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Śrīmān Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa Śrīmān Nārāyaṇa Śrīmān Śrīmān Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa... Śrīmān Śrīmān Nārāyaṇa Śrīmān Śrīmān... Nārāyaṇa Satya Nārāyaṇa Satya Nārāyaṇa Satya Nārāyaṇa Satya Nārāyaṇa Satya Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Brahmā, Samrāṭ, Satguru, Swāmī, Mādhāvanājī, Bhagavān, Kī, Jaya. So, good day, good morning, and welcome everyone. Many questions are awakening in our mind, and many answers are given again by our inner self. One who has too many questions has too many complications inside. And this inner complication no one can solve; only you have to solve it yourself. The parents cannot solve it because whatever is happening within your phenomenon, meaning within your five kośas—the Annamaya kośa, the physical body, the body of this nourishment of solid and liquid food. Our body has five elements, and these five elements are controlling and managing the five kośas. Kośa has two meanings. One, kośa is what in Judaism they said we eat only kosher meat. But that is, according to Ahiṃsā, it’s not correct also, because you kill the animal a little bit and let the blood flow out, and it is not pleasant for the animal. When blood goes out of the body, then you get lots of spasms in the body, lots of pain. While some call it halal, you also kill slowly or cut half the throat and leave it; the animal suffers. According to non-violence, this is not acceptable. Also, it is not acceptable that you just kill an animal immediately and eat it. So, this kind of kośa, I do not mean it is a Hindi or Sanskrit word. Kośa means quarters, the sectors, divisions. Like you have one house and you have five rooms inside. These five rooms, five kośas. So, the first is our physical body. The dharma of the body is to be born, grow, and die. Even in Satyuga, where the many, many devas and asuras were doing a lot of spiritual sādhanās, very hard, and asking God to give them blessings. And for them, mostly always comes Brahmā, the creator. Brahmā comes and asks, "What do you want, my son? What is your wish?" And we know in Purāṇas, in histories, many asked for immortal life in this body, that I will not die. Each and every entity has a fear only from one thing: death. Even if it is a miserable life, we don’t want to die. Why? Because we don’t know where we will go after, who will be ours, and we fear losing whatever we have. But what you have, it was someone else’s yesterday, and today you have it. Tomorrow will be someone else’s, so it’s just given for today. No one has seen tomorrow. So the fear of death, and because death is connected to two things: losing what you have, and knowing anything about it in the future—where will I go? Death is like you jump in the dark, dark, empty space which has no bottom. We don’t know what will happen. We don’t know. We create the stories, our image, and our expectations. Hell, heaven, Brahma Loka, this Loka, we are creating ourselves. Is there hell, or is there heaven? Something is not sure. One thing is sure: this all will somewhere again come to one body. So this human life and other life are very precious. Every life is very precious. Who are we to destroy because of our own joy, because of our own fulfillment of our desires? This is karma. So they were praying to Brahmā, to God, Śiva, Viṣṇu. And when they came, they said, "What do you want?" "I should be immortal. I should never die. No weapon can kill me, no elements can destroy me, no humans can kill me, no animals can kill me. I should not die in the night I should not die, in daytime I should not die, and I should not die in the house but also not outside of the house, and no weapons can kill me, nor human or animals." That God said, "Okay, that I can fulfill, but I cannot give you this blessing that you will be in a physical body, immortal. Then you will not only use, but you will abuse the whole world. That will be a big, big disaster." So, all this is in the body. When it comes in the body, then it realizes, has intellect, they’ll get consciousness. Awareness, I’m a human. Now I can do what I like. I can run, I can walk, I can talk, I can say no, I can say yes, I like to eat what I want, I don’t want to follow my parents, I don’t want to do this. This ego comes, and this human intellect and ego need control. Now it needs very much control. You have a beautiful car, but when you drive, you should have control. So, those children who may have not loved enough from the parents, or parents did not educate them, it’s called behavior. Behavior, what to speak to someone. You can say to your father or mother, who is very close to you, "No, I don’t want you, I’m stupid," but don’t do it. But to others, you cannot say, "Be sure that others don’t love you." If you are kind and humble, then it’s okay. Otherwise, either they will avoid you, or they will take revenge on you. So, this human ego that I am everything, I want to