TV Channel

Part 1: A Multifaceted Gathering for Peace Jaga mithyā, sapa neki, māyā Muraka īśa me parama pulaya. Chānā Vaisā, Mahī Jānu. Chānā Vaisā, Mahī Jānu. Chana Vaisa, Mahi Jaanu. Chana Vaisa, Mahi Jaanu Raju Sarmaju. Parama Bhulana Nara Nariyo, Nara Kajulana. I don’t know, I don’t know,... I don’t know. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. Thank you very much. We will also hear some other performers, so please welcome our next performers. Hello, hello Switzerland, Finland, hello Germany, hello Croatia, hello India. Hello Great Britain. Hello Austria. Oh, many stars. Hello America. Where is... where is... hello Hungary. Such beautiful flags. My name is Rock, and I come from Slovenia. Today I will perform a couple of songs for you. Two of them are in my home language, Slovenian, and one is in English, so one you will understand, two maybe. So, let’s start with the first one. Thank you all for coming. Hello, hello... Okay. I’m taking over the control now. Back to school, I’m going to the club. It’s going to be nice. We’re trying to get somewhere; we haven’t gone far yet, deep into the Marian dawn. The hurry is going to stop until the first sun rises. Don’t blame anyone for what you’ve experienced. Your body is changing from a pupa to a phoenix. You’re going to become. You feel like a fox in the woods, slowly and with pleasure it’s advancing. Your heart is pushing, the tempo is calling, your heart is beating. That’s what you’ve been waiting for. They came for the wolves and drank for the jackals. Now you’ve been waiting for it, the power of the whirlwind is overflowing. All of this, all of this,... Woo, in the time of one breath, breathe with me. Breathe, breathe with me. We are all DJs, but we are not ready for an attack. I’m breaking through this hysteria, I’m stereo. When the disc hits me, I climb, I climb down. So that I can recognize the color of my soul. Through this life in rap, I’m like a pig in a cage. I’m freezing, something is screaming, I have a hand in the air. When I press the microphone, you want to kiss me. Face on the front page of the magazine. Here, I’m writing to you on the site. Here you are, I’m pressing it. Here I am with the guys from Dorotea, to bring me to the world. Where the idea is to let me stay for an hour. My dear people, can we, can I teach you a couple of words in Spanish? Slovenian. It’s called Dīkī Dīkī Zmano. Can you repeat this after me? Okay, let’s try it. Zmano, Diki Diki Zmano, you, Diki Zmano, Diki... Diki Zmano, you, Diki Zmano, Diki Zmano,... Diki Diki Zmano, so nice, Diki Diki Zmano. Cool, very good, very good, very good. So, one little story. Yesterday or tonight at about 5 o’clock, 6 o’clock in the morning, I had a concert in my country, so I didn’t sleep at all. And then from Slovenia, I went to a car and just drove to here. And I was like, sleeping, but I think that a disciple must do a lot of things to show respect to his guru. So, this is it. This next song is for my dear Guru Dev. It’s in half Sanskrit, half English. I hope you will enjoy it. Thank you very much. Play. And you will help with the hands, of course. God and the scripture, but first of all, I give love to my teacher, my guru, combining the message with life, and he teaches yoga in daily life. So raise your hands up, follow up together, some things come. And go, but we’ll be here forever, but in this moment of time, thank you for divinity, thank you, dear Swamījī, once more time. Praise to the universe, God, and the scripture, but first of all, we give love to our teacher, our guru, combining the message with the light, and he teaches yoga in daily life. Yo, raise your hands up, follow up together. Something’s coming, go, but we’ll be here forever, in this moment of time, thank you for the vine, you see. Thank you, all people, my dear Swāmījī. Whoo, buddy, hands up, hands up,... hands up. Whoo, peace. If you want to see the big picture, you just need one little piece, inner piece. You put it in the puzzle, and you see the big picture, right? So the last song is called, which means everything that I have is music, so I hope you will enjoy. The last song, and then you’ll be happy, okay? Help a little bit more, okay? It goes like this. I don’t care what my heart tells me. My heart is burning with the melody. I have two fingers, like they have for Serbs, and I need to put them in my hands so I can get on the line of life. I have two hands so I can hide, like I don’t have them, so I don’t see anything, hear anything, talk anything. I’m alone in the middle of silence, and sometimes I’m late. Everything I have is my music, a real feeling poured on paper. Everything I have is my music. In my heart, you will be in peace. Everything I have is my music, real feelings poured on paper. Everything I have is my music. In my heart, you will be in peace. I have a radiator that heats me up when I wake up early at home. There are colleagues when we meet on the bus. I have a lot of memories in my head; I open them forever. Life is in front of me. I have a key to the car that I haven’t tested yet, that I will have problems if I break the wheelbarrow. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. My music is my music, my music is my music,... my music is my music. My music, different feelings stick to the paper, and everything I have is my music. In my heart, you will be forever. And he is from the Criminal Investigation Department. So please welcome Kamala Lloyd-Biden. After this rocking music, we talk about spirituality and inner peace. I think this would be a great contrast. And I don’t know how the audience and the participants will appreciate it. Anyway, first of all, I would like to say my deep salutations to Holy Gurujī Madhavānandajī, in whose name this World Peace Council is founded and this present World Peace Conference is dedicated. Then my sincere adoration to Reverend Paramahaṁsa Svāmī Maheśvarānandajī, without whose concerted efforts this Peace Council could not have been possible. Then I would also like to say my sincere thanks and greetings to the Chief Organizer, Kṛṣṇānandajī, who was our host earlier, six years ago, when we visited Budapest, and this time also. It is really a great privilege and honor for all of us to invite you to this conference and share our ideas and views about world peace and what is being done in India, particularly by Swami Maheshwaranandaji. As you have seen in yesterday’s film, what kind of efforts are being made even in India by Swāmījī, you are well aware of the efforts he is making towards achieving world peace and for the betterment of mankind in so many European countries and other continents. But those who have not visited India may not know what is being done in India. So, first of all, I would like to say a few things about what has been done there. Swamiji has been