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Now it depends on you; what you wish will come true. But first, you have to purify yourself: kāma, krodha, mada, lobha, and moha. Desires? Kāma. Krodha is anger. Mada is pride. Lobha is greediness. And ahaṅkāra is ego. These are your best friends. But these best friends, in reality, will not bring a happy end. If you have them, then you should realize this and tell them a friendly goodbye. To come across the mada, lobha, and moha—this is only something you can do; no one can help you. If you are free from them, you are the divine. So now your duty is to purify these qualities. Instead of karma, we shall develop prema. Love. And that love is called equal love, sarva prema. When you love everyone, everything, there is not desire, but that is love. Therefore, you should develop that kind of love. Krodha, you can purify it through compassion: understanding, forgiveness, accepting. And lobha, through renouncing. To renounce material things is very easy, but these inner feelings, inner complexes—that is not easy. So renounce that. Therefore, Holy Gurujī says, "Always enter the kingdom of God through the gate of the sacrifice." So sacrifice, inner sacrifice. And mada, pride. There are many things: pride of your body, your beauty, your money, your position, your country, culture, language; many, many prides are there. And this pride you can overcome through humbleness, through serving. There was one master who had many disciples. Among them, one disciple was the personal secretary, or the minister of the king. He renounced his position and joined the group of the Swāmījī. But the Swāmījī was always respecting him very much, and everyone was thinking, "Oh, Swāmījī makes differences. He respects him, or he looks after him more because he was the minister of the king." Many times there were discussions, talking: "Why is he nearer to him?" and this and that. This is human nature; you also have the same feelings. Who is driving with Swāmījī? So today, three flies were driving from Vienna till here with me. So this is, you know, I need not tell. Should I tell the name of the people here who have these problems, or can we make one experiment? Who has a problem, raise your head up. Thank you. Honest. One has to be honest. Now, those who didn't raise their hands up have a problem. And those who raised their heads up, they don't have a problem. I understand. You are very good, anyhow. So they were saying to the master indirectly and making faces. One day, the master went for a walk, and all twenty or thirty disciples were following him. And all those twenty or thirty disciples went behind him. There came one dirty channel, a sewer. Such a canal, and it was smelling very bad—terrible, filthy, it stank. So the master stopped there. The disciples said, "What happened, sir?" And those disciples said, "What is happening, what is happening?" "Oh, I can't cross this channel." One said, "Close your mouth and nose, Master, and just walk with me." Others said, "Don't think anything, just go." The third said, "Master, you are not the body." And the fourth one said, "Master, you said God is omniscient, omnipresent in everything." And one said, "Master, just jump over." So everybody was giving suggestions to the master. The disciple who was the minister of the king always kept himself behind, not walking in the front. He always tried to give opportunity or chance to others. So he came near and said, "Master, what happened?" The master said, "Well, I can't cross this channel which is smelling so bad. I don't know how to cross." He didn't say anything. He just laid himself down on the channel like a bridge. And the master walked over and went. After going somewhere, they were sitting under a tree. And then the master told them, "You see the difference in disciples? You are always jealous of him. He didn't think his dress would become dirty. He didn't think of the bad smells. He didn't ask even a question. No arguments." That's it. If you tell someone to do it, that is different. And if someone is doing without telling, that is the difference. So humbleness—pride is our enemy. And that's why the Master said the Guru Kṛpā goes there where there is humbleness, and humbleness is there where there is no jealousy among disciples. That's it. And moha, greediness—so again, to overcome the moha through renunciation: accept what comes. If it is in your karma, in your destiny, it will come. Otherwise, if you are greedy and you don't get and you are suffering, then this can react on your body as illness. So anger, hate, jealousy, complexes, greediness—these kinds of qualities cause many physical illnesses. If you have emotional problems, that causes illnesses. So also in the cancer theory, they said cancer can be caused through some psychic problems, and the psychic problem means kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, ahaṅkāra. For what you are suffering, that's not reality. Therefore, we have here a chance, an opportunity to make sādhanā, inner sādhanā. And for that is the āshram here. So here are all your Guru brothers and sisters whom you love, whom you respect, whom you help, and you are happy to see one another, so it's perfect harmony, balanced. So open your inner self. Practice inner sādhanā, mantra japa. Be in ānanda, always be in ānanda. Ānandoham, ānandoh, ānandam brahmānandam. Ānandoham, ānandoh, ānandam. Recording location: Czech Republic, Strilky, Summer seminar