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So, Hari Om. Welcome. Today was a good day. It was cool. It was hot. It was sunny. It was cloudy. It was raining. And the sunset looked beautiful. So it means it’s never boring, always changing, in order to keep your mood in good condition. That is not boring. Also, we have again our dear guest. His Highness, the Prince from Liechtenstein. He came last year for my birthday, and he came again this year. I didn’t forget. He was spending a lot of time in Korea, China, then Japan, USA, and he designed a beautiful village called the Peace Village. In Austria, very nice traditional buildings. And seventy percent of it is out of the woods. Very good atmosphere. Good energy. Of course, it must be. So we welcome him again, and thank you for coming. Also, dear Anna, who is with her—him. What? Nina. Nina, okay. She is a photographer and a videomaker, making films. And our dear Lakshmi, and our dear Lakshmi is from Vlach, Croatia. Sorry, Lakshmi is from Croatia also, you know. But it’s not far from Croatia, and so Lakṣmī is from Slovenia. Lakshmi is from Slovenia, living in Vlach. And she introduced us to His Highness, the Prince. So, well, we come here. Do you remember what we spoke this morning? So, it is called the Inner Social Education. Within thyself, it is called—what is the difference between respect and ego? So, the respect is from within thyself. The inner social education means that our kind of behavior—physically, mentally, spiritually, emotionally, socially, etc. So you have to show that you, or I, can say that I do my best to pay respect. Keep your dress nicely cleaned. Save your hair properly. So, it is not that you are doing yourself like a make-up, but what we look like should be pleasant for others. So to respect means to get respect. So the inner missionary, inner behavior, means inner engineering. So you have your mission, you know what you want, and we think over that: whatever I do, if it hurts someone, then it’s not good. Therefore, in the Bhagavad Gītā, Kṛṣṇa tells Arjuna, in the chapter of Karma Yoga, “Arjuna, anything you do, think over it three times.” First, you should know the form of the actions. When you know what kind of action you are going to do, when you will see clearly that object, that form, then your viveka will come in front of you. You see, this is not so simple. Many things are involved in this. Any action you do, or I do, or we do, there are many elements involved. The first is our intellect. Then, from that intellect, ambition—what we call selfless or selfish. Then our soul is involved. Everything that is dancing within us is our soul on the platform of our inner awareness. So, after that, what I used to say is awareness. Awareness. Now, there is awareness, but awareness has two qualities. Yes, I will do it, and I know what I am doing. This is that. So when you tell someone something, you say, “Yes, I know.” I know I will do it. You need not give me instructions always. This is between parents and children. When a father or mother says something, and the child says, “I know. Father, don’t always tell me, I’m not stupid.” So this is a negative awareness. But in this awareness, there should be alertness. Be alert. Be conscious. Be conscious. What is going on in your awareness? So, how do we influence the awareness of all people? Nowadays, the politicians are very good. They change the whole folk in one lecture. Whether they will keep their promise or not is not the question. Or the actors, they are learned. They learn how to act. After that comes the mind. And mind is from behind, pushing you. “It’s your right, do it. Don’t worry. Go ahead. They are stupid.” Our mind is something which is pushing us. But the mind is not responsible. If it goes wrong, he says, “It is your karma. I told you, be careful.” After that comes emotion. Emotion is something, you know, suddenly a cloud came, dark, thundering, and raining, and disappeared. That’s emotion. Motion, all the time motion, movement. After this emotion, the physical being awakens. What does that mean? The different senses become alert. “This is my subject. That is my subject.” So many, many different desires. Finally, we don’t know what the result will be. And therefore, this is called karma. And whatever we do, every step will be counted. And every word will be counted. You have a stone in your hand, but you look left and right and everywhere, there will be no chance to escape. So you are not throwing, but this is not all. When you thought to throw the stone at someone, you have done it. So that’s called mental action, and then that is a reality physically. So, tan, man, vachan, and dhan. These are the four objects through which we can do something. Tan means body, man is mind, vachan is the words, and your social position, your money—it all comes anew. So if we do physically, mentally, or through the energy—tan, man, vachan—verbally, or your position, high position (nowadays the politicians can do what they want), or you have a lot of money, and that can make you crazy—so tan, man, vachan and dhana, these are the four things. So, if you do it physically, you have done it. But before you do it physically, you did it mentally. And after the mental, you bring your words out. And then you do it physically. And you have the support of your power and position, but you can’t escape. Sooner or later, it will come to us. So Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said, “Arjuna, before you do anything, you should know the form of the action. And when you will realize what—consciously? Because you are doing it unconsciously, you are doing it out of your ego, hate, jealousy, and anger, and the time will come when you will be sorry.” Then viveka will tell: when you know the form of the action, then you will see the fruits very clearly. Means, what kind of reaction will be? That time, the viveka comes between. And then viveka will say, “Do not do this.” If you are wise enough, you will throw the stone down. And inwardly says, “Sorry.” Or you don’t follow the viveka; you are too much angry and proud. Then you will do it, but you know what? You will get the fruits of it. So viveka is the cream, the cream of our mind, emotion, awareness, and consciousness. And so the instruction which you got this morning before noon—it is called the inner social education. Vůči lidem, that means that you respect. You realize their life. They have a right to live. And you should not interfere. Of course, you can’t go to the tiger and say, “Okay, sorry, Mr. Tiger.” But from a far distance, we all try to save the tigers, the lions, the elephants, and you know, it’s getting less and less, these animals. They need a space. They need their forest. They need their freedom, and we should not take their rights. That is not good. So, when we have our inner—that’s called the inner architect, the inner master, the inner education—and this, you have to do it yourself. That’s very important for a yogī, for a yoga teacher. Through this, you can help many, many people. Many have depression and are very sad. But being a yoga teacher, through your inner education, your clarity, the light of your wisdom, you can help them. You can bring them again up, out of the darkness, and bring them to the light of your wisdom. You enlighten within that one again. When someone is depressed, the light is getting dim. And you support, you give more power—the power of confidence, the power of happiness, the power of support, merciful, blissful—that light will come up. So this is very important for a yoga teacher to understand others. I know that you don’t have such a depression, and you didn’t have it like this, but you have the power to give someone power further. So when you give a little support, the other one will begin to walk, and your energy will increase. In that person, confidence will come, self-confidence, clarity, and again, we will know what life means. Nowadays, there are very few people who will take you as their best friend. And when you show good friendship, everyone becomes very happy and very nice. So we don’t need anything. We need a kind word. We don’t need anything, but we need understanding. We don’t need anything, but we need to give the strength of hope, and in that way, your inner talents will awaken. And others will never forget you for their whole life. They will be remembering you forever and ever, and “my yoga teacher was the best. He couldn’t do the handstand, but he brought me to leg standing. He brought me again to my feet.” That’s it. So this is a, call it, the medicine. The best medicine for the human is the human, to understand others. So, you can be the best medicine. You don’t need an injection or anything, but you can help others. So help means not only that you give money or material things, but also sympathy and kind words. And therefore, it is said in one beautiful bhajan… Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān. It’s a beautiful bhajan, and it’s from Mahāprabhujī. He said the words, how sweet they are, how pleasant they are. These words of wisdom, words of kindness, humbleness, words with understanding, are so sweet to me, so dear to me. What more can I explain? Because these words I cannot explain. Only I know how kind, how pleasant it is. So this was what I spoke before. This world is an illusion. Very soon it will disappear. You know, one of our family members—it can be a little dog, a cat, a little mouse, a little bird, or your grandfather, father, mother, grandmother. When one is gone, you feel emptiness, and you can’t find it anywhere. It’s gone. But when they are with us, then we feel the kindness, the humbleness, the carefulness, the love. But jag mithyā svapnā kī māyā. Jag means saṃsāra. Mithyā means not reality. Jagat mithyā. So whatever we see, it will disappear. If such a thing is to be told, I tell you the reality. So this bhajan from Mahāprabhujī is telling about the knowledge, the words full of knowledge. And bhajan means promise, bhajan vālā lagesā, I give you my bhajan, I give you my word. And if you will not follow, you neglect, you break your word. That person will never be successful. Again, we’ll go into the eighty-four in different parts of life. Vachan chor kā hove tirno. The vachan chor—chor means thief. You took that word, you took the promise, and you just ran away. You have stolen. Vachan chor kā hove tirno, he or she cannot cross the ocean; they can’t swim over that ocean. Lakh chaurāsī bhaṭakat phire. And in all these 8.54 million different creatures traveling here and there, here and there, wandering. So listen carefully, analyze carefully, then accept, and then follow. Sometimes the way is hard. Sometimes you think of giving up. I did not know that it would be so hard. The mountain looks beautiful from far. But when you begin to climb, then it’s very hard. And then you think, “Oh God, I didn’t think it would be so hard.” But don’t give up. We have to come to our destination. So when we get it once, then we should achieve it. So from far, it’s easier, but to climb there is a little bit hard. So what you promised was very nice, but to follow it is sometimes hard. But those who are awakened, alert, conscious, then it is said, Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān, Sanātana Dharma. So, yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam. The yoga sādhanā will be successful through karma. So, there are two kinds of karma: selfish and selfless. Sakām karma and niṣkām karma. Sakām karma is selfish, or doing for oneself. Now, being a family member, you have to do many things for surviving your family. So, of course, you have to work for yourself. But again, that is not selfish. That is called dharma. You have dharma towards your family. You have dharma towards your partner, towards your children, towards your neighbors. So this is also a dharma, but too much becoming greedy, that’s selfishness. And niṣkāma karma, a selfless work—help someone, but don’t expect words of thanks. Don’t expect anything. If you give something and then you say, “This person even didn’t say thank you,” when you say thank you, then it is not selfless anymore. It is selfish. It is your ego. So, karma. Yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam. Our yoga sādhanā will be successful while doing karma yoga. So tomorrow we will do some karma yoga. Yes, something good. Wish you all the best. Sleep well. Do your sādhanā. I have seen today you were very disciplined.