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It has been said many times, but it should be repeated. Repetition is development: physical, mental, spiritual. Repetition is circulation. That is life. If circulation stops, life stops. It has to be reminded again and again. We humans are very intelligent beings. We know the difference between reality and non-reality. But still, from time to time, we forget. We know it is not good for us, but we do those things which are not good for us. All of us know how many times we have made mistakes and then said, "I will never do it again," and after some time, we repeat it. It means we are not out of this prapañca of saṃsāra, and therefore many things have to be repeated. If you clean your room every day, it remains nice and clean. It is the same process. If you will not clean it every few days, it will become dusty. Similarly, our antaḥkaraṇa needs purification. Antaḥkaraṇa is our inner functions, which have a very deep influence on our being. It is a very influential thing, the main cause of our karmas. This antaḥkaraṇa is mana (mind), buddhi (intellect), citta (consciousness), and ahaṁkāra (ego). These are the four antaḥkaraṇa. About our mind, we should be clear. We should know what the mind is and what is happening in it. The mind is not alone; it has many colleagues: selfishness, desires, attachment, and so on. Mana can be our best friend, and mana can be our worst enemy. Our present life is dominated by manas. There is a story. One king went to a master and said, "Master, I am a king. I have everything: money, a kingdom, friends, a wife, children. I am healthy and happy. Then why should I come to you?" The master said, "You have to come to me because you are the slave of my slave." The king repeated, "Master, I am not a slave. I am the king." The master said, "Yes, I know you think you are a king. But you are the slave of the slave." The king was confused and asked, "Can you tell me who is your slave, that I am his slave?" The master said, "The mind is my slave, and you are the slave of the mind." As long as you are a slave to your mind, you will not achieve anything. A king should not be a slave. Your Ātmā is the king, and your Viveka is your Gurudev. Your intellect is the king. Viveka is the best part of the intellect. The best part of the milk is the cream. So the best quality of the human is Gurudev. The best part of the intellect is Viveka. Viveka is the truth, the best part of our being. So, being a king, the ātmā in this body, your intellect is following only your mind, the slave. Therefore, the intellect has to come back to viveka, and then viveka will wake you up. We know what the mind has done with us, in which situations our mind has put us many times, and in which situation we are because of the mind. We still know what kind of situation our mind will create. An alcoholic person, when completely drunk, promises himself and others, "I will never drink again." But again in the evening, he or she goes towards it. Alcohol is one of the most dangerous drugs. More people are killed and die because of alcohol. Mostly, the cause of accidents on the roads is alcohol. Many breakups of marriages are caused by alcohol. Many unhappy children cannot get a proper education because of it. The condition of the alcoholic, addicted person is the same as that of a person addicted to opium. Therefore, producing alcohol means you are producing and supplying drugs to people. You know this, but still you are doing it, producing and consuming, because of this mind, and because this mind has good friends: greediness, selfishness, and desires. Long ago, there was a king named King Pṛṣad. That was the time when Tretā Yuga changed into Kali Yuga. It was the change of the yuga, and that is the real millennium. The real millennium is with the changes of the yugas, which change the atmosphere in the entire universe. It is the changing of the constellations. This is a beautiful mathematics counted in billions of years, one manvantara, yugas, days, kalpas, and so on. At the time when King Parīkṣat was there, Kali Yuga came and asked the king to give him a place. The king asked, "Who are you?" "I am Kali Yuga." "And what is your speciality?" "All this that is happening now in saṃsāra—this is the speciality of Kali Yuga. Your way of thinking, your attitude, all relations, fighting for money, position, wars—all this is the introduction, the quality of Kali Yuga." The king said, "Then you have no place in my kingdom." Kali Yuga said to the king, "You cannot stop me. I will come, but it would be nice if you freely could give me some little place on this planet." The king asked, "What is that little place?" Kali Yuga said, "Something which is very rare. I do not want to take your whole kingdom, your land, your oceans, your mountains." The king said, "Then you can have gold. It is very rare, hardly seen anywhere." And Kali Yuga entered into the gold, into the consciousness of the king, and everything became gold, shining. And so it is said, in Kali Yuga, money is God. This gold is God. And every holy scripture speaks against gold, against money. Hinduism preaches the simple life, tyāga (renunciation). Christianity teaches simple life and higher thinking, tyāga: thou shalt