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Good evening to everyone here in this hall for the Brahma Vidyā Brahma Kriyā seminar, and to all our dear brothers and sisters joining via webcast. I am very happy to share some techniques with you. For those joining remotely, I hope you will one day come to experience this personally. The technique we practiced is designed to purify the antaḥkaraṇa (the inner instrument) and address the three obstacles: mala (impurity), vikṣepa (distraction), and āvaraṇa (veiling). This Kriyā has great significance for balancing the body, mind, and consciousness. As I said before, God, our Mother Nature, gave us everything we need. When a little child goes to kindergarten, the parents provide everything: water, sandwiches, and so on. Before we came into this world, the Cosmic Mother, the Divine Mother, took care of us and blessed us with everything. That is why God's creation is called sustainable. This continuity leads to unity and eternity. That is divinity. That is Brahma Vidyā. The whole world is now seeking this. The United Nations organizes many programs, lectures, and conferences for one thing: sustainable development. Unfortunately, we misunderstand it. People think sustainability is about money and business running smoothly. That is not sustainability. That is a misunderstanding, and it will change. There are two kinds of worlds. One is the God-made world, and one is the man-made world. The God-made world is perfect. The man-made world is not perfect; it destroys nature to create its own world, and that is not sustainable. It will destroy itself again. Do we call multi-floor buildings and highways sustainable? If a road is damaged, does the road principle repair it automatically? No, humans must repair it. But when humans, animals, or nature are damaged, children grow automatically, generations grow automatically. This is sustainability. Sustainability means continuity where nothing is blocked. We have misunderstood this. We thought economic sustainability and money meant happiness. Now God has given us a lesson again. What do we call it now? This economic crisis. So many people are afraid, losing their jobs and everything. They lost knowledge. They lost abilities. Previously, humans could do anything: gardening, driving, cleaning, writing, philosophy. Nowadays, humans have become one-sided. You have one intellectual profession. I recall a conference where they brought in engineers, including a specialist in ceramic design. They also brought someone who traditionally makes ceramics. They gave material to both. The person who was not an engineer, but whose family had made ceramics for generations, created many beautiful pots in no time. The engineer who studied for five, six, or ten years was measuring: "How many grams? How many milliliters of water? What kind of clay? What kind of water? How long to mix? How long to let it rest?" When he tried to make a pot on the wheel, everything stuck to his hands. The traditional potter had a moment of insight; he touched the clay with love and gentleness, and it was perfect. That is what we call the touch of a mother's hands, the touch of a father's hands—a completely different feeling and knowledge. No one can replicate it. Similarly, we need practical knowledge now, amidst all these problems and economic troubles. Those who can do any kind of work will be happy and will never be afraid. People in cities often don't even know what a growing vegetable looks like. About 98% of people have lost the knowledge of cooking. Merely boiling food and adding spices is not cooking. Among the sixteen vidyās (branches of knowledge), one is called the cooking vidyā, known as pakṣāstra. It has a complete philosophy. Since both women and men have lost the ability to cook, look at the world now: humans are more ill. Children are ill, and from childhood they have diseases. Every house has many illnesses because one thing is imbalanced: they don't know how to cook, which spices or which vegetable to use at what time. Our first mistake was losing the feeling, knowledge, and importance of the seasons. When a season comes, we should eat only that season's fruits and vegetables. Yet, when winter comes, we eat summer things, and when summer comes, we eat winter things. Because our globe is large, produce can be shipped from summer countries to winter countries in less than 24 hours. But if you are in a winter country, all your tissues are changing. Mother Nature has prepared you to fight the coolness, but we create heat with central heating. We sit in a heated room while it snows outside, and we eat ice cream. Can you understand this? Sometimes our dear God says, "Oh Shiva, what should I do?" Shiva replies, "Just observe." It is a preparation for a new creation. So we lost feelings, values, and knowledge for making decisions. Beyond this, we lost the knowledge of cooking. It is said, "Eat food cooked by a mother's hands." Even a twenty-star hotel cannot replace it. And a mother's milk—no other substance can replace it, because that milk contains a love only a mother has