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Good evening, everyone, here and anywhere on this earth. You have heard about different lokas—Janmabhūmi, karmabhūmi, or dharmabhūmi. Human life is a very interesting life. Human life is free, yet it has many rules, regulations, and disciplines. When creation began—I have spoken of this many times and will not repeat—questions arose: What will they eat? How will they live? Why should they go back? Otherwise, they would all remain lazy people here. Well, they will die. How will they die? And so on. Many questions were there. Agni, fire, entered the digestive system—what we call the digestive fire. Then they asked, "What will they eat?" The answer was: jīva-jīva-bhakṣate—life will eat life. That is terrible. That is a sin. That is cruelty. Yes. But that means this is sustainability. We do not have to take care anymore. They will create children, and they will die and live. Life will eat life. Then there is no chance to come out. Yes, there is one chance: the human. Humans have a lot of discipline. Animals can eat whenever they find anything. But why should humans have only one meal? Yet they have to work. So it was divided into two meals, though some people began to have three. No more. Alpāhāra. Breakfast is called alpāhāra. Alpāhāra means little eating, not too much. The word alpa means small. The Ṛṣis used to call the mountains we have here in Europe the small Himalaya, the Alp. So, Alpin comes from alpa, meaning small Himalaya. Alpa means tora—small, little. Alpāhāra—and also little sleep. Do not eat tāmasika food. Otherwise, you will have a problem with sleep. Sleep exists because there is a lot of tamas guṇa, a lot of toxins you have to expel. And you work too much, unnecessarily, with your vṛttis. So all the brain centers, organs, and gland systems are exhausted. You have to slow down the speed; that is why sleep is there. But those who have tāmasika food and eat late need a lot of sleep. It is said that goats and sheep, whenever they find anything, they should eat, but humans should not. There was a king who said, "I would like to give a big award to someone who can bring me a goat which, once its stomach is full, will not eat anymore for a while." Many came with a goat. They fed her until her stomach was like a drum and said to the king, "This goat is overfed; it will not eat anymore." The king said, "Bring her near me." They brought her near the king. The king had a very nice, gentle tree branch. He showed it to the goat, and immediately she began to eat. The king said, "You cannot get an award. Go." So, people who do not understand discipline and fasting are compared to a goat. All the time, your jaw is moving. Therefore, I was surprised today. Yesterday we spoke so long about fasting. I gave all the instructions, and when we left here, you forgot everything. After food, with not even half an hour's distance, they rushed to the fast-food corner and began to eat differently. So I ask myself: what is the difference between a goat and all those who are doing like this? If you do not understand, you cannot be successful. Consider a pilot. He sits in a small cabin of a big jumbo jet with two or three hundred people. He cannot see everything down properly; he has only a small window and has to fly blind with his machine and computer. If he does not understand, what will happen? He will say, "Well, I see here is a nice ground, a desert. Let's land here a little, go and walk, and then we will take off." This is like that. So in quality, in practice, in perfection, in techniques—no compromise. So whatever you learn in these five days, four days, of Brahmavidyā... Now, I think I am talking just in the air. Of course, it is a rarity of the webcast. I always say that in the last 32 years, I think I have failed to train you, or to give to you, and for you to understand me. Patañjali said: Atha yogānuśāsana—discipline in eating, in sleeping, in walking, in talking. Here you make meditation, kriyānuṣṭhāna, very silent. As soon as they finished, they went to the fast-food corner, laughing and joking. I was looking from my window. Now, thanks to Krishnanand, he gave me a camera which can go outside the window far, and I can regulate it down, up, and everywhere. These people were sitting for a few hours in disciplined practice, and as soon as they got up from the practice place, they were worse than a monkey. So it is said: my nature is a monkey, and Scorpio bit that monkey. Now she is more restless. That is your condition, my dear. You do not understand. So sādhanā, this is upāsanā. And if you do not follow 100% upāsanā, sādhanā, it can harm you—and others also. You will give the half-techniques to all. You know, many in the last years have become stupid. Because they did not listen properly, they did not learn properly, and they imagined themselves as if they were a guru. They began to give mantras and blessings. Well, a blessing is also good from an enemy. If your worst enemy comes and says, "I bless you, thanks to God," I accept your blessing. But because they did not understand, they did not follow the principles, the rules. If a pilot does not follow the instructions, all principles about flying and the computer's instructions, he will not bring the airplane to land on the right runway at the destination. You know, centimeter to centimeter—that is a big concentration. Some pilots land so gently that you hardly think or feel that they have already landed. And people like you, if they were to land, not only would the airplane land, it would break in two parts, and we would all land down. It would jump like a deer. So, in sādhanā, there is no lack of knowledge. There are many gurus, many experts. But they realize that these people cannot. Simply, they cannot understand. Now we understand only one thing: hand to mouth, that is all. Eat, drink, and drive—that is all. That is not the aim of human life. I often give the example of the operation theater. They are very strict. And after a heavy operation, to bring the patient into the ICU is very strict. A little carelessness, infection is there, and a person will die from infections, not from the operation. So such people who do not understand purity and certain rules cannot be successful. Then you begin to play blindly that you are a guru, that you are great. Then you will take more with you down. Not only your plane goes down, but all the poor passengers will go down. God trusts you, and God is in that sheep. Therefore, with a good practice of āsanas, there is no danger. What can happen? Maximum, you break your bones. We have many orthopedic hospitals; that is all. So tomorrow I am not going to talk about Brahmavidyā, and today also I am not talking. I was so disappointed. A master should never be disappointed, but I think I need recovery. The distance between discipline and non-discipline—that is it. So anyhow, those who are listening through the webcast, this is for you also, my dear brothers and sisters. It is not only for those sitting in front of me. Whatever you do—your spiritual sādhanās, in any religion, any culture, in any country—if you will really follow exactly, then you will have success. Otherwise, forget it. This human life is rare. It is a rare diamond, the most precious one. Nowhere can you buy it, and you cannot exchange it. Do not throw this diamond in the dust of non-discipline. Time does not wait for us, and very soon we will be gone, under the earth. I tell you these words because I care about you and I love you, and I wish to bring you to that Brahmaloka. But it is said that to teach you something is hard work, like weighing frogs on a scale. There are many little frogs, about half a bucket. And now you want to put on this scale plate how heavy they are. You cannot do it. One jumps out, the other jumps there. You take your foot back, the other jumps out. And so you are those frogs; I cannot measure you in the sādhanā. That is it. So I hope that you understand. I am not angry, but I am telling you the truth. Without that discipline, many, many things... and you do not understand. So, I wish you all the best. And I pray to God that in your next life, you will be human again. And may you find some stricter master. All the best. Bless you.