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Happy to be back here. Happy to see all of you. Happy that we are all gathered again here. Look, everywhere where you look, it’s a beautiful view. I am not talking about nature; look at each other. We are also beautiful people, and we are full of beautiful qualities. So we have beautiful nature, beautiful people, and the time becomes beautiful. That is why, when I come here, I tend to speak less, because I enjoy the atmosphere so much. I do not like much physical activity, but this morning, I was cycling all around. Why not? Sometimes it is good, fresh air. And we visited the beautiful Ayurvedic Center and Intuition School, because we are a beautiful family, and that beautiful family is always there for each other. When we say sharing is caring, that does not only mean sharing chocolates; it means sharing our experiences, sharing our growth, sharing everything. It means that we are there, as one united family, for each other. I understand that in this modern world, we are very busy. But we are busy mostly with our own problems and our own things. We are not free from things because we keep to ourselves. And then finally, we find some time for ourselves. We finally believe that, okay, now it is time for myself. And that is when we all gather together. That is when we all unite as one consciousness. We always say that we are protected by the umbrella of Gurudev. But in this case, we really are. We are sitting right under it. So the umbrella is big. We are always surrounded by our worries, but when we let go of the worries and we see that barrier, that border which is protecting us, then the worries and the problems convert into answers and solutions. And that radiating barrier, that radiating protective layer, is created by us through our practices, through our purity of heart, through all these factors which are helping us in our spiritual development. All the other things which are bothering us in the external world do not really affect us in our spiritual journey. We believe they do, because we think that the whole world is technically revolving around us. Which is true. We are not a glue that needs to attract everything around us, because then we attract not only the good, but we will also attract the bad. But with our intuition power, we can decide which energies we want to let towards us. For that, we need awareness to differentiate between what are the negative energies and what are the positive energies. Instead of going up in our meditation, we many times go back down, because the lower forces are much stronger. We grow up a bit, we go up a bit. They say there are two wolves living inside of us. One wolf is the one which has the qualities of anger, animosity, jealousy, envy, and lust. And the other wolf is the one with love, compassion, dedication, and devotion. Then we ask, if both of these wolves are within us, then which one is working, which one is going on? It is that wolf that we feed. It depends which wolf we are feeding. That reaction will be shown, which will be coming out of us. But when there is no purity of heart, then the second wolf is activated. We can look with our eyes at what we want to. But then we can differentiate if what we are seeing is the reality, or we are just making it up. Many a time we overhear conversations, and we cannot immediately just believe what we see. That is why it is best to focus on what we need to. The rest, everything is distractions. We are meditating, some thought passes by. Distraction, let it come, let it go. Giving a lecture, a tractor’s noise, or a drone’s noise, or the mic suddenly goes off. Distractions. But we should be rooted with our awareness much more deeply than that. With our awareness. That is why, what do we sing? Śrī Satya Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī jai! If the world is saying whatever they want to say, our work is to be in satsaṅg. Let the world say whatever they want to say. We are always going to have people around us who are going to say something. We do something right: "Why did you do it in this way?" We do something wrong: "Why did you do it in this way?" We all have opinions about everything. But the only opinion we should have is: how am I doing my mālā? The only thing we should be focused on is satsaṅg. Satsaṅg does not need to mean that we all gather together here and sit. We are sitting at our homes having truthful talk, having fruitful talk—that is satsaṅg. But that awareness is there, of what are we talking and what are we thinking. It is not just gossip and not just sitting around and doing nothing. When there is awareness and purity, that becomes satsaṅg. So in one way or another way, we are all having satsaṅgs in our own homes every evening. That is why satsaṅg is important. Viśvaguru, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Paramahaṃsa Śrī Svāmī Maheśvarānandajī, Gurujī, Mā Kī Jaya Saba Kucha Devatā Dīpadayāla. Swāmījī is the father, and Holī Gurujī is the grandfather. So it does not matter how young or old you are, it does not matter how much he loves us, there is still somewhat fear there. So we run to grandfather, to Holī Gurujī. But Swāmījī told me one thing: "Sab kuch deva detā, dīp deyā." That means Mahāprabhujī will give us everything that we need. So even when Gurujī used to give me prasād, Swāmījī said, "Wait, wait, no, keep it back." Then I was singing. Then came prasād. But not so easy. When we want something in our life and we get it so easily, then where is the work in there? So the prasād was always hidden. And then, go to Maheśa. Maheśa means Svāmījī. Swāmījī said, "Go to Gurujī." And then for a few minutes, they played ping pong. And then finally, from behind the pillow comes out prasād. Because it is true. If we really believe in that, that they are the provider, they are the doer, we are not, then everything will come in its own way. So many years we want something, and then finally, when we give up that thought, then that thing happens. You can try it for the āśram also, no? When you stop and give up the thought that you want it so badly, then maybe you will get it. Because until that wish is there, the wish will not be fulfilled. Once upon a time, Gurujī was traveling with Mahāprabhujī. Anyone first time here? Not in Levoca, I mean in satsaṅga. Very good. So, Holī Gurujī is down there and Mahāprabhujī is the one above. So Holī Gurujī was with Mahāprabhujī, and one day he was going to Gujarat, which is another province, another state in India. How many of you remember the story with the train? One, two, perfect, I can repeat it. That is why we repeat things in school also, no? When we go to school, the teacher does not just teach us one chapter and we are done, next chapter. But we repeat it again and again because in the exams we have to write something. Unless we do this. So when Gurujī wanted to go to Gujarat, Mahāprabhujī asked, "Do you need some money?" Nowadays, I need to be really careful what I say. Last year, I told a few things to a few people in a sarcastic way, and then it was implemented. So that is why nowadays I do not make these types of jokes, or I try not to. Because I will say, yeah, this is like this, and then... So when Mahāprabhujī asked, "Do you need some money?" Holī Gurujī said no. The other disciple, who was Holī Gurujī’s guru brother, who was traveling with him, looked at Gurujī and said, "Do you have anything?" No. "Do you have a train ticket?" No. "How are you going to go?" We will see when that comes. Nāhaṁ Karatā Prabhudīp Karatā Mahāprabhudīp Karatā He Kevalam. I am not the doer, Mahāprabhujī is the doer. And if He is the doer, it is His job to provide. I always had a wish that I wanted to drive. Since I was 16, 14, 15, I do not know, and it was always no. And then when I let go of that desire of driving, when I gave up on the idea that, "Okay, it will not happen," then I was driving so much after, for one and a half years. Omjī let me drive him around. And then I was like, "Okay, it is enough." So, yeah, we always have that wish that we want to do something, and then when we get it, we say, "Oh, not so fun, not so interesting," and then we go back. So Mahāprabhujī said, "Okay, take my umbrella with you, because there is some repairing to be done. And this other disciple who is going with you, he will come back with an umbrella and some vegetables." So then they went towards the railway station, which at that time had no cars, so they were sitting on the bull cart and going slowly, slowly. And from that small station, Rānī, they had to go to a bigger station. So they, without any tickets, without any money, went and sat in the first class. Gurujī thought, if we are anyhow going in a train, we are anyhow going without a ticket, then why go in a normal class? He went in first class. Living life to the fullest, no? Sitting in the first class, the other guru brother was thinking, "I think tonight we are sleeping behind bars." The ticket conductor comes. He recognizes Holī Gurujī. And he makes praṇām and he said, "Oh, what a great pleasure that you are in our train, we are blessed." And then they reach that railway station. And the person at the ticket counter introduces Holī Gurujī and that other disciple to another officer. No hotels were booked. Nothing was organized, but Mahāprabhujī organized it. So then he went with him to the quarters of the railway officer. They stayed over there in the night, and Holī Gurujī said, "There is this umbrella of Mahāprabhujī, we need to get it fixed." A person who needed to fix the umbrella came there. Next morning, before leaving, he gave that other person some vegetables to take back for Mahāprabhujī. And Holī Gurujī sat again in the next train to go further to Gujarat. But then, what happens to the other brother? He goes and sits in the train to go back to Mahāprabhujī. If Holī Gurujī can go without tickets, then why do I need a ticket? That is the problem when we start comparing. How many times did we compare ourselves to someone or something? We all are unique in our own ways. We are all special and different in our own ways. So there is no logic and no sense in trying to compare ourselves to others. He sat in the train, also trying to live the best life, and the ticket conductor comes: "Where are you going?" So he was going somewhere to that