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When I first spoke about vegetarianism, people would ask, "What is that?" At most, they would give me some boiled beans, carrots, and potatoes—steamed or boiled, with just salt and butter. But through your help, our work has continued tirelessly for 44 years here. Yogeshjī said that everywhere, vegetarian restaurants are increasing, popping up. Even hospitals now have vegetarian dishes. In the whole world, when you want to be healthy, you go to a vegetarian restaurant. But this awareness has to be awakened in the consciousness of the people. So many saints from India came, and they brought the message of ahiṃsā, non-violence, and good health through vegetarianism. If we don’t eat and drink healthy things, we are doing violence to ourselves. God gave us this body not to torture. Protect this body with all your energy and knowledge to attain Self-Realization and to protect others. Protection lies in protection. Within us are those divine energies, and within us are also the most terrible energies in hidden forms. You will ask, "But how?" Take an example. Here in a basket are the most beautiful, fresh grapes, and everyone likes to eat grapes. Many yogīs who are 'flowery' eat just some grapes. They have energy; they are very fresh and refreshing. But within these fresh grapes, which have very good energy, there is also dormant another energy called alcohol. So now you can imagine, compare yourself to a beautiful grape, or apple, or plum. From what do you make slivovitz? From plums. And plums are very good, very tasty. And within that is the quality of alcohol. Alcohol is also a medicine. Alcohol can save your life. Alcohol can free you from infections. But ati sarvatra varjante—too much is everywhere prohibited. So within us, we have anger. It was nice that Yogesh spoke about anger and looked in his diary to see how many times per day he was angry, surprisingly, but then he put a line through it. When once happiness comes, when Ānanda appears in us, all dark rays of anger disappear. Hate, jealousy, conflict, doubt, greed, passion, and desires are within us. They can be awakened with that drop of alcohol, or they can be purified with that one drop of alcohol. So within us are both āsurī śaktis and daivī śaktis. But the science of yoga is that which filters all other energies or neutralizes all other energies and awakens pure spiritual energy. If there is spirituality—if you practice yoga again only for your commercial purpose, which is unfortunately happening in the world—then you don’t get that. Therefore, spirituality is one of the specialties of daily yogic life. When anywhere in the world there are conferences, or perhaps at the Kumbha Melā, or somewhere else at the railway station or the airport, certain foreigners are standing there, and they are also practicing yoga. The people who have yoga in their life are standing there, and they are practicing yoga. Immediately, you can see the difference. Oh, these are the yoga and life people. Once, for the Kumbha Melā in Ilāhābād, one group—our group—was boarding an aeroplane from Mumbai to Ilāhābād, about 30 to 40 people. There was one sādhu also inside. When they were serving food in the aeroplane, everyone was asking, "Is that vegetarian? Is there not egg inside?" That sādhu was always looking, and everyone got their food, but no one was eating. He was wondering why they didn’t eat. When everyone got it, then our group was praying. All other Indians and other guests in the aeroplane were looking. And then they said, "Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Nāma Pārvatī Pate." And that mahātmā, that sādhu, he asked, "Are you Mahāśvarānandajī’s disciple?" So, yoga and life are that science: body, mind, consciousness, and soul. Spirituality—when you lead that spiritual life, then that divine energy will awaken. And spiritual life does not mean that you meditate five hours every day, and for three hours you are standing and praying, and you are eating the thing. No, that is not spirituality. It’s the way how you, yoga, and daily life people are living. That is the life of spirituality. You know, my dear? There are a bunch of crows, many, many crows, but you will not see a bunch of swans. There are rocks and there are stones, but you don’t see the rocks of the diamond. So on this mortal planet, you are the dead, shining diamonds or the superstars of spirituality, which will make God happy. And not only that, I will occupy you and keep you busy. But be prepared, when you come to God, He will keep you more busy, because He will send you on this earth as a holy saint. And that will turn the Kali Yuga into Satya Yuga again. That is the duty, motto, and saṅkalpa of practitioners of yoga in their life: to turn the Kali Yuga into Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān. And those who failed, they have to be somewhere that God will say, "Till again, next Kali Yuga comes, this has to be in that darkness." So, it doesn’t matter how hard it is, keep on practicing. Around the world, there are thousands, millions of people who practice yoga in their lives. They must not all be in one group. But this is a preparation for bringing the Satya Yuga, and when it will be, when you will come back again. But don’t hurry to die, because you are still not ready. I’m preparing, and you are practicing. Yes, so Yogājī was talking that in China, they are from childhood getting training for death. That’s called the art of dying. Someone says the art of living, but that is the