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Every individual has a particular mission in life. Every creature, everything that is created, has its meaning. Some live for themselves. That is all right; it is not bad. But some live for all—that is something. If everyone had the consciousness to live for all, the world would look different. Most humans, however, are changing. For a spiritual aspirant, for a practitioner of spirituality, we spoke this morning about the spirit. The spirit is that radiance of your soul. It is that spirit which enlightens your mind. It is that which controls your senses. It is that light of your wisdom and knowledge. Animals also have it, but very limited. Humans can improve a great deal, or they can just live as ignorant ones. There is a water tank with a capacity of, let us say, 20,000 liters. You can take water out until 25,000 liters; after that, nothing. So one who lives only for oneself has a limited source of wisdom, a limited source of awakenings. But there is what is called the water well: you can pump out as much as you want, but still there is more fresh, clean water—no end. Because the source of that water is somewhere else. Therefore, the source of our strength, the spirit, is God. If you have trust, Holy Gurujī said: "Prakāś puñj. Amṛt ke śagar, Śrī Deepaharī Mahādanī hai." Prakāś Puñj, the source of the light. Like the sun—the sun is a prakāś puñj, giving and giving light. Or, let us say, there is a diamond or some glass which is shining. When you focus light on it, it constantly gives you light, radiance. That stone is small, but it constantly reflects. Similarly, those who have connected their indriyas, their mind, their consciousness, intellect, and soul to Gurudev or to the Supreme, there is constantly light coming, wisdom coming, love coming, and happiness coming. So first, a human should find some symbol or Gurudev, or anything where you can reflect your love—meaning your devotion. That will turn back to you, and you work now through that light. As much as you will work in this world selflessly, there will be a source of wisdom coming from somewhere else, because you are living for others. It is said: there are many humans in the world, but very few have real human qualities. Many humans are living in the world, but very few live for the world. And that comes from the supreme higher consciousness descending on this planet, on this form of this physical body. Never count that you helped someone. Never tell someone, "I did this and this for you." What you have given, on that you have no rights. If you claim rights, then it becomes selfish. So to live for others is selfless. It is not easy, my dear. Can you imagine what the condition is for one who is living for all? If I tell you, you will say, "No, Swāmījī, thank you." The world may go to the hill; I do not want this. What does it mean to live for others? Do you know a football? Placed in the middle of the ground, a football field. The whole world is now observing through electronic media. Well, football is a material, rubber. But can you imagine what karma that football has? That football is in the view of billions or millions of eyes, the whole family sitting and looking at television. Door. So when you begin to live for all, you are that hero. Everyone is targeting you, and now the second part is coming. Without mercy, without feelings, how many times did he kick that football? By 22 men constantly kicking, the football says, "Thank you, it is only 22." So if you are a social worker, if you are a peace worker, if you live for all, then you have to endure. Those kicking, and that symbolizing, symbolically, they kick us through their words. They did not like that; it was not well organized. Then why did you not go to organize there? Go and organize there first, then speak. Therefore, it is easy to give negative commentary. But, peace worker, they said, "Yes, you are right." Thank you. Next time we will do better. Like this, you have to survive to carry on, to carry your mission. That is it. It is said: "Lord, bless me and give me that strength so that I can stand through. And bless me that I will not be angry with someone, or I will not give a curse to someone angry, you know." Imagine what is said in the Testament: Jesus was crucified. I do not know, but if it was, and he said, "Father, forgive them." How much pain he endured. But I tell you, Jesus had to suffer only once on the cross. But the peacemakers, the lovers of peace, harmony, and understanding, have to suffer constantly on the crucifying pain. And then you can be successful, so your problem is zero, or 0.00. Zero, but your heart is connected to the world, what problems they are facing and how I can be of help to them. This is also one of the greatest spiritual works which you can do on yourself. Great Kabīr Dās said: "When I was born, I cried, but people were happy." Oh, when a baby is born, when a son is born, and when asked, "What child? Give your wife a son or a daughter?" My God, girls, what do you think of this? You think you are not worthy? Without you, there is no son and no daughter. So when the girl is born, you must also celebrate. But this is not the subject today. So, ladies, I am sorry, you have to be calm. So, Kabīr Dās said: "When I was born, the world was