become this, I want to become president, I want to become that. So, I want to be immortal to govern the whole world. No one can kill me. I can do whatever I want. I can sleep in the forest. A snake cannot bite or kill me. A tiger cannot kill me. No one can kill me in the house, outside, etc. But it is said, time brings everything. So, the Hiranyakasya, he got a son. So, Hiraṇyakaśyapu was the son of that ṛṣi, the holy saint, and his wife, Diti, because she did not accept or respect the certain constellations of the time, sunrise, Brahmamuhūrta, evening. That time they also say it is not for eating, not for drinking. That is the time to pray, to meditate. But she forced her husband, the ṛṣi. The result was this. She became pregnant, but a soul of the devil came inside. Rakṣasas, the satanic powers, all were unhappy because immediately people or ṛṣis came to know that there is someone, a devil, going to be born. She came to know that she made a great mistake, and now in her body is that devilish energy, a soul which will be a big problem for the entire universe. And there is, but still we have that problem: āsurī śaktis, satanic. She came to her husband and she asked, "Please help me, and I’m sorry, but I couldn’t control myself." He said, "My dear, I told you, but you forced me, and you know now I can’t do anything." So one thing only can be that you shall pray to Śiva, you shall pray to Śiva. Because Śiva is balancing both Asuras and Devas, negative and positive. So, these two forces within us, negative and positive, the controlling is that sitting, that Śiva in us and the Śakti. So, Śiva and Śakti are both to control the Āsurīs and Devī Śakti. Well, it was born Hiraṇyakaśyapu, and it was Hiraṇyakaśyapu who went to make tapasyā, sādhanā, prayers to create the devils and powers to govern all the three worlds: hell, earth, and heaven. Brahmā came and he asked him this. But when Diti was praying, she asked her husband and all this, then Śiva appeared and said, "Diti, no one can stop this. He will give birth to this Rākṣasa. But Nārāyaṇa will take over Viṣṇu, and he will bless that the child of this Rākṣasa will be the bhakta of Nārāyaṇa. It takes time. It will have changes, but it takes time." And so it happened. He asked the question to Brahmā, "I would like to be immortal." And all other devas were very, very unhappy. If Brahmā will say, "Yes, my God, there is no more chance forever." And another wife of this ṛṣi, he had thirteen wives only. And she gave birth to Indra, the king of heaven, and all the devas. Brahmā came, and he asked, "I want to be immortal." So he said, "That is out of the protocol. That’s not possible. He’s against the creation, against the cosmic law, Sanātana Dharma." So he was angry, a Rākṣasa. He said, "I will not give up my sādhana, you have to come and bless me." He said, "Yes, I will bless you. I can bless. Ask anything, but not on this immortality. You ask the kingdom, you ask this, that." So he asked, "Then give me one blessing: that no one can kill me, neither human nor animal. I should not die from natural death. I should not die in the daytime, and also not at nighttime. I should not die inside any house or outside the house. No weapons can kill me, and no elements, neither fire nor water, and so on." Brahmā said, "That shall be. I bless you." Now he thought, "I am immortal. No one can kill me. Now I have no enemy anymore, no weapons, no animals. I am happy if I sleep outside." Happy, because Brahmā gave me a blessing: no one can kill me outside or if in the house. Now he declares himself, "I am the God." And he was so angry with Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva. That is a Rākṣasa. Only he was afraid of Śiva, because Śiva can change, and whatever is given to you in your destiny, Śiva can take away. And Śiva is the balancing principle for both. When the Rakṣasas have a problem, they come to Śiva. And he listens and he helps them. And when the Devas come also, Śiva helps. But in reality, Śiva is for God, or for the divine, for the positive. But he knows that if no one will respect them a little bit or control them, they will destroy everything. So they were against all, but not Śiva. He was going here and there, "Who, Hiraṇyakaśyapu, I am God." Nobody should sing any God’s name. No bhajans, no kīrtans, no prayers, only prayer on me. Like that time, some governments didn’t want to believe in any gods. And now, who believes in God? Very few. We believe only in that God which Jesus said, "Do not believe in this wrong God." It’s not a God; I am the way to God. It means your master, Jesus, as a master, he said to his disciples, "I am the way to God." You believe this gold, that gold is God; it is not God. But in the Kali Yuga, it is like this: money is God. Entire studies are going on, economy, you study economy. What is that? For money. Many, many professions for earning money, how to earn money. Very few studies in the world give how to realize God, and if we will open one faculty