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Śubhaṁ karoti kalyāṇam ārogyaṁ dhanasaṁpadaḥ, śatrubuddhi vināśāya, dīpa jyotir namastute, dīpa jyoti parabrahma, dīpaṁ sarve mohanaṁ, dīpaṁ sajate sarvaṁ sandhyā, dīpaṁ sarvaṁ satyam, oṁ śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ. Salutations to the cosmic light. Our adoration to our divine masters. Dear sisters, brothers, and our dear Nirvāṇa Purī, thank you for your many compliments. Welcome, all of you. Some faces are new, so a special hello to you. Yoga has now become a main subject for all. People are awakening. Everyone is awakening the awareness that was dormant, and now, keeping the new waves within themselves, they wish to practice yoga. It was high time to come to this point. Yoga is beyond all different cultures and religions. It is for the well-being of human life, in order to protect our beautiful planet Earth, a living planet. Our Earth is beautiful, never boring. Wherever we go or in any direction we look, it is beautiful. Oh God, beautiful. In the mountains and the forest, in the desert and in the ocean, oh God, beautiful. So, our earth is so beautiful. And it is not boring only to see humans. There are many different creatures, many different kinds of birds. It's never boring to have just one bird. The bees, many, many different kinds of bees. The butterflies, many, many different kinds of flies. Yes, and different kinds of animals, different kinds of humans. What more do we need? So we should be happy and healthy. And for that, again, we have this beautiful science of yoga for our body, mind, and soul: harmony of the body, mind, and soul, and health—physical, mental, social, and spiritual health. In order to keep our body for some years, 100 years perhaps, 200 years, let's see how long we will survive. If we live a healthy life, then we will have our 100-year birthday, where we ourselves can dance. But the situation nowadays is that by 70 years, we are all rattling. Why? Because of the way of living and the way of nourishment. So, yoga's first place is for good health. Health does not speak for any religion. Whether you believe or you don't believe in any religion, you believe that you want to have good health. Therefore, health is an equal right and good for everyone. The first wealth is good health. Health is not everything, but everything is nothing without health. And so, we have this beautiful new motivation to practice yoga. Yoga is a very ancient science. In the beginning of creation—every time I come, I begin with these few words—there was ākāśa, space. It is said once there was nothing: neither stars, nor moons, nor suns. Empty space, nothing. This creation came out of nothing, and what is here is also nothing. We are sitting here together, and who knows who will pass away first from us? He was here, and now he is nothing, he's gone. We can't telephone, we can't send SMS. Nothing, nowhere. It came, it disappeared. So, it appears, it disappears. But still, our earth is beautiful; it's not boring, at least. We are coming and going. So from nothingness, the first thing happens. There is space, consciousness, and energy. These three are expanding and contracting. Within these three, everything appears and disappears. This appearing and disappearing is what we call creation. Space is endless, and within the space is consciousness. Space is like a mother's body, and consciousness is our self—not the body, not the mind, not emotion, but the self, the ātmā. In order to balance and maintain the harmony between space and consciousness, there is energy. That is yoga: harmonizing, balancing, and uniting. These are the three main principles. So from nothingness, nothing. But the elements were there, and they are there. It is the game of the elements, the play of the elements. These five elements—ether, air, water, fire, earth—are all in different forms, and they come together. In the Vedas, it is said, "Eko'haṁ bahu syāmi"—I am one, and I will multiply now. But who said this? There was no one. So it is said, "Thy will be done, O Lord." Does God have a wish? Is God a form? No. This body is not God. This mind is not God. This is not, that is not. But there is some tendency, something is in the air, as we call it. There is something in the air moving, though we don't see it; there is nothing. That one is called the cosmic consciousness. It becomes the awareness. Consciousness cannot do anything. It is like space. It has no desire, no wish, nothing. But in that awakes awareness: "I am." But where? Who? This is the question that has arisen. At that time, there were no stars, no moon, no sun, nothing. Only dark blue space with three: space, consciousness, and energy. So, "eko'haṁ bahu syām." I am one, and now I will multiply. How will you multiply? Who is multiplying? What is multiplying? When there is no question of two, there is only one. Now we know everything I said before: beautiful, oh God, beautiful, everything is beautiful—forest, desert, flowers, flies, animals, ocean. Everything is beautiful because now we see the individual. But at that time, we are coming from nothingness. How will it