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This is a beautiful place, especially because we have God here. That is very beautiful and very good. Everything we need is here; we can have it all. This place has become like this, so it is the place. It is here all the time; it is their place. It is like when we come here, the water comes only here. On the other side, there... here, everything... so that it is not from coming here, nor does it go in. So it is every help for us. That’s why we see the flowers and everything. So you knew that already, or you knew that this is only for us—all, everything. For that, it is one of the best places here. There are only two places: one is here, and the other is from there, far away. So everywhere, in the whole world, there were only these two: this one and one other. For how many years I have been here, and everything was very clean and very nice. We can sleep anywhere. We can sleep here; someone sleeps there; he’s there. All, there is no problem. Anything is here. Many people are sleeping, just like clothes, and sleep at night. The water is coming all here from far away, from there. And from that water comes from there, here, here, and it’s going down. It was very clean, but after some time, here, they have done everything. Something deep inside, and now it is not good. But now we will again clean it very nicely. I will tell you. From here, how many people from which countries are there? They are coming here and sitting here. So this is that holy place, holy. So whatever it is, we are here, and you will see that we get very much energy. All our friends, we are all, and how they are always speaking and doing many things—they are very happy that you are there. Here he had his seat; he sat here. There used to be a big tree here. Just here, in the middle of the meadow, there used to be a big tree. And Gurujī was sitting here very nicely. Here in this place, there was only that one tree, that very tree. Now, something happened, and it broke like this. Then from here, we said we want to have some two or three trees here. But then, from this, they don’t want to have so many trees. Only one it will be. We will again take here from here. It is a holy tree. We all will come to this here, and we go always, you know, that we were going round and round. We were walking. For many years, this here was broken; otherwise, the people were going round and round, everybody. In the morning, they come here and they go round and round off to this here. This everything, of course, it is ours, but it is government help. And the government says nothing, not taking other than for this only one tree, many of these. We have so many people, so they are all sleeping there. There is a sleeping there, there is a sleeping there, it is sleeping here, that side and those. They don’t want to see this back in the other place, the hospital, or any other kind of thing. It is spirituality in here. You know that you are here from where you were placed. Do you know from how many different places you had to travel? We even had someone from Australia. How far is Australia from here? America, and from all the different countries. How did it come to this? And that is because of the earth here. And our Mahāprabhujī was here. You have the picture of our Mahāprabhujī. And we can show you our holy Gurujī. So we all, we are just like this, not many good things, and then, and that, always we are very happy. So you will be here in place. If someone has problems or something, it will go out. Many days come to me and say, "I cannot go there like this." And I say, no, no, it will be. Just I think of Mahāprabhujī in our area, and when people come here... People are telling not only me, I am very full of the... Full of the... motion. Motion, yes. And people who come here say how deeply it touches them when they come here. So we will do something, okay? And so we can do something here. Śrī Dīp Nayan Bhagavān kī Jai! Dev Purī Samādeva kī Jai! Mahāprabhujī kī Jai! Satya Sanātana Jai! And people who have come to my ashram. I have been with you many times. I am very happy to meet you. Here in Rajasthan, you have come and made my mandir, right? Yes. You have made a very big mandir. Mr. Amarjī thinks there is a big mandir. Gurujī has a big mandir there, and Swāmījī was there also, and they are like brothers. Yeah, very good. Amarjeet, his master, has a big temple in India, and Swāmījī was also invited there, and they are like brothers. So, it’s been two or three days since you’ve been here. You have a lot of love for us. It’s very good. We are all your brothers. Abhyāmārvāyin Abhyābhuvāyī. Swamiji said, you understand, okay. Swamiji said he is, Mr. Amarji thinks he is like a brother, and we are his brothers and sisters, so we are one family. And he is also at home here. And because Vishwagurujī is my brother and we are like a family, we are all here as brothers and