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Śrī Śrī Alakh Purījī, Mahādeva, Kī Jai, Devādhi Deva, Deveśvara, Mahādeva, Kī Jai, Ārādya Bhagavān, Dīp Nārāyaṇa, Mahāprabhujī, Kī Jai, Hindu Dharma Samrāj, Svāmījī, Mādhavānandajī, Bhagavān, Kī Jai, Viśvaguru, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Paramāśvām, Aśvāncī, Gurudeva, Kī Jai. Welcome, dear brothers and sisters. I am so happy to see all of you. The new group has arrived. Today is Gaṇeśa Caturthī, the birthday of Gaṇeśajī, let us say. And tomorrow is Gurujī’s birthday, so today and tomorrow are two very auspicious days. The most auspicious aspect is that Swāmījī, Viśvagurujī, is with us. Vishwagurujī will come within the next half hour. As you heard yesterday, the roads in the Czech Republic are very good. Yoga in Daily Life is active all over the world, but every country has its own rules. Luckily, in Europe, the rules are more or less the same. Rules in Australia and America are slightly different, and the rules in India are again different. What we have tried for the last many years—and what we are doing now—is to continue with yoga classes. We have yoga classes in Delhi, Jaipur, and Jadan, and also in Nepal and Katha. For various reasons, we do not have many centers, so most of our yoga and life is concentrated in ashrams. As you have tried here in the Czech Republic, and as we tried in Croatia, we are now trying again in India to implement Yoga in Daily Life in schools. Yoga is already in schools, but I am talking specifically about Yoga in Daily Life. In Jaipur, we created, with Swāmījī’s approval, a research center. It operates under the Yoga and Daily Life Foundation, which is a registered NGO in India. We also use the name Vishwaguru Deep Āśram Research Center. The challenge is that there are many rules to follow, and to comply with them we have to create different NGOs. The complication is that the rules are so numerous and varied that we had to establish several different non-profit organizations for different activities. This Vishwaguru Dīp Āśram Research Center is directly connected, and through it Yoga and Daily Life is connected, to Jagat Guru Rāmānandāchārya’s Rājasthān Sanskrit University. I am very happy to share that this year we also managed to affiliate our Jadan College, Swami Sri Swami Madhavānanda College, with this university, specifically for yoga. Bureaucracy is omnipresent, almost like the ātmā. After affiliation, we applied for Swāmījī’s book, The Yoga System in Daily Life, to be used as the main curriculum in the one-year and two-year postgraduate yoga diploma courses. These are postgraduate courses, so a bachelor’s degree is required first—the basic three university levels according to the English standard. After that, one can pursue a postgraduate diploma in yoga. We are also working on a two-year master’s degree program in yoga. The problem we face is that there are many yoga systems, plus there is an Indian Yoga Association that tries to unite them all. Unfortunately, this could potentially remove the distinct name of Yoga in Daily Life. We are trying our level best to address this. Swamiji’s yoga has been present in India for many years. The Yoga in Daily Life book is translated into Hindi, but there is a time for everything. The professors we are connected with through the research center have reviewed this book. They all say this is not a normal yoga book; it is the encyclopedia of yoga. They affirm that this book must be in schools and colleges. In short, this is what we are trying to do now. But as I said, bureaucracy is amazing, as you all know. You must go through ten different people, hoping everything will be fine. It is a work in progress. With Alakhpurījī’s and Mahāprabhujī’s blessings, we will be successful. Om Vole Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar Paramahaṁsa Śrī Svāmī Maheśvarānandajī Guru Deva Kī Jai, Śrī Gaṇeśa Namaha, Jai. Oṁ Gaṅgā Na Pate Namo Namaha. It is very easy for us to work in Jaipur because we have your full support and the support of Vishwagurujī. You do not have to do anything special; just continue practicing Yoga in Daily Life. A friend complained that as soon as practitioners become disciples, they stop practicing yoga. But I know all of you here, and all who are watching, practice Yoga in Daily Life every day. When you go anywhere in India, they always ask a thousand questions. Usually, my answer to the first or second question is "Viśvagurujī," and all other questions stop. "Ah, okay, okay, okay. Very good." I was at one function and sat in the front. It does not matter that I am a Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar; people are not always happy when anyone sits in the front. They asked me, "Who are you? What are you doing here?" I said, "I am a disciple