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I do not have the details of your problem with the door, as I do not know them. There is one more question: how can a visit to a large spiritual festival like the Kumbh Melā affect one’s spiritual development? Yes, it has a good influence and leads to spiritual upliftment. We will speak about this later. Now, we will sing something. It means: I am bliss, I am bliss, I am bliss. It is not only singing; you should feel like that. If you cannot feel it, there is something wrong. It means some devotion is missing. All parents whose children are less than two years old or who are restless, please sit near the door, as children need more oxygen than we do. And a request from our international viewers on the website: please tell the cameraman to show all the audience and not always focus on one person again and again. We know, boys, you like the girls. You may look at that girl, but do not focus on her. So, Turjan, please either turn off the cameras or have only one camera, and be neutral. This also applies sometimes to the translator. There was always a complaint that they did not see the translator. And do not forget, there are also some Swāmīs sitting. So, these two cameras have a complaint. Sorry to say, but the friends who complained via SMS are looking now and will say, "Swāmī, this is very honest," and put the message here. I welcome our international audience—dear brothers and sisters, practitioners of yoga and the spiritual life, or any spiritual path and yoga. Welcome. We are in a beautiful country called Slovenia. If you do not know, Slovenia was part of the former Yugoslavia. We are in the most beautiful, or the third biggest, city of Slovenia. It is called Kṛṣṇa. In Kranj, there is beautiful nature, and it is a beautiful city. This blessing is coming to you from Slovenia, Kranj. Welcome. Dear brothers and sisters, I welcome you here to our weekend program. Many have come from different countries. I also welcome you on behalf of our Slovenian yoga brothers and sisters. The organizers worked very hard and perfectly designed the program for four days. This included planting a peace tree and meeting with different authorities on how to improve and how yoga can be more helpful for this country—the Minister of Health, the mayors of different cities, and the mayor of the capital, Ljubljana. Yoga in Daily Life is a scientific system designed for human well-being. This system is very simple and systematic so that everyone can begin and practice. It is practiced around the world. Yoga in Daily Life has very qualified, excellent teachers who underwent three to five years of training until they could pass their final examination to become a teacher. We have the Yoga in Daily Life Youth Union. Our children are vegetarian, and parents too. If you compare their school notes with other children and Yoga in Daily Life children, there is a big difference. Yoga in Daily Life children have better concentration, less aggressivity, and love for nature. You are also welcome to send your opinions, especially all juniors, your interests, and your notes to our Youth Union website. This weekend’s program is dedicated to meditation. It is called "Discovering the Hidden Powers Within Thyself"—to know the powers and talents within yourself. We have had a few meditations, and this evening we are here again with the same subject. Meditation is something from which humans can benefit greatly. It creates inner strength and helps improve the immunity in our body. There are three key aspects in meditation. Meditation begins with concentration. According to Patañjali, it is said: āsana, prāṇāyāma, pratyāhāra, dhāraṇā, and dhyāna. These three are very important: pratyāhāra, dhāraṇā, and dhyāna. According to Patañjali’s science, three things are very important: Pratyāhāra, Dhyāna, and Dhāraṇā. Withdraw yourself from external objects so you can withdraw from the external world. Withdraw your senses—the jñānendriyas and karmendriyas—from the external world, which is not easy. If you cannot withdraw your senses, then you are a victim of stress. Therefore, Yoga in Daily Life has programs and a meditation called Self-Inquiry Meditation. It will help you withdraw from the external world and become introverted. It is like a car is in the hand of the driver. The driver can speed up, slow down, bring it, and can stop it. Similarly, you should be capable of having control over the senses. Every sense is very helpful; otherwise, nature would not have given them to us. But when and how to use them or not? So, you are the driver, and you can control your activities. Now comes concentration—Dhāraṇā. So, though the car is in your hands as a driver, you have a strong motor and a good road. But that should be controlled by traffic regulations. Therefore, though you are a master of your senses, you have to control the limit. If you go above the limit, if you disobey the traffic rules, then you are punished. Similarly, if you disobey those instructions and principles of yoga, you will be punished. This means you will not be successful, and it can become a complication for your health. Therefore, Patañjali said yoga begins, and yoga needs discipline. So, Dhāraṇā is concentration, and then comes Dhyāna, meditation. The Self-Inquiry Meditation has been researched on all these levels of consciousness and the function of body, mind, and intellect. Those who practice are successful, and those who cannot follow the principles, practicing only from time to time, have the same kind of anger, jealousy, and hate as others. Can you show me how sugar affects the taste? Sweet. And now, can you tell me how chili affects the taste? Hot. You bite and say, "Boda, boda, boda." That’s a chili. Chili makes you silly. If you cannot control sugar... can I have one more? A little more. That’s it. So, practitioners—daily practitioners—the yogī is the sugar. The body, the senses always ask for it. And one who does not follow the discipline, who does not practice, is only symbolically a yogī. Though this chili is in the sugar, or in ice cream, chili