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We shall chant "Oṁ" three times. Relax yourself. Feel your presence here. Make yourself comfortable. You need not close your eyes. Just bring your awareness to this environment. We deeply inhale, and we chant Aum. Aum. Aum. Good evening, all dear ones. The whole world is suffering from stress. Not only grown people, but children too. And not only children, but also house pets. They are also in distress. A question sometimes arises in the mind. We know there are 8.4 million different life forms. One of them is human. The greatest intellect is with humans. The cleverest is a human. In every aspect, we glorify ourselves, saying we humans are the best. This is point one. Point two: Who creates or organizes conferences? Do animals do it, or humans? Next point: Who creates most of the pollution on this earth, out of 8.4 million creatures? Do animals come together and speak about pollution? Then why are humans worried about this? Who creates this kind of pollution and stress? Now, who is the most troublesome creature on this earth? Humans. So how do we place ourselves in the category of being the best? Why is pollution created by humans? Because they do not lead their lives in a natural way. The way of eating is completely wrong. Humans have become consumers of all food. It is said: "Are you living for eating, or are you eating for living?" It seems we are living for eating. There is no animal on this planet as ill as a human. Still, we are sleeping. We are not awakened, not alert. Therefore, what humans are doing wrong creates the tension. We are very active in creating tension, pollution, and restlessness. The disaster on this planet, this Earth, is caused by humans. The environment, the warming—it is humans. So what can I glorify? What more beautiful thing can I tell you about humans? That is why God created humans as that kind of creature: so they could come, attain mokṣa, and hurry home. But they don't want that. They went the wrong way. Do not put guilt on others. Think about how much you are involved in the things I have just told you. So, do not be in that stream of competition. We live a wrong life. We are completely in stress and desires. And those desires you wish to fulfill will never be fulfilled. That will lead you to death. You will not be able to fulfill those wishes and desires you hope for every day. And that is called vikāra. Vikāra means disease. Like a fruit that lies for a long time gets rotten and stinks. That is the condition of the human. It becomes ill, it rots, it stinks, and we put it into the fire. Animals do not die like humans die. They do not suffer like that. They have a spontaneous, comfortable death—unless someone is hunting them. So this is the stress we carry with us. Vikāra means that disease which we learn of in yoga: kāma, krodha, moha, ahaṅkāra, etc. And we will die in this. So, if you are clever enough and you want to have a happy life again, to become healthy again, then there is only one way: renounce. Gandhi said, "Renounce and enjoy." So now you know what you will renounce, according to what I have told you. Practice in order to purify your body and your mind. You will not fulfill your desires and ambitions. It is better to give them up, or you will suffer. So, would you like to suffer? Suffering mentally, torturing yourself. Meditation cannot happen there, but you must practice day by day. First, give up what we call "use and throw." Use your clothes for ten years or more. Do not run behind the craziness of fashion. This fashion is not right. That's it. You have a nice dress, but it is very old and torn. Okay, then make a new dress. That is all. A lot of your money is spent on fashion. So first, give this up. How much cosmetics are you using? For what? That cosmetic makes you more ill. You are inviting more illness with this kind of artificial cosmetics. Yes, do use cosmetics. Use real oil: olive oil, sesame oil, sunflower oil, almond oil. All these are natural things for your body. Do not use unnatural things. And you color your hair. It looks beautiful. Yes, it is really beautiful. But it is not reality. You are hiding. You know, it is not easy to get gray hair. It comes from long, long experience. How many years and years we have been working, and how many different vikāras we have had. Finally, one should be proud to have white hair. Yes, it is beautiful. And as long as you have not reached that stage, of course, you have some black. So, here, how many of you have color on your hair? You will not become young because you color it. You have beautiful nails, good nails. Why do you make these nails very weak and destroy them? To put artificial nails on your own nails, and then you are typing only like this and not like that. So there are many, many things. Fashion is the cause of your illness also. The nourishment, the artificial makeups, or all this kind of... what did I say? Makeup. So I give you today one makeup, and that will make you happy, joyful, and healthy. That means what I told you, understood? Now, make up your mind that you will not do those things which harm your health, harm your children, harm your family, etc. Then all problems are solved, no more stress. So this is awareness. We have to become more aware. Let us sit for meditation, anti-stress meditation. That was just a glimpse of stress meditation to get rid of stress. So, without stress, without any discomfort, make yourself comfortable, at least today. Sit comfortably. If you have no place, come here in the front, very good. And if you have a mantra and your mantra mālā, then take it in your hand. You know, there is one bhajan, and in that bhajan, the saint who composed it said: "Oh God, I am a bird of your sheep. I am sitting on your boat. Now I am in the middle of the ocean. I try to fly away, but there is nowhere to shelter. Again, I come to thy boat." And so your mantra