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Hari Om and good evening, everyone. I am also very happy to be here again today. It is a beautiful constellation. There are certain events. First of all, tonight begins the full moon. Did you know? You didn’t know, now you know. The moon has a very great influence on our planet, on nature, and we humans are not different from nature. Our health, body, mind, emotion, and intellect—everything is equally influenced by the planets, especially by the moon. In the holy book Bhagavad Gītā, God Kṛṣṇa says, "Arjuna, I enter into the vegetation as a nectar through the moonlight." I think that is why we call it the honeymoon. When someone goes on a honeymoon, you must be sure it is a full moon. Otherwise, it is not a honeymoon. Of course, many of you have already done this behind you, but if someone still has it, then take care. "Honey" means health; honey means immortality. And honey can only be made by bees. Unfortunately, our greed is killing all the bees. Year by year, bees are dying from different kinds of illnesses. It is said that now in New Zealand there is a Mandūka honey. They declare it one of the best honeys in the world—maybe it's commercial or non-commercial; it is a very good one. The bees died, so they have to import bees from America. Also in Australia, the bees are dying. Can we imagine? I think it is impossible to imagine that one day our children will read and look in the computer only to see how bees look. There will be no more bees. This is a disaster. We cannot imagine what is disappearing. Therefore, we must work towards the protection of the environment, take care of the ecology, and ensure organic nourishment. I do not think humans can make honey. There is no other technology. Yes, you can melt sugar, and it looks like honey. Imagine it is honey, that is all. But it is not that honey. In yoga, we used to say a yoga practitioner and the yogī should be—or every human should be—like a honeybee. It brings nectar even from the poisonous cactus or some plants. It is only she who can take the nectar from such plants. And she does not destroy the blossom; she does not destroy anything. She brings that quality. Out of that, we make many things: medicine, what you call pollen and propolis and many other things, the royal jelly. So, we should be like that bee which takes the good quality from this world, and the other we neglect. This is the only way to live happy, and meditate, and mantra. When a bee is flying, she is chanting her mantra. You can hear them, "Zzzz." There is another wasp also coming and taking the nectar, and it is also all the time saying, "Have enough?" It says, "Yes, I go home back, going and coming." So when we come to this world outside of your house, come like a bee. There are so many things, but we do not take into consideration all these negative things. Otherwise, we will have so much stress in life, we cannot come out of it. So, what honey is collected and produced by the bee—and actually, she is like a mother. First, she digests it herself, and then she gives it back. That is why it is said if you have diabetes and you take a little bit of honey, it will not harm you because it has already been digested by the mother bee. This was the original or background of the thinking to go for the honeymoon. So the moon is the source of the nectar which comes into the vegetation, and the sun is that source which brings inside a lot of vitamins and more light of the sweetness. On the full moon day, entire nature is more awakened. Sometimes it is such a strong influence that some people cannot sleep. Some go more for walking. The wildlife is also looking at the moon and howling. So it means the energy is so strong. Therefore, the yogī tells what to do to balance it. Because on the full moon day, emotions can be so strong that one can have an accident while driving a car. On this day tomorrow, it is a full moon day; you should fast. Fasting means you can take liquid—not alcohol, okay—water, juice. If you have diabetes, of course, you should not fast. If you are pregnant, you should not fast. Otherwise, you take a little piece of fruit. So the energy in the body will harmonize, and we will get more good, pure energy of the moon into our body as a nectar. It means health, good health. Now, if the moon is visible or not, that does not matter. These clouds do not have the strength to stop the effect of the moon or the sun or anything. The Moon is also known as emotion. The ocean has high waves on the full moon day, and more deep under the bottom of the ocean, it is more calm and peaceful. Entire life in the ocean is on the dark night. It means after 14 days of the full moon. So tomorrow is full moon, and the day after tomorrow begins. It begins; it is called śuklapakṣa, Kṛṣṇa pakṣa. Krishna means dark. So it means now the period—pakṣa is period—the period of the dark moon, it will decrease day by day till 14 days. And on the 15th day, it will be the low visible moon. That is called amāvasyā. Why? Because the moon and sun rise at the same time; the moon is not visible. So the light of the moon is sucked by the sun, and it has a little effect. On this day, in this period, from the day after tomorrow until