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How many of you like bamboos? Bamboo sticks. How many of you know how it grows? Very quickly, but after planting the seed, it takes a few years and nothing happens. Everyone makes fun of that bamboo tree. Everyone thinks that the bamboo tree has died, or that nothing is happening. But then, within two weeks, suddenly it shoots up like anything. In the same way, with us and our sādhanā, it might not look in the external world like we are doing anything. But in our internal world, the roots are growing deeper and deeper, making that base stronger and stronger for us. And one day it will just boost up like anything, and we will see, "Oh, okay." So our sādhanā was fruitful, but patience is the main thing. Sabar kā phal mīṭhā hotā, which means the fruit of patience is always much sweeter. If we are patient, we will get much more than when we are impatient, like me. So, patience is very necessary. When you have patience, then everything tastes and feels and is much better than it is when we try to take it in advance. So, our sādhanā, our kriyās, our mantra—all of this is making those deep, deep, deep roots. And so all our sages, all our mantras, all our kriyās create deep roots in our consciousness. And as Maṅgalpurī Jī was now saying, the main thing is harmony. In this seminar, I will not say I will push, but I will put a lot of pressure on this topic of unity and harmony and coming together. And this is what our community needs right now. There are a lot of plans for this topic in these coming days. This reminds me of India. In India, when we are outside the Jaipur Ashram, you know, on the road, there is this ice cream seller while we are going. Whenever you hear this bell—even I was surprised. Last year it was, yes, 2025. Swāmījī was already in that phase of not talking. But that bell rang, and he got up like a small kid, you know, lying down and—no—up in ten seconds he was up, and he wore his shoes and started walking outside. I said, "Where are we going?" Eleven o'clock at night. And guess what happens later? We bought twenty ice creams. And Umāpurījī and everyone said, "Swāmījī, no, diabetes is not good." But I think that inner child was there. He ate his ice cream and my ice cream also. So that is why this type of bell reminds us of the ice cream guy in India walking on the streets. And maybe he just needed to digest some of my karmas also. That is the problem with us: we always try to think with our logical brain. Swāmījī is in this state, he is such a great guru. How is it possible without ourselves and without him? He is curing all of us, he helped so many of us, and now what? He cannot help himself? In this karmic law, in this world, he cannot cure himself. It is a misuse of powers. The only thing that can help him is our love and devotion, that is it. Yogīs, Mahāpuruṣas, they help others; they do not help themselves. It is not svadharma, it is paradharma. And then I love it—I know we try whatever we can—but I love it when we think that we can help him and cure him. If he wants, it takes him one millisecond to be okay again. I think in the beginning it was different, but now he is enjoying his peace. He is happy. You see it, you know. Before, he was still trying to go and work on this and we do this and we do this, even without talking, but now he is just... And do not think that he does not know what we are doing. He is sitting there and watching all of us and saying, "This is what I taught you, huh?" So do not worry, that essence of Gurudev, that "what are you doing here, go work," is still there. Just in a different form. He might not say it verbally, but he just might get up and go to his room and go to bed and sleep, which is an indication for you to go out of his room and work. Or he will eat so slowly nowadays, and you are sitting there, and so on. That is another indication that he is taking his time. That does not mean you take your time. Go. This is Him testing us. This is Him seeing His work flourish. It is Him seeing what we do with His work and what we do with His vision. He planted the seed. He watered it. He grew it. Now it just needs some trimming, cutting, and shaping. The watering part has been done. Now it is just for us to maintain that garden. For many years I was thinking, South India, very good temperature. I even found a place. This year I realized that there is no sense in building anything new. We have so much. If we can take care of what we have, that is good enough. Guru, they have created this in such a large aspect with such a big vision that to maintain it, and just to take care of it, not even grow it, just take care of it as it is, that is also a hard job. Yes, with the blessings of Gurudeva and with them flowing through me, that is a different thing. But to uphold and hold this, I need all of you. But then many of you say, "But we are old," and this, and you need to find your generation. Yes, my generation does not know anything, like me. You all were working with Swāmījī, you all know how he was, and that is why I need you to continue with me to help this