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Śubhaṁ karoti kalyāṇaṁ, ārogyaṁ dhana-saṁpada. Śatru-buddhi vināśāya, dīpa-jyotir namo ’stute. Dīpa-jyotiḥ parabrahma, dīpaṁ sarve mohanaṁ. Dīpān sajate sarvaṁ sandhyā dīpaṁ sarva-satyam. Oṁ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ... Salutation to Alakhpurījī, Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī and Gurujī, all holy saints, all dear ones, all aspirants. We are in a beautiful, world-famous city called Salzburg, which means "Salt Fortress." In the Bible, it is said, "Thou art the salt of the earth." Our dear Sambhā Devī was speaking about the tradition of garlands, or mālā, in India. But this garland tradition also existed in Europe; you have lost and forgotten it. You only do it at the time of what is called fasting. Also, in ancient India—I think it was in the Tretā Yuga, between Satya Yuga and Dvāpara Yuga—there was the story of Hiraṇyakaśipu and the festival called Holī. Holi is not a spiritual Holi, but Holi. There is a tradition: they take a tree, put it in the village, and decorate it with garlands. We see here in Europe what you call the Maypole tree, and that is coming now, for Holi. So the traditions in the whole world are more or less similar. If you go to Hawaii, Bangkok, Singapore, etc., they will give a welcoming garland to everyone. When tourist groups or even political delegates go to those countries, they are welcomed at the airport with this garland. Some countries have lost their traditions, and the loss of tradition is a loss of human humility, kindness, and respect. We have lost a lot of beautiful cultures around the world, and it has become some different kind of so-called new generation, new religions, etc. The country where we are today, Austria, has very beautiful cultures, but about 60% remain. And 25% of Austrians join the festivals, but only the name remains. More people adore, respect, and have an interest in coming to Austrian culture. One very good name left about Salzburg and Austria is from a great musician you know: Mozart. I was in Japan in 1973, sitting in a restaurant or tea shop. They already had glasses and electronic instruments on the tables, with games there, which we did not have much of at that time. So, we Austrians had many philosophers, musicians, and artists. The flowers died, but the fragrance remained. This ancient culture is somehow kept alive in museums, not because Austrians are going, but because tourists want to see. They have respect for their doors. The generation is changing, and culture—even spiritual culture—is changing. Even in religions, they are putting in other thoughts, other ideas, other ways, and this is a pity. But scriptures like the Vedas, the Bhagavad Gītā, and the Sanskrit scriptures remain, though humans have destroyed a lot. One of the oldest and first universities in India, when the Mughals came, they collected holy scriptures from all over India and burned them; all these books were burned for six months. So many scriptures were lost. I think it was 2150 years ago. Similarly, in spirituality and training practices like yoga, it is also manipulated. Therefore, there are fewer holy saints. Anyone can take on a colour; there is no problem. You can say you are a priest, a monk, a Swami, or this and that. But that tapasyā, that discipline, that austerity—no one, or very few today, can achieve it. There is only one sun which can make the light and remove the darkness. If one saint does tapasyā and gives up ego, jealousy, hate, conflict, and so on, then may we have that; otherwise not. Our practice we are doing only from time to time. There is also conflict about weather, climate, temperature, countries, etc. One has to come above all this. Then you can come to the Brahmaloka, or you come from Brahmaloka to here to give everyone that knowledge. But it is said we can digest everything, but the truth we cannot digest. We will go to lawyers and courts and everywhere to put the lie into the truth. But truth is the truth. We cannot digest it. It is very difficult to give. If you give, nobody will accept it. Or you have to die. Jesus was crucified, why? Because of the truth, many, many things. But if we can purify our inner qualities, then we can come. We are all beautiful pieces of gold in the wood, under the rocks. But to dig out all this, then the shining comes. We have it within us, but we have so many rocks, and we can’t dig out those rocks. I had a seminar this week in Slovenia, with a lecture and meditation evening. In the lecture, there was a meditation. I said, "Let’s imagine that you are sitting in a classroom, and there is a blackboard. Imagine." Close your eyes and imagine. In front of the blackboard, there is chalk. Now, you have to write on this blackboard those qualities which you should not tell anyone. It’s only for you, and nobody can read it, only you can read. So, write those qualities, characteristics. I don’t want to tell you whether you have it or not. I don’t want to tell you that. But honestly, can you digest your own truth? Don’t tell anybody. Write on the blackboard all your negative qualities which you know. Anger—you are writing, nobody sees, you are writing already. If you are