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My adoration to the cosmic light, Lord of our heart, omniscient and omnipresent. In His cosmic light and in His divine presence, my dear brothers and sisters, I greet you and welcome you here this evening. You had to wait for a few minutes; I am sorry for that. It is my first time in this beautiful place, though I have known friends from this city for many, many years. Now I am here and happy to be here. Thank you. You have heard before that my mission in this world is to bring peace, harmony, and love among humans and God’s creatures. We shall learn to respect each other, and we shall learn to respect God’s creatures. Then it will be possible for us to have peace in our heart, peace in our mind, in our family, in our society, in our country, and in the world. We know that fighting cannot bring peace. With weapons, with guns, you cannot bring peace. But with flowers, and with love, you can bring peace to the world. In the last centuries, millions of people were killed. Millions of children were killed. And after these two terrible wars, the first and second world war, after that, till now, in this half of the century, more than 30 million children have been victims of war. And many ladies were the victims of the wars. And, of course, there were all the young men who died in the wars. Day by day, weapons are created. With which consciousness do we create the weapon? Because we want to kill, we want to defeat. If you kill someone and then you declare that is your victory, that is not your victory. That is your loss. You have killed yourself. You did not understand God’s message. He says you should live in harmony. Thou shalt not kill. Be kind, be humble, love all, love your neighbor. If we will not follow the words of God, then we will suffer all the time. But why are we fighting? For what? Nothing belongs to us, says the wise man. The yogīs said, "Nothing belongs to us. Everything is temporary. Even your body does not belong to you. This body is given to you just for some years, and we have only two days’ life, not longer, only two days." Which are these? One day was yesterday, and the second day is today. We do not know about tomorrow, and no one has seen tomorrow. Tomorrow will never come in our life. Past is past, future will always be future, and presence is presence. So be conscious, be aware about your present situation. The house does not belong to you, the country does not belong to you, jewelry and your money and your companies do not belong to you. One day we will pass away. Under the earth will be the body. What will you take with you? Your money, your house, your property, your parents, your wife? Nothing. Even not this body will go with you. For what? We are fighting; that is ignorance. Hate and ignorance divide, and love unites. Take today this vow, the Saṅkalpa, that you will work for peace in the world. First, create peace in your heart, in your mind. And what happened is, it happened. We shall forgive them if you understand the words of God: Jesus said, "Father, forgive them." Can you also forgive? Yes, maybe we will forgive, but we will not forget what happened to our family, what happened to your country recently. You may forgive, but you cannot forget. But still, we should not fight anymore. Think of your children and think of yourself. Why are we fighting? We are fighting because we want to have power, and we want to have position. But for what? Even if you are president of the country, one day you will die. Even if you are a president of the country, one day your chair will be empty. This is a temporary power, a temporary position. We have to create inner satisfaction. For inner satisfaction, we have to get a motivation in our life. Who am I? I am not this body. I am not this mind. I am not this intellect. I am not this emotion. I am not this consciousness. Then what am I? You said my body, my consciousness, my intellect, my feelings, my emotions, my temperament. So, who is in you who is always saying, "I am" and "mine"? "This is my dress." This dress is not Swamiji. So who are you? This is the burning question. If you know who you are, you know God. You know everything. Therefore, the authority said, "Know thyself." If you know thyself, you know everything. And if you do not know yourself, you do not know anything. This knowledge and intellect which we have are very limited. Maximum, till the death. Then everything is lost. A doctor will not be born again as a doctor. But if you have spiritual knowledge, then that knowledge will go with you and liberate you. Great Śaṅkarācārya said, "Who am I? From where do I come? And where am I going? What am I doing here? For what did I come here? And where will I go?" If you know this answer for yourself, you are a liberated one and a lucky one. Otherwise, you are in ignorance. Ignorance brings troubles. Ignorance creates hate. Ignorance creates jealousy. Ignorance creates attachment. Ignorance creates greediness. It creates fighting, and that is why humans should come out of this. For this, the ancient sages found how to discover the divine science of yoga. That is called the science of body, mind, consciousness, and soul. Yoga is a cosmic principle, balancing the entire universe, visible and invisible. All matters