not collect. Believe in your destiny. God will give you anywhere whatever you need, so the Christians were not concentrated or aimed towards richness. In Islam also, it taught the simple life and higher thinking, to make business strict. Promise it: if you borrow money, you are not allowed to take interest. On your capital, you can give help if you have. All of them, even the Buddha's life was also very simple, very holy. But Kali Yuga is slowly getting more and more, and we forgot the roots of humanity, the roots of humankind, because Kali Yuga entered our mind: greediness, selfishness, desires. And that is all played in our mind, and we are the slave of it. So, as long as you will be a friend with this, you will not be happy. As long as you are filled with greediness, selfishness, ego, desires, longing, and so on, you will not be happy. And we know this very well. You are listening from this side and it is going out the other side. Therefore, there is also no spiritual development. Spiritual development is your inner life. It is called the way of life, how you live, not in the outer world, but the inner world. So one of the definitions of Hinduism is known as a way of life. Way of life means like yama and niyama, which are also repeated as the Ten Commandments in Christianity, in the testaments. So we know that everything is connected, but though we know, we are not capable of freeing ourselves from this prison of the mind. And this mind will kill us. This mind is like a fire, a dormant fire in the wood. It is dormant; you do not feel it. It is a fire in the wood, but in the wood there is fire completely. The more quantity in the wood is the fire, what we call the fuel. The more quantity in alcohol is fire. The more quantity in anger is fire. The more quantity in desires is fire. That fire is dormant, but when the fire awakes, then you cannot control it. You can walk on the mountains, there is snow and skiing, you can go. But underneath is the volcano, and you know when a volcano awakes, then solid stones begin to melt and flow like water. So when the anger of the volcano awakes, or the anger... or the desire of the Vulcan awakes in us, we have no more power to face this. So this dormant fire, which is in the wood, when it awakes, it will burn the wood and turn the wood into ash, and it will disappear; the fire itself. Similarly, this mind, which will turn you into ash, when will you be free of your mind? When will you become ash? In the crematorium, then the mind will tell you, "Bye bye. See you." What? See you? Just like that. How will it see me again? "I am waiting for your next life." Therefore, in one bhajan, Gurudev said, "Gana din bhat kī re kaniyā kamari, nār gana din bhat kī re kaniyā kamari." And therefore, the mind says, "See you again." And you say, "What do you want more from me? You turned me into ashes? Wait a minute. Let a storm come, and even these ashes will be destroyed, spread into billions of parts, and again you will come back. I have your passport." It will be the mind who will say, "Go this side." Who said this? The mind. The mind has your passport of destiny and your manifestation out of these five elements. Again, the desires, greediness, selfishness, ignorance, and this blind intellect will imprison you. It will again make you the slave. There is one story of how one becomes the slave. It is a long story. You are tired? Oh, you see. Well, poetry, stories, and drama—these are the three best ways to learn. Out of these three, which will remain ever in your life? You have played so many dramas in this life, and you are very perfect actors. So we are all drama players, we are all actors. And we are playing on this podium, or the stage of this earth. Everyone has a nice part to play and also some unpleasant part. Finally, the drama will end. They will have interest not in you, but in your property: how much money, houses, and so on you will leave behind. And many lawyers will be happy, because some of your sisters or brothers do not want to give you a fair part of the inheritance. So the lawyer will say, "Well, there is also my part inside." So also, there is a part of the lawyers inside. So we are playing dramas. About one and a half years ago, some of your guru brothers came to me and said, "Gurudev, now I am ready to become a swami. I did everything in life. Everything was a disappointment. Now I know that I want to serve Gurudeva and become a Swami." Because his fourth or fifth wife divorced him. So I said, "Well, I will be very happy to initiate you as a Swāmī. Prepare yourself now for five years, and then we will speak if you still want to become a Swami or not. After five years, it will be twelve years of training." He said, "Very happy, thank you, Master." After three weeks, the message came, "Master, can you bless me for a new marriage?" I said, "Which marriage? I gave you time for sannyāsa, not marriage. I gave you time for 10 or 12 years." So these are the disappointments. You must count on the path: good things and bad things, happiness and unhappiness. Every season has to show its qualities, its nature. Winter must show its coldness; summer must show its warmth. So in life, everything has its time. But do not forget one thing: your aim. It does not matter what