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We need an education that awakens in human consciousness a love for humanity, for all creatures, and for the environment. We need an education that teaches us to believe in and respect all religions equally. We must recognize every culture, allowing each to flourish as they wish. And we must obey and respect the laws of every country. We need a free education, not a one-sided one. This is crucial today for bringing world peace and for reawakening spiritual consciousness on this planet. You may recall what I shared yesterday: that every country, every president... Śrī Śrī... This is the most important thing in human life. Humans are born for spirituality, and only spirituality can save the world. Only spirituality can awaken consciousness in a human. "Love your neighbor" means to love all creatures as your own body. Respect each and every entity as myself. Every entity is myself. Love them at least as you love thyself. Spiritual consciousness is the answer for a sustainable world. It is essential for bringing peace and for creating a human education that helps us realize our humanity. Therefore, do not count your money, but count your spiritual steps. How many times today have you thought about God? How many times did you think about forgiveness? How many times did you think about love, universal love? And how many times did you think negative thoughts today? Jealousy, greed, selfishness, laziness, anger, ego—you were not born for this. You are born to improve your spirituality for God Realization. Otherwise, this human life has no value. Eating, drinking, sleeping, and having children—all creatures are experts at this. What is the difference between humans and other creatures? Therefore, we need spiritual consciousness and spiritual education—but the kind where there is no fighting, no dualities. There is one good person in Hungary, but there are three good persons in Croatia. Mahāprabhū Dīp Karatā Mahāprabhū Dīp Karatā... Mahāprabhū, God incarnated. Great saints and divine incarnations, what we compare to God incarnations, were incarnated in India. Yes, no doubt, India is a holy land. The dust of India is holy. What is not holy? Everything. And so we must have clear vision, but it means not only in India, where the holy saints are, but around the whole world, everywhere with the holy saints. You go to South Africa, you go to South America, you look to the aborigines in Australia, the Māori in New Zealand, or in Europe—many, many, everywhere. God’s flowers grow everywhere. Some flowers are yellow, some are white, some are pink, and some are blue. No? But all are beautiful flowers of God. And the most beautiful flowers of God are our children. Yes. But not only the human children, also the animals; all babies, all children are so beautiful and so nice. Love them, protect them. O human, this is your duty. You are born on this planet as a protector, not as a destroyer. So, a spiritual consciousness, a spiritual awakening, that will save the world and that will bring the name of the country again. The higher beauty, glory, and greatness of your country is through spirituality, not through your money or artistic work. Artist, scientist, artist, and spiritualist, that’s art. Those are the great. And scientist means, through meditation, who can find this? Who follow the discipline? That tries to find in this universe again what is hidden. Science means the senses. Research means to research. The research that science, the sense of the reality, but the great sages already told us. It is like that, but humans don’t believe, and therefore they begin to research again. And what do they find again? The same thing. Yes? If he is a good scientist, he will find the reality again. And the reality is the same, as the Vedas said. That’s it. Awakening of the spiritual consciousness is the only hope to protect this planet. Protect the environment, create sustainability, and bring the humans to humanity. Humans to human with the heart to heart, not with the fist to fist, love. It is possible. It is possible. And that begins with the education of our children. And that awakes through the bhakti yoga. Bhakti means love. Yesterday, I explained a lot to you about devotion, about bhakti. Equal love. God loves all equally. The tree stands equally for all. Doesn’t matter, the animals, humans, birds, insects. Everyone gains the benefit from the tree because the tree has no dualism, no dualities. It is oneness. If you throw a stone at a tree, it will not get the stone and throw it back at you. But instead of the stone, she will throw down a fruit for you. The tree is not angry, nor does it have an enemy with the person who cuts it down. And the tree is not attached to the person who gives the water. The river flows for all, not only for you. The rain falls for all, not only for humans. A saint is preaching for all, not for a particular person. Similarly, the spiritual consciousness and human life are given for all to protect and to love. Be the example and show the love. That is called free education, spiritual education, divine education, and awakening of the spiritual consciousness. For world peace, realizing the peace within