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Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Śrī Śrī Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva, Satguru Svāmī Mādhvānandajī Bhagavān, Satyasanātana Dharma, Guru Mahāvandali Svarga, Mahāvandali Svarga, Mahāvandali Svarga, Mahāvandali Svarga. We had a very nice one-week program with many different events and lectures. Our dear Gulābjī Koṭarī from Jaipur, Rajasthan, just telephoned to ask how everyone is and to give thanks, saying everything was good. Our Kriyā Anuṣṭhāna involves different kinds of sādhanā. The first sādhanā is like when children are making too much noise and are told there will be no chocolate. If they speak too much, they are shown a very nice sleeping room. If they are still not nice, parents have to go into the garden with them. So please, if the children are very little, even just two or three, it is disturbing for the webcast. Anuṣṭhāna. There are many different sādhanās. It is when you make a saṅkalpa. Saṅkalpa means you promise yourself to undertake a practice for a certain purpose: for spiritual development, for good health, for success in examinations, for professional success, or to maintain good family harmony. Most ladies do it for their husband, praying that he remains healthy and that God protects him. In many ways, the wife wishes good for the husband, and the husband also makes anuṣṭhāna, praying for his wife, because we are now living in oneness. We live lifelong together, and so we live in harmony with understanding, helping each other and holding good wishes for each other. That is how the household maintains harmony. There are many situations. Consider this: I have here a little bowl, a ball, and inside is something, let's say chocolate or candy. When I take only one out, it will still make noise. If there is only one inside, then it will not make any noise. But with more, this is what happens. When we are living in one household, we have grandparents. It is a beauty. It is divine. They are our ancestors. We have the responsibility to take care of them. Sometimes there are ten children from five sons; they have children, and those children also have children. They are nearly 18, and they again have children, so they become about 45, plus grandparents. Who were only two? The two brothers married. There were two wives, and they multiplied, but now they are very old. Now this family of 30–40 lives in or near the village. In the village evening, everyone comes and goes to the grandmother and grandfather. You sit beside them, the grandmother or grandfather holding your hand. They ask you, "How are you, my son? Are you okay?" etc. And they also ask, "How is grandmother?" Everything is okay. This is a community, a family in harmony. If anyone has a problem, all try to help. If one or two children are not good, then other children, their brothers and sisters, will help them. So the society remains very nice and happy. Now it is the fifth generation, and these young couples are going to marry. All of them, including these children, will go to the grandparents to take permission. "Can we marry into that house, that family?" etc. And what do we say today? "It’s not your problem, Mommy. Grandfather, it’s not your problem. You live your life. I live my life." Where is the harmony? Where is the love? When we talk about love, it is not emotional, it is not sex, but you live like one body. Marriage means to merge. It is like two rivers entering one ocean. Then it is neither this river nor that river, but only the ocean. Similarly, for your husband and your wife, it is now not a husband and not a wife, but the oneness: one house, one thinking, one work, one decision. We should strive to bring this back so that our Kali Yuga becomes for us like a Satya Yuga. That is very important. For that, they do the anuṣṭhāna. They set aside particular days and pray only that their family remains healthy, has a long life, and is happy, prosperous, and peaceful. For this, they are doing Anuṣṭhāna. Yes? And nowadays, what are they doing? They are making an uṣṭhāna: "God, I have had enough of my husband. Please, can you free me from this person? I have had enough. Please, I go to the court. But still they don't want to let me divorce. I cannot sleep, I cannot work. Please, God, it’s my prayer, my anuṣṭhāna: get rid of this person." That is also like this, and this is this Kaliyuga. So both have to understand, the husband and the wife. Both have to compromise. If someone has no husband or no wife, that is a different thing, another subject. Gulabjī Koṭarī was touching one point, and then he changed the subject. I looked at him, I just made a gesture like this, and so we went on. Another anuṣṭhāna we do is for good rain, good crops, good vegetation, good water, etc. We pray every day. When the season is coming, we are praying now for next year’s crops. We are preparing the field, but we will harvest which kind of seed? Sunflowers, corn, etc. This is our