grow, not find a new generation and you all what. For sure the new generation will shine, but it will shine when you all train them, when you all give them time, when you all explain to them, when you help them grow. We cannot rely on all that, OK, this, that. We need to rely on each other, we need to be strong as a community. So then the community, the society, will take care of each of us. We need to take care of each other. Not individually running in all individual places, trying to run the show solo—no, it is a union, yoga, it is yoga in daily life. Yoga means union, union means us, so we need to stick together and work together, not run an individual game. An āśram does not work with one person. An āśram needs administration, an āśram needs kitchen, an āśram needs workers, an āśram needs so many different things. And āśrams work on volunteer service, work on karma yoga, work on sevā. And if there is no harmony and peace, then these four or five people will fight with each other so much that none of them will be able to live in that āśram. We all work on our inner peace, but outside we are fighting like crazy—then what is the sense of that inner peace? If we do not have that capability to control our emotions, to control our anger, to control our animosity, and we say, "Yes, Rām, Rām," then those bad words which come out make that effect of spirituality back to zero. It is not like we are having to explain to someone else. It is the same family, the same father, the same teachings, the same way of living, the same path on which we are progressing. Then what is the communication gap in between? It is not that Vienna is different, and Czech is different, and Slovenia is different, and this is different. No, it is Yoga in Daily Life. It is the same family in all countries. And do not come to āśrams because I am there or because some guest speaker is there. Come to āśrams because they are your homes, and you care about those places. Gurudev was coming often. I also now try to come often, but that does not mean that you still do not go to āśrams. Go to āśrams weekly, monthly, not only your individual centers—go to other centers, help them out, organize programs together. Like for example, now we have satsaṅg soon, next Friday in Vienna. How is the community helping each other? That you paid for the seminar here in Strilky. So we do not charge you anything in Vienna when you come. Why? Because that is how we care about each other in the community. That is how we take care. Āśrams should help each other, not always put everything on you guys. How will we be okay? That okay, this is satsaṅg in Vienna, that is also my āśram, I will also go there. This is satsaṅg in God knows where, Slovenia, it is my āśram, I will go there. It is not about who is the speaker, it is not about what is going to be happening, it is just about the community and about each other, how we care about each other. Let us go there, let us support it. And it is sad that once a year we have summer seminars and we all come together—that is a different thing—but even if there is no seminar, you are passing by, you have twenty minutes, pop by the āśram, make praṇām, say hello, how are you, how can we help, and is there anything we can do, just some type of interaction. That person will be happy, you made that person's day. Māhima Jyoti lives in Vienna for God knows how many years alone in the āśram; you go and say hi to her. There is, of course, something else. Once a year we have such a big annual meeting, where we all come together, but whenever you go around the āśram, come, stop, say, do praṇām, say hello to the altar, say hello to those people. Mahimā Jyoti lives in the āśram by herself, you will see how long, twenty years, how happy she is when anyone comes there. Every place there are āśrams, every place there is your family sitting there. And one thing is in Yoga Nidrā, that there is no language barrier. I speak English, Alan speaks Slovak. I had Jaya Prakash as translator, but still, Alan and I, most of the time, without the translation even, understood each other. So the point is, we as a community do not need that—English, German, Czech, Slovak, no. We understand each other's feelings. We will say, "Come." It is about how to make each other happy. Even if you do not have time, you just say, "Come, let us drink some water, and I need to get going," and that person will also go. He will not sit in your home when you are gone. But try to think about each other, try to help each other in any way, try to be there for each other, and let us keep this family together, not individuality, but unity. This is what we really need now, more than anything, if you want to call it a transition, if you want to call it a healing period, if you want to call it whatever, but this community, to strive and to survive, needs to come as one united divine force. Brahmārpaṇaṁ Brahma Havir Brahmāgnau Brahmaṇā Hutam Brahmaiva Tena Gantavyaṁ Brahma Karma Samādhinā Om Pūrṇam Adaḥ Pūrṇam Idaṁ Pūrṇāt Pūrṇam Udacyate Pūrṇasya Pūrṇam Ādāya Pūrṇam Evāvaśiṣyate Om Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ...