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Oṁ Nityadayantī Yogīna Kandam Mokṣadamche Oṁ Karayanamo Gurur Brahma Gurur Viṣṇu Gurur Devo Maheśvara Gurur Sākṣāk Para Brahma Tasmai Śrī Gurave Namaḥ Dhyānamūlaṁ Gurumūrti Pūjāmūlaṁ Gurupadaṁ Mantramūlaṁ Guruvākyaṁ Mokṣa Mūlaṁ Guror Kṛpā Brahmanandaṁ Parama Sukhadam Kevalaṁ jñānamūrti dvandvātītaṁ gagana sadṛśyaṁ tasmāsyādi lakṣaṁ. Salutation to the Cosmic Light, Lord of our hearts, omniscient and omnipresent in his divine presence. Dear sisters, brothers, and adoration to our guru. Today is a beautiful day for satsaṅg. All kinds of conferences and meetings are called satsaṅg, where everyone tries to bring something good into the world. Today, we remember our dear Satguru, the true master, His Holiness Śrī Svāmī Madhavānandajī, whom we call Holy Gurujī. He is a holy incarnation. Bhagavān Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī, as our dear Maṇsukrām, the president of the fellowship, is declared as a Viṣṇu incarnation. Furthermore, we go to Devpurījī, Śiva-svarūpaha, the embodiment of Śiva. We trace back through the ages: Satya Yuga, Dvāpara Yuga, Tretā Yuga, and Kali Yuga. The message of Yoga in Daily Life has its roots in the Satyuga with the great saint Ālakapurījī. My dear sisters and brothers, this is the first time I am giving you a glimpse of our paramparā, our lineage, and the source from which this wisdom comes to us. I waited a long time—about 51 years—because Mahāprabhujī left his body in 1963, and I came to know of him in 1964. I was searching, and until I could find the roots, I did not speak more about it. So, nearly 50 years of research into the beginning, the roots, the source of Yoga in Daily Life. It comes from the Satyuga, and we have found the evidence, which took time. For the last 15 years, one of our sisters, my disciple, a sannyāsī and dentist, Dr. Shanti from Vienna, Austria, has been traveling through the Himalayas searching for the roots of Ālakapurījī. She devoted all her time and was great. She found it: the residence, the cave of Ālakapurījī. This was the first evidence. The seat of the Ālakapurījīs is between Kedarnath and Badrinath in the Himalayas. In the Mahāśivapurāṇa, the book about Śiva, it is written about Ālakapurījī. This year, when I came to know where this miraculous cave was, where the great holy saint lived, I went there to meet it. I spent two nights in that holy cave. Now the evidence is this: in the Himalayas, two great, mighty rivers run. One is called Bhagīrathī, and the second is called Alaknandā. Alaknandā is named after Śrī Ālakapurījī, and Bhagīrathī is named after Ṛṣi Bhagīratha. Both rivers meet together at a place called Devaprayāg. "Prayāg" means a confluence, a meeting together. When the Alaknandā and the Bhagīrathī meet, they become the complete Gaṅgā. We will speak more of this work later. Dear ones, every holy soul, every yogī is an incarnation. In those whose heart compassion awakens, it becomes already a holy heart. When the holy heart is there, with compassion and mercy, it awakens love and compassion towards others—but first for oneself. That yogī, that practitioner whose consciousness is awakened, gains awareness of the circumstances and situations in the world. When you see happy people, you are happy; when you see suffering, you are unhappy. We should feel the pain of others within us. When a mother's child dies, whether daughter or son, the mother feels more pain than the father because this child is the blood of the mother. The mother carried it in her womb. Similarly, whether animal or human, mothers and children share this bond. So similarly, you have to become a mother, whether you are male or female. When compassion awakens in your heart, you become a mother. That womb of the mother is the heart. You feel the pain, the pity, the suffering of others—not only humans, but every creature. Viśva prāṇī merī ātmā hai. When a yogī begins to practice āsanas, prāṇāyāma, and comes to meditation, awareness arises that each and every entity is myself. Vishwaprani merī ātmā hai—myself, my ātmā. The soul and ātmā are different. The soul is individual, and ātmā is one. Your ātmā and my ātmā are one. But the karmic impressions we carry, which come and go, belong to our soul. That soul suffers because of our different indriyas and guṇas, as we heard from the previous speaker. All our speakers spoke so beautifully this time; every time they develop more and more. This soul suffers, changing like colors in different situations. In an unpleasant situation, the soul becomes dark; in a pleasant, happy situation, it becomes light. But the Ātmā is the observer, as it is. Each and every creature—8.4 million different creatures—as Dr. Nagendra explained via Skype regarding the five kośas, lives within these five covers of the body: Annamaya kośa, manomaya kośa, prāṇamaya kośa, vijñānamaya kośa, and ānandamaya kośa. Every entity has fear. If God did not give us fear, we could not exist. Fear must be. If you have no fear and a car comes at high speed, you will just go; that's it. But if you have fear, you will save yourself. Similarly, every creature tries to save its life to complete the karma of this life. But the ātmā is like space. A car can go over and over, and nothing happens to the space; my car will break. So, Ātmā—Viśva Prāṇī, Merī Ātmā—every entity is my Ātmā. Ātmā soi Paramātmā; Ātmā is the Supreme, the Highest, God. We have to awaken that consciousness within us, and the first step is compassion. Yoga is one. First, it is said, "I am one." The highest one said, "I am one, and now I will multiply." For example, just for example, this is not exactly so, but I had one desire: I will make a conference. I was one, and now how many are you here? So it is an example. The supreme said, "I am one, and I will multiply." This is how the entire creation begins. I will not tell the whole story again, but we are part of that vibration. That was the Nādarūpa Parabrahma. The Vedas, the first scriptures, speak of this. The Upaniṣads and Purāṇas also speak. The Vedas say, "Nādharūpa Parabrahma." If you want to know how the supreme looks, it is a sound, like the sound of a flute. You cannot see it or touch it, but you can hear it. Sound is sound, either unpleasant or pleasant. An unpleasant sound is someone saying, "Hey, bloody one!" A pleasant sound is, "Hello, dear sir." Kind words can only come from the heart, transfer to the brain, to the vocal cords, to the navel, and come to the throat and vocal cords to be spoken. Parā, praśānti, and bekhri. Mercy exists in an animal's heart also, but for the animal it is called Jeeva jeeva bhakṣate—animals eat animals. But for man, mercy is given. In Christianity, people often repeat the mantra to the Holy Mother Maria: "I pray to thee for thy mercy, oh Mother Maria. I pray for thy mercy." So mercy, compassion, love, no hate. "Dear Father, they do not know what they are doing." They are not guilty ones. Similarly, those who have ignorance are suffering; they create such a... So mercy. It is called non-violence. Non-violence and violence: violence is giving trouble to someone—physical, mental, emotional, intellectual, and social. This is different kinds of suffering, hiṁsā, violence. Any violence you do or I do, if I do violence to a tree, it will affect me. If I do violence to animals, it will affect me as karma. Non-violence does good. We should not talk only about humans, but we can ask our dear humans: can we stop such violence in this world? Why should we not live as one peaceful family? That is called humanity. Country borders are in the human mind. They make borders: Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Poland, etc. But for God, there is only one earth. What we write here: "Peace be on the earth." Peace should be in the world. Non-violence you can also do to yourself. When you are angry, hateful, greedy, and this negativity, you are harming yourself. This is violence to yourself, and that is the biggest sin according to the śāstras: self-murder, suicide. That means you are doing violence to your own Jīvātmā. Violence is not only war. Our dear Prince, His Highness, spoke of how many were killed by terrorists. But how many were killed by heart attack? I think we should first protect the heart. Thank you very much. We should do more yoga in our life, prāṇāyāma, so our heart is better. How many were killed by brain attack? How many died because of kidneys, livers, etc.? Can we somehow help ourselves, if not 100%, then at least 80-90%? For that, there is yoga. Peace. Gandhijī said, "There is no way to peace. Peace is the way." Can we learn from each other to live with harmony and love? Do not blame others. It is said: only he who is not a sinner should throw the first stone. If you believe in Jesus's words and the Bible, then follow this. Yes, we would throw stones to kill somebody, but first the stone should be thrown by one who is one hundred percent without sin. Everyone would throw the stone down. So when you or I blame someone, the karma will come back to us. Peace is within our heart. If someone makes a mistake, we should forgive. Gandhi said we do not hate the sinner, we hate the sin. Then there is peace in this world. But greed, anger, hate, ego, etc., will lead us to violence, to hiṁsā. We should come to ahiṁsā. So yoga came first: "Ekoham bahusyāmī"—I am one and now I will multiply the sound. A-U-M, Nābhī, Kaṇṭha, and Jīvā. This Aum became the resonance, and from that comes the light. Through this light, Śiva manifested. Only one who is that God, Śiva, who has no mother and no father, manifested himself and brought the message of yoga throughout the whole world. Yoga has many different branches, many techniques, and it is also a healing system, but one should practice proper yoga. We can bring peace, but first with ourselves. Can we forgive? Can we forgive someone? Today, I think, if someone slaps you on the cheek on the road, you will either run away thinking they will kill you, or you will fight back. We will not offer the other cheek. I do not know what Jesus said or somebody said. I would also do something. But there are very few who can follow Jesus's teaching or other religious teachings. So, my dear, peace develops in ourselves. Reduce greed, jealousy, anger, hate, pride, and ego. You will see you will have a peaceful night and a peaceful day. Then, automatically, your heart becomes the heart of a mother and the heart of a holy father—a heart of a mother with the soul inside as the father, both together. So yoga, and I am so happy—not proud. I am proud of you, my dear all from the Czech Republic, that you acknowledged, understood, practiced, and taught this good system, Yoga in Daily Life, to the whole republic. I myself was surprised to see how many yoga centers and teachers there are. Officially, we have 300 teachers, and also many assistant teachers. How many Czech people have learned yoga in their life, and are learning? That is why Czech people are very peaceful—and not only Czech, Slovak too. Due to this, when Czechoslovakia became Slovak and Czech, not one single person died or was killed. Am I right? This is how the Slovak and Czech, even now, do not feel separated. They are like left and right hands, two parts of the heart and two hemispheres, living with harmony and peace. If we can learn this throughout all other countries, it will be great. So yoga has brought now Satyuga. Satyuga had turned when I came the first time on March 3, 1973, to the first Upavāsa. At that time, when I was walking at a railway station or somewhere, people would turn and look, and I would turn to the other side also. They said, "Who is this person?" We talked about yoga, and they said, "Oh, I am a fakir on needles, a needle bed, or hanging upside down, standing or sitting in lotus pose. Oh God, we don't want to practice yoga." I tell you the truth. In 1976, in one hall, I had many people; the hall was full. One practitioner became a vegetarian, and his grandmother did not accept. Grandmother loves more than father, maybe. She said, "Are you crazy? Are you psychic? I'll go to the doctor." She said, "No, but you will die. Eat meat, you will die." He said, "I will not die. My master taught me everything." So she wanted to see the master, to see me. Well, stories along my demonstration—I knew you need a demonstration. Sky, a stomach also. So that's why my stomach is a little bigger, because I have to demonstrate. I had a lecture, and the grandmother came especially to see me. She was sitting behind on a chair with binoculars. People were sitting so much—it is a joke and a reality. She was sitting like this and said to her grandson, "When will he come? When will he come?" Then I came, she saw me, took the binoculars down and said, "He cannot be vegetarian only. I thought he would be like Gandhi." So people have other thinking about nourishment. Now I am very proud that these nations' people became more and more healthy and very happy. They changed their way of thinking, way of eating, way of living, and way of practicing yoga. So yoga in daily life—everything is yoga—but Yoga in Daily Life is a system. Yesterday, a journalist told me that in the Czech Republic, people are adopting more and more again now Yoga in Daily Life. Mokṣa, liberation, God-realization, begins from the mother's body. When we are in the mother's body, the mother talks to the child. In the Vedas and Upaniṣads, it is written how the mother was talking. Queen Madhalsa talked with her child, and before the child was born, the child was self-realized. That was the teaching of the mother. So, my dear, yoga is for the physical body, for the energy, for the mind, for the consciousness, and for liberation. I am very happy that the respected Prime Minister of India, through his work, acknowledged yoga for the whole world. A few days ago, the World Health Organization declared and acknowledged Indian yoga as a world heritage for the people. So we are working, and now we are all yogīs, but we should give further. I practiced a lot, and then I thought, "Now I should give to the people in the world." I traveled 45 times around the whole globe—45 times around the earth flying. I even flew for only two people, or one person, to some country because he or she practiced yoga and began to teach. People say, "You go for only one or two persons?" I say, "Yes, I will go when there is no person. I will sit somewhere, and someone will definitely come and say, 'Hey, who are you?'" So, thank you. Do not worry if it is a hundred people or one person. The river flows for all. If one bird comes to drink water, or a whole group of deer, rabbits, goats, and sheep comes to drink, the river is equal; it will not lose the water. So knowledge is for everybody.