be? What will it be? Many, many ages ago, in the yugas and manvantaras, there was a resonance. There was a sound between these three: space, consciousness, and energy. There began a kind of movement, like an energy moving—an earthquake, but there was no earth, so we can say a space quake. Something happened, and that was a sound: O-A-U-M. In this vibration, this sound became, and that is Aum. You all know now that one of the biggest research centers where scientists work is NASA. One of the directors of NASA, Dr. Nagendra, an Indian from South India, from Bangalore, worked there. Afterwards, he gave it all up and came to yoga. He established a yoga center for naturopathy, Āyurveda, and homeopathy. The main part is yoga and Āyurveda, called Swami Vivekānanda University in Bangalore. He was one of the persons who first sent a monkey to the moon with rockets. He is a very spiritual, humble, and kind person. I think I will bring him one day to Vancouver. His colleagues conducted research and recorded the sound in the sun. The sun is nothing but sound and energy, and that sound is exactly Aum. There is a YouTube video on this. You can trace it out: the sun and the sound is exactly Aum. So this is evidence that yes, sound is there. Now, after many, many solar systems, some yogīs—not all, but some who are very far developed spiritually—said they could reach beyond one sun after another, to the galaxy of what we call 2,100 different suns. The yogī can travel, research, gain knowledge, and come back with that knowledge. We cannot go only on the roof; we need a lift or stairs. But they can go through all elements, through rock. Yes, there are still such beings. One of them, from my spiritual lineage, our spiritual lineage—Ālak Purījī and Devpurījī—could go through rocks. Just the day before yesterday, I got a message from someone near Badrināth. They said a few people were talking about how Devapurījī was walking above the earth, going from hill to hill. So there are miracles, there are unbelievable things. If we saw someone coming through the street not walking but floating two meters high, oh God, we would all be afraid. So, there is sound, and sounds have vibrations. This whole universe was in vibration, in sound, which is called ananta. Ananta means it has no end; it is limitless, beyond. We are limited. Our knowledge is limited. How can we describe exactly how it is? The limit lies somewhere there. But those yogīs brought some knowledge, and we are surviving with that knowledge, which is only one drop. If the ocean came all at once, what would happen? It is a great sound, and from sound comes light. That is called a flame, called Jīvanjyoti. This Jīvanjyoti is what we call Śiva at that time. You have heard the name of Śiva. Śiva is the first who manifests. What does manifestation mean now, here? That one who has no mother and no father. He was the lucky one who was not closed for nine months in the very comfortable cave of a mother. So he, Śiva, is the only one called Mahādeva. Mahā means the great. No name has been given to any goddess; Mahā is only Śiva. He is the nāda, the vibration, Oṁ, constantly going on in this space. The farther you go into silence, the louder it is. The farther you go and sit in the mountains at midnight, when there is no sound and no animals are restless, sitting on the peak of the mountain under the sky, there is a loud sound in the sky also. And within ourselves, in every cell of our body, there is immense energy, vibrations, and life. From this sound, Aum, in Śiva appears as a light: Śivajyoti, the light of Śiva. That is called Jīvanjyoti. Jīvan means life. We have the word Jīva. What is Jīva? A soul, an individual soul. A little ant also has this soul. A little mouse also has this soul. Bacteria also have a soul inside. Life is in everyone. That is called Jīvan, a life. We have life, our soul. But in your body, or in my body, or in their body, there is not only one soul. In our bodies, there is one major soul—that is our soul, which travels around the universe after the body. But in the body, there are many, many different cells, billions. And in all these billions, there is life inside. Where there is life, there is a soul. So, our own body is a very big city. The Vedas are the first and most ancient scriptures. In the Vedas, it is said, "Eko'ham bahu syām"—I am one and I will multiply. And so, it is said, "yathā brahmāṇḍe tathā piṇḍe." That yogī who came back from 2,100 different universes of the sun, different suns, comes back and tells: "yathā brahmāṇḍe." Brahmāṇḍa means the whole universe. It is like an egg, but after the egg, there must be something more. Therefore, it is said to be endless. "Yathā brahmāṇḍe tathā piṇḍe": whatever is in the universe is in my body. What is in my body is in the universe. And what is not existing in my body is not existing there. "My" means you also, yes? Yes. So, everything is existing in you. Everything. If you imagine that God is also in you, the incarnations are also in you. All great sense is all in you. Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, Buddha, Jesus, or Nirakara (without form), Īśvara, Allāh—all are in you, and not only in completeness. In your one drop of blood, there is a whole universe. That is a miracle, and science still has not reached this point. I am sure science will not realize these things. There is no scientist in this world other than one, and that is the mother or the father. No one can make a drop of blood. Yes, they can make blood flow, you know, in wars, killing people or animals. But to create one drop of blood, no. In this one drop of blood are our many, many generations; our ancestors are there in it. All are caught in your body. Everyone is caught in your body, and in your body means in one day. And what is that one day? A little drop of blood. And there, all your generations are inside. What is in the drop of blood is in your body, and what is in your body is our many, many generations, coming till 30 generations, 27 generations. And then it is there still, but it is getting less and less, from full moon till full moon, dark moon till dark moon. So on this earth, the moon is very, very important. Now, you say, "I want to see God." Where will you see God? He says, "Yes, I will go and I will see God." Where will you see God? Let's go. I would also love to go with you. Let's see God, but God is within you. Within, in every thought, are many, many creations. Many, many creations. This is our imagination. It is that consciousness which is constantly expanding and creating more and more, my dear. Therefore, it is called ananta, endless and endless and endless. So, God's realization is within us. It is said when the Buddha, Siddhartha, was a prince, his father... At that time, there was only Hinduism, but it doesn't matter if you said Hindu or Buddhist or Islam or whatever. These names are given. In reality, it is only different from what we are thinking and what we are fighting for. Siddhartha meditated, meditated, meditated. His sādhanā was very hard—I am not telling his whole life, you know it also. When he was walking, going for bhikṣā (a bhikṣuk has to go for getting food, I would not say begging), the relevant technique called udāsī mauna comes from Buddha's thoughts. Take care that you don't step on some animals. Take care when you are walking through the forest and jungle that you do not break one leaf of the tree, that you do no harm. So many things. He went for bhikṣā to five houses—five houses for the five elements. Whatever he got, if they didn't give, he just walked back. This food, whatever he got in his pot, his bowl, he divided into five: for the fish, for little creatures like ants, for a dog or some other animal, for the birds or a guest, and after water, he remained for him. That was his tapasyā, his sādhanā, his austerity. He said, "Don't kill or step on any life, because it is your life. You are that." When he came to enlightenment, there is a word called buddhi. Buddhi means intellect. Everyone has intellect. As you are growing, every child has an intellect, but now the intellect is growing, and one becomes a doctor, developing that knowledge as a doctor. Others become pilots, and we have to trust the pilot. Yesterday I flew from London to here, and after the pilot came out, I said, "Thank you, Mr. Pilot, you brought us so safely." He says, "Okay, I'm doing it every day." Can you imagine that 400 people were inside, and there's no key? There are only buttons in the airplane. Maybe some of you are pilots here. But the rest ask, "Please, can you take off?" Or when a plane is in the sky, we say, "Please, can you land it?" Oh, yes, we will land it before the airplane, somewhere. So, that is intellect, knowledge. And that knowledge becomes one with you. So, one has knowledge of God. Enlightenment means perfection. Your consciousness, your awareness, and your concentration all become perfect. You will take off, okay? When the Buddha got samādhi, enlightenment... Here, enlightenment is not like a physical light we see, an oil lamp flame, or an electric flame or fire. That fire is a call in knowledge. When everything is only light, there is no darkness. Therefore, he said when he got enlightenment, it was like he was lost. He was not there. He is there, and he is not there. He went to research. "I want to know." So he went to that channel of his existence from the human, from Buddha. He came to the coal, to the stones, to the minerals. And from there again, his consciousness rose up, rising up, coming to the human, and then to enlightenment. That enlightenment, after which there is no birth and no death. So you died. You died, and you became life. And you are now only life. So life is life, or death is death. Jīva is a life. So in you, within you, is that jīva, the life. And that life will not die. You are immortal. Nothing can die. But still, in our awareness or in our consciousness, we have fear. We have fear of everything: fear of illness, fear of accident, fear of that... This keeps us back, thinking we will die. But who is dying? No one is dying. Even the elements don't die. They just merge into the element, but that far, we are not sure. And that's what yoga is: the whole system brought into one again—yoga. Unite, balance, and