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We have the opportunity to walk in the forest, which we did yesterday—with some sore muscles as a result for some of us. We can practice the different practices of yoga in daily life in the various levels of seminars. We have one seminar for general health and general yoga practices. We also have a more dedicated program for the more serious, developed practitioner, the Anuṣṭhāna. And we have beautiful programs for the children, where they produce beautiful performances. They also learn the yoga that we, as elderly people, had to learn a bit harder or with more effort, very easily and effortlessly. They practice with us with such dedication and sincerity; it is very beautiful to see. Also, which is very special for me as a yoga teacher and trainer, is that we have the yoga teacher training program. Under the very experienced guidance of some of our senior practitioners, we have the opportunity to work on our personal practice, to look at āsanas in a more interesting way, or to correct mistakes we may not be aware of. It is easy to get into a habit of practice. And the very best thing is the presence of Gurudev, who helps us and inspires us with his lectures, satsaṅgs, and practical advice and instructions. Thank you very much. Today we have our master Swamiji, who inspires us, leads us, and helps us with his lectures, satsaṅgas, and his presence, so thank you very much. Thank you, Yamunā Purī. So today again is a beautiful day, because we are all here together. Since the seminar began, we have been concerned about having fresh, good air around us. And so also nature, God is helping us to have nice, breathed air. You know that every seminar we call here a seminar; some people call it a retreat. That doesn’t matter. When one organizes a seminar, all the organizers from the international group do their best to write something to inspire you and other people to come. And when international organizers organize a seminar, they try to inspire you to come. Where is the guiding principle? It is discipline. And here, principle means everything. We have been trying for the last three days to sit in order. We managed to follow the principles about six to seven percent. So it means our seminar is not completed. Next time we have to organize again. Then there are some people who are hanging here and there during the program. Next time, they should not come. Those who are here doing seva, what we call karma yoga, are also hanging here and there, doing little karma yoga. So, the national organizers have to make clear what duty they should do. We acknowledge them as the sevak or karma yogīs. I saw from my room that two people are somewhere in the Pizza Hut, standing on the corner and chatting and chatting and chatting. So I want to make sure, because I saw from my room, to make sure if I’m not mistaken with my visions. And exactly both were there. And they didn’t notice that I was there because it was in astral form. And then I appeared in physical form. They were so interested in talking to each other, I moved by, and the children said, "Swamiji, Swamiji came." And then they realized and followed me. So please, next time, don’t make trouble to come. And if you do, then attend the programs. Because when one or two don’t follow the discipline, then others are disturbed. Yoga is called discipline. So in sitting, in walking, in talking, everything—and sitting also, I can tell you that we’ve succeeded 6% to 7% to get perfection. Tons of theory is just nothing. Theories will stay here in this world. That will not help you. When you pass away from the body, your theory can be burned in the fire with you. But the practice will guide and be with you. So don’t take it easy. Then you are neither on this side nor that side. Pity. So it is said, there is one in Rajasthani language, in a bhajan, a beautiful poem, and to say the poem nicely, the master needs a little sip of water, so it will come. If it is what you wish, you will get it. When you knock on the door, the door will open. And if you ask something, you will get the answer. So, in that poem, it is said: Āḍ vich kī kular dono din se jāī. Very good. You understand this always, because I say the same thing. O my dear, either you should take out the seed’s oil or leave it as a seed as it is. Half-crushed seeds are neither seed nor oil. That’s it. It loses both. You can’t grow them again, or you didn’t take the oil. So if we really would like to achieve that highest goal, then we have to endure. We have to kill our ego. Don’t be offended. Who is offended has not achieved even half the stairs. Offended means inside is so much ego, so much pride, so much anger. To be offended, it has a strong power: the power of ego, the power of pride, and the power of anger. These three strong powers become one. That’s called a friend. You are trying to defend, but we don’t have the power to defend. Even we are not able to show our anger, so on the face we are smiling. But inside, we are suffering. That’s called offending, and such a reaction, which is physical as well as emotional, mental, and intellectual, damages all these four. They attack, visibly or invisibly. Many people, when they are offended, get diarrhea. The whole inner system is out of order or they get sweaty. It means destroying the healthy cells or beginning to vomit. So to feel offended is the most negative effect on our being. So who is not offended? The wise one. The wise one inside will say, "Thank you. Now I know how much I have to learn, how much ignorance I have. So thank you that you offended me mentally." Then you will not be a victim of many problems and illnesses. So when we are feeling offended, then it can attack any part of the body. It becomes a red throat. It becomes red cheeks. Yes, that’s not good. And this is because we miss the discipline. Of course, God is perfect and we are imperfect, and therefore, we shall accept. How happy I am. Again I come to know my weakness, or my stupidity, or my not being perfect. I shall work on that point. This hard nut is not easy. So whatever in the seminar your teacher tells us, you should not feel offended. It doesn’t matter who is who. If I attend a seminar, I feel like a student. And the master will tell something, I should not be