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Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavānakī, Dev Puruṣa Mahādevakī, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavānakī, Sanātana Dharmakī. Good evening, and blessings of Gurudev to everybody. Also, to our dear brothers and sisters around the world who are with us through the webcast, many blessings coming to you from the beautiful Adriatic coast of Croatia. Today is the 1st of October, which definitely means the hard autumn is coming, at least for Europe. That's very good, so that new leaves will come again. I wish you all the best for this month. You are the lucky ones, you are the blessed ones, that this day has begun, a new month has begun, with such a beautiful atmosphere. So, welcome. The last week, eight days, we have been here. Time is passing very quickly. We have covered many subjects: how to develop our physical, mental, social, and spiritual health and spirituality. One thing is sure: every day we are getting one day older. So don't expect that tomorrow you will be one day younger. That is the nature, and we cannot stop it. Yes, we can slow down the process. We can do that through practicing yoga in daily life, proper diet, and a very good daily schedule. Through that, we can protect ourselves. And protection is in protection. If you can protect, then you will be protected also. Our health depends on the way we live our life. From what can we give up? Od kakvih navika možemo odustati? I od čega ne možemo odustati? That is a big problem. An alcoholic knows that alcohol is not healthy for him or for her. But now you are in the hands of alcohol. Alcohol is dominating, governing your life. So even if you would like to give up, sometimes it's hard because you are imprisoned by alcohol. Like this, there are many habits, and those habits are not healthy for us. Our Satguru Dev Swāmī Madhavānandajī used to say, "It's easy to become free or escape from the enemy, but not from bad habits." The bad habits which you learned from your childhood will torture you lifelong. Lucky are they who can change their thoughts and overcome those bad habits. It's only a matter of changing the way of thinking. You say to yourself, "No, finished." Suddenly, something is changed in you, so that even in the dream you don't think about that. Similarly, in our life, we have many different habits. Some habits damage our health. Some habits are not healthy for your economy, some habits are not good for your social health, and some habits are not good for your spirituality. Now, on whom does it depend? Only on you. You are the only one who can free yourself from all these negative or bad habits. Blessed are those who can overcome their weaknesses. And unfortunately, it is the unhealthy things that we like more. You know, we like an unhealthy atmosphere, and we know that the result will be wrong. But we do it. That's called the weakness of the human, human weakness. And that's not good. The question is, what can help us? What can we do? Yes, you yourself can help you. Only you can help yourself to change any situation. And for that, you have to change yourself. Tomorrow we are going to observe or celebrate the day of non-violence. I am very happy that even the United Nations, the world government, has come to know that we have to awaken the consciousness of non-violence. Because the problem in the world is violence. And this has to be awakened in the consciousness of every human. You know how many creatures on this planet are tortured? How many humans are tortured? More of the human population is tortured than those who are just living happily. Out of 100 families, 85 families have torture in the home: physically, or emotionally, or intellectually, or socially, or financially, and so on. The great saint Guru Nānak said, "Nānaka dukhya sabh sansār." He said to himself, "The whole world is troublesome." It is said that in his home, in his family, there were some quarrels every day. So one afternoon, he just went on the roof of his house to be alone and not to fight this and that—it's all arguments—to be alone, to breathe fresh air, without conflict and fighting. He was walking on the roof terrace. And he saw, on the left side, the neighbor: her husband was beating his wife. He went to the right side: the wife was beating her husband; she was throwing hot dāl soup on him. Oh God. He went from the back side: the parents were very cruel to the children. So he went to the front side of the terrace, and the children were shouting at the parents. The parents were old, so he said, "Not only me or my family, O Nānaka, dukhyā sār sansār. The whole world is troublesome. Nobody is happy." Very rarely do you find loving, harmonious, mutual understanding in the family: that the husband cares for and protects his wife; in every aspect, he tries to keep her dignity high; never does a negative word or thought come into his mind towards his wife. And also in