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Oṁ tryambhakaṁ yajāmahe sugandhiṁ puṣṭivardhanam, urvārukam iva bandhanān mṛtyormukṣīya māmṛtāt. Sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ, sarve santu nirāmayāḥ, sarve bhadrāṇi paśyantu, mā kaścid duḥkhabhāg bhavet. Oṁ śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ, śāntirbhavatu. Good evening again. In the Czech Republic, we have a long evening. This is the third time I am saying to you, good evening. People in different parts of the world ask, "How long is a good evening?" Only for a short time do we say, "Good morning." You know why? Beautiful, flexible, young life is very short. It is like a short morning. This youth, this life is like morning dew on the grass; as soon as the sun rises, it disappears. That is why morning is short. Evening is long, all days. So you are older and older and older. Still, there is a hope of the light, but you are going towards the darkness of death. That is why in Czech, people say "good health" and they have long old days. So, who would like to live long as an old person? Come to the Czech Republic. That was the beautiful story about the farmer. In a village, a sādhu came and stayed for four months. One farmer, his host, was Mr. Michal Čulík. He received a mantra, and when the time came and the four months were finished, Swāmījī said, "Now I will go." He said to the farmer, "My dear bhakta, I think now you are also getting old. Why don't you go with me and stay in the āśrama and have mantra and meditation?" The farmer said, "Swāmījī, you are great. You are truly my antarjāmī, for you know everything about me. That was my only wish, and I was waiting for these words from you. My inner self is dancing, but there is a 'but'. My son, Ramu, is still not married. If he marries, then my family duty is finished. So after some time, I will come." Swāmījī said, "Okay, I bless you. Ramu will marry very soon." So, there is a blessing for marriage. If you cannot marry or do not find someone, then get blessings. Swāmījī went away. After one year, he came back and stayed for the same period. While leaving, he said, "Ramu, now your son is married. You have a very nice, beautiful daughter-in-law, and she is taking care of the home. Let's go." The farmer said, "Yes, that is the only wish I have left: to go with you. But you know, Swāmījī, his wedding cost me so much money. I have to work to pay it back. Ramu is the most lazy child, and if I go with you, he will not be able to pay the money back, and people will take the house and property. Please give me some time." Swāmījī went away. After one year, two years, Swāmījī came back. Ramu was very happy. Swāmījī asked, "Ramu, where is your father?" Ramu said, "Oh, Swāmījī, my father died." Swāmījī said, "That is the destiny for everyone." In meditation, he tried to trace where the soul of Ramu's father was. Suddenly he saw that Ramu had a beautiful cow, and the cow had just given birth to a two-month-old baby calf. That old farmer was in the body of the calf. Swāmījī said, "Oh, you are here." With his sūkṣma śarīra, his subtle body, he spoke to the subtle body of the farmer. The farmer said, "Yes, Gurudev. I am so proud and so lucky that my Gurudev can follow me everywhere. One thing is sure: I will not get lost." Swāmījī said, "Tomorrow I am going. Now you can come with me." The farmer said, "Swāmījī, yes. Nothing can keep me back here anymore. But you know, I still had the debt from his wedding. I could not pay it back; I died. As a good cow, I will be a very, very good bull, an ox. When I work as an ox, very quickly I will go. In two or three years, Rāma will be able to pay back. Then I have nothing to do. What will I do here? Eat grass and make manure, that is all. So a few years more, Gurudev." Gurudev said, "Okay," and went away. That calf grew quickly, and Ramu soon used him to work in the field. At that time, there were no tractors. One day, he loaded so much grass on the ox-cart. He was walking, going up a hill. The ox-cart went up and then right down, and it overturned. Ramu's father, the ox, died after three years. The master, Swāmījī, came back. He asked, "Ramu, you had a beautiful ox, and it was very nice. Where is it?" Ramu said, "Swāmījī, five years it was a joy for me to have that ox, but he died." Swāmījī said, "That is prakṛti, nature." In the evening, he sat in meditation. Where had that farmer gone? Suddenly, he was astral traveling. He found the farmer sitting with a little puppy dog in a small barn. The farmer said, "Gurudev, I am here." Gurudev said, "Oh, you are here. I was searching for you somewhere far, but I knew you were here. So, are you ready