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Find your soul in your heart

The seeds of yoga have grown for decades in these lands through grace and practice. The quality of the people here is immense spirituality, a search for God-realization. The practice of Yoga in Daily Life has spread this culture. Great blessings enabled its growth from small, humble beginnings. Everything described is the living play of divine grace, which makes the impossible possible. The essence is within. The body is a universe containing all ancestors and elements, which are immortal and merely transform. True yoga is union with the divine consciousness within all.

"Do not let that quality diminish."

"Everything I am telling you now is Līlāmṛta."

Filming location: Kranj, Slovenia

Part 1: The Seeds of Yoga in Daily Life: A Journey Through Slovenia and Croatia Yesterday and the day before, we spoke extensively about Yoga in Daily Life and the message of our Mahāprabhujī, Holī Gurujī, and Devpurījī. In recent days, we discussed the beginnings of yoga in Slovenia and how the light of Mahāprabhujī and Holī Gurujī began to spread among other teachers. As I mentioned yesterday, this includes everyone, even the Mahābandhas for Vivek Purī. Now, Vivek Purī can share some glimpses of yoga in Yugoslavia and the life whose seeds are everywhere: in Slovenia, Croatia, and all other parts of the former Yugoslavia. It is very beautiful. For us, India is like a district. The entire district of Pali, for example, has a larger population than Slovenia. But the quality—that is what matters. You have quality here, good quality. Do not let that quality diminish. This part of the country has beautiful, very humble people, and it possesses immense spirituality according to their own religions or traditions. They are searching for God-realization, and we are practicing not only Yoga in Daily Life but many other paths and ways. The country is beautiful—all the vegetation, the hills, what we call our Atlantic coast. It is beautiful. So, you should know that there are also great people in your country. If you are not aware, I can tell you that from Slovenia comes the first lady in America. What more could you want? Yes, the American president's wife, the First Lady. So, you are at the top. Keep this gratitude within you, and you should also advance further on the highest path of consciousness. As you know, Croatia—the district of Croatia at that time—was under Vivek Purī's care, as part of our Ālag Purījī's paramparā. He was a beautiful young boy, and of course, he still is very young. There was another friend with him who brought him to me. So, perhaps Vivek Purī can share a glimpse of your entire country of Yugoslavia, which has now become many different countries. How has Yoga in Daily Life spread this beautiful culture of India, along with its spiritualities and yogas, here in this country? How have people accepted it? I think, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar Vivek Purījī, what more could you want? You see that Yoga in Daily Life has cultivated such qualities that even people from your country have become not just one, but two Mahāmaṇḍaleśvars of Croatia, from the old, former Yugoslavia. I must say that everything, including these two Mahāmaṇḍaleśvars, would not be possible without Viśvagurujī's grace. We function and work on the principle of Nahaṁkārata. If there is the grace of Gurudeva, then all things are possible, enabling us to become Mahāmaṇḍaleśvarīs. Yesterday, I listened to a webcast where Swāmījī spoke about Yugoslavia. In that lecture, I heard a beautiful story that Viśvagurujī told about Gurujī. This gave me an idea. I think it is quite difficult for Viśvagurujī to write his autobiography, but perhaps he will write the biography of Gurujī. In this way, we might get two biographies. Maybe it would be our wish, sent to Viśvagurujī, to hear that wish. Just as Gurujī has often asked for a biography of Mahāprabhujī to be written, perhaps Viśvagurujī could write about Gurujī. In Slovenia, 35 years of Yoga in Daily Life; in Croatia, 40 years; in Hungary as well. What I will tell you now is very similar to what you can read in Līlāmṛta. We always think the stories in Līlāmṛta happened in the past, but I believe we all live within Līlāmṛta. When I started practicing yoga, I was 40 years old. I was practicing in a yoga club. About 16 or 17 years ago, the leader of that club said, "I am going to the pool, so you will lead the yoga class, and another friend will lead the martial arts." My teacher said he was going to a seminar in Pula and asked if I could lead the yoga class in this club, while another friend led the martial arts. Where can you find a boy of 16 or 17 years old—which is how old I was—to teach yoga to older people? I thought I knew quite a lot but wanted to learn meditation. At that moment, the Yoga Union of Yugoslavia was founded. We were invited to that event. I was underage, only 17, and couldn't even sign the agreement there. How do you explain to your parents that you are going to such an event? Viṣṇupurī was going with me. Thank God he was over 