the self. Inner peace for outer peace, the inner peace for world peace. Ask yourself, have you peace within you? Yes, of course, but sleeping. What is awakened? My anger, my disappointment, my jealousy, my greediness, my sorrow, in my heart, loneliness. Yes, it is a lonely, thanks to God. If there are two in your heart, then the heart does not know for whom it should beat. The heartbeat is only for you, only and only. You forget your heart, but the heart doesn’t forget you. You tell your whole body, "Relax, my friend, relax." The whole body, from the top of the head to the toes, relax the whole body, but not the heart. When the heart relaxes, then you will not be relaxed, you know, sweating and this and pain here and pain here and pain here. God, oh God, oh... God, my heart, wake up, wake up,... you see. You are not lonely in that way; your heart is with you, and you are ever and ever lonely because there is no two, there is only one. One God, one Ātmā, one reality, one truth, one love, one consciousness divine, many forms, that’s it. It is you who is sitting in many forms. All are myself, and I am in all. So our beloved Gurujī said, "One in all and all in one." Then why are you jealous? Again, Naya, as it’s so einfach, it’s so easy to say, but difficult to accept, difficult to realize. That is a problem. That is a problem: one religion does not accept another religion. That’s a problem, that one culture does not accept another culture. We would like to have peace, love, and understanding, but we are not ready to accept. How do you think then? I have one question in my mind, but I will not ask today. So, charity begins at home, and peace begins in your own heart. So, accepting this divine consciousness should begin with you, a spiritual education. So write to your ministers; you are always speaking and talking about economic growth. Will you ever speak of the spiritual growth of our country? That’s very important. Only and only and... Only one will solve the world’s problems, hunger’s problem, environmental problems, and these wars and conflicts among the people through spiritual growth, spiritual consciousness. And for that we have to go to satsaṅgs. We have to realize this oneness in the satsaṅg, where it is directly taught to us with free thinking. Do you agree? Will you go to my satsaṅg? Will you go to Chidānand’s satsaṅg? No. You didn’t say no. Very good. So, you will go to the Vivek Purī? Why? No answer. Very good. Therefore, free education and spiritual education, universal consciousness, universal love, universal awakening, universal realization for the oneness. That is very important. So, that was, how do you call it, the Nārada. So, there are two bhaktis, saguṇa bhakti and nirguṇa bhakti. Bhakti towards the formless God, a universal God, and bhakti towards a personal God, whom we call an incarnation. And, sakām bhakti and niṣkām bhakti. Sakām Bhakti is praying to God for particular realization. God, help me so that I can buy a car. You see, God also has to help you to get a car. God, help me to get a driving license also. And you make an accident and say, "God, help me so that I have money to repair my car." God does everything for you, so this is Sakām Bhakti. These fruits will be given to you. It doesn’t matter what you wish; God will fulfill it sooner or later. But God knows if He should fulfill it or not. And sometimes God does not fulfill your wish, and you are angry with God. But after 10 years, you will be very happy and thank God that He did not fulfill that wish. Otherwise, I will be unhappy today. That’s it. So your wish and God’s wish are different. You wish, you pray to God, and you have no time to wait for that. And when God doesn’t do, you say, "I will do it." Okay, you can do it, no problem, but after, it will be a problem. And niṣkāmabhakti, without any wish. For example, you walk somewhere on the road and you see the thorns on the floor. On the ground, on the road, there are some thorns. You don’t see anyone there. Behind, in the front, sideward, there is no one. But in your heart and in your intellect, a love awakes. I should remove these thorns because anyone can hurt their... And the thorns will stick in their foot, so you remove the thorns. Or a stone, or a piece of glass. You were not doing that so your children would walk there, or your husband or your wife would walk there. No. It is a public road, and you don’t know who will come and who will go. You are not doing for a particular person, but you are doing in general. That’s Nishkām Seva. That’s Nishkām Karma. And that’s called Niṣkām Bhakti. And Sākām, with only for you. That’s in your house. You clean thorns and glass because of you and your family. But in the street, it’s not particularly only for you and your family, but for all. Even animals, when a piece of glass is lying and a dog walks, the dog also gets a glass piece in its foot and is hurt. Have exactly the same pain like a human has. Every creature feels the pain. So, Niṣkāmbhakti means without expectation, only doing good things, good awareness, good consciousness, good thinking. And so, how do we develop the niṣkāmabhakti? Nishkambhakti will bring us, lead us to God or to Self-realization. Nishkambhakti