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Oṁ Karavinda Sāyuktaṁ Nityadāyanti Yoginaḥ Kāṁdaṁ Mokṣadaṁ Caiva Oṁ Kārayāṇamo Namaḥ. Oṁ Dīpa Jyoti Parabrahma Dīpaṁ Sarve Mohanaṁ Dīpana Sajate Sarvaṁ Sandhyā Dīpaṁ Sarva Satyaṁ, Subhaṁ Karoti Kalyāṇam, Ārogyaṁ. Dhana na sampadā, śatrubuddhi vināśāya, dīpa jyotir namastute, oṁ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ. Blessed self, dear brothers and sisters, good evening and welcome. I am happy to see you this evening. I was here nearly 26 months ago. Today’s subject is to awaken peace and compassion in our heart, within ourselves, through the practice of yoga in daily life. But before that, I would like to tell you something. Today is Pūrṇimā, the full moon. Among all the planets, the very strong, intensive influence we have is from the moon. Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said, "I enter into the vegetation as a nectar through the moonlight." The system of creation balances the activities and life on this earth, and the moon’s influence is very strong. The moon is emotion, and it is so strong that vegetation, other creatures, and humans would not be able to resist this emotion. That is why the moon, from the full moon, decreases day by day. It comes to the dark night, the dark moon, then the new moon, the crescent moon, and then increases, growing back to the full moon. That is balancing. The moon also balances this hemisphere over all the continents. What modern scientists declare is that the moon is like a needle that balances life on Earth. You know, sharks and some fish have one tail to balance their movements. A big aeroplane has a small part on top, like a tail, which balances the wind. Similarly, the moon balances our biorhythm, our emotions, our intellect, our thoughts, and so on. This full moon gives full energy to our Earth. We are not different from these planets, the plants, and the vegetation. It affects equally, whether an elephant or a small ant. Therefore, in Vedic culture, or in yoga, we take the full moon day very seriously. To purify the energy and balance our emotions, it is considered beneficial to fast on this day. On this day, try to avoid all negative thoughts and negative activities, and try to develop positive ones. What you think negatively today will create negative pollution in the mind for the whole month until the next moon. Our emotional energy is too strong, and that is why through fasting we can balance it. Even one minute or half a minute of the moon’s darkness, or the moon’s eclipse, harms our life on this earth a lot. So today we call it chandra grahaṇa. Chandra is moon, grahaṇa is eclipse. It began today at 3:00 p.m., and it is still in the process. Immense energy is damaged. Many different germs in the body, outside of the body, and in the atmosphere die. So this time, as yogīs, we spend more in spiritual thoughts, prayers, and in making some decision to help the needy ones, or give donations to charities, to needy people, feed tomorrow some birds, some other creatures—do something good. That will help to purify our karmas. This is going on now, and our time here is 8:45. It will be clean afterwards. Everyone should go and take a shower and change their clothes. You should have closed the curtains because that dark light of the moon harms a lot. Now, if you believe or you don’t believe, belief or not to believe doesn’t change the reality. The full moon is considered a spiritual day, as well as the dark moon day, which is even stronger than the full moon. So there are the times which we call the dark moon night, Amāvasyā, then the new moon, the second day, then the 11th day of the moon, and the 14th or the 15th day of the moon. Our biorhythm is fixed with the moon system, and it is 27 days, which is the moonlight, then comes dark moon and full moon. These are 30 days. Our soul—we come to our soul, it is our concern, not this body. The body is of course very important, but what about our real self? The real self, what we call is Ātmā, is not affected by the moon or anything. But the individual soul is very much affected, and the relation of our soul to our ancestors is very deep. For 14 to 16 generations, we are connected very deeply to our ancestors. Then it is going far and far. But it takes 38 generations to purify our inner energy and what we inherited from our ancestors—karmic, not physical. Karmic means whatever we did becomes our destiny. Every action has a reaction, and every reaction has an action. We don't know that in these 27 or 28 general lives we will incarnate as a human. It does not depend on us that our next life will be human. It is not sure that in our last life we were human. It will