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These are general instructions, not individual ones. If someone has individual difficulties—physical, mental, emotional, social, or familial—then please maintain according to your ability. Do according to your ability. This is very important. You remember I first spoke of the days and call. It means the time and situation, the place and situation. Tomorrow you are going to jump again into the worldly ocean, where many sharks are waiting. Therefore, you should know how to swim through. Sometimes, just feed them and escape from there. So, different life situations are waiting. When you feel yourself imbalanced, you should stop your practice because you are doing something wrong, and keep only to practicing āsanas, Karma Yoga, and Bhakti Yoga. These two yogas are suitable for Kali Yuga. Yoga Karma Śuklauṣṭham. The yoga will be successful through the karma. Work, service, duty, responsibilities, and bhakti. Now, Bhakti means not narrow-minded Bhakti. We should not say, "I love only this God, not others." Therefore, we shall demonstrate our bhakti not only towards God and Goddess, but to all living beings. That is the best way of Bhakti. Bhakti is selfish bhakti, selfless bhakti, and guru bhakti. Guru Bhakti is the best Bhakti. From the jñāna, ātma-jñāna is the best jñāna. From karma, seva is the best karma. And from Rāja Yoga, discipline is the best. So, discipline, seva, guru bhakti, and ātmā jñāna. Ātmācintan, manan, this is very good. So I wish very much that you will follow the healthier path, yoga in daily life. With confidence, with love, I give into your hands this science, this system, yoga in daily life. And I do believe and expect that you will follow my instructions, and you will spread this message further. I wish that many become yoga teachers, because to give someone this kind of help is the greatest help. There was a great saint known as Kabīr Dās, and Kabīr Dās said nothing can be compared with giving a donation to someone in the name of God. It means mantra. You can give tons of precious stones. You may give someone the whole mountain of gold and everything, but still it is not equal to that thing which you can give someone: a mantra, God’s name. And for you, this means to give someone clear understanding and clarity for yoga, and to give them, to donate to them, this science of yoga in their life. And this is our pathway to liberation. Never, and never think, "How far am I on my spiritual path?" Never try to measure your spirituality and your knowledge. The knowledge and spirituality cannot be measured with some kilos and grams, centimeters or kilometers. And if you will think, "How far am I on my... In the spiritual path, first, you will not come to know how far you are. And second, if you come to know, then your ego will arise. And again, it will destroy many, many things. You should know one thing: this is my lifelong responsibility or work. I do not expect anything, Lord, only service to you. And Mahāprabhujī said, "Service to me means service to God, which means to serve all my creatures, all living beings." And so we have dedicated our life to serve, help, and more and more help the humans, and try to protect the other living beings and love them too. So, yoga in daily life is that path that grants the occasion through which you can serve God, and you are the fortunate one. It is your good deed from the past that you came to Mahāprabhujī’s light, and you have his light in your heart and in your hands. Please get out of the emotions. If you are acting emotionally, crying, what you call the fanatic way, then you are damaging this. Therefore, you should be alert, aware, conscious, active, and creative. This I do expect from you. If you can’t teach, then at least you should teach yourself and try to answer all your questions. So don’t think, "Am I far on my spiritual path or not?" Do I have a siddhi? For what do you need a siddhi? A siddhi is not necessary. When the siddhi comes, the ego comes. When ego comes, then distraction comes. Many people do not know this word siddhi, perhaps. Siddhi means supernatural powers, perfections. There is a Māyā. You know what’s Māyā. Not ladies who are sitting here, please. There are many Māyās sitting here. But in our language, Māyā means illusion. Māyā means the disappointment. Māyā is a big temptation. Māyā takes away our concentration, and we can’t exist without Māyā. If you have to leave, then you have to be here. If a lotus would like to leave, then it has to be in the water. And