her mind, that never comes a negative thought or bad words; always thinking best for her husband. Ladies are praying every day, first for their husband. They are fasting for the good health of their husband. There are many, many festivals that ladies are doing for the men. That's why all men are healthy, thanks to the ladies. So, this is a mutual understanding on both sides. And their children are so beautiful, wise, and gentle. We used to say in India: in the egg of the peacock bird, you need not feel color inside. The baby which will come out of the peacock egg will automatically be colorful. Similarly, when the family, parents, husband and wife—these two—they are very important for the world. We don't need education for children, but education for the parents. Parents need to be educated; then children automatically learn. If the husband is angry, he drinks alcohol, and then he is so angry. Poor children, they are scared. Sometimes they think, "God, father will not do something wrong to mother, that he will not throw life on her." What kind of father are you? Your appearance towards your children should give security, should give love, should awake happiness and harmony. And what kind of mother are you? That you awake the negative thoughts and shout at your husband in the minds of the children. Therefore, this world nowadays is 85% troublesome, but I think it's already 95% within these 5 minutes, 10 minutes that I'm analyzing while sitting. So, put your hand on your heart and ask yourself; you need not raise your hand up. In your family, if there is a kind of torture or not, from the children's side or the father's side or the mother's side, the grandparents' sides, ordered towards the neighbors. And therefore it's needed to save the humans to save this planet and such events. To remember is a most important thing, and it has to be. Monday has to begin. Monday has to begin, so developing the self-confidence. Ātambal. Ātambal is called willpower. Ātambal is one of the strongest powers. Now, this Ātambal you can develop through one Haṭha Yoga technique, Haṭha Yoga. Not only are you always talking about āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, relaxation, and meditation, but also Haṭha Yoga. Haṭha Yoga will make you happy. Haṭha Yoga will give you such a happy life that you will be the person who can enjoy life. And you will become an example for all. But we have to give up a little bit of our laziness and a little comfortableness. The problem is to get up in the morning. And when we get up in the morning, we are searching, "Where is the coffee cup?" Certain things, if you try to change yourself, will take you ten days. And in ten days, your happy life begins. You know, you will be like a newly married one. How long will you enjoy? A few months. So, opposite. Newly divorced one—that I wanted to say, but I didn't want to disappoint you. If you don't marry, I have no children, and then when I have no children, I don't have a future worker for our yoga and daily life. So, you know how many children I have here, and I'm coming, so beautiful children are standing. And the parents are happy, and these little children are happy, and they get nice prasāda. I know the chocolate is not so healthy, but love is also this candy's point. Though we should not spoil, but now we have some healthy chocolate. When they get prasāda from me, this small piece, lifelong they will remember this happy atmosphere. Lifelong will remind them, and we need such a generation. Tomorrow they will also learn something. What was it? Tomorrow we will, everyone will express their thoughts. About non-violence also towards children: many, many children are living in fear, you know. Every woman is a mother, but a real mother is different. And so when the parents are divorced, and the child has to live with another stepmother—okay, she loves the child also—but still, subconsciously, the child is not happy. And the same thing with the father. When you take your child and live with another man, and that man is very kind, very nice, gives everything to you, brings toys, chocolates, ice cream, clothes, okay. But still, the inner self is searching for that father. And that is, day by day, in the world, multiplying. And this, the human should stop one day. That kind of movement we should create: a happy family. But why does it happen? We have to search for the cause. You chip the tree from the trunk, but it grows again because the roots are in the soil. So, what is the cause of that? Search for the cause. And the cause, everybody, you know, every mother knows, every girl knows that her beloved husband or the friend, which habits he had—drugs, alcohol, and some different things. Or, every man knows what problem that girl or the lady had, with whom you were. It brought you to that decision to separate. But, you know, you could separate; you are different blood. But how are you going to separate this one child, which has become one blood? That is the problem in the world, torturing. Hiṃsā. Not only that, you put a knife in someone's stomach, or you kill someone. But there are many ways to kill you. There was, in the last minute of the life of God Rāma—the story is very long, but it came that his own brother Lakṣmaṇa should get a life sentence, and Rāma said he could not do this. So Hanumānjī is a symbol of the buddhi, the intellect, and so on. So Hanumānjī said, "You renounce your brother, send him away." That punishment is nearly like a death sentence. So that should not happen. And how many are experiencing this every day? And that is a problem in human society. Now, one who experienced this, and when they grow up in that, in their subconsciousness, there is aggression to take revenge towards those who did this to him or her. It means to act unconsciously, to do with others like that. Because one thinks, "Why did my parents separate? To be happy and to solve the problems, now I am unhappy and I have problems. I will do the same thing," and that's chain work. Therefore, we have to think over a lot, so develop willpower. And that willpower, this Haṭha Yoga technique we call Trāṭak. Trāṭak means gazing on one point. Of course, we are gazing every day on one point, two points. What does that mean? When you drive a car from your home to the office, all the time you are gazing on the road. When you are on the highway, all the time you are gazing on the highway. Okay, and you should, that's good. On the highway, the car's speed is 130 kilometers. Don't gaze in the fields like that. You can just have a side look, but straight on the highway. But after all these busy days, you have to empty unnecessary thoughts, tensions, or impressions. Just you keep it quality, and the rest, reduce it. You take a carrot out of the garden, from your garden, and now the carrots come with the earth. So what will you do? You will clean it nicely so there is no earth, and the same where your earth came from, it is better to leave it there. Similarly, when you come out of the day—it means the day began when you went out of your door or out of your bed, and it ends when you come to your bedroom. Now, between these hours, how many impressions did you have? How many things have you seen? How many things have happened? What kind of people have you met? Where have you been? Gardens, parks, forests, meadows, mountains, rivers, lakes, oceans, birds, other different creatures, humans, machines—many things. Now all is filled in your memory. So you come home with a full bag on your shoulders, a heavy weight. Don't take this heavy weight bag into your bedroom. Try to reduce it so that you can have a good sound sleep, and you can be happy, and in the morning you wake up with happiness. Number one. Number two, through these techniques you can give self-suggestion to yourself. Now, what they call here in Europe is called the self-suggestion, autogenic training. So, this autogenic training is a form of Yoga Nidrā. The person who developed this autogenic training was a disciple of Swami Śivānandajī of Ṛṣikeśa. And when Śivānandajī told about Yoga Nidrā, this person was a psychologist or a psychiatrist, and he developed this technique. So, auto-suggestion. And now it's also very, very normal. Also, in this technique, what they call, go into your past. So, going into the past to solve your psychic problem. So, when I came to Austria, the Austrians asked me. They asked me, "Swāmījī, do you know or can you teach us Rückführung?" So Rückführung means guide us in the past. I said, "Well, my master has said, 'Keine Rückführung, nur Vorführung.'" So don't take them back, but to the forward. So many times now, in which way they are doing, that they put some person in deep sleep or something, or let you sit in front of you and talk and say, "Yeah, that was it, like in your time, and this and this was," how to say, "It's your past life or something like this," answer. That creates more fear. What you've forgotten is good. What you remember now is torturing. And to awake that again, sleeping, tormented by these problems, to awake again, it is also torturing, so that is also violence. Therefore, mostly in yoga and also in the Vedic Sanātana Dharma or Hindu Dharma, and I would also say Christianity also, I never heard, or in any Dharma, we don't go back. It was. Now, how to do that? How do we get free? And so we are praying for the future, not for the past. Only there is one prayer for the past, for our past ancestors. That's prayer for the past, one for the future. Life again it becomes future, so that's called, but you give a suggestion to yourself, and you are doing every day. You get up morning and, friends, maybe you are drinking tea or water or milk or coffee or whatever, or making your yoga, or in the bathroom, brushing your teeth, and you are thinking, imagining, what you will do tomorrow, or what you will do today after, what is your day program. So now this