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Part 1: The Oasis of Love: A Legacy of Yoga in Daily Life The traditional system of Yoga in Daily Life developed through the love and devotion of students, who soon became bhaktas, or devotees, of Swāmījī. Forty years is a long time to dedicate one’s life. For most of us, it’s at least half our lives, probably more. It is amazing to consider why someone would spend so much time on this journey. It would be so much easier to sit at home, relaxed and comfortable, needing nothing. A wealthy man has his castle; he doesn’t need to go out. A poor man has his farm, his cows, his pasture; he is content. But the relationship that Swāmījī has developed with us is one of union. His love for us has been so great that he had to go out and reach out, and we also reached out to him. To give you an example of this love and dedication to the principles of Yoga in Daily Life—which include physical health, social health, spiritual health, and mental health, the four pillars of the system—Swāmījī has built what I consider to be the eighth wonder of the world in the desert of Rajasthan. Take a moment, if you will, please, and close your eyes. Relax. Really relax. Now, I want you to think in your mind of the desert. Close your eyes, everyone, please. I want you to really feel and see what’s happening in Rajasthan. The desert is a vast stretch of land: yellow, brown, lots of rocks. Outside of Delhi, maybe at least two hours away, there begins to be nothing but small roads. Camels, carts, women in the fields in their saris, pots on their heads. A sterile desert in Rajasthan. It’s dry. It’s hot. Maybe cows here and there. Small little cafes along the way with cots and men stretched out in the sun, talking to one another. People watch along the road as each passenger, each visitor walks by. They’re a newcomer, because in this land, everything is noticed. Life is much slower, vastly slower than we, certainly in this area, can understand. But outside of New Delhi, at least two hours into this dry desert land, now you get the picture. Think of a football stadium. I don’t mean the green grass. I mean the size of a football stadium, the length, the width, and the depth. Now imagine that in the desert. Take away the bleachers, take away the green grass, take away the crowds. What do you need in the desert? Something’s got to fill the hole. Swāmī Maheśvarānanda, in his vision and his love for humanity, for all of life, created an oasis. This huge, vast opening that I’m telling you about is filled with… it’s a water harvesting area, re-harvesting. It catches the monsoon rain, not for a moment, not for a week, but for all time. Time enough to provide a fire truck to the area, because it’s so dry that a fire can happen any time. You may open your eyes now that you see the point. The fire truck services the villages in the area if necessary for fire, but also to deliver water because there’s no running water in this area. There are wells. People don’t leave the tap water on while brushing their teeth because there’s no tap water. People walk to a well, sometimes miles and miles and miles away, to get their pot of water, which is precious, to take home. So Swāmī Maheśvarānanda has provided water service for the area. He’s provided a school. This is all part of a beautiful research, scientific and research center that he’s developing in the desert. He’s provided a school for over 300 boys and girls. Girls receiving an education in India is not such a familiar thing. These young children are given uniforms, they’re given pencils, papers, they have teachers, and they’re very happy to come to school. Swāmījī also built a hospital, a five-story hospital. I was just there three years ago, my last trip to India. This was right as the tsunami hit, and there were only plans. A little bit of earth maybe would have been moved, but that was it. Within three years, the hospital is now complete. A hospital. Can you imagine? It takes us maybe five years to move things through the zoning board here, right? It’s not so easy. But there’s a hospital to care for the people, free for those who cannot afford. There’s also a beautiful place of accommodation shaped in the sacred symbol of Oṃ. I can close my eyes easily and see the women coming from the villages with bowls on their head, walking with flip-flops on, no hard hats, to bring lunch, to bring pots to carry rocks away. And in my mind, I can still hear the men, by hand, chipping away at these beautiful symbols in the stone that supports the facility. Much of this work is being done by hand, so it’s an incredible research center that has taken place out of the vast, dry desert of