water is the māyā, but the lotus flower is standing above the water. So there is one bhajan, and in this bhajan it is said, "Abh somp diyā is jīvan kā sab bhār tumhāre hāthoṁ meṁ." O Lord, I have given all responsibility of this life into your hands. "Hai Jeet Tumāre Hāthoṁ Mein Aur Hār Tumāre Hāthoṁ Mein." If I will be successful or not, it is in your hands. I have given all the responsibilities of this life into your hands. If I live in the world, may I live like this, like a lotus in the water. I am in the hands of the world, but Lord, the world is in your hands. This is our karmabhūmi. It means the earth is our field where we have to cultivate our karma. And beside the good plants, there also grow the weeds. So keep on cleaning, pulling out the weeds, and cultivating the good plants. Therefore, one can’t run away from this life, and one should not run away from this life. When someone tries to overcome this māyā, this māyā has many, many forms. Kabīr Dās said, "Māyā mā thagnī me jānī." Māyā is a great cheater. Māyā mā thāgnī me jānī. "Teri guṇa fās liyā kar dole, bolat madhurī bānī, māyā mā thagnī me jānī." And "Paṇḍā ke mūrat hoi baiṭhī," for the priest became a statue. "Tīrat me bhāī pānī, māyā mahā thagnī me jānī." "Tri-guṇa phās liyan kar ḍole, madhurī bolat bānī." "Rājā kī rānī hoī baiṭhī, rājā ke yogī ke bhaī chelī, māyā mahā ṭhagnī meṃ jānī." So you never know in which form that māyā comes and attracts you, and you lose the path. It means not that you throw away everything. Enjoy, please, yes. If we get mokṣa, if we get mokṣa, then this is the last life. There, somewhere, it will perhaps be boring, and you will be sorry about this. Then you can only look at how people are happy and doing something. Therefore, to enjoy does not mean in the wrong way. Bhakta yogī enjoys, karma yogī enjoys, rāja yogī enjoys. Enjoy means you are happy and the other is happy. When both are happy, then everything is happy. But those who become detached from this and go to the spiritual path say, "I don’t want to do this, I don’t want. To eat this, I want to meditate, I am a yogī." Then Māyā changes her dress; she is very clever. There is one story, a nice film I saw once, and there is one man who can go through the wall. Do you know this film? It was once on Austrian television, and he had a very strict and not good boss. Always, when he goes to his office, the boss would come. When he comes, the boss would go. And it was so, how to say, it was so elastic. What is elastic? Boring. It was very unpleasant, like an unpleasant fly. And that man got a siddhi, so he could go through the wall. And now he said, "Now I will see my boss." So when the boss rang the bell, that he should come. So he put his head through the wall. I said, "Did you ring?" And again he disappeared. Again he disappeared. And he came from the other side. Yes, sir. He said, "Do this and this." He went. And again he came through the wall. I said, "Yes, boss, I will do it." Again the boss was ringing. And he came through this wall. Don’t ring so much. Stand up, boss. Sit down. Stand up. And then he goes to the other side, and he appears through the wall. So wherever the boss is moving, he comes through the wall. Boss was making like this. You know, he thought he was hallucinating. And at home, also, he came through. In the bus, he came and looked through. And, boss, did that, he was put into the prison. And he walked through the walls of the prison and out. So wherever he went, that man was there. So māyā is something, wherever you go, she is there. In different forms, in the form of money, the form of food, the form of habit, in the form of hobby, in the form of cloth, jewellery, in many, many forms. It means the māyā tries to stop you, your progress, and it is said that māyā is something like water on the road. There is no water, but you see it reflected. Pata Morgana? Pata Morgana? It is, but it isn’t. So at the end, there is nothing. So when you come there, then Māyā said, "Wait a minute, Yogī Rāj, Pochke." And then she comes as a Siddhi. And then he tried to produce anything. Of course not from the pocket, yes? But the key is here, and the key disappears; the ring is here. And the flower is here. Anything can be given from the hand. Materializing. This means now this yogī has fallen down. After death, it will be gone. There will be more suffering. Because now you are playing with the māyā. You are using māyā for your ego, for the satisfaction of your ego. If it is necessary and you materialize something, then it’s okay. One man