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Mahāprabhujī's divine message was to limit your needs and limit your greed. Clear from your mind all the conflicts, all the doubts and jealousy. Take it as it is; accept your destiny, accept the situation of your life. If you don't like the situation of your life, then try something and pray that it will develop. We are definitely part of our life situation. But we are not angry with ourselves; we are angry with others. If you are not here, the situation is not here. So you are also part of that situation; we are one organ of the body. We are one part of that motor which is running as life. Therefore, do not blame someone; do not throw the dirt on someone. Try to clean the dirt from you; you are in the dirt, stuck. The only way is to pray, to meditate, and ask God for forgiveness. If you believe in God, it is good. If you don't believe in God, still it will be good if you change your life in a positive way. You cannot have everything forever, and everything forever would be boring; its changing is good. When we were small babies, we liked only milk, nothing else. When we grew, we got some baby food. If someone gives you baby food now, will you like that? You will say, "I am not a baby anymore." But the time will come again when we are 90 years old; then we will be given baby food again because the clock is going back. Now in Kali Yuga, with this fast food and junk food, what people are eating gives a lifespan of 35 to 40 years maximum, going up and then counting back again. So those who are 40 years old are at the top level. Yes, now it's counting back. But 100, 80, 50, or 30 years ago, the top was 70 years. Then came 60, then came 40, 50. So thanks to God, many of us are in the 40s and 50s, and others are overtaking us. They are already in the forties; they are on the top because of the way of living. Yoga and the teaching of the great sense is meant for the good of humans and also for the protection and love of the entire creation. Practice makes the master; if we do not practice, we will not get. So, without making any difference, every master, every holy saint, according to the culture, climate, countries, and situations, gave instruction to the people on what to do. The essence of their instruction is the same. Therefore, Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī's teachings were very simple, very understandable, and were for every man, for everyone to understand. Holy Gurujī said in a beautiful bhajan about a mantra. Many listeners have no mantra, and if they would like to have a mantra, if they want to practice the mantra, you can make an experiment with this mantra; you will get benefit. In this bhajan, Holy Gurujī is talking about this mantra, which I will translate for you. The mantra is: "Dīpa Nirañjana Saba Dukha Bhanjana." This is a mantra. "Dīpa" is the light. "Nirañjana" is pure. "Saba" is all. "Dukha" is darkness, pain, troubles. "Bhanjana" means to remove, to free. It is a very simple and very powerful mantra: "Dīpa Nirañjana Saba Dukha Bhanjana." It has a beautiful melody and is very easy to sing. "Dīpa Nirañjana Saba Dukha Bhanjana. Dīpa Nirañjana Saba Dukha Bhanjana." Very perfect. "Dīpa" is the light, the universal light, and also the name of Mahāprabhujī. "Nirañjana" means spotless, pure, crystal clear. "Saba" is all. What? "Dukha." What is "dukha"? Troubles, pain, these, that, all. "Bhanjana" means to free. That is very powerful, very simple. We also add there "Oṃ Prabhu Dīpa Nirañjana Saba Dukha Bhanjana," but you can also have the short "Dīpa Nirañjana Saba Dukha Bhanjana." Now Gurujī is saying, what happens when you repeat this mantra? That is important. You have to follow me. This is not only for you who are sitting here, but also for our dear brothers and sisters who are at a far distance. "Isī mantrasī hove mana mañjana." Through this mantra, "isī mantrasī," this mantra, "hove mana mañjana." "Hove" means it will be. "Mana" is the mind, and "mañjana" is purified. When you brush your teeth, then you have very nice, clean, shining teeth, no? When the mirror is dusty and you clean it, then it is beautiful, very clean. "Mañjana," like "nirañjana." "Mañjana" means purification, clean, polishing, shining, transparent. What will be transparent? Your mind will be very positive, very pure, very clean, shining. You have to look inside to your inner mirror, then you will see how your mind is pure. There is a grass called jute. From this jute, they make very big rope, the thick rope you use to tie ships and boats. That rope, even if you put it a long time in the water, will become stronger, tight. It will not become soft. Even if you sink it into the Gaṅgā water, it will become tight. So there is one point: "Kaptī jan sudhāre nahīṁ, sā santana ke saṅga." A tricky, "kaptī" person who is tricky will not be better, even if he or she will be with hundreds of the saints. Even if you dip it in the water of Gaṅgā, still it will be very slightly like this. So, purification of the mind. The mind is a problem. We say, "I changed my mind." Oh yes, I accepted, it is beautiful, very nice, yes, I liked it. And next they said, "No, I changed my mind." How did you