be decided according to our destiny. Destiny is the fruits or the result of our karma. Karma means work, doing something. Cooking is a karma, drinking is a karma, breath is a karma, inhalation, exhalation. Whatever we do through our body, whatever happens through our body, is karma. Whatever we think mentally is a karma. Whatever we do through our words, what we speak, is also an action. And how we use our social position through our wealth or some other powers—so there are four different ways in which we can cause the actions of the karmas. You are very good, you know, from Australia, I think, it's called a boomerang. So, boomerang, when you throw it, it comes back to you. Each and every reaction or action of our body, mind, words, and social position will come stronger to us than to others. Therefore, if we can't do good, we should not do bad. If you can't think good, at least don't think bad. Try to remain neutral, but our emotion is not under control. Emotion is a, we are in the motion, emotion, in the motion. Sometimes it's hurricanes, so strong motion, and sometimes it's very calm and peaceful. So every thought doesn't matter, towards whom you think—of your wife, or your children, or your parents, your father, your friends, your colleagues, anyone. How you think about that person, or about your dog, about your cat, about your garden, trees. That's why God gave us that kind of intellect, so that we are acting and reacting through it, and it will reflect us. Someone says, "I don't like the sun," and takes a handful of dust and tries to throw it on the sun. It will not reach the sun; it will fall back on the person. So whatever negative vṛttis, negative thoughts, negative actions you are doing, be sure sooner or later they will come to you in strength, in great strength. And from this, especially, the human is suffering. So, practicing yoga means to purify all such emotions within us, that we can create a better, good, healthy, happy life. And after that, we merge into the eternal cosmic light and eternal peace. So this is how the full moon and today, moon eclipse, and also for the Hindus and for us, it's a very important day because it's the day of the birth, the day of the Lord Hanumanjī. You know about Hanumānjī. Thank you. So this is a good, very divine day for us, the festival. Now, the question is about peace and compassion. So today we will speak about peace; tomorrow will come the compassion. Yoga and yoga and daily life, this is also a question. I know that in every corner of the street there are yoga practices in Australia. People are very aware about health. Health is not everything, but everything is nothing without health. But this kind of yoga, what we do, is not that yoga which is mentioned word by word, yoga. What we have understood here in Western culture, in the world, yoga is 98% not understood. It became physical, it became commercial, it became different, but far away from the yoga. Yoga is not only physical exercises, breath techniques, relaxation, and a little meditation. This is for our well-being in this temporary life. We are not here forever. Doesn't matter how much you will do, one day we have to say bye-bye. And it doesn't depend on the age. Many young people are sitting, and many are sitting; a little elderly persons like me, and someone must be here also. So it's not that this Alden will die soon, no. We don't know who will be the first. We are all sitting here like swans in a beautiful lake. Which swan will take off? We don't know. Therefore, time doesn't wait for anyone, and destiny or karma will not leave anyone free. It will come. And it comes, you think again, "I have not done anything bad." Yes, you have not done, but you are thinking, you are criticizing. Yoga, you have, when you sit in meditation, almost all, at least in Australia, some yoga people, they sit with index finger and thumb together, sit like this, we meditate. This is a mudrā, a hand holding or a position of the hand. Mudra means indication. When you drive your car, there is an arrow that says left to the Yogananda Life Center, or to the beach, or to the fruit garden, etc. Thumb symbolically represents the Supreme, the Brahman. Index finger represents, symbolically, thyself as a soul. Aim of this soul, since the beginning of life from the endless universe, these individual souls are fluttering on the waves of time, through the empty space, through light and darkness, experiencing pleasure and displeasure. Coming to this mortal world, different lives are not easy; it doesn't matter which kind of creature it is. And then again, the journey continues to the origin. We want to come to our origin. When we throw something, it