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Sab-bhakta-prabhu-saraṇa-pā, nam om namah-śrī-prabhu-dīpa nārāya, om namah-śrī-prabhu-dīpa. Om Namah Śrī Prabhu Dīpanārāyaṇam. ... Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī. Devādhi Dev, Deveśvar Mahādev. Satguru Swāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī. Om Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. We are in a beautiful park. We are in the forest, in the lap of Mother Nature. Every year we enjoy sitting under these beautiful trees, and I think the trees also wait and look forward to our coming. Such good air, good prāṇa, is rare nowadays. Going to the beach is so restless, with so much music playing till midnight, sometimes the whole night. On a nice, cool, peaceful night, that music travels far, up to 20 kilometers along the beach. There are many trees, birds, and other creatures there. For them, life is like a horror with such loud music that often birds drop their eggs before they are complete. But here, where we are sitting, we are very blessed. It is indescribable. One cannot pay so much money to have an experience like this every day. At the same time, we are all here with beautiful thoughts. No one is offended, angry, or restless. We all support each other, and in our hearts we have clarity, purity, harmony, peace, and love. We also have our Yoga in Daily Life, which is very beautiful. We have spiritual development; we are learning yoga. It is said in the Bhagavad Gītā: "Yoga karmasu kauśalam"—yoga will be successful through our practice and karma, through doing action. We have that practical spirit. When we ask anyone to do something, they are all ready, they run to do their duty. What more can you give? This is the sign of a good soul, a good ātmā, a good heart, and good thoughts. We have our spiritual sādhanās and our spiritual lineages. We have opened a wide space connected from Brahmaloka till now. The evidence is that beautiful river Alaknandā. When you come to the Alaknanda, bring some water, mix it with more clean water, and you can use it often. With our spiritual development, our good sādhanās and mantras, we are very happy and relaxed. We are fortunate that in such a Kali Yuga environment, we are here, born in this Kali Yuga yet untouched by its actions. What can we do more than this? God gave us a healthy and good human body. We should understand what human life means, what humans should do and should not do—the way of living, nourishment mostly, and not fighting each other. We shall create peace in the world. Every country is our country, like our neighbor's village. We trust our neighbor; if we go somewhere, we can give our keys to them. This is how we imagine peace in the world nowadays. I can tell you that our Yoga and Dalai people never criticize others, never fight with others, and really try to do good things for others. Of course, you have to be very careful because you can get the negative virus. Sometimes when we are very good, someone can attack us, as I told yesterday. There are many people—I don't know whose, I don't want to tell—who will stop you on a highway or in a market and begin to tell you something spiritual. You can listen, no problem, but you should know if it is clear. Out of 8.4 million creatures, one is the human. Understand: "I am a human." Often I tell people, in the morning when we get up, we should say, "I am a human." Just by saying this one word, you are diagnosing your whole body—your psychic, your mind, your consciousness, the whole quality of being human. Then, being human, we cannot harm others. Therefore, the whole day you have good actions. For example, if someone is doing something wrong, causing pain or killing someone, we say, "It is not human." In German they say, "Es ist nichts menschlich." But how many pigs are they killing every day? They use everything from that pig: the blood, the fat, the coat, and the bones. Similarly, if they began to kill us like that... Now they have machines where they send a pig in one side, and in 15-20 minutes it comes out as a sandwich. The machine cuts and processes. Poor animals suffer very much. We are vegetarians, and we can't see someone killing like that. From my experiences—more of my life is here in Europe than in India—I see that European people have much mercy in their heart. They have so much love and understanding. But the killing for food is done in such a hidden way; they don't see the situation of torturing and killing. If they saw, they would never eat. It is said, "Next life you will be a pig." Now we don't know: is that pig which was killed you before, when you were a pig? I don't know. Karma is karma, destiny. We have to become free from destinies. We love humans, and we love other creatures. God gave this human body. More, God cannot give anything. This is what He gave us—everything. And still, we don't understand that it is our karma. So you will go back again, like on a football field. There are two parties, two groups: eleven and eleven. (Twelve? I didn't count, but I think so.) All are trying very hard. But who is the winner? They make a festival; others go back sad. But when no one is a winner, when no one reaches a goal, then both are equal. They hug each other. So let us hug each other, okay? We don't say, "Only I'm the winner." This body... our doctors and technology understand many things about our body, but still they cannot make that one thing which God or nature could have done. You can make some kind of changes in these trees with chemicals, but still they cannot create one tree like this from nothing. Gurujī has written many bhajans. He said, "My brothers, my coach is wonderful." Why is it a coach? Because it is movable, and we are also movable. So our body is our bungalow, but not a fixed bungalow—it is a coach, a movable house, a mobile house. Our body is that movable building. "Oh