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Bhagavān kīśa, Deva-svarma-deva kīśa. Why is Shiva not in the picture? Shiva should also be in the picture. Okay, escape. Yeah, because only showing Shiva half, that’s not good. Good evening to everybody. Hari Om. This is our beautiful retreat about meditation, practice, and theory. Theory leads to practice. Theory is for inspiration, and practice is for experience and perfection. Before we begin to meditate, we should know why we meditate. What are my feelings, or what brings me to meditation? Is meditation good for me or not? Yes, meditation is very good for everyone, but there are different kinds of meditations. Persons who have some mental difficulties or problems, suffering very much from depressions, or who have symptoms of schizophrenia or hallucination from time to time—such people should have a different meditation. That meditation is healthy for people who have mental problems, as well as for healthy people. That meditation is known as active, creative meditation. When you work on something—let’s say you would like to paint a beautiful picture, a portrait, a nature picture, or anything—at that time, your work, what you are painting, or making a sculpture, or making some woodwork, a window, a door, anything you make with your hands—if you work with concentration and with interest, then that’s called creative meditation. Such creative meditation is more powerful and useful than just sitting with closed eyes. Just sitting with closed eyes and having lots of thoughts and restlessness is not good meditation. My work is my worship. Now, unfortunately, most of our production and manufacturing is done through machines, and humans have become the slaves of the machines. That is also one of the reasons, one of the causes, why suddenly in the world this economic crisis began. The machine took the work of the humans away. The owner of the machine, the owner of the factory, would like to manufacture more and more so that many consumers can have it. But the laborers are suffering. For example, in India, we have very nice rules from the Indian government. When the Indian government makes some projects for the well-being of the people or the laborers, they don’t allow machines. For example, digging a dam, making the streets, and such things—because it is for people, so that everyone can get some work. The education system in the last five or six decades has changed. The education system made a human one-sided, and that is another problem why humans now have the fear of existence. If one dentist cannot work in the workshop of the blacksmith, that is because the dentist never saw the blacksmith’s workshop. All the time, the human had the possibilities, facilities, and education to do many, many jobs. In your household, you were able to work on everything: fixing water pipes (what we call the plumbing), building, woodwork—many, many things. And now, when your water pipe is broken, you call the fire brigade. That shows that we are one-sided only. So this modern education made humans dependent. And so I have only this profession, and if in my profession there is no work for me, how will I survive? But those who have multi-talents say it doesn’t matter; I will work on different things. Work is enough in the world, but workers are not there. And if the workers are there, they are hopeless. They will destroy more than they will repair something. So in past times, people loved their jobs. They were creative, and they were making things with their hands, and they were happy. Not that they got money, but they were happy they could make a beautiful model or something, and they were happy about their success. That success was their creative meditation, their active meditation. Those who have concentration problems should make creative meditation. Okay? Your car driving is very concentrated. And if you have even a micro-sleep, it can cause a very terrible accident. And so the worker who is working should work with love and concentration. So creative meditation makes humans multi-talented, capable, and healthy. Therefore, do not be ashamed to clean your street in front of your house, or clean your staircase, or do some work. It doesn’t matter, male or female, but hard work was always for the male, and soft work was for the female. Though it is a soft, simple work, it was harder than what the man is doing. The ladies had a competition: who will cook nice, who can make a nice apple pie. We all like the apple pie, but if you tell me how to make apple pie, then you will say, "Swāmījī would have been better," what you call the dumpling, or who will make a very nice chapātī. It looks like, nearly like a papadum. It’s a competition: who will make exactly 100 chapatis with the same measurement, like done? Now you will say, like done with the machine. That is a talent of the women, and nowadays many women even don’t know how to make the chapati dough. Ninety percent of women don’t know how to cook in the world, and if they cook, they look in the book: cooking fire on, okay, yeah, clean pot, okay, one and a half tablespoon mustard oil, a little coriander. Little jeera, oh my God. Where is jeera? Till the oil is burned, coriander is burned, the whole house is full of this smoke. Then chip the onions and put them in. Now garlic, that’s garlic. Okay. Curcuma, the powder, haldi. In my kitchen, there is no haldi. Tell husband, "Go quickly, please, next shop, bring haldi quickly." The poor man has to run. Can you imagine how is that cooking with the book? Because we had no interest, and we did not get training from our mother. We were lazy. Now, our children are only interested in video games, television, and what you call the laptop, and also this, what they call the SMS, the Game Boys—and there is no Game Girls, only boys inside. And they don’t know what the father is doing or the mother is doing, how to learn. So the wisdom, the talent is disappearing. Your grandmother was a very good cook. But that knowledge went away with her. She died, and that knowledge disappeared. Like you had a memory, and suddenly you’ve forgotten; it disappeared. And therefore, humans became more dependent, the slaves of the machines. The problem is education. So, as a parent, your duty is to inspire your children: how to cook, how to work, how to do things in a good manner. Children like it. You know, your small children, one year, two years old, three years, four years, they would like it very much that parents play with them. But parents have no time. They go to the cinema, they go to the theatre, they go to the clubs, and they have a babysitter. And the babysitter plays a little and says, "Psst, sleep down." You know how many children are afraid and have fear from the babysitters. Of course, many babysitters are very nice. They are much better than the mother, perhaps. But still, a babysitter is only a sitter, but a mother is the baby’s mother. That’s very important. So, creative meditation makes society beautiful. Creative meditation will make you happy. The creative meditation will make your flat look so beautiful. Otherwise, sometimes, you know, I saw a few times, I went suddenly to someone’s, I said, "Oh God, you are here, Swāmījī." One sock’s lying there, the other sock’s somewhere else, and one pulley is lying somewhere else. And for the last five days, I’ve been eating plates dry with the spoon lying there. What are you doing? Quickly taking a dress, making lipstick, or a man making this tie and going out. But how does the flat look? How your flat looks, girls and boys, that is not your flat. That is your inner self. That’s how you look inside. And to put the things in order, two things, it doesn’t take a long time. But one week, you every day throw two, two things, it becomes sixteen things. And the sixteen, to make it in order, takes a long time. But who can teach you? Only your father or your mother. And so, creative meditation means you come home from your work and say, "Be happy," and nicely clean the flat, and nicely sit down, and nicely cook and relax, practice āsanas, and have your morning breakfast. Don’t throw your plate somewhere and run to work. No. Nicely clean everything and put it in order. Butter again in the phrase, bread in the bread case, everything, nice and clean. In case of case, if some thief comes in, he will find the clean things. Otherwise, the thief doesn’t like to eat in your dirty plates. That’s not good karma, that you leave the dirty things for the persons who will go in the flat. And if there is some good, clever thief, a normal thinker will say, "My God, this person is so nice." I don’t want to take anything away. I go back. That’s it. So, thief means your vṛttis, those vṛttis, your thoughts, your anger, your disappointment, your disappointment, your anger, and your vṛttis. These are the thieves who will run away from you, and your inner beauty will be suffering. So, creative meditation: help your parents, help your grandparents, help your partner, help your children, help your brothers and sisters. Make a beautiful home, a beautiful thing at home. That is a creative meditation. You know, there are the nice birds making a nest under the windows, under the ceiling. I was observing the way of Hungary from my window. So even the small babies who are inside, the birds are teaching them: coming out, making a pip outside, and then going again into the nest. That’s it. Only the monkey who doesn’t do, the monkey sitting in the dirt, and that is all. So don’t be the monkey, that monkey which is like that. Creative meditation. So go for a walk, observe nature, understand the beauty of nature. Look at the water. Understand the water creatures, how happy they are swimming. Everywhere you look in nature, there is harmony. If there is disharmony, it is only the humans bringing disharmony inside. So creative meditation is a beauty of your house. Love, harmony, and respect among your family members. Respect, love, and harmony in society, and that means developing personality. You are developing inside positively. Who cannot work? Who cannot give the hands to others to work? That person is, sorry to say, like a dry plum, you know, blue sweat skin. Dry sweat, skin, because you can’t open. You cannot work, and you are a slave of only one profession, that’s all. So meditation is inspiration and beauty of yourself and beauty for others. So, people who have mental problems should not close their eyes and meditate. Because that will make them more introverted, more depressed, and they will get more anxiety. Though such people have a tendency to close their eyes and do nothing, that is dangerous for them. Sometimes, when there are psychic problems, or there is something wrong with your nerves, then you feel some different energy in your body and you think this is kuṇḍalinī. That is not a kuṇḍalinī. When kuṇḍalinī awakes, when beautiful energy awakens in your body, you will be the happiest person in the world, relaxed, healthy, happy, and very clear in your mind, kind. The concept of kuṇḍalinī in the world is misunderstood—a lot, a lot misunderstood. It is not like that craziness. Kundalini means the awakening of your inner beauty and your inner talents. It’s like the sun comes out of darkness in the dark night. Like the sun comes out of the clouds, like the sun comes out of the fog. And so it is when the Kuṇḍalinī is awakening. You come to the harmony, to the clarity. This few weekends we dedicated for meditation, creating the theory and practice. The next lectures will be in different parts of the world. Again, I will