will bring our consciousness to this higher consciousness. And Śākambhakti will lead us to our human feelings in this world, how the things are developing. So, how to develop the niṣkāmabhakti? And there, Nārada Ṛṣi advises nine kinds of different ways to the perfection of bhakti, and that’s called Navadhā Bhakti, the nine bhaktis according to the great sage Nārada. And first is called satsaṅg. Go to satsaṅg. And in satsaṅg, you will always get that kind of knowledge which is universal. And if someone is talking in satsaṅg, this and only this, only our God, no other, then that’s not a satsaṅg. That is a meeting of some company’s organization. Our products, our products, only our products. So you are in the wrong place. If such a thing is spoken, of course, it can also be spoken. Don’t go to the negative society. Don’t go to criminal activities. Don’t go to the drugs and this. That is true. But all spiritual paths and all religions and the gods, they are the same divine powers. And therefore, a thirsty person can drink water from any drinking fountain. Universal thinking. Satsaṅg. Therefore, our Gurujī tells Mahāprabhujī, "O Merciful Mahāprabhujī, please be merciful to me and bless me with the satsaṅg, and protect me from the kuṣaṅga, the bad societies." The second point of the Navadhā Bhakti is Hari Kathā. Yes, Hari Katha. That’s something beautiful. Hari Katha means where the glory of God is explained. When you read every day, someone is reading every day, and you are listening, Līlā Amṛt of Mahāprabhujī, this is Hari Kathā. And I think ten days before, or one week before, in every ashram there should be reading of the Līlā Amṛt. Until the last, when we complete it, it is on the Mahāsamādhi day of Mahāprabhujī. Or people read the Rāmāyaṇa and explain the stories. Or people read the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, the līlās, the glories of God Viṣṇu. In how many incarnations, what has he done? Or you go to the church, and they read every day one or two chapters of the Bible? Hari Katha, the Hari Katha will inspire us toward God. But the Hari Kathā should be universal. Krishna didn’t say, "Don’t believe in Rama." Krishna didn’t say, "Don’t believe in Shiva." And Krishna didn’t say, "Don’t believe in Brahma." Krishna never said that Brahma is a semi-god. Or, Kṛṣṇa never said, "Rāma, Śiva is a semi-god." And Śiva never said that Viṣṇu is a semi-god. Because Viṣṇu is a devotee of Śiva. And Śiva is a devotee of Viṣṇu, Hari Om. We don’t understand the relation of the God to God. God has a relation to that one who is divine and pure. That’s called God’s relation to that divine one. Others will not understand. How is it possible that Kṛṣṇa is praying to Śiva and Śiva is praying to Kṛṣṇa? What is that? Oh, yes, it’s very great. Parents love the children, and children love the parents. What is that? You understand this? The husband loves the wife, and the wife loves the husband. You understand this? No. Yeah, this is a problem, that you don’t understand. They understand very well. This is this. So the husband loves the wife, and the wife loves the husband. Children love their parents, and parents love their children. God loves God. God loves God. Gurudev loves the bhaktas, and the bhaktas love the Gurudev. These others don’t understand. That’s it. And therefore, there is no semi-God, okay? There is only, you should not say, "Save me, God." You say, "Save me, God," okay? There is no "save me, God." It is a "save me, God," you know, the salvation. Who gives us salvation? Therefore, where there is criticism, it is not a universal teaching. Definitely, negative is negative. When there is satanic, when there is devils, when there is asuras, it has to be explained and spoken. But that God can protect from that. Without sādhus, without asuras, without devils, there is no value of God. God has to prove Himself that He is different than this. That’s it. And so, I am everywhere, and everyone is there. The twelve apostles of Jesus, what we call the twelve disciples, and what the testament is talking about, the master was talking to the disciples, "I am the way to God." Who said? Jesus. That’s it. But who said to whom? Master was saying to the disciples, "I am the way to God." Follow my words, my vākyas, guru vākyas. But you can manipulate it in many different ways. Therefore, hari kathā, where the glory of God is explained and said. In India, when they are reading Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, there are hundreds and thousands of people, hundreds of thousands of people, because they want to listen to the glory of God. And they come back home with so much knowledge, so many stories, and they tell the stories today of what God Kṛṣṇa was doing, or what Brahmā was doing, and what Prahlāda was doing, and you know, many beautiful tellings, beautiful stories. And people come home, they have some ideas about what spirituality is. It’s not a commercial company meeting. How to make a commercial better way for our economy. What we can produce and better sell, that we get more money. The real richness is our spirituality. And thanks to Mahāprabhujī, yesterday he gave me this thought: But is there any country that proudly says, "My