harmonize. So that again, this individual consciousness merges into the cosmic consciousness. That is called samādhi, or enlightenment. This is when you are born as a normal human being, not a spiritual one, not already coming as a master with knowledge. But through your sādhanā, you become Narasiṁha Nārāyaṇa. Nar is a human, Nārāyaṇa is God. So, from human to God, consciousness becomes God. And that is yoga for body and beyond. How far beyond should I go still? There is. In this light, there is a different light. There is knowledge. That is knowledge. The pilot goes in the aeroplane, he sits and takes off, and oh, he's good. But that is his knowledge. There is a straining, so he knows. That is the light, the light of knowledge. Many of you have your own tendency, your own knowledge, your abilities. Many things you can do. How did you learn this? If you have learned this, then you can learn others too. If you can learn many things in this world, you can also learn yoga, meditation, mantra, and come to that far distance, beautiful, beautiful. But we are stuck here in attachment to worldly things, and we can't give up. We collect so much, so many different impressions, physical and mental impurities. Day by day, we are getting different energies. When you come to someone and shake hands, as soon as you shake the hand, your energy goes to their energy. So quickly you will say, "No, Swamiji, just we shake the hand and we get his or her energy inside so quickly." Now, let him talk, Swamiji, a little bit. He wants to make his lecture, you know? Yes, some are thinking like that. It's okay. But how is energy transferring from one to the other? One little example—but afterwards, you will say, "Swamiji, that's not a little example." For example, there is an electric wire. This electricity saves our life in the operation theatre. If there is no electricity, nothing will happen; all machines stop. Either you take electricity from the public or generate it through fuel, battery, etc., but you have to create this energy. Now, this energy is sitting here and giving us light, very beautiful. We see each other very nicely. The same energy is in the microphone, going everywhere. The same energy is in that camera. It is multiplying in the whole world now. Can you say how Śiva multiplied exactly like this camera? Do you believe or not that we have this webcast life? We are now life, okay? We are all life, thanks to God, and this is also life. Now, anywhere in the world, anywhere limited where there is Wi-Fi, this camera is multiplying me. So I can tell you that I am that Śiva, multiplying in everyone's camera, in everyone's computer, in everyone's telephone, everywhere. How does this energy...? That is exactly how Śiva, God, "Eko'haṁ bahu syāmi"—"I am one, and I will multiply." So here is sitting this Maheśvarānand, one, and now I will multiply through my abilities. And what is my ability? My camera. So, do you believe or not? Yes? This camera is a machine, but it is multiplying. Similarly, we multiply in our knowledge and enlightenment. Now, this light is here; energy is everywhere. But we should know how to use it. If we can't use it properly, then the same energy can kill us. The same electric power can kill us or save our life. Both are in this. So human life is like that: either we kill ourselves—which means we will die full of the ignorance we came with, and we go worse than as we came—or we take how many good karmas? Then we are successful. Or how many bad karmas do we lose? Now, your decision is yours. Many, many lives we had good or bad experiences, pleasant or painful things. But now we will come only to the oneness, with no more suffering, no pain. So that energy, there is a protection. In this cable is a deadly power. It's a deadly cobra. I can pull it, you see. Poison is inside, but I have here a protection. Over that cable is this plastic, and the electricity cannot transmit through this plastic, so it's in my hand. My life by death, or my life is in my hand. The same thing is: your life is in your hands. Spiritual awareness and spirituality are for humans because humans have intellect, which is the most powerful tool God has given to us—a powerful tool, our intellect. So, either we protect ourselves and achieve our aim of human life, or we die. This plastic here—it can be wood; it must not be plastic. It is also wood; the electricity will not come through. That is my spirituality. That's my mantra. That is my mantra, which doesn't let negative energy come to kill me. That is my spirituality and my master's blessing, that no negative energy can come to me. In this room, there is darkness, and in the other room, there is light. As soon as light comes here, darkness disappears. Darkness has no power to come in again. But when the light is off, darkness is within; no time is here again. So when you stop your sādhanā, your practice, when you stop your mantras, your guru-bhakti, then again you are in darkness. It's light on or off. This is on or off. So God gave us both kinds of options. There was a fire, our Nirañjanā Purī said. Yes, there are many different kinds of fire. Anger