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Āyurveda is the science of our life. Yoga is the science of our coming to this world and the purpose of life. Āyurveda balances and keeps life more healthy, active, aware, and conscious. Through Āyurveda, our memory develops, and yoga leads us further to our aim or achievement. Yoga has different branches. First, it is called Bhakti Yoga. Bhakti means devotion, spirituality, prayers, and meditation. Second is Karma Yoga: helping, doing something good, social work, etc. Whatever we do is a karma, an action. Devotion, Bhakti Yoga, is also action. Through action, there is a reaction, and from reaction to the action—the same with our karma. The philosophy of karma is very interesting. Anything we do—eating, cooking, cleaning, washing, running, walking—whatever happens through our body, consciously, unconsciously, in dream, in sleep, or awake, everything that happens is called karma. Time doesn't wait for anyone. That is the true reality. Even God himself will come from the seventh heaven—I don't know how many heavens there are—the creator himself, who has created, will come. He or she has given time; he or she has to go. Who came will go, and who will go will come back. What is created will be destroyed, and what is destroyed will be created. So time doesn't wait for anyone, and time for God also is given second to second. Time will say even to God, "Sorry, Mr. God, your time is gone, go." That's it. Time doesn't wait for anyone. Now it is said that there is no time. We have to go there, beyond time and space. Then it means we have attained self-realization or God-realization, or whatever we want to achieve. Our dear sister Seva Dharamdevī said: Brahma Mūrta. This is early morning when the very first dawn rises. That time begins the Brahma-mūrta. Brahma here does not mean Brahmā the creator, not God Brahmā. No. Because every Brahmā, God, or any being, they have their time, their era. Then they are retired. Again, changes occur, a different thing. It changes the ages, not the centuries. We call them centuries here, which are 100 years, and now we are in the 21st century. But that is called yugas, ages. In every age, there are four yugas. After that, four yugas make one cycle, so it is counted in millions of years. That is changing the whole system. So, we have to come to the one without a second, beyond time and space. It is said that time is only created by humans. It is we humans who are counting. There is no counting. We made the time: seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, etc. But there is no counting. Counting is there where there are visible things. Now, visible is only that which is material. We are sitting here, but in reality, what we call the ātmā... My nose said sneezing, but I said no. So in reality we are all only one, but in the body we are many. That's why we call it individual. Now, individual, as many, that was multiplying from our ātmā as a soul. The soul is caught in one particular energy, and that energy develops what we can call the individual phenomenon. It's like a balloon, and so we are in that balloon of different elements of our body. As Dharamdevī explained to us: the five senses of knowledge, five senses of action, then vāta, pitta, kapha, etc. As soon as we became the individual, we have our own experiences, our own touch, our own actions, our own thoughts, our own choice. So now it's separating. Example: a beautiful river is flowing, and the water, all the water is together. Suddenly, an island comes between the mighty river. Now, water is separating. Half goes that side, half goes the other side. But at the end of the island, then again this will come together. The curve is in the river, not the water. Water has no curves. The curve has the river. So we have as a destiny our curves; I go this side and you go that side. But sooner or later, this real life, that is ātmā, is equal. One day it will come again. Meanwhile, we are collecting so many different qualities, habits, behaviors, cultures. And we both look like strangers. But the time will come when we will merge into one. My master said: "One in all, that only one, that reality, supreme—that 'I am God' is also not in that oneness." The oneness is that Brahman; then there is no duality at all; it is one. One in all and all in one. So we are that one in all and all in one; we are one. How to come there? The best way for us is meditation. This evening is a meditation talk. It is called karma. There is a story about one king some thousand years ago. The story is very long and complicated, both interesting and not interesting. That story I will tell next time. But that king, he got renunciation. He renounced his kingdom. He gave his kingdom to others, or to his wife, and he left everything. There are some people who are longing to become a king. There are people, now the politicians, who will try to get money from every society to work and to become a mayor of the city, or a director, or an MP, or a minister. They're longing. As soon as they become, they get a position, they are responding like a hard bean we put in the water, and in the morning it is double. And so the ego is double. But on the day when the next round came, when they lost, it takes many days to get into sleeping. So this is a coming and going, and there's a problem inside us. So the king has enough in his blood. Everything was many, many years. In one way, thanks to God that we can change our king the way we want. Otherwise, there was no chance. And now it's