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For the last ten days, we have been intensively chanting mantras. These mantras are for all people who have problems—illness, family problems, many things. Many of you are sending messages about your physical problems. Many know that by being on this path, we surrender to our Gurudev. Ārādhya Dev Bhagavān Alakh Purījī, Bhagavān Devādhideva Deveśwar Mahādev, Ārādhya Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, and our beloved Satguru Swāmī Madhavānandajī—known throughout the world as Holy Gurujī. Holy Gurujī’s Vākya always came with power and truth. Often, people come only for a short while, then they leave, or they want something. But Gurujī said, “That is not good for you.” They insisted, “I want it like this.” Gurujī warned, “That will be very problematic for you. Don’t ask for this.” Yet people would say, “We will do it.” Still, Holy Gurujī always gave blessings, telling them, “Come to this path, do this mantra, do that,” and so on. Guru Kṛpā He Kevalam, Guru Kṛpā He Kevalam, Śiṣya Ke Ānand Maṅgalam. Gurujī also said that the words of Param Gurudev are absolute truth, and everything else will fade away. There is a bhajan: “Parama Guru Swamijī merā janma sudhāryo āj”—Parama Guru Swamijī has reformed my life today. It is said that when I came to our Holy Gurujī, he spoke of Parama Guru Swamijī. Who is Param Gurujī? Param means Parabrahma, Parātmā. This understanding comes step by step. Now we are all here together. It doesn’t matter which country you are in; you are one with me. I am here with you, but you and I—all of us—are one at the holy feet of Holy Gurujī. That purity remains; therefore, it doesn’t matter where we are—anywhere on this earth, on the oceans, or in the many different realms of the universe. Thus, Holy Gurujī always said very clearly: “Gurudev, I ask for nothing. And if I am to come into this world again, please let me once more be at your holy feet.” This is the bhajan from our Lālā Nānjī. Lālā Nānjī said very clearly in one bhajan: Oṁ Pālī Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Śrī Lālā Nānjī Mahārāj Kī Jai, Deveśvar Mahādev Kī Jai, Devādidev Deveśvar Mahādev Kī Jai, Ārādya Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī Kī Jai, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī Jai, Alakhpurījī Mahādev Kī Jai. It is said that on this path, today I received something very nice—some letters. There is a term for these stories and teachings. In the Vedas, and even before the Vedas, in the time of Śiva and so on, people lost their knowledge. They lost their feelings, and they turned toward materialism. When we turn to the material, we become lost to the spiritual. But all the bhaktas and great saints are not like that; they do not think, “I want this, and I want that.” No, they work for the benefit of all divine souls. From Śiva, after Bhagavān Śiva, there were many ṛṣis—many different ṛṣis. For all these ṛṣis, their treasure was only knowledge: the science of the human being and the science of life. And life includes everything—from stones, coal, the forest, water, animals, to humans. Humans exist, and stones exist. But when humans do not follow their knowledge and feelings, they can turn back into stone. It can happen—they can become a stone. In the Rāmāyaṇa, there was a ṛṣi. Due to some feelings, the ṛṣi became angry with his wife. He touched a stone and said, “Wife, you will now become a stone.” Indeed, she remained and became a rock. It was said that one day, when God Rāma comes, He will, if He wishes, grant you liberation—and this is true. And so, as Bhagavān Rām, Lakṣmaṇa, and Sītā were traveling, they came to a beautiful place belonging to a Ṛṣi. The ṛṣi had gone away, but other ṛṣis and followers were coming there in succession; even today, many people continue to follow. A follower of those ṛṣis once told God Rāma, as He was walking with Lakṣmaṇa and a Siddha, “Please, Lord, we know that a soul is waiting for you.” God Rāma asked, “What is that?” Then He saw a very humble, spiritual, divine, and great being—the wife of that ṛṣi. The ṛṣi had gone into the forest to fetch fruits or something. In the meantime, some Rākṣasas came. The wife transformed herself into the body of her husband. So the Rākṣasa was with her. When her real husband returned, the Rākṣasa left. But after leaving the hut, the ṛṣi asked his wife, “Who was that in the hut?” She explained what happened. (Here someone asked me something: “Who were they?” Soban bhai, I will