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Sisters and brothers, we have come from different countries and cities. In this bhajan, Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī said—perhaps one day, I think there were no bhaktas present—Mahāprabhujī was sitting alone. He observed that not only humans but also birds and forest animals are active all day, running here and there. Yet, they keep their eyes on where their friends are, whether other birds or animals. Once or twice during the day, they all come together and sit nearby. No one goes alone; even the birds go together. For over a month now, and since last year in our Strīlīkyā Āśram—with Bhagavān Mādhāvānandajī, in Bhagavān’s āśram—I feel and see this. I am not only thinking of our human people but also observing even the smallest animal. Śrī Śrī... He comes from above, I am coming, but on the other side, going from the street, from other directions, coming from somewhere. It flows through like a little stream of water. All our plants there, every fruit, every vegetable—our people go and take something. This is from the grass, and one takes that as medicine. The air in that ashram is different; in our ashram, there is a great difference. You know that in the city of Vienna, everything is very good. It is not like that, but our atmosphere, this is our ashram. Here, people come even when there is no formal practice. They come and feel within themselves: "Can I sit here? Can I meditate here? Can I speak with you?" In our āśrams, the environment is very great. You know Yoga in Daily Life; for so many years we have been here. It is not only exercise for the body but for our ātmā, our heart, our spirituality. People who know what yoga truly is understand this. Nowadays, people are doing yoga, but it is often just exercise, that’s all. We know that in Europe, many come from far distances. I mean, there are weekends or one or two days when people come from very far. For example, from Czechoslovakia—Slovakia, Czechoslovakia—they come a long way. Children, parents, they came early in the morning and stayed in the ashram. After the program finished in the evening, around ten o'clock, after the parents slept, the husband and wife drove back early in the morning and still went to work. Why? Because it is something we need. When we want to go to a tree and take its fruit, we go and bring it. If there is nothing, we are not happy; we look here and there. As Mahāprabhujī said in this: "My bhaktas, my disciples, my friends, when they come, then my heart, my feelings..." That is what we need. A few months ago, and many times, we take a book. Of course, books are important; we have to have them. We add everything inside them—this and that, everything is there. So we go and talk about this science and that, or many different things. But what do we gain from this? We talk, we recite entire scriptures, we come and give lectures. And our Gurudev, Mādhavānandajī Bhagavān—when Mādhavānandajī... he has no books with him, but he would not like this. The book says, "Yes, everything is very good. How are you?" I was very good. And I see him looking at the book. Or there are many people, about two hundred at conferences; they come, sit, stand, looking at this, my friend, this and that. It was good, and then Mahāprabhujī said, "The book is good." We have insight; we can feel. But when true reality comes from our heart, and from the heart, how it comes is like purity, very pure. When we are young, and also when old, we want to do this: what we do and what we will do now. With this, we sit and we act. But a little child—there is one little child, about ten days old now—this child sleeps, drinks, sleeps, and smiles. Everything comes good, this and that. That person is like a flower. This flower is very nice, but it has not yet opened. It opens in the morning and closes in the evening. So, consider what we are asking. We sit in a house, or at home somewhere, or in the forest, but alone. And there is thinking: What do I need? What will I do? Why did I come here, come to the forest, or come there to bring all spiritualities inside? Look at our whole world and us. Sometimes, all of you go to the Wienerwald here in Vienna, Austria. Many times people go alone because it opens the heart and allows one to look inside. And so, because I don’t have that, I go to that which I need. And what we need are our good friends. Our friends, we said, amare bhakta, Gurudev, all are coming. For example, there you are, people here; everyone, we take some nuts or something and give them to the birds. The birds are very far at a distance, but their eyes are very near. As something is given, all the birds come quickly. So, you are today, for example; we all become like birds, and we got that hour. The Satguru of the Gurudeva, Mahāprabhujī, Holy Gurujī, Devpurījī—they were always there; all bhaktas came. Let us see what we can say about the very best qualities. We put something in the kitchen or somewhere, sweets or this or something, or butter falls down. This is a good quality. And what is it that comes there? Little by little, they can smell very good smells, but very little, tiny. And they all come, and there is something like this and that. All of them are coming, none? Who? It ends. And this end will never go with them because this is not that. And so our