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Part 1: The Origin and Nature of Consciousness The main point from our previous discussion was the origin of creation. The primary principle is infinite space, the universe itself. This space is akin to a womb, and within it resides cosmic consciousness—that is, the cosmos and consciousness as one. Consciousness is like the brain of this cosmic womb, a golden embryo (Garbha). It permeates the entire universe. Just as our individual consciousness pervades our entire body—from the smallest tooth to the tips of our hair, with the head in complete unity—so does cosmic consciousness pervade all. What exists in the universe exists within this body, and what does not exist in this body does not exist in the universe. The body is a mini-universe, and consciousness is the principal part of our existence. This consciousness is dual in nature: individual consciousness (Jīvātmā) and cosmic consciousness (Paramātmā). The goal of human life is the union of the individual consciousness with the cosmic consciousness. The practices or paths to achieve this can vary. One person may prefer apple pie, another pizza; one may be drawn to yoga, another to a different path. There are many possibilities. As Śrī Kṛṣṇa said, no matter which path you take, in the end, I am there. That is the meaning of God. Ultimately, God is the destination of all paths. Therefore, it is unnecessary to argue about religion or claim one path is superior to another. As long as one is on a path, the goal has not yet been realized. When the goal is realized, the path disappears; there is no longer any path. The goal is a unity that exists everywhere, a destination to which no road can ultimately lead. It is like using a car navigation system: it guides you until you arrive and then announces, "You are now at your destination," and falls silent. The path leads only to that point. Now, what happens after arrival—whether someone is home or a program takes place—is a matter of your karma. The goal remains union with cosmic consciousness, regardless of the path. However, it is crucial to discern whether a path truly leads there or is merely a dead end. The Unifying Force: Yoga We spoke of consciousness and space. The third principle is what binds them together, maintaining balance. In our body, what is constantly aware 24 hours a day? Even in deep sleep, if a gnat or mosquito bites, we feel it immediately. What force binds our body and consciousness? What power holds cosmic consciousness and the universe in unity? This balancing, unifying, harmonizing force is called Yoga. The word Yoga itself means union. The Power of Will and the Primordial Sound The fourth point is that within Cosmic Consciousness, there is a power, a willpower called Icchā-Śakti. The Cakrī (the divine wheel, the cause of creation) declared, "I am one, and now I wish to multiply." Wherever cosmic consciousness manifests, it is called Sadāśiva or Svayambhū. Svayambhū means self-manifested; no one has created Him—He has manifested Himself. The second form of existence is sound: Oṃ. Through sound, the elements were manifested. Nāda, Rūpa, Parabrahma—sound is the world. This sound is the next form of God. Sound pervades our entire body and all of existence; there is no atom or space devoid of sound. Our movement, understanding, giving, speaking, receiving, and feeling are all forms of sound. This vibration within our body can be manipulated. Some vibrations, imbued with negative qualities, cause disease. Others, which are beautiful, bring happiness, health, bliss, and unity. Kuṇḍalinī, cakras, and mantras are all expressions of this sound vibration. We may not perceive it, but it is present, just as a blind man cannot see someone passing by. This is the difference between the knower and the ignorant. Through this sound, all elements emerge, and through the elements, creation unfolds. This is the next stage of Being, the Īśvara-Tattva. The divine essence (tattva) is present in all elements: fire, air, water, earth, and space. Thus, there is a gradual movement from the formless, attributeless God (Nirguṇa) to God with attributes and form (Saguṇa) as He manifests. The Vedas and the Scale of Creation The Vedas speak of Ānanda Brahmāṇḍa Śāstra Sūrya—endless space containing thousands of solar systems. They state that thousands upon thousands of solar systems exist in this infinite space. The Vedas have been spoken since humans have existed and were transmitted by Brahmā himself, the Creator. Brahmā, who has four hands, each holding a Veda, is the weaver (braider) of all creation. The wisdom of the Vedas exists throughout all creation, across all planets, describing how it was and how it is. However, human memory has gradually diminished, and much knowledge has been lost. At the time