now?" The farmer said, "Yes, Gurudev. My only wish? This whole world is a disappointment. But you know, I worked so hard as an ox, and Ramu was harvesting such good crops. Now the house is full of wheat and other grains and a lot of money. The problem is that Ramu and his wife, they sleep like a piece of wood. Or sometimes they go somewhere dancing, and the whole night they do not come home. There are so many thieves. Sometimes for two days they do not come, without eating, not even a small piece of chapati. I spend all day and night with open eyes, guarding so no thieves will enter my house. When Ramu becomes a little bit civilized and wakes up, I will peacefully meditate and will have only Seva." So Gurudev went away. One day, two thieves came and said, "This stupid dog wakes up the whole village, though we do not go in this house." So they took a gun and shot him. The dog barked only once, with the gunshot. Go! Finished. Rām Nām Sat. Now the dog died. After three years again, Swāmījī was passing by. He stopped at the farmhouse. Ramu was happy. His wife was happy and said, "Please stay here today." So he stayed. They put a nice bed for him under a tree. The weather was nice. Ramu was working in the field, and the wife was cooking in the house. They had a little baby, three months old. Ramu and his wife were very happy that Swāmījī had come to their house, and he blessed the baby. Swāmījī was sitting under the tree, about 50 meters away, making mantra. About 100 meters away, the father of the child was working, and about 20 meters away, in the kitchen, the mother was cooking. Swāmījī was thinking where the dog's ātmā, the soul of the dog, had gone. In the śūkṣmaloka, the subtle plane, he saw that the farmer was now a very big cobra, sitting in the storeroom where all the crops were stored. The cobra thought, "If anyone comes to steal, I will bite them." Moha, attachment. Swāmījī said, "Now he has gone to the reptile life. It is the lowest life form, and I should not talk to him anymore. I will pray for him, bless him." The small child, the baby of Rāmu, was in a cradle. Rāmu's wife had put the cradle in the sun because it was a cool night, so the sun was warm and the baby was sleeping. After some time, the sun grew strong, and the three-month-old baby felt discomfort and began to cry. The grandfather—you know, the love of a grandfather. Holī Gurujī said, "People love interest more than capital." So your grandchildren are the interest of your capital. Every grandfather and grandmother loves the grandchild more than the parents. So, in the form of the cobra, the grandfather was feeling pity. "My grandchild is crying. The sun is too strong." So the cobra came, climbed up, crawled onto the cradle, and blew out his cheeks, making a shade on the face of the baby. The baby became calm and slept. The grandfather, in the form of the cobra, was so happy. "My child, my baby." So he was dancing like this. Rāmu's wife was rolling chapati, and suddenly she saw that the baby was peaceful again. She looked and saw a very dangerous cobra. The mother—not only the mother, every one of us—would be scared and would do our very best to drive the cobra away. So she screamed, "Cobra, cobra, cobra!" The cobra looked and thought, "My daughter-in-law, I am not a cobra; I am your father." But she did not understand. Swāmījī was making a mālā and watching all this theater. Rāmu ran from the field, took a big stick, and began to beat the cobra. Swāmījī said, "Rāmu, stop, stop, stop. I will chant the Gāyatrī Mantra and the Mahāmṛtyu Mantra so he will get mokṣa." Rāmu said, "No time, Gurudev. My stick in the hand has an immediate effect." And again he began to beat. Swāmījī came and said, "Stop, stop." Again, with the sūkṣma śarīra, the subtle body, Swāmījī said to the farmer, "Now you see what your son is doing with you. For whom you were suffering for many lives, now he is beating you." In the form of the snake, that old farmer said, "Mahārāj Bābājī, if he kills me, or burns me, or beats me, he is my son. What have I done to you? Why are you holding my many lives behind me? What have I done to you, Swāmījī?" Swāmījī said, "You are right. I am your master, and I promised you to give liberation, and I will bring you to God." One day, that snake died and became a small worm. Swāmījī became a wasp, took this worm, and put it on a lotus flower. By evening time, the lotus flower closes at sunset. That worm was closed inside and was so delighted with the beautiful, fine smell of the lotus flower. The next morning, at Brahmamūhurta, Viṣṇu looked upon that worm, and that worm was liberated. You see, this story has many meanings: attachment. Even