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Part 1: A Practical Introduction to Chutney and Spices Swāmījī promised yesterday in the evening satsaṅg a small introduction to cooking. Of course, he will speak himself about cooking. We just prepared to show you how to make some chutney. So we got one beautiful big chutney stone from India. It’s not very heavy, just six to eight kilos. And it’s very good because if the stone is heavy, you need not use such strong power from you. First, you take spices. You decide what you will cook, and that’s why Avatāra Purī’s most favorite vegetable he likes too, is bhiṇḍī, so we will prepare one chutney to put in bhiṇḍī. So we will take which spice you have there, it’s called Ajavāina. You put a little bit of ajavāina, and we can start to grind it slowly, and then we can put one spoon of dhānyā, the whole seeds of dhānyā. A big spoon, so you will get a lot of sabjī. And we can also put mustard seeds. Then we take black mustard. Can you smell, Avatārapurījī? This is enough. Can you smell something? What do you smell? Ajavāina. When we are grinding the spices in this way, it’s very natural without any machine, just pure stone and pure seeds, and all natural oils will come out. You have the smell, and you have the taste. And now Avatārapurī put also some black pepper, I think he likes hot sabzī. You can decide yourself if you want to have the meal more hot or more mild, and according to this, you will put the spices also. Then we prepared some chili. We soaked some dried chili and haladī. This is haladī, the whole haladī roots. Haladī is one of the most helpful spices for our health. It helps children to grow their bones. Yes, it’s hard. It’s dry. This one is very hard, though it was soaked. So for this, you need a little bit more power. But our Govinda Purī is very strong. Haladī is not good only for the children, for the adults also, especially it prevents the bone breaking. Whatever you make, your bones will be stronger, but also they have many more medical effects. Now we are putting some dried chili that was also soaked in the water. If you like hot, you put a lot of chili. If you cook for children, you put only very little or no chili. It depends on the child. Yes, we can also put a little jīra, cumin. And the best, you will help us. The best, we will put very nice green. This is basil. You can put a handful. It has many, many vitamins and minerals. This is the mixture of parsley, green parsley, and dhānyā, green coriander. To help grind this, we will also put a little bit of salt, but the salt I will put even on the spoon. So you have to take care when you are cooking. You should know you already put salt in the chutney, and you need not put so much in the vegetables. You can choose spices you like, but you should also be careful because not all kinds of spices fit together with all kinds of vegetables. And also, not all vegetables can you mix together. We would not suggest, for example, to cook carrots with banyan and melanzani. Or, there are sometimes some people who are cooking bhiṇḍī vegetable together with some other vegetables. Is this good or not? No, it is not good. Of course, you can put some chili or some onion. We are speaking about bhiṇḍī because of Avatāra Purījī’s wish to cook bhiṇḍī now. Is there anybody who smells something already? Good. Now that we have also a little bit sour taste, because it’s only salty, hot, and spicy, you can put some lemon, but the best is to put some green mango. Of course, if there is no mango, you can put some lemon juice, or in our European area, there are many apples, so you can take some green apple, not ripe apple. You can also put in some tomato. Now it also has some juice inside, so it will be easier to grind. You are tired, Gopālapurī? Are you tired, Gopālapurī? No, no, it’s okay. The first time, it is for sure not easy to make it. Because you have to learn to make the movement. You go from the front to the back. And you try also to have all the spices, then in the middle, that it is not on the surrounding only, then it is not ground. Stone is a big help, but you still need a little bit of physical power. Avatāra Purījī was very, very careful with the green things. Avatāra Purījī was very foresighted with greenery. The greens are very, very healthy and also very tasty. You can put two more. No, all this is enough. Okay, so today it will be a hot bhiṇḍī sabjī. And this grinding stone you can use for making the chutney also. This is chutney for the sabjī, but you can make also special chutney only that you eat extra with the meal. And you can prepare also some chutney that is a little bit tasteful and sweet when you use a little bit of the cloves. Cardamom, there is cinnamon, a little sugar, or a little sugar, no, no... not in this. Avatāra Purījī nearly put the cloves in this chutney. I think he would not like then his sabjī. Sometimes we can put a kind of cardamom also in the normal sārdine, but not so often. You should also take care that your table does not run away. And be careful with your dress, because making chutney sometimes makes many spots on the whole table, on the carpet, on the floor, especially