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Therefore, we are here to learn something in life. That is called prosperity. Prosperity means not only money. Prosperity is also cleanliness. That is very important, and that prosperity is known as Lakṣmī. And Lakṣmī always likes cleanness. She goes only there where there is purification, cleanliness: clean dress, clean bed, clean room, clean bathroom, clean windows and doors, clean bedsheets, clean body, clean mouth and teeth, clean socks, clean shoes, clean heart, and clean thoughts. Lakṣmī runs there. That’s very, very important. I know you are all very clean, but if not, then try to be more. Every boy ought to wash his socks before going to sleep and dry them under the bed. And in the morning, you have your fresh socks. Because many times ladies complain that when boys walk in the hall, their samādhi is disturbed. Meditation is suddenly broken; they know who is coming. So I don’t know what the laundry system is here, but there is also laundry and so on. So please bring yourself into this hall, and maintain nice cleanliness. And in your room, cleanliness. The poor are they; automatically you can see who are not clean. And it is said, who is not clean, their luck disappears. Even if your dress is somewhere broken or torn, that doesn’t matter. You can repair it. But it should be clean. So, this was the competition last week, so the result you will get at the end of the week, if you were a winner or not. Second thing: do not carry your normal shoes into the sleeping area. Put them down somewhere, or under the trees, so that whole night, it purifies the air. So, don’t bring the shoes in the sleeping room. Shoes have another radiance because shoes go everywhere with you in the street, you know. That is the caste system divided. Now, they have, in this last one or two centuries, unfortunately, done it in the wrong way. Otherwise, in reality, as Kṛṣṇa said, or in other literature, that was a division in one’s own body: the legs and śūdras. It means anywhere they are ready to go and help you to go there. Your duty was to clean them again. And that people should not have bad thinking towards this. The system was there that you should wash the feet of others, that you should not neglect them. Do not say they are untouchable. That was one of the very, very important principles. And I think somehow Jesus also understood, and he performed the ceremonies also. So, okay, now in this Kali Yuga, don’t expect somebody will wash your feet every day. But at least you can do it yourself. It was the sign of a good wife, that morning also, when her husband got up, she went with a nice bowl of water and she washed his feet. When the water was too cold, he was angry. If it was winter, you know. And in summer, if the water was warm, then he was angry. But that’s, you know, the joy. So, every man who is sitting here, you can tell your wife, the first thing to learn is to wash my feet every day. Maybe there is something good in it. And if you have no wife, then at least you should wash yourself. And if some ladies have no husband, when they don’t know which feet they should wash, then they can wash their own feet. Then, they don’t clean their own. In general, women are cleaner. They are a symbol of Lakṣmī. But men are lazy. So, please, try your best. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the first priority: to attend to the higher consciousness. Thoughts clean, house clean, everything clean. It doesn’t take a long time. You knew, all of you, that here will be a summer program, and you know that you knew that you are going to attend this anuṣṭhān program, where a little bit longer sitting is, but you were not prepared, and those who were not prepared, now they are sorry. They are doing practice, but moving constantly. You know, time doesn’t wait for anyone. Time is running, so the time is gone. You are here and now, you know that you didn’t prepare properly. So those who have been preparing themselves, physically and mentally, they gain the right benefit from the exercises. That’s it, that one thing, one exercise which makes a person developing, forward coming, and the same exercise makes another person disturbing. And it depends on what? On the physical and mental condition of the person, as well as the feeling in the heart. Heart. So I spoke in the last weeks, and many were not here. This week, for you, three kinds of exercises are very important. It’s called Manana, Svādhyāya, and Abhyāsa. Manana, Svādhyāya—Manana means think over. Whatever you are listening, think over. Whatever you are learning, think over. Whatever problems you have, think over. What is correct for you? What is not correct for you? If you understood properly or not. Because everyone has a different definition. There were about five friends. They were walking through the woods. And