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Shrī Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī, Shrī Deveśvara Mahādeva kī, Satguru Svāmī Mādhavānandajī Bhagavān kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma kī. Good evening to everybody. Welcome. It is a beautiful day. Today is the day of Gaṇeśajī, the day of removing many obstacles. The obstacles mostly are within ourselves. It is easy to remove obstacles from the external world. If you do not like something, you can go away or change. But it is very hard to remove inner obstacles, meaning bad habits. It is very easy to acquire bad habits, but then it is very hard to get rid of them. Habit is the second nature of a person. That different kind of habit becomes the nature of the person, and that is very hard to change. It is easy to come into some society and pick up habits like drugs or other kinds of habits, but then it is a problem, hard to get rid of. These habits disturb or torture us lifelong. Other obstacles are wrong thinking, pride, ego, jealousy, greed, hatred, dualities—many, many things. It is difficult to become humble. Where there is ego, there is no humbleness. If you are humble and you see some dirt lying on the road, you will not hesitate; you will take it away and clean it. If someone tells you to do it, you will say, "I am not your servant." So this is ego; this is pride. Therefore, inner obstacles are very important to remove through humbleness. The biggest enemy of the human is laziness. Laziness becomes our friend, and so we should do something, but we do not want to. We make self-decisions: "I have no time," "Today I am tired," "I have no energy," "I have pain"—so many excuses. That means that person cannot develop spirituality. It is also difficult to achieve your life goal, your profession, or your studies. Therefore, it is said that self-discipline is key to success. We have to cultivate self-discipline. Lucky are they who have a clear consciousness. Lucky are they who are aware of their life, aware of their achievements. All this is helped through the practice of yoga. This yoga, this sensory… it will be now and again the sensory of the yoga. It is amazing how many people begin to open yoga centers. They will not last long. Some are doing it like a fashion; some are doing it commercially. Both fashions will not remain long, and commercial ventures will also not last long. What is long-lasting is quality—for practicing yoga, teaching yoga, and the continuity of yoga practice, teachings, or your school. So we need an authentic yoga school. There are some schools that call themselves yoga teacher training. You go for holidays for two weeks, three weeks, or ten days on a retreat. You practice morning prāṇāyāma, āsanas, relaxation, and a little theory. In ten days, you get a yoga certificate, and you come back here and teach, claiming you are a yoga teacher. That person will not last long; knowledge is not there, and the practitioners will not be happy and will not get the benefit. It is not easy. It is not easy to come to the Vienna University. It is not that anybody can go, attend classes, and get their diploma. No. Ask the person who just came to the university and is going to pass the diplomas how long and hard the time was. As you come to a higher class, you become more nervous. More subjects come; you are again nervous, and you have a heavy load over you. When should I study? When should I be with my friends? When should I go for sport and walking? When should I be with my parents? And when should I study? Students know nowadays it is a lot of work for studies. Then you come to the university, and you have an examination to enter, and you fail. How sad and unhappy you are. You cannot say to your professor that they are not a good person. Nobody will listen to you. Why did you fail? Again, there was laziness; you had no interest, and at the last minute you tried to read something to pass the examination. So we need the teacher. From now on begins the kindergarten. From this school, they call it the nursery school—Baumschule, actually for trees. The children are like little plants, needing the guidance of a teacher. In a country like Austria—we are now in Austria, so let's talk about Austria—you cannot be a nursery school teacher without having the examinations and study for the kindergartens, Lara or Lara in Stimte. So nowadays, this yoga begins with yoga. This is yoga-yoga. Yoga is the essence of yoga. But now many people who do not have proper guidance will fail; only the best will remain. Therefore, yoga should come from an authentic spiritual lineage, an authentic yogic lineage, which has years of centuries and centuries—the paramparā. Paramparā means lineage of the yogic thoughts. To perform some postures is not yoga. To sit down and inhale through the left and right nostrils is not only that. Of course, these postures are very helpful, and we should go through the postures. Āsanas are kindergarten. Prāṇāyāma is the primary school. Concentration is the middle school. Meditation is the high school. The Kriyās and other achievements are coming; then, the universities. In yoga, there are old scriptures written thousands of years ago. Now, people unfortunately limit yoga to Patañjali. But yoga is not limited to Patañjali. Yogas were there when Kṛṣṇa was there, when Rāma was there, and before that, in other ages. Hundreds of thousands or millions… when Śiva manifests himself as Sreyambhu, he comes to yoga postures. Every scripture has this science, which is yoga. Now, there is one discussion. In India, they would like to have the Sanskrit language in school as a compulsory subject. But now many other movements do not want Sanskrit as a compulsory subject in schools. Can you understand this? Do you understand what I mean? Because if the Vedas, which are pure Sanskrit, you cannot translate; it is very hard to translate. Very rare are complete translations of the Vedas and Upanishads. When you learn Sanskrit, then you will know that all these principles, the rules or the dogmas—whatever you call them—or the theories of every religion, they are coming from the Vedas. So we teach and explain according to our knowledge, and we say it is ours. But when you come to learn those ancient languages, then you will say, "Yes, it was already there." That is why, in this modern time, the so-called modern scientists and these modern learned people today have fear to know that what they have discovered was already there. So this is how people try to push back to keep it as it is, that is the modern science. Modern science is nothing but ancient wisdom. And that ancient wisdom is from those Vedas. So now in the Western world, the thirst or hunger to learn Sanskrit is coming. In this yuga, it will come again, like Latin. You learn Latin in university, I think your subject… is it a compulsory subject or not? But when you learn medicine, then you have to have a compulsory subject. When you learn Latin, and if you can speak nicely, freely, and understand, it is a completely other dimension; it is the language. The Latin language is a spiritual language, a language of knowledge. It has its own science and vibration when you speak. I do not know the Latin language, but sometimes when I hear, if some priest or pope speaks, or what you call the Piso, says a few words, and then they have to speak the normal language. If they speak only the Latin language in the church, many people will not understand. So they have to understand the local language to speak. The thing is this: through this, the language is getting lost. Similarly, the old Greek language… every word has immense, immense wisdom. Only one sentence or one word, you can study for one month, and still you will not be able to finish the meaning of that one word. That is called Kāmadhenu. Kāmadhenu: dhenu means cow, and kāma means our wish. So that cow which gives ever milk, ever milk—that is our buddhi, our intellect. So there is no end to our knowledge. Every day, more and more knowledge can come. And that is in the language. Those were ancient languages. These languages now are use and throw, no? It is a plastic language. You can make a hole through it. But those were solid languages of the soul, of the ātmā: the Latin language, the old Greek language, and many others. There is also a beautiful language, the Urdu language, which is written in the Middle East. The words, the poetry—so beautiful poetries. I think there is no other language you will find easily like the poetries in the Urdu language, or what the Sufis use. It touches the heart, touches the soul. The problem is the language, again, because people are attached to one language, and when another language is there, they feel a little bit awkward. So the problem in the world is the language problem, that people fight, people do not like this and that. So that language, when it comes, is coming from the masters, from the holy people, from the spiritual people. So the practice of yoga, which came, awakened in human consciousness, and they became aware. And now, in this awareness, there is always, when the good comes, the bad comes also with it. So good and bad both are together. It is true that, for the majority in the world, yoga has become commercial. But these commercial schools will not last long. These commercial schools will not last long. But there are authentic schools; they will continue. And so, only physical exercises are not yoga, but it will awaken the consciousness. Now, people begin to think, "What is yoga?" They begin to think; they are searching the books. They are going to the internet, and they get the explanation. Then they search for such books, but then you get those books which are just written by half-knowledge. So Mahāprabhujī said, "Half-knowledge is more dangerous than no knowledge." For example, the word called Tantra. The entire Buddhist philosophy is called Tantra: Mahā Tantra, Yantra Tantras. But Tantra is not like in Western countries they understand. In Western countries, after certain texts, everything goes to sex. That is all. All tantra books mean the sexual postures. This is the end of their knowledge, you know? Their desires… here are the desires, and the desires never fulfill, never, you know? There is a beautiful woman who has nice clothes, and that man said, "Yes, my wife," and this, that. But they are still not happy. Then they will take the sari away. Then they will take a little, this long shirt till here. The trousers will be made till here, and till here, and till here. And nowadays, if they have short jeans, the half buttocks are empty. And still they are not happy. This is, I am sorry to say, how they have two desires. One is the commercial desires, and one is the desires of the senses, which they will never fulfill, never. Knowledge, there is love. That is the wisdom. Tantra, also the Jainas, they have the tantra philosophy. And this, I think, Mahāyāna Tantra is such a big book, thousands of pages. And you will find mostly in Sri Lanka, from the Buddhists. There is not one word about sex. So most people go to Sri Lanka and they buy a big book for these