the dark moon, we should not plant anything. And when, after 14 or 15 days, the new moon comes again, you see on the first or second, it is called Kṛṣṇa moon, and that is a symbol of Lord Śiva. You see, if Shiva’s picture is there, he has on his head here as his decoration or his ornament, a crescent moon. That is a light. The moon is a light of Shiva’s. Svayambhū—no one has created him; he just manifests. And it grows day by day to the full moon. So many countries, many people, they celebrate first the new moon as well as the full moon. Many in the Islamic religion also have Ramadan and some other festivals where they only eat and drink when they see the moon; for the fourth night, they are fasting. So the moon is a symbol of emotion, spirituality, and purity. Now, emotion means we are in the motion. In motion is emotion. Now, it depends on how high the waves are, the emotional waves. So when you have a lot of emotion, do not decide anything. If someone writes you a wrong, bad letter or tells you something, do not telephone and say, "I said, no, no..." These are the high waves that will again disturb us. Wait, wait, wait. When the waves go down, then you will see more clearly what is on the surface and on the bottom through the surface. When the waves are high, you cannot see anything clearly. One man writes a letter to some philosopher and asks one question. I think it was Einstein. He asked some question, and he wrote about ten pages back, the answer. And after 10 pages of writing, he writes down, "Sorry, my friend, I had no time to write, that is why I write a long letter." It means if he had thought and waited, then he would have written just clear words: "Hello, hello," that is all. So if you have some problem, this is one of the solutions. You may write immediately, text, write in your email or whatever you call, but do not send. Next day, read it again. You will say, "No, I do not want to write this and this again." Wait for one week. You will say, "No, these stupid things, I do not care." You will not send that email, and you are protecting yourself. That is a way to bring the peace. That is a mantra. So, great Tulsidās in the holy book Rāmāyaṇa said, "If you would like to have all as your friends, then give up harsh words." Do not tell something. Even when one is angry with you and tells you something, use your compassion, your love. We say in India, if a dog bites you, you cannot bite him back. Yes? We know if the dog is okay, now we have to put the mask on his face, all of this. Similarly, if someone is not good to us in telling something, okay. Keep distance, respect distance. So Mahatma Gandhi tells, we hate the sin, not the sinner. So everyone can make mistakes, but we do not neglect that we see the divine light of God in everyone. So, Moon. Now you see here how many chakras on the wall? I was not in mathematics, so is there eight or nine? Eight? Okay, are you sure? Where is Gaurī Śaṅkar? He is somewhere else. This is the last chakra on the top of the head. That is called the tenth door. One day, whether you want to or not, you will go out of this body. And this body is so beautiful and so pleasant and so nice, we do not want to die. And when we are ill, we are so sad. I want to be healthy. Long life? I must practice yoga so that I will live long and healthy. Now, yoga has become one of the best ways to health. And especially, people cannot afford health insurance. And in many, many countries, health insurance is avoiding giving you certain medicines and that. And those who are practicing yoga, the insurance companies are happy with them. Especially in America, I do not know if they are still doing it, but they say that if you practice yoga, the insurance company pays for your yoga class. Yes, you should find out. And you research that: how much medicine have you consumed, are consuming, or not at all? But you are constantly paying the insurance. This is a real fact. So yoga is a health, but at the same time, people have made it commercial. So yoga is not acrobatic. Yoga is not something that you show your muscles, and you stand on one hand and one leg and all this. That is not for all. When you are advertising yoga and showing such a posture, a person like me, in this age, I will say, "But this is not for me. I do not want to break my bones in all days." So yoga in daily life is a scientifically systematized practice, designed for every age, for every person, and for many different illnesses, physical or mental. The yoga in daily life is designed in such a way. You have been practicing, and Kripa Devi is a very good yoga teacher, and this first part of the Yoga in Daily Life, Sarvahitāsana, is so beautiful. You know, you will be surprised, I am still stuck on the first part. Every day I am practicing, but I am practicing the first part because it is very simple and very effective, very healthy, very good. Do you practice every day? Well, if you do not eat, your stomach will not be full. Make your saṅkalpa, make a regulation, decide yourself. One hour early morning before breakfast, you will do your exercises. One hour. If you can do breath technique and a little meditation, then minimum one and a half hour. After three days, you do not need to tell