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Manare āratī sañjo Śambhu Deva Purī-saharaki. Manare āratī sañjo Bhagavān Deva Purī-saharaki. Śrī Deva Purī-sahara kī viśve nātavi sambharaki. Śambho Deva haraki viśve nātavi sambharaki. Śrī Deva Purī-sahara kī viśve nātavi sambharaki. Manare āratī sañjo Bhagavān Deva Purīta harakī. Chattamukattame Gaṅgābhirāte. Dharahāra harakī Chattamukattame Gaṅgābhirāte. Manavān citta bhagadānakī, Harihara Manavān citta bhagadānakī, Sañjo Purī saharakī, Sañjo Śāhadeva saharakī. Sañjo Bhagavān Deva Purī Saharaki. Śrī Devaśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Śrī Satya Gurudeva Kī Jai. This prayer was written by Ṭhākur of Śrī Bhadīkaṭhū, Śrī Revatsiṅghjī. The prayer gives contentment to this jīva ātmā. Prayer is a tonic for spiritual development. It gives peace, harmony, calmness, and certainty. Through prayers, one comes to ātma-anubhūti, which is very important. This is what we call self-inquiry meditation. Self-inquiry is the purification of our citta vṛttis. Citta is our consciousness, and vṛtti means the different kinds of thoughts and restlessness. The first practice and experience of self-enquiry meditation begins when the citta-vṛtti is purified, meaning it becomes concentrated. The vṛttis are of different kinds, often about worldly sorrows. Nowadays, all humans have sorrows. Every family, every society, every country, every government, and even the United Nations. What kind of worries do we have? The worries of the environment, the worries about the climate, the worries about the restlessness in human society. We cannot blame anyone but ourselves. It is said that charity begins at home, so we should not put guilt on anybody. Otherwise, we will never reach our goal. In the world, there are great people, many governments, many NGOs, and many individuals. They have two approaches. One is constantly questioning and solving what to do, but they are scared: will it happen? Others have many, many suggestions. Many would like to say we should do this, we should do that. But do we begin to do something? We have damaged our environment greatly through pollution. Ninety-nine percent of pollution is created by humans, and this pollution has been created by the human mind. This human mind has changed the path. Our destination was to have peace, harmony, and happiness in the world and the way to God. Day by day, we are creating new rules, new complications. This modern way of thinking and modern science will lead nowhere but to disaster. We have to return to the ancient scriptures, to study and examine them. The protection of humans, the environment, and wildlife is already given by the ṛṣis, the holy Vedas, the Upaniṣads, the Purāṇas, and yogic science. This science is a research of the self. Modern science is researching and making complications for the human brain. Day by day, humans are going far away from spirituality and ethical principles. The person is divided into hundreds of pieces and doesn’t know what to do. In the consciousness of humans, a desert is slowly developing. We are nowhere and don’t know where to go. There is only one answer: to come to the ancient science, the ancient philosophy, the ancient spirituality, the ancient literatures, and follow the great saints, the ṛṣis, or yogīs. What do they do? They try to bring humans together. One human individually is divided into so many pieces. Yoga and self-inquiry meditation bring the human back again and finally lead to the point: who am I? Not how am I. How you are, that you have to analyze yourself. Through meditation, self-inquiry meditation, anti-stress meditation, relaxation, and what we call Yoga Nidrā, we can come to know what I need and which way I should go. Automatically, within us, love, harmony, and brotherhood will develop in the world. Meditation leads to the aim of human life. Therefore, Ādiguru Śaṅkarācārya brought the two principles: non-violence and non-duality. Where there is duality, there is violence. And where there is non-duality, there is ahiṃsā, non-violence. Where there is duality, there is disharmony in society. The violence begins first towards our water. How much violence we are doing towards the water. Water is life. We pollute our rivers, channels, and creeks, which flow into the ocean. Ocean life is threatened. The rivers are drying, and water is everywhere polluted. It’s not drinkable. What can be more violent than this? The water doesn’t belong only to some religion. Whether you believe or you don’t believe, whether you are religious or an atheist who doesn’t believe in God, it is a question of our own life, our own children, our own family. Śaṅkarācārya and the Vedas said, "Viśvaprāṇī merī ātmā hai." Every entity is myself. If polluted water is drunk by other creatures, they will become ill, they will die, they will suffer, and disease will begin because of the violence we do towards the water. Humans are guilty. So many factories, so much pollution. Try to bring your awareness to where we can reduce pollution and create a better environment. The trees, the vegetation, that’s our life. They have equal rights to live and exist, as humans have the right to live. This vegetation is the ornament of this earth, the beauty of this earth. It is the life of this earth, and it is our life. Yet we destroy. How much rainforest are we destroying? How many trees are destroyed? How much do we create concrete