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You see, in that sense, it is not a celebration of the Mahāsamādhi day. It is, we call, a sārañjali—we call it remembering them. It is to pay our homages: to remember, to sing, and to do something good in that name, on that day, in their name. If we are a normal worldly person, then we pray to God for our own liberation and enlightenment, or for the well-being of that departed soul—it doesn’t matter where it is, in which part of the universe, in astral form or in physical form again. And if it is a spiritual, or what we call a divine being, then we pray to them to bless us and to forgive all our mistakes, which we did and which we are doing. Because from that astral level, they see everything through and through: what you did and what you are doing. But if it is reversed—if the spiritual being departs—then we pray for them to stay within us, to forgive us for the mistakes we have committed. From where they are, from the astral world, they can see everything we have committed. And therefore, on this day, we are thinking of and praying to those divine ātmās. So, throughout the whole world, wherever we have ashrams, today people are gathering, having prayers, and they send us faxes or telephone calls because they know I’m here. And it is the duty of the board committee—if there is a board committee of those organizations of the ashrams—to organize at least these programs or the satsaṅgs of our spiritual lineage, in the name of our spiritual lineage. And the responsibility of each ashram leader is to organize the program and satsaṅg on the day of the spiritual master for the chain of its members. And the responsibility of all management departments, if they exist in our āśrams, is to organize the remembrance in the spirit of our spiritual tradition and the line of teaching on this day. There is no question of asking, "Should we make the satsaṅg or not?" In the church, they don’t ask if they should celebrate Christmas or not. Other companies, as a social event and as just a formality, do it on different days for celebrations. So it doesn’t matter if it’s a working day or a non-working day. It doesn’t matter if there are a thousand people or two persons only. In every ashram or in every organization, on these days, prayers should be offered, prasāda should be taken, given, and meditated upon. Invite those who come; those who don’t come, their choice. Now, on this day, satsaṅg is organized—that is, prayer, prasāda, meditation is taken—and when it comes, it comes. And all devotees should approach their nearest place. So you see, the full moon doesn’t wait for Sunday or the weekend to be full. And so, certain events you should not do just out of obligation. Even I am not there. If I come one day later, you think we will do it one day later. That’s not correct. Yes, one day later you can do more satsaṅg and prasāda, that’s okay. But because of anyone, time does not wait. So the calendar date is changing, and likewise in every ashram they are doing it. In the German language, this is self-sustaining. Thank you.