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This is one of the holy places, and all of us are in a divine atmosphere. It is Guru Kripa, Guru Kripa, which is the Paramparā—a lineage that spans many, many ages. That guru paramparā is forever and ever. It is very important that we are lucky, and we had a beautiful day today. Many of you were doing karma yoga, and yesterday I spoke about karma yoga. In the Bhagavad Gītā, there is a whole chapter written about karma yoga. When we speak about yoga, there are many, many different kinds. Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa speaks of them in the Bhagavad Gītā, and among them is karma yoga. Read that karma yoga, and when we read it, we will have great, great feelings. We will say, "Yes, this is what I can do." Of course, there is also bhakti yoga, karma yoga, Rāja yoga, etc., and we should read about them in the Bhagavad Gītā. There is one Bhagavad Gītā, and it has been very nicely commented upon by Mahātmā Gandhi and many other great people from other countries, as well as in India. We have many, many excellent commentaries, but one is from a great saint. He was a sādhu, a very great one. It is said there were, I think, two sisters and one brother. I think—I don't know, sorry—the parents were lost. So these disciples, or little children, were living together at ages of about five years, ten years, fifteen years, twenty years. There is a story about that, but unfortunately I did not bring it with me. I will tell you that story another time. They were poor and had lost people. They were making food, and the sister was making chapati, but she said, "Brother, I cannot make the chapati. We have no fire, we have nothing like that. Now what to do?" So the disciple—no, his brother—said to the daughter, "Don’t worry, you make the chapati." He took his shirt off and put the chapati on his back. The chapati was so nicely prepared, and as if by fire, the chapati became very hot and it blew off. That was the great saint. Likewise, there are very many stories about that. I think we said, "By this book, you have"—she has here—"we will show next time." But somehow the story goes on. It is said there was one great saint who had a lot of power, and he was always riding a tiger. Anywhere he went, he would go with a big, strong tiger. When the tiger was not running quickly, this sādhu had a big cobra, and from the cobra’s back he was beating the tiger. On the other side, they said there was one sādhu, a little young boy, but people said he was very great, and this and that. So the first sādhu said, "Okay, I will go and see him." He had many people with him; he was like a king, coming with the dog, with the tiger. That other Swamiji, the young boy about 12 to 15 years old, was told the great one was coming. Both brothers and sisters were playing. They had a little wall; it was broken. They were both sitting on the wall and playing. Then someone said, "Look, the great Mahātma is coming, and he’s riding a tiger." The boy said, "OK, sister." They were sitting anyhow on the wall, and he said to the wall, "Let’s go." Who? The wall. So Swamiji, the great young boy, said, "Let’s go." The sister was sitting there, and the wall started walking. Then the Swāmījī who was coming said, "What is that? I am riding a living animal, but he is riding only a wall." He got up and said, "Make praṇām." The boy said, "No, no, Gurujī. I came to welcome you, and I could not go so quickly, so I took my wall. Come on, let’s go quickly." The first sādhu said, "I don’t know. What is your power?" He said, "No, no, it is nothing." Like that, many saints are there in India now, and they are also there. In his ashram, there is a village, a little like this, a little bigger. Our Avatāra Purī and another one, also our disciple—very nice, our Phūla Purījī’s brother, he’s about two years older—are studying there. There’s one little ashram with about 15 students. Their teacher is their guru, and they are learning Sanskrit very nicely. You can’t imagine. That one Swami, Rājendra Purījī, is very great and learned, and he is learning further. Avatāra Purī also learned there for about eight months, then he came back. He said, "I did it completely." Anyhow, they had such a scent, such knowledge, and it is beautiful. Tomorrow I will show you this book from Pārvatī, and you should read that one. Then we will say what Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said. So many people made different things, but the other one is a great, proper name: Mahārāj Jñāneśwar, and that Jñāneśwarī Bhagavad Gītā. Read that. Then we will say, "Wow, like this." So there are many saints, and you should be like that. You are there. You are sitting under these beautiful, holy rivers, now the trees, and how many nice, beautiful animals. What air, beautiful, is living—is living airman here. As we always said, as Gurudev said, there was this about Kākabhaṭṭīsī. Holī Gurujī has written all these letters; it’s about eight, and plus there are two more, so we have 52 alphabets. But in that, what we are learning here inside, that is in this. Our Gurudev said there should always be Gurū Kṛpā. We cannot do anything without Gurudev’s name in India. Gaṇeśa, Śiva, Rāmdev—all these gurus. What we are always reading: Namo Namo Gurudevajī. No? Yes, say? Namo Namo Gurudevajī. You’ve forgotten? Okay. So what Holy Gurujī said: "Śrī Pūjya Dīp Dayāl Hari Param Puruṣottam Khas Śrī Mādhavā Ānand Jī Kar Joḍ Kahe, 'Śimru Śvas O Śvas.'" Then it begins further. But first, Śrī Pūjya Dīp Dayāl Hari says this first. "Śrī" and "pūjya." Śrī is property, peace, harmony, luck, etc. Pūjya is worshipping. Whatever we worship, that is the holy divine. And who is that? Dīp Dayāl. Dīp is the light. There should always be light, no darkness. That’s why we also call our Bhagavān, Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī. But dīp and dayāl. Dayāl is merciful. So it is that worship we are worshipping: Bhagavān Dīpa. Because he is dayāl, which is a very humble kind. And that’s called the God Hari. Hari is Viṣṇu, and so Viṣṇu is Bhagavān, Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhū, Param Puruṣottam—Param Param Paramātmā Puruṣottam. That in the humans, the highest of that, that is the real one. Therefore, it is said: our Sadguru Swāmī Mādhavānandjī kar jor kahe. "Kar" means the hand. So one hand, two hands. Our hand is called "kar." Why? Because we are doing work with the hand. "Kar" means to do, to make, to work. "Śimaru," śimaru means remembering mantra, good things, everything which is the new good things. Because śimaru, śimaru means day by day, word by word, we are singing. And śimaruṅg is that all night and day. And where Holi Gurujī is writing that, "I am breathing." And mantra, your mantra, will be like inhale and exhale, both. How? Śvas, o śvas. Śvas, o śvas—inhale and exhale. When I inhale, I say the name of Gurudeva. And when I exhale, I am also saying the name of Gurujī. And this is what Gurujī said, so beautiful: Kākabaṭīsī. Śrī Pūjya Dīp Dayā Lahari. Bhagavān Mahāprabhujī is Hari. And Hari is Viṣṇu, and that is Viṣṇu. And he is that Puruṣottam, highest of the highest. Śrī Mādhavā Nandakār Joḍ Gurū Devjī said, with folded hands, "I tell you, please śimru śvasu śvas, and I remember with the breath, inhalation and exhalation." Then you will get in your heart with these words, which we are only a few words I have given you. It is purifying, very much purifying. That’s it. Śrīdīpna Bhagavānakī, therefore it is said, we do the prayer, and prayer goes through and through purification, and comes the divine energy of all gurus, all saints, all, every Śrīdīpna Bhagavānakī, Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva kī, Satguru Swāmī Mādhavānandjī Bhagavān kī.