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Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Swāmī Avatārapurī, Hari Om to all the Swāmīs, and Hari Om to all of you. After all that has been said, for me to come as a newcomer, you know, it is not so easy, but I feel very welcome. Since I was very young, I had this calling that was telling me to give my life for the people. And I didn’t understand. I just wanted to share, and to help, and to feel useful for the people. When you are younger, you try to find this path, or this path, or this path. And I was trying seven. Then I found Yoga in Daily Life through Sāddhvī Yamunā. And I said, "This is what I want. This is what I was looking for." Twenty years ago, or sixteen years ago, I went to Viśvagurujī and I said—he said, "I want to go to India and leave everything." And they said, "We will see." So that was the first time I met Viśvagurujī, in Salzburg, 2009. And I was then very sure I wanted to follow this path. Through the help of Viśvagurujī and Satvījamunā, I went to visit and stay in many countries: in Spain for sure, in Cuba, and now in Pakistan. In this, who I had closer to me, Sādhvī Yamunā, as an example of how to manage, treat, and give love to everyone—I learned so much, and so much more I have to learn. I am very, very happy to come to this point. You know how the masters work, and you never know. It could be in Spain, in Pakistan, I’m in Slovenia. Never in my mind did I think. I asked this many, many years ago: I want to become a sannyāsī. And time was passing, you know, and then three days ago, okay, next Monday we’ll do. Just to say how this life brings you so much joy, so much adventure, new things coming, you know. And I just pray to all the Masters that I continue on the path, that I do it well, and that I share all this knowledge that they have taught us with everyone. I ask our teachers to continue on the path they have drawn for me. Thank you, thank you so much, thank you so much. Thank you very much. What should I say? You have to learn how to speak in front of the community, in front of the people. Nāhaṁ Karatā Prabhudīp Karatā Mahāprabhudīp Karatā He Kevalam Svāmījī. I met him in Tuchel in 1998. I met Swāmījī in Tuharska in 1988. Okay, in 1989 I met Swāmījī in Croatia, in Tuharska Tuplica. His books—I bought all kinds of books which handled the topic of yoga, and I had his books also before I met him in person. Through the Novi Sad Yoga Society, I also read about Transcendental Meditation, and in Tuheljske Toplice they told me that I should sign in for Mantra for Kriyā, although I didn’t know what that is. Then Gal told me, because I was asking myself, I have this transcendental meditation, should I take now, can I take a mantra? And Joze Gal told me, yes, of course, you didn’t get this through transcendental meditation, but here you will get mantra from a living guru, from a living master. Swāmījī told us that we should go to India for Guru Pūrṇimā, and of course he was speaking in English, and I didn’t understand much. So I didn’t speak English, so I didn’t really know what that meant. And then I went to him and I asked him, "Should I go to India?" And he said, "Yes, and very good, go." And so it started, and I really went a lot of times to India. Yeah, and from 1991 onwards, I went to India at least once per year. And in 1998, I was at the Kumbha Melā Festival when Swāmījī became also Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara. In 1997, I was there for a whole year. And then in 2001, it stopped because Swāmījī said that we will go to Kumbha Melā in Prayāgarāj, where also Rāma was walking, and Swāmījī said, "Forget it, Dayānand." Of course, he didn’t say it wordly, I mean with these words. But I didn’t have enough money. And from time to time, I was angry at Swāmījī because I was asking myself, what is this now? Why can’t I go? And then I was asking him, "Swāmījī, when will I go next time to India again?" But I didn’t get any chance. And one morning, I was dreaming about seven cats. And then I was talking to one yoga disciple, she was also Swāmījī’s disciple, and she said, yes, one cat life means seven people’s lives. What should that mean? What is the meaning of my dream? At that time, Gurujī also came to Europe in 1999-2000, but then in 2003, Swāmījī told this story many times, when Śrī Śrī Gurujī showed that he does not go to Guru Pūrṇimā in India. And then, in 2003, I heard, or I got this message, that I should go for Guru Pūrṇimā to India. So I went for this last Guru Pūrṇimā festival when Holy Gurujī was still alive. And then I also went to his, we would say here in Europe, to his funeral, so for his Mahāsamādhi. And then I finally understood my dream from back then, so what that means. So, when I was—so 7.7 is 49—so when I was 49, I could also go to India again two times per year in that year. Swāmījī asked me for the first time if I wanted to be a sannyāsī in 1998, but back then... The second time he asked me in 2007 if I wanted to become a sannyāsī. We were at the Kumbha Melā festival, and the next day it was sannyās dīkṣā. I met Swāmījī on the path, and he was—Avatarpurī Jī was accompanying him. And he asked me, when will be your sannyāsa dīkṣā? I don’t remember what my answer was. Oh, I told him that you should decide about it. But I was cold. I was cold because there were just four degrees outside, and all I said was, "Not tomorrow, not tomorrow." And then the next point was also when the grand opening of the Om Āśhram, He asked me again, or there was also the opportunity to become sannyāsa... He didn’t ask me; he asked me who I would like to be. And then, I was with the money, with the girl who was writing the cards. First, we bought the cards, then he changed them. Some of them were returned to us. It was also a problem with the money, because we bought air tickets, and then we changed them, and so on. And then, we bought new cards. We had to buy new air tickets, and then Swāmījī said, "Come to Jādan five days before the ceremony will take place, and stay until five days after the ceremony ends." And this girl, she took some cheaper air tickets, and the flight date was just two days after the ceremony. And so the day when I had to leave Jādan for Jodhpur, on that day was the Sannyāsa Dīkṣā. So, Sannyāsī Dīkṣā was taking place, and I was a little bit mixed up, so I was doing my mālā in one room, and suddenly Avatārpurī Jī appeared, and he just said everything will be okay. So I was looking around to whom he said this, and nobody was there, so I, yeah, so these were the words for me. But it was not meant to be at that time. So, theoretically, I could have become a sannyāsī back then because the bus left at 11 and the ceremony ended by then, but now the time is right.