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We are still at the beginning of the Patañjali Sūtras. Again, Patañjali is saying to his disciples, "Good morning, dear children." Patañjali again says to his disciples, "Good morning, my children. Ātma Yoga Anuśāsana." Did you follow the disciplines I told you about yesterday? I told you to greet Swāmījī from afar, to say "Hari Om Swāmījī." You’ve forgotten that. You didn’t follow the discipline. Viveka is very important. Viveka is used for common sense: when and what to do. Kada i šta činiti. I told you a few times one example: Tudyatok, nehainsor mar montam asta pildat. In Sanskrit language, "na" means "one horse." Senda is a horse, and senda also means salt. When you are sitting at the dining table and you tell the person, "Please bring me senda," and you tell someone to bring you a sandwich... The restaurant is on the 12th floor. Then the cook will say, "Well, I can’t bring a horse till here." The cook can answer, "I can’t bring you a horse on the 12th floor." Or he brings the horse near the table and says, "Sir, here is your sandal." Or when you are going somewhere and you ask, "Please bring me sandal," and he brings salt instead of bringing the horse. So, how do you use the viveka? That’s very important. How to use the viveka according to the situation, according to the need. So common sense one must have, but vivekā doesn’t function. Because you don’t listen. Maybe you are listening, but you don’t want to understand. And if you understand, you are not able to digest. Or you can digest, but you are very lazy, sleepy... So listen to the Guruvākī carefully. And every sentence, logically try to understand. I told you in the last meeting that there would be no more consultations, and the organizers came to me yesterday and said, "Swāmījī, should we make a list now because you said there would be consultations?" So the problem is there where we don’t understand. Ask yourself, do you want to understand or not? We only want to understand the things that we like. And things which you like, and you want to understand, even when it speaks half a sentence, you will say, "Yes, yes, I know." And when someone talks about what you want to understand, what you like, and half of the sentence is clear to you, you say, "Yes, yes, it is clear to me." So, discipline in thinking, discipline in understanding. Discipline in receiving and discipline in perceiving. Discipline is needed in receiving as well as giving. Many times, you have to filter the things. Someone tells someone, "Stupid guy." But that guy doesn’t understand. Thank God. And he asks you, "What did he say?" Don’t say that he said, "Stupid guy." Now use your viveka. Use the discipline of Viveka. Now, immediately, you should filter. "No, he said something is not important." So you see, immediately your vivekā filters the things. So your viveka is filtering your thoughts. But if you say it’s not my coffee, it’s his problem, it means you don’t care. And you don’t care because you have no vivekā. Who has viveka will say, "Sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ," all should be happy. But how can all be happy when you transmit the message that one said to you, "stupid guy"? Az álmodozó. Je, ono sanyalica. Remember, I often talk about the daydreamer. Tāgīs Dhaīmav. Many questions you should solve yourself. Use and develop your viveka, and learn how to develop the viveka. And how do you develop your vivekā? Be independent. If you are dependent on something or someone, then you will not develop your viveka. It means try to learn to take the decision yourself. And if you have no discipline in order to make decisions, then you will suffer. So, discipline is very important. So, take the decision. Should I take the red dress, or should I take the blue dress? What do you think, Swamiji? I will take, say, the yellow dress. But that color, I don’t like. Then why do you ask me? You have your likes and dislikes. And still you ask others. So what should I study? Ask yourself. What should I learn? Ask yourself. It is very easy for me to say what you should study, but it is very hard for you. It is very easy for me to tell you, "Go and catch the tiger." For me, it is very easy to say, but for you, it is very hard to go and catch the tiger. Then we will see who gets whom first. Therefore, learn to make your own decisions. Learn to make decisions on your own, so use your common sense. That’s very important, and that’s discipline. So don’t decide that Swamiji said, "You decide," and I decide it. Think it over. First, think over. Don’t say that Swamijī said you should decide, and I decided this way. Think over. Here, Swamījī said that I will decide, so here I have decided. First, think well about it. There is a lot of snow and icy roads. And the radio says, "Please, if it is possible, then don’t drive today." And he said, "But I must go, because Swāmījī said all should come to satsaṅg." And he said, "I must come, so I will definitely come." Again, here, following Guru Vakya is blind. You didn’t use your viveka now. That accident can happen. So don’t go, don’t drive the car. You can call or send a message next time. "I’m sorry I couldn’t come because of the road condition, that’s all." So learn to make self-decisions. Common sense. Józanés. Zdrav razum. So, viveka is very important. Discipline means not only that every day you should practice. Also, discipline in dressing. Discipline in