in Europe for over 35 years, but he keeps visiting India, and he has several ashrams there, from which he is taking up various humanitarian activities in India also. Besides Rajasthan, which is the native town of Swamijī, he visits other parts of our country also and spreads the message of peace and brotherhood. So his effort is not confined to one part. His effort has been globalized. And here I would like to convey my sincere thanks and adoration to Swāmījī. The subject of spirituality and inner peace, which is the main theme of this particular World Peace Conference, is a subject which I think I am not the competent person to talk about. Because this is such a subject for which, for knowing all the things which we call spiritual, our saints and sages have renounced the world. They have devoted their complete life to search for what is spiritual, what is real, what is truth. But still, I, being the ardent follower of Swāmījī, would like to say something. What is spirituality? What do we understand, and what do common men say about spirituality? Spirituality, you can say, is in contrast to materialistic things. What the day-to-day life we have, what worldly things we see, if we try to see beyond all these things, that is spiritual. If we try to find the answers to so many things which we cannot explain by logic or by argument, that is the spiritual thing, and whichever thing takes us closer to God, God who showers His blessings on all, He may be of this continent, He may be in any part of the globe. But God showers His blessings to all, so when we try to learn God, His blessings, we try to analyze, this is spirituality. So this is the common thing which I am telling, though this is a vast subject, which a person like Swāmījī, whose embodiment of all our Vedāntic teachings and learnings. He can explain you very well, but still I am making an effort to say how spirituality and inner peace are things which can help us achieve world peace. Then, while talking about spirituality, I would certainly like to quote Mahatma Gandhijī, who described spirituality and what is scientific humanism, never talked about spirituality alone. He said that spirituality includes the use of science, technology, and our knowledge. Though I am not here to explain the teachings of Gandhījī, because here it would be just like showing a lamp to the sun. Gandhijī’s descendant, Mr. Arun Gandhi, is here. He has explained Gandhiji’s teachings, which are, I think, a kind of illumination to all of us. And what we understood earlier, this is a further modification and correct definition and explanation of his theories. But still, Gandhijī always said that the use of science and technology should be made for the benefit of mankind. So he developed the theory of scientific humanism. He not only talked about spirituality, but he thought of the welfare of mankind, which we can achieve through truth, through love and compassion. And this is the message he always gave. Instead of tolerance, he said that we should develop respect, respect for each other, respect between two cultures and diverse opinions. We should respect each other. We should respect one another. He may be a person from any continent. And through this, we can achieve inner peace. Inner peace, what is that? Inner peace is a thing which an individual can try to achieve. And if we are having peace inside our heart, we have nothing which is tormenting us, then we can say that we have achieved inner peace, and this message of inner peace will certainly affect the other person also. He may be in your neighborhood, he may be a person in the same village, town, or in your adjoining countries. Inner peace also, we can contribute to achieving world peace. If we are close to nature, we try to protect nature, sustain nature, and if we say good words, sweet words, do good things to others, respect others, value others’ opinion, then certainly this will not only please us, but it will please others also. So this is my brief message: that by doing some good things, following the right path, following the path of truthfulness, love, and compassion, we can find inner peace and spread the message of peace to our colleagues and to our friends. And to all of us. So I convey my best wishes to all the participants who are here and who have given us an opportunity to interact with you, share ideas with you, and I wish all the success to the organizers of this conference, and I wish all the best and convey many, many greetings to the people of Hungary and people who are present here. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for the presentation. The next presenter is Saṅgītā, who is from the World Peace Council, so welcome her. Dear Swamiji, I am proud to say that it has been almost a decade of delivering the message of Mahātmā Gandhi and Śrī Mādhavānanda at the World Peace Summits organized throughout the world. The summit does not promote only the declaration of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but also other UN documents and initiatives. Promoting the practice of yoga as a balancing principle, which brings inner peace and inner contentment, the summit also supports the UNESCO constitution, which states that since war begins in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of the peace must be constructed. Gathering thousands of participants of different national, ethnic, and confessional backgrounds from all around the world, the World Peace Summit strongly supports the idea of a global movement for a culture of peace as a set of values, attitudes, modes of behavior, and ways of life that rejects violence and prevents conflicts by tackling their root causes, to solve problems through dialogue among individuals, groups, and nations. The summit also contributes to and promotes the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World, which started in 2001 and will end next year in 2010, gathering 75 million individuals and thousands of local, national, and international organizations from more than 160 countries. Spreading the message of tolerance and respect for all living beings, the summit supports the main objectives of Manifesto 2000: respect all life, reject violence, share with others, listen to understand, preserve the planet, and rediscover solidarity. I want to express my thankfulness and great respect to the founder of the World Peace Summit and the Council, Panohan Swami Maheshwarananda, who dedicated his life to help people understand themselves and understand others, to love and protect all living beings, and ultimately to realize God. Swamiji’s enthusiasm and selfless work in the last 40 years to reawaken the spiritual values based upon the principles of love, compassion, kindness, humility, and purity have inspired numerous people throughout the world to follow the same principles, to try to change themselves and be worthy of being human. Planting numerous world peace trees around the world and organizing the inter-religious world peace prayers to develop awareness of world peace in numerous cities in Croatia, Austria, Spain, Germany, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and India, Swamiji has inspired thousands and thousands of people to light candles, which were floating on the sea, surfaces, lakes, and rivers, with wishes and prayers for peace among all cultures, nations, and religions. Besides all, through the activities of the World Peace Council, Swāmījī intensively supports the humanitarian projects and programs developed for the local area of Pali, Rajasthan, India, for school children, health care, water supply and firefighting service, promoting in that way the second millennium goal to achieve universal primary education, the third goal to promote gender equality, and the fifth goal to improve maternal health and the seventh goal is to ensure environmental sustainability. Through his strong public commitment to tolerance, respect, and understanding for all religions, cultures, and nationalities, Swāmījī became known as a messenger of peace, and his significant work has been acknowledged by social, medical, religious, and political leaders and dignitaries in different parts of the world. The United Nations and UNESCO were founded to bring about world peace, but following the statement of the Rector General of UNESCO, peace is more than an absence of war. Peace should be constantly cultivated and protected, and someone should permanently remind us of that. Swamiji is such a person. May his work be an inspiration for all of us. May all of us achieve our inner peace, because as Swamījī said, if within us there is no peace, we cannot create peace in the world, and peace is the common desire of all. Thank you very much. Please welcome Venerable Himal Barua. Good afternoon, everybody. Most respected chairperson, distinguished guests, delegates, peace representatives, ladies and gentlemen. I am Venerable Himal Barua from Bangladesh. On behalf of 1,140 million people, including different religious leaders and socio-cultural workers of Bangladesh, I extend my heartfelt greetings and warm felicitations to the peace representatives, delegates, youth peace activists, and friends assembled here from different countries at this historic gathering of the 8th World Peace Summit for the promotion of peace, prosperity, progress, harmony, friendship, and amity in this troubled world facing today the threat of nuclear and chemical war and preparations for the total destruction of human civilization. Okay, I invite all of you in my country, in Bangladesh, to organize these types of seminars or conferences. And you are most welcome in our country. Right now, I’d like to invite and also request Mr. Shamizi, come on the stage because I bring a little gift for you. And also, Mr. Arpon, you can come on the stage. Okay, thank you, everybody, for joining in this beautiful peace conference. Thank you to all of you whose efforts are including those types of very beautiful programs, and I thank you all. That is all. Thank you. Subhas Chandra Bose, please welcome Surya Bose. Respected Shamiji, distinguished guests, your excellencies, and brothers and sisters, it is a great privilege for me to be here with you today to address this august gathering. In my professional capacity, I think I’ll be trespassing into areas of spirituality and peace where I don’t think I’m competent enough to speak. But on the other hand, due to maybe the privilege of belonging to a family which has played a key role in the independence struggle of India, and also in getting together several different factions of society, religious and otherwise, to unite and work together, I think I can speak a little bit about these areas, but more from what I have heard from my father, from others in the family, and, of course, what I have experienced myself in India. I have spent more than half of my life outside the country, but I’m still very much an Indian. Now, maybe for, I wrote a speech, but I’ve put it aside. I didn’t bring it with me because so much has been spoken and discussed about the theme of inner peace. I thought it would be superfluous for me to add to it. So, I would talk a little bit about, maybe the audience here are not that well informed about the situation India had when we were under foreign domination, imperialistic domination, for over 200 years. And in a country which is enslaved, I don’t think you can talk of inner peace. So the main aim of most of those who were trying to do something for the country before we became independent was to get our independence first. I was asked today by Rāmujī how I would define or describe Subhāṣ Chandra Bose, my granduncle, in a few lines. Now, I’m going to borrow some definitions given by others, which are quite pertinent. Now, I read somewhere, I don’t know whether it was in one of the recent newspapers on the internet, R.K. Bhatnagar, he was the press secretary of the president and consultant to the prime minister of India during ’93 to ’96 or so. And he described Shubhash Bose in the following terms: in statesmanship, administrative ability, and catholicity of views, he was like Akbar. Morally, spiritually, and intellectually, he was like Swāmī Vivekānanda. I would go back a little. When I was about 14 or 15, I took part in an essay competition in Calcutta, organized by the Rāmakṛṣṇa Mission Institute, on Swami Vivekānanda’s influence on Subhāṣ Chandra Bose. Now, as most of you know, Swāmī Vivekānanda propagated Rāmakṛṣṇa to the world and represented for the first time the Hindu religion in the Congress of Religions in Chicago on the 11th of September, 1893. But when I started reading, I was much too young, I think, to understand Swami Vivekānanda. But I read all that I could get my hands on. And I found very interesting what he had said. He was very clear, very precise, and that’s exactly what you find in Gandhījī’s writings. He was very, very simple in his construction of sentences in English, which everybody could understand. And you find politicians today, or other preachers, who make it so complicated you wouldn’t know what they want to say. Another definition or description of Śrīvāstava was during the war in Southeast Asia. He was in Thailand. He was in Vietnam. He was all over the place. But the then Prime Minister of Thailand, Bipul Sangram, said in introducing Subhash Bose, "We have been talking of Buddhism over centuries. We live Buddhism here. We discuss theories and practice. But today I present to you the living Buddha," and that’s how Bipul Sangram defined or described Shubhash Chandra Bhai. Now, there was no politician from the 1920s until Gandhijī passed away who was not