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Bhavati tam triguṇarahitam, Satguru tam namāmya, Om, Śānti, Śānti,... Bhavatu, Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavānkī, Deveśwar Mahādevkī, Satguru Swāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavānkī, Satya Sanātan Dharmakī. Salutation to the Cosmic Light, Lord of our hearts, Omniscient and Omnipresent, in His Divine Presence. Good evening, dear brothers and sisters. It is a blessing of the Supreme One that this evening we are here together. Welcome, all of you. My prayer to the Almighty is for your well-being physically, mentally, spiritually, and socially, and I pray for your spiritual development. Yoga is the science of body, mind, consciousness, and soul. The life of the human is very mysterious. Human life is the life through which a human can realize God. It is a human who understands what God is. It is a human who realized God. It is a human who leads their life positively, sāttvic, balanced, harmonious, and spiritual. Through the human body, through the human mind and intellect, a human is capable of coming to know, "Who am I?" This means self-realization. Ādiguru Bhagavān Śaṅkarācārya said: I am not this body, I am not this mind, nor this intellect, and I am not this soul. Soul is individual; soul is victim of the karma. But I am the Ātmā. Ātmā is universal; Ātmā is eternal. Soul and ātmā are different. Ātmā is free from karma. Ātmā is not born and will not die. Born is the soul from the very beginning in this universe. The individual soul is fluttering on the waves of Time, sometimes through darkness and sometimes through the light, experiencing happiness and unhappiness, creating attachment or relations and separating again. It continues its endless journey with one search: Who am I? Where do I belong? I would like to be there. The knowledge of the self, ātmā-jñāna, completes the human's journey into eternal peace and light. As long as ātmā-jñāna, Self-realization, is not there, this soul will continue its journey from one life to other lives, experiencing pain and pleasure. The Creator has created 8.4 million different creatures. Out of them, one is the human. Humans have got the most powerful tool to work for realization; that's called buddhi, intellect. The intellect of the human needs right education, free thinking, following the path of non-violence, forgiving all, and love for the entire creation. Sabhi prāṇī merī ātmā hai—all living beings are myself, my ātmā. Ātmā sohī paramātmā—that ātmā is the supreme one. Human beings need the right education, not only this education from school, college, and university. School, university, college—this is an education for your existence here, for your bread and butter. It doesn't matter which kind of titles and profession you have; you are working to survive here. But the education which is beyond all this, the first is the education of mother and father, the parents' education. No one can replace the love of the parents. Nowhere. Mother knows what her child means. Father knows what means for me, my child, and my dharma, my duty towards my children. Children need both parents. It is violence to separate from your partner if you have children. And that violence means pāp, sin. That violence will create that kind of karma which will let you suffer some lives to pay back. Therefore, it is said, before getting children, before getting married, you should know. We are human, and we know what it means. The second education is that cultural education. Every country around the world has a beautiful culture. Where there's a human, there's a culture. Where there's a culture, there's a human. Culture is a beauty and part of human life. Culture doesn't remain in one place; it is constantly moving, traveling with humans. I came to Australia 30 years ago. This year is the 30-year anniversary, exactly the day which day I am here. Before 30 years, I experienced here Christmas and New Year, beautiful cultures. But I brought some part, a glimpse of Indian culture, with me while traveling. The Australian who comes to India, they bring the Australian culture. Europeans, Africans, South Americans, and so on. Intercultural understanding and respect towards culture make human life beautiful and happy. If there is a conflict between cultures, human life becomes miserable. Wars, fighting, hate, terrorism, and what not. This is because respect is missing between the cultures. Who are we to say that culture is not good? How do we know? Culture is beautiful. But we are not only discriminating against cultures, but destroying the environment too. Someone said, "Every culture is good culture, but the best culture is agriculture." And agriculture... God Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad Gītā, Varaṇa Śaṅkara, Arjuna, in the Kali Yuga, all will become Varaṇa Śaṅkara. And that will be, especially for the humans, a very hard and destructive time. Varaṇa Śaṅkara means the purity is lost. Manipulating fruits, manipulating the vegetables, animals, grains, everything. The real quality is missing among humans too. And therefore, there are different thoughts and different feelings. If we respect the culture and Mother Nature, there is no need to change the seeds. I don't know how