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Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai! Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai! Madhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai! Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai! Good evening to everybody. Good evening, dear brothers, sisters, and spiritual seekers around the world. Among all the different practices, one of the best and easiest that everyone can do is service, niṣkāma karma. This is what we call Karma Yoga. Although its name is Karma Yoga, within it, all kinds of karma and all kinds of yoga are included. It is a means to purify the Annamaya Kośa, Manomaya Kośa, Prāṇamaya Kośa, Vijñānamaya Kośa, and the Ānandamaya Kośa. To purify the Annamaya Kośa, one must practice ahiṃsā—love for all creatures. Love each and every entity. If not more, then at least as much as you love yourself. If you can love more, that is much better, but the baseline is yourself. This same ahiṃsā applies to vegetation: all the trees, bushes, herbs, plants, and grass. We have lost our connection with nature. We began to chip away at the many trees; forests were destroyed for wood, for newspapers—can you imagine how much wood is used for that?—and for buildings in many different ways. Perhaps we are not greedy, but we are not sufficiently aware or thinking deeply. Therefore, this problem we call climate change has arisen. Consider medicinal herbs. People began using chemical fertilizers and pesticides, which have killed or destroyed many medicinal herbs of very high value to our nutrition. Many herbs have disappeared and are no longer found. This is not all; our grains—corn, wheat, rice, barley, millet, and so on—are also heavily manipulated, which does not have a good effect on our Annamaya Kośa. Similarly, everyone tries to build buildings, destroying trees and grass. Highways around the world cover millions of square kilometers where the earth cannot breathe. All of this greatly affects our Annamaya Kośa. Many birds have died due to pesticides. Animals eat grass and crops polluted with chemical fertilizers, and when they die and other animals eat them, they die too. Consider the butterflies, of which there were once so many beautiful ones. Butterflies are not only a joy for our eyes but are very important for fruits and for the honeybee. The bees are being destroyed. Are honeybees even visible now? They are disappearing. If humans continue like this, a time will soon come when we will only see pictures and read about how bees were and how they made honey. The bee's method of making honey is scientifically perfect and very healthy. Without bees, we will have no fruits. In this way, it is not only about thinking, "I don't kill and eat animals." There are many different human acts through which we are causing destruction, and that is not ahiṃsā; it is hiṃsā. Our Mother Earth is known as a living planet. The entire Earth has life. You cannot imagine how many creatures are here. If you take a handful of earth and look under a microscope, you will see how many creatures are inside. With ordinary eyes, you don't see them. This is a beautiful planet; it has Ātmā and Jīvātmā. That is why, in the entire universe, our planet is called Mṛti-loka, because here a jīva comes and goes. Sevā means to protect all this. You cannot protect it unless you engage two or three parts of different kinds of yoga. First, Jñāna Yoga. We must use our intellect and vivekā (discernment) to understand that we should not destroy, we should help, we should protect. This is a part of Jñāna Yoga. Jñāna Yoga is not only about saying, "Okay, we have viveka, vairāgya, satsampatti, mumukṣutva, and off we go." This principle is not enough for us. We have to look back at what we did to nature, and for that, we need knowledge. Of course, besides millions of humans, there are hundreds of NGOs working to protect nature. We may be against highways and roads, but tomorrow you will go by taxi to Kathmandu and the road is so bad—oh God, such a terrible road. What do you want? It is a natural road, a muddy road of just stone and earth. But we do not appreciate that. We want to seal it. When you seal it, it is like holding the throat of someone. And how many tires, how much rubber, gets on the road, mixes, and goes into the water? We depend on systems; we do not know how to go back, and we still do not know how to go forward. There, we have to use our vivekā and our Vijñānamaya Kośa. So, we need Jñāna Yoga for that purpose. For what? For Karma Yoga, which I am discussing. Then we need Bhakti Yoga. If you do not have love for all humans and all creatures—animals, birds, fish, and so on—you will not start to build or make NGOs for environmental protection. That is very important. So, that Bhakti Yoga, that love, will take care. When love is there, then all is transcended. Above everything is that love, because love is protection. If you are angry, you have no love. If you are jealous, you have no love. Attachment creates jealousy and anger, while love creates freedom and understanding. What a beautiful... That is why it is said: God is love and love is God. Without Bhakti Yoga, the NGOs you establish have no sense. Without Bhakti Yoga, your work for environmental protection will not function. The United Nations' challenge is to create sustainable development, but without bhakti, we cannot do it. Of course, the United Nations, many other NGOs, and many governments are trying very hard to protect. I am sure every country, every government, thinks very hard and tries very much to protect nature. But individually, we people want to have a nice house on a hill. We go to the government for permission to build, and the government says, "No, it is a forest area." Then people go with money, with corruption. "Please, can I have this?" and "Why not?" and so on. They do not give. They do not want your money, your corruption; they want nature. I am talking about politicians. Then what are people doing? We work against the politicians. We start a union, and we do that, and we say these officers, the revenue officers, are not good. Who is talking in us? Our Vijñānamaya Kośa is polluted by our greed and selfishness. Where there is selfishness, there is no ahiṃsā; there is hiṃsā. So it is said, before using this... Tulsīdāsjī said in the Rāmāyaṇa: "Vaśīkaraṇa mantra ek yahī hai, taj de bachan kaṭhora." The one best mantra to make all your friends—humans, animals, and birds—is to give up harsh words. Give up the heart's hard words. Give up angry words. Practice humbleness. If you say, "Please, sir, can you do it kindly for me?" "Please, dear sir..."—these are good words. If you say, "Hey, it's my right, do it, stupid one!" even if you have your rights and he can do it, he will not do it. Your right will remain in the files in some office. "Vaśīkaraṇa mantra ek yehī hai. Lakṣmīkānt. Vaśīkaraṇa mantra ek yehī hai. Tāj de bachanā kaṭhora." So always be humble, humble, humble. It is Christmas time, a beautiful Christmas time. We talk a lot about this: if it is true that if someone gives a slap on the right cheek, then humbly offer the left one also. Are you Christian? Then do it. No one will do it. No one. Where is that love? Because if there is love, if there is humbleness, then you will do it. But if there is ego, fighting for rights, and jealousy, then you cannot do it. Then there is no ahiṃsā. So, for our Annamaya Kośa, it is not enough to say, "I am vegetarian; I don't eat meat." That is not enough, my dear. We must also think about vegetables. How many vegetables are destroyed? How much food is destroyed? Food is God; it is holy. We are sitting here at the feet of the holy fountain, Annapūrṇā. Anāpūrṇe, sadāpūrṇe—do not disrespect it. I remember my father, my uncles, and all these people—they are not here now—but when I was small, if my father saw a grain of wheat or rice on the ground, he would pick it up and say, "Anadevatā, Anadevatā." Father said, "Do not throw it somewhere. It is anadevatā, God. Food is God." And the same thing: "Do not throw bread away; it is a sin." We are only reading but not following. Therefore, without Bhakti Yoga, you cannot perform Karma Yoga. And if you are doing selfless service and Karma Yoga, and if someone does not respect you and you say, "I will not do any more," then hello! That is no longer Karma Yoga. For Karma Yoga, you also have to endure difficulties. Then it is Karma Yoga. And then there is Rāja Yoga—discipline. If you do Karma Yoga and have no discipline—while cleaning you break a window, it doesn't matter; by cleaning you break the toilet, the commode, and then you destroy many things—then you have no Jñāna Yoga (your Vijñānamaya Kośa is confused), you have no Bhakti Yoga (because you think it is not yours), and there is no Rāja Yoga, no discipline to do things carefully. So, my dear, the principles given are just the core points. Our ancestors gave one point, one word only. In English, you write it in three letters: G-O-D, God. The entire world is researching, working, and talking about this one word to explain God. What is God? In Sanātana Dharma, God is explained as the creator, protector, generator, and liberator. So, G for generating/creating, O for organizing, and D for dissolving/divine. We can give meaning to all these words, but still, there is one word: God. So, all our beloved Satguru Dev Swami Madhavananjī used to say, "One in all and all in one." The Vijñānamaya Kośa is a big field; we will come to it tomorrow. I came a little late today because I had some sevā. That is why I mentioned the word sevā. Two people came who very much wanted to speak with me, so I was with them. But you had a very nice, beautiful bhajan sung by Madhuram and others. So, dear brothers and sisters, today our webcast is finishing. Down below, waiting in the lecture hall under the tent for the satsaṅg, are all the people, native peoples and others. I wish you all the best and divine blessings. Please think it over: ahiṃsā means many, many different things. Consider the Annamaya Kośa and the Prāṇamaya Kośa. If your Prāṇamaya Kośa is purified and sāttvic, then you will not be angry. It is your prāṇa that is exploding, meaning you have not yet purified it. So, it will take time. Let us hope, if not in this life, then the next. And if not the next, then the next after that. It is said the Gurudev will follow or guide you through many, many lives until you come to Brahmaloka. But it is hard work for Gurudev; he also has to come with you to whichever loka you are in. But it will be. Let us say maybe this is the last point where we all meet together, and now we will go to Brahmaloka. Who knows how many lives we had in the past? Through our bhakti and everything, I hope this will be the last life on this mortal world of suffering. You will come back, but you will come like a saint; you will come like avatāras. You will come from Satya Yuga Loka as masters, or as a good father, good mother, and good helpers. So, let us think about our kośas. They are very beautiful, very nice, and complicated kośas. Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya. Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jaya. Dharam Samrat Satguru Swami Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī Jai. Satya Sanātanadharma Kī Jai. Om Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinaḥ, Sarve Santu Nirmāyāḥ, Sarve Bhadrāṇi Paśyantu, Mā Kacid Duhkhabhāg Bhavet. Om Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ. Bless you till tomorrow. Adieu.