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Good morning and blessings to all. Yesterday, many friends, students, and bhaktas worked scientifically on the system of Yoga in their life. They were doctors—mostly medical doctors—psychologists, physiotherapists, and many experts in particular medical fields. One could see that with great love and interest, they were preparing and researching the science of yoga in their life. We have to continue to practice for our own benefit and for the benefit of others. Many of you were at the Kumbh Melā; many came and many did not, but you have seen through our videos and media. There are many stories about Kumbh Melā: about the churning of the ocean and the struggle for immortality, and the merging of three rivers together—the Saṅgam of Gaṅgā, Yamunā, and Sarasvatī. If we compare this with our human body, these three nāḍīs, Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumnā, represent these three rivers. Their meeting point is at the Ājñā Cakra, Bhrūmadhya, the center of the eyebrows. Within everyone, there are two kinds of qualities: negative and positive. Both forces would like to be the winner. It is not easy to get rid of negative habits and negative qualities. Human life is a struggle for immortality and liberation. Thus, it has external symbols as well as the profound significance of human life. You saw many videos mostly showing the Nāgabābās. They showed them mostly smoking something, sitting near the fire, and so on. This is because the media does not know how to capture the attention of the people. There were thousands of things different from only the Nāgabābā, but this focus is psychologically understandable. If some people go to an FKK area, everybody will take photos. FKK means free body culture, developed by Germans. There are many beaches with special places only for people called FKK, where they are allowed only if they are completely naked, regardless of gender. They all go there, but nobody looks at anyone; it became natural. But among all of us, if one person were to undress, we would all look. So, it does not matter if it is male or female. The story of the Nāgabābā was not like this. Neither the story nor the background thinking of the FKK is what people assume. Those people do not have any negative thoughts in their mind. They just wish to feel their body as it is, as they were born. When you were born, every one of us was a Nāgabābā. So what is wrong? Sometimes people think, "Oh God, what is this?" And when you go to the bathroom, you also take your dress off and look in the mirror and say, "Oh God, what is this?" It depends on how we think, and it is only humans who think this way. Animals do not think; they take it as nature. There was a time when some negative elements wanted to destroy religion and countries. At that time, everything was guarded and taken care of by the sādhus. They went to protect the borders; even when there was war, they went to fight. The background thinking of the Nāgabābā tradition was this: do not care about your dress. Where it is needed, in an emergency, just go and help as you are. There is no time to dress. Renounce everything, even renounce your body for the sake of protecting humanity, the creatures, and the environment. They used fire for warming the body. If you put ash on your body, it is like a kind of cloth; it keeps you warm. And from a hygienic viewpoint, ash is very clean. At that time, there was a large army of what you call Nāgabābās, which was supported by kings. They had thousands of horses and elephants and were highly respected. From this point of view, Christianity developed what is called the Salvation Army. But the Salvation Army is not FKK. So it is not negative, but the way the media shows it suddenly makes people think, "Oh, India is only indigenous, jungly people who have nothing," and so on. Every day, to show the same thing was boring for the media. There was once a tent that was burning, and all the media ran to see it. For two days, they only saw this big fire in the Kumbh Melā. Or some European came, and they said, "Oh, even Europeans are coming to Kumbh Melā." The media needs something temptational. But the tradition of the Kumbh Melā, as well as the Nāgābābā, is highly respected and seen as renunciation. When there are many gathered, of course, they are joyful and happy. For the media, it becomes more interesting when a Westerner comes and sits with the Nāgābābā and has a chillum. So they think all they are smoking is hashish. Sometimes the cameraman forces them, "Please, please, can we make a video? Do it." Kumbh Mela originally was a meeting of intellectual people. It was meant for speaking about humanity, dharma, culture, ethics, spiritual principles, the protection of the environment, and what to give for spiritual life. This was a meeting point of the learned people. They called them the ṛṣis, the yogīs, and they were followed by their followers. It was like a battalion in the army, but not in an aggressive way. It is possible to protect everyone. At the same time, it was a cultural meeting. At that time, there were no transportation options like trains, cars, or airplanes. For some people, it took half a year to reach the Kumbh Melā. People did not know if a person would come back. There was no clear landscape, so it was hard to find the way. It was a great meeting, the nectar of wisdom that we can bring to the people. Of course, everyone would like to keep their tradition and culture. If you go to Africa, they have their culture. In many places, still in the jungle, everyone is walking naked. By birth, it is their culture, so Africans do not look if a man or a woman is coming naked. But if we, the so-called civilized ones, go and someone comes naked, then we look. That is something new for us. You go to Australia to the Aboriginal people, or you go to the Māori, or you go to the Fijian people, the Hawaiians. In many, many countries, and then we come to Europe. Look to the Neanderthals. This is Brno, and this is the area where the Neanderthal people were living. What you call Mikulov was their meeting place, like a Kumbh Melā. They all had their people. They were also without dress, without any dresses. They had only some animal skin, so civilization is developing. In Dusseldorf, Germany, there is a beautiful, big Neanderthal museum. They show the different states of their civilization and how they lived. Many people like to live according to old systems, like the American Indians. Now the United Nations and every government would like to protect those indigenous cultures because they are happy when they can live according to their culture. Therefore, the Kumbh Mela was there to respect the cultures, everyone’s way of living, and in that way, they are spiritual themselves. You have seen many different kinds of sādhus and many different kinds of humans. There were thousands also, many people from Western countries, from the Middle East, from China, many from Korea and Japan. Now, the Kumbh Mela has become the world’s Mela. Very soon, it will be declared as a World Heritage Site. So it depends on which kind of thinking you go there with and what you would like to represent there. That’s it. It is different things, a different way of living. Pavel was with me, and Pavel Sklenář and his wife. We went to an oasis with very good, kind people, and we were talking. At the end, I invited one of the persons who was nice to me. I said, "Welcome, if you come to Europe, please come to Vienna. I will be happy to have you as my guest." And he said, "If you invite me to India, I will come, but not to Europe." I said, "Why?" He said because the men are not capable of feeding their wives, and the wife has to work and go in the street. The men are not men anymore, and poor ladies have to go in the streets and go to work. Now you see what their way of thinking is. He didn’t mean anything bad, but it is how they think. How is their culture? They work very hard, and whatever they earn, they give to their wife. And the ladies are happy. All you see sometimes in media about women’s torturing makes media crazy to other people. Otherwise, in the so-called Middle East, Islamic countries have a very high culture. They respect women very much. They are very much protected. They try to keep the dignity of the feminine world, but you do not see all that. You see only some things, a little bit. This is how people try to provoke anger and hate toward other cultures. So they have their cultures. We should not change them. In Europe, it was the same thing. Where you are living, 200 years before, when a son was born, she said, "Oh, I got a son." And then, if your daughter gave birth to a child, she said, "Yes, but a daughter." I do not know what they have against daughters. Every woman is a great divine symbol of the mother. But this was the way of thinking of the people. So we cannot blame; we should not see only the negative. It has its sense in it, something. Mostly it was this: the son will keep the family name, and the daughter will go to some other husband. That’s all. So the Kumbh Mela is a mela of the meeting of spirituality, multi-culture, and development and protection for society, where there was manan—thinking over what problems are out there and how we can solve them in a spiritual way, not through fighting. It was nice to be in the Kumbh Melā with you. I wish you all the best, and God bless you. Śrīdīp Nayan Bhagavān Kī, Deveśvar Mahādev, Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Kī, Sanātana Dharma Kī, Om Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Gajanandjī Mahārāj Kī.