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Good evening, dear brothers and sisters here in this hall, all the students, spiritual seekers, practitioners of yoga, and followers of other beautiful spiritual paths. Blessings are coming to you from the big city, from the big country: Melbourne, Australia. Welcome. This is a four-day subject: meditation—why, how, and for what. I have already given three lectures on it, so I will not repeat the same things. I will begin where I ended my speech this morning. The light begins from every creature who has that light of God, the soul, each and every entity. That light is very pure; it doesn’t matter in which form the light is. But when this light goes through different filters, it then has different colors. The rain in the clouds, water is very pure, very clean, but we humans have created a lot of pollution, and already there begins the pollution. Water comes to the earth in the form of rain, but according to the purity of the soil on the ground, the water takes the quality. There are different definitions of the water now: the blue waters, the green water, the grey water, and the groundwater. We find purity a little bit better in the blue water. The rest is all very polluted. Similarly, this pure light of Brahman, the highest, the Supreme, is like the ray of the sun. And when it comes to a certain atmosphere, it takes that color. So when you put a yellow filter on a glass, the light looks yellow. If you put a red filter, it will be a color like red, but in reality, that light is not red and not yellow. The light is completely different. So over our consciousness, we have different layers of our karma or our actions, and from the consciousness, it reflects to our intellect. Again, our intellect goes through certain circumstances which we call culture. In that culture, some traditions associate events, then we call the mentality and spirituality religion. So again, we put in our intellect many layers of dualism. And so, according to that duality, we think that is correct. There is a story. One ant, a small ant, went to the market for shopping. She had a beautiful little basket. And another ant came there also for shopping. They met together and began to say, "Hello, hi, how are you?" and so on. So one ant is asking the other ant, "Sister, from where are you coming?" The other said, "I’m coming from Sugar Mountain." "How is that?" She said, "Ah, so sweet, so good." And now, "Where do you come from?" "I’m coming from Salty Mountain." "How is that?" "Oh, this salt. We are used to it now." A fish from salty water, if you put it in sweet water, it will suffer. And a fish from the sweet water, if you put it in salty water, it will suffer. So, the ant from the sweet mountain asked about the sugar mountain. She said, "Oh, it is very nice. You will feel very good. You will like to eat more and more." Then she said, "I come from my salty mountain." So, the ant from the sugar mountain invites the ant from the salty mountain: "Sister, can you come tomorrow to visit me? If not longer, at least for a cup of coffee, or tea, or milk, or lassi. I will give you the taste of the sugar. I will introduce you to my whole mountain. It’s a whole mountain of sugar. Stay with me for two days, three days. Please take more time." "Okay, next Sunday I will come and stay one week more." So, the ant from the salt mountain made her journey to the sugar mountain, but to be sure that she would not starve there—she might have nothing to eat—she took and safely took pieces of salt and stored it in her gums, and she came. At the sugar mountain, she came with a plate, a piece of sugar, and, welcoming her sister, said, "Welcome. Please eat." So she ate the sugar. In the same place, like my salt mountain, she gave her again three pieces of sugar. In the same place, a little bit different, but in the same salt place. She said, "Can I give you one good pest and two blessed? Clean your mouth. Out. Have you some things that are cleansers? Then you should spit this salt out, please, and clean your mouth and brush your teeth and so on." Then she gave her a sugar. "Oh sister, such a beautiful taste. Can I have one more? Can I have one more?" So this story means when we go to some lecture, some spiritual program somewhere, we still have some reserve thoughts and that safety, that we don’t get lost in something, over those impressions, our culture, our traditions. And that’s the problem: we can’t accept. So you have to clean everything out, then you can understand. You cannot mix. You may adjust where salt is needed, sugar is not needed, and where sugar is needed, salt is not. Similarly, there are layers on our consciousness from the different environments of life and the layers of the conflicts in our intellect. Now, that intellect is a warm water place. Our intellect influences our mind. Our intellect instructs our mind to inform your senses and inform your quality, or your tendency of behavior, so that no one manipulates you, no one makes blackmailings, and so on. So keep it, do not lose yourself, and that uncertainty creates our mind because instructions are given from the boss, and the boss is the intellect, and that intellect is involved in the color of the environment as consciousness. The working laborers are our senses, and then according to our education, culture, traditions, and habits, we consume the nourishment, solid and liquid. And now, food also influences our intellect, our consciousness, our mind, and our entire biosystem in our body. So when these things are in conflict, you cannot make it. We should not say that now I will not have