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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 happy stay. God bless you. We will begin with a beautiful bhajan: "ānandoham, ānandoham, ānandam, brahmānandam." "Ānandoham" means "I am blissful, I am blissful, I am blissful." I have the divine bliss within me. Ānandoham. Consider when someone tells you, "You are a very nice person." How do you feel? It is not only your ego, but you truly feel happy and relaxed. Conversely, if someone tells you, "You are an ugly one, a bloody one," you feel unhappy. Similarly, when we sing a song or think a thought, if it is beautiful and divine, it purifies negative vibrations from your body and creates a boundary, a protection—what we might call bulletproof—so that no negative energies can enter your individual phenomenon. As soon as you think negatively, it does not matter towards whom or towards 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 has immense energy, vibration, and the capacity to purify negative vibration. This power is not merely a thought from your brain. It is not a thought or feeling from your heart. It is not from this body, neither from the intellect, nor from your soul, but from your real Self, the Ātmā. The soul is not the Ātmā. The soul is individual, and the Ātmā is universal. So within thyself, that cadence is there, that energy is there, the power is there, which has the influence and the power to purify all negative vibrations from the body as well as the surroundings. Therefore, when you sing something, you feel it through and through. Within you is the fountain of joy, and within you is the ocean of bliss. Within you is the immortal Self. Kill this little "I" and lead a divine life. Each spiritual song, each 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 towards the cosmic light, to the origin. Every entity searches day and night for happiness, no matter which kind of creature it is: human, animal, bird, reptile, mosquito, fly, or bacterium; they are all searching for happiness. We humans, day and night, are trying hard to be happy. We seek the kind of happiness which remains forever. This material happiness is like bubbles on water; very soon they will just pop up and be destroyed. The second happiness, that is called God. Whether you believe in God or you do not believe in God, that does not make a difference. That God which we all believe in and should believe in is only one. And that 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, but It is there. From time to time, some supreme power incarnates or manifests on our planet that we may also call God. The God which we cannot measure, we cannot put into one small form, is why we call Him Almighty. He is love, He is the truth, He is the pure consciousness, He is that Ātmā. And that is our reality, our origin. If I throw this piece of remote controller into the sky, it will come back to the earth due to gravity. But in spirituality, it is something different than gravity, because the origin of this little material which I have in my hand is the earth. The biggest part of this is here, and so this small one again would like to come 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 that you are an individual soul and God is separate, you will still feel this duality. One saint says in a beautiful Hindi poem; the translation 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. That is what in English is a very nice word: marriage. It is a very good word. What does marriage mean? The same word you can use for a road. When two roads come together, when two roads marry, it means becoming one. If the husband and wife do not have the same feelings, opinions, and everything, then there is a duality. There is a danger of separation because you did not merge into oneness. And that was the purpose of marriage: to have a happy and good family. But you must think, find the time, and consider if you want 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 the whole." Do not control your thoughts. If they come, let them come. And if they go, let them go. So someone told my Swāmījī, "You taught this: if husband comes, let him come. And if husband goes, let him go." It is not like that. There is something different than this. But this will also change, and the real merge—meaning marriage—means to become one with, one without a second. And it is true: the destination and destiny are together. The destiny is directed to the destination, but a negative destiny can lead you in a different direction. There is one song in the German language: "Real friendship should never change." There is a long verse, but there is one word which I did not like. Nearly 30 years ago, I corrected it. It is a very famous old German song, but I made a little 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, this is terrible." So I changed the sentence: "Even when death will take my life, I will not stop being faithful." Mīrā Dāsī Janam Janam Hari Tumāre Pās. Mīrā Bāī said, "I am with thee, oh my Lord, every life." We say, "Pati Patnī Ek Mat Ho Svarg Meṁ Sathā." If the 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 ānanda is temporary joy, and that temporary joy can be painful. The joy of the joy is less than the sorrow of that joy which will follow. But there is one called bliss, divine bliss; that is real ānanda, and that 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. I also learned this singing, this "Ānandoham": "Já mám radosť. Já mám radosť. Radosť mám." So, "Ānandoham." Try. Close your eyes or just feel and sing. Do not make a difference of the language, whether it is Sanskrit or Hindi or English or Hungarian or German. You see, this surface of language is only for our understanding, but in reality, it is the same Nāda, the form of the Supreme. If you still would like to know how God looks, then it is a resonance. Someone said, "The sound can be painted, resonance can be painted, and the painting can be heard like music, the sound." So fine, Nāda, Nāda Rūpa Para Brahma. And it is that sound that will lead us and that will unite us. "Sab Dāsane Hī Merī, Jatara Marī He Lī, Māyāve Boy Marī He." You know this bhajan. But now we will sing "Ānandoham." The translation is this: "I am bliss. I am bliss. I am bliss. Bliss." Okay. Brahmānandam. Brahmā kā ānandam. Brahmā is that God which has no name and form. You may call it in English "Holy Father," if they mean a father like this, who has no form, nothing. It is just 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 this is changeable. The reality never changes, and the non-reality is all the time changing. Reality never changes. In modern language they say, "Evidence will never die." Thank you. Recording location: Hungary, Vep, Weekend seminar