if you are doing it for the first time and you have no experience. Meanwhile, when you prepare your chutney, you can cut the vegetables. You can put the oil on the pan, put some spices that you put whole, not ground. Fry a little bit, put some onion, then we can put it nicely cut on the inside, let it fry a little bit, a little salt only, and then when we are ready with the chutney, we will collect it, but we are not yet ready, and chutney we can mix, then after, with a little bit of water, pour in the vegetable. It takes a bit of time to make the chutney. You have to be a little bit patient, but you can keep it two to three days in the fridge without any problem in a closed bottle. If you want to make it more durable, then when the chutney is ready, you put some oil on the pan, mix the chutney with the water. When the oil is hot, you pour the whole chutney with the water inside and cook it until the water disappears. And, of course, keep it in a tidy, closed container. Yes. I was asking if we will eat this. Yes, it will come in your subject. Now, I think this is very nice and fine. Fine. Maybe we can collect it in the middle. Yes, you can put it in a cutlery. Take this one. You try to collect all that will remain. You can wash with water, but it is a pity to wash it away because it’s very nice spices. So if you have already prepared your chapātī dough to make chapātīs, you can just take the chapātī dough and mix a little bit inside. It will suck all spices; nothing will remain inside. Now, Avatāra Purījī, you can show the camera what is inside your katorī. You learned many things. Something about spices for your health. Your health: how to prepare the spices for your food. Now, spices means you should not understand spices as a hot chili. Some suggest the hot chili, some do not suggest the chili. Also, black pepper is good, and some people think that hot chili and pepper are rajas. There are three guṇas, three qualities: sattva, rajas, and tamas. Sattva is pure, balanced. Rajas is more active, hot, fire, and tamas is dull, ignorance, impure. And these three guṇas are very important also. Rajas guṇa is what makes you restless, but at the same time makes you more aware, conscious, active; it is like a fire. Now, the chili, this hot food, chili hot. It seems like a rajas guṇa, but the effect is cooling, and mostly it is used in those countries and islands which have a hot climate. And when it’s a hot climate, then you need a cool effect. So this hot chili and pepper, this creates in your body some kind of extra warmness; your body begins to perspire. And then even the hot air comes and touches your skin, your skin feels cool. Like you go to the sauna, and maybe there’s 120 degrees. But your body doesn’t get 120 degrees. The body maintains its own temperature. So it begins to sweat, so that’s like a film, a water film over your skin. So even if it’s hot, this sweating keeps on cooling, so that your body temperature doesn’t go very high. But someone didn’t like chili, a hot food, and said, "Oh, it’s not good." Because the grapes are sour, the folks went away. But they were not reachable, so for some people, maybe not good. But generally, spices are very good to keep your glands and hormones and everything active. And when all glands are functioning, and hormones and everything, then you feel more healthy. Therefore, spices are something which is a permanent Āyurvedic remedy for you. We are eating for living; we are not living for eating. If we do over something, then it’s not good. So, the spices also you should know how much. For example, you like coffee or tea sweet. And you put two spoons of sugar, three spoons of sugar. And you like a soup, a salty soup, but you don’t put three spoons of salt in it. So, you know how much salt you should put. Why do you put more sugar and why do you put so little salt? Similarly, the ladies, they know, people, they know what is good and what is not good. How much spice should you use? People, mostly those who always go to restaurants and pubs and eat there, miss their knowledge of cooking. For 90 days, you should cook, eat, drink, and stay at home, and one day you can go with the whole family to some restaurant, or club, or whatever you call it. You go alone? What about other family members? Therefore, the whole family goes to enjoy the beauty. And reserve your table, for that is why the restaurants were made. But you want to go alone because you do these stupid things. And your father and mother should know this. Ninety days, not going to any restaurant. And if then, after ninety days, one day, one time only, for dinner or lunch. The whole family, from grandparents to the great-grandchildren. That is a beauty. You enjoy that restaurant, and everybody will say, "Oh, this family is a beautiful family. You belong to the family." You have parents, you have brothers and sisters, you have grandparents, and you have great-grandchildren. Ask yourself psychologically why you want to go alone. Goran, yes, take Eva always with you, and the little one also, and your students, and invite me also. Yes, okay, and then, so, to be like that, we need a family relation, we need a joint family relation. Yeah, so ask why you want to go alone. Tell Father, I want to go out tonight with my friends. Please, can you go with me, drive me, and I will be happy to introduce you to my friends. And we can eat together, sit, and talk. But even if you don’t want to, and the father will tell you, "Can I bring you there?" you say, "No, I don’t need it." Therefore, a healthy way of living, healthy eating, healthy relations, healthy friendships, and healthy drinking make you the best human. If you want to go alone, the guard has you on his list with a question mark. I asked Mahāprabhujī yesterday in the night about certain persons, and Mahāprabhujī just wrote a question mark and closed his eyes. I was waiting for some minutes. I knew there was no chance, so I said, "Okay, thank you." Sometimes, no answer is also a very good answer. No answer is a clear answer. So, every kind of spice and whatever we accept into our body has a kind of effect. Sometimes, a doctor gives you a very small tablet against pain. Why doesn’t he give you a handful? The alcohol was also coming from the churning of the ocean. Out of fourteen precious things, one was alcohol. But as a medicine, not for drink; it’s for your use, not for your abuse. But you are not using the alcohol; you are abusing the alcohol. And that is a big problem. So anyhow, it was good you came to know about that stone that disappeared. With my whole masāla. So, would you like to have such a stone? Very good. Now, it is said parents are the culture of today. Parents are the culture of today. Grandparents, parents were the culture of yesterday, where yesterday’s culture became today’s culture. And now, how the parents keep the culture, that will become tomorrow. Children are the culture of tomorrow, and your nation will go in the direction in which your children go. Humanity will go in that direction in which your children will now go. So the children must have a right education and good love. Do not send your children into the street. Don’t send your children alone to the restaurants at night. These innocent children, they have a child’s right to have better education. They need a home. Do not let your children run in the night here; they are like homeless. So if your children are every night running away, I feel so pity that they are so poor, they have nothing from you, they are homeless. That’s it. And people can do what they want with them. Therefore, parents should be a model for children, an example. And now we have certain projects for children. Yoga and Daily Life, we have a youth union also, Yoga and Daily Life Youth Union. But they are members who have a home; they are not street children. And we support them. Jñāna Putra, it’s not only for India, Jordan. We support somewhere else also when the children need, here also. We have a good student who cannot afford the education, school, and would like to finish their studies, but somehow the financial situation is not so good. We will support you. But you should show us that you were really born to study, and you are studying. That you are not a night bed man. So Lakṣmaṇa Purī has some information. Yes, homeless children. You’re thinking there in Africa and somewhere, homeless children? No, no, no. There are many homeless children. Especially, you see, Friday evening and Saturday evening. My God, come on. A certain number of children are getting an education with the donations we are gathering. The project Jñāna Putra has been running for 10 years now. The children are competing in different sorts of competitions in Rajasthan, and they are getting the best results. In Rajasthan, we have approximately 40,000 students, and two of them were among the best 30. And now, some sad news: Svāmī Jasrāja Purī, who is running the project, decided that he will lower the number of students included in this project. The reason is the lack of money, the means, and the reason is not enough lack of money. I would like to remind all of you who decided to take part in this project and somehow forgot about it, to start with the donation again. And maybe among us there are many people who don’t know anything about this project, and this is for your information, so that you know you can help. That was in the envelope. She took it and put it in the envelope. Every yoga center has a Jñānaputra administrator, and he can tell you what to do. Thank you. Hvala. Well, you know, it’s very hard to keep silent. In the school, in the eating room, in many, many conferences, often people say, "Please be silent." And especially in many parliaments, the parliamentary speakers say, "Please be silent." And one said, "What do you expect from our two- to three-year-old children to be silent when your grown men can’t keep silent?" So, can you imagine how boring for small children to sit here? But they love to be here. And they try very hard to be silent, but when they see the chocolate, "Mommy, mommy, can I go?" So we have to give some time to our juniors, and juniors have prepared some beautiful program. Yes, dear juniors. Welcome. Welcome them. Dear Swāmījī. Darling. We created a lot of things together in this seminar, in our workshops. This