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If you study Vedānta, why do you invest so many thousands, millions, or billions of dollars in other studies? Ultimately, you have to come to Vedānta. To this day, nothing has been researched by so-called modern scientists that was not already spoken or declared in the Śāstras, Vedas, Upaniṣads, and many other scriptures. All the libraries of India are filled with so many literatures, so many! To study one literature might take your whole life. You look into it and you say, "Wow, I did not think like that." It is like someone opens a treasure in front of you—the jewelry, all diamonds and gold and everything. Wow, my God. Such rich wisdom which you can get in India. I doubt that you will find this anywhere else in the world, in any library. Because these are ancient, thousands and thousands of years old. Many poems, poetries, many poets, many writers, many wise persons. So, yoga is that space, Ākāśa. That space is like the body of the mother. That's the cosmic mother. And within that space is that consciousness. Both are not visible. Ākāś bhi āpko nahī̃ dikhegā, aur vohī ātmā kā svarūp hai jise na śāstra kāṭe, na agni jalāve, bujhāve, na pānī, na mṛtyu miṭāve. Woh ākāś ke andar aap kitne bhi golī chhor do, seedh nahīn hogā, kitnī bār chakko ko ghumā do, kahīn bhī usme liṅgit nahīn miṭhegī. Ākāśa ko na jala sakte ho, na kāṭ sakte ho, na seḍh sakte ho, na mita sakte ho, kuch bhī nahīṁ. That is the ātmākār definition. But without that consciousness, that is nothing. So consciousness, you also can't see. You can't touch. You can only think what is there. Between these two, consciousness and space, the consciousness is known as Hiraṇya Garbha, the golden embryo. The womb is the space, the universe, and consciousness is that golden element. Between this, the Śakti is working. And that Śakti begins to awake with the Nāda. Nāda Rūpa Parabrahma. That Nāda, the cosmic sound, is the embodiment of the Brahman, the Supreme. That's why, and that nāda is Oṁ. Akāra, Ukāra, Makāra. Brahma, Viṣṇu, and Śiva, Maheś. Oṁ Kār Vindu Sayuktam Nityadhyāti Yogīna. Kāmaṃ mokṣaṃ caiva. Oṃ kārāya namo namaḥ. Oṁ kī racanā sārī. Everything came out of that sound, exists in the sound, and will merge into the sound. So that is yoga. And this science of yoga was given by the Swayambhū. Out of that nāda manifested light. That's called Śivajyoti, Jīvanjyoti, Paramjyoti, Brahmajyoti. And after that light, then the tattvas begin to develop in what we call the Śiva tattva. So because of that, sound has been created out of that nothingness, like when the sun rises, the sun's rays are spread over the whole earth. Similarly, through that sound, what we call the endless jīva, or whatever you call it. So, we individuals, we are like a drop of water. That's called jīva. And we are in the hand as a drop. That is jīva, and infinity. That's a big, endless ocean; the water is down. But when this jīva drop will fall into the ocean, the ocean is Śiva. Jīva and Śiva kā mel tab hogā when this drop, this soul. The soul is not ātmā. The soul is a bundle of karmic destinies. But the soul has that light like an aura. That is Ātmā. That's why Ātmā and ātmā are called Jīvātmā. And so, after these 8.4 million different creatures, one is the human. And humans have got a very powerful tool, and that's the intellect. But the intellect needs the right education. In this, there are two kinds of knowledge again in the śikṣā. One is called theory, and one is practice. Laksaarti ya vacharti? Vacharti is that one who reads the scriptures, reads the books, and gives the talk. And laksaarti is that who will make the aim: what is the purpose of my life? Who am I? Ko'ham? Katam nidam? Jatam? Ko'va kartasya vidyate? Who am I? From where do I come? Why did I come? What am I doing? And where will I go? Lakṣārthī jo hatā hai, and that one will do the sādhanā, the other not. There is a gentleman sitting, he has an asthma problem. Beside him is sitting his master, yoga teacher, Pushpājī. And she is very expert in yoga. She is giving perfect treatment for asthma, against asthma. And he is meeting her many times, and he is a member of her center. But he does not practice, that is why he has asthma. You have eating with you, but you don't eat. You are hungry, of course. That's why the tons of theory are nothing compared with a gram of practice. Abhyāsyā, abhyāsyā kunte, abhyāsyā. If you had practiced for the last ten years, you would be fifteen years younger than you are now. And asthma, phasthma, kahi chalā jātā. But quality is not there. You need willpower. You