eating, cooking, everything. So it is a mental order. You have to order the things in your mind. Make order in everything: in your emotional life, in your mental life, in your conscious life, in your intellectual life, in your material life, in your social life. First, make order. First, do things right in your spiritual life, in your social life, in your material life, in your work life. Atha Yoga Anuśāsana. So yogīs are they, and yoga begins, and yoga can be successful if you follow the disciplines. But at the same time, the disciple may be asking the master: "Master, why is discipline so difficult?" I told many things now, but many of you understood only half a percent. Why? Because you didn’t want to understand. I told you before, you don’t understand because you don’t want to understand. Don’t think that you are a diamond, but just be a diamond. It’s very easy, but we can’t. Because we can’t give up thinking that I am a diamond. How can they compare me with just a seed of the cherry? Toj problem. If you compare your wife with some other wife, the other one is more beautiful. Or you compare other men with your husband. Perhaps the other one is better than this one. Kṛṣṇa vā Rāma? Who is better, Kṛṣṇa or Rāma? Both are best. The problem is in you, my dear. So, use your vivekā not to compare things. In this matter, just be. That’s all. Be a good wife. That’s all. Be a good husband. That’s all. So be a diamond. Don’t worry how they will perceive you, how they will receive you. If they say you are a cherry seed, okay. How nice. Cherries are tasty. They are sweet. Your stomach can be full, the tree will be beautiful, with beautiful blossoms. Many birds will enjoy it, people will sit under the tree, and you take one cherry, put it in your mouth, and you bite the cherry. The cherry juice is exploding in the mouth. How fresh, refreshing. Ijen fris. Sweet. Frisit, edes. And can you bite the diamond? Don’t do this mistake. Nāhaṁ kartā he bāt ne keveś del. Without being a fool, you cannot be wise. Someone has to be stupid. That our viveka can decide. Between the stupid one and the good one, just be there. So the problem begins when we begin to make the comparison. As soon as you make a comparison with anything, you will have the biggest problem in your mind, and that will bring dualism, duality. Mihail, you are starting to compare this. The biggest problem in your mind is duality. It can be a car. It can be shoes. It can be cloth. It can be anything in this world. So, Patañjali says very clearly in his next sentence. Because the discipline is not so easy. Why? Because there are too many thoughts in the mind. Therefore, after Yoga Anuśāsana, after Yogaḥ Citta Vṛtti Nirodhaḥ, therefore, my friend, order, control your thoughts. There are many choices. And now, when there are many choices, you are obliged to make distinctions. When you begin to make the differences, then you must make comparisons. Then you will not come to the calculation. Kalkusin, you can only come if you will order your thoughts. Okay, I want this and finish, that’s all. And then you say, "That’s what I want," and you come home. Perhaps I should have taken the green one. Again, the vṛttis are there. So, yogaḥ citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ. For the development in your yogic life, you should control and put in order your thoughts. Your thoughts make you a king. Your thoughts make you greater. Your thoughts make you a beggar. Your thoughts make you the happiest. Your thoughts make you miserable, and your thoughts make you suffer. And therefore, it is said, nobody should do what his mind is forcing him to do. Do not walk on that path which your mind tells you to. Because the mind is very quickly changing. So decide from your viveka. Decide from your heart. Otherwise, it is a lie. In everything that we see in this world, as much as joy we see, that much sorrow is in that also. When you are happy to have something, then you should be prepared to suffer for that if it is gone, or lost, or broken, or destroyed. Happiness, the joy, does not develop strength in your psyche. It makes your psyche weaker. And to face the separation, you need the strength. And that’s why the separation is harder, more painful, and more sorrowful than the joy of that thing. Because out of that happiness, you forgot everything. And you are not working for the future now. You are blinded by this temptation, just temporarily. And that is only to pass the time. Again, the sorrows will come. It is said, "When the birds have eaten your filth, why are you unhappy now?" You should have taken care before the birds could enter your filth. Now they ate, and they flew away. And now you are unhappy and crying. It doesn’t help you, my dear, to cry. You should have been careful before that. If the birds have already eaten your feed, then why are you crying now? You should have been more careful before they ate you, so that the birds wouldn’t get to your land. But now they have eaten you, they flew away, my dear. Why are you crying now? Why are you sad and unhappy after the birds have eaten your feed? You should have thought about it earlier and prevented them from entering your field. Therefore, try to put your life in order. First, try to make yourself independent. Only be dependent on one thing. And that is our daily nourishment. That we are eating every day. If we don’t eat, we will be ill and die. So we are depending on our food, that’s all. Otherwise, we