of Viśvaguru Paramahaṁswāmī Maheśvarānandajī." The response was, "Okay, okay, please, please." So, you see, there is nothing for you to do. When asked how many centers we have in Europe, the number goes into the thousands, and in the Czech and Slovak Republics it is full. I was sitting with Swamījī in the car. Every 10 to 15 minutes, a request came because Swāmījī was going to Zlín. Every village on the way had some idea for Swāmījī to stop and do a program. This is the background we are working on, and we are quite successful. We have four eminent Sanskrit professors in our research center: Pandit Anand Sharma, Professor Dayānanda Bhārgava, Professor Kālānātha Śāstrī, and Professor Narāyakankar Śāstrī. All are very young—from 83 to 87—and are professors of Sanskrit. Their bodies may be weak, but their minds are as sharp as can be. They remember so many things we did not even know existed, and they all want to work with us. I consider this a blessing of our Viśvagurujī. Usually, when one professor works with you, others may not want to, but here all are willing. We are also working with many other spiritual paths, like the Dādū Sampradāya and other Sampradāyas. We have held seminars with Rajasthan University, Jagadguru University, Udaipur University, Jodhpur University, and a few more. This is not a big deal when you have such people as Viśvagurujī and these four great names behind you. That is why I want to thank you all today for your help. Although indirect, it is still your help, so thank you very much. We have an idea which I will share now—I have not told Vishwagurujī yet. We hope to establish a private college. For private schools and colleges, there is a separate designation. We have government universities like Rajasthan University, but as a private college, you can upgrade to a "deemed university." It is a full-fledged university, but private. We will see how it goes, if Vishwagurujī agrees and, of course, if the millions of rules are followed. Perhaps we will achieve that; it is a plan. In our work, we also have a research center in Jadan: Sri Vishwadeep Gurukul, Maheshwarananda Ashram Research Center, which has been active since 1990. This society is the foundation upon which the school and then the college were built. It is very nice to observe how Swāmījī does something, and then slowly one piece and another are put together until you have the whole picture, like solving a puzzle. Om Ashram is already very famous in India. Everyone is waiting for the opening ceremony. Unfortunately, the Corona pandemic also halted work on Om Āśram. We still do not know when the next wave will happen or what will occur. There are red, green, purple zones all over the world. Every country has different rules, so we will see. We are also working on mantras, as you heard from Brno. I am very happy that we are publishing a magazine, Vishwa Deep Divya Sandeś. It was started in 1997, then somehow stopped. For the last three years, we have managed to publish it every month. Publishing a magazine is very difficult because you must have material for every month. On top of that, we managed to get recognition from Indian international standards for magazines and from the International Union of Publishers of Magazines. This helps, and that is why we included Tyāgpuri from Hungary and Prem from Austria on the editorial board, making us an international magazine. We are an international journal because Tyāgpuri is from Hungary and my colleague Prem is from Slovakia. She is from Croatia but lives in Vienna and is studying Sanskrit. So this puzzle is somehow progressing. We have also published around fifteen small books, all with ISBN numbers. Somehow it goes on. Every time I think of giving up—"Okay, that’s enough. We will stop now. We will not do anything anymore"—then Vishwagurujī says on a webcast, "We have a research center in Jaipur." And I think, oh my God, I cannot even think about that. So we are trying. A problem in India, and especially a problem for me since I started learning Sanskrit, is that when you begin with Sanskrit and go to the original texts, a door opens. Behind this door is an ocean of knowledge. Swamījī is already there, and you have to go through the door. But it is so big, so vast, that it is very scary to go through. There are many translations of the Upaniṣads, Mahābhārata, Rāmāyaṇa, and Purāṇas in the West. But, as you noticed with today’s bhajan, Śrī Guru Ātmā, you always lose something in translation. Even when I speak in English and Tyāgpuri translates into Czech, something different comes out. So we are trying to bring out the original text from whatever is available in India. It is quite easy. Why? Because every time I have any doubt about what to do or what to do next, I can ask Swāmījī. That makes things much easier.