is a fire. Jealousy is a fire. Laziness is a fire. Greed is a fire—the fire which can burn. There is a crematorium where you burn the body. When we see this fire, we make praṇām. There is another fire where you cook your food. There is another fire, a divine light on the altar. There is another fire, the sunlight. There is a fire in the water, very strong water, where you hold the ice. When you go and catch the ice and hold it in your hand, very soon you can't hold it because it is burning. You open and throw it. So, there is jāṭharāgni, similarly fire in our stomach, digestive fire. So, it depends on which kind of fire you have. Fire is life, and this fire is everywhere. This is the fire element. So, the Manipūra Chakra is one of the best chakras and is a beginning and end. Beginning and end is in the Manipūra Chakra, the Kuṇḍalinī, the serpent power. So this is the serpent. He is very nice, very kind, but you should hold it at the mouth of the snake. If you think, "Oh, he is very nice," and you go here, he will bite you. So we must know how to masterfully hold this discipline. If you think, "I am great, and I know everything, and I don't need anything," yes, I believe. You know everything. You don't need anything that I don't believe. Still, we need what you know, which is not to know. When you say that you know, you do not know. As long as you were silent, you didn't speak anything, you were the great wise person. And when you said one word, we know how wise you are. So, sometimes human ego is so strong: "I don't need a master, I don't need this mantra, I don't need this meditation. I do my best, okay? I take care of my children and my partner, I work honestly." This is very good, very, very good, but still not that. To have children and a partner, every creature has, every animal has, every bird has. O human, you came with a special mission in this world, and God trusts in you. After we trust in God, God trusts in us, and He sends us as humans. Now we should not disappoint God. That's it. We say our God will not disappoint us. Definitely. But it is like this. He trusts. In the Bible, it is written: Jesus had a hard time. He could not go any further. And he said, "Father, I can't do anything. I don't want anything. Why me?" So He said, "My son, I trust in you, and that's why you will be successful and you will do a great job." So I trust in you. Who said that? God, the Holy Father. The same word came out of my mouth: you should know that God sent you as a human because He trusts in you. And we trust God. We should not disappoint our God. Therefore, sometimes it is hard, but don't give up. Lucky are you that you have pure teaching, pure knowledge, pure mantras, pure guidance. Don't, when you have a little glimpse of knowledge, then say, "I know everything, I don't need." Don't make that mistake. You know you can fly as a pilot, but still you have to learn again something more, something more. Knowledge has no end. Therefore, God is Saraswatī, Divine Mother. She is the Goddess of knowledge, and first we bow down to her. She said, "Lifelong to learn. Lifelong learning." Never should you say that now enough, I don't need to learn anything. And suddenly you learn something again. That's it. So, let's say if we come next days, tomorrow or day after tomorrow somewhere, you are welcome. He said everything is booked out, and I said, "Welcome, I am in trouble." But where there is a will, there is a... So, we can do one thing: you can come to the day program. We can't offer you accommodation, but you can come for a lecture. That is a sādhanā. So, if you can, you are most welcome. If the hall is like this, we can maintain having 20 more people inside here now. And when twenty are inside, we can maintain fifteen more. Place is in the heart, and our heart is expanding to the whole universe. Now we hug the whole creation because they are mine, they are in me, and I am in them. So one in all and all in one. All the best. That's what I mean to say. This year was given a very nice title: "Yoga for Body and Beyond." This title or this name, you can go years and years. So, Yoga for Body and Beyond. From that time, from Brahmaloka till here, and from here till Brahmaloka, you have to give up all your desires. Then you can achieve Brahmaloka. If you just think, "Oh, I can do, and I know," then ask Kṛṣṇa how hard it was. Ask Rāma how hard it was. Ask all those twenty-four incarnations how hard it was. Ask the Buddha how hard it was—how many times people humiliated the Buddha. You know, they threw stones at him. They threw dust on him. After he gained the knowledge and now has the power of God, like God, we all adore him. But to come to that point was not easy, my dear. The same applies to you. To come to that high level is not easy, but nothing is impossible. Everything is possible if you have discipline and willpower. God bless you in the name of our Siddha Pīṭha. Until next time, Om Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Devīśvara Mahādeva, Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān, Sanātana Dharma, Om Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Hari Om.