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O brothers and sisters, of course, wake up! You are missing your chance. The train will depart, and then when you awaken, it will be too late. Tera avsar bit. Avsar means chance. Your opportunity is passing. Tera umar bit tiza. Umar means life. Your life is passing. Life is pain; it is the duration of existence. Tera dinra bit tiza. Dinra means your days. Your days are passing. And those days that have passed will not return. Past time, past days—like a bullet fired from a gun, or salt dissolved away from the body—will not come back. Therefore, satsaṅg—good company, with dosti. Dosti means both are truthful. We have dosti with all; we are all friends. Sata means the truth. Do means two. Both have to be balanced. A bird flies with two wings; if one wing is cut off, the bird cannot fly—it can only move round and round. So in life, to find good friends is rare. But human nature has become such that we are not satisfied, and we are always thinking of having something different. Today we eat an apple, tomorrow we wish to eat a mango, another day potatoes, and another day tomatoes. We are always thinking of changing our friendships just as we change what we eat. Now we are speaking of three things: friendship, lifelong. When we were born, we were searching for our mother's lap. When we grew a little, we were searching for toys. And when we grow past 15 years old—nowadays even 8-year-old children—we search for another toy: a boyfriend or girlfriend. Then we wish to have them as a husband or wife. After some years, you then search for another spiritual toy, which means, finally, the lap of God. But the lap of God is not so easily attained. Again, you must go through the mother—Mother Earth—contemplating how gracious she is, how thankful and grateful we should be to her. She is very gracious; she receives us. We run away, yet again she accepts us as we are. Therefore, first: the mother. Mātṛdevo bhava. Thus, we need someone in life whom we can trust, in whom we can have confidence, to whom we can speak of everything—good and bad—and with whom we can share our emotions, our anger. You know, a little bit of boxing ... but not with the wife, okay? We need to have someone in our life whom we can trust, to whom we can tell everything, with whom we can share our thoughts, to whom we can express our anger, and with whom we can continue boxing matches—but possibly not with our wife. So we must look for someone in life on whom we can rely, whom we can trust, with whom we can live, and at the end of the day, upon whom we can focus and with whom we can sometimes fight—but not with our husbands. --- Recording location: Hungary, Vep, Summer seminar