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It is a beautiful day. We had a morning program with the Gāyatrī Mantra, but it went a little poorly because many people were not following the discipline. No problem. Next time, it will come again. The mantra is universal. Do not think it is only religious or fanatic. We have a mālā with us to practice our mantra. In Christianity, they call it a rosary. In Islam also, they have mālās. Buddha also has one. Buddhism is a branch of Hinduism, of Sanātana Dharma. Sanātana Dharma is eternal dharma, and other dharma is what we call man-made religion. But are they both the same thing? Man-made religion, for example, speaks of God Rāma or all twenty-four incarnations. So who incarnated? Who is born? The words "born" or "incarnated" are a little different. All these God incarnations were given birth from a mother. They have a father, they have a mother. But only one who was not born from the womb of the mother, who has no father and no mother—that which manifested itself—is called Śiva. And that is the energy, that is the Sanātana. What nature is doing is Sanātana. A seed in the earth sprouts, grows, has leaves, branches, blossoms, fruits, and seeds. This process is sanātana. Similarly, this jīva which comes to the mother's body, how it is developing, is beyond human knowledge and brain. How is it developing? Recently, there was a little video. I do not know where it was, on some Facebook or the heart book or the womb book, etc. But how is everything developing in water? Water is life, and life exists in the water, develops in the water. But how is that God's creation, that we call God's creation? It does not matter, humans or animals, or in the eggs—so what is happening, what is coming, everything—that is called Sanātana. We said, the egg of the peacock. We need not put color inside. But when the baby comes out of the egg, it is colorful. And that color is like the color of the mother, the parents. Sanātana. That is sanātana. Now, in certain categories, humans are manipulating and destroying that, the mother nature's sanātana dharma. We call our earth our planet; we do not call Earth as a planet. In astrology, Earth is not a planet. It is Earth. And we call this a mortal world. But in reality, it is not a mortal world. It is a Sanātana Dharma which is manifesting on this, our globe. And it is said that Mother Earth will never lose the seed. There are some places where it is not raining for three, four years: dry, hot air, storms, sandstorms, etc. But after two, three years, sooner or later, one day it must rain there too. Very soon, within a few days, that earth, that soil is like a green, beautiful carpet. So we say, the mother will never lose the seed. Now we call it the mortal world, but I would say today it is an immortal world. What is our body? What we call "I." But also, the body does not die. These are the five elements, and each element merges into its origin. Ākāśa, the space, remains in one ākāśa. The hall where we are sitting is a big hall. It is a sports hall, very high, some hundred square meters, and we call it the sports hall. Because the walls are limiting this space. There was a time when there were glaciers here. Then began some vegetation. Then some occupied the land as my kingdom, my father's farm. Then we divided this into pieces, and we declared this land as a building. And this one, about one hectare of land. Now we make the walls: reception room, office, kitchen, WC, etc. The walls have made the borders, but what or who came will go, and who goes will come. Who is born will die, and who dies will be born. What is made will be destroyed again. This hall and these walls will not be forever. So when we dismantle these walls, then it is only space. Similarly, our body, which has five elements, has space within us. If we have no space in the body, we are just like a stone. Similarly, the water. How much water do we have in the body? The bones, air, etc. So this will again, the element will go in the element: fire in fire, water in water, space in space, air in air, and earth in the earth. But that Jīvātmā, the soul, will again come according to the karma, what we call the destiny. And according to destiny, that life will go there. Maybe we will be born as a tomato, yes, and that we will eat. It will go as a jīva, or a nice pumpkin, the apple seed—again the jīva seed. And so, Mother Earth always has those seeds to grow again and again. But we humans lost our brain. We manipulate everything. The seeds will not grow more than once or twice. So we have to buy the seeds, and those seeds are manipulated. And these seeds will not grow twice. Now we are eating that kind of food, nourishment, without seed. So do not worry, you will give the children. So, one or two. Because what we eat, like that we will be. Or the children will be born who are not healthy. So those seeds are disappearing. Where are they disappearing? They will remain in what is called the Pitṛlokas. Not only the humans, but all. All jīvas, all. They will come back, so our Earth is also immortal. Our Mother Earth, our nature, is also immortal. That is why we are again coming and going, coming and going. The life of the human, if they will do this spiritual work on themselves—and spiritual means not only prayer whole day and mantra whole day. This is the most lazy person. Always sitting and sitting and mantra. This is the laziest person. You should meditate. You should make mantras, but do not take time away from your families or your duties to society. Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said in Bhagavad Gītā, "Your yoga will be successful when you do the karma." Karma means action, positive actions. So there are long, long things. So we can see, here is also immortality, and we are coming and going. So many holy saints were born. Even God Rāma was born by a mother. Also, Kṛṣṇa was born from his mother. Also, Jesus was born from that, and many others. But what we all put in oneness, in Hinduism we say Brahman, that Supreme. That Brahman has no body. Nirākār nirañjanam. That is called nirākār nirañjanam. It has no form and no spots, Niranjan. No rañjan. Rañjan means the black spots. So it is called Brahman. In Islam, they say Allāh or Malik. It has no form. And Jesus was also born, and He called the Holy Father. That Holy Father is what we call Brahman. So ultimately, we all come to oneness. Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said, "Does not matter through which spiritual path you will go, my dear ones. Ultimately, I will be at the gate. Through which gate you will go, I will be there." So, now you can say what Kṛṣṇa said. It can be from every religion, the same word. Ultimately, God will be there for us. But we have to practice. We have to do the actions. So first is, do not disturb or give trouble to any creatures. Mahāprabhujī said, "Love each and every intense." If not more, then at least that much, as much as you love thyself. So this is the first, and it is, thou shalt not kill. It did not say, "You shall not kill humans." It is said, "Do not kill or eat those who have the eyes." But we do not follow. So there are many, many... Rules are changing in every century. We are changing, like what we call our fashion is changing. There was a time when the hippies had beautiful long hair. Then it became pūka, puṅka. And then it was different. And now it is again something like that. So they cut all hair here, and then they put this hair beside. So this means that people are not satisfied. That is it. Live as it is. You see, what do I call it? A tattoo on the body. According to the spiritualities, you should not make any marks on your body. Leave it as your mother has given you the body. So, because we are not content, we are not happy. So we think this fashion, this fashion, this fashion. Well, it is your choice, but you are damaging that beautiful skin which God gave to the mother and the mother gave you. So this world is also not a mortal world. Our body also does not die, and the earth will go into the earth. And water will go in the water. And this earth will meet into the earth; it will be very nice fertilizer. And on this fertilizer, a very big pumpkin will grow, and that we will eat. And how many seeds will be there? So, multiplying, multiplying, so it is said that Sanātana Dharma, it is the Sanātana Dharma that the steam comes up as a cloud. What we call the para is developing, and you see the ocean is very salty, but how does sweet water come up again? Yes, and the salt is very, very important. If salt were not here in the ocean, then all would die very soon from all infections and everything. And you know how the salt is produced in the ocean? That is a very good story; I will tell you sometimes. So therefore, it is said, "Thou art the salt of the earth." So we are the salt of the earth, so practice your spiritual path. But do not fight each other. That is not good. We shall work together. There were two donkeys, and both were tied with one rope. So one had this side of the rope in the neck, the other had the other side of the neck. ... So someone came and brought grass. So put it a little bit for this donkey and for the other donkey. But the man made a little mistake. He put it half a meter or one meter too far. So one donkey is pulling, trying to pull to go to that grass. And the other one is pulling to the other side. They were tied with one rope. And both donkeys are angry at each other. And if one comes closer, they are kicking with the legs. And they cannot eat the grass, so someone said, "Stupid donkeys, why do not you make a compromise?" He said, "How? Joined together?" And come and eat grass here, and then go together and eat there. "Oh, thank you, thank you." There were a few hours, the whole day they were hanging like this to see the grass. And so that one is fighting for my religion, and others say, "My religion, my religion," and they are hanging there, nowhere. You have a different definition. We accept your different... And we have other... also, we should have the belief in that God. Everyone said, "My mother is the best mother." Then, which mother is not a good mother? Therefore, spiritual practices are for that Sanātana. So Sanātana Dharma is not a man-made dharma, but other dharmas are called man-made dharmas. But this man-made dharma will lead us to the Sanātana Dharma. But if we fight and if we do not love the other creatures of God, then I doubt that we will come to that holy Father, or Allāh, or Brahman. So respect, respect. There is one family, so there is a husband and wife who have different relations. There is a sister and brother who have different relations. There is a grandmother and grandfather with different relationships, all in one family. So why not? We shall accept it like this. The tree has branches, and it has leaves, it has blossoms, it has fruits, but all is together one. And that is what God has created, this saṃsāra, this world. And that is what we are working on and trying to achieve, our goal through yoga in daily life. And that is what we call our paramparā, our spiritual paramparā. Paramparā. So we shall practice, we shall not be fanatic, we shall respect all. We respect every woman, but our mother is our mother. So we hold on to our mother, but we respect all other mothers. Or we respect our father, but we respect all men. If they are old, we can call them grandfather. Like our father's age, we can say father, brother, etc. That is what we call brotherhood. I do not know why we do not say sisterhood. So today we declare the sister-brotherhood. That will be very nice. So I wish you all the best. And I know you are waiting for something. So that will be another kind of lecture, about our spiritual lineage, the Himalaya, and we will see some slides. I wish you all the best. I wish you all the best.