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Good morning to everybody. It is a beautiful day, a beautiful morning, a beautiful constellation, and we are all together under one roof, from so many different nations. We sit on the same level, with the same feelings and the same aim: understanding, love, and harmony. That is what we wish for the whole world. In English expression, they speak of "the grassroots," beginning with the grass root. It means when you put a small root of grass in the earth, it multiplies and increases. In due time, your whole garden will be full of grass, because the grass roots work from inside and outside, giving branches and putting roots everywhere. So, a project you begin is called "beginning with the grass root." You can imagine that from one thought, one thinking, so many things can happen to create a yoga and daily life system. To design this beautiful system, there must have been a global vision. Forty-five years ago, I had these visions. You see, it took forty-five years. This little achievement we have attained—for achieving anything, we need endurance. We need to face different situations, to face different opinions, to go through many circumstances, and try many ways to realize our aim. Sometimes it is pleasant, sometimes it is not. For that, we need tapas, tyāga, bhakti, jñāna, and vairāgya. This is not only for spiritual development, nor only for some society or organization, nor for some spiritual work. Anything we begin in life needs these principles. The first is tapa. Tapa means heat, fire. This fire is not the physical fire we know, but the fire of fire: the difficulties, the fire of different atmospheres, the fire of different situations. It is very important that you do not say, "No, finished. It is not my cup of tea. I have had enough." If you do this, then in that very moment, the second temperament, the ego—this is out of ignorance. That is the destructive power of māyā. If you remember, yesterday I spoke about māyā. There are many ladies sitting here whose names are also Māyā. Please do not take it otherwise. It does not mean you. In your language, it has a beautiful meaning. In our language, it also has a beautiful meaning. We love Māyā—that is our problem. So, Māyā should never think that no one loves her. Māyā should never feel lonely. That māyā which becomes destructive is waiting in your subconsciousness in hidden form. That is called Kuṇḍalinī, the sleeping snake. Do not think a sleeping snake wakes up very slowly. If you touch it a little, immediately, like a king cobra, it goes up: pshhhh. Who is there? So, that distraction which is accompanied by Māyā—that Māyā is waiting for us on the way, a very beautiful way, with all kinds of beauty and tricks and words and everything. But she is waiting for that point where you feel overloaded, where you feel neglected, where you feel you are not appreciated, where some negative critique begins. Then the māyā, that snake Kuṇḍalinī, jumps. Now is her chance. You throw your towel away: "No, finished. For what did I work my whole life? Stupid nonsense. Because of this man or this wife, I renounced everything. But now I want to live my life." Midlife crisis. Therefore, tapa is very, very important to achieve anything in life. That means the abilities, the power to endure, especially hard situations. The good things we do not need to endure; they are very pleasant. On the straight road, it is easy to walk. But on the thorny, rocky, and stiff hills, there the sweating is dripping. To go on, keep on going—that is called enduring, that is called tapasyā. Tapasyā does not mean you do not care about anybody and sit and meditate, "Oṃ." So, what should we do with you? In life, it is very, very important to endure something. Be sure that if you are existing, then many, many friends are existing. But a thousand times more than that, an enemy is existing. So, do not always wait to be celebrated. Therefore, we should know our ability and our boundary, our limitation. So, if you would like to be a happy married couple, or a happy family, or have a good employee in your company, or be a good student and a good friend, learn to endure and forget to complain. Our greatest weakness is that we complain and we become angry. Tapa—that is called tapasyā. It must not always be difficulties in life. It is only a matter of understanding, a matter of changing your way of thinking, a matter of seeing how you see the world. So it is said: mano mātra jagataḥ—the world is created out of the mind. I can create a beautiful world around me, and I can create the most unpleasant world around me. How I think and how I see, and what I think and what I see—there I should utilize my intellect. Let us say we love the tiger, we love the lions, but also we would like to see them. Our intellect should tell us to keep a safe distance, and that is it. To keep the safety distance means tyāga. Always, you have to give up. Do not fight for your rights. Yes, by human law you have rights. You will win, maybe for satisfaction of your ego, but you have not won. You have not healed. This is what has been said or happened. So, the problem is there if you have