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The first mantra, the first slogan, the first instruction, the first inspiration is called: Pehla Sukha Nirogī Kāyā. This great mantra should be alive in everyone’s awareness. Āyurveda teaches that pehla means first—the very first thing. The rest comes later. And nirogī means without illness. In some countries the word rogī is used differently, but in Hindi, in the language of Āyurveda, rogī describes someone who is severely unwell, burdened with many illnesses. You cannot even imagine it: there is a problem, there is another problem, infections, many, many things—that is called roga. In Slovenian, “Rogla” is the name of a mountain. You see how easily language can create misunderstanding. But here, roga means illness, and niroga means perfect health. Sukha is the opposite of duḥkha. Duḥkha is what you experience when you are a rogī, deeply unwell. And sukha comes when you are niroga, free of illness. So the first happiness, the first joy, the first comfort—the very best and primary one—is good health. Pehla sukha nirogī kāyā: the first happiness is a healthy body. The body is not everything, but without the body there is nothing. It is easy to say, “It is only a material body; one day it will go. It is only five elements.” Yes, very easy to say when you are healthy. But when you fall ill, then you truly know what the body means. Āyurveda continues: the second happiness, dujā sukh, is ghar meṅ māyā—prosperity in your household. That you can buy food, welcome a guest, and have what you need. Money is not everything, but without money, nothing is there. Therefore, in this Kali Yuga, it is often said that money comes first. Money governs. Some become greedy, always wanting more. The richest person can be a beggar, forever chasing more and more. But who is saying, “Give me just enough to feed my family, that they may all be happy and have everything they need”? The wise soul prays: “Sāyī, itnā dījiye jismeṅ kutumb samāy, maiṅ bhūkhā nahīṅ rahūṅ, aura anya bhī bhūkhā na jāy.” “Lord, give me that much in which my whole family can dwell comfortably and have enough to eat, and I too do not remain hungry, and any guest who comes to my door should not go away hungry.” For that, we need money, which we call wealth. There are two kinds of wealth: one is this outward prosperity, and the second is spirituality, logical thinking, wisdom—viveka. So the first happiness is a healthy body, the second is having wealth at home, and the third sukha is a loyal partner. Āgyākārī, loyal to you. The traditional verse, matching the alphabet, often mentions the wife, but it equally means the husband—so better to say partner. Mutual understanding between partners makes that household, that family, ever happy. To keep a family happy, sometimes you have to swallow some bitterness. But if a husband and wife have mutual understanding, no fighting, and respect each other, that is the best happiness. When you tell your wife something, she says, “Yes, yes.” And when you say something to your husband, he says, “Of course, yes ma’am, I will do it.” When she wants to take the garbage from the kitchen, he runs and takes it from her hands and brings it to the dustbin. And when the husband returns from shopping, at the gate the wife takes everything and carries it into the kitchen. Then he need not enter—it is her domain now. He brought something nice to cook, but she puts it in the cool room and cooks what she had brought five days before, because that too should be consumed. So if between husband and wife there is mutual understanding, that is the best family life. Everyone searches for the best husband or the best wife. You are not marrying only for physical passion; you cannot make love every day. With him or her, at most one year or two years, then it fades. You are not married for that, but for the love of the heart, so that both hands may clean together. When one hand is injured, you know what it means for one hand to clean the other. This hand will clean the armpit of the other, but not its own. So husband and wife, with mutual understanding, cleanse each other. The fourth happiness is santān āgyākārī—obedient children. A child should never speak harsh words to mother or father, but listen to the parents and gain knowledge. Where are these obedient children? But look at our children here, our yoga and daily-life children. You see now how silent they are? No one would think there are about fifty or sixty children. They are very peaceful; they are a model. Though perhaps they are peaceful in hope of chocolate—that too is something. I admire these children, I love our children, and I congratulate you. Lucky you are. But when you cannot take care of the children, then they go out in the evening, and as teenagers go out and so forth, they slip out of your hands. Yet there are many children who do not go outside without necessity, who remain sitting. So that is the fourth happiness. The fifth happiness: a good neighbor. Can you imagine? A good, friendly neighbor, like your own family. Otherwise, sometimes you have such a neighbor—oh God! Horror! So you and your wife and your children might say, “Better we go somewhere else and buy another house.” Lucky are we who have good neighbors, who are also our family. And the sixth happiness: your own cow—your milk, right from the udder. How healthy is that health? Happy are they who have a cow, or between three or four neighbors share one cow. You have fresh milk, the real milk. Only a mother can produce milk—be it a goat, buffalo, cow, or human mother. That milk is love. If you have no baby, milk will not flow. And when the baby comes, only the mother produces the milk. It is very interesting: the mother goes shopping, the father stays home, and the child is crying, hungry. He holds the child, but he cannot give milk. “Mama will come quickly,” he says. When the mother returns, he says, “I will do everything—just take the baby, he is hungry.” Can you understand a mother? It is divine. So even an animal, when you drink its milk, in spirituality it is said that a cow, buffalo, goat, or sheep is like your own mother. You have a mother relationship, and how beautiful that is. Yes, the calf is also only skin, flesh and bone; the cow is the same; the one milking is also skin; and the one drinking is also skin. There is a lovely poem, hard to translate: “Chamṛe kā bachṛā, chamṛe kī gāy, chamṛe kā duhanehār, chamṛe hī pī jāy.” The skin’s calf, the skin cow, the skin milker, and the skin itself drinks. What a miracle in this process! Yet it gives life. In this milk, mother’s milk, every kind of nutrient is present. Now in many countries you can hardly drink milk anymore. So much is manipulated, and in many places it is forbidden to sell milk in its natural state. You must go to the dairy, and you do not know what they mix. Dr. Shanti says that when she comes to Europe, she cannot drink tea with milk. But when she came to Jadan, ah, she enjoyed milk, and tea, and coffee—because our cows are one hundred percent organic. They get nice feed, they run, they walk. And that milk, when you drink a cup, you feel that you have drunk real milk. I am not inventing a story; Dr. Shanti is sitting here. Just stand up and say yes or no, otherwise Swāmījī is making stories. So everyone should adopt one cow and take the milk from the farmers. Thanks to God, our country is still more free, and you can get fresh milk. In some countries, the farmer gives milk to the industry; not even their own children can drink it directly, otherwise they will pay a fine. We are happy. Similarly, there are certain points about happiness, and one is health. Then it is said: “Ye baṅglā ajab banā hai Mahārāj”—this bungalow, this house, is wondrous. The house of the body. Up to now, what medical science has discovered is about thirty percent. Seventy percent we still cannot understand; we are still trying. God made this body, and what humans make is different. Yet we know medical science has made great progress and can save our lives, so we should not neglect it; it is supplementary. The origin is the origin. There was a time, long, long ago—ages have passed, but we still remember and we are witness. In the world there was a period called the Middle Ages, and later a time when “Made in Germany” or “Made in West Germany” or “Made in Japan” meant something. Certain countries had that quality. People would say, “Wow, it’s made in Germany,” because the German people were so honest, such hard workers, and gave the best quality. But now it doesn’t matter if it’s made in Germany or somewhere else. Someone joked: “God made the world, and the rest, China.” So it is. Likewise, God made this body, but it is repaired by doctors, pharmacies, medicine, operations, and all that. Now we can avoid certain things—one hundred percent maybe not, but we can try. “Baṅglā ajab banā hai Mahārāj”—this wonderful bungalow has all kinds of facilities: air conditioning, the temperature fixed, manipulated to suit the bungalow. Neither too hot nor too cold. When it is hot, an alarm sounds; when it is cold, an alarm. If fever comes or temperature drops. Yet God made the perfect matter there. Everything, everything. The function of the ear, the function of the eyes, digestion—everything. That is a bungalow, and God gave us freedom. We don’t have to pay rent—this is another beauty. But God said one thing: “Keep my bungalow clean.” Don’t destroy it. Otherwise, you have to go to prison. God doesn’t ask for money; you have to pay back as suffering. So please, return my body as it is. A great saint described the body as a shawl. The spinning wheel, with eight workers turning, and the material—cotton—different kinds of cotton, five kinds: space, air, fire, water, and earth. These are the materials, five different materials. Beautifully it was pinned with this pinwheel. And how long did it take? Nine to ten months to make this beautiful body. When it was finished, it was given to us, and it went to the master dyer, the raṅgrī, to color it—colorful life, the color of wisdom, good qualities, good habits, good things. So I brought it to the one who colours, and he coloured it in such a way that it became completely red. That is the blood in the body, good blood, clean blood. There is life in it. How beautiful! But the foolish ones did not understand this body. They destroyed it with unnatural nourishment. We have five kinds of diet, of food. We need good space; this body needs good, free space—very important. Then we need good air. Yes, now air is ninety percent polluted, everywhere around the whole world. In the environment there is plastic smoke. And that plastic smoke is already in our body. Yes, and petroleum, and many, many different things. So what we call the poison that came out at the time of the churning of the ocean, the halāhala poison—still they are churning, Devas and Asuras, and this churning of the ocean produces what we call petroleum. Constantly we are producing it. In the end, this petroleum turns into poison, so it is difficult. “Mūrakh log bhed na jāne the.” The foolish one does not know, the stupid one does not know the secret of this body, the quality of this body. That is why “din din melī kīnī”—day by day we pollute it. Alcohol is not for this body. If you have a petrol engine and you put in diesel, you destroy the machine, the motor. This body is a water machine, a steamer. And you put inside petrol—alcohol. My dear, you destroy all the fine machines and everything. So one who understands life, who understands the creation of God, who understands his or her body, and who wants to live healthy and happy, will not touch alcohol, except for medical treatment. But you know, humans consume little water and more alcohol. And that is why Pehla Sukha Nirogī Kāyā is disturbed, unbalanced—between husband and wife, parents and children. And then taking unhealthy food, not organic. Not the quantity, but the quality. Do you have a pet dog? Someone has a dog—raise your hand. How many people have dogs? Thank you. And you know, there are dog parties, political dog parties. They become the winner. Once the city gave very strict rules against dogs. All the dog owners made a union and formed a party. “We will not vote for the others,” they said. The law had to be taken away. And the dog lay under the tree, relaxed, and smiled at his owner: “I am the winner.” Then the owner said, “I am proud of you.” Well, anyhow, that is your dog. Why am I talking about your dog? Oh, there is something. In the forest there is a kind of wild dog—do you call it a wolf? Wolf. Now that wolf did not eat anything for five days, for six days he couldn’t find anything. Yet how quickly he can run, and he shows no tiredness. He is fresh, alert, aware, conscious, and ever ready to run. And for five days your dog doesn’t get anything to eat, and when you take him for a walk, he tries to smell and eat anything, whatever is there. Because your dog doesn’t get that food which is proper for a dog. And that dog in the forest does not search for bread, does not search for this or that, and does not eat meat that was killed—not from the supermarket. That means the wild animals will not touch such things, and they are healthy. So similarly, the human body needs healthy food, healthy air, healthy water, and healthy movement to maintain body temperature, and healthy air. So try your best to use natural materials. Don’t think, “Oh, a nice dress! It looks good.” It is nothing; it’s plastic. In the warehouse, where they sell fabrics, there are puppets nicely dressed, standing like that the whole day. And so are we—all this time, my God, you can’t breathe. But when the meeting is over, they loosen the tie a little. So why do you have this? In many, many countries, people hardly wear a tie anymore; that has become ancient times. So feel free—physically, mentally, spiritually. Drink that pure water, breathe that pure air. In big cities you may not have it, but you can go to the park. Every country has parks; at least there is some good air. We can go for a walk. Think healthy, mentally think healthy. It is our food, our way of life, that creates psychic problems, depressions, and many different things. A human being is able to heal oneself. You are the doctor of thyself. God gave you everything, but we don’t use it. We only think, “Now the doctor will help.” And the doctor says, “Yes, but you have to help me.” That means do what I say: go for a walk, do yoga, do meditation and prāṇāyāma. “Doctor, can’t you just give me one tablet, one pill? Must I go for a walk? Must I do āsanas?” The doctor replies, “Yes, that’s also okay.” But then your quality of life decreases, and we need quality. So through practicing āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, relaxation, and meditation—and thanks to God, in the whole world now, in consciousness and awareness, yoga is awakening. Yoga will become the divine science. It already is, and it will be. People will turn to yoga more than to what we call religions, because yoga is the father of religion. It is that which gives us peace, harmony, love, understanding, and the understanding of God within and without. So, try today to take a saṅkalpa: every day you will practice, and you will use only organic and healthy things. Some say, “Oh, my dress is only cotton, it is not good, and it’s like this.” That time is gone. You know, the day before yesterday my dress was wrinkled. I tied it up, right? So it had all kinds of wrinkles—what do you call them? Paltanis doeche, wrinkles. Umapuri said, “Turn it the other side, it’s the so-called wrinkle. Doesn’t look good.” So I said, “Doesn’t matter, no one needs to marry me.” So I am as I am. When you iron, you know, you create pollution, you consume electricity or coal, smoke, many things. So natural life, natural life, natural life. I wish you all the best.