yourself to practice. Your body will say, "Get up, practice." Now, even I have a jet lag, but I am practicing every day, and at that time, six o’clock, my body said, "No, take your blanket and practice." No jet lag there, so it gives new energy. This is a research work on yoga and real life. My subject is meditation and mantra, but this is meditation also, okay? What can be more beautiful meditation than our good health? Though health is not everything, everything is nothing without health. I tell you, sit down and meditate, and close your eyes. Do not move, but you have your pain. And I say, do not move, do not make noise, do not move. It is easy for me to say, "Do not move," and you are sweating because you have pain here, no? So for me, it is easier to say, "Do not move," but you have difficulty sitting like that. You have to stretch your leg, perhaps. So first is the body. The body is not everything, but everything in this world is nothing without this body. So as long as God gave us life, we should try to keep our body healthy and good. This is the first instruction of the Āyurveda medicine, and Āyurveda says, the first happiness in life is a healthy body. So we should have healthy food. Sugar is very good. Chocolate is very good. Ice cream is very good, but do not eat too much. And it is very difficult to say, "Do not eat too much," especially to the children. There is a little story of Mahatma Gandhi. One lady came to him with a child, about eight or nine years old. And that child was doing everything that Gandhiji would say. He was loving Gandhiji so much. So a lady came and said, "Gandhījī, can you tell my child not to eat too many sweets because they are not healthy?" So Gandhiji said, but you told it. She said, "No, he will only follow when you say it." Gandhiji said, "Okay, come after two months, I will tell him." She was disappointed. She went. It would not take a long time to say, "Do not eat chocolate or so much." Well, after two months, she came again with her son, and Gandhijī remembered. And Gandhijī said, "My dear child, do not eat too much sweet, it is not healthy." He said, "Really, Gandhiji?" He said, "Yes." Okay, I will not eat, only a little bit. He said, "Okay." Now that woman is asking Gandhiji, "Why did you not tell two months before?" And Gandhijī said, "My daughter, because I was also eating too much sweets at that time. When I eat so much sweet and I tell this child not to eat, my inner self cannot accept it and cannot forgive me. So since that day, I did not touch the sweet. Now I can tell this innocent child." So, eating and everything has an effect on our body, mind, consciousness, and the soul. So, we humans and many other creatures have nine doors through which our soul goes out from this body. And for the yogī and for the human, there are ten doors, and our soul, which is not visible to us. Mother does not know when the soul entered her body as an embryo. And the father also does not know. Nobody knows when this light, this soul came. And we are sitting near our father, mother, or any friend who is dying, but we cannot see that light is coming, and we do not see. One is just and goes. So at that time, the soul is leaving our body through one of the nine doors. So two are the eyes. When you go, the eyes are very strongly opened. When we see someone die, we close the eyes, no? Second is the nose. And third are our ears. So two, two, and two. How much is that? Six. Seven is our mouth. So one opens the mouth. After certain hours, automatically the mouth opens or the eyes go up because of the jaw; it does not have any more strength to keep together. But the question is, when the soul goes out, you will see how it is. The 8th and 9th are the gender system and what you call the anus. Now, when one dies and makes that coat of urine, that means this soul has very bad karma and went to the lowest form of life, or whatever you call the next life. Maybe even this soul can travel as a reptilian, or different, many, many. There are 8.4 million different kinds of creatures, 8.4 million, and they are divided into three categories. Creatures in the water, on the earth, and in the space. Out of 8.4 million different creatures, one is the human. Now, if someone has a little better karma, then the mouth will open. Now, there is one book available here, you know, definitely, or you should buy and read from this one of the scientists who is living in Washington, Mr. I think Moody. He wrote a book, Life After Death. And he interviewed people around the world who had a clinical death and then came back into the body. And so he told them, "What have you seen? What happened?" and so on. It is a very interesting research work. And he is doing and giving lectures, I think, also talking, speaking, very, very. So, not only that he went to interview the religious people, no, anyone, and from every continent. So, mostly they said that when they went out of the body, they saw a tunnel. And in this tunnel, some say it was a dark tunnel, and some said it was like a milky light, and someone was guiding them. This dark tunnel is our left nostril. This represents the moon, the lunar, and the right nostril represents the sun, which is the light. Now, dark moon and full