art of death. How to die? You can’t live immortally. You are not immortal in physical form. Even Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva, they also had to give up their body. They also gave up their crown and lay down. So, how long will you live? But the question is, how to live that spiritual life. And Ātmā Jñāna, Self-Realization—we are preparing for that. So in the Bible it is said, "You have to die to live." And Mahāprabhujī said also in a bhajan, "Mahāprabhudīp Karatā, Mahāprabhudīp Karatā..." When we are fortunate ones, after many, many lives—again I should tell, the yogīs have stolen all my words—how many lives we were waiting to get this life. To get to the shelter of Mahāprabhujī, Devpurījī, Alakhpurījī, Gurujī. So now we are fearless. We do not have to worry anymore. We are without any worries. Now I have sheltered at Gurudeva’s navel. Be parva o fakir! Now there is no worry, no sorrow. Fakir means a saint, an Urdu word for a sādhu. Fikr, fikr means worries again. So the fakir comes from fikar, and fikar means, "Oh God, I have no work, I have nobody," this, that—cintā, worries. So why are you worrying? The glory of that scent is like the sky, very beautiful and deep. Gehra means deep and deep and deep. There is no end. It doesn’t matter how many rockets and through how many telescopes we look into the sky, we will not see anywhere a wall that is the end. Like this, the visions, the aim, the consciousness, and the ability of that fakīr, that yogī. Jodharani Jundhir, and so peaceful and motionless like earth, we are sitting. Do you feel any vibration? And on what is Earth based? It is only like a globe hanging. Even the water is hanging. But you see how it’s harmonized, balanced. So the consciousness of the yogī is like a sky. And being here in the material world is like Mother Earth. How beautiful. How many creatures are living on this earth? Definitely, it is the mother. This earth is the mother. It is the living planet. And so we should not cause pain to this Divine Mother. It is a sin. We nourish ourselves from that. We are born on this, and we are living on it. She is our mother. When we pollute and create chemicals from the earth... The chemicals didn’t come from the sky. Everything we manipulated, plastic, was also brought from the earth. There was no plastic. It is, and it is since the earth is existing, but in hidden power it was. We awoke that negative energy. So in us there is no negative thing, but we can awake and produce within ourselves āsurī śaktis. If you are a yogī, then you should be like the sky. And so harmonious, peaceful, and beautiful, like Earth. But when it has, when the mother cannot resist anymore, then an earthquake takes place because she is tired. Now she had to take a little turn to one side. We call it a curve. When you sleep, you turn to the other side, and she doesn’t turn completely. She just moved her hip joint a little bit. And you know how many joints are broken here from the man-made. All collapses. There are no dualities about caste and creed. That’s it. It means differences in religion, culture, and traditions. And it has no value, either in stones or in diamonds. And it’s not afraid of anyone, no matter if it’s a king or a beggar, because all are equal. Jīvatī Murda Samrevi—live like you have to die to live. So these are the energies within us. And they should be utilized for two things: in the outer world, for protection for everyone. It doesn’t matter who or what they have done. You should have a vision of mercy. They are thirsty, they are thirsty—a merciful vision. Gandhijī said, "We hate the sin, but not the sinner." If someone is guilty, and everyone is attacking that one, but if you go and embrace, take it as yourself, the happiness and joy of that person or that animal is indescribable. When such a person, no one likes him or her, or that animal, and you take and hug, that is not your hug, that is the hug of God. That time your action is not an action of selfishness, it is an action of God. And that’s the sense nature. You know the scorpion story which I told. The scorpion falls in the water, and the master takes him out, and he again is stuck on the thumb of the master. Then he takes with the second hand, again he falls in the water, and he sticks on his ring finger, again he falls in the water. Now he tries to take with both hands, and the disciples say, "What are you doing, master? You stupid beast, I will kill him!" The master says, "No, no..." His nature is to stick, and my nature is to protect. So there are some Scorpios too, but we should be that protector. And that is the hidden power in humans, the science of yoga and their life. Now, that is hidden in our Maṇipūra Cakra, and great. Viśuddhi and Bindu—we crossed the heart, we jumped over because the heart is beautiful, but sometimes too much emotion, so selfish emotion catches you, and when you have sucked all out, the seed of the mango, the same heart will throw it away. So, how many of you are sitting here? How many times have you been thrown away? If I wait for half a minute, how many tears will follow? So that is the saṃsāra. Therefore, sometimes we have to leave the heart to one side. To achieve that essence, then we’ll come, turn to the heart, anāhada, that will then awaken the ātmā jñāna feeling. Then it will come, the myness, it’s mine. Then there will be no duality. Because what will you throw? Whom will you throw? Where will you throw? It is all you. So in one conference about the environment, there was a talk about "use and throw." And