of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, around 6,000-7,000 years ago in the Mahābhārata era, a great saint incarnated: Vedavyāsa. He was Trikāla-darśī, a seer of the three times—past, present, and future. He dictated the Vedas, which were written down by Gaṇeśa himself. Life on Earth and the Diversity of Beings Through the elements, countless planets, stars, the moon, and the sun came into being. One of these is our beloved planet Earth, a place of beautiful life and rejuvenation for the soul. When the soul has nothing to do here, it begins to act, sometimes for good and sometimes for ill. The complications we face are of our own making. Only human beings are responsible for the entirety of climate change. On this planet, the Creator has infused the prāṇa (life force) into 8.4 million different forms of life. These are divided into three categories: Jalacara (water-dwelling), Sthalacara (land-dwelling), and Nabhascara (sky-dwelling). Out of these 8.4 million, one form is the human being. Modern science now confirms what the Vedas have long stated: there are no human races. The concept of race developed around the World Wars is meaningless. There is only one human species. Similarly, there is one species of cat, whether lion, tiger, or domestic cat; one of birds; and so on for cows, elephants, and others. These are lineages, not races. If we follow Vedic wisdom or modern science, the absence of race is clear, paving the way for world peace. Size or form does not confer superiority. A lion is large, a cat is small, but some prefer the gentle companionship of a cat. It is all a matter of perspective. The Human Intellect and the Reality of Rebirth Among the 8.4 million life forms, the human being is unique. Humans possess a powerful instrument: the intellect. While animals have some intellect, it is limited. The human intellect can be educated endlessly. Through it, a person can become their own best friend or worst enemy, liberate themselves from the cycle of rebirth and death, or create further complications. Yesterday, we discussed rebirth. Whether one believes in it or not does not change reality. No religion, philosophy, culture, tradition, politics, or thought can alter reality. Reality is evidence, and evidence never dies. If I think I will not be reborn, I may think as I wish, but reality will be as it is. An example from ancient spiritual wisdom, now adopted in modern language, is the recycling process. Do you believe in recycling? If you throw glass, bottles, plastic, and other materials into one bin, there is no recycling. But if you believe in the recycling of materials, where is the problem in believing in the recycling of the soul through reincarnation? The issue is that we are familiar with material recycling but lack knowledge of spiritual recycling (rebirth). This knowledge is being gradually withdrawn from human awareness. The Levels of Consciousness and Liberation In the human body, we are consciousness—the true spirit. The mind (Manas) is a messenger that wanders between the subconscious and conscious levels. We oscillate daily between unconsciousness and consciousness. We operate on three levels: unconsciousness, subconsciousness, and consciousness. Through spiritual practices like meditation, we can ascend to superconsciousness or the highest consciousness. After this life, if the individual consciousness has attained the highest consciousness, it unites with divine, cosmic consciousness. This is Mokṣa, or liberation. If it has not attained this, it must continue to wander. The unconscious is the storage space of data and karma from past lives. All actions from past lives constitute our destiny (Prārabdha). Do not blame anyone for your destiny; each individual is responsible for their own. Destiny, good or bad, is stored within our consciousness. Consciousness is the storage space of our present life, recording everything from life in the womb until now: all we have seen, heard, spoken, done, and experienced. The subconscious is this storage room. The mind merely wanders between this subconscious storage and the conscious present. Consciousness is bound to our sensory organs (Jñānendriyas): sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Everything we learn comes through these five senses. When you hear something, the mind immediately engages, and the intellect (Buddhi) grasps it. It is like a tape recorder, constantly recording and storing, with a fresh portion always ready to receive new input. Consciousness is what is active in the present moment. The entire play of life unfolds within consciousness. When we become clear in consciousness, we can liberate ourselves and solve problems. If we are not clear, we create complications. Humans experience jealousy, as do some animals and even plants—some simply cannot coexist. Part 2: The