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O Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī Jai, Deveśvara Mahādeva kī, Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma kī. Good evening to all dear ones and spiritual seekers here and in other parts of the world who are with us through the webcast or here in person. You know, all times are good. And when you begin to talk, the cup is talking with most of you. You are all advanced students and practitioners. This morning we had some practical instructions, what we call yoga helps. You all came here for yoga practice. It doesn’t matter from which country or city you are, or what brought you to yoga. The main question in your mind was to gain good health, to become free from stress. Some thought, "I want to know the sense of this life." Some were a little interested in the philosophy. But the main purpose was good health, a relaxed and happy life. Then you read more books, you spoke with your friends, and day by day your interest awakened. You gained more motivation, you had interest to know what more there is, and so you are here today. The knowledge is endless. Many of us who came to practice yoga, in the beginning few months, you were practicing every day. Afterward, you tried to avoid one day, two days, no practicing. And you were listening to people talk about spirituality, God, miracles. "Yes. Oh God. How is that?" So we were inspired more and more. We went more into the theories, and practice was neglected. But tons of theory are nothing compared with a gram of practice. So as long as you discipline your practice, you will definitely achieve your goal, and you will enjoy a healthy, long life. But not if you practice one week and then don’t practice for three weeks. Unfortunately, there is nothing like that. It is like nourishment, like food. We eat every day, and when we are hungry, we give up all work and we eat. One human, in a whole lifetime, consumes 80 to 90 tons of food. Can you imagine 80 to 90 tons? How much will this whole be full? This small body consumes 80 to 90 tons. So, if you are able to finish so many tons, you can do a little practice also, so that you can digest the tons easily. When we practice every day, we will enjoy our food, and we will be able to have energy for a long, long time. Time is long, life is long. It is never too late to begin practice. Every day, the best time is to practice in the morning. Go to sleep one or two hours earlier, get up two hours earlier, and practice for two to three hours. For one month in the morning, it will be a little bit not so pleasant. You can’t get up, you are tired, and you don’t want this and that. After one month, you will not miss your sleep, and you will enjoy life, and the whole day you are free. That’s why Patañjali said, "Atha yoga anuśāsanam." Yoga begins with discipline. Atha means just now, not tomorrow. Begin now with the discipline. That’s why the people who begin with yoga are more healthy than old practitioners. When you don’t practice properly, then the mental pollution is there that will draw you back, not indifferent. So practice mantra, practice meditation, practice prāṇāyāma, practice āsanas, and maintain family harmony, and maintain your good relations with your neighbors and with your colleagues. That means yoga will give you the best life, a good life. But if you will not practice, then we’ll be jealous. When there’s one yoga center and another opens on the next street, one yoga center, there’s jealousy. Then the third one opens, again another one is jealous. It should not be like that. Be happy that more people are opening centers and having yoga practice. Those yoga centers which are opening quickly are like water bubbles. They will not last long, and students will know what is authentic yoga. In the whole world, there are few authentic yoga schools. Their disciples are around the world. Yoga in Delhi life is 52 years old, and our paramparā, our spiritual lineage, is ages old. There is another school of yoga from Swami Śivānandajī of Ṛṣikeśa. The Aurobindo’s philosophy, Aurobindo. Raman Maharishi, Raman’s Ramakrishna. These are authentic teachings. They were self-realized great saints, and their teachings are in the world. But people go to India or somewhere for 10 days, and they come with a yoga certificate. That cannot give you that quality of yoga. Why do we practice yoga? To lead a healthy, happy, harmonious, and peaceful life. Now, how many years have you been practicing? Do you have this peace and harmony within you? If someone tells you bad things, will you peacefully listen? Will you act out and attack? No. So, inner peace—that is yoga. It gives wisdom. This is one part I would suggest you. I don’t order you, but practice every day; that’s good for you and for your family. Slowly, slowly, a family will also learn that. Another thing, let’s