anuṣṭhāna. We offer to God, and when we harvest, we worship. The first crops that come, we offer to God. It doesn’t matter which God: Hanumānjī, Śiva, Kṛṣṇa, Rāma, Brahmā, Jesus, any. It means that we gave their part to God. We offer everything, and what we get back is a blessing. There is a tradition in Europe somewhere. It is getting lost slowly. I don’t know if in Czech and Slovak they have this tradition at all. Maybe there, but I don’t know. But Austrians have it. On a certain day, all farmers bring their crops: their corn, wheat, fruits, vegetables, pumpkins. They decorate very nice bulls and the bull cart, and it is very nice. They bring it to the church, or a priest comes, and they offer the worship they give to God. We pray that next year our crops and everything should be like that. This is our sādhanā. When you go to your field, it is not just a field and these bushes. It is your bread. That whole field is your bread. In that way, when we work and take from our nature, God helps us. Sometimes God does something we don’t understand. One year there is no proper rain, or it is too hot, or too cold. The farmers collected and were blaming God. "Why, God, this and that? Why doesn’t God help us? Don’t put too much rain. Only what we need. Not too much heat. Excellent. God, give it into our hands. We are the farmers. We know what to do." God said, "OK." So they made a field. They said, "Now it should rain." It was raining. They put the seeds and let them grow. Not too strong sun, and now not too much cold, and no water at that time. The crops were growing and growing and growing, and they began to come. They were harvesting. But there was a seed, but not inside anything. Where the seed should be, everything was empty. So they were blaming God. "What is this? I don’t know, I was relaxed, God. I went on holiday." But no, what was it? There were no grains. Yes. Because you wanted to have only good weather, but we need heat, the sun, humidity, hot air, and air-conditioning. From that, you can’t get that; you can’t harvest anything. So, C.I.O. is a spiritual life. Let it be in nature’s hands. It was very shocking, very touching. We heard from Paris, from Brazil, that we should save all the trees so there will be no fires. In San Francisco, sorry, excuse me, San Francisco. That is called our modern intellectuals, with good learning and high education. For what? To chop off all the trees and destroy the whole agriculture. This is education? So Gurujī said, "There are many stupid." But these are learned stupid. There is one farmer. They have no higher education, but he is so one with nature and knows when and where to make fire, where to plant trees, crops, vegetables, etc. Because we are far away from nature, it should not be like that. So we should have an anuṣṭhāna. We pray for our vegetation, and we are putting more and more trees in Europe. Europe is a great, great collection of countries. Because they are small countries. This small country is one family. The whole Czech Republic is one Indian family. Yeah, that’s it. A little bigger family is like France. Other families are German, yes, and some are like Hungarians. Slovenians are about two million. That’s a small family. What do I mean? We have one caste, which is very big. Another caste is not so big. This is one family. So there are Rajputs, warriors, Brahmins, farmers, etc. There are many. You can’t imagine how many Pandit Brahmins there are. It may be Czech, Slovak, Polish, Austrian, Hungarian, Croatian, Slovenian. This all is one little family called Brahmins. Yes, you understand me? Now they are all in harmony, and some are fighting sometimes. So, we have a small family, but now they are talking: small family, happy family. Like this, yesterday we heard in China only one child. Now, one child doesn’t matter, girl or boy. But the child thinks, "I want my brother, or I want my sister." So at least they should give the two choices. And the other Muslims, they have no other work: children, children, children. Yes. How good. Because Islam says we follow the rules and the law of the country. But for our families, we don’t follow your law. We do what our holy book said—not the Bible, the Quran. What Allah said, that is the highest, okay? The local things we do. But to have more children is our choice. So they have big families. They love children. And sometimes, if not one, then one, two, three, four, five, six, seven women can be. Yeah. Oh, how nice. Seven wives, one husband. Oh, he is a poor man because the woman doesn’t go for work. No, they are at home. Work has to be done by the man, yes, anyhow. So there is, in countries we like, in Europe it’s easy to lead together. So you have a very good system, but I suggest you have more children; otherwise, it’s going away. I have nothing against anyone, but it can happen after some centuries or lokas, what we call the yugas, so what is called this white skin, maybe it will be in the piece of papers. That is already the situation. In England