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Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī, Alakapurī Jī Mahādev Kī, Devādhī Dev, Deveśvar Mahādev Kī, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī, Śyāvara Rāmacandra Bhagavān Kī. Blessed selves, spiritual seekers, practitioners of yoga and daily life, and all other bhaktas around the world. Today is the most holy festival called Pavlī. This message comes from Holy Bhārat, from Rājasthān, Jhādan. All my dear ones, you are with me through the webcast. I am with you through my spiritual power and, of course, through this webcast. Today we also have a nice surprise: Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar Śrī Gyāneśvar Purījī has come from Australia to worship this holy Dīpāvalī. It is a festival of light. The whole of India is illuminated. Last year, they compared how much light is in India, and during Pavlī, it was about 70 percent more illuminated. This is the festival that leads from darkness to light. It is according to the holy book Rāmāyaṇa. Bhagavān Śrī Rāma was in the Dvāpara Yuga. In Tretā Yuga was Kṛṣṇa, and now in Kali Yuga we are waiting. The holy Rāmāyaṇa was created by many saints. One more, what we call, is the Rāmāyaṇa from Tulsīdāsjī. But if you want to know all about God Rāma, one of the best Rāmāyaṇas was written by the great saint Vālmīki. Vālmīki wrote the Rāmāyaṇa even before God Rāma's incarnation. There are great saints who have received the hermitages; they were known as Trikaṛṣis. The paramparā from those ṛṣis, like our Alagapurījī who was in Satyayuga and was like Śiva himself. Our paramparā, our spiritual lineage, is from Ālagapurījī. Many other ṛṣis have their spiritual lineages around the whole world. That vidyā, that knowledge, those siddhis, that trikāla-darśī (vision of past, present, and future), all can be realized from that paramparā. Those ṛṣis, those sages, and their followers, even now in these days, have all the visions with all bhaktas and devotees. But, of course, this vidyā, this knowledge, is not to be opened to all. We know the entire story of Bhagavān Rām. But today is the day when Bhagavān Rām comes back after 14 years, having spent time in the forest, visiting and meeting many, many Siddhas and Ṛṣis. The whole family of Ayodhyā was waiting for God Rāma to come back—his faithful Sītā and his very dear brother Lakṣmaṇa. So today is the day God comes back. It means the light. There is a story that when Bharat comes to know that Bhagavān Rām is coming, Bharat, the brother of God Rāma, asks the sun, "Please, I request you, don't sit down, don't go to sleep, don't go to the night. Please remain for a while." But Sūrya Nārāyaṇa, the sun, said no. "My principle is this: I have my fixed time, and I cannot wait for anyone. I have to always rise and set." Bharat was looking for his brother Rāma. Rāma is coming, so Bharat told his whole kingdom they should make lights with oil lamps, illuminating everything so it looks like day, so that Rāma, in case he comes a little late, has light there. Spiritually, the sense is this: God brings the light of wisdom, removing the darkness of ignorance and giving the light of knowledge. Everyone has the ability to achieve or get this, but it is said that only they can do so who can follow the Guru's word, who can do the sādhanā, who can do the tapasyā, who can do the anuṣṭhāna, who can do different kinds of sādhanās, thereby purifying their vṛttis (mental modifications). There are vikāras: the physical vikāras, the impurities and diseases of the body; the vikāras of the desires, related to the five jñāna indriyas (senses of perception) and the five karma indriyas (senses of action); and then the mental vikāras, the impurities in the mind, which are very difficult to remove. But as well as the vikāras in the mind, karma is coming, and you never know when these karmas can attack us. As Bhagavān Ādi Guru Śaṅkarācārya said, and he knew, that beside him is moving the light and the dark. That means life and death. Death is following us all at the side of our body. Death looks like some kind of constellation; within a second, it can attack. It can cause an accident, it can create many, many bad habits—mentally, physically, emotionally, socially, spiritually, etc. The vikāra can make humans like a god or can make them like a beggar. It can cause one to go back as a reptilian, like a snake, etc., or some other animal. Therefore, out of the 8.4 million different creatures, only one chance is a human. But we humans have such a mind, and our intellect is full of vikāra. They are playing, they are playing. They think, "I am very clever, I know what I am doing." Nobody knows. Yes, of course you know. But more than you know, there is someone. That is God. And God knows everything. God will give you direction, and God will say, "I'm sorry, my child. I gave you everything. I gave you good legs. I gave you the hands. I gave you the good body. I gave you the eyes. I gave you the good voice, the words, the wisdom, the intellect, etc. Now, what are you doing, as if you are ignorant? No, you are not ignorant. You are very clever in doing, but you know more suffering will be." Therefore, I used to say, the joy you want to enjoy, that joy is a little joy compared to the difficulty and problems of that joy. So we cannot hide in front of others and in front of God. We all have to understand this. Follow the principle of our life. India is a holy land. India is a land of light. India is spiritual. The Hindu religion, the Sanātana Dharma, is the Dharma, a religion of light, happiness, festivals, worshipping, enjoying, dancing, eating, etc. It is a joyful religion, Hinduism. It is a joyful Sanātana Dharma, and