came, one woman came to Mahāprabhujī, also to Devpurījī, with the dead child, and they were praying and praying, "Please, Lord, give life to this child." Then he said, "Okay," raised his hand, and that child was again awakened. And these are living still. They are old, but they are living. So that was not the use of the Siddhi. That was to fulfill the prayer of the bhakta who was really suffering. When the people came to Devpurījī very, very ill, then Devpurījī said, Okay, here you are. And the illness was gone, but not demonstrating. So therefore, those yogīs try to demonstrate materializing something. Mahāprabhujī Karatā, Mahāprabhujī Karatā, Mahāprabhujī Attracting there, the pride, the ego goes up. You remember, first day I told you this story about that man throwing the sword. So it is this Siddha who will destroy, kill this person. Therefore, don’t think, "When will I get some siddhi?" When will I get some perfection? Always, Swāmījī tells, "See now Mahāprabhujī with closed eyes," but I can’t see him. If you can’t see, then open your eyes and see him. So many can’t see, and it is true you can’t see. Because you are sitting with closed eyes, therefore, don’t compare. I have no visions. I have experienced many tales. Today in meditation I was talking with Swāmījī. Oh, I feel in my heart very intensely. And others said, "Oh God, why not me? Why him or her?" So, this kind of expectation is not healthy. And if someone is feeling, let them feel. And if someone sees, let them see. And we will see how long they will see. Therefore, no temptations, no expectations. We do expect good health. We do expect harmony at home. We do expect good concentration. And we do expect peace and a healthy environment in the world, and we do expect, and we are sure, through his divine grace, our spiritual path will be successful, and one day the Lord will take us into his cosmic light. And as long as he gave us life on this planet, we shall live happily. No one is permanent, and no one is immortal on this planet with a physical body. Swami Brahmanandajī said bhajan. "Yeh Chara Chari Ka Khela, Jag Mein Do Din Ka Hai Mela." Days are passing, every day is passing. We are getting older and older. Time doesn’t wait. There was a day we were in our mother’s womb. There was a day we were born. There were the days when we were very small children. And there were the days when we were, how to call them, teenagers. And there are the days where we are now, existing today, and you know sooner or later the sun will go down. So sooner or later, it will be the end of this life. So dedicate this life to God in His service, and as many days, months, or... For years, God has given us life; we shall do good in life. When we leave this planet, when we leave this world, take care that we don’t leave behind any enemies. Don’t leave anyone behind with aggression, jealousy, hate, enmity, and the like. Pay all your... Pay your bills before you check out from the hotel. So, all karmas we have to pay back, and give your life into the hands of Mahāprabhujī, saying, "Abhishāp Diyā Is Jīvan Kā Sab Bhār Tumhāre Hāthom." So, a yogī, a saint, a holy person does not expect anything. Once or several times, people are asking me, and mostly the journalists, "What is your day’s schedule, Swāmī? But, how many hours do you sleep? How many hours do you meditate? How long do you practice? What do you eat? And please tell, how far are you on the spiritual path? Can you do something? Can you show something for the listeners or for those who see the television?" When I first came to Kannada, I met Swami Gītānanda, and she asked me if I could do some dust. "Can you do dust?" I said, "Yes, I can do it." Clean the dust. Do not produce the dust, but clean the dust. I do not produce the pollution, the karma, for my bhaktas, but I clean the karmas of my bhaktas. In one of the poems, Ravīndranāth Ṭhākur said, "I came into this world with full pockets, full pockets, and it doesn’t matter who comes to me, I give them a handful." Once, someone asked me a question two months ago, "Swāmījī, there is one question. Did you ever refuse someone, saying that you will not give a mantra?" My principle is this: I have pockets full of seeds, and constantly I am throwing them. Some falls on the rock, some on the soil, and some in different places. If not all will grow, at least some of them will grow. So, thousands of disciples, if they will not get self-realization, some may get it. If thousands of disciples will not be successful, at least be sure someone will be successful. Lord