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Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān kī, Dev Puruṣa Mahādev kī, Dharm Samrāṭ Satgurū Swāmī Mādhavānandajī Bhagavān kī, Satya Sanātan Dharma kī, Kṛṣṇa Kanaiyā Lāl kī, good evening and many blessings. Today is the day when the Lord, God Kṛṣṇa, incarnated. For the last three years, I have been observing that exactly on this occasion of Kṛṣṇa's birthday, or incarnation, not only do people celebrate this day, but I see that from space, from the heaven, the sky, there is also a kind of celebrating. You know, people make fireworks and crackers for a special occasion. In the last three years, I have observed that when Kṛṣṇa prepares to come to this planet in a physical body, there are also firecrackers in the sky. Yesterday we were sitting after the satsaṅg, and we observed how the stars fall in. Today will be also, and they begin already now, because Kṛṣṇa is already only two hours missing; it was the same last year. So there are two occasions I have been constantly observing where the stars fall, the lightnings occur, and that is a sign of a great incarnation. The word "incarnation" also literally means the birth, but we use "birth" for normal creatures, and "Incarnation Day" for a holy sense, for what we call incarnations: Brahmā, Śiva, Viṣṇu, the first manifestation in this universe who has no mother, no father. That is called Jyoti Svarūpa. Jyoti means the light, the flame; Svarūpa is the form. That Jyoti is the flame of our life. That is that consciousness when the entire universe is empty, śūnya, there is nothing; there is darkness, all is space. And so-called cosmic consciousness is also in complete rest. When you sleep very deeply, you do not notice what is happening in the room if one is not making sounds; you are not aware. But there is a light of your consciousness. If something happens immediately, you wake up. So the light of the universe is called Śiva, the first who manifested himself. That is called Sadāśiva, the Jyoti Svarūpa, and it is that Jyoti through which Viṣṇu, Brahmā, and many other divine personalities, I would say, or the consciousness which developed, manifested themselves without mother, without father, but through that Jyoti Svarūpa they are all Śiva Svarūpa. As soon as one comes to the creation, meaning manifestation, automatically three guṇas appear: Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas. And this Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Maheśa represent these three guṇas where the Prakṛti and Puruṣa begin or become active; meaning Śiva and Śakti. Prakṛti is the Śakti, nature, and Puruṣa is the consciousness, is the Śiva. From that time, that is called a manifestation; after that comes the incarnation. So one is manifestation, who materialized from nothing, has no mother, no father, and then the incarnation we call incarnation, not manifestation; embodiment is called that which has mother and father. So the mother is equally important, or equally great, higher like a father, even more. Without this Śakti principle, without this mother principle, there cannot be even an incarnation. But to be a mother of such a divine soul, who knows how many yugas this mother and father spent faithfully, spiritually meditating, worshipping, leading a life so generous, a life full of mercy? So adoration to those mothers who carried this divine soul in her body and gave birth. And therefore, there are equal pūjā ceremonies to Śakti and Śiva. So it does not matter if it is God as a male form or God as a Śakti form, a female form. This anatomical duality does not exist in that reality. Those who see only this body will never understand. They will never understand what is God, what is Śakti, Durgā, Lakṣmī, and so on. First is the manifestation, and it is the manifestation of the cosmic consciousness that begins all creation. Similarly, we also have manifestation; you create something suddenly, and everybody will say, "Oh, wow, my God, this is something." I know one could think about that. Yes, through meditation you can do something; the artist, meaning the best artist, is the one who creates art which does not exist anywhere on this planet, that is completely new. So also in normal life we say first you must have your intuitions, your mental imaginations, visions, then you make plans, and then you work out the plans, then it comes into forms. Now, that which is born will die. This is one of the laws of Prakṛti, which has a mother and father; when they are born, they have to go back. You may call it death, you may call it that they just left their body because this body is mortal. I am telling this because of today's Kṛṣṇa's incarnation day. Very clearly Kṛṣṇa is saying in the Bhagavad Gītā, in the 4th chapter, 12th, 13th, 14th mantras: "Whenever my bhaktas..." Now, what Kṛṣṇa means by "my bhaktas" is not those bhaktas who have Kṛṣṇa's photo and are sitting and singing Hare Kṛṣṇa. It does not matter anyone in which corner of the universe, in which form; it does not matter. Anyone who believes there is God, there is truth, there is righteousness, there is justice—satyam satyam eva jayate, where the truth is victory; satyam śivam sundaram, that satyam is Śiva, the ultimate truth; sundaram is the beauty of the entire universe, Arjuna. Whenever the religion—meaning the ethics, not that kind of religion we are fighting over; there are two powers, politic and religion; wars are in two hands, politicians and religions, that does not mean God—whenever people try to put down religion, it does not matter from which belief in God you have, holy saint or incarnate, they mean the entire planet. So wherever my bhaktas—the universal God, because in his mind there is no duality—when my devotees, believers, spiritual people are going to be troubled by āsurī śaktis, negative energies, then Arjuna, I manifest, I incarnate from time to time. And according to this, hundreds or thousands of times or millions of times since this creation began, God has incarnated on this planet.