when you are suffering, you cannot give up. So, Tapa, Tyāga, and Vairāgya—these three are very important. Another meaning: when once your Gurudev blesses you, he will bless you every life until you come to that Brahmaloka. I tried to make it as short as I could. Some people were saying, "What happened? Why will Swāmījī not give any more webcasts?" A lot of people were surprised. It is not serious, but I have some work to do. Maybe I will be here, who knows, the day after tomorrow. Otherwise, I go to India for Guru Pūrṇimā. The latest Guru Pūrṇimā webcast you will see. So now I give to our dear Sādhvī Śāntī. All are waiting to hear her. And suddenly people say, "Why again? He is talking?" So, Sādhvī, you can come here. Welcome our dear Śāntī. Śāntī: Hari Oṁ, Swāmījī, dear yoga friends, friends here and there and everywhere. It is very special today to speak to you. As Swami Gajanan said already the first time, Swāmījī said 24 hours before that we have to speak. It is interesting; for me it is more difficult if I know it in advance, and if Swāmījī tells me five minutes before. I feel very much your changed prāṇa this evening. I was thinking yesterday what to speak about, and I came to the title "Prāṇa in the Daily Life." I am a simple person, and I give you simple remedies, spiritual remedies. I learned this from a master who says, "Always simple living and high thinking." Because of your changed prāṇa this evening, I want to tell you that we heard in these last days many, many things from Swāmījī about all kinds of prāṇas. Also today, about the inner prāṇa, coming from your emotions, from your soul, etc. I want to speak to you about the prāṇa which goes outside from us. I name it outside prāṇa, meaning the radiation which we give outside. Every one of us, due to all levels of our being, has different prāṇas inside. How we are inside, we spread the same thing outside. So please, let us release now from the fear which is existing in this room for the moment. Yesterday Swāmījī spoke about fear. There is only one real remedy to get rid of fear, and that is confidence. It is like this: on the door, fear is knocking. Inside the room, confidence stands up and opens the door to look who is outside. But when confidence looked outside, there was nobody. Why? Because the fear disappeared. In the same moment that there is confidence, fear is no longer possible to reside. I want to tell you one experience I had, maybe seven years ago. Swāmījī once had quite a severe health problem. I was fearful. Inside I said, "Oh my goodness, what will be? What will be with Swāmījī?" So fear came up very much. For fear, prayer is very good. We made the prayer; Swāmījī was also in this prayer. You must know that the moment of prayer in an āśrama, in such a spiritual place, in prayer you can have contact with God, definitely. I tell you this: I prayed to the whole Guru Paramparā. "Please, please protect Swāmījī, I request you all." Then during the prayer, a picture came to me. I saw Śrī Devpurījī, very, very big, like a triangle, only the head on the top, and a kind of big shawl around him. He was standing over Swāmījī. As Swāmījī was walking in front of me in the prayer, I saw very, very big Devpurījī covering everything around him with his shawl. I understood the message. The message was: "Why do you have fear, Śāntī? When I, God, am here." That was a very big message for me. I understood that God is protecting every one of us. When the time is here to go, fear will not help, but prayer will help. So I did not have any more fear, because I knew all masters and all divine messengers are protecting Swāmījī. They were protecting him, and they will protect him, always. Then, two days later, I had another... a flash of insight, a mental lightning. I understood that if Swāmījī is under the protection of Devpurījī and the masters, and I am walking one step behind him, I am also under the protection. I tell you, that was a great experience for me. I am not the only one who follows Swāmījī. Thousands and millions of followers are following Swāmījī. You must know that Devpurījī and the whole Guru Paramparā have very, very big śālās. So millions and millions of disciples can go under this shawl. This is just what I want to tell you: to change your prāṇa, please. Let us have confidence and love, and everything is good and will be good. Actually, Swāmījī was speaking in these last days very much about prāṇa. It is interesting that for prāṇa there is a need for emptiness. The prāṇa cannot flow—maybe it can, but the prāṇa can develop better in empty space. Swāmījī gave many examples about prāṇa and the body. It is always emptiness that gives the