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Good evening, dear sisters and brothers in this hall, and to all spiritual seekers, practitioners of any path, and practitioners of yoga in daily life. The blessing comes to you from a beautiful place: the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Welcome. I am happy to be with you through this webcast. We continue with the subject from yesterday, which we could not finish due to technical problems: Yoga, Spirituality, and Religions. These are very important subjects in the world today, especially two points: first, what is called spirituality, and second, what is called religion. Yoga connects more to spirituality. Yoga is the science of body, mind, consciousness, and soul. It is very ancient. The yoga śakti, or power, accompanied by spiritual light, began according to the yugas, or ages, in Satyayuga. We have to see and read different, very ancient literatures. One of our most ancient is the Vedas, the philosophy or science of Yoga Vedānta, Vedic culture, or Vedic time. There is an explanation about the trinity: the creator, protector, and liberator. The liberator is known as Śiva. Shiva means consciousness, pure universal consciousness. Shiva means that beauty of the entire universe, which includes all stars, millions of solar systems, planets, suns, moons, visible and invisible elements, as well as empty space. That empty space is compact with consciousness; that's called cosmic consciousness. Though it is empty for our physical eyes, there is immense energy existing, immense tendencies are there. From time to time, it manifests or changes in different functions as a central point of that endless universe, of which we do not know the beginning or the end. The central point is like a navel. For example, the manifestation of our body begins from one bindu, one dot, one point: that is the navel. There is a seed of consciousness there, which is called God, or Viṣṇu, or fire, surrounded by the element water, nourished through the element of the wind—which gives the possibility to move and protect it—and begins to manifest through the earth. The five elements: space, fire, air, water, and earth. Our life begins from that bindu, from that dot or point. That is the center point of our being, and there is the seat of that consciousness. Similarly, the center point of the universe is one dot, where the first awakening or manifestation takes place. That is called resonance, the sound. In the Vedas, which are the most ancient, it is told: nāda-rūpa-parabrahma. If you want to know the form of that universal God, it only resonates the sound. As far as you go in space, we can only go with our astral body. The astral body is not affected by any weather conditions. It is beyond this planet of ours. It can penetrate through rocks, waters, fires, anything. It cannot be destroyed. At that time, yogīs, which are ages millions of years old—you can tell when you read about the yugas; it is a science. As written in the Vedas, it is clearly written when the sun was created or came into existence, and how long the life of this sun is, exactly counted, and the moon, and so on. From that kendra, the center, the vibration awakes: the sound we call nāda. This sound is still everywhere. Each and every cell in your body, every tiny cell, has immense vibration, the sound. That is life. It is very hard to say if the soul is there, or consciousness is there, or what is life, what is this energy or prāṇa. Their first awakening is called nāda. A yogī declares this Oṁ, the three levels of the sound, and these three manifest the three nītis. The first is Oṁ: Akāra, Ukāra, Makāra. The seat of the sound is here in our navel. Whenever you speak, any word first moves your navel, then comes to the whole body. At that time when the nāda awoke, called yoga śakti, it is that energy that keeps the entire universe living. The space is like a mother's body, and that energy inside, or the cosmic consciousness, is like an embryo, and that energy is life. These are three. Space is the womb of the mother. Consciousness is the embryo, and that energy is life. That is called Hiraṇya Garbha. Hiraṇya means gold, the golden embryo. If we come to the point of religion, in Christianity also, they give more attention towards an egg, especially at Easter time. What do you call it? An Easter egg. A rabbit and an egg, though we know a rabbit doesn't give an egg. But is it difficult for us to combine both? That egg is the entire universe, that vibration inside, energy, life. So when you destroy the egg, you are destroying the life. From that golden embryo, when the sound awakes, and with that awakes the jyoti, the flame, the light, the beautiful blue light. That blue light is nothing but a concentrated resonance, the energy. From this, it is said, Śiva is manifesting. So Shiva is one; no one has created him, neither father nor mother. He just manifested himself. He is the first creator in the entire universe, Brahmā. Then, let's say in our language, began the parliament, began the protocol. So Shiva gave the duty to Brahmā to create this beautiful earth planet and other planets, and to Vishnu to protect. Vishnu had to make the tapasyā, fire. Fire, and out of his fire, tapasyā, came the water, and now he's residing in the ocean. Water, fire cannot exist without fire or water. The fire tattva is in the water. Strong water is, fire is inside. But don't think of this kind of fire which we... have here, the candle flame. There are many different kinds of fires you can't even see. How many kinds of fires? Let's begin to count. This physical fire with fuel, oxygen, we are putting—this is a fire, physical fire, agni, yes, Sanskrit agni. Then is the fire of anger, that's a fire, burning. Many, many healthy tissues in the body are burnt. Then the fire of jealousy, jalana, night and day is boiling you, like you boil potatoes in hot water. That's jealousy. Only a jealous person knows. And to whom or to what you are jealous, you don't like that. And what you don't like is constantly in your mind. How interesting. Yamunā, no? Yes. Jealousy. Hate is the flames of the fire. Krodha Agni, Īrṣā Agni, Jāṭhara Agni. The fire, the digestive fire. Even the laziest of the lazy person, when he is hungry, will get up and go to the kitchen to search for something to eat. All creatures in their stomach have the Jāṭhara Agni, the fire, and we would like to calm down the fire. We need to put something inside, and that's what we call nourishment: the solid, the liquid, the mental nourishment, the environmental nourishment. Thinking is nourishment, movement is nourishment, inhalation is nourishment, everything. We are nourishing to calm down that fire of hunger: physical hunger, mental hunger, intellectual hunger, spiritual hunger, the hunger for positions, and what, and what, and what? No, that's a fire. Kāmāgni, the passion. Desires awake, that is also fire. You would like to calm down this fire. Krodha, then it's called Chitāgni. You know what is Chitāgni? Chitāgni is a fire in the crematorium, where you burn the body. When the bodies, some are burning and some are burning. There are four kinds of last ceremonies. Either you burn it with wood, and one who sees the chitā-agni will make praṇām, adore. Because one day you will be there too. And as this jasal is purified, this fire, chitā-agni. But we don't want to see every day, then burning in the earth. So one man who is making pots brought some clay, black clay, to make pots, ceramics. He was putting water and mixing this earth, meeting and throwing it up and down. The earth is telling the potter, who is making the pots. The earth says: Māti kahe kumhār ko. This earth is telling the potter, "Tū kyā roondhe mohe? What are you torturing me?" Ek din aisā āegā, one day will come. I will torture you in me, burying some beliefs. The dead body, we should just put it in the water, and so there are some other creatures that may get nourishment, fish or something. And the fourth, in the Parsi tradition, religion, cultures, those who believe this, Confucius, they just put the body in the forest so that birds and animals will eat. In many countries, Parsis ask that council to give them some place where they can put the dead bodies. In a big city like Mumbai, there is a big, big house and a big roof. So they just put it there, and there comes this, what you call the gaya, visagman, the gaya, vultures. Well, chitāgni. Then comes havanāgni, yajña, fire ceremonies. Everyone is praying. Rare to see this. Chitāgni. These are different kinds of Chitāgni, Jyoti, the flame on the altar. And then there is Jīvan Jyoti Agni, your life flame, which is constantly burning. As long as the cosmic mother will nourish, this light will burn. So it is said, O Lord, this world, my body is just like a pot, a lamp, and your life, prāṇa, you give me is the oil, and my consciousness, my sūkṣma, is weak. Lord, I am burning day and night to give light to others. I am burning. It doesn't matter; sometimes it's difficult, sometimes it's easier. And so, let me, Lord, even if I have to go through the fire, let me serve the world and protect everyone. Give them the light, and then it's called Chakṣu Jyoti. Through your eyes, what you see, this flame, this light, your soul is looking through your eyes. And on the day when the prāṇa goes out of the body, you can't see any reflection in the eyes. Otherwise, you see, like in this laptop, you see the picture. You can see the pictures in your eye. Populate the agnis. Now, this one agni is also called the Lava Agni, Vulcan, and then it's called Dava Agni. Dava Agni is when there is minus or very low temperature and the wind blows; it burns the leaves of the trees. And you see suddenly, like it's burnt. So, where this fire is, according to that it is. Now, different time, different kind of fire used, in which connection fire is there, with good connection or bad connection. Now, one example more. There is an agarbatī, incense. We take it and we burn it and we put it on the altar or somewhere, a good place to get a good smell. We take care. But the same fire gets another connection, saṅgha, it means the society. The same fire when you light it on the cigarette. After smoking, the end of the piece of that fire with your shoes, you, what you call it, you extinguish it, you stub it off. Why did this happen to that fire? Because that fire got the company of the tobacco. That fire got the company of the agarbatti, yajña, and so on. Agni, agni, the entire universe is nothing but a piece of fire. Inside is the energy. And that time, when Śiva from this jyoti... so, my dear, there are many different kinds of fire; it's not only this fire. So, which kind of fire you have, that is very important. So, when someone is very angry, he or she is sitting in the burning flame like chitāgni. And then someone comes, your good wife comes and she says, "My dear husband, please, peace, peace, śānti, śānti." We make again this fire, calm, śānti, śānti. Those who have a good kind of fire, jñāna-agni, that is also fire, jñāna-agni, the fire of wisdom which supports, enlightens, and illuminates everything. So, as far as you have calmness in your heart, peace, and are thinking with your intellect in a positive way, jñāna-agni awakens. And the jñāna is the second form of the god Śiva. And when Śiva manifested, he came and sat in meditation. So it doesn't matter where you meditate, in the temple, in the ashram, in the mosque, in the church, in the forest, on the beach, or anywhere. When you meditate, close your eyes. Now you are Śiva-svarūpa. You are one in that Śiva. If you believe or not, it is that Śiva-svarūpa. So yoga begins from that time for the well-being of the entire universe and for the now well-being of this planet. Yoga means union, and yoga means that again coming together. Yoga, Sanyoga. Now you came here today. Which energy brought us together? There are so many thousands of people living here on the Gold Coast, but why just you? And there are many Indians living here, but why this one Indian? So this is what we have: yog, sanyog, some past lives, relations, connections. Sometimes, somewhere we have seen us. And we have to repeat again. We will repeat again and again, don't worry. If you don't like me now, don't worry. Some other life, again I will say, "Hello, how are you?" With a long beard, someone is sitting here, very near. Oh, my dear, how are you? Now, two come together, meeting, you know, meeting. Two meetings means one day. That is yoga. So when Krishna left this world, then all his disciples, Gopīs and Gopas, the Gopīs were sad, crying. The women have great emotion, love, and clarity. The Gopīs were asking one of the disciples of Krishna, Yudha; his name was Gop. And one gopī said, that's called viraha. Viraha kī agni, that is also agni. Viraha, you know what is viraha? Viraha means longing. When your beloved one is somewhere and you are waiting, when will they come, when will they come? Or a small child is waiting at home, "When will mother come? When will mother come?" You know, this love, viraha. Vīrakī agni, that is as strong as the agni of anger. So only that one knows who is in love; others don't know. A great saint, Meera, she said very nicely in Vīrā, longing for Kṛṣṇa. Mera dharad na jane koi. Nobody knows my pain. Mera dharad na jāne koī. Only that one knows who had this love, this relation, these connections. And it is beautiful, but that is also suffering. Day and night we are praying to God, you know, and some people say, "Why are they praying so much?" Because our pain, nobody knows. Our longing, nobody knows. Mera dharad na jaane koi, dharad ki maari bandband dolu. Full of pain. I am just wandering from one forest to another forest, to the desert, to here and there. Dharad kī mārī bandband dolu. Aur merā dharad na jāne koī. Where will I find my beloved one? That is called a burning desire, a longing. So the gopī says to the Yādava, "Hai Yādava, O Yādava," He was a good friend or disciple of Kṛṣṇa. "Hai Yudhava, hame batadu. Now tell us, now tell us, Yog se kya vyog kam hai?" Always you were talking about yoga. Yoga means coming together, yoga means separation. What is the difference between yoga and separation? Why? Because when there is yoga, you are one, not two. The street of love is so narrow, two cannot walk together. Two have to become one. That is pure love. Where there are two, there is duality, and one day, sooner or later, you will say, "My dear, we are already six, seven years together. I think we should separate. Bye-bye," because there was no love. But the relation of mother and child cannot say, the mother cannot say, "I'm sorry, you were so long in my stomach, and I have you, my child, but I don't want you anymore. You can go where you want, away." But the relation, the feelings of the love of the mother and the child, and once a child says, "Mother, I will do everything for you. Nothing is mine; everything is yours. Mother, I will do everything for you." Mother, even you will need one day; I will make the shoes from my own skin. And mother said, "My child, it's not your skin, it's my skin." So what skin you have is your mother's skin, my dear. But you are not a mother, so you don't feel it. You are a father. Here, sitting are many mothers who know what it is. So those who have oneness with God know what that oneness is, what that love is. Those whose consciousness merges in Gurudev's mercy, they know what that is. He Uddhav, hamē batādo, yog se kyā vyog hai, kām hai. When separation, I am alone. When meeting, I am alone. What is the difference? The main thing is to be one. No two, no duality, oneness. Yogīyoṅ kī bāṅmeṅ kutyā. The yogīs are living in the forest. There they are searching for you. But Lord, you will live in the heart of the yogī who is separated, who is alone, who is unhappy. He is searching you, that Vairāgiṇī, in our heart. So God is there. So meditation is the form of Śiva. It doesn't matter in which form you meditate, active meditation, passive meditation, creative meditation. And finally, it is their oneness because that came, brought the meditation. After that, yoga, but we developed slowly, slowly for physical health, for good concentration, and you see how good was Śiva. He gave us everything. If you are healthy, you want to practice this. You want to have good concentration because you will not have good concentration in Kali Yuga. So take with. When the child is going somewhere, or the children are going for a picnic, then a good mother gives the lunch pocket with. No? Say, "I don't need mommy." Say, "Yes, my child." But after two hours walking in the forest, ah, I'm hungry. Thank you, Mom, you gave me the sandwich. Takes it out and begins to eat. There is no knowing how good a mother is at taking care of us. Similarly, that cosmic mother, she takes care of us, my dear, with each and every breath. So, there is yoga, exercises, relaxation, breath techniques, and many, many more for the well-being of our body, mind, and our soul. But finally, we have to achieve that point. Now, the second point comes: spirituality. Spirituality means purity. When there is love, it comes, and where there is hate, it goes. Means purity, pureness, then everything is beautiful. And when that love is gone, then everything is unpleasant; everything is disturbing because hate came. So that love of God, love to God, love for every creature, love for nature, love for this beautiful planet is spirituality, pure love, pure thinking, not tricky. When a tricky love is, that is not a love; that is a trick, that is selfishness. So purity, crystal clear, transparent, a beautiful sky without pollution or without fog. You look at midnight, wow, how beautiful the stars are, there is no pollution. You don't see it in Gold Coast. So much light here, so you don't see the clear sky. But go about a thousand kilometers into the middle of Australia, and in the night, look, my God. When we were on the tour in April, we traveled through the desert from Adelaide to Uluru, or Ayers Rock. We were camping somewhere in the night, with nothing—no cars, no water, no frogs. Only the sound of the stars you could hear. The silence is loud. The quick is loud. That silence is a different loudness. You feel oneness with something beautiful—stars, beautiful. That is a purity because there is no pollution, none. Cars, no dust, no smokes, there is no pollution, and beautiful. So that purity is spirituality. And your spirituality doesn't need that you must be believing this god or that god, and that's very good. But spirituality means purity. In your heart, pure, pure thinking, even good relation to the plants, good relation to your house pets, everyone. Humans have a very disturbed radiance. Even the birds don't trust us. A tiger is more or less a very dangerous animal for us, like this. But birds go and sit on his head. Birds sit on his shoulder and back. On whom? Tiger. Did any bird ever come and sit on your head while you were sitting peacefully? Did any time a bird come and sit on your shoulder? They see a human is coming, and they fly away. Such radiance is going from the humans because that pure love is missing in us, really pure love. So, spirituality is in our behavior, our friendship, our relation to this world, our existence, our way of thinking, and our way of acting. And that's why Mahāprabhujī said, "Love each and every entity, if not more, then that much, as much as you love thyself." The Bible said, don't do to anyone what you don't like to do to thyself. Anyone means animals too, not only humans. So, day and night, tell to thyself, "Oh, my ātmā, oh, my jīvātmā, I pray to you, I beg you, please, don't create all these dark clouds in my consciousness. Please, please, I adore you, my divine self." Prayer first to thyself, love thyself, then automatically God will come. Religion. The word religion comes from relation. Our relation to God, that we are part of God, we were once one with that cosmic consciousness, but through this vibration, this taraṅg, these waves, we are divided and an individual soul is created. Now we become individual, but our aim and reality is the oneness. So now realize that you are one with God, and that's what we call self-realization. Self-realization is God-realization. So, realize your relation becomes religion. The same, if someone studies the Latin, then in the Latin is also the same meaning: realize the relation, realize your relation to God. The one universal religion, the eternal religion, is what we call the Sanātana Dharma. Sanātana means the relation, Sanātana means the truth, and Dharma means the principle. It is that truth which unites the entire universe and all on these planets to one God. After that, from time to time, the holy saint came into this world. You may call it incarnation, you may call it a holy saint, you may call it the birth. We like that person. That person was simple. That person was full of love, full of mercy, full of divine energy, full of miracles, maybe, or capacities, abilities to heal some illnesses, fulfill our desires, remove our darkness of ignorance, and so on. We gave the title to that person: God. And now we begin to believe the way of living, way of talking, and way of instruction that this particular incarnation gave. We give it a name; we call this our religion. Those who follow the Buddha's teaching are called Buddhists. Those who are Hindus, Hindu means the word Hindu was given by the English. And word by word, Hindu means "hin," means "hincha," "do" means "door." It is that who is away from the violence, non-violence, Hindu non-violence. Mahatma Gandhi had a very favorite song he used to listen to or sing every day. He said, "They are the Vaiṣṇavas, Hindus, who understand the pain of others." And what we call the holy heart, what we call the merciful Mother Maria, the mercy of Jesus, the mercy of Kṛṣṇa, the mercy of Mahāprabhujī, the mercy of my father, the mercy of my mother, the mercy of my friend. They are the religious, or the Vaiṣṇavas, who know the pain of others, of every creature, not only humans. So, my dear, religion is a philosophy based on particular teachings, and that teaching is not bad, that teaching is good. No religion will tell you to do wrong to someone. No religion will tell you to kill someone. No religion will tell you any negative things. But why then? We don't understand. We don't understand, and if then we are so selfish that we would like to have our group bigger. My members should grow more and more. My company should become more and more rich and worldwide. That is then commercial. Sanātana Dharma said, "Let them believe how they believe. Guide them, don't misguide them." That is it. Where there is no dharma, where there is no religion, where there is no purity, meaning spirituality, then a person begins to misguide many, many, and you cause pain to many. A war begins. Maybe there are only two or three politicians who are jealous or against someone. But you know how many millions of people are suffering. How many millions or thousands of young soldiers died, it means. How many millions of women became widows. And it means how many more, double, how many children lost the father. You know, this is getting one after the other. So, God bless us that we don't destroy anyone, that we don't misguide anyone. And we have a heart full of love and understanding. We shall help, we shall help. And for that helping, even you have to die. And we will die one day, but we help. So, O Lord, I am that weak, in that lamp, burning day and night for all. But my Lord, when there is no more prāṇa and I can't give any more light, please put oil inside, that I can further work for you. The strength, the faith, the confidence. So this is today's yoga, spirituality, and religion. All religions are good. You believe what you like, and let them believe how they like. Awake in the heart. Love to God. Do not awake hate in the heart toward any other religion, any culture, or anyone. My dear, I wish you all the best. God bless you. God protect you. Give you good health, happy long life, with spiritual development and pure consciousness. All the best. Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān a key oh sir. We tomorrow our webcast will be from Melbourne. It will be announced, the time, but I think more or less will be the same time. But the exact time we will announce. If technically it will not be possible, also will be announced that, sorry, technically we cannot. In that case, you... Close your eyes and meditate, and you will listen to me as I talk. Adio, adio.