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Yoga In Daily Life means harmony of body mind and soul, Alexandria

A satsang on the philosophy and practice of Yoga in Daily Life.

"Yoga is that which unites. Uniting means creating harmony and balance."

"The biggest enemy of the human is laziness. Mahāprabhujī said, 'For good things, don't be lazy, and for bad things, be perfectly lazy.'"

Swami Maheshwaranand Ji addresses a live and webcast audience, explaining the "Yoga in Daily Life" system as a science for harmonizing body, mind, and soul. He explores human nature, from the physical body to the mind, intellect, and soul, identifying internal enemies like hate and laziness while emphasizing the protective role of Viveka (discrimination) and faith. The talk includes personal anecdotes, practical advice for practice, and concludes with a call for universal love and evening prayers for tsunami victims.

Filming location: Yoga and Daily Life Center (Ashram), Echo City Alexandria, Washington D.C., United States

O Deepākartā, Mahāprabhudeep, Kartāhī, Om. Shānti, Shānti,… Hari Om. Good morning, everybody, and also to our many brothers and sisters with us through the webcast around the world. Today is especially a weekend day, so people have time to be with us. Good morning and blessings of Mahāprabhujī to all of you from beautiful Echo City Alexandria, a suburb of Washington DC. This Yoga and Daily Life Center, or Ashram, welcomes you all. It has been rendering its service to thousands of people over the last decade for the well-being of their physical, mental, social, and spiritual health. An ashram or center is where people come, learn, and go. What they receive, they give further as knowledge. They train and teach people according to the system of Yoga in Daily Life. You may ask: what is the difference between Yoga in Daily Life and other systems? Dear brothers and sisters, there is no difference. Yoga is yoga. Yoga is the science of body, mind, consciousness, and soul. It was given to us with great blessings by all our ṛṣis, our hermits, the great seers, many thousands of years ago. The science of yoga was delivered by Sadāśiva Swayambhū. Swayambhū means one who has manifested himself; he had no mother and no father. He manifests as the universal consciousness and also the cosmic energy for the well-being of the entire universe, not only our planet or Mother Earth. Yoga is that which unites. What does uniting mean? It cannot mean that the moon and sun are united into one. It cannot unite all the planets and suns together, or all the different suns of millions of solar systems. Uniting means creating harmony and balance. When there is balance, there is harmony, and that harmony means unity, oneness. It means each and every planet and star coordinates and changes its energy to remain in its place safely as an individual, in balance, and to have its meaning for the whole universe. Similarly, on our planet, which is designed to be balanced, harmonized, and kept in unity, there are high mountains, valleys, forests, meadows, and even flat land. The desert is also filled with water. They are harmonizing and balancing. But, dear brothers and sisters, it is said: what is created will be destroyed. That which is manifested appears and will disappear. So, who came will go, and who will go will again come. This phenomenon of the Ananta Brahmāṇḍa, the entire universe, is difficult to understand. For us humans, even as individuals, we are created out of five elements. It is such a perfect, beautiful, indescribable creation within us. No architect or scientist until today can create such a body and give it all the systems inside. Within nine months, how busy was that engineer in the mother's body, creating the brain, the network in the brain, the centers in the brain, the spine, the bones, the joints, the intestines, the organs, the skin, hair, eyes, and all the functions like the five Jñānendriyas (senses of knowledge) and the five Karmendriyas (senses of action), all very wisely and nicely covered with skin, with safety precautions, automatic natural air conditions in the body, ventilation, everything. There are many tissues and many functions; till today, even humans do not understand them all. Medical science has made immense progress in understanding the human body, but still, there are certain things which even they can't do or find. We humans, as individuals, do not even understand our physical body. One great saint made a bhajan, a song, a poem: "Ye banglā ajīb banā Mahārāj, jisme Nārāyaṇ bole, jisme Nārāyaṇ bole, Guru guru bhin bhed kaun khole, yeh banglā ajab banā hamārāj, jisme Nārāyaṇ bole." O my Lord, O friends, this bungalow, the body, is wondrous, indescribable—ajab, meaning beyond our imagination—jisme Nārāyaṇa bole, in which God is talking. But who can open the secret of this bungalow without Gurudev? So we don't know. We don't understand our feelings. We don't understand this at all. And this is only the physical body. Then we come to our mind. There are a lot of commentaries and research work on the mind. There are many explanations, but still we haven't gotten to the root of the mind. I will explain the mind according to my experiences and knowledge. You will speak about your experiences and knowledge about the mind. Yes, we can all