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Oṃ bhakam yajāmahe sugandhim puṣṭivardhanam urvarukam eva vandanāt mṛtyormukṣīr māmṛtāt. Oṃ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ,... We are here, almost in the center of Slovakia, surrounded by beautiful hills, nature, and rivers. The climate is very good, and the people are very humble, kind, and beautiful. This city is a city of culture. In India, it is said: Vasudeva Kuṭumbakam—the whole world is one family. The whole world is the children of one God. For example, here in Martin, about 40,000 people live. Now, with the yoga children grown, it is 50,000. Every house is one family, and their friendship makes the whole street like one family. Wherever you go, if you say, "I am from Martin," you become one family. When you go out of the country, you say, "I am Slovak." Thus, the whole of Slovakia is one village, one country, one family. When you go to Australia, you say, "I am from Europe." Likewise, we are all one family of one God. It is said: if we believe we are one humanity, one family of this globe, then why do we have dualities? Why do we fight each other? Why are we separating? That is the question. But it is said there are no races. Scientists have also declared that there is only one race, and that is called human. The first human was in what we now call China, Tibet. Before that, it was India. Śiva was the first one, at Mount Kailāś. It is a holy mount; no one climbs there. Many people say, ask the mountaineers, they should climb Mount Kailāś. But the people who love mountains know where they should go and where they should not go. All climbers respect certain peaks of the mountains. That is the holy Mount Kailāś. If someone tries to climb it, when they come close to the roots of the mountain, they change their opinion: "No, I will not climb this holy mount." Śiva is the one who is called Svayaṃbhu. Svayaṃbhū means no one has created him—neither mother nor father. He himself manifested from the five elements. That is Śiva and Śakti, and creation begins. Sometimes people ask a question: who was first, the chicken or the egg? The answer is there: Śiva. He is the Svayaṃbhu. And Śiva is the author of yoga. He appeared in the posture of meditation, so meditation begins from there, aside from āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, etc. There is a unity between Śakti and Śiva. Many will not understand, but it does not matter. It is across ages and ages, many Satyugas. The roots of yoga are there. Now, those who are practicing yoga, who are coming to meditation, who try to get a mantra—that means definitely there is the essence of Śiva and Śakti in them. What is not there still will take time. There are two powers from the beginning of creation, and these are called two śaktis. Śakti means power. Your strength is your śakti. This is not about male and female. In spirituality, there is no duality of gender. Śakti means strength, knowledge. You will say, "Oh, this is a powerful, great minister, president." That is his power, his knowledge. Your car is a śakti. We used to call it how many horsepower—the strength of the horse. In India, when we start our car, truck, bus, tractor, or any kind of motor or machine in the morning, first we salute it. It is not a black belief; they know this motor is a power, your horsepower. This power is the Shakti. If you misuse that Shakti, the power can kill us in an accident. If you take care respectfully, you are running, you know exactly how to drive. That Shakti can save our life and bring us to our destination. Even the strength of any animal, the strength of the air, the strength of the fire, the strength of the water—this is all connected to the Śakti. That Śakti is controlled by Śiva, not with force, because Śiva himself is the Shakti. I do not mean a gender difference, male or female. That is a Shakti. Our champions—football champions, skiing champions, etc.