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Sādhana means practice, and this practice often changes. It changes according to our physical condition. We are becoming day by day younger towards the other world. So we are slow in this world so that we can remain long here on this earth. There are different kinds of anuṣṭhānas, or trainings. Some are more physical. There are also anuṣṭhānas involving fasting. For some, fasting is not advised because of their body condition. When one is about 110 years old, our fasting will be different. When we are 108 years old, we will have a little overthinking. We should think about whether we should do this śīrṣāsana or not. The śīrṣāsana, headstand, has many good benefits, mostly for the brain. It supplies more blood toward the brain. More blood does not mean the whole skull is full of blood now, but it means the circulation is better. Many people are yoga practitioners. We should not always tell only yogīs. Actually, yoga practice is more for normal people. It is for the daily rotation of their everyday activities. So, āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, concentrations, dhāraṇā, dhyāna—all this is very important for the householder. To keep our body fit, day by day or every year, new technologies are coming. That is also very good, but certain exercises for body building are not for long life. Here, long life means not that you will not live long. You will live long, and I wish you that you will have a long life. But certain movements and exercises are connected to our age. Simple movement, simple walking, this is for everyone. Concentration is needed by everyone. Meditation is for everyone to calm down and be free from stress. We see now in this civilization, these people, new life, new age—thank you—they are changing. It is okay, but day by day there is stress, and stress is a factor of disturbance or restlessness in the family. In past times, they were searching for family. And now they are searching to go away from the family. So there is already a division. There are some difficulties. So if you practice yoga, there is a seat. There is one very nice, very nice bird. Who is happy? Who is happy, who is without stress, is called Pahalasuknī Rogī Kāyā. So, good health is the best treatment for all other diseases. But good health is nowadays very hard to get. Good health in old days, before 200 years, 500 years, etc., there were not all these facilities and technology, and so at that time they did not have this, but they were happy. They were healthy, they were comfortable, they had everything. Now we have everything, but we are not happy. We have no good relations. Everything becomes a lonely person. So yoga will bring us back again. So, Pellasukh Nirugyikaya, the first Sukha, happiness is not only Sukha. The word Sukha we don't have in the German language, or in the English language, or in Western European languages; I didn't find any. That word which is really perfect. A very simple example, very simple. I'm a simple person, thanks to God, that I'm simple. You know the country called Slovakia? In Slovakia, there is one part we call the food, and we make what we call this. That is, of course, butter. This is one dish, and that's called Haluski. And more, because the Haluski is more tasteful, is that particular cheese. And that cheese there is a very good one. I was in Australia, and they were also making the brinja, but it's not that. Or you make it somewhere else; it's not. Because this has very particular qualities, and this and that are not anywhere else. Climate also. Certain things are in the climate. We have very nice soil and very good conditions here in Hungary. Perfect. God bless this country. But still, we can't grow the mango. And we can try to have a mango in some glass house, but it is not that. So, sukha, there is no word. We can say pleasant, pleasure, happy, comfortable. But still, that is not the sukha. I've been looking for the last 48 years in Europe or in the Western countries, and there is not a single word which is matching. So we said happiness, comfort, but not sukha. So what we said then, finally, how to translate or something, we said, "Among the blind, the one-eyed is king." Rozumis, understand. All are blind. But one person, thanks to God, that one eye was there. So we choose that as a king. So similarly, sukha is not there. So, what we say, this translation is happy, or this second beautiful word is something very good, and that is matching something: śāntoṣa nitya sada sukhi. Again, śāntoṣa, śāntoṣa means here. The word that we are, I have forgotten in English, the content. A content person is ever happy. Again, sukha. So there is no other word. Śāntoṣī nārśada sukhi, who is always content, is always happy. And who is not content about this or that, then there will be imbalance. So now this again comes, that in this time of the modern world, no one is content. Always, desire is growing. There is one person who has no money at all. And someone gave a thousand forints, so he is happy. But he thinks this thousand is too little. So in one month, he or she is working and getting money. So, one million forint, but this is also too little. So he or she is getting more money. And let's say we are counting now in the pound. Or while we go to the pound, we come to the crown. Well, even the one who has billions is more hungry and more searching to get more money. You have one house, but you want to build one house more, one more near some lake or beach, one house somewhere in the forest, one house in some other country, or in your nice apartments. In the Vape, though you have a beautiful house in Sambadhe, and there you come to the Vape, but still we are not content. We want to have one more, so this one has no end. Desire has no end. So this desire is getting stronger and stronger, but the capacity is getting less and less. So people, all the time they were very healthy, happy families, and good house and good food and everything, time will come very soon. That person can be congratulating, oh, 50 years old, 50 years old, yes. The humans are getting less and less and less age, though we have many, many medicines, hospitals, this and that. Therefore, if we can tell to ourself, tell yourself. Try to reduce many, many, many desires, or many things that you want to