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Oṁ param sukhadam kevalam jñānam uratim dvandātītam gagan sadṛśyam tasmāsyādi lakṣam ekam nityam vimalāchalam sarvadhi-sākṣibhūtam bhavātītam mātriguṇarahitam satgurutam namāmyam. Oṁ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ... Salutation to the Cosmic Light, the Lord of our Hearts, Omniscient and Omnipresent. In the divine presence of our Guru Paramparā, thank you, Pārvatī, for your kind words. Welcome, everyone, here in Villach once again. Villach is a beautiful city; it reminds me a little of the Himalayas. Today, I spent my time looking at the beautiful mountains and sharing with different countries. On one side, Slovenia, Italy, Austria—what more could we need? It is such a beautiful, beautiful place. Yoga is that science, a very ancient science from the beginning of the Sattva Yuga. In the beginning, it is Swayambhū Śiva who manifests Himself. Śiva is called unborn, having no mother and no father. All other incarnations, like Kṛṣṇa, Rāma, etc., are different. But it is that Śiva, and Śiva is the light energy of the universe. If you wish to realize and know Śiva, then you have to merge into the blue sky where there are no clouds, nothing, no obstacles. Only, and only, and lastly, Ānanda, Ānanda... That is Śiva. When He manifests Himself, it does not matter how, but He appears as a human. And as a human, or any other life form, He becomes a mortal—who came will go, and who... will go and come. What is created one day will be destroyed. And so these five tattvas, the five elements of this body which we have, that body has limitation. So even Śiva, Viṣṇu, and Brahmā, they also have limitation. With each yuga, they are changing, so we do not know which Śiva we are talking about—Ananta. Ananta Brahman. That Ananta is beyond any boundary. But we are limited ones. We have limitations. They are without borders, and we have borders. But within ourselves, in each and every atom of our body, is the light, that power of Śiva. Or we can say God, which is not visible, but it is there. The One without a second, beyond our imagination. That Ātmā, the eternal Ātmā, cannot be destroyed by any element—not fire, nor water, nor earth, nor wind, nothing. Nothing can touch that, and that is the presence in our body and in each and every entity—that light of that Brahman, that Supreme, that Śiva. It does not matter what we are doing. All our game, our theatre on this stage, will not be played forever. Yes, a beautiful theatre you play in the evening, let us say until twelve or one o'clock. Then the game is over, finished, dark. Similarly, whatever game we are playing, whatever profession you have, whichever profession you are working in or doing, however you are, one day it is gone. So it is, you know, there is one song: "O my darling, O my darling..." Then it is forgotten, it is lost and gone forever. So, who will come? Where will we go? It is said nicely: Deepak bhus gaya, lo kaha chali gai, Doodh phaṭā, kahā gayā, gṛt, Prem bit gayā, kahā gayā, prīt. When milk is spoiled, we cannot gain the butter from it. Yes, we can make paneer. Paneer is very good. We have Ashok Kumar; he will make nice paneer, palak paneer. We go to his restaurant in, what is it called, in Klagenfurt. But he cannot make butter from the paneer. When this flame, light, or candle—this beautiful flame we see—when this flame is blown out, where has it gone? We close the doors, we close the windows, everything; there is no way to go out. But how does the flame disappear? Where has it gone? Man means our mind, our feelings; that is where we... love that. But when this heart is broken, then the love is gone. And therefore, think it over. Do not fall in love just immediately or something. This is a play. The love is coming from ages and ages, from many, many lives. Wait for that. Maybe in this life your beloved will not come, but in the next life, surely it will come. But if you destroy it, it is gone, that's it. So do the photo grit. So, in this body, God gave something very valuable, a tool or some power. And that is called awareness. Awareness. We are aware. We are aware of our life. Animals also have awareness, but they have little. They have fear, they have hunger, thirst. And they have their love, a little attachment to their children. But a human is beyond all this. And that is what we are aware of. In the morning, when you get up, first look to your personal God—pictures, photos, or your mother's, your father's photos, or your wife or your husband. Of course, your husband is the most beautiful, and if you love him, you must see him every morning when you open your eyes. Then your husband will be more proud; he will also be nice to you. And the husband should also see the picture of the wife first, you know. That's it. The love between husband and wife—this is not a physical love; do not think of sex. This is emotion for a while, but that... you are connected with the heart. One day, one day, that's it. It is like we have the bean, and the bean is covered with the skin or the shell. When we open it, there are two parts that we call lentils. So in one, there are two, and between these two is that seed, that life. That prāṇa, that awareness. Then you will be happy. You need not have so many consultations with Swāmījī: "Please, Swāmījī, can I talk to you, please? And what? My wife, when I come after a yoga seminar, I bring her something." A good thing, but she's... I am afraid to go home. Yes, I said yes. This means your wife is a good one. She wants