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There are many types of knowledge, but true knowledge is Ātmā-jñāna—self-knowledge, self-realization. This is what was primarily spoken of in humanity's ancient śāstras. Unfortunately, we have forgotten this nature, Sanātana Dharma, the natural religion, wherein one also worships the sun. We know the sun has great meaning; without it, our life is null. Aum. And the moon. Now scientists say again that moonlight is more important for plants, vegetation, and fruits than sunlight. What do they say about it? This is exactly what God Kṛṣṇa said in the Bhagavad Gītā: "Arjuna, through the moonlight comes into vegetation as the nectar." It is very interesting which instruments they used at that time to explore all that. They knew exactly about all the planets, much more than those who fly with satellites and return. They knew everything, and that was truly through meditation, through inner peace. But those who made this their goal and went in the right direction, they have Guru-Vākya and Guru-Ājñā. Guru-Ājñā by Dev. Guru-Ājñā means the advice of the Master, and Guru-Vākya is the words of the Master. And Guru-Sevā is the service. Then comes Guru-Kṛpā. So: Guru-Ājñā, Guru-Sevā, Guru-Vākya, Guru-Kṛpā. And the final judgment is: Guru-Kṛpā hi kevalam. And guru means ignorance and peace, the light. The sādhanā, the path, the words, the wisdom that brings us to know about ignorance is the guru. Every teacher, every friend, every animal, every flower—if there is any teaching for us, we are in our guru. And so the saints, the healers, the Trikāladarśī, know all three times: Bhūtakāla, Vartamāna, and Bhaviṣya. They saw past, present, and future as clearly as we see ourselves now. That is why they were sure, and they wrote. But we don't know anything, and we don't believe anything. Yet they have put everything into words. And so the masters, for hundreds of thousands of years, for several thousands of years... The Holy Guru tells a wonderful story in the video, you must have heard it, between Viśvāmitra and Guru Vasiṣṭha. Viśvāmitra said to Vasiṣṭha Muni... Who doesn't know this story? So many don't know. Okay, then I would rather tell it. There was a great holy Tapasvī. There was no one like Guru Viśvāmitra. And one was the guru of God Rāma, Guru Vasiṣṭha. Guru Vasiṣṭha was also very well developed and also had these abilities, to look into the future and the past. Viśvāmitra wanted Vasiṣṭha Muni to give him the title of Brahmaṛṣi. Brahmaṛṣi means the knower of Brahman, one who has truly realized Brahman. Guru Vasiṣṭha Muni said, "No, I will not give you the title." It is said, if you want something and ask for it, you will not get anything. It has to be derived from the other, nothing from you. And now we choose our own title, we write it, and then we let ourselves be named with this title. Viśvāmitra was very grumpy; he meditated for so many years, but he did not master his anger. He killed two of Guru Vasiṣṭha's sisters. Guru Vasiṣṭha had a very beautiful cow, a Kāmadhenu. Kāmadhenu means the cow that always gives milk and fulfills every wish. A holy cow was definitely a holy cow. All cows are holy, but this one was special: Kāmadhenu, Pariṣmaṇī, and so on. But Guru Vasiṣṭha Muni was not grumpy. And now, Viśvāmitra decided to kill Vasiṣṭha Muni. That's it. You never know which forces are hidden in you. Everyone says, "Oh, the hidden forces in me. I go to Swamiji and I will see which forces in me are beautifully hidden." And when you come to him, you are disappointed. He says, in you is anger and hatred and envy and greed and jealousy. Everything is in you. I already knew that. One day, the full moon—now the full moon is coming, the coming full moon is Śārad Pūrṇimā, Śārad Candra, Śārad Pūrṇimā. There you make milk rice, as we did today, and you put it in the garden or somewhere where no cats come, on the terrace or balcony where the moonlight shines. And maybe the clouds don't matter; the moonlight goes through and through anyway. And in the morning, you eat this milk rice. And that's nectar, it's like nectar. It's a wonderful atmosphere in this part of India. Not too hot, not too cold. The beautiful autumn weather is pleasant. At night, about 20 degrees; day, 30, 35, 28, 20. So it is pleasant. And on the full moon day, there was a satsaṅg, and Ṛṣi Vasiṣṭha Muni