influenced by him, and most of them who were close to him were very much under his influence and also politically carried out his mission. Now, Subhash Bose was definitely with him, but he had a certain difference of opinion as to how the freedom struggle should be organized. But in spite of all that, the love and respect that they both had for each other was tremendous. In 1944, when the Indian National Army of the Azad Hind government, which was the first provisional government of free India, set up in Singapore on the 21st of October, 1943, then moved to Rangoon. Part 2: A Tapestry of Peace: Reflections from the World Peace Summit In 1944, as the Indian National Army advanced towards India, Colonel Saukat Ali hoisted the Indian flag on Indian soil in Moerang after 200 years of subjugation. Subhas Chandra Bose made a radio broadcast and addressed Gandhījī, saying, "Gandhījī, father of our nation, we want your blessings." This was the first time Gandhījī was called the father of our nation, and it was not by Jawaharlal Nehru or Patel, but by Subhas Chandra Bose. Another greeting coined in Europe, in Germany, which almost all Indian politicians use in public, is "Jai Hind." I would like you to say "Jai Hind." It is not just for Indians, but for everybody to greet with. I have digressed, but what I wanted to say was that Subhas Bose’s ideology was very much based on his spiritual ideology, which was on Swami Vivekananda—a common base for others as well. His political guru was Chittaranjan Das, who died very early but was also a follower of Gandhījī, so the whole lineage is there. He was always for peace, but you have to pay for it. At that time, we were fighting for the freedom of the country. As an example, in his provisional government to free India, there was one kitchen for Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, and all other religions. Unfortunately, India today, the Indian army for instance, has not been able to solve the problems among our different religious factions. Gandhījī passed away too early in 1948, Subhas Bose wasn’t there, and the other politicians who followed after independence did not succeed in getting these different factions together. The partition of India was a major problem, and we now have three countries instead of one. Under the Buddhist king Aśoka, we were the largest in area, extending almost to Persia on one side and Burma on the other. I am reminded of our poet Ravindranath Tagore, who was very interested in politics but never got involved, yet always influenced our politicians to think of freedom from subjugation and bondage. Gandhījī and Tagore admired each other greatly. Tagore called Gandhījī Mahātma for the first time, and Gandhījī called Tagore the sentinel. I want to read a poem by Tagore, which is very appropriate today: > Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, > Where knowledge is free, > Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls, > Where words come out from the depth of truth, > Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection, > Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit, > Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action— > Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake. With all my heart, I wish all success, Swāmījī, to your world peace effort. You are living it, not just preaching it, and that is more important than anything else in today’s world. Thank you very much. Köszönjük szépen. Please welcome Gyula Horváth. Tisztelt Svāmījī, tisztelt Csúcs. As a city politician, I would like to take part in this exchange of thoughts about world peace and inner peace. A politician also has such needs. I am here because my colleagues raised awareness about this conference. I am very happy to be here as a volunteer; the hours spent here have healed me and given me new strength. Thank you. The world often addresses big issues like economic crises, but if we only concentrate on that, we make a mistake. This crisis did not start last year; it began earlier when morals weakened and mistaken values arose. We need to help people find direction, refine themselves, and through internal peace, lay foundations for world peace. We witness many events that qualify as influential pollution, which I consider and live through as violence. We need to object to such violence and raise our voices—as politicians, teachers, or any decent person. Those given talent by the Creator are entitled to rise above others. The abuse of talent does not serve the mind. Learned, responsible people have a responsibility towards those with more modest circumstances. Does any man have the right to do something foolish? Yes. Does a learned man have the right to stand by without warning or helping? I don’t think so. Talent is a responsibility; it demands extra work, patience, understanding, and service. As a politician, I must touch upon power. For some, power is sweet manna to achieve at any cost. For the electors, the responsibility lies in giving power to those who consider it a burden, not a manner. Only then can we expect representatives to decide appropriately for the people. I wish for the world and my country to see the dawn as soon as possible—the dawn described in an ancient story. The Master asks his disciples when dawn arrives. One says when you can distinguish a dog from a goat; another says a pear tree from a fig tree. The Master says no. Finally, he says, "Dawn will come when you look at the person sitting next to you and you see your brother." Thank you for your attention. We will have a short break before continuing. Please welcome Professor Goroslav Keller. Thank you. Your Holiness, dear friends, our last speaker was Horvat, which in Hungarian is Krat. So you already heard one Croat; I’m the next. My grandfather spoke fluent Hungarian. I come from an area only seven kilometers from Berzense, a small village near Natstadt. I appreciate speaking after a five-hour drive through Hungarian mountains. Your Holiness, I first met you in Zagreb when I was representing Australia to Croatia as Honorary Consul. Next, I met you in Sydney as Consul General of Croatia to Australia. Today, I represent nobody—actually, that’s not true. I do not represent my school or colleagues, but I represent my four children: one in Sydney and three in Zagreb. As a father and teacher, I ask: what kind of world are we leaving them? Without ethics and aesthetics, we are condemned to disappear. Humankind is at a crossroads: find new ethics and aesthetics or be ruined. The choice is ours. We developed scientific and technological tools, but not ethical and aesthetical means for development. Any effort in these turbulent times must be recognized and appreciated. That is how I consider your summit. Your role on the global scene is more than important. I cordially wish for all