Kṛṣṇa said, "Just do your karma, and do not expect the fruits." I will give the fruits. God sees, and He will give what is good for us. So before departure from this world, it is advisable to pay back all the karma. Now, to whom? First, mother and father, then your teachers, then your friends, and also towards your guru, your master. From whom you learned something, from whom you got something, you are caught by them. And somehow, in some way, you have to—how to say—to pay back or return, not return, repay. And if you are angry with someone, you don’t like someone, you are also caught, and that also you have to clean up. There are two kinds of chains: one is an iron chain, and one is a golden chain. One is the iron, and both of them can tighten us. Iron chains are negative karmas, and golden chains are positive karmas. And when we leave this world, we have to pay back everything. And therefore, you know, after many, many meetings or some visits, people used to say, "Goodbye, and please excuse me, forgive me." Give me, if something I made a mistake, and similarly, when you go from this world, you should say it to this world and forgiveness. There was a disciple of Mahāprabhujī, whom I knew, a farmer, and was a very good person, a kind person, but people wouldn’t think. That he’s a holy man, and two or three weeks before his death, he organized and prepared his grave, his samādhi place. He told all family members, he called all his grandchildren and children and all, "Please don’t cry, and when you go to bury my body, go with kīrtans and bhajans." Singing and distributing the prasāda, and people were thinking, "What is he talking about?" Of course, his children respected him, and he had satsaṅg. Whole night. India satsaṅg means whole night singing. Morning, six, seven o’clock satsaṅg was finished. Then people go for bathing, toilets, and things like this. And he also went to the water well in his farmhouse, and he washed himself. Every day he used to bring water home because there was no water tub at home. He brought the water. They cooked some halwā prasād. And before distributing the prasāda, they have a prayer. Mahāprabhujī, jalatar, agar bhaṭṭīs, and ghee lamp. And then he gave everyone prasāda with his own hands. There were about 150 people, and then he said to everyone, "Please forgive me if I did anything wrong, my dear brothers and sisters. Now I am going to Mahāprabhujī, and please don’t cry. I am happy, and how happy I am to see you here now. I am waiting to see you in Mahāprabhujī’s kingdom." Then he sat near Mahāprabhujī’s altar and said, "Lord, let me enter or unite in your cosmic light. Let me come to your holy feet." And he bowed his head to Mahāprabhujī’s holy feet. What would you think? He didn’t commit suicide. No drugs or anything. Very happy, healthy, conscious. And saying goodbye to the world in such a way, living a normal life. Working hard. But, but practicing one thing, Guru Vakya, Mahāprabhujī’s words, the mantra Mahāprabhujī gave, the mantra which Mahāprabhujī gave, therefore it is said, "Śabadavālā lāgesā mehī jānū, bachanavālā lāgesā makān kī so." Mahāprabhujī said, the words of the Master, how dear you are to me, only I know. What can I tell you? How dear are the words of my Master to me? There are no words for expression. Sri Maṅgīlāl Jī said, Mahāprabhujī’s disciple also had somebody like this. When he left his body, he appeared about a hundred kilometers away in another āśrama to say goodbye to people. He was also a farmer, so there are many, many, many. So Maṅgalājī said, "Nibhanā, Her Nibhanā, Satguru Kabachan Nibhā, Jñānī Guru Kabachan Nibhā, Nibhā, Satguru Kabachan Nibhā, Bhagavān Kī Jaya." So he said we should follow the words of Satgurudev, the instructions which you got. Without these instructions, following carefully, perhaps it will not be possible. So we are in the middle of our way. Our boat is in the middle of the ocean. Satgurudev is the captain, so remain seated in the boat. Don’t jump out. If you jump out, then it’s your mistake, not the captain’s mistake. So always keep Gurudev in the heart, and I wish you many, many successes, happiness, and good health. Exactly in one month, I will be going to India. I was in Czechoslovakia for ten days, or two weeks, and two weeks in Hungary. So this evening, this satsaṅg is also a goodbye satsaṅg, because we will not have an extra goodbye satsaṅg. And welcoming satsaṅg will be announced where it will be. Of course, I will bring your greetings and devotion to Mahāprabhujī, Śrī Devpurījī, and to Gurujī.