sense to the organs and organ systems. For instance, the digestive system is emptiness in the mouth, emptiness in the esophagus, in the stomach, and in the intestines. It is the ākāśatattva. Also, Matākāś, Citākāś, Gatākāś—it is emptiness which gives the sense to things. The importance of a pot, or the dharma of a pot, is that something should be filled inside. For this, the pot must be empty. The room, the emptiness, gives the importance to the room. Without emptiness, prāṇa cannot develop properly. You remember this wonderful Prāṇa Sañcālan Kriyā which Swāmījī gave us. Also, the waves of the mantra "Rām" can only work in the empty field. In the same way, in the physical body, for instance, the heart—it is the emptiness which gives the heart its importance. If the heart were completely dense, it would not be possible for prāṇa to flow through, and life would not be possible. So, again and again, I just say that emptiness is the main thing to think over. Where there is emptiness, the Dharma can be fulfilled, and the prāṇa can expand endlessly in the ākāśa. Some time before, we had the opportunity to be with Swāmījī in Filach in Austria, in the south of Austria. There was a celebration of 35 years of Swāmījī in Kärnten. In Rākośko, we saw a film, a very old film from 35 years ago when Swāmījī visited there. We saw Swāmījī very young. He is now also very young, very beautiful, very much full of prāṇa and strength, like today. It was very beautiful to see this. But what I liked the most, I will show you now. In this video, he gave a lecture and said, "Do you know what is spirituality?" And without words, he explained. Can you believe? You should say no now, because how can you explain spirituality without words? So I am a disciple of my beloved Master, and I will explain to you also, without words. Yes? Okay, you see? Spirituality is this. Spotless. Can you see? What is this? Spotless, white, emptiness, nothingness. That is spirituality. That was Swāmījī's preaching, years and years and again and again: "Let us be pure, because spirituality is crystal clear purity." So maybe our sādhanā in the morning should be... you know, on one side, now I have to make, like... you can make like this, you know, in the mirror in the bathroom, yes, like, and shaving, I do not know what you are doing. And you know, one side of your mirror, you look at your beautiful face, and the other side, maybe you put just... just as a reminder. That is yoga in daily life. We have to be reminded again and again. So you see the importance of a white paper. When you go out, you get paper on the door. You can put it wherever you like. Actually, Swāmījī yesterday said two things: he likes to tell stories, and also that I was writing poems. So if you allow me, Swāmījī, I want to tell a story, one story which I wrote some time ago. And also, I have a very important prāṇic mudrā for you. Because I told you already, I am a simple but practical person. This mudrā, you can do it while you are driving the car, when you are sleeping, you can do it in the morning, any time of the day. It is not necessary to have any preparation, and it radiates. This mudrā has an effect on the prāṇa of your whole body, on your soul, on your mind, on all organs: nerve systems, lymph systems, blood systems. It increases your inner prāṇa, your aura. It radiates endlessly, and you can do it without any effort. Good. It is not written in the Yoga in Daily Life book. But Swāmījī is practicing this mudrā all the time. I will tell you afterwards which kind of mudrā it is. So, you know, all of us are struggling to achieve something. I admire each and every one of you who are here in Strelka making such a big program. One thing for all of us is important: do not give up, never ever give up. Whatever happens, in past lives, in these lives, never give up. Because sooner or later, you will reach your aim, in this or in another life. But I am sure, through the guidance of Swāmījī, the Divine Master, you have the most chances, all of us, to reach the aim. So the story is like this. There were several donkeys walking in a wood. One of them fell inside a well. This area where the well was belonged to a farmer. When the farmer saw this—it was a very old donkey, not walking properly anymore—and the well was very deep, he saw no chance for the donkey to come out. So the farmer decided to let the donkey die. The donkey, when he fell inside, had a very strong apāna prāṇa, so he was screaming terribly. I cannot do so good, and I do not want to make you afraid, even if I shout in the mic now. He was down in the well and understood that nobody was helping him. In this moment, when he understood