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Part 1: The Last Nine Now, let us be a little serious. Relax, be comfortable, and be aware of your being here for the time being. Forget your sorrows. Withdraw yourself from the external world. Making sorrows about troubles will not help. But if we open our heart and say our mantra or prayer, that will help. So, relax and be present here with me. Feel the resonance of the Oṁ. Inhale and chant Oṁ. Cosmic light and cosmic sound. Deep inhale. This is the origin of the entire universe. That resonance exists in each and every atom in Him, and we are a part of that cosmic resonance. Beautiful. Very good. Good evening, dear brothers and sisters. Welcome to our ashram, the Yoga and Life Center in Melbourne—a city without end. It is big, big, big. We drive for hours and hours; my whole day is lost driving from one place to another, and still I am in Melbourne. How beautiful. Yes, in Melbourne there are many spiritual souls and seekers. Many spiritual masters come here, and there are many hundreds of yoga teachers. It doesn’t matter which kind of yoga they are teaching; yoga is yoga. Finally, we have to come to one point, and that is Yoga. You may speak of Jñāna Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga, Rāja Yoga, Haṭha Yoga, Mantra Yoga, Kriyā Yoga, and so on. But in Rāja Yoga, can you imagine there is one center point? That center point is our ashram in Melbourne. Now you come from different directions, and from this space, all is directed to this center. Similarly, it doesn’t matter through which techniques we achieve good health—physical, mental, social, and spiritual health. That is the main thing. In India we say, if it makes me healthy, I am even ready to drink poison—not to die, but if this poison will make me healthy, that’s it. Some people say, "Swāmījī, I am so busy that I don’t even have time to die." So any kind of yoga, exercises, meditations, relaxations, or Tai Chi—and many other great saints around the world—they brought a beautiful science for humans to lead a healthy, happy, relaxed life. This means to protect and create a healthy, happy, relaxed, and peaceful environment on our beautiful planet. Great Saint Patañjali, Maharṣi Patañjali. Patañjali lived about 3,000 years ago, 1,500 years before Christ. He is known as the father of psychology. He researched the psychic problems of the human being in great detail: what is the body, what is the emotion, what is the mind, what is intellect, what is intelligence, what is consciousness and energy, and energy and consciousness, what is the soul, what is Ātmā? And which kind of postures or techniques can help one to realize it? If someone has a headache, where is the cause? Which gland, which organs of the body? What is needed? And how are the mind, body, emotion, intellect, consciousness, and intelligence coordinating with each other? Great Patañjali—our salutation, our adoration to such a great sage in the world. Many, many were, and still are, and will be. But you have to die to live. I think in the testament it is also said you have to die in order to live. "Die" means you have to kill your personal interest, such as ego, greed, anger, hate, and attachment. You have to give thyself to all. Like the five elements—God gave them freely. We don’t have to pay any tax to God. But we humans take money from people who are using this space, an air tax. If you have your shop and you put your signboard a little outside, the council will come and say, "Well, you have to pay the tax." God didn’t say to do that. So, great saints brought the sense of this life and the way to the origin, back to God. When Patañjali used to speak to his disciples, the disciples were sitting near him; that’s called Upaniṣad. The word Upaniṣad means: "up" means near, "ṣad" means the disciple. The disciple sits near the master and listens to the wisdom. You can say gospel or dialogue, but dialogue is different. Dialogue is where you ask questions and meanings, and these, that’s not correct, but this is not like this. When Patañjali was in the forest, in his hut—the ṛṣis, meaning the hermitage, living in the forest—it was a small and beautiful hut. It is said that the tigers, the lions, the deer, the cows, the goats, the peacocks, and other birds all came and sat near him, listening. They were not worried. The tiger is sitting there, and the goat is also sitting there. Can you imagine? But it can be. If there is love, then it can be. And can we imagine there are certain people we put together? They are like a tiger and a goat. One is attacking the other, and the other is afraid, and the other attacks again. That love Patañjali had, and that’s why he told Ahiṃsā. In Rājayoga, Patañjali put Yama and Niyama. If you have feelings of Hiṁsā, then every creature and human is afraid of you. Hiṃsā means violence. If you are an angry person, if you are jealous, if you hate, if you are greedy, if you don’t like someone, and if you have a trick in your heart, and you are not loyal, and you do not follow the master’s words, you are searching here and there, confused—that means you are not following the principle of nonviolence. And that’s not easy, my dear, not easy. A hundred times we hear and we say, "Yes, that’s good, my God." But you go outside into the other room and say, "Terrible, this man, you know, he was sitting near me, and all the time we were making..." Just you heard. You got up and went to the other room, and he says, "Terrible." And Swāmījī talks about harmony, love, and peace, and this and everything. And then Swāmījī tells Sevāpurī, "Bring me a cup of water." And Gopālpurī said, "Why, Swāmījī?" he asked. Always Gopālpuri, I am also here, and when Gopālpuri has such a thought, then to awaken more and more this fire, Swāmijī will always ask Sevāpuri. That’s called a master’s training. Patañjali speaks in his sūtra, in his book—one of his books is beautiful, and one should read it. If you didn’t read the Patañjali Yogasūtra, you don’t know what yoga is. Patañjali says in his first writing, he is saying to his disciples... You know, masters were not those who said, "Please come and do it." No, please. Why? Come or go. It’s your decision. A master is like a lake. If you are thirsty, come and drink. And if you are thirsty and you don’t drink, go. It’s your problem. Thirsty came, thirsty go. So we have to make a step towards that one which is there. So Patañjali says first, "Atha yogānuśāsanam," my dear devotees. Yoga begins with discipline. If you have no discipline in your life, you cannot be successful in anything. The key to success is self-discipline. Ninety-eight percent of our problems—physical, mental, social, in relations with partners, friends, animals, forest, country, and business—are from our side, that we have no discipline in this, because we are spoiled ones. If someone said, "Practice every day," and then you come next time to the yoga class in Yoga and Day Life, and Gopāl Purī will say, "Did you practice?" You didn’t say yes. Next day, the person will go in Gītā Purī’s class, the Gītā. Then Gītā Purī will say, "So, did you practice?" Yes. Then you go home and say, "I will not go there anymore. It’s not their business to ask me if I practiced or not." And those who practice yoga—āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, relaxations, meditations, mantras—you can see it on the face of the person. The body doesn’t lie. We may lie, but the body will not lie. The body will tell everything. Our body is the mirror where you can see everything. And so masters, yoga teachers who are really teachers, you know... And to become a yoga teacher, you have to practice at least 90 years to learn. After 90 years, you are a yoga teacher; otherwise, we are disciples. People ask me, "Swāmījī, are you a guru?" I say, "No, I am a disciple." On the day when I will say, "Yes, I am a guru," then you can say, "It’s not a guru, but it’s a kangaroo, jumping here and there." Therefore, a great person, a wise man said, "The great one never speaks great things about himself." He or she will never prize itself. There was a great poet, Rahim Dās. And Rahim Das said, "When does a diamond speak and call the customers, ’Hey, I am a diamond, and my value is one million dollars’?" Does a diamond speak this? No. We see and we say, "Wow, it’s a diamond." And others say, "Yes, it is. The price is so and so much." The diamond keeps silent because it knows it is others’ job to give value, not my job. Similarly, a master, a guru, a perfect person will not say, "I am the guru." And when one begins to say, "Yes, I am a guru," then it means it is a self-made one, that is a blind street, and we don’t want to enter the blind street. When we go walking, even to a blind street, and from the other side behind comes an angry Doberman, then we don’t have a way to run away in another direction because it is a blind street. We have to turn back, and there is a Doberman standing. This situation we have. Therefore, always, always we surrender towards the Satguru Deva, our spiritual lineage. That water will become Gaṅgā’s, holy Gaṅgā’s water, which will enter into the Gaṅgā. And that water will not be called Gaṅgā’s water if it goes out into the canals. So join a living master lineage, which has the holy divine lineage as its background. So as long as we are here, we are disciples, we are the practitioners, and we are the servants of all humans and all creatures. That is the best thing. My master, holy Gurujī, what we call Swami Madhavānandjī, we call Hindu Dharm Samrāṭ. When he came somewhere to speak, then he said in his speech, "I am thankful to God and Mahāprabhujī that I could serve you with my limited knowledge." Not that I give a speech; I serve you. These are my words which I am telling you, and explaining is my service to you. Not that I am preaching and saying, "Do this and this." No, it is service. Humbleness. Holy Gurujī said, "Be humble like a tree." When the fruits ripen, then the branches of the tree bend down so that you can get them easily. So when the wise man, a yogī, gets such knowledge, then he becomes humble. No anger, no jealousy. You are like a light. No darkness can come to this light. As long as this light is burning, shining, no darkness can come. But when the light is off, darkness is immediately there. So, if you are a real devotee, if you are a real bhakta, if you are a real practitioner, then in your mind there is no jealousy, no hate, and no thinking of liking and disliking. It’s not easy, my dear, to be a perfect one. We are human, we have human weaknesses. We have so many physical desires in many, many different ways: drinking, eating, doing, going, walking, talking, listening, this, that, many things. But I tell you, the day will come when no more desires will be there. No more. That is the last minute of... Where is the God of desires? All your jealousy, all your anger, all your greediness are lying forever there. And your Self is smiling and says, "Thank you, God, it was a hard job." So much dust. So don’t expect that you will be without any desires. Yes, feelings are there, but yoga tells us to discipline and use your intelligence, your vivekā, then you can be happy. So it’s our own discipline that leads us to perfection, otherwise not. The creator has created 8.4 million different creatures. And one out of them is human. There’s no racism; there’s no differences. Maybe you are coming from Africa, Australian Aborigines, America, India, China, Japan, or Tibet. It doesn’t matter. Everyone has red blood. Has someone black blood? Has someone only white blood? Not only humans, every creature has this red blood. So we are one. Everyone has, all humans have two nostrils. Maybe someone has a misbirth nowadays, so there is only one nostril open. That can happen because of these chemical things we are doing. So why different? Where is the racism? There is no racism, not your country and my country. In Hinduism, it is said in the Vedas, Upanishads: "Vasudeva Kuṭumbakam"—the whole world is a family of one God. How beautiful, we are one family. So unnecessary, we are talking and fighting. So out of 8.4 million creatures, one is a human. And humans have this very powerful tool called the intellect, which should be utilized. And human intellect needs education. And the love which humans have in the heart, some creatures do not have. The human heart has a love to feel the pain of others and not to cause pain. A human heart, completely developed with human qualities, will not torture, not kill, and not imprison any creature. Then we are fully awakened humans. Otherwise, the body looks like a human, but the desires and qualities are still other. Human intellect, understanding will never and never accept that we make the dualities and we fight each other. When those qualities awaken, then we will be so happy, you cannot imagine. And all the problems of the world are gone. What we call world peace will be here. Love everyone as your brothers and sisters. In Vedic culture, meaning from the Hindu teachings, the Vedic culture—entire India and those countries which are connected with India—they have a beautiful system, automatically taught to us. No one tells you that you should speak like this and not like that, automatically. So, any woman who is elder than you, about 20 or 30 years elder than you, automatically we will call her mother. You may never have seen her before, but we will say mother. And she also will tell you, my child, beta, my son. Now, what happens psychologically if you think, "I create the relation with that lady as my mother, and her feelings towards me as her son"? She will never do anything wrong to her son, and I will never do anything wrong to my mother. How beautiful is that? Now, someone who is around your age, a few years younger, 10, 15 years, 20 years, or elderly, then automatically we will call Bahin, Bahinji, Bahin, sister. Now, you have such a beautiful relation to your sister. You will never think anything wrong or bad about her. And you are obliged to protect and help your sister. And your sister, if you are younger than her, she has a right—not your blood sister, but anyone—she has a right. So bye-bye, girls. She has a right to pull your ears. Can you imagine you are sitting in the train, and a three- or four-year-old lady, you do something, and she comes and holds your ears and says, "My brother, don’t do this." My God, then the whole aeroplane, it will begin like this. But the men, the boys will accept, and even they are afraid when they see the elderly, like a sister doesn’t dare to talk about something which is not good. What a respect. She has no fear of you, and you have no fear of her. And every brother, every man has the obligation, the duty to protect her in every situation, in every aspect. And if something happens in your presence, the first one will be your father, who will give you a slap on your cheek. "How could that happen to the boy, to that young lady, young sister, when you were there? Better for you to die before she is disturbed by someone." What a protection, no? No bad consciousness should be in our thoughts, no bad consciousness. Then, the very young, then you will say, "My daughter, my child, my son, my daughter." So you have a love of the father. And what they call these children abusing in some countries, unfortunately, what happened, they call the sex tourists—that will never happen, never will happen. If we follow this Vedic teaching and similar teachings, we have another direction. If the elder remains, we will say Pita Shri, Bapujī, Bābājī, Bhai, or Beta. Bhai means brother, Bahen means sister. Bahen means my one hand, my one arm is my sister, and the second arm is my brother. This kind of thinking and maintaining the discipline and respect will create world peace and harmony. There will be no criminality. The women will be happy, and they will not be afraid or have fear of anyone. And men will also be very happy, and they will have no fear. Sometimes people are criticizing about Islam and ladies in Islam, but you know, in reality, it didn’t say that you should abuse these ladies or like this, no, no. You should protect them, so men should be outside to protect these gentle womanly principles, the women, because women do not have that strength to fight with men, so that nothing happens. You know how much they care about their wives or their mothers. In the house of an Islamic family, the mother or grandmother has the last word. Yes, it is like this. Go and see in the family. Don’t criticize from outside, oh God, this and that. Yes, there are some that can be everywhere. And similarly in India, and similarly in Western culture too. But now, in the last few centuries, women have, unfortunately, lost their dignity. They went to the market. And the men abused them as a model for the money, commercial. I always say, by human rights, throughout the whole world, it should be prohibited to give advertising and pictures to sell the woman’s body. That creates negative thinking. Just like how you think and look, the desires grow in you. And I’m sorry to say, ladies, you are stupid that you are giving your body for such pictures to be given and sold. All Shakti’s women’s organizations should bring this law through human rights: that women should be respected as a mother and sister, or if a wife, in the proper way. And if you see your sister in the magazine naked, you will not be happy. If you see your daughter, and someone comes in the magazine and says, "Is that your daughter?" "Yes, unfortunately, she’s stupid." You know, how do you feel? We should have the same feelings towards all. Human love, human beauty, human life are different. Even animals don’t do like this. So, my dear, out of 8.4 million, human is one. And humans got the heart and brain, such intellect and intelligence, to protect all and love all. Towards animals, I used to say, love them, feed them, but don’t eat them. That’s human love. Every creature has one aim: to become one with the cosmic Self, with their origin. Every life on this planet represents the light of the cosmic Self, God. And that light, we are also saved. So every soul, individual soul, from many, many times, they are fluttering on the waves of time. Through the different parts of the universe, sometimes through dark days, sometimes through light, experiencing sometimes horrible, painful situations, like on this planet, unfortunately. The creatures which we present them, do you think they are happy? Part 2: The Sense of Life In an airline magazine yesterday—I forget the airline, Jet Star perhaps—I read about a black bear. They constantly extract hormones from its liver through a tube, and it lives in a small case. The article stated: this is its cradle, this is its home, and this is its grave. Such medicine is available in nature, from plants and so on. Nevertheless, dear brothers and sisters, the aim of human life is to be a protector, a helper, to realize God, and to become one with God. Logically, if we think, it is written here today: "My God, I should take this, don’t forget my subject." Making sense of the world. Don't make a sense of the world, but make a sense of your life. On the day when the soul will leave the body, there is nothing. So help, help... help. This is the sense of our life. You are standing there, and an elderly or weaker person is carrying two heavy suitcases from the platform to the bus. You are also standing there, just looking. To which thing can I immediately help you, brother, or can I help you, sir? That is the sense of life. Give a hand. Helping hands have more value than folded hands. That makes sense. Yes, when you are kind to others, that makes sense. So when you see someone, try to see your mother, sister, daughter, auntie. But if you say "lady," what relation do you build up in your heart? Is there any? In India we call a married woman laḍhī. The word "laḍhī" became "lady." So you can marry the lady. You can make a business with her. You can cheat her, shout at her, or anything. There is no cultural relation with it. Culture should have teachings that create a relation. It’s called heart to heart. And heart to heart does not mean you go and give a hug. It means your heart speaks for others, and others’ hearts speak with you. You may say "Ma’am" or "Madam." Good, madam is a respectful lady. That’s all. But because of language, it is good in your language to say, "Madam, please excuse me, lady." But can we send very nice feelings and energy and helping hands in certain situations? Sometimes people say, "Can I help you?" and then take the suitcase and disappear. That you don’t have to carry the suitcase up. It happened, you know. In Vienna, Austria, we have an ashram. Just 40 or 50 meters away, there is a beautiful, traditional vegetable market. If you go to Vienna and have not seen this market, you have seen nothing. You will see many good varieties of vegetables. Vienna is the most beautiful city; that’s why I’m there. You should come, and I will take you to the Naschmarkt. In the very beginning, in 1970, when I came, I was going shopping myself. I had a small yoga center with five disciples. I would go shopping with two baskets, walking about two and a half to three kilometers through the city to another district where the ashram was, then come back quickly and cook for them. It was beautiful. But at that time, the horses were young. Now, the horses get a little tired. One day, an elderly woman, about 70 or 80 years old, had a stick in one hand and a shopping basket in the other. Her purse, some milk, and other items were in the basket. As she came near a corner, a young man said, "Ma’am, or madam, may I help you?" She said, "Okay, my child, thank you. You see, still..." In Austria, we have beautiful relations. Sorry, he walked with her about 20 meters, and near the corner, he just ran away and took everything. That’s why mostly ladies don’t trust someone to carry their suitcase. Otherwise, we should help. The sense of this life is to be useful. Donate your organs. Do you know how many people are on the waiting list for a good kidney? Your kidney is good. After your body has passed away, your soul has departed, and the kidneys will either rot or be spoiled in the earth or in the fire. Why not let a healthy kidney give someone a happy life? Many people don’t want to donate organs, but I am for it. Which organs can be utilized for a needy person? That is also, I think, a sense of our life: giving, giving, giving. Till the last drop of our blood, we should work for beautiful things. People ask me, "Swamiji, you travel so much." Four months a year, I am in airplanes. They say, "Are you tired?" I say, "Yes, my body is tired, but my inner self is not, because my master gave me so much." I cannot take care of all that. I have to give. Let the energy flow, flow, flow. And when I will be really tired, I will fall down, and that’s all. Then you will remember sometimes, "Oh yes, the man with the long beard was sitting and telling us such good things." So, that cosmic sound which we chanted in the beginning began from the center of the universe. The universe is known as endless, Ananta Brahmāṇḍa Śāstra Sūryas—the endless universe with thousands of sun systems, preserved by great saints for millions of years in Satya Yuga. We are limited beings, so how should we know where the center, the middle point of the universe, is? Yes, we know, and you know. I will give you a good idea today. We can go there directly. From Ananta, in that universal Self, the endless universe, that is the Mother. That’s called the cosmic mother. When we speak about the divine mother, Śakti, during Navarātri—the nine nights of the divine mother—that is the universe. Someone’s telephone is making a sound; I hope it’s not mine. Today I didn’t play with this. Don’t call me anymore. The first is that space, and the space is completely filled, compact. Not even the empty space, like the tip of a needle, is devoid of consciousness. That consciousness we call Hiraṇya Garbha, the golden egg or golden embryo. Garbha means the embryo. Because of Easter time, you take chocolate in the form of eggs. How does this come? It comes from those Vedic teachings: Hiraṇya Garbha, the golden egg, golden embryo. Within that golden egg is the cosmic consciousness—not a consciousness cosmic, but the cosmic consciousness. The first layer is space, the second layer is the energy in between, and then there is consciousness. That energy, power, śakti, which keeps them together, balanced, harmonized, and united, is known as yoga. So, how old is yoga? Now you should know. Yoga is not limited to Patañjali. Yoga is not limited to Vālmīki. Yoga is not limited to the Taittirīya. It is thousands of years older. That is yoga. In this cosmos, there is a center point. In this center point, one desire awoke, which we call divine will. "Thy will be done, Lord." Does God have a desire? Krishna said, "In the entire universe, there is nothing which I cannot have, but still I am working." For what is he working when he can have everything? God has a desire for something good. In that endless expanse, there is no body, no form, only space, Śakti, and consciousness. That is called Eko’haṁ Bahusyāmi: "I am one, and I will multiply myself." That multiplication is with the Nāda. Nāda-rūpa-parabrahma: the sound, vibration, resonance. The resonance is a form of the Supreme that awoke, and that is called Swayambhū, Śiva. Shiva is the first of all, the sound abode. Yogīs research this. Tapasya means research. In Christianity they say this, but this is from yoga. You know that Jesus was many, many years in India, practiced yoga, and realized samādhi. When he was on the cross, he went into samādhi, so he didn’t feel the pain. That sound, within no time, spread through an endless universe. How? One example: you are sleeping peacefully or relaxing. A tiny Australian sandfly, which is not visible to our physical eyes, sometimes comes and sits on a small finger and bites. I think it is only mouth, nothing else. Immediately, the entire body knows something has bitten it. Similarly, when that cosmic sound awoke, the entire universe was filled with the vibration. Each taraṅg—taraṅg means the waves—on a peaceful lake or your swimming pool: you take a little stone and throw it in the water. What happens? The stone goes down, but you see the waves, circles, rounds. Because the entire universe is round. Everything is round. The energy is round. The sun rays come round. So that round means Hiraṇya Garbha, that golden egg, golden embryo. That’s why many clocks in churches, temples, and everywhere are round; the resonance goes. Tāraṅg means the individual waves; they go one, two, three—how many waves? Even if we throw this telephone, which is square, into the water, the waves will not be square. The waves will be round. In the endless universe, through the Śiva consciousness, the awakening of the nāda created the fire element, air element, water, and earth. Space was there, and then began the different creations. Thousands of sun systems were created by that one sound. Stars, planets, and one very beautiful one, which we love: our planet. And we are fighting: my land, private property, no access, Doberman on guard, alarm, armed response. Who are you? This land belongs to somebody else. You are only a guest for some days. "My land, your land"—what confusion. Many people who have problems should come to the middle of Australia and make it all civilized and nice. There is space enough. Big land. We have plenty of "my land." They will come and take it away. Who gave the peak will give the food. Trust God. In this creation, our coming to human life is significant. The first constellation is very important when the father and mother come together. That liquid, or whatever it is, is also in a round form. There is already the ātmā, the soul. From there, the body begins to manifest in the mother’s body. The first point is the navel. Around the navel, the spine begins to create. After that come the little hands and legs, and it develops. There is no architect or scientist in this world, till today, who can make such a body out of something and put a soul inside. It is sustainable, self-sustainable: air conditioning, ventilation, everything. What a God! This bungalow is a wondrous bungalow in which God himself is speaking. But who can tell us the secret of this bungalow without Gurudev? That resonance, coming with the cosmic light, enters the mother’s body, and there our body begins to develop from the navel, the Maṇipūra Cakra. So, the center of the universe is the navel. Very good idea? Good. The seat of sound is the navel: Parā, Paśyantī, and Vaikharī. Parā means the dormant sound, paśyantī is the middle where the sound is manifested, and the lips and tongue are where the sound is formed. So parā, paśyantī, and vaikharī—this is the sound’s awakening. That cosmic sound, that origin, however many billions of years ago, is still resonating in the endless universe. You are one ray of that sun or that resonance, and it comes to you. You are that individual one. Whatever you do becomes your destiny, and you will go further. There is a beautiful Kriya Yoga: you concentrate on your navel. Then you deeply inhale into the abdomen, then the belly, then expand the chest. Feel the breath here, here, and here. After that, we chant. At that time, nāda manifests, awakening from the navel. It rises up through the three channels: Iḍā, Piṅgalā, Suṣumnā—the left nostril, right nostril, and the central nerve; sympathetic, parasympathetic, and the central nerve. Collectively, sound comes up. Ida and Pingala, after the Agnya Chakra, give the sound further to the Sushumna to lead to the top of the head, the Brahma Randra. Brahma means the supreme, Randra is the hole or the door. The door to the Supreme, to come to the Supreme, is here in our body. There are ten doors through which the soul will exit. Someone with terrible karma, going to a lower form of life, may exit through the lower doors at the time of death. Or from the ears, blood may come. Salt goes out, or the nostrils open wide, or blood comes, or eyes go wide open, frightening. We come and close the eyes. The ninth door is the mouth. Suddenly, the mouth opens. Who is sitting beside you? You cannot catch the soul and put it back and close the mouth. It is not in our hands, my dear. Even if you hold the hands, how long will you go with this one? You cannot accompany anyone. Only your destiny will take you, and the light of your mantra, your prayers, will show you, escort you. Then you will know what my mantra means. Now, still, you don’t know. So the soul makes the journey. We came alone, and we will go alone. When you were born, your fist was closed. The nurse or sister opened your hands, making gentle little baby hands. But when you die, your hands will be empty. It means you didn’t take anything with you. All that I say is "my, my," is here, and I am going again alone. There is a nice poem I always like to say in my satsaṅg. Are you tired? But I can stop. "Paṭā ṭūṭā ḍāl se, aur le gayī pavan uḍā." Clear? Yes. One yogī or poet was sitting in a park or on a hill, and after practicing, he opened his eyes and looked at the beauty of nature. A strong wind came, and one tiny leaf from a high branch broke, and the wind blew the leaf far away to the other side of the hill. The poet wrote: "Paṭā ṭūṭā ḍāl se"—the leaf broke from the branch. "Le gayī pavan uḍā"—the wind has blown it away. "Abhichre kab milenge?"—now we are separated, when will we meet again? Will that leaf come again to the same tree branch? "Dūr paḍenge jāye"—it will fall somewhere far away. So, the tree is our family relation, our worldly tree, this world. The wind is destiny, and the broken leaf is death. We are the leaf after the soul leaves the body. No one can tell in which direction the soul went. Again, the journey to Ānanda begins. How will it be? The astral body is there. Like in a dream, you are aware of everything, happy or unhappy. Similarly, your destiny, your karma, will lead you through certain situations which you created here in this world. So, create happy situations. Create loving situations, create spiritual situations. Repeat your mantra and let it go to the light. The sound comes to the tenth door, and from there your soul will exit. When a baby is small, you can feel a very gentle part here. The sound which awakes from the navel goes through Iḍā, Piṅgalā, Suṣumṇā, up through Suṣumṇā, and then divides into three streams again. One stream of the Pingalā Nāḍī leads to the heart, because there is the seat of your soul, your Ātmā. The second, through the Iḍā Nāḍī, transfers to the whole body. You feel the resonance in the whole body. The third goes into the space. You hear your own resonance. You feel the vibration in the whole body. Scientifically proven, when you chant OM, you can see how this vibration goes up and down and what happens to your organs. They even use this therapy for many illnesses: light, color, and sound therapy. Now we will chant OM. Concentrate on your navel, and please follow these three streams of the Aum. Good idea? Okay. Relax, sit comfortably, and close your eyes. We will all continuously chant Aum together. Deep inhale and exhale. Become one with thyself. Relax inwardly. Feel the expansion and contraction of your stomach, your navel moving with a deep inhale, and we will chant oṃ and feel your whole body. Inwardly, try to listen to the resonance of your chanting "Om" in the body and in your Chidākāśa. And three times, the Śānti Mantra. Deep inhale. Om Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Slowly move your fingers, close the fist, open the palm, close the fist, and rotate your fist left and right. Fold your palms, rub them, place your hands on your face, warm your face muscles, rub your eyelids, and open your eyes. That’s all for today. Next will be next time. See you here or there, definitely somewhere. Through webcasting, we can see many times. You can see me. I will maybe see only the energy of who is sitting there. Through www.swamiji.tv, you will see that he is already there. This lecture will also be relayed or repeated a few times. Next year is Kumbh Melā, end of March and April, in Haridwar. Those who can come are most welcome. This is one of the biggest gatherings of humans, millions at one spot, something very great and divine. Being a Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara of the Mahanirvani Akhara, we will have our own camp and the Shahi Snan, the royal bath. You will be part of that, so don’t miss it. You may come for one bath or two, as you like. If you come to Europe, you are most welcome. Dear brothers and sisters around the world, the invitation is for you. I wish you all the best. If you are mourning, have a nice day. If it is evening, I wish you good night. God bless you, and tomorrow blessings will come to you from Perth. So, I’m coming closer and closer to the Indian Ocean. Thank you. Swamiji, for the lecture, inspirations, and now I can understand why he said in the beginning that this is not the end. After this inspiration, it doesn’t matter what happens tomorrow; the leaves can fly, but... Two words, Swamiji. Yes, inspiration is always with us. Swamiji is always with us. A little bit only.