existence. So, but human is that creature that has got the talent to be aware, the talent to be conscious, the talent to be careful, and the talent to think over every movement. And so it is a human’s research work in many, many different countries and cultures: there is fasting. So fasting began with Vedic time. In the Satyugas, the ṛṣis were fasting. Many, many years they were fasting. They didn’t drink, and they didn’t eat. They were living only from the air, from prāṇa. There is training, there is tapāsyā, there are exercises that you can also live from the air alone, but you have to get training, you have to make sādhanā, you have to endure certain feelings. There are some plants which survive with very little oxygen and humidity in the air. Recently I was in Ukraine, on the way we stopped the car for some minutes, and after, when I walked back to the car, there was a little round small bush, it looked like a little ball. I thought it was dry, completely dry, some kind of plant. And we took it in the car. It seems that it walked. It had no roots; it was rolling with the wind. We took it with us and put it in the bathtub, and in two or three hours it opened and began to become green and soft. It means there was life in it. How many months was it surviving without water, without anything? So there is a life, and life is struggling to survive, to live. And so when yogīs, those yogīs, not like we, okay, forget it. You cannot forget it. This is only for your information, one can, one can, that they have the control. In the beginning, when you eat three meals, let’s say, try to make it half the quantity. You drink twenty times a day, then drink only ten times a day or less, your quantities. But at the same time, reduce your solid food. If you don’t reduce the solid food and you will not take liquid, then you will damage your kidneys. So you have to balance, purifying all āmas, vātas, pittas, kaphas from the body. With Āyurveda, people, Muktāmaṇī will tell you better than me. The doctor told me that I am a vāta, so I said, "I don’t know." They said the pitta. I baby, vāta, pitta, and kapha. I said, "Every morning I am coughing, yes, kapha is there." So, this we have to understand and reduce and reduce... And limit your desires and limit your food, and endure the hunger and thirst, hot and cold, and purify prāṇāyāma, prāṇāyāma, meditation, prāṇāyāma. Then suddenly your tissues, your body will take the energy and nourishment from the air. With one handful of rice, you can survive a whole week. How nice! Then also, you don’t have to go very often to the toilet. Slowly, slowly, after about 10 to 15, your body is very nice, nearly transparent, you know. And when you stand near the tree, hand there, you will see what is hanging here, you know. Your skin is hanging here. And when you do the marjari, your stomach skin is hanging. My dear, we are consuming one day’s food, which those yogīs will consume for two weeks or one month. Still, they are conscious, aware, alert, healthy, and wise. So, we are not going to do this. Mother Nature produces a lot of food, and we should consume and enjoy it. Doesn’t matter, it will take a few lives, more to come there, no problem. We are attached so much to this planet, you know. There is one farmer who was working in the field, and suddenly one big basket came down, a flower basket. And inside were the angels, the devas and apsarās. Then the farmer said, "Oh, what are you doing here?" They said, "We came to take you with us." Really? I have such good karma? He said, "Yes." Where will this take me to heaven? Let’s go. So, he stepped in, and they came near the door of heaven, and he asked, "Moment, moment, before I will enter into heaven, can I have my beer there?" They said, "In heaven, there is no beer." So, he said, "No beer in heaven?" He said, "No." Then, "I quit heaven; please bring me back down." For the sake of the beer, he even quit heaven. How much we are attached to this, our food. Try and look at your watch: how many hours a day are you not taking something into your mouth? When we don’t have something, then we take chewing gum. When we don’t have chewing gum, then we take a cherry seed. For a long time, we have it in the mouth all the time, or we take something different, like an elācī, always. Like a goat, this is. So Pūrṇimā or every holy festival, which is connected with ahiṃsā and love, on that day at least you should not kill or destroy animals, humans, or plants, and you should meditate. Then this Pūrṇaness, completeness, will begin to develop in your body, and you will feel very light and very good. We