station. "So where is your ticket?" "Don’t have one." So after reaching the station, they took him, put him in the police station. And luckily, there is a lot of work in the police station, so some other villagers also were in the police station, and they recognized him. And they said that he is Mahāprabhu’s disciple, he is from the āśram, he is a sādhu, and this and that, and they freed him. But then he thought, this is unfair. How many of us thought that our life is unfair? Or some of our life happenings, which are happening around us, are unfair? Tell me something that is perfect. The sun shines so much light. It shines on the whole planet. But is it comfortable? It is nice and sunny. It is very hot. The moon, it has the coolness, but not enough light. So if the sun and moon are not perfect, then how are we humans going to be perfect? But we try and try and try always to be that perfect. But do we know what that perfect is? We should try to be perfect persons. Perfect disciple, perfect bhakta, perfect yogī. Perfect body, perfect mind—that we all have. It is just that we do not believe in ourselves and we do not trust that we are perfect enough. When we believe and accept ourselves, that we are perfect. And when we believe and trust in that, not only say it because we want to believe it, but we truly need to believe it, because love is very important. And until and unless we love ourselves, we will not be able to love anything or anyone around us. If we do not love ourselves, we will try to find problems in the tree, in the building, in the cat, in the dog. Everything around us will be a problem for us. So first of all, before trying to fix other things, let us try to fix ourselves. And we fix ourselves by our own practices. So then Holī Gurujī said, this is not fair, and he talked with those bhaktas who were nearby and said, let us go to Mahāprabhujī. And Mahāprabhujī was sitting in his sādhanā. They come there and they say, "Praṇām. You are not fair to us. You treat us all differently." How many of us felt that with Svāmījī? We all would say no, right? Here, I know. But somewhere deep down we think, "Why does Swāmījī always come to this person’s house? So why does Swāmījī not come here?" We always try to find a reason not to be happy for others and to find the problem. But that is the exact point: we are not Trikāladarśī. We do not know the reasons behind it. If Swāmījī is going somewhere, there is always something in the background. He is fixing something, healing something, doing something, which we may not even ever know, and I think we do not need to know. But we cannot see the happiness of others, because we are not happy. And how do we become happy? With santoṣa, contentment. Acceptance. I have everything, but I have nothing, and I have nothing, but I have everything. Because we do have everything. Everything is there that we need. But hidden by layers and layers and layers of all the other things, like anger, jealousy—all these things are becoming layers and hiding those inner qualities. And one by one, we remove those layers, and finally, we will find that true gem. So Mahāprabhujī asks, how am I unfair? Gurujī goes to the train, and he goes without a ticket, and he goes through. No one asks for money, no one catches him, nothing. So I am 100% sure you gave him some special siddhis, some special powers. Then Mahāprabhujī said no. This is the problem. He does not come and complain to me, but you do. And because of his bhakti, he has what he has. Because the kṛpā of the master, the kṛpā of the gurudeva, is always going to be there. That does not go anywhere. But how much can we grasp out of that? How much do we manage to take from that? That is in our hands. And that all depends on which wolf is awakened at that time. Because when the wolf of awareness, acceptance, compassion, love, kindness is there, then the kṛpā comes over. But when the layer of karma, or all these things, the second wolf is there, then it stops that kṛpā from coming through. So then Mahāprabhujī just said, this is the difference, that he does not question me. He does not need anything from me, because He has everything. And how does He have everything? Not because of blind faith, but because of faith and devotion. When we devote ourselves to a certain person, to a certain deity, to ourselves, to our time—anything where our devotion is put into—then things flow. When we come to satsaṅg, when we listen to the satsaṅgs, if we have the mentality of foundation, if we feel bounded, if we feel like, oh, what is happening, why is it happening? It is that we are burying, we are putting barricades in front of ourselves. Everything that we learn, everything that we hear, everything that we see, there is always something that we will learn new, something that we can learn from that. So it does not matter what we learn, what we hear, where we go, we should have our mind and ears open. I can repeat the same story ten times, but ten times you will grasp a different meaning out of that. And also to accept everything that goes, not to hold on to things. And what helps us with that is aligning ourselves from within. Is meditation. The meditation.