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Oṁ kādhu-samyoktaṁ tyaṁ dhyāyanti yoginaḥ. Amadaṁ mokṣa-dhāṁ caiva yena mo. Vibrahmā gurur viṣṇuḥ, Vṛdeśo mahēśvaraḥ. Gurur sākṣāt para-brahma, Śrī Gurave Namaḥ. Satya Sanātan Dharmakī Salutation to the Divine. Oṁ Śrī Alagpuryā Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā. I bow to the holy feet of His Holiness, our beloved Gurudev Viśwa Gurujī. To all divine spiritual seekers, all spiritual masters, all the sannyāsīs of this Oṁ Śrī Alagpurya Siddha Pīṭha paramparā, all the devotees of Śrī Mahāprabhujī and Viśva Gurujī and the divine family, and to Yoga and Daily Life all around the world, brothers and sisters, I say Hari Om to everyone. I welcome you all again to the divine spiritual center of Yoga and Daily Life, the Oṁ Āśram. We are in the center of this divine world, which Vishwa Gurujī has created for the entire world—not only for humans but for all creatures. With Gurudev's blessings, we are here following the divine path he has shown us. Slowly, everyone is trying their best to follow Gurudev's Vākya and the divine way. Last time, we were discussing human life. What must a human do? What should we do? Why are we here? We should know the value of human life. Beloved Gurudev, Vishwa Gurujī, has taught us the divine meaning of human life. Before that, we were just wandering here and there in this world. We did not know our aim, what to do in this human life, how to live, or how to help ourselves and others. All this divine teaching has been given by Viśwa Gurujī. I will not tell you new things; we are sharing the knowledge Vishwa Gurujī has given us so we can help each other and come together. Consider the value of human life. There was a farmer selling vegetables. He had a stone he had used as a weight for many years. Once, a merchant came and asked to buy that stone. The farmer asked, "Why? I use this stone for weight." The merchant replied, "For you, this is only a stone, but I will pay you 10,000 or even 20,000 rupees." The salesman was very happy. He thought, "I was thinking this is only a stone, but I am getting so much money. Okay, I will give it to you." He took the money, gave the stone, and made a paper agreement with a signature. Then he asked, "Can you please tell me why you gave so much money for this stone?" The merchant said, "I can tell you. This is not a normal stone; it is a diamond. I know the value of a diamond. I have given you only twenty thousand rupees, but I will earn crore rupees from it." Similarly, we do not know the value of a human life. When a merchant comes—like a divine master, a spiritual seeker, a spiritual master such as Viśvagurujī—into your life, you have an experience. Just imagine how your life was before you met Vishwagurujī. You will think it was like a stone. But when the spiritual master Vishwagurujī came to us, he gave the knowledge that this is not a stone; this is a beautiful, divine, diamond human life. He taught us how to use it. Vishwagurujī taught us that we are human, but we did not know how to be human, how to behave, what qualities to have, or what the aim of a human is. There is a beautiful story about how human life passes. A beautiful śloka tells how we are wasting our human life: Vṛddha sthavat cintām agnā, Vṛddha sthavat cintām agnā. Parame brahmaṇi kopi na lagnā, Parame brahmaṇi kopi na lagnā. Bhaja Govindaṁ, bhaja Govindaṁ, Govindaṁ bhaja mūḍhamate. Bhaja Govindaṁ, Govindaṁ... Bhaja mudamate. It describes how human life slowly finishes. When we are born, we are always attracted to and interested in games and toys. Our entire childhood is spent vested in the playground. Now we have Kalidhvaja, which means Kalyug is sitting there in this form, distracting us from our spiritual life. A child is always happy when given interesting toys. If you try to give knowledge to a child, he will not take it because he lacks the capacity to understand, and it is not interesting to him. Thus, our childhood is destroyed, gone, or wasted in playing games. Then we become a little older. We have friends, different wishes and thoughts. We go for studies and make friends there. We become attracted to each other, and friends foster both good and bad habits. We destroy some of our life there. Slowly, you get married, have children, and then old age comes. This life is slowly going. You work for your family, brothers, sisters, and everything. But when you become old, you lack the power to work. You have only experience in your mind, but you do not have the power. You can think, but you cannot act. When you are young, you have the power to work, but your mind or intellect lacks experience. At that time, you must listen to elders, experienced people, spiritual masters, or knowledgeable