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Good morning to everyone in different parts of the world. Today, the Australians have begun changing their time; they call it daylight saving. Around the world, this daylight saving has brought a lot of restlessness and imbalance in nature: the biorhythm of people, the biorhythm of children—when they should go to sleep, when they should be fed, when they should wake up. More than this, cattle farms are suffering. The cows which should be milked at a particular time, if you wait one hour longer, it is very hard for them, and also other animals like pigs and chickens and many other creatures, the wildlife, the birds, and so on. We do not profit very much from daylight saving; it’s the opposite. People stop their work more quickly, they stay a longer time, and the lights are burning. So, in my opinion, we should support the ideas. Manipulation with time we should stop; this is a manipulation. Anyhow, this was not the subject of my lecture. To all dear brothers and sisters around the world, those who have a birthday, I wish you a happy birthday, or for any occasion today for you, I wish you all the best. God bless you. This blessing is coming from Mahāprabhujī’s ashram in Kensington, Sydney, Australia. We know that this center and a few other centers in Sydney, as well as in different parts of Australia and all major cities, Yoga in Daily Life has centers. The subject is: what can I achieve through a yogic life? You have a great achievement already. You had a great achievement already, that you came to Yoga in Daily Life. What can be more than this achievement? Yogandali life is a holistic system, and Yogandali life is for health—first of all, physical, mental, social, and spiritual health. Health is not everything, but everything is nothing without health. So the first priority is about health in Yogandali life. Now, in Yogandali life, health is not improved or realized only from within, but also from outside: the outer environment, the society where we live, what kind of people are there in the office, in the street, the neighbors, and also the pollution of the city, including this electronic pollution, what we call the radiance, is different. I spoke about the bioprotector, and they said the microwaves, cordless phone, the cell phone, television, and Bluetooth. And this all is in a closed room, let’s say about 15 square meters, and you are inside. It’s not good for your health. We can survive without this, but we have become slaves to all this equipment, and we can’t wait for anything. We have everything now in our life, all kinds of comfort which people did not have before 100 years, 200 years, 300 years: communications, transportation, air conditioning, ventilators, freezers, refrigerators, and many things. But people were at that time more happy, relaxed, and healthy than now. Though we have everything, we have something plus: illnesses and restlessness. Also, Yoga in Daily Life supports very much what you call in Australia "going green," more protection of the vegetation, and this vegetation which is so much polluted and manipulated through chemicals. In one of our Āyurveda conferences here, going on one afternoon—it was the last day of the conference—one of the Āyurveda doctors said, "Of course, the chemical is also in the plants, in the trees, herbs." But that chemical is less harmful than the man-made chemicals. Also, we take care of our food. It’s not that what you have on your table and on your plate, but think: when you are health conscious and you order a good salad plate, you order some good seasoned fruits, you order some very good vegetables, and they are all organic. Does your health depend on what is on your table, on your plate, or where this vegetable was grown? So actually, it depends on the field, the soil, where this vegetable was produced. So, they license and declare it as a university. But I said, "Wait, wait..." This education center is in home form. Everyone who sees this, because it’s a spiritual symbol, it’s a very spiritual symbol. For example, our Pushpa, she’s coming from Australia, Sydney, and she’s been living the last 10 years, nearly, in Jadan Ashram and doing so much seva. If I tell her, "Go and take care of the cows," she goes there. "Go and take care of the dogs," she’s taking care of the dogs. She should take care of God, and she’s taking care of God. So many, many, and never she said, "No, I will not do." And she’s a witness of that center, how it is developing, and how our school children and