for the realization of God, nobody will study except to go to the Vatican and study the Bible to become a priest, and there is also not. Pure on the God, on the different things, or you go in any religious institution, you will read that holy book. But again, you turn towards the success of your organization or your mission. Who goes for God by renouncing? That is called a sādhu. That’s called Nāgabābā. That is renunciation. Nothing and nothing and nothing. But to renounce only the material things is very easy, and it just so may be. But renounce your inner hard words, your behavior, your ego. That is very hard. So one day, Hiraṇyakaśyapu went himself to look if the people were singing God’s name or not, because he didn’t believe his own people. And it was evening, sunset time. There was a big fire in one garden. One elderly lady was sitting and singing the name of God. Something, bhajan, Satguru Rakho Meri Laj, Deep Niranjan, Sabduk Bhanjan, Lord, forgive me. And that Rākṣasa, the king, Hiraṇyakaśyapu, he was riding on horseback and stopped there and got off the horse and slowly went to that old lady, and she’s singing God’s names. He was angry. He said, "Lady, what are you singing?" She said, "God." He said, "I am the Hiraṇyakaśyapu." Oh, Hiraṇyakaśyapu, Hiraṇyakaśyapu. She began to say, "Kīrtan, Hiraṇyakaśyapu, Kīrtan." He said, "No, no, no. I will chip off your head. Why did you remember God? What do you want? I give you everything." She said, "Well, my profession is to make pots, clay pots. And so I made many clay pots for the water and this. And now they had to be burned. At that time, there was no electric oven. They were putting in the fire coal. When she put it in, she had one cat. And the cat just gave five little kittens. And they all were in this one pot, and she put this pot in the fire. And she did not know, and then the cat came meowing. And she realized, 'Oh my God, I put her babies in the fire.' So she was so sad, and she was praying to God to forgive my mistake. This sin, what I did, that I put these little, born, innocent babies of the cat in the fire. And the cat cannot do anything. She’s a mother crying. And that’s why I was calling God." He said, "Do you think God will help?" She said, "Yes, then go ahead, calling God and praying. I will sit here until the fire becomes calm and cool. Then we will remove the pots. If the babies are alive, then I will forgive you. Otherwise, I will make a fire like this and put you in the fire." Now she was praying more hard from the heart. That was the real prayer’s coming, and after about 24 hours, when the fire was cool and calm, he let him move. And what did they see? The cat babies are jumping from one pot to the other pot, and this pot and these two pots were completely untouched by the fire. He looked this, I don’t understand anymore. Okay, you do what you like. He went away. So in the same way, he got one son, and his name was Prahlāda. And Prahlāda, because Śiva said, "Viṣṇu, Nārāyaṇa will take care of Diti." And Nārāyaṇa, so now Nārāyaṇa, Viṣṇu, has sent his child to this Rākṣasa. So in coal mines, you can also find diamonds. Though he was a Rākṣasa, his son was very spiritual and a bhakta of Nārāyaṇa and Viṣṇu. Father didn’t like him. Father tried many times to kill him, to let him be killed. Throw him in the water where there are many crocodiles, throw him between the wild elephants, throw him down from the high hills and mountains. But always he came at home, and always he was singing bhajan, kīrtan, "Śrīman Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa... Śrīman Nārāyaṇa, Śrīman Śrīman Bhagavān." So his father sent him to school and told the teacher, "Your duty is to concentrate on this boy, so that he never thinks and comes to spiritual thoughts. He is the prince of the Rākṣasas, which makes him a real Rākṣasa." And he said, "Yes, sir, yes, sir." But Prahlāda had no other duties; he was not interested in learning anything. So after two days, when the school was finished, the children were going home. On the street, they were dancing, "Śrīman Nārāyaṇa, Śrīman Nārāyaṇa, Śrīman Nārāyaṇa." And Hiraṇyakaśyapu was red, angry. So they asked Hiraṇyakaśyapu, "Why are you doing this?" He said, "I am doing good, not bad. Father, you should repeat the Mahā Mantra." He said, "What is that?" He said, "Mahā Mantra." Yes, Mahā Mantra is Hari Om Tat Sat, Hari Om Tat Sat. Hari Om Tat Sat, Hari Om Tat Sat,... Japakar, Japakar Yahi Mahāmantra: Hari Om Tat Sat. Father, the Mahāmantra is this: Hari is Viṣṇu, and Oṁ is Śiva, the universe. This is the Mahāmantra. Hari Om Tat Sat. Tat means that, and Sat means the truth. Brahma satyaṁ, jagan mithyā. That is the truth. And he said, "I don’t understand anything. Catch him. Throw him in the water where the crocodile is. Feed him. Feed him to the crocodiles. Oh God!" He came. One day, the father was so angry that he decided to kill himself and his son. Like this yard in the garden, again he makes a big fire. And there was a