is your own suggestion. And that's very important. So when you go and practice trāṭak, at that time, you give a suggestion to yourself, what you want. Now, one cup is full with water. And now you want to put more water inside. What will happen? It will overflow. Water will flow over. Why? Because there is no space anymore. It is full. So, what do you have to do? Wait until it is empty. Similarly, when you come home in the evening, your head is full of all these day-long impressions. Now, sit down and tell yourself to relax. Now, my practice comes. What happens? Immediately, the unnecessary impressions and thoughts begin to reduce. And you say mentally to yourself, repeat mentally, or become aware of what you would like to do, to have, to realize, or to achieve, and so on. Then you sit in meditation, and the mantra should always be with you at all times, with or without a mālā. Mantra is your torchlight to walk in darkness through this worldly jungle. The worldly jungle and darkness: thorny bushes and also very dangerous creatures. So the torchlight is your guide. That's why I always have a torchlight. Though I'm sitting with you, there's a light, you know. But who knows, if the light goes off from a power failure, how will I come out of this jungle? So meditation or spiritual sādhanā without mantra is like a body without a soul. So you take your mantra, with a mālā or without a mālā. And then you light a nice, beautiful candle or ghee or oil lamp. If the oil is clean, then there is no smoke in the flame. If ghee is properly done, then there is no smoke inside. When you are making ghee out of the butter, then the butter has to be melted very nicely. What people are doing mostly is they make butter hot, and then the butter begins to come like a foam. And they stop, so it is not purified. That ghee is not so pure ghee, so this old foam again has to get calm when you are making ghee. That you see nice ghee inside. Then let it cool down a little bit, and then you filter it with a good filter. That ghee is the best ghee. Other ghee, which is not properly prepared or melted and heated, after some time begins smelling bad. It spoils. Fungus develops, and so on. So when people hear about ghee and Āyurveda, everyone would like to use only ghee. But you should know how to make the ghee. Then, and then they write, you boil and melt the butter. So many people give me a jar of ghee that they made themselves. But when I see it, it's not proper ghee. And that ghee is healthy, which is when the cow doesn't get any kind of chemical or artificial feed. And that cow doesn't get everyday injections for milking. They say that they give injections to cows so that they let the milk come, and they connect them to the machine. The normal way is that when the cow comes to drink, then the milk comes in the cow. That comes only when the mother is. Another cow comes, she will not let it come, and milk will not come. There was a fight between two ladies. One said, "This is my child," because she was a babysitter. One said, "It's mine," and the other said, "My child." So they went to the court. And she said, "It's my child, and I love both of them." So in the court they said, "Okay, the child is still eight months old, so give milk." So only the mother's breast, the real mother's breast, gave the milk. That is real milk. That is real love. So similarly, when a calf drinks, actually it is not nice of us that we take the calf's milk away. But we are greedy, and we know the milk is healthy for us also, not only for the calf. So when the cow begins to eat grass, then you can take 40% of the milk away from the mother. So that when the cow comes to drink milk, then from the mother's body the milk comes. And that is the real milk, and that milk has the love of a mother, not that artificially they are fed and injections are given, and so on. And then in the dairy, you know, how much the milk is manipulated, and also yogurts and so on. So in Āyurveda, it is said that there are certain comforts in life and happiness in life, and there are about eight points: who is happy, who is lucky. Pela sukha nirogikāya. The first happiness is good health. Duja sukha gharme māyā. The second is that you have wealth. It means you can welcome friends. You have to eat also, and you have for others also to eat. Similarly, like this, one point is called gharme gaye, that you have your own cow, that you have your cow milk. Who is the lucky one to have their own cow's milk? Sorry. We don't know from where our milk is coming. From which cow? And now, even people are producing artificial plastic milk. You know that? You are all innocent. This I will tell you next time, but there is. The Jebrakash can tell yes or no. He experienced how the plastic milk and plastic sweets. Yeah, made out of the pesticides. Yes, my dear, you don't know what is going in the stomach. Our tongue is very spoiled with different tastes. So nowadays, we should be using dairy production