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Part 1: A Gathering of Devotees: Stories of First Encounters So, I would like to introduce Chandra Devī from Bratislava, Slovakia, who will say a few words. Chandra Devī: Swāmījī, I am very happy that I can talk with you now. This is my first trip after a broken leg last year, and I’m very happy that I be here. I’ve been here in Střílky from the very beginning, from the very first moments when this place was founded. As for my beginnings with Swāmījī, I have work-related experiences. I had a feeling that I had to facilitate Swāmījī’s introduction into scientific circles. I was working in the Institute of Children’s Psychology, and I was trying to introduce Swāmījī into those circles. I think it was at the end of the 1980s, and I think Premātā’s mother was there as well. I didn’t know how to work with mantras at all. And when Martin Knapp started to organize some interest in mantras, it was still quite strange for me. At that time, I had no idea how people work with mantras. So when Martin Knapp actually introduced me to this and asked me to use a mantra with people, it was at that time a little strange for us, and people were wondering what it actually was. I replied to them, "I don’t know." I was afraid that they would complain to the management, but nothing wrong happened. Within about five years, I organized three seminars for teachers, because at the time I was already working at the teaching faculty of the University in Bratislava. And Swāmījī always came very willingly. Once I let him wait for me because people warned me that there was some drink that was not tasteless, so I had to deal with it there. So Swāmījī was always happy to come, and once Swāmījī even had to wait for me because someone told me that they were preparing soup which was not vegetarian, so I had to solve the issue. Then I organized another seminar; it was a small conference. We also had speakers from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Germany. And then the latest event was a spiritual dimension conference. It was actually a predecessor of other spiritual conferences that Viśvagurujī was organizing in the Czech Republic and other countries. And then Swāmījī was a guest speaker at an anti-drug expert conference, and I could see that some of those anti-drug experts were crying when they heard Swāmījī saying that they should take responsibility for the children who are taking drugs. So thank you very much, Swāmījī, for everything that you have done for us. Dīvalī Purī from Slovenia will be the first to speak. Dīvalī Purī: Hari Om Praṇām Gurudev. Hari Om Praṇām Gurudev. Hari Om to all brothers and sisters. Well, I will, who knows me, will think, "Oh, she has not so long a mantra." It is true. But I will tell you what happened to me when I was ten years old. I was ten years old, and one night I woke up because I needed to go to the toilet. I went from my room to another and switched on the light. And just opposite of this light was a window. And I looked to this window, and I saw a clear face, clear. I don’t know who this is. For me, at that time, it seemed like Jesus. I don’t know how long I stayed there. We looked at each other. I felt fear, so I just kept looking. Then I went to do what I woke up for, and when I came back, the picture was not in the window anymore. This was the year 1963. And later on, I read in Līlā Amṛt that this was the year when Śrī Mahāprabhujī left his body. And from that time, my Gurudev led me, protected me, and gave me a beautiful life through Yoga in Daily Life, which I try to convey to other people with all my heart, because I want to, I wish that all people can be happy with yoga, can be happy with mantra, which is so strong, so powerful, so powerful mantra I received in 2007. And yes, my life, I can say, my life is fulfilled, my life is happy, no matter what happens around, this is what Gurudev gave to me. It is a gift, we can say, we can say words, but what we feel, it is. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next one is Kṛpā Purī from Martin, Slovakia. Kṛpā Purī: Praṇām Gurudev, Praṇām Swāmī, Praṇām Bhrātā Sestrī. Praṇām Gurudev, Praṇām Swāmī, Praṇām Bhrātā Sestrī. When we are meeting people around us and they are asking us, how did you come to yoga, how did you meet your master and what’s all behind it? You don’t have any intellectual arguments because it’s not about intellectual arguments or reasons. I had a very successful life, work, family. I didn’t need anything. But I was curious, and yoga actually attracted me since my childhood, even though I didn’t know what it was all about. Martin Knap started yoga in Martin, and so in 1989 he entered the course with his wife in February. Martin Knap from Martin started yoga classes in Martin in 1989, or at least I and my wife joined a yoga course there in 1989. He was telling us also about Swāmījī and Holī Gurujī, but honestly, at that time, I didn’t really seek the spiritual dimension. And then they told us that Swāmījī will come in May. And I’m saying Swāmījī, I should say Viśvagurujī, but for me he will always be Swāmījī, because it’s like you always call your mother "Mom," you don’t call her "Doctor," for example. And he told us, you know, Swāmījī is coming just for us, and it would be really embarrassing if it was just the four of us, so it would be great if you could join us and help us form a bigger group. So Swāmījī started his lecture, and I came there actually as if someone comes to a zoo to watch a tiger. I had no idea who yogīs were, and I wanted to discover who they are. And it was still hardcore communism then, so Swāmījī couldn’t speak about anything spiritual. He couldn’t speak about Mahāprabhujī, but he had Mahāprabhujī’s picture there. There was a candle, and Vyra Doležalová was interpreting. Swāmījī was saying, in a similar way as he’s speaking now, that the world is actually going down, that people are getting divorced, and that there are many issues. So I was listening for about five minutes, and I was bored. And then, at one point, something happened. They call it resonance. Gurudev produced a sound, and since I was attuned to the same type of sound, there was a connection, and immediately I was in deep shock. Where have you been all my life? I have been looking for you. And I looked at my wife, and I wanted to tell her. But her eyes were sparkling like a film character. Where has he been all our life? Tak potrebovali. And then it took really very fast turn, because it was already in as early as in December, one day before the end of the year, when Swāmījī actually came to our home. We probably needed it, and thirty-five people got mantra there. So I think it’s similar to what Ekta said, that there was the resonance, and we all have experienced it. [Name] will tell us briefly her story. Speaker: Gurujī, dear Swāmījī, Sādhvīs, dear brothers, sisters, the opportunity to speak. I started practicing yoga in 1987 because my second child, my son, was born. I continued my research work. I was doing my PhD thesis and, at the same time, taking care of the household, which led me to search for a tool that would help me manage everything. They were practicing according to a fun Lisbeth book. It’s a so-called Rishikesh school of yoga. And there were some really advanced āsanas. I was in the advanced group because I graduated from the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports. The management was very nice. The practitioner was an orthopedist, but he could not answer me. We also had meditation and relaxation, and I had certain questions in me in terms of relaxation and meditation. I had certain questions in me: what is happening there? What I see and experience there? Relaxation and meditation, but he wasn’t able to answer my questions that appeared to me during the relaxations and meditations. So it was helping me a lot on the physical and mental level, but I was still hoping to find the ultimate truth. I was sure that I would be able to find some sources, the original sources of the truth. I was afraid to speak about it because it was still communist time, but then the revolution, the Velvet Revolution, came at the end of ’89, and our teacher told us that there would be a yoga program led by a yoga teacher from Prague, close to Český Krumlov, where... One-week program. One-week program. And so it was a relatively small group. The yoga teacher was Jenna Canand from Prague. It was a beautiful environment, and similar to Střílky, but much smaller. No, and Janakana was doing Sarvahitā Āsanas with us, but she was also talking about philosophy, about vegetarianism. And I knew this was the source, that I approached the source. I turned vegetarian because something blinked in my mind, and I realized that that’s the only way to lead a happy life. And I also thought that I would like to become a yoga teacher of this system, that I would like to teach this system to other people. And Jana Kanant and Dayamata, who was also there, so they told me it’s easy, you can sign up for a course for yoga teachers led by Swāmījī, a three-year course for this yoga teacher seminar, and Dayamata told me to take mantra as well, that’s useful when you’re a yoga teacher. So we had a beautiful mantra dīkṣā in a corner of the gym hall there. So I found the mantra a little