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Good morning, all dear sisters and brothers. Today is a beautiful day, Saturday. This day holds a very beautiful and powerful constellation; among all days, it is very powerful and closer to Earth. There are many stories and writings about this. It is very important for all of us. This constellation can be very good, but it can also be very hard or not good. In Jyotiṣa, the seven days are understood in this way. There is a story. The deity, the guru or god of Saturday, is Śani (Saturn). When his energy comes, it can go to anyone, positive or negative. Śani brings more darkness. One day, his Gurujī said to him, "Śani, do not attack me." Śani replied, "Gurudev, I cannot change anything. Can my Guru, or can my father, change anything?" Gurujī asked, "Then what will you do?" Śani said, "I will show you sometime." One day, Gurujī went to a village for bhikṣā (food). He received a watermelon and began walking back to his āśram. At that moment, the constellation was such that someone had killed the king’s son. People were searching for the culprit. They checked everyone and then saw Gurujī. Of course, they thought Gurujī would not do anything, but he was carrying his bag. The guards asked, "Gurujī, what do you have in your bag?" He said, "I brought some fruits." When they looked, they saw the head of the prince. They said, "Gurujī, we did not know you could do this." He replied, "I have not done this. Maybe somebody put it in my bag." They took Gurujī and the bag to the king. Everyone knew it was the prince's head. Just before he reached the king, within five minutes, the constellation passed. They showed the bag to the king, but now it contained only a watermelon. Gurujī explained, "I went to take a watermelon and was going to my ashram. That is all." The king said, "Okay, thank you. But do you know what happened to my son? He was playing there. It must have been something else." Gurujī returned to his ashram. Śani then came and said, "I am Śrī Gurudev. I know, and I told you. I tried as much as I could to make the constellation's effect a little less." Gurujī asked, "What should I do?" So, if you have Śani in your constellation, it means... there are many people who, because of this, give up eating watermelon. Many people say this. You may remember I once said you should give up something—anything which is easiest or very hard, but give it up for life. Due to this Śani, what can we give up? The sugar melon (watermelon) is a symbol of our head. Do not take and cut the head, otherwise you will have problems. Is there anybody here in the business of watermelons? We will not name the person, otherwise his business might be affected. So it is like that. There are many such things. I have many disciples. Once, they were told, "Give up anything that you want." One disciple's wife said to her husband—they were both my disciples—"He eats too much chocolate. Swāmījī, can I give up chocolate? For me, it is very easy, but for him to give up chocolate is difficult. But it must not go even on his lips." He gave it up. The next day he asked, "I have given up chocolate, but can I eat other sweets?" Yes, you can eat sweet things, but not chocolate. He kept this vow for life, and his wife, a disciple of many years, is still there. This is called saṅkalpa. Saṅkalpa means to take an oath. When men and women, girls and boys, are married—in a church, temple, under a tree, on a rock, in a forest—it does not matter where. There, you both say, "I will be yours for my whole life," and the other says, "I will be yours forever." Then, one day, if you give up, you might think, "I am happy I gave up this husband," or the girl might say, "I am very happy I gave up," and so on. But what about your promise? The promise is not just saying yes or no to something. It is not like walking a step. It is a promise. When we make a promise, we have to follow it. Perhaps you think you have made a different kind of promise. It could be for different things, and therefore we should be very careful. Otherwise, it will not bring good. For both, it will not be good. Therefore, we should know, we should have our saṅkalpa. For example, in the church—I speak of this because you know about it—what do you call them? Master, guru, priest. The priest, who gives you peace and bliss, says, "Follow what I say." What does the priest say? He tells the girl, "Will you do this, will you respect this, for your husband?" She says yes. Then he tells the man, "Now you are a husband, will you respect this?" He says yes. But in the church, they do not say, "If you do not want to remain, then you can give up." They do not say to forgive this wish. The priest himself, who gave the wish or this permission, cannot take it back again. Nowadays, they may do things differently, but still, in the churches nearby, they will not easily say, "Okay, separate." This is not only in the church; it is everywhere. Then you have good children, and the children will also learn in that way. Similarly, there are many things. If you take a promise about your mantra, Kriyā Yoga, and all these techniques, we have to go through with it. That is very important. Today is the day for Guru Pūrṇimā. On Guru Pūrṇimā, it is said: I have done the whole year—all my sādhanā, my mālās, my mantras, everything for my Gurudeva. All the good things I have done in the whole year, and anything done improperly, purposefully or not—my Lord, I give you both good and bad. Please, take it and do what you will. I give it to you today. It is like this: you are a farmer and you have grain in your field. After harvesting, you give everything for your business or whatever. You give the field back, saying, "Please relax for some months, and afterwards I will give you another seed—not wheat, we will give you pumpkin." What is that other one? Kukuruccha? So we change. We also have both. I give all my karmas, my practice, Gurudev, to you. And what mistakes I made, I also give to you. Please bless me and give me your blessing. Give me the oath of what I should do. So now I will practice. You give me mantras or any techniques, I will practice. I will not keep it with me. I will give all to you, O my Lord. In how many years, how many good things you did, and consciously or unconsciously, something you definitely have done—that also I give you. Now, in 25 years, I had more good things and less difficult things. So Gurudeva said, "I will give you again a good birth as a human, and go ahead to do good things." So again, we have to work. We have to give back, that is it. But sometimes it is said, "Gurudev, I give you everything, and I will do what you want." Then it is said, "I will give you everything. I will be there, and I will go there." So, renew. I will give my good and my bad; all I give you. Then, Gurudev or God, whatever you said, will bring you somewhere. And then we have a lot of good things. Then Gurudev will say, "Come as a guru and work, doing good things for all." So many of us are here. We did good, and we will do more good. We are lucky that we got our Pariparama Gurus, all our destinations, from Śiva till today, and you are inside there. That is very, very good. Tomorrow is Guru Pūrṇimā for us here. Therefore, I wish you, and all our bhaktas around the whole world, that you should offer everything to your Gurudev. Every disciple should give to their guru. It does not matter if you have millions of gurus or ten gurus, or millions of disciples or only a few disciples. That does not matter. Guru is guru. There are no two gurus. You have one mother, one birth. You cannot go to other ladies and say, "Now you also take me in your body and give me birth again," just like that. We can see everybody as good, as our brothers, sisters, or mothers, etc. But your mother is your mother, and your father is your father. You can call somebody a father, but he is not the father. When we have the seed of a mango, then that kind of mango fruit will come again. You can call the mango an apple, you can see it as an apple, but the taste and everything is different. Therefore, we all look for that Gurudeva, for whom we do everything. This is very, very good, and I wish you all the best. Now, everybody, we will chant mantras. We will chant the mantra of Mahāprabhujī. Nirañjana śabad janai sima ho vayamana manjana, isi mantras vayamana manjana. Śrī dīpa nirañjana śabad uka bhan. Prabhu Dīpa Nirañjana Śabad dukha Śrī Dīpā Nirañjanā Sabhā Dukha Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān kī Devādī Dev Devaiśvar Mahādeva kī Satguru Svāmī Mādhāvanājī Bhagavān kī Satya Sanātana Dharma kī. Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... Hari Oṁ.