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O Sākṣāt Parabrahma, Tasmai Śrī Gurave, Dhyānamūlaṁ Gurumūrti, Pūjāmūlaṁ Gurupādam, Mantramūlaṁ Guruvākyaṁ, Mūlaṁ Gurukṛpā. Om Jitā Jyoti Parabrahma, Vaṁsarve Mohanam, Dīpan Sajjate Sarvam Sandhyam, Sarav Satyam Om Namo Prabhu Dīpa Vinaś, Api Brahma Api Viṣṇu, Apo Kelas Kevasi Apo Nadī, Apo Saradī, Apo Śeṣakrāsi, Apo Dhyānī, Apo Jñānī, Apo Yog, Apo Dev Sabdevī, Apo Śūr Prakāśī, Apo Brahma. Nirvāṇī, Apo Chamarkī, Apo Vedakī, Apo Bhaktārvāsī. Blessings to all of you. This is a beautiful satsaṅg, our first here in Europe for the New Year. Every day is a new year and a new day. Time is made by humans, and the Supreme God is always the same. Change is this saṃsāra, and in this saṃsāra, there are the transfers, always coming and going. This coming and going is not easy. We like going and coming, but also, we don't like going and coming. We are coming into this world, bound to what you call the humans, time, and going. But this coming and going is not counted as immortality. Therefore, everyone who is coming will go, and who goes may not come. But why doesn't one come, or why does one have to come? It's the matter. The matter of knowing the Self can only be with the Guru's grace. Guru Kripa Hi Kevalam. Our Gurudev, our Sat Gurudev, Madhavananji Bhagavan, used to say: coming back to our earth, we are entering into the bag of our body. It's like we go for shopping, and we buy what we need, and that which is needed is put into the bag. When we come to our destination, we will put the bag in the garbage. So is the body: coming, and we are coming to our destination, and this body died, we call it dead. It goes to the garbage. But you didn't go to the garbage, and you didn't come in, but it has been caught in the karma for us. Therefore, it is always as Gurujī used to say: even the animals and birds, morning and evening, they are chanting their language, their name of God. O human, if you are not doing this, then you will come more back behind name or number, call like a reptile, yes. But the jīva, our ātmā, is longing. And that we have to work out, for what and how. That's very important. Time will go, because if God has made time, that is eternal. But the time which humans have decided, that's called time, is a changing time. So we should not be in a changing machine, and so, sādhanā practice, this. In this sādhanā, we have to do it ourselves. Don't depend on someone to do it for you. If you tell someone, "Please, you repeat mantras for me, please do pūjā for me, please do something for me," then that person is getting all the benefit. You are still as a dry wood of the tree. God said, "How lazy you are, that you don't even remember my name. And if you then know the name, you said, 'Ask someone, go to God, and tell everything for me.'" We can give someone the instructions, but we have to go ourselves. Like we bring food for you, but you should eat. And if you don't want to eat, please, can you give me a thing? Then we will put it in the mouth of someone. But even this, you can't chew the food. You don't move your jaw, then everything is lying in the mouth. Then you say, "Please, doctor, can you make it and put it in a pipe? So that my nourishment, I don't want to do, but you should put in my stomach with a pipe." Then God said, "Now at least you should digest." He said, "No, my stomach, I don't want to give my stomach the work. Please give some injections to digest." So what are you doing, God said. God said, "I don't like this bag, this garbage, this garbage container." So God said, "Why did you say you are unhappy? Why are you poor? I gave you legs and hands, fingers, I gave you the eyes, mouth, and words, and a good brain. Still, if you don't do, then prepare your being for the left hand. Here and there, there will also be a very hard life." The snake has only eyes and mouth, that's all. It can't hear anything. The snake doesn't hear. They have only eyes and mouth, so they don't have ears, but they only feel the vibration, and with this vibration they become alert. And so we are lying there, we don't hear anything, but when somebody calls us, then this is a vibration. Therefore, it is said there are great saints, wise people, holy people; they give injection. And if those godly people, the ṛṣis, who don't come up, they are only in the forest or in the rocks, caves. They are sitting in the Himalayas. They give from their injection till here. Which kind of injections? The words. Śikṣā, education, and