speak accordingly, but still we haven't caught the root of that mind. You know how troublesome our mind is? And you know how beautiful our mind is? How important our mind is? Without mind, a human would be just like an animal—though animals are also very good; I do not want to discriminate. But I am talking about the human mind. Emotion is equally divided among all creatures. Even flowers and trees have emotions, as do animals and humans. The love of mother, father, brother, sisters, friends, and all creatures—we feel love. And you know what's the contrary to that? Hate, my God. Where is the hate living? Can we find its roots so we can root it out? Every day I am searching in my meditation: where is the hate sitting in this me, in my entire phenomenon? If I find a button, I will delete it. Because that hate is the silent enemy of our distraction. So ego, jealousy, hate, greed, and ambition—these are invisible enemies, unfortunately, in this bungalow. We search day and night to catch them, but it's like water bubbles: as soon as you touch them, they explode and disappear. Their being and their work destroy all our spiritual work like a sweet poison. After that comes intellect. That's also something great. We know all this is sitting somewhere in the brain centers. Physically, according to physiology and anatomy, we can say many centers are in the brain. This is our entire universe, Ananta. But still, if we know, then we can control it. A doctor knows these are the centers for memory and so on, but the doctor cannot put some SIM card inside to give us memory. How is memory recorded? How big is its capacity? How is it deleted? Besides this, when the intellect is influenced by the other five thieves or burglars in our body—doubt, jealousy, greed, hate, and so on—then our intellect is polluted. That means our intellect is manipulated. Education means learning something. So what you have been learning from childhood is how you will think, proceed, and act. We say, for example, "Oh, it's a North American mentality," "Oh, it's Indian mentality," "That's Russian mentality," "That's Chinese mentality." What is that mentality? It means how our intellect has been trained, and we always go there. After that comes Viveka, which begins to think logically. Viveka tries to protect us, to save us. Very wisely and logically, you will think: "What do I have? What connection do I have to this subject, or to these persons, or to these things?" At that time, Viveka says: someone is giving you a branch of a plant with thick, nice, very sharp thorns, but on top is a beautiful rose. If you think of the thorns, you will be angry: why did he or she give me these thorns? But your Viveka tells you, "Oh, nice flower, thank you." You don't see the thorns that stick in your finger sometimes. You don't mind that, but you perceive, see, and accept the rose as a symbol of respect, a symbol of acknowledgement, a symbol of human love. That's what Viveka tells you: don't be angry because of the thorns; look, this is a beautiful flower. So, if we are wise enough, we will always run and take shelter in our Viveka inside us. Otherwise, this energy or tendency is called Sattva. You know, in every holy book, including the Bible, there is talk about satanic work. Satan means those who will destroy you: anger, hate, jealousy, conflict, and greed. That is a kind of illness like cancer, which will destroy the physical body, but those invisible Satans will destroy your beautiful work. And they have one very good friend who supplies you sweet cakes: laziness. The greatest enemy of a spiritual person, a practitioner of any system, a yogī, or a great businessman, is laziness. When laziness appears in you, you are distancing yourself from your path, from your destination. You sleep and miss your train. The train closes its doors and starts from the platform. You want to run, but it is gone. You see, oh God, the 100-meter, 200-meter, 1-kilometer train is gone. What do you do? You take your luggage and go back home, and your wife says, "What happened, my dear?" I told you yesterday, don't talk too much with me; I didn't sleep properly and missed the train. Our laziness appears in every field of life. Laziness appears from our tiredness, too much work, stress, many different kinds of food, the Tamas Guṇas, and so on. This is an energy that makes you slow. Yoga practice, and especially Prāṇāyāma—this afternoon you will have Prāṇāyāma, I heard; I looked at the program—our dear Pūrṇimā is giving you Prāṇāyāma. Prāṇāyāma will purify the toxins from the body. Prāṇāyāma will replace your sleep, and that's why many people say, "In the evening, before going to sleep, don't do Prāṇāyāma, because then you may have a problem sleeping, as you feel more energized." On the other hand, some people do Prāṇāyāma and then sleep well because they have very light, good feelings and beautiful dreams. Otherwise, you may have restless dreams. After Viveka, what we deal with is our consciousness, and then destiny is there. After destiny, that door opens to a different level of consciousness, and then we come to our soul. That lonely soul—in the body, you can have only one soul, not two. But in a mother's body, there can be two, the little baby, but again, that's individual. On the other hand, every tissue, every cell has a soul. This entire body is one soul; it's like a queen bee, and all its functions are like a whole big family of bees inside. How beautiful! They all have their duties, very nicely guarded, and they also have guards, protectors, and attacks if the enemy comes. It's a system beautiful in nature, same as we have in our body. But humans are now concentrating more on the outer world than the inner world. We think on the surface and about others, but do not go within. Therefore, the yogīs or wise men said, "Close your eyes and make your astral traveling in the body." This body is endless. When you close your eyes, it is millions of kilometers far, and all beauties are within us. Now, this also is brought together, harmonized, balanced, and united by one principle; that's called yoga. Therefore, our slogan of Yoga in Daily Life is harmony of the body, mind, and soul. Looking all around the world at the modern way of living, we began to put certain exercises together in yoga. They were not from me alone. If I say "me," then I lie, because it is the yoga of Devpurījī, Śiva. My friends and disciples—some doctors, physiotherapists, psychologists, sociologists, and many spiritual advisors—and I were putting exercises together. Because there could be a little conflict—still, humans have not learned to live together, still not. A feeling towards nation and culture is so sensitive, so sensitive. It's easy to say the whole world is one family, but when different cultures come and mix together, we look like this. Through electronic media, all people know who this orange-dressed person could be. But forty years ago, when I came and was moving to the railway station or airport, people would turn and look, and a lady would say to her husband—at the same time, human weakness—we don't want to ask directly: "Hello, how are you? From where are you coming? Who are you?" We are a little bit shy. If I look back, they look quickly away. So we still have the feeling of "my": my body, my mind, my heart, my family, my child, my parents, my country, my house, my culture, my religion. That is still there. How many years has the United Nations been trying to bring all ethnic groups together through inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue? It's hard. I can tell you that America is a nation where many, many cultures are inside, and they live harmoniously, happy together, I think. I don't know about individual approaches, but generally in America, everyone respects everyone's religions and cultures. India too is known as a cradle of culture, and every religion has a home there. But there are some small areas where there is still conflict. Again, we humans make it. This we cannot solve. This was from the very beginning of creation. There are two tendencies: Devī Śakti and Āsurī Śakti, the divine forces and the satanic forces. Both are also living in our human body. The satanic is self-destructive. Though you try to blame and destroy someone, in reality, you are destroying yourself. There is a therapy for understanding: when a husband and wife have conflict and are fighting, it is said to the wife, "When your husband makes a mistake and you are very angry with him, suppose you put yourself in his place and him in your place. Now he will be very angry with you. What will you think and feel?" Correct? Then she said, "Yes, I will also feel very bad, humiliated." You see, then what should you do? Understand. You don't support the mistake, but you support your husband, the person. Similarly, the entire process of our life and this wonderful work—what the heart is doing, what the liver is doing, what the kidney is doing, what the brain is doing, the nerve systems and chakras—my God, we can talk and talk. Read this little book about hidden powers in humans; you will get more. So all of this shows that the biggest enemy of the human is laziness. Mahāprabhujī said, "For good things, don't be lazy, and for bad things, be perfectly lazy." Therefore, yoga is good. After all this, we decided to give it a name: "Yoga in Daily Life." So yoga, anyone can practice. Even if you don't give it the name Yoga in Daily Life, you are practicing yoga every day. It is already yoga in daily life. You can't separate from yoga in daily life. True? You ask somebody, "Do you practice yoga?" "Yes." "How many days a week?" "Oh, I practice every day." Every day, yoga every day in daily life. So it's called Yoga in Daily Life. Now, we need motivation. What does yoga give me? Good health—that I would like to be. It gives me peace of mind—oh, that I want. It gives me very clear thinking—that I also want. It is something tickling in my heart for what? Love for the entire world—oh, that I want to be. So, can you wrap the whole world in your heart? I think we should design a heart, a nice heart, with the whole globe inside. That would be a good logo. Oh, we are creative today. Yes. Then below, we write, Vāsudeva Kuṭumbakam, a Sanskrit phrase: the whole world is one God's family. So don't think of "my child and a neighbor's child." When you think that, you split it. We respect our neighbor's child and our own child equally. That is called universal love. God will not say "human and animals"; then He is not God. Because God's heart is for His own children. So what gives me yoga? These are all good