comes back to the earth because this little piece of stone originated from the earth. Similarly, our real self is longing to become one again, not to come into these troubles of birth and death. If you believe in rebirth or not, that doesn't change, my dear. We don't believe because we do not know exactly. You know very well, in your countries, people are working a lot on this subject: organic food and the environment-friendly materials for recycling. So we are using little plastic bags; we use something which can be recycled. Do you accept the recycling process or not? Yes or no? Yes. So recycling, wood comes from rebirth. So soil is recycling, going, coming. Now, this in recycling was a nice apple, and then when this will be recycled, next time it comes through the fertilizer into the nice cherry, or it will become a banana, or it will become a lemon, or very nice cauliflower. He is recycling that energy. Similarly, this individual energy, which is rotating within the sun system, will come again to life and search for the way out to Brahman. So this is individual, our soul, this is the Brahman, and these three fingers we keep far, it's called the three guṇas. If you know Ayurveda or if you have read something, so sattva guṇa, rajas guṇa, and tamas guṇa. The sattva guṇa is a pure quality. Rajas guṇa is aggressivity, anger, anger hidden within us. And tamas guṇa is laziness, very lazy, dull, slippery, and doesn't want to work. You feel tired, no energy, you can't get up early, you need more sleep. Practice everyday asanas systematically, yoga, and daily life, or go for a walk one hour every day. Suddenly, you will feel that you are not tired because you recharge the new energy and reduce the old energy, which creates the tāmas guṇas. So the yogī's aim is to become one with Brahman, and for that we have to be above the three guṇas, these qualities, so that we become one. This mudrā indicates the ātmā, or your jīvātmā and Paramātmā, become one. This is that when you meditate; this is just a symbol. But when we go further, then this mudrā tranquilizes our thoughts very much. It is said it influences all the vṛttis, the activities of the brainwaves. So this is the mudrā where we sit. Yoga has different meanings. One is sun and moon. So, moon is ha and sun is tha. That becomes haṭha. Coming together, balancing together is called yoga. Now, we came together, we met here, it's called yoga. So, balancing between the moon and the sun, the solar energy, the moon energy and the sun energy balances at the center of the Agnya Chakra, at the center where two glands are very important in our brain sites, the pituitary gland. This balances our entire hemisphere, both. And this gland, where we meditate here on the center of the eyebrows, we can balance the thought. So hatha yoga, hatha, ha is the moon, tha is sun. Yoga is becoming one, harmonizing. At that time, our suṣumnā nāḍī, the central nerve, begins to receive that pure cosmic light and transfers the energy in the body, which makes our body, mind, and intellect healthy. Otherwise, not. So the pituitary and pineal gland, these two, if you practice yoga systematically... Otherwise, for your body, do it, no problem. So yoga and life is the system, it is a science. And if you practice exactly, you will feel great energy and relief from tension in the body and mind. This is what yoga is for us, for yogīs. Not practicing of āsanas, don't think that is a yogī. They were doing to remove the stress from the body and tensions and a little bit move the energies in the body. But real yoga is to meditate. This jīvātmā, this individual, frees from the karmas, the prison of this mortal world, and comes to the forever peace, light, and harmony. So yoga is the great divine science. Practicing asanas and pranayama is good, okay, better than nothing. Wish you all the best. We come to the subject, peace. Peace is within us, and Mahatma Gandhijī said there is no way to peace. Peace is the way. Unless we have peace within ourselves, we can't create peace. And peace is such that it doesn't matter what happens. You are not imbalanced physically, emotionally, or intellectually, not imbalanced. You are able to face every situation. But if the negative thoughts are sitting inside like a bee, then if you go to the bees with a little smoke, they will become angry and try to attack not only you, but everyone. That's our thoughts inside. So we have the peace within us, but now our peace is in many pieces. A little peace, and then more thoughts and anger. Now, why can't we live in peace, and why can't we experience the peace, and how do we awaken the peace within us, which is dormant? So there is only one cause that