complicated, but before I arrived back home, everything worked smoothly already. And I was teaching at university, I’m still teaching at university, and I thought that I should contribute with some research on this because we all know that it’s working, that yoga is working, but I wanted to bring some scientific evidence to it. So, thank you very much, Mamjī, for leading me, for enlightening our lives, for the whole family, because, for example, for my husband it wasn’t easy, you know, I turned overnight, I changed completely after ten years of marriage. Ale on se takový vývoj, u Swāmījīho mnohokrát. Lot, and we’ve had many experiences like that in India and elsewhere. And at one point, for example, Swāmījī told my husband, "So you should sit there, and your wife will sit at your feet," etc. And the enormous love which can be moved through... Me to my children and grandchildren now, so thank you very much. And in the beginning of my research work, people were telling me, some people were telling me, "Don’t call it yoga, call it physical training." But I insisted on using the word yoga, on speaking about the system and about Swāmījī, and it was validated later. On that, it’s really working like that. And I’m always surprised by how things work, how they help people, whether it’s problems, I don’t know. I also practiced with children, for example, with night wetting or problems with speech in children. And I keep being amazed by how yoga is actually really working, and I’ve had many instances of even miraculous cases when children who had all sorts of issues that have been solved. So those issues included psychological issues, physical issues, etc., etc. So we can only be thankful for the system which was given for the benefit of mankind. [Name] will say a few words, probably in a briefer way, even briefer way than Karuna. Speaker: Praṇām Swāmījī, Hari Om Vseci. Praṇām Swāmījī, Hari Om to all. I will begin differently, with memories. I will take a different approach; I will not speak about my memories. We have the most, the greatest, the most caring, and the most loving Gurudev in the entire universe and behind it. I met Swāmījī when I was in the very sensitive age of being a teenager; I was 16 or 17. And he saved all my life. I experienced the smile of Holī Gurujī. I received a blessing from Swāmījī’s mother. I have been here since the very beginning of this beautiful Střílecké kingdom. I got protection and help. I found a new family and exceptional people. I have a loving husband, two daughters that were educated by every Swāmījī’s satsaṅg and prasād, and that’s just a small part of what I know. The rest, I don’t know where I was for the rest of the time, but... Thank you for finding me in this life. I am only able to fulfill a small percentage of yoga, but I love you. So the next speaker is Sāvitrī from Prague, who will be very brief as well. Sāvitrī: I really enjoyed listening to all the stories yesterday and today. And I was finding a lot of similarities with my own life as well. My spiritual path actually started when I was a child. I had glimpses of a different consciousness, but I had no one to talk to about it. I had a strong love for animals, and I don’t mean that I wanted to have a pet at home, but I didn’t want to eat meat. So I’ve had this ethical approach, or approach to nature, to animals, from my childhood. Every time I found some sick or hurt animal, I would bring them home, treat them, and then release them again. I am grateful to my parents that they gave me life. I am also grateful to them that they stayed together their whole life. That I was raised in a complete family, and if God permits, they will celebrate the diamond jubilee of their wedding next year. They were also an inspiration on my spiritual path. My father was a top athlete, and when I was 13 years old, he bought a book called Haṭha Yoga from a leading Czech Indologist, Karel Werner. And he said, "We will start practicing yoga because it’s good for your health." So the whole family started practicing Haṭha Yoga. And then I continued in the 1980s. I bought a fun Lisbeth book from the Rishikesh series. And then I went to Prague, I got a job, I got married, I had my first child, and in one of my jobs, I actually met Swāmī Pārvatī. And I was surprised that someone is also a vegetarian, because at that time there were very few vegetarians, and there were not so many yoga practitioners. And I was surprised that there was another vegetarian existing, because at that time it was really rare, and also it was relatively rare for people to practice yoga. So I was really happy, and Premlata was there with us as well. And it was shortly before