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The animal heart is not awakened by our conscience because it operates at the animal level. You can order your cat not to kill mice, but whenever a mouse appears, the cat attacks it because the impulse is hidden in its senses. The animal heart does not know such love, and the animal intellect does not understand cruelty. When samādhi happens, one becomes afraid of how deeply such properties are hidden. There is one story, which I think I told 33 years ago, and suddenly it came to my mind again. I didn’t prepare my lecture in writing about what I should talk about when I came, but as they say, this is how my Gurudev speaks in me spontaneously. It is said about such a heart that it is a piece of stone. Such a thought, in which there is no loveliness, no love, is a thorn. And such an intellect, which has no wisdom, is darkness. Such a person has no human properties; he is like an animal. It is not only about practicing a mantra. These two and a half letters of love, "boy," Paṇḍit Hoi, that becomes the wise one, the great one. Therefore, there are two kinds of people: one is called Lakṣatī and one is called Vācartī. The Lakṣatī has its aim, the destination, very clear: Lakṣya. The Vācartī wants to read and read and read, developing only the intellect. Yes, reading is not bad. If you can control your intellect, it must be colored in Bhakti and Jñāna. If you have only intellect, we know the wisdom, we know the love, we know the kindness, we know the mercy, we know the humbleness. But when you speak about this, what does your heart tell you? Do you possess these qualities? If yes, then you are the greatest one. If yes, then look at your actions. Look at your behaviors. Look at your thoughts, and look at your social relations. Do you act according to those principles? If not, then that intellect and that heart are an animal heart. Because you lost that quality. You may speak, but you lost it. Lost it. Take care. Don’t lose thy good qualities. Don’t lose your good qualities. Vācartī. Reading and reading, but you have to come from this level of your head to the level of your chest. Then you will enjoy your wisdom, which you read in the books too. That is, in Rāja Yoga, it is Svādhyāya. Studying, reading. But Śraddhayā means the own chapter of your life. When you close your eyes and look within thyself, read your chapters. The chapters of your actions, your speakings, your tricks, these, that, and so on. All your love, kindness, spreading of peace, harmony, love. There are many people around the world who are working for this love, harmony, peace, and that. But a person who does not utilize their intellectual knowledge for themselves loses everything. Then their thoughts and their actions become destructive. It’s a kind of illness. One is fixed on something. In English, I don’t know how they say it, but in German they say "Verfolgungswahn". Verfolgungswahn. You can tell me how to say it in English. This is a disease. This is an illness, paranoia. Something like that. So there are some, thanks to God, not all humans, but there are some paranoid people who destroy everything. They destroy everything. And then there are others who correct it, who do good. And that is in your svādhyāya. Meditation, self-realization of God. This life is a journey, not a destination. Don’t think that you are human now and this is the last point, and you will not be born anymore. In German they said, "You can write three times hat, ha, ha, ha." Drei, ma, ha. That’s it. That’s self-thinking. Now, though you meditate, though you pray, though you do all good, but if you did not purify those qualities, then you will be mistaken. So, the story you were waiting for, Swamiji will tell the story. But you know, though the stories are very beautiful, very good, you have to bring the story, present it like a PowerPoint. Otherwise, I tell the story; I can tell it very quickly, within half a minute. Then you will not remember this, the story. Yes, in humans there were many peculiar rules and peculiar things. All these were the times of the kings. First was the time of the ṛṣis, and then the time of the kings. And now, time for the ministers? Minimizing. What next? Wait. So one of the kings was powerful and had a big kingdom. How big? From here to Kyiv? It was a very big, that time it was a very big, especially in European countries, and he had one daughter. Now she said to her father, "Father, I will marry only that prince who will win a game with me, the soccer playing." And many princes came, and they lost; experts came, but they lost. She had her supporter, who was observing, that was a cat. And whenever she used to play in the evening, the cat would come and sit there. And on the head of the cat was the oil lamp. And the cat should not move, otherwise the lamp will fall down and she loses the game. Many came, and they lost. So once there was another prince, and he said, "Okay." He just told the cat this