to know where you have been, why you did not practice properly or not, yes? Or your wife... So why should this situation not happen for the human? It has been said that marriage is only once, and you know, in Christianity also. And still, I think in Austria, the law is that you cannot marry a second time in the church. Yes or no? No, it was not properly said. Your voice should be heard till the whole world. Even in Fiji, on the island, they are looking now at the face cast. They always tell me, "Swamiji, early morning, Brahmamuhūrta, we are listening to your lecture." Today, from Fiji, the Dejavan city or village called Rakhi Rakhi. Yes, Rakhi Rakhi. And our dear Hṛdaya Kamal, I sent her there to teach yoga and daily life. How long were you there? Half a year. Six months she stayed there, and she was teaching yoga and daily life. Rakhi, Rakhi. So what I am telling is true. Today I spoke there on Skype, and there is one man, and there are many Indians. He said, "Guruji, how many times a day I think of you. And when your webcast is there, my heart is full of devotion. Peace and harmony, your words. My awareness becomes very clear, and so on." So, say, Austrians, can you marry a second time in the church or not? So, there were only because they married a second time somewhere. Okay, let's go further. So, it is said: we slept many, many... lives we slept, many, many lives we slept long. Oh human, now do not waste your time in sleep. Do sleep, okay? Good. Do yoga nidrā, do this, but do not become lazy. Awake, awake! God has come now to you because you are in the human body. But it is said God is here and now. You are sleeping; God is looking at you, and you turn to the other side. So God is saying, "Humans should be very alert, awakened, conscious." That is very important: awareness. If you are aware, no accident happens. If you are aware, you will not make mistakes. Many, many things. God gave us so many talents in our consciousness, our alertness, our concentration, our feelings, our words, our language, many, many things. So, Śiva is within us. We are a drop of water. In the palm of our hand, in the hollow of our palm, we have a drop of water, beautiful water. And our hand is over the ocean, and below our hand is the endless ocean. But between the ocean and this drop is our ātmā, or our soul. That is a duality, a difference between the ocean and this drop in the palm. So this is called jīva. And when this drop will fall into the ocean, the ocean is Śiva. So this jīva becomes one with Śiva. Only one centimeter or two centimeters distance between the ocean and this water. But to cover this distance, to become one, God has given the human life. What you are eating, yes. What you are drinking, what you are talking, etc., etc. Everything will be counted, everything: our food, our life. Generally, how many lives are helpful? How much are we after 40 years? Our life is finished because then you become old, or 50 years, let's say. Maximum, the peak of life is 50 years. Then you are going back again down, yes. So climbing from the earth till that peak, how many things have we done? And now from there to go back, 100 years then is finished. God said, "I gave you 100 years time, but you only forgot." A human eats about... 80 to 90 tons of food in one life. Can you imagine? 80 to 100 or 195 tons of food. I think this whole hall is full. And we put it in this hole, and nothing, nothing remains. Uparse bhare, niche se jhare, Gurū Mahārāj kyā kare. This, I will not translate for you. Should I tell this? Yes, everyone is alert. Not everybody is alert. You are not aware. If you are aware, you will say it all with one voice. So, therefore, next time I will translate. So, God has given us that awareness and that kind of... love, which humans have. Animals have also. Our dogs love us so much, you cannot imagine. And be sure, your dogs love you more and more every day than your partner. Yes. But anyhow, I am not going towards a dog. But we should be aware. We should be aware; our whole life we should be aware. Our whole life, what are we doing? So God gave us love, and what kind of love? Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī said, "Love each and every entity, if not more, then as much as you love thyself. At least love them that much, as much as you love thyself. If you can give more, then it is all okay." So, be aware. We have to be aware. I spoke today; I gave you, before the lecture began, half an hour, and I see such a big mistake. What I told them, I explained to them, the cameraman's, but it is a big mistake now still. And I see, I see in the camera something, and it is people, but what to do? I hope they will be aware and look in and say, "Aha, that was what Swāmījī was doing, that was not good." That's what, okay. Let's do awareness. This jīva does not matter from which creature this jīva is. The jīva is constantly, constantly moving. The human soul or animal soul, any, but they are all the time traveling through the whole universe. So this means coming and going is like a sleep. Ut jag, now wake up. Ut jag muśā fir. So we are a musāfir, we are the traveler. So ab bhor bhai, now the dawn has come, dawn has come. It is not a time for you to sleep. At the dawn time, we should stand up, wake up. Bhor bhai, brahma mūrtha. Those who sleep in the brahma mūrtha will lose a lot of their good spiritual energy and development. This is not what I am saying. It is said that all great saints... "Bhor" means the dawn. When the sun will rise, before the sun rises, it becomes light. That is called Bhor. That is Brahma Bhurata. "To utha jag," O my friend, get up. Now get up. "Bhor bhai," now is the dawn. So this means that we were sleeping in the darkness and in many other lives. But we got a human life, and this human life is the sunrise. And in this sunrise, we can see everything clearly. And uth jag musha fir. O traveler, now you are in this light of Brahman. In this life, who is sleeping in the sleep of ignorance? The sleep here means ignorance. And we said, "Ah, it does not matter. I do this. Ah, I can eat meat, no problems." Hey, yes, you can eat meat, but you know from where you got the meat? Can someone kill you and eat? Or someone takes the flesh from your thigh; how big will the pain be? So love and pain, these are two. Love and pain, these are two realities, truth. So if you love, you will not kill anyone. You will not cut the life, the throat of any life. Who are you? And so it is also the love which is pure. Every animal loves their life, loves their children, etc. Again, I am talking about Fiji. Long ago, it was, I think, 20 years ago, I was in Fiji. In Fiji, they have 65 percent Indians, and there are many ashrams. So there was one sādhu I met. I think he was 130 or 140 years old, and I went there, to his ashram. I went; it is called Bharatseva Ashram. And this old man wanted to touch my feet. I said, "No, no." Swamiji, no, no, please don't make, he said, "No, Maheshwarānandajī, no, no." Where we said, and he gave a lecture, and he said to the people, "As many chickens you ate, that many times you have to be born again as a chicken and let your throat be cut." Then you will go further, next, next room, and there, how many goats' meat? What do you call them? I do not know what goat meat is called. That, how many goats, and how many sheep, and how many fish, how many cows, etc. You have to pay back. You have to pay back, and you have to give your neck. Then you will come to the clarity, and then God will give you a view of human life: 8.4 million different creatures in the world. How many animals are chipped and killed every day, and how many times are they coming and going? How many creatures are in the water, but what can we do? So wake up, be aware, be clear about what you are doing. I have no business with the meat, so I lost my business. I have no vegetable shop. I do not have an agriculture field. I only wake you up. Wake you up? Yes, you did a lot, but at least... Now finished, so at least something becomes less weight on your side in that. So we, Jīvātmā, our Ātmā... So this is a beautiful prayer, beautiful, so that we are that one in that Śiva. In that, so now let's come back to how to get purification. So you will say, "Swamiji, now there is no hope to practice anything, yoga or this or prayers, so we cannot come over this." Yes, there is. One man went to hunt tigers. There was a bunch of tigers, and this man went with a helicopter. And the helicopter landed there, and he just stepped down to see the tiger and shoot the tiger. Immediately, he jumped into the helicopter and took off. Now, all the tigers are looking and jumping, but the helicopter is gone up. Everything remains, dangers remain down. Similarly, this spirituality is that kind of helicopter that, before all this will attack us, the Gurudev, that is Ādhyātmik Sādhanā, that will protect us, and we will come to our liberation. That is why: Guru Brahmā, Guru Viṣṇu, Guru Devo Maheśvara, Guru Sākṣāt Parabrahma, Tasmai Śrī Gurave Namaḥ, Dhyāna Mūlam Guru Mūrtiḥ, Pūjā Mūlam Guru Padam, Mantra Mūlam Guru Vākyaṃ, Mokṣa Mūlam Guru Kṛpā. So that's it. Sādhanā. Therefore, yoga is the science, the ancient science of body, mind, and soul. So when we do yoga, of course, the first is for our good health. Good health. Health is not everything, but without health, there is nothing. And therefore, we should have physical, mental, and emotional health—good health. And then in certain parts of our body, some kind of those karmas are collected. And that is that in yoga there is a science called Kriyā Yoga. And that Kriyā, through the chakras—and we have so many chakras—but the major chakras, because all chakras we cannot purify. But the major chakras are like, you have Austria, a big country, Austria. For Austria, it is a big country. But we cannot go to every village, but it has the capital city of Austria; it is called Vienna. So similarly, the capital center of our karmas, the different kinds of karmas, is our chakras. And so we have to touch, we have to go to those chakras, and we practice that with this kriyā, our kriyā yoga, where we are going through the chakras and to the prāṇa, the breath, and awareness awakening. Our consciousness will be purified and come to the highest level of this. That is about the chakras and these kriyās; there are 64 kriyās. There are 64 Kriyās, different kinds of Kriyās, but if one can, at least one person can master one Kriyā, it is much, much better than nothing. So when we open one lock, then all the rooms in the house we can check, where what it is. So, we have to see which of our chakras we can open. Our practice purifies, so this we will do tomorrow. Today is more than enough, because how much I spoke, you heard, but you... I lost a lot, and I do not go back. I also lost what I spoke, word by word, you know. But I am aware of what I am saying, what I spoke, where it is, all from the Brahman, from the Śiva, till the chakras and this here, life, ātmā, jīvātmā, etc., etc. So, I wish you a very good evening and many, many, many blessings.