the Velvet Revolution in 1989, and I got an invitation to a yoga program. But at that time, when I got the invitation, I didn’t know I was coming to get mantra and to meet Viśvagurujī. So it was this Velvet Revolution atmosphere; it was January 1990, and when I entered the room where Swāmījī had a lecture on mantra, I saw a big light. And since that time, I actually opened my Anahata, and I got connected with the Guru Tattva, and I would like to stay connected with it my whole life. And in Guru Gītā, we sing that with the mercy of Guru Dev, everything is possible. So that’s also how my life developed. Any saṅkalpa was fulfilled. I want to thank you so, so much for these 33 years of guidance, and I want to remain further in the embrace of Gurudeva. So I would like to thank you very, very much, Swāmījī, for the thirty-three years of you leading me, and I would like to stay in your lap. Yoga Mitra from Blansko is the next speaker. She will tell us her story. Yoga Mitra: Hari Om to all. I would like to say a little bit about the time when I received mantra. It was in 1990. It was two months after the fall of the Iron Curtain, and people only started speaking about spirituality. Swāmījī was invited to Blansko, and he had a lecture there in January 1990 on Guṇas. And during the break, Ganga came and asked me, would you like to get a mantra? A já... And I said, what is it? And she said, "It’s a sentence." A říkám, "Ano, chci." And I said, "Yes, I do." And when I came for the blessing, I was really fascinated by Swāmījī’s orange socks. Because in communism, you know, there was a lot of shortages of goods, shortages of goods, and men would only have three colors of socks: black, gray, and brown. And it was only later on that I realized it wasn’t just the color of the socks. So this was a really nicely condensed story. We like it the most. We now have two member speakers, team and led by Sītā from Prachatice, Czech Republic, and we would like to ask them to stick to this briefness. Sītā: It’s our common story, and that’s why we came here together with my mom. I am 33 years old, and I have been with Viśvagurujī for 33 years. What actually happened, I cannot really remember what happened before that. Předám slovo. So I will pass the mic to my mother. Sītā's Mother: This story actually started while skiing, when I met another skier who was a yoga teacher, Maria Hetnerová from Prachatice. And this beloved child was already growing in my stomach. She said, "Come on..." And Maria told me, you know, "Come to yoga, it’s nice." So I actually started practicing yoga while pregnant. And I thought it would be a nice hobby. But as the baby grew bigger, I stopped practicing, and then the story continued when she was seven months old. If I let someone else have her in their lap, she would start crying. So even if someone was really close to us, when I came to a shop with a friend and I gave Bhajan Devī to her, for a while she started really screaming. So everybody thought she was being... not good. Touched, touched. And suddenly Maria Hetner said, "Sītā, Swāmījī will come, and all the children who have children should go there." And all of a sudden, Maria Hetner said, "Sita, Swāmījī will come, and everybody who has a child should come there." So with my husband, we went for the meeting with Swāmījī, and we were really looking forward to it. Swāmījī was sitting in front of a big table, and on all sides you had families with children. And when I realized what it was all about, I was really shocked. Because Swāmījī called the first family and took the baby in his lap. And I looked at Swāmījī and I said, "No, no." That was the first game between me and Swāmījī that started there, because every time Swāmījī took care of one child, he looked at me, and I said no, and I thought no, and Swāmījī called another family. And when we were the last ones, Swāmījī just showed with his finger for us to go. So I came with my girl to Viśvagurujī, and he had his hands towards her. She stood on his lap and she hugged him. She was playing with his beard. She continued his lecture to others, and I was really amazed because none of them really paid any attention to me. And all of a sudden, I felt I had a feeling that I gave my child to someone that I’ve known for ages. And 100% confidence—if it could be more than 100%, it would be more—awoke in me. And never, even for a tiny minute, did this confidence disappear. And so this original hobby became a life path. Sītā: I would like to thank Viśvagurujī very much that I was able to be raised with him, and I wish that Viśvagurujī stays with us for a long time so that my son can experience the same. As a child, I