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On this very holy day called Dīpāvalī. Deepa, deepa jyoti par brahman. The light itself is Brahman. Jyot se jyot jagāte chalo. From light, awaken light. Jyot se jyot jagāte chalo, rāha mein āye jisko ghāle lagāo. From light, awaken light; whomever you meet on the path, ignite them. Jyot se jyot jagāo. We have one lamp, we light the one lamp, and from light to light. Similarly, from one heart to another heart, from one life to another life, light is within all. Each and every entity is a light of that one supreme, that is the highest, the supreme. One is the Brahman. Only one. If there is a two, then it is duality. So the light is life, and that life is in every entity, life in every plant, in all the living beings, jalchar, thalchar, and abchar. This all, and from that light, there are two. One is called Nitya Avatāra, and second, second, for whom? For all. Every day, every time, God is incarnating. That light is coming, Nitya Avatāra. Now, this avatāra you will not see because you are also that avatāra if you have realized yourself. What does self-realization mean? That you have no negative thoughts, you have no bad habits, that you have no duality, cruelties, jealousy, hate, etc. Then you are that Nityāvatāraḥ. But this ātmā, jīvātmā, ātmā-jīvātmā, is the mixture of the Supreme. So we are doing our good karma or bad karma. Now, we do not count our weight. We do not try to go back and see our previous life. So this is in yoga as well as in Sanātana Dharma or Hindu Dharma. Sanātana Dharma is the only one Dharma, not what we are thinking, and we know now how many dharmas. All these dharmas are developed in the Kali Yuga. All these dharmas, what is Christian dharma, Muslim dharma, Buddha dharma, Yaudi dharma, etc., etc., they all developed in Kali Yuga. But Sanātana Dharma, that is ādi, ādi and anādi. Sanatana dharma is not like this, what we think of a religion. This religion, whatever you think, Hindu dharma or other dharma, you are doing, it’s called your sādhanā. But Sanātana Dharma is no sādhana like that. The sanātana dharma is equally for the plants, for the creatures, all jīvas, as well as all humans. Because Sanātana Dharma is not like making worship, it is very hard to understand. And many make their thoughts, their opinions, some things like dharma, sanātana dharma, can be worshipped. No. It is, it is. There is unity. But after we came, we made the religions, and then we made dualities. Dharma is one. Religion is different. Realize your relation to thy Ātmā, Paramātmā. So that’s called the religion. Realize your relation to thy Ātmā. That is called the religion. Finally, let’s say the light, fire is a fire, and these flames we can blow off, but only if we blow it off, but still the fire element is everywhere within thyself, in our each and every cell. The fire is in each and every tree, plant, and every blade of grass; everywhere is a fire. In the water, water is living in the fire. Sorry, the fire is living in the water. Water cannot live without fire, and fire cannot live without water. Water tattva, it is one of the greatest tattvas. And so, for example, Viṣṇu, or what we said, Kṛṣṇa, Śiva, Rāma, etc., the fire can only hold in the water. So the Viṣṇu tattva is a fire tattva, and Viṣṇu is residing in the fire. So life is Dīvālī. But we have another definition, that God Rāma, who was before some million years. Yes, not now. Krishna is only about 7,000 years, but Rāma and Kṛṣṇa were after Rāma. There is no semi-God who tells the God, "Semi-God, if a person does not know anything, how can you say it is semi?" The fire is a fire. A small chunk of the fire is more powerful than the flame which is in front of you. Everyone is supporting that which is the strongest. Now, you know, there are elections, and everyone tries to support that strong party because they want to be with them. Everyone is supporting the strong one. They are a strong country; they have big power, and all countries are supporting them. But no one is supporting the one who is weak. So, a very tiny piece of the spark of the fire is very strong. And the air element, the air element, that air blows and supports that small, tiny fire. The strong will come and make the fire bigger and bigger and bigger. The whole bushland will be burning. Sabhe sahek sabal ke. Everyone is supporting this strong party. Sabhe sahej sabal ke. Everyone is going and supporting and being near people who are strong, great, rich, etc. But there is on the road a poor person sitting or slowly walking. No one will stop the car and say, "Please, can I take you? You can drive with me." Or are you hungry? Can I give you something? One poor person is standing at the red light, and a person is saying, "I’m hungry, something, this, this, please give me." They will close the window or will say, "No, go." And we’ll say, "They are drinking alcohol. They will do this and this." How do you know? How do you know if this person will drink the alcohol or not? And if he drinks, why not? Alcohol is for drinking. And where are you going? I’m going to some restaurant or somewhere else, like a pub, and there I will eat. Big restaurant, and one dinner will cost 5,000 euros, yes? You will drink, and then after that, the waiter will come with the bill, and you will give 5,000 plus 200 euros more. And you are drunk and coming. But you did not give 1 euro or 1 rupee to that poor person who was standing there at the Red Cross. That’s it. So, everyone will support the strong one, and the weak one, nobody will support. Sabhe sāyak sabhal kī kohu na nirbala chai. No one is supporting such a person, who has many problems, troubles, etc. How? The fire, the flame, the flame is very weak. The flame does not have power. This flame, you will go and say, "It will blow off." You do fire will go further and further. So, have a strength within thyself and get more strength to support the weak creatures, maybe animals, dog, cow, any, any kind of animals. Support that. There was one man who was killing many animals. So he became a dog in the next life, and this dog was belonging to no one. And tried to get somewhere, eating something or like this. Hungry, and someone drives a car over the legs of the dog. Another one is driving by. The second is driving by, and this dog has lost, or broken, three of its legs. The dog is looking, but no one is coming and stopping the car. Instead of stopping and taking care, I will try to take the dog to the veterinary doctor. Another truck will come and drive over the dog. This is the difference between that person, and there are many times some person comes, takes the dog to one side, and will at least give the bandage to the legs or something, give the water in the mouth, and will do something. And everybody says, "Hey, stupid person, there are so many crazy dogs." It’s good that they are dying. That person does not have love in the heart. And now we said, "God is love." So if in your heart you have the love, then your heart is God. And if he does not have love or mercy, then you are a model of the humans, but nothing is there within that one. So the God Rāma was a great God, and he had so much mercy, he gave everything to others. He himself saw life as a God, that how much he was loving the animals, the plants, the poor people, the strong people, everyone. So the greatest of the greatest is Bhagavān, Śrī Bhagavān Rāma. Now we know Krishna also, and we all think that Krishna is great. Of course, Krishna is great. But do not tell that God Rāma is a semi-God. It means this person who dares to tell this, he did not realize anything. And he cannot see what Krishna can do or not do. So it is the day when the God Rāma, it is a long story, 14 years he was in the forest. Everyone knows many things. After 14 years, when the God Rāma comes to Ayodhyā, which was the kingdom of the God Rāma, There is a palace there. And when he comes back, the people were making lamps, flying, and hanging the lights on the trees, the branches of the trees. Because people were coming from every direction, day and night, to see their beloved God Rāma, that he come back again here. So, every tree, everywhere, the people were making lamps with oil. At that time, there was no petrol, and electricity was not there. And what were they doing? Also, they were making many fruits, taking many sweets, many eatable things, little, little, in the leaves of the trees, making nice eating for them, so that when they would come, they would be thirsty and hungry. So everywhere they were hanging the food for the people, and also many birds came. When the God Rāma came, you can’t imagine, from every far, far distance from the forest, the trees coming. And when the sunshine was setting, because Rāma was coming, even not all the people, but the birds were singing. And you see now, at the sunset, all birds are singing still a song for God, Rāma. And not only this, early morning they were singing the bhajans and mantras, early morning before sunrise, Brahma Muhūrta, they were