offended. So, how much discipline can we see here? Then, how does it look like at home? And then he tells, "I have a problem with my partner. I can’t understand him or her," or, "He or she doesn’t understand you," because discipline is not there. So either we come to the seminar and follow 100%, or we should not come. What is our interest in coming here? In free time, you can talk, sit. Time up the program, attend the program, and keep the mauna. If you don’t like to attend seminar programs, then at least don’t disturb others and block the person there. So in the seminar, the teachers, they do their best. They take the cream, the cream of their viveka, that is how in the best way we can explain to students how to make corrections. So before they come to the seminar to lead, they are thinking, they are looking to the authentic books, they prepare themselves, and we don’t value that. I mean, not all, but certain people, yes. So every time we are telling the same thing. So next time you get an invitation when you break the discipline, you will get the navigator’s plan printed on paper, and you can go home. How to commit home, that’s it. So now I will not disturb you, those who are not sitting exactly. Don’t move now. I know you want to correct your mistakes, but we will do it after. But don’t feel offended. So today, yesterday, and the day before yesterday, many people were giving feedback, and many said how long they have been practicing. But in this Yoga and Daily Life teacher training, I understood how practical, how simple and easier it is. So many were inspired and understood why we do it like this. And correction is always there. So even the best machine needs to be updated. So we should update our thoughts. Ātmā jñāna, liberation. Don’t hurry. It’s a long way. Your running as a marathon will not give you that achievement which a human goal has. You will get only something that uses too much your joints: the joints of the toes, the ankle joint, the knees, hip joints, spine, and ligaments. So yesterday it became very clear when Dr. Martin, the professor of the orthopedic department, made it very clear why we do it slowly. Kṣaṇabhaṅgura. Why we should do it slowly. And that became very clear to many, many. So, those who are running, let’s say for the physical trainer, for some years it will be good. Then they will have joint problems. So ātmā jñāna is not in your marathon of your mental hurry. Best thing, main thing is that we keep discipline and practice discipline. So those lectures which our best trainers, the best yoga teachers, yoga in their life, give you such good knowledge. This is our second seminar like that. And we had also previously, and we learned a lot. Every yoga teacher in their life, if not twice, then once a year, comes together and updates their knowledge, knowledge which day by day we get more and more. So don’t feel limited. As much discipline as we follow, that much we will be free. We will be happy. Mentally and physically, we will be disciplined and happy. So that was very good. The Rāmāyaṇa, the holy book Rāmāyaṇa, is it the life of God Rāma? Every incarnation, every prophet, every saint has a history, and everyone, including themselves, goes through discipline, and sometimes they even show anger. But that anger is not anger, that’s a correction that is updating. So problems are always there, and we have to deal with the problems. The original, the best Rāmāyaṇa is called Vālmīki. Vālmīki is that saint who became a saint. He was a tribe living in the forest. He had a family. He was a kind of bandit, so he used to fight with people. He had friends like him. He was the boss of all bandits, and they were waiting in the forest somewhere. Anyone who was passing by, they caught them, killed them, and took everything away. You know this story most probably. So when the saint came, some say Nārada, some say Buddha, but at that time Buddha was not there. Because Rāma was before Kṛṣṇa. So he asked, "Saint Nārada was going, and these bandits attacked him." And he asked, "Why are you doing this?" They said, "For our families." So he said, "But this is a sin. You will suffer the sin." He said, "Not only we, but our whole family will share it with us." Your sins, no one can take over. It is like a karma, it is your karma. He said, "No, no, they will take." So the saint says, "Go and ask your parents." And the Beale said, "Tribe, I have seen many clever like you. I will go to ask, and you will run away." He said, "I will not go. You can tie me to the tree." So they did. And he went home, asked his father, asked his mother, asked his wife. Everyone said, "No, we will not take a sin. It is your dharma. It is your duty towards us to feed us. Bring something for us, but how do you bring it? That depends on you." So when he came home, everyone refused. He came back and said, "How can I become free from this sin?" Nārada said, "Repeat the name of God. All your sins will go away." So he sat down and meditated. He got a mantra, the name of Rāma. So he was chanting, "Rāma, Rāma, Rāma, Rāma,... Rāma." But after five times, it turned into "Māra," death, death, death. So, in the sinner’s brain, in their vocal always comes the words which are connected to the sin. So after five times comes kill, kill, kill... Or after five times you say, "Mara, Mara," it comes, "Ram, Ram." Nārada said, "It doesn’t matter, repeat." And some kind of foolish person either doesn’t accept, or if it accepts, it will become perfect; it will not give up. Like a tick, which ticks in our body. It goes in under our skin, and if we want to take him out, he will not do it. Even his throat will break when we pull out. But will not give up. So when the tick comes and we try to pull, it will break, but he will not release his mouth. So certain people, either they don’t accept at all, but if something becomes clear, that doesn’t matter, good or bad, they will not give up there anymore. So he was sitting in the forest. At that time there were little humans and many animals. Now many animals died and turned into many humans. Anyhow, it is said for years he was meditating. He went into samādhi. At that time, God takes our responsibility. So termites brought the earth over him and made a nice house. And the snakes were going in and out of the hole. And