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Om Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Devīśvar Mahādev. Dharam Samrat Satguru Swami Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī. Satya Sanātana Dharma. Welcome all. A human being has a particular aim: to do something good. We cannot do good unless we have learned what is good and how to do good. Otherwise, we are lost in a jungle of mistakes. Therefore, to do good, we must learn. That is education from our loving parents and friends. On the path to success, we must protect ourselves because there is a struggle, a fight between two powers: āsurī-śakti and daivī-śakti. Everyone would like to have more members on their side, and this is very visible in the whole world. The divine śakti, the devī śakti, gives us freedom, fearlessness, and the ability to do good. But there is more occasion, or possibility, to fall into the circle of the āsurī śakti. There is a significant problem nowadays, especially with the youth. When you see your own children—who are 10, 15, 16, 17, 20 years old—and they are not in a good circle, you become very sad. These are bad habits. There are many, many bad habits, and many people suffer from drugs. Alcohol is also a drug. Do you know how many families' married lives break because of alcohol? How many children cannot study and have proper financial support because a parent is an alcoholic? There is no peace at home. Even if your child is one year old, five months old, or four or five years old, children understand very much and know everything that is happening. Thus, our first aim should be to educate and protect our children, to guide them onto a very good path. At home, talk freely and nicely to children about what they should not do and why they should not do it; explain it to them. It is said that habit is the second nature of the human. Říká se, že zvyky jsou druhou přirozeností člověka. So what kind of habits do you have that become your nature? A tak jaké zvyky máme, to se stane naší přírozeností. And that is very hard to change. A pak je to těžké změnit. Sometimes people tell us, "Oh, there's nothing to it, just try." Everyone is trying. "Look, you should also try." A občas lidé vám říkají: "Na tom nic není, jenom to vyzkoušej." They say, "This experience you will miss in life. It's modern. Everyone is doing it. You look uneducated. Come on, try it." That one try could lead to a big, lifelong torture. Therefore, we should develop good qualities, good habits, humbleness, kindness, and social education. When you are a student, it is your prime duty to study. Your parents are not sending you to school, college, or university so that you take up different things and waste your time. You should not try anything unless you know what it is. If someone offers you something to experience, ask, "Should I do it or not?" Come to your parents. Our mother and father will never advise you to do something harmful. Before getting married, you should think over what marriage means. Marriage is a marriage; there is no more question of divorce. Secondly, before you have a child, you should know that you are now lifelong obliged to give comfortable love and education to that child. This is the duty of both parents. Once you have a child, there are no more questions of divorce. When your child is 25 or 30 years old, maybe he or she will understand. But even if you are old and your parents get divorced, that young man or girl is sad. My dear, blood is thicker than water. Even if your father or mother is very old, we have an obligation to take care of them and follow their instructions. That is called the healthy, happy, solid foundation of life. If you cannot spend time for your children, you have failed your dharma. Dharma means your principles, your obligation, your duty. Such principles can bring humans back to a higher quality of life. Why is this happening to so many people? Because they were not properly instructed. It doesn't matter if it's a boy or a girl; father and mother know what to tell them. Just as I am telling all of you, my students, what you should practice and what you should not practice. A question came to me today, and he answered it now. While practicing this beautiful, safe, and sattvic spiritual path of Yoga in Daily Life, you try to practice something different in between—a temptation to have some siddhi, some mental power. Then you neither get that nor this. Ek sajé, sab sajé; sab sajé, sab jay. If you hold on to one, you master everything. If you try to master everything, you will lose everything. So many of you here are sitting and making experiments with this and that. "Oh, I want to learn levitation, to experience it." You don't need to practice so long. Just fly from the kośī to Prague. That's a very comfortable levitation. You can see everything and share it with your friends who are inside. That's it. Are you levitating? You are jumping in the water? That's enough? You want more levitation? Then ask God: "Please make me a bird in my next life." So why didn't God give us these abilities? Because they are not necessary. Someone said, "I will walk on fire." Why? God gave us a beautiful earth. Wherever you step, there should be nice flowers on it. Some people are curious, and that becomes trouble. Then you have mental visions and see some pictures. That leads to psychic disturbances. You have fear, then you think someone is controlling you. No one is controlling you, except perhaps your husband or your wife, or your boss who gave you work. In serious companies, they don't allow mobile phones inside, nor newspapers. Are you here to read newspapers or to work? Yoga in Daily Life is so perfect in every aspect. So, what more do you want? We choose this path, and we are sure we will come to our destination. But in between, you do something else. You jump out of the boat to see how big the sharks are inside. "It would be nice to swim with the sharks." Yes, not with the shark, but in the stomach of the shark. If you jump out and then have a problem, that's not good. You have your kriyā, you have your mantra, you have all the practices. Try to manage these practices. Be disciplined and choose once, and that is best. Do not act out of emotion. When you have high emotions, then wait. Mahāprabhujī said, "Don't dive to search for pearls where the waves are too high." These