something, and the problem is there if you do not have something. But a little problem is there if you do not have, and the majority of the problem is there if you have it: money, property, company, friends, good health, beauty of your body. Many, many things happen to you because your body is like that. Thanks to God, He gave you a beautiful body, and thanks to God, He gave so beautiful a body to you that everyone who looks at you enjoys, is happy. But do not give that problem an invitation. Some places in the world you should not go at midnight, but you are going, and some accident happens. You gave the invitation that this happened to you. So, remain at home. Even nature withdraws itself when the sun is set. So, tyāga means with thinking, with viveka, with intellect, we avoid the situation. And where you go, what you do, is out of love. So, tyāga means non-attachment. Attachment comes from ignorance. Where there is love out of attachment, there is suffering. And where there is love out of love and knowledge, there is always happiness. Therefore, it is said: Ānandohamu, Ānandohamu... I am bliss. I am supreme bliss. So, either there is bliss or sorrow. When you are the bliss, then you are not the sorrow. As long as the body is here, many things will happen. Therefore, our beloved Holy Gurujī said, "Enter the kingdom of the Lord through the gate of sacrifice." And Mahātmā Gandhi said, "Renounce and enjoy." If you would like to be happy, then renounce. There was a bird, a big bird like a seagull, and it found a big piece of meat or some fish. It caught it and flew away. Now many others followed him, big ones, aggressive, wanting to take him away. He was flying and flying, and the others decided to hunt him, to catch him. He was completely exhausted. He did not feel safe. So he prayed to God: "God, protect me, help me. What can I do? You see so many enemies following me." And the voice came: "What you have in your beak, just drop it on your legs." So he dropped it. All the enemies ran there to catch him, and he found no one is following him. He flew to a small rock island and said to himself: "Relax, my friend, relax the whole body. If it comes, let it come, and if it goes, let it go." That is tyāga. If you have something, then everyone is interested in that. So, tyāga is very important. That is why it is in Rāja Yoga principles. In one of the principles, it is said: Do not collect. And the Bible said: "Do not carry with you. You will find, you will get, at the right time, what you need." And it is said: "Who gave the life will give the food." Believe in your destiny and believe in the Creator. He gave life, and He will take care of this life, and this life will go one day. You may say in this way that He will take the life, whether you want it or not. Therefore, unnecessarily collecting things becomes a very big burden. And now the time comes that we will die. And we see our beautiful house, beautiful pictures, paintings, very expensive nice crystal vase, jewelry, beautiful furniture. Oh, beautiful floor, we made special wood. Nice curtains. God, so much money I have. But nothing will go with it. As many things as we will have, that many quarrels will be after: who will inherit this? And there, even the brothers and sisters suddenly get differences in their opinions and behaviors. So, it is a big, big, big question. Easy to collect, but my dear, it is very hard to give up. We have to put alarms, watchdogs, sleeping tablets, many, many things. Yes, we know this, but still we are doing. So, material tyāga is easier. It is said: "If it is a piece of wood, I can break it." But the love I cannot break. So, tyāga: inner feelings, inner qualities. Negative qualities we should renounce, and positive qualities we should increase. Love, happiness, good relations with others—that is very important. Do not kill your feelings. Do not think about what people will say. It is your love. It is your respect. But positive love, not with negative expectations. That is very important. So, renounce your doubts, jealousy, hate, greediness, passion, because these are the causes of suffering. So, what? First was tapa and vairāgya. This is tyāga, and we need jñāna. Sometimes, out of our ignorance, we destroy beautiful relations. Out of our ignorance, we throw away the diamond and put the glass piece in our safe. Only the specialist knows what the difference is between diamond and glass. We will realize after some days or months: "Oh God, the diamond, we threw it away. But where did we throw it? We cannot find it." So, in our life we have many diamonds. Our best friends, they are more than diamonds. Your beautiful thoughts, your abilities, your knowledge—this is a diamond. Only come above your emotions, above fanaticism, above dualities, just gaze within thyself. And that will give us freedom: tapa, tyāga, vairāgya, and jñāna. And this is what we need to realize and be successful in life. Learn not to blame others. Learn not to see the negative in others, but learn to support them. It is very important. And this is what a grassroots work needs: that kind of soil, that kind of fertilizer, and that kind of watering. So, soil is your heart. Fertilizer is your intellect, your vivekā, your knowledge. And that nectar, water, is your kindness, your wisdom, your love that will cultivate. It can be that someone is angry at you, jealous of you, or does not like you. But you remain as you are. Keep on doing your dharma. Then they, or that person, will be sorry: "I did injustice." Maybe they are not able to come to you to say sorry, but inwardly they will say, "My God, I made a mistake." And that is more than enough for what we want: that we realize our mistakes. We are not expecting from someone openly to surrender to us or say sorry, because they are acting out of ignorance. They think it is their duty, their dharma. When the Master and disciples were sitting near the lake, a scorpion fell into the water. So, the Master put his hand under the water and took the scorpion out, wanting to save its life. But before he could put him down, the scorpion stung his palm. The pain of the scorpion's sting is much more painful than the bite of a snake. The snake bite is just like a narcosis; you feel the first injection, that is all. And the scorpion again fell into the water. So, the Master took him out again, and again he stung his thumb. And after a while, again, that scorpion fell into the water. And the Master took him with the other hand out, and he stung his small finger. The disciple said: "Master, I am sorry. Why are you doing this? Please allow me. I will finish him with my shoes. You are doing good to him, and he is constantly stinging." Master said: "I am doing my dharma. My dharma is to save him, and he is doing his dharma, his nature, that anyone touches him. It does not matter how, he has this tail with the poisonous thorn. He must sting." So, this is the play of the dharma. That is why ignorant people, who are complaining, who are having negative intentions, who are having negative words, negative thinking—in this moment, this minute, they are in ignorance. And that is the act of ignorance, and that will create more difficulties or karmas for that one. But if you forgive, if you understand, if you surrender, maybe something is painful, you are free. And that is it: how to use our knowledge. So, we need to develop ourselves, be successful ourselves, in any field of our life, whether it is your family life, student life, farming, gardening, business life, social life, or spiritual life. We need to know and follow these four principles: Tapa, Tyāga, Vairāgya, and Jñāna. And this is hidden in humans. These are the best qualities in humans. And the awakening of those qualities is the awakening of Kuṇḍalinī. That Kuṇḍalinī should liberate you, should make you happy, and make others happy. Your duty is just to make others happy. So, there is one very old film song. I think this film is about sixty years old. For fifty years, I do not know. It was in India, and this film was shown many times by the Ministry of Culture in every village with one minibus, a projector, and everything. At that time, there was no electricity, and these old videos all came now. And that film is called Mother India. It is a story about one couple, a poor family who is working as a farmer and who is taking credit from some businessman. These people who took the credit, they did not study. And the interest on the credit was growing day by day, year by year, doubling and doubling. And they were not able to pay back, and that businessman took everything away from them. He took their kettles, the oxen which were working for the field, the land, the house, everything. Well, it is something very long. I do not know if it is really this story or that story. I saw it sixty years ago, so it is long. And in this, I think the song is from that film. You mean the song is from that film? It is. They had in their hand a light, a candle, and there were many candles on the path, and they said: "With this light, you should light all lights. Flames spread all the light." It means help everyone, the light of wisdom. Prema kī Gaṅgā bahate celo—and let it flow with you, the Ganges of love. That Gaṅgā river, that river, the Gaṅgā river, does not know anything else. It does not know any impurities. Any kind of impurity comes to the Gaṅgā, and it is immediately purified. And we take that Gaṅgā water as holy water. If you have not bathed once in your life in the Gaṅgā, you have done nothing. And maybe you have Gaṅgā water in the bottle. It is that Gaṅgā water which will never get spoiled, and no bacteria will live inside. They put the cholera bacterium in Gaṅgā water, and that also purified it. But only Gaṅgā water can be that water which enters into that Gaṅgā river. The master can only be that one who enters into the consciousness of the master. Others, not. Intellectually, maybe you can say many things. There is a lot of water in the world: beautiful water springs, fountains, very clean, the mineral waters. All water is water, but not the Gaṅgā water. There are many different kinds of knowledge, but the ātmā jñāna, the self-realization knowledge, is the different knowledge. Premākī Gaṅgā—prem is love. Let that flow with you, the Gaṅgā of love. Everything will be purified. Every doubt, every criticism, all dirty things. Even that will be liberated. Even if they come with dirty thoughts, it will make them holy, like the Gaṅgā river makes all dirty water holy. Raham jo ae din dukhi—who cross your way, who comes on your way, maybe poor one, weak one, ill one, all rich one, anyone—embrace everyone without differences. That should become our life, that wherever you go, this light, this jyoti, flame, should move with you. And the river of love will flood within you. And no one should be rejected or hated. That means now your Kuṇḍalinī, your chakras are awakening. And these qualities, those qualities, are within us. We do not have to go anywhere to search for them, to develop them, or to learn them. No. Divine Mother, Holy Mother, Cosmic Mother, before she sent us here, she gave us a lot of things in our bag, what we call lunch pocket. And she gave a lot of pocket money. And the father, the creator, He gave us a lot of pocket money, and in such a way that no one can steal it, no one can take it away. And that is why it is said: if you have bread in your hand, anyone can take it away. But if that is in your kismat, in your knowledge—what you learned, what are your abilities, what you developed—that no one can take away. That is with you; day by day it will increase, and you should utilize that. As much as you will utilize, that much will multiply. And that is why the great holy saint Mīrābāī said—she wrote this bhajan, and that bhajan I got it, I received it, I realized it, I found it, it is given to me—the pearls or the jewels of the name of God, the God Rāma. I can utilize as much as I want. There is no end. There are no thieves who can take it away; no one can steal it. Day by day, it increases; it multiplies. My Satguru Dev, My Guru Dev, He was merciful to me, He was very gracious to me. Great mercy He gave me that name, that mantra, and that mantra is the key, that mantra is the tool, that mantra is everything. One in all and all in one. Gurujī said: "All in one." Everything is in that cosmic resonance of mantra. So, anything happens, I will not give up my mantra. So, that is the knowledge, the wisdom that comes out of our practices. Our mantra depends on with which love, with which devotion, with which respect or certainty, confidence, you repeat your mantra. The life of Mīrābāī was also not easy. You can compare her life with the holy friends from Assisi. You can compare her life with Jesus. Many, many difficulties. And on the last day of her life, still she was making one beautiful song where she felt a big pain because she was in deep love with Kṛṣṇa. And Kṛṣṇa appeared to her many, many times. But still, she was not satisfied. You know, this spiritual love is also like a drug. When you take a little drug, the next day you want to have a little more. Afterwards, a little more addiction. Addiction means you are adding to it every day. You have to add and add. And still, your longing becomes stronger and stronger. And also, the love is there, but the love to family, love to God, that should increase every day, million times more love to the humanity, love to the creatures. That is what we want, but that somehow does not increase. Somehow it is decreasing, and that is what we need—that it should increase. She was going towards Kṛṣṇa's temple barefoot, and last, what she is saying there: "If I knew this, that through loving, all troubles will come, that through love, I will come to all these problems, then I will go in the middle of the cities and villages and beat the drum and awake, make everyone conscious, alert, that no one should love. If I knew that so much painful is my love to thee." And she went to Kṛṣṇa's temple. There was an eternal light burning. And she was singing and praying very hard, and said to the Lord: "Now is the time, let me immerse in you." And in that time, you may not believe that her material body just dissolved, and the entire body became like a flame and joined that flame, the flame of that eternal flame on the altar of Kṛṣṇa. The guards, the people—because she was a queen, a princess, and they did not want her to lead this life. They wanted her to live in the palace, enjoy life, eat, drink, and sleep. But she said: "That is not the aim of life." And wherever she went, the guards were following her, watching what she was doing. And they were standing near the temple door, four or five meters distance. And suddenly, this is what she is saying, something is changing, and become a flame, and become a flame with the flame. That is called love. That is called perfect union. That is called wisdom. We wish for all this. But unfortunately, we are not the mirror. It will take a long, long time, many, many births, to become Mīrā. And therefore, the grassroots work—again, I am coming to this point—begins when you go the first day to school, the first step of your life. When first visions come awake in you, and then the aim comes, you have visions of family life, you have imagination of your partner, friends, success in life. But how many times do we change? So, we are not serious; we should not change. Work, Mahāprabhujī said, work with your great Saṅkalpa and success is yours.