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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. This 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 capacity for doing 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. Many, many bad habits exist, and many people suffer from drugs. Alcohol is also a drug. Consider how many married lives break because of alcohol. How many children cannot study and lack 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 deeply 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, explaining it to them. It is said that habit is the second nature of a human. So what kind of habits become our nature? Once formed, they are very hard to change. Sometimes people tell us, "Oh, there’s nothing to it, just try." Everyone is trying. They say, "You should try too. You will miss this experience in life. It’s modern; everyone is doing it. You look uneducated. Come on, try." That single try could lead to a lifetime of torture. Therefore, we should develop good qualities, good habits, humbleness, kindness, and social education. When you are a student, your prime duty is to study. Your parents send you to school, college, or university not for you to take up different, distracting things and waste your time. You should not try anything unless you know what it is. If someone offers you something to experience, ask your parents: "Should I do it or not?" Your mother and father will never advise you to do something harmful. Before getting married, you should contemplate what marriage means. Marriage is a commitment; there should be no question of divorce. Secondly, before you have a child, you should know that you are now obliged for life to provide comfortable love and education to that child. This is the duty of both parents. Once you have a child, there is no more question of divorce. When your child is 25 or 30 years old, perhaps 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. This is the healthy, happy, solid foundation of life. If you cannot spend time for your children, you have failed in your dharma. Dharma means your principles, your obligation, your duty. Adhering to such duties can elevate human life to a higher quality. Why do so many people face these problems? Because they were not properly instructed. It doesn’t matter if it is 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. A question came to me today, and it was answered. While practicing this beautiful, safe, and sāttvic spiritual path of Yoga in Daily Life, if you are tempted to try something different in between—a temptation to attain some siddhi, some mental power—then you will get neither that nor this. If you hold on to one path, you master everything. If you try to master everything, you will lose everything. Many of you here are sitting and making experiments with this and that. "Oh, I want to learn levitation, to experience it." You do not need to practice for so long. Just fly from Košíře to Prague. That is a very comfortable levitation. You can see everything and share it with your friends who are inside. Is that not levitation? You are jumping in the water; is that not enough? Do you want more levitation? Then ask God: "Please make me a bird in my next life." 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. Some people are curious, and that curiosity becomes trouble. Then you have mental visions and see pictures. These are psychic disturbances. You develop fear and 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 do not allow mobile phones or newspapers inside. Are you there to read newspapers or to work? Yoga in Daily Life is so perfect in every aspect. What more do you want? We choose this path, and we are sure we will reach our destination. But if, in between, you do something else—if you jump out of the boat to see how big the sharks are, thinking it would be nice to swim with them—you will end up in the stomach of the shark. If you jump out and then have a problem, that is not good. You have your kriyā, your mantra, all your practices. Try to manage these practices with discipline. Choose once, and that is best. Do not act out of emotion. When you have high emotions, wait. Mahāprabhujī said, "Don’t dive to search for pearls where the waves are too high." These could be emotional waves. Many people get divorced in five days and marry again in six. That is not good for you. 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. You should know what you want. Every work is hard. Every work has its discipline. We become too comfortable, too lazy. In many countries, finding a job is harder than finding God. 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 are 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 it, you took care of it, washed it nicely, brought it home in a good bag, and put it in your basket because there is juice inside. But once the juice is squeezed out, where do you land? Without a second look, into the garbage. So it is: when they suck your energy for 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. I tell you, it is 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 this instruction, and today again you see in the kitchen—when you see a good person, you will feel pain in your 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 all of us, wasting four or five centimeters each, how much is that? Five hundred centimeters. One capsicum is about 10 to 15 centimeters long at most. So, for how many people’s food are you throwing away? It is said you should not throw away bread. To throw away bread is a sin, and this means all kinds of food. Utilize everything, my dear. But you do not know what to use and what to throw because you do not know what or how to cook. So the best parts are thrown away, and junk food is kept. Add some spices, oil, salt, something sour, maybe a little chili, and someone 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 the truly 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, and then you become a victim of illnesses. Even yoga cannot help you then. Therefore, my dear, the first step is cooking. The second step is, wherever you can, grow some vegetables. But you do not know the name of the vegetable, where the seeds are, whether the seed should be put head down or up or horizontally, or how much water to give. So many people lack this knowledge. We could 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, yet many here do not know what a strawberry plant looks like. So this is the second step: to learn by heart, not on a piece of paper, but in reality, by growing in a garden. It can be one square meter of space. Two square meters is enough for one family. A few different plants can provide 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 water the weeds. That is 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. To support the economy of Czech and Slovak, we should all buy herbal products from Czechoslovakia—herbs, corns, everything. Souvenirs are very nice. So when we come here, we should buy many things from Střelka. My dear, this is always my great concern: what will happen in the future? And you do not know what to do. So we will merge into the mushroom and then come up again like a mushroom. This knowledge is called Pākṣāstra. Like many philosophies, this is also a philosophy, Pākṣāstra. But in our own houses, people do not know it. Who is a karma yogī in the kitchen? They do not know. How can they accept someone as a karma yogī who does not know? If you know, you can tell them, moment by moment, what they are doing. Even if you are a karma yogī, you can say, "Sorry, but it is not good to throw that away." The problem is that our Pārvatī also does not know. And this Mr. Vasanth, he knows how to eat. His wife says, "Whatever comes, okay." And others living here think food falls from above. The best thing you can do in your life, wherever you can, is to grow vegetables. If you live in a multi-floor house, at least grow something in the window. That is much better than buying produce with pesticides. All those beautiful spices—where you put flowers, you can put spices. It will improve your health. So, let us leave here with one motto: "I will cook the best food next time and learn all kinds of vegetables—how the seeds look, how the plant looks, and what the differences are." What is the difference between the leaves of a lemon and an orange? Both look similar, but you should know the difference. What is the difference between a cherry plant and an apple plant? What is the difference between an avocado plant and a magnolia? Both leaves look the same. We should have this knowledge. I wish you a good appetite. All the best. Many are leaving today already; I wish you a very good journey. God bless you. Eat, sleep, and enjoy. That is your motto: learning all about 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 do not know how, how will the poor children learn? 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 Śāntiḥ...