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I wish for a suburban city called Swahili City. I should have offered us Yudhiṣṭhira Steen. That is the earth. That's the earth. That's it. That's the sphere. Due to our many delegates from different parts of the world, unfortunately, they cannot speak English, and they had a long journey. Therefore, as a courtesy towards our guests, the Austrian organizers, special organizers, have arranged headset translation. We can especially decide this to be a historical place for Yoga in Daily Life. The seat of Yoga in Daily Life, or where it began, is an occasion, and then we speak a little more. It is the anniversary of the embodiment of God Kṛṣṇa, Gaṇeśa. Since the Satyuga, Gaṇeśa is that spiritual figure, that spiritual legend, who is remembered. He received as the first one. First, Śrī Gaṇeśajī has the quality of success. Anuṣṭhān means a special ceremony or pūjā. It is mostly now people who have companies, business people, who are doing it. For God, there are no business people, no poor people, no sinners, and no pews. God loves all equally, and whoever prays to God with a pure heart and pure thinking receives His mercy, His grace, His kṛpā, which is always with us. Gaṇeśjī, God Śiva, is known as Dayālu, the Merciful One. When there are difficulties or conflict with your friend, your wife, your husband, your colleagues, or someone, and you are the guilty one, and you realize that you are the guilty one, and you tell your friend, colleague, husband, wife, or even your children, "I am sorry, please forgive me," it means you say, "I am sorry, please forgive me." These two words have so much power that they are the best you can use to create peace, harmony, and understanding. Which words in English? "I am sorry, please forgive me." These two words, "sorry" and "forgive me," create a pain in the heart of the other one who is not guilty, but he or she is angry with you. The intellect of that person suddenly enlightens and will say... When someone tells you, the reflection back to you, your happiness is measurable; the other has forgiven. You get a remedy which releases your pain; it's a beautiful heart. Gaṇeśa. That one, you see, parents and children made some mistake and come home and say, "Father, yes, but that's the past." The root of the fuse, goodness, lies in accomplishment. Gaṇeśa is known as a god of accomplishment. Gaṇeśa may not be like this one form which we have today in front of us, but it is the universal principle. To understand Gaṇeśajī's form, any holy divine incarnation form, or your body, your father, mother... To express or explain what is Sūrya and what is Vargī, can we put this in a picture? Unless we can describe and give a clear picture, we cannot understand. The spiritual energy, spiritual tradition, Sanātana Dharma, and many other dharmas which... Sanātana Dharma is the basis of all dharmas. Dharma means religion, but not that kind of religion where I tell you my religion and you say your religion and they say their religion. No. Dharma is of the fire to burn, so it's not your fire, not my fire. Fire is of the ice to give coolness, but in that coolness is also fire. If you hold ice longer, you feel heat in the body. Even if you are freezing, it is like a heat. You will become a block of ice because fire has to exist in the ice. And ice, water, has a very close relation, very close, and that's why it is a god. Kṛṣṇa is a god of Viṣṇu, is residing in him. Viṣṇu is that Ātmā, manifests in every individual as a Jīvātmā, and that's all, descending body, mother's body, also like it, remains in the liquid, in the liquid. It doesn't matter, or tell someone, "Sorry, excuse me, I'm sorry," that's it, okay? Similarly, when we pray to God, you cannot pray unless you feel to surrender your ego and unless you feel as a guilty one. Many people like you who are not guilty, many people wholly like all of you, hands are not 100% clean, mortal beings, normal human beings. So somewhere we have our mistake, we have our karma, through eating, through drinking, through speaking, through walking, driving a car, relations, breaking the relation, creating the relation. Somewhere we make a mistake. Don't think that we are a thousand percent perfect. If you think that you are a perfect one, you don't need God, then adoration to you, but you are the most foolish one. Make a mistake consciously? You did not make a mistake purposely, but it happened through your being here, and that's a mistake already. Still, you are very untouched, Maloka. You came, not even a mosquito has come near to you. Still, no pollution, okay? You are very transparent, but do you know what will be tomorrow? But we have intellect, and we have a heart. So here we have a mercy or understanding to say, "Okay." Here, no signal comes; that is paralyzed. Your intellect is like a torchlight. The battery is here. Therefore, dayā, the mercy, compassion, is the root of the dharma. Roots of protection. And the roots of the sins is the ego, proudness. The great saint Tulsīdāsjī said, "Never give up your