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Sādhanā in life is the spiritual tonic. It keeps our body healthy, flexible, and long-living. Sādhanā removes mental tension and gives peace. And when one is doing sādhanā, children should be peaceful; otherwise, they don’t get chocolate. Sādhanā is a path to spiritual development, and it brings achievement. Sādhanā means practice—practice discipline regularly. If we neglect it, our sādhanā will not help us. We will always be on the same spot, with no experiences except problems, no peace except tensions, and no happiness except physical troubles. Therefore, in ancient times, the so-called ṛṣis, the yogīs… That time, the civilization was different. The way of living was different. The way of clothing was different. The education was different. They were happy, and they had a direct relation to God. And what they researched, we are still living from that. Their research is unbelievable. Whatever we read in any book, if there is a truth and there is a science, then it’s from the ṛṣis. Well, people think that time was a different time. Mahāprabhujī said there was no different time. Because at that time, the same sun was there, and the same moon was there. The same earth was there, and the seasons were there. The same vegetation was there, and the same water was there. Why do you think that time was different? The difference is in our thinking. The difference is our desires. We would like to have more and more. We always collect and collect. Saṅgra. Saṅgra means collection. As many things as you have in your house, they are dust collectors. If you are wise enough, and if you think a little normally and logically, you will not put any toys in children’s rooms, because that collects the dust, and children inhale that dust. And from childhood, children get allergies. You think you have enough money, and you buy the best toys for children. Yes, put them in the garden. They can play for half an hour. But in the room, little collection, and especially none from any fabrics: cotton, or wool, or plastics, synthetic, anything. What you hang with the lamps, it looks nice, a big lamp. These all big balls collect more dust. And if there is a small ball, light a lamp, and there will be less pollution. We have now the carpets. Since when does your car have a pet? A carpet, a house pet they have. A house pet they have, but a car also has a pet. All these carpets which are lying on the floor have a high hygienic problem. It goes to our breath in our lungs. We try to vacuum, but we can’t vacuum twice a day. Maximum, we put a chemical, so you are putting more chemical in the room. So you see the cause of our health, whether we are ill or not. That is, what we keep in our house and in our rooms. Previous time they had wooden benches, and slowly, slowly we have sofas. So it means our back gets problems. So far, you know, so far means, "so far, there is dust." You have an armrest on your sofa. Your dog jumps on it. Your cat jumps on that. Your wife sits there. Sit on that cushion, your children sit there eating with a gem, the husband also, you can’t clean the fabric on the sofa, set. So, we people, including myself, I was driving today myself from Vienna to here, and it gave me a hard time. It is two and a half hours of driving, but I have driven for five and a half hours. This is the Czech technology. The road was good, but suddenly it was blocked. And then they put an arrow through us. But there was endless, no more way to turn. Then put the navigator on, and the navigator was confused. It was in German language, and I never heard any Germans confused one. And what do they always say? Go left, go left... Again left, and again left, and again left. And then we came somewhere. Again, the road was blocked. So there was one man going with a bike. I told him, "Please, sir." I said, Nero, how’s your me? He was full of beer or wine. He was an alcoholic, but he was nice. So I said, "I want to go to Strilky." My pronunciation, he doesn’t understand. Then I said, "Korishani." He said, "Nerozumi." Then I said, "Kyiv." He didn’t understand, and he was swinging. He wants to sing. So it doesn’t matter what he drank, he was in the highest level of the Ānanda. Yes, so it was good that the road was blocked, because he wanted to walk the road. Anyhow, we went back to the village, and someone guided us to the other side. Then we were on the right way. And then again, it is at Kyove, four kilometers away. And half a kilometer, there was again a river. I don’t know how many villages. So, I said, you see, sometimes your wish is selfish. Because I said, "I will drive myself alone, in my car, with nobody else." And my car said, "You see?" So, my dear, on this way, every minute, every second, we should utilize the time. It is said that Mahātma Gāndhī was sitting in the train and going somewhere near the āśram, in the eastern part of India. Hey children, deti, hallo, and the train was going up to the mountains. And the last cabin was disconnected. And he was rolling back, and there were a few people sitting near Gandhi. And they said, "Oh, Gandhijī, Gandhijī, what will happen now?" He said, "What happened? We are rolling back. We must not always roll in front; sometimes, back. So, see the nature twice; look at the beauty." And