is a picture all the children were participating in and made for you. Thank you. I don’t know how it is. Thank you, and thank you. Very good, thank you, children. Something more, singing or something? Okay, come here also. Very good, and you come. What’s happening? Don’t touch, yeah, don’t touch. It is very sensitive. Don’t tell your grandchildren they are very sensitive. Don’t touch them. Let them be homeless. Dobra, one, two, very good. Now, all the juniors, come here. All juniors, sit here, looking that side. Sit here. Sit up. More up. All juniors, juniors. Yes. All juniors under 14 years. Yes. Very good. And the bigger one, stand here. Come. Tall juniors, yes, come close here, Angela. Very good. Quickly, quickly. Before the chocolate disappears. Do we have more chocolate like this? Don’t look at the chocolate, look there. Stand on your knees. Yes. So, dear children, I’m very happy to see you and I love you so much. And I’m always happy and looking forward to seeing you. And I will always have enough chocolate for you. And you are the light of yoga and daily life. And so you are a lucky one, and I am always very happy when you come. And don’t touch the wires. So, you like, tell once, "Oṃ." Everyone chant oṃ. Oṃ.... Once more. A big father, you can go with me, little baby there. Okay, thank you. And now, who likes chocolate? Hand up. Very good. Okay, remain seated. Hands down. And Anubhavī, Anubhavī come. From this side, begin to give to juniors. Give it to Anubhavī. And Sāvitrī, sit down. You are not a little baby. Please, please, Sāvitrī, give the children. All sit peacefully. Look to chocolate. Very nice. Can we sing? Hari Oṃ, Hari Oṃ, Hari, Hari Oṃ, Hari Oṃ,... Hari, Hari Oṃ. Sing. Children, sing: Hari Oṃ, Hari Oṃ,... Hari Oṃ,... Hari Oṃ, Hari Oṃ,... Hari Oṃ,... Hari Oṃ, Hari Oṃ. Okay, so all the best, and also to the parents, all the best. You are the culture of today, and as spiritual, as good as you are, like that, give it to your children. A good home, sweet home, and don’t let your children become homeless, going here and there in the night. So give them a warm home, warm love. All right. So, children, now you go all back side. With the parents. That door, you know that door? Outside of that door, so thank you. He got it. In a good world, no? Homeless, homeless children. So, this is my treasure. It will be on auction. Now, another beautiful thing that we have, you know, our Yoga in Daily Life, the Youth Union of Yoga in Daily Life, which we have throughout the world, throughout the whole world. And we always get information about the best students, and we also get information about who is not the best. We have many students who are the best in school, the best at home, and everything. I am very happy to tell you one piece of news out of many. One of our dear family from Croatia, I think it’s Jadar, last year we opened an ashram in Jadar, it was Jadar? Labin. His family is living in Auckland, New Zealand. And they have one son. His spiritual name is Oṃ Prakāśa. His father is Sūrya and mother is Puṣpā. Our dear Oṃ Prakāśa is about 13 or 14 years old, I’m not exactly sure. Every year, at the end of the school’s summer holidays, he wins, or he gets from the education department and from the school, an award. All the best numbers in mathematics, language, and in many, many things, so many subjects. As well as a corrector of behavior. The teacher says that when he comes in the class, it’s like harmony appearing. And he’s very dear to everyone. And to me also, and of course he loves me too, very much. He writes me emails about what he did and what he’s doing now. And I think he’s fifteen or sixteen years old. And he doesn’t go outside after dinner. And he had many, many good friends. And they were going for the weekend, but one of the friends invited them to eat at home. So they are in someone’s house with the parents. Of course, they have music and soft drinks. Discussing always about the world, the science, the religions, the spirituality, the families, and things like this. And his parents, they are also very great devotees, bhakti, practitioners of yoga and their life. So this is good news. When children are so good and study, then we are also very happy. Though he is now in another part of the world below us, under this point. Now it is evening, quarter past 11, and I hope they are on the webcast looking. So, first of all, to dear Oṃ Prakāśa, we can wish him well, and his parents also. So, we have many, many students like this in America, in Canada, in the Czech Republic, in Slovakia, yes, here also, in Austria. And both, girls and boys, they are very, when they come to the school, something like light has come. So there is a youth union of yoga in their life, and members can be up to 25 years old. I am the exceptionality, so like me, you can also be on the advisory committee. And we are checking that our children are not involved in drugs and criminal activities, and things like this. So now we will design with Jñānaputra and with this, what we call some awards. So, a reward could be very nice. It could also be a ticket to India, or a ticket to Australia, or to New Zealand, to America, to