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Alakhpurījī Mahādeva kī jai, Devādideva Deveśvara Mahādeva kī jai. Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān kī jai, Satya Sanātana Dharma kī jai. Guru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvarānanda, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvarānanda, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvarānanda Purījī, Gurujī Deva kī jai. Good evening to all dear ones, to all spiritual seekers around the world who are with us in this webcast. Today is a very beautiful day as we enter the beautiful time of Christmas. It is a beautiful week with the full moon, and it is also the time of the Mahāsamādhi of the founder of Universal Worship, Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī. This Christmas time, these months of December and January, are a time for contemplating what life means and how to live it. It is not merely about being born and having a life, but about how to live that life. Every creature has its own way to live, connected more closely to nature. Life is not easy for other creatures either. The best time is for children when they go to their playroom; then it is a nice life. Every bird is happy when she is in the nest with her babies. This is life with family. Yet it is said: jīva jīva bhakṣate—life eats life. When we see this, it appears cruel, but their consciousness is different. They do not understand what is dharma and adharma. Dharma is righteousness, the right way. Adharma is the way which is not connected to dharma. In dharma, we are considerate and always think of what is best for others. Dharma is the highest way of living for humans. It is said: dharma rakṣita rakṣitaha—if you protect dharma, then dharma will protect you. We can see dharma in small, everyday things. A husband should never be cruel or angry toward his wife; that is the greatest dharma. For the wife, it is the same duty toward the husband. To live your whole life with your spouse is called the dharma of the couple. Similarly, the dharma of parents is to be good and loving toward their children, not to separate from them. When you give birth to a child, your dharma is to protect, not to separate. It does not matter how the children are; parents will not hate them. Ultimately, children will love their parents, no matter how old either becomes. When a mother or father dies, the first tears come to the eyes of their child, even if that child is eighty years old. This bond is by nature, by God. God created such a union between parents and children. God has given humans a brain with which we can understand pain and pleasure. As a parent, you understand what a child means. With human thought and qualities, the first dharma is to take all creatures as your children. It does not matter if it is the child of a dog, a goat, or a tiger; we love babies. As they grow, we should respect and have mercy toward all creatures—birds, reptiles, and animals. When you see life and kill a living being, you lose your human dharma. Animals have a different nature, but God gave humans intellect. With that intellect, God placed love in the heart. So we understand, and we also understand how to forgive. We should have the same respect and love for our neighbors. Yet now, humans have lost respect for other humans. That is why we have divided countries. God did not separate countries; God gave the earth as a piece to live on for all creatures. There was a time when all lived on this planet without borders. Now we are divided, but we should not take from others, fight against them, or kill them. How many weapons have been developed on this earth? It is not enough to have a knife, a sword, a bamboo stick, or an axe. They developed guns, but that was not enough because one gun cannot kill twenty-eight at once, so they developed bombs. That, too, was insufficient. Now they develop atom bombs, yet they are still not happy or satisfied. O man, what do you want to do on this earth? You will not live here forever. That is adharma, while protection is dharma. Love and protection do not mean you must go and hug a creature. You cannot hug a wild tiger, but that does not mean the tiger is not good. Everyone has their own way to live. Similarly, humans have a way to live. Dharma and adharma are above religion. Dharma does not belong to religion in that way, nor does adharma. Dharma and adharma are universal. Dharma is given to humans, which is why it is said: Dharmarāja—the king of justice in heaven or in Brahmaloka, who decides about dharma and adharma. Within this, dharma and adharma are what is inside, hidden, and that is called karma. There are two kinds of karma: good karma and bad karma. This bad karma and good karma decide a human's quality and whether that human was following dharma. Karma means you cannot go back and undo things. When karma is done, it will yield a result sooner or later. Therefore, it is said the evidence will never die. Even you will die, but that evidence will not die. What evidence is that? That karma will be counted. In physical life, we can somehow make amends, but it will be recorded that in time you did something. There are certain karmas; they are like dust every day. But as humans, with dharma on the tip of the heart, we say in this context: do not cry for the past. Therefore, it is not written too much about the past. Go ahead. Do better and better. Through this, you can purify. This is what we call pāpa and puṇya. Pāpa means sin, and puṇya means piousness. Sin has a negative effect on us, while piousness has an effect in a better way. So God said: "Human, I made you a different creature than others. I gave you everything. Why do you cry that you are unhappy? I gave you happiness without any payment. You do not have to pay any tax. Free of everything, God gave you happiness. Then why do you not enjoy your happiness? Because one day you forgot. You lost the trust. You came with ego and did something that lost your happiness." God has given us happiness. He also gave us the ability to be good people. God gave happiness, ānanda, bliss, mercy, kindness, humbleness. All these qualities I gave you, O my child. These qualities are a protection for you, happiness for you, pleasantness for you, and you fulfill your dharma. Anger is a great enemy of the human. Once Gurujī said to someone—why not, to whom did Gurujī say? Our dear Yogesh in Jadana Ashram, he is always very angry. Yes, out of twenty-four hours, he devoted seven hours to anger. Once he was very angry for days and weeks, so I sent him to Gurujī. Gurujī said: "Anger is that thief which will steal