happens. Something can come on your path: a man or a woman. Yes, the most beautiful thing in this world is the man, and the most divine beauty in the world is the woman. Without mother and father, we would not be here. That is why we say, "Therefore, everything is coming and going." But in every life, you will meet a mother and a father. In every life, you will have a husband and a wife. In every life, you will have children. And in every life, you will have birth and death. But only in one life—that is human life—you can meet Gurudev. And you can meet mokṣa, liberation. Therefore, our destination, our aim, our saṅkalpa, that should remain very clear in our vision. Then, it does not matter what happens. You are coming to your destination. You are sitting in the right airplane. Now, if you are drinking or eating or sleeping or talking, it does not matter. Your airplane will bring you to your destination, and that airplane is the satsaṅg. One who does not go to the satsaṅg is lost. Every day, every week, I must go to the satsaṅg. I said, "Yes, you must." But if you want to reach your aim, then you have to go to the satsaṅgs. Modern psychology, modern research work, and science say it is the best anti-stress therapy and anti-stress management, the best remedy against depression, the best solution not to commit suicide, and the best motivation in life. In reading the ancient spiritual literatures—if you read the Upaniṣad for half an hour in the evening and then measure your blood pressure, it will be normal and your thoughts will be calm. And read these newspapers for half an hour, all these conflicts around the world, and then measure the blood pressure. So this is the difference between the ancient media and the present media. So satsaṅg is the best way to be free from this stressful life. Satsaṅg is that aeroplane which will bring us to the Brahmaloka. Therefore, do not miss your aim, your destination. Always remain. Therefore, it is said in the Vedas, what kind of sukha we can realize. And in order to get the sukha, the happiness of the satsaṅg, even we have to face many difficulties. We do not mind. We will endure all kinds of discomfort and pain in order to remain in the satsaṅg. Again, from your antaḥkaraṇa—manas, buddhi, citta, ahaṁkāra—from past karma, some disturbances come, like a midlife crisis. "Now I must have time for my family. It does not matter how strict my husband is with me, but still I have to go. I cannot come to satsaṅg. My wife is against it." Last year, one man could not come to satsaṅg because his wife sent him to the basement to bring something. He went to the basement, and she locked the door and went shopping. She took her time for shopping, went to the hairdresser, to the manicurist, and then for shopping, and came home. The man was in the basement. "Open door, open door." It became his mantra. And she said, "Why are you screaming? Mistakenly, I locked the door. But I thought you are a yogī. You can meditate. Why scream?" So sometimes a feeling comes in you. You want to withdraw yourself. When bad karma, destiny, begins to come up again, the dormant fire awakes. Then, in your vṛttis, thoughts come which are not healthy. "I do not like people in the satsaṅg. They are all unfriendly. They are terrible people. I do not know why they are against me. They are all sitting, crazy people." They are all crazy, yes. When the autobahn, the highway, was introduced the first time with one-way traffic, one man went in the wrong direction with his wife. He was driving the wrong direction, what you call a ghost driver. The radio was announcing, traffic police was announcing, "Attention all drivers, there is one ghost driver driving opposite." He heard this and said to his wife, "Stupid, give me the telephone. Not only one, there are hundreds driving opposite." So now, if you think... who is now crazy? All who are coming the right way, and you are going the wrong way, you think they are crazy. And when you think like this, then they think you are crazy. Therefore, you must think deep. In satsaṅg, no one is crazy. If then only, if then only. Yourself, no one loves you. Yes, that is one hundred percent true because you do not love yourself. If you will love yourself, then you will see love in everyone. Therefore, there is one example from one holy saint: "Lord, I am that bird which is sitting on the big ship in the middle of the ocean, and I want to run away, fly away. I fly 100 kilometers, but I do not see anywhere a shelter. Again, I have to come to you, to that ship, to rest there. Again, I do not like this situation: the boat on the ocean with the waves, turbulence, and I want to run away. But around the boat or the ship, thousands of kilometers away, is the mainland. I cannot fly so far. I do not see a shelter anywhere. Lord, you are only my shelter. Let me be there so that I can come safely to the mainland." So our shelter is the satsaṅg, which will bring us to the Brahmaloka. So it does not matter which turbulences are there. We may have to burn in the fire, walk on thorns. May this life become a burden for me, like a snake around my neck. But Gurudev, all the happiness I can get is a single turn at your lotus feet. Aap ke charanon mein bhagavān ke charanon, sachā sukh kī mīlā hai.