have today full moon day fasting. Many people didn’t sleep in the night. Tomorrow, there is no breakfast. Why, Swamiji, just have seminars always in Vienna when there is a full moon day? But anyhow, we have tea, coffee, and fruit. So where is the fasting? And now we are waiting, we will have lunch time, some nice vegetables. So our fasting is, let’s say, so-so, kimchi-kimcha, okay? We are just symbolically thinking that we are fasting. Really, in reality, we don’t fast. When you will be really 24 hours without eating, just having a little water, only water, because juice, milk, coffee, tea comes to the food. Water comes to the more neutral. That’s it. But when we want to have water, then we want soda water to satisfy, and then Coca-Cola water, or what kind of water do we need? Yes, this is this. Some people put the lemon in the water and a little sugar inside. Lemonade. This is not fasting. So today I will not force you to do, but think over, try this. Only if you have physical weakness, a problem, you become dizzy, or your blood pressure goes very low, or you are pregnant, then don’t do this. So Pūrṇimā, every Pūrṇimā is a Guru Pūrṇimā. So today we are very blessed that we are together on this Guru Pūrṇimā in Gurujī’s āśram. Feel the presence. Feel the presence and feel the pūrṇa-ness. We are sitting, so many in this hall, but in reality, it is only one. One in all and all in one. That is a pūrṇa-ness, completeness, oneness. But as soon as we come to our ego, "I," who is this one, who is that one, who is this one, that one? Oh, how many we are! But I am special. Yes, we are very special. Okay? Are you happy now? We all say that you are very special. Now what should we do with the special? Man is a very special diamond being. What we do, you know, we put it in one box, close it, and go to the bank and close it in the safe. But then you will say, "Why did you put me in there?" Because you are very special. And we will have that party outside. So, we, no? Then the special one says, "Can I also come?" No, no,... you are special. That is a treatment from the karmic treatment for those who think that I am exclusive and special. We are human. You are Austrians. Even the president of Austria is a citizen of Austria. Even the president of Croatia or Slovenia or any country, okay, it has some position, but still it is a citizen of that country. So we are all citizens of this planet. We are all special. What God has created, all is special. He will not create anything which is not special. But our consciousness tells, our intellect tells, our greed tells, the things which are rare in the world, that we said, are special. There are many, many rocks and coal; that is not special. But very few diamonds, that is special. So when you come to that realization of the Pūrṇa, then all becomes for you the same. And therefore, today is the Guru Pūrṇimā. Every day is a Guru Pūrṇimā. Many saints were born on this Pūrṇimā, and many saints also left on this day. It doesn’t matter how one looks, but it has karma. It has some good things. You know, one of our, your sister, my very good bhakta, the Yogananda from Navasad, she said, "Swamiji, I am going now, but I wait and pray that I want to go on full moon day, Guru Pūrṇimā." And really, she managed, she... She left her body on Guru Pūrṇimā. Not great? Yes. And you can also do, okay? You can say, "I want to leave my body this evening." Would you like to do it? No. You see? That’s why. Because why? We are not special. So let us celebrate the party of the Guru Pūrṇimā party. Therefore, pūrṇa-ness, completeness. So we will feel this ānanda. So we will have this meditation. When we chant this meditation mantra, then you feel how the energy is flowing in the body. Every limb of the body is getting energy. My hands, the fingers, the thumbs, the palms, elbows, joints, the nerves, the muscles, tissues, ligaments from the left hand also, the legs, the trunk of the body, leg, digestion, everything beautifully is recharging this sound resonance of the Pūrṇa, and that’s very, very nice. And so, let’s say, to make it clear and easy for everyone, we will chant this: "I am bliss, I am bliss, bliss I am. I am happy, I am happy, happy I am." Ānandoham, ānandoham. Ānandam, brahmānandam. We will sing only ānandoham. Ānand. Ānandakārī. Where there is ānand, there is maṅgalam. Where there is maṅgalam, there is happiness, there is truth, there is love and oneness. But still, if you don’t feel this and are sitting in one corner and crying at home or anywhere, that is only your stupidity. That we cannot do anything against. So, feel the