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First, I greet all of you dear ones joining us via webcast, and all of you dear ones here in the hall of our beautiful āśram. This morning, I spoke about Ṛṣikul or Gurukul. In a Ṛṣikul or Gurukul, children were automatically very peaceful. It was the parents' duty to explain that we are in a Ṛṣikul. Thank you. Ṛṣikul. The Ṛṣis were hermits, forest dwellers. They lived in the forests, which we could compare today to a farmhouse or a cottage. Even here in European villages, it is well known which farmhouse belongs to which family—in German, Bauernhof. In the old times, such a place was called a Ṛṣikul. And the school where they taught was called a Gurukul. If one did not live with proper discipline in the Gurukul, one could not stay. He didn't speak English, but German. That is why our Śrīlā āśram, located in the beautiful Czech countryside, is a blessing of God. The nature, soil, environment, everything is beautiful. The climate is friendly every season. Here we say four months are summer and eight months are cold, which is best. In many parts of the world, June, July, and August are so humid and hot that you put on fresh clothes, go to your car to fetch a fruit basket, and by the time you return to the room, you are completely wet with sweat. So I can understand, and I am happy for this part of our world, that tourists like to come to this country in the summer. They can survive here without air conditioning. It is neither too humid nor too dry. If you have a problem somewhere in a city in this part of the world, I would suggest the best place ever: Střídecký Ašan. I would suggest that from different parts of the world, you should come with a group to have a retreat here. This is a Ṛṣikul. It is very good. After that, we spoke about Brahmavidyā and about Prāṇa. We spoke about human life. How long does it take for the soul to come to a human body? I have said this many times, and I will say it again. There are 8.4 million different creatures created by one Creator. This means there is only one God; there are no two Gods. It is like one family with about eight sons and nine daughters. The eight sons also have four sons, and their grandchildren are on the way. But all of them are known as the Müller family, or the Milinsky family, etc. They have different given names, but the family name is one. There is one country called the Czech Republic with about 14 million citizens. If you go to other countries and ask if someone is Czech, they will say yes. So, 14 million people are known as Czech citizens. Similarly, there are many spiritual divine gods, but they are all connected to one God, that is Brahman. There is no such thing as a semi-god; this is a very wrong word used in the English language. All the babies from a peacock egg will be peacocks. So there is no duality. Therefore, there is only one God. The day before yesterday, I spoke about this. What was Gandhījī's favorite prayer? "Rāghupati Rāghava." I can't hear you; I don't know what to say. It is said: "O Lord of the dynasty of Raghu, O king of Raghu, you are the saviour and liberator of the meek ones. Please give good thoughts and good intellect to everyone. Sita Ram Jai Jai... Sita Ram O Sita and Lord Rama, Īśvara or Allāh, both are your name. Sanmati Dev Bhagavān, give good buddhi to all, good thoughts, positive thoughts." Only the language is different. In many languages, you have a good word for something, and in our language, it's not so good. I know I should not speak some words on the webcast, but I must tell you because it came to my mind. I want to tell you how a good word can be a bad word for others, with no bad intention. In 1980, I came to Australia. People were very nice, friendly, and hospitable. When devotees had learned a few mantras, one devotee came to me in the morning and said, "Gurudev, do you want popo?" Now, what is popo? Buttocks. I said, "Thank you, no." But this is very good. Oh God, what should I say, yes or no? They say popo for papita (papaya). So this papaya, they call popo. You see, for them it's a good word. For Europeans, it's not such a good word. So where is the problem? The problem is in language. You say "Holy Father." So, where is the difference between Brahmā, who is the father and the Creator? Brahmā is the father; he who was the first Manu, the father of the Manu, was Brahmā. So Īśvara, Allāh, or Father is only a difference in language. Fighting is against the language. You don't want to say this, and we don't want to say that. So that's why your God and my God and their God and our God... "Īśvara Allāh, peronam, sabkū, sanamati, dī bhagavān." That's it. There is also one problem with the Indian language and your language. No, we also have a problem in your language and in the Indian language. In India, the Englishmen introduced English. Even small children are learning English words to say thank you. They don't say namaste; now all want to speak English. So they say, "Thank you." They are learning English words like dog, cat, etc. Dog, dog. So one German lady came to India and said in her language, "Danke, danke." Indians heard "donkey," so the Indian thought she was saying, "You are a donkey." She said, "Your father is a donkey." She said, "Yes." And you are a donkey. She said, "Yes," I said. So the problem, my dear, is language. Otherwise, we are all one. We are all created out of the five elements, which will be our subject. Also, the ten prāṇas. In every creature are these ten prāṇas, pañca kośas, and all different things. Everyone has red blood, but they are very different. Everyone has the fire element, the water element. We are all citizens of the one