18. When we went, I thought all the great yogīs would be present. Then the shock came: they were quarreling about who would be the boss. Seeing this fighting and quarreling surprised me. How can people who practice yoga get into such fights? From Croatia, only Viṣṇupurī and I were there. For everyone else, Croatia was quite interesting because they could come in and lead yoga classes there. Everyone was putting on their best face, but this best face was not really so good. There was only one normal person present. He said that in one month, his teacher, his master, would come to Belgrade, and we were most invited to come. We said, "Yeah, why not?" After one month, a letter came saying Viśvagurujī was coming. This was around 1983 or 1984. I can tell you that everything we read in the books was happening there. Blagoslov od Mahāprabhujīja, od Alakpurījīja, da nas je tog momenta Svāmījī pokupio. What a great blessing this was from Mahāprabhujī, from Ālak Purījī, that Swāmījī found us in that moment. Because what I saw in that meeting of the Yoga Union of Yugoslavia was unbelievable. Puno stari. Well, you know, I was a teenager of 70 years, and I went to the yoga seminar in Belgrade. You can imagine it wasn't easy to tell my parents where I was going, but I was lucky that Viṣṇupurī, who was much older, came with me. Again, something you can read about in the books happened to me: that moment when you see your master for the first time and somehow know him. I am happy I had read about all this. It later happened just like that. When Swāmījī entered the hall, he looked quite familiar to me. Before that, there weren't any books about Swāmījī, and you couldn't see his photo on a poster. He somehow looked familiar, and I was trying to think of whom he reminded me. At the end of the seminar, we were invited to an apartment for a satsaṅg, and there was Guru Gītā. There were 40 people in a very small apartment, about 20 square meters. You can imagine how tight it was. I saw those people for the first time in my life, but I got the feeling that this was a family that had been together for a very long time. After that, we received prasāda, and there was a prayer. Since we all had a Catholic background, not everyone is able to receive the holy bread; you have to go through an initiation. How would a child know what 500 kilos is? When it was time for prasāda, I thought, "Well, only disciples can receive prasāda." I remember my surprise when people who were not disciples also stood up and took the prasāda. I received my mantra in Belgrade and then returned to Zagreb to start teaching Yoga in Daily Life. We didn't have any books, so I tried to teach from memory. I tried to remember how the Kathā Praṇām looked. A few months later, in October, we organized the first seminar in Zagreb. I was still 17, and it was a miracle that at that time I still didn't have my own documents. I had to arrange everything—the hotel, the hall, and all other things. I had to go to the police to report the event, and he looked at me quite surprised. Imagine explaining to your mother that 50 people would sleep in our apartment. She said, "Everything is possible, just leave the doors where they are." But when friends from Novi Sad arrived, the first thing they did was take the doors down. You know, when Swāmījī came for satsaṅgs in our apartment—it's quite hard to imagine now—how could you squeeze so many people into such a small apartment without it falling to the ground? Missing the eternal yoga is not that a CD, a cocoon, a storm, or a static in a mogu che ipa Staya. I know Swami Yogeś Purī knows about CDs. How does that static work in the presence of the master? Jack, so do this probably spot claviera. People were even sleeping under the piano, Nikola. There is no normal person who would sleep under a piano. Everything I am telling you now is Līlāmṛta. If you think logically, nothing like this is possible. If you start to think logically, you could say at the beginning, "Well, this will never be possible." But it is possible with the mercy of Gurudeva. Thank you. I have only one impression about Croatia from the first day. Of course, this is the nature of the language. Viṣṇupurī and Vivekpurī, and all that he explained—everything. They gave me a beautiful, very good hotel and handed me the key card, saying, "Bye bye." I read: "Ghosta Hotel." I did not know what "Ghosta" meant. For us, "ghosta" means a ghost. I said, "Oh God, this hotel is a hotel of the ghosts!" It was in the center of Croatia, close to our ashram now. Thank you. Similarly, our dear Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar Gyāneśwar Purījī, whom you all know very well, had a harder time than Vivek Purī. But Gyāneśwar Purījī made great strides, and people accepted him very much. He came to learn Sanskrit and the Vedas. Very good Sanskrit scholars always came to him for teaching. Now he holds a significant position in that area, especially regarding Sanskrit. I forgot to bring his book today. He has written a very nice book. No, no... he has just now published it, and even Gaṇeśa Purī has not seen it yet. They gave