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First of all, many blessings to all of you. For many of you, this evening is the last evening of the program you attended—the retreat or seminar at the Śrī Mahāprabhudīp Āśram Foundation, the Satsaṅg Foundation in Strilky. You experienced many things and had beautiful practices. It was a very rich program: a program for the juniors, a program for the seniors, a program for advanced yoga teacher training, a program for general yoga classes, a program for what we call Kriyā Anuṣṭhāna, and a program for karma yogīs. There were programs for walking and, finally, the eating program. So no one was bored here. Your lungs will be very happy and give you blessings that you have spent such time in this pure air. Now, your next program is that you should practice every day as much as you can. Of course, not all these programs, but certain exercises. We will still have a 14-day program here, and you are most welcome. Also, people from different parts of the world are coming, and they are most welcome to come. Those who are living somewhere here nearby, in the surrounding neighboring countries, from time to time you are most welcome to come for satsaṅg—but only if your holiday allows you. You got it. You have it. Now you shall use it. There is a beautiful story Holī Gurujī used to tell, a story between a greedy man and a very simple farmer. Once, in one village, a master came and stayed there for a few weeks. Almost the entire village were his disciples. There were two men from a neighboring village: one was a greedy businessman, and one was a farmer. They came to the master and said, "Master, we heard that one should have a guru in life. One should have spiritual development, and it is possible only through mantras. Can you give us a mantra, please?" The master said, "Yes. First I must test if you are worthy to have a mantra or not. Is it okay?" So the master opened his pocket, his small bag, and from the bag he took two seeds—what you call soybeans—and gave one to each of them. "Keep it nicely. Don’t get lost. Whenever I come back, I will ask you for this soybean, and you have to give it back to me. Then you will get the mantra." They said, "Okay." So they each got one soybean. The master went away. The man who was very intellectual, very intelligent, very clever—double clever, but double clever is sometimes not so clever—took some cotton, put the soybean in the cotton and some cloth, and put it in a drawer. He locked the drawer and said no one is allowed to open it. The other one, the farmer, took it home. He said, "Well, work, boys. Okay." Listening with the ears, working with the hands. Well, the season came. It was getting rain, there would be moisture, and he didn’t know when the master would come. Since he was a farmer, he prepared a very nice place and, with some kind of net, saved his one-square-meter place. One year passed. The master didn’t come, and again the same thing happened. The season came for crops, for planting. He prepared the ground—about 10,000 square meters—and put this half kilo of soybeans inside. The soybeans grew beautifully. At the end of the season, the master was still not there. So he harvested nearly 50 kilos. He kept it at home, thinking, "This is the master’s property, and I hope when he comes, he will give me a mantra." One year passed. The master didn’t come, and again the time came for planting the crops. So he planted in two to three hectares. At the end of the season, he harvested three tractor trolleys full. He had to prepare a special room for storage. The master didn’t come. Now, the fourth year. The farmer said, "I don’t want what belongs to the master to get spoiled." So he hired the neighbor’s land too and put all the seeds of the soybeans in a big farm. At the end of the season, still the master was not here. Now he harvested so much soy that he was known as a soy farmer. People came to buy, but he said, "No, I can’t sell because it doesn’t belong to me." So he made a big, big storeroom and put the soy inside—tons of soy. The master came, and both disciples came. They said, "Master, if you feel us as worthy enough, please bless us with the mantra." The master stroked his beard and said, "My children, you remember, four years ago, I gave you one soybean. Yes, sir. So bring that." The double-intellectual person ran home to get the soybean. The other remained seated. The man went home, opened the drawer, took that cloth, and brought it as it is. He said, "Master, I didn’t even touch that. It is yours." He opened the cloth and opened the cotton. What was inside? One dead moth. Moths had entered, two or three of them. They ate the complete soybean and they died also. The master said, "Where is my