big iron pipe, like a chimney for the oven. And no one was there in the evening time, again the Sandhyā, Sandhyā time, when his mother attacked her husband and wanted to have the child. So, destiny chooses the same situation. Now he called his son and said, "You have two options: that you give up the name of God and preaching God’s name, or if you believe there is a God, then go and hug this hot iron pillar burning." The pillar was red. "Otherwise, I will chop your head now." A young boy, he looked to his father, to Hiraṇyakaśyapu, when he said, "Better to die in the fire than be killed by a devil like you," and he became so angry, and then he went, now he was going towards the fire, and the father said, "Go quickly, why you? Are you afraid? You are the Bhakta of God." He said, "Yes, I will go to God, Śrīman Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa." He tried to hug the hot, hot fire, the iron pillar, which you could feel was so hot, 10 meters, 20 meters away, difficult to come closer. That young child thought, "My God, I will die today. It’s too hot." In that minute, what he sees when he comes near, on the hot pillar the ants are walking up and down. Again, he got strength inside the bhakta, when these small ants can’t burn in this fire. How will I burn such a big body? So he wanted to hug the hot pillar, and the hot pillar cracked into parts, apart. Fire broke. Everywhere was fire and fire, and inside comes one form, a man, half man and half lion. Down was a man, and up was a lion. And took this boy in the hands, and Mr. who? Hiraṇyakaśyapu on his chair looks, "Something is wrong, better I go in my house." So he tried to run into his room, and Nṛsiṁha avatāra caught him between the door. Half the body of Hiraṇyakaśyapu was inside the house, and half the body, legs, are still outside. He caught him, sat on him, and said, "Hiraṇyakaśyapu. Open your eyes. Your wish is fulfilled. Now, your time is over." He said, "No." He said, "Yes." Look, where are you? Inside the house or outside? Then he remembered what? Brahmā. He got from Brahmā this promise. So he said, "Yes, neither in nor out." Look to the sky, whether it is day or night. Sandhyā. So it is neither day nor night. So it’s neither night nor day. Do you remember your promise? He said, "Yes." Am I a normal death? He said, "No. Am I a human?" He said, "No." Animal? He said, "No." You are down, you are human. Office? Lion? What is this? His weapons. He said, "No, these are your claws." Your time is over, and he killed him. So God’s time—the clock is all the time moving—but it has its time to count all your mistakes or our sins, then the destiny attacks us. And he took Prahlāda in his lap, the Nṛsiṁha avatāra, and said, "My child, it was a hard time for you, but you were born for that. You are born to go through this hard time. They throw you in the lake where the crocodile is. This is a symbolic situation in the world. You think you can’t survive here, but whom God would like to protect, no one can harm, even one hair of the bhakta. So, why are you afraid?" So, Prahlāda, he became the king, successor, and Prahlāda’s son became another king. And the Pāhaladās, for that, again to liberate that king from the Rākṣasas’ kingdom, he again came, Viṣṇu again incarnated. So twice Viṣṇu incarnated to root out all the Rākṣasas from the heavenly kingdoms. That’s why, time to time, the saints come in this world to again root out such plants. But in Kali Yuga, money became the power, the god. But this will not last long. If one thinks that I will govern my kingdom through my money, my wealth, no. Then it will not happen. You know, after the Second World War, how poor the situation was in Europe, and how quickly, within one or two decades, the middle of Europe and these countries blossomed. Like in Australia, a bushfire, and after the bushfire, beautiful new green plants coming out. Germany was one of the best in economy, Switzerland was best, Austria was best, England was best. After Yugoslavia, Slovenia was nearly compared with Europe, Vienna, Australia, Austria. And everybody said, "Now, my money." And suddenly, that Helene Akershoff’s son put his footstep on it. The whole economy has gone down. So now, what we call the economic crisis in the whole world. Where is the money? It didn’t fly in the sky. It didn’t vent into the earth. Money is there, but how is it possible? Now, how many European countries are struggling? Day by day, the banks are closing. And there was once everyone was putting money to buy some shares, not bonds, and now nobody wants to buy these shares. And they had a lot of share paper at home. They see it every day and say, "So that changes." Look, the Līlā after God, that’s God’s. God’s māyā, so that can change everything. So, Annamaya kośa, our physical body, which Muktāmaṇī spoke about very nicely, in short and sweet essence, is how you treat your body. And if you feel the discipline, the principles, the law of it, like that will be the Prāṇamaya kośa, the prāṇa, the energy, like that will be the Manomaya kośa, the mind. So eating and physically behaving influence our energy and our mental level, and that mental level influences our intellect. And when the intellect is polluted, money polluted, then it becomes dull, only one-sided. Then the viveka is not there. Then it comes there, what you call the Ānandamaya kośa. So, ānanda is the bliss, the divine, the happiness, or the sensual joy, the enjoying physical body, physical world, and that’s what all try to enjoy, that I enjoy my money, my money. I know that all ministers in the world try to do their best for their country, but others say no, they try to do their best for themselves, to take the money and put it somewhere in another country. But you know, sometimes I’m thinking, you know. The squirrel, high in the tree, can, in time of the autumn when the nuts fall down, take and put them somewhere in the earth. She takes and puts them somewhere in the earth, and then she forgets. Very difficult, yeah? So many, many nights they... Rotten in the earth, because they, and similarly many of these ministers and people who put money somewhere, then suddenly they forget a password from the bank of Switzerland. And the Swiss bank doesn’t give it, because they don’t have the password, and they can’t write the password everywhere, you know. So many are doing their mantra every day; they get up in the morning and repeat their passwords a hundred times, so when they need, they can remember. But it remains there. Māyā mahatthagni ham jānī. So this is the Māyā, the illusion, suddenly appearing and disappearing. So the wise person doesn’t expect anything. Read the 12th chapter of the Bhagavad Gītā, what Kṛṣṇa is saying. Read it very nicely. So every hard word harms you, and every kind word, even to an enemy, will support you. And so, these five kośas within which our soul needs spiritual energy, spiritual development, spiritual guidance, a spiritual master, and spiritual practice. So, in a very simple way, that depends on us. So the devas and rākṣasas are sitting in our body in the form of anger, hate, jealousy, this, that, that, that. These are the rākṣasas. Still want to take over that Hiraṇyakaśyapu. That’s anger. When you are angry, then Hiraṇyakaśyapu is already there. Then use Brahmā’s words: Brahmā is our brain, Brahmā is the brain. The soldier’s fighter is our arms. The farmers, who are supplying everything, are our trunk of the body. And the Śūdras, who do not care, are the ground. Clean or not clean, they will walk through and through. These four castes, what they call the caste system, this is within the body. The Bhagavad Gītā doesn’t speak about others, nor do the Vedas speak about others, nor do our other scriptures speak about caste, touchability, untouchability. The caste was everywhere, and everywhere, and now I’m wondering, day by day, the caste system is developing again. And out of many castes, there is one web caste. So this is also one caste now. You know this web caste? Everyone likes the web caste because they use it. So this is like our karma, our destiny. So these five kośas and these five elements and these three doṣas, which are in Āyurveda and in yoga. Āyurveda and yoga, these are the two wings of the bird to fly, but you should know how to use them. Many people here use Āyurveda only to enjoy the, what you call, chyavan prāś, morning thick on the bread like a gem. Say, what are you doing? Oh, I’m breakfasting, Āyurveda breakfast. What is that? Gem. How much? My God. Āyurveda gem is like, only you take a little bit, a little bit, and then you take it with milk, and then you wait two hours, don’t eat anything. Then it will have an effect on your body. But for two hours, we have eaten much cheese and many toasts and many things in between, so everything becomes powerless. So, my dear, all the best. It was very nice, and I wish you divine blessings. And all our Salzburg people wish you all the best and good luck, and good yoga students, and stay in harmony. And one thing I want to tell you: when you have a program, anything, one telephone must be. Actually, this is the third time I am telling you, please keep your telephone on. Today, there was something very urgent, and we couldn’t reach anyone. Yeah, even the Vienna people, they turn off. Sleeping till now, few are still not up, so I phoned and asked, "What are you doing? Should I pay the hotel till 11 o’clock?" "Okay, then sleep till 11 o’clock," so they said, "Even if I die, it is poison, but I paid for it." That’s it. My money, not your money. All the best, and many, many,... many blessings to our ashram and our centres. We will design our nice altar like in the Bratislava ashram, make the photos, and then our Bhaktānanda and Śaṅkarpurī are on duty. It is still not finished, awesome. What do you think? If the opening ceremony is only symbolical, many things have to be done. Hari Om, and all dear ones on the webcast, wish you all the best. Hari Om. Thank you.