for her own child. Every mother is every mother. If you have a child and avoid breastfeeding, giving goat's or sheep's milk instead, that is not good, except in cases of allergy or specific medical advice. Similarly, cooking is lost. When this is lost, many talents are lost, and we become one-sided and inflexible. Many people here who are 70, 80, or even 100 years old have better memories—remembering songs and more—than those of us who are 20 or 30. How many telephone numbers do you know by heart? I always ask this. Farmers from villages remember more numbers. Why? Because from the beginning, we started to write numbers down. That was the first mistake. The second mistake is that now we record them. The third mistake is that we now say, "Send me an SMS so I can save it in my telephone." We record it and change language in a funny way: "Please feed it into my telephone." Is the telephone a living being? A cow? A goat? Your house dog? We say, "Please feed my dog," but we also say, "Feed the number into my phone." A child is crying, and the father says to his wife, "Please feed the child." And the wife replies, "What are you doing, father? I'm feeding the telephone." You see how we have lost our natural talents? This is the dark future for humanity. Therefore, do not lose all natural knowledge. The first step you should take is: learn cooking. You may think you just put water in a cooker, add potatoes, peel them, add salt and butter, and that is cooking. Every day: potato, potato, potato. Then someone comes to me and says, "Gurudev, how do I lose weight?" I ask, "How many potatoes do you eat?" Potatoes are very good, but only from time to time. We must eat seasonal fruits and vegetables. Similarly, within our body, the energy of the Maṇipūra cakra knows where to go and how to help. If we concentrate and practice this Brahma Kriyā, then Mother Nature or God has given us a factory within that produces all the hormones, medicines, and vitamins we need. But we have not utilized it. Our internal factory is closed, and we are suffering. So, yoga is meant to regenerate all the functions in the body. But then, you awaken your maṇipūra cakra a little and eat a very nice, warm, self-cooked meal with the correct spices. Everyone talks about Āyurveda. I am happy about that. I am happy for India that they earn a lot of money now in the name of Āyurveda. Whether it helps you or not, you know. The government is happy because they get money and a home. That is your karma. Correct Āyurvedic medicine has a function. In our body, after eating a nice warm meal, we often drink a cold Coca-Cola or another cold drink. If not that, then we eat ice cream afterward. Now, your maṇipūra is sitting there confused. You see? Oh God, oh God, I don't understand this human brain. You did everything very well, oh God, but why did you give humans such a brain? That's it. We always make mistakes. So in yoga, you should also know which exercises align with the solar system, which mantras to use, and how energy distributes in the body through prāṇa and apāna—the five prāṇas and five upaprāṇas. Brahma Vidyā Kriyā brings all the organs and glands into harmony. But we think differently. We did the Kriyā for only 12 minutes, and you have already forgotten everything. You are not sitting straight, yet you still feel the effect of that Kriyā. This body has enough capacity. Jumping into hot water and then cold water—once is enough. The body cannot constantly resist such extremes. The Kriyā I gave you, involving the solar plexus and the mantra "Śivo’ham, Śivo’ham," and you know on which point you were concentrating... Since many are leaving tomorrow, I wanted to give you this Kriyā. Our sisters began these exercises three days ago, and all the men, our brothers, were purifying the antaḥkaraṇa to clean the lake. We will do this kriyā again tomorrow, and I hope and believe you have learned it. But proceed slowly, always slowly. Do not hurry. Even if you will die, do not worry. Mahāprabhujī will take care. Mahāprabhujī will order me again, "May I go and look after them?" So I am a servant here in service of all. But go slowly, and be assured of what Mahāprabhujī said: "Dhīrā dhīrā" (slowly, slowly). Our consciousness, our sūrat, should always be connected to the divine light, moving with or towards the divine light. Many have emotional attachments. Many people nearly cry when they sell their old red car. This is emotional attachment. Can you imagine this beautiful ashram? For the last 20 years we have worked very hard. If someone told you, "You will die and leave everything here," you would feel sorrow. That is attachment—to money, animals, a beautiful tree in the garden, a nice house plant. Humans are also very weak in this way. Yet, this is a plus point: that love. And that love is our protection. If we love all creatures, our world is already heaven here. We need not go anywhere. But then Yama comes and says, "Get out, this is my house," and pulls one out. Is that so? Our śruti says to leave things behind without suffering and let the śruti go to the Divine, as Mahāprabhujī said.