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Part 1: My Eyes Rest on the Lotus Feet of Gurudeva My eyes stay on the lotus feet of the Gurudeva. In this māyā world, in this world full of illusion and all these things, we still come back to the lotus feet of Gurudeva. It doesn't matter what obstacles come. It doesn't matter which way our life takes us. But our mind and soul are only in peace when we are at the lotus feet. There might be a hundred billion obstacles. But we are just happy with the dust particles. This world, this universe is huge. But we humans are not even equal to one dust particle from the lotus feet. Delcu prahu, we can do lifetimes of tapasyā, lifetimes of sādhanā, but no power, nothing, without feelings, nothing. One is we sit here and sing ākhyā, sattā, Gurujī, charaṇ, Om, melaṅgī. One is we sing with a little bit of śakti, a little bit of bhakti. Slight difference in energy. Slight difference in the atmosphere around us. And it's good cardio. We sweat. Good exercise for the throat. I still didn't find my pitch. When I was younger, I used to sing in such a low, high pitch. And then I got a deeper voice, and I was like, "Ākhiyā Satguru," and then I try, "Ākhiyā Satguru," so then sometimes it just gets stuck somewhere in between. But bhāva is important, not how it sounds. If your wife, your husband, your partner cooks some nice food and forgets to put salt, but it's full of love, then you will enjoy eating it, and you can just add some salt. But the food is made with full boredom. We are bored. Feeling frustrated, why do we have to cook? We can just order Uber Eats or Volt. But still, we decide, no, we will cook at home. Because the energy is different. We can cook one loaf of bread with pure energy, and you buy one store-bought bread. You will taste the difference. Tamasic, rajasic, and sattvic. We can have rājasic food and sāttvic way of cooking it. Any food, anything we cook, it's royal, no? Any cooking we do, it's like a royal cooking, it's done with... But when the feelings are right and you put in your love, then that is sāttvic food, because you made it with intention, with pure love. Or you go to a five-star Michelin restaurant, and still the food quality will be good, the look and presentation will be good, but you don't get any energy from it. That is because of love. We say love very easily, don't we? It's a very easily used word. Half of the time, the person doesn't even know if he or she means it or is just saying it for fun. It's easy to say it. It's not easy to live by it. You give your word to someone. You give your love to someone. Compatibility is not there. Neither you are happy, nor the person is happy. And if none of us are happy, then what is the sense? That's why I say, try to get, it doesn't need to be the same page, but the person should be at least in the same book. Different books, slightly hard to manage. Same book, different pages, we can a little bit adjust, you know, one day we sneak into that page and we, you know. Otherwise, one person, one partner is going to sādhanā, and the second one just woke up and is late for work. Cook me breakfast. What are you doing sitting there in front of pictures? So that's why we were saying yesterday, we all have time for our sādhanā, we all have time for each other, we have time for everything. Do we find the time? Different problem. Time is there, energy is there, but where the energy flows is in our hands. We hold so much immense energy that we are so powerful, like anything. But in which direction will that energy flow? That is, again, at the end of the day, in our own hands. No one else can decide for us where and what we are going to do. Suno sabkī, man kī karo apne man kī. Suno sabkī, karo apne man kī. Which means, listen to everyone, but do what feels right to you. Why? Because we all are doctors, we all are engineers, we all are plumbers, we know everything. Or at least, we think we know everything. We believe so much in ourselves that we are sarvagyānī, which means we know everything. How to fix this? Yes, we know, we'll take screwdrivers and this and that. Either we fix it, or we destroy it completely. We don't leave anything in the middle. There is no middle ground. Either completely this side or completely that side. Someone, a child, falls down, scrapes his knees. Ten of us will come with different first aid kits and try to push our medicine first, or our technique. That's the best position, should we exchange? I think you are getting cooler air there outside. So, we all have our own dharmas to follow. But now, our neighbor's grass is greener. Santosh, whose name is Santosh? Any Santoshes here? What does Santosh mean? Contentment, satisfaction. Do we have santoṣa? The real one, or? Both, very good. Because if we do have santoṣa, if we are content, we are in much more peace. And if you have santoṣa, then vairāgya comes easily. Vairāgya means detachment. But you can only detach from something if you have accepted it, and if you have satisfaction towards it, then you can let