putting the things in a very beautiful way, that we will feel these injections. What kind of injections? A kind of fear. Now, you will have deep problems, then they will sit. You know, God, I tell you what your God is. Remember God as much as you can, and your troubles will go away. This is injection. So all holy books, from any religion, these are injections for us. And I think no religion or holy book will tell you to kill all people or kill all creatures. But we think now we are great, we are very intelligent, we can do everything. We want to enjoy life. We don't want to waste time thinking there's a God and a temple and this and that. But at the end, again, we will say, "Oh, pity, I did not pray to God." Otherwise, it would be different. So in our sādhanā, what we do, it is for our ātmā. That our soul, which is called life, and that life is life. It is a life, but in which condition? That's again a question. It will come, we will talk more. So therefore it's called the Ātmācintan. Ātmācintan. Ātmā is our self, our soul, and cintan means think about. Like a scientist, now he wants to create something new. Nobody knows, but he wants to create. There is nothing, but what is a nothing if you can create it? Then it means it was, but you did not know. And when we did not know, then we can't say, and we can't see. So that one person, if it is a male or a female, it doesn't matter. Both have a good brain. So they will think and think and think. And many people will say, "No, it's nothing." But think and think, and you will create it. And you will show that. And people will admire, because that is a chintan. Let's say we, our scientists, it doesn't matter from what time—it was under God Rāma's time, also there was the aeroplane, and before that also they were flying. But how, we don't know. But now our scientists show us in reality, because I'm always thinking about aeroplanes. I'm sitting so many times in aeroplanes, and there's no wings, there's no solid earth, and it's going and coming exactly there, millimeter landing. It is a miracle. But what kind of miracle? It's not that God, but still we are thinking of God in the airplane. When there is what you call turbulence, then everybody is holding like this. The wife is pulling the husband's shirt, and the husband is pushing the chair. God is there also, but it is the life there, and it brings us comfortably. Find out how many people die per year through trucks, trains, cycles, bikes, cars, etc. How many people die? And count with this how many people died through the airplane. No? So, but it's still, we are life there. So this is that brain of the human's word, the technology. And what is the technology? We call it sādhanā. And what is sādhanā? We were working, trying, thinking. And that's what we call then the chintan. And ātmā cintan. Ātmā cintan means thinking about our Self, God, soul. And that's why there's one bhajan: Indica la diya deva sa nandika la nandika la diya purī sa Mahāprabhujī Chetan ka chilka so Mahāprabhujī said Mahāprabhujī Asmanta. Chetan. Chetan has many meanings. Chetan means awakened, you are not sleeping. Chetan means alert. Chetan means careful. So this word, chetan, is very important. And in this, what Mahāprabhujī said, "Chilka," and "chilka" is reflection. The reflection from the glass, reflection from the water, the reflection from the clouds, the lightning, the "chilka." From when you close your eyes, you see the light. So, different kinds of reflections, and just when a little reflection is seen, you have got it. Then you will go behind. So we will go in that direction from where the reflection is coming, and where it is, and who saw that. And that Mahāprabhujī said, Devpurījī have given that reflection of Ātmā, and that's why we had this bhajan today. Say, which was the bhajan? "Śrī Guru." Vimala chetan mā prabhu, vimala chetan tar dhyān ke brahma dhāge karbala jayetan yata mā prabhu, vimala chetan mā deeptan bhagavān kī. So these bhajans, what our Gurudev, Devapurījī, give Mahāprabhujī, Holī Gurujī, and the Mahāprabhujī's disciples, Śivānandjī, Brahmanandjī, Lalanandjī, etc. Or the Mīrābāī, Sūrdās, Kabīrdās, etc. Many, many saints, they put in such a lock, a lock. Like some people go in the bank and put gold and money in some, what do you call, treasure. And nobody knows, and they cannot open. So similarly, those great saints give these bhajans, and what does the bhajan mean then? When you want to do the sādhanā, that is the sādhanā of bhajan. Bhajan means