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Yesterday we spoke about health. The first of our concerns in life is our health. According to Yoga as well as Āyurveda, health does not mean only the body. Any kind of illness which attacks us—except accidents or the flu—infects us. Other diseases have a very deep and long cause. First of all, it is said there are a few reasons why disease appears. The first point is negative emotion. In this negative emotion, anger is included. Anger is a kind of fire. This fire destroys our healthy cells and healthy organs in the body. It does not matter towards whom or to what you are angry; it damages, and it is our loss. When wood burns, it becomes coal. So that is anger; it makes wood into coal. But when jealousy comes, then jealousy is like fire to the coal, like glue. It burns the rest of the other good qualities. After these two reasons comes the ego. Ego is the progeny of everything. Ego does not let good energy come in, because ego is connected with greediness, with greed. And when greed is there and ego is there, ego and greed both are nourished by hatred. So now it depends on each of us, on the individual, how many qualities from these negative emotions we have. In the long term, it will destroy us; it will reflect on us, it will attack us. Through these emotional reactions, the negative emotion creates another wave or layer of disease that can also affect our physical and mental health. And from this comes the first: fear. When fear comes, it weakens our willpower. Immediately, your willpower, your strength becomes less. Well, there are no ghosts; we do not believe in that. And we are talking sometimes about ghosts and negative energy. So, suppose you are going through the forest alone at night, and suddenly something happens or an unusual noise appears, a sound; you get fear. That time you will see that your own strength becomes little. In some cases, for some people, they said, "Oh, my hair was standing." My dear, life is dear to everyone. We do not want to be killed, do not want to be hurt, do not want to have pain. So when fear appears, then we lose our willpower, our strength. At that time, our old cells of the body begin to sink, and a lot of energy, a lot of this all, dies in our body. With this fear, we begin to imagine something. Or we begin to think, and that develops in our subconsciousness. If someone tells you, "Well, you are healthy, but take care, because there are some symptoms in the body, in diagnosis, that cancer can develop." Now, these words are that kind of word which creates fear, and it is a negative blackmailing, so we begin to imagine all the time. We are talking, "Oh God, I hope I will not get cancer." So that takes a long time to develop in the body there, because of the fear; these blackmailing seeds are already put in. Fear from some people, fear from going somewhere, fear of losing your job, fear of existence—fear. So there are many, many things that cause weakness or illness in our body. Then there are what we call genetic, a hereditary illness that comes. So someone tells, "Yes, your grandfather died from a heart attack, your grandfather died from a heart attack. Your father now has a problem with the heart, so take care of your health, because maybe it can also damage your heart." So from such things we can protect ourselves through special diets and exercises. We cannot promise that we will be living forever as a physical body. It has a life span, and we know how long we will live. But as long as we live, we should try to live healthy. So these things, illnesses, which come to our physical body, take time. It is said that in every meat of the animals which was killed, there is hidden fear and pain. And that will slowly, slowly kill us. So, finally, the last cause of many illnesses is what we call destiny. So something attacks only our physical body, something mental, and there is something which influences and attacks our soul. So, who is fearful in our body? Where do all these things reflect, and who is reacting in the body? That is our soul, the individual soul. This individual soul has two attacks or reactions. One is what we did through body, mind, intellect, and words: karma. That becomes a heavy load for our soul. And second, all the karmic vibration waves of our ancestors are still reflecting on us. When you have a seed of a plum—red skin, particular quality of the plum—it has it in the seed. When you put this seed in the earth, it will grow. It will get that kind of form of the fruit, color of the fruit, taste of the fruit. And again, the seeds from that fruit, we can grow further, grow further. It all the time goes, the inherited karma or the qualities with that seed. So, from our ancestors, long, long stories from both sides—mother’s side and father’s side—it will affect us long. And according to the sun and moon principles, the moon is very important and very effective. So it takes about 27 to 30 generations to free from this karmic effect on our soul from the ancestors. So this is the condition of our being as an individual. Every step will be counted. So it means every thought, every word, every action. And for that, God gave us a beautiful life called human life. He gave us two beautiful qualities: one is called intellect, and the second is love, the mercy towards other creatures. Through this, we can pay back all our karmic debt from the ancestors, as well as our own from past lives and this life. Very soon, time is coming where you all will go and pray for your ancestors at the graveyard. It is what we call the day of all souls, the day of our holy souls. This is a thousands-of-years-old tradition. So it is counted according to the moon time. The dates which we are counting month-wise are not precise, because things change according to the moon, not according to the sun. So sometimes there are 13 full moons in one year, so that it is called; there is one month extra recounted. And sometimes there is only 11 months of full moon in 12 months, so that is then counted less, but mostly it is 30. Every third year, so the cosmic time is shifting according to the moon for our planet. So it is a particular, this full moon time; this period of the month has access to the ancestors. Like you are in a hospital, and there is a given time for visiting. So visiting time is, let’s say, afternoon from three to four. Similarly, in this period, the cycle of the moon, there is a particular situation in the astral worlds, where the souls are. The soul is not like some little candle burning, like a seed; it has an entire form of the person. Only this physical body is not there; this physical flesh, water, and fire are not there. Now it is the month of the ancestors. And whatever you would like to do or pray for your ancestors or someone who passed away in your life, I believe you have a chance to pray for them; they will get liberation. So if you believe or you do not believe, that does not change. It is like that, and it is there. So why then should we not pray for that? You have beautiful churches in Slovakia. There are ceremonies, prayers in the church. You go to the graveyard, you give flowers, you give light, you pray. Particularly this period of the time, our prayers will go directly for them. So, my dear, health is not only physical health. And that health we cannot buy. Health, we have to achieve; we have to develop. And therefore, yoga is the science of body, mind, soul, and consciousness. We in this modern world, through this modern education and this modern freedom, we lost everything. We lost all realities, and we got more illness, more troubles, more unhappiness. Because we lost these beautiful and just instructions and culture that they gave us. I got this Slovakian book, and there are many costumes, how they are wearing, everyone, and it is beautiful. But can you imagine if someone will have this costume on and come to a yoga course here? Oh, my God, this is a normal person? Or came to play some theater? And if someone comes with tight jeans and a little bikini, nobody looks. You can lie half-naked somewhere, and nobody cares. So we lost something, and we got nothing but illness and troubles. Every country has a rich culture, and culture is for the protection of our society. And if you cannot wear all these costumes, okay, what to do? But at least we shall believe that we are human. We got, luckily, we are fortunate that God gave us human life to work out all our karmic debt, our problems. So, not out of fear—do not think that you are born as a human and you are not of sin, and you have fear now—but out of happiness and joy, thanks to God that He gave this opportunity and this life, that we can do something for ourselves, and for ancestors, and for others. So for that, our holy saints in this world—we may call them ṛṣis, yogīs, or great saints—in any country you can look, there were holy saints. And they gave us the way, what to do. So when you do a certain ceremony, it is not only blind belief. No, it gives us something. When you have some problems, fear, you go to the church of Holy Mother Maria. You kneel down and you say to Holy Mother Maria, I pray for thy mercy, and you look on it to her. And you feel peace that you have told her, and definitely she will help you. Now, maybe it is psychologically only that I do not care. The main thing is you became happy and fearless now because you went to the chapel and you taught everything to Holy Mother, or maybe Kṛṣṇa, or Rāma, or Mahāprabhujī. This divinity, this divine mercy, is in everyone’s heart. So the ceremonial things have a great influence on our body, mind, consciousness, soul, and on our psychic. This emotional fear disappears through these ceremonies. People who have fear from ceremonies, and from the pictures, and the symbols, around the soul of such a person, is a negative energy’s governing. But we call them āsurī śaktis, so it does not let you open yourself; it is closed in. Therefore, we all welcome the ceremonial things. In this Kali Yuga, if we make some yajña, havan, prayers in the church, in the temples, in the garden, then many people say, "Oh, these fanatic people." Do it. And if you are making parties of killing the animals and grilling them, and alcohol, and dancing and joking, then everybody will say, "Oh, beautiful, how are you?" This is Kali Yuga. The cause in Kali Yuga is governed by more negative powers. But it is said, it has always been there. There are many crows, but very few swans. So there are very rare, very little holy saints, holy persons who can give us blessing. When you get a child, you go to the church or to a priest or somewhere to baptize him, to get him blessed. Or in India, you go to the temple, to the paṇḍit. And even the Pandit, they bring their child to their Gurudev. So we do believe in the blessings. Everything is blessed. You know, when in this month crops come, all kinds of fruits, vegetables, roots, corn, etc., and there is in your country a one day of blessing the crops. That removes our doubts, that removes our fear. And we do not feel guilty that now God’s blessing is there. What you pray to God for every day is this food that He gives us, the bread that He gives us. So human health is the health for the entire planet. So if we all become health conscious, our whole earth will be healthy. But out of our fear and certain things, we do even that which is not healthy. So with this, I wish you all the best. The next part of this will be in the evening, and so one technique, meditation, will be to remove the inner fear. But do not think that now, after this meditation, you all will be free of the fears. It takes time. It took a long time to collect all these fears in your body. Now, they do not easily—it is not easy to get that fear out. No, you gave the house to someone, now that one does not want to move out. So we have to organize something in the right way, the legal way, to move that out. If we use the force, then we will lose the whole house. So, meditation, mantra, step by step. So we will now have a little meditation for 15–20 minutes. And the webcast will not be there during meditation. So, my dear ones, all those who are with the webcast with us, wish you all the best, and you will also meditate with us now, wherever you are, without webcast. Because otherwise you will be looking at the webcast, and you cannot meditate. So bless you, and the next webcast will be in the evening around 7 o’clock p.m. according to Slovakian time. Adió.