me a few books here. The Sanskrit and the complicated numbers are so complex that I just looked at it and put it aside. I will tell him what it is. Long ago, Gurujī also wanted to create a magazine, but it didn't materialize. However, as Gyāneśwar Purījī fulfilled Gurujī's wish, this magazine is now coming out very nicely in Sanskrit, Hindi, and English. You know the Jaipur Ashram. I have given it to Vivek Gaṇeśwar Purī, and of course, all can have it. It is beautiful. Our Vivek Purī is here today, and Gaṇeśwar Purī, Yogeś Purī, and many others. In Slovenia, there are also two sannyāsīs—two or three? Two, yes: Yogījī and Sāvitrī. I think she had some work yesterday, so she couldn't come. They have created a very great, very good atmosphere for yoga. A person like our Professor Dayālpurī in the city of Maribor and its suburbs—I think many, many hundreds of thousands of people have gone through Yoga in Daily Life. More than 5,000 people are working, teaching, and learning yoga under the guidance of Vivek Purī—no, Dayāl Purī—and Premśakti, and many others sitting here. So, the science of Yoga in Daily Life is great. There is some conflict regarding the names. Sometimes, of course, they may be right. The government recognizes only one name, and that is simply "yoga." So, in colleges and everywhere, it is just "yoga." But they are all teaching and learning Yoga in Daily Life. There were many other yogīs, and there still are. There was another yogī who has passed away, who produced many scientific works on yoga, meditation, levitation, and many, many great scientific books. What was his name? Maharṣi? Maharishi—what was his second name? Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He passed away and had many disciples, but these disciples placed themselves higher than him. So, the difference sometimes arises when we want only this one path, and that is yoga. It doesn't matter if he is a Maharṣi or another kind of student. It's okay, no problem. Yoga is yoga. We all have yoga. Yoga is the science of humans. Yoga is the very first, because God Śiva brought yoga. He gave it this name: yoga. And yoga means union. The union of the human and God is the union of this soul. As I have told you a few times this year, we have one soul within us that we call the jīvātmā and Paramātmā. But in our body, it is not only one soul. The soul is not a big thing. The soul is just a little part of the fire. Do not think that an elephant has a higher soul. You do not have one soul; I do not either, and other creatures do not. Life consists of an immense number of different souls. One tiny drop of blood in our body contains an immense number of different cells. All our great, great, great parents are all here. It doesn't matter if your ancestors were from 2,000 years ago, 5,000 years ago, or the Satyuga. The root is in you. It doesn't matter if the body is gone, because "I" am dead, but the body cannot die either. The body is also immortal. If you come to the science of yoga to understand—these āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, jumping, and looking are okay. But finally, you cannot... that within our self is eternal, immortal; within us is immortality. And so the body also does not die, because the body consists of the ten elements. Among these, the first elements are space, fire, air, water, and earth. We are only this. And all these five elements will never, ever die. They will merge into their origin and collect to create our self through these, our own elements. Within them, we have the genes of our generations and our ancestors. From the Brahmalokas, from Devas and Rākṣasas—they are still here. In your body, in your body, are both devas and rākṣasas. And all—where are you coming from? It is in this one drop of blood. If we want to progress further, we must first understand and know that our body is our universe. So, where are you going to meditate? Where are you running to get something? It is our universe. This one body contains one universe, all creatures, tiny, tiny living creatures. The God or creator—how He does or did—we cannot know. Whatever we have achieved is perhaps one percent. Ninety-nine percent we have not achieved. If you think you can, then show us. Can you create, with your book, this world, these times, what we call this science that humans have? Can they show us? No, they cannot. That technology is still not there. Consider, for example, one tiny, very tiny ant. This tiny ant has both male and female. How do they create children? How are their ears? How is their nose? How are their eyes? How are they connected? It's a tiny ant. At night, it goes on our body. We don't hear or feel it. How many legs do they have? How many joints? They have a stomach. They get thirsty. They get hungry. They feel cold. They feel heat. Who made this to be? Oh, man, do not be proud that we humans are high or highly developed. My dear, we are still just on the earth level. Therefore, yoga—how do we achieve that, to become one with all? Can you sit near an ant, shake its hand, and say, "Let's go have lunch today"? How will you feel the ant? When we come