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Kapil Muni is also known as an incarnation of Viṣṇu. He lived around the time of God Rāma, which we remember as more than 10,000 years ago, or perhaps even more. In those times, ṛṣis lived for thousands of years. They were engaged in tapasyā, and through that tapasyā and meditation, they were discovering everything. In modern language, that word "tapasyā" is used as "research." In every university, before you receive your diploma, you must write some research work on a subject. Similarly, when a disciple came to the master, the master would give them a task: go and research what is vairāgya. Through tapasyā, discover what you realize and how you feel through vairāgya—not for one day or five days, but for a thousand years, two thousand years. This is because a real master and a real disciple do not act immediately. There are two kinds of masters. One kind immediately gives mantras and kriyās and makes all sorts of promises; the result is that none of them becomes perfect—neither master nor disciple. The second kind takes time, and often the master sends the disciple away. But the disciple does not go away; he comes back. If you know the story of the great saint Śukadev Muni—you may not know this, which is a great pity—I think we should always have lectures on one of the ṛṣis. When he lived, there was a great saint called Garga Ācārya, one of the best astrologers ever incarnated on this globe. He was the master of Kṛṣṇa, the family guru of God Kṛṣṇa. According to astrology, Garga Ācārya gave the name to God Kṛṣṇa as Kṛṣṇa. He had children who were also very wise. He had one daughter, Hārvī, known as Gārgī, and she was so great, so wise, so divine that in India we have official awards sometimes called the Gārgī Award. So women can also achieve this; do not think only men can. But not those confused women running here and there—today with black hair, tomorrow with green hair, and the day after with white hair. They go to this master and that master, and no master; it is all a terror. In Hindi, "master" means: "mas" means the meat, the flesh, and "ter" means hanging. You are hanging in the meat, in the body, and nowhere else. Śukadev Muni, who was the son of the great Vedavyāsa—Vedavyāsa was the one who dictated and wrote the Vedas—was the disciple of King Janaka. King Janaka was the father-in-law of God Rāma. If someone is the best speaker with great knowledge, we call him an incarnation of Śukadev Muni. This seat where I am sitting now is known as Vyāsagādī; it is the seat of Vyāsa Muni. It is not that the person sitting on that seat is adored, but the seat itself is adored. Like the Pope: when he sits on the holy chair, the holy throne, then he is the Pope. So, great changes, great recesses—anyhow, Kapil Muni was so perfect and known as God Viṣṇu's incarnation. There was another very great incarnation of three in one: that was Dattātreya. Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Maheśa—all three in one—the great sage Dattātreya. His mother was the greatest, holiest person called Anasūyā. When you go to Mount Abu, on its highest peak there is a samādhi and temple of Mother Anasūyā. There is one cave and a beautiful āshram where Guru Dattātreya lived. That highest peak of Mount Abu is known as Guru Śikhar, the highest peak of the Gurudeva. That great, divine, holy lady Anasūyā was the sister of Kapil Muni. We adore their parents; we worship both mother and father who gave birth to such a divine soul. Such a divine soul comes only to those persons who follow discipline and human qualities, preserving them, not animal qualities. That is not easy. You have to endure a lot of things: tapasyā, oneness. There was no question of divorce; there was perfect harmony. And so there were, and there still are on this globe, divine people. Therefore, at that time, they had a lot of discipline. The wife and husband only came together after praying for years and years and following the rules of all nature's changes. Then they prayed and decided to have a child, and that child was like a great saint—male or female, it did not matter; all were equal. The great saint Kapil Muni had all the siddhis that exist in this universe. Though he had siddhis, he did not utilize or demonstrate them. Whoever demonstrates siddhi—that "I can materialize this or that, or I can kill that or this"—is only a slave of the siddhi, and no longer holy. Therefore, God Kṛṣṇa quotes in the Bhagavad Gītā about Kapil Muni. In the 10th chapter, speaking to Arjuna about the siddhas, He says: if you compare me as God—Viṣṇu, Kṛṣṇa—then among the siddhas, I am Kapil Muni. "Siddhānāṁ Kapilo munih." Kṛṣṇa kaha Arjuni, mejo siddhāma, yasāṁ Kapil Muni. Kapil Muni brought one of the philosophies, the sixth philosophy we have in India, called Sāṅkhya philosophy. And again, Kṛṣṇa speaks the whole chapter in the Bhagavad Gītā about Sāṅkhya Yoga. Sāṅkhya means mathematics; Sāṅkhya is mathematics. There were such great ṛṣis, and it is their blessing that we are here and learning something. Every human, no matter on which part of this globe, is a child of some ṛṣi. All of us are connected to those ṛṣis. So you—not only me as an Indian, but you, sitting here from many, many countries (the whole hall is full)—your background is connected with one ṛṣi. That ṛṣi is your Kulgurū. That ṛṣi is the origin of your dynasty, and that is existing in your blood and in your consciousness; he is in your consciousness and in your blood.