this, I will have this. We should maintain our tradition. We should maintain our culture. We should maintain our language and everything, but there is no harm if you get something good which helps you through life. Because finally one day, all the traditions, all the cultures, all the habits, all will remain here on this earth. You, as your individual self as a soul, will continue your journey in ānanda. Ānanda means endless. So this individual soul is fluctuating on the waves of the tide in endless space and experiencing light or darkness, happiness or unhappiness, good situation or bad situation. When you sit near the beach, you see the ocean, and then you see the waves. When waves are high, you see the different colors, different forms in the waves, and beautiful waves coming, and we say, "Oh, the big wave." And what happens? This big wave hits the rock and splits into thousands or millions of pieces, and again flows to one and again comes. So this is how the souls are traveling, and then experiences from many, many lives are printed in your level of consciousness, which reflects your intellect in this world. And in other worlds too, our happiness, unhappiness, pain, pleasure, thinking—this all is unbeatable. So what will die is what we can touch, and this is the body, which is connected with the five elements: water, earth, fire, air, and space. So the physical part of our being, I mean, as our body will remain here, and as soon as you separate from the body, nothing is yours. Nothing is yours. No one is yours. There is one truth: God’s name. Repeat. In this world, no one is ours. All relations are temporary. Even if you don’t want to lose, you have to give up. It is painful, and more painful for those who will stay here still, and the other one, as soon as he comes above, has such a view of everything equally, and then the destination is a farm. You take, go to the airport, board, sit down, make a safety belt, and plan taking off, and you look out the window and you observe, "Oh, how beautiful is that, that wall." And you see these trees, and the higher you go, Melbourne becomes smaller and smaller. And your view is wider, and after a few minutes or hours, you are somewhere high in the sky. So, up and down is like a holy space. Similarly, this all travels, and again, it remains behind. And you are waiting for your next landing, the flight where you land. Land where it will come. So, when this life is gone, you are looking forward to another life: how it will be, where it will be, and so on. You see, life is a journey, not a destination. So, one day this journey should complete here, and we shall go. So, here we are born to collect some good qualities and live, to purify all good qualities. That saying, when you leave your hotel room, don’t leave so much. Try to leave it clean. Put your towels in a nice way; don’t throw them somewhere here and there. And don’t wash your shoes with the towels. That’s what some people do. Sometimes they are drinking, and they catch a line here and a line there. It takes a long time to clean. The person who is cleaning is not so happy. But if you do it in order, just one night, you sleep. And how is the condition of your room? That is the quality of that person who slept here in the night, and how his inner, all his thoughts, everything is mixed, terrible. That you leave behind. So if you treat that hotel as your own and keep it nice, then the person who is tidying the room will also have to say, "Oh, this guest." So we are guests here, not permanent here. Do not leave all this karmic cause here, or this karmic world here. Therefore, it is a "do not do to others what you do not like done to you." Physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, politically, financially, etc., etc. So good thinking doesn’t cost you money, and bad thinking also doesn’t cost you money, but good thinking will clear your way till eternity, and bad thinking will make a complication in the thorny and stony way, till back, not to the eternity, but way back to the lower life or the lives. What we call maybe hell or something, I don’t know if hell and heaven are existing. Hell and heaven are here. This is where we are living. When someone says, "God, my life is now like hell." I am so happy. My life is like hell. Both are here. So what will we take with us? So this is for such things, what we call self-inquiry meditation according to the yoga and dharma. It means not who am I, but how am I. No one can tell how good or bad you are. No one. Only you know the realities within thyself. Anyone can tell anything to me, but I know what I do, what I did, and what I’m doing, and what I will do, how my thoughts are going all the time, how I pray, or what I pray for. So in this room, there are two who know how you are. And of those two, one is God. God. If you don’t believe in God, at least you should believe in your destiny. Everything is recorded. Like this story, one man asked two persons, "Take these two pigeons and go and kill them. But somewhere where no one sees." So one man went to the bathroom and killed the pigeons and came. The other one went to the bathroom and came back without killing the pigeons. He said, "What?" He said, "Sir, you said where no one sees, but the pigeons see that I am killing them." So then he put cloth on the eyes of the pigeon so it couldn’t see anymore. So he went there and put a cloth, a towel, over the pigeon’s eyes. And then he came back again. He said, "Sir, I can’t." I said, "Why? You didn’t put a cloth on his eyes?" He said, "Yes, I did, but I see that I’m killing him." Then, put also the cloth on your eyes. So