things, and they read and they read, and there is nothing. They are disappointed. So tantra means tan, meaning expanding, khicana, tanna. And tra, traimām, liberation. A bhakta comes to the temple and prays, "O Lord, free me, liberate me, bless me." So the term means expand. Expand your consciousness and liberate thyself. It means get that knowledge, and that is what in Buddhism is mantra, tantra, kāla, kāl tantra. I think once he was doing the Dalai Lama, a Kālacakra, and he made his palace, and then finished the ceremony. So the knowledge from old scriptures is not easy to understand. So yoga, now in every corner of the street, maybe Membour, every three kilometers range around, you have 30 yoga centers. And in Brisbane, they counted that in a two-kilometer circle, there were 45 yoga centers. Forty-five. And now, it is a very interesting subject. We write "Yoga and Lay Life: First-Hand Knowledge." The next day, they all have the first-hand yoga teaching. They all try to make a very nice poster or folder or something on the internet. And when we have it, the next day they have it. The words, once a word is changed, the rest is the same. So this means, in this Kali Yuga, they do not understand what intellectual property is, no? Intellectual property you should not steal. For example, we said, "Be the change you want to see." They will say, "Oh yes, Swamiji said very good, great," but I have to, it is my duty to say, Gandhiji said. You can use the word; you should use the word, "Be the change you want to see," Gandhiji said. That is very clear and very pure. So yoga, teaching what people began out of their emotion and their expectation to create money, will not be successful. Many schools closed, many opened. Authentic schools from the masters, which will remain, which are remaining, many, many… many years. Around the world, there is a famous yoga center called Swami Śivānanda Yoga. Yeah? It does not matter what people think, but still, it is very honest, very good, and it is the name of Śivānanda. Śivānanda's disciples were throughout the whole world. How they are teaching now, I do not know, but I am sure it is very good. The authentic words are from Paramahaṁsa Yogānanda, Vivekānanda school, the Lunavāla school. So there are many authentic teachings, and we should follow those systems. And when we come to those systems, it is the same. This is the same yoga, because yoga cannot be two; it is only one. So one teaches first Paścimottānāsana, and the other teaches Dhanurāsana. That is different. But Dhanurāsana and Paścimottānāsana both… who are doing Paścimottānāsana, after have to do the Dhanurāsana. And if you do the first Dhanurāsana, then you have to do the Paścimottānāsana. It is the same. So these are the two hands to make the sound. Therefore, all yoga teachers should know to teach authentically and search for the meaning of their every posture, prāṇāyāma, meditation, and mantra. Never change. Never change your guru mantras; never change the path of your Gurudev. Once you accept it, you know, Nagendra was telling, it is very important that you remain in your guru paramparā. Otherwise, maybe for a time you like something different, better, or this, but the end will not be good. Similarly, if you study at Vienna University or you study at Prague University, both are old universities, or in Budapest, or in Ljubljana. Universities are universities, and they will teach the same subject. Medicine, they will teach the same subject, so we need that subject to be properly taught, and you become a proper doctor. So this is the same thing with yoga. It has become like that, and very soon, very serious students will come and would… like to study and learn. So you know now there is one telephone they call the Apple iPhone, no? And other telephones also. And after two months, three months, the telephone itself is writing something, upgrading or updating. Press the… But updating is also important, so we also have to do the updating. That is very important. So, what is updating? Once a week, we must make updating: yoga and daily life. And what is that? Every week, satsaṅg. Satsaṅg is updating, where we get knowledge. And that knowledge will be helpful for us and helpful for others. So we are happy that in the world this awareness has awoken, that yoga. But now, how is it? How will it lead? How will it go? So those who have yogic knowledge, yogic qualities, they will guide in the right way. The rest will go on the footpath through the forest, and that will disappear. There is no more path. So slowly, one way goes this side: grass, wave on the footway, this, this. But the highway is the highway. And so the highway is that authentic school's knowledge. So meditation is very important for us to calm down all the breaths, to analyze inner obstacles, and then when we become aware of obstacles, we will use our vivekā. And which kind of techniques we do? There are energies, the subtle energies. Astral energies, astral powers, and in astral energy or in subtle bodies, there is no duality of the genders. There is no duality of the genders, but according to the language, when we say energy in Sanskrit, it is the feminine energy, Śakti, and the other is masculine. So now, in this way, what we call every month has different energy, different climates, feelings, different temperatures, everything. So now it was already, I think, or it is still, what we call the week of the ancestors. People were going to the graveyard. They were already, no? On 1st November, that is right. And this is what we call Śrāddha. This is Śraddhā, and