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All dear sisters and brothers, welcome to you all here at the Om Śrī Mahāprabhujī Deep Satsaṅg Foundation. This is our third week. The program is always the same: yoga and yoga in daily life. Yoga is a lifelong path. Just as we need nourishment our whole life—solid food, water, and air—similarly, if we continue our yoga exercises, I am sure we will keep ourselves in balance and healthy. But life is limited. Whoever comes will go; whoever is born will die. Everything that is built will be destroyed again. Yet this Jīvātmā, which has been traveling in this form for many, many ages—what we call taking a physical body, then leaving it, and then taking another—continues. I think, and you also think, that God has given us human life. God gave all kinds of abilities to humans for the protection of the environment, for the protection of nature, for the protection of all creatures, and for living in harmony. Each and every human are brothers and sisters. We shall understand for what purpose God gave us this life. This is the last step of the last milestone, where a human should achieve or enter into the Brahmaloka. But this last milestone is very hard because we have to follow the discipline and live the life of a human. There are many different ways in different cultures, countries, and religions. Definitely, every religion has a path to the Supreme or Brahmaloka. It is said by Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa: it does not matter through which way you will come; ultimately, I will be there to welcome you, bless you, liberate you, and guide you. I think in every country we say, for example, it doesn’t matter from which road you came; finally, the destination is one. So one came from Slovakia, some came from Ukraine, Georgia, Poland, Canada, America, Australia, England, Germany, etc. But the target, the point, was one. Similarly, we should not count the duality because everyone is doing their best, and finally, they will come to that one God. God is only one; we call Him by different names. This we shall understand and realize to create world peace. Humans are destroying themselves through their ego: the pride of position, the pride of wealth, the pride of power in politics or different things. That is destructive. We should have position; we should have wealth. But these are given to us to help others. To serve, to help—that is the real path for humans. So, in many cultures, there are definitely very good spiritual practices. And what we call yoga—if you pray, it’s yoga. If you kneel or bend forward to the altar or to God, it’s also yoga. If you help others, it’s yoga, as I used to say. Helping hands have more value than folded hands. Who doesn’t want good health? Maybe someone who is very disappointed. There is a different situation in society, in families. So someone takes drugs, alcohol, etc. We say: don’t just ask someone not to drink alcohol, but ask why you drink alcohol. There must be some social problem, or they have lost the sense of being human. So, through drugs and alcohol, we destroy ourselves. Otherwise, you do hard work; you take care of your children, families, your parents, grandparents; you have a big family, what we call joint families. In our country where we are sitting, the Czech Republic, and all of this middle Europe, I’m sure that we are still connected very well to our families. But maybe in some places, maybe in some countries, the family system is disappearing. Pravda. So that’s why it is very important to keep your family names. It means also the place, your house. We are sitting in this castle here, which is now called our ashram. It is nearly 400 years old, or maybe more. Who made this castle? With which kind of feelings, love, etc.? They are gone. And many come and many go. Now yogis are here. But the name of this castle exists, and it is in history. People are coming from around the whole world to see this castle, this building, these constructions. In Europe, it is said there are only two castles in this way: one is in France, and the second is here in the Czech Republic—exactly the same design, construction, trees, gardens, etc. So you have many buildings in Prague, Brno, and there’s a name. It is said that the name of God is bigger than God itself. That’s why we say the name of God. So humans should have their origin. Don’t just change your flats and houses so that you don’t know where you are now. But still, there are people who have their old houses and villages. You know whose house this is. But a stranger comes by the house or the flat, and the native people are not sure; they can’t trust. So we lost our nest. It is said at the time of the sunset, every bird comes into the nest. Similarly, after we come to our home, and if not alive, then you come to that grave, and every grave has a name written, etc. So we should have unity to preserve our culture, traditions, languages, everything. But it does not mean that we should destroy our neighboring country—no, that should not be. So God has created this human life, and in order to keep together, the path is called yoga. But in this Kali Yuga, unfortunately, yogīs and yogīs are also fighting. They all have competitions. In yoga, there are no challenges and no competitions. So, we have now the third weekend of this seminar. There are many beautiful programs. It begins the program with the children. Our children have beautiful programs. They are very, very beautiful children and very disciplined children—very happy children. Very, very nice. So children are like beautiful flowers, and I used to say the children are the culture of tomorrow. The children are our future. But it does not mean that our grandparents are not here anymore. You know that children love your grandparents very much. So we should give love to the children and educate them in a good way. Then we have programs for all different ages of people: those who have not practiced yoga for a long time, those who have never practiced, or those for whom many years have passed. So we have a general yoga class, yoga in daily life—simple and very nice programs. Then we have so-called Kriyā Anuṣṭhāna; that’s a beautiful program. It’s meditation, mantras, prānāyāmas, āsanas, prayers—many, many things. It’s beautiful. It’s called cleaning of the body, mind, etc. And then we have many, many new generations going to be the yoga and daily life teachers. So we have teacher trainings, the instructions: which postures are good for what, who should do them, who should not, how to do them, how long one should practice, how many rounds, how to breathe during the posture, and which joints of the body you should take care of. What is the effect on the different organs of the body: heart, kidneys, liver, etc.? So there is a big, big body of knowledge for the teachers to learn. Yes, then we have lectures and satsaṅgs, nice bhajans. So let us enjoy here. I welcome you all and enjoy.