he did also and went in. And again he came back. He said, "Sir, I can’t." "Well, you told me that I should put a cloth over the eyes of the pigeon and a cloth over my eyes. I did. But you didn’t tell me how to put the cloth on the eyes of God." He is a believer. Then he said, "Yes, you are a believer." So in this room, there are two who know everything: what you think, how you are, and your feelings and everything—in everything. One is God, and the second is yourself. What you are thinking in these minutes, what I am telling, how you accept, what you are doing, at the same time, may you have some arguments, far away going on, māyā, okay, yes. Because you have the many, many layers of different cultures and experiences and things like that. So the best thing is meditation, self-enquiry meditation, not that "Who am I?" or "How am I?" That will prepare your future life. It means from now onwards, all milestones which we crossed are gone. The past is gone, the future is not here; we are now in the present time. So what we hear, think, speak, and do, that will be a credit for us. Put on that, so we should be like this light. The room was dark, and we put on the light, and this light is what removes the dark. And this light is ever-varying, now constantly, to keep the darkness out. The light of the wisdom, the light of the love, the light of the kindness, the light of the humbleness, and the light of the clarity and mercy, that will keep thy soul all the time in life. That is the purpose of the meditation, that when we go to meditation, we look within ourselves: "How am I? Did I cause someone pain today, physically, verbally, mentally, in any way?" For this book, it doesn’t matter who or how it is. Still, it is Thy light, O Lord. Let me help to give the light to them. There are so many sitting here, and the light is burning. This light will not say only that, okay, the video is sitting. Yes, he is a good person. I will only sign on that. Others will have a darkness. No. Life doesn’t make differences. A holy person said, "A wise man doesn’t make differences." He or she is preaching for all. Rain doesn’t make differences. When it’s raining, it rains on your house, in the garden, in the street, and on your car. And just now you wear it at the hairdresser. Nicely, you have made your hair light. In the rain, you fall there also. You come and say, "Oh God, I look now." So light, the rain doesn’t make a difference. The tree is considered holy. The tree doesn’t exist and stands only for itself. Our large, big tree: thousands of millions of tiny creatures are living in it. Hundreds of birds are sitting on it, and we get a lot of oxygen in the beauty of it. And the tree doesn’t have an easy life. The tree is facing all kinds of weather conditions and situations: hot, cold, rain, dry, windy, and so on. We can put on the heater, we put on the air conditioner, but from where will the tree go? She will not run away from that hot place to go somewhere. So the tree has a life, like the life of a holy saint, just to give and give. So it is: "Oh my mind, be a tree. Oh my mind, be a lake which keeps water for all. And oh my mind, be like a river which flows for everyone." The curves are the banks of the river; the water doesn’t have the curve. One bank of the river is happiness, and the other is sorrow. The water is flowing between these two circumstances. Our life is going between these two. So, in meditation, we come to the clarity that God forgives me all my negative actions. My Lord, I dedicate to Thee all my good actions. Just let me be Thine, and let me come to Thee. For that purpose, the yogīs and the holy saints, or the monks in the ashram, in the monasteries, in the caves, in the forest, they go and meditate for this. Now, in this modern time, we have understood and realized how balanced the yogīs are, and how good their thoughts are. So, we also, within the path, meditation is good. And so it is proven that meditation is an anti-stress technique. The research made in America, one university near San Francisco, it’s called Two Hemispheres, and they made a lot of research about what’s happening with our body and life. Then they came to one point that’s called emotion. And emotion, they came and they found there is no medicine, no treatment for it. And what can emotion cause? Emotion can cause all kinds of illnesses. Different kinds of emotions. One person has given me this book in my hand, and it’s very nice. I always look here, about problems and emotions, and what is happening when you have emotion. It begins with pleasure, pain, and principle. So when emotion comes, one begins to consume drugs, alcohol, this, that, coffee, and so on. And when there’s a different emotion, then happiness, joy, it means you think about a better life. The person who is not this little booklet put very good power points here, I would say. Safe, unsafe, understanding modern relationships, a field guide. So modern relationship means also with our own self. So, they came. These emotional problems can cause depression, hallucination, schizophrenia, cancer, and many things. It must not be only, but also the one of the cold, and then emotional pain. I’m describing that, and so they did it about men and females. And they said those females had a certain emotion with partners in life, then they gave in certain organs the cancers of trauma. And the male also has the problems, the separations, and disappointments, and problems like that. They are the diseases of the cancers within the particular part of the body. Because they are suppressing energy, they are dying and dying and dying. The relation, the