call back, okay? Are ho, main pravacana kar rahā hoon—Oh, I am giving a discourse.) So, he cursed her: he struck with his foot and said, “You will become a stone.” He turned her into a stone. Thus, for ages and ages, she remained a stone. But he had said, “When Bhagavān Rām comes, He will make you human again.” Therefore, Bhagavān Rām purposely passed through that forest. Some ṛṣis came and asked, “About this rock?” He said, “Yes, I know.” Then Bhagavān Rāma placed his foot on the stone, and she became human again. So that science is very profound: turning a rock into a human, and a human into a rock. It was a strict law. Nowadays, we are lost and, more or less, like animals. Śrī Śrī… Mahāprabhujīp Karatā Mahāprabhujīp Karatā He Kevalam Mahāprabhujīp Karatā He Kevalam, Mahāprabhujīp Karatā He Kevalam, Mahāprabhujīp Karatā. Without that grace, you cannot take a step further. Consider driving a car: you may see others driving, but they won’t just let you do it. You must go to a driving instructor, who teaches you and then gives you a license. Only with the license can you sit in the car and take the steering wheel. Who was that? That was your guru who taught you how to drive. Similarly, for a cycle, who teaches you? For an airplane, a pilot cannot just sit inside alone; their masters, teachers, professors show them how to fly. In the beginning, if you just sit there and say, “Okay, I’ll start and go”—where? Into a cheek somewhere, that’s it. So, it’s very difficult alone. A pilot: how many miles must he fly solo? There is nobody inside, no one. And we are flying—how many flights per day, per week, per month? How many miles will you fly by yourself? Then, you know all this, but I am telling you again, like a fool, because some may still not know. Then the Guru comes, the master of the pilot, and sits with the student. In the pilot’s seat, the master says, “Close the curtain, make it dark.” And then says, “Goodbye, start your flight and fly blind.” The master leaves, saying, “Go.” But beforehand, the master had taught him, showing him everything—all the signs. Now he sees only on the screen. And he flies on; on the screen, everything is written—what we now call navigation when driving a bus or anything. Navigation. So, the Gurudev provides navigation. The Gurudev says: go there, don’t go there, go this way. But if you say, “No, I will go that way,” then you curse yourself. So similarly, now you take off. The aspiring pilot went up. And he sees everything. But there is Purījī… Minimum six hours you have to fly big airplanes. And then, you land exactly, to the millimeter. Then you come out. The master says, “Oh, my friend, my disciple, my son, good boy! You can fly.” That’s it. Even in Europe, they cannot simply do things on their own. For example, electronically, you build a house—a small room, only 20 or 40 square meters. You try to do all the electrical work yourself. That’s not allowed. You might use the best cables, but no—remove them. Who did it? You won’t get permission to live in that house. So you need qualified professionals. Those people have studies, schools, colleges—just like our Gītā. Gītā knows how she has learned, and she teaches our Māna. So in Europe, you cannot take the liberty of doing electrical work yourself. You can do small things for yourself, but they say: this work is not just for you, it’s for others too. Similarly, you may be like a yogī, but it’s not only for you. When thousands of your disciples are there, you must know that we have an electronic connection—from Alakhpurījī, Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, Holy Gurujī. Now the cables are in my hand. I don’t know what to do. Yes? There are so many cables. If I go out, I will be burnt. So I must give the kevalam to everyone. What does that mean? My soul is inside; the Gurudeva, or God, has placed it there. Now we come to the very physical part: the entire network of nerves in the body. If just one nerve is out of order, your finger might twitch like this all the time. Everyone will move like that. Why? And why not move the other way? Because some nerves are out of order. So we know—you know better than me, because it’s your nerves. Thus, you should know what you are. Similarly, from the little toe to the top of the head, not just the nerves, but the hair—hair is like an antenna. These are our antennas. So take care. When you don’t properly care for your antenna, it falls out. So many half-bald people are here. I always tell my hair, “Please, my antenna, remain there. My antenna, antenna…” There’s a name in Croatian for antenna—Antonia, yes? So Antonia, Antonia is Niktanio? All these are connected: our teeth, our tongue. The tongue—if a little nerve is affected, the tongue cannot function. And when you eat, the taste may be gone. How does all this work? It’s like an airplane—how is it monitoring? How does our tongue move? How does it speak? So, my dear, that is the guru within our self—our body. That is why the Ṛṣi said: “Atha Yoga Anuśāsanam.” Patanjali’s “Atha Yoga Anuśāsanam.” Anuśāsanam means there is a principle. When we lack principle, we break many things. In this body, it is a network beyond imagination. Sometimes when I’m dreaming, meditating, or whatever, I see a beautiful pattern of nets—many, many nets, different and very fine. Therefore, meditate always within yourself, not outside yourself. Those who teach meditation sometimes say, “Let’s go,” and we may point to trees, “Look there.” But this is only for people who cannot understand their own body, their own self. They are completely out of control, so we first draw their attention to good trees and so on. Oh, in Europe—you know, in Croatia and Slovenia, you can’t imagine—there are very nice fruits, not tomatoes, something else nice, what are they? Śrī Śrī… Or they say, “Why don’t you make a machine? What is that?” Yes. So life is life; life within life is life. And that understanding will help us understand our body and our Guru. So, our ātmā—that ātmā is in our body solely for us, only for us. Why? Because the ātmā controls, looks after, and supplies the whole body: all nerves, glands, cells, organs, every bone—everything in good order and under control. We sleep at night, close our eyes, and in the morning open them and see. Sometimes—very rarely—things happen. I had a friend, an old man who died long ago. I was about eight or nine years old. This old man, around 60 or 70, woke up one morning completely blind. He had slept well, everything was fine, but no doctor could help. So our ātmā watches over us, monitoring everything. Our ātmā, our jīva—not just this jīva—there is another jīva that always controls us: how we sleep, how we breathe, how we exhale, many things. Because when we sleep, we don’t know, but the ātmā and our heart know; the whole body functions normally. Our heart—I will tell about my heart. One day at the Adriatic coast in Slovenia or Croatia, I was swimming for five or six hours; it was very nice. Once, I decided to dive down. My heart didn’t say, “I will also go slightly”—no, the heart struggled. Breathing nicely, but breath can stop for a while; the heart will not stop. That’s my heart. You are my heart. That’s my heart. And within the heart is my ātmā. In the Upaniṣad, it is said that in the cave of the heart, there is something very tiny, like a small rock, bluish in color. That is the ātmā. Doctors cannot find it, but it is there somewhere. The Upanishad says this. Which Upanishad? I will know. So it is written. So, the Guru is first our own Self. You are the Self, your own Guru. But now you have forgotten. If you were a real guru, you would not do stupid things—go to alcohol, buy meat. Then you are not. Know thyself. But if we don’t know ourselves, then we should go to the Gurudev. Learn, listen to the Gurudev. Suppose your heart is very good, but your leg is broken. You don’t worry, “My heart is all right.” But you must go to a doctor to repair your leg, or your toes, or your heart, or anything. So, for the whole body—from the skin to the hair—we maintain it through proper nourishment, yoga, meditation, etc. Only humans have the chance to go further, because God said, “I give you everything. Now you go either this way or that.” And He said, “Of course, I will give you some support, but you are not calling me, and you are not everything.” Many say there is no God. So, Guru Kṛpāhi Kevalam, Śiṣyake Ānanda Maṅgalam, Dīpnan Bhagavānakī, Devādidev, Dev Purīśamādev, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavānakī, Satyaśāṇatandharva, Om Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ. Now I would like to give you a little message. Of course, we will first chant a mantra for all. Oṁ Prabhudīpanirañjanasabadhukavan… Oṁ Prabhudīpanirañjan Sabad Oṁ. For all, for all creatures we pray with this. All people who have problems—we are praying for them. Oṃ Tryambakaṃ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṃ Puṣṭivardhanam, Urvārukamiva Bandhanān Mṛtyor Mukṣīya Mā’mṛtāt, Om Sat Satī Satī.