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A closing address for a week-long spiritual retreat (Kriyānuṣṭhān).

"This place grows better and better each day; every year, it accumulates more spiritual energy due to your presence. Through Śrī Mahāprabhujī's blessing, it is truly a pollution-free zone—free from material, technological, and electronic pollution."

"Gulabjī spoke yesterday about nourishment for the heart. Nourishment for the heart is another heart. But do not only understand this as between husband and wife or boyfriend and girlfriend—not only that."

The speaker, likely a spiritual teacher, addresses participants at the end of an intensive retreat. He contrasts the retreat's peaceful, pollution-free environment with the noise and stress of modern holidays and society. He reflects on Gulab Kotari's talk about emotional nourishment through heart-to-heart connection, broadening it beyond human romance to include bonds with pets. Finally, he clarifies that the powerful yogic practices (Kriyānuṣṭhān) performed are an annual purification, not a daily routine, and bids the group a safe journey.

Recording location: Hungary, Vep, Summer seminar

In this short time, I believe you have learned a great deal. You have recharged and renewed your physical, mental, and spiritual energies. This place grows better and better each day; every year, it accumulates more spiritual energy due to your presence. Through Śrī Mahāprabhujī's blessing, it is truly a pollution-free zone—free from material, technological, and electronic pollution: no televisions, newspapers, radios, discos, or anything of the sort. We are also free from chemical and other technological pollution. I tell you, if you had gone on holiday to a beach, it would be a horror now. Until one or two o'clock at night, there are open-air concerts and discos—you cannot sleep. The daytime is also noisy. These are not holidays anymore; it is a horror. It is mentally torturing, and you cannot maintain your mental peace. Here, we have perfect peace and balance every day: satsaṅg, prayers, singing, teachings, and so on. Satsaṅgok vannak, bhajanok, fohás, tanitások is így tovább. Svaki dani mam a svoju sadánu, satsaṅgé, bhajánai, morit. As Mr. Gulab Kotari said yesterday about nourishment, the environment is also nourishment. És ahogy tegnap a Gulab Kotari úr beszélt nekünk arról, a mentális környezet is táplálékul szolgál. Speaking is nourishment, and not speaking is also nourishment. Now he is coming. He has a long life. You know, in India we say, "Remember somebody and they appear." This morning, you can see: if someone had high blood pressure, after this week it will be normal. But now you have to jump back into the hectic world. This old technology has made humans very individualistic. Humans are cut off from humans. Everyone has their own television, own laptop, mobile, SMS—so we are getting farther and farther apart. The love of human for human is missing. Gulabjī spoke yesterday about nourishment for the heart. Nourishment for the heart is another heart. But do not only understand this as between husband and wife or boyfriend and girlfriend—not only that. Sometimes you can have a better heart-to-heart feeling with your cat than with your husband. In modern psychology, they advise people who have depressions or certain problems, who cannot maintain their life, to have a house pet. And then they see the blood pressure goes down; many symptoms in the body which the doctor couldn't cure become balanced or cured. This is a heart-to-heart connection. Like little children: when they have a doll and are so happy, they always carry it close to their heart. When they are nervous, unhappy, or crying, the mother gives them a toy. This toy is a heart-to-heart for the child. So do not misunderstand "heart-to-heart" to mean only male and female, that you must now find a wife or a husband because Gulabjī said you need another heart. Of course, if you are missing that, I wish for you that you will find a happy heart in a cat. Another thing: you had this anuṣṭhān for one week. In this anuṣṭhān, there are very selected yogic kriyās, but these are not for your everyday life. All these kriyās which you did from morning to evening in different sessions—different kriyās with chakras, with breath, with concentration, with mantras, chakras, śodhanam, chidakas, dhāraṇā, all these anulom, vilom, śuddhis—all this technique from morning to ... this is like a complete course to be done once or twice a year. Nowadays, in modern language, they say "capsule program." You know what a capsule program is? It means you just take one tablet and that's enough, and you have to take it every day. These are only a few exercises which take five or ten minutes. That is a capsule program. So this Kriyānuṣṭhān is not a capsule program. It is not medicine to be taken every day. It is like Śaṅkhaprakṣālana, which you do only three times a year. You may like Śaṅkhaprakṣālana very much, but do not do it every day. So this was a Śaṅkhaprakṣālana, an anuṣṭhān of śuddhi: manaḥ śuddhi, ātmā śuddhi, tantra śuddhi—the purification of the body, purification of the mind, purification of the ātmā, so that your soul feels good. I wish you a very happy, very safe, and very pleasant journey back. I will see you again very soon. --- Recording location: Hungary, Vep, Summer seminar

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