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Om sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ, sarve santu nirāmayāḥ, sarve bhadrāṇi paśyantu, mā kaścid duḥkha bhāgbhavet, om śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ. Herzlich Willkommen. Many in Salzburg have practiced yoga, perfected it, and gone on to teach it elsewhere. But here, there is little patience—that is the truth one must always speak. People want self-realization immediately: Ātmā-jñāna. Yet Ātmā-jñāna is not so easy. We all possess Ātmā-jñāna. Ātmā is the Self, our true Self. Ātmā is one with God; as ātmā, we are all one. There is Paramātmā, the highest Self. Ātmā, sohī Paramātmā. Ātmā is the highest Self. Paramātmā, so’ham ātmā. So’ham: I am this, that is me. After the Ātmā comes Jīvātmā. Jīva, the soul. Und Seele ist kein Ātmā. Ātmā, Anātmā ist die Seele. What is Karma? What we do is Karma. Action with a reaction. It is like a wheel, and the Ātmā is in between action and reaction. Our deeds, and what do we get back? The soul is affected; the soul is the victim of our karma. Our deeds and their fruits, what will happen, are called śikṣā, bhāgya, our śikṣā. Karma is in our hands. Each of us does karma, and the karma is in our hands, in our power. We can decide whether to do something or not. Karma is with us. But once we have done something, nothing is in our hands anymore. Like a bullet in a rifle: as long as it is in our hands and we do not use it, it is in our hands. But when the bullet is fired, it is gone from us. So, what will happen? We have done this. This is the fruit of Bhāgyakarma. The action has a reaction, which we can call my śikṣā. So śikṣā is our deeds. Consider a bicycle wheel, connected at the middle with the mechanic. The wheel turns, and the middle is the soul. The whole universe, the wheel turns, but the middle is always there, and that is the soul. Seele ist nicht Ātmā. Ātmā hat keine Karma. Ātmā wirkt nichts als Karma. So, Ātmā ist unberührbar. Er hat keine Form. This room is unity. Only the walls, the dualism, separate. Once there was a forest here. Then someone took the property and built these walls. But they could not separate space. One day it will all be taken away again; it will be demolished. Space will always be space. Here in this space, we can try to sit with a gun, but we do not see a hole. We can say that fire is burning, but space cannot burn anything. So, Ātmā is the Self. This Self is us. All living beings have this Ātmā. Even plants have the Ātmā. Then comes the Jīvātmā, which means life. Such life is a change, a changing, death and birth. The body does not die. It reunites all the elements into other elements again: water in water, fire in fire, air in air, space in space, earth in earth. All five elements separate again. What brings them together is an energy. That energy is what we can call yoga. Two bricks are held together with cement. So the prāṇa energy, the life energy, holds our body together for a while. Then it grows old. The cement will not last that long, or the bricks will not last long anymore. So the soul wanders again. The soul from that time wanders, floats on the waves of time in space. Schmerzen, allein. Niemand ist dort. Niemand. Da unsere Sikschal, our destiny. With the principles, it is said, Dharmarāja. Dharmarāja ist der König. Dharamrāj is the God of justice. He gives the judgment. The souls are as many as clouds, and everyone has his own soul. According to this, the soul comes back to this earth. This is called Mṛtyuloka, the world of strife. It comes, goes, comes, goes, and the soul comes back. There are 8.4 million different kinds of living beings that exist on this Earth, and all come through karma. They can no longer create karma, but they suffer or are happy. They have to go through this karma. Only a human being, when the soul comes to the human body, receives an intellect, spirit, and feelings in the heart as grace. That is why humans now have the freedom to do good or bad. But they cannot be free from karma. They must live the former karma from the former life, just as animals do. But through certain exercises, prayers, and believing—whether you believe or not, the reality is there—through positive things, positive thoughts, positive actions, and positive energies, we can overcome or cleanse our karma. Or we can create even more complications. When we think negatively and do bad things, then we have karma again, and we go back. Now, Dharamrāj says, "You have so little karma to go back as a human being. The rest is all animal life. Do you want this, or do you want to try again?" He says, "Now I want to try again." Fortunately, you meet Swamiji. And then he says something and says, "Well, the Indians always have thoughts like that." Nicely said, but it is not like that. It means a blind person goes through a large hall, and only one door is to be opened. Blind people have their own technique for how to get out. He puts his hand on the wall and goes slowly. When the door comes, he goes on, starts scratching here and there, but goes on and gives his hand back to the wall. The door stays behind. He goes on and on, comes there and scratches here on the axle, and goes back. He says, "Lord God, how big is this hall!" und Blackmailings und das und das, Gedanken. We do exactly what others do, but we do not see our own thoughts and deeds. We hide them, but we blame others, so we get double karma again. Then it goes back to the animals. It can go back to the reptiles or even further back. The soul remains the soul. The soul is always the same, but the form is different, and the ability is different. So, 8.4 million different living beings. One is a human being who can free himself through good deeds. Then the soul. It happens when you do spiritual exercises. There are many spiritual exercises. It does not just have to be yoga. It does not just have to be Indus. Everywhere in the whole world, there were many saints. There are still many saints. So it is like this: a snowball lies on the field. The sun is strong, and because of the heat of the sun, slowly, slowly, the snowball melts and is no longer there. Because this snow has melted, and now there is water in the ocean. So our soul, when it is freed from karma, becomes one with Ātmā. This is called self-realization. We know that it exists. Theoretically, we know. Someone said, "The tones of theory cannot be compared to a gram of practice." Practice is important. Only thinking does not help us so much. So, ātmā jñāna, but as I said before, people have no patience. They want to be holy right the next morning. So, holy. They are holy, not holy. And that is the goal of human birth. Whether we believe or not, we believe. Was? Unglaublich. It is only one, Brahman. And this world is temporary. It is temporary, and so, yoga, yoga. Now, many people know what yoga is. My God, the Prime Minister of India, Modi, has brought such a storm. Yoga, yoga, all, everywhere. Within a week, 170 or 200 nations said, "Yes, we are pro-yoga, we are pro-yoga, we are pro-yoga." Now everyone is trying to do yoga, but what? What most people are practicing as yoga now is not yoga. Turning a body like this is not yoga. Yoga, thoughts, and certain exercises—it must be holistic, not just practice. It is now like in a circus. Everyone says, "I practice Haṭha Yoga." And no one practices Haṭha Yoga. That is a miracle. For 45 years here in Austria, I have explained that this is not Haṭha Yoga, and still they say, "No, I practice Haṭha Yoga." They do not practice Hatha Yoga. I do not know how fixed in Austria and in Europe they wanted to do Hatha Yoga. It is not Haṭha Yoga. They call us and say, "In the Yoga Center, we want to practice Haṭha Yoga, do you have a Haṭha Yoga class?" We also say then, "Yes, please come." Although it is not Haṭha Yoga, Haṭha Yoga is another technique. Only six techniques: Netī, Dhautī, Bastī, Naulī, Trāṭaka, Kapālabhāti, and Bastī. That is Haṭha Yoga, six techniques. What we practice here—āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, relaxation, concentration—is not Haṭha Yoga. But no, everyone says we practice Haṭha Yoga. Okay, we practice Haṭha Yoga. Yoga comes from God Śiva, and Śiva is his own being. He has no mother, no father. He is the first God or human. Śiva manifested from the whole universe. When Śiva manifested, he was in meditation. For several centuries, he was in meditation. The stories of Śiva are infinite. Later, all of them came. So knowledge, the science of yoga, has been brought by God Śiva. That is for our health, for our well-being, for our self-realization, etc., etc., etc. The name has different exercises. Yoga is yoga. These are two words, and Shiva is also two words. The words do not have very long names. All saints, all gods, they did not write anything. Dr. Jesus, Professor Rama, and Director Krishna. No one has this title, only very short names, like Jesus, Kṛṣṇa, Rāma, Śiva, Brahmā, Viṣṇu—short names. This whole title that we have is our ego, our position. No matter what position we have, one day our final position will be on the ground. Beautiful, flat, straight on the back, and the hands will be given so that you can no longer have anything. Viṣṇu. Viṣṇu. So, beginning with Haṭha Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga, Jñāna Yoga, Rāja Yoga, Sahaja Yoga, Nāḍī Yoga, Kriyā Yoga, Tantra Yoga, Mantra Yoga, Yantra Yoga. Feel it, feel it, feel the techniques. All this. All lead to the same goal, but have a different kind of practice. So, yoga, two words are yoga union. The whole universe between space and consciousness—these are the two, infinite space. Space is the same. Goethe said, to see a blue sky, you do not need to travel anywhere. And so is Raum. Raum is like the cup of a mother’s life, endless. So the sky is the Divine Mother. And Vibhūṣaṇ, Consciousness, is the Self, the Ātmā. In between, this Consciousness is the golden embryo. That means the golden embryo is the consciousness that wanders as a human being. Between space and consciousness, there is a universal consciousness, not conscious-universal. Within the space is the consciousness. Between the two is an energy that is called yoga. Then everything works slowly: consciousness, then comes the ātmā (which is anyhow there), then comes jīvātmā, then comes awareness, concentration, mind, again energy, then body. In yoga, all these subjects, all the themes are spoken and searched through, and practiced. So comes the body. The body is nothing, everything. But everything is nothing without the body, so what can we achieve? Only through this body. As long as our body is there, we can do everything. After that, gone, finished. So the body should be healthy. Two things are very important: food and yoga. Movement and food. The two are very important for our lives. Food, sattvic food. Rajas and Tamas. These are the three Guṇas in the Bhagavad Gītā. It is written very clearly. Ayurveda is also used. Now Ayurveda is also very famous in the West. So this is the quality of Āyurveda or the Guṇas. Sattva guṇa is a positive, pure, sattvic quality. This water is very pure, very clear. You do not need any other type of water. In Austria, the water is very good. In Salzburg, it is particularly good. Then comes the second quality, which is called Rajas guṇa. Calm, aggressive, temperament, many things: anger, hatred, envy, greed. My God, something else, a lot. Yes, we need that, yes. And last, third, Tamas guṇa. In Austria, there is also the name Thomas. So please, I do not mean that. So tamas guṇa is laziness; an enemy of people is laziness. You lose everything through laziness. Food makes us lazy. The energy wanders and says, "Well, I do not care, I do not want to, I am tired, I will leave it." Time does not wait for anyone, and karma will not leave anyone free. Dann, wie gesagt, without time and space. And so, Nāruṅg. Nāruṅg has a different quality or a different kind of Nāruṅg. Our body has five layers. These are called the five kośas: Annamaya kośa, Prāṇamaya kośa, Manomaya kośa, Vijñānamaya kośa, and Ānandamaya kośa. Five kośas: the body of nourishment, annamaya (the physical body); the prāṇa body; the mental body; the intellectual body; and the causal body. Causal body means ānandamaya kośa, the body of desire, not the highest supreme ānanda. This is our longing. We come back again. We try to get out, but our longing for feelings brings us back again. Like an addicted person who takes some kind of drug and says, "I do not want it anymore." But tomorrow it starts again, and that is how it is. These five kośas need different types of food. Physical food is also food. Thought is food. Social food is food, not social food. Silence is food. Moving is food, and not moving is food. Everything we do in every direction is an energy for us. For yoga practitioners, you should have āhār, vihār, ācār, and vicār. These are four principles, very important. Whether you believe in God or not, let God sit on one side. God is what you manifest yourself. Your deeds, your thoughts, your thoughts are God. It is nothing else. What we do is the energy in our body. Everything we do. A movement, a posture, is an energy. It is cleaned away. The energy used and the energy used by others, everything is cleaned. Āsanas are very important. The tāmas guṇas go away. So, annamaya kośa, prāṇamaya kośa, manomaya kośa, vijñānamaya kośa, and ānandamaya kośa. The food we eat affects our body, our mind, our consciousness, and our soul. No matter what we eat, āhār, vihār. Vihar means where we go, in which society, in which place we go. We go hiking in the mountains, in the forest. How beautiful, how good the prāṇa is. Or you go to a place where there are many different types of smoke, and movement, and dance, and the light. Black, white, black, red, green, blue, I do not know how many. And then in the morning, it is all soaked in tamoguṇas. So where do we go? When you get up in the morning and go into the church, it is a completely different thought. Or you get up and go to a local and sit there with vodka right in the morning. You sit in a church or in a local, but the quality is different, the effect is different. So go to a temple, or a yoga center, or a church, or go to your mother or grandmother and sit with your grandmother for a while. It gives you a lot of love, a lot of feelings, and a lot of things: āhār, vihār, ācār. Behavior. Conduct. Āhār, vihār, āchār. And vichār. What we think: a thought can save us, and a thought can destroy us. The speech, what you speak, should be so that it makes you happy and others happy. Whoever has negative tamas guṇa in his inner self, this person has only negative words against someone or has done something. But when he has done it for himself, there is a golden thought for himself. And there, the effect is back on our consciousness. Look, yoga in daily life is the harmony of body, mind, and soul. How do we bring harmony when we have achieved or realized harmony? Through yoga exercises, meaning āsanas and prāṇāyāma, which are very important. Breathing exercises and body exercises, harmony of the body. Harmony of the mind is meditation. Meditation is very, very important. Meditation is one of the best healing methods, and the soul. Pray. Practice mantra. Breathe. The soul becomes relaxed and happy. But you go to the church and sit there and say, "Lord God, let my gesheft... Besides my gesheft, these are so bad, people, they should give away their gesheft." And we go from here. So there are people who pray against someone and sit in the church. God says, "Leave at least one place where you can think positively." Therefore, the church and nothing for the negative thoughts. Everything attacks us internally and influences our next life. This life is already ruined. And now, in the future, we are also preparing complications. So think positively, pray, repeat the mantra. No matter which language, which god. We in India, the Hindus and Śāntadharma, we worship all gods. All of them. It does not matter if it is Jesus, Muhammad, Allah, Krishna, Buddha, all, all. Good things are good for everyone, and bad things are not good at all. So tolerance is very important. If you have tolerance, then you do not think negatively. Because no one has tolerance, the thought is very bad. Once I was in a church in Gartenkamp, in the Ballviertel. The priest was my good friend. We practiced together, and he practiced mantra and many things. Once he brought me to the church. At the mass, he said, "Swami, you should speak a little bit." He invited me and introduced me, and I spoke a little bit, five minutes or so, ten minutes. They see me and say, "I see, I see what the people have seen," and come and say, "So negative." Now I sit in the church, in front of the statue of Jesus, at the mass, and I have such negative thoughts. More often, when I walked around here in orange clothes, people saw me. It becomes much more often. From here, it is different, because they do not know that. Now, television, through the electronic media, television and this and this... and this. So negative thoughts are very bad, very bad. It destroys the whole atmosphere of the country, the village, the city. Positive thoughts. I made an experience once. Should I say it was a bit negative? I did not ask him what he was saying; he told me he was going to talk about harmony. It was a long time ago, I think it was 1981. 1981 or so. A lake called Chiemsee. Yes. After the Austrian-German lake. A Hungarian came there as a refugee. He was my student there, the whole family. So I went there. But in a small village next door, I wanted to know where the next village would be, and so on. Now, there is a navigator, so I do not need to ask anyone. I had a VW car, a VW van. I parked it and wanted to ask someone. I went into the business center and asked, and came back. Two older ladies came. Maybe they were 80 or 90-year-old women. One of them saw me. They both turned around and said, "Who is that?" And I heard. They stood there and looked at me. I go to my car. He has a car. The other woman said, but I ask myself, where did he get a car from? Then I also made a joke. I said loudly, "He stole it." Such experiences are not always made. So, positive thoughts in yoga are very important. If you did not like anything, okay. But you should not put negative thoughts in your head. Positive, positive, positive. So where do you go? Which friend do you have? Your best friend will never put something negative, like blackmailing, in your thoughts. In another land, another religion, or a different person, and so on. So, friend, is that when you speak negatively, the friend will say, "No, no, listen to me. Why do you speak like that? Come, let us talk about God, or health, or nature, and so on." So harmony, mantra practice, and positive thinking are the liberation and harmony in the soul. The soul breathes, now I have a chance to be freed from so many births and deaths, wandering in the whole universe. Many people do not believe in rebirth. Yes, that can be, because they are eternal. Fire of fire, how do you say it? Fiery fire. Because they have such karma, they are forever hanging somewhere. Rebirth is there. Return and go and be free. Rebirth is called rebirth. Many do not believe. Belief does not end. I have a paper napkin, and it is a nice color. It has another color too. This side, this color, is not so environmentally friendly. And this side is very natural. But this paper is recycling and environmentally friendly. We say recycling. So now the question is, do you all believe in the recycling process or not? Recycling. This paper goes into the recycling process. It does not come back as a paper. It can wander into something else. It becomes a fertilizer in our garden. We plant potatoes. It wanders into potatoes, so this recycling energy has come into the potato, and we eat it. That wanders with another energy. So, recycling, we believe in recycling. If you believe in recycling, there is a problem to believe in rebirth. Because rebirth is exactly the same, but this is more on other levels, and so far we have not come. But those who meditate can find it. So, short and good. Body exercises, breathing exercises, and relaxation. This is one block, every day, minimum one hour, minimum. Āsanas, prānāyāmas, and relaxation. Two hours would be good. One and a half hours is okay. One hour is okay. Half an hour is a joke. That is very good for our health: one and a half hours of body exercise, breathing exercise, and relaxation. This is the harmony of the body. For the mind, a minimum of 45 minutes of meditation. Then the mind is totally in harmony. And the harmony of the soul, both go together, meditation and mantra. Because of that, the soul feels very in harmony, and a lot of karma goes away. During meditation, we try not to bring any thoughts into our thoughts. Do not think, in meditation, "I hope today I will get more customers in my business." Wait, meditate. "I hope my exam will be good today." Please do not think about the exam. Tomorrow I fly to Tokyo. I have to take everything with me. So many people meditate, but many thoughts. This is not meditation. A man goes to meditate in his room, and he says to his son, "Son, someone is coming." I met a girl and said, "Oh, someone is coming." Appointment. So he said to his son, his son was somewhere else and came home after a few years. Our father was very happy and said, "I talked to someone." So when he comes, please say, "I will meditate here and come back." And give him water, or tea, or coffee. He meditated in the other room, closed his door, and rang the bell. My husband comes, greetings to God. He says, "Yes, hello." He says, "Your father is here, yes." But my father went shopping and bought a shoe. Father hears, I meditate here, sit here, and now he lies, that my father is in the market and buys soup. Okay, please come and sit. He gave him tea, something, so, guest friendship. After half an hour, the father comes from the other door again. "Hello, good morning," he says, and then he spoke. Okay, after half an hour, the man left. They had already made the soup. Then the father said to his son, "My son, I told you I was meditating. You said I was in the market. Why did you lie?" No, father, you were in the market, but I was not. Yes, father, you thought which soup has the best suey. And you tried to sell suey, this or that. Was that not true? The father said, "Yes, son. Yes, my son." But how do you know that? He said, "Yes, I meditated yesterday." How did you meditate? What did you practice? He said, very relaxed, "I practice yoga in my daily life." So, practice the whole system correctly. Yoga in your daily life means practicing yoga every day. Then, the second is meditation with mantra. Without mantra, meditation is like a body without a soul. The spirit and the soul come together in harmony through meditation and mantra practice. Then comes the other level, which we will maybe talk about tomorrow. So thank you very much for listening. I was afraid that one or the other would get up and look at Salzburg. Many people came from other places. Salzburg is very beautiful. Yes, thank you. I wish you all the best. After a long, long time, I held a German-language lecture again. You did it. Thank you. You have succeeded, because the webcam and the TV are going live all over the world. If you do not come tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, I wish you all the best, Merry Christmas, and a happy, healthy New Year. Hari Om. Om Śānti Śānti...