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Beautiful good evening, beautiful atmosphere. It is a beautiful evening. How nice that we are sitting here in a beautiful hall. This is not only millions of stars, but billions of stars, leaves, and everything. There are two mothers: one is Mother Nature, and one is the mother who gave us birth. Always, in both mothers' laps, we children, all creatures, feel protected and happy. So, it is a blessing to be here together. The sādhanā which we do, if we do it together with the group, is easier. One feels the energy, the prāṇa, from each other. It gives motivation. It is easy to continue the sādhanā. This morning we had a beautiful subject for the prāṇas, and there was some point touching on birth, death, and suicide. Well, there is sometimes a situation that comes in human life, so that the human thinks, "There is nothing for me in this world." The depression, what they call depression. Depression means that the awareness of the person falls very deep down—so-called hopeless, helpless, and thinking there is no one in the world for me. Or one is guilty, made some mistakes, and could not digest and could not survive with this mistake. So what remains? One thing is to give up life. But the law of the dharma says, the karma says, that you cannot run away from the problems. If one commits suicide, it does not mean that the problem is solved. This is something one must or one should know. If you have some mistake, problem, and you run away and hide somewhere, you are still not free from that problem. So we have to go through, and we have to surrender ourselves, surrender to ourselves, and pray for that, pray for forgiveness. So the problem is there to solve, not to run away. It is a great mistake if you run away. So one should not lose self-confidence. It is said, some Chinese said, that a tree which is chipped off, a cut tree will again, the trunk will grow again. So if we cut this trunk of the tree, the whole tree is destroyed. But still, there is a strength. So from the trunk, the branches will grow again. So if one thinks that your life is completely destroyed now, nothing left for me, better to die, this is not good. This is the thoughts of the coward. So do not be the coward, be the hero, be humble, accept and pray to God. Again, the golden days will come. It is said, Guru Nānak, every day is not an equal day, but for the saint, for the hero, every day is a golden day. So if you can open your inner hidden problems, open your chapter, and open, let us put your chapter on the table, an open book. Then it is said, our beloved Grand Master said, Devpurījī, God takes, or Gurudev takes upon himself, the destiny of the bhakta. God takes upon Himself the destiny of the devotee. If we trust that, then again in our chidākāśa, in our awareness, in our consciousness, again the dawn rises. The sun sets, but it will rise again. So, the dawn rises, and hope is there. Just wait, the sun will rise, and we will see again that bright light. Bright light means that we have our path again, a very clear path. Everything is in front of us. Our field is free, so whatever good ideas, golden ideas you have, you should work for those. So karma is something which gives us a lesson; karma is not bad. The bad is our own action. To create good karmas, then, is very good, and if it is created with negative thoughts, then we are again guilty. Now, the nourishment, the physical nourishment, which makes our body healthy and strong. But those problems are in the psychic, the problems in our awareness, in our consciousness. There is a problem with our intellect that our body cannot solve. Our body is just a chariot, and the horse is what is pulling the chariot, and the mind is that which is controlling the horses, but inside is sitting that Ātmā and Viveka. Viveka is a very wise, a very good secretary of the king. So it is that secretary, he is giving advice to the king, what to do and what not to do. And in that awareness, in that consciousness, there is a light of the viveka, the knowledge. So viveka is the advisor, the secretary of the king. And that knowledge is the light. And that light is what is rising with the sun. So that is the light of knowledge. Suddenly you can find, because now is bright light. You lost your key, and it is night, very hard to find. But now the sun is shining and you see very clearly. So, vivekā leads this jīvātmā, this ātmā, and through that vivekā what comes is the knowledge, and that knowledge is the light. So, prāṇa is another prāṇa which is nourishing our physical body. One is prāṇa nourishing our mental body. That is called the prāṇa body. So this prāṇa is in our whole existence, in our whole life. So when the prāṇa is strong, it means you are not fearful, you are not guilty, so you need not be afraid. This is the strength of your prāṇa, that is the satya. So in India, there is a slogan under the Indian