our education are. And not only that, they are learning Vedic education according to the Rajasthan Education Board, but also in sports our children are very good. In the judo tournament, our school girls won the gold medal from the Jadan school. So they have football, they have volleyball, they have hockey, they have judo, and now they will have riding and also swimming. So, there are a lot of possibilities there. Can you imagine the desert, where there are only sandy hills, and suddenly you have a swimming pool to swim in, whereas the water is about 500 feet, or let’s say 200 to 300 meters deep, and that’s salty? But we are working for water harvesting, and that’s beautiful. We have a beautiful lake, and we are also, thanks to Mike Raine, the Premier of South Australia. He helped very much, and he sent his expertise for advising how to make a catchment for the rainwater. So it’s called the rainwater harvesting initiative. We have beautiful horses. I don’t know if you love horses or not. Just standing near that horse, it’s like you have energy. And you know, the horse is a very high creature. During the churning of the ocean, where Āyurveda also came, Dhanvantari, through that, a horse also came. So the horse is a divine creature. So we have seven or eight horses, very beautiful, and very soon a nice baby is coming, another one is coming, and they are very nice. And so many people are doing their seva. And that’s why in Australia or anywhere in Europe, we have many, many yoga teachers, they are doing it as a seva. What means seva? Not only that, okay, you look after the ashram or this and that, but you are doing it for you. One man was taking care of Ghori Gurujī, and he gave some donation to Ghori Gurujī, and he was cleaning the ashram. And one day, Holy Gurujī was angry and said, "Go, I don’t need your seva." And then he was saying outside, "I did so many things for Gurujī, and now he sent me away." So Gurujī called him back. He said, "You didn’t do anything for me. You did it for yourself." So when you are helping the ashram, creating the ashram and Gurudev’s light, you are not doing it for him. Does Mahāprabhujī need this? Does Mahāprabhujī need this ashram? But it is my seva, it is your seva, that his divine preachings may find more and more souls, that they can find the peace, love, and harmony within them. So unite and give the chance. So when you are doing seva, it is not that you are doing it for others, but you are doing it for yourself, because you will get it back a thousand times. When you give one person a cup of tea, you will get a thousand cups of tea. My God, you have to drink a lot. And not only this, unfortunately, in the world there are a lot of conflicts going on about religion and cultures. So we have Śrī Svāmī Mādhavaānanda World Peace Council. And the president, the two presidents, and one of the presidents from them is also the father, David Monsignor Capo from South Australia. And so we are working to bring the people together with mutual understanding, tolerance, and respect. And so, Yoga in Daily Life is that organization, NGO, where you can do so many things for yourself. So, there are some people who said, "Well, Swāmījī, I cannot sing." So, I tell them, "I also cannot sing, and I cannot do the prayers, I cannot do these." See, I say, do karma yoga, and when you do the karma yoga, God is more with you. God says, "When you sing, I am observing you. When you pray, I’m listening to you. But when you are working, I’m sitting in your heart. Or you are in my heart, I am working." One man was walking through the beautiful garden and desert, and someone was walking with him. And he was always happy that someone is walking, but he doesn’t see, and he knows that it’s God. Suddenly came the thorny, bushy way, stones, and snakes—the brown snakes, the red-bellied snakes, the white-bellied snakes, and the yellow-bellied snakes, you know. And it is a very difficult path, very difficult, full of thorns. And when he tried to take the thorns away, the snake was sitting there, doing like this. And he feels lonely. When the path was so comfortable, then he was walking with him, and now the hardest part of his journey has come and he is left alone. He was disappointed that I am alone. He has left me alone. I lost him. After some hours, hungry, thirsty, tired, exhausted, bleeding everywhere because of the thorns, there were no shoes, and then he saw from the hill a beautiful clean lake and a very nice beautiful banyan tree and some nice vegetation and soft sand. He walked