laughing and I was crying." The world was happy. Now, do such work in the world. When you die, you are happy that you did your job, and the world will cry. Everyone will die. But when a certain personality goes, we cry. It is a pity. When the individual lives only for herself or himself, we will say, yes, sorry, it was a nice person. Therefore, you are born as a messenger of God. You are carrying that message of the Lord to bring His love, His mercy, His light, and His name, without making differences. Do not make differences. Let them believe how they believe. Respect the culture and tradition, but make them happy. When hundreds are sitting and they are hungry, and you give food, you will give food only to those who follow you? It means you are wrong. Everyone has hunger. So do not think, "This is my best friend, I will feed him, but I will not feed others." So equal vision, samadṛṣṭi, that is important. Of course, there are some lazy people. They do not want to live even for themselves. They ask us that we should help, that they can live for themselves. Like many of us here, we try to play all the tricks, still. We should help them, but there are many different ways to get help: karma yoga, service. Do not spoil them. Once you can help, twice you can support. And the third time, you will take it to work. That is it. So one should never be lazy. It is said that your government pays you money because you are unemployed. From where does the government give you money? This is the money of the people. It is money from the taxes that people pay. It means the karma will reflect back to you. You are living from everyone’s money. Did you ever think this? Some taxpayers have a lot of money, and some do not have a lot. But law is law; everyone has to pay. And you are living only from social help. That is not correct. If you are a disabled person, you cannot work at anything, you are ill or old, it is okay. But young people, healthy people, sitting at home, depression, "My girlfriend left me, Swāmījī, my life is gone," and mostly Hungarians are saying to me, "I will kill myself." I said, my dear, in the world there are still more girls than men. So do not die for one girl. That is it. So do not be like that. You should support yourself. And let others also support you, so do not sit at home depressed. Do not be that person when it is always raining. Oh, very depressive weather. Some of our people here were only here for three days, and it rained a little bit. Oh, my God! It is a depressive weather. Yes, we had a hard time in the kitchen, here in this kitchen. Forgiving, eating, and so on. And when two days will be sunny and hot, the same people will say, "My God, it is a horror." It is so hot. It is depressive. This is in the mind. Be happy always. That is very important. Do not worry. Teri Satguru Rākhe Lāj Chintāmātā. So whom the Lord protects, no one can do anything. So, to realize the fruits of the actions, you have to be like a tree. You know how many years trees stand in the field. How many days, months, and years? How many situations are there, and how many weather situations—storms, rains, cold, heat, dry—but the tree is enduring everything and develops in time, within itself, the strength to survive. So, there is one practice or technique in yoga, which we have in yoga and in life too. And you read the Hidden Powers in Humans book. Work on your Maṇipūra chakra. Work on the Maṇipūra Chakra. Awaken the energy of the Maṇipūra Chakra. Concentrate on Maṇipūra Chakra. It is the dwelling place. The Dwellers of the Wisdom. Dwellers of the Love. The Dwellers of Happiness. And many others. The Maṇipūra Chakra is to work all in peace and harmony. Maṇipūra Chakra reflects on the Anāhata and Ājñā Chakra. But the seed of your consciousness from the beginning is the Maṇipūra Chakra. So whenever you are, let us say, a little sad, or have some kind of pain, some troubles, problems in the world, you want to solve certain things and it is not possible. Place your hand on Maṇipūra. Relax. Or you lie down on the bed and follow the rhythm of the breath. How the stomach is expanding and contracting. It is like a wave. Suddenly, you will feel like a little baby in the cradle. And when the baby feels in the hands of the parents nicely, he is relaxed and happy. And so all the sorrows will go away, and you will get self-confidence again. So that Hungarian who wanted to die, to commit suicide, because a girl or his wife left him. And somehow I managed that he will not do. He was lucky after five years, so quickly, quickly in five years, he found some other one, and she was strict with him. And he was so happy. He said, "Swāmījī, my life is in heaven. You know, my wife loves me like my mother did. And she is so nice. My life is now completed. Thanks, Mahāprabhujī, that other one went away." So that Hungarian couple is happy. We do not know why it happens. Maybe sometimes it happens purposely; God is testing us. It is an examination. Or sometimes, there is a good indication. Expect good and bad both. Let us come. It is said there was some holy saint from Sufi in Turkey, Konya. His name was Mavlīna. And he said, "It does not matter how you are. Come to me as you are—a holy saint, a good man, a bad man, a cheater, a criminal. It does not matter how you are. Come to me." And