Canada, to England, to Ljubljana, from Kranj to Ljubljana. Part 2: The Essence of Dharma and the Āśrama System Many good things. You are the future light of yoga and deathless life. I bless you all and wish you all the best. Yes, we will tell you more. Are there any questions concerning our children or this program? Please, stand up and tell. Who was raising a hand? They are all waiting, as you said. Yes, they are waiting. Okay. Yes, come. Coordinator for Youth Yoga: I would like to give some information because yesterday there were many questions about the program for juniors. I would like to give information on what is going on in this field in Slovenia. I am a coordinator for yoga for children and youth, and I also cooperate with the Union of Youth. Last year, we began to meet—mostly teachers, also yoga teachers and instructors. We began to meet to exchange our experience, and our aim is to raise the quality of Yoga in Daily Life for children in our state. Now, these little babies who are crying, please, parents, go into the other room and give them milk or food. Thank you. All children, those who are under or up to three years, please go into the children’s room. Thank you. I mean not the children, the parents. We arranged a special program this year, and we had a public presentation. There are some children’s festivals going on, and there we made our presentation. In the summer, we arranged for the first time, in cooperation with Yoga in Daily Life Domžale, a program. We organized at the same time; there was yoga for grown-ups, and a little bit apart from that, yoga for children was also running. In the autumn, we plan to have a children’s bazaar, and we plan to celebrate a day of family, a family day. We have a lot of activities. We are all very busy because all of our instructors have their own families, they have their own work, they are also instructors in yoga courses, but we are putting in this extra effort, and we have stories with yoga in them. Two and surrounding, I invite all parents who are interested to take part to give their contact on our email address. It’s your at yoga minus visa dot SE. I would invite, this is all about JOM, Yoga Union for Youth and Children. I would invite Špela, who is president of the Union of Youth, to say something about it. President of the Youth Union: In the youth union, we are gathered all the youth and young persons between 14 and 30 years—before 5 minutes, but now Swāmījī changed it to 25. We have activities for Earth Day in Novo Mesto. We were taking part in the festivals for volunteers, where we represented Yoga in Daily Life. Before New Year’s in December last year, we organized creative workshops where we were making many different things. And we had to organize people in April when Slovenia had this big action, Clean Slovenia, in one day. So, all young people, as Swāmījī said, from 14 to 25, you are kindly invited to join us so that we can start and do things. Thank you. Thank you. Any member of Yoga in Daily Life Youth Union? Yoga in Daily Life Youth Union. One. Behind the cameraman. Come. Pridī. You should walk quickly. Come. Hitro hodi. Pridi. You must have that value. Youth Union Member: I’m older than 25 years, but I participated and helped to organize this cleaning Slovenia in one day. Yes. I’m a member of Yoga in Daily Life Popetre. Petre, the organizing of our members is a little bit more difficult because we are scattered around Slovenia. This is not only one town, but everybody conducted themselves in a very grown-up way, so it was really no problem. The second project I took part in was in December, these creative workshops in the Ljubljana Ashram. I was leading the workshop for literature, and in this workshop, we try to write about anything. We try to write some poetry, some bhajans, some stories, and some remembered memories from India, and so on. At the moment, we have one poem and one story about memories from India. So I invite all of you young people, if you have interest, to join us, because we are searching, we are gathering materials. We have a plan to make a journal, a newspaper of Yoga Youth, Yoga in Daily Life Youth. If there is enough money, this newspaper will be printed on paper. If there is less money, we have an electronic version of the newspaper. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Thank you, children. Wish you a happy, healthy, and bright future. And wish the parents good strength and good nerves to take care of the children. And give them a warm home; don’t let them be homeless. Yoga in Daily Life Youth Union is ready to support the homeless children. And homeless means not those who have no money. For further information, you can contact our website, the President of the Yoga in Daily Life Youth Union. Well, we are coming to complete our seminar. Yesterday our Sādhvī Anubhavī Purī spoke about different āśramas according to the ancient family system. First, it is said in the Vedas, "Dharma rakṣitaḥ rakṣitāḥ." If you protect dharma, dharma will protect you. If you can’t protect the dharma, dharma cannot protect you. Now, in local language, people understand dharma as a religion. And religion, they