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Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Śrī Śrī Devapurīśa Mahādeva Kī Jaya, Hindu Dharma Samrāṭ Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jaya. Good evening and blessings to all of you. The blessings of our Divine Universal Worship, Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, Devpurījī, Alakhpurījī, and Gurujī. Also, many blessings and a good evening from Europe to all our dear brothers and sisters around the world who are with us this evening through the webcast. Yes, indeed, it has been a long time — nearly half a year — since we last had the opportunity to gather for a webcast. Today marks the first time this year. Blessings are reaching you from the beautiful country of the Czech Republic and the Śrī Mahāprabhudīp Satsaṅg Foundation in Strilky. Welcome to all of you joining from different parts of the world. You have the blessing of Divine Mother Gaṅgā, the holy Gaṅgā, which flows through the sacred land of India from the Himalayan hills all the way to Gaṅgā Sāgar, the Indian Ocean. Many of you have accompanied me in Haridwar, bathing in the holy river Gaṅgā. I was blessed by our Bhagavān Dīp Nār Mahāprabhujī and Gurujī, and I had the opportunity to perform an anuṣṭhān at the bank of the Gaṅgā in Haridwar for two and a half months. I had the chance to have darśan of millions of sādhus — not merely hundreds or thousands, but millions of sādhus — and millions of devotees, spiritual seekers, and practitioners of the spiritual path from different countries. They came from the entire world, millions and millions, and that is something remarkable. Before that, I also had the opportunity to stay for nearly a month in the forest — a completely uncivilized forest with untouched vegetation and many different creatures — at our ashram in Dungong, Australia. From time to time, messages reached you. I was also blessed to visit, for the first time, a beautiful island called New Zealand, and another, most beautiful, the Fiji Islands. People around the world are beautiful and kind, and I have had divine experiences with them. A great saint said, “I went to search for the bad people or the bad person. I did not find them anywhere. But when I searched within me, no one was worse than myself.” We see in others what we have inside us. Our inner experiences, our inner problems, disappointment, negative qualities — anger, jealousy, and hate — these are within us, and we see through that mirror, the inner mirror that reflects outward. When you are angry, that is a picture of yourself shown to you in your inner mirror. When you are jealous, that is a reflection of your inner qualities through your inner mirror. That is why Mahātmā Gandhijī said, “Be the change you want to see.” If you want to see loving people, loving hearts, then you have to become a loving person. You have to become a loving heart. If you want to see a holy person, first you have to become holy. If you would like to see good people, you have to be good. So everything is a reflection of our inner qualities. But this human life is not given to merely reflect such qualities. Human life is not given to have such qualities. On the contrary, human life is meant to rise above everything. Our beloved Holy Gurujī used to say, “Enter the kingdom of the Lord through the gate of sacrifice.” If you want to become one with God, then sacrifice everything. The material things to sacrifice are nothing; they are zero. Because nothing belongs to you. It is given to you. When you were born, you had not even one centimeter of cloth over your body. You were born completely naked — nothing, and nothing, and nothing. Mahāprabhujī Karatā, Mahāprabhujī Karatā, Mahāprabhujī. A nice cloth, and mother too. Now, what I want to say is, you brought nothing with you. Everything was already here and was given to you. What you received, good or bad, you brought with you as your destiny, as your karma. Father and mother, the parents, can give you birth. They cannot give you destiny. They cannot give you karmas. Everyone has a different destiny written in the book of fortune or destiny. One family, one father and mother, had four children — beautiful children, healthy children. They received the same education, the same care. One became a king, another a saint, the third became a beggar, and the fourth became a butcher. See the destiny. If the parents could have given destiny, then all four could have become holy saints or kings. But two had unfavourable destiny: a beggar and a butcher. Destiny is what you inherit from your past lives through your karma, your actions. If you are jealous again and again, jealousy is a fire. There are many different kinds of fire, and fire means it will burn you to ash. The fire of anger, the fire of jealousy, the fire of desires, the fire of greed, and the fire of hate will burn your life. Mahāprabhujī kī karatā, Mahāprabhujī kī karatā, Śrī Śrī… Purījī, Purījī… Śrī Śrī… Respect, spirituality, helping, kindness, helpfulness, generosity — you will meet again, you know. If you love all, then all will love you. How nice. You are only one. How much love can one person give? But still, you give love to all. So now you are a limited person. Your love, your care is limited. But you distributed in such a way that now suddenly a thousandfold comes back. When you respect a thousand people, you are only one, and now thousands will respect you. Or you are jealous of all the thousands; then a thousand times jealousy will come back to you. What you give, God gives you a thousand times back. So it must not be only the negative qualities. But you know, some used to say, one ill fish spoils the whole pond. Is it true? One drop of lemon spoils perhaps 100 litres of milk or 1000 litres. One drop of lemon. So one negative quality of hate destroys your beautiful positive qualities, which you gave to them before they come back to you; it destroys them. Giving is easier, but to receive it back as it is, is not easy, my dear. So we are giving, though we don’t expect anything, but still, deep in the subconscious, we know, “I should be good, so that others will be good to me.” Yes, there is that. And so, holy Gurujī said, enter the kingdom of the Lord through the gate of sacrifice. Yes. Sacrifice all your negative things. Stand above and sacrifice your dear feelings — not money and this and that — your dear feelings, your kind feelings, your human feelings, your wisdom. You have so many good qualities. You have treasure within you. None of us is poor. We are so rich, you can’t imagine how rich you are. Money is not richness. The beauty and richness of a human is their wisdom, their knowledge. Therefore, it is said, “Eko Brahma Dvitīya Nāsti” — one is the truth that is supreme, the Brahman. When Brahman is spoken about, that is only God, and Brahman, which is nirguṇa, is a formless God everywhere. And that is why in the Vedas and Upaniṣads, in very old scriptures, the name of any incarnation is not described, because God is only one. But those incarnations that were in the past, that are, and that will be — they had such qualities and blessings that what a human can imagine, what a God can do. And so we call them God or incarnation. I don’t think that an incarnation of God is always very merciful and humble only. No. His incarnation is for the protection of dharma, the protection of the bhaktas, the devotees, the protection of every creature, and to destroy the devils. Arjuna, from time to time I manifest myself to protect my devotees and dharma and to destroy negative qualities, adharma. “Yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata.” You know this mantra from the Bhagavad Gītā, 14th chapter. And therefore, you will see that sometimes He incarnates as male, sometimes as female, and sometimes as half human and half animal. Why? Because it has a reason, many, many reasons. In spirituality, in Brahman, there is no difference or duality of the genders, male or female. It is only the body, and the body is mortal, not immortal. Therefore, don’t think that because you are female you cannot achieve the highest consciousness or ātmā jñāna. But you, female, have to follow this female dharma, and you, male, should also follow — no, not female dharma — the male dharma. Yes, what does it mean to be a human? What is human love? Do you know that? How much can you dedicate and renounce? You can’t. Very faithful couples together, very, very nice, very, very nice. And his wife died, and they went for the funeral after five days. After the funeral, they came back. In Western culture nowadays, they go to some pub or restaurant, sit and drink, and everybody says, “My condolences,” or so. And in that consolation, he fell in love with someone else, he fell in love with another lady, and he said, “Well, my dear friends, in five days we will have a wedding, so you are welcome.” You see, his wife is still there under the earth, but it doesn’t matter; still she is there. But he forgot her. What did you renounce for your wife, boy? Or what can you renounce for your husband, girls? The way we now live, in this modern way, will not lead you to ātmā jñāna. Forget it. Sorry. Now what to do? What to do? All our hopes, Swamiji, are put in cold water. Everyone, maybe very few have clean hands. Those who are here are under five years old. What to do? The pot is broken. Glass waste or ceramic waste falls down, broken. So what you call a broken heart, broken emotion, broken thoughts — everything is broken. Swamiji, please help us. Yes, I am here to help you. Definitely. Definitely. Thousand percent. I will help you if you help me to help you. You understand me? I will help you if you help me to help you. So, remain on your spiritual path now. Don’t go left and right. Straightforward, and look forward to the next life. Yes, and in the next life you will be that one, you will be a self-realized one. This life is like the song: “Ṭūṭ gaī mālā, motī bikhar chale, do din rahkar sāth, jāne kidhar chale.” There is one bhajan, a song. Ṭūṭ gaī mālā, the rosary is broken; motī bikhar chale, the pearls just scattered. Do din rahkar sāth, two days we were together, nā jāne kidhar chale, who has gone, in which direction we don’t know. So the condition is that we cannot collect all the pearls where they fall down or disappear, rolled away, but there is a way. “Ab saup diyā is jīvan kā sab bhār tumhāre hāthoṁ meṁ, bim bam.” Enough. So, first, we have given our life to God to follow this path and understand purity. Purity of your