India. Swāmījī has created an oasis out of love. It’s unbelievable and hard to even imagine this kind of vision, to think of the possibilities that could take place in a desert where there’s water, where there’s health care, where there’s beautiful accommodations, in just such a short period of time. It could be such an easy life for him. It’s not. Who of us would choose to be on airplanes non-stop with no sleep, motivated by the love for all of humanity and living things, visiting centers much like this, where Yoga in Daily Life is taught in 11 different languages? I can barely manage one. Eleven different languages Swāmījī has. Centers in so many countries. The two books that we have—more than two, but the Yoga in Daily Life system, as well as the Chakra book that we have—go into the very traditional system that Swāmī Maheśvarānanda has taught us and is passing on to us. You can look in the back at the many, many centers worldwide. Swāmījī is now on consultative status with the United Nations, where he goes each year as part of his world peace tour. And it is with great privilege that I’m here to invite you to listen, to support, and to give your donations absolutely to the hospital in India. There’s an opportunity to do that if you’d like. But mostly to welcome our Swāmī Maheśvarānanda, who we’re so happy to have in our ashram this evening. So I think my time has come to close this up. There are a few announcements, which I’ll go into after the program. So thank you very much. And Swāmījī, thank you for being with us tonight. Thank you. Oṃ śubhaṁ karoti kalyāṇam ārogyam dhana-sampada, satra buddhi vināśāya. Dīp jyotir namastute. Dīp jyoti parabrahma, dīpam sarve mohānam. Dīpanaṁ sajjate sarvaṁ sandhyā. The pump sorrow shut them. Oṃ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ. Self-fortunate one that God gave me this opportunity to serve you with my limited knowledge. The topic on which we shall speak: inner peace for world peace, and of course, within the frame of Yoga in Daily Life. Yoga. Yoga is yoga. It doesn’t matter which kind of yoga you practice; the main thing is yoga. You may call bhakti yoga, Kṛṣṇa yoga, rāja yoga, kriyā yoga, mantra yoga, haṭha yoga. Finally, we have to come to one point: yoga. That’s the main thing. Like religion: Hindu religion, Jewish religion, Christian religion, Islam religion. So, many different ways lead to one point, one destination, religion or yoga. Similarly, peace. There are many activities and many mantras, many thoughts toward peace. But finally, the peace is one. Where should we come? Nowadays, our world is in turbulence. Our planet is suffering. The restlessness and imbalance, the entire planet. Everyone is fighting for peace. What they call, for example, the terrorist. If you ask them why you are fighting, they will say, "We are fighting for peace." To have a better world. If you ask some politicians why you are creating the war, it is for the peace. When you go to the lawyer and fight against someone, it means to realize the peace. Everyone is doing that same thing, but the result is different. It looks different. Definitely, it will look different. We have to understand the origin. We should know the cause. We shall treat the cause. We should know the roots, and then we will be able to find the solution. And therefore, there are thousands of organizations around the world with goodwill, including the political, even the United Nations, with one aim, with one thought: peace. It doesn’t matter if it’s economic development or something with the environment, anything. Finally, we are coming to that one point to create peace. And with the same idea, with the same thought, with the same imagination, I’m also working to find peace, and you also do the same thing. Where are we now? What is the situation in the world, and what is the situation within us? As Gītā Purī gave a beautiful introduction about me, it was very long, that was introduction and meditations and everything, yes. So let’s come to which way we can help our planet—I mean not only humans. If we will concentrate only on the humans? We discriminate other creatures on this planet. We have to work in oneness with all. So my guru, Dev, His Holiness Swāmī Swāmī Madhavānandajī, used to say, "One in all and all in one." Realize the oneness. And so I would like to come back to this point, the peace, but before that, to understand what is the peace. As Gītā Purī told you, to close your eyes and imagine something. I will tell you, leave your eyes open and imagine something. The space, or universe, we call Ananta Brahmāṇḍa, endless universe. We do not know where the end is and where the beginning is. Even we don’t know where the end is and where the beginning of the astral world is. And we don’t know where is the door of the heaven and where is the wall of the heaven. And where is the door of hell, and where is the end of hell? Is this our imagination, or is there something? Is heaven so limited in this space? Who can come there, and who cannot come there? Is heaven also still the politics of discrimination? If heaven has such politics and discrimination, then heaven loses its quality or dignity. That’s one joke. I should not tell you the joke in between, but it came to my mind, I must tell you. There was a big wall, a big wall, a very solid, strong wall. And on one side, some people were sitting. They were talking to themselves and thinking they were in heaven. On the other side, there were also some people sitting and talking, saying that they are in heaven. So-called particular religions, particular belief. So one of them asked from the other side, "Who are the people on the other side talking?" The answer came: they are from that and that religion. They think they are alone, only themselves in heaven. They think they are in heaven. They don’t know that we are also in heaven. So God is everywhere, heaven is everywhere, hell is everywhere, good and bad are everywhere. So the space called śūnyākāśa, śūnyam means empty, without feelings, void, space, dark, endless and endless. That is called the cosmic mother, that’s the mother body, the universe. And within the universe, there is consciousness. You may call God consciousness, you may call truth, you may call love, whatever you say. But the consciousness, what we say, universal consciousness. We don’t say universal consciousness. So first is the mother, and then is the consciousness. So that consciousness in the entire universe is known as Hiraṇya Garbha, the golden embryo. Golden embryo within the cosmic mother. Now we have two: space and consciousness. Well, if you can’t follow me, then I’m nervous. So, space and consciousness. It’s compact. There’s no empty space at all. Consciousness and space are oneness. Mother and embryo are oneness. Between these two, space and consciousness, is one energy, power. That’s called yoga. That’s called yoga, like cement holds two bricks together. So, to keep together in perfect balance that energy, that principle is known as yoga. So now you can tell me, how old is yoga? Yoga is not 10,000 or 20,000 or a million years old. Yoga is as old as space consciousness, perfectly to keep them together means the peace, the harmony. So it’s a balancing principle. Yoga means balancing, not just āsanas, physical exercise, breath exercise, meditation, and concentration. This is the way to yoga. This is not yoga. Now, we have three. What? That’s it. Very good. Now Americans are getting better. Yes, that’s true. It’s very hard to understand Indians, who are many thousands of kilometers away from America, no? Now, yoga means balance. Yoga means harmony. Where there’s a balance, there is harmony. And where there’s a harmony, there’s a unity, oneness. So yoga means unity, the uniting principle. So the word yoga, not karma yoga, not bhakti, not jñāna, not rāja, but only yoga means union, oneness. So we have three principles more: balance, harmony, and unity. Where there is balance, harmony, and unity, there is perfect peace, perfect peace. And that’s what we need in this world. Let’s proceed further. It is said in that divine consciousness, in that śūnyākāśa, there was nothing, not even the elements. There is one tendency besides yoga, which is born out of that energy, what we call yoga, and that thought, we call thought, a universal principle of the thought that we call now in our normal language, divine will. Lord, thy will will be seen as God’s will. Does God have a desire? What does he want? Kṛṣṇa said, "God," Kṛṣṇa said to Arjuna, "in the entire universe, the endless universe, there is nothing which I can’t have or realize, but still I am acting. For what?" So in that endless śūnyākāśa, in that space, from that cosmic consciousness, the center point of the universe is the navel. And there began this divine will. The Vedas declare, "Eko’haṁ bahusyāmi." I am one, and now I will multiply myself. In jñāna yoga, what we call the prāṇāyāma, or breath system, it’s called recak, kumbhak, pūrak, and kumbhak. It means exhale, retention of the breath outside, again inhale, and retention of the breath inside. So it is a universal exhalation, which means the sound. The form of God, if you want to see God, how God looks, then only resonance, feeling, resonance. It is the resonance which unites you and me together here now. It is that resonance which gives you the energy to think, understand, and give further