of you to be heard by the global community and, more importantly, by those who make decisions in our name. Thank you very much. Our next speaker is Maria Cvejic, the mayor of Novi Sad. Your Holiness, I would like to give a welcome speech from the Mayor of Novi Sad, Mr. Igor Pavličić, and then a few words from me. "Dear ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the city of Novi Sad and myself, I extend greetings to all summit participants and welcome the concepts of peace and unity of all nations, cultures, and religions addressed here. These concepts are eternal, and I am certain the conference will take us one step closer to realizing our common dreams. Being unable to attend, I have sent the Vice President of the City Assembly. I wish all participants successful work, and I believe the conference will result in the growth of inner peace for the sake of peace among ourselves. Sincerely yours, Igor Pavličić." And now, a few words from me. Your Holiness Swāmījī, ladies and gentlemen, I come from a country struggling with memories of war, pain, anger, and fear. It is also a country striving for integration with the region, Europe, and the world, accepting mutual understanding, respect, compassion, and responsibility as essential values. I feel grateful and privileged to be part of this immensely important summit, representing Novi Sad and Serbia for the first time. Let peace and love within ourselves become inspiration to all those at home to whom we are to return. Thank you. Please welcome Mr. Gábor Foltán. I greet the members of the Magyar Essenes Church and the light children of the Magyar Essenes Church. In our church, we have dedicated the year 2009 to peace. In Essene life, peace has always played a vital role. Each morning, we commit to an angel of Mother Earth; each evening, to an angel of Father Sky; and each new hour to the angel of peace. The basis of our faith is unconditional cooperation with these angels and the free will of the individual. We are a receptive church, and we call upon members of every religion to pray and celebrate together the love of our Heavenly Father and the bounty of Mother Earth. It is a great pleasure to be honored by your invitation. We believe it is important to break down walls built between people over the years, so everyone may recognize we are all children of the same Heavenly Father and recognize each other as brothers and sisters. Peace between religions is important. I am proud to participate as an ambassador in this field. I heard with pleasure and amazement reports on deeds done for peace. Jesus said, "It is my peace that I leave to you as my testament." Dear friends, let us share this heritage through our deeds. I wish that we can share the flame of peace we take home in our hearts. Finally, allow me to greet you with the ancient greeting of the Ācāryas: Peace be with you. Thank you very much. Please welcome Swami Chidānand. Emotional calculation—they are struggling to make us happy. Sometimes mathematics can help the heart, not kill it. Simple figures can awaken our heart. In the United States last year, four billion animals were slaughtered for human food. Does it touch the heart? Many of us have been lucky to meet Viśva Guru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramahaṁsa Svāmī Maheśvarānandajī, who took us out of that hell. I counted that from when I met my Gurudev and became vegetarian, 6,000 animals survived—just from my life. My master made hundreds of thousands of vegetarians through his example, knowledge, and love, saving billions of animals through the presence of one real human. I am thankful I didn’t kill those 6,000 animals. The way to a non-violent world is through ahiṃsā, and the first step we can’t avoid is vegetarianism. It is simple; the figures tell us everything. Thank you, Swāmījī, for saving me. Köszönjük szépen. Please welcome Muktamānyī. Svānām, Swāmījī. Distinguished guests, brothers and sisters, dear friends. My topic is a happy and healthy life through Āyurveda. Today’s lectures confirmed what is in my lecture. Āyurveda is not only an ancient Indian medical system; it is holistic knowledge about life itself. Its uniqueness is valuing both the physical and mental sides. It describes what is harmful and beneficial for life, what makes life happy or unhappy, and how to lead a proper course of life—giving direction on lifestyle, when to get up, what to do at the right time, to achieve supreme quality in physical, spiritual, mental, and social health. This knowledge is deeply rooted in the Vedas. Āyurveda means the knowledge of life. Life (āyu) is the constant union of body, mind, senses, and ātmā (the Self, the higher Self). The scope of Āyurveda is to maintain the health of the healthy and cure diseases, focusing on prevention. Tools are given for living without disturbances. In healing, an Āyurvedic physician notes aggravated doṣas, damaged tissues, the patient’s condition, environment, strength, constitution, digestive power, and psychological factors before diagnosis and therapy. There are signs (pūrvarūpas) seen before disturbances come, allowing early therapy. What does it mean to be physically and mentally healthy? Suśruta, a great Vaidya around 100 AD, says a person is physically healthy when doṣas (vāta, pitta, kapha) are in equilibrium, digestive power is balanced, and tissues function normally. Mentally healthy is when ātmā, indriyas, and mind are balanced and feel well. This shows interaction with yoga, meditation, āsanas, prāṇāyāma, and ethics. Doṣa is a term with no direct translation; it relates to the five elements. Two elements build one doṣa. For example, earth element gives heaviness and stability; air element gives movement and restless thoughts. From fertilization, an individual’s doṣa system is determined, meaning each person is different in talents, digestion, tissues, and temperament. Recognizing we are all individuals is the first step for peace; we must respect each other as we are, not try to change each other. Part 3: The Path to Health and Inner Peace That is how we would like people to be, so it was a spontaneous thought. Perhaps this is the reason why I speak about that respect and tolerance for the individuality of each and every one of us. What can we do to remain physically healthy? What kinds of tools do we have? Āyurveda offers a daily routine to follow, which is according to the laws of nature. Birds get up in the morning singing, and at night they go to bed. Why should human beings behave differently? So we have to follow the daily routine of how we should live: how we should get up, what we should eat, at what time we should eat, and so on. This is all described in Āyurveda. Also, in the seasons, we should behave in winter differently than in summer. It’s natural. We do it, of course. Nobody likes to eat