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We offer our praṇāms to our paramparās, to the gurus of the paramparās, and also to the parents of our paramparās. Both are in oneness, like mother and father; they are both our ancestors. It is very important to remember how many ancestors you can recall from the past. Our Guru Paramparā can include both male and female; they are all in that line. It is important to remember them every morning, every evening, and especially when we are eating. There is a very big story and a book on this subject. If we are on our path, they are controlling, following, or guiding us—guiding is the best term. We ourselves are coming for the future paramparā. We can say only the one. Who will come for us? In all this, especially today, we are worshipping and we give praṇāms to all ancestors. In that, we give our adoration. We take refuge in Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī. We pray to Thee, O Gurudeva. If we are counting according to Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa, then we also pray: please forgive any mistakes we did last year, and we pray for the future. We do not know what our future will be. But You know, and thus You can guide us. Who? Our ancestors. These are such gradual steps, one after another. If we can understand this and follow it, then everything remains on a very beautiful path. It is like being on a highway, with a bridge either above or below. We drive smoothly; in the same way, we also have our feelings. So with this, today I want to say we will give praṇām to Mahāprabhujī, Holī Gurujī, Devpurījī, Alakpurījī, Līlā Nanjī, all our Guru Paramparās: Holī Gurujī, Devpurījī, Alakpurījī, etc. Oṁ Namoḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Haṁsabhādāsa Prabhu Śaraṇa Parāyaṇam. Oṁ Namoḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Oṁ Namoḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam Haṁsabhādāsa Prabhu Śaraṇa Parāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpanārā. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpanār. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Deva Haṁsabhādāsa Śaraṇa Parāyaṇaṁ. Śaraṇa Parāyaṇaṁ Prabhu Deva. Om Namah Śrī Prabhu Deva. We are all servants of the Lord, we are all servants of the Lord, we are all servants of the Lord, we are all servants of the Lord. Om Śānti, Om Śānti, Om Śānti. On this day, what I want to tell you: when I come to my... this is called the Guru Gādī. And there is a coming into the whole body from our paramparās. Whether you believe it or not, there is always the giving of instructions, knowledge, the path, controlling, etc. And we know, and we should know, how the paramparā is coming. For example, let's come here to the western country, here where we are sitting. 99.9% of people, with respect, give the ceremonies or what is given on the earth. Thus the funeral ceremony is performed, and with great respect and reverence, they are buried. Or they are what you would call a cremation burial, a crematorial. Or they are burned with the funeral. There are generally four times, four places to give this body. Some people say, "We want to give this body in the water." Water means a flowing river, or deep far in the ocean. What does that mean? They want that there are some different creatures that will eat them, like fish and some other water animals. They say, "My body was doing my service. I was giving nourishment my whole life. Now, because they gave to me, I give to you in both ways. Who am I? What should I do with my body? I want my body to be useful." And so they give it to the water, rain, and rivers. Number two: mostly the Parsi people. These Pārśīs, when someone dies, they give the body in the forest somewhere. They have a space, a place for it, and they leave this body somewhere so that some birds or other creatures may take it. This body is old; there is no more soul inside. That is number five, you can say also, but it's the same as what I told you now. That is: "Oh God, oh Lord, when I die, let me be somewhere that nobody knows. Nobody will cry, etc." But that time was when humans were few. Now we are everywhere. We know what a human is, you know, how to do. She will tell you, so it is. Kabīr Dās said in a very nice poem, "So the Bhakti Devī is here." So tell that bhakti will also help you to do, how to do, okay? Sorry. So, wait, slowly. The second is that we give the burning to our body. And then the next method is that we burn the body. Because many times, still, there is a soul inside. So if it is this, then that soul is not anymore moving here and there, so he or she is not suffering. And the fourth, fifth, you can say, we are giving it under the earth. Now, in all this, it is said that we see that one has died. But many times, many, many times, still the prāṇa is in the brain. But many times, often, it is such that prāṇa still remains in the brain. So, when we then cremate that person, sometimes they must break the skull to burn the brain as well. At that time, they say, "Now the soul is gone." This is what I think you know. Or if you know these five things, now you have come to know. Now, when we go to the grave on that day, we have grieved. Everything is finished. But why do we go, time to time, with flowers there? And once a year, there is a festival, and chests are there where they were engraved. And we go and we give the flowers. The ministry that you have is very nicely done in Europe. It's very nice, very clean, very good. And there was even beautiful decoration. We have here one here that's a castle. And before that is the grave. And there is a beautiful... it has been done so nicely. I have not seen, only by the past. But you come, one day we shall go, you can go also, and it's a beautiful arching. Why? Because the ancestors said that we shall decorate and keep my parents, the parents of the parents of the parents. And the people, all, many, many, mostly, always they know which is a grave for my ancestors, and there we'll give the body of our next one. This is the jīvā, the soul. So other creatures are different, but it is said that when the soul, Jīvā, came in the human body, it is more as a holy. Therefore, what I said: both ancestors—our Guru Paramparā ancestors and our family's ancestors—we have respect, we should. In both ways, it is the right and the truth, and we have to follow. Now, second, what we are thinking, we call the religion. Religion was not there. It was only one, the Sanātana. And Sanātana means all who are living. That is called, also the trees are ancestors. So everything God has done is very nice, time to time. Like now we have summer, then after the summer, which one is that? So, all four different seasons. And all this, who has done? There is no religion. Winter, summer, etc. Which religion will this bring inside? So, that is that natural everything is that which, for us, let us say, whether we believe in God or not believe in God, but this is all different kind of the ṛtu, or the time. And so, there are many times—it was now it's less, but we are more going to their ministries, their, what we call, they have their own graveyard, and once a year. They have to do, they are going, and in Christianity, there are, I think, two or three different. The first is they are worshipping or doing. Who was the Christian master? The holy, we said the saints, and then after it's others. So why is it that? Because it is the tradition, and we are connected. Even if the body is gone, they are with us. Some believe, some don't believe. And it is said, if you have not proper, let's say, ceremonies, or we have not properly given them all this grave, etc. "O my child, I gave you so much from my mother's womb, until my mother went, died. Now, how will you respect and go further?" Somebody said, "Ah, stupid." Okay. But when you will die, then you will become, you can say, like a ghost. And then, many times, the ancestors, means your parents, your mother or your father, etc., they will go round and round in your house. And then it is like this: you should get out of this house, and they want to torture something. You, their ancestors, they become then what we call a ghost. A ghost is not your others; it is your, your. Others are stupid, we don't believe. Well, I lived more in here, over in the West, than in India—52 years. So, something I have learned: when people are saying "first and last," "second war," and how sometimes people say, "Where? What is happening?" and mostly, like, in the castles and some different places. People told me, and in Slovakia there is also a monastery, and he is very old now, and there are guards. Sometimes some priests are there, but that man, who was my bodyguard for ten years, told me that he was guarding there, and he said the real truth. And he said that he felt talking, laughing many times, he was himself, he was trembling, and had dogs with him. There is another one, a castle. And they said, "When you go from one room to another room, there is somebody, but nothing." So I went with Mahāprabhujī, the Holy Gurujī, the prayers, and then with these agarbathis. Om Namah Prabhu Deep Niranjan Sabduk Bhanjan. And the next day, that monastery was completely cleaned. There were no more dead movements there, so we are still all bound to them. If you believe or not, if you like your father and mother or not. But it's your blood, constantly one after the other. And this we shall make always good ceremonies as long as we remember our ancestors, their day of that life they died, and if you remember their birth, this is not a negative thing. What I'm telling you, and I'm not giving that you will be afraid of now. No, if our parents, they will never do anything wrong. But it is like this: after a certain time, then that becomes like not good, that's all. I don't know, but I think it is somewhere in Europeans here. I heard, or somewhere, you know, that in the night they are coming dancing. Who are they? Vampires. I saw them only in videos and cinemas. They made some, you know, in America and the British. And there, there's underground, there were various things, but the village, our country, our city. And now, when people go there to see that, everything... and they are getting underground, and there are many, many curves there, and there are some... the person is graved there. People are not afraid; some are afraid. Is this a joke, or is it real? So it can be in any country. The American Indians, they also know. For them, it's nothing else than their ancestors. So please, we should not be afraid, neither negative. Not like a joke. It is my father. It is my mother. It is my brothers. My grandparents, now separated in spirit, then my guru. Now my guru will take over for them also, my parents, my mother and my father. And we are now liberated. Then it will go as the other path, which is the spiritual path, is going. Which you have not done properly, then you are also suffering somewhere. So, this is the time we all are not bounded, but we are released. We should never think that, oh my God, what will be now? Your parents have died, but still they take care of you, and they are gone. So it is not that my father will be all the time coming to the door and say, "Hello, beta, how are you? Sit up." So never, never should we be afraid. Now, how will my father or my mother take care of me? It means they are still here. Yes and no. When you know your father and mother, you can see them. But when they die, their body is gone. Then they are in your heart. They are, they were with us, but now they are with us inside. That time was that individual, and now they are oneness. And that oneness is going to the highest level, God, whatever it is. There is one person in America, and he wrote everything, life after life. And there is a person, but his thoughts are different. And a person like you or me, because we are, at least, we know, spiritual. I am a little bit spiritual. You are the supreme. So don't worry, but I can tell. He said that one is going to darkness and one is going to light. And yogīs, and we all, we are saying we have eleven parts. We have the five, how the ātmā goes, and how the other one, so there are ten, so nostrils. The ears, the mouth, then the urinary and the toilet, the anus. So these are where the prāṇas are going, and there is, in yoga, in yoga books and somewhere it is written, many, how the prāṇa is going out, the soul. So, two ears, two nostrils, a mouth, two eyes, the urinary tract, and the anus. But you will see that when someone dies, the eyes go very high, and in someone, some blood comes out through the ears. So this is the part of how the soul goes out. But the eleventh is called here the Brahma Chakra. And in the Brahma Chakra, here goes the soul. And that's why when they are burning them with the wood, still that doesn't break. So the oldest child, generally the boy