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Tomorrow is a new year according to Vedic astrology, a very long Vedic cycle. Nowadays, there are so many new years. So let's celebrate. Every day is a new day, a new year. Every day is our birthday. How nice. You had a beautiful talk, a lecture today from Swāmī Vivek Purījī on how to educate children. It means Vivek Purījī's mother is an example—very strict. When parents are strict, children are the best in school, best in society, best in business, best in politics, and best for the whole world. If parents cannot maintain discipline or have no time for the children, then the youth searches for something elsewhere, for some kind of education. Some are lucky to have good friends and good society, or a society that can spoil us more, which gives us habits that can be very good or can be bad habits. That teaches us different kinds of habits. Our Gurujī, Swami Madhavānandjī, Holy Gurujī, used to say that habit is the second nature of man. We have human nature. We have the love and teachings from our parents, but there is a second influence: society. In the beginning of the last century, there was still good direction and education for the youth, for the children, very nicely given by parents, by neighbors, by our societies, our villages. Our neighbors, villages, etc., they all were taking care of the youth so that they didn't take up wrong habits. A person who is, say, 25 years old, would still visit a youth, a child. In case, rarely, if someone took a cigarette and a person from your neighboring village came, that person with a cigarette in hand would put it under their shoe. They would be trembling that some elderly person came. "Now what will happen to me? I'm smoking." That person would not ask why, but would have one reaction: either run away and not dare to come home because they did such bad habits, thinking, "Someone saw me, my neighbor saw, and what will they tell my parents? What will be the situation at home? How will my parents behave?" That time, about 180 years ago—I am telling you of a time 180 years ago—one day, my friend and I, our school teacher came about 200 meters away. My friend had a cigarette in his hand at the age of about 15 years. We both climbed a tree, a beautiful tree with nice, good branches. But the teacher had a good nose. The teacher was going to the forest for toilet and saw the footsteps, and the smell came from the tree. The teacher pulled one branch and said, "Come down." He would give a nice sign on the buttocks. So the friend said, "Please, no, I will never do it. Please, Gurujī." (Every teacher we call Guru.) He said, "Come down." Gurujī took from the pocket of the boy a cigarette and matchstick. He took it and said, "Doesn't matter. Sorry, anywhere I smell you from your mouth, then this stick is with me." That was a school teacher. A school teacher treats the students as his or her own child. That was a human education. Now, I did not explain it to you, no? That is the color of the Kali Yuga. Unfortunately, unfortunately, we try to spoil the young generation with bad habits. So what to do? It means now those who have good karma and luck will come above. Otherwise, all is at the level of the grass in the field. And nice, nice fruit trees will come up and give fruits to everyone. We need both. Gurujī used to say to me, "Gurujī, in one hand I have a nice sweet ball, laddū, and in this hand I have my walking stick. Both are for you. What do you want?" Of course, laddū. Yes. So he said, "Yes, that you have." But he gave a lot of education. I survived. I survived with that knowledge of my Gurudev. It is he who speaks in my heart. It is he who speaks through my brain. And his words and teachings are from Mahāprabhujī. And Mahāprabhujī, from Devpurījī. Luckily, I didn't have that education—what Devapurījī gave to Mahāprabhujī. And I don't know what Ālapurījī gave to Devapurījī. So, they said in language: the paras stone touches the iron, and the iron turns into gold. There is one fish which creates in the body the best pearl, which we call pearls of wisdom. So Gurujī used to say, "Every word, Mahesh, from your mouth should come like a pearl of wisdom." So I said, "What is the wisdom? Because he's small, I don't know this. I don't know what wisdom is." Gurujī said, "My stick is in the corner. That is a wisdom." Well, that is something. Can I? I don't know. It will function or not. Well, I got a lot of love from parents, from brothers, sisters, my friends, neighbors, and many teachers, etc. But not that which Gurujī gave me. And what I'm talking about today, or yesterday, or the day before yesterday, in these 48 years in Europe, is Gurujī's words. So it is said that there is a water tank; we will consume it until it is finished. But there is a water well, or the waterfall from the Himalayas, where water comes from the source of that clean water. As much as you take water from your water well, more will come, clean and clean and clean. Therefore, give these clean thoughts everything, and it will come better and better in our way, in our heart. So, the education first is the parents', but the responsibility