are not a Lakṣatī. You are only Vāchārtī. You are sitting on the treasure. With this, the human consciousness needs the right training, right education. And this education is three kinds of education. First, education is with the parents. The child is like a raw material, and parents, they are artists. They can model that material, raw material, as they want. But if the parents don't have that knowledge, then they can't do it. That means your child is a point. That model is a point. You gave birth to such a beautiful child. With which vision? Which feeling? What to do, father? Mother, father, why don't you believe? What else is needed? You should automatically believe because saṁskāras make saṁskāras. Sanskāras can't give your children. They don't need your money; they need your wisdom. And children don't need your toys; they need your love. Nowadays, there is one computer, what you call a laptop. Laptop. Laptop means our lap. Laptop is there, isn't it? And the thing to keep on top of it. But the rights of your lap are with your child, not with that computer. So you remove the child and put the computer there. So where did the laptop go, son? So the laptop went away, the top tip-top became the top tip-top. So first, education is education of the mother and father, brother, sister, and so on—family education. And in the family, you have education of the culture, spirituality, way of life, the relations, the traditions, the relatives. What relations you have with which place, relatives, and so on, social management, secondary school education, that you can get your bread and butter just to survive for existence, that's all. But nowadays, stomach is so big. It doesn't matter how much you earn, still it is empty. Many people get a lot of money paid by employees or the government, but that is just like spices, salt on the vegetable. They want the corruption, the riṣpat. They want that. Now, what they say is that the three things that a servant gets are salt in the flour. They say that the flour is the same that you will give to Ṛṣipat. But salt in the flour works, and flour does not work in the salt. That's why we keep... And the third education then begins: satsaṅg, spiritual education, reading of the ancient literature, wisdom. And when you read the book, any holy book, any ancient philosophical literature, you read. So in Rāja Yoga, there is one called Svādhyāya. Svādhyāya means two. You read the book, Bārcī, and then svayaṁ kā adhyayan. Swam is svayam, adhyan. Not that who am I, but how am I. During meditation, while practicing dhyāna, do not think, "That is bad, this is bad." Guru Nanak said, when you think that the other is bad, no. Others are in second place; you are in first place. Because first you were thinking that is bad. Because you were thinking bad, that's bad. I went to see the bad things, but I didn't find them anywhere, Nānak Sāhib said. But when I searched myself and looked in me, no one is worse than me. And that kind of education and thought, that's why it is said, "Sabhi prāṇī merī ātmā," each and every entity is myself. And ātmā soi paramātmā, that is the paramātmā, the supreme, which has no name, no form, no color, nothing. Brahma-tattva. And for that purpose, spiritual education, there begins your, this physical or this worldly or this spiritual, your practice, that's also yoga. Actually, the yoga, what we call haṭha yoga, āsana prāṇāyāma, is coming to the haṭha yoga and the jñāna yoga. People misunderstand in the Western world as well as in the Eastern world. In the Indian mind, there were always only the Western mind. You've forgotten the Eastern mind. But it is said in the Bible that the sun rises from the east to go to the west. It means the knowledge of the wisdom of the sun, or the sun of the wisdom, rises always from the east. Do you know the wisdom and philosophy of China? Great, great philosophers, wise people. Do you know the Japanese? Do you know Nepal? Do you know Tibet? Tibet is now in China, India, and so on. So, people are always directed purposely. That was blackmailing, which I spoke of before to you. You always said, "Western culture." But ask the West from where God led his culture. That's it. Indians are very clever people sometimes. They say India is a cradle of culture and the mother of all cultures. Then, alright, why do you blame the Western culture? It is your brother's sister culture, isn't it? But though it is the culture which is coming out of Indian culture, that culture has created a wrong environment, wrong education. And due to this wrong education, if you would have had a