and elements which exist in the universe are balanced by that perfect power. Where there is a power balanced, there is harmony. Where there is harmony, there is understanding, peace, and unity. So yoga means the union of the individual consciousness with the cosmic consciousness. There are 8.4 million different creatures created by God. 8.4 million divided into three categories. The creatures in the water, creatures on the earth, and creatures in the space flying. From these 8.4 million creatures, one is the human. It is said there is one circle, and this circle, which is moving, is like a wheel, and that is called the wheel of rebirth and death. Rebirth—modern science has taken the word out of the rebirth—recycling. How do you understand what is recycling you? You cannot imagine how this is recycled. But when you think over and make research work, there is recycling. Your body is recycling. You will die, the body will die, it is put into the earth. Sometimes it will become beautiful fertilizer. You put plants there, pumpkins or tomatoes. Beautiful big tomatoes will come. Now you are in the form of the tomato, and you eat those tomatoes. It wonders, it goes in your body. How the recycling processes? Similarly, the soul is passing and coming. After a long time, millions of years, we get a chance to be human. It is God’s grace. The Lord was merciful enough that He gave us birth as human beings. Dear friends, this human body you cannot buy anywhere, and you cannot borrow your body to someone. It is only once. It is the most precious diamond. You cannot pay for this. All you can thank is your mother and father and the Almighty Lord, that He gave you a beautiful human body. Through this body, you got the chance to serve God, to serve His creatures. Protecting His creation means to serve God. God loves all creatures. Do not think God loves only humans. If God loves only humans, then why did He create others? They are all His children. There must be democracy in God’s mind. Everyone has rights. Everyone has the right to come to God. Every creature, whether it is a buffalo, cow, horse, or any animal. God has created them. To love them means to love God. God created humans as protectors. Protect. We can protect them because we understand what is love, what is pain, what is suffering. Animals have father and mother too, and they have children too. They feel pain too. Their life is very dear to them, as your life is dear to you. Second, God has given this human life to get realization, to get free of the karmas or the sin. And finally, become one with the cosmic self through meditation, through prayers, through beliefs, through helping, through serving, through kindness. Humans have beautiful qualities. We shall use our human qualities. We should not use the animal and devil qualities. Which are killing, fighting, jealousy, hate, complexes—this is not a human quality. Tolerance, forgiveness, understanding, kindness, helping—my dear friends, this is your quality. God speaks in you. God thinks through you. God acts through you. Your body is a temple of God. Keep this body pure, clean. They found the science of yoga. They came to know what is the purpose of the creatures. From the void, dark space, the sound came. And from the sound, all creatures begin. God is not a person. God is universal. He is everywhere. Nothing exists in this universe without Him. He is in heaven. He is in the hell. He is everywhere. He is in the weapon too. If He is in every atom, then He must be in the bullet too. That God you cannot blame. It is we who are misusing the energy. Five elements were created: fire, air, water, and earth. Ether is there. Out of the five elements, our body is created. But this body has four bodies more. You have five bodies. And within five bodies, your Divine Self is existing: the body of nourishment, this physical body; the body of energy, prāṇa energy; the mental body; the intellectual body; and the causal body. These are the five bodies, and visible is the physical. If your body is ill, it is not only physically that something happens to you; it happens to all the five bodies. If you want to get treatment, you shall treat all the five bodies. Everybody, all five bodies, have different principles, and so do yoga exercises. They are psychosomatic movements. It heals our physical body, our psychic body, mental body, and causal body—all your astral bodies, all. Therefore, practicing yoga in the first way is good as a therapy. Second, it is a therapy, a mental therapy. So yoga in daily life means health: physical, mental, social, spiritual health, then God-realization. I must shorten my lecture; I will not go into detail because someone is moving with the flowers to say goodbye to me, perhaps, no? And I do not know how long we can be here. Dear friends, yoga is a very ancient science. Yogi found there is a God. Yogi found there is an individual. And the yogī found there is birth and rebirth. They discovered what is the karma or the sin. You speak about sin, but who realized for the first time what sin is? Yogīs, and this science, which was before some million years. Trinity: Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Maheśa. Brahmā is the creator, Viṣṇu is the protector, and Śiva is the liberator. And about their several thousands