to repeat. Repeat again, repeat again, repeat again. There, chetan kā chilka, so you will get that reflection of reality. And now you do what you want. There is just a spark of fire. And now it will go, this fire that you should know. You may break the house, burn the house. You can burn the whole forest, many things. Or we have that fire, and with this fire we can cook our food. We need our warmth. It depends how. Sādhanā. Otherwise, there are some people who don't want to have a mālā, because they said, I want nothing. No problem. You will remain in the darkness forever. Yes. And who have mantra and mālā in the hand, that is cetan. So that light, so what is your chetan? Your chetan is your mala. The mala is keeping you chetan. And when you begin to sleep, the mala will fall out. It means you are sleeping. So, to come to that higher level, still you need that cetanā. Cintā. So, cintā bhihe. Cintā means sorrow. Yes, all the time you are in sorrow. So, nitya nirantara, every day, all the time. That our feeling must always be the same. Look, the aeroplane is just material, but it's more than life. One aeroplane, how many lives are inside? They are all in the stomach of the aeroplane. Someone is a kidney, someone is a liver, someone is a... All of this aeroplane, so where is the reality now? This, our bodies, all instruments that we have, all tools that we have in the body, and the aeroplane also has all these kinds of tools. That's going with petrol, and you are going with the five elements. But maybe this aeroplane also has the Ātmā inside. Yes. And there is a master. There is the captain. That's it, the pilot. So our pilot is our alertness. Your Mālā and your Cetan. Chetan means Jagruta. Jagruta means awakened. There is one bhajan also, a morning bhajan. We are singing in India, sometimes school children, on the day of the national day. So all children have to get up earlier, before sunrise. And it is the month of January, very cold. And children have to go to the streets. Very cold. Now they don't go. Some are making, but some go. But in my time, everyone had to go, and they had to go through all the streets for about one hour, half an hour. And there was one—there's a bhajan that everybody knows, they're chanting, singing. Look, how is my brain? I don't know anything, but this I remember because we were enjoying the singing, but it was so cold. And that cold is still now reminding, "Wake up, oh messenger, the dawn has..." Come, and those who are sleeping will lose it, and those who are awakened will get it. So, like, this is nice. Bhajan that also is very nice. So that is the pilot; our ātmā, Jīvan, is there inside. Then we can come to our destination. Don't think this physical body has time, and it will go. Then you are touching onto that time: now I am born, now I have to go to school, now I am young, I don't want anything, and only I want to have a boy or I want a girl, and this and... Then that thing, I don't want anything, and then comes the child, and then, oh God, what will I do now? Yeah, and then while your wife keeps putting the child in your hands, and she cleans the child or she says to clean the child, the mother doesn't feel, but the boy feels. So now there are the nepis, otherwise, without nepis, they are sleeping in. The bed with the bed, you know. And you know how many times it makes in the bed. Now it's plastic. That time, there was no plastic. So, how many beds have to be cleaned? Oh, God. For kids, that is my wife, for this and that. The day is gone. And then the child will ask for money. There are many things, but this is called saṃsāra. This is saṃsāra. Though it is saṃsāra, you can say, no life inside, no noise. It is just going life, going life, and then he said, "What will I do? I forget." So there are many levels of life, and in the end, everything is not good. Yes, nowadays, that time the women were good, and the husband also. Each other, you know. And now, you know how many times you change your wife? You are not changing the wife. The wife is changing you. And also, again, against sorrows, against sorrows. So it is not a joke, but it is changing this material body. And why are you crying for this material body? That diamond is still there. That Ātmā is there. We will go on to this different subject afterwards. So, first, vṛtti. The vṛtti means thoughts. That kind of thoughts, that kind of behaviors, that kind of feelings. This can be bad or not good, and that is changing also. And when they will come, nobody