the culture of India, the tradition of India. India is a very big country with many, many different languages. Everyone has their different cultures and ways of worshipping, but all is in one. So there's Holī, Dīvālī, Rakṣā Bandhan, etc. There are many, many ways of worshipping, but the highest, the best, the holiest day is what we call today, Dīvālī. There is a Dīvālī; today people are worshipping Lakṣmī. People are going more towards where we get more benefit. And what kind of benefit? Prosperity and health. Divine Mother Lakṣmī gives us prosperity, happiness, etc. So everyone is worshipping Lakṣmī today. Many, in their house, will put all they have—their money, treasures, and jewelry—in one place. Then we make it light, and then they put one book, empty, and one pencil, and they write the name of Gaṇeśjī and give it to Gaṇeśjī. "Please write something for me. How much will I get this year?" And they put it in the book there. Lakṣmī goes to every house, to every Bhakta. Similarly, you know, in Christianity, on Christmas Day, everyone who is a Christian around the world makes worship. In Europe, they mostly make a nice tree and decorate it. That festival came from making a light in Christianity. What they are illuminating is the tree, that which is coming from this tree. This is from the Dvāpar Yuga, and Christianity is just 2,000 years old. So this light is good. Christianity is doing this very well. Nothing wrong. They bring this light, and in the evening they tell the children, "Now you go in the other room, and we must do something. Jesus is coming. Baby Jesus is coming very quickly, and we will ring the bell. Then you should come out of the room." The children come, then parents give tall dolls or something, toys or sweets, and this and that under the tree, and then decorate the tree nicely, and they ring the bell. "Children, come quickly, quickly." "Oh, this is for me, this is for me," they say. "Yes, yes, Jesus came, Jesus came." "Give for you, forgive, but say, where is he?" they said. "You came five seconds late because you have to go into the whole world," if you believe that and give the children this kind of feeling. Then, is it the same thing in the whole world? There is Dīvālī worship in Australia. In every major airport, they have decorated a very nice place for the Dīpāvalī worship, no? Yes. Also in Canada, also in America, in many, many countries. Fiji, of course, they are crazy to have a festival of Dīpāvalī. So, around the whole world, this gives humans confidence. It gives humans hope. It gives humans that kind of feeling that, definitely, I will get something good. And yes, you will get the good. This is the day when Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī incarnated in the Brahma Mūhūrta morning. And that hour, just as Gurujī was singing one nice bhajan about the incarnation, the birth of Bhagavān Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇa and Mahāprabhujī. And then, Holī Gurujī wrote that bhajan. And then Holi Gurujī said, "When Mahāprabhujī was born, how was it?" Guruji said, "Prakāśapuñja Amṛtasāgara." Prakāśapuñja is that, the source of the light, Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī, in the Hari Vāśnī, near Khaṭūbārī, Nāgo district, where we have Khaṭūparṇam. You know Khaṭūparṇam? Not you? You know the Khaṭūparṇam? Yes. Prakāśapuñja: as Mahāprabhujī was born in Brahmamūhūrta, all these Dīpak oil lamps had gone out, but as Mahāprabhujī was born, all these lamps again were illuminated. Yes, you can read in the Līlāmṛta, the ocean of immortality. Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī is the incarnation of Viṣṇu, Hari. Hari is Śiva. Hari is Viṣṇu. Mahā means the greatest. Dhani means the giver. Mahāprabhujī gave so much. You can take as much as you like, as much, but you should come, come to him, surrender. Come, take shelter at his holy feet. Remember his mantra; Mahāprabhujī will give you everything, whatever you ask. Yes? He said, "Only no stupid things." So when you do these stupid things, all your good things, what you are trying to get, is lost. So, prakāśa puñjāmṛta ke sāgara śrī dī parī madanī hai, sāre viśru meṁ guñj rahī. Gurujī ne bhajana likhā. Mahāprabhujī ne bhajan likhā thā, Gurujī ne, some years ago. But he said, in the whole world, Mahāprabhujī's glory is singing glory, the voice, the sound. In any part of the world, you will know that. Everyone has the mantra all day and night, everywhere: Australia, America, New Zealand, Africa, Japan, China, everywhere in India. That is a call, that is a holy saint. And so, my dear, today is a holy Dīpāvalī. I wish you all the best. I pray to Mahāprabhujī to bless you. I pray to Alagapurījī to purify all your karmas. Devapurījī will destroy all your bad, what you call the vikāras, and Holy Gurujī will say, "Don't worry, it will be all good. Do your mantra." So today is the Dīvālī, the light. I wish you all the best. And we are waiting; in a few hours Bhagavān Dīpānanda and Mahāprabhujī will be incarnated. So, my dear, I wish you a happy, happy Dīvālī. And in the morning, we will say, "Rām, Rām." What will you say? Yes, morning when you get up and see everyone—the Indians and Europeans—not only say "Hari Om," but say "Rām Rām." So what? Rām Rām. So it means that God Rāma is already there, Mahāprabhujī is already there. Rām Rām Sa. So people come in India in the morning, they come, they sit all together, and then they give to each other some sweets and come to congratulate them that Rāma is already there. It means Rām Rāma Sa. The God is here. Rām Rāma Sa. That's it. Rām Rāma Sa. Now, I think just as you will sing bhajan and you will enjoy the bhajan. Wish you a happy Diwali. To all the best. Adió.