mercy as long as you have life in your heart. After, who knows what will happen through this body?" Therefore, there is one bhajan: "Dayālu amane śaraṇ āpkī līnā." Merciful one, I seek shelter at your lotus feet. So Gaṇeśajī is that energy in the universe, that energy of giving success and removing the obstacles. It means it opens the door and tells you, "Go." The prison of karmas is opened by God Gaṇeśjī, and off you go. So in Satyuga time, you know many about Yugas. Gaṇeśajī manifested, was not born as a child, appeared. Stories like this, which I will tell you tomorrow, are incomplete, but many of you know when. You saw the Mahāśivapurāṇa? The Shiva's faithful one, Pārvatī, wanted to take a bath, and no one was there to guard her. And she put on her body some kind of cream, which comes from that time to make good skin, you know, and that's... What ladies are doing nearly every second night? The ladies work the whole day. They have no time. In the evening, when the husband is sleeping, they get up slowly and go into the bathroom. And they make the whole body completely with something like this, and a mask, and standing takes care that the husband doesn't come. Because when the husband comes, he will be frightened. How you look, you know, only here, eyes and dresses. And then they clean. And his skin is really very good. All āmās, all toxins go out. They do care about their skin. It doesn't matter. And that's why the ladies have very gentle skin, and men don't care about it. Okay, that is another subject, okay. So Pārvatī took some nice Āyurvedic earth, put it inside kurkumba, haldi, neem powder, maybe it was. And she put on her body in such a way, and she put this like a little chappatī dough. And she was making like this and began to play a little bit. And it became like a form, like a toy, a doll. And she was doing like this, and then she did like that, and it came out here on one hand, other side, the bed. And then she made the head and hands and like this, and suddenly light came. Gaṇeśa became human. Even he didn't know who he was, so she said... "You are my son." Then he said, "Okay, I am your son, good mother." So she said, "You stay here. Take care that nobody comes to the bathroom. I'm going to have a bath." In the cave, there was no bathroom, you know, no mirrors, no showers, no tiles, and all this blim blam we have now, we are spoiled. So Gaṇeśa is manifested through that clay from the touch of her body. Gaṇeśa is the same thing, like Svayambhū, like Śiva. Now the story will go further. Śiva becomes the father of Gaṇeśa. Even Śiva did not know. He wanted to come, to go to Pārvatī, and Gaṇeśa stopped Śiva. Śiva said, "Now you can't go." Śiva said, "Who are you to stop me?" He said, "Gaṇeśa said, 'Who are you?' Gaṇeśa said, 'Who are you to ask me who I am?' He said, 'Who is your wife?'" I don't know, therefore I don't let you go. That's called perfect security, and the protocol. So even he didn't let go of Śiva there. So the day when it is, but before that, when Śiva appeared and there was the Śakti, at that time, in the marriage ceremony, Śiva had to make a prayer to Gaṇeśa. And this Gaṇeśa came after. Now the question is this: who is that Gaṇeśa? So this Gaṇeśa is also that Gaṇeśa. It is not Śiva's son or Pārvatī's son, but because he manifested from the body of Pārvatī, and being Pārvatī, as Śiva's faithful one, Śivānī, and so it created Gaṇeśa. So now people are doing anuṣṭhāna. Each mantra of that anuṣṭhāna I will tell you, because it's no secret. Gaṇeśa is for everyone, doesn't matter. He said, doesn't matter who is who. Who comes near me, if he's a brave, good one, gets laddū. And if he's a naughty one, he has another thing in his hand. So there are four hands and four symbols he has in his hands. That's a very typical thing. You will see that all the gods and goddesses have weapons in their hands and blessings. So weapons are for that negative energy, to destroy and protect. When the cold air comes, you close your window. That is your weapon. Protect yourself from the cold. So these symbols have their meaning. We will tell you then, next time. So, bīja mantra is mantra. Bīja means seed, tree. You have this apple tree in your garden. You cannot dig out the whole tree and bring it in your garden, the big tree. Nowadays, they are making manipulation and, what you call, high breeding. Still, the origin is that seed from the apple fruit. So the whole prayer is like a whole apple tree, but the Bīja Mantra is the seed, and that is what people use for Anuṣṭhāna. And that is "Oṁ Gaṅgāneśāya Namaḥ, Śrī Gaṅgāneśāya Namaḥ, Śrī Gaṅgāneśāya Namaḥ." This is the Bīja Mantra. Before opening a company, before you start a new business, and if your business is not going so good, I can tell you, you will be successful, and suddenly everything will come good out. Because it is not me, not you, not your talent, but your heart. We surrender to some supreme energy, cosmic energy that removes that smoke of negativity. The sun came out and the fog disappeared. So anytime we do, we say, "Let's have Śrī Gaṇeśa," let's