was able to sit on his lap. I was playing football with him. When we had a difficult exam at school, I was praying. Viśvagurujī was for me like a father or grandfather. He even arranged my wedding, and I would like to thank him very much for everything. The next one is Vasantī from Blansko, Czech Republic. Vasantī: Dear Viśvagurujī, dear brothers and sisters, I am standing here just like yesterday, my mom. I’m standing here in the same way as my mother used to be. Part 2: The Guiding Light of the Guru I must thank the person who spoke about buying expensive photographs of yoga postures. It was because of her that I began practicing yoga. I found those photographs and practiced with them daily, happy to be doing yoga. At that time, my mother did not yet practice āsanas, but she attended yoga programs and lectures. I thought I didn't need that; I just wanted the physical exercises. She kept inviting me, saying, "Swāmījī will be there. He will explain other things to you as well." Finally, I decided to go to a program at a high school in Blansko. One of Swāmījī's disciples spoke there about clinical death. I began to realize I needed to know more—that we are human, that we have a soul, and that we must learn more about ourselves. I attended more seminars and became vegetarian after listening to Swāmījī speak about our planet's abundant resources and how we do not need to kill animals to eat, as we have all sorts of fruits and cereals. Later, I received a mantra. I thank Viśvagurujī immensely that I have remained with him. Furthermore, he recently arranged a Vedic wedding for us in India. We have Badrinārāyaṇa from Karlovy Vary, a technical person, so I am sure he will keep to the time. My story is very long, but I will be brief to avoid causing stress. I received my mantra from Swāmījī thirty years ago on Guru Pūrṇimā. When giving it, he said something you have probably all heard during mantra dīkṣā: the relationship between master and disciple is eternal. Forever is a very long time; thirty years is nothing in comparison. But in a human life, thirty years is a period where everything can change completely several times. Everything has changed during that time, except one thing. In the most beautiful and the most difficult moments, Swāmījī has always been there—not always in physical form, but his wisdom has always been present. There are not enough words to thank him for that. Thank you, Swāmījī, for everything. Praṇām Swāmījī, dear brothers and sisters. It is difficult to describe thirty-three years in four minutes. I think it started much earlier. Even in kindergarten, I allegedly said I was vegetarian and did not like the food they gave me. I wanted to be vegetarian, but my parents said I could when I turned eighteen. I was deeply interested in what happens after death. Born in communist times to a teacher's family, religion was taboo. My father told me that when I die, my body would disintegrate and be eaten by worms. You can imagine my happiness when I found out it was different. My first big meeting with Swāmījī was in 1990. I started practicing yoga thinking it was just physical postures. The devotion of the yoga group in Martin was so deep that when I heard a bus was going to Vienna to meet Swāmījī, I joined. I did not really know who he was. We went to Śikaneḍrā. Swāmījī told us there is an eternal light on the altar, and whoever has a wish and thinks about it there will see it fulfilled. At that time, my sister was finalizing a divorce. I decided to test it and wished sincerely for them to reunite and not divorce. That is how Miracles in My Life started, and thanks to Swāmījī, they continue. Praṇām Viśvagurujī Swāmījī, praṇām Swāmījī, praṇām yoga brothers and sisters. I am only a thirty-four-year-old disciple, but I have had my thirty-fifth Guru Pūrṇimā. That is why I wish to say a few sentences. It will be sweet, for the love for my Gurudev and the Guru Tattva is so strong in my heart. I believe it is the most important principle in the universe. Thanks to God that the Guru is here. When I received my mantra from Swāmījī, he wrote it on a small paper and said, "Repeat after me." It was so powerful. This was a precious gift for me, and not only for me, but for all people. I have had the opportunity to visit India four times. It was a golden time, especially during the beginning of the Om Ashram building. When Swāmījī wrote my mantra on that paper, it was such a precious gift. I think of it every time I repeat the mantra. The whole world came together, and now the Om Ashram is ready. It is truly beautiful, and I was so happy there. In Hungary, we founded the Yoga in Daily Life association in 1995 