—they practice and develop Shakti, this physical strength. But this Shakti has to be understood and cleaned. The steering wheel is the Śiva. Therefore, as much as a person becomes a great champion, 99% of the time their heart is very soft. They have great love inside because the Śakti is there, so there is a power, a balance between Śiva and Śakti. Small children also have great Śakti. The strength of the male is dwelling in the female, and the strength of the female is dwelling in the male. This is together, one, and that means energy. I am not comparing with this: here is sitting one boy and here is sitting one girl, or a man and a woman. No, the body, the energy, the power. Look at an aeroplane. I have traveled around the world already 48 times around the globe in aeroplanes. Just now, I was 14 hours in an airplane over the ocean. I was opening the window and said, "Maybe God is here." Is God high up somewhere? Nothing. Down, only water. Now look at the Shakti, the power of the human brain. That is a science. For how many years were they trying, trying... trying to create that engine and that plane which could fly like a bird, at a thousand kilometers speed. I said, "Oh, dear mother Śakti, bring me down safely. My bhaktas are waiting." That śakti, that energy, that technology is created by the human brain. So nothing is impossible, but we need concentration. We can achieve. Do not give up. Do not have a doubt. Now, a big engine aeroplane is a little longer than this, and how many hundreds of people? Our pilot came. He was not very tall. Some are bigger, some are little, Chinese, thin. He has a cap, everything—a pilot. I was thinking, I said, "Mahāprabhujī, please protect our pilot." Now he is our life. He just took off and smoothly will come exactly there where he should be landed, because that pilot has been studying, training, learning everything. And what is he doing? He goes to the toilet. He gets up, goes to the toilet. The co-pilot is there beside him, but he is not making any decisions. He is comfortably sitting in the toilet. I was waiting outside because he was the first. My heart was really... but this I mean, the Shakti, the knowledge, the training. So it is said, if you want to have something, then you must practice and practice and practice. Karat karat abhyās pyāre, jaḍmatī hot sujān. Rāsī kī āvat jāvat śil par paḍat niśān. This is one poem. Karat karat abhyās—while practicing and practicing, jaḍ mati hot sujān: a person who has not much knowledge can become the wise one. For example, a rope is made from some grass or from hair. Now they are making it also from plastic. But this rope made out of grass can cut the rock. A stone has strength. To break the rock, the rock has the strength to cut the rope. But when the rope is constantly, slowly going into the waterway and coming back, it rubs on the rock and cuts the rock. Water can cut the stone. Water has a very strong strength, and air can also cut the rock, can go through the rock. There is a call, one sand rose, the stone, the sand rose. In Africa, some countries, there are stones—sandy stones—and the wind is blowing and cuts that rock. It looks like our rose flower. I was in one country, and they took me into the desert, and we were collecting these sand roses. Which country? I forgot the name. I was there with our dear sister Anička Galovičová. She invited me there. Her husband was in the Czechoslovakian embassy. So that is why I am giving you the example, my dear. Practicing your prāṇāyāma—do not think that this is little power. It is a very strong power, so it can clean and remove many, many diseases from our body if we can systematically, slowly practice it every day. Do not say, and do not depend, that Swamiji will do it all. For so many years he did not do anything. He cannot do it. You have to do it. I give you the path, instructions, and techniques, but you have to practice. So this is your Shakti. Which Shakti you have, that is called willpower. Your willpower is your Śakti. This willpower should not be with anger, with hate, with jealousy. We have two kinds of śaktis, that is why. You are a śakti. Men and women both—I am not talking about gender. This śakti can kill ourselves also, or this śakti can protect us and others. Like that pilot, he saved our life, every passenger's life in the flight. Their life is in the hand of that one pilot. But if you want to break the windows and run out, that is not the pilot's mistake. So that Shakti of that pilot protects us, protects himself, and this flight we make so smoothly, you can sleep through everything. Now, the Shakti—so there are two kinds of Shaktis from the beginning of the creation, billions, trillions of years. There are two kinds of Shaktis: Daivī Śakti and Āsurī Śakti. Yes, my dear, yes. Our Daivī Śakti is a spiritual, divine Shakti. All who want to protect every creature, protect all our humanities, protecting our rivers, our lakes, oceans, mountains, forests, everything. Where you have protection in your heart, even if you see that someone made a mistake, but you have the energy of Daivī Śakti... Devī means the love of the mother to the child. Animal mothers also take great care of their children. So, Daivī Śakti—develop Daivī Śakti. Āsurī Śakti means that devils—it does not matter male