and other countries, people are coming. When there are ten houses in one street from different countries, then the British try to move from this street somewhere else. So they are going back and back. Yes or no? There are some people living there. Yes? Nobody here who is in London? Then speak, stand. Who is there? Yes? Thank you. When too many Pakistanis are coming, or too many Indians are coming, or too many Nepalis and Sri Lankans, that whole street will be those people; they will move out. Yeah. The whole market, everything is only this. And there is some other one: Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa. And so all run away. The whole history is Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa. So why not? Either you should learn to be together friendly, but someone has different habits, other ones have different habits. So this is the situation, and for that we do the Anuṣṭhāna. We pray to God according to our belief. Which God you believe, or you don’t believe in God, but you can have good wishes, and for that you make anuṣṭhāna. We have mantras in our Vedas. It is said, only there it is said, "Sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ." You know that mantra? Sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ. All should be happy. If we do like this, there will be no war, only peace. We are praying for the whole world. Vasudhaiva Kuṭumbakam: we said that the whole world is the children of one God. And we are the family of God, so we should pray: "Sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ, sarve santu nirāmayāḥ." These are the mantras. Then it is said, "Lead us from the dark days to the light." We pray for the whole world. That is Sukhino Bhavantu to everything. But in reality, this is not easy. It is not easy. You may say yes. We have nothing against it. We are all one. We love all, everything. Okay? I don’t want to name any country. But do you feel dualities sometimes? What do you call a gypsy? Many countries are so allergic, and they try to neglect them, so that they can’t come to that level. Unfortunately, don’t think that the caste system is only in India. But in many countries, many countries, America. What is about the neighbors? Mexico. How big a wall are they thinking to make? And who will pay? Not America. America wants to have it from Mexico, and the wall is against them. Maybe it’s good, or maybe bad. Maybe the president of America decides it’s good. Who am I to judge the American president? But I am just telling. So, don’t say the caste system is there, but everywhere. In Christianity, there are so many different beliefs. It is more than in India, and you see in America how many different churches. So everywhere is this in Kali Yuga. In Satya Yuga, there was only one dharma. Oneness. A human is a human. But in Kali Yuga, now so many dharmas are coming, so many religions, and when one comes, it becomes a big master. And then that master becomes great, then the master becomes distant, and some people have to believe that the master is the God, and this God, and this God. And suddenly we establish one religion. That is not good. Dharma is one. That’s called the only religion. So, what will you say? You will say the Christian dharma or religion, Buddhist dharma, Hindu dharma. So the first name we remove, only dharma. That’s why Jesus has no title: neither professor Jesus, surgeon Jesus, farmer Jesus. Only Jesus. Krishna? Yes, only. It’s not Mr. Krishna, or not the pilot Krishna, but only Krishna, only Rāma. So that is one, that one power, and that is God. So we have to make anuṣṭhāna, and what is anuṣṭhāna? "Sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ"—all should be happy, all including the animals. God, let all live in harmony, or live happily. Now, animals have no place to live. Rabbits, deer, and other animals have no place to live. The birds, many, many birds, there is no nature for them to live. Certain birds need certain trees. There are some birds that need a little bush, a thorny bush. They lay their eggs inside, and the babies are there. Because the snake cannot come, because there are so many thorns. The big birds cannot come to eat this baby. They feel so safe. And where are these bushes? You made, you pulled out all the bushes. And what did we do? Highways, factories, this, that. Who thinks about animals? If your house is damaged and very cold, will you sit there? Or you will search for some house from someone? But innocent animals, where can they go? Where can they sit? Where can they drink? And all poisons, all poisons in the field, and if the bird will eat, it dies. Who is the cause of that? Human, so don’t think that we humans are like a God. See what they are suffering, the animals. For them, we shall make anuṣṭhāna. For that, we should pray, and we should give them something. The birds have only a certain time for some kind of fruits. Then they have some different kind of food, but that thing is there. All fruits we take away. Other trees