he was still in the meditation. And he saw the entire past and present life of God Rāma. And he wrote in Sanskrit language before Rāma’s birth. Everything, minute to minute: where he went, the drama, what he did, what happened. He did not know any languages except the tribe’s language. But when he got realization, he got the divine language, the holy language, which is called Sanskrit, and he wrote in Sanskrit. But the problem is that very few people can read Sanskrit. The second Rāmāyaṇa is from Tulsīdās, and he wrote in the local language, and everybody could read. So that’s called the Tulsi Rāmāyaṇa, the Rāmāyaṇa of Tulsīdās. And that became dear to all. When it’s a dialogue, but because it’s a restaurant language, everyone understands. Then there are many other people who tried to write a kind of Rāmāyaṇa. God, even the animals love Him. Animals love God. Animals also support God. So there is a little story. When the god Rāma had to go to Śrī Laṅkā, and Nala and Nīla were making a bridge over the ocean from India to Śrī Laṅkā, because when Rāma was abandoned for fourteen years, he was not to go to any villages, nor to take any support from humans. So he was only with animals. So the bears, lions, tigers, monkeys, all animals, now they begin to build the bridge. All animals were helping. And there was one, also the squirrel. And a small squirrel was also helping to build the bridge. How? She went into the ocean, she dipped in the water, then she went to the sand, and she rolled in the sand, and came onto the bridge, and she was moving like this, the sand came onto the bridge. Again, run to the water and roll in the sand, and again come and be in the pudding. So, other animals said, "What are you doing, you stupid?" She said, "I am helping to make a breeze. I can’t carry big stones, but I put the sand where God will walk on it, so He does not shave His soles, so His soft-footed soul will not be hurt, or He will walk on the sand." So even this squirrel, and she managed to bring a lot of sand from morning to evening. Can you imagine? So in the next age, when Kṛṣṇa was incarnated and they told these stories, who was helping God? So everyone said, "I was helping, I was helping." And after last, someone said, "But this squirrel also," the squirrel was not offended that nobody told before. So the squirrel came close to Kṛṣṇa. So he took it in his hand, and he was giving love to the squirrel. So he put his hand like this, and since then, this squirrel still has the sign of the fingers of Kṛṣṇa. So, you should believe or not? So, the squirrel in India is holy. And if you kill a squirrel mistakenly, then you have to make a squirrel out of silver or gold and donate it. So even the ants are helping, because they all love God. In their way, they know what it is. Animals, they are not stupid. They can very well imitate what you are doing. You know, we made a door, a glass door with a sensor, to open a door in Jardin, in Holi Gurujī Samādhi Hall, and there are always birds going in. So we made a glass door with a sensor opening. Birds were very sad. They had a meeting. Yes, you can imagine, they were sitting all on one crane, twenty of them. We thought maybe some cat is coming or a snake is coming. Then birds come to hunt them, singing. The snake, they had tried to frighten the snake to go away, but they were not doing this. They had a meeting. They were angry at Yogesh. Where is he going? He’s going into the office, so how is he going into the samādhi hall? He just walks in and out, and they can’t because there is a glass door. So some clever bird, like you, observes exactly how he’s going in through glass. So they fly through glass. Two, three died. They said, "No, we did not observe exactly." So Yogesh came and made his hand like this. The door opened, and he went in. The door closed. And as he went in, two birds said, "Let’s try." And they came near the sensor, and the door opened. They proudly went into the hall, but how to come out? So they waited. How did he come out? When he comes very close, the door goes open. So when he was gone, again they came there close and flying, exactly where the sensor is. The door opened, and they went out. That door cost a lot of money. The whole project of Yogesh failed. Now he put a net about one meter away, and then he locked it. But there is somewhere a little place, so they go over there. Some birds, with their beaks, were trying to twist the wire, and they could go in there. So animals also have immense talents and love. Only we can’t see that. Recently, there was one picture, what’s so-called on Facebook, in Ilāhābād, at the railway station, near the platform. One monkey got an electric shock and fell into the channel water. So this side platform, that side platform, and people were looking, "Oh God, poor monkey." Monkey was unconscious. And they see one monkey was running, coming, like an ambulance, an ambulance doctor. He came, he took the monkey, and he was massaging him. He was putting his head like that, again in that water, again out, and something, and biting here and biting here, and on a certain part of the neck. After some minutes, he managed to wake him up from the unconscious state. Then that monkey was sitting like this. And now he began to massage his back and went with him. What a good ambulance doctor! So, really, I was surprised a lot. So, animals know how to support and help themselves. So we love all, and all love God, and God loves all. The time will come when humans realize they made a big mistake. So we have to get the strength to get more energy, prāṇa. And today was the prānāyāma and prāṇa, but time is over. Wish you all the best and take care, doesn’t matter where you are. Big brother is watching. Yes, you are maybe on the hill. Someone can give me eyes, so please come punctually, five minutes before the program begins, minimum. And sit very disciplined. It doesn’t matter who will sit in the front. The first early bird finds the ripe cherry. So, begin sitting in the first line. With this, I wish you a very good appetite and good relaxation. And, afternoon five, there is no more program. So you can relax more, go to the bathroom, eat, and then come at the right time. So that you can rest, go to the bathroom, and come back in time for the next program.