flag, under the Indian emblem, Satyam eva jayate, the truth will win. Same thing the Czechs have: Satyam eva jayate, the truth will win. So, if you have that inside, that you know you are not guilty, the guilty one is somebody else. You are involved in that accident, but the cause, the one who created the accident, was another. That is it. And then another one, they are stronger, and they come and begin to shout at you, and say, "You are the guilty." But when it will come to God's kingdom, then it is Satyameva Jayate, the truth will be. And so this is also the prāṇa, so you are not afraid about anything, but you should be afraid of your karma, that leads to destiny. A great king, Bhaṭṭhari, his name was, and also his cave and his fireplace, and this is in Ujjain. It was in many places, but the main place is there, and they asked me, "Let's go and see." I said, when there is no crowd of the Kumbh Melā, that time we will come. And the story of Bhartarī, you know very well. I told a few times about that immortal fruit, and that one Mahātmā gave to the king to eat that fruit, that he will be immortal. And the king was loving his queen very much, so he said, "My queen should be immortal." So he gave this fruit to his queen, and he said, "My dear one, this fruit you should eat. One yogī gave me this, 'This is immortal. Who will eat will be immortal.' So, 'Promise you will eat,'" she said, "Of course, my lord, I will eat when you give, and I will eat.'" So he said, "Okay." He gave it, so she put it in her room. The king said, "Why don't you eat? It is so valuable." "I have so much joy. I will sit and I will enjoy." So the king said, "Okay. Unfortunately or fortunately, whatever you think," her bad luck, not to, in her kismet was not this immortality. So she had her boyfriend, or whatever you call, a lover or whatever you call, and that one was who was taking care of the horses, he was working in the horse stable. So the next day she called him and she gave him this, "My dear, you eat this fruit, it is immortal. He will be ever young, and he will live long. He will be healthy. So please do not tell anyone you eat. Promise me." So he said, "Yes, dear queen." And he took the fruit. He went to the horse stable. He was brushing his horse and thinking, "This stupid queen. How will I get rid of her? Whenever I want to go away, she organized that I again have to come back to work at the horse stable. Many times he tried to go away, but again she sent a message to the king that he should work here. This is called a situation. Yes? That is it. So he used to have some other person whom he loved. So-called street girls or prostitutes. So he went in the evening to him, her, and he told the whole story of his life, and he said, "Actually, I am fed up. I do not want to live anymore, long. I do not know how many destinies I will create. But you know, I have something for you, one present, and promise me that you will not tell anyone, and you will not give it to anyone. I wish that you eat this immortal fruit, and you will be ever young and beautiful and strong and healthy and happy. I wish that you are happy, healthy, and so on, so on, so on. Promise me." So, such promises are many, no? This is a problem. Otherwise, it is said, "But you gave your word; even if you had to give your life, you will not give up your promise." But we break our promise every minute. I change my mind. I do not like. I do not wish. I am sorry. I cannot help you. This is a Kali Yuga. Otherwise, the Guru of God Rāma, Guru Vasiṣṭha said, "Your whole destiny, you should know, dynasty—sorry—that your dynasty, they were truthful; whatever they promised, they kept it. And if you will not follow the promise, then you will lose your dignities. You will not be the Mariyādā Puruṣottam Bhagavān Rāma." So, you know, sometimes God is also in trouble. God is in trouble. There is one bhajan, you know. You can cheat God, but there should be someone who is a cheater. And there were many cheaters; they cheated God. Because God is so clear and so naive. So, there is a long story about that. So, okay, she let him promise, or he let her promise. When he went away, she was sitting near the oil lamp in the night and thinking, "God, you gave me a beautiful human body, you gave me this human birth, but why did you give me such a destiny? I am not happy. I want to die. And if I eat this fruit, will I forever have this horrible life? Merciful Lord, save me from this. How to come out of this situation?" And looking to the light, the oil lamp. So, if you wait honestly, God gives you some solution. Now she is thinking, who could be the best person in this world? That is good for all people, animals, and everything. Not that boy, not that friend from the horse stable. Not that queen, but he thought of the king. "My God, this king is a great king. Our king is not a human; he is a God. If he will survive, he will become immortal. That would be the great." So she sent a message the next day and asked for an appointment. Audience with the king. The king said yes, so around 11 o'clock he gave the time to meet her. She came and she introduced who she was, and she said, "I have one prayer, please Lord, you accept my prayer, my wish." So he said, "Yes, my daughter, what do you wish?" He said, "I got some immortal fruit, and those who eat it will become immortal. So I do not want to be immortal, but if you will be immortal, I automatically feel that I am immortal. So, my Lord, you should eat this fruit." He was surprised. "That yogī came and said, 'There is only one fruit in this world.' And the second, how did it come?" He feels it, he smells it, the form is the same, the weight is the same. Immortal fruit never spoils. It is always fresh. Well, he asked her, "From where did you get my daughter this?" She said the truth, I see, okay. So he gave a lot of gold coins to her and told her, "You do not need to do any work. Live happily, and you have this much money properly." So he liberated her from doing such karma. And she went away, and the king called that boy from the horse stable. So he came and asked, "Do you know this fruit?" He said, "Yes, Lord. From whom do I have it? From that lady, and she told you that you gave her." Well, in front of the king, he cannot lie. He knows this way or that way, he will kill me. So then, why not say the truth? So he told that I gave it to her. "From where did you get it?" So he told the story. The king said, "Okay, my son," and gave him a lot of money. And told him, "Go away from this place. As far as you can. Otherwise, the queen will let you kill." So he gave him enough money, and he disappeared. Evening came, and the queen arrived. The king asked, "Did you eat that fruit? How was it? Was it tasty?" "My Lord, it was the heavenly fruit. One fruit was for Eva and Adam's head, and the second one was for me who got it, this. Tasteful, say, oh, I was divine, I see. And this, there is one fruit more, oh my lord, now I am divine. I am immortal, and you will also be immortal. What a great God did!" But he said, "No, this fruit is the same which I gave you." She said, maybe it is from the same tree. Then he told the whole story. She was the same. She wanted to die, so he threw this fruit and he left, and he became a saint. He became self-realized; he became immortal. You see, even he did not eat it, he touched that fruit, and when it went to the second hand, it was second hand. No more immortality there. So, when, why am I telling you? I did not forget why I want to tell this story. Karma. That is it. So, that thing said, I should first adore, praṇām, respect all the devas, the goddesses. And then he was thinking, all these devas, all these goddesses, they are also slaves of the karmas. And until they have karma, they will have this life, and then they will go again to the Naraka. This is a different. If you go to the Svarga Loka or the heaven, when all your karmas, good karmas, which you have already used, then go back. You had a lot of money in the bank, so you spent all the money. Now you think the state bank will give you money? No, you go and work. So even from that heaven, the Svargaloka, Vaikuṇṭha, when the karma is finished, oh Lord, who said that? A deva, who is a deva? A divine god is like a god. "Oh Lord, when my karma is finished in this... Svarga Loka, I have to come back to this chair, 8.4 million creatures' life. Please bless me again to give a human life, that through guru bhakti I can get that liberation. I do not want to come again in the Svarga Loka. Guru Kripa Hi Kevalam. Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu, Guru Devo Maheśvara, Guru Sākṣāt, Parabrahma Tasmai, Śrī Guruve Namaḥ." So, complete mokṣa, to become one with the Brahman, is Guru Kripa. So King Bharata said, "Then I will not bow down to the goddess. Why should I not adore God?" So he wanted to pray to God, and then again he said, "God himself is bound by destiny and karma." See the destiny of Kṛṣṇa, destiny of Rāma. Destiny of Jesus, all gods who incarnated, even Śiva. Look at their destinies. Because they are also obliged to the karma. So King Bhartṛi said, "Gods are also bound by karma." When God Rāma was in Śrī Laṅkā, and what happened? His brother Lakṣmaṇa became unconscious, was nearly died, and Rama himself also. So the karma, God Rama said, "Shashi ḍal rahā. The moon is going down. Shame ṭal rahā. Time is passing. Lakṣmaṇ ke prāṇ jā rahe. Very soon, when the sun rises, Lakṣmaṇ will die. Hanumān kab āhoge? O Hanumān, when will you come and bring the Sanjīvanī from the Himālaya?" Bhagavān Rāma said, "Who knows from which life, which karma is now becoming active, the fruitful? Hanuman, come quickly." So, now Parātrī said, "What should I do? To whom should I adore?" So he said, when this means that even God is not free from karma, so mighty strong is the karma, then why should I not bow down to karma? Do not be afraid of anything, but be afraid, be careful of the karma, and so in the human life. The main principle, the law, the dharma, is bound to the action, the karma. And karma is done with different things, tāṁsī, through the physical body. Manse, through mind. When mentally you think negatively about someone, you did bad karma. You think nobody knows, but that karma knows. That Īśvara, Parameśvara, God knows, and your ātmā is sākṣī. Your ātmā tells, so your ātmā will tell you that satyameva jayate. "Oh, my ātmā, you know what is the reality." And that reality is bound to the karma. That is a karma. Therefore, use your viveka, O human. So in the Bhagavad Gītā, Kṛṣṇa said to Arjuna, "Arjuna, before doing any karma action, use your viveka. Your intellect can be flexible, that your intellect can become sometimes the slave of your senses, but Viveka not. Either you have no Viveka, so you cannot decide, changing many things every day, every year, this and that. And this is what, in Kali Yuga, people are changing so many things. Not only this, you change your guru also, and then blame the guru. But Guru said, 'Oh, stupid disciple, you will suffer the karma.' But great one, wise one, honest one, they are, they know this." So karma, why not? I bow down to the karma. And then he did his sādhanā, and he became a great... So each thought, each movement, each word. So karma through body, then karma through words, karma tanmān, and then the words, tanmān bachan, bachan means words, promise. Bachan wala lage saame hi jaanu, aur ko kya bakhaanu? Hi jaanu, kai bakhaanu? Bachan wala lage saame hi jaanu. I know what is the Guru Vakya Vachana. Only I know that. No one understands that. How can I explain to you this promise, these words? It has become my self, I cannot tear it. It became my skin, I cannot take it away. When you take sannyās, then this is your uniform, this orange dress. It is not a cloth, it has become your skin. You promised when you took your mantra, when you took your Kriya, you gave the bachan, you gave your word. So tan man bachan, through the body, through the mind, and through the words. And the fourth one is called dhana, your money, your property, your position. You are using that power, so when you become a minister—some ministers, not all, generally all ministers are good, but sometimes one or two, these are immoral fruits—can fall down before life, so they cannot keep their words. So tan, man, bachan, or dhana, these are the four ways to create the karma, so be careful, and the fruits come, some quickly and some take time. And it comes. Gurudev again shows that māyā, it is coming. So great bhaktas and great saints, great humans, they keep their vices, and so do that sādhanā. So in this, a big role is the prāṇa. The prāṇa is a strength inside. And the prāṇa will lead us. So this is how the prāṇa functions. And how we create from our body an energy. And that energy becomes the cause of our actions. And where the action is a reaction, and where reaction is digestion, so prāṇa is very strong. Good prāṇa comes to our brain. We speak nice. We have good thoughts. Perfect, but when it comes to negative prāṇa inside, then you are angry, or what you call, you were drunken, or you were in depression. So that depression means that strong, pure prāṇa is not there. Your prāṇa is paralyzed, so you fall down deep, and that is so painful. Now, a doctor cannot tell you if you have pain. The organs are okay, the blood pressure is okay, everything is okay, but you collapsed, you fall deep, and there is no more hope to come up. That one gives up on life, that is depression, deep in deep you go. So, there you need the prāṇa, and different kinds of prāṇa give motivation, give support, and, of course, that person has to follow the Vākyas. If you are attacked by laziness, if you are attacked by your anger, if you are attacked by your jealousy, etc., etc., then you cannot come above out of this depression. So it is when in your kismet is everything, then no one can take it away from your hands. And if someone takes out of your hand, they cannot take out of your brain. You have everything there; immortality is there. And that immortal fruit is called bhakti, trust in God. That is it. So trust in God means trust in thyself. Yes, I will again do it and create it. So, prāṇa, depression goes deep, the consciousness, intellect collapse. And this is not so good. Therefore, practicing mantra, kriyā, Anustāna, time to time sādhanā, sitting together and practice. So these are the examples of the different saints. So I am not talking from myself. I am telling you how great saints were giving us the message, the lessons. So if someone tells you, "Do not run this side, there is a deep water well," but you say no, and you drown and fall down, that is it. So, the master can give you only the words, but you must analyze and follow yourself. Tamago.