that his master would not help him and had condemned him to die, he screamed more and more piteously. It sounded terrible because he knew he had to die. The farmer called the neighbors to help him and gave everyone a shovel, telling them to put earth into the well. The neighbors did this. They began to throw shovels of dirt on the donkey. The donkey at the beginning was screaming terribly, but nobody took care. They put more and more soil on it. They continued to put earth inside, and the donkey, whenever earth came on him, shook himself like this and put the earth away, and he made one step more. After a while, he reached the edge of the well and happily stepped out. This means that whatever happens in our life, we can take it as a step for liberation. It means even if difficult things are coming, as more troubles come, the more you can be strong and step over. By giving everything away, and like this, by never giving up, and by growing with each and every difficulty, we can reach the aim. Yes. Okay? Clear? So, So'ham. Yes, you want to know the mudrā? You have just to look to Swāmījī; you were looking all that day and many days to Swāmījī. He is a master of this mudrā, and I think it is a very important mudrā. This mudrā is a mudrā which will create happiness on earth. I have the big wish for all people who are listening now to use this mudrā as often as possible, because this mudrā is the main mudrā of Yoga in Daily Life. It will create happiness inside, as well as happiness outside. So I will show you now one mudrā. Do you think it is the right mudrā? Prāṇa is killed. So what do you think is the right mudrā? Giving happiness inside and outside. This one. And it is an easy āsana, an easy mudrā. So, thank you. And just, if I am your love, then this little story. I would request the children to come to me. It is just a little story. It is a story from a mother who has two children. The children are, of course, from Yoga in Daily Life and very interested in spiritual paths already at a young age. So one day the daughter asks, "What is God?" "My dear one, I will try my best to explain this to you. Listen. Can you explain God? No. Can you see Him? No. Can you hear Him? No. Can you smell Him? No. Can you describe Him? No. Can you touch Him? No. Can you explain Him? No. How can I know God then? Look into the eyes of your neighbor. Look into the eyes of a cow. Look to the sky. Look to the earth. Hear the birds singing. Hear the voice of your friend. Hear your own voice. Smell the fragrance of a flower and its sweetness. Feel the warm hand of your friend." "But tell me, Mom, how to understand where God is?" "My dear child, God is inside of you. Think over. Who is feeling? Hearing, seeing, smelling, looking, loving? Who is breathing? Moving? Walking? Running? Making your organs function? Moving your muscles, joints, and ligaments? Who is making the heart beat, giving you laughter and tears? Who is thinking? What is the life in you, and the love which you feel? What is behind all this? Is it God?" "Yes, sweetheart, that is called God. It is the emptiness beyond and inside the material. It is the life force itself and the source of all life. It is the invisible power that gives power to the visible form. Like fire is the cause of heat, God is the cause of the universe, and He created His children. You and me, we are His child. That is why He loves us so much, and we all have the same blood, meaning the same divine spirit. We are all family of the one God. He is the endless power of the universe, without beginning or end. There is no good or bad. There is only one, and that is God. There is no heaven and no hell. There is only one, and that is God. God is everywhere and in everything, my dear child. But we have forgotten it." "Tell me, Mom, please, how to experience God, how to realize God." "My beloved child, this is very easy, but you have to be ready for it. God is just there where you are, in your heart. There is one royal road to realize God, and this is divine love. You have come from God, and your destiny is to merge in the Divine. So just close for one moment your eyes. Relax completely. Become soulless. Bring your awareness into the heart and unite there with God. Be in love, light, and everlasting happiness. That is all, my dear children. Just do it, and daily go online with God, only for some minutes. Lifelong you will be happy and make others happy too, because one who lives in God lives in love. God is love and love is God. I love you, my dear children. May you feel God always inside of you and see Him in all. Thank you." Thank you. Chocolate now or later? I do not know. So now it is time to have prayer.