we lost within us, that peace. Only one thing. If we can repair that button one, the whole life will be perfect. And that button which God gave us also, and that's called fear. Fear is the cause of all our troubles, fear. Fear of death, or not of death, but how we will die, which pain will cause our death? In fire, in accident, somewhere, here, there. Death is cruel. The Yama Rāja, the king of death, says, "I don't care how you die." For me, the main thing is that you die. We are the nourishment of death. So death knows which creatures or humans it will take now. Border is there, created by destiny. Or what will happen after death? We can't take anything with us. Then we can't send SMS. We cannot telephone. And after death, when the body is delivered to the graveyard, then you get up and come and knock on your door and say, "I'm here, I'm very cold. Oh God!" He came as a ghost. Will you not be nervous when the one you have buried comes back in the night? We will not allow it anymore. We will close the curtains. We will close the ears. Or we will call the police. What will the police do? Fear, my dear, that now, another fear is about life, existence. So many, many different kinds of fears, so we are full of fear. Now, the fear is very clever, and fear has a strength, because fear has a union. And when there is a big union, then there is a power. So the fear union: first from the fear comes the anger. So our anger is the supporter of the fear. As a self-protection, fear creates anger. Anger is that thief which will steal from you everything at the door, and will not let good qualities come inside. And anger will bring hate. Anger will bring the fear, which will create the greed that I don't want to lose, I want to have more. The fear creates the jealousy. Jealousy is that fire which will burn us slowly, slowly, our whole life. Jealous, torturing whole life. Jealousy is such a big fire, torturing us slowly, slowly, the whole life. And the revenge, anger, jealousy, greed, revenge. So that jealousy is a fire, and our blood is boiling in the fire of revenge. I will take the revenge, but that you will not be able to do. You are taking revenge yourself. Very soon, the person who is very jealous and angry and gets hate inside will get many different kinds of diseases, and especially what you call cancer of the brain, mental illnesses, fear, hallucinations, phobias. This all we create out of fear, anger, hate, jealousy, and greed. And there, who is enjoying inside is a fear. If this kind of fear we remove, you are in happiness. Then you can sing, "I am bliss, I am bliss,... bliss am I. Ānandoham, ānandoham, ānandam brahmānandam. I am bliss, I am supreme bliss, I am ānanda." We cannot, because the fear is sitting there, pulling you back. Where are you going? Limitation is there. Now, how to remove the fear? I told you the key buttons. Don't be angry. And that's not easy. That's not easy. Sometimes we think, "I'm never angry. I'm never angry." Okay, my dear. So there is one master. He makes only meditation retreats. And this retreat goes till twenty-five years. Begin one week, ten days, one month, so there you have to meditate, you have to be very silent, mauna, no talking, no newspapers, no radios, nothing. Meditate, purify your antaḥkaraṇa: manas, buddhi, citta, ahaṅkāra. That retreat is called self-realization. Self-realization is there when you have none of these negative qualities. So one aspirant came and he stayed twelve to fifteen years and said, "Master, I achieved the highest level of consciousness." Master said, "I am very proud of you, my dear. I congratulate you." He said, "Yes, Master, I have nothing in me. I see only Brahman, the highest, the supreme. Him. There is no master, no disciples, no parents, nothing. I am in one." So the master said, "Yes. I have no anger, no jealousy, no hate, no fear." The master said, "Very good. So tomorrow at twelve o'clock you should come. There will be a test." Master will make a test, that if you are really so normal, without any impurities of the emotion, thoughts, anger, no problem. Master, so at 12 o'clock noon, he comes. Master said, "Now you sit in meditation and go to your highest level." So he said, and after 20 minutes, a master, "I am one with the cosmos. I don't see anything, my dear master. Even I have difficulty to speak. I see neither me nor you. It is only the light. Master, I am through and through only pure." He was sitting with closed eyes and meditating. The master had the stick. And the Master hit him on the head like this. That practiced the aspirant. He exploded like popcorn on a hot fan. "Guruval, Master, how could you do like this? I have done nothing wrong." He