come to the chakras and kuṇḍalinī. And I am very happy that all our dear brothers and sisters around the world, while sitting in the far distance, they can benefit and listen more about this. You should have the book, Hidden Powers in Humans: Chakras and Kundalini Yoga, which is available in different languages, about ten different languages, and you can order it from your webcast. It will be easier for you to follow my lectures if you read that beautiful book. Also, about guru-bhakti and what we talk about in bhajans, why and when Gurudev sang such a bhajan. You said, "Order the Lila Amrit," which my Gurudev, my master, our Satguru, Holy Gurujī wrote a book called Lila Amrit about Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī, Alagpurījī, and so on. So creative meditation is a beauty, is a balance. And if the creative meditation is done well, with concentration, then what you are creating is harmonizing with nature. Your work should harmonize with nature and protect nature. Otherwise, if there is no beauty of the nature in it, then there is disharmony. And disharmony will create again anxiety, confusion, disappointment, complications, and it is useless. So we should all begin to learn creative meditation. Sit near a lake, river, pond, or on a beach. Look at the water, and you will get immense inspiration. You need not close your eyes, just sit, relax, and look at the water. Sit on the beach and see the ocean waves and the beauty of the ocean. The ocean is breathing. Each wave is like the ocean breathing, and you see the beautiful sunrise or sunset. It gives immense inspiration. Don’t close your eyes and sit there. No, just see the beauty, because this is a creative meditation. Of course, you can also sit with closed eyes and meditate, but we are talking now about creative meditation. Or take a pen and paper and write a beautiful poem, or an article, or a book, something. When you write, you put your inner beauty, your wisdom, your visions, your qualities into your writing. Fingers are only moving according to that inspiration. It is inspiration, the wisdom which is moving your fingers, not that you are moving the fingers. It’s not easy to write. Though you have many years of school, university, and college, to write a beautiful article, how many times, how many pieces of paper do you destroy? You write once, and then you write a second time, and then you write a third time. Writing a nice article to put in a short sentence everything, that is your creative meditation. You have to think it over. You have to take time to write something. One philosopher received a letter from someone and asked a question. And the philosopher immediately wrote a letter back, a long, long letter. He wrote about eight pages. And at the end, he wrote, "I’m sorry to write a long letter because I didn’t have the time." "I didn’t have the time" means I had no time to overthink and put my inner feelings into this. And therefore, if you don’t know exactly what you are writing, what kind of effect or influence it will have on others, better not to write. When you are angry with someone and someone writes you a letter, do not answer immediately. If you answer, then write a letter and put it in the drawer. After five days, take it out and read it. If you really would like to write this, you say, "No, I don’t want to." You will throw it away, because the high waves of emotion calm down. Argument always makes you stupid. Jñānī se jñānī mile, kare jñānī kī bāt. When the wise meet the wise, then they speak about wisdom. Ajnānī se ajnānī mile, ke ghumake lāṭ. If donkey meets donkey, they fight with the back legs kicking. So, immediately putting your opinion is a form of stupidity. If you are doing out of emotion, but if out of clarity, certainty, and if you have the forgiveness in your heart and understanding, then do it. You are the one who is suffering from your disappointment. You can’t forget. That’s your problem. It is you. That’s it. Nobody else. It is you. If someone gives you a slap on the cheek, you are guilty, not the other one. Why were you there? That’s it. If you wouldn’t be there, no slap on the cheek. So you are the guilty, not the other ones. Because others said, "My habit is always to go like this." That’s it, it is his habit, and your habit is to stand near. You got it, and that’s why Jesus said, "Then sow the second seed also." Why? Because one side blue is not good. You have both sides blue. Nice cosmetic, at least. So learn to forgive and learn to forget. And you go and tell the person, "I am sorry, excuse me." Don’t expect from others. That is our creative meditation, my dear. Meditation in action, meditation in thoughts, and create a beauty in this world, the beauty of your inner self. Otherwise, whatever you are writing, one sentence is beautiful, full of love and understanding, and the next sentence is full of complexity and this. It means you are a very poor person inside. You are torturing yourself. No one tells you to be sad and cry every day. So work is worship. Meditation is beautiful. Either you do it with closed eyes, or you help and work. That’s it. So, next session we will have about meditation. After one and a half hours, we have now a one and a half hour interval for dinner, and I wish you a very good dinner. And I will be there again, and we will have then what we call passive meditation, and we will speak about inner meditation. Everyone, dear brothers and sisters, you are also welcome to join us after one and a half hours for the meditation. Today I will lead meditation for all of you, those who are not here, those who are only with the webcast, or who are sitting here. Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī, Deveśvara Mahādeva kī, Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān kī.