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Please, sit down. We have our Christmas celebration today, and we invite all our brothers and sisters around the world; you are most welcome. Our juniors have prepared a Christmas program. First, we will see and enjoy how the juniors are playing. Please, all welcome the juniors. Very good. Hari Om, everybody. We are very blessed to be here with Swāmījī tonight and to share the night with you on the webcast as well. There has been a lot of joy for the children getting the songs ready, and we are very much looking forward to hearing them. We have also had snow carols with the adults, and we have had cultural songs in English and German for everybody to sing. So, enjoy. Sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ, sarve santu nirāmayāḥ, sarve bhadrāṇi paśyantu, mā kaścid duḥkha bhāgbhavet. Oṁ śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ... Rabhavatu. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai. Śrī Śrī Deveśvar Mahādev Kī Jai. Dharm Samrāṭ Guru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī Jai. Satya Sanātan Dharma Kī Jai. Salutation to the cosmic light, adoration to our Holiness, Oṁ Śrī Alakh Purījī Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā. Good evening, dear brothers and sisters here in our Śrī Devpurījī Āśrama, Dangong, Australia. Also, we would like to welcome all our dear brothers and sisters from different parts of the world who are with us today via this webcast. First of all, I wish you all a very blessed Merry Christmas. I wish this evening, which we call the Holy Evening, when Jesus was born—his divine message as a messenger of God, as a brilliant shining star. Jesus is known as the Incarnation, the messenger of peace and love. In this Kali Yuga, all humans are searching for peace and love. We do not understand and follow the holy words, the Guru Vākyas, because not only Jesus, but every holy incarnation on this globe, every holy saint, brought the message of peace and love. This evening is a celebration of peace and love. May this evening bring harmony, understanding, love, mutual understanding, and happiness in your family. Every holy festival is organized or celebrated with one thought: that we forgive others’ mistakes. We accept others as they are. We ask for pardon, for reconciliation. We make a step towards those who are unhappy with us or have some conflict with us. We pray to God for forgiveness, and let’s have a bridge to walk over to reach the heart of others with the flame of love and peace. Jesus was for us—especially I am talking about Hinduism. You know that Hinduism, Vedic Dharma, Sanātana Dharma, is one of the religions which has immense tolerance, respect, love, understanding, and devotion for every holy sense, no matter from which religion, culture, or country one comes. And so is the message of Jesus too. "Love your neighbor" means not only a husband and wife, father and mother or children, but everyone next to you, every creature, every entity. Jesus was a messenger of this Ahiṃsā, and that is what is said in the commandment, "Thou shalt not kill." That is the message of Ahiṃsā from the ancient teachings of the Vedic religion. All religions are united together. Religion itself has no problem. God itself has no problem. God does not have any conflict. The conflict is in people’s mind. Duality is in people’s mind. So to celebrate such a holy event is an indication to follow respect, tolerance, understanding, forgiveness, and love. This we should learn and follow throughout the whole year, and wait for next year to celebrate again together a happy Christmas, the holy eve. Make a saṅkalpa today: "Lord, help me that I will follow those divine rules and principles in my life. I will keep harmony and love and mutual understanding with my partner, with my family, with my neighbors, with society, and with the entire world." Today is the day of love, ahiṃsā. Therefore, we should make a saṅkalpa: not to kill means don’t eat meat, be vegetarian. "Thou shalt not kill." You know, the last 14 days, there was an international conference in Europe, in Germany—I think it was in Germany, Copenhagen—about global warming and climate changes. Almost every country from different parts of the world was there. The governments came, and they made some rules and regulations. The experts were there, the scientists were there, the religious members were there. I think discussions were like this: how to solve the problem? The best way was and is that humans should become vegetarian. Humans should not torture animals. Humans should not breed so many animals just for meat. Plant the trees. Try to plant as many trees as you can—those trees which are native trees, healthy trees, also which give fruits, so the birds can enjoy. In many countries, birds died. There are no birds. Birds disappeared. All the wildlife is disappearing. That was not the message of those holy saints. We know the Holy Francis of Assisi. He was a vegetarian. He was a