Pūrṇānanda, completeness in you, and we will do this meditation. You close your eyes, make yourself comfortable, close the eyes. Girl, close your eyes, be comfortable, be relaxed, relax your elbows, repeat your mantra slowly. Many people are repeating mantras at a very express speed. It means you are nervous. When you are in ānanda, everything is relaxed. When you are in ānanda, then everything is so soft, gentle, slowly it is in oneness. There is no hurry to run anywhere, because you are there where you would like to be. Part 2: Guided Meditation and Satsang Therefore, there is no hurry. Relax the whole body. Make yourself comfortable and gently close your eyes. We will chant Oṁ once. This means: with this resonance, withdraw yourself from external objects and come to yourself. Relax. Sit straight. Many of your necks are hanging to the right or left side. Ensure your neck is straight. Many of you are looking; your head is turned left or right. This means your brain hemispheres are not in balance. Ensure your nose is completely straight in the middle. Take a few deep inhalations and exhalations. Now, take a deep inhale with the whole body. Feel your body from the toes to the top of the head, and from the top of the head to the toes. Relax. Feel the radiance of today’s full moon. Feel the Guru. Feel Kripa. Feel your ātmā. Feel your being here—comfortable, relaxed, and safe. No tensions at all, physically or mentally. Just relax. Chant once more, a long Oṁ, not too loud. Deep inhale, and while chanting, feel this resonance and vibration throughout the whole body. Oṁ. I will chant the first mantra, Ānandoham. With the same tune, melody, and length, we will then chant together. Follow everyone. You may, from time to time, give rest to your breath, but do not jump out of the others’ chanting. More volume. Exhale and concentrate on the Anāhata Cakra. Concentrate on the Ājñā Cakra—the light or visions through the Ājñā Cakra. Feel feelings through the Anāhata Cakra and sound vibration through the Maṇipūra Cakra. The Maṇipūra Cakra is the seat of sound. It is like throwing a small stone into a lake and seeing how the waves spread; similarly, from Maṇipūra, the awakening of the Shakti Kuṇḍalinī in the form of sound spreads through the whole body. It also touches the Mūlādhāra Cakra, creating a beautiful vibration ascending and descending through the spinal column—Cakra Bhedan. Every cakra is purified, and energy goes through and through. Your every organ, every limb, every tissue, every joint, and every muscle is recharging with divine positive energy, which we may call ānanda—bliss, happiness, joy, beauty, and health. Do not chant too loudly; just listen more and feel this resonance within yourself. Of course, the sound will also expand in space. This means that as far as the sound expands in that length of space, the negative energy is purified and becomes ānanda. Ānanda Svarūpa. God is ānanda. God is love, and that love has another form as ānanda—happiness. Every creature is searching for this happiness. You are the giver of happiness to others. Do not limit yourself like a diamond locked in a case inside a safe. Open it. Let the radiance of the diamond be free. A diamond can only radiate when sunlight is there. Similarly, your jīvātmā, yourself, ātmā, can only radiate that light through Brahman—the son of Brahman, or God, in whatever form or name you believe. Pose yourself in the divine light, and you will have thousands, millions of radiances through and through, not only in one direction. You are like a very light balloon in space, lightening and radiating from every direction—the middle point, Nābhi Maṇipūra Cakra, Ānanda Svarūpa. Feel yourself being here in oneness with all of us. No duality, no differences. Everyone is yourself in this divine hall of Gurujī’s ashram, in our presence, under the constellation of the Pūrṇimā, the full moon. The main thing is that you feel the sound vibration as a healing energy. Definitely, there will be a karmic healing. Definitely, there will be a karmic healing. This means purifying from negative karma. When we come near to the sun, the darkness disappears. We would like to merge into that one light. This is the greatest light of life—without barriers, without doubt, without hesitation. Feel the divine radiance. It makes your limbs strong. It gives new prāṇa to your fingers and your palms. This sound has a healing effect on your whole body: your joints, bones, muscles, nerves, all the organs in your body, and all the souls in your body. They will be recharged by the sound. Repeat very slowly, internally: Ānandoham