he tells his one man secretary, "Bring a piece of paper, I will dictate something." He said, "Gandhījī, in this situation," he said, "yes, we should utilize this situation, otherwise, time is lost." So wasting time is a sin. So all the times in our mind, there should be peace, but the mind cannot be stopped. On the day when the mind begins to stop, be sure, soon you will be declared schizophrenic. So, who is going to have some symptoms of the schizophrenic? The evidence is this: that while talking with someone, maybe with you or friends, suddenly the eyeball opens bigger and is gazing like this, and you say, and talking, you... Are talking, and they say, "Oh yeah, sorry." This kind of, at that time, all mental waves were blocked. Neither back nor forward. That was a gap, emptiness. And that is very dangerous. Therefore, one has to learn meditation from a person who has experience in meditation. Only a master can teach you meditation. But now everyone says, let’s have meditation, let’s have meditation. It’s not ice cream, so let’s have ice cream. Āsanas you can do. Prāṇāyāms, be careful. You can do, but be careful. So, on a physical level, you may master something. But the subtle levels, you cannot master yourself unless you have mastered through the Master’s blessing. And this is a problem in the whole world now. Mr. Modi, the Prime Minister of India, declared yoga. Day of Yoga. And now everyone thinks they are yogīs. And you will see in a few years what will happen. You have to open more psychiatric hospitals, because everyone cannot teach meditation. Everyone, you can say, "I can operate." I read the book. Okay. In ten times, it has to be operated. Any scissors? Scissors? Knife? Tongue? Okay. Father, come. I know I will operate on you. The father will see my son. It’s too early to operate on me. So, reading a book, listening to something, and then you are leading meditation. You are going for a yoga certificate, and in 15 days you come with a yoga certificate. What a joke! And so we spoiled everything. So, yoga nidrā, meditation, giving mantras, this is not everyone’s job. I am sorry for those people who will become the victims of this. Therefore, we are disciples; we are not the master. And when you teach meditation, first prayer, the master, I am only a medium, please guide yourself, "Nāhaṁ kartā Prabhudīp kartā Mahāprabhudīp kartā he kevalam." And that’s why you can experience that our all yoga and dead life people looks different, disciplined, mentally very healthy, except for a few, and have a good name in the world. We were in India now, and about 14 or 15 yoga and dead life people were there. There were about 5,000 people in a big, big hall in New Delhi, and every country’s name was there. Delegates came from which countries? So they had names there. And on one row also were the Swamis. And for me, on the second row, nice on the corner, it was written, "Senior Guru." So I said, "Oh, here is the senior guru, I think I can sit here." But the organizers told other people that the best discipline, best behavior, and best way of sitting was yoga and deadlift. And there I must say, so around the world, yoga and life, even our Prime Minister admires and said how the system is given, and there was some dispute to have a Sūrya Namaskār. Because Christians and Muslims didn’t want it in India, they said, "We don’t want to practice Sūrya Namaskār, because we don’t pray to the sun," so they had to remove it. I was angry, and then they removed the Oṃ, so nobody was talking about Oṃ. I came on the stage and I said, Oṃ Kārvindu Sāyoktaṃ Nityadāyantī Yoginā Kaṃdaṃ Mokṣdaṃ Civaṃ Kārayānamonāmā Pravda. Then I said, "Let us all chant Oṃ." Before chanting the Oṃ, so in reality, everyone wants, but of course, the government has to compromise for everyone. After three days, something happened. In the media, came supplementary to Sūrya Namaskār, the best part is the Khaṭuparṇa. So, well, it was nice. So, the same thing I would like to tell you: you inspire people for meditation. You inspire them for mantra. You inspire them for prayers. But you should not put your own imagination in their brain. Mostly, our yoga teachers, especially from the vilāk, sitting in meditation, relax, and the sun is rising. And then see the teacher, she’s sleeping like this. Beautiful dawn rises, and really it is 11 o’clock in the morning. 11 o’clock. So we should know, like in India there is a very accurate system called the rāgas. This is a very precise rāga. Rāga. So, every time, that’s for certain things. Once, this happened to me; it’s a very interesting story. It was about 1985 or 1984. I was first invited to Fiji, Waikiki Beach, Hawaii. And then it was boring, so I went to Long Island. And there, that time was a peak time for the hippies. Everywhere in India, in Goa. Goa was in Pushkar. So they invited me in Hawaii on the Big Island, and they wanted to have an evening lecture. So there was a tea restaurant, about 200 people’s capacity, and they were filming. And they put such a strong light, I couldn’t see anyone. And they were dancing and doing many things. Then they invited me. I sat and I began to give a lecture. So I gave a lecture, but I couldn’t see anything. After the lecture, I said, "Do you have any questions?" And then I looked like this, nobody is