come to the other part. The Earth seems to be the biggest planet, and the life here is different. There is no other life like this in this universe. Maybe it was sometimes, and we are searching for bones there. What bone will help you go on? Mars, Jupiter. There was sometime water. Before you search for water on Jupiter, protect water here on Earth. But humans always want to have more and different. Goethe, the German philosopher Goethe, said to see the blue sky, you need not go anywhere. So whatever you have, preserve that, practice. Anyhow, now there are certain principles or certain things. One is called space. Space is space, always expanding and contracting. It means the space is breathing. Space expands with our intellect. Within that space, which I always used to say, is consciousness. Now, space can’t do anything, and consciousness has no desire. Consciousness has no desire, and space can’t do anything. Between them, these two, is called desire, Icchā Śakti. But desire through what? And so it is said in the Vedas, "Eko’haṁ bahusyāmi"—I am one and I will expand myself or multiply. It’s not easy to understand. Someone asked, "How does heaven look?" So, it is said that without dying, you can’t see heaven. So, die to see heaven. And if you can’t see heaven after death, you can’t come back and tell me, "You told me that I will see heaven, but I don’t see it." So, heaven and hell are within this body. Sometimes, there are so many problems, pain, and disease. It is like being in hell. And sometimes happy, joyful, "Oh my god, maybe heaven." It is a changing life situation. So the consciousness has no desire; consciousness has no desire. Space can’t do anything. And dead material is not capable. So, how does the creation begin? How does this creation begin? We didn’t fall from the sky down like water drops. There is something which comes and goes. So, this is called Icchā Śakti. Icchā means wish, desire. This Icchā begins with certain desires. At midnight, why did you go to the kitchen and open the fridge? Because you were hungry or thirsty, and you wanted to get cold water from the fridge. So, that was desire. So, if that develops, one would call it the individual consciousness, but still, consciousness can’t do anything. But through that sound, what we call the OM, that was exploding, a big sound. It was not creating distraction, no. It was harmonizing and uniting, within which, between the space, consciousness, and desire, that energy awoke. So desire cannot be there if there is no energy. And when we are without energy, we can’t get up, and we can’t even talk. So it is all in the game of the energy, the play of the energy within the consciousness. So that energy, Ākar, Ukar, and Makar—that’s the sound—creates the form, the energy, and the creation. The three qualities: Sāttvic, Rājasic, and Tāmasic; Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva—the Trinity. But still, in this space, only the resonance. And in our whole body, every cell of the body is resonance. Dead cells have no resonance: the sound of the heartbeat, the blood circulation. So this resonance is the origin of that home and that energy; the resonance is collecting. So we are the pure consciousness. We are the pure consciousness. No desire, everlasting, unbreakable, spotless is the consciousness. That is the ātmā. But within this, the resonance begins, and there awakes awareness. Awareness, that is something new. Within the consciousness, the awareness now became individual. This resonance, the sound collects in that light of the Ātmā, in the consciousness and the space. The consciousness is life. Life is life. It never dies. And the space. So the space is a mother, and within the mother’s body is the embryo. That embryo is the consciousness: Hiraṇya Garbha, the golden embryo. Within that consciousness, awareness. Now this vibration collects, and a very interesting subject: the soul manifests. The soul, that energy with the resonance, is called the taraṅga, the waves, one after the other wave. Before there were no waves; it was only oneness. And so the soul begins to develop. The soul is the seed of that resonance, and there, in that, lies awareness. Awareness is watching, making a clear picture, focusing. Then comes the intellect. Now you see the space, the Consciousness, the energy, the desire, and the resonance. Light—there is a light. With the chanting of the Aum, these are the waves, or like a sun ray is a light. Not this physical light, that is a light of the consciousness, light of that Ātmā, and light of that life, which life came from the origin, the consciousness. Intellect. Intellect is the form, the hidden form of the ego. To know, to survive. Without ego, we cannot survive. Yes. It is our ego that asks us to eat, drink, and to survive. So ego is not bad, but when it is dominating, then it is destructive; then it will kill us. So, the intellect. Intellect is again empty space. Now, that intellect needs some objects, some instructions. So, what we call education. And it is there, but we don’t know. I know, but you don’t know. It means there is existence. If it does not exist, how should I know? But you don’t know, and therefore you can’t even think about it. You have an intellect, but in your intellect’s dictionary, there is no such word, and without that word, there is no form. And now I will tell you. So there is something which I have, and you don’t; you have but you don’t know. So I have one gāḍī; now tell me please, what is a gāḍī? Because this word is not clear in your intellect, but it is clear in mine. You have, but you have no knowledge about that. And of course, I will tell you what a gāḍī is; then you will know. You will say, of course I also have this, it is a gāḍī. What is that? What? You have a gāḍī or not? Say yes or no. So now your intellect has this gaḍī. So whatever we have in our intellect is achieved through the five senses. And these five senses are to see, to hear, to smell, to taste, and to touch with the skin. So these five senses, they collect the vṛttis, the thoughts, and the intellect has to be very careful. It will say this is this, and this is this. In this, the awareness is that which will take care of your knowledge, care of your habits. Awareness will tell you, "Don’t do," or, "Do it." Example: you know how to drive, so it is your intellect that has the ability to drive a car, but your awareness tells you, "Be careful, there’s a car coming, an accident can happen, so be aware." So make the aware person not fall into the hole. So now, the awareness, intellect, and now between that is coming another tendency, that’s called mind. Awareness is the supervisor. It tells you, "Mind is good, but be careful. Mind can put you sometimes in troubles." So don’t follow the mind’s desires. Awake the awareness. That awareness is very important. Be aware. Awake the awareness in the people’s mind, in the brain. Awareness of the environment. When we are all aware of the environment, we will not create pollution. But our intellect, where are our desires? In our brain, and that’s called the pollution, is born out of the human’s brain. And what we call the soul is rolling now in all these complications. That soul can’t go out of it. Twenty-two football champions are standing in a football field, and there’s one football. That is a soul. Every day, they are kicking here and there; these senses that the mind plays with. The observer, he’s observing, telling you wrong or no. You are out, you are wrong. So this individual soul is fluttering on the waves of time through the endless universe, sometimes through darkness and sometimes through light. The soul is alone, never together. After the body is gone, you will be alone again. You have no power over your house, your car, your money, your husband, your wife, your children, or anything. This life is just like a picnic; then we will clean and go further. So this soul, this soul is longing to come back home to the origin, this ātmā to that consciousness. Like holy gurus used to say, "Not this body, I am." The consciousness, "I am the pure consciousness." That is the purpose of the yoga, the science of yoga. In this life, this body is a tool for us, an instrument for us. Whatever we want to achieve, we can achieve. If we go towards the Ātmā, and if we are in ignorance, then we fall into the darkness. Then we are in those prapañca, those restlessnesses. Then it is like this: one can’t swim and falls into the water. Others, who also can’t swim, jump in the water to rescue the other one. How will they rescue that one? So, the blind shows the blind. Therefore, we should be awakened. That is the truth of our own self. Therefore, it is said, Brahma-niṣṭha śrotriya satguru. Yes, definitely, he will guide, protect, and liberate us. So we will continue tomorrow. So this is another part of yoga, which connects all spirituality, all religion, all the gods, and whatever you call it. Every holy book tells good things, you see. So everyone should have pure thoughts, good thoughts. Who are we, or who am I, that I judge you? Are you bad or good? When you think or speak negative words, that pollutes your consciousness and puts your awareness out of the way, and we are on the way to destruction. Therefore, pure, purity. So tomorrow we will continue. Now it’s too much. Otherwise, you will not be able to digest. He said, "Consciousness, awareness, mind, consciousness." Now you come home, and your wife will say, "What did Swamiji tell?" You will say, "Yeah, something consciousness, awareness, consciousness, awareness." And it’s a foreign language coming from Sanskrit thinking, Hindi thinking, English, and then Hungarian, and then Serbian, Croatian, Czech. So every time it’s changed.