have. Recently, we had one by my bhakta or friends, half of our friends, an old couple. They have a house in India. They had a flat in Vienna, they have a house somewhere in America, a neighbor's house, one more, and one never knows how many houses there are. Because he was a high officer in the U.N. Now they are old. They were good friends of the Līlā and Bhakti. And now that they are an old couple, each step climbing is like measuring exactly if it is good or not. Like a gold man, he weighs exactly the gold, you know, how many grams. Is this life here or this side? And so the old people, from one step to the other step, they are measuring exactly. Now they sold the flat, and how many trucks they had of things. And they want to sell it, but no one wants to buy. They were not ready to take it away without money. And to remove the things away also costs them money. But still, still their heart didn't want that someone takes freely. Or we are throwing. So, that is as many things we have, that many sorrows we have. And, in the same way, there were the days when I came from different countries and brought very nice souvenirs. New people always give me some presents. So my flat is like a very big supermarket. And now I call them the dust collector. All dust collects there. I am old, my memory is getting slow. I come back after one world trip, then they have a chance, the Mānasa Devī and Līlā and Bhakti and these people, 35% of things they reduce. I don't know where it's gone, and I don't know if it was something there or not. And one day I saw in the Lilla shop some nice ones. I said to Mansa Devi, "This is beautiful, we should take it." So now I'm thinking that if my flat will be empty, to make it empty, I will need really two trucks. Therefore, I tell you, all young boys and girls, you should have a flat, but you should have one or two beds, and five chairs, one table, and five cutleries, what we call the spoons and this and that. Don't collect anything. Don't bring anything into the house, girl. Your flat should look like today's was just built. So get rid of it. Otherwise, we'll be fighting more. Now, why am I telling this story? Because this is the cause of our problem. Big problem. And in very beautiful ways, you got from your journey, which was expensive, but expensive. It was 45,000 euros. Nowadays, why is it 45,000 euros? It's nothing. In the last 10 to 15 years, somehow the money went down. The money didn't go down anywhere. Money was there, but it was mentally somehow manipulated. Anyhow, the wife bought a very nice vase, so many thousand euros. Husband was not so happy, but he cannot say anything. And one day, mistakenly, the waves fall down, unfortunately, from this man. And can you imagine what treatment gave his wife to her husband? It was for my birthday. It was this. So many, many years, again and again, saying, "So if you have a problem..." If you don't have it, you have a problem. Therefore, get this attachment away and begin to practice yoga. The best, what we call the souvenir, is our good health. The best souvenir: save your hair so that it doesn't always go out. You know, I had such strong hair I could pull myself up, and now I count my hair every day. So you will say, "Why is Swamiji so long in the bathroom?" But I have to count how many are here. So practice yoga, nourishment, śīrṣāsana, sarvāṅgāsana, these beautiful āsanas. I guarantee you, one year, one and a half hours per day, practice Sāravittāsana only and Nāḍī Śodhana Anuloma Viloma. Minimum one and a half hours. Hundred percent. And next year in seminar when you come, you will see how healthy, how happy, and how relaxed you are. If you are taking some medicines, you can reduce half of that. In five years, you can completely reduce. Except some, which the doctor said you have to do. So yoga is really the life for the human. And that's what we should practice every day. So, śāntoṣī nārśada sukhi. Śāntoṣī means who is content. A person is ever and ever happy. So how are you going to become content? To whom am I talking? To myself, I am not content. Say the truth. Because one is not practicing properly, this is like that, the next day is like this. So I am not content. But then my inner self said, "Don't worry." It will be okay. It's very easy, but still, something is boiling inside. And this is not good, so we have to learn to come back to ourself. And to ourselves, it means that we know that the peace which you have within you, you will give to others also. If you are content, then your neighbors will also become content. If you've said, "Yes, I have enough," others will also have enough. Otherwise, in this modern world, this hectic world, that is the cause of many, many, many diseases. So, can we as practitioners of yoga in daily life make a saṅkalpa that we will, through this yoga in daily life, bring the waves of good health? In family too, some are more fanatic. There was, or there is still, one lady. She is very humble, very kind, very exact, and disciplined and practicing. I don't want to say the name. And her husband would like to come to yoga. And he wants to come to yoga in his life. But she said no. So he may practice at home. But also, she said no. What to say? I want to come to satsaṅg. She said no. You cannot come to Swamījī's satsaṅg because you are eating meat. You cannot touch my yoga book because you eat meat. He loves her, and she also loves her. So you should not be like that. Maybe one will change slowly, slowly. So, we are not all perfect, and if we were perfectly perfect, we couldn't die anymore. Oh God! Can you imagine we are two yugas sitting still here? I don't want to be. Some yogīs sitting here still. And they will say, "Swamiji, Brahmaloka?" I said, "It is two yugas." I'm sitting here, I don't know how the Brahmaloka is. So let's go to see other lokas. Content, happy, come back. Practice, practice, practice. So Sarvabhūtāsana, it doesn't matter if you are a practitioner with the best postures; you should do that also. But finally, you will come back to the Sarvabhūtāśana. So don't lose this practice. Practice, practice, practice. So one anuṣṭhāna, one sādhanā, is a physical one, and that means all physical exercises, our nourishment, our behaviors, our society, etc. And that is changeable. But then there is one sādhanā that is sure and permanent, and