said, "My dear, you said you have nothing inside. From where did this anger come? Go and come to me after 12 years." So we think that we are the nice one. I am not a guilty one. I am a kind one. But my dear, search your inner self. Then you will get the peace. Otherwise, peace is in pieces. When we like something, we are peaceful. And what and who we don't like? We are angry, jealous, hateful, conflicted, greedy. The whole world is full of greed. What happens to our Mother Earth? All environment and vegetation is destroyed. Gandhijī said, "Mother Earth has enough for everyone's need, but not for everyone's greed." So the greed is so fine, so high. Though people have a big, big company, they are billionaires, but still they have fear to lose their money, and they are greedy to make more and more. So maybe we will not master this all. If you tell Swamiji, "Have you anger?" I will say, "My God, and how!" So I only tell what is the problem within me and within you. I am working on myself, and you also should work on yourself. Sometimes anger is a protection. So what kind of anger? This is that. So one story comes to my mind, I should tell you. In one place or village, one master comes and speaks. He speaks about spirituality, about meditation, about karma, about the mantras. Mantras, how to develop meditation without a personal mantra is body-like without a soul, or a statue without a soul inside. Just to sit all in darkness, looking inwardly, it will make you dull and will block all progress further. So mantra is a torchlight which will lead us toward our destiny. This life is a journey, not a destination. We need something to guide us. Do not always change your inner visions, inner imaginations. And don't search, "That mantra is good and that mantra is good." There are some people who are collecting mantras. They think maybe this is powerful. When I come, they take mantra from me. When someone else comes, they will take the mantra from them. Third one will come and say, "Oh, that's very good. Can you give me a mantra?" Fourth one will come and materialize something. Oh, this is a big master. The one master came. He was looking at the plants, and the plants were moving. They said, "Gurujī, that is so divine, Master." And he gave me a mantra. I said, "Good." So, changing the mantra will not help you. Mantra is once you get it from the master. Now, if the master is here or not, it is your mantra. You should practice this, continue. Yes, other mantras you can learn, read, sing, everything. You know, your mother and your father, you have only one. We can call everyone as my mother and my father, but biologically, our father is only one, and our mother is only one. This you will gain only once in life. Next life, yes. And the guru, the spiritual master, you can get only in the human life. Mother, father, you can get in other lives too. This one has to understand. So, changing your practices, your mantras, is beginning a new journey. Then you will not reach your destination. You have walked 50 milestones already. Now only some milestones are missing. And you change the way. Now you have to begin again from. So, maximum, you will come to the 30 or 40 milestones, and you will die. Ten milestones remained. Everything was for nothing. So one German philosopher said, "To see the blue sky, you need not travel anywhere." Everywhere is a blue sky. So development, spiritual development and peace are within you. You can do, but don't change. That will harm your heart, that will harm your consciousness, many things. So I don't give people a mantra immediately. "Come, I'll give you a mantra; it will be good." No. A mantra which you have from one master—and if not, then, of course, if you trust, if you think, "This will be my master," you take the mantra. Otherwise, wait. So one master comes to one village and gives lectures for about one month. And he was talking about mantras. And the whole village and other village people, they came and took the mantra, where the master every day was talking. Somewhere in the foundation of the building, sorry, one big cobra was living, a snake. And when the master began to speak, he came out of his hole and understood through the vibration, because snakes have no ears. They understand through the vibration. Last evening, Master now said, "All my dear ones, bhaktas, practice, do good, and tomorrow I am going." So they said, "Master, please come again soon or stay longer," and so on. When the snake heard that the Master is leaving tomorrow, the snake was very sad because every day he was listening to satsaṅg. When people went, the cobra came in front of the Master, standing. Master said, "Oh, what do you want?" Now he