sound. Everything manifests out of the sound. Will be down technology and that sound. Yogi’s declares, "Oh, a you in a car, my car, and who car?" These three: Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas, the three qualities—creator, protector, and liberator. Trigunmaya, we call Trigunas, sound within no time in endless universe. And Universal consciousness, where the yoga Śakti, perfect, keeps the balance, and that becomes the resonance, there begins all elements to be created. So, then it says, Ananta Brahmāṇḍa Śāstra Sūryas, endless universe and thousands and thousands of the sun systems, which was declared by yogīs many, many thousands of years ago. Then, they begin to make differences. Endless universe, and universe means our sun system. So Parameśvara, the highest, the God or consciousness, whatever you understand or you would like to accept, is that consciousness which governs the entire universe. And then the same consciousness changes its quality and principles to govern the sun system. Also, in which solar system are we? Until the yogīs have the realization through samādhi, 2,100 different universes. That’s called Chaudhā Loka, Ikisho Brahmāṇḍa, the 17 different worlds and 2,100 different universes. Out of them come three guṇas: Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas. Through these three guṇas are created the five elements: ether, which is space; fire; air; water; and earth. And now, the disturbances begin. Now, at that time, two tendencies were developed, two kinds of energies, and that’s called asurīśakti and devīśakti. Asurashakti means negative forces. Devī Śakti means positive or divine forces. Now, since that resonance came, this balance began, vibration. And that is this balance which begins to create the duality. Out of that, we call it taraṅg. On our planet, through these five different elements, including this earth planet, life begins to develop. I’m talking about peace, okay, you know? But it would be very good to understand the cause and solution. Here on this planet, when the five elements became alive, and now also it is very important that in your house you have five elements alive. Space, you have. Air, you have. Fire, you must have. You see the fire flame? But in a safe way, okay? When you go to the office, take care that this small flame doesn’t become a very big flame. And water, we have the running water. Where these five elements are life, there is different energy, and there is a balance on this planet out of the five living elements. Again, that Shakti, which means yoga, brought these five elements together perfectly, out of which life began. And in that form, that resonance enters into it, what we call the Jīvā, or individual soul. You occupy the part of that resonance or vibration within your individual phenomenon. Now, that we call Ātmā. Ātmā means the highest one, the supreme one. And Ātmā is universal. The space in this hall and the space in the neighbor’s house is the same space. But individuality is that which we are sitting as individuals here. Similarly, in your body, that divine consciousness is called ātmā. And this ātmā is never born and will never die. What will die is this body. What will go and come is jīvātmā, the soul. Soul is individual, and ātmā is universal. So, all we who are sitting here, we are the ātmā. What? Ātmā. And in that ātmā, you and me, we are one. There is no duality, but as a soul, as an individual, we are different. You and I, we are different. Understand? So, in ātmā, we are good friends. In ātmā, we have perfect harmony, peace, love, oneness. But in the individual, we create a duality, and in this duality, there are two different kinds of forces, Asurīśakti and devīśakti, negative force and positive force. Now, the creator. The Creator has created on this planet, first, the five elements and life. Then he created 8.4 million different creatures, 8.4 million different creatures. If you don’t believe me, it begins to count, and next year when I come, you say, "Swāmījī, one is missing." So that is what it is. The śāstra said that’s what the great ṛṣis, the self-realized souls, declared. 