go. But if you are not satisfied with something, you will want more. And not only more, we will want different qualities and quantities. We get one pair of shoes, we don't like it. Then we try ten different shoes. That's why now I like my wooden ones. Not much decision-making to be done. But before flying, we went with the boys to get some shoes for them in the shopping mall. And that day I realized the true value of time. And then I realized, okay, this was how my time was going in the past. Because now, slowly, slowly, as you start detaching yourself from things, as you start progressing slowly, slowly further, then you start seeing your own past. I don't think about it because I can't really change it. But when such moments come to remind me that, okay, this was how I was, then I check what has changed from then and now. If nothing, then it's useless. If it's something, then in which way has it gone? Did it go worse, or did it go better? We don't need advice from everyone. That's what I'm saying. Kogarkoli? Kogarkoli. Anybody. Anybody.... Kogarkoli. Okay. Kogarkoli. I was like, okay. So, when we've, sure, it's good promotion for them, no? Every corner we go, every second person we meet. Kamarkoli gremo, kogarkoli srečamo, not in this one, in another one, still, not in glass, something where it's not visible. See, it's good to be honest. You are my family, so every second person we will meet will have opinions on what and how you are doing something. This is right, but it should be done in this way. Now the best thing I do is, I said, sure, show me. Show me, I don't know how to do it, and you let them do it. Less work for you. If it's done well, very good. If not, then you show them how it's done. But if we fight with them, if we argue, if we try to prove that we are right, we are wasting our own vital energy. Let it go. So let it go. How many of you watch Frozen? Let it go. Don't hold on to it. Because we hold, we grasp on things in such a tight way that we don't want to let it go. But if we do let it go, life becomes much simpler. We all have that intuition power. We have viveka. When we say in India, we have a funny saying, when we are saying, Bhagavān ne bejā, par bejā kendār, bejā ne bejā. It's like, you know, you have this, there was a seashell sitting on a seashore, how many asses, like, how do you call this? Tongue twisters. He says he knows some tongue twister from Slovenia. What is it? Some tongue twister from Slovenia, I know one. So, which means God sent you. Bhejā means sending, and bhejā also means brain. You know, Indian language, Hindi, is very special. You can say kal, which means yesterday and tomorrow, both. Now you choose which kāl you want. So, according to the, and then also, it's very easy to say, "Okay," or why, or how come, because all is acchā. Now you have acchā, which means, "Okay." Acchā means, "Oh, how come? Oh, how come?" Acchā, I will see you angry, okay, I will see how you work or something. Achā, surprise. So you just change the tone of the word, and you get multiple meanings. So Bhagavān ne bejā, par bejā ke andar bejā ne bejā, which means God sent you, but he didn't send viveka in the buddhi. He didn't put any brain in the brains. We all have a storage unit where we are storing, subconsciously or consciously, the materials, most of which are useless. The information which we store in our human brains in a day, I would say 90% of that we don't need. If we would all mind our own business, not poke our heads in other people's businesses. Let everyone live in peace and bliss. And harmony amongst each other, we would have much more time. Because half of our time is on the phone, gossiping with our best friend about what happened. What does she get out of that information? Nothing. What do you get out of telling that information? Again, nothing. So, nothing plus nothing is equal to nothing. I'm good at this much math. Zero plus zero equals zero. Anything times zero is zero. Śūnya Kāj. So, if we have these things, we can have time to focus on our spiritual growth. Kānā, pīnā, bhoganā, paścāt śamanā. This is, you know, kāl and deś. We were sitting for lunch. Kāma, nidrā and bhogana means eating, sleeping and reproducing. So, Ziga was supposed to say khānā and pīnā, which means eating and drinking. Do you want food, and do you want lunch, in simple language? I was like, khānā, pīnā, bhognā? I was like, let's skip the last part. So that's why the meaning, artha kā anartha, which means you can get good meaning out of bad meaning, and you can make bad meaning out of good meaning. But we were all laughing because the bhāva, the intentions, the feelings were pure. When the intentions are impure, then you feel it. So when we say, use viveka, which means Gurudev has taught us our whole life what is wrong and what is right. Sometimes, hard disks in our computers also get corrupted. Dharamraj and you, they might know, when the memory card sometimes gets corrupted and all the data is lost, no? So in the same way, us humans and our buddhi, our viveka, gets