has its own nature. Similarly, if you are angry, jealous—"this person is wrong, that’s not right, I say right"—neither he is right, nor you. Only God is right. That is why. If you think someone is wrong, how beautiful. Thanks to that person. That person gives you a beautiful job: to be relaxed and correct the person with love. So, when someone is angry and criticizing, you should be thankful to that one. Jesus said if someone gives a slap on the left cheek, then gently, smiling, show the second cheek. When you, with a smile, gently show the second cheek, that person who gave a slap on the left cheek will not give you a slap on the right cheek but will give you a kiss—a nice kiss—and will say sorry. That is a very subtle but powerful weapon to defeat the enemy. You see, they do not realize. It does not matter, but we need peace. So, Yoga in Daily Life analyzes physically, mentally, psychologically, and spiritually, and it helps you to develop. So, what we call Pratyāhāra—withdrawing. Dhāraṇā—then concentrate on what we like to have. And that will merge into Dhyāna after the meditation. So, when I eat ice cream, only I know the taste. Maybe it is a chili ice cream, or maybe it is salty ice cream. Why not? Or maybe it is very sour. You will only see, "Oh, Swāmījī is eating ice cream." You will see that I am eating, but you cannot feel that taste which I feel. Therefore, speaking a lot and trying to show someone as guilty and to find a mistake in someone is very bad. We do not know others’ tests. Therefore, meditation is the way to the Self. But if we have negative thoughts and negative qualities, it means we create one barrier after another, and so we have to remove these negative qualities. Meditation was designed so that the individual self becomes one with the universal self. Meditation needs the strength to endure comfort and discomfort. This morning we had a nice meditation, and I am sitting a little higher than you. Not because I am Swāmījī or so-and-so, but so the last person can see me comfortably. If I sit a little lower, then you cannot see me. Always, you will look like this. You want to see me, or you want to see the speaker. And if someone is sitting in front of you and constantly doing like this, and you are looking like this, then he is going like that, you are looking like this—it is a horror. And I see who is doing it even now. So, before you do like this, you should know there is someone behind who disturbs the view. And somebody doing like this. Yes, Swāmījī. And the other one cannot see the next one. So-called good yoga teachers here, they were meditating today, and every one minute or half minute they were changing their body postures. They were not yoga teachers. Meditation means motionless. Remain as you are where you are. It needs training. It needs instructions. In some countries, in front of the president’s office, there is a military guard standing straight, motionless. Tourists come and take photos. God does not make it like this. No. For Him, you are not existing. Only if you take a gun, the gun exists. So, for a meditator, when he or she does the Pratyāhāra—be drawn—there are no movements. Endure the pain and pleasure. Awaken the inner strength and send the energy there to remove the pain from that particular part of the body. Like a doctor gives you an injection, and the seizures and pain are no more. So, you should give a mental injection: "I am not this body." Finished. "I am not a knee, and I am not hip joints." Are you hip joints? No, you are ātmā. But you have no experience of the ātmā because you do not practice. If they put me in front of the president’s house like this, after half an hour I will send an SMS to the president: "Please change me." That is it. Training, practice makes perfect. Tons of theory, nothing. A gram of practice is much better, more than a ton of theories. So, the aim of meditation was to realize God. And that needs love. When love is there, you do not feel pain. When love is there, you do not look at the watch. When love is there, you have no other interest. It is peaceful, happy, and joyful. You endure all the troubles. Only they know who have love. And worldly love is not real love. That will disappear. When it appears, it makes us happy. But when it disappears, it makes us unhappy. It is not only that love has disappeared, but it took something away from us. Like you pull carrots out of the earth, it is not only that the carrot comes out; it takes the earth also. And it leaves an empty space, and to fill that empty space is not easy. So, the joy of the joy which you would like to enjoy is little joy compared to the pain of that joy. After this comes the technique called Vairāgya—detachment, self-control. It does not mean that you deny. It does not mean that you are against. But you have the strength to be above, like a lotus flower above the water. So, the final love is love for God, and for that love, also, they have to offer many things—to offer all the comforts, to endure all the pains, and accept all the conditions of the weather and seasons—only one, my beloved God. He will take care of me. What can happen? The maximum that can happen is this body will die, that is all. But I will always be with the Divine. I dedicate, I surrender myself entirely. So, to not be aware of the temptations of the world, they sit in meditation and create a barrier between the worldly disturbances and themselves, so that no temptation can enter through these walls of the castle in which you are sitting. So, meditation is like bulletproof glass. No negative energy can come in. And you are constantly protected and guarded by your guru mantra. To that person, no magic can influence, and no negative energy can attack you. You are secure from all negative energies and thoughts. So, when you meditate, even wild animals have fear of you. They will also move away. Because God takes care of you, God guards you. Therefore, Holy Gurujī said: "Mādhavānanda ke ānanda, bhayabhārī ke ānanda"—happy high. The highest ānanda, the blissfulness. And in one bhajan he said: "Pal pal let sambala Mahāprabhujī"—every second looking after me. "Haraj suno Śrīdīp dayāla Mahāprabhujī, vāsako sekundo pāzī na mene." So, meditation is a protection to become one with the cosmic Self. It creates happiness, it creates security, it makes you relaxed, and gives you divine energy, divine consciousness. So, people begin to think, why are yogīs always meditating? And then they did research work between their pulse, their energy in the body, and the organs, and the heart, and other people. Even now, in this troublesome world, only the yogī who is practicing real Yoga in Daily Life has perfect health. Yoga in Daily Life means practicing yoga every day. That is it. So, it does not matter from which book, from which master you are practicing, but you do it every day. From time to time, I meet such people. That is a big inspiration. And this, you should introduce to your insurance companies. Because, you know, how much drugs we consume through insurance—many medicines. And if you practice yoga every day, systematically and with meditation, your insurance company will be very happy, and they will have a very best financial year. And you can suggest to your insurance company to promote Yoga in Daily Life and to make a lower fee for the premium for them to pay. And they will see that in one year, this person will not require any medicine. Do you want medication or meditation? Both have a side effect. The medication has a negative side effect, and meditation has a divine side effect. That is it. So, when you meditate, do not care about what has happened with your life and body. The joy which we would like to enjoy is the greatest joy. Then this worldly joy... kīrtanī, hit a key? Bigger? Audio, Julie? And that joy is the everlasting joy of yourself. Yes, we see God is ānanda—supreme bliss. God is happiness. God is love. God is harmony. God is the bliss. God is kindness. God is mercy. God is understanding. God is forgiveness. And so, that is thy ātmā, and that is yourself. Therefore, after all these theories and practices, all these research works which were done by great saints millions of years ago from the Satya Yuga, they said, "Finally, know thyself." Self-realization—the answer to all your questions, the solution to all your problems, and the remedy for all your sufferings. And so, when you sing this: "I am bliss, I am bliss, bliss I am," try to feel that. And if you cannot feel, it means your antaḥkaraṇa is not pure. Manas, buddhi, citta, and ahaṅkāra—these are the four antaḥkaraṇas, and this core is polluted. That is called māla, vikṣepa, and āvaraṇa. Māla is impurity. Vikṣepa is disturbances, and āvaraṇa is a thick curtain of ignorance. You cannot feel. And when you cannot feel this, you do not know if my ice cream has inside chili, salt, or sugar. And if you will feel it, then you will know what my taste is. So, forget your body for the time being. Keep it under control, I mean, okay? Do not look like this, Ānandoham; there are some people sitting beside you. You will hit someone? You are not the body. Do not feel pain. You should know that person is not far more developed than you. Therefore, her or his pain, you will feel it. So, let us have a feeling of the joy. Sit straight. Breathe deep in and out. And sing a nice melody, not like one kind of melody. Opera has other rāgas; satsaṅg has other rāgas. Rāga means attachment and desires. And we have verāgas—detestment. Okay. Think of your ātmā. I am not the body. I am not this blood. I am not these organs. I am not this emotion. I am not this intellect, nor am I the mind. I am not ego, jealousy, kāma, krodha. I am not. I am Siddhānanda-rūpa, Śivo’ham, Śivo’ham. I am Sat Chit Ānanda, Śiva. Shiva means the universe. Shiva means liberation. Shiva means pure consciousness. Shiva means beauty. And Shiva means the truth. I am that one. So, I am not even the soul. I am not born, and I will not die. The body is born, and the body will die. The soul is traveling, but I am unmovable—everlasting, eternal, immortal, unmovable. Then why is your body moving? If you are unmovable, then make everything frozen through your inner strength. Discover the talent which you have within thyself through meditation. So many people have realized that meditation can give you calmness, peace, and relaxation; it is anti-stress and makes you happy. Then they also begin to meditate. So, Ānandoham, Ānandoham... Like a V, I am bliss, I am bliss, bliss I am. Brahmānanda—the highest, the supreme bliss. Let the waves go towards the Supreme. You may close your eyes, or you may have open eyes. So, feel the waves through the body. Feel that each and every cakra is purified, and the consciousness is passing through the cakras—your heart, your liver, your kidneys. All the organs are filled with beautiful energy. Each and every blood cell is recharging with this cosmic bliss and improving your immunity in the body, which will grant you a long, long, healthy life—eternal, undestroyable, unchangeable, everlasting, immortal. If this consciousness awakes within you, then you will never be angry, never be sad, and never be offended. If someone tells you you are stupid, it does not make any difference because you are ānanda-svarūpa—you are the form of ānanda. When the sun shines, all kinds of darkness are transferred into the light. That is the meditation that will lead you. So, meditate every day. And sometimes do it in this way, slowly, like OM chanting. Let us awaken this happiness in you. Do not go into trance. Do not become expressive. This will harmonize the body system also. All your blood pressure and all these problems will be settled down. Not the Roopaparabrahma; the sound is the Supreme Self. Ānanda, Ānandam, Brahmanam. Sing a little louder so that all of us can hear the resonance of the Divine Bliss. You had your dinner, then where do you have energy? Rest, we will do tomorrow. And tomorrow we will go further with meditation to discover the inner talents and know thy inner strength. So, that means at Slovenian time, 10 o’clock a.m. Till then, all the best, and bless you. If you are going to sleep, good night. Adiós.