also singing. But not only the birds, other animals too, humans too. It is said, get up at the Brahma-muhūrta. Brahma-muhūrta means the time of Brahman, the Supreme. And there you should remember God. Early morning, remember God. What are you remembering in the morning? Who will give me the ticket? Who will give me the ticket? Who will give me a voice to become a minister, or this or that? Many, many people, those who are more rich people, they forget, but the poor one will get up and will think. Very, very much about God, they said. When they wake up, get up, before getting up, they will greet Mother Earth and say, "Mother Earth, please forgive me, I step on you." Yes? Do you greet Mother Earth? No. Very few, but there are some religions, there are some spiritual people. We bend down, we bend down to God. But this is, we are touching the poor head to the Mother Earth. If you go down to God, God is there while you touch your head to the Earth. Yes or no? So, first is the Mother. Then you get up and look, "Oh, Father, Father." So, there are many meanings to having such a festival. And about this light, like the trees, also after many, many years, now after certain, some 2,000 years, maybe 3,000 years, they begin also to make, they call Christmas tree. Yes? Do you have the Christmas tree? Did you see the Christmas tree? What color was it? No, full of the light. Yes, there were the fruits. Light is the green, and light everything, life. Every religion is coming together to one God. And so, this Diwali, it is not only Rāma, but also Lakṣmī and Sītā. So Lakshmī is the prosperity. Lakshmī is the health. Lakshmī is the happiness. Lakshmī is the beauty of our life. So, that is first we worship Lakṣmī. Mātṛ Devo Bhava, first is the mother, and so we worship first the mother. She gives you a lot and a lot and a lot, and she gave you birth, yes. And then, of course, we are happy, we greet everyone, etc., etc. So the festival of Diwali, or Pavali, whatever you say, it has a great spiritual meaning. It is symbolic, and not only that, now they are making pollutions. That time, there was no pollution. That time, what were they doing? Do you know that? Yeah? They were making this noise. But at that time, they were making guitars, sitārs, mañjirās, and ḍholaks. Yes, they were blowing all night. Making nice sound, nice bhajans, nice that. That was. So people have forgotten this: making fire, pollutions, and how much money they are destroying. There are some, what you call, crackers about. Someone has one for about 5,000 euros. And they just blowing in the sky, makes many, many colors and this and that, but in reality, it is the pollutions, and within maybe three seconds. And how many thousands? Then the money is gone. Why don’t you give to your neighbor? You have too much money, but your neighbor doesn’t even know what to buy. Then give it to someone, but what to do? In the whole world... When the festivals are something, they are making pollution and sound, voice. This is not a good voice. So it has to come: happiness, oneness, brotherhood, sisterhood, motherhood, etc., etc. And this is the day that Bhagavān Śrī Mahāprabhujī, Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, this, the Pālī, got incarnation, early morning Brahma-muhūrta. And that day, there was so much light everywhere, but slowly, slowly, the oil lamp went down. But when Mahāprabhujī incarnate was born, every lamp again was burning, breaking light. Yes, and not only this, there were no flowers at that time. I mean, people were... it was dry still, but the flowers were falling. Many miracles were happening when Mahāprabhujī was born. So for us, Diwali is a great day, a great day. And don’t say anyone, there is a semi-god. There is no semi-god, no big god, and no high god. God is only one God. That’s it. Ātmā is only the Ātmā. Jīvā, the soul, is yours or other creatures. Soul is a soul, but the creature has done something. It is that in our brain. Humans have more capacities, knowledge, etc. And now, in this age, in Kali Yuga time, we must say that we humans develop a lot. Our brain is brilliant. Many things we can do. Look, you take off the airplane from here in India, from Jodhpur. And you take the flight, and you are coming right where? To Europe, or America, or Australia, flying over the ocean. Height of the 14,000 meters, yes? And small brands, they cannot go to that height. They are coming, maximum, about 10,000 or 11,000. Because the gravity is very hard, the flight cannot go too high and then come down