nourishment, purity of your love, purity of your society, purity of your language — in everything, in everything. With this kind of thinking, well, there will be — it doesn’t matter how it is — a great saint, Sūradāsa Jī, was by birth blind, and he had Kṛṣṇa’s visions. He said very nicely in his bhajan, a song to Kṛṣṇa: “Samadṛṣṭi hai nāma tihāro, cāhe to pār karo.” O Lord, O Kṛṣṇa, O God, O Gurudev. Guṇa means good quality, and avaguṇa means bad quality. Cita means consciousness. Cita means your attention, that which you notice in your mind. Lord, please do not notice or keep in your mind my avaguṇas, my bad qualities. Samadṛṣṭi hai nāma tihāro — Lord, you are known as Equal Vision, one who doesn’t make a difference between sinner and pious, who doesn’t make a difference between male or female, who doesn’t make the difference. All are equal in your heart, in your vision, and in your thoughts. Prabhujī, mere avaguṇa cita na dharo, samadṛṣṭi hai nāma tihāro. You are known as, your name is, O God, samadṛṣṭi. And that day when you will have samadṛṣṭi, when you love all, then everything is repaired. What happens? Everything is repaired. The broken pot will again become as it was. Who can do that? Only He. Only Mahāprabhujī can do. It is said that one piece of iron is in the home of the butcher, who is killing animals with a knife. And one knife, or one piece of wood, or the iron is on the altar as a lamp, or some bale, or whatever is on the altar. The blade on the altar, or the knife on the altar for preparing prasāda, is holy. And the same iron is a knife in the butcher’s hand, full of the blood of many animals. Parasa guṇa avaguṇa nahī dekhe, kāñcana karata kharo. My lord, the paras, the stone paras has the capability to turn iron into gold. Parasa guṇa avaguṇa nahī dekhe, kāñcana karata kharo — the paras doesn’t see the differences; it makes both knives or both pieces of iron gold. If you make a saṅkalpa, if you say, “Now, enough, finished,” then there is a hope, there is a hope. But if not in this life, that will follow your tapasyā. This is a tapasyā: renounce, that’s it. Renounce those stupid feelings. There is one letter; someone wrote to me, but I don’t want to tell her name or who that is. Just crying for some man who is schizophrenic, not because he is schizophrenic, but because he lived some days with you and went away, and you are crying for that. She should cry for God, for what life has given. Life is not given to cry for this and that, which is not yours. Ātmā jñāna, Self-Realization: We are all one. A thousand of us are sitting here, but in different bodies. And that is not your body, not my body. It is anybody, but it is somebody. That is only a body. But we are one as Ātmā, Ātmā Jñāna. When you see this, then you will not be jealous. Jealousy is just like a flame; it blows off, and you don’t know where it disappears. So Prabhujī, mere avaguṇa cita na dharo, samadṛṣṭi hai nāma tihāro, cāhe to pār karo. Lord, you are known as the equal-vision one. If you wish, Lord, you can let me come through. Yes, you will come. So, your mantra, your prayers, your iṣṭadevatā is that one for whom you should cry, be happy, or belong. There we belong. That’s it. So when we belong there, then automatically we will feel one with it. You know, there are many, many deer: a hundred deer in this forest and a hundred deer in another forest. You bring one deer to another group; it will not feel happy and will always feel lonely, alone. But when he sees the other group of his, where he used to run and feel relaxed and at home, so is that. So where do I belong? “Ko’haṃ katham idaṃ jātaḥ ko vā kartāsya vidyate.” From where did I come? Why did I come? What am I doing? And where will I go? Ātmā Jñāna. So renounce those negative qualities that disrupt you in others. Always, you will say, “No, why is Irenka always sitting and drinking coffee with Pārvatī?” When Irenka and Parvati are in Andhra, and Andhra and Parvati are sitting together, then I am jealous. Why are these two girls always sitting together? Why are they always together? Yes, it disturbs me, and that quality I have to take away. That’s it. If you cannot remove this, you cannot achieve anything. So, what disturbs you in others, that you have to renounce. So, it’s good. In Germany, people used to say, “Das is good.” I accept. Syag Das, it is not my copy. No, it is not my copy. Yes, it’s their problem. That’s it. That is a very good mantra. We learned something from Germany too, okay? Yes, that’s it. So, enter the kingdom of the Lord through the gate of sacrifice. Mahāprabhujī told Gurujī, “If you want to be one with me” — meaning in God — “then renounce. Renounce your inner feelings. Let it be, let it go.” Then you will see how happy you will be, and therefore it is said, Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Deva Purīṣa Mahādeva Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Satya Sanātana. So we will continue tomorrow, our European time, 10 o’clock morning. I wish you all the best, and good night. Om Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinaḥ, Sarve Santu Nirāmayāḥ, Sarve Bhadrāṇi Paśyantu, Mā Kaścid Duḥkha Bhāg Bhavet, Om Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ. Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Śānti.