minus 30-degree ice cream, and not at plus 30-degree hot soup. We do it naturally, but more and more we should be aware of what quality nature offers us in the course of the season. What else can we do to remain physically healthy? We should follow a balanced diet. A balanced diet means all kinds of food have a special significance due to the taste. Some are heating, some are cooling. This is very important to know. Secondly, we should know how much we should eat and how much we can digest. In my language, it is said: you do not live on that which you eat, but you do live on that which you digest. So each and every one has a different bowl capacity. The first disturbance can come when parents put some food on their children’s plate, and they cannot eat anymore, and they say, "Eat, because it’s only one spoon left." So they immediately lose their own feeling for their bowl capacity. One should not overthink that. It is better not to give so much on the plate than to give too much. They lose completely their knowing about their own quality and what they should eat. We should know all the rules about sleep. In Āyurveda, you can use the elements and the doṣas, which are also present in the run of the day, to use the energy and the quality of the doṣas in the day to get up or to go to bed. For instance, at 10 o’clock, the kapha doṣa time starts. Kapha is heavy. So when people have problems with sleeplessness, they should try to go to bed in kapha doṣa time. Then they may find peace and heaviness to stay. When people like to get up early in the morning and cannot, they should get up in vāta doṣa time, so before six, because this is the time when everything is light and easy. Then you can use the energy of the vāta doṣa to get up easily, and so on. There are many, many examples. It can be described during the day, during the year, during a lifetime. Doṣas are present everywhere, from now on. Yes, and we should also know the rules about celibacy. Of course, we should not be free from physical contacts, but we should know when to do what, at what time, in the right way. This is moral. This is ethics. And also, we should use regular treatment for rejuvenation. This is not so difficult because there are some products in our food items which are rejuvenating. For instance, milk or ghee or asparagus, or there is some herb which is called guḍūcī. These four are the main, important ones. When you take them regularly, then it helps to rejuvenate. Besides many other things, of course, it’s not the only one. Drinking milk can make one young and subtle? No, it’s not like that. But it is one little step. What can we do to maintain mental health? And now we see how it is interacting with the yoga we follow, an ethical conduct. We all know what is good and what is bad, and at the end of the day, when we make a summary: what was good? What did I... To whom did I speak? How? What did we know exactly inside in our heart? What was good and what was not good? What was ethical and what was not? So we follow self-inquiry, meditation of yoga in daily life, and then we find out everything immediately. And it’s not easy, it’s sometimes painful, but it is the truth. And this helps to stay mentally healthy, to ask honestly, "How am I? What do I do? Was I ethical? Was I good? When I did a mistake, how can I improve? How can I excuse?" and so on. This is all ethics. How do I behave toward old people? How do I behave with my teachers? And so on. What else can we do for maintaining mental health? It is a very nice word. It’s Darśana Yoga Darśana. Hopefully I pronounced it well, but I took it from my scripts. It means to control the emotional urges, like anger, fear, greed, and all that. To control doesn’t mean to suppress, but to give them the right direction. To understand: Am I greedy? Do I have fear? Why do I allow myself to go deeper into that emotion? Or what kinds of tools do I have to come out? Or am I like that? I accept myself, but I want to improve. This is the question: not to suppress, but to control, to give a good... direction, yes. As soon as we try to live a life according to the laws of nature, to consume healthy food, to have healthy activities in our daily life, to discriminate the good and the bad from everything, and abide by moral conduct, we have good chances to remain physically and mentally healthy. In this sense, the Āyurveda Academy of Yoga and Daily Life appreciates and supports full-heartedly the efforts of the World Peace Summit 2009. And please allow me to convey my adoration and my praṇāms to His Holiness. He is the founder of both wings of the Śrī Matavānanda World Peace Council and the Āyurveda Academy of Yoga and Daily Life, too. Thank you very much for your attention. Thank you very much. Next speaker is Brigitte Didone. Please welcome Brigitte Didone. His Holiness, ladies and gentlemen, I’m not supposed to talk. It’s the first time, so I’m very nervous, but I just want a word to say, and it is only this. I commend you and the organizer for organizing this conference. There is no doubt in my mind that this can only help to advance inner peace. Keep up your good spirit for the sake of humankind. Thank you. Thank you very much. Now we are all waiting for Swāmījī’s speech. They are now all waiting for Swāmījī. Sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ, sarve santu nirāmayāḥ, sarve bhadrāṇi paśyantu, mā kaścid duḥkha bhāga bhavet, oṁ śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ. With the salutation to the Holy Linens, Your Excellencies, dear brothers and sisters, dear media and organizers. This whole day, it was a heavy rain. I don’t know if you realized it or not. With very big drops, the rain was raining through this ceiling. And that was the reign of wisdom, beautiful words like big pearls or diamonds. Many great personalities came from different parts of the world. Definitely, they have been trying for the last few months, weeks, or days to decide what they are going to speak here in this Śrī Svāmī Madhavānand World Peace Council Summit 2009. Republic of Hungary, beautiful city, Sombathely. Their work, their thoughts, were like a goldsmith who makes a beautiful crown and chooses beautiful diamonds and beautiful stones, which stone or diamond of the jewel is appropriate to put on the crown? We know that this world at the present is going through a very big disappointment, troubles, and pain. Svāmī Chidānanda, what he spoke touched the heart of all. How many millions? Chidānanda was billions of animals. How many millions of animals were killed in one year only in America? If we count those animals, including fish, birds, and reptiles, how many billions of these beautiful creatures are killed without filling our heart? How many millions of tons of the blood of these beautiful living creatures were flowing in water or in