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Many blessings. Today is the day when the Lord, God Kṛṣṇa, incarnated. Before 5000 years, nearly 5600 or something like this—my memory is not so good, I became so old. 5,000 years of memories always get a little less. In the last three years, I have been observing that exactly on this occasion of Kṛṣṇa's birthday or incarnation, not only do people celebrate this day, but I also see that from space, from heaven, from the sky, there is also a kind of celebrating. You know, people make these fireworks, crackers, when there is a special occasion. In the last three years, I have observed that when Kṛṣṇa prepares to come to this planet in a physical body, there are also firecrackers in the sky. So yesterday we were sitting after the satsaṅg there, and we observed how these stars are falling. Today will be also, and they have already begun now because Kṛṣṇa's arrival is only two, three hours, two hours away. Last year also. So there are two occasions, this I have been constantly observing, where the stars falling, the lightnings, and that is a sign of a great incarnation. The word incarnation also literally means the birth, but birth we use for normal creatures, and incarnation day we use for a holy sense. But we call incarnations Brahmā, Śiva, Viṣṇu, the first manifestation in this universe, who... He has no mother, no father; that is called Jyoti Svarūpaḥ. Jyoti is the light, the flame. Svarūpaḥ is the form. That jyoti is the flame of our life. That is that consciousness when the entire universe is empty, śūnya, there is nothing, there is darkness, all is space. And so-called cosmic consciousness is also in complete rest. When you sleep very deeply, you don't notice what's happening in the room. If one is not making sounds, you are not aware, but there is a light of your consciousness. If something happens immediately, you wake up. So the light of the universe is called Śiva, the first who manifested it himself, that's called Sadāśiva. And we can tell the cameraman, please don't make too many photos, tuck, tuck, tuck. The best cameraman makes one photo, and that is the best of the best. And who is like a child? Tuck, tuck, many photos disturb everyone. Thank you for understanding. So that is Sadāśiva, the Jyoti Svarūpa, and it is that Jyoti through which Viṣṇu, Brahmā, and many other divine personalities, I would say, or the consciousness which developed, manifested themselves without mother, without father, but through that Jyoti Svarūpa. They are all Śiva Svarūpa. As soon as one comes to the creation, it means manifestations, automatically appear three guṇas: Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas. And this Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Maheśa or Śiva, they represent the three guṇas, three guṇas, where the Prakṛti and Puruṣa begin or become active, meaning Śiva and Śakti. Prakṛti is the Śakti, nature, and Puruṣa is the consciousness, is the Śiva. From that time, that is called a manifestation. After that, the incarnation. So one is a manifestation, who materialized from nothing, has no mother, no father. And then the incarnation, we call incarnation, not manifestation. Embodiment that is called, who has mother and father. So mother is equally important, or equally great, higher like a father, even more. Without this Śakti principle, without this mother principle, there cannot be even incarnation. But to be a mother of such a divine soul, who... Knows how many yugas, this mother and father, faithfully. Spiritually, meditating, worshipping, leading life, so generous, a life full of mercy. So adoration to those mothers who carried this divine soul in their bodies and gave birth. And therefore, there are equal pūjā ceremonies to Śakti and Śiva. So it doesn't matter if it is God as a male form or God as a Śakti form, female forms. These anatomical dualities don't exist in that reality. Those who see only this body will never understand. They will never understand what is God, what is Śakti, Durgā, Lakṣmī, and so on. So first is the manifestation, and it is the manifestation of the cosmic consciousness, and from this begins all creation. Similarly, we also have manifestation. You create something suddenly, and everybody will say, "Oh, wow, my God, this is something!" I know what they could think about that. Yes, through meditation, you can do something. The artist means the best artist is that one who creates art which doesn't exist anything on this planet, that's completely new. So also normal life, we said first you must have your intuitions, your mental imaginations, visions, then you make plans, and then you work out the plans. Then comes into the forms. Now, which is born will die. This is one of the laws of Prakṛti, which has a mother and father. When they are born, they have to go back. You may call it death, you may call it leaving the body, because this body is mortal. And I'm telling this because of today's Kṛṣṇa's incarnation day. Very clearly, Kṛṣṇa is saying in the Bhagavad Gītā, in the fourth chapter, 12th, 13th, 14th mantras, "Whenever my bhaktas..." Now, what means Kṛṣṇa said, "my bhakta"? Not those bhaktas who have Kṛṣṇa's photo and are sitting and singing, "Hare Kṛṣṇa." Say, "Śrī Kṛṣṇa Govinda." Not only this. Anyone, doesn't matter in which corner of the universe, in which form, doesn't matter. Believes there is God, there is truth, there is righteousness, there is justice, Satyam, Satyameva Jayate, where truth is victory. Satyam Śivam Sundaram, that Satyam is Śiva, the