will be there. Sometimes people die in the room, in the home, and nobody knows until it begins to smell. Now the world's daughter is in Australia. The son is in Africa, the husband is in Chicago, and the wife is in Hungary. Now, who is where? Then, for what do you have children? Why did your father and mother give birth to you, this child? For what? Throw that into the Chicago, and you have nothing again. No, no, no. Hold leg back, hold it back. Child, remain here till I die, then you can go. Yes, otherwise why? For what? And they said also, for what? So life is not this life. Because there we did not understand the sense of the continuity of life. And it has to be very happy, joyful, and good with your family. So, it is, that's why what is called the Ātmācintan, Ātmācintan, Ātmā and cintan means thinking, meditating, and what means why your ātmā? For what God gave this human. Now it is the highest time to come, but it will fall down. And so, Chetana Ka Chilka, Mahāprabhujī said also, Chetana Ka Chilka, so, Chetan, we should be alert, Chetan, not towards this and that. It is the same thing. Nothing is new. Everywhere I'm traveling, you have traveled many times also now. And I have also traveled many times. And if not, then we know we have everything through the televisions. But still, that alertness of about what? About our Ātmā. That's what Śrī Guru, Ātmā, Paramātmā, and etc. We will talk about the subject again. So meditate with Mala Mantra, my soul, my self, to realize this. And so, I am cetan. I am alert, awakened forever. And the body will fall down, and we will stand and look, oh God. This is also not for me, going with me. Then you go to the other side. There is no energy. Annamaya Kośa finished. Prāṇamaya Kośa is gone. Annamaya Kośa is, don't know where it is. Yes. Jñānamaya kośa. To whom should I give this knowledge? Ānanda maya kośa. It's not anymore. So, Yamarāja comes and pushes you back again somewhere. And what is that? Neither what we call Annamaya Kośa is temporary, Prāṇamaya Kośa is temporary, Manomaya Kośa is temporary, Vijñānamaya Kośa is temporary, and Ānandamaya Kośa is temporary. You have a joy for some time. One day, two days, five days, one day, half a day, one hour, two hours, and finished. So these five kośas we are hanging onto, and we do not let go. And that's why we are stuck here and there. All this has to go. So there are the kośas or the tattvas, elements, When we go this side, then we go to the other side. Prāṇa, Apāna, Samāna, Vyāna, Udāna, my God, the soul is inside, hanging like this, you know how? That is nicely like this. This stick quickly, tight. And suddenly you're hanging here, and where is that? Nothing is there. What was hanging? There's nothing hanging. Yeah, but suddenly you said it's hanging something. So, all these five are only instruments. You are not an instrument. You are not this prāṇa. So, what am I? And so, in bhajans and Guru Kṛpā, he gave them. There are many things; people are making many, many ideas. But these ideas are only selfish; after a while, it's gone. We were in Australia, and near our ashram, after Modiji was talking, giving this day of yoga, and now many people thought we would earn money. And now, near our center, yoga ashram, which is about nearly 20 years old, so they are all near the ashrams, at least 18 yoga centers. 50 meters, 100 meters, 1 kilometer, nearly everywhere. So we wrote once the first-hand yoga. We wrote yoga firsthand, yoga. In one week, everyone had their first yoga, first-hand yoga. They tried to imitate everything. And after this one year, one and a half years, out of the fifteen yoga centers, not a single one remained there; they were all finished. Two come, and again begin something, that's all. So this is true. They are thinking of the body only. And this body one day will go, but we are the Ātmā. Where should we go? We are not going anywhere, we are everywhere. We are one, one in all, and all in one. So we will say, now Gurujī's bhajans are someday, "One in all, all in one." So I am the ātmā. This is very, very important. So all this rest is, don't make sorrows too much attached, and on one attachment you will suffer. You will suffer and suffer, so that is why we are here, and we will continue. Wish you a very good evening still. Who did not eat? Came late? Maybe there is still some food. Who did not find a bed to sleep? I have one good idea. Don't get up from here. Good morning. We will come. You are the first one here, so ātmā cintan is warm