protector of the animals. Jesus was a vegetarian. He was a protector of the animals. So if you believe in Jesus, then you should follow his words. Jesus told his disciples, "Do not believe in these false gods," meaning money, gold, or the golden calf. "I am the way to the Father." Jesus was telling his disciples—this is a Guru Vākya—that Gurudev is the way to God. Follow his instructions and try to save the world. Peace, love, harmony, happiness, and good health be with you and with your families. This is my humble request and prayer to Jesus and all other incarnations and our holy lineage to bless you, dear brothers and sisters around the world. If we see all as brothers and sisters, we will not fight, we will not create wars, and there will be no problem. With these words, once more, Happy Christmas and Happy New Year. We will have a New Year meeting and message, but today is a blessing for Christmas. Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Dev Purīṣa Mahādeva Kī Jai, Dharma Samrāṭ Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jai, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai. Now, the protocol of this evening, Christmas protocol. We have the juniors; they are going to play the life of Jesus and his parents, and the countries, and how they used to wear the dress, and like this... Śrī Śrī... "Love them, feed them, don’t eat them." That’s the message. Dīp Nār Bhagavān kī jai. So please welcome our juniors once more. So begin with "Naham karata," okay. Is there nobody who can make a technique? Microphones, please. Any boy who can come and take care? Can you pick someone here? There is no Australian? Any? Good, very good. So, Seva Muni, all the time your duty. Don’t make angry Christmas. Come here. How the kids should know. Yes, yes... yes. Christmas house. Christmas house. Some flowers. Very good, very good. Next one. Oh, Christmas tree and stars. Very good, thank you. Thank you very much. And the third one, a beautiful Christmas tree. Merry Christmas. Beautiful, thank you. A symbol of everybody, Kiran. Come, there you are. So, I have chocolate for you, come. Okay, good. So, you take what you like, okay? This or this? One, one. Okay. Oh, one more. Thank you. Beautiful. Other side, yes, yes. I saw first others. Very nice. Thank you. Yes, yes. Very good. I’ll give this one to Bhai. I want to have one of these. Yes. Okay, thank you. Pārvatī, you want this or this? This also? Thank you, thank you. Okay, give me, come on. There is that. But you can bring, which one was that? Okay, you can make. This one, he should give me this. Thank you very much, thank you. This, aha, this he made it. Oh, aha, come, hold with both hands. Thank you very much. Come, this is for you, and one cake more, okay? Thank you very much. Thank you, beautiful, right? Look. So, we sing in English or in German? We’re going to sing in both languages. Okay, first English? Okay. So, we’ll sing it first in English, and then we have lots of German speakers, and we have some people here that have been practicing harmonies. So, anybody that is familiar with the harmonies, please join us. It’s beautiful. Okay. You can play harmony when you come. So, he is already born, but we don’t know when he was born, according to Europe, Israel, or Australia. That is a difficult point, but let’s assume that he passed away today. So, thank you very much. Right, then the other one is coming: "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing." Who is going to sing this song? You see, not only are you singing today, all the Christians are singing with us. And not only are you here, the kangaroos are also listening and sitting beside us. Cameraman, you must show the kangaroo also. Good, thank you. Prakash, you are a good singer. I did not know. One more. One more. In Hindi, one more means one peacock of the forest. The forest peacock. So we have the forest peacock. One more. I am Bhagavān, Kī Jai, very nice, thank you. Because anyone would like to say something or sing in any language, Hungarian, okay, you can say Hungarian, okay, then give him a mic, he will say something in Hungarian, because we have on the webcast many of our dear bhaktas in Hungary. Thank you very much. May I say something in German? Of course. "I send you all a very warm Christmas greeting from Dangok, Australia. We are celebrating the Christmas festival with Swamījī today and are very happy to be able to be with him. Dangok is beautiful. It is a bit windy today, sometimes very hot, sometimes cold. There are many animals here. I wish you a wonderful experience getting to know Australia and being here with the Bhaktas. I wish you a snowy Christmas. I have heard that you have snow and cold, which is typical for us. But it is also nice to celebrate Christmas in the warmth. Have a nice Christmas and all the best for the new year. Hari Om." Come into the light. Light in the light, microphone. Greetings to everyone in Poland. We are now in Dango, which is in Australia, in a wonderful place. We have a