Interconnectedness of Life and the Path of Yoga If you give more water and more attention, you bring certain plants into your home. The others are left to fend for themselves; they need psychological therapy. Yes, unfortunately, that is the case. I have many plants in my apartment. Why? Because I study the feelings of all plants. When one is watered, it becomes pure. Walking with the watering can, they are happy. This was in 1980. How many years has it been now? Twenty-four years already? Twenty-five years. Time passes so quickly. In Vienna, someone developed or bought a machine—I don't know from where. This machine perceives the vibration of vegetables, of plants. It was said, for example, of a potato: when you cut a potato, it screams, just as when someone kills an animal or a person and they scream. Before television—back then there was very little color television; it was mostly all black-and-white television. That was more beautiful, black and white. He took the potato and, with the knife and his machine, the potato truly screamed. The next day, no one bought potatoes at the market. The Naschmarkt in Vienna, all the potato juice stalls were almost closed. I believe they did something; he is not allowed to continue showing his experiments. Slowly, slowly, advertising came back again—mashed potatoes and pumpkin purée and whatever else, potato chips and so on. It slowly began again. And so, unfortunately, they do not show how an animal is killed; otherwise, no one would eat. How they suffer, how they are in pain, how they cry out. One believes that if you shoot someone in the head once, they don’t feel it at all. That is a misconception. A cow dies a thousand times before it is completely and utterly killed. From the cowshed to the slaughterhouse, everything they feel comes beforehand. I got two little German Dachshunds in India. They were eight weeks old and now they are fifteen months old. I saw one at school, at the dog training school. The school is about 200 kilometers away, or 150 kilometers away. We have only spoken somewhere. The dogs have a beautiful garden somewhere else in the back. We have two: one is Seer and one is Zita. Seer is Tiger and Zita is Zita, you know that. Jaguar? No, Jaguar is not a Cheetah. The cheetah is a black cat, right? Puma, puma. Okay, good. Seer should go to school. He cried the whole night. No one told him that he must leave. No one spoke beside him. The next day, the cheetah was very cheerful and Seer was like this. He always came and attached himself to our Rāṭanpurī or to those who take care of him, and so on. Long story short, we wanted to leave and we put him into the car. Well, it was difficult to get in, and he was composed; he was not happy at all, he was so offended. He vomited again and again—how do you say—he purged. Then we were in Nippel, about 70 kilometers away. There we had an ashram and a ceremony and so on, a program. At noon, I came back to Jadon in my car, and he was supposed to get into another car. He wanted nothing and did not want to get out of my car. He did not yet fully realize that we had to move from this car into another car. No one said that. Now, the question is, how does he know? And so the dogs, cats, mice, even ants—when rain is coming tomorrow and the water level will rise so high, there will be a flood—they are active day and night, carrying their eggs up high. The ants on the tree, somewhere else. So, out of 8.4 million animals, one does not know beforehand. This is a weak point, common to many. So, jealousy, hatred, fear, envy, greed, passion—these are present in a human being as well as in many other living beings. I have not yet spoken about animal life as of yesterday. Animal life is a life in which one must go through karma. And human love is that he can completely rectify his own karma and create good karma. There are numerous stories where even animals have understood God and they pray. A saint has written: Oh, my dear, even the animals and the birds remember and pray to God at sunrise and sunset. Now, before sunrise, all the birds are praying, rejoicing, singing. How beautiful, but only a bird that has become completely blue, all night long, it cannot awaken. That is the Menz. Man lives in a completely unnatural way. And therefore, people have more illnesses, people have more problems, people argue more. All complications that exist on this planet are because of the people. Why? Only one answer: education. A proper education is lacking. In Germany, you very much love children, but you know, you are not capable of raising children. Because the children are five years old, they are almost out of your hands. And ten, eleven, twelve—oh my God—then children say: mother and father, you are really foolish. Then a reasonable father says: yes, it is truly foolish that we have brought you into this