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On this divine day of Guru Pūrṇimā, I remember our beloved Holy Gurujī very much. This beautiful Guru Pūrṇimā satsaṅg here on the meadow is really taking place after three years since Gurujī’s visit. The rain on Guru Pūrṇimā is Amṛta, nectar, because Mahāprabhujī is Amṛta Sāgara. Prakash puñj Amṛt ke Sāgar Śrī Deep Harī Mahādhānī hai, so these little drops that are falling are Amṛt. It is Mahāprabhujī’s blessing. I wish that these drops would also fall upon Rajasthan and other parts of India. You will be surprised to know that what you call proper rain, we last had it seven years ago. There was rain every year, but just one or two rains, that’s all. This year, it has already been twelve months and eighteen days with no rain. The groundwater level has gone very deep. It is very dry. There is no water for people to drink, nor for the animals. We used to say that people have no water even in their eyes. Guru Pūrṇimā is always a great hope that at least on this day, it will rain. This year, it has not rained till now. That is why you have heard that we are making one big project, called the Rainwater Harvesting Project. We are preparing a large project concerning the collection of rainwater. The aim is to support people in making small tanks at their houses to collect their roof water, so they can have water throughout the whole year for their families to drink. By European standards, you count eighty liters per person per day. In India, for a five-person family, we count eighty liters per week. You see how much they must conserve water, and still there is none. I always say that you people do not know what water is, but those people know. The condition in some parts is such that when people take water in their mouth in the morning to clean it, they think about where they should spit it so it can be used for some green leaves or trees. So I pray, and please pray, that in those parts of the world where there is little rain, it should rain. Water is our life and is very important. This planet is known as a living planet because of water. Jal jaha jagdīś—where there is water, there is God. It means life. Where there is life, there is God. So if a little bit of rain falls, do not mind; it is a blessing. Prakash, puñj, amṛt, kṣīrasāgara, śrī, dīpa, hari, mahādānīye. Holy Gurujī writes a beautiful bhajan: "Prakash, puñj." Prakash is the light, and puñj is a bunch of light, or the source of the light. You can say the sun is a puñj, and the sunlight is radiating everywhere. Prakash punj amrit ki saagar is also known as the ocean of nectar. Śrī Deep Hari Mahādānī, the Hari Viṣṇu Lord Mahāprabhu Deep, is the giver of all. I think the nectar is raining from the sky. We are sitting and having our Guru Pūrṇimā Satsaṅg. It was very hot, so Mahāprabhujī sent a little bit of cool air, and Devpurījī is controlling Indra. So let us see how long he will control; it depends on his mood. I am very happy to see you. Guru Pūrṇimā. Pūrṇimā is the full moon day. The moon today is full; that is called Pūrṇa. Pūrṇa means complete. We have twelve full moons a year according to Western calendars. But according to the moon calendar, what we also call the Indian calendar, we sometimes have thirteen full moons. In these thirteen full moons, it means we have thirteen months. When you count according to constellations, every second or third year is called Adhikamāsa. Adhikamāsa means one month more. That month may have only fourteen or eighteen days, but it is that month. This last year we also had thirteen months, and according to this, we have had no rain for thirteen months and eighteen days. You cannot imagine the life of these people, and those animals, and that vegetation. Those trees must have some energy to endure this heat and dryness, with no water. Pūrṇa is completeness. There is a mantra: "Pūrṇam idam, pūrṇam adaḥ, pūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate, pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya, pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate." You know all this mantra. So today is the pūrṇa, symbolizing for us the achievement of completeness. We are travelers. We are traveling, and when will our journey be completed? When our individual consciousness merges into the cosmic consciousness—that, for us, will be the full moon. Secondly, there was a great saint, a very great holy saint and seer, named Bhagavān Vedavyāsa. Ved Vyāsa is that saint who wrote the Vedas. Before that, all the Vedas were only given from master to disciple verbally—what we call śruti and smṛti. Śruti means what you have heard, and smṛti means what you speak out of your memory. But the great Ved Vyāsajī realized that many things were lost because disciples did not have enough memory, so many important things and mantras were lost from the Vedas. The great Ved Vyāsajī wanted to write the Vedas. He said he was searching for a secretary who could write. But Vedavyāsa’s thoughts, his knowledge, were so vast and came so quickly that if you wait for half a minute or some seconds, you will lose very important things. When a speaker is speaking and has to stop because of a translator, the speaker loses the knowledge or wisdom he or she wants to give to the audience. He loses sometimes twenty percent, sometimes fifty percent, sometimes eighty percent. And sometimes he loses one hundred percent. How? The speaker wants to give an example and is telling a story. Then the translator is telling it, and the speaker again tells some sense of that story, and suddenly the speaker forgets why he wanted to tell that story. What was before this story? It goes completely away. You have to think it over very much, but you cannot stop thinking. If you stop for ten seconds, the listeners, the audience, will think, "My God, what happens to him? I think his knowledge has reached the bottom," and then he is again lost. So now you have to think: what was the reason you started that story? At the same time, you have to continue this piece and finish the story. So, is that due to the translations? Sometimes, during talking, you suddenly lose something. So, Ved Vyāsajī was searching for a secretary who would write quickly so that he would not have to wait even one second. It is said that God Gaṇeśa came, and Gaṇeśa offered, saying, "I will write." Vedavyāsa said, "Okay, but there is one condition. I am very happy that you will write, but I will not repeat again, and you should not miss even a single letter." Gaṇeśa said, "Okay, but I also have one condition. I do not want you to stop saying something for even one second. I will not stop my writing. You have to flow, and that is it." It is like a gentle wind flowing, like the gentle waves of a peaceful lake flowing. The buddhi, the intellect, is expanding. Vedavyāsa said, "Let’s begin." Gaṇeśa said, "Okay." There was ink and paper, but there was no pen to write. So Gaṇeśa broke one of his teeth—because he is an elephant—and he took this tooth out to write. And so it was written and created. That is why, when you see Gaṇeśa’s picture, he has only one tooth; the other is broken. Of course, after he went to the dentist, they made a very nice crown on it. Ved Vyāsa was a very great saint; he wrote all that you have in Indian philosophy or in Hinduism or Sanātana Dharma, these ancient wisdom and authentic literatures like the Vedas and Upaniṣads. It is all known as the creation of Ved Vyāsa. The Mahābhārata, the Bhagavad Gītā, all are the creation of Ved Vyāsa. So Vedavyāsa is known as a guru, and this seat where I am sitting is called Vyāsagaḍī. This is the seat of Vedavyāsa. No one should sit on this; only an authorized master or speaker. Others, if they sit on it and begin to speak, all will disappear. This is Ved Vyāsa Gadi. Now, whoever is sitting in this place is not he or she speaking. It is the spirit of Vedavyāsa. It is He speaking. It is the Divine One speaking in you. It is a symbol. Such symbols we have everywhere. You see, in the university there is a certain place, a certain chair, a certain dress only for that particular dean. Anyone can put it on their body too, if they want, and take a photo. But they are not authorized to have this. First, they have to become a dean. Like you have a chair for the bishop, or a chair for the pope, or some higher leader of some religions, it is not that person who is sitting on it. It has a beginning, and that is called Gāḍī. Gāḍī means the seat, or what you call the throne.