near the ant, the ant will run away. They have fear, they feel pain, they get ill, they are healthy—everything. And they create an egg, and in that egg is again a universe. Where and how do you understand what liberation is? Is it not so easy? We have to become one in it. So, "all becomes oneness" means what? Not the bodies, but that feeling, that love, that God-consciousness—that we can only feel within our meditation. That meditation which is within our self. So Mahāprabhujī said, "Mera nijapho, I am myself within myself. All the prayers and all whatever I do, it is within myself. It is the myself to the myself." Mahāprabhujī's disciple, Swami Śivānanda—there are two Khaṭūs, one this and the second Khaṭū. That's called shorty Khaṭū, this small Khaṭū. But at that time, during the era of kings, kings would give some cities or villages, so-called, to warriors. These warriors were called Rājputas. Among them, one was made king, and everyone had to follow. That family of the king, their children would be called king, as you all know from before. Now we are all kings and queens. That's a good idea. Yes, we have it like that. This Swami Śivānanda, Mahāprabhujī's disciple, wrote many, many bhajans. The real science of yoga is written in these many, many bhajans. All spiritual knowledge is contained within them. You know you also sing that bhajan. It is said: my friends and my family are those who can understand my word. You know that? What is that? Right? So, my relatives are those who understand my word, and my word is God. And please, the little children in the park, go. Thank you very much. Similarly, that Śivānandajī sings this bhajan: "Śrī Guru Ātmā Paramātmā." Brahmanandajī or Śivānanda? Śivānanda. Yes, and you know what? It is nicely put. That is one of the best ways to understand. Just the first line of this bhajan: "Śrī Guru Ātmā"—that our Ātmā is our Gurudev. "Śrī Guru Ātmā, Paramātmā"—and that is the Paramātmā, the highest Ātmā. "Śrī Guru Ātmā, Paramātmā." So you are the high soul, and so you are Paramātmā, Puruṣottama. You are everything, and that is yoga. That is religion. Religion means oneness. Religion. And that religion means to realize within thyself—that is the religion. Realization. Otherwise, it becomes politics. This practice is called, "We begin to take spirituality." And there they make politics in order to influence people, saying now we will go this path, and this is our religion, and other religions are not good, because we try to manipulate people. "This is mine and the best." Part 2: The Eternal Path and the Art of Living Before, this was not so. It is in this Kali Yuga that different religions began. Yet, in the bhajans of Mahāprabhujī and Śivānandajī, it is said that finally all will converge into one channel. The rain falls from the clouds onto different places and countries, but ultimately, each drop will merge together, becoming one little creek that flows into the river and then into the ocean. This is why it is called Sanātana Dharma. Sanātana Dharma does not mean the kind of religion we typically think of. "Sanātana" encompasses all vegetation, all creatures, all living beings, everything—all animals. To love them all, that is Sanātana. Of course, now we Indians say, "Our Sanātana." Yet even among Indians, some hold thoughts and do not wish to believe in Sanātana. Whether you believe or not, it is there. Whether you believe or not, one day you will die. Be ready. If you wish to be ready, you will take care of your body. Then you will die, but you will die peacefully and well. However, what we use for our human life, we ourselves put so many poisons into our bodies that we will die earlier. We have many hospitals and medicines, what is called science. Yet as science develops in medicine, the lifespan of humans is getting shorter and shorter. There are still people existing who do not take any kind of chemical medicine at all. They live somewhere in the hills where there are no chemical things. They are healthy, they eat very nice food, and they live to be 100 years old, still working in the field. We, on the other hand, have two lives: one life is dead, and a second life is coming again, and that one will also die. Those who put too many chemicals into the body will already have two lives, while others are happy, healthy, and enjoy a long life. We are killing ourselves. It does not matter. The tongue and mouth are the place of the test. Whatever you think is tasteful is only until the vocal cord. Your good ice cream, if it is your ice cream, has taste only until the root of your tongue. After that, it does not matter what the taste was; it is gone. For this little hole here, that is the killer of our self. Medicine, the deed—okay, it is good, but it is very, very urgent. Yet we take many chemical things without any illness, and soon you are dying. Therefore, humans are killing themselves. They are protecting themselves for a while, and that is why there is more population. So, can we do anything except eating? When anything happens, we cannot do anything except give more poison. We try doctors, doing our best and this and