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Many things to say. What would you like to know? Kuṇḍalinī. The science of kuṇḍalinī and cakra. In the world, many misunderstandings are spread about kuṇḍalinī. Many misunderstandings about yoga. Slowly, slowly, we don’t know what yoga is. Everyone gives the name of yoga. You all know that through the great effort and work of the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modī Jī—he himself is practicing yoga every day. We were talking today with Dayārāmjī, and Dayārāmjī said, "He may be the first prime minister in India. He has no property and money. And his family’s house is all as it is all the time. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat for the last 20 years, but nothing, no, any, what they call, corruption." And Gandhījī was also from Gujarat. Well, where there is a human, there is yoga, and where there is yoga, there is a human. Yoga is a science of body, mind, consciousness, and soul. Yoga is a path to good health, harmony of body, mind, and soul. Definitely, in the first place, yoga is for our physical health. Physical health means including our environment and mental health. Without mental health, we cannot manage everything. So mind and body are healthy. We can serve the community in a better way. So yoga doesn’t think of the individual only, but it thinks of the universal. And it is not something that you think is a dogma or a religion. I don’t know why people are against religion. But there is a reason why people are against religion. So-called religions of that kind, each of which is fighting for its own benefit, position, and majorities. If religion, religion two together cannot coordinate and harmonize and live in harmony, what does our religion teach us? So, nowadays, in this modern civilization with its modern technology, the youth know many things. And we cannot make the youth stupid. Because they know what reality is. And through all this computer technology, you know, all religions, all cultures, traditions, ancient background. So everyone has different opinions, and they can choose freely. Many people do believe in religion, but not in the way that religious society would like them to. Because the youth does not accept this one way. There is a kind of pressure, and that is dividing society. But yoga doesn’t divide. Yoga is uniting. It gives us only good health, life without tension. Mental peace and inner harmony. What do we need more? So, but you have to practice. And it was really evidence when the Indian Prime Minister spoke with the United Nations and asked, "Why should we not announce the International Day of Yoga?" And within one week, even before one week was finished, 172 countries immediately gave their vote, yes. Now it means that in those countries, there is a lot of practice of yoga. And I can tell you, 92% of all the politicians in different countries, they practice yoga. They don’t demonstrate, they don’t tell anything to others, because they would like to live healthy. They read a lot about Mahātma Gāndhī, Nehru, and the President of India, Dr. Rādhākṛṣṇa, and many others. They were practicing. And so there must be something. Sport is good, swimming is good, cycling is good. But yoga is not that part of the sports. It is something comfortable. Very simple, and it doesn’t need a big space. Even in your sleeping room, put your yoga mat, and you practice. It gives immense peace of mind and relaxation of the body. Better concentration. And there are around the world millions of yoga centers. Some have only for five people. Some teach only in the schools, or in the hospitals, or in the club, or in a big office. They made a survey in Brisbane. Within five square kilometers, there are thirty yoga centers. Not even the discos that were in that area. Or whatever you call other things, so humans realized yoga is something. Well, when we were in this conference, and we were about 14 or 16 members invited by the government of India, accommodations and everything were free, including transportation. So, the question arises: how to maintain the quality of the yoga? Otherwise, it is becoming day by day commercial. And now they have free hands. You can’t say anything to them. Because it is acknowledged by the United Nations. So no one should prohibit us from yoga, and many, of course, are misusing it. And human nature is such that now they will misuse it more than use it. Kali Yuga, rūpyarām. In the Kali Yuga, money is God. We got a message from some of our yoga centers, let’s say from Australia, and our center managers or teachers, according to Swāmijī’s lecture and ancient literature, tried to make some sentences and little messages nice so that people like what yoga is. And they put it on their website. On the second day, you see the same thing on the other websites. You can’t prohibit them. So, how are people stealing intellectual property? Okay, you can use it, but you should mention it. From whom is that? Now you give a lecture and you say, "Be the change you want to see." And in little villages, people don’t know. And they say, "Oh, how great this person is," but it is stolen. It dies in the words of Gandhījī. So you can say, be the change you want to see. And you have to say one little sentence: Mahātmā Gandhījī, but that is missing slowly, slowly. So there was a discussion because they said, "Copyright, not a copyright, the International Day of Yoga." Only yoga. So they said, "Who wants to work together and bring yoga to every door-to-door and soul-to-soul? Then let’s have only the name ’yoga’." But, for example, we said yoga in daily life. Others say Budapest yoga. Vepi Yoga Debrecen Yoga Studio, so this one name which we are putting in front or the back, that lets people confuse. We have a society, and we should, we need somehow to keep yoga as yoga. And there are some people who ask questions in the last days. There are some people who are teaching spirituality and giving lectures around the world, and they never practice yoga and āsanas. And now they became like a head of it, saying yoga. So, experts were asking questions: how to unite? Ātmā is the ātmā. So, therefore, yoga