things. Yes, then I will practice yoga. We have many examples. Just now, when I came from Atlanta, there is one doctor, a very great person. He is Indian, and his children are doctors also. This person had asthma and was consuming a lot of medicines, always having something additional for his health, like oxygen. He came to yoga in his life and began to practice. He did not believe it would be like that. After, I think, three years now of practicing every day, from morning to evening, systematically, he proudly tells all of us and his children that he quit all his medicine and has no problem at all. I think our Saraswati is sitting here? Can you tell? Please, stand up, one word. Yes, but I am, because you are his teacher. Is that true? Yes. Thank you. So he practices Yoga in Daily Life because it is so systematically designed. It's not that yoga where you build muscles and do poses for show. It's very gentle. Even a very elderly person can practice. There was one person in New York, in an old home, who died at 103 years of age. For the last 80 years or more, she was practicing yoga. She had one yoga teacher from India at that time and used to practice every day. In this old home, she was teaching yoga at her age—101, 102—and she had yoga classes. She said her master gave her only one mantra: "You have yoga. Use it or lose it." I said, "Your master mantra, I also accept it." Unfortunately, two years ago she passed away. The body is a body; we are not immortal in the body. Sooner or later, it will go. When the day comes and we put this body in the lap of Mother Earth or purify it in the fire, we will only receive the good things of that person, and the rest will just dissolve. I was lucky to see that lady. I had a lecture in that old home; I think our Amritsagar can say? Your uncle is there. Like this, we have many, many examples around the world who are utilizing Yoga in Daily Life discipline. A great yogī, his name was Patañjali. Ṛṣi Patañjali wrote many books, and one is called Patañjali Yoga Sūtra. It means Patañjali's explanations and thoughts about yoga. When Patañjali begins to write, first he said, "Atha Yogānuśāsanam." Yoga begins with discipline. Through discipline you can be successful in yoga, otherwise not. Discipline and laziness are enemies. Discipline doesn't like laziness, and laziness doesn't like discipline. When discipline comes, laziness suffers, sitting and waiting for a few minutes to take the client away. When laziness comes, discipline sits and says, and discipline tries: "When can I take this client again and rescue the client from the darkness of laziness?" So, my dear, yoga is yoga. Practice slowly. In yoga, there should be no competition and no challenges. Day by day, you will feel great. I can tell you, 98% of your physical and mental problems will disappear. Build inside a castle of faith. If there is doubt in your faith, then there is a crack in the wall. When there is a crack, even if you repair it, it is damaged. You never know how far, slowly, this crack will destroy your inner faith. For a yogī, a yoga practitioner, a spiritual person, when your faith is shaken, that time you are falling down again, like a rock climber, a mountaineer, when he is on some rock and loses his rope or one of the hooks. He is hanging. He is not afraid of the high altitude, but now he is afraid of the lower things. Yes? So as high as you come, it is good; you are not afraid. But what will happen then? Down, that is horrible, painful things. That is the distraction. So when faith is lost, everything is lost. Faith are the wings of the bird to fly, but when even one wing is cut off, that bird cannot fly anymore. Therefore, it is said, "Lord, you can take everything from me: my money, my property, my position, my everything. But Lord, one thing, my faith, please don't take that away." To protect faith, try to protect it. When faith is lost, then the Satans will wake up like Dracula. Night, sunset, the faith of the Sun set. It is swallowed by the darkness of ignorance, and then the shocked wooden boxes open and make noise, and from the deep sleep of the Nakoze, the Satans will wake up. That's it. So we shall protect, that God should protect us from Kuṣāṅga. Never talk negative, never think negative, never listen negative. May God protect me that I don't have such Kuṣāṅga words from anyone. Lord, protect me. We are little human beings. It's nice of you that you put me here so everyone can see me who is sitting behind. Don't think why Swamiji is always sitting up. I enjoy trying to sit down also. It's nice; I can stretch my leg. Here, I can't stretch; I am blocked by everything. But if I sit down, then everybody will stand and look like this at what I am saying. So consider me, if you want, as your friend, just like a friend, a human. Gurudev, divine or God or whatever, is sitting here to Mahāprabhujī. I said to Mahāprabhujī, my faith should never, never be moved even half a millimeter or a quarter of a second. Therefore, Mahāprabhujī, Gurujī said, "Śvāso Śvāsa Apakā Sumaraṇa." Lord, by each of my breaths, inhalation and exhalation, I am remembering Thy name. That's called Bhakti. That's called Guru Bhakti. God bless you. Gurujī said, "I am not saying." You know, I am nourishing myself. I am living from Gurujī's words. That's all. I have