this entire economic crisis in the world only came because of "use and throw." So the person said, "Use and throw," but where? Again on the earth. So, why do you throw the earth? The manufacturers, greedy companies, and factories manufactured so many cheaper things. You can use it only once, and you have to throw it. For the next thing, you have to buy again. You buy, use, throw; buy, use, throw. Now people are becoming a little conscious: health conscious, environment conscious, simple life conscious. So they buy the things which you can use for a long time. So there is no throw, so we are keeping. But manufacturers have many, many stories from millions of dollars; still, they are stored. So, no consumers, because consumers become aware. You know, in India, we have one spiritual religion, a spiritual society, you call them Sikhs, who wear turbans. They don’t cut their hair, they have five things always with them, so they don’t shave, they don’t cut their hair. So one man wanted to make a business, and he was looking for a good shop, and he bought a good shop, where only Sikhs are living. And the man who bought the shop, by profession he was a barber, and he put beautiful furniture and everything, and the whole day he was waiting, but nobody was coming. So, to open a barber shop in the Punjab, you expect your business. Similarly, if someone were to come here and start grilling animals at a yoga seminar, even we will say stick, he can carry dead bodies back. So similarly, people became aware in the world, but still other people are trying to manipulate many things. But we shall lead a natural life, a simple life, and you should have multiple talents, not only as a nurse, that you only give injection and injection, or in an āśram, or only as a doctor. You should know how to do farming, carpentry, car mechanics—several abilities we should have. We lost a most valuable knowledge, all human, almost all, very, very important for life, life-important talent, and there is cooking. When the husband asks his wife, "What will you cook today?" she becomes nervous, and she runs to some market and buys ready-made pizza and puts it in the microwave, and buys two liters of ketchup. So microwave the heated pizza and a lot of ketchup. So the skin of the husband looks like pizza. And the energy of the body is like ketchup. So we have to... Ketchup is not bad. Ketchup is very good. Thanks to the ketchup company, at least we could get this tomato chutney. Ketchup is an imitation of the chutney. Pizza is an imitation of the chapati. I don’t believe it. Yes, so this pizza came from the Mexican people who were with the cattle, because the cowboys, they had only some flour and water. They made a dough, and whatever they put on it, they put it on the open fire coal. That is how they were doing it. So, thanks to all companies, now they have made it easier for us. But life-surviving knowledge is cooking. So we have to learn cooking again. Our webcast channel is free for you. If you have good recipes, easily and simply, to give a half-hour, one-hour, or twenty-minute cooking lesson according to your country’s traditional, ancient times—how people were eating. Yes, the channel is free. We would like to occupy our channel 24 hours. We are utilizing only a few hours a month. It’s a pity. It’s a great pity. So you all, my dear ones, my disciples, men and women, boys and girls, you have a talent for cooking vegetarian food. So please write down exactly what you will cook, and send your recipes to the fellowship. We will agree, yes, we are coming to eat. And that is, now this is another most beautiful spiritual work, if you can do this. So, from every country, in your language, the geometry must not be English. Chinese, Japanese, Hungarian, Croatian, Italian—every country has a beautiful vegetable dish. Then the Maṇipūra Cakra will be easier to awaken through the Viparīta Karanī Mudrā. So now we will have some instructions on how. Technique is very important. It’s called know-how. You know, there’s a car called, some expensive car. I’m not going to make advertising, otherwise other car companies will be against me. And one beautiful lady. So which lady is not beautiful? Therefore, all are beautiful. Oh God beautiful, oh God beautiful, in the women and the men. So, that one lady, she couldn’t cook, she couldn’t iron, she couldn’t wash the laundry; she learned only typing and driving. So she was driving, and suddenly her car stopped. Now, I don’t know what to do. I should learn driving, but I’m not. Some first aid for the car. So she went to the tourist club, and one man came. And he opened the bonnet. He looked in, and he just made something like this. Closed it and gave the bill: $250. And she says, "Criminal, stupid. You’ve done just nothing. You just touched it, and $250?" He said, "Yes, ma’am. Not that I have done little things." So if you know how to cook, your home economy will be blossoming. But please go to the restaurants also, because they also have to survive. So now we will do the technique. Deep Nand Bhagwan Ki Evening will be at 8 o’clock again on the website. Om Namah Śrī Prabhudīpa Nārāyaṇam. Haṁsabhādas Prabhuśaraṇa Parāya, Haṁsabhādas Prabhuśaraṇa Parāya. Om Namah Śrī Prabhudīp Nārāyaṇam. Om Namah Śrī Prabhudeepan. Hama Sabdhāś Prabhu Śaraṇam, Hama Sabdhāś Prabhu Śaraṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhūdīpan... Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Dev Purīśa Mahādev Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Satya Sanātana Dharma Oṁ Śānti.