that, but the reality is that our life is getting less and less and less. If you do yoga and do not take unnecessary chemicals into your body, you will live a long life. It is said, our body says, that whatever you put into your body—some chemical—this is also from our earth, but it is manipulated. So anything we put into our body as a chemical, our body does not accept. It does not matter if you think it is a good tablet; take it. For a while, it is called a painkiller. But you know, this painkiller is your killer, and the body does not accept it. So perhaps you feel for a while that you have no pain, but how many other things are we disturbing in the body? Āyurveda says, and our body says, it is nature, and I am nature, and so I take nature. That is why in India, Āyurveda is not a medicine, but it is a life. So the medicine is not for us to protect, but what we take as nourishment—that is how we can save our life. Let us begin now, yoga in daily life, people. Throw away all chemicals. You know, everybody says like this: "What will I tell?" When you get the flu, you cough and so on. Then you take medicine, and in about seven or eight days, it will be okay. Another one said, "I will not take any medicine. It will go in seven days." So, who is the clever one? Who is taking the poison inside? Or let the body itself cure the body. That is how we can think. There are many troubles. Somebody told a story in New York. There was a very rich lady, and every week she went to the doctor. She was always ill: "I have fever, I am coughing, I have this problem." The doctor gave medicine, and again she was ill, and again she was ill. So the doctor said, "Have you no medicine? You do not have a disease. Why are you always going?" She said, "But then give me some good tablet." He said, "Okay, I will give you." It was winter, about 25 degrees. He said, "Lady, go on your balcony and take a cold bath in your bathroom. Then go without dress on the balcony and sit there for half an hour. Then I will be ill." She said, "Yes. Then you can give me medicine." Really? She came, and she had a fever and a sore throat. Then she said, "Please give me medicine. How long will it take?" He said, "Seven days." "And if I do not take medicine?" "Seven days." We are all like this. So, let us come to yoga in daily life. In an emergency, of course, you should take some; otherwise, not. Try to heal yourself. Reduce what you are eating; eat only about 35% of it, and leave the rest. Some days you will be hungry. No problem. I am making this by itself, and I am so happy, you cannot imagine. So, good feelings. Eat less and less and less, and many diseases will go. When you eat little and do not eat too much ice cream and so on, one day your illness will say, "I am that thing in this body, I will go away." So all your illness will go away. We are keeping illness ourselves from that problem of our eating. Yoga in daily life. Now, simple: every day do your mālā. Always do your mālā japa for at least half an hour or one hour. Surrender to our Gurudev, and try to think positively and do your exercise. Read some divine books which have good knowledge in them. Do not jump into the dualities. Every religion has good books, and in every book, there is something you may not like. But in reality, there is nothing where we have gone wrong. It is a language, only a language. But it should be there where there is love, harmony, and peace, and those shall not kill. Do not kill anyone, and do not eat anyone who has eyes. You know, there are many eyes. That is very hard for us to eat. Even the blind roots of the trees have eyes. They go and search for water and give the water. Therefore, Sanātana Dharma said, "Do not kill this and this and pull them out." Or you take it and put it in something. But to take in your hand and kill these animals—how much they are suffering. Are you sure that in your next life you will be human? Or will you be somewhere, in some place where animals are collected? And how they will be tortured. The soul is the same. Only the body is different, and that is only on this, our earth. Our rest is their all. So let us practice. Read the book. Be nice. And see your inner self. You will see yourself in your heart. And you will see your friends in your heart. Your husband—you should see your husband in your heart. See your wife also in the heart. Both husband and wife, do you know you have children? And you know how these children need the love of the parents. It does not matter how hard it is, but still, children love the mother and the father. And now it is happening that you are putting children like anything. You take one goat and take it somewhere. Like this, you take your child and put it with someone. And children are children. Even if they are 90 years old, and you are 150 years old, 110 years old, 20 years old—mother is mother, father is father. And for them, even such an old person is their child. That is a love of soul to soul to go to the Supreme. So practice, practice. And tell your wife, "I am sorry, and I would like to be with our children." Husband, we will live together because we