understand like now, different religions are. But the view of such a great holy scripture, the first scripture in mankind for us, cannot make a mistake to create a duality, to create a fanaticism. The Vedas, in short you can say, teach us to live in harmony with nature. Dharma means principle. Dharma means that quality. And dharma means that responsibility. What you accept, what you adopt, is the dharma. Dharma of our eyes is to see. If you can’t protect your eyes, they cannot protect you. Dharma of our ears: if you can’t protect them, they can’t protect you. Dharma of the fire is to give heat. If fire is not able to give any more heat, we will not call it a fire. It’s a fake flame. The dharma of a tree is to give fruits; the dharma of every plant is to give the seeds to grow, to continue, and Mother Earth has not lost the seeds still. So, every animal follows its dharma. Every season, the year’s seasons have their dharma. In this part of the world, in the winter, what we call December and January, it will be very hot, 35 degrees or 40 degrees. We will not call it winter. And now in June, July, the weather should be very nice, hot, 40 degrees. But it’s snowing, and minus degrees. We will not call it summer. In the autumn, when the leaves are falling, there are big flowers coming. In spring, when the new blossoms are coming, they are already falling. So dharma, that’s important. Now you can say dharma nature. The woman’s dharma, the man’s dharma, the female dharma, the male dharma. No duality. But different dharmas, and Mother Nature has given duty, and everyone is following that duty. What means the duty? Not that Mother Nature comes and tells you, "Do this and do this." It connects each with their feelings. That feeling keeps them conscious, aware, to follow their dharma. So there were strict guidelines for a human. First, said, do not manipulate or abuse nature. Otherwise, nature will take its revenge. And consequences you have to suffer, which is in Mahāprabhujī’s golden teaching you can read. So, O man, human, do not go against nature. Now we humans have even made nature without seeds, seedless. We have manipulated all the grain seeds so that they don’t grow again. You have to buy the seeds. Many figs you have, nice and big, but they are so big, manipulated. Though they have seeds, but the seeds are seedless. But not only the plants, but the animals too. And not only the animals, the humans too. So this modern way of life, and way of nourishment, and way of these chemical things and experiments, what they are doing through the food and like this, even they made a man seedless. And mother, as the earth is spoiled or destroyed, with all this, she is also not able to grow any more seeds. It means that humans have gone too far to destroy nature. And consequences we are suffering, many, many diseases. Every day, more and more different diseases come. Therefore, there was a strict guideline for a student’s life. That’s called Brahmacharya Āśram. Till 25 years, these young children have only one duty: to study, to learn, to relax. And enjoy the love of the parents. You know, you will not get this love again. You will not get this love again. But you have today; next year you will not get it. And it’s also the parents. Avdāpurī, are you tired? Restless? Where are you looking? Sit straight. Otherwise, go and lie down in the bare room and tell Mansa to lock it. You have a problem with the fingers? Sit straight. Yes. Look down a little. Very good. So, this love you will get nowhere. And it will never come back. Never. For example, when Ātarpurī was two or three years old, he came to Croatia and Slovenia, and was sitting and singing mantra. That’s gone. That joy, that love, it’s gone. Time brings the changes, so those students, children, have other interests than studying. They lost their dharma. There is no family dharma remaining, and that’s why today’s youth is like a homeless child. We need a great personality who studies and does something for the nation. There were great poets and writers in Slovenia. Great artists, musicians, painters. Umetnikov, glazbenikov, slikarjev, and great politicians. And now? Why only if it was a few? Because they follow the dharma of their family life. So I wish that you understand the dharma. Now the parents have got dharma to get children, yes. If you are married, then you have accepted this dharma, gṛhasthāśrama dharma. So, you know, in your Western culture, either you are married in a church or at the government office. And you gave your word. You remember? Nobody said no, yes. That is your dharma. Saying yes means you have accepted your dharma. Now, your life, marriage, means to merge in oneness. It is a lifelong partner, and now it’s your dharma, your duty. If your husband is very strict and like this, then you make that husband softer, like you like, or you make your wife softer and gentle as you like. Now, you are this one heart. This heart has these two parts. Which part of the heart should be taken away? You will die even if you make a bypass. Therefore, dharma. So you have decided your dharma lifelong. But this is manipulated and lost dharma. Result? We see