far the truth is. I'm only telling what I heard a few weeks ago. There was one lady, and she was allergic to fish. So she gave up eating fish, which is a blessing. But besides this, she became vegetarian. But one day, what happens? She had an allergy. She was ill, and she went to the doctors, and they made a blood test. They asked if she's allergic to something. She said, "Yes, to fish." "What did you eat the last three days, four days?" he said. "Tomato juice and this." Then they said, "Yes, tomatoes are also manipulated with the fish genetically, the tomatoes too." Where was the need of doing this for beautiful tomatoes? Now in my salad, tomato comes, my... Inner self said, "Don't eat my tomatoes. I like to eat tomatoes. I like to drink the juice of tomatoes." But since I heard this, I don't know which fish is inside. So they gave her medicine, and she became healthy. Likewise, many experiments are going on in this world, which are not necessary at all. We don't respect Mother Nature, we don't respect God. Only our ego, that I study, I became some scientist or whatever you call it, and I can do this, mix the mango with the... but what can they do with the mango, peaches? Pure mango is missing. Therefore, we see in the world the conflict. We are looking how to solve the conflict and what they call global warming or climate change. Humans can change the climate in a good way, or humans can change the climate in a bad way. Climate will always change; it has been constantly changing since creation. Look, now we are sitting in such harmony. It is a good climate now. No one is against anyone, no fighting, no boxing, nothing. We are sitting like one family, with love and understanding. Similarly, the climate of the human mind changes the external climate because humans have lost the way or aim of life. Therefore, the second education is spiritual education. Spiritual education is the major part of human life. Human means spirituality. Human is spiritual. Human life, human birth. The education and love of the parents—your parents, children don't need your money, they need your wisdom. And children don't need your toys, they need your love. Putra śāputra to kyā dhanasanche, or putra kāputra to kyā dhanasanche. If your children are good, you need not collect money or anything for them; they will earn themselves. They will work. Or if they are spoiled, abused, or drugged, and all this—whatever you will earn and save, your money—it will be destroyed. These are the words of the wise people researching after, but it is in humans' and also in animals' nature: "For my children, this money for a house for my children, this and that." They made a big, beautiful house, one couple, and two rooms for children, bathrooms, a playroom for children, a room for them, a kitchen, and this. The children are grown, 17, 18 years. One daughter is in Africa, the son is in America, and the granddaughter is somewhere else, old. A couple sitting in this big house, even they are not capable to clean the house. Spiritual education, and spiritual education says you should remain near your parents. Family. Joint family. And when there is a joint family, there will be no conflict, no fighting, and no varaṇasaṅkara. In the family, there is love and harmony. So human life, the beauty of human life, the dignity of human life, is spirituality. And that kind of spirituality is what we call not only religion. If religion, then, should be full of respect, tolerance, and understanding. I fight for my religion, I tell you that's not good, that's not good, follow me. He fights for his religion, she fights for her religion, they fight for that religion. That's it. God is saying, "Look, the humans are tearing me into many, many pieces. There is only one God. There is only one truth. That truth will remain ever. Evidence will never die." Spiritual education through your pandits, priests, and the third: Education of the Satguru, Dev, the saints. And fourth: reading the scriptures from different cultures, philosophies, religions. Equal vision. Sant means samadṛṣṭi. Equal. But this can only come if you have a burning desire in your heart to know, "Who am I?" Ko'ham. Who am I? I am not the soul. I am not this body. I am not this intellect. But I am Ātmā. Ko'ham katham? From where do I come? Okay, this physical body was born, my body in India, I'm coming from India, but that is... Śaṅkarācārya is not searching that answer; he doesn't search my passport, where I was born. But the ātmā, this ātmā, from where did it come? Your soul, in your last life, where have you been? Perhaps you are again in some other culture, but in your last life you were there, and before that, somewhere else. We do not have evidence from our past. And where am I going? Why did I come? Where am I going now? Everyone is going—someone by train, by car, by aeroplane, by rockets, and what not. We don't know where we are going. Every day we are in a hurry. This morning, since six o'clock, I was preparing myself to come to Sydney. Hurry, hurry. Before yesterday was hurry, day before yesterday hurry. We are running. Streets are full of cars, traffic, air traffic. It is very hard to stop this human. And why did I come here? What was the purpose of my human life? Why didn't God make me some other creature or mother nature? Why is this soul born in this body? And where will I go? I know tomorrow I'm going to Fiji, then I'm going to India. Then I'm going to Kumbh Melā. Not this. After this life, did you reserve a hotel there? Did you send a telegram? Now nobody is thinking of telegrams. Telegram technology is finished, nearly. Now the SMS, always SMS. We don't know where we will go. For this is the purpose of human life: to know thyself and liberate thyself from the cycle of birth and death. Whether you believe it or not, there will be birth again. Believe that will not change reality. No philosophy, no politics, no religion can change the reality, and that is, whether I believe or not, next life I will be sitting somewhere else. I don't know, in the Australian bush or somewhere else, in an African jungle wild safari as a lion, or an elephant, or a giraffe, and a kangaroo now. We have a possibility, a chance still; we can do something. If not, then at least in that next life, we should be born again as a human and continue our journey. The education which you get from parents. A few months ago, some of my disciples gave me a little booklet, about 35 pages. And he wrote this something in memory of his mother. His mother was 95 years old. And her mother said, his mother said something to him, and he put her picture on, I think, on the cover page, and he wrote what she told him. I liked it very much, I liked it very much, so I think I... Told a thousand times to the people, Mother said, "My dear, all mothers who are sitting here, you feel that what I am telling, maybe the fathers feel a little less." Mother said, "My son, when you were born, when first time you breathed in, mother was beside you, true, when first time." You inhale, mother was there, and now children, your duty when the mother's last breath, mother is there, you should be present, not nice. Mother can never be bad, mother and father too, please. So spirituality, we need not search somewhere else. In your house, there is spirituality. With your wife, with your husband, you have spirituality. Don't marry only just for emotional love. But it is said, wife and husband, they are two wings of the bird to fly. Similarly, if you are not at that level of spirituality where you renounce and become a sanyāsī, a sādhu, and when you become a sādhu, then you have no right to go home anymore. Only once, go and ask your mother for alms. Vikṣā, that's all. Then no more grandchildren, no more grand-grandchildren, no mother, no father. Yes, if they are in need, mother or father, you can help them. That's it. Tyāga. Because for a sanyāsī, the entire world is his or her parents. The whole world is my family. The sky is my roof, and the earth is my bed. And what I see in Australia, many people become sannyāsīs, but they don't know what it is. So, if you are so far in your consciousness, it means you don't hate them. It means you don't love them. They are yours, and you are theirs. But you live now for all. You don't live for one limited family. If not this, then you are right for marriage. If you don't marry, it's called your life is half. When you marry, your life is completed. It. English word you said, "marries." What a beautiful word, "marries." What does that mean? Merge. That's it. Merge into one place. After you cannot separate. You try to separate, you did, but karmic, you cannot separate anymore. And it's hard work sometimes for one partner to understand the other partner. It's a life, family life. Sometimes there is some kind of disturbance. It doesn't matter. You decided, you spoke in front of the pundit, or friend of the priest, or in the, what you call, in the court, that I... "Yes, I am your husband, or my wife, where are your words gone?" Great Tulsidas! That is the tradition of the Raghu Kula, the humans, that you have to keep your words. A promise is a promise. Don't break your promise. The beauty is inside the heart. Therefore, spirituality is the major part of human life. Family can be very spiritual, very spiritual. And you are lucky that your wife is supporting you. And you are lucky that your husband is supporting you. And you are lucky that your children follow your sweet words and instructions. And children are happy that they have such great parents like you. Then in the world there will be peace and harmony, love and understanding, and brotherhood. Practice, spirituality, yoga exercises, what you are doing here or there is okay. It's very good for your health, good for your digestion, good for your back muscles, good for your ligaments, and it's good for your lungs and good for your brain, oxygen and prāṇāyāma. Good against the stress, you lie down and you feel very good, and sit down and meditate. Yes, I am happy, but that is not all. How long will you keep your body? How long? Limited. Everyone who was born, that time was already fixed. And we cannot prolong that. Unless we pray, lead a very sāttvic, meaning pure, life, and have less stress, fewer quarrels, and less sadness in the heart. It is said if one is sad, then healthy tissues die. And if one is happy, again they regenerate. Therefore, why are you unhappy? Let come and let go. That's it. Nothing shall touch you. You are yourself, Ātmā. May Mera Nijaapahoo, Tatva