very carefully. So, ghee and real butter, always only blessed ones can have. Lucky ones can have it, and for that, you have to come to Jadān Ashram. Jadān Ashram, milk tea you drink, or yogurt or butter—lifelong, you will not forget. I mean, it's good. That's it. There were many who were in Jadana. Hands up, please. Oh my God, so many. So please tell if it's true or not. Yes. So that ghee is a remedy. That ghee has aroma. That ghee, you take a little, you know, on your finger and put in your nostril like this. Apply on your nose, whole day you will have good aroma, and it will protect you from the dust allergy. That is things, okay? Let's go to the other direction. You are most welcome, and you can have one cow for you. Adopt one cow. Whenever you come, she will greet you, you will greet her, and if you are lucky, she has just given a baby and you can have milk. But it is good to at least adopt one. And so, one cow needs per day half a euro cent. One euro, a half euro cent. And when you telephone, in five minutes you are paying already one euro. In this way, you protect those kettles, so you can adopt, you can give the name, and with henna you can write your name on it and her name, yes, with the henna. We have also a henna field, a lot of henna. You can have kilos of the henna. So Jadana Ashram is a pollution-free spot, beautiful. Thank you. Let's come this way, the other way. So make a trāṭak on the flame. Now I don't have a candle. So let's see here, this is a candle. Now, if you do the right technique, it will help you. If you can't do the right technique, it will not help you. So you see, my battery has two kinds of light. That's called a miracle. Now this one, and very soon you can see here the flame. So I have to do some mantras, hocus pocus. Look at the sky very nicely, okay? So you see the flame, Deep Nand Bhagwan. So when you do the trāṭak, mostly it is done before going to bed. And there are some children, they are only three, four years old, five years old, but still they make bad weight in the night. If they do one evening trāṭak, it is finished. They will not make bad weight anymore. Or, before going to sleep, you make one matchstick fire and tell the child to look into it. And that's all. Try. Your bed, your child's bed, will be very nice and dry. That's a very effective thing. It's like a miracle, but it's not a miracle. Now, there are two things. Now, in modern technology, there are three things. Number one, you don't need eyeglasses. Number two, you have eyeglasses, you need eyeglasses. And number three, you have a lens. So, for example, if your eyes are healthy, you don't need reading glasses. The normal position for your candle or the flame is on the level of your Anāhata Chakra, which means that your eyes are relaxed. The distance is when you sit straight and you stretch your hands in front with your thumbs up. Now, this is the right distance. This is for normal, healthy eyes. Others, according to your glasses, where you can see a better, clear flame. You should keep that better distance, otherwise you will see the double flames. That's not good. Or you take your glasses away and then keep the flame where you can see clearly, near or far, your individual distance. If you have your lens, then you should take it out, because when you do the trāṭak, it can happen that tears come and you feel it like burning. So this is the distance. And once you fix the distance, it means now you have to sit straight in the same position. This was the distance. After one minute, half a minute, you sit like this. Now the candle must go there, so you see you have lost this. Therefore, all of you are going like this. Again, it's too far. This is what one generally makes a mistake about. And that's not good for your eyesight. Therefore, you have to sit at the same distance. Mentally, with or without a mālā, you repeat your mantra. Then, you gaze on the tip of the flame. Now, in this flame, there are three different lights. On the bottom, you see a little fire where this wick is, and it is dark. In the middle, you see a very clear flame. And on the top, you see it's something like smoke. Now you should see on the tip of the middle flame. So it means you gaze in the middle of the flame, the upper part of the middle of the flame. If you use air conditioning in the room, you have to put it off. If you have a ventilator in the room, you have to put it off. If the windows are open, or the doors, you have to close them. Because there should be no air draft. If the air draft is there, then the flame is unsteady. And that is not good for your concentration. So look, the flame is very steady here because there is no draft. Also, if there is a little draft, after a few months of practice, with your look, you can make the flame steady. Flame will not move. That's it. So, then you gaze on the flame with open eyes. This is called trāṭak, and after one minute, you close the eyes. Now you will see in the