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In our homes, our offices, or anywhere, we show respect by offering a good place to sit. In this generation, we see this when they tell women, "Please take your place," or when the bus or train comes, ladies go first. This is respect. And if an elderly person is going, then young people should say, "Please, first you go." When we show such respect, that elderly person, anytime he sees you, will greet you warmly: "Hello, how are you? Thank you." Concerning our holy Gurudev, if he is here, then my heart is happy. This evening, it was as if our Gurujī’s photos were placed low. I cannot sit high while my Gurujī is down. It is not only the Guru, but all our people are to be respected. Whenever we have our Guru Paramparā—Guru Paramparā means our lineage of Gurus—those Gurus, though not physically here, are with us. Those who are present may sit, but in a lower position. For example, I am from our Guru Paramparā, and you have given me this place. This is not my place. This is the place of our Guru who has passed. So, nobody sits on that chair except the successor. But this successor does not say, "I am up." No. The first height belongs to your great, great father and mother. We all know we respect them, and we also respect their parents. We are there. So first we say, "Grandmother, please, you sit. Grandfather, please sit." Now, over many generations, little children often do not show such respect. Young people want a house for themselves, and old men are left alone in the house. If the old people need something, who will give it to them? This is called the generation gap. Some other people may not like this, but still there are many people who respect those who are high, meaning the elderly. There was an incident in a school in India, though such things happen everywhere. A farmer had a son whom he tried very hard to educate, and the son became a master, a teacher. It was a primary school with about ten teachers, one head teacher, and five primary classes. All the children would sit and have prayer every day when they came to school. On Saturday, the teachers would go home, but first the students would have prayer. Some students from the class would give a little lecture or sing a song. The teachers instruct the students. The parents are respectful to the children, and the masters are also very good to the children, but strict. They were all sitting there, with the teacher standing or sitting up a little, and the headmaster present. A man came about fifty kilometers to see his son, who is a teacher. He walked five kilometers, bringing very nice cow ghee, or butter, for his son. He went to the school and waited outside. His son, the teacher, saw his father coming. He said to him, "You go home." His father had walked so long, fifty kilometers. He was walking very slowly and saw his son. He was standing there. The teacher said to the headmaster, "Please, can I help this man?" referring to his father. The headmaster asked, "Who is that?" The teacher said, "It’s my servant." This person, whose father broke his back to make him study and become a teacher, called his father his servant. The principal, the head principal, said, "Please sit down, don’t go." The principal himself went and said to this farmer, "Can you come with us?" There was only one chair for the teacher, and not one more. The principal asked the farmer, "Father, you are a farmer?" "Yes." "This is your servant? You are a servant?" The elderly farmer said, "He’s not my servant. He’s my son, and I gave him a lot of work and money so he would become a teacher. And he said to me that I’m a servant." The principal said, "Please, come with me." The principal took his own chair and gave it to the farmer to sit on. Now, his son did not know what to say. The principal said, "Farmer, friend, you are the servant of my teacher." The farmer said, "I am his father. I studied him and made him the teacher, and he said to me, 'I am his servant.'" The principal of the college, the university, made a letter to have the teacher suspended. "Yes, you are not a good teacher. Suspended." The father said, "Anyhow, it’s my son, please don’t tell like this." The principal said, "No, I will give you money for lifelong. But put him to go for the cows and buffaloes, go and work there." So now in this Kali Yuga, all young people are like, "I’m great, and my friends are down." They say, "I’m a professor, I’m a politician," and make this distinction. It doesn’t matter; your father and your mother are your mother and father. I was thinking the whole night, why was Mahāprabhujī sitting down? Now, I’m so happy, but this has given me this length to us. Yes, we got knowledge: how to speak, how to do. Because our father, our mother, they will do everything for us. Everything they give you, they die and go. So, not only our parents, but all humans—it doesn’t matter if men or women, boys or girls—deserve respect. I know you are doing all you can, but people are going down and down. So we have to learn from all. At your home, with your friends and neighbors, your school teachers, your office people—we should be very nice to them. Some people say, "No, this is not good. I cannot work there. My professor is not good, or my teacher is not good." Why? Then they say, "The professor is not good. He is a professor." Or in a company, they say, "This man is not good. We are working, and he is giving us very hard work." There was one company. I am giving you instructions. There is one company with an owner and about a hundred workers. For a hundred people, he has to take care of everything. But many people, when nobody is there, they are sitting or working slowly. Nowadays, everywhere there are cameras. One man had a trailer with wheels. He was going, bringing things, and bringing and going. One day, a worker went directly to the boss and said, "Sir, my trailer has some problem with the wheels. Can we give some oil or something?" The boss said, "Yes, yes, but what kind of oil and what is where?" The worker said the wheel is making a sound: tak, tak. The boss said, "You are finished. You can go home." The worker asked, "Why? I have no money, nothing, my family..." The boss said, "Because you are willing, how is it? I do good. Then tell me how it is." The worker said, "Tak, tak, go." The boss asked, "Why? Because you cannot make noise better, so how should I do?" The boss said, "Yes, so the whole day you are going, and so is that." Sometimes people don’t work properly. Or, to elderly people, young people ask, "Can you give me water?" So, this is Kali Yuga, we say. And the young generation is going in a different direction. Many times it comes on Facebook: there is only one father, old, and his son’s wife says, "I don’t want your father here." And really, they say, "Father, you can go," and it is finished. Yes. And also, an elderly mother, her son is working, and his wife is at home. She says to her husband’s mother, "Here is your bag. Here is your bag and two, three loaves of bread, out. It’s my house," she says, "but now it’s my house." Of course, other neighbors and people come, and they do something, you know. So, many times we have many problems in many countries. In America, you don’t know how many people are throwing something in the curtain, looking to see if there’s a braid or something. Some of you are now saying, "Christmas is coming, and they are asking for money, money,... children." But some people are really lost. You see, in America, evening, morning, they are coming and looking, taking something, and sitting there to eat. So, parents also did not give the children proper guidance, and the children also said, "Now you can go, I don’t like you." It was in America, and it’s very big. When the children are about 10 or 12 years old, the parents, father and mother, took everything and went away. They locked the house, and the child is coming home. "Where are your mother and father? Do you know my father?" They have locked it, and they have salt. This little child sat there. There are such people in many, many other countries also. They are going, and then they are becoming very wrong people, wrong children. So I had that experience. I was in America, and from the church, they were talking to people and giving them money, food, and everything, but they can’t—they are sitting outside, people, and they become like not good boys. But I know, and I’m happy, that in Hungary it is not like this. In Europe, it’s still much better, but it is in the brain. So, our parents give us good education. And the neighbors should be good. So, satsaṅg, bhajan, kīrtans, meditations, yoga, everything is good. But we have to own ourselves to be the best. We have, you know, very all, something, suddenly our people all came and quickly made this and this and that, you know. So, we have our yoga center in Yugoslavia, in Vaip, and in Vaip, you know, how many people we were all, and how all were friends, like brothers, sisters, brothers. No one was fighting, no one did this, no one saw things, no. And we have many of our yoga brothers and sisters, and they are very nice all the time in yoga, in the seminar. This is how we should keep life. You should work, you should study, you can be of any high life. You may become the president, or you can become anyone. Many people are good to you, and you are good to them. Many people come to my lectures, and I don’t know when it was—yesterday, or there—he’s a scientist. But they don’t tell that I’m a scientist. In San Francisco, America, there is my disciple, a girl from Slovenia. She became a scientist, then went to America and studied further to become a scientist. And she became a scientist there. They all said that she was one of the best scientists there. Suddenly, something happened. She had some disease. She couldn’t think properly, or had stomach issues, or many things. They went to the doctor, and they said she would die. The scientist also said, "We shall give you something." She said, "No, I am here. My Gurudev will help. I will be." They said, "What? You are Gurudev?" For the scientist, and he can do something, she said yes. Three times it happened to her body, and she again became healthy. May some of you know, now in Strilky, she was also here for two weeks. Now, she has come back from America to Slovenia, and they are calling her to be a scientist elsewhere. So there is always, and we should not say that, okay, only spiritual, no, no, no. Every doctor is very good. Don’t say doctors are not good. Please don’t say doctors are not good. If someone is ill and dies, they are trying, but they are also not there to get cured. So someone said, "Yes, we will make you good. We will make you a new baby again. So you will be a new baby, and you will come again, doctor." So everyone has good things. No one has bad things. Bad things are for those who don’t do anything and think, "I have nothing, I cannot." So we have to learn in yoga also. We have to practice, not only say, "I am a yogī." What is a yogī? That’s not a yogī. A yogī is a yoga exercise, not a person. And work, work, work. Hungary is one of the best countries. You have so many vegetables and fruits and everything. I will not talk too long; it is only one o’clock. So, thanks to see you, everybody, that we are here. We are coming in the evening also. Good. I will tell more different things, okay? This is very good, thank you. Have you any questions on these things? You know that I had my eye problems. I don’t know what they did; they made it, and they put in and put out. So now, getting otherwise, these two lights, you know, do you see their two eyes? There are two eyes, and I have two eyes. They are strong, and I am not so. So that’s why, sorry. Otherwise you will say, "Swāmījī, hello, come." That is to say, otherwise I will not be with this glass. Hari Om, yeah. Then sit straight, index fingers in the ears, elbows and shoulders, Brahman. Five times, Brahmrī Prāṇāyāma, you know already. Relax, eyes closed, and feel relaxed. Vibration, very spiritual feelings in the brain. All mental states will be very spiritual, peaceful, and harmonious. All tensions go out. Again, index fingers here. Feel vibrations very nicely. Your teeth should not bite. Lips close. Place your hand under your legs on the knee. Feel where the legs are in the brain. Tension is gone. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Devadhī Dev Dev Purīṣa Mahādev Satguru Svāmī Mādhāvanājī Bhagavān Alakhpurījī Mahādev Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Hari Om.