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This consciousness is unbroken; it is everywhere. There is absolutely no place where it is not. It is all round and round; wherever you look, this consciousness is present. It pervades the entire universe; it is in every being, every moving or non-moving thing. That guru, that Gurudev, is very well established in this reality. That is why we are here again and again, especially on these special summer retreats. It took a quite interesting form, and I extended it even two more weeks. We all came here, and then we extended our stay and extended our stay even more. Some had to go to work and then came again and came again. This is how we come back again and again to that source which reveals to us that reality. We are continuously blessed with techniques that otherwise are really hard to obtain. It takes lives and lives of struggle to get to that blessing—that you are allowed to do these practices that we do here regularly every week. We can get that blessing, get the guidance, not just verbally in the lectures, but on a much more subtle level. We get blessing and guidance not only in terms of the verbal dimension, but also on a much clearer level than words. Each of us has personal guidance. Since the next week is just ending here, for them, a really great journey—take this energy, this charge, and reach that space where you are, where you’re going to be. I can use this opportunity to be with Swāmījī. If I had that much time, I would still... Yes, because there is one story that came to my mind that I... all night. All night, okay. Bad luck for you. In that case, I would like to share with you a story. Swamiji is asking, who of you came today? Thank you. So, welcome everyone. Rāma, Sītā and Lakṣmaṇa are in exile, in that banishment, if you remember. They were in orange robes, they were leaving, and they had to go through forests and through a lot of hardships to get to the Āraṇyakas, to the sages. They had nothing on them except the saffron robe, and Sītā could keep her rings and some earrings, and that’s all. This is how they were gone, and on the way they arrived at the Gaṅgā, a very wide part of the Gaṅgā that they had to cross. There was no other way to cross it, just using a ferry. Soon a ferryman arrived, and they started to negotiate. He told the story according to, especially, the Vaiṣṇava tradition: Gaṅgā came into being by Viṣṇu touching with his toe the earth, where Gaṅgā started, appeared, and started to flow. From just a grain of dust, the Gaṅgā came into being. So the smart ferryman told Rāma, that if this happened, that just by you touching the earth, and Gaṅgā could flow, so what would happen with my ferry if you touch your feet with your feet, this ferry? This is my living; my only income is from this ferry. So the only way you can get on this ferry is if first you let me wash your feet. So Rāma agreed, and the ferryman had the blessing that he could wash Rāma’s feet. They got on the ferry, and as they arrived at the other side of the river, Rāma asked the ferryman how much he owed him, and he was pointing at Sītā’s ring. The only thing they could pay with, because they had nothing else that they could pay. And he pointed to the ring, thinking that might be enough, because essentially they had nothing else to pay with. And so the ferryman said, "If a barber would shave another barber, would he ask money for that?" No, because they know that they will help each other. Or a carpenter would help another carpenter. Would they ask for money for the help? No, because they would help each other. So the ferryman said, "I took you over Gaṅgā. So you take me over this ocean of suffering." And that’s the deal. So we are here, and just let’s be smart like that ferryman and use this opportunity to be with Swāmījī, to get the blessing of his presence, not just in terms of lectures and words. But that guidance on a very subtle level is guiding us, even as Antaryāmī. In our silence as well. And if you allow Swamiji to use smartly my opportunity, just to touch your feet. Very good, thank you. As usual, I saw your fork. We would like to offer it as a token. Thank you. This light, because I’m completely in dark, Ānmanjī? Yeah, I will see. No, you have to see, not me. I think you did not manage from the Rāmbūrī. No, no. From the far distance, all together then. Hari Om. This is the day that is one of the best at the beginning and at the end. So it means again you are coming. What we learn here not only exercises the physical and mental, but we are searching for where my ātmā, my soul, will go, and when and where we will go. It’s not only that one person is, but there are millions and millions and millions of people. As humans, it doesn’t matter how they are, but still they think, "I am the best." And they believe in God. Many religions, many how-to-go. Some say there is no any, only in this space. The God is not in the form. Some say if it is not in the form, then the skin, the spice, is dead. The whole human, everything. Then who is there? What is that? We believe. We don’t believe. We are hanging ourselves. So there is Nirakāra. Nirakāra means it has nothing. Nirakāra means as if nothing. And sākār. And sākār is that we can see ourselves, our body, our feelings. One thing only, nirākār. How do you know? And if you will go, then nirākār is nothing, it is nirākār. So we left this world; we are the ātmā, the soul, whatever. And we are looking. Where is that? Nirākāra. How will we understand? Or we are melting. Melting, or something like this. Here is one light. This is a very nice flame. Yes, very good. But when we do like this, the flame is gone. Where has it gone? But we want to have it. How we will be here and how we will be there. Nirākār and Sākār. So Sākār should be that you are all Sākār, you are all here. Nirakar is maybe, we don’t know. But Sakar, we are all here. There is this girl, that boy, the father, their mother, friends, everything. The trees, animals, birds, that we have to realize. And so, only practicing āsanas and prānāyāmas—prānāyāma also, both sides—why not? It’s very good, because without our body, we don’t know what it is. And when there are no bodies, then who is going where? So, this is that. In such a way, in the satsaṅgs, we will talk further. Nirakāra and sakāra, there is a long, long story about this. So tomorrow begins again. Now, everybody came here with happiness and joy, and it was very nice. Sun signs and warm, it was. They did not bring their cloth, and now they are sitting here, so I don’t want to. Make them cold, then tomorrow they will sleep. So I’m very happy you are all come here, and you have your place everywhere. And tomorrow the program will begin as it is. They have told them, otherwise once more they will ask you how it is. I’m very happy. And we will have some programs. This is one week more. Then I don’t know when I will go. You know that on the roof of the house, there is sitting one bird. Now we don’t know which direction it will fly. Yes, it is sitting there, beautiful. But we don’t know where it will fly. So similarly, we are all here, and where we will fly and when we will see again, definitely we will try to see. Look, yeah, so it was flying here. I was just saying, I was sailing this, you know. I have told many times, you know, I’ve talked about this many times. And here it comes. This is a leaf. It fell down from the branch. Yes. Lega jī pavane udaj. And so the wind came and put it where it will be. And it came to me here, not further. For you it was, you are all here. You are the leaves. All your leaves came here. Kam spadneme? So, I wish you very, very, very much a long, long life, very healthy and very spiritual, and we will bring more children. Yes, everybody should get them because we need them now very much, yoga very much. Our yoga, yoga in their life. Yeah, so boys, girls, marriage, marriage quickly. So hurry home. And they cannot want to have children, and this, then, becomes sannyāsī. And then we do something, but of course, now this world is different. Now we cannot live like this. We need money, this, that. Many, many years before, there was only at home. Fruits, everything. Those who have cows, they give the neighbors milk also. Other ones in the farm, they had many fruits or something, they give them, they give them. Money was not there. Then, after the money became like gold and silver, not silver, the paper. So many they took, and many are in the earth; we don’t know where it is. And now it’s coming, the old leaf from the, what is this, paper, paper money. And now in Australia and in New Zealand, they all have on plastic. And now, this is going to be not only something on the numbers. What will happen, we don’t know. Have a good night. Tomorrow we will meet again. Hari Om. You feel cold? So we will have some fire here. And prasāda is coming. Come on. Praṇāma and prasāda.