ultimate truth. Sundaram, that is the beauty of the entire universe. Arjuna, whenever the religion, people try to put down the religion, means the ethics, not that kind of religion we are fighting. There are two powers: politics and religion. The wars are in two hands: politicians and religions. That doesn't mean God, doesn't mean like that. It doesn't matter from which belief, God, you have—holy saint or incarnation. They mean the entire planet. So wherever my bhaktas, who says the universal God, because in his mind there is no duality, samadṛṣṭi. When my devotees, believers, and spiritual people are going to be troubled by asurī śaktis, negative energies, then, O Arjuna, I manifest; I incarnate time to time. And according to this, hundreds or thousands of times, or millions of times since this creation began, God incarnated on this planet. One is called Nitya Avatāra and one is called Nimitta Avatāra. Nitya Avatāra is known as the holy saints. The holy saint is known as a mobile holy place. Chalta, phirta, tīrtha. Chalta, phirta, tīrtha. Tīrtha means pilgrim. The pilgrim place, holy place, and that saint itself is that moving place, the mobile holy place. So, in Nitya, every day, in our everyday life, these holy saints, through their preachings, through their blessings, through their examples, they teach us or they show us the path, what we should do and what we should not do. We need such a sense that can remind us again and again. One said, if the spiritual sense would not give these injections of spirituality to mankind, then the human would be a more dangerous and violent creature on this planet. So we have injection of spirituality, injection of ethics, injection of morality, the morals. I must tell you again and again that still there are cultures where they respect these ethical and moral principles very, very much. And very, very many who are following also, I would say, are in the Middle East, where those who follow the real Islamic instructions. Now, the world is against that because the world is already destroyed, spoiled. When one has dirty hands, one would like to make the other one dirty also. Can you see the condition of the feminine powers in the so-called Western countries? Unbearable, unbearable situation conditions you have. Sorry to say, ladies, unbearable because this ethic education is lost, and so-called freedom is understood in the wrong way, and many things are destroyed. Now, a little bit has remained, so wait a minute, one sensory more, then you will see they are. Running like dogs behind each other, now already doing but little, still little bit there is it. Oh, we should take care, and that means there is no respect to Divine Mother, to Śakti. Well, Kṛṣṇa said to Arjuna, "Whenever my devotees suffer and religion goes down, darkness of ignorance appears. The human begins to behave like devils. Then I incarnate. Otherwise, the saints, they maintain the world, and this world is surviving only because of the holy saints. They are..." Blessing every day and praying, in the whole world, in every country, there are holy saints living. It's very hard for us to understand who is a holy saint. Some are politically chosen; they are not holy. Some are only sitting in their home, having normal... Life, but it is divine, holy. We don't know who is who, where is one, so it's not exclusively only in India. There are holy saints, but I'm sure also here in the Czech Republic there must be, if not many, then at least one or two. And you see, among millions of stars, one sun is enough. That's called Nityāvatāra. Nimitta Avatāra is like what we call those names which we can count on our fingers. Why can we count only on our fingers? Because our memories are not so far. And these avatars, in the list of avatars, there are 24 avatars, and the 24th one's name is still not incarnated, and that will be known as the Kālī Avatāra, the incarnation in this Kali Yuga. And it is believed that he is preparing. He is waiting a little more, that people begin to lose everything. Their knowledge loses their brain. They think everything is this material, nothing else. We die, finished. We do what we want. We kill whom, but how we want? Then the Kālī will come again. So we saw yesterday's video, many of you know many things. It's not only that Kṛṣṇa is incarnated because of Kaṁsa. There were many Kaṁsas whom Kṛṣṇa is going to liberate, and God is very gracious. He is not killing; he cleans up this negative energy. Kṛṣṇa said one day in Gokul, "I must go to Mathurā." He said, "Why? Because there is my great bhakta." So people said, "Who is in Mathurā your great bhakta?" He said, "My uncle Kaṁsa." He said, "No, no, no, he is not your bhakta." Kṛṣṇa said, "He is my bhakta. In this minute, this situation, now in this time, there is no one who thinks so much about me than him. Constantly, Kaṁsa is thinking of me." Even he can't sleep. He sees me, Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa, you know, and therefore, it doesn't matter how he or she is. When they remember me, I must go. And so he came and he liberated him. He blessed his soul to liberation. So Nimittāvatāra is for a particular purpose and then goes back. So you are also Avatāra, but you are Nityāvatāra. Now how you are, that we don't know. What you think, nobody knows. And what I think, you don't know. But what you think, there are two in this minute here present who know what you are thinking. There are two. One is yourself, that you know you are thinking. Now, when you know you are thinking, this