good education, you would have become a great saint. But you got the education of the pickpocket, so now you are like that. Though you are both children of one parent, children of one parent. One mother gave birth. One of her sons became a self-realized saint. The second became the king, the third became a beggar, and the fourth became a hunter, killing the animals'sin. Maa ek hiye, one maa means one mother and one father, but kismat and education. Everyone has that destiny. After birth, you go in different directions. Still, eating is not completed. They think it is a one-part portion of the eating. The first course has come now, the second will come, the third will come. The first course was the rotī, second course was dāl bāṭī, third course was some sweet, but the main menu, rice, is not here. And northern Indians, when... They go to South India, they get idli, dosa, this, that, but they think, "When will come the chapati? Roti kabāyegī?" So we should not force that you should practice only this kind of yoga. Some practice Haṭha Yoga. Now, so-called in the modern world, people call Haṭha Yoga only āsanas and pranāyāma, which is not Haṭha Yoga. It is a part of Rāja Yoga. Hatha yoga is called ṣaṭ karma: netī, dhautī, bastī, naulī, and tratak. Netī is cleaning of the nose, dhautī is cleaning of the alimentary channel. We have eight-meter-long intestines in our stomach. Eight meters long intestines go up to the wall. Now, the creatures which are non-vegetarian, the animals that eat meat, their intestines are small. And the green animals that God has created, their intestines are very long. Because they take time to digest the meat and to come through. That's why cancer, and this and that, many diseases. That's why Mṛśa Hari and Śaka Hari, two types of beings, have been created. But humans are left in the middle. Once someone came to Gurujī and said, "Gurujī, should we eat meat or not?" Gurujī said, "No, no, we should not eat." What do you know, Mahārāj? Mahārāj, a lion eats a lion's meat. Yes, he asked Gurujī, "One man came and asked Gurujī, 'Should one eat meat or not?'" Gurujī said, "No." And he said, "What do you know? How do you know?" Meat, the tiger eats, the lion eats, the strength is there. And who is eating just grass? He is like a goat and rabbits and this and that. Babaji said, "There is a dog. Does it eat meat? Yes." Does it eat rice? Yes. Does it eat bread? Yes. Does it eat curd? Yes. Does it eat milk? Yes. Does it eat everything? Yes. And a lion? Does it eat bread? No. Does it eat vegetables? No. Does it eat only meat? Yes. Then where do you eat? Do you eat only meat? Do you eat bread, vegetables, spices? The one who eats everything is a dog. So these are the things which are, that non-vegetarian creatures, they mostly or 100% eat only non-vegetarian. But those creatures which are created for the vegetarian, they will eat only the vegetarian. But humans have changed their habit. They are very clever, eating everything. And when everything is eating, then I don't want to tell the world, which is, you will be angry when I tell. So, let's have a break here for that. So in this way, haṭha yoga: neti, cleaning of the nose; dhauti, cleaning of the food channel; nauli is the churning of the stomach, muscles strengthening; and so, basti, cleaning of the intestines; tratāka is the concentration practice on the flame or on the spot or on the leaf of the grass or blade of the grass, and so on. Concentration and kapālbhāti. This is the prāṇāyāma technique. Difference between kapālbhāti and vastrika. But this will tell your yoga teacher what is the difference. Sometimes people are doing vastrika and saying, "I am doing kapālbhāti." And somebody is doing kapālbhāti and says, "I am doing bhastrikā." It is a very slight difference, but there is a difference. There is definitely a difference between petrol and diesel. True? So similarly, there is a difference between petrol, diesel, and kerosene. So there is a difference between bastrika, kapālbhāti, and also ujjāyī. Many are doing differently, so yoga is such a perfect technique and balanced. You must know exactly. Otherwise, go ahead doing better than nothing. But if you want to achieve this, then your master has to be strict with you, and you have to keep it. That's why in the world, yoga in daily life is so much appreciated and accepted. And how many thousands of people are teaching further the yoga in daily life? Because that is a system. Like you go from kindergarten, nursery school, to higher education, to the university, very systematically. Otherwise, what will happen? Sorry