or another, they take the bamboo, there is something there, a bamboo stick. They break the head when it's burned, but it's still remained. And then they pour some kind of ghee, something. Because it should completely burn. So prāṇa is going at that time. And when that is, then your ancestor, your father or mother, or your child, you free them. So there are many, many things. If you believe or not, or if I believe or not. But in Chester's many, many books, there are writings because we are humans. There are sometimes also some animals. Often, I could see, or one told, that your horse or your cow or your dog, or this, who died, and you saw it once really, you meant now in this way. So, there's a left nostril and a right nostril. So, the left nostril one is more dark, going; the right will go. More like a milky, and from Brahmaloka comes a very clear path. Now, this is after when gone out, it finishes, nothing there. But still, the jīvā goes with this, our brain. And so they said like this: that was dark, and that was right, and this like this. And we know that many times I have two or three persons that said, "Really, I died and again I came back." So it means no one should be suffering or feel problems. They will not become a ghost. That is only what people are thinking, stupid. Why will your mother, why will your father become a ghost for you? So, it is not like that. They are gone. It is said, when you have a cage and inside is a bird, and you catch the bird inside, you know this is a life prison. But one day, maybe the door is open from the cage, and how the bird is running, you can't imagine. So similarly, our soul from this body, it is said, "I am liberated." I have none of these problems now. No one asks for my money. No one is bound to take money. Everything is... Again, we are this Brahmaloka, like this air. How many times have you flown in airplanes? And how many times I was flying, sometimes 12 hours constantly flying and very high, nearly 10,000 kilometers high. I think, where is the Brahmaloka? Somewhere? Nothing. Nothing. So there is always Brahman, Brahmalokas. We are all Brahman. We are all Brahman, not a Brahman caste, but the cosmic self, some idea. When we do our sādhanā, we do our prayers. If we pass by someone's grave, or your parents', just if you can, for just one second, give your humbleness or remember. But that day of their death, if we can believe and we can say to them something, that will be for you, not for them. That will come to us, these all good things. So, my dear, we are here, you and me, we are the same. And our completeness, liberation, is on that day when the breath goes. We are otherwise, we are all together. When will we be liberated? So, how are we doing? We do our best, but what we call mokṣa, but who takes the consciousness, etc.? It is yes, but not long, thousand percent. When you have that, "I am liberated," I make a joke. I know that it is not. But you think it is, it is, but it cannot be so. As long as we are walking, it can happen our leg will break. So, my dear, for some seconds or hours, we can enjoy. I am supreme, realized. Because now I have no desire, I have no negative thoughts. I only said, from this body, let me go now. That is the last minute, then you are supreme or liberated, or whatever you call it. And when your last minute passes here in this way, then you will truly be liberated, or whatever you want to call it. Until that time, anyone can say it—let them be sannyāsīs, gurus, whoever. Let them be Christians, or Buddhists, all other this, "I liberate you, I will give you the liberation and many knowledge inside." I'm laughing, my dear, you are very pure, very clear, but it can happen. We will fall into the garbage. We don't know till this. We will fall down, we will stand up, we go the wrong way again, we come. Now is very good navigation for the navigation, so that is a little bit easy. But please mark this instrument in hand before day. Please, this navigator to the Brahmaloka. Yes. So, you are a good one. You are a divine one. You are a guru, or you are anything, but your end is not still there. We are still very far away. Do you understand me? Do you understand? So, everyone, we are thinking you are best, you are good, and you are. And you are doing, but suddenly you will fall down on the other side. I will give a lot of, lot of, lot of blessings. I give any sādhanās. I believe that he will go to Mokṣa. Very supreme it will be. And suddenly, come to Kusanga, and everything is gone. So, my dear, today is the day of Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa and his mother. How much suffering father and mother and the whole world, and he also suffered, but he is only like air. He is not there, and he is there. We all know very much. This kind of picture you have, it is not. Therefore, once Gurujī said, "Kṛṣṇa knows that is Bhagavad Gītā, not the other one." So Kṛṣṇa said, but he's gone. So Krishna knows that he's Gita, and mother knows who is the father. Mother knows the father. Similarly, you know your heart and my heart's feelings. So we are not only like this, we are okay, we are good, but we have to remain on our path. Our body is physical; this is four tattvas, and this tattva needs everything. And in the tattvas, all different things, so we have feelings. We have pain, we are happy, we are joy, we are not. We have these desires, but we should be on our path. So this is, I think, a little... I thought, I did not know I will talk this. I tell you every day. There I am thinking, "I will teach or tell something." But my paramparā Gurudev put me on this chair. Then I am lost, because it is that one. That's it. You know, in Christianity, there is the chair of Jesus, no? The cross. Jesus has a cross? No, no. She's chair. Jesus had a lived one. Yeah. You know the pope? Ah, that the pope has such a throne of his own. On that chair, nobody can sit. When one pope has gone away, died, then this chair will be respected, kept. And in many others, there are guards there. When one king died, then the chair of the king, they are all taking care. And when one sits on it, then nobody can tell you, because you are only on it. So they lock it, everything. So, there has to come that energy, so I go out of this chair. It is with me anyhow. Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī, they will protect me. That I can say, "Please protect me." "Protect me" means all my... all protect them.