spirituality is grown in our country"? No Chidānandjī? That’s it, and that we should propagate now. To write to every one of your ministers, okay? Yes. Write to your president, write to your prime minister, write to your ministers. We are always counting the growth of the economy, but why don’t we count the growth of spirituality, okay? I want to have an answer. Tell them. Yes, it’s true. They are very good people. They are very spiritual, and they will give you the answer because they have no lack of teaching. Then invite Swāmījī. Swāmījī will come and teach them. Hari Katha, Hari Katha means where the glory of God is spoken. So satsaṅg and Hari Kathā are very similar, but in Hari Kathā, the glory of a particular God or different Gods is described, but satsaṅg is a glory of the truth. Hari Kathā is also glory of the truth, but Satsaṅg is a glory of your Ātmā. The glory of your inner qualities, the glory of your awakening, the glory of the universal truth, with the glory of the particular incarnated embodiment of God. So, satsaṅg, be in the truth, and listen to Hari Kathā. That will inspire you, motivate you, protect you, and that will be the beginning of your spiritual path. There are so many beautiful stories, so many beautiful stories. They inspire us, and everyone learns something great out of them. So you have to read Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, but there is no proper translation. Language is a mistake, a problem. And many have translated in such a way that you don’t understand. I think I should translate. What do you say? Yes. Let’s hope for next summer. Our next summer retreat is in Strilky, and here I shall try to translate Śrīmad Bhāgavatam. Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Harī Kathā. Then call Śraddhā: śraddhā, confidence, faith. As long as śraddhā is there, you have a divine protection, bulletproof protection. Which bulletproof? Even the astral is bulletproof, you know? Which bulletproof? Like a laser. Even the laser can’t go in. Śraddhā, and when Śraddhā is lost, then you are a victim of numerous hunters. Can you imagine? There is one very terrible game in England. Unfortunately, there is one fox. And how many hundreds of the horse riders, hunters on the horse, running behind, and how many dogs running behind that fox to hunt? You know this? It’s terrible. In my opinion, that’s not a human. What is the condition of that poor fox? One poor fox. His ātmā is all saying to the man, "Oh man, what have I done to you?" The man said, "Because in a past life, I was a fox and you were hunting me. Karma is coming back to you." Oh my God. How to stop this? So imagine yourself, you are that fox, with hundreds of dogs and the hunters riding on the backs of horses following you to hunt you. When you lose your śraddhā, when you lose your faith, then you begin to talk negative, you begin to think negative, you begin to imagine negative, and you are lost. Śraddhā Viśvāsa Merā Kā Manaī Ho, Śraddhā Viśvāsa Merā Kā Manaī Nita Nita Adhika Badhata Rahī, Nita Dina Badh Adhika Badhata Rahī, Jo Śrī Dīp Dayālaya. Prabhudīp Dayālaya, śraddhā, viśvāsa, mera kām nai hove. O Lord, my śraddhā, my confidence, my faith, my faith and my confidence is very little, different, should not reduce, should not dim. But day by day, more and more should increase śraddhā. So satsaṅg, Hari Kathā, and śraddhā, Īśvara Bhajan. And the fourth, Navadhā Bhakti of Nārada: Īśvara Bhajan. Īśvara, the God. Bhajan means singing the name of God. God is God. Repeat your mantra. Meditate on God. Brahma Satya, Jagat Mithyā. God is God. Doesn’t matter if someone blames you, let them blame. If someone doesn’t like the sun and takes a handful of dust and throws it at the sun, what happens? It will fall on him. It will not come to the Lord. Once someone was writing to Gurujī, Holy Gurujī, about Māheśvarānanda something. And Holy Gurujī wrote back, "If someone throws dust at the sun, it will fall on them." Who is blaming Maheśvarānanda? This karma will go back to them, and it happened. So, Īśvara bhajan, God is God. Because you don’t like that God, or you don’t like me, and you don’t believe in my God, and I don’t like you, so I don’t believe in your God. This is a problem between you and me, not between God and us. That’s it. Therefore, God is God. Īśvara bhajan. Think of God. O God Beautiful, O God Beautiful,... In the mountains, in the forests, in the mountains, in the meadows, in the flowers, in the meadows, O God Beautiful, O God Beautiful, O God, O God Beautiful, O God Beautiful,... O God, in the ocean, in the clouds, in the ocean. O God, beautiful, O beautiful, I am beautiful, Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī. Therefore, jāsi dṛṣṭi, vāsi sṛṣṭi, as you look, like that world will be, as you think, like that world will be. Therefore, when we think positively and accept all spiritual powers, our world will be different. So, Hari Bhajan, Satsaṅg, Hari Kathā, and Hari Bhajan, Īśvar Bhajan, and then the next one is called Mantra Japa. Practice your mantra constantly. Repeat your mantra, and the rest will be even. I wish you all the best. Until then, repeat your mantra. Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Devīśvar Mahādev.