persons so you can use your physical power wisely. When you are young, you have power but do not know how to use it. When you become old, you have knowledge but no power. If you want to lift a weight or work hard in old age, you cannot. When you become old, your mind is restless, and you are always thinking: "It would be better if I had done sādhanā at that time, done karma yoga, or chanted mantras a lot. Now I am very old and have no power. When I sit alone, I have pains in my back, knees, and body everywhere." In old age, you can only think; you cannot work much. So, childhood, elder age, then old age—this is the life circle. What should we do? Our life is just being destroyed; we are merely passing time. Parameśvara... Brahmani kopina lagna. But our main aim as humans is to work for self-realization, for mokṣa, for jñāna, for brahma jñāna. Yet we are not working. Parame brahmaṇi kopina lagna: nobody is trying to attain self-realization or mokṣa. This life is going like that. What must we do to attain mokṣa? When we come into this world, we forget everything. How do we forget? There is a beautiful story. A king had no children and had become old. He wanted an intelligent person who could be king and work for the people and the kingdom. He asked his secretaries, and they suggested arranging an exhibition to identify who is intelligent, of good character, and helpful to people. The king arranged a beautiful exhibition in his kingdom and passed an order: "If somebody comes to me tomorrow by five p.m., I will give him whatever he wants." This order was announced to the entire kingdom. The message reached everyone. Everybody was ready to be the first to go to the king. At eight in the morning, they started from their homes and came to the exhibition. There was a beautiful market with many clothes for children, men, and women. They looked at all the beautiful clothes. A message was written: "These are all free of cost by the order of the king; you can take whatever you want." When people saw it was free, they said, "Oh my God, let's go run! We can choose from many designs and categories." One or two hours passed there. Then they went further and found a beautiful restaurant with many delicious foods, sweets, pizza, chow mein, rasgulla, rabadi—whatever you can imagine. They said, "Oh my God, we were shopping and are a little hungry." There was also a note: "This is free of cost by the order of the king." They ate and enjoyed, and two or three hours passed there. After eating, they went to a new area where beautiful jewelry was displayed: gold, diamonds, silver, many rings, necklaces, and many things. When they saw "free of cost," of course, everybody wanted to have it. They thought, "We can have it easily; otherwise, we would have to work hard for these things." Everyone was checking: "This one is good. This does not match my finger. I should take orange, pink, yellow, or whatever." Two or three hours passed. Nobody was aware that it was already five o'clock. They thought, "Now we should go to the king because he sent a message. If we go there, we will get whatever we want." They looked and thought, "We are fully happy now. We should leave for the king." When they saw it was already five o'clock, they rushed and ran, but it was three or four kilometers away, so they could not reach by five o'clock. The king was waiting, thinking, "Who has come? Who is coming?" There was one person who had arrived at 3 p.m. The king was shocked to see him thirsty and tired. The king asked, "Did you eat something? Was there any food or clothes?" The person said, "Yes, king, there was." The king said, "Why didn't you eat? You should have eaten food and then come easily to the kingdom." The person replied, "No. When you gave the message, it did not say I should eat first or take new clothes first. It said I should come to you. That was the main message, and my purpose was to reach you because this is your order. That is why I came here." The king gave him food and drink and waited to see if anyone else would come, but nobody did. The king then asked him, "You are here before 5 p.m. I sent a message: if somebody reaches here, I will give whatever you want. What do you want?" The person said, "Oh king, I do not want anything." The king asked, "Then why did you come here?" The person replied, "I came here because this was your order, and I should follow your order. I live in this kingdom, and you are like a god. The king is like a god—not God, but we give him respect because he takes care of each and everyone. That is why I came here." The king said, "Okay. I wanted one intelligent person who could rule a kingdom." He then gave the entire kingdom to that person. When all the other people heard that the