camping and a month of practice with Swāmījī. I wish everyone a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and many successes in yoga practice. Congratulations on the occasion of the meetings with Swamiji in November. Wszystkiego najlepszego, wesołych świąt i wszystkiego dobrego. Dziękuję. Thank you. Děkuji. Śrī Śrī... Karvaḍīs Miera, do you speak Maori? Yes, the Maori, I don’t understand what you can talk about. Someone welcome Jake, Slovak, Slovenia, Spain. Hari Om. He mihi nui aroha kia koutou katoa. I tene wa whakanui te ngākau o te whānau nei. Nō reira, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā rā tātou katoa. So we are now in our Romanian. Yes. Good morning, friends from Romania who are watching this program. I want to tell you that I am very happy to participate in this gathering. We are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ in a special, spiritual way. The whole world is enveloped in love and peace. And I am transmitting to you through these threads everything that is better and more beautiful in the world at this moment. Anyone more? Does it matter from which country? From where? Australians, I’m Australian. Okay, thank you. Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, He Jai. Well, we are very happy that we are all here under one roof. Many different nations, many different languages, different cultures, different beliefs, but we all celebrate together with the same feeling today, Christmas. This is the specialty of yoga in daily life, that yoga in daily life is able to bring under one roof, under one table, with oneness, different religions, cultures, and even politicians. In previous many conferences and yoga programs, we had people from different nations together practicing in harmony and loving each other like brothers and sisters. This is the beauty of the human heart: to adore, to respect, to love, and to feel oneness. That is very important. I was looking this side. In Australia, we also have very nice Christmas trees. Every culture has different seasons, trees, sorry. Israel, where Jesus was born, didn’t have that Tannenbaum, that Tannen tree, but we try to create here a kind of Tannen tree, originally from Dangang. Today, it was nearly 40 degrees or 42 degrees, but we still see the trees green. For me, this tree symbolizes our life, and all the lights and decorations on the tree are our qualities, our friendships, and our happiness. The presents you find under the tree are the hospitality, our attention, and respect with an open heart for giving. If we can give, there is more joy than to receive. The lighting and decoration of the tree culture began over ten thousand years ago. Ten thousand years ago, it was the time of the Rāmāyaṇa. God Rāma comes back after fourteen years, spending the time in the forest. He came back to Ayodhyā, and you know that time there was no electricity, there was no petrol, there were no batteries. There was no solar energy technology. Similarly, we can imagine 5,000 years before Jesus was born, there was no electricity. And that’s why they were going with the candles. Now we have electricity, and we are going with the candle still. So God is thinking, "Oh man, now you have invented this light. Why do you have this candle?" So we can see how intelligent the human still is. When God Rāma announced that he was coming back to Ayodhyā, to his home, where his mother, brother, and all were waiting for him, the whole of Ayodhyā was very happy. And surrounding people, thousands and thousands of people come to welcome him, to see him: God Rāma, Sītā and Lakṣmaṇa, children, old people, young people, men, women. Śrī Śrī... They gave the work or duty to all the carpenters to make some toys, and they hung and placed toys under different trees so that children could play. So also, it was a time becoming cold because Diwali is coming, so people were hanging or putting some cloth or blankets. Śrī Śrī... Because Diwali is coming in October or November, somewhere in the middle of October, beginning of November. And then I came to know it is because of the Lord Jesus. About Jesus, we have in our school books. About Jesus, we have in our books. About Jesus, we have a lot of information, and there are millions of people in India who follow Christianity. One of the largest Christian communities in the world is in India. And after Indonesia, the largest Islamic population is in India. The Jews, the Parsis, the Buddhists are, of course, home. Buddhists are part of Hinduism. Sikhs are part of Hinduism. Jainism, these are branches of Hinduism. But what I want to tell is that India is a home of all cultures and religions. That’s why India is known as the cradle of culture. And so the Christmas tree reminds me again of Diwali. So I wish you a Happy Christmas, Merry Christmas, and many blessings. God bless you. God bless your family. I pray to Almighty Lord, the Holy Father, and Jesus to bless us on this divine evening. Oṁ Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya.