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I am happy to see you again in the ashram, and most of all, I am happy to see all of you who worked very hard for yesterday's program. I can congratulate you; you did very good work, and it was very good. I pray to Almighty God that He blesses us with His divine light and mercy, so that we may continue to work like this. We all make mistakes; we are all human. We have our human weaknesses that we are fighting sometimes. We become angry with someone; we try to search for mistakes in others, instead of searching for mistakes in ourselves. God sees everything. So God will see everything, and He will bless us. Two things are very important: the first is practice, and the second is working. We must work. What are you doing? You bring water in half an hour, and you cover it. Work is the beauty of life, but this work should be positive, selfless service. How to become successful in our sādhanā? Because there are many obstacles coming—āsurī śaktis and daivī śaktis. They both exist in the universe. And Devī Śakti protects us, but Asurī Śakti, from time to time, also attacks us. We don't know in which form she will come to us. Kabīr Dās is writing a very nice bhajan on this subject: Māyā mahā ṭhagnī hamjānī. I realize that Māyā is the greatest cheater. Tri-guṇa phaṅs liye kar dole bolet mādhurī banī, and she has in her hand the rope of the three guṇas and very sweet words. She is speaking and looking for the chance when she can hang us up. In this bhajan, he says many things. Even Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva were also sometimes, from time to time, cheated by this. Then who are we? We are nothing compared with Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva. So it is normal that we are jealous, we are angry, we are fighting. We should not, and we do not, but we can't protect ourselves or control all the time. So during this whole one month, what you have been working on, God sees this. And this karma yoga which you did, that is something very great. Why? Kabīrdās as well as Gurū Nānak, they said, "What is the greatest that you can give? What is the best thing that you can give?" If you give money, it will be spent. If you give food, in the next few hours one will be hungry again. If you give cloth, very soon it will also become old and finished. How can we help someone? What is the best? We call it dāna. Dāna means something like donation. Donation, when you give some donation, you get a thousand times back from God. And donation must not be only money. You can donate cloth. You can donate money. You can donate food. You can donate blood. Many things we can donate. But still, those great saints, they say Nām Dān is the greatest. Nām means the name, and that name is the name of God. That name is the name of the reality, the spirituality, the words of the great saints. So what you did through your activities in karma yoga, you made the nāmadān that thousands of people got in their ears some name or the words of God. Where can you hear the name of God? Wherever we go, everywhere, they are talking about business, talking about weather, talking about eating, talking about relationships, talking about family and family problems. Wherever we go, we are talking about these things. A rare time is there when we hear something about God. So it was about more than 4,000 years we have been listening to the names of God... each had two years, and it was more than two thousand people. So this is your work. And I pray to God, I pray to Mahāprabhujī... and to all the divine souls, that He forgives our mistakes... Whatever we did, consciously or unconsciously, may He accept this small donation as a flower, a token of our devotion to humanity. Because humans are responsible for this world. It is time to unite the humans, not to convert them, but to convince them. So we are trying. Who can forgive? Who are we to forgive? God can forgive. We can only try to understand and accept tolerance. Because, in the end, it is your personal life. Whatever you think, whatever you speak, whatever you do, everything affects your individual life. If you go to satsaṅg, it's for you. You are not going for anyone. And if you organize something, it is for you, it is not for anybody. In the Rāmāyaṇa, the great Rāmāyaṇa, you know, and today is the beginning of the first Navarātrīs. This is the ninth day of Divine Mother, and it is where the Divine Mother will be celebrated. It is a very great day. All spiritual bhaktas begin from this day... fasting and thanking Divine Mother, or Śakti. That Yoga Śakti which I spoke of yesterday. And so, you know the story of God Rāma. In his life, there is someone who is very important, who played a very great role in it, and that was Hanumanjī. Hanumanjī who found Sītā, Hanuman who flew, jumped over the sea. Hanuman, who fought against Rāvaṇa, Hanuman, who served Rāma very much. At the end, someone told Rāmajī, "God Rāma, Hanumānjī have done so many things for you." Rāma said, "No, he has done nothing for me." All that he did was for himself, for his soul, for his liberation. I am doing something. I try to bring the light of my Master, the light of Mahāprabhujī, the light of others, and to help you, but I am doing this for nothing. All this I am doing for myself. I am so selfish, and you are also very selfish. You should be selfish in this way, to do something for your ātmā, something for your inner self. So what you did, that was a selfless service, and that service, it will come back to you. It was for you. It is said in one bhajan, "Gurudev darśan dhan ho, cetana ānanda gaṇ ho," which you sang before. And in the prayer, it is said, "Tan man dhan arpan kar guru-sevā pāu, hāth joḍ arajā karu, charno me śiś namah," in our prayer. "Tan man dhan bachan," I surrender my body, mind, my words, everything. I surrender my wealth, and then with folded hands I bow down to him. Lord, accept me. So, what you do, the service, that will liberate you. It is you who can liberate you. Do not think, "My guru will bless me, and I will be liberated." Show me, which guru? No guru will liberate you unless you do something. Guru kṛpā is always there when you are nice to the guru. If you are all the time angry and say, "Master, give me your kṛpā." So it is you who are doing, you are liberating yourself. You are the divine. You are the holy. Yes, you are, but you don't behave like that. You don't accept this. If you will accept that you are divine and holy... then you will not be angry, then you will not be jealous... then you will not do so many mistakes... and when you do the mistake, you will say to yourself... Oh my God! How can I do? I am so holy and divine. And so it is said in sādhanā: abhyāsa, manan and svādhyāya, these three. Manan, abhyāsa, svādhyāya. Svādhyāya means studying. Read, read. Inspirable books. Don't read such books which make you