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Good evening, blessings. In any learning process, in any kind of vidyā, if there is no one hundred percent interest, you cannot be successful. We have to understand for what purpose. I have explained many times, but in the Western mind it does not go in. It is very difficult. Somehow it is sealed up, waterproof. Nothing goes in. Spirituality is connected to purity. And purity leads to spirituality. And spirituality leads to divinity. But we here in the West do not understand about these subjects. First, it begins with nourishment. Food has to be really very pure. If you keep your vegetable and meat together in the same freezer, your vegetable is not anymore vegetarian; it is mixed with the dead energy of the meat. So here we are finished, and you do not think of this, that you put them together in one place like this. There are many, many examples. You go shopping and buy in a shopping bag meat, and vegetables, and fruits together. It is finished. It is finished. It is very difficult to explain again and again. It has been explained, but a person does not understand very simple things. When you do not understand, you will not understand Brahmavidyā and Brahmakriyā. It is not to make a compromise in quality. Yes, you can make one compromise. Okay, you accept it. But you do not eat anything today. That is it. You can sit beside this or that, but you will not eat. That much compromise you can do. Also, it is advised in every culture, in European culture also, I think. But I do not see it. Before eating, you must wash your hands. I only see it in European operation theaters. Thanks to God, at least it remains there that you wash hands and make the disinfection. You take it, and then first it is like this, no, and then like this, yes. You are very technical, but in your own home and eating, you lost that culture. Washing hands after eating? You do not wash. Your hands you do not clean, wash your mouth, you are going immediately working by doing like this. "Oh yes, how are you? Very good, thank you. Oh, you had lunch? Yes, I just... just... how did it?" It is not accepted. Here also it was, but when I came in the very beginning, it was. So before eating, wash your hands and mouth. After eating, wash your hands and mouth. So there are many, many little, little things which disturb your mental and spiritual development. Do not say, "Ah, this is nonsense." If it is nonsense, then ask the surgeon why he is so strict in the operation theater. That is the same thing. So purity, which is the first thing. Second, you do not understand what fasting means. For the last forty-two years, I have been explaining in Europe about fasting. I was not successful. There is one song: "I want to give you a beautiful flower, my Lord, but till today I could not find it. I was searching continent to continent, shore to shore, and door to door—banks of rivers, banks and forests." But that flower which I want to offer to you, my Lord, I could not find. And he tells after, maybe the flower is there, but I failed to find that one. So after forty-two years, I accept to Mahāprabhujī, I failed, I did not find any flower. Who would have understood me? That is it. Fasting has to go in your subconscious, in your conscious, in your intellect, in your heart. It should, you must care about that. You should know what it means. But the problem is we cannot control our taste. In our brain, we have seven holes. Two ears, two eyes, two nostrils, and one mouth. All we can control, but this is not. Even in the dream, you are doing like this. These indriyas, these indriyas, are the biggest problem of the people. There are some dogs. When the master says, "Do not eat anywhere, anything." Maybe the dog is very hungry, and you go and put something in front of the dog; he will not eat. So, of course, I do not compare you with a dog, but I can tell that your senses are less under control than some other creatures. And many times, explain fasting for what? Fasting is for spirituality. Health is after. I admire the people who follow Islam. When they have fasting days, roja, they do not take a sip of water in the mouth, even when they are very thirsty. When the moon is seen in the evening, then they will break the fast or drink something. That means they feel they have an urge, they have desires, they have a longing for that spiritual development, not a tradition. It is not a culture, not a fanaticism, but these two religions, Christians and Hindus, they are lost. Many Hindus are also lost because of too much compromise, too much compromise. So, what to do, my dear, today? You had dinner today? Who did not have dinner? Who did not have dinner? Only one person, my God. Okay, one question, please do not mind. And do not hesitate to raise your hand. After dinner, who