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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, or 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 satsaṅg in five places on the same day. And it should be informed to everybody: there and there and ... there are satsaṅgs, you go where you find it easily. And once a month you come together in some big place. You know, you all belong together. That will serve the purpose of your life; otherwise, eating, drinking, sleeping, feeding children and animals—others 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. 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 a person, this is a desire. Karmic illness; lucky are they who are healthy. They don't suffer. This is it: 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 darśan of a saint, then I can have darśan of my Gurudev." "Gurudev, darśan, dāna, ho, Gurudev, Caitānanda, gāna, ho, Caitānanda." 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 bhajan that Gurudeva brought the boat of the Gaṅgā, Satsaṅg, and He let us cross this ocean: "Mo māyā sansār baḍā hai bau sāgar bhārī. Satsaṅg jahāj calākar Satguru pālamē tiyārī." It is in our prayer. Therefore, satsaṅg. And what you learn there, behave then accordingly. Don't be fanatic; don't be one-sided and crazy. Don't be angry; 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; it is important. Don't say, don't think, "What is this all? Satsaṅg, listening every time to the same bhajan, looking at videos; always Swāmījī says, 'Don't be jealous,' always he says, 'We should not 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 far way where Mahāprabhujī will come, with flower garlands for Mahāprabhujī and prasāda. 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 now a Muslim president. Some people think like that in the underworld. But there are certain things they don't know. The first is the greatness of India. It is how they appreciate and accept the different religions. The fighting people are the fanatics. Secondly, this president is a very wise man. He is a scientist and a philosopher. He is an artist, and being a Muslim, he is a very strict vegetarian. He leads such a pure, vegetarian life, like Mahātmā Gandhi. He always has the Bhagavad Gītā and the Qur'ān 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 gave one statement, which is what I want to tell you about satsaṅg. Tulsīdās jī said, "Ēk ghaḍī mē̃ ādi ghaḍī, ādi mē̃ puni ād. Tulsī sangat sādhu kī, hare ko kī aparādh." "Ēk ghaḍī mē̃ ādi ghaḍī." "Ghaḍī" means one hour. One hour, fifty minutes or forty minutes or something, one a day. That is one constellation. And the constellation is constantly changing, the moon's position. Tulsīdās jī 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 school. Even a quarter of a quarter hour, if you have darśan and satsaṅg of a sādhu, it purifies the sins of many, many lives. "Ēk ghaḍī mē̃ ādi ghaḍī, ādi mē̃ puni ād, Tulsī sangat sādhu kī hare koṭi aparādh." So, our respected president gave a statement. I heard that; it was in the newspapers. So when I came to India, people told me, Holy Gurujī told me that when he was young, he tried very hard to study, but he failed his examination. He was so disappointed that, in spite of trying very hard to pass the examination, he failed. You all know, students, what that means. And as we have all been students, you know what we mean and 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 was so unhappy and desperate, that he jumped in the Gaṅgā to die. There was Swāmī Śivānand jī from Ṛṣikeś. And he caught him and brought him back. "Why are you doing this?" And he told him what happened. Śivānand jī said to him, "My child, don't do this. You know, one day you will be one of the greatest men of the country, the president of the country." Directly he 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 Śivānand jī. What he said came true; that's Guru Vākya. So what Gurudev says, sooner or later it will come true. Have confidence, śraddhā, confidence. There was one prime minister of India. He was very close to Mahātmā Gandhi. His name was Morārijī Desāī, from Gujarat. He was one hundred years old; he celebrated one hundred and two years. While playing football with his great-grandson, he fell down and broke his hip. And he was living 102 years, playing football. He was working as an employee, a government employee in the agricultural department. He had the duty to measure the grounds for the farmers. And he said that he met Ramana Maharṣi, and it is Ramana Maharṣi's blessing that from Sathya Parker till he could become a prime minister. Indira Gandhi, she lost her party, she lost her election, she was very dispirited, and she went to her master, whose name was Anandamayī Mā. Anandamayī Mā was a very holy lady. So she went to her and stayed in her āshram. Many days, fasting, not eating. So Anandamayī Mā, once she noticed in so many ladies and in groups that Indira Gandhi is sitting there also. And then Indira Gandhi came to Anandamayī Mā and spoke with her. And Anandamayī 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, Guru Vākya. Saints. Recording location: Hungary, Budapest, Seminar