nothing. I am completely empty. Only He sits in my heart and in my Buddhi, and He speaks. So Śvāso Śvāsa, every my breath in and out: Gurudev is your name. Gurudeep, Gurudeep,… that's it. Din Din Prem Mera Adhika Badī Jo. My prayer to Thee, O Lord, my request: day by day my love to Thee, O Mahāprabhujī, should grow more and more. It should never decrease. On the day when my faith or my love begins to decrease, then I am afraid of what will happen when I come down, if I will exist anymore, if I will die. So, it is He, it is the Lord, it is God, it is that Divine which we should keep in our heart and in our intellect; then nothing will happen. These wars in the world are going on. You know the tsunami happened. We prayed yesterday, and we are praying. This evening we will have a very nice program of singing and music dedicated for two: one, for those who lost their life through the tsunami, and second, for those who remain behind, who lost their dear ones. For that, I request all of you to join us. We humans can only do that much. We can't do more. We can't do many things, but we can say, "Well, at least, thank you." That's it. Or "God forgive," or "God please bless us." We can pray only that, because He is known as Almighty. We are limited. We are small ones. So let us be like friends, brothers and sisters, and work and practice. For me, that means to practice Yoga in Daily Life. You know, once someone told Gurujī, "Gurujī, I would like to practice very much, but I have no time." Gurujī said—of course, he understands—but he said, you know, an alcoholic person, no matter how busy he or she is, will find time to drink. That was the answer of Gurudev. So he said, "But it doesn't take time to take a sip." Guru said, "Yeah, that doesn't take time, just to stretch yourself a little bit." Or said, "Om Deep, Om Deep, Om Gurudev, Om Gurudev." Instead of taking a glass, opening the bottle, pouring, opening your eyes, and drinking, you can say, "Meditate on something." We have time enough for stupid things, but we don't have time for good things. That's it. So where there is a will, there is a way. If you really want to practice, you can practice. Once I saw one of my disciples who had given birth to a baby three months old. She was feeding her baby, breastfeeding, and had one leg stretched. The mother was like this, the baby in her lap. She was sitting, and while sitting, she was doing a yoga exercise, stretching, Svara-vitāsana. I said, "What are you doing?" She said, "Well, I do all at the same time: my Svara-vitāsana, my exercises." How nice! So we can do many, many things. Therefore, Yoga in Daily Life means practice, do good, and help. If you can't do good, at least don't do bad. That's it. We need motivation, and that's good, as always. Don't do too much; that's also not good. That will make you fanatic. Keep balance in your family activities, your work, professions, with your friends, and in societies. Do not withdraw from them at any time. Morning, one and a half or two hours for yoga practice; evening, yes. The best thing is to do it early in the morning because when you come to your breakfast table or your coffee, then all the responsibility of the world will fall on you. The first telephone rings, then the second will ring, and then it's gone. So, Śubha Śubha Brahma Mūrta is very nice. You can meditate and do your exercises. Evening, before going to sleep, just go into your heart and make an inner dialogue with thyself: "Lord, thank you for all the good things which I could see, speak, hear, and do. And Lord, forgive me if I spoke any negative words toward myself or anybody else." Forgiving. This will give you peaceful sleep. Otherwise, you will sleep as a guilty one. Don't become guilty; it's okay. Humans can excuse; animals maybe not, you know, that's it. So, I hope the subject—did I speak according to the subject? Sometimes I am swimming in different directions. Therefore, practice for the well-being of our health—physical, mental, social, spiritual—and be an example and give inspiration to all others. Okay. Deep Nayan Bhagavān. Thank you very much, Swamiji. And now we can perhaps practice a little more about making a friend of our laziness and introduce laziness to discipline. That's right. Okay, so we have a little extra time. Would you like to lead us in a few āsanas? We are scheduled to have lunch. We have 10 minutes, 15 minutes. I can tell you something in 15 minutes. Okay. Perfect. It is like this: sometimes you have excess luggage and the airline doesn't allow you to take it in. What are you going to do? You look left and right and see the Red Cross, a bin, a box. So take your good things, your good clothes, not old ones, and deposit the excess things in the Red Cross box. They will be happy; whoever receives is happy. You are happy that you don't have to pay excess money. They are okay. So we did something good. Thanks to God that we had it and could do it. But sometimes you sit in an airplane and say, "These airlines are so unfriendly." That means you didn't drop the things there. Things are still in your mind; you are still carrying them with you. You didn't drop it. Then, in the front pocket of the seat in front, there is a Bible inside. You take it out and see: Jesus said, "Thou shalt not carry." He said, "Do not carry unnecessary