corrupted time to time. Part 2: The Cleansing Power of Satsaṅg and the Path of Self-Discovery And then it needs cleansing. When we come for satsaṅgs, when we go for seminars, those are the cleansings. Did you see a mountain? How many of you like mountains? Mountains are very majestic, very big. Many other things, many people, they look tiny. But does the mountain ever say, "I am so big, I am so small, there are small mountains, there are big mountains"? No. The mountains always stay stable in that same position. Storm, rain, snow, anything comes and goes, but that mountain is stable. It does not listen to who has to say what. It does not get jealous of other objects, other mountains, other people. It is just there, in the same way we are. We cannot get affected every day by little things, who said what and why. We are much more highly spiritually developed than that. The power of the human brain is very, very, very vast. All this what you see around us, including buildings, chairs, anything, everything, has been made by the human brain. Good decisions, bad decisions, same brain. When we say sāṅgātika asar, which means the effect, the color, if you wash colored, fresh, new clothes with white clothes in a washing machine, what happens? The white clothing will get some stains. In the same way, if you throw your beautiful, white, pure soul in kusaṅga, then that color will get stuck on your clothes a bit. And if we go to satsaṅg, then that color will be stuck. In any case, it goes in that way. Best example: it does not matter where, what you do, which place you are, but when your child goes to kindergarten or gurukul or wherever, he or she has friends, and then you will see that effect slowly, slowly in your child also. Why do we say, in front of children, to our partners, behave? Because the child hears and sees, it might not react. But subconsciously, everything is getting stored in there. That is why in India, when the mothers are pregnant, even at that time, they are told just to listen to Bhagavad Gītā, good things, eat good food, listen to good things. Why? Because it is believed that those vibrations are even going to that child. That is how powerful this human body, brain, and soul is. The human soul, this human body, is meant to do something good. And if we are all sitting here, we all have found the reason for our existence. Every morning after waking up, we look at our hands and we rub them and we say, "We may have darśana of the God." We make praṇām to the earth. And then every morning, until we get the answer, ask yourself these same questions. Who? Who am I? What is the cause of my existence? Who am I? From where did I come? And what is the cause of my existence? That is it. Now, why did he or she do this? When we point one finger, where are the other three fingers? Yeah, if we point three fingers up, then yes, obviously three fingers go down, but if we point it front, then three fingers are pointing at us. So, first, we observe ourselves. That is why self-discovery in meditation, no? Gurujī, they have made it. Because when we observe and when we try to see what is wrong in ourselves, we will have enough things to fix instead of fixing others. We will find so much trash inside of us, which will take lives to clear. But we are already clearing it for lives, and that is why we finally have Gurudeva. He cleared all the past karmic problems. But it does not mean that the future is also clear, no? Our past can be cleared. But then after we get mantra dīkṣā, when it is our new birthday, when we are again reborn, then it again starts. Then we know, and we use our viveka to see what is pāp and what is puṇya, what is good deeds, what are bad deeds. At the end of the day, Gurudev is still protecting and guiding us. But the decision-making is in our hands. One day, there was a father, a son, and a donkey. And they were walking. And the neighboring people who were seeing said, "How stupid people. They have a donkey, but they are all just walking together; no one is using it." They heard it the next day. What they did was, the child was sitting on the donkey and the father was walking. "How evil, son, he is making his poor old father walk." So they changed. "So the bad father is making his poor young child walk." They lifted the donkey and put it on their heads. Now what? Now they are even more dumb that they are taking the donkey on their heads. So, in the same way, whether we do something or we do not do something, we will always be judged. Because we get juice out of judging people. Masālā. And, you know, did you ever say, like, you know, I say something, Jai Dev do this, then Jai Dev will tell his father, Avatarpuri said do this, and father will say further, Avatarpuri said this and this and this, so there are already three, then after it will be four this and five this, and only someone adds some masala on top. That is why Paramparā's work, no? That divine light of Gurudeva, that divine light of the Paramparā, flows in a constant manner without any obstacles. We are just the