with Yogīrāj and many devoted bhaktas. This association is still working nicely. I was a lawyer then. A very beautiful situation occurred when Swāmījī came to my house. There were many of us, perhaps twenty people from Yugoslavia. It was a great opportunity for my father to meet Swāmījī; he passed away the next day. That was a great Guru Kṛpā. We are moving to a super-condensed version with just a few sentences. I was a very small child and already did some āsanas. My father taught me and was very proud. Then my mother brought me a yoga book when I was thirteen, but it had to be returned. I stopped practicing after a few months, afraid I would not do well. Later, I went to a yoga camp in southern Hungary and met a vegetarian named Mir. He had a guru, but I did not feel I should follow him. I stopped again for a couple of years. I looked here and there, went to this church and that church. I attended a bioenergy lecture where Ārunī, Āpāyana’s wife, was present. During the break, she said she practices yoga and has a guru who was coming the next week. My story takes three times longer to tell than it happened. From that time on, I have been coming. Many thanks to Gurudev that I could study Ayurveda in India for over six years. It was a truly great experience. Pranām Svāmijī, pranām sānyāsinī, pranām guru bhrātṛ, guru sestrī. Brothers and sisters, everyone at work knew I practiced yoga. I placed a picture of Mahāprabhujī with his cap in my office. My boss asked, "Who is this guy?" I said, "It's my grandfather." He replied, "Yeah, you look alike." We had two cows. As a child, I walked and drove with the herd, which was over two kilometers long. Mahāprabhujī also looked after cows, and so did I—a small detail. When I was six, we had two cows and one calf. As a student, I learned about autogenic training from a book sent from Brno. I went to the library and read that a book titled Yoga: From Old India to Today would be published in 1970. I heard on the radio about this book, bought it, and immediately started doing Jalaneti and Śīrṣāsana. My wife said, "Look, your legs are shaking in Śīrṣāsana." In Czechoslovakia, Lakṣmīnārāyaṇ Lāḍiyānācek said, "You are athletes, you don’t drink, you don’t smoke, you should have a week off with yoga." She gave me a recommendation. It was 1983. We went, and it was a Spartan education. A ninety-year-old skiing yoga instructor, the oldest in Czechoslovakia at the time, recommended I attend a seminar. In 1983, I went. The conditions were simple; we collected wheat, etc. I was advised to speak briefly, so I will cut it short. There was mauna from dinner until breakfast. You will laugh: after three days, scouts camped next to us. We went to their camp for water. They would greet us, "Good morning, good evening," and we would just smile or nod because we could not speak. They thought we were deaf. When I left that program—led by Czech instructors, including Vašek Hošek who taught us Katupranām, not by Swāmījī—I drove my Soviet Zhiguli car and felt like I was flying. I was a pilot, and I felt great. I thought, "I will practice this every day," and I wanted to get to know the bearded author of this exercise. Since I must finish, I will add that yoga filled my whole life. One more funny story: when a doctor operated on my veins, I gave him a whole lecture on vegetarianism and lifestyle. He enjoyed it and said he would follow my advice. In the evening, he came to me in pain. I told him, "I am a yogī, I have to hold on to something." The next day, they took my blood and immediately took me for surgery. About fourteen days later at the check-up, the same doctor told me, "Pane, Svāmījī actually saved my life. I had a colonoscopy, and they found a serious issue, so they had to operate immediately." He later told me that yoga saved me, otherwise I would have died. These things cannot be expressed in words. Viśvagurujī, thank you, thank you, thank you. Have a good time. A little longer, but now a possibility: two in one, how to be brief. Two yogīs from Kutná Hora will show us. I was authorized by my wife to speak for both of us. Hari Om Viśvagurujī, Hari Om yoga friends. Our journey with Viśvagurujī started in 1991 in Kopřivnice. But I think we all have a destiny. Our connection started about a year earlier, connected to worries about our children's health. We have two boys, then aged four and seven, who had severe eczema. My wife, a pediatrician, found it difficult to treat despite consulting Western medicine. Destiny led us to a natural healer. We were surprised he knew everything about our boys' medical history and my wife's issues. We discovered there is an energy we cannot feel with our