my brothers, oh sādhus, my coach is very wondrous." In which I said many times—"I said many times" means I was born, I went again, I came back again, I went again. This means we have had many human births. God will not just throw us in the garbage. But when we have done many, many sins, then finally He has to send you somewhere else. In the Mahābhārata, there was one who was very much against Kṛṣṇa, shouting and so on. The Pāṇḍavas said, "Why don't you kill him? That's a rākṣasa." He said, "Yes, I'm counting." "What are you counting?" His mistakes, failures. When there are that many, then I can do something; otherwise, not. Like your police here: you give something to the police, and they say, "No, sorry, we can't do anything. But first, if one kills you or puts a knife in your stomach, then I can do something, yes." And so with Kṛṣṇa also: "I am counting then." He was counting: one, two, three, four... and completed. Then the Sudarśana Cakra went and destroyed the Rākṣasa. So God or destiny is waiting. Forgive, forgive, forgive. Doesn't matter. It's okay. He or she will learn. In God, there is no he and she, no gender dualities. The soul is a soul, and God is taking care of that soul. This soul should come into a comfortable coach, a comfortable house. All these houses are nothing. You think, "This is my house?" That is a lie. "That's my cottage?" It's a lie. Then what is mine? This body is a house. This is the house where you are living: sleeping, walking, working, thinking, eating. Everything is in this house—not our car, not our camping, not my building. And God gave other creatures their houses too. "I can, many times in this body..." So Gurudev comes again and again to bless us for the sake of bhaktas, for the sake of those divine souls. "The captain will bring your boat slowly, slowly, but sure, in which I was sitting. Again and again, how fine was my body." There are some people who feel so bad under their skin they say, "I want to die." Don't worry. Peel it out. There are some people like that because those are also karmic thoughts, yes? And this one has to come through under the human skin. It will be okay. That is a training; that's called tapasyā. This coach, which I have—our body—is carried by ten horses. Kṛṣṇa had only five horses, but Gurujī said we have ten horses. Take care of your horses: clean them, wash them, feed them. Which are these five horses? These are the five indriyas, the five senses: the jñānendriyas and karmendriyas. This coach is pulled by these indriyas. You want to eat. Let's say the best is always ice cream. You are sitting here, but your tongue, svādendriyas, is pulling you to go to the ice cream shop and eat. Bring it, doesn't matter how. Why not? Sweet, good, pleasant. Okay, it's not a sin, but this sense, this feeling, is called the karmendriyas—that means desire. So these are the five horses of desire: all kinds of desires about money, eating, properties, husband, wife, going swimming, good dress, good eating, good shoes... many, many things. And it's still not enough. Every time you cut your hair... sometimes cut off, only sometimes, only like that. Sometimes hanging like this, sometimes crack railing like this. This is a desire: "I want to be beautiful. I want to be beautiful." You are very beautiful. Who said you are not beautiful? Don't tell God. Don't blame God, because God has made everyone beautiful in different ways. Everyone is so beautiful. But you have conflict with yourself because you see others as different. Someone says, "But my nose is a little bit like this." That's a beautiful nose, like a papaya... a parrot. Oh, the parrot is so nice. And some say, "My nose is up like a zebra." How nice. The zebra has a big nose so more air goes in when he is running; he needs more air. God has made something. He knows why He does like that. Let's say you get cosmetic surgery and cut this nose and put another nose there. Lifelong you will be unhappy. "Oh God, my own nose was more beautiful than this." So God... God is in all creatures, and everyone is different. But still we have desire, and therefore God gave desires. Because without desires, you will not do anything; you will not do any karmas. Therefore, five horses. These are the horses of desire, and they let you dance. Your desires will let you dance, play many games: "I like this, I don't like that, I want to have this," everything. So, these are the five horses of desire, and the five horses of jñāna. Jñānendriyas. Jñāna is knowledge. These give us information from the external world, and we learn everything through these five senses. Through our vision, eyes, we can say, "Ah, this is a beautiful old tree. This one is a young tree." Muktamani is sitting, and she has a very nice white trouser and yellow Yogananda life shirt. I don't know, is she here somewhere? I don't know the example and Rādhā. She has black glasses. Where is she? Why not? It's good. God made everything so good. But this is the knowledge: listening. If for one year you can't hear anymore, you are deaf. It's so unpleasant. Always you say, "What did you say? Oh yeah, tell me this now." So God gave a perfect balance of the ears near the brain. He could have given these two ears on our thighs. Similarly, our nose: smelling, prāṇa and smell. Thanks to God He didn't give the nose somewhere down here, under the armpit. God gave the nose at a higher level so good air comes there. And if God didn't give the sound, you can't speak. Karma yoga. So these are the ten horses: five karmendriyas and five jñānendriyas. These five jñānendriyas and karmendriyas are the ten horses. They pull our coach, our body, that side, this side. And what a wonderful walk that was. These horses, every horse has different movements. One has high shoes, others have different shoes. Yes or no? Everyone, let us dance. One like that, one like this. "Yes, I want to