there. Nobody. The hermit from Vienna was with me. And one other also, Ingrid, she is now in Fiji. And I said, "Where are they?" They said, "Swamijī, we are only two sitting in front of the chair, all bent away." And then we went outside, somebody is having śilā, somebody is somewhere, no interest, anything, all gone. This is this: when a disciple begins to teach and closes his eyes, then your disciples, each student, will go. Somewhere else, they have no interest. So we will have these two weeks of meditation for the chakras, and again, the lecture on the chakras and the meditation will not be on the website. And the meditation will not be done on YouTube or what you call the CDs. Nowadays, you know that in any office or company, they don’t allow any telephones. They don’t allow any newspapers. They don’t put any magazines there. I said, "What? You have not even a magazine on the table waiting, please." They said, "Swamiji, we paid them for working, not for reading magazines." And we pay them to work and use the time, not for telephoning. I said, good idea. This time in Strilky, I will give new rules. So please, no one brings any cameras or mobile phones. If you bring it, they will take it at the gate. Put it in the basket, and when you go out, they will give it to you. So this is one rule. So we will have nice chakra meditations. So disciplined sādhanā, sādhanā should not be opened. There is a saying, I will translate for you, but there is one thing I will not do. Bhojan, eating. You should eat peacefully in a separate place. Either all are eating, therefore eat peacefully in a separate place and not eating and talking. Yes, you know how it was? Yes, it was very good, yeah, but you think about that. And so, twice it happened to me in Europe, in our Bhaktas, there was eating and talking to someone like this. I told Phul Purī, "Take the plate away." So Phul Purī took the plate away. And then he said, "Yeah, and how? There was nothing." So anyone can put the poison in, even. Therefore, poison, when you sit at the dining table and you pray to the Holy Father, thank you for giving this praise. You will not pray like, "And thank you, Holy Father." Have you some more juice? Butter? Holy Father said, "What are you praying? Concentrate." Eat with love. Be aware of what you are eating. What is the taste? Eat with gratitude. God has given us this. Bhajan, your sādhanā should be closed. And your treasure, your money, your treasure should also be somewhere safe. So they are still doing it, and the fourth point, which I am not telling. So these four need to be in a covered area. You know, pārdakē adhikārī, that’s very important. So your meditation, the real meditation, you didn’t get. You didn’t get it yet. Yesterday, Dayā Rāmjī was giving a lecture. He said that whoever gets knowledge of Gurujī, so, there are a lot of people sitting, hundreds, thousands, and the master sends one stone. Now, to whom will that stone hit? And there are many sitting, yet nobody got hit. Similarly, that word of the master’s wisdom, the rare devotees touch the heart, and that’s why not all get what they should get. So, who learns, concentrates, and has value? Many practice for one year, two years, five years, then disappear. Because they never got it. They never got it. They were there, they were listening, but the heart was not open. So that kind of sādhanā and meditation, why did the yogīs used to go into the cave, a small cave? They were walking like this inside. And then, sitting inside meditating, even they did not know when sunrise and sunset. It is the radiance, the power. And if we go in such a cave, in a narrow cave, and we walk in and we come out 20 meters deep, 20 meters deep, and there is someone sitting, grizzly. Bear said, "Come, come, I will give you meditation." What is that grizzly bear? Our ambition, our greed, our pride. We think, "Now I will become a yogī." If one can become a yogī in a cave, then there are many pythons living there. Why don’t they become yogīs? So, my dear, sādhanā, practice, practice. The yoga in their life is a scientific system and will definitely help you. You will become healthy. Practice two and a half hours every day. You have no time? In India, some people are very clever. They say, "Swāmījī, I have no time to practice, not only practice." Swamiji, I have no time to die. So I said, "Don’t worry, it will come." So, you do many things: money, business, friends, many, many things, 24 hours. 24 hours. Out of the 24 hours, do something for your own self. Two and a half hours. You will be so happy. You will enjoy life. You will live long, so please think over. Discipline, then there is joy. It’s our own ignorance, it’s our own enemy. Nice to see you. Tomorrow, the program begins. And I don’t say anything about discipline. If you have discipline, do it. If you don’t have it, don’t be disciplined. I don’t tell you to keep mauna. And if you keep the mauna, it is your benefit. On the time, you have to come to the program. Because at 5:30, we have some chemicals. And we have to spray on every bed. Good morning. With cold water, mosquitoes, and, you know, in many aeroplanes when you are landing in some country, they ask for a spray. That’s it. So please do what you do. We will have nice programs, sādhanā, sādhanā, yes. Sādhānā cara karo.