things." Believe in your destiny, in your Kismat. When it is in your destiny, in your Kismat, you will get it there too. Why do you carry all this with you? So now you are relaxed. You close the book again and put it there. Yes, really, I should never carry so many things. It's good that I got to read it. How good! The thought, the knowledge you got out of that. In my case also, when I was traveling—of course I had many books of Gurujī, mālās, neti pots, and all yoga things, two suitcases, one bag here, and someone gave me a camera (it wasn't like that in 1974, you know)—can you imagine: one bag hanging here, two suitcases here, camera hanging here, and I had to climb up the stairs at the airport. It was heavy, difficult, but I had to go up one floor. Then I was sitting and said, "What should I think of me?" I was sweating, tired, hungry because I didn't get a vegetarian meal. I said to myself, "Maheśvaraṇand, maybe some donkey karma from past life is there. So today is the end of this karma." Then I traveled with little things and told Mahāprabhujī, "I will send by post the books and mālās and so on." So I tried to have light luggage. That's it. Of course, many times we are carrying things useful for others. But from that day onwards, I'm saying that the happy tourist is the one who has nothing to carry except your passport and money. You get a hotel, a towel, everything, food. So take two dresses, and one suit is enough. One pair of shoes or two, but some have half a suitcase full with different suits: shoes for the club, shoes for the dance, shoes for the office, shoes for hiking, and so many things. So these are things we have to learn. We have to learn many things, but material things are less heavy than mental burdens, and those we can only renounce and realize through meditation. Our dear Holy Gurujī—you see, many don't know—left side from us, Holy Gurujī's picture. Holy Gurujī used to say, "Enter the kingdom of the Lord through the gate of sacrifice." Mahātma Gāndhījī said, "Renounce and enjoy. Renounce and enjoy." So who is happy has little things. Who is unhappy has many, many things. Now, some people have a problem, like me. I have such problems which I often think about. My bhaktas from Vienna tell me things: "Swamiji, we need two or three big storerooms; you have so many things." Someone came and gave me a nice book. Another came and gave me a little crystal flower vase. Another came and brought me a nice cap. The third came and brought me good socks. The fourth came and brought me a very nice writing pad and pen. Another came and brought me a nice briefcase. Now you are all coming and bringing me things. If I just stand up and go and leave all of this here, you will say, "Such an arrogant Swami. We brought with love and gave it to him, but he didn't even open and look at it; he just went away." I will take it home. So sometimes a person like me has a problem: what to do? But of course, after some time, I distribute it or give it to people. Sometimes they put it on a table for a humanitarian project, and people can donate and take it as they like. Then people are happy that it was touched by Swamiji, was in Swamiji's room or with him, and they feel it like a blessing at home so they can take it. So sometimes you also, when you go somewhere as a guest and someone gives you something, and because you say, "I don't want so many things and luggage, I leave it here," it is a little bit like you are rejecting. Sometimes it's hard to reject, okay? So we have to take into consideration what we should do, what we can. I get so many chocolates. Sometimes there are about 1,500 people standing in a queue to come and greet me, and I'm so happy to greet them. Many bring flowers, some bring fruit, some bring olive oil, some bring nice cream, some bring nice samples. That's why my hair is very good. And chocolate, best chocolate. But in these programs, there are at least 200 children. So what I do: I open the chocolate. When all have come and greeted, I tell the juniors, "Oh God, there's a long queue." Then I distribute them; I give the Prasāda. Like yesterday we had chocolate, which is an eatable thing, it is like Prasāda. Some, after giving flowers for the decorations of your altars and your āśrams, nuts come, which we then give to everybody as Prasāda. Life is beautiful, okay? And, of course, I am very thankful, and I don't think that they give me; they give all to Mahāprabhujī. Holy Gurujī said, "O Lord, let me be the servant of your servants and accept my service." So I think I'm a servant of Gurudev, and someone gives me something for him. And he gives us back as Prasāda. Correct? Thank you, and I wish you a very nice lunch and a very good rest and afternoon programs. I'm looking forward to this evening's musical programs. It will be nice also. Will there be some bhajans? Yes, there will be bhajans and prayers. Again, I would like our brothers and sisters around the world, if your time allows, to join us for these prayers. Thank you, and God bless you. Ariyom Shanti. Om Tryambakam Yajāmāhe Sugandhim Puṣṭivardhanam Urvārukamiva Bandhanān Mṛtyormukṣīya Mā'mṛtāt. Om Shāntiḥ Shāntiḥ… Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva, Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān.

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