it must be, and it should have that sādhanā. And day by day, that sādhanā will bring our consciousness higher. And that is, it is said, "Sab sajye sab jai," or whenever you try many, many techniques, you will get lost in everything. And one day, you will be perfect. And that is called mantra. It doesn't matter if you are young, old, or ill; anything. It is your mantra, that is, that anuṣṭhāna, that sādhanā, that will bring us to perfection. God will not say, "How many kilos do you have still?" or, "Why are you too thin? What were you eating?" and so on. But God will see that purification of the name, each mantra is one step towards the Supreme. So finally, for anyone who wants to do the sādhanā, spiritual development, then mantra. And that mantra is the pillar of the devotion. When the devotion is gone, your mantra is gone. Then again, your previous karmas will come back to you, because until you have not completely purified, you cannot say, "I will stop." You can stop, but it will be again. And so, don't give up. People somewhere between give it up, then they see again their previous karmas, the last life karmas, again will come and attack you. And then it gives that kind of feeling that I lost all that I could have, and again I have these problems. Let's say, because I was only practicing yoga. Yeah, at that time you were happy, but when you give up, then okay, you will have this side your tiger, this side your lion, this side your cat, this side your mouse, this side your car, all this will come around you. And this means that when you practice and do your sādhanās, mantras, and bhakti, it doesn't matter which belief you have, which god you believe in, or which mantra you have. It must not be only the Indian mantra, Indian guru, and Indian god. When you talk about India, all gods are there. That's why it's called India. You know, someone was told about this yesterday. I told even something, no? Where did I give the example? Here, about a golden telephone, no? Day before yesterday I told, no? So what is India? The whole world is India, okay? One man said, "I am the richest of the rich." Everybody, he said, I am very rich. He said, "How rich are you? All the banks of the whole world are mine." I don't need to go to my bank and take money, no, I don't need anything, but all banks are mine. So mentally I use it, I am very rich, all banks are mine. But if you are content and happy, then everything is yours. All of you are my friends, and maybe someone knows. It doesn't matter. So, the whole world is a Hungarian. Okay. Everywhere, you know, in any country you go, there is a Hungarian. Anywhere you see Hungarian, anywhere. So, more Hungarians are outside than in the country. That's it. So we are everywhere. It means everything is this Hungary. Because this is also the earth, we are on this planet. Only our thinking is my hunger. Tell your heart, what are you? I am one earth. Are you Hungary? No. So there is no Hungary. There is no India. There is no Germany. No Austria. We made it. And who died? You think that he will come again back to Hungary? In the Second World War, how many people were suffering and died? They were fighting for their country, and they were fighting against the other countries because that country is my enemy. The person died, and he was born in that country where he didn't like. Okay. So now you are fighting from that country to your parents' side. This is the ignorance of the humans. Then there will be peace in the world, when we don't fight with each other from one country to another. We have our own skin on our own body, we have our own dress on our own body, and we have our own house for our families. But it does not mean that other families are not good. Therefore, peace is within ourselves. And there is our sādhanā, our spirituality. So finally, with us will go our mantra, our spiritual practices. If you believe or you don't believe, just belief does not change anything. You have to see the reality, and that reality is in your heart. Your mantras, so be content, and that's why it is said, the sādhasukhī, that person who is content is always happy. So we say practice, practice, practice. Keep your attention and your devotion on your mantra. And if you are not practicing properly, then you will have doubt from time to time. And the doubt, we should take it out. Because the doubt is something like sand in the food. Food is very good, tasteful, but there are some sand stones. So that we should clean out. So let us begin with our kriyānusthān, and tomorrow we have one more group. Some want to practice very advanced postures. So, what are all these advanced postures? Will come to that hall, and then they will choose one of them as a guide. So tomorrow is frantic check tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow is the... Here come another is the Parameśwar permanent, and the other is the Kṛṣṇānand. So because they are... Advanced, so from advanced there is no advanced, so they will come together and say, "Okay, we practice today five āsanas. Okay, friends, now we will do this." That's called self-mastery. Let them feel they are all professors. They are all deans. So you cannot teach the dean, the dean of the university. But they can give some lectures, why not? So this beautiful group, doesn't matter male, female, all young, doesn't matter. And see how it will function, how disciplined you are then. Very okay, this is an experiment, a good idea. And then there are very powerful postures, exercises, called the simple exercises. And for them, there is one teacher. And in order to enjoy, go for a while, don't remain forever, okay? Come back again. Kriya Yoga. And so there will be Umā Purī. She will bring you to somewhere in Brahma Loka and come back again, okay? And a person like me is not fit anywhere. No one takes me, so I stay in my flat there. Okay? I am nowhere fit. Okay. So I wish you all the best. So these two sādhanās, our worldly and physical sādhanā, and the other is our spiritual sādhanā, and that is, don't break again. Keep your mantra and keep your devotion. Sādhānā is like a snake's moving, and that spiritual sādhānā is when a snake sees his hole. He's not going like this. He's going inside. Yes, so you all have mantras and your path, so you should go straight forward. Don't change any techniques. Thank you.