again. That’s it. But let’s say, the humans have done this. When we go to a few thousand meters in height, we are not feeling pleasant because we have no oxygen. But how is such a big airplane taking care of 200 people or 300 people, and how much oxygen are they carrying with them? They cannot carry so much oxygen, and flight takes 12 hours. But this also, the humans have made a technique that from that, aeroplanes and air and different, I don’t know, I’m not a scientist, but they are creating from itself. Again, the oxygen in the aeroplane, we are very comfortable, we are sleeping. How nice it is, no? There is no lack of oxygen and many other things. This is human technology. So we must say that even in the Kali Yuga, in this time, humans are at the high top. But, on the other hand, in spirituality, they are at the lower top. That is the difference, but it does not mean that all are like this. There are millions of humans in different countries who are spiritual. People are so close and have in their heart the love for religion, for God. Some people, they made something which is not good. Otherwise, people are supporting the people to believe in God, make the praṭhanā, prayers, and live the simple life, many, many things. Christianity, they’re developing missionaries for the religion, for God, and this and that. But now they are doing it because of the power and the majority. That is not then anymore the devotion to God. But still, in the whole world, They are very nice people. According to their culture and their capacities, they have the belief. And therefore, one should not criticize other religions. Do not try to confuse the religion, then take away. My motto is this. We don’t convert, but we convince. That’s it. So we convince them in every aspect that God is there. That’s why in India there are so many gods, and they are all in oneness. And they, of course, they also say, but in some way, you know how many different religions in Christianity? More than Hindu religions. Go to America and see how many churches. Everywhere, everywhere. So they are. Look in Islam, how many they are fighting this and that. Everyone should believe they are believing in God, or what you call Allah. Yes? Allah is for all. So we are surrendering down, our forehead down. Like we are falling down, we are bending down, and we gave also the same asanas. We do the Vajrāsanas. We do the Baḍikhaṭu Praṇām. And Baḍikhaṭu Praṇām postures are many, which are also like the Islam people are making their prayers, how they are making the postures. And also, the Christians, they are standing on the knees. And we have also, from our exercise, we get up and on the knees we are standing. Yes, the same. Everywhere is like this. So somewhere we have something in one’s knees. So, my dear, the day today is Diwali. It has so many other very nice stories, more knowledge, more dramas, many things. It is beautiful, so they like this, I like that. They do very good, I do what I can, that’s all. But in reality, we are all coming to the oneness. But all we will fall on the earth, and that Ātmā will go up. All prāṇas, all elements will merge into the elements. The body will not die because there is no body. This body is only from the five elements, and the elements are going from one place to another. Water in water, fire in fire, air in air, earth in earth, and ether in ether. So, it’s a holy day, a great day. We worship God Rāma, and there, then, God Rāma’s Ayodhyā is still there. You have the statues, everything from the house, or the, what they call it, it was. A palace, because his father was the king. But when the Muslims came there, they destroyed this and made a mosque on it. Well, everyone is trying to do everything. This is this. So, my dear, I wish you a happy Dīvālī. And tomorrow will be what? We say, "Rām Rām." Rām Rām Sā. What will you say? So, tomorrow when you greet everybody, don’t say good morning. But what will you say? At, follow thence. What? God came to me in my heart, my both hands forget. So we said, "Ram, Ram..." Sah. Rām, Rām. I think you will not do. Tell me, nicely say once, are you hungry? If you are hungry, go and eat. So tell once more, Ram Rām Sā. Again once more, Ram Rām Sā. Shri Rām Jaya Rām Jaya Rām Shri Rām Jaya Rām Shri Rām Shri Rām, Rām, Jaya, Jaya, Rām Shri Rām, Shri Rām, Jaya, Jaya, Rām Shri Rām, Shri Rām, Jaya, Jaya, Rām Siddharām, Siddharām, Siddharām Siddharām, Siddharām, Siddharām... Siddharam, Siddharam,... Sita Ram, Sita Ram,... Sita, Sita,... Om Shanti, Shanti...