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This weekend retreat is dedicated to purifying and developing spiritual consciousness for world peace, the protection of the environment, and self-realization or God-realization. I wish you all a happy weekend and a pleasant stay. God bless you. We will begin with a beautiful bhajan: "Ānandoham, Ānandoham, Ānandam, Brahmānandam." Ānandoham means "I am blissful." I am blissful; I have divine bliss within me. When someone tells you, "You are a very nice person," how do you feel? It is not merely your ego; you genuinely feel happy and relaxed. Conversely, if someone says, "You are an ugly one, a bloody one," you feel unhappy. Similarly, when we sing or think of something beautiful and divine, it purifies negative vibrations from your body and creates a protective boundary—a kind of bulletproof shield—so that no negative energies can enter your individual being. As soon as you think negatively, it does not matter towards whom or what, even towards yourself. Poison is poison. Whether you give it to someone else, put it on plants, or take it yourself, poison has its effect. Similarly, the power of your thoughts possesses immense energy, vibration, and the capacity to purify negative vibrations. This power is not a thought from your brain, nor a feeling from your heart. It is not from this body, nor from the intellect, nor even from your soul. It comes from your real Self, the Ātmā. The soul is not the Ātmā. The soul is individual, while the Ātmā is universal. Within yourself, that cadence, that energy, that power exists. It has influence and the power to purify all negative vibrations from the body as well as the surroundings. Therefore, when you sing, you feel through and through that within you is the fountain of joy, within you is the ocean of bliss, and within you is the immortal Self. Kill this little "I" and lead a divine life. Every spiritual song, every spiritual poem, purifies our body, mind, and consciousness. The result is that our soul will be liberated from those karmas or destinies and will lead itself toward the cosmic light, toward the origin. Every entity searches day and night for happiness. It does not matter which kind of creature it is—human, animal, bird, reptile, mosquito, fly, or bacterium—they are all searching for happiness. We humans try hard day and night to be happy, to find that happiness which remains forever. Material happiness is like bubbles on water; very soon, they pop and are destroyed. The second kind of happiness is that which is called God. Whether you believe in God or not makes no difference. That God, which we all believe in and should believe in, is only one. It is called Nityam Śuddham Nirākāram Nirañjanam Nitya Bodhaya Cidānandam—everlasting, immortal, pure wisdom, pure consciousness, formless, nameless. Only the One God has no form, no name, nothing, yet It is there. From time to time, some supreme power incarnates or manifests on our planet, which we may also call God. The God we cannot measure, whom we cannot confine to one small form, is why we call Him Almighty. He is love, He is truth, He is pure consciousness, He is that Ātmā. That is our reality, our origin. If I throw this remote controller into the sky, it will come back to earth due to gravity. But in spirituality, it is something different from gravity, because the origin of this little material object in my hand is the earth. The biggest part of it is here, so this small part wishes to return and join the origin, the biggest part. Similarly, every creature is a part of that universal One, and they are searching to come back to the origin. The final destination is to merge into oneness. If you believe you are an individual soul and God is separate, you will still feel this duality. One saint expresses this beautifully in a Hindi poem, the translation of which is something like this: "When I was here, he was not there. Now he is here, but I am not there. Because the street of love is so narrow, two cannot walk together. Two have to become one." In English, there is a very nice word for this: marriage. It is a very good word. What does marriage mean? You can use the same word for a road: when two roads come together, when two roads marry, it means becoming one. If husband and wife do not share the same feelings, opinions, and understanding, then there is duality. There is a danger of separation because you did not merge into oneness, which was the very purpose of marriage—to have a happy and good family. But you must think and find the right time if you wish to merge into it or not. Now, in this Kali Yuga, in modern times, we say, "If it comes, let it come. If it goes, let it go. Just relax the whole body." In relaxation, your yoga teacher tells you, "Relax, my friend, relax completely. Do not control your thoughts. If they come, let them come. If they go, let them go." So someone told my Swamiji, "You taught this: if the husband comes, let him come; if the husband goes, let him go." It is not like that. There is something different. This attitude will also change, for the real merge means marriage, means to become one again, one without a second. It is true that destination and destiny are together. Destiny is directed toward the destination, but negative destiny can lead you in a different direction. There is a song in German: "Real friendship should never change." There is a long verse, but there is one word I did not like. Nearly thirty years ago, I corrected it. It is a very famous old German song, but I made a small correction. The end of the song originally was: "When death will take my life, then I will stop being faithful to you." I said, "Oh my God, how terrible!" So I changed the sentence: "Even if death takes my life, I will not stop being faithful." Meera Dasi Janam Janam Hari Tumare Pas. Meera Bai said, "I am with thee, oh my Lord." We say, "Pati patnikā ek mātā ho śvarag me śata." If husband and wife have the same decision, same feeling, tolerance, respect, and understanding, then they have power even in heaven. So, ānanda is bliss. There are two kinds of ānanda. One is temporary joy, and that temporary joy can be painful. The joy of the joy is less than the sorrow that will follow. But there is one called bliss, divine bliss—that is real ānanda, and it is within you. You need not search outside. Within you is the fountain of joy, and within you is the ocean of bliss. So when you sing "ānandoham," feel something within you. You are that. Ānandoham means "I am that." We were singing last weekend, and the whole week I was in Slovakia, so I also learned this singing, this ānandoham. "Radost mam." So, ānandoham. Try. Close your eyes or just feel and sing. Do not differentiate based on language—whether it is Sanskrit, Hindi, English, Hungarian, or German. The surface of language is only for our understanding, but in reality, it is the same Nāda, the form of the Supreme. If you still wish to know how God looks, then it is a resonance. Someone said, "Sound can be painted, resonance can be painted, and the painting can be heard like music, like sound." So fine, Nāda, nāda rūpa para brahma. It is that sound that will lead us and unite us. Sab dasane hi meri, jātarā marī he li, māyāve boy marī he. You may know this bhajan, but now we will sing ānandoham. The translation is: I am bliss. I am bliss... Bliss. Okay. Brahmānandam. Brahmā kā ānandam. Brahmā is that God which has no name and form. In English, you may call it "Holy Father," if they mean the father who has no form, who is simply the universal One. Brahmā kā ānandam—the bliss of the Supreme. That is my Ātmā, not my soul, not my body, not my intellect, not my emotion, not my consciousness, not my feelings—no. All these are changeable. There is the reality which never changes, and the non-reality which is always changing. Reality never changes. In modern language, they say, "Evidence will never die." Thank you.