and his wife Arundhatī went to the satsaṅg, about 20 or 30 kilometers away, on foot. Our people, and you, don't even go in a door and sit where the Prāṇāyāma are sitting, no. You are outside and disturb the others who have meditated there, who have done Prāṇāyāma. There is a lot of running from the Advaita, laughing, and from you, and the Līlā, and the Bhakti, and the Viennese. I will come to Vienna, I will stand in front of the wall and say to all the Viennese, these are your representative words. Satsaṅg. And in the middle of the night, those who came back were Sistā and Arundhatī. And Viśvāmitra learned that both of them had gone to satsaṅg and that they would come back the same way, alone. So he prepared his arrow and bow, hid behind a bush, and sat there. And Arundhatī and Vasiṣṭha Muni came back, and he heard the voice, and then he pulled his bow and arrow. They were about 20 meters away, and Arundhatī said to Vasiṣṭha Muni, "How beautiful this moonlight is today, so pleasant, so beautiful. It is an indescribable feeling." And what did the Muni say to Arundhatī? "Yes, it is as beautiful as the Brahmaṛṣi Viśvāmitra." But they didn't know that he was sitting there. And hardly did the Brahmaṛṣi say... Viśvāmitra threw away his bow and arrow and asked for forgiveness for his stupidity. He said, "That was my problem. Once I wanted to hear from your lips, 'Brahmaṛṣi.' And now I am a Brahmaṛṣi. Why didn't you tell me before? And you are great. I killed your children. I stole your Kāmadhenu, but you didn't react at all; you weren't angry at all. And for that, what you gave me today, this word, Brahmaṛṣi, I give you, I give you the fruits of my 60,000 years of tapasyā." How much? That's how long they lived. That means he lived for 60,000 years. And tapasyā, for what he tormented himself, he wanted to give its fruits to Guru Vasiṣṭha Muni. And Guru Vasiṣṭha Muni said, "Then I will give you the fruits of satsaṅg for one minute." And Viśvāmitra was angry again. He said, "That's unfair. I give you 60,000 years, and you only give a minute." He said, "Yes, a minute of satsaṅg is much, much more than 60,000 years of torturous tapasyā." He said, "No, I don't know that. I want them to have a judgment. What is a judgment?" And go to God Viṣṇu. And he came to Viṣṇu, and Viṣṇu said, "This is beyond my viveka." Even Viṣṇu can't do anything. Viṣṇu says, "We are yogīs, I don't miss myself." Because I respect the yogis. Viṣṇu is afraid of yogis, do you know that? One yogī hit Viṣṇu in the chest with his foot. Do you know that? No. Viṣṇu lay very comfortably on his Śeṣa Nāga, and Lakṣmī massaged his feet. And the Ṛṣi, I forgot his name, came. Something important happened, and they all called for Viṣṇu, and Viṣṇu was not there. And the Ṛṣi said, "I'll go and get him." And so the Ṛṣi came to Veṅkuṇḍa, and he said, "Viṣṇu is enjoying life." So the Ṛṣi was angry and hit his foot on Viṣṇu's chest, and Viṣṇu held the Ṛṣi's feet and said with tears in his eyes, "Mṛ Ṛṣi, it hurts me alone that you hurt your foot through my body, the iron body, but I give you the blessing that in Kali Yuga, on earth, the feet are always worshiped." And since then, it has always been said, "Lotus feet in your feet," and the pūjā made from the feet. This is Viṣṇu Vardhan. This is how it is. Before Jesus went away, he used his disciples as footwear. Viṣṇu said, "It is beyond my capacity. Go to Śiva. My Lord is Śiva." He went to Śiva, and Śiva said, "This is not my task. The task of my Śeṣanāga, because in court only the judge can give the result. He can only tell the result, so not the president. So go to my judge, the Śeṣanāga, the thousand-headed snake. On one side, Viṣṇu lies on it; on the other side, Śeṣanāga's head. The planet Earth is balanced." And so Viśvāmitra and what is Muni, both came. And Śeṣanāga said, "Ṛṣis, what can I do for you? I have this weight from the earth on my head, and I am incapable of doing anything for you. How can I welcome you?" They said, "We don't need that." Because Śeṣanāgar said, if I move my neck a little bit, I will be earth-shaking. And whenever the earth-shaking is there, that is Śeṣanāgar's neck. He moved his neck a little bit. He is Śeṣanāgar. Viśvāmitra said, "The whole story, I gave 60,000 years of tapasyā, and he only gave me a minute. That is unfair." So Śeṣanāgar said, "We will see who is much better." Śeṣanāga