how the world is. How your homeless children are abused by selfish people. A mother or a father or your master and your brother give you nice milk to drink. And if there’s honey inside, or a saffron sweetness. But you never know when you become homeless, who will put what kind of things in your drinking. Have you no father at home? Have you no mother at home? Have you no brother or sister at home? You don’t have them. That’s why you are going away. And you try very hard to do this and this and that and that and this, so that someone will accept you. That someone will love you. Do you need to say to your father, "Father, please love me?" It is there. Does she need to tell you to protect me? That’s the Dharma, the fruits of the Dharma. You don’t need to tell your master, "Master, do you love me?" Master will say, "I don’t love you." But I bless you, divine love protect you. You can love something which is outside of you, but you can have oneness which is within you. So master and disciple, or children and parents, they are oneness; they are not outer persons. The love between parents and other people is this: you ask others to love you, but you don’t need to ask the parents because you are a part of the parents. Then comes gṛhasthāśrama, family life, marriage. Of course, you decide whom you would like to marry. But before you hold the hand, you should check everything to see if this is who will be your lifelong partner. And ask your great-grandparents. First, tell your parents carefully, and your parents will say, "Babi, Grandmother." I will talk to Grandmother. And you go to Grandmother and she says, what? Did this child finish studying? No. Don’t disturb me, go. Study. Grandparents have a lot of experiences. We are a big rock, a raw rock, and grandparents are nice stones, very shiny, polished, like on the Gaṅgā’s beach, which we found. Don’t tell how beautiful, nice, and round this stone is. But ask this stone how many kilometers it was rolling and hitting from one stone to another stone. And now we take this and put it in our pocket, a present for someone whom we love very much. So, there are two: one is called love marriage, and one is called marriage. Love marriage is emotional love. That is like a grass flame. Or a petrol flame: petrol goes up, down, no more, and it burned you, left the wound, and disappeared. So, emotional love, children, is that love will not last long, but lifelong will have in your heart a wound. But love for your parents, your master, is lifelong. Because they wish only the best for you. They wish, first of all, for you to have a good life, a good education, a good position, a good marriage, and that you are healthy and happy. That you become someone for the nation and society. Your father doesn’t want to become president. But your father may wish that my son will become president. That only can be wished by your father or mother. Will not wish that that child should become president. They will say, "No, no, no. My son is best to become president." That is a sign of love. So, love marriage is only a fake flame. And marriage, this is that which you first know the persons, know the background, know the education, know the habits, and parents will also take, and then, yes. Every parent wishes that their child will have a happy marriage and a happy family. If you have not given this education, you fail. You were on the football field, and you had a ball in front of you. You couldn’t kick in the door; you fell. You lost. And at the end of the game, the loser, how does he walk out of the field? And who wins, how do they walk out of the field? Similarly, in the Gṛhastha āśrama, parents who could make their children like a shining sun, they walk into the Brahmaloka above the heaven, like a hero is coming. As a Gṛhastha āśram, you have a big responsibility. When you decide to marry, then forget your own enjoyment, forget your comfort, forget your favorite food. Everything you dedicate to your children. The good piece of cake goes to the baby, and what remains, you can eat. But while feeding the small child, mother and father speak to these children. That you are a light of the world. You are Ātmā, you are Divine Soul, you are the light of our house, the light of mankind. Many, many good educations. Don’t teach your children how to fish. Teach them how to shoot. That’s it. So dharma rakṣitaḥ rakṣitāḥ, if you protect dharma, dharma will protect you. And we need this education again. Vedic culture, Vedic tradition, in Vedic Dharma, we need it again. It is the only way to world peace and heart to heart. And only the center for homeless children, who goes every evening away. Well, another two ashrams, Vānaprastha āśrama and Sannyāsa āśrama, next time I will speak. Today’s program is over, and I’m looking forward this evening to be with you in the Brahma Loka, in the Satya Loka, Satyuga, churning the ocean of the nectar. And let’s say, who will have a right to drink the nectar? And I wish you will be those who will get the nectar. It doesn’t depend on me. I will give you a very clear picture, very clear. You know, there are two colors, or there are two fruits which you want. One fruit is the fruit of nectar, and one is poison. Both look beautiful. What will you choose? There was a king, and he loved to play, and he had a big hall like this. And he put in two places, corners about 30, 40 meters far. On one place, plastic flowers, nicely decorated, you can’t say it’s real or unreal. And the same type, other side, real flowers, you can’t say if they are different. And he let spray the smell of those flowers on the back one. And he said, "Those who can tell me which is the real one, he will get my best horse, that my horse which I love and ride, the best one." Many people failed. So one man came and said, "Sir, I have no desire to have your horse. Your horse is good for you, but I will try to tell you which is right. Tomorrow I will come." The king was happy. He did all his best so that this man would not be successful. Now, smelling, the same flower smells. He brought with him one butterfly, and he left the butterfly in the hall. And he observed, talking with the king. But his eyes were where butterflies were flying. So the butterfly flew towards the plastic flowers. And immediately she ran away from there. And she sat on the real flower and sucked the nectar. He said, "King, sir, the horse is yours." So the king said, "But tell me, which is the flower, the right one?" He said, "Sir, that one is right, the one." The king called the horse boy, the horseman. Please give the horse to this man. The man said, "Sir, I have no wish." Then wish something. One, I will give you. Sir, your highness, horses are yours, elephants are yours, people are yours, the kingdom is yours, the palace is yours. I wish that you are mine. It means now everything is mine. So that will be, that is exactly the story of the churning of the ocean. I will open the cards in front of you, and you will see what you like. With this, I would like to thank the organizers, and especially our yoga brothers and sisters from Kranj, and the president of the Yoga Society of Kranj, the president of the Yoga in Daily Life Union of Slovenia, and all other presidents from different ashrams and societies in Slovenia. It was beautiful. I wish you all the best and good luck. I would also like to say thanks to the journalists who provided the information and worked on this program. And especially our cameramen, who did their best to send the best quality through the webcast around the world. And also to our old swāmīs and sādhvīs sitting here. And our dear Sangeeta for her beautiful translation, and all other organizers. Also, I would like to say thanks to the authorities of this sports hall. See you this evening. What time is that? 7 o’clock for the webcast in one of the most beautiful and biggest halls in Slovenia, Ljubljana. It’s called Saṅkāryo Dome. Saṅkara means Śiva. And Dome means the house, so the house of the Lord Śiva. We chose the right place for the churning of the ocean of immortality. Thank you, Om Śānti. Closing Remarks from Organizers: We have a busy week behind us. The program was very hard to perform, but in spite of all difficulties, we managed to finish it. I would like to thank all of you who participated in the program, especially all of you Sanyāsīs, and especially, of course, Avatār Purījī. Avatār Purījī is now in Slovenia for the third time, and I hope he will remember Slovenia. He got good impressions and memories of Slovenia. Yes, he’s very good for the manufacturing of chocolate because he’s a good consumer of chocolate. Avatār Gorica is very good for everything that produces chocolate because he spends a lot of money. We planted a peace tree in Nova Gorica. There are many towns in Slovenia where we wish to plant a peace tree. His Holiness Swāmījī is the author of the system Yoga in Daily Life, and he is establishing this system all over the world. We are responsible to take this system to the highest level possible, the highest quality level possible. And I think that we are successful with the help of our Gurudev and all of the karma yogīs, that we are succeeding in this. During this week of Swāmījī’s visit in Slovenia, there were 350 karma yogīs participating and helping from all of the societies, Yoga in Daily Life, in Slovenia. I thank them in the name of the Yoga Union of Slovenia from all of my heart. Thank you. Praṇām Gurudev, Praṇām Swāmī Avatār Purījī, and all of the other sannyāsīs. I would only like to say a few words about what is happening here. Yesterday we were speaking about modern technology, about YouTube and Swamījī TV. And we know these are excellent instruments that keep us informed about many things. But to have the opportunity to be live with such a guest as Swāmījī is a great blessing, and that’s why we are very happy in Kranj to have got this kind of opportunity. Today, Gurudev asked us if we had a good time here in Kranj. Of course we had. We had an excellent time. And I hope we will see each other next year again in this hall. I would like to thank again our guest, Swāmījī, for giving us such a great amount of wisdom and for giving us his darśan. Thanks also to the translators, and thank you for such a large number of visitors and participants. Thank you, and we will see you next year.