is society's. The responsibility is our teachers, the school teachers, and responsible are our politicians for our nation. And the beauty of our nation, what I call the youth, is the culture of tomorrow. Now, second, it is said the paras converts iron into gold, but doesn't convert into the paras. But the guru converts his disciple into the guru. That's it. That's the difference. So also we should have inside longing, desires, feelings to become something. And that's a guru. So, those who are taking drugs, their friends are their guru, who is giving them drugs. "Try a little, come on. You don't know anything. You must know something in the world. Take it, try." Another said, "Stupid man, doesn't know the taste of the drugs. Try." Just try one day. Some will get up and go away, and some will say, "Because all people are doing, and if I'm not doing, then I'm stupid." And that's how they get their disciples—disciples of the one who's giving the alcohol or the drugs. You know how many? Billions of people are suffering from alcohol, but that is not declared as a drug because it comes like these notes. That's it. In aeroplanes, they are asking, "Take more." In aeroplanes, before taking off, comes the tray: water, juice, alcohol. In Indian airlines, mango juice, mango lassī. And then they said, "Sir or Madam, what would you like to drink after take-off?" They asked me, "Sir, drink something?" "Yes, water." Take off after water. He said, "What would you like to drink?" I say, what can be better than water? Sometimes I drink orange juice, but it has too much sugar. But many people, they are asking for more and more drinks. Sometimes, some people drink so much and make jokes and get up, and like this. Then the hostess in the aeroplane goes to the pilot. So many people make such nonsense things. The pilot knows everything. He says, "Don't worry." After a few minutes, the pilot announces, "Please take the safety belt. There's a turbulence coming." And the pilot is making the half of the alcohol go away from their mind, and they are holding the chair and going like this. So much alcohol, sometimes they vomit it, so they try to calm down, and then again it becomes... When Umāpurī is sitting beside me and a little turbulence comes, she's pulling my arm. Yes, that is it. It means this jīva, this soul in the body, doesn't want to go out. Jīvan sabhiko priye hai. Life is love for everyone. Life is very dear to everyone. It doesn't matter who is who. Doesn't matter how far you are with meditation, but the fear is there, my dear. And fear is something which is a good, good training for every creature. If we don't have fear, then you can't live. So sometimes they teach you fear. In Salzburg, there was one young child who had no fear at all. He would jump, go, run behind the car or in front of the car. So they brought him to the psychologist and said, "We have to teach this person fear." So, thanks to God that we all have fear. Do you have fear? Yes. So fear is our biggest protection. Awareness, consciousness, and fear, and mind—these qualities, what we have, this principle, what we have within our self, we have fear from many things. Some people are learning not to have fear, and that is a technique that I don't want to teach you. They are mostly teaching what's called the pocket cutter. Your pocket, the thief is a thief. So they are so nice, and their hands are so good, better than a surgeon doctor's hands. It will take it, and then you don't know where my pocket is. They have a technique which, in Frankfurt, when Indians are flying to Frankfurt at these different airports, they warn the Indians, "You must take care, there are so many pocket tips," because they know only rich Indians can come out. So they have a good camera, good money, and things like this. And about 40% of all Indians, their bag or their pocket is cut. One doctor, Sittal, if you know, he is a very, very good eye doctor. He was in Italy, where he went first as a tourist. He parked his car, and he and his wife went to buy ice cream. Just to take the ice cream and come back. The boot was open from the car, and they took the cameras and everything. So they drove to the police station and gave the report to the police. The police said, "I will write a report for you, but don't waste time here. Even your car will not be there anymore." Yes! Well, habit is the second nature of man. So that is a drug. There are different kinds of drugs. There are some people who are happy to take something away: thieves. So that is also a kind of nature and has no fear anyhow, so we have to learn and we have to respect. So Vivek Purī gave a very nice lecture, but he didn't go so deep. I was listening in my room. There were a few people sitting, but they couldn't listen, only me. Anyhow, well, this is karma. So how, what we do to steal is not a problem. You steal, they steal it, okay. But there are some poor people, and from their two, three, or four months' salary, they bought a very nice camera or telephone. When that is stolen, one is unhappy, sad. And the other is happy, but that happy is temporary. But the karma of this stealing and the pain of the person who took something from the family's money—the children couldn't buy this and that because one wanted to buy something like that. So also, don't say, "Okay, stolen is stolen." That means you give the free hand to others to make this habit again. This is number one. Number two, well, nowadays, around the whole world, hospitals are increasing. Many, many hospitals and many doctors. They try their best, heart. But day by day, new diseases come. We don't know what that is—the environment, the quality of the food, the quality of the water. There must be something. Cancer was also always there, but not so much. And there is our own behavior, our own habit, own fear, or one is very shy. "I don't want to show what happened to me." These things we are keeping in our body. And when water collects in one place for a long time, that water is there, and that water becomes stinky. Mahāprabhujī said, "The water is good that flows all the time, which remains clean." And if it is stagnant, then it will become stink. And a sādhu should also move, not sit at one place, then you get so much attachment. But Gurujī said, also Mahāprabhujī said, "But the water should remain where it is," which water is very deep, very deep. Sādhu to parmāratha bhala. And a Sādhu, which is in one place somewhere, doing tapasyā. He said, "If the ocean will move now, then the whole earth will go down." So it's good where the ocean is. We like to go on that beach a little. The best water for swimming is on the Adriatic coast. Yes. Then say something like this. About 22 years ago, once a shark came behind a big ship. Otherwise, you know, people enjoy swimming. There aren't any dangerous animals. And in many other oceans, if you go in the warm water, and so, 15 meters maximum, 10 meters, high waves, and there are many sharks. But still, many people die from car accidents more than from sharks. So that is also a problem. Anyhow, so this disease, what came? The disease is because of our fear, and because we are ashamed about something, or from that negative situation with some people, your friends, your colleagues, your partners. One partner is always dominating, and the other swallows everything. And that will get that disease and will die earlier. Someone said to me in Europe that when one man or woman is in a high position—generals or presidents of the nation, or something like this—and when they are going to the office, they have a car, a driver, etc., etc. Everything is served, and when he comes home and the driver goes away, and the wife said—I don't know which name I should call—"Can you take this garbage? What do you call it? Empty garbage bin." That time, he will say, "Yeah," but inside he said, "I am president. I know that, but I am your wife." So it is very hard to digest every day, up and down, up and down. So when your wife or husband is more dominating, then it is said that such a high-position person dies before his wife, that the husband dies earlier, or that wife dies earlier. So it is very important that our ego—we have ego, but ego should be in a certain place, but not in your kitchen and not in your bedroom, and not in your bathroom, and not in your sitting room, and not with your little child. Your child is born, and your wife gives him into your hand because she has to work something. The child is only a few months old and has gained weight, and the president said, "Can you please take this side?" She said, "Well, you can clean it." So this kind of situation in the family creates diseases in the body. But it must not be this only. There are many, many reasons. Also, impurities. Impurities through our thinking. Impurities through the food, water, etc. So that is—the doctor will tell us how to give the treatment, and doctors have only one way. Like an aeroplane. An aeroplane doesn't have a reverse gear. So doctors know which medicine is good, and they will always give only this medicine. So, what to do? So, there is about cancer, there is the pancreas, there is the liver, the thyroid, etc. So in my international tour, world tour this time, I was more concentrating on how to help ourselves through yoga. And it helps, but I would not say that 100%, because there are some different diseases. But in the beginning, if we were taking care, then we could do good. There are people who are about 100 years old, and still they are very fit and doing yoga postures and prānāyāmas every day. So it is sure that yoga practices can save our life and lead to a happy, joyful life for long, long years. But now, when something happens, we have one tablet. Oh, this is a Croatian, that's it. So immediately, tablets immediately. This we are all full of the chemical, of course. Thanks to God that is such a medicine. Once, one can wake us up from the dead body. So, pray to God when the doctor awakens me again. Back then, tell the doctor, "Please bring my dead, real soul back again." If another soul comes in, the behavior is completely different. Yes. But the doctor can do what he can, and we need urgent help. And I must tell you, there is no other medicine than this, what we call this chemical or allopathic. But we should not take unnecessarily many times some medicines. Allopathic medicine may kill some or calm down some disease inside, but our body does not accept. This is a chemical, and Ayurveda, naturopathy, that's the nature, and that our body will accept. But it takes time to accept. So, if we try to take more natural medicine, there will be less disease of the different glands or organs or cancers, etc. People in Croatia, in Slovenia, in Slovakia, in Czech, in these countries, often people I meet don't take any kind of medicine, and they are nearly more than 100 years. They don't drink so much coffee, no tea. They eat very naturally, and they walk and work. So we are not different from them. But our behavior, our way of life, is different. And that's why we are suffering. Eighty years surviving now, it is, oh, eighty years old. And eighty years is just life, a person. Just life. But 80 years, it's already carried into the grave. Maximum 100 years, in a hospital lying, maybe 102 years. So when 80 years, it means 40 years of our life is finished. We are going down. If a hundred years of life, then fifty years we are on the peak of the mountain. Let's go back home, that's it. So, the practicing of yoga—yoga is different than a sport. The sports person will suffer in old age; the muscles will be paining, joints... The body is very stiff, etc. But what is the yoga practice doing? Not that yoga in the way of the sport, jumping, coming down, or doing the acrobatic. But we have to coordinate and understand our body, that gently we handle our body. And that's why the yoga in daily life is that one. If you really practice, then you must be very good. I had one disciple in Austria. On the first day when he met me, he was a very critical person, very angry, and so on, but somehow, in his heart and his brain, what I told about yoga, he caught it. And he died after long years, not suffering, a very soft, just solvent out. Two, three disciples. I have one, or one, two, three in the Czech Republic, maybe in Hungary, but there are many. It must not be only the practitioners of yoga in daily life, but those who were practicing gently, softly, and well. So, there were some schools, some ancient masters, but now it's a marathon. And so that is not yoga. So yoga is a science of body, mind, and soul. And don't compare as a sport, but some people are still, they have energy towards yoga, so they say sport. Okay, at least the sport's name, but practice. So we will practice. And there are some prāṇāyāmas which are good for the memory, to awake the memory, and that is in the books of the Garaḍa Saṁhitā and Śiva Saṁhitā, their yoga books, and many other yogīs who are researching about that. So in my tour, I began from India, and when I was teaching these certain techniques, I landed in Washington, America. There came one of my disciples; he's a psychiatrist, and now he's retired, but still he's working. He was a psychiatrist and he was a politician in the government. So when I gave this technique there, then after my lecture he said that in America, it's called Berkeley University, and they developed one instrument. They are researching very much about yoga at that university, and the Vedas and Upanishads, and this. So there is one machine, like an MRI. When you go under one machine, then it takes 10 to 15 minutes or 20 minutes, depending, and checks your body through the whole body. So they imitated from the yogic prāṇāyāma to these machines. And now they developed one small machine, just like this watch or clock, and they put it behind the brain, and they developed that sound of the prāṇāyāma, and they found that, first, the depression is gone. So, the people who have more depression should do that pranayama. Also, the memory again to bring up, because that vibration, the sound, again supplies better blood to the brain, and all tissues and all nerves become active again. It's like the Javan Bhajan of Mahāprabhujī, exactly the technique inside. And so that bhajan we often sing, and so also he said, still they are working, but in some cases the schizophrenia was helped, cured. Every game is from our brain, but the brain also needs the help of the other part of the body, and in that is this prāṇāyāma, what we call like Brahmari pranayama. And according to Mahāprabhujī's teaching, there are five different kinds of pranayama, Brahmari, and that we should learn so that it is a therapy also, long life, memories, etc. So I have asked this person. If there are some people who are losing and losing their memory, and sometimes they have no more memories, they put on a headset and then they give the sound. They open their eyes, and when somebody comes, they look. Those who have little memory, they don't care. But when the door is moving, then it looks like that, so again memory is coming back. So how these yogīs, at that time—and that's what yoga is, a science for long life, healthy life, happy life—yoga helps us. So we will do now the other program. So now we have three programs still. Don't sleep tonight. Siddhīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Dev Purīṣa Madhe Alak Purījī Madhe Satguru Svāmī Madhvānandjī Bhagavān Satya Sanātana Dharma.