and that. So the prince was thinking psychologically, very clever. Like Sagar Purī from Vienna. And he got a very beautiful bamboo flute. So you can play the flute like this. And he put one small mouse inside the flute. And he tied his flute here on his belt. Why not? It’s his flute, and a mouse was sitting there inside. And the cat was sitting opposite. When the time came, now she’s going to win. He was sitting like this. And slowly he lost the thread, and the mouse came out of the bamboo, and the cat jumped, the lamp fell down. He pulled the mouse again, and she lost it. It has to be played twelve times, and every twelve times, the mouse helped him. And she had a flower garland, and she accepted him as her husband. Thanks to mouse. So now, why do I tell this story? Our inner qualities, our inner feelings, our inner ambitions, we still did not clean. Though you think you are safe and everything is good, you are holy, but when something happens, you are like that cat. It means that negative quality awoke in you. You would like to be loyal. You would like to be good. But that mouse is a temptation. That’s the negative vṛtti. And that’s why Mahāprabhujī said, "Manasā bhayore kuśaṅgyokiśaṅkh." O my mind, you lost everything with the kuśaṅgīs, not the satsaṅgīs. So Paramahaṃsa Yoganandajī said, when one eats one egg, ten days you cannot meditate properly. And when you hear one negative sentence or one negative word, then for two or three months you cannot meditate. You may close your eyes, but meditation is not there. Sleep is not there. Always, your thinking goes there, like in the cavity of your tooth, there is some spice stuck, or something from salad. You clean your mouth, everything, but what is stuck in is still there. And your tongue all the time goes there. There is not only one tooth. Normally, there are 32, but the tongue doesn’t go to the 31. Only to the 32nd one. That is a negative point. So in your life, or in my life, or in their life, there are many, many good things. But one Ku-saṅga’s words irritates you day and night. Like Mīrābāī said, "Deva Śhana Bhūka Rata Nena Nindra." Daytime, I am not feeling hungry at all, and night, I have no sleep. In this vyāha, of this fire of the love, my heart is burning. So we all have responsibilities towards ourselves, if we have a destination and if we are going on the right path. And therefore, we should have a destination. So I was talking in my mind to tell you something about Mantra Anuṣṭhāna, but our children came and they created a new subject. This was the subject created by our beautiful, pure-hearted children, the flowers. Satsaṅg is the best way. You may practice many mantras, you practice many things. But it should come in. I am very happy to see you all. And many of you, I saw them a few months ago. But to me, it seems I was here yesterday also. You know, there are two things. When you have nothing to do, then it’s boring. Long-while. While is a moment. And long is very, very long. And when they last a long time, then it is very long. Some words we cannot exactly tell. So wherever I am, in the last fifty-six years, seven years, my life is full of satsaṅg. Since I came to Gurujī, and before also, my father was spiritual, and especially now, through this modern technology, in different parts of the world, every day I have Skype satsaṅgs, like with you too, and that. That is so personal. You see me like now, you see me. And I see you also, like you see me now. So, four days a week, it becomes nearly three o’clock at night. And the morning program begins at 5:30. And every second day, third day, I’m on the road. In aeroplanes, cars, trains, welcoming, satsaṅgs, lectures, so there is no space to feel lonely. There is no space to feel bored. There is no long-waiting. It’s a beautiful moment, the most beautiful moment in living. So many beautiful things, the most beautiful was also in the divine Himālaya, holy Himālaya. To see the Holy Mount range of the Annapurna. That was beautiful. I couldn’t imagine, and I never thought that I would stay three months in one place. I have to think about when in my life I have stayed three months. But that was the Divine Mother Annapūrṇā’s Kṛpā. It was her Divine shelter, and meanwhile, so many bhaktas developed, and the children. Every day they are doing prayers in the street. Because they don’t have such a big house or such a big space. Every day in Pokhara, where I lived, the children and people would go down to that house where Swāmījī was staying. And they telephoned. So beautiful. World is beautiful. Everything is beautiful. Paramahaṃsa Yogananda said, "Oh God, beautiful." Everything is the racanā, the creation of our mind. It is just the projection of our thoughts. Thoughts. And so, rachanā, you can have a good rachanā or you can have a bad rachanā. So how you think, it doesn’t matter where you are, you are happy. Follow the ahiṃsā, non-violence, physical, mental, intellectual, social, political, financial, etc. And that is important. They say in the Qur’ān it is written, if you kill one human, you kill the whole humanity. These are the words of the holy books. It is said in every holy book. So, mentally also you can kill. Emotionally you can kill. Intellectually, you can kill. Socially, you can kill. Politically, you can kill. Professionally, you can kill someone. You have a good job, and some people will criticize you and blackmail you. Do not keep this person in your office, because this person has these behaviors and qualities. You will lose the job. The question for many humans today is the question of existence. And your job can be changed like this. And every one of us, we don’t have the big farm or piece of land that we can grow our weeds and vegetables, we depend on many things. So it is said, if you can’t speak good about others, don’t speak bad. If you can’t help someone, don’t trouble yourself. So we all know, so mantra anuṣṭhāna. If you take your Saṅkalpa, this is your Lakṣya. It’s a mini Anuṣṭhāna. That in these few days, za těchto několik dnů Láska, "Adhyāya" means the self, "Adhyāya" means the chapter, and enjoy the presence of your guru-brothers and sisters. It’s very beautiful that after a long time, you all are here in our beautiful ashram, Strelka. Welcome, and bless you in the name of Alag Purījī Siddha Pīṭha, the blessing of Devpurījī, the mercy of Mahāprabhujī, the guidance of Holy Gurujī, the love of me, and the teaching of this all-beautiful Swāmī sitting here. I’m very happy that Swāmī Gajānandjī is here. And about one year, nearly one and a half years, one year and eight months, some changes came to Gajānāth. And he couldn’t understand. I said, "Be happy." He said, "How can I be happy?" German made, you know, the quality. I said, who knows except Mahāprabhujī? Why does this happen? Now he knows how happy he is. So it is said, when the trouble comes, then prepare yourselves to be happy, because happiness will come now. And when the happiness is there, then be prepared, the troubles will come. Therefore, in the twelfth chapter of the Bhagavad Gītā, Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said, "In both situations, one who has equal feeling in the heart is a real bhakta, and that one is very dear to me." Devpurījī said, "Gurudev takes upon himself the destiny of the devotees." So it changes. So I’m happy that Gajānanjī was here, and last year also Swāmī Jasrājpurījī was here. And now we have here Pārvatī, Ṣaḍvidyā. What do you want? Dayā, that’s all. Deep Dayā Kṛpā, Dayā. Dayā. And Dayā is that one which has no doubts and is never angry. Because nectar is there where there is no quality of poison. So dayā is there where there is no ego, no jealousy, no hate, no longing, nothing. There is one story which I will tell you tomorrow. A beautiful story. God told one person, "You get this position." And what is the benefit, or what is good in it? God said, "That’s all." You sit there, that’s all. No movement. No eating, no drinking, that’s all. Be there, that’s all. So dayā means dayā. If there are doubts, then no dayā. If there is choice, there is no dayā. I like this one, I don’t like this one. Mercy is mercy. And that’s what we call the Holy heart, merciful Mahāprabhujī, merciful Gurudev, what we call the mercy of the Holy Mother Maria. That mercy is equal to every creature. So, those of you who have the name Daya, now you have to be Daya. Even if your husband is strict with you, you have no right to be strict. Because you are Dayā. That’s all. So I congratulate your husband that you have a Dayā. And where Dayā is, there must be jñāna. So husband must be jñāna. If there is no jñāna, then you behave differently. And that’s why we have viveka, Swami Vivek Purī. That’s it. Develop the vivekā, realize the vivekā. And we have Rukmiṇī. Beautiful name. Her name is also in the Mahā Mantras. But that means, there are many meanings, but that means no attachment. It is my, your, no, not my duty, not, no. A sannyāsī is two hundred thousand percent dedicated to that āśram. That ashram will blossom. Everything to cultivate your ashram, it’s not my duty. I’m not here to tell you the answer, I do not want this. Then Gajanan will tell you one story. There were five monks, and the condition of the monastery was very, very bad. But one wise monk from some other monastery told one word. And changed them completely. One word, one sentence. And the monastery became such a beautiful place, and people were coming and coming as pilgrims. So every sannyāsī’s first duty is to look after the āśram. It’s hard work. I’m looking after all the āśrams: Delhi, Jaipur, Jhadan, Nepal, Kathup. Volaguda, Strylky, Vienna, and where not? You have to surrender. In the Bible it says, you have to die to live. And Mahāprabhujī said, "Jīvati hi murda samare, nahi siddhi nahi pīr." Living but like a dead one. Neither playing that I am Siddha, I am great. Great Swāmī Śivānandjī of Ṛṣikeśa. How he began his ashram, how he became so famous. He studied medicine in Malaysia and got a doctorate. Then he became a sannyāsin, and he came to Rishikesh because many sādhus in the Himalayas had no medical help. So every morning, from 8 o’clock till 5 o’clock, he would go from one cave to another, bring them some medicine, and check how they were doing, and so on. Free medicines. And he was asking the people if they could donate some medicine. And for one and a half hours, he was standing in the cold Ganges, praying to Mother Gaṅgā, meditating, and everything. Then he had little huts for ill people. So one day, one man came to Sivanandjī, and Sivanandjī touched his feet, and he said, "No, no..." But Sivanandjī was so humble, any sādhu comes, he will first touch the feet. Also, his disciples, there was Swami Chidananda, who died as his successor. So the first teaching of Śivānandajī was, "You are a sādhu, which means to serve." You have no thoughts in your mind, "I don’t like this," and "I don’t like that." You have to learn to give, give, give. Give eating, give cloth, give clothes. No differences. It’s hard training. Even now, there are many ashrams, and there are many sannyāsīs from the West and from there. They are serving in such a way, the people, you can’t imagine. I was, before three weeks, in some big ashram, and that Swāmījī had disciples, few from western countries too, and so I came, and I was tired, and I was just relaxing. And all of them came; some brought me cold water, some began to massage me in these, and some my shoulder, and some my head. Suddenly, eight people were massaging me; I had no more space in my body. And I said, "Enough, enough." They said, "If our Gurujī will ask if we need a seva, what will we answer him?" So it means, don’t make a difference: my Gurujī and your Gurujī, and their disciple and my disciple, no. We should love, try to understand, and love all as it is. Nedělejte rozdíly. To je jiný Gurujī. Great Tulsidāsī said, "If you would like to have all your friends, then give up harsh words." Don’t speak hard, don’t speak negative. So, that man came to Śivānandjī, and he said, "I practiced yoga, I practiced Rāja yoga, I practiced bhakti yoga, jñāna yoga, all kinds of yoga that I did." I have read all four Vedas, all Upaniṣads, all Gītās, all Bhagavad Gītā, Rāmāyaṇa, Qur’ān, Purāṇas, all. I did sādhanā, I did kriyā yoga, I did all, I did everything. And Sivanandajī said, "Oh, great, great, great." But I think you have not done one sādhanā. He said, "There is no sadhana left which I have not done." Swamiji said, "Okay, tomorrow I will teach you." And he said, "But tell me today." Swamiji said, "Did you make a sādhanā of the pan pot?" You know, when patients are lying in the bed and cannot go to the toilet and urinate, and urine, you have to bring this pot. And he said, "What is that?" I said, "Tomorrow I will show you." And Śivānandjī went to these few people who were lying in the small rooms. And Shri Mātajī said, "This is the pot." Clean their toilets, clean their buttocks. He said, "Swamijī, I am a brāhmaṇa." He said, "And? Sādhanā. Do it." If you are a Brahmin, then you will understand more the pain of others. So he did. But at eleven o’clock he said, "Swamiji, my train is going, can I go?" Sivanandjī himself took the bucket and broom and cleaned the toilets, all, and bathrooms. And Bhakta said, "Swāmījī, we will do it." He said, "No, no." He said, "It’s my sādhanā." He said, you know, this Sivananda inside, still there is something, a test. I am not cleaning the toilets. I am cleaning myself inside. Then my sannyās life will be successful. This is Sivanandjī himself writing, and people saw. So it is not easy to kill your mind. Kabīr Dās said, Man marā na mamatā marī, mar mar gayā śarīr, Asā tṛṣṇā na marī, kah gay dās Kabīr. Man mara na mamta mari, your mind is not controlled because your longing is not controlled. Mamta, my, my, my. And says, "Your mind is not under control because you are not controlling your desires, your desires." Attachment. Manmaran, mamata mari, marmar gaya sarir – the body dies. Asā triṣṇā namrī – the hope. And burning desires, these are not dead. Kabir Das Jī said this. Therefore, sādhanā needs surrendering. Just to practice āsanas and prāṇāyāmas and sit straight. It is very good. Nothing against it. But having a mala and practicing guru-deva, guru-deva... it is not sādhanā. Mantra should be a purification process within us. That’s very important. Then sādhanā, so the real yoga practice, sādhanā begins when you attend the satsaṅg. And in satsaṅg, there is no duality of religion, culture, gender, and no duality of my guru and your guru and their guru, because all have a beautiful wisdom, beautiful. Holy Rāmāyaṇa, Holy Bible, Holy Quran, Upaniṣads, all holy saints like Śivānandjī I mentioned, Kabīrdās I mentioned, Mahāprabhujī I mentioned, everyone. But if I am narrow-minded, then only I will say, "We and we and we." So it means you try to, when you are narrow-minded like this, only my religion and