it was the time of August, like now. And that very nice, beautiful bird was talking. And all of them were from different places, really different. So they said, "What is this bird saying?" What this bird is saying. So, there was one Muslim, and he said, "Well, this bird is saying, ’Yā Allāh, terimahār, Yā Allāh, terimahār.’" One of them was Muslim, and he said something in Arabic. So, there was another Hindu, and he said, "No, no... no." The other one was Hindu, and he said, "No, no. He says it’s different. Practice your mantra, practice your mantra, don’t waste it. While walking, practice your mantra." Buddhists said no. They said mantra, but not like this. Bird is saying, "Maṇi Padme Hūṃ, Maṇi Padme Hūṃ,... Maṇi Padme Hūṃ." Bird is saying, "Maṇi Padme Hūṃ." The fourth one, from the town, who was coming from a big town, said, "This bird is saying something different. We have studies, we have studies of zoology. We are academics in the towns; all are learned ones." And this bird is telling us, "You have no condition, you have no condition. Don’t walk too quick, you have no condition. You need a condition, you need a condition." And the fifth one was a farmer. Farmer said, "No, no, I know this bird from birth onward." He said, "I know that bird from how I was born." And she says, "The fruits are ripe, the fruits are ripe, collected, the fruits are ripe." Now, in reality, nobody knew what this bird was saying. So you think you understand, but you don’t understand. If you understand just the words of the language, that means you didn’t understand. If I ask you, "Go and bring one flower." Now you understood only the language, but still you didn’t understand the sense of it. In life, there are so many problems in the way of life; we need to overthink and understand. That’s called manana. Manana, overthink, manthana. Manana comes from manthana. Manthana means you have in front of you the milk. Now from the milk you should gain the butter, and in order to gain the butter, you have to churn it. The churning, that process, will bring the butter out. So all kinds of experiences in life, during the whole day, that’s for you like milk. Now you should take the essence out of it. That will then be butter. For that, you have to do manana. Manthana, in order to take butter out, and manana, in order to take out the essence, the sense of that. Svādhyāya. Svādhyāya has two meanings. Generally, understand Svādhyāya means to read some holy books. But here I mean, sva means the self, and adhyāya means the chapter. So, what is written in the chapter of your life? What is existing in your unconsciousness, subconsciousness, in your consciousness, what happened with your life, as far from the past you can remember, all these chapters which are written in your inner self. How many chapters are there? The chapter of your life, and what is written in it? When did that chapter begin, and when did you close it, and you began a new chapter? When you began with someone’s friendship, when the friendship ended, when the enmity began, and when the enemy ended, when did you marry, when did you divorce, and when did you again think to marry? Then why did you divorce? Many, many things are written in your inner chapters, which are connected with a lot of expectations: kāma, krodha, mada, lobha, moha. So, svādhyāya. What do you want? What is your expectation? And what makes difficulties? What are the obstacles there? And how to remove those obstacles? Perhaps you didn’t understand some chapters. So carefully study the chapter again. And abhyāsa means practice, practice, practice to understand, practice to overcome, practice to learn to endure, practice āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, practice forgiveness. We have to practice a lot of things and apply a lot of things in life. So these five days that you have here, you shall utilize for this. Even while walking, you can do svādhyāya and manana. And when you are doing the manana, it’s already a svādhyāya. When you are doing the svādhyāya, it’s already practicing. So you see how all three can be in one time, during walking. So many people are talking about this and that. It seems that book is completely empty; they don’t have any chapters written inside. Or during karma yoga, or during eating, or during washing yourself, during going to sleep. In meditation, during āsanas and prāṇāyāma. This means to settle your life in such a way, a beautiful way. Like you write a book, first you write the Roman script. And then you select good things. And then you settle one after the other chapter in a nice way. Finally, then he happens to find the book. So, we need to settle our life. Yeah, settle down. Our life is not settled. You are still searching. You are still wandering, here and there. With your thoughts, with your feelings, and you are still not satisfied. You