Śraddhā is for the ancestors who passed away. Here, you call also all the holy souls and all others, and so on. Now, this is coming from the Vedas' time also. So where is the difference then? Pūrvaja. That is from yugas and yugas coming. So it is not only in this religion or not only in that religion. It is in every religion. So, ancestors. So now it is coming, and there we should pray, and people who believe, they go to the graveyard. Now, there is a question coming. After death, some religions say there is nothing anymore. So when there is nothing, then why do you go to the graveyard? For whom are you putting candles there and the flowers? And how the wife is standing there and crying? Her husband. Now she is talking to him. So on one side you say there is no more, and on the other side we say it is there. So the reality always comes spontaneously. What you believe is not that, and what is not that is what you feel. That is there. Similarly, coming the day after this, it is called the holy mothers. And this is coming, Navarātri, nine days of the divine mothers. So there are four Navarātrīs in one year. In every three months, there is one Navarātrī. And these four Navaratris are called the two Navaratris that are open and the two Navaratris that are under. It means bāhir and antar, bāhir kumbhak and antar kumbhak. So, gupta Navarātrīs and open Navarātrīs. So now Gupta Navaratri is for those bhaktas who are doing anuṣṭhāna and the Divine Mother Śakti Pūjā and that. And for that, it is other temples and other pūjās, and they are celebrating. This is coming now. The Navarātri begins Tuesday. And this Tuesday, many people are mostly fasting. And when they are fasting, then evening and morning they eat one, they drink one liter of milk, and evening one liter of milk, then daytime yogurt, and two bananas, and five apples, more than normal. So it should be only with the water, or a little milk. But anyhow, at least they are doing it in the name of the holy mothers. These are the nine different planets' energies, which are rotating through this earth, and they move through our body, this energy. So Navarātrī is the nine divine mothers, and there are some stories that there were the Rākṣasas, negative energies, and they could not be destroyed. So it is said that a Rākṣasa no one can kill or destroy, because once he is killed, the next day he is alive again. Once done, and the next day again. So it is the nine days that the divine Śakti, every day, also changes the body differently to remove this negative energy. On the ninth day, she is successful. And so, these nine days, these nine vṛttis in us, our indriyas, the jñānendriyas, karmendriyas, and mind is also an indriya. So with the mind, it is all purifying. So this is the science. We study those little scriptures, then we said, "Oh, aha." But we do not know at all. We have not even seen such śāstras. We cannot feel. So we have only the surface. We see some pictures. In the television, you will see every day which is coming from the Indian side or from London: the coming nine days' pūjās of the Navarātri. That is very interesting. You should feel it, take it, or you may find somewhere some CD. So, all this is to master the human mind, human awareness, awakening, and consciousness, to master and bring that liberation to the human, to the nurse in Aryan, from human to God. Remove many, many obstacles, so following such a ceremony, such different knowledge is called the ethic, spiritual, and moral injections by those great saints and great ṛṣis. So yoga has begun, and yoga is completely neutral, and yoga is not a blind belief, and yoga is not a particular religion. Yoga was before that. Before, there was no other; this is all religion which is on the earth. What we call the philosophy of some great incarnations or the prophets. So that language is important: Sanskrit language, that Urdu language, that Greek language, that Latin. And there are one or two in Russian languages, someone said, that the best balanced language is that which balances both hemispheres. It is not one-sided. And so, a professor, a scientist about the languages, and he was talking about this, that which language influences, activates both hemispheres, time of talking, thinking, singing, writing, and in the dreaming too. So this is your Sanskrit language. Learning alone itself is trying that it is like… as I told before, updating your instrument, like Apple said, "Updating," yeah, and so if you learn new languages, you understand you have a balance. The Latin, if you know and think five minutes in the Latin language, morning or speak some, when you get up to yourself, you will feel there is something updating, balancing. Or Sanskrit, that is a knowledge. There was an immense amount of knowledge. Now, everything is hurry-hurry, use and throw, that is all. We can plant many things inside, put the masalas. So, yoga practice will help us to remove all the inner obstacles. Outer obstacles are easy to remove, maybe, or we just give up, or we go away. But where can you go away or give up when it is inside? And so Gaṇeśajī is within us, so our buddhi is the Gaṇeśajī. Yes, buddhi is the Gaṇeśa. And that buddhi in Sanskrit will help us very much. So we wish you all the best. And again, we will see tomorrow. If there is a webcast, then there will be a webcast. If there is no webcast, then it will be only without webcast. We wish you all the best. Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī. Deveśvara Mahādeva. Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān. Sat Niṣāṇānanda. Oṁ Śānti.