did not clean their mouth? In the bathroom, please be honest and raise your hand up. Who did not? Thank you. I think we have to change that. One should not clean the mouth. Thank you. So, what more can I tell you? Everything that you do will not be successful because you have certain infections, mental infections. You do not take it seriously. Where you could climb high up in the mountains. You must trust the doctor, and you must have some oxygen’s aid there. He said, "I do not need." Yes, you do not need. I think so, too. But after eight thousand meters, I will ask you, do you need oxygen? "Yeah, I cannot breathe." No prohibition. You can open your mouth long, you can open your nose long. Now we know that time, what oxygen is. Here we do not know. A fish is in the water, but the fish is thirsty. Fish in the water is thirsty. Similarly, you are here, but you are without that knowledge. For the last twenty-three years, I have been explaining to the five people who cook for me which is the right side of the chapati and which is the wrong side of the chapati. Every day, they always come and put the wrong side, the wrong side chapati. Is it put for the date ceremony when you die? Then it is put on the wrong side, and it is a very bad symbol. But still they put wrong. So I said, "I am still alive, please do not kill me now." But simply they do not understand which is the wrong side and which is the right side. You should know which is the front side of your car and the back side of your car after twenty-three years. So, after all this, I found that people lost the common sense of the social life, and that is, do not you see, is it not? Mind, it does not matter. Wrong and out, man. The thing is, it goes in the mouth and pisses in the stomach. That is all. It does not matter. Does not matter. You go in the restaurant, and the dining table will be backside. You just take it and eat it. It does not matter. The main thing is that you find something on the ear. So it does not matter. You must know which is the back side and which is the front side. Once okay, twice okay, three times. Twenty-three years of struggle, three times a day I am explaining. A person who cannot cook is hopeless, hopeless. You can do many things, you are still not successful. There are sixteen vidyās, like Brahma-vidyā. From the sixteen vidyās, one is called pāk śāstra. If you are not paripūrṇa, paripak, if you are not perfect in that, you fail. So pāk śāstra is the first vidyā you should know. Also riding, but nowadays it is driving, okay. We compromise, riding, driving, also the swimming. So Pākśāstra is a cooking science. So, anyone who must learn to cook, does not matter male or female. Why must only a wife cook? You can also cook. But sometimes, if the wife is lost, the knowledge is that the husband is cooking every day. And sometimes, the husband, out of respect and helpfulness, cooks for her, but his wife washes the dishes also. That is how it should be. In America, they say a good husband dies in the kitchen, either from working and cooking or from starving, because the wife cannot cook. So, Pākśāstra for you is, cooking is a ceremony. You are cooking something for your life. That prāṇa which will go into your body. Prāṇa, apāna, samāna, vyāna, udāna, which we spoke about yesterday. When the one prāṇa is imbalanced, the whole body is imbalanced. Pure prāṇa, that is very important. The prāṇa which brings in force, a prāṇa which puts out all toxins. Samāna, which equally distributes the energy in the body. You have all your hidden powers in the human’s book, but you did not read it. And if you read, you said, "Ah, it is interesting," but you did not follow. Read about all these ten prāṇas, and then you take care of your food, and movements, and thinkings, and purities. Your disease will begin to disappear. So, in your Maṇipūra cakra, on your navel, when you had yesterday, and this known practice. Many had a gray aura, many, many. Not all, but I would say eighty percent of you. I closed my eyes. I was sleeping. I did not feel good myself. My prāṇa was disturbed because I was so angry. I was so... my prāṇa was disbalanced, you see. So it is my own mistake. I do not give you a mistake. I say it: you can be angry the whole day, but you are not forced to it. But I was forced to it. So your prāṇa is very much mixed, very much disturbed. So in the next seminar, everyone come with extra cooking arrangements. And you have to cook for yourself here on the outside, the parking place. One week, you have to cook for yourself. Do not borrow anything from somebody. And listen, it will be there on the big screen: as long as you cannot cook, you will not be successful. Do not always eat old food. Bread and cheese, this is tamas guṇa. Bread and cheese, bread and cheese. Pasta, this, how do you call this, paste on the bread. All these are the tāmas guṇas. Sattvic food is cooked and eaten within a few hours or one hour. If you have no time for cooking and eating, then you have no interest in your life. Then you will be hospitalized after a certain number of years. And now we have enough time to be in the hospital. You want to go home, but no, finished. But you want to go out of the hospital. Okay, we will pull you into the old home. You want to go out of the old home, they will declare that you should be pushed into one bad room where the people are dying. You have enough time now, my dear. You will say, "Swāmījī." I said, "Yes, I told you, learn cooking." "Please bring me home, I will cook every day." Next life. You will be born in India as a very nice, beautiful girl who will cook very well. I will sit and enjoy. All, boys and girls, all, you know. So please learn this vidyā in your life. Only one-sided intellectual knowledge, what you have, has ruined the human quality. Money, business, and typing, that is all playing a game with intellect. This or that, economy or director or managing or you, this is okay. This is a theory. So, fasting means spirituality. It is a ceremony to yourself. Your divine self-respect ceremony means respect to your divine self. So one day, tell your senses, "Enough, do not disturb me." Whatever you eat, clearly about, because when you speak, this is a vidyā, this is a Sarasvatī. So, this is a new chapter of your Brahmavidyā Jñāna is to wash everything: after eating, hands, mouth; after going to the toilet, not only toilet paper. And concentrate on your purities. Read and learn chanting the fifteenth chapter of the Bhagavad Gītā. If there is any mistake, it will be purified. Mantra has a power. Then you should eat. At least once a week, when you fast, first chant the fifteenth chapter and then eat. That is not food then, that is divine, divine nourishment. And as long as you did not chant, all sitting together, they do not eat. But I see many, many times with you, you take, oh, very good, it is tasteful. Okay, we chant mantra, oṁ. You have eaten already, what are you offering? Mothers or fathers, when they cook, they cook with divine feelings, divine energy, divine mantras. When you are angry, do not cook. Because all your anger is in the food. Your poor wife, she has to eat your anger, or poor husband. The result will be tomorrow; he will be angry in the office. The karma goes to you. When he is angry on some others, so how you transmit the energy? Finally, energy finds a way. There, so also for your children, it is very important that you cook with such a great love, and not that you go in the market and buy food that was not cooked by mother, that was cooked by machine, so machine and living being is different, and then mother is different. It is said, "Eat from mother’s hand, even if it is poison. Sit with brothers, even if he is an enemy." So there are many good things. Mother will never give you poison, even if she is mentally ill. Her heart will never, never... Accept mother as a mother, and father as a father. So, prepare homemade food, eat homemade, okay? Once a year, go to the restaurant, and also occasionally, if you are very thirsty and have nothing, then go to a coffee house and drink the coffee, this cup of coffee. How many lips have been tasting? Vibration goes into the entire material. Now, how many different energies go into yours? And that is why the Croatians, they like coffee very much, and they are very confused. Go to the coffee house with your own cup. Okay, very good. So you do not know how good it is cleaned. How good it is cleaned. That cup they will not allow in the operation theater. It has to be boiled. Okay. Why I am telling you today, because I saw a gray aura, a gray maṇipūra cakra, and that is the indication of illness. That is an indication of illness. After certain years, maybe it is preparing, but if you begin to purify, that will not come. So the Maṇipūra cakra is a connection between the mother and you. And that mother, though you have two mothers: your physical mother and the cosmic mother. So here you are. And these two mothers take care of you, but if you neglect yourself, so when you make a fasting, you should know for what you are fasting. You are fasting only because you lose the kilos, okay? Then the rules do not apply, but be careful, and you... You should know that as long as you fast, your kilos will go out, and when you begin to eat, then it will be... Imagine that you want a bean. You put it in the water in the evening, and in the morning you see how the bean looks. How does it look? Again, blown off. Similarly, as long as you fast, you are a dry bean. And as long as you will stop, I say, "Oh, I am not very good, I can eat." Eating is also kind of an addiction. Addiction means you want to add more and more. So today is only a little bread and a little thing. Tomorrow’s bread is a little thicker. The day after tomorrow is two little pieces, and then already two big pieces. Then comes the pizza. Then comes something. And then you will see in one week or ten days, beautifully blonde. It was as it is. Three months you were suffering, fasting and eating very little. Everything you lost in one week. For years, you were working on spirituality, and within no time, you lost all your spiritual work with the kuṣaṅga. So, if you are fasting and eating little because of reducing kilos, do not torture yourself. This is also big torturing. Losing kilos, gaining kilos, losing kilos. You know how hard it is for the body? If you do this, then do five years, and every day, one and a half hours of exercise and yoga practice. After five years, you can eat as much as you like; the body will not go like that. That is one thing. Second, if you fast for spirituality, then you should know how to fast. There is a compromised liquid water, or at most some fruit juice, that is all. No salt, no salty beans, no salty nuts, no salty fruits with salt. Salt is prohibited for fasting. And nothing taking in the mouth, except water. Chewing gum is strictly prohibited. Chewing gum is prohibited, like in Hong Kong. You cannot eat chewing gum. If you are a resident of Hong Kong, you cannot import chewing gum in your luggage. If you are a tourist, okay, but you are not allowed to eat in a taxi, or in a bus, or in a park. It is a beautiful, clean... you cannot eat in a train, you cannot eat in a taxi, you cannot eat in a park. It is very good, so certain disciplines. After that, you come home, you go. In the bathroom, wash yourself, change your dress from extra energy from the outside, clean your kitchen, and make your pure food. And there should be all these different tastes in your food: sweet, sour, bitter, salty, etc. Because the body needs all of this. And then you offer it to God, what you call in Europe the dining table prayer. This is everywhere in the world: offering and thanking for giving. That is it. Then it becomes spiritual food, and then we say, "Everybody, please enjoy your meal." After that, clean your hands, clean your mouth. That is it. So there are many, many things. Then your spiritual effect is on this. Otherwise, I can tell you, nothing is easier than cooking. Nothing is easier than cooking, that is it. It is so easy. God gave us this knowledge, at least because we have to survive, but you have no interest to learn, or it does not go in your... So, symptom: fasting. It is good for physical health, good for mental health, good for spiritual development, and good for your liberation. There is some kind of anuṣṭhān, and many, many yogīs, they do not eat cooked by anyone. They are cooking for themselves, because of that purity in it. Very good, very tasteful. So if you cook, cook with love. Learn cooking. If you cannot cook, you have to come next life, I think, as a good mother in India or in some countries where they still know how to cook. With a strict mother-in-law and a strict husband. Yes. So, my dear, today many who are listening to me will say, "What is he talking about?" But I am not talking about something which is nonsense. It has a sense in it. It is to worship for your good health, for your spiritual, mental, physical, social health, and it is very good for your achievement, spiritual achievement, and it is very economic. If five family members go to a restaurant, how much do you pay? And if you cook at home, you do not need that much. So, how much do you pay for the coffee outside? With the price of one coffee, you can make for the whole family at home. Of course, you are not going for drinking coffee; you are going for social life, friends, and so on. Then you should walk together, do not sit somewhere, that is also social life. So, of course, I am not against the restaurant, but do not worry, they will not go bankrupt. There are many people like you, and they will always go there. But do not sit for hours and hours with only one coffee. Fifteen minutes, you must then order new coffee. Then you are the good, good customer. But you are taking one coffee and sitting there for one and a half hours. That means you are gasping too much. Can you imagine this one and a half hours you would have meditated? Or you would have read some holy books. Or you would have practiced your yoga exercises, or you could have walked in the forest. For these things, you will say, "I have no time." Yes, my dear, for good things we do not have time at all. So it is very good for your economy and very good for your health. So Brahma Vidyā or any vidyā, that is good for us to learn. I know in this world, in this modern technology, this theory, the knowledge, material knowledge, is a lot good. Many things are good. You know how to make ice cream. I do not know how to make ice cream. So I cannot say that I am perfect in everything. So when you come to visit me, please do not ask Swāmījī, "Give us ice cream." Yes, I will give. I will open my fridge, and there is a freezer compartment inside. So I will bring you ice caps, okay? Sugar water on it, or a sugar juice. So, of course, there is a lot of knowledge, you know, but which is very important, and for that we are living, and for that is our life aim, that we forget it. Therefore, the first step is for you to learn cooking. You must know how to cook. Otherwise, from the door of the heaven, you will be set back. There was a farmer, a farmer from Scotland, and he came to the heaven, and they said, "Yes, please come in." He said, "Moment, moment, is there a tobacco pipe available in the heaven?" They said, "No, there is no tobacco pipe." He said, "Then I create the heaven, because I forgot my tobacco pipe downstairs. I will not go to heaven." Only because of the tobacco pipe, he went again to Naraka. So they will ask you, can you cook? You will say, "No, we do not need to eat there." Say, "Go and learn first." So many vidyās we need to learn, and many things we should not learn. We should not learn to be angry. We should not learn to be jealous. We should not learn to be an enemy. We should not learn negative backbite. We should not learn these things, but this you learn without anything. It is like a white weed in the field; it grows everything. So negative qualities grow without anything. Positive takes a long time and must work. And unless you understand this purity—physical, mental, intellectual, social—spirituality will not improve quality. You know, we are all now looking for organic food. Now we know what organic food means for us. Similarly, a spiritual person will know what these rules and purities mean. Before thirty, forty, or fifty years, nobody was talking about organic food. When someone was speaking about organic food, you said, "What do you mean? Can you explain what is that?" because everything was organic here. Now, this pesticide... They are grown like a cancer disease, and we know now what is organic. Similarly, the spirituality is lost, and now we know what spirituality is. How important is spirituality to develop? So, this Antaḥkaraṇa purification. And there are three things in this Antaḥkaraṇa: Mala, Vikṣepa, and Āvaraṇa. In our Antaḥkaraṇa, Mana, Buddhi, Citta, Ahaṁkāra. Mana is mind, Buddhi is intellect, Citta is consciousness, Ahaṁkāra is ego. Man, mind; buddhi, intellect; chitta, consciousness; and ahaṁkāra, ego. These three are polluted, the first of which is called mala. Mal means impurity, dirt: physical, mental, intellectual, social. This kind of impurity. Thinking impure is also impurity. Mālā vikṣepa disturbances, inner and outer disturbances, on the way of thinking and from others. Ādipotik, Ādidevik, and Ādhyātmik. These three, three tapas, these are three kinds of fire. So they disturb us. And the third one is called āvaraṇa. Āvaraṇa is a curtain. So you have a beautiful, transparent glass window, but now you put the curtain. So you close the curtain, you cannot see out. Similarly, we have a curtain of ignorance, the āvaraṇa. So these three things have to be purified and cleared up: mala, impurity; vikṣepa, disturbances; āvaraṇa, the curtain of ignorance. So the mala we can purify by thinking positive, going to satsaṅgas; vikṣepa we can purify through positive thinking, accepting, and trying to learn, our own ignorance is covered. Our knowledge is covered; we do not know. Therefore, svādhyāya, study, and satsaṅg: manana and nididhyāsana. Manana is constantly thinking. Nidhyāsana, also svādhyāya, learning, discipline. So these are certain principles; if you adopt and work on them, you will already be very far spiritually developed. So do not take it otherwise. Do not take it otherwise. Okay. Now you are very serious, but as soon as you will go out of this room, all lost. All lost. Very interesting. I will observe how it is today. I have already put twelve people to observe you. We have talking, we have eating, we have... okay? And these twelve people give me the reports. When you were doing a program like this, the twelve people saw the gray light. But I said there was electric light. Yeah, that was smoked. So much gray light came from your aura, from your navel. That is why they opened the windows. Then you could breathe, otherwise you could not breathe here. So, malavikṣepa āvaraṇa, antaḥkaraṇa, manobuddhi cittāhaṅkāras, the British, these are the main factors of our distraction or development. And the first thing is nourishment. Learn cooking. If you cannot cook, you are not a yoga teacher. You cannot cook, you are not a yoga teacher. Well, okay.