moon, this is, that is the light. So, when the soul passes through the left nostril, then you see the dark tunnel. After may become the light, but generally it says not good. When it goes through the right nostril, then you see the light, the light of pure consciousness. Many, many are writing that after the tunnel, they met their grandparents or ancestors or some angels, and they guided them. It is a very interesting book, Life After Death, from Mr. Moody. It is available, I think, in every bookshop. And those who go to the light, loka to the sunlight, they open the eyes, both eyes. Those who go to the rajunens, the finest part of the universe, sound goes through the ears; a little blood comes out maybe, or blood comes through the nose. But the yogīs, like all of you, you practice yoga, no? And you have to practice that your soul will go from here, this part of the head. When a baby is very little, born, till one month, I think you can see here, a very soft part, and you can feel like a pulse. What do you call it? Fontanelle. And that is this chakra, you see? The Śiva is dancing, that is not a Śiva, that is yourself. Now, you have come above everything, and you have become one with the eternal light and peace in the universe, beyond everything. But the journey begins. Now, see, here is given the first Mūlādhāra Cakra. This is the beginning of human consciousness and the end of animal consciousness. So, Mūlādhāra, Svādhiṣṭhāna, and different chakras are there. You should study that. It is beautiful, and you can work on it yourself according to the book. So, full moon. In all these chakras and everywhere, the moon has the first place. So, you see here, this is called the Bindu chakra, and that one is here on the top of the head, here in between. If you have very short hair, then you can see here, like a coiled hair here. Everyone has, everyone. And some have two, some. But two means not two souls inside, okay? And this is the seed of the nectar, and there is a moon. You see the new moon? And nectar is dripping down. We put it as a pot, as a lotus. Lotus is the king of all flowers. And lotus indicates, lotus grows in muddy water, but it comes out beautiful, pure. If you put dirty water on it, it slides away. So it means we are living in this world, a polluted world in every aspect: politically, emotionally, socially, economically, and environmentally. Everything, this world is so polluted. But you are a lotus in this ocean of the troubled world. So live like a lotus. You will never have depression; you will never have any kind of mental or emotional difficulties. You will always have happiness within you. That is meditation. Not only that, we close our eyes and we think, "Okay, I am peaceful, I am peaceful." And the neighbor’s dog is always barking. My God, why is he barking when I am meditating? Maybe the dog knows that you are not really meditating. So, the dog says, "You do properly." So, similarly, every chakra, and this chakra is located parallel to our spine, from the bottom of the spinal column till the top of the head. So in our body, there are some chakras on our foot, till the ankle joint. These chakras belong to the earth element. Then, from the ankle joint to the heel, vegetation. And from the heel till the hip joints, animal chakras. Chakras. And where does our spine begin from down, the bottom? There is Mūlādhāra, beginning. And that is called the seat of the human consciousness, which is on the border, animal and human. So good deeds will lead us to the human quality, and others will lead us maybe to the animal quality. So there is again this Śiva, called the Paśupati Mahādeva, who has been in Nepal. Was there someone in Nepal? You have to go to see the beautiful Śiva temple, very, very ancient. So, Paśupati means the Lord Śiva. He is the Lord of animals and the Lord of humans too. From there, where the Mūlādhāra Chakra is, there are dormant all our past deeds from our past lives, many, many lives. That is what we call destiny. Our good or bad, where are they hidden? So, this is one after another layer in this Mūlādhāra Chakra. Mūl means the roots, Ādhāra means the foundation. So the foundation of the human consciousness is right there in Mūlādhāra Cakra. There are all principles there, and it is called, "There is an elephant." An elephant has seven trunks, and I think the Mūlādhāra Chakra is the last one there, no? Near the Rāmānanda. Yes, that is Mūlādhāra Chakra? Thank you. You can show it on your... So from there, the elephant is a symbol of strength, a symbol of wisdom, prosperity, and seven trunks means saptadhātu, the seven elements. And these seven elements, dhātu also means the metal or the hormones, saptadhātu. And these all seven dhātus, the hormones, are for health very, very important. The highest, the best quality of our adhātus, our elemental hormones in the Vedic seven, is that which the man has as a sādhu. And that is the highest quality of all your elements, and that you have to preserve and protect, so that it keeps you healthy, with concentration, memories, etc., etc. So this is a science. Yoga is a science of body, mind, and soul in order to get liberation and come to the oneness and the higher point of the universe. After that, we proceed further to the Svādhiṣṭhāna Chakra. There is our subconsciousness. The Mūlādhāra is unconsciousness, that is from past life. And Svādhiṣṭhāna is from this life. It means, now you listen carefully, on the first day when the father and mother came together, what were the circumstances at that time? Was there real love, or was there some force, or was it drunkenness, or did they take some drugs, or was it fear? There were many, many situations that will influence the consciousness of that soul which will come to the mother. And therefore, the name is given: love. And where there is love, there is only one thing. God is love, and love is God. That light, that soul will come to the mother’s body. Is that love? God, that light. So, first, God in our human forms, or in animal form, is the mother. The first is the invisible Lord in the universe as a light. But when it is perceived by the mother, she is the second one, who will manifest it and give us that Lord, that light. We are all children of God, and we are all sons and daughters of God. And not only the humans, the animals too. Also, plants have a life. They also feel pain, and they also feel love. Yes, you feel it? Yeah, look, he is dancing. Thank you. They are also, yes. Oh, not only that, all leaves are happy. I was just touching it. Yes, look, oh, this also. They are all happy when you come home and talk to your plants. They will be so happy, and they will give you so much happiness back. That is the language of love. You may say, "Good morning, you have a beautiful blossom." Oh, my God, so nice. And everything said, "Yes, I am for you here." Oh, God, beautiful. Oh, God, beautiful.... In the forest and the meadows, in the parks and the flowers, In the ocean and the lakes, mountains and the hills. Oh, God, beautiful. Oh, God, beautiful. In the stars and planets, in the sky and on the desert, O Lord, beautiful. So that indescribable beauty of God, you see through meditation. So that time is very, very important for the creatures and for humans when they come in touch with this material world for the first time. After that, for us humans, nine months. Now, here comes one point called dharma. Dharma means principle, obligation, duty. Now, the real dharma, the real love, the man has to show his wife, and the wife has to show her husband. It means these nine months the husband should be all the time near and protective. And that she feels well, she feels healthy, she does not have any problem physically, and you are always with her. Do not think that your wife is not pregnant, and always she is telling this and that. I go to the restaurant, I will eat there, and every day you are somewhere and she is alone. Do not leave her alone. That is not dharma. It is adharma. Now your duty is that you are nine months close to her. You see in nature, when the tiger or the lion or the deer or the birds get pregnant, they will see the male. All the time, all the time guarding, all the time he is near there. Do not think that we humans are clever and we do. Nature does the same thing. Now, how was the nine months of the mother and the father’s relation, and the mother’s relation and family? That will influence our psychic. After the birth, how was the birth? And how you treat it now, your children. Do not give your children, after a few weeks, to the babysitters, and you have to go to work. You see, mother is a mother and babysitter is a babysitter. Babysitter is a very good person and has a great love. But that natural love of the mother, a babysitter cannot replace it. And do not make the mistake of putting your child to sleep in another room while you are sleeping on this side. A baby needs at least one or two years of the warmness of the mother’s body and the father’s. So you are sleeping in this room, baby is in another room. And crying. Now you have machines, you can go and see what she is doing, but suddenly the window is opened or something, and she is freezing and freezing. She cannot cry anymore, and you know, in the morning you come, she is frozen. Children need love. You see, every animal, every lion, every pig, the wild pigs, when they come back, they go to their cave or their den, and babies come and drink, and they sleep on the body of the mother. No? You see the pictures? So we have to learn from this. Now, these one, two years, how mother is working hard, how father’s attention, and what is the behavior, anger of the father goes to your subconscious, anger of the mother goes to your subconscious. And what you eat, what you drink, then comes your kindergarten, nursery school, then come the schools. So now, from the first day, minute, and second of your descending from the universe to this material world, till now, one minute before, half a minute before, ten seconds before, whatever you heard, you saw, you smelled, you touched, you experienced, all this information goes through your mind into the subconscious mind. It is a messenger, ascending, descending, coming up to the intellect. Taking all information through the ears, through the eyes, through the nose, through the taste, through the touch, and brings information to the subconscious. And what is very urgent, something in the subconscious brings up. Tomorrow, maybe I will talk on this subject further. So, the mind is only pendling up and down, up and down. Now, these problems, for example, last time or sometimes I told you this story. One husband and wife went for a walk, window shopping. And there was a very nice ice cream shop. Nice pictures with a big ice cream ball and this. So, the husband said to his wife, "Darling, let us have ice cream today." She said, "Good idea. Of course, my dear one." But you know, yesterday you were at the doctor, and you have tonsil problems. You got cold, flu. And the doctor told you, "Do not drink and eat for two, three weeks." Cold and ice creams and like this. He said, "Yes, thank you," he said. But inside he was not happy. That always my wife argues, and she is right. This is a problem. He came home after three days. He is dreaming. Then now he is three weeks gone, and he is healthy. And his wife invites him, "Let us go for ice cream," in the dream. So they are going together, going to the ice cream shop. They went and they sat there. They ordered the ice cream. It came nice, two balls. He took the spoon to enjoy the ice cream, and the spoon was coming to the mouth. Five centimeters remained far. Alarm was ringing. What happened? No ice cream. He woke up, no dream. He looks, sees here, no ice cream, nothing, wet. Well, he slept again. So, after some time, again, the dream will come. So, the intensive burning desire which you have will come in the dream. If you cannot fulfill in material, then we have the level of the consciousness: the awakened, the sleep, and the dream. And how you go from the awakened state to the sleep, and how you go from sleep to the dream and come back, the subject we will carry today is too much. You will not remember all now. After a certain time, he forgets, he forgets. But unfulfilled desire, what happens with that? You put in now, you have to do it. If not in this life, then you have to be born in another life to fulfill this desire. This is a problem, so we have to purify, clarify these desires in this life so that we cannot suffer in another life. We clear everything. Now, unfulfilled desire, which was suppressed down after some time, lost the form, color, and form. You do not know, but time to time, these desires come out and create aggressivity towards your wife. And she will say, "Why, what are you doing?" He says, "You do not know." Whenever they go shopping or somewhere, again when he sees something, ice cream or something, he has a very negative attitude inside, but he does not know why. He does not remember ice cream at all. But this is a desire, a psychic problem. And that is what happens when we go to the doctor and the doctor says, "Well, this is not physical, it is psychological." Psychic. So what is a psychic? What is a psychological problem? That means unfulfilled desires which went to the subconscious. And you express in a different way. Sometimes you put it on your colleagues. Sometimes you put on other people or the neighbors, and you do not know, in reality, why you are doing this. And your colleagues will say this, "You are unfriendly," and you say, "No, I am not this, I am not this." But you are, and you do not accept it because that is lying deep in our subconscious. So, unconscious, subconscious, conscious. These are the three levels: awake, sleep, and dream. Then comes the higher consciousness, super consciousness, cosmic consciousness. That is the last one. So this chakra, we will continue tomorrow with the subject. So today is a special constellation, the full moon. And the second is, if you know, the god Hanumān, what we call the monkey, in the form of the monkey with god Rāma, his incarnation day is tomorrow also. So, Hanumān Jayantī, the incarnation of the Lord Hanumān, and the full moon, and Thursday. Thursday is Jupiter, and Jupiter is a master. So these three constellations come together, which is very special. Jupiter, full moon, and the strength: Hanuman is strength and faith, the love. So mantra is that one which brings our attention to our heart, and mantra has some positive meanings. Lord, I pray to thee, send thy cosmic light into my heart. Remove all the darkness of my sufferings, and light the love that I can become one with thee. There are meanings of different mantras, likewise. So when you occupy yourself with this mantra, the worldly situation goes out. You enter into the different levels of consciousness to purify all these chakras. And finally, you come here on the top of Mount Kailāś, the seat of Lord Śiva. That is all for today. You will not remember otherwise so many things, so better I stop here. I can talk till tomorrow evening, no problem, but you have to digest this. And whatever I told, if you can preserve 10% or 5%, it will be great. So all the best, and thank you. And thank you very much. Blessings to all devotees, bhaktas, friends, and dear ones around the world who are with us through the webcast. Bless you, and blessings are coming from the beautiful ashram, "Our Yoga and Daily Life," Mahāprabhujī’s ashram, led by our dear sister Kīrpā Devī. In a beautiful part of New York, it is called Queens. All the best. Tomorrow again, the same time in the same space. This webcast will be Hari Om Śānti, Śānti, Śānti.