8.5 million different creatures are struggling for their life and fighting between two forces, Asuras and Devas, negative and positive forces. And between them, there is a protection, a protective energy that is called love. Where there’s no love, there’s fighting. And where there’s love, there’s peace. These creatures, 8.4 million, are divided into three categories. Creatures in the water, creatures on the earth, and creatures in the space. All of them have an enemy because, before this planet was created, in the heavenly parliament, a law was passed. When the heavenly architect Viśvakarmā, with the law of the Vāstu Śāstra, they were talking to create a new planet, meaning our mother earth. Part 2: The Cycle of Life and the Path to Peace This is where the jīvās, the individual souls, will come for holidays. Birth will be here. Someone once asked, "My God, there will be only birth and birth and birth? Only born and born—what will happen with the planet? There will be no more space." That is correct. So, what will they do? They should be active; they should work. But no one will work. Why should we work? For what then? This was consulted with someone other than the fire goddess. The fire said, "Okay, I will enter into every creature’s body as what? Hunger. I will enter into the body of everyone as hunger." That is what we call the digestive fire. A hungry creature will get up and go search for food. No matter how lazy one is, when hungry, one will get up, go, open the fridge, and see if there is something. A very lazy crocodile will, when hungry, look up and open its mouth. That is the hunger in our navel, the digestive fire. Then the question came: "Fire, how will you be very calm then, satisfied?" "I need some kind of food in it." Very good. They said, "Okay, they will eat." Another one came and said, "The Vāyu, what will they eat?" We are coming near to solving the problem. Brahmā said, "I want to have a sustainable world, a sustainable creation, which will continue." Through this theory, the United Nations has decided and taken the one word called sustainable development. Sustainability means it will automatically take care of them. Then, very painful things, very cruel, but it has to be. I am talking about world peace—inner peace for world peace. Don’t come out of the track. Remain there, please. I try to bring the cause of the restlessness in this world, and then will be the answer about how to solve it. What will they eat? Jīva jīva bhakṣate—life will eat life. Why? Because then, who is born sooner or later will be eaten by someone in order to maintain nature. Nature will maintain itself, so the souls will come to the mortal world and then again depart, and come and go. That means the cycle of birth and death. Who is born will die, and who has died may not be born if one has the Master and Self-realization. Otherwise, you will come and go; that’s called reincarnation, rebirth. Reincarnation is the same word but different. Reincarnation is used for the divine soul, God, Holy Saint, and birth is our normal. We are all normal people. We are born. Some people don’t believe in rebirth. You know, belief will not change. Whether you believe it or not, I’m sitting here in front of you. So whether you believe it or not, this soul which passed away will come back again to this mṛti-loka, to this planet, in different forms. But many people don’t believe. So, I have one very nice explanation that you will believe. The word reincarnation, the word rebirth, is accepted by modern science. And that word in modern language we are using now is called recycling. Do you believe in recycling? Then where is the problem in believing in reincarnation? That’s also recycling of the consciousness, coming and going, coming and going. You believe it or not, that’s your thing, but it doesn’t change the reality. And then someone said, "Yes, but as a human, I will be born as a human." Yes and no. It depends on your karma. I should have come to the word karma a little later, but now it’s the right time to tell you. Karma. According to the karma, the next life will be what we call destiny, what we call good luck or bad luck. So again, I’m coming to recycling. Here is a tissue, a beautiful paper. And here is written: environment-friendly, recyclable. Good. I used it, and then I threw it in the basket, the waste paper basket or the garbage, and this went for recycling. It is not 100% sure this piece, which is going to the recycling process, will become again a tissue. It can become a carton, it can become a postcard, anything it can become. Wallpaper, any kind of paper. So when this paper is a newspaper and is recycled, it will not become again a newspaper. It can become any kind of paper. Do you accept this or not? Therefore, according to our present karma, our dharma in this world, we will have life further. Mahāprabhujī, our holy divine Satguru Dev, you see in the middle picture, you should read about Mahāprabhujī, who lived 135 years. A great incarnation, he said, "Past is gone, present is here, future is not here. Therefore, be aware at present time; your future will be like your present time." It means, are you angry? Then you will have an angry future. Are you friendly? You will have a friendly future. Every action