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A most beautiful good evening to all of you. I am glad that so many have come and that everyone has taken the time, even coming from afar from other countries, to be with us today. Together, we celebrate our Christmas satsang, our Christmas gathering; it is our opportunity to celebrate Christmas with Swāmījī. Swāmījī expressed a wish today because we are here in Salzburg. Salzburg is the birthplace of Mozart. Additionally, the song "Silent Night, Holy Night" was also composed and written in Salzburg. So Salzburg is a capital of music and culture. Swāmījī has now wished that we sing an aria from The Magic Flute. I have arranged for an opera singer who is coming today. He will present to us The Magic Flute. This shall be our Christmas gift to you, dear Vishwaguruji, that you can hear the original Mozart today. Thank you. I am delighted by your presence and wish us all a wonderful evening together. I now hand over the floor to Vishwaguruji. A beautiful good evening. A wish is fulfilled, as from the sky beautiful white flowers are falling. Snow, very beautiful. A beautiful word, snow. In the language, snow means best friend, the best. Welcome to our program for today. Today we have several programs, but above all, today we are celebrating Christmas Eve. You all know more than I do, so I don’t need to say much about Christmas because you already know. Those who do not know will come to know. Tonight is an evening for us. We often say an evening for Christmas, an evening for a birthday, an evening for a wedding, and so on. In India, they say that when there is a satsang and the best singer comes, they say, today is an evening with Kṛṣṇa or an evening with Rāma or Gaṇeśa, etc. But I say, every evening should be for beauty, for goodness. No evening should be a sorrowful evening. No evening should be spent with anger and hatred. No evening should be spent with conflict and negative thoughts. And so, regardless of culture, faith, or country, everywhere, there is goodness. We should celebrate something beautiful, something good for 24 hours, so that no negative energy, no negative thoughts enter our consciousness. Last night and this morning, we spoke about Awareness. What is awareness? Attention, mindfulness. That means we should be awake every second. There is being awake or asleep. Sleeping means ignorance, and being awake means wisdom, knowledge. Our topic for this weekend was and still is Anti-Stress, Yoga for Anti-Stress. There are some people who make such an effort, yet stress is still present. But there are certain programs and thoughts within half a minute a person can remove all the stress and everyone will laugh. That means, when someone tells something good, or a poem, or a song, or also, how do you say, a joke, what is that, a joke. Suddenly our heart opens, everyone laughs. So Yoga, and especially in our system, Yoga in Daily Life. Yoga in Daily Life is not just physical exercises or cleaning the nostrils. We always cleanse in the bathroom. Do you cleanse your nostril wing here? But Yoga in Daily Life is a system of wholeness. It touches our heart. It gives us a wisdom filled with joy, harmony, and bliss. But in this Kali-Yuga, in this dark age, dark time, Iron Age—Kali-Yuga is called the Iron Age—in Kali Yuga, there are more negative energies. Such negative energies have two harsh aspects that are difficult to overcome in situations. One of them is hatred. A hatred towards others. One neighbor towards another neighbor. If you have the same business next door, you immediately think, oh God, here next to my business is something like this. But some bring a business to a place where one cannot have a business. For example, there is a village in India or somewhere, perhaps in other parts of the world, an entire village. But the whole city, no one eats meat, fish, or eggs. And someone is doing business there, specifically with fish, eggs, and meat—what do they receive? No one buys. That’s how it is. Or, do you know the Sikh in India? This is a spiritual movement, one could say, also a religion. And Sikhs have five things. A Sikh must always carry or have five things with him. One who has hair must not cut hair. Then a turban, then a sword or knife, rings, and a specific type of underwear. These are the five things a Sikh must have. This belongs to this religion. Is Salzburg a village or a town? Opposite New Delhi, Salzburg is beautiful, a diamond on the ring. So everyone just lives Sikh, and then someone comes and starts a business as a hairdresser. Everyone will say, why are you setting up a shop here? No one will come. And so it is in life. We are meant to seek something, or somewhere to go, because we receive or give something good, something we can offer to others. And so, Yoga in Daily Life, we offer bliss. Yoga in Daily Life does not mean practicing for just one hour or two hours. Living 24 hours in the consciousness and vigilance of the Self means in daily life. Physical exercise and breath exercise, that is the first stage. But more is time-conscious vigilance. What do you eat? What do you drink? Who are you sitting with? With whom do you spend more time? How and where do you work? Etc. Do you have a prayer in your consciousness for 24 hours? Prayer means something positive, something good. But unfortunately, it is not so, it is not that simple. We go where our best friends are, and so on and so forth. And suddenly someone else comes, from another country, from another culture, and suddenly says, what do you like there? And that is not yoga, that is not the life of a human being. Be a human being. It is said, I believe, in Austria or in the German language or so, when someone does something terrible, someone kills or so, they say, that is not human. What do they say? Nothing is inhuman. Inhuman, thank you. And this is what I always say: when we get up in the morning, the first thought is, I am a human being. Immediately in our thoughts, the stress that we have disappears. I am a human being. Immediately, a love arises in my heart. Love, everyone needs animals, birds, nature, and people. God saw the people here, a beautiful heaven here, how do you say, to make the heaven on earth. And so, heavenly matters on earth, then we are the humans among humans. Have you seen a film? It was, I believe, three, four years, five years ago, one, please? Slave. How many years was that? A film. These are Africans. Twelve years? Eleven years or twelve years? Have you seen this film? It was, as one has seen, I have seen, this film is almost two hours or an hour and a half long. And indeed, I have seen, from Auckland, New Zealand, to Toronto. It was Toronto or Vancouver. And there this film was shown, where everyone can have whatever they want. And that was a horror. Who has seen this film? Yes, it is painful. That one person can do something with another person. And that is a culture, a color, a religion, and so on. The people in Africa have so much love. They are such good people and are willing to do anything to help you. But people have taken them as slaves. And they sold the children, the women, and the men to them, just as one brings animals to the market and sells them. It should not be like that. So, human, God has a human face here, but nothing to do with dualism, not with color, nature, culture, or religion. And so, what we have in our system is that we accept all religions, all cultures, because we think as one humanity. Those who have so much dualism carry fear, hatred, ego, and then problems and difficulties grow within families. This is the effect of our dualism. Reflection is quite different. It will reflect or attack your family group or your society or with your friends or with a terrible illness. This is caused by negative thinking, hatred, greed, jealousy, etc. This negative thought creates a disease, and the disease can manifest in various forms. We try to do something good and achieve something good, but negative energy is there. Nothing leads you to success. So, stress has multiple causes. Why does one work too much? Because there is definitely something that has a craving or a pressure. Something, it creates stress. But meditation, relaxation, Yoga Nidrā, Prāṇāyāma—these purify our inner being, meaning inner tension. It will relax. We should know that there must be a boundary somewhere. And a boundary for our work. We build so many businesses, this and that and the other, but in the end, nothing really works for us. I heard a bhajan, 50 minutes earlier, and it was also written in that bhajan: You gather so much, but in the end, you will go completely alone and cannot even take a single cent with you. Now, having worked hard, you have gathered everything you have served or received, but this Jīvātmā, this soul, goes alone. You cannot take anything with you, only one thing: God’s Name, prayer, mantra. Good energy will go with us. Nothing, although this material is good, but it does not go along. Only, only good thoughts, good deeds or negatives. These are then two. Utthāna and Patana. Utthāna means it leads our soul, our consciousness to the higher levels, to the divine path. And negative, that is called, goes towards the darkness. And darkness means ignorance, the sins one carries, that is what leads us there. Nothing else comes along. And so, that is called Saṃskāra. And how is my Saṃskāra then? I have done nothing at all. Yes, you are very upset, you have done nothing, but it is from a previous life. This seed has come along. And so we purify through mantra, through the Name of God, God’s energy, prayer, and help, help, help. And so, now we will do a little meditation. Relax, relax, relax. Feel your entire body from toes to head and from head to toes. Relax, relax, relax. Relax every part of your body, your legs, your hands, your fingers, your neck, relax everything, relax. Today we give a symbol and we will look at this object, imagining a beautiful, warm, sunny day and a beautiful cherry tree with many, many cherries. You observe from a distance, about 30 or 40 meters away, the different kinds of birds enjoying the cherries. Give your attention, observe the blissfulness of birds in your garden or in the forest. How happy the living beings are and how beautiful nature is. Relax, relax, and receive the bliss from the other living being. A harmony, a unity between the tree and the birds or various forms of life. A beautiful tree, a beautiful, large cherry tree. The next stage is in the early morning, at sunrise. The beautiful sun there, a wonderful summer time. You meditate or practice your yoga in daily life and observe the beautiful nature and birds. How fortunate they are. We think as they sing. Joy, love, freedom, bliss. Let our soul be one with theirs. Relax, relax, relax. And now, we come to the next object. Imagine that you are walking and a small stream is flowing. Pure, clean water flows and flows with harmony. It comes and it flows on. The more water flows, the purer it becomes. And so our inner thoughts, purity, bliss, and joy flow into our hearts, divine devotion. Water flows, the beautiful sound of flowing water, and so does our blood flow throughout the entire body. When our thoughts flow completely freely, pure thoughts, positive thoughts, it means it works within our body, becoming purity as well. When there are blockages, there is illness; when everything comes to a standstill, it manifests—the illness takes form in our body, creating a space within the body. And good thoughts will flow, all the diseases accumulated in the body will continue to flow away, and our body and mind will become completely pure. Through positive thoughts, pure water flows, water, nature, and living beings, bliss. Let it all flow. Let it all communicate. The bird comes and takes a fruit, but the tree will neither say no nor become angry. Be a tree, be a free being, be flowing, clear, not clean, clear water, no stress, relax, relax, relax. Observe the various birds once again. Free yourself from one branch to another branch, from one tree to another tree. And so let your thoughts and your feelings be completely free in bliss. Oh Lord, oh Lord, grant me freedom so that I may be one with You in Your divine world, in this sacred time. Let me be one with you. No more stress, no more sadness, no more jealousy. Unity, peace, peace, peace. We all chant Oṃ three times. Breathe in deeply. Feel your body, sense your being together with all our friends, and open your eyes directly to the Christmas tree. So this is a Christmas tree. Look at this tree, it is your own Self. So your inner sound, the light, and everything is as happy as this Christmas tree. Be a beautiful Christmas tree. Pay attention to that. Look, look at this beautiful tree and now close your eyes. Close your eyes and look at the Christmas tree. Open your eyes again and look at the Christmas tree. Everything you see, beautiful, shining, in various colors, it is—you are that. Close your eyes. And once again, gaze at the tree. Just as you see so many different objects on your tree, all of that is also within you. And close your eyes and silently say Oṃ five times, Oṃ,... Oṃ. Rub the palms of your hands together, then place your hands on your face.