or female—when there is hate, cruelties, ego, greed, anxiety, etc., etc., no love, hate, this is the Āsurī Śakti. Āsurī Śakti does not make a step towards spirituality. They hide. You know, there is some film; it is called "Vampires." When the sun rises, they go to sleep, and when it is dark, then they are awakened. All dangerous animals, including the reptilians, try to hide themselves in some cave or in darkness. The thieves also, when it is dark, then they come out. So āsurī śakti is always dwelling in the darkness of cruelty. And Daivī Śakti is when the darkness is gone, removes it, and light is there. The room is completely dark, or a cave in a mountain. We go in and we say, "Please, darkness, you are... how many years is this in this darkness, in this cave? Please, can you go, darkness, now away?" Darkness said, "It is my territory. No one can remove me. You can fight." Darkness will not go, but we just make a little light within, in no time, darkness is gone. Similarly, the darkness of ignorance—and then the ignorance, all these negative qualities will torture us, will bring illnesses in our body. It will never let you be happy. Always you will suffer because the darkness of ignorance is within thyself. As soon as you awake your inner knowledge, oh, light is there. You see everyone: my brothers, my sisters, my pets, my world. So, āsurī śakti and daivī śakti—we shall try to remove, get out of this darkness of ignorance, and come to the positive of the light. Never think that it will not come. Do not think, "I am old. I think now I have only a little years." No, do not depend on the lifetime. Your willpower—one second before death, you get enlightenment forever and ever. People will remember you, worship you, though you are not here, because of your light, because of your wisdom. So do not say nothing is possible. Everything is possible. So believe in this within thy heart, where we have two parts of the heart: it is Śiva and Śakti. We have two hemispheres of the brain: Śiva and Śakti. We have two eyes: it is Śiva and Śakti. We have two nostrils: Śiva and Śakti. Everything is working together. Again, my dear, I am not telling you about female and male. I am talking about that energy, that power. So there is a power which has to be utilized in our self. In our bhajan of our Gurujī, He writes about this body, the human body. Gurujī writes that 2,100 suns—we are living in this solar plexus, solar sun. But 2,100 suns, a real Siddha Yogī can go. And we are still nothing. But Siddhas, like our Alak Purījī, Dev Purījī, they can. They were, they are, and we all, from this yoga and daily life, are, but I am Maheshwarananda, we are connected to that light. Now, this solar energy in our body—there are many cakras, many centers, but I am touching today one, and we know that it is called the solar plexus. This is the subject of the doctors. I am not a doctor. I am not a scientist. I am not a technician. What can I do? Good eating, good drinking, and good sleeping. Hari Om. Anyhow, why do we call it the solar plexus? The solar is the sun. Modern science has developed solar panels, and we are gaining solar energy, electricity, hot water, etc. But it is solar. Now, the same we can compare in our body; that is called the solar plexus. Our soul enters our body, my mother's body. It comes as that solar light; it is called the sun ray. The sun ray is round, and its energy is very light, long. Recently, someone told me that some doctors or scientists were talking, and they said when the soul enters the body, when it comes, it is very, very long and very thin. Okay, I got it. I got it again, something. What I am talking about always, people do not believe. But what I see in my meditation, and this is how it is, round. Everything is round. Even the clouds, which have the drops inside, are also round. But the sun ray, and that sun ray is from the solar entering, joining, creating one solar plexus, and thereafter many, many organs, and this and this developing in us. So if we practice this sādhanā—sādhanā means practice—we may cure many diseases in our body. We should do this today, because someone said tons of theory is nothing compared with practice. If you can do this three times a day, eleven times, see what happens in your body. How will your diseases disappear? So, let us see if we can solve our problems. Why not? We will do this technique. We make a 10-minute interval because if you have pressure, then you should go and press it out. We finished the website webcast and gave a 15-minute release. Then we will begin our technique. Okay? Boda? Deep Nāma Bhagavānakī.