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Then the darkness has no strength to enter into the light. Immediately, darkness will disappear. As soon as light is there, darkness is gone. We don’t find it anywhere. Similarly, if we trust God, if we recognize God, if we know there is a God, and we act in the name of God, and we pray to Him, then He will take all our karmas on Himself. Otherwise, not. Many times it happens in our life, good or bad. When good things happen, we say thanks to God, and when bad things happen, we forget Him. But you know, it could have been more terrible than this. Maybe it was just one percent that happened. So thanks to God that it happened only this much. We don’t know why, how, when, and where. We lost the memory. We lost the confidence. And we became selfish. That is the problem. In this seminar, in this anuṣṭhāna, from tomorrow onwards, we’ll begin some mantras. You will learn how to remove, through God’s help, the difficulties of life, how to become happy and free from many troubles, and how we can develop our spirituality so that our life will be successful. And you know, if life is successful or not, that result will come at the end of life, so don’t try to calculate before. Just try to be. So tomorrow, you should be ready, and when you come to the lectures, perhaps bring a piece of paper, so that you can write that mantra, and you can also write the techniques; that’s very important. So this anuṣṭhāna is for the purification of the antaḥkaraṇa. Antaḥkaraṇa is mana, buddhi, citta, ahaṅkāra: the mind, the intellect, consciousness, and the ego. These four antaḥkaraṇas should be purified. That needs surrendering. That needs humbleness. That needs kindness. That needs to awake in our heart the mercy. So that’s very important for our sādhanā and for our life. Think over: how many times you have been thinking negative, how many times or how long you are jealous, and since when you are lazy. Do you practice your mālā every day? That’s a good question, no? One year is gone. We had an anuṣṭhāna here. You promised yourself that you will do your kriyā every day. You will do your mālā every day, you will do your āsanas and prāṇāyāmas. But how did you forget this? Your own promise. Your own benefit. When did laziness attack you? And are you in the mouth of the laziness of that crocodile? And would you like to come out of it? You know, those who are in the mouth of the crocodile of laziness have a little chance. The greatest enemy of the human is the crocodile of laziness. Why did the laziness come? Because you think it’s not so important. This is not so necessary. Better I sleep today than to do my sādhanā. These kinds of thoughts are our enemy. The soul, or yourself, for many, many lives you have been sleeping. Many, many lives you were sleeping in the sleep of ignorance. But now you are awakened. So wake up, and think what it means for you to be a human. And what does it mean for you to be born as a human? What are the qualities of the human? And what is the duty or the mission of human life? That’s very important. Otherwise, it is said: eating, enjoying, sleeping, and creating children—animals are also very active. Animals are also very expert, and if you are doing only this, what is the difference between you and animals? There are also animals with two legs. There are animals without legs. And animals with four legs, you know, so everyone has this kind of life. Therefore, we have to think it over. For what are you born? For what are you born? And meditate where your soul is hooked, where it’s belonging. Meditate on where your soul should reside, where it belongs. And find out where the problems have been. From what or from where do you always try to run away? You are scared because you were abused. You experienced pain. You experienced disappointment, many, many things. Every animal knows how, when, and who was torturing them. Humans or animals, they will never forget. But especially the humans, when they are torturing animals, when they are killing the animals, that will not be forgiven. And that is why humans are suffering. They are the most unhappy creatures. The most ill creature, the most troublesome creature, the most destructive creature is the human, unfortunately, and we belong to that race, the race of the human. But in this, we can wake up, and we can do something better. We can also help others to wake up. Beside you, if one hundred people are sleeping and a dangerous animal is coming—a dangerous animal or a tiger or a snake—but you are awakened, so you can awake everyone. You can make everyone alert, but if you are also sleeping, then you all are the victim of that. So this is the difference between the spiritual person and the normal worldly person. You can make people aware of God’s mercy and to understand God, and then understand your own wish. Then you will understand why you are disappointed or why you have success. So in this seminar, in this retreat again, you have the chance to check in the chapter which you began last year. What mistakes are there? And why are there some pages empty? Where have you been? What have you been doing? Why didn’t you? Why is this page empty? Every second will be counted. Every minute, hours and days, and months. So how many lines are empty, or pages are empty? And why? Now you can’t go back. That’s gone. The chapter is closed. But unfortunately, the chapter is not completed. Now you have to come next life again to complete that chapter. Now it’s clear. Will you get mokṣa? Or you will be born again, according to your chapter. It’s very clear that you have to come back and go through the same path of life, struggling. What to do? Or we find something. That all the chapters of life will be accepted as it is, without looking inside. Maybe if there is some God sitting there, he will say, "Okay, put it here. Go, thank you." But it’s so easy, it’s not. He cannot make a mistake. We can’t make God blind. He has no eyes, but he sees everything. He has no nose, but he smells everything. He has no legs, but he walks faster than us, and he is everywhere in every atom. So therefore, now this week, try to make your sādhanā more and more. Don’t disturb yourself going here and there. So tomorrow begins again something very nice, and you will have your mantra. Some kind of chanting, and try. It’s not that today you change and tomorrow everything will be fulfilled. So easy it is not. It’s not that you put the seed of the cherry in the earth today and tomorrow you harvest the cherries. Not even that seed will sprout, so you have to work and work and work, and protect. So know where you belong. Know where the light of your soul is hooked. Where is the source of your light? And where are you expecting something in the wrong places? You are wasting the time. Think it over. So this is our seminar’s aim. So I wish you all the best. And now we will have some questions and answers. So you are welcome to ask the questions, or you can speak something. You have both options: ask or answer. Question: This question to whom? To you, Swāmījī. Answer: To me? Yes. Why? I’m the guilty