ānandoham... Ānandoham. I am bliss. I am bliss. Bliss I am. Happy I am. Happy I am. Am I happy? Feel the whole. Your body and your breath are beautiful divine energy in the body. Think only those thoughts which make you happy. Yes, you can. And you can reduce the negative thoughts of unhappiness. My every limb is getting healthy and more prāṇa. Und bekommt viel Kraft, viel Prāṇa. Divine resonance—the divine resonance of happiness and bliss within yourself. Divine resonance, bliss, happiness. Where there is no fear, where there is no anxiety, where there is no uncertainty, where there is no sadness, where there is no duality, where there is no pain and suffering, where there is no greed and no conflicts, where there is no selfishness, no jealousy, and no anger—then it is pure bliss. Then in your consciousness is dwelling only happiness and joy. Ānandoha. Ānanda Brahma... Now, take a deep inhale. Three times, and exhale. And once, chant Oṁ. Deep inhale, exhale. Deep inhale, exhale. Deep inhale. Put your mala on your neck, fold your palms, and rub them to warm them. Your face muscles. Open your eyes. Hari Om. The webcast is now over. The program is now... you have exactly one, two, three, four... twenty minutes interval. You spoke in Salzburg that the Mālā should only reach the heart. Can a long Mālā be used by someone else? Because if it is long, it is a little more uncomfortable. When you bend forward and look out, it hangs somewhere and breaks. When you practice the mantra with a mala, if the mala is very long, it is always confusing. And so it is. That’s why there should be no knots. Okay... It is the business of some people who are selling the malas. So take care that the mala is smaller, only till the Anāhata Cakra, okay? And the rest of the long malas you can give them back as a present, okay? Thank you. Yes, I have a question. One is: when we read Mahābhārata, Rāmāyaṇa, and all other books, we can see that all saints who were trying to live through Yama and Niyama, if they made a little mistake, they come into the circle of incarnation. So, where is our chance? Do we have any chance? That is one question. And another question is: when we are angry, how can we put love towards God and ask Him to help us? Because when you are angry, you are angry. Thank you. When God follows Yama and Niyama perfectly, He does not do it for Himself. But if He is angry or if He is doing something, as in the Mahābhārata or any other instance, then He is doing it for the well-being of the entire creation. When you have an illness and you go to the doctor, and the doctor operates on you, He will cut out some organ or part of the body. It means He is not killing you. He is cutting, operating only on the bad things. Similarly, God incarnates; the holy incarnates here to operate on the negative energies and to let the positive energy live, grow long, and multiply, okay? So, because they are karma... they don’t have karma; they are above this. Yes, when we are angry and again we pray to God, and again we are angry and again we pray, so our nature is to be angry, and God’s nature is to be forgiving, okay? But for God, we will have an easy life, and He has to do many things. Therefore, don’t be angry, okay? I have problems with my self-discipline. I would like to get up in the morning and do sādhanā. And when I go to sleep, I say to myself, "Okay, I will get up." But in the morning when I wake up, I don’t have enough strength or self-discipline to do sādhanā. And then when I’m sad, when I don’t see you, then I have the feeling that it’s sad that I can’t do it. Yes. First of all, you are questioning your laziness—that you can’t get up early in the morning, and when you get up, you are sleepy and tired. It means your physical energy is missing. You have to eat more vegetarian, balanced, sāttvic nourishment so that the Tamas Guṇa goes away. Second, don’t eat anything after sunset so that you will have no problem getting up early in the morning. You will get up very fresh and relaxed. In the morning, you can’t sleep because you are hungry. You will get up and go to the kitchen to eat. That’s it. Our modern rhythm in our everyday life is unfortunately so changed that we are having dinner nearly when we should have breakfast, and we have breakfast nearly when we should have lunch, and we have lunch nearly when we should have dinner. But it is said, according to the biorhythm, that eating after sunset is not good. It turns more into the Tāmas Guṇa. We don’t have a problem with overweight; we don’t have a problem with laziness. But after sunset, our day begins. We are lucky sometimes