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I would like to welcome all those who have come here today and who will stay next week for rehabilitation. I wish you very happy, good days. To those who have finished their course and are leaving today or tomorrow, I wish you a very good journey. Many blessings to all, and I hope to see you soon, either in Vipassanā or in India. Paramparā, Viśokanand Jī, Siddha Purī Jī... This made me think. I would like to tell you something about this spa. This spa is not a hotel. It is not a holiday resort or a weekend house. It is a very serious place for those who have had an accident, a heart attack, angiography, or any other problems with the heart. There are very strict rules here. First, there is one dining hall only for vegetarians, and the kitchen is separated for non-vegetarian and vegetarian food. There is also time to pray. Oli Gurujī was holding my hand, and we were talking about different things. Gurujī made one point: if you repeat your mantra all day, just be relaxed. Do not fix your ideas too much on it, but whenever you can, repeat your mantra. If you repeat your mantra, all your sins will be cleansed. Rām Nām lenī sī hoī pāpo nās. While repeating the name of God, sin is destroyed. By repeating the name of God, all your sins will be cleansed. It is as if you were walking through a park or a forest, always on the same path. Then, grass between the roots does not grow there. When we walked here, we saw that there was already a fallen path. While we were walking, the path was still the same. Similarly, the two syllables of our mantra purify our antaḥkaraṇa. Antaḥkaraṇa consists of Manas, Buddhi, Citta, and Ahaṃkāra. Manas is the mind. The mind is a great number of thoughts, and by repeating the mantra, our mind will be purified. It will flow very well, and spiritual thoughts will arise. Buddhi, our intellect, is of two types: negative intellect and positive intellect. The negative intellect directs us and leads us to hell. The positive intellect leads to Mokṣa, to Brahman and the center of realization. Many of you know, many of you don’t know. There is a play, there is a plan, and it is a cosmic game. It is a game where negative and positive intellect are shown. It is a very interesting game. You should have that. If we have this, we cannot... then it is citta consciousness, what thoughts are going on. For example, when you drive a car on the road and there is a lot of fog, you have a good car, the road is very good, and you are a good driver, but you can’t see more than 20 or 30 meters. Similarly, when our citta is not purified, then we have different kinds of fogs. So we have various clouds there: clouds of doubts, clouds of jealousy, clouds of negativity. These all create a dark ignorance, and we can’t see far, and therefore there can be an accident. An accident means one will die without self-realization. You are projecting yourself onto others, and when you have this thinking, you cannot proceed; you are in a blind street. Therefore, the first awakening, or first kind of self-realization, is to see yourself in every creature, see yourself in everyone, see the light of God in everyone. This is the first step of self-realization. Then you have to maintain, to keep such a state, a state of mind. It means you have to guard yourself, like soldiers guarding your border. So you should guard the borders of your citta. The doubt doesn’t come. The negative thinking doesn’t come. Jealousy does not enter. Grittiness does not come. Selfishness doesn’t come. When it will come in, then it will destroy it. And it comes so easily. They find the way, and mostly they find the way to the Gushāmī, and someone begins to gush up, talks in such a way, and then that person puts the black maize in your mouth. Infikovat. And such gas-shopping infections, and such gas-shopping infections, is that high-developed cancer. So then the cancer will be successful, not you. Sooner or later, the cancer will eat you. Cancer will kill you then, not that you can kill the cancer. But if you come to know very early, then go immediately to satsaṅg, and you will be protected. Otherwise, it is too late. So, these people, these wise people, they don’t begin to gush up. I don’t want to say the names of the countries. If you don’t know what "gushing up" means, because you know the bacteria, and God protect us from such people, that is the biggest, and this is the biggest problem. Many people don’t know because they are intoxicated in negative energy. They may have good will, but that part they forgot about because they do not have the light of wisdom; they have a light of darkness. So they have no light; they have darkness, so they don’t know this. Very soon, we hope, one magazine will be coming. Our Roshni is preparing a beautiful magazine. The name is called Light of Wisdom. Best quality, best articles. You can become a member now, so that you get that magazine. You know this, many magazines, it is not easy to continue a magazine. It is not easy to continue a newspaper, because people do not have time to read. They want to have only the name of the title, that’s all. So many people die by heartbreak, that’s all. But who, and how, and what? So many, many magazines from the last century to now have disappeared because people don’t buy them anymore. They have radio, they have television, internet, everything. You can see everything there. But, again, one man came to Mahāprabhujī, maybe it was Gurujī, he was wise. Purī Jī, Siddha Puri Jī... these are your greatest enemies. Well, that man came. So this man came and said to Gurujī, "I would like to write bhajans and poems." But you know, they wrote everything that I could write well. They took away the best part of the sadness. The milk, where they took away the best part of the sadness. Only white water. Essence, all cream. So that man said to Guruji, "Cream, cream. Now remain only white. What should I write? They ate, but still... but still, they didn’t eat the cow." Feed her with love in milk day and night. And you will have again the greatest sadness. So, what would be? Then you can milk your dhikr, dhikr... Use what God gave you between the two ears, and feel the part of the body which God gave you. So, eat Chittayana. And that is... And this is the way to wisdom and the way to self-realization. Through the practice of yoga, you can control your vṛttis, your thoughts. But you cannot do this unless you have discipline. So in the Patañjali Yoga Sūtra, he is saying, first version, first mantra, "Atha yogānuśāsanam," yoga begins with discipline. Where there is no discipline, there cannot be success. And yogīs have natural discipline. But what is coming? We