speaks ātmā to ātmā. A snake said, "Master, please, can you give me a mantra? I heard that you are going tomorrow, and I am so sad. I have nothing to give you, no flowers, this, this, but I will follow the principles. Please give me a mantra." So the master gave him some mantra and blessed him. The snake said, "But you told in your speech, when you get mantra, you should renounce something, do good karmas. So please, Master, can you tell me what I should renounce? I have nothing." Master said, "Okay, don't bite anyone." That's all. So he said, "Okay, Master, I will follow." Now, the snake comes out, the master is gone. Every child plays with him. Some pull him here, some pull him there, and he can't bite, or do this, and no one is afraid. He was searching, "Where is the master?" But the master was somewhere far. Luckily, the master came after three months again. And again, after the satsaṅg, when the master was alone, sitting, meditating, the snake came. "My praṇām, my gratitude, and humble my salutation, master." He said, "Yes, how are you?" Said Master, "I practice everyday my mantra, disciplined all the day, but I'm a little bit sad." He said, "Why?" "Master, I have so much trouble since I got the mantra. And you said, 'Mantra will make you happy and relaxed.'" He said, "What?" "You told me not to bite anyone. And now, even children are pulling me here and there, and I have to run. I have a very restless life because I don't bite anyone." Master said, "Yes, I told you, don't bite. But I didn't tell you to show your temperament." Like this. Then they will run away. He said, "Yes, that I have forgotten." So sometimes, not anger from within, but outside we have to show, we have to tell the children, "Don't touch the fire." So that is not anger. It's education, so there's limitation of the anger, but hate we should not have. Revenge we should not have, then we will awake peace within us. When peace is awakened, then compassion will come. So let's see tomorrow how nice compassion is and how hard it is to get compassion. It's very, very hard and beautiful, so peace and love both awake within us. We are already almost there, where we should be. But lifelong we have to follow, lifelong. Wrong. You have to clear up your anger. So there is one story. Again, there was one very famous master, and he had a long beard. Mine is not so long, it's still a long beard, and he had many followers walking with him always. Master went to the market, and there was one man. He didn't believe in religion, masters, or spirituality, okay? His or her subject, why should one day that man, a businessman, tried to humiliate the master and find out what he will do or how angry he will be? So, the master was moving, and that man came out and said, "Master." He said, "Yes, I have one question." He said, "Yes, please. What is the difference between your beard and a donkey's tail?" The master just walked away. He didn't show any anger, anything. The disciples were very angry. They tried to catch him. The master said, "No, no..." He asked the question, but the master walked away. The master felt guilty inside that he did not answer the question, and anger was inside the master, so he went away. At that time, the master was 50 or 60 years old, and now he comes to nearly 100 years of age, and the last minutes of his life are coming. Master told one of the disciples, "Please go and call that businessman." He said, "What? He was humiliating you. He was so terrible." He said, "No. Just call. I owe him something. If I die, I have to come back." Meanwhile, that man was so sorry, so sorry, he became a great devotee, spiritual. He was feeling such guilt in him, because he talked to such a holy man who does so many great things for the world. And my stupid thoughts, he came, says, "Sorry, Master, sorry for what I did to you." He said, "No, my son, don't worry. But you know, before I die, I should give you the answer. Yes, my son, there is a difference between the tail of the donkey and my beard. Bless you." So sometimes things torture us till the end of life; we should clear them up. But don't give the answer when the waves are too high, when you have emotion, anger, hate. And lifelong working, don't sow and don't create; awake the anger for this subject. Then we are human; the human soul will proceed after death toward life. So compassion, we will have tomorrow. Today I spoke already too much. You have to digest the whole night. If you have time, welcome tomorrow. If not, then we will see when destiny will bring us together. What you like, please take with you. What you didn't like, leave it here. So we will take care of it. God bless you. Wish you all the best. Adió.