bhaktas, our friends, our good friends, whatever, we all come here and sit there. Bhakti, Bhakta, Bhakti, Bhakti, Bhakta—whatever you call it, why do we come here? Because our spirituality is peace. And we are mostly, you know, that everyone has all religions, and everywhere, and everything. And we all, in our Yoga in Daily Life, we people, I see and you see, we come from a far distance. Because the ants come for their nourishment, so we also sit here looking, seeing this, and this is that we need, everybody. It is not only myself here, but in Vienna also there are many, many very good people. They come together and sit very nicely. Or many people go into the forest. And there is that which is not, and we don’t like to know what is happening. We know that this is happening now, how it is, and why it’s not. Guru Kṛpāhi Kevalam Śiṣyake Ānandamaṅgalam Ānandamaṅgalam. You know that we may have any yoga practice they are doing, then afterwards lie down and relax, and that’s called just like the body. But I said, "Yes, this should not be the body." And now, what we have made it, our best Ānanda Āśram. Ānanda, that is one, that is just like a dead body, it is it. Say it is. Long ago in Vienna, at our ashram, I was teaching everyone. One person would come, ten would come, three would come, and so on. One day, a man came and gave a note. The person was a professor, about seventy years old. He said, "Come and sit." He called my name and said, "Can you give me something? Yoga and this, I need this and this and that, and that’s good." And he said, "I want to have it. It’s the truth." Some of my friends, we spoke then and heard everything. So, that is a professor, and he doesn’t want to practice with other people because he is a professor and cannot lie down with others. I said, "No problem." He told me he is a very nice person from Italy, living in Vienna. He said to me, "My yogī." I said, "Yes, and so?" You know, I have a young woman, and she is very young, and I am about seventy years old. So I have something I cannot—when she doesn’t want to be with me, she wants to go away. But I said, please, someone said that yoga, yoga practices, and a yogī can give energies. Yes, and that’s what I got. I said, "Yes, I can give you exercises. Yes, really." And then he said, "The book, the yoga book, that’s it." I think I didn’t have that book at the time, perhaps scripture and so. So he went to see what I told him, teaching. I was teaching there; I said, "Lie down, relax completely." Then he went to a bookstore in the center of Vienna. He had one book from someone. There is the yoga book, and there was that one lying down like a dead body. He was so angry. Is it truth? I don’t want to tell his name. Maybe he’s still living or not; it’s a long time. At eleven o’clock at night, he called me on the telephone. He said, "Mr. Swami Maheshwarananda, I cannot sleep." I said, "Why can you not sleep? You kill me. You put me like a dog like this and sit. So I will not have yoga and this and that." I said, "No, no, it is not this." This is another thing. And from that day, what did I give? Ānandāsana. I said, no, no, that is the other book. My Yoga in Daily Life and I, we have that ānanda āsana. What is ānanda? Peace, harmony, love. Yeah, this I need. So again, he came to my class, and about that book he said, "Throw it, I will not take." But my papers, books, something had. So from that time, sometimes people give into yoga, they are yogīs or something, but they also did not say, but someone told somebody. Therefore, we have to learn again what we should speak, what language. Of course, language is something different, but give us peaceful, clear life. And so that is it. Guru, Satguru, Bhakta, you told me, Bhajan, what was Bhajan? Satsaṅg, Satsaṅg, Olu Āve Re, Olu Āve. You know what, Oli, Olu, my God, there are two, three Olus. Yes, there is someone who loves others, and it doesn’t matter where it is, but I am going there because he is my lover. And that also said, yes, my lover, that to go. Or someone is going to bring something good, like food, or someone is going to bring alcohol, many different things. But all is that one person, like our yoga, our people. When they come and sit with us, then my heart is full. I don’t need to eat and this. So, we are here today, my dears. We are filling with our whole body, our thinking, our everything. We are like brothers and sisters, all our bhaktas, everybody, all great. And this is the best one, which we have to see, and not a book. So, and then like that, so it comes, everything from inside. And when it comes inside, and we are talking about something negative, there is fire inside. And when there is hope, peacefully, yes. Then everything within ourselves, we are peaceful, we are good, and we are going to God’s way. So there are many people all going, people walking sometimes, and they are sitting today. They are making and eating something, some fruits. Five people, three people, ten people go there, and they sit, and how nice they feel. And they tell something good, a lecture or something. That is, the heart is good. And when something is coming together again, it is like opening and then going like this again. That is suffering. That is not good. And when there is nobody there, then this calling in the heart: "When will my friends come? When will they be coming? When