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Satsaṅg is Jñāna Gaṅgā, the Gaṅgā of knowledge, where you can wash all your sins. Satsaṅg can be with two persons only. It can be with your book. It can be only with yourself, or with a group. The best is with a group. So once a week you should have a satsaṅg. It can be in different places if one place is not big enough. Let’s say in Budapest there can be, on the same day, satsaṅg in five places. And it should be informed to everybody: there and there and there are satsaṅgs; you go where you find them easily. And once a month, you come together in some big place. You know, you belong all together. That will serve the purpose of your life. Otherwise, eating, drinking, sleeping, feeding children—animals are also very active and expert in this. If you are involved only in this, then you are lost. You lost a beautiful human life. You don’t know if the next will be a human life. Then you will be so sorry, filled with immense sadness and unhappiness, because through your worldly desires and temptations, you’ve missed it. So it is a karmic disease. The karmic disease is this: that you are always thinking of some desires to fulfill. Always thinking of the person—this is a desire. It is a karmic illness. Lucky are they who are healthy. They don’t suffer. This is this: one is suffering, and one is not suffering. Therefore, in one bhajan, Mahāprabhujī said: I am mad for the Gurudeva’s name. I don’t care about anything. If it comes, it comes; if it goes, it goes. I am searching. Where is the satsaṅg? Where I can have a darśana of the saint? Then I can have a darśana of my Gurudev. Gurudev, darśan, dāna, ho, Gurudev, Caitanyānanda, gāna, ho, Caitanyānanda. Satsaṅg Jñāna Gaṅgā is satsaṅg. Even in the prayer, Mahāprabhujī said that Gurudeva brought the boat of the Gaṅgā, Satsaṅg. Mahāprabhujī also says in the Īmā that Gurudeva brought the boat of the Gaṅgā, Satsaṅg, and He let us cross this ocean. Mo mayā sansār baḍā hai, bau sagar bhārī. Satsaṅg jahāj chalākar Satguru pāle tīārī. It is in our prayer. Therefore, satsaṅg. And what you learn there, behave then according to it, like this. Don’t be fanatic. Don’t be one-sided crazy. Don’t be angry then. Don’t be greedy. Open the heart. That’s what will bring you to salvation. So in every town, you should have satsaṅg once a week—important. Don’t say, don’t think, "What is this all? Satsaṅg, listening every time to the same bhajan, looking at videos, always Swamījī says, 'Don’t be jealous,' always he says, 'We don’t be angry.' I go with my girlfriend to a pizzeria, and so on." These are destructive thoughts. And people hear that Mahāprabhujī is coming. People were coming from far distances and waiting on that faraway shore where Mahāprabhujī will come, with the flower mālās of Mahāprabhujī and prasāds. Waiting. He will come, he will come. And you know, that waiting is something divine. "Door of my heart, open wide I keep for you." That is satsaṅg. You know that in India we have a new president, and many people are wondering about the stupidity of Indians, that Indians have so many problems with Muslims, and they chose and elected a Muslim president. Some people think like that in the underworld. But there are certain things they don’t know. First is the greatness of India. That is how they appreciate and accept the different religions. Fighting are the fanatics’ people. Secondly, this president is very wise. He is a scientist. He is a philosopher. He is an artist, and he is, being a Muslim, a very strict vegetarian. Such a pure life, leading vegetarian, like Mahātmā Gandhi. And he always has the Bhagavad Gītā and the Koran together with him. And he knows the Bhagavad Gītā, the Rāmāyaṇa, and many Upaniṣads by heart. I would say, to have such a president for India is a great thing. So this president, he gave one statement. That’s what I want to tell you about satsaṅg. Tulsīdāsjī said: Ek ghaḍī mein ādi ghaḍī, ādi mein puni ād. Tulsī saṅgat sādhu kī, hare koṭi aparādh. "Ghaḍī" means one hour—one hour, 50 minutes, or 40 minutes, or something, once a day. That is one constellation, and the constellation is constantly changing, the moon's position. Tulsīdāsjī said, "One hour or half an hour." Or a quarter of a quarter hour. Now, what is a quarter of fifteen minutes? Four minutes. What is a quarter of four minutes? Less than four minutes. Less than four minutes, thank you. Go back to the school. Even a quarter of a quarter hour, if you have a darśana and satsaṅg of a sādhu, it purifies the many, many lives’ sins. Ék ghaḍī mé ādi ghaḍī, ādi mé punyād, tulsī sangat sādhu kī hare koṭi aparādh. So, our respected president, he gave a statement. It was in the newspapers. So when I came to India, people told me, Holī Gurujī told me that when he was young, he tried very hard to study, but he failed his examination. And he was so disappointed that, in spite of trying very hard to pass the examination, he failed. You all know, students, what it means. And when we all have been students, you know what we mean, how hard it was. Thanks to Mahāprabhujī, I didn’t have to pass any examinations. He did all. Mahāprabhujī just said to me, "Go, walk, walk." One step, second step, third step. And when I couldn’t walk, Mahāprabhujī organized the lift. That’s Guru Kṛpā. So this president, he was so unhappy, desperate, and he jumped in the Ganges to die. And there was Swāmī Śivānandajī from Ṛṣikeśa. And he caught him back. "Why are you doing this?" And he told what happened. Śivānandajī said to him, "My child, don’t do like this. You know, one day you will be one of the greatest men of the country." The president of the country directly said, "One day, you will be the greatest man of the country as president. Give him a shawl. Go, dry yourself." And when our president became president, he remembered the words of Swāmī Śivānandajī. What he said came true. That is Guru Vākya. So what Gurudev said, sooner or later it will come true. Have confidence. Śraddhā, confidence. There was one prime minister of India, and he was very close to Mahatma Gandhi. And his name was Morarji Desai, from Gujarat. He had 100 years of age. He celebrated 102 years. While playing football with his great-grandson, he fell down and broke his hips. And then it was complicated, and he passed away. Desai, he was like a yogī, and it is he who, according to Gandhijī, made it famous again in the world, drinking śambū, on urine therapy. And he was living 102 years, playing football. He was working as an employee, a government employee in the agricultural department, who has the duty to measure the grounds for the farmers. And he said that he met Rāmaṇa Maharṣi, and it is Rāmaṇa Maharṣi’s blessing that from Sathya Prakash, he could become a prime minister. Indira Gandhi lost her party, she lost her election, she was very dispirited, and she went to her master, whose name was Ānandamayī Mā. Ānandamayī Mā was a very holy lady. So she went to her and stayed in her āśram many days, fasting, not eating. So Ānandamayī Mā, once she noticed in so many ladies and in groups that Indira Gāndhī is sitting there also. And then Indira Gandhi came to Ānandamayī Mā and spoke with her. And Ānandamayī Mā gave her blessing, that you will be whole life prime minister. So unfortunately she died, you know, her own bodyguard shot her, but she died as the prime minister. Of course, maybe you don’t want to become a minister, but I tell you, Guruvākya. Saints.