angry, then... If you are not angry, just put a white line. So, mentally raise your hands up, that I am never angry. Second, offending. Something like this, that you are so offended. Like a bean we put in water, and in the morning it popped up. When someone tells you something, and it is not true, or maybe it is true but you cannot digest what someone said, you are offended. And when you are offended, it means that the beautiful ways we have are apart but deleted. We put the liquid inside; it is already flowing out. So, go ahead and write. Today, you have a chance to see the blackboard. Hate, greed, selfishness, krodha, lobha, moha. Please, today, spit it out on your blackboard. I don’t know how many blackboards you have here and how many will remain without writing. This is your inner master talking to you. This is a training with your inner master. It is that sitting in you, but that poor master has no chance. You are already so offended, angry, and jealous. So, the inner master has no chance. Some people are so angry they cannot digest. So, this is the first mahā training, the first training for humans. Animals also have certain jealousy. Animals are also angry; they are also selfish. They can be that way, too. But some qualities the animals don’t have. And humans try to create that quality. I think yesterday I was talking somewhere—I’m talking everywhere, so many lectures—and that is this: humans are so weak towards your beauty. We try to put on different haircuts, different face paint, and this and that. Do any animals make this? They have, by nature, already so beautiful. Every bird, every animal, every cobra, every snake, every creature. We are also one creature. God gave us already, but you are destroying that beauty which God is giving. Remain natural as it is. You will be very healthy and very beautiful. But no, you are not content. So when you are not content, then please destroy it, hurry home. God said, "Okay, go ahead. That’s it." And when you are painting your eyebrows and eyelids and this and that, then after a few months, you yourself look at how ugly you are. Quickly, quickly, you make something, no? So this is our sādhanā when we do it, whether we are for yoga or for spirituality. Spirituality does not match with our, what you call a word... aithā, no, not aithā, aithok aithā, yeah, tas is tas. So now you do the meditation, you make your mantra, you have the mālā, but look, where is your vṛtti? Where is your vṛtti? So your concentration is not on this blackboard to write, but your concentration is perhaps looking outside; someone is coming, but still he is not here. Where is your vṛtti gone? So, we have our aim to come to a higher level. But you have to obey your inner master. The inner master is not easy to obey. Because you can so manipulate, so manipulate, you manipulate your master inside. Yeah, sometimes we are saying, "Nah, yeah, okay." Myself, I came sitting in an airplane, and they said, "Gurujī, your master, Swāmījī, you see, it’s a very nice ice cream." Then my inner master said, "No," and the master said, "No." Because why? But who is sitting with me? The Umbapurī is sitting next to me, and you can have ice cream, yes? So I have to endure, I will endure this pain of the injection because of my tongue, the indriyas of my test. They said, "Okay, let’s have an ice cream." This is a weakness in us. So, how can we remove the weakness? And then, so offended, so angry, so crying, so this, so emotional, then what are you? We are only on the surface. So the tradition, which was all the time, was a great discipline. That was the duty of the parents, to give that kind of education to the boys and the girls, their children. And they had that kind of education. But now, parents lack that quality and that education, so they cannot educate the children. If you all, parents here sitting, some of you have a problem with your children because the children are already 14 years, 12 years, 15 years old, and they are addicted to drugs. And if you tell them, they will shout at you. And they will say, "Parents, you are the guilty." You are guilty that my life is like this. So, the children are blaming the parents. Though we should blame the children, they are a product of the negative society. But why did the negative society develop? Okay, your child is not, but the other child is. Every parent, if they take care of their children, will make this world different again. But parents have no interest, parents have no knowledge, and parents cannot do, and they say, "Just let them do what they want." Similarly, it’s in spirituality. People will do sādhanās, a little bit of this and that. Okay, Swamiji is telling, and we’re hearing something that may be good or not, but we are living in this country. Our culture is different. Okay, we don’t want to make Swāmījī unhappy. So we tell him, "Yes, but we have to do our culture." Which culture have you now? This is a spoiling culture, isn’t it? That’s not good. So, our inner temple, we should know what we want. We want to come out of this circle of birth and death, birth and death, birth and death. Is there anywhere happiness? Is there anywhere joy? Hey, is there anywhere where there is no troubles, no