there. He drank the water from the lake, and he was sitting under the shade of the tree where a cool breeze came. But he was sad. When the best part of my life was, he was all the time with me. And when the hardest of the hardest time of my life came, he left me alone. And a voice came, "My son, injustice, not correct it is. I didn’t see you walking with me." And the Lord said, you know, when the comfortable path was, I just walked beside you. But when the thorny, stony way came, I walked and I carried you in the hollow of my palm. It was me who was walking in you and suffering. And who survived, my dear? That was you, in my heart. And so, sometimes we have a hard time. We think, "I am alone, I am lost. She doesn’t pay attention to me at all. All the time I helped her. I gave her this and that and this. I had a lot of money and a comfortable house, and she was enjoying. But suddenly, I lost my properties and everything, and she left me alone. I was in the prisons. He never telephoned. No." God is always with me. So, a person who does seva never puts any conditions. Don’t put God on that point of negotiating. Accept, Lord, this is one of the times where I constantly remember you. I feel in you. And so, it is said when Jesus was carrying the cross and he was being crucified, Jesus said, "It’s you, Holy Father, not me on the cross. It’s your heart I see bleeding, not my heart. So, take this holy heart, because you are inside." And so, karma yoga is the divine way, the easiest way, the best way, and the comfortable way. You need not sing, you need not meditate, you need not make anything, just work. And when you are working, you are healthier. Can you imagine, eight hours you work in the field, and then you come home, you can have a big chocolate, and you can have a very big piece of pizza, and afterwards, you can have a very big cake with ice cream on it, and then you can have a big sandwich with nice bread and butter, or the nice chapati and puri, or pakoras, or jalebis. And off you go to sleep. Morning, no blood pressure high, no sugar high. But if we all will do, in the morning our sugar will be on the top, and we will be down, dizzy, can’t get up, vomiting in the night, can’t digest, stomach is heavy. My God, because we can’t work? We have to give our body some work, what is called the fat burning, and that is a system of karma yoga, doing seva in the ashram. Every one of you should create one ashram. How beautiful! That is that. Good idea. Thank you, Mahāprabhujī. Wherever you go, and that ashram means a shelter for all. It is a shelter for all. That is a spiritual workshop. So you can change some parts, negative parts, not useful, throw it away, put in some positive spiritual parts inside, and so on. You know, you make an unhappy, suffering, dispirited person happy, healthy, spiritual. No, what you did, what a workshop, a beautiful workshop, that’s it. So Yoga in Daily Life is the future of our planet, and everyone should practice without any conflicts, without making any differences. And so you are lucky that you have Yoga in Daily Life, and I wish you all the best for your yoga centers, which you will create. And when I am here, I think I will come from one center to a second center, very nice. I will get one tea here, one tea there, one tea there, you know. Your ashram is your center. Yes, welcome, your yoga brothers, sisters, spiritual ones. Invite them, stay at home. The next day, he will invite you. On the third day, she will invite us. And so every day we have a satsaṅg, and every day we have family dinner, the healthiest one. That is life. And another thing, if one of our brothers or sisters doesn’t come for a month or so, then please telephone and ask, "How are you? If something happened, are you okay?" Many times people complain, "Oh, I was ill and I was in the hospital, and no one telephoned. And I was disappointed for my Yoga in Daily Life brother, sister. Said, no one cared, no one called me, no one was missing me. I was so sad. I thought at least my yoga sister would call me, but even she didn’t call." And that’s not good. We do care about each other. I care about you. It doesn’t matter what you think of me. I pray for you. Anytime a telephone call comes, or this and that, I pray to Mā Prabhujī to help. I do care, and I know that you care about me too. That’s why I look so nice. But don’t give judgment. How are you to judge? Just be there, that’s all. Your duty is to be there. On the top of the hill, only one tree is surviving. All the way, there is