my culture and only our Gurudev, nothing else. Then it is like you try to come out of the frying pan and fall into the fire. That’s it. So your ashram’s condition is sannyāsī, your duty, no one else’s duty. Be helpful, grateful, and thankful, and be happy that other household people are becoming members and helping you, supporting you. Not only this orange cloth, and say, "I am Swami, I cannot do this, I cannot do that," no, no. You have to go for 12 to 20 years in Akhāṛā’s training. Then you will see what that is. Then you have Ānanda. Oh, Ānandī sitting here. Sādhvī Ānandī, you know. That’s it. Otherwise, you can’t achieve. Where there is no mercy, no Vibhīkā, no Rukmiṇī, there is no Ānanda. And when Ānanda is, then Eka-Ānanda, all together in one. Ānanda or Aisa-Ānanda. In German, Eka-Ānanda, together, all. All in one. But when there is no Seva Bhāva, then it is Ausananda, all separated. Then we say, oh, Divine Gurujī said, peace and bliss result of satsaṅg. And then appears the śānti. And so she is sitting here. That’s it. Devanāśatguru Namakamastanai Viparavapakir Devanāśatguru Namakamastanai Gaganopamagerakai Jodharani Jondi Ramji Gagan Oma Ghera Kaiye Jodharani Jondi Jaisa Kaiye Sītā sa jāta pāta kī śaṅkā māne. Saman patra hī, tenaloka kī ichā nahīṁ, Sukha binā sarī, Tomorrow’s program is as usual, you know, and there are two groups. One is going to do more mantra, and one group is going to do more āsanas. But also, those who are doing mantra will also do asanas and pranayamas—asanas with mantras, pranayama with mantras—and you should know that you can sit long. If you have not practiced, go to the āsanas. That’s important. But once you go to mantra, then don’t change. That’s not good for you psychologically, that you will think to see it and how I couldn’t do it. In this, better not to do. Now this is about me, which you tell, you know. I sent on a who said, you know, but some stop NATO, that’s which it actor that you would let me, that’s me. That’s it. That’s it. So the program is very natural, a very simple program. It’s a pretty rosin. Yeah, you know, do you sit down and practice mantra? Seďte, Guidance is there so that they will see that you are not sleeping or you are not crying. So there is a universal guidance. There is universal guidance. And I am here. So it doesn’t matter where I am, but I am here. You never know suddenly where I come. And open the little door and look who is in there. So, Mantra Anuṣṭhāna will be in this hall, I think. Mantra Anuṣṭhāna bude, myslím, v téhle hale. And Asana’s pranams will be in the other two halls, Ganga Hall and Yamuna Hall. Don’t go too often out and in, because the door makes noise. I know that fasting is not easy, and I know eating less is not easy. Eating more is very easy, so I wouldn’t give you any diet because it never functions. That you get only a little soup and only this, it doesn’t function. And then people want to have a seva with Swamiji, and then Swamiji is eating, and then Swamiji said, "It’s a prasāda, eat," and then you get one chapati more, and you get one chapati more. Those who have blood pressure problems should not fast. Those who are pregnant should not fast. Those who have diabetes should not fast. And those who feel physically weak when you are fasting, then don’t fast. But if you think freely, you would like to eat less and more, concentrate, you are welcome to do so. Tomorrow you will be fasting, who would like? And day after tomorrow evening, I will ask you, "Do you want to eat, or will you continue?" So there will be very thin soup. In one litre of water, three or four leaves of, what do you call it, the kopřivy? Netl. Kopřivy. Netl. So don’t search anything; there’s nothing there. So nice tomato, thin tomato juice, and something like this. Jaka ta rajčatová šťáva možná, and of course there is normal eating also. If you don’t eat and you are hungry and you can’t sit, then it’s always aggression. And it takes two or three years to master this. You should have prepared yourself a month before and then come to such a sādhanā. How you do now, it will not be so good. But let’s say you have a limit: eating, okay? Drink water, drink juice, eat one fruit a day. This is the condition for those who are fasting, and those who will not fast will get nothing normal. So, those who are fasting, they should not come to this side during eating time. They should remain in another area and meditate, because the nose is very sensitive, and then the smell comes and it connects to the digestive system, and then the digestive fire awakes. And then he said, "Oh, I said fast." Let’s go and see in the shivala. Let’s see what is there. Then you eat a chocolate. Then you eat the nuts. Then why don’t you normally just eat a little rice and be finished? Discipline we have, but strength we don’t have. So be happy, and practice more mantras, okay? Rest techniques we will tell tomorrow. If not Bhagavān, it must be Mahādeva. If not the first Bhagavān, it must be...