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Sādhānā in life is the spiritual tonic. It keeps our body healthy, flexible, and long-living. Sādhānā removes mental tension and gives peace. And when one is doing sādhānā, children should be peaceful; otherwise, they don’t get chocolate. Sādhānā is a path to spiritual development and brings achievement. Sādhānā means practice—practicing discipline regularly. If we neglect it, our sādhānā will not help us. We will always be on the same spot, with no experiences except problems: no peace, only tensions, and no happiness, only physical troubles. Therefore, in ancient times, the so-called ṛṣis and 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. What they researched, we are still living from that. Their research is unbelievable. Whatever we read in any book, if there’s a truth and there’s 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 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 means collection. As many things you have in your house, they are dust collectors. If you are wise enough, and if you think a little normal and logical, you will not put any toys in children’s rooms, because that collects dust. Children inhale that dust, and from childhood, children get allergic. You think you have enough money, and you buy the best toys for children. Yes, put them in the garden. Half an hour, they can play. But in the room, little collection, and especially nothing from any fabrics, cotton or wool, or plastics, synthetic, anything. What you hang with the lamps, it looks nice, and big lamp. These all big balls collect more dust. And if there is a small ball, the lamp has less pollution. We have now the carpets. Since when has your car had a pet? Carpet. House pet they have. House pet they have, but they also have a car pet. All these carpets, which are lying on the floor, have high hygienic problems. It goes to our breath into our lungs. We try to vacuum, but we can’t vacuum twice a day. Maximum, we put a chemical. So you are putting more chemicals in the room. So you see, the cause of our health, whether we are ill or not, is what we keep in our house and in our rooms. Previous time, they had wooden benches, and slowly, slowly, we have so far. So it means our back gets problems, so far, you know. So far means so far. There is dust. You have an armrest in your sofa. Your dog jumps on that. Your cat jumps on that. Your wife sits there. Your children sit there eating with jam. The husband also. You can’t clean the fabric on the sofa, Seth. 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’ve driven five and a half hours. This is a Czech technology. The road was good, suddenly the road was blocked, and then they put an arrow to divert, but there was endless, no more way, nowhere to turn. Then they put a navigator on, and the navigator was confused. It was in German language, and I never heard any German confused one. And what I always say is, go left, go left,… again left, and again left, and again left. And then we came somewhere again, there was a road blocked. So there was one man going with a bike. I told him, "Please, sir." I said, "No, also me." He was full of beer or wine; he was alcoholic, but he was nice. So I said, "I want to go to Strelky." My pronunciation, he doesn’t understand. Then I said, "Korysiani." He said, "Nerozumny." Then I said, "Kiev." He didn’t understand. And he was swinging. He wanted to sing. "I have joy, I have joy, I have joy." Good that the road was blocked, because he wanted to walk the road, 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 Kyiv, four kilometers, and half a kilometer, there was again divorce. 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, my car, nobody finished." 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 Mahatma Gandhi was sitting in the train and going somewhere near the ashram, in the eastern part of India. Hey children, hello. And the train was going up to the mountains, and the last cabin was disconnected and 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. Sometime back, so see the nature twice. Look, 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, it 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. Yes? 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 he said, and talking, you are talking, and then, "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 the 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. Āsana you can do. Prāṇāyāma, be careful, you can do, but be careful. So, on the physical level, you may master something, but on the subtle levels, you cannot master yourself unless you have mastered it from the Master’s blessing. And this is a problem in the whole world now. Mr. Modi, the Prime Minister of India, declared a 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. And she says, "Scissors? Knife? Tongue?" Okay. "Father, come. I know I will operate on you." Father will say, "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, yoganidrā, 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. Namo Kārtabhaprabhudīpāya Kārtabhaprabhudīpāya Kārtabhīḥ Kevalam. And that’s why you can experience that overall, yoga in daily life people look different. Disciplined, mentally very healthy, except a few. And have a good name in the world. We were in India now, and about 14 or 15 yoga in daily life people were there. And 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 Senior Guru, I think I can sit here." But the organizers told other people, then the best discipline and best behavior, and the… The best way of sitting was yoga in daily life. And there I must sit. So, around the world, yoga in daily life, even our Prime Minister admires and said how the system is developed. And there was some dispute about having a Sūrya Namaskār. Because Christians and Muslims didn’t want. 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 moved the AUM. So nobody was talking about AUM. I came on the stage and I said, "Oṃ Karavindāya Sāyuktam Nityadāyanti Yoginaḥ Kāṃdham Mokṣadham Civāṃ Karāyanamo Namaḥ, Pravda." Then I said, "Let us all chant Om before chanting it." 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 Namaskāra, the best part is the Kathuparṇava. So, well, it was nice. So, 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 Vilakh, sit in meditation, relax, and the sun rises. And then you see the teacher; she is sleeping like this. Beautiful dawn rises, and really it is eleven o’clock in the morning. Eleven o’clock. So we should know, like in India there is a very accurate system called the rāgas. So every time, that’s for certain things. Once, it happened to me; it’s a very interesting story. It was about 1985 or ’84. 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 of the hippies, everywhere. In India, in Goa, Goa was, and 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. 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, "Swāmījī, we are only two sitting in front of the chair, all bent away." And then we went outside, somebody is having śīlāṃ, 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 chakras, and again, the lecture on the chakras and the meditation will not be on the website. For meditation, it 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 telephone within. 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 Strelka, I will give new rules, so please, no one brings any camera, any mobiles. If you bring it on the gate, they will take it, put it in a 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: bhajana, bhajana, bhojana, nārī; or bhajana, bhojana, kājana, or nārī. Yes, pardake adhikārī. I will translate for you, but one I will not do. Bhojana, eating. You should eat peacefully in a separate place, or all are eating. Therefore, eat peacefully in a separate place and not eat while talking. Yes, you know how it was, and you know it was this and that. Yes, it was very good, yeah? What do you think about that? So twice it happened to me in our Europe in Bhaktas. There was eating and talking to someone like this. I told Phulphu to take the plate away. So Phūl Purī took the plate away, and then he said, "Yeah, and how?" There was nothing, so anyone could put the poison in. Therefore, bhojan, when you sit at the dining table and you pray to the Holy Father, thank you for giving this bread. You will not pray like, "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 that they are doing still, and the fourth point which I am not telling. So these four need to be in the covered area. Bhajan, bhajan, or kīrtana, you know, pātrake 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 for those who get the knowledge of Gurudeva, 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, nobody got. Similarly, that word of the Master’s wisdom, the rare devotees touch the heart. And that’s why all don’t get what they should get. So, those who learn to concentrate have value. Many practice one year, two years, five years, then disappear, because they never got it. They were there, they were listening, but the heart was not open. So that kind of sādhanā and meditation, why the yogīs used to go in the cave, a small cave, they were walking like this inside, and then sitting inside meditating. Even they did not know when the sun rises and when the sun sets. It is the radiance, the power. And if we go into such a cave, a narrow cave, and we walk in, and we come out twenty meters deep, and there is someone sitting, a grizzly bear, saying, "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." In the cave, if one can become a yogī, then there are many pythons living there. Why don’t they become yogīs? So, my dear, sādhanā, practice, practice. The yoga in daily life is a scientific system and definitely will help you. You will become healthy. Two and a half hours every day practice. You have no time? In India, some people are very clever. They say, "Swamiji, I have no time to practice," not only practice. "Swamiji, I have no time to die," so I say, don’t worry. It will come. So, you do many things: money, business. Friends, many, many things. Twenty-four hours. Out of the twenty-four 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 laziness, 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 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 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. Sādhanācāraka rohari Sādhanācāraka Yinseho kṣetumah Sadān hai moh. Kab ho jag duk sot ka? Kab ho duk sot ka? Sādhanā jān, Viśvarāmājī.