person who had arrived had gotten a kingdom, they were regretful. They thought, "Oh my God, we were just taking a few things—diamonds, food, clothes. But if we had reached there, we would have gotten the entire kingdom. We would be happy and have everything in our life." Similarly, human life is going the same way. Humans have forgotten everything. God has given us a divine life, and this whole world is like many shops: somewhere there are diamonds, necklaces, jewelry; somewhere we get food; somewhere we get clothes. This is the story of a human. Our story is that God has given us each and everything. He wants to give us a kingdom, but what do we do? We go after little things and are very happy, thinking, "Oh, I have got this, and I am very happy." We should know what we are getting in this human life and what we have to achieve. If we want to achieve the divine kingdom—what is the kingdom? The kingdom is self-realization or God Himself. He is meeting us, coming to be with us, to be one with us. This is the value of human life. Look, when we go to a showroom now, we see a car. In olden times, there was only one car; you could not choose. In clothes, there were only three varieties: silk, cotton, and woolen. We used these in winter, summer, and normal weather. But if you go to any shop now, you will see thousands of varieties. We should not go after this world's material, thick, metallic things. Instead, we should work and progress toward the main thing we have in our life: our aim. The human aim is to attain self-realization. How do we attain self-realization? For that, we must follow the Guru Vākya. We must follow the Master. We are all lucky that Gurudev Viśva Gurujī is always teaching us, helping us, and blessing us so we can achieve our aim of self-realization. That is why Viśwagurujī has created the divine society and given us the divine light. We are working on that path so we can come to Gurudev, who is always with us, slowly showing us the divine way. That is why humans should know their aim is to attain self-realization. How is this happening? We have the great masters, the holy Gurujī himself, still showing us the way. How is he showing us? Through bhajans. There are two kinds of satsaṅg: Chetan Satsaṅg and Jada Satsaṅg. Chetan Satsaṅg is what we are listening to now—live satsaṅg. We get Chetan Satsaṅg every few days from Mahāmaḍalī Swarjī, Swāmījī, or others. But Jada Satsaṅg we get each and every day through the divine bhajans of holy Gurujī, the divine bhajans of Mahāprabhujī, and the divine bhajans of Devapurījī. When you sing bhajan, when you repeat bhajan, you feel energy—divine energy. You are going toward spiritual energy; you are progressing on your spiritual path. You are slowly going nearer to your aim. That is why we all should always follow and always tell ourselves, "I am slowly getting to my aim." We should always work and never think negatively in our life, dwelling on how many bad things we have done. Now we are aware. Now we have the great master. Now Viṣṇu Gurujī is guiding us. Slowly, we are going the way Gurudev guides us. Slowly, we are getting each and everything. Therefore, the human value and human aim is to attain self-realization in this body, because we do not know which minute is our last. Nobody knows. So whenever you have time, think about your mantra, do your seva. In everything we do, in the end we say, "Śivārpaṇam astu." When we do abhiṣeka or any pūjā, we take water in our hand and offer whatever we have done—mantra, mālā, abhiseka, pūjā, sādhanā, seva—all to our Gurudev, all to God Śiva, God Rāma. When you do this, the karma bandhana will not bind you. I pray to God Śiva, I pray to God to bless all of us. I pray that He always blesses us and guides us on the divine way so we can always connect to each other, go together, and attain our aim, our target, our path. Thank you for listening. We will see you again in the next lecture. We will see some stories and discussions in this satsaṅg. If we have it every day, we generate new power. When I feel myself—when you sit in this position, when you do your mantra, when you chant Oṁ—you feel the divine energy. This morning, I was sitting near Gurudev, just like this, closing my eyes and thinking about the mantra and Gurudev. I felt the divine energy coming from within you. The energy does not come from outside; it comes from our inside. We have that energy. Gurudev has given us the point: switch that child. Now you can take your energy to an upper level and enjoy that inner. That is why we say, "Enjoy, enjoy." It means inner joy. Outer joy will not give you eternal happiness, but inner joy, which Vishwagurujī taught us, will always give us the happiness, the divine thing we want. Thank you.