channels. We sit here, then they flow. Otherwise, we are back to normal. But we need to believe that they are there. We all sing Nāhaṁ Kartā every time after meditation. Do we believe in Nāhaṁ Kartā? If we would believe, then he would say, I should still have my license, no? So, when we believe, but believe without any doubts, then that is belief. We all believe. But inwardly, somewhere in the back of our head, I believe that Mahāprabhujī will do everything, but what if? You know that, but that is the problematic part. When Holī Gurujī fully trusted and let it go, then all doors opened. But when there is slight doubt left, why are things happening not in our control? What were we singing? Akhāṛā, Satguru, charaṇamelā, agi, merī, kismata, jāgīre, kismat. Kismat means my destiny. My destiny awakened, it opened up. So we all have our destinies there. What will happen, where it will happen, in which way it will happen, nothing is a coincidence. It is always something for us or something for the other one to learn. Every life event, every life happening, happens because it is meant and it is supposed to happen. There is nothing really we can change about it. But the kismet, the destiny, opens when we have the grace and the kṛpā of the Guru. But that does not give us a free pass. In that also, still we are going to have, in that we are still going to have the destiny will work. Just the intensity of it will be reduced. If something is going to fall off, you have an accident. Instead of the leg completely gone, you get a thorn or a scratch. But it will still happen. In which manner, in which way, in which intensity, that is different, but the happening will happen. And what do we do? First thing we do is we blame it on someone else. First thing we will try to find the reason why it happened, who to blame now. If humanly not possible to blame someone, then we will blame on Swāmījī or on God or on whoever. Whenever we say, oh, it is my destiny, we do not say, he did this, or she did this, because it gives us much more satisfaction to know that someone else did it but us. But if we admit that we do it, do we become a smaller person? Do we change who we are? We talk about it, we admit it, and it is sorted. Or you stretch it up, have 100 billion discussions, 10 billion lies, until eventually the truth anyhow comes out. What do we say? Satya Meva, Jayate. Satyameva jayate, satya, the truth shall always prevail. Anything will happen, at the end of the day, truth will come out. Easier to live with the truth. We live a much easier life then. That is why now the books are open. Read whichever page you want. Ask questions, we solve the questions. But keeping doubts in the head and making up masala is not fun. So let us now try to focus more inwardly towards our self. Let us grow ourselves spiritually more. Let us develop our inner consciousness. And let us progress with kṛpā and blessings of Buddha. When we make praṇām, what do we say? Hey Bhagavān, I am a śakti, bhakti, vairāgya, they give me śakti, give me bhakti, give me vairāgya, give me this, give me that. Why? Because we ask for strength for what we do. We ask for the blessings and the guidance in what we do. We search for the truth. Iščemo resnico. And we walk the path with dharma. Dharmo rakṣati rakṣitaḥ. We protect Dharma; Dharma shall protect them. We walk with Dharma. Let us walk with Dharma. Earth, which means money, wealth will come. Dharma, artha, kāma. Kāma does not only mean sexual pleasure. Kāma means any type of happiness, any type of pleasure. If enjoyment, if we are driving a car, we have fun. We drive a boat, we have fun. We go over and play soccer, we have fun. Whatever we do, that fun is kāma. And if that kāma is done with bhakti, with bhāva, then everything works. So dharma aligned with artha, kāma equals mokṣa. It is a step-by-step gradual process. God knows how many lifetimes we have done this. How many lifetimes have we done to come and sit in this hall? We are the rare and lucky souls who were born at this time, in this place, to have Gurudeva in our lives. So we pray to Gurudeva and to the Divine Light to bless us, to guide us, and to keep us happy and blessed. That all our avaguṇas go away, all our avaguṇas, all our bad qualities go away, and that we are all blessed. So, many blessings from Gurudeva. Much love from me. Every day, I do not realize the time, and I always go till 9, 10, 11. Now I still have a two-hour drive. So we will sing one bhajan, then we have a prayer, and then we go. We would like to thank both Panditjīs for coming to Europe. And I have one idea, let us do one thing. Do we have any big paper? Yes. Just write Praṇām Gurudev or something, and we all sign, and they take it to Swāmijī to India. So we thank them for all the beautiful pūjās and yagyas they organized and they did. And we hope to see them soon. And we hope we will see them again soon, and yeah, very good, have a safe journey. Lot, Turkish, which one? Air India lot broke my suitcase last time. Śānti, śānti... Sadguradeva Gāvan Kī Jai