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Deep Naya Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Devīśvara Mahādeva Kī Jaya, Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Sanātana Dharma Kī Jaya, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvarānanda, Śrī Svāmī Maheśvarānanda Purī Jī, Gurujī Deva Kī Jaya. Cintan and cintā. Cintā is one of the terrible diseases. It kills the will of man, the inner willpower. When a human comes under the sway of cintā, then everything is lost, killed. One's ability, once destroyed, dies. Ambition, even good ambition, gets lost. The mental power of imagination grows dim. All the best things you thought to achieve in life become tasteless. One loses interest. It is like a warrior, a good hero, who has lost the battle. Therefore, cintā leads us into darkness, and we lose our hope. Our Gurudev, Swāmī Madhavānandjī, used to say: "Chintā chūlī chamarnī mahānī chāṅkī nīch, meto purāṇ brahmāthā jona hotī bīcho bīch." This cintā is like being tied with a chain. It brings all the lower qualities to the surface; it is one of the lowest things. "I was pūrṇa, complete, I was a brahman. I had motivation, I had knowledge. I was feeling, 'I am Brahman.' When I was born, I was Brahman. I was a pure Brāhmaṇa. Jona hotī bīcho bīch—if this cintā would not be between Brahman and myself." So cintā is the cause of all our diseases, the cause of losing everything—losing friends. Such a person is sitting at the beach of the endless ocean with no boat to cross it. How will I cross? Similarly, when cintā appears in your mind, in your intellect, we are lost. Often I repeat, and you do too, that some philosophers said, "Tons of theory is nothing compared with a gram of practice." Cintā coats that person who has too much intellect—intellect developed for the external world and ambition: "I can do this, I can achieve this and that." It is the development of the intellect for your physical functioning in this world and for your ambitions. At the end of life, that person will have the biggest disappointment. But if the intellect is joined with its best quality, viveka, then you are not caught by this cintā. Viveka is the cream of the intellect; viveka is our best friend. What we said in German, they said, "Sai Phenuptik, Sai Phenuptik." Yes, it's a beautiful word. Be a little bit positive or think about qualities. Sometimes some words we don't know; you may know in English. How do you call the Phenuptik sign? That is a stupid thing. Clever means tricky, and that is rejected. It's something like common sense that makes a little bit of sense. So you will see that people who are very intellectual and outward, reading too much—the end of their life is full of disappointment. Or one loses the memory; then it's the blessing of God. Yeah, no more sorrow. So you are in the hospital or anywhere, living for years, but you don't know. But viveka is cetanya, awakened. So consciousness, intellect, and heart—three together. Intellect is all the time creating. Awareness is different than intellect. Be the observer. So these two words, awareness and observer. Don't get lost in the stream of your intellect. Be aware of where it leads you. But ambition is too big. Therefore, be aware and observe. Observe your ambitions, your thoughts, your desires. Then may we come out of that water where we can't swim anymore, out of the cintā. So, Ādiguru Bhagavān Śaṅkarācārya speaks about this fact very much: consciousness, intellect, awareness, the observing capacities, etc. When you fall into cintā, cintā is a deep hole; it's very hard to come out again. That you call maybe depression and mental problems. But Śaṅkarācārya said, "Cintana. Do the cintana. Think over." What is that? So, you are not caught by cintā, and if you are caught by cintā, still the thinking of being myself—I am separate, I am not connected to this subject. Cintan: "I am ātmā"—immediately all psychic problems will go away. Ātmā cintan or worldly cintā. Ātmā cintan means thinking of self-realization, ātmā. And cintā means the worldly objects, the worldly problems. Problems are for everyone. When the soul is descending from the astral world to this material world, it comes to the mother's body. Already it says, "Oh God! Again!" Yes, it's not easy. Now you are not free. There are so many rivers of blood and hormones flowing, and you don't know what is happening. You are sealed. You can't go out anymore. Nine months for humans—it's not easy. You can't stretch your legs. It's a nine-month prison. In limited cases. When he's born, we are born, and they say, "Oh, happy child." But children are not happy. The child has pain on the sole of the foot. And you are massaging here, maybe on the neck. And the child wants to say something, and we say something. It's a life full of ignorance and suffering. And then we grow a little more. We would like to do something, and parents say no, and no, all the time no. "Do not do this. Do not do this. Eat like this, sit like that." It is not a free life. Then they send us to school. Yes, that is also not easy, but we want to study. So, until 20 or 25 years, you are tortured by studying. And when you get children, what you have studied is not useful. That's called unreality. The Vedas don't change. The Upaniṣads do not change. The Bhagavad Gītā, Rāmāyaṇa do not change. The Quran or Bible doesn't change. Why don't you get this education first? Technology is changing every time. Yes, then by good luck or bad luck, you get some partner. It's very nice, very happy, but we hope it will be forever. You know better. Yes, and there is a big illness in modern life: divorce. If you are not divorced, what kind of man are you? It is modern. We don't understand it anymore. So life is struggling a lot. The soul is again happy when it can go out of the body. Very happy, but after a few steps, the karmas are there. They catch you again. So Brahmajñāna, that is liberation, that's called mokṣa, that's called being free forever. So, cintā can bring even a wise person into darkness. Therefore, we should know: who is here? Any person in this world has no problems? Except mental illness? Then maybe it's better to be like a mental patient, hurry home. So, who has no problems? Jesus had so many problems; you can't imagine. Kṛṣṇa had so many problems; you can't imagine. If you have that problem, you will hang yourself up. Rāma had a problem. Buddha had a problem. So what about us? Who are we? So we are a bundle of problems. Let's carry on. But with spiritual thinking, cintan—no, cintan. Cintan, not cintā. Gurujī said, "If you have a cintā, the worries, do you think through this cintā your problem will be solved?" If the problem could be solved by being sad, we all would be sad. Therefore, wake up. Stand up. Be alert. Be aware. And be observant. Go ahead. Suddenly your cintā will disappear. How? When the sun shines, the snow melts. The wind comes, and the clouds are blown away. Clouds cannot cover the sky forever. So you are ātmā, I am ātmā. And you are ātmā, I am ātmā. This cintā cannot forever catch us. We are Brahman, we are like that sky. So if you think that "I am Ātmā," cintan, your health condition will become better and better. Therefore, Gurujī made this bhajan one day. One person came and was very sad. "Yes, what to do, Gurujī?" He was a goldsmith who was working with gold, and the gold market fell down. That was his cintā. He wanted to hang himself up. So Gurujī said, even if you hang up, the market will not go up. So it's for nothing. Therefore, give up. It will come automatically. Better days will come. So Gurujī wrote that bhajan. The goldsmith asked Gurujī, "What should I do?" He lost a lot of money. Gurujī said, "Stay with me in Nepal and do your mantra and cook food for me." "But Gurujī, what should I do? People are asking for money." "Tell at home that you are on holiday, and stay here." So he stayed. After one week, the gold price went so high that he could pay back all his debt, and he had more money. And he asked Gurujī, "Should I stay longer here?" Gurujī said, "Yes. Go and work at home, but think that you are doing all for Gurū Dev." And this family is so dedicated to Gurujī, and all their wishes come true. To cintā worries, we shall surrender to the Gurujī Sarno. Then the psychic state of being will get better. You will think again very logically. And you will work in that direction, and the problem will be solved. Therefore, cintā is the biggest illness of the human brain. And cintā is very clever. Cintā is hidden there where our emotional attachment is: about your children, if they will study properly or not; someone doesn't study, doesn't work, abuses drugs, and is always asking their parents for money; or with your business, with health conditions, personal and impersonal attachments to anything—that is the cause of cintā. And you can see on the person, in a few months, completely different auras. Therefore, it is said: "Sadā raho niśaṅk, kabhī mat ḍarnā." Always be without any doubts. Kabhī mat ḍarnā: never be scared. Gandhījī's example, which I will repeat again. There is a story about Gandhījī. Gandhījī was traveling by train to eastern India, and two or three people were sitting beside him. The train was going through mountains and little tunnels, going up slowly. Suddenly, the cabin in which Gandhījī was sitting separated from the locomotive. Now that cabin was rolling back with more speed because it was from the mountain, upside down. So one person said to Gandhījī, "Gandhījī, look what happened! What should we do?" He opened his eyes and looked out. He said, "Bring a pen and some paper. I must dictate you something, like a protocol for this evening program." The person said, "Gandhījī, we don't know if we will..." "Leave this protocol. How do you know it will be or not? Just by saying, 'Waste the time,' it will happen, but it will happen. Why should we kill the time? So I had good ideas, write down." And he was writing, and slowly, slowly, that wagon stopped. And when it was stopped, Gandhi said, "Can I go out behind the bush a little bit down?" And Gandhi smiled. "Is it okay?" They said, "Yes, thank you." So, why do you kill yourself before it may be killed or not killed? So, becoming lazy and saying, "I don't feel good, I have pain, this, that"—you are killing yourself. Give up the cintā, walk up and go, you will feel 80% healthy. When someone gives you good news, oh, that is already—the problem is solved. How happy are you? Very happy. Recently, where was it? Someone was calling on the telephone, and in one village, they told that a certain person had died. In the house, all the neighbors came, and they were sitting and crying also. Then they prepared to carry him to the graveyard. And then he was in the room sleeping, and he got up and came out. He slept in the next room, woke up, and came back. Cintan. Think on every subject very clearly. Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said to Arjuna, "Before doing any karma, you should know the form of the karma." When you know the form of the karma, your vivekā will tell you whether you will do it or not. Because when you think properly about what you are doing, vivekā will tell you what the result will be. Do you want this result? Do you want this result or not? Say, "No, I don't want this." Then automatically you will not do the things. So our intellect, our viveka, our awareness, our consciousness, and alertness—this is the best thing that we can use for our achievement and self-realization. Ātmā Cintan, Ātmā Anubhūti, and Self-Realization. They understand, Rosamund. They are all very good. Therefore, Lalanandjī Mahārāj said, and that is why Mahārāj said on Mahāprabhujī. So, now we will come to the practical part of how to remove the cintā, the worries, practically. So, thank you, and the webcast will be again this evening at 7:30. Thank you. Why not 7 o’clock? Seven is better. 7 o’clock, Prague, Czech Republic time. Okay? Czech time. Adio.