are still not settled down. And when you will be settled down, then you will have santoṣa. Peaceful. In such a way that you are now in nivṛtti, pantha, pravṛtti and nivṛtti. Pravṛtti is that still you want to go outside, you are looking for this and that, but suddenly you find your inner peace. And that is indescribable. That satisfaction, that peace is so valuable. You can’t buy that. You can’t pay that much to buy peace and satisfaction. And it is a very peculiar feeling, a very special feeling. The real satisfaction and feeling of peace you cannot describe. And that comes when your life is settled down. So, are you in pravṛtti or nivṛtti? Pravṛtti is this: that still you have to do that, and do this, and do that. Clean one room and clean the second room. Build one house and a second house. One flat and a second flat. And repair the other car, sell the third car, write this book and write that, many, many things. You have work, you have to go to work, come home, and family problems. You are divided yourself into a thousand pieces. As many relations you have, in that many parts you are divided: with all your friends, all the colleagues, with all the acquaintances, all the family members. As many you have, in that many. Many pieces you are divided, but one day it can happen that you are in such harmony with all, and you feel yourself oneness and completeness. If you think, if you will think about yourself in meditation, you will find out in how many pieces you are divided, or you feel completeness. How many wounds you have on your heart, on the inside of your heart walls, the wounds of many unhappinesses, many disappointments, many... Bad words, bad experiences, life is not easy. We are struggling through this life, and therefore you have divided yourself into so many pieces. Sometimes someone takes that piece of you and puts it in the fire, takes it from the fire, and under the hammer, and turning, and if you say, "No, don’t do," you become cold, resistant, hard. Again, in the fire you lose everything. Again, you are flexible. You say yes, okay. Then again comes the hammer on it. How many beats of the hammer are there on you? That’s why there is no development according to our expectations: social, political, religious, families, friends, professions. From how many sides we are often pressed. So where is that happiness? And which happiness? You have divided yourself. So, through the svādhyāya and through the manana and through the bhāṣa, for at least a few days, try to feel yourself as a complete place. So we need this santoṣa, we need this peace within us. We are hiding our reality, we are hiding. We do hide our realities. We have a very beautiful mask over. It seems that we are happy and we are satisfied, but we are not. The happy one’s face is quite a different face. Who has santoṣa has quite a different face. So, look in the mirror tomorrow. Is the bathroom mirror here everywhere or not? Look in the mirror and judge yourself. Good morning, you must go to the mirror and say, "Good morning, myself." This is that bhajana that I am talking about now. That is the bhajana we are talking about. Therefore, try to judge yourself. The light which is reflecting on your face, is that the light of yourself or something different? Because there are many others sitting within your consciousness: in the form of anger, in the form of greed, in many, many different forms. Now, who is today active on your face? Look in the mirror and hunt them away. You should be the kind and invite those guests who do not destroy your house, which doesn’t put fire in the night in your house. That is, you have some guests and you give them a beautiful room. And the guest is not sleeping the whole night, damaging all the walls, making holes everywhere, taking all the furniture, cutting it away, all the clothes and mattresses with a knife, all the curtains with a knife. And all glass, broken windows. And in the bathroom, every tile, with a hammer, broken. And the commode is also broken. Commode, as in Latin, with C, W. When you come in the morning to the room, it looks like a ruin. Oh, God. Such guests I don’t want to have next time. And there are some other guests. When you look in their room the morning after, they are so clean and so nice. So, who is existing in your citta vṛttis now? That’s it. They are leading you. You are not leading them. Therefore, be content and be happy. In life, there should also be happiness. Don’t be sad always. Also, the gods sometimes make nice jokes and are happy. They also are full of the humors. Oh, you know the humors of the gods? When you see the humor of God, you will not understand it at all. The first, you don’t see that because you don’t see them. But the happiness and the humor of God is there. You see it in nature, smiling, and therefore... Śrī Rām Jaya Rām Jaya Jaya Śrī Rām Jaya...