one? No, I’m the guilty one. Question: The question is, why does it happen so easily that these thoughts come, that practicing really regularly and every day and all this is really not so very important. Why do these thoughts come and destroy our decisions? What can we do so that it will not happen? Answer: Well, I explained everything. This comes from laziness. This comes from not giving first priority to your practice. And it comes because of the ku-saṅga—bad societies. It comes because of bad ambitions. So that’s why you have to create satsaṅg within yourself. You need satsaṅg with thyself. It means you always have positive thoughts, positive thinking. Always thinking of what God is, and what is this world? What does it mean for me to be here? I’m not here permanently. I’m temporarily here. But where will I go again? I would like to know my address. And no one can tell you this. It’s only written in your destiny. And you can’t see your destiny, and therefore we have to leave it in the hands of God. So, ku-saṅga can be through reading a newspaper. Ku-saṅga can be by reading some book, or looking at something, or certain films, or certain negative people. So always protect. These are the infections. And these infections can come very quickly, like a virus. And when the virus of the ku-saṅga attacks you, it’s very terrible. Very terrible. And this virus is multiplying very quickly. So one bacterium can multiply quicker than you think. So one negative word, if you hear, can put such a blackmailing in your brain, that’s kind of a bug. And that bug explodes in it. They are manipulating; they are manifesting, multiplying in your intellect, everything is infected. The words of ku-saṅga, negative words, or laziness. So there are āsurī śaktis and daivī śaktis. Āsurī śakti is negative energy, and devī śakti is positive. And always the asuras would like to have you as their candidate. And the devas would like to have their candidate. But asuras are more active than devas. So laziness, ku-saṅga, negative thinking, this all is the cause that it doesn’t let you work. It creates certain circumstances which you think you don’t accept; this is not good. But who knows if these circumstances, that situation which is happening, which you are experiencing, is that which will lead you out of something. At the present, maybe you don’t understand. Question: I have a question, please, about enlightenment. When Śākyamuni Buddha realized God, did he become one with God? Answer: Yes. When he attained enlightenment, did he become one with God? I said yes. Again. Question: What is the difference between an Avatar and a Sadhguru? Answer: Only the name is different. Avatar is written with "A," and Sadhguru is written with "S." A is for immortality, and S is for supreme. So there is nitya avatāra and naimitta avatāra. The avatāra, which is all the times, and nimitta is only occasionally, for a certain purpose. So nimit avatāra is what we call avatāra, and which is always coming time to time, called satguru avatāra. Question: Dear Swamiji, there are a lot of people who are afraid of or respect their parents or their superiors at their job. Or even some people may be afraid of their guru, you know, not you, but... And what to do to make, to change those blocks? Because a lot of people are blocking and trying to talk about something better in this position. Answer: First off, people present in the media always inform us about suicide bombs, how much flooding, how many earthquakes, many scandals, but it is not only this that’s happening. There are also good things happening. And they don’t write at all about this. Sometimes we have good things happening. The media doesn’t want to inform the people of this. So it is information, wrong information. And the second, definitely there are some people who play themselves like a guru, but they are not. So, who plays as a guru, next life they will be a kangaroo. So who says that I am a guru? So you can understand that even it is not. It is said: "Bade badaai nahi kare, badaan bole bol, Rahiman hira kab kare, laak hamaaro mol." The great one, like a diamond, never tells us, "I am a diamond." A saint, a guru will never say, "I am a holy saint." The blind person knows the sunrise. When you sit near the fire, you know it is a fire. Or when you sit near the ice block, you know you have this spiritual place. And of course, for many people, the problem is still how to know. If you never saw a picture of a horse and a donkey, and someone brings a donkey in front of you and tells you this is a horse, you will take it. And then someone brings a horse and says, "No, no... Don’t take this, this is a donkey." And you will deny it, because you never saw the difference between a horse and a donkey. So, like this, many people never did so in their life. Someone told me something about one country—that person is maybe sitting here—and someone came into her office, "In our country, we have someone who is a guru, and you don’t know what a guru is." So information is missing. Even your body doesn’t know what is reality. Therefore, go to satsaṅg, and read some good holy books, not those holy books which make you one-sided. And, of course, you can look on the internet. You can look on Google: what’s Upaniṣad, what’s Vedas. And about Brahma, Viṣṇu, Śiva, or Jesus, or any other God, the Buddha—an enlightened soul, there is no incarnation, but through his strong practice, he became enlightened. Question: I would like to ask you, some people feel their life is like a burden, and it’s not easy for them. Then they decide to practice yoga and try to really follow Guruvākyas. How to find the balance and harmony between normal life and practicing yoga? Because sometimes it can happen that people go away or try to quit practicing and doing āsanas and meditation, but it is much nicer than real life. How to find the balance? Answer: If you take the time, balance will come by itself. It will take time to get rid of this mosquito, or you have to come to this spray, and that is spiritual. We should not think we are better than others, so that you will begin to think that I am better than other people, then the problem begins. But you should feel that you are friends of others. You wish good for others, then goodness will come. Question: I would like to ask, why is there so much suffering in this world? There are people in Africa who don’t have a home or food, but we here in this part of the world, we have really everything that we need. And many times I’m wondering, why is this? Why are we so lucky to be here, and people there without anything? Please, if you can say something about this. Answer: Don’t you think that we took away from them? You know, Africa was a very rich continent. Africa had everything, even the gold, diamond, silver—all these precious stones are coming from Africa. So ask, what happened? And the most beautiful forests and most beautiful wood Africa had. So we took away from them, and we think we have everything now that they don’t have. And second, we don’t have that heart that we can share with them. It’s called manipulation. Thank you.