got several complaints today from this particular. People do not follow discipline; they do not care about the time. You know, I told you, this is the rehabilitation center, so people did not follow the time for swimming, and other patients had to wait. When the ten minutes or five minutes are over, then everything changes. And even some people went to see this life, and death means the death. Life and death cannot be together. Always, life and death have a distance. The changes of the body are changing, like a changing dream. Story. King. Recall. The Holy Rāmāyaṇa. It means the king, his name was Janaka. His side, his soldiers were fewer than the other one, and he escaped, saved his life because all his soldiers were killed. He escaped into the forest. Many wild animals... spent the daytime hiding behind the trees and struggling lowly, straying, and he went to the means for... He did not introduce himself, and of course he did not introduce himself... Kapālos Mīsel Jīvota and to achieve. If the human will fails, meaning it does not achieve, this human soul, or the soul which is in the human body, will again have to go through immense suffering. You can’t imagine how many times we went through suffering, through pain and pleasure. Finally, God is very gracious, or to our destiny, regardless. And everything is given to human free, but if human will neglect this all and lead life careless, again we will be in the same condition. Therefore, the human intellect understands for what and how to realize my life, and if you want that, you have to go through discipline. One must follow some principles; it doesn’t matter what happens, then you can come through. There are many, many things which you can follow. So one is, let’s say, about eating. The weakest point of every creature, including humans, is eating. There are many, many people mourning until they do not brush their teeth, do not take a shower, and do not eat or drink anything. There are many people who do not wash their teeth and do not brush their teeth, and they do not want to eat. Maybe it is only two minutes or five minutes, but without this, they will not take a sip of tea. And on the fasting day, they will keep strictly fasting. Not that today is good for eating; I can fast tomorrow. It means you fast. Even inside, when you are thinking, "Oh, sweet, if it’s fasting day, otherwise I could have eaten." You have it, because mentally when you think, you have done it. Physically, it’s after. Therefore, you have to clean the mind and make sure that this is your discipline. If you know animals, there are some animals that also fast. I can tell you that about three decades ago, we had a dog in preparation, and every Thursday he was fasting. When we gave him, fed him with chapati, he would not eat. And if you give, then he took the chapati, went to the corner of the ashram, and put it under the earth. Next day, he picked it out and ate it. Also, we had one dog, and she was fasting. It doesn’t matter how hungry she was; she didn’t touch it. Next day she ate. So while the animals can keep the discipline, and if the human can’t, then I would say you have to decide what is the difference between you and them. So in life, discipline makes you perfect. That is the highest practice. So, what have you in your life? Do you have some saṅkalpa, some discipline? Is there anything that you said, "Every day without doing this, I will not take a sip of water, or I will not go to sleep without doing my five prasas"? Or, in my life, I will not eat sweet chocolates. Or, I will not eat watermelon. Something! Are you able to renounce? And renounce means that you will not break your promise to yourself. And if you can’t do this, be sure you cannot be successful in anything. So this, you have to choose now, yourself. Anything. And then, lifelong, I will never color my hair. Sorry, ladies, but this is also very hard nowadays. So discipline makes a person. Like King Janaka, nearly ten, twelve days. There was nothing to eat, and I couldn’t sleep. The king is very comfortable, but then the workers, can you imagine? For ten days, I did not wash myself, and I, can you imagine? Can you? Fifty meters away, there was a beautiful lake where we all washed ourselves. It was only ten meters away. And very shocking and very, very sad. I went begging. That is for the ego of the king; it’s not good. This can happen in life. Never think that in your life nothing will happen. Such things can happen which you will never imagine. And to come through and master the situation with your wisdom, that is called the hero. Well, attack the king to take away. Pesmizobranchapatiyabhushiyam Men, the king poured out. A beautiful king bed, everything is there. No forest, no lake, no dog. It is perfect, okay. He got depression. What is it? Why did I dream like that? What is the truth in this dream? What is the reality? When I go to dream, this world disappears. My soldiers were killed. For fifteen days, I was hiding myself in the forest. I was a beggar. I was a beggar. The dream world was destroyed. The dream world was destroyed. And many people came to speak to him. Finally, he got one master. Finally, he got one master. His name was Aṣṭāvatar. The secretary of the king, is there anyone who can answer the question of the king? That will be the guru of the king. Many came. Many were talking psychologically. A great holy lady, her name was Mīrā, very great, and she said, in one of her songs, "Mīrā Dharadarjane, no one came. Doctors came and gave the medicine." Many lawyers came and tried to understand. Many learned people came and tried to understand what pains he had. She said, "Nobody understands what my pain is." Day by day, my body becomes yellow, like a leaf of a tree in the herbs. Like a leaf in autumn becomes yellow and dry and falls down. O Lord Kṛṣṇa, my illness can only be healed when you come as a doctor. Then all my pain will be healed. So that’s called the love. That’s called the longing for God, for the truth, and for the sake of that realization, many, many brave saints went through it. Many saints, to achieve realization, had to pass through the steps of discipline, and we are changing every five minutes. Not we are changing our thoughts, but we are changing our rooms. You are not satisfied. Can you compare yourself? You are 0.01% compared to them. So love, love for self-realization, love for the truth, love, change yourself. This material gṛhastha, I told yesterday, is the biggest enemy of you. If you are friends with the ghost, or you are listening to ghostly whispers, you will never be successful. To follow three things: never go to satsaṅg. Never listen to satsaṅg. If there is somewhere Sat Sat...