angry. Don't read such books which make you sad. Those books which support your faith and your confidence inspire you. And second, svādhyāya means svā is the self, adhyāya is the chapter. Read your own chapter of your life. What is written in your chapter, not on others' chapter. Who am I to read the chapter of Maṅgalpurī? And who am I to tell Maṅgalpurī this is wrong? He did. He said, "Thought is good for him. God can judge him." I, who am I to judge this? Therefore, I should read my chapter. What is written in my life? I should have inspiration from my actions, or I should be ashamed from my actions. Thanks to God that chapter is so nice and so hidden, nobody can look in. Two persons have access, only two. They can look any time. One is God, and second is yourself. No third one. Svādhyāya, study your inner self. And then comes the manana. Manan means constantly overthinking. What is the truth and what is not truth? Brahman is the reality, and this world is unreality. Think over what you have done, and think over what you will do. What I did, what am I doing, and what should I do, and why should I do it? What did I think? What am I thinking? What should I think, and why should I think? Manan, manan... manan. In your manan, in our manan, in our thinking, we shall think such things that we get more friendship and contact with the humans and animals... always think how to come close to this person. They are mine. All humans are our brothers and sisters. All animals and creatures are our brothers and sisters. They are God's creatures. And then comes abhyāsa. Abhyāsa. Abhyāsa is the best. Abhyāsa means practice. When you practice, you will be perfect. How? I give you one example. Your hands have such good practice. Such good practice. Even if you are sitting in a dark room, you don't see anything. But if you get something to eat in your hand, it straight comes to the mouth. It doesn't miss the way. It doesn't go here. That is abhyāsa, abhyāsa. So we are expert in eating. So a yogī should have abhyāsa. It doesn't matter whatever you are doing. Your cittas, your feelings are directed to God. Practice to help others, practice to be kind, practice forgiveness, practice tolerance, practice mercy, practice your mantra, practice āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, practice prayer, and practice meditation. Nothing will help us other than these things. It is your life. It is you who can help yourself. For what are you fighting, perhaps now, and in what do you have the doubts?... and which makes you angry or which makes you sad... All these relations will be finished. Only two days of life we have in this world: yesterday and today. Tomorrow, no one has seen. And no one will see tomorrow. Tomorrow will never come in our life. Every day it will be the same day presently. You are the traveler, and you will leave everything in this hotel of the world and go alone. What will you take with you, my dear friend? Your deeds. What you are doing through your intellect, through your body, through your mind, through your emotions, and through your social power. Because many people misuse social power. If they get power as a director of a company, then they are threatening people, or as a president, and so on. You know better than me. So pray to God, "Please, God, in my thinking, in my action, let there be only love and nothing else." So work for good things. Come to the ashram. Organize the things. Help the people. Don't search for mistakes in people. I don't like this one, and I don't like that one, and nobody talks to me. I don't like to go to satsaṅgs, I don't like to go to groups, I don't like this group. The problem is there: liking and disliking. On that day when you will give up like and dislike, you will see the light inside. All chakras, energies, all will be concentrated in one point, to God. All wars and all suffering are only this problem: because I don't like this, and I like this. We are not able to unite these few people together, and talking about World peace? How will it be? A little bird dreaming to lift the whole Himalayas. A small bird is flying and wants to catch the Himalayas with him. How is it possible? You are not able to be in harmony with this little group, then how will you do that? First, love the humans. First, love and harmonize with them. Then we can do something more. So, I don't want to say that you have this problem. And if you have this problem, then please throw it away. I'm talking generally. There are some people who have this problem. And this problem they have means they are destructive. Maulvi Gurū Jī said in one bhajan, "The yogīs and yatīs." Yatīs are also human. Yatīs are not like some ice bear, you know. That was Meissner's joke, you know, to make a popularity. Not missionary, Meissner, the Austrian mountain climber. After he said to us, "Yes, it was a kind of ice bear, not a jāti." How he made the publicities, that we should not do. So jātis are yogīs. Jāti means, jāti comes from jatnā. Yatna. Yatna means trying and creating some techniques and trying to get realization. Your car has no petrol. Now you are doing some techniques, pushing your car or letting your heart tow. This is called Yatna. You create some instrument, some techniques. So Yatīs are they who create some techniques to meditate and overcome certain things. Yogī, Yatī, koi mehnat karke bove bhajan kī badī. With hard work, they create the garden of their spirituality. Ye man bandar badā harāmī. But this mind is a very terrible monkey, a harāmī. This mind is a terrible bastard monkey. Palm trees become big, then within a second, destroy your garden. O my brothers, this mind is very uneducated. Therefore, it is the mind problem which destroys the work. The master and honest disciples are good-hearted people. They try to make something, create something, and we, with our jealousy and with our liking and disliking, we spoil the atmosphere. That is sin. To destroy some spiritual work or destroy spirituality is a great sin, my dear friends. The crucifying of Jesus was exactly like that core reason, the cause. Because some liked it, and some didn't. That's it. We will see each other in Umagh. I should not talk, because already there is no talk, but I talked again. You know, there is a kitchen clock. Turn it, then tak tak... We must go ten minutes. So I fail to thank you, and my hard words are also good for you. Maybe they are hard, but they come from the heart to help you. Thank you. Thank you. I pray for your good health, long life, and peace and harmony in your country and in the whole world. Let us work together. We should not see our mistakes. Keep on going. Our duty is work, do. The duty of the river is to flow. Just flow. It doesn't matter what comes in. Flow. Behte jao, behte jao, let it flow, let it flow. Prem kī Gaṅgā bahate calo, let flow the river of love. Thank you so much, Prasāda, please.