democracy, no? So every third year or fifth year, we have elections. Well, that king, he became a monk. He said, "I salute first to all these goddesses, many, many goddesses." Then he begins to think, "No, goddesses are also not free. They are all caught by karma." Then he said, "I should pray to God, Almighty God." Then again, he said, "No, God also has to follow the karmas." After a long time thinking, he said, "Why should I not salute the karma?" So karma is the highest principle, and karma will not let anyone free. It will come back to you, like a boomerang. Every thought—there are different ways we can create karma: tan, man, bachan, dhan. Through the body, through the mind. If you think, you did it. We can control the body, but we know, nobody sees what I am thinking, what I would like to do, or what I am doing mentally. But we can hide from all, but we can't hide from ourselves. Just now, in this minute, what you are thinking, nobody knows. But there are two here who know exactly what you are thinking. One is yourself, what you are thinking. And second, he knows better and more than you what you are thinking now in this minute. And that's God. So, you know, and God knows. God may forgive or bless us, but if we do good, we are happy. And if we are doing something negative, we are suffering. We know we are uncertain. The third is through words. If you speak nice words, good to everyone, they will be good friends. And if you speak bad words to them, it will be your enemy. If you tell someone, "Dear sir, please, kindly, be so good, can you help me?" A person may not want to help you or may not help, but they will say, "How kind this person is, how humble this person is." And he will say, "Yes, of course, I will help you." Those are our words. The seat of the words is in the navel. Whenever you speak, your navel is pressing in. Yes, you know that. If you don't know, you can put your hand here and say, "Hello, how are you?" First pressure is here first. Yes, and then it comes to the brain. The navel is our middle point. The navel is our beginning. First, our life began from this point. So, nice words, and you were nice. Instead of saying these kind words, he said, "Hey, bloody man, stupid guy, come help me." I don't want to say what will happen. Same person, same tongue, same lips, same body. But the language changes, the words change. Bāṇī aisī bolī man kā apak hoī. Speak such a language that everyone is happy. Aaran ko śītal kare, āpū śītal hoī. You make others happy, and you also feel happy and safe because of your language. So, tan, man, bachan, and dhan. Dhan means prosperity, property, wealth, position, social position, political position, and money. Through this, you can also do bad things or good things. So, there are four different ways to do the karma. So karma will not leave anyone free, and time will not wait for anyone. Whatever you had to do yesterday, you have to do it better today. And what you have to do today, do it just now. Then, the two days: one day was yesterday, the second day is today. Tomorrow, no one has seen. No one. Because tomorrow will always be tomorrow. So whatever we want to do, we shall do it now. So the time will not wait for us. We are getting older and older. It doesn't matter how you will try to look like a young or old person. Karma yoga, bhakti yoga, rāja yoga, and jñāna yoga. And Haṭha Yoga. You are all saying we are practicing Haṭha Yoga, but you are not doing Haṭha Yoga. Haṭha Yoga has six techniques. These are only for cleaning bodies from inside. Drink one and a half liters of water in the morning. Drink warm water with a little salt. Drink one and a half liters and then vomit it out again. Do you do this every day? The first time I came to Europe, I was in Vienna, and early in the morning, the cranes at the construction site were making sound. And the sound was exactly like that, like when Madhuram was making Kun̄jal Kriyā. And I said, "I'm surprised. This is the first time I've seen a crane in my life." So, I don't know what's a crane. It was in 1970-72. I said, so many Viennese are practicing Kun̄jal Kriyā. Finally, I asked, and they told me, "Oh, this is the sound of the machine." So, Haṭha Yoga Kriyā is an inner purification. So, Haṭha Yoga, Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Jñāna Yoga, Kriyā Yoga, Haṭha Yoga, Nāda Yoga, Sahaja Yoga—many, many yogas, but finally it is only yoga, and yoga means union, union of the individual to the cosmic self. We live in this modern world, speedily developing many things, and we are running. One man going with a bike, and he has one horse. He ties the horse to the bike, and now the bike is going and the horse is also going quickly. He is going more quickly, and the horse is also going more quickly. So we are running behind the techniques. How far will we go? Even if we go with the rocket, do we ask where we want to go now? Where will we go? So that creates tension, stress. Stress, tension, and restlessness make the human inside very weak. So the jaṭhara, pitta, kapha—that all makes our body now empty. The air is gone out, and inside is only the hole, like a termite. And that is coming; the disease will come. There was research long ago, in 1977 or 78, about the two hemispheres of humans, researching all different kinds of diseases. Then the question came about stress or schizophrenia, hallucinations, depressions. How to cure this disease? This disease cannot be cured because it is not a disease. But through this stress, we lost that balance. We lost control over our nerves, our awareness, our intellect, our consciousness. Now, the mind begins a problem for us, like a fear. The mind is within our self, but we don't know where mind is living. I'm also in meditation, trying to catch the mind like a butterfly, but it is not in the hand. Mind has three definitions. The first definition of the mind is ambition and greed, endless greed. This is a mind. The second definition of the mind is: mind is that, whatever now I am talking and you are listening. My every word you hear, and it is going to your subconscious. Now we are awakened, conscious. This message, my sound, will go into our subconscious. And again, the consciousness is clear. It's like a film, taking a picture and rolling back. All the time, a fresh film is there. But if on that film, our picture has no impression on it, then it's black film again, nothing. So how is it recording that? The mind is that kind of film which is recording and putting down in that place that's called the subconscious. And it comes back again and goes. These impressions, all 24 hours, even in the dream, are registered by the mind in the subconsciousness, awakening and bringing them back again in the form of memory. When we ask, "Do you remember the name of that person from 40 years ago?" He had one house, and he sold it to somebody else, and he said, "Let me think." Because there are so many layers, one after another, our memories—why is our memory getting little? Because the whole brain is overfilled, so meditation will again clean it, and our memory will again come out. The mind is working very hard, taking information from conscious to subconscious, and takes the message. The desire which is in the subconscious comes to the conscious level, coming, going. So the mind does not have responsibility; it is only a transmitter. Responsibility is coming to our conscious state of being—conscious now, alert. So there is intellect. Now, intellect, what is the duty of the intellect? To give the judgment: this is the telephone, this is the plant, this is the microphone. Who is saying intellect? But intellect only tells what it is. Then my intellect's duty is finished. But when it's opened again, then that becomes a desire. And that again, mind will reveal it, bring it, go and begin. There is one story, every time I'm telling about it, a very good story about ice cream. Did you hear the ice cream story? You like to hear it? Tomorrow, on the corner, you have an ice cream shop. One good couple, husband and wife, went window shopping. And there was a very nice ice cream shop. So the husband said to the wife, "Dear, can I invite you for ice cream?" Wife said, "Yes, it's very nice of you. Thank you." And through the window, you see good ice cream pictures. He said, "Then let's go in." She said, "Darling, remember the day before yesterday we were at a doctor." Throat doctor, throat, nose, and ear. And he told that you are a good singer and you have a little problem. So for one month, you should not eat any cold thing, no cold drink, no ice cream. He said, "Oh, yes, yes... Thank you," but desire is there. He's thinking, "If I would not have gone with her, but my wife, she's right." After three, four days, he dreams that now his throat is okay. He was at a doctor. We are selfish. We give a result to ourself. In selfishness, and wipes it. Now we go, let's go today to eat ice cream. And he said, "Good idea." And both husband and, in the dream, please, yes, they are going to the ice salon. They are sitting there and ordered ice cream in one bowl, with different bowls on it, colors and something nice. And she said to her husband, "Enjoy." And he said, "Yes, please, first you." So she's testing. And he takes a big spoon, nice, and brings his ice cream near his lips, two centimeters away. Alarm began. Alarm. Now what happened? Wake up. There is no ice cream. She's sleeping, snoring beside him. So that desire, that desire which went to the subconscious, came out through the dream. Now, even in the dream, you could not fulfill your desire, so it went again back into the subconscious. A few times it came out and gone in, then he forgotten, but it went to the unconscious level. But whenever they both went outside shopping or anything, they were quarreling. So they couldn't go together for shopping. Then they went to the psychologist, and it took him five hours, years, to find out. Then one day it came about, eating an ice cream. And both husband and wife went to the psychologist, and when they came over to ice cream, that man said, "No, I don't want ice cream." He said, "I didn't ask you to eat." He was only telling so. Mind is going, coming, going, coming, going, coming. This problem we can solve through meditation. If you take a tablet, yes, it will make you more dull, tired. Memory will get lost, fear will come, anxiety will come. Therefore, I've all the times—I'm talking now 46 years I'm in, moving in the Western world—meditation is the best way to bring your body, your mind, your intellect, your memory, everything into balance, and the stress, there is no stress. You can, within, like the stress is gone, but we are not dealing with our own self; we are too much outside. Nowadays, people are so-called workaholics, and this workaholic is more dangerous than an alcoholic, yes? So, who can sleep deep, at least, let's say, six hours, is not a workaholic and not an alcoholic. A workaholic will always be getting up and sweating, looking at this and that. They have newspapers there, magazines there, checkbooks here, everything. This is stress. So, anti-stress meditation, there are two. One is while sitting, half an hour, 40 minutes meditation, which Madhuram will give you the instruction. But we have two problems. The first problem is that when he will tell you, "Do not move, do not make movements, without movements, sit down for 40 minutes." But to look at the cinema, we can sit like this for 40 minutes, or in front of the television. Because our attention is somewhere else, and we have forgotten ourselves. But meditation is where we remember ourselves, and we are researching ourselves. So, yes, we want to have meditation. It doesn't cost us money, we don't have to take medicine, and Madhuram is so... Madhu means the honey, so very sweet words. But after 10 or 15 minutes, you are so angry at him. But with sweetness, when will he stop? Because many will do like this. The body is not easy to sit in like this. Let's say now your body is perfect. When I'm flying in an airplane, I flew from Vancouver to Auckland here. It was 13 hours and 35 minutes, and that was the New Zealand airlines. They have a very good seat, you can straighten and sleep like this, but there was another flight, and I couldn't stretch my leg completely, so I was sleeping like this exactly six hours. I leaned, and my legs were like, and they were talking, "Is he really movable or not?" So, they came, sir. Sir, I said, "Yes, please." Are you okay? I said, "Yes, I am okay." So, meditation, either we have a problem with the legs or sleeping. What should he do? Therefore, there is a second technique for meditation, which is very comfortable, very good, and everyone likes that one. I don't like that, but they like that, so I have to do what you want. You want to know about meditation and this, and I talk about walking in the forest. That is different. So that's called yoga nidrā. Lie down on your back, relax, and do nothing. Rest work he will do, and what will happen? The stress will go away. It is a miracle of this meditation. The mind, and another third definition of the mind, what is the mind? Still, though I explained this, but you, it was only words. You didn't see, and I also didn't see, but I could imagine what all these principles are. Now, the mind is that tendency in our body, and that's like a reflection. So our mind is a reflection. Like you look in the water, and there is a movement because of the waves. Or, let's say water is very peaceful and you look in, you can see your face, but you have here some black spot and you want to move this away from the black spot, but you cannot repair it. You have to bring your hand here. You look in the mirror, and you have another spot here. So you try to clean the mirror, the spot will not remove. So the mind is that, but our reception to the mind, the perception of the mind, is the restlessness. So meditation is that, that the mind will become one with thyself. Meditation is the best way, and many, many diseases we can solve or cure through meditation. Finally, now yoga, the time, the years will come, and there will be hospitals for meditation only. For so many diseases, there will be doctors, meditation. And through meditation, we will cure many, many diseases. So meditation is really the best way, the best thing we can do ourselves. So, Āyurveda and yoga. Yoga was the first. The definition of yoga is like space, consciousness, and energy. The space is the mother's body. Consciousness is the embryo in the body. So the consciousness is in the space, not a space in the consciousness, which is uniting, harmonizing, and balancing. That embryos can grow, that energy is a yoga, a union, a joining, an oneness. Therefore, yoga is a science of body, mind, and soul, which keeps the health: physical, mental, social, and spiritual health. So practice gentle exercise, don't do too long. There are some people who practice and sit in meditation for two hours, the best of time. Two hours you can do some work, earn some money, and then eat ice cream and invite your wife. So meditation comes from itself, and when we have time, we should meditate; otherwise, we should not neglect our duty. If the duty is first or meditation is first, this we will speak next time. Wish you all the best, and come for meditation, or wherever you can go to meditate. Meditation should have good techniques, with someone who can give you good instructions. We have many, many good teachers around the world in yoga and in life, and here you also have them, and there are also many other good teachers, definitely. So practice, please. And if you don't have meditation, and you have no time to meditate, and you are not going to any yoga teacher anywhere, then I tell you one thing that you can do, one simple technique. Just two minutes, sit down and feel your whole body and know your breath in and out, two or three minutes. It will give you immense energy. You have to do nothing, just sit down and relax. Be aware of your body and breath, that's all. Coordinate the body and the breath. When we inhale, expanding the trunk of the body; when exhaling, contracting. Two, three minutes, then you will say to yourself, "No, I mean it more." After some days, well, I'm free. I will not see the television. Five minutes I can sit, we learn something. So it is called: tons of theory is just nothing compared with the grain of practice. So one minute, two minutes, three minutes, just to be aware of your body, your mind, your feelings, your breath, and be completely relaxed. It will be a very good night, and I wish you all the best evening. Adió.