of years, they were existing. It goes to the system of yugas. Yuga means the time, like what we call the millennium. This millennium, which we are saying now, is only after the Jesus incarnation. Nothing has changed in nature, but according to the yugas that take place, change occurs in the whole universe. So yoga has been taught, understood, and practiced in every yuga for millions of years. Years to pray, to believe, to serve, to meditate, to be kind, to be healthy, to be positive—these are the principles of yoga. Any religion in this world, if they have these principles—belief, prayer—then they are a part of yoga. Yoga. It is not a part of any religion. All religions come from yoga, so yoga is the father of all the signs of his spirituality. The yogī says, in the human body, which is made out of five elements, there are 72,000 nāḍīs, nerves in your body. There are 72,000 nerves. These nerves are the energy channels. The cosmic energy is flowing through these channels. It is like a network, and out of the 72,000 nerves, there are three most important nerves: Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumṇā. Iḍā is connected to the left hemisphere, and Piṅgalā is connected to the right hemisphere, and the Suṣumṇā is the central nerve system that is connected with the consciousness. Left hemisphere represents the emotion, mind, and mind is never equal. Mind is the principle. The mind is the moon. The moon never rises equally every day. The moon rises differently. Similarly, your mind is not every day equally. Now you think different, and tomorrow you will think different. Yesterday, you thought something different. Always, the mind is changing. Changing mind is a problem. Mind is a monkey, always jumping here and there. Oh my god, we are tired of the mind. The right nostril right now controls our temperament, controls our activities, controls our intellect. There is a mind. Mind is always changing. Then there is an intellect. Intellect is deciding. Mind cannot decide. The duty of the mind is only to make a wish and then give up. Intellect says, "Aha, good." The mind has a desire to eat ice cream, and the intellect will tell, "Yes, this desire is for ice cream." And now, where to go and find the ice cream? Intellect gives order to the body to go and buy ice. Then, between the intellect and mind, that we call vivekā, discrimination. That he, your pure intellect, your knowledge, divides your desires into two parts. If you do that, then your teeth will be bad, and the dentist will be angry. Do not eat sugar, ice cream. If you eat and you have sugar disease, diabetes, your sugar will go high. If you do not eat, you will be healthy. Now, this is the vivekā. It shows you both sides. Now your decision, what you want. Mind, my dear friends. I would like to tell what is a mind in short. God has given us ten senses: five senses of knowledge and five senses of action. Between, I must tell something different. If you do not mind, friends who are standing, they can sit sideways, this side or this side. Please, come and take a seat, or if there is a free chair. So please sit on the podium. Will be happy to have you beside me. Thank you. And if some gentleman can move and come here and give place to the ladies there, thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. The five senses of action and five senses of knowledge. The senses of knowledge are like the eyes, two eyes. You receive the knowledge, information through the light and color that give you the imagination of the knowledge of the form. The second sense is your hearing sense. They give you knowledge of the things about, through the sound. Someone telephones you and says, "Hello, Jharka, how are you?" And Jharka will say, "Who is talking there?" He will say, "I am Chichi." Now, through the sound, Jharka can see the whole Chichi. Sound information: the third, smelling. You smell it is a rose, or you smell it is an apple, and different things. The fourth, through the taste. You eat and you say, "Yes, this is apple," or it is grapes, or it is banana. And the fifth one, skin touching. Through a touch, you can say, "Yes, what is it?" These are the five senses which inform you. There are only five keys to send the message into your brain. There is no sixth one. Only five: you and me and all of us. The whole world is appearing to us through the five senses. And the senses of the actions: hands, legs, words, and the, what you call, the excretories, urinary system. These are only five, no more. You can do something only through your words, through your hands or legs, and other two organs. Now, whatever you receive in formations, I am talking about what is your mind. Perhaps I will not come to the complete subject end, okay, but I want to tell you. What is mind? Mind is a problem. Mind creates your schizophrenia. Mind creates your depression. Mind creates you fighting. Mind creates everything. But why? Who is that mind? Should we imprison him through the senses of the knowledge? Whatever you receive through smell, through sound, through ears, through taste, or through touching, it is going to your subconscious from the conscious to the subconscious. The conscious is a present situation, and the subconscious is a past one. All information goes to the subconscious. The