to say, it's like Āyurveda. Ayurveda still hasn't gotten the place in the world as a recognized medicine. Because in India, everyone is Ayurvedic, everyone is giving some medicine. Everyone says, "Eat neem, eat karela, eat this," but in allopathic medicine, no one can do like this. You cannot sell the injection, you cannot give the injection, and you cannot sell the medicine. It is a strictly controlled system. So Ayurveda needs that the government of India controls completely, and only that person is authorized to prescribe and give the treatment of Ayurveda. Otherwise, nowadays in the world, Ayurveda has become a kind of side business, and in Western countries, Ayurvedic medicine you can only bring as a food supplement. That's all. Why? Because it has no control. Similarly, around the world, yoga has also become like that. Everyone is calling this kind of yoga, this kind of yoga. Someone is calling, it's called wine yoga. When you come to the yoga class, someone comes with a tray, glass, wine, so you just drink and then say, "Lie down and relax." Yes. And then after practices, you all sit together. Must not be a big glass, a little, see, but offering you the wine. So they said, "Yes, wine yoga." I said, "Why do you drink the wine?" He said, "The wine during practice makes us divine." You see? So, everybody, "jiski lāṭhī, jiski bhains," but yoga and daily life, it is the system, you can't miss anything. If you are doing something out of it, you are doing wrong, and you have no success. And those who are only just utilizing yoga and daily life, and they don't practice themselves, they are lost. They are in a lost nothingness. They have doubt in themselves. They have doubt in others. And they are mentally completely in other phenomena. Therefore, you have to practice technique, perfect technique. Everyone can pull the hand lorry, everyone can pull the cycle here and there, but my dear, when you have to take a jumbo jet with 300 passengers in your flight, sitting in you, in your flight, so many luggages, and tells you, "Please, pilot, come in the cockpit and I'll take off the flight." Only that pilot can take off comfortably and bring you exactly centimeter to centimeter to the landing place again. That is a pilot. I am wrong? Otherwise, we will sit and they will say, "Swamijī, you are our Gurujī, please sit in the cockpit. We are singing bhajan, Guru Dev, take off." Let's go, Guru. Chalo, Sagona antar jami mein chalu sa lokalaj sab taj kekpana. Lokalaj sab taj dhar ke vairagan be, dhar ke vairagan be. Sa guruvara meṅ ca lūsa yun de antara jamī meṅ ca lūsa un uniyo deśa meṅ janma marnā karma kalaṅka nahīṅ le. Uniyo deśa meṅ harāma kalaṅka nahīṅ le. Jīvanamukti prāpta hamako. Jeevanamukti brahmānandahame, Brahmānanda Hame, Sagguru Vara Me, Chalun Sa Unade Antar Jami Me, Chalun Uniyo Desh Me, Akhand Ujala Chandra Sūrajanai Le, Uniyo Desame Yakanda Uja Chandra Sūrajanai Ses. Aage kya va? Dayāsa man bhave phira nahī janma dare, Prabhudeepa kahepada yasa man phira nai janama dhare. Sadarasiṅghāsana yāpa je sadarasiṅghāsana. Satguru Dev is a pilot of the satsaṅg. Not a pilot of the aeroplane, when I will come and sit in the cockpit and I will say, "Yes, relax, I will take off," he will say, "Swāmījī, can we stay tonight here?" So that's it: practice, knowledge. So yoga in daily life is that technique, that kind of system, which is designed in such a way according to modern psychology, physiology, and yogīs, and in yogic science, so practice yoga in daily life. So now, abhyāsa, abhyāsa, adhyāya, svādhyāya, svādhyāya, look within thyself. Hatha Yoga is also not the Ṣaṭkarma. Classically, Haṭha Yoga has a different definition. Here is the moon and that is the sun, Iḍā and Piṅgalā. Hatha, when both are balanced by Anulom Vilom after Nāḍī Śodhana Prāṇāyām, Anulom Vilom, that time when the balance is on both, Iḍā and Piṅgalā, then the Suṣumnā awakens, that's called Yoga. So, hatha yoga. So through that practicing of the hatha yoga, the purification of body, mind, and consciousness, then you can achieve the level of that consciousness where the individual consciousness will flow to the cosmic consciousness. Where the prāṇa and apāna unite together in the Maṇipūra Chakra, in Nābhi, and from there the consciousness begins to flow out. So this we will talk about tomorrow. Today, it is already time. So, the aim of human life, the purpose of human life, is self-realization. Be the protector, not the destructor. Therefore, the great ṛṣi said in the Upaniṣad with us, Śānti, Śānti, Śāntir Bhavatu, Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Ekī.