is neutral, and yoga is good for our body, mind, and soul. It is good for our society, good for our countries, and good for the world. So, I said on that day, if you remember, I think one and a half years or two years ago, I already told you. Let us change Kali Yuga into Satya Yuga. Do you remember? And this International Day of Yoga was what took the final shape to turn Kali Yuga into the Satya Yuga. Kali Yuga means illnesses, pollutions, disturbances, all these pollutions, and all this where we humans and animals are suffering: greed, anger, hate, pride, money, power, positions, etc. Happiness, joy, harmony, peace, love, understanding, forgiveness, brotherhood, these are the qualities of the Satya Yoga. Yoga can give us that kind of Satya Yoga feeling. So that was finally the beginning, the steps, the milestone to Satya Yoga. And we should do it. We should practice. We should become evidence ourselves, an example. That is very good. So, let us become an example. We know we have a lot of health problems. Many are asking for a consultation for two things. First is the problem with the marriage, yes. I have many consultations, yeah. There is a marriage problem with the husband, with the wife, with the girlfriend, with the boyfriend. Someone has to find a partner. You need not find one. It’s not some coin lying somewhere that you find. No. It will come, but you can’t wait. Let time come. Let the season come, cherries will arrive, but cherries have all, even not the blossoms begin, and you want to have it. It will not be. Did someone wait 20 years, 30 years, till the best partner will come to you? Until you are thirty years old, you already have thirty relations. So there is no partner anymore, but these are the many parts. Like machines, one after another, parts changing. I’m sorry to say, but that culture is not a divine culture; it is a human culture. It’s an animal culture. You know, if you read the Bible, it has a great divine culture. They are very properly married. Even it is said that it is not allowed to marry again. And still, I think, in the churches, they don’t want to make a second marriage ceremony. So you cannot blame your religion. You make yourself the rules. Okay, we will marry in a hotel. It doesn’t matter if you do it in a hotel or on the beach, it’s the same. Look in the Islamic culture, in the Quran, the Holy Quran, and so on. Very strict rules, because you are a human, you are not an animal. Yes, they are very particular and, very honestly, they are following with great feeling. Don’t think that many people think Muslims are like terrorists. They are not. They fight to protect this culture. So, now it’s like this: people think it’s a human right. But do not do what they do not want you to do in their culture, in their street, in their house. So, every religion—Hindu, Jewish, Christian, Islamic—all of them, have a very great ethic, morals, and spiritual disciplines. And since restaurants began, and hotels began, this culture is polluted. That’s it. So, when our body is healthy, we become aware that, yes, I am a human. I am not an animal. At that time, your inner ātmā is happy. Otherwise, you will have consultations all the time. And the answer will be the same. Yes. So, this is always when they ask for consultations. Of course, now the population is a lot. People have no work. And they don’t know how to survive, because they don’t know how to cook. I tell you one challenge: learn cooking. You will have no more problems, and in your house, on windows and balconies, cultivate vegetables. You have organic and fresh vegetables, so you don’t need to buy them in the market. You have healthy food. So, we can only buy the salt, and other things we should have at home: cow, field, milk, everything. Big cities, we cannot do so much. But big cities no longer have cooking knowledge. 85% of people cannot cook. Boiling the potatoes and putting butter and salt on them is not cooking. Real cooking, proper cooking, Āyurveda. So, it will be the first cooking university in the world. In Jadan, you come for learning cooking, not for one year, but for a three-year course. Yes, I have planned it. Why three years? You have to grow all herbs and grains and everything. How are the seeds? With seeds, they grow. How do they grow? How to cultivate, how to use, which vegetable for which combination. There will be no problem of economy. It is Ekosvāmī. Ekobrama Duttināsri, only one. Swāmijī means the Lord, the master of itself. Look, Europe is such a blessed country. Look at Hungary. God blessed this country. The soil, the water, the seasons are great. You can feed half of the world, only the hungry, if you use it in the proper way. So, like in Ukraine, it’s a big country, and what they used to say, Ukraine is the bread basket of Europe. Breadbasket. So much grain, and so much they can grow there. Beautiful country. We don’t utilize it. We don’t want to work. Now people are making buildings, but they don’t design kitchens, no kitchen. But on the ground floor, one or two ground floors, they design big kitchens and restaurants. Other flats have no kitchens, like here. All the rooms have no kitchens. You have to come here to eat. So again, it makes you dependent. So similarly, if we can take care of ourselves, no problems. The problem is this: you study what you call the academic, but you become one-sided. You learn one profession that you can do perfectly. But where is the other profession? Mostly, we have the profession of how to eat. And thanks to God, the body has to digest. So, yoga and the way of living, life, humans have to turn back to nature. So, please, learn cooking. Without learning cooking, I can tell you clearly, even God will not allow you to come to heaven. Because they will say, "Who will cook for you?" So, mokṣa, that’s good. So why are we ill? So the second question is what people are asking me. Health problems. On the top, the first problem is the partnership. Business partner, the husband-wife partners. And friends, etc. The second question is about health problems. We are yogīs. We practice. And now, this one week, you have been practicing so well. You feel much better. This is the best retreat for us. We will miss this beautiful Békében. They organized it perfectly for their friends. All organization, security, this, that, everything. Even the traffic is controlled, and children are running here and there, the small children. So once a year, or twice, three times a year, when we come here, we recharge the energy: our minds and nerve systems, our muscles. And our mind is so relaxed and happy. This is yoga, but there are some people who hide. We practice āsanas, and they are sleeping. And I go near the door and say, "Morning, nice, cool air." Little windows open, it is 7:30, 8 o’clock, yes. When we are here, we should wake up at least half an hour before sunrise. Look how our health will be changing. Evening, those who are sleeping late, they get up late. They are talking, chatting long, long. So, thanks to our organizers, and we thank the owners of this place, and the many people who are working—about 50 people, or more than 50. They are so silent, we don’t even notice when they go to the office and come back. How they bring the things, we don’t hear any noise. This is the specialty of the Hungarians. They learned. Time of the monarchy. Kings were talking and sitting. And silently they were supplying food and this, thanks to the Hungarians. That monarchy could enjoy life, so Hungary is the best country for hospitality. Hungarian hospitality is very interesting. They want that people always come, the new. On the first day, when you are a guest, they will give you everything. They give you everything. The second day, they will give you good things, and the third day, they think, "What are you doing here still?" Yes. Make it vacant. Others are waiting. So, this Krishnānandajī meant to me, "Monday" is not my own words. So I’ve forgotten to quote Krishnānandajī’s name. So, we had a very nice time, and we still have about fourteen good days to talk about our chakras. So, it will be a chakra seminar. And two lectures a day. We hope we will do this and chakra meditations. Because we need the cassettes for chakra meditation. In this way, I can tell you, practicing practical things is important. So, I always used to say, someone told that tons of theory is nothing, a gram of practice. So, your health problems and your partner problems both can be solved. If you practice everything, when I came to Austria for the first time, and in Vienna’s 3rd District, there was one yoga center that invited me there because they moved to Canada. And so I took over. So I had one yoga class for diplomatic people from 9 to 9:30, 9:30 to 11, and this was mostly movements because ambassadors, at least they go to the office, and wives don’t know what to do, shopping. So you don’t know, but ambassadors are very angry. He is working and earning money the whole time, and in the middle of the month, his wife says, "There is no money. What should we do?" So the best wife keeps a safe situation: that husband is not very rich, no dangers that someone will attack him. So, thanks to God, the women are so generous; they spend everything. So they bring the children to school, and then they come to yoga. And after they make shopping, something, and come home. It is reality, I tell you. One American lady from the embassy, after five weeks of practicing, asked, "Can I ask you a question, please, Swāmījī?" I said, "Yes. Is it possible that I practice yoga and it affects my husband? That he has benefit." Good question. I say, what do you mean? Because since I practice yoga, my husband is more calm, more peaceful. I said, "Yes, it’s true. Because now you are calm and peaceful, you don’t make your husband nervous." She said, "Yes, I changed a lot." Then I said, "See, your husband is happy." So you practice, and other benefits. It is a double. So I told her, "You have to pay for two people." So, like this. That’s why Gandhījī said, "What you want to see, first you should become. Be the change you want to see." So, there are things: when one is relaxed and happy, then all are relaxed. And if in the couple there is no harmony, then what is it? Very nervous. There is a sentence I don’t understand in Spanish, in Italian words. The whole house is nervous, including the dog. When the nervous things come, yoga makes us relaxed, happy, and we wait. Good partners will come. Don’t waste your time with other partners. I’m sure you will find the best partner. If you follow, believe me, then wait. Wait. If not in this life, in the next life, sure, I will be there as a witness. So wait. That’s it. But we can’t wait. Then suffer. It will change. It is said, "Chār dīn kī chāndnī, aakhir andherī rāt." Four nights of moonlight, ultimately a dark night. Two nights before the full moon and two nights after the full moon are moonlit nights. Then again, darkness comes because we don’t understand the day. So, Dayā Rāmjī was writing me something. What is Nirañjanam? Akhīr me wo kyā kahā hai? Yes, there was one saint in Rajasthan. His name was Sagram Dās Jī. He said, "I got in my hands diamonds, and I was throwing them like stones. I was throwing and throwing. When only one was left, I realized, ’It’s a diamond! Keep it!’" But he lost all other diamonds. What did he say? Oh God! I lost all. It means every day is lost. Every day is a golden day or a diamond day, and we neglected it. We neglected. Now we have become old. No one takes care of us. No one says sweet words. We become the burden, and some people inwardly think, "When will he die?" Or she will die. That time you realize, "Oh God, I lost all the diamonds." Means the days. Now I have lost, but only one is left. How stupid I was. Oh God, God said, "Next time you will not get diamonds." You will get some kind of chickpeas, walking on two legs. So, it is said that wasting time is a sin. Don’t disrespect the time, Swāmī. Time is the most valuable. Therefore, practice, practice now. Now is the best time. When you feel that you are ill, and you have some problems and you can’t, practice now, and you become evidence. You will be an example, that, "Oh, I am now very happy." Many people cure their diseases while practicing yoga and taking care of their diet.