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The soil of this country is sandalwood. Every village is a land of penance. Every child is a statue. Every child is Rāma. This body is like a temple. Every human being is a helper. Jaha siṅgh ban gaye, gāye jahā pyārī hai, Jahā savera śaṅkh bajātā, lorī gātī śām hai. Har Balā Devī kī pratimā, bachchā bachchā Rām hai. Bachchā bachchā Rām, jiske sainik samar-bhūmi meṁ jāyā karte Gītā hai, Jahāṁ khet meṁ halke niche khelā kartī Sītā hai. Jīvan kā ādarś jahāṁ par parameśvar kā dhām hai. Har Balā Devī kī pratimā, bachchā bachchā Rām hai. Bachchā bachchā Rām, jahāṁ karma se bhaṅgyā badal ke śrama niṣṭhā kalyāṇī hai. Tyāga aura tapa kī gāthā, gātī kar kī vāṇī hai. Jñāna jahāṁ kā Gaṅgā jalasa, nirmala hai, abhirāma hai. Har Balā kī pratimā, bachchā bachchā Rām hai. Meditation is a spiritual nourishment. It is meant for a better life—to lead a healthy and happier life, to analyze ourselves, and to know thyself. That is the way; that is meditation. Yoga means union, but the practice of yoga means reunion. The practice of meditation means reunion. I would like to start from the very beginning to explain something: why we meditate and how it began. Mostly, meditation has been introduced in ashrams, monasteries, schools, for elderly people, and in religious contexts. But I am coming to the very beginning of something; I will touch on some foundational points. I will give you one picture, and you look carefully at this picture, please. That picture is the most beautiful picture you have ever seen. That picture is called the endless universe. Now, there is a question about the universe. There are chocolates in this bowl here. If I take this one piece, this is one chocolate in the form of an egg. Now, there are quite a few in this one ball. So we can say that we are existing in one part of the universe, this universe, which we may call our solar system. We belong to this sun system. Now, there are the Vedas, the books. Vedas means wisdom. It means knowledge. That’s all. Vedas means knowledge. The Vedas have existed since the human race began to civilize. The great seers, ṛṣis, declared that the Vedas have been spoken by or brought by Lord Brahmā. Brahmā is known as the creator. The creator has four hands and four faces, sitting on the lotus flower. It must be a very big and strong flower, no? That flower is grown from the navel of Viṣṇu. And Viṣṇu is residing in the water, Śrīkṣāmudar, the sweet ocean, sweet lake, sweet ocean. Brahmā has four hands because in each hand he holds one Veda. In each hand, he has a message for us: wisdom. So old are the Vedas. In the cosmic locus world, a parliament took place, and all came together: the president, vice president, ministers, prime ministers, and so on. They said, "We are going to create one more world. How should it be?" So they asked and said to Brahmā, "Well, we give you this work, sir. You shall make this world." Brahmā was having a consultation with a heavenly architect, Viśvakarmā. Viśvakarmā designed this world, and this world is beautiful. Oceans, mountains, rivers, lakes, ponds, deserts, hills, valleys—everything that is designed in this world is designed by Viśvakarmā. And Viśvakarmā designed according to Vāstu Śāstra. So, the philosophy of the Viśvakarmā architect: He gave the law of the buildings. How to build, how to do, he gave the principles. In which direction should one put what? What should one not put? So, there is a scale. There is a scale to measure something, and this scale is held on one stick. If you put half a kilo on this side and one kilo on this side, then which side will be up high? Which will go up, half kilo or one kilo? The half kilo will go up. So, that which is less always goes up, and that which has more solidity goes down. That’s why you, who have more knowledge and solidity, are sitting there, and I, who have less knowledge, am here. I’m a Pakistan clear, no more questions. Now we have to balance this. That rod which is balancing this principle is the Vāstu Śāstra principle. If we imbalance the energy, then it will not function; the house will burn, there will be fire or water. Time to time, there will always be disturbances in your sanitary system, or you will not be satisfied with the plumbing, or there will always be some walls that will have cracks. Always, you will have some illnesses in the family. Husband and wife will be together like a tiger and a goat. Don’t ask me who is the tiger. So, it will not last long. It will get divorced. Children, you will be little children, little. You will not have children, or children will not follow you. You will be unhappy, disharmony, many, many kleśas. Vikṣepas and Kleśas, speaking of Patañjali in his Yoga Sūtra. Vikṣepas and Kleśas will enter your house. Or what do you do? You open one window, and everything is okay. My God, that is something. You open one window and everything will be okay? I can’t imagine. Yes, you can imagine. Something can happen. There is a long story, but I will not tell you. It is a beautiful story. Tomorrow, you will have sore muscles if I tell you this story. You will laugh and laugh and laugh, but it is possible. So I will not tell you this story tonight because I have to come to my original point. I have to show you the picture still. So Viśvakarmā designed the world and his Vāstu Śāstra. We should consult with the expertise of the Vāstu Śāstra and build or bring it home, and have a consultation according to Vāstu Śāstra. So, those who are meditating, if it is possible, try to always have your face to the north. This is the first thing: you will have better meditation, good meditation. Every direction is a good direction, but still, for us, north is better. Well, next time I will perhaps talk a little bit about Vāstu Śāstra. Or I will bring with me expertise of the Vāstu Śāstras. I have also learned something about Vāstu Śāstras. I have been building buildings since 1973. Can you imagine? So many buildings I have built; they are still not finished. One of the biggest, largest buildings which I am building is a world wonder building. For the first time in the history of mankind, such a building in the shape of the Oṁ, about 400 meters by 300 meters long, beautiful, beautiful. If you have not seen that building, you have seen nothing. So you should come to see that. Did you see the video today? All my secret things you disturbed. So Vedas are very old, and Vedas are saying, Hari Ānand, God is endless. Ānand Brahmāṇḍ Sahastra Sūryas, I told last time here also, Ānand Brahmāṇḍ Sahastra Sūryas, endless universe and thousands and thousands of the sun systems. Endless balls and many, many chocolates. We belong to this one solar system. Now, the question can be: this ball is in my hand. So, it must be somewhere. Where is this universe existing if we say that the universe is like a round ball? How can he or she, or me or you, tell this? That universe is round? What is behind? One side is endless, and one side we are saying that is round. The answer, my friends, is like that. So the question’s answer is like, "What was first, the egg or the bird?" And so is this. Anyhow, dear one, Ānand Brahmāṇḍ. This is a beautiful name: bold, śūnya. Śūnya means there is nothing. When a doctor gives you an injection and makes you numb, without feeling, senseless, then he or she can cut, operate, or do anything; you don’t feel anything. That is senseless. There is no sense in it, no sensation in it. Śūnya Ākāśa, Śūnya Ākāś. Entire space, the whole Anant Brahman, what you see, everything was Śūnya. There was nothing and nothing, but nothing. And that is called the universal mother, the cosmic mother. The entire endless universe is a mother, and within that cosmic mother, that cosmic consciousness is residing. So in this śūnya ākāśa, there is only two: the ākāśa itself, void space, neither dark nor light, no movements, no elements, only ākāśa tattva, the space element, that’s all. Nothing and nothing, and the cosmic consciousness, what you call God, the ultimate truth, love, light. That God, which has no form, is residing in that consciousness. In the mother’s womb or in the mother’s lap, that consciousness is residing, not dormant, because that cannot sleep. That consciousness cannot go to sleep. We go to sleep. We fall into sleep, dream, and awakening. We are tending day by day, every day and night, in three levels of consciousness. But the other one, the cosmic caitanya, that is caitanya. Caitanya cannot be acaitanya. We are acaitanya. Achetan means unconscious. We don’t know what’s happening behind this wall. We don’t know what’s happening under this floor, but the caitanya knows what is happening there and here and there and there. Number of the three worlds, so that is the beginning. From there, everything begins from there, dear ones. From there, it is said, in that caitanya, one spūrṇa begins, and that spūrṇa, wise people tell in this way, "eko’haṁ bahu syāmi." I am one, and I will multiply myself. Desires are the cause of all problems. That time began the problems from that very beginning. And that problem is still continuing. And that "eko’haṁ bahu syām," I am one, and I am going to multiply. And there begins this one sound, and this sound is called Auṁ. Aum. Nādharūpa Parabrahma. Nādharūpa Parabrahma. The form of the Supreme is the sound. In this universe, nothing exists where there is no sound. In every atom, there is a sound. Everywhere is a sound. Your whole body is filled with the sound. Nāḍī yoga. And therefore, a great musician who can understand the sound, the resonance, that is for him or her a meditation, that is a prayer. And for the other one who doesn’t understand music, it is a headache. So, sound. Sound tattva is the element. First element is the Ākāśa Tattva, the space. Second is the fire, Tejas, light, sound. Ho. And this is penetrating throughout the universe, the entire universe. If you take this glass and listen, there is a sound. You hear, you go under the water, there is a sound. Anything you take and listen to, sound: hear the heartbeat, heart sound, navel sound, the kidneys’ function, blood function—everywhere is a sound. After that, develop the air principle. So it is that air principle which gives the possibilities to penetrate or move, to expand in the ākāśa element. And the fourth one is the water. And fifth one, then slowly, slowly, earth element. All these five elements are living elements; they are life. There is no dead material. Everything has life in it. There is a resonance, there is a sound. And these five elements are brought together, and from this has come life. So our body is made out of five elements: space, fire, air, water, and earth. Now, another example: there is one cup, and there is a second cup, and there is a third one, a fourth. If I look in this cup, I see this light reflecting. If I see in this... The cup is also this light reflecting, and in this jug also the light is reflecting. So now I have the three lights in three vessels. But in reality, there is only one light. So this one in all, and this all in the one. Like the one moon, we all see. One moon is reflecting in every cup. But there are not so many moons, like so many cups and so many lakes and rivers. So, one in all, all in one. So it is that cosmic consciousness, God itself, what we call, which you cannot separate. That’s called one without a second, that has no form. He is here, and he is not here. He has no eyes, but he can see everything. He has no legs, but he’s quicker than anything. And he doesn’t need to walk, because he’s everywhere, and he’s farther than you could think. And he’s closer than you could think, because he’s one with you. So when something is one with you, then there’s no distance. Mahāprabhujī said, "If you are five meters far from me, then I am also five meters far from you." So that cosmic light which was residing in the lap of the cosmic mother, which, manifesting and multiplying through the light and sound in the bodies which were created later as tattvas, and in the tattvas, composed of the tattvas, there is the soul that is occupied. That light is not a soul. Here, where you are sitting, one day there was only water and only ice, cold. Then it became water, then a piece of earth. Then some creatures came, and then some humans came and said, "It is my land." And some farmers came and divided into hectares, and these hectares are then divided into square feet or square meters, and then they made houses here. And now there is one hall, and there is one bathroom, then the second bathroom, then the third bathroom, then the office, so many. Rooms are divided now. If we clean up all, there will be again one field, nothing. So duality: one bathroom, second bathroom is duality. It is only the walls. In reality, space is space. There is no duality. So either that cosmic Self which is in me or in you, or in one dog, or in one fish, or in one rabbit, or in one kangaroo, is the same. The space in the toilet, space in the kitchen, space in the bathroom, space in the bedroom, and in the garden is the same. Only the walls have divided, and that’s called duality. Now you cannot call your toilet a garden. If you call the garden a toilet, then they will say, "Yes, yes, but you know, garden and toilet, yes, I have a toilet in the garden." So if you want to make the toilet a garden, then you have to remove the walls and the commode. Now, do you understand me or not? No, I drink water. It’s cold. Put something hot. Yes, you understand me. Now, meditation means to realize God. To realize God means to become one with God. But we cannot become one with God. Why? When I said she is one with God, she is God, everybody will laugh. She is God? Now, the same problem will come. I will say, "This is a kitchen." "Oh, no, this is a garden, please, Swami, this is not a kitchen." And if I call the garden, and it’s called a kitchen, if this is a garden, say, "No, no..." This is a kitchen. A kitchen has its identity. What makes a kitchen? There’s a fireplace, there’s pots and cups, and cooking, and this and that. And what makes the garden? Vegetation, Swami. Now, we cannot say my kitchen is a garden. We can make a kitchen garden, but throw away all this rubbish. This is the main thing to understand again: individual qualities. So, either Mr. XYZ is existing or God is existing. XYZ cannot say, "I am XYZ God." No. So, we have to give up individual identity, individual qualities. And that is like this. Before they gave me the water, they put one spoon of sugar inside and mixed it. Now, I don’t see. Perhaps you see the sugar inside. You see the sugar. You see the sugar. And that is another of God’s miracles, which we do not see. We have the eyes, but we don’t see that sugar inside, and that’s why I call it jñāna indriya. There is another system God gave us to know. If we are blind, we can taste sugar inside sweet. She was thinking that she will put sugar inside and mix it. Sugar will become one with the water, and that’s all. Swamiji will not realize? Yes, listen carefully. Sugar changed the form; sugar changed the form, but didn’t change the quality, sweetness. Similarly, you will die physically, but still you did not change your karma. Your karma will remain with you as a shadow of your body all the time. You can’t run away from this world or from the other world. So if you think after death all is finished, I have no more duties, oh no, no... You have more duties, my dear. After these days, everything will come to you. You have to pack your backpack and then go around the universe, you know. Then you will say, "I want to see Swamijī. Please, can I come down and practice mantra and meditation too?" Get rid of some heaviness of my backpack. If the sugar will give its sweetness away, then I will not realize that it is sugar in this water. Dear friends, I am giving you stories and jokes so that you understand my lecture better. That universal one, "Eko Haṁ Bahusyāmi"—I am one and I want to multiply—that is called Svayaṁ Bhuṣyāsyam. That Swayambhū is the Oṁ, and that is within us, and that is not far away because we are that one. You cannot realize God because there is no God to realize, because you are the God. But you have a big curtain to realize this, and for that we need meditation. And good mantra from Guru Mantra. Guru Brahma, Guru Viṣṇu, Guru Devo Maheśvara, Guru Sākṣāt, Parabrahma, Tasmai Śrī Guruve Namah. From the spiritual lineage, we say in India, Gaṅgā Jal toh vahī bansaktā hai, jo Gaṅgā mein praveś kartā hai pānī. Toh Mokṣa vahī prāpt kar saktā hai, so only that water becomes Ganges water which enters the river Ganges. Other water cannot become Ganges water. So that disciple will get the realization which will follow that kind of paramparā of that Siddhagaḍī. So now, what to do? Through meditation, we shall give up our bad qualities, because he will not change. We have to change. That’s it. That cosmic Self will not change, and He has no need to be changed. If you want, then you should change. So meditation is the way to change and to purify our negative karma and negative qualities. But meditation without mantra is like a statue without life. There is a beautiful body lying on the ground, but there is no life inside. Therefore, self-realization is far away until that Siddha, paramparik, mantra, or āśram blessing is given. Yes, yoga is very good to gain health and to get rid of stress, to gain a good figure, but how many years will you figure the good figure? Death is waiting for all of us, and old age is waiting for us, like a cat is waiting behind the door for the mouse. Therefore, don’t waste the time. Meditate, pray, practice your mantras, and get realization. That’s very important. Many things happen in a human life. Life is good and bad, but the most terrible tragedy that will happen to a human is that they will die without that realization, which you may call self-realization or God-realization. Meditate, meditate, meditate. And in meditation, repeat your mantra and don’t expect something. Just try to become one with that supreme, or say, "Lord, what will be with me? My Lord, what will be with me? Where will I go? Where should I go?" And therefore, it is said in one bhajan song, "My Lord, I will be thine always." My Lord, I will be Thine always. So you should think of God and always think, say to God, "Lord, I will always be Yours. Lord, You are always with me." That cosmic Self is always with you in your heart, and it doesn’t matter where you go, how far you go? Because it is endless, the universe, and God is always there. And so, dear brothers and sisters, at the end, without God, life is like a body without eyes and without the wings of a bird. It doesn’t matter what people think, and who says what? It’s your personal matter, and it does matter to you. You should meditate and realize. According to your own technique, according to your own path, do it. Don’t waste the time.