from you everything at your door. Whatever good things you bring from this world, you want to bring into your house, but anger sitting on that door will steal everything from you." From that day on, Yogesh became a little better. So you should know, if you are angry, it is your choice. It is your life, but you should know that anger is taking all your dharma, all your good qualities, everything. So dharma is something good, and anger is what will take everything away. Jealousy—yes. You have a beautiful house with many good things inside. I do not know what good things you think about. Some have very precious paintings, furniture, good blankets, beds, and many good things. Everything is good, but what happened? A fire, such a big fire, even the bricks were burning. Nothing remained; the nice wood, everything burned. It is said: you neither remain as wood nor become ash; you become black coal. Jealousy is jalan, fire. Jealousy is that fire we cannot control. We will call the fire brigade, but it will take time to calm down. Therefore: anger, jealousy, then hate. Hate is a kind of storm with a speed of maybe five hundred kilometers. It pulls all the trees, old trees, out by their roots. All the soil is blown away with that air. Hate. So when you hate someone, all your good qualities, all that makes you human, is lost. It is your choice. God said: "I gave you both. You will do adharma." Then these negative qualities will come. And when you have dharma, everything will be protected; nothing will happen. You know, there are bombs from the First World War or the Second World War. A live bomb is still in the earth. But there are experts who can empty it, or make it so it will not explode. So in us, there is a live bomb, but that bomb first destroys itself and then others. That kind of bomb in us—anger, jealousy, and hate—then that quality is called cruelty, krutosti, and that will explode. So it is pāpa and puṇya. We do not talk too much about past karma. That is a loss of time. We shall work on something of good quality. So before past karma attacks us again, if we do so many pious karmas, we are already in liberation. It is like someone went to hunt tigers with a helicopter. They landed somewhere. There were three people with guns searching for lions and tigers. A bunch of tigers ran to attack them. Luckily, the three were sitting near the helicopter. Before the tiger could jump, the helicopter took off. They were looking up and said, "Bye-bye." So it is that if we do so many good karmas, then levitation occurs. That heavy karma remains down, and your good karma will lead you to the light. In a room with a lot of darkness, we put on the light and the darkness is gone. So do not cry about the past; it will not help, because the past is not only for this life but also for other lives. Do not think that karma is gone. The karma will be there. You will come again as a ghost—ghost, ghost. A Croatian said "ghost hotel," yeah, in the middle of Zagreb. When I first came to Zagreb, in the middle of the city, in a good hotel, they put me inside and said, "Ghost hotel." We were two persons, three persons. I said, "My God, I will not sleep tonight. Ghost hotel." I still remember, in the morning when the sun rose, I woke up and said, "Thank you, Mahāprabhujī, the ghosts were not here today." So, religion means to realize your relation; that is religion. That relation means we search for God. We believe in God. This certain belief we call our relation, religion. But finally, religion has to merge into dharma. This is the time of the great saints. We do not know when Jesus was born. Some say not on the 24th, some say yes, some say no. But it is not that way. Whether he was or not, or on which day or night, the main thing is we believe, we trust, and that is it. We trust in God. American dollars are written with "In God We Trust," and that is why people are always searching for the dollar. Now we have to write on the Euros: "We are sure." That is it. Anyhow, this is a very spiritual time. It is a man-made time, because time is not God-made; there is no time. We created time; otherwise, there is no calendar in the sky. We humans try to count the years, the time, but it is said it is beyond time and space—one without a second. There is not even a second, but we begin to count, and we are counting. We are bound to this time. We die, we are born, we die. How old are you? How many years? When we were small—twelve years, fifteen years—we said, "Well, I am still young. When I am grown, I will be strong and will do everything." We want to grow up. But when fifty, sixty, seventy years come, we do not say, "I will be more old." Better we do not grow old. So everything changes, but time itself does not change. We have to come to that which is one without a second. That is it. So we follow dharma, and that is what we call Sanātana Dharma. It is eternal, everlasting. In that Sanātana Dharma, there is no individual God. It is only Dharma and Adharma, that is all, and we should follow Dharma. Then they ask, "Which kind of dharma do you have?" So there are different religions, and now there is much discussion. Many conferences are held about science and dharma, and religion. Between science and religion, the truth is yoga. Yes, yoga is the truth. Because it is about uniting, harmonizing, and balancing one's consciousness—though some have it better, some do not. Yoga is that which one day everyone will realize: what I did and what I should not do. For the last ten days, my mind has been dwelling on this: we will change the world through yoga. You should write: it means peace, harmony, understanding, and brotherhood. Brotherhood through yoga. And it has begun. It has begun in the whole world. Millions of people, millions, are turning toward that kind of thinking—a positive way of living, a healthy mind, healthy body, healthy intellect, and a healthy awareness directed toward liberation and brotherhood. So this is the day, this Christmas time, and there are also many saints who were born, many who left, and many who are still under the glaciers. When the glaciers melt, we will have to search every cave. How many ṛṣis are sitting there? They will open their eyes and say, "Oh, the sun is still shining." Because under the glaciers, there is no sun shining. Anyhow, it is the time to change our thoughts. Anger, jealousy, hate, cruelty—that is not good. Tomorrow we will come to the other point. I wish you all the best. Yaśanā Tandanā Kī Jai, Viśvaguru, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Bhagavān, Śrī Svāmī Maheśvarānanda Purījī, Gurujī, Śrī Devpurījī, Kī Jai.