will have a reaction, and every reaction will have an action. Jīva jīva bhakṣate—life will eat life. There was another principle in the parliament. Her name was Dayā, Dayā—mercy. That’s why women are the embodiment of mercy. It doesn’t matter how angry a woman is, but still, she is merciful. And man is the embodiment of knowledge, the jñāna. She said, "No, this is terrible. When you eat animals, animals will eat animals. Then how will we come out of this cycle of rebirth and death? How will we manage that we have peace? Because if I eat other creatures’ children, they will not be happy with me. They will fight against me all the time." Yes, then we shall create one creature which will have dayā in its heart—mercy, compassion. That one will and should not eat the other lives. And that is the human. Understand me now? Human. But how will they know? Yes, we have to give them intellect. Every creature has an intellect, but the human intellect is so big, endless; you can educate and educate. It is said, knowledge has no end. Knowledge cannot be measured with kilograms, kilometers, or centimeters. So human consciousness and human intellect are such a great thing, and humans will understand what is pain, what is pleasure, what is mercy, what we should do and what we should not do. Then we send the humans on this planet, Mithriloka, as a protector to protect all, and as a liberator to liberate oneself and also liberate others. So, my dear brothers and sisters, you are an incarnation of protection, and you are your own liberator through your intellect and through your dayā in the heart. The knowledge and love, perfectly together, maintain the peace. This individual soul, fluttering on the waves of time, billions of years through the darkness and the light, experiencing happiness, unhappiness, pain, pleasure, miserable life, and good life throughout the entire universe, and finally, we came to this planet. And God is in everyone, but in humans, God is more acting as knowledge and love. Now, we come to the peace. Humans get this intellect or the knowledge that you and I both are one. If I fight against you, it means I am fighting against myself. If I do bad to you, I’m doing bad to me. If you are one meter far from me, I am also one meter far from you. See both sides, and therefore, why do we fight? Another, this life is given to protect and to liberate thyself. This life is very short. You know, we are all sitting here, very happy. There are some young people like me, and there are some old people. Life and death don’t depend on being young or old; it’s destiny, my dear. We all who are sitting in the hall here don’t know who will be the first one to go from this world. I wish you long life, I wish you happy, healthy life, harmonious and loving life, but we don’t know what will be next minute. Therefore, this time is given to act and utilize the positive power, the Devī Śakti, to remove the Āsurī Śakti. When you go to the cave in the mountains, that is completely dark, and go to the darkness in the cave, Holī Gurujī used to say, and tell the darkness, "My dear darkness, you are billions and billions of years. Here, can you now go away and take other residents?" Darkness will not move through your kindness and prayers and request, but do one thing: switch on the light. What will happen? Darkness disappears. So, the darkness of the karma, darkness of the ignorance, darkness of the suffering, darkness of the restlessness, darkness of the fighting, darkness of the wars—everything can be stopped, removed, and the perfect world peace can be created when we realize the knowledge, the light of knowledge. Therefore, in yoga and daily life, and in the last so many years where I’ve moved around the world as an ambassador of peace, I bring three main points: tolerance, respect, and understanding. Tolerance in every religion. The biggest problem is that religions are fighting against each other, would like to be dominating in this world, more members and more power, and this is the problem. Unfortunately, in this world, world religion is coming. Sanātana Dharma, Sanātana means relation. God Kṛṣṇa said in the 15th chapter of Bhagavad-gītā: "Mamaivāṁśo jīvaloke jīvabhūtaḥ sanātanaḥ." "O Arjuna, I live in every heart, every creature’s... mamaivāṁśo jīvaloke, in this planet, in every jīvas, I am living there. Every creature is a light of God; don’t destroy them. Jīvabhūtaḥ sanātana, all these creatures, they are my relatives. They are related to me, represent me." Seeing them, me, Kṛṣṇa said. Then you will be happy. So when I see that Dharma, the religion, is a religion, okay? You believe in one, others believe in another, very good, why not? You go to the restaurant, one