change your mind? It is not like a spare part of a car that you change it. This is our mental problem. The mind is our problem. Suddenly you turn the key in another direction. What is a conflict? Conflict is the mind. What is pollution? All this physical pollution is a pollution of the human mind. So, this mantra says, "hove mana mañjana." Through this mantra, your mind will be free from the tensions. Your mind will be free from negative thinking. Your mind will be free from making self-negative thoughts against yourself. There are many people who are not happy with themselves. When you go to buy shoes, how many times do you try your shoes and go near the mirror? Only the shoes. You put the shoes on, you go near the mirror and you walk, tap, tap, tap. And again you turn left side and again you turn right side. This is only shoes. It means you are not happy. You close one eye and then make it something like this. And then you look how you look with one closed eye. God gave you two eyes, why do you close one? And then another one. And then looking with the mirror this side, with the mirror that side. This means we are not happy with ourselves. Some don't like the way of their own hair. Always they go to the hairdresser and say, "Please color now this, please color now that." Very, very hard. When you are worthy enough, when you have experiences enough in your life, when many times you were against the stones, kicking the stones and facing many, many disappointments, how many years sitting in the school and learning, finally, now you have got the white, grey hair. If these boys and girls see it twenty years, they want to have a white beard, they cannot. They can color it, that's all. But these boys, you know, still you have to have many, many kicks from your friends. Then you will get gray hair, white hair. You are worthy enough that God gave you now the white, gray hair. And what are you doing? Your white karma, you put again black. The white karma, you put again black karma. So it means we are not satisfied. So repeat this mantra. "Āṅkheṁ khol jāve. Hirde kamala kī āṅkheṁ khol. Hirde kamala kī āṅkheṁ khol jā." "Hirde" means the heart. "Kamala" is lotus. Lotus heart. The lotus of our heart. "Āṅkheṁ khol jāve." We have also eyes in the heart. We have six eyes. Do you know? Two eyes for looking at this world. Two eyes with our viveka, our intellect, to make a decision. When there is some very serious point or a businessman has to decide something, you say, "Moment, let me think over it." What are you doing? You close your eyes and say, "Yes, 20 million dollars, okay." How did you see with your inner eyes? Inner eyes. Two eyes for looking and taking care of our worldly life outside, and two eyes are for our decisions. But these four eyes—two physical eyes and two intellectual eyes—can put us in trouble. Because physical eyes will put us in temptation of beauty. I like this, I don't like this. When you see a big ball of ice cream, two, three balls on it, colorful, then you have temptation. Color, these eyes are for color. And then you ask your intellect, and your intellect will support your selfishness. It will look at your greed. It will look at your benefit, not the benefit of others. So, these four eyes can lead us to the wrong direction. Therefore, God gave us another two eyes more, and these are from the heart. So, in negotiation in business life, you talk in business language: "Where is your point of your pain, border of your pain, that you cannot go more down than this." Then you go to your heart and you say, "Really, okay." Your heart will tell you the truth. And then when you see with the heart, then these inner eyes will have beautiful glasses to see clearly, the intellect. And then your physical eyes will radiate and say, "Okay." So we need to open the eyes of our heart. "Hirde kamala kī āṅkheṁ khulā." "Hirde" is the heart, "kamala" is the lotus. "Āṅkheṁ" means the eyes, "khulā" means open. "Hirde kamala kī āṅkheṁ khulā." The eyes of the heart will open. When and how? If you will put ointment of mantra, it is now your ointment. The mantra becomes an ointment, a medicine. If systematically, every day on time, you will put this sentiment in your heart, then it will open. Otherwise, it will not open. So you have to do it every day, systematically, very correctly, then it will happen. Those who put every day this meme in your heart, this mantra on your heart, then it is said your inner eyes will be opened. When the eyes of your heart open, then you will see the world completely different. How? Positive, everything is beautiful, nothing is disturbing, no conflict. It is something indescribable. When you get up in the morning, when you open your eyes, five times you should say your mantra. Then, while cooking your hot water, boiling hot water, putting tea inside or coffee inside—best is neem tea. Boil the water and put a little neem inside, and then you drink it, and it is bitter. Oh God, early morning, your day begins with bitterness. It is bitter, but the effect is sweet. So when it is bitter, you should say, "Dīpa Nirañjana Saba Dukha Bhanjana. Isī mantrasī hove mana mañjana. Āmen." Recording location: Hungary, Vep, Weekend seminar