Masi Nirmoye, Karta Hum Vandana, Meri Bhoj Kohoye, My Ātmā, Myself. And all are Myself. Not, means not my body or not my soul, but all are my ātmā, and I am the ātmā of all. Father, mother, brother, sisters, neighbors, my house pets, all birds, they are all ātmā inside, the light of God. Then it is called self-realization. Ādi Guru Śaṅkarācārya said the first realization, the first step of self-realization, is that you see yourself in everyone. In the Bhagavad Gītā, Kṛṣṇa also tells Arjuna, "I am in everyone." I am in the dog, I am in the buffalo, I am in the elephant, and I am in every human, in everyone. Where am I not? In one school, one teacher asked the children. The children were about 10 years old. The teacher said, "I got $10 in my pocket. I have one question. Who will answer correctly? I will give them a present." So children were sitting, yes, sir. He put the question. Tell me, where is God? So every young child knows something from their parents. Some said in my mother, some said in my father, some said in my church, some said in the temple, in the ashram, some said in the moon, and new flowers opening up. And one child was sitting, and still he's thinking and looking at the teacher. Teacher said, "What about you? You didn't answer anything." He said, "Sir, I'm waiting for others' answers." After the teacher asked him, he stood up and said, "Sir, I'm sorry that I don't have $10 in my pocket. But still, I ask you the question. One day when I have ten dollars, I will give you a present. Tell me, please, where is there no God?" This is it, but your parents are doing yoga in their life. So, where is no God? Oh God, beautiful in the mountains, in the forest, in the river, in the desert, in the ocean, in animals, in me, everywhere. So we are one. We should not go against, but this is a spiritual education. So all exercises are very good, but try to open your eyes. She wants to go home, no? Yes, all right, so I will give you one prasād, okay? Perhaps you would like the fig? Give him the chocolate. Chocolate, open. Ah, sorry. No, no,... but children have priority. We are on the list for retirement. Come, what is your name? Come, take it for you, yeah? Very good. Okay, all the best to you. So many things will happen in our life, good and bad, but the most terrible tragedy which will happen may be that one will die, or we will die, without self-realization. Self-realization means to know God and to know everyone's heart. We in the hearts of all, God is everywhere. And that's a way to peace, world peace, that's a way to nature, and that is the solution also, what they call climate change, global warming, and sustainable development, and that's a way to make our world again beautiful. So spirituality is the major part of human life, education, that kind of education which awakens the consciousness towards spirituality, realization, and that culture which creates love and good relations between all humans and all creatures. I wish you all the best. I pray to God for Australia, for all of you. It was a beautiful time. I was here for 25 days. I experienced many beautiful things. We had very divine programs, not intensive. Intensive is not a good word. Intensive is only for a little time. We had a very busy and nice program, divine. It was a beautiful challenge in life to lead a life in the bush with different kinds of creatures. And all creatures fight for their rights. And nearly every day near our tents, some snakes were passing. My God, beautiful. That was beautiful. But of course, we didn't dare to open our tent from the tent, you know. When someone says, "Snake," everyone quickly closes the chain. Jeev sabi ko pyara hai. This life is dear to everyone. They are afraid of us, and we are afraid of them. Can you imagine the ṛṣis all the time sitting in the forest, years and years meditating? How was their life? We are spoiled, but everything is okay. I am very happy that in Australia there's a lot of spiritual waves, different cultures, different beliefs, very good. Different-minded people, and many, many practice yoga and different spiritual paths. It must not be what you call the yoga. All spirituality is spirituality; it's one. We need mutual understanding, respect, and tolerance. I would like to welcome here Mr. Bhatt from Bhāratīya Vidyā Bhavan and his dear wife. Welcome. Nice to see you. I saw your nice magazine, a beautiful magazine with beautiful information. And Holi is coming. I know you will have a Holi festival, and you will have, so I think my message will come for the Holi festival. And if you like to come to Kumbh Melā, you are all welcome, and all other brothers sitting here, and sisters, and Yogī Mahārāj also. Thank you for your help to the ashram and to all bhaktas. Also, I would like to thank all the organizers of the yoga and daily life. Throughout Australia, they made it possible that I could be here for a few weeks in Australia. Thank you, and God bless you. My prayer is for you and for all. Oh, sir, we have one to Sukhita service and to me, Rāmāyaṇa survey Bhadra. Any person to market to. Om Shanti, Shanti, Shantir Bhavatu, Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī, Devīśvara Mahādeva, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānjī Bhagavān Kī, Om Shanti Om.