love is dying slowly, slowly, and that is it. And it is said that 90, 80, 90% of partners have problems now in this world. Lucky are they who are going to celebrate their 80th wedding day now. Very soon there will be a prize, a Nobel prize, given to those who have this continuity, because the problem is beginning. So they asked in this, it was a television series documentary program they sent. This was about, let’s say, 13 or 14 years ago. So I watched this program once a week; it was on Wednesday in the evening. In Austria, it was in German, I guess. And for this depression and for these emotional problems, they said there are some techniques which can solve the problem, but not the medicine. And they say it was prayer, anywhere: temple, church, ashram, at home, prayers. Exercise, they did not say yoga, because they did not want to make all the entertaining of yoga, then other people will be angry at the technique. But this is some kind of Eastern cultural exercise. So automatically, everyone knows this is yoga. And meditation. This was the thing. I am searching for those videos, films which will be available in English. I would like to provide you at least one in your centre, that you can come and listen to. It was beautiful, and it is still going on this earth. So it is now because research in universities and so-called scientists, we believe, but yogīs said it already thousands of years ago. We don’t believe that, but when they said, "Oh yes, scientists said," then okay, I should practice it. So we are coming back to this point. So meditation is to clear the field of conflict within ourselves, the color layers in the field of our intellect, and the wrong attitude towards our body, meaning our nourishment or using some kind of drugs or whatever. So happiness is in your hand; unhappiness is also in your hand. So, look within that self. So, if you will meditate on the positive, think about how many enemies or people who don’t like you there are in this world. Sit down and send the light to them. Then, after meditation, you will feel happier, and the light will give you rest. So this is the purpose of the meditation. In the meditation, we use mantra. And mantra is that torchlight to walk in the dark forest. So you have a torchlight, you are walking, but with lightning in your path, and so all that you think should come true in the right way. And that, for me, as a meditation, I would not tell you, oh—It’s good for your health, stress, and good to become peaceful and relaxed, and get rid of the whole day’s hectic day stress. Yes, that is also the truth, but how? I would like to explain to you by the meditation and how. So, techniques, you can do many. As long as you are doing techniques, you don’t know how to make them. So you can ask all the great masters and great holy saints, ask them, "How do you make them? Which techniques do you use?" They will say, "Nothing." And what are you doing? "I just close my eyes and sit with my positive being. That’s all." That’s all. So as long as you concentrate on this and that and that, you are trying to develop the concentration. But you just sit here, close your eyes, repeat your mantras, and relax. Ask thyself to follow you. It will be the very best day of your life if you can do that. So morning, lunch time, evening, three times a day, at least five minutes. Anywhere you can do. If you are employed in some office and your boss doesn’t want you sitting here and there, at least at lunch time, five minutes is more than enough. You will receive immense, or twenty-three minutes. Morning, before breakfast, evening, also find the time. God has given us 24 hours. 8 hours for working, 8 hours for sleeping, and 8 hours for social and family life. Who is the lucky one here? Every day, he sleeps 8 hours. Which company is a lucky or happy company where workers work 8 hours? They say we are 8 hours in the office, but we are only working 2, 4 hours, doing this and doing that and this. Now, many companies don’t allow newspapers. They don’t allow your mobile phone. They check that you don’t do some other work on your computer in the company, or you’re... Skyping me, someone, and doing the new work. Humans are very clever, always finding a way to work. So, but five minutes, if you make it, that would be good for your company. You know, many, many companies organize yoga classes in their office at lunchtime for half an hour, and they pay for their employees. Because they research that through the practicing of yoga, a few exercises like khatupranā, which are very balanced and now very much practiced in offices and libraries, and then a kind of relaxation, you know. Then after that, the workers have more quality and energy to work than to go on the corner and drink coffee and eat pizza and come back again to fast food. You know, this fast food is not so good for our life. So my idea is that meditation is the way, and meditation is to maintain our life situation and quality in life. And with this, I wish you all the best and God’s blessing. If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask, and after your questions, I will speak again about something. Because today is the Mahāsamādhi anniversary of my grand-grand master, Devpurījī, who left this world, went to Mahāsamādhi, or what you call the days on your anniversary. We do not call that someone died; we call that one merged into life. So today, as many people are waking, I will bless them and tell something about their origin. So, my dear all, please stay on the program, and after 5 minutes we will speak about Śrī Nepujī and bless you all in the light of Lord Rāmāyaṇa.