enough. Just sleep, so everything is like this. Very good, thank you. And it was a long, nearly five... this is the fourth, four months, no? For the fifth month, it's coming close. We were not here. But there were many, many bhaktas everywhere. Really, they were longing very much. So everywhere is Mahāprabhujī's, Devapurījī's, Gurujī's light. I am only coming to work, that's all. Everything. Now I think Mahāprabhujī, Gurujī, they have given me so many ashrams. I was thinking in Europe, when I came first time, if I go, then I will have one ashram in Europe. And Mahāprabhujī said, "Why only one?" And so now it is endless, and so you are all, all of you are, may I call them, you are the successor, you are all successors of our ashrams. Anywhere you go, Mexico, America, or every part of the world, and in India also, many, many so go and practice and give further the light of the Mahāprabhujī Chetanka Chilka. Don't go to some company. And work, yes. So everything is there, but you have to work also. That also work, that is. But this, therefore, all āśram is your āśram. It is not my āśram. It is our paramparā āśrams, and we have the light, and we shall keep our light. Yes. So I was in Australia, and we made one ashram. And then we went to New Zealand, and again we made a new ashram. It's about 1,300 square meters. Ashram in Oakland, the middle center of Oakland. And it's a very big ceremony. There were ministers and all the mayors of the cities and everyone. It will be a very nice āśram. So, there is one ashram again, born, just born. There is still no one of brick on that. But it is, you can imagine, I can imagine, and you can imagine also, it will be very soon, a big ashram will be. But don't tell me, "Swamiji, now you stay here, you go and you stay there." So give something, yes, really. And how many we are, and we can give so much, we can give so much to people. For vegetation, environment, friendship, spirituality, And all the food. And when we were talking, and even now talking about vegetarian, then still people don't accept. So, one of our persons maybe had a good idea and said, "Not vegetarian, vegan." And now, vegan is more strict than vegetarian. Yes, and really they are very good and healthy. So if you have no good work, open a vegan restaurant, yes, but make good food. That's it. How to cook? That's it. How to do? That's it. It's the same food, but how to cook? I was in, oh God, where was I? In the world, somewhere. And I said, I said, there was a person there. And we were talking about haluski, from Slovakian. And they said, "Yes, I know, I can do it." He did it. But it was not how it should be. The Hungarian paprika, vegetables, what they call, is very good. And somewhere in Romania or in Italy, somewhere. So how to cook, that is important. Very good. It is said that you can cook the iron balls into soft paste to eat. Yeah, this is iron, and the best cook will cook it in no time and will give you, what you call, serve you, and you can eat. So there is a call, a pakśāstra, the philosophy of the cooking. This iron, can you imagine? So tasteful. Yes. You need not to bite. Yes. It goes without biting. First, it can be a little bit, you need to bite. Then, gone. So you need not to bite. There is a very good story I can tell you, that of Pakśāstra, how he cooked and how it happened. And his kitchen was so rich, so when the king came, he said, "This cook should be only for me." And the cook was very expensive. King said it doesn't matter. So what did Cook do? He made a completely bankrupt king. He took all the money away from the king. That's cooking. Yes. So now we are on the vegan. It's healthy, very. And when you have really the feeling of the animals, how they are cooling, keeping cooking. And just now in our ashram, there was a mayor, and he came to visit me. And she said, "Last week, a few people went to a slaughterhouse, and when they saw how they were torturing these animals, throwing something, the horn throwing out something, pushing here, there," so she said, "Swamiji, I give up meat." And so, from these people... Many decided not to eat the meat, and now in America, coming also the election, and of them there are three candidates who are vegetarian. I don't know if they will be, but they are vegetarian, and one is an Indian lady, and she was born in America, but her parents... And they are from India in Hawaii, and so she's going to run for election, and they said she's a very intelligent and very great person. So we should do.