to have our dinner already at 12, 11:30 to 2:30. If you have a very important meeting to get a signature from some important person, no? So you have to feed from 11:30 till 2:30 with kind of bottles, liquid, and this eating and that eating. Then say to my friend, "Okay, can you... okay, my friend, I do it now." Yes? So avoid late dinner or quit dinner. And if you do eat, then only take something liquid—not alcohol. When someone tells you that Swāmījī said we should not do this or that, then make sure, as long as I am alive in physical form, to ask me by email, by telephone, by letter, and I will answer. Then you should act. Many, many people in some countries say, "Swāmījī said." Many times I get news from Ljubljana or from Slovenia or from Croatia, and they say, "Swamiji told me five times in the dream, 'I must do this, and everybody has to do this.'" Others said, "In meditation, Swamiji said to me this, and this is Swamiji’s Guru Vākya." You don’t follow the Guru Vākya. I said, "Okay, when it is Guru Vākya, then okay." So make sure: why should I tell you in a dream? I can tell you without dreaming now, no? Therefore, some people are doing other things. So make sure, okay? So you want to have a Guru Vakya in black and white, or white on black. Or Swāmījī telephones in the presence of a few people and says this and this. Okay? Or, my authentic persons—for example, like Natasha, whom I trust—she will give you really the correct information. She will not say, "Swamiji said this," or "Swamiji said that." Or other sisters, for example... Okay, "Swamiji, I have a question regarding karma and dharma." It’s not really easy to understand for a householder. It’s very easy to understand. The dharma is the family for a woman, for a woman... but the personal dharma for each of us, it’s not easy to understand. How can we understand or recognize what is our personal dharma in work and so on? Thank you. In the next seminar... There are two things. One is your duty as a profession, which you are obliged to do. But second is your personal dharma that you are not doing. So you are at work; you have a meeting, a party, so you have to go as friends or colleagues. So this is your dharma; you should go. But your personal dharma is that you will not eat meat or consume alcohol. So, observe yourself that you are not doing this. Okay? Yes, not so easy. It is very easy. Now it is very modern: "I am vegetarian. I don’t consume alcohol." This is very modern now. Yes, that’s very clear, Swamiji. But to know the dharma also in the work: if you have a position and you know something, what you have to do is right, and other things are not so great. That’s why I’m saying this is your everyday bread for everybody. Everybody—it doesn’t matter if you are employed here or there, if you are a manager, director, or secretary, anything—you are still a slave. And so the slave has to say, "Yes, sir." Can I ask you one question? We want to do things, we have the wish to do things, but then we fail. Then try again. We shall try again and again. Fear is so strong for what? Everything is too strong. A small mosquito stick is very strong also. But try again. We will succeed, okay? We will overcome... we will overcome... what some day? Yes, thank you. Very good for the question. Unfortunately, this time there will be no seminar in South Africa because South Africans have little troubles, and the time is not good because it is Christmas time and everything is overbooked and expensive. But I have good news. We will have a one-and-a-half-month seminar in Australia in Dungbong Ashram in the forest. This will be from the 10th or 12th of December until the 15th or 18th of January, 2009 to 2010. Christmas, New Year... There are many, many red-bellied snakes and so many nice small spiders, but when they bite you, you have 15 minutes to relax and breathe deep, and then… So we had to have shhh. And I decided, as a recovering... First was a question to go to Pune. First was Africa; that was cancelled. Then to Professor Sadeshmukh in Pune. That is very selfish of me, and so I thought I would go there. But the situation doesn’t allow me to go there, therefore I have to be one and a half months outside of India so that I remain as a non-resident Indian, okay? So, a non-resident Indian can only go for so many days in India. So Australia is very nice. Here will be cold and dark, no? And there the sun is shining at forty-five degrees. We will call to Vienna: "Hello." So that means that we will be... First I will go to New Zealand for one weekend, and then I will go only to Sydney and fly to Dungong and relax there. Make my sādhanās, and people have evening satsaṅgs or live with that—that’s all. Relax. Who do you think will go? And then we come to Kumbh Melā. Vandana, yeah? Vandana? What is your name? Sir, who is going? Hands up. I must count it. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25. Very good. Yes, girl, why don’t you raise your hand up? Sit down, one minute, sit down. Yeah, from... yes, you will go. From Bratislava, girl, what is your name? Forgotten. The wife of Uṣṇepurī, Vṛndāvan, yes. The Uṣṇepurī should be here because it is very dark. So we need the light of the sun here, and you are Vṛndāvan, so you go there between the snakes. Yes, Kumbh Melā. Thank you. Kumbh Melā, 2010, has three main bathing days: the 12th of February, the 15th of March, and the 14th of April. Five days before we travel, and three days after the bathing, you can come back. There are two options: either you would like to be in a hotel. It means ladies will be in one room, gents will be in one room. Even your husband and wife, we will not give you one room. Or you can be in our tents, in our camp. Those who will sleep in the hotel have to come to the camp on time and then go only in the evening to sleep. The third option is that you can come for the whole length. I will come, I think, the first week of February or 10th of February to Haridwar, the entry in the Kumbh Melā, and I will stay till April. Maybe I fly one day or two days to Jodan; otherwise I have to stay all the time there. More information: our Śāntī Devī has all the information, and your organizers in your country for airplanes. And it is requested: please come in groups, join one airplane, because of the transport from Delhi to Haridwar. If you go at 3 o’clock in the morning, you can come in four and a half hours to Haridwar. If you go at 7 o’clock from Delhi, then it takes now... you have six hours, six to seven hours. And that time, Kumbh Melā time, it will take you nine hours, eight to nine hours. Therefore, we have to book either a charter airplane, or we have to book the whole wagon of the train. And four months ahead, we have to have name, passport number, nationality, birth date, and then we can book the whole wagon and also the whole wagon coming back. It means if you don’t come in the group, you come with another airplane which is one hour late, and the whole group of 200 people have to wait for you, and then your airplane will not land because of the fog, so you disturb the whole group. Therefore, it is a request: please come or join the group. After coming there, you can stay longer or this. Who comes individually? First, we will try not to accept them. Second, maybe it is a higher price. Sorry, because there is not an ashram. There we can compromise. There is everything we have to hear, everything. And when you come only for one weekend, it means what? You will hire; I have to pay for two and a half months. So don’t count that you were only for one weekend; you have to pay so much. When you are gone, what should I do with your bed and this and that? Maybe I have some, or I don’t have some. You understand me? Thank you very much. The rest of the information is with our dear Śāntī Devī. Every three baths are very important. Of course, Śiva Rātri is on the 12th of February. This is one of the most... but water will have five degrees, Ganges, or maybe two degrees, where the master has to put the dress out, and everybody says, "Please, ma’am, ma’am,... ma’am." So don’t splash the room with water. I will go in and out in a hurry, okay? The last is on the 14th or the 15th, Śāntīdevī? The 15th or the 14th? The 14th of April is very significant for us, as it will be one mini-yuga—12 years since I became a Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar—and so we will have a special celebration there. And it’s warm. Daytime can be about 30 to 40 degrees. Night can be 5 to 10 degrees, or 15 degrees. So, thank you very much. No more questions. It is already 12. And, yeah, how’s the time? How’s the time? Yes, because I am always afraid of Austrians. Do you forget? I forget where I am. That is good. That is very nice. We have to forget where we are. Then we are in nothing. That is our goal. You don’t have to concentrate because you are in meditation now, not in concentration, so you are above one level: Dhāraṇā and Dhyāna. You are in Dhyāna. Okay? No problem. Wish you a very good journey. Who’s driving today? The long holidays are beginning in Austria, but I think it’s already... it was Friday, so today is Sunday, no? Tomorrow is a holiday in Austria, but in other countries, not maybe.