is that which will always bring you back to your inner boat in the heart. So, take your mālā and close your eyes. If you want to open your eyes from time to time, no problem. God gave you eyes to close and open, but now for meditation, it is better you keep your eyes closed. Repeat your mantra, close your eyes, and feel comfortable. Withdraw yourself from the external world. Relax. Relax. I am relaxed. I am comfortable. I feel myself in the body, and I love my body. The everlasting, my friend, is my body. Everyone can leave me, but my body will not leave me until the end of my life. Relax. What is past is past. The past is gone. The water is gone in which you were in the river, making a dip in it. When you came out of the river, that water was not there anymore. Similarly, you passed from the second; it is gone and will never come back to you. So all the past, good and bad, negative, harmonious, joyful—but gone. Relax. Bring your awareness to your breath. Be aware of your breath. The breath is that friend which will be with you till the last minutes of your life. We do not know. We cannot trust when this breath will stop. The most pleasant feeling in the body is our breath. Relax. Relax. Relax. Relax, how beautiful, how pleasant, how divine, how comfortable, how gentle the breath. This divine breath brings to our body, to our nose, a beautiful fragrance. Relax, be one with the breath, coordinate your body and breath, and be above all desires. Be above all your ambitions. Be above all that belongs to you temporarily in this world. Be one with thyself. Relax and feel the happiness. It is all in your imagination. Just relax, and all the stress will disappear automatically. Relax. Now, look into your inner space. Cidākāśa, the space behind the forehead wall. At the center of your brows, and from there, imagine a tiny flame. A tiny flame. In the dark space, a beautiful flame is going a far distance with very high speed. Without any stress, without any disturbances, in the inner space, far and far, the light of your life. Observe that light in that far space. Let it go. Just let it go. Relax. Observe that space. Observe that light. Let your awareness follow that light which has gone far and far. Expand your consciousness. Expand your inner space. Relax thyself in endless space. Forget everything. Be sure that your ātmā is the divine. Relax. Relax. Feel relaxed, comfortable. Be aware of your being. Be happy, healthy, and relaxed without any stress. Now, imagine thyself in that flame as thyself. You are light, you are the energy, you are the Consciousness. Expand thyself in the whole universe. Feel one with the entire universe. You are in the space, and the space is within you. You are in the space, and the space is within you. Relax. Now imagine yourself in this flame as in your reality. You are the light. You are the energy. You are the consciousness. Spread this flame. Feel that you are the universe of the world. You are in space, and the space is inside you. And now, come, become aware of your body, each and every limb of the body: your hands, your fingers, shoulders, elbows, arms, palms, fingers, stomach muscles, back muscles, hip joints, thighs, knees, calves, everything. Feel your whole body. You are the king of your body. Relax and take care of your body. Feel your breath, inhalation and exhalation. Deep inhale, and we will chant Oṁ three times. Oṁ. Oṁ. Oṁ. Namo Nārāyaṇa. Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Fold your hands. Rub your palms. Place the hands on the face. Warm your face muscles. Open your eyes and bend forward. Touch your forehead to the ground, with both hands on the ground. And feel the blood circulation towards your head, towards your face, towards your face muscles. Feel the energy. With the help of the hands, slowly raise your head up. Sit straight. The stress is our own thinking. It is not because of the work, because there are not so many activities. The stress is our own mental thinking that gives pressure on your shoulders. Unnecessarily, you become very stressful and fearful. You know, there is one story. There was a dentist, and he was a very good dentist, and many people used to go to him. And you know, dentists mostly get a lot of money; the price is their own thinking. Well, but the doctor had one problem: he wanted to have a wife. And he was already 45 years old, but he could not find any wife. If someone met him, she would survive a maximum of three days or four days. So he was very unhappy. So he went one day to a psychologist, and the psychologist also came to know that he was a rich dentist, so the price of the psychologist was also higher than the dentist's, but he gave him good advice. Well, he said, if you want to have a wife, then you should always agree with her. If you ask her which music she likes, and she tells you some music, you should say, "That is my favorite one." I am sorry. What kind of artistic work do you like? Oh, the painting of that and that painter. Then say, "Wow, I have that picture in my house from that artist," and so on and so on. So whatever she tells you she likes, you must say, "Yes, I like it." So he was doing like this. One day, he met a lady, and they went for a walk or somewhere to a restaurant to eat. And he asked her, "What is your hobby?" She said, "Music." "Which one?" "Mozart." "Oh, I have all the discs of Mozart. I like Mozart. What do you like more? Artistic." "Oh, the painting of that person." "Oh, that I have in my sleeping room." Well, what kind of food do you like? She said, "Well, I am vegetarian and like organic food." "Mistakenly, I brought you today to this restaurant. I like vegetarian and what you call vegan." Well, he said, "Can I invite you tomorrow to my house? There will be vegetarian food." She said, "Good idea." She was also searching for some crazy man like that. She was also crazy. Now this man went shopping. And he got all of Mozart's music. And he also brought the instruments to play. And he went from one museum to another museum to find that beautiful picture of that artist. And he found it. It was very expensive. It took him about five million euros. If you want to have a wife, then you must fulfill it, so he bought it. He brought it home, and he went to a vegetarian restaurant and brought the food because he did not know how to cook. So he brought the food there. Now he gave the time that she should come about 7:30. Everything was tip-top, and he was happy. And on that day, the dental hospital was closed. Now he is searching for hanging that painting, but one thing: he did not have a hammer. He had a nail also, but in his house, no hammer. And she will come soon, and when she will come into my sleeping room to see that picture, the painting, and if it is not hanging, oh God, that will be the first disappointment. So he was searching for the hammer in the house, then he said, "Well, I can borrow from my neighbor." So he wanted to go to the neighbor. He said, "I am the doctor, and I am a dentist. I am a rich man, and this is a poor neighbor. I go to him like a beggar? No, no." He took four, five chewing gums in his mouth. Stress, there is stress. She will come in 40 minutes. Well, I can go and ask for the hammer. Does not matter, he is poor. Then he went out the door and said no. If he says, "I have no hammer," he will know. If he has a hammer, but he will not give me the hammer, I will look poor. I will be offended. No, I do not want his neighbor's hammer. He looked at his watch. The market is closed. He cannot buy a hammer. He said, "Well, she will come now in 25 minutes. I can go and tell the neighbor kindly, please, can you lend me your hammer?" And he was going halfway. He said, "No, I am not a beggar. And I know you will refuse. And I know he would push me down. No, no." He goes in the house again. He sees the picture he puts there, he puts there, but he is thinking, "I promised her, hanging in my sleeping room, and if she will come in my sleeping room and there is no painting, she said, 'Well, I will go to the neighbor.'" No, I will put the picture there. I do not want his hammer, but how does he know that I do not need his hammer? He is thinking, he is talking to himself. Red face, sweating, hands are trembling. How should he know that I want to borrow his hammer, and I know he will not give it, and he will humiliate me? But how should he know that I do not need his hammer? I will show him. So he went to the door. The neighbor said, "Yes, sir." "I do not need your hammer. Put it on your head." He closed the door. And the neighbor said, "What happened, sir?" He said, "You know what happened." So now she is coming, and he still had not opened the discs from Mozart. She said, "Oh, you said you have music, but it is all very new." And there was a bill today, bought just... She said, "Oh, you have a whole new set from today?" He said, "Yes, I was old, so I did not want to for you. I brought it new." She said, "Yes, very good. Thank you. Nice of you. Your apartment is beautiful." He said, "Yes, you like it? I made this apartment for someone to be happy here. And I have that painting." She said, "Oh yes, you told me that it is hanging in your sleeping room." He said, "I will show you after." She said, "No, no, I want to see how, because I love that painting." "Oh, it is hanging, not hanging, you said it was hanging." He said, "That was the other sleeping room." She said, "Oh yes, but you know, sir, I am very busy now, and my husband is waiting outside in the car." And he said, "Okay," and he shut the door. That means how unnecessarily one creates stress. And that stress is unnecessarily giving us troubles, torturing our life. So, this is that: do not imagine something which is not realizable. And what you are doing, you are doing good. Do not create stress. Keep it as your limitation. You will be happy. And meditate every day this stress-releasing meditation, anti-stress. Then our life will be happy, and we will be happy and practicing well. Your business will be blossoming. Your health will become better and better. The family relations will be more and more harmonious. Our own stress creates stress for others. There is one little example, a real story. In 1972, last, about November, December in Vienna, in yoga classes, one American lady came. She was the wife of an ambassador, and she liked yoga very much. '72. And I told her, "Do not do this and this and that," and she was happy. And after two weeks, she said, "Can I talk to you?" I said, "Of course it does not cost money." "No, sir, I will give you more money." I said, "So go ahead, tell me what you want. Is that possible?" I said, "Yes, what? That yoga is so powerful?" I said, "Yes. What do you mean?" "Is it possible that I practice yoga and my husband becomes positive?" I said, yes, this is a specialty of yoga in their life. "Wow! Since I practice yoga, my husband is very calm and very relaxed." I said, "Go ahead, practicing yoga, yeah?" So it was her stress. She was nervous, she was restless. And yoga made her very calm and peaceful. So, that poor husband was released. And she told her husband. And she said, "Yes, darling, I heard about that yogī. And many people were happy with him." She said, "Darling, can you go with me also?" So he said, "Yeah, you are relaxed enough." That was the story. So if we are good, others are good. If we are relaxed, others are relaxed. If we are happy, others are happy. If we are angry, others are angry. So the cause is within ourself. And everything is a play of your mind and your imagination. Good or bad, everything is produced within ourself. Tomorrow we will continue. Wish you a very good evening. All the best and blessings. Śrī Dīp Nayan Bhagavānakī Śrī Dev Puruṣa Mahādevakī Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavānakī Satya Sanātan Dharmakī Oṁ Śānti Śānti