soybean?" He said, "Master, that was not my mistake. It’s your mistake. Why did you come so late? What do you think? Four years, which survive? What kind of master are you?" Well, the master asked the other one, "Why don’t you go to bring my soy?" He said, "Master, if you want to have your soy, then please come with me." The double-intellectual person thought, "Stupid farmer, he has so many soybeans everywhere lying in his house. He will take anything and say, 'Here you are, master.' And do you know what is terrible about it? The master will believe him. I don’t want his mantra." So the master went with the farmer. The farmer opened the door of the store. There were tons and tons of soybeans. He said, "Here is your soy, master, please take it. I need space." The master said, "But it was one." "Yes, sir. You gave me one. So that one is in all. Then all is in that one." And he told the story of what he did. The master said, "You are the worthy disciple." So mantra or kriyā, what you got, is: don’t record it, don’t write it, and put it somewhere. Multiply. The mantra you got is not that you have a mantra, but you have to practice multiplying. Many people got mantras, and they don’t even remember them now because they never practiced. Similarly, whatever you got here—experiences in this seminar—it is your good luck. Now you have it. Now it depends on you how you will multiply. So, only the Master can give you that, that’s all. But to take care of it, to practice, is your duty. And so the development depends on you. That’s it. So when that farmer got the mantra, he said, "Master, if you give me a mantra or not, I got it from the first second when I looked at you and you looked at me. I realized, I accepted. I became yours, and you became mine. And you are all the times with me, and always be with me. Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Nīkī." So Gurujī said, when Gurujī saw Mahāprabhujī for the first time in Jodhpur, in the palace of the Jodhpur Mahārājā during Mahāprabhujī’s satsaṅg... It was evening, and Gurujī came. At that time, Mahāprabhujī had just gotten up from satsaṅg and went for a little walk. It seems that Mahāprabhujī went to welcome Holī Gurujī. And as Gurujī had his first darśana of Mahāprabhujī, he writes in his biography: indescribable. Because Gurujī was also meditating on Kṛṣṇa at that time, and he sees in front Kṛṣṇa... His state: "My eyes, my concentration was fixed on his lotus feet. Through that, my dormant good luck awoke. When I saw those holy lotus feet, in that minute, I became a Vairāgī." Rāga means attachment, and vairāgya means detachment. So detached from all these worldly things, found the one, the Brahman, the Supreme, and I knew, and now I know. Holī Gurujī said: "Caraṇa rajami kāga bhaya haṃsa." In the holy dust of the Gurudeva’s feet, where the master is living or in his presence, "kāga bhaya haṃsa"—the crows became swans. Sin, darkness, ignorance—so, through the holy presence of the Gurudeva, in his holy lotus feet, the dust of his holy lotus feet... Many become liberated ones. "Moti cugata sohāgī." "Moti" means pearls. And what do the pearls mean? The words of wisdom. You know you have the book, Selected Pearls. And so these are Guruvākya. Those devotees are awakened. They turn from the crow to the swan. They go to satsaṅg. Each bhajan, each word, each word of the master’s teachings—either the master himself speaks there, or someone interprets there. For the bhaktas, the awakened one is like these pearls, the pearls of wisdom. If they don’t, they can’t go two or three times to satsaṅg; they are starving. As Mahāprabhujī said: "Sat Guru, Sat Saṅg, Yārī Olu. Chetan hoye sa rūpa me jāgā." Now I become conscious, and I awoke in myself, in self-realization. "Nindā avidyā bhāgī." And the sleep of the ignorance is gone. "Manakī vāsanā sabahī mitagay." All desires from my mind. "Mast bhaya man tyāgī." And my mind became so happy and became that one who renounces everything. Now, without seeing the feet, one cannot recognize. If I don’t see the lotus feet of my Gurudeva, I am not restful, I am not relaxed. It is happiness there. "Palakana hove yāgī." My eyes do not want even for a second to look somewhere else. No other interest. "Caraṇa nadekā bina, palakana ho vyāgī, ānanda, mahānanda." Someone wrote here wrong. "Anāhada ānanda, pragata bhaya he." Endless happiness has come to me. "Sadā rahat anurāgī." And ever my mind is very happy. "Śrīpūjī Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa kar dīnā badabhāgī." The universal worship, Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī, made me the luckiest one. Now my surat, my concentration, myself, became one in His Holiness. Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavad Gītā.