go now to Hawaii." Who is pushing you to Hawaii? That horse—desire. "No, I want to go now to the Adriatic coast, one of the best swimming coasts in the world." I'm not making an advertisement, but it is. Sure, how nice. There are no high waves, no high fees. But now in the holidays, it becomes a horror: very dirty, very noisy—a mistake of the humans. So I will tell you, do not go at this time. Go in the winter. Ah, nice cold water. Peaceful, no music. And the water is cleaner, so clean like a tear of the peacock bird. The pure water is like pearls. And the pearls are so clean, like the tears of the peacock bird. (Peacocks have no tears, and you can't see the pure bird.) Anyhow, so these are the ten indriyas. They are yours. They are all pulling your body. So, knowledge and desire. These five jñānendriyas are the only five through which we have learned everything. There is no sixth jñānendriya. This is in our yoga science, Vedānta philosophy, etc. Thus, Gauḍa tells about Ajabchalapara, how every horse has its own movement. Some people, through Jñānendriya, like to learn and read and read... and read. There are many who cannot sleep without reading something. Gulabjī Kotharī, you know, his father was also here, Kapurchenjī. We were together in Debrecen, staying in a hotel, and there was nothing to read. So he found an old newspaper somewhere under the cushions. He took it and read it. Luckily, it was in English, not Hungarian. He got very good information. He put the paper down and brought it to me in the morning at breakfast. "Look, Swāmījī, about something Hungarian or international news." He said, "It's my habit. Anything, even a piece of newspaper, I would like to read something, and then I can sleep nicely." Mother Lakṣmī, Sarasvatī, the Śakti... Sarasvatī is the goddess of wisdom; knowledge is with her. Many good things are with those devīs. She is the goddess of knowledge, but still she has one book in her hand all the time. It means in learning there is no end. Reading something, gaining knowledge, is always more and more, good and good. So our jñānendriya should always be clean because there can be manipulation. You can be given negative information or good information. If you have pure spirituality in your vidyā, in your jñāna, even if someone is wrong or makes a mistake, you have viveka. You will go to that person and tell them and make a correction, but not explode everything. Then it means that is not a Jñānī. Jñānī means the knowledgeable one; jñānī bīn means full, that's it. So these are the ten horses—indriyas as horses. The horse is a very holy animal in this creation. Only one is a male; only one is the horse. Male, others are females. They have quality: male, female. Women have male qualities, and males have women's qualities. Every creature which is born as a baby has a sign of the chest. So you are a father, but you have the chest. The buffalo have it, the goat have it, the cow have it—everyone. But the horse does not. Yes, that is that, and therefore it's called Pūrṇa. The horse is the Pūrṇa. The horse is very holy, very loyal. Don't kill them. Don't eat them. Don't torture them. Yes, they are beautiful. Anyhow, so these are all ten indriyas, which are ten horses. If the horses are not trained, they can be very wild. If you train them, they can be very good. So, how does everyone have their walk? Buddhi—intellect, positive intellect—buddhi, and lagam? What you give in the mouth of the horse? What do we say in English? That is the lagam, the controlling bit. So, okay, so buddhi, our intellect, is controlling these ten horses. So when you make a mistake, it means one of your horses was not under control. The rider is the mind. So these ten indriyas are under the control of your mind. This all is a drama of the mind. And mind? Where is the mind? Which part of the body do you have the mind? Did you see the mind? Can you one day hold it? Where is the mind? The mind is like a reflection. You see it in a mirror, but you can't touch it. So that mind is not catchable, but it is connected to the indriyas. Therefore, we shall always keep in our mind good thoughts, good feelings, good actions, everything. And in this coach... There is a very beautiful lighting in our bungalow. We must have a light. If you go into the dark in your room, you will stumble. Here is a very nice ball of light. So that our knowledge, our vidyā, is this light in our bungalow. Our knowledge is the light, and this knowledge we learn from the Jñānendriyas. Gurujī said, "Anāhada is limitless, without boundary." So the light is so bright, there is no border, and that is your knowledge, so wide. It is said, "Kavi" means the point. Where the point can go far and write something, so that his or her thoughts of the point go beyond where the sun cannot reach—that far. And so is that knowledge, which yoga and positive thinking give—very positive thinking. No one is angry, and no one tries to harm, etc., etc. Anāhadbhaya ujjara. So, our viveka, our knowledge, our kindness, our humbleness—this means such a light of your knowledge which is endless. And this is in our body. What are you searching for outside? Search within you. "Oh, my friend, where are you searching for me? In the jungle, my house is in the forest. But my Self is within me. If you will search me within, no time, I will meet you within my Self in body." That is a very nice bhajan. So when you will search, I will be in me. Now. We will continue this evening because your next program is calling you. That's for you. I wish you all the best, and we will continue again this evening with this bhajan of Holī Gurujī. So it is very, very beautiful, very beautiful. Satguru Swāmī Madhavānandjī. Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Dev Purīṣa Mahādeva Alak Purījī Mahādeva Satya Sanātana Dharma. Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... Hari Oṁ.