sufferings, no anger, no sadness? And now, the wedding is a misconception. I don’t agree with this anymore. So, better you should not marry. When you marry and then divorce, you will have double problems. The child will also be suffering. Yes, this, here. So, therefore, okay, let’s go like other creatures are living and going, Hari Om Tat Sat. Where is that? Yes? Do you think that your spirituality will be like that? No. So, if we do the higher weight on this, then we have to follow the bitterness. So, instead of the ice cream, we can drink a little bitter... vihaisthastha is bitter, and kroḍa is bitter. Lemon, bitter lemon. Oh, that’s not very lemon. Neem, you don’t know what is bitter. Bitter lemon is okay, it is very tasty, very good. But the neem. So, but what is bitter? You said people in Europe, I didn’t learn in India. Here they said always, but bitter is gesund. Hey, then why don’t you take the bitter? You say, "No, no, I’m healthy." You shall take it; it’s good for you. So, we have no willpower. And who influenced you? From where do you take negative energies? Where are you changing the things? Yes? Yes? So our health should be so good that our car, we don’t need to change any, any, how do you say, all the, any parts. We have that part. We don’t need to change parts, right? Change, no. Right, right, always take care: lubricate, gasoline, oil, water, right. Then your car will be with you until the end. But your, all the, the world is forgotten. What is that? No, car, sorry, it didn’t matter. It doesn’t matter. So, the whole motto, what is it? How do you say it? No, no... you see, that is that. That is very interesting. What I think, your head doesn’t understand. And what your head thinks, my head doesn’t understand. That is that. So it’s okay. It’s very simple. Everyone knows the mechanism, all in all. Very, but it’s a good word, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, doesn’t matter. It doesn’t have to be. But it’s like this, when we don’t pay attention to our joints and this and that, then one part gets broken, and this one part has to be exchanged. But when we paid attention to our hip joints, our knees, we ate little butter. Purījī, Purījī... There was no hip problem at that time. And now every second person has knee, hip joint, or back problems. If not this, then the shoulder. Yes, the part of the body is like our car. And so is our sādhanā, our meditation. And practice your things. Healthy exercises. Do not run here and there. Just have a healthy practice, that’s all. But you are doing the healthy and good practice, but your quality is not good. This anger is destroying your inner organs. Your hate is destroying your brain. Your greed, greediness destroys your liver. Yeah, many, many, many things, because that is suffering within us. Through yoga, if we bring this all in harmony and achieve freedom, that’s it. If you are not content, Hari Om Tat Sat. So your own sorrow, your own hunger, and this and that makes you ill and kaput, and fast death. But fast death is very good, but fast death means you will suffer for a very long time and suffer and suffer, pain and pain and pain. What can the doctor say? He gives you a tablet of painkillers, but this... The capsule that we take against pain has more effects, other effects on our life. So, prāṇāyāma, and every day, three times, eleven rounds of Om singing. It is unbelievable how beautiful it is, and all our organs become completely new again. But singing the right Oṁ, yes, right. One in the morning, one in the afternoon, and one in the evening. Eleven rounds is not too much, but with an empty stomach, before the meal. Do it right in the morning; that’s okay. Later, we eat, but before we sleep, check your arms. See how much contentment comes into your body and your organs, into everything. So that was the question. This conversation came about the mālā. So this mālā, why this mālā? Why do we give flowers? So, it was the mala, but then they said, "Okay, we can only give two flowers," that is also a flower. So, a mālā costs more, a flower costs less. So, we went slowly, slowly, slowly. Others say, other yogīs say, the Jainas, and they say, "No, please, don’t bring flowers and no mālā." Leave the flowers where they are. They will stay there longer. Swami Vivekananda, there was nothing for someone to give the mala or take the flowers away from the plants. Yes? It is very beautiful. It is very beautiful. So, everyone has it, and it is true. All right, so now we will... So, did you write? And now you have to close your eyes and look upon how many points you have written on your blackboard. Okay, on your blackboard, visualization, Vidyā, close your eyes, relax, and if you can’t close your eyes, it means you are the guilty one, that you cannot see your, these qualities. Why I said on blackboard, white writing, it means all black spots from your Hṛdayākāśa, make it into the white. Letters mean you turn negative into positive. We shall chant the Śānti Pāṭha: Asato mā sad gamaya. Fold your palms and rub your palms. Place your hands on your face and open your eyes. Move your hands, bend forward, and place your forehead on the floor. Ground, relax, normal breath. Om. Come up, relax. Hari Om.