senses. He also guided us to treat the disease through nourishment, a big discovery. When we told this to Vyraž, she said, "That's nothing. I know someone who knows the past, present, and future." We wondered who that was. So, as a family, we went to Kopřivnice in 1991. From today's perspective, we set off as complete strangers, with a box filled with schnitzel, eating a lot of meat because we did not know what awaited us. During that week, we became vegetarian. Viśvagurujī turned our lives upside down. We returned home, threw everything out of our fridge, and started living as Swāmījī instructed. This was difficult for our relatives to digest. My mother thought we had joined a sect. Step by step, she realized it was not the case and eventually supported us. Viśvagurujī and yoga gave us an answer to the question of life's meaning. We feel we are better now, and our children are better. My grandchild, vegetarian since birth, has the potential to be even better. At the beginning of the seminar, Gurujī shared a beautiful vision. I understood that after our third birth, the world will change so that animals are not killed. I hope it comes sooner. I wish that as Swāmījī transforms us into better human beings, we can carry his teachings to others so they may become better too. Hari Om. I first met Swāmijī in Tuchelská Tuplice in 1989. There was a list for mantra; I signed, but Swāmijī called and said, "Next time, not now." In February 1990, Swāmijī came quickly to Ljubljana. At the first seminar, Swāmijī said, "Make three wishes, and they will come true." Thank God there were three, because two were worldly wishes, and the third, as Swāmijī said, "What we should make," was spiritual. I came to yoga in the 1980s, practicing from Van Lysebeth's book. At a course, they told us about a yoga seminar at Kopna and that we could go. I missed it; it was not the right time, though I still feel sorry. I married and had three children. Before my third child was born, I started attending yoga classes again. They told us about a lecture in Zlín in 1990. My friend and I decided to go. Fortunately or unfortunately, the lecture started an hour later. It was beautiful, divine, and great. I realized then that I had always known Swāmijī. They also said mantra would be given. As I was still breastfeeding and it was late, I had to leave. I deeply wished for a mantra, even without knowing what it was. My friend stayed, and I asked her to take it for me, but she did not. This was a blessing, as I received the mantra next time and was much better prepared. I will tell a story about my youngest son. In kindergarten, he asked for a sausage. I told him that if he started eating sausages, he would never become a great yogī. He stopped eating meat and, despite pressure from kindergarten teachers, never touched it again. This is evidence of how one sentence can change everything. My life has been diverse, with ups and downs. It is a blessed life under the guidance of the Satguru Dev. Eternal thank you, and eternally yours. We have listened to beautiful stories showing that if there is a will, God will always find us; there is always divine guidance. We will see what further instructions come from Viśvagurujī regarding continuing these stories, as we still have some gifts left. Hari Om. Did you have a happy and good time listening? We have so many workings and bhajans open. What we have done and are doing now is very good. This is a time when many people come from other paths and begin to practice yoga. But many people who practice still eat meat. We have come very far; we are vegan and do not harm animals. Yet, some people come to India or are here and still think about eating meat. This is one side. We must live Yoga in Daily Life. We will come together with our children, guiding them nicely. We are doing, and will continue to do, this work. We all are. We have not done harm to animals or eaten meat. There may be some people with us who still eat meat. That is one point. Second, we have to learn and think about our path. When you marry, both girls and men, you must want what we want to do. If you want to have very happy, good children, and we are all very good, I will tell you something. I want to know: when, how, which day, where, etc. We will speak about marriage. If it is good, and when and how it will be, we must take from within ourselves what is very good. Then you will manage, you will be very good, your children will be good, your wife will be the best, your husband will be very good, and your whole life will be good. I am consulting from India, and they will tell exactly when you should marry or not marry, and what time, and so on.