roads and concrete things? We shall take the saṅkalpa. Every year, how many trees can we plant? We have our Jadan Ashram. Our experiment became very successful. When we got this land, a few hundred hectares, it was a complete desert with very little rain. We slowly began to protect the environment, and more and more vegetation grew. Now, if you go there and see, it’s like a rainforest. It takes time, but we can definitely recover again. It is called, "We shall heal the Mother Earth." Mother Earth needs treatment now, otherwise we will suffer more and more, and it will be more painful for humans. It is the work of each and every individual. The people have the power. There is so much pesticide. All vegetation is destroyed. All seeds are manipulated. Everything is poisoned. If you, from this one country altogether, take the Saṅkalpa that we will not buy anything treated with chemical fertilizers, I can tell you that within one week, all supermarkets will be closed. All farmers will be happy and healthy. The nation will be very healthy. And all supermarkets will be full of organic food: organic milk, organic vegetables, organic fruits, grains. The whole supermarket will be organic. But you have to decide; we have to decide. We have to make this kind of movement, and everyone should do it. Similarly, what does meditation do? It brings positive thoughts to our citta vṛtti. Our vṛttis are our desires, our thoughts, our greed, our selfishness. Yoga can heal this illness of materialism and bring the person back again. Our meditation, which we are learning in Yoga and Vedānta, is called self-inquiry meditation. This self-inquiry meditation is needed in the whole world. You should meditate yourself. Go further and go further. You will come to that point which is called the divine, Self-realization. Self-inquiry means ātmā anubhūti. Ātmā anubhūti means the realization of the ātmā, "Who am I?" But it will not remain forever all twenty-four hours, because you have to work again in the worldly life. Yet in your heart, compassion and mercy come. There, you will begin to think that all is my life: "Viśvaprāṇī merī ātmā hai." Each and every entity is myself. You will see that all the animals and the birds, all creatures which can fly, will again come and protect the environment. It will be what we call heaven on earth, life on earth. So yoga is the science, and yoga is the path. It leads us to peace, harmony, and love—a healthy, happy life. But we have to practice. We have to become a model for that. We should become that person from whom everyone will learn. Our example will lead humanity now, at this end of the Kali Yuga and beginning of the Satya Yuga. Suffering will be; it has begun very much. But if we come to the practice of yoga, meditation, and spirituality, we can save ourselves from this terrible suffering of humans and other lives. It is a very simple way, and everyone knows that we can help. But they have to do one thing, and that they don’t want to do. If you don’t want to do it, then it will be a disaster. That one thing is that all should become vegetarians. For a human, that is the first and best diet. I don’t know in which chapter of the Bible, whether in the Old or New Law, it is written that the old and the ill people used to go to Jesus for healing. Many people used to come, so Jesus said, "You are ill because you don’t eat what you should eat. And what you are eating, that you should not eat. Eat the grains from the field. Eat the honey and drink the milk of the cows. Honey, nuts, grains, and milk. This nourishment is for humans. You will be healthy. But you are not eating this; you eat differently, which makes you ill." Any animal that is killed is a violence. This one point humans don’t want to accept. If you don’t accept, then we can try and try. We can do many things we want, but it will not be. So self-inquiry meditation brings back human quality and human thoughts. The bhajans we are singing give very clear instructions. When we sing, it is so pleasant, full of peace, harmony, spirituality, instructions, and knowledge. When one bhajan is sung, all listeners become very happy and feel devotion. And when one explodes one bomb, how many are suffering, and how many are frightened? This we do not need. So, yoga and self-inquiry, yoga, meditation, ātmā-anubhūti. Anubhuti means a glimpse of the Self, not constantly that you are now in ātmā-jñāna. We may attain ātmajñāna, but we have to maintain this worldly life. Let’s turn towards these five elements: water, earth, fire, air, ether. It is all our life which is holding us. We have to heal the earth again, so let’s work towards this. We must protect the environment, the inner environment and the outer environment. We have to work for our beautiful planet, our beautiful water, our beautiful forests, and our beautiful creatures and humans. It doesn’t matter which country, which continent, which religion, which culture—we are one human. That’s what we are trying: through practicing yoga in daily life, we bring so many people onto this right way. Many, many different parts of the world practice, and they lead life positively. So let’s sing one bhajan more. Which bhajan would you like to sing? Ahiṃsā. Very good. Non-violence. What is the Ahiṃsā Dharma? Dharma is not only religion; it is the principle. To follow it is non-violence. Ahiṃsā means non-violence. Yes, please. Let’s go to Gajanandjī.