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Blessed Self, immortal Ātmā, and bhaktas of Śrī Mahāprabhujī Gurujī, I bless you all in the name of our spiritual lineage and am very happy to see you. Indeed, it is a very divine constellation that we could be together. You are fortunate that you can be in the satsaṅg. In this Kali Yuga, satsaṅg is very rare. Also, it is very rare to obtain human life. In the Holy Rāmāyaṇa, the great Tulsīdāsjī said, "Baḍā bhāga manuṣa tanapāvā"—fortunate are we that we obtained a human body. And while repeating the name of God, O human, cross the ocean of ignorance, or this worldly ocean. The ocean has particular significance. The ocean is life. If the ocean is polluted, the life within the ocean will die, and we all will die. If the seas become polluted and the life within them perishes, then we too will perish. So it means the ocean is our life. Unfortunately, we humans are polluting the ocean day by day. We have polluted the rivers, the ponds, the lakes, and the oceans. And this planet represents emotion. Emotions have many different varieties. Anger is an emotion. Hate is an emotion. Jealousy is an emotion. Greed is an emotion. Love is an emotion. Happiness is an emotion. It depends on through which filter you are filtering your emotion. But here, the ocean emotion means harmony, love, protection, life. In the Upaniṣad, it is said how the soul travels through the astral world and how it again comes to this planet. The manifestation from the astral body into the material body first takes place through water. You know, there are five elements: space, fire, water, air, and earth. So the astral being flutters on the waves of time through the endless universe, and then this individual is again directed towards this planet. This planet is known as Karmabhūmi, the planet of action. No action can be done without emotion. No action can be done without motivation. And there is no motivation without a particular aim. We must have a target. Then, to achieve that, we are motivated. To be motivated, we need Śakti, energy. That energy is a willpower—a willpower to exist, a willpower to be successful. So, within our willpower and our motivation to achieve that target, emotion is a very important part. This is a planet of action, which means working. Everything is working on this planet. Even the Earth is working. Plants are working. Animals are working. And everyone's action yields some result. This planet is not a dead planet; it is a living planet. Where there is life, there is progress. But my life needs emotion. And that emotion cannot function or be applied unless you have motivation. And motivation cannot exist unless you have a particular object. So first you should create the object mentally. First, plan everything, then work out the plan. To finish that work, you need motivation, energy, love—and that is the highest part of psychology according to Vedānta or spirituality. According to spiritual knowledge, this is actually the highest psychology. How fortunate are those who have gained human life. By praying repeatedly, you can cross the ocean. This planet is Mṛtyuloka. It has birth and death, coming and going. What is created one day will be destroyed—anything. It can be a house, a machine, your clothes, or your body. What is manifested will one day be dissolved. So either you use a beautiful word—it will be dissolved—or it will be destroyed. Then what is the aim? What is the purpose of this creation? Why do we create when we know that one day it will be destroyed? Many people think, "Why am I living? Why did God give this life? Why are so many creatures suffering on this planet?" This planet is where individual consciousness can develop towards completeness, so that you will not have to come again and again. Who came has to go, and who went has to come back. So when we say goodbye in English, they say, "See you." We are not aware of what this one sentence means. Human language is a perfect language. It doesn’t matter which language it is—Slovak or Czech, Hungarian or Croatian, Yugoslavian, Slovenian or Italian, German, English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Japanese, Chinese. There are hundreds, or thousands, of languages. Can you believe or understand that for each word, how hard they had to work to create it until that same word was accepted by every human? That must be research work. Let’s say "love." In any language, when you say "love," all humans know what it means. No one has a copyright to love. It has no trademark. Or "happiness." No one has a trademark for this. Everyone has a right to utilize it, use it, and be in happy contentment. So when the word "happiness" is spoken, at that time, unconsciously or consciously, you inquire within thyself: "Yes, I know what happiness is, but am I happy?" That is it. And if not, then why are you not happy? What can make you happy? Work for that thing. But again, it is said that what makes you happy one day will make you unhappy. Are you prepared to be unhappy? If not, then do not search for that happiness, because the joy of the joy is little joy compared to the sorrows of that joy. But we are normal mortal beings here. In this Mṛtyuloka, we have our qualities, guṇa. We are connected with the five elements. We are hungry. We are thirsty. We are tired. We are awakened. We feel love. We feel unhappiness. Whether it is reality or not, it is still reality. The present situation we have in our life is a reality. We cannot say we are not living. You are living. You are hungry. You are tired. You are thirsty. You are offended. This is all emotion. And we are floating, swimming through this ocean of emotion—up and down, struggling to cross this ocean, to be successful, to reach that target. Thank you for watching.