got our children with a very divine love, and we were happy that we have a child. Turn towards him, to the humans, and do not let the children go away. So we are human. Everything is within us, and we should respect each other. Do your mantra, do your prayers, read good books, and that will do good to you. This is a good healing remedy. The whole city, the whole country—because they lost the love. Love your country. Love your people, and tell all ministers of Poland they should give everything to your people. You are, as a minister, to protect your country, protect your people, and give to the people. You know, they are like your father, and you love them, and ministers will love you. Your country will be very good. Keep your humanness within thyself that you are. You are the lord of your country. You are all citizens of this country. And your government supports you, everything. Your embassy is protecting you. You are there to come to the harmony, do your mantra, practice. If you do not practice, you get lost, because that develops in the heart and in the body. With this, I wish you all the best and simple things, very simple things. If you can do the good postures, very good, no problem. You are young, but when you will be 99 years old, you will do all postures, but some your body will not accept. But our inner development will continue. Then we hope that when our soul is going, where? Otherwise, from this body, the soul goes out and enters into a tiger. And this tiger is sorted. Then it goes all out again and becomes a pig. And the pig is also sorted. Then you go somewhere into the reptiles. And then you become a snake. No legs, no ears, no hands, nothing. Everything has to work only with one mouth. That is it. So, we pray for all creatures, and so there is this bhajan: Ātmā Puruṣottama sakala jagake antaryāmī, cāracaraki ātmā. Prabhu cāracaraki ātmā, siddha bhārūpa, vyāpū satya, apo vimala cetana ātmā. Prabhu vimala cetana ātmā, dhun dhyāna, āge agam jāge. Nīgama-se nitya ātmā prabhu, nīgama-se nitya ātmā śrīguru, ātmā paramātmā hoho, mātā puruṣottama. Sakala jagake antaryāmī, chara achara kī ātmā, prabhu chara achara kī ātmā. Ātmā, Guru Mahātma, Śrotamā, Sakalajaka Kehantrayāmī, Carah, Carakī Ātmā, Prabhu Carah, Carakī Ātmā, Alaka Deva, Ajab Sevā, Brahma Deva, Ātmā Prabhu Brahma Deva, Śūnya Sehrā Prabhujī Sākṣī Śodhā Ātmā Prabhu Sākṣī Śodhā Ātmā Śrī Jagyā Kendrāyamī Chara Chara Kī Ātmā Dhyāna Soha Munimo Svarūpa Seja Dhyātmā Svarūpa Seja Dhyātmā Gurū Dīpa Ho Pranāma Sayā Abhī Paramātmā Prabhu Abhī Paramātmā Jagake Antraya Chara Chara Ghi Ātmā Prabhu Chara Chara Ghi Ātmā Uratakāra Guru Dhyānadharṣī, Avadhūtakeshari Ātmā Avadhūtakeshari Ātmā Śiva, Ānanda, Bholā, Ārati, Gurudeva, Nirguṇa, Mahātmā. Gurudeva, Nirguṇa, Mahātmā, Śrī Guṇa, Kāla, Jagake, Antaryāmī. So the last final some words will be given by our Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Jñāneśvara Purījī. And Jñānī Śrīpurujī liked to talk always while walking. Yes, so he talks like this and like this, and yeah. Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai. For me, it is a great honor to be here at this seminar. My spiritual journey started here 30 years ago, and in Ljubljana, I got Guru Dīkṣā from our Master. This journey slowly took me to... I have always wanted to go to India, but Swāmījī always said, "Wait a little bit." And then finally, in 1997, so almost seven or eight years after I met Swāmījī, for the first time I went to India, only for one month. And now, this month is still going on. So I would just like to say how lucky we are to have Swāmījī with us. And as Swāmījī said, we have a research center in Jaipur ashram under the name of Vishwaguru Deep Ashram Research Center. But the main organization is Yoga and the Life Foundation. And we are registered with one university in Jaipur. So Yoga and the Life Foundation is now an academic trust. And of course, the president of Vishwaguru Dīpāśram Research Center is Vishwaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśwar Paramswāmī Maheśvarānandjī. I am studying Sanskrit and Vedas and many, many things. And I can still tell you that without Swāmījī, this would not be possible. Because there are not thousands, there are millions of books there. Indian culture is vast. And thousands and thousands of years’ worth of books are still there. And do not worry, the essence of all these books we just got. I will still request you, please do not give up on Swāmījī, do not give up on yoga in daily life, do not give up on yourself. Thank you very much. Thank you, Swāmījī, for being with us. Thank you, Gyāneś Swāmījī. He will go, coming Thursday, again to his... He came home to India because, you know, he is a citizen of India, yes. When he had to come to Croatia, it was very difficult to get the visa. So, Slovenians are more in heart, so they gave him a visa easily. So now, next his visit, we do not know when he will come. But many of you are coming and you visit him, and he is always there. And the questions are there, but they are different because he is living only in that ashram. And many people come to the ashram asking for eating and drinking, and chai and coffee, and like this. And one day I asked him, "How much donation box comes there in Jaipur in his ashram?" And he said, "In two months, it was about 700 Indian rupees." And these are about half euros, no, eight euros. Eight euros, and the expenditure is about three hundred or three thousand euros. Which is going through the Yoga and Daily Life Foundation. But I think, to proceed further in his studies and like this, time to time you should give him some donations in his ashram in Jaipur. So next time I hope, when I will go and open it, how much it will be, it will be a little more. Because I tell you, he does not ask anybody, and so he was doing some kind of little business, but it is also nothing. So if you can, anytime when you go, or this and that, I do not tell that today you should give, but if you want, you can give today. I have nothing against you. And the expenditure of the Yogīśa is unbelievable. Per month he comes, minimum 50,000 or 60,000 euros. Minimum. So his expenditure is no one can bear. How it comes, I do not know. So when Yogesh telephoned me, then I knew what was happening. And I said, "Wait a moment, I will call you tomorrow." But on the other hand, I must tell you that without you, there will be no Omāśram. Yes, one drop by drop fills the whole pot. And so these more than 30 years, you were all supporting, and it is your ashram, your Om Ashram. And now I have another sorrow. How will we maintain? Now, enough rooms and this and that and this. One button down, on and off, for electricity only, you can say about 100 euros. But it will be, no worry. So do not worry, do not worry. Come and enjoy your ashram now, and we have to let this work in a good way. So thank you, the President. The final words, beginning and final, are "President, my God." Hey, President, do not worry, our treasure is enough. Everything that is nice usually goes very quickly. But I am sure that this weekend you got great knowledge, that you enjoyed very much this atmosphere and the union with your yoga brothers and sisters. But the gratitude for all of this goes to our dear Vishwagurujī, who, with his endless love and energy, is lifting us up all the time. But today, with this morning’s satsaṅg, our gatherings are not finished. Because of the celebration of thirty years of yoga in daily life in Slovenia, and because we have the great honor that our dear Viśwa Gurujī is with us on this celebration, we will continue our events in the afternoon at 5 o’clock in Brdo Pri Kranju. I am requesting you and asking you to come to this gathering as many as you can. You can get the tickets at the registration desk. I would like to deeply thank our dear Viśwa Gurujī in my name, and in the name of all of us, so he can be with us today. Savitri, you must say something. You must say something, because you are a country. Om Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Hari Om, dear Gurudev. Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar, sannyāsīs, brothers and sisters. I am so sorry I was not in Slovakia. I am very sorry that I could not be with you the whole weekend. I had some important work, but I was with you in my heart. I am very proud that Slovenia is celebrating 30 years of Yoga in Daily Life. And even if I am not 30 years in yoga in daily life, I have four years less than that. So anyhow, I am not so young. I am coming from Koper. And I would like to share with you that when Swāmījī came to Pohorje in 1989, and Yozhe Gal was there as a pillar of yoga in daily life also. And probably Dajalpuri in Maribor, Vasiṣṭa Muni in Ljubljana. There was also someone, I forgot who it was, in Novo Mesto, in Koper, and we still have a co-worker, Jožeta Gala. And after that, the work continued with Dajalpuri in Maribor, with Vasiṣṭa Munja in Ljubljana, and in all the other parts of Slovenia. And then there was one lady from Koper who was working with Jože Gál. And this is our dear Sāvī Tridevī. So she was the pillar of yoga in daily life in Koper at that time. Savitri Devi, she was not the only one. Her group of four or five people was making the basis for yoga in daily life in Koper. And afterwards, all the young people came, and we had the chance to get the first ashram and then the next ashram. And as well, in all Slovenia, also in Koper, many people were working for yoga in daily life. I think all of us, many of us are not so young anymore, we have a duty that we are transforming our knowledge to the others. The young are the pillars of the world. And I think this is something we have to work on. I wish that yoga in the life of Slovenia would still be strong and unified for the next decades to come, and I wish this for the yoga in daily life in general, and for all that has happened in the past 30 years, and that we can work, and that our work can proceed, yes. A bit as a solution out of system, in a glass vessel’s mom and a leash for fish for Gurū G. Mom and a leash where Swāmī may should run and the G. And this is all because of our wish for Gurū J. Thank you, thank you.

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