said, "Mother Earth, in the name of 60,000 years of tapasyā, can you stay in the air for a while so that I can tell them my opinion?" The earth did nothing. It was always the same weight on the head of Śeṣanāga. Then Śeṣanāga said to Mother Earth, "If I give you a minute of fruit from the satsaṅg treasure, can you stay in the air for a while so that I can tell you?" And suddenly the earth came out of the water and stayed. And Śeṣanāgar said, "A little movement after a long, long time." And Viśvāmitra said to Guru Vasiṣṭha and Śeṣanāgar, "Now please give your judgment." Śeṣanāgar said, "Judgment you have already in front of you. For 60,000 years, the earth did not let Śeṣa Nāga free. And only one minute of satsaṅg fruit, the earth has risen." And so Gurujī says, "Satsaṅg." Mahāprabhujī says, "Satsaṅg." Every word is satsaṅg. Śeṣa Nāga means this was a methodological picture. But śeṣa means, in mathematics, when we calculate minus, plus, everything, and then something is left over, we call it śeṣa. When you have paid everything back, your debts, this, this... Everything, and now something is left over. This is called śeṣa in Vedic mathematics. Gaṇit, Bhāg, Ghaṭadbhārata and Śeṣkhyāra. That means Śeṣa here, everything in this universe you see left and right and front, top and back, everything. Everything and everything and everything also in this world. Finally, the last remains is the truth. Satya. And this earth is still always balanced on the Satya. Truth. Not this truth that he stole, and that he beat, and that he didn't, and that. That is a punch in this world. But śeṣa, eko brahmaditya nāsti. Only the final one is the supreme; two is the duality. Ātmā śāhi brahmātmā, this ātmā, śeṣa. And this is nāga, the kāla, the chaitanya. Even time has no longer existed where the absolute is present. And that is called beyond time and space. There is no time. Time that we call, it is a man-made time. It is a human education. There is no time. We have made hours and days, and this and that. It is beyond time, without time. But the Vibhūṣaṇ must come there, beyond time, one without second, and there is the last Nāga. And this Nāga is the Kuṇḍalinī Śakti. And at the end of the Kuṇḍalinī Śakti, the truth, the true Brahma, the perfect Nārāyaṇa Mahā, that is there. In my very early years, I had this state of samādhi for a few days, where all these images and wonderful, indescribable things were realized. Satya Brahmā, Dīp Parī Brahmā, Oṁ Śrī Dīp Satya Parī Brahmā Nārāyaṇ Namaḥ, and so Śeṣanāga and so Satsaṅg. When the master says, "Stay here," then stay. There was an English woman, a student of Gandhījī. And Gandhījī was from Ahmedabad, where he went to Delhi. And he told this woman, "You should stay here. I'll come back." And then, unfortunately, Gandhijī was exiled to Delhi. And for life, she didn't move from there. She stayed there and made a beautiful ashram. This is Guru Ājñā. And all the programs that my Ājñās have designed are there. And you probably only want to have cream, cream, right? You think it's just cream. When I'm there, then it's cream. And the other is just buttermilk, right? Because there is no demand. Or when Swami speaks, then the eyes close. They probably don't see. When we pray, we close our eyes and pray. That is why we have built our mind on the Lord. That is it. That is why we should learn. Holy Gurujī says in his bhajan, "Ākhiyā Satguru charanome lagī, Dīp dayālu ke charan kamal me, Śrī Dīp ke charan kamal me, merī kiśmat jagī." You know this whole bhajan? You know this whole bhajan? "Ākhiyāṁ Satguru Charanamē lāgī." My eyes, my eyes, like Gurudev's feet. "Charan dēkhē binā chain nahīṁ āvē." So long as my master doesn't see his feet, I am unhappy. And when I see, Palakan Hove Aagi, meine Augen gehen nicht mal für einen Augenblick weg. Ich schließe nicht die Augen. Ich schaue. Ich genieße. Ich meditiere. Also, heute ist genug. Morgen muss ich noch. Ich spare heute für morgen. Weiß ich noch nicht, was ich morgen sagen werde. Muss ich herumtelefonieren, dass die mir eine Idee geben, was ich sprechen soll? Also, eine wunderschöne gute Nacht wünsche ich. And you are blessed, you are the happiest, and today, in this wonderful first night of Mother's Night, Śakti, Divine Śakti, Navarātri, today is a wonderful day. Enjoy this power. Everyone should feel it like a mother's embrace. Hari Om.