we chop up. So, what can animals eat? Where can the bees go? For that, we should do the anuṣṭhāna. So when we will be here five, seven days, when you sit in your meditation, you will do your Anuṣṭhāna, and before that, we all should say it together. We are not praying only for humans. We pray for all creatures, and for that we do the Anuṣṭamī. So this time, our saṅkalpa is this. Every year we are having saṅkalpa. The good for saving the bees, and it took our wish, so the European Union and the United Nations put this: "Save the bees and save the birds." We are doing it, but there are some people who think that all animals are beasts. That’s not good. So we will, this year, every day, not only in this, pray that all creatures should live in peace, harmony, and health. God protect all. This is our Anuṣṭhāna for this year. In this way, I wish you all the best. You have your teachers and observers, and they will take care of you. Now, in Anuṣṭhāna, we have to sit straight, a little tapasyā, austerity, but your instructor, your observer, will be watching. But two or three stand up and go out. The observer said, "They are very restless today." But you don’t know. These three persons, they have diarrhea, and they must go out separately. They have little air in the stomach. If slowly they will try to leave the air out, it’s not air, it is the diarrhea. Or someone has something with a gallbladder, so they have to go to the toilet. So we call it tolerance. And tolerance, we also need in the mechanism. So when there is something moving around, if it is together, then they can’t do it. It is stuck. So there is a tolerance space, and between it is moving air. It doesn’t make hot, etc. So all should also have ahiṃsā. The second thing: you have a hip joint problem, and you will say, "Don’t move, don’t move, don’t move." Yes, or someone has what you call sciatica. The sciatica pain is very, very unpleasant. So he can sit like this, he can sit like this, he can sit like this. It’s a very strong pain. Such people can ask the teacher, "I cannot sit here, but I will do my own anuṣṭhāna under the tree." It’s okay. You can go alone and sit somewhere where you can have more movement. That’s very important. You understand me? So I understand you very well. Of course, we will say sit straight, kāya sthairam, no movements, no body movement. That’s it. It’s it twice, yes. Yes. But they don’t know. So anuṣṭhāna is from our heart, our inner feeling. There are different kinds of anuṣṭhāna. For the whole nine months, the father is making anuṣṭhāna when his wife is pregnant. He is praying, he is helping, and in these nine months the husband forgives. That is anuṣṭhāna. So we do positively and not angry, and at the same time there is anger, but that anger is a different anger that we will do next time. So our anuṣṭhāna this year is for all creatures, all forests. We pray that people should not kill those wild lives. Otherwise, many, many animals are disappearing. There are many birds disappearing. In India, there is only in India a kind of bird that lives in the desert area. Beautiful, big birds. People kill them, hunt them. Now, there is a protection. They are being protected. But unfortunately, only seven birds remain. You know, like that you have on the chimney in the house, you call them chappī. So like this, only seven birds live. And what bad luck. All seven, they are only female. There is no male, so it means that the birds are finished. Very much helping, very, very much trying. Maybe if there are some left. So, what are humans doing? Only because they have one hectare or more, and these birds destroy that, a little bit. That’s it. So we pray for it. That’s it. Otherwise, after will be the humans. That’s it. So either they will kill the first male, so then only females remain, or all females go, then the males will kill each other. There must be something. But as I said last week, we are destroying the mountains, and we are also destroying the earth with so many mines, petrol, and we push in water. So very soon, this earth will have no own weight, and water will come again over. Then we can’t save ourselves. No, no way. You can fly with an aeroplane, but only as long as the aeroplane has petrol. That’s all. So when it will sink in, India again, we talked that it was how many millions people died? Such a big flood came in Kerala. The Kerala people, they were making a kind of act against religion, in the middle of the city. In the middle of the market, they said, "We are powerful politically," and they brought one cow and killed her slowly, slowly there. After a few days, the ocean came, and all the houses, everything, was destroyed. I think these people who were doing this, they are already in the mouth of the fish. So that must never have been seen anywhere. That is called the distraction and Mahāpralaya. We hope it will not happen, and we pray we do understand. So-called educated people have no more brain or no more heart. That’s it. That’s it. So, adios.