do Śrī Gaṇeśa. Now, what does it mean? "Let's do Śrī Gaṇeśa" means let's begin. So the beginning is already Śrī Gaṇeśa. So if you don't know prayer or anything, you can just say "Oṁ Śrī Gaṇeśa Namaḥ," and you start your car, you go. Then you can say whatever prayers you want to say. But first, when you stand up in the morning, open your eyes. Make a saṅkalpa and say, "Gaṇeśa Mahārāj, anything." He is the giver. What can we give him? He is the giver. Thank you, Lord, for this everyday bread that you have given me. So who are you to give to God? God is giving to us. So that means that energy, that success. Therefore, sometimes people have conflict out of their ignorance. They cannot understand the ceremony. They don't understand tilak, they don't understand pūjā, they don't understand this red thread, they don't understand. In Christianity, you are more, people may be here, some are Christians, there is a call, the Wednesday of the S. It's only Wednesday, because that's Gaṇeśa's day. But it should be every day, so it's things changing. You have a Mātā tree in the month of Mātā in every village, in the center way of the village is a Mātā tree. And this Mātā tree is a holy tree, which we have as a holy tree, a holy festival. How the things are uniting the culture, coming from some culture, but slowly, slowly the culture is changing. 50 kilometers, culture is changing, somehow dialect is changing. And so many, many thousand kilometers far you go and come, changing. But the seed is there. Though the apple is hybrid, it is, how do you call it, you cut it off and, how do you, what do you call the, you, as Angel Tabeba says this in English. Anyhow, but still the origin of that apple is the apple seed. So the essence is that one. You, let's say you eat spaghetti, but in the spaghetti there is water, there is salt, there is some kind of sauce on it, dressing. So you have different, someone has hot chili, ayur, some have this, someone has ketchup, someone this, and someone nothing, just pure. So spaghetti is spaghetti, the noodle is noodle, but different spices. Similarly, that God is God, is not your God, not my God, not their God, not our God, but God is God. These are the divine energies that you allow to enter into you. And you remember, when you say, "Please help me," it means you accept the cosmic energy in you, and now you send that energy to work or to remove the obstacle. So in reality, you are that one. It is you who receives, and you give further. We need the heart. We need it in the heart. So this weekend retreat, we have a certain anuṣṭhān: how to remove obstacles in the house. It was a tradition everywhere that we all have, on the door, entrance, and in the house, Gaṇeśjī's statue or Gaṇeśjī's name. We in the religion write on the door, which house may be your flat, rented, or you built your own house. Lab means benefit. Now, what does benefit mean? Not only money, but also the benefit of health. Benefit of the children, healthy children. Healthy parents, healthy atmosphere, healthy relations, lab. Śubha means pleasure, harmonious, good, mutual understanding. So what we need is success and prosperity. So labha, śubha or śubha. Then we have this svastika. Svastika is a very ancient symbol from yugas and yugas. But svastik means sun. You make a sun picture, it is clockwise going, then the sun ray which you see behind, that is the original svastikā. So, svastika means sun, light, the energy. Svastika also means good health. No sun, no health. Therefore, the sun was remembered and worshipped as the svastika. So, Oṁ and svastika and śubha and labha. That is the symbol of Gaṇeśa. Anytime when we want to write letters, it's called old, old traditions. When you write a letter to anyone, the first line on the top you write the mantra, "Oṁ Śrī Gaṇeśāya Namaḥ." Then you write the letter. So, Gaṇeśajī means intellect, the most, most wise one, never will make a mistake, this Gaṇeśajī, that means intellect, the jñāna, buddhi, buddhika prakāśa, the light of wisdom, when you talk about light of wisdom, it means... Śrī Gaṇeśajī, and this Gaṇeśajī is within you, your ātmā is inside, your buddhi is a Gaṇeśajī, your Ājñā Chakra is Gaṇeśajī. And also, it is said that the seat of Gaṇeśa is in Mūlādhāra. The seat of Gaṇeśa is in Mūlādhāra. So Mūlādhāra means not negative. Mūlādhāra is a foundation. And when the foundation is strong, then everything is strong. Our spine is that strong because of the spiritual energy of Śrī Gaṇeśa. So, this is a mantra, Oṁ Śrī Gaṇeśa Namaḥ. In this, you imagine your success, what you want, why you make it anuṣṭhāna. So let's say you want to make a company, a company, registering before writing the constitution of your company. You make anuṣṭhāna and astrologically look to your birth constellation, and on that day when you want to register on this, which day is good? Then you register. Everywhere Gaṇeśjī will go with you. He will work for you. In which way? He will remove the obstacles, and your success will be prospering. So this, we can, we will talk about this more. So one anuṣṭhāna mantra is...