this earth, ground, soil. If we save the life of one creature, it is a plus point for us, to be worthy enough that someone will tell us that we are human. Yes, the message of a great personality from last century, a great Mahātma, Mahātma Gāndhījī. You know, all dear brothers and sisters, it is said he was a vegetarian. But his grandson lived with him. May he agree with me or not? Arun, was your grandfather vegetarian? Yes. Now, I lived more than 40 years with my master, and I was also serving him as a cook. I used to cook for him, and I can tell you, never and never and never. In his past generations, they did not eat meat, eggs, or fish. If accidentally they touch some meat from a dead animal, they immediately wash their hands with soap. Where the dead body is lying, all the negative energies appear. Where the dead body is, there death is dancing. What do we do when some family member dies? We remove the body and carry it to the graveyard. After that, we go for bathing and washing, and then what do we do? We go to the market and buy the dead body of a goat or a chicken and put it in our freezer. Do you think keeping meat or the body of dead animals will bring happiness? Positive, good spiritual energy in your house and in your mind? The answer depends on you. The subject of this meeting, this summit, me and my dear friend Monsignor Father David Capo, Adelaide, South Australia, we were constantly exchanging emails to find a good subject. And again and again, Father David said, "Swāmījī, the best would be: spirituality is the answer to the troublesome world." I spoke with many people about this, and they said, "Oh, nowadays people are afraid of spirituality." People are completely disappointed with religions and religious dogmas. Please, Swamiji, ask Father David to change it a little bit. So we came to the point: inner peace. The answer to the world conflict. Yes, the world situation we know very well, and we need not go far away. Just within our families, we know what kind of conflicts are there between husband and wife. Parents and children, neighbor to neighbor. We try to solve the conflict, but we are not able to do it. If I am working and organizing this conference as an inner peace answer to these troublesome words and conflicts. Ask yourself, and I must ask myself too, and I am asking, since I gave this subject the name, did I solve some conflict or not? It’s not easy. I love the person whom I really love. But if someone comes between, or someone has a little bit different opinion than me, then I’m having duality, conflict with that person. Can I solve this? There are two forces pulling us in different directions. Four years ago—already time runs so quickly—I was in Barcelona, in some cultural house. There was on the wall one poster with two donkeys. And two donkeys, they were very hungry. This is coming from, they said it’s from Mahātma Gandhi. Not the donkey, but the explanation. They were hungry, and both of them had a rope tied around their necks. Only one rope, but tied to both donkeys’ necks. And on both sides, there was some grass to eat. This donkey would like to eat this side grass, and the other one wants to eat this side grass. But the barrier was a rope. They try and they try, but they can’t come to the food. They knew their feeder is there. Then the donkeys decided together to solve the conflict, and we shall come together as a coalition. They turned to each other and both went to eat together, and they could. Similarly, it may be that I have a conflict with someone, I don’t agree with someone, or with something he did. Am I able to forgive and understand? I don’t dare to say tolerance, because Gandhījī banned my word tolerance. I must say, do I respect? Where there is conflict, there is ignorance. If I am not capable of forgiving someone and understanding someone’s weakness, maybe ego or some different feelings, it means I myself am also in conflict, in ignorance. Our heart should be the heart of a mother or a father. Doesn’t matter what mistake a child makes, we don’t see that as a mistake. We forgive. There was a king, there is a little story, a mighty king, and he had one secretary, and his secretary was more clever than himself, the king. And the king asked his secretary, Birbal, "Akbar and Birbal, Birbal, who is the greatest in my kingdom, the best, the highest?" Birbal said, "Small child." Bahāsa was very angry. He said, "You always insult me. Who can be greater and mightier than myself? You should say that I am the greatest, little child. Go home." Four months he didn’t want to see his secretary, but without his secretary, he couldn’t survive either. One day, Mahātsa and his secretary were going somewhere, and one mother was sitting with a small child. You know, it doesn’t matter which child is a baby, humans or animals, we love the babies. When we imagine a baby, then love for the baby awakens in our heart. When we think of our mother, the love of a mother awakens in the heart, and when we think of our enemy, that hate awakens in our heart. Bahasa said, "Oh, how lovely this child is, I would like to take him in hand." He said, "No problem, your highness, please sit down." And Birbal brought the child to Bahasa. The child was about four, five, or eight months old. The child is very happy. While playing in the lap of the Bahasā, the child was kicking with his feet, the Bābā’s chin. And Birbal said, "No, no,... like this." And then again he was kicking with his leg. Birbal said, "Your Highness, who is the greatest? Yes, you are right. You are right." Baby, the child. Birbal said, "Who dare to kick your jaw with the leg? No one." But a little child, a little baby. Because their heart is so pure, there is no conflict in their hearts. So if I have some conflict with someone and I say, "No, I don’t want to do any, I have nothing to do with that person," it means I am not capable to do this. Often people tell the stories about Gandhijī. Once, one mother came to Gandhijī and said, "Gandhiji, tell my son, the child who is 10 years old, because he loves you very much, 'Bapu, tell him, "Don’t eat too much sweets, it is not good."'" Gandhiji said, "Come after one month, I will tell you." She said, "Why? He could tell just now." But after one month she came, and Gandhiji said to the child, "My son, don’t eat too many sweets because it’s not so healthy." And the mother of the child said, "Bapu Gandhijī, you could have said this one month before." Gandhiji said, "Yes, you are right. I could have said, but you know, I was in a dilemma. So, at that time when you told me, I was also eating a lot of sweets. I’m eating and saying, 'Child, do not do.' My heart doesn’t allow me. So, be the example now since one month I did not touch the sweets. Now my heart said, 'Yes, you can tell this innocent child not to eat too much sweets because it’s not healthy.'" It means we have to change ourselves. Be the change you want to see. So I have to look at my watch, otherwise they will say he thinks he can talk as long as he likes. Well, the time is over, five minutes more than this. The respected mayor of the city should come, and when he comes, I will stop it. Until he comes, I will carry on. Please, can you tell me if he is here or not? Oh, thank you. Welcome. So, this story which I want to tell, Gandhījī told this morning about a pencil. A similar thing happened with me with Gurujī, about one bhindī. You know what you want, Bindi? Vegetable, ladyfinger, or okra. That I will tell you this evening. I had to suffer for, not suffer, but struggle for three months. That I will tell you this evening, sorry. And I welcome the respected mayor of the beautiful city, Sombathely, and we thank him that we could be here in this beautiful culture house. Thank you, sir. Welcome. I would like to very warmly greet all of you present who came to our city so that you can deliberate about peace. We saw Al-Aqsa peace after all of this has borne many a war, but even the last one ended 16 years ago. Then it bore the Cold War, but even that has passed for 20 years. Still, the fact that these demonstrations are current is very important for us because there is still a war, our internal peace is still not okay, we do have conflicts among one another, and the harmony of internal and external. Peace is something that is right for us. Sombathely is no better a city than any other city in the world. City in the world, we have the same people as anywhere else, but we, just like everyone, have a need for internal and external peace. So, I thank you for bringing it here. I hope you found your deliberations something that enriched you, and I hope that you take someone back who is with you today, and some of someone who is with you today, and I do hope to see you sometime. To be lazy is also good. I didn’t want... To go down and again come up, so I said here. Not that I want to sit here, well, before Krishnānand will say his thanks, words, and everything, I personally would like to thank Krishnānand very much and all his friends, karma yogīs, volunteers who have worked day and night that this conference will be successful. So, dear Krishnanand, please come up. Thank you. You see, sometimes there are people like me who want to sit in the front always, and sometimes there are some people who always try to be backside. They don’t introduce themselves, it is a greatness. The great one never speaks great things about him or herself, like a diamond never speaks that I am a diamond and my value is so and so much. Among us, we have Dr. Georgi Ipkovic, the Member of Parliament of Hungary, and the Mayor of the City of Sombathely, who was already here. So we would like to welcome and thank you, the Parliament’s member also. We need the great personalities always. Even if they have two or three or four functions, it is still too little. You know, in how many parts we divided Gandhijī around the whole world. So still we need more and more. So, about satsaṅg and Gurujī’s spiritual teaching for world peace. Now, what I wanted to say before that, again, I’m taking your two or three minutes. Whenever Gandhiji had any situations in life to decide something, or there was a conflict, don’t think that around Gandhiji everything was like heaven. To create heaven was not so easy. And Gandhījī, what he did, meditated. Gandhijī said, "Physically I can fast, but mentally I cannot." My mental tonic is my prayers in the name of God. Gandhiji had a beautiful and very simple meditation place on the bank of the river Sabarmati in Ahmedabad, in the open air. Whenever there was anything, he went there and meditated. Yes, inner peace. To know, we have to enter inside ourselves, and that’s meditation. Meditation is the way to happiness. Meditation is the way to peace. Meditation is the way to harmony, love, and understanding, and meditation is the only way that leads this individual consciousness to the cosmic consciousness. Yoga is the science of body, mind, and consciousness. Yoga is not only physical exercises and prāṇāyāmas. Yoga is that principle which harmonizes and unites the entire universe. There are three things: the space, the consciousness, and the uniting force, which balances these both together, and that’s yoga. Yoga is not a part of any religion. If anything, all religions on this globe are a part of yoga, because yoga is universal, and all these spiritual, ethical, moral principles, they are yogic principles coming from yoga. So yoga is the way to inner peace. Yoga is the way to the union. Individual consciousness merges into the cosmic consciousness. That is the way to make the world happy and create peace. Five-minute meditation every day. If you don’t know how to meditate, I tell you, the most easiest way: make yourself comfortable and sit down on the floor or in a chair, or lie down, or stand near the wall like this. It doesn’t matter. But you be comfortable and relaxed, and what to do? Do nothing. That’s the best meditation. Now, what should I do? Relax and go within thyself, and feel how you feel. That’s all. That’s the final meditation stage. There are so many instructions. Imagine this and imagine this. Breathe in through the left side and out through the right side, and this. This all is a parpañc. Finally, when you come to the meditation of peace and harmony, that time all brick pieces disappear. Therefore, Patañjali says two things. Yoga begins with discipline, and through the practice of yoga, you can control and tranquilize the citta vṛttis, the restless thoughts, and be one with thyself. When a yogī was meditating, one farmer thought, "This man must be very lonely and unhappy." Two hours he’s sitting here at the bank of the river. What is he doing? He must be very unhappy. So the farmer went to him and said, "My dear friend, what are you doing here? It seems you are very lonely." The yogī looked at the farmer and said, "Yes, sir, I’m lonely. Since you are here, before I was one with myself. God bless you." All the best. And those who will drive home now, wish you a very, very safe and good journey. Thank you for coming to the beautiful city, Sombathely, and attending this conference. Those who will stay overnight, we will have a beautiful evening film about Mahātmā Gandhījī, now and again, making a Mahātmā, a beautiful... film, and it is from the Government of India. His Excellency, the Ambassador of India, was kind enough and gave me one DVD, and this evening after dinner, about 8 or 8:30, we will see it there. In Vape, there is also a beautiful, big hall. Thank you. God bless you. And now, I would like to thank you for a beautiful, wonderful, and very good moderation, moderating our dear sister Andrea. Yes.