sisters. We are all here as a big family. It’s been a long time, and I’m very happy that I met Swamiji when I was a teenager. To find, I think, a guru while you are still young. It’s never too late, but it’s best when you are still not completely formed. The reason I was looking... one day I woke up after having a good time with my friends. One day I woke up thinking, "Yeah, this is all fine." This is great, having fun. But at the end of it, there is the inevitable: we die. Everything ends. And being brought up, like many of us in these Eastern countries, the whole family was quite materialistic. That was the end of it. So I wanted to understand, is there something beyond? Is there something that’s really beyond that inevitability? And I started to search for it. Actually, I made a bet with myself that I will put my life on it, because otherwise it doesn’t make sense. So I just went into a library and started to read, you know, if there is anyone that already knows, perhaps. And after some search, I realized that I need a teacher. I need someone who has walked that path, so that they can show me the path. Because if it’s reachable, if one can reach it, someone must have reached it already. So we are looking for someone credible, not for words, not for paper, Bibles, papers, or any scriptures, but someone who is real. And Swamiji was that for me, and for all of us, I think. So the reason, actually, why we need a guru and why this whole paramparā is, is because it’s not enough that somebody just learns it from scriptures or all of these great yoga, Āyurveda. It’s not enough to learn it from scriptures, from paper. One has to live it. And there’s an interesting mantra in the scriptures I really like, because the yogic scriptures are quite funny sometimes, very straight. It’s not just flowers, but very straight sometimes. It’s just a tiny, born out from a tiny little seed. Smaller than a mustard seed. They can survive everywhere, on the highest rock, you know, where there’s nothing else; a banyan tree could survive. They are just a tiny seed, but if you put that seed in the earth, it will not grow. So this śloka says, actually, that how it will grow is actually by the crows, by the birds. They eat the seed, they digest it, and then they drop it. It’s a funny statement, but actually what it means is that one has to digest it, you know, before it can grow into that large tree. So that means that we need someone who has walked that path, who understands it, who has digested it, and can give this to us so that the tree can grow. This is how I got to Swamiji, and actually it also had a funny part, because it was my mother who pointed me to Yoga in Daily Life. That was the only yoga we had, you know, in Hungary back then. There’s nothing else, actually. So you could open the phone book looking for yoga. It’s yoga in daily life. And by then I had trained myself, you know, how a guru should look and what he should know. So, poor Jagadish Purī, who was the teacher in that center, you know, I went there and I asked him, after, you know, after the first Sarvahitā Āsanas, "So, do you have a guru?" Yes. And I said, "OK, can he stop the rain?" Yes. "Would he be able to take me beyond this bodily understanding?" Yes. But could he really show this to me? So I really must have looked crazy. I was. But then, funny thing, just three weeks later, we were in a yoga camp where nobody told us that Swāmījī would come, because at that time it was risky. So at the border, you know, in the communist countries, they could refuse, and many times actually they refused visas, you know, so it was not so easy back then. He didn’t know that Swāmījī would come there, because at that time it wasn’t so easy to come to that country. They didn’t have to let you go to the border, or they didn’t even give you a visa many times. It was 1989, and suddenly it worked. So we were just talking with some yoga friends there, and suddenly a car stopped just a couple of half a meter from where I was standing. And people jumped, opened the door, Swamiji got out of the car, I was there, looked into my eyes, and I knew I had found what I was looking for. He looked so deep into me with that simple glance that I never looked that deep into myself. I never dared. And I don’t know, some of—actually, I know some are here that were there at that time. So we lived in tents. We had large tents, actually. Even the satsaṅg was in a large tent. And it was raining. It was raining. But really heavy, heavy raining, and we had a satsaṅg. We were in tents, so we had no way to go to the tents even. Someone must have told this to Swamiji, because many went there, you know, telling Swamiji that, "Hey, how are we going to go to our tents?" So actually, I’ve never seen Swāmījī, but then he took the drum and he started, "Okay, we’ll stop the rain now." And he started singing Śrī Devapurījī Śaṅkara. You know this mantra? So he started to sing this, and suddenly you could hear the rain stop. And then this is how it was, right? You remember? And then Swamījī said, "OK, people, now you have five minutes to get to your tents." And Swamiji said, "Now you have five minutes to get to your tents, because otherwise you would be washed away." Five minutes to get to your tents. I remember running to the tents, zipping it, and then the rain started the whole night. And all my other stupid, maybe I don’t want to take the time, but actually also my other stupid questions were answered that week. Not only this stupid question, but all other stupid questions were answered. Swamiji taught us some techniques. We were there, those 200 people. How many of us were there? Some of us had memories of past lives, but I don’t want to talk about it. The journey was crazier than I was. So, thank you, really, Swamiji, for every minute that you are giving us. Incredible. So, thank you. And countries, yes? Yeah, I could have, I mean, I could tell stories, you know. Luckily, I have been blessed. Swamiji visited me when I was in Dubai, we lived in Dubai with the family, and I was blessed with his visit in Dubai. I could serve him in that sense. We’ve been in Nepal before everyone joined, quite severe circumstances, and it... It was so beautiful, and the ways I would—I got this blessing that would be another novel. Each of them is so beautiful and so unbelievable; the stories are like a dream, but a true one. Maybe another on another occasion. So, thank you so much. Yoga philosophy is very straight. Either this or nothing. And this also, Śrī Dīpnā Mahāprabhujī described in one bhajan. That he says, "You’ve forgotten yourself. What calamity." And he gives many examples, like looking in the mirror. A child believes that he sees some other child, and this child gets confused. And the dog also, coming in the mirror, he barks, and he thinks there are many dogs, and he barks and he barks because he sees only his own reflection, and he dies in these turbulences. There is also a lion who looks into the water well. Seeing his own reflection, he is confused and thinks that the face in the well is another lion, and he dies in it. With the help of our Guru Dev, find out what is your true form. Then you will understand what is this world, and who am I, and where God lives. Between the water and the ocean, the water in some pot, there is no difference. Swami Deep says, in the same way, the Guru is one with the Brahman. Āthak ko pisārān diyā, sitam ġazab kī bāt hai. Jaise svapnam bhūpako, āpam man svapna hūā. Māna beta, rank par vo bhūpāhi par bāt hai... Aap ko bisra diya, sitam gazab ki baat hai. Aapa ko bisra diya, sitam gazab ki baat hai. Darpan mein mukh dekh balak, dusra wo manata. Darpan mein mukh dekh balak, sura wo manata. Bisra diya sitam, gazab ki baat hai. Pukar jaise kaach ke melo me ja kar bhukta, maanata mein ho rahi tarab tarab mar jaat hai. Bisra diya sitam, gazab ki baat hai. Sindh dekhe koop aapno hi bool ke. Sindh dekhe koop me no hi bool, Aam abhimana kar ke koop me par jaat he... Bisra diya sitam gazab ki baat, aap visra diya sitam gazab ki baat hai. Apne gurudev se satya rūp ki niśay karo... Jag koi me kona hu, Prabhu kī skarāt hai. Mekho Prabhu kī skarath hai. Pisrā sitam gazab kī bāt hai. Samundar ghat ke jālo me, bedā to hai bhī nahī. Samundar ghat ke jālo me. Beda to hai bhi nahī, Sītā Svāmī khet hai. Duru ek brahmata dāt hai, āpko bisrā diyā, sitam gazab kī bāt hai. Hari Om. You know that we, many of our very great, great disciples, are here with us. In many, many countries and many, many things. But this is one of them, and he has done something. So many, many people, they become... then what? Champions, yeah. And he will tell us very nicely about everyone, all, not a little, okay? And so, tell us something, and not just a little bit, tell us everything. Praṇām Swāmījī, thank you for the opportunity. Are you more friends? Praṇām Swāmījī, thank you for the opportunity, and dear friends. It’s my privilege, actually, to talk about this success that is coming through a special field of life. It is sports and athletes. And I was really thankful and grateful still that I could be part of this. But a short introduction for this, before this. I met Swamījī 30 years ago. And I was also looking for a leader, for a good trainer who would train me. Not physically, but psychically and spiritually. So it was my really great luck to meet Swamijī 30 years back, and that time in Hungary, in Debrecen, in my hometown. He came there this time, approximately at this time of the year, with Kulidži Kotari. At that time, actually, he was there in Hungary with Mr. Kulidži. And we had a lecture in Debrecen at the university, and then satsaṅg after. And within, I don’t know, a few months, I was a disciple. I got mantra diction also. And slowly, slowly, my whole family was involved. It was, you know, spreading quite a lot because in Debrecen we established an ashram that belongs to the community. It belongs to the yoga society. And it seems that it grew internationally because this year my sister had the opportunity to host Swāmījī in Sweden, and it was an inauguration of the first ashram, the first Yogī in the Life Ashram in Sweden. And from there it was transferred internationally, because this year my sister invited me to Sweden and founded the first āśram yogī in her life in Sweden. Before the success with the athletes, one important thing from my life, and that was, I had quite a serious problem. It was a cyst in my brain. It was in 2010, and I was operated on very urgently. I think it must have been the end of my life. And I felt that year, six months before, that my energies gradually, you know, were going from me. And at that time, I was not aware of this cyst in my head. But I felt tense every day, really, and I was just in such stress without reason. So finally, I got into the hospital. It was all of a sudden. I was in the hospital one evening, and in the morning, I was operated on the first day. And I can tell you, if there is no Gurū Dev’s blessing, I am not here now. He was giving me credit before for two years. I was loaded with so much karma yoga, I couldn’t stand, really. Really, I was overloaded. But I tried to push and push, and I was going on. But that was the real reason why it happened. Why did I get this blessing through karma yoga? I could remain. And after the operation, everything was OK, but my energy level was so low that for five months I was really just living from one day to another, one day to another, with no reservoir, nothing. I realized that it is my turn to do something, not from an outer support; I need something to do myself, although I was in a depletion of my energies. So I got the idea from Vivek Purūjī Mahārāj. Because of his troubled times, he was doing the real core pranayama and heart pranayama every day, and he said that it was so uplifting and so much building up his energies again. Because when he was going through his hard times, he said that he was doing prāṇāyāma every day and that it helped him to build up his inner energy. So I started to practice Prāṇāyāma, Nāḍī Śodhana, three and a half, let’s say. You know, I started Nāḍī Śodhan level three, and then slowly, slowly it went up to level four. And I started, and I was doing it every day for one hour. It was really the priority for me, because I felt that it is something for me. Within two weeks, I felt that yes, yes, now I started to come out. And I did it for three years, practicing every day for one hour. And really, I had so many experiences with this practice of our prāṇāyāma. In one year, I met one girl. She was the first athlete I worked with. And she is a swimmer. She was a swimmer, actually. Now she stopped swimming professionally. But for one year, we were working together in preparation for the London Olympics in 2012. Besides her training in the pool and the gym and whatever, it was quite a support for her. We had nice stretchings from Yoga in Daily Life, āsanas. We utilized stretching through āsanas, yogīs in daily life. Great, great relaxation. And excellent and special breath exercises for her. And also, sometimes, some yogic—not literature, but some yogic knowledge about how life is and how things are according to yoga and according to yoga wisdom. So she was really doing her trainings heavily and thoroughly and regularly, you know, it is an Olympic Games, so it is not just a play. And she succeeded in winning the Olympic gold medal. And it is, yes, it sounds great and it is great. But, you know, before this success, she had only second and third places in her career, in her sport. And after this success, she didn’t really have any good results. I mean, such great results. I remember that that year, it was, you know, this swimming competition, it was in August 2012. And I remember in March, I had a little meditation and prayer. I mean, every day I have, but I had. And I remember, of course, every day, but then I remember that in March 2012, I was actually in my prayer and meditation. But that time, it was one occasion, and I was inside, kind of meditation, let’s say. And I asked Mahāprabhujī, "Please, she is this silver girl." And I know that she has some blocks in her face, in her destiny. But I asked Mahāprabhujī, please, just remove it. If nothing else, but for that occasion. So this is actually, without this, I don’t think that she could manage. Next year, I also had one possibility to work with one guy. He was a special player, a special sports athlete in tennis, and he’s a deaf guy. He couldn’t hear, and his trainer came to me. A few months before his special Olympics, and it is called the Deaflympics, Olympics for hearing problems, for deaf people. And we were working, and yoga, and stretching, and this and that. It was great. But I