world now. Youth. Youth has no further direction. Youth no longer have moral and ethical principles. And parents can do nothing, and you cannot tell anything to your children. If a parent is a little stricter, then the parents themselves are again in danger. Again. I don’t know whether it is good to have children now or not. Rejoice until the child is only four years old, when he begins to appear in the film. Only two, then you are a slave anyway. A proper upbringing—and still, the father and mother can give the children a proper upbringing, without violence, with love. That is very, very important, very, very important. And just look where the children receive good upbringing again, then everything is okay. And of course, society as well. Parents nurture one percent, and after an hour, the children go out and return with twenty percent of bad qualities. That is so. One does not use their reason for themselves in that way. And so the older people—I will not say "the old one," but some elderly persons—those sitting here, for example, no longer understand the youth. We no longer understand. I am also an elderly person. I don’t understand these young people. How they dress, how they behave, how they do things. Only we pray to Allah that everyone may somehow be happy. Complete your task quickly, close your eyes, and bye-bye. Beautiful, beloved planet, decay. At the same time, environmental pollution. So much, entire forests are destroyed, fields are destroyed, lakes, oceans, rivers, everything is polluted. Only for the sake of dear money. And an American, a Native American, said: when the last tree is cut down and the last fish dies, then, my dear, you will see that you cannot eat your dollar. You have enough dollars, but you cannot eat anything. And so human greed has arisen, and this human greed is so dangerous. And as Ātmā Gāndhī said: Mother Earth has enough for everyone, but not enough for the greedy. So it is. So for me, Yoga in Daily Life, through Yoga in Daily Life, is not just about speaking, not for a particular religion or culture, but for wholeness, for entire planets, for the environment, for humanity, for veterans, for world peace, for health, for spirituality, for spiritual consciousness. So it has become a beautiful work. And everyone who collaborates in this work is beautiful. Now we have called upon Dr. Shanti, who has traveled all the way to the Himalayas, right to the very summit of the mountain. But having calmly seen the summit of the mountain, one must not climb up. And she has created beautiful paintings. And now she sells paintings. But why? Because she has a goal: to build a hospital. What does a hospital mean? We know nothing at all. We will know on that day when a blue light arrives. "You there, you there, you there." And you carry yourself into it and it says: Sade, there is no hospital. He says: what? But I want a hospital. I say: well, that’s how it is. But until now, we do not know what a hospital is. We do not know that. And when we come to know, it may perhaps be too late. So, thank God, here in Austria we have very, very good hospitals, and healthcare and people’s care are very, very good in Austria. The medical system is very, very good. I know nothing about Germany. I have not fallen ill until now. In Germany, I am always healthy. That is the advantage. But human rights, medical care, all that exists in Germany, is excellent, as one always hears. In Switzerland, in New Zealand. In New Zealand, no one needs health insurance numbers. Automatically, whoever is there, whether you have health insurance, welfare insurance, or none at all, you are a human being and you have rights in the hospital—to be cared for, to be treated, and so on. Beautiful, isn’t it? And so, when people from Poland go there and fall ill, they negotiate, but they do not recover. They do not recover, that is the point. And unfortunately, there are some countries where there are very few opportunities. So many people come and go like a product on an assembly line. And you know, now most Americans go to India for negotiations, also from here and from Vienna. So we create a beautiful hospital where we can all go, to Jadon. This is a humanitarian. At the same time, we have veterinary services for animals. Everyone does it for humans, but who does it for the beloved animals? A cat has exactly the same stomach ache as a man. A cat can also have complications during birth, just like a woman. Life is life, pain is pain. Do not think that they do not have pain; they do have pain as well. And so many, many people have built many veterinary hospitals, and the animals have them. And we also have many animals in Janden, and we do something. When this one hospital is finished, then we will build a veterinary hospital. We have already collected money. Someone has given; perhaps that will be enough. He gave money wherever he could just finish the foundation. But that’s how it is. Okay. So, one goal of people is, sorry, to help. And so, my slogan is always that helping hands have more value than folded hands. So, sorry, I can’t. So, you are folding your hands, sorry, please. That doesn’t help us, my dear. But if you can give something, give your hand. That is it. And help means nothing, only money. Help means many other things: intellectual health, emotional health, psychic, social, political, financial, material, intellectual—there are many, many ways in which you can help. When carrying a heavy suitcase, one can say: can I give you a hand, please? If one has more physical strength than another, then these persons receive help in carrying heavy things. Don’t say: this is not my coffee. Yes, it is my coffee. According to Yoga, it is our coffee, not my coffee. Our coffee. Because wherever you see unity—in humans and animals, water, whether it is in my glass, or in plants, or water in the river or in the ocean—water is water. Perhaps a different quality. One water is completely clean and filtered, and another water is like your Elbe. If one drinks water from the Elbe, then one only needs to lie down comfortably. Drink water and then you need... No one can say that someone has committed suicide. He drank only water. That is how it is. And that is how Yoga, the Yogi, sees unity. If you have your dog and the dog is sick or in pain, because you are the owner, you empathize and take the dog to the doctor. Why? Because you feel it in your heart. It is like familial love, as a member of the family. The last point was the nervous system. In the human body, there are 72,000 nerves. And these 72,000 nerves, it is like a network throughout the entire body. And now the consciousness, the feelings, the perception, which are scattered throughout the entire body, are connected through the nāḍī system, the nervous system. And on the nerves, there are the knots. And specifically, where a fire, a branch of the nerves, divides. Where it divides, there is a knot. And where the knots are, there a new fire arises. When we look at a tree branch in nature, there is a knot. And where the knots are, there the lips or the plates come. And where there are no knots, it is just a rod, it is nothing at all. This is an energy center, an energy cakra. In electroacupuncture, these are called reflex zones. But this zone is the center, the boundary. And from here the energy is reflected, and the device can measure whether this reflex zone is blocked or not blocked, whether it channels energy further or does not channel energy further. And so it is with Prāṇāyāma. We practice Prāṇāyāma. Through the practice of prāṇāyāma, the reflex zone of all of us becomes free. Prāṇāyāma breathing exercise. Systematic breathing exercise. There is about an 8-month course, a special breathing technique. I will also send that to the Hamburg center. Whether it is an advanced student or a beginner. Everyone should do this program from the very beginning. It is truly beautiful. Eight months of regeneration for the entire body, that is called Kāya Kalāpa. And I have the entire program, the entire program I have, I just need to put it on the CD. It is in here. I need to put this CD into the computer. So I will definitely give Hamburg, and it should start in September. Only in Daśrām. And that must first be properly learned and then passed on; otherwise, nothing would be good. Prāṇāyāma. Prāṇa. Prāṇa is the flow of energy within the body. Prāṇa is not oxygen. Prāṇa is not the soul. Prāṇa is not consciousness. But prāṇa, the soul, and consciousness—these three stand very close to each other. That means energy, the soul, and consciousness. It is very difficult to separate, but it is a perspective. Just like an onion. The onion and this onion juice are two. One should always give a piece, then it says, it is an onion salad. But where is the onion? We peel it all away, and there is still no onion there. But it is there. We always say: here I am. Mine. But this is my body, this is my blood, my bones, my feelings, my intellect, my organs, my emotions, my mind, my consciousness, my soul, even my soul. So who doesn’t constantly say “mine”? Where is He? And that is what we are seeking. And sometimes it is quite strange. The Self seeks the Self. That is it. Self-realization. Why? Do we not know who we are? Yes, that is it. We have forgotten. A young mother has given birth to a child, and she holds the child in her arms, and suddenly she says: my God, where is my child? And she goes to the neighbor and asks: have you seen my child? He said: yes, that is dear. You just have your arms. Oh God, I completely forgot. And so it is. Our existence is here, but we have forgotten; we look outward, we do not look inward.