subconscious is a big storeroom. So what you receive from the outer world, that is called impressions. And when the impression goes to the subconscious through your senses, that becomes vāsanās, desires. And now the subconscious must bring these desires out to the consciousness, so that you can decide something and do something. If the desires from the subconscious come out and you are not able to fulfill them through some situation or circumstances—always, we cannot do what we wish—it goes back to the subconscious, and in the night, that comes as a dream. And in the dream, even you cannot fulfill it. For example, in the dream, you are going to buy ice cream. And you got a beautiful ball of ice cream and a spoon, and you take a full spoonful. It comes near your mouth, the alarm begins to ring, the dream is gone. My God, even in a dream you could not eat ice cream. So, unfulfilled desire, which you could not fulfill even in the dream, returns back to the subconscious and comes out as a psychic disease, emotional problems, an indescribable situation of your life. Now, the things which are dormant or lying in your subconsciousness come up to the consciousness and go back to the subconsciousness. This function is known as the mind. The mind is nothing but a process between subconsciousness and consciousness. Now you would like to stop your mind. You cannot stop, and do not try to stop. A river you cannot block, but you can give direction to the river. Similarly, you cannot stop your mind, but you can give direction to your mind. All your feelings and desires, for example, you direct to God. In this way you will control your mind, but still there will be no control. Because the subconscious is filled with so many things, and your senses are still very wide. You would like to see, and you would like to hear. He would like to enjoy tasting. And he would like to smell, and he would like to enjoy touching. Your desires, the senses, are not under your control. Your ambition and emotion, these two are not under control. Mind cannot be controlled. So to come out of the stress, come out of the depression, come out of the anxiety, and come out of the restlessness, only close your eyes and, for some minutes or one hour or two hours, withdraw yourself within yourself and relax. Do nothing. The best meditation is to close your eyes, sit down, and relax. That will give you immense peace in your mind and your heart. That is mind. Mind is a function between subconsciousness and consciousness. And when the subconsciousness is the problems which are not fulfilled by dream or anything, that goes to unconsciousness. And unconsciousness goes with you to the next life. We spoke yesterday about unconsciousness and about one chakra. Here is lying the chakra, Mūlādhāra chakra. Here is the unconsciousness. Here are all the problems of the past life. Unfortunately, it is not such a good picture here because they will fix it by email tomorrow. In Jagarim, I hope it will be good on the big screen. Here are all our sins, our past deeds, they are dormant. And all our karmas which we could not fulfill, all went here down. That is the left hemisphere, and the right one which supports your emotion and aggressivities, temperament, and also concentration, also thinking. Something positive. Both are very good. Both begin from the small of the brain, which in yoga we call Ājñā Cakra. Ājñā Cakra is the sixth center. That is a very beautiful one, that is a very powerful one, and that is a very important one, but that is also not clear, so you cannot do anything with the picture, but I can show you this something here, but I do not think you will see it very clearly, so sorry for that. Chakras, dear friends, chakras are the energy centers. And in our body, there are thousands of chakras. The 72,000 nerves have 72,000 chakras. They are divided: earth chakra, vegetation chakra, animal chakra, human chakra, divine chakra, cosmic chakras. These are in your body. Chakra means one circle; always energy is turning. Everything is in the out form, even the Sun energies, which are constantly turning, circulating, so in our body there are many chakras which are turning, but they are dormant. Through yoga practice, we can activate them. For example, in your hands, in your palms, you have beautiful chakras, and you can awake them, and it becomes healing power, such a healing power that you can heal yourself or somebody else. But first you must practice to awake them. Today I will show you how to awake. Your chakra will be awake now, just for a few minutes. Then they will go again to sleep, you know, like a cobra snake in the basket. I was a little taken aback to show you that he is here. Wake up, but I will tell him to sleep again. But I will not give you the basket. First, you have to learn to master this thing. So, for a few minutes, we will awake our chakras now, and you will feel that energy intensively, how beautiful it is. Would you like to do it? Yes, all right, thank you. Very few said yes, but well, who would like to do it? Who do not want to do, do not do it. If you... What will not do is, you will surely keep your palms like this, and now you must feel a sensation in your palms. The sensation must be like a pulsing. Yes, thank you. Second step, we have to feel more intensive than this. Make hands like this, you feel. And this is what you feel mostly. Because the blood circulation and centers are also now awakening. Change with me once. Home by chanting home, you will feel intensively. Deep inhale, oh, very good. Third step. Fold your palms completely, and we will rub our palms, rubbing till the tips of the fingers. It is a process of the movements. Let us become hot, because I want to feel your energy. I want to feel their energy, and I want that you will feel also. Very intensively, as intensive, you will rub that intensity. It will be all right. The sixth of the fifth process: hold hands like they say. Something can, it would you like this? Feel it. Can you do like this? How far? You feel it is like a magnet. Now we will tell Cobra to... Relax, close the fist, hands down. Chakras are sleeping already. Try once more. Is there energy there? It is gone. So that is, you know, what a master does sometimes, like this. If you do this exercise every day, three or four times, you will then have the awakening chakras in you, abilities to help someone or yourself. But you have to do it for a long time, nearly one or two years. While driving a car, when the traffic light is red, you make your hands like this, and the miracle will be this: the light, the red light, will become green. Likewise, there are thousands of chakra centers in this body. Out of them, eight chakras are very important, and these eight chakras... Called Mūlādhāra Chakra, it represents the earth element, the dormant energy. Second is for this time, Chakra represents the water element, Svādhiṣṭhāna Chakra. It is a subconsciousness. Svādhiṣṭhāna Chakra has all these qualities of the jealous, anger, hate, passion, complexes, greediness; its symbol is the crocodile. When the energy awakes from the Mūlādhāra cakra, then it rises up to the Svādhiṣṭhāna cakra, and the Svādhiṣṭhāna cakra is our subconsciousness. But you cannot see the difference today. You cannot see very much difference between this and that, because the pictures are not clear. Who are jealous, angry, and greedy? This is a symbol of the undeveloped personality; it is not developed completely. It means, why are you jealous? Let us say you are jealous, or I am jealous. I am jealous of my glass. If you look at my glass, why does he look at my glass? And if... Somehow he takes away my glass, then I am angry. I would like to do something, but I cannot because he or she is very strong. I am suffering inside. Why? Because I think I cannot live without this glass. I am depending on this glass. I am a test. To this class, my attachment shows me, I think this glass can make me happy, and if someone takes it away, I cannot live without it. But if I am a developed person, and someone looks at my glass, I will say, "Please, take it," without suffering. One more example. Small children play with their toys. Suddenly, one day comes in their life; they do not play anymore with the toys. They give up the toys. Why? You did not tell them, "They are only toys; do not play always only with the toys." But they are developed now. They said it is only a toy. Now they begin to search for another toy. Then the children are grown, teenagers. Then they search for other toys. After some years, they give up these toys also. Then they search for spiritual toys. So, how do we have to develop? So, these qualities of the Svādhiṣṭhāna cakra are very harmful for us, but we are stuck here in the center, and this center... We have to purify through some mantra practice, meditation, and thinking with forgiveness, tolerance, understanding, giving, to give, to understand. Like this, yoga is a science which can help you physically, which can help you mentally, which can help you emotionally, which will help you intellectually, which will help you socially, and which will help you spiritually, and finally, it will bring you to the cosmic self, God. Dear brothers and sisters, yoga is a Divine Science, I believe that many of you are practicing, and if some are new, I would suggest you to begin. In your country, there are hundreds of centers everywhere in the country which are teaching Yoga in Daily Life, or you are getting the book very soon which has a complete system inside, and you shall take that book and you can practice at home. Do something in life, so ask a question to yourself and answer the question. Take time. Who am I? From where do I come? Do you know your past life? And before that life? No. From where do I come? And why did I come? What is the purpose of my life? What dharma do I have in my life? What dharma has a mother? What dharma has a father? What dharma has sister, and brother? What is the dharma of your relatives? You have your dharma, and if you do not know your dharma, you are wasting life. And where will I go? We know we will go to heaven, but who has seen heaven? It is a limited place; where heaven is ending, hell is beginning. So we have to become one with the omniscient, omnipresent, that is called one without second. Otherwise, many things happen in human life, good and bad, but the most terrible tragedy which will happen to the human is this. That human will die without God. Realize this: diamond will not be given to you again. Do not miss the chance, dear friends. Think over what I tell you.