couldn’t find the real point of how to push him to be really just the best. And finally, I taught him many things, you know, āsanas, prāṇāyām, relaxation, whatever. But at one point, I realized that his main path is prāṇāyām. Because with this prāṇāyāma, he could—it is a special way of prāṇāyāma that we found for him—and with this, he could direct his concentration, and plus, his energy system was really quite much increased. So during the match, he could have time, you know, minute by minute, actually, to gain advancement compared to the opponent. And so he collected the gold medal that year in the Olympics without losing a set. And he, last year, you know, it was the next Deaflympics, he lost, he had some illness, so he couldn’t properly manage his competition. But the next one was last year. And he’s already quite old for this sport, let’s say old, you know, he was at that time 37 years of age. And he managed to be in second place, so he won the silver medal. With the help of my mother, who helped him with the preparation. And also, he told me after this competition that in every match, he used that prāṇāyāma that we found for him eight years back. I am a little bit angry at the Czech people because the first one was a Czech guy. He was young and strong, and so he won the competition. I also had the luck two years ago to have another athlete, and his sport is canoe. He is quite young still. This year, he is going to be... Twenty-three years ago, he managed to collect the gold medal in a canoe pair in marathon. It is a long distance. It was a European Championship, and it is also quite a noble prize as well, a continent prize. And I was really amazed because this year he changed his distance, and from marathon he went back to 2,000 m. And it is really, you know, because your muscles are different for marathon and different for 1,000 m. And he managed to collect the bronze medal in the World Championships. So it is really a great... It was this year, actually, two years before the European champion. And this year, he collected the bronze medal in the World Championship. And one more, it is special, it is not an Olympic sport. But it was a lady, and she was competing in the first Hungarian hexathlon. Maybe you heard about this hexathlon. It was a TV show, actually, but sports, and we prepared. And we prepared her a little bit before this competition. Breathing exercises, relaxation, mental focus, and concentration. And it was really not so straight for her, but she managed to win this competition. And it wasn’t that easy for him, but he managed to win the competition. All those successes, I personally take it so that my own experiences with yoga and meditation are just limited. But I think without Swamiji’s blessing and Mahāprabhujī’s blessing from behind, from, you know, invisible, you know, somehow, because I was not consulting with Swamiji about which exercises we should do for him or for her, but somehow this support I always felt. And these are really, really, you know, because we know we are here, we are one family of yoga, and we know what it means for us to be here in this place where Holy Gurujī was, where Swāmījī is, and I hope for many years he is going to be here also. And you know, we are in it, so we perceive it, that we are a big yoga family. We are now here in the place where we have Holy Gurujī, where we have Swāmījī, and we hope that Swāmījī will be here for many more years. For us, it is quite evident that we find here something that is really, really unbelievable, and you cannot really express it. As Niranjan Purī said, yes, rain or stop rain or this or that, everything is possible. And for us, it is okay; it is quite evident. No, but for this world, again, those gold medals mean something. If you then say that thanks to Joseph, actually, someone grew up to gold medals, then for the darker world, this has value, this means something. And if I may say something different from the sport, Swamiji, I can share with you the experience from today’s lunch. We had a discussion with Madhujī from Zagreb, who is basically now living in Sydney. And so, if I may say something, today at lunch we talked to Madhu, and she said that she has such crazy, unbelievable experiences with people with chronic diseases, how they practice yoga and how it helps them. And sometimes even the physical body, it is painful and it is not properly. And sometimes they have physical pain; their physical body doesn’t work. But thanks to that, they find inner peace. And I hope you don’t know what a chronic disease is. Because it is not like you broke your arm and in four weeks or six weeks you are okay. It is really years of suffering. It can be years of suffering, and it is eating up your energies, your mental state, and everything. But really, with yoga, you have such a composition. You are composed somehow from inside. And I think the world needs yoga in its life.