world. This is called our beautiful Mother Earth. So where is the problem to fight? The problem is misunderstanding or the duality of language. Therefore, the 8.4 million different creatures—all of them have the light of the one God. In every tree and in every drop of water, and in this prāṇa, so where is the problem? We are all one. The language is the difference. Out of 8.4 million different creatures, it must not be that you have to go through them all. But it can be. So it must not be that you have been traveling through 8.4 million different creatures, but definitely some millions. So what is our background, our history? We don't know. But only one thing we know: that we are very thankful to God, or it doesn't matter who is guiding the souls, for giving us human life. Human life is given. Finally, we come to the destination. From the first second of your own creation, your manifestation in this universe... Out of the sound, with the sound, the separation begins. And the destination was to come back to that bindu, that point. So, how long does our sound go far? And from where it comes back as an echo, similarly, from that first awakening in that cosmic consciousness, which is constantly resonating in each and every cell of your body, that sound is still there. Nowhere is space empty without that sound. All the vegetation and plants and everything are nourished not only from the five elements, but by that prāṇa, that prāṇa which comes through Brahman, in the form of Para Brahman. This sound is Brahman itself. And in those many, there is only that one. So there we are, as Gurujī used to say: one in all, and all in one. The same God is within us and within other creatures. But Mother Nature, or God's employees or co-workers, the members of the Cosmic Parliament, all have different faculties. Everyone has a different portfolio, and according to that, they are working. And so, for the human body, it is occupied by many, many different forces. It is not easy to get this human body, my dear. This body is like the body of God. This bungalow is wonderful, the human body, in which God himself is speaking. "Jisme Narayen bole, par Guru bin Bhed kon khole?" But who can tell you the secret of that one who is speaking new without Gurudev? So Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva—these are the three guṇas. Because without these guṇas, creation cannot take place. So Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva, these are the three. The creator that is creating is Brahmā, Brahmā Śakti. And Brahmā has the power to give blessings. What Brahmā promised has to be fulfilled. Viṣṇu is the sustaining energy. So Brahmā is the creator, and Viṣṇu Śakti is the sustainer, and Śiva Śakti is again destroying, meaning liberating. But only at that time when the Mahāpralaya will come. Before that, Śiva is destroying all the negative energies, but he lets you work further, testing you. The fourth principle is called the Guru Principle. Therefore, it is said, "Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu." So this mantra tells us these four most important powers or energies in the universe. That guru energy has that faculty or that portfolio to bring the devotees to the Brahmaloka, and therefore human life is very precious. Otherwise, it is a chukkeko chaurāsī. If you miss it, you will fall into the chaurāsī. Chaurāsī means again 8.4 million cycles of the birth and death of different creatures. Don't think that you are a great human. In the next life, you have a right to be a human. You can say, "No problem." The decision is not in your hands, neither in my hands, but the decision is in that destiny, karma, so that will decide. So if you are holding one torchlight in your hand, you can guide many, and when the battery is finished, then you will fall into darkness, into a hole, and all will fall with you. So when the light of viveka, vairāgya, bhakti, dhyāna, and tyāga is lost, then, way directly below the hill, hell is still more comfortable. Hell has not such hard torturing. You see, what is hell? And what are the narakas? You should read. In Chinese literature, they know how to torture. Yes, they have good techniques. I hope you will not learn that. So then you will see what kind of fire, and this and that. In the Bible it is also like that, and in the Purāṇas also like that. So there is... if there wouldn't be... Then only one religion will tell about this; others will not. In every country, in every culture, there have been great souls, great saints. So they are warning us because they saw it. If you follow, it's your benefit. If you don't follow, it's your loss. The traffic rules and regulations show you the way. There is an indication with an arrow. If you don't follow this, you go to the wrong side. Then don't be surprised if you get a punishment. Then you will be surprised when the bill comes home. How does the police know? It was midnight, dark, no one was there. How did this come? Maybe radar, or camera, or the sound? It was a surprise; you were angry. Similarly, my dear, if you think these karmas, what you do, nobody knows. But it will come. What kind of karma? Don't torture someone. Don't harm someone. Therefore, everywhere it is said, "Do not do to others what you do not like to be done to you." But when the āsuric śakti awakens, āsuric śakti has a taste for blood, and they are searching for blood. That's it. It is said, once a shark tastes human blood, it always comes in the direction where the human will be. Once a tiger or these cats taste it, then they all will go and search for that blood. So, asurī śakti awakens, then other desires awaken, and then all will be pulled with it. Therefore, the prāṇa, the positive energy, the good energy, that's very important. Don't think, "This is my life, and I will enjoy how I want." Yes, you are right. It's your life. You are right. Do what you want, but you know the consequences. Not here, somewhere else. Don't be surprised, therefore. Human body, human mind, human emotion, human intellect, and human intelligence, human consciousness and hidden powers in humans—they are indescribable. Very beautiful. And this is all given to you for free. They are both inside. Devas and asuras are within you, and so which do you want to utilize? With whom do you want to be friends? Like that, it will be. Therefore, human life is the chance. It can be that again and again you will be born as a human. If you have developed more human qualities... When someone is very cruel, we say, "Oh God, he has no human heart." He doesn't have a human heart. And in Europe they say, "Our God, he's not a Christian. He's a cruel person." You see the same thing? And we say also, no dayā, no mercy. Must be a rākṣasa. Everywhere is the same. And where is there? In us. God protect us from those awakening negative energies. And God may guide us to that divine light. Therefore it is said, "Manus Janam Amolak Hiro, Bar Bar Nei Pai." The human body is a precious diamond. You will not get it again and again. The human body is a precious diamond, and you will not get it again and again. So we can give as much glory as we can to this human life, still too little. Understand what it means for us to be human. What we have within, how rich we are: we are protectors, we are liberators, we are saviors for ourselves as well as for others. So all the great saints, whatever they have written, first they were writing to achieve the goal or destination of the aim of this all. Everything is within us. Therefore, again, we come back to the subject: Brahmavidyā, Brahmajñāna. Vidyā and Jñāna, they are two. Vidyā is that which you are still learning, studying. Vidhi, that's a vidhi, the technique that you are learning. Now, the result of this learning will be jñāna. Vidyā and Jñāna. So through the Brahmavidyā, we will realize the Brahmajñāna. The value is the Jñāna, nothing else. So there is the Brahman, the space, and energy, prāṇa. That you may call the Śakti. All is the līlā of the Śakti. The miracles of the Śakti. That is the Prāṇa. And therefore we call Prāṇ Nāth the Lord of our life, that which gives us this life, who protects our life. This is Prāṇa. Prāṇa is very important. There is one story in the Upanishad. There were five very important people living in one house. And all of them said that I am the best, and I am the best, and I am the best. And every one of them would like to be the dominating or governing one. Well, there is always fighting in the family. So one was the hearing energy. That you can hear. It said, "I am the most important. If you don't give me the high position, I go." They said, "OK, go." So now he became dead. He couldn't hear anything. But life was going on as it is. All you couldn't hear. Walk, eat, anything. After one month, he came back. "Can I come? Please join you." "Welcome. Who told you to go away?" Then the eyes were fighting. "We are the most important." Like Guru Nānak said, mandira dīpa bina—the body without eyes. So it said, "I am the most important. If you don't give me all power, I go." We will not be happy, but if you decide to go, become blind. But life is going on. So, eyes again realized, well, they can survive without me. Then came the words. Vāk said, "I am the best one. My words have the power. Through my words, I can destroy you, kill you. Or I can liberate you. My words, I tell you. So give me the power." That is not possible. "But then I go. Your choice." So now he can't speak anymore. But he was surviving. The fifth one was prāṇa. So all these four—one, two, three, and the fourth was the touching. So these four were. So they said, "Prāṇa, we don't like you. Why are you still always silent?" So he said, "Should I go?" "Yes." Prāṇa begins to lift the body. They say, "Please, please, please, Prāṇa, come back, come back." So he said, in the body, Prāṇa is very important. The fourth one was mind. So mind said, "I am the best one." And he said, "Okay, then be happy." The mind said, "No, I want to be governor." That's not possible. "I go. Your choice." So the mind went away. So one becomes mentally, how do you call it, disabled. Mentally, but the body was surviving. So eye, ears, mind, and words, they all have to surrender. Without prāṇa, there is no life. So from prāṇa we came. Through prāṇa we are coming, surviving. And that prāṇa is that śakti, divine śakti. Consciousness is Śiva and prāṇa is Śakti. These two are very important. If consciousness goes, prāṇa will go. If prāṇa goes, consciousness will go. This is an ever eternal relation, eternal oneness. So man-prāṇa is called cosmic energy, equally supplied around the universe, equally to our vegetation and everything. Like solar energy, the sun is shining for all. And you can put thousands of millions of solar panels, but this sun energy will not be less. You can take as much as you like, gain the energy. Similarly, the Ātmā Jñānī Gurudev in him, there is endless wisdom. Every day you can take as much as you like, there is nothing less. That's called the source of the prāṇa energy. Therefore, our Gurudev said: "Swāmī Madhavānandjī Prakāś Puñjāyam Hṛtakēśa Śrī Dīpa Harī Mahādali, Prakāś Puñjāyam Hṛtakēśa Śrī Dīpa Harī Mahādali. Sare Viśvame Goñjarāhi, Sare Viśvame Goñjarāhi, Prabhu Amaraka Guru Swāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān. Deveśvar Mahādev Sabṛṣi Muni Mahātmā Om Śānti Śānti."