could be emotional waves. Many get divorced in five days and marry again in six days. That is not good for you. So if you get divorced, let that be the last partner. No more girlfriend or boyfriend; that chapter is closed. But if you have children, the chapter is not closed. Now a new chapter begins, which is the continuity of the generation. So you should know what you want. Every work is hard. Every work has its discipline. We become too comfortable, too lazy. In many, many countries, to find a job is harder than to find God. And these waves are also coming to Europe. It is very hard to get a job now if you are young. You might get something, but when you're young, all the lemons are sucked out. All your energy is squeezed. You went to buy the lemon. You worked in the garden to plant the lemon. You took care of the lemons. You washed them nicely and brought them home in a good bag, putting them in your basket because there is juice inside. And when the juice is squeezed out, where do you land? Without even looking, into the garbage. So it is like this: when they suck your energy, in a few years they change the workers and you lose your job. This is the situation in the world, my dear. To save ourselves from this situation, first learn cooking. Yes, I tell you, it's not a joke. Learn proper cooking, healthy cooking: what to use, what you are cooking, and what you should throw away. Last week I gave the instruction, and today again you see the kitchen. When you see a good person, you will have pain in the heart. The good cook, and the person who pays the money, will feel the pain. They chip the capsicum three centimeters away. When they cut one hundred capsicums for us all, four or five centimeters each, how much is that? Five hundred centimeters. One capsicum is about 10 to 15 centimeters long maximum. So, for how many people's food do you throw away? It is said you should not throw away bread. To throw away bread is a sin, and it means all kinds of food. Utilize everything, my dear. But you don't know what to use and what to throw because you don't know what to cook or how to cook. So the best parts are thrown away, and junk food is kept. Add some spices, it tastes good—oil, salt, something sour, and maybe a little chili. He says, "Oh, it was good. The oil was good," but that oil is also burned. The future of mankind is to learn proper cooking and grow proper food. You cannot eat your money. You can only eat what you have in your garden. This is truly a bright future for humanity in the coming centuries. If you cannot cook, human life is 75% senseless. It means you do not know how to survive. Then you become a victim of illnesses, and even yoga cannot help you. So, my dear, the first step is cooking. The second step is, wherever you can, grow some vegetables. But you don't know the name of the vegetable. You don't know where the seeds are. You don't know if the seed should be put head down or up, or horizontal. You should know how much water to give. So many people lack this knowledge. We can bring some plants from our garden and make a research. Do you know what kind of plant it is? Many of us like strawberries very much, and many here do not know how a strawberry plant looks. So this is the second step: to learn by heart, not on a piece of paper, but in reality, by growing in the garden. It can be one square meter of space. Two square meters is enough for one family. A few different plants, and you have enough vegetables every day. But to know how, you must know what is a weed and what is a vegetable. Otherwise, we pull out the vegetables and give water to the weeds. That's also good because rabbits and other animals will be happy. These two things are called agriculture. All cultures are good, but the best culture is agriculture. If we learn this, our future is safe. Also, in the forest, there are many nice herbs. Czechoslovakia is very famous for its herbs. The Czechoslovakian forest is still very healthy and protected from chemicals. So, in order to support the economy, we should all buy herbal things from Czechoslovakia—herbs, corns, and everything. Souvenirs, they're very nice. So when we come here, we should buy many things from Strelka. My dear, this is always my very big concern: what will happen in the future? And you don't know what to do. So we will merge into the mushroom, and then we will be again coming up like a mushroom. This knowledge is called Pakṣāstra. Like many philosophies, this is also a philosophy, Pākṣāstra. In our own houses, people don't know. Who is a karma yogī in the kitchen? They don't know. How can they take on some karma yogī who doesn't know? If you know, you will tell them, moment by moment, what they are doing. Even if you are a karma yogī, say sorry, but it's not good to throw things away. The problem is our Pārvatī also doesn't know. And this Mr. Vasanth, he knows how to eat. And his wife said, "Whatever is coming, okay." And others here who are living think eating is something that falls from above. The best thing you can do in your life, wherever you can, is grow vegetables. If you live in a multi-floor house, then at least grow something in the window. That is much better than what you buy with pesticides. All these beautiful spices—where you put flowers, you can put spices. And it will improve your health. So, we go from here with one motto: "I will cook next time the best food and learn all kinds of vegetables—how the seeds look, how the plant looks, and what is the difference between the leaves of a lemon and an orange." Both look the same, but you should know the difference. What is the difference between a cherry plant and an apple plant? What is the difference between the plant of an avocado and a magnolia? Both leaves look the same. This is the knowledge we should have. I wish you a good appetite. All the best. Many are going today already; I wish you a very good journey. God bless you. Eat, sleep, and enjoy. That is your motto: learning all the vegetables and plants and how to cook. And please train your children how to cook. Children like to cook. But when the father and mother don't know how to cook, how will the poor children learn? So this is my very practical, usable, healthy instruction for survival. Thank you. The evening lecture will be again at 7:30 p.m. Om Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ...