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Good morning. Welcome. It is nice to see you. Your program is progressing very well. Knowledge is endless. You are all working in your fields, doing your best to bring the knowledge of yoga into daily life. This is a very significant seminar, one of approximately ten, after which you will take a final examination. Upon passing, you will receive a diploma authorizing you to teach and to prepare teachers for Yogananda. This will continue. Another point: last night, there was a beautiful Abhiṣeka. Today is the last Monday of Śrāvaṇa Māsa, and that was the real abhiṣeka of Lord Śiva. Do you understand what abhiṣeka is? This is a very good question for your yoga teacher training. Who does not know what abhiṣeka is? It is a very interesting thing. Let us speak about abhiṣeka. First, all five elements are known as devas. The tattvas: Jala-tattva is water. Agni-tattva is fire. You know these five elements. When we speak about ṛṇa, it means a debt. You borrow money from someone; now you must pay it back. Our individual jīva has borrowed these five elements, and we are therefore obliged to pay them back. How? They do not need money; they have no desire. So how can we oblige them? It means to keep these five elements pure. If you pollute water—rivers, creeks, ponds, lakes, or oceans—it is a sin. That pollution of the Jala Tatva will attack you in return. In our body, nearly 75 to 80 percent is liquid, in whatever form: juice, milk, leaves, grass, etc. Everywhere there is water, the water element. If it is pure, good water, we drink and are healthy. By keeping it pure, we pay our obligation. If we pollute it, we incur more karma; it is a sin. Similarly, we should not misuse fire. You should not spit in your fireplace. You should not throw tissues into the fire. Do not throw dead bodies of animals into the fire, what you call grilling. This is a misuse of fire. If you do not respect it, the fire will burn you. First, let us consider fire: Jñāna-agni. Jñāna is knowledge. The light of knowledge removes our ignorance and gives us the right direction. This is also Jñāna Agni, Yoga Agni. The fire of yoga will burn all our karmas. But if you misuse it in different ways—my God, what? There are many, many names, and you know how some practice yoga. Have you seen any ṛṣis in the Himalayas? To say the name of certain practices is not acceptable. If you misuse the techniques, aim, and principle of yoga, it will harm you in return. Therefore, we decided on this beautiful, systematic training. It is like this: at the beginning of a university semester, when students come to study medicine, there are so many students that no chairs are free in the classroom. After two months, eighty percent of the chairs are free. This is the condition. We know that perhaps not all will be able to come through. We have two kinds of yoga teachers: those who normally instruct and teach, which is good. But to give you that knowledge so you can pass it on correctly takes time to learn. I told you we have now found our roots. Where are our roots? We concentrate our energy, our meditation, everything on Ālak Purījī, on that spot where such a divine light lived and is still living. For the last fifteen years, I have been trying in meditation for Ālak Purījī to appear. Many Purīs have appeared, but that Ālak Purījī was different. Alag purī—alag means "different." There are many shining stones, but a diamond is different. I am still praying to Him, who comes once in my visions. Then I can give an image of Ālak Purījī. But be sure, he was not nicely shaved. You see Śiva's picture now with nice, oily hair, all nicely shaved, and Pārvatī or Śakti with nicely colored nails and perfectly ironed cloth. Such fabric was not available at that time. We devotees decorate as we like. In China, pictures of Jesus have Chinese faces. In Japan, they have Japanese faces, and all cars made in Japan have lights exactly like Japanese eyes. Cars made in Germany or Europe have big eyes. Even the Trabant has big blue eyes. That is our feeling, our desire. But it is said that small eyes have beautiful and bright vision. Birds have small eyes, but they see ninety degrees. Anyhow, we are not going there. On the day I am content, I will introduce you to some kind of reflection of Ālak Purījī's form. This is the source: Yoga-agni. Then Jñāna Agni. Then comes Lava Agni, volcanoes. There is also fire lying in the stomach of the ocean. Yes, within the water: Lava Agni. Then comes Dhāva-agni, that fire in coolness, in coldness. A certain kind of cold air coming from the north burns plants. In one night, all leaves are burned, dry, cold, and that air suddenly is like a fire. It dries your skin, splits your skin. After that comes Havanāgni, the yajña, the fire ceremony. When we see the fire ceremony, we all adore it. It is also called Chitāgni. Chita Agni is the final ceremony, the funeral, the crematorium, when the human body is burned. When you see that fire, you also burn up. Make adoration to this fire and to the soul which was in that body. Then, the normal fire we cook with, the fire in our cooker, is very important. We should also adore it. Therefore, it is said: before cooking and after cooking, clean that place. Never leave the used plates—you call them dirty plates, but I will say used plates—overnight in your kitchen. That will bring āsurī śaktis, bad energy into your kitchen. Your breakfast will not have that energy. Therefore, after eating, it is important to clean your plates, cups, pots—everything. Purity is very important. Where there is no purity, impurity comes. Different energy enters your house. Your wife or husband will lose interest in cooking, breakfast, and eating. Then they sit and quarrel. The husband will say, "The whole night I was cold." She says, "No, because I washed your blanket." "Yes, I know, but why wash it this time in the afternoon? You could have washed it in the morning, right?" Such quarreling comes from wasted food, old food, which is tamas guṇa. The flame in the temple or at any religious place—we also bow down to it. In the evening, after sunset, when you first put on a light, either electric light or fire light, as soon as the light goes on, within a second you should make a praṇām like this, acknowledging that this light leads us from darkness to light. In India, they do this automatically and then say, "Hari Om, Praṇām Gurujī." Foreigners sit and ask, "What? Why are they making praṇām, Swāmījī, now?" Eighty percent of Indians automatically know to do this when the first light is lit after sunset. Even for a street light—the first light—they make praṇām. But so-called highly educated academics have an epidemic; they do not do anything. They sit like your cat. When you make a praṇām, the cat looks at it. They have lost the sense of life, of human culture. God gave humans certain principles to follow to come to liberation. All kinds of fire. Then comes Jāṭharāgni, the digestive fire. When you are very hungry, you are searching for the fire brigade; otherwise, it will burn you. Within some days, it will destroy you completely. So it does not matter what it is; whatever you find eatable, eyes closed and open, it goes automatically there to calm the digestive fire. Once a week, you should develop such strong hunger and wait still one hour more. That will burn all unnecessary bacteria or energies which are not good for the body. Someone made an experiment: a person who had cancer was told to develop hunger, not even taking a glass of water. When you are very hungry, your own body, your immunity, will eat everything. But we are not able to wait so long. Even if we are not hungry, we take a sip of tea. It has no sense to talk on that subject. But it is cold water, yes? But Taṅg says it is not water. Jāṭharāgni. Then, a more dangerous fire: Krodha Agni. Krodha means anger. When anger is there, you ask, the devil is awakened. The real devil, or akṣa, sucks the blood of others. But the devil of anger sucks the blood from both—from itself and from others. Therefore, try to calm your anger. That is why Mahāprabhujī said, "When waves are too high, don't dive to search for pearls." So when one of your partners is very angry, do not search for the pearls of love. Just say, "Okay, thank you." Krodha. After that comes Kāma Agni, passion. This passion is also a fire that can destroy you or save you. Kāvāgni, Chitāgni, Krodhāgni, Jatharāgni, Havanāgni—so many fires. So, my dear, we shall use the fire element. Of course, we will put fire, we will put a cooking pot on it. In our body, the temperature is very perfect: thirty-six to thirty-seven, or between. Can you imagine? One and a half points go down. You have only 34.5 temperature. My God. Dr. Vera will call five ambulances immediately. The fire ambulance is not with water, but with fire. Or if the temperature goes too high, we know what happens. So God made a system which is sustainable. Even if you sit in a hot sauna with 110 or 115 degrees, your inner body temperature remains the same because the water element takes over. It creates a very nice film of water, sweating automatically. So Agni Deva is called Agni Deva. Agni is Viṣṇu; Agni is life. So Jaladeva, Agni Deva. Similarly, the air: if it stops completely, you cannot move one finger. To move this finger, we need two: the ākāśa tattva and the vāyu tattva. Can you imagine not being able to breathe for half a minute? Oh, my God! So we pollute the air. How much? But for air, it does not matter. It cannot be polluted. It itself is pure. But what is carried within it attacks us back. With the air goes that pollution which we created, back into our body. Ātmā is immortal. No weapon can kill it, fire cannot burn it, death cannot take it away. It is immortal, everlasting. You learn this in your study of the Upaniṣads or philosophy. But there is one more immortal that was manifested in the last centuries, that is immortal like ātmā: plastic. You cannot destroy plastic. Even in the air, in space, there is a very fine film of plastic. Somehow we got a release from this because the ozone hole was too big. Our scientists, who introduced and created plastic with good thinking, thought that ozone needed plastic surgery. So now there is plastic surgery. But they did not know it would become very hot. That is why it is called climate change, hot—a mistake with the plastic surgery. Where is there no corner where there is no plastic? Around the whole world, they now say there is plastic in our blood. We say no to plastic, but plastic says no to you, not me. This is pollution. We polluted the vāyu-tattva, and this vāyu-tattva is harming us. So there are five kinds of debt we have: Mātrī-ṛṇa, towards mother; Pitrā-ṛṇa, towards father; Deva-ṛṇa, towards the devas, the elements; Ācārya-ṛṇa, towards our teachers; and Ṛṣi-ṛṇa, towards those great ṛṣis or gurus. Now, what the ṛṣis spoke and how we now interfere or interpret—if we interpret wrongly, the ṛṣis will not be happy. Therefore, you have to understand the thoughts and teachings of the ṛṣis. Then you can interpret correctly. Otherwise, yoga has become a football, and now who will go to the goal? Therefore, we decided to deliver this message firsthand, meaning from the ṛṣis. There are many, many words, many expressions. We should know from where a word came. Of course, we try to explain according to our local language. Certain words we do not like, though they were said in that way. In pure German language, it is said "vajbā"—it's my vajbā. "Vajbā" means the ladies, "vajbā" means my wife. But when you say "vajbā," that's it. In three vajbā—my God, they will get their shoes on your head. The three wives will take the shoes and throw them on your head. Now we say "dame," or some ladies frown; it is okay. But that old word which was originally given is not used, and if used, it is like a humiliation towards the feminist world. Similarly, with the words of the ṛṣis, if we try to make a correction, a ṛṣi will say, "Where is the need of it?" But if you make a correction, then do it correctly. It is okay. Tell the ladies. The word "ladies" comes from Sanskrit. We say "lady." A lady, a woman. A newly married lady. So the lady became a lady, and the lady needs a daddy. A daddy. So that cannot become a lady without a daddy. But Daddy cannot be there unless no one is there to say, "Hi, Daddy." So, lady, cannot say that husband, daddy. Therefore, she has to create something that will give the title of the daddy. These are the things, sorry. Therefore, towards every element. This element is given to humans, to every creature. Of course, other creations also create some kind of dirt, but very limited. Nature cleanses nature, but humans cross the border. The dirt of humans is in their mind. We use too many things. If you see in reality, you bring little into the kitchen, but you take more garbage out from the kitchen. Good, good things you throw away. You peel all the vegetables because they were sprayed. The spray went already through and through the whole fruit. This is ignorance. So the ṛṣis' vākyā, we shall represent in a good way. That is the way for us to enlightenment, to ātmajñāna and liberation. This is the aim: that though you are living with a normal, beautiful family, you will be a great saint. Every ṛṣi was married. Even some ṛṣis had more wives because there were many ladies and few men. Men worked too hard and died quickly. That is another subject. There was war and fighting, so many people died in the war and many women remained. I do not know if it is true or not, but then Mohammed allowed that they could marry and make a nice, happy family, even seven women. Actually, one wife or two wives—this is not the interest of physical love, not sexual love, but the protection and happiness of a joint family. Because many men died in the war—war is a different subject. We are coming back here. I am happy to see you, and we will continue. This evening we will see one nice video for about one and a half hours. The webcast will be exactly at seven o'clock, then a little prayer, and then we will see the video. It is about Earth: what is happening, how it was. Then you will see what we humans are doing. We are cutting that branch of the tree on which we are sitting. This branch is already 70% chipped off. Then you will realize very soon what happens. So we all, Yoga and Dainai families, aim to create happy, healthy children. There is no question of divorcing; you can divorce, no problem, when your children are 25 or 30. Now they are on their own; they can survive. But until they finish their education and get a job, there is no question of divorce. Otherwise, this marriage system is a misconception. There should be a new law: you may marry, but for thirty-five years, no divorce. That is the best thing. Then we will see how happy the children are, how the world will be happy. You know how much children are suffering. These little kids do this; they suffer very much. A divorce of parents for children is like one of the parents died. You should feel their heart. So, wish you all the best and good appetite. Deep Narbhagwanek. Kishen.