orders the pasta, the other orders the pizza. A third one orders only potatoes, and all are sitting on the same dining table and enjoying and friendly together. Why not? That’s it. So you believe in that religion, another one believes in a different one, I believe in a different one, why not? But I order the pasta, and then I try to take the pizza away, and then I try to take the pomperit away—that doesn’t function, my dear brothers and sisters. And that is a problem in the world with religion, it doesn’t matter which religion, that has to be stopped. Let them believe what they believe, help them, don’t change them, support them. If one is a cripple, just give a hand to walk. Tolerance in religion, respect to every culture. Every culture, it doesn’t matter from which continent, from which country, where the human is, there’s a culture. And where the culture is, there’s a human. Culture is the beauty of the human. And the culture is a way of life of those humans. Respect their culture, they will respect your culture. Respect means not that now you adopt this and you give of others. No, no one forces you. I am dressed differently, and you are dressed differently. I have a long beard, and another one doesn’t have a long beard. Now, I should not tell you that only men are those who have a long beard. No, that is discrimination. Someone said, "Every culture is a good culture, but the best culture is agriculture." So protect agriculture. That will help humans to think in a positive and healthy way. Organic nourishment and understanding. Understanding for everyone’s situation. I have eaten, and my stomach is full now. It means not that everyone’s stomach is full. That’s it. Think for the benefit of all. So know the situation of every individual’s need, and know the situation of every country’s. America has its own problem, and Africa has its own problem. Asia has its own problem, and Europe has its own problem. Every continent has some problems and some good things. Understand them, help them, but don’t create the war. Peace, understanding. Never can you realize peace with a gun. When you are quarreling with your neighbor, and you take the gun and say, "Keep quiet." Otherwise, you see, he will say, "Yes, thank you." But that didn’t create peace. The next day, he will get a machine gun. Hey, guys, I have both hands. Action, reaction, action—never finished. But instead of a gun, you go with the flowers and say, "Sir, excuse me if I was not right or not good to you." And let’s be good friends. That will create the peace. So give understanding, give respect, and have tolerance. That will lead to world peace. And so the yoga in daily life, around the world, every continent, working to realize, first of all, good health: physical, mental, social, and spiritual health. Second point: to get spiritual development, self-realization. And third, protection of the environment. And fourth, humanitarian, to protect the humans and try to bring the message of world peace. We humans are the cause of many, many distractions on our planet, and we can definitely change, and therefore Mahātmā Gandhījī said, "Be the change you want to see." So, how you want to see the world change? First change yourself, then the world will be different. Within thyself is the ocean of bliss, within thyself is a fountain of joy. Just kill this little "I" and lead a divine life, says the great saint Swāmī Śivānandajī. So God is happiness, God is peace, God is love. God is wisdom, and that God is Ātmā, and that Ātmā you are within you is that divine soul, Ātmā, and within me also. So if we come closer to our ātmā, we will never fight, and we will not make any differences or discriminations for the world peace. Jñāna, knowledge brings peace; ignorance brings fight. So, try to meditate and practice where you can get the love, and don’t fight for the religious complexes. Do not create conflict in people’s minds, but try to get out of their minds the conflicts. Then our planet will be a beautiful planet again. We call heaven on the earth, so inner peace for world peace, and therefore meditation is very important. When you meditate and close your eyes, it is not only dreaming and imagining how a flower looks beautiful, how the bees are enjoying the nectar from the flowers, oh, the butterflies, beautiful flying. I would also like to fly, but I don’t think I am the divine. No, it’s not so easy, not that. Who am I? But how am I? So, yoga in daily life has a very beautiful, guided, step-by-step meditation called self-inquiry meditation. Self-inquiry meditation means not only "Who am I?" but "How am I? What is my relation to the world? What do I do? What I like, and what people don’t like from me." So, don’t concentrate on what you like, but concentrate on what others like. Don’t worry about what disturbs you, but worry about what disturbs others. Disturbs others from me, that I should take away. So these are the steps: the cause and treatment. The cause was that the resonance in the universe, so it’s very, very long, long ago. But the treatment is again the dayā and knowledge yajña. Therefore, dhana, kāma, artha, hey, or pāpa, mūla, beman, Tulasī. They are the chodī, a job, luck, get me proud. They are dharma, kāma, artha, hey. The essence, the roots of the right house place, is the mercy, kindness. They are dharma, kāma, artha, lay, pāpa, mūla, beman. And the roots of this, the cause of the sins, is ego, means ignorance. Tulasī, they are naturally great saint Tulsidās. He said, "Never give up. They are never give up mercy, job, luck, got to a prawn. As long as you have the life in your heart, don’t give up the mercy, love, love..." Bring peace, and hate brings the wars. Love means not—it must not be that you now go in the street and try to hug everyone, "Hey, I love you! Hey, I love you!" No, they will... when you hug ten, twenty people in the street, someone will call the ambulance to transfer you to the psychiatric clinic, so not like that. Wish from the heart, let it flow, your mercy, your kindness. If someone would like to step first in the bus, okay, please, you. Are the first good to be the last? That’s it. Let it first go them in the house, and then you go in. You never know who is waiting inside, not with this thinking. Okay, that’s it. Where the difficulties, dangerous situation, you go first and let protect others. That’s it. Important love, love... Understand, forgive, that is the steps to the world peace, inner peace for the world peace, yoga and daily life. Therefore, also meditation and mantras is very... it’s a mantra, the resonance that began that time, divided in two parts: āsurī śakti and daivī mantra. Mantra means humble word, humble kindness. So I will stop my speech saying one example how mantra can immediately change the atmosphere, that mantra. Is your language supposed to be, you come at the last minute to some office, and you have a very important work to be done? If you need one stamp from some officer, an officer just closed the door of the office and want to go away, and you meet on the staircase that person. You said, "Dear sir, please, please be so kind, can you help me? Very important for me, I need all your stamp and signature from your office." He or she will sit well. Okay, come. Because you say, "Dear sir, please kindly can you help me?" It doesn’t matter, he or she, how busy it is. It’s okay, come quickly. We’ll open the office and give it to them and say, "Come next time at the right time." Your kind words melted the heart of the other. Instead of this, you stay on the staircase like this, "Hey! Bloody one, go and break in my job. Where are you going?" What will happen, my dear? There, it will be war immediately. Same mouth, same tongue says, "Dear sir, please be so kind," or the same mouth, same tongue says, "Hey, bloody one, no Barney, see? Bully a man, kappa koi, or an acoustic alacrity, a pussy. Tell who?" I speak such a sweet language that it makes others happy, and you are also happy. Harsh words are very, very bad; they make a big wound in the heart. If you are injured by a knife, the wound will grow, but if someone said you hard words, it will lifelong remain in your heart. Therefore, oh human, use better language, good language full of wisdom and love. That is a mantra. So when the master gives you mantra, guru mantra, there are many gurus, but you have only one satguru. And when the guru gives you mantra, then your karmas are cleaned or purified. The rest we will continue tomorrow. Thank you for your listening. So, you know the cause and treatment, why and how it happened, where the complication began, and now how we can solve it. It depends on you. I do hope you understood something. The main point was the universe, universal consciousness and yoga. Third point: a combination. I am one, now I will multiply. The fourth, that sound vibration, created all everything in the endless universe: the four elements, what we call water, fire, earth, and air. This is our planet and the creation: 8.4 million different creatures. One is the human. This is the door to the liberation. The ignorance divides, knowledge unites. Mercy in the heart, knowledge in the brain, perfectly balanced by yoga. Yoga means balance, harmony, and unity. We are individually different, but as a soul, ātmā, we are all one. And so, I wish you all the best, and God bless you. Om śānti, śānti, śānti. Hari Om.