chidākāśa, in the center of the eyebrows, behind the forehead wall inside, a beautiful tiny flame. Sometimes a flame comes and disappears. As soon as you try to catch it and look properly, it will disappear. It will come, it will go, or it will remain. It may have different colors, different shapes; it's individual. But you will see, in the first round, second round, or in the third round. So what you see inside, it's not a miracle. Don't think your third eye is open now. This is a reflection. Like when someone makes a camera photo, little light comes. And then you close your eyes and you see a beautiful light. Similarly, this is also the outer reflection inside, but it is pleasant. It illuminates your inner space, and sometimes it really appears as some beautiful, beautiful mosaics. Beautiful colors. It's beautiful. So, about two to three minutes, you remain with closed eyes and then again, open your eyes and gaze on the flame for one minute. During the time when you are looking at the flame with open eyes; this one minute, you remain with closed eyes. Do not move your eyelids or your eyeballs; do not look right and left. Tears may come, let them fall. But if you go with the hand like this, then you see your own hand. Then it will disturb your practice. It is cleaning also the tear channels. After three rounds, meditate ten minutes to half an hour, and then you finish your meditation. Then, the closing ceremony, that is more important than any, don't forget to blow off the candle. Because sometimes it's multiplying. That is a CD. Tiny flame. You wake up, and everything is in flame. So best is to blow off the flame, and there you sleep. So this develops concentration, willpower, self-confidence, and it purifies our subconsciousness. It is the best technique to get rid of stress. So trāṭak is a Haṭha Yoga technique. It gives you strength to endure certain situations in life. This was today about trāṭak. Next time, and the next time. I wish you all the best and a nice evening. Tomorrow, 10 o'clock, our European time, Croatian time, we will have a day event here. So there will be some thoughts about non-violence. And many experts will talk. So, from 10 to 12, then you are all invited to the city center of Umag, and there, in the city center, a beautiful place, we will plant a nice olive tree which is called the Tree of World Peace. After that, you have a little free time, and then, at evening 6:30, you are all welcome there on the beach. Here, you will know where it is, so that sunset is about a quarter to seven. We hope there will be fewer clouds and we will see the sunset. And everyone, please organize your candles. And you know, it can be windy. So, bring some candles which are weak, a little strong to protect. Then we will talk a little bit about peace and chant the peace mantra. Our peace prayers began ten years ago, here on the Adriatic coast in Umag. And since that time, we continue around the world making peace prayers and planting the peace trees. And so they are very, very important and successful. Now these peace trees became visible. Awaken the consciousness in the people. You know, grass root project, slowly, slowly but sure. And that's very important, day by stone, stone by stone. Holy Francis from Assisi said how he built the church. Similarly, we also continue. Our generation should continue this tradition: peace trees, peace forest, peace family, peace society, and peace world. It will be, and we need your help. You should teach your children this. And your friends, awake in their consciousness that this is for the sake of ourself. Don't think of some religion, culture, or tradition. It is the highest time to stand above all this, because we need peace. And so that will be something great. And so, you all are already members of the Śrīsvāmī Mādhava­nandajī World Peace Council. All family members should be members. And ask your neighbors, colleagues, and friends. And please announce this to our fellowship or to Śrīsvāmī Mādhāvānandajī World Peace Council. So that it becomes more, inspires through the United Nations, other NGOs, that how many good-hearted people are doing this work for our beautiful planet. It's high time, so we need your help. That's right. Thank you. That is a tomorrow program. The webcast continues tomorrow. Meditation, and until breakfast, āsanas and everything will be done. And āsanas will be done in a different way. The teacher knows how to do it. And after that, 10 o'clock is here, talk about non-violence. Then afternoon is free, and next webcast will begin 6 o'clock. Commentary will be given: who is here and what is going to be done. The commentary giving will inspire the people. That thousands of people are praying here for world peace and for peace of mind. So that they observe with us that they are with us through the webcast. So, several times you should announce this: nice pictures and nice things, Bhagavad Gītā. Bhagavad Gītā. ... Sanātana Dharma Gītā.