his presence changed the people. So it does not matter what kind of darkness is there. The sun is saying, "Just come to me," and darkness is purified into the light. So sometimes a little bit of pain is there, disappointment is there, and you think, "Oh, without Him, I will not live." You will live. God smiles and says, "Boy, you will live." So if someone is gone, the problem is gone. And if someone is coming, love is coming. Come, welcome. Go, less crowd. That is it. Less crowd. So, come and go. I am there. The mountain is standing for us here. You can go, or you can come. Therefore, spiritual bhaktas, spiritual karma yogīs, I would say, they are dharma yogīs, they are karma yogīs, they are prema yogīs. They are the greatest ones who can live for others. And so there is a small story. One couple lived together in a small house, a small hut. One big room where they had one bed, a small kitchen, and a toilet; the bathroom and washing were outside. The man was very spiritual, living for all; the wife also, but she said to him, "There is a time, I must have my comfort." He said, "Yes, dear, you can have it, no problem. I can stand the whole night; you can sleep on the big bed like this. I will cook, you can let them sleep." It is not so, my dear. Okay. Winter came. And snowstorms. Around 11 o’clock, someone was knocking on the door. He got up to open the door, and she said, "Are you crazy? It is so cold, and you want to have someone inside?" He said, "Yes." Yes, open the door. My man was nearly frozen. I am cold and lost. Can I come in? He said, "Yes, please come in." She said, "But we have no place." He said, "No problem. It is already midnight. So we will sit on the bed, we will not sleep. All three of us will sit." After 15 minutes, again, someone knocked. And same theater. And that man came in. So again they pulled together, and all four of them were sitting on the bed. After ten minutes, again, the door was knocking. And these two men said, it is really, actually, there is no more place. So the owner of that hut said, "My brother, the same question was also asked when you came. Let me open the door." They opened the door. And one woman and one small child came. We are freezing, freezing, help me, please. He said, "Yes, please come in." Now, compact. And his wife said, "Now we do not have any more place." He said, "Yes. I do not want anyone to come anymore." He said, "God knows." Stupid, always with your God. He said, "Yes, they are our guests. Midnight guest." He said, "It does not matter. Midnight guest is a very good guest. Many are waiting for midnight to come. Because that is the only peaceful time. No office. No shopping. No cleaning. No cleaning, no cooking, so you have time." Again, knocked. And his wife became red. She said, "I am getting red, hot." He said, "Thanks to God, finally we are warm." You see how easy it is to warm up the room? He opened the door. And one old man came. He had newspaper in his shoes. Newspaper under the shirt because it was so cold, and he said, "Please come in." And this man, he stood near the cooking fire oven, the host. And he gave the old man a place to sit on the bed. You see, the test, how God is testing us. If you live for others or only for you, I told you three days ago: small finger, whole hand, the wrist, the shoulder, upper arm and shoulder, and then the ear, then your nose. So God is looking, and God is purposely making more minus weather, and snow is coming. It is said when Lord Śiva gets up from the peak of Mount Kailāśa, and then he is, because he has long hair, and he makes like this, everywhere is snowing, so when the snow comes here, it means Lord Śiva is now moving his hair, it is prasāda, snow begins from there. And something was on the door again. Not knocking, but doing like this with the body. He said, "Yes, come in." And his wife said, "No." He said, "Darling, only three hours left." He opened the door, and what was outside? A donkey. And the donkey did not say, "Can I come in?" She just walked in. So what did he do? He told everybody, "Please stand up, we will put the bed out." And his wife said, "Are you crazy?" He said, "Yes, it is a donkey." He said, "Yes, what do you think it is also? You know, we will all stand near the donkey and lean on the donkey, and we will all be nice and warm. Be happy. We do not need more wood to warm this room, thanks to the donkey." She said, "I do not understand." Finally, the last one was knocking again, and one man came again and said, "I am dying, I am completely frozen. Please, can I come in?" This man said, "Brother, come in." He let him in, and he himself went out and was freezing. He was standing on his knees and said, "Lord, you gave me such a big heart. But the house is too small. Please do that next time. I can house the whole world." And that is the nature of one who loves all. I will live for you, and I will die for you. I will work for you. I will breathe for you, O my Lord, I will be Thine, and that is it. So do not blame too hot, too cold, dirty, or beautiful. Above all this, beauty is that is ātmā, soul. Then you will see how spiritually you are growing. But if you have selfishness, then though you are a diamond, it is blocked in a small box and put somewhere. So be for all. Then you are that divine person. My life is yours.