is a warning for you if you think negative, and it is a blessing for you if you are thinking positive. So you know now what you are thinking, and the second God, God... Knows what you are thinking, and God has so many secretaries. They are all writing in your book, you know, constantly. What do they call it? The sort of record-keeping, right? Certain writing? And then everyone has big, big documents. And so, when we will go away from this life, It takes time to bring the document. It takes time to open, and then they ask you, "From where should we begin?" They say, "From the beginning." So in 24 hours, how many good thoughts did we have, how many good actions did we have, and how many negative ones did we have? So they put positive on one side, negative on the other side, and then they tell you, "This much is your positive, and that much is your negative." Now, which would you like to have first? You say, "First, I would like to have positive." Then, okay, it's only a few hours. And negative? Oh, that's enough, you can have. So, Nityāvatāra, it's in the holy sense, and we are known as bhaktas. We know we make a mistake, and that's why we are. So we are only a normal human being; we are not perfect, that one. And even the king of the heaven, Indra, also makes a mistake, no? And then what happens? So even Indra is not excluded. How many times he has to run away from his heaven, no? And how many times does he have to come again and say, "Forgive me, forgive me"? So don't think that you go to heaven and then it's finished forever. There are others waiting for that. So what Patañjali is trying to do is this: to bring our soul towards our ātmā, that we become Śiva-svarūpa. Jīva becomes Śiva, Nārāyaṇa. Through the human body, you can become Nārāyaṇa, Kṛṣṇa, Viṣṇu, and Then, through Śiva-bhakti, you can become Śiva. It means you can become the universal one. Now, there is some kind of mistake, and I would say ignorance, to say who is higher: Śiva or Kṛṣṇa or Brahmā, or this and that. The translation in the film is also wrong: "semi-gods." You see, we must write them correctly. There is no semi-god. Either there is a god or no god, okay? There is a woman, so you cannot... What's a semi-woman? I never saw a semi-woman. You may say the girl, elderly babichka, maminka, grandmother, granny, but then we have the word "feministic," the female. So now there is only female. There is no semi-female. Therefore, it is wrong to understand semi-god and big God and a small God. No. Fire is fire. Doesn't matter if a whole mountain is burning, that is fire also. Vulcan is also fire, or a small matchstick burning, that's also fire. Fire is fire. So do not fight over who is bigger. Who is bigger, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, or Śiva? And even there is a difference between them. You need not compare anything, because we are not even comparable. We are not comparable even with their small hair from somewhere. A Brahmā's small hair, if you can get it, oh my God, you have so many siddhis. Oh, even we see Brahmā one kilometer far, and they call Brahmā a semi-god? Go to Brahmā and say, "Are you a semi-god?" Therefore, who are we to challenge? Our benefit is in that, that we say all adoration, great one. And that's what religious people, spiritual people, make the mistake, fighting in this and that. So Narseṅārāyaṇa, through the human body you can realize, become a Nārāyaṇa, a Viṣṇu. And Jīva says Śiva. Through this sādhanā, you can become Śiva, svarūpa, means that jyoti. And that Jyoti is in every creature. Jīvanjyoti, the flame of our life, that is the Śiva. When this body is separated from the soul, the light of life is gone. When you look in my eye, in the pupil, you see your picture, yes? You can see your face, and of course I can see in your eyes too. But when I die, or you die, and we look in your eyes, we cannot see our picture in your eyes. Did you know this? Do you know this? You don't know. In that animal's eye, you cannot see your picture. And as long as a creature is living, it doesn't matter which kind of animal has eyes. If you can look in, you see yourself, like in a mirror, your face. That is a Jyoti. That is a Jyoti, Śiva Svarūpa Jyoti, and when that Jyoti is gone, you also cannot see anything. So today is the most divine constellation for this planet, when Kṛṣṇa, with the full power of his entire universal being—a very great light for the well-being of the entire planet—incarnates in a human body. And what we call his name is given, Kṛṣṇa. Now, in everyone, Kṛṣṇa is living. So Kṛṣṇa said, "I incarnate to protect my bhaktas," meaning all spiritual people, no matter from which religion. Therefore, he said, "Arjuna, it doesn't matter through which way you will go, finally you will find me at the end. I will be there." So it doesn't matter which belief you follow. Finally, you will come to that, to me, means God. He didn't say, "You will see me, the Kṛṣṇa." He didn't say you will see Kṛṣṇa. You will see me, the God. Because the reality is one, truth is one, and there is only one door to enter into that Brahma-loka, or in heaven, or wherever you can say. And that's why Holy Gurujī often used to say, "Enter the kingdom of the Lord." Then I forgot, what was it? Enter the kingdom of the Lord through the gates of sacrifice. What to sacrifice? To sacrifice these dualities: that you believe this God and I believe this God, and you have that guru and I have this guru, I practice this yoga and you practice this yoga, and we don't like this. This is all rabbi's things. Purify, respect. Everyone believes in God in their own way, how they are praying, no fighting. We all belong to that one God. We have our different families, we have different villages, we have different countries, and we have a little different culture, and so we have different imaginations and teachings of religion or God. Okay, all right, but God is one. He has no form. He has no name. He is omniscient, omnipresent everywhere, and that means that Kṛṣṇa said, "You will see me, finally I will be there," and so finally we are there. In Nityāvatāra also they manifest themselves. Now they manifest it. In Nityāvatāra, there is what is called embodiment. In that form, that light enters or that light incarnates, and that's how what we call Mahāprabhujī. When Gurujī saw Mahāprabhujī, just in front of him was standing Kṛṣṇa, and told him, "You remember that day I told you in your dream, meditation, time has come." And Gurujī realized exactly that many days ago, when he came to me in the dream and told. So in such, and there are still many divine incarnations, but they do not introduce themselves. Who is introducing yourself is an empty pot, and who does not introduce, that is the ocean, the filled pot. So someone said, "Come, I will give you a mantra, I will be your guru, and I will give you siddhi, and you practice this, you will get this." Follow me, don't follow anything else. Then you should know that, yes, I will follow your words. That means I have to follow something else. So, pūrṇa has no desires. Completeness has no desires. A hungry one has no desire to eat anymore, but... Those who are hungry are running here and there, saying, "I have siddhi, I have this, I have that." So even if you have a siddhi, don't demonstrate it, please. Don't come to me and say, "Look, Swāmījī, what do you think?" After so many years of mantra, look, I am this one. I will look, yes, oh really, you are great. Why will I say this? Because that's my protection. That I can protect myself from you means, from your ignorance. Therefore, the great one never said, "I am great." They will never speak the great words about themselves. Like a diamond doesn't say that I am a diamond and my price is this much or that much. So Patañjali, he is trying to understand and give understanding to all bhaktas, practitioners, That is how to understand your thoughts and change your thought, your way of thinking. We are thinking wrong, and we look different; our view is not in a good way. And we say we are right, but you are not right. That's this. You said, "I see," but you don't see well. There is a little joke; please don't be angry if someone has this kind of feeling. There was a man working in a big company, and they had a dinner one day. So the owner of the company invited all his workers with their wives for a dinner. So there was one man, and his wife was very happy because he never had been to dinners anywhere. She went and sat there beside her husband. On the other side was another man, and on the other side of him was one lady, and then her husband. And then, like this, when she came home, she then asked, "Mother, how was the dinner? What did you eat?" She said, "Dinner was good, but I couldn't eat." "Why?" "Well, it was a little bit funny, out of my appetite." Why, mother, what happened? Because beside me was sitting one lady, and she had some defect in the eyes. When she has to see here, she must look there. So she was looking at her plate, and always she put her spoon in my plate, like this. So I tried to tell her to take my plate a little farther away, and she even turned more toward her hand like this. So this is who we are. We always look different, and we think that's correct, but that is not correct. So Patañjali tried to turn our view in the correct way, to change your view from the wrong things and bring your attention to the correct, right things. And this is what Patañjali is trying to say. So at that time, the Puruṣa, which comes to this realization, That he comes, Khyāte. Khyāte means glory. That time, when he comes to know his inner light, the Ātmā, the knowledge, then all his guṇa, the nature from Prakṛti, from the nature from outside as well as from inside, that becomes one forming. Tṛṣṇā means also longing. But now awakes within us that we have now that pure Vairāgya, now our Tṛṣṇā, positive. I want to know that I am Ātmā. Ātmā Jñāna comes to samādhi. So Patañjali tries very hard to give us something, but after the lecture, we are again looking at the other plates, and that's not good. So today is that much. I bless you in the name of God Kṛṣṇa, and I congratulate you in the name of all spiritual seekers and spiritual devotees in this world, that today, for the sake of our beautiful planet, for all creatures and humans, and especially for us spiritual people, God incarnated on this earth. Planet, I wish you all the best and bless you, and see you tomorrow again with Patañjali's. But he's going to tell us tomorrow more about these vṛttis and tṛṣṇās. So tomorrow, it will be more nicely explained to you, like today. So today is only Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Dīpa Nayan Bhagavānakī, Kṛṣṇa Kanayalālakī, Śrī Kṛṣṇa Govinda Hare Murāri, He Natanāra Yanvāśu Deva, Śrī Kṛṣṇa Govinda Hare Murāri. He Śrī Kṛṣṇa Govinda, Hare Murārī, He Nātha Nārāyaṇa, Vāsudeva. Śrī Kṛṣṇa Govinda, Hare Murārī, He Nāth Nārāyaṇa Vāsudeva ... Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Devapuruṣa Mahādeva Dharma Samrāṭ Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān. Oṁ Śānti.