will they be coming?" Yes, very great things it is. There, you know the alcoholic? Yes. An alcoholic is when there is no alcohol, no, the, what is going? Bottle, what is that? Yeah. And when there is no drinking today anymore, one cannot sleep at all, everything, my daughter, this and this and that, because it is all one in it. They will go, even parents can go, a wife will go away, or any birth or this, but I want to have my bottle. Addict, yeah. But not only this, there are also many others, and it is very difficult to get off. Yes. So, we are also addicts. Yes. But our addiction is to spiritualities, happiness, joy, peace, God, etc. Trust. And then, which of our people they are, and they will be with me, and you will be with me. When I am alone here, one week is okay, one day is okay, two days are okay, one week is also okay. But then I said, "Now I will go to Salzburg." So far, but I will go there because they are my friends, or my brothers, or my bhaktas. And when this night I am going to Australia, I am that in everywhere who is going, and that all I am bringing up, they catch me and I catch them. This is that, so you, my bhaktas, you are my brothers, you are my sisters, you are everything. We should purify it and never, never take it into your brain or your thinking, like, never. Don’t be, otherwise that is something, I am telling you, in strictly. And in a strikingly similar way, see the person, very—how to say—very, somehow very, what is that we call, very unhappy, very unhappy, yeah. And when there is something, then I am going there also. And I said, "I want to give something." But you know that? There is one queen, and she died long years ago. She is in our ashram there, Strilky. And this wife with the dress, how like this? And I go there, and when I sometimes—I am also sometimes, maybe, oh my god—and then I go that side. I don’t tell anybody. I can say, "Oh, look, this was very nice, and this was this," but I say it. I, from my heart, tell this lady, I wish you will be another and great. It was, but you are helped. Yes. And so, sometimes we can feel something like this and do like this. No, we are sitting like this, no? Like this. This. That time is something, and why? Because our friends, or we ourselves, are not lost or something. So we have lectures, we have everything. Everything we have learned and we are learning. And they are great, everything, of course, that is very good. But even in our kitchen, we are in our house, with our families. And then something happens in families, and we are not happy. And that happiness is inside, not from outside. And also, both are inside there. It’s coming from the other side, but the other one is not making you negative, yet it comes to us. So, therefore, we have to clean, and we have problems. We have problems. Yes, we have to take it out. For example, we are drinking water. I drink the water. Yes. But then I have to give out this water in different ways. Or we are eating good and everything nice, and that. But then we have to put out something. Similarly, it’s also for our thoughts and spiritualities. We have to bring that in this way, Sadguru, our Gurudev. And you are all gurus. We are all the gurus, I told yesterday, day yesterday. You have, you are, and you will be more. You will be great. You are a human. We are coming. And humans are that. On the last day, God brought the humans, and we are in that. So, everyone, we are all one village. How much are we village? That is my village. They are going to America, Australia, staying there, but sometimes thinking, "My little village." And it will be when we die, that ātmā will go first to where it was born. And then this bird will coincide. So I am very happy that you are all very happy. And, of course, some of us are not happy. Why? Because my leg is not good, my back is up. Yeah, something we have. But we are, inside we are very happy, and we are everything. So we have problems, but that problem, the problem will be every day, everything. But the ātmā is in the heart, and their friends and no friends, and this, even the people, we don’t know the persons, but we should see, oh ho, human, you are human. What I used to tell every day in the night, morning, get up, and my eyes open, and what I said, "I am human, I am." Then, it is said, what are we doing? So, what are we making, and what is it? So let us clear our insight, peace, peace, and good. And so, with the bhajans, let’s come to the bhajans. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavānakī, Dev Puruṣa Mahādevakī, Mādhavānandjī Bhagavānakī, Alakhpurījī Mahādevakī, Jaya. Śrī Deveśvara Mahādeva, Kī Jai, Oṁ Bale Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Kī Jai, Śrī Madhavānanda Holī Gurujī, Śrī Sattva Gurudeva, Deva Kī Jai, Viśvagurujī Paramahaṁsa Maheśvarānanda Yogīrāj. Om Śrī Alakhpurīṣa Mahādevam, Śrī Śrī Deveśvara Mahādevam, Om Bholē Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavānēm, Śrī Madhavānanda Holī Gurujī, Śrī Sattva Gurudevam, He Jai, Viśvagurujī Paramahaṁsa Maheśvarānanda Yogirāj, so we’ll have one more version? Okay. Oṁ Śrī Alakh Purīṣa Mahādevam, Śrī Śrī Deveśvara Mahādevam, Oṁ Vole Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavāne, Śrī Madhavānanda Holī Gurujī Śrī Sattā Gurudevam, Viśvagurujī Paramahaṁsa Maheśvarānanda Yudhirāj. There? Yes. Good. Kī Jai. Thank you.