should not depend on anyone. Even do not depend only on God. God will do all. I sit here. What do you think? Is God your slave, that He will do all? What’s wrong? You are just sitting there, lazy one? Da vi lenyo sedite, onda sve radi? No. Nem. Ne. You have to do it. You need to do it. All that you want and need, you have to do it. Sve što želite, vi morate uraditi. God gave you a beautiful body: two legs, two hands. He gave you something very beautiful between two ears to utilize for your life. He gave you something between two ears to do everything. Utilize this one. This part is very important. When someone makes a mistake and doesn’t know what to do. Then we said, "He doesn’t have something between two years." There is nothing between the two ears, the brain. The daydreamer must use this part. Use your viveka. Citta vṛtti nirodha. We shall do nirodha of everything. Nirodha means control. Control means not discrimination; control means to harmonize. Control means to make free. Vṛtti, vṛtti... All life becomes like that, as you think and what you are doing. You are doing what you are thinking. But you are not thinking about what you are doing. That’s the problem. You are thinking, and then you begin to do. As soon as you begin to do something, you are thinking differently already. You are thinking to get food, and you get nice vegetables and rice on the plate. And you were thinking to get rice and vegetables to enjoy your food. Food is on the plate. You begin to eat. And you are already thinking about pudding afterwards. But now you are already thinking about the pudding, which will come later. So actually, mentally, you are eating pudding with rice. So we are doing what we are thinking, but we are not thinking what we are doing. And that creates life in us. And that means you are not able to answer all your questions. Therefore, simply be diamond. Be humble. Be kind. Be independent. Be your own master. You are the master. So who has mastery over the thoughts and everything is the master. The word Swāmī. Swami means the honor. Swamiji as Trampī. Znači, gospod House lord, landlord. Swamiji means the husband, Swamiji, aferi. He doesn’t own his wife, you know. I didn’t mean it in this way. So, Swamī means the master. Master of his body and mind, master of his thoughts. Master of his feelings. Whoever, he or she, who has mastered everything is a master. And you have these abilities. Only to call names Swāmī or Sādhvī doesn’t help you. You will see millions of sādhus at the Kumbha Melā. They are called svāmīs. And I am always so sorry. They are just doing nothing. I call them a machine for destroying the food. If all these millions of sādhus who are just doing nothing and only smoking the gañjā and hashish, if they will work on the road, the Indian roads will be much better. Śrī Śrī... They say, first we have to get food, we have to get presents, we have to get gifts, like we owe them something. That example is not about the Kumbha Melā; this is an example with you all. Some of you are behaving like that, and I always smile. I observe many of you through the windows. How he is sitting, how he is standing, how he is behaving with others. We put the camera here, you know? I see it in my room. How is someone sitting like this, and so they can’t hear? You know? Very interesting. So, how do you think? So, how you think is how you behave. But now, how you behave, you don’t think like that. With vivekā. Logical thinking. Think. Think for the situation, for all. When you drive your car, you must be alert 100% to what’s happening in every direction. I would say 6 pravaca. The condition of the road is the downward direction. Upward direction, upper direction. So this body is a car, and you are the driver, and you are driving on this worldly road, this slippery road. Please follow this spiritual path of life. When the British have ordered our life in such a way that we feel relaxed, comfortable, and peaceful, then life becomes very easy and spiritual development takes place. Tadā draṣṭuḥ svarūpeṇa avasthānam. That time the seer becomes one with his or herself. Akkor a látó eggyé válik önmagával. Tika za suvṛtti smireni, tada vidioc postaje jedno sa vlastitim sobstvom. That time one becomes one with self. Akkor az ember eggyé válik önmagával. Your state of being is as you think. If you think happy, then you will be happy. If you think you are unhappy, you will be happy. If you think you are a thief, you will become a thief one day. And if you think of mokṣa and self-realization, then one day you will have mokṣa. Tadadraṣṭu Saurūpeṇa Vastānam. It’s a very beautiful saying, and so next time we will speak more about this matter. Time is over. Time has run out. Many of you have a train to catch. I was saying to Mahāprabhujī, this weekend, please, no snow. Before I came here, I said to Śrī Devpurījī, "Remain seated on your Kailāśa mount." Don’t stand up and dust your dress. Whenever it’s snowing, I’m thinking. As I understand, Devpurījī is just dusting himself. That’s Vibhūti of Śrī Devpurījī. To je Vibhūti. So I wish you all the best, and think what I told you. It is time to be careful. It is time to wake up. And to whom you are talking, you must think a thousand times over, please. Do not think that you are a diamond, but be a diamond, and the joy of the joyous is much lesser than the sorrows. So be independent, get answers to all your questions, and put your life in order, and arrange your life.