storm, rain, thundering, snowing, freezing, dry, hot, cold. In every kind of season, with climate changes, the tree is standing alone and surviving. No one goes and says, "My dear tree, how are you?" Because that tree doesn’t need that. How are you? God takes care of that tree. So be that tree, surviving all the storms and hurricanes there. Your roots should be deep in the earth of spirituality. Gurudev, śaraṇ tumhārī, cintā merī miṭā de. Karke dayā dayālu bedā tupā laga. O Lord, O Gurudev, I am in your shelter. I am with you, my Gurudev. Cintā merī mitāde. Remove my sorrows. Remove my suffering. Karke kripā dayālu. O Lord, be merciful to me. Let my this life be successful, that I don’t get lost in the darkness of this saṃsāra. Dīn bandhu dīnānāth, merī dorī tere hāth. O Lord of the meek, the rope of my life is in your fingers, in your hand. Can you please sometime just pull it towards you, not only let me... Like perfect, but sometimes even it begins itching, and you can do like this. I will come and instruct you, that’s it. So, Śeva, don’t worry. Who are you to worry? He is worrying about you. In Līlāmṛt you will read. Everyone should have this Līlāmṛt. Maybe you have it. If you don’t have it... Then you should have. Don’t think of money. If you don’t have money, you will have money, and you will have money. You will give a donation anywhere, but you will have the book. This book cannot be paid for because it is unpayable. Priceless. Holy Gurujī, writing one day in Khattu Ashram in the village where Mahāprabhujī was mostly living, this beautiful banyan tree, a small room of Mahāprabhujī. And Gurujī gave the sannyāsa dīkṣā to, or Mahāprabhujī gave sannyāsa dīkṣā to Gurujī, and Gurujī was living with Mahāprabhujī many, many years, 20 years. Very attached to Mahāprabhujī. Like a calf, a cow gives birth to a calf. She’s grazing, but she doesn’t go more than 10 meters far. Again, she looks and comes back to the calf, you know, mother. And so Gurujī didn’t want to go anywhere, just near Gurudev, Mahāprabhujī. One day, Mahāprabhujī told Gurujī, "Now you go and travel and give the satsaṅgs around the world." And that was a shock for him. Why would he want to push me away? He went behind Gurujī’s room, Mahāprabhujī’s room, the Gurujī, and was thinking, "Where will I go? If I am hungry, whom will I say I am hungry to? If I am ill, who will give me, or tell me if I need medicine? And where will I sleep? If somebody will not trust me, what will I do?" And when he was hungry, Mahāprabhujī was sitting in his room, and Mahāprabhujī knew what he was thinking. So, of course, I would like to see Mahāprabhujī in form, but I will be very scared to sit there, because what I am thinking and when he comes to know what I am thinking, my body, like, will be... I am coming from the Śava. So, thanks to God that I don’t know what you are thinking. There are only two who know what you are thinking. It’s yourself, you know what you are thinking, and there is someone also who knows what you are thinking, more than you, and that’s Mahāprabhujī, it’s God. Mahāprabhujī went outside. It was a very hot May-June, about 42-45 degrees, and Gurujī was standing behind in the shadow of the small room of Mahāprabhujī. And then Mahāprabhujī said to Holī Gurujī, "To whom do you belong?" "To you." "Then why do you worry? Is it your body? No. Is it your Gurudeva? Your mind? No. Then why do you worry? No trust. Even if you sit somewhere in the forest, with no humans, in the far distance, and you are hungry. I will personally bring you food, not only for you, but for one or two persons more, those who are in your seva. Don’t lose your trust. Yes, I will go like somewhere, like a sanyāsī or this, and people, other religions, will say, 'Oh, who is this and that?' This orange dress is not an orange robe. This is your skin. Before you take the robe out, you take your skin away. That’s it." And then Mahāprabhujī said to Gurujī, "I will do it, I will do it, I will do it. I can make even your body and you immortal. If you are a real devotee of God, then why are you scared inside? So, if you are sure